cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
c14n
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˌnɒnɪk(ə)laɪ̯ˈzeɪ̯ʃən/
ipa: /kəˌnɑnɪk(ə)laɪ̯ˈzeɪ̯ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Etymology: A numeronym representation of canonicalization as c followed by 14 more letters, followed by n.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Abbreviation of canonicalization.
Related terms: a11y
g11n
i18n
L10n
p13n
k8s
gyarus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyaru
Jonette
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
unseriosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: So my question is, is the unseriosity of Chung Moo Kwan only a problem of the schools in North America, or is it a problem in general?
ref: 1994 December 19, Michael Knuemann, “Chung Moo Doe”, in rec.martial-arts (Usenet), archived from the original on 14 May 2024:
text: While Hyperland was in production, Douglas was invited to join a California-based think tank called the Vivarium, set up at Apple in the mid-1980s, where his role was to provide ‘unseriosity’.
ref: 2003, M.J. Simpson, chapter 34, in Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 264:
text: Perković, Zorislav (2002): Bijeg u neozbiljnost (Escape to Unseriosity). – Zagreb : Horetzky, (In Croatian)
ref: 2006, Dušica Seferagić, “The Pyramidal Network of Settlements in Croatia”, in Sociologija sela, volume 44, Zagreb: Institute for Social Research of Zagreb, →ISSN, UDK 371.214:373.3(4)(497.5), section “Literature”, page 366:
text: What a lamentable murk of problematism now befogs this spectacle of unseriosity, the American college.
ref: 2014 October 29, Katy Waldman, “There Is an Actual Ivy League Class Called ‘Wasting Time on the Internet,’ and I’d Take It”, in Slate, New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2020:
text: Jacobs Salty & Bamboozling Ladder are specialists for a certain serious unseriosity, which lets the bands^([sic]) notion of Donald Trump, Micheal^([sic]) Jackson and Brigitte Bardot getting drunk together break through sometimes.
ref: a. 2024, “JSBL (AT)”, in A38, Budapest, archived from the original on 14 May 2024:
synonyms: unseriousness
glosses: The quality of being unserious.
Pinchinthorpe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Guisborough parish, Redcar and Cleveland district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref NZ5815).
flicks off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flick off
flicking off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flick off
flicked off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flick off
bhilawan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bhilawans
Senses: glosses: The Indian beech tree (Pongamia pinnata), a legume native to South Asia and Southeast Asia, cultivated for its oil-rich seeds that are used for biodiesel production, traditional medicine, and as a source of resin.
Derived terms: bhilawanol
Sandal Magna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Sandal
glosses: A southern suburb and parish in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE3418)
paspalitrems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paspalitrem
paullinates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paullinate
pecias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pecia
pedleresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedleress
Pedro Ximénezes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pedro Ximénez
pellucidins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pellucidin
Bektash
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بَكتاش (Bektâş).
Senses: glosses: The founder of the Bektashi Sufi order.
Derived terms: Bektashism
Bektashism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Bektash + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Bektashi Sufism.
Twibell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
fly-swatter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fly-swatters
Senses: examples: text: Two mechanical toys in particular are noticeable in this respect, the old man who aimed with a fly-swatter, patiently awaits the coming of mus musculus, and the twin cats with ribbons round their necks which jig joyously to each other’s fiddling on a glass-encased stage.
ref: 1900 December 14, H. M. Ayres, “Christmas Joys Are Almost Here: Wonderful Sights in the Store Windows”, in The Pacific Commercial Advertiser, volume XXXII, number 5728, Honolulu, Hawaii Territory, page [7], column 2:
text: Although not much of the merchandise may tempt you (meat smokers, underwear and fly-swatters are on offer), it’s nice to stroll through a busy shopping area without getting the “Hey, amigo!” sales push.
ref: 2005 November, Zora O’Neill, John Fisher, “Cancún, Isla Mujeres and Isla Holbox”, in The Rough Guide to The Yucatán, New York, N.Y.: Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 89:
text: I had a tournament coming up, and Waialae is a damn difficult course, probably the second or third hardest on the PGA tour, mainly because of its wasp-waisted fairways as narrow as seventeen yards in places and those towering coconut trees that are to golf balls what fly-swatters are to, uh, flies.
