cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
glide bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glide bombs
Senses: examples: text: The destruction wrought by glide bombs is visible in towns and villages near the front line.
ref: 2024 January 8, Carlotta Gall, Vladyslav Golovin, Mauricio Lima, “Exhausted, on the Defensive and at ‘Hell’s Gate’ in Ukraine”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A standoff weapon with flight control surfaces to give it a flatter, gliding flight path than that of a conventional bomb without such surfaces.
Derived terms: glide bomber
glide bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: glide bombs
form: glide bombing
form: glide bombed
form: glide bombed
form: glide-bomb
Senses: glosses: To bomb using glide bombs
glide bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glide bomb
group-thinking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Relishing the role of iconoclast, he confounded the scientific establishment by dismissing the consensus about the perils of man-made climate change as “tribal group-thinking.”
ref: 2020 February 28, George Johnson, “Freeman Dyson, Math Genius Turned Technological Visionary, Dies at 96”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Synonym of groupthink.
synonyms: word: groupthink
South Stormont
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A township in the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada.
Related terms: North Stormont
Chado-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Chad + -o-.
Senses: glosses: Chadian, Chad.
Eritreo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Eritrean, Eritrea.
Esto-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Estonian, Estonia.
HEIC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HEICs
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: file format
glosses: Initialism of High Efficiency Image Codec, HEVC contained in HEIF.
Karto-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Kartvelo-.
synonyms: word: Kartvelo-
Guineo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Guinean, Guinea.
Port Providence
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Apparently it was a port on the Schuylkill Canal or Schuylkill River.
Senses: examples: Former names: Jacobs, Lumberville
glosses: An unincorporated community in Upper Providence Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States.
wikipedia: Schuylkill Canal
Schuylkill River
uwu speak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: UwU speak
form: uwu-speak
form: UwU-speak
Senses: glosses: Synonym of uwu speech.
synonyms: word: uwu speech
Lumberville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From lumber + -ville.
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community and historic district in Solebury Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States.
glosses: Former name of Port Providence, Pennsylvania.
baryonyx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baryonyxes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βαρύς (barús, “heavy or strong”) + ὄνυξ (ónux, “claw or talon”).
Senses: glosses: Baryonyx walkeri, a theropod from the Cretaceous period discovered in 1983 in Surrey, England by William Walker, believed to be an ancestor of Spinosaurus.
everyfur
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Etymology: From every + fur (“clipping of furry”), perhaps by analogy with everypony from the My Little Pony media franchise, itself an analogy with everybody.
Senses: examples: text: Attention Everyfur...
Peter Da Silva has set-up wonderful SPAM-FREE furry newsgroups and I would like to do my part to help bring furry fans over to this wonderful system.
ref: 1996 December 3, AberDeen Foxx, “FUR: Everyfur switch to FUR.*”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet):
text: We shoed up at almost same time, Ziphorra. Soon here will be so much of food so we could open a picnic and invite everyfur, what do you think?
ref: 2002 April 2, Darquan, “Hello, everyfur”, in alt.lifestyle.furry, Google Groups:
text: Merry Christmas, everyone and everyfur! (in a few hours, anyway)
ref: 2009 December 24, GogleddOtts, Twitter:
text: Hi, everyfur! I've been in the Furry Fandom for 4 years, and I guess I'm still considered a 13-year-old (Because if you aren't 21, you're 13 until you are 21 by legal age.) and I'm what the fandom calls, a 'Young Fur'. I've been seeing a lot of posts all over the place because people are complaining about Young Furs wanting to have fursuits.
ref: 2017 April 12, u/Nuwknon, “Younger Furs In The Fandom Wanting Fursuits”, in r/furry, Reddit:
text: Everyfur help Juno out. They Arknights, Blue Lock, Kengan, and recently got blasted by the evil devils of Car Seat Headrest
ref: 2024 January 28, GrapesCSH, Twitter:
topics: lifestyle
coordinate_terms: anyfur
somefur
nofur
glosses: Everybody; or, every furry.
somefur
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Etymology: From some + fur (“clipping of furry”), perhaps by analogy with somepony from the My Little Pony media franchise, itself an analogy with somebody.
