cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sunlit uplands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsʌnlɪt ˈʌpləndz/
ipa: /ˌsʌnlɪt ˈʌpləndz/
ipa: /-ˈəp-/
Etymology: From sunlit (“illuminated by sunlight”) + uplands (“areas in the interior of a country with a generally higher elevation”) (evoking a pleasant, happy place), popularized by its use in the “This was their finest hour” speech delivered by Winston Churchill (1874–1965), the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, to the House of Commons on 18 June 1940: see the quotation.
Senses: examples: text: We find in the nation as a whole, the people chosen of God to preserve his name and worship throughout many generations, moving on the sunlit uplands, while the world sat in shadow beneath.
ref: 1857, Scottish Society for the Conversion of Israel, “To the Jew first”, in The Friend of Israel, volumes III: January 1856 — February 1867, Glasgow: Thomas Murray and Son, page 305:
text: A man, to see far, must climb to some height, and I was too much upon the plain in those days to catch even a glimpse of distant sunlit uplands of triumphant achievement that lie beyond the valley of self-sacrifice.
ref: 1898, Ralph Connor, Black Rock, a Tale of the Selkirks, Toronto: The Westminster Co., page 94:
text: [Adolf] Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him all Europe may be free, and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands; but if we fail then the whole world, including the United States, and all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister, and perhaps more prolonged, by the lights of a perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty and so bear ourselves that if the British Commonwealth and Empire lasts for a thousand years men will still say, "This was their finest hour."
ref: 1940 June 18, Winston Churchill, Prime Minister, “War Situation”, in Parliamentary Debates (Hansard): House of Commons Official Report (House of Commons of the United Kingdom), volume 362, London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2021, column 61:
text: Whatever the misgivings might be, the future that these projects paint is bright. That just leaves the challenge of bridging the gap between today's rather gloomy situation and tomorrow's sunlit uplands.
ref: 2023 August 9, Philip Haigh, “Get the product and price right to tempt back commuters”, in RAIL, number 989, page 54:
synonyms: sunny uplands
glosses: A wished-for place or time of happiness and prosperity.
wikipedia: This was their finest hour
Winston Churchill
Related terms: halcyon days
sunny uplands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsʌniː ˈʌpləndz/
ipa: /ˌsʌni ˈʌpləndz/
ipa: /-ˈəp-/
Senses: examples: text: The BTC carried out reviews of the Plan in 1956 and 1959, and continued to forecast that the sunny uplands of profitability would be reached by 1963.
ref: 2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 43:
glosses: Synonym of sunlit uplands.
synonyms: word: sunlit uplands
Saxmundham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small market town and civil parish with a town council in East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM3863).
whistle post
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whistle posts
Senses: topics: railways
transport
synonyms: whistle board
glosses: A sign marking a location where a locomotive engineer is required to sound the horn or whistle.
whistle board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whistle boards
Senses: topics: railways
transport
glosses: Synonym of whistle post.
synonyms: word: whistle post
whistle posts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whistle post
whistle boards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whistle board
packraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: packrafts
Etymology: From pack + raft.
Senses: synonyms: trail boat
glosses: A lightweight inflatable boat.
packraft
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: packrafts
form: packrafting
form: packrafted
form: packrafted
Etymology: From pack + raft.
Senses: glosses: To travel by packraft
packrafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of packraft
trail boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trail boats
Senses: glosses: Synonym of packraft (“lightweight inflatable boat”).
synonyms: word: packraft
extra: lightweight inflatable boat
trail boats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trail boat
ultrasonoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ultrasonoscope
ultrasonoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: ultrasonography
ultrasonoscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: ultrasonographic
ultrasophistication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ultra- + sophistication.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being ultrasophisticated.
put an egg in one's shoe and beat it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts an egg in one's shoe and beats it
form: putting an egg in one's shoe and beating it
form: put an egg in one's shoe and beat it
form: put an egg in one's shoe and beaten it
Etymology: A pun on beat it (“go away, scram”) and the process of beating eggs in cookery, with a person's shoe seen as a means of departure from a place.
