cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
object finder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: object finders
Senses: glosses: A device in microscopes for locating an object in the field before examination at higher magnification.
object finders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of object finder
nutritiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nutritive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being nutritive.
nutritory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to nutrition.
Morando
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Morandos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian and Spanish Morando.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
fribbleism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fribble + -ism.
Senses: glosses: frivolity
Manzanero
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Manzanero.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
slush up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slushes up
form: slushing up
form: slushed up
form: slushed up
Senses: glosses: To fill (spaces in masonry) with mortar.
Spanish grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: esparto
Spanish sheep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Spanish sheep
Senses: glosses: A merino sheep.
Spanish soap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Castile soap
orthopterology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From translingual Orthoptera + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The scientific study of the Orthoptera.
Derived terms: orthopterologic
orthopterological
orthopterologically
orthopterologist
secohm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secohms
Etymology: From second ohm.
Senses: glosses: The practical unit of electrical self-induction; the henry.
secohms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secohm
secohmmeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secohmmeters
Etymology: From secohm + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for measuring the coefficient of electrical self-induction.
secohmmeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secohmmeter
polytypage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of making polytype copies.
vasomotorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: vasomotor
vasomotory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: vasomotor
mutual insurance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of insurance scheme owned entirely by its policyholders.
hippie-dippies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hippie-dippie
fly powder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aʊdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: fly powders
Senses: glosses: A poisonous powder used as an insecticide against flies.
fly powders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fly powder
relocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relockers
Etymology: From relock + -er.
Senses: glosses: Part of a lock that permanently prevents unlocking when some condition is met, intended to frustrate attempts to break through.
relockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relocker
gabbleratchet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ætʃɪt
Forms: form: gabbleratchets
Senses: glosses: A noisy bird.
gabbleratchets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gabbleratchet
Gabriel's hounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: curlews or nightjars, whose cries are associated with various superstitions
Synonyms: corpse hounds
corpse hounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Gabriel's hounds.
synonyms: word: Gabriel's hounds
therianthropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Therianthropism, as described in my chapter on the rhetoric of animality, appears only to operate successfully when used as a means of discrediting or demeaning other people. In showing them partly in animal form (or with animal characteristics or attributes), therianthropism does pictorial violence - symbolic violence - to the image of one's rivals or opponents.
ref: 1993, Steve Baker, Picturing the Beast: Animals, Identity, and Representation, page 224:
glosses: The representation of deities in combined human and animal form.
Related terms: therianthrope
therianthropic
therianthropy
unsuborned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + suborned.
Senses: glosses: Not suborned.
subornable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From suborn + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be suborned.
bycocket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bycockets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bycoket.
bycockets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bycocket
parapteral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the parapterum.
Derived terms: metaparapteral
excretories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of excretory
apeptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more apeptic
form: most apeptic
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to apepsy.
stosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Freshly ground stosh is thrown into the capacious maw of the hidden bag, the mackerel rush for the bait, and when they swim thickly enough the after boom is hoisted until the outer edge of the net is above water and the fish are imprisoned.
ref: 1897, Annual Report of the commissioners of inland fisheries made to the general assembly at its January session, 1897, Rhode Island Commissioners of Inland Fisheries:
glosses: fish offal
glosses: pomace
labour value theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: economics
political-science
sciences
social-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of labor theory of value.
labor value theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: economics
political-science
sciences
social-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of labor theory of value.
haul up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hauls up
form: hauling up
form: hauled up
form: hauled up
Senses: examples: text: The sailors hauled up the anchor.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see haul, up.
glosses: To come or bring to rest after hauling.
examples: text: He was hauled up on numerous charges
glosses: To confront or question one about one's wrongdoings.
labor theory of value
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labour theory of value
form: labor value theory
form: labor-value theory
form: labour value theory
form: labour-value theory
Senses: topics: economics
political-science
sciences
social-sciences
synonyms: LTV
glosses: The theory, usually associated with Marxian economics, that freely reproducible goods obtain their value from socially necessary human labor time.
trispermum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A poultice made of the crushed seeds of cumin, bay, and smallage.
pease pottage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pease pottages
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pease pudding.
synonyms: word: pease pudding
TILLING
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: molecular biology
glosses: Acronym of targeting induced local lesions in genomes, a method that allows directed identification of mutations in a specific gene.
aljama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aljamas
Etymology: From Andalusian Arabic, from Arabic جَمْع (jamʕ, “to gather”).
