cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
akarma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: By surface analysis, a- + karma;
Senses: examples: text: Reaching the level of akarma, the level of acting in spiritual consciousness, is the challenge for every human being.
ref: 2004, Armin Risi, TranscEnding the Global Power Game: Hidden Agendas, Divine Intervention, and the New Earth, →ISBN:
text: That, of course, does not mean that a state of akarma is impossible. Every karma done for the good of the Atman, though it appears to be karma, is in reality akarma.
ref: 2009, John Strohmeier, The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi, →ISBN, page 71:
text: But doesn't meditation mean akarma, no activity?
ref: 1992, Osho, Meditation : The Art of Ecstasy, →ISBN, page 61:
qualifier: yoga
glosses: A state of no action in which one refrains from seeking any outcomes.
Related terms: adharma
kill one's darlings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kills one's darlings
form: killing one's darlings
form: killed one's darlings
form: killed one's darlings
form: murder one's darlings
Etymology: A piece of advice to prospective authors that they must kill their “darlings”, i.e. suppress overuse of their favorite expressions, tropes, characters, etc. Often attributed to William Faulkner (1897–1962), but already expressed earlier by Arthur Quiller-Couch (murder one's darlings); more recently popularized by Stephen King.
Senses: examples: text: Someone asked William Faulkner what the supreme law of art was, and he replied in three words: "Kill your darlings!"
ref: 1965, Raymond Léopold Bruckerger, The History of Jesus Christ, page 161:
text: [Fans] won’t participate in online dialogues and events, visit message boards and chat rooms or design games. As a result, platforms for supplementary advertising aren’t built, starving even the shows fans profess to love […]. Aloof and passive fans kill their darlings.
ref: 2008 January 20, Virginia Heffernan, “Art in the Age of Franchising”, in New York Times:
text: In sharp contrast to choreographers who try to build a repertory that reflects an ongoing personal style, Koresh prefers to "kill his darlings," as he puts it, and start from scratch.
ref: 2011 January 30, Theodore Bale, “Choreographer Koresh debuts Sense of Human”, in Houston Chronicle:
text: As the curators sifted through more than 100 years of artworks, disagreements inevitably arose. “We all had to kill our darlings,” says Foster.
ref: 2015 March 28, Ted Loos, “The Whitney Museum’s New Home”, in Wall Street Journal:
glosses: To destroy things or characters, particularly in art, of which one is fond, often reluctantly in order to improve one's artistic output.
wikipedia: Arthur Quiller-Couch
Stephen King
William Faulkner
murder one's darlings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: murders one's darlings
form: murdering one's darlings
form: murdered one's darlings
form: murdered one's darlings
Etymology: Possibly first used by Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863–1944) during a series of lectures at the University of Cambridge, later published in book form.
Senses: examples: text: Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it — whole-heartedly — and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.
ref: 1916, Arthur Quiller-Couch, “On Style”, in On The Art of Writing:
glosses: Alternative form of kill one's darlings.
wikipedia: Arthur Quiller-Couch
doodying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of doody
doodied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of doody
thesis statement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thesis statements
Senses: glosses: A sentence in the introduction of an essay, thesis or academic paper that clarifies the main point of the text.
thesis statements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thesis statement
taxable incomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taxable income
doodie up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: doodies up
form: doodying up
form: doodied up
form: doodied up
Senses: examples: text: All over that big ole doodied up house she walks and talks and I follow.
ref: 2009, Kathryn Stockett, The Help, →ISBN:
text: By the time they're seniors they don't get doodied up anymore to come into the Duane Reade.
ref: 1985, Jane Willis, Men Without Dates; And, Slam!: Two One-act Plays, →ISBN, page 48:
text: When I went inside, there was this very pretty blond headed lady in a nice dress and her hair all doodied up.
ref: 2010, Ray E. Murray, Moses' Rod, →ISBN, page 15:
glosses: To decorate or dress in a fancy way in order to make attractive.
easy marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of easy mark
doodies up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of doodie up
doodying up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of doodie up
doodied up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of doodie up
debacchates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of debacchate
debacchating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of debacchate
debacchated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of debacchate
doodie head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doodie heads
Senses: examples: text: Crystal stepped forward and shouted, "you talk to your scabs?! You big doodie head!"
ref: 2011, Korin Gould, Cellophane Friends, →ISBN:
text: My husband reminded me that my 3-year-old nephew had earlier called me a doodie head.
ref: 2000, Korin Gould, The 100 Greatest Entertainers 1950-2000, →ISBN, page 74:
text: He screams. "Shut up down there! You doodie head!"
ref: 1984, John Bowers, In the Land of Nyx: Night and Its Inhabitants, page 2:
glosses: Shithead.
doodie heads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doodie head
allochthons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allochthon
sinner's prayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sinners' prayers
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A prayer of repentance sometimes spoken by those wishing to convert to Christianity.
Cainozoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: We have treated in the preceding chapters of the Tertiary or Cainozoic strata […]
ref: 1874, Charles Lyell, The Student’s Elements of Geology:
glosses: Alternative form of Cenozoic.
Cainozoic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Cenozoic.
allochthone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allochthones
Senses: examples: text: In the northern Taconic Range of centralwestern Vermont an allochthone has been postulated.
ref: 1961, Philip C. Hewitt, “New Hypothesis for Solution of the Taconic Problem”, in Geological Society of America: Abstracts for 1961, →ISBN, page 197:
text: The existence of an allochthone resting on an autochthone implies the existence of an overriding surface.
ref: 1971, J.D. & E.S. Dana, The American Journal of Science, page 12:
text: In addition, modern workers generally concur that, immediately surrounding the controversial Taconic allochthone, there is a nearly continuous belt of Middle-Ordovician gray to black argillite.
ref: 1964, Zen, Taconic Stratigraphic Names: Definitions and Synonymies, page 4:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of allochthon.
examples: text: The idea was no sooner mooted, than we were reliably informed that we would have to play down considerably the Muslim component, sheltering behind a broader allochthone scout concept.
ref: 2004, John Eade, Dyab Abou Jahjah, Rosemary Bechler, Identities on the move, →ISBN, page 44:
text: Immigration and differential fertility behaviour of immigrants may lead to a substantial demographic substitution of the authochthone by the allochthone population in specific urban areas or regions.
ref: 2005, Dragana Avramov, R. L. Cliquet, Integrated Policies on Gender Relations, Ageing and Migration in Europe, →ISBN, page 44:
text: However, who is "allochthone" and who is "'autochthone" is a matter of absolutely unclear classification, and the term allochthone soon started to be used mainly for the Moroccans and the Turkish.
ref: 2014, Dragana Avramov, R. L. Cliquet, Religion, Ethnicity and Transnational Migration between west Africa and Europe, →ISBN, page 44:
glosses: Inhabitants of a country with an ethnic background in another country, particularly people of Middle Eastern background living in Europe.
examples: text: The latter again consists of two groups: the autochthone (those that live permanently in the ice all their lives) and the allochthone (those that are associated with ice only for part of their lives, or for part of the year only).
ref: 2005, Arnoldus Schytte Blix, Arctic Animals and Their Adaptations to Life on the Edge, →ISBN, page 44:
glosses: An animal species that lives only part of its life in a particular habitat.
allochthones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allochthone
Jacob's staffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jacob's staff
false note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false notes
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes he even thrums a little on the piano, and takes a part in a trio, in which his voice can generally be distinguished by a certain quavering tone, and an occasional false note.
ref: 1819, Washington Irving, “The Lovers”, in Bracebridge Hall:
text: Her fingers wavered on the piano—she struck a false note, confused herself in trying to set it right, and dropped her hands angrily on her lap.
ref: 1860, Wilkie Collins, chapter 15, in The Woman in White:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An incorrect note which is sung or played in a musical performance.
examples: text: [H]is words were grave, his manner was earnest, and his speech came from the fulness of his heart. If there had been a false note, a false look, Harry would have detected both, […]
ref: 1900, Fergus Hume, “Mr Baltic, Missionary”, in Bishop Pendle: Or, The Bishop’s Secret, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Rand, McNally & Company, →OCLC, page 202:
text: The screenplay . . . even suggests that this contributed to the false note on which The African Queen actually ends.
ref: 1990 September 14, Janet Maslin, “Movie Review: White Hunter Black Heart (1990)”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 Apr 2015:
text: Shreve creates a little world, peoples it with believable characters, and puts them through agonizing and joyful moments without a false note or a dissonant figure of speech.
ref: 2010 December 10, Brigitte Weeks, “Book World: From its opening car crash, Anita Shreve's character-driven Rescue is worth the ride”, in Washington Post, retrieved 16 Apr 2015:
glosses: In a remark or narrative, an indication (as discerned by the listener or reader) of untruth, insincerity, or inconsistency.
examples: text: The only false note in an otherwise classic and elegant collection was the gratuitous flash of black fishnet stockings and suspenders under otherwise unremarkable paisley and floral shirts.
ref: 2009 February 20, Hilary Alexander, “London Fashion Week: Caroline Charles”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 16 Apr 2015:
glosses: In a non-verbal display or presentation, an indication of incongruity or inappropriateness.
