cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
qila
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qilas
form: quila
Etymology: Etymology tree
Classical Persian قَلْعَه /قِلْعَه (qal'a)bor.
Urdu قِلْعَہ (qil'a)bor.
English qila
Borrowed from Urdu قِلْعَہ (qil'a), borrowed from Classical Persian قَلْعَه /قِلْعَه (qal'a).
Senses: glosses: A fort or fortress.
equitie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equities
Senses: examples: text: Let my Country men Read the following Declaration and then determine by the rules of honour and equitie, how far I am concerned in this Calumny.
ref: 1693, Alexander Monro, Advertisement by Dr. Monro Presbyter of the Church of Scotland:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of equity.
counterfit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: I Find my Name Abused in a Late Pamphlet (I suppose written by one Mr. George Ridpath) as if I had sent, or Commissioned, or Ordered Mr. Andrew Johnston to counterfit the name of one Mitchell, to a Certificate without his consent.
ref: 1693, Alexander Monro, Advertisment by Dr. Monro Presbyter of the Church of Scotland:
glosses: Misspelling of counterfeit.
declaire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The said Mr. Andrew Johnston declaire that I am ready to take my solemn Oath before any of the Judges in England, that Tho. Mitchell signed freely at my desire the said Certificate as I offered it, and as it was Inserted in the said Book: And that I know no other Certificate different from the former signed by him.
ref: 1693, Andrew Johnston, Advertisment by Dr. Monro Presbyter of the Church of Scotland:
glosses: Misspelling of declare.
Duquesnes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Duquesne
Celmer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Celmers
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Celmer, a Slavicized form of German Zellmer.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Colcord
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Colcords
Etymology: Occupational surname for a lime burner, from an agent derivative of Middle High German kalc (“lime”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Middle High German.
glosses: A town in Delaware County, Oklahoma, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States.
Colcords
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Colcord
Celmers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Celmer
grandfetus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grandfetuses
form: grandfoetus
Etymology: From grand- + fetus.
Senses: examples: text: Has any grandmother ever said that she will soon be able to refer to her grandfetus as a grandbaby?
ref: 2000 November 9, Jenny Lynn, “Babies are babies, period”, in North County Times, Escondido, Calif., page A-17, column 5:
text: A distinguished retired paediatrician telephoned me, concerned about his grandfetus which had been found through antenatal scanning to be one umbilical artery short.
ref: 2004 February, Timothy Lachlan Chambers, “Forfar & Arneil’s Textbook of Pediatrics: 6th edition”, in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, volume 97, page 96, column 1:
text: I feel elated paying the twenty-some dollars to insure a decent night’s rest and a reduction of bed-envy toward my wholly innocent grandfetus.
ref: 2009, Maridel Lee Bowes, “Second Trimester”, in Who Are You Calling Grandma?: True Confessions of a Baby Boomer’s Passage, 2nd edition, Sacramento, Calif.: 3L Publishing, →ISBN, section “January 22”, page 22:
text: The newest family member (whom I refer to for the time being as our grandfetus) is now big enough to startle his dad-to-be with kicks and bumps visible on the outside of his mother’s belly.[…]Nowadays, it’s normal to know, so Simon and I know that our grandfetus is a boy.
ref: 2015, Kate Braestrup, Anchor & Flares: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hope, and Service, New York, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.; London: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, chapter one, page 4:
glosses: A fetus of someone’s child.
grandfetuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grandfetus
Contos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Contoses
Etymology: Borrowed from Greek Κοντός (Kontós).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Greek.
Corbridges
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Corbridge
Contoses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Contos
Eggemeyer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Eggemeyers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Eggemeyer.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
state capture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Among his more notable and criticized decisions was declining to charge officials linked to allegations of state capture by the Guptas, an Indian business family with close ties to Mr. Zuma.
ref: 2018 August 13, Kimon de Greef, “Ouster of Zuma Loyalist Bolsters South Africa’s Corruption Fight”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A type of systemic political corruption in which a small number of private businesses influence government policy to their own advantage.
Related terms: corpocracy
elite capture
narcostate
petrostate
regulatory capture
Eichels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Eichel
Eggemeyers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Eggemeyer
Dittmann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dittmanns
form: Dittman
Etymology: Borrowed from German Dittmann.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Devens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Devenses
Etymology: Probably a variant of Devine. See also Devins.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
glosses: A census-designated place in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
Grivița
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Grivița.
