cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
San Jorge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A town in San Miguel department, El Salvador.
Santa María
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Santa María.
Senses: glosses: A town in Usulután department, El Salvador.
Santo Niño
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sto. Niño
Senses: glosses: Various barangays of the Philippines.
glosses: Various municipalities of the Philippines.
Related terms: Santa Cruz-Santo Niño
Santo Niño Jesus
Santo Niño Tabuan
Vizal Santo Niño
infernal device
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infernal devices
Senses: glosses: A time bomb.
feathermoss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feathermosses
Etymology: From feather + moss.
Senses: glosses: A species of moss common in boreal forests, Pleurozium schreberi.
feathermosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feathermoss
zimbalon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zimbalons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cimbalom.
zymotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zymo- + therapy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: therapy based on naturally-occurring enzymes
zingana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zinganas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zingara.
zingano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zinganos
form: zingani
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zingaro.
ramuliferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more ramuliferous
form: most ramuliferous
Etymology: From ramulus + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Bearing ramuli (small branches)
volleyballene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: volleyballenes
Etymology: From volleyball + -ene but based on fullerene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of compounds, having a cage-like structure based on a fullerene, containing scandium atoms; the simplest of such compounds, Sc₂₀C₆₀
slickered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From slicker + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The slickered brat, given a burnt siena replacement (my favorite color), then proceeded to chew it into flaking, disintegrating chunks.
ref: 2006, Arno Herwerth, Ants in My RV, →ISBN, page 40:
text: The slickered figure lifted a hand and pushed back his hood to reveal a shock of whiteblond hair above a weatherbeaten face that might once have been pale.
ref: 2012, Jessica Andersen, Body Search, →ISBN:
glosses: Wearing a slicker (coat)
examples: text: No slickered stranger rides down the arroyo, jingles to the bar and thumps for booze.
ref: 1994, John Woods, Black Marigolds, →ISBN, page 38:
text: Got all slickered up, tipped my hat just right/Was goin' out to get married, it's saturday night
ref: 2010, Robert W. Anderson, Pure Country Poetry: Andybob's Modern Heartland Mix, →ISBN, page 133:
glosses: Dressed in a stylish and fancy manner.
examples: text: One of the waitresses, with wheat-blonde hair and large, mobile, slickered lips and very long lashes, adjusted Gus's tie.
ref: 2015, Janette Hospital, Borderline, →ISBN, page 312:
glosses: Smooth and shiny.
slickered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From slicker + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slicker
slickering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slicker
rebait
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈbeɪt/
Forms: form: rebaits
form: rebaiting
form: rebaited
form: rebaited
Etymology: From re- + bait.
Senses: examples: text: Any fish were gaffed and brought aboard, the hooks rebaited, and the line paid out on the other side. The dory thus went down the whole length of the trawl.
ref: 2012, Jack Coggins, Marine Painter's Guide:
glosses: To bait again; to readd bait to.
rebaited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rebait
rebaits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rebait
rebaiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rebait
dead-ended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dead-end
dead-ending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dead-end
sphynx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sphynxes
Senses: glosses: Dated form of sphinx (mythological creature).
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Sphynx (“breed of cat”).
sphynxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sphynx
goldish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more goldish
form: most goldish
Etymology: From Middle English goldissh, equivalent to gold + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat gold in colour.
Synonyms: word: aureate
word: gilded
word: golden
word: goldenish
word: goldeny
word: goldlike
word: goldy
Coordinate terms: copperish
silverish
Derived terms: goldishness
bronzish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bronzish
form: most bronzish
Etymology: From bronze + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat bronze in colour
Synonyms: bronzy
sparrer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sparrers
Etymology: From spar + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who spars, a fighter
sparrer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sparrers
Etymology: Alteration of sparrow
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of sparrow.
sparrers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sparrer
sistah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sistahs
Senses: examples: text: They was saying the jawn freaked out and called the cops cause all her sorority sistahs started ragging on her and calling her a stank ho for fucking half the basketball team.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 204:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of sister.
sistahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sistah
undernote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊt
Forms: form: undernotes
Etymology: From under- + note.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A low or subdued note, such as a drone, that forms a background to the melody.
glosses: An undertone.
undernotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undernote
jibboom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jibbooms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of jib-boom.
jibbooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jibboom
jib-boom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jib-booms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jib boom.
ricefield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ricefields
Etymology: From rice + field.
