cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
UFOlogy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Seventies UFO fans also referred to “close encounters,” including the consciousness-raising “close encounter of the third kind,” in which humans and aliens meet. But UFOlogy has gone through a radical change, and in the Nineties the terms of the past are largely obsolete. During the past decade, for instance, literally thousands of people have come forward to say they’ve been kidnapped, or “abducted,” by short, large-headed, thin-lipped entities with saucer eyes.
ref: 1990 December, D. Stacy, T. Sanda, “The alien almanac”, in Omni, volume 13, number 3, pages 97–105:
text: If you have wondered why the government has never come clean on the subject of flying saucers, maybe you should consider why we never take the trouble to brief cows on the reason for their existence. I can guess at least one question you might have by this point: “How extreme can this stuff get before someone decides enough’s enough?” But in UFOlogy, the sky’s the limit.
ref: 1992 November/December, Brian Siano, “Hanging’ with Zontar at the Grassy Knoll”, in The Humanist, volume 52, number 6, pages 43–46:
text: There is no shame in acknowledging that science is unsuited to UFO research, since, as Bauer argued, UFOlogy is a field where definitive answers are unlikely to be found.
ref: 1995 November/December, William Evans, “They are out to get us”, in Mercury, volume 24, number 6, page 27:
text: Hendry, who retired from “UFOlogy” shortly after his book’s publication and has never returned, discovered there are many, many trigger mechanisms for UFO reports besides bright planets, fireballs, reentering space debris, and the moon.
ref: 1997 September, Philip J[ulian] Klass, “A field guide to UFOs”, in Astronomy, volume 25, number 9, pages 30–36:
text: When the cabbie found the place I was reminded of the warlock hangout in Bell, Book, and Candle, only this one was devoted to “UFOlogy.” A cardboard little green man with an “LGM” monogrammed spacesuit was propped against the window where a Coors Light neon glowed.
ref: 2008 April, Thomas R. Dulski, “Guaranteed Not to Turn Pink in the Can”, in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, volume 128, number 4, page 19:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of ufology.
multidispatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multi- + dispatch, as a shorter form of multiple dispatch.
Senses: qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: Synonym of function overloading.
synonyms: word: function overloading
papple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæp.əl/
rhymes: -æpəl
Forms: form: papples
Etymology: Blend of pear + apple.
Senses: glosses: Either of two closely related fruits, both pears with apple-like traits.
The apple pear, Pyrus pyrifolia, sometimes known as the Chinese pear.
glosses: Either of two closely related fruits, both pears with apple-like traits.
The Chinese white pear, Pyrus × bretschneideri, originally derived from the above.
papples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of papple
black box insurance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of motor insurance based around telematics, where the insured has a "black box" installed in the vehicle that monitors driving behavior, and the insured may receive a discount for driving in a consistently safe manner.
I'ld
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: Had I three ears, I'ld hear thee.
ref: 1623, William Shakespeare, Macbeth:
glosses: Contraction of I would.
Synonyms: I'd
kudoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kudo
kudoed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kudo
Renaissance festival
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Renaissance festivals
Senses: examples: text: Hosted by Wham City Comedy, a comedy night featured comedians of all types, experimental, alternative, and classic, bringing their all to a crowd full of sweaty, happy people intent on enjoying themselves. Saturday night featured Violet Gray, a local Baltimore comedian, who brought jokes that mix her experience as a trans woman with her undying love for video games, renaissance festivals, and LARP-ing.
ref: 2016 September 20, Lorelei Ramirez, “Camping, Healing, Cold Brew: The Best of Baltimore's Hidden Art Festival”, in VICE, archived from the original on 14 May 2023:
text: A Renaissance festival is generally a Medieval-inspired outdoor event that tries to immerse those in attendance in what may have been happening in theatre, history and culture during the European Renaissance period from the 14th to 17th century.
ref: 2022 August 25, Colin Butler, “Ontario's only Renaissance festival looks to make ye olde comeback after 2 year COVID-19 hiatus”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 10 Sep 2022:
glosses: Synonym of Renaissance fair.
synonyms: word: Renaissance fair
Derived terms: Ren fest
Renaissance festivals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Renaissance festival
unburred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + burred.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Not burred.
min-entropy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: min-entropies
Etymology: From minimum entropy.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
information-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The smallest of the Rényi family of entropies, corresponding to the most conservative way of measuring the unpredictability of a set of outcomes, as the negative logarithm of the probability of the most likely outcome.
min-entropies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of min-entropy
Tsallis entropy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tsallis entropies
Etymology: Introduced in 1988 by Constantino Tsallis.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A generalization of the standard Boltzmann-Gibbs concept of entropy.
