cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Lapalissian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪsiən
Forms: form: more Lapalissian
form: most Lapalissian
form: lapalissian
Etymology: From Jacques de la Palice (a French nobleman and military officer) + -ian. His epitaph, carrying the words “if he weren't dead, he would still be envied” (French s'il n'était pas mort, il ferait encore envie), was misread as the truism “if he weren't dead, he would still be alive” (s'il n'était pas mort, il ſerait encore en vie).
Senses: glosses: Very obvious, completely apparent.
Derived terms: Lapalissianly
Related terms: lapalissade
lapalissian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lapalissian
form: most lapalissian
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Lapalissian.
frictional blight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: urban blight caused by negative environmental effects
skeuomorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /skjuːəˈmɔːfɪk/
Forms: form: more skeuomorphic
form: most skeuomorphic
Etymology: From skeuomorph + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: And just as “expectancy” caused the transfer of thong-work from the flint axe, where it was functional, to the bronze celt, where it was skeuomorphic, it carried the chevrons and cruciforms of basketry to the decoration of earthen vessels.
ref: 1889, Henry Colley March, “The Meaning of Ornament; or its Archæology and its Psychology”, in Transactions of the Lancashire and Chesire Antiquarian Society, volume 7, page 168:
text: “[…]Forms of vessels so derived may be said to have an adventitious origin, yet they are essentially copies, although not so by design” (p. 445). In other words, such pottery is primitively skeuomorphic.
ref: 1895, Alfred C. Haddon, quoting W. H. Holmes, Evolution in Art, page 102:
text: [Scott Forstall] was blamed not only for the map debacle, but for filling iPad and iPhone screens with winsome symbols of traditional objects relating to the different functions on those devices, like the “wooden” shelves containing digital books and magazines. I, for one, would be delighted never to see those tacky symbols again, or to hear the word “skeumorphic,” as that style of digital interface design is called.
ref: 2012 December 23, Alice Rawsthorn, “Design Stars, and Misfires, of 2012”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: It is a welcome move in what had become an increasingly noisy world of user-interface design over the past five years, as Steve Jobs's love of skeuomorphic design led to a digital world of everything trying to look like what it was in the real world.
ref: 2013 September 20, Oliver Wainwright, “Google gets out the rolling pin and flattens its logo”, in The Guardian:
text: As for the computer screen that is nowadays ever before us, I can recall perfectly the primitive holotype with its horse-trough depth and greenish luminescence; surely its lineal descendants’ capacity to display almost infinite imagery has resulted in this unintended consequence: a leeching of aesthetic interest or engagement; the duff skeuomorphic icons denoting folders and programs have encroached, rendering all local space planar.
ref: 2015, Will Self, “Diary”, in London Review of Books, volume 37, number 5:
glosses: Pertaining to skeuomorphs, obsolete design elements which are retained for familiarity or out of tradition, even though they no longer serve any functional purpose.
aëromancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated form of aeromancy.
skeuomorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skeuomorphisms
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σκεῦος (skeûos, “implement”) + -morphism, or skeuomorph + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Skeuomorphism is not a thing of the past nor is it limited to traditional crafts. It is found today in countless articles being made from plastic for the first time.
ref: 1989, George Basalla, The Evolution of Technology, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN:
glosses: The incorporation of obsolete or skeuomorphic elements into a design, for familiarity or out of tradition, even though they no longer serve any functional purpose.
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: flat design
glosses: A user interface style characterized by ornate use of photorealistic textures, shadows, and often glossy highlights, mimicking a three-dimensional render.
Derived terms: neumorphism
pantheonization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpanθɪənʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/
Forms: form: pantheonizations
Etymology: From pantheonize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Stately ceremonies accompanied a series of ‘pantheonizations’, many of them staged by the artist David, pageant-master extraordinaire to the Revolution, starting with Voltaire in July 1791 […]
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 530:
glosses: Admission into a pantheon; specifically, interment in the Pantheon in Paris.
pantheonizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pantheonization
décadis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of décadi
Saint-Domingue
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /sɛn dɔ.mɪŋ/
Forms: form: Saint Domingue
form: St. Domingue
form: St Domingue
Senses: examples: text: In a mere twelve years, for example, between 1779 and 1790, the slave ships that plied the coast of Africa from Sierra Leone to Mozambique unloaded close to four hundred thousand slaves in Saint Domingue.
ref: 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 40:
text: Slavery was rarely pleasant, but the conditions on St. Domingue were notoriously bad.
ref: 2007, Kevin Filan, The Haitian Vodou Handbook, Destiny Books, page 14:
text: The future general was born in 1762 in the French sugar colony of Saint-Domingue, in the western half of the island.
ref: 2012, Jonathan Keates, ‘Mon Père, ce héros’, Literary Review, page 402:
synonyms: pearl of the Antilles
glosses: A former French colony on the island of Hispaniola from 1659 to 1809, roughly equivalent to modern-day Haiti.