Senses: examples: text: [T]he Church received from them the customary tithes, oblations, and first-fruits. The revenues from the Jewish aljamas, or communities, were always regarded as among the surest resources of the crown.
ref: 1906, Henry Charles Lea, A History of the Inquisition of Spain, volume 1, New York: MacMillan, page 86:
glosses: A self-governing community of Jews and Moors living under Christian rule in the Iberian Peninsula.
facelock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: facelocks
Etymology: From face + lock.
Senses: examples: text: He raised his right arm and clamped a facelock on his opponent.
ref: 1995, Gordon D. Shirreffs, The Ghost Dancers, →ISBN, page 146:
text: I stepped to the side like the world's worst matador and grabbed him in a front facelock. It was the only shoot hold I knew, one that harkened back to my days bouncing at Malarkey's in Calgary.
ref: 2011, Chris Jericho, Undisputed: How to Become World Champion in 1,372 Easy Steps, →ISBN:
text: Eventually, someone said, “OK, move the furniture, and let's wrestle.” The deal this night was Les challenging my dad, saying, “Bet you can't hold me in a front facelock.” My dad put the hold on, and Les struggled to free himself, but ended up passing out after a few minutes.
ref: 2012, Terry Funk, Scott E. Williams, Terry Funk: More Than Just Hardcore, →ISBN:
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: A type of headlock in which the opponent's head is clamped around the face.
examples: text: This contrast can be used as the basis for a personalised ‘facelock’, in which authentication succeeds or fails based on image-invariant recognition of faces that are familiar to the account holder.
ref: 2014 June 24, Rob Jenkins, Jane L. McLachlan, Karen Renaud, “Facelock: familiarity-based graphical authentication”, in PeerJ:
glosses: A security protocol based on the attempted user's recognition of faces known to the account owner.
apicifloral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: apic- + floral.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the flowers at the apex
jacobita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jacobitas
Senses: glosses: Commerson's dolphin
homicidality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A tendency towards homicide
Đất Mũi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Đất Mũi.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Vietnam.
Gaonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɡeɪˈɑnɪk/
Forms: form: Geonic
Etymology: From Gaon + -ic.
Senses: glosses: related to the Geonim or their era
Geonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: During the Geonic period, the custom developed in Babylon to celebrate Simḥat Torah once a year; there was no such custom in Eretz Yisrael since they did not complete the Torah once a year.
ref: 2024, David Golinkin, “How Should We Observe Simḥat Torah This Coming Year?”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page 148:
glosses: Alternative form of Gaonic.
decisionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: [dɪˈsɪʒənəli]
ipa: [dɪˈsɪʒnəli]
Etymology: From decisional + -ly.
Senses: examples: a decisionally incapable patient
glosses: In terms of decisions or decision-making.
siksik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: siksiks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Arctic ground squirrel.
synonyms: word: Arctic ground squirrel
leaning toothpick syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Introduced in the official Perl documentation, in reference to the shape of the backslash character.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: The situation in which a quoted string expression becomes difficult to read because it contains a large number of escape characters, usually backslashes, to avoid delimiter collision.
Synonyms: LTS
phycocolloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phycocolloids
Etymology: From phyco- + colloid.
Senses: glosses: Any of several algal-derived colloids, including alginates, carrageenans, and agars.
Derived terms: phycocolloidal
Related terms: hydrocolloid
hydrocolloidal
phycotoxin
phycology
travis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹeɪvəs/
Forms: form: traves
form: travises
Etymology: Alteration of traverse.
Senses: glosses: A wooden frame to confine a horse while the smith is setting his shoes.
glosses: A beam; a lay of joints; a traverse.
glosses: A screen or partition between stable stalls.
travis
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹeɪvəs/
Forms: form: more travis
form: most travis
Etymology: Alteration of traverse.
Senses: examples: text: The skiff at the bank bore a strange rigging of uprights and crosspoles and a travis bar with lines and hooks hanging from it.
ref: 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree:
glosses: Lying across, traverse.
telegraph office
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telegraph offices
Senses: glosses: An office or institution providing telegraphic services, a place from which one could send a telegram (a historical kind of electronic message).
trash fish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trash fish
form: trash fishes
Etymology: From trash + fish.
Senses: topics: fishing
food
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A fish caught as bycatch and generally sold cheaply.