Senses: examples: text: OK. I know the events of yesterday don't belong here on this discussion board but I need to talk with someone or in this case somefur. These events and what I've been reading on MSNBC and CNN scare the living crap out of me. Not from terrorists. But from the reaction of the US citizens and the US government. There is going to be an outcry by US citizens for solutions to this problem.
ref: 2001 September 12, Kellic J. Tiger, “[OT] What is this going to do to our freedom?”, in alt.lifestyle.furry (Usenet):
text: Sent some tools and fixing stuff to somefur i fell in love with and started packing to come fur a visit and stuff (^_^)
ref: 2007 June 13, v_dragon, “What Did you Do Furry this Week, or Who?”, in alt.lifestyle.furry (Usenet):
text: Sadly, somefur beat you to it lol
ref: 2023 June 25, u/knottycrossfox, Reddit, r/furry_irl:
topics: lifestyle
coordinate_terms: anyfur
everyfur
nofur
glosses: Somebody; or, some furry.
come out on top
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes out on top
form: coming out on top
form: came out on top
form: come out on top
Senses: examples: text: He ultimately came out on top after some initial loses in the first few electoral contests.
glosses: To result victorious after a long period of struggle, competition, etc.
nonfur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonfurs
Etymology: From non- + fur (“clipping of furry”).
Senses: examples: text: I'm not well-read in the US and Europe history of 'mixed' marriages/sex/offsprings to be able to give a thesis here of possible scenarios...I suppose in a society where it's illegal for furs/nonfurs to marry and have sexual relations, those interactions will be clandestine and the female would take a little 'vacation' to have the baby in secret.
ref: 1996 October 14, Chris Whalen, “Furrys marrying Humans”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet):
text: Yes- I can say for myself that it is almost unthinkable that I would date or mate a nonfur. It's a good idea, in my opinion.
ref: 2001 September 5, Chris Johnson, “Dateing”, in alt.lifestyle.furry, Google Groups:
text: forgot i'm usually surrounded by nonfurs... if i recall correctly there are animalistic curses involved in this movie? a girl cursed to be a hawke certain times of the day? to a fur, that just SCREAMS "furry movie". ;)
ref: 2005 November 13, Grygon, “More Misty Music...”, in alt.books.m-lackey, Google Groups:
text: Chillin' with one of my nonfur friends tonight @thelunarink Should be a wacky fun time
ref: 2010 September 4, PoetFoxjackal, Twitter:
text: This time, everyone wakes up as an anthro character ... except for furries! You and all of the other humans who consider ourselves "furries" are just normal humans. But all of the nonfurs in the world have become whatever animal corresponds to their personality. Now what?
ref: 2015 October 14, u/ProfKairo, “Yet another hypothetical situation post”, in r/furry, Reddit:
text: me: *posts 10 minutes of nonfur sfw after 4+ days of nonstop horny*
me, immediately afterwards: "okay that's enough sfw for the month"
ref: 2020 April 6, terakonide, Twitter:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Someone who is not a furry.
nonfurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonfur
furgot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of forgot.
furgot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furgots
Etymology: Blend of furry + faggot.
Senses: examples: text: I decided to crack open a few of my old sketchbooks today. Ah, the memories! Including this one filk I wrote to the tune of "Money For Nothing" by Dire Straits;
[…]
The little furgot with the collar and the tail
"Yeah baby, let's go and yiff"
That little furgot carries no protection
That little furgot, he gonna wind up stiff
ref: 2002 May 27, Gabriel Gentile, “FILK: Dire "Straights"?”, in alt.fan.furry, Google Groups:
text: If u don't say no hormo after watching desperate housewives then u really r a furgot
ref: 2012 June 1, AfricanStig, Twitter:
text: Oh my god. Don't talk to me or my waifu ever again, son
You should go see a doctor. You're turning into a furgot
ref: 2016 June 20, HugoTheWhatever, Twitter:
text: Can we just acknowledge how cringe "furgot" is an attempted slur? Like I'm literally begging you, just call me a furfag
ref: [2023 October 1, RonesRexouium, Twitter:
glosses: A member of the furry subculture, especially a male; a furfag.
furgots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of furgot
Solebury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A township and unincorporated community therein, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States.
foot heater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foot heaters
Senses: glosses: Synonym of footwarmer.
synonyms: word: footwarmer
foot-warmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foot-warmers
Senses: examples: text: Her flat cloth slippers were propped up on a foot-warmer, and a cat reposed on her lap.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 200:
text: In cold weather, first and second class passengers were entitled to foot-warmers; the third class passengers had nothing, neither did they enjoy any upholstery on the seats.
ref: 1952 May, James I. C. Boyd, “The Ballycastle Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 341:
glosses: Alternative form of footwarmer.
foot warmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foot warmers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of footwarmer.
non-mimated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: antonyms: mimated
glosses: Without mimation.
cryologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryologists
Senses: glosses: A person who studies cryology.
