cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Prayaga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit प्रयाग (prayāga, “place of sacrifice”).
Senses: glosses: A sacred place at the meeting point of Ganga and Yamuna. It is located near Prayagraj in India.
pro-vax
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: provax
form: provaxx
form: pro-vaxx
Etymology: From pro- + vax.
Senses: examples: text: And, indeed, fashion is already doing its part in the form of pro-vaxx and anti-vaxx T-shirts. […] Pro-vaxx T-shirts are harder to find, but are arguably more stylish and sassy. A cute retro design from Spreadshirt recommends: "Love your kids. Have them shot."
ref: 2015 January 21, Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, “How Fashion Helped Defeat 18th-Century Anti-Vaxxers”, in The Atlantic:
text: The most aggressive of the groups are not just demonstrating but also actively challenging pro-vax legislators, running candidates against them in primaries. […] Even when pro-vax bills do get signed into law, there is no guarantee the anti-vaccine activists will go along.
ref: 2019 June 13, Jeffrey Kluger, “'They’re Chipping Away.' Inside the Grassroots Effort to Fight Mandatory Vaccines”, in Time:
synonyms: word: pro-vaccination
word: pro-vaccine
word: pro-vaxxing
antonyms: word: anti-vaccination
word: anti-vaccine
word: anti-vax
word: anti-vaxxing
glosses: Supporting vaccines and vaccination.
Related terms: pro-vaccinationist
pro-vaccinator
pro-vaxxer
ratioing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ratio
autorenew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autorenews
form: autorenewing
form: autorenewed
form: autorenewed
Etymology: From auto- + renew.
Senses: examples: text: all of these services, including mSpy, function with the same kind of predatory subscription scheme, luring you in with free trials that autorenew as abhorrently expensive monthly or yearly subscriptions. canceling the service requires reaching out to support, so users are typically unable to avoid overrunning the trial.
ref: 2024 June 9, maia arson crimew, “israeli national police found trying to purchase stalkerware”, in maia blog:
glosses: To renew automatically.
Related terms: autorenewal
autorenewed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of autorenew
autorenews
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of autorenew
roll mat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roll mats
form: rollmat
Senses: glosses: A soft lightweight rollable pad for sleeping on, used mainly by campers and hikers.
Related terms: camping mat
sleeping bag
rollmat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rollmats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of roll mat.
roll mats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roll mat
rollmats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rollmat
ACCP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: So, doctors and hospital officials have largely been relying on the guidelines of professional specialty groups, including those published in 2008 by the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), for making decisions about how to allocate scarce resources to treat respiratory disorders. ¶ The ACCP guidelines hinge on the so-called “exclusion criteria,” which advise not considering ICU care for people with moderate-to-severe heart or lung disease, those with terminal cancer — like Kraemer— the elderly, and people with severe cognitive impairment.
ref: 2020 April 22, Alice Park, Jeffrey Kluger, “The Coronavirus Pandemic Is Forcing U.S. Doctors to Ration Care for All Patients”, in Time:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of American College of Chest Physicians.
Synonyms: CHEST
late capitalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: But there are two late capitalisms.
ref: 1994, Stanley Aronowitz, Dead Artists, Live Theories, and Other Cultural Problems, page 3:
glosses: plural of late capitalism
white hunter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white hunters
Senses: glosses: Any of the professional big game hunters of European or North American backgrounds who plied their trade in Africa, especially during the first half of the 20th century.
white hunters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white hunter
hardliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: superlative form of hardly: most hardly
hardlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: comparative form of hardly: more hardly
omega points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of omega point
Archbishops of Banterbury
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Archbishop of Banterbury
horotelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to horotely.
oricycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oricycles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of horocycle.
oricycles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oricycle
Pasch's theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Stated in 1882 by the German mathematician Moritz Pasch.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A result in plane geometry which cannot be derived from Euclid's postulates. It states that, given points a, b, c, and d on a line, if it is known that the points are ordered as (a, b, c) and (b, c, d), then it is also true that (a, b, d).
wikipedia: Moritz Pasch
Related terms: Pasch's axiom
Pasch's axiom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Its essential role was discovered in 1882 by the German mathematician Moritz Pasch.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A statement in plane geometry, used implicitly by Euclid, which cannot be derived from Euclid's postulates. It states that, if a line, not passing through any vertex of a triangle, meets one side of the triangle then it meets another side.
wikipedia: Moritz Pasch
Related terms: Pasch's theorem
pascalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: pascalized foods
glosses: Preserved by means of pascalization.