Tsallis entropies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tsallis entropy
ARNI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of angiotensin receptor-neprilysin inhibitor.
Ren fest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ren fests
Senses: examples: text: I'm a fourteen-year veteran of the Ren Fest, and a firm believer that everyone should, at least once in their lifetime, lace up their boots, tighten their corsets, and visit the local faire.
ref: 2014 November 24, Marcia Kester Doyle, Who Stole My Spandex?, Maine: Blue Lobster Book Co., →ISBN, page 275:
text: Like many Ren fests, the Connecticut Renaissance Faire takes place over the course of several themed weekends.
ref: 2019 September 13, Brittany Menjivar, “All's Faire: Reckoning with the Renaissance”, in Yale Daily News, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2023:
text: But jousts are the No. 1 attraction at Ren fests. They are staged throughout the day in permanent arenas — seating in the stands may be subject to distancing guidelines this year — and some focus on skill, others on theatrics.
ref: 2021 June 24, John Bordsen, “Tips for attending 2021 Renaissance festivals”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2023:
synonyms: Ren fair
Ren faire
glosses: Clipping of Renaissance festival.
Ren fests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ren fest
SJP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of single justice procedure.
SJP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Students for Justice in Palestine.
examples: text: What SJP’s selfie trick tells us about the terrifying rise of conspiracy theories [title]
ref: 2025 June 17, Arwa Mahdawi, “What SJP’s selfie trick tells us about the terrifying rise of conspiracy theories”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Initialism of Sarah Jessica Parker.
single justice procedure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: single justice procedures
Senses: topics: law
synonyms: word: SJP
glosses: The situation where a magistrate decides a minor criminal case (such as driving without insurance, or TV licence evasion) without taking it to court.
single justice procedures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of single justice procedure
prodigall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prodigall
form: most prodigall
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of prodigal.
excommunicat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more excommunicat
form: most excommunicat
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of excommunicate.
UFOlogist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: UFOlogists
Senses: examples: text: New Brunswick nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman may not have coined the phrase cosmic Watergate, but he claims to have used it more often than any living UFOlogist. First used in the wake of the Republican break-in at Democratic headquarters in the Watergate complex, Washington, DC, the term refers to an alleged government cover-up of aliens and UFOs.
ref: 1990 December, D. Stacy, T. Sanda, “The alien almanac”, in Omni, volume 13, number 3, pages 97–105:
text: Some UFOlogists claim to have determined the different species of aliens, which star systems they’ve come from, what their technology is like, and where their underground bases are. This makes it hard to imagine a UFOlogist who’s managed to throw nearly every shred of credibility he has to the four winds.
ref: 1992 November/December, Brian Siano, “Hanging’ with Zontar at the Grassy Knoll”, in The Humanist, volume 52, number 6, pages 43–46:
text: “Whispers from Space”: A documentary about Gray Barker, well-known UFOlogist of the 1950s and 1960s, who seems never to have believed in the existence of UFOs at all.
ref: 1996 August 13, “What’s on the program”, in Chicago Sun-Times, page 27 (Features):
text: As if the Zapruder footage and Oliver Stone hadn’t made JFK’s assassination mysterious enough, UFOlogists would have us believe that aliens who landed here in 1947 masterminded the whole thing
ref: 1996 December 30, Rick Marin, T. Trent Gegax, “Conspiracy mania feeds our growing national paranoia”, in Newsweek, volume 128/129, number 27/1, pages 64–68:
text: He dedicates this story to the indefatigable UFOlogist George D. Fawcett and to the late anomalist William R. Corliss.
ref: 2012 September/October, Andy Duncan, “Close Encounters”, in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 123, number 3/4, pages 5–35:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of ufologist.
UFOlogists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of UFOlogist
gunboating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The use of gunboats (small armed vessels).
leanenesse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of leanness.
Sinus Meridiani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: These pictures reveal, in the bright region west of the Sinus Meridiani, a totally unexpected Marscape of confused terrain that is like nothing man has seen on Earth, moon, or Mars before.
ref: 1969 November, Arthur Fisher, “Science Newsfront: Last-minute news and notes to keep you up-to-date”, in Popular Science, volume 195, number 5, page 22:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: An albedo feature on Mars stretching east-west just south of the planet's equator.
Marsscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Marsscapes
form: Marscape
form: marsscape
form: marscape
Etymology: From Mars + -scape, after landscape.
Senses: examples: text: These pictures reveal, in the bright region west of the Sinus Meridiani, a totally unexpected Marscape of confused terrain that is like nothing man has seen on Earth, moon, or Mars before.
ref: 1969 November, Arthur Fisher, “Science Newsfront: Last-minute news and notes to keep you up-to-date”, in Popular Science, volume 195, number 5, page 22:
topics: astronomy
literature
media
natural-sciences
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A view of an area of Mars; a Martian landscape.
4H disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 4-H disease
Etymology: Coined in 1981 by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, since the then newly-discovered disease seemed to affect mainly the "four H's": homosexuals, heroin users, hemophiliacs, and Haitians.
Senses: examples: 2022, Rinaldo F. Canalis, Massimo Ciavolella, Valeria Finucci, Rethinking Medical Humanities
Dr. Peter Piot a Belgian physician noticed that among patients who came from Africa there were as many women as men suffering from the “4H disease.”
glosses: AIDS.
wikipedia: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
m.p.h.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: m.p.h.
Senses: examples: text: The Helio Stallion is the fastest and largest STOL aircraft to be built in the United States: It will whisk away eight to 11 passengers at a cruising speed of 217 m.p.h.
ref: 1969 November, Arthur Fisher, “Science Newsfront: Last-minute news and notes to keep you up-to-date”, in Popular Science, volume 195, number 5, page 22:
related: word: mph
glosses: Abbreviation of mile(s) per hour.
Marsscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Marsscape
Marscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Marscapes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Marsscape.
Marscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Marscape
touron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tourons
Etymology: Blend of tourist + moron.
Senses: examples: text: I peeled off my trencher and looped it through the shoulderstrap of my greatpurse. The youngest pickers eyed me wantonly. But they soon spotted me as a native and went back to hustling the tourons.
ref: 1986, Charles Fernandez, “The Salvaging of Santa Claus”, in Popular Fiction by Oregon Authors, Eugene, O.R.: A Is A Literary Services, →ISBN, page 63:
text: I'd followed a station wagon jam-packed with tourons from New Hampshire all the way out Highway 130, and it pleased me when they slowed to a sedate twenty miles per hour as soon as they passed the town's boundary line, which meant they'd seen the Harry Starbranch unmanned traffic-control device and responded accordingly.
ref: 1995, Gregory Bean, No Comfort in Victory, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 35:
text: In the morning the police sharpsters hacked their way through my screen door with machetes, two hysterical tourons in tow. I was just going to point out where they could find the perpetrator of the previous night's driving atrocities, out playing in the sand on the beach, when the touron woman screamed That's the monster! The touron couple were shouting and pointing at me, ace bandages and bloody gauze around their necks.
ref: 1998, Mark Richard, “Fun at the Beach”, in Charity: Stories, New York, N.Y. […]: Doubeday, →ISBN, page 63:
text: "I gotta slow down a little," Tyra said. "Business hasn't been great. You know so many folks are losing their jobs and things won't pick up till the winter tourons get here."
ref: 2017, Mary Sojourner, “Cyndra Won't Get out of the Truck”, in The Talker: Short Stories, Salt Lake City, U.T.: Torrey House Press, →ISBN, page 117:
qualifier: park ranger slang
glosses: A tourist who acts in an ignorant or idiotic manner.
touron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tourons
Etymology: Borrowed from French touron. Doublet of turron.
Senses: examples: text: The touron with the softest texture is Perpignan, where the maximum temperature is 251 °F (122 °C).
ref: 2010, André Dominé, editor, Food of France, English edition, Potsdam: 7Hill, →ISBN, page 368:
glosses: Alternative form of turron.
tourons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of touron
cu. in.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cu. in.
Senses: related: word: cu in
glosses: Abbreviation of cubic inch.
Feshbach resonance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Feshbach resonances
Etymology: Named after American physicist Herman Feshbach.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: Fano-Feshbach resonance
coordinate_terms: shape resonance
glosses: The situation where two slow atoms collide and temporarily stick together, forming an unstable compound with a short lifetime. It is a feature of many-body systems in which a bound state is achieved if the coupling(s) between at least one internal degree of freedom and the reaction coordinates, which lead to dissociation, vanish.
wikipedia: Herman Feshbach
Fano-Feshbach resonance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fano-Feshbach resonances
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Synonym of Feshbach resonance.
synonyms: word: Feshbach resonance
Feshbach resonances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Feshbach resonance
wavestacking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wave + stacking.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The summing of waveforms to create a composite sound.
