cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Aeolian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Eolian
Etymology: From Aeolus + -ian or Aeolis + -an.
Senses: glosses: Relating to Aeolus, the Greek god of wind.
examples: text: And they played softly in the Aeolian mode a music that was like the wailing of wind through bare branches on a moonless night, and the Red Foliot leaned forth from his high seat and recited this lamentation: […]
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 31:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Designating the Aeolian mode or scale; the name of the minor key in modal theory.
Derived terms: Aeolian harp
Aeolian Islands
Aeolian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eolian
Etymology: From Aeolus + -ian or Aeolis + -an.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of Aeolian mode.
halitus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halituses
form: halitus
Etymology: From Latin halitus.
Senses: examples: text: She had not realised how butcherly the severed vessels would look, and she had not reckoned with the horrid halitus of blood, which steamed to her nostrils under the blazing sun.
ref: 1932, Dorothy L. Sayers, chapter 1, in Have His Carcase:
glosses: A vapour.
hamatum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin hamatum.
Senses: glosses: The hamate bone.
hastile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hastile
form: most hastile
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of hastate (“spear-shaped”).
synonyms: word: hastate
extra: spear-shaped
crack a book
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cracks a book
form: cracking a book
form: cracked a book
form: cracked a book
Senses: examples: text: You had better crack the books if you want to have any chance of graduating this year.
text: Of course he didn't even know that the Partition happened in the 1940s, let alone any details of cross-border disputes since then. It's not like that guy ever cracks a book.
glosses: To open up one's books, especially in order to study.
Related terms: hit the books
cracked a book
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crack a book
cracks a book
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crack a book
cracking a book
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crack a book
hard nut to crack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hard nuts to crack
form: harder nut to crack
form: hardest nut to crack
Senses: examples: text: He saw the dilemma. . . . It was a hard nut to crack. He could see no way out of it.
ref: 1893, Grant Allen, chapter 11, in Michael's Crag:
text: Germany's inflation proves a hard nut to crack.
ref: 1991 June 14, Leonard Silk, “Economic Scene; Predicting When Upturn Will Start”, in New York Times, retrieved 22 Sep 2011:
glosses: A problem that is challenging to solve.
examples: text: The coast lad found the veteran Mike McTigue a hard nut to crack and judging from the look on the Californian's face when the final bell sounded, he was mighty happy that the fight was over.
ref: 1928 June 8, “Mike McTigue Gives Emanuel a Real Fight”, in Milwaukee Journal, retrieved 22 Sep 2011, page 2:
text: "But Belarus is a hard nut to crack, and it has used these methods to slip out of these East-West pincers before," says Alexander Klaskovsky.
ref: 2011 January 12, Simon Shuster, “Will the E.U. Let Belarus' Despot Off the Hook?”, in Time:
glosses: A situation, person, group, etc. which is difficult to overcome or deal with.
examples: text: The next day Archie, with Andrew Macpherson and Cluny Campbell, made their way through the woods until within sight of the castle. . . .
"It would be a hard nut to crack, Sir Archie," his lieutenant said. "Unless by famine, the place could scarce be taken."
ref: 1885, G. A. Henty, chapter 7, in In Freedom's Cause:
text: Durango, however, may be a hard nut to crack, as it is strong strategically and is reported guarded by 4000 rebels.
ref: 1929 March 15, “Five Mexican Armies March to Meet Rebels”, in Reading Eagle, USA, retrieved 22 Sep 2011, page 1:
text: Nice work if you can get it, but the luxury market is a hard nut to crack.
ref: 2008 October 17, Barbara Wall, “Housing crisis? Not for the superrich”, in New York Times, retrieved 22 Sep 2011:
glosses: A place, opportunity, etc. to which it is difficult to gain entry.
glosses: An amount that is difficult to finance.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hard, nut, crack.
Synonyms: difficult nut to crack
tough nut to crack
hard nuts to crack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hard nut to crack
wiseling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wiselings
Etymology: From wise + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: This may well put to the blush those wiselings that show themselves fools in so speaking. ― Donne.
text: This is the book that makes fools of little wiselings.
ref: 1920, Henry Osborn Taylor, Thought and Expression in the Sixteenth Century:
text: What! a score o' wiselings, and not one to hit oot the means and the way?"
ref: 2010, Bernard Edward Joseph Capes, At a Winter's Fire:
text: A wiseling keeps his real sentiments on this point to himself – guards them as his own life. The best mask for moral heresy is one of pretended sanctity.
ref: 2012, Anton LaVey, Ragnar Redbeard, Might is Right:
glosses: One who pretends to be wise; a wiseacre.
wiselings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wiseling.
wiselike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wiselike
form: most wiselike
form: wise-like
Etymology: From Middle English wiseli, wisliche, from Old English wīslīc (“wise, sagacious, prudent”), equivalent to wise + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling that which is wise or sensible; judicious; sensible.
wise-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wise-like
form: most wise-like
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wiselike.
darshan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: darshans
Etymology: From Sanskrit दर्शन (darśana, “vision”), from a root दृश् (dṛś, “to see”).
