cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Modi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /moʊdi/
Etymology: Borrowed from Marathi मोडी (moḍī), probably from मोडणे (moḍṇe, “to break”), referring to the broken Devanagari characters from which the script is thought to be derived.
Senses: glosses: A script formerly used for writing the Marathi language.
Modi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /moʊdi/
Forms: form: Modis
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi मोदी (modī).
Senses: examples: text: India is opening up the designs of its first indigenously developed drones to domestic private companies, seeking to spur further technological advances and encourage manufacturing as Prime Minister Narendra Modi modernizes the military.
ref: 2015 September 24, N.C. Bipindra, “India revealing secrets of its predator-like Rustom drone to boost military”, in mint:
glosses: A surname from Hindi.
glosses: A surname from Hindi.
Narendra Modi, 14th Prime Minister of India.
Palmyrenean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Palmyrenean
form: most Palmyrenean
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Palmyrenian.
Palmyrenean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Palmyreneans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Palmyrenian.
Palmyrene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæl.mɪˌɹiːn/
ipa: /pælˈmaɪ.ɹiːn/
ipa: /ˌpæl.mɚˈiːn/
ipa: /ˌpæl.maɪˈɹiːn/
rhymes: -ælmɪɹiːn
rhymes: -aɪɹiːn
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: Palmirene
Etymology: From Latin Palmȳrēnus, from Ancient Greek Παλμυρηνός (Palmurēnós). By surface analysis, Palmyra + -ene.
Senses: examples: text: The contrast between the deterrent lion with open mouth and luxurious mane and the peaceful antelope is striking, so more since the antelope is represented in profile while the lion, on the contrary, fully obeys the artistic law of frontality which is one of the most characteristic features of Palmyrene art.² Only early examples of Palmyrene sculpture from the first century B.C. and the beginning of the first century A.D. still show representations of human beings in profile.
ref: 1982, Han J. W. Drijvers, “Sanctuaries and Social Safety: The Iconography of Divine Peace in Hellenistic Syria”, in Visible Religion: Annual for Religious Iconography, Volume 1: Commemorative Figures, E. J. Brill, page 65:
text: From Rome came the legend of the twins Romulus and Remus being suckled by a she-wolf, illustrated on a battered relief found in the Palmyrene temple of Bel;
ref: 1986, Malcolm A. R. Colledge, “The Parthian Period”, in Iconography of Religions, Section XIV: Iran, Fascicle 3, E. J. Brill, page 26:
text: This cave housed an extended Palmyrene family, as indicated by the script used in some of the inscriptions and by some of the names of the interned.
ref: 2002, Tal Ilan, Lexicon of Jewish Names in Late Antiquity, Part IV: The Eastern Diaspora 330 BCE-650 CE, Mohr Siebeck, page 33:
glosses: Of, from or relating to ancient Palmyra or Palmyrena.
examples: text: The reverse presents to our view a ſtrange fort of inſtrument, or machine, which perhaps may be imagined to repreſent a key, beſides ſome traces of characters in a great measure defaced, and, if I am not vaſtly miſtaken, four intire Palmyrene letters.
ref: 1757, John Swinton, “Diſſertation upon a Parthian coin, with Characters on the Reverſe reſembling thoſe of the Palmyrenes”, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Volume 29, page 593:
text: The names of the deities retain their Palmyrene form in both the Palmyrene and Greek versions.
ref: 2003, James Noel Adams, Bilingualism and the Latin Language, Cambridge University Press, page 270:
text: An isolated ostracon has turned up in Germany,² but otherwise there is nothing comparable to the geographic spread of the Nabataean and, above all, the Palmyrene inscriptions, the latter spanning from South Shields (in northern England) to Soqotra.
ref: 2009, Sebastian Brock, “Chapter 11: Edessene Syriac inscriptions in late antique Syria”, in Hannah M. Cotton, Robert G. Hoyland, Jonathan J. Price, David J. Wasserstein, editors, From Hellenism to Islam: Cultural and Linguistic Change in the Roman Near East, Cambridge University Press, page 289:
synonyms: Palmyran
Palmyrenian
glosses: Relating to the Palmyrene dialect or script
Palmyrene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæl.mɪˌɹiːn/
ipa: /pælˈmaɪ.ɹiːn/
ipa: /ˌpæl.mɚˈiːn/
ipa: /ˌpæl.maɪˈɹiːn/
rhymes: -ælmɪɹiːn
rhymes: -aɪɹiːn
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: Palmyrenes
form: Palmirene
Etymology: From Latin Palmȳrēnus, from Ancient Greek Παλμυρηνός (Palmurēnós). By surface analysis, Palmyra + -ene.
