cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
boob windows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boob window
multidogmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + dogmatic.
Senses: glosses: Of, or involving more than two religions or personal beliefs.
glosses: Of composite dogmatic adhesion.
Synonyms: multireligious
Yunnan camellia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yunnan camellias
Senses: glosses: A camellia of species Camellia reticulata or Camellia yunnanensis
yellow-weed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow-weeds
Senses: glosses: Invasive flowering plants with yellow features:
Ranunculus bulbosus (St. Anthony's turnip), of western Europe.
glosses: Invasive flowering plants with yellow features:
Reseda luteola (dyer's rocket), of Eurasia
glosses: Invasive flowering plants with yellow features:
Solidago canadensis (Canada goldenrod)
yellow waterlily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow waterlilies
Senses: glosses: Water lilies with yellow flowers:
Nymphaea species, especially
glosses: Water lilies with yellow flowers:
Nymphaea species, especially:
Nymphaea mexicana
glosses: Water lilies with yellow flowers:
Nuphar species, especially:
Nuphar lutea
glosses: Water lilies with yellow flowers:
Nuphar species, especially:
Nuphar polysepala
yellow jasmine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow jasmines
Senses: glosses: Chrysojasminum humile (syn. Jasminum humile), native to Asia
glosses: Any of several species of plants with fragrant flowers resembling Jasminum humile
Gelsemium sempervirens, native to tropical and warm temperate regions of the Americas
glosses: Any of several species of plants with fragrant flowers resembling Jasminum humile
Pittosporum revolutum, native to Australia
Derived terms: alt: Chrysojasminum humile, syn. Jasminum humile
word: Italian yellow jasmine
yellow flax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æks
Forms: form: yellow flaxes
Senses: glosses: Linum flavum, native to Europe
glosses: Any of several similar plants in the flax family (Linaceae)
Linum sulcatum, grooved yellow flax, native to eastern North America
glosses: Any of several similar plants in the flax family (Linaceae)
Reinwardtia indica, native to the Himalayas
yellow coneflower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow coneflowers
Senses: glosses: Any of several flowering plants:
Rudbeckia hirta
glosses: Any of several flowering plants:
Rudbeckia pinnata
glosses: Any of several flowering plants:
Echinacea paradoxa
yellow bristle grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æs
Forms: form: yellow bristle grasses
Senses: glosses: Grass of several grass species, including:
Cenchrus americanus (syn. Pennisetum glaucum; pearl millet)
glosses: Grass of several grass species, including:
Setaria parviflora (marsh bristlegrass)
glosses: Grass of several grass species, including:
Setaria pumila (yellow foxtail, pigeon grass, cattail grass)
Synonyms: sense: Cenchrus americanum
urls: http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-432725
word: For the numerous taxonomic synonyms see [ Pennisetum glaucum] at The Plant List
consultability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From consult + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The property of being consultable; the ability to be consulted.
white-tips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white-tip
yellow bristle grasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yellow bristle grass
yellow coneflowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yellow coneflower
tardbrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tardbrains
Etymology: From tard + brain.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of idiot.
synonyms: word: idiot
stock boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stock boys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stockboy.
stock-boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stock-boys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stockboy.
hypogyration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + gyration.
Senses: examples: text: All the infants had global hypogyration of the cerebral cortex that was severe (only the Sylvian fissure was obviously present) in 78% of the infants.
ref: 2016 April 6, Adriano N. Hazin, Andrea Poretti, Danielle Di Cavalcanti Souza Cruz, Marli Tenorio, Ana van der Linden, Lindomar Jose Pena, Carlos Brito, Laura H. Vega Gil, Demócrito de Barros Miranda-Filho, Ernesto Torres de Azevedo Marques, Celina M. Turchi Martelli, João G. Bezerra Alves, Thierry A. Huisman, “Computed tomographic findings in microcephaly associated with Zika virus”, in The New England Journal of Medicine:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Abnormally low numbers of gyri in the cerebral cortex.
Related terms: gyrification
systemicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: systemicities
Etymology: From systemic + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Following the discovery of griseofulvin by Brian plant pathologists are trying to find materials which will promote systemicity of the griseofulvin and potency of the Acti-dione.
ref: 1956, The Plant Disease Reporter, volume 40, page 90:
text: Such patterns, or systemicities, are usually considered from one of two complementary and mutually informing perspectives.
ref: 2003, International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Volume 4:
text: One wonders, writing in 2005, what role systemicity plays in art, let alone other social and institutional spheres.
ref: 2005, Donna M. De Salvo, Johanna Burton, Mark Godfrey, Open systems: rethinking art c.1970:
glosses: The quality of being systemic.
systemicities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of systemicity
marital statuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marital status
CGY
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cgy
form: Cgy.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Calgary.
Cgy.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cgy
form: CGY
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Calgary.
-burg
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Old English burg (“fortified place”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of -burgh.
synonyms: word: -burgh
men of few words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of man of few words
WPG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wpg
form: Wpg.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Winnipeg.
WPG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WPGs
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: Initialism of weather, patrol, gunship/gunboat, a designation shiptype for the U.S. Coast Guard ocean-going cutters, which also function as meteorological stations and are equipped with deck guns.
