cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
wafflyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Additionally when (a) one of the two males in the game denies any connection to her and the project, (b) the other male is nowhere to be scene, and isn't involved anymore either, (c) it is confirmed that Karen McCoy is not an employee of Default Films, (d) the wafflyness of her stories, and (e) the very doubtfulness of the existence of Area 9, I still don't think it fits.
ref: 1997 September 13, Darryl W Gillikin, “Animated Who: 1987 report”, in rec.arts.drwho (Usenet), archived from the original on 26 Nov 2024:
text: Hmmm somehow I manage to sidetrack from Arjuna's crafty strategy to the ICC management of cricket grounds? I amaze myself at my wafflyness (is that a word?).
ref: 1998 June 13, Duane Pettet, “NZ vs Sri Lanka (result)”, in rec.sport.cricket (Usenet), archived from the original on 26 Nov 2024:
text: Take a step back and notice the drama playing out in your home and heart as if it were a movie you are watching. This is where you continue to feel the emotions—the wafflyness, passive-aggressiveness, or pissed-off-ness—but in a more detached and witnessing way.
ref: 2019, Stephanie Bennett Vogt, “Week 45: Step In, Step Back, Step Up”, in A Year for You: Release the Clutter, Reduce the Stress, Reclaim Your Life, San Antonio, Tex.: Hierophant Publishing, →ISBN, part 5 (Self-Care), page 180:
glosses: Alternative form of waffliness.
blue waves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue wave
red waves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red wave
pink waves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pink wave
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ISIL.
Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ISIL.
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ISIS.
Islamic State in Iraq and Syria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ISIS.
waffleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From waffle + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: In too many instances the critical linkage between what the organization is trying to do and the employees who are going to have to do it represents a "waffleness" on the part of managers.
ref: 1992, Proceedings of the 46th Annual Ohio Transportation Engineering Conference, Columbus, Oh.: Ohio State University, page 20:
text: Here's another vote for the waffle. It seems to me that a flipping coin is flipping because of outside pressures applied to it, and if left to itself would simply lie on the table. But a waffle waffles due to the waffleness of its own waffle nature.
ref: 1994 August 15, Keith Rogers, “Propellerhead Rally! (Doonesbury)”, in rec.arts.comics.strips (Usenet), archived from the original on 26 Nov 2024:
text: If you want four more years of government dominance, dependency, welfare, “waffleness,” deficit, lack of character, etc., you’re endorsing the right party.
ref: 1996 April 13, Roger H. Elliott, Jr., “Break a habit”, in Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Corpus Christi, Tex.: Caller-Times Publishing Company, →ISSN, Letters to the Editor, page A10, column 5:
text: Well as soon as I realised that I must have ME rather than the Crohn's disease that I was originally diagnosed with, as soon as I was sent to a consultant who'd been recommended by afME, I was diagnosed as having ME/CFS immediately, so I was never disbelieved once I'd been self, and then formally diagnosed if you see what I mean (plse excuse waffleness).
ref: 2002 February 7, Zsa Zsa, “Name that illness?”, in uk.people.support.cfs-me (Usenet), archived from the original on 26 Nov 2024:
text: You need to put him out of your head, terminate this perpetual state of waffleness.
ref: 2008 December 10, Sheryl Nadler, “A whole lot of proroguing goin’ on”, in The Hamilton Spectator, Hamilton, Ont.: Metroland Media Group, →ISSN, page Go 5, column 2:
text: There are Latin tags, tempus edax rerum, as just one example of verbal atrocities and general waffleness, which I fear but seem unable to avoid.
ref: 2021, Richard Beard, “Separation”, in Sad Little Men: How Public Schools Failed Britain, London: Vintage, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of waffliness.
orphan acronym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orphan acronyms
Senses: examples: text: One of the acronyms that we came up with was PIPS, Performance Indicators in Primary Schools, and with such a great name, we had to have a research project. So, the birth of PIPS (1992) was the result of an orphan acronym.
ref: 2023 June 26, Peter Tymms, “A Reflection on Three Decades of Development”, in Peter Tymms, Tiago Bartholo, Sarah Howie, Elena Kardanova, Mariane Campelo Koslinski, Christine Merrell, Helen Wildy, editors, The First Year at School: An International Perspective (International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development), volume 39, Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, page 3:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An existing acronym which has been redefined as a nonacronymous name, severing its link to its previous meaning.
wikipedia: Coleco
Related terms: orphan initialism
gran'pa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gran'pas
Senses: examples: text: My gran’pa says when he takes my watch that he does it to keep the wolf from the door.
ref: 1862, M[ary] E[lizabeth] Braddon, “Little Georgey Leaves His Old Home”, in Lady Audley’s Secret. […], 7th edition, volume II, London: Tinsley Bros., […], page 41:
text: We are not depraved beginners, / But hereditary sinners, / For our fathers never acted as they should; / ’Tis the follies of our gran’pas / That continually hampers; / What a pity that our gran’pas weren’t good!
