cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
linktree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪŋk.tɹiː/
ipa: /ˈlɪŋk.tɹi/
rhymes: -ɪŋktɹiː
Forms: form: linktrees
Etymology: From the company name Linktree, from link + tree.
Senses: examples: text: In examining the patronage platforms for the following case study, we found that Twitter and Instagram are most popular among this grouping of cosplayers; many did not link to their tumblrs in their linktrees, so while tumblr has a large amount of fan users, we were unable to determine whether these cosplayers also used the platform.
ref: 2021 September 2, Lauren Rouse, Anastasia Salter, “Cosplay on Demand? Instagram, OnlyFans, and the Gendered Fantrepreneur”, in Social Media + Society, SAGE Publications, →DOI, page 4, column 2:
qualifier: social media
glosses: A landing page of social media links created using the online service Linktree.
wikipedia: Linktree
Related terms: 🔗🌲
dead stocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dead stock
linktrees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linktree
dead pixels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dead pixel
dead flats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dead flat
dead-stocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dead-stock
human biodiversity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Of course, racism has a long and inglorious history in US politics. But it now has a very new iteration in the nerdy tech-savvy generation of the alt right. Racism 2.0. They don't speak of eugenics but rather of maintaining "human biodiversity". And they have a thing about IQ tests showing that white people are cleverer than others.
ref: 2016 August 25, Giles Fraser, “The alt right is old racism for the tech-savvy generation”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2023:
text: Eugenic thinking is not safely in the past. Today, members of the "human biodiversity movement" enthusiastically tweet and blog about discoveries in molecular genetics that they mistakenly believe support the ideas that inequality is genetically determined; that policies like a more generous welfare state are thus impotent; and that genetics confirms a racialized hierarchy of human worth.
ref: 2018 July 24, Kathryn Paige Harden, “Why Progressives Should Embrace the Genetics of Education”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Dec 2022:
text: The appearance underlines past incidents in which Pinker has encountered criticism for his association with advocates of so-called “human biodiversity”, which other academics have called a “rebranding” of racial genetic essentialism and scientific racism.
ref: 2025 June 7, Jason Wilson, “Harvard author Steven Pinker appears on podcast linked to scientific racism”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A dogwhistle for eugenics, racial purity, and similar pseudoscientific theories.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see human, biodiversity.
Derived terms: HBD
racial purity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of racial hygiene.
synonyms: word: racial hygiene
racial hygiene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of German Rassenhygiene.
Senses: glosses: An approach to eugenics in Nazi ideology which sought to prevent the supposed contamination of races deemed to be superior from miscegenation.
chime whistles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chime whistle.
AEOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of AEO
Tooban
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Tievebane
glosses: A townland in County Donegal, Ireland.
goldenrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goldenrains
Senses: examples: text: Plant materials are trees and shrubs such as oaks, goldenrain, sour wood, Buckeye, holly, rhododendron, azalea, pine, and taxus.
ref: 1988, Planning Now for Irrigation and Drainage in the 21st Century. Proceedings of a Conference : Lincoln, Nebraska, July 18-21, 1988, American Society of Civil Engineers, page 93:
glosses: Alternative spelling of golden rain.
goldenrains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goldenrain
goldenrain tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goldenrain trees
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of golden rain tree.
goldenrain trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goldenrain tree
golden-rain tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golden-rain trees
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of golden rain tree.
golden-rain trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of golden-rain tree
golden-rain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golden-rains
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of golden rain.
golden-rains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of golden-rain
goldenchain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goldenchains
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of golden chain.
goldenchains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goldenchain
golden-chain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golden-chains
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of golden chain.
golden-chains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of golden-chain
golden-chain tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golden-chain trees
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of golden chain tree.
golden-chain trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of golden-chain tree
goldenchain tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goldenchain trees
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of golden chain tree.
goldenchain trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goldenchain tree
golden chain tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golden chain trees
form: goldenchain tree
form: golden-chain tree
Senses: synonyms: golden chain
golden rain
glosses: Laburnum.
golden chain trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of golden chain tree
undulatuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undulatus
eolations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eolation
Acs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ac
ground frosts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ground frost
missignify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: missignifies
form: missignifying
form: missignified
form: missignified
Etymology: From mis- + signify.