C-style strings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of C-style string
Fredholm theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named in honour of Erik Ivar Fredholm.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A theory of integral equations, concerning itself in the narrowest sense with the solution of the Fredholm integral equation.
Related terms: Fredholm integral equation
Fredholm kernel
Fredholm operator
elbow shake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elbow shakes
Etymology: Modeled on handshake.
Senses: examples: text: Cholera spread can be reduced by modifying behaviour, especially handshakes. During the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014 people stopped shaking hands and used the “Ebola elbow shake”.
ref: 2017 August 10, Kimani Wanjeri, “Handshakes must be banned or minimised”, in Daily Nation:
text: Notwithstanding measures like the application of alcoholic cleanser (hand sanitizers), which has proved useful at every strategic entry point in the State House, staff members now resort to keeping a safe distance, rather than the hitherto warm handshake, and sometimes, generous hugs, to the now awkward ‘elbow shake’ as a way of exchange of pleasantries.
ref: 2020 March 22, Terhrmba Daka, “India’s “namaste” salutation goes viral in Aso Rock”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Synonym of elbow bump (“touching of elbows as alternative to a handshake”).
synonyms: word: elbow bump
extra: touching of elbows as alternative to a handshake
OSASH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of obstructive sleep apnea/sleep hypopnea.
Related terms: OSA
Eurotrashy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Eurotrashy
form: most Eurotrashy
Senses: examples: text: Particularly unpleasant did I find the skankily dressed Eurotrashy Italian men, but the drunken British and German football fans and lager louts roaming the streets had little to recommend them.
ref: 2011, “English Teacher X”, in To Travel Hopelessly: Five Years of Teaching English Abroad:
text: I was disappointed with the Caesar Park, its Eurotrashy aircraft-hangar spaces, its cold approximation of luxury.
ref: 2012, Jon Ronson, Jon Ronson's Adventures With Extraordinary People:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of Eurotrash.
touchy-feeler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: touchy-feelers
Etymology: From touchy-feely + -er.
Senses: examples: text: He grabbed his keys from the coffee table and led me to the door. Just before he turned the knob, he spun around to give me a quick hug. “I know you're not the big touchy-feeler, but humor me.”
ref: 2007, Wendy French, Full of It, New York, NY: Forge Books, →ISBN, page unknown:
glosses: A touchy-feely person; one who is fond of physical contact with other people.
touchy-feelers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of touchy-feeler
elbow bump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛlbəʊ ˈbʌmp/
ipa: /ˌɛlboʊ ˈbʌmp/
rhymes: -ʌmp
Forms: form: elbow bumps
Etymology: From elbow + bump, modelled on fist bump.
Senses: glosses: A hit to the elbow; also, an injury to the elbow caused by such a hit.
glosses: A hit or jab made with the elbow.
examples: text: To the pantheon of social arbiters who came up with the firm handshake, the formal bow and the air kiss, get ready to add a new fashion god: the World Health Organization, chief advocate of the "elbow bump." […] The bump, a simple touching of elbows, is a substitute for the filthy practice of shaking hands, in which a person who has politely sneezed into a palm then passes a virus to other hands, whose owners then put a finger in an eye or a pen in a mouth.
ref: 2006 February 12, Donald G[erard] McNeil, Jr., “Elbows to the ready if outbreak emerges: Bird flu would rule out handshakes”, in International Herald Tribune, Paris: International Herald Tribune, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Feb 2007:
text: Instead of handshakes or high-fives, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams introduced the elbow bump at a news conference in Connecticut as a possible alternative to avoid the coronavirus. He showed reporters how it was done by demonstrating the elbow bump with Sen. Richard Blumenthal and Gov. Ned Lamont.
ref: 2020 March 4, Adrianna Rodriguez, “Goodbye, handshake. Hello, elbow bump? Greetings to avoid during the coronavirus outbreak”, in USA Today, McLean, Va.: Gannett Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Mar 2020:
text: When greeting people, best to avoid elbow bumps because they put you within 1 meter of the other person. I like to put my hand on my heart when I greet people these days.
ref: 2020 March 8, Marthe Fourcade, Thomas Mulier, quoting Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, “Even Elbow-bumping is Too Intimate to Ward Off Coronavirus”, in Bloomberg News, archived from the original on 26 Mar 2020:
synonyms: elbow shake
elbow tap
glosses: The touching of elbows between two people, sometimes as an alternative to a handshake, fist bump, or other form of contact when attempting to avoid the spread of germs.
