cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
multivaccination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multivaccinations
Etymology: From multi- + vaccination.
Senses: glosses: vaccination with two or more vaccines
nanoliposphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanolipospheres
Etymology: From nano- + liposphere.
Senses: glosses: A very small liposphere
nanolipospheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanoliposphere
nodosaurian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nodosaurians
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus †Nodosaurus of dinosaurs.
nodosaurians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nodosaurian
illudalane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: illudalanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of sesquiterpenoids present in Basidiomycetes stereum
Derived terms: norilludalane
norilludalane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: norilludalanes
Etymology: From nor- + illudalane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any derivative of an illudalane that lacks a methylene group
norilludalanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of norilludalane
plurilingualism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plurilingualisms
Etymology: From plurilingual + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being plurilingual.
posteriomedian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From posterio- + median.
Senses: glosses: posterior and median
Boerses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Boers
Blandas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Blanda
serotoninomimetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: That mimics the action of serotonin
solenostome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solenostomes
Etymology: From soleno- + -stome.
Senses: glosses: A pore, in some insects, that secretes sperm
solenostomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solenostome
Blessinger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Blessingers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Blessinger.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Blessingers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Blessinger
Bolles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bolleses
Etymology: Borrowed from German Bolles or Bölles.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Bolles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bolle
Booton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bootons
Etymology: From the Old English personal name *Bōta + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in the Broadland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG109228).
glosses: An unincorporated community in Wayne County, West Virginia, United States.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Bernaleses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bernales
Bootons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Booton
Armenteros
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Armenteroses
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Armenteros. This surname is mostly found in Cuba.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Ashkar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ashkars
Etymology: Variant of Askar.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Arabic.
Ashkars
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ashkar
Armenteroses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Armenteros
Rooskey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Roosky, Ireland.
Roosky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rooskey
Senses: glosses: A village in County Roscommon, Ireland, on the River Shannon.
Balderama
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Balderamas
Etymology: Variant of Valderrama. This variant is mostly found in the Philippines.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Semidey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Semideys
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Semideys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Semidey
Balderamas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Balderama
Schlageter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schlageters
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schlageter.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Rigels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rigel
Schlageters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Schlageter
McCance
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McCances
form: McCants
Etymology: Anglicized form of Irish and Scottish Gaelic Mac Aonghuis (“son of Angus”). Compare McInnis and McGinnis.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Yglesias
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yglesiases
Etymology: Variant of Iglesias.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Bowbrick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bowbricks
Etymology: Topographic surname for someone who lived above the brook, from Old English bufan (“above”) + brōc (“brook, stream, torrent”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
Bowbricks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bowbrick
McCances
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McCance
Yglesiases
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Yglesias
Clifden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small coastal town in County Galway, Ireland.
glosses: A small settlement in western Southland, New Zealand.
Mohill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small town in County Leitrim, Ireland.
Fenagh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in County Leitrim, Ireland.
heterotachious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of heterotachous.
nonlipogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + lipogenic.
Senses: glosses: Not lipogenic
Ballyconnell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in County Cavan, Ireland.
seasonal mood disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of seasonal affective disorder.
synonyms: word: seasonal affective disorder
episio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌpiːziːoʊː/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐπίσιον (epísion, “pubic region”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Refers to the vulvar or perineal area in relation to the surgical procedures episiotomy, episiorrhaphy, or episioplasty.
Related terms: vulvo-
perineo-
Erne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish abhainn na hÉirne, An Éirne, from a goddess or population called Érainn, which could be related to Old Irish Ériu (“matron goddess of Ireland”), in which case a doublet of Ireland.
Senses: glosses: A river in Ireland and Northern Ireland, starting in County Cavan, entering County Fermanagh, and passing through Upper and Lower Lough Erne on its way to the sea in County Donegal.
Derived terms: Lough Erne
Erne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ernes
Etymology: * As an Alemannic German surname, from a short form of Arnold.
* As an English surname, from archaic erne (“eagle”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
democraticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of democratick
on order
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Having already been ordered for shipment, but not yet received from the supplier.
