cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
syntacticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From syntactic + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An approach that focuses on syntax.
Related terms: syntacticist
botherance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɒðəɹəns/
Forms: form: botherances
Etymology: From bother + -ance.
Senses: glosses: Something that bothers; bother, annoyance, nuisance
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Distracting chatter on a radio link shared by emergency services, relating to ongoing situations other than what one is dealing with.
botherances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of botherance
Ripon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A cathedral city and civil parish with a city council in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Harrogate borough (OS grid ref SE3171).
glosses: A municipality in Papineau Regional County Municipality, Outaouais region, Quebec, Canada.
glosses: A city in San Joaquin County, California, United States.
glosses: A city and town in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, United States.
Newry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnjʊəɹi/
Etymology: From Irish an iúraigh, the genitive or archaic dative of iúrach (“object made of yew wood”).
Senses: glosses: A city in County Armagh and County Down, Northern Ireland.
Armagh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑɹˈmɑː/
ipa: /ɑːˈmɑː/
ipa: /aːɹˈmaː/
Etymology: From Irish Ard Mhacha (literally “height of Macha”).
Senses: glosses: A city in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, which is the county town.
examples: text: The overkingdom of Airgialla comprising Armagh, Monaghan, parts of Louth, Fermanagh, and Tyrone, had ceased to be when the Book of Rights was compiled.
ref: 1922, John Ryan, Ireland from A.D. 800 to A.D. 1600, Browne and Nolan, page 282:
glosses: One of the six traditional counties in Northern Ireland.
hydroelectric power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Power made by the force of water pushing agent a turbine to make a special form of kinetic energy
Xember
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: December being the tenth month under the old style calendar used until 1752 and decem meaning ten in Latin, Ⅹ is the Roman numeral for ten.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of December.
unaborting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unabort
sacculo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: sacculus
vernacular dances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vernacular dance
encs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enc
Delmonico potatoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Originated by Delmonico's restaurant in New York City, as an accompaniment to Delmonico steak.
Senses: glosses: A dish of mashed potato topped with grated cheese and buttered breadcrumbs, then baked until golden brown and served steaming.
block grant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: block grants
Senses: glosses: A large sum of money granted by national government to a regional government (or by a university to a students' union, etc.) with only general provisions as to the way it is to be spent.
block grants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of block grant
conjectureth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: conjecture + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of conjecture
wedding days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wedding day
indured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of indure
induring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of indure
ferroborons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ferroboron
instanceth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: instance + -eth
Senses: examples: text: Jacchinus […] instanceth in a patient of his, that married a young wife in a hot summer, “and so dried himself with chamber-work, that he became in short space, from melancholy, mad”: he cured him by moistening remedies.
ref: , vol.I, New York, 2001, p.235
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of instance
zinc sulphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zinc sulfate
Senses: synonyms: white vitriol
salt of vitriol
glosses: an inorganic compound with the chemical formula ZnSO₄.
appropinquations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appropinquation
game day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: game days
Senses: examples: text: I loved the whole ritual of game day; putting on my uniform, driving to the field, doing our warm-ups, hearing the crowd cheer and my name called, and taking my place at shortstop.
ref: 2001, Derek Jeter, Game Day, →ISBN, page 13:
text: Game days are what you work for, what you live for as an athlete.
ref: 2012, Thomas Nelson, Inspired Faith: 365 Days a Year: Daily Motivation in God's Word, →ISBN:
text: There's a tendency to think professional athletes get graded only on game day. In reality, they're graded every day in practice.
ref: 2014, Mark Verstegen, Peter Williams, Every Day Is Game Day, →ISBN:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The day of a competition, as opposed to practice games.
examples: text: This brings us at last to game day. You are going to speak. You are prepared to speak, but you still have some work to do before, during, and right after your presentation.
ref: 2006, Gary Gagliardi, Making Money by Speaking, →ISBN:
text: Thanks to my wonderful team at Brigham and Women's and the awesome folks at the Pulmonary Rehab Department at Concord Hospital, Concord, New Hampshire, as the “game day” approached; it actually looked like I could make it.
ref: 2011, Stephen Knipstein, Taking Flight: Inspirational Stories of Lung Transplantation - More Journeys:
text: Every day is game day when you're running for president. Every hand shaken, baby kissed, event attended and door knocked is a chance to influence a vote and change the fate of your campaign.
ref: 2016 August 5, Michael Bassik, “Make Marketing Great Again: 3 Lessons from the Campaign Trail”, in Entrepreneur:
text: This is the first big area that will be hit and conditions will arrive in just a few hours. This is game day. This is going to hit.
ref: 2016 October 6, Doug Ohlemeier, “Florida growers, PMA preparing for Hurricane Matthew”, in The Packer:
glosses: The day when something important is scheduled to happen.
