cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
de Blasio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: De Blasio
form: deBlasio
form: DeBlasio
form: Deblasio
form: Blasio
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Related terms: Blasio
di Blasio
Di Blasio
diBlasio
DiBlasio
Diblasio
Peronas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Perona
Kurtenbachs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kurtenbach
Fox Street
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Tendring district and Colchester borough, Essex, England (OS grid ref TM0227).
Lampron
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lamprons
Etymology: Borrowed from Canadian French Lampron.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Keeperses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Keepers
Lamprons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lampron
Kleinsmith
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kleinsmiths
Etymology: Part-translation of German Kleinschmidt. This surname is mostly found in South Africa.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Matheuses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Matheus
Kleinsmiths
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kleinsmith
An-hui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: änʹhwēʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 安徽 (Ānhuī) Wade–Giles romanization: An¹-hui¹.
Senses: examples: text: The famine in the northern part of the Province of An-hui becomes daily more serious and the funds so far sent by the Red Cross Society are altogether inadequate.
ref: 1911 January 26, “Survey of the World”, in The Independent, volume LXX, number 3243, New York, →OCLC, page 175, column 2:
text: The wide boundary impress traversing northern An-hui, although not currently used as a provincial demarcation, follows the low hills named the Huai-yang Shan separating Huai and Yellow River drainage from that of the Yangtze.
ref: 1970, Joseph B. R. Whitney, China: Area, Administration, and Nation Building, Department of Geography, University of Chicago, →OCLC, page 42:
text: When he arrived in An-hui, near the city of Xuan-cheng, he decided out of desperation to seek shelter in a monastery on Mount Huang.
ref: 2004 [2002], François Cheng, translated by Timothy Bent, Green Mountain, White Cloud, New York: St. Martin's Press, translation of L'éternité n'est pas de trop, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 20:
text: From the age of thirteen, Huang Pin-hung was able to study paintings in private collections that were being dispersed in the area around his ancestral home in She-hsien, An-hui Province, in the wake of the T’ai-p’ing Rebellion; he was particularly impressed by the works of Tung Ch’i-ch’ang (1555-1636) and Cha Shih-piao (1615-98).
ref: 2004, Jason C. Kuo, “Introduction”, in Transforming Traditions in Modern Chinese Painting: Huang Pin-hung's Late Work, Peter Lang, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 6:
glosses: Alternative form of Anhui.
wikipedia: Encyclopædia Britannica
Frederick A. Praeger
Tzekwei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: dzûʹgwāʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 秭歸／秭归 (Zǐguī).
Senses: examples: text: Tzekwei (秭歸) and Patung (巴東) produce about ten thousand tons.
ref: 1928, Chinese Economic Journal, volume 2, Bureau of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Industry, →OCLC, page 56:
text: The same formation is shown farther east on the Yangtze at Tzekwei district (=Kweichow Fu) in western Hupeh and on the Taning-ho where it was named the Kweichow formation by Willis and Blackwelder.
ref: 1945, Journal of Paleontology, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 56:
text: During a vacation in 1923, Li and his assistant, Zhao Yazeng (Y. T. Chao), investigated the geology of the Yangtze Valley from Ichang to Tzekwei, which subsequent geologists have classified as belonging to the Paleozoic stratigraphy of central China.
ref: 1990, Frederic L. Holmes, “Li Siguang”, in Dictionary of Scientific Biography, volume 18, Charles Scribner's Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 553:
glosses: Alternative form of Zigui.
Ozendyke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Ryther cum Ossendyke parish, Selby district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE5339).
Ryther cum Ossendyke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Selby district, North Yorkshire, England.
Related terms: Ozendyke
Ryther
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Ryther cum Ossendyke parish, Selby district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE5539).
glosses: A surname.
niggatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: niggetry
Etymology: Possibly a blend of nigga + bigotry or nigga + faggotry. Alternatively, from nigga + -try, a pseudo-suffix resulting from rebracketing in words like bigotry, faggotry, idolatry, etc.
Senses: examples: text: Toine yelled when he finally got me off of Ry. “I'm taking my black ass back home to North Carolina,” Charm said as he continued to sit at the table with his feet up like we weren't just fucking up the place. “Y'all got too much niggatry going on for me.” He shook his head.
ref: 2016, Charmanie Saquea, A Lady & Her Sire 3: A Royal Love Affair:
text: That's not exactly true, there was plenty of “niggatry” in my new neighborhood, it was just coming from my white neighbors.
ref: 2019, Charlamagne Tha God, Shook One: Anxiety Playing Tricks on Me, page 76:
text: Usher! Hi, babe! I'm with Corporate Niggatry!
ref: 2021, Michael R. Jackson, A Strange Loop:
glosses: The actions or behaviors stereotypically typifying African Americans.