Coordinate terms: topics: weather
meteorology
climatology
natural-sciences
english: destroyer escort
translation: destroyer escort
alt: a USCG ocean-going cutter of the naval frigate shiptype
word: WDE
topics: weather
meteorology
climatology
natural-sciences
aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
english: patrol
translation: patrol
alt: a USCG ocean-going cutter of the seaplane tender shiptype
word: WAVP
topics: weather
meteorology
climatology
natural-sciences
english: high endurance, cutter; a USCG ocean-going cutter of the naval light cruiser shiptype
translation: high endurance, cutter; a USCG ocean-going cutter of the naval light cruiser shiptype
word: WHEC
topics: weather
meteorology
climatology
natural-sciences
english: medium endurance, cutter
translation: medium endurance, cutter
alt: a USCG ocean-going cutter of the naval destroyer shiptype
word: WMEC
topics: weather
meteorology
climatology
natural-sciences
english: patrol craft
translation: patrol craft
alt: a USCG ocean-going cutter of the naval patrolcraft shiptype
word: WPC
topics: weather
meteorology
climatology
natural-sciences
english: patrol boat
translation: patrol boat
alt: a USCG ocean-going cutter of the naval patrolboat shiptype
word: WPB
Wpg.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wpg
form: WPG
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Winnipeg.
caycay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Cebuano caycay.
Senses: glosses: A layered biscuit rolled in toasted peanuts and honey or sugar syrup.
SYD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Syd
form: Syd.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Sydney: a city in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Syd.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɪd
Forms: form: Syd
form: SYD
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Sydney: a city in Nova Scotia, Canada.
pinisi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinisis
form: phinisi
Etymology: From Makasar pinisiʼ, cognate with English pinnace.
Senses: glosses: A kind of rigging used by Indonesian sailing vessels, carrying seven to eight sails on two masts.
glosses: A traditional Indonesian wooden ship.
Xray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Xrays
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of X-ray.
qualifier: World War II era; joint US/RAF; World War II era; joint US/RAF
glosses: A radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter X.
large and in charge
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Sure, as the captain of your ship, you are the one to blame when things go wrong or fall apart, but you are also large and in charge when they go well.
ref: 2011, T.D. Jakes, 64 Lessons for a Life Without Limits, →ISBN:
text: The little girl in me was crying, "No more." She was large and in charge, front and center—the lead actress in the play about her life.
ref: 2012, Naomi Nelson, Breaking the Silence, →ISBN, page 87:
text: Hampton Touissant Hamilton held a degree in Business Economics from the United States Naval Academy and he was svelte, tall, large and in charge, black as the skies at midnight and handsome as an Adonis would or could be a real ringer.
ref: 2014, Letitia L. A. Najieb, Luscious Savoy: "The Unstoppable Women!", page 479:
text: Despite the difficulties with Skyler and Mike, Walt is large and in charge again in the cold open to “Say My Name.”
ref: 2014, Ensley F. Guffey, K. Dale Koontz, Wanna Cook?: The Complete, Unofficial Companion to Breaking Bad, →ISBN:
glosses: Dominating or controlling a situation with confidence and aplomb.
examples: text: Garfield Large & in Charge.
ref: 2011, Jim Davis, Garfield Fat Cat, →ISBN:
glosses: Of a person, domineering and of heavier weight than average, and who uses their physical presence as a buttress to authority, sometimes used as pejorative towards women.
tetrakis hexahedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetrakis hexahedra
form: tetrakis hexahedrons
form: tetrakishexahedron
form: tetrakis-hexahedron
Senses: examples: text: Of the fourteen crystals examined, five were from the Karnul district (four tetrakis-hexahedra and one octahedron with tetrakis-hexahedron), one from Sambalpur (tetrakis-hexahedron with octahedron, four from Panna (much distorted tetrakis-hexahedra), the remaining four said to have come from Simla.
ref: 1904, Max Bauer, translated by L. J. Spencer, Precious Stones, volume 1, published 1968, page 154:
text: In the Isometric Tribe can be found the families of the Tetrakis Hexahedrons and Octahedrons, with their various descendants.
ref: 1909, Marshman Edward Wadsworth, Crystallography: An Elementary Manual for the Laboratory, page 189:
text: The goniometrical angle over the longer edges, that is, the angle between the normals to each pair of faces intersecting in a longer edge, in the cases of the two tetrakis hexahedra most frequently met with, has the following values:
ref: 1922, Alfred Edwin Howard Tutton, Crystallography and Practical Crystal Measurement, volume 1, page 153:
text: Not one exhibits plane faces or straight edges, being mostly distorted triakis-octahedra or tetrakis-hexahedra with finely striated curved faces.
ref: 1946, Mineralogical Society of America, Mineralogical Abstracts, volume 9, page 109:
text: Because of this another polyhedron – the tetrakis hexahedron – that has 14 vertices and 24 faces might be also a good model. The tetrakis hexahedron is slightly less regular than an icosahedron.
ref: 2010, Sumudu P. Leelananda, Yaping Feng, Pawel Gniewek, Andrzej Kloczkowski, Robert L. Jernigan, “6: Statistical Contact Potentials in Protein Coarse-Grained Modeling: From Pair to Multi-body Potentials”, in Andrzej Kolinski, editor, Multiscale Approaches to Protein Modeling, page 150:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A Catalan solid that has 24 congruent triangular faces and 36 edges and can be imagined as a cube with a square pyramid on each face.
