cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Chara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Charas
Senses: glosses: A surname.
A surname from Spanish Chará.
glosses: A surname.
A surname from Slovak Chára or Czech Chára.
synonyms: Chara River
River Chara
glosses: A river in Yakutia, Russia; Russian Ча́ра (Čára)
glosses: Ellipsis of Chara language, a language found in Ethiopia (ISO 639-3: cra).
synonyms: Charas
glosses: Ellipsis of Chara people, an ethnic group found in Ethiopia.
Derived terms: Chara Language
Chara People
Chara River
River Chara
missight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mis- + sight.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps this — whatever it was — was just a missight, so to speak, because her eyes weren't working properly.
ref: 2009, Pamela Freeman, Full Circle:
glosses: Sight proved to be wrong; an instance of seeing something that turned out to be something else or nothing at all.
Lebanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lebanisms
Etymology: From Lebanon + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A custom peculiar to Lebanon.
interrailer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interrailers
Etymology: From interrail + -er.
Senses: coordinate_terms: Eurailer
glosses: One who travels using the InterRail rail pass.
interrailers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interrailer
red routes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red route
ambiregnal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ambi- + regnal.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: Classified into the taxonomic schemes of two different kingdoms of life simultaneously, either as Protozoa and Algae or as Protozoa and Fungi.
raw_tags: of a protist
ecstaticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ecstatic + -ity.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The quality or state of being ecstatic.
homolyze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: homolyzes
form: homolyzing
form: homolyzed
form: homolyzed
form: homolyse
Senses: examples: text: However, the rate at which ferrous complexes reductively homolyze hydroperoxides appears to be dependent on redox properties of the iron chelate.
ref: 1989, Carmen Vigo-Pelfrey, Membrane Lipid Oxidation - Volume 1, page 113:
text: The O–O bond in benzoyl peroxide and the C–N bonds in AIBN homolyze under thermal or photochemical conditions.
ref: 2007, Robert B. Grossman, The Art of Writing Reasonable Organic Reaction Mechanisms, →ISBN:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To undergo homolysis.
ecstaticize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ecstaticizes
form: ecstaticizing
form: ecstaticized
form: ecstaticized
Etymology: From ecstatic + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Quentin found a moment to ecstaticize again about my first day's work.
ref: 2014, David Carradine, The Kill Bill Diary: The Making of a Tarantino Classic as Seen Through the ...:
glosses: To be ecstatic about something.
homolyzes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of homolyze
homolyzing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of homolyze
homolyzed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of homolyze
Stradivarii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Stradivarius
Stradivariuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Stradivarius
ecstaticizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ecstaticize
glass jaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glass jaw
ecstaticizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ecstaticize
ecstaticized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ecstaticize
homolyse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: homolyses
form: homolysing
form: homolysed
form: homolysed
Senses: examples: text: There exists in the plasma of animals, both lower and higher classes, certain bodies which will agglutinate or agglutinate and homolyse the red blood cells of other individuals who are members of the same species.
ref: 1919, Review of War Surgery and Medicine - Volume 2, page 83:
text: The intermediate 2,2,-dihydroxyethylcobalamin (cf. Scheme 24) could either homolyse to Cblᴵᴵ and a 2,2,-dihydroxyethyl radical or dehydrate to formylmethylcobalamin, which could homolyse to Cblᴵᴵ and formylmethyl radical.
ref: 1979, Hugh Allen Oliver Hill, Inorganic Biochemistry - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 84:
text: These are generally sufficient to homolyse metal–carbon bonds.
ref: 2003, P. J. Craig, Organometallic Compounds in the Environment, →ISBN, page 17:
glosses: Alternative form of homolyze.
homolysing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of homolyse
homolysed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of homolyse
halosteric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From halo- + Ancient Greek στερεός (stereós, “solid”) + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Since there is no major source of new salt in the ocean, halosteric contributions will result from redistribution of salt by currents, a change in evaporation over precipitation and runoff or from a change in salt concentration by a net change in the water stored in ice sheets.
ref: 1990, H. Frank Eden, Towards an integrated system for measuring long term changes in global sea level, page 4:
text: Antonov et al. (2002) attributed about 10% of the global average steric sea level rise during recent decades to halosteric expansion (i.e., the volume increase caused by freshening of the water column).
ref: 2007, Susan Solomon, Climate Change 2007 - The Physical Science Basis, →ISBN:
text: Thermosteric and halosteric changes may be partly due to changes in the inflowing Atlantic water and also due to changes in surface heat fluxes within the Mediterranean basin.
ref: 2012, Piero Lionello, The Climate of the Mediterranean Region, →ISBN, page 266:
glosses: Pertaining to changes in salinity of seawater.
thermosteric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thermo- + steric.