Derived terms: geocryologist
cryologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cryology + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to cryology.
cryologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryologist
Tregorrick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Pentewan Valley parish, south of St Austell, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX0151).
finger bangs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of finger bang
finger banging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of finger bang
finger banged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of finger bang
book-bosomed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From book + bosom + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The dwarf espied the mighty Book! Much he marvelled, a knight of pride, Like a book-bosom'd priest, should ride.
ref: 1805, Sir Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, page viii:
text: Many a dreamy hour have I wandered in this delicious solitude, not ‘book-bosomed’; for, at such times, my rule is peu lire, pense beaucoup.
ref: 1839, Caroline Kirkland, A New Home--Who'll Follow?, page 59:
text: Old Morough..spoke of a lot of book-bosomed monks to sentinel us, and an exorcist to expel us.
ref: 1887, M.L. O'Byrne, Court of Rath Croghan, page 386:
glosses: Describing an individual who carries a book at all times.
rubblize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rubblizes
form: rubblizing
form: rubblized
form: rubblized
Etymology: From rubble + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To turn into rubble.
rubblization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rubble + -ization or rubblize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The process of rubblizing (turning into rubble).
Related terms: rublization
rubblized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rubblize
rubblizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rubblize
rubblizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rubblize
book-cloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From book + cloth.
Senses: glosses: Any type of woven fabric prepared for use in covering books.
bookism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bookisms
Etymology: From book + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Discrimination against a book based on its content, cover, or authorship.
glosses: Synonym of bookishness.
synonyms: word: bookishness
glosses: Synonym of said-bookism.
synonyms: word: said-bookism
Derived terms: bookist
bookisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bookism
bookist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bookists
Etymology: From book + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who engages in bookism.
bookists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bookist
New Manila
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Manila.
Senses: glosses: A district of Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
Olonets Karelia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A historical region of Karelia, Russia.
book-holder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: book-holders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bookholder.
book-holders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of book-holder
LMSW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LMSWs
Senses: qualifier: mental health; professional title; mental health; professional title
glosses: Initialism of licensed master social worker.
book-hunt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: book-hunts
form: book-hunting
form: book-hunted
form: book-hunted
Etymology: From book + hunt.
Senses: glosses: To seek out rare or valuable books.
book-hunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: book-hunts
Etymology: From book + hunt.
Senses: glosses: An instance of seeking out of rare or valuable books.
Derived terms: bookhunter
book trade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: book trades
Senses: glosses: The publishing of books.
glosses: The commercial trade of books; bookselling.
book trades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of book trade
flat-iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flat-irons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flatiron.
flat-iron steak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flat-iron steaks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flat iron steak.
oyster blade steak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oyster blade steaks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of flat iron steak.
synonyms: word: flat iron steak
oyster blade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oyster blades
Senses: glosses: Synonym of flat iron steak.
synonyms: word: flat iron steak
butler's steak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butler's steaks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of butler steak.
butlers' steak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butlers' steaks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of butler steak.
butlers steak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butlers steaks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of butler steak.
Northill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL1446).
PBTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PBT
nonachievable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + achievable.
Senses: examples: text: A health care plan which features a significant component of nonachievable objectives (because of the NSF-Bar or for other reasons) may possibly be of some use as a statement of a long-run "ideal" state of affairs to which the country might in some way and some day hopefully aspire.
ref: 1973, CENTO Conference on the Methodology of National Health Planning, page 105:
text: Naturally, a minimal rewrite is a nonachievable ideal in most circumstances, as the absence of all but trivial conditions would have significant knock-on effects for other causal conditions, meaning that everything else would not be the same.
ref: 2016, Derek Beach, Rasmus Brun Pedersen, Causal Case Study Methods, page 260:
text: Rather than aiming for the nonachievable ideal, a realistic ambition could be to have a component model and a framework which allow for analysis of response times based on abstract models of components and their compositions.
ref: 2018, Richard Zurawski, Embedded Systems Handbook, pages 1-33:
glosses: Not achievable; unachievable.
book-hunts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of book-hunt
book-hunts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of book-hunt
book-hunting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of book-hunt
book-hunted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of book-hunt
butlers' steaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butlers' steak
butler's steaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butler's steak
butlers steaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butlers steak
oyster blade steaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oyster blade steak
oyster blades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oyster blade
flat-iron steaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flat-iron steak
spaced repetition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A method where the subject is asked to remember a certain fact with the time intervals increasing each time the fact is presented or said.
Derived terms: SRS
book table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: book tables
form: book-table
Senses: glosses: A small table with shelves beneath for storing books.