ref: 2010 March, Don Dahler, chapter 2, in Water Hazard, New York, N.Y.: Minotaur Books, →ISBN, page 10:
glosses: Alternative form of flyswatter.
fly-swatters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fly-swatter
girls with guns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anime
broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A subgenre of action films that portray a female protagonist engaged in shootouts, often involving gunplay, stunts and martial arts action.
free surface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: free surfaces
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The surface of a fluid that is subject to zero parallel shear stress (e.g. the interface between two homogeneous fluids).
Derived terms: free surface effect
free surfaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of free surface
free surface effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: free surface effects
Senses: topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The tendency of liquids and liquid-like aggregates to move in response to changes in the attitude of a craft's cargo holds, decks, or liquid tanks in reaction to operator-induced motions (or sea states caused by waves and wind acting upon the craft).
free surface effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of free surface effect
lower-cases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lower-case
lower-casing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lower-case
lower-cased
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: And a paper down South is reported to care nothing about spelling, so long as Negro is lower-cased.
ref: 1942 June, Joseph Landau, “Rigid Rules of Writing Hold Newspapermen in Bondage—Slaves to Style!”, in Ralph L. Peters, editor, The Quill: A Magazine for Writers, Editors, and Publishers, volume XXX, number 6, Fulton, Mo.: Sigma Delta Chi, page 3, column 2:
text: We adopted a naming convention of lower-cased titles, such as “the prince,” unless they were proper nouns (“Prince Escalus”).
ref: 2005, David Grey, Gigi Bach, “Foreword”, in Romeo & Juliet: The 1-Hour Guidebook: An Illustrated Guide for Mastering Shakespeare’s Greatest Love Story, New York, N.Y.: SparkNotes, →ISBN, page [x]:
text: Use lower-cased letters for a.m. and p.m.: 1 a.m., 4:30 p.m., and no zeroes for zero minutes.
ref: 2014, Douglas Perret Starr, Deborah Williams Dunsford, “How and Why to Edit Copy”, in Working the Story: A Guide to Reporting and News Writing for Journalists and Public Relations Professionals, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 65:
glosses: Alternative form of lowercased.
lower-cased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lower-case
front projection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: front projections
Senses: examples: Coordinate term: back projection
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A cinematic technique in which live action is filmed in front of a highly reflective screen, so that the background image is projected onto both the performer and the screen with the help of a one-way mirror angled at 45 degrees.
Fujiwhara effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fujiwhara effects
Etymology: Named after Japanese meteorologist Sakuhei Fujiwhara who initially described the effect.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
synonyms: Fujiwhara interaction
binary interaction
glosses: A phenomenon that occurs when two nearby cyclonic vortices move around each other and close the distance between the circulations of their corresponding low-pressure areas.
wikipedia: Sakuhei Fujiwhara
Fujiwhara effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fujiwhara effect
karma farms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of karma farm
karma farming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of karma farm
karma farmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of karma farm
does tricks on it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of do tricks on it
doing tricks on it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of do tricks on it
did tricks on it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of do tricks on it
done tricks on it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of do tricks on it
meatrides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of meatride
meatriding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of meatride
meatrode
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of meatride
meatridden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of meatride
meatriders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meatrider
nighers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nigher
nighering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nigher
nighered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nigher
boxes ears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of box ears
boxing ears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of box ears
boxed ears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of box ears
gains traction
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gain traction
gaining traction
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gain traction
gained traction
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gain traction
gains momentum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gain momentum
gaining momentum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gain momentum
gained momentum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gain momentum
gains ground
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gain ground
gaining ground
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gain ground
gained ground
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gain ground
does one's utmost
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of do one's utmost
doing one's utmost
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of do one's utmost
did one's utmost
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of do one's utmost
done one's utmost
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of do one's utmost
gives one's all
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of give one's all
giving one's all
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of give one's all
gave one's all
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of give one's all
given one's all
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of give one's all
abegges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abegge
unvesselling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unvessel
unvesselled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unvessel
gauche effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gauche effects
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An atypical situation where a gauche conformation (groups separated by a torsion angle of approximately 60°) is more stable than the anti conformation (180°).
