cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
line of thought
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lines of thought
form: line of thinking
Senses: examples: text: In the present chapter, I want to develop this line of thought in greater detail and at the same time clear up some difficulties that a number of my critics have claimed to find in my account of these matters.
ref: 2013, E. J. Lowe, Forms of Thought: A Study in Philosophical Logic, Cambridge University Press, page 31:
text: Let me approach this line of thought a bit indirectly.
ref: 2009, Robert J. Richards, “Darwin's place in the history of thought: A reevaluation”, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, volume 106:
text: Similarly, to take twenty-five years of free-form, cross-cutting social, political, economic, and historical writing growing out of work at a single, unstandard, American institution and isolate it as an "era" in such writing — a stage, a phase, a line of thought — is to pursue an agenda, take a position, state a case.
ref: 2001, Clifford Geertz, “School Building: A Retrospective Preface”, in Joan Wallach Scott, Debra Keates, editors, Schools of Thought: Twenty-five Years of Interpretive Social Science, page 1:
glosses: A way of thinking about a particular topic, concept, or problem, that follows a logical progression of reasoning or argument.
examples: text: "Even today there is a dictatorship of a narrow line of thought" which kills "people's freedom, their freedom of conscience," the Pope expressed in his April 10 daily Mass.
ref: 2014, Elise Harris, Pope Francis warns against the dictatorship of narrow thought, Catholic News Agency:
glosses: Way of thinking.
Related terms: chain of thought
stream of consciousness
train of thought
train of thinking
slidy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslaɪdi/
rhymes: -aɪdi
Forms: form: slidier
form: more slidy
form: slidiest
form: most slidy
form: slidey
Etymology: From slide + -y.
Senses: glosses: Allowing or conducive to sliding; slippery.
examples: text: “It was the most absurd kiss. I don't believe he'd ever kissed a woman in his life before. I threw my head back, and it was a sort of slidy, pecking dab, just on the end of the chin — here.” Mrs. Hauksbee tapped her masculine little chin with her fan.
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 42:
glosses: Having a sliding motion.
clean coder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clean coders
Etymology: From clean code + -er or clean + coder.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A programmer who writes generally clean code.
Hypernyms: coder
clean coders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clean coder
briquetage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French briquetage (“brickwork”) (In French archaeology the term is also used in this extended, specialist sense).
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: burnt-clay remains associated with historical salt production.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: any crudely-made objects fashioned of burnt clay.
Coordinate terms: red hill
shard
pugdog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pugdogs
form: pug dog
form: pug-dog
Senses: glosses: A pug (dog)
Chinese pug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinese pugs
Senses: glosses: A pug (dog)
Dutch bulldog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dutch bulldogs
Senses: glosses: A pug (dog)
Dutch mastiff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dutch mastiffs
Senses: glosses: A pug (dog)
mini mastiff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mini mastiffs
Senses: glosses: A pug (dog)
pug dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pug dogs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pugdog.
pug-dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pug-dogs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pugdog.
POTC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Pirates of the Caribbean.
race carding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of race card
race carded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of race card
Pac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pacs
Etymology: Various origins:
* Borrowed from Polish Pac, a hypocoristic short form of several personal names, such as Paweł or Pakosław.
* Borrowed from Czech and Slovak Pač, Páč, from a short form of the personal name Pačeslav.
* Borrowed from Spanish Pac, a topographic surname from pac (“farmstead”).
* Guatemalan surname, from a Castilianized form of a local Mayan word meaning "wooden spoon".
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Pac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pac. (abbreviation of Pacific)
Pac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pac. (abbreviation of Pacific)
Related terms: Pac Heights
Pacman
structural integrity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: structural integrities
Senses: glosses: The ability of a structure or component to resist breakage or excess deformation when subject to a load.
Andoy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Norwegian Andøy
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Andøy (municipality in Nordland, Norway)
Andoy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Andoys
Etymology: Cebuano Andoy
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Cebuano, variant of Andy
glosses: A male given name from Cebuano, variant of Andy
A diminutive of the male given name Andrew
Andoy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: French Andoy
Senses: glosses: A village in Namur, province of Namur, Walloonia, Belgium.
throw a wrench into the works
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: throws a wrench into the works
form: throwing a wrench into the works
form: threw a wrench into the works
form: thrown a wrench into the works
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of throw a wrench in the works.
Eusebia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Ancient Greek female given name Εὐσεβία (Eusebía).
Related terms: english: masculine equivalent
translation: masculine equivalent
word: Eusebius
Jiji
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: jēʹjēʹ
Forms: form: Chichi
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 集集 (Jíjí).
