cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Lehrke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lehrkes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Lehrke.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Kreuter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kreuters
Etymology: Borrowed from German Kreuter.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Kreuters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kreuter
Lehrkes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lehrke
Balykchy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rybachye
Etymology: Derived from Kyrgyz Балыкчы (Balıkcı)
Senses: glosses: A city in Issyk-Kul Region Province, Kyrgyzstan.
Kudos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kudo
Kujalas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kujala
Kalanis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kalani
Lozon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lozons
Etymology: Borrowed from French Lozon, a variant of Lauzon.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Lozons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lozon
Fernyhough
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fernyhoughs
form: Fernihough
Etymology: Habitational surname from a minor place near Endon, Staffordshire, from Old English fearniġ (“ferny”) + healh (“nook, corner”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
Thorneloe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Thorneloes
Etymology: Altered form of Thornley.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Oulsnam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Oulsnams
Etymology: Much altered form of Wolstenholme.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Oulsnams
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Oulsnam
Fernyhoughs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fernyhough
Thorneloes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Thorneloe
Whitacre Heath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Nether Whitacre parish, North Warwickshire district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP2192).
asilomorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asilomorphs
Etymology: From translingual Asilomorpha.
Senses: glosses: Any fly of the infraorder Asilomorpha.
African hobby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: African hobbies
Etymology: From African + hobby.
Senses: glosses: Falco cuvierii, a species of falcon.
GitHubber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GitHubbers
Etymology: From GitHub + -er.
Senses: examples: text: At 29 years old, I was the oldest of the three GitHubbers and had accumulated a proportionally larger amount of debt and monthly expenditure.
ref: 2009, Tom Preston-Werner, “How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft (continued)”, in Chad Fowler, The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development, Raleigh, N.C.: The Pragmatic Bookshelf, →ISBN, part I (Choosing Your Market), chapter 6 (Don’t Listen to Your Parents), page 26:
text: GitHubbers are still committed to the principles of bootstrapping, especially for younger startups, and [Tom] Preston-Werner doesn’t think their messaging on that score will change any time soon.
ref: 2012 July 9, J. O’Dell, “Why GitHub abandoned the bootstrapper’s ship for a $100M Series A”, in VentureBeat, archived from the original on 10 Nov 2022:
text: According to GitHubber Brian Doll, when GitHub first started, they just had a row of tables and everyone worked at the tables. […] An Open Organization may require a whole lot of arguing. GitHub is not a quiet place to work. […] GitHubbers see arguing as the process to making good decisions.
ref: 2014, Philip A. Foster, “GitHub: ‘Creating Awesome’—A Case Study”, in The Open Organization: A New Era of Leadership and Organizational Development, Farnham, Surrey: Gower Publishing Limited, →ISBN, part I (Foundations of an Open Organization), pages 32, 36, and 37:
text: I thought that’s how I become a good GitHubber -⁠- that’s the idea of success.
ref: 2014 September, Shanley Kane, quoting Julie Ann Horvath, “Interview with Julie Ann Horvath”, in Model View Culture: New Writing on Technology, Diversity and Culture (Quarterly No. 3), San Francisco, Calif.: Feminist Technology Collective, Inc., →ISBN, page 12:
text: For example, consider GitHub’s San Francisco headquarters. […] Past the waiting room is a massive open area, complete with a full bar, a cafeteria, foosball tables, ping-pong tables, pool tables, and a DJ station. This is where GitHubbers have lunch, hold meetups, and relax.
ref: 2016, Yevgeniy Brikman, “Startup Culture”, in Hello, Startup: A Programmer’s Guide to Building Products, Technologies, and Teams, Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, part III (Teams), pages 411–412:
glosses: An employee of GitHub, Inc., a developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage and share their code.
GitHubbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of GitHubber
Nether Whitacre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in North Warwickshire district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP2392).
Related terms: Over Whitacre
Whitacre Heath
Brynlie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Modern fanciful spelling of Brinley.
Senses: glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname.
dynastine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dynastines
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any beetle in the subfamily Dynastinae, the rhinoceros beetles.
Maxstoke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet and civil parish in North Warwickshire district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP2386).
Sussberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sussbergs
Senses: glosses: A surname.
scissors crisis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scissors crises
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile, real commodity prices were falling sharply for most non-oil products as the world economy moved into its deepest recession since the 1930s. With the debtor countries also facing a strong and ever-strengthening US dollar in the early-mid 1980s, it is perhaps not surprising that Brazil and Venezuela (in 1983) followed Mexico (August 1982) into default on their debt repayments. All of these countries were caught in a scissors crisis not apparently of their own making.
ref: 1993, Stuart Corbridge, “Ethics in Development Studies: The Example of Debt”, in Frans J. Schuurman, editor, Beyond the Impasse: New Directions in Development Theory, →ISBN, page 126:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: An economic crisis caused by price scissors, that is, an unfavourable divergence in the prices paid by a particular group or country for products that it needs as against the prices of the products that it produces.
scissors crises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scissors crisis
cult archaeology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cult archaeologies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pseudoarchaeology.
synonyms: word: pseudoarchaeology
pseudoarchaeologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoarchaeology
alternative archaeology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alternative archaeologies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pseudoarchaeology.
synonyms: word: pseudoarchaeology
Pleck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Batcombe parish, Dorset, England, previously in West Dorset district (OS grid ref ST6104).
glosses: A small area of Hazelbury Bryan, Dorset, previously in North Dorset district (OS grid ref ST7408).
glosses: A hamlet in Marnhull parish, Dorset, previously in North Dorset district (OS grid ref ST7717).
glosses: A suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SO9997).
Karatzidis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Karatzidises
Etymology: Borrowed from Greek.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Greek.
pair of shoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pairs of shoes
Etymology: Perhaps from French chose (“thing, matter”).
Senses: examples: text: “Shall colonists have their horses (and blood ’uns, if you please, good Lord!) and not my London gentleman? No, no. We’ll show ’em another pair of shoes than that, Pip; won’t us?”
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter I, in Great Expectations […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 11:
text: “He’s all there, if that’ll ease their mind. But where he is—that’s another pair of shoes.”
ref: 1876, Robert Edward Francillon, “A Dog and His Shadow, Book II, Chapter XIX”, in The Gentleman’s Magazine, volume 16, page 624:
text: Eckhardt was a very different pair of shoes from Gaál.
ref: 1956, Carlile Aylmer Macartney, October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary, 1929–1945, volume 1, page 121:
synonyms: kettle of fish
ball game
glosses: A case or situation that is different from another.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pair, shoes.
Xmastide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Xmas + -tide.
Senses: examples: text: We are just emerging from the rather deadly oppression of the English Xmastide—which I have spent at home for the first time for four years—a lone and lorn and stranded friend or two being with me; […]
ref: 1909 December 26, Henry James, edited by Percy Lubbock, The Letters of Henry James, volume II, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1920:
text: A room, a room, brave gallants all, / Pray give me room to ride, / I’m come to show activity / This merry Xmastide.
ref: 1930, J[ames] Harvey Bloom, Folk Lore, Old Customs and Superstitions in Shakespeare Land, London: Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke, page 112:
text: Store your beech for Xmastide, / With new cut holly laid beside.
ref: 2006, anonymous author, “The Firewood Poem”, in George East, French Kisses: A Memoir of Eternal Optimism in Rural France, Orion Books, published 2009, →ISBN:
glosses: Abbreviation of Christmastide.
North Dorset
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former local government district in Dorset, England, formed in 1974 and abolished in 2019 on the formation of Dorset unitary authority.
subprocessing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subprocess
subprocessed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of subprocess
Aurignac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Aurignac.
Senses: glosses: A village in Haute-Garonne department, France.
Derived terms: Aurignacian
Batcombe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish (served by High Stoy Parish Council) in Dorset, England, previously in West Dorset district (OS grid ref ST6104).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Mendip district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST6939).
runester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: runesters
Etymology: Equivalent to rune + -ster.