Senses: examples: text: You better put an egg in your shoe and beat it before incidents occur to you.
ref: 1910, O. Henry, “What You Want”, in Strictly Different:
text: At twenty to ten, Henry Beaufort, bartender and owner of The Mellow Tiger, had invited Hugh to put an egg in his shoe and beat it, to make like a tree and leave, to imitate an amoeba and split — in other words, to get the fuck out.
ref: 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
glosses: To go away; get lost; scram.
make like a baby and head out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes like a baby and heads out
form: making like a baby and heading out
form: made like a baby and headed out
form: made like a baby and headed out
Etymology: A pun on head out (“depart for another place”) and the idea of a newborn baby emerging headfirst from the womb.
Senses: glosses: To leave, depart, go out.
Synonyms: make like a banana and split
make like a tree and leave
ergosta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A derivative of ergostane, often a diene or tetraene
Bridge of Weir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Renfrewshire council area, Scotland, United Kingdom (OS grid ref NS3865)
Related terms: Weir
ergost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A derivative of ergostane where the next name part starts with a vowel, often an enol or enone.
apples of the eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæp.əlz.əv.ðiˈaɪ/
Senses: glosses: plural of apple of the eye
Related terms: eye-apples
hepten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shortening of heptene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A derivative of heptene where the next name part starts with a vowel, often "-one" or "-ol".
hindcrowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hindcrown
Inverurie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Inver- + Urie (the River Urie).
Senses: glosses: A town and royal burgh in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ7721).
wikipedia: River Urie
dicarbonylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dicarbonylations
Etymology: From di- + carbonylation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any reaction that introduces two carbonyls group into a compound.
monocarbonylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monocarbonylations
Etymology: From mono- + carbonylation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any reaction that introduces one carbonyl group into a compound.
Kilmacolm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Inverclyde council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS3669).
monocarbonylations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monocarbonylation
Elderslie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Renfrewshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS4462).
glosses: A suburb in Camden council area, south-west of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A rural locality in Central Highlands council area and Southern Midlands council area, Tasmania, Australia.
Derived terms: Arran-Elderslie
bioxalate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioxalates
Etymology: From bi- + oxalate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent group -HC₂O₄, or any salt containing it.
Synonyms: hydrogenoxalate
hydrogen oxalate
acid oxalate
Shailaja
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sailaja
Etymology: From Telugu శైలజ (śailaja).
Senses: glosses: A female given name of Indian usage.
hydrogenoxalate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrogenoxalates
Etymology: From hydrogen + oxalate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent group -HC₂O₄, or any salt containing it.
Synonyms: bioxalate
binoxalate
hydrogen oxalate
acid oxalate
bioxalates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioxalate
cholai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: illicit alcoholic drink; moonshine, usually made from rice, sometimes mixed with industrial alcohol
dioxalate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + oxalate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any chemical compound with two oxalate groups in its formula
dianilido
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + anilido.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing two univalent anilido radicals
kaplunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kaplunks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kerplunk.
kaplunk
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kerplunk.
kaplunk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kaplunks
form: kaplunking
form: kaplunked
form: kaplunked
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kerplunk.
kaplunked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kaplunk
kaplunking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kaplunk
kaplunks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kaplunk
kaplunks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kaplunk
Kirkdale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area in the Metropolitan Borough of Liverpool, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ3493).
beclips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beclip
beclipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beclip
checks up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of check up
checking up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of check up
checked up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of check up
light-tight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: lītʹtīt
Forms: form: more light-tight
form: most light-tight
form: lighttight
Etymology: From light (noun) + tight (adjective).
Senses: examples: text: From a practical point of view it is not always possible to achieve an absolute lighttight home darkroom.
ref: 2000, Stephen G. Anchell, The darkroom cookbook, page 127:
glosses: Impervious to light; excluding the light perfectly.
Synonyms: lightproof
Related terms: For other similar compound words
the derived terms under tight
-topy
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: A suffix meaning place, position, or localized.
