cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Sihhu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -uː
Forms: form: Ssuhu
form: Sihu
Etymology: From Mandarin 四湖 (Sìhú), Tongyong Pinyin romanization: Sìhhú.
Senses: examples: text: Peanut fields in Sihhu Township, Yunlin County were polluted.
ref: 2005, Annual Report, Council of Agriculture, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 26:
text: Secondly, he compared the same figures for six townships within 10 kilometers of the plant—Mailiao, Dongshih, Lunbei, Sihhu, Taixi and Baojhong—with those of five similarly urbanized areas located outside the 10-km radius, namely Huwei, Erlun, Yuanchang and Cihtong townships.
ref: 2009 June 8, “Report links naphtha cracker emissions with cancer rates”, in Taiwan Today, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2023, Top News:
text: Sihhu Coastal Botanical Garden, located in the small village of Lincuo near Sihhu in Yunlin County, was founded in 1993 and covers an area of 22 hectares.[…]
Sihhu Coastal Botanical Garden is dedicated to species preservation in the western coastal area of Sihhu.
ref: 2011 December 29, “Sihhu Coastal Botanical Garden”, in Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, archived from the original on 05 Jul 2023, Botanical Gardens:
text: The Environmental Protection Bureau of Yunlin County and the Sihhu Township Office co-organized the “2017 Yulin County Fall Season Beach-cleaning Activity” at the Boziliao Harbor of Yunlin County’s Kouhu Township today (22). The Taipower Company also mobilized its employees in support of the event, attracting over 300 people to conduct cleanup activities along the coastline and its surrounding area.
ref: 2017 October 30, “2017 Yunlin County Fall Season Beach Cleaning Activity”, in 云林縣環境保護局 [Environmental Protection Bureau, Yunlin County], archived from the original on 04 Jul 2023, Latest News:
english: Environmental Protection Bureau, Yunlin County
translation: Environmental Protection Bureau, Yunlin County
text: (2) Due to the subsidence rate which was more than 5 cm/yr in Sihhu Township in 2017, the new land subsidence monitoring well has been built up in Nangwang Elementary School on June 2018.
ref: 2018, “Monitoring and Analyzing Land Subsidence of Changhua and Yunlin Area in 2018 [107年度彰化及雲林地區地層下陷監測及分析]”, in 圖書典藏及影音數位平台圖書典藏及影音數位平台, →ISBN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2023, 英文摘要:
english: 107年度彰化及雲林地區地層下陷監測及分析
translation: 107年度彰化及雲林地區地層下陷監測及分析
text: Ministry of Interior data shows that Taiwan has 149 towns and villages where over half of the residents share the same last name. That’s out of 7,761 districts in Taiwan. In Yunlin’s Sihhu township, 65% of the people are surnamed Lin.
ref: 2018 November 5, Natalie Tso, “Same surname! 149 Taiwan towns have a “majority surname””, in Radio Taiwan International, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2023, News:
text: Children play in a foam pool at Santiaolun Beach in Yunlin County’s Sihhu Township yesterday.
ref: 2022 August 2, “Keeping cool”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2022, Taiwan News, page 3:
glosses: A rural township in Yunlin County, Taiwan.
Sihu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 四湖 (Sìhú).
Senses: examples: text: Residents of Sihu Township in the central county of Yunlin were left scared and angry after hundreds of dead geese were found dumped in an irrigation channel Tuesday, inciting a minor panic as avian flu continues to spread throughout the country.
ref: 2015 January 13, “Hundreds of geese carcasses dumped in Yunlin amid bird flu scares”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2024, Society:
text: Yunlin County also suffered from heavy rains. The County's Kouhu and Sihu Township in the coastal area saw water flooding in multiple areas.
ref: 2018 August 24, Jake Chen, “雲林沿海雨勢驚人 口湖.四湖多處淹水 [Yunlin Saw Heavy Rainfall, Multiple Townships Flooded]”, in Public Television Service, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2018:
english: Yunlin Saw Heavy Rainfall, Multiple Townships Flooded
translation: Yunlin Saw Heavy Rainfall, Multiple Townships Flooded
text: On Sunday morning (July 2), the Sihu Cantian Temple in Yunlin County's Sihu Township featured numerous performances by yizhen (藝陣), temple-based folk art performance troupes.
ref: 2023 July 4, Keoni Everington, “2-meter-tall 'gorilla' dances at Taiwan temple”, in Taiwan News, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2023, Culture:
glosses: Alternative form of Sihhu (Yunlin County, Taiwan).