Related terms: word: Dominguan
alt: St. Dominguan
word: Saint-Dominguan
word: Dominguois
word: Saint-Dominguois
word: Saint Dominican
Fukurokuju
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 福禄寿 (Fukurokuju), from Middle Chinese 福 (pjuwk, “fortune”) + 祿 (luwk, “blessings”) + 壽 (dzyuwX/dzyuwH, “longevity”).
Senses: topics: Shinto
human-sciences
lifestyle
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
religion
sciences
glosses: The Japanese name for the Chinese god Xuanwu, one of the seven gods of good fortune: the god of happiness, wealth, and longevity.
Related terms: alt: 布袋
word: Hotei
word: the fat and happy god of abundance and good health
alt: 寿老人
word: Jurōjin
word: god of longevity
alt: 毘沙門天
word: Bishamonten
word: god of warriors
roman: Daikoku
alt: 大黒天
word: Daikokuten
word: god of wealth
word: commerce and trade. Ebisu and Daikoku are often paired and represented as carvings
word: masks on the walls of small retail shops
alt: 恵比須; 恵比寿, 夷 or 戎
word: Ebisu
word: god of fishers
word: merchants
word: often depicted carrying a sea bream
alt: 弁才天 or 弁財天
word: Benzaiten
word: goddess of knowledge
word: art and beauty and music
broken reed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broken reeds
Etymology: From broken + reed (with reference to the quotation in 1611, see below).
Senses: examples: text: Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 36:6:
text: Many of the big estates survived. Nor was the peasantry a broken reed in terms of demand for manufactured products.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 543:
text: A law on privacy would be cumbersome and hard to police, but as the Press Complaints Commission is a broken reed in this matter, each scandal makes it harder to stave off calls for legislation.
ref: 2011 July 5, Simon Jenkins, The Guardian:
glosses: Something or someone very fragile or unreliable.
broken reeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of broken reed
Poochie-fication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌput͡ʃifɪˈkeɪʃən/
Etymology: From Poochie, a character added to boost the ratings of the fictional Itchy and Scratchy Show in The Simpsons episode "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show", + -fication.
Senses: examples: text: In case you're wondering, that extra, 3rd dimension they're going to be adding to the bears is going to be made entirely out of neon, sunglasses, and highlights for the fur of Mama and Sister. Basically, it's Poochie-fication of the Berenstain Bears.
ref: 2009 November 3, Amelie Gillette, “Berenstain Bears Movie To Change The Way You Think About Anthropomorphic Bears”, in The Onion AV Club:
text: In the 90s, this Poochie-fication of comics — wherein many titles grew consistently and thoroughly EXTREEEEME — reached its zenith.
ref: 2010 September 29, Glen Weldon, “In Praise of M.O.D.O.K: Why Gleefully Goofy Beats Broodingly Brutal”, in National Public Radio:
text: It’s rare when the Poochie-fication of a character actually works, but it totally did with Kyle Rayner. Rather than the earnest, Silver Age Hal Jordan, backed up by thousands of Corps members, and knowing what his job and destiny was, Rayner was given a ring by a dying Guardian, left alone as the last Green Lantern.
ref: 2011 June 16, Alex Zalban, “The 10 Best Green Lanterns Of All Time”, in MTV, archived from the original on 26 Dec 2011:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
glosses: The process of adding a new character to a work of fiction, or altering characters already present, in a bid to make the work cooler or more extreme.
Ignorantine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French ignorantin.
Senses: glosses: Designating an order of friars founded in 1495 who ministered to the poor, especially in France.
Ignorantine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ignorantines
Etymology: From French ignorantin.
Senses: glosses: A member of this order of friars.