game days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of game day
fo'c's'les
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfoʊk.səlz/
Senses: glosses: plural of fo'c's'le
fo'c'sles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfoʊk.səlz/
Senses: glosses: plural of fo'c'sle
quadrille papers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadrille paper
masonry cements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of masonry cement
firecalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firecall
piggies in the middle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piggy in the middle
giftful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more giftful
form: most giftful
Etymology: From gift + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Then bring thy gifts; it is a giftful time: […]
ref: 1862, Samuel William Partridge, Our English Months:
glosses: Relating to gifts or gift-giving
examples: text: "He was quick in body and in mind, but was affectionate, fervent and faithful; he was gracious and giftful, a good man and a good preacher. […]"
ref: 1923, Patrick H. Drewry, The Story of a Church:
text: It indicates that we find our personal existence from among an inter-relatedness; and it thereby signifies a giftful quality of Being as permeating our humanness.
ref: 1981, Studies in Formative Spirituality - Volume 2:
text: Gerald Heard, historian-philosopher, put the idea this way: The human being depends as much upon giftful employment as upon gainful employment.
ref: 1984, Earth Shelter Living - Issues 31-36:
text: "Nileside," the porter says with a giftful gesture, as though offering us the fruits of paradise."
ref: 2003, Margaret Laurence, Nora Foster Stovel, Heart of a Stranger:
glosses: Characterised by giving or generosity; generous; charitable
Derived terms: giftfully
giftfulness
Related terms: giftless
giftfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From giftful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being giftful
gift-giving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gift + giving.
Senses: glosses: The act or practice of giving gifts.
arabiki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arabikis
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 粗挽き (arabiki, “coarsely-ground”).
Senses: examples: text: Outlook: Ham and sausage prices raised 12%. Gift products brisk and expanding sales of "Arabiki" sausages, pizzas, and chicken precooked dishes from Fall '90.
ref: 1990, “Foods”, in Japan Company Handbook, number 55, page 179:
text: What's Arabiki? One answer would be, an onomatopoeic word for the sound these little sausages make when you bite into them. They have a very distinct snap and crunch to them. The other answer is, a delicious, Japanese style, finger sized, smoky pork sausage.
ref: 2008 December 1, “Arabiki”, in Kitchen Forager:
text: Note: if there such exist a kurobota sausage recipe or arabiki sausage recipe somewhere in the net, I apologize for not looking hard enough.
ref: 2014 September 20, ODDCOOK, “Sausage (Arabiki)”, in theoddcook:
glosses: A sausage made from coarsely ground pork or other meats; a Japanese-style sausage.
condoleth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: condole + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of condole
NCIT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: North Coast Inland Trail.
areopagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After the Areopagus.
Senses: examples: text: And herein though Socrates onely ſuffered, yet were Plato and Ariſtotle guilty of the ſame truth, who demonſtratively underſtanding the ſimplicity of perfection, and the indiviſible condition of the firſt cauſator, it was not in the power of earth, or Areopagy of hell to work them from it.
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, “Of the Last and Common Promoter of False Opinions, the Endeavours of Satan”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 39:
text: Conſcience only, that can ſee without Light, ſits in the Areopagy and dark Tribunal of our Hearts, ſurveying our Thoughts and condemning their obliquities[…]
ref: c. 1670s (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “(please specify the section)”, in John Jeffery, editor, Christian Morals, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] [A]t the University-Press, for Cornelius Crownfield printer to the University; and are to be sold by Mr. Knapton […]; and Mr. [John] Morphew […], published 1716, →OCLC, part III, page 101:
glosses: secret tribunal, conclave
acceptilate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: acceptilates
form: acceptilating
form: acceptilated
form: acceptilated
Etymology: Back formation from acceptilation
Senses: glosses: To discharge a (claim) by acceptilation
rum baba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rum babas
Senses: glosses: Synonym of baba au rhum.
synonyms: word: baba au rhum
rum babas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rum baba
hamron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hamrons
Etymology: From Middle English hameron.
Senses: glosses: The hold of a ship.
come a gutser
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes a gutser
form: coming a gutser
form: came a gutser
form: come a gutser
Etymology: From falling on ones gut, or belly.
Senses: examples: text: Slippery as a butcher's apron it is, and I comes a gutser twice before I gets down to the stag.
ref: 1964, Ron Helmer, Stag Party, page 82:
text: You took off up Main Street past the church, jumped the gutter, two cars and a four-foot fence, and finally come a gutser in the gully below the cop station.
ref: 2001, Anita Bell, Crystal Coffin, →ISBN, page 33:
text: “Come off it, skipper. There's nobody to miss us if this scow comes a gutser. We're expendable, even more so than the average Rim Runner officer. And that's saying plenty.”
ref: 2012, A. Bertram Chandler, Ride the Star Winds, →ISBN:
text: Until he tripped again and came a gutser. This time he stayed down.