Related terms: word: bump elbows
english: associate, mingle
translation: associate, mingle
word: rub elbows
raw_tags: not to be confused
elbow bumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elbow bump
elbow shakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elbow shake
climatonomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From climate + -o- + -nomy, introduced in 1969 by H. Lettau.
Senses: glosses: The mathematical study of climatic responses in terms of equations and forcing functions.
Derived terms: climatonomic
evapoclimatonomy
forcing function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forcing functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A function in a system of differential equations that is only a function of time, unaffected by the other variables; or, more generally, any non-homogeneous source function in any variable.
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An aspect of interface design that restricts a user's abilities in order to streamline completion of a task.
glosses: Any task, activity or event that forces one to take action and produce a result; impetus, impulse.
forcing functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forcing function
climatostratigraphically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From climatostratigraphic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of, or by means of, climatostratigraphy.
Lotka-Volterra equation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lotka-Volterra equations
Senses: synonyms: predator-prey equation
glosses: Either of a pair of first-order nonlinear differential equations that are frequently used to describe the dynamics of biological systems in which two species interact, one as a predator and the other as prey.
Lotka-Volterra equations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lotka-Volterra equation
Volterra integral equation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Volterra integral equations
Etymology: Introduced by Vito Volterra.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A special kind of integral equation, having applications in demography, the study of viscoelastic materials, and actuarial science.
wikipedia: Vito Volterra
polymeryl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polymeryls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any radical derived from a polymer
Volterra integral equations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Volterra integral equation
renewal theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Renewal theory may be used to calculate the best strategy for replacing worn-out machinery, or to compare the long-term benefits of different insurance policies.
glosses: A branch of probability theory that generalizes the compound Poisson process for arbitrary holding times.
TBUs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TBU
from this moment on
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: From this moment on, I will try to remember the proper way to pronounce your name.
synonyms: from that time on
from this time on
glosses: Starting now, extending indefinitely into the future.
subcommutator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subcommutators
Etymology: From sub- + commutator.
Senses: glosses: A secondary or subsidiary commutator.
subprogrammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subprogrammers
Etymology: From sub- + programmer.
Senses: glosses: A secondary or subsidiary programmer.
subcommutators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subcommutator
subprogrammers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subprogrammer
vevers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vever
synthcore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From synth + -core.
Senses: examples: text: I've seen an adorable unsigned punk band perform here, taken in some wickedawesome (all one word, of course) spoken word, and danced my patootie off to electro and synthcore djs. Yay.
ref: 2002, Pleasant Gehman, The Underground Guide to Los Angeles, Manic D Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A more hard or intense style of synthesizer music, influenced by other genres such as metal.
Pingali
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit पिङ्गल (piṅgala, “reddish-brown, tawny, yellow, gold-coloured”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Pingala
unplentiful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unplentiful
form: most unplentiful
Etymology: From un- + plentiful.
Senses: glosses: Not plentiful; few or sparse.
winebottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winebottles
Senses: examples: text: I am a chrysanthemum / stuck in a winebottle / my edges red / with appetite […]
ref: 1968, Pyramid, volumes 1–5, page 24:
text: 1896[:] Born December 27 in Nackenheim on the Rhine, the second of two sons. Father is owner of a winebottle cap factory.
ref: 1977, Helen Swediuk-Cheyne, “Introduction: Biographical Notes”, in Die Uhr schlägt eins: Ein historisches Drama aus der Gegenwart by Carl Zuckmayer, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 19:
text: A warm green, I think that is the earliest image in my memory: the green of a tiled stove whose upper rim supposedly was ringed by the relief design of a gypsy camp. But I only know that because my mother told me. However I rack my brain, it will not bring this picture back to me. But I kept the green, a warm winebottle green with a dull shine.
ref: 1997, Franz Fühmann, “The Jew Car”, in Therese Hörnigk, Alexander Stephan, editors, The New Sufferings of Young W. and Other Stories from the German Democratic Republic, New York, NY: The Continuum Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 216:
text: Suddenly, a faint moan emanated from the cantonment. Distant lungs blowing the neck of a winebottle. ¶ “What's that big weird noise?” demanded Katrinko, all alert interest.