Related terms: strike a false note
hit a false note
false notes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of false note
Turkey merchant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Turkey merchants
Senses: glosses: A member of the Levant Company or Turkey Company, an English chartered company formed in 1581 to conduct English trade with Turkey and the Levant or its successors, dissolved in 1825.
glosses: Any merchant dealing in the same geographic area or in similar goods.
athleisure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăth'-lēʹ-zhər
enpr: ăth'-lĕzhʹ-ɚ
ipa: /ˌæθˈliː.ʒɚ/
ipa: /ˌæθˈlɛʒ.ɚ/
rhymes: -iːʒə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɛʒə(ɹ)
Etymology: Blend of athletic + leisure
Senses: examples: text: Of course, the athleisure category—infusing seemingly sporty clothes with a wear-it-all-day premise—has been booming for a while now.
ref: 2020 June 22, Flora Tsapovsky, “Once a WFH Staple, Athleisure Gets Down to Business”, in Wired:
text: “The athleisure and the dogs are taking over, and that’s really unfortunate,” Sevigny said. “Everybody’s in Lululemon and has a fucking dog and it’s driving me crazy. I’m sorry, dog lovers. There are too many of you.”
ref: 2024 February 2, Alaina Demopoulos, quoting Chloë Sevigny, “‘I’m annoying, to some degree’: New York’s dog owners debate Chloë Sevigny’s anti-pup take”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Clothing that is appropriate for both athletic and leisure pursuits.
multitenancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multi- + tenancy.
Senses: glosses: The situation in which multiple tenants occupy a single residence or building.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The situation in which a single instance of software, running in a server, serves multiple tenants
Hypernyms: tenancy
stanine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stanines
Etymology: Blend of standard + nine
Senses: glosses: a method of scaling test scores on a nine-point standard scale with a mean of five and a standard deviation of two
flashman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flashmen
Etymology: From flash + -man.
Senses: examples: text: A flashman just naturally tried to promote and show- off his company at every opportunity. Wasn't that what sales-PR was all about? Even the police departments engaged flashmen.
ref: 1988, Amazing Stories:
text: "They're all Los Angeles flashmen running this thing. Joe McDonald told anyone who'd listen that they're just a bunch of sleazebags opposed to everything we stand for, dragging show biz into it, and he was right."
ref: 2009, Patricia Morrison, California Screamin, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 90:
glosses: A slick salesman or spin doctor.
examples: text: Are not your favourite friends horn-boys and flashmen —
ref: 1818, William Hone, “Interview with Marquiz Boudoir”, in The Three Trials of William Hone, for Publishing Three Parodies: Viz. the Late John Wilkes's Catechism, the Political Litany, and the Sinecurist's Creed; on Three Ex-officit Informations, page 56:
text: While loud her flashman cries, 'Arise, my ladybird, arise!'
ref: 1823, Jon Bee, Diet, of the Turf, etc., page 80:
text: He now had a country seat at Kilmacud and women procured for him by a flashman.
ref: 1998, Padraic O'Farrell, The '98 Reader, →ISBN:
glosses: A pimp.
examples: text: Her flashman, in her estimation, is ten times handsomer, certainly more acceptable.
ref: 1819, London, The London Guide, and Stranger's Safeguard, Etc. (Second Edition.)., page 125:
text: c. 1833, Broadside Ballad, "My flashman has gone to sea".
My flashman he's a Yankee, with his hair cut short behind
glosses: A woman's boyfriend.
examples: text: "Stop your jaw, or I'll stop it for you, and teach you another time to know a gentleman from a flashman."
ref: 1841, Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, page 186:
text: By not knowing it: the fellow's manners are so plausible and even insinuating, his appearance so gentlemanly, his voice so winning, that I suffered him to cheat me at Newmarket in the sale of a spavined horse, a regular screw, on the strength of which he claimed my acquaintance ; but as soon as I twigged that he was a flashman — one of the swell mob, I mizzled — gave him the cut direct.
ref: 1843, Horace Smith, Adam Brown, the merchant. By the author of Brambletye house, page 173:
text: He shared the fate of most country bumpkins on arriving at the metropolis, and was quickly robbed by a flashman, who claimed acquaintance with him and cleared out his fob
ref: 1912, Peter Hampson Ditchfield, The old English country squire, page 260
glosses: Someone who distracts the target of a thief; a confidence trickster.
cairngorm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cairngorms
Etymology: So called because found among the Cairngorms, a mountainous region in Scotland.
Senses: examples: text: And then he led away the talk to their home in Devonshire, and the red, bright earth, and the deep-green combes, and the peat streams like cairngorm pebbles, and the wild moor with its high, cloudy tors for a giant background to the picture[…].
ref: 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days, Part II, Chapter 6:
glosses: A precious stone of smoky yellow-brown or gray-brown color, used in Scottish jewellery.
Hypernyms: smoky quartz
cairngorms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cairngorm
Babeufism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Babeuf + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A form of collectivism proposed by François-Noël Babeuf
declarative programming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: a programming paradigm that expresses the logic of a computation instead of its control flow
Hypernyms: computer programming
imperative programming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: a programming paradigm that describes the computation in statements
Hypernyms: computer programming
shkotz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃkɑts/
ipa: /ʃkɒts/
rhymes: -ɒts
Forms: form: shkotzim
Etymology: Back-formation from shkotzim
Senses: examples: text: "I like Juan and he's a goy, a shkotz of the Holy Roman Catholic faith, and devoted to the Virgin of Guadalupe!"
ref: 2001, Points of Departure: New Stories from Mexico, →ISBN, page 140:
glosses: Alternative form of shegetz.
chaoux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French chaoux, from Ottoman Turkish چاوش (çavuş).
