cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
aerodromic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aerodrome + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The experience to date clearly illustrated Langley's general approach to innovation in technology and set a pattern for all future aerodromic work.
ref: 2002, Tom D. Crouch, A Dream of Wings: Americans and the Airplane, 1875-1905:
glosses: Of or relating to an aerodrome.
Related terms: aerodrome
aerodromics
aeronautic
astronautic
Shitmas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪtməs/
rhymes: -ɪtməs
Etymology: Blend of shit + Christmas.
Senses: glosses: Christmas.
depressive black metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The first MCD was sometimes really depressive, and the new full-length CD (out March/May 2001) will be definitively pure Depressive Black Metal, something in between Abyssic Hate, old Katatonia, old Burzum, Dolorian.
ref: January 22, 2001, marchisio, “Re: Depressing Black Metal”, in alt.music.black-metal (Usenet):
text: Dunkel - Evighed (depressive black metal in the Burzum vein - rare tape!) $6
ref: August 1, 2003, Convivial Hermit, “various stuff for sale”, in alt.music.black-metal (Usenet):
text: - FORGOTTEN TOMB "Songs to Leave" CD (great depressive black metal) 15$
ref: October 6, 2003, O.T., “Tour de Garde mail order.”, in alt.music.black-metal (Usenet):
text: For in spite of the opposition of authentic inner “strength” to corrupt, worldly “weakness” that often characterises depressive black metal artists’ statements of intent, it is not inner resolve that protects the listener from despair but a failure of rational consisency.
ref: 2009, Dominic Fox, Cold World: The Aesthetics of Dejection and the Politics of Militant Dysphoria, O Books, page 47:
text: Our recent discovery of a blog dedicated to “depressive black metal” We guess the music sounds neat.
ref: The SPIN 20 in SPIN, September 2011 edition, SPIN Media LLC, page 30
text: Active since 1997, Sin Nanna currently resides in Hobart, Tasmania, where he records and releases LPs, CDs, and DVDs to an avid global fan base of devotees of “depressive black metal,” a style of extreme heavy metal centered upon lyrical themes of ennui, abjection, and mourning.
ref: 2013, Drew Daniel, The Melancholy Assemblage: Affect and Epistemology in the English Renaissance, Fordham University Press, page 241:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A subgenre of black metal that focuses on slow, repetitive instrumentation and depressive or suicidal lyrics and imagery.
scutters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scutter
scutters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scutter
scuttering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scutter
scuttering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scutterings
Senses: examples: the scutterings of rats
glosses: The act of running with a light pattering noise; a skittering.
scuttered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scuttered
form: most scuttered
Senses: examples: text: Last night I went out on a night on the town and came home absolutely scuttered
text: Eventually, Lydia extended an olive branch. “Were you drinking at the funeral, Mum? Maybe you don't remember ringing because you were scuttered.” “I wasn't scuttered.” “What did you have at the do?” “Two Baileys.”
ref: 2010, Marian Keyes, The Brightest Star in the Sky, Penguin Publishing Group, page 197:
glosses: Very drunk.
scuttered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scutter
scutterers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scutterer
chauncels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chauncel
target audiences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of target audience
Qum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Classical Persian قم (qum).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Qom, Iran.
Ferozepur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Firozpur
form: Ferozepore
Senses: glosses: A city on the banks of the Sutlej River in the state of Punjab, India.
glosses: The administrative division of India, next to the border with Pakistan, which contains this city.
Amritsar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit अमृत "nectar" + सरस् "lake, pool".
Senses: glosses: A large city in Punjab, India, formerly known as Ramdaspur and sometimes called Ambarsar.
glosses: The district (the second most populous in Punjab) which contains this city.
Pathankot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Punjab, India, site of a major military base.
Faridkot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for Farīduddīn Ganjshakar ((Urdu: حضرت بابا فرید الدّین مسعود گنج شکر).
Senses: glosses: A large city in Punjab, India.
glosses: The district which contains this city.
glosses: A princely state in the Cis-Sutlej Punjab region of India during the British raj.
glosses: The district containing villages Mishriwala, Moran Wali, Ghumiara, Dhudi, etc.
Sri Muktsar Sahib
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Punjab, India, formerly known as Khidrana and then as Muktsar.
glosses: The district, one of the twenty-two districts in the Indian Punjab, which contains this city.
Bathinda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bhatinda
Senses: glosses: A town in Punjab, India, site of the Qila Mubarak or "Fortunate Castle".
glosses: The district which contains this town.
Jalandhar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jullundur
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit [Term?], from जल (jala, “water”) + अनदर (anadara, “inside”), because Shiva's son was born inside water.
Senses: glosses: The son of Shiva.
glosses: A city and district in northwestern Punjab, India, famous for sports equipments.