Related terms: trash fisherman
trash fishery
trash fishing
fireflaires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fireflaire
Lynchesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lynchesque
form: most Lynchesque
Etymology: From Lynch + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Reminiscent of the works of David Keith Lynch (born 1946), American filmmaker and director whose surrealist films are characterized by dream imagery and meticulous sound design.
orthopterologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthopterologists
Etymology: From orthopterology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An entomologist who studies orthopterology.
orthopterologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthopterologist
orthopterologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From orthopterology + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to orthopterology.
orthopterological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From orthopterology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to orthopterology.
Derived terms: orthopterologically
orthopterologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From orthopterological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of orthopterology.
Marmitey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Marmitey
form: most Marmitey
Etymology: From Marmite + -y.
Senses: examples: text: We've had unusual results with more familiar ingredients too – roast chicken cooked with Marmite was a winner – Marmite gave the chicken depth of flavour and we didn't really get a distinctive Marmitey taste once it was cooked […]
ref: 2008, Antony Worrall Thompson, Paul Rankin, The People's Cookbook: A celebration of the nation's life through food:
text: This long, dark cattle-shed is littered with jars of noxious chemicals, viscous brown liquids that reek of concentrated Prep School, and various rusted tins, scarily encrusted with Marmitey goop.
ref: 2011, Michael Wright, Je't Aime la Folie, page 301:
glosses: Resembling the food product Marmite in taste, texture, etc.
examples: text: 'Not all of them were engaged but most of them got a lot out of it. It was quite a challenge, it's a bit "Marmitey", some people loved it and said it was brilliant; some people loved Michael and the idea of it but said “It's not for me,”' said Sally Bonneywell, vice president, coaching.
ref: 2013, Liz Hall, Mindful Coaching: How Mindfulness can Transform Coaching Practice:
glosses: Such that one either loves or hates it; polarizing.
glass closet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: An extension of the metaphor in the closet, referring to the inhabitant's sexuality as visible but still enclosed.
Senses: examples: text: Although I did not come out publicly, people just took me out of the closet or rather I could say that I'm in a glass closet.
ref: 2005, Ruth Morgan, Saskia Wieringa, Tommy Boys, Lesbian Men, and Ancestral Wives: Female Same-sex Practices in Africa, Jacana Media, →ISBN, page 261:
text: The glass closet, for those who inhabit it, is a space of containment that comprises the possibility for constraint and the possibility of possibility itself. Moreover, the trope of the glass closet produces the context for the creation and promulgation of the “down low” as a narrative to explain the further demonization of black sexuality, and black masculinity more acutely, in media and public health discourses.
ref: 2012, S. McGlotten, D. Davis, Black Genders and Sexualities, Springer, →ISBN, page 14:
text: In either case, Haynes has officially busted through the glass closet and joined the ranks of openly gay actors.
ref: 2016 May 5, E. Alex Jung, “Mazel! Colton Haynes Is Now Officially, Definitely Out of the Closet”, in Vulture:
glosses: The state of being widely known as having a certain sexual orientation or gender identity without coming out and confirming it.
Related terms: glass ceiling
open secret
tongue-baths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tongue-bath
darksides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of darkside
printoffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of printoff
recapitates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recapitate
recapitating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recapitate
recapitated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recapitate
tigerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tiger + -ism.
Senses: glosses: tigerish disposition
hymenomycetous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the Hymenomycetes, a former class of fungi within the division Basidiomycota.
hydrometrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: By means of hydrometry.
Diola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Jola.
misdirectional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more misdirectional
form: most misdirectional
Etymology: From misdirection + -al.
Senses: glosses: Employing or relating to misdirection.
sloathfulnesse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sloathfulnesses
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of slothfulness.
carelessnesse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carelessnesses
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of carelessness.
lethall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lethall
form: most lethall
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of lethal.
culture-jack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: culture-jacks
form: culture-jacking
form: culture-jacked
form: culture-jacked
form: culturejack
Etymology: Blend of culture + hijack
Senses: examples: text: We advise not to culture-jack a natural disaster or some national tragedy.
ref: 2013 June 14, Michele Cuthbert, “Funny Or Why? 5 Ways Your Brand Can Culture-Jack The Right Way”, in Fast Company:
text: With Oreo commenting on subjects from Gay Pride to the Mars Rover landing, this campaign not only captured the attention and acclaim of both consumers and the media but also laid the groundwork for the brand's culture-jacking of the Super Bowl.