Synonyms: sense: cube with a square pyramid on each face
word: dysdakis hexahedron
sense: cube with a square pyramid on each face
word: hextetrahedron
sense: cube with a square pyramid on each face
word: hexatetrahedron
sense: cube with a square pyramid on each face
word: kiscube
sense: cube with a square pyramid on each face
word: tetrahexahedron
tetrakis hexahedra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetrakis hexahedron
largie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: largies
Etymology: From large + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: The fisheries biologist also says other species seen during their surveys besides fat largies include bluegill, black crappie, redear sunfish, pumpkinseed, brown bullhead and channel catfish.
ref: 2008, Virginia Wildlife - Volume 69, (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 122:
text: You'll want to use spinnerbaits to catch the largies, or toss topwater plugs working gaps in the vegetation.
ref: 2013, Sportsman's Connection, West-Central Michigan Fishing Map Guide, →ISBN, page 76:
text: Thick vegetation, lily pads, weed beds and any sort of cover is a typical summer home for a largie.
ref: 2015 October 2, “Take advantage of fall fishing opportunities”, in The Kingston Whig-Standard:
glosses: A largemouth bass.
examples: text: And, by the way, for sweete Saint Charitie, He begs his largies of th' outlandish hives.
ref: 1815, Thomas Cutwode, Caltha Poetarum, Or, The Bumble Bee:
text: Is big beautiful to the middle line management of the largies? I take my coral hard hat off to the men who directly manage the big logging camps on this coast of B.C.
ref: 1975, British Columbia Lumberman - Volume 59, page 112:
text: While the artichokes barbecue away and your Australian neighbours ring the fire brigade and police, you and your family and friends stand around and joke and laugh and drink Stanthorpe or Ballandean wine that you bottled yourself out of a few great barrels you had them send up: of course the bottling-bottles are empties of old Fourex largies or Schweppes lemonade, because why let them go to waste?
ref: 2007, Gaetano Rando, Gerry Turcotte, Literary and Social Diasporas: An Italian Australian Perspective, →ISBN:
glosses: Anything that is unusually large.
prosemite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prosemites
form: pro-Semite
Etymology: From pro- + Semite.
Senses: examples: text: Yet some people call him antisemite, others call him prosemite.
ref: 1962, RL Tewari, A Critical Study of Loyalties (Galsworthy), page 148:
text: He certainly was no antisemite in the conventional sense, but then neither was he a prosemite; one could safely call him an anti-antisemite.
ref: 1994, Arlie Hoover, Friedrich Nietzsche: His Life and Thought, page 98:
text: […] as his prosemite predilections must compel him to do so almost instinctively […]
ref: 1884, Theosophical Society, The Theosophist, page 227:
synonyms: philo-Semite
antonyms: anti-Semite
glosses: Someone who favors Semitism.
Schlegel diagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Schlegel diagrams
Etymology: From Schlegel (“a surname”) + diagram, after German mathematician Victor Schlegel, who introduced the diagram in 1886.
Senses: examples: text: The location of the point x₀ can always be chosen so that the edges in the Schlegel diagram can be drawn as non-intersecting straight lines.
ref: 1999, R. B. King, “1: Topology in Chemistry”, in D Bonchev, D.H Rouvray, editors, Chemical Topology: Introduction and Fundamentals, page 21:
text: Schlegel diagrams are a useful way to explore how these polyhedra can be linked (Hoppe and Köhler 1988).
ref: 2002, Ian David Brown, chapter L, in The Chemical Bond in Inorganic Chemistry: The Bond Valence, page 150:
text: These structures may all be represented on a planar surface by their Schlegel diagrams. A polyhedron Schlegel diagram is its networks of edges and vertices drawn in a special way: if you hold the polyhedron so close to your face that one of faces frames the entire polyhedron and you see all the other edges meeting inside that frame, then you have a Schlegel diagram.
ref: 2013, Arthur L. Loeb, “5: Polyhedra: Surfaces or Solids?”, in Marjorie Senechal, editor, Shaping Space: Exploring Polyhedra in Nature, Art, and the Geometrical Imagination, page 69:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A projection of a polytope from n-dimensional space to n-1 dimensions through a point beyond one of its faces; especially such a projection (itself represented in 2 dimensions) of a 3- or 4-dimensional polytope.
wikipedia: Victor Schlegel
Schlegel diagrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Schlegel diagram
purranormal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of purr + paranormal.
Senses: examples: text: [See "purranormal" in the book title.]
ref: 2011, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, K. B. Dundee, Spam Vs. The Vampire: A Purranormal Mystery, Gypsy Shadow Publishing, →ISBN, page 0 (cover):
glosses: Paranormal, involving cats.
financialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: financializes
form: financializing
form: financialized
form: financialized
form: financialise
Etymology: From financial + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To convert intangible value into financial instruments.
glosses: To make, or treat as, financial; to bring into the sphere of finance.
