cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Fallas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fallases
Etymology: Two main origins:
* A variant of Fallis, an English surname.
* Borrowed from Spanish Fallas, a surname predominantly found in Costa Rica.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Sandringham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæn.drɪŋ.əm/
rhymes: -ændrɪŋəm
Etymology: The town in Newfoundland is named after Sandringham House to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF6928).
glosses: Sandringham House, within the parish, one of the King or Queen's private residences.
glosses: A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
glosses: A coastal suburb of Melbourne, in the City of Bayside, Victoria, Australia.
Derived terms: Sandringham time
stud farm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stud farms
Senses: glosses: An establishment for selective breeding of livestock, especially horses.
Related terms: stud master
bitchslapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitchslappers
Senses: glosses: Someone who gives a bitchslap
ratsicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ratsicles
Etymology: From rat + -sicle.
Senses: examples: text: The negative aspects of pre-killed rodents generally focus on two things: the initial killing of the rodent, and the prospect of opening the freezer to find a "ratsicle" next to your frozen pizza.
ref: 2002, Reptiles, volume 10, page 66:
text: I'd just fed Rocky the Boa his weekly ratsicle the day before — as evidenced by the golf ball-sized lump in his midsection […]
ref: 2007, Brenda Scott Royce, Monkey Star, New American Library, →ISBN, page 87:
text: The aviary was high enough for him to hop and flap up onto his perches, and there was water for him to take his baths, along with the remnants of a ratsicle, yesterday's supper.
ref: 2013, Barbara Chepaitis, Saving Eagle Mitch: One Good Deed in a Wicked World, Excelsior Editions, →ISBN, page 127:
glosses: A cold or frozen rat.
ratsicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ratsicle
mousesicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mousesicles
Etymology: From mouse + -sicle.
Senses: examples: text: Jay, I heard that the best way to serve a "mousesicle" was by grabbing it's^([sic]) tail with tweezers and putting it into the cage and allowing the snake to strike at it.
ref: 1995 September 18, Scott Alexander Ganas, “Re: Beginner Snake Feeding Qs”, in rec.pets.herp (Usenet):
text: An acquaintance of mine worked in a medical lab. Apparently at this lab they kept liquid nitrogen around for some reason, which was not advisable with this clown running around in there. One day he caught a live mouse, and being the Beavis-like cretin he was dumped it into a container of liquid nitrogen. He removed it after a minute, looking over his mousesicle, then threw it as hard as he could at the wall. The mouse shattered like crystal, of course.
ref: 1999 August 19, Paul Martin, “Re: Creepy Stories to Chill Your Bones (Was: Newbie Says Hi, Pukes)”, in misc.writing (Usenet):
text: I shivered. Well, that explains why I felt like a walking mousesicle.
ref: 2011, Roberto Ronchim, Christian Aliprandi, & Davide Turotti, Geronimo Stilton #28: Wedding Crasher, Scholastic, →ISBN, page 58:
glosses: A cold or frozen mouse.
mousesicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mousesicle
up for the downstroke
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From the album Up for the Down Stroke (1974) by Parliament and the eponymous song.
Senses: examples: text: The horn-fueled title track gave Parliament their first Top 10 appearance on the Billboard R&B charts, doing James Brown proud with its stuttering funk groove, its singalong chorus imploring us all to “Get up for the downstroke.”
ref: 2013 November 14, Ed Masley, “10 best Parliament and Funkadelic albums”, in The Republic:
text: George Clinton is still a touring machine at age 76, still getting up for the downstroke, still giving you more of what you're funking for, still tearing the roof off the sucker.
ref: 2018 March 20, “The 40 Best Music Shows in Seattle This Week: March 19-25, 2018”, in The Stranger:
text: The second those iconic beats dropped, we knew it was time to “get up for the downstroke.”
ref: 2018 July 24, Nikki Love, “George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic deliver a funky good time”, in Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder:
text: Time to get seriously up for the downstroke. Prepare to dance harder y'all!
ref: 2018 September 1, “The South London Soul Train Halloween Special with Afro Cluster (Live)”, in Resident Advisor:
glosses: Ready to get funky; ready to dance with abandon.
wikipedia: Parliament (band)
Up for the Down Stroke
wolfsicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wolfsicles
Etymology: From wolf + -sicle.