Senses: examples: text: JIJI, Taiwan (Reuters) - Taiwan’s military showed off its latest domestically produced armoured vehicle on Thursday, the CM-34 Clouded Leopard, at a remote manufacturing site in the mountains of the central part of the island.[…]
Facility chief Wang Wen-hung told reporters the plant in Jiji can produce six vehicles a month, and it has already delivered 173 of them to the military out of a total order for 305.
ref: 2022 June 16, Ann Wang, Ben Blanchard, “Taiwan shows off latest home-made armoured vehicle”, in Robert Birsel, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2023, World NewsSouth China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2022, Military:
glosses: An urban township in Nantou County, Taiwan.
Montenegrinisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Montenegrin + -isation.
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of Montenegrinization.
Montenegrization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Montenegrizations
Etymology: From Montenegrin + -ization.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Montenegrinization.
Montenegrinization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Montenegrinisation
form: Montenegrisation
form: Montenegrization
Etymology: From Montenegrin + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act of making something more Montenegrin, especially the adoption of Montenegrin culture, customs, language or ethnicity or cultural assimilation into Montenegrin community.
Suga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sugas
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 菅 (Suga) or すが (Suga).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
glosses: A surname from Japanese.
shybie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shybies
Etymology: From shy + -bie.
Etymology tree
Middle English shy
English shy
English newbie
English -bie
English shybie
Senses: examples: text: A less progressed shybie will have a more difficult time speaking and that would look pretty obvious. Or if the shybie answers nervously to certain questions, like "What girl do you *like*?"
ref: 2000 November 11, Al Leitch, “How to Spot Another Shybie?”, in alt.support.shyness (Usenet):
text: Here's the problem: as a shybie I've somehow gravitated to a career with > computers (making bucketloads, so I could afford to pay for the priviledge^([sic]) of facing the public).
ref: 2003 November 11, KC Carter, “How does a shybie get a public-facing job?”, in alt.support.shyness (Usenet):
text: If you could create a kind of shybie Frankenstein monster of yourself built from the personality parts of other shybies who you are most similar to, which people would you be?
ref: 2006 April 13, JimSummers, “Which shybie are you?”, in alt.support.shyness (Usenet):
glosses: A shy person.
expent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Probably influenced by spend→spent.
Senses: examples: text: it expent in the operation and maintenance of [the library...]
ref: 1917, Board of Trade Journal:
text: Frequently the mineral composition or gas content may be injurious and money expent in pond construction wasted.
ref: 1939, James Nelson Gowanloch, The Rearing of Fish in Ponds:
text: Much time has to be expent in order to realize them.
ref: 2012, R. Radharamanan, Robotics and Factories of the Future ’87: Proceedings of the Second International Conference San Diego, California, USA July 28–31, 1987, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 274:
text: Y'know, during the Las Vegas shooting Stephen Paddock supposedly expent over 3000 rounds of ammunition over the course of ten minutes from 27 AR-15's with bump stocks.
ref: ???, ???, ???:
glosses: simple past and past participle of expend
Westfalish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Probably a calque or borrowing of German Westfälisch.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Westphalian (dialect group)
synonyms: word: Westphalian
extra: dialect group
pulling the plug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: passive euthanasia
glosses: To stop something happening
pulling the plug
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pull the plug
passive euthanasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: antonyms: active euthanasia
glosses: A form of euthanasia where equipment or procedures used to sustain someone's life is halted.
active euthanasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: mercy killing
antonyms: passive euthanasia
glosses: A form of euthanasia wherein death is intentionally brought about, usually by medical intervention to end the patient's suffering.
orange juices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orange juice
spelling word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spelling words
Senses: topics: education
qualifier: set phrase
glosses: A word, especially among several others, for which the spelling is supposed to be memorized and practiced before an upcoming quiz or test in which all of such words are covered.
spelling words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spelling word
penopause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of penis + menopause.
Senses: examples: text: […] whereas the production of offspring came to an end, I have not yet experienced what might be called the penopause.
ref: 1986, H. A. R. Barnett, “Presentation of an Institute Finlaison Medal to Mr Henry Arthur Rodney Barnett”, in Journal of the Institute of Actuaries, volume 113, number 1, page 8:
text: "Penopause" and Old Age
ref: 1989, CRC Handbook of Human Growth and Developmental Biology, volume 2, part A, →ISBN, page 332:
text: The physical symptoms of the penopause are often accompanied by worrying.
ref: 2000, Mels van Driel, The Secret Part: A Natural History of the Penis, →ISBN, page 156:
glosses: Synonym of andropause.
synonyms: word: andropause
blindened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blinden
blindening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blinden
foxen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. By surface analysis, fox + -en (plural ending).