Related terms: wavefolding
waveshaping
Fano-Feshbach resonances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fano-Feshbach resonance
minicompact
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minicompacts
form: mini-compact
Etymology: From mini- + compact.
Senses: synonyms: minicar
glosses: An automobile that is smaller than a subcompact.
dysgenically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dysgenically
form: most dysgenically
Etymology: From dysgenic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Refusing the idea that poor whites of the South were racially degenerate or dysgenically mixed, they argued instead that poor whites were suffering from chronic disease, the effects of which were commonly mistaken for degeneracy.
ref: 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 96:
glosses: In a dysgenic manner.
dysgenetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dysgenetically
form: most dysgenetically
Etymology: From dysgenetic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a dysgenetic manner.
grab sample
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grab samples
Senses: glosses: A single sample taken at one time, rather than a composite sample.
grab sample
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grab samples
form: grab sampling
form: grab sampled
form: grab sampled
Senses: glosses: To take a sample of this kind.
grab samples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grab sample
grab samples
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grab sample
grab sampled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grab sample
grab sampling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of grab sample
convenience sampling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A type of non-probability sampling that involves the sample being drawn from that part of the population that is close to hand.
tachyblastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tachy- + -blastic.
Senses: examples: text: Little variation could be found in the size of the tachyblastic eggs produced by the members of any one clone, but some variation may occur from one clone to another.
ref: 1949, Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, page 7:
text: In growing cultures most gastrotrichs produce only tachyblastic eggs.
ref: Ellsworth C. Dougherty, The Lower Metazoa (page 474)
text: Opsiblastic eggs are thick-shelled, a little larger than tachyblastic eggs, and are very resistant to freezing and drying.
ref: 2010, James H. Thorp, Alan P. Covich, Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates, page 167:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Starting to develop immediately.
opsiblastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀψέ (opsé, “late”) + -blastic.
Senses: examples: text: Opsiblastic ova with retarded development occur in freshwater forms, although initiation of the process is little understood .
ref: 1982, Sybil P. Parker, Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms - Volume 1, page 857:
text: If an opsiblastic egg is produced by an individual, it is usually the last oviposition by that animal even if it is also the first.
ref: Ellsworth C. Dougherty, The Lower Metazoa (page 474)
text: Opsiblastic eggs are thick-shelled, a little larger than tachyblastic eggs, and are very resistant to freezing and drying.
ref: 2010, James H. Thorp, Alan P. Covich, Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates, page 167:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Exhibiting a period of dormancy before starting to develop.
illipi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of iluppai.
Fatou component
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fatou components
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A component of the Fatou set.
Fatou components
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fatou component
venime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: venimes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of venom.
Fatou set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fatou sets
Etymology: Named after Pierre Fatou.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A set that is complementary to the Julia set, and that informally consists of values with the property that all nearby values behave similarly under repeated iteration of the function.
wikipedia: Pierre Fatou
Related terms: Fatou component
Fatou sets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fatou set
Bo Derek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bo Dereks
Etymology: Named after American actress Bo Derek (born 1956), who starred in the romantic comedy film 10 in 1979. The bonds reached maturity in 2010.
Senses: examples: text: If you're looking for a sexy investment opportunity, you might consider buying a Bo Derek.
Nearly everybody knows the actress, the perfect “10” of the movies, but not too many people are familiar with the other “Bo Derek,” which; believe it or not, is a long-term U.S. Treasury bond that has had a siren appeal for sophisticated investors.
ref: 1981 May 18, Jack Egan, “Investing in a Perfect ‘10’”, in New York, volume 14, number 20, →ISSN, page 8:
text: “I wanted to ask you about those Telephone Bo Dereks,” he goes on. (Bo Dereks: bonds that mature in 2010.)
“I refuse, absolutely refuse, to talk business at dinner,” she warns, waggling her finger at him and realizing (a beat too late) that she has just escalated the evening onto a personal level.
ref: 1991, Linda Gray Sexton, Private Acts, Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 189:
topics: business
finance
glosses: A 30-year Treasury bond issued by the United States federal government in 1980.
wikipedia: 10 (1979 film)
Bo Derek
international candle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: international candles
Senses: glosses: A candela (unit of light).
outerthickness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outerthicknesses
Etymology: Blend of outerplanar + thickness.
