cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
craniometrist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: craniometrists
Senses: glosses: A practitioner of craniometry.
craniometrists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of craniometrist
kookism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kook + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Buckley associates "right-wing kookism" with the John Birch Society.
ref: 2018, Jodi Dean, Publicity's Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy, page 66:
glosses: Kooky beliefs or behaviour.
crankism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From crank + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The beliefs or behaviour of a crank (unconventional person); eccentricity; kookishness.
creamable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cream + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be creamed.
creeping zinnia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creeping zinnias
Senses: glosses: Any of the flowering plants of the genus Sanvitalia.
creeping zinnias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creeping zinnia
Red-Nose Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: ‘Red-Nose Day’ puts chuckle in charity
ref: 1989 March 11, “Staid, olde Britain goes bonkers”, in Dayton Daily News, volume 112, number 183, Dayton, Oh., page 8 - A:
text: The inspiration for “The Great Logan Nose-On” is from the fun-raising efforts of Comic Relief, a coalition of comedians and aid groups in Britain. That group recently held its second annual “Red-Nose Day” in which 6 million noses were sold. Proceeds went to Third World projects and the “Save the Children Fund.”
ref: 1989 March 14, Bill Moor, “’Tis a good day to go bonkers in green honker”, in South Bend Tribune, 117th year, number 6, page B14:
text: Of course, everyone has heard of Red-Nose Day, but the organisers of this campaign are hoping that, soon, Green Ribbon Day will become just as well-known for drivers in cars running lead-free or about to have their vehicles adjusted are being asked to flutter a green ribbon from their car windows.
ref: 1989 September 29, “Get the lead out”, in The Irvine Herald and Kilwinning Chronicle, section “Ayrshire Classifieds”, page forty-three:
text: So now August in Australia is Red-Nose month, with the campaign reaching a peak on Red-Nose Day, the 31st. The campaign raised $1.3 million nationally for SIDS in the first year, $3.1 million in the second and it is expected to bring in $5 million this year.
ref: 1990 August 5, Leslie Falkiner, “On the nose”, in The Sunday Age, number 51, Melbourne, Vic., section “Agenda”, page 1:
text: Labour’s candidate, City Coun David Robinson said: “Choosing such a candidate on Red-Nose Day must have left the Tories with red faces.”
ref: 1991 March 16, Eileen Nederlof, “Tory faithful back TV man to fight seat”, in Daily Post, page 5:
text: Red-Nose Day Fund Drive Set / “Red-Nose Day USA 1993” is a volunteer-driven community awareness and fund-raising campaign for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
ref: 1993 March 23, “Red-Nose Day Fund Drive Set”, in Athol Daily News, volume CCXXXII, number 68, Athol, Mass., page 2:
text: Friday is the third annual Red-Nose Day recognized by Jesse’s George Ray and Joy Hazel, who themselves lost their son, Jesse, to SIDS in 1991.
ref: 1994 April 14, Laura Loftus, “Red Nose Day not clowning matter”, in Daily News, year 140, number 89, Bowling Green, Ken., page 4-B:
text: LEOS is offering a smashing start to 1995 with a super mountain bike competition and the chance to have some fun with Comic Relief. Red-Nose Day is coming soon but we cannot say when as that’s part of the fun.
ref: 1995 January 26, “Grin & win …and raise money for Comic Relief”, in Clevedon, Nailsea, Yatton & Portishead Mercury, page 23:
text: RED-Nose Day is on March 17 but somebody’s stealing a march on the rest of us. Penny-pinching Mr Bean, who sometimes poses as actor and comedian Rowan Atkinson, is a good-natured chap at heart and wants to give the vital charity event as much publicity as possible.
ref: 1995 March 2, “He’s got a red nose but a heart of gold!”, in Dover Express, section “Wheels”, page 1:
glosses: Alternative form of Red Nose Day.
favor bank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Popularized in The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987).
Senses: examples: text: “You ever hear of the Favor Bank?”
“The Favor Bank? No.”