Kapurthala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A district of Punjab, in northern India, divided into two noncontiguous parts.
glosses: The capital city of this district, located in the northern part.
peanut tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peanut trees
Etymology: Because the seeds of its fruit (which is red or orange when ripe) taste like raw peanuts.
Senses: glosses: A tree of the species Sterculia quadrifida; a red- or orange-fruited kurrajong.
Hypernyms: tree
peanut trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peanut tree
decensor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decensors
form: decensoring
form: decensored
form: decensored
Etymology: From de- + censor.
Senses: examples: text: Later on Alice, decensored her painting by painting over the fig leaves she had been forced to put in.
coordinate_terms: censor
glosses: To restore, recreate or reconstruct the objectionable content of a work.
decensors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decensor
decensoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decensor
decensored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decensor
open intervals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of open interval
issue pea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: issue peas
Senses: examples: text: Apart from peas, young unripe fruit of the orange tree was previously used as an issue pea
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A pea, or similar round body, used to provoke irritation in a wound, in order to promote secretion and the discharge of pus.
issue peas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of issue pea
step off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: steps off
form: stepping off
form: stepped off
form: stepped off
Senses: examples: text: He measured the garden by stepping it off.
glosses: To measure by steps or paces; hence, to divide (a space), or to form a series of marks, by successive measurements, as with dividers.
examples: text: You had better step off, man...
antonyms: step#Verb
coordinate_terms: step up#Verb
qualifier: African-American Vernacular; inseparable; African-American Vernacular; inseparable
glosses: To avoid a conflict; to back down.
examples: text: He stepped off the train.
text: Today, when stepping off the train, you're presented with a bright and airy concourse that's ringed with a variety of facilities.
ref: 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: Eastbourne”, in RAIL, number 948, page 27:
qualifier: inseparable
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see step, off.
cups that cheer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cup that cheers
stroupachs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stroupach
aero engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aero engines
form: aeroengine
form: aero-engine
Senses: glosses: An aircraft engine.
rum bud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rum buds
Senses: glosses: grog-blossom
glosses: a heavy drinker
rum buds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rum bud
unsavage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsavage
form: most unsavage
Etymology: From un- + savage.
Senses: glosses: Not savage.
unbarbarous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbarbarous
form: most unbarbarous
Etymology: From un- + barbarous.
Senses: glosses: Not barbarous.
for best
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Those constitutions […] are now established for best, and not to be mended.
ref: 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavses that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC; republished in (Please provide a date or year):
glosses: for good; permanently
drinker moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drinker moths
Senses: glosses: A large British moth (Euthrix potatoria).
drinker moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drinker moth
whitherwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: whitherward
Etymology: From whither + -wards.
Senses: glosses: In what direction; toward what or which place.
Related terms: —
henceafter
henceforth
henceforward
henceforwards
hencefrom
hereabout
hereabouts
hereabove
hereafter
hereafters
hereagainst
hereamong
hereanent
hereat
hereaway
herebefore
hereby
herefor
herefore
hereforth
hereforward
hereforwards
herefrom
herehence
hereinabove
hereinafter
hereinbefore
hereinbelow
hereinelsewhere
hereinsoever
hereinto
hereinunder
heremid
hereof
hereon
hereout
hereover
herethrough
herethroughout
hereto
heretofore
hereunto
hereupon
herewith
herewithal
herewithin
herewithout
hitherto
hitherunto
hitherward
hitherwards
howbeit
however
howso
howsoever
howsomedever
howsomever
thataway
thatwise
thenceafter
thenceforth
thenceforward
thenceforwards
thencefrom
thenceout
thereabout
thereabouts
thereabove
thereacross
thereafter
thereafters
thereagain
thereagainst
therealong
thereamong
thereamongst
thereanent
therearound
thereat
thereaway
therebefore
therebeside
therebetween
therebeyond
thereby
therever
therefor
therefore
thereforth
therefrom
therehence
thereinabove
thereinafter
thereinbefore
thereinbelow
thereinto
thereinunder
theremid
thereof
thereon
thereout
thereover
theresoever
therethrough
therethroughout
thereto
theretofore
thereunto
thereup
thereupon
therewith
therewithal
therewithin
therewithout
thisaway
thiswise
thitherinsoever
thitherto
thitherward
thitherwards
whatever
whatso
whatsoever
whatsomedever
whatsomever
whatwise
whenabout
whenabouts
whenas
whenever
whenso
whensoever
whensomever
whenceafter
whencever
whenceforth
whenceforward
whencefrom
whenceward
whencewards
whereabout
whereabouts
whereabove
whereafter
whereafters
whereagainst
wherealong
whereamong
whereamongst
whereanent
wherearound
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whereat
whereaway
wherebefore
wherebeside
wherebetween
wherebeyond
whereby
wherever
wherefor
wherefore
whereforth
wherefrom
wherehence
whereinabove
whereinafter
whereinbefore
whereinbelow
whereinsoever
whereinto
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wheremid
whereof
whereon
whereout
whereover
whereso
wheresoever
wheresomever
wherethrough
wherethroughout
whereto
wheretofore
whereunto
whereup
whereupon
wherewith
wherewithal
wherewithin
wherewithout
whitherever
whitherinsoever
whitherso
whitherto
whithertofore
whitherward
whyever
whyfor
whyso
whysoever
1. Scottish2. from Middle English mid3. old dialectal form
marine engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marine engines
Senses: glosses: An engine for marine use, installed inboard on a boat or ship. For small vessels, these are usually adapted automotive engines; for large vessels they are specially built for the purpose.