Senses: examples: text: When the wolf came down the chimney, the little pig was waiting for him with his deep freezer wide open. When the wolf came down the chimney, he fell right in. And that was the end of the big bad wolf, or should I say, the big bad wolfsicle.
ref: 1980 March, Karen Odom, “The Good Buy Pig (The Three Little Pigs Retold)”, in Ebony Jr., page 11:
text: ***grey werewolf crouches low to the ground and makes his way towards the bonfire, which has become a faint pinprick of light behind all the snow and trees. he crawls behind a snowbank, thinking himself well-concealed, but has neglected to take one vital thing into consideration: his tail. it's sticking up into the air like a flag, inviting everywere to turn him into a wolfsicle. grey realizes this and quickly tucks his tail between his legs, but it's too late- he is pelted from all sides by laughing figures that disappear into the snowy fray.***
ref: 1998 January 13, Grey Werewolf [username], “Re: the mighty snow-ruckus continues”, in alt.horror.werewolves (Usenet):
text: If we were riding for Nidhug's lair, I didn't need to turn into a wolfsicle along the way.
ref: 2015, Anne Marsh, Bound by the Viking, unnumbered page:
glosses: A cold or frozen wolf.
wolfsicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wolfsicle
fagling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faglings
Etymology: From fag + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: You're behaving like a young fagling who has discovered gay sex, and therefore thinks he has nothing more to discover about his gayness.
ref: 1996 December 24, Michael Thomas, “Re: The Christmas Bell”, in soc.motss (Usenet):
text: Compelled? I like this idea. Like those re-education camps in Vietnam. We line all the young faglings up and force them to watch The Harvey Girls over and over and over again. And The Pirate! And Meet Me in St. Louis! And Judy singing "Liza, Liza Minelli" on national television to her seemingly less than thrilled but always professional daughter.
ref: 1997 July 5, You Rang? [username], “Re: Judy”, in soc.motss (Usenet):
text: I was a tender young fagling of sixteen when I saw it on a double-bill with _The Gay Deceivers_ in 1970.
ref: 2005 February 25, Mike McKinley, “Re: The Boys in the Band (the movie)”, in soc.motss (Usenet):
glosses: A young male homosexual.
Synonyms: faglet
faglings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fagling
earthstorm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earthstorms
Etymology: From earth + storm.
Senses: examples: text: This earthquake was an earthstorm. Hills were waves, and houses cast adrift were wrecked on them.
ref: 1931, Charles Fort, “Lo!”, in The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover Publications, published 1974, →ISBN, page 768:
text: There is an earthstorm, disks of rock careering skyward, buffeting the train.
ref: 2004, China Miéville, Iron Council, Del Rey, →ISBN:
text: It had come from the west, the shock wave from some almighty earthstorm in lost America, rolling clear across the Atlantic before breaking over Thursday Island. It had smashed down buildings, and sunk the ships whose dead masts could still be seen jutting sadly from the water in the harbor.
ref: 2010, Philip Reeve, Fever Crumb: A Web of Air, Scholastic, →ISBN:
topics: climatology
fantasy
geography
geology
meteorology
natural-sciences
seismology
weather
glosses: An extremely powerful earthquake; a storm involving earth or rock blowing through the air.
GMSS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: satellite communication
glosses: Initialism of Global Mobile Satellite System, a system that consists of several satellite phone providers for private customers.
Related terms: PLMN
PSTN
PSTNs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PSTN
PLMN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PLMNs
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Initialism of Public Land Mobile Network.
PLMNs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PLMN
nurks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nurk
bell gables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bell gable
transpool
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: transpools
form: transpooling
form: transpooled
form: transpooled
Etymology: From trans- + spool.
Senses: examples: text: The flexible risers were transpooled and installed using CDI's state-of-the-art rigid/flexible laying carousel and tower.
ref: 2002, Hart's E&P. - Volume 75, page 69:
glosses: To transfer a flexible pipeline from the manufacturer's spool to shipboard equipment ready for deployment.
examples: text: It was stored statically in non-environmentally controlled conditions, moved/rotated, pressurized/depressurized and transpooled to another reel and back.
ref: 1998, Proceedings - Offshore Technology Conference - Volume 4, page 205:
text: The modification concerned the reel mechanism inside the magazine: it uses a free-floating storage reel which fills up part of the same space which the take-up reel would with a film transpooled.