ref: 1999, Bruce Sterling, A Good Old-fashioned Future: Stories, New York, NY: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 242:
text: Ewan works a solid half-hour and the viced scroll looks barely scratched. He stretches, then, clutching an armful of empty winebottles, he slips outside. The voices are louder next door. He smells citronella and mosquito coils.
ref: 2004, Craig Silvey, Rhubarb, Fremantle Press, →ISBN, page 28:
glosses: Alternative form of wine bottle.
winebottles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of winebottle
prebutton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prebuttons
Senses: examples: text: Before concluding the discussion of rattle width, we should make mention of the prebutton, the rattle with which every young snake is born, but which, unlike the true button, is shed and lost with the young snake's first change of skin a week or so after birth.
ref: 1972, Laurence M. Klauber, Rattlesnakes: Their Habits, Life Histories, and Influence on Mankind:
text: All species of rattlesnakes are viviparous and are born with a laterally compressed keratinized prebutton on the tip of the tail. A few days after birth the snake sheds it skin and loses the prebutton, which is replaced by the first rattle segment, or button.
ref: 2002, Jay M. Savage, The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica:
glosses: A precursor to a rattle found on newborn rattlesnakes.
prebuttons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prebutton
Folkton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Scarborough district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref TA0579).
QAC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: QACs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of qac (“quaternary ammonium”).
glosses: Abbreviation of quality assurance and control.
Related terms: english: quality assurance
translation: quality assurance
word: QA
english: quality control
translation: quality control
word: QC
QUAT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: QUATs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quat (“quaternary ammonium”).
beerbottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beerbottles
Senses: examples: text: It saved the colonel, but the indignant gente threw beerbottles and cushions and everything they could lay hands on, shrieking with rage. The cuadrilla and Colonel Ireland and Felipe and the Mexican officers and police were all injured by missiles.
ref: 1966, Southwest Review, volumes 51–52, page 165:
text: a very miraculous thing just happened: / my beerbottle flipped over backwards / and landed on its bottom on the floor, / and I have set it upon the table to foam down, / but the photos were not so lucky today […]
ref: 1968, Charles Bukowski, “'Beerbottle'”, in At Terror Street and Agony Way, Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, page 5:
text: Bloodworth paused, drank from the amber beerbottle. He glanced covertly at Coble to see how he was taking all this. He thought he might have been ladling it on a trifle heavy.
ref: 2000, William Gay, Provinces of Night, New York, NY: Anchor Books, published 2002, →ISBN, page 94:
text: The Army base overlooking the Otto Beit suspension bridge is equally decrepit, the gate unattended. An empty beerbottle winks russet in the guardhouse. A few languid, unshod soldiers shuffle out to greet us.
ref: 2002, Dan Wylie, Dead Leaves: Two Years in the Rhodesian War, Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, →ISBN, page 60:
text: She lifted her beerbottle again, recrossed her legs, the skirt going HIGHER, jesus have mercy, the skirt going HIGHER, all that leg, all that thigh, all that red HAIR, god. ¶ I got up and pulled the beerbottle from her mouth and put my dirty bearded face to hers, […]
ref: 2011, Charles Bukowski, edited by David Stephen Calonne, More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns, San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, →ISBN, page 17:
glosses: Alternative form of beer bottle.
Q.A.C.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Q.A.C.'s
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of qac (“quaternary ammonium compound/cation”).
Blundeston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Blundeston and Flixton Parish Council) in East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM5197).
AGMP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AGMPs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of aerosol-generating medical procedure.
Hypernyms: AGP
Willimantic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌwɪləˈmæntɪk/
enpr: wĭləmăntĭk
rhymes: -æntɪk
Etymology: From Eastern Algonquian, likely Mohegan-Pequot or Narragansett, meaning "land of swift-moving waters", referring to the steep drop of the Willimantic River, or "place near the cedar swamp".
Senses: examples: text: I give and bequeath all that tracke of land lying to the westard of Appaguage, and Eastward from Willi mantucke River, […]
ref: 1675 February 27, Joshua Uncas, “Will of Joshua Uncas”, in The New England Historical And Genealogical Register, volume XIII, Boston: Samuel G. Drake, published 1859, page 235:
glosses: A river in Connecticut, United States.
glosses: A former borough, former city, now census-designated place in Windham, Connecticut, United States, named after the river.
glosses: A town in Piscataquis County, Maine, United States, named after the former city in Connecticut.