gauche effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gauche effect
waits for Godot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wait for Godot
waiting for Godot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wait for Godot
waited for Godot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wait for Godot
Sassounian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sassounians
Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian Սասունյան (Sasunyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Sassounians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sassounian
generation effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: generation effects
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The tendency to better remember information if it is generated from one's own mind rather than simply read.
generation effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of generation effect
impot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impots
Senses: examples: text: At first school / Sleepy looks, / Many yawns, / Inks Books, / Ask'd questions, / Makes shots, / Is set / Impots.
ref: 1870, The Marlburian, page 183:
text: I've known scores of chaps get impots from him, and they all had to do the Greek numerals. He's mad on the Greek numerals.
ref: 1902, P. G. Wodehouse, The Politeness of Princes and other School Stories:
glosses: Synonym of imposition (“task imposed on a student as punishment”)
synonyms: word: imposition
extra: task imposed on a student as punishment
Gerschenkron effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gerschenkron effects
Etymology: Named after Alexander Gerschenkron who developed the idea.
Senses: topics: economics
mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: The theory that changing the base year for an index determines the growth rate of the index.
wikipedia: Alexander Gerschenkron
Gerschenkron effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gerschenkron effect
Gibbs-Donnan effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gibbs-Donnan effects
Etymology: Named after American Josiah Willard Gibbs who proposed it in 1878 and the British chemist Frederick G. Donnan who studied it experimentally in 1911.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The uneven distribution of charged particles across the two sides of a semipermeable membrane.
wikipedia: Frederick G. Donnan
Josiah Willard Gibbs
Gibbs-Donnan effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gibbs-Donnan effect
Gibbs-Thomson effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gibbs-Thomson effects
Etymology: Named after Josiah Willard Gibbs and J. J. Thomson.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
thermodynamics
glosses: The variations in vapor pressure or chemical potential across a curved surface or interface.
wikipedia: J. J. Thomson
Josiah Willard Gibbs
Related terms: Gibbs-Thomson equation
Gibbs-Thomson effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gibbs-Thomson effect
TDKs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TDK
Gibbs-Thomson equation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gibbs-Thomson equations
Etymology: Named after Josiah Willard Gibbs and J. J. Thomson.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
thermodynamics
glosses: An equation for the structural depression in the freezing point or melting point in a confined geometry, in its compact form: Δ,T_m(x)=(k_GT)/x, where the Gibbs–Thomson coefficient k_GT assumes different values for different liquids and different interfacial geometries (e.g. spherical, cylindrical or planar).
wikipedia: J. J. Thomson
Josiah Willard Gibbs
Related terms: Gibbs-Thomson effect
Gibbs-Thomson equations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gibbs-Thomson equation
candy darter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: candy darters
Senses: glosses: Etheostoma osburni, a small, colorful fish of Virginia and West Virginia.
Gunn effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gunn effects
Etymology: Named after British physicist J. B. Gunn who discovered the effect in 1962.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The generation of high-frequency (usually microwave) oscillations within a semiconductor whenever an applied DC voltage exceeds its threshold value.
wikipedia: J. B. Gunn
Related terms: Gunn diode
Gunn effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gunn effect
Haldane effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Haldane effects
Etymology: Named after John Scott Haldane who first described the effect.
Senses: topics: hematology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The ability of hemoglobin to carry increased amounts of carbon dioxide in the deoxygenated state as opposed to the oxygenated state.
Related terms: Bohr effect
Haldane effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Haldane effect
self-parking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + parking.