McDonald's-ization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Fans & Monograms at Westgate Mall got in 48 caps Wednesday and sold them all in 15 minutes, owner Rob Waterman said. Waterman said the frenzy reminded him of the run on the Nutmeg Rose Bowl caps around Christmas 1993. “I draw the analogy of the ‘McDonald’s-ization’ of America,” he said. “People think they can just drive up and get it. But manufacturers couldn’t pre[-]manufacture the cap. The game just happened Sunday.”
ref: 1997 January 30, Jeff Richgels, “Packer caps are hot item: Local stores can’t keep up”, in The Capital Times, volume 159, number 42, Madison, Wis., page 1B, column 2:
text: Ed Mierzwinski with the U.S. Public Interest Research Group says consumers will pay higher fees and their privacy will be further invaded as merged companies trade each other’s customer lists. “The McDonald’s-ization of financial business hasn’t led to better french fries, it has led to higher prices, less choice, less innovation,” he says.
ref: 1998 April 26, “Mergers carry benefits, risks”, in Johnson City Press, volume 78, number 260, Johnson City, Tenn., page 35, column 3:
text: “Nobody wants to see the McDonald’s-ization of cannabis,” Dan Scully, one of the 400 “patient-growers” who supply Oakland’s largest retail medical marijuana dispensary, Harborside Health Center, grumbled after a City Council committee gave the blueprint preliminary approval last week.
ref: 2010 July 19, Lisa Leff, “Calif. pot-growing plan worries small bud tenders”, in The Telegraph, volume 184, number 200, Macon, Ga., page 13A, column 3:
glosses: Alternative form of McDonaldization.
McDonalds-ization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Francis Ford Coppola, maker of such films as Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Apocalypse Now, in Details magazine on why movies aren’t as good as they used to be: “Essentially, the film industry is now the child of network television. The people that now run the studios have all been television executives and agents. So that same thing that produced the Vast Wasteland has now bought the movie industry. It’s formulization, McDonalds-ization. Don’t forget, television used to be a fertile place for writers, but it got neutralized.”
ref: 1992 December 10, “He blames TV”, in The Des Moines Register, Des Moines, Iowa, page 2A:
text: But given the uneven balance of technological power, some fear that the newly available media would only reinforce the established roles and simply make the same old monologue louder. The result then might be a McDonalds-ization of Latin American culture.
ref: 1994 December 5, Fernando Gonzalez, “Flick of TV switch establishes shared memories”, in The Miami Herald, Miami, Fla., page 42SA, columns 1–2:
text: Both Menchaca and Urrutia-Rojas commented that first-generation Mexican immigrants tend to enjoy healthy foods and lifestyles. The McDonalds-ization of their diets and culture over time takes a toll.
ref: 2006 August 27, Richard J. Gonzales, “Looking like Don Quixote, not Sancho Panza”, in Star-Telegram, Fort Worth, Tex., page 6E, column 3:
glosses: Alternative form of McDonaldization.
McDonaldsization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: On foot, the colonial area — roughly the size of Old Montreal — is worth at least a day of strolling. The area has been preserved or restored, and has avoided even a hint of McDondaldsization.
ref: 1986 June 28, Michael Cooke, “Dominican Republic: the mood is Latin”, in The Gazette, Montreal, Que., page I-3, column 3:
text: To the apparent delight of its citizens, Sierra Madre on Tuesday night became one of the few cities in the nation to ban drive-through restaurants. With at least one other municipality saying Wednesday that it may want to follow suit, Sierra Madre positioned itself at the leading edge of what some urban planning experts say is a small but growing backlash against what critics call the McDonaldsization of America.
ref: 1996 September 26, Richard Winton, Nicholas Riccardi, “Putting the Brakes on ‘Drive-Thrus’”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif., page B10, column 1:
text: Let’s work to end the McDonaldsization of our culture and appreciate individuality in all its flavors and colors.
ref: 2008 February 19, Michelle M. Wojtaszek, “Focus after shooting is on the superficial”, in Wisconsin State Journal, 168th year, number 50, Madison, Wis., page A7:
glosses: Alternative form of McDonaldization.
Passage West
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and port in County Cork, Ireland (Irish grid ref W 7668).
Synonyms: Passage
Related terms: alt: Co. Waterford
word: Passage East
talk to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: talks to
form: talking to
form: talked to
form: talked to
Senses: examples: text: “Do you have a boyfriend?” — “No, but there’s a guy I’m talking to.”
glosses: To show the beginnings of a romantic interest in; to flirt with over a period of time in hopes of developing a romantic relationship.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see talk, to.