AIIR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AIIRs
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of airborne infection isolation room.
Related terms: AII
AII
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of airborne infection isolation.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of angiotensin II.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of atavistic-idiosyncratic idiolect.
Related terms: sense: airborne infection isolation
word: AIIR
sense: angiotensin II
word: AI
sense: angiotensin II
word: AIII
sense: angiotensin II
word: AIV
AIII
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of angiotensin III.
Related terms: AI
AII
AIV
AIV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of angiotensin IV.
Related terms: AI
AII
AIII
beerbottles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beerbottle
Padgate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in Poulton-with-Fearnhead parish, Warrington borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6390).
wine-bottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wine-bottles
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wine bottle.
chef de rang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chefs de rang
Etymology: From French chef de rang.
Senses: glosses: A waiter responsible for a certain section within a restaurant.
chefs de rang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chef de rang
the proof is in the eating
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of the proof of the pudding is in the eating.
floriographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floriography
alpha naphthol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of α-naphthol.
Cornbrook
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood of Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, which is likely named after the Cornbrook river which has been fully culverted underneath Manchester City (OS grid ref SJ8297).
glosses: A hamlet in Coreley parish, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO6075).
amphoricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being amphoric.
roghan josh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rogan josh.
Friedel-Crafts reactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Friedel-Crafts reaction
delaminator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delaminators
Senses: examples: text: It must not contain waterproofers, integral hardeners, plasticisers, accelerators or other additives because these act as delaminators for resins.
ref: 1985, The Architects' Journal, volume 181, page 65:
glosses: One who or that which delaminates; something that decomposes something else into layers.
delaminators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delaminator
impressivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From impressive + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: With him the impressivity of the spirit is all in all; and whatever enhances this impressivity purifies the spirit, because it abases it more completely beneath the Divine Impressor.
ref: 1869, The North British Review, volume 51, page 287:
text: Over against the masculine expressivity is the feminine impressivity.
ref: 1922, The Pedagogical Seminary, volume 29, page 161:
text: The citation that accompanied the Holley Award for combined excellence in athletics and scholastics was in Latin and Colonel Robert Hale Franklin's voice rolled out the phrases with sonorous impressivity that June afternoon when the student body and such parents as could get away gathered on the lawn beside the chapen for graduation exercises.
ref: 1963, Hotel Mamie Stover, page 50:
glosses: The quality of being impressive.
Synonyms: impressiveness
nomsayin'
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of know what I'm saying.
SEPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SEP
coming a gutser
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of come a gutser
came a gutser
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of come a gutser
comes a cropper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of come a cropper
coming a cropper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of come a cropper
Bantersaurus Rexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bantersaurus Rex
triggerhappy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more triggerhappy
form: most triggerhappy
Senses: examples: text: (see title)
ref: 2015 August 1, Rob Crillyv, “Bullet bounces off armadillo and puts triggerhappy Texan in hospital.”, in The Telegraph:
glosses: Alternative form of trigger-happy.
flag-happy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flag-happy
form: most flag-happy
Etymology: From flag + happy.
Senses: examples: text: I remain convinced of my capacity to harangue flag-happy officials (both when they are correct and when they've just cocked up another costly decision), to the point where they might occasionally favour the Arsenal just for a quiet life!
ref: 2012, Bernard Azulay, Arsenal on the Double:
text: If any host nation has ever earned a handful of incompetent decisions from nervous and flag-happy officials, it was this one.
ref: 2013, Nick Hornby, Fan Mail: Twenty Years of Writing about Football:
text: Soccer players may "head" the ball for tactical purposes, while football players are barred from "leading" with their heads. Laving aside offensive and defensive lineman who do so every play. Also, most linebackers. A rule which is applied in practice only to defensive backs, arbitrarily, now and again, haphazardly, when a flag-happy zebra feels like it, but never to running backs who lower their heads to gain another two yards.
ref: 2019, R.L. Sterup, Things You Can't Say About Sports, page 57:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Overly inclined to rule that an infraction has occurred.
Midpines
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Mariposa County, California, United States.
Lake Don Pedro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Mariposa County, California, United States.
Yosemite Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Mariposa County, California, United States.
Bootjack
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Mariposa County, California, United States.
Greeley Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Mariposa County, California, United States.
Catheys Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Mariposa County, California, United States.
El Portal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Mariposa County, California, United States.
Coulterville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Mariposa County, California, United States.
