cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
gracilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gracilizes
form: gracilizing
form: gracilized
form: gracilized
Etymology: From gracile + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: The apparent absence of any apparent sexual or age-based divisions of labour contrasts strikingly with anatomically modern humans of the Pleistocene in which females appear to gracilize relatively quickly, implying perhaps a sex-based division of labour (Soffer 1994).
ref: 2001 June 29, PB Pettitt, “Neanderthal lifecycles: Developmental and social phases in the lives of the last archaics”, in World archaeology, volume 31, number 3:
text: No exact racial diagnostics can be made on the basis of the preserved cranial parts, but still it is obvious that it refers to the Mediterranide race that began to gracilize.
ref: 1986, Anthropologie, volumes 24-25, page 171:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: To exhibit a reduction in bone mass due to the process of evolution.
Derived terms: gracilization
gracilizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gracilize
gracilizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gracilize
gracilized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gracilize
gracilized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gracilized
form: most gracilized
Senses: examples: text: The results show a fairly gracilized body build both in males and females, and a morphological convergence of the proportions of the two sexes.
ref: 1972 March 2, M Masali, “Body size and proportions as revealed by bone measurements and their meaning in environmental adaptation”, in Journal of Human Evolution, volume 1:
text: Wade argues that our pre-gracilized ancestors lived in a world closer to Hobbes than Rousseau.
ref: 2011, JH Hinshaw, “Darwinian Evolution and Social History”, in Journal of Social History, volume 45, number 1:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Exhibiting a reduction in bone mass as the result of evolution.
gracilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Etymology: From gracilize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: The last ten thousand years have witnessed a gracilization of the human cranium — and masticatory complex, in particular.
ref: 2002, Peter S. Ungar, Mark Franklyn Teaford, Human Diet: Its Origin and Evolution, →ISBN, page 28:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A reduction of bone mass as the result of evolution.
video-tape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: video-tapes
Senses: examples: text: A video-tape presentation of the Woman '76 show on cross-dressing
ref: 1977 April 9, Lyn Rosen, “'Helping Professions' Meet a Sexual Minority”, in Gay Community News, page 6:
glosses: Alternative form of videotape.
bepenised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: be-penised
Etymology: From be- + penised.
Senses: examples: text: However much Nina Gordon, Louise Post, and their bepenised rhythm section sound like the Breeders, you could tell the two apart in a blindfold test (probably).
ref: 2000, Robert Christgau, Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s, page 324:
text: It would be a good thing to have a woman president after the 43 bepenised ghouls and functionaries who’ve occupied the office. (OK, there were a few who weren’t half-bad — you wouldn’t need more than one hand to count them.)
ref: 2015, Doug Henwood, My Turn: Hillary Clinton Targets the Presidency, page XIV:
text: Bepenised female cave bugs of the genus Neotrogla routinely have sex for seventy hours straight.
ref: 2022, Chris Panatier, Stingers, unnumbered page:
glosses: Having a penis.
Synonyms: cocked
bedicked
dicked
penised
phallused
Bantoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Bantu + -oid; first used by Krause in 1895 for languages that showed resemblances in vocabulary to Bantu.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a putative branch of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family.
tachyscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tachyscopes
Etymology: From tachy- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: An early form of animated-picture machine in which the chronophotographs were mounted upon the periphery of a rotating wheel.
tachyscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tachyscope
Tais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tai
tankship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tankships
Etymology: From tank + ship.
Senses: glosses: A tanker (vessel for transporting liquid).
tankships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tankship
bephallused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + phallused.
Senses: examples: text: […] and there is an interesting Kabeirion cup which relates to the series, showing a great snake darting out from its reeds at a padded and bephallused traveller, whose luggage goes flying in the kerfuffle.
ref: 1986, The Journal of Hellenic Studies, volume 106, page 64:
text: Yet the obligatory chorus of horse-eared, tailed and bephallused wild-men were, unlike the choruses of tragedy, not citizens of any society, and not even slaves or outcasts of any social system.
ref: 1991, Neil Astley, Tony Harrison, Bloodaxe Books, →ISBN, page 461:
text: Moreover it is not easy to see how Aias, wearing armour, could have been overtly bephallused.
ref: 1994, Egert Pöhlmann, Werner Gauer, Griechische Klassik, Carl, →ISBN, page 112:
glosses: Having a phallus or a representation/replica of a phallus.
