cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
diorganopalladium
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Describing any organic compound containing two organic groups bonded to a palladium atom.
diorganosilicon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Describing any organic compound containing two organic groups bonded to a silicon atom.
diorganosiloxane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diorganosiloxanes
Senses: glosses: Any siloxane containing two organic groups.
epoxyorganosilicon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Describing any organosilicon compound that contains an epoxide molecule.
Thermaic Gulf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Thermaic Gulf
Etymology: From Therma, an ancient city where Thessaloniki is now.
Senses: synonyms: Thermaean Gulf
Gulf of Salonica
glosses: A gulf off the coast of Greece, an arm of the Aegean Sea.
wikipedia: Therma
crayfishy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crayfishy
form: most crayfishy
Etymology: From crayfish + -y.
Senses: examples: text: “I’ll see if I can find a helgramite,” Nicky said. “No fish can refuse that.” / Laner laughed. “It sounds tough.” / “It’s a small crayfishy-looking creature. You wouldn’t like it.”
ref: 1950, T[homas] Morris Longstreth, chapter 5, in Showdown, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, page 111:
text: The wind was advertising the river’s smell – damp, raw and crayfishy.
ref: 1970, C[yril] Everard Palmer, “Epilogue”, in The Sun Salutes You, London: Andre Deutsch, →ISBN, page 143:
text: We had insect life on Proxima, and pets too, but nothing like the writhing crayfishy half-snakes in there.
ref: 1986 May, Diane Carey, chapter 2, in Dreadnought! (A Star Trek® Novel; 29), New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 23:
text: Evil little crayfishy aliens inhabit teachers’ bodies at a run-down high school in this clever variation on the body-snatchers theme.
ref: 1999 January 7, Jane Horwitz, “[The Family Filmgoer: David vs. Goliath in court] ‘The Faculty’ (R, 1 hour, 42 minutes)”, in The Buffalo News, Buffalo, N.Y., page D-2, column 1:
text: Seafood you never heard of, like barramundi, shark lips, and Balmain bugs (not the designer, but a crayfishy crustacean) also is popular, since about 99 percent of the population lives on the coast.
ref: 2000 September 17, Karen Mamone, “cooking with attitude: Cake from Down Under”, in Northeast (Hartford Courant), Hartford, Conn., page 14:
text: I remember the crayfishy smell of the creek under the one-lane bridge, near where foxes ran: this was where I found, anchored by its shaft in the sandy mud of the creek bank, a red-tailed feather leaning in the breeze.
ref: 2005, Lisa Couturier, “Off Being God”, in The Hopes of Snakes and Other Tales from the Urban Landscape, Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, →ISBN, page 12:
text: [T]hey all sat down to a light, working luncheon of Pret A Manger and Evian. None of this was a problem – though he certainly favoured his normal pilchard over the crayfishy things that Angela had arranged.
ref: 2014, Mike Uden, “Dr Francis Taylor”, in Chemical Attraction, London: Thames River Press, →ISBN, page 74:
synonyms: crawfishy
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of crayfish.
inorganometallic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Describing any compound that contains a bond between a metal atom and an element other than carbon.
inorganometallic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inorganometallics
Senses: glosses: Any inorganometallic compound.
Wicksellian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Wicksellian
form: most Wicksellian
Etymology: From Wicksell + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Woodford […] labeled #92;tilder#95;t the Wicksellian real interest rate. [original emphasis deleted]
ref: 2018, Carl E. Walsh, Monetary Theory and Policy, 4th edition, MIT Press, page 337:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to Knut Wicksell (1851–1926), Swedish economist.
Derived terms: neo-Wicksellian
card of introduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Marius
There's a lady, sir, asking to see you.
Domin
A lady? Who is she?
Marius
I don't know, sir. She brings this card of introduction.
Domin
[Reads the card]: Ah, from President Glory. Ask her to come in.
ref: c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act 1:
synonyms: introductory card
glosses: A small printed card which introduces the bearer, identified by another person who recommends that bearer.
monoorganotin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monoorganotins
Senses: glosses: Any organotin compound where tin is bonded to an organic group
Sitia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Siteia
Etymology: From Medieval Latin Sitia, from Byzantine Greek Σητεία (Sēteía), probably from rebracketing of σε (se) + Ἠτεία (Ēteía), from Minoan.