Sihu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 西湖 (Xī Hú), Tongyong Pinyin romanization: Sihú.
Senses: examples: text: Li Teng-hsin (黎登鑫), a college professor from Miaoli County’s Sihu Township (西湖), said Liu was forcibly appropriating farmland.
“Liu always insists that he is acting according to the law, but no law enjoys a higher status than the Constitution, which protects people’s right to survival,” Li said. “Farmland is the most important thing on which farmers depend for a living.”
ref: 2013 August 17, Loa Iok-sin, “More than 1,000 gather for Miaoli rally”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Aug 2023, Front Page, page 1:
text: Chiu Jung-hsin (邱榮炘), founder of Hwa Yen Development Center in Miaoli County’s Sihu Township (西湖), runs craft and carpentry classes for 60 people who are mentally challenged or have autism.
ref: 2013 September 6, Hsieh Wen-hua, “Shelter workshops offer unique gifts”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Aug 2020, Taiwan News, page 5:
text: Miaoli County’s Sihu Township (西湖) is to host the Pomelo Flower Festival on Saturday and Sunday.
More pomeloes are grown in Sihu’s 130 hectares than anywhere else in the county, an achievement it celebrates every year during the plant’s flowering season, Sihu Township Mayor Kao A-tzu (高阿賜) said.
ref: 2019 March 28, Chang Hsun-teng, Jonathan Chin, “Miaoli’s Sihu to host Pomelo Flower Festival”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Mar 2019, Taiwan News, page 4:
glosses: Alternative form of Xihu (Miaoli County, Taiwan).
Sihu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 溪湖 (Xīhú), Tongyong Pinyin romanization: Sihú.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Xihu (Changhua County, Taiwan).
Cuyapo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Nueva Ecija, Philippines.
Lupao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Nueva Ecija, Philippines.
eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious
form: most eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious
Etymology: An early 20th-century American nonsensical coinage. One of a number of fanciful words noted in a series of 1914 articles by Louise Pound, all of which were (according to the author) "known to at least six people, coming generally from different sections of the state" of Nebraska.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious.
glosses: Very good, very fine.
wikipedia: Louise Pound
Related terms: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Batangas City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Batangas
glosses: A city, the provincial capital of Batangas, Calabarzon, Luzon, Philippines.
g-string
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: g-strings
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of G-string.
g-strings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of g-string
choice feminism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A feminist approach that stresses respecting the choices women make on how to operate under patriarchy, and especially eschews scrutinizing them for making decisions seen as aligning with patriarchy.
state socialisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of state socialism
technoliterate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more technoliterate
form: most technoliterate
Etymology: From techno- + literate.
Senses: examples: text: Similar to ScienceNOW' s readers, The Why Files audience seems to range from technoliterate scientists killing time on the job to first-time webbers.
ref: 1996, National Association of Science Writers, Newsletter - Volumes 44-45, page 22:
text: White's discussion of the rift between environmentalists and those who "work for a living" points up the vagaries of educating for work under the present technoliterate dispensation.
ref: 1998, Randall Roorda, Dramas of Solitude, page 217:
text: Xers grew up with computers in their homes and schools, so they are very technoliterate.
ref: 1999, Barbara Hilyer, Alan Veasey, Kenneth Oldfield, Effective Safety and Health Training, page 93:
text: Some are extremely technoliterate, demanding the newest and latest gadgets; some are not as technoliterate and need “easy-to-use” gadgets.
ref: 2011, Donald F Dufek, Camille P Schuster, The Consumer . . . or Else!: Consumer-Centric Business Paradigms:
glosses: Literate in modern technology, especially in the use of computers and smart devices.
micobiont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micobionts
Senses: examples: text: On this theoretical basis and remembering the difficulty of obtaining fruiting bodies and the impossibility of producing spores from the micobiont raised in pure culture, […]
ref: 1969, Atti, page 16:
text: In the majority of cases ascomycetes play a role of micobiont whereas basidiomycetes do this only in 2 % of cases.
ref: 2009, Vladimir Kirillovich Savchenko, Geogenomics: Organisation of the Genosphere, page 122:
text: Schwendener proposed that the lichen fungus (known today as the micobiont) offered physical protection and acquired nutrients for itself and for the algal cells.
ref: 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 81:
text: It has micobiont from Ascomycota and Basidiomycota belonging to kingdom Fungi and photobiont from Trebouxia species.
ref: 2022, Dhanasekaran Dharumadurai, Microbial Symbionts, page 811:
glosses: Alternative form of mycobiont.
micobionts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micobiont
Bagumbayan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The name of several locations in the Philippines:
A barangay of Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines.