Senses: examples: text: The importance of the Palmyrenes was as merchants, and it is as merchants that they become known to us in our earliest Roman reference.
ref: 1995, Richard Stoneman, Palmyra and Its Empire: Zenobia's Revolt Against Rome, University of Michigan Press, page 31:
text: For in the course of the campaign the Roman provincial capital of Bostra fell to the Palmyrenes – whether by accident or design - along with a Roman force.
ref: 2000, Warwick Ball, Rome in the East: The Transformation of an Empire, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 80:
text: There is no surviving contemporary account of the war between the Palmyrenes and the Emperor Aurelian.
ref: 2008, Pat Southern, Empress Zenobia: Palmyra's Rebel Queen, Continuum Books, page 131:
synonyms: Palmyran
Palmyrenian
glosses: A native or inhabitant of ancient Palmyra or Palmyrena.
Palmyrene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæl.mɪˌɹiːn/
ipa: /pælˈmaɪ.ɹiːn/
ipa: /ˌpæl.mɚˈiːn/
ipa: /ˌpæl.maɪˈɹiːn/
rhymes: -ælmɪɹiːn
rhymes: -aɪɹiːn
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: Palmirene
Etymology: From Latin Palmȳrēnus, from Ancient Greek Παλμυρηνός (Palmurēnós). By surface analysis, Palmyra + -ene.
Senses: examples: text: The first panel is a bilingual text in Greek and Palmyrene, the second entirely in Palmyrene, and the third and fourth entirely in Greek.
ref: 1989, Jean-Marie Dentzer, Winfried Orthmann, Archéologie et histoire de la Syrie, page 74:
text: In one such inscription, Odaenathus is referred to in Palmyrene simply as Ras Tadmor without any indicators of Roman rank.
ref: 2003, Gary K. Young, Rome's Eastern Trade, page 209:
text: The auxiliaries also occasionally left behind bilingual dedications in Palmyrene with Greek or Latin.
ref: 2017, Kyle H. Keimer, Gillan Davis, Registers and Modes of Communication in the Ancient Near East:
synonyms: Palmyran
Palmyrenian
glosses: An extinct Western Aramaic dialect.
Palmyrene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæl.mɪˌɹiːn/
ipa: /pælˈmaɪ.ɹiːn/
ipa: /ˌpæl.mɚˈiːn/
ipa: /ˌpæl.maɪˈɹiːn/
rhymes: -ælmɪɹiːn
rhymes: -aɪɹiːn
rhymes: -iːn
rhymes: -iːni
ipa: /ˈpæl.mɪˌɹiːn/
ipa: /pælˈmaɪ.ɹiːn/
ipa: /ˌpæl.mɚˈiːn/
ipa: /ˌpæl.maɪˈɹiːn/
rhymes: -ælmɪɹiːn
rhymes: -aɪɹiːn
rhymes: -iːn
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Παλμυρηνή (Palmurēnḗ).
Senses: examples: text: ..., scituated between Palmyrene and Cœlosiria, in that Country or Province known to the Romans, ...
ref: 1646, A vindication of learning from unjust aspersions, volume 1:
text: ... the capital of Acabene, a province or district of Mesopotamia, a region separated from Palmyrene by the Euphrates.
ref: 1754, John Swinton, An Explication of All the Inscriptions in the Palmyrene Language, page 344:
text: This is proved by two inscriptions from Palmyrene, ...
ref: 1936, The Cambridge Ancient History, volume 11, page 860:
glosses: Alternative form of Palmyrena.
Palmyreneans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Palmyrenean
Palmyrenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Palmyrene
Farey sequence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Farey sequences
Etymology: Named after British geologist John Farey Sr., whose letter about the sequences was published in the Philosophical Magazine in 1816.
Senses: examples: text: Students should then see the number of fractions N, in the Farey sequence is equal to #92;phi(2)#43;#92;phi(3)#43;#92;phi(4)#43;#92;dots#43;#92;phi(n), where #92;phi(n) is the number of positive integers less than or equal to n that are relatively prime to n.
ref: 2002, Alfred S. Posamentier, Jay Stepelman, Teaching Secondary Mathematics, Merrill, page 403:
text: 2007, Jakub Pawlewicz, Order Statistics in the Farey Sequences in Sublinear Time, Lars Arge, Michael Hoffmann, Emo Welzl (editors), Algorithms - ESA 2007: 15th Annual European Symposium, Proceedings, Springer, LNCS 4698, page 218,
The Farey sequence of order n (denoted ℱₙ) is the increasing sequence of all irreducible fractions from interval [0,1] with denominators less than or equal to n. The Farey sequences have numerous interesting properties and they are well known in the number theory and in the combinatorics.
text: Riemann sums have also important connections with various problems from number theory, among them the Riemann Hypothesis, through their link with Farey sequences.
ref: 2009, Michel Weber, Dynamical Systems and Processes, European Mathematical Society, page 549:
topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: For a given positive integer n, the sequence of completely reduced fractions between 0 and 1 which, when in lowest terms, have denominators less than or equal to n, arranged in order of increasing size.
wikipedia: John Farey Sr.