Senses: glosses: A city in Crete, Greece.
upon my soul
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: My son writes me word that Mr. Vesey's family are angry with me for inserting some lines in the Legion Club touching him. Upon my soul, I never inserted one line in it; and upon the whole, I care not whether they believe me or not.
ref: 1736 June 3, Thomas Sheridan, letter to Jonathan Swift:
text: “Why then, upon my soul,” cries Benjamin, “it would require a great deal of art to keep you from being well after a very few dressings; and if you will suffer me to apply some salve of mine, I will answer for the success.” Jones gave his consent, and the plaister was applied accordingly.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
text: 'Now, upon my soul, you know,' said Mr Chuckster, shaking his head gravely, as men are wont to do when they consider things are going a little too far, 'this is altogether such a low-minded affair, that if I didn't feel for the governor, and know that he could never get on without me, I should be obliged to cut the connection.'
ref: 1841, Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop:
text: Oh, no, my dear, I ordered that six months ago, just to be on the safe side. But upon my soul, I was sure then that we'd be on board to-day.
ref: c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act 2:
glosses: Expressing astonishment or sincerity.
multifactors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] at least given certain constraints on the definitions of both a multifactor and a disorder caused by multifactors.
ref: 1991, Dante Cicchetti, Sheree L. Toth, Models and Integrations, page 127:
text: The situation of multifactors or components can occur in an allocation scenario using optimization.
ref: 2013, Waheed Uddin, W. Ronald Hudson, Ralph C. G. Haas, Public Infrastructure Asset Management, Second Edition, page 374:
qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: Multiple factors.
Platamon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: At Platamon, the train stops by a silver sandy beach, beneath a medieval castle.
ref: 1951 November, 'Pausanias', “To Greece by the "Simplon-Orient Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 731:
glosses: A town and seaside resort in Central Macedonia, Greece.
the devil takes care of his own
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of the devil looks after his own.
beating hearts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beating heart
Nampho
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nampo (“city in North Korea”).
Namp'o
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nampo (“city in North Korea”).
team sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: team sheets
Senses: examples: text: Guardiola's team sheet came as a surprise given City were facing dangerous top-four-chasing opposition in Villa under the shrewd stewardship of Unai Emery - especially as Haaland may have been in the mood to silence some detractors after unwarranted criticism of his performance in Sunday's goalless draw against Arsenal.
ref: 2024 April 3, Phil McNulty, “Man City 4-1 Aston Villa: Phil Foden produces 'masterclass' to show worth again”, in BBC:
glosses: Alternative form of teamsheet.
team sheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of team sheet
Nalvartes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Nalvarte
North Richland Hills
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: NRH
glosses: A city in Tarrant County, Texas, United States.
number 10
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: number 10s
Senses: examples: text: Instead, he was able to sit alongside De Bruyne on the City bench admiring a virtuoso performance from Foden, pulling every string in the number 10 role and illustrating again why he is so important to Guardiola, and why he simply must start for Gareth Southgate's England at Euro 2024.
ref: 2024 April 3, Phil McNulty, “Man City 4-1 Aston Villa: Phil Foden produces 'masterclass' to show worth again”, in BBC:
glosses: Alternative form of number ten.
NRH
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of North Richland Hills, A city in Texas.
NRH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of nodular regenerative hyperplasia.
number 10s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of number 10
give an inch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives an inch
form: giving an inch
form: gave an inch
form: given an inch
Senses: examples: text: De Bruyne and Haaland will return soon enough, especially with this Premier League title race threatening to go to the very last day as Arsenal and Liverpool refuse to give an inch.
ref: 2024 April 3, Phil McNulty, “Man City 4-1 Aston Villa: Phil Foden produces 'masterclass' to show worth again”, in BBC:
glosses: Synonym of budge an inch.
synonyms: word: budge an inch
Related terms: give them an inch and they'll take a mile
New Taibei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of New Taipei.
syuzhets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syuzhet
taars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taar
tack welds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tack weld
tack welds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tack weld
tachinomiyas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tachinomiya
takyés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of takyé
takīyahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of takīyah
Talas tuco-tucos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Talas tuco-tuco
North Port
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Sarasota County, Florida, United States.
buoyless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From buoy + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a buoy.
tall meadowrues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tall meadowrue
talk-pages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of talk-page
taliks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of talik
tambotrikas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tambotrika
tamaladas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tamalada
tallapois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tallapoi
tangzhuangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tangzhuang
tanshinoates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tanshinoate
tanshindiols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tanshindiol
Oak Lawn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Cook County, Illinois, United States.
tarlatons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tarlaton
Ocoee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Orange County, Florida, United States.
taterils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tateril
Norton Sound
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named by Captain James Cook after Sir Fletcher Norton, then Speaker of the British House of Commons.
