cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fresh cut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fresh cuts
Senses: examples: text: Leyden also discusses black laces, “Black laces are worn by fresh cuts. These laces are used by new Skinheads who have not earned their white laces.”
ref: 2011, J. W. Gregory, Skinhead Girl, page 47:
text: By the end of the show, fights would break out all over the place: the Atlantic City skins against the crew from Philly; the oldschool skinheads feuding with overzealous fresh-cuts.
ref: 2017, Christian Picciolini, White American Youth:
coordinate_terms: baby bat
glosses: A fledgling member of the skinhead subculture.
fresh cuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fresh cut
Normism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Normisms
Etymology: From Norm + -ism.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: Any of the self-deprecating one-liners uttered by the character Norm Peterson in the U.S. television show Cheers.
Normisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Normism
consentfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more consentfully
form: most consentfully
Etymology: From consentful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With consent; consensually.
consentiently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more consentiently
form: most consentiently
Etymology: From consentient + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a consentient manner.
consigneeship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From consignee + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The role or status of a consignee.
consolamentum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: Christianity
synonyms: word: heretication
raw_tags: used by Catholic opponents
glosses: The unique sacrament ritual of the Cathars.
Hales-Jewett theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Hales-Jewett theorem
Etymology: Named after Alfred W. Hales and Robert I. Jewett.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A fundamental combinatorial result of Ramsey theory, concerning the degree to which high-dimensional objects must necessarily exhibit some combinatorial structure, and cannot be completely random.
Continentaler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Continentalers
Etymology: From continental + -er.
Senses: glosses: A soldier in the Continental Army.
Continentalers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Continentaler
Hooray Henrys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hooray Henry
conuzant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of conusant.
Young America
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Edgar County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Deer Creek Township, Cass County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Carver County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Barton, Washington County, Wisconsin.
conversationable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conversationable
form: most conversationable
Etymology: From conversation + -able.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of conversable (“able and inclined to engage in conversation”).
synonyms: word: conversable
extra: able and inclined to engage in conversation
pig party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pig parties
form: pig-party
form: pigparty
Senses: examples: text: ‘Man, that sure was some bum evening at Mr Vial's,’ he said. ‘I pulled out fast when I saw how it was shaping. They was having an orgy when I left, but me, I don't care for these pig-parties or gang-bangs whatsoever.’
ref: 1964 [1957], Colin MacInnes, City of Spades, London: Penguin Books, pages 179–180:
glosses: An orgy.
pig parties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pig party
softwall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From soft + wall.
Senses: examples: text: Floating wire hardwall, softwall, and corrugated hardwall constructions are available in a variety of cover materials, such as neoprene, natural rubber, butyl, which the manufacturer reports meet practically every application requirement in the bulk materials handling field.
ref: 1966, Pit & Quarry, page 74:
text: Softwall flats are an excellent not restricted by the chroma key locale.[…]Another approach to combining hard or softwall is illustrated in Figure 4.
ref: 1976, Broadcast Engineering, page 34:
text: Although television stations and non-broadcast production houses use hardwall scenery almost exclusively, softwall scenery is more practical for high-school and college television operations.
ref: 2003, Herbert Zettl, Television Production Handbook, 8th edition, Thomson/Wadsworth, →ISBN, page 370:
glosses: Made from lightweight flexible materials.
Coordinate terms: hardwall
hardwall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hard + wall.
Senses: examples: text: Floating wire hardwall, softwall, and corrugated hardwall constructions are available in a variety of cover materials, such as neoprene, natural rubber, butyl, which the manufacturer reports meet practically every application requirement in the bulk materials handling field.
ref: 1966, Pit & Quarry, page 74:
text: The Hardwall Flat[…]Figure 3 shows how a soft or hardwall flat can be made to stand on its own, away from a studio wall.
ref: 1976, Broadcast Engineering, page 36:
text: Although television stations and non-broadcast production houses use hardwall scenery almost exclusively, softwall scenery is more practical for high-school and college television operations.
ref: 2003, Herbert Zettl, Television Production Handbook, 8th edition, Thomson/Wadsworth, →ISBN, page 370:
glosses: Made from rigid materials such as wood, metal, or fiberboard.
Coordinate terms: softwall
hardwall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hard + wall.