Senses: glosses: A field where rice is grown.
Derived terms: ricefield mouse
Related terms: paddy
paddy field
rice paddy
ricefields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ricefield
blazered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From blazer + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: When first produced in New York, off-Broadway in 1980, the play seemed a programmatic denunciation of the social order, as personified by two pompous functionaries and by a blazered young prig who was passing through the slab room on his foreordained way up.
ref: 1983 March 28, William A. Henry III, “Hopeless Nights, Dreamless Days”, in Time:
text: He stood back, with his hands still on Leo's shoulders, and smiled wanly at the pink-faced blazered boy.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 6, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
glosses: Wearing a blazer.
chockful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chock full.
towelheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From towel + headed.
Senses: glosses: Arabic
flighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flight
cullud
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cullud
form: most cullud
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of coloured.
Derived terms: cullud pusson
pupiled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pupiled
form: most pupiled
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of pupilled.
porchlight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porchlights
Etymology: From porch + light.
Senses: glosses: A light on or above a porch.
porchlights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porchlight
porched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)tʃt
Etymology: From porch + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a porch
windedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From winded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being winded, the temporary inability to breathe
Related terms: close-windedness
long-windedness
short-windedness
close-winded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more close-winded
form: most close-winded
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Sailing close to the wind
caryatide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caryatides
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of caryatid.
caryatides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caryatid
glosses: plural of caryatide
fidgetty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fidgetty
form: most fidgetty
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of fidgety.
Derived terms: fidgettiness
bourka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bourkas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of burka.
bourkas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bourka
quackademics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quackademic
scepticisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scepticism
centrelines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centreline
decapitalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decapitalization
scoopless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From scoop + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a scoop.
crokard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crokards
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crockard.
crokards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crokard
forshamed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forshame
forshaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forshame
doming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dome
chrome domes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chrome dome
photodisks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photodisk
metacondition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaconditions
Etymology: From meta- + condition.
Senses: examples: text: The phenomenon cannot be described, she pointed out, by talking about individual changes in transformational rules or whatnot: Rather, it must be described as a metacondition on the way the grammar of a language as a whole will change.
ref: 2003, Raymond Hickey, Motives for Language Change, page 104:
glosses: A condition dependent on other conditions.
Related terms: metaconditional
metaconditions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metacondition
sts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of st
zipola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊlə
Etymology: From zip + -ola.
Senses: glosses: Nothing at all; zip; zilch.
microstudy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microstudies
Etymology: From micro- + study.
Senses: glosses: A very small-scale academic study.
microstudies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microstudy
zingani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zingano
gameable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gameable
form: most gameable
Etymology: From game + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being gamed or manipulated.
antiretaliatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + retaliatory.
Senses: examples: an antiretaliatory statute protecting whistleblowers
glosses: Preventing retaliation.
spits feathers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spit feathers
spat feathers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spit feathers
tapidero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tapideros
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tapadera.
tapadero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tapaderos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tapadera.
tapaderos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tapadero
tapideros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tapidero
telehydrobarometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telehydrobarometers
Etymology: From tele- + hydrobarometer.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for indicating the level of water in a remote tank or reservoir.
telehydrobarometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telehydrobarometer
telelectroscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telelectroscopes
Etymology: From tele- + electro- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: Any apparatus for making distant objects visible by the aid of electric transmission.
telelectroscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telelectroscope
telemechanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tele- + mechanic.
Senses: glosses: telemechanical
telemechanical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tele- + mechanical.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the operation of mechanisms at a distance.
Synonyms: telemechanic
Related terms: telemechanism
telemechanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telemechanisms
Etymology: From tele- + mechanism.
Senses: glosses: A system allowing a mechanism to be operated from a distance.