Senses: examples: text: Global estimates of heat content (0–750 m) and thermosteric height were completed by Willis et al. (2004) using in situ data alone and in combination with altimetric height.
ref: 2010, John A. Church, Philip L. Woodworth, Thorkild Aarup, Understanding Sea-level Rise and Variability, →ISBN, page 150:
text: Thermosteric and halosteric changes may be partly due to changes in the inflowing Atlantic water and also due to changes in surface heat fluxes within the Mediterranean basin.
ref: 2012, Piero Lionello, The Climate of the Mediterranean Region, →ISBN, page 266:
text: According to the news editors, the researchers concluded: “Using state-of-the-art estimates for the thermosteric, mass and tidal contributions we show that the flooding events in Venice are expected to dramatically increase in a climate change scenario."
ref: 2013, Advances in Ecology Environment and Conservation Research and Application, →ISBN:
glosses: Pertaining to changes in climatic temperature.
pee-er
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pee-ers
form: peer
Etymology: From pee + -er.
Senses: examples: text: As was the caveat about peeing in a pool. Of course, peeing in a pool wasn't dangerous to the person ... If you peed in a pool, and you were carrying the polio virus, presumably *other* people were put at risk, not the peer (pee-er?).
ref: 1999 August 22, “Re: Swimming after eating”, in alt.folklore.urban (Usenet):
text: If it did, and if the color became increasingly distinguished, that, in some mysterious way known only to women and their gynecologists, was evidence that the pee-er was, in all likelihood, pregnant.
ref: 2006, James C. Coomer, Possibly the Best Golf Vacation Ever:
glosses: One who pees.
pee-ers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pee-er
hardwater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: That is why it takes more soap to make a good lather when using hardwater.
ref: 2001, Michael Kasenow, Applied Ground-water Hydrology and Well Hydraulics, →ISBN, page 8:
text: The greater availability of nutrients in hardwater streams stimulated more abundant fungal biomass and fungal activity and resulted in a more diverse fungal species assemblage.
ref: 2003, John Dighton, Fungi in Ecosystem Processes, →ISBN, page 69:
text: In experiments which seem appropriate to this topic, Abel and Bârlocher (1984) found that cadmium was more toxic to aquatic hyphomycetes in softwater with low calcium concentrations than in hardwater with high calcium levels.
ref: 2012, Felix Bärlocher, The Ecology of Aquatic Hyphomycetes, →ISBN, page 162:
glosses: Alternative form of hard water.
minisuction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minisuctions
Etymology: From mini- + suction.
Senses: synonyms: miniabortion
glosses: A form of abortion in which the fetus or embryo, placenta, and membranes are removed by suction using a manual syringe.
minisuctions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minisuction
miniabortion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miniabortions
Etymology: From mini- + abortion.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of minisuction.
synonyms: word: minisuction
miniabortions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miniabortion
upland sandpiper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upland sandpipers
Senses: synonyms: Bartram's sandpiper
Bartramian sandpiper
grass plover
papabote
upland plover
glosses: A small wader, Bartramia longicauda, breeding in North America and wintering in South America.
rocket jump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ʌmp
Forms: form: rocket jumps
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A jump performed by blasting a rocket launcher in close proximity to one's character.
Coordinate terms: grenade jump
rocket jump
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ʌmp
Forms: form: rocket jumps
form: rocket jumping
form: rocket jumped
form: rocket jumped
Senses: examples: text: Be advised that rocket-jumping is very painful. It's inadvisable to attempt it […]
ref: 2003, Doug Radcliffe, Halo - Combat Evolved: Sybex Official Strategies and Secrets:
text: Ideally, we don't want to test for rocket jumping directly, instead letting the evolution discover rockets as the best approach […]
ref: 2004, Alex J Champandard, AI Game Development:
text: This technique now arrives almost subliminally for Quake players, but rocket jumping has long been recognized as one of Quake's key skills.
ref: 2008, Jim Rossignol, This Gaming Life:
topics: video-games
glosses: To perform a jump by blasting a rocket launcher in close proximity to one's character.