“Well, everything in this building, everything in the criminal justice system in New York”—New Yawk—“operates on favors. Everybody does favors for everybody else. Every chance they get, they make deposits in the Favor Bank.[…]
ref: 1987, Tom Wolfe, “The Favor Bank”, in The Bonfire of the Vanities, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, →ISBN, page 384:
text: What is this Favor Bank?’ ‘It was an American writer who first mentioned it. It’s the most powerful bank in the world, and you’ll find it in every sphere of life.’
ref: [2005, Paulo Coelho, The Zahir, Harper Perennial, →ISBN:
text: Tom Hopkins, the well-known sales trainer and author, calls this the favor bank in How to Master the Art of Selling (1982). In every relationship, there is something called a favor bank. Whenever you do someone a favor, you are making a deposit in this bank.
ref: [2010, Joel Gendelman, Consulting Basics, American Society for Training and Development, →ISBN, page 140:
text: Founders in a crisis call Altman first, relying on his knack for high-speed trading in the Valley’s favor bank[…]
ref: 2016 October 3, Tad Friend, “Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: A notional bank where favors (acts of goodwill in a relationship) are tallied up.
wikipedia: The Bonfire of the Vanities
crested auklet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crested auklets
Senses: glosses: The small seabird Aethia cristatella.
crested auklets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crested auklet
crested duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crested ducks
Senses: glosses: A duck of species Lophonetta specularioides, of South America.
crested ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crested duck
blue iceberg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue icebergs
Senses: glosses: An iceberg which has rotated or flipped to expose its previously submerged side, thus having a smooth texture and a bluish hue.
blue icebergs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue iceberg
Creswellian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Creswell + -ian.
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A British Upper Palaeolithic culture named after the type site of Creswell Crags in Derbyshire.
search out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: searches out
form: searching out
form: searched out
form: searched out
Senses: examples: text: Who went in the way before you to ſearch you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to ſhew you by what way ye ſhould goe, and in a cloud by day.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 1:33, column 2:
text: How are the things of Eſau ſearched out! how are his hid things ſought up!
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Obadiah 1:6, column 1:
text: The presence of subclinical metabolic abnormality should be carefully searched out.
ref: 1994 September, S Yoshikawa, “[Idiopathic osteoporosis]”, in Nihon Rinsho, volume 52, number 9, →PMID, abstract (in English), pages 2400–4:
text: who went ahead of you on your journey, in fire by night and in a cloud by day, to search out places for you to camp and to show you the way you should go.
ref: 2011, Biblica, Holy Bible: New International Version, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, →ISBN, Deuteronomy 1:33:
synonyms: ferret out
seek out
hunt out
glosses: To find by searching.
crissal thrasher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crissal thrashers
Senses: glosses: Toxostoma crissale, a large American thrasher.
crissal thrashers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crissal thrasher
croaking gourami
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: croaking gouramis
Senses: glosses: Trichopsis vittata, a small freshwater labyrinth fish of the gourami family, native to still waters in Southeast Asia.
Related terms: dwarf croaking gourami
green croaking gourami
croaking gouramis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of croaking gourami
Hopton Wafers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Recorded as Hopton Wavre 1236, with manorial affix from the de Wavre family.
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish in south Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO6376).
scisaac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Scott + Isaac.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ship of characters Scott McCall and Isaac Lahey from the Teen Wolf series.
Synonyms: McLahey
guivre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guivres
head_nr: 1
Senses: examples: text: The guivre / The legless and wingless guivre would have seemed a mere serpent, albeit an immensely powerful one, except for its massive dragon head, horned and bearded. Guivres liked to live in forests and wells—anywhere near water[…]
ref: 1984, Dragons, Time Life Medical:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
human-sciences
lifestyle
monarchy
mysticism
mythology
nobility
philosophy
politics
sciences
head_nr: 1
glosses: A serpentine creature, variously one with no limbs (like a simple snake, but often depicted swallowing someone), or with wings and only two legs (a wyvern).
guivres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guivre
amphipteres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amphiptere
smooth talker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smooth talkers
form: smooth-talker
form: smoothtalker
Senses: examples: text: The three local men didn't recognize him, but he seemed to be a real smooth talker with a Southern drawl of some sort.
ref: 2016 April 7, Steve Jackson, Smooth Talker: Trail Of Death, WildBlue Press, →ISBN:
text: So today I remembered the smooth talkers in my life. I don't have any more smooth talkers in my life. Because they piss me off. They piss me off because they don't understand HOW to smooth talk. The proper way. There is an art form.
ref: 2019 November 23, Scarlett Kennedy, How To Psychoanalyze Someone, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 64:
text: In France, Le Pen’s RN, spearheaded by Jordan Bardella, a handsome smooth-talker like Macron, only younger, has a huge lead.
ref: 2024 May 4, Simon Tisdall, “Giorgia Meloni and Ursula von der Leyen, the double act that is steering the EU ever rightwards”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
glosses: A person who smooth talks.