Senses: examples: text: A common sight in India is a crowd of people gathered in the courtyard of a temple or at the doorway of a streetside shrine for the darshan of the deity.
ref: 2002, S. Brent Plate, Religion, Art, and Visual Culture: A Cross-Cultural Reader, →ISBN, page 171:
text: Hindus take darshan of a holy person, object, or place, believing that its mere presence, particularly the sight of it, conveys blessings.
ref: 2006, Linda Hess, chapter 8, in The Life of Hinduism, page 183:
text: When approaching a soul who is known to give darshan, be in the same area of the superconscious mind that you feel he must be in.
ref: 2007, Editors of Hinduism Today, What Is Hinduism?: Modern Adventures Into a Profound Global Faith, page 151:
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Hierophany, theophany; being in the presence of the divine or holy (as a person or object).
darshan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: darshanim
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew דַּרְשָׁן (darshán).
Senses: glosses: An exegete.
glosses: A preacher.
incanescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more incanescent
form: most incanescent
Etymology: From Latin incanescens, present participle incanescere (“to become gray”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: hoary or grey; canescent.
metemorphothe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μετεμορφώθη (metemorphṓthē), third person singular passive aorist of μεταμορφόω (metamorphóō, “to transform”) (thus meaning "he was transformed").
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The Transfiguration of Christ.
Synoptics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: ref: 1982, Thomas E. Crane, The Synoptics: Mark, Matthew and Luke interpret the Gospel:
ref: 1992, Adelbert Denaux, John and the Synoptics:
ref: 2005, Ján Majerník, Joseph Ponessa, Laurie Watson Manhardt, The Synoptics: Matthew, Mark, Luke:
glosses: plural of Synoptic
sunyata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunyatas
form: Śūnyatā
form: shunyata
Etymology: From Sanskrit शून्यता (śūnyatā), from शून्य (śūnya, “zero, nothing”) + ता (-tā, “generalizing suffix”). Cognate with Pali suññatā.
Senses: examples: 1993, Sunyata, Emptiness and Self-emptying, Kenosis by Ven. Dr. Rewata Dhamma published in Buddhist - Christian Dialogue London, 27th March
However since emptiness empties itself and so cannot itself be an object of attachment, dynamic 'sunyata' empties itself out as just the things themselves.
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Emptiness, the absence of an intrinsic essence or nature which is stable and separable from other things.
examples: text: 1975, Herbert V. Guenther, Chögyam Trungpa, The Dawn of Tantra, 2001, Shambhala Publications, pages not numbered,
Shunyata can be explained in a very simple way. […] In the shunyata experience, the attention is on the field rather than on its contents.
text: 1986, White Lotus Sutra - Unchecked by Sangharakshita; STUDY LEADERS SEMINAR 1986 Padmaloka.
all dharmas were reducible to sunyata. So in a sense you have got a sort of merging of the particular in the universal.
text: In his treatment of Zen Buddhism, Abe emphasizes that the true self of Zen Buddhism is dynamic śūnyatā: "That is to say, true Sunyata is nothing but the true self and the true self is nothing but true Sunyata"
ref: 1996, Steve Odin, The social self in Zen and American pragmatism, page 112:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Emptiness, in terms of a meditative state; an Eastern concept of a high meditative state of calm and freedom from distraction.
Related terms: karma
mushin
nirvana
inconsummate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inconsummate
form: most inconsummate
Etymology: First attested in 1641; borrowed from Latin incōnsummātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: inconsummate machination
ref: 1736, Matthew Hale, Historia Placitorum Coronæ:
glosses: Not consummated; unfinished; incomplete.
Derived terms: inconsummateness
Śūnyatā
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Śūnyatās
Senses: examples: text: If there is one teaching that is peculiar to Buddhism alone among all the world's religions, I would say it is the principle of Śūnyatā (Voidness or Emptiness).
ref: 1971, Garma C. C. Chang, The Buddhist Teaching of Totality: The Philosophy of Hwa Yen Buddhism, →ISBN, page 60:
text: Accordingly, when one awakens to Śūnyatā in everything one is emancipated from the substantialization of and attachment to everything and realizes the independent relationality of everything including oneself.
ref: 1995, Masao Abe, Steven Heine, Buddhism and interfaith dialogue, →ISBN, page 54:
text: On the intellectual plane śūnyatā is the relativity of all things and conditions, insofar as no thing exists independently in itself, but only in relationship with others and ultimately in relationship to the whole universe.
ref: 2007, Richard Power, Anagarika Brahmacari Govinda, The Lost Teachings of Lama Govinda: Living Wisdom from a Modern Tibetan Master, →ISBN, page 83:
glosses: Alternative spelling of sunyata.