Related terms: outboard motor
impopular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more impopular
form: most impopular
Etymology: From im- + popular. In non-native speakers’ English: compare Dutch impopulair, French impopulaire, and Spanish impopular.
Senses: examples: text: […] God reckons it but Juſtice to help thoſe, who will not help themſelves by doing any Thing that may diſpleaſe him, and who, in contradiction to the greateſt Number and the greateſt Examples, dare do ſuch an impopular and ungracious Thing, as to be religious, to prefer his Law before the Licence of Men, and Salvation to come before any preſent Preferment.
ref: 1647 December 26 – a. 1674, Edward [Hyde], [1st] Earl of Clarendon, “Contemplations and Reflections upon the Psalms of David. Applying those Devotions to the Troubles of the Times.”, in A Collection of Several Tracts of the Right Honourable Edward, Earl of Clarendon, […], London: […] T[homas] Woodward, […], and J[ohn] Peele, […], published 1727, psalm CXIX, section xx, page 714:
text: But the cauſe being ſo very odious and impopular, the tryal of the Verdict was deferred from one Term to another, until upon the Duke of G⁠-⁠-⁠ft⁠-⁠n the Lord Lieutenant’s arrival, his Grace after mature advice, and permiſſion from England, was pleaſed to grant a noli proſequi.
ref: 1721 January 10, Jonathan Swift, “Letter V. From Dr. Swift to Mr. Pope.”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, in Prose, volume II (Letters to and from Dr. Jonathan Swift), London: […] J[ohn] and P[aul] Knapton, C[harles] Bathurst, and R[obert] Dodsley, published 1741, page 12:
text: No nation could be justified in compelling them to submit to an impopular dynasty, or to the yoke of feudal and superstitious tyranny.
ref: 1817, Charles Coote, “Letter XXX. A Narrative of the most remarkable Incidents, both Political and Military, which followed the Return of Bonapartè from Exile.”, in The History of Europe, from the Treaty of Amiens, in 1802, to the Pacification of Paris, in 1815 (The History of Europe; VII), part IV, London: […] F[rancis,] C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington; […], page 506:
text: The Stamp Act was an impopular tax on paper and paper products, the revenue went to the royal treasury and were used to pay for the British soldiers stationed in America.
ref: 2001, Dirk J[an] Barreveld, “Epilogue”, in From New Amsterdam to New York: The Founding of New York by the Dutch in July 1625, Lincoln, Neb.: Writers Club Press, iUniverse.com, Inc., →ISBN, page 268:
qualifier: obsolete or non-native speakers' English
glosses: Unpopular.
marquesina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marquesinas
form: marquisina
Senses: glosses: A home's garage or carport, often used for socializing.
marquesinas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marquesina.
religiophilosophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: religiophilosophies
Etymology: From religio- + philosophy.
Senses: glosses: A belief system incorporating religion and philosophy.
anticitrullinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: anti-citrullinated
Etymology: From anti- + citrullinated.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: That targets citrullinated proteins
rathers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rather
rathers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rather
flip charts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flip chart
epidemic nephropathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epidemic nepropathy
Senses: glosses: A viral haemorrhagic fever primarily occurring in Scandinavia and NW Russia, caused by a type of hantavirus spread by voles.
Nawanshahr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large city in Punjab.
glosses: Former name of Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar.
Hoshiarpur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Punjab, in northern India.
glosses: The district which includes this city.
Patiala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Punjabi ਪਟਿਆਲਾ (paṭiālā).
Senses: glosses: A city in Punjab, India, site of the Qila Mubarak castle.
glosses: The district of which this city is the capital.
Sangrur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town, the headquarters of Sangrur district in Punjab, in northern India.
glosses: A district of Punjab, India.
Mansa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Punjabi.
Senses: glosses: A city in Punjab, India.
Mansa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for the Mansa river which flows west to the Luapula, which is in turn a section of the Congo river.
Senses: glosses: A city, capital of the province of Luapula in Zambia.
Ropar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Rupnagar (place in India).