ref: 1895, Mildred Lancaster, “Heredity”, in John F. B. Lillard, compiler, The Medical Muse, Grave and Gay. A Collection of Rhymes Up to Date, by the Doctor, for the Doctor, and against the Doctor, […], New York, N.Y.: I. E. Booth, […], page 87:
text: The rest was stories, told before his bedtime, of the dark deeds of night, remembered from her own childhood, told to her by her own mama, and her gran’pa and gran’ma, the things a black child in the South needed to know, and luridly colored, in Flora’s telling, as warning to her boy.
ref: 1997, Alex Haley, David Stevens, Mama Flora’s Family: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: A Lisa Drew Book / Scribner, published 1998, →ISBN, page 16:
glosses: Alternative form of grandpa.
gran'pas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gran'pa
dedollarisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dedollarization.
reference letters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reference letter
LORs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LOR
pampie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pampies
Etymology: From either pamp (“clipping of pamper; a diaper”) + -ie (“forms diminutive or affectionate forms of nouns”) or pamps (“clipping of pampers; a diaper”) + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Let's change your pampie!
text: Look, I'm glad that you're willing to be on diaper duty for me when we go out in public, but can you try to be more discreet? I heard teens laughing when you said that it was time to get me out of my "dampie pampies"...
ref: 2017 November 24, @diaperdood, Twitter:
text: SIR, MY PAMPIES IS TOO WET TO CROSS ENEMY LINES UNDETECTED. REQUESTING TACTICAL CHANGIES FROM MEDICAL COMMAND. DEPLOY STRATEGIC PARA-MAT.
ref: 2019 September 13, @FaerieXing, Twitter:
text: Like over 45 percent of white girls, my major figure-failing is that I basically require a pampie to have any sort of noticeable butt.
I often wonder why more of us don't just wear, even with the intent of taking them off dry, with the exception of "this outfit has a VPL prob".
ref: 2021 October 16, @chrysicat, Twitter:
text: I'm a diaper-addict, and so, so, sooo in love with pampies! My girlfriends love being bred into, containing all of my smelly goonjuice. And they smell so great when they're filled with witchstink!
ref: 2023 November 17, @EloCrinkle, Twitter:
text: Hmmm, counter argument...~ I shove you down...and HUMP your mucky pampie~
ref: 2025 April 23, @yunamunakula.bsky.social, Bluesky:
synonyms: word: pamp
word: pamps
word: diap
word: diapee
word: diapy
word: diapie
word: didee
word: didie
word: diddy
word: didy
word: dipe
word: hippins
word: napkin
word: nappy
word: pamper
word: Pampers
word: pampers
word: dip
word: gamer pants
word: gaming pants
word: omutsu
word: padding
word: pamp
word: pampie
word: pamps
glosses: A diaper; a diapie.
pampies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pampie
screaming trots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: the epson salt will give you the screaming trots
ref: 2009 March 2, DWine, “Advice about liver flush.”, in diabetes daily:
text: that gave him and his buddies the screaming trots the next day
ref: 2012 May 10, bigdaddydmd, “never drink a free drink!”, in Sniper's Hide Forum:
text: I never canceled in the AM either until I awoke with a case of the screaming trots.
ref: 2024 October 15, 118545, “Sub job cancelled on me”, in r/SubstituteTeachers:
glosses: Diarrhea.
Brantwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in the town of Knox, Price County, Wisconsin, United States.
Coniston Water
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A lake in the Lake District, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district.
Pucklechurch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST6976).
ungratuitous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ungratuitous
form: most ungratuitous
Etymology: From un- + gratuitous.
Senses: glosses: Not gratuitous.
aeroballistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aeroballistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an aeroballistic manner.
Old Man of Coniston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Old Man of Coniston
Senses: synonyms: Old Man
glosses: A mountain, 803 metres high, in Coniston parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD2797).
Porth Navas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cornish; porth is cognate with Welsh porth (“port”).
Senses: glosses: A small coastal village in Constantine parish, south-west Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW7527).
move your feet, lose your seat
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: If you stand up from your seat, someone else will take it.
consumptuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more consumptuous
form: most consumptuous
Etymology: From Latin cōnsūmptus, past participle of cōnsūmō, + -uous.