épater la bourgeoisie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: épater le bourgeoisie
Etymology: Borrowed from French épater (“amaze”) la (“the”) bourgeoisie (“middle class”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of épater le bourgeois.
superoleophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superoleophobic
form: most superoleophobic
Etymology: From super- + oleophobic.
Senses: glosses: Very oleophobic.
cheiromancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaɪ.ɹə(ʊ).mæn.si/
ipa: /ˈkaɪ.ɹoʊ.mæn.si/
Senses: examples: text: The Lines upon the palm, or creases formed in closing the hand, differ a little in different persons. In former times, when men were addicted to the arts of divination, and thought more about the connection between the physical world and the world of spirits, and strove, by a close observation of the former, to penetrate the mysteries of the latter, much attention was paid to these lines. They were named with the names of the Planets and the signs of the Zodiac; and a science grew up akin to Astrology and Physiognomy. Cheiromancy was the name given to it; and numerous and voluminous treatises were written upon it.
ref: 1861, Sir George Murray Humphry, The human foot and the human hand, pp.198-9, Macmillan:
glosses: Alternative form of chiromancy.
obeisancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obeisancies
Senses: examples: text: The attitude of obeisancy to seniors and of insolency to juniors sits not well upon a gentleman.
ref: 1910, Journal of the Military Service Institution of the United States, page 261:
glosses: Alternative form of obeisance.
Eastern Bloc
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Eastern Bloc
Senses: examples: Holonyms: Soviet Bloc (sometimes loosely synonymous) < Second World < world, World
topics: geopolitics
government
politics
related: word: Western Bloc
word: <
word: free world#Noun
word: ;
word: First World#Proper noun
glosses: The largely Communist countries of the eastern world, usually Eastern Europe and especially in the Cold War era.
obeisancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In 1648 he was again taken to the bar of the House, and for refusing to kneel or make any other obeisancies he was fined £1000 and his Hensol estate was sequestrated.
ref: 1981, The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorian, page 215:
glosses: plural of obeisancy
Káthmándú
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The total distance from Káthmándú to Pekin, according to the Káji, is 1,268½ kós; according to the Chountra, 1,250 kós ...
ref: 1857, Brian Houghton Hodgson, Selections from the Records of the Government of Bengal, No. XXVII: Papers Relative to the Colonization, Commerce, Physical Geography, &c., &c., of the Himalaya Mountains and Nepal, p. 86
glosses: Alternative form of Kathmandu.
Lipsko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Several locations in Poland
glosses: Lipsko (a town in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland).
glosses: A village in the Gmina of Zamość, Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland.
glosses: A village in the Gmina of Narol, Lubaczów County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland.
Lotus Sutra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a calque of Sanskrit सद्धर्मपुण्डरीकसूत्र (Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtra).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: "Sūtra on the White Lotus of the Sublime Dharma Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtra", a popular Sanskrit treatise which forms the basis of many forms of Buddhism.
ladyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ladyish
form: most ladyish
Etymology: From lady + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Do you think it was a ladyish, afternoon call, another-cup-of-tea-please apparition that visits your Professor Cranks and that journalist chap you are always talking about?
ref: 1884, Joseph Conrad, Tales Of Hearsay:
text: She is an innocent young thing, after all--younger than I ever was--for all her fine dresses and her grand ladyish way.
ref: 1893, Ernest Dowson, Arthur Moore, A Comedy of Masks:
glosses: Characteristic of a lady; ladylike.
Related terms: young-ladyish
slaphappiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From slaphappy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Although there are traces of improv-comedy slaphappiness here and there, Langer has thought through his thesis and his different levels of reality carefully.
ref: 1990 April 13, Mary Shen Barnidge, “What I Need Is a Good Bonk on the Head”, in Chicago Reader:
text: The premiere of Billy Siegenfeld's Getting There, however, does get there: these dancers seem real people on the streets whose emotions run the gamut from trepidation to snappy slaphappiness.
ref: 1994 September 16, Maura Troester, “Body and Soul”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Condition of being slaphappy
wise-hearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wise-hearted
form: wiser-hearted
form: most wise-hearted
form: wisest-hearted
Etymology: From wise + hearted.