ref: 2013, Glyn Parry, Sad Boys, →ISBN:
glosses: To do a belly flop; to fall flat on one's face.
examples: text: Ole Fritz keeps on tryin' ter feel our possies at night with small patrols, an' they tried ter raid us two nights ago, but came a gutser, 'coz we hopped out an' met 'em, an' they put their 'ands up.
ref: 1919, C. Hampton Thorp, A Handful of Ausseys, page 288:
text: The Government has come a gutser there, and it will come a gutser in the health area when it tries to put the user-pays principle in operation.
ref: 1982, New Zealand Parliament House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates - Volume 443, page 439:
text: Well, where you all come a gutser is, over here, we think we're born to rule YOU.
ref: 2011, Alan Ramsay, A Matter of Opinion, →ISBN, page 90:
text: Unless we come a gutser, we won't get near them.
ref: 2016, Art Collins, In The Outback, →ISBN:
glosses: To fail miserably; to make a huge mistake; to fall flat on one's face.
Related terms: come a cropper
come a smeller
comes a gutser
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of come a gutser
acceptilates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of acceptilate
acceptilating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of acceptilate
acceptilated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of acceptilate
virginity pledge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: virginity pledges
Senses: glosses: A pledge, made by a young adult, to refrain from sexual intercourse until marriage.
Synonyms: purity pledge
purity pledge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purity pledges
Senses: glosses: Synonym of virginity pledge.
synonyms: word: virginity pledge
Gepid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gepids
form: Gepidae
Etymology: From Latin Gepidae.
Senses: examples: text: A standing army was unknown under the first and second race; more than half the kingdom was now in the hands of the Saracens: according to their respective situation, the Franks of Neustria and Austrasia were to conscious or too careless of the impending danger; and the voluntary aids of the Gepidæ and Germans were separated by a long interval from the standard of the Christian general.
ref: 1788, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume V:
text: The Gepidae, seeing that the king's son was killed, through whom in great part the war had been set on foot, at once, in their discouragement, start to flee.
ref: 1906, Diaconus Paulus, translated by William Dudley Foulke, History of the Langobards, translation of original in Early Medieval Latin, page 42:
text: Two consecutive letters hi the Varioe are concerned with a "multitude" of Gepids whom Theodoric has taken under his wing and is sending across northern Italy to Gaul, where they will serve in some sort of military capacity.
ref: 1989, Walter Goffart, Rome's Fall and After, page 178:
glosses: A member of an East Germanic people related to the Goths.
Gepids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gepid
apoptosing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of apoptose
apoptosed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of apoptose
zinc sulfate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zinc sulphate.
Morrisite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Morrisites
Etymology: From Morris + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A follower of Joseph Morris, the English-born American leader of a schismatic Mormon movement called Church of the Firstborn that expected an imminent Second Coming.
topics: government
politics
glosses: A follower of Lewis Morris, an American revolutionary and Federalist politician.
topics: government
politics
glosses: A follower of William Morris, a British anarchist socialist and Romantic artist associated with the Arts and Crafts movement.
Morrisite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Morris + -ite.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to Joseph Morris, his followers and their beliefs.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Pertaining to Lewis Morris, his followers and their beliefs.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Pertaining to William Morris, his followers and their beliefs.
Morrisites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Morrisite
univerbalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: univerbalisms
Etymology: From uni- + verbalism.
Senses: examples: text: Even the reduction of periodical names to this bare univerbalism, however, does not mean that the fundamental principles of poetics have been abandoned.
ref: 1967, Roman Jakobson, To honor Roman Jakobson: Essays on the occasion of his seventieth birthday:
text: Colloquial speech typically exhibits a tendency towards brevity, many short or shortened expressions are used as a result of univerbalism (final exams > finals, high school > high, oral exams > orals, etc.), clipping (comfortable > comfy, spectacles > specs, pyjamas > jams, etc.) and acronyms (e.g. I’ve got a new CD. Send me an SMS. She’s a WASP. Let me know ASAP.).
ref: 2015, Gabriela Missikova, Linguistic Stylistics:
text: Since 2007 the Center of the Creative Development of the Russian Language has chosen every year the Word of the Year. Since 2009 so-called netologisms have also been chosen -- new words about the internet (2009 guglik 'unit of measurement for the publicity of the internet', 2010 lybik (←ulybat'sja 'to smile' for the Russian anglicism smajlik 'smiley'), and since 2010 the most original newly created univerbalism has been chosen (by the people in 2010 sderbank 'a bank that gains, pulls out/Russ. drat's kogo 'to pull out, to cheat'/ much money'; by the experts tandemagogija 'demagogy of the tandem', i.e. Medvedev and Putin).
ref: 2015, Word-Formation: An International Handbook of the Languages of Europe, →ISBN:
glosses: A protologism that provides a shorter way of saying something.
FXML
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: file format
glosses: An XML-based user interface markup language used to define the user interface of a JavaFX application.