Senses: examples: text: There’s Standergras, Hares ballockes, or great Orchis, / Prouoketh Venus, and procureth ſport, / It helpes the weakned body that’s amiſſe, / And fals away in a conſumptuous ſort, / It heales the Hectique feauer by report: […]
ref: 1601, Robert Chester, “A Meeting Dialogue-wise betweene Nature, the Phœnix, and the Turtle Doue”, in Loves Martyr: or, Rosalins Complaint. Allegorically Shadowing the Truth of Loue, in the Constant Fate of the Phœnix and Turtle. […], London: […] E. B., page 94:
text: By this means the root and fruit of true charity, which is the life and ſoul of Chriſtianity, the milk and marrow of all graces, this firſt growes mortally infected through the peſtilence of diviſions and diſtractions in Religion: this vitall and naturall Balſam of piety once decayed, dried up, or exhauſted by unchriſtian calentures, no wonder if the whole conſtitution of Religion grow weak, ricketly and conſumptuous.
ref: 1659, John Gauden, “Book III. Setting Forth the Evil Consequences Felt or Feared from the Distractions of Religion in England.”, in Ἱερὰ Δάκρυα. Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ Suspiria. The Tears, Sighs, Complaints, and Prayers of the Church of England: […], London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond] for R[ichard] Royston, […], chapter I, page 262:
text: “Middle class blacks didn’t look back as we should,” [Lorenzo] Lynch later recalled. “We were highly consumptuous in our life style. We had luxury cars and we didn’t reach back to the black minority who suffered. Some of that middle class mentality had gripped that congregation.”
ref: 2013, Howard E. Covington, Jr., “Henry Frye, Esquire”, in Henry Frye: North Carolina’s First African American Chief Justice, Jefferson, N.C.; London: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 76:
glosses: Synonym of consumptive.
synonyms: word: consumptive
turn traitor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns traitor
form: turning traitor
form: turned traitor
form: turned traitor
Senses: examples: text: For a time, it was the only Royalist stronghold between London and Exeter, but it fell at last when a member of the garrison turned traitor and admitted the Parliamentary besiegers who destroyed it with gunpowder.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 134, about Corfe Castle:
glosses: To become a traitor, by betraying a person, group, or one's country.
turned traitor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of turn traitor
nudy rudy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nudy rudy
form: most nudy rudy
Senses: examples: text: I tried climbing the tree nudy rudy but i got all scratched up in places I can't show you.
text: NUDY RUDY SOAP
glosses: naked
French bassoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: French bassoons
Senses: glosses: A classical bassoon with a smaller bore and softer than the modern German bassoon.
ALTE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ALTEs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Acronym of apparent life-threatening event.
ALTEs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ALTE
land down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lands down
form: landing down
form: landed down
form: landed down
Senses: examples: text: According to him [scil. Ilya Tumanov], the airfield’s air defense systems managed to intercept only seven of the missiles, emphasizing that this term refers only to an attempt to land them down, not the interception of the missiles.
ref: 2024 November 25th, Olena Mukhina, “Ukraine reportedly strikes Russian military airfield in Kursk Oblast with ATACMS missiles for first time”, in Euromaidan Press:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To intercept (a missile) and bring it to ground before it reaches its target.
propheticide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Possibly prophet + -icide but cf. Latin propheticida.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: The slaying of a prophet.
Colalo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Cordillera police director Chief Superintendent Benjamin Magalong said the suspects armed with M-16 and M-203 rifles arrived at the mining site in Sitio Ampontoc, Barangay Colalo at past 6 p.m.
ref: 2013 April 28, Artemio Dumlao, “Armed men torch mining equipment in Benguet”, in The Philippine Star:
text: Aside from the attack on Lepanto, the rebels also confirmed blasting and torching heavy equipment at aa carbon-in-pulp ore processing plant in Sitio Ampontoc, Barangay Colalo, which they said was built on land grabbed by the village chief from a local clan.
ref: 2017 June 10, Interaksyon, “Cordillera rebels own attacks on Benguet mining town”, in Interaksyon:
text: In Barangay Colalo for instance, Goldfields is conducting sitio consultations for its drilling program. Goldfields has about 6 drilling programs to conduct in this barangay, particularly in Sitio Ampontoc.
ref: 2012 September 20, Bampis Mining Watch, Cordillera Peoples Alliance, “Statements: Mankayan communities steadfast inspite of rights violations”, in Northern Dispatch:
glosses: A barangay of Mankayan, Benguet, Philippines.
Goat Fell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Goat Fell, the highest mountain on the Island of Arran, looms 2,866 ft above the coastal village of Corrie.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 135:
glosses: The highest mountain on the Isle of Arran, North Ayrshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NR9941).
bring to ground
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brings to ground
form: bringing to ground
form: brought to ground
form: brought to ground
Etymology: Continuing the Middle English bryngen to ground.
Senses: glosses: To cast down, overthrow, overcome, subdue.
quaternion algebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quaternion algebras
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A particular kind of algebra, generalizing the classical quaternions: a four-dimensional central simple algebra over a field.
quaternion algebras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quaternion algebra
Ælfred
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English Ælfrēd.