Senses: examples: text: Keen's cement finish bonds best to a base of strongly gauged Keen's cement mortar, but the addition of lime putty increases its bonding qualities when applied over a hardwall, lime mortar, or Portland cement base coat.
ref: 1923, Trade and Industrial Series - Issues 1-7, page 43:
text: Hardwall-grade calcined gypsum ( +90 percent Casoy ) passes over a vibrating scrcen fitted with a 50-mesh screen;
ref: 1950, Information Circular - Issues 7555-7568, page 15:
text: When EPA promulgated its final AHERA regulations on October 30, 1987, the regulations did not mention sheetrock, drywall, gypsum wallboard or hardwall plaster as ACM.
ref: 1992, United States Congress House Committee on Government Operations: Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Subcommittee, EPA's Administration of the Asbestos in Schools Program, page 157:
text: Hardwall is similar to browning except that it offers a higher impact resistance and quicker drying surface.
ref: 2010, DIY Doctor, Master Basic DIY: Teach Yourself:
glosses: A strong grade of gypsum plaster, used primarily as an undercoat.
packetful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: packetfuls
form: packetsful
Etymology: From packet + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Benedicta called Harold into her room, leaving Meta without, a prey to envy at the preference thus shown; but a few kind words and a packetful of judiciously-bestowed chocolates pacified the soul and stomach of little Meta, who went to bed rejoicing.
ref: [1881], Mrs. Alfred Phillips, “A Registered Letter”, in Benedicta, London: Frederick Warne and Co., →OCLC, page 257:
text: We had been told that commuters walking these sidewalks day after day, and mailmen, and bobbies, had scattered packetfuls of flower garden seeds and that those seeds had produced a gay display.
ref: 1971, May Theilgaard Watts, Reading the Landscape of Europe, Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 279:
text: He dropped a few packetsful of sugar on the desk and then sat.
ref: 1988, Sam Stewart, Payback, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 193:
glosses: Enough to fill a packet.
packetfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of packetful
packetsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of packetful
Treason Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: In reference to the American Revolutionary War, which would be considered treason against the United Kingdom at that time.
Senses: examples: text: I have a British colleague who, at the end of our writing group meeting, wished us all a "happy treason day" 😂
ref: 2020 July 3, margaret_emma, Twitter, archived from the original on 27 Sep 2022:
glosses: Fourth of July.
wikipedia: American Revolutionary War
convincibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Ability to be convinced or persuaded.
convinceability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of convincibility.
cootfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cootfoots
Etymology: From coot + foot.
Senses: glosses: A phalarope.
cootfoots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cootfoot
copalxocotl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Nahuatl copalxocotl.
Senses: examples: text: He filled a bowl with water and crumbled into it some copal-xocotl, the dried root of the soap tree.
ref: 2011, Harry Harrison, Captive Universe, →ISBN:
text: […] she mused […] sitting back and setting the copalxocotl on her skirt. She didn’t even seem to notice the water as it began soaking down toward her legs.
ref: 2014, Emily Vance, Captive, →ISBN, page 205:
text: Aztecs often bathed twice a day with copalxocotl and washed their mouths with breath fresheners.
ref: 2019, Marie Arana, Silver, Sword, and Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story, →ISBN, page 382, note 640:
glosses: A plant used as soap in Aztec culture, probably Cyrtocarpa procera.
copartaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copartakers
Etymology: From co- + partaker.
Senses: glosses: One who partakes in something with others.
copartakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copartaker
copei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The copaiba tree.
copiosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: By surface analysis, copious + -ity. .
Senses: glosses: Copiousness; abundance.
skinheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From skinhead + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having the head shaved.
copperer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copperers
Etymology: From copper + -er.
Senses: examples: text: No longer is salt recovered from the Isle of Thanet, or gunpowder prepared in almost every other sizeable village; the iron-foundries are as dead as those of Sussex, and the copperers and calico bleachers have long since departed.
ref: 1948, Norman Wymer, A Breath of England (book 1, page 276)
glosses: One who applies copper coatings.
copperers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copperer
copurchaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copurchasers
Etymology: From co- + purchaser.