LST
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LSTs
Senses: examples: text: ‘And the last we heard of my brother Frank, he was wanted by the Florida police, the F.B.I., and the Treasury Department for running stolen cars to Cuba on war-surplus L.S.T.'s.’
ref: 1963, Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle, Penguin, published 2008, page 13:
glosses: Initialism of landing ship, tank.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
qualifier: navigation
glosses: Initialism of Local Sidereal Time.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
qualifier: navigation
glosses: Initialism of Local Standard Time.
Hyponyms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
sense: navigation
english: Local Mean Sidereal Time
translation: Local Mean Sidereal Time
word: LMST
Euro-metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eurometal
Etymology: From Euro- + metal.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Relatively melodic European metal music, in particular used of European power metal.
Eurometal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 2004, November 8, Molley Case, interviewed in "Final Say", CMJ Alert, issue 889, page 23.
My significant others don't understand why I want to make love while listening to the masters of the Eurometal scene sing about dragons and evil games.
glosses: Alternative form of Euro-metal.
landing ship, tank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landing ships, tank
form: landing ship tank
Senses: examples: text: The ‘landing-ship, tank’ […] had first been conceived and developed in Britain in 1940.
ref: 1952, Winston Churchill, The Second World War, volume 2:
synonyms: LST
glosses: The naval designation for a type of landing ship used during the Second World War to carry tanks, cargo, and to land troops.
Related terms: sense: roll-on roll-off
word: RORO
LSTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LST
bee purple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bee purples
Senses: examples: text: Karl von Frisch discovered that honey bees can see six colors—blue, blue-green, yellow, bee purple, ultraviolet, and bee violet.
ref: 2010, Martha Scott, Honey Bee, Where Are You?:
glosses: A color that is a mixture of ultraviolet light and yellow light (the two extremes of the visual spectrum of the bee, analogous to the way purple for humans is a mixture of red and violet, the two extremes of the human visual spectrum).
Related terms: bee violet
Firem'n Chit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Firem'n Chits
Senses: qualifier: scouting
glosses: An award in the Boy Scouts of America which confers the rights to start, tend and use campfires.
Firem'n Chits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Firem'n Chit
Pedernales
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɝdɪˈnælɪs/
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish pedernales (“flints”).
Senses: glosses: A river in central Texas, United States.
Gepidae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin Gepidae, from Gothic *𐌲𐌹𐌱𐌹𐌳𐍉𐍃 (*gibidōs), from Proto-Germanic *gibidōz (which see for more).
Senses: glosses: The Gepids, an East Germanic people.
fog collector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fog collectors
Etymology: Derived from fog collection.
Senses: glosses: A canvas or any other device used to collect water particles from fog.
cleanth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɛnθ/
rhymes: -ɛnθ
Etymology: From clean + -th (abstract nominal suffix), modelled after filth, health, wealth, etc.
Senses: examples: text: "Cleanth and fresh air — that's what I believe in. Throw open the doors and the windows. Let's have some fresh air in here."
ref: 1924, Sherwood Anderson, A Story Teller's Story:
text: The Victorians didn't place the highest of priorities on cleanth, and Kingsley played no small part in proselytizing the cause of cleanliness as being part of the godliness business.
ref: 1983, Max Harris, The Unknown Great Australian and Other Psychobiographical Portraits:
text: 'Purity' and 'pollution', the results of 'good' and 'bad' practice respectively, connote spiritual cleanliness and uncleanliness as well as literal 'cleanth' and filth.
ref: 2001, Susannah Hagan, Taking Shape: A New Contract Between Architecture and Nature:
glosses: The condition or state of being clean; cleanliness
Ancient Egyptian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Egyptian
glosses: the Afroasiatic language spoken and written in Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egyptian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ancient Egyptians
Senses: examples: text: This discussion of Egypt’s African dimension does not include consideration as to whether Ancient Egyptians were “black” or, to be more accurate, African in their genetic composition.
ref: 2003, David O’Connor, Andrew Reid, “Introduction – Locating Ancient Egypt in Africa: Modern Theories, Past Realities”, in Ancient Egypt in Africa (Encounters with Ancient Egypt), UCL Press, →ISBN, page 11:
text: Apparently, when Ancient Egyptians went to receive an oracle from a god, the priests often animated the god’s statue to add extra weight to their words.
ref: 2014, John Farndon, Do You Still Think You’re Clever?, Icon Books, →ISBN:
text: The idea of archaic or lost ritual hovers around Horii (1986) from the start, its title and imagery suggestive of Egyptian mythology, but also a kind of ur-mythology beyond that, which the music stands for, as if Ancient Egyptians had had a premonition of Organum’s direct access to the lost well-spring of their beliefs.
ref: 2021, Paul Hegarty, Annihilating Noise, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Ancient Egypt.