Senses: examples: text: […] the chaoux soon found him and brought him to the palace, having redeemed him by order of the sultan.
ref: 1832, George P. R. James, The string of pearls, volume 1, London: R. Bentley, →OCLC, page 236:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of chiaus .
decision theology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A theology that stresses the importance of the decision to become a Christian for salvation. Often this decision takes the form of the sinner's prayer.
Synonyms: decisionism
megalopteran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more megalopteran
form: most megalopteran
Etymology: From translingual Megaloptera + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the insect order Megaloptera
megalopteran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megalopterans
Etymology: From translingual Megaloptera + -an.
Senses: glosses: Any insect in the insect order Megaloptera, the alderflies, dobsonflies and fishflies
megalopterans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megalopteran
-v-
Language: English
Part of speech: interfix
Etymology: Perhaps a result of the hardening of /-u(w)iən/ (to /-uviən/); compare English Peruvian to French péruvien and Italian peruviano.
Senses: examples: Kachruvian, Monrovia, Nehruvian, Peruvian, Whovian
glosses: Used before -ian, when the base word ends in certain vowels, especially /u/.
-v-
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Etymology: Perhaps a result of the hardening of /-u(w)iən/ (to /-uviən/); compare English Peruvian to French péruvien and Italian peruviano.
Senses: examples: text: Loving -v- Virginia
glosses: Abbreviation of versus.
CPOM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: Earth science
glosses: Initialism of Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, a centre for research into polar region processes.
cafeteria Christian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cafeteria Christians
Senses: glosses: An adherent of cafeteria Christianity.
cafeteria Christians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cafeteria Christian
resting bitch face
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resting bitch faces
form: bitchy resting face
Senses: examples: text: A brassy blonde steps forward, and you can tell by her resting bitch face, that ultra-cruel look in her eyes, that she's the one in charge of this quasi-hostage situation.
ref: 2013, Addison Moore, 3:AM Kisses, →ISBN:
text: This guy's hair is a little longer, way blonder, and the smile on his face is a sharp contrast to the resting bitch face the General wears.
ref: 2015, Tracey Ward, This is the Wonder, →ISBN:
text: Well hell, if that's what he wanted all along I would have given him my resting bitch face at the beginning of the shoot and saved us all some time.
ref: 2015, Adrian R. Hale, A Taste of Bliss, →ISBN:
glosses: An angry or unpleasant look that does not accurately reflect the way a person is feeling or that the person assumes when not consciously controlling their expression.
Synonyms: RBF
Related terms: permafrown
Chicagoese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -iːz
Etymology: From Chicago + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: […] almost everybody had wandered out into what would be called the "frunchroom" in Chicagoese.
ref: 2020, Gerard Lafond, “Big Brother: One Last Try”, in Mom's Dead, →ISBN:
glosses: The dialect of English spoken in Chicago.
Chicagoese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːz
Etymology: From Chicago + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: […] for even the undaunted faith and energy of the Chicagoese cannot greatly accelerate the processes of nature in making' trees, or robing their trunks with moss.
ref: 1881, Edwin Hodder, Cities of the world, page 318:
text: The danger to the water supply is from that open sewer which the Chicagoese call the Chicago river.
ref: 1893 July 23, “The Mayor of Chicago and his Island”, in Journal of the American Medicla Association, page 186:
glosses: The people of Chicago; Chicagoans.
cafeteria Catholicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The practice of picking and choosing which Catholic teachings to follow, while disregarding the others.
Related terms: cafeteria Catholic
cafeteria Christianity
cafeteria Catholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cafeteria Catholics
Senses: glosses: An adherent of cafeteria Catholicism.
cafeteria Catholics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cafeteria Catholic
RBFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RBF
resting bitch faces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resting bitch face
valiseless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From valise + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Rising softly and throwing my flashlight on the switch, I sought to light the bulb over my bed in order to choose and pocket some belongings for a swift, valiseless flight.
ref: 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Over Innsmouth:
glosses: Without a valise.
cellentani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: cavatappi pasta
chiaoux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French chiaoux.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of chiaus.
frizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frizers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of friezer.
TATT
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of tired all the time.
phrasemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹeɪˈziːmɪk/
rhymes: -iːmɪk
Etymology: From phraseme + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to phrasemes.
phraseme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phrasemes
Etymology: From phrase + -eme.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An utterance, consisting of multiple words or morphemes, at least one of whose components is selectionally constrained or restricted by linguistic convention such that it is not freely chosen.
Related terms: phrasemic
phrasemes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phraseme
sip and puff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An assistive technology allowing disabled people to send signals to a device by means of air pressure, by either "sipping" (inhaling) or "puffing" (exhaling) through a straw or similar component.
Volvos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Volvo
scarelore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scare + lore.
