cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fake books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fake book
factory resets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of factory reset
factory resets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of factory reset
makes an appearance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of make an appearance
making an appearance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of make an appearance
master reset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: master resets
Senses: glosses: A factory reset.
hard reset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hard resets
Senses: topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: soft reset
glosses: The reinitialization of the core hardware components of a computer system, ending any software processes and restarting the operating system.
glosses: A factory reset.
made an appearance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of make an appearance
hard resets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hard reset
master resets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of master reset
principal investigator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: principal investigators
Senses: examples: text: „"This is pure exploration; we're going to turn points of light into a planet and a system of moons before your eyes!" said Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado. "New Horizons is flying to Pluto — the biggest, brightest and most complex of the dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt. This 21st century encounter is going to be an exploration bonanza unparalleled in anticipation since the storied missions of Voyager in the 1980s."“
ref: 2015 April 14, “NASA's New Horizons Nears Historic Encounter with Pluto”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name) (HTML), NASA/The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2015:
topics: sciences
glosses: lead researcher on a grant-funded project
principal investigators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of principal investigator
evadee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evadees
Etymology: From evade + -ee.
Senses: glosses: Someone who evades.
glosses: Someone who evades.
Someone who evades capture, particularly military personnel in enemy or neutral territory.
Related terms: evade
evader
up to 11
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: It's the weekly half hour when the emotion is turned up to 11 but the atmosphere is so quietened that you can hear the dust clattering against the studio's lighting rig.
ref: 2010 May 22, Shane Hegarty, “Intimate details prove too close to the chat-show bone”, in The Irish Times, Dublin: Irish Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2016:
text: All of our ring personas are elements of our real personalities, but turned up to 11.
ref: 2012 August 15, Chris Richards, “Blade is set to cut other wrestlers down to size”, in Brentwood Gazette:
text: But because this is the internet, someone always has to pitch in and turn the hostility up to 11.
ref: 2015 April 18, Helen Lewis, “If only the sci-fi writers who hijacked the Hugo awards had the wit to imagine a world beyond the Good Old Days”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Sep 2022:
glosses: Alternative form of up to eleven.
SwRI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: development; research; development; research
glosses: Initialism of Southwest Research Institute, one of the oldest and largest applied R&D organizations in the United States.
technicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technicities
Senses: examples: text: The ramjet is well placed to answer this^([sic]) new functions, as it is simple, inexpensive, that its technicity is well known, and its consumption is five to six times less than that of the rocket motor.
ref: 1975, DGLR-Fachbuchreihe, number 6, page 864:
text: For an individual technical element such as a tool like a carpenter's saw, its technicity might be its hardness and flexibility (a product of human knowledge and production skills) that enables it in conjunction with human mediation to cut well […]
ref: 2011, Rob Kitchin, Martin Dodge, Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life, The MIT Press, →ISBN, page 42:
text: […] and photography following Vilém Flusser's account of how the photographic apparatus integrates its user into its technicity […]
ref: 2015, Mark B. N. Hansen, Feed-Forward: On the Future of Twenty-First-Century Media, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 6:
glosses: The efficacy, functionality, or experience of a particular technology.
examples: text: The consequence of assuming that the outstanding characteristic of the modern planetary order is its technicity (rather than the existence of a global market) is that an unnecessary stress is laid on the relationship (treated, possibly correctly, as radically distorted) between the individual and "things."
ref: 1998, Nicholas Boyle, Who Are We Now?: Christian Humanism and the Global Market from Hegel to Heaney, University of Notre Dame Press, →ISBN, page 218:
text: For instance, the world wide web itself enables the formation of particular kinds of social bonds based on a position towards and facility with technology alongside particular cultural tastes and interests. This technicity does not bring about the disappearance of other types of ethnic identities or communities but extends them, […]
ref: 2006, Jon Dovey, Helen W. Kennedy, Game Cultures: Computer Games As New Media: Computer Games as New Media, Open University Press, →ISBN, page 17:
text: This “technicity” present in today's relations in Senegal shouldn't be considered as simply a natural consequence of globalisation and the availability of ICTs.
ref: 2014, Ricardo M. Falcão, “Senegalese Youth at the Crossroads Between Coosan (Tradition) and the Appropriation of ICTS – Technology, Body, and Autonomy”, in Josep Martí, editor, African Realities: Body, Culture and Social Tensions, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: The prevalence of or reliance upon (a particular) technology by a specific group of people or by humanity as a whole.
scumbagginess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scumbaggy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The fact that he's a minor scumbag himself makes him all the more qualified to comment on the scumbagginess of others - takes one to know one, and all that.
ref: 1998 September 6, Tom Holt, “Re: We paid attention. Here's why it is Military. and you don't need to yell. We read you.”, in alt.tv.star-trek.ds9 (Usenet):
text: however, I consider it this way: humans have the potential for evil/general scumbagginess. Animals do not.
ref: 2000 May 7, Kathy, “Re: Day of shame”, in nz.general (Usenet):
text: Conversely, I think that Logan is completely lost within his scumbagginess and has potential as character if he'll just start owning up to his idiocy.
ref: 2005 October 5, Rob Jensen, “Re: Rory and school - what I hope for”, in alt.tv.gilmore-girls (Usenet):
glosses: The condition or quality of being a scumbag.
twangster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twangsters
Etymology: From twang + -ster.