glosses: The name of several locations in the Philippines:
A barangay of Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
glosses: The name of several locations in the Philippines:
A barangay of Teresa, Rizal, Philippines.
glosses: The name of several locations in the Philippines:
A barangay of Santa Cruz, Laguna, Philippines.
glosses: The name of several locations in the Philippines:
A barangay of Tanauan, Batangas, Philippines.
glosses: The name of several locations in the Philippines:
A barangay of Bulakan, Bulacan, Philippines.
glosses: The name of several locations in the Philippines:
A barangay of Daraga, Albay, Philippines.
glosses: The name of several locations in the Philippines:
A barangay of Pililla, Rizal, Philippines.
glosses: The name of several locations in the Philippines:
A municipality of Sultan Kudarat, Philippines.
Tatalon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
Don Galo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Parañaque, Metro Manila, Philippines.
scarving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scarve
scarving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scarvings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scarfing.
compliance strikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compliance strike
waterberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waterberry
arachnophobiacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arachnophobiac
lichenise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lichenises
form: lichenising
form: lichenised
form: lichenised
Senses: examples: text: Some fungi (such as Penicillium moulds) used to lichenise but don't any more; they have de-lichenised.
ref: 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 97:
glosses: Alternative spelling of lichenize.
lichenises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lichenise
lichenising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lichenise
Libjo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Catarman, Northern Samar, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Santa Cruz, Marinduque, Philippines.
glosses: A municipality of the Dinagat Islands, Philippines.
treetop disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːz
Senses: examples: text: The image illustrates what is known as treetop disease or summit disease, whereby the host climbs to an exposed position (e.g. on vegetation) before death to facilitate dispersal of the pathogen.
ref: 2012, Fernando E. Vega, Harry K. Kaya, Insect Pathology - Volume 2, page 38:
text: Late in the infection of the so-called “treetop disease” this gene gets activated when caterpillars are moved to the upper plant foliage where they die.
ref: 2016, Genetics and Molecular Biology of Entomopathogenic Fungi, page 460:
text: Perhaps the well-cited example of primary host behaviour that aids in the dissemination of disease is the treetop disease (also known as summit disease) of many lepidopterans and hymenopterans larvae.
ref: 2020, Nitesh K. Maru, Ashwani Kumar, Sunil Zachariah, Insect Pathology Text Book and Practical Manual, page 39:
glosses: Synonym of summit disease.
synonyms: word: summit disease
Tandang Sora
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
Jagna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Bohol, Philippines.
Guindulman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Bohol, Philippines.
Candijay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Bohol, Philippines.
Inabanga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Bohol, Philippines.
hame string
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hame strings
Senses: examples: text: It was not an uncommon thing, when we were going through a corn row, for the point of the coulter to strike a root or stone, when the hame-string would break and the harness and Tom would come flying off over the horse's rump […].
ref: 1895, William Cooper Howells, Recollections of Life in Ohio, 1813-1840, page 82:
text: “I'll take a hame string to you,” I says. “That's what I'll give you. Going through my papers.”
ref: 1929, William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury:
text: My father had told me that he always used leather hame strings so in case he got a team down and it became necessary to loosen the harness to get them up, a pocketknife on a leather hame string was the quickest way.
ref: 1985, Jack Miller, A Settin' Hen Never Gets Fat, page 48:
text: I found an extra stirrup in the gear room and by using a hame string, mounted it under the stirrup I would put my foot in while riding.
ref: 2015, Ed Butler, Memory Lane Was a Gravel Road for Eight Generations:
glosses: A leather strap or thong used to hold a horse's hame together.
hame strings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hame string
tricorporeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + corporeal.
Senses: examples: text: [...] one is tempted to see in the pair of defending Amazons next to the body of the fallen Andromache an adaptation of the familiar tricorporeal Geryon.
ref: 1991 07, Page duBois, Centaurs and Amazons: Women and the Pre-History of the Great Chain of Being, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 50:
text: Agucchi wrote : Meanwhile I thank you especially for what you say, and then for the information you gave me about Saturn - that as you predicted it began again to appear tricorporeal at the last solstice.
ref: 2003 January 1, Stillman Drake, Galileo at Work: His Scientific Biography, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 211:
text: Commonly tumescence involves only the corpora cavernosa but occasionally it may also involve the corpus spongiosum and is then known as tricorporeal priapism. There is a long list of causes of priapism.
ref: 2017 November 22, Brice Antao, Michael S Irish, Succeeding in Paediatric Surgery Examinations, Volume 2: A Complete Resource for EMQs, CRC Press, →ISBN:
text: Galileo realized that the star Saturn is tricorporeal, that is, three-bodied: a main, spherical body at the center, and two smaller ones on the sides.
ref: 2019 July 23, Stefano Gattei, On the Life of Galileo: Viviani's Historical Account and Other Early Biographies, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 123:
glosses: Synonym of tricorporal (“having three bodies; involving three corpora”).
synonyms: word: tricorporal
extra: having three bodies; involving three corpora
Guiuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Eastern Samar, Philippines.