Rudys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rudy
book tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of book table
book-table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: book-tables
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of book table.
book-tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of book-table
nonachieved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + achieved.
Senses: examples: text: Depending on the extent to which achieved or nonachieved criteria are used to select people for given roles, there may be predominantly achieved roles or predominantly nonachieved roles.
ref: 1973, Hans Dieter Seibel, The Dynamics of Achievement: a Radical Perspective, page 6:
text: those giving fewer than 10 false responses were designated in the nonachieved vocational identity group.
ref: 1997, Gary L. Hankinson, The Relationship of Vocational Identity and Other Mitigating Variables to Progress in Substance Dependence Treatment in a Therapeutic Community, page 66:
text: Leibniz makes an even more curious, brilliant, though dubious, assumption: he admits why and how rely on entirely different ways of thinking; but he suggests these questions are merely different perspectives of the same coherence—they are in harmony, indeed a nonachieved, hence "pre-established," a priori, harmony.
ref: 2010, Michael Gelven, Asking Mystery: A Philosophical Inquiry, page 58:
glosses: Not achieved.
book-shy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Predisposed to avoiding books or reading material.
book gill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: book gills
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A gill found in horseshoe crabs consisting of membranous folds, resembling the leaves of a book.
book gills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of book gill
sub-postmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sub-postmasters
Senses: examples: text: Fenny Compton featured in the recent TV docudrama Mr Bates vs The Post Office. It was where the first meeting of postmasters took place in 2009, organised by sub-postmaster Alan Bates to begin mounting a fight for justice in the now well-publicised Post Office scandal.
ref: 2024 April 3, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: destination Harrow”, in RAIL, number 1006, page 57:
glosses: Alternative form of subpostmaster.
Book of the Living
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Book of the Living
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Book of Life.
synonyms: word: Book of Life
bookword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bookwords
Etymology: From book + word.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of book word.
bookwords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bookword
lagometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lagometers
Senses: examples: text: Lag, in particular, is a serious problem in the larger groups; LambdaMOO even introduced a '"lagometer" on screen at one point.
ref: 2006, David Crystal, “The language of virtual worlds”, in Language and the Internet, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 184:
topics: games
gaming
glosses: A display of the amount of latency (lag) experienced in an online game.
examples: text: The lagometer has been designed by Siemens Bros. and Co. for measuring time constants of relays.
ref: 1940, “The Lagometer”, in Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, volume 44, number 2, page 12:
text: The temperature of the solution in the padder and of the water in washing boxes is controlled by means of a lagometer.
ref: 1978, Fedor Ivanovich Sadov, Mikhail Vladimirovich Korchagin, A. Matetsky, Chemical Technology of Fibrous Materials, Mir Publishers, page 538:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technical
glosses: A device that measures any other sort of lag.
book-edge marbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: book-edge marblers
Senses: glosses: A person whose occupation is to make a decorative marbled edge effect on the edges of pages of books.
Related terms: book-edge gilder
book-edge marblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of book-edge marbler
book-edge gilder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: book-edge gilders
Senses: glosses: A person whose occupation is to gild the edges of books.
Related terms: book-edge marbler
Uplands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An area in Lari Constituency, Kiambu County, Kenya.
glosses: A neighbourhood in west Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
glosses: A place in Canada:
A neighbourhood in Oak Bay municipality, near Victoria, British Columbia.
glosses: A place in Canada:
A neighbourhood in the City of London, Ontario.
glosses: A place in Canada:
A neighbourhood in the south of Ottawa, Ontario.
glosses: An outer suburb of Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, north-east of the town centre (OS grid ref SO8605).
glosses: A suburb and community in Swansea, Wales (OS grid ref SS6392).
book-edge gilders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of book-edge gilder
book-debt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: book-debts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of book debt.
book-debts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of book-debt
ego death
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ego deaths
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
synonyms: identity death
ID
ego dissolution
glosses: The complete loss of subjective self-identity.
ego deaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ego death
book concern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: book concerns
Senses: glosses: A publishing house.
book concerns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of book concern
book pocket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: book pockets
Senses: qualifier: library studies
glosses: A pocket pasted inside the back cover of a book that holds a book card.
Related terms: borrowing card
library card
book pockets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of book pocket
Bowieites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bowieite
quackcinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of quack + vaccinated
Senses: glosses: Vaccinated.
street number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: street numbers
Senses: glosses: The numerical address assigned to a home, business, or other property.
Related terms: street address
street numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of street number
Oak Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A district municipality and bay near Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
glosses: A rural community and bay in Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada.
streak of good luck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: streaks of good luck
Senses: glosses: A continuous and uninterrupted period of good fortune.
streaks of good luck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of streak of good luck
up the arse
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of up the ass.