Senses: hyponyms: creepypasta
glosses: A kind of folklore comprising stories intended to frighten the reader or listener.
death's-head hawkmoths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of death's-head hawkmoth
death adders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of death adder
devil's claws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of devil's claw
flourishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flourishments
Etymology: From flourish + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Such conditions are unfavourable for the installation and flourishment of a fauna and flora over longer periods of time.
ref: 1985, Detlef Mader, Aspects of Fluvial Sedimentation in the Lower Triassic Buntsandstein of Europe, →ISBN:
text: Aristotle believed in human flourishment or happiness as do all Christians.
ref: 2005, Daniel J. Harrington, Harrington S J Daniel, James F. Keenan, Jesus and Virtue Ethics: Building Bridges Between New Testament Studies and Moral Theology, →ISBN, page 43:
text: It almost looked, Donald decided finally, as if Winchester cared more for what happened to her boys in afterlife than for her own flourishment. Perhaps, after five hundred years of flourishment, that was a justifiable attitude, but it certainly was a little unusual.
ref: 2013, A. G. Macdonell, England, Their England, →ISBN, page 240:
glosses: The act or state of flourishing.
Derived terms: reflourishment
foreplans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foreplan
forestretch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forestretches
form: forestretching
form: forestretched
form: forestretched
Etymology: From fore- + stretch. Cognate with German vorstrecken.
Senses: examples: text: Bend in the forest then the plastic elm, By pressure moulded to the plough-beam's curve: To this be fitted at its nether point An eight foot pole, forestretching; back to back
ref: 1825, Publius Vergilius Maro, A translation of the first book of the Georgics of Virgil:
text: In short, in their persuasive efforts to please, to give everybody "a sweet taste of liberty," the Commission had pleased no one. Thus was the Commission, caught in vast inscrutables, uneasily observing a hydra-headed giant, forestretched, abysmally yawning, in disturbed slumber.
ref: 1961, Peter Decker, Benedict Arnold: Son of the Havens - Page 145:
text: That's enough," said Heer-bai blocking the father's path with her forestretched arms.
ref: 2003, Zaverchand Kalidas Meghani, The Shade Crimson:
glosses: To stretch out, forth, or forward.
forestretch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fore- + stretch. Cognate with German vorstrecken.
Senses: examples: text: Now, we had not been looking about us above five minutes when, happening to glance aft past the helmsman, I saw the ocean not above half a mile distant white as milk: the forestretch of it was about two miles long; how wide it went back I could not say, [...]
ref: 1895, William Clark Russell, A Three-stranded Yarn: The Wreck of the Lady Emma - Page 170:
text: Into it, he slowed and stiffened still more, as though he waded through a holding action, biding till the curve and then the forestretch where he could be faster.
ref: 1969, Quarterly Review of Literature, volumes 16-17, page 423:
text: A seascape, its forestretch is an ocean inlet bounded at a short distance by a low rocky promontary coming from the right edge and submerging near the left; beyond, the sea reaches away to the horizon where a large mountainous island lies [...]
ref: 1996, John O'Grady, Sarah Purser, The Life and Work of Sarah Purser - Page 264:
glosses: That which stretches out, forth, or forward.
raw_tags: of a seascape
delta hinge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delta hinges
Senses: examples: text: This could be varied to produce a delta hinge effect for equalizing lateral moments.
ref: 1954, Eugene K. Liberatore, Rotary Wing Aircraft Handbooks and History: Convertible aircraft, page 39:
text: Overtorque of the delta hinge bolt is reported to cause binding in the pitch change mechanism and failure of the tail rotor pitch change bearing.
ref: 1969, Federal Aviation Administration, General aviation inspection aids, page 22:
text: The Kiowa has a two-bladed semi-rigid seesaw all metal main rotor and a two-bladed rigid delta hinge all metal tail rotor.
ref: 2003, Harold Skaarup, Ohio Warbird Survivors 2003: A Handbook on where to find them, →ISBN:
text: You can get the same effect by offsetting the pitch change horn at the root of the blade (notice that the tip of the horn is in line with the extended delta hinge line in the picture).
ref: 2007, Phil Croucher, Professional Helicopter Pilot Studies, →ISBN:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: On rotorcraft, a hinge with its axis parallel to the rotor plane of rotation, which permits the rotor blades to flap.
delta hinges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delta hinge
datamining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪnɪŋ
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of data mining.
alpha hinge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alpha hinges
Senses: examples: text: Similarly, as a blade with an alpha hinge lags through an angle §, ...
ref: 1953, Daniel Otto Dommasch, Elements of Propeller and Helicopter Aerodynamics, page 129:
text: When rotor goes to autorotation, an inclined alpha hinge provides automatic change of blade pitch to three degrees as the shaft stops rotating.
ref: 1958, Aviation Week and Space Technology - Volume 69, page 226:
text: When flap and lag hinge inclination was introduced on the autogyro rotors, the inboard (flap) hinge was designated the “delta hinge,” and the outboard (lag) hinge designated the “alpha hinge.”
ref: 2013, Wayne Johnson, Rotorcraft Aeromechanics, →ISBN, page 218:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: On rotorcraft, a hinge perpendicular to the plane of rotor rotation about which the blades trail or lag.
alpha hinges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alpha hinge
heister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heisters
Etymology: From heist + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Put it down and walk away ... straight to the crime section of your bookstore, where I'd suggest you start with The Hunter, the first book in his classic series about Parker, the heister's heister […]
ref: 2014, Donald E. Westlake, The Getaway Car: A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany:
glosses: A thief or burglar.
thiever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thievers
Etymology: From thieve + -er.