Senses: examples: text: But if men like Ælfred belong to every people and to every age in the circuit of the human mind, yet, next to the posterity of his own countrymen, the German,—whose speech and culture will by continued research gather many golden fruits sown by Ælfred,—with joyful pride may say, “The man is near of kin unto us.”
ref: 1845, J[ohann] M[artin] Lappenberg, translated by Benjamin Thorpe, “Ælfred the Great”, in A History of England under the Anglo-Saxon Kings, […], volume II, London: John Murray, […], pages 84–85:
text: In either case, however, his [the king’s] individual capacities exercise a most important effect upon the government of the state. The magnitude of that effect in pre-Norman times may be estimated by the fact, that an Ælfred could save the nation, while an Æthelred could reduce it to the verge of ruin.
ref: 1873, Philip Vernon Smith, “The Executive”, in History of the English Institutions (Historical Handbooks), London; Oxford; Cambridge: Rivingtons, page 233:
text: It was in the peace and order which this strict rule secured that the Flemings toiled their way to wealth. The counts understood and identified themselves with their people’s love of industry and freedom, and Arnulf the Old, our Ælfred’s grandson by the mother’s side, became the Ælfred of Flemish history.
ref: 1883, John Richard Green, “The House of Godwine. 1035 to 1053.”, in The Conquest of England, London: Macmillan and Co., page 512:
text: Without the defensive and offensive advantages of garrisoned fortifications, Ælfred could not hope to expel such large forces; nor could he concentrate his attack on one for fear of allowing the other to penetrate west into Wessex with impunity.
ref: 2017, Max Adams, “Arrivals and departures”, in Ælfred’s Britain: War and Peace in the Viking Age, London: Head of Zeus Ltd, →ISBN, part II (Newton’s cradle, 879–918):
glosses: Alternative form of Alfred (“Alfred the Great”).
Derived terms: Ælfredian
Related terms: Ælfric
Corris Uchaf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: synonyms: Upper Corris
glosses: A small village in Corris community, Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH7408).
corification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corifications
Etymology: From core + -ification.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A post-mortem preservation phenomenon that causes a substantial delay in the decomposition process.
Related terms: corify
Upper Corris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Upper Corris, 1 mile to the north-west, is overlooked by abandoned slate workings.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 135, about Corris:
glosses: Synonym of Corris Uchaf, Gwynedd, Wales.
synonyms: word: Corris Uchaf
word: Gwynedd
word: Wales
quayward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From quay + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: All down the quays vessels moored after their fashion—bows quayward, sterns outward; an arrangement giving an immense number of ships each its own small share of landing.
ref: 1886 April 24, Charles W. Wood, “Under Northern Skies”, in The Argosy, volume XLI, pages 292-293:
text: The surf was plunging and leaping over the great break-water before the harbour, and our small shore boat danced like a cork even inside, now cocking her stern, now her bows, as she crept quayward through the shipping.
ref: 1912, Arthur Waltham Howlett, “Pendant Jewel of India”, in Many Camps: Sketches of Indian Life, Allahabad [now Prayagraj]: The Pioneer Press, page 63:
text: […] of the sea. As it rose and fell
every pulse in the estuary
carried them quayward, carried them seaward.
ref: 1969, Jon Stallworthy, “Epilogue to an Empire 1600 - 1900: an ode for Trafalgar Day”, in Root and Branch, Great Britain: Chatto and Windus, page 42:
glosses: Towards a quay; in the direction of a quay.
quayward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quay + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: Now in the crowded noon, sustained a pediment by the shuffle and whisper of adulation that came up over as on the quayward side, he seemed to give the lie to these speculations.
ref: 1920 October 24, Wilbur Daniel Steele, “At Two-in-the-Bush”, in Harper's Magazine, volume CXLI, number DCCCXLV, page 579, column 1:
text: The floor slopes from quayward side of the shed up to railway lines at the back of the shed, where it reaches full ordinary platform height.
ref: 1947 May 24, R. P. Biddle, “Port Facilities and their Operation at Southampton”, in The Dock and Harbour Authority, volume XXVIII, number 319, page 28, column 2:
text: Half a mile back up past the City Hall, via Chichester Street, are the Royal Courts of Justice, opened in 1933, and not far distant, at the quayward end of High Street, is the Albert clock tower, dating from 1870.
ref: 1969 June 21, Bathoe Rainsford, “Belfast: new city with long history”, in Chemist and Druggist, volume 191, number 4662, page 558, column 1:
text: Slip the forward line and push the bow off, making it pass through the eye of the wind. The boat will pivot on the spring and, as soon as she has the wind properly on the quayward side, sheets can be hardened and the spring slipped.
ref: 1978 [1972], “Arrival and Departure” (chapter 10), in James MacGibbon, Stanley Caldwell, transl., The New Glénans Sailing Manual, United States: Sail Books, Inc., page 352:
glosses: Being in or facing towards a quay.