Ancient Egyptian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Consider the plan of the house at Deir el-Medina, information about El-Amarna and the picture. Is the model an accurate version of an Ancient Egyptian house?
ref: 1993, Ancient Egypt, Folens, →ISBN, page 4:
text: M. Villoteau, the French musician who accompanied Napoleon Bonaparte to Egypt over 200 years ago, described Ancient Egyptian instruments (tambouras) with 25 frets, which are capable of producing ¼ tones.
ref: 2000, Moustafa Gadalla, Egyptian Harmony: The Visual Music, Tehuti Research Foundation, published 2003, →ISBN, page 30:
text: The newspapers were bursting with claims of wondrous finds; how the evidence from the dead queen’s tomb would forever change how the Ancient Egyptian religions were viewed.
ref: 2016, George Mann, Ghosts of Karnak, Titan Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Of or relating to Ancient Egypt.
dumsor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Akan dum (“to extinguish, to quench”) + sɔ (“to turn on, light”).
Senses: examples: text: The end of ‘dumsor’ comes just at the end of the timeline that the Minister of Power, Mr Kwabena Donkor, gave that he would resign if the load shedding did not end. In March this year, Dr Donkor obligated himself to end dumsor by the end of December 2015.
ref: 2015 December 30, Musah Yahaya Jafaru, “Dumsor ends”, in Graphic Online:
qualifier: Ghana
glosses: blackout, load shedding, particularly when occurring frequently but in no discernible regular pattern.
netizenry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈnɛtɪzənɹi/
Etymology: From netizen + -ry, by analogy to citizenry (from citizen).
Senses: examples: text: By way of contrast to the technologically hip — and to date, politically impotent — netizenry, Chapman cites the Christian Coalition.
ref: 1997, Edwin Diamond, Robert A. Silverman, White House to Your House: Media and Politics in Virtual America, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 165:
text: In an extension of this argument, still others argue that hypermedia both inspire and unite a burgeoning global netizenry.
ref: 2005, Daniel Robert DeChaine, Global Humanitarianism: NGOs and the Crafting of Community, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 126:
text: On the Internet, anonymous netizenry routinely call Asian women hos, sluts, and ...
ref: 2012, Geraldine Pratt, The Global and the Intimate: Feminism in Our Time, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 235:
text: Certainly the low level nongovernmental organization (NGO) activity that has been going on quietly in Shenzhen for some time has been greatly enhanced by the online movement of a remarkably active netizenry in China.
ref: 2013, C. Berry, J. Harbord, R. Moore, Public Space, Media Space, Springer, →ISBN, page 25:
text: Hostility to foreigners extends well beyond the anonymous netizenry of China.
ref: 2013, Ben Chu, Chinese Whispers: Why Everything You’ve Heard About China is Wrong, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
text: The ethical and legal question about whether the wider netizenry should accept the use of multiple invented personas by individuals is most explicitly identifiable in an examination of Twitter entities (Parmelee & Bichard, 2013).
ref: 2014, Andrew Liaropoulos, George Tsihrintzis, ECCWS2014-Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Cyber warefare and Security: ECCWS 2014, Academic Conferences Limited, →ISBN, page 43:
glosses: A collection of netizens.
crank bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crank bugs
Senses: glosses: An imaginary insect crawling on or under the skin, a symptom of delusional parasitosis brought on by methamphetamine use.
crank bugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crank bug
sea power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea powers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seapower
genre film
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genre films
Senses: examples: text: But the general characteristics of the genre set limits on the individual genre film, which renders it simpler for the audience to follow.
ref: 1991, Marcia Landy, Imitations of Life: A Reader on Film & Television Melodrama, →ISBN, page 473:
text: Genre films may therefore contain a more accurate description and a more radical critique of the values of the society that produced them than can the serious film, which is so self-contemplative, so obsessed with its own aesthetic status, that it neglects its connection to the audience.
ref: 2004, Thomas Schatz, Hollywood: Formal-aesthetic dimensions: authorship, genre and stardom, →ISBN:
text: A similar response is elicited by the genre film, with Langford suggesting that the “combination of sameness and variety is the linchpin of the generic contract”.
ref: 2015, Liam Burke, The Comic Book Film Adaptation, →ISBN:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A film that was produced with the intent of strictly adhering to a specific genre by following tropes and standards set by previous films is that genre, such as science fiction, romance, comedy, horror, or film noir, with the existing audience knowing prior to watching the film, that they are viewing a piece of art rather then something created to be sold.
examples: text: While genre film tends to treat things as they are and avoids the trap of advocating them, exploitation film sensationalizes them.
ref: 1998, Monique Guillory, Richard Green, Soul: Black Power, Politics, and Pleasure, →ISBN, page 241:
text: While Dixon's views on the audience may not be to everybody's liking, it is hard not to agree with his assessment of genre film; science fiction film was most definitely entering a period of predictability.