Philosophical Magazine
Related terms: Farey neighbour
Farey pair
brailling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From braille + -ing, an allusion to the system of writing for the blind that is read by touch.
Senses: glosses: A form of cheating in the board game Scrabble, where a player drawing tiles from the bag attempts to feel their raised surfaces so as to choose specific letters.
Saurashtra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /saʊˈɹɑːstɹə/
/saʊˈɹɑːʃtɹə/
Forms: form: Saurastra
Etymology: Borrowed from Gujarati સૌરાષ્ટ્ર (saurāṣṭra) or its etymon Sanskrit सौराष्ट्र (saurāṣṭra), vriddhi form of सुराष्ट्र (surāṣṭra), from सु- (su-, “good”) + राष्ट्र (rāṣṭra, “realm, dominion”).
Senses: glosses: A region of Gujarat, India.
glosses: An Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Saurashtra people.
Saurashtra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /saʊˈɹɑːstɹə/
/saʊˈɹɑːʃtɹə/
Forms: form: Saurashtras
form: Saurashtra
form: Sourashtra
Etymology: Borrowed from Saurashtra ꢱꣃꢬꢵꢰ꣄ꢜ꣄ꢬ (saurāṣṭra), from Sanskrit सौराष्ट्र (saurāṣṭra, “from Saurashtra”).
Senses: glosses: One of a community of Indian people who had their original homes in Gujarat.
Saurashtra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /saʊˈɹɑːstɹə/
/saʊˈɹɑːʃtɹə/
Forms: form: Sourashtra
Etymology: Borrowed from Saurashtra ꢱꣃꢬꢵꢰ꣄ꢜ꣄ꢬ (saurāṣṭra), from Sanskrit सौराष्ट्र (saurāṣṭra, “from Saurashtra”).
Senses: glosses: An Indo-Aryan language spoken by these people.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Saurashtra terms
Saurashtras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Saurashtra
Elmyra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A rare spelling variant of Elmira.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Druids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Druid
mestnichestvo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Russian ме́стничество (méstničestvo).
Senses: examples: text: There was also a system of mestnichestvo (the distribution of postings depending on the type of nobility), and then Emperor Peter the Great developed the “Table of Ranks”, which determined the seniority of civil and military officials in relation to each other.
ref: 2014, N.N., Sputnik & Pogrom, A brief guide to the Russian psyche
glosses: A feudal hierarchical system in Russia from the 15th to 17th centuries.
oprichnina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian опри́чнина (opríčnina).
Senses: glosses: The period of Russian history between 1565 and 1572 during which Tsar Ivan the Terrible instituted a domestic policy of secret police, mass repressions, public executions, and confiscation of land from Russian aristocrats.
examples: text: Starting with Ivan the Terrible, whose “oprichnina” destroyed the ancient boyar families, eliminating any alternative to the state and sovereign as principal character throughout our history.
ref: 2014, N.N., Sputnik & Pogrom, A brief guide to the Russian psyche
glosses: This domestic policy.
Related terms: oprichnik
Chinese cherry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinese cherries
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of genus Prunus:
Chinese flowering cherry (Prunus cyclamina)
glosses: Any of several species of genus Prunus:
Chinese plum-cherry (Prunus humilis)
glosses: Any of several species of genus Prunus:
Chinese sour cherry (Prunus pseudocerasus)
glosses: Any of several species of genus Prunus:
Chinese dwarf cherry (Prunus tomentosa)
glosses: Any of several species of genus Prunus:
Chinese bush cherry (Prunus tomentosa)
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Chinese, cherry.
indispensable nation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indispensable nations
Senses: examples: text: As I've said many times, America is the world's indispensable nation, the one the world looks to for leadership because of our strength and our values.
ref: 1995, William Jefferson Clinton, Presidential Radio Address - 16 November 1996:
glosses: The one nation that supposedly keeps the world affairs in check via its economic and military power.
kukus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kuku
taar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tar (“Persian string instrument”).
touch-phone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: touch-phones
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of touchphone.
touch phone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: touch phones
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of touchphone.
touch phones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of touch phone
touch-phones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of touch-phone
liaisoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of liaison
liaisoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of liaison
devil's claw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devil's claws
Senses: glosses: Anything considered ugly or potentially harmful resembling a claw in appearance or behavior
glosses: Anything considered ugly or potentially harmful resembling a claw in appearance or behavior:
Particularly plants
Harpagophytum spp., especially Harpagophytum procumbens, native to South Africa.