Matathia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A settlement in the former Rift Valley province, Kenya.
Ethelred
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕth′əl-rĕd′
ipa: /ˈɛθ.əlˌɹɛd/
Forms: form: Æthelred
form: Aethelred
form: Athelred
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English Æþelrǣd, Æþelred, Æðelred, from æþele (“noble”) + rǣd (“counsel, advice”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Old English Æþelræd (“noble counsel, well-advised”), variant of Aethelred or Æthelred.
A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Ethelred I, King of Wessex between 865 and his death in 871
glosses: A male given name from Old English Æþelræd (“noble counsel, well-advised”), variant of Aethelred or Æthelred.
A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Ethelred II “the Unready”, King of the English between 978 and his death in 1016
Aethelred
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ăth′əl-rĕd′
ipa: /ˈæθ.əlˌɹɛd/
Forms: form: Ethelred
form: Æthelred
form: Athelred
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English Æþelræd, Æðelred, from æþele (“noble”) + rǣd (“counsel, advice”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Old English Æþelræd (“noble counsel, well-advised”), variant of Ethelred or Æthelred.
A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Aethelred I, King of Wessex between 865 and his death in 871.
glosses: A male given name from Old English Æþelræd (“noble counsel, well-advised”), variant of Ethelred or Æthelred.
A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Aethelred II “the Unready”, King of the English between 978 and his death in 1016.
San Andres
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Quezon, Philippines.
glosses: A municipality of Romblon, Philippines.
glosses: A municipality of Catanduanes, Philippines.
glosses: A district of Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines
glosses: Various barangays of the Philippines.
Derived terms: San Andres Bundok
San Andres, Isla Verde
San Andres Labak
Jomalig
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island and municipality of the province of Quezon, Philippines.
self-death
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-deaths
form: selfdeath
Etymology: From self + death.
Senses: examples: text: Psychiatry may have a name for this form of cessation, but it isn't hard to see something of that notion in the self-deaths of creative artists who have either sought to push the very edges of corporeal existence or who have died because they couldn't find a way of truly validating their talents and their livingness.
ref: 2020, Said Shahtahmasebi, Hatim A. Omar, The Broader View of Suicide, page 101:
glosses: Suicide.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Apoptosis.
self-death
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: self-deaths
form: self-deathing
form: self-deathed
form: self-deathed
form: selfdeath
Etymology: From self + death.
Senses: glosses: To commit suicide.
cold dish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cold dishes
Senses: examples: text: Refreshments will be provided in the bar, and cold dishes and light hot meals will be served in the saloon.
ref: 1951 July, “Buffet Cars in Denmark”, in Railway Magazine, page 432:
glosses: A meal served and eaten cold.
self-deaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of self-death
self-deaths
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of self-death
cold dishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cold dish
furgonomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɜː.ɡəˈnɒ.mɪks/
ipa: /ˌfɜːɹ.ɡəˈnɑ.mɪks/
rhymes: -ɒmɪks
Etymology: Blend of fur + ergonomics.
Senses: examples: text: And not just for actual furries: that's how I started on keyboards. Now, years later, I'm up to about 4. - 6 fingers when I get a good head of steam up.
Furgonomics -- now _there's_ a fascinating field for study! :->
ref: 1994 March 8, Bruce Grant, “Non-human FurryMUCK typists, Re: Dream of ....”, in alt.furry.fan (Usenet):
text: I've got this couple, in some of my stories, who just got engaged (for the second time)--and this time, it looks like they actually *will* get married. Which brought up some furgonomics questions regarding the wedding.
First of all, dresses. How the deuce does one deal with a dress if one has a tail? The bride's wedding gown might have to have a rather strange zipper on the back.
ref: 2000 August 15, Rimau Dahan, “FUR: Wedding Furgonomics”, in alt.furry.fan (Usenet):
text: Needs more furgonomics
ref: 2015 April 7, ResoluteRL, Twitter:
text: Furgonomics reveals that the mass production of a single model of a good, like a chair, has its limits. In a world dwelled by anthro people, variations in the anatomy of furries forces us to re-think the way people live.
ref: 2022 August 20, u/Le_Endal, “Thinking furgonomics is kind of thinking disability”, in r/furgonomics, Reddit:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Ergonomics as it applies to furries; the design of equipment and objects in order to accommodate anthropomorphic animals.
Derived terms: furgonomic
furgonomical
Verde Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Partial calque of Spanish Isla Verde.