Senses: examples: text: May this juſtifie a Backberond, or Common Thiever; with all Lewdneſs and Wantonneſs of Heart, meerly for Spoil and Lucre, to rob Orchards, and waſte Vineyards […]
ref: 1674, a Perſon of Honour, Defensio Legis: Or, The Whole State of England Inquiſited and Defended for General Satisfaction, London, page 260:
text: The Receiver
Is as bad as the Thiever.
ref: 1732, Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British, volume I, London, page 274:
synonyms: word: abstractor
word: appropriator
word: bagger
word: booster
word: borrower
word: cribber
word: faker
word: filcher
word: flogger
word: heister
word: larcener
word: larcenist
word: liberator
word: lifter
word: misappropriator
word: nicker
word: pincher
word: purloiner
word: snitch
word: stealer
word: tea leaf
word: thief
word: thiever
glosses: One who thieves.
burglarizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burglarizers
form: burglariser
Etymology: From burglarize + -er.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of burglar.
synonyms: word: burglar
wenis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwiːnɪs/
rhymes: -iːnɪs
Forms: form: wenises
form: weenis
form: weenus
Etymology: The exact origin of the term is unknown, although it likely originated in the 1990s or earlier as a humorous corruption of the word penis, or perhaps as a blend of wiener + penis.
Senses: examples: text: “Did you know your wenis is showing?” “My what?” “Your wenis!” How hilarious. This joke — which I didn't get — was on me. “You got punk'd, girlfriend!” squealed Caitlin when I told her. Kitch had heard that one before. “Wenis is the medical term for the flabby skin on the elbow,” he said. I stood in front of the mirror, fingering my wenis. Flabby, was it?
ref: 2010, Tilda Shalof, Camp Nurse: My Adventures at Summer Camp, page 94:
text: “[…] Or know that this”—he tickled her elbow—“is the sexiest wenis I've ever seen.”
ref: 2011, Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, A Shore Thing, page 136:
text: I learned to appreciate skin where skin didn't matter before. Like the wenis of an elbow.
ref: 2016, Amber L. Johnson, Critical Autoethnography: Intersecting Cultural Identities in Everyday Life, page 92:
glosses: The skin on the outside of the elbow.
examples: text: “At least I win the biggest wenis contest.” You think your wenis beats my salami?
ref: 2004 June 13, “If Independence Day Happened With Bush As The President”, in alt.nuke.the.usa (Usenet), retrieved 23 Jan 2018:
text: Actually i thnk he's been exposing his wenis.
ref: 2008 April 25, Bertie the Bunyip, “Re: The Worst Flame Attempt, Ever?”, in rec.aviation.piloting (Usenet), retrieved 23 Jan 2018, message-ID <fut657$9bb$1@blackhelicopter.databasix.com>:
text: “Hey, Phil, look.” [Alan laughing] “He's jacking his little weenis.” “Pull yourself together, man.” “Not at the table, Carlos.” [Alan & Phill laughing]
ref: 2009 June 5, Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, 29:47 from the start, in The Hangover, spoken by Alan (Zach Galifianakis):
text: “Don't be such a wenis,” she says. “He bites me like five times a week.”
ref: 2009, Matt Youngmark, Zombocalypse Now, page 54:
glosses: The penis.
Synonyms: olecranal skin
misappropriator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misappropriators
Etymology: From misappropriate + -or.
Senses: glosses: A person who misappropriates.
mischief-maker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mischief-makers
form: mischiefmaker
Senses: examples: text: He also revelled in controversy and was a great mischief-maker and stirrer-up of trouble[.]
ref: 1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 90:
synonyms: word: agitator
word: bad boy
word: bad news
word: bear
word: bhoy
word: blackguard
word: booger
word: boot boy
word: bovver boy
word: brat
word: brawler
word: breedbate
word: buffoon
word: bugger
word: bully
word: charva
word: cutup
word: devil
word: elf
word: enfant terrible
word: firebrand
word: gadfly
word: hell-raiser
word: hood
word: hoodlum
word: hool
word: hoolie
word: hooligan
word: hothead
word: imp
word: inciter
word: initiator
word: instigator
word: jackanapes
word: joker
word: jokester
word: kindle-coal
word: kindle-fire
word: knave
word: lout
word: makebate
word: minx
word: mischief
word: mischief-maker
word: miscreant
word: ne'er-do-well
word: pixie
word: pot stirrer
word: practical joker
word: prankster
word: puck
word: rabble rouser
word: rakeshame
word: rantipole
word: rapscallion
word: rascal
word: rogue
word: roly-poly
word: rowdy
word: ruffian
word: scamp
word: scapegrace
word: scoundrel
word: shit disturber
word: shitmonger
word: shit-stirrer
word: tearaway
word: thug
word: titivil
word: tough
word: troublemaker
word: undesirable
word: vandal
word: wag
word: wagpastie
word: wrangler
word: yob
word: yobbo
glosses: A person who makes mischief.
mischiefmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mischiefmakers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mischief-maker.
aganactesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæɡənækˈtisɪs/
Forms: form: aganacteses
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀγᾰνάκτησῐς (agănáktēsĭs, “physical pain and irritation”).