Related terms: english: typical nigger behavior
translation: typical nigger behavior
word: TNB
Little Smeaton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet and civil parish (served by Smeaton with Hornby Parish Council) in Hambleton district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref NZ3403).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Selby district, North Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE5216).
Related terms: alt: Hambleton
word: Great Smeaton
alt: Selby
word: Kirk Smeaton
debuccalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: debuccalises
form: debuccalising
form: debuccalised
form: debuccalised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of debuccalize.
debuccalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: debuccalisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of debuccalization.
Gateley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gateleys
Etymology: From Old English gāt (“goat”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to goat + -ley (“lea”). Compare Shipley (literally “sheep lea”).
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish in Breckland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF9624).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
ifs and buts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ifs or buts
Senses: examples: text: I'm not happy with this contract. There are too many ifs and buts.
text: Go and clean your room now, and no ifs or buts!
glosses: Conditions, limitations or qualifications placed on something.
Related terms: ifs and ans
ifs, ands, or buts
ifs or buts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pl
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ifs and buts used especially in negative constructions.
mending fences
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mend fences
fence-mending
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In summary, the recognition of the mandate of a group by government is useful not only to the group's leaders but to government as well. The existence and operations of organized groups introduce an element of stability into the political process; […] they enable government to carry on a continuous process of “fence mending” by continually drawing attention to the fences which require mending; […]
ref: 1972, David Kwavnick, Organized Labour and Pressure Politics, page 15:
text: Patronage and political fence mending had come to bore him.
ref: 1995, Jack Bass, The Transformation of Southern Politics, page 295:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Social assistance given to a community in order to retain popularity with the electorate.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fence, mend.
Related terms: mend fences
Terra del Fuego
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Tierra del Fuego.
Sandwich Land
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of South Sandwich Islands.
synonyms: word: South Sandwich Islands
Bidenworld
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Biden + world.
Senses: examples: text: As Dems’ fortunes appeared to sag after a summer burst of excitement, Bidenworld began to tamp down expectations.
ref: 2022 November 9, “POLITICO Playbook PM: Biden takes a moral-victory lap”, in POLITICO, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2022:
glosses: Joe Biden’s circle of associates, employees and appointees.
Obamaworld
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Obama + world.
Senses: examples: text: Heading into 2016 and 2020, if you told the hotshots from Obamaworld that you thought Biden would be a good candidate, they would uniformly offer a look of infinite patience, tolerance and condescension and say something like, “Well, I could understand how someone would think that.”
ref: 2021 March 20, Maureen Dowd, “Old Pol, New Tricks”, in The New York Times:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Barack Obama's circle of associates, employees and appointees.
Clintonworld
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Clinton + world.
Senses: glosses: Bill and Hillary Clinton's circle of associates, employees and appointees.
Pont Llanio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Ceredigion, Wales, with a bridge (Welsh pont) over the River Teifi (OS grid ref SN6556).
white telephone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white telephones
head_nr: 1
Etymology: Calque of Italian telefoni bianchi.
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: Italian light-comedy and melodramatic films from the Fascist period.
head_nr: 1
glosses: Films of other nations that share a nonseriousness of tone and disconnection from reality with the Italian films.
white telephone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more white telephone
form: most white telephone
form: white-telephone
Etymology: Calque of Italian telefoni bianchi.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of the Italian genre of film, white telephone; a sense of consequence-free lives of privilege.
Related terms: big white telephone
white-telephone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more white-telephone
form: most white-telephone
form: white telephone
Etymology: Adjective form of white telephone.
Senses: examples: text: Astaire and Rogers were fortunate: they embodied the swing-music, white-telephone, streamlined era before the Second World War, when frivolousness wasn't decadent, and when adolescents dreamed that 'going out' was dressing up and becoming part of a beautiful world of top hats and silver lamé.
ref: 1972, Pauline Kael, The New Yorker:
glosses: Characteristic of the Italian genre of film called white telephone; suggesting consequence-free lives of privilege.
Snaresbrook
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Wanstead, borough of Redbridge, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ4088).
observation balloon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: observation balloons
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: scout balloon
glosses: A type of balloon that is employed as an aerial platform for intelligence gathering and artillery spotting.
scout balloon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scout balloons
Senses: examples: text: Scout balloons hung in the sky above the tree line and lightning crashed in the distance like some faint reminder of a natural world.
ref: 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 8, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 51:
glosses: Synonym of observation balloon.
synonyms: word: observation balloon
Dollis Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in the borough of Brent, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2285).
snowpowdered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more snowpowdered
form: most snowpowdered
Etymology: From snow + powdered.