IPCC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /aɪ piː siː siː/
Senses: examples: text: In 1995, the IPCC declared that the human impact on climate was now “discernible.”
ref: 2010, Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, “Introduction”, in Merchants of Doubt:
text: The comprehensive assessment of climate science published on Monday, the sixth such report from the IPCC since 1988, has been eight years in the making, marshalling the work of hundreds of experts and peer-review studies.
ref: 2021 August 9, Fiona Harvey, “Major climate changes inevitable and irreversible – IPCC’s starkest warning yet”, in The Guardian:
qualifier: climate change; UN; climate change; UN
glosses: Initialism of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an intergovernmental body of the United Nations, established in 1988, aiming to advance scientific knowledge about climate change caused by human activities.
topics: education
glosses: Initialism of Integrated Professional Competency Course, a course of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
glosses: Initialism of Irish Peatland Conservation Council.
topics: government
glosses: Initialism of Independent Police Complaints Commission, a non-departmental public body in England and Wales responsible for overseeing the system for handling complaints made against police forces in England and Wales.
carboreduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From carbo- + reduction.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The reduction of an oxide to an element by using carbon and heat
triphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹaɪ.fəʊn/
Forms: form: triphones
Etymology: From tri- + phone.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A triplet of adjacent phones.
triphones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triphone
monoctanoin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A monoglyceride used to dissolve gallstones caused by cholesterol.
avihepadnavirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avihepadnaviruses
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Avihepadnavirus; an avian hepadnavirus.
avihepadnaviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of avihepadnavirus
tenside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɛnsaɪd/
Forms: form: tensides
Etymology: Derived from Latin tēnsiō, tēnsiōnem. Cognate English tension.
Senses: examples: text: Another large group of organic substances polluting the hydrosphere are the preparations known as tensides and detergents [115, 116]. Tensides are surface active substances with a capability to reduce the surface tension at an interface.
ref: 1993, Juraj Tölgyessy, editor, Chemistry and Biology of Water, Air and Soil: Environmental Aspects, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 144:
glosses: A surfactant.
tensides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenside
sachels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sachel
runlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of runlet
on trend
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more on trend
form: most on trend
Senses: examples: text: His fashion designs are very on trend.
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: Having characteristics which conform to current fashion trends.
Synonyms: fashion-forward
in fashion
crystallogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crystallogens
Etymology: From crystallo- + -gen.
Senses: glosses: The nucleus of a newly-formed crystal
glosses: Synonym of crystalloid.
synonyms: word: crystalloid
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: (rare) Any member of the carbon group (group 14) of elements
Related terms: crystallogeny
crystallogenic
curseworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: curseworthier
form: more curseworthy
form: curseworthiest
form: most curseworthy
Etymology: From curse + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: They curse everything an inch high ; they ransack the archives of history, and send forward a search-warrant into the dim halls of futurity, to make sure that nothing curseworthy escapes.
ref: 1892, Charles Fletcher Lummis, A tramp across the continent:
glosses: Worthy of a curse or of being cursed; abominable; detestable.
blessworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blessworthy
form: most blessworthy
Etymology: From bless + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: A moral engineer from Shanghai speaks about the importance of being blessworthy. It is blessworthy to obey the divine plan and its representatives on Earth, he says.
ref: 1979, Ralph S. Clem, Martin Harry Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander, No room for man: population and the future through science fiction:
glosses: Worthy of receiving blessing, worthy of being blessed.
castworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: castworthier
form: more castworthy
form: castworthiest
form: most castworthy
Etymology: From cast + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: As had Wilfrid Lawson and it is pleasant to record that, after The Devil's General, he was once again considered castworthy and went on to play several other roles.
ref: 1987, Vivienne Knight, Trevor Howard: a gentleman and a player: the authorized biography:
text: That's what we're promoting here, the more he's in the casts, the more castworthy he is.
ref: 2001, Gardner Dozois, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection:
topics: broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: Worthy or fit for being part of a cast or of being cast.
methylsiloxane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From methyl + siloxane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any siloxane of general formula [SiO₂CH₃]ₙ
padawans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of padawan
electrometallurgical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electro- + metallurgical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to electrometallurgy
close-packing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: close-packings
Senses: glosses: The ordered arrangement of objects such as to create the greatest density (e.g. of atoms in a crystal).
Related terms: close-packed
pogonotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pogonotomia
Etymology: From pogono- + -tomy.
Senses: glosses: The cutting of beards; shaving.
Astraeus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /əˈstɹiːəs/
Etymology: Ancient Greek Ἀστραῖος (Astraîos), in turn from ἀστήρ (astḗr, “star”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The Greek god of the dusk. Husband of Eos (goddess of the dawn), and father of the four Anemoi ("Winds"), and the five Astra Planeta ("Wandering Stars/Planets").
glosses: The dusk.
Phæton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Phaëthon.
