cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pronunc.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of pronunciation.
prop.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of property.
psych.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of psychology.
psychoanal.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of psychoanalysis.
pat. off.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of patent office.
pkt.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of packet.
poet.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of poetry.
ophthal.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of ophthalmology.
ophthalmol.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of ophthalmology.
ornith.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of ornithology.
paleontol.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of paleontology.
nav.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of navigation.
neur.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of neurology.
nt. wt.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of net weight.
obj.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: related: word: obj
glosses: Abbreviation of object.
Derived terms: cogn. obj.
mxd.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of mixed.
myth.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of mythology.
kyrkmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kyrkmaster
kirkmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kirkmasters
Etymology: From Middle English kirkmaster, kyrkmaster, equivalent to kirk + master.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Alternative spelling of kyrkmaster.
kirkmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kirkmaster
outsquat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outsquats
form: outsquatting
form: outsquatted
form: outsquatted
Etymology: From out- + squat.
Senses: examples: text: I outdeadlift him by quite a bit but he outsquats me and outbenches me.
ref: 2018 September 1, Gracelynn Doogan, “Fill Your Mind with Happiness”, in In The Eyes of an Athlete:
glosses: To squat more weight than.
outsquats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outsquat
outsquatting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of outsquat
outsquatted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outsquat
standpoint epistemology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of standpoint theory.
synonyms: word: standpoint theory
hospitallike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hospitallike
form: most hospitallike
Etymology: From hospital + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Well, you know, you kind of put your finger on it when you talked about the hospitallike nature of many nursing homes.
ref: 2005 August 23, Neal Conan, “Finding the Best Care for Mom and Dad”, in NPR:
text: “You need skilled specialists available in hospitallike settings to manage patient caseloads and, especially, to deal with high-needs patients on respirators or [others] who need special care,” says Padula, who is now expanding his analysis to include doctors.
ref: 2020 August 4, Karen Weintraub, “Not Just Ventilators: Staff Trained to Run Them Are in Short Supply”, in Scientific American:
text: Kevin Hall, a scientist at the National Institutes of Health, recruited 20 volunteers and confined them to a hospitallike area in Maryland to study the effects of different diets.
ref: 2023 January 11, Tanya Lewis, Josh Fischman, Lori Youmshajekian, Carin Leong & Elah Feder, “What Are Ultraprocessed Foods, and Are They Bad for You?”, in Scientific American:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a hospital.
GMI
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: gmi
Senses: antonyms: NGMI
WNGMI
coordinate_terms: WAGMI
WAGMIB
WGMI
YGMI
glosses: Abbreviation of gonna make it.
gmi
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of GMI.
imsim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imsims
form: ImSim
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: Syllabic abbreviation of immersive simulation.
El Jebel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place and unincorporated community in Eagle County, Colorado.
Snowmass Village
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A home rule municipality of Pitkin County, Colorado.
Snowmass
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in Pitkin County, Colorado.
glosses: Ellipsis of Snowmass Village.
Derived terms: Snowmass Creek
nosework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The use of the sense of smell to track down targets.
raw_tags: in reference to dogs
scrunch up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scrunches up
form: scrunching up
form: scrunched up
form: scrunched up
Senses: examples: text: He scrunched up his nose.
glosses: To scrunch one's face or a part of one's face.
scrump up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scrumps up
form: scrumping up
form: scrumped up
form: scrumped up
Senses: glosses: Synonym of scrunch up.
synonyms: word: scrunch up
glosses: Synonym of crumple up.
synonyms: word: crumple up
spiralglass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiralglasses
Etymology: From spiral + glass.
Senses: glosses: Any of grass species of the genus Tuctoria'.
strasberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strasberries
Etymology: Blend of strawberry + raspberry
Senses: glosses: A variety of strawberry with a raspberrylike appearance.
meadowbeauty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meadowbeauties
Etymology: From meadow + beauty.
Senses: glosses: Any of flowering species of the genus Rhexia.
covidivorce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: covidivorces
Etymology: Blend of covid + divorce.