Senses: examples: text: Snowpowdered valleys and windswept leaves and pretty dogwood blossoms.
ref: 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 8, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 54:
glosses: Covered lightly with snow. (of an area)
bicyclable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bicyclable
form: most bicyclable
form: bicycleable
Etymology: From bicycle + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The path from the Luangwa is quite bicyclable, and I did not think he would postpone his departure into the heat of the day.
ref: 1924, Frank Savile, The High Grass Trail: Being the Difficulties and Diversions of Two Trekking and Shooting for Sustenance in Dense Bush Across British Central Africa, London: H. F. & G. Witherby, […], page 203:
text: Only to the north-east can a man travel by land, but in this direction he can follow a narrow but bicyclable path to various villages under the Buntal aegis — Sungei Lumut, Telok Nipah, and Sungei Ja’ong Samin — from the last, the path leads on, no longer passable on wheel, to the house of Mr. Lee Tek Huat the retired headmaster of St. Thomas’s School, over tributaries to the archaeologically rich Sungei Ja’ong, ultimately to Santubong.
ref: 1964, The Sarawak Museum Journal, page 382:
text: Sally Taylor and friends did, and produced Grape Expeditions in France (Springfield Books, £5.95) an introduction to the “bicyclable wine regions of France”.
ref: 1986, Punch, page 48, column 1:
text: Between Port Gibson and Natchez, sights along this short (and eminently bicycleable) stretch include the prehistoric Emerald Mound, the second-largest prehistoric structure in the United States, which dates from around 1400 ad and offers a commanding view of the woodlands.
ref: 2006, Jamie Jensen, Road Trip USA: Cross-Country Adventures on America’s Two-Lane Highways, Avalon Travel Publishing, →ISBN, page 273:
text: The Childs and Lotts insisted that nearly all streets have bike lanes, making the city universally bicycleable.
ref: 2008, Theodore John Buehler, Fifty Years of Bicycle Policy in Davis, California, page 148:
text: Local areas congested by traffic and excessive parking create a more negative perception of the neighborhood among residents as either walkable or bicycleable [28].
ref: 2018, Selima Sultana, Hyojin Kim, Nastaran Pourebrahim, Firoozeh Karimi, “Geographical Assessment of Low-Carbon Transportation Modes: A Case Study from a Commuter University”, in Miltiadis D. Lytras, Anna Visvizi, editors, Sustainable Smart Cities and Smart Village Research: Rethinking Security, Safety, Well-being and Happiness, article reprinted from Sustainability […], MDPI, published 2020, →ISBN, section “Conceptual Framework”, subsection “Barriers Preventing People from LCT”, subsubsection “Distance, Time, and Space: Real vs. Perceived”, page 277:
glosses: Synonym of bikable.
synonyms: word: bikable
bicycleable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bicycleable
form: most bicycleable
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bicyclable.
mudcovered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mudcovered
form: most mudcovered
Etymology: From mud + covered.
Senses: examples: text: "Yep," he said and he looked down at his mudcovered boots. His mudcovered knees.
ref: 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 8, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 55:
glosses: Covered in mud; muddy.
hair out of place
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hairs out of place
Senses: examples: text: Never fussed none about the work. Never hardly got a hair out of place.
ref: 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 8, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 55:
glosses: The slightest sign of disorder or unkemptness.
raw_tags: in the negative
folk story
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: folk stories
Senses: glosses: Synonym of folk tale.
synonyms: word: folk tale
Bricknell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
crypterati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryptorati
Etymology: Blend of cryptocurrency + literati
Senses: examples: text: The bad faith, and (generally correct) assumption of bad faith, among bitcoin conversationalists on Reddit is really something even for Reddit. Even many of the cryptorati are, shall we say, not always exactly redolent of good faith.
ref: 2017 December 3, Jon Evans, “Metascarcity and Bitcoin’s future”, in Tech Crunch:
text: At that moment, the crypterati were watching in horror as high-profile ICO Tezos embarked on a public internecine war.
ref: 2018 February 23, Gian Volpicelli, “To get rich in crypto you just need an idea, and a coin”, in Wired:
text: In October, the IRS published tax guidance for anyone operating in the crypto industry, addressing multiple concerns of the cryptorati.