Related terms: smooth talk
smooth talkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smooth talker
Doddington and Whisby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in North Kesteven district, west of the city of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, which includes these two places.
thermoporometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Morphologically thermo- + porometry
Senses: qualifier: materials science
glosses: A calorimetric method for measuring porosity.
Numinbah horse sickness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Crofton weed poisoning in horses, leading to pulmonary toxicosis.
Crofton weed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Crofton weeds
Senses: glosses: Ageratina adenophora, a flowering plant native to Mexico and Central America.
Related terms: Numinbah horse sickness
Crofton weeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Crofton weed
cromeski
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cromeskis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kromesky.
cromeskis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cromeski
Kromfohrlanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kromfohrlander
barcode-reader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barcode-readers
Senses: examples: text: The series will make much of how it gave us the first glimpses of such breakthroughs as the first breathalyser (way back in 1967), pocket calculators (1971) and the barcode-reader (1983).
ref: 1997 August 3, Robert Matthews, “Tomorrow never comes”, in The Sunday Telegraph, number 1,886, section “Review”, page 4:
text: Nobody seriously suggests that navigating the aisles of a supermarket with a barcode-reader in one hand and a wire shopping chariot in the other is a highlight of contemporary civilisation.
ref: 1998 June 13, Dee Siner, “Selling out”, in The Guardian, page 70:
text: In the IT business they use ‘legacy’ when they mean ‘old’ (probably best not to ask why) and this is how a company that sells barcode-readers described one of their very old systems: A legacy narrowband wireless system that had served its purpose over 10 years but had gone end of life.
ref: 2006, John Humphrys, Beyond Words: How Language Reveals the Way We Live Now, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 7:
text: I threw myself in to decoding this new and unfamiliar world: one of scanning each label on every item of food to see if I could eat it or not (bewildering, to begin with, but now I do it without even thinking about it, my brain like a barcode-reader).
ref: 2023 March 18, Lizzy Davies, “My food revolution: how I learned to love a gluten-free diet”, in The Guardian, page 19:
glosses: Alternative form of barcode reader.
barcode-readers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barcode-reader
Cromwellian chair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cromwellian chairs
Senses: topics: furniture
lifestyle
hypernyms: chair#Noun
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furniture#Noun
glosses: A kind of leather chair, studded (ornamented with nailheads), having a rectangular seat and separate rectangular back, from the time of Cromwell; a later example made in the manner of such chairs.
Cromwellian chairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cromwellian chair
cross-back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-backs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crossback.
cross-backs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross-back
cross-disciplinary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cross-disciplinary
form: most cross-disciplinary
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crossdisciplinary.
Derived terms: cross-disciplinarity
crossite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crossites
Etymology: From Cross + -ite, after the American petrologist Charles Whitman Cross.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An inosilicate double-chain sodic amphibole mineral of the riebeckite group, now discredited.
crossites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crossite
cross-linkage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-linkages
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crosslinkage.
cross-linkages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross-linkage
tau cross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tau crosses
Senses: glosses: A cross shaped like the Greek capital letter tau, sometimes with all three ends of the cross expanded.
tau crosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tau cross
crowded together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crowd together
cuichunchulli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The plant Hybanthus parviflorus.
Cuitlatec
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cuitlatecs
form: Cuitlatec
Senses: glosses: A member of a particular ethnic group of Guerrero, Mexico.
Cuitlatec
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The extinct language isolate of these people.
Cuitlatecs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cuitlatec
redcurrant jellies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redcurrant jelly
Cumberland sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A savory English sauce made with redcurrant jelly, mustard, salt and pepper, blanched orange peel, and port wine.
chanson de geste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌʃɒ̃sɒ̃ də ˈʒɛst/
/ʃɑnˌsɑn də ˈʒɛst/
Forms: form: chansons de geste
Etymology: From French chanson de geste.