Senses: glosses: A village in Cordăreni, Botoșani County, Romania.
glosses: A commune of Galați County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Grivița, Galați County, Romania.
glosses: A commune of Ialomița County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Grivița, Ialomița County, Romania.
glosses: A commune of Vaslui County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Grivița, Vaslui County, Romania.
Devenses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Devens
Dittmanns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dittmann
Duecks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dueck
Degrate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Degrates
form: DeGrate
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Degrates
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Degrate
Delages
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Delage
Durall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Duralls
Etymology: Variant of Durrell.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
dancecard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑːnskɑːd/
ipa: /ˈdænsˌkɑɹd/
Forms: form: dancecards
Senses: examples: text: [[Episode 1: Telemachus], page 10] Her secrets: old feather fans, tassled dancecards, powdered with musk, a gaud of amber beads in her locked drawer. […] [page 423] In a onepiece evening frock executed in moonlight blue, a tinsel sylph's diadem on her brow with her dancecard fallen beside her moonblue satin slipper, curves her palm softly, breathing quickly.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], pages 10 and 423:
text: Our hostess' memorabilia included several of the little dancecards that girls of that time used at parties to dance with boys. All the songs that the band was planning to play were listed, each with a blank line next to it that the dancers needed to fill in to share a song. Many of the songs were scratched out, which our hostess explained maeant that the girl was reserving those songs for her favorite boy of the evening.
ref: 2016, Rosy Hugener, with Carl Hugener, “Cenotes”, in Xtabentum: A Novel of Yucatan, Shared Pen edition, [Lincolnshire, Ill.]: Rosa Hugener with Carl Hugener, →ISBN, page 78:
glosses: Alternative form of dance card.
dancecards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dancecard
Donate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Donates
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Donate. This surname is mostly found in Spain.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Donates
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Donate
Duralls
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Durall
dance-cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dance-card
McCausland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McCauslands
form: McAuslane
form: McCaslin
form: McCauslin
Etymology: Anglicized form of Northern Irish and Scottish Gaelic Mac Ausaláin (“son of Absolom”), from the name of a cleric.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A city in Scott County, Iowa, United States.
Costaleses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Costales
Facundos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Facundo
McCauslands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McCausland
monarchology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒlədʒi
Etymology: From monarch + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: Here we have the “merely psychological” monarchology—the classical principles of princely conduct based upon appearances.
ref: 1913, Lewis Leopold, “Political Prestige”, in Prestige: A Psychological Study of Social Estimates, London; Leipzig: T. Fisher Unwin; […], book III, page 291:
text: It is really monarchology, a biography of kings, with a record of battles and kingly doings, not a history of the people.
ref: 1914, “Some Foreign Reviews”, in The Review of Reviews, volume L, section “Spanish”, subsection “A Biography of Kings”, page 146, column 2:
text: Or General news by John Botero Benesivs, divided into five parts. The First contains Cosmography, i.e., a description of the four parts of the world,[…]. The Third contains Monarchology, i.e., information is given about the world’s most notable Monarchies.
ref: 1972, Sigmund H. Uminski, Poland Discovers America (The Poles in the Americas; volume I), New York, N.Y.: Polish Publication Society of America, pages 61–62:
text: The relatively bloodless coup d’état of the Glorious Revolution of 1688–9, at which his Protestant son-in-law William seized the throne, brought to power a man with a healthy disdain for some of the more credulous aspects of monarchology.
ref: 2006, Jeremy Paxman, “Being God’s Anointed”, in On Royalty, Viking, →ISBN, page 138:
text: Still, even if their overall approaches to politics differed, in The Law of Freedom in a Platform, the Digger referred to ‘kings alias conquerors’, a conception that was shared by Paine who developed a kind of monarchology that described the creation of monarchy as a standardised phenomenon.
ref: 2016, Carine Lounissi, “Thomas Paine’s democratic linguistic radicalism: a political philosophy of language?”, in Laurent Curelly, Nigel Smith, editors, Radical Voices, Radical Ways: Articulating and Disseminating Radicalism in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Britain, Manchester University Press, →ISBN, part I (Radical language and themes):
glosses: The study of monarchs.
plein air
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: plein-air
Etymology: Borrowed from French plein air.
Senses: examples: text: The general editor, Dr William Ruminant, directing the full resources of his Institute, operating at the highest levels of textual terrain, could care less for the plein air scenics of mere biography.
ref: 2014, Guy Mantis, “Afterword”, in Page Nelson, edited by William Ruminant, A Book of Emblems […], revised edition, Another Sparrow Press, →ISBN, page 1:
text: The next day, I began sketching out a new painting. I didn't need a photograph or a plein air study; the image was with me all the time, floating at the edge of my consciousness.
ref: 2021, Ed Tarkington, The Fortunate Ones, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, page 87:
qualifier: painting
glosses: Done outdoors.