Related terms: financialization
falloscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The inspection of the Fallopian tubes through a microendoscope.
MPLA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Portuguese Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola.
Senses: examples: text: Is this the MPLA / Or is this the UDA / Or is this the IRA / I thought it was the UK
ref: 1976, “Anarchy in the U.K.”, performed by Sex Pistols:
glosses: Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola
monkey nut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmʌŋki ˌnʌt/
Forms: form: monkey nuts
Etymology: From monkey + nut.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of peanut.
synonyms: word: peanut
Johnson solids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Johnson solid
preservatize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preservatizes
form: preservatizing
form: preservatized
form: preservatized
form: preservatise
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Law states:— "The writer of the paragraph endeavors to give the impression that most of the fish being sold in Perth is preservatised, and as it is spoken of as reeking of preservatives, it is assumed that chemical preservatives are suggested. […]"
ref: 1927 September 4, Sunday Times, Perth, Western Australia:
text: In such a climate the use of preservatives in brewing was imperative, but Joe Ballest would use none but O.P. rum; he belonged to that backward school of drinkers which regards scientifically preservatised liquors as All Chemicals and therefore harmful; hence his beer always turned out to be all clots and ropes and bacteria.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VI, in Capricornia, page 87:
text: 1960, FAO, Unasylva, Vol. 14, No. 4, http://www.fao.org/docrep/x5397e/x5397e0b.htm
According to an official report to FAO, New Zealand is now by far the world's largest producer per head of population of preservatized timber for building purposes.
text: Strains of the bacteria Serratia marcescens and a Pseudomonas sp. […] were shown to be active in alcohol degradation in preservatised blood […]
ref: 1987, Forensic Science International 34(1-2), G.L. Dick & H.M. Stone, "Alcohol loss arising from microbial contamination of drivers' specimens." http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3297952
glosses: To treat with a preservative.
preservatise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preservatises
form: preservatising
form: preservatised
form: preservatised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of preservatize.
Holy Temple
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Holy Temple
Senses: glosses: The Temple in Jerusalem.
breaking strain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breaking strains
Senses: examples: text: The steel haulage ropes have a breaking strain of 50 tons, and another pair passing around a pulley at the bottom connect the lower ends of the cars and act as tail or balance ropes.
ref: 1951 August, P. W. Gentry, “Cliff Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 515:
glosses: The amount of strain which can cause something to break, according to the force or weight placed on it. Many materials, such as lines and ropes, have a specified breaking strain.
isotopics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From isotope + -ics.
Senses: glosses: The study of isotopes, especially stable isotopes.
musicstick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: musicsticks
form: music-stick
Etymology: From music + stick.
Senses: examples: text: The camp was silent save for clicking of music-sticks in the distant native camp […]
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VI, in Capricornia, page 88:
glosses: A kind of drumstick used by striking one against another, to maintain rhythm in Aboriginal voice chants.
Synonyms: alt: drumstick
word: clapper
alt: drumstick
word: clapstick
music-stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: music-sticks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of musicstick.
packy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: packies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of packie.
ding dong cart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ding dong carts
Senses: qualifier: Massachusetts
glosses: An ice cream truck.
double plurals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double plural
ding dong carts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ding dong cart
music-sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of music-stick
musicsticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of musicstick
breaking strains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breaking strain
monkey nuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monkey nut
monkey-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more monkey-like
form: most monkey-like
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of monkeylike.
masora
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Masorah.
Masorite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Masorites
Etymology: From Masorah + -ite.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Masorete.
synonyms: word: Masorete
unrustic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrustic
form: most unrustic
Etymology: From un- + rustic.
Senses: glosses: Not rustic.
co-evolve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: co-evolves
form: co-evolving
form: co-evolved
form: co-evolved
Etymology: From co- + evolve.
Senses: glosses: To evolve together.
co-evolves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of co-evolve
co-evolving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of co-evolve
co-evolved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of co-evolve
nonfruits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonfruit
made-upness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From made-up + -ness. Attested since the 20th century.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being made-up, or invented.
schisty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪsti
Forms: form: more schisty
form: most schisty
Etymology: From schist + -y.
Senses: examples: text: 1884, Reports from Her Majesty's Consuls on the Manufactures, Commerce, &c. of Their Consular Districts, Parts 1-5, Harrison & Sons, p. 114, https://books.google.ca/books?id=p73NAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false
The Upper Douro wine began to fetch great prices, and this was the signal for the cultivation, bit by bit, of the whole region as far as the schisty soil, which gave the good wine, reached.
text: At times he loved it best in Wet Season — when the creeks were running and the swamps were full — when the multi-coloured schisty rocks split golden waterfalls — […]
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VII, in Capricornia, page 90:
text: 1969, Edwin S. Deflethsen, "Colonial Gravestones and Demography" reprinted in Maris A. Vinovskis (ed.), Studies in American Historical Demography: Studies in Population, p. 211, https://books.google.ca/books?id=5XOLBQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Black and reddish slate stones even of the seventeenth century have borne the climate well and are still easily legible, while some of the more schisty sorts of greenish slate used in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, have survived poorly and are difficult to read.