Senses: glosses: An exclamation made out of a sense of deep indignation.
aganacteses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aganactesis
funmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: funmakers
Etymology: From fun + maker.
Senses: glosses: A person who does or says funny things; a person who makes people laugh.
Related terms: humorist
comedian
clown
jester
Sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English sceat (“corner”).
Senses: glosses: A village in Hampshire, England.
J-Pop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of J-pop.
Asiad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Asia + Olympiad?
Senses: glosses: Asian Games
K-Pop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of K-pop.
Lewis guns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lewis gun
epagomena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the neuter plural of Ancient Greek ἐπαγόμενος (epagómenos, “added on”), used by Greek writers of antiquity to describe the five epagomenal days of the calendar of the Egyptians.
Senses: examples: text: [The Ancient Egyptian calendar had] 12 months each 30 days long followed by five epagomenal days.
ref: 1997, Leo Depuyt, Civil Calendar and Lunar Calendar in Ancient Egypt, Peeters, page 57:
glosses: Time (usually five days) appended to a calendar year, outside of any regular month, to make the year 365 days long (in e.g. the ancient Egyptian calendar and in the French Republican calendar).
Derived terms: epagomenic
Related terms: word: embolismic month
word: a month inserted into a calendar year to synchronize the calendar with the seasons
word: intercalation
english: e.g. leap day
translation: e.g. leap day
word: timekeeping adjustments to synchronize a calendar with a solar year and
english: e.g. leap day
translation: e.g. leap day
word: or the seasons
sérac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: séracs
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps the finest part of it [the Lysjoch] is the grand sérac scenery of the Zwillinge Glacier. In August, 1876, a party of four, having missed the right track in crossing this pass when the snow was in very bad condition, were carried down in an avalanche of loose snow probably started by their own weight.
ref: 1838, A Hand-book for Travellers in Switzerland and the Alps of Savoy and Piedmont: Including the Protestant Valleys of the Waldenses (Murray’s Handbooks for Travellers), London: John Murray; Leipzig: Black and Armstrong; Paris: Galignani, →OCLC, page 368, column 2:
text: As you mount the Aletschhorn from the sleeping place, towards the lowest col from which you first overlook the Lotsch Glacier there descends, from a higher plateau, and on your right hand, a large mass of sérac.
ref: 1863 March, W. Wigram, “[Notes and Queries.] Intersection of the Lines of Bedding of the Névé by Blue Veins of Pure Ice”, in H. B. George, editor, The Alpine Journal: A Record of Mountain Adventure and Scientific Observation. By Members of the Alpine Club, volume I, number I, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, published 1864, →OCLC, page 46:
text: Here and elsewhere the sérac, which is something between curd and cheese, may be advantageously taken instead of butter, which is almost always bad.
ref: 1891, The Alpine Journal: A Record of Mountain Adventure and Scientific Observation. By Members of the Alpine Club, volume XV, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, →OCLC, page 214:
glosses: Alternative form of serac.
epagomenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From epagomena + -ic.
Senses: glosses: intercalary
glosses: worshiped on intercalary days
raw_tags: of Ancient Greek gods
you can't make this stuff up
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: you can't make this up
form: you couldn't make it up
form: you couldn't make this up
form: you can't make this shit up
form: you couldn't make this shit up
Etymology: Used to describe a situation so outlandish or ridiculous that one could not have imagined it.
Senses: examples: text: I can't believe it. Elena is my sister's husband's brother's daughter, and her mother is my boyfriend's deceased wife. You... you can't make this stuff up.
ref: 2011, “Daddy Issues”, in The Vampire Diaries, spoken by Jenna Sommers (Sara Canning):
synonyms: fact is stranger than fiction
truth is stranger than fiction
glosses: The reality is so bizarre, ironic, or comically coincidental as to be unbelievable.
raw_tags: as an aside
you can't make this stuff up
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: you can't make this up
form: you couldn't make it up
form: you couldn't make this up
form: you can't make this shit up
form: you couldn't make this shit up
Etymology: Used to describe a situation so outlandish or ridiculous that one could not have imagined it.