Senses: examples: text: The exoteric facts and interpretations contained in these pages will serve the runester well as an introduction to the wondrous world of rune wisdom developed in the second half of the book.
ref: 1989, Edred Thorsson, A Handbook of Esoteric Runology, page 3:
glosses: A person well versed in runelore; an expert at runes; a user of runes for esoteric purposes.
runesters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of runester
rune poem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rune poems
Senses: examples: text: The Rune poem says that Ing was first known among the East-danes, and that he was so named by the Heardings.
ref: 1849, John Mitchell Kemble, The Saxons in England: A History of the English Commonwealth Till the Period of the Norman Conquest, volume II, page 62:
text: The "Old English Rune Poem" contains a futhorc of twenty-eight staves.
ref: 1989, Edred Thorsson, A Handbook of Esoteric Runology, page 23:
glosses: A poem with separate stanzas explaining the meaning of each rune in the futhorc or futhark.
rune poems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rune poem
Marnhull
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Dorset, England, previously in North Dorset district (OS grid ref ST7818).
proprializations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proprialization
proprialisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proprialisation
winds of change
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by UK Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1960 in a speech advocating decolonization made in Cape Town, South Africa, which referred to the "wind of change […] blowing through this continent", later shifting to the plural "winds of change" in popular usage.
Senses: glosses: The inexorable process of inevitable societal and political change and progress over time.
wikipedia: Wind of Change (speech)
Hazelbury Bryan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English hæsel + bearu, recorded as Hasebere in 1201, Hasilbere Bryan in 1547, with manorial affix from the Bryene family.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Dorset, England, previously in North Dorset district (OS grid ref ST7408).
pyewipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyewipes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of piewipe.
pretaxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pretax
pretaxed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Also available are two Flex plans you contribute to with pretaxed dollars; a Medical flex program and a Dependent Care program for those co-workers with DayCare needs.
ref: 2012, Mark Peterson, Sustainable Enterprise: A Macromarketing Approach, page 334:
glosses: Synonym of pretax.
synonyms: word: pretax
pretaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pretax
pretaxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pretax
Short Heath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Overseal parish, South Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3015).
glosses: A suburb of Birmingham, West Midlands, England, north of the city centre (OS grid ref SP0992).
glosses: A suburb of Willenhall, Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, West Midlands (OS grid ref SJ9700).
Overseal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK2915).
kolomikta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A species of kiwifruit, Actinidia kolomikta, native to the Far East.
bizarre caddisfly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bizarre caddisflies
Senses: glosses: Any caddisfly of the family Lepidostomatidae.
pineapple grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pineapple grasses
form: pineapple-grass
form: pineapplegrass
Senses: examples: text: The white cloud has not lifted, and visibility across an open stretch of pineapple-grass bog is poor.
ref: 1999, Julia Leigh, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 67
glosses: A perennial grass, Astelia alpina, of Alpine regions of southeastern Australia and Tasmania, having pineapple-shaped leaves and edible berries; an astelia.
Yule lad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yule lads
Etymology: Calque of Icelandic jólasveinn. Compare also Yule swain.
Senses: glosses: One of several trolls, children of the ogress Grýla, who, according to Icelandic folktales, arrive one each day from December 12th through December 25, and leave one each night from December 25 through January 6. The Yule lads are associated with tricks and mischief, but also with carrying off naughty children in a burlap bag and eating them.
tsari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Russian цари́ (carí).
Senses: glosses: plural of tsar
TKI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TKIs
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of tyrosine kinase inhibitor.
aardvark cucumber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aardvark cucumbers
Senses: glosses: A type of African melon, Cucumis humifructus, whose fruits are favored by aardvarks.
caskfruit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caskfruits
Senses: glosses: A woody climbing plant of northern South America, Doliocarpus, which produces red berries.
ou-tenga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of otenga.