ref: 2019 December 27, “Digital Currency and Blockchain Weekly Round-Up”, in Token Post:
text: For a start, it's patented, and for the Crypto-purists, or Crypterati, that's a big red flag. They do not like its governance.
ref: 2020 December 23, ngtenor, “Hedera Hashgraph – The Future Google Of Distributed Ledger Technology”, in Seeking Alpha:
glosses: Those people who deal in cryptocurrencies.
multi-word expressions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multi-word expression
multi-word expression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multi-word expressions
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A lexeme-like unit made up of a sequence of two or more words that has properties that are not predictable from the properties of the individual words or their normal mode of combination, such as an idiom ("pay the piper"), a phrasal noun ("steam iron"), a phrasal preposition ("in front of"), or a phrasal verb ("buy off").
Bishopsgate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bishops Gate
Etymology: Equivalent to Bishop + -s- + gate.
(street and ward): From one of the eastern gates in London’s former defensive wall, traditionally attributed to Earconwald, who was Bishop of London in the 7th century.
Senses: glosses: A street and ward in the City of London, England (OS grid ref TQ3381).
glosses: A small village near Englefield Green, Runnymede borough, Surrey, England (OS grid ref SU9872).
glosses: A community in the County of Brant, Ontario, Canada.
Sudbury Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area in the borough of Harrow, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ1585).
measured the drapes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of measure the drapes
have a moment
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has a moment
form: having a moment
form: had a moment
form: had a moment
Senses: glosses: To dissociate or act abnormally for a short period of time.
examples: text: Arte Povera, the politicized avant-garde art movement that blossomed in Italy in the late ’60s, is having a moment.
ref: 2017 January 30, M. H. Miller, “Arte Povera Is Back”, in The New York Times Style Magazine, →ISSN:
text: Posh salt is having a moment – does enjoying it make me pretentious? [title]
ref: 2019 May 23, Zoe Williams, “Posh salt is having a moment – does enjoying it make me pretentious?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: I’ll go ahead and state the obvious: These sandals are not attractive. Luckily for me (and all of us), ugly shoes are having an extremely long moment—and even if the moment ends, I think I’m permanently on board.
ref: 2024 June 26, Malia Griggs, Jake Henry Smith, quoting M.G., “20 Best Walking Sandals, Approved by Podiatrists and Glamour Editors”, in Glamour:
glosses: To reach a high level of popularity during a specific time.
dynamic pressure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dynamic pressures
Senses: examples: text: The high speed of a rocket during its ascent through the atmosphere generates considerable levels of dynamic pressure that the rocket's structure has to withstand without buckling.
topics: geography
hydrodynamics
hydrology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
related: word: mul:Q
word: mul:q
glosses: The pressure exerted upon a body in contact with a fluid due to the relative motion between the two.
dynamic pressures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dynamic pressure
max Qs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of max Q
trivialistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trivialistic
form: most trivialistic
Etymology: From trivial + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: There is a laying it on the letter to keep the life out, or the trivialistic use.
ref: 1922, The Lutheran Quarterly, volume 52, page 299:
text: The majority of philosophy departments have compromised themselves with scientific subjects (which they teach amateurishly), with trivialistic rigor and fatuous clarity.
ref: 1976, Frederick K. Huntington-Vigman, The Collapse of Western Civilization, page 95:
text: Thus attention is drawn in passing to two different cultures; one that is formalistic and trivialistic and another that is pragmatic and goes for the heart of the matter.
ref: 2006, Rasheed El-Enany, Arab Representations of the Occident: East-West Encounters in Arabic Fiction, page 76:
text: In this supremo of weird and wonderful, astonishing and inexplicable facts, figures, stats and stories returns with a bumper selection of trivialistic treats - each one more remarkable and, yes, even more trivial than anything he's compiled before.
ref: 2012, Mitchell Symons, The Bumper Book For The Loo, page 721:
text: In all modern systems of dialethic logic, the main focus lies in producing a non-trivialistic proof theory
ref: 2013, Dov M. Gabbay, Franz Guenthner, Handbook of Philosophical Logic, volume 11, page 273:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of trivia.
prompt criticality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prompt criticalities
Senses: examples: text: The system is thought to have approached prompt criticality, at which time the rate of power increase would have been determined by the neutron lifetime (on the order of milliseconds).
ref: 2000, Thomas P. McLaughlin with Shean P. Monahan, Norman L. Pruvost, Vladimir V. Frolov, Boris G. Ryazanov, and Victor I. Sviridov, “I. A. 19. Idaho Chemical Processing Plant, 17 October 1978”, in A Review of Criticality Accidents: 2000 Revision, Los Alamos National Laboratory, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2022, page 46:
qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: The point at which the prompt neutrons produced by a nuclear fission chain reaction are just sufficient to sustain the chain reaction on their own (the state of being prompt critical); past this point, changes in reaction power are controlled by changes in the prompt neutron flux, and occur on a timeframe of milliseconds, too rapidly to be controlled by mechanical means.