Senses: glosses: A joint purchaser.
copurchasers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copurchaser
coracomandibular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From coraco- + mandibular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the coracoid process and the mandible.
coracoscapular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From coraco- + scapular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the coracoid process and the scapula.
coracovertebral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From coraco- + vertebral.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the coracoid process and the vertebrae.
detonating cords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of detonating cord
detcords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of detcord
Cordery
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
coriandrol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From coriander or Coriandrum + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Linalool.
corkish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔɹkɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)kɪʃ
Forms: form: more corkish
form: most corkish
Etymology: From cork + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Taste is faintly minty. Flesh is white to brown bluish in stem. And the external two layers of cap are whitish and dull orange. Mushroom is spongy or corkish in feel and texture.
ref: 2019, Jim Meuninck, Foraging Mushrooms Washington, page 45:
glosses: corklike
correctingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From correcting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to correct something.
correctorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: correctorships
Etymology: From corrector + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The state or business of a corrector.
correctorships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of correctorship
Ponoka County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipal district in central Alberta, Canada.
corticopeduncular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cortico- + peduncular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the cerebral cortex and the peduncles.
corydalin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of corydaline.
cosmogoner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosmogoners
Senses: glosses: One who studies cosmogony.
cosmogoners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cosmogoner
cosmogonizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cosmogonize
cosmogonizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cosmogonize
cosmogonized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cosmogonize
costumic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more costumic
form: most costumic
Etymology: From costume + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: […] the fact that the theatre is a polysystem, which brings together signs from a variety of systems such as (as here) the costumic, the gestural, the expressive, the aural and the verbal or linguistic — to formulate its message.
ref: 1984, The New Orleans Review, volume 11, page 123:
text: The kids' costumes thus evoke their reallife costumic counterparts, the hundreds of thousands of NYPD and NYFD t-shirts and other memorabilia sold immediately after 9/11, […]
ref: 2011, Véronique Bragard, Christophe Dony, Warren Rosenberg, Portraying 9/11, page 18:
glosses: Of or relating to a costume.
Deer Creek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of streams in the United States.
glosses: A number of townships in the United States, listed under Deer Creek Township.
glosses: A number of other places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Gila County, Arizona.
glosses: A number of other places in the United States:
A village in Tazewell County and Woodford County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of other places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Carroll County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of other places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Winfield Township, Lake County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of other places in the United States:
A minor city in Otter Tail County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of other places in the United States:
A town in Grant County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A number of other places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Pocahontas County, West Virginia.
glosses: A number of other places in the United States:
A town in Taylor County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A number of other places in the United States:
A town in Outagamie County, Wisconsin.
epigaeic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of epigeic.
WYO
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: WUO
Senses: examples: text: WYO tonight?
glosses: Initialism of what you on (“what are your plans? what are you up to?”).
WUO
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of WYO (“what you on”).
WUO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Weather Underground Organization.
cothamore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cothamores
Senses: glosses: A kind of Irish overcoat.
cothamores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cothamore
Cotonam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Native American tribe.
Related terms: Cotoname
Cotoname
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An extinct Pakawan language spoken by Native Americans indigenous to the lower Rio Grande Valley of northeastern Mexico and extreme southern Texas.
Related terms: Cotonam
cottonize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cottonizes
form: cottonizing
form: cottonized
form: cottonized
Etymology: From cotton + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To treat (flax) with chemicals to make it soft and light, like cotton.
cottonizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cottonize
cottonizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cottonize
cottonized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cottonize
cottonization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of cottonizing.
couchmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: couchmakers
Etymology: From couch + maker.
Senses: glosses: A manufacturer of couches.
couchmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of couchmaker
couchmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From couch + making.
Senses: glosses: The manufacture of couches.
cow sucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cow suckers
Senses: glosses: The eastern kingsnake.
cow suckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cow sucker
KarJenner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: KarJenners
Senses: examples: text: Just as last week’s cheating scandal begins to fade from our collective memory, another KarJenner bombshell hits: Kylie Jenner, the youngest of the clan, has become the youngest billionaire in the world.
ref: 2019 March 7, Sonia Rao, “How Kylie became a billionaire: Jenner joins list as world’s youngest”, in National Post, volume 21, number 111, page B3:
text: A family friend of the KarJenner clan, Lisa, center, takes in her remodeled outdoor space, courtesy of Kim Kardashian West, from left, Kris Jenner, and Jonathan and Drew Scott.
ref: 2021 June 28, Erin Jensen, “Kris Jenner finds ‘joy’ in ‘Celebrity IOU’”, in Asbury Park Press, volume 142, number 153, page 3C:
text: Ahead of the Thursday premiere of “The Kardashians” on Hulu, the KarJenner girls — led by matriarch momager Kris Jenner — sat down with Entertainment Tonight.
ref: 2022 April 14, Justin Mitchell, “Will we see Devin Booker on ‘Kardashians’ Hulu show? Kendall Jenner gives us a hint”, in Sun Herald, volume 138, number 193, page 2A:
glosses: Alternative form of Kar-Jenner.
yegging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of yegg
cribmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cribmates
Etymology: From crib + mate.