Derived terms: en plein air
plein-air
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of plein air.
Chinese helicopter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinese helicopters
Senses: examples: text: The story goes that a recruit, when asked what school he came from, answered ‘Chinese helucated’, which went down in the army annals as Chinese helicopter.
ref: 1985, M. Chiang, Army Daze, page 43:
glosses: A Singaporean who was educated in a Chinese-medium school and is not well versed in English.
Coordinate terms: banana
inverse term referring to Chinese who speak English but cannot understand their native language
religiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From religio- + -logy.
Senses: examples: text: Religiology is a branch of science and its aim is the scientific study of religion. It seeks to acquire a basic knowledge of religion as a phase of culture, without the bias of a specific belief-system. Only the scientific study of religion can achieve this aim.
ref: 1967 Jul, “RELIGIOLOGY”, in Numen, volume 14, number Fasc. 2, Brill, page 81:
text: Religiology has to manage its own evaluation. If not, a serious shortcoming is created. On the other hand this leads to a theologising of ethnology and religiology. And neither ethnology nor religiology is theology!
ref: 1982, I[gnatius] J[ohannes] Van der Walt, “Religiology and Ethno-Religiology”, in Defining Ethnology and Religious Science, Potchefstroom: Universum, section 6 (Christian Religiology), page 46:
text: Since beauty and ugliness, rightness and wrongness, wisdom and folly, income and expenditures all involve goodness and badness, then understanding the general, specific, and particular problems in aesthetics, ethics, religiology, and economics, etc., involve understanding goodness and badness.
ref: 1993, Archie J. Bahm, “Why Axiology?”, in Axiology: The Science of Values (Value inquiry book series; volume 2), Amsterdam; Atlanta, Ga.: Rodopi, →ISBN, section 1 (Axiology as a Science), subsection B (Axiology Is the Most Basic Value Science), pages 4–5:
text: Nor should it be assumed that theology and religiology are fundamentally incompatible kinds of discipline.
ref: 1994, Peter Moore, “Religions as Systems”, in Peter Masefield, Donald Wiebe, editors, Aspects of Religion: Essays in Honour of Ninian Smart, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 55:
glosses: Synonym of religious studies.
synonyms: word: religious studies
Derived terms: religiological
religiologist
sitting tenants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sitting tenant
biotheology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + theology.
Senses: examples: text: The truth is that biotheology is anything but scientific; like all theologies, it is founded on faith, not reason.
ref: 1973, Horizon, page 33, column 2:
text: Indeed, sociobiology has a certain synergy with biotheology, and some of its less controversial concepts strengthen biotheology.
ref: 1996, Michael Cavanaugh, “Sin and Morality”, in Biotheology: A New Synthesis of Science and Religion, Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, Inc., →ISBN, page 175:
text: Chiropractors are now associated with hospitals, and even with some medical school programs, on a limited basis. These changes are resultant not only of the Wilk decision but more specifically of the fact that chiropractic physicians have joined with various allopathic research programs (such as the Rand, ACHRP, and Quebec Task Force studies) and have appeared at various scientific symposia. The chiropractors associated with such projects have divested themselves of the chiropractic dogma, biotheology, and philosophy.
ref: 1997, 1997 Wiley Expert Witness Update: New Developments in Personal Injury Litigation, →ISBN, page 67:
glosses: The synthetic application of understanding of biology to the understanding of God, synthesizing modern biology and traditional religious doctrines.
quaaltagh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quaaltaghs
Senses: examples: text: On these occasions a person of dark complexion always enters first, as a light haired male or female is deemed unlucky to be a first-foot or quaaltagh on New Year's morning. The actors of the quaaltagh do not assume fantastic habiliments like the Mummers of England or the Guisards of Scotland, nor do they, like these rude performers of the ancient mysteries, appear ever to have been attended by minstrels playing on different kinds of musical instruments.
ref: 1845, Joseph Train, “Manners and Customs”, in An Historical and Statistical Account of the Isle of Man, from the Earliest Times to the Present Date; […], volume II, Douglas, Isle of Man: […] Mary A. Quiggin, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 115:
text: On New Year's Eve there occurred an incident which greatly increased the tension at Claddagh House. Mrs. Colquitt was in a painful state of agitation about the quaaltagh, or first person who should cross the threshold after midnight. If he happened to be dark, she anticipated some wonderful slice of luck; if light, a continuance of misfortune; and if a spaagaght or splay-footed person, nothing short of a calamity. […] [S]he kept trotting up and downstairs, being imperatively urged to confide to Mona her wish that the quaaltagh might be somebody she had just thought of, a different somebody each time.