Related terms: telemechanical
telemechanisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telemechanism
telemechanically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From telemechanical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: By telemechanical means.
telemeteorograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telemeteorographs
Etymology: From tele- + meteorograph.
Senses: glosses: Any apparatus for recording meteorological phenomena at a distance from the measuring apparatus, as by electricity or compressed air; especially, such an apparatus recording conditions at many distant stations at a central office.
Related terms: telemeteorographic
telemeteorographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telemeteorograph
telemeteorographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to telemeteorography.
telemeteorography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The use of a telemeteorograph.
telemetrography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tele- + metro- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: The use of a combination of the camera lucida and telescope for drawing and measuring distant objects.
camera lucidas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camera lucida
telephote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telephotes
Etymology: See tele-, photo-.
Senses: glosses: A telelectric device for producing images of visible objects at a distance.
telephotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telephote
temper screw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: temper screws
Senses: glosses: A screw link, to which is attached the rope of a rope-drilling apparatus, for feeding and slightly turning the drilling jar at each stroke.
glosses: A set screw used for adjusting.
temper screws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of temper screw
trente et quarante
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: French, literally "thirty and forty".
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: The game of rouge et noir.
trolley poles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trolley pole
truité
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French, derived from truite (“trout”).
Senses: examples: text: Scherzer also informs us that the crackle glaze was blown on to the porcelain and that two layers were applied to produce the finer (truité) crackle and four to produce the large crackle […]
ref: 1925, Robert Lockhart Hobson, The Later Ceramic Wares of China:
topics: ceramics
chemistry
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having a delicately crackled surface.
saviourless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: saviorless
Etymology: From saviour + -less.
Senses: glosses: without a saviour
saviorless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of saviourless.
Saxony yarn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Saxony yarns
Senses: glosses: A fine grade of woollen yarn twisted somewhat harder and smoother than zephyr yarn.
Saxonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Saxony
Jodo Shinshu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 浄土真宗 (literally “True Pure Land School”).
Senses: glosses: A popular school of Buddhism, founded by the former Tendai Japanese monk Shinran.
Synonyms: Shin Buddhism
spectroheliography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The use of a spectroheliograph.
spectroheliographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the spectroheliograph.
spectroheliographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From spectroheliographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of a spectroheliograph.
spads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spad
service cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: service caps
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: peaked cap
service hat
glosses: A cap or hat worn by officers or soldiers when full dress uniform, or dress uniform, is not worn.
service caps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of service cap
service hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: service hats
Senses: glosses: service cap
service hats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of service hat
Siemens-Martin steel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See Siemens-Martin process.
Senses: glosses: open-hearth steel
silvics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From silva (“forest”) + -ics, from Latin silva.
Senses: examples: text: Silviculture may be defined* as the art of producing and tending a forest; the application of the knowledge of silvics in the treatment of a forest. Silvics deals with the fundamental laws underlying the growth and development of single trees and of the forest as a biological unit.
ref: 1946, Ralph Chipman Hawley, The Practice of Silviculture, J. Wiley & Sons, page 1:
text: 1990, Jerry A. Sesco, Foreword, Russell M. Burns, Barbara H. Honkala, Silvics of North America, Volume 1: Conifers, Agriculture Handbook 654, US Department of Agriculture, page iii,
"Silvics of Forest Trees of the United States," Agriculture Handbook 271, was the first comprehensive document of its kind in the United States. […] The original "silvics manual" took 10 years to complete and was published in 1965.
text: 1995, Christopher Herbert Richard Wedeles, Alternative Silvicultural Systems for Ontario's Boreal Mixedwoods, Great Lakes Forestry Centre, page 9,
Silvics deals with the underlying principles of the growth and development of individual trees and the forest as biological units (Smith 1986).
topics: business
forestry
glosses: The study of the characteristics of trees, including especially their role in the ecology of their forest habitats; such information collected about individual trees and tree species.
Related terms: silvical
silviculture
silvology
black-box function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black-box functions
Senses: qualifier: optimization
glosses: A function whose closed-form expression is not known or does not exist, and whose properties cannot be inferred.
silvic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sylvic acid.
black-box functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black-box function
poster paint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poster paints
Senses: glosses: A tempera paint, often with a type of gum-water or glue size as its binder, and sometimes supplied in powdered form.