Phaëton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Phaëthon.
glosses: A hypothetical planet between Mars and Jupiter, whose destruction led to the production of the asteroid belt.
Phaeton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Phaëthon.
rickle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪkəl
Forms: form: rickles
Etymology: From Scots rickle, from Old English hrēac (“stack”) with the Scots suffix -le (“full (of)”).
Senses: examples: text: It was no more than a butt and a ben, with a rickle of sheds behind it where old Pooty kept his donkey that was nearly as old […]
ref: 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Canongate Books, published 2008, →ISBN, page 22:
glosses: A loose, disordered collection of things; a heap; a jumble.
glosses: A small rick of grain.
examples: text: We came home by a place called Speke Hall — built 1589 — the queerest-looking old rickle of boards that I ever set eyes on; […]
ref: 1844, Jane Welsh Carlyle, letter to Thomas Carlyle dated 28 June 1844, re-printed in New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle (ed. Alexander Carlyle), John Lane (1903), pages 136-137
glosses: A dilapidated or ramshackle building.
examples: text: On a memorable night was the old rickle of a boat taken out to the West Sands during a terrible storm, when Admiral Maitland Dougall distinguished himself by his valiant services.
ref: 1899, Golf Illustrated, volume 2, page 93:
glosses: Any object in poor condition, particularly a vehicle.
examples: text: But it's a bad disaise that can't be cured somehow, Manis said to himself — so be began to consider how to sell his rickle of a pony to advantage.
ref: 1899, Seumas MacManus, In Chimney Corners: Merry Tales of Irish Folk Lore, Doubleday & McClure, published 1899, page 228:
glosses: An emaciated person or animal.
Related terms: rick
rickle o' banes
modiomorphid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: modiomorphids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the Modiomorphidae, an extinct family of bivalve mollusks.
modiomorphids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of modiomorphid
ASCIIfied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ASCIIfy
ASCIIfies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ASCIIfy
ASCIIfying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ASCIIfy
asciified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of asciify
asciifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of asciify
asciifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of asciify
ASCIIfy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ASCIIfies
form: ASCIIfying
form: ASCIIfied
form: ASCIIfied
form: asciify
Etymology: From ASCII + -fy.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To convert into ASCII or, more generally, into 7-bit data.
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
orthography
publishing
writing
glosses: To reduce extended Latin text to characters of the ASCII character set.
Meronyms: uuencode
Derived terms: ASCIIfication
asciify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: asciifies
form: asciifying
form: asciified
form: asciified
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:asciify.
glosses: Alternative spelling of ASCIIfy.
marginalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marginalist
marginalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marginality
transmarginal inhibition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: An organism's response to overwhelming stimuli.
Judæo-Christian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Judæo- + Christian.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Judeo-Christian.
cookbookery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cookbook + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: In this degenerate laboratory work, in this cookbookery of a ritual of recipes, the aim is not to do an honest experiment but to get the "right" answer.
ref: 1964, Caribbean quarterly: Volumes 10-11:
text: Most of the New Math is just what the Old Math was — cookbookery. The difference is that the cookbooks are newer, more up to date — which may be a good thing, if cookbookery is what you want.
ref: 1968, Anglo American Corporation of South Africa, Optima: Volume 18:
text: The problem of cookbookery is not peculiar to data analysis. But the solution of concentrating upon mathematics and proof is.
ref: 1992, Samuel Kotz, Norman Lloyd Johnson, Breakthroughs in Statistics: Methodology and distribution:
glosses: The application of (especially mathematical) techniques learned by rote, without proper understanding or consideration.
Related terms: cookery book
Judaea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Judea.
mispense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] both are alike the good creatures of the same Maker, and both of them may prove equally costly to us in their wilful mispense.
ref: 1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of misspense.
mistletoed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mistletoed
form: most mistletoed
Etymology: From mistletoe + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: It did not admit of alteration for the better or the worse, of reform or improvement, any more than you could change some tortuously branched, gnarled, mistletoed, and ivy-crowned oak.
ref: 1859, The Rambler, volumes 1-2, page 128:
text: The site class was average, and the stand was heavily mistletoed.
ref: 1962, John W. Barrett, Regional silviculture of the United States:
glosses: Covered or overgrown with mistletoe.
mistletoebirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mistletoebird
silviculturally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From silvicultural + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of, or by means of, silviculture.
normoplasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From normo- + -plasia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: normal development or growth of an organ, without hyperplasia or hypoplasia
Related terms: normoplastic
normocapnic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to normocapnia; having the normal amount of carbon dioxide in arterial blood
normoactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From normo- + active.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Having a normal level of activity; neither hypoactive nor hyperactive.
normoactivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From normo- + activity.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A normal level of activity; the state of being normoactive.
snivelingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more snivelingly
form: most snivelingly
form: snivellingly
Etymology: From sniveling + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The child snivelingly crept back to its toys.
glosses: While sniveling.
glosses: In a pitiful, cringing or pathetic manner.
snivellingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more snivellingly
form: most snivellingly
Etymology: From snivelling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of snivelingly.
megacorp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megacorps
Etymology: From mega- + corp.