Coordinate terms: delayed criticality
prompt critical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The number of fissions in the two prompt critical excursions was estimated from (1) the doses received by the operator and shift supervisor and (2) the measured exposure rate from fission product gamma–rays (1.5 mR/s at 3 m from the vessel, 1 hour after the last excursion).
ref: 2000, Thomas P. McLaughlin with Shean P. Monahan, Norman L. Pruvost, Vladimir V. Frolov, Boris G. Ryazanov, and Victor I. Sviridov, “I. A. 17. Mayak Production Association, 10 December 1968”, in A Review of Criticality Accidents: 2000 Revision, Los Alamos National Laboratory, archived from the original on 24 Feb 2021, page 42:
qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: In a state where the prompt neutrons produced by a nuclear fission chain reaction are just sufficient to sustain the chain reaction on their own (past which changes in reaction power occur on a timeframe of milliseconds, too rapidly for a human operator to control).
Coordinate terms: delayed critical
Related terms: prompt criticality
prompt criticalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prompt criticality
prompt neutron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prompt neutrons
Senses: qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: A neutron produced immediately by the fission of an atomic nucleus, instead of being emitted by decaying fission products seconds to minutes later; over 99% of all fission neutrons are prompt neutrons (the exact portion depends on the nuclide undergoing fission).
Coordinate terms: delayed neutron
prompt neutrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prompt neutron
delayed neutron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delayed neutrons
Senses: qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: A neutron produced by nuclear fission which is emitted upon the radioactive decay of a fission product nucleus sometime later, rather than at the time of the fission itself. Less than 2% of fission neutrons are delayed neutrons (the exact proportion depends on the nuclide being fissioned).
wikipedia: delayed neutron
Coordinate terms: prompt neutron
delayed neutrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delayed neutron
delayed criticality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delayed criticalities
Senses: examples: text: Although nearly all neutrons produced by fission are emitted as soon as the atom splits (within 10^-14 sec or so), a very small proportion of neutrons (0.65% for U-235, 0.25% for Pu-239) are emitted by fission fragments with delays of up to a few minutes. In delayed criticality these neutrons are required to maintain the chain reaction. These long delays mean that power level changes can only occur slowly. All nuclear reactors operate in a state of delayed criticality.
ref: 2019 March 13, Carey Sublette, “4.1 Elements of Fission Weapon Design”, in Nuclear Weapon Archive, archived from the original on 03 Mar 2021, 4.1.4 History of a Fission Explosion:
qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: The point at which the prompt neutrons and delayed neutrons produced by a nuclear fission chain reaction, taken together, are just sufficient to sustain the chain reaction (the state of being delayed critical); in this state, changes in reaction power occur slowly, allowing the reaction to be controlled on human timescales, due to the relatively long time delay associated with the emission of the delayed neutrons necessary to maintain the chain reaction.
Coordinate terms: prompt criticality
delayed criticalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delayed criticality
delayed critical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: Of the point at which the prompt neutrons and delayed neutrons produced by a nuclear fission chain reaction, taken together, are just sufficient to sustain the chain reaction, where changes in reaction power occur slowly.
Coordinate terms: prompt critical
Related terms: delayed criticality
onii-chan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: onii-chans
Etymology: From Japanese お兄(にい)ちゃん (onii-chan).
Senses: glosses: Older brother
Guastello
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Guastellos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Guastello.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
fair-mannered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fair-mannered
form: most fair-mannered
Etymology: From Middle English feirmanered, equivalent to fair + mannered.
Senses: glosses: well-mannered
Our Fathers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Our Father
Glorias
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gloria
Hail Maries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hail Mary
petit pâté
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petit pâtés
form: petits pâtés
Etymology: From Middle French petit (“small”) + pâté (“pie, pasty”).
Senses: examples: text: There was a course of two soups, two dishes of fish, stewed beef, boiled lamb and spinach, roast mutton, fricandeau of veal, petit pâté—in short, substantial and choice.
ref: 1794, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 283
text: With considerable willingness I ate and drank, keeping the petit pâté till the last, as a bonne bouche.
ref: 1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette:
glosses: A small pie or pasty.