Senses: glosses: An infant raised in the same crib as another.
cribmates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cribmate
KarJenners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of KarJenner
yaself
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: Ya look like anything ’cept a tourist who’s come to lose his wad and they get a bad case of nose trouble. Take yaself. Anyone can see ya’re a Limey even before ya start talking.
ref: 1956, Ian Fleming, chapter 15, in Diamonds Are Forever:
glosses: Alternative form of yourself.
craigmontite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Craigmont + -ite, from the place in Ontario where it was found.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A nephelite-oligoclase-muscovite rock.
cratemaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From crate + making.
Senses: glosses: The manufacture of crates.
Limey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Limeys
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of limey.
cratemaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cratemakers
Etymology: From crate + maker.
Senses: glosses: A manufacturer of crates.
cratemakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cratemaker
creameryman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creamerymen
Etymology: From creamery + -man.
Senses: glosses: A man who works in a creamery.
creamerymen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creameryman
creatinephosphoric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of creatine-phosphoric acid.
creatine-phosphoric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creatinephosphoric acid
Senses: glosses: phosphocreatine
phosphocreatines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphocreatine
Craterid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Craterids
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Any meteor of a meteor shower that appears to originate from the constellation of Crater.
Craterids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Craterid
credently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more credently
form: most credently
Etymology: From credent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a credent manner.
Cherry Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Perry County, Arkansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Polk County, Arkansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A neighbourhood in south Baltimore, Maryland.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Cecil County, Maryland.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community and historic district in Canton Township, Wayne County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Camden County, New Jersey.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A hamlet in Harmony, Chautauqua County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A neighbourhood of Roanoke, Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A neighbourhood of Seattle, Washington.
every single
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛv.(ə.)ɹi ˈsɪŋɡəl/
Senses: examples: text: "[...] you must take turns in writing to me, children!"
"Every single day, mother!"
"Every single thing that happens."
ref: 1911, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Mother Carey's Chickens:
text: “Sorry, love, they all look the same to me,” said Dad, desperately trying to spot one with a particularly pink nose. “Armitage? ARMITAGE!” called Zoe. All the rats eeked. Every single one of them wanted to escape.
“We’ll just have to set them all free,” said Zoe.
ref: 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
text: Sybil had picked armfuls of lilies and daisies and roses from the garden and every single gladiolus, gathering them in the earliest morning when they were fresh and packing them carefully into an applebox on the carrier of her bike.
ref: 2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, →ISBN, page 104:
synonyms: every last
each and every
glosses: Every, without any exceptions. (used for emphasis)
Derived terms: every single time
Limeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Limey
Bobrovytsia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bobrovitsa
Etymology: From Ukrainian Бобро́виця (Bobróvycja).
Senses: glosses: A city in Chernihiv Oblast, in northern Ukraine.
Vyzhnytsia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vizhnitsa
Etymology: From Ukrainian Ви́жниця (Výžnycja).
Senses: glosses: A city and raion of Chernivtsi Oblast, in western Ukraine.
criminaloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: criminaloids
Etymology: From criminal + -oid, coined by E. A. Ross in Sin and Society (1907).
Senses: glosses: A person who carries out business in an immoral or exploitative way, but does not necessarily break the law, and is protected from consequences by a veneer of social respectability.
criminaloids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of criminaloid
Dubrovytsia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dubrovitsa
Etymology: From Ukrainian Дубро́виця (Dubróvycja).
Senses: glosses: A city in Rivne Oblast, in western Ukraine.
Kamianka-Buzka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ukrainian Ка́м'янка-Бу́зька (Kámʺjanka-Búzʹka).
Senses: glosses: A city in Lviv Oblast, in western Ukraine.
