cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
underroot
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more underroot
form: most underroot
Etymology: From Middle English underwroten, equivalent to under- + root.
Senses: examples: text: It is a rain forest and mucky underroot place where hard land is scarce.
ref: 1998, Hannah Rachel Bell, Men's Business, Women's Business:
text: His own bloodveins stretched for the riverroots which...; all held silent communion; all were part of; all tapped the latent elements of seed and death undertree, underroot.
ref: 2009, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Julian the Magician, page 70:
text: I already hinted at the problem of sea eutrophication (where excess nutrients cause algae to flourish) due to the phosphates that used to be added to washing powder, and, surely, it is not pleasant for plants to find underfoot (or, better, "underroot") those surfactants we use daily at home (please, never pour your dishwater on the roots of a magnificent camellia, even if it is blooming in the garden of a next-door neighbor you cannot stand).
ref: 2011, Roberto Piazza, Soft Matter: The stuff that dreams are made of, page 130:
glosses: Beneath the roots.
underroot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underroots
Etymology: From Middle English underwroten, equivalent to under- + root.
Senses: examples: text: To my knowledge, this is the only tree, having a Manregian underroot, that has shown blackline.
ref: 1952, Northern Nut Grower's Association, Annual Report of the Northern Nut Growers Association, page 37:
text: During December limbs and growth in the crown were pruned and an area around the base of the trunk was mulched to help keep the direct underroots frost-free.
ref: 1972, Roads and Streets - Volume 115, page 56:
text: The flower stalk has good substance, foliage very similar to P. superbus, rosette has side shoots coming from underroots.
ref: 1992, Dale T. Lindgren, Betty Davenport, List and Description of Named Cultivars in the Genus Penstemon, page 36:
text: The old man appears in this scene very much like the wise Wotan of Norse myth, who won his wisdom from Mimir's well in the tangled underroots of the World Tree Yggdrasil .
ref: 1997, Evans Lansing Smith, Figuring Poesis: A Mythical Geometry of Postmodernism, page 108:
glosses: The underground root portion of a plant, or a single underground root.
examples: text: The word Bapt cannot here, any more than elsewhere, explain itself, There is nothing back of it. It has no underroot.
ref: 1858, Samuel Fuller, Loutron: Or, Water Baptism, page 19:
text: It has deep underroots.
ref: 1993, American Flint Glass Workers' Union, Proceedings of the Ninety-Ninth International Convention, page 60:
text: But did they check the underroots?” Dash asked, absently looping an arm around Frost and letting her settle in his lap, though his attention was still on the platform. His scaly brow knit in worry. "It doesn't look stable to me."
ref: 2012, Martha Wells, The Siren Depths:
glosses: An underlying root or basis
underroot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underroots
Senses: examples: text: The underroot of the product of two regression coefficients gives us the coefficient of correlation .
ref: 1981, Paruchuri R. Krishnaiah, A Hand Book of Statistics - Volume 1, page 298:
text: To take the underroot of (2c-n)/n, the negative (2c-n)/n is multiplied with the minus sign to make it positive since one cannot take the underroot of minus item.
ref: 2008, Tulsian P.C. & Jhunjhunwala Bharat, Business Statistics, pages 7-32:
text: The Euclidian distance uses the under-root of the squared sum of the difference between individual ratings of the two samples whose similarity we want to find.
ref: 2020, Gulshan Shrivastava, Sheng-Lung Peng, Himani Bansal, New Age Analytics: Transforming the Internet through Machine Learning, page 193:
glosses: Square root.
Tindales
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tindale
phytophenomenology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Ikerbasque philosopher Michael Marder in 2012, from phyto- + phenomenology
Senses: examples: text: This article provided no more than the prolegomena to the fruitful interdisciplinary combination of phenomenology, botany and population ecology—an approach we may term phytophenomenology.
ref: 2012, Michael Marder, “Plant intentionality and the phenomenological framework of plant intelligence”, in Plant Signaling & Behavior, volume 7, number 11, →DOI, page 7:
text: This collocation, Marder posits, may have less to do with plants’ actual botanical mysteries and our human investigations into their biological truths and more to do with the ways that they inhabit and make sense of the world, what he calls their ‘phytophenomenology’, an extension of ecophenomenological work by scholars such as David Wood.