glosses: Anything considered ugly or potentially harmful resembling a claw in appearance or behavior:
Particularly plants
Proboscidea spp. (mule grab, unicorn plant)
glosses: Anything considered ugly or potentially harmful resembling a claw in appearance or behavior:
Particularly plants
Ibicella lutea (yellow unicorn plant)
glosses: Anything considered ugly or potentially harmful resembling a claw in appearance or behavior:
Particularly plants
Pisonia spp. (catchbird trees)
glosses: Anything considered ugly or potentially harmful resembling a claw in appearance or behavior:
Particularly plants
Senegalia greggii (catclaw acacia, formerly Acacia greggii)
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A metal hook for grabbing a ship's anchor chain.
Chinese spinach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any of several plants grown as leaf vegetables:
Ipomoea aquatica, water spinach, a semi-aquatic plant with hollow stems and long, lance-shaped leaves.
glosses: Any of several plants grown as leaf vegetables:
Amaranthus dubius, often bearing red or purple marks
glosses: Any of several plants grown as leaf vegetables:
Amaranthus tricolor, edible amaranth
glosses: Any of several plants grown as leaf vegetables:
Basella alba, Malabar spinach, with thick, succulent, heart-shaped leaves
glosses: Any of several plants grown as leaf vegetables:
Capsella bursa-pastoris (shepherd's purse)
round ligament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: round ligaments
Senses: examples: text: It is observed by Professor Scarpa, that "the round ligament of the uterus, in passing through the abdominal muscles, follows precisely the same track as the spermatic cord."
ref: 1822, Samuel Cooper, A Dictionary of Practical Surgery, →OCLC, page 630:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Either of two ligaments running from the uterus through the inguinal canal to the labia majora; ligamentum teres uteri.
examples: text: Ligamentum Teres Hepatis. — The round ligament of the liver is a stout fibrous band which passes from the umbilicus, backwards and upwards, within the free margin of the falciform ligament...
ref: 1902, Aurthur Robinson, editor, Cunningham's Textbook of Anatomy, 5th edition, published 1918, page 1196:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A string of tissue dividing the liver into medial and lateral sections; ligamentum teres hepatis.
examples: text: ...that the violence of the fall had produced an extensive contusion of the round ligament and joint...
ref: 1827, “Operation for anchylosis of the hip-joint”, in The Lancet London, volume 12, page 683:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of various rounded ligaments in the body; ligamentum teres.
dufuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dufus
ammo humper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ammo humpers
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A soldier responsible for carrying the ammunition.
ammo humpers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ammo humper
cocainism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cocaine + -ism.
Senses: glosses: cocaine addiction
Synonyms: cocainomania
nasalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nasalisms
Etymology: From nasal + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A nasal sound in speech.
nasalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nasalism
hypermotivated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypermotivated
form: most hypermotivated
Etymology: From hyper- + motivated.
Senses: glosses: Very highly motivated.
supermotivated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supermotivated
form: most supermotivated
Etymology: From super- + motivated.
Senses: glosses: Very highly motivated.
flunkie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flunkies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flunkey.
butcherer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butcherers
Etymology: From butcher + -er. Attested since the 1640s.
Senses: examples: text: That G should be the first letter of his name that should succeed Edward; and the Duke of Clarence his name being George, 'twas thought he should be the Butcherer of Edwards sons, which Gloucester afterwards proved to be.
ref: 1646, Giovanni Francesco Biondi, An History Of The Civill Warres Of England:
synonyms: word: homicide
word: homicider
word: killer
glosses: One who butchers; a brutal or indiscriminate killer.
butcherers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butcherer
divershitty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of diversity + shitty
Senses: glosses: Diversity; multiculturalism.
chuckleheadedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chuckleheaded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being chuckleheaded.
yueqin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yueqin
form: yueqins
form: yue qin
form: yüeh-ch'in
Etymology: From the pinyin romanization of Mandarin 月琴 (yuèqín, literally “moon(-shaped) stringed instrument; moon guitar”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A small short-necked Chinese lute-like stringed instrument (chordophone) with a round, hollow wooden body and four strings in pairs in its traditional form, now more often with three or four unpaired strings.
Synonyms: word: moon guitar
word: moon lute
word: moon zither
sense: Japanese contexts
word: gekkin
yueqins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yueqin
moon guitar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moon guitars
Etymology: Calque from Chinese 月琴 (yuèqín, literally “moon-shaped stringed instrument”)
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Synonym of yueqin.
synonyms: word: yueqin
moon guitars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moon guitar
moon zither
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moon zithers
Etymology: Calque from Chinese 月琴 (yuèqín), "moon-shaped stringed instrument".