Senses: examples: text: The brooding, black-clad singer bridged a stark divide that emerged in the recording industry in the 1950s, as post-Elvis pop singers diverged into two camps and audiences aligned themselves with either the sideburned rebels of rock 'n' roll or the cowboy-hatted twangsters of country music.
ref: 2012, Christoper Zara, chapter 1, in Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, page 28:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musician who plays a twangy instrument.
Samee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Arabic سَمِيع (samīʕ, “hearer”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Arabic.
zoolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoolites
form: zoolith
form: zoolithe
Etymology: From zoo- + -lite.
Senses: glosses: A fossilized animal.
zoomorphosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoomorphoses
Etymology: From zoo- + morphosis.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The formation of a plant structure (such as a gall) by means of animal activity
examples: text: In the manner of the Nights, the action-packed plot features antirealist narrative devices such as magical ornaments, air transport, supernatural beings, and zoomorphosis.
ref: 2011, Srinivas Aravamudan, Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise of the Novel, page 219:
glosses: The transformation of a human into an animal.
Related terms: zoomorph
zoomorphic
zoomorphically
zoomorphism
zoomorphize
zoomorphy
A.B.C.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ABC.
A.B.C.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: A.B.C.'s
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ABC.
A.B.C.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ABC.
unsubordinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsubordinated
form: most unsubordinated
Etymology: From un- + subordinated.
Senses: glosses: Not subordinated; not diminished in rank or value.
evadees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of evadee
successorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: successorships
Etymology: From successor + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: The union may have won a successorship clause in its agreement. Such a clause states that the employer will not sell the plant unless the buyer agrees to honor the agreement. If this is the case, the union has some real leverage.
ref: 1994, Michael Yates, Power on the Job: The Legal Rights of Working People:
glosses: The state, condition, or status of being a successor.
successorships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of successorship
Szolnok
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Hungary.
inbounder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inbounders
Etymology: From inbound + -er.
Senses: glosses: A player making an inbound pass.
raw_tags: in basketball
technicities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technicity
pistonphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pistonphones
Etymology: From piston + -phone.
Senses: glosses: An acoustic calibrator based on a piston pushing on a fixed volume of air.
pistonphones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pistonphone
stabilisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stabilisable
form: most stabilisable
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of stabilizable.
Lakritz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lakritzes
Senses: glosses: A surname.
low-mindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From low-minded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I miss her when we aren't working together, and for her part, she's been know to enjoy jokes of mine, proving that she has her human share of low-mindedness.'
ref: 1983, Poul Anderson, Orion Shall Rise:
text: The injustice, she was thinking, the low-mindedness of people, to think Roger could do anything wrong.
ref: 2013, Frances Crane, The Indigo Necklace, →ISBN:
glosses: The characteristic of being low-minded; vulgarity or lack of honor.
low-mindedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more low-mindedly
form: most low-mindedly
Etymology: From low-minded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The first animals made were men. Some, acting low-mindedly, were turned into women; and so on, all the way down the full array of species to the lowest life.
ref: 2009, Jonathan Hodge, Gregory Radick, The Cambridge Companion to Darwin, →ISBN, page 249:
glosses: In a low-minded manner.
lowminded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lowminded
form: most lowminded
Etymology: From low + minded.
Senses: examples: text: ...nor were the benefits inconsiderable, which we had conferred on him nor was I lowminded and unambitious enough to aliene his property...
ref: 1799, William Jones, The works: in six volumes - Volume 4, page 120:
text: I do not mean to say that Frank is positively lowminded, but he is decidedly not high minded, and I believe he does not, nor ever will, do you justice...
ref: 2013, Edward Short, Newman and his Family, →ISBN:
text: ...James says that she was 'born in the Paris boulevard', and concludes that she 'was, in plain English, a very lowminded young woman.
ref: 2009, Angus James Wrenn, Henry James and the Second Empire, →ISBN, page 74:
glosses: Alternative form of low-minded.