Coordinate terms: grenade jump
rocket jumped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rocket jump
rocket jumping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rocket jump
rocket jumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rocket jump
rocket jumps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rocket jump
spodding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spod
spodded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spod
papabotte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: papabottes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of papabote.
papabottes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of papabotte
pied avocet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pied avocets
Senses: glosses: Recurvirostra avosetta, a black and white wading bird of temperate Europe and western and central Asia, wintering in Africa and south Asia.
pied avocets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pied avocet
more heat than light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Since I instigated the Manhattan Review (STH) ad which ran in GCN, which is now generating so much heat but very little light, I feel I must make some points clear.
ref: 1979 April 14, David M. Stryker, “A Contribution”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
text: So, in any overall account of the social sciences, disputes are liable to break out about what is, or is not, truly scientific research; and, too often, these disputes generate more heat than light.
ref: 1996, Stephen Edelston Toulmin, Björn Gustavsen, Beyond Theory: Changing Organizations Through Participation, page 1:
glosses: More passion or conflict than enlightenment or illumination on a subject.
bladder wrack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bladder wracks
Senses: glosses: Fucus vesiculosus, seaweed widespread in the cool waters of the Atlantic and Pacific.
glosses: Nereocystis luetkeana, kelp common on the northeastern Pacific coast.
Synonyms: sense: Fucus vesiculosus
word: black tang
sense: Fucus vesiculosus
word: rockweed
sense: Fucus vesiculosus
word: bladder fucus
sense: Fucus vesiculosus
word: sea oak
sense: Fucus vesiculosus
word: black tany
sense: Fucus vesiculosus
word: cut weed
sense: Fucus vesiculosus
word: dyers fucus
sense: Fucus vesiculosus
word: red fucus
sense: Fucus vesiculosus
word: rock wrack
sense: Nereocystis luetkeana
word: edible kelp
sense: Nereocystis luetkeana
word: bull kelp
sense: Nereocystis luetkeana
word: bullwhip kelp
sense: Nereocystis luetkeana
word: ribbon kelp
sense: Nereocystis luetkeana
word: giant kelp
jelly belly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jelly bellies
Etymology: Likely from Jelly Belly, the brand of candy.
Senses: examples: text: My stretchy top kept riding above my jelly belly, but I didn't care.
ref: 2008, Simmone Howell, Everything Beautiful:
text: Or maybe she just has that dreaded jelly belly – the same one I seem to have after all the American portions.
ref: 2012, Niamh Greene, A Message to Your Heart:
glosses: Rolls of fat that form around the stomach of an overweight person.
examples: text: Wait for me, patiently, at the bottom of the run, ask if I want to take a break and, above all, do not yell “come on you jelly belly” when I'm struggling to complete a tough run or taking half a day to force my feet into my ski boots.
ref: 2019, Larry McCoy, Grandma Told Me to Never Believe Anything Grandpa Says:
glosses: An obese person.
jelly bellies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jelly belly
girl friends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of girl friend
biosafe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + safe.
Senses: examples: text: Zinc oxide is biosafe and, therefore, there are no toxic effects for biomedical applications that immobilize and modify biomolecules (Kumar and Shen, 2008).
ref: 2011, Sam Zhang, Biological and Biomedical Coatings Handbook: Applications, page 343:
glosses: Not causing harm to biological organisms.
Related terms: biosafety
monstrous moonshine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by John Conway and Simon P. Norton in 1979.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The unexpected connection between the Monster group and modular functions, now known to relate to a certain conformal field theory having the Monster group as symmetries.
Coordinate terms: Mathieu moonshine
umbral moonshine
moonshine pudding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A pudding made with bread and butter, currants, cream, and eggs.
sorrys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sorry
shchav
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: They picked sour “shchav,” hunted for mushrooms and searched for possibly edible roots to supplement the barley-water of the general soup kitchen.
ref: 1921, The American Hebrew & Jewish Messenger:
text: We often picked shchav, little green leaves that were smaller and lighter in color than spinach, which Mother would later cook into a borscht.
ref: 1996, Goldie Szachter Kalib, The Last Selection: A Child's Journey Through the Holocaust, page 57:
text: He took us into the field and taught us which grass was edible: clover, wild shchav, and mint.
ref: 2000, Harry Altman, Memoirs of a Stormy Life:
text: Among my early recollections are going past a mill to the meadow with Olga to pick shchav (sorrel) for borscht […]
ref: 2010, Belle Millo, Voices of Winnipeg Holocaust Survivors, page 189:
glosses: Alternative form of schav.
coked up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coked up
form: most coked up
Senses: synonyms: coked out
glosses: Intoxicated from taking cocaine.
Related terms: cokehead
coke whore
Acoetes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsiːtiːz/
Forms: form: Acœtes
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Acoetēs.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: One of several mythological characters.