Senses: glosses: An inlet of the Bering Sea on the western coast of the U.S. state of Alaska, south of the Seward Peninsula.
house-roofs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of house-roof
Oregon Country
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large region of the Pacific Northwest of North America that was subject to a long dispute between the United Kingdom and the United States in the early 19th century.
Orient Point
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The physical point at the end of the North Fork of Long Island, located in the hamlet of Orient, New York, United States.
Pelagie Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Pelagie Islands
Senses: glosses: The three small islands of Lampedusa, Lampione, and Linosa, located in the Mediterranean Sea between Malta and Tunisia, south of Sicily.
mesple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesples
Etymology: Ultimately from Dutch mispel (“medlar”), probably via Papiamentu.
Senses: qualifier: US Virgin Islands
glosses: The sapodilla (fruit).
San Germán
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A historic town and municipality in the Sabana Grande Valley of southwestern region of Puerto Rico.
Scoresby Sound
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large fjord system of the Greenland Sea on the eastern coast of Greenland.
Sennar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city on the Blue Nile in Sudan.
Sierra de Gredos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Sierra de Gredos
Senses: glosses: A mountain range in central Spain that spans the provinces of Ávila, Salamanca, Cáceres, Madrid, and Toledo.
Gruen transfer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Gruen transfer
Etymology: Named after Austrian-American architect Victor Gruen (1903–1980).
Senses: examples: text: The Gruen transfer (named after architect Victor Gruen) designates the moment when a ‘destination buyer’, with a specific purchase in mind, is transformed into an impulse shopper, a crucial point immediately visible in the shift from a determined stride to an erratic and meandering gait.
ref: 2017, Leonardo Zuccaro Marchi, quoting Margaret Crawford, The Heart of the City: Legacy and Complexity of a Modern Design Idea, Routledge, →ISBN:
synonyms: Gruen effect
glosses: The change that occurs when a consumer who has entered a shopping mall or store with a specific purchase in mind becomes susceptible to making impulse buys as a result of an intentionally confusing layout.
Tarim Pendi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Many of the Kunlun mountains lie on the northern border of the Plateau of the Tibetan Autonomous Region (Tibet). Although their average elevation is over 20,000 feet (6,100 m), these mountains seem much higher when viewed from the north. From the Tarim Pendi (Tarim Basin) in the north the mountains and the plateau are seen together. Because the basin is below sea level, the mountains seem even taller than they are.
ref: 1988, Trudy J. Hanmer, “Kunlun Shan”, in Living in the Mountains, Franklin Watts, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 46, column 1:
glosses: Synonym of Tarim Basin.
synonyms: word: Tarim Basin
Toubkal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A mountain in southwestern Morocco.
Virunga Mountains
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Virunga Mountains
Senses: glosses: A chain of volcanoes in East Africa, in the area where Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo meet.
HRUs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HRU
antickes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anticke
Arborios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Arborio
arborios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arborio
quasi-isomorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quasi-isomorphisms
Etymology: From quasi- + isomorphism.
Senses: synonyms: quism
qualifier: homological algebra
glosses: Which induces isomorphisms of the (co)homology groups.
raw_tags: of a (co)chain map
L-basing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: In Acroyoga, a position where one participant lies on their back while supporting the other's weight on their legs, creating an L shape with the body.
familying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Taking part in activities together as a family.
fopk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fopks
Senses: glosses: Deliberate misspelling of folk.
Related terms: english: folks
translation: folks
word: fopks
adder bead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adder beads
Senses: glosses: Synonym of adder stone.
synonyms: word: adder stone
adder beads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adder bead
yellowspike orchid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellowspike orchids
Etymology: From yellow + spike + orchid.