Synonyms: bedicked
bepenised
penised
phallused
tapestry beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tapestry beetles
Senses: glosses: A small black dermestid beetle (Attagenus unicolor) whose larva feeds on tapestry, carpets, etc.
Synonyms: black carpet beetle
tapestry beetles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tapestry beetle
technography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technographies
Etymology: From techno- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: The description of the arts and crafts of tribes and peoples.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Live capture of meeting notes while projecting the real-time transcription to participants.
Related terms: technographer
technographic
technographical
technographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to technography.
technographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From technography + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to technography.
vaginaed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vagina + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: […] why their women, the legendary lioness Maniatisses, are wide-vaginaed and bear manly and brave men; […]
ref: 1978, Giannēs Anapliōtēs, The Real Zorbas and Nikos Kazantzakis, Hakkart, →ISBN, page 11:
text: Whatever the mother goddess is, whether it's Mary in the Catholic iconography or some large-breasted, fat-bellied, prominently vaginaed figurine dug up in some prehistoric site, […]
ref: 2006, Dominic Dromgoole, Will and Me: How Shakespeare Took Over My Life, Pegasus Books, published 2007, →ISBN, page 281:
text: […] given law's understanding of the phrase post-operative as involving full genital reassignment surgery, the monster concept assists us to comprehend legal understandings of phallic women and vaginaed men.
ref: 2010, Andrew N. Sharpe, Foucault's Monsters and the Challenge of Law, Routledge, →ISBN, page 102:
glosses: Having a (specified kind of) vagina.
telechirograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telechirographs
Senses: glosses: An instrument for telegraphically transmitting and receiving handwritten messages, as photographically by a beam of light from a mirror.
telechirographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telechirograph
American alligators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of American alligator
telegraphoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telegraphoscopes
Etymology: From telegraph + -o- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for telegraphically transmitting a picture and reproducing its image as a positive or negative. The transmitter includes a camera obscura and a row of minute selenium cells. The receiver includes an oscillograph, relay, equilibrator, and an induction coil whose sparks perforate a paper with tiny holes that form the image.
telegraphoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telegraphoscope
telestereograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telestereographs
Etymology: From tele- + stereograph.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for telegraphically transmitting a picture.
telestereographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telestereograph
telestereography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The use of the telestereograph.
metaphasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /məˈtæfəsɪs/
Senses: examples: text: 'Oxford's great metaphasiarch', as Punch once called him, was seldom guilty of metaphasis, or the transposition of sounds. What he transposed was ideas.
ref: 1953, Sir Ernest Barker, Age and Youth: Memories of Three Universities ; And, Father of the Man, page 46:
text: Dr. Ashok suffered from a mild form of metaphasis. He made Spoonerisms.
ref: 1979, Gore Vidal, Kalki, →ISBN, page 31:
text: But couldn’t it be that there is a distinction to be made between ‘metaphasis’ and ‘metathesis’? The OED defines the latter as ‘the interchange of position between sounds or letters in a word’ (my italics). An example would be Old English bridd becoming modern bird. This leaves ‘metaphasis’ free to describe what Spooner did: transpose sounds between different words, like his classic ‘our queer Dean’.
ref: 1986 October 23, Adrian Room, “Letters”, in London Review of Books:
text: The technical term for this transposition is metaphasis.
ref: 2009, Denise Sutherland, Word Searches For Dummies, →ISBN, page 76:
glosses: The accidental transposition of part of the sounds of two words in a phrase; the production of spoonerisms.
metaphasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /məˈtæfəsɪs/
Forms: form: metaphases
Senses: examples: text: The sister chromatid exchange (SCE) assay measures the drug-induced metaphasis SCE.
ref: 2013, Davide Schiffer, Brain Tumors: Pathology and its Biological Correlates, →ISBN:
text: The reason is that homologous pairing takes place before metaphasis, during pachytene.
ref: 1992, Pieter Jan Cornelis Kuiper, Plantago: a multidisciplinary study, page 234:
text: The nuclei at the 9.55 stage show some indication of change, but none of them have reached the metaphasis of the process of division, while at 11.25 the metaphasis was finished and the protoplasm already aggregated round the daughter nuclei.