Senses: examples: text: In the period following World War II, the diversification strategy became a more common one for megacorps, the technique being refined so that expansion was no longer limited to industries with a similar technology.
ref: 1980, Glenn Porter, Encyclopedia of American economic history: volume 2:
text: The gel is a genetically-engineered bioplasm created by the Sirta Foundation, a medical technology megacorp based on Earth. Technically, medi-gel violates Council laws against genetic engineering, but so far, it has proved far too useful to ban.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Medi-Gel Codex entry:
text: If he were alive to study these changes, I think he would have focused his attention on how these changes affect the investment behavior of megacorps, for it is through investment that megacorps are able to grow over time.
ref: 2009, Marc Lavoie, Louis-Philippe Rochon, Mario Seccareccia, Money and Macrodynamics: Alfred Eichner and Post-Keynesian Economics, page 99:
glosses: A very large corporation; megacorporation.
Related terms: mega cap
megacorps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megacorp
rickle o' banes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rickles o' banes
form: rickle of banes
form: rickle o' bones
form: rickle of bones
Senses: examples: text: To behold him, mounted on his old shelty, was truly a laughable scene, the animal being always so lean — a perfect "rickle o' banes," […]
ref: 1876, John Mactaggart, The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, Hamilton, Adams and Co, page 46:
glosses: An emaciated person or animal.
Synonyms: bag of bones
likejacking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of like + hijacking; compare clickjacking.
Senses: examples: text: On Facebook, the form this takes has been dubbed Likejacking, because the object of the scam is to get you to click a hidden Like button, sending out a News Feed story saying that you Liked a Page or a link that you haven't, in fact, Liked.
ref: 2010, Dave Awl, Facebook Me!:
text: No risk of "likejacking", "clickjacking", spammy apps or anything else that's so prevalent these days.
ref: 2011, Sycho, “Insurgents Intercept Drone Video in King-Size Security Breach (Updated, with Video)”, in alt.2600 (Usenet):
glosses: The malicious practice of tricking users of a social networking website into "liking" something they did not intend to like.
trapeze dress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trapeze dresses
Senses: examples: text: She wore thrift-store clothes that tended not to flatter her—a man's plaid polyester leisure suit, a paisley trapeze dress, gray Mr. Goodwrench coveralls with the name Randy embroidered on the left front pocket.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
glosses: A woman's dress with a trapezoid shape, widening towards the waist and legs.
trapeze dresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trapeze dress
triradially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From triradial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a triradial manner.
triradial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + radial.
Senses: glosses: radiating outward in three directions
Derived terms: triradially
undercollar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undercollars
Etymology: From under- + collar.
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Part of a garment that goes under the collar.
undercollars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undercollar
pad stitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pad stitches
Senses: glosses: A kind of running stitch made by placing small stitches perpendicular to the line of stitching, used to secure layers of fabric together for increased firmness.
Chanelism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chanelisms
Etymology: From Chanel + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: "All the Paris couture (except Fath) is permeated with the easy underdone sort of clothes that were the basis of Chanelism at its height."
ref: 1954, H.W. Wilson Company, Marjorie Dent Candee, Current biography yearbook: Volume 15:
text: A woman of eighty-four, the world's top designer still going strong, producing a look that spanned several decades and Chanelisms which became fashion classics.
ref: 1965, John Fairchild, The fashionable savages:
text: Adolfo recalls it all with his wool boucle suit, mint green, touched with silvery metallic embued with all the elegant Chanelisms.
ref: 1989, Caroline Rennolds Milbank, New York fashion: the evolution of American style:
text: Besides the basic black dress, Chanelisms include pearls, sling-back pumps in beige and white, gold chains, and flame red and navy suit braiding.
ref: 1990, Augustine Hope, Margaret Walch, The color compendium:
glosses: A hallmark of the fashion designer Coco Chanel.
Chanelisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chanelism
stomodaea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stomodaeum
stomatodaea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stomatodaeum
stomatodaeum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stomatodaea
Etymology: Ancient Greek στόμα (stóma, “mouth”) + εἶδος (eîdos, “likeness”) + -um
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stomodeum.
stercoranism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɜːkəɹənɪzm̩/
ipa: /ˈstɜːkɹənɪzm̩/
ipa: /ˈstɝkəɹəˌnɪz(ə)m/
ipa: /ˈstɝkɹəˌnɪz(ə)m/
Etymology: From stercoranist + -ism (suffix forming the names of schools of thought).
Senses: examples: text: Great conteſts have ariſen in the church of Rome, vvhether the ſacramental bread and vvine vvere ſo far digeſted, as that ſome part of them, like other food, vvas turned into excrements: thoſe vvho held the affirmative, vvent by the name of Stercorarians or Stercoraniſtæ. Cardinal Humbert, in his anſvver to Nicetas Pectoratus, treats him as a Stercoraniſt, merely for holding that the euchariſt breaks the faſt; vvhich opinion he imagined led directly into Stercoraniſm.
ref: 1758, “Essay III”, in Considerations upon War, upon Cruelty in General, and Religious Cruelty in Particular. […], London: […] T[homas] Osborne, […], →OCLC, section VI, footnote h, page 147:
glosses: The belief or doctrine of stercoranists.
chebacco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chebaccos
Etymology: From Chebacco, the former name of Essex, a town in Massachusetts where such vessels were built, and the still current name of bodies of water in its environment. The town's name derives from Agawam, an Eastern Algonquian language.
Senses: examples: text: On an evening soon after the first of the year, we went on board a felucca boat (much less than a chebacco) for Leghorn.
ref: 1830, Silas Pinckney Holbrook, Sketches, by a Traveller:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A (relatively small) narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in the Newfoundland fisheries.
wikipedia: Chebacco Lake
Essex, Massachusetts
Synonyms: pink stern
Related terms: chebec
chebaccos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chebacco
defensors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defensor
semimonthlies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semimonthly
interlunary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of interlunar.
windrowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of windrow
windrowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of windrow
prismatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prismatical
form: most prismatical
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of prismatic.
dartoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dartoid
form: most dartoid
Etymology: From dartos + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: dartoid tissue
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: dartoic.
mydaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μυδάω (mudáō, “be clammy or damp”).
Senses: examples: text: In Java there is a curious animal, the mydaus, intermediate between a pole-cat and a badger, which lives only on the high mountains, and has an offensive smell.
ref: 1920, Great Britain. Naval Intelligence Division, A manual of Netherlands India (Dutch East Indies)
glosses: The teledu.
uneffectual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uneffectual
form: most uneffectual
Etymology: From un- + effectual.
Senses: examples: text: his uneffectual fire
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:
glosses: ineffectual.
rickle of bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rickles of bones
Senses: examples: text: He felt no heavier than my half-plate camera does after a league or two — such a rickle of bones was he.
ref: 1903, S. R. Crockett, The Adventurer in Spain, Frederick A. Stocks Company, page 249:
glosses: Alternative form of rickle o' banes.
rickle of banes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rickles of banes
Senses: examples: text: And without so much as a departing retort, some face-saving insult, the duffel-coated rickle of banes slunk off.
ref: 1992, Jeff Torrington, Swing Hammer Swing!, Harcourt Brace, published 1994, →ISBN, page 142:
glosses: Alternative form of rickle o' banes.
rickle o' bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rickles o' bones
Senses: examples: text: "She's gonna be a rickle o' bones if she don't stop fallin' off her weight," Mrs. Feeley said.
ref: 1953, Mary Lasswell, Tooner Schooner, Houghton Mifflin, published 1953, page 170:
glosses: Alternative form of rickle o' banes.
solwy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: solwier
form: more solwy
form: solwiest
form: most solwy
Etymology: From Middle English solwi (also solowe), from Old English *solwiġ (“miry”), from solwe, the oblique form of Old English solu (“mud, mire”). More at soil.
Senses: glosses: Dirty; soiled; sullied; defiled.
bags of bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: What a lot of scrawny old women! lean old hags, some of them without their faces covered; even the veiled ones you can see are only bags of bones.
ref: 1875 November, “At the Gates of the East”, in The Atlantic Monthly, page 530:
glosses: plural of bag of bones
tracheid cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tracheid cell
ischio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪskɪəʊ/
Etymology: Combining form of Ancient Greek ἰσχίον (iskhíon, “ischium”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: ischium
Janeite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒeɪnaɪt/
Forms: form: Janeites
form: Janite
Etymology: From Jane + -ite, coined by British critic and literary historian George Saintsbury in his introduction to Pride and Prejudice published in 1894 (see quotations at Janite).