Fatehgarh Sahib
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Literally "Town of Victory", so called since 1710, when Sikhs under Banda Bahadur conquered the area.
Senses: glosses: A city in Punjab, India, prominent in Sikh history.
glosses: The district which contains this city.
Ludhiana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌludiˈanə/
Etymology: From a word meaning "Lodi town", after the Lodi dynasty.
Senses: examples: text: It has been three days since the 50% tariffs on goods from India to the United States took effect. In Ludhiana’s bustling Phase IV of the city’s industrial hub, the steady hands of skilled workers sync with the clatter of machines on the ground floor of Sri Tools Industries, a manufacturer and exporter of hand tools. Meanwhile, on the first floor, the management team is holding a series of meetings to deliberate on cost-cutting and other measures to secure the company’s future. Sri Tools’ production has been hit by 30-35%. Ludhiana is Punjab’s manufacturing heartland.
ref: 2025 September 6, Vikas Vasudeva, “Rattling the nuts and bolts in Ludhiana. Punjab's industrial hub – known for engineering tools, textiles, and basmati rice exports – braces for the U.S. tariff fallout”, in The Hindu:
glosses: The largest city in the Indian state of Punjab.
glosses: The district in the Ropar division which encompasses this city.
Rann of Kutch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rann of Kachchh
Etymology: From Gujarati કચ્છનું રણ (kacchanũ raṇ, “Rann of Kutch”), consisting of રણ (raṇ, “desert”), નું (nũ, “of”) and કચ્છ (kacch, “Kutch”).
Senses: glosses: A seasonal salt marsh located in the Thar Desert in the Kutch District of Gujarat, India, and the Sindh province of Pakistan.
Kutch District
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kachchh District
Senses: glosses: The largest district in India, the district in the state of Gujarat which contains the Rann of Kutch.
parabiont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parabionts
Etymology: From para- + -biont.
Senses: glosses: An organism or community engaged in or united in a state of parabiosis
Demchok
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and military encampment in the Indian-administered part of the disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir, near Aksai Chin and the Line of Actual Control.
glosses: A village in Zhaxigang, Gar, Ngari, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
Line of Actual Control
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Line of Actual Control
Senses: examples: text: Thousands of soldiers have been facing off since April on the Line of Actual Control (LAC), or the de facto border, including at the glacial Pangong Tso lake.
ref: 2021 February 21, Sanjeev Miglani, Yew Lun Tian, “Hundreds protest S.China project over pollution worries”, in Giles Elgood, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 11 Oct 2021:
text: For decades, India and China have been locked in a bitter dispute along a 2,100-mile border known as the Line of Actual Control. Indian defense officials say that Chinese military forces have been increasingly laying claim to territories that have long been under India’s control.[…]
India’s Army said in a statement on Monday that troops from each side had disengaged from the Line of Actual Control, which is patrolled by soldiers from both countries.
ref: 2022 December 13, Sameer Yasir, Emily Schmall, “Indian and Chinese Soldiers Again Trade Blows at Disputed Border”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2022, Asia Pacific:
text: However, a major sore point in Indo-Chinese relations remains an ongoing standoff at the countries' de facto border, the Line of Actual Control (LAC), in the Himalayas, which analysts say is indicative of a larger rivalry.
ref: 2023 August 23, Wesley Rahn, Murali Krishnan, Yuchen Li, “BRICS: Can China and India overcome differences at summit?”, in Shamil Shams, editor, Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 24 Aug 2023, Politics:
glosses: The line which separates the Indian-administered union territory of Ladakh from Chinese-administered territory of Aksai Chin.
Synonyms: english: abbreviated form
translation: abbreviated form
word: LAC
Related terms: Line of Control
Trans-Karakoram Tract
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: A closer look at the foreign-occupied Indian state of Jammu- Kashmir reveals some unsettling coincidences. The Chinese control the Aksai Chin portion. The Pakistanis control Azad Kashmir and the Northern Areas. They ceded the Trans-Karakoram Tract (along the northern frontier of Gilgit-Baltistan agency) to the PRC in 1963. It was in those Northern Areas that the Taliban reinforcement route and al-Qaeda base camp were reported in 2001 and 2002, respectively. (Refer back to Map 7.4.)
ref: 2007, H. John Poole, Dragon Days: Time for "Unconventional" Tactics, Illustrated, Posterity Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 129:
text: And what would Middleton tell him—the truth? That he believed Chernayev and a great many other Russians saw an arms race on the subcontinent as inevitable. Worse, that China, before that arms race proceeded much further, would invade Kashmir from its own controlled areas in Aksai Chin and the Trans-Karakoram Tract, doing so for the water, contriving some pretext for the offensive such as protecting an otherwise expendable ethnic minority.