chulta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The otenga
pickle fruit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The bilimbi
bares it all
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bare it all
baring it all
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bare it all
bared it all
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bare it all
bares one's breast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bare one's breast
baring one's breast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bare one's breast
bared one's breast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bare one's breast
red mammees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red mammee
Placaks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Placak
scaleseeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scaleseed
taiques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taique
victory signs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of victory sign
chains up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chain up
chaining up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chain up
chained up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chain up
bizarre caddisflies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bizarre caddisfly
pineapplegrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pineapplegrass
aardvark cucumbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aardvark cucumber
caskfruits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caskfruit
bares one's heart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bare one's heart
baring one's heart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bare one's heart
bared one's heart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bare one's heart
bares one's soul
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bare one's soul
baring one's soul
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bare one's soul
bared one's soul
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bare one's soul
jack-in-the-bush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alliaria petiolata, the garlic mustard
glosses: Jack in the green
bares one's teeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bare one's teeth
baring one's teeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bare one's teeth
bared one's teeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bare one's teeth
bargains away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bargain away
bargaining away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bargain away
bargained away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bargain away
bargains for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bargain for
bargaining for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bargain for
bargained for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bargain for
barks at print
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bark at print
barking at print
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bark at print
barked at print
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bark at print
barks at the wrong tree
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bark at the wrong tree
barking at the wrong tree
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bark at the wrong tree
barked at the wrong tree
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bark at the wrong tree
barnumizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of barnumize
barnumized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of barnumize
barycentered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of barycenter
Nore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Nore
Senses: glosses: A sandbar at the mouth of the River Thames.
glosses: The naval subcommand area covering the Thames, and at various times other parts of the east coast of England.
Nore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Norwegian Nynorsk Nore.
Senses: glosses: A village in Nore og Uvdal municipality, Buskerud county, Norway.
Quran Belt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Quran belt
Etymology: Derived from Quran and Bible Belt (“a region where conservative Christian beliefs are predominant”).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A region where conservative Muslim beliefs are a predominant part of the local culture.
glosses: Kelantan and Terengganu, two states in Peninsular Malaysia that practice a stricter form of Islam.
Coordinate terms: word: Bible Belt
english: Hindu
translation: Hindu
word: cow belt
Related terms: english: slang term for strict Muslims, especially supporters of the conservative PAS party that predominates Kelantan
translation: slang term for strict Muslims, especially supporters of the conservative PAS party that predominates Kelantan
word: lebai
english: Islamist conservative political party that is dominant in the two Malaysian states
translation: Islamist conservative political party that is dominant in the two Malaysian states
word: PAS
runework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rune + work.
Senses: examples: text: In the magical realms, runework is used for personal transformation, building wider consciousness, psychic development, healing, investigation of Wyrd, and shaping the environment according to the inner will.
ref: 1989, Edred Thorsson, A Handbook of Esoteric Runology, page xv:
text: Often some form of divination, astrology, tarot, or runework will accompany the ritual as sign or communication from the powers invoked as to the probable outcome of the rite.
ref: 1995, Timothy Miller, America's Alternative Religions, page 342:
glosses: The use of runes for esoteric purposes.
dwarf-holder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dwarf-holders
form: dwarfholder
form: dwarf holder
Etymology: From dwarf + holder, by analogy with smallholder. First attested in the 1930s.
Senses: examples: text: It represented the rural middle classes against the bigger men, especially against their creditors, but it neither represented nor cared for the dwarf-holders, still less the agricultural labourers.
ref: 1956, Carlile Aylmer Macartney, October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary, 1929–1945, volume 1, page 122:
text: The fund would consist of land confiscated from all owners, individual and institutional, who, according to the new bill, held more than was socially acceptable; the confiscated land would be redistributed amongst the landless and the dwarf-holders.
ref: 1987, Richard J. Crampton, A Short History of Modern Bulgaria, →ISBN, page 89:
text: This was a time of land hunger and severely declining living standards for the teeming mass of smallholders, cottagers, and landless laborers who crowded onto the land. The world of the Halesowen dwarf-holders was terrible.
ref: 2001, David Levine, At the Dawn of Modernity: Biology, Culture, and Material Life in Europe, →ISBN, page 282:
glosses: A poor farmer with a very small holding, especially one smaller than required for subsistence.