Senses: examples: text: Couples whose marriages are fraying under the pressures of self-isolation could be heading for a "covidivorce."
ref: 2020 March 27, Dan Bilefsky, Ceylan Yeginsu, “Of 'Covidivorces' and 'Coronababies': Life During a Lockdown”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 May 2023:
text: Frankly, Type 1s and 2s are both fine — whatever works for you. But if you're a Type 1 and your spouse Type 2, it could be a reason this lockdown will end with covidivorces.
ref: 2020 April 11, Josh Freed, “Josh Freed: Five things we're confused about protecting ourselves from COVID-19”, in Montreal Gazette, Montreal, Que.: Postmedia Network Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Jan 2024:
text: Now, as governments around the world loosen their restrictions, divorce lawyers prepare for a swift rise in demand for the dreaded covidivorce.
ref: 2020 July 26, Christelle McKillen, “Love in the time of corona”, in RTL Today, archived from the original on 16 May 2024:
text: "Darling I think we have played a part in our first covidivorce," said La Contessa from her familiar position at the telescope under the orange tree.
ref: 2021 September 10, Matthew Benns, “We're all in this together: A coronavirus novel”, in The Daily Telegraph, archived from the original on 10 Jun 2023:
glosses: A divorce obtained during the COVID-19 pandemic.
covidivorces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of covidivorce
lilly-low
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lilly-lows
form: lilly low
form: lillylow
Etymology: Likely from Scots lilly (“lovely”) + low (“flame”). The first term might also directly come from liefly.
Senses: examples: text: Should any pretend to quibble at the little eſcapes of ſuch men, the bulk of the world would know no more of it than of the Anatomiſts interſcapularia, and the reſt would conſider it as a north-country Lilly-Low, that is, a mere ſtraw-fire.
ref: 1782, Robert Robinson, “The Preface”, in Arcana: in VIII. Letters to a Friend, London: […] W. Lepard and J. Buckland, page xv:
text: Then she arranged the logs in a more scientific manner, blew one long, well-directed breath, causing what Yorkshire folk call "a lilly-low," then nodded her head significantly, with another broad smile.
ref: 1868, J. Reynard, “The Victoria Mission: From the Journal of the Rev. J. Reynard, 1866-67”, in Ninth Annual Report of the Columbia Mission for the Year 1867, London: Rivingtons, page 21:
text: For lily-lows is nought to it for burning.
ref: 1890 January 24, Walter Adams Wallace, Only a Sister?: A Tale of To-day^(Quote https://www.google.com.sv/books/edition/The_English_Catalogue_of_Books/ZZBIAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22W.+A.+Wallace%22+%22only+a+sister%22&pg=PA1031&printsec=frontcover https://www.google.com.sv/books/edition/The_Speaker/545NAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22only+a+sister%22&pg=PA324&printsec=frontcover), London: Roper & Drowley, page 360:
text: Lilly-low, lilly-low, set up on end,
See little baby go out at town end.
ref: 1906, Lina Eckenstein, “Riddle-rhymes” (chapter X), in Comparative Studies in Nursery Rhymes, London: Duckworth & Co., page 113:
text: Winter, disputing every inch of ground, at last retreated beaten. The sun burst through the sullen clouds, and flung his lusty beams about the house. The dust-motes caught their radiance, and danced in shimmering lilly-lows, which played about the kitchen.
ref: 1912, Louis Pergaud, “Margot”, in Douglas English, transl., Tales of the Untamed: Dramas of the Animal World, New York: Outing Publishing Company, pages 192-193:
text: Occasionally at evenglome one of the Gillie Girls would come and sit on a Rock offshore and sing to me by the light of the lilly-lows, accompanying herself on her long golden hair, which should not have sorted very well with her scaly green skin but somehow did.
ref: 1975 January 24, Evelyn E. Smith, Unpopular Planet, Dell Publishing, page 331:
glosses: A flame, especially a bright, small or lovely one.
lilly-lows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lilly-low
isolationship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From isolation + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: The social isolate, whether male or female, is usually a poor risk. All big cities produce, and attract, such individuals and the dynamics of their isolationship are usually multiple.
ref: 1967, “Psycholytic Therapy”, in w:Harold A[lexander] Abramson, editor, The Use of LSD in Psychotherapy and Alcoholism, Indianapolis, I.N. […]: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., page 136:
text: Just think how relatively lucky we are now. For starters, our magic-wand phones let us message or speak to anyone anywhere on Earth when we're tired of our isolationship.
ref: 2021 January 30, Josh Freed, “Josh Freed: Every era has its own pandemic blessings”, in Montreal Gazette, Montreal, Que.: Postmedia Network Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Jan 2024:
glosses: The quality of being isolated; isolatedness.
isolationship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isolationships
Etymology: Blend of isolation + relationship.