An attendant of Bacchus.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: One of several mythological characters.
The father of Laocoön.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: One of several mythological characters.
A Theban character in Statius’s Thebaid.
nagless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæɡləs/
Forms: form: more nagless
form: most nagless
Etymology: From nag + -less.
Senses: examples: text: After coddling clients, retrieving luggage, and fighting traffic, he beheld sweet, nagless me.
ref: 2001, Jan Marshall, Still Hanging in There:
glosses: That does not nag.
Schiavo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /skiˈɑːvoʊ/
/ˈʃaɪvoʊ/
Forms: form: Schiavos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Schiavo.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
drughead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drugheads
Etymology: From drug + -head.
Senses: glosses: A drug addict.
drugheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drughead
Snicklefritz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: snicklefritz
Senses: examples: text: After Eva and her Mommie carefully paint cookies, Daddy and his "Snicklefritz" find the perfect little pine tree.
ref: 1972, Der Reggeboge: The Rainbow - Volumes 6-13, page 23:
text: One grandparent used to call me "Snicklefritz," and another regularly referred to me as a "pistol." Think back and remember the pet names your parents and relatives had for you.
ref: 2000, James R. Lucas, 1001 Ways to Connect with Your Kids, →ISBN, page 47:
text: Look after Snicklefritz, there.' I nodded to her as yet flat belly, and waved as we got into the car.
ref: 2015, Jeanne M. Dams, The Gentle Art of Murder, →ISBN:
glosses: A nickname or term of endearment for a child or adult.
sooty tern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sooty terns
Senses: glosses: A seabird of species Onychoprion fuscatus, of the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans.
ring ouzel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ring ouzels
Senses: examples: text: Some birds seem to belong to all scenery alike; others love only the waste common land, the stream, or the sea-shore; while a third division, οἱ εκλετόι (the elect), are only to be found in one or two favoured counties in the whole of England. Of these last are the Ring-Ouzels.
ref: 1899 September, C. Trollope, “The Haunt of the Ring-Ouzel (Turdus torquatus)”, in The Zoologist^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_Zoologist,_4th_series,_vol_3_(1899).djvu/433), volume 3, page 403f:
text: In recording my observations on the Ring-Ouzel (Turdus torquatus), I have no expectation of writing anything original. But I think it possible that personal notes on this interesting bird may be acceptable to those ornithologists who are less familiar with it than I am.
ref: 1900 January, W. Storrs Fox, “The Ring-Ouzel in Derbyshire.”, in The Zoologist^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_Zoologist,_4th_series,_vol_4_(1900).djvu/25), volume 4, number 703, page 1f:
synonyms: Michaelmas blackbird
glosses: Turdus torquatus, a European thrush, similar to the common blackbird, but with a ring of white feathers at its neck.
superkid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superkids
Etymology: From super- + kid.
Senses: examples: text: WHEN Kali Grosvenor was nine years old, back in 1970, she achieved a level of celebrity as a superkid. Her first book, Poems by Kali, had been published by a major firm (Doubleday) and was selling at the rate of 1,000 copies a week […]
ref: 1974, Ebony, volume 29, number 10, page 96:
text: Elkind appealed to parents prone to live for and through their child's accomplishments to give up their vain desire for a superkid, refrain from exaggerating the child's competence, and stop rushing and pushing the child into adulthood.
ref: 2004, Laura E. Berk, Awakening Children's Minds:
glosses: A child of remarkable talents or abilities.
superkids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superkid
ideologs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ideolog
playcenter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playcenters
Etymology: From play + center.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of playcentre.
playcenters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of playcenter
playcentre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playcentres
form: playcenter
Etymology: From play + centre.
Senses: glosses: A building where children can be brought to play with toys and take part in games and educational activities.
playcentres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of playcentre
Foxlove
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
known quantity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: known quantities
Senses: examples: text: We try to hire people who are a known quantity in the field of human interface design.
glosses: A person or thing whose nature or value is well known.
known quantities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of known quantity
EDO
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of extended data-out.
Derived terms: EDORAM
EDO-RAM
EDO RAM
EDODRAM
EDO-DRAM
EDO DRAM
EDO memory
EDO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of EDO memory.
EDO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: microtonal music
glosses: Abbreviation of equal division of the octave.
memory core
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: memory cores
Senses: examples: text: Tali'Zorah nar Rayya: I tracked a patrol of geth to an uncharted world. I waited for one to become separated from its unit. Then I disabled it and removed its memory core.