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Synonym of yueqin.
synonyms: word: yueqin
moon zithers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moon zither
yüeh-ch'in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yüeh-ch'ins
Etymology: The Wade romanization of Mandarin 月琴 (yuèqín, literally “moon(-shaped) stringed instrument”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Alternative form of yueqin.
yüeh-ch'ins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yüeh-ch'in
diamond-square algorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the diamond-square algorithm
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An algorithm for generating heightmaps. It starts with a two-dimensional grid and then randomly generates terrain height from four seed values arranged in a grid of points so that the entire plane is covered in squares.
maqafs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maqaf
qanoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qanoons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of qanun.
qanoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of qanoon
kishlak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kishlaks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of qishlaq.
qishlaqs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of qishlaq
kishlaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kishlak
underfriction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + friction.
Senses: examples: text: Altho having 5,000 feet of track, every inc of the route is full of thrill and sensation. Winnwood used the 1922 construction with the safety underfriction and the second coaster was the kids' and adults' "Picnic" type, with around 1,100 feet of track.
ref: 1928, The Billboard, page 64:
text: Here knowledge of "banks," pitches, and curves, and acceleration and underfriction in ride-building meant nothing; mystic mazes, fun houses, walk-throughs and Damfino's, which were laugh-getters on a Midway, had no appeal when the same principle was put into a moving picture.
ref: 1929, Homer Croy, Coney Island, page 208:
text: Underfriction allowed coasters to be taller, steeper, and faster than anything previously imagined. The Woodie. Miller built hundreds of underfriction roller coasters out of the only materials available at the time, solid metal[…]
ref: 2003, Bret Witter, Carnival Undercover, Plume Books:
text: ... and underfriction wheels that kept coaster cars locked onto their tracks, a development that fostered higher speeds and allowed cars to turn upside down or bank suddenly.
ref: 2023 August 1, Frank Vizard, Made in New York: 25 Innovators Who Shaped Our World, State University of New York Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A system for preventing a rollercoaster train from jumping off the track while in violent motion, using additional wheels under the track.
pseudorealistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudorealistic
form: most pseudorealistic
Etymology: From pseudo- + realistic.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting pseudorealism.
emeute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emeutes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of émeute.
Featherstonehaugh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈfænʃɔː/
/ˈfɪərstənhɔː/
/fɛð.əɹ.stəʊn.hɔː/
Senses: glosses: A surname.
lawn bowls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The game of bowls.
Synonyms: lawn bowling
ODM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: company
glosses: Initialism of Original Design Manufacturer, a company that designs and manufactures a product that will be rebranded for sale by another company.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of OpenDocument Master, a computer file type.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of OverDrive Media, a computer file type.
youkan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yokan.
yokan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yokan
form: yōkan
form: youkan
Etymology: From Japanese 羊羹(ようかん) (yōkan).
Senses: examples: text: Looking into the cake bowl which she had brought I saw that it contained some green ‘yokan’ made from bean jelly. I think that if^([sic – meaning of]) all cakes, yokan are my favourite. […] These yokan were particularly pleasant to look at, for their green-tinged lustre made them look as though they were precious stones, or as though they had been fashioned from alabaster.
ref: 1965, Natsume Soseki, translated by Alan Turney, chapter 4, in The Three Cornered World (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works, Japanese Series), Chicago, Ill.: Henry Regnery Company, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 66–67:
text: There are hundreds of distinct variations within the main types of wagashi: namagashi, monaka, yokan, manju, and higashi. […] Yokan gets its firm texture from kanten, a seaweed-derived gelatin, and is likely to have fruit and azuki within.
ref: 2007 winter, Elisa Herr, “A Sweet Tradition”, in Japan Info, volume 9, New York, N.Y.: Japan Information Center, Consolate General of Japan, →OCLC, page 8, columns 1–2:
text: “Homemade yokan. You must be quite special to this girl,” he teased. “She's just one of many,” I laughed. Matsu picked up one of the rectangular red bean cakes and put it entirely into his mouth.
ref: 2008, Gail Tsukiyama, The Samurai's Garden, page 61:
text: Bill Yosses, the pastry chef, is now making yokan “pops” ($5) in several flavors at his Palais restaurant on the Upper East Side; Dylan Lauren also sells them at Dylan’s Candy Bar near Union Square. She said she liked the way the pops made yokan fun.
ref: 2019 November 4, Florence Fabricant, “A Japanese Sweet Tradition a Thousand Years in the Making”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Nov 2019:
glosses: A thick jellied dessert made of red bean paste, agar, and sugar, usually sold in block form and eaten in slices.