Senses: examples: text: So it's no surprise that, for many, being apart from friends, family and romantic partners has proved incredibly lonely. Being in an "isolationship" doesn't help.
ref: 2020 April 1, Sadaf Ahsan, “How the coronavirus pandemic is changing the ways we have sex”, in NOW Toronto, Toronto, Ont.: NOW Communications Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Sep 2021:
text: [image caption:] In an 'isolationship' survey, 1,600 women, aged 25 to 65-plus, across the UK were asked about how confinement has changed their lives and relationships
ref: 2020 May 1, Frances Hardy, “The lockdown lust files: How three quarters of Britons say social isolation has benefited their relationships”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Jul 2022:
text: Repeatedly stepping out on quarantine strolls like the sidewalks were lined with red carpet, the public caught wind of their isolationship early on in quarantine. Now, the couple is doing full-on PDA in a new Residente music video.
ref: 2020 May 15, Zoe Haylock, “Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas Continue to Be That Couple”, in Vulture, archived from the original on 30 Jan 2023:
text: We are waiting to see the future stories, books, plays and movies that will come out with COVID as the theme. And yes, artworks too, after artists emerge from what BenCab and Annie Sarthou describe on Instagram as being in a relationship, better described as "isolationship."
ref: 2021 April 4, Millet M. Mananquil, “Stories in the time of COVID”, in PhilSTAR Life, archived from the original on 02 Jul 2022:
glosses: A relationship during a pandemic lockdown.
isolationships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isolationship
bikenapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bikenappings
form: bike-napping
Etymology: Blend of bike + kidnapping.
Senses: glosses: bicycle theft
brickphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brickphones
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of brick phone.
brickphones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brickphone
pancession
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of pandemic + recession.
Senses: examples: text: Uncertainties persist around our scenarios for post-pancession recovery. An inclusive & transformative recovery is the most equitable and desirable, but how feasible is it? What are the legislative, litigative and political obstacles to phasing out fossil fuels and governing stranded assets in the midst of a pancession?
ref: 2021 June 26, Arthur Rempel, Joyeeta Gupta, “Fossil fuels, stranded assets and COVID-19: Imagining an inclusive & transformative recovery”, in World Development, volume 146, Amsterdam: Elsevier, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10, column 2:
glosses: The economic recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
elimination round
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elimination rounds
Senses: glosses: group stage or regular season
informal settler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: informal settlers
Etymology: From informal + settler.
Senses: glosses: A squatter.
coronababy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coronababies
form: corona baby
Etymology: Compound of corona + baby.
Senses: examples: text: We love talking about blackout babies, snowstorm sex and hurricane birth booms. Furlough fertility was a big discussion among federal workers in D.C. during government shutdowns. But I'm not convinced coronababies are going to be headlines come December.
ref: 2020 March 23, Petula Dvorak, “Will coronavirus intimacy lead to a baby boom? Or a divorce tsunami?”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Mar 2020:
text: Coronavirus isn't likely to give us coronababies – but a pandemic isn't the reason that having children has shifted from an inevitability to a choice, and now, a moral question. A long time ago, "Do we have children?" became "Should we?"
ref: 2020 July 25, Sian Cain, “Why a generation is choosing to be child-free”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2024:
text: Understanding whether the pandemic will influence coronababies will take time, but for now, parents can do things to minimize the effects.
ref: 2020 September 3, Stav Dimitropoulos, “Will pandemic 'coronababies' live with long-term trauma?”, in National Geographic, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Partners, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Feb 2021:
text: Truly, births need a push. Predictions of a boom in coronababies were way, way off. Britain, in common with many other developed nations, is experiencing a sharp new slump in fertility, the full extent of which remains unclear. If our neighbours are anything to go by, we are in for an epidemic of empty cradles.
ref: 2021 April 2, Colin Brazier, “Britain's Covid baby bust is bleak news”, in The Spectator, London: Press Holdings, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2024:
glosses: A baby conceived during the COVID-19 pandemic.
coronababies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coronababy
corona baby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corona babies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coronababy.
corona babies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corona baby
adcluster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adclusters
Senses: examples: text: Otherwise, in the case of pure physisorption, adatoms and very small adclusters would not be observed with the STM because the probability for the sharp eigenstates of the adparticles to lie within the 10 meV energy window ( given by the bias voltage ) would be considerably small.
ref: 1987, PDMS and Clusters, page 125:
text: An approach to help correct this involves an adcluster, consisting of an adatom (molecule) and cluster, which is "dipped" into the electron "background" of the substrate [24,25].
ref: 1999, Thomas F George, Daniel A Jelski, Computational Studies Of New Materials, page 339:
text: On the other hand, when the electron transfer from the bulk metal to the adcluster is admitted, the system becomes stable as O₂ approaches Pd, which is shown by the broken curve of n = 1.0.