ref: 2015, Matthew Britton, YouthNation: Building Remarkable Brands in a Youth-Driven Culture, →ISBN, page 160:
text: In Alleyne's (2000) work on cultural dilution in reggae, whose core elements Alleyne views as having undergone "commercially-motivated dilution” (19), the term is used in the sense of culture-jacking to the extent that practices can be hijacked or misappropriated, when groups of performers who are not dyed-in-the-wool reggae artists seize control of the commercial promotion of the art form and take it in alternate directions to attract new audiences.
ref: 2016, Maryemma Graham, Wilfried Raussert, Mobile and Entangled America(s), →ISBN:
text: The tactic of culture-jacking (also, news jacking) can be employed to personify a brand as current, topical and in tune with the times.
ref: 2017, Ganesh Shermon, The Intellectual Company - Beyond Wisdom, →ISBN, page 459:
glosses: To appropriate aspects of popular culture for commercial purposes.
culturejack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: culturejacks
form: culturejacking
form: culturejacked
form: culturejacked
Etymology: From culture + jack.
Senses: examples: text: A subset of jacking of the news kind is culturejacking. That is, for instance, when you populate online messages entirely with words from Urban Dictionary in a desperate attempt to be relevant to your brand's target audience.
ref: 2015 June 23, Delshad Irani, “When brands 'heart bae' on social media”, in Economic Times:
text: Other developers are taking a more direct approach to culturejacking the video games industry.
ref: 2016, Shelina Janmohamed, Generation M: Young Muslims Changing the World, →ISBN, page 178:
glosses: Alternative form of culture-jack.
culturejacks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of culturejack
culturejacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of culturejack
culturejacked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of culturejack
culture-jacks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of culture-jack
culture-jacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of culture-jack
culture-jacked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of culture-jack
weigh on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: weighs on
form: weighing on
form: weighed on
form: weighed on
Senses: examples: text: She had got rid of two of the secrets which had weighed on her for a fortnight, and was certain of a willing listener in Jane, [...]
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], Pride and Prejudice: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 206:
text: The Crimean war weighed on him like a nightmare.
ref: 1856, Charles Kingsley, “Prefatory Memoir”, in Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet:
text: Her shame weighed on her like a physical oppression: the roof and walls seemed to be closing in on her, and she was seized by the impulse to get away, under the open sky, where there would be room to breathe.
ref: 1917, Edith Wharton, chapter VIII, in Summer […], New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 119:
text: [H]er cat [...] has been missing for two days, she tells me, and his unexplained absence has been weighing on her mind.
ref: 2013 October 26, Sarah Rainey, “Victoria Hislop interview”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 09 Jan 2018:
text: Lance Fritz, the president and C.E.O. of Union Pacific Railroad, said pulling out of Nafta would harm trade, which would in turn weigh on his business.
ref: 2017 November 15, Ana Swanson, “Trump’s Trade Approach Diverges Sharply from Free Trade Republicans”, in New York Times, retrieved 09 Jan 2018:
glosses: To cause distress to or impose a burden on; to trouble.
reed organ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reed organs
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A keyboard musical instrument of which the harmonium and the American organ are the principal types.
reed organs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reed organ
Christmas comes but once a year
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: Apparently coined by the English poet Thomas Tusser (c. 1524 – 1580): see the 1580 quotation.
Senses: examples: text: At Christmas play and make good cheere, / For Christmas comes but once a yeere.
ref: 1878, Thomas Tusser, “The Fermers Dailie Diet”, in Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie. […], London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Trübner & Co., […], →OCLC; republished as W[illiam] Payne, Sidney J[ohn Hervon] Herrtage, editors, Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie. […], London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Trübner & Co., […], 1878, →OCLC, stanza 5, page 28:
text: Chriſtmaſſe commeth but once a yeere.
ref: 1623, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], “Certaine Prouerbes, Poemes or Poesies, Epigrammes, Rhythmes, and Epitaphs of the English Nation in Former Times, and Some of This Present Age”, in Remaines, Concerning Britaine: […], 3rd edition, London: […] Nicholas Okes, for Simon Waterson, […], →OCLC, page 267:
text: I urged to the good lady that this was Christmas-eve; that Christmas comes but once a year,—which is unhappily too true, for when it begins to stay with us the whole year round we shall make this earth a very different place; […]
ref: 1854, Charles Dickens, “The Seven Poor Travellers. Chapter I. In the Old City of Rochester.”, in Christmas Stories […] (The Works of Charles Dickens; XV), de luxe edition, London: Chapman and Hall, published 1881, →OCLC, page 5:
text: "Christmas comes but once a year, / And then Mother wishes it wasn't here."