Derived terms: lowmindedness
lowmindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lowminded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Lack of courage produced a hundred diseases— Poverty, pusillanimity, lowmindedness.
ref: 2014, Muhammad Iqbal, The Secrets Of The Self:
text: It deals with the lowmindedness of the busybody. We must not dwell on the past, or present, shortcomings of others, but concentrate on keeping our own lives right with God.
ref: 2003, Ernest Verity, Get Wisdom, →ISBN, page 326:
glosses: Alternative form of low-mindedness.
narrow-mindednesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: But when it came to action I found myself between the fires of two professional narrow-mindednesses.
ref: 1952, The School Librarian - Volume 6, page 285:
glosses: plural of narrow-mindedness
narrowmindednesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Sanitation despises all such narrowmindednesses and jealousies, no matter whence they come, and for myself, my highest ambition is to be worthy of the title sometimes bestowed upon me, of being a sanitarian.
ref: 1886, A.N. Bell, The Medical Advance - Volume 17, page 524:
glosses: plural of narrowmindedness
soft-minded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more soft-minded
form: most soft-minded
form: softminded
Etymology: From soft + minded.
Senses: examples: text: The soft-minded manager often defers direct action in the hope that the situation will remedy itself.
ref: 1963, Joe D. Batten, Tough-minded management, →ISBN, page 37:
glosses: Lacking courage and conviction; easily swayed, persuaded, or intimidated.
examples: text: The liberated educator does not accept soft-minded religiosity because it embraces all kinds of superstitions.
ref: 2010, Ivan Hugh Walters, Education and Cultural Politics: Interrogating Idiotic Education, →ISBN, page 285:
text: Such unabashed sentiment and soft-minded engagement with the problems and powers of literary art are common enough in every age.
ref: 2013, Emory Elliott, Martha Banta, Houston A. Baker, The Columbia Literary History of the United States, →ISBN, page 284:
glosses: Lacking intellectual rigor; Given to sentimentality.
softminded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more softminded
form: most softminded
Senses: examples: text: Softminded individuals among us feel that the only way to deal with oppression is by adjusting to it.
ref: 1996, Richard W. Leeman, African-American Orators: A Bio-critical Sourcebook, →ISBN, page 218:
text: They lay there in wait of travelers too weak or stupid to defend themselves, or too softminded to resist tossing them a coin.
ref: 2001, J. Robert King, Mad Merlin - Volume 1, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of soft-minded.
soft-mindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From soft-minded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Building on the case for tough-mindedness, King identifies the dangers of soft-mindedness. He writes that the soft-minded are prone to embrace all kinds of superstitions.
ref: 2014, Bryan Loritts, Letters to a Birmingham Jail, →ISBN:
text: The transactions in Montana copper that made him many times a millionaire found him physically robust but on the verge of soft-mindedness, and, suspecting this, an infinite number of women tried to separate him from his money.
ref: 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby:
glosses: the state or quality of being soft-minded.
softmindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From softminded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: This prevalent tendency toward softmindedness is found in man's unbelievable gullibility.
ref: 2010, Hugh T. Kerr, Readings in Christian Thought (Second Edition), →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of soft-mindedness.
soft-mindedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more soft-mindedly
form: most soft-mindedly
Etymology: From soft-minded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: However, I do not see the policy effectively and consistently applied by a soft-mindedly liberal policymaker aspiring to a world free of conflict and a future cleansed of past aberrations.
ref: 1982, George Liska, Russia and the road to appeasement: cycles of East-West Conflict in War and Peace, page x:
glosses: In a soft-minded manner.
strong-mindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From strong-minded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Nan, troubled by the pleasure she finds in ordinary social activities of the charming young people she meets, has occasional doubts about the wisdom of her commitment, and it is only when she has to defend herself from the dreaded accusations of "strong-mindedness" on the part of some women that she begins to understand the strength of her feeling for her profession.
ref: 2002, Eleanor Hochman, Fictional Females: Mirrors and Models, →ISBN:
text: Archbishop Cranmer thought them deceptive, and when James I refused to allow an inauspicious dream of his wife's to deter him from a proposed journey to Scotland his subjects were impressed by his strong-mindedness.
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the decline of magic, page 128:
glosses: the state or quality of being strong-minded.
strong-mindedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more strong-mindedly
form: most strong-mindedly
Etymology: From strong-minded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: To complicate matters, father and sons changed their names to 'Bigg-Wither', while the girls strong-mindedly kept to their simple original 'Bigg'.
ref: 2012, Claire Tomalin, Jane Austen: A Life, →ISBN:
glosses: In a strong-minded manner.
strongmindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From strongminded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: To account for Edith's coldness on the subject of Hollebone is easy, for, with the natural tendency for fair-brown haired women, who by some racial accident not uncommon in so mixed a nation as ours, have inherited a certain but insufficient amount of strongmindedness, Edith was somewhat hysterical in character, given to obeying her moods and impulses unduly...
ref: 2013, Ford Madox Ford, Delphi Complete Works of Ford Madox Ford (Illustrated), →ISBN:
text: Such a formulation at least would recognize the importance of his Germano-Scottish origins while doing justice to the Puritan determination of his atheism and hedonism, the stubborn assiduity of his pederasty, and the strongmindedness of his performance as a British eccentric abroad.
ref: 1980, Paul Fussell, Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of strong-mindedness.
strongmindedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more strongmindedly
form: most strongmindedly
Etymology: From strongminded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Her friend threw the novels rather a longing look, then turned strongmindedly to the cabinet of belles lettres.
ref: 2004, Nicola Humble, The Feminine Middlebrow Novel, 1920s to 1950s: Class, Domesticity, and Bohemianism, →ISBN, page 42:
glosses: Alternative spelling of strong-mindedly.
tenderminded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tenderminded
form: most tenderminded
form: tender-minded
Etymology: From tender + minded.