ref: 2012, Dennis R. Salahub, N. Russo, Metal-Ligand Interactions, page 274:
glosses: An arrangement of atoms within a nanoparticle.
adclusters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adcluster
EDSA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈʔedsa/
[ˈʔɛːd.sɐ]
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Epifanio de los Santos Avenue.
topics: government
history
human-sciences
politics
sciences
synonyms: EDSA I
coordinate_terms: EDSA II
EDSA III
glosses: Ellipsis of EDSA Revolution.
adparticle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adparticles
Etymology: Revised spelling of ad particle popularized by Robert Gomer and Lynn W. Swanson's 1963 paper "Theory of field desorption", coined by chemists Roger Wortman, Robert Gomer, and Richard A. Lundy, in 1957 as a shortening of adsorption + particle.
Senses: examples: text: Otherwise, in the case of pure physisorption, adatoms and very small adclusters would not be observed with the STM because the probability for the sharp eigenstates of the adparticles to lie within the 10 meV energy window ( given by the bias voltage ) would be considerably small.
ref: 1987, PDMS and Clusters, page 125:
glosses: A cluster of atoms or molecules that is adsorbed onto the surface of a material.
adparticles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adparticle
hifalutin'
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hifalutin'
form: most hifalutin'
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of highfalutin.
highfalutin'
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more highfalutin'
form: most highfalutin'
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of highfalutin.
hifaluting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hifaluting
form: most hifaluting
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of highfalutin.
high-falutin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more high-falutin
form: most high-falutin
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of highfalutin.
high-faluting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more high-faluting
form: most high-faluting
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of highfalutin.
high falutin'
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more high falutin'
form: most high falutin'
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of highfalutin.
high faluting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more high faluting
form: most high faluting
Senses: examples: text: “Don’t go,” she said. “I like you. You’re very English. You know, high faluting.”
ref: 2005, Sefi Atta, Everything Good Will Come, Arris Books, page 33:
glosses: Alternative spelling of highfalutin.
highfalutination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From highfalutin + -ation.
Senses: glosses: A pompous or elevated form of language or speech.
Tsagaan Khas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tsagaan Khass
Etymology: Borrowed from Mongolian Цагаан Хас (Cagaan Xas), from цагаан (cagaan, “white”) + хас (xas, “swastika”).
Senses: examples: text: Groups such as Tsagaan Khass, or White Swastika, portray themselves as patriots standing up for ordinary citizens in the face of foreign crime, rampant inequality, political indifference and corruption.
ref: 2010 August 2, Tania Branigan, “Mongolian neo-Nazis: Anti-Chinese sentiment fuels rise of ultra-nationalism”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 16 Sep 2023:
text: Tsagaan Khass, or White Swastika, has only 100-plus members but it is one of several groups with names like Dayar Mongol (Whole Mongolia), Gal Undesten (Fire Nation) and Khukh Mongol (Blue Mongolia),[…]
ref: 2013 July 2, Carlos Barria, “Mongolia neo-Nazis announce a change of tack - pollution control”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 24 Oct 2022:
glosses: A Mongolian neo-Nazi organization founded by Ariunbold Altankhuum in 1990.
submajorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: submajorizes
form: submajorizing
form: submajorized
form: submajorized
Etymology: From sub- + majorize.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To have the same partial sum as another sequence and at each step, to have the sum of the smaller sequence less than or equal to the sum of the larger sequence.
submajorizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of submajorize
submajorizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of submajorize
submajorized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of submajorize
Tsagaan Khass
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Tsagaan Khas.
canalostomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canalostomies
Senses: examples: text: We employed an AdV- and AAV-carrying green fluorescent protein using a semicircular canal approach (via a canalostomy) and round window approach. AAV injection via canalostomy induced gene expression at the hair cells, supporting cells, and fibrocytes at the vestibular organs without auditory or balance dysfunction, suggesting it was the most suitable transfection method.
ref: 2013, Issues in Otorholaryngology, Audiology, and Speech Pathology Research and Practice, page 592:
text: A recent study of dye tracking following round-window membrane injection and PSCC canalostomy injection in mice showed that the cochlear aqueduct dictates dye diffusion in the inner ear, by ensuring a pressure shunt to the cranial cavity (Talaei et al., 2019).
ref: 2022, Berta Alsina, Stefan Heller, Isabel Varela-Nieto, Inner Ear Biology, page 55:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Injection through the semicircular canals.