text: 2007, Tom Cannavan, wine-pages.com https://web.archive.org/web/20160409134423/http://wine-pages.com/tasting-articles/june-2008-yali-cook-wines-domaine-de-fondra-che-willi-opitz/
It has a gorgeous, pure, strawberry and rose-hip nose, with some plump sultana notes and a certain mineral quality that is quite schisty and earthy.
glosses: Containing or composed of schist; resembling schist; (of a wine) having a mineral aroma resembling that of schist
Masoret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Masorets
Senses: examples: text: The Masorets, by their great care and diligence, have left us an edition of the Old Testament, which secures the text from all interpolations, while it checks also the licentiousness of conjectural criticism, and gives a definite meaning to many obscure passages; at the same time, it by no means precludes the labours of the learned from aiming at greater accuracy in their attempts to understand Scripture, as the sense which the Masorets may have put upon any passage can only be said to be highly probable: the meaning of Scripture in all cases being derivable from the words, and not from the vowel points, or any arbitrary divisions.
ref: 1838, George Townsend, The New Testament, arranged in chronological and historical order, with copious notes on the principal subjects in theology:
text: Having thus fixed the correct reading, the Masorets determined to prevent as far as possible, the danger of any future departure from it.
ref: 1889, John MacDevitt, Introduction to the Sacred Scriptures: In Two Parts, page 13:
text: It is a version of the Hebrew Old Testament, translated from 700-1000 a.d. (yes, that's right) by the Masorets, Jewish scholars trying to translate the Old Testament back into Hebrew from fragments of existing Hebrew, oral tradition, and the Septuagint.
ref: 2009, John A. Peck, Called to Serve, →ISBN, page 4:
glosses: Alternative form of Masorete.
examples: text: ...the transcribers themselves have candidly intimated by the suspended Nun that סשמ is the genuine reading, and the Masorets also expressly state, that the Nun was inserted, in order that the first idolatrous priest should not be said to be a grandson of Moses.
ref: 1827, Johann Jahn, Samuel Hulbeart Turner, William Rollinson Whittingham, An Introduction to the Old Testament, page 160:
text: Where the Keri's have to do with exegesis or grammar, by far the largest part of them proceed immediately from the Masorets themselves.
ref: 1860, Johann Jakob Herzog, The Protestant Theological and Ecclesiastical Encyclopedia, page 413:
text: This is surprising, because in the Masoret it is plene, but we have found that the Masoret disagrees with the Talmud in Tractate Shabbat [55b].
ref: 2001, B. Barry Levy, Fixing God's Torah: The Accuracy of the Hebrew Bible Text in Jewish Law, →ISBN:
glosses: A Masorah.
Masorets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Masoret
compuper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compupers
Senses: glosses: Informal form of computer.
lead carbonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lead carbonates
Senses: examples: text: Lead carbonate is slightly soluble in water, is insoluble in basic solution and is soluble in ammonium acetate and in acid solution.
ref: 1961, Walter Maxwell Gibson, The Radiochemistry of Lead - Issue 3040, page 9:
text: Hock and colleagues [13] have suggested a more complex mechanism to explain why cement stabilizes lead: the formation of lead carbonates.
ref: 2006, Amy Forsgren, Corrosion Control Through Organic Coatings, →ISBN, page 92:
text: A related lead carbonate hydroxide oxide mineral, plumbonacrite (q.v.; Pb₁₀(CO₃)₆O(OH)₆), also exists.
ref: 2007, Nicholas Eastaugh, Valentine Walsh, Tracey Chaplin, Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary of Historical Pigments, →ISBN, page 223:
text: Micro-Raman analysis clearly showed the difference between the initial lead oxide (PbO) and lead carbonates (hydrocerussite and plumbonacrite mostly) whereas PbO associated to the black inclusion features progressively appears in the spectra.
ref: 2013, Miguel Angel Rogerio-Candelera, Massimo Lazzari, Emilio Cano, Science and Technology for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage, →ISBN:
glosses: Any lead salt containing both carbonate and hydroxide ions.
bangkal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Leichhardt pine (Nauclea orientalis)
lead carbonates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lead carbonate
lesbosexual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɛz.bəˈsɛk.ʃuː.əl/
ipa: /ˌlɛz.bəˈsɛk.ʃu.əl/
rhymes: -ɛkʃuəl
rhymes: -ɛkʃuːəl
Forms: form: lesbosexuals
Etymology: From lesbo- + -sexual.