CWS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of control wheel steering.
glosses: Initialism of celebrity worship syndrome.
CWS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: “Despite the Administration’s actions, CWS remains committed to serving all eligible refugee populations seeking safety in the United States, including Afrikaners who are eligible for services,” he said. “Our faith compels us to serve each person in our care with dignity and compassion.”
ref: 2025 May 12, Peter Smith, “Episcopal Church says it won’t help resettle white South Africans granted refugee status in US”, in Associated Press:
glosses: Initialism of Church World Service.
white nougat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white nougats
Senses: glosses: A confection made with honey, egg whites and roasted nuts, usually hazelnut or pistachio.
centiloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the percentage of amyloid matter present in the brain
metaregister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaregisters
Etymology: From meta- + register.
Senses: glosses: A centrally-indexed collection of registers
nephrotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nephro- + -tropic.
Senses: glosses: That has an affinity for, and thus accumulates in, the kidneys
tribenzoate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tribenzoates
Etymology: From tri- + benzoate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound that has three benzoate groups or anions
invadability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: invadabilities
Senses: glosses: The condition of being invadable
Derived terms: uninvadability
nonlearner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonlearners
Etymology: From non- + learner.
Senses: glosses: A person who is not a learner, or has an inability to learn
nonlearners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonlearner
non-uniformed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + uniformed.
Senses: examples: text: That single flu vaccine factory is now merely a small part of a complex national vaccine manufacturing and distribution supply chain and delivery system, run by a web of scientists, doctors, nurses, cybersecurity teams, testers, military specialists, lorry drivers and a non-uniformed army of cheerful volunteers.
ref: 2021 February 24, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Vaccines and railways”, in RAIL, number 925, page 3:
glosses: Alternative form of nonuniformed.
Adelard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Medieval Latin Adelardus.
Senses: examples: Adelard of Bath, b. ca 1080
glosses: A male given name of historical usage.
Related terms: Adalard
Adalhard
Adelhard
Sining
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shēʹnĭngʹ
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 西寧／西宁 (Xīníng).
Senses: examples: text: Then there is the newly organised police force, and the modernising of the troops. For Sining is not only a city of temples and yamens, but of barracks. Here are quartered two hundred horse and two thousand foot soldiers.
ref: 1909, William Edgar Geil, The Great Wall of China, London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, W., page 286:
text: Peter had the bright idea of at once looking up C. C. Ku, to whom we had an introduction from his brother, a student in Peking. Ku spoke fluent English, having studied at Cornell University. He had been sent from Nanking to Sining with the rank of lieutenant-general, and succeeded in making a good impression on “The Young General,” Ma Bu-fang.
ref: 1937, Ella K. Maillart, Forbidden Journey: From Peking to Kashmir, William Heinemann Ltd, page 53:
text: We had planned to go in two days, though no official permission had yet arrived for us to leave Lanchow. We had done little about it, except to inform a Foreign Office official and the Governor that we wished to go further west. Frank wanted to see farms between here and Sining, and I wanted to go to Koko Nor Lake.
ref: 1942, Violet Cressy-Marcks, “GREAT NORTH-WEST”, in Journey Into China, New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., →OCLC, page 280:
glosses: Dated form of Xining.
sarples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarple
sarple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarples
Senses: glosses: One bale (of wool)
slms
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of "Sloane Manuscript"
Viennese nougat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The softer hazelnut-based form of nougat common to central and eastern Europe
post-pandemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmɪk
Etymology: From post- + pandemic.
Senses: examples: text: We really don't have time to waste in reconfiguring a post-pandemic effective and value-for-money railway.
ref: 2021 February 24, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Vaccines and railways”, in RAIL, number 925, page 3:
text: As it has regained momentum following its post-pandemic growth struggles, Netflix has been trying to steer Wall Street’s focus away from its subscriber growth numbers, arguing that other financial metrics including sales were more important.
ref: 2024 April 18, Callum Jones, “Netflix profits surge as streaming service adds 9.3m subscribers in latest quarter”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative form of postpandemic.
Guastellos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Guastello
Masoner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Masoners
Etymology: Borrowed from German Masoner.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Maredia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Maredias
Etymology: Borrowed from Marathi मरेिडया (mareiḍyā).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Marathi.
Maredias
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Maredia
Masoners
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Masoner
Reford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Refords
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A rural municipality in west-central Saskatchewan, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Reford No. 379.