Cramond
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: For at least 1,800 years Cramond has stood at the mouth of the River Almond, which forms Edinburgh's western border. But the village - with its trim, whitewashed houses and small yachting harbour - is quite distinct from the city.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 136:
glosses: A coastal village and suburb in City of Edinburgh council area, Scotland, at the mouth of the River Almond (OS grid ref NT1876).
Derived terms: Cramond Island
Related terms: Crammond
Cramond Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A tidal island of Edinburgh council area, Scotland, linked to the mainland at Cramond by a causeway at low tide (OS grid ref NT1978).
nothing less than
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: nothing if not, nothing but
text: Of course he disappointed you. The man is nothing less than a fraud and a swindler.
coordinate_terms: nothing more than
glosses: Certainly and completely: definitely, and wholly rather than merely mostly.
Related terms: no less
Chains of Being
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chain of Being
commutative group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commutative groups
Senses: glosses: Synonym of abelian group.
synonyms: word: abelian group
commutative groups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commutative group
cycle groups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cycle group
monogenous group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monogenous groups
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cyclic group.
synonyms: word: cyclic group
monogenous groups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monogenous group
soft room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soft rooms
Senses: examples: text: Glendale District 4 purchased toys and equipment for the "soft room" occupied by children when family violence/tragic events bring them into police headquarters.
ref: 1989, “Child Abuse Prevention”, in LACMA Physician, volume 119, number 12, Los Angeles County Medical Association, page 29:
text: Though he possessed no formal training in interviewing children, he had spent five years working with traumatized children and learning through trial and error how to interview them. His boss assigned him to show the Martensville rookie how to interview them too, in the Soft Room at the Saskatoon police station.
ref: 1997 November 24, Frann Harris, “The Prosecution”, in Martensville: Truth Or Justice?: The Story of the Martensville Daycare Trials, Dundurn Press, →ISBN, page 37:
text: In deliberate contrast, the soft room was outfitted with overstuffed chairs and painted a deep blue. In addition to improving interviewees’ experiences, Hill said, the physical and psychological comfort of the soft room will help officers obtain more detailed, accurate testimonies from victims.
ref: 2015 April 22, Allison Oligschlaeger, “West Valley police open 'soft' interview room for victims of violence”, in Deseret News, →ISSN:
text: The Kansas City, Missouri Police Department installed the first soft room in Missouri.
ref: 2024 June 25, Amanda Alvarado, “Police department creates ‘soft’ interview room for assault survivors”, in News, WIBW:
text: Last month, with the help of Project Beloved, Missouri’s Kansas City Police Department remodeled a formerly stiff and uninviting room (used for both victims and suspects) into a soft interview room to solely serve victims of sexual assault. Two years ago, another police department in the Kansas City suburb of Belton used a federal grant to create a similar soft room.
ref: 2024 July 11, Jaclyn Diaz, “After a tragedy, a mother wants to soften the rooms where police interview victims”, in National, NPR:
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: A room set up in a police station with amenities that make it easier to talk with children, trauma victims, or other vulnerable populations.
soft rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soft room
Kuon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Chinese, a variant of Kwon.
Kuznets
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian кузнец (kuznec, “blacksmith”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Russian.
Derived terms: Kuznets curve
Kuznets cycle
Kuznets swing
Bohol Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A sea located in the Philippines between Mindanao and the Visayas Islands.
oldsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oldsome
form: most oldsome
Etymology: From old + -some.
Senses: examples: text: It almost makes an oldsome woman like me want to dance again as I danced long ago when we were young.
ref: 1927, The Contemporary Review, volume 131, page 121:
text: They took the path that surrounded the Bald, and started to get to the meeting house—not the one on Cragg Hill, but the oldsome barn that used to be Big Gully School.
ref: 1928, Maristan Chapman, The Happy Mountain, page 220:
glosses: Characterised or marked by age.
Bayan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: bäʹyänʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 巴彦 (Bāyàn).
Senses: glosses: A county of Harbin, Heilongjiang, China.
Derived terms: Bayan Har
bulbo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From the noun bulb and the interfix -o-.
Senses: glosses: Bulbous.
styfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of styful
stiesful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of styful
Cranborne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English cran + burna, recorded as Creneburne in 1086 (DB).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Cranborne and Edmondsham Parish Council) in East Dorset, England (OS grid ref SU0513).
Derived terms: english: back-formation for the local river
translation: back-formation for the local river
word: Crane
word: Cranborne Chase
word: Cranborne money
Related terms: Cranbourne
URL injection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: URL injections
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A type of code injection attack that involves adding malicious characters to data values in the argument values of a URL.