ref: 2009, Lincoln Geraghty, American Science Fiction Film and Television, →ISBN:
text: Nevertheless, I offer a tentative description of the representation of “race” and “blacks” in genre film.
ref: 2003, Barry Keith Grant, Film Genre Reader III - Volume 3, →ISBN, page 472:
text: During the occupation, Johan directed many influential films with a high technical quality and pronounced sense of working in genre film, like the screwball comedy Mine Kære Koner (My Dear Wives, 1943) and the episodic Otte Akkorder (Eight Cords, 1944).
ref: 2012, John Sundholm, Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Cinema, →ISBN, page 213:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: All such films, collectively.
gender baiting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gender-baiting
Senses: examples: text: The obverse is also true: homosexuality is regulated by gender baiting. Gender bending by men is not only derogated by heterosexuals; LGBs also denigrate gender violations by men, often in the name of presenting an acceptable face to the heterosexual world.
ref: 1999, Janis S. Bohan, Glenda M. Russell, Conversations about Psychology and Sexual Orientation, →ISBN, page 103:
text: Unfortunately racial profiling, politicking from behind the pulpit and gender baiting damage the witness of the Church—even though it sometimes plays well within the specific group.
ref: 2007, R. D. Bernard, Making Church Matter, →ISBN, page 58:
text: Otherwise one remains trapped in a false ideology that would confuse gender and politics, or in simplistic gender baiting that is more often than not mere name calling.
ref: 2009, R. Howard Bloch, Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love, →ISBN:
text: Opposition to Indian policy here works through a form of gender baiting that appeals not only to white stereotypes of native masculinity but to dominant notions of dimorphic gender identity and its inherent fulfillment in the heterocoupling of marriage.
ref: 2011, Mark Rifkin, When Did Indians Become Straight?: Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty, →ISBN:
glosses: The enforcement of gender norms by disparaging or marginalizing those that violate them.
gender-baiting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Creon's continuous gender-baiting certainly presented many performance possibilities for the actor.
ref: 1998, Michael X. Zelenak, Gender and Politics in Greek Tragedy, →ISBN, page 78:
text: And once more a group of women jurors, this time forming a majority with none of the gender-baiting or sexist ignorance that brought the Menendez trials to such hopelessly unresolvable stalemates, presented a verdict that most (white) commentators and citizens considered hopelessly stupid and erroneous.
ref: 2003, Elayne Rapping, Law and Justice as Seen on TV, →ISBN, page 121:
text: The fact is, after thirty years of gender-baiting, the party has hit a bump.
ref: 2005, Laura Flanders, Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species, →ISBN, page 12:
glosses: Alternative form of gender baiting.
burnt ends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Flavorful pieces of meat cut from the "point" half of a smoked brisket.
get one's arms around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets one's arms around
form: getting one's arms around
form: got one's arms around
form: got one's arms around
form: gotten one's arms around
form: wrap one's arms around
Senses: examples: text: The man tries to embrace the statue, but the statue disappears before he can get his arms around it and it reappears magically on the opposite side of the room.
ref: 2011, Anthony Balducci, The Funny Parts: A History of Film Comedy Routines and Gags, →ISBN:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, arms, around.
examples: text: Rather, it is the way Pekka needs to get his arms around the data before making up his own mind.
ref: 2003, Allan Katcher, Kenneth Pasternak, Managing Your Strengths, →ISBN, page 69:
text: They can't get their arms around their feelings.
ref: 2006, Jerry Goebel, Is There Hope For Me Now?, →ISBN, page 16:
text: Roughead said the NECC is performing a really good mission and he is trying to get his arms around how much bigger it should grow.
ref: 2010, Ronald O'Rourke, Navy Role in Irregular Warfare and Counter-Terrorism, →ISBN:
text: My request was to eliminate this liability on the company so the banks could get their arms around what our future liabilities would be.
ref: 2010, Gary Chartrand, Unreasonable Leadership, →ISBN:
glosses: To fully understand; to wrap one's head around; to get a handle on.
examples: text: Meese arrived back at the Justice Department at 12:45 p.m. and advised Reynolds, Cooper, and Richardson that the President had authorized him to "get his arms around the Iranian initiative."
ref: 1995, Lee H. Hamilton, Daniel K. Inouye, Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran/Contra Affair, →ISBN, page 305:
text: The imperfect prince was a role he could get his arms around.
ref: 2009, Vincent Bzdek, The Kennedy Legacy: Jack, Bobby and Ted and a Family Dream Fulfilled, →ISBN:
text: “This can’t just stand,” said Rich Galen, former press secretary to the 44th vice-president, Dan Quayle. “It was kind of fun in the beginning watching the kids run around and bump into each other. Now they’ve got the keys to the car and it’s dangerous. Someone has to go in and get their arms around this.”
ref: 2017 February 18, David Smith, Ben Jacobs, “Chaos in the White House: 'There's never been anything like this'”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To manage, handle, or control; to get on top of.