Senses: examples: text: He now describes his own style as 'more lesbosexual".
ref: 2005, Arena - Issues 23-24:
text: In Salon magazine, Simpson claimed to be a “lesbosexual,” implying that being a lesbosexual is an absence of style—and, in turn, liberation from time-consuming activities required to maintain the high style of the metrosexual.
ref: 2007, Gilbert Herdt, Cymene Howe, 21st Century Sexualities, →ISBN:
text: Per Talking Points Memo, the PolitiChicks are promoting their new book about this new flavor of "pro-woman" feminism, which is a term conservatives have been flinging around for the last few years in pursuit of the elusive female vote that implies that the other kind of feminism is for anti-feminine (or possibly lesbo-sexual) crew cut-havers who want to abolish long hair and nail polish and girly laughter and the general concept of love.
ref: 2014 February 9, Erin Gloria Ryan, “Women Who Benefitted Immensely From Feminism Rail Against Feminism”, in Jezebel:
glosses: Someone who adopts the style associated with stereotypic lesbians.
lesbosexuals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lesbosexual
lick one's lips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪps
Forms: form: licks one's lips
form: licking one's lips
form: licked one's lips
form: licked one's lips
Senses: examples: text: Imagine the likes of Belgium, France, Spain, Germany and a few others when faced with the sort of defending England produced against Kosovo?[…]The attackers who play for those countries would be licking their lips at the idea of facing this England defence at a major tournament.
ref: 2019 September 10, Phil McNulty, “'England horribly fallible in defence' against Kosovo in Euro 2020 qualifying”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Alternative form of lick one's chops.
licks one's lips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lick one's lips
licking one's lips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lick one's lips
licked one's lips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lick one's lips
nunc stans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌnʌŋkˈstænz/
/ˌnʊŋkˈstænz/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin nunc (“now”) + stāns (“staying, remaining”).
Senses: examples: text: But they will teach us that eternity is the standing still of the present time, a nunc-stans, as the schools call it; which neither they nor any else understand, no more than they would a hic-stans for an infinite greatness of place.
ref: 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan:
text: In other words, at the point where the infinite past and the infinite future collide into the present of a nunc stans they spark into existence, as it were, the mental phenomenon of a timeless present which overcomes all ordinary time constructions.
ref: 2009, Patricia Bowen-Moore, Hannah Arendt’s Philosophy of Natality:
text: In its radical transcendence of all finite states the subject enters into the space of a nunc stans, in the face of which all temporality becomes an unreal appearance.
ref: 2005, Robert Spaemann, Happiness and Benevolence:
topics: Christianity
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Eternal existence as an attribute of God.
Related terms: hic stans
immeasurate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪˈmɛ.ʒɚ.ɪt/
Forms: form: more immeasurate
form: most immeasurate
Etymology: From im- + measure + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: ... Baden, nor Wurtemberg, nor the Hesses, nor even the Catholic court of Bavaria looked with favour upon demands so immeasurate as were put forward in the councils of the archbishops and […].
ref: 1856, The Eclectic Review, page 164:
text: But this feeling is confined to the native immeasurate forest : no artificial plantation can give it."
ref: 1897, Laurie Magnus, A Primer of Wordsworth: With a Critical Essay, page 184:
text: This preference for Wagner was carried somewhat to excess, however, and it cannot be doubted that the immeasurate predilection accorded his music in Belgium by an important section of the music-loving public contributed not a little to relegate to obscurity dramatic works which—for all they were more modest—nevertheless merited a better fate.
ref: 1921, Oscar George Theodore Sonneck, The Musical Quarterly, G. Schirmer., page 354:
text: All flowers are hers
who rules the immeasurate seas,
in Cyprus, purple and white lilies tall;
how were it other?
there is no escape
from her who nurtures,
who imperils all.
ref: 1986, Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz, Collected Poems, 1912-1944, New Directions Publishing, page 281:
text: He loved these breasts of hers, these assertive softnesses that seemed the signature of an immeasurate tenderness hidden behind the world but expressing itself here in full.
ref: 1998, Rafi Zabor, The Bear Comes Home: A Novel, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 218:
text: ...eyes; his craggy, eloquent, wonderful face; his unflinching, immeasurate strength. Boone Fowler had brought her here to destroy all that.
ref: 2012, Debra Webb, Julie Miller, Striking Distance: Forbidden Captor, Harlequin, page 563:
glosses: Without or beyond measure; unending; boundless.
Synonyms: sense: without measure
word: boundless
sense: without measure
word: endless
sense: without measure
word: immeasurable
sense: without measure
word: immensurate
sense: without measure
word: unending
sense: without measure
word: unlimited
Related terms: immeasurable
measure
lump hammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lump hammers
Senses: examples: text: Where there is loose mortar or mortar loss highlighted, the area will be prepared using lump hammers, plugging chisels, and scutcheon pick hammers before a standard mortar mix is used.
ref: 2020 May 20, Philip Haigh, “Ribblehead: at the heart of the S&C's survival and its revival: Ribblehead Viaduct repairs”, in Rail, page 27:
glosses: A small sledgehammer, intended for single-handed use.
Synonyms: drilling hammer
club hammer
crack hammer
elderate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elderates
Etymology: From elder + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, here the concrete charge of it), a calque of Lithuanian seniūnija.
Senses: synonyms: eldership
glosses: The smallest administrative unit in Lithuania, equivalent to a ward.
uncensorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + censorship.