Senses: examples: text: According to this theory, sexual and aggressive impulses are conditioned into tenderminded social attitudes, and the qualities associated both with femininity and with religiosity belong to this domain of tenderminded social attitudes.
ref: 2009, Leslie J. Francis, Mandy Robbins, Jeff Astley, Empirical Theology in Texts and Tables, →ISBN, page 146:
glosses: Nurturing, compassionate, and forgiving.
examples: text: Among ethnologists what is certainly an idiographic approach is often pursued with the most ascetic toughmindedness. Where fact reigns supreme, any attempt at theory may appear tenderminded.
ref: 1969, Mahlon Brewster Smith, Social Psychology and Human Values: Selected Essays, →ISBN, page 44:
glosses: Idealistic.
Derived terms: tendermindedly
tendermindedness
tender-minded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tender-minded
form: most tender-minded
Senses: examples: text: The philosophers who had come on the expedition were, as usual, divided into two warring camps: the tender-minded ones who thought philosophy should aim at Significance, and the tough-minded philosophers who thought that it should aim at Truth.
ref: 1979, Richard Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, →ISBN, page 73:
text: Through [his] love for the deities living in the parish, they become tender-minded and protect him with a thorough-going and suitable protection.
ref: 1980, Harvey B. Aronson, Love and Sympathy in Theravāda Buddhism, →ISBN, page 51:
glosses: Alternative form of tenderminded.
tendermindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tenderminded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Reflecting on the perfect humility and meekness that Christ demonstrated during his whole life, and especially in his death, I learn the measure of my own humility and meekness, my presumption and impatience, I become greatly affected in love of humility and tendermindedness.
ref: 1852 September, The British Friend, page 226:
text: That Jesus was straightforward and that Paul and Jesus were both high on tendermindedness are conjectures on which few would disagree.
ref: 1999, James R. Beck, Jesus & Personality Theory: Exploring the Five-Factor Model, →ISBN, page 178:
glosses: The state or quality of being tenderminded.
tender-mindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tender-minded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: For example, anxiety, depression, and anger/hostility are among the components of neuroticism; gregariousness and warmth are part of extroversion; trust, altruism, and tender-mindedness are part of agreeableness...
ref: 2013, Judith E. Owen Blakemore, Sheri A. Berenbaum, Lynn S. Liben, Gender Development, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of tendermindedness.
tendermindedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tendermindedly
form: most tendermindedly
Etymology: From tenderminded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Both men and women were more outgoing, less intelligent, less emotionally stable, more practical, more controlled, and more tendermindedly emotional than the normative sample.
ref: 1976, Robert Keith Murphy, College Success in Non-traditional Black Students as a Function of Cognitive and Affective Variables, page 11:
glosses: In a tenderminded manner.
tender-mindedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tender-mindedly
form: most tender-mindedly
Etymology: From tender-minded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: William tough-mindedly adopted the ideology of the expanding bourgeoisie, while Henry, Jr., tender-mindedly turned to the philosophy of the leisure class and "joined himself, therefore, to the great aristocratic tradition in European literature."
ref: 1933, Scribner's Magazine, volume 93, page 391:
text: They are either tough-mindedly convinced that the world of sense-experience is the real world or tender-mindedly convinced that the world of sense-experience is somehow an illusion, or at any rate an imperfect, changing, and therefore an unreal copy or reflection […]
ref: 1958, Crane Brinton, A History of Civilization, volume 2, page 335:
text: We do not owe greater help tender-mindedly out of pity for the weak, but tough-mindedly out of our interest in possible enlightenment by those receiving assistance.
ref: 2008, Clark Butler, Human Rights Ethics: A Rational Approach, →ISBN, pages 10–11:
glosses: Alternative form of tendermindedly.
Irish Free State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Irish Free State
Senses: glosses: An autonomous dominion under nominal British sovereignty that included most of the island of Ireland, created in 1922 as part of a treaty between the British government and Irish republicans.
wrongminded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wrongminded
form: most wrongminded
form: wrong-minded
Etymology: From wrong + minded.