ref: 1893 February 2, Arthur Lister, “On the division of Nuclei in the Mycetozoa”, in The Journal of the Linnean Society of London: Botany, volume 29, page 531:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of metaphase.
examples: text: There is abrupt lateral bending of the medial cortex wall of the proximal tibial metaphasis and, in the older child, deformity and retarded development of the ipsilateral epiphyseal plateau68
ref: 2013, B. G. Brogdon, Tor Shwayder, Jamie Elifritz, Child Abuse and its Mimics in Skin and Bone, →ISBN:
text: Next, a 1 cm longitudinal incision is created dorsally over the proximal shaft and metaphasis of the proximal phalanx.
ref: 2012, Selene G. Parekh, Foot and Ankle Surgery, →ISBN, page 82:
text: The evidence of previous fractures is seen in the metaphasis as masses of calcified matrix showing an abnormal architecture and surrounded by an excess of bone.
ref: 1955, Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital - Volume 97, page 408:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of metaphysis.
tenorrhaphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenorrhaphies
Etymology: From teno- + -rrhaphy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: suture of a tendon
tenorrhaphies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenorrhaphy
tennos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenno
term day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: term days
Senses: glosses: A day which is a term (as for payment of rent), or is a day in a term, as of the sitting of a court.
glosses: One of a series of special days, designated by scientists of different nations or stations, for making synoptic magnetic, meteorological, or other physical observations.
term days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of term day
Terek sandpiper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Terek sandpipers
Etymology: First observed near the Terek River, which flows into the west of the Caspian Sea.
Senses: glosses: Xenus cinereus, a small migratory Palearctic wader.
Terek sandpipers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Terek sandpiper
scrotumed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From scrotum + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: And now lately imagine the shock of having sent down a nicely bepenised and scrotumed Johnny only to have it come back a vaginad Janie.
ref: 1976, Edgar Berman, The Solid Gold Stethoscope, Macmillan, →ISBN:
text: Thanking his lucky stars the whole while he'd been born dicked and scrotumed and udderless.
ref: 1999, Melinda Haynes, Mother of Pearl, Washington Square Press, →ISBN, page 416:
text: There is a live air-sucking saggy-shouldered woefully unslaked (in so many ways) hairy-knuckled droopy-scrotumed human body in the trunk of my car, which may or may not be worse than having a dead one in there.
ref: 2007, Percival Everett, The Water Cure, Graywolf Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Having a (specified kind of) scrotum.
oppressional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oppressional
form: most oppressional
Etymology: From oppression + -al.
Senses: examples: text: He must act — not speculate! — and, surrounded as we are on all sides by oppressional circumstances, all of which appear to be attempting to overwhelm us, we must be armed at all points for the encounter.
ref: 1841, Miss Blackwell, Ellen Braye; Or, The Fortune-teller, volume 1, page 158:
glosses: Exhibiting or relating to oppression.
tetrazin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetrazins
Senses: glosses: Dated form of tetrazine.
tetrazins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetrazin
thermobarograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermobarographs
Etymology: From thermo- + barograph.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for recording simultaneously the pressure and temperature of a gas; a combined thermograph and barograph.
thermobarographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thermobarograph
thermotank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermotanks
Etymology: From thermo- + tank.
Senses: glosses: A tank containing pipes for the circulation of steam, water, air, etc. for heating or cooling or as part of a ventilation system.
thermotanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thermotank
thermosiphon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermosiphons
form: thermosyphon
form: thermo-syphon
form: thermo-siphon
Etymology: From thermo- + siphon.
Senses: glosses: An arrangement of siphon tubes for assisting circulation in a liquid.
Related terms: thermic siphon
thermosiphons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thermosiphon
thermophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermophores
Etymology: From thermo- + -phore.
Senses: glosses: An apparatus for conveying heat, such as a case containing material which retains its heat for a considerable period.
thermophores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thermophore
thermotensile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thermo- + tensile.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the variation of tensile strength with temperature.
thermotonus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thermo- + tonus.