Related terms: backdoor
exploit
malware
wabbit
-ware
URL injections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of URL injection
Cranborne Chase
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An area of chalk downland in Dorset, Wiltshire, and Hampshire, England.
injective function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: injective functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of injection (“a relation on sets (X,Y) that associates each element of Y with at most one element of X.”).
synonyms: word: injection
extra: (“a relation on sets (X,Y) that associates each element of Y with at most one element of X.”).
injective functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of injective function
quaywards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From quay + -wards.
Senses: examples: text: Then when the red sails round by Lido came
To rest, and vacant now the gondolier
Beneath the Lion and those masts aflame
Lounged, bickering o'er his boy's piazza-game,
One darker boat came quaywards, called his name,
And straight toward the sunset seemed to steer.
ref: 1890, H. D. Rawnsley, “The Poet's Home-going”, in Poems, Ballads, and Bucolics, London: Macmillan and Co., page 2:
text: Even the most respectable, though least interesting, quarter of the town is varied by a picturesque thatched cottage, old-fashioned alleys leading quaywards, and crooked thoroughfares that are twisted into eccentric curves.
ref: 1908, Wilkinson Sherren, “Havenpool”, in The Wessex of Romance, London: Francis Griffiths, page 153:
text: As we turn our faces quaywards, our guide delights our hearts with the information that we are at liberty to pick any flowers that take our fancy, and as many of them as we can carry away.
ref: 1913, Edith A. Brown, “The Way to Panama”, in Panama, London: Adam and Charles Black, page 19:
glosses: Quayward; towards a quay; in the direction of a quay.
pyrotechnic composition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrotechnic compositions
Senses: glosses: A substance or mixture of substances designed to make an effect as a result of non-detonative exothermic reactions.
pyrotechnic compositions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyrotechnic composition
Crantock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Saint Carantoc.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish near Newquay, on the north coast of Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW7960).
wikipedia: Carantoc
heartpiece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heartpieces
form: heart piece
Etymology: Compare German Herzstück.
Senses: examples: text: Therefore the organization chart is the heartpiece of every company manual developed for the employees.
ref: 2004 June 7, Daniel Gschwend, Businessplan - Theoretical Guide, diplom.de, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 123:
text: The heartpiece of the plant consists of several horizontal hot gas funnels and corresponding vertical material funnels (Fig. 1). In these funnels the cold cullet flows from the top to the bottom by means of the force of gravity and is heated up by the hot waste gas.
ref: 2009 September 28, John B. Wachtman, 51st Conference on Glass Problems, Volume 12, Issue 3/4 (Ceramic Engineering and Science Proceedings), John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 551:
text: The heartpiece of a successful integration is the facilitation of knowledge transfer paralleled with high absorptive capacity of both organizations.
ref: 2010 March 1, Richard K. Lenz, Post-LBO development: Analysis of Changes in Strategy, Operations, and Performance after the Exit from Leveraged Buyouts in Germany (Entrepreneurial and Financial Studies), Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 177:
text: It did not follow logically in her mind that because she had aborted the savage strategy once she should become the heartpiece of the packfast's defense.
ref: 2013 July 26, Glen Cook, Doomstalker, Start Publishing LLC, →ISBN, →OCLC:
text: The main problem with which the book begins is an intellectual problem: 'reification'. And it is here of all places, where the very heartpiece of Marx's theory is at stake, that Lukács departs from Marx and makes reference, instead, to Simmel and Weber.³¹²
ref: 2014 April 17, Christoph Henning, Philosophy after Marx: 100 Years of Misreadings and the Normative Turn in Political Philosophy (Historical Materialism Book Series), BRILL, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 285:
qualifier: chiefly non-native speakers' English
glosses: A centerpiece; a central part.
induced fission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: The process where the nucleus of an atom splits into two or more smaller nuclei, usually when said nucleus absorbs a neutron.
flower crowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flower crown
wharfward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From wharf + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: Manoel and Wolo, accompanied by Palo and two others, came running up from the quarters, and rushed into the hall. It needed but a nod from me to have them take each a rifle, and fall into line on the veranda, before the door, where Kit was pacing back and forth, peering anxiously into the gloom to wharfward.
ref: 1872, C. A. Stephens, chapter VII, in On the Amazons; or, The Cruise of "The Rambler." As Recorded by Wash, Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, page 104:
text: Mr. Dorman only laughed, and politely ignoring Polly’s proposition to have Joe Milner, who was hopping in the vegetable garden, accompany him, set forth with his face turned wharfward.
ref: 1883 November 10, Frank H. Converse, “The Preston Treasure”, in The Woman's Journal, volume XIV, number 45, Boston, Massachusetts, page 358, column 3:
text: But Alfs eyes gazed wharfward till the last flutter of a handkerchief faded, then he gulped very hard and disappeared till dinner-time; […]
ref: 1900, Ethel Turner, chapter XXI, in Three Little Maids, Ward, Lock & Co., page 231:
text: The smoke-wing'd argosies of Fortune, bearing
Freightage of marvels, are for ever streaming
Hither, and wharfward fling with careless seeming
The rounded fruit of fight and long seafaring.