Derived terms: viscocanalostomy
lesbianate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lesbianates
form: lesbianating
form: lesbianated
form: lesbianated
Etymology: From lesbian + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Apparently coined in 1967 by Governor of Gibraltar Gerald Lathbury as a nonce word to rhyme with fifty-eight in a poem regarding the breeding of Barbary macaques in Gibraltar.
Senses: examples: text: So long as we have Joe
(born at Queen's Gate in fifty-eight)
No female ape need pine
Or lesbianate.
ref: 1967, Gerald Lathbury, quotee, “Poets aped in Gibraltar monkey business”, in BBC News:
text: Try to figure out ways you can 'lesbianate' in public. Can you get your finger down her pants at the movie theater?
ref: 1987, JoAnn Loulan, Mariah Burton Nelson, Lesbian Passion: Loving Ourselves and Each Other, Aunt Lute Books, →ISBN:
text: So, a check was deposited into her bank account at the first of every month. SSI. $660, and she could write & paint and lesbianate to her hearts content, possessing enviable free time
ref: 2008, Red Jordan Arobateau, Leader of the Pack, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 156:
glosses: To engage in lesbian sex.
wikipedia: Barbary macaques in Gibraltar
Gerald Lathbury
Governor of Gibraltar
sternliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: I tooke delights / In plucking Apples from t’Heſperian Trees, / Which Eating, I grew Learn’d: adde to All theſe / My Priuate Readings, which more School’d my Soule, / Then Tutors, when they ſternliest did Controll / With Frownes or Rods: […]
ref: 1620, Tho[mas] Dekker, “The Worme of Conscience”, in Dekker His Dreame. In Which, Beeing Rapt with a Poeticall Enthusiasme, the Great Volumes of Heauen and Hell to Him Were Opened, in Which He Read Many Wonderfull Things., London: Nicholas Okes, →OCLC, page 35:
text: The law is holier than a sage’s prayer; / The godlike power bestowed on men demands of them a godlike care; / And noblest gifts, if basely used, will sternliest avenge the wrong, / And grind with slavish pangs the slave whom once they made divinely strong.
ref: 1837 November, [John Sterling], “[Poetry by our New Contributor.] Mirabeau.”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume XLII, number CCLXV, Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons; London: T[homas] Cadell, […], page 594:
text: In them [women], hypocrisy itself can charm: / It makes our young devotion doubly warm, / Draws while it drives, lures while it whispers “Go!” / Means “Yes!” when sternliest it answers “No!” / Request a kiss—at once a negative / Their lips of coral sternly frame!—but if / You note their eyes, the answer there belies it, / And he who doubts me, well, suppose he tries it?
ref: 1889, Arthur Bennett, “The Inexplicable Sex”, in The Music of My Heart, Manchester: Palmer & Howe, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., page 123:
text: None sang of Love more nobly; few as well; / Of Friendship none with pathos so profound; / Of Duty sternliest-proved when myrtle-crowned; / Of English grove and rivulet, mead and dell: […]
ref: 1892 November, Aubrey [Thomas] de Vere, “[To [Alfred, Lord] Tennyson: The Tributes of His Friends] The Poet”, in James [Thomas] Knowles, editor, The Nineteenth Century: A Monthly Review, volume XXXII, number CLXXXIX, London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company […], page 841:
text: Two-syllabled adverbs may have these forms, but they are unusual: positive sternly comparative sternlier superlative sternliest
ref: [1949, Clarence Stratton, “Adverbs: Kinds·Rules·Uses·Purposes·Effects”, in Guide to Correct English, New York, N.Y.; Toronto, Ont.: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., page 193:
glosses: superlative form of sternly: most sternly
pistolized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: with shoulder stock removed and replaced with a pistol grip on a long gun (such as a shotgun or carbine)
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: armed with pistol/s
OUN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists.
blanketful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blanketsful
form: blanketfuls
Etymology: From blanket + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Blanketful after blanketful is picked , husks and all , and carried to some distant wooded hill where the soil is solid .
ref: 1920, F.H. Cushing, Zuñi Breadstuff, page 204:
text: The boys had made the chamber opposite the entrance to the cave into their bedroom, and had brought back blanketful after blanketful of fire leaves to sleep on and to cushion the bottom of the slide .
ref: 2013, Benji Alexander Palus, The Magic Pumpkin, page 230:
text: The thought of sharing Nora with a blanketful of people annoyed him nearly as much as the glove on her hand.
ref: 2023, Darcy Burke, It Started With a Duke:
glosses: As much as fits on or can be carried in a blanket.
blanketsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blanketful
blanketfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blanketful
stationful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stationfuls
Etymology: From station + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: One good companion is better than a stationful of gadding and gossiping acquaintances.
ref: 1873, Saint Pauls Magazine - Volume 13, page 160:
text: […] were the insides of small rooms, stationfuls of hawkers going somewhere, rooms like mine, lights gratefully sleeping on the rivers allowing momentary respite to the watchers, lovers, loners, plain-clothes thieves and such.
ref: 1989, Sebastian Barry, Fanny Hawke Goes to the Mainland Forever, page 13:
text: Contributing to the ensuing bedlam was the salute of the Rochester Brass Band which accompanied the American delegation and which now greeted the jubilant stationful of fanatics with the strains of " Yankee Doodle " and "Long Live the Queen."
ref: 2006, Bill Freeman, Hamilton: A People's History, page 57:
text: We have a stationful of drunks, none of them caddies.
ref: 2013, John Logue, Follow the Leader:
glosses: As much as fits in a station.
stationfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stationful
rag-time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of ragtime.
if there ever was one
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: He got so fiendy finally that Mrs. Ford—she’s a dear if there ever was one—went up and put her arms around his neck, so as to stop him by a kiss.
ref: 1915 September, Robert Grant, chapter XXII, in The High Priestess, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 375:
text: Besides coming in several hippie-ish colors (i.e. not black) and being almost impossible to cradle under your chin (a harbinger of the cellular miniphone if there ever was one), the single most telling characteristic of the Ericaphone was that it did not ring.
ref: 2003 July 6, Steve Batie, “I can hear buzzing in my ears”, in Lincoln Journal Star, Lincoln, Neb., page 1G:
text: That's how ugly she was—ugly by virtue of the fact that she was unmemorable, a slab of alabaster awaiting a sculptor who never arrived, a "nothing burger" if there ever was one.
ref: 2000 September, Lucinda Rosenfeld, “Jason Barry Gold, or ‘The Varsity Lacrosse Stud’”, in What She Saw […], New York, N.Y.: Anchor Books, Random House, published September 2001, →ISBN, page 60:
glosses: Alternative form of if ever there was one.
Bajun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bajuns
Senses: examples: text: From beyond the town wall came the distant drum sounds of the Bajuns and the Bantus welcoming the birth of the new moon.
ref: 2007, Eusebio L. Rodrigues, Love and Samsāra:
glosses: A member of an ethnic group native to Kenya and Somalia, particularly the Bajuni Islands.
Kokstad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa.
EMPD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of extramammary Paget's disease / extramammary Paget disease.
Related terms: english: mammary Paget's disease
translation: mammary Paget's disease
word: MPD
Néville-sur-Mer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal settlement in Vicq-sur-Mer commune, Manche department, Normandy, France.
man hour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: man hours
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of man-hour.
man hours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of man hour
extramammary Paget's disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extramammary Paget disease
form: EMPD
Etymology: Named after British pathologist James Paget.
Senses: glosses: A rare dermatological malignancy that develops in areas rich in apocrine glands.
Related terms: mammary Paget's disease
extramammary Paget disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of extramammary Paget's disease.
Whiska Creek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A rural municipality (the Rural Municipality of Whiska Creek No. 106) in south-west Saskatchewan, Canada.
canon lawyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canon lawyers
Senses: glosses: An expert in canon law
mammary Paget's disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mammary Paget disease
form: MPD
form: Paget's disease of the breast
form: Paget disease of the breast
form: Paget's disease of the nipple
form: Paget disease of the nipple
form: Paget's disease
form: Paget disease
Etymology: Named after British pathologist James Paget, who first described the disease in 1874.
Senses: glosses: A rare type of breast malignancy involving the nipple-areola complex.
Related terms: extramammary Paget's disease
mammary Paget disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mammary Paget's disease.
Paget's disease of the breast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of mammary Paget's disease.
synonyms: word: mammary Paget's disease
Paget's disease of the nipple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of mammary Paget's disease.
synonyms: word: mammary Paget's disease
Paget disease of the nipple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Paget's disease of the nipple (“mammary Paget's disease”).
scare-quote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scare-quotes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scare quote.