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The minimum number of outerplanar subgraphs which a given graph can decompose into.
outerthicknesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outerthickness
electrophotometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrophotometers
Senses: glosses: A device used to compare the intensity of the light produced by an electric spark.
electrophotometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The use of an electrophotometer.
photo-degradable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of photodegradable.
benzeneazobenzene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzeneazobenzenes
Etymology: From benzene + azobenzene.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of azobenzene.
synonyms: word: azobenzene
pornographomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Addiction to pornography.
pseudoroot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoroots
Etymology: From pseudo- + root.
Senses: examples: text: In Experiment 1, pseudowords made up of Italian derivational suffixes of various frequencies and meaningless pseudoroots were contrasted to pseudowords in which the same pseudoroots were combined with control orthographically legal final sequences.
ref: 2011, R. Harald Baayen, Robert Schreuder, Morphological Structure in Language Processing, page 186:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A fake root word.
examples: text: This allows one to express coefficients of polynomials in terms of pseudoroots.
ref: 2016, Scott Chapman, Marco Fontana, Alfred Geroldinger, Multiplicative Ideal Theory and Factorization Theory, page 398:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A value that appears to be a root of a polynomial equation but that is not actually a root, such as one obtained when factors cancel out in the process of solving the equation.
examples: text: In addition, pseudoroots of anaerobic fungi and various cellulases secreted by rumen microorganisms are the main reasons for the efficient degradation of lignocellulosic biomass in rumen fermentation.
ref: 2023, Gustavo Molina, Minaxi Sharma, Rachid Benhida, Microbial Bioprocessing of Agri-food Wastes:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any projection or nodule, such as the hypha of a fungus, that has a rootlike appearance without serving as an actual root.
pseudoroots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoroot
Tityre-tu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tityre-tus
Etymology: An allusion to the first line in Virgil's First Eclogue: "Tityre tu patulae recubans sub tegmine fagi" ("Tityrus, thou reclining beneath the shelter of the spreading beech tree").
Senses: glosses: A member of a gang of criminal youths that originated in the early 1620s.
Tityre-tus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tityre-tu
rumbowlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rumbowline
cats in meal tubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cat in the meal tub
cats in the meal tub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cat in the meal tub
Edekiri
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Belonging or relating to a group of languages spoken in a band across Togo, Benin, and Nigeria.
floor one could eat off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floors one could eat off
Senses: examples: text: The soot-pervaded smoke from it had turned the walls and ceiling completely black so we had a black-walled kitchen, but with a floor you could eat off.
ref: 2022, Sharon Maas, The Girl from Lamaha Street:
text: Cinnamon went on a tear to get the house ready […] As it stands she has an empty room with a floor you could eat off and a mess of aches and pains, but she's determined to finish up today.
ref: 2023, Christine Pride, Jo Piazza, You Were Always Mine, page 195:
glosses: An extremely clean floor.
floors one could eat off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floor one could eat off
whaddayer
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whaddaya.
monthsary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monthsaries
Etymology: Blend of month + anniversary.
Senses: examples: text: “It's…our monthsary?” / “Is that a question?” / “Of course not!” / She covered her mouth with her hand so I wouldn't see her laugh. “It's not our monthsary.”
ref: 2018 [2017], KenDaniel [Kenneth Olanday], The Conspiration of the Universe, Mandaluyong City: Summit Books, →ISBN, page 189:
glosses: Synonym of monthiversary.
synonyms: word: monthiversary
antiplumming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + plumming.
Senses: examples: text: an antiplumming agent
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
coordinate_terms: antibronzing
glosses: Preventing plum-colored distortion of prints.
antibronzing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + bronzing.
Senses: examples: text: an antibronzing agent
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
coordinate_terms: antiplumming
glosses: Preventing bronze-colored distortion of prints.
cybertextually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From cybertextual + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Therefore this chapter moves into two directions, cybertextually expanding (and reorganizing) the field of architextuality, and specifying the ergodic variety within it.
ref: 2012, Markku Eskelinen, Cybertext Poetics:
glosses: In a cybertextual manner.
architextuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: architextualities
Etymology: Blend of architecture + textuality? Coined by Gérard Genette.