Synonyms: -topia
soft reboot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soft reboots
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of warm boot.
synonyms: word: warm boot
topics: broadcasting
fiction
film
literature
media
publishing
television
glosses: A reboot of a series etc. in which continuity is retained with the previous material.
soft reboots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soft reboot
PAWG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PAWGs
Senses: examples: text: In 2010, more scientific research was done regarding butts. Scientists from the University of Oxford discovered that women with larger than average butts are not only more intelligent but also highly resistant to chronic illnesses. White America took note because there aren’t many things they love more than a good scientific study. The PAWG movement began.
ref: 2014 December 26, “Butts Are the New Boobs in White America”, in Complex:
text: Raylynn describes herself as a top 'PAWG', which is an acronym for 'phat ass white girl'.
ref: 2016 June 22, “Instagram star with an eye-popping 70 INCH behind insists her curves are real as she flaunts her incredible shape to silence the doubters”, in Daily Mail:
text: 25. You love overweight white women and use the term “PAWG.”
ref: 2017 September 11, “If You're a Black Man Watching Football This Sunday, Here Are 25 Things I Already Know About You”, in The Root:
text: You have the PAWG/shapely white girl ass thing going on, how many compliments do you get from it on the daily?
ref: 2017 October 17, “NBA Glamour Girl! Ginger Firecracker! Q and A With Australian Instagram Model, Jess McLeod”, in INSC Magazine:
coordinate_terms: PAWB
glosses: Acronym of phat-ass white girl.
PAWGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PAWG
warm boot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warm boots
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: hot boot
glosses: The restarting of a computer that was already running, rather than switched off.
Coordinate terms: cold boot
warm boots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warm boot
hypoglycosemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + glycosemia or hypo- + glycose + -emia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of hypoglycemia (which is the usual term).
synonyms: word: hypoglycemia
extra: which is the usual term
hang up one's spurs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hangs up one's spurs
form: hanging up one's spurs
form: hung up one's spurs
form: hung up one's spurs
Etymology: Originally cowboy slang, implying that if one hangs up one's spurs, one no longer is using the tools of the trade.
Senses: examples: text: Figured I'd find me some shack or lean-to and hang up my spurs.
ref: 2012, Fern Michaels, Fancy Dancer:
text: It made his wife a great deal happier, and in light of the fact that he had four kids, one of whom was still in diapers, it was probably a good idea to hang up his spurs, but God, he missed it.
ref: 2012, Vince Flynn, The Last Man:
text: “He's not the first driver that's charked, and he won't be the last,” Modelar said, speaking low. “The day you no longer accept that is the day you hang up your spurs.”
ref: 2014, Chris Evans, Of Bone and Thunder:
text: I did my fair share of reproducing; now, as they say, it's time to hang up my spurs.
ref: 2015, Jimmy R. Watson, Big Jesus: A Pastor’s Struggle with Christology, page 133:
glosses: To quit, to stop engaging in a line of work or type of activity.
hangs up one's spurs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hang up one's spurs
hanging up one's spurs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hang up one's spurs
hung up one's spurs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hang up one's spurs
bromido
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Derived from bromide by substituting the final -e with -o
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: bromide as a ligand
bismuthene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bismuthenes
Etymology: From bismuth + -ene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A two-dimensional layer of bismuth in a hexagonal, planar structure analogous to graphene.
dehydroxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + hydroxy.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound derived by removing a hydroxy group.
Derived terms: deprostil
deketo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + keto.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound derived by removing a keto group.
caesiated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more caesiated
form: most caesiated
form: cesiated
Senses: glosses: With caesium added or applied.
cesiated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cesiated
form: most cesiated
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of caesiated.
caesiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caesiations
form: cesiation
Etymology: From caesium + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Application of caesium
cesiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cesiations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of caesiation.
red flag in front of a bull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A metaphor for the muleta used by bullfighters.
Senses: examples: text: That message always acted like a red flag to a bull and they charged in, determined to hog-tie him and put a wedding ring through his nose.
ref: 2007, Georgina Gentry, To Love a Texan, page 63:
text: Of course his complicated financial dealings must have been a direct provocation to the IRS, a red flag in front of a bull.
ref: 2008, John Calvert, Another Sort of Life:
text: To a committed individualist such as Norton, this was truly a case of “waving a red flag at a bull,” and although there was undeniably a certain amount of overblown and probably mock-offended rhetoric in her response, equally there is no doubt that many of the objections she raised were her sincerely held opinions
ref: 2012, Henrik Bogdan, Martin P. Starr, Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism:
text: Yes, his mocking stung, but he hadn't cowed her; he'd just waved a red flag in front of a bull.
ref: 2012, Kresley Cole, Lothaire:
glosses: Synonym of red rag to a bull.
synonyms: word: red rag to a bull
dihydro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From di- + hydro-.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Two hydrogen atoms.