Senses: examples: text: It was unconsciounable that the sign should missignify, the costume deceive.
ref: 1996, David Cressy, “Gender Trouble and Cross-Dressing in Early Modern England”, in Journal of British Studies, volume 35, number 4, page 442:
text: These are, then, (dis) simulators, subjects who missignify, who abuse signs for their own pleasure.
ref: 1999, Josiah Blackmore, Gregory S. Hutcheson, Queer Iberia, page 89:
text: But they are signs which, on the one hand, missignify what causes them and, on the other, cause that which, as signs, they deny.
ref: 2003, Brian Donnelly, The Socialist Émigré: Marxism and the Later Tillich, page 45:
glosses: To signify falsely; to give the appearance of something that is not true.
missignifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of missignify
missignifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of missignify
missignified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of missignify
hole punch clouds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hole punch cloud
middle atmospheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of middle atmosphere
protonospheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protonosphere
gage pressures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gage pressure
tornadic waterspouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tornadic waterspout
emagrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emagram
pluviations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pluviation
tornadogeneses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tornadogenesis
fairs up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fair up
fairing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fair up
faired up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fair up
makes landfall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of make landfall
making landfall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of make landfall
made landfall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of make landfall
fairs off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fair off
fairing off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fair off
faired off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fair off
furface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furfaces
Senses: examples: text: Look, kid ... forget about what ol' fur face there said about alien abduction. I suspect you were sleepwalking. Have you ever done that before?
ref: 2005 August 19, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic):
topics: comics
fantasy
fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A term of address used for any animal with fur, ranging from playful mocking to utmost derision.
get the thumb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets the thumb
form: getting the thumb
form: got the thumb
form: got the thumb
form: gotten the thumb
Etymology: From the “point thumb over shoulder” motion prescribed in many sports as the referee signal to indicate that a player or coach has been ejected.
Senses: examples: text: Rogers got the thumb for shoving the linesman after being called offside.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To be ejected from a game or match.
mis-sing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭs-sĭngʹ
ipa: /mɪsˈsɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: mis-sings
form: mis-singing
form: mis-sang
form: mis-sung
Etymology: From mis- + sing.
Senses: examples: text: The ragas are personified, like the devatā of a mantram; so that to mis-sing a rāga or rāginī is to break the limbs of a god or goddess.
ref: 1916, Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, Rajput Painting - Volume 1, page 65:
text: I watch and listen to children learning this little song, and through repeated observation of the videotapes and examination of the way the children sing or mis-sing the song, I plumb new depths of understanding music and learning.
ref: 1998, Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, page 48:
text: Still he apprehends that the song has been mis-sung or that he has been scolded for doing something which he did not do, and this apprehending must be classified as belonging to thinking.
ref: 2010, R.F. Dearden, Paul H. Hirst, R.S. Peters, Education and the Development of Reason:
text: And remember this other immortal line of the same song you misheard—not to mention mis-sang? 'Olive, the other reindeer.'
ref: 2014, Christie Ridgway, Always Mine:
text: She found him a piano teacher so he could learn some of the songs in the music books – his missinging of the tunes was driving her crazy.
ref: 2014, C.P.T. Jennings, A Conspiracy of Goodness:
glosses: To sing incorrectly.
mis-sings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mis-sing
mis-singing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mis-sing
mis-sang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of mis-sing
mis-sung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of mis-sing
missituate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: missituates
form: missituating
form: missituated
form: missituated
Etymology: From mis- + situate.