Senses: glosses: A type of epic medieval French poem, having a characteristic verse form and typically featuring historical characters.
cup custard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cup custards
Senses: glosses: A custard dessert served in cups.
cup custards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cup custard
Queen Camel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Recorded as Cantmael in 995, and Camelle 1086 (DB). The word Queen is believed to refer to Eleanor of Provence from the 13th century.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST5924).
wikipedia: Eleanor of Provence
Related terms: West Camel
ba-dum-tss
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: It seems to me that new fans are often some of the most open to new and interesting premises in creator-owned books. Thanks for giving us a shot, and here's hoping you keep seeking out the less-established titles. That's how you find the..........Gems. (Ba-dum-tss.)
ref: 2023 April, Melissa Gifford, “The Doctor Is In”, in Chuck Brown, edited by Melissa Gifford, Flawed, number 6, Portland, OR: Image Comics, page unknown:
glosses: Alternative form of ba-dum ching.
Drumpellier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: An older 19th century spelling was Drumpeller.
Senses: glosses: An outer western suburb of Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS7165).
curbash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curbashes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kurbash.
curbashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curbash
pan-genome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pan-genomes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pangenome.
manure forks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manure fork
Manx longhorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Manx longhorn
longue-vues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of longue-vue
longnose stonebashers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of longnose stonebasher
longitudinal fissures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of longitudinal fissure
longfathers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of longfather
Lapland longspurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lapland longspur
geolongitudes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geolongitude
protoelongates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protoelongate
protodolomites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protodolomite
protoalkaloids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protoalkaloid
Seram long-tailed mosaic-tailed rats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Seram long-tailed mosaic-tailed rat
thick-billed longspurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thick-billed longspur
thick lips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thick lip
thiefesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thiefess
gentle breezes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gentle breeze
gift wraps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gift wrap
goatkeepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goatkeeper
goalshooters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goalshooter
golf pros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of golf pro
grubfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grubfish
hair brushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hair brush
hair forks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hair fork
happy meals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of happy meal
hen runs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hen run
hockey balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hockey ball
picopumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picopump
thistleballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thistleball
house balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of house ball
hot-tubbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot-tubber
pickle balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pickle ball
house bands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of house band
pickle-balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pickle-ball
sailor's eyeballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sailor's eyeball
cutty-stool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cutty-stools
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cuttystool.
CV-19
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: During the CV-19 pandemic, governments across the world deployed the same containment measures […]
ref: 2022, Juliette E. Torabian, Wealth, Values, Culture & Education, page 6:
glosses: Synonym of COVID-19.
synonyms: word: COVID-19
cyclo-cross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cyclocross.
Wizard's Eye
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Wizard's Eye
Senses: glosses: The Small Dark Spot on the planet Neptune.
crowds together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crowd together
crowding together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crowd together
vanity label
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vanity labels
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A record label established as a wholly or partially owned subsidiary of another label, and nominally owned by one of that label's artists, allowing them to release music by other artists they admire.
vanity labels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vanity label
frattiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fratty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being fratty.
pre-pend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pre-pends
form: pre-pending
form: pre-pended
form: pre-pended
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of prepend (“to attach (an expression, phrase, etc.) to another, as a prefix”).
pre-pended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pre-pend
WDL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WDLs
Senses: examples: text: We describe the main automated and manual steps taken before, during and after assembly. A combined set of workflow description language (WDL) formatted assembly workflows is available from Dockstore that captures each of the steps for filtering adapter-contained reads and running Hifiasm[.]
ref: 2023 May 11, Wen-Wei Liao, Mobin Asri, Jana Ebler, et al., “A draft human pangenome reference”, in Nature, volume 617, →DOI:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of workflow description language.
Reichert value
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Reichert values
Etymology: Named after the chemist Emil Reichert.
Senses: synonyms: Reichert-Meissl number
Reichert-Meissl-Wollny number
Reichert-Meissl-Wollny value
coordinate_terms: Kirschner value
Polenske value
glosses: A numeric indicator of the amount of volatile fatty acid which can be extracted from a particular fat or oil through saponification, equal to the number of millilitres of 0.1 normal hydroxide solution necessary for the neutralization of the water-soluble volatile fatty acids distilled and filtered from 5 grams of the given fat.