ref: 1887, Hugh Coleman Davidson, “Suspense”, in The Green Hills by the Sea: A Manx Story […], volume III, London: Hurst and Blackett, […], →OCLC, pages 4–5:
text: The "White Boys," the "Hunt the Wren Boys," and "Quaaltaghs" received the dessert.
ref: 1911, John Clague, Cooinaghtyn Manninagh: Manx Reminiscences, Castletown, Isle of Man: M. J. Backwell, →OCLC, page 11:
text: Did you ever use to go as the ‘quaaltagh?’ […] I did indeed!
ref: 1977, Jennifer Kewley Draskau, quoting John Gell, “Verbs”, in Practical Manx, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, published 2008, →ISBN, page 126:
qualifier: Isle of Man
glosses: Alternative spelling of qualtagh.
quadrijugal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quadri- + jugal.
Senses: examples: text: During his Exile he [Cimon Coalemos] obtain'd the Olympian Prize in the Quadrijugal Chariot-race, and transferr'd the Honour to Miltiades his Mother's Son.
ref: 1720, Herodotus, “Book VI. Erato.”, in Isaac Littlebury, transl., The History of Herodotus: Translated from the Greek, 2nd edition, volume II, London: […] A. Bell, […], →OCLC, page 126:
glosses: Especially of a chariot: pulled by four horses.
quadrilater
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: quadrilateral
quadrilater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadrilaters
Senses: glosses: quadrilateral
axe throwing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊɪŋ
Senses: glosses: A sport in which a competitor throws an axe at a target, attempting to hit the bullseye as near as possible.
make-before-break
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of a switch or other electronic device, that creates a new electrical connection before an older one is broken.
Bolondz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Polish Bołądź.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Jersey Marine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Coedffranc community, Neath Port Talbot borough county borough, Wales, to the east of Swansea (OS grid ref SS7194).
Cwrt Sart
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌkʊə(ɹ)t ˈsɑː(ɹ)t/
Etymology: From Welsh cwrt.
Senses: glosses: A suburban area and electoral ward in Briton Ferry community, Neath Port Talbot borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SS7495).
Neath Abbey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area and ruins of an abbey to the west of Neath, Neath Port Talbot borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SS7397).
Bicaz-Chei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Bicaz-Chei.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Neamț County, Romania.
Bicaz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Bicaz.
Senses: glosses: A town in Neamț County, Romania.
glosses: A commune of Maramureș County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Bicaz, Maramureș County, Romania.
Bicazu Ardelean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Bicazu Ardelean.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Neamț County, Romania.
Corod
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Corod.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Galați County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Culciu, Satu Mare County, Romania.
on contact
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: White phosphorus ignites on contact with the air.
glosses: Immediately after being impacted or touched by something.
Daxi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: däʹshēʹ
Forms: form: Tahsi
form: Ta-hsi
form: Dasi
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大溪 (Dàxī).
Senses: examples: text: At Cihu, near the town of Daxi, 30 miles (50 km) southwest of Taipei on Provincial Highway 7, Chiang Kai-shek lies entombed above ground in a granite and marble coffin in one of his former country villas. The gravesite is "temporary," as before his death Chiang had requested his body be returned to his native province of Zhejiang in mainland China.
ref: 2011, Phil Macdonald, Taiwan, 3rd edition, National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 122:
text: Now, busloads of Chinese tourists come every week to visit Chiang’s tomb, nestled between two red and blue Taiwanese flags in the small town of Daxi, an hour’s drive south of Taipei.
ref: 2012 August 30, Sarah Mishkin, “Chinese tourists boost Taiwan’s economy”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2012, Asia:
glosses: A district of Taoyuan, Taiwan.
wikipedia: :zh:周婉窈
exposure therapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of coping in which the target patient is exposed to an anxiety source with the intention of helping them overcome it.
Winnipegonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌwɪnɪpəˈɡəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌwɪnɪpəˈɡoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Winnipegonians
form: Winnipeggonian
Etymology: From Winnipeg + -o- + -n- + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Winnipegger; a denizen of Winnipeg.
synonyms: word: Winnipegger
extra: a denizen of Winnipeg
Winnipegonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌwɪnɪpəˈɡəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌwɪnɪpəˈɡoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Winnipegonian
form: most Winnipegonian
form: Winnipeggonian
Etymology: From Winnipeg + -o- + -n- + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Winnipegian; Pertaining to Winnipeg
synonyms: word: Winnipegian
extra: Pertaining to Winnipeg
Winnipegian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Winnipegians
form: Winnipeggian
Etymology: From Winnipeg + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Winnipegger; a denizen of Winnipeg.
synonyms: word: Winnipegger
extra: a denizen of Winnipeg
Winnipegian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Winnipegian
form: most Winnipegian
form: Winnipeggian
Etymology: From Winnipeg + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to Winnipeg
Synonyms: Winnipegonian
Ottawian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ottawians
Etymology: From Ottawa + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Ottawan; A denizen of Ottawa
synonyms: word: Ottawan
extra: A denizen of Ottawa
Ottawian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ottawian
form: most Ottawian
Etymology: From Ottawa + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Ottawan; Pertaining to Ottawa
Pertaining to the National Capital Region of Canada
glosses: Synonym of Ottawan; Pertaining to Ottawa
Pertaining to the Ottawa Tribe, Language, People, First Nation
glosses: Synonym of Ottawan; Pertaining to Ottawa
Pertaining to the Ottawa Valley and Ottawa River
Careys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Carey
something is up
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: something's up
Senses: glosses: Something off-putting or suspicious is in the air.
something's up
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of something is up.
green June beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green June beetles
Senses: synonyms: June bug
fig-eater
glosses: Cotinis nitida, a species of beetle found in the eastern United States and Canada.
flippy-floppy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flippy-floppy
form: most flippy-floppy
Senses: glosses: Floppy.
flippy-floppy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flippy-floppies
Senses: examples: text: Double density and “flippy-floppies” are also on the horizon. A flippy-floppy allows data recording on both sides; regular floppies can use only one.
ref: 1975, Computer Decisions, volume 7, page 30:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A two-sided floppy disk; a flippy disk.
antemodern
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antemodern
form: most antemodern
Etymology: From ante- + modern.
Senses: glosses: Before modern or modernity or modernization.
Synonyms: antique
untranscendental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untranscendental
form: most untranscendental
Etymology: From un- + transcendental.
Senses: glosses: nontranscendental
RATOG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of rocket-assisted take-off gear.
Synonyms: JATO
RATO
onticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: onticities
Etymology: From ontic + -ity.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
qualifier: metaphysics
glosses: One's ontic attributes.
quantative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: quantitative
quaranty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quaranties
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Council of Forty, former courts with 40 members in Florence and Venice.
synonyms: word: Council of Forty
word: former courts with 40 members in Florence and Venice
caninelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From canine + -like.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of a dog
casirivimab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -vi- + -mab.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A monoclonal antibody used together with imdevimab to treat Covid-19
Synonyms: REGN10987
Derived terms: casirivimab
imdevimab
imdevimab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -vi- + -mab.
Senses: glosses: A monoclonal antibody used with casirivimab to treat COVID-19
Synonyms: REGN10933
Derived terms: casirivimab
imdevimab
cyanotyping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The production of cyanotypes
Hsiaokan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 孝感 (Xiàogǎn) Wade–Giles romanization: Hsiao⁴-kan³.
Senses: examples: text: By October the 24th, headquarters had passed from Huayuan to Hsiaokan, only 45 miles from Hankow, and in a telegram dated from that place on October 25th it was announced by General Yin Ch'ang that the main body of the Imperialists had moved forward to Niehkow, some six or seven miles from Kilometre Ten, and that he himself was following.
ref: 1912, Percy Horace Kent, “The Struggle for Hankow”, in The Passing of the Manchus, Longmans, Green & Co., →OCLC, page 135:
text: As Hanyang is of great importance on account of the arsenal being located in that area, Wu wished to recapture it, but Chin Yun-ao urged him to retreat to Hsiaokan along the Peking-Hankow Railway, and to let Liu Tso-lung occupy Hankow.
ref: 1937, Hollington Tong, Chiang Kai-shek Soldier And Statesman, volume 1, Shanghai: China Publishing Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 114:
text: Dr Walton arrived in 1893, and the two men made preparations to open a hospital at Hsiaokan, encouraged by a gift of £200 for building purposes from the Mission to Lepers, with a promise of £50 p.a. for costs.
ref: 1998, Noel Gibbard, Griffith John: Apostle to Central China, Bryntirion Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 143:
glosses: Alternative form of Xiaogan.
dabberlocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: badderlocks
doomscroller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doomscrollers
Etymology: From doom + scroller.