ref: 1911, William Andrew Mackenzie, “By the Docks”, in Rowton House Rhymes, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, page 53:
glosses: Towards a wharf; in the direction of a wharf.
skirt guard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skirt guards
Senses: glosses: A device fitted over the rear wheel of a bicycle to prevent loose garments from snagging.
dash case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of kebab case.
synonyms: word: kebab case
Craster
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English crāwe + ceaster (“fortification or earthwork haunted by crows”), recorded as Craucestre in 1242.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish on the coast of Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NU2519).
Feast Week
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Due to the fact that many families serve large meals for Thanksgiving
Senses: qualifier: especially college basketball
glosses: The week surrounding Thanksgiving Day.
cyclic module
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclic modules
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: monogenous module
qualifier: ring theory
glosses: A module over a ring that is generated by one element.
cyclic modules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclic module
monogenous module
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monogenous modules
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cyclic module.
synonyms: word: cyclic module
monogenous modules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monogenous module
protein chain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protein chains
Senses: synonyms: polypeptide chain
qualifier: molecular biology
glosses: A linear sequence of amino acids linked together by peptide bonds.
protein chains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protein chain
polypeptide chain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polypeptide chains
Senses: glosses: Synonym of protein chain.
synonyms: word: protein chain
polypeptide chains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polypeptide chain
foldie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foldies
Etymology: From fold + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A folding bicycle.
wharfwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From wharf + -wards.
Senses: examples: text: Wharfwards in a cab I hurry, and the driver puts me down, […]
ref: 1851, “The Lay of the London Wanderer”, in Punch, volume XXI, London, page 1:
text: Innumerable lights studded the view, some occupying effective heights, and the brilliantly lit large ferryboats careered in their transit from point to point with great liveliness and precision, and gave kaleidoscopic variableness of form and colour, to which the Campania herself contributed in her stately search wharfwards for her berth.
ref: 1898, Arthur Giles, “From Brotherhood to Brotherhood” (chapter I), in Across Western Waves and Home in a Royal Capital, London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, & Co., page 14:
text: Yank. . . . The clutch goes into reverse. The water astern churns yellow. Pini flings the bow-line wharfwards — anywhere. It lands among the crowd on the wharf.
ref: 1925 August 24, Paul J. Haaren, “Faatoai to Papeete—Personally Conducted”, in Yachting, volume XXXVIII, number II, page 34, column 1:
text: But pockets of the past remain — try Foxtrot Oscar (very British old-school wine bar). Finally, wharfwards, you'll find Chinese outpost Yi-Ban.
ref: 2006, “Kensington & Chelsea”, in Tom Lamont, editor, London for Londoners, Time Out Guides, page 144:
glosses: Towards a wharf; in the direction of a wharf; wharfward.
Crayke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Hambleton district (OS grid ref SE5670).
Cregneash
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cregneish
Senses: glosses: A small village in the far south-west of the Isle of Man (OS grid ref SC1867).
Cregneish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Cregneash, Isle of Man.
hog scraper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hog scrapers
form: hogscraper
Senses: glosses: A tool used to clean a hog after slaughter
examples: text: This particular form or shape of candle-stick early became known as the "Hog Scraper," because of its usefulness at hog killing time as a scraper, or tool used by the farmers to remove the bristles after scalding the hog.
ref: 1904, The Connecticut Magazine, Volume VIII, page 100:
glosses: A candlestick shaped like such a tool
speed tape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An aluminium tape used to patch the exterior of aircrafts.
quantum-tunnel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quantum-tunnels
form: quantum-tunneling
form: quantum-tunnelling
form: quantum-tunneled
form: quantum-tunneled
form: quantum-tunnelled
form: quantum-tunnelled
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quantum tunnel.
niiko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈniːkəʊ/
ipa: /ˈnikoʊ/
rhymes: -iːkəʊ
Etymology: Borrowed from Somali niiko.