Mallin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmælɪn/
rhymes: -ælɪn
Forms: form: Mallins
Etymology: Variant of Malin.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Mamarils
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mamaril
Mallins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mallin
Filmore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Filmores
Etymology: Variant of Fillmore.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Luerases
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lueras
Filmores
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Filmore
Freet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Freets
Etymology: Americanized form of German Fried.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Freets
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Freet
Follansbee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Follansbees
Etymology: Probably an altered form of Follingsby.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Goudie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Goudies
Etymology: Variant of Goldie.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Goudies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Goudie
Follansbees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Follansbee
Geringer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Geringers
form: Gerringer
Etymology: Borrowed from German Geringer.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Gibble
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gibbles
Etymology: Americanized spelling of German Giebel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Gibbles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gibble
Geringers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Geringer
McKamey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McKameys
Etymology: Variant of McCamey.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
McKameys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McKamey
whips up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of whip up
Yun-nan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Wade-Giles romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 雲南／云南 (Yúnnán). Wade-Giles romanization: Yün²-nan².
Senses: examples: text: Ta-li City, visible as the rectangular walled patch in the center of the lake plain, is the western rival of Kʻun-ming, capital of Yun-nan Province.
ref: 1954, Herold J. Wiens, Han Chinese Expansion in South China, Shoe String Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 154:
text: Orographic rain seems significant only when the monsoon current runs into the high plateaux of Yun-nan and Kuei-chou, and into the mountains of Ssu-ch'uan.
ref: 1969, Yi-Fu Tuan, China, Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 21:
glosses: Alternative form of Yunnan.
North Ferriby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old Norse ferja + býr.
Senses: glosses: A large village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, on the River Humber (OS grid ref SE9825).
Related terms: alt: south of the Humber in North Lincolnshire
word: South Ferriby
follow my leader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of follow-the-leader.
synonyms: word: follow-the-leader
Foreign Office
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Foreign Office
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A department of the British Government, headed by the Foreign Secretary, that is responsible for maintaining and developing Britain's diplomatic and trade relations with other countries, as well supporting its citizens and businesses around the world. Official full name: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, formerly (until 2020) Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Related terms: Home Office
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The former (until 2020) official full name of the Foreign Office; now the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
faffage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From faff + -age.
Senses: glosses: Time-wasting or preparatory tasks; faffing about.
trail away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: trails away
form: trailing away
form: trailed away
form: trailed away
Senses: examples: text: His eyes in and out of the cafés and scanning the park benches but no sign of her as the afternoon trailed away.
ref: 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 10, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 64:
glosses: Alternative form of trail off.
substantive verb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: substantive verbs
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In the Goidelic languages, a copular verb meaning “to be” that is used with predicates that are prepositional phrases, adverbs, or adjectives, but not with predicates that are noun phrases: Old Irish at·tá, Irish bí (present tá), Scottish Gaelic bi (present tha), Manx bee (present ta).
substantive verbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of substantive verb
grow a tail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grows a tail
form: growing a tail
form: grew a tail
form: grown a tail
Etymology: To grow a tail is a metaphor, as the anus where poop exits is adjacent to where a tail is placed. "Growing" in this case refers to partial expulsion as one attempts to prevent it.
Senses: examples: text: When man needs to grow a tail, man must run to bathroom without fail.
Thou shalt groweth thy tail with great care, or though might staineth thine underwear!
ref: 2000 Larry Glanz The Ultimate Book of Bathroom Etiquette and Humor pg 146 and pg 152
text: Kathy is teasing Dad that Mom is growing a tail in the toilet. Guess he understands to a degree and had a strange look on his face when I came out, so assure him I am fine and did not grow a tail.
ref: 2009, Ann McDeed, No Greater Love, page 206:
text: A steaming pile of toilet humour might not be everyone's cup of tea, but there's no denying the hilarity in some of these messages from beyond the bowl. Our readers managed to snap these delightful deuces before breaking the seal, splashing the pirate, building a log cabin, growing a tail... you get the idea.
ref: 2012, Tyson Jopson, Best of Getaway Funny Signs, page 28:
text: The only other guy doing any work around here was the fat old cop down in the can, strugglin' to grow a tail.
ref: 2016, Vanessa Hawkins, Gloryhill, page 91:
glosses: to be nearly about to defecate, to the point of being unable to completely hold it in
Synonyms: crown
breaking the seal
splashing the pirate
give vent to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives vent to
form: giving vent to
form: gave vent to
form: given vent to
Senses: examples: text: […]the news I had just received, struck me as the wildest, most ridiculous incongruity I had ever heard of or imagined,—and I gave vent to a shout of laughter.