ref: 1972, Camera - Volume 51, page 289:
glosses: To transfer from one spool to another.
zero client
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zero clients
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of thin client.
synonyms: word: thin client
heavy client
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heavy clients
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of fat client.
synonyms: word: fat client
thick client
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thick clients
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of fat client.
synonyms: word: fat client
heavy clients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heavy client
thick clients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thick client
zero clients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zero client
besequinned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more besequinned
form: most besequinned
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of besequined.
retraumatises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retraumatise
retraumatised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retraumatise
showtune
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: showtunes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of show tune.
showtunes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of showtune
show tune
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: show tunes
form: showtune
Senses: glosses: A popular song originally written as part of the score of a stage musical.
show tunes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of show tune
antiatrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + atrophic.
Senses: examples: text: The antiatrophic effect of magnolol may be associated with inhibition of myostatin and activin A formation, as well as FoxO3 transcriptional activity resulting from Akt activation, thereby suppressing ubiquitin ligases MuRF-1 and MAFbx/atrogin-1 expression, as well as proteasomal enzyme activity.
ref: 2015 November 25, “Supplementation of Magnolol Attenuates Skeletal Muscle Atrophy in Bladder Cancer-Bearing Mice Undergoing Chemotherapy via Suppression of FoxO3 Activation and Induction of IGF-1”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Inhibiting atrophy.
anticachectic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛktɪk
Etymology: From anti- + cachectic.
Senses: examples: text: Our data showed that magnolol supplementation greatly reduced serum and muscle proinflammatory cytokine levels, NF-κB activation, and CRP, a biomarker of systemic inflammation [39 ], compared with that in the TGC group, suggesting that the anti-inflammatory effect of magnolol may be involved in its anticachectic activity.
ref: 2015 November 25, “Supplementation of Magnolol Attenuates Skeletal Muscle Atrophy in Bladder Cancer-Bearing Mice Undergoing Chemotherapy via Suppression of FoxO3 Activation and Induction of IGF-1”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Inhibiting cachexia.
biophysiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + physiological.
Senses: examples: text: In the present study we used the classical twin design to investigate the link between CWP and its biophysiological correlates and found a strong association between fatigue and CWP, with genetic factors of chronic fatigue explaining 60.8% of genetic variance of CWP. Additionally we report evidence for a strong genetic link between CWP and fatigue, as well as depression.
ref: 2015 November 25, “The Association between Chronic Widespread Musculoskeletal Pain, Depression and Fatigue Is Genetically Mediated”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to biophysiology
dorsocervical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)vɪkəl
-aɪkəl
Etymology: From dorso- + cervical.
Senses: examples: text: Some data suggest that fat deposition at ectopic places (nape of the neck, excess dorsocervical fat; ‘buffalo hump’; excess fat below chin; ‘double chin’, liver) correlates with the metabolic syndrome in Asian Indians.
ref: 2015 November 25, “Phenotype, Body Composition, and Prediction Equations (Indian Fatty Liver Index) for Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Non-Diabetic Asian Indians: A Case-Control Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to the back and the neck.
malorientation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malorientations
Etymology: From mal- + orientation.
Senses: examples: text: This program is able to correct the projected acetabular rims and the corresponding radiographic hip parameters caused by pelvic malorientation based on a cone-beam projection model.
ref: 2015 November 25, “Comparison of 2.5D and 3D Quantification of Femoral Head Coverage in Normal Control Subjects and Patients with Hip Dysplasia”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Bad or wrong orientation.
nontympanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ænɪk
Etymology: From non- + tympanic.
Senses: examples: text: The lack of a tympanum has been claimed to inhibit anuran vocalization, and nontympanic pathways of sound reception and ultrasonic signal systems may compensate for degeneration of the middle ear complex.
ref: 2015 November 25, “Insights from Integrative Systematics Reveal Cryptic Diversity in Pristimantis Frogs (Anura: Craugastoridae) from the Upper Amazon Basin”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Not tympanic.
unbiopsied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + biopsied.
Senses: examples: text: For these reasons, the invasive tumor segment in BAT typically remains unresected, unbiopsied, and uncharacterized despite the use of CE-MRI and/or 5-ALA guidance.
ref: 2015 November 25, “Multi-Parametric MRI and Texture Analysis to Visualize Spatial Histologic Heterogeneity and Tumor Extent in Glioblastoma”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Not having undergone a biopsy.
hyperholomorphicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyperholomorphic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being hyperholomorphic.
multifacility
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + facility.