Hypernyms: english: farmer
translation: farmer
word: smallholder
Walsall Wood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban village in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SK0503).
dwarf-holders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dwarf-holder
dwarfholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dwarfholders
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dwarf-holder.
dwarfholders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dwarfholder
dwarf holder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dwarf holders
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dwarf-holder.
dwarf holders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dwarf holder
in every sense of the word
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: The prince is not a prig, nor yet a milksop, but in every sense of the word a manly young fellow .
ref: 1904 November, Fritz Cunliffe-Owen, “Germany's Next Emperor”, in Munsey's Magazine, volume 32, number 2, page 225:
text: He declared further that the depression had precipitated a crisis of democracy in every sense of the word.
ref: 1951, Herbert William Natzke, The constitutional dictatorship of Dr. Heinrich Bruening:
text: The East London Museum's motto, "No time like the present", has throughout the year been lived up to in every sense of the word.
ref: 1952, Report - Republic of South Africa, Provincial Administration of the Cape of Good Hope, Dept. of Nature Conservation, page 68:
glosses: Used to add emphasis
runesong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: runesongs
form: rune-song
form: rune song
Etymology: From rune + song.
Senses: examples: text: Odin himself says in his famous Rune-song in the Elder Edda: I know that I hung / On a wind-rocked tree.
ref: 1875, Rasmus Bjørn Anderson, Norse Mythology, II. i., page 254:
text: Ere one verse was done / The deer in the pine wood forgot how to run. / Oh! the strong / Power of rune song! / Chased, they forgot how to run.
ref: 1882, [Eliza Keary], Memoir of Annie Keary, page 127:
text: The old rune-songs may, however, still be heard on both sides of the border-land in Finnish and in Russian Carelia, as also on the shores of Lake Ladoga, in Ingria, and in the neighbourhood of Kajana in Osterbotten.
ref: 1896, Bernard Fredrik Godenhjelm, Handbook of the History of Finnish Literature, page 12:
text: Into this the four plunged, weaving with their runesongs fresh and original psychic patterns which had the effect of healing wounds.
ref: 2022, Michael Moorcock, Stormbringer: The Elric Saga, part 2, page 381:
glosses: A poem or song, especially one with mystical or mysterious overtones; a spell or an incantation; magical or esoteric poetry.
runesongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of runesong
rail motor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rail motors
Senses: examples: text: A rail motor was introduced about 1905, and in July, 1908, there were actually some 27 runs each way daily on the branch.
ref: 1944 November and December, G. A. Knott, “Forgotten Train Services in the Birmingham District”, in Railway Magazine, page 333:
text: The L&YR built a small number of these trains, known as 'Rail Motors', for rural branch lines. It was only fitting that the Horwich branch should have its own.
ref: 2023 March 8, Paul Salveson, “Fond farewells to two final trains...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 54:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Alternative form of railmotor.
rail motors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rail motor.
Melkitism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Melkite + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: That this is less true of the Syriac tradition may be attributed to the Nestorian Christians’ preference for Muslim rule and culture as opposed to the Melkitism proposed by Constantinople.
ref: 1973, The Tablet, volume 227, page 877:
text: Melkitism is known to be the form of Christianity which was to be divided into Catholic and Orthodox churches.
ref: 2013, Sabri Yılmaz, “A Muslim theologian’s approach to the doctrine of the Trinity: The case of Qadi ‘Abd al-Jabbar”, in The Journal of International Social Research, volume 6, number 24, page 427, note 3:
text: The acceptance of Arab conquest served as a means of escaping the doctrinal predicament that most Egyptians found themselves enmeshed in between monophysitism and melkitism.
ref: 2015, Adeshina Afolayan, “Egypt, Arab Republic of (Ǧumhūriyyat Miṣr al-ʿArabiyyah)”, in Toyin Falola, Daniel Jean-Jacques, editors, Africa: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society, volume 2, →ISBN, page 382:
glosses: Support for the imperial Byzantine church and the Council of Chalcedon during the Monophysite controversies from the 5th century onwards.
unskein
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unskeins
form: unskeining
form: unskeined
form: unskeined
Etymology: From skein.
Senses: examples: text: "Jess ... is assisting the hostess to unskein yarn and wind into a ball"
ref: 2003, Kay Armatage, The Girl from God's Country: Nell Shipman and the Silent, page 56:
glosses: To unwind from a skein
examples: text: "In the sunshine his [Custer's] locks unskeined, stream a foot behind him"
ref: 1865, American Newspaper:
glosses: To unfurl, as if from a skein
unskeins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unskein
unskeining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unskein
shell gravel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shell gravels
Senses: glosses: gravel that consists of broken shells of molluscs
runecasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: runecastings
Etymology: From rune + casting.