Related terms: talking phase
Muskerry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish Múscraí, from Old Irish Múscraige.
Senses: glosses: A traditional region and Gaeltacht in County Cork, Ireland.
Derived terms: Muskerry East
Muskerry West
pounds a beat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pound a beat
pounding a beat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pound a beat
pounded a beat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pound a beat
covered ground
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cover ground
covering ground
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cover ground
covers ground
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cover ground
poops out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of poop out
pooping out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of poop out
pooped out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of poop out
plumped up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of plump up
plumping up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plump up
plumps up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of plump up
abelmosch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of abelmosk.
ockro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of okra.
ocro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of okra.
occra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of okra.
occro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of okra.
okero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of okra.
ookroo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of okra.
ochro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of okra.
okry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of okra.
hear voices
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hears voices
form: hearing voices
form: heard voices
form: heard voices
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hear, voice.
examples: text: They're hearing voices, they may have delusional thinking. They may have illogical thinking, so that when you talk to them they don't make very good sense. That's the disease called schizophrenia.
ref: 1991 April 19, Why Are They Here? (television production), [E. Fuller?] Torrey (actor), ABC:
text: From this time onward, [John] Mason was a changed man: he began to hear voices and experience visions of the coming millennium.
ref: 2018 June, Martin Greig, “Elijah in Dorset: William Freke and Enthusiasm in England and the Atlantic World at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century”, in Church History, →DOI, page 439:
glosses: Have the experience of hearing voices which are not audible to others; to experience auditory hallucinations.
Related terms: hear things
things
hears voices
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hear voices
okro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Ojinika seemed to have forgotten all about her and was engrossed in arranging her okro in little lots on the mat.
ref: 1965, Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God, Penguin Classics (2010), page 213:
glosses: Alternative form of okra.
hearing voices
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hear voices
heard voices
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hear voices
pod vegetable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pod vegetables
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any fruit vegetable whose pods are often eaten while they are still green.
pod vegetables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pod vegetable
not hit a cow's arse with a banjo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: To have poor aim, or to miss even an easy opportunity, particularly in sports.
Synonyms: not be able to hit the broad side of a barn
hammer blow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hammer blows
form: hammerblow
Senses: glosses: A blow with a hammer.
examples: text: The balancing of the engine is unusual, with the rotating masses fully balanced and 40 per cent of the reciprocating masses statically balanced by lead weights in the coupled wheels; the reciprocrating balance weights are in the same phase on both sides of the engine. This system saves balance weight and reduces the wheel hammer-blow.
ref: 1959 September, P. Ransome-Wallis, “The British Railways Class "9" 2-10-0s”, in Trains Illustrated, page 419:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A pounding of the rails by the driving wheels of a steam locomotive caused by the inertia of unbalanced parts.
hammerblow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hammerblows
Senses: examples: text: […] it was claimed for the three-cylinder arrangement against the two that the advantage in reduced hammerblow justified an increased axle load.
ref: 1951 April, Stirling Everard, “A Matter of Pedigree”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 274:
glosses: Alternative form of hammer blow.
sock puppeting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sock puppet
sock puppeted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sock puppet
semitarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: semitarians
Etymology: Blend of semi- + (vege)tarian.