Synonyms: poster color
poster paints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poster paint
tunemeister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tunemeisters
Etymology: From tune + -meister.
Senses: glosses: A composer of tunes; a tunesmith.
tunemeisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tunemeister
Gibraltar rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: rock candy
granger railroad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: granger railroads
Senses: examples: text: For many granger railroads there was but one choice among the many wheel arrangements available for modern steam power. ….. So in steam what else but the 4-8-4?
ref: 1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 40:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Synonym of granger road.
synonyms: word: granger road
granger road
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: granger roads
Senses: examples: text: The largest single class of 4-8-4's - Rock Island's 65 5000's - was ordered by a granger road as early as 1929.
ref: 1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co, page 40:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A railroad used mainly for transporting the produce of farmers or grangers.
Synonyms: granger railroad
granger railroads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of granger railroad
granger roads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of granger road
popcorn movies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of popcorn movie
popcorn shrimp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Pieces of battered and fried shrimp.
meterman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metermen
Etymology: From meter + -man.
Senses: examples: text: One who gave more than a second glance was a meterman for the Southern California Gas Company, named Martin Edward Mortensen, who met Gladys during the summer of 1924.
ref: 2001, Donald Spoto, chapter 1, in Marilyn Monroe: The Biography, page 11:
glosses: A man whose occupation is to read and adjust meters.
Lima syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After a 1996 abduction at the Japanese Embassy in Lima, Peru, where the abductors released the hostages within a few hours.
Senses: glosses: A condition, the inverse of Stockholm syndrome, in which abductors develop sympathy for their hostages.
PAS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of parental alienation syndrome.
glosses: Initialism of physician-assisted suicide.
glosses: Initialism of para-aminosalicylic acid, a medication used to treat tuberculosis.
Synonyms: medicide
PAS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (“Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party”), an Islamist and conservative political party in Malaysia.
glosses: Initialism of Pakistan Administrative Service.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Partidul Acțiune și Solidaritate (“Party of Action and Solidarity”), a liberal political party in Moldova.
metermen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meterman
open-mindednesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of open-mindedness
by hell
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: By hell, she's thick!
glosses: Exclamation of shock or surprise.
bronzewares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bronzeware
rightliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: superlative form of rightly: most rightly
found sound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aʊnd
Forms: form: found sounds
Etymology: Compare found object, found art.
Senses: glosses: Any sound that is recorded from the environment without being specially prepared or induced.
found sounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of found sound
Cobainiac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cobainiacs
Etymology: Blend of Cobain + maniac
Senses: glosses: A fan of American grunge musician Kurt Cobain and/or his band Nirvana.
Cobainiacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cobainiac
metatalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + talk.
Senses: topics: education
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Talk, especially involving academic analysis, about speaking or talking; verbal metadiscourse.
unreflexively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unreflexively
form: most unreflexively
Etymology: From unreflexive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unreflexive manner.
medium spiny neuron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medium spiny neurons
Senses: glosses: A special type of GABAergic inhibitory cell involved in body movement.
Synonyms: spiny projection neuron
medium spiny neurons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medium spiny neuron
broad-mindednesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of broad-mindedness
inscriptibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Quality of being inscriptible.
close-mindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From close-minded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The therapist has several options, ranging from attempting to change the client's close-mindedness to endorsing it.
ref: 2012, Darryl B. Hill, Michael J. Kral, About Psychology: Essays at the Crossroads of History, Theory, and Philosophy, →ISBN, page 68:
glosses: The characteristic or state of being close-minded.
close-mindedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more close-mindedly
form: most close-mindedly
Etymology: From close-minded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Scorning the Basilica of Saint Francis, with its great treasure of Giotto frescoes, Goethe rather close-mindedly went on to view the ancient temple of Minerva, reconsecrated to the Virgin Mary in the usual overlay of Christian Madonna over pagan goddess, which is in the town's upper piazza and which Goethe esteemed the only thing worth seeing in Assisi.
ref: 2002, Helen Barolini, Festa: Recipes and Recollections of Italian Holidays, →ISBN, page 308:
glosses: In a close-minded manner; without being receptive to other points of view.
closeminded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more closeminded
form: most closeminded
Senses: examples: text: “What are you afraid of?” “Do you think I'm closeminded?” Amber took her time formulating an answer. “I wouldn't say that necessarily. You're cautious.You're far more conservative than Iam.”
ref: 2013, Felicia Mason, Sweet Accord, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of close-minded.