Senses: qualifier: plant biology
glosses: A condition of tonicity with respect to temperature.
tiddledywinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Can any of your correspondents inform me what is the derivation of the word "kiddlewink," or "tiddledy winks"? A friend tells me in the Midland Counties it denotes a house where beer is sold without a licence. Lately a game has been introduced here bearing the name of "Tiddledywinks."
ref: [1890 January 18, M. D., “Queries. [Kiddlewink.]”, in Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, General Readers, etc., volume IX (7th Series), number 212, London: Published […] [b]y John C. Francis, →OCLC, page 48, column 2:
text: What had been his hypothetical singular solutions? Parlour games (dominos, halma, tiddledywinks, spilikins, cup and ball, nap, spoil five, bezique, twentyfive, beggar my neighbour, draughts, chess or backgammon): […]
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 17: Ithaca]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 638:
glosses: Alternative form of tiddlywinks.
tiddledywinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tiddledywink
pewtered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pewter
pewtering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pewter
Tolstoyans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tolstoyan
tomtate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tomtates
Senses: glosses: The grunt Haemulon aurolineatum, or various allied fishes.
tomtates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tomtate
ton miles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ton mile
top fermentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Carlton was mainly equipped to produce top-fermentation bulk beer, the old fashioned English ale. But the public taste had changed. On 27 April the brewers reported to the board that the public taste now was largely for bottom-fermentation beer or lager.
ref: 1987, Keith Dunstan, The Amber Nectar, Ringwood: Vicking O'Neil, page 90:
text: Top fermentation is usually carried out at between 64 and 77 ° F/ 18– 25 ° C and takes two to seven days, during which the yeasty foam is skimmed off several times.
ref: 2004, Harold McGee, chapter 13, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:
topics: beverages
brewing
business
food
lifestyle
manufacturing
antonyms: bottom fermentation
glosses: Alcoholic fermentation during which the yeast cells are carried to the top of the fermenting liquid.
torans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toran
totalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: totalizations
Etymology: From total + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act of totalizing, or state of being totalized
thermojunction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermojunctions
Etymology: From thermo- + junction.
Senses: glosses: An electrical junction of two dissimilar conductors used to produce a thermoelectric current, as in one form of pyrometer; a thermocouple.
thermojunctions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thermojunction
Thomson process
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Elihu Thomson, American inventor.
Senses: glosses: A process of electric welding in which heat is developed by a large current passing through the metal.
topophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: topophones
Etymology: From topo- + -phone.
Senses: glosses: A double ear trumpet for estimating the direction from which sounds proceed, formerly used by navigators.
topophones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of topophone
trackwalker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trackwalkers
Etymology: From track + walker.
Senses: glosses: A person employed to walk over and inspect a section of railway track.
Related terms: trackwalking
trackwalkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trackwalker
transisthmian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + isthmian.
Senses: glosses: Extending across an isthmus.
Synonyms: transisthmic
tramrail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tramrails
form: tram rail
Etymology: From tram + rail.
Senses: glosses: An overhead rail forming a track on which a trolley runs to convey a load, as in a shop.
glosses: A street railway laid in the streets of a town or city, or an interurban railway for local traffic, on which cable cars, or trolley cars, etc., are used, in distinction from an extended railway line for trains.
examples: text: The line from Nyon to La Cure (17½ miles) was opened in 1916, and is on independent track throughout, leaving the road immediately after passing under the Swiss Federal line from Lausanne to Geneva, where grooved tramrails with tie-bars give place to steel-sleepered track.
ref: 1954 September, George Behrend, “The Nyon-St. Cergue-Morez Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 605:
glosses: A grooved rail (one of at least two) laid in a street for trams to run on. Ordinary rails are used on off-street (reserved track) sections of tramways.
tramrails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tramrail
tree burial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tree burials
Senses: glosses: Disposal of the dead by placing the corpse among the branches of a tree or in a hollow trunk.
tree calf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A bright brown polished calfskin binding for books, stained with a conventional tree-like design.
trecking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of treck
trecked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of treck
trecks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of treck
trecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of treck
trecker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: treckers
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of trekker.
treckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trecker
cauliflowery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cauliflowery
form: most cauliflowery
Etymology: From cauliflower + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Cauliflowery excrescences are also accompanied by most copious serous discharges of a brown color.
ref: 1873, American Observer, volume 10, page 194:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of cauliflower.
trennel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trennels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of treenail.
trennels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trennel
copemate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copemates
Etymology: From cope + mate?