Senses: examples: text: These architextualities, in turn, replicate the metrics and asymmetrical geometries of say the city or a philosophy.
ref: 2008, Mary Valentis, Tara P. Monastero, Paula Yablonsky, TechKnowledgies, page 20:
text: Therefore this chapter moves into two directions, cybertextually expanding (and reorganizing) the field of architextuality, and specifying the ergodic variety within it.
ref: 2012, Markku Eskelinen, Cybertext Poetics:
glosses: The categories and properties of a literary genre that provide the textuality of an individual work.
wikipedia: Gérard Genette
Related terms: architextual
architextually
architexture
architextualities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of architextuality
nonergodically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a nonergodic manner.
architextual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to architextuality.
architextually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In terms of architextuality.
ergocycles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ergocycle
roaring cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roaring cats
Senses: glosses: A cat of the genus Panthera.
the Lord's work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of God's work.
synonyms: word: God's work
PAYO
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Item: TWICELAND Fantasy Park Photobook (Sealed) / Price: 800 pesos only / DOP: PAYO / MOD: SCO or GGX / MOP: BPI or Gcash
ref: 2023 February 28, Teudoongie Shop (@TeudoongieShop), Twitter:
related: word: payo
glosses: Initialism of pay as you order.
bcs
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: synonyms: bc
b/c
bcz
glosses: Abbreviation of because.
Yang-Baxter equation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yang-Baxter equations
Etymology: Named from the independent work of C. N. Yang (1968) and R. J. Baxter (1971).
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A consistency equation first introduced in the field of statistical mechanics, based on the idea that, in some scattering situations, particles may preserve their momentum while changing their quantum internal states.
Related terms: star-triangle relation
Yang-Baxter equations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Yang-Baxter equation
lexipafant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A drug that acts as a potent and selective inhibitor of the phospholipid mediator platelet-activating factor.
kadsurenone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A furanoid that is an antagonist of platelet-activating factor (PAF).
uncappings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uncapping
meet someone where they are
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: meets someone where they are
form: meeting someone where they are
form: met someone where they were
form: met someone where they were
Senses: examples: text: I believe what helps a leader influence is being able to meet someone where they are at in order to communicate in a language that inspires a positive behaviour.
ref: 2015, Patricia Lustig, Strategic Foresight: Learning from the Future, page 171:
text: It's the ultimate in unselfishness to meet someone where they are in hopes of helping them come to know Jesus. What about you? Are you willing to meet people where they are in order to share the truth of the Gospel?
ref: 2021, Chris Thomas, Chris Notes, page 53:
antonyms: impose
obtrude
glosses: To approach a person in a way that suits them and takes into account their personal perspectives or skill level.
Beechingstoke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish in the Vale of Pewsey, central Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU0859).
Trump train
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Trump train
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Political support for Donald Trump.
honey toast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: brick toast
Shibuya toast
glosses: A Japanese dessert made with bread, preferably pain de mie, cut into cubes, brushed with a butter and honey mixture and baked until golden, and filled with fruit, nuts, syrup, cream, etc., and often topped with ice cream.
Shibuya toast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of honey toast (“Japanese dessert”).
synonyms: word: honey toast
extra: Japanese dessert
invexity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The state of being invex.
calean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: /kalē'än/
Forms: form: caleans
Etymology: From Persian قلیان.
Senses: synonyms: hookah
waterpipe
narghile
glosses: A Persian oriental tobacco pipe with a flexible tube.
caleans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calean
sea gooseberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea gooseberry
Kalgoorlie-Boulder
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A local government area in Goldfields-Esperance region, Western Australia.
Kellies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kelly
begpacking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of beg + backpacking
Senses: glosses: The practice of begging for money while backpacking, in order to fund one's travels.
devil's lane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devil's lanes
Senses: glosses: A portion of land of disputed ownership at the boundary of the adjoining lands of two landowners.
devil's lanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of devil's lane
Mercalli intensity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mercalli intensities
Senses: glosses: A measure of the seismic intensity of an earthquake, according to the scale introduced by Italian volcanologist Giuseppe Mercalli.
Mercalli intensities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mercalli intensity
reinback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reinbacks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rein-back.
reinbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reinback
rein-back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rein-backs
form: reinback
Senses: topics: equestrianism
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
glosses: The two-beat movement in which a horse is asked to back up. The horse picks up and sets down its feet almost in diagonal pairs, and moves straight backwards with the line of the forelegs following those of the hind legs.
rein-backs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rein-back
go through great lengths
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misconstruction of go to great lengths.
tulip-breaking viruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tulip-breaking virus
beigish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beigish
form: most beigish
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of beigeish.