Senses: examples: text: One doomscroller notes he wakes each day hopeful for what is to come, but the first thing he does is reach for his telephone so he can throw himself into the abyss of negative news.
ref: 2020, Robert West, chapter 1, in Stop Doomscrolling: How to Break the Cycle to Relieve Stress, Decrease Anxiety, and Regain Your Life, Annus Mirabilis Publishing:
glosses: A person who engages in doomscrolling.
emissionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From emission + -less.
Senses: glosses: That is associated with no (harmful) emissions
Colgates
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Colgate
etesevimab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ? + -mab
Senses: glosses: A monoclonal antibody used with bamlanivimab
ultraresilient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ultra- + resilient.
Senses: glosses: Very resilient; that exhibits ultraresilience
quemadero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quemaderos
Etymology: From Spanish quemadero.
Senses: glosses: A place where Spanish heretics were executed by burning.
Clavin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Clavins
Etymology: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Mac Fhláimhín (“son of Flaithimhín”), a personal name from a diminutive of flaith (“prince, ruler”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Centrella
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Centrellas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Centrella.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Centrellas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Centrella
Clavins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Clavin
Cela
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Celas
Etymology: Borrowed from Galician Cela, but also from Albanian Çela.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Bulow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bulows
Etymology: Borrowed from German Bülow.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Bulows
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bulow
Celas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cela
Fosnaugh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fosnaughs
Etymology: Americanized spelling of German Fasnacht.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Fratus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fratuses
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Fratus or a corrupted form of Portuguese Freitas.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Fratuses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fratus
Fosnaughs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fosnaugh
Falin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Falins
Etymology: Variant of Fallon.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Graffam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Graffams
Etymology: Variant of Grafham.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Farhans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Farhan
Falins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Falin
Graffams
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Graffam
Grumbles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Grumbleses
Etymology: Apparently, a variant of Grumble.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Garmany
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Garmanys
Etymology: Altered spelling of the French habitational surname Garmigny.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Garmanys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Garmany
Grumbleses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Grumbles
Gunbys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gunby
Gorings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Goring
Hovhannisyan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hovhannisyans
form: Hovhannisian
form: Hovannisyan
form: Hovannisian
Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian Հովհաննիսյան (Hovhannisyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian, equivalent to English Johnson.
Lancon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lancons
Etymology: Borrowed from French Lançon and Spanish Lancón.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Lancons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lancon
Hovhannisyans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hovhannisyan
Duartes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Duarte
Sellerses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sellers
shor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shors
Etymology: From Russian, of Turko-Mongol origin.
Senses: glosses: A salt lake.
queyu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: queyus
Senses: glosses: A skirt or apron of woven glass beads worn by Amerindian women of Guyana
quiblet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quiblets
Senses: glosses: A quibble; an objection.
quicksticks
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: in quick sticks
quidditas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: quiddity
quindecile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quindeciles
Etymology: From quindec- + -ile.
Senses: glosses: A fifteenth of a circle (24 degrees).
quinidia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: By saponification there is naturally formed from this compound neither quinia nor quinicia, but quinidia.
ref: 1881, American Journal of Pharmacy, volume 53, page 107:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: quinidine
quinquagene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪŋkwəˌd͡ʒin/
ipa: /ˈkwɪŋkwəd͡ʒiːn/
Forms: form: quinquagenes
Etymology: From the shared title of three works of St. Augustine, Medieval Latin Quinquagena either directly or via French quinquagene, from Latin quīnquāgēnus (“50 each”), distributive form of quīnquāgintā (“50”). Cognate with quinquagent.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A set of 50 psalms, typically with an analytical commentary.
wikipedia: Augustine of Hippo
Hypernyms: psalter
Psalms
quinquenary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: quinary
quirling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: She thought there was something alive in her side, for (to use her own expression) she said she plainly perceived a tickling and quirling in it...The stomach had hitherto received, retained, and digested the food tolerably well, but was now affected with an incessant heaving and nausea, unless now and then relieved by strong opiates or large draughts of spirituous liquors; there was likewise the same sensation of tickling and quirling in it that had been before perceived in the side.
ref: 1754, Thomas Bond, “An account of a worm bred in the liver”, in Med. Observ. & Inq., volume 1:
text: She next complained of a quirling pain, that wou’d last three or four hours with the utmost violence.