Senses: examples: text: Of all missionary work this was the one which necessarily kept most under the surface; they could not talk about it as they did of many other things; the whole custom and tradition of the place was against them, and many of their wisest-hearted missionary ladies knew that they could not precipitate matters, counting converts by baptism, and saying they repressed the work which was being done.
ref: 1878 November 15, “Indian Female Normal School Society”, in The Bristol Mercury and Daily Post, Western Counties, Monmouthshire, and South Wales Advertiser, volume XC, number 9517, Bristol, →OCLC, page 3, column 2:
text: The great argument in favor of the inspiration of Genesis is the absolute impossibility of its classification with works of mere human origin. The sublime simplicity and the unfailing accuracy of its narration of the beginnings of creation, and of the early history of man, is such as could have come only: through infinite wisdom. The knowledge displayed in it is such as still to outreach the highest attainments of scientific research. Its inspiration is self-convincing to the most impartial and wisest-hearted reader.
ref: 1881 July 30, “Notes on Open Letters”, in The Sunday School Times, volume XXIII, number 31, Philadelphia, Pa.: John D. Wattles, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 482, column 3:
text: However, like your sister in ancient Greece, you make your “darker-hearted” perennial descents. And like Persephone, and also like her predecessor, the goddess Inanna, who went below of her own volition, your experience has made you larger-hearted and wiser-hearted as well.
ref: 2001, Gail Godwin, “‘My Heart of Darkness’: Personal Stories”, in Heart: A Personal Journey Through Its Myths and Meanings, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, part II (Heart Themes in Life and Art), chapter III (The Heart of Darkness), page 225:
glosses: Wise; knowing; skilful.
sylvian fissure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sylvian fissures
form: Sylvian fissure
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
synonyms: lateral sulcus
glosses: A fissure in the brain which divides the frontal lobe and parietal lobe above from the temporal lobe below.
theologization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theologizations
Etymology: From theologize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The practice, an act, or a result of theologizing.
otoscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of otoscopy
taleful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more taleful
form: most taleful
Etymology: From tale + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: The cottage hind / Hangs o'er th'enlivening blaze, and taleful there / Recounts his simple frolic.
ref: 1798, James Thomson, Winter:
text: To see the houshold flock around the fire, The children listening to the taleful Sire, To hear the song— harmless sports to join, Live o'er past days, and call these blessings mine!
ref: 1807, Select Collection of Poems:
text: Because democracy is not an upstart which is backed by no good pedigree and tradition. The history of democracy is fairly long and quite taleful too.
ref: 1960, Calcutta Review:
text: Would her taleful past that delimited her present project into her taleful future - or taleless!
ref: 2004, Bode Osanyin, Seraro and Joy, page 225:
glosses: Abounding with stories.
talebook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: talebooks
form: tale-book
Etymology: From tale + book.
Senses: glosses: A storybook.
talebear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: talebears
form: talebearing
form: talebore
form: taleborne
Etymology: Back-formation from talebearer.
Senses: examples: text: So I write that of course there were others, as if it were so natural to talebear that my gossipy betrayal was inevitable, customary, doubtless witty, even right.
ref: 1999, William H. Gass, The tunnel:
glosses: To tell or spread tales.
intravasations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intravasation
sanctum santorum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See sanctum sanctorum.
Senses: examples: text: […] he observed the great and good man standing near the door of his sanctum santorum, smiling sweetly and blandly upon the assembled multitude, and giving a most gracious hearing to each applicant.
ref: 1879, James Dugan, Doctor Dispachemquic: a story of the Great Southern Plague of 1878, New Orleans: Clarke & Hofeline, →LCCN, →OL, page 111:
text: Then doors of the sanctum santorum close with a crash. We are left drained, stunned and stupefied in the dark. Silence seeps back. The ritual is over.
ref: 2004 December 28, Michael Mitchell, The Molly Fire, Toronto: ECW Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 104:
text: You walk up fifty-seven marble stairs. You open these big brass doors, and there in this sanctum santorum, this holy of holies, is this little tiny cabin.
ref: 2008 October 22, Brian Lamb, Susan Swain, editors, Abraham Lincoln: Great American Historians on Our Sixteenth President, PublicAffairs, →ISBN, →OL, page 270:
glosses: Misspelling of sanctum sanctorum.
oh my Goddess
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From oh my God.
Senses: examples: text: Oh my Goddess, I cannot believe that just crawled out of the sink!
text: Chronic dieting is self-absorption taken to an art form. And, oh my Goddess, can it make us sanctimonious! Dieters are worse than people who've found religion: We have seen the Lite, and it is Weight Watchers' ranch dressing. […] Women are starving in Africa, North Korea, the Balkans, and even the US.
ref: 2001, Susan Jane Gilman, Kiss My Tiara: how to rule the world as a smartmouth goddess:
text: While Peregrine used the bathroom Eryn wandered around the pavilion exploring.
She screamed. Her scream reached Peregrine where he sat.
“Oh my goddess, oh my goddess. Get that thing outta here.”
Peregrine ran from behind the shoji. Perhaps a viper had slithered down from the overhead branches.
ref: 2002, Terry J. Kunkel, Is Wanting Enough?, pages 557–560:
text: Being invited to Monkey World was one thing — but Brazil! ‘Oh my Goddess! Oh my Goddess!’ Indigo chanted quietly whilst fumbling with her rucksack. ‘I'd have to ask Dad,’ cautioned Brandon.
ref: 2007, Christine Jordan, Indigo, page 131:
text: “Are you all right?” he whispered softly.