ref: 2009, The Copper Bracelet, published 2010, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 164:
text: The Aksai Chin region, forming nearly one-sixth of the area of Jammu and Kashmir, is controlled by China, which has no intention of relinquishing its jurisdiction. The same is true of the Trans-Karakoram Tract, part of the pre-1947 state which Islamabad transferred to China as stipulated in the 1963 Sino-Pakistani border agreement.
ref: 2012, Dilip Hiro, Apocalyptic Realm: Jihadists in South Asia, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 289:
text: Greater Kashmir (also known as the Princely State of Kashmir and Jammu) includes territories administered by India, Pakistan and China. In the west are the provinces of Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan; to the north and east are Aksai Chin and the Trans-Karakoram Tract; and the south and central parts are the regions of Jammu, the Kashmir Valley and Ladakh. Historically nomads, traders and the population at large could move back and forth across Kashmir (and beyond) at will. This mobility ended with the solidification of borders following conflicts between India and Pakistan, and India and China, in the 20th century (see History, page 14), and Kashmir has been fractured ever since.
ref: 2014, Sophie Lovell-Hoare, Max Lovell-Hoare, Kashmir (Bradt Guides), →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 3:
glosses: A geographic area along both sides of the Shaksgam River which is de facto administered as part of Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China, but which was claimed by Pakistan until 1963, and which is claimed by India (as part of Ladakh).
Related terms: Gilgit-Baltistan
Wakhan Corridor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vakhan Corridor
form: Wākhān Corridor
Senses: examples: text: This agreement settled the Pamirs issue by delimiting the border from the Uzbel pass southward to Afghan Wakhan¹¹ along the Aksu-Sarikol watershed.¹²
ref: 1996, S. C. M. Paine, “Mongolia: The Last Frontier”, in Imperial Rivals: China, Russia, and Their Disputed Frontier, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 274:
glosses: An area in northeastern Afghanistan that forms a land link between Afghanistan and China.
fall into someone's lap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls into one's lap
form: falling into one's lap
form: fell into one's lap
form: fallen into one's lap
Senses: synonyms: drop into someone's lap
glosses: Of something desirable, to be received by someone with little or no effort or by chance.
Related terms: godsend
you don't get something for nothing
there's no such thing as a free lunch
money doesn't grow on trees
fall into someone's hands
Junagarh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Any of several towns in India, including one in the state of Odisha, one in Rajasthan, and one in Gujarat.
Related terms: Junagadh
Gulf of Kutch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gulf of Kachchh
Senses: glosses: A gulf (an inlet of the Arabian Sea) in the Indian state of Gujarat.
lithophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: relating to lithophiles
Kathiawar peninsula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A peninsula in western Gujarat.
ych a fi
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: /ˈʌx ə viː/
Forms: form: ach-y-fi
Etymology: Borrowed from Welsh ych a fi.
Senses: synonyms: word: ack
word: agh
word: argh
word: bah
word: barf
word: bleah
word: blech
word: bleck
word: bleh
word: eugh
word: eurgh
word: ew
word: eww
word: faugh
word: feh
word: foh
word: gah
word: gack
word: ick
word: no
word: pah
word: pew
word: phew
word: poo
word: pooh
word: uck
word: ugh
word: urgh
word: yech
word: yeurgh
word: yeugh
word: ych a fi
word: yuck
glosses: yuck
Gulf of Kachchh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Gulf of Kutch.
Rann of Kachchh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Rann of Kutch.
Swiss bank account
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Swiss bank accounts
Senses: examples: text: It seems that not only parents, but also husbands could have used the dowry as a kind of Swiss bank account.
ref: 2014, Lionel Marti, La famille dans le Proche-Orient ancien, page 567:
glosses: Any place considered safe or secure to put things in.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Swiss, bank account.
Synonyms: sense: any secure place
word: Swiss bank
Swiss bank accounts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Swiss bank account
Swiss bank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Swiss banks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Swiss bank account.
synonyms: word: Swiss bank account
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Swiss, bank.
Swiss banks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Swiss bank
glosses: Alternative form of Swiss bank accounts.
North West Frontier Province
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of North-West Frontier Province.
Ferozepore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ferozepur.
Firozpur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ferozepur.
Kachchh District
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kutch District.
circuit riders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circuit rider
tiyin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tiyins
form: tiyin
form: tein
form: tiin
form: tyin
Etymology: Borrowed from Kazakh тиын (tiyn) or Uzbek tiyin, тийин (tiyin), both originally meaning "squirrel", because in the ancient era squirrel pelts were used as currency. Compare Kazakh тиін (tiın, “squirrel”), Kyrgyz тыйын (tıyın, “kopek, coin, squirrel”) Uyghur تىيىن (tiyin, “squirrel, kopeck”), dialectal Turkish teyin, Khakas тиин (tiin), Yakut тииҥ (tiiŋ), etc.