ref: 1755, Sarah Browne, “A letter from Mrs. Holt's sister to Benjamin Franklin, Esq., describing the same case”, in Med. Observ. & Inq., volume 1:
glosses: present participle and gerund of quirl
wild succory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wild succories
Senses: glosses: Common chicory (Cichorium intybus)
Aramaeogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aramaeograms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Arameogram
Aramaeograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aramaeogram
aramaeogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aramaeograms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Arameogram.
aramaeograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aramaeogram
Arameogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Arameograms
form: arameogram
form: Aramaeogram
form: aramaeogram
form: Aramæogram
form: aramæogram
Etymology: From Arameo- + -gram.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
hypernyms: heterogram
glosses: The spelling of an Aramaic word employed as a logogram to represent another word in another language when writing this language, such as Middle Persian.
Arameograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Arameogram
arameogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arameograms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Arameogram.
arameograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arameogram
antihypertriglyceridemia
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + hypertriglyceridemia.
Senses: glosses: Countering hypertriglyceridemia.
Synonyms: antihypertriacylglycerolemia
antihypertriacylglycerolemic
antihypertriglyceridemic
Hilgay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈhɪlɡeɪ/
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF6298).
meio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Ultimately from Ancient Greek μεῖον (meîon, “less”).
Senses: glosses: Small, little.
glosses: Related to meiosis.
oblonging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oblong
oblonged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oblong
Gucci socialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gucci socialists
Etymology: From Gucci (“luxury fashion house”) + socialist.
Senses: examples: text: It is very much the Gucci socialist party that has lost contact with the average working man.
ref: 1991, Victoria. Parliament. Legislative Assembly, Victoria Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: Legislative Assembly:
text: In fact, as an old man, Goldfinger was largely forgotten, described by himself as demonised, and by others as embittered and a 'Gucci Socialist' hungry for the social significance of a knighthood.
ref: 2008 September 24, Kenneth Allinson, Architects and Architecture of London, Routledge, →ISBN, page 328:
synonyms: chardonnay socialist
gauche caviar
champagne socialist
silver-spoon socialist
smoked salmon socialist
glosses: A person who claims to support the worker's control over the means of production, but has a lifestyle that does not match his/her beliefs.
Ten Mile Bank
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: More than likely named after Ten Mile Bank, a long road along the bank of the Great Ouse.
Senses: glosses: A village in Hilgay parish, King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF6096).
wikipedia: Ten Mile Bank
Mawhood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mawhoods
Senses: glosses: A surname.
wild chicory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wild chicories
Senses: glosses: Common chicory (Cichorium intybus)
wild chicories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wild chicory
Frickley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɪkli/
Senses: glosses: A small village in Clayton with Frickley parish, Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE4608).
antihypertriacylglycerolemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + hypertriacylglycerolemia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: That counters hypertriacylglycerolemia
Synonyms: antihypertriacylglycerolemia
antihypertriglyceridemia
antihypertriglyceridemic
asphyxiophiliac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asphyxiophiliacs
Etymology: From asphyxiophilia + -ac.
Senses: examples: text: I am an asphyxiophiliac. I started to strangle myself when I was sixteen. I didn't hang myself, however, I choked!
ref: 1995, John M. Grossberg, Eccentric and Bizarre Behaviors, Wiley, →ISBN, page 112:
text: The lust murderer, the necrophile, the autassassinophilac and the asphyxiophiliac are defined and diagnosed within sexology partly by their compulsion to perform their act.
ref: 2011, Sarah Toulalan, Bodies, Sex and Desire from the Renaissance to the Present, Springer, →ISBN, page 217:
text: McCarry was an asphyxiophiliac who had a history of engaging in autoerotic asphyxiation and Waters had full knowledge of this fact.
ref: 2016, Dennis J. Baker, Reinterpreting Criminal Complicity and Inchoate Participation Offences, Routledge, →ISBN, page 270:
glosses: A person who enjoys erotic asphyxiation.
Vârșolț
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Vârșolț.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Sălaj County, Romania.