ref: 1901, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “A Christmas Mistake”, in Short Stories: 1896—1901:
text: Christmas comes but once a year, which is just as well—shopping during the festive season can be no fun at all.
ref: 2006 December 9, Lila Das Gupta, “Christmas gifts”, in The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: Used to emphasize the annual distinctiveness of Christmas, especially in contexts where either the special joys or tribulations of the holiday are described.
triserially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From triserial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Arranged in three series.
jerkinet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jerkinets
Senses: glosses: A woman's outer jacket.
jerkinets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jerkinet
renumerations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of renumeration
continuing resolution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: continuing resolutions
Etymology: From continuing + resolution. From being an act of congress (a congressional resolution) which extends the situation.
Senses: topics: government
law
politics
glosses: An act of Congress which extends the current governmental budget situation through allocation of further funds in the same manner as the current budget, to avoid a government shutdown due to lack of allocated funding.
Synonyms: word: CR
Derived terms: word: CR
feend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feends
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of fiend.
haptera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The kelp specimen uses its haptera to anchor itself to the rocks.
text: By means of these haptera not only different individuals become united together but instances are given by Sernander in which Cetraria islandica, normally a ground lichen had become epiphytic by attaching itself in this way to the trunk of a tree (Pinus sylvestris).
ref: 1921, Annie Lorrain Smith, Lichens, University press, page 94:
glosses: plural of hapteron
Lus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lu
serekh name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serekh names
Senses: glosses: The first and oldest of the five names of the pharaonic titulary, traditionally enclosed in a serekh surmounted by the figure of a god (usually Horus).
Hyponyms: Horus name
Seth name
Coordinate terms: word: Two Ladies name
word: gold name
english: throne name
translation: throne name
word: praenomen
english: given name
translation: given name
word: nomen
cough medicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛd(ɪ)s(ɪ)n
-ɛdəs(ə)n
Forms: form: cough medicines
Senses: glosses: A medication or medicine used to treat those people with coughing and related conditions, usually in liquid or syrup form.
Synonyms: antitussive
antitussive medicine
cough mixture
cough remedy
cough syrup
linctus
EASI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Measuring treatment response as a score calculated on an established scale, such as the Psoriasis Area and Severity Index (PASI) or the Eczema Area and Severity Index (EASI) can provide some standardization to results, but neither index is a truly objective measure.
ref: 2017, Darcee Duke Strube, “How to Minimize Subjectivity in Dermatology Data”, in Applied Clinical Trials:
glosses: Initialism of Eczema Area and Severity Index.
ride high
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rides high
form: riding high
form: rode high
form: rode high
Etymology: * Possibly an allusion to one who rides on horseback in an upright, proud, commanding manner.
Senses: examples: text: He that went away with his frock-skirts looped over his arm, comes back riding high; suddenly made one of the dignitaries of this world.
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 9”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, (please specify |book=I or IV, or the page):
text: Many people suspect that scientists, riding high in the modern world, are uninterested in man's spiritual qualities, which cannot be subjected to test tube and microscopic analysis.
ref: 1955 October 10, “Science: An Attribute of God”, in Time, retrieved 08 Jan 2018:
text: Sexual virility, coital potency rides high and arrogant over the commercial, artistic, social strivings of contemporary society[.]
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page iii:
text: Many analysts believe that Honda's enterprising spirit, deeply embedded in the company's culture, has been primarily responsible for its dazzling success. . . . But even as Honda rides high, the company faces challenges on several fronts.
ref: 1987 June 15, Susan Chira, “Honda is powered by risks”, in New York Times, retrieved 08 Jan 2018:
text: But Radnich, 65, and Krueger, 45, have enough in common that their partnership has worked. On a station that rides high with the fortunes of the Giants, the Warriors and the Niners, the two have fended off such competitors as KGMZ.
ref: 2015 December 30, Ben Fong-Torres, “KNBR’s Larry Krueger: You can go home again”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 08 Jan 2018:
text: True Religion . . . filed for bankruptcy protection this week. . . . A decade ago, the brand was riding high, commanding hundreds of dollars a pair for jeans.
ref: 2017 July 7, Abha Bhattarai, “$350 jeans are dead. $100 leggings killed them.”, in Washington Post, retrieved 08 Jan 2018:
glosses: To enjoy good fortune; to be in a privileged situation; to be particularly happy or proud.
topics: lifestyle
sex
sexuality
glosses: To perform the coital alignment technique.