Senses: examples: text: This car comes with self-parking and automatic lanekeeping.
text: Most cars with self-parking capability can't actually do it all themselves. These systems can locate a parallel (and in some cases a perpendicular or diagonal) parking spot upon activation by utilizing proximity sensors on the front, side, and rear of the vehicle; often, the tech requires activating a turn signal to indicate what side of the road it should look for a space.
ref: 2020 April 8, Duncan Brady, “Self-Parking Cars Explained: How Does Automatic Park Assist Work?”, in MotorTrend:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
synonyms: autoparking
coordinate_terms: self-driving#Noun
glosses: A sensor-based system that allows a vehicle to park automatically.
examples: text: They were amazed the first time they witnessed self-parking. It was as if a ghost were turning the steering wheel!
hypernyms: parking
coordinate_terms: self-driving#Noun
glosses: The action performed by a vehicle that has such capability.
examples: text: A: Did the wedding have valet parking? B: No, it was self-parking, but the parking garage did have a section marked "reserved for wedding guests today".
hypernyms: parking
coordinate_terms: valet parking
glosses: Parking of one's own car, as contrasted with valet parking.
self-parking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self- + parking.
Senses: examples: text: All these self-driving and self-parking cars! What a time to be alive!
coordinate_terms: self-driving#Adjective
glosses: Able to park itself. (Usually referring especially to automated parallel parking.)
raw_tags: of a motor vehicle
TIRFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TIRF
self-governs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of self-govern
self-governed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of self-govern
city proper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cities proper
Senses: coordinate_terms: metropolitan area
glosses: The geographical area contained within the city limits.
cities proper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of city proper
Godot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from ?
Derived terms: wait for Godot
over-timer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: over-timers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of overtimer.
over-timers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of over-timer
plain-breasted hawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plain-breasted hawks
Senses: glosses: A species of hawk, Accipiter ventralis.
plain-breasted hawks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plain-breasted hawk
white-breasted hawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white-breasted hawks
Senses: glosses: A species of hawk, Accipiter chionogaster.
white-breasted hawks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white-breasted hawk
nuchthemerinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nychthemeral.
Malapropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Malapropisms
Senses: examples: text: M. Jules Lemaître has reproached Shakespeare for his love of Malapropisms. Those of Dogberry and many of his other low comedy parts are highly diverting buffoonery.
ref: 1890 April, Andrew Lang, “The Comedies of Shakespeare. […] II. The Merchant of Venice.”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume LXXX, number CCCCLXXIX, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →ISSN, page 664, column 1:
text: That old wound to his pride and self-esteem was not yet closed. He had come thinking he could talk of it, even wanting to talk of his fettered condition, and—behold! he was shrinking away from this reminder by Aunt Juley, renowned for her Malapropisms.
ref: 1920, John Galsworthy, “At Timothy’s”, in In Chancery (The Forsyte Saga; 2), London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, part I, page 12:
text: But nobody will ever know the private history of a char. They keep nearly all their secrets to themselves. For this reason I am sure that, whatever novelists and dramatists pretend, they are not natural chatterboxes. Not all have black eyes or drunken husbands who occasionally arrive for a private quarrel or, in times of hardship for the hero, become comic brokers’ men. Their Malapropisms are few. They are frequently sturdy, silent, careful, and as dignified as wealthy aunts, who, by the way, are also with as little reason made ridiculous in some books and plays.
ref: 1949, Frank Swinnerton, “Charladies”, in Tokefield Papers, Old and New, new and enlarged edition, London: Hamish Hamilton, →OCLC, part III, page 165:
glosses: Rare form of malapropism.
Malapropisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Malapropism
Hanbury-Brown-Twiss effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hanbury-Brown-Twiss effects
form: Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect
form: Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect
Etymology: Named after Robert Hanbury Brown and Richard Q. Twiss.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of a variety of correlation and anticorrelation effects in the intensities received by two detectors from a beam of particles.
wikipedia: Richard Q. Twiss
Robert Hanbury Brown
Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hanbury Brown and Twiss effects
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect.
Hanbury Brown-Twiss effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect
Hanbury Brown and Twiss effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect
inert pair effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inert pair effects
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The tendency of the two electrons in the outermost atomic s-orbital to remain unshared in compounds of post-transition metals.
inert pair effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inert pair effect
Shirenewton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and community west of Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref ST4893).
Seleção
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Selecao
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Seleção.