Captain Anderson: I thought the geth fried their memory cores when they died. Some kind of defense mechanism.
Shepard: How did you manage to preserve the memory core?[…]
Tali'Zorah nar Rayya: According to the memory core, the Reapers were a hyper-advanced machine race that existed 50,000 years ago.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:
topics: computing
engineering
literature
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
science-fiction
sciences
glosses: A (semi-)permanent computer memory storage device that may be extracted, and may or may not be separate from the computer core.
Coordinate terms: computer core
Related terms: computer core
core memory
computer core
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: computer cores
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
literature
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
science-fiction
sciences
glosses: a computer processing center or central computer
Coordinate terms: memory core
random-access memory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: random-access memories
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of random access memory.
help-seeker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: help-seekers
Senses: examples: text: Such matching of helpers and help-seekers is important in learning situations because the help-seeker and the helper may need to renegotiate their ways of viewing the task and the interaction before helping can proceed effectively.
ref: 1995, Rachel Hertz-Lazarowitz, Norman Miller, Interaction in Cooperative Groups: The Theoretical Anatomy of Group Learning:
glosses: One who seeks help.
help-seekers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of help-seeker
Lochnerize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Lochnerizes
form: Lochnerizing
form: Lochnerized
form: Lochnerized
form: lochnerize
Etymology: From Lochner + -ize; from Lochner v. New York, the title of a case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1905.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: To read one's policy preferences into the Constitution, as was (allegedly) done by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1905 case Lochner v. New York.
land-use
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: 1993, Soil Resources, Management and Conservation Service, Guidelines for Land-use Planning
For subsequent land evaluation, these management standards are built into the defined land-use types.
text: We selected Yanchang County as an example to track land use changes and their effects on the livelihood of the local population following the implementation of a new land use policy known as the Grain for Green Project (GGP). The data were collected from statistical yearbooks, questionnaire surveys, and satellite imagery from 1990, 2000, and 2008. We found that dramatic land use changes have occurred in Yanchang County.
ref: 2014 September, Nahui Zhen, Bojie Fu, Yihe Lü, Zhenmin Zheng, “Changes of livelihood due to land use shifts: A case study of Yanchang County in the Loess Plateau of China”, in Land Use Policy, volume 40, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: This year, the world’s leading scientists warned human civilisation was in jeopardy because forest clearance, land-use shifts, pollution and climate change had put a million species at risk of extinction.
ref: 2019 August 30, Jonathan Watts, “Amazon fires show world heading for point of no return, says UN”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Of, or related to the use of land.
drecky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɛki/
rhymes: -ɛki
Forms: form: dreckier
form: dreckiest
Etymology: From dreck + -y. Related to German dreckig (“dirty, trashy”).
Senses: examples: text: She hated to think of her father kneeling beneath his workbench and locating that penciled heart, hated the idea of Don Armour’s drecky insinuations entering her father’s prudish ears, hated to imagine how keenly it offended a man of such discipline and privacy to learn that Don Armour had been roaming and poking through his house at will.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
text: And lenders still would suffer negative consequences for selling a bad product, even if they could get away with it for a while, such as loss of reputation due to inferior deal performance, losses on retained interests, and poor pricing for the drecky mortgages.
ref: 2011, Thomas Adams, Yves Smith, FCIC Report Misses Central Issue: Why Was There Demand for Bad Mortgage Loans?:
glosses: trashy, worthless
Synonyms: sense: of poor quality
word: crummy
sense: of poor quality
word: cruddy
sense: of poor quality
word: tenth-rate
sense: of poor quality
word: worthless
sense: of poor quality
word: trashy
sense: of poor quality
word: two-bit
sense: of poor quality
word: manky
word: crappy
word: shitty
word: grody
word: lousy
word: grotty
word: miserable
Derived terms: dreckiness
Related terms: dreckish
supernova impostor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: supernova impostors
Etymology: From being mistaken for a supernova.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: An extremely energetic stellar flare event that is bright enough to be mistaken for a supernova, but through later spectral analysis is revealed to not be one.
Coordinate terms: failed supernova
supernova
hypernova
nova
FEDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of FED
Nebraska Ice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compound of Nebraska (“University of Nebraska–Lincoln”) + ice. From being a form of water ice that was predicted at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 1997.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Two dimensional bilayer ice I, a phase of water ice that is two-dimensional and can shrink when frozen.
working environment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: working environments
Senses: synonyms: work environment
glosses: The environment in which one is employed, or in which one is required to work.