Senses: examples: text: Donald W. Hanson mounts what, to my mind, is a not terribly convincing case that Hobbes has been missituated as a founding father of realism, and calls Hobbes's mode of thought "unrealistic," "apolitical," and "transhistorical.'"
ref: 1995, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Women and War, page 88:
text: This, of course, is not to deny that suffering tends to impair the functioning of a human, that it tends to inhibit its teleological sojourn, but it is to suggest that Taylor's teleological account of benefits and harms, at least insofar as this phenomenon is concerned, missituates the badness of pain.
ref: 1998, Mark H. Bernstein, On Moral Considerability: An Essay on Who Morally Matters, page 91:
text: Somewhat more severe is the idea that the problem is missituated.
ref: 2002, Roy A. Sorensen, Pseudo-Problems: How Analytic Philosophy Gets Done:
text: Oliveira overwrites and missituates the political intent of the collective in characterizing the first series of Cadernos Negros as having a “careless use of grammar and language” and “overly simplified structure of texts” (“Cadernos Negros" 102, Writing 68).
ref: 2012, C. Sterling, African Roots, Brazilian Rites, page 128:
glosses: To situate incorrectly.
missituates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of missituate
missituating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of missituate
missituated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of missituate
petroplastics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petroplastic
quiggly hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quiggly holes
Etymology: From Chinook Jargon keekwillie (“under”) + hole.
Senses: glosses: The remains of a pithouse or earth lodge made by First Nations people in the interior regions of the Pacific Northwest.
Synonyms: kekuli
pithouse
quiggly
quiggly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Chinook Jargon keekwillie (“under”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of quiggly hole.
synonyms: word: quiggly hole
quiggly holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quiggly hole
kekuli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Chinook Jargon keekwillie (“under”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of quiggly hole.
synonyms: word: quiggly hole
intermetatarseum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A rare sesamoid bone situated in the foot found in 4% of the human population.
vesalianum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A rare sesamoid bone situated in the foot found in less than 1% of the human population.
Wolsztyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Wolsztyn.
Senses: glosses: A town in Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
VIF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VIFs
Senses: coordinate_terms: VAB
glosses: Initialism of vehicle integration facility.
coordinate_terms: HIF
glosses: Initialism of vertical integration facility.
Great Mogul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Great Moguls
form: Great Moghul
form: Great Mughal
Senses: examples: text: And then if the Pretender, nay if the Great Mogul, or any other Man (however averse they may be at present) did offer his Service to them for recovering their prissine State, they would, I am afraid, too readily comply to accept thereof, when chagrin’d, and fretted, and combin’d for that purpose.
ref: 1712 January 29, “[Letter]”, in A Collection of Papers Against the Scots Toleration and Patronages […], published 1712, page 42:
text: This first of the Great Moguls is vaunted as the most accomplished prince that ever ruled over Hindostan; yet, as has been justly remarked, we nowhere see him in the edifying picture of a monarch devoting himself in peace to the improvement of his country and the happiness of his people.
ref: 1857 October, “Delhi and the Muhammadan Rebellion in India”, in The New Monthly Magazine, volume 111, number 442, page 130:
text: Was the pronouncement of the judicial committee no more relevant to the church than a pronouncement by the Great Mogul, with the important exception that it possessed the tyrannical power of enforcing its orders against the church?
ref: 1966, Owen Chadwick, The Victorian Church, volume 1, page 262:
text: In 1739, the Persian conqueror Nadir Shah sacked Delhi and returned home with chests filled with gold, silver, emeralds, diamonds and pearls from the Great Mogul’s treasury.
ref: 1992 May 8, Elaine Sciolino, “With New Pride, Iran Dusts Off the Crown Jewels”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: Grand Mogul
glosses: A Mughal emperor.
Great Mogul
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Great Mogul
form: Great Moghul
form: Great Mughal
Senses: examples: text: All we know of the Great Mogul is derived from Bernier and Tavernier. Whether after the latter had seen it, it was broken up, lost, or hidden away never to be rediscovered, we cannot say […]
ref: 1883 January, “The Diamond”, in The Westminster Review, volume 119, number 235, page 49:
text: The Persians are believed to have acquired the stone after Nadir Shah looted Delhi in 1739. The Great Mogul has disappeared since that time.
ref: 2005, Glenn Klein, Faceting History: Cutting Diamonds and Colored Stones, →ISBN, page 184:
glosses: The Great Mogul diamond, a gem once belonging to the Mughal emperors.