Senses: glosses: Any of about a hundred species of orchids in the genus Polystachya, which are found in many tropical areas.
adderbead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adderbeads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of adder bead.
backstall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backstalls
Senses: glosses: The stalling of a kite due to a too large angle of attack.
backstall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backstalls
form: backstalling
form: backstalled
form: backstalled
Senses: glosses: To stall in this manner.
backstalled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of backstall
backstalling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backstall
backstalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backstall
backstalls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of backstall
adderbeads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adderbead
balk line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balk lines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of baulk line.
baulkline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baulklines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of baulk line.
balk lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balk line
baulklines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baulkline
Leianokladi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lianokladi
Senses: glosses: A village in Lamia municipality, Phthiotis, Greece.
beestung
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bee + stung.
Senses: glosses: Of a person's lips: large and plump, often regarded as attractive on women.
banded hickory borer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banded hickory borers
Etymology: From banded + hickory + borer. "Banded" is from a partial calque of translingual Knulliana cincta (“banded Knulliana”).
Senses: glosses: A species of brown longhorn beetle (Knulliana cincta) with orange patterns, found in the southern United States, certain northern areas of Mexico, and the Bahamas.
bingings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of binging
bingeings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bingeing
boundary homomorphisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boundary homomorphism.
horrificness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From horrific + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Everything is absolutely still, air and water are stagnant. A large Dytiscus beetle rises to the surface to breathe and every now and then large bubbles of marsh gas come sailing majestically up from the depth and explode quietly into the fetid air. The horrificness of this place impressed me even when I was intent only on fishing there for bugs and efts. Now, seen in retrospect, it haunts me.
ref: 1919 March 31, W[ilhelm] N[ero] P[ilate] Barbellion [pseudonym; Bruce Frederick Cummings], “[[1915] May 27.] The Pool: A Retrospect”, in The Journal of a Disappointed Man, London: Chatto & Windus, published 27 April 1920 (5th impression), →OCLC, part II (In London), page 190:
text: I suppose the last thing someone in my nervous state needed was caffeine, but that didn’t stop me from hitting the ’Bucks with Madison and Paige before school the next morning for a soothing Chai latte. Something told me that was the only soothing I’d be having, at least until stolen-paper-culprit had been identified and the horrificness had been resolved.
ref: 2009 January 27, Micol Ostow, “Chock-full o’ OMG”, in GoldenGirl (A Bradford Novel), New York, N.Y.: Simon Pulse, →ISBN, page 136:
text: I lay there, momentarily shell-shocked as, hungover and jet-lagged, I tried to remember what I was doing today. Something important. Lurching bolt upright, the room spinning in all its lilac horrificness, I remembered Tioman, and the flight that was booked – the daily flight, the only flight.
ref: 2016, Rosie Blake, chapter 15, in How to Find Your (First) Husband, London: Corvus, →ISBN, page 129:
synonyms: horrificality
horrificity
glosses: The quality of being horrific.
Lianokladi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Leianokladi, Greece.
formal sum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: formal sums
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An expression which looks like a sum but where the symbol + has a purely symbolic role, in the sense that the summands cannot be meaningfully combined.
An element of a free abelian group or vector space regarded as a sum of basis elements.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An expression which looks like a sum but where the symbol + has a purely symbolic role, in the sense that the summands cannot be meaningfully combined.
A sum of an infinite sequence of numbers considered as an indeterminate object, in the sense of being subject to certain algebraic manipulations but not necessarily convergent.
raw_tags: of a series
formal sums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of formal sum
bird grasshopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bird grasshoppers
Etymology: From bird + grasshopper. They are called as such due to the size of these species, which, when flying, could be mistaken for a bird.
Senses: glosses: Any large grasshopper or locust in the genus Schistocerca.
Hyponyms: word: American grasshopper
taxonomic: Schistocerca americana
word: American bird grasshopper
taxonomic: Schistocerca lineata
word: birdwing grasshopper
taxonomic: Schistocerca damnifica
word: Carolina locust
taxonomic: Schistocerca piceifrons piceifrons
word: Central American locust
taxonomic: Schistocerca gregaria
word: desert locust
word: gray bird grasshopper
taxonomic: Schistocerca nitens
word: grey bird grasshopper
word: green bird grasshopper
taxonomic: Schistocerca shoshone
word: green valley grasshopper
taxonomic: Schistocerca melanocera
word: large painted locust
taxonomic: Schistocerca alutacea
word: leather-colored bird grasshopper
taxonomic: Schistocerca damnifica
word: mischievous bird grasshopper
taxonomic: Schistocerca obscura
word: obscure bird grasshopper
taxonomic: Schistocerca piceifrons peruviana
word: Peruvian locust
taxonomic: Schistocerca ceratiola
word: rosemary grasshopper
taxonomic: Schistocerca rubiginosa
word: rusty bird grasshopper
taxonomic: Schistocerca lineata
word: spotted bird grasshopper
taxonomic: Schistocerca nitens
word: vagrant grasshopper
taxonomic: Schistocerca albolineata
word: white-lined bird grasshopper
Boujailles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in Doubs department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
organoalkoxysilane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organoalkoxysilanes
Senses: glosses: Any organic derivative of alkoxysilane.