ref: 2018, Katherine E. Bishop, “‘When ‘tis Night, Death is Green’: Vegetal Time in Nineteenth-Century Econoir”, in Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, volume 22, number 1, →DOI, page 8:
text: Intertwined with Michael Pollan's thesis in The Botany of Desire on plant agency reversing traditional anthropocentric causation, Jitterbug Perfume encourages a closer look at plant biology as well as what Michael Marder names phytophenomenology, accentuating the superficiality of plant-thinking as an unexpected strength that might also benefit human comportment.
ref: 2020, Yogi Hale Hendlin, “Sunlight as a Photosynthetic Information Technology: Becoming Plant in Tom Robbins's Jitterbug Perfume”, in Katherine E. Bishop et al., editors, Plants in Science Fiction: Speculative Vegetation, University of Wales Press, page 153:
glosses: The interdisciplinary study of plant intelligence, drawing on phenomenology, botany and population ecology.
phytophenomenological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to phytophenomenology.
standard meridian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It is intended that local time at any place on the surface of the globe shall generally be regulated by the standard meridian nearest or most convenient to such place in longitude.
ref: 1884, International Institute for Preserving and Perfecting Weights and Measures, Committee on Standard Time, What Shall be the Prime Meridian for the World?, page 22:
glosses: The meridian used for determining standard time.
Forest Head
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Farlam parish, City of Carlisle district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY5857).
Barclays
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Barclay
Aglionby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aglionbys
Etymology: From the Norman personal name Agyllun, which probably derives from Old French aguillun (“point, thorn”), + Old Norse býr (“farmstead”).
Senses: glosses: A village in Wetheral parish, City of Carlisle district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY4456).
examples: text: The other returns having come in, the result of the poll, that Sir James Graham had been superseded by Major Aglionby, was declared at Carlisle soon after 11 a.m.
ref: 1942 May-June, Charles E. Lee, “The Brampton Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 140, relating to an election in 1837:
glosses: A habitational surname.
Halleys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Halley
vajays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vajay
vanilla-y
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈnɪlə.i/
note: with intrusive r
ipa: /vəˈnɪləɹi/
Forms: form: more vanilla-y
form: most vanilla-y
form: vanilla-ey
Etymology: From vanilla + -y.
Senses: glosses: Like or resembling vanilla in flavour.
leanto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leantos
Senses: examples: text: The utmost possible economy of room is made for packing the hay and grain, and the stables are mere leantos, made of light frame, attached to the sides and ends of the main building.
ref: 1842 April, “Farm Buildings.”, in American Agriculturist, volume 1, number 1, New York, →OCLC, page 119, column 2:
text: Across the river, and a short way from the village is a small leanto hut, which is pointed out to me by the Weme people as a hut in which a sick and dying man of their group moved, rather than stay in the village...
ref: 1973, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, Melanesian Journal, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 110:
glosses: Alternative form of lean-to.
knocks oneself out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of knock oneself out
knocking oneself out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of knock oneself out
knocked oneself out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of knock oneself out
Hartleyburn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in south-west Northumberland, England.
Halton Lea Gate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Hartleyburn parish, south-west Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NY6558).
sexagesms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sexagesm
quingenary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɪnˈd͡ʒɛn(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ˈkwɪnd͡ʒəˌnɛɹi/
ipa: /kwɪnˈd͡ʒiːn(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /kwɪnˈd͡ʒɛn(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ˈkwɪnd͡ʒɪn(ə)ɹi/
Forms: form: quingenaries
Etymology: From Latin quīngēnārius (“containing 500”), from Latin quīngēnī (“500 each”) + -ārius (“-ary”), from quīngentī (“five hundreds”). Cognate with quingenarious and quinquagenary.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of quincentennial: A 500th anniversary.
synonyms: word: quincentennial
extra: A 500th anniversary
quingenary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɪnˈd͡ʒɛn(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ˈkwɪnd͡ʒəˌnɛɹi/
ipa: /kwɪnˈd͡ʒiːn(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /kwɪnˈd͡ʒɛn(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ˈkwɪnd͡ʒɪn(ə)ɹi/
Etymology: From Latin quīngēnārius (“containing 500”), from Latin quīngēnī (“500 each”) + -ārius (“-ary”), from quīngentī (“five hundreds”). Cognate with quingenarious and quinquagenary.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Of or related to units of 500 men.
quingenaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quingenary
Mother Theresas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mother Theresa
tire swing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tire swings
Senses: glosses: a swing (hanging seat) using a tire as the seat, which may be considered a children's toy, particularly the U.S.
post-box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: post-boxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of post box.
letter-box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: letter-boxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of letter box.
letter-boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of letter-box
post-boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of post-box
hexagenarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɛk.sə.d͡ʒɪˈnɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌhɛk.sə.d͡ʒɪˈnɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: hexagenarians
Etymology: Blend of hexa- + sexagenarian, from a conflation of Greek and Latin roots.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sixtysomething: a person between 60 and 69 years old.
synonyms: word: sixtysomething
extra: a person between 60 and 69 years old
hexagenarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexagenarian
Sangeeta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit संगीत (saṃgīta).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit.