Related terms: Grand Turk
Great Moguls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Great Mogul
wheeltapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wheel + tapping.
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The work of a wheeltapper, tapping a train's wheels with a hammer to detect cracks.
Września
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Września.
Senses: glosses: A town and county of Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
Hellfire Club
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hellfire Clubs
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of exclusive clubs for high-society rakes, established in Britain and Ireland in the 18th century.
Hellfire Clubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hellfire Club
Foxhall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The Suffolk place-name is from Old English foxhol (“foxhole”).
The Kirkliston place-name is a calque from Cumbric (compare Carlowrie).
Senses: examples: text: Soon we were climbing through New Mills and Foxhall, both of which are closed entirely, their buildings doing their bit to ease the housing problem, and Kilmacrenan was reached at four o'clock.
ref: 1949 November and December, K. Longbottom, “By Goods Train to Gweedore”, in Railway Magazine, page 355:
glosses: A townland west of Letterkenny, County Donegal, Ireland.
glosses: A hamlet in Farleigh Wallop parish, Basingstoke and Deane district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU6146).
glosses: A civil parish (served by Brightwell, Foxhall and Purdis Farm Joint Parish Council) in East Suffolk district, east of Ipswich, Suffolk, England, previously in Suffolk Coastal district.
glosses: A hamlet in Kirkliston parish, City of Edinburgh council area, Scotland, traditionally in West Lothian (OS grid ref NT1374).
glosses: A hamlet in Llangwm community, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9808).
glosses: A neighbourhood in north-western Washington, D.C., United States.
upsizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more upsizable
form: most upsizable
Etymology: From upsize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be upsized.
downsizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more downsizable
form: most downsizable
Etymology: From downsize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be downsized.
upsizings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upsizing
time heals all things
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: Time heals all things. Calm endurance took the place of uncontrollable anguish. One hope was left to the pair.
ref: 1888, Rudolf Baumbach, “The Ass’s Spring”, in Helen B. Dole, transl., Summer Legends, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., →OCLC, page 138:
text: They sye that time ‘eals all things,
They sye you can always forget;
ref: 1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 4, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001, part 2, page 130:
text: But time heals all things. Marius’s wrath abated, righteous though he held it to have been. He forgave her in the end; but it cost him an effort and he nursed his grievance for three whole days.
ref: 1976 [1862], Victor Hugo, “Part Three: Marius; chapter VI”, in Norman Denny, transl., Les Misérables, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, published 2012, →ISBN, page 616:
glosses: Synonym of time heals all wounds.
synonyms: word: time heals all wounds
KIPS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: k- (“kilo-, 1000x”) + IPS
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: MIPS
glosses: Abbreviation of thousand instructions per second.
multiwrite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + write.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Involving more than one write operation.
orange box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orange boxes
Senses: glosses: A piece of hardware or software that generates caller ID frequency-shift keying (FSK) signals to spoof caller ID information on the target's caller ID terminal.
wikipedia: gray-box testing
white box (software engineering)
orange boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orange box
alabasterlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alabasterlike
form: most alabasterlike
Etymology: From alabaster + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling alabaster
worm ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: worm balls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wormball.
worm balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of worm ball
Oras
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ora
squirrel king
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squirrel kings
Senses: coordinate_terms: rat king
glosses: A conglomeration of squirrels whose tails have become knotted or stuck together.