Derived terms: closemindedly
closemindedness
closemindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From closeminded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The closemindedness of people on the streets when they think about somebody being in prison. I guess I used to be the same way: they deserve it, blah, blah, blah.
ref: 1996, Lori B. Girshick, Soledad Women: Wives of Prisoners Speak Out, →ISBN, page 104:
glosses: Alternative form of close-mindedness.
closemindedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more closemindedly
form: most closemindedly
Etymology: From closeminded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Inundated by too many of them, we tend to ignore them completely, to accept them blithely, to disbelieve them closemindedly, or simply to misinterpret their significance.
ref: 2010, Wayne Weiten, Psychology: Themes and Variations, Briefer Edition, →ISBN, page 444:
glosses: Alternative form of close-mindedly.
closed-mindedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more closed-mindedly
form: most closed-mindedly
Etymology: From closed-minded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Dogmatic people are often closed-minded, and dogmatically held beliefs are often closed-mindedly maintained; but a belief held closed-mindedly need not be held dogmatically: it may be maintained with a guilty realization that emotionally one simply cannot stand to listen to challenges of it, and with an awareness that it might be mistaken.
ref: 1993, Robert Audi, The Structure of Justification, →ISBN, page 154:
glosses: Alternative form of close-mindedly.
bet a dollar to a doughnut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bets a dollar to a doughnut
form: betting a dollar to a doughnut
form: bet a dollar to a doughnut
form: bet a dollar to a doughnut
form: bet a dollar to a donut
form: wager a dollar to a doughnut
form: bet dollars to doughnuts
form: dollars to donuts
Etymology: Possibly adapted from "bet dollars to buttons" and "bet dollars to dumplings" that appeared in the 1880s, meaning "to feel almost certain" because the dollars are bet against something nearly worthless and perhaps shaped like a zero.
Senses: examples: text: I bet a dollar to a doughnut that fellow Lopez sold us out.
ref: 1911, Peter B. Kyne, chapter 19, in Captain Scraggs:
text: There's places where a dago-dazzler doesn't cut much ice, but it was dollars to doughnuts that the Sultan'd have a kindly feeling for it when I had Mungo explain that it was from the President of the U. S. A., telling him to treat his Uncle Phineas good and white, and he'd do the same by him some day.
ref: 1917, Walter Alleyne Ireland, Beating 'em to it: Or, The Sultan and the Sausages:
text: ‘Even if Kong follows, he has to travel overland, and it’s dollars to doughnuts we beat him.’
ref: 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 119:
text: [S]aying that environmental concerns are a major factor . . . Mr. Mulroney said "you can bet a dollar to a doughnut" that acid rain would feature in the campaign.
ref: 1988 April 25, John F. Burns, “Canada Losing Patience With U.S. on Acid Rain”, in New York Times, retrieved 25 Apr 2015:
text: I'll bet a dollar to a doughnut Usain Bolt is not the fastest human on the planet.
ref: 2010 September 13, Red Shannon, “The Greatest Athlete Who Never Was”, in Bleacher Report, retrieved 25 Apr 2015:
glosses: To declare with confidence.
wikipedia: Stuart Berg Flexner
Synonyms: a pound to a penny
bet a dollar to a dime
bet one's boots
bet one's bottom dollar
bet the farm
take to the bank
bet a dollar to a donut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bets a dollar to a donut
form: betting a dollar to a donut
form: bet a dollar to a donut
form: bet a dollar to a donut
Senses: examples: text: He bet a dollar to a doughnut twice and he got $2.
glosses: Alternative form of bet a dollar to a doughnut.