Borongan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /boˈɾoŋ.ɡɐn̪/
Senses: glosses: A city, the provincial capital of Eastern Samar, Eastern Visayas, Philippines.
laundry mats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laundry mat
komabue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: komabues
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 高麗笛 (komabue).
Senses: glosses: A kind of transverse flute made out of bamboo from Japan.
Muizen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Mechelen municipality, Antwerp province, Belgium.
Hanscomb
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
final parsec problem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: final-parsec problem
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: last parsec problem
glosses: The question of whether two supermassive black holes in a merged galaxy will continue orbiting each other indefinitely or eventually combine into one, and if so, the process by which this occurs.
Hellings and Downs curve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hellings and Downs curves
form: Hellings-Downs curve
Etymology: Named after R.W. Hellings and G.S. Downs, who first calculated it.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A graph of the expected correlation of timing effects on pulsars due to cosmological gravitational waves, as a function of angle of separation of the pulsars.
dykishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dykishly
form: most dykishly
Senses: examples: text: The first thing that Kate, who nicknamed herself "Tommy" and even more dykishly "Thomas," did with her middle-aged financial independence was to take a female lover.
ref: 1985, Judy Grahn, The Highest Apple: Sappho and the Lesbian Poetic Tradition, Spinsters Ink Books:
text: A true double-surnamed, preferentially-treated, dykishly-inclined feminist
ref: 1999 November 8, wesol...@freewwweb.com, “In The Old Days”, in alt.peeves (Usenet):
text: Standing beside her in a school uniform was a tall, dykishly handsome older girl, with the countenance of a prefect.
ref: 2003 January 3, Dr. Simpson, “Excerpt from "Spanking Around the World"”, in soc.sexuality.spanking (Usenet):
glosses: In a dykish manner.
coeloblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coeloblast
coelogynes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coelogyne
coelomesoblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coelomesoblast
dykeish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dykeish
form: most dykeish
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dykish.
coelomoducts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coelomoduct
coelomostomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coelomostome
coencapsulants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coencapsulant
coencapsulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coencapsulate
coencapsulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coencapsulate
coenhancements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coenhancement
coenobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coenobe
coenomegaspores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coenomegaspore
tyurya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A thin Russian bread soup.
murtsovka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: tyurya
swamp harrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swamp harriers
Senses: glosses: The spotted harrier, Circus assimilis.
examples: text: Other than the usual clamour of seabirds, ravens and swamp harriers, the only other birds of note in this area are orange-bellied parrots […] and a few black-faced cormorants that venture up from the tannin-stained waters of Bathurst Harbour.
ref: 2018, Robbie Arnott, Flames, Text Publishing, published 2023, page 95:
glosses: A large hawk, Circus approximans, of Australia, New Zealand, and several Pacific islands.
Synonyms: swamp hawk
made hay while the sun shone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of make hay while the sun shines.
Hellings and Downs curves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hellings and Downs curve
komabues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of komabue
swamp harriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swamp harrier
blinks first
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blink first
blinking first
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blink first
blinked first
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blink first
making hay while the sun shines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of make hay while the sun shines
makes hay while the sun shines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of make hay while the sun shines
nunry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nunries
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of nunnery.
contextualisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contextualiser
Rossabi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
nunries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nunry
peptidyl transferase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An enzyme that catalyzes the addition of amino acid residues to the growing polypeptide chain in protein synthesis by means of peptide bonds.
puberphonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puberphonias
Etymology: From Latin puber (“pubescent”) + -phonia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A functional voice disorder that is characterized by the habitual use of a high-pitched voice after puberty.
zamination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zaminations
form: 'zamination
Senses: examples: text: I hate her! She copies her zaminations off other girls' papers too. Betty Brower told me.
ref: 1939, Grace Livingston Hill, Patricia, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published 1973, page 10:
text: "Now you're the one squiggling. Cut it out. Doc Linder here needs to do his 'zamination. Hold still. I see somethin'. Okay, I was right—a big old worm's crawling on your neck." She giggled again and pulled away a little, slightly flushed. "It tickles," she said.
ref: 2013, Hugh Gilmore, Last Night on the Gorilla Tour: A Novel, Philadelphia, P.A.: SoundStars Press, →ISBN, page 76:
glosses: Clipping of examination.
zaminations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zamination
'zamination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 'zaminations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zamination.