Sunnitization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Sunnitize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Sunnitisation.
Sunnitisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sunnitization
Etymology: From Sunnitise + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The process of Sunnitising.
Sunnitise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Sunnitises
form: Sunnitising
form: Sunnitised
form: Sunnitised
form: sunnitize
form: Sunnitize
Etymology: From Sunnite + -ise.
Senses: glosses: To make or become Sunni
Derived terms: Sunnitisation
Sunnitises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Sunnitise
Sunnitising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Sunnitise
Sunnitised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Sunnitise
non-adjustable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonadjustable.
stripboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stripboard
salsa golf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Spanish, literally "golf sauce"; said to have been invented at a golf club in the 1920s.
Senses: glosses: A sauce made from ketchup and mayonnaise.
Synonyms: Marie Rose sauce
duchess potatoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duchesse potatoes
Etymology: Translation of French pommes de terre duchesse.
Senses: glosses: A purée of mashed potato and egg yolk, moulded or piped into various shapes which are then baked until golden.
Melzer's reagent
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Invented by the mycologist Václav Melzer.
Senses: glosses: A chemical reagent, an aqueous solution of chloral hydrate, potassium iodide and iodine, used in identifying fungi.
nosepicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nosepickers
Senses: examples: text: But as I got older and saw more of the world, I soon discovered that nosepickers weren't all that uncommon; and, in fact, were a lot more common than I could've ever imagined.
ref: 2010, Emery Goeff, Mouseland, page 31:
glosses: Alternative form of nose-picker.
nosepickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nosepicker
Panenka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Panenkas
form: panenka
form: panenka kick
Etymology: Named after Antonín Panenka, a Czech football player who scored a softly-struck chipped penalty kick down the middle of the goal to win the penalty shootout in the UEFA Euro 1976 Final
Senses: examples: text: Amazingly, in the most important football competition in the world, he had scored a penalty kick in the most risky and theatrical way possible, with what is called a panenka, after Antonín Panenka, a Czech footballer who in 1976 scored a vital penalty kick by chipping the ball over the goalkeeper into the center of the net.
ref: 2010, Laurent Dubois, Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France:
text: Up stepped Pirlo, who coolly took a Panenka as Hart dived to his right.
ref: 2015, Ben Lyttleton, Twelve Yards: The Art and Psychology of the Perfect Penalty Kick:
text: Best used for penalties that are scored in a tidy, unfussy manner – no impudent Panenkas or short runups welcome here, thanks.
ref: 2015, Adam Hurrey, Football Clichés: Decoding the Oddball Phrases, Colorful Gestures, and Unwritten Rules of Soccer Across the Pond:
text: He chipped a Panenka that was so bad it barely had enough power to bounce off the chest of Lukasz Fabianski.
ref: 2020 November 7, Paul MacInnes, “Soucek's late strike earns West Ham win as Lookman fluffs Fulham penalty”, in The Guardian, London:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A softly-struck chipped penalty kick into the middle of the goal.
wikipedia: Antonín Panenka
Panenkas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Panenka
panenkas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panenka
syntagmatarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪnˌtaɡməˈtɑːki/
Forms: form: syntagmatarchies
Etymology: First attested in 1670–1 and then once per century since; from the Latin syntagmatarchia, from the Ancient Greek συνταγματαρχία (suntagmatarkhía), from σύνταγμα (súntagma), whence the English syntagma.
Senses: examples: text: Two Taxiarchies, which were ſixteen Files, made a Syntagmatarchy of two hundred fifty ſix men; its Commander Syntagmatarcha was our private Captain. This Company was a ſquare of men, ſixteen in Rank and ſixteen in File, and whatever way you turn’d it, ſtill ſixteen. […¶] Two Syntagmatarchies compos’d a Pentecoſiarchy conſiſting of five hundred and twelve men[.…] By this account we find in every Phalange two Diphalangarchies, four Phalangarchies, eight Myriarchies, ſixteen Chiliarchies, two and thirty Pentecoſiarchies, ſixty four Syntagmatarchies; in all one thouſand twenty four Files, which conſiſted of ſixteen thouſand three hundred eighty four men, at ſixteen in every File. [¶] Here you are to obſerve, that every Syntagmatarchy or private Company, conſiſting of two hundred fifty ſix men, had beſide the Captain and others already ſpoken of, five other Officers, whom Ælian calls ſupernumerary or extraordinary.
ref: 1670–1, Sir James Turner, Pallas Armata (1968), chapter v, page 13
text: Sixteen of theſe files compoſed what was called a ſyntagmatarchy or a ſquare body of 256 men.