Related terms: workplace
working environments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of working environment
New Glasgow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈn(j)u ˈɡlæz.ɡoʊ/
rhymes: -æzɡəʊ
Etymology: Named after the city of Glasgow, Scotland.
Senses: glosses: A town in Nova Scotia, Canada.
glosses: A community in Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Nashua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nashua
Senses: synonyms: Nashaway
glosses: A member of an extinct Native American people of what is now Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
Nashua
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, United States, a tributary of the Merrimack.
glosses: A city in New Hampshire, United States and one of the two county seats of Hillsborough County.
glosses: A city in Iowa.
glosses: A village in Minnesota.
glosses: A town in Montana.
glosses: A town in New South Wales, Australia.
Sayako
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Neander
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Neanders
Etymology: Borrowed from German Neander.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Lawler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lawlers
form: Lawlor
Etymology: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Leathlobhair (“descendant of Leathlobhar”), a personal name composed of the elements leath (“half”) + lobar (“leprous; sick”), a nickname for a man of unhealthy constitution.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
glosses: A placename
An unincorporated community in Gallatin County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: A placename
A city in Chickasaw County, Iowa, United States.
glosses: A placename
An unincorporated community in Aitkin County, Minnesota, United States.
set phasers to
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: In reference to the 1960s US television series Star Trek, in which the crew could set their phaser weapons either to stun or to kill.
Senses: glosses: Prepare to; commence (used with a following verb or noun)
Poreč
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Serbo-Croatian Pȍreč.
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality of Istria County, Croatia.
'hem
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: I wud proue ’hem Mother beſt be truſt: why doe not I know you Granam? and that Suger-loafe? ha! doe I not Magæra.
ref: 1604 (first performance), Tho[mas] Dekker; Iohn Webster [i.e., John Webster], West-ward Hoe. […], London: […] [William Jaggard], and to be sold by Iohn Hodgets […], published 1607, →OCLC, Act V, signature H, verso:
glosses: Obsolete form of ’em.
conscientise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: conscientises
form: conscientising
form: conscientised
form: conscientised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of conscientize.
conscientises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of conscientise
get the dirty water off one's chest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets the dirty water off one's chest
form: getting the dirty water off one's chest
form: got the dirty water off one's chest
form: got the dirty water off one's chest
Senses: examples: text: 'You've got to get the dirty water off your chest some time.'
ref: 1971, Fred Basnett, Country Matters:
text: Why not, I wonder, on my way, / Bored stiff and womanless for months, / To swim among and perv upon / The inaccessible Greek girls / And topless tourists round the bay, / Have random, casual sex and get / The dirty water off my chest?
ref: 1993, Westerly:
text: I'm in serious need of some ugandan activities. Any of you birds out there at a loose end and want to get the dirty water off your chest?
ref: 2000 January 25, Baz, “Any birds want a good seeing to?”, in uk.local.birmingham (Usenet):
glosses: To get sexual satisfaction, especially after a period of abstinence.
Synonyms: get one's freak on
get some
have sex
copulate
Centralia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Clinton County, Jefferson County, Marion County and Washington County, Illinois, named after the Illinois Central Railroad.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Marion County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Dubuque County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Nemaha County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city and township in Boone County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A hamlet in the town of Stockton, Chautauqua County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Craig County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A borough and near-ghost town (due to an underground coal-mine fire) in Columbia County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Trinity County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Chesterfield County, Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Lewis County, Washington.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Braxton County, West Virginia, the geographic centre of the state.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A former city, merged in 1900 with Grand Rapids, later renamed Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin.
glosses: A community in South Huron municipality, Huron County, Ontario, Canada.
Centralia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From central + -ia; diminutive of Central Australia.
Senses: glosses: A geographic region in central Australia.
shielded cable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shielded cables
Senses: glosses: Synonym of screened cable.
synonyms: word: screened cable
European polecat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: European polecats
Senses: glosses: Mustela putorius, related to mink and weasels, native to Europe and parts of Asia, and from which certain of the animals called ferrets have been domesticated.