'zaminations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'zamination
pissgirl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pissgirls
Etymology: From piss + girl.
Senses: topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
coordinate_terms: pissboy
glosses: A woman who engages in pissplay.
pissgirls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pissgirl
turns on one's heel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of turn on one's heel
turning on one's heel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of turn on one's heel
turned on one's heel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of turn on one's heel
shown a clean pair of heels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of show a clean pair of heels
crosses the Thames
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cross the Thames
crossing the Thames
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cross the Thames
crossed the Thames
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cross the Thames
crosses the Tiber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cross the Tiber
crossing the Tiber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cross the Tiber
crossed the Tiber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cross the Tiber
swims the Thames
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of swim the Thames
swimming the Thames
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of swim the Thames
swam the Thames
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of swim the Thames
swum the Thames
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of swim the Thames
swims the Tiber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of swim the Tiber
swimming the Tiber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of swim the Tiber
swam the Tiber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of swim the Tiber
swum the Tiber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of swim the Tiber
tsume shogi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tsume-shogi
form: tsumeshogi
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 詰将棋 (tsumeshōgi, “shogi mating problems”).
Senses: examples: text: The average branching factor of tsume-shogi has not been calculated yet, as far as we know. The numerical results of this paper show that the average branching factor of tsume-shogi is about 5.
ref: 2001 June, Masahiro Seo, Hiroyuki Iida, Jos W.H.M. Uiterwijk, “The PN∗-search algorithm: Application to tsume-shogi”, in Artificial Intelligence, volume 129, numbers 1–2, Amsterdam: Elsevier, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 256:
topics: board-games
games
shogi
synonyms: tsume
glosses: Shogi problems in which the goal is to find a forced checkmate.
fal-lal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fal-lals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fallal.
girlsmell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: girlsmells
Etymology: Compound of girl + smell.
Senses: examples: text: I smelled Judy's ineffable girlsmell as she stood near me, alcohol and perfume and something indefinable, female; I breathed in life, and life throbbed quietly in my veins, powerful and precious, overwhelming me with new meaning and perspective.
ref: 1974, Ralph Berton, Remembering Bix: A Memoir of the Jazz Age, New York, N.Y. […]: Harper & Row, Publishers, →ISBN, page 132:
coordinate_terms: boysmell
qualifier: LGBTQ slang
glosses: A girl or woman's body odour, often regarded as attractive.
girlsmells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of girlsmell
Bering's Strait
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bering Strait.
Bering's Straits
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The reverence of hunters for the bear whom they regularly kill and eat may thus be traced all along the northern region of the Old World, from Bering's Straits to Lappland.
ref: 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 224:
glosses: Bering Strait
grisly bear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grisly bears
Senses: examples: text: When the Thompson Indians of British Columbia were about to hunt bears, they would sometimes address the animal and ask it to come and be shot. They prayed the grisly bear not to be angry with the hunter, nor to fight him, but rather to have pity on him and deliver himself up to his mercies.
ref: 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 226:
glosses: Alternative form of grizzly bear.
smoke-hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoke-holes
Senses: examples: text: The sunlight streamed down on them through the smoke-hole overhead, but spread only a dim twilight through the remoter recesses of the vast subterranean chamber.
ref: 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 234:
glosses: Alternative form of smokehole.
Duwamish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Lushootseed-speaking people of western Washington, US.
candystick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From its resemblance to a red-and white striped peppermint stick candy.
Senses: examples: text: There are approximately 1500 acres of potential candystick habitat in the Conservation Unit, which is located entirely within the analysis area, mainly in VRU 6.
ref: 2001, Nez Perce National Forest (N.F.), Starbucky Restoration Project: Final Environmental Impact Statement, page 117:
text: This family also includes some unusual fleshy, chlorophyll-lacking plants, such as Indian pipe (Monotropa uniflora) and candystick (Allotropa virgata), which are saprophytic (feeding or growing upon dead or decaying organic matter).
ref: 2011, Fran Kelso, Frances Kelso Graham, Plant Lore of an Alaskan Island, page 260:
text: Examples of them, shown in figure 7.1, are candystick (Allotropa virgata), pinesap (Monotropa hypopithys), Indian-pipe (Monotropa uniflora), and gnome-plant (Hemitomes congestum).