Related terms: tall in the saddle
riding high
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ride high
Hett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Croxdale and Hett parish, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ2836).
shamesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shamesome
form: most shamesome
Etymology: From shame + -some.
Senses: examples: text: "Phew!" he thought, "it's all a notion of ye, man, and a shamesome notion. […]"
ref: 1908, The Irish Monthly, volume 36, page 157:
text: 'And look where it's got you,' said Grumpa. 'Living next door to peeples! It's shamesome. […]
ref: 2011, Alan MacDonald, Goat Pie:
glosses: Deserving of shame; shameful.
examples: text: The premise was that too little shame is just as bad as too much shame, but there is a happy medium, which he termed “shamesome”.
ref: 2016, Vanessa Upton, Review: Ken Cheng, Chinese Comedian:
glosses: An appropriate level of shame.
Mosjøen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Vefsn municipality, Nordland, Norway.
hapteron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haptera
form: hapterons
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἅπτω (háptō, “fasten”).
Senses: hypernyms: holdfast
glosses: A branched swelling at the base of an aquatic plant (such as an alga) that it uses to fix itself in place
Related terms: hapter
damper winding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: damper windings
Senses: glosses: A winding in a synchronous motor (in the form of a squirrel cage) that damps any oscillation caused by changes in loading
synchronous motor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synchronous motors
Senses: glosses: An electric motor whose rotation is synchronized with the frequency of the supplied current
appendiciform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From appendic- + -iform.
Senses: glosses: In the form of an appendix
saunf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi सौंफ (sa͠uph).
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: fennel, fennel seeds
HWIL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: embedded systems
glosses: Synonym of HIL.
synonyms: word: HIL
gymnophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to or characteristic of gymnophobia.
aquariological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to aquariology
aquastatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aquastat + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Heat is provided by a low-pressure burner with electric automatic igniter, and an aquastatic control shuts off the unit when material has reached the desired temperature.
ref: 1956, Special report - Engineering Experiment Station, the Ohio State University:
glosses: Relating to an aquastat.
aquastatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The cushion comprises an outer cushion of flame-retardant foam, with a slip cover and, fitting in the hollowed out centre, another cushion of aquastatic gel covered with a strong reinforced slightly textured material.
ref: 1978, E. R. Wilshere, Equipment for the disabled, volume 6, page 58:
text: […] nor did such treatment disturb the precise aquastatic mechanism previously observed in this species.
ref: 1979, Marion Harless, Turtles: perspectives and research, page 506:
text: When dampproofing concrete and masonry walls below grade, a check should always be made that no aquastatic pressure can develop in the future, as these dampproof coatings are not waterproof.
ref: 1991, Caleb Hornbostel, Construction Materials: Types, Uses and Applications, page 582:
glosses: Synonym of hydrostatic.
synonyms: word: hydrostatic
belocks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of belock
belocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of belock
scontion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scontions
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scuncheon.
esconson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: esconsons
Senses: examples: text: The invention relates to the device for plastering window and door esconsons.
ref: 2013, Sergii Pysmensky, Device for plastering window and door esconsons (Patent Application PCT/UA2013):
text: The problem of finding the stationary temperature distribution in the two-dimensional computational domain, including the part of the window and the wall esconson, was solved by the method of finite differences using the establishment method with the realization of the implicit scheme.
ref: 2017, Alexey Kochev, Kirill Lushin, Mikhail Sokolov, Elena Kocheva, Marina Kocheva, “Ways of heat losses reduction in the structural elements of unique buildings”, in International Conference on Research in Mechanical Engineering Sciences, volume 144:
text: The most unreliable joints are in connections between the wall with ceilings and roofing, esconson of windows, places under the windowsills, exits to the balcony or veranda...
ref: 2017, Irina Maltseva, Aleksandr Elokhov, Konstantin Tkachuk, Kseniia Maltceva, “Design without thermal bridges”, in 9th International Scientific Conference Building Defects:
glosses: Alternative form of scuncheon.