organic amine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organic amines
Senses: glosses: A compound containing an amine group bonded to at least one carbon atom.
organoamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organoamines
Senses: glosses: Synonym of organic amine.
synonyms: word: organic amine
organoammonium
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Describing any organic compound containing a carbon to ammonium bond.
neo-Ricardianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neo-Ricardian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Neo-Ricardian economics.
Bulloo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in south-west Queensland, Australia.
glosses: A local government area in south-west Queensland; in full, the Shire of Bulloo.
coconut wireless
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the coconut wireless
Senses: hypernyms: grapevine
coordinate_terms: bush telegraph
jungle telegraph
mukluk telegraph
glosses: The informal person-to-person circulation of information or gossip in Oceania.
organoapatite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organoapatites
Senses: glosses: Any organic derivative of apatite, used in artifical bone applications.
Tref Alaw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh tref; Alaw probably refers to the Afon Alaw, a river in the community.
Senses: glosses: A community (civil parish) in Anglesey, Wales.
wikipedia: Afon Alaw
organoaxial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the angle between the stomach and the general axis of the body.
'Bucks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bucks
Senses: examples: text: The restaurant next door to ’Bucks had more security than the Democratic National Convention. […] This was Java Lounge at ’Bucks; ’Bucks meaning Starbucks, the one in Ladera, an area filled with fast food joints, strip malls, and car dealerships; […]
ref: 2003 November, Eric Jerome Dickey, “Frankie”, in Naughty or Nice, New York, N.Y.: Dutton, →ISBN, page 37:
text: One youth pastor described it to me this way: “I wouldn’t go to the drycleaners because I have an iron at home. But my [senior] pastor would make a ton of Folgers at the office, but won’t go to Starbucks. . . but I would go to ‘Bucks for the environment.”
ref: 2007, Earl Creps, “Postmodern Pentecostals? Emerging Subcultures Among Young Pentecostal Leaders”, in Eric Patterson, Edmund Rybarczyk, editors, The Future of Pentecostalism in the United States, Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, a division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 30:
text: I suppose the last thing someone in my nervous state needed was caffeine, but that didn’t stop me from hitting the ’Bucks with Madison and Paige before school the next morning for a soothing Chai latte.
ref: 2009 January 27, Micol Ostow, “Chock-full o’ OMG”, in GoldenGirl (A Bradford Novel), New York, N.Y.: Simon Pulse, →ISBN, page 136:
text: There was ’bucks, the coffee-centered franchise intent on conquering the world.
ref: 2015, James Grady, “Next Day of the Condor”, in Last Days of the Condor, New York, N.Y.: Forge, Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, →ISBN, page 357:
text: When I enter the doors at ’Bucks this morning, my favorite barista Johnnie greets me with, “Hola, Mamá.”
ref: 2016, Gillian Alex, “Tuesday, May 15ᵗʰ”, in Tuesday at Three, →ISBN, page 79:
glosses: Clipping of Starbucks.
Jookraine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Jewkraine.
organocarbamate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organocarbamates
Senses: glosses: Any ester of carbamic acid.
organochloroaluminate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organochloroaluminates
Senses: glosses: Any organic derivative of chloroaluminate.
reach for the skies
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of reach for the sky.
reach for the skies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reaches for the skies
form: reaching for the skies
form: reached for the skies
form: reached for the skies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of reach for the sky.
you break it, you buy it
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: In perhaps history's greatest instance of “you break it, you buy it,” the wartime imperial government bought millions of gallons of unused vodka.
ref: 2010, Mark Lawrence Schrad, The Political Power of Bad Ideas: Networks, Institutions,, page 131:
text: Diplomats need to make it clear that we completely eschew the "you break it, you buy it” rule. In the future, we'll break it if others force us to.
ref: 2011, Anna Simmons, Joe McGraw, Duane Lauchengco, The Sovereignty Solution: A Common Sense Approach to Global Security, page 140:
glosses: If you damage, harm or destroy something, you are responsible for repairing it or accepting the consequences.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see break, buy.