Senses: glosses: A currency unit of Uzbekistan, one hundredth of a som.
glosses: A former currency unit of Kazakhstan, one hundredth of a tenge.
Ayaka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Ayakawa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
Ayano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
glosses: A surname from Japanese.
Arai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Arais
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 新井 (Arai) or 荒井 (Arai).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
sanctioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sanctioners
Etymology: From sanction + -er.
Senses: glosses: someone or something who sanctions
manchegos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manchego
engine oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: engine oils
Senses: examples: text: The rest were undergoing special underbody cleaning safety checks at TfW depots, after speculation that the cause of the incidents may have been a build-up of engine oil and combustible material such as fallen leaves and general detritus.
ref: 2023 March 22, “Network News: Class 175s withdrawn for safety checks after fires”, in RAIL, number 979, page 13:
glosses: Synonym of motor oil.
synonyms: word: motor oil
code monkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of code monkey
unchristmassy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unchristmassy
form: most unchristmassy
Etymology: From un- + Christmassy.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of un-Christmassy.
metre per second
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metres per second
form: meter per second
Senses: glosses: An SI derived unit for measuring speed or velocity.
key performance indicators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of key performance indicator
grinchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹɪnt͡ʃi/
Forms: form: more grinchy
form: most grinchy
Etymology: From grinch + -y.
Senses: examples: text: This grinchy pronouncement by the president had the value of being truthful.
ref: 2025 April 30, Shawn McCreesh, “Trump, on Tariffs, Says ‘Maybe the Children Will Have 2 Dolls Instead of 30’”, in The New York Times, New York City, retrieved 30 Apr 2025:
glosses: Possessing the qualities of a grinch; grouchy; being a killjoy.
glosses: Possessing the appearance of the Grinch; green and/or tufty.
Derived terms: grinchily
grinchily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more grinchily
form: most grinchily
Etymology: From grinchy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a grinchy manner.
historical present
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The present tense as used when referring to real past events, to add immediacy to what is being said or written.
examples: text: In most dialects, the historical present is used quite freely to convey the sense of more vivid narrative, to retell dreams, plots, tell jokes, etc.
ref: 1972, William Labov, Language in the Inner City: Studies in the Black English, page 47:
text: Cross-linguistically, the historical present tends to be used to increase vividness by substituting the perspective of the ongoing speech situation for that of the narrative.
ref: 2001, Daniel E. Collins, Reanimated Voices: Speech reporting in a historical-pragmatic perspective, page 91:
text: Mr. Rothstein comes in," Scher said, "it must have been about none o'clock. Every night he comes in here [Scher, like so many Broadway habitués, spoke most often in the historical present, rather than the past, tense. Damon Runyon faithfully reproduced this patois.] Regular as clockwork he comes in here.
ref: 2016, Leo Katcher, The Big Bankroll: The Life And Times Of Arnold Rothstein:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The present tense as used when writing a fictional narrative.
Synonyms: present historic
historic present
dramatic present
narrative present
Related terms: literary present
present historic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The historical present tense.
historic present
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: historic presents
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The historical present tense.
dramatic present
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The historical present tense.
narrative present
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The historical present tense.
a hoot and a holler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Literally, within shouting distance.
Senses: glosses: A short journey.
pingler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinglers
Senses: examples: text: It hath large and wide cheeks, which they always fill, both carrying in, and carrying out, they eat with both, whereupon a devouring fellow,such a one as Stafimus a servant to Plautus was, is called Cricetus, a Hamster, because he filleth his mouth well, and is no pingler at his meat.
ref: 1607, Edward Topsell, The History of Four-Footed Beasts, page 412:
text: For the Drunkennesse lives of many are so monstrous, that Heliogabalus was but a pingler to them.
ref: 1636, Stephen Bradwell, Physick for the sicknesse, commonly called the plague, page 21:
text: ...if I cannot drink it down to my foot, ere I leave, and then set the tap in the midst of the house, and then turn a good turn on the toe on it, let me be counted nobody, a pingler, — nay, let me be bound to drink nothing but small-beer seven years after — and I had as lief be hanged.
ref: 1888, John Day, Nathan Field, Herbert Percy Horne, Nero & Other Plays, page 131:
text: A person who only toys with his food, or a child who will not eat, is a pingler.
ref: 1964, Time & Tide, volume 45:
text: '"Gal Audrey, yer wot l call a pingler. You don't never want nothin' to eat," Mum snapped.
ref: 1986, Audrey Whiting, Gal Audrey, page 162:
glosses: One who plays with his food, but does not eat.
pinglers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pingler
tingler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tinglers
Etymology: From tingle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Occasionally they strayed through the perimeter electronics, too, and Brown and his people had to track them down and chase them away with prods they'd jerry-rigged from tinglers and pipes.