scoinson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scoinsons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scuncheon.
sconchion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sconchions
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scuncheon.
scuncheon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskʌntʃ.ən/
ipa: /ˈskʌnʃ.ən/
rhymes: -ʌntʃən
Forms: form: scuncheons
form: sconchion
form: scoinson
form: scontion
form: scuntion
form: esconson
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: The portion of a wall exposed by an opening in a wall such as a window or door frame, when the window frame does not conceal the entire width of the wall.
scuntion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scuntions
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scuncheon.
scuntions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scuntion
scuncheons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scuncheon
sconchions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sconchion
scoinsons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scoinson
esconsons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of esconson
scontions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scontion
lock down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: locks down
form: locking down
form: locked down
form: locked down
Senses: examples: text: But even as the fireball races both skywards and downwards, the mortally-wounded Major Francis Harvey, Royal Marines, crawls over to a voicepipe despite the loss of both legs and orders the magazines locked down and flooded. It's his last act on this Earth; his body will be found later, next to the voicepipe.
ref: 2020 July 15, Drachinifel, 46:43 from the start, in The Battle of Jutland - Clash of the Titans - Part 1 (Beatty vs Hipper), archived from the original on 03 Oct 2024:
coordinate_terms: lock away
lock in
lock out
lock up
glosses: To secure (something).
examples: text: Police have the area locked down until the situation is all-clear.
coordinate_terms: lock away
lock in
lock out
lock up
glosses: To secure (something).
To blockade and lock (e.g. a building or campus) so as to prevent ingress or egress; to make the occupants (of an area) stay locked indoors for their safety.
coordinate_terms: lock away
lock in
lock out
lock up
glosses: To secure (something).
To limit the use of (a computer network) to only users with permission.
glosses: To make (an arrangement) secure, definite, or permanent; to fix.
examples: text: It took me some time, but I finally locked her down.
glosses: To cause (another person) to enter into an exclusive romantic relationship.
antonyms: lock up
hypernyms: lock through
qualifier: boating
glosses: To travel through a flight of locks on a waterway in a downhill direction.
Derived terms: word: lock-down
word: lockdown
Related terms: belock
locked down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lock down
locks down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lock down
locking down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lock down
Bordelese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːz
Forms: form: Bordelese
Etymology: From French bordelais.
Senses: examples: text: This family included […] Hamion de Bordeaux and William de Blancafort. […] Defamatory remarks by the Bordelese lead to a single combat which is settled in favor of the Lorrains.
ref: 1931, Karl Voretzach, Introduction to the Study of Old French Literature, page 214:
text: Encouraged by his spirited assistance, the duchess redoubled her efforts to inspire the Bordelese with loyalty, [...]
ref: 1817, C. H. Gifford, History of the wars occasioned by the French Revolution from ... 1792 to ... 1816 ... with numerous embellishments, page 1289:
text: … the Bordelese flattered themselves with being seconded by the troops of the line … affrighted Bordelese then requested a capitulation, …
ref: 1827, Charles Angélique François Huchet comte de La Bédoyère, Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, page 787
text: Lais, who was the first singer at the Parisian grand opera for several years, and since the restoration, was also a Bordelese.
ref: 1830, The Cities and Principal Towns of the World, page 282:
text: Bordeaux and Bayonne held out for some weeks; but, on the 12th of June, a treaty concluded between Bordelese and Dunois secured to the three estates of the district the liberties and privileges which they had enjoyed under English supremacy …
ref: 1885, Guizot (M., François), Madame de Witt (Henriette Elizabeth), The History of France from the Earliest Times to 1848, page 298
text: The diary entries [...] allow the patient researcher to uncover this extraordinary adventure of a Bordelese in a California in transition.
ref: 1993, The Californians:
glosses: A person from Bordeaux.
Bordelese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːz
Etymology: From French bordelais.
Senses: examples: text: However, the accidental killing of Begue by a Bordelese hunter causes another war.
ref: 1931, Karl Voretzach, Introduction to the Study of Old French Literature, Slatkine, page 214:
text: The impressario had met with misfortunes as a singer in the now distant days of his youth. He could boast of having been hissed on every stage in France. A Bordelese accent, which he had never been able to get rid of, had greatly contributed to his failure, [...]
ref: 1887, Fortuné Du Boisgobey, Sensational Novels, page 135:
text: Linnaeus was also in correspondence with a Bordelese physician, Jean-Baptiste Aymen,
ref: 1963, Hunt Botanical Library, Adanson
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Bordeaux.
chullpa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chullpas
Senses: glosses: An ancient Aymara funerary tower.