“Oh my Goddess,” I said. “Let's do that again.” And so we did, only with variations on the theme, until I finally remembered we were supposed to be doing protective magic. By that time, I was too physically exhausted to summon anything […]
ref: 2008, Tate Hallaway, Romancing the Dead:
text: The moon came out from behind a cloud and she got a good look at Ray. “Oh. My. Goddess.” The man always has that effect on women. I felt a surge of hope. Ray's not shy.
ref: 2009, Gerry Bartlett, Real Vampires Don't Diet:
glosses: Said in excitement, shock, awe, dismay, or supplication.
erdvark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erdvarks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aardvark.
stempels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stempel
lateral sulcus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lateral sulci
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sylvian fissure.
synonyms: word: sylvian fissure
Republika Srpska
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpʊblɪkə ˈsɜː(ɹ)pskə/
Forms: form: Republic of Srpska
form: Serb Republic
form: Srpska
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Serbo-Croatian Republika Srpska.
Senses: examples: text: In 1995, corralled into an airbase in Dayton, Ohio, their leaders agreed to a complex set of formulae that ended the conflict but left Bosnia with an awkward political legacy, formally splitting it into the Serb-dominated Republika Srpska (RS) and a federation of Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) and Croats.
ref: 2010 September 30, “So this is democracy”, in The Economist:
glosses: A polity within Bosnia and Herzegovina.
angel investor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angel investors
Senses: topics: business
synonyms: business angel
angel
glosses: An investor to a start-up, especially one who invests very early or during the company's initial forming, often with a slim chance of a return on investment.
Related terms: corporate raider
takeover artist
turnaround artist
venture capitalist
white knight
thrice-monthly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thrice + monthly.
Senses: examples: text: Unions had argued the thrice-monthly furlough days ordered by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger beginning in February 2009 were breaches of the governor's authority, but the court ruled in favor of the governor.
glosses: Occurring three times every month.
examples: text: Venezuela al Día, a thrice-monthly tabloid ...
glosses: Published three times per month.
office boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of office boy
puccalo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of pucker + piccolo
Senses: examples: text: Different from casual whistling, puccalo is considered a musical instrument that players can master to perform many kinds of music—from classical and jazz to blues and rock.
ref: 2008, Penny Estes Wheeler, Elasti-Brain:
glosses: the highest level of human oral mouth whistling.
Derived terms: puccaloist
FRET
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FRETs
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Förster resonance energy transfer
examples: 2010, DeRocco et al., "Four-color single-molecule fluorescence with noncovalent dye labeling to monitor dynamic multimolecular complexes", BioTechniques, vol 49, no 5, pg. 807.
FRET interactions among four dyes on DNA have been recorded with a confocal microscope using photodiodes for single point detection.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: fluorescence resonance energy transfer, which is a type of the Förster phenomenon where one or both of the partners in the energy transfer are fluorescent chromophores
Derived terms: smFRET
hyperarousal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperarousals
Etymology: From hyper- + arousal.
Senses: examples: text: Hyperarousal after a traumatic experience is normal. It occurs when a person's brain believes that person is at risk again because it misreads an external signal or trigger.
ref: 2010, Liz Royle, Catherine Kerr, Integrating EMDR Into Your Practice, page 35:
text: A feeling of restlessness and an urge to move in your arms, legs or torso is a state of hyperarousal and can keep you from a good night’s sleep, she said.
ref: 2024 March 11, Madeline Holcombe, “What to do on the nights you are struggling with insomnia, according to experts”, in CNN:
glosses: A state of heightened psychological and physiological tension resulting in reduced pain tolerance, anxiety, excessive response to sensory stimulation, insomnia, and fatigue.
Related terms: hypoarousal
hyperaroused
smFRET
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smFRETs
Etymology: from sm (single-molecule) + FRET (Förster resonance energy transfer)
Senses: examples: 2010, DeRocco et al., "Four-color single-molecule fluorescence with noncovalent dye labeling to monitor dynamic multimolecular complexes", BioTechniques, vol 49, no 5, pg. 810.
We confirmed that the same sample when measured with our two-color smFRET microscope yielded consistent FRET efficiency results (0.31) when using γ specific for that instrument (0.94).
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: single-molecule Förster resonance energy transfer
aporetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aporetical
form: most aporetical
Senses: glosses: Tending to doubt.
Related terms: aporia
aporetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more aporetically
form: most aporetically
Etymology: From aporetic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an aporetic way.