Senses: examples: text: The wrongminded notion of the feminist movement which implied it was anti-male carried with it the wrongminded assumption that all female space would necessarily be an environment where patriarchy and sexist thinking would be absent.
ref: 2013, Margaret Helen Hobbs, Carla Rice, Gender and Women's Studies in Canada: Critical Terrain, →ISBN, page 13:
glosses: Mistaken; characterized by faulty reasoning.
examples: text: It is no answer to protest that the defense may become a “false and diversionary stratagem[ ], or that “wrongminded individuals [could] contrive” an “infinite number of mistake of law defenses”; for it is the very business of the courts to separate the true claims from the false.
ref: 2014, Markus Dubber, Tatjana Hörnle, Criminal Law: A Comparative Approach, →ISBN, page 272:
glosses: Bad, corrupt, evil; dwelling on or embracing evil.
wrong-minded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wrong-minded
form: most wrong-minded
Etymology: From wrong + minded.
Senses: examples: text: The argument about difference is wrong-minded on several counts. First, Saussure's argument about difference is based on a methodological leap of faith that consists in using phonology as a model for all higher levels of analysis of language...
ref: 1997, Allen Thiher, The Power of Tautology: The Roots of Literary Theory, →ISBN, page 110:
text: People will become more and more wrong-minded. They will engage in more and more wrongdoing.
ref: 2006, Yeshe Gyamtso, Nyima Tashi, →ISBN, page 73:
glosses: Alternative form of wrongminded.
wrongmindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wrongminded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: No doubt he thought he had critically exposed its wrongmindedness and destroyed its claims to acceptance as a serious or coherent theory of law.
ref: 2013, Michael H. Hoffheimer, Justice Holmes and the Natural Law, →ISBN, page 13:
glosses: The state or quality of being wrongminded; mistaken reasoning
examples: text: If someone attributes these miracles to Beelzebub's spirit, not through ignorance but through malice, his wrongmindedness is past hope.
ref: 1988, Desiderius Erasmus, Erika Rummel, Paraphrase on Mark, →ISBN, page 54:
glosses: Corruption; the state or quality of being evil or wrongminded.
wrong-mindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wrong-minded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: There was a lot of libertarian wrong-mindedness in his piece—some crazy ideas about tort reform, some misguided nonsense about allowing insurance companies to go across state lines...
ref: 2013, Dogukan Akbulut, Attempting Normal:
text: Energy going in wrong-mindedness will affect wrong action. Ego in wrong action brings one clear message and can only generate the one reaction, lack of joy.
ref: 2011, Grant A. Watson, Conversations with a Duck: And the End of Separation!, →ISBN, page 116:
glosses: Alternative form of wrongmindedness.
wrongmindedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more wrongmindedly
form: most wrongmindedly
Etymology: From wrongminded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: There were Americans who had a dream of schools which were diverse and which were, in fact, sectarian and which would persist wrongmindedly in the perpetuation of Amish views on matters or Catholic or Lutheran and so forth.
ref: 1978, Tuition Tax Relief Bills: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Taxation and Debt Management Generally of the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, Second Session, page 313:
glosses: In a wrongminded manner.
wrong-mindedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more wrong-mindedly
form: most wrong-mindedly
Etymology: From wrong-minded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Much more sweeping were the reforms proposed by Sir Thomas Smith (1568), who understandably but wrong-mindedly wanted letter forms to be “pictures” of speech sounds, that is, to have an iconic relationship to the sounds.
ref: 2011, C.M. Millward, Mary Hayes, A Biography of the English Language, →ISBN, page 229:
glosses: Alternative form of wrongmindedly.
teleiophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From teleio- (“fully grown”) + -philia.
Senses: examples: text: Often, this body age preference is determined by mature secondary sexual characteristics of an adult. The sexual preference for the adult, fully developed body age is referred to as teleiophilia (gr. “teleos”—fully grown) […]
ref: 2016, Helmut Kury, Sławomir Redo, Evelyn Shea, Women and Children as Victims and Offenders: Background, Prevention, Reintegration: Suggestions for Succeeding Generations, Springer, →ISBN, page 503:
synonyms: adultophilia
hypernyms: normophilia
coordinate_terms: hebephilia
ephebophilia
pedophilia
glosses: Sexual attraction to adults.