Lokhvytsia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lokhvitsa
Etymology: From Ukrainian Ло́хвиця (Lóxvycja).
Senses: glosses: A city in Poltava Oblast, in central Ukraine.
let's know
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: 2008, Amar Tyagi, Let's Know Handicrafts of India (Star Publications) →ISBN
text: On Zoo Lovers’ Day, let’s know more about India’s first zoo — the ArignarAnna Zoological Park in Chennai.
ref: 2021 April 23, Nimi Kurian, “Zootopia”, in The Hindu:
glosses: let's learn, find out, or see
examples: text: Let's know when Eckleton's playing Haileybury, and I'll come and look you up. I want to see that match.
ref: 1908, P. G. Wodehouse, “The Guardian”, in The Politeness of Princes and Other School Stories:
text: Let's know if you come back. Might see the sugar harvest. Have some fun. Give you a ride on the sugar train.
ref: 1955 October 20, H. E. Bates, “The Sugar Train”, in Evening Standard, page 19:
glosses: let us know, get back to us, keep us posted (often us in sense me)
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see let's, know.
Novoselytsia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Novoselitsa
Etymology: From Ukrainian Новосе́лиця (Novosélycja).
Senses: glosses: A city in Chernivtsi Oblast, in western Ukraine.
Pereschepyne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pereshchepino
Etymology: From Ukrainian Переще́пине (Pereščépyne).
Senses: glosses: A city in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, in south-eastern Ukraine.
Tetiiv
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tetiyev
Etymology: From Ukrainian Теті́їв (Tetíjiv).
Senses: glosses: A city in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine.
crouchant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: a lion crouchant argent
text: […] standing over a crouchant elephant and mounted by a human figure holding the bridle passing through its mouth. The faces of the vimana are carved with the figures of the deities of the Hindu Pantheon.
ref: 1912, Mano Mohan Ganguly, Orissa and Her Remains --: Ancient and Medieval … Introduction by … J. G. Woodroffe.), page 412:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
synonyms: couchant
glosses: Lying down with the head erect.
grandmomma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grandmommas
Senses: examples: text: There’s been an “accent on youth” where exhibitors are concerned, and Nat Bernstein, owner Bernstein Circuit, followed suit.[…]But, the mommas and grandmommas figured the accent was in the wrong place, so they suggested something just for them on the same par, with prizes as well.
ref: 1948 September 1, “News of the Territory”, in The Exhibitor, page NT-4:
text: No sooner do we walk in the door, than here come the kids, the mommas, the poppas, the grandmommas and the grandpoppas, all holding these little autograph books.
ref: 1962 July 9, Huston Horn, “Baseball’s Babbling Brook”, in Sports Illustrated, page 63:
text: We have systematically been taught to worship beauty and brains, as everyone else, and so have our grandmommas and grandpoppas and uncles and aunts and cousins and neighbors.
ref: 1974, James Dobson, Hide or Seek, Old Tappan, N.J.: Power Books, Fleming H. Revell Company, →ISBN, page 49:
glosses: Grandmother.
grandmommas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grandmomma
mormaership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mormaerships
Etymology: From mormaer + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The state or business of a mormaer.
mormaorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mormaorships
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mormaership.
mormaerships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mormaership
mormaorships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mormaorship
alabasterine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alabasterine
form: most alabasterine
Senses: examples: text: There was no table in the centre under the alabasterine ceiling light, only a small square of stained carpet with a futurist design in contrasting browns.
ref: 1953, Ian Fleming, chapter 17, in Casino Royale, page 90:
glosses: Alternative form of alabastrine.
Khrustalnyi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Khrustalnyy
Etymology: From Ukrainian Хруста́льний (Xrustálʹnyj).
Senses: glosses: A city in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine.
grandpoppa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grandpoppas
Senses: examples: text: The gallery about any nursery window is probably the proudest assemblage to be found anywhere. Poppas, grandpoppas, grandmammas, sisters, brothers, pizons and gumbods. We used to delight in our anonymity and enjoy their comments on our daughter.
ref: 1952, Marie Killilea, Karen, Dell Publishing, published 1960, page 17:
text: No sooner do we walk in the door, than here come the kids, the mommas, the poppas, the grandmommas and the grandpoppas, all holding these little autograph books.
ref: 1962 July 9, Huston Horn, “Baseball’s Babbling Brook”, in Sports Illustrated, page 63:
text: We have systematically been taught to worship beauty and brains, as everyone else, and so have our grandmommas and grandpoppas and uncles and aunts and cousins and neighbors.
ref: 1974, James Dobson, Hide or Seek, Old Tappan, N.J.: Power Books, Fleming H. Revell Company, →ISBN, page 49:
glosses: Grandfather.
grandpoppas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grandpoppa
Truskavets
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ukrainian Трускаве́ць (Truskavécʹ).