Adeyemo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Adeyemos
Etymology: Borrowed from Yoruba Adéyẹmọ.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Yoruba.
glosses: A surname from Yoruba.
Helsingør
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Elsinore, Denmark; the Danish spelling.
synonyms: word: Elsinore
extra: the Danish spelling
word: Denmark
extra: the Danish spelling
office work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any activity intended to be productive primarily using the mind and not requiring significant movement or bodily exertion
glosses: A set of related activities including record-keeping, organizing, accounting, communicating, editing, or managing
glosses: Work that is part of a bureaucracy.
glosses: Any work that takes place in an office except facility maintenance and janitorial services
Synonyms: shallow work
office job
Related terms: white-collar
black-coated
tryharding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tryhard
tryharded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tryhard
Hvalsø
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in central Zealand, Denmark, west of Roskilde.
Slangerup
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in the municipality of Frederikssund, north Zealand, Denmark.
make a wrong turn at Albuquerque
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes a wrong turn at Albuquerque
form: making a wrong turn at Albuquerque
form: made a wrong turn at Albuquerque
form: made a wrong turn at Albuquerque
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of take a wrong turn at Albuquerque.
make the wrong turn at Albuquerque
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes the wrong turn at Albuquerque
form: making the wrong turn at Albuquerque
form: made the wrong turn at Albuquerque
form: made the wrong turn at Albuquerque
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of take a wrong turn at Albuquerque.
Hillerød
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality in north Zealand, Denmark.
facilities maintenance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: facilities maintenances
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of facility maintenance.
facility maintenance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: facility maintenances
Senses: synonyms: facility management
glosses: A set of actions performed to keep a commercial building in service.
glosses: A department of an organization responsible for facility maintenance activities.
Quadragene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Quadragenes
form: Quadragenae
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of quadragene.
Quadragenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Quadragene
Quadragenae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Quadragene
Red Forest
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Red Forest
Etymology: From red + forest. Calque of Slavic (Russian Ры́жий лес (Rýžij les) and Ukrainian Руди́й ліс (Rudýj lis)). From the reddish colouration of the forest leaves and trees in the contamination zone.
Senses: glosses: A red forest in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Vyshhorod Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Polesia, Ukraine; a highly radioactive and highly contaminated pine forest caused by fallout from the Chornobyl-Vladimir Lenin nuclear power plant meltdown disaster accident.
wikipedia: Red Forest
come too
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of come to.
office job
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: office jobs
Senses: glosses: An economic role where the associated work primarily takes place in an office environment.
glosses: An economic role whose responsibilities are primarily office work.
Synonyms: desk job
office work
white-collar
quaranties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quaranty
hawalla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hawallas
Senses: examples: text: In view of the provisions of the Payment of Wages Act, the question as to whether “hawalla payments” arranged by mill agents to their operatives going on leave should continue to be made since interest on such payments is no longer permissible, was considered by the Labour and Technical Advisory […]
ref: 1937, Millowners' Association (Bombay), Report, G. Claridge and Co., →OCLC, page 36:
text: It is much more difficult when you are dealing with underground banking systems, hawalla systems, et cetera, when expatriate workers are trying to transfer money back home and there are no records or very little records to speak of.
ref: 2004 March 18, US Congress, U.S. and Foreign Efforts to Recover Iraq's Stolen Money (108–72), →ISBN, page 16:
text: Twenty-seven-year-old Abdul Salaam, his 50-year-old brother Haji Osman Khan and his 19-year-old cousin Noor Aslam ran a hawalla (a money exchange/forwarding business) with branches in Pakistan and the UAE.
ref: 2007 October 20, Andy Worthington, The Guantanamo Files, Pluto Press, →ISBN, page 180:
text: Informal remittances in turn can also be stimulated by resorting to hawalla or other informal institutions during a disaster aftermath (Harvey 2007).