ref: 2011, E. C. Pielou, The World of Northern Evergreens, page 75:
glosses: A type of myco-heterotroph with a red and white striped stem (Allotropa virgata)
wood wide web
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wood wide webs
form: wood-wide web
Etymology: Blend of wood + World Wide Web
Senses: examples: text: Precisely what is passing between plants through fungal networks is a thorny question for all researches investigating wood wide webs.
ref: 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 184:
text: In the forest, there is a “wood wide web” of mycorrhizal fungi that run underground, connecting the trees in a forest, helping them grow and communicate.
ref: 2022, Maria Failla, Growing Joy:
text: The portrayal of fungi-forest symbioses as a 'wood wide web' is in itself a technological image which, as Woods analyses in his contribution to this volume, often hides the mycelium behind the tree: he agrees in this with Jedediah Purdy, who has satirized the inevitability with which, 'after centuries of viewing forests as kingdoms, then as factories (and, along the way, as cathedrals for Romantic sentiment), the 21st century would discover a networked information system under the leaves and humus'.
ref: 2022, Liliane Campos, Pierre-Louis Patoine, Life, Re-Scaled:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A mycorrhizal network; a network of fungal hyphae that connect the plants in a region.
Related terms: food web
wood wide webs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wood wide web
certain person
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: certain persons
Etymology: The heading of the relevant section of the criminal code; e.g.:
* 2020 Arkansas Code § 5-73-103 "Possession of firearms by certain persons"
* NJ Rev Stat § 2C:39-7 (2019) "Certain persons not to have weapons or ammunition"
Senses: examples: text: What is a “Certain Persons Not to Have Weapons″ Offense in New Jersey? Chamlin Uliano & Walsh
A Certain Persons Offense is considered a Fourth Degree Crime, punishable by a maximum term of 18 months in New Jersey State Prison if the defendant satisfies any of the criteria for a “certain person” and is found in possession of any of the above weapons other than a firearm.
text: Julio Cesar Salas, 20, of Fort Smith is facing two counts of felony breaking and entering, theft of property, theft of a firearm and possession of a firearm by a certain person, one count of felony possession of a controlled substance, as well as three counts of misdemeanor theft of property, and one count of misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia and fleeing.
ref: 2017 April 17, Two Arrested On Suspicion Of Breaking Into Many Cars, One Wanted:
qualifier: criminal law
glosses: [in relation to a specific action] a person who is a member of a specific class for whom the action constitutes a crime; typically the action is possession of a weapon and the class is convicted felons
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see certain, person.
wood-wide web
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wood-wide webs
Senses: examples: text: While they work hard for us and for the environment, they also form a 'wood-wide web' of mutual communication and support through fungal interconnections.
ref: 2020, Brian Grogan, The Amazing Story of a Small Blue Planet, page 58:
text: When you next walk in the woods, consider that in the ground beneath your feet, the mycorrhizae of different plants have linked up to exchange nutrients, forming a wood-wide web that regulates the growth of the entire forest.
ref: 2021, Henry Gee, A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth:
text: Other evidence suggests the existence of “wood-wide webs” in which forest trees are tied together into large networks by fungal hyphae connecting their roots.
ref: 2022, Steve Trudell, Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest:
glosses: Alternative form of wood wide web.
wood-wide webs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wood-wide web
retangle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retangles
form: retangling
form: retangled
form: retangled
Etymology: From re- + tangle.
Senses: examples: text: In the full picture of American politics as an ongoing process, its two styles tangle and retangle nearly constantly, often quietly and merely misleadingly, but sometimes fiercely, with results that can be exciting, embarrassing, bizarre, tragic, or all these in combination.
ref: 1998, H. Roelofs, The Poverty of American Politics, page 86:
text: The aligned molecules try to retangle themselves and if this is hindered additional normal stresses arise.
ref: 2019, Joseph H. Spurk, Nuri Aksel, Fluid Mechanics, page 89:
text: We know that mycorrhizal fungi form and re-form their connections with plants, tangling, detangling and retangling.
ref: 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 190:
glosses: To tangle again.
retangles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retangle
retangling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retangle
retangled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retangle
DeCamp
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: DeCamps
Senses: glosses: A surname
megascience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megasciences
Etymology: From mega- + science.