Senses: glosses: A city in Drohobych Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.
Trostianets
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ukrainian Тростяне́ць (Trostjanécʹ). Compare Trascianiec, Trostenets, and Trzcianiec.
Senses: glosses: Numerous settlements in Ukraine, including
glosses: Numerous settlements in Ukraine, including:
A city, the administrative centre of Trostianets urban hromada, Okhtyrka Raion, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1660.
A former raion of Sumy Oblast, Ukraine, established in January 1939, disestablished in July 2020.
glosses: Numerous settlements in Ukraine, including:
A city, the administrative centre of Trostianets urban hromada, Okhtyrka Raion, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1660.
A former miskrada of Trostianets Raion, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine, amalgamated into Trostianets urban hromada in July 2017; administrative centre and sole constituent settlement: Trostianets.
glosses: Numerous settlements in Ukraine, including:
A city, the administrative centre of Trostianets urban hromada, Okhtyrka Raion, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1660.
An urban hromada of Okhtyrka Raion, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine, established in July 2017.
Meronyms: sense: constituent starostynski okruhy of the urban hromada
word: Bilka
sense: constituent starostynski okruhy of the urban hromada
word: Boholiubove
sense: constituent starostynski okruhy of the urban hromada
word: Buimer
sense: constituent starostynski okruhy of the urban hromada
word: Dernove
sense: constituent starostynski okruhy of the urban hromada
word: Kamianka
sense: constituent starostynski okruhy of the urban hromada
word: Krynychne
sense: constituent starostynski okruhy of the urban hromada
word: Liudzha
sense: constituent starostynski okruhy of the urban hromada
word: Martynivka
sense: constituent starostynski okruhy of the urban hromada
word: Pechyny
sense: constituent starostynski okruhy of the urban hromada
word: Semerenky
sense: constituent starostynski okruhy of the urban hromada
word: Soldatske
sense: constituent starostynski okruhy of the urban hromada
word: Stanova
Related terms: Malyi Trostianets
Trostenets
Trostianchyk
Trostianets Druhyi
Trostianets Pershyi
Trostiantsi
Trostianytsia
Trostynka
Trostynska Novoselytsia
Velykyi Trostianets
Bondophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bondophiles
Etymology: Named after fictional spy James Bond, Bond + -o- + -phile
Senses: examples: text: The scholarly seriousness has amused some Bondophiles.
ref: 2007 January 19, Elaine Sciolino, “The French Know Where 007 Acquired His Savoir-Faire”, in New York Times:
text: And at that point, no-one, not even the most devoted Bondophile, would have predicted eighteen more successful films to come, and that Ian's creation would become the most famous secret agent in the world and the most profitable serial figure in the history of cinema.
ref: 2011, John Pearson, The Life of Ian Fleming, A&C Black, →ISBN:
glosses: A fan of James Bond.
Bondophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bondophile
Tysmenytsia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tysmenitsa
Etymology: From Ukrainian Ти́смениця (Týsmenycja).
Senses: glosses: A city in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, in western Ukraine.
chemin-de-fer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Bond had spent the last two afternoons and most of the nights at the Casino, playing complicated progression systems on the even chances at roulette. He made a high banco at chemin-de-fer whenever he heard one offered.
ref: 1953, Ian Fleming, chapter 4, in Casino Royale, page 23:
glosses: Alternative spelling of chemin de fer.
grandmumma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grandmummas
Senses: examples: text: Besides, my grandmumma always said that you come out the wuss whenever you get into a pee’n contest with a skunk.
ref: 1983, Betty Jane Morison, Port and a Star Boarder: A Little Maine Murder, Thorndike, Me.: Thorndike Press, →ISBN, page 93:
text: Suddenly, from the crumpled body erupted a loud moan followed by childlike howls of “Grandmumma! Grandmumma! Grandmumma!”
ref: 2004, Anthony C. Winkler, The Annihilation of Fish and Other Stories, Macmillan Caribbean, →ISBN, page 132:
text: Every culture has its own folklore, magic and mystical practices. If you’re not sure of yours, talk to your family, trace your family heritage and ask questions of your aunties and grandmummas.
ref: 2017, Lisa Lister, Witch: Unleashed. Untamed. Unapologetic., Hay House, →ISBN, page 41:
glosses: Grandmother.
grandmummas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grandmumma
Rocky View County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The name refers to a view of the Rocky Mountains.