Related terms: dihydride
dihydrogen
dihydroxide
trihydro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From tri- + hydro.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Three hydrogen atoms.
smasheroo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: smasheroos
Etymology: From smash + -eroo.
Senses: examples: text: The third of Neil Simon's Broadway comedy smasheroos to be filmed by Paramount, this is the story of two men, one divorced and one about to be, who become apartment mates ...
ref: 1962, Paramount Pictures, inc, Consolidated Statement of Assets and Liabilities and Profit and Loss Accounts, page 17:
text: Taking notes at one of the monthly meetings, when the league chose the shows that would tour on its subscription series in seventeen cities, she admired Mike's loud and brash arguments on behalf of his latest "smasheroo."
ref: 1981, Marianne Langner Zeitlin, Mira's passage, page 20:
text: The good news is that she made her feature-film debut in one of the smasheroos of the season, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
ref: 1987, Stereo Review - Volume 52, page 121:
text: It was his first number one, his first smasheroo, his first block buster, but definitely not his first 45 revolutions per minute.
ref: 2005, Mike Robertson, Parts of a Past, page 309:
glosses: A blockbuster; a movie, play, song, or other form of commercial entertainment that is a smash hit.
examples: text: A couple of years ago when grain speculators wanted to unload a bumper crop of wheat, ole Dick Nixon helped arrange a smasheroo of a wheat sale to the Russians.
ref: 1975, News and Views - Ohio AFL-CIO.- Volumes 24-28:
text: And is my little do tomorrow gonna be a smasheroo, or a smasheroo?
ref: 1963, David Westheimer, J.P. Miller's Days of Wine and Roses, page 111:
text: As early as the nineteenth century, there were people who insisted that locusts were healthier than pork, but they never became a gastronomic smasheroo in Europe.
ref: 2005, The Low Countries:
glosses: A big success
examples: text: Afterwards he said his only thought was to get the plane close to the water in case anything happened. It did. "PLOOSHHHHHhhhh-hh-hh-h. What a smasheroo in the drink!
ref: 1955, American Modeler:
text: Granted it gets a bit slippery when wet, and now and then will give the old smasheroo to a kneecap — but it endures, gentlemen, it endures.
ref: 1971, The New Yorker - Volume 47, Part 6, page 45:
text: You know, these smasheroos really upset my mother. We always seem to get near one of the tiresome things right at the beginning of every trip, and that more or less ruins the whole thing for her.
ref: 1968, Stephen McNamee, Seven for the Road, page 58:
glosses: A violent collision.
smasheroo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: more smasheroo
form: most smasheroo
Etymology: From smash + -eroo.
Senses: examples: text: Fendi's smasheroo short, short fur belted over shorts, worn with ribby stockings, ribbier over-the-knee socks, Oxford ties .
ref: 1971, Vogue - Volume 158:
text: Managing Editor Steinbacher, wearing his other hat. proclaimed the NJF convention "Socko. boffo, smasheroo."
ref: 1973, Dixon Gayer, The Dixon Line - Volumes 11-12:
text: Poor Paul will be delighted, after all three smasheroo ladies.
ref: 1989, Dorothy Fletcher, Horizons, page 284:
text: What a smasheroo pair of gams!
ref: 2012, Ron Goulart, Big Bang:
glosses: Extremetly good; fantastic; smashing.
examples: text: "What?" says Leon, spinning around, toasting Freed and Claire with his finally emptied flute of champagne. “I'm smasheroo,” he informs them, unconvincingly.
ref: 1999, News from the Republic of Letters - Issues 6-9:
text: I don't get smasheroo. I wasn't smasheroo that night. I had a drink, yes, maybe I had two drinks, but not smasheroo.
ref: 2015, Norma Fox Mazer, When We First Met:
glosses: Inebriated; smashed.
smasheroos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smasheroo
nickel and dimes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nickel and dime
nickels and dimes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nickel and dime
nickel and diming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nickel and dime
nickeling and diming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nickel and dime
nickelling and diming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nickel and dime
nickel and dimed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nickel and dime
nickeled and dimed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nickel and dime
nickelled and dimed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nickel and dime
noncontroversy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noncontroversies
Etymology: From non- + controversy.