Senses: glosses: Used to express how ironically unbelievable or ridiculous a situation is.
you couldn't make it up
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of you can't make this stuff up.
synonyms: word: you can't make this stuff up
Chiles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Yidglish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of Yiddish + English
Senses: glosses: A variety of English, influenced by Yiddish, spoken by the Jewish population of New York
xylolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xylolites
Etymology: From xylo- + -lite.
Senses: examples: text: The base of a xylolite floor must be free from lime, slag, gypsum and other materials reacting with magnesia-binding agents.
ref: 1965, V. A. Vorobyev, Building Materials, page 212:
glosses: A compressed wood product used for flooring.
litter bin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: litter bins
form: litterbin
Senses: examples: text: The pull-out or pull-down tables and litter bins in every compartment and seating bay are amenities which women, particularly those with young children, have been crying out for almost as long as railways have been in operation.
ref: 1964 July, Mary Allen, “A Woman's View of the New Coaches”, in Modern Railways, page 9:
glosses: A rubbish bin.
litterbin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: litterbins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of litter bin.
trash bin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trash bins
form: trashbin
Senses: glosses: A rubbish bin.
Derived terms: trash-bin
trash bin of history
trashbin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trashbins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of trash bin.
arrieros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arriero
awaze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑˈwɑ.zeɪ/
other: /ɑˈwɑ.zi/
Etymology: From Amharic አዋዜ (ʾäwaze).
Senses: examples: text: Today her short fingernails are tinged yellow from turmeric, on the back of her wrist a dot of awaze, the red pepper paste gleaming like fresh blood.
ref: 2019, Maaza Mengiste
, The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 21:
glosses: A spicy sauce or paste, made with chili peppers and usually reddish in colour, used in Ethiopian and Eritrean cuisine.
Related terms: berbere
post factum
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Latin: "after the fact".
Senses: examples: text: But if Mark recorded this prophecy post factum, he risked nothing and, as we have demonstrated above, he gained a great deal (Jesus is confirmed as a great prophet, God is understood as in control in the midst of crisis, encouragement is given to confused and frightened disciples, and the power of Rome is disarmed).
ref: 2008, Adam Winn, The Purpose of Mark's Gospel, →ISBN, page 67:
text: It was not found necessary either in the formulation of the hypotheses or in the explanations offered post factum to appeal to any innate language-specific capacity.
ref: 2012, Anne E. Mills, The Acquisition of Gender: A Study of English and German, →ISBN, page 143:
glosses: After the fact; after the focus of an activity has already occurred.
post factum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin: "after the fact".
Senses: examples: text: Merton cautioned against confusing post factum sociological interpretations with social theory.
ref: 2010, John K. Rhoads, Critical Issues in Social Theory, →ISBN, page 34:
text: Parallel to this is an interest in the notion of post factum documentation, that is, when the 'designerly' drawings have supposedly stopped.
ref: 2014, Paul Rodgers, Joyce Yee, The Routledge Companion to Design Research, →ISBN, page 365:
glosses: After the fact; occurring after the focus of an activity has already occurred.
put to work
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts to work
form: putting to work
form: put to work
form: put to work
Senses: examples: text: Clearly, empathy is a Scriptural concept that Christians can put to work in becoming better leaders.
ref: 2008, David L. Goetsch, Taking Your Faith to Work, →ISBN, page 26:
text: Once you develop a great brand, you need to put it to work. The simple rule of thumb is that you should use your brand everywhere you can.
ref: 2008, Elisabeth Doucett, Creating Your Library Brand, →ISBN, page 26:
text: But there is useful energy in the exhaust pressure pulse, and what a turbocharger does is to put it to work driving a supercharger.
ref: 2008, Kevin Cameron, Sportbike Performance Handbook, →ISBN, page 103:
glosses: to put to use
examples: text: Insistence that those who become dependent on the state be put to work seeks to impose the demands of the reality principle on them or to punish them by forcing them to do the unskilled work inconsistent with creative living.
ref: 2007, David P. Levine, Welfare, Right and the State: A Framework for Thinking, →ISBN, page 28:
text: The able-bodied unemployed, who were without work because of the Depression, he believed should be put to work by the federal government at wages higher than the dole but lower than the prevailing wage so as not to encourage the rejection of opportunities for private employment "until economic recovery would make work relief unnecessary."
ref: 1998, Jerry Bruce Thomas, An Appalachian New Deal: West Virginia in the Great Depression, →ISBN, page 28:
text: That night, he told Ernst that Peter wanted to put him to work “to keep him out of trouble,” as he'd put it.
ref: 2004, Rodney Dale Whipple, Lorna Lynch, Say Goodbye To Skolobow, →ISBN, page 167:
glosses: Give a job; Force to work (even if it is make-work)
puts to work
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of put to work
putting to work
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of put to work
mitmita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mit.mit.ɑ/
Etymology: From Amharic ሚጥሚጣ (miṭmiṭa).
Senses: glosses: An orange-red spice mixture, usually consisting of chili peppers, cardamom, cloves and salt (and sometimes additional spices), which is used in Ethiopian and Eritrean cuisine.
torward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of toward.
torwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of towards.