Palestinian Jerusalem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: East Jerusalem
wager a dollar to a doughnut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wagers a dollar to a doughnut
form: wagering a dollar to a doughnut
form: wagered a dollar to a doughnut
form: wagered a dollar to a doughnut
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bet a dollar to a doughnut.
bet a dollar to a dime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bets a dollar to a dime
form: betting a dollar to a dime
form: bet a dollar to a dime
form: bet a dollar to a dime
form: bet a dime to a dollar
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bet a dollar to a doughnut.
synonyms: word: bet a dollar to a doughnut
bet a dime to a dollar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bets a dime to a dollar
form: betting a dime to a dollar
form: bet a dime to a dollar
form: bet a dime to a dollar
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bet a dollar to a dime.
wager a dollar to a donut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wagers a dollar to a donut
form: wagering a dollar to a donut
form: wagered a dollar to a donut
form: wagered a dollar to a donut
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bet a dollar to a doughnut.
synonyms: word: bet a dollar to a doughnut
closedminded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more closedminded
form: most closedminded
Etymology: From closed + minded.
Senses: examples: text: Paul (1990), as a basic part of his program for critical thinking, contrasts fairminded critical thinkers with both uncritical thinkers and closedminded critical thinkers.
ref: 1999, Douglas Walton, One-Sided Arguments: A Dialectical Analysis of Bias, →ISBN, page 71:
glosses: Alternative form of close-minded.
Derived terms: closedmindedly
closedmindedness
bifrustum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bifrusta
form: bifrustums
Etymology: From bi- + frustum.
Senses: glosses: A polyhedron constructed from two congruent frusta combined across a plane of symmetry, or equivalently from a bipyramid with the two polar vertices truncated.
bifrusta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bifrustum
bifrustums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bifrustum
body painting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: body paintings
form: bodypainting
Senses: glosses: The application of paint to the body as a form of body art.
glosses: A body painted this way and viewed of as a work of art.
Related terms: body art
face painting
naturistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more naturistic
form: most naturistic
Etymology: From nature + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to naturism (doctrine attributing everything to nature).
Derived terms: naturistically
body paintings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of body painting
naturistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more naturistically
form: most naturistically
Etymology: From naturistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a naturistic manner.
bodypainting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bodypaintings
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of body painting.
closedmindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From closedminded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: In general, support for the hypothesized connection between closedmindedness and threat perceptions is found only among whites.
ref: 2005, James L. Gibson, Amanda Gouws, Overcoming Intolerance in South Africa: Experiments in Democratic Persuasion, →ISBN, page 203:
glosses: Alternative form of close-mindedness.
bodypaintings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bodypainting
closedmindedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more closedmindedly
form: most closedmindedly
Etymology: From closedminded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: They will make the transition from being unskilled in thinking to being nanowly, closedmindedly skilled.
ref: 1995, Richard Paul, Jane Willsen, A. J. A. Binker, Critical Thinking: How to Prepare Students for a Rapidly Changing World, →ISBN, page 458:
glosses: Alternative form of close-mindedly.
civic-mindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From civic-minded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Like the appeals to sympathy and generosity, the appeal to civic-mindedness attempts to capitalize on benevolent feelings.
ref: 2012, Magedah Shabo, Techniques of Propaganda and Persuasion, →ISBN, page 104:
glosses: The state or quality of being civic-minded; social conscience.
giving someone a big head
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of give someone a big head
gave someone a big head
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of give someone a big head
fighting chances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fighting chance
falls to pieces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fall to pieces
falling to pieces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fall to pieces
fell to pieces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: I fell to pieces after she left me.
glosses: To fall apart.
examples: I fell to pieces after my mom died, I loved her.
glosses: To be emotionally devastated; to break down.
civic-mindedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more civic-mindedly
form: most civic-mindedly
Etymology: From civic-minded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: To be sure, politicians are in some respects acting logically and rationally, if not necessarily civic-mindedly, when they choose to focus on areas with active citizens and organizations.
ref: 2014, Amy Widestrom, Displacing Democracy: Economic Segregation in America, →ISBN, page 148:
glosses: In a civic-minded manner; with concern for the support and maintenance of society.
nude runs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nude run
civicminded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more civicminded
form: most civicminded
Senses: examples: text: Census response is thus a reasonable proxy for civicminded attitudes and cooperation that are hypothesized to improve governmental performance.
ref: 2000, Stephen F. Knack, Social Capital and the Quality of Government: Evidence from the United States, page 11:
glosses: Alternative form of civic-minded.