Reichert values
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Reichert value
Reichert-Meissl number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Reichert-Meissl numbers
Etymology: Named after the chemists Emil Reichert and Emerich Meissl.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Reichert value.
synonyms: word: Reichert value
Reichert-Meissl-Wollny number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Reichert-Meissl-Wollny numbers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Reichert value.
synonyms: word: Reichert value
Reichert-Meissl-Wollny value
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Reichert-Meissl-Wollny values
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Reichert value.
synonyms: word: Reichert value
Jerezano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jerezanos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Jerezano. This surname is most commonly found in Honduras.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Parenica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A traditional Slovak cheese that is steamed and usually smoked, and was originally made from sheep's milk.
lark sparrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lark sparrows
Senses: glosses: Chondestes grammacus, a New World sparrow.
lark sparrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lark sparrow
VNTR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VNTRs
Senses: examples: text: We estimated that the following percentage of elements were correctly assembled: 95.4% of alpha satellites; 91.5% of human satellites 2 and 3; 97.7% of segmental duplications (SDs); 94.3% of variable number tandem repeats (VNTRs); 94.2% of short tandem repeats (STRs); and 98.8% of all human repeats²⁶.
ref: 2023 May 11, Wen-Wei Liao, Mobin Asri, Jana Ebler, et al., “A draft human pangenome reference”, in Nature, volume 617, →DOI, page 313:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of variable number tandem repeat.
VNTRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of VNTR
futz around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: futzes around
form: futzing around
form: futzed around
form: futzed around
Senses: glosses: To waste time frivolously or busy oneself with minor tasks; to experiment or tinker.
examples: text: I am nobody to futz around with when I know myself to be four hundred per cent in the right.
ref: 1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint:
glosses: To mess or interfere with.
high-calorie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more high-calorie
form: most high-calorie
Senses: examples: text: Homemade granola is very high-calorie.
antonyms: low-calorie
glosses: High in calories; having lots of calories.
genomicize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: genomicizes
form: genomicizing
form: genomicized
form: genomicized
form: genomicise
Etymology: From genomic + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: We are far from understanding how organisms with small genomes function, let alone how the human genome is organized. As more and more scientific disciplines get “genomicized”, the field will undergo continual transformation, thus a book like this one can only capture a flavor and a moment in time.
ref: 2002, Christoph W. Sensen, “Introduction”, in Christoph W. Sensen, editor, Essentials of Genomics and Bioinformatics, Weinheim: Wiley-VCH, →ISBN, page 2:
text: A plan to ‘genomicize’ epigenomics research and pave the way for breakthroughs in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human disease.
ref: 2008 August 7, The American Association for Cancer Research Human Epigenome Task Force; European Union, Network of Excellence, Scientific Advisory Board, “Moving AHEAD with an international human epigenome project”, in Nature, volume 454, →DOI, page 711:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: To make genomic; to apply to the field of genomics.
Derived terms: genomicization
Bickenhill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Bickenhill and Marston Green Parish Council) in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP1882).
wikipedia: Birmingham Airport
cyclorubber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclorubbers
Etymology: From cyclo- + rubber.
Senses: glosses: cyclized rubber
cyclorubbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclorubber
hundredfolded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hundredfold
samefag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: samefags
Etymology: From same + -fag.
Senses: examples: text: The board (or possibly just a samefag?) had spoken: Tao Lin had won.
ref: 2014, The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra, Morrisville, N.C.: Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 448:
text: One early adaptation, for example, which appeared on 4chan in 2012, adds only the homophobic slur "SAMEFAG" to the image—a term commonly used on 4chan to denote a person on the site who creates multiple posts by pretending to be multiple people.
ref: [2021, Lyndsay Michalik Gratch, Ariel Gratch, Digital Performance in Everyday Life, Abington, Oxfordshire: Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, unnumbered page:
text: On /pol/, 4chan discursive practices, such as the calling out and isolation of an accused or alleged "samefag," become complicated processes. Though on other boards that have neither flags nor thread IDs, there are still processes by which a user distinguishes that they are not samefagging, on /pol/ there is often a much more concerted effort to engage with these accusations. The samefag accusation is a common one within 4chan, and this example highlights common response and insult chains between these two (or more) users.
ref: 2022, Dillon Ludemann, And Their Name Was Legion: Discourse and Politics on 4chan’s /Pol/ Board (thesis), page 51:
qualifier: 4chan slang
glosses: Someone who replies to their own post on 4chan pretending to be a different user.
samefag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: samefags
form: samefagging
form: samefagged
form: samefagged
Etymology: From same + -fag.