Senses: examples: text: The international agenda includes: 1) using U.S. leadership in S&T to support foreign policy objectives including global stability and sustainable development; 2) strengthening American S&T in an increasingly interdependent world; 3) using international cooperation in S&T to our international economic goals; and 4) enhancing international cooperation in large-scale and complex science programs (megasciences).
ref: 1995, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies, Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations, page 376:
text: This contribution aims to demonstrate why mycology should be regarded as a megascience: a subject requiring international collaboration to overcome barriers that need to be confronted in the interests of global security and human well-being.
ref: 2009, David L. Hawksworth, “Mycology: a Neglected Megascience”, in Mahendra Rai, P. D. Bridge, editors, Applied Mycology, page 1:
text: Endeavors that have traditionally been called “megascience projects” have led the way in international science, mainly because the cost of the undertaking was so large, no one nation could afford to do it alone.
ref: 2018, Caroline S. Wagner, The Collaborative Era in Science: Governing the Network, page 101:
text: This paper is devoted to the study of the basic processes for the implementation of “megascience” projects and to ensure the possibility of their effective implementation using management information systems.
ref: 2019, Nurzhan Nurakhov, “The Basic Processes of Creating a "Megascience" Project”, in Tatiana Antipova, editor, Integrated Science in Digital Age: ICIS 2019, page 329:
glosses: An area of scientific inquiry which is so complex and/or expensive that international collaboration is required to investigate it.
Hyponyms: Big Science
big science
megasciences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megascience
occhiolism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊkjəʊˌlɪzəm/
ipa: /ˈoʊkjoʊˌlɪzəm/
Etymology: Coined by American author and neologist John Koenig, creator of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, from Italian occhiolino (“little eye”), the name given by inventor Galileo to a prototype microscope in the early 1600s, + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: I've never been consumed by so much occhiolism, I was so small so insignificant.
ref: 2015, Johnny Close, Eco-Lonely, page 186:
text: Willow is a building site when I reach the top. It's barely recognisable as the place I had held a vimto-coke in one hand and an optimistic sense of occhiolism in the other merely 24 hours ago. The same people who served me several shots at the now dismantled bar are busying themselves with tearing up the carpet (there was a carpet!?) and in among them all is Tommy Fong, watching over the scene.
ref: 2015 September 29, Tom Butler-Roberts, “Tommy Fong's Final Farewell”, in York Vision, The University of York, page 11:
text: Increased depth in a scene, with the subject in the distance, can make a viewer feel as though the space is vast and provide a sense of occhiolism, while increased depth with the subject and environment filling up the scene can create a sense of claustrophobia.
ref: 2018, Shannon Benna, "Systems and Practices to Produce Stereoscopic Space on Screen", in Image – Action – Space: Situating the Screen in Visual Practice (eds. Luisa Feiersinger, Kathrin Friedrich, & Moritz Queisner), page 143
glosses: The awareness of the small scope of one's own perspective and the way it limits one's ability to fully understand the world.
wikipedia: Galileo
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Timeline of microscope technology
adronitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌædɹəʊˈnaɪtɪs/
ipa: /ˌædɹoʊˈnaɪtɪs/
Etymology: Coined by by American author and neologist John Koenig in 2013, creator of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, with reference to Latin andronitis, described by him as a "hallway connecting the front part of the house with a complex inner atrium" in Ancient Roman architecture. According to Koenig, "one quirk of Roman houses" is that front rooms generally have Greek names while back rooms have Latin names, something he saw as characteristic of "your outer self and your inner self […] speaking in completely different languages."
Senses: examples: text: Still, he contained^([sic]) his silent streak and finally, I just hung up with a feeling of adronitis.
ref: 2019, Jonna Wahl, Bloody Bloom, unnumbered page:
text: The more I learn
The more different I become
I begin to to^([sic]) feel mauerbauertraurigkeit
On top of adronitis
ref: 2019, Quashon Mayes, “Chilly Log Cabin Vibes”, in Geniuses Don't Belong In The Hood, unnumbered page:
text: Adronitis makes me not want to communicate with people.
ref: 2019, Zaffa Khalid, Deep Thinking, page 5:
glosses: Frustration with the amount of time required to become truly familiar with someone.
wikipedia: The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
senilocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: senilocracies
Etymology: From senile + -ocracy.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: gerontocracy
text: The national party is divided into two factions: the progressists, who want to overthrow the senilocracy and bring to power the young and vigorous capacities that are needed by the state of the country; and the acculards [blind alley men, " stick-in-the-muds "] who are endeavouring to cling to all the old clothes of our government.
ref: 1899, The Personal Opinions of Honore de Balzac, page 19:
text: The chairmen of committees are beyond the reach of the Administration and even of Congress itself and constitute a kind of senilocracy that makes as much trouble and confusion as anything in Congress.
ref: 1942 August 17, Life, page 84:
text: This apparent Soviet receptivity to arms control can be attributed to several factors. First, after a number of years of suffering under a “senilocracy,’ the Soviet Union, at last, is under the direction of a dynamic, “live” leader who is able to make decisions, to respond more flexibly to the challenges of East-West public diplomacy, and to appreciate the impact of Soviet behavior on other nations.
ref: 1988, Soviet-American relations : understanding differences, avoiding conflicts, page 142:
glosses: A form of government where society is ruled by the senile.