Senses: examples: text: “Oh! is hur wull—I know hur run dro' the hedge, and I'll put summit ther to stop the traffic; foxen be but warmints a'ter all's said and done, and I'll hae the ould chap's brush afore to-morrow night.”
ref: 1865, Practical Lessons on Hunting and Sporting, page 45:
text: Do they still read in the Bible before them, 'The foxen have holes, and the birds of the air have nestis,' as they then did?
ref: 1885, Thomas Mozley, Reminiscences, Chiefly of Towns, Villages and Schools:
text: What a jolly run for our money!
How I don't like foxen!
Over we go, boys!
Joiks!
ref: 1935, Punch, volume 189, page 454:
text: “Well, young fella, times were hard for a spell. Almost every night them danged foxen were raiding my henhice.” “Excuse me, sir,” I interjected. “Don't you mean foxes?” “Nope, I don't,” Pluribus replied. “I use oxen to plow my fields, so it's foxen that I'm trying to get rid of.”
ref: 2007, Richard Lederer, Word Wizard, page 124:
text: Victor and I are having a huge argument about whether or not to feed the foxen. Victor says yes, because they're adorable and— according to the neighbors—are quite tame. I say no, because we have a fat little pug who likes to frolic outside occasionally and I don't want to see him eaten. I thought we were on the same page about the fox, but then Victor went and threw an apple at it. And I was all, “What the fuck? We don't feed the foxen,” and he said, “I was throwing the apple at it to chase it away,” but Victor is a tremendous liar, and he didn't go to pick up the apple, probably because he knows that foxen love apple cider.
ref: 2012, Jenny Lawson, Let's Pretend This Never Happened:
text: The man snorted. “Can't even get any peace on top of a mountain. Bad enough I have to put up with the bloody foxen eating my hens and that blasted eagle trying to snatch lambs.” Rolf arched an eyebrow. “Foxen?” Carrie shrugged. “Sure, plural of fox. Ox, oxen, fox, foxen.”
ref: 2013, Margaret L Carter, Dame Onyx Treasures:
glosses: plural of fox
foxen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more foxen
form: most foxen
Etymology: From fox + -en (having the qualities of).
Senses: examples: text: I Did then […] obſserve one Main Advantage that the Foxen Generation, and all the Twiſting brood of Snakes and Serpents (attendants in chief upon the Fox his ſubtilty) did and do enjoy before any Beaſt of prey (or of labour either) in the Wilderneſs.
ref: 1652, W. B., Experiences and Tears:
text: Behind a foxen muff enormous?
ref: 1806 April 12, The Companion and Weekly Miscellany 1806-04-12: Vol 2 Iss 24:
text: True hands they gave and took / And down beneath, with foxen eyes / On the king's host they look.
ref: 1852, Hanka, Václav, 1791-1861; Linda, Josef, 1789-1834, Manuscript of the Queen's Court:
glosses: Of or pertaining to foxes.
seniorly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more seniorly
form: most seniorly
Etymology: From senior + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Although Kennedy practically had all the stores to herself, minus four or five sets of "get fit after fifty" seniorly power walkers burning up the walkways during their health laps, she had a task at hand and needed to stay focused.
ref: 2003, Victor Mcglothin, Autumn Leaves: A Novel:
glosses: Of, befitting, or characteristic of a senior; seniorlike.
tindalo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tindalos
Senses: glosses: A kind of ghost or spirit in Melanesian folklore.
seniorlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more seniorlike
form: most seniorlike
Etymology: From senior + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a senior.
Hellenistic Koine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Koine (the Greek dialect of Hellenistic times)
synonyms: word: Koine
extra: the Greek dialect of Hellenistic times
Babelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Babel + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the Tower of Babel
glosses: chaotic, confused, uproarious
unenforcement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unenforcements
Senses: glosses: Lack of enforcement; the state or (non-)action of not enforcing; the state or condition of not being enforced.
cohomologicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cohomologicities
Etymology: From cohomological + -icity.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The condition of being cohomological
downshoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downshoots
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An involuntary downward movement of the eye
Related terms: upshoot
equigenerated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From equi- + generated.
Senses: glosses: generated equally
gyratonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing rotating electromagnetic radiation
imaginarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The condition of being imaginary
Synonyms: imaginariness
isofield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isofields
Etymology: From iso- + field.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A region of identical field strength (especially that of a magnetic field)
majorisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: majorisations
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of majorization.
metaconjecture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaconjectures
form: meta-conjecture
Etymology: From meta- + conjecture.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A conjecture that holds for most, but not all, conditions
microaneurysmal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + aneurysmal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a microaneurysm
microcombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microcomb
minifilament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minifilaments
Etymology: From mini- + filament.