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to more than one facility.
unistructurality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unistructural + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unistructural.
control number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: control numbers
Senses: glosses: Any of several forms of fixed-length identification number on stamps, books, etc.
sootball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sootballs
form: soot-ball
form: soot ball
Etymology: From soot + ball.
Senses: examples: text: If you tell Brown and me (as you have) that the doctor is a dram-drinker, what is to hinder us from telling the story to others, with a few embellishments, perhaps ? And so the snowball (the sootball rather) would be set rolling.
ref: 1870, The Tract magazine; or, Christian miscellany:
text: The painting is still conceived around a thick and sandy cloud that bursts like a fireball or sootball.
ref: 1964, The Studio - Volumes 167-168, page 39:
text: In Lake Linajarv sediments also charcoal particles and sootballs were counted.
ref: 1994, I︠A︡.-M. K. Punning, The Influence of Natural and Anthropogenic Factors on the Development of Landscapes, page 21:
text: Lashed to the chassis with wire, the tailpipe coughed gray sootballs that laid a low, semisweet cloud for half a mile behind.
ref: 2005, Jerry Spinelli, The Library Card, →ISBN, page 87:
text: Moving nearer to the French-tiled grate, Edith saw that the fire had burned quite low, and that a fragment of soot, round as a ball, adhered to the lip of the grate. She recalled the old superstition that a sootball forecast a visitor.
ref: 2012, Jessica Stirling, The Dark Pasture: Book Three, →ISBN:
glosses: A ball of soot or ash.
schwa primum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the New Latin schwa prīmum (literally “first schwa”), so named in contrast with schwa secundum.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A vowel formerly reconstructed for Proto-Indo-European; now generally held to be a syllabic laryngeal consonant.
Synonyms: schwa indogermanicum
schwa primum indogermanicum
samaṇa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: samaṇas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of samana.
ohmygawd
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ohmygod.
holyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of holliers.
plead the belly
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pleads the belly
form: pleading the belly
form: pleaded the belly
form: pleaded the belly
Senses: examples: text: She isn't hanged, while in jail, because she pleads the belly.
ref: 1994, Leslie Scalapino, Defoe, Sun and Moon Press, →ISBN:
text: Over 25 per cent of the 463 women who were sentenced to death at the Old Bailey pleaded the belly between 1674 and 1699, and 38 per cent from 1700 to 1724, though a much smaller proportion did so later.
ref: 2009, Shani D'Cruze, Louise A. Jackson, Women, Crime and Justice in England since 1660, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN:
text: I was telling them only the other day about pregnant women avoiding the Drop in the eighteenth century by pleading the belly.
ref: 2013, M.J. Trow, Maxwell's Chain, Allison & Busby, →ISBN:
glosses: To attempt to use one's claimed pregnancy to avoid execution.
pleads the belly
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of plead the belly
pleading the belly
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plead the belly
pleaded the belly
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of plead the belly
amanous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: It is extremely improbable that dextrality should have arisen among the quadrupeds (or amanous bipeds), for experience was lacking of unilateral stimulation, and a spontaneous variation of this kind would have produced such inconvenience of locomotion and ultimately such asymmetry of form that it would have been weeded out.
ref: 1894 March, J. Mark Baldwin, “The Origin of Right-handedness”, in Popular Science, volume 44, number 44, page 614:
text: Also, he was holding in his hand (oh, that I had crayoned him amanous, unable to hold onto anything, hindsight within me bayed wistfully) a thin strip of spattania ribbon that was as vibrantly yellow as the gunebo lily.
ref: 2012, William Penn, Love in the Time of Flowers, →ISBN, page 340:
glosses: Lacking hands or manus.
ambulomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin ambulō (“walk”) + -mancy.