Senses: examples: text: It's fine. I think I could be ... semitarian, maybe? Half vegetarian? It's a thing,' he adds, a little defensively
ref: 2020, Sophie Kinsella, Love Your Life, Random House:
glosses: semi-vegetarian, a person who is sometimes vegetarian
Coordinate terms: vegetarian
flexitarian
vegan
semivegetarian
has the world by the tail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of have the world by the tail
having the world by the tail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of have the world by the tail
had the world by the tail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of have the world by the tail
kept the ball rolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of keep the ball rolling
keeps the ball rolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of keep the ball rolling
keeping the ball rolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of keep the ball rolling
gets the ball rolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get the ball rolling
gotten the ball rolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of get the ball rolling
got the ball rolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of get the ball rolling
glosses: past participle of get the ball rolling
getting the ball rolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of get the ball rolling
starts the ball rolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of start the ball rolling
started the ball rolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of start the ball rolling
starting the ball rolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of start the ball rolling
had the world by the balls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of have the world by the balls
had the world by the bag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of have the world by the bag
has the world by the bag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of have the world by the bag
having the world by the bag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of have the world by the bag
had the world on a string
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of have the world on a string
has the world on a string
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of have the world on a string
had the world by the neck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of have the world by the neck
having the world on a string
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of have the world on a string
has the world by the neck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of have the world by the neck
having the world by the neck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of have the world by the neck
had the world by the nuts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of have the world by the nuts
has the world by the nuts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of have the world by the nuts
having the world by the nuts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of have the world by the nuts
had the world by the testicles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of have the world by the testicles
has the world by the testicles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of have the world by the testicles
having the world by the testicles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of have the world by the testicles
has the world by the balls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of have the world by the balls
having the world by the balls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of have the world by the balls
hammer blows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hammer blow
semitarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semitarian
hammerblows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hammerblow
stews in one's own broth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stew in one's own broth
stewing in one's own broth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stew in one's own broth
stewed in one's own broth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stew in one's own broth
stewed in one's own grease
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stew in one's own grease
stewing in one's own grease
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stew in one's own grease
stews in one's own grease
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stew in one's own grease
stews in one's own juice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stew in one's own juice
stewing in one's own juice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stew in one's own juice
stewed in one's own juice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stew in one's own juice
stewed in one's own juices
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stew in one's own juices
stewing in one's own juices
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stew in one's own juices
stews in one's own juices
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stew in one's own juices
feed water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The feed water enters the back and cool end of the preheater and passes forward to the front and hot end, after which it enters the boiler through a clack valve.
ref: 1959 September, P. Ransome-Wallis, “The British Railways Class "9" 2-10-0s”, in Trains Illustrated, page 420:
glosses: Alternative form of feedwater.
Francis turbine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Francis turbines
Etymology: Named after British-American engineer James B. Francis.
Senses: glosses: A type of water turbine with an inward-flow reaction that combines radial and axial flow concepts.
wikipedia: James B. Francis
Related terms: Kaplan turbine
Turgo turbine
Tyson turbine
Francis turbines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Francis turbine
affairette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: affairettes
Etymology: From affair + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: 1976, David Edgar, Saigon Rose, Act II, Scene 4, in Plays: One, London: Methuen Drama, 1987, p. 215,
It’s a poem, students learn, about the symptoms of syphilis. I once had an affairette with a final year medic from Inverness who used to mumble it all the time, often at the most inopportune moments.
text: “[…] I thought I’d be snapped up in six months. At the very most!” […]
“What about Robert?”
“Affairettes don’t count.”
ref: 1978, Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1979, page 93:
text: Occasionally I got out afterward to cruise. Occasionally someone does spend the night with me. Twice, I've even had very sweet "affairettes" with men who made their way to my home.
ref: 1980 August 9, John D'Emilio, “There's No Place Like Home”, in Gay Community News, page 9:
text: Suddenly single at thirty, I floundered through those awful encounters, affairettes, and all-out affairs I’d tried to spare myself by marrying early and supposedly for good.
ref: 2004, Erika Ritter, The Great Big Book of Guys,, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, page 5:
synonyms: dalliance
fling
liaison
glosses: A brief romantic relationship, especially with someone who is in a relationship with another person, or not one's regular partner.
affairettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of affairette
Tyson turbine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tyson turbines
Etymology: Named after the inventor, Warren N. Tyson.
Senses: glosses: A conical water turbine with helical blades.
Related terms: Francis turbine
Kaplan turbine
Turgo turbine
Tyson turbines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tyson turbine
clap-o-meter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clap-o-meters
Etymology: From clap + -o-meter.
Senses: examples: text: A series of undiscovered acts would perform on the show every week, with the audience responding with cheers that were counted on the clap-o-meter, before viewers at home were then invited to send in a postal vote for the winner, who was announced the following week.
ref: 2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How talent shows became TV's most bizarre programmes”, in BBC:
glosses: Alternative form of clapometer.
shiny-floor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From the large, brightly-lit studios in which popular entertainment shows are often filmed, which tend to include well-polished or illuminated floors.