squirrel kings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squirrel king
bicapitalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BiCapitalization
Etymology: From bi- + capitalization, or, by surface analysis, bi- + capitalize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Retain internal capitalization for trademark names that use bicapitalization, or intercaps, in which one or more letters within names are capitalized in addition to the names' first letter (eg, ScienceDirect and AstraZeneca). However, convert trademark names to conventional capitalization when they use all capital or all lowercase letters. / House of Science not HOUSE OF SCIENCE; Alzheimer's Association not alzheimer's association
ref: 2024, Council of Science Editors, The CSE Manual: Scientific Style and Format for Authors, Editors, and Publishers, 9th edition, Council of Science Editors and University of Chicago Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 198:
hypernyms: upper camel case
UpperCamelCase
<
camel case
CamelCase
intercapping
InterCapping
intercaps
InterCaps
glosses: The practice of spelling a two-word name without a space, using a capital letter to indicate the start of each constituent word. (Most words thus formed, but not all, are trade names.)
wikipedia: AstraZeneca
AutoZone
ConocoPhillips
ExxonMobil
HarperCollins
MetLife
PostScript
PowerPoint
ScienceDirect
SeaTac
WikiLeaks
WordPerfect
YouGov
YouTube
Related terms: word: bicapitalized
word: BiCapitalized
person-month
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: person-months
Senses: glosses: Synonym of man-month.
synonyms: word: man-month
person-months
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of person-month
OFMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of OFM
orthodox file manager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthodox file managers
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: word: OFM
glosses: A file manager program with a traditional textbased user interface.
orthodox file managers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthodox file manager
Farleigh Wallop
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish in Basingstoke and Deane district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU6246).
Grand Turks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Grand Turk
kennel maid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kennel maids
Senses: glosses: A woman whose job is to attend dogs at a kennel
kennel maids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kennel maid
VCTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of VCT
deagrarianisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deagrarianisation
deagrarianizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deagrarianization
deal killers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deal killer
deboles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of debole
debris basins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of debris basin
de-bureaucratizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of de-bureaucratization
debursements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of debursement
decaborates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decaborate
decachordons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decachordon
decadarchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decadarchy
deglucuronidases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deglucuronidase
defucosylations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defucosylation
deforestments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deforestment
word vomit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The words that come out of one's mouth without any thought, often when one is drunk, embarrassed, angry, or given criticism in a social environment.
Related terms: word salad
deflorescences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deflorescence
defilamentations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defilamentation
defibulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defibulation
defibrinizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defibrinization
deetiolations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deetiolation
deethylations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deethylation
deethylases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deethylase
sweatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Ran sweatingly across campus
glosses: In such a way that one sweats.
raw_tags: modifying a verb
examples: text: A sweatingly hot day
glosses: To an extent that makes one sweat.
raw_tags: modifying an adjective
Llangwm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A village and community in Conwy borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SH9644).
glosses: A village and ward in Llantrisant Fawr community, Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref SO4200/ST4299).
glosses: A village and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9909).
therasiaite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A monoclinic sulfate chloride mineral with the chemical formula (NH₄)₃KNa₂Fe²⁺Fe³⁺(SO₄)₃Cl₅.
model house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: model houses
Senses: synonyms: word: showhome
alt: UK
glosses: A house which is decorated and often built for the purpose of demonstrating what the to-be-built houses in a development might be like.
comparee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comparees
Etymology: From compare + -ee.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The thing against which something else is compared.
comparees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comparee
acmonidesite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Acmonides (from Greek Ακμωνιδης), who was a Cyclops and a helper of Hephaistos, the god of fire whose forge was said to be located at Vulcano + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An orthorhombic sulfate chloride mineral with the chemical formula (NH₄,K,Pb)₈NaFe²⁺₄(SO₄)₅Cl₈.
chees and chaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃiːz ənd t͡ʃɔːz/
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, from the Italianate pronunciation of c as /t͡ʃ/ (“ch”) before i and e.
Senses: examples: text: […] a quite recent notice in The Times of a Bach performance at the Albert Hall by a famous society regretted that, at this time of day, the “chees and chaws” of Italian pronunciation should be offered to an audience.
ref: 1943 June, The Gramophone, volume 21, page 18:
text: The Italian pronunciation of Latin with ch instead of c, benedichere for benedicere, became fashionable and was mocked by conservative Catholics as chees and chaws.
ref: 1966, Owen Chadwick, The Victorian Church, volume 1, page 283:
text: “[…] Wouldn’t you think they’d get the Latin right first. The inflexion one sometimes hears is deplorable. All chees and chaws like an ice-cream vendor out of Napoli.”
ref: 2001, Jamie O’Neill, At Swim, Two Boys, →ISBN, page 60:
glosses: The sounds made in Italianate pronunciation of Latin.