ref: 1787, Sketch of a Plan for Reducing the Expence of the Army, page 5:
text: In the phalanx,…were 64 syntagmatarchies; and it evidently appears that the number of cavalry…assigned to act with the phalanx, was 4096 men; now this number being divided by 64, will exactly furnish a troop consisting of a like number to each syntagmatarchy.
ref: 1814, Henry Augustus Visc. Dillon xiii, The Tactics of Ælian, chapter xx, page 94, endnote 2
text: Two diphalangarchies are a tetraphalangarchy, 1,024 files, 16,384 men, so that in the phalanx as a whole there will be 2 wings, 4 phalangarchies, 8 merarchies, 16 chiliarchies, 32 pentakosiarchies, 64 syntagmatarchies, 128 taxiarchies, 256 tetrarchies, 512 dilochiai, 1,024 files (lochoi).
ref: 1989, The Ancient World, XIX-XX, pages 47-48, § 9.10:
topics: government
history
human-sciences
military
politics
sciences
war
glosses: A square formation of 256 soldiers arranged into sixteen files, sixteen ranks deep, led by a syntagmatarch; a syntagma.
syntagmatarchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syntagmatarchy
ring spanner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ring spanners
Senses: qualifier: especially (British)
glosses: a spanner with a ring-shaped jaw with internal serrations which grip onto a nut or bolt.
Synonyms: ring wrench
telepayment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telepayments
Etymology: From tele- + payment.
Senses: glosses: payment made by telecommunications
swineherding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From swine + herding.
Senses: glosses: The herding of swine.
telepayments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telepayment
unalleged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + alleged.
Senses: glosses: Not alleged.
Croatist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Croatists
Etymology: From Croat + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A linguist specializing in the Croatian language.
Croatists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Croatist
Croatian studies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: humanities
glosses: An academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the Croatian language, Croatian linguistics, and Croatian sociolinguistics.
Synonyms: Croatistics
Croatistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Croatian studies
Croatization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Croatizations
form: Croatisation
form: Croatianization
form: Croatianisation
Etymology: From Croat + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act of making something have more Croatian characteristics.
glosses: The adoption of Croatian customs or culture.
Croatizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Croatization
Croatianization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Croatianizations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Croatization.
Croatianizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Croatianization
Croatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Croatisms
form: Croatianism
Etymology: From Croat + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A word or other feature originating from or characteristic of the Croatian language.
glosses: A nationalistic ideology declaring being Croatian is the highest value.
Croatisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Croatism
Croatianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Croatianisms
Etymology: From Croatian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Croatism.
Croatianisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Croatianism
Croatize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Croatizes
form: Croatizing
form: Croatized
form: Croatized
form: Croatise
Etymology: From Croat + -ize.
Senses: glosses: to make or become Croatian, or more Croatian
Synonyms: Croatianize
Croatianise
Croatizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Croatize
Croatizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Croatize
Croatized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Croatize
Croatianize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Croatianizes
form: Croatianizing
form: Croatianized
form: Croatianized
form: Croatianise
Etymology: From Croatian + -ize.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Croatize.
synonyms: word: Croatize
Croatianizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Croatianize
Croatianizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Croatianize
Croatianized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Croatianize
Croatianise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Croatianises
form: Croatianising
form: Croatianised
form: Croatianised
Etymology: From Croatian + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of Croatianize.
Croatianises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Croatianise
Croatianising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Croatianise
Croatianised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Croatianise
Croatise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Croatises
form: Croatising
form: Croatised
form: Croatised
Etymology: From Croat + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of Croatize.
Croatises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Croatise
Croatising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Croatise
Croatised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Croatise
Croatocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntɹɪk
Forms: form: more Croatocentric
form: most Croatocentric
form: Croato-centric
Senses: glosses: focused on Croatia, its people, language or culture
Croato-centric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Croato-centric
form: most Croato-centric
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Croatocentric.
goader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: goaders
Etymology: From goad + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who goads.
goaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goader
Sharkovskii's theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sharkovsky's theorem
form: Sharkovskiy's theorem
form: Sarkovskii's theorem
Etymology: Named after Oleksandr Mikolaiovich Sharkovsky.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A theorem about discrete dynamical systems. One of its implications is that if a discrete dynamical system on the real line has a periodic point of period 3, then it must have periodic points of every other period.
wikipedia: Oleksandr Mikolaiovich Sharkovsky
redestroy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: redestroys
form: redestroying
form: redestroyed
form: redestroyed
Etymology: From re- + destroy.
Senses: glosses: To destroy again.
rediscoverer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rediscoverers
Etymology: From rediscover + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who discovers something again.
recontribute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recontributes
form: recontributing
form: recontributed
form: recontributed
Etymology: From re- + contribute.