Related terms: teleiophile
teleiophilic
law of identity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The law of identity states that an apple is an apple.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The logical principle that anything equals itself, expressed by the symbolic equation A=A.
badmintons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of badminton
fair-mindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fair-minded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Although they did not want to risk wasting money, faster-climbing managers did value generosity and fair-mindedness.
ref: 2009, Bernard M. Bass, Ruth Bass, The Bass Handbook of Leadership: Theory, Research, and Managerial Applications, →ISBN, page ii:
glosses: The characteristic of being fair-minded.
fairmindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fairminded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: More than just a requirement of etiquette, fairmindedness is based on these important realities: Everyone is capable of error; generally, in complex issues the truth does not lie entirely on either side of the argument; and familiar views often seem superior even when they are not.
ref: 1995, Vincent Ryan Ruggiero, A Guide to Sociological Thinking, →ISBN, page 31:
glosses: Alternative form of fair-mindedness.
fair-mindedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fair-mindedly
form: most fair-mindedly
Etymology: From fair-minded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The goal is to teach students how to take a position and defend it strongly and with passion, and yet fair-mindedly.
ref: 1993, John Esterle, Dan Clurman, Conversations with Critical Thinkers, page 56:
glosses: In a fair-minded manner.
fairmindedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fairmindedly
form: most fairmindedly
Etymology: From fairminded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "Course, I could be mistaken," he added fairmindedly.
ref: 2009, Tom Holt, Wish You Were Here, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of fair-mindedly.
weak-mindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From weak-minded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: That same model can be invoked to explain how Isotta and Christine reconciled Eve's purported ignorance and weak-mindedness with their own clear intellectual resolve and considerable learning.
ref: 2005, Pamela Joseph Benson, Victoria Kirkham, Strong Voices, Weak History: Early Women Writers & Canons in England, France, and Italy, →ISBN:
glosses: The state or quality of being weak-minded.
weakmindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From weakminded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: In the end, the reviewer concludes, Rachel “attains a satisfactory ideal of weakmindedness,” giving up her ambition in order to marry a soldier
ref: 2004, Jennifer Phegley, Educating the Proper Woman Reader, →ISBN, page 48:
glosses: Alternative form of weak-mindedness.
weak-mindedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more weak-mindedly
form: most weak-mindedly
Etymology: From weak-minded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I know you, too, are concerned with the basic question: How could one, at that time, surrender so weak-mindedly to those holding power and commit crimes for them?
ref: 1976, John Michael Steiner, Power Politics and Social Change in National Socialist Germany, →ISBN, page 214:
glosses: In a weak-minded manner.
weakmindedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more weakmindedly
form: most weakmindedly
Etymology: From weakminded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Guenn and George asked permission to see it, and I weakmindedly agreed, making them promise to run.
ref: 2012, Fred Richardson, Expatriate Adventures, →ISBN, page 320:
glosses: Alternative form of weak-mindedly.
improper noun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: improper nouns
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A noun that describes something general, rather than that which is purely unique.
Synonyms: appellative noun
common noun
nomen appellativum
falciger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: falcigers
Senses: glosses: A seta that has a curved tip
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæŋɡləʊ ɪˌdʒɪpʃən suːˈdɑːn/
Etymology: From Anglo- + Egyptian + Sudan.
Senses: glosses: A former condominium of Egypt and the United Kingdom (a de-facto British protectorate) in modern Sudan and South Sudan, from 1899 until Sudan became independent in 1956.
Kinsey scale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A scale devised by Alfred Kinsey, used to measure a person's sexuality, ranging from 0 (exclusively heterosexual) to 6 (exclusively homosexual), passing through different stages of bisexuality, including the 3 in the middle (bisexual, attracted to men and women equally). There is also an X option, for those exhibiting no sexual attraction (asexual).
Synonyms: Heterosexual–Homosexual Rating Scale
Hypernyms: Heterosexual–homosexual continuum
in pig
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: ‘I am in pig, what d'you think of that?’
‘A most hideous expression, Linda dear,’ said Aunt Emily, ‘but I suppose we must congratulate you.’
ref: 1945, Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love, Penguin, published 2010, page 84:
glosses: Pregnant; also (humorous) used of a woman.
raw_tags: of a sow
unsnobbish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsnobbish
form: most unsnobbish
Etymology: From un- + snobbish.
Senses: glosses: Not snobbish; humble, sociable and friendly, treating everybody including inferiors equally.
bike taxi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bike taxis
Senses: glosses: A pedicab.
rightlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rightless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Lack of rights; the state of being rightless.
door handle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: door handles
form: doorhandle
Senses: glosses: A mechanism attached to a door and used to open or close it.
Synonyms: english: round device
translation: round device
word: doorknob
join forces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: joins forces
form: joining forces
form: joined forces
form: joined forces
Senses: examples: text: The poor [banana] is even further shrunken. It is no longer spotted. The flecks have joined forces to form brown blotches all over the fruit.
ref: 1979 February 3, Nancy Walker, “Going Bananas”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 27, page 11:
text: It all started 6 years ago, as Rutgers University scientists Allan Conney, Ph.D., and George C. Wagner, Ph.D., chatted at an office get-together. […] From this conversation, the two decided to pool their knowledge and join forces.
ref: 2007 November, Elizabeth Drake, “Combine and conquer: Use these winning food pairings to protect your health”, in Men's Health, volume 22, number 9, →ISSN, page 124:
text: 2018 December 22, Tom Woods, "Ben Shapiro and Bette Midler sittin' in a tree", Lewrockwell.comhttp://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/12/thomas-woods/ben-shapiro-and-bette-midler-sittin-in-a-tree
When Hollywood and the neocons join forces against something, you know it has to be good.
text: MPs and non-affiliated peers from across the Leeds City Region have joined forces and are calling on Government to publicly commit to building HS2 East to Leeds at the same time as HS2 West is built to Manchester.
ref: 2020 June 17, Richard Clinnick, “Network News: MPs join forces to push for confirmation on HS2 to Leeds”, in Rail, page 22:
glosses: To combine labour, to come together, to unite.