Wawona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Mariposa County, California, United States.
Hornitos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place and former city in Mariposa County, California, United States.
Fish Camp
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Mariposa County, California, United States.
Buck Meadows
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Mariposa County, California, United States.
gunhappy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gunhappy
form: most gunhappy
Senses: examples: text: Dan takes "the view that no white woman, no matter who or why, has a right to go gunhappy today in a city ghetto and shoot down the first black man who comes near her."
ref: 1972, Ida Glenn Jeter, An Analysis of Selected Episodes of The Defenders, Television Series, 1961-1965:
text: “I'll be damned if I'm going to leave my house because of a few gunhappy thugs,' answered the woman laughing.
ref: 1988, F. H. Mikdadi, Tamra, page 196:
text: I thought those pepper bellies in Miami were gunhappy.
ref: 1993, Cherokee Paul McDonald, Allen E. Smith, Under Contract/the True Account of a Cop Hired to Kill, page 244:
glosses: Alternative form of gun-happy.
gun-happy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gun-happy
form: most gun-happy
Etymology: From gun + happy.
Senses: examples: text: I suppose he thought he could buffalo me with that gun-happy swagger of his, so that I would hasten to assure him that nothing was further from the truth.
ref: 2001, Jason Manning, Gunmaster:
text: “Is she gun-happy?” “Certainly not. When you're properly trained in the use of guns, you don't become gun-happy, as you call it.”
ref: 2011, Ross Macdonald, The Instant Enemy:
text: 'Damn cops,' said a CSI, who concentrated on the holes in the bark of a tree, the only holes not made by gun-happy rat killers.
ref: 2012, Carol O'Connell, The Chalk Girl: Kathy Mallory:
text: He was gun-happy. He shot up jukeboxes and shelves full of booze.
ref: 2014, James Ellroy, Perfidia:
text: Guy remarked that the cubs were lucky to be on Canadian soil rather than in the gun-happy United States, where they would be dead by now. And Lulu scoffed. "Come on" she said. "Your gun-happy Canadian neighbour just shot their mother."
ref: 2016, Elizabeth Hay, His Whole Life:
glosses: Overly fond of and inclined to use guns or advocate gun violence.
snap-happy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more snap-happy
form: most snap-happy
Etymology: From snap + happy.
Senses: glosses: Overly fond of and inclined to take photographs
Hesperidian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Hesperides + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: He considered, also, that a rather more general distribution of the Hesperidian fruit, if it could be peaceably effected, would be desirable.
ref: 1843, “Punch's Labours of Hercules”, in Punch, volume 5, page 73:
text: The Hesperidian tree bearing golden apples was a type of that in Eden.
ref: 1942, University of Kansas Publications: Humanistic studies:
text: The body of the poem is the "Song of the Three Sisters," the Hesperidian maidens, which is introduced by a blank verse prologue that fuses historical allusion with myth and somewhat casually places the verses that follow in the familiar framework of vision poetry.
ref: 1952, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America:
text: It is known concerning Hercules, that he performed his last labour in the Hesperidian region, and Olympiodorus, in his Commentary on the Gorgias of Plato, informs us what we are to understand by this.
ref: 1960, Mary Anne Atwood, Hermetic Philosophy and Alchemy, page 233:
text: The evidence seems to indicate that the symbolism of the Hesperidian Garden had a special meaning for the Medici Popes.
ref: 1970, Hans Henrik Brummer, The Statue Court in the Vatican Belvedere, page 238:
text: Further substantiation for this correlation is to be found in Ridgely Torrence's Hesperidian poetry, to which Frost referred in an epigraph to "A Passing Glimpse."
ref: 1974, Jac Tharpe, Frost: Centennial Essays - Volume 1, page 219:
glosses: Pertaining to the Hesperides or the garden that they tended.
hair-grip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hair-grips
Senses: examples: text: By the time you reached 'third' year the hole reappeared, now one through which a hair-grip could slide, enabling the beret to be balanced on the back of your head—a trendy statement!
ref: 2001, Bernadine Crosby, Soweto Now?:
text: By presenting herself as frightened by the dangerous creature animated by the children, the caregiver legitimates the symbolic transformations proposed by Mattia and riccardo (the hair-grip as a crocodile or a shark) and remarks the nonliteral use of objects.
ref: 2001, Artin Göncü, Elisa Klein, Children in Play, Story, and School, page 112:
text: The hair-grip goes some way towards satisfying his deep desire to be one of them. The little boy who saw the white cockerel, and the little boy wearing Lily's hair-grip, both remained part of William Golding.
ref: 2012, John Carey, William Golding: The Man who Wrote Lord of the Flies, page 1:
glosses: Alternative form of hairgrip.
hair-grips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hair-grip
Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Inyo County, California, United States.