Otterbourne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in City of Winchester district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU4623).
mapletree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mapletrees
Senses: examples: text: The looper caterpillar has been very abundant on beech and mapletrees. A few specimens of the cottony mapletree scale insect [Pulvinaria innumerabilis Rathv.] have appeared on maples, and another scale (Lecanium ? quercitronis) was found on ironwood leaves that had withered on the branch.[…]252 Mapletree borer, Plagionotus speciosus Say. Principal food plant: sugar mapletrees.[…]1042 Insects injurious to mapletrees: white marked tussock moth and forest tent-caterpillar (pl. 1 in special paper), leopard moth and maple sesian (pl. 2 in special paper), sugar maple borer, mapletree pruner and cottony mapletree scale insect (pl. 3 of special paper).
ref: 1902, Report of the State Entomologist on Injurious and Other Insects of the State of New York, pages 144, 863, and 897:
text: In accordance with this theory, they explain Maplesden Sx as ‘denn of the mapletree’, EPNS VII (1930), 453.[…]If -ra stands for -re, not for -or, -er, the 1st el. may be the gen. sg. of mapuldor f. ‘mapletree’. Hence, ‘the mapletree trunk’.[…]Only one landmark, edles pyt, separates it from ‘the mapletree west of Assundene’.
ref: 1940, Erik Tengstrand, A Contribution to the Study of Genitival Composition in Old English Place-names, Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksells boktryckeri-a.-b., pages XXXIX, 111, and 231:
text: “You must have heard” – addressed the stranger – “about the blight that has struck our mapletrees. Terrible. Some little fly has attacked our mapletrees. The papers are full of it. A real blight. Right at the core of our mapletrees. They’ve written a song about it.”[…]Stefan emptied his glass and, paprika-red, declared that the authorities, apparently inspired by the Baron, had turned the mapletree into a kind of local totem.
ref: 1995, P.E.N. Israel 1995: A Collection of Recent Writing in Israel, P.E.N. Israel, pages 88–89:
glosses: Alternative form of maple tree.
mapletrees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mapletree
mechanical horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mechanical horses
Senses: examples: text: Three views showing various units of the G.W.R. fleet of mechanical horses engaged in the delivery in London of what are termed officially "galvanised corrugated steel shelters." The G.W.R. effected its deliveries from the Paddington and South Lambeth depots
ref: 1939 November, Charles E. Lee, “Railways and the War — I”, in Railway Magazine, page 312, photo caption:
text: But the horse has left his mark, for his successor is a mechanical horse designed to a large extent to copy the leading characteristics of the live horse; easy attachment to or detachment from its load, a small turning circle, a small appetite for petrol, but giving a much higher acceleration and speed, and so capable of much greater distances, so that fewer cartage units are required.
ref: 1944 November and December, T. F. Cameron, “Motor and Cartage Working”, in Railway Magazine, page 335:
glosses: A three-wheeled tractor unit which was usually coupled to a short semitrailer.
tonsil stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊn
Forms: form: tonsil stones
Senses: synonyms: tonsillolith
glosses: A mineralization of debris within the crevices of the tonsils.
mechanical horses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mechanical horse
Wei-hai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 威海 (Wēihǎi) Wade–Giles romanization: Wei¹-hai³.
Senses: examples: text: In China Britain acquired no formal colonies or protectorates in addition to Hong Kong (annexed in 1842) but took spheres of interest in the basin of the Yangtze and around Canton, adjusted the frontier of Burma, and acquired the lease of the port of Wei-hai-wei (Wei-hai).
ref: 1968, David Kenneth Fieldhouse, “Commonwealth of Nations”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 6, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 179–180:
text: In 1897, Germany gained control of the Ch’ing-tao area in Shantung; the following year, the British acquired the Wei-hai region also in Shantung; and the Russians acquired Ta-lien and Lu-shun in Liaotung.
ref: 2008, James Laxer, The Perils of Empire, Viking Canada, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 77:
glosses: Alternative form of Weihai.
wikipedia: Encyclopædia Britannica
peach trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peach tree
Wushi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: wo͞oʹshûʹ
Forms: form: Wu-shih
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of 烏什／乌什 (Wūshí).
Senses: examples: text: On February 5, 2005, an earthquake of the magnitude of 6.2 occurred in Wushi County; on July 20, 2007, an earthquake of the magnitude 5.7 happened in Tekesi County; on March 21, 2008, another earthquake of the magnitude of 7.3 occurred in Yutian—Celle... There were 36 earthquakes of over the magnitude of 5 from 2004 to 2009, but none of those seismic resistance houses had collapsed.
ref: 2014, 李欣凭 [Li Xinping], 活力新疆 [Modern Xinjiang], Beijing: China Intercontinental Press (五洲传播出版社), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 201:
english: Modern Xinjiang
translation: Modern Xinjiang
glosses: Synonym of Uqturpan: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
synonyms: word: Uqturpan
extra: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name
elaeocarps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elaeocarp
atheisted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of atheist
atheisting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of atheist
analing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of anal
analed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of anal