Derived terms: civicmindedness
civicmindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From civicminded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: In Bellow's early work, American hardboiledness, inherited from the English gentleman and having been bequeathed from classical notions of honor and civicmindedness, was an ideal far removed from the striving, conniving, Jewish immigrant milieu.
ref: 2008, Ezra Cappell, American Talmud: The Cultural Work of Jewish American Fiction, →ISBN, page 57:
glosses: Alternative form of civic-mindedness.
even-mindedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more even-mindedly
form: most even-mindedly
Etymology: From even-minded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She had a clipped assurance of manner, a purpose in her step, which seemed to announce to anyone who cared to look that she had reached a decision, and reached it even-mindedly.
ref: 2011, Roland Vernon, The Maestro's Voice, →ISBN, page 440:
glosses: In an even-minded manner; calmly and dispassionately.
evenmindedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more evenmindedly
form: most evenmindedly
Etymology: From evenminded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The third stage: "Through distaste for rapture, he dwells evenmindedly, mindful and clearly conscious; he experiences with this body that joy of which the Ariyans declare, joyful lives he who is evenminded and mindful.'
ref: 2011, Roland Vernon, The Maestro's Voice, →ISBN, page 440:
glosses: Alternative form of even-mindedly.
feeblemindednesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Only the feeblemindednesses, the confusions and most delirious states are predominantly disturbances of intellect.
ref: 1968, Arthur Percy Noyes, Lawrence Coleman Kolb, Noyes' modern clinical psychiatry, page 102:
glosses: plural of feeblemindedness
feeble-mindednesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There are feeble-mindednesses rather than a single condition of feeble-mindedness from this point of view.
ref: 1934, James Hargan, Norman John Powell, The Psychological Exchange - Volumes 3-5, page 211:
glosses: plural of feeble-mindedness
feeble-mindedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more feeble-mindedly
form: most feeble-mindedly
Etymology: From feeble-minded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps there are no real patterns, only those that we feeble-mindedly impose.
ref: 1997, Ian Stewart, chapter 1, in Does God Play Dice?: The New Mathematics of Chaos, →ISBN:
glosses: In a feeble-minded manner; as if feeble-minded.
ports of call
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of port of call
first ports of call
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of first port of call
feeblemindedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more feeblemindedly
form: most feeblemindedly
Senses: examples: text: One could analyze the major Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima in the same way, but Mailer, who has grown ever more feeblemindedly male supremacist over the years, has saved us the trouble by providing worshipful writings about Mishima's obsession with manhood, militarism, and death, his contribution to the Mishima cult of necrophiliac androlatry that has sprung up since the latter's suicide.
ref: 2014, Robin Morgan, The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of feeble-mindedly.
highmindedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more highmindedly
form: most highmindedly
Senses: examples: text: We prefer to talk highmindedly of our reluctantly advocating punishment of criminals perhaps because social utility or justice demands it and tend to think that it is only primitives who would actually hate criminals and want them to suffer to appease an anger or outrage that is felt toward them.
ref: 2010, Teresa Godwin Phelps, Shattered Voices: Language, Violence, and the Work of Truth Commissions, →ISBN, pages 30–31:
glosses: Alternative form of high-mindedly.
liberal-minded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more liberal-minded
form: most liberal-minded
Senses: examples: text: But it is equally important to recognize that this scope for disagreement about social priorities between truly liberal-minded politicians of differing persuasions is not unlimited.
ref: 2010, Mark de Rond, Iain Morley, Serendipity: Fortune and the Prepared Mind, →ISBN, page 116:
glosses: Alternative form of liberalminded.