Senses: glosses: adversary, antagonist
glosses: associate, companion, comrade
glosses: paramour; spouse
copemates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copemate
Triger process
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after M. Triger, a French engineer.
Senses: topics: business
engineering
mining
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A method of sinking through water-bearing ground, in which the shaft is lined with tubbing and provided with an airlock, work being proceeded with under air pressure.
trituberculy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tri- + tubercle + -y.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A theory of the development of mammalian molar teeth.
tritubercular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: By surface analysis, tri- + tubercular, or, by surface analysis, tri- + tubercul(um) + -ar.
Senses: glosses: Having or designating teeth with three cusps or tubercles; tricuspid.
glosses: Relating to trituberculy.
tubercularize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tubercularizes
form: tubercularizing
form: tubercularized
form: tubercularized
Etymology: From tubercular + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To infect with tuberculosis.
Related terms: tubercularization
tubercularized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tubercularize
tubercularizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tubercularize
tubercularizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tubercularize
tuberculosed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Affected with tuberculosis.
tuberculocidin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A substance contained in tuberculin, supposed to be the active agent of the latter freed from various impurities.
Turpentine State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A nickname alluding to its extensive production of turpentine.
Senses: glosses: North Carolina
two-steps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of two-step
two-steps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of two-step
Tweedledum and Tweedledumber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tweedledumb and Tweedledumber
Etymology: Blend of Tweedledum and Tweedledee + dumber.
Senses: examples: text: - Oh, aren't they sweet?
ref: 1990, Mama's Family (television sitcom), "Look Who's Breathing" (season 6, episode 18)
roman: - Sweet, hell. They look like Tweedledum and Tweedledumber.
glosses: Two very similar simpletons, with the latter being even less intelligent.
Tweedledumb and Tweedledumber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tweedledum and Tweedledumber.
torsiometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torsiometers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of torsionmeter.
synonyms: word: torsionmeter
torsimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torsimeters
Senses: glosses: Synonym of torsionmeter.
synonyms: word: torsionmeter
torsimeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torsimeter
torsiometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torsiometer
torsionmeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torsionmeters
Etymology: From torsion + meter.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for determining the torque on a shaft, and hence the horsepower of an engine, by measuring the amount of twist of a given length of the shaft.
Synonyms: torsimeter
torsiometer
torsometer
torsometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torsometers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of torsionmeter.
synonyms: word: torsionmeter
torsometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torsometer
torsionmeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torsionmeter
thrustmeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thrustmeters
Etymology: From thrust + meter.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for measuring thrust.
thrustmeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thrustmeter
Torrens titles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Torrens title
tituppy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tituppy
form: most tituppy
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tittuppy.
tittuppy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tittuppy
form: most tittuppy
Etymology: From tittup + -y.
Senses: glosses: Given to tittuping; lively; prancing.
examples: text: Break down! Oh! Lord! Did you ever see such a little tittuppy thing in your life? There is not a sound piece of iron about it. The wheels have been fairly worn out these ten years at least—and as for the body!
ref: 1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:
glosses: shaky; unsteady
Manhès process
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Pierre Manhès, the French metallurgist who invented it.
Senses: glosses: A process by which copper matte is treated by passing through it a blast of air, to oxidize and remove sulphur. It is analogous in apparatus to the process of making Bessemer steel.
slapdashedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more slapdashedly
form: most slapdashedly
Etymology: From slapdashed + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a slapdash manner.
Groomsian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Groomsian
form: most Groomsian
Etymology: From Grooms + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Red Grooms (Charles Rogers Grooms, born 1937), American multimedia artist best known for his colorful pop art constructions depicting frenetic scenes of modern urban life.
marconigraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marconigraphs
Etymology: From Marconi + -graph, from the name of Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937).
Senses: glosses: wireless telegraph
marconigraph
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: marconigraphs
form: marconigraphing
form: marconigraphed
form: marconigraphed
Etymology: From Marconi + -graph, from the name of Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937).