Senses: glosses: A very small, or very thin, filament
minifilaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minifilament
milkshake ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milkshake duck
noncolluding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + colluding.
Senses: glosses: That does not collude
nonparametrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: nonparametric statistics
protoplanetesimal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protoplanetesimals
Etymology: From proto- + planetesimal.
Senses: glosses: A very small protoplanet
protoplanetesimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From proto- + planetesimal.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of protoplanetary.
synonyms: word: protoplanetary
Amboy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in San Bernardino County, California.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Turner County, Georgia, named from Amboy, NJ.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Lee County, Illinois, named from Amboy, NJ.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Lee County, Illinois, including most of the city.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Jackson Township, Miami County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Blue Earth County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Webster County, Nebraska.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
The Amboys, two cities in New Jersey named Perth Amboy and South Amboy.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Oswego County, New York, named from Amboy, NJ.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Clark County, Washington.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
Other townships in Michigan, Minnesota and Ohio, listed under Amboy Township.
glosses: A village and commune in Calamuchita department, Córdoba province, Argentina.
Derived terms: Perth Amboy
South Amboy
pseudospinor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudospinors
Etymology: From pseudo- + spinor.
Senses: topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: A pseudospin analog of a spinor.
subconsole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subconsoles
Etymology: From sub- + console.
Senses: examples: text: A handset is also provided at each subconsole and can be used for either interphone or radiophone communication.
ref: 1961, United States Bureau of Naval Personnel, IC electrician 2, page 92:
text: The communications radar subconsole is located to the left of the navigation aids subconsole.
ref: 1963, Marine Engineering/log - Volume 68, page 51:
text: A subconsole in a library can be employed as a multipurpose instrument. It can channel audio programs, lessons or musical selections to listening stations situated throughout the library and can also feed the same originations to the master console for distribution throughout the building.
ref: 1966, The Nation's Schools - Volume 78, page 56:
glosses: A subsidiary console; an electronic device that monitors and controls a subset of the functions of a main console.
quasiisometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quasiisometries
form: quasi-isometry
Etymology: From quasi- + isometry.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An equivalence relation that is an isometry when viewed at a large scale
Related terms: quasiisometric
quasinorm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quasinorms
form: quasi-norm
Etymology: From quasi- + norm.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A function that has all the properties of a norm except the triangle inequality
schober
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schobers
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A sheaf of a category
Etzanoa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The "Great Settlement" of the Rayados (a subtribe of the Wichita), thought to have held over twelve thousand people, located in southern Kansas.
schobers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schober
ultramodularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ultra- + modularity.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The condition of being ultramodular
mindfucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mindfuckers
Etymology: From mindfuck + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The mindfucker will typically play on the anxieties and insecurities of the victim in order to produce a set of false beliefs, which will then lead to the emotional disturbance that is sought as an end.
ref: 2014, Colin McGinn, Mindfucking: A Critique of Mental Manipulation:
glosses: Somebody who intentionally destabilizes, confuses or manipulates the mind of another person.
mindfuckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mindfucker
fuel gauge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuel gauges
Senses: examples: text: "Game over," Waddicor warns. "Look at the fuel gauge. Someone's forgotten to fill up." The heavily laden train has come from Freightliner's Maritime Terminal in Southampton's western docks. Waddicor reckons there might not be enough diesel in the tank to complete the journey.
ref: 2025 August 20, Paul Clifton, “A driver's eye view of East West Rail”, in RAIL, number 1042, page 30:
glosses: An instrument, usually mounted on an instrument panel, which indicates the quantity of fuel in the fuel tank(s).
fuel gauges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fuel gauge
brother-zone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brother-zones
form: brother-zoning
form: brother-zoned
form: brother-zoned
Etymology: From brother + zone, modelled on earlier friend-zone.
Senses: glosses: To view or categorize someone as a brotherly figure, rather than a potential romantic partner.
subconsoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subconsole
Avalokiteshvara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Avalokitesvara
form: Avalokiteśvara
Etymology: From Sanskrit अवलोकितेश्वर (Avalokiteśvara, literally “Lord of Perception”).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A bodhisattva who embodies compassion.
Related terms: Guanyin
off coarse
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of of course.
off coarse
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of off course.
if not for
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: If not for her surgical skill, you'd be dead now, so some appreciation may be in order.
glosses: If (something) were not (or had not been) there; in the absence of (something); without.