Senses: glosses: An island of the Philippines, administered as part of Batangas City in Batangas.
Derived terms: Verde Island Passage
hot streak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot streaks
Senses: examples: text: Jace was on a hot streak at the casino, winning five times in a row on the roulette wheel.
text: The local collegians played the Trenton school on the foreign court two weeks ago, and after holding the lead through the game, the Trenton team got a hot streak in the last minutes of play and tossed several long shots through the ring for a 16-12 windup in the favor.
ref: 1930 January 29, “Bucs to Play in Twin Bill Tonight”, in Moberly Monitor-Index, volume 11, number 179, Moberly, M.O.: Moberly Index Printing Company, →OCLC, page 6, column 1:
text: Wolf had a faster pump than a slot-machine player on a hot streak.
ref: 1984, Stephen King, Peter Straub, The Talisman, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 225:
text: At about six in the morning, she hit a hot streak and her piles of chips began to grow. A crowd gathered. She did a quick tally: not quite enough to pay off the notes she had signed, but if she kept playing smart, she would come out on top, and then quit for good.
ref: 2012, Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 267:
text: Most players, fans, coaches, commentators believe the hot hand is widespread in game situations. You only have to watch a few basketball games to hear commentators mention a player as being "on fire" or having hot hand or hot streaks.
ref: 2023 November 6, Kim McGrath, quoting Erik Nesson, “Q&A: 'Hot hand' in sports is real, but there's a catch”, in Phys.org, archived from the original on 09 Jan 2024:
glosses: A run of exceptionally good luck or performance.
examples: text: A hot streak of flame passed, singing, close above O'Hara's ear.
ref: 1903, Agnes Castle, Egerton Castle, Incomparable Bellairs, New York, N.Y.: Frederick A. Stokes Company, page 121:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hot, streak.
Related terms: hot hand
hot streaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot streak
Corregidor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ko.ɾɪ.ɡɪˈdoɾ/
ipa: /ko.ɾɪ.hɪˈdoɾ/
ipa: /koʊˈɹeɪhɪdoɹ/
Etymology: From Spanish Corregidor.
Senses: glosses: An island of the Philippines, administered as part of Cavite City in Cavite.
gallapple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gallapples
form: gall-apple
Etymology: From gall + apple. Compare Dutch galappel, German Galapfel, Danish galæble, Swedish galläpple.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gallnut.
synonyms: word: gallnut
subcentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subcentric
form: most subcentric
Etymology: From sub- + centric.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Nearly or almost in the center of something; subcentral.
examples: text: Oospores may be centric, subcentric, subeccentric or eccentric. Antheridial branches may or may not be present, and are androgynous, monoclinous, diclinous or hypogynous.
ref: 2014, Nicky B. Buller, Bacteria and Fungi From Fish and Other Aquatic Animals: A Practical Identification Manual, 2nd edition, Boston, M.A.: CABI, →ISBN, page 687:
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having or being a oospore in which the cytoplasm only partially surrounds the ooplast.
Related terms: submetacentric
expersate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Expersate oospores lack an ooplast and have one to several oil droplets entirely surrounded by protoplasm. […] Dick (1971) has claimed that all known species of Saprolegniaceae possess an ooplast and that the term expersate is therefore superfluous.
ref: 1980, John Webster, Introduction to Fungi, 2nd edition, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire; […]: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 156:
glosses: Being a oospore which lacks an ooplast.
subeccentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + eccentric.
Senses: examples: text: Oospores may be centric, subcentric, subeccentric or eccentric. Antheridial branches may or may not be present, and are androgynous, monoclinous, diclinous or hypogynous.
ref: 2014, Nicky B. Buller, Bacteria and Fungi From Fish and Other Aquatic Animals: A Practical Identification Manual, 2nd edition, Boston, M.A.: CABI, →ISBN, page 687:
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having or being an oospore with a multiple oil globules on one side that displace much of the ooplasm and force the ooplasts to the other side.
attelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attelets
Etymology: Borrowed from French attelet, a variant of hâtelet; itself from Middle French hastelet, diminutive of haste (“spear, spit, roast meat”).
Senses: glosses: a small decorative metal skewer used for serving food
semihypogynous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + hypogynous.