Senses: glosses: To communicate by wireless telegraph.
marconigraphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marconigraph
Marconian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑːˈkəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /mɑɹˈkoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Marconian
form: most Marconian
Etymology: From Marconi + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), Italian physicist and inventor.
Marconi's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A law stating the relationship between the height of an antenna and the maximum signalling distance in radio transmission.
Carnot's cycle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Carnot cycle
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
thermodynamics
glosses: An ideal heat-engine cycle in which the working fluid goes through four successive operations: (1) isothermal expansion to a desired point; (2) adiabatic expansion to a desired point; (3) isothermal compression to such a point that (4) adiabatic compression brings it back to its initial state.
Cartist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)tɪst
Forms: form: Cartists
Etymology: From Spanish cartista; compare Chartist.
Senses: glosses: In Spain and Portugal, one who supports the constitution.
Cartists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cartist
helioseismologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From helioseismological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of helioseismology.
cephalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cephalisms
Etymology: From cephal- + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Thee closer connection off the subdivisions of the annelid is only one of degree; and as to having more organs in common than the Salpa it is rather like the community of interest which the coral cephalisms have in the main trunk.
ref: 1870, The American Journal of Science and Arts, page 74:
text: The medusoid cephalism is persistent, it remains to perform, in addition to its usual functions, a part which is most commonly assigned to the hydroid; thereby illustrating, by a whole order of beings, the theory that not only the hydroid cephalism, but the most highly developed medusoid cephalism, normally, may remain a constant part o what is commonly called a polypidom.
ref: 1878, Henry James Clark, Lucernariæ and Their Allies: A Memoir on the Anatomy and Physiology of Haliclystus Auricula, and Other Lucernarians:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An instance of the development of a head or head-like structure.
Chagres fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of malaria contracted along the Chagres River in Panama.
gracilisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gracilise + -ation.
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of gracilization.
gracilise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gracilises
form: gracilising
form: gracilised
form: gracilised
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of gracilize.
Derived terms: gracilisation
gracilises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gracilise
gracilising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gracilise
gracilised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gracilise
gracilised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gracilised
form: most gracilised
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of gracilized.
axiomaticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From axiomatic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being axiomatic
axionym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axionyms
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word, such as heroism or cowardice, that carries a value judgement
forma mentis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin forma mentis (“form of mind”).
Senses: examples: text: By Christopher Columbus's time, these tenets had become a forma mentis, a mental habit.
ref: 1991, Djelal Kadir, Columbus and the Ends of the Earth: Europe's Prophetic Rhetoric As Conquering Ideology, →ISBN, page 8:
text: The groups that are out of power in this kind of state are allowed to aspire for power, but the prevailing forma mentis will induce them to pursue their goals in a manner that does not threaten the basic order or orderliness as such
ref: 2002, James Martin, Antonio Gramsci: Marxism, philosophy and politics, →ISBN, page 432:
text: Exposure to the logical structure of Latin grammar was thought to mold each student's forma mentis (mind set) appropriately—the content of selected texts would inspire him to cultivate the aristocratic virtues
ref: 2007, Massimo Mazzotti, The World of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Mathematician of God, →ISBN, page 26:
glosses: A way of thinking; a mindset or set of attitudes.
milk shakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milk shake
Wiis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wii
Saxis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Virginia.
Quantico
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Maryland.
glosses: A town in Virginia.
Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Disgusteds of Tunbridge Wells
Etymology: An invented pseudonym of the supposed writer of a letter to a local newspaper in the archetypal Middle England town of Tunbridge Wells. Possibly first coined 1944 in the BBC radio series Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh.
Senses: examples: text: The Post Office bitterly resents the criticism that is constantly voiced in the British press, both by "Disgusteds of Tunbridge Wells" and journalists.
ref: 1979, Adrian Hope, “Kept Incommunicado”, in New Scientist, page 1048:
text: It was refreshing that what raised the hackles of Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells had nothing to do with a colourful range of jumpers, nor a flighty Italian art director/photographer.
ref: 2000, British Journal of Photography:
text: Of course 'Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells' was never a Labour voter.
ref: 2003, Colin Leys, Market-driven Politics: Neoliberal Democracy and the Public Interest, Verso, →ISBN, page 216:
text: The Sussex Weald is all small towns and villages, 99 per cent white, gravel-drived, car-owning, the sort of place Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells would move to if he found Tunbridge Wells a bit too bustling.
ref: 2007, Jeremy Paxman, The Political Animal, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
text: The inanity of the British attack is obvious from some of the words the early Disgusteds of Tunbridge Wells complained about.
ref: 2011, Justin Webb, Notes on Them and Us: From the Mayflower to Obama – the British, the Americans and the special essential relationship., Short Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A stereotypical vocal conservative curmudgeon.