Related terms: if not
ram-jam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ram-jams
form: ram-jamming
form: ram-jammed
form: ram-jammed
Senses: examples: text: Carburetors, too, are poorly built to stand the racket and ram-jamming they meet.
ref: 1913, Farm Equipment Dealer - Volume 11, page 326:
text: Marsh went on as his prisoner drank. "Because you're caught in the middle of my alternate plan, Ram-Jam, which ram-jams your ass between the rockiest rock and the hardest hard place you ever imagined.
ref: 1988, Lloyd Pye Lloyd Pye, Mismatch, →ISBN, page 134:
text: Unlike cattle going to market, there was no ram-jamming them up a shoot and hauling them off to market where prices were usually poor to bad.
ref: 2004, David Allen Goodwin, No Matter What: Never Say Die, →ISBN, page 100:
text: As we approached the consignee where we were going to drop the trailer, he was ram-jamming the shifting lever and raking the gears trying to shift without using the clutch, and cursing as if it were the truck's fault he couldn't do it.
ref: 2011, Hal Howard, Truckin’ With Bubba ... and I Ain’t Bubba, →ISBN, page 7:
glosses: To roughly force into a small space or difficult position.
examples: text: A grand duke, or a lesser titled personage, in a car goes ram-jamming over Moscow at 40 miles an hour up, with no one to say him nay.
ref: 1909, Around the World with Taft:
text: This place might be work, but it sure beats ram-jamming around just for beans.
ref: 2013, Penelope Williamson, Heart of the West, →ISBN, page 188:
text: She planted her legs widely beneath her, beside her rig lashed to the hull with bungee cords—which she could hardly see in the explosion of sun off the white deck of the ram-jamming boat.
ref: 2017, Elise Levine, Blue Field, →ISBN, page 77:
glosses: To travel about with no fixed destination.
ram-jam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ram-jams
Senses: examples: text: A fake pass contributed five more, and ram-jams at center and savage jabs at tackle netted ten.
ref: 1902, The Epworth Herald - Volume 13, page 535:
text: Era Elbertus tells us, "Indulge an automobile appetite with a push-cart income, and it's you for the ram-jams and stripes."
ref: 1910, Iowa. Reformatory at Anamosa, The Reformatory Press - Volume 13:
text: An' a ram-jam now Git alon, Old Bones!
ref: 2007, United States. National Park Service, Historic Resource Study: Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, August 2007:
glosses: A forceful poke or shove.
examples: text: Now, thank goodness, we have broken away to acclaim actors who, without reverting to strut and bellow, are playing with a heartening drive and a mingling of subtlety and power ; who give to our stage its proper flash, its kindling glow ; and who make of the theatre more than a home for the "gilded gear," the rowdier ram-jams, and the "dim, moon-eyed fishes" that stare at them decorously.
ref: 1947, Malcolm Elwin, The Pleasure Ground: A Miscellany of English Writing, page 247:
glosses: A person who forces his or her way around.
Ram-jam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ram-jams
Senses: examples: text: It is not a conclusive proof of our being enlightened Christians, that we sneer and misinterpret bygone creeds, as though in the old Greek and Roman poetry were shewn nothing worthier than Fetish idols, rotten mummies, Australasian Ram-Jams and Ethiopian Mumbo-Jumbos.
ref: 1863, The Eagle: A Magazine - Volumes 3-4, page 280:
text: Rupees," I answered, before an admiring crowd of Ram-jams, Rajahs, and such like. “
ref: 1876, Punch - Volumes 69-73, page 276:
text: He lives in the New Forest, Lady Ellington, and if when you are passing you hear the puffs of a loud steam-engine somewhere near Brockenhurst you will know it is Tom doing deep breathing. He expects in time to become a Ram-jam or something, by breathing himself into Raj-pan-puta.
ref: 1906, Edward Frederic Benson, The Angel of Pain - Volume 0, page 16:
text: No problem, I was still 'black and beautiful', and they were something else, Indian or Pakistani; 'Ram-jams' was what we called them or 'those at the corner house'.
ref: 1985, The Spectator - Volume 254, page 15:
glosses: A person of vaguely Middle Eastern ethnicity.