Synonyms: sense: Mustela putorius
word: black polecat
sense: Mustela putorius
word: forest polecat
sense: Mustela putorius
word: fitch
sense: Mustela putorius
word: foumart
sense: Mustela putorius
word: ferret
Hypernyms: sense: Mustela putorius
word: mustelid
sense: Mustela putorius
word: polecat
common swift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common swifts
Senses: glosses: Apus apus, a swallow-like bird native to Europe and much of temperate Asia, rarely alighting on the ground.
niff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪf/
rhymes: -ɪf
Forms: form: niffs
Senses: examples: text: Whew, there's a bit of a niff in here. Is that your socks?
text: Police helicopters blared loudspeaker warnings about the smelly man. Soon afterwards, a nosy motel receptionist noticed a nasty niff from a new guest.
ref: 2014, Nick Arnold, Horrible Science: Body Owner's Handbook, page 159:
glosses: A bad smell.
examples: text: 'I don't see you need to get in such a niff,' said Katie.
ref: 2008, Winston Graham, The Twisted Sword, page 492:
glosses: A sulk or sullen mood.
niff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪf/
rhymes: -ɪf
Forms: form: niffs
form: niffing
form: niffed
form: niffed
Senses: glosses: To smell bad; to stink.
Derived terms: niffy
Related terms: niff-naff
niff-naffy
unhuggable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhuggable
form: most unhuggable
Etymology: From un- + huggable.
Senses: glosses: Not capable of, or suitable for, being hugged.
gets the dirty water off one's chest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get the dirty water off one's chest
getting the dirty water off one's chest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of get the dirty water off one's chest
got the dirty water off one's chest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of get the dirty water off one's chest
southernization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: southernisation
Etymology: From southern + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of southernizing.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:southernization.
glosses: In particular, the adaptation of something (mainly America or its politics) to the norms and practices of the American South.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:southernization.
glosses: The adaptation of a society to the developments, technologies and crops of southern Asia, such as sugar, cotton, and Arabic numerals. (An analogue of westernization, suggested by historian Lynda Shaffer.)
southernisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From southern + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of southernization.
best girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: best girls
form: best gal
Senses: examples: text: […] your fine magazine […] is a pleasure to read anywhere, but in an isolated spot such as this it's almost as good as a sugar report from the best girl!
ref: 1954, Esquire, volume 41, number 2, page 12:
text: Soon, you might think, a lone figure dressed in tails and a top-hat — Fred Astaire, or maybe Gene Kelly — would appear and dance his way from one of those spots to the next, singing about how lonely a fellow could be when his best girl had given him the air and all the bars were closed.
ref: 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
glosses: One's girlfriend.
qualifier: film production
glosses: A woman who performs the duties of a best boy.
examples: text: Also: Miku is best girl, thank you for attending this TED Talk.
ref: 2020 April 22, Will Harrison, “15 Anime To Watch If You Love Fruits Basket”, in CBR:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A reader or viewer's preferred female character.
best girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of best girl
intrarater
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + rater.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: intraobserver, intratester, intracoder
text: intrarater reliability
coordinate_terms: interrater
;
interobserver
intertester
intercoder
glosses: For a single rater.
Related terms: intertest
intratest
test-retest method
restoppers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of restopper
undiscover
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undiscovers
form: undiscovering
form: undiscovered
form: undiscovered
Etymology: From un- + discover.
Senses: examples: text: It's been happening since man discovered war, and it'll keep on till he undiscovers it, if he ever […]
ref: 1995, John Dalmas, The Lion of Farside:
text: “I want...” I began, “I suppose...I am trying, for lack of a better word, to un-recall these words. To undiscover these things.”
“Don't you mean forget?” Throneberry said.
I shook my head. “I don't know. Maybe. But forgetting is too weak a word for what I want. I want the words to disappear not just from my mind, but from this...”
ref: 2013, Rusty Whitener, A Season of Mysteries:
text: In fact, as it turned out, Sandy Island had been undiscovered more than once already. Most recently, in the year 2000, a group of amateur radio enthusiasts had noticed its absence while travelling to the Chesterfield Islands, 100km to the west.
ref: 2020, Malachy Tallack, The Un-Discovered Islands:
glosses: To forget or revoke the discovery of (something discovered earlier).
undiscovers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undiscover
undiscovering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undiscover
undiscovering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Like many another man of latent gifts, he underwent the discipline of purely wasted years undiscovering and undiscovered […]
ref: 2012, Edward Granville Browne, A Year Amongst the Persians: Impressions as to the Life, Character, and ...:
glosses: Not making discoveries.
misdiscover
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misdiscovers
form: misdiscovering
form: misdiscovered
form: misdiscovered
Etymology: From mis- + discover.