Nozawaonsen-mura
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Japanese 野沢温泉村.
Senses: glosses: A village in Nagano Prefecture, Japan.
Related terms: nozawana
Agdao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: Meronyms: Agdao Proper, Centro, Lapu-Lapu, Leon Garcia, Paciano Bangoy, Rafael Castillo, San Antonio, Tomas Monteverde, Ubalde, Vicente Duterte, Wilfredo Aquino — barangays of Agdao
glosses: A district of Davao City, Davao del Sur, Philippines.
cascadings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cascading
cache stampede
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cache stampedes
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: dogpile
glosses: A cascading failure that may occur when massively parallel systems with caching mechanisms come under very high load, leading to multiple threads of execution attempting to perform the same operation simultaneously.
cache stampedes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cache stampede
Llantrisant Fawr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A community (civil parish) in Monmouthshire, Wales.
decadations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decadation
decadienoates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decadienoate
decadienoic acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decadienoic acid
decanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decander
decaphosphates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decaphosphate
decapitalisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decapitalisation
Kilmacrenan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: Alternative form: Kilmacrennan
glosses: A village in northern County Donegal, Ireland.
imputed liability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: After reaffirming that Title IX did not permit imputed liability based on agency principles or constructive notice, the Court made clear that only the independent conduct of the school causing harassment could result in the school’s liability.
ref: 2021, Doe v. Fairfax County School District (United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit No. 19-2203), Judge Niemeyer dissenting
glosses: Alternative form of vicarious liability.
Kilmacrennan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kilmacrenan, County Donegal, Ireland.
Newmills
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A locality west of Letterkenny, County Donegal, Ireland.
glosses: A village near Coalisland, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
glosses: A coastal settlement east of Culross, in southern Fife council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT0186).
glosses: A small settlement in the Black Isle, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NH6764).
glosses: A hamlet in St Stephens by Launceston Rural parish, eastern Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX2985).
Dunfanaghy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small town on the north coast of County Donegal, Ireland.
wine aunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wine aunts
Senses: glosses: A childfree, at least somewhat alcoholic older single woman.
wine aunts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wine aunt
soundtable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soundtables
Etymology: From sound + table.
Senses: examples: text: It has a short neck, a shallow oval wooden body, and a soundhole on the upper soundtable. The number of strings varies; four to eight bass (bunti) strings on the neck, plucked by the left hand, and seven to 30 metal strings (pidstrunki, tuned chromatically) across the soundtable, plucked by the right hand.
ref: 2014, Sofia Hrytsa, “Bandura”, in Laurence Libin, editor, The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, 2nd edition, volume 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 219:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
coordinate_terms: soundboard
glosses: A thin surface covering the opening of the sound box of a string instrument, which vibrates and amplifies the sound produced by the instrument.
Falcarragh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small town in north-west County Donegal, Ireland.
Tarzhay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Phonetic spelling of the store name pronounced as if it were French.
Senses: glosses: The discount store Target.
Tory Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish Toraigh.
Senses: synonyms: Tory#Etymology 3
glosses: A small inhabited island off the north-west coast of County Donegal, Ireland.
scared off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scare off
soundtables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soundtable
Grand Tourist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Grand Tourists
Senses: glosses: Someone who embarked on the Grand Tour
Grand Tourists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Grand Tourist
methylesterification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methyl-esterification
Etymology: From methyl ester + -ification.