Senses: examples: text: Schenkar illuminates her subject by drawing on a range of disciplines, "among them: astrology, social anthropology, the panoply of psychologies, literary theory, chirology, psychometry and ambulomancy."
ref: 2007 Summer, Anne Charles, “Narratives of People, Places, and Paintings”, in NWSA Journal, volume 19, number 2:
text: To receive omens regarding events that will occur throughout an entire year, perform ambulomancy, divination while walking.
ref: 2008, Dixie Deerman, Steve Rasmussen, The Goodly Spellbook: Olde Spells for Modern Problems, →ISBN, page 123:
glosses: Any of various forms of divination that involve walking, often in circles.
amenity block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amenity blocks
Senses: glosses: A building at a park, campground, caravan park, or holiday park containing multiple facilities for use by patrons such as toilets, showers, kitchen, laundry, or lockers.
amenity blocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amenity block
neofascistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neofascistic
form: most neofascistic
Etymology: From neo- + fascistic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to neofascism
rise to the challenge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rises to the challenge
form: rising to the challenge
form: rose to the challenge
form: risen to the challenge
Senses: synonyms: rise to the occasion
glosses: To show resolve or effectiveness in dealing with a difficulty.
lot-cloth split
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A phonemic split, in some varieties of English without the cot-caught merger, in which the vowel in words like "cloth" and "off" is pronounced with the same vowel as in "thought", as opposed to the vowel used in "lot".
dump cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dump cake
demi-mondaine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demi-mondaines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of demimondaine.
dyeworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dyeworks
Etymology: From dye + works.
Senses: glosses: A factory for the production of dyes and sometimes also paints.
dyeworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dye + works.
Senses: glosses: plural of dyework
anaphalantiasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /æˌnæfəlænˈtaɪəsɪs/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek, + -iasis.
Senses: glosses: Hair loss from the eyebrows
Gorringe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒɹɪnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɒɹɪndʒ
Senses: glosses: A rare surname — famously held by:
Lt Cdr Henry Honychurch Gorringe (1841–1885), American naval officer famous for successfully completing the removal of Cleopatra’s Needle from Alexandria, Egypt to Central Park, New York City
glosses: A rare surname — famously held by:
Lt Gen. Sir George Frederick Gorringe (1868–1945), British field commander active during the Second Anglo-Boer War and the First World War
HWB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of Hawaii Winter Baseball.
HWB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HWBs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Hardware Write Block device (specialized type of computer hard disk controller).
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Hue Whiteness Blackness, a cylindrical-coordinate representation of points in an RGB color model.
topics: education
glosses: Initialism of Hwb (Digital Learning for Wales), a website and collection of online tools provided to all schools in Wales, UK.
Synonyms: sense: Hardware Write Block
word: forensic disk controller
Related terms: sense: Hue Whiteness Blackness
word: HSL
sense: Hue Whiteness Blackness
word: HSV
PoC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PoCs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of POC (“proof of concept; person of color; etc”).
Grapevine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From grapevine, referring to the wild grapes that grew in the area.
Senses: glosses: A city in Texas.
TWTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TWT
traveling-wave tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traveling-wave tubes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of travelling-wave tube.
traveling-wave tubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of traveling-wave tube Alternative form of travelling-wave tubes.
travelling-wave tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: travelling-wave tubes
form: traveling-wave tube
form: traveling wave tube
form: travelling wave tube
Senses: examples: text: From the early days of the invention of traveling wave tubes and other devices employing electron beams, there have been efforts to understand the mechanisms and physics of RF signal amplification in those devices.
ref: 2020, Alexander Figotin, An Analytic Theory Of Multi-stream Electron Beams In Traveling Wave Tubes, World Scientific, →ISBN, page 40:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A type of vacuum tube which amplifies electromagnetic signals, where the electron gun fires down the tube with an unmodulated electron beam, that passes through an interaction array, where the EM-signal is fed, which interacts with the electron beam, bunching the electrons, and transferring power to the signal.
Synonyms: word: TWT
Hypernyms: vacuum tube
Derived terms: word: TWT
english: cold cathode TWT
translation: cold cathode TWT
word: cold cathode travelling-wave tube
travelling-wave tubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of travelling-wave tube
PMTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PMT
photomultiplier tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photomultiplier tubes
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A type of vacuum tube that detects electromagnetic radiation in the range from ultraviolet to infrared, including the visible spectrum, and them amplifies the detection induced current into an output signal
Synonyms: word: PMT
Hypernyms: phototube
photomultiplier
vacuum tube
Coordinate terms: english: a solid-state device used in a manner similar to the PMT
translation: a solid-state device used in a manner similar to the PMT
word: photodiode
Derived terms: word: PMT
photomultiplier tubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photomultiplier tube
master stock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: master stocks
Senses: glosses: In Chinese cooking, a stock which is repeatedly reused to poach or braise meats.
master stocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of master stock
element of surprise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elements of surprise
Senses: examples: text: We should attack the enemy's camp now while we still have the element of surprise.
text: We exist separately from ACT UP/New York because it's impossible to conduct small actions [i.e. protests] that rely on the element of surprise for their success, when you need to tell 200 people about them first.
ref: 1992 February 2, Jen Wofford, quoting Garance Franke-Ruta, “Activists Protest Price of AIDS Drug”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 28, page 5:
glosses: The strategic advantage afforded to a party when its opposition may be caught by surprise.
elements of surprise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of element of surprise
rice hull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rice hulls
Senses: glosses: The hard protecting covering of a grain of rice.
Synonyms: rice husk
rice husk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rice husks
Senses: glosses: A rice hull.
rice hulls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rice hull
rice husks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rice husk
translation memory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: translation memories
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
translation-studies
synonyms: TM
glosses: A database that stores previously translated content to aid human translators, commonly abbreviated as TM.
translation memories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of translation memory
tartare sauces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tartare sauce
acapnic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From acapnia + -ic or a- + -capnic.
Senses: examples: text: Henderson's theory is based on the assumption that the respiratory centre becomes less sensitive to carbon dioxide in the blood during anaesthesia, and so the subject is more readily rendered acapnic, and less readily recovers from acapnia.
ref: 1922, Alfred Goodman Levy, Chloroform Anæsthesia, page 50:
glosses: Relating to acapnia
Renard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: See Reynard.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Reynard.
Renard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Renards
Etymology: Borrowed from French renard (“fox”), or from Old French Renart.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
spergy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spergy
form: most spergy
Etymology: From sperg + -y.
Senses: examples: text: You'll only get gnashing of teeth from the spergy nerds who can't let go of their ancient UNIX clone.
ref: 2010 October 26, df [username], “Re: Why is Linux desktop share dropping?”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet):
text: Nope, not following you down into your typical spergy postmodernist word salad sophistry regarding the meaning of the word "related."
ref: 2012 May 9, prawnster [username], “Re: Evolution: assumes facts not in evidence”, in talk.origins (Usenet):
text: The obliviousness of your reply is staggering, or would be, if you weren't such an obvious spergy sociopath to begin with.
ref: 2015 March 18, smr [username], “Re: Lucky Seven: Command v1.07 has been released!”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.war-historical (Usenet):
qualifier: sometimes reclaimed
glosses: Showing an awkward, pedantic, or obsessive nature stereotypically associated with Asperger's syndrome.
Synonyms: Aspergerian
Aspergian
Aspergic
demi-mondaines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demi-mondaine
SLF4J
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Simple Logging Facade for Java device (a Java logging API by means of a simple facade pattern.)
Potterfic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Potter + fic.
Senses: examples: text: I'm not into slash, so I haven't read any of the Harry/Draco stuff, and I can ony^([sic]) tolerate so much "teen romance" but some of the longer Potterfic pieces have some VERY interesting ideas being expounded.
ref: 2001 December 20, YN1 Bernadette M. Crumb, “Re: LONG speculative SPOILERS regarding Snape.”, in alt.callahans (Usenet):
text: Well... I'm setting up for a clash between Draco and Harry if and when I ever get around to the third installment of my long Potterfic trilogy.
ref: 2002 November 11, Kuroi Kage, “Re: Draco Malfoy, bad to the bone?”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):
text: Of the three main characters of the Harry Potter series, only Hermione is so routinely morphed into flawlessness. Perhaps because girls who read and write Potterfic already identify with Hermione, they feel motivated to re-create her as an unattainable ideal, […]
ref: 2006, Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, volume 31, page 57:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Fan fiction based on the Harry Potter series.
Buffyfic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Buffyfics
Etymology: From Buffy + fic.