ref: 1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan: or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, published 1896, →OCLC, page 17:
glosses: To utter; to produce (a sound).
examples: text: Be calm! I entreat you to hear me before you give vent to your hatred on my devoted head.
ref: 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter II, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume II, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, page 25:
glosses: To express (an emotion, opinion, etc.).
ace in a day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aces in a day
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: An aviator (usually a fighter pilot) who destroys five or more enemy aircraft (the number required to become an ace) in a single day.
forward contract
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forward contracts
Senses: topics: business
commerce
finance
glosses: A contract between two parties to buy or sell something on a stated future date at a price agreed now; distinguished from a futures contract in not being standardised or exchange-traded.
Foreign Secretary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Foreign Secretaries
Senses: examples: text: Philip Hammond has been appointed chancellor of the exchequer and Boris Johnson foreign secretary as Theresa May allocated the top posts in her cabinet on her first evening as prime minister.
ref: 2016 July 13, Peter Walker, “Theresa May unveils cabinet, with Hammond and Johnson in top jobs”, in The Guardian, London:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The British cabinet minister who heads the Foreign Office and is responsible for Britain's relations and dealings with other countries. Official full title: Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs.
raw_tags: without capitals
qualifier: India and various other countries
glosses: A senior civil servant who conducts and supervises foreign and diplomatic relations.
raw_tags: without capitals
Related terms: foreign minister
Secretary of State
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The official full name of the Foreign Office.
passive voices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passive voice
Mazingarbe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Mazingarbe.
Senses: glosses: A city in Pas-de-Calais department, France.
gynephobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gynephobes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gynophobe.
gynephobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gynephobic
form: most gynephobic
Etymology: From gyne- + -phobic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gynophobic.
gynephobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gynephobe
AMOC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.mɑk/
Senses: examples: text: The AMOC is thus a poster child for the idea of climatic “tipping points”—of hard-to-predict thresholds in Earth’s climate system that, once crossed, have rapid, cascading effects far beyond the corner of the globe where they occur.
ref: 2021 March 2, Moises Velasquez-Manoff, Jeremy White, “In the Atlantic Ocean, Subtle Shifts Hint at Dramatic Dangers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: geography
natural-sciences
oceanography
glosses: Initialism of Atlantic meridional overturning circulation.
Commondale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Danby Group Parish Council) in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Scarborough district (OS grid ref NZ6610).
spirochetolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌspaɪroʊkiˈtɒlɪsɪs/
Etymology: International scientific vocabulary, from New Latin, from spirochete + -o- + lysis.
Senses: glosses: The lysis (lysing) of spirochetes (of which the principal clinical relevance has been in treating various infectious diseases, including syphilis and several tick-borne diseases).
wikipedia: International scientific vocabulary
Derived terms: spirochetolysin
spirochetolytic
spirochetolysin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spirochetolysins
Etymology: From spirochetolysis + -in or spirochete + -o- + lyse + -in.
Senses: examples: text: The man who recognized the spirochetolysis of pathogenic tissue spirochetes was probably only Bergel. He reported that the lipolytic ferment excreted from lymphatic cells may cause the spirochetolysis destroying the lipoid membrane of the spirochetes, and this plays the main role in the protective function of living body against syphilitic infection. But he did not mention whether or not this enzyme corresponds to the immunologically specific spirochetolysin. At any rate, the immunological significance of the spirochetolysis of pathogenic tissue spirochetes is an undeveloped field.
ref: 1955, T Tani, M Matsubara, T Hayashi, “Pfeiffer's phenomenon of syphilis spirochetes and active immunization against syphilis”, in Japanese Journal of Medical Science and Biology, volume 8, number 3, →DOI, pages 303–311:
glosses: An agent (substance) that performs spirochetolysis, that is, one that lyses spirochetes.
lost world
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lost worlds
Senses: examples: text: Developed by such popular writers as Arthur Conan Doyle, H. Rider Haggard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Abraham Merrit, the lost world novel presents small, encapsulated worlds, inhabited by the living fossils of some prehistoric culture, often with dinosaurs or other extinct beasts thrown in for good measure.
ref: 2014, Elana Gomel, Narrative Space and Time: Representing Impossible Topologies in Literature, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: A subgenre of the fantasy or science fiction genres that involves the discovery of an unknown world out of time, place, or both.
examples: text: What I’m describing, of course, is a lost world, glimpsed only through history books or the memories of old people.
ref: 2023 July 21, Caitlin Flanagan, “America’s Corporate Tragedy”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lost, world.