Related terms: aporia
aporesis
submarine fan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: submarine fans
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A shallow marine sediment beyond the opening of a large river etc.
majority draw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: majority draws
Senses: qualifier: competitive fighting
glosses: an outcome in several full-contact combat sports where the majority of judges (usually two out of three) agree that neither fighter won, while the third judge indicates one fighter being the clear winner on his/her scorecard.
majority decision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: majority decisions
Senses: glosses: A decision that gains the acceptance of the majority of voters in a decision-making body, such as a parliament, municipal council or shareholders' meeting.
qualifier: competitive fighting
glosses: An outcome in several full-contact combat sports where two of the three judges agree on which fighter won the match, while the third judge indicates that neither fighter won (i.e., a "draw").
split decision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: split decisions
Senses: examples: text: In a four-to-four split decision, with one concurring and four dissenting written opinions, the Second Circuit denied rehearing en banc.
ref: 2017, “Microsoft Corp. v. United States - Second Circuit”, in American Bar Association, American Bar Association:
text: Fiji assessors find sedition accused not guilty, in split decision. A panel of assessors in Fiji has found 16 people accused of sedition not guilty, in a split majority decision. The verdict was handed down in the Lautoka High Court this afternoon, with three assessors finding the accused not guilty, while two said they were guilty.
ref: 2017, “Fiji assessors find sedition accused not guilty, in split decision”, in RNZ, Radio New Zealand:
glosses: A decision that is not unanimous made by a panel of decision-makers, such as an appellate court.
qualifier: competitive fighting
glosses: an outcome in several full-contact combat sports where two of the three judges score for the same fighter as the winner, while the third judge scores for the other fighter.
agnotology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agnatology
Etymology: Coined by Irish linguist Iain Boal in 1992, deriving from the Neoclassical Greek word ἄγνωσις (ágnosis, “not knowing”), compare ἄγνωτος (ágnōtos), and -λογία (-logía).
Senses: examples: text: Our interest here, though, is less in remediation than in what Nancy Tuana has called the "liberatory moment"—which brings us to a more subtle form of agnatology
ref: 2005, Robert Proctor, Londa L. Schiebinger, Agnotology: the making and unmaking of ignorance, page 6:
text: Indeed, the think tanks and corporations that employ economists frequently explicitly seek to foster ignorance as part of their business plans: that is the postmodern phenomenon of agnotology.
ref: 2014, Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go To Waste, page 225:
glosses: The study of culturally-induced ignorance or doubt, particularly the publication of inaccurate or misleading scientific data.
Derived terms: agnotologic
agnotological
agnotologist
Related terms: agnoiology
hickster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hicksters
Etymology: Blend of hick + hipster
Senses: examples: text: Hawk-eyed bus-tour agents mounting watch at the intersections, flaunting printed signs tucked in the bands of their visored caps to advertise their business, claim they can spot the hickster nine times out of ten.
ref: 1960, William Garland Rogers, Mildred Weston, Carnival crossroads: the story of Times Square:
text: “You there, hickster! Stop gawking! We're on the clock here! Tick, tick, time is money in Gotham.
ref: 2006, T. Davis Bunn, Heartland:
text: He was cool as ice, and he knew it. "All right then, hickster," said the tough. "Hickster?" Sheldon said to himself.
ref: 2007, Sam Moffie, Swap:
glosses: A hick who attempts to be hip (that is, to be a hipster).
unrips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unrip
unripping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unrip
unripped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not ripped.
unripped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unrip
untorn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English untorn, untorne, equivalent to un- + torn.
Senses: glosses: Not torn
unsulliable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + sulliable.
Senses: glosses: Not sulliable; incapable of being dirtied or degraded.
sulliable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sully + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being sullied.
undermaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undermasters
Etymology: From Middle English undermaister, equivalent to under- + master.
Senses: glosses: An assistant master; a subordinate to the main master.
undermasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undermaster
backman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backmen
Etymology: From back + man.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A defender in Australian rules football.
backmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backman
manual laborer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manual laborers
Senses: examples: text: I hired a manual laborer to re-shingle my roof.
glosses: One who performs manual labor
Related terms: sense: person who works with their hands
word: chirurgeon
sense: person who works with their hands
word: handworker
belieber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beliebers
Senses: examples: text: But brederen, de joy ob de belieber in Jesus be set forth in a figerative manner in de text.
ref: 1850 April, James V. Watson [ed., contrib.], “Incident in Itenerancy — The Eloquent Negro’s Sermon” in The Family Favorite and Temperance Journal, volume 1, № 4, page 93
text: Dem's de sort dat you neber see split into kinlins, fur it's de kind dat de true beliebers is made uf, and de righteous shill florish like de pam tree, he shill grow like de cedar in Libinum.
ref: 1857 March, Mace Sloper, “The Observations of Mace Sloper, Esq.: Familiarly Narrated by Himself; Number Fourteen”, in The Knickerbocker, volume 49, page 276:
text: “The fascination of the music and the swaying motion of the dance is so great that one can hardly refrain from joining the magic circle in response to the invitation of the enthusiastic clappers, ‘Now, brudder!’ ‘Shout, sister!’ ‘Come, belieber!’ ‘Mauma Rosa kin shout!’ ‘Uncle Danyel!’ ‘Join, shouters!’ ”²⁷
ref: 2007, Lawrence W. Levine, Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom (30th annotated reprint edition; Oxford University Press; →ISBN, 9780195305692), page 38
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of believer.
glosses: Alternative form of Belieber.
lovo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lovos
Senses: glosses: A traditional earthen pit oven in Fiji.