Jarratt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A town in Virginia.
world eggs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of world egg
cosmic egg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosmic eggs
Senses: examples: text: Some say that Amma was the cosmic egg and fertilized himself.
ref: 2009, David A. Leeming, Kathryn Madden, Stanton Marlan, Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion: L-Z, page 183:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Synonym of world egg.
synonyms: word: world egg
cosmic eggs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cosmic egg
Roos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref TA2930).
Vinton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Plumas County, California.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Benton County, Iowa, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Cowley County, Kansas.
glosses: A town in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana.
glosses: A ghost town in Bates County, Missouri.
glosses: A ghost town in Valley County, Nebraska.
glosses: A village in Gallia County, Ohio.
glosses: A village in El Paso County, Texas.
glosses: A town in Roanoke County, Virginia.
glosses: A ghost town in Nicholas County, West Virginia.
Derived terms: Vinton County
Disgusteds of Tunbridge Wells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells
Mexiphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A fear or dislike of Mexicans.
heteronazi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heteronazis
Etymology: From hetero- + nazi.
Senses: examples: text: There are heteronazis and homonazis. Of the two, homonazis are by far the most vicious.
ref: 1998, Wheeler, “In support of prostitutes (was: Scary Cherry, child molester ...)”, in soc.motss (Usenet):
text: [If one used the term] heteronazi' to describe the people who do things like beat gays and leave them to die, if it would be accepted.
ref: 2000, trinkler, “"Defending" marriage?”, in alt.callahans (Usenet):
glosses: Heterofascist.
heteronazis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heteronazi
homonazi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homonazis
Etymology: From homo- + nazi.
Senses: examples: text: ... are far too many homonazis and supporters of homonazism on the Internet...
ref: 1995, fred Cherry, “Gay = got AIDS yet”, in alt.homosexual (Usenet):
text: One that the homonazis don't seem to want to be allowed. They complain about intolerance...
ref: 1999, McLoughlin, “Homophobic Ad in Today's Herald”, in nz.general (Usenet):
text: I don't have any ulcers. I do have celiac disease, as you and the rest of you homonazis on Usenet very well know.
ref: 2002, Elliott, “OH, NO - RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!! was: Romanov claimants”, in alt.scientology (Usenet):
glosses: Homofascist.
retoolings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retooling
Repugnantcan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Repugnantcans
Etymology: Blend of Republican + repugnant.
Senses: glosses: A member or supporter of the Republican Party of the United States.
antiadhesive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + adhesive.
Senses: glosses: Preventing adhesion.
antiadhesive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiadhesives
Etymology: From anti- + adhesive.
Senses: glosses: Any substance or compound that prevents adhesion.
antitelomerase
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + telomerase.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Acting against telomerase.
pseudofactin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular biosurfactant obtained from Pseudomonas fluorescens. It is a novel cyclic lipopeptide biosurfactant. As a surface-active compound it has potential to be broadly used in medicine (anti-cancer and anti-bacterial properties), cosmetisc and industry.
Duffield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Duffields
Etymology: * (Place in England) Attested in the 1086 Domesday Book as Duvelle. From Old English Dūfefeld, a compound of *dūfe (“dove”) + feld (“field”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A hamlet in Parkland County, Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A village and civil parish in Amber Valley borough, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3443).
glosses: An unincorporated community in Gaines Township, Genesee County, Michigan, United States.
glosses: A town in Scott County, Virginia, United States.
Derived terms: Duffieldbank
Duffield Bank
North Duffield
South Duffield
Grottoes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Virginia.
graveyard slot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graveyard slots
Etymology: From graveyard + slot, from the analogy of death to absence, see also dead air, dead silence/dead silent.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
radio
television
glosses: A time period, especially very late at night, during which the audience is very small compared to other times of the day.