VHR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VHRs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of verbatim hearing reporter.
ram-pack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ram-packs
form: ram-packing
form: ram-packed
form: ram-packed
Senses: examples: text: Workers who tend machines that fill and ram-pack hogsheads are classified as PACKER OPERATOR, AUTOMATIC (tobacco).
ref: 1991, Dictionary of Occupational Titles - Volume 2, page 934:
text: Besey removed her back hoofs from a box where she'd been ram-packing papers in.
ref: 2012, Keevy McAlavy, The Stench of Space, →ISBN, page 332:
glosses: To pack tightly by applying pressure.
examples: text: Editor John T. Amber has ram-packed its 400 giant pages with everything you want to know about guns from the earliest Winchesters (like my Model 1866) to the newest stainless steel revolvers! Handloading, ballistics charts, antique and custom guns, field tests, target shooting and more are covered in remarkable detail.
ref: 1966, American Rifleman - Volume 114, Issue 9, page 11:
glosses: To fill to capacity.
ram-pack
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: After machining, teeth are milled, ram-pack hardened, and then precision ground in line with 0.500 locating hole in end of ram.
ref: 1954, American Machinist - Volume 98, page 178:
text: A ram-pack grouting method for setting turbine-generator sole plates has been developed which assures ...
ref: 1963, ELECTRICAL WORLD, page 86:
text: A method of ram-pack grouting for setting the sole plates of the turbine generator quickly and effectively was developed, thus assuring a permanent and positive support.
ref: 1975, The Indian Concrete Journal - Volume 49, page 293:
glosses: Associated with ram-packing.
lines of thought
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of line of thought
white pee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From white + pee.
Senses: examples: text: His magical boy toy had done all kinds of wondrous things. It spewed out white pee, it felt like hard rubber and now it was warm and soft again.
ref: 2004, Jason Fury, Nights of Fury, page 17:
text: She liked that and sometimes she watched him as he played with his own pee pee until it made white pee all over him.
ref: 2012, Beverly O'Rourke, The Red Organdy Dress, page 21:
glosses: Semen.
memory cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: memory cells
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
immunology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A type of lymphocyte that is capable of responding to an antigen long after the initial exposure.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A fundamental block of computer memory.
Derived terms: memory B cell
memory T cell
Dietman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dietmen
form: dietman
Etymology: From National Diet + -man.
Senses: examples: text: A newly elected Dietman, Ozawa Ichirō, said that “my energy is now devoted to two things: handling requests from my constituency and learning how the Diet works. […]”
ref: 1980, John Creighton Campbell, Contemporary Japanese Budget Politics:
glosses: A member of Japan's National Diet
dietman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dietmen
Etymology: From National Diet + -man.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Dietman.
National Diet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From national + diet, calque of Japanese 国会 (Kokkai, literally “National Assembly”).
Senses: glosses: The national legislature of Japan.
wikipedia: National Diet
Derived terms: dietman
Related terms: Diet
Dietman
Dietmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dietman
dietmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dietman
does ill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of do ill
doing ill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of do ill.
did ill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of do ill.
Early New English
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The form of the English language written and spoken from the end of the 15th century to the mid-17th century.
Synonyms: Early Modern English
aminophen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of acetaminophen.
synonyms: word: acetaminophen
centroblastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a centroblast
chemotypic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a chemotype
cyanolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyanolyses
Etymology: From cyano- + -lysis.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any lytic reaction with cyanide ions
dendroglioma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dendrogliomas
Etymology: From dendro- + glioma.
Senses: glosses: A glioma that is associated with dendrocytes
Related terms: dendrogliomal
oligodendroglioma
endoevaporite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endoevaporites
Etymology: From endo- + evaporite.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An organism (typically unicellular) that lives in an evaporite
Related terms: endoevaporitic
endoevaporitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + evaporitic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to an endoevaporite
ferrithiocyanide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferrithiocyanides
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of various salts containing the trivalent anion Fe(SCN)₆³⁻.
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A complex ion in which a central ferric iron atom is surrounded by six thiocyanide ions.
Related terms: ferrothiocyanide
ferrothiocyanide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferrothiocyanides
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The complex ion Fe(SCN)₆⁴⁻; any salt containing this ion.
Related terms: ferrithiocyanide
fibromellar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a fibroma
isosilybin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isosilybins
Etymology: From iso- + silybin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of flavonolignans found in coffee and the milk thistle
lymphoimmune
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lympho- + immune.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Describing the lymphatic and immune systems and their interaction
macroinvertivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macroinvertivores
Etymology: From macro- + invertivore.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any organism that feeds on macroinvertebrates
Related terms: macroinvertivorous
macroinvertivory
mesopredatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meso- + predatory.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a mesopredator
metformins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metformin
morphotypic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a morphotype
nitrotyrosines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nitrotyrosine
silychristin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A flavonolignan, (2R,3R)-3,5,7-trihydroxy-2-[(2R,3S)-7-hydroxy-2-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)-3-(hydroxymethyl)-2,3-dihydro-1-benzofuran-5-yl]-2,3-dihydrochromen-4-one, found in milk thistles
silydianin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: (+)-2,3alpha,3aalpha,7a-Tetrahydro-7aalpha-hydroxy-8-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)-4-(3alpha,5,7-trihydroxy-4-oxo-2beta-chromanyl)-3,6-methanobenzofuran-7(6alphaH)-one, one of the components of silymarin
supratentorially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From supra- + tentorially.