Senses: examples: text: “Every dam' thing about Jane [Austen] is remarkable to a pukka Janeite!”
ref: 1924, Rudyard Kipling, The Janeites:
text: Unlike virtually all academic readers of Austen since the 1950s, Janeites in foxholes do not think Austen's novels are about courtship and marriage.
ref: 2010, Edward Copeland, Juliet McMaster, The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, page 236:
text: The 'regulated hatred' angle will work a treat. After all, Janeites don't want to hear about that sort of thing, because it's the opposite of what they adore in their heroine's writing.
ref: 2012, Henry Hitchings, “How to flummox a Janeite”, in Who's Afraid of Jane Austen: How to Talk About Books You Haven't Really Read:
text: All the Austen aficionados on my tour—or Janeites, as they call themselves—seem to be true fans of her writing who know the novels inside out.
ref: 2025 May 10, Jemima Kelly, “My week with Jane Austen”, in FT Weekend, Travel, page 7:
glosses: A fan of the author Jane Austen, especially one without a background in literary criticism.
Synonyms: sense: fan of Jane Austen
word: Austenian
sense: fan of Jane Austen
word: Austenite
Derived terms: Janeiteism
Janeites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Janeite
Janeiteism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Janeite + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: [F]ew true admirers will hesitate, much, to admit to the possession of a mug or a tea towel from Chawton. To do so is not necessarily latter-day Janeiteism.
ref: 1992, Roger Gard, “Introduction: Jane Austen’s Ease – and Criticism”, in Jane Austen’s Novels: The Art of Clarity, New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, section VI, page 12:
glosses: The love or worship of the works of Jane Austen.
Related terms: bardolatry
Cameroons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cameroon
cyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sile.
bechic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈbiːkɪk/
Forms: form: more bechic
form: most bechic
Etymology: From French béchique or its source Latin bēchicus (“of or for a cough”), from Ancient Greek βηχικός (bēkhikós, “of or for a cough”), from βηχ- (bēkh-), oblique stem of βήξ (bḗx, “cough”).
Senses: examples: text: The bechic blast, which is the principal vehicle for removing pathological material, is dependent for its action on the pressure of air below it.
ref: 1924, Arthur Logan Turner, Diseases of the Nose, Throat and Ear:
glosses: Relating to, or relieving, a cough.
Derived terms: antibechic
bechic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbiːkɪk/
Forms: form: bechics
Etymology: From French béchique or its source Latin bēchicus (“of or for a cough”), from Ancient Greek βηχικός (bēkhikós, “of or for a cough”), from βηχ- (bēkh-), oblique stem of βήξ (bḗx, “cough”).
Senses: examples: text: Medicines which alleviate cough are called bechics
ref: 1719, John Quincy, Pharmacopoeia officinalis et extemporanea : or a compleat English dispensatory in four parts:
glosses: A medicine for relieving coughs.
bechics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bechic
Mathurins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mathurin
diabolistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diabolistic
form: most diabolistic
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to diabolism.
sea holm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea holms
Senses: glosses: Sea holly (Eryngium maritimum).
sea holms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea holm
pneumonometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pneumonometers
Senses: glosses: A spirometer
pneumonometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pneumonometer
leatherhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leatherheads
Etymology: From leather + head.
Senses: examples: text: The piping-crows, the laughing-jackasses, the odd leatherheads, and the coach-wheel birds, all gave us their old music, and brought back pleasant memories of travel.
ref: 1855, William Howitt, Land, labor and gold: or, Two years in Victoria, volume 2, page 38:
glosses: The friarbird.
glosses: A city watchman who wore a leather helmet.
topics: firefighting
government
glosses: A firefighter.
leatherheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leatherhead
murza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: murzas
Etymology: From Russian мурза, related to mirza.
Senses: glosses: One of the hereditary nobility among the Tatars, up to the 19th century, especially one of the second class.
murzas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of murza
catacoustic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cata- + acoustic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to catacoustics.
Hahnemannian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hahnemannian
form: most Hahnemannian
Etymology: From Hahnemann + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann (1755–1843), German physician, or the alternative medicine of homeopathy that he founded.
Hahnemannian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hahnemannians
Etymology: From Hahnemann + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of Hahnemann's theories regarding homeopathy.