ref: 2013 May 2, J.M. Albala-Bertrand, Disasters and the Networked Economy, Routledge, →ISBN, page 66:
text: Where remittances from/to individuals abroad represent a significant share of FX inflows, an overvalued official exchange rate will tend to motivate some people to use informal channels for remittances—whether the use of cash, or other channels such as hawalla—and this can lead to a widening of the spread between the official and parallel markets.
ref: 2021 February 5, Mr.Simon T Gray, Recognizing Reality, International Monetary Fund, →ISBN, page 10:
glosses: Alternative form of hawala.
circumstantial evidence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
antonyms: direct evidence
glosses: Evidence that relies on an inference to connect it to a conclusion of fact.
Related terms: hearsay evidence
Prakritize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɑː.kɹɪt.aɪz/
Forms: form: Prakritizes
form: Prakritizing
form: Prakritized
form: Prakritized
Etymology: From Prakrit + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To render something more Prakrit, or to render something more characteristic of Prakrit.
idiotacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idiotacies
Etymology: From idiot + -acy.
Senses: examples: text: Even in disease it can only contribute to aggravate and perpetuate the natural waste of constitutional vitality which is displaying itself in the increased complexity of disease, and the progress of idiotacy and insanity, and which is apparent enough even to the more intellectual conductors of the public press in their lucid intervals, when not writing bosh and balderdash concerning Teetotalism and the Permissive Bill.
ref: 1874, Robert Ward, The Fallacies of Teetotalism:
text: I thought we'd explained it to you, but you're not that good at reading or comprehention,^([sic]) so I'll do it again: in general, people don't like trolls, or people who are huge asses, or think that their idiotacy is the fault of others.
ref: 2005 May 10, Twisted One's Mother, “DoomRL 0.9.8 is out!”, in rec.games.roguelike.misc (Usenet), retrieved 09 Apr 2022:
glosses: Idiocy.
examples: text: Robert, lets not get side-tracked here. We know what this forum is all about so lets discuss mfw not your idiotacies : asshole of the month etc.
ref: 1996 September 2, Arcas, “We've been suckered again! I can't believe I fell for it!”, in misc.fitness.weights (Usenet), retrieved 09 Apr 2022:
text: anyone that would claim such idiotacies would be a dangerous person with any influencial^([sic]) power.i just hope u are a custodian and not a teacher.
ref: 2001 August 11, Freakin Cummer, “Invincible Sales & Status”, in alt.music.michael-jackson (Usenet), retrieved 09 Apr 2022:
glosses: An idiotic statement or action.
idiotacies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of idiotacy
Adeyemos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Adeyemo
kiddie ride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kiddie rides
Senses: glosses: A small amusement ride for children, typically coin-operated.
idioticy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idioticies
Etymology: From idiot + -i- + -cy.
Senses: examples: text: The 'Jesus is a vegetarian' idioticy is on a par with the teetotalers' attempt to say he never drank wine.
ref: 1998 February 25, Richard Bishop, “Vegetarian & Religion”, in talk.politics.animals (Usenet), retrieved 09 Apr 2022:
text: Please excuse my idioticy, but how is S1 and S2 wired (in series with each other?), and what is the not in between.
ref: 1998 November 6, John Bobson, “Beginner question about switching. Please help.”, in sci.electronics.basics (Usenet), retrieved 09 Apr 2022:
text: The idioticy was all mine. I should have drawn it better.
ref: 1998 November 6, Matt Jones, “Beginner question about switching. Please help.”, in sci.electronics.basics (Usenet), retrieved 09 Apr 2022:
text: >Drencrom Droog come on down:
>
Where to? Your level of idioticy?
Or are you a queer-bait, mule humper?
ref: 2001 June 24, Drencrom Droog, “OGE Regarding Bruford”, in rec.music.progressive (Usenet), retrieved 09 Apr 2022:
text: Obviously you are over-emphasizing your idioticy to rationalize your idioticy that you cant accept.