Senses: examples: 2001, JoyBeth, A Souls Delight: Your Step by Step Higher Self Integration Journey
You will also use journaling in a variety of ways, but the basic principles - of honesty and uncensorship, as well as following the flow of your thoughts and feelings until they naturally ebb […]
glosses: Absence of censorship.
chaykhana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chaykhanas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chaikhana.
ego-minded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ego-minded
form: most ego-minded
Senses: examples: text: So I did what every ego-minded self would do.
ref: 2014, Ginger Graf Dunaway, Choose Spirit Now: Wake Up to an Exquisite Life:
glosses: Preoccupied with oneself.
Derived terms: ego-mindedness
ego-mindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ego-minded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: In ego-mindedness you can become hijacked by feelings of fight or flight in the guts, which stiffen your body against the negative reactions you anticipate.
ref: 2012, Ross Thompson, Judith Thompson, Mindful Ministry: Creative, Theological and Practical Perspectives:
glosses: Preoccupation with oneself.
bug storm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bug storms
Senses: examples: text: The fun and free “vibe” all changed when we hit a bug storm, getting bugs in our mouth and a few stings in the face.
ref: 2011, Dennis E. Dwyer, God, Country and Tattoos: A cry for Freedom:
glosses: A large number of insects in the air, especially when passed through by a vehicle.
bug storms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bug storm
Pitt Street farmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pitt Street farmers
Etymology: From Pitt Street, a major thoroughfare in Sydney, Australia.
Senses: qualifier: Sydney
glosses: An urban resident who is an absentee landowner of rural property
wikipedia: Pitt Street
Synonyms: english: Melbourne
translation: Melbourne
word: Collins Street farmer
girllessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From girlless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: He was friends with a classmate of mine named Marko, a faux-aristocratic Serbian who had been my companion in girllessness since nursery school, thanks largely to his head, which was shaped like a watermelon.
ref: 2011, Neil Strauss, The Game and Rules of the Game:
text: There had been a time in high school, see, when I wrestled with the possibility that I might be gay, a torturous six-month culmination of years of unpopularity and girllessness.
ref: 2012, Michael Chabon, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh:
glosses: The state or condition of being girlless.
womanlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From womanless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being womanless.
boyless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From boy + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The yelps and kyoodles had wandered home or after Rube and his idolators — all except the Widow Steger's dog, a long, strange, German sort of dog with no legs to speak of, a lonesome boyless kyoodle that had to go home early and sleep under the geranium box.
ref: 1912, Charles Tenney Jackson, The Midlanders, page 34:
glosses: Without a boy or boys.
Derived terms: boylessness
boylessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From boyless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being boyless.
46
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Joe Biden, as the forty-sixth president of the United States.
Derived terms: 8646
Related terms: 46-gon
47
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The Agenda 47 web page has his policy statements with short description with what looks like a video that will play right there, but if you click on it takes you to a page with the video and lots of description for what the policy is actually about.
ref: 2024 October 30, Bill Addis, “Agenda 47 and More Bad Trump Ideas”, in Daily Kos:
text: The news that the Trump regime is going to investigate James Comey for the horribly threatening crime of posting a picture of seashells arranged to say “86 47” is at once laughable and appalling.
ref: 2025 May 16, teacherbill, “86 47! Come and get me Tulsi, Kash and Pam. You can't get us all.”, in Daily Kos:
topics: government
politics
coordinate_terms: 45
46
48
glosses: Nickname for Donald Trump, American businessman and politician, as the forty-seventh president of the United States.
Derived terms: 8647
Related terms: AK-47
C-47
titanium-47
48
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 48s
Etymology: From Arabic عَرَب 48 (ʕarab 48) or Arabic فِلَسْطِينِيُّو 48 (filasṭīniyyū 48). 48 refers to the Israeli state's year of founding, 1948, and the borders of Israel during that year.
Senses: glosses: An Arab resident of Israel.
Synonyms: 48 Arab
48
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: See 47 (“Donald Trump”).
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The forty-eighth president of the United states, to be elected in 2028 and succeed Donald Trump in 2029.
Related terms: lower 48
Gandhist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gandhists
Etymology: From Gandhi + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of Gandhism.
Hypernyms: pacifist
Dubaiesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Dubaiesque
form: most Dubaiesque
Etymology: From Dubai + -esque.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Dubaiesque.
glosses: Alternative form of Dubai-esque.
twincestual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more twincestual
form: most twincestual
Etymology: Blend of twin + incestual
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:twincestual.
glosses: Synonym of twincestuous.
synonyms: word: twincestuous
dig oneself in a hole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: digs oneself in a hole
form: digging oneself in a hole
form: dug oneself in a hole
form: dug oneself in a hole
form: dig oneself into a hole
Senses: glosses: To put oneself in even more trouble.
Related terms: dig a hole for oneself
dig one's own grave
shoot oneself in the foot
clear as day
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Quite clear.
Synonyms: clear as a bell
crystal clear
obvious
put one's head in the sand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts one's head in the sand
form: putting one's head in the sand
form: put one's head in the sand
form: put one's head in the sand
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bury one's head in the sand.
synonyms: word: bury one's head in the sand
stick one's head in the sand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sticks one's head in the sand
form: sticking one's head in the sand
form: stuck one's head in the sand
form: stuck one's head in the sand
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bury one's head in the sand.
synonyms: word: bury one's head in the sand
pissbrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pissbrains
Etymology: Compound of piss + brain.