Senses: glosses: In a supratentorial direction
thermoacidophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thermo- + acido- + -philic.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of the thermoacidophiles
Derived terms: hyperthermoacidophilic
wksht
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wkshts
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of worksheet.
wkshts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wksht
wkst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wksts
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of worksheet.
wksts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wkst
wkbk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wkbks
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of workbook.
wkbks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wkbk
fudd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fudds
Senses: examples: text: The most common American hunting lever-gun cartridge is irrefutably the ubiquitous .30-30. Due to its prevalence among farmers and those with no interest in firearms outside hunting, it has been unfairly typecast as a “fudd caliber” for years.
ref: 2015 July 8, “Henry .30-30 H009 Rifle”, in Outdoor Hub:
text: Reaction to my book, Arms, has been predictable: the NRA slagged it, without reading a word, on the basis of a second-hand summary. Comment wars erupted online. And I received an entertaining stream of insults: tool, pompous turd, quisling, dirtbag, idiot, ignoramus and, most of all, fudd — gun culture’s very own epithet for a gun owner who betrays the cause.
ref: 2015 December 21, “Excerpt: How Canadians helped create the NRA”, in The Toronto Star:
glosses: Alternative form of Fudd (“type of gun owner”).
examples: text: The Marauders broke the oath of silence. His mother had come into the bathroom too quickly; Father was stern. "I didn't do it," he cried. Eddie is a fudd.
ref: 1964, George Deaux, The Humanization of Eddie Cement, page 87:
text: "I gotta teach you to quit being a big fudd." "A fudd? What's that?" "A fudd is somebody that sits around and complains when he should be out having a good time.
ref: 1983, P. J. Petersen, The boll weevil express: a novel, →ISBN, page 113:
text: We can conclude that whatever happens personally and within the family this pastor has come to terms with his vocation as seen in his phrase "a lifestyle of two old fudds."
ref: 1991, Paul A. Mickey, Ginny W. Ashmore, Clergy families: is normal life possible?, →ISBN, page 48:
text: No offence but you're a shite keeper and they're all fudds.
ref: 2004, Douglas Maxwell, Mancub, →ISBN, page 44:
glosses: Synonym of fuddy-duddy.
synonyms: word: fuddy-duddy
Fudd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fudds
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Fudd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fudds
form: fudd
Etymology: From Elmer Fudd, a character in Warner Brothers' Bugs Bunny cartoons, from Looney Tunes.
Senses: examples: text: Fudds like me supposedly look down on semiauto and military rifles.
ref: 2007 May, David E. Petzal, “A Letter From Fuddville”, in Field & Stream, volume 112, number 1, page 8:
text: Zumbo, realizing that he had misjudged the popularity of the AR-15 among his readers, apologized. But by then nobody cared what he said. Zumbo had become a Fudd.
ref: 2015, Andrew Somerset, Arms: The Culture and Credo of the Gun, →ISBN:
text: The late President Ronald Reagan was the NRA’s most famous Fudd for supporting gun control both during his tenure and after. Gun rights absolutists don’t entirely trust Trump, either. “Never trust a Fudd,” wrote “waltdewalt” on a gun politics page on Reddit, suggesting Trump is not as committed to the Second Amendment as he claims.
ref: 2016 October 18, Frank Smyth, “The Dangerous Movement Behind Donald Trump”, in The Progressive:
glosses: A gun-owner who supports traditional hunting guns but favors gun control for other guns such as handguns or tactical rifles.
examples: text: This was very hard on the bank account but happens to be the best way I know of to convince a “Fudd” that a fat cock cannot be put in shape to fight in two weeks!
ref: 1981, Pintakasi - Volume 3, page 35:
text: Speak of the devil, in pulled pudgy brown-haired Windston with cheeks bloated like a chipmunk's. Such a Fudd, just not quite as old, and probably wished he was hunting that pesky wabbit instead of driving cab.
ref: 2013, Yarr Wauchabey, Need a Cab?!: The Wild Times and Misadventures of a Newbie Cab Driver, →ISBN:
text: He is trying to shut down the press, yet feels free to rail against individuals, businesses, entire nations, on his Twitter account. “I’m making a new Presidency!” he rails and the hapless Fudds who voted for him and still support him – less than 40% of registered voters (a record low) – scream in joy.