Quite a pathetic way to survive.
ref: 2013 May 8, rotchm, “Re: Still based on Postulates, Not Facts”, in sci.physics (Usenet), retrieved 09 Apr 2022:
glosses: Idiocy.
examples: text: Human mind get's used to its own idioticies.
ref: 1995 September 20, Tero Niemi, “Teleport -> Telefax”, in rec.arts.sf.science (Usenet), retrieved 09 Apr 2022:
text: Add this to the list of idioticies above you present for all to see and mock!
ref: 2009 April 24, misanthropic_curmudgeon, “An explanation for Easter”, in nz.soc.religion (Usenet), retrieved 09 Apr 2022:
text: LOL, you are still standing by your idioticies. Wilson's claim may have been just an oversight. But your understanding of the situation, of the notion of "time interval", is totally beyond your comprehension. Google once again kept record or your ignorance and stupidity.
ref: 2013 April 8, rotchm, “A Note About Clocks”, in sci.physics.relativity (Usenet), retrieved 09 Apr 2022:
glosses: An idiotic statement or action.
idioticies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of idioticy
Aglionbys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Aglionby
Ugu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Unnao district, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Ugu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: from Zulu ugu (“coast”).
Senses: glosses: Ugu District Municipality, a district municipality in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa
Skibby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Presumably from Danish skib + by
Senses: glosses: A town in the municipality of Frederikssund, Zealand, Denmark.
Bhupathis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bhupathi
Køge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town, a municipality and port on the east coast of Zealand, Denmark.
design code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: design codes
Senses: examples: text: Although a design code governs Upton's overall character, the character of the buildings is determined by individual builders and architects.
ref: 2021, Robert Cowan, Essential Urban Design, →ISBN:
glosses: A set of rules on design of buildings and public spaces.
Dobek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dobeks
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Dobek.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Duvernay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Duvernays
Etymology: Borrowed from French Duvernay.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Duvernays
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Duvernay
Dobeks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dobek
Cragle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cragles
Etymology: Americanized spelling of German Kregel or Krögel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Damascos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Damasco
Cragles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cragle
DeWoody
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: DeWoodys
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Jystrup
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small town to the north of Ringsted, central Zealand, Denmark.
Cedars
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cedar
qualifier: rugby league
glosses: The Lebanon national rugby league team.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: The Lebanon national football team.
DeWoodys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of DeWoody
Canupp
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Canupps
Etymology: Variant of Canup.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Glauber
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Glaubers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Glauber, a Jewish Ashkenazi surname.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: glauberite
Glauber salt
Glauber's salt
Glaubers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Glauber
Canupps
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Canupp
Sassnitz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town, seaside resort and port on the island of Rügen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
Gehlhausen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gehlhausens
Etymology: Borrowed from German Gehlhausen.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Gehlhausens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gehlhausen
Grameses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Grames
Franckowiak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Franckowiaks
Etymology: From Polish Frąckowiak.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Franckowiaks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Franckowiak
Gerolds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gerold
Job's-news
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Job's news.
McKenney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McKenneys
Etymology: Variant of McKinney.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
glosses: A town in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, United States.
Sannes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sanneses
Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian Sannes, a variant of Sandnes.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Norwegian.
Sanneses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sannes
McKenneys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McKenney
Nogueras
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Noguera
Wraxall and Failand
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in North Somerset district, Somerset, England.
Related terms: Failand
Wraxall
bodyache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bodyaches
Senses: glosses: A generalised ache that affects (most of) the whole body
autoproduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + production.
Senses: glosses: Automatic production.
synonyms: autogeneration
glosses: The activity of an autoproducer, producing a resource incidental to other activity.
metacell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metacells
Etymology: From meta- + cell.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A (population of) nucleic acid profiles of individual or groups of cells
metacells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metacell
nonnormalised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + normalised.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonnormalized.
eurythermy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eury- + -thermy.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being eurythermal.
neurolymphoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurolymphomas
form: neurolymphomata
Etymology: From neuro- + lymphoma.
Senses: glosses: A lymphoma of the neural system
pleuropneumonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pleuro- + pneumonic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to pleuropneumonia
sourding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sourd
sourded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sourd
Frederiksværk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Danish Frederik + -s- + værk; apparently Frederick V of Denmark named it after himself.
Senses: glosses: A town in Halsnæs Municipality, north Zealand, Denmark.
wikipedia: Frederick V of Denmark
Hundested
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: First mentioned as Hundersted in 1682, so it could be from the plural hunde + sted.
Senses: glosses: A town and port in Halsnæs Municipality, north Zealand, Denmark.
Knackerville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From knacker + -ville.
Senses: glosses: An area mainly populated by members of the Travelling Community/Gypsies.
Nørresundby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Danish nørre + sund + by, perhaps because of its location north of the Limfjord.