Belieber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bĭlēʹbər
ipa: /bɪˈliːbə/
Forms: form: Beliebers
form: belieber
Etymology: Blend of believer + Bieber (“Justin Bieber”).
Senses: examples: text: A Belieber is sustained by the hope of someday being followed by, and receiving a direct message from Justin on Twitter.
ref: 2010 August 13th (3:21pm), “Twitchell” (user name), alt.gossip.celebrities (Usenet newsgroup), “Inside the Weird World of Justin Bieber Micro-Gossip”, Message ID
text: There is simply nothing you can say that could make me feel remorse. If Justin sings Christmas, then for the duration of the track I am a Belieber.
ref: 2011 December 12, Marina Hyde, “Whether it's Justin or Cliff, I'm a Belieber in Christmas songs”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A fan or supporter of Canadian singer Justin Bieber (born 1994); a Justin Bieber fanatic.
Synonyms: Bieberite
Derived terms: Belieberism
Related terms: Biebermania
schoolboy error
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schoolboy errors
Senses: synonyms: rookie mistake
glosses: A fundamental, simple mistake.
deesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈiːsɪs/
Forms: form: deësis
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δέησις (déēsis, “entreaty, petition, want”), from δέω (déō, “lack, miss”), δέομαι (déomai, “beg”).
Senses: glosses: A call to witness.
glosses: A vehement expression of desire, as in "think of the children!" or requests preceded by "for God's sake".
Synonyms: sense: calling to witness
word: adjuration
impetigines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin impetīginēs, nominative plural of impetīgō.
Senses: glosses: plural of impetigo
second halves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of second half
centrophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more centrophilic
form: most centrophilic
Etymology: From centro- + -philic.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: (of a chromosome) Tending to cluster near the centre of a mitotic spindle.
Derived terms: centrophilin
symplectomorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting symplectomorphism.
technigluons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technigluon
meijin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meijin
Etymology: From Japanese 名人.
Senses: glosses: A master of go.
defence diplomacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The peaceful application by a state of resources from across the spectrum of defence, for the purpose of achieving positive outcomes in the development of bilateral and multilateral relationships.
Related terms: gunboat diplomacy
meido
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meido
form: meidos
Etymology: From Japanese メイド (meido, “maid, maidservant”), from English maid.
Senses: examples: text: I was really struck by how many of the bishoujo cliches it managed to bring up. We already have the older sister, younger sister, childhood friend, and exotic transfer student. We have a genki girl, a ditzy girl, a hime-sama, and a meido.
ref: 2006 October 13, Abraham Evangelista, “Re: Crescent Love - dull new anime”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):
text: And then there’s Roberta, who seems like a typical meido (maid) character until she pulls out machine guns from her lacy uniform!
ref: 2008 October 12, Kitty Sensei, “Playing pirate”, in Malaysia Star:
text: Although this is a manga about maids, don’t expect to see the submissive and fawning maids of the meido category. The protagonist here is a faithful, skilled and courteous maid from the old English society.
ref: 2008, Memedi, "Loyal helper", Malaysia Star, 9 November 2008
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A female fictional character who is employed as a maid, typically wearing a stylized French maid outfit.
examples: text: Actually, the two times I was there, it was really quite dull in terms of the people wandering around. The most excitement I saw was that one candidate for Prime Minister giving a van-top speech in front of Akihabara station. Oh, and a demonstration of some RC "Tokyo Drift" toy cars out on the street. No dancing in the streets, only a very few meido (some of questionable gender >__< ), and quite a few gaikokujin.
ref: 2008 February 9, Captain Nerd [username], “Re: "Alien Jones" - "Boss" coffee ads”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):
text: These meido attract customers by role-playing the part of a maid, complete with French maid-inspired outfits that are long on fantasy elements and typically short on skirt length.
ref: 2009, John Graham-Cumming, The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive, O'Reilly Media, published 2009, →ISBN, page 104:
text: "I like having conversations with different meidos," he explains, "but Haruki is my favourite because she's friendliest to me."
[…]
Utena, a meido with pink hair and red plastic horns, recently celebrated her fourth year at Maidolce.
ref: 2012 April 1, Dave Tacon, “Dusting off a geek fetish for all things maid in Japan”, in Sydney Morning Herald:
glosses: A waitress at a maid café.
demaine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demaines
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of demesne.
regional insourcing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
glosses: The practice of delegating or assigning of procedures, functions or jobs from production within a business in one location to an internal entity that specializes in that operation in another location within a geographic region.
piscicolous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pisci- + -colous.