Senses: examples: text: And when we are not leaving the original in-dwellers out of our stories of "peopling" the continent and developing "the" American population, we have been misdiscovering, misnaming, and misunderstanding them.
ref: 1987, Calvin Martin, The American Indian and the problem of history:
glosses: To discover in a wrong or unacceptable way.
misdiscovers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misdiscover
misdiscovering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misdiscover
misdiscovered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misdiscover
entertainability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From entertain + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: Its entertainability in thought is not, however, anything that can be hastily and superficially and generally decided: we must work out a specific account of what it is to be an Absolute, we must meditate on its full implications […]
ref: 1970, John Niemeyer Findlay, [ Ascent to the absolute: metaphysical papers and lectures]
qualifier: thought or suggestion
glosses: The quality of being entertainable.
raw_tags: of an idea
postbuyout
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + buyout.
Senses: glosses: After a buyout.
prebuyout
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + buyout.
Senses: glosses: Before a buyout.
nitwittish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nitwittish
form: most nitwittish
Etymology: From nitwit + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: After college she had discarded men as “horrid” and B.D. remembered poignantly her nitwittish young woman friend who had discarded Gretchen.
ref: 2010, Jim Harrison, The Farmer's Daughter:
glosses: Somewhat like a nitwit.
festerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more festerous
form: most festerous
Etymology: From fester + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: It is not surprising that even as we discover that revolution is the only basic solution, we also find that we are still carriers of the festerous and lingering stench which permeates everything connected with imperialism and slavemaking.
ref: 2010, David Barber, A Hard Rain Fell: SDS and Why it Failed:
glosses: That is characteristic of, or prone to festering.
interpretesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interpretess
niffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of niff
Thanh Hoá
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /θaɪnˈwɑː/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Thanh Hoá.
Senses: glosses: A province of Vietnam.
glosses: The capital city of Thanh Hoá Province, Vietnam.
Nghệ An
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪ æn/
ipa: /ˌneɪ ˈɑːn/
ipa: /ˈneɪ ˌɑːn/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Nghệ An.
Senses: glosses: A province of Vietnam.
Hà Tĩnh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈhɑːtɪn/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Hà Tĩnh.
Senses: glosses: A province of Vietnam.
glosses: A city in Vietnam.
judgess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: judgesses
Etymology: From judge + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: The judgess demands in her charge to the jury to “despise and hate all men and to bring up your children to do the same.”
ref: 1918, Motography, Volume 19, Issues 1-26:
glosses: A female judge.
say yes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: says yes
form: saying yes
form: said yes
form: said yes
Senses: info_templates: extra_data: words: to
‘someone/something’
expansion: [with to ‘someone/something’]
antonyms: say no
glosses: To agree; to consent to; to accept.
say no
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: says no
form: saying no
form: said no
form: said no
Senses: glosses: To disagree; to think that something or someone is doing or saying is wrong.
examples: text: Just say no to drugs.
glosses: To reject something.
hypergamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypergamic
form: most hypergamic
Etymology: From hypergamy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, or related to hypergamy.
Derived terms: hypergamically
hypergamically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hypergamically
form: most hypergamically
Etymology: From hypergamic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a hypergamic manner.
pot hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pot holes
Senses: examples: text: It is critical that we teach newly-freed Christians to watch out for […] pot holes in the road ahead!
ref: 2011, Joe Allbright, Rita Allbright, More Tools for Liberating the Bruised, →ISBN, page 320:
glosses: Alternative form of pothole.
pot holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pot hole
dissimilator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dissimilators
Etymology: From dissimilate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Stalin's greatness as a dissimilator was an integral part of his greatness as a statesman […]
ref: 2010, Peter Hruby, Dangerous Dreamers: The Australian Anti-Democratic Left and Czechoslovak Agents:
glosses: One who dissimilates.
hypogamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypogamic
form: most hypogamic
Etymology: From hypogamy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, or related to hypogamy.
homogamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homogamy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to homogamy.
Derived terms: homogamically
homogamically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more homogamically
form: most homogamically
Etymology: From homogamic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a homogamic manner.
yamanba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yamanbas
form: yamanba
Etymology: From Japanese やまんば.
Senses: glosses: A mountain hag in Japanese folklore.
glosses: A Japanese fashion style with dark skin, bleached or dyed hair, and bright white and light-colored makeup around the eyes and lips.
fuckmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuckmasters
Etymology: From fuck + master.
Senses: examples: text: Condoms and anesthetics, I decided, were not ultimately part of the game plan that would make me a fuckmaster.
ref: 2005, Rob Brezsny, Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to ...:
text: I loved the thought of having cross-country phone sex with Matt as the take-charge fuckmaster.
ref: 2005, Jennifer Coburn, The Wife of Reilly:
glosses: One who performs expertly in sexual intercourse.
fuckmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fuckmaster
judgesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of judgess
dissimilators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dissimilator