Senses: glosses: A city in Aalborg Municipality north of the Limfjord, Denmark.
wikipedia: Limfjord
log-book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑɡ.bʊk/
ipa: /ˈlɔɡ.bʊk/
ipa: /ˈlɒɡ.bʊk/
rhymes: -ʊk
Forms: form: log-books
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of logbook.
log-books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of log-book
Goberian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Goberians
Etymology: Blend of Golden + Siberian
Senses: glosses: A mixed breed dog that is a cross between the Golden Retriever and Siberian Husky.
Related terms: Horgi
Labsky
Samusky
Goberians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Goberian
Naegler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Naeglers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Nägler.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Slight
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Slights
Etymology: Scottish surname from Middle English slight (“smooth; slim, slender, skinny”), a nickname for a slim or skinny person.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Middle English.
granulomatous amoebic encephalitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A rare, usually fatal, subacute-to-chronic central nervous system disease caused by certain species of free-living amoebae
Synonyms: word: GAE
GAE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of granulomatous amoebic encephalitis.
Namuyi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Namuzi
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A poorly attested Tibeto-Burman and more specifically Naic language of Sichuan and Tibet.
Naic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A group of Sino-Tibetan languages that include Naxi, Na, Shixing, and Namuyi.
Shixing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Xumi
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A poorly-attested Qiangic language of Sichuan and the Tibet Autonomous Region.
Dzorgaic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Qiangic.
synonyms: word: Qiangic
Xumi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Shixing.
synonyms: word: Shixing
Namuzi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Namuyi.
Narua
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of Na.
Hsi-tsang Tzu-chih-ch'ü
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 西藏自治區 /西藏自治区 (Xīzàng Zìzhìqū) Wade–Giles romanization: Hsi¹-tsang⁴ Tzŭ⁴-chih⁴-chʻü¹.
Senses: examples: text: In “Electronic Navigators” (October) your Loran position readout on the artwork is given as +30° 17.2’ lat. and -90° 90.6’ long. If we accept the convention that plus latitudes are north of the equator and minus longitudes are east of Greenwich, this places the vessel in the Hsi-Tsang Tzu-Chih-Ch’u Province (Tibetan Autonomous Region) of China. In other words, about 285 miles northeast of Mt. Everest. Who is the skipper? Is there a load of paired animals aboard? What is the vessel’s LOA (in cubits)? Is it raining a lot there?
Mo Prophet
Nazareth, Pa.
Both the CIA and the National Council of Churches are investigating.
ref: 1977 December, Mo Prophet, “Slow boat to China”, in Motor Boating & Sailing, volume 140, number 6, Hearst Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4:
text: Tibet (Hsi-tsang Tzu-chih-chü). Today the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, the almost mythical country of Tibet is bordered by the Chinese province of Tsinghai on the northeast, Szechwan on the east, Yunnan on the southeast, Nepal, Bhutan and Burma (Myanmar) on the south, Jammu and Kashmir (disputed by India) on the west, and the Sinkiang Uighur autonomous region on the northwest. The capital is Lhasa.
ref: 1998, An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Conflict and Conflict Resolution, 1945-1996, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 734:
text: Hsi-k‘ang; name of a province; est. 1928 as Hsi-k‘ang sheng; 1955 abolished; merged with Szechwan Province and Hsi-tsang tzu chih ch‘ü
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “Xikang Sheng (China)”, in National Library of Australia, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2020, Libraries Australia Authorities:
glosses: Alternative form of Xizang Zizhiqu (Tibet Autonomous Region)
wikipedia: Encyclopædia Britannica
Laze
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lare
form: Shuitianhua
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A language of the Naish subbranch of the Naic group of languages, spoken in Muli Tibetan Autonomous County western Sichuan, China.
Shuitianhua
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Laze.
synonyms: word: Laze
novelty act
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: novelty acts
Senses: glosses: A stage performance designed to be strange or unusual.
novelty acts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of novelty act
takes a risk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take a risk
taking a risk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take a risk
took a risk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take a risk
taken a risk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take a risk
taken a gamble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take a gamble
took a gamble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take a gamble
taking a gamble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take a gamble
takes a gamble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take a gamble
Elham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Elhams
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian الهام (elhâm), itself borrowed from Arabic إِلْهَام (ʔilhām, “inspiration”). Related to Ilham.
Senses: glosses: A unisex given name from Persian or Arabic.
glosses: A surname from Persian.