Synonyms: band together
Gwendy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gwendi
form: Gwendie
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Gwendoline.
dugout canoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dugout canoes
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A canoe made by digging out the centre of a tree trunk.
zooculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zoo- + culture.
Senses: glosses: The cultivation of animals.
Coordinate terms: agriculture
play-by-plays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of play-by-play
down-hearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From down + hearted.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of downhearted.
Derived terms: down-heartedly
one-eyed trouser snakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of one-eyed trouser snake
one-eyed snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one-eyed snakes
Senses: examples: text: You can feel and kiss and stroke and suck, but you won't make that old one-eyed snake stand up.
ref: 2011, Bryce Courtenay, Tandia, →ISBN, page 242:
glosses: The penis
one-eyed snakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of one-eyed snake
bought it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of buy it
bigheartedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big-heartedness
Etymology: From bighearted + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: largeheartedness
glosses: The quality of being bighearted.
big-heartedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From big-hearted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bigheartedness.
bigheartedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bigheartedly
form: most bigheartedly
form: big-heartedly
Etymology: From bighearted + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But I enjoyed the camaraderie once in a while with Catharine, who bigheartedly wanted to share her enjoyment.
ref: 2011, Jean Sanders Torrey, Best Friends Forever, →ISBN, page 145:
synonyms: largeheartedly
glosses: In a bighearted manner.
big-heartedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more big-heartedly
form: most big-heartedly
Etymology: From big-hearted + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Ian, of course, big guy, wins the game and big-heartedly donates all his winnings to their Friends of the Earth plastic globe, sits back against Karen's legs and she strokes his head and shoulders.
ref: 2005, John McKelvie, Streatham Ice, →ISBN, page 19:
glosses: Alternative form of bigheartedly.
demiwig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demiwigs
Etymology: From demi- + wig.
Senses: glosses: A hairpiece for women designed to cover hair loss that is constructed with a flexible mesh cap through which the wearer pulls her own hair.
demiwigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demiwig
broken-heartedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From broken-hearted + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: It is the only hope of my broken-heartedness, and a rather faint one.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: The poem uses the metaphor of putting his “heart on a fork,” and anticipates that the process necessarily leads to broken-heartedness and tears.
ref: 2009, Johanna Shapiro, The Inner World of Medical Students: Listening to Their Voices in Poetry, →ISBN, page 236:
text: Pain is better than numbness, and broken-heartedness better than stony-heartedness, as surely as it is better to be alive than dead.
ref: 2013, Alec Ryrie, Being Protestant in Reformation Britain, →ISBN, page 26:
glosses: Alternative form of brokenheartedness.
broken-heartedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more broken-heartedly
form: most broken-heartedly
Etymology: From broken-hearted + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Logan stood at the counter, cradling shards of blue glass in his hands and weeping broken-heartedly over them as he tried to glue them back together.
ref: 2012, Erica Lindquist, Aron Christensen, Sword of Dreams, →ISBN, page 334:
glosses: Alternative form of brokenheartedly.
WBW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WBW
form: WBWs
Senses: examples: text: When WBWs claim they are women because of their girlhood's^([sic]) the WBT can point to her trannie childhood and say […]
ref: 2001 March 6, Suzan Cooke, “Woman Born Transsexual: A Post Transsexual Manifesto”, in alt.support.srs (Usenet):
text: Over the past years, we have ignored death threats as we choose to stand for sacred space for WBW and girls.
ref: 2008, The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, →ISBN, page 54:
text: This pub is only open to WBW and their companion animals.
ref: 2012, Lesbian Communities: Festivals, RVs, and the Internet, page 122:
glosses: Abbreviation of womyn-born-womyn: woman-born-woman.
chickenheartedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more chickenheartedly
form: most chickenheartedly
Etymology: From chickenhearted + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Only one way, then, remains by which I can reinstate myself in this tragic atmosphere which I have chickenheartedly avoided;
ref: 1992, Michel Leiris, Richard Howard, Manhood: A Journey from Childhood Into the Fierce Order of Virility, →ISBN, page 101:
glosses: Alternative form of chicken-heartedly.