Paget disease of the breast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Paget's disease of the breast (“mammary Paget's disease”).
scare-quotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scare-quote
Paget disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Paget's disease.
school marm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: school marms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of schoolmarm.
school marms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of school marm
falls off the radar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fall off the radar
falling off the radar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of fall off the radar
fell off the radar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of fall off the radar
fallen off the radar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of fall off the radar
drops off the radar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of drop off the radar
dropping off the radar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of drop off the radar
dropped off the radar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drop off the radar
dropped off the map
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drop off the map
dropping off the map
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of drop off the map
drops off the map
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of drop off the map
ear piercing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ear piercings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ear-piercing.
ear piercings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ear piercing
concavo-concave
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of concavoconcave.
outdeadlift
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outdeadlifts
form: outdeadlifting
form: outdeadlifted
form: outdeadlifted
Etymology: From out- + deadlift.
Senses: examples: text: I outdeadlift him by quite a bit but he outsquats me and outbenches me.
ref: 2018 September 1, Gracelynn Doogan, “Fill Your Mind with Happiness”, in In The Eyes of an Athlete:
glosses: To deadlift more weight than.
outdeadlifts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outdeadlift
outdeadlifting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of outdeadlift
outdeadlifted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outdeadlift
evenglome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiː.vənˌɡləʊm/
ipa: /ˈi.vənˌɡloʊm/
Forms: form: even-glome
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English ǣfenglōm, as the term began being used soon after the publication of Early England and the Saxon-English in 1869, where the word is first listed in this form. By surface analysis, even + glome (“gloom”).
Senses: examples: text: They are like men who have lived always in broad day—who have never seen evenglome or moonlight.
ref: 1870, Mortimer Collins, “The Chicard Experiment” (chapter XXXVI), in The Vivian Romance, New York: Harper & Brothers, page 95, column 2:
text: It was the pleasing summer time.
When winds were soft as rose or rhyme,
And, in the soothing evenglome,
The windows of an English home,
Open at dusk, let odours in
Of lily and early jessamine,
And mignonette, and linden flowers,
Late-lingering in their leafy bowers :[…]
ref: 1889, William Brighty Rands, “Flowers and Snow”, in Thomas Archer, editor, Our Sunday Book of Reading and Pictures, Griffith Farran Okeden & Welsh, page 211:
text: To the tired traveller, in the evenglome,
The long way wended, welcome is the inn,
Though narrow be the house and cold the bed,
At least thou shalt sleep well among thy kin.
The innumerous generations of the dead.
ref: 1921, John Payne, The Way of the Winepress, John Payne Society:
text: IN THE DUSK of the evenglome, Darric Boarson and four archers of his free company rode to the edge of Bellesmane Wood.
ref: 1943, Franklin Davey McDowell, chapter VIII, in Forges of Freedom, Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, page 96:
text: Occasionally at evenglome one of the Gillie Girls would come and sit on a Rock offshore and sing to me by the light of the lilly-lows, accompanying herself on her long golden hair, which should not have sorted very well with her scaly green skin but somehow did.
ref: 1975 January 24, Evelyn E. Smith, Unpopular Planet, Dell Publishing, page 331:
qualifier: literary or puristic
glosses: Twilight; dusk; crepusculum.
Paget's disease of bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Paget disease of bone
form: Paget's disease
form: Paget disease
Etymology: Named after British pathologist James Paget, who described the disease in 1877.
Senses: synonyms: osteitis deformans
glosses: A chronic disorder characterized by abnormal bone destruction and regrowth.
wikipedia: Paget's disease of bone
Mombasan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mombasan
form: most Mombasan
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Mombasa (the city and/or island in Kenya).
Mombasan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mombasans
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant or native of Mombasa.
Paget disease of bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Paget's disease of bone.
City of Los Angeles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Partial calque of Spanish Pueblo de Los Ángeles (literally “City of the Angels”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Los Angeles.
synonyms: word: Los Angeles
losangelisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Los Angelization.
Los Angelisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Los Angelization.
Los Angelise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Los Angelises
form: Los Angelising
form: Los Angelised
form: Los Angelised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Los Angelize.
Farnborough Green
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area north of Farnborough, Rushmoor district, Hampshire, England, across the river from Frimley, Surrey (OS grid ref SU8757).
Los Angelises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Los Angelise
Los Angelising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of Los Angelise
Los Angelised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Los Angelise
man hunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: man hunts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of manhunt.
Paget cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Paget cells
Etymology: Compound of Paget + cell, named after British pathologist James Paget (1814–1899).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A malignant cell, considered to be a telltale sign of mammary Paget's disease.
Paget cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Paget cell
Carolina Alley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: An area of active tornadoes that starts in the northern section of Georgia through the top of South Carolina extending toward the coast into the northeastern section of North Carolina.
Related terms: Dixie Alley
Hoosier Alley
Hoosier Alley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A region of active tornadoes around the area of Indiana, also including sections of Illinois and Kentucky.