ref: 2017 July 25, Bonnie Greer, “Brexit is nuts, so is Trump, but Bugs Bunny is the perfect cipher for our times”, in The New European:
glosses: A bumbling and ill-educated person.
examples: text: The surrealistic Fudds handle well on hard snow, even at high speeds, but still float nicely in deep snow and crud.
ref: 1993 September, S.M., “News From Fat City”, in Ski, volume 58, number 1, page 104:
text: Compared to the other fats, the Fudd seemed most like a conventional ski in the powder.
ref: 1995 September, “Powder”, in Ski, volume 58, number 1, page 89:
text: The Fudd was favored for its flotation, while the Kahuna earned an “A+” for versatility.
ref: 1996 November, “Best Value Skis”, in Snow Country, volume 9, number 7, page 89:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: A type of fat ski that flares out at the ends.
Fudd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fudds
Etymology: From "F/f", phoneticized as "fudd".
Senses: examples: text: A Fudd that's seen inflight Is such an ugly sight. But one that's crunched in tight Becomes a scenic blight.
ref: 1972, Approach - Volume 17, Issue 7:
text: After boot camp training Mark went to a Naval Air base on the west coast. His assignment . . . Keep the "Fudds" flying.
ref: 1972, Black Sports - Volume 2, Issues 7-12, page 5:
text: A voice from air operations ordered, "Pilots for the oh four-thirty launch, man your aircraft." Then, in deference to our friends who flew the E-1 Tracers, also known as the Willie Fudds, "and fill the Fudds!"
ref: 1980, Rosario Rausa, Gold wings, blue sea: a naval aviator's story, page 52:
glosses: Ellipsis of Willy Fudd or Willie Fudd (“the E-1 Tracer, a type of airplane used by the U.S. Navy”).
glosses: Ellipsis of Super Fudd or Superfudd (“the E-2 Hawkeye, a type of airplane used by the U.S. Navy”).
Related terms: Fudds
Fudds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fudd
Fudds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Fuddruckers, an American restaurant chain.
fudds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fudd
dried-fish woman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dried-fish women
Etymology: Calque of Japanese 干物女 (himono-onna).
Senses: qualifier: Asia
glosses: A woman, especially a young one, who lacks a significant other.
dysenterics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dysenteric
old golds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of old gold
butch queen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butch queens
form: butch-queen
Etymology: From butch + queen.
Senses: glosses: A gay male who is neither overtly masculine nor overtly feminine, but displays the mannerisms of both genders.
glosses: A masculine-looking drag queen.
butch queens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butch queen
kyathos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kyathoi
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κύαθος (kúathos, “ladle, ladle-like vase”). Doublet of cyathus.
Senses: glosses: A style of painted Greek vase with a single long flat looping handle resembling a ladle.
wikipedia: Black-figure pottery
Synonyms: cyathus
kyathoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kyathos
AAPI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AAPIs
form: AAPI
Senses: examples: text: The AAPI electorate has become more politically engaged in recent election cycles, and although it is not a voting bloc that has historically shown strong support for Trump, growing skepticism toward him could influence key battlegrounds in the 2026 midterms and beyond.
ref: 2025 July 27, Emma Marsden, “Donald Trump's Favorability Rating Falls With AAPI Adults”, in Newsweek:
glosses: Initialism of Asian American or Pacific Islander.
Related terms: AANHPI
APA
APIDA
reeligibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + eligibility.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being reeligible; eligibility to be or do something again.
berkut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: berkuts
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian бе́ркут (bérkut), itself a Turkic borrowing; ultimately from Proto-Turkic *bürküt.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of golden eagle.
synonyms: word: golden eagle
berkuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of berkut
memory cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of memory cell
dadship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dad + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: I then took on a little different form of dadship when I became the bonus dad of Carter and James.
ref: 2009, Stephen Arterburn, John Shore, Midlife Manual for Men: Finding Significance in the Second Half:
glosses: The role of being a dad; fatherhood
Related terms: dadhood
tubeteika
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tubeteikas
form: tyubeteyka
form: tubeteyka
form: tyubeteika
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian тюбете́йка (tjubetéjka), from Tatar түбәтәй (tübätäy).
Senses: glosses: A cap worn in Central Asia, typically by Turkic peoples.
tubeteikas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tubeteika
ijtihaad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ijtihaads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ijtihad.
ijtihaads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ijtihaad
Epictetan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Epictetan
form: most Epictetan
Senses: glosses: Relating to the Ancient Greek philosopher Epictetus.
relaunchings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relaunching
relauncher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relaunchers
Etymology: From relaunch + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who or that which relaunches.