Senses: examples: text: Pectins undergo methylesterification, which affects their cellular roles. Pectin methyltransferases are believed to methylesterify pectins in the Golgi, but little is known about their identity.
ref: 2015 April, Sang-Jin Kim, Michael A. Held, Starla Zemelis, Curtis Wilkerson, Federica Brandizzi, “CGR2 and CGR3 have critical overlapping roles in pectin methylesterification and plant growth in Arabidopsis thaliana”, in The Plant Journal, volume 82, number 2, →DOI, page 208:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
antonyms: de-methylesterification
glosses: Esterification by means of a methanolic acid.
Related terms: methylesterify
methylesterify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: methylesterifies
form: methylesterifying
form: methylesterified
form: methylesterified
form: methyl-esterify
Etymology: From methyl ester + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: Pectins undergo methylesterification, which affects their cellular roles. Pectin methyltransferases are believed to methylesterify pectins in the Golgi, but little is known about their identity.
ref: 2015 April, Sang-Jin Kim, Michael A. Held, Starla Zemelis, Curtis Wilkerson, Federica Brandizzi, “CGR2 and CGR3 have critical overlapping roles in pectin methylesterification and plant growth in Arabidopsis thaliana”, in The Plant Journal, volume 82, number 2, →DOI, page 208:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
antonyms: de-methylesterify
glosses: To subject to methylesterification.
Related terms: methylesterification
if-thenism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From if + then + ism.
Senses: examples: text: We now come to the difficulty that caused Russell himself to abandon 'if-thenism'.
ref: 1968, Bertrand Russell; philosopher of the century, page 287:
text: In this chapter we shall consider two versions of if-thenism corresponding to two different ways of understanding conditional statements.
ref: 1979, Introduction to the philosophy of mathematics, page 11:
text: The final formalist position we shall consider, deductivism, or if-thenism as it is sometimes called, is suggested by earlier remarks on the game of pure logic.
ref: 1994, Understanding the infinite, page 185:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The doctrine that all mathematical statements are conditional in form, meaning they can be expressed in the format "p implies q", (i.e. if p then q).
deep diving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
underwater-diving
coordinate_terms: technical diving
glosses: Underwater diving to a depth beyond the norm accepted by the associated community.
Related terms: deep dive
deep-dive
deep diver
deep diver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deep divers
Senses: topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
underwater-diving
glosses: A person who engages in deep diving.
symbatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: To use an expression recently introduced in physics, meaning “conformably growing"; “in direct proportion” would be a special instance of a symbatic relationship.
ref: 1932, Dorian Feigenbaum, “Note on the Theory of Libidinal Types”, in The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, volume 1, numbers 3–4, →DOI, pages 543–544:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a relationship between two related variables where increases or decreases in the value of one also occur in the other.
PAIS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PAISs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of partial androgen insensitivity syndrome.
glosses: Initialism of post-acute infection syndrome.
short king
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short kings
Etymology: Coined by American comedian Jaboukie Young-White in a tweet on 4 July 2018.
Senses: examples: text: We had a period where you couldn’t move without hearing about “short kings”, although I’m not sure how many Queens actually put that into practice in their real lives.
ref: 2024 March 21, Rebecca Shaw, “I will never understand heterosexual dating culture’s obsession with height. Just get a footstool!”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Ace, who referred to himself as a “short king” on the show, had already been familiar to some for videos in which he gave men in Pakistan dance lessons.
ref: 2025 July 7, Sadiba Hasan, “Why Is Everyone Watching ‘Love Island USA’?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
coordinate_terms: short queen
glosses: A man of short stature.
wikipedia: Twitter
short kings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of short king
methylesterifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of methylesterify
methylesterifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of methylesterify
methylesterified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of methylesterify
Trzebnica
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Trzebnica.