Related terms: Carolina Alley
Dixie Alley
South Alley
South Alley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A section of Saratoga Springs, New York, that lies between Regent Street and Cottage Street.
glosses: Synonym of Dixie Alley.
synonyms: word: Dixie Alley
Hailstorm Alley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: An area of south and central Alberta, Canada where hail storms frequently occur.
Hurricane Alley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A warmwater area in the Atlantic Ocean stretching from the west coast of northern Africa to the east coast of Central America and the Gulf Coast of the Southern United States.
Typhoon Alley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A region in the northwest Pacific, where the planet's most powerful tropical cyclones frequently develop.
KAN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The station code of Khana Junction railway station in India.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The station code of Kananook railway station in Australia.
Ya-lu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The West Coast line is exceedingly irregular. The Province of P’ing An, starting from the mouth of the Ya-lu River, on which stands the emporium of I-chou, extends for the larger half southward, then trending eastward, forms a large estuary, the southern side of which again pushes out some distance westerly.
ref: 1866 May 28, correspondent at Peking, “THE WEST COAST OF COREA.”, in The London and China Telegraph, volume VIII, number 210, →OCLC, page 284, column 1:
text: Article V.—In consideration of the numerous difficulties arising from the authority exercised by local officials over the legal traffic at such places on the boundary as I-chou, Hui-ning, and Ch’ing-yuan, it has now been decided that the people on the frontier shall be free to go to and fro and trade as they please at Ts’e-men and I-chou on the two sides of the Ya-lu River, and at Hun-ch’un and Hui-ning on the two sides of the T’u-men River.
ref: 1882, G. W. Keeton, “Regulations for Maritime and Overland Trade between Chinese and Korean Subjects, 1882”, in The Development of Extraterritoriality in China, volume II, Longmans, Green & Co., published 1928, →OCLC, page 341:
text: Flagrantly they spread the notion that "at present the targets of revolution are those democrats who had eaten bran in the old society, been wounded during the Anti-Japanese War, fought in the Liberation War and crossed the Ya-lu River during the struggle to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea." Those who had to be knocked out now were "capitalist roaders who had climbed the snowcapped mountains and crossed the grasslands."
ref: 1977 November 30 [1977 October 8], Liu Tsai-fu [0491 0375 5958] [刘再複], Yang Chih-chieh [2799 1807 2638] [杨志杰], “The Ins and Outs of the Conspirational Literature and Art of the 'Gang of Four'”, in Translations on People's Republic of China, number 405, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Peking KUANG-MING JIH-PAO 8 Oct 1977 p2, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, Political and Sociological, page 9:
english: 杨志杰
translation: 杨志杰
glosses: Alternative form of Yalu.
RFMA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Without my amendment, the RFMA would only exacerbate and nationalize the discriminatory policies already in place in Illinois, Massachusetts, California and the District of Columbia, where religious adoption agencies are essentially shut down unless they recognize same-sex marriage.
ref: 2022 November 28, Mike Lee, “Respect for Marriage Act: Why religious liberty deserves protection and my amendment will provide it”, in Fox News:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Respect for Marriage Act.
Related terms: DOMA
double haters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double hater
strictly full
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A subcategory that is isomorphism-closed and full.
fully faithful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of a functor, injective and surjective on hom-sets.
JN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
related: word: Jn
glosses: Abbreviation of junction.
business deal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: business deals
Senses: glosses: Synonym of deal (“A particular instance of trading (buying or selling; exchanging; bartering); a transaction”).
synonyms: word: deal
extra: (“A particular instance of trading (buying or selling; exchanging; bartering); a transaction”)
business deals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of business deal
here's the deal
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Here’s the deal. I’m going to start throwing rocks at you and everyone you love. Fuck you.
ref: 2024 May 16, very tall bart, [YTP] State of the Union, spoken by Jordan Peterson (Jordan Peterson):
glosses: Here is what is happening; this is the situation; this is what is going on.
no deal
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Used to indicate that one refuses or rejects an offer, plan, or request in question.
Related terms: no-deal
no-deal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Of a situation, whereby two parties fail to reach an agreement regarding the manner in which to proceed.
Related terms: no deal
lesbianates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lesbianate
lesbianating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lesbianate
lesbianated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lesbianate
parental control
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parental controls
Senses: glosses: A feature included in some digital television services, computers, mobile devices, software, etc. that allows parents to restrict their children's access to certain content.
Gulf Coast
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Gulf Coast
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: The coastline along the Southern United States where it meets the Gulf of Mexico.