Senses: qualifier: 4chan slang
glosses: To reply to one's own post on 4chan, pretending to be a different user.
Related terms: sock puppet
samefags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of samefag
samefags
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of samefag
Chelsy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Chelsea.
Senses: glosses: A female given name transferred from the place name.
digital poverty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Lack of access to modern, capable digital devices and networks.
genomicization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genomicisation
Etymology: From genomicize + -ation or genomic + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: In this book we ask how BOLI, as a partial ‘genomicization’ of the taxonomic discipline, has intensified and scaled up the distribution of practices, between field, lab and database?
ref: 2016 [2013], “Introduction”, in Claire Waterton, Rebecca Ellis, Brian Wynne, Barcoding Nature: Shifting Cultures of Taxonomy in an Age of Biodiversity Loss, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 9:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The act or process of genomicizing.
black notice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black notices
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
coordinate_terms: blue notice
green notice
orange notice
purple notice
red notice
yellow notice
glosses: A notice from Interpol seeking information on unidentified dead bodies.
black notices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black notice
green notice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green notices
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
coordinate_terms: black notice
blue notice
orange notice
purple notice
red notice
yellow notice
glosses: A notice from Interpol warning about the criminal activities of a person considered to be a possible threat to public safety.
green notices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green notice
blue notice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue notices
Senses: examples: text: A 26-year-old woman named ‘S A’ “was identified as a DAESH (Islamic State) terrorist wanted with a ‘blue notice’,” the tweet said. An Interpol blue notice is issued to collect additional information about a person’s identity, location or activities in relation to a crime.
ref: 2021 February 15, “Turkey catches New Zealanders linked to Isis entering from Syria”, in The Guardian:
topics: government
law-enforcement
coordinate_terms: black notice
green notice
orange notice
purple notice
red notice
yellow notice
glosses: A notice from Interpol seeking to locate, identify or obtain information on a person of interest in a criminal investigation.
blue notices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue notice
yellow notice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow notices
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
coordinate_terms: black notice
blue notice
green notice
orange notice
purple notice
red notice
glosses: A notice from Interpol seeking to locate a missing person or to identify a person unable to identify themselves.
yellow notices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yellow notice
orange notice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orange notices
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
coordinate_terms: black notice
blue notice
green notice
purple notice
red notice
yellow notice
glosses: A notice from Interpol warning of an imminent threat and danger to persons or property.
orange notices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orange notice
purple notice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purple notices
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
coordinate_terms: black notice
blue notice
green notice
orange notice
red notice
yellow notice
glosses: A notice from Interpol providing information on modi operandi, procedures, objects, devices, or hiding places used by criminals.
purple notices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purple notice
antapology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antapologies
Etymology: From ant- + apology.
Senses: examples: text: I am confident you will have no publike uſe of them, for they will not dare to give a panctual Anſwer to your Antapology. Our Independents in the countrey are bold and pragmatical; I do in this corner make what oppoſition I can, and am reſolved ſo to continue, what hard meaſure ſoever I meet withal.
ref: 1646, Thomas Edwards, The Firſt and Second Part of Gangræna: […], 3rd edition, London: […] T.R. and E.M. […], page 14:
text: Each party dedicates their books unto the Synod, and printed apologies and antapologies, making complaints that the adverſe party did impute unto the Synod that which they never ſaid, and bringing teſtimonies of the Fathers to confirm their own opinion.
ref: 1662, Alexander Petrie, “Century XVI”, in A Compendious History of the Catholick Church, […], The Hague: […] Adrian Vlack, page 255:
text: Nor has he acquainted us when Mr. Harding published his first or second Antapologies, nor when the Bishop went to Padua, nor how long he staid there, nor who were his partners in his visitation for the Queen.
ref: 1810, Christopher Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical Biography: […], volume IV, London: F. C. and J. Rivington, page 6:
text: Antapologies come in two flavors: gracious acceptance and self-righteous fury.