Senses: examples: text: Roscoe (2013) describes the trope in talent formats as the big shiny floor moment: You have a factory of formats and each one has to be bigger and better.
ref: 2014, Annette Hill, Reality TV, page 75:
text: Reality television excels at connecting audiences with other people. Shiny-floor shows can connect audiences through the literal representation of live crowds at the venue, participants auditioning and performing on stage, public voting, and live Internet chat.
ref: 2016, Laurie Ouellette, A Companion to Reality Television, page 126:
text: In stark contrast to these 'shiny floor shows' was the very straightforward comedy panel show format, Have I Got News for You, which saw five personalities sitting on a panel in a simple set.
ref: 2016, Lucy Brown, Lyndsay Duthie, The TV Studio Production Handbook:
text: There is more work to be done on the istory of the spectacular as genre (in fact there is relatively little discussion of this programming in this book), particularly in understanding it as a precursor for the contemporary 'shiny floor' show, popular Saturday night TV light entertainment that ranges from the big talent shows (X Factor, ITV1, 2004–; Britain's Got Talent, ITV1, 2007–; The Voice, BBC1, 2012-), celebrity-focused light entertainment shows (Ant and Dec's Saturday Night takeaway, ITV1, 2003-; The Graham Norton Show, BBC1, 2007-), dating programmes (take Me Out, ITV1, 2007-), and the para-sports programmes that Caldwell terms 'trash spectaculars' (1995: 3) (e.g. Gladiators, ITV1, 1992-2000; Ninja Warrior UK, BBC1, 2015-).
ref: 2016, Helen Wheatley, Spectacular Television: Exploring Televisual Pleasure, page 13:
text: By the 1980s, there was still huge appeal for what became known as 'shiny-floor' talent shows, especially during weekend primetime. In the US, Star Search ran for 12 years in its original run, from 1983 to 1995, and as searches went, it did genuinely uncover some A-list talent, including Destiny's Child, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Alanis Morrisette and LeAnn Rimes.
ref: 2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How talent shows became TV's most bizarre programmes”, in BBC:
text: A major shiny-floor show in the US market costs more than $2 million per produced episode, sometimes significantly more.
ref: 2022, Alex Connock, Media Management and Artificial Intelligence:
glosses: Highly produced, extravagant, and spectacular in a tightly-controlled, somewhat formulaic way.
raw_tags: of television
high-stakes
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: But it was in the early 2000s that the high-stakes TV pop contest really arrived, along with promises that it would propel a few lucky auditionees to obscene levels of success and fame.
ref: 2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How talent shows became TV's most bizarre programmes”, in BBC:
glosses: Involving large costs or rewards.
closer to the vest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of close to the vest: more close to the vest
closer to one's vest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of close to one's vest: more close to one's vest
closest to one's vest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of close to one's vest: most close to one's vest
crowd-source
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crowd-sources
form: crowd-sourcing
form: crowd-sourced
form: crowd-sourced
Senses: examples: text: While first generation citizen science projects have successfully used the Web to crowd-source environmental data collection, “next generation” citizen science practice networks combine crowd-sourcing, joint sense of purpose, and soft […]
ref: 2014, Nitin Agarwal, Merlyna Lim, Rolf T. Wigand, Online Collective Action: Dynamics of the Crowd in Social Media, Springer, →ISBN, page 133:
text: The[y] also met the new demands within the media landscape for a stream of newly-fashioned celebrities, while each season churning out a new, crowd-sourced popstar that the record label could guarantee would provide a chart-topping hit or two, as the audience were so invested, having spent the last 10 weeks racking up phone bills voting for them.
ref: 2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How talent shows became TV's most bizarre programmes”, in BBC:
text: The system is still learning though, and will improve how it handles situations thanks to crowd-sourced data from across the Mercedes network.
ref: 2024 May 4, Mat Gallagher, “I tried Mercedes’ new autonomous driving in busy city streets – it's mind-blowing”, in T3:
glosses: Alternative form of crowdsource.
star-maker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: star-makers
Senses: examples: text: Hill says the shows began to morph from happy-go-lucky, fun series to production-line star-makers, which subconsciously changed the tone of the series: "Reality talent shows made it easier and quicker for audiences to pay to vote for the winner and loser, and to comment positively and negatively on contestants in social media."
ref: 2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How talent shows became TV's most bizarre programmes”, in BBC:
glosses: Alternative form of starmaker.
when it came to
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: When it came to the more successful contestants, meanwhile, edits of the shows also began to fall heavily on sad backstories – the "sob story", if you will – instilling the idea that singers had to mine trauma from their lives to up the emotional ante, making them seem to be more "worthy" winners.
ref: 2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How talent shows became TV's most bizarre programmes”, in BBC:
glosses: Alternative form of when it comes to (used for things in the past)
mad-cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mad-caps
Senses: examples: text: Come-on you mad-cap: Ile to the Ale-houſe vvith you preſently; […]
ref: c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v], page 27, column 1:
text: VVhy vvhat a mad-cap hath heauen lent vs here?