gets one's arms around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get one's arms around
getting one's arms around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of get one's arms around
got one's arms around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of get one's arms around
wrap one's arms around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wraps one's arms around
form: wrapping one's arms around
form: wrapped one's arms around
form: wrapped one's arms around
Senses: examples: text: The cost of capital is a "big" calculation. Many students have trouble wrapping their arms around it. It's therefore important to develop the whole idea before getting lost in the calculations.
ref: 1997, Lasher, Practical Financial Management, →ISBN, page 382:
text: Everyone on the production side thought it was great, but marketing couldn't wrap their arms around it.
ref: 2007, Deborah Todd, Game Design: From Blue Sky to Green Light, →ISBN, page 185:
text: The yet unnamed programmable game system project needed someone who could wrap their arms around it and champion it at the Atari Consumer offices down on Division Street in Campbell, California and Joe was also the perfect candidate for that.
ref: 2012, Marty Goldberg, Curt Vendel, Atari Inc: Business is Fun, →ISBN, page 198:
glosses: Alternative form of get one's arms around.
examples: 2018 Lions will 'wrap arms around Rayner': Fagan Brisbane Lions, 4 August 2018. Accessed 6 August 2018.
"Chris Fagan said the Brisbane Lions would wrap their arms around Cam Rayner after the No.1 draft pick missed a golden chance to steal victory in the dying seconds against North Melbourne."
glosses: To support (a person, etc), usually in a difficult time.
genre films
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of genre film
babbleth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: babble + -eth
Senses: examples: text: He that hathe not this fayth, is but an vnpꝛofytable babler of fayth and woꝛkes / and wotteth nother what he bableth noꝛ what he meaneth, oꝛ whereunto his woꝛdes ꝑtayne.
ref: 1527, William Tyndale, The Parable of the Wycked Mammõ […], [London]: [s.n.], published [1537?], →OCLC, folio vii, verso:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of babble
droneth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: drone + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of drone
golden rain tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golden rain trees
form: goldenrain tree
Senses: synonyms: goldenrain tree
pride of India
China tree
varnish tree
glosses: Any plant of genus Koelreuteria, of southern and eastern Asia, especially Koelreuteria paniculata, of China.
synonyms: golden shower tree
glosses: Cassia fistula.
violational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From violation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to violation.
inspiration porn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The portrayal of people with disabilities as being inspirational, on the basis of their life circumstances.
Related terms: supercrip
fermenteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: ferment + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ferment
fomenteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: foment + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of foment
swap box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swap boxes
Senses: examples: text: The boys walked over to the cabin to check out the “swap box” where campers unload unwanted food and drink mixes. If you take something from the swap box, you are supposed to give up a similar item. We were also able to take a hot ...
ref: 2010, Joseph Torlucci, Out In God's Country, Tonight - An Adult's Re-Experience of Philmont Scout Ranch, Cimarron, New Mexico, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 31:
text: The place with the swap box, trash cans, and meal-snake. ... Philmont has a powerful hold on everyone's soul who walks her trails. Some spend one summer, ... One of the benefits of Philmont is how isolated you are from the “real world.
ref: 2021, Justin Kernes, Last Summer at Camp, PhotogJman Publishing, →ISBN, page 170:
qualifier: chiefly Philmont Scout Ranch
glosses: A box which is used for exchange of items; individuals put in items that they do not want to have, and other individuals who are in need of such items take them for themselves freely.
swap boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swap box
Abiquiu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Abiquiú.
Abiquiú
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.bɪ.kjuː/
Forms: form: Abiquiu
Etymology: Probably from Tewa Áves’húu (Abechiu)
Senses: glosses: A small census-designated place in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico.
OAer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: OAers
Etymology: From OA + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The OAers held their big sessions in Miami University's gym.
ref: 1952 November, Boys' Life, volume 42, number 11, page 59:
qualifier: scouting
glosses: A member of the Order of the Arrow.
OAers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of OAer
BSAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BSA
BSAer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BSAers
Etymology: From BSA + -er.
Senses: qualifier: scouting
glosses: A member of the Boy Scouts of America.
BSAers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BSAer
Philturn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Waite Phillips, and influenced by the Scout Slogan, "Do A Good Turn Daily"; blend of Phillips + turn.
Senses: qualifier: scouting
glosses: The former name of Philmont Scout Ranch, with the full name of Philturn Rocky Mountain Scout Camp.
wikipedia: Waite Phillips
Synonyms: english: current
translation: current
word: Philmont
yuccie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: yucky
Forms: form: yuccies
Etymology: A neologism coined in 2015 by blogger David Infante (see quote below) as an abbreviation of the phrase young urban creative + -ie; compare yuppie.