ref: 2008, Ammon Shea, Reading the OED, New York, N.Y.: Perigee Books, →ISBN, page 10:
glosses: A response to an apology.
roar back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: roars back
form: roaring back
form: roared back
form: roared back
Senses: examples: text: They would test their novel cancer vaccine against one of the most virulent forms of the disease, a cancer notorious for roaring back even in patients whose tumors had been removed.
ref: 2023 May 10, Benjamin Mueller, “Pancreatic Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise in Small Trial”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: come roaring back
roar to life
glosses: To suddenly become active, powerful or functional after a period of decline.
cypressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cypress + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Planted or covered with cypresses.
cypriol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An essential oil obtained from the roots of Cyperus scariosus.
cyprides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cypris
Audubon's shearwater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Audubon's shearwaters
Etymology: Named after the ornithologist John James Audubon.
Senses: glosses: Puffinus lherminieri, a common tropical seabird.
wikipedia: John James Audubon
Audubon's oriole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Audubon's orioles
Etymology: Named after the ornithologist John James Audubon.
Senses: glosses: Icterus graduacauda, a New World passerine bird.
wikipedia: John James Audubon
Audubon's warbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Audubon's warblers
Etymology: Named after the ornithologist John James Audubon.
Senses: glosses: Setophaga auduboni, a small passerine bird.
wikipedia: John James Audubon
Nokes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: John-a-Nokes
Audubon's caracara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Audubon's caracaras
Etymology: Named after the ornithologist John James Audubon.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of crested caracara (“the bird Caracara plancus”).
synonyms: word: crested caracara
extra: the bird Caracara plancus
wikipedia: John James Audubon
crested caracara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crested caracaras
Senses: synonyms: Audubon's caracara
Mexican eagle
glosses: The bird Caracara plancus.
crested caracaras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crested caracara
Birdsville disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A disease of horses caused by ingestion of the plant Birdsville indigo.
Birdsville indigo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any of species Indigofera linnaei of leguminous shrubs, that cause Birdsville disease in horses.
indospicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A toxic amino acid, an analog of arginine, found in various plants of the genus Indigofera.
encreaseth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of encrease
Bukid
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An Austronesian language spoken by indigenous peoples of Northern Mindanao in the southern Philippines.
Birnirk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A prehistoric Inuit culture of the north coast of Alaska, dating from the sixth century A.D. to the 12th century A.D.
Bisayan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Visayan.
Bisayan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bisayans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Visayan.
Bisayan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Visayan.
Bisayans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bisayan
Binky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Binkie (“a pet name”).
Related terms: Binky Nabob
octane rating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octane ratings
Senses: glosses: An octane number.
plumeté
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Alternative form of plumetty.
Vocaloid
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈvoʊkəloɪd/
Etymology: From Japanese ボーカロイド (bōkaroido).
Senses: glosses: A singing voice synthesizer software product launched in 2004.
Vocaloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈvoʊkəloɪd/
Forms: form: Vocaloids
Etymology: From Japanese ボーカロイド (bōkaroido).
Senses: glosses: Any singing voice synthesis software.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of vocaloid (“music created using voice synthesis software, such as Vocaloid”).
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of vocaloid (“a voice synthesis software voicebank”).
prodom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pro (“professional”) + -dom, modelled after fandom.
Senses: examples: text: You won't find a finer fanzine, nor one that will get you behind the scenes in fandom and prodom quicker.
ref: 1950 March, Rog Phillips, “The Club House”, in Amazing Stories, volume 24, number 3, page 186:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The realm of professional writers, as opposed to fandom.
bergpalmiet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Tetraria thermalis, a reedlike grass of South Africa.
robotrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: robotrixes
Etymology: From robot + -trix.