Senses: examples: text: After decades of war Mogadishu is tentatively relaxing. From sourdough pancakes to traditional bum-shaking Niiko dance and political hip-hop,[…]Xamar has a local dance called Niiko, which is the rhythmic shaking of the bum synchronized with drums.
ref: 2015 August 24, Sadia Ahmed, Fatuma Abdulahi, “An insider’s guide to Mogadishu: ‘There’s no life without peace’”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 14 Oct 2023:
text: Niiko dancing was one of several dimensions of Somali culture that she had actively embraced and enjoyed celebrating and displaying to others.[…]Niiko was a part of her Somali culture and whether it conflicted or not with religion was not a concern for her at that point in time. Interestingly, Niiko is a dance that the majority of first-generation Somalis associate with the minority Bantu,[…]
ref: 2018 August 27, Giulia Liberatore, Somali, Muslim, British: Striving in Securitized Britain, Routledge, →ISBN, page 71:
glosses: A folk dance from southern Somalia similar to twerking, generally performed by women.
quantum-tunnelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quantum-tunnel
quantum-tunneling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of quantum-tunnel
quantum-tunnels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of quantum-tunnel
quantum-tunneled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quantum-tunnel
Sputnik V
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Sputnik (its trade name)
synonyms: word: Sputnik
extra: its trade name
wake up call
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wake up calls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wake-up call.
wake up calls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wake up call
Sputniked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Sputnik (“COVID-19 vaccine”) + -ed.
Senses: hypernyms: vaccinated
glosses: Having received the Sputnik COVID-19 vaccine.
Related terms: Pfizered
viral vector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: viral vectors
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: A modified virus designed to deliver genetic material into a cell.
viral vectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of viral vector
kitchen witch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kitchen witches
Senses: synonyms: cottage witch
glosses: A homemade doll in the form of a stereotypical witch or crone, displayed in home kitchens as a good luck charm and to ward off bad spirits.
examples: text: 2022, Maggie Haseman, The Kitchen Witch’s Guide to Healing and Self-Care, Callisto Media (Rockridge Press), unnumbered page,
Kitchen witches often prefer environmentally friendly and natural products for cleaning and hygiene.
text: 2023, Skye Alexander, The Kitchen Witch: Your Complete Guide to Creating a Magical Kitchen, Simon & Schuster (Adams Media), page 17,
Kitchen witches find the magic in the everyday. They caringly and mindfully prepare food for their loved ones and use the magic energies of food and spices to empower their food with their magical objectives.
text: […]kitchen witches know that it is within the context of our everyday lives and the tasks we perform in our homes that we can truly find simple magic, the kind that transforms[…].
ref: 2024, Gail Bussi, The Kitchen Witch: Magical and Seasonal Bakes to Nourish Body and Spirit, Hardie Grant Publishing, page 8:
glosses: A type of witch who applies their craft to everyday household tasks, such as cooking.
Related terms: kitchen witchcraft
kitchen witchery
kitchen witches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kitchen witch
mastava
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Uzbek mastava.
Senses: glosses: mastoba (Tajik soup)
mastoba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Tajik мастоба (mastoba).
Senses: glosses: mastava, mastoba (Tajik soup)
Smt.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Shrimati.
Shreemati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Shrimati.
Shree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Shri.
baby care
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of babycare.
Sh.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Shri.
examples: text: Uganda grapples with widespread government corruption with an estimated Sh. 10 trillion ($2.7 billion) in public funding diverted each year, according to its anti-graft body, the Inspectorate of Government (IGG).
ref: 2024 July 22, Nimi Princewill, “Uganda’s President Museveni warns citizens they are ‘playing with fire’ over planned protests”, in CNN:
glosses: Abbreviation of shilling.
have it all
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has it all
form: having it all
form: had it all
form: had it all
Senses: glosses: To lead a successful life.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see have, it, all.
Crinan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small coastal village in Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland, located on Loch Crinan at the west end of the Crinan Canal (OS grid ref NR7894).
octonionically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From octonion + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of octonions.
Crowle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A market town in Crowle and Ealand parish, North Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SE7712).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Wychavon district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO9256).
stop it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stops it
form: stopping it
form: stopped it
form: stopped it
Senses: glosses: Tells the listener to stop doing something, often an annoying but harmless activity aimed at the speaker.
Crowle and Ealand
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish with a town council in North Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, England, which includes the named places.
Ealand
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Crowle and Ealand parish, North Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SE7811).
Sheps
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname
Cuxham with Easington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish (without a council) in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England, which includes the named places.
annall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of annal.
gut load
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gut loads
form: gut loading
form: gut loaded
form: gut loaded
Etymology: From gut + load.
Senses: glosses: To provide insects or other feeder animal with a nutrient-rich diet before they are fed to pets, such as reptiles and amphibians.
deer-hay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deer-hays
Senses: examples: text: Juſtice oſ Peace to determine uſing Deer Hays, Buckſtalls or Engines to catch Herons.
ref: 1676, Joseph Keble, “Peace”, in The Statutes at Large in Paragraphs from Magna Carta Until this Time, […] , London:
text: II. Stat. 19 H. 7. 11. None ſhall keep any Deer-hays or Buck-ſtalls, ſave in his own Foreſt or Park, […]
ref: 1689, An Exact Abridgment Of all the Statutes in Force and Use From the beginning of Magna Charta, London, page 297:
glosses: A buckstall.
deer-hays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deer-hay