West Bishop
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Inyo County, California, United States.
Lone Pine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Inyo County, California, United States.
glosses: Former name of McFarland, California.
Big Pine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Inyo County, California, United States.
Round Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Inyo County, California, United States.
hair grip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hair grips
Senses: examples: text: She could not have weighed more than five stones, her straight, chin-length grey hair was parted on the side and held back with a hair grip that sometimes had a pink or blue bow made out of ribbon tied to it.
ref: 2011, Sue Butler, Too Much Death, page 128:
text: 'And how do you know all this?' she asked, smoothing back an immaculate curtain of iron-grey hair and securing it with a quick stab of her hair grip.
ref: 2011, Ceri Radford, A Surrey State Of Affairs:
text: She couldn't wear a hair grip or slide to hold her hair back in case friction caused the powder to ignite so wisps escaped and yellowed too.
ref: 2013, Maggie Hope, Molly's War, page 152:
glosses: Alternative form of hairgrip.
hair grips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hair grip
Olancha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Inyo County, California, United States.
Tecopa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Inyo County, California, United States.
Homewood Canyon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Inyo County, California, United States.
Furnace Creek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Temperatures in Death Valley, which runs along part of central California’s border with Nevada, reached 128F (53.3C) on Sunday at the aptly named Furnace Creek, the National Weather Service said.
ref: 2023 July 17, “Death Valley approaches global heat record as US reels from extreme weather”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A census-designated place in Inyo County, California, United States.
Trona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Inyo County, California, United States.
Pearsonville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Inyo County, California, United States.
Valley Wells
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Inyo County, California, United States.
hairdress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hairdresses
Etymology: From hair + dress.
Senses: examples: text: Just as the close, tight hairdress emphasizes and enlarges the face, so the large, loose arrangement that creates a large frame for the face makes it seem smaller by contrast .
ref: 1938, Laurene Hempstead, Look Your Best: A Guide to Feminine Style and Beauty, page 13:
text: Statuette, fashioned from grayish black terracotta, depicting Princess holding flower jar; short shoulder jacket extending over free flowing robe, exposing upturned sandals; chignon hairdress; traces of red and white pigments with earthy incrustations.
ref: 1943, Yamanaka & Company, Collection of Chinese and other Far Eastern art:
text: For the port, the voice, the smell, the hairdress, were seldom the same, from one day to the next, […]
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
text: It is wearing an Egyptian hairdress, but no crown is distinguishable.
ref: 1999, Martin Klingbeil, Martin G Klingbeil, Yahweh Fighting from Heaven:
text: One way to judge is to compare the hairdress of the doll under discussion with pictures of the lady at about the time the doll was made.
ref: 2016, Clara Hallard Fawcett, Dolls - A Guide for Collectors:
glosses: A hairstyle.
examples: text: The play is laid in the period when English society paid a great deal of attention to hairdress.
ref: 1938, Robert W. Masters, Lillian Decker Masters, The Curtain Rises, Plays to Produce, page 281:
text: In hairdress, as in clothes, do not be a slave to fashion.
ref: 1951, Adelaide Laura Van Duzer, Benjamin Richard Andrews, The Girl's Daily Life, page 315:
text: Considerable attention has been given to hairdress in these, with long "page-boy" coiffures shown in modeling and scoring.
ref: 1966, An Introduction to American Archaeology: South America, page 266:
glosses: The process or act of styling hair.
hairdress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hairdresses
form: hairdressing
form: hairdressed
form: hairdressed
Etymology: From hair + dress.
Senses: examples: text: "Monsieur," Francina told Mrs. Sill with the utmost tact, "is not licensed to hairdress or manicure pets. His professional aides are limited to slightly higher mammals — er — people. I am terribly sorry, madam."
ref: 1971, Gwendolyn Brooks, Jump bad: a new Chicago anthology, page 71:
text: I can tell you that in three cities in New Mexico there were enough hairdressers trained to hairdress in 16 States the size of New Mexico.
ref: 1993, United States, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Fiscal, Economic, and Social Crises Confronting American Cities, page 296:
text: I worked any hours I could at other things to reduce the number of hours I had to hairdress.
ref: 2016, Rebecca De Havalland, His Name Is Rebecca:
glosses: To dress or style hair.
hairdresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hairdress
hairdresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hairdress
hairdressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hairdress
Divine Mercy Sundays
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Divine Mercy Sunday
Pattuhson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pattuhsons
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of Patterson.