Senses: examples: text: It is another odd fact that there is no direct, nonmythological reference to the act of runecasting in Old Norse literature. Despite all of this, which is chiefly based on indirect linguistic evidence and parallel accounts in historical texts, we can be fairly certain that the practice was known.
ref: 1989, Edred Thorsson, Runelore: A Handbook of Esoteric Runology, York Beach, Me.: S. Weiser, page 77:
glosses: The act of scattering stones, tablets, etc., each marked with a rune on one side, for the purposes of foretelling the future, determining a course of action, etc.
examples: text: One of my friends, whose wife had recently left him, was still in primary shock when he came to me for a Rune casting. He was experiencing a lot of pain, realizing, after the fact, the value of this relationship and agonizing over his loss. The issue, then, was "What am I to learn from this separation?"
ref: 1982, Ralph Blum, The Book of Runes, New York: St. Martin's Press, page 50:
text: Linguistic evidence is of two kinds: words for the tools of runecasting and terms that originally must have been characterizations of the results of runecastings.
ref: 1989, Edred Thorsson, Runelore: A Handbook of Esoteric Runology, York Beach, Me.: S. Weiser, page 77:
glosses: An instance of this; a runecast.
Chasiv Yar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from Ukrainian Ча́сів Яр (Čásiv Jar, literally “quiet times ravine”)
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Chasiv Yar.
glosses: A city in Bakhmut Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
pull a permit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls a permit
form: pulling a permit
form: pulled a permit
form: pulled a permit
Senses: examples: text: After the tornado struck, the town mandated that the owners of the most badly damaged buildings pull a permit to do the required repairs.
glosses: To apply for and obtain an authorization from a unit of governance, for the completion of a task, such as construction.
Pohrebyshche
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from Ukrainian Погреби́ще (Pohrebýšče)
Senses: glosses: A city in Vinnytsia Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine.
torture-test
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: torture-tests
form: torture-testing
form: torture-tested
form: torture-tested
Senses: glosses: To put (a product, especially software) through extreme conditions or heavy use to assess its durability.
manularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From manual.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: labor-intensiveness, especially in contrast to automation.
labor-intensiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From labor-intensive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being labor-intensive
prestiged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From prestige + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prestige
archwitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archwitches
form: arch-witch
Etymology: From arch- + witch.
Senses: examples: text: Others, like the archwitch Kálarátri or “black night,” are of repulsive appearance; she has dull eyes, a depressed flat nose; […]
ref: 1894, William Crooke, An Introduction to the Popular Religion and Folklore of Northern India, Allahabad: […] the Government Press, […], page 350:
text: And it was strange that these two archwitches should slumber when the whole world of shadows was astir.
ref: 1907, William McChesney Martin, Shoes of Iron: A Tale of Witch Town, Mayhew Publishing Co., page 183:
text: The poetic basis of this composition is the Russian legend that on the night of Ivan Koupalo the archwitch, Baba-Yaga, with sorcerers and sorceresses, comes to the Bald (or Bare) Mountain to celebrate the witches’ Sabbath.
ref: 1954, Donald N. Ferguson, Masterworks of the Orchestral Repertoire: A Guide for Listeners, published 1968, page 381:
glosses: A very powerful witch.
archwitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archwitch
Leijiverse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Leiji + -verse.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: The works of the Japanese manga artist Leiji Matsumoto; the fictional universe these works are set in.
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The works of the Japanese manga artist Leiji Matsumoto; the fictional universe these works are set in.
Any licensed media connected to the works or setting.