Senses: examples: text: Also, this is, amazingly enough, my first ever Buffyfic, so be kind.
ref: 2001 January 17, vicpusateri [username], “Fic: Xander Steps Up [1/1]”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative (Usenet):
text: I'll probably be switching back and forth between this and a Buffyfic I'm writing, but there shouldn't be any more huge gaps *crossing fingers*
ref: 2002 August 12, Katie M, “See No Evil, See No Good (Part 24/?)”, in alt.tv.er.creative (Usenet):
text: The first Buffyfic I ever read was set in the Bronze: Changing Hands (I think that was the title).
ref: 2004 March 1, MSey [username], “Re: FIC Stepping Out 1/1 Buffy/Angel PG”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fanfic based on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
examples: text: I decided I should write. And what would be more fun to write then^([sic]) Buffyfic?
ref: 1999 November 3, Lots42 [username], “Fumbling creative writer with questions”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative (Usenet):
text: All I know is that I don't feel the need to write Buffyfic anymore: Joss doesn't leave any character gaps AT ALL.
ref: 2000 October 31, Janet Caires Lesgold, “Buffy vs. TXF”, in alt.fan.david-duchovny (Usenet):
text: This might be a case where the good old-fashioned unscientific survey comes in handy, as this is a NG where the readers clearly read far more Buffyfic than the average fan, and probably a wider variety--since this isn't a specialty fic group.
ref: 2003 November 27, M. Scott Eiland, “Re: Most famous?”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Such fan fiction collectively.
Buffyfics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Buffyfic
Trekfics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Trekfic
badhan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: badhans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of badchen.
Twific
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Twifics
Etymology: Blend of twilight + fic.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, in the third section, we discuss Bella's enhanced agency in Twifics in which authors give her a desiring gaze that is not limited to Edward.
ref: 2011, Malin Isaksson, Maria Lindgren Leavenworth, “Gazing, initiating, desiring: Alternative constructions of agency and sex in Twifics”, in Mariah Larsson, Ann Steiner, editors, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Twilight: Studies in Fiction, Media and a Contemporary Cultural Experience, Nordic Academic Press, →ISBN, page 128:
text: Regarding to a huge number of Twifics, it is impossible to make some general claims about them because the genre and the level of originality depend on the skills and age of an individual writer.
ref: 2012, Eva Strýčková, "How the Vampire in a Volvo Ran Over the Prince on a White Horse: The 'Twilight Saga' and its Influence on the Phenomenon of Vampires", thesis submitted to Tomas Bata University, page 40
text: Shades obviously riffs on that story as well as on other popular Twifics.
ref: 2013, Anne Jamison, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, BenBella Books, →ISBN:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fanfic based on the Twilight novel series and the associated films.
Twifics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Twific
twig and berries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twigs and berries
Senses: examples: text: He whirls, pointing Mjolnir at my nose. Also near eye level, his twig and berries taunt my emaciated masculinity.
ref: 2021, Kendall Grey, Fooled:
text: Meat, the fat English bulldog who was their mascot and self-proclaimed garbage disposal, had been sprawled on his back at the top of the steps, napping with his twig and berries out to catch the passing breeze.
ref: 2021, Julie Ann Walker, Deeper Than The Ocean:
glosses: The penis and testicles.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see twig, berry.
angel's kiss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A cocktail made with crème de cacao, brandy, and whipped cream.
divergencelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From divergenceless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: In the method, both electric and magnetic fields are expanded in terms of the vector spherical harmonic (VSH) functions in spherical geometry and the divergencelessness of magnetic field is analytically enforced by a projection method.
ref: 2015, Gang Cao, Li Zhang, Sineng Sun, “The spectral simulations of axisymmetric force-free pulsar magnetosphere”, in arXiv:
glosses: The quality of being divergenceless.
homoplastically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From homoplastic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: We find that motion near the surface of an irregular asteroid is quite different from the motion near the surface of a homoplastically spheroidal celestial body.
ref: 2015, Yu Jiang, Hexi Baoyin, Hengnian Li, “Periodic Motion near the Surface of Asteroids”, in Astrophysics and Space Science, volume 2015:
glosses: In a homoplastic sense.
softwire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: softwires
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A type of tunnelling protocol that creates a virtual "wire" that transparently encapsulates another protocol as if were an anonymous point-to-point low-level link.
softwires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of softwire
eigensections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eigensection
wirelength
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wirelengths
Etymology: From wire + length.
Senses: glosses: The length of wire on an electronic chip.
wirelengths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wirelength
Rent's rule
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Discovered in the 1960s by E. F. Rent, an IBM employee.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A rule describing the relationship between the number of external signal connections to a logic block (i.e. the number of "pins") with the number of logic gates in the logic block.