Senses: glosses: A municipal district in southern Alberta, Canada.
Perth South
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A township in Perth County, Ontario, Canada.
Related terms: South Perth
Perth County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɝθ ˈkaʊn.ti/
rhymes: -aʊnti
Senses: glosses: A county in south-west Ontario, Canada.
derisibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more derisibly
form: most derisibly
Senses: glosses: In a derisible way.
North Dundas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A township in the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, south-east Ontario, Canada.
Related terms: South Dundas
narrativistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more narrativistic
form: most narrativistic
Etymology: From narrative + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: Because they are fixed, anticipated and therefore deliberately planned on both sides, they allow an unusual degree of premeditation to actors who can bring to these well-designed narrativistic strategies.
ref: 2007, Julia C. Strauss, Donal B.Cruise O'Brien, editors, Staging Politics: Power and Performance in Asia and Africa, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 73:
text: But the “draw story” and the chant are both narrativistic tactics, and they actually do little more than set the scene and introduce the characters.
ref: 2014, David Kellogg, The Great Globe and All Who It Inherit: Narrative and Dialogue in Story-telling with Halliday, Vygotsky, and Shakespeare, Springer, →ISBN, page 125:
text: If narrativistic explanations are to be intelligible, they must provide causal explanations (see chapter 2), and making good on causal claims may require appealing, if tacitly, to laws that explain the interactions identified.
ref: 2020, Russell Powell, Contingency and Convergence: Toward a Cosmic Biology of Body and Mind, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 76:
glosses: Relating to a narrative.
Related terms: narrativist
narrativist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more narrativist
form: most narrativist
Etymology: From narrative + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: How did the narrativist orthodoxy arise? I suspect that it is because those who write about it and treat it as a universal truth about the human condition tend, like Bruner, to be profoundly narrative types themselves.
ref: 2004 January 10, Galen Strawson, “Review: Making Stories by Jerome Bruner”, in The Guardian:
text: Put provocatively, one can both uphold a covering law model as far as the analysis of particular explanations is concerned, and still use a narrativist approach for the holistic analysis of historiographic texts.
ref: 2011, Aviezer Tucker, editor, A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
text: These and other narrativist approaches described above provide theoretical frameworks and methodologies that make it possible to consider the significance of narratives and narratology for other core areas of the study of culture, picking up the threads of other contextualist approaches like feminist and gender-oriented narratology […]
ref: 2012, Birgit Neumann, Ansgar Nünning, editors, Travelling Concepts for the Study of Culture, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 175:
text: Plot is not of overriding importance in my work. On the contrary: I am an episodic rather than a narrativist writer.
ref: 2015 October 13, Jonathan Buckley, “Jonathan Buckley: 'My novel is a mirrored room'”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Based on or using a narrative.
Related terms: narrativistic
homomorphic encryption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homomorphic encryptions
Senses: examples: text: In 2010, Nigel P. Smart and Frederik Vercauteren presented a fully homomorphic encryption scheme with smaller key and ciphertext sizes.
ref: 2014, Xun Yi, Russell Paulet, Elisa Bertino, Homomorphic Encryption and Applications, Springer, →ISBN, page 50:
text: As mentioned before, homomorphic encryption is adopted in our auction design. Homomorphic encryption is used when there is a requirement to perform certain operations while the inputs are not disclosed.
ref: 2020, Haya Shajaiah, Ahmed Abdelhadi, Charles Clancy, Performance and Security for the Internet of Things […] , McGraw Hill, →ISBN, page 101:
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A form of encryption that permits users to perform computations on its encrypted data without first decrypting it.
municipal flag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: municipal flags
Senses: glosses: A flag, usually of a town, city, or urban area.
central committee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: central committees
form: Central Committee
Senses: examples: text: The four-day, closed-door meeting of the ruling Chinese Communist party (CCP) central committee, known as the sixth plenum, is expected to produce a resolution on the history of the party, which analysts say will shape domestic politics and society for decades to come.
ref: 2021 November 8, Vincent Ni, Helen Davidson, “Summit of political elite opens in China as Xi eyes extraordinary third term”, in The Guardian:
topics: communism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
glosses: A standing administrative body of communist parties, analogous to a board of directors, of both ruling and nonruling parties of former and existing socialist states.