Senses: glosses: To contribute again.
Related terms: recontribution
reorganizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reorganizers
form: reorganiser
Etymology: From reorganize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who organizes something again.
reorganizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reorganizer
sists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sist
God be with the days
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: God be with the days when people had respect for their elders.
glosses: A phrase alluding to better days of yesteryear, often followed by the thing the speaker regrets losing.
homestayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homestayers
Etymology: From home + stayer.
Senses: glosses: One who stays at home.
homestayers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homestayer
tarbouche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tarbouches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tarboosh.
balaboosta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balaboostas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of baleboste.
lesbianist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lesbianists
Etymology: From lesbian + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: She was an admitted felon, a three-time loser to the law, a liar, a prostitute, a sodomist, and a lesbianist.
ref: 1966, North Western Reporter:
text: NYMPHOMANIA: Excessive sexual desire, urge or drive in a woman. Some of such women may turn lesbianists.
ref: 2014, Krishan Vij, Textbook of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology:
glosses: Alternative form of lesbian.
dickie bow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dickie bows
Senses: examples: text: Oh yeah, and I was wearing a dickie bow. I was halfway to being a light entertainer. Actually, if you've seen some late-night shows on ITV2, I was ready for action.
ref: 2012, Lee Mack, Mack The Life:
glosses: Alternative spelling of dicky bow.
complex sentences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of complex sentence
waftures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wafture
chromize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chromizes
form: chromizing
form: chromized
form: chromized
form: chromise
Etymology: From chrome + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To chrome; to treat with chromium.
chromizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chromize
chromizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chromize
chromized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chromize
chromise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chromises
form: chromising
form: chromised
form: chromised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chromize.
chromises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chromise
chromises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chromis
chromising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chromise
chromised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chromise
sage brushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sage brush
kroštule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Serbo-Croatian krȍštule/кро̏штуле, from Venetan cròstoƚo.
Senses: glosses: a traditional pastry from Dalmatia and Istria
Antequera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Spanish Antequera.
Senses: glosses: A city in Málaga, Andalusia, Spain.
scrape along
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scrapes along
form: scraping along
form: scraped along
form: scraped along
Senses: qualifier: with on or with
glosses: to barely be able to survive
superagility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super- + agility.
Senses: glosses: Remarkable agility
glosses: Superhuman agility
superagile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ædʒaɪl
Etymology: From super- + agile.
Senses: glosses: Remarkably agile
Sufetula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The præfect himself was slain by the hand of Zobeir: his daughter, who sought revenge and death, was surrounded and made prisoner; and the fugitives involved in their disaster the town of Sufetula, to which they escaped from the sabres and lances of the Arabs.
ref: 1789, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume 5, published 1866, page 238:
text: Its presence in the very centre of the town certainly emphasises the dominance of Christianity at Sufetula from at least the fourth century onwards.
ref: 2007, Gareth Sears, Late Roman African Urbanism: Continuity and transformation in the city, page 55:
text: Out in the middle of nowhere on the plains 107km southwest of Kairouan and 38km east of Kasserine, Sbeitla is home to the evocative ancient town of Sufetula, famous for its remarkably preserved Roman temples.
ref: 2010, Donna Wheeler, Paul Clammer, Emilie Filou, Tunisia, Lonely Planet, page 176:
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: An ancient Roman and Byzantine town in the North African province Creta et Cyrenaica, near present-day Sbeitla, Tunisia.
cabin cruisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cabin cruiser
baptismal fonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baptismal font
wallcreeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔːlkɹiːpə/
Forms: form: wallcreepers
Etymology: From wall + creeper.
Senses: glosses: A passerine bird of species Tichodroma muraria, closely related to the nuthatches, breeding in temperate Asia, found more widely in much of temperate Eurasia.
Related terms: treecreeper
woodcreeper
red man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red men
Etymology: In reference to Native Americans, generally accepted to have originated as a reference to their skin color; see redskin for more.
Senses: examples: text: The Sacred Circles show was heavily into myth, especially the current myth of the Red Man as mystic.
ref: 1977, Angela Carter, “That Arizona Home”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 337:
related: word: redman
synonyms: word: redskin
word: American Indian
word: Amerind
word: Amerindian
word: First American
word: Indian
word: Indigenous American
word: Indigenous North American
word: Injun
word: injun
word: Native American
word: NDN
word: Red Indian
word: red man
word: redman
word: redskin
glosses: An American Indian; a Native American.
coordinate_terms: green man
glosses: A small figure of a standing man illuminated in red on a traffic light at a pedestrian crossing, indicating that it is not safe to cross the road.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:red man.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, man.