Senses: examples: text: Therefore, to tread the line between quality on the one hand and noncontroversy on the other is to tread a very thin line.
ref: 1960, United States. Federal Communications Commission, Interim Report by the Office of Network Study:
text: In case the public was not ready for this indictment of the United States presence, the narrative style at least bred familiarity and noncontroversy.
ref: 1995, Jeremy M. Devine, Vietnam at 24 frames a second, page 136:
text: We wanted a religion of peace and serenity and noncontroversy and refuge from the world.
ref: 2002, Ian Frazier, Family:
glosses: Lack of controversy.
examples: text: One might ask Father Greeley to explain to those whose intellectual freedom has been limited in the name of orthodoxy, how they were involved in a "noncontroversy."
ref: 1968, Joseph A. Scimecca, Roland Damiano, Crisis at St. John's:
text: I see this as a noncontroversy. I think that the issue here is the variation in inherited degree of susceptibility, and I think that would be accepted by both of you.
ref: 1973, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works, Proceedings of the Conference on Health Effects of Air Pollutants, page 682:
text: We can easily imagine how Hunter would have described people like Mitt Romney (I'm guessing he would have reached for "depraved scumsucking whore" pretty early in his coverage) and Rick Santorum ("screeching rectum-faced celibate"?) and all you have to do is look at his write-up of the Eagleton affair to see how this writer would have responded to whatever manufactured noncontroversy of the Bill Ayers/Reverend Wright genus ends up rocking the 2012 election season.
ref: 2012, Matt Taibbi, “Introduction”, in Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, page xxv:
text: We have already seen one such noncontroversy in the form of the pseudodebate about Lyme disease.
ref: 2016, Steven Hatch, Snowball in a Blizzard:
glosses: Something that is not controversial, especially one that someone is trying to make seem like a controversy.
noncontroversies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noncontroversy
pseudodebate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudodebates
Etymology: From pseudo- + debate.
Senses: examples: text: In Constitutional Fate, Bobbitt argues that the controversy over the legitimacy of judicial review is a pseudodebate, driven largely by a false picture of the nature of argument in constitutional law.
ref: 1996, Dennis Michael Patterson, Wayne A. Patterson, Law and Truth, page 129:
text: Paul Ehrlich, again, is not innocent here, for the best example, and the most important, is the pseudodebate between Malthusian pessimists and anti-Malthusian optimists.
ref: 1998, Tom Athanasiou, Divided Planet: The Ecology of Rich and Poor, page 80:
text: We have already seen one such noncontroversy in the form of the pseudodebate about Lyme disease.
ref: 2016, Steven Hatch, Snowball in a Blizzard:
glosses: Something presented as a debate in which there is no real disagreement.
pseudodebates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudodebate
diplospeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diplo-speak
Senses: examples: text: And he knows how to cut through the diplospeak: when Clinton politely asked Russia's Boris Yeltsin for his views on a Caspian Sea gas deal proposed by Chevron Oil.
ref: 1994, Newsweek - Volume 124, Issues 10-18, page 134:
text: The hard-driving Cushing carried the title of "American Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary" — diplospeak for President Tyler's man on the spot.
ref: 2001, Jose Armilla, Negotiate with Feng Shui, page 124:
text: Following his August 2007 talks with President Bush in Washington, Brown fell back on coded diplospeak in their joint press conference.
ref: 2008, John E. Owens, John Dumbrell, America's "war on Terrorism":, page 245:
text: I defended our policy with journalists and critics, one night engaging in a “frank exchange of views”—to use the diplospeak I would later master as a U.S. ambassador —with Washington Post columnist Bob Kagan and New York Times columnist David Brooks on the merits of our approach.
ref: 2018, Michael McFaul, From Cold War to Hot Peace:
glosses: Diplomatic language; The careful use of euphemism and noncontroversial language to obscure points that might cause contention.
diplo-speak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Nor was I particularly interested in learning diplo-speak.
ref: 2013, Jody Williams, My Name Is Jody Williams:
text: An embassy is where meetings are conducted in the polite foreign language known as “diplo-speak”; direct language, “real-speak,” is never used.
ref: 2014, Fred Burton, Samuel M. Katz, Under Fire:
text: It was standard diplo-speak, but it enraged Miami's ultrarightists.
ref: 2016, Reese Erlich, Stephen Kinzer, Dateline Havana:
glosses: Alternative form of diplospeak.
Blairesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Blairesque
form: most Blairesque
Etymology: From Blair + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: Lib Dem MPs are accusing their leader, Charles Kennedy, of almost Blairesque control-freakery in agreeing to accept Marsden when many of them were against it.
ref: 2001, New Statesman - Volume 130, Issues 4557-4568, page 10:
text: Based on the "slow" economic Rhine model, Danish social policies since the 1930s have been instrumental in a redistribution of wealth, a paradigm that the Social Democratic party of the 1990s - now converted to Blairesque "third way" strategies - were involved in phasing out to provide the private sector with more wriggle-room.
ref: 2004, Charlotte Brandt, Lars Bang Larsen, Fundamentalisms of the New Order, page 13:
text: It is certainly true, furthermore, that Mr Miliband is Blairesque. English, middle-class, tall and presentable: the Semiotic echoes are obvious.
ref: 2008, The Spectator, page 10:
glosses: Reminiscent of Tony Blair or his policies.
L-plater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: L-platers
Senses: glosses: One who has L-plates on their vehicle, indicating that they are learning to drive.
Related terms: P-plater
on one's L's
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: on one's Ls
Senses: glosses: Said of a person who is on their learner's permit and displays L-plates on their vehicle; not yet possessing a provisional or full driver's licence.
Related terms: on one's P's
on one's P's
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: on one's Ps
Senses: glosses: Said of a person who is on their provisional driver's licence and displays P-plates on their vehicle; not yet possessing a full driver's licence.
Related terms: on one's L's
P-plater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: P-platers
Senses: glosses: One who has P-plates on their vehicle, indicating that they only have a provisional driver's licence.
Related terms: L-plater
sumacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sumack
ideocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of idiocentric.
ilimaquinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The prenylated quinone 3-[[(1R,2S,4aS,8aS)-1,2,4a-trimethyl-5-methylidene-3,4,6,7,8,8a-hexahydro-2H-naphthalen-1-yl]methyl]-2-hydroxy-5-methoxycyclohexa-2,5-diene-1,4-dione
imidazoquinoxaline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imidazoquinoxalines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any heterotricyclic compound composed of an imidazole ring fused to a quinoxaline
Related terms: imiqualine
imidazoquinoxalines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imidazoquinoxaline
imiqualine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imiqualines
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of a group of imidazoquinoxalines that have anticancer properties
imiqualines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imiqualine
immunoallergology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + allergology.
Senses: glosses: Allergology of immunological diseases.
immunohumoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immuno- + humoral.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the interaction of the immune system and body fluids
immunotechnique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunotechniques
Etymology: From immuno- + technique.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any immunological technique
immunotechniques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunotechnique
immunotesting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + testing.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: immunological testing
Related terms: immunotest
immunotest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunotests
Etymology: From immuno- + test.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any immunological test
immunotests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunotest
immunovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunoviruses
Etymology: From immuno- + virus.
Senses: glosses: Any immunodeficiency virus
Related terms: HIV
importome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: importomes
Etymology: From import + -ome.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: All the proteins imported into an organelle
Related terms: importomer
importomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of importome
inoxidizability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inoxidizabilities
Senses: glosses: The condition of being inoxidizable
insudative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + sudative.
Senses: glosses: Not sudative
sudative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That causes, or is associated with, sudation
intercarinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + carinal.
Senses: glosses: Between adjacent carinae
interhomologue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + homologue.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of interhomolog.
interpathologist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + pathologist.
Senses: glosses: Between pathologists
intraclonally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intra- + clonally.
Senses: glosses: In an intraclonal manner
intraligand
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + ligand.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Within a ligand
intrascalar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + scalar.
Senses: glosses: Within a scale.
intratendon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + tendon.
Senses: glosses: Within a tendon
FP&A
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: financial planning and accounting / analysis
buy backs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buy back
common currencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of common currency
domination numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of domination number
drum machines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drum machine
epicyclic gears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epicyclic gear
flood gates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flood gate
girls rented overnight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of girl rented overnight
head voices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of head voice
Hunt's Cross
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hunts Cross
Senses: glosses: A suburb and village in the City of Liverpool, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ4385).
roller cone bit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roller cone bits
form: rollercone bit
form: roller-cone bit
Senses: glosses: A type of drill bit used to perforate rock to create a wellbore to oil and gas reservoirs
roller cone bits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roller cone bit
rollercone bit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rollercone bits
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of roller cone bit.
rollercone bits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rollercone bit
roller-cone bit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roller-cone bits
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of roller cone bit.
roller-cone bits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roller-cone bit
Marks Tey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Colchester borough, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL9023).