Senses: examples: text: Pythiopsis cymosa. Oogonium with a single, aplerotic, subeccentric oospore. Note the mucilage layer around the oogonium. Semihypogynous antheridium with fertilization tube.
ref: 1965, C. G. Ainsworth, Frederick K[roeber] Sparrow, Alfred S. Sussman, editors, The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise, volume IVB (A Taxonomic Review with Keys: Basidomycetes and Lower Fungi), New York, N.Y.; London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 134:
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a partially attached superior ovary.
exigynous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Antheridia are closely monoclinous and exigynous.
ref: 1965, C. G. Ainsworth, Frederick K[roeber] Sparrow, Alfred S. Sussman, editors, The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise, volume IVB (A Taxonomic Review with Keys: Basidomycetes and Lower Fungi), New York, N.Y.; London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 135:
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: In which the antheridial stalk rises directly from the oogonial cell above the basal septum.
Related terms: epigynous
Tranzschel's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Russian botanist and mycologist Vladimir Andreevich Tranzschel.
Senses: examples: text: It should be noted that Tranzschel's law does not necessarily apply to autoecious macro- or demicyclic rusts derived from heteroecious species.
ref: 1965, C. G. Ainsworth, Frederick K[roeber] Sparrow, Alfred S. Sussman, editors, The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise, volume IVB (A Taxonomic Review with Keys: Basidomycetes and Lower Fungi), New York, N.Y.; London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 252:
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: A law stating that telia of microcyclic species of rust fungi that are descendants of macrocyclic, heteroecious rusts simulate aecia of the ancestral macrocyclic rust and occur on the aecial host of the latter.
wikipedia: Vladimir Andreevich Tranzschel
demicyclic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From demi- + cyclic.
Senses: examples: text: It should be noted that Tranzschel's law does not necessarily apply to autoecious macro- or demicyclic rusts derived from heteroecious species.
ref: 1965, C. G. Ainsworth, Frederick K[roeber] Sparrow, Alfred S. Sussman, editors, The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise, volume IVB (A Taxonomic Review with Keys: Basidomycetes and Lower Fungi), New York, N.Y.; London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 252:
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Not producing a uredinium on infected plants.
raw_tags: of a rust
pycnial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pycni(um) + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The work of Hiratsuka and Cummins has much improved our understanding of the significance of pycnia in taxonomy. Previously many authors had tended to regard pycnial position, for example, subepidermal, intraepidermal, or subcuticular, as the only pycnial feature of importance in differentiating genera (e.g., Arthur, 1934; Cummins, 1959; Thirumalachar, 1961).
ref: 1965, C. G. Ainsworth, Frederick K[roeber] Sparrow, Alfred S. Sussman, editors, The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise, volume IVB (A Taxonomic Review with Keys: Basidomycetes and Lower Fungi), New York, N.Y.; London: Academic Press, →ISBN, pages 253–255:
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the pycnium (the body of a fungus that produces pycniospores).
dichophysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dichophyses
Senses: examples: text: The material in Fries' herbarium has the dichophyses of Asterostromella.
ref: 1965, C. G. Ainsworth, Frederick K[roeber] Sparrow, Alfred S. Sussman, editors, The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise, volume IVB (A Taxonomic Review with Keys: Basidomycetes and Lower Fungi), New York, N.Y.; London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 391:
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: A part of the hyphae of certain fungi which branches into two.
Related terms: diapophysis
dichophyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dichophysis
nucleii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: However, octupole or pear-shaped nucleii have been found in heavier elements from the Periodic Table such as radon and radium.
ref: 2013 May 9, Philippa Warr, “Study: Pear-shaped particle physics reveals matter/antimatter asymmetry”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2022:
glosses: Misspelling of nuclei.
autonomous region
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autonomous regions
Senses: glosses: A subnational administrative division or internal territory of a sovereign state that has a degree of autonomy or self-governance under the national government.
autonomous regions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autonomous region
morchelloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more morchelloid
form: most morchelloid
Etymology: From Morchella + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: In this subclass the sporophores are columnar, dendroid, or morchelloid consisting of a spongy matrix on the surface of which the protoplast cleaves into individual, uninucleate, amoeboid cells (protospores), each of which elevates a stalk bearing a single spore at the tip.
ref: 1965, C. G. Ainsworth, Frederick K[roeber] Sparrow, Alfred S. Sussman, editors, The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise, volume IVB (A Taxonomic Review with Keys: Basidomycetes and Lower Fungi), New York, N.Y.; London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 51:
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to or resembling morels of the genus Morchella.
productive forces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of German Produktivkräfte.