Derived terms: liberal-mindedly
liberal-mindedness
liberal-mindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From liberal-minded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: There is a freedom of gait, a heartiness of manner, a hopefulness of expression, a frank courtesy, a liberal-mindedness which impresses me profoundly.
ref: 2011, Lesley Erickson, Westward Bound: Sex, Violence, the Law, and the Making of a Settler Society, →ISBN, page 21:
glosses: Alternative form of liberalmindedness.
liberal-mindedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more liberal-mindedly
form: most liberal-mindedly
Etymology: From liberal-minded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Tithonus is not simply an alternative to Ulysses, liberal-mindedly putting the other side of the question; it is yet another version of a complex of anxieties, in which the patient working of existence now becomes the unattainable object of desire.
ref: 1988, Elaine Jordan, Alfred Tennyson, →ISBN, page 75:
glosses: In a liberalminded manner; showing openness to new ideas or liberal politics.
light-mindedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more light-mindedly
form: most light-mindedly
form: lightmindedly
Etymology: From light-minded (adjective) + -ly (suffix forming adverbs).
Senses: examples: text: If we're calling for revolutionary change, we shouldn't do this light-mindedly.
ref: 1988, Elaine Jordan, Organisational Principles and Methods of the Democratic Socialist Party, →ISBN, page 75:
glosses: In a light-minded manner; frivolously or without serious consideration.
Synonyms: capriciously
Related terms: word: light-mindedness
lightminded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lightminded
form: most lightminded
Senses: examples: text: A principal virtue of Rorty's recognition of both the lightminded and the serious side of irony is to urge us in that direction.
ref: 1994, David L. Hall, Richard Rorty: Prophet and Poet of the New Pragmatism, →ISBN, page 146:
glosses: Alternative form of light-minded.
Derived terms: lightmindedly
lightmindedness
lightmindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lightminded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: If this results in a society which MacIntyre has criticized as being the province of the manager, the aesthete and the analyst, types almost sinister in their philosophical lightmindedness, superficiality, programmed uninterestingness, and their depressingly spineless willingness to grant the presence of 'despicable types' for the sake of political freedom, then so be it.
ref: 2006, Robin Holt, Wittgenstein, Politics and Human Rights, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of light-mindedness.
lightmindedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lightmindedly
form: most lightmindedly
Etymology: From lightminded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: However, we were also rather critical of many of such ready-made claims since there are still too many unsolved problems, which should not be skipped lightmindedly.
ref: 1995, P.J. Braspenning, F. Thuijsman, A.J.M.M. Weijters, Artificial Neural Networks: An Introduction to ANN Theory and Practice, →ISBN, page 268:
glosses: Alternative form of light-mindedly.
long-mindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From long-minded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: In all this I see nothing but the benevolence and long-mindedness of the Deity.
ref: 1860, Richard Fuller, Francis Wayland, Domestic Slavery Considered as a Scriptural Institution, page 103:
glosses: Alternative form of longmindedness.
postglacial rebound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postglacial rebounds
Senses: glosses: The rise of the lithosphere in areas which were depressed by the weight of a continental ice sheet during the last ice age.
Synonyms: continental rebound
glacial isostasy
glacial isostatic adjustment
isostatic uplift
Related terms: isostasy
appx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of appendix (supplementary section of a document).
Netlish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of net + English
Senses: glosses: netspeak based on the English language
cyberethnographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyber- + ethnographic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to cyberethnography.
cyberethnography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberethnographies
Etymology: From cyber- + ethnography.
Senses: glosses: ethnography relating to the Internet or cyberspace
cyberethnographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberethnography
legal studies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The study of law, especially as a subject taken during high school.
glosses: The study of theories and philosophies related to law; jurisprudence.
Sondheimian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sondheimian
form: most Sondheimian
Etymology: From Sondheim + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Stephen Sondheim (1930–2021), American stage musical and film composer and lyricist.
hyperchess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + chess.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A multidimensional form of the game of chess.
rhinoglottophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rhino- + glotto- + -philia. Coined by American linguist James Matisoff in 1975 in a paper titled "Rhinoglottophilia: The Mysterious Connection between Nasality and Glottality".
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The connection between laryngeal (glottal) and nasal articulations.