Related terms: Pottery Barn rule
organocupric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to organocuprate.
Gouldian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or referring to Gould.
Derived terms: Gouldian finch
organocyclotriphosphazene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organocyclotriphosphazenes
Senses: glosses: Any organic derivative of cyclotriphosphazene, used as an antimicrobial or an anticancer agent.
Kousséri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Far North Province, Cameroon.
polylineality
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From polylineal + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Despite the fact that many family lines contribute to the continuance of a lineage by means of marriages across time, any attempt to base a reckoning of descent upon a principle of polylineality would inevitably destroy the human lineage and throw the structure of society into a confusion by utterly obscuring the essential distinctions between the various lineages of which society is composed.
glosses: The quality of having or being composed of many lines.
rubbing oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubbing oils
Senses: glosses: A type of petroleum oil of low viscosity used either with or without an abrasive to polish dried surfaces.
glosses: A type of nonviscous oil used for polishing wood furniture.
rubbing oils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rubbing oil
if you see something, say something
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: see something, say something
Senses: glosses: If one witnesses suspicious activity, misconduct, corrupt dealings, or the like, one should report it to the relevant authority.
rock-oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rock-oils
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rock oil.
rock-oils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rock-oil
hook-and-loop fastener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hook-and-loop fasteners
form: hook and loop fastener
Senses: examples: text: Closure for the envelope strap is provided by the new hook and loop fastener, “Velcro,” which does the work of buckles or laces.
ref: 1959 January 15, Boot and Shoe Recorder 1959-01-15: Vol 155 Iss 4:
glosses: Synonym of Velcro (“a fastener consisting of two strips of fabric, one covered with miniature fiber hooks and the other with tiny fiber loops, which stick strongly together but can still be pulled apart.”).
synonyms: word: Velcro
extra: (“a fastener consisting of two strips of fabric, one covered with miniature fiber hooks and the other with tiny fiber loops, which stick strongly together but can still be pulled apart.”).
hook-and-loop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hook-and-loops
form: hooks-and-loops
form: hook and loop
Etymology: Clipping of hook-and-loop fastener.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Velcro (“a fastener consisting of two strips of fabric, one covered with miniature fiber hooks and the other with tiny fiber loops, which stick strongly together but can still be pulled apart.”).
synonyms: word: Velcro
extra: (“a fastener consisting of two strips of fabric, one covered with miniature fiber hooks and the other with tiny fiber loops, which stick strongly together but can still be pulled apart.”).
Related terms: hook and eye
authoritarian democracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: authoritarian democracies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of protected democracy.
synonyms: word: protected democracy
dictatorship of democracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dictatorships of democracy
Senses: glosses: Synonym of protected democracy.
synonyms: word: protected democracy
limited democracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limited democracies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of protected democracy.
synonyms: word: protected democracy
dictatorships of democracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dictatorship of democracy
authoritarian democracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of authoritarian democracy
limited democracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of limited democracy
reaches for the stars
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reach for the stars
reaching for the stars
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of reach for the stars
reached for the stars
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reach for the stars
expensiver
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of expensive: more expensive
expensivest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of expensive: most expensive
Hoyan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Oneida Hoyá:n, meaning "one more" or "again".
Senses: examples: text: He said people in the community have been celebrating Hoyan, unique to Oneida, since the mid-1800s to mark the start of a new year.
ref: 2018 December 31, “Oneida welcomes a new year with doughnut tradition”, in CBC News:
glosses: A New Year's Day tradition among the Oneida people in which children go door-to-door and ask for donuts or other treats.
Related terms: trick-or-treating
Shobrooke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Mid Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS8601).
Gruen effect
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Gruen effect
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Gruen transfer.
synonyms: word: Gruen transfer
DESI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: While combining data sets is tricky, and these are early results from DESI, the possible evidence that dark energy is not constant is the best news I have heard since cosmic acceleration was firmly established 20-plus years ago.
ref: 2024 April 4, Dennis Overbye, quoting Michael Turner, “A Tantalizing ‘Hint’ That Astronomers Got Dark Energy All Wrong”, in Thew New York Times:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Acronym of Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument.
hook-and-pile fastener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hook-and-pile fasteners
form: hook and pile fastener
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Velcro (“a fastener consisting of two strips of fabric, one covered with miniature fiber hooks and the other with tiny fiber loops, which stick strongly together but can still be pulled apart.”).
synonyms: word: Velcro
extra: (“a fastener consisting of two strips of fabric, one covered with miniature fiber hooks and the other with tiny fiber loops, which stick strongly together but can still be pulled apart.”).
waterstep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watersteps
Etymology: From water + step.