Patuxet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Patuxets
form: Patuxet
Senses: glosses: A member of a Native American band of the Wampanoag tribal confederation, living primarily in and around modern-day Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Patuxets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Patuxet
Heberts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hebert
fishing eagle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fishing eagles
Senses: glosses: An eagle of the genus Haliaeetus, a sea eagle
glosses: An osprey
eight-pager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eight-pagers
Senses: examples: text: In an eight-pager titled "Nerts," Moon Mullins is a store clerk.
ref: 2002, Catherine Johnson, Betsy Stirratt, John Bancroft, Sex and Humor: Selections from the Kinsey Institute, page 16:
glosses: Synonym of Tijuana Bible (“kind of pornographic comic book”).
synonyms: word: Tijuana Bible
extra: kind of pornographic comic book
eight-pagers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eight-pager
◌͞◌
Language: English
Part of speech: character
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Used to mark the digraph ⟨oo⟩ as having its 'long' sound: ⟨o͞o⟩ /uː/.
topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Ties together the pronunciation-key digraphs a͞a, a͞e, a͞o, e͞w, c͞i, s͞i, t͞h, t͞i.
Jo-Jo book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jo-Jo books
Senses: examples: text: If it weren't for the fact that my Jo-Jo books are in every drugstore and my name in lights on half of the world's movie theaters, that room would've been empty.
ref: 1971, Stanley Richards, The Best Short Plays, 1971, page 138:
glosses: Synonym of Tijuana Bible (“kind of pornographic comic book”).
synonyms: word: Tijuana Bible
extra: kind of pornographic comic book
Jo-Jo books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jo-Jo book
bluesie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bluesies
Etymology: Compare blue (“pornographic”).
Senses: examples: text: The lowest rung of this reactionary ladder supported the still-scandalous Bluesies or Tijuana Bibles, cheaply printed 8-page snippets of pornographic power fantasy […]
ref: 2014, M. Keith Booker, Comics through Time: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas, page 331:
glosses: Synonym of Tijuana Bible (“kind of pornographic comic book”).
synonyms: word: Tijuana Bible
extra: kind of pornographic comic book
bluesies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bluesie
◌͝◌
Language: English
Part of speech: character
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Used to mark the digraph ⟨oo⟩ as having its 'short' sound: ⟨o͝o⟩ /ʊ/.
male impersonator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: male impersonators
Senses: coordinate_terms: female impersonator
qualifier: performing arts
glosses: A female entertainer who performs cross-dressed as a man.
Synonyms: drag king
Related terms: transvestite
Klanner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Klanners
Etymology: From Klan + -er.
Senses: synonyms: KKKer
glosses: A member of the Ku Klux Klan.
Klanners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Klanner
hospitalizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hospitalizers
Etymology: From hospitalize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who hospitalizes.
hospitalizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hospitalizer
executive boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of executive box
PSBs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PSB
katjiepierings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of katjiepiering
rabbit foods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rabbit food
McGoohan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
poramboke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porambokes
form: porampoke
form: puramboke
form: purampoke
Senses: glosses: Land belonging to the government, on which no revenue is assessed.
puramboke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purambokes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of poramboke.
purampoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purampokes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of poramboke.
porampoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porampokes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of poramboke.
porambokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poramboke
porampokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porampoke
purampokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purampoke
purambokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puramboke
violet-green swallows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of violet-green swallow
pseudo-Tudo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudo-Tudo
form: most pseudo-Tudo
form: pseudo-tudo
form: Pseudo-Tudo
form: pseudo tudo
form: pseudy tudy
form: pseudie tudie
Etymology: From pseudo + Tudor, with the latter element reduced, resulting in internal rhyme. Compare variant pseudy tudy. Attested from the mid 20th century (see quotations below).
Senses: examples: text: Then I went to the Grafton Cinema to have supper in the pseudy tudy interior.
ref: 1955, J P Donleavy, The Ginger Man, France, page 175:
text: The game we play, it’s got its risks, but it’s a heady, intoxicating game, better than nine-to-fiving it and sex, cocktails and rows in a pseudo-Tudo cottage near Sevenoaks.
ref: 1964, Robin Cook, The Crust on its Uppers:
text: also pseudo-tudo
describing an architectural style popular in the UK Home Counties, featuring fake beams and the other appurtenances of (Hollywood-style) Elizabethan and Tudor England.
ref: [2023 March 28, Jonathon Green, “pseudie tudie”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang:
topics: architecture
glosses: In a style similar to Tudor or mock-Tudor architecture; faux Tudor.
pseudo-Tudo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudo-tudo
form: Pseudo-Tudo
form: pseudo tudo
form: pseudy tudy
form: pseudie tudie
Etymology: From pseudo + Tudor, with the latter element reduced, resulting in internal rhyme. Compare variant pseudy tudy. Attested from the mid 20th century (see quotations below).