Senses: examples: text: The productive forces of our country, especially in industry, were social in character, the form of ownership, on the other hand, was private, capitalistic. Relying on the economic law that the relations of production must necessarily conform with the character of the productive forces, the Soviet government socialized the means of production, made them the property of the whole people, and thereby abolished the exploiting system and created socialist forms of economy.
ref: 1972 [1951], Joseph Stalin, “Character of Economic Laws Under Socialism”, in Economic Problems of Socialism in the U.S.S.R., Foreign Languages Press, retrieved 08 Jan 2024:
glosses: The combination of means of labour and labour power which together with certain relations of production form a historically specific mode of production.
subfleshy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subfleshy
form: most subfleshy
Etymology: From sub- + fleshy.
Senses: examples: text: The Agaricales have basidiocarps which are fleshy to subfleshy or rarely, almost leathery (but if the latter then the hymenophore is not poroid).
ref: 1965, C. G. Ainsworth, Frederick K[roeber] Sparrow, Alfred S. Sussman, editors, The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise, volume IVB (A Taxonomic Review with Keys: Basidomycetes and Lower Fungi), New York, N.Y.; London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 422:
topics: biology
botany
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Somewhat or partially fleshy.
agariclike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more agariclike
form: most agariclike
form: agaric-like
Etymology: From agaric + -like.
Senses: examples: text: For agariclike basidiocarps not discharging spores from the sterigmata, see the secotioid Gasteromycetes.
ref: 1965, C. G. Ainsworth, Frederick K[roeber] Sparrow, Alfred S. Sussman, editors, The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise, volume IVB (A Taxonomic Review with Keys: Basidomycetes and Lower Fungi), New York, N.Y.; London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 422:
glosses: Resembling an agaric.
Related terms: agarical
pseudoaethalium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoaethalia
Etymology: From pseudo- + aethalium.
Senses: examples: text: Pseudoaethalia may reach a diameter of 20 cm or more, or, in the case of elongated structures, a length of more than 10 cm.
ref: 1965, C. G. Ainsworth, Frederick K[roeber] Sparrow, Alfred S. Sussman, editors, The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise, volume IVB (A Taxonomic Review with Keys: Basidomycetes and Lower Fungi), New York, N.Y.; London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 43:
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: A structure consisting of many sporangia packed together in certain myxomycete species.
pseudoaethalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoaethalium
sporangiumlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sporangiumlike
form: most sporangiumlike
form: sporangium-like
Senses: examples: text: Thus plasmodiocarps may have a variety of shapes even in the same fruiting, varying from sporangiumlike spheres to a network of tubes.
ref: 1965, C. G. Ainsworth, Frederick K[roeber] Sparrow, Alfred S. Sussman, editors, The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise, volume IVB (A Taxonomic Review with Keys: Basidomycetes and Lower Fungi), New York, N.Y.; London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 43:
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Resembling a sporangium.
holobasidiate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From holobasidi(um) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The basidia are holobasidiate, and rarely have adventitious septa in the metabasidium or sterigmata; they also rarely proliferate in apical linear succession.
ref: 1965, C. G. Ainsworth, Frederick K[roeber] Sparrow, Alfred S. Sussman, editors, The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise, volume IVB (A Taxonomic Review with Keys: Basidomycetes and Lower Fungi), New York, N.Y.; London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 327:
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Being or containing a holobasidium.
gloeovessel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gloeovessels
form: gleovessel
Etymology: Blend of gloeocystidium + vessel.
Senses: examples: text: The hymenium is a more-or-less thickening euhymenium or a catahymenium, often with associated sterile hyphidia, cystidia, gloeocystidia, setae or gloeovessels.
ref: 1965, C. G. Ainsworth, Frederick K[roeber] Sparrow, Alfred S. Sussman, editors, The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise, volume IVB (A Taxonomic Review with Keys: Basidomycetes and Lower Fungi), New York, N.Y.; London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 327:
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: A vessel-shaped attachment to a gleocystidium that projects into the trama.
gloeovessels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gloeovessel
tribute wall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tribute walls
Senses: examples: text: When he died, his friends and family wrote on his tribute wall.
glosses: A noticeboard dedicated to acknowledgement, homage, and remembrance of someone.
phragmobasidiate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phragmobasidi(um) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: This order comprises the Hymenomycetes of Fries (1874) with the exclusion of phragmobasidiate fungi, Dacrymycetales, Tulasnellales, Agaricales, and the biophilous parasitic fungi such as the Exobasidiales and Brachybasidiales.
ref: 1965, C. G. Ainsworth, Frederick K[roeber] Sparrow, Alfred S. Sussman, editors, The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise, volume IVB (A Taxonomic Review with Keys: Basidomycetes and Lower Fungi), New York, N.Y.; London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 328:
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Being or containing a phragmobasidium.
Related terms: basidiate
holobasidiate