Senses: examples: text: They nodded at each other, he himself still walking past the door without pausing, already past in fact and straddling the waterstep out on to the stern of the ship, the cool off-shore wind in his face, before the slow-remembered image of the clock-face on the bulkhead behind Dutchie fixed itself in his mind.
ref: 1958, Robin Hiscock, The Killer Wind, page 7:
text: Once, they'd opened onto a waterstep above one of the nameless little canals that cut through the Flats; now the canal came right into the room.
ref: 2011, Felix R. Savage, Mercy:
text: One had jumped onto a submerged waterstep and was tying up the skiff.
ref: 2018, Pauline Gedge, The Oasis:
glosses: A step that goes down to a body of water.
watersteps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waterstep
LCDM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “L.C.D.M. is being put through its paces by precision tests coming at it from every direction,” Dr. Turner said.
ref: 2024 April 4, Dennis Overbye, quoting Michael Turner, “A Tantalizing ‘Hint’ That Astronomers Got Dark Energy All Wrong”, in Thew New York Times:
topics: astrophysics
related: word: ΛCDM
glosses: Short for lambda cold dark matter (model)
UDSM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: Tanzania
glosses: Initialism of University of Dar es Salaam.
lockscreen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lockscreens
Senses: examples: text: She picked up her phone and stared at the lockscreen.
ref: 2022, Yara Rodrigues Fowler, there are more things, Abacus (2023), page 195:
glosses: Alternative form of lock screen.
lockscreens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lockscreen
dillbrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dillbrains
Etymology: From dill + brain.
Senses: glosses: A fool.
dillbrains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dillbrain
fishhooked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fishhook
fishhooking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fishhook
gunpowdering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gunpowder
gunpowdered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gunpowder
ngangkaris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ngangkari
breakfall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹeɪkˌfɔl/
Forms: form: breakfalls
Etymology: From break + fall.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A technique to minimize impact and injury when falling or being thrown to the ground.
breakfalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breakfall
EClaire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈklɛə/
ipa: /eɪ-/
ipa: /ɪˈklɛɹ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Etymology: Blend of Ethan + Claire.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ship of Ethan Rom and Claire Littleton from the 2004 television series Lost.
organoelement
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Describing any organic compound that is bonded to a different element.
organoelemental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of organoelement.
retroshade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From retro- + shade.
Senses: examples: text: Retroshade is going to increase the chances of a travel mishap, so just get ahead of the chances and protect yourself.
ref: 2017 December 19, Kaitlyn Wylde, “Mercury Retroshade Can Seriously Mess Up Holiday Plans — Here's How to Prepare”, in Bustle, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2020:
text: Retroshade is considered by astrologers (such as myself) to be the worst part of Mercury Retrograde. The pre-Retrograde starts slowing down the communicative planet and begins to make us all see situations with unclear thoughts.
ref: 2019 November 20, Lisa Stardust, “Yeah, Mercury Retrograde Is Over—but Have You Heard of *Retroshade*?”, in Cosmopolitan, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Nov 2023:
text: Technically speaking, retroshade refers to a planet's "retrograde shadow period," which occurs both before and after the retrograde itself. It's when the planet slows down as it prepares to enter retrograde and speeds up as it leaves its backward motion behind. […]
ref: [2023 January 11, Aliza Kelly, “When Mercury Retrograde Ends, Mercury Retroshade Begins”, in The Cut, archived from the original on 09 Aug 2023:
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A transitional period, occurring immediately before and after retrograde, during which a planet moves across the same part of the sky twice.
go down south
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes down south
form: going down south
form: went down south
form: gone down south
Senses: examples: text: Now be a doll and go down south on me before the part of me that's still hanging starts to turn blue.
ref: 2007, Peter Joseph Swanson, Hollywood Sinners, Danville, C.A.: StoneGarden.net Publishing, →ISBN, page 29:
text: B-b-billionaire niggas wanna eat me out / Bitch, I'm from the west coast, they wanna go down south
ref: 2020 June 17, “Tap In” (0:51 from the start), in Pretty Bitch Music, performed by Saweetie:
synonyms: go downtown
glosses: To perform oral sex.
goes down south
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go down south
going down south
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go down south
went down south
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go down south
gone down south
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go down south
put the clocks back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts the clocks back
form: putting the clocks back
form: put the clocks back
form: put the clocks back
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of put the clock back.
gymgasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gymgasms
Etymology: From gym + -gasm.