Senses: examples: text: Let's consider something new: Yuccies. Young Urban Creatives. In a nutshell, a slice of Generation Y, borne of suburban comfort, indoctrinated with the transcendent power of education, and infected by the conviction that not only do we deserve to pursue our dreams; we should profit from them.
ref: 2015 June 9, David Infante, “The hipster is dead, and you might not like who comes next”, in Mashable:
text: "They are divisive. There is already a backlash in the United States where there’s a new ideal; the ‘yuccie.’ " It is an acronymn^([sic]) for Young Urban Creatives, who prefer the "stricter, sleeker look," according to Withey.
ref: 2016 August 11, Steve Warden, “Beards keep growing”, in The Journal Gazette, Fort Wayne, Indiana, archived from the original on 17 Oct 2016:
text: A typical yuccie loves succulents; a hipster would categorise them as a mainstream household plant.
ref: 2017 January 14, Alys Fowler, “Alys Fowler: succulents aren’t just for hipsters”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A young, fashionable upper-middle class person, especially one employed in media or creative industries; a materialist hipster.
human burrito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: human burritos
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A first aid technique for the treatment of hypothermia in which layers of warm items are wrapped around the entire body of the individual being treated.
examples: text: When I wrapped him inside my blanket, he looked like a human burrito.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see human, burrito.
boda boda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of boda-boda.
Muifa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Cantonese 梅花 (mui4 faa1). Named by Macao.
Senses: glosses: A name given to certain tropical cyclones in 2004, 2011 and 2017.
intracytoplasmically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: intra-cytoplasmically
Etymology: From intra- + cytoplasmically.
Senses: glosses: In an intracytoplasmic manner.
GFPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of GFP
Xia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɑ/
enpr: shyä
Forms: form: Hsia
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 夏 (Xià).
Senses: examples: text: Shortly after the era of the flood, sites associated with a culture called Erlitou began to emerge. To archaeologists, they signal the start of China's Bronze Age: The communities are 10 times as big as the ones that existed previously, and their technology is much more sophisticated. So far, no evidence has been found to definitively link the Erlitou to the mythical Xia. But if the Xia dynasty really did exist, it's thought that the Erlitou sites would have been the lands they ruled.
ref: 2016 August 4, Sarah Kaplan, “Legends say China began in a great flood. Scientists just found evidence that the flood was real.”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2016, Science:
text: But records of the first dynasty, that of the Xia, contain stories of a Great Flood with a Noah-like savior, the Emperor Yu, who gained the mandate of heaven after dredging canals to dispel the floodwaters and make the land safe. Historians have long wondered whether this flood account was a creation-style myth, the folk memory of a real event, or some mixture of the two. Some have dismissed the story of Emperor Yu as a fiction intended to justify centralized rule and, in the absence of any evidence of a massive flood at the time, many have regarded the stories of the Xia dynasty as more myth than history.
ref: 2016 August 4, Nicholas Wade, “Scientific Evidence of Flood May Give Credence to Legend of China’s First Dynasty”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2016, Science:
glosses: An ancient dynasty in China.
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A county of Yuncheng, Shanxi, China.
Derived terms: Xia-Gibbs syndrome
Shang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ʃæŋ/
Etymology: From Mandarin 商 (Shāng).
Senses: examples: text: Wilma Fairbank strongly supports the piece mold theory but points out that the mastery of bronze technology by the Shang people was an outgrowth of their earlier mastery of ceramic technology.
ref: 1969, Rutherford John Gettens, The Freer Chinese Bronzes, volume II, Washington, D.C.: Meriden Gravure Company, →OCLC, page 28:
text: In the Shang and Chou periods our knowledge from archaeology of ordinary dwellings is thus far poor, but something can be said of the more pretentious edifices.
ref: 1971, William Watson, Cultural Frontiers in Ancient East Asia, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 81:
text: Hsing-t'ai, Han-tan, and Shih-chia-chuang are thus among the numerous Shang sites marked by heavy upper Erh-li-kang cultural manifestations.
ref: 2011, Ralph D. Sawyer, Ancient Chinese Warfare, Basic Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 135:
glosses: an ancient dynasty in China
non-weight-bearing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nonweight-bearing
form: non-weightbearing
form: nonweightbearing
Senses: glosses: Not capable of or not meant to bear or sustain weight
nonweight-bearing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of non-weight-bearing.
non-weightbearing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of non-weight-bearing.
nonweightbearing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of non-weight-bearing.
streber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strebers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Streber.
Senses: glosses: Any of certain perciform fish of the genus Zingel, with long and slender bodies, found in rivers and streams in Europe.
glosses: Any of certain perciform fish of the genus Zingel, with long and slender bodies, found in rivers and streams in Europe.
Zingel streber, also called the Danube streber.
Derived terms: Danube streber
Rhone streber
Vardar streber
JavaFX Script
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: Java programming language
glosses: A scripting language that forms a part of the JavaFX family of technologies on the Java Platform.
Hyponyms: script