MMORPGer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MMORPGers
Etymology: From MMORPG + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The author immersed herself in the game and the online gaming culture; in doing so she discovered who these MMORPGers really are, and in these pages she destroys many stereotypes about the gamers.
ref: 2007, Choice, American Library Association, page 826:
text: I also know hard-core MMORPGers who tell me, “Do not ever get into WoW. It’s why I don’t have a girlfriend— or a life.”
ref: 2009, Carrie Tucker, I Love Geeks: The Official Handbook, Adams Media, →ISBN:
text: To the MMORPGer, the single-player video game in which you blow up pixilated alien spacecraft is not only antiquated but dull as dishwater because you're all alone and nothing more than the muzzle of a laser gun. […] MMORPGers will play one of their games for years, without ever reaching an “end” or “winning,” because it's about more than winning or reaching a high score.
ref: 2010, Kate Stevens, Freak Nation: A Field Guide to 101 of the Most Odd, Extreme, and Outrageous American Subcultures, Adams Media, →ISBN:
text: But as a scientist, who is also a parent, an avid television watcher, and an MMORPG-er, I cannot in good conscience issue an across-the-board dictum that children should avoid television and gaming altogether.
ref: 2010, Esther Yoder Strahan; Wallace E. Dixon, Jr.; J. Burton Banks, Parenting with Reason: Evidence-Based Approaches to Parenting Dilemmas, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: The first study, by Metcalf and Pammer (2011), used a modified Stroop task to investigate the existence of attentional bias for gaming-related words in excessive Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Gamers (MMORPGers). […] Results showed that excessive MMORPGers had attentional bias toward negative and MMORPG words.
ref: 2017, Yongjun Zhang, Yamikani Ndasauka, Juan Hou, Jiawen Chen, Li zhuang Yang, Ying Wang, Long Han, Junjie Bu, Peng Zhang, Yifeng Zhou, Xiaochu Zhang, “Cue-induced Behavioral and Neural Changes among Excessive Internet Gamers and Possible Application of Cue Exposure Therapy to Internet Gaming Disorder”, in Xiaochu Zhang, Zhiling Zou, Andreas J. Fallgatter, editors, Beyond Reward: Insights from Love and Addiction, Frontiers Media, →ISBN, page 43:
text: Regardless of how you do or don’t play games—whether you are an MMORPGer, a console gamer, a D&Der, a Settlers of Catan enthusiast, or someone who has never gamed before but who is perhaps curious about gaming or instructional design—I hope that in reading this book you will find a lens that will be useful to you in your own life, whether for teaching, writing, learnining, training, game development, or simply the enjoyment of games.
ref: 2018, Carly Finseth, Teach Like a Gamer: Adapting the Instructional Design of Digital Role-Playing Games (Studies in Gaming), Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 12:
glosses: One who plays MMORPGs.
MMORPGers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MMORPGer
back load
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back loads
Senses: examples: text: Goods motors for which "A" licences are held are free to operate anywhere, to pick up the most remunerative traffic, and the points between which the best back loads are available.
ref: 1944 November and December, T. F. Cameron, “Motor and Cartage Working”, in Railway Magazine, page 338:
glosses: Alternative form of backload.
back loads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back load.
rolls off the tongue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of roll off the tongue
rolling off the tongue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of roll off the tongue
rolled off the tongue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of roll off the tongue
gyrobicupola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyrobicupolas
Etymology: From gyro- + bicupola.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A bicupola in which the bases have the opposite orientation.
animational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From animation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to animation.
ballet troupe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballet troupes
Senses: glosses: A group of dancers performing together at a ballet; a company of actors
shadow ban
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shadow bans
form: shadow banning
form: shadow banned
form: shadow banned
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shadowban.
shadow ban
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shadow bans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shadowban.
ansericide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin anser + -icide.
Senses: examples: text: The major was such a man, and he did not make any attempt to invite Honoria to repose on his chest until he had calculated how far such a step would resemble the killing of the goose to which he was indebted for golden eggs - an act of ansericide that he had not the remotest intention of being guilty of.
ref: 1868, Tom Hood, chapter 41, in A Golden Heart, London: Chapman and Hall, page 282:
text: The constant answer of Capital when confronted with demands for increases of wages in the old days was what in Fabian circles is described as the plea of "ansericide," the killing of the goose that lays the golden eggs.
ref: 1920, Alfred Emmott, Nationalization of Industries: A Criticism, London: T.F. Unwin Limited, page 7:
text: His sight of what went on in the shrine and the ansericide were both unintentional slights.
ref: 2004, Barry Baldwin, “Gareth and Me: A Petronian Pilgrimage”, in Edmund P. Cueva, Jean Alvares, Shannon Byrne, editors, Authors, Authority and Interpreters in the Ancient Novel: Essays in Honour of Gareth L. Schmeling, Barkhuis Publishing, →ISBN, page 40:
glosses: The killing of a goose.