Elham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Most likely inherited from Old English.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Folkestone and Hythe district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR1744).
Cajon Pass
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A mountain pass in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
ATGATT
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: hobbies
human-sciences
lifestyle
motorcycling
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Acronym of all the gear all the time. A statement of philosophy of the motorcyclist rider, who rides fully kitted-out whenever out riding.
excavatability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excavatabilities
Senses: examples: text: Material with low excavatability may require blasting or the use of percussion hammers to facilitate excavation.
glosses: The ease or difficulty with which a rock or earth material can be excavated.
at the very most
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: antonyms: at the very least
glosses: at most; as an absolute maximum
tenderqueer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenderqueers
Etymology: From tender + queer, as a play on genderqueer.
Senses: examples: text: Carrying your comfort with you is protection for the sweetly sensitive bull. You're a tenderqueer of few words, and you always make them count.
ref: 2016, Sally Mulligan, "Turn A Look: Taurus", PQ Monthly, April/May 2016, page 21
text: Sad Boi extraordinaire, reproductive justice fighter and unabashed tenderqueer—Fallon Simard is a rare voice within Indigenous art.
ref: 2017, Lindsay Nixon, "Fallon Simard – Monetized, But Agential, Bodies in Ghost Worlds", Esse, Number 91, Fall 2017, page 70
text: Tenderqueers are especially adept at using the watery language of therapy as a means to get out of most things. They’ll ghost you for three weeks then, when you call them out on it, will reply something like, “Your negative energy is affecting my ability to heal from past life trauma.”
ref: 2020 January 24, Daisy Jones, “Introducing: The Tenderqueer, the Softboi of the Queer Community”, in Vice:
glosses: An LGBT+ person with a gentle, sensitive, openly emotional disposition, particularly when cultivated as an insincere or self-serving affectation.
superqueero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superqueeroes
Etymology: Blend of superhero + queer.
Senses: examples: text: […] honoring Black and Indigenous TLGBQIA+ "superqueeroes" who have made profound contributions to the entire rainbow tribe and ally community.
ref: 2018 July 21, Kin Folkz, “From Stonewall to Decades of TLGBQIA+ Activism: Superqueeroe Miss 'Mama' Major Griffin-Gracy”, in San Francisco Bay Times, page 23:
text: Seth wasn't Boner Boy, and Nick wasn't the rough-and-tumble oil worker, but Nick would be damned if he wasn't going to one day get that superqueero penis.
ref: 2021, TJ Klune, Flash Fire, unnumbered page:
text: As your style superqueero, my rainbow cape and mask are here to help!
ref: 2021, Bakhtiar Yaqub, “What to wear to Pride”, in VanPride Magazine, page 14:
glosses: An LGBT superhero.
inspirationalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inspirational + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: A design thinking organization creates strong “inspirationalization” and “sensibility” to give tangibility to the emotional contract that employees have with organizations.
ref: 2013, Idris Mootee, Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation: What They Can't Teach You at Business Or Design School, unnumbered page:
text: Like the 'Best Supporting Actor', who had pointed out that Hollywood's duty was the 'inspirationalization' of the world; […]
ref: 2014, Ben Elton, Popcorn, page 57:
text: The inspirationalization and subsequent celebration of the supercrip not only reproduce the forces that govern the inspirational supercrip.
ref: 2015, Danielle Peers, “From Inhalation to Inspiration: A Genealogical Auto-ethnography of a Supercrip”, in Shelley Tremain, editor, Foucault and the Government of Disability, page 346:
glosses: The process of making or becoming inspirational.
IBV
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of infectious bronchitis virus, a coronavirus which causes the poultry disease avian infectious bronchitis.
purple shirt of sex
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The play's promotional art features Cumberbatch-as-Sherlock (wearing the character's purple shirt of sex, as fans have called it) in front of a red-and-white heart-shaped bull's eye-style target.
ref: 2014, Lynnette Porter, Benedict Cumberbatch, Transition Completed: Films, Fame, Fans, unnumbered page:
text: She stays with the brown and white color scheme, but adds a purple stripe and fringe to the ends to represent Sherlock's “purple shirt of sex.”
ref: 2016, Brigid Cherry, Cult Media, Fandom, and Textiles: Handicrafting as Fan Art, page 109:
text: Little did they know, there would soon be legions of fans armed with evidence to the contrary like the button-down that was labeled the “Purple Shirt of Sex,” because, well, it was both fairly low cut and stirred all kinds of feelings.