Senses: synonyms: word: addle-brain
word: addlehead
word: addle pate
word: airhead
word: baboon
word: beanbrain
word: beetlebrain
word: beetlehead
word: berk
word: bimbo
word: birdbrain
word: blockhead
word: blubberbrain
word: bonehead
word: Boeotian
word: boob
word: bozo
word: brainlet
word: brickhead
word: bubblehead
word: bubble brain
word: bufflehead
word: buffoon
word: Charlie
raw_tags: with "right" and/or "proper"
word: chowderhead
word: chucklehead
word: chump
word: cittern-head
word: clod
word: clodpate
word: clot
word: clown
word: crackhead
word: cretin
word: cuckoo
word: deadhead
word: dimbo
word: dim bulb
word: dimbus
word: dimwit
word: dingbat
word: ding dong
word: dingleberry
word: dingwad
word: dip
word: dipstick
word: doldrum
word: dolt
word: donut
word: doodle
word: doof
word: doofoid
word: doofus
word: dope
word: dork
word: drivel
word: drongo
word: drool bucket
word: dullard
word: dumb bunny
word: dumbbell
word: dumb cluck
word: dumbhead
word: dumble
word: dumbling
word: dumbnut
word: dumbo
word: dummkopf
word: dummy
word: dunce
word: dunderhead
word: dunderpate
word: eejit
word: fathead
word: featherbrain
word: fenderhead
word: fleabrain
word: fool
word: fopdoodle
word: galoot
word: gimboid
word: gomer
word: gonk
word: goober
word: goof
word: goofball
word: goofy
word: goose
word: goosecap
word: gorbuson
word: gudgeon
word: halfwit
word: ha'porth
word: hammerhead
word: idiot
word: ignoramus
word: imbecile
word: inbred
word: jackaninny
word: jellybrain
word: jerk
word: juggins
word: jughead
word: knothead
word: knucklehead
word: lackwit
word: lamebrain
word: log
word: loggerhead
word: lummox
word: lunk
word: lunkhead
word: maroon
word: meatball
word: meathead
word: mental midget
word: mome
word: momo
word: mongoloid
word: mongtard
word: monkey
word: moron
word: mouth breather
word: muggins
word: mushhead
word: muttonhead
word: mutt
word: nimrod
word: nincompoop
word: ninny
word: ninnyhammer
word: nit
word: nitwit
word: noddy
word: noodlehead
word: numbskull
word: oaf
word: peabrain
word: peagoose
word: pillock
word: pigwidgeon
word: pinhead
word: plank
word: plonker
word: prat
word: put
word: putz
word: retard
word: sap
word: saphead
word: schmo
word: silly
word: simp
word: simpleton
word: snapperhead
word: sot
word: space cadet
word: spanner
word: stupe
word: stupid
word: stupid-head
word: tomfool
word: tard
word: thickhead
word: thickskull
word: thicko
word: tonto
word: toolbox
word: tosspot
word: turkey
word: twit
word: wally
word: wantwit
word: wazzer
word: wazzock
word: witless wonder
word: yo-yo
word: zany
word: Vulgar:
word: ass
word: assclown
word: asshat
word: asshead
word: asstard
word: asswipe
word: buttbreath
word: dildo
word: dipshit
word: donkey dick
word: Alternative spelling of dumbass.
word: dumbfuck
word: dumbfucker
word: dumbshit
word: farthead
word: fuck-knuckle
word: fucktard
word: fuckwit
word: jackass
word: peckerhead
word: shitbrain
word: shithead
word: shitneck
word: shitwit
word: twat
glosses: A term of abuse.
get one's ass handed to one
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets one's ass handed to one
form: getting one's ass handed to one
form: got one's ass handed to one
form: gotten one's ass handed to one
form: get one's arse handed to one
Etymology: Possibly derives from the expression get one's hat handed to one.
Senses: glosses: To suffer an extraordinarily devastating defeat.
Synonyms: word: get one's head handed to one
word: have one's ass handed to one
word: have one's head handed to one
Related terms: hand someone their ass
rascist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of racist.
rascist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of racist.
rascist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rascist
form: most rascist
Senses: examples: text: A mannequin depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin is hung on a gallows with a sign reading "Death to Putin, death to the rascist occupier" during a rally outside the Russian Consulate in Kyiv on March 18.
ref: 2018 March 18, “Russians In Ukraine Blocked From Voting In Presidential Election”, in Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
ref: 2022 July 22, Serhiy Kolyada, “Rascist rats trapped in their own sinking ship”, in Kyiv Post:
glosses: Alternative form of russist.
rascist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rascists
Senses: examples: text: “Having unleashed the war, the rascists (Russian fascists) saw their imperial project as the end of 'Ukrainian history,'" said the spy chief.
ref: 2023 May 8, “After huge attack, spy chief vows revenge on Russia, warning 'their soldiers will drown in blood'”, in The New Voice of Ukraine:
glosses: Alternative form of russist.