Related terms: Great Tey
Little Tey
Brundall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Brundalls
form: Brundell
form: Brundle
Etymology: From an unclear first element, perhaps Old English brōmig (“broomy, overgrown with broom”), + healh (“nook, corner, angle”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Broadland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG3208).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
do cartwheels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does cartwheels
form: doing cartwheels
form: did cartwheels
form: done cartwheels
Senses: glosses: To perform cartwheels
glosses: To be extremely happy
Maesteg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A town and community with a town council in Bridgend borough county borough, Wales, previously in Mid Glamorgan (OS grid ref SS8591).
Ebbw Vale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌɛbuː ˈveɪl/
Senses: glosses: A town in Blaenau Gwent borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SO1609).
glosses: The valley of the Ebbw River, Wales, which runs south from the above town.
glosses: A suburb of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia.
Ebbw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A river in Blaenau Gwent borough county borough, Caerphilly borough county borough, and the City of Newport, Wales, which runs into the Severn Estuary at the same place as the River Usk.
Derived terms: Ebbw Vale
sumacing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shumacing
form: shumacking
form: sumaching
Etymology: From sumac + -ing.
Senses: glosses: gerund of sumac: the process of applying a preparation of sumac to an object.
sumacing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From sumac + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sumac
sumaced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sumac
pay one's own freight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pays one's own freight
form: paying one's own freight
form: paid one's own freight
form: paid one's own freight
Senses: examples: text: If any of you want a whacking lot of experience, lots of thrills to the minute and can pay your own freight, sign up for that trip to the land of the Northern Lights.
ref: 1932, Delta Sigma Delta-Desmos, volume 38, page 151:
text: I missed a real job's stimulation and rested uneasy in depending upon the Royal Family. (A sound presentiment, there.) I had been on my own since the age of eighteen, and I liked how it felt to pay my own freight.
ref: 1997, Jeff Coplon, My Story, page 162:
text: “I have absolutely no interest in being a wealthy dilettante. I have a job. I pay my own freight. […]
ref: 2013, Cherry Adair, Relentless:
glosses: Synonym of pay one's own way.
synonyms: word: pay one's own way
sumacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sumac
sumacked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sumac
Blaenau Gwent
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌblaɪnaɪ ˈɡwɛnt/
/ˌblaɪna ˈɡwɛnt/
Senses: glosses: A county borough of South Wales, first formed in 1974 as a local government district.
isoallotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isoallotypes
Etymology: From iso- + allotype.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of isotype.
synonyms: word: isotype
Related terms: isoallotypic
isoallotypic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + allotypic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to isoallotypes
chimnied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of chimneyed.
isorhamnetine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of isorhamnetin.
jejunocolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or connecting the jejunum and the colon
Derived terms: gastrojejunocolic
karyosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karyospheres
Senses: glosses: Synonym of karyosome.
synonyms: word: karyosome
karyospheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of karyosphere
kinematographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From kinematography + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: In addition, a number of new possibilities would be opened up to diagraphy – e.g., radiography of movements, kinematographic radiography, and radiography of those in a state of convulsion.
ref: 1910, Frederick Dessauer, “A New Method of Instantatneous Radiography”, in Archives of the Roentgen Ray, volume 14, page 258:
glosses: Alternative form of cinematographic.
Treherbert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and community in Rhondda Cynon Taf borough county borough, Mid Glamorgan, Wales (OS grid ref SS9398).
growhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: growhouses
Etymology: grow + house
Senses: glosses: A house used for the growing of marijuana.
Related terms: greenhouse
grow light
grow operation
grow room
Mid Glamorgan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A county of Wales formed from part of the traditional county of Glamorgan in 1974. It was abolished in 1996 for administrative purposes, but retained as a preserved county.
Rhondda Cynon Taf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rhondda Cynon Taff
Etymology: Named after three main rivers within the county borough; the Welsh spelling of the River Taff has been adopted here.