Rent
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Rent exponent
Rent's rule
backscene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backscenes
Etymology: From back + scene.
Senses: glosses: A scene used as a background.
backscenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backscene
campanological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From campanology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to campanology.
Derived terms: campanologically
carburisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carburisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of carburization.
Derived terms: decarburisation
carburisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carburisation
cartelisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cartelisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cartelization.
cartelisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cartelisation
castrater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: castraters
Etymology: From castrate + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of castrator.
castraters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of castrater
cephalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cephalisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cephalization.
chairborne
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chair + borne, perhaps a pun on airborne, in reference to those in the military who do not fly aircraft.
Senses: glosses: Employed to work in an office, etc. and not out in the field; having a sedentary job.
chemurgical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chemurgy + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to chemurgy.
Derived terms: chemurgically
chinfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chinfests
Etymology: From chin + -fest.
Senses: glosses: A session of chat or gossip; a chinwag.
chinfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chinfest
communalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of communalise
communalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of communalise
communalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of communalise
chronometrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From chronometrical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a chronometric way, following the principles of chronometry.
glosses: By means of a chronometer, using a clock or other timekeeping device.
Synonyms: horologically
chlortetracyclines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chlortetracycline
chloramphenicols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chloramphenicol
confineable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more confineable
form: most confineable
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of confinable.
contemporise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: contemporises
form: contemporising
form: contemporised
form: contemporised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of contemporize.
contemporised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of contemporise
contemporises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of contemporise
contemporising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of contemporise
contrivedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /kənˈtɹaɪ.vɪd.li/
Forms: form: more contrivedly
form: most contrivedly
Etymology: From contrived + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a contrived manner.
copolymerise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: copolymerises
form: copolymerising
form: copolymerised
form: copolymerised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of copolymerize.
copolymerised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of copolymerise
copolymerises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of copolymerise
copolymerising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of copolymerise
corporativism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corporativisms
Etymology: From corporative + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of corporatism.
synonyms: word: corporatism
corporativist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corporativists
Etymology: From corporative + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of corporatist.
synonyms: word: corporatist
corporativisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corporativism
corporativists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corporativist
coumarones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coumarone
cosmopolitanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cosmopolitanizes
form: cosmopolitanizing
form: cosmopolitanized
form: cosmopolitanized
form: cosmopolitanise
Etymology: From cosmopolitan + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: It will invigorate and cosmopolitanize Japanese society and in time not only enhance the nation's status as a leading power, but also serve to revive international confidence in its economy.
ref: 2011, Hans Brinckmann, Showa Japan:
glosses: To make cosmopolitan.
cosmopolitanise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cosmopolitanises
form: cosmopolitanising
form: cosmopolitanised
form: cosmopolitanised
Etymology: From cosmopolitan + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cosmopolitanize.
cosmologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cosmological.
Related terms: cosmic
cosmopolitanising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cosmopolitanise
cosmopolitanises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cosmopolitanise
cosmopolitanised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cosmopolitanise
cosmopolitanizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cosmopolitanize
cosmopolitanizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cosmopolitanize
cosmopolitanized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cosmopolitanize
conventionalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conventionalisations
Etymology: From conventional + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of conventionalization.
conventionalisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conventionalisation
cricketeer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cricketeers
Etymology: From cricket + -eer.
Senses: glosses: A cricketer; a player of cricket.
cricketeers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cricketeer
crosspollination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crosspollinations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cross-pollination.
crosspollinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crosspollination
disharmoniously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disharmoniously
form: most disharmoniously
Etymology: From disharmonious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a disharmonious manner.
disaffectedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disaffectedly
form: most disaffectedly
Etymology: From disaffected + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a disaffected manner.
diphenylhydantoins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diphenylhydantoin
detribalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: detribalises
form: detribalising
form: detribalised
form: detribalised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of detribalize.
detribalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of detribalise
detribalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of detribalise
detribalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of detribalise
denominationalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of denominationalism
demythologisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demythologisations
Etymology: From de- + mythologisation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of demythologization.
demoraliser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demoralisers
Etymology: From demoralise + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of demoralizer.
demoralisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demoraliser
demonolater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demonolaters
Etymology: From demono- + -later.
Senses: glosses: One who worships demons.