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: the Brazil national football team
clock skew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clock skews
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times due to gate or wire signal propagation delay.
clock skews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clock skew
flip clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flip clocks
Senses: glosses: An electromechanical, digital time keeping device with the time indicated by numbers that are sequentially revealed by a split-flap display.
flip clocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flip clock
Dwoskin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dwoskins
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Tiku
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tikus
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Nitasha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: Nitasha Kaul, b. 1976
glosses: A female given name.
international Fisher effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: international Fisher effects
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: The hypothesis that the differences in nominal interest rates reflect expected changes in the spot exchange rate between countries.
international Fisher effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of international Fisher effect
sweated like a hooker in church
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sweat like a hooker in church
sweats like a hooker in church
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sweat like a hooker in church
sweating like a hooker in church
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sweat like a hooker in church
Hymettos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hymettus.
sweated like a whore in church
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sweat like a whore in church
sweats like a whore in church
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sweat like a whore in church
sweating like a whore in church
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sweat like a whore in church
jack-in-the-box effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jack-in-the-box effects
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A specific effect of a catastrophic kill on a tank or other turreted armored vehicle in which an ammunition explosion causes the tank's turret to be violently blown off the chassis and into the air.
jack-in-the-box effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jack-in-the-box effect
pisses in the popcorn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of piss in the popcorn
pissing in the popcorn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of piss in the popcorn
pissed in the popcorn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of piss in the popcorn
Kapitza-Dirac effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kapitza-Dirac effects
Etymology: Named after Paul Dirac and Peter Kapitza who predicted the effect in 1933.
Senses: qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: The diffraction of matter by a standing wave of light.
wikipedia: Paul Dirac
Peter Kapitza
Kapitza-Dirac effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kapitza-Dirac effect
governed state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: governed states
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: status rectus
coordinate_terms: absolute state
construct state
glosses: In the Akkadian language, the basic form of a noun or pronoun, including the suffix for the case, in which it is linked to a verb, indicating the relationship between the two.
status rectus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin status rectus.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of governed state (Latin designation)
synonyms: word: governed state
extra: Latin designation
governed states
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of governed state
self-interests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of self-interest
Kautsky effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kautsky effects
Etymology: Named after Hans Kautsky.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The variation in a plant fluorescence when exposed to light.
Kautsky effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kautsky effect
learn Chinese
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: learns Chinese
form: learning Chinese
form: learned Chinese
form: learned Chinese
form: learnt Chinese
form: learnt Chinese
Etymology: From the phrase "Get ready to learn Chinese, buddy," originating from an image macro falsely quoting NBA Commissioner Adam Silver in reference to controversy surrounding player Kyrie Irving, suggesting that Irving should be exiled to lower-tier Chinese league.
Senses: examples: text: Our best starting line up against 18th in League 1, we either win 5-0 or every single one of those players need to start learning Chinese.
ref: 2024 January 7, @UTDTrey, Twitter:
text: Absolute ass bowling. no swing at all, 115kph bouncers to short ball veterans. Always ruins the pp spell of Tushar. I expected so much from him, really disappointed. Better turn the things around or learn Chinese
ref: 2024 April 1, @CSKYash_, Twitter:
text: “Every single hater who told me to learn Chinese, I’m glad because I’m going to Shanghai” Asuna shut the haters down 🔒
ref: 2024 May 10, @ValorINTEL, Twitter:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To quit or transfer from a major professional sports league, suggesting a player does not deserve their current place.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see learn, Chinese.
be on someone's dick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: is on someone's dick
form: being on someone's dick
form: was on someone's dick
form: been on someone's dick
Senses: glosses: Synonym of be on someone's nuts.
synonyms: word: be on someone's nuts
is on someone's dick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of be on someone's dick
being on someone's dick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of be on someone's dick
was on someone's dick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of be on someone's dick
been on someone's dick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of be on someone's dick
gets on someone's case
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get on someone's case
getting on someone's case
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of get on someone's case
got on someone's case
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of get on someone's case
gotten on someone's case
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of get on someone's case
splices the mainbrace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of splice the mainbrace
splicing the mainbrace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of splice the mainbrace
spliced the mainbrace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of splice the mainbrace
Kaye effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kaye effects
Etymology: Named after British engineer Alan Kaye who first described the effect in 1963.