Senses: examples: text: The black man paced about across the oil-streaked cement, his arms folded, an absent expression on his face. Evidently he waited for the robotrix attendant to finish fueling up his ship.
ref: 1974, Philip K[indred] Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, New York, N.Y.: DAW Books, Inc., published 1975, page 198:
text: The decor was different in every bar — there were chrome-plated Metropolis joints with dancing robotrixes, and sawdust-on-the-floor Western saloons with gunfights and can-can girls — but the faces were the same.
ref: 1989, Kim Newman, The Night Mayor, London […]: Pocket Books, published 1999, →ISBN, page 132:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A female robot, or one with feminine characteristics.
robotrixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of robotrix
donatary captain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: donatary captains
Senses: examples: text: The donatary captains were thus key figures in the debate, and their charters were the crucial documents to be interpreted.
ref: 1985, Stuart B. Schwartz, Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society, page 254:
text: To profit from their grants, the donatary captains required an auxiliary population of Portuguese settlers.
ref: 1994, Crawford Young, The African Colonial State in Comparative Perspective, page 53:
text: In the 1530s, the Crown issued hereditary land grants to several noblemen, called donatary captains.
ref: 2019, Gabriel Paquette, The European Seaborne Empires, page 102:
glosses: One who held a donatary captaincy; a nobleman who had hereditary authority (granted in the 1530s) over a large tract of land in colonial Brazil, and who was responsible for paying taxes to the king and for seeing that the land was settled, developed, and defended against indigenous people and foreign invaders.
donatary captains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of donatary captain
rimworld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rimworlds
Etymology: Compound of rim + world.
Senses: examples: text: The traffic chief shook his head. "You're making a mistake. You should stay up in the rimworlds where the Orchestra is loved. Downsystem you're nothing."
ref: 1985, Kim Stanley Robinson, The Memory of Whiteness: A Scientific Romance, New York, N.Y.: Tor, →ISBN, page 91:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A planet located near the edge or rim of a galaxy.
rimworlds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rimworld
donatary captaincy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: donatary captaincies
Senses: examples: text: The main feature was the hereditary seigneury or donatary captaincy, under which lordship over extensive territories on the Brazilian coast was granted out between 1533 and 1535.
ref: 1983, James Lockhart, Stuart B. Schwartz, Early Latin America:
text: Pernambuco proved to be the most successful of the donatary captaincies established in Brazil, largely owing to the donatary Duarte Coelho.
ref: 1994, Otto Solbrig, Dorothy J. Solbrig, So Shall You Reap: Farming And Crops In Human Affairs, page 155:
text: Donatary captaincies were the political, territorial, and administrative units of colonial Brazil.
ref: 2006, John Michael Francis, Iberia and the Americas, page 412:
glosses: A hereditary land grant in colonial Brazil, held by a donatary captain.
donatary captaincies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of donatary captaincy
Pevensey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pemse
form: Pemsey
Etymology: From Old English personal name *Pefen, genitive singular *Pefenes + ēa (“river”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Wealden district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ6404).
Derived terms: Pevensey Bay
pyralspite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyralspites
Etymology: Shortened from pyrope, almandine, spessartine + -ite.
Senses: coordinate_terms: ugrandite
glosses: A form of garnet consisting of a solid solution series of pyrope, almandine, and spessartine.
pyralspites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyralspite
ugrandite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ugrandites
Etymology: Shortened from uvarovite, grossular, andradite + -ite.
Senses: coordinate_terms: pyralspite
glosses: A form of garnet consisting of a solid solution series of uvarovite, grossular, and andradite.
ugrandites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ugrandite
rocketport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rocketports
Etymology: Compound of rocket + port.
Senses: examples: text: This time, he knew for whom he was asking: they waited—as they've always waited, at rocketports, pneumatique stations, in delousing sheds and hand-out queues; in the greasy front offices of courts and refugee camps and detention bureaus—tired and grimy and stoned.
ref: 1974, M[ichael] John Harrison, The Centauri Device, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 178:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A spaceport.
rocketports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rocketport
shaggy god story
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shaggy god stories
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of shaggy God story.
shaggy god stories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shaggy god story
Shirky principle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Shirky principle
Etymology: Named after the American technology writer Clay Shirky.
Senses: glosses: The idea that institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.
wikipedia: Clay Shirky
Shirky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Shirky principle
planetman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planetmen
Etymology: Compound of planet + man, modelled after countryman.
Senses: examples: text: One does not disturb a dreamer. It would be dangerous for both your planetman and the dreamer herself.
ref: 1976, Andre Norton, “Get Out of My Dream”, in Perilous Dreams, New York, N.Y.: DAW Books, Inc., page 130:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Someone from one's own planet.
planetmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planetman
Padawan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Padawan, Sarawak (an location in Sarawak, Malaysia)