Related terms: anserine
shadow banning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shadow ban
shadow banned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shadow ban
shadow bans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shadow ban
shadow bans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shadow ban
eatress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eatresses
form: eateress
Etymology: From eater + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A woman who eats.
eatresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eatress
eateress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eateresses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eatress.
eateresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eateress
eatche
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of each.
eatche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eatches
form: eitch
Senses: glosses: Synonym of adze.
synonyms: word: adze
eatches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eatche
eitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eitches
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of eatche (“adze”).
eitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eitch
koikoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Reason: The accused has done gambling so called "Koikoi" "Atosaki" about 5 times, continuing his criminal intent, during the period from August 30, 1946, to September 19, 1946 by using Hana Cards with Takesada Mishina and several others at the house of Takesada Mishina No. 611, Imaichi, Imaichi-machi, Kamitsuga-gun, Tochigi-ken.
ref: 1948, Official Gazette. English Edition: Issues 526-548:
text: After dinner he said, "Have you got a pack of cards? I'll teach you how to play koikoi." She became very cheerful at this and flew off to the nearby stationery store for a pack of the tiny flower-patterned cards.
ref: 1997, Yoshikichi Furui, translated by Meredith McKinney, Ravine, and Other Stories, Stone Bridge Press, →ISBN, page 61:
glosses: Alternative form of koi-koi.
F.D.R.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of FDR.
F. D. R.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of FDR.
Smurf tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Smurf tubes
form: smurf tube
Etymology: Presumably from its bright blue colour, like the Smurfs cartoon characters.
Senses: glosses: A type of long, narrow, flexible tube used for electrical work and network cables.
ethletes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ethlete
cement shoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: crime
glosses: A largely-apocryphal method of execution or dead-body disposal said to be used by the Mafia or other similar organized crime groups, wherein a block of concrete is poured around the victim's feet and allowed to set before the victim is thrown into a body of water (to drown if still alive).
Synonyms: concrete shoes
Related terms: concrete overcoat
Chicago overcoat
concrete shoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cement shoes.
synonyms: word: cement shoes
arc blast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arc blasts
Senses: topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An explosion produced by the extreme heat of an uncontrolled high-energy electric arc.
Related terms: arc fault
arc flash
arc blasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arc blast
arc flash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arc flashes
Senses: topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The extremely intense light and heat produced by a high-energy electric arc.
Related terms: arc blast
arc fault
arc flashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arc flash
arc fault
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arc faults
Senses: topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An undesired and uncontrolled electric arc from one conductor through the air (or other gas) to a conductor at ground potential or a different voltage phase.
Derived terms: arc-fault circuit interrupter
Related terms: arc blast
arc flash
arc faults
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arc fault
Bethzatha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Βηθζαθά (Bēthzathá), a variation appearing in some manuscripts of the Gospel of John.
Senses: examples: text: This article undertakes a study of two Johannine stories – John 5:1-47 (of the healing of the man at the pool of Bethzatha) and John 9:1-41 (the healing of the man born blind) – to discover the meaning and purpose of the evangelist's use of these narratives, and their implications for understanding sickness and healing from faith perspective.
ref: 2012, G. N. Uzukwu, “The Disabled in the Gospel of John”, in Sapientia Logos, volume 5, number 1, Jos: Hokma House, →ISSN, page 39:
text: Bethzatha (v. 2) is where people with illnesses and/or disabilities lie and wait in hope of obtaining healing and relief, which is evidently thought to be obtained by the first person who enters the pool when its waters are mysteriously "troubled."
ref: 2021, M. E. Sousa, Sin, the Human Predicament, and Salvation in the Gospel of John, London: T&T Clark, →ISBN, page 54:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Alternative form of Bethesda.