ref: 1991, Cynthia Felice, Khan's Persuasion, →ISBN, page 149:
text: The low-resolution signal from these cameras, a 16-by-16 or 20-by-20 array of “black and white” pixels, was spread over the back or belly of the subject in a grid of either electrical or mechanically vibrating tinglers called tactors.
ref: 1993, Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained, →ISBN, page 159:
text: Prosthetic devices have been developed to enable some blind people to 'see' through a TV camera connected to an array of vibrating tinglers forming a pad of pixels on the subject's back
ref: 1995, E. Moss, The Grammar of Consciousness: An Exploration of Tacit Knowing, →ISBN:
text: In each 'privacy booth' was a screen and a tingler. The tingler looked like a 20th-century vacuum cleaner hose with an oversized salt-shaker top on one end: You watched the pictures, listened to the sounds, and ran the tingler over your erogenous zones; the tingler stimulated the appropriate nerve ends with a subcutaneously penetrative electric field.
ref: 1999, John Shirley, Eclipse, page 131:
glosses: Agent noun of tingle: Something that causes tingling.
Derived terms: spine-tingler
tinglers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tingler
Jafar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jaffar
form: Jaffer
form: Ja'far
form: Jaafar
form: Gaafar
form: Giaffar
form: Giaffer
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic جَعْفَر (jaʕfar).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of an Arabic and Persian male given name.
Queenstown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From queen's + town, after various monarchs and consorts of the British Empire. Doublet of Quainton and Queenston. Cf. Queensville, Kingstown, Kingston, Kingstone, Coniston, Princetown, Princes Town, and Princeton. Cobh was one of many places in Ireland that changed their names in the 1920s following the Irish Revolution.
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.
examples: text: His name came not from his looks, but from his childhood growing up in Queenstown—a remote copper mining town on the Tasmanian west coast, a land made in equal parts of rainforest and myth—where for a time his family had been so poor that they had only been able to afford sheepheads for food.
ref: 2013, Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Chatto & Windus (2014), page 221:
glosses: A town in West Coast council area, Tasmania, Australia.
glosses: A hamlet in Vulcan County, Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A village in the Pomeroon-Supenaam region, Guyana.
glosses: A resort town in Otago, New Zealand, situated on Lake Wakatipu, named after Queenstown in Ireland (now Cobh).
glosses: A neighbourhood of Singapore.
glosses: A town and city in the Eastern Cape province, South Africa.
glosses: A small town in Queen Anne's County, Maryland.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Lancaster County, Virginia.
glosses: An unincorporated community in the town of Westboro, Taylor County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A suburb of Blackpool, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD3237).
glosses: Former name of Cobh, a port town in County Cork in southern Ireland.
glosses: Former name of Queenston, a rural community near Niagara Falls, Ontario, in Canada.
anode slime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anode slimes
Senses: glosses: A sediment that settles at the bottom of a copper electrorefining cell; it is rich in silver, gold, selenium and tellurium.
azat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azats
form: azatk‘
Etymology: Transliteration of Old Armenian ազատ (azat).
Senses: glosses: A member of the middle and lower Armenian nobility, in contrast to the naxarars who were the great lords; from the Late Middle Ages, member of the entire body of the Armenian nobility.
wikipedia: azat
Related terms: azatani
pcs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 10 pcs per box
glosses: plural of pc (“piece”)
Related terms: sense: pieces
english: piece
translation: piece
word: pc
pope-holy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pope-holy
form: most pope-holy
Etymology: From pope + holy.
Senses: glosses: sanctimonious.
cockroach wasp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockroach wasps
Senses: examples: text: The emerald cockroach wasp, Ampulex compressa, uses a cockroach as a host by essentially taking over its mind.
ref: 2007, Craig Childs, The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild:
text: Equally fascinating was a video shot by Norman Hoyle, the school's Deputy Head, which showed a cockroach having been stung by a cockroach wasp (Ampulex Compressa) - though I seem to recall that the locals had a different name for it.
ref: 2010, Lynas Murdoch, Four Years on St Helena, page 92:
text: Mainly found in the tropics, cockroach wasps have a metallic green body and measure up to 33 mm long.[…]When a prey is located, the female cockroach wasp stings the prey to paralyse it.
ref: 2011, Peter K. L. Ng, Richard Corlett, Hugh T. W. Tan, editors, Singapore Biodiversity, page 268:
glosses: Any wasp of the family Ampulicidae, small sphecoid wasps that prey on cockroaches to lay their eggs on them.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Ampulex compressa
word: emerald cockroach wasp
Related terms: ensign wasp
cockroach wasps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cockroach wasp
myosmine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid, related to nicotine, found in tobacco and other plants.
nettop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nettops
Etymology: Blend of net + desktop; compare netbook.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A small, inexpensive, low-power desktop computer.
nettops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nettop
antistrategic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antistrategic
form: most antistrategic
Etymology: From anti- + strategic.