Hahnemannians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hahnemannian
Leatherhead
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛðəhɛd/
Etymology: The Leatherhead Museum has traced the history of the town from its beginnings in about AD 880 when it was known as Leodridan (dative case of a compound of leode and rida), meaning "place where people [can] ride [across the river]" in Anglo-Saxon). Later in the Domesday Book it was called Leret. Later forms recorded are Lereda, Ledreda, Leddrede (all second half of 12th century).
Senses: glosses: A town in Surrey, England.
wofulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From woful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of woefulness.
wofully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more wofully
form: most wofully
Etymology: From woful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "Are you not assuming," asked Mr. Welson, "the privilege and understanding of a judge without knowledge sufficient for the condemnatory sentence you have pronounced as a penalty against this savage?"
"By their works ye shall know them," replied the padre, looking wofully at his arm.
ref: 1877, R. Elton Smile [Elton Romeo Smilie], chapter III, in The Manatitlans; or a Record of Scientific Explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A., Buenos Ayres: Calla Derecho, Imprenta De Razon, page 26:
glosses: Archaic form of woefully.
sillimanites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sillimanite
incorrespondency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of incorrespondence.
incorrespondence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incorrespondences
Etymology: From in- + correspondence.
Senses: glosses: Lack of correspondence; failure to correspond or match up; disagreement, disharmony or disproportion.
incorrespondences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incorrespondence
chatellanies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chatellany
chatellany
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chatellanies
Etymology: French châtellenie.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of castellany.
ichthyoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ichthyoidal
form: most ichthyoidal
Etymology: From ichthyoid + -al.
Senses: glosses: Like a fish; ichthyoid.
Muhammedan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Muhammedans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mohammedan.
Muhammedan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mohammedan.
Muhammedans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Muhammedan
underaccomplished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underaccomplished
form: most underaccomplished
Etymology: From under- + accomplished.
Senses: glosses: Insufficiently accomplished; not having done or achieved enough.
serpenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of serpent
serpented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of serpent
ruddily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌdɪli/
ipa: /ˈɹʌdəli/
Forms: form: more ruddily
form: most ruddily
Etymology: From ruddy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Many a hand's on a richer hilt, / But none on a steel more ruddily gilt; [...]
ref: 1816 February 13, [Lord Byron], “The Siege of Corinth”, in The Siege of Corinth. A Poem. Parisina. A Poem, London: […] [T[homas] Davison] for John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza XXVI, page 43, lines 782–783:
text: I notice that each of the myriad towel carts on the Dreamward’s Deck 12 is manned by its very own Towel Guy, and that their Towel Guys are ruddily Nordic and nonspectral and have nothing resembling withering neutrality or boredom about their mien.
ref: 1997, David Foster Wallace, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group:
glosses: In a ruddy way; with red colour.
rudderlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rudderless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being rudderless; absence of direction or control.
padrones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of padrone
furbelowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of furbelow
furbelowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of furbelow
unwatchability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unwatchable.
physiologic dead space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: physiologic dead spaces
Senses: examples: 1948. Ward S. Fowler, Lung Function Studies. II. The Respiratory Dead Space., J. Physiology. Vol. 154. p 406.
Throughout this paper, the term physiological dead space will be used to refer to the volume of the conducting airway down to the location at which a large change in gas composition occurs.
glosses: The volume of the conducting airways of the lung. This definition became inadequate once the alveolar dead space was described.
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: That volume of air in the lung which does not partake in gas exchange.
examples: 2011. John B. West, Respiratory Physiology: The Essentials. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Ninth edition.
Bohr's method measures the volume of the lung which does not eliminate CO₂. Because this is a functional measurement, the volume is called the physiologic dead space.
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: That volume of air in the lung that does not eliminate carbon dioxide, as defined functionally by the Bohr equation.
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The sum of the anatomic plus the alveolar dead spaces.
examples: text: ...the effective respiratory dead space is made up of two principal components. The first component is associated with the volume of the respiratory passages leading to the lung.... A second component is the ... well ventilated, but poorly perfused alveoli are in parallel with the respiratory passages and it is convenient to designate this component as the ‘parallel’ dead space.
ref: 1955, B. Folkow, J. R. Pappenheimer, Components of the Respiratory Dead Space and Their Variation With Pressure Breathing and With Bronchoactive Drugs J Appl Physiol 8:102-110:
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The sum of the parallel and the serial dead spaces.
Synonyms: Bohr dead space
effective respiratory dead space
crossflowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crossflow
crossflowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crossflow