Central Committee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Central Committees
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of central committee.
central committees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of central committee
unhabilitated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + habilitated.
Senses: glosses: Not habilitated.
utasi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of utazi.
utazi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: utasi
Senses: examples: text: Matefi whose turn it was to cook for Ezeulu that night (they had kept count even in his absence) had already started preparing utazi soup.
ref: 1965, Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God, Penguin Classics (2010), page 185:
synonyms: arokeke
glosses: The plant Gongronema latifolium, with edible leaves.
arokeke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Yoruba arọ́kẹ́kẹ́.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of utazi (“the plant Gongronema latifolium”).
synonyms: word: utazi
extra: the plant Gongronema latifolium
moin moin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of moimoi.
yabby pumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yabby pump
turbanings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turbaning
turbannings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turbanning
table waters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of table water
LBNL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
done the handsome thing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of do the handsome thing
does the handsome thing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of do the handsome thing
doing the handsome thing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of do the handsome thing
did the handsome thing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of do the handsome thing
cyberslander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + slander.
Senses: glosses: Slander taking place over a computer network.
cybergossip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + gossip.
Senses: glosses: Gossip transmitted over a computer network.
cyberinvader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberinvaders
Etymology: From cyber- + invader.
Senses: glosses: A person who breaks into a computer system without permission, especially remotely by means of a network connection.
cyberinvaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberinvader
cyberinvasion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberinvasions
Etymology: From cyber- + invasion.
Senses: glosses: The act of breaking into a computer system without permission, especially remotely by means of a network connection.
cyberinvasions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberinvasion
fashiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of fashy: most fashy
fashier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of fashy: more fashy
avant-funk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An avant-garde style of funk music.
avant-disco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An avant-garde style of disco music.
windy pasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windy pasties
Senses: glosses: A pasty made from left-over pastry, usually served with jam and cream.
windy pasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of windy pasty
Windward Isles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Windward Islands.
synonyms: word: Windward Islands
nsala soup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Nigerian soup made with catfish, sliced yam, and utazi leaves.
Pólya's conjecture
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Posited in 1919 by the Hungarian mathematician George Pólya.
Senses: topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: The conjecture (disproved in 1958) that at least half of the natural numbers smaller than any given number have an odd number of prime factors.
van der Waerden's theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the Dutch mathematician B. L. van der Waerden.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: In Ramsey theory, a theorem stating that, for any given positive integers r and k, there is some number N such that if the integers {1, 2, ..., N} are colored, each with one of r different colors, then there are at least k integers in arithmetic progression whose elements are of the same color.
nanorubber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanorubbers
Etymology: From nano- + rubber.
Senses: glosses: A nanocomposite made with nanoscale particles of rubber.
nanorubbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanorubber
tiddy oggy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tiddy oggies
Senses: examples: text: In fact, we shared many a hot tiddy oggy as we sat and talked about all my inner struggles, as well as the many overwhelming challenges I regularly faced.
ref: 2012, Tricia Bennett, The Trouble With Polly Brown, page 486:
glosses: Synonym of oggy (“a Cornish pasty”).
synonyms: word: oggy
extra: a Cornish pasty
tiddy oggies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tiddy oggy
East Whiteland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A township in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Related terms: english: township
translation: township
word: West Whiteland
micro-poem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micro-poems
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of micropoem.
bulletproofness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bulletproof + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being bulletproof.
micro-poems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micro-poem
Whiteland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Johnson County, Indiana, United States.
Derived terms: english: township
translation: township
word: East Whiteland
word: New Whiteland
english: township
translation: township
word: West Whiteland
cyclothemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The formation consists of cyclothemic sequences of coal, shale, limestone, sandstone, and clay.
glosses: Of or pertaining to cyclothems.
Reb A
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Clipped compound of Rebaudioside A.