Senses: glosses: A county borough in South Wales formed in 1996.
cat and mouses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cat and mouse
cat and mousing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cat and mouse
cat and moused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cat and mouse
Aberdare
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæbəɹˈdɛɹ/
ipa: /ˌæbəˈdɛː/
Etymology: From Welsh Aberdâr.
Senses: glosses: A town in Rhondda Cynon Taf borough county borough, South Wales (OS grid ref SO0002).
glosses: A suburb of Cessnock, New South Wales, Australia.
Derived terms: Aberdare East
cat-and-mouses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cat-and-mouse
cat-and-mousing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cat-and-mouse
cat-and-moused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cat-and-mouse
Orwellesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Orwellesque
form: most Orwellesque
Etymology: From Orwell + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: Their composite picture of the socialist state was distinctly Orwellesque: A system of slavery and of servitude...
ref: 1994, Morris Slavin, Boris Blick, Louis Patsouras, Rebels against the old order: essays in honor of Morris Slavin:
text: You may remember Brazil, Terry Gilliam's Orwellesque parable that only major amounts of protest saved from permanent butchery by the studio.
ref: 2007, Royal S. Brown, Film Musings: A Selected Anthology from Fanfare Magazine, page 134:
text: The world is increasingly becoming a Single Central Europe with its Kafkaesque anonymity, Musilesque human-traits-free individuality, or the divided individual without individuality and indivisibility, Orwellesque Newspeak and total control, if not manufacturing, of history.
ref: 2011, L. Donskis, Modernity in Crisis: A Dialogue on the Culture of Belonging:
text: When a faculty member mentioned this trend openly, the dean of the School of Education had exclaimed in an Orwellesque manner, “Don't use that phrase! Say rather that we are extending the opportunity.”
ref: 2015, Bradley J. Birzer, Russell Kirk: American Conservative:
glosses: Synonym of Orwellian.
synonyms: word: Orwellian
Synonyms: draconian
Orwellian
settlement house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: settlement houses
Senses: glosses: An institution providing various community services, usually to the urban poor.
Musilesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Musilesque
form: most Musilesque
Etymology: From Musil + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: It is a position-taking which must avoid the other extreme: the Musilesque situation, in which man founders on the unlivable ideal of an exact, scientific practice of life, which ideal cannot guide practice (E. Heintel, K.-O. Apel).
ref: 1968, Gerard Radnitzky, Contemporary Schools of Metascience - Volume 1, page 148:
text: For one thing, the very fact that Marcel possesses, and unwittingly betrays, an idiosyncratic point of view—the fact that Proust has opted to present him as a decidedly un-Musilesque “man with qualities,” endowing him with a series of propositions and dispositions that map his "world" —tells us something about Prous, confirming that perspective is, so to speak, part of his perspective.
ref: 2004, Joshua Landy, Philosophy As Fiction, page 141:
text: The world is increasingly becoming a Single Central Europe with its Kafkaesque anonymity, Musilesque human-traits-free individuality, or the divided individual without individuality and indivisibility, Orwellesque Newspeak and total control, if not manufacturing, of history.
ref: 2011, L. Donskis, Modernity in Crisis: A Dialogue on the Culture of Belonging:
glosses: Resembling the lack of inner convictions described by Robert Musil in the title character of his unfinished novel The Man Without Qualities.
Gwenllian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gwenllians
Etymology: From Welsh Gwenllian.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Welsh.
Brantham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Babergh district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM1034).
Hemmingwayesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Or a father reliving in sparse, Hemmingwayesque prose his moment of horrible truth: The news almost killed his mother.
ref: 1973, Frank Wayne Fox, Advertising and the Second World War, page 203:
text: His Hemmingwayesque eulogy of the Bay of Islands, Tales of the Angler's Eldorado, helped confirm the region's reputation and establish its following.
ref: 1997, Globe Pequot Press, Kirsten Ellis, New Zealand, page 58:
text: I explained to her in my best stage whisper that I had been seriously wounded in the war, and I was now more a Hemmingwayesque embittered celibate than a swinging dick.
ref: 2008, Craig Maddox, Robbie, page 248:
glosses: Misspelling of Hemingwayesque.
Manningtree
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English manig (“many”) + treow (“tree”).
Senses: glosses: A small town and civil parish with a town council in Tendring district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TM1031).
overtoppeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: overtop + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overtop