Senses: examples: text: Also the young stages of nematodes have been found in the coelom of this ophiuroid, believed by Mortensen (1927) to be young stages of some piscicolous nematode.
ref: 1966, Richard A. Boolootián, Physiology of echinodermata:
glosses: Infecting or inhabiting fish.
raw_tags: of a parasite
pisci-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Latin piscis (“fish”).
Senses: glosses: Related to fish.
logarithmize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: logarithmizes
form: logarithmizing
form: logarithmized
form: logarithmized
Etymology: From logarithm + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To derive the logarithm of a number.
glosses: To convert into a logarithm.
exonumist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exonumists
Etymology: From exonumia + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who collects exonumia.
ombrophilous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: äm′bräf·ə·ləs
Etymology: From ombro- + -philous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: pluviophilous
glosses: Capable of thriving in areas of heavy rainfall
wait for it
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: I just found out that my ex-wife, who never wanted children, now has two kids called, wait for it, Ludwig and Balthazar.
text: The National Museum of Crime and Punishment invites couples to "delight their dark side" this Valentine's Day weekend with -- wait for it -- stories of violence against romantic partners?
ref: 2011 February 10, Carissa Dimargo, “'Crimes of Passion' Glorified for Valentine's Day”, in NBC Washington:
glosses: Used to draw attention to and build suspense, often ironically, for a remark to come.
institutional racism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: institutional racisms
Senses: examples: text: Institutional racism relies on the active and pervasive operation of anti-black attitudes
ref: 1967, Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America, page 4:
ref: 1970, Institutional Racism in America:
ref: 1986, Discrimination American Style: Institutional Racism and Sexism:
text: classrooms; the inability of schools to promote equality; and institutional racism
ref: 1990, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, volumes 507-509, page 54:
text: Institutional racism and socioeconomic barriers continue to operate against the advancement of African Americans, keeping the number in poverty
ref: 1996 preface page 9 to Univ of Massachusetts Press' reprint of "An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans" (originally published 1833 without preface)
text: The geth serve as a cautionary tale against the dangers of rogue AI, and in Citadel Space they are technically illegal. Advocacy groups argue, however, that an AI is a living, conscious entity deserving the same rights as organics. They argue that continued use of the term "artificial" is institutionalized racism on the part of organic life, the term "synthetic" is considered the politically correct alternative.
ref: [2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Computers: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Codex entry:
glosses: Racism expressed in the practice of social and political institutions.
Related terms: institutionalized racism
systemic racism
inservient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inservient
form: most inservient
Etymology: From Latin inserviens, present participle of inservire.
Senses: examples: text: […] although their intellectuals had not failed in the theory of truth, yet did the inservient and brutall faculties control the suggestion of reason […]
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, published 1650, Book I, Chapter 1, p. 2:
text: […] if the discourse be touching Happiness it self, why should not Happiness or Pleasure be a greater Good than Virtue, since it is the End, to the attainment whereof Virtue is but inservient?
ref: 1656, chapter 8, in Walter Charleton, transl., Epicurus’s Morals: Collected, And faithfully Englished, London: P. Davies, published 1926, page 28:
glosses: Conducive; instrumental.
equiprimordial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ē'kwĭprīmôrʹdĭəl
ipa: /ˌiːkwɪpɹaɪˈmɔːdɪəl/
Etymology: Coined by John Macquarrie in his 1960 The Scope of Demythologizing as equi- + primordial, translating Martin Heidegger’s German gleichursprünglich.
Senses: examples: text: If what has been said above on the subject of language and existence has any truth in it, then we must look on the myth as an undifferentiated matrix of meaning. Only later were the various meanings sorted out, but they were all latent in the myth from the beginning. If we may borrow a favourite word of Heidegger, we may say that they are ‘equiprimordial’.
ref: 1960, John Macquarrie, The Scope of Demythologizing: Bultmann and His Critics, SCM Press, page 213:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Existing together as equally fundamental ab initio; coöriginal.
Derived terms: equiprimordiality
equiprimordially
inscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inscape
much to be said
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: a lot to be said
form: something to be said
Senses: examples: text: There is much to be said for a policy of caution.
text: The British empire had much to be said for it, but it is over – dead, deceased, struck off, no more.
ref: 2013 August 14, Simon Jenkins, The Guardian:
text: Why not think of oneself as simply thrown together with fellow citizens or conationals in the same sort of random way as a group of people might be thrown together in a life-boat? There is much to be said in favor of such a story.
ref: 1999, Gillian Brock, “The new nationalisms”, in Monist, volume 82, number 3, page 367:
glosses: Used to assert the defensibility or advisability of what follows.
puppa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puppas
Senses: glosses: papa; father
Megumi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese めぐみ (Megumi).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
piraya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pirayas
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of piranha.