Related terms: necrocracy
octopus stinkhorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octopus stinkhorns
Senses: examples: text: There are many types of stinkhorn fungus, including the orange squid or octopus stinkhorn (Clathrus columnatus) that has branched fingers and secretes a brown gooey-looking substance that smells worse than it looks.
ref: 2005 December 10, Yvonne Swanson, “Olfactory assault”, in St. Petersburg Times, St. Petersburg, Florida, page 3F:
text: A walker was stunned after spotting a rare smelly fungus – which is bright pink with “tentacles” and is known as “Octopus Stinkhorn”.
ref: 2014 December 27, “Moor walker finds a ‘Octopus Stinkhorn’”, in Western Daily Press, Bristol, page 6:
text: A native fungus, the Octopus Stinkhorn, or Devil's Fingers, still smells of rotting meat regardless of what it's called.
ref: 2016 March 22, “Devil of a fungus in Bush Capital”, in The Canberra Times, page 8:
text: Meanwhile, a rare octopus stinkhorn or devil's fingertips (Clathus archeri, below right) has popped up at RHS Garden Rosemoor in Devon.
ref: 2019 October 20, anonymous author, “Tread softly, for you tread on my mushrooms”, in Country Life, Bath, England, page 25:
glosses: A fungus of the genus Clathrus, especially C. archeri, featuring pink or white 'arms' and an odor similar to rotten meat.
Synonyms: sense: Clathrus archeri
word: devil's fingers
sense: Clathrus columnatus
word: column stinkhorn
Related terms: stinkhorn
column stinkhorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: column stinkhorns
Senses: examples: text: Clathrus columnatus, a k a column stinkhorn, arises the same way all stinkhorn fungi do — via a subterranean “egg” that, when mature, sprouts a fruiting body that can appear in a variety of shapes (starburst, squid, basket or wiffle ball, zombie hand, etc., but, in this case, columnlike). The fruiting body, in turn, produces an olive-colored slime and that gut-wrenching, carrionlike stench so attractive to flies.
ref: 2010, “Urban Forager: Season of Stinky Cheese Puffs”, in New York Times:
text: Clathrus columnatus, the scientific name for the column stinkhorn, is a north Florida native which is common to many gulf coast locales. This colorful fungus has also been known by the common name “dead man’s fingers,” among other labels.
ref: 2019 April 19, “Colorful ‘dead man’s fingers’ emits foul odor”, in Tallahassee Democrat, page C3:
glosses: A fungus, Clathrus columnatus, featuring two to five orange or red vertical columns joined at the top, and a fetid gleba.
Related terms: stinkhorn
octopus stinkhorn
devil's fingers
column stinkhorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of column stinkhorn
octopus stinkhorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of octopus stinkhorn
certain persons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of certain person
puberphonias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puberphonia
senilocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of senilocracy
lachesism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlækəˌsɪzəm/
Etymology: From Lachesis + -ism; coined by American author and neologist John Koenig, creator of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, with reference to the Ancient Greek goddess Lachesis, the Fate responsible for allotting the span of each mortal's life.
Senses: examples: text: I'd always been fascinated by lightning and had always had an unexplainable lachesism. I'm not sure why I had this desire to be struck by disaster and survive, to be struck by lightning in fact, […]
ref: 2015, Johnny Close, Eco-Lonely, page 110:
text: "What if I become just another flower on the side of the road?" I looked to him, shaking uncontrollably yet strangely calmed by an underlying sense of lachesism.
ref: 2019, Jonna Wahl, Bloody Bloom, unnumbered page:
text: In that sense, we can probably say that the Covid-19 pandemic, which put the world on hold for over a year, satisfied our collective lachesism.
ref: 2021, "Sketching", The Designing Linguist, Issue #1 (2021), page 5
glosses: The yearning for the clarity or reprioritisation afforded by surviving a disaster.
wikipedia: Fates
Lachesis
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
I'm American
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Indicates that the speaker is American.
I'm Canadian
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Indicates that the speaker is Canadian.
I'm British
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Indicates that the speaker is British.