Synonyms: death slot
graveyard slots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of graveyard slot
daypart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dayparts
Etymology: From day + part.
Senses: examples: text: Prime time is the daypart with the most viewers.
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
television
glosses: A part of the day in which a type of radio or television program apropos for that time period is aired.
daypart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dayparts
form: dayparting
form: dayparted
form: dayparted
Etymology: From day + part.
Senses: examples: text: Much like TV and radio, programming on the Station will be dayparted. Mornings will contain more music news, afternoons will have a heavy promotional focus on Streamland's and SonicNet's Addicted to Noise Web sites, and nights will focus on live entertainment.
ref: 1998 March 14, Ed Christman, “Trans World Earnings Set Record in '97”, in Billboard, volume 110, number 11, page 111:
text: A lot of Top 40 stations were heavily dayparted, so softer stuff only got played in the daytime, or harder stuff only got played at night.
ref: 2005 June 2, Florence Henderson Had A Mullet [username], “Re: Billboard top 100 of 1983”, in alt.culture.us.1980s (Usenet):
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
television
glosses: To divide the broadcasting day of (a station) into periods airing different types of material.
examples: text: Like most R&B stations, rap is dayparted after 6 p.m. but shunned between the hours of 9 p.m. and midnight, when the station runs its quiet storm show.
ref: 1994 June 25, Phyllis Stark, “Community Involvement Sends WCKX To Top”, in Billboard, volume 106, number 26, page 106:
text: WMGI's new format, of which I heard a mere 20 minutes last night around 8, seemed to be brighter and much more uptempo. I imagine they've got the youngest stuff (i.e., the rap) dayparted into evenings only, and are being much less adventurous mornings.
ref: 1995 January 4, Jim Grey, “Terre Haute Radio News 1-1-95”, in rec.radio.broadcasting (Usenet):
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
television
glosses: To assign (material) to such a period.
dayparting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From daypart + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of daypart
dayparting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From daypart + -ing.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
radio
television
glosses: The practice of dividing the broadcast day into several dayparts.
dayparted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of daypart
dayparts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daypart
dayparts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of daypart
Americanophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Americanophobes
Etymology: From American + -o- + -phobe.
Senses: glosses: A person who dislikes or fears Americans and America, its government, or its culture.
Synonyms: alt: Americaphobe
word: Americophobe
Americophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Americophobes
form: Americaphobe
Etymology: From Americo- + -phobe.
Senses: glosses: Americanophobe
Americaphobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Americaphobes
Etymology: From America + -phobe.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Americophobe.
klotho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See Clotho
Senses: glosses: A transmembrane protein, a novel β-glucuronidase, that, in addition to other effects, provides some control over the sensitivity of the organism to insulin and appears to be involved in aging.
in right of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: In right of her being president of the Board, she is also the chair of Board meetings.
The husband held title to the land in right of his wife (see also jure uxoris).
topics: law
glosses: a power held as a consequence of another power, or held as a consequence of a relationship
examples: The Queen of Canada in Right of Quebec is suing the Queen of Canada in Right of Newfoundland.
topics: government
law
glosses: jurisdiction of a person who is head of state of more than one state
judeophobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of judeophobe
Repugnantcans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Repugnantcan
Americaphobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Americaphobe
Americanophobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Americanophobe
Americophobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Americophobe
Americophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Americophobic
form: most Americophobic
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to or exhibiting Americanophobia
Americaphobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Americaphobic
form: most Americaphobic
Etymology: From America + -phobic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to or exhibiting Americanophobia
Americanophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Americanophobic
form: most Americanophobic
Etymology: From American + -o- + -phobic.
Senses: glosses: Americophobic
soop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soops
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of soup.
cove molding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cove moldings
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Any molding that has a concave shape.
Related terms: coving
crown molding
micropause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micropauses
Etymology: From micro- + pause.
Senses: examples: text: Make a micropause during this suspension in inhalation and relax yourself before continuing.
ref: 2016, Francois de Carufel, Premature Ejaculation, page 211:
glosses: A very short pause.
micropauses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micropause
thermoanaesthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thermoanesthesia.