Senses: examples: text: […] dormers and leaded panes abounded, and so did angles, bright tiles and horizontal windows, the gnomes having combined Pseudo-Tudo with Lutyens-Functional.
ref: 1946, Stella Gibbons, Westwood: Or, the Gentle Powers, page 239:
text: When the public has been so educated that nobody will want to borrow money for Repro-Jacco or Pseudo-Tudo, the building societies will be only too eager to lend
ref: 1960, “New Towns and the Metropolitan Problem”, in Town & Country Planning, page 117:
text: I react (badly) to early-20th-century commercial versions of the period styles by name calling: Pseudo-Tudo, Frizzie-Lizzie, Phooey-Louis, and Phony-Colonie.
ref: 1987, John Crosby Freeman, “Post-Victorian interiors”, in Old-House Journal, page 58:
topics: architecture
glosses: An architectural style using elements of Tudor or Tudor revival architecture, or a building employing such style, especially one judged to be inauthentic or of lower quality.
DECA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Defence Electronics and Components Agency.
glosses: Acronym of Distributive Education Clubs of America.
DECA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DECAs
Senses: coordinate_terms: MoCA
glosses: Acronym of DirecTV ethernet-over-coaxial adapter, a device created by DirecTV that allows for the running ethernet over RG59 and RG6 coax cabling.
DKr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DKr
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Danish krone.
Two Kettle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Two Kettles
Senses: glosses: A member of one of the seven subtribes of the Lakota people, residing on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation.
Two Kettles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Two Kettle
USES
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of United States Employment Service.
VHC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of volumetric heat capacity.
VFO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VFOs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of variable-frequency oscillator.
VFOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of VFO
Dutch iris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dutch irises
Senses: glosses: The hybrid iris Iris × hollandica.
Dutch irises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dutch iris
sinterings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sintering
Dwight-Lloyd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dwight-Lloyds
Senses: glosses: A kind of sintering machine.
Dwight-Lloyds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dwight-Lloyd
mud dragon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mud dragons
Senses: glosses: Any of the phylum Kinorhyncha of small marine invertebrates that are widespread in mud or sand at all depths as part of the meiobenthos.
mud dragons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mud dragon
EGF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EGFs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of epidermal growth factor.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of exponential generating function.
EGFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of EGF
mad wae it
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mad with it.
mad wi' it
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mad with it.
English yew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: English yews
Senses: glosses: The tree Taxus baccata.
English yews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of English yew
e.o.h.p.
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of except as otherwise herein provided.
spicy pillow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spicy pillows
Senses: glosses: A lithium ion battery that has swollen due to gases building up inside.
CFPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CFP
trilliards
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: plural of trilliard
Ortet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ortets
Etymology: Borrowed from French Ortet, itself from Occitan Ortet.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French [in turn from Occitan].
theoricke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theorickes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of theoric.
Vidarbha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit विदर्भ (vidarbha), from वि (vi) + दर्भ (darbha, “Desmostachya bipinnata”).
Senses: glosses: A region of Maharashtra, India.
wikipedia: Desmostachya bipinnata
Breant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Breants
Etymology: Borrowed from French Bréant.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Changhsu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Changshu.
Osmin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Osmins
Etymology: At least partially from French Osmin, itself from Occitan Osmin.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
t͟h
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Used in some American dictionaries for the sound /ð/, contrasting with ⟨th⟩ for /θ/.
Synonyms: ᵺ
k͟h
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Indicates the Scottish or unassimilated German /x/ – e.g. \lôk͟h\ for loch or \bâk͟h\ for Bach.
Synonyms: ḵ
ᴋʜ
ᴋ͜ʜ
ʜ
soundex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soundexes
Senses: examples: text: The soundex algorithm is the most well-known phonetic algorithm.
ref: 1999, Jon Orwant, Jarkko Hietaniemi, John Macdonald, Mastering Algorithms with Perl, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 388:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Soundex.