Senses: glosses: A town in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland.
eventness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Mikhail Bakhtin as event + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: When the present simply actualizes what had to happen, events lack eventness.
ref: 1994, Gary Saul Morson, Narrative and Freedom: The Shadows of Time, page 22:
text: Still, certain programmatic commitments [of avant-garde art] can be identified: championing the volatile eventness of corporeal performances, foregrounding themes, materials, and actions derived from any place or period save that of established art world, […]
ref: 2013, Isher-Paul Sahni, “More than Horseplay”, in Studies in Popular Culture, volume 35, page 74:
text: But to extricate a thought, utterance, or deed from the contingency and particularity of its occurrence is precisely to transcribe away its eventness, that is to say, its living, unpredetermined quality, its concrete situatedness in time and place, and the particularized meaning attendant on this unsystematizable, uncodifiable specificity.
ref: 2014, John Nguyet Erni, Cultural Studies of Rights: Critical Articulations, page 34:
text: The experience of “eventness” has to do with the element of suspense.
ref: 2016, Richard Beach, Deborah Appleman, Bob Fecho, Teaching Literature to Adolescents, page 209:
glosses: The quality of not being utterly predictable; the specificity that characterizes an occurrence as meaningful.
wikipedia: Mikhail Bakhtin
Oborniki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Oborniki.
Senses: glosses: A town and county of Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
Higton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
debituminisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of debituminization.
dearomatisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dearomatisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dearomatization.
dearomatisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dearomatisation
Woodhurst
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Woodhursts
Etymology: From Old English wudu (“wood”) + hyrst (“wooded hillock”).
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL3176).
glosses: A placename:
A community in Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada.
examples: text: The first two runs were timed by Mr. H. J. J. Griffith, and the third by Mr. Arthur H. Woodhurst.
ref: 1949 November and December, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 367:
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
cheers on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cheer on
cheering on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cheer on
cheered on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cheer on
historical criticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: historic criticism
Senses: examples: text: Concerning the narratives of Daniel, historical criticism has given its primary energy to the placement of the narratives in the Maccabean crisis of the second century, far away from the sixth century when its reported events purportedly happened.
ref: 2016, Walter Brueggemann, edited by K. C. Hanson, Social Criticism and Social Vision in Ancient Israel, →ISBN, page 29:
synonyms: higher criticism
glosses: The systematic study of received texts, especially the Bible, as documents composed in a particular historical context with varying reliability as sources.
examples: text: Our genealogical writers have given a fair pedigree of the family of Seton in the fourteenth century. […] This pedigree, however, will not stand the test of historical criticism.
ref: 1779, David Dalrymple, Annals of Scotland from the Accession of Robert I […] To the Accession of the House of Stewart, page 295:
text: The plain rule of historical criticism, which is simply the teaching of common sense, is, putting aside all those writers whose date or position deprives them of immediate knowledge and authority, to rely exclusively on those who were nearest to the time and scene of the events described, and to examine in all cases the source whence their information is derived.
ref: 1863 October, “Medieval Fables of the Popes”, in The Home and Foreign Review, volume 3, page 617:
text: The points in [Herodotus’] historical criticism of the past, are first his rejection of all extra-natural interference, and secondly, the attributing to these ancient heroes the motives and modes of thought of his own day.
ref: 1879, Oscar Wilde, Historical Criticism; republished as “Historical Criticism”, in Josephine M. Guy, editor, The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, volume 4, 2007, →ISBN, page 15:
glosses: The systematic, reasoned study of history and critique of received historical traditions in general.
Derived terms: historical-critical
Related terms: form criticism
hermeneutics
literary criticism
source criticism
textual criticism
Shahdara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A district in Delhi, India.
historical-critical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more historical-critical
form: most historical-critical
Senses: examples: text: Other scholars applied more historical-critical approaches in their own feminist works.
ref: 2021, Gale A. Yee, Towards an Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics […], →ISBN:
glosses: Pertaining to historical criticism.
Moradabad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Chaupala
glosses: A city, district, and division of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Aligarh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Hindi अलीगढ़ (alīgaṛh).
Senses: glosses: A city, district, and division of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Derived terms: Aligarh Division
Pepler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
HDTVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HDTV
kavases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kavas
decartelizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decartelization
decavitations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decavitation
decenals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decenal
decenols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decenol
decets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decet
dechorionators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dechorionator
decibars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decibar
decipherations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decipheration
deckies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deckie
declinals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of declinal
deck hands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deck hand