Arameophone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Arameo- + -phone.
Senses: glosses: Aramaic-speaking.
Arameophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Arameophones
Etymology: From Arameo- + -phone.
Senses: glosses: One who speaks Aramaic.
Rocky River
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Rocky River
Senses: glosses: A river in Ohio, United States.
glosses: A river in North Carolina, United States.
glosses: A river in Tennessee, United States.
glosses: A river in Connecticut, United States.
Rocky River
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city on the shore of Lake Erie in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States.
Related terms: Rock River
what was someone thinking
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: What were you thinking when you left the oven on yesterday?
glosses: Used to express disappointment about someone's uncharacteristic or abnormal past actions.
Related terms: what was someone smoking
cakeism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkeɪkɪzəm/
Etymology: From cake + -ism, referring to have one's cake and eat it too.
Senses: examples: text: What is now known as “cakeism” – the idea that the UK can have everything it wants merely because it wants it – is becoming, like climate-change denial, the subject of rational discussion.
ref: 2017, The New European, "The delusions of Cakeism", Bonnie Greer, 15 September 2017
text: The letter is the latest blatant example of British cakeism.
ref: 2018, The Guardian, "David Davis's petulant leaked letter is the latest slice of Brexit cakeism", Jonathan Lis, 10 January 2018
text: The government has adopted Johnson's notorious attitude to cake – wanting to have it and to eat it – and made cakeism its defining creed.
ref: 2021, The Guardian, "The dishonesty of Boris Johnson has finally infected the entire government", Jonathan Freedland, 19 November 2021
text: Cakeism is not a formula that works in government because, in reality, the cake has to be rationed and people notice.
ref: 2021, The Guardian, "The Tories said we could have our cake and eat it – now they are stuffed and voters are hungry", Rafael Behr, 22 December 2021
text: "Cakeism" has run riot — vast, incoherent ambitions detached from political, economic and business realities.
ref: 2022, The Guardian, "Brexit legacy is just the start of incoming PM's problems as cost of living crisis spirals", Will Hutton, 10 July 2022
topics: government
politics
glosses: The doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too, particularly regarding the UK’s approach to Brexit negotiations and subsequent deliberations.
Related terms: cakeist
kropek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɾo.pɛk/
Forms: form: kropeks
form: kropeck
form: shrimp kropeck
form: shrimp kropek
Etymology: From Tagalog kropek. Compare Malay keropok, Indonesian kerupuk, Dutch kroepoek.
Senses: glosses: prawn crackers
Derived terms: fish kropeck
BTM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BTMs
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of btm (“bottom”).
BTMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BTM
up-cycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: up-cycles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of upcycle (“period of a cycle where something is growing or increasing”).
up-cycles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of up-cycle (alternative form of upcycles).
araneological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From araneology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to araneology
pedicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedicides
Senses: examples: text: Pedicide victims are much apt to be killed by close relatives than are adult homicide victims.
ref: 1991, L. Adelson, “Pedicide revisited. The slaughter continues.”, in The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology:
glosses: The murder of a child.
Related terms: abortion
filicide
infanticide
neonaticide
prolicide
pedicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedicide
watercloset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterclosets
Etymology: From water + closet.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of water closet.
waterclosets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of watercloset
Jian'ou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chien-ou
form: Kienow
form: Jianou
raw_tags: from Hanyu Pinyin
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 建甌 /建瓯 (Jiàn'ōu).
Senses: examples: text: Li, from Jianou in Fujian province, was confirmed to have been infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus in March.
"A doctor in her village will carry out medical checks every day and report her condition to us to ensure her complete recovery," said Huang Jian, deputy director of Jianou's Health Bureau.
ref: [2007 May 29, “China says bird flu patient recovers, goes home”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 27 Apr 2022:
text: Every now and then, Wan Zijing likes to bring up something that happened many years ago when we had both participated in the Provincial Young Writers’ Association conference in the historical city of Jian’ou.
ref: 2013, Li Han, “Late Stage”, in Josh Stenberg, transl., Irina's Hat: New Short Stories from China, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 155:
glosses: A county-level city of Nanping, Fujian, China.