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 1, column 2:
text: There vvas then in preſence, a certaine old Knight, called Sir Hugh Linne, a good ſouldier, but a very mad-cap, & one that liued chiefely vpon the liberalitie of noble men; […]
ref: 1599, I. Haywarde [i.e., John Hayward], The First Part of the Life and Raigne of King Henrie the IIII. […], London: […] by [Edward Allde and T. Judson for] Iohn Wolfe, […], →OCLC, page 19:
text: Bel[lamont]. […] [W]hat place is this? / May[bery]. Bedlam iſt not? / Bel. VVhere theſe mad-men are, I neuer vvas amongſt them, as you loue me Gentlemen, lets ſee vvhat Greekes are vvithin. / […] / Bell. Pray beſtovv your name ſir vpon vs. / Full. My name is Full-moone. / Bell. You vvell deſerue this office good maiſter Full-moone: and vvhat mad-caps haue you in your houſe.
ref: c. 1601 (date written), Thomas Decker [i.e., Thomas Dekker]; Iohn Webster [i.e., John Webster], North-ward Hoe. […], London: […] G[eorge] Eld, published 1607, →OCLC, Act IV, signature F3, recto:
text: Lord, that ſuch a Mad-Cap as I ſhould ever live to be jealous!
ref: 1667 March 12 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), John Dryden, Secret-Love, or The Maiden-Queen: […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], published 1668, →OCLC, Act III, page 34:
glosses: Alternative form of madcap.
mad-cap
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: [H]is mad-cap follies, / VVhich ſtill like Hydras heads grovv thicker on him.
ref: 1610–1616 (date written), Iohn [i.e., John] Fletcher, Monsieur Thomas. A Comedy. […], London: […] Thomas Harper, for Iohn Waterson, […], published 1639, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, signature [C4], recto:
text: [T]hose fairy times when I was a mad-cap boy, crowding every enjoyment into the present moment; […]
ref: 1808 January 25, [Washington Irving [et al.]], “Monday, January 25, 1808. From My Elbow-chair.”, in Salmagundi: Or, The Whim-whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq. and Others, number 20, London: J[ohn] Limbird, […], published 1824, →OCLC, page 137, column 2:
text: With this shift in both what shows are being made, and in what viewers desire, the genre hearteningly appears to be reverting to its roots of being an entertainment spectacular, giving the space for novelty and mad-cap amusement that's presented in a warm and humorous way. After a discordant patch, it's in tune again – even if some auditionees, as ever, are not.
ref: 2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How Talent Shows Became TV’s Most Bizarre Programmes”, in BBC Online, archived from the original on 22 Jul 2025:
glosses: Alternative form of madcap.
gundam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gundams
Senses: glosses: A fictional military giant robot.
gundam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gundams
Senses: examples: text: There are also choultries and holy gundams. They are Rama-gundam in which the water is tasty and healthy even though it is green in colour; Palagundam, the water of which is pure and as white as milk; Ginnegundam , in which the[…]
ref: 1962, India. Office of the Registrar General, Census of India, 1961: Andhra Pradesh:
text: Many sacred bathing ghats and gundams are not equally used by all the pilgrims. In some of the gundams like Mallikka-gundam, Manoharagundam, Rudhiragundam, the sacred bathing is strictly prohibited by the temple[…]
ref: 1991, Makhan Jha, Social Anthropology of Pilgrimage, South Asia Books:
glosses: A low-lying depression or basin in which water pools.