Senses: examples: text: Doesn't this news totally make you want to run to the gym to get your rocks off while burning some calories just because we fucking can? I mean, I kind of want to join a gym just to have a few gymgasms and brag about it.
ref: 2018 February 7, Katie Bingham-Smith, “Women Are Having Exercise-Induced Orgasms, And We Are Intrigued”, in Scary Mommy, archived from the original on 29 Jan 2023:
text: Over on TikTok, people have been sharing their experiences of arse-clenching and overwhelming orgasms at the gym. Known as a coregasm or a gymgasm, these are exercise-induced climaxes — and they aren't sexual.
ref: [2022 December 20, Maggie Zhou, “Your Next Orgasm Could Be At… The Gym?”, in Refinery29, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2024:
text: Some people might be more prone to gymgasms than others—the stats alone will tell you that—but according to Dr. Jeffcoat, that might not necessarily be a good thing.
ref: 2022 December 22, Megan Schaltegger, “Hello, Gymgasms Are a Thing and You Should Absolutely Learn to Make Them Happen for Yourself”, in Cosmopolitan, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2024:
text: In fact, in some cases, sweating it out at the gym can *literally* lead to an O. Ever heard of a gymgasm? Now you have 😏.
ref: 2023 October 17, Gigi Engle, “Hi, QQ: Why Am I Always So Horny?”, in Cosmopolitan, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Mar 2024:
synonyms: coregasm
glosses: An orgasm (in women) induced by intensive exercise.
crow-black
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:crow-black.
glosses: Jet-black, raven, as black as the feathers of a crow.
gymgasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gymgasm
organofunctionality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organofunctionalities
Senses: glosses: The condition of being organofunctional.
organogelation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of forming organogels.
organogenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of organogenic.
synonyms: word: organogenic
Spanish lynx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Spanish lynxes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Iberian lynx.
synonyms: word: Iberian lynx
Spanish lynxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Spanish lynx
organoheteroatom
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Describing any organic compound which is not carbon or hydrogen.
miaow miaow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of meow (“the drug mephedrone”).
grindage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From grind + -age.
Senses: examples: text: "I thought we could scarf some grindage at the Blue Moon," she suggested, nervously smoothing out her skirt.
ref: 2012, J. J. Massa, The Montgomery Family Chronicles, Book 4: Family Matters, page 102:
glosses: Food.
examples: text: There's plenty of punishing grindage on the Brooklyn quartet's fifth album, The Coma Imprint.
ref: 2002, SPIN, volume 18, number 8, page 110:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The grindcore style of music.
Andrew Millers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Andrew Miller
Andrew Millar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: Alternative form of Andrew Miller (“the navy”).
organophilicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being organophilic.
organophilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: organophilizes
form: organophilizing
form: organophilized
form: organophilized
Senses: glosses: To make organophilic.
awkward turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: awkward turtles
Etymology: From the resemblance to a turtle. The gesture seems to have been borrowed from Auslan sign language.
Senses: glosses: An informal gesture used to indicate that a moment or situation is awkward.
awkward turtles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of awkward turtle
organophilized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of organophilize
organophilizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of organophilize
organophilizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of organophilize
phosphite ester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphite esters
Senses: glosses: An organophosphorous compound with the formula P(OR)₃.
organophosphite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organophosphites
Senses: glosses: Synonym of phosphite ester.
synonyms: word: phosphite ester
magic dust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The drug PCP.
magic mist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The drug phencyclidine.
blueberrita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blueberritas
Etymology: Blend of blueberry + margarita
Senses: coordinate_terms: raspberrita
glosses: A margarita cocktail made with blueberry.
blueberritas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blueberrita
mallie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mallies
Etymology: From mall + -ie.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of mall rat.
synonyms: word: mall rat
mallie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mallies
Senses: glosses: The northern fulmar.
mallies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mallie