chicken-heartedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more chicken-heartedly
form: most chicken-heartedly
Etymology: From chicken-hearted + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: You surely would have abandoned it as chicken-heartedly as you refused to stand up to him in the field.
ref: 2008, Richard F. Miller, In Words and Deeds: Battle Speeches in History, →ISBN, page 294:
glosses: In a chicken-hearted manner; fearfully
cruelhearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cruelhearted
form: most cruelhearted
Senses: examples: text: Frequently have I been tempted to compose for him epistles of nearly Herzogian sweep, have even seriously contemplated what I imposed upon cruelhearted adults in my small-town Mississippi childhood: gift-wrapped fresh cow manure or dead rats or possums deposited on their front porches in the yuletide.
ref: 2002, Willie Morris, Jack Bales, Shifting Interludes: Selected Essays, →ISBN, page 188:
text: “That is better than being a cruelhearted Scot,” she countered. “Cruel?” Kevin looked confused. “'Tis not cruel to seek justice.”
ref: 2011, Tarah Scott, Lord Keeper, →ISBN:
text: The Sirens, gleeful scourge of mariners, beguiling bane and cruelhearted joy, whom no man could abandon once he'd heard them, were left, they say, through sly Ulysses' ploy.
ref: 2014, Martial, Selected Epigrams, →ISBN, page 28:
glosses: Alternative form of cruel-hearted.
Derived terms: cruelheartedness
cruel-heartedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cruelheartedness
Etymology: From cruel-hearted + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: More tragical and more inscrutably mysterious than any mystic sight, human or machine, throughout the factory, was the strange innocence of cruel-heartedness in this usage-hardened boy.
ref: 1855, Herman Melville, The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids:
glosses: The quality of being cruel-hearted; lack of compassion and kindness.
cruelheartedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cruelhearted + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Rather, by granting life to these papers, you permit Marcela's cruelheartedness to live forever and serve as an example to the others in the days that are to come in order that they may flee and avoid such pitfalls as these.
ref: 2000, Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, →ISBN, page 113:
glosses: Alternative form of cruel-heartedness.
cruel-heartedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cruel-heartedly
form: most cruel-heartedly
Etymology: From cruel-hearted + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The moral universe of Doctor Who is not taken seriously, but cruel-heartedly mocked instead.
ref: 1999, John Kenneth Muir, A Critical History of Doctor Who on Television, page 272:
glosses: In a cruel-hearted manner; coldly and cruelly.
woman-born-woman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: women-born-women
form: womyn-born-womyn
form: WBW
Etymology: Coined by second-wave feminists to distinguish cisgender women from transgender women.
Senses: examples: text: To the extent that she can pull it off, her gender is babe. But at Stayfree her babe outfit (long hair, big shirt, leggings, flats) makes her feel like an interloper—like some rude woman-born-woman intent on boycotting femininity because she can take it for granted.
ref: 2016, Nell Zink, Nicotine:
topics: feminism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
glosses: A cisgender woman; a cis woman.
wikipedia: Second-wave feminism
Synonyms: cis woman
womyn-born-womyn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: womyn-born-womyn
Etymology: For the spelling, see womyn; for information about the phrase itself, see woman-born-woman.
Senses: examples: text: Lesbians for Justice therefore appeals to the organizers of the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival to nullify its "womyn-born-womyn only" policy, and to allow the attendance of post-operative male-to-female transsexuals at all future festivals.
ref: 1992 May 8, Tamara Severns, “Open Letter To Michigan Festival Organizers”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
glosses: Alternative form of woman-born-woman.
off-puttingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more off-puttingly
form: most off-puttingly
Etymology: From off-putting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an off-putting manner.
ciswoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ciswomen
Etymology: From cis + woman or cis- + woman.
Senses: examples: text: Not only do people harass and attack transwomen for being who they are: transwomen also face scrutiny from both ciswomen and cismen over “what” they are.
ref: 2010, Holly Kearl, Stop Street Harassment: Making Public Places Safe and Welcoming for Women, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 57:
text: The origin of the embryo is no longer intercourse of a ciswoman and a cisman, but a technological procedure.
ref: 2015, K. Lesnik-Oberstein, Rethinking Disability Theory and Practice:
glosses: Alternative spelling of cis woman.
cisman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cismen
Etymology: From cis + man or cis- + man.
Senses: examples: text: Not only do people harass and attack transwomen for being who they are: transwomen also face scrutiny from both ciswomen and cismen over “what” they are.
ref: 2010, Holly Kearl, Stop Street Harassment: Making Public Places Safe and Welcoming for Women, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 57:
text: The origin of the embryo is no longer intercourse of a ciswoman and a cisman, but a technological procedure.
ref: 2015, K. Lesnik-Oberstein, Rethinking Disability Theory and Practice:
glosses: Alternative spelling of cis man.
women-born-women
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woman-born-woman