Pattuhsons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Pattuhson
houn'
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: houn's
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of hound.
houn's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of houn'
majah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: majahs
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of major.
majahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of majah
cuzzer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuzzers
Senses: examples: text: 'You can't just walk out of a Heston Blumenthal restaurant!' I whispered.
Sam studied me. 'Swear on your mother's life that you wouldn't prefer a cuzzer,' he said, 'and I'll stay.'
ref: 2013, Lucy Robinson, A Passionate Love Affair with a Total Stranger:
glosses: Alternative form of cuzza (“a curry”).
cuzzers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuzzer
subspatulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subspatulate
form: most subspatulate
Etymology: From sub- + spatulate.
Senses: glosses: Approaching a spatulate form; almost spatulate.
subspathulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subspathulate
form: most subspathulate
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of subspatulate.
notative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin notātus + English -ive.
Senses: examples: text: In this way, fiction's a bit like a notative system in ballet, where there are instructions to tell a dancer where to step, etcetera.
ref: 1998, Bonnie Lyons, Bill Oliver, Passion and Craft: Conversations with Notable Writers, page 14:
text: The reversed view on the relation between connotation and notations starts with a connotative frame instead of a notative center, and it proceeds “down” or “inwards.”
ref: 2010, Marc-Oliver Schuster, H.C. Artmann's Structuralist Imagination, page 270:
glosses: Of or relating to notation.
spirit board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spirit boards
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Ouija board (“lettered board for communication with spirits”).
synonyms: word: Ouija board
extra: lettered board for communication with spirits
talking board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: talking boards
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Ouija board (“lettered board for communication with spirits”).
synonyms: word: Ouija board
extra: lettered board for communication with spirits
spirit boards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spirit board
talking boards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of talking board
boa'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: boa'ds
form: boa'ding
form: boa'ded
form: boa'ded
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of board.
boa'ds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of boa'd
boa'ding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of boa'd
boa'ded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of boa'd
boabies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boaby
rebordered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reborder
reborders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reborder
rebordering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reborder
heath cock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heath cocks
form: heathcock
Senses: synonyms: blackcock
coordinate_terms: grey hen
heath hen
glosses: A male black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix).
heath cocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heath cock
propandiol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: propandiols
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of propanediol.
crow's bill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crow's bills
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Synonym of crowbill (“kind of forceps”).
synonyms: word: crowbill
extra: kind of forceps
Oroquieta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the provincial capital of Misamis Occidental, Northern Mindanao, Philippines.
no'th
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of north.
no'th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of north.
no'th
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of north.
gegg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡɛɡ/
Forms: form: geggs
Senses: examples: text: Its meetings have long ceased, and it is only fair to hope that there be none of the young and gay spirits of Glasgow eager to revive so palpable a gegg as the one we have just recorded, […]
ref: 1832, The Day (issue 1, part 112, page 175)
text: The whole gist of the gegg was to be here.
ref: 1864 January 24, John Strang, Glasgow and Its Clubs: Or Glimpses of the Condition, Manners, Characters, and Oddities of the City, During the Past and Present Centuries, page 341:
glosses: A trick or hoax.
Derived terms: geggery
gegg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɡɛɡ/
Forms: form: geggs
form: gegging
form: gegged
form: gegged
Senses: glosses: To trick or hoax.
Derived terms: geggee
gegger
geggery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gegg + -ery.
Senses: glosses: Trickery.
geggs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gegg
geggs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gegg
Laoag
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɐˈwaɡ̚/
Senses: glosses: A city, the provincial capital of Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Region, Luzon, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Aguilar, Pangasinan, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of San Agustin, Isabela, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Cabangan, Zambales, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of San Marcelino, Zambales, Philippines.
prizeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prizeable
form: most prizeable
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of prizable.
priseable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more priseable
form: most priseable
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of prizable.
Inner House
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Inner House
Senses: glosses: The higher branch of the Scottish Court of Session, its jurisdiction chiefly appellate.