Senses: glosses: Countering a strategy.
tariqat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tariqats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tariqa.
tariqats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tariqat
iration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of I + creation
Senses: glosses: creation
Idren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of I + bredren
Senses: glosses: One's peers, or spiritual brothers and sisters.
itinually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Blend of I + continually
Senses: glosses: continually; perpetually; always
Inity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of I + unity, replacing the you sound.
Senses: glosses: unity
downpression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downpressions
Etymology: Blend of down + oppression; see downpressor.
Senses: examples: text: The downpression of native people is linked to the subjugation and exploitation of the Earth.
ref: 1983, Winona LaDuke, “They Always Come Back”, in Beth Brant, editor, A Gathering of Spirits, page 54:
text: Rastaman don’t deal with negativity so oppression is now downpression even though there is no up in the word.
ref: 2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 156:
glosses: oppression
livication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: livications
Etymology: Blend of live + dedication, as if the latter began with dead.
Senses: glosses: dedication
plerergate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plerergates
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πλήρης (plḗrēs, “full”) + ergate.
Senses: glosses: honey-pot ant
plerergates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plerergate
kardiya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kardiya
Senses: qualifier: Australian Aboriginal
glosses: Someone who is not an Aboriginal Australian; a white outsider.
overdotting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overdot
overdotted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overdot
dot painting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dot paintings
Senses: glosses: A style of Australian Aboriginal painting using coloured dots.
glosses: A particular painting done in this style.
Related terms: pointillism
nonachlazine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular phenothiazine drug used to treat ischemia.
nonallele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonalleles
Etymology: From non- + allele.
Senses: glosses: That which is not an allele.
nonalleles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonallele
nonfilament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonfilaments
Etymology: From non- + filament.
Senses: glosses: That which is not a filament.
nonfilaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonfilament
nitgrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nit + grass.
Senses: glosses: Gastridium ventricosum, a European annual grass bearing a long, thin, smooth inflorescence of spikelets.
Kensiw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kensiu.
Kensiu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kensiw
Senses: glosses: An Austroasiatic language of the Jahaic (Northern Aslian) subbranch.
Jahaic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a group of Aslian languages spoken in parts of Malaysia and Thailand.
Aslian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Malay asli + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a group of languages spoken by many of the aboriginal inhabitants of Malaya and peninsular Thailand.
Graden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gradens
Etymology: Scottish habitational surname from a place in Berwickshire.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
plasterer bees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plasterer bee
plasterer bee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plasterer bees
Senses: examples: text: The plasterer bees, as we have seen, line the interior walls of their subterranean chambers with a waterproof wallpaper; others achieve a similar result by impregnating the cell walls with a glandular secretion or coating them with a waxy material.
ref: 1974, Karl von Frisch, Otto von Frisch, Animal Architecture, page 68:
text: Plasterer bees build mud nests in the mouldings, butterflies brush the scenery with brilliant colour — lemon-yellow brimstones, dappled whites, large tortoiseshells and swallowtails are all there for the spotting.
ref: 1989, Pamela Westland, Exploring Rural Greece, page 27:
text: Like masked bees, plasterer bees (Colletinae) line their rows of cells with a mixture of saliva and glandular secretion that hardens into a cellophane-like membrane.[…]Each female plasterer bee fashions roughly ten brood cells separated by plaster-like walls and leaves a honey-pollen clump and one egg in every cell (see the bottom of Figure 5.1).
ref: 2002, Karl Weiss, The Little Book of Bees, page 48:
glosses: Any bee of the subfamily Colletinae, solitary bees that secrete a substance from their mouthparts to give a cellophane-like lining to their nests.
Synonyms: sense: any species of subfamily Colletinae
word: polyester bee
Hypernyms: sense: solitary bee
english: bee of family Colletidae
translation: bee of family Colletidae
word: colletid
Siegen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the administrative seat of Siegen-Wittgenstein district, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
glosses: A commune in Bas-Rhin department, Grand Est, France.
Lenzen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lenzens
Etymology: Borrowed from German Lenzen.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Teigen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Teigens
Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian Teigen.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Norwegian.
autofit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autofits
form: autofitting
form: autofitted
form: autofitted
Etymology: From auto- + fit.
Senses: examples: text: Another option is to autofit the row's height (or the column's width) to match its content. Autofitting eliminates empty space by matching the row height or column width to its tallest or longest cell entry.
ref: 2010, Ann Shaffer, Patrick Carey, Kathleen T. Finnegan, New Perspectives on Microsoft Office 2010, First Course, page 17:
text: In the following example, when you right-click a cell in column E, the current date and time are entered into that cell, and column E's width is autofitted[…]
ref: 2013, Tom Urtis, Excel VBA 24-Hour Trainer, page 117:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To fit automatically by resizing.