Oberlahnstein
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A part of Lahnstein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
automobile graveyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: automobile graveyards
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
synonyms: car cemetery
lemon heaven
glosses: An establishment which is maintained or used for storing, keeping, buying, or selling wrecked, scrapped, ruined, or dismantled motor vehicles or motor vehicle parts.
automobile graveyards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of automobile graveyard
car cemetery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: car cemeteries
Senses: glosses: Synonym of automobile graveyard.
synonyms: word: automobile graveyard
car cemeteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of car cemetery
flips a bitch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flip a bitch
flipping a bitch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flip a bitch
flipped a bitch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flip a bitch
Lahnstein
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Rhein-Lahn-Kreis district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Derived terms: lahnsteinite
Niederlahnstein
Oberlahnstein
fallen through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of fall through
falls through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fall through
falling through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fall through
fetch-and-carries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fetch-and-carry
fat shaming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fat-shaming
Senses: glosses: Bias, invective, or discrimination targeted at individuals because of their weight (overweightness, obesity).
fat shaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fat-shaming
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fat shame
Related terms: body shaming
skinny shaming
undeploy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undeploys
form: undeploying
form: undeployed
form: undeployed
Etymology: From un- + deploy.
Senses: examples: text: If you really need to undeploy the application, use the -undeploy option. This stops the application and removes the staged files. If you want to redeploy the application, you must distribute and prepare the application again.
ref: 2004, Jon Mountjoy, Avinash Chugh, WebLogic: The Definitive Guide:
text: This Manager application enables you to deploy, start, stop, or undeploy server-side Web applications.
ref: 2005, Vivek Chopra, Jon Eaves, Rupert Jones, Beginning JavaServer Pages, page 26:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To undo the deployment of; to revert to a state prior to deployment of.
undeploys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undeploy
undeploying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undeploy
Normanno-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: [nor.mɑː.noʊ̯]
[nor.mæ.noʊ̯]
Senses: examples: text: I ſhall only beg leave to obſerve by the way, that before the diſtinction of Dano-Saxon, and Normanno-Saxon, there were doubtleſs ſeveral Dialects, or Proprieties of Speech introduced by thoſe ſeveral Nations, of the Saxons, Angli, and Jutæ, or Geatæ, who took Poſſeſſion of the Iſland, and of thoſe other Colonies that were called. out of Germany; […]
ref: 1715, Elizabeth Elstob, “Of the Dialects”, in The Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue, First Given in English: […], London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer: And Sold by J. Bowyer […], and C. King […], page 65:
text: This most eminent representative of the Normanno-Sicilian school of falconry […]
ref: 1990, Christopher Harper-Bill, Ruth Harvey, The Ideals and Practice of Medieval Knighthood III, page 82:
text: The Normanno-Russian Great Princes of Kijev, as well as the Volga Bulgarians, were the vassals of the Xazars.
ref: 1995, Karl Heinrich Menges, The Turkic Languages and Peoples, page 30:
glosses: Normandy, the Normans, or the Norman language.
copy pronoun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copy pronouns
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of resumptive pronoun.
synonyms: word: resumptive pronoun
copy pronouns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copy pronoun
gonchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: underpants
tool-friendly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tool-friendly
form: most tool-friendly
Etymology: From tool + friendly.
Senses: examples: text: Kotlin is a programming language for the JVM that has concise syntax, is interoperable, safe, and tool friendly.
ref: 2018, Mohamed Shazin Sadakath, Spring Boot 2.0 Projects, page 301:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Designed for easy interoperation with software tools.
remetal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: remetals
form: remetaling
form: remetalling
form: remetaled
form: remetaled
form: remetalled
form: remetalled
Etymology: From re- + metal.
Senses: glosses: To metal (a road) again.
remetalled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of remetal
remetals
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of remetal
remetaling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of remetal
remetalling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of remetal
remetaled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of remetal
metaling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of metal
metaler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metalers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of metaller.
metalers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metaler
dry-heaved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dry-heave
dry-heaving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dry-heave
common recovery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common recoveries
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A legal proceeding in England that enabled lawyers to convert an entailed estate into absolute ownership, fee simple, by means of a legal fiction.
common recoveries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of common recovery
warranty of title
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An implied warranty implying that the seller of goods has the right to sell them.
ungrogged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + grogged.
Senses: glosses: Not grogged.
grogged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more grogged
form: most grogged
Derived terms: ungrogged
grogged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grog
fruit vegetable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fruit vegetables
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A vegetable with a pulpy, seed-rich body which grows on a vine.
fruit vegetables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fruit vegetable