ref: 2020, Esther Zuckerman, A Field Guide to Internet Boyfriends: Meme-Worthy Celebrity Crushes from A to Z, unnumbered page:
qualifier: Sherlock fandom slang
glosses: A tailored royal-purple dress shirt worn by Sherlock Holmes (portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch) on the television series Sherlock.
fire-worshippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire-worshipper
dirtbrains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dirtbrain
Naeglers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Naegler
Slights
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Slight
Sadd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sadds
Etymology: From Middle English sad (“considered, thoughtful, serious”), a nickname for a serious or solemn person.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Middle English.
Hommertzheim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hommertzheims
Etymology: Ultimately of German origin.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Arosa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality in Grisons canton, Switzerland.
Dardenne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dardennes
Etymology: Borrowed from French Dardenne.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Ozburn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ozburns
Etymology: Variant of Osborne.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Lapica
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lapicas
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Tavernise
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tavernises
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Tavernise.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Sadds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sadd
Hommertzheims
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hommertzheim
Dardennes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dardenne
Ozburns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ozburn
Lapicas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lapica
Tavernises
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tavernise
Muggeridges
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Muggeridge
Mogridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mogridges
form: Moggridge
form: Muggeridge
form: Muggridge
Etymology: Habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place in Devon, from an Old English personal name *Mogga + hryċġ (“ridge, spur”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
Mogridges
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mogridge
Bernina Pass
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A mountain pass in the Bernina Range, in Grisons canton, Switzerland.
Frogge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Frogges
Etymology: From Middle English frogge (“frog”), a derogatory nickname for someone who looked like a frog in some way.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Middle English.
Frix
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Frixes
Etymology: Altered form of German Fritz.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Frixes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Frix
Frogges
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Frogge
Berninas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bernina
Faulstich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Faulstichs
Etymology: Borrowed from German Faulstich.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Fesses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fess
Faulstichs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Faulstich
Escontrias
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Escontriases
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Escontrías.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Escontriases
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Escontrias
Eustaquios
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Eustaquio
Gubbels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gubbelses
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Gubbels.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
Gubbelses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gubbels
Fanaras
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fanara
Gunnerson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gunnersons
Etymology: Americanized spelling of numerous Scandinavian surnames, such as Swedish Gunnarsson, or Danish and Norwegian Gundersen.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Grine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Grines
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Grines
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Grine
Gunnersons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gunnerson
Gutkowski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gutkowskis
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Gutkowski.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Oberalp Pass
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Oberalppass, a pass over the Alps.
Senses: glosses: A mountain pass between Uri canton and Grisons canton, Switzerland.
Hanbury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English hēan, accusative, dative and genitive case of hēah (“high”) + byriġ, the dative case of burg (“fortified place”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in East Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK1727).
glosses: A village in Wychavon district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref S09664).
glosses: A settlement in Harley, Timiskaming District, north-east Ontario, Canada.
Hanbury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hanburys
Etymology: Two main origins:
* Habitational surname of Old English origin, from either of the two villages in England.
* Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó hAinmhire (“descendant of Ainmhire”), a personal name composed of the elements ain- (“bad, unnatural”) + mire (“madness, frenzy, mania”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect
Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect
Hanburys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hanbury
Gutkowskis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gutkowski
McMullon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McMullons
Etymology: From the Irish variant of McMillan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Northmore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Northmores
Etymology: Probably a habitational surname from a place in England called Northmoor.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Northmores
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Northmore
McMullons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McMullon
Gilfoyle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gilfoyles
Etymology: Variant of Guilfoyle.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Dasi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: däʹsûʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大寺.
Senses: examples: text: The rain, which started on Wednesday evening, hit the northern part of the city the hardest. Dasi township in the suburban Xiqing district was the worst-affected area, receiving 34.5 centimeters of rain, according to the Tianjin Meteorological Bureau.
ref: 2012 July 27, “Tianjin hit with heavy rainfall”, in China Internet Information Center, archived from the original on 28 Jul 2012:
glosses: A town in Xiqing district, Tianjin, China.
Moggridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Moggridges
Etymology: Variant of Mogridge.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Moggridges
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Moggridge
Bromhams
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bromham
Gilfoyles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gilfoyle
Harthill with Woodall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England.
Related terms: Harthill
Woodall