Senses: topics: fluid-dynamics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A phenomenon where pouring a viscous mixture of an organic liquid onto a surface causes a jet of liquid to spout upward from the surface while merging with the descending one.
Kaye effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kaye effect
Keynes effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Keynes effects
Etymology: Named after English economist John Maynard Keynes.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The phenomenon in which a decrease in price level leads to a decrease in interest rates, provided there's no liquidity trap or interest-unresponsive expenditure.
wikipedia: John Maynard Keynes
Keynes effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Keynes effect
Kirkendall effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kirkendall effects
Etymology: Named after Ernest Kirkendall.
Senses: topics: chemistry
engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The motion of the interface between two metals that occurs due to the difference in diffusion rates of the metal atoms.
wikipedia: Ernest Kirkendall
Kirkendall effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kirkendall effect
Klein-Nishina formula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Oskar Klein and Yoshio Nishina who derived the equation in 1928.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A formula for the differential cross section of photons scattered from a single free electron, calculated in the lowest order of quantum electrodynamics: (dσ)/(dΩ)=1/2r_e²(λ/(λ'))²[λ/(λ')+(λ')/λ- sin ²(θ)], where r_e is the classical electron radius, λ/λ' is the ratio of the wavelengths of the incident and scattered photons, and θ is the scattering angle (0 for an undeflected photon).
wikipedia: Oskar Klein
Yoshio Nishina
lighting the blue touchpaper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of light the blue touchpaper
lit the blue touchpaper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of light the blue touchpaper
lights the blue touchpaper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of light the blue touchpaper
lighted the blue touchpaper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of light the blue touchpaper
crabwalking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of crabwalk
lighted the touch-paper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of light the touch-paper
lights the touch-paper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of light the touch-paper
crabwalked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crabwalk
lighting the touch-paper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of light the touch-paper
lit the touch-paper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of light the touch-paper
e-vehicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-vehicles
Etymology: From e- + vehicle.
Senses: examples: text: Under the pilot project, the private sector will supply, install, operate and maintain e-vehicle charging stations; monitor and verify the energy efficiency, performance and savings in using renewable energy; and optimize the use of clean energy.
ref: 2023 January 19, Kris Crismundo, “RE-powered e-vehicle charging hubs eyed”, in Philippine News Agency:
glosses: Abbreviation of electric vehicle.
Synonyms: EV
e-vehicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-vehicle
bum trip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bum trips
Senses: glosses: Synonym of freak out (“a negative or unpleasant experience with LSD or another psychedelic drug”).
synonyms: word: freak out
extra: a negative or unpleasant experience with LSD or another psychedelic drug
flip one's shit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flips one's shit
form: flipping one's shit
form: flipped one's shit
form: flipped one's shit
Senses: glosses: Synonym of flip shit.
synonyms: word: flip shit
flips shit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flip shit
flipping shit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of flip shit
flipped shit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flip shit
flipped one's shit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flip one's shit
flipping one's shit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of flip one's shit
flips one's shit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flip one's shit
bum trips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bum trip
skew hermitian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of skew-Hermitian.
skew-hermitian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of skew-Hermitian.
skew Hermitian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of skew-Hermitian.
knife-edge effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knife-edge effects
Senses: qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: A truncation of a portion of the incident radiation that strikes a sharp well-defined obstacle.
knife-edge effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knife-edge effect
aplano-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From a- + plano-.
Senses: glosses: immobile, fixed
abluster
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈblʌs.tə/
ipa: /əˈblʌs.tɚ/
Etymology: From a- + bluster.
Senses: examples: text: "Cer—" began Hunnewell, and then leaped to his feet, all abluster with temper and uncertainty.
ref: 2020, Ernest Haycox, August Nemo, Essential Novelists - Ernest Haycox:
text: S'bin a treat, t'see him stalled abluster by Coxen.
ref: 2020, Gilbert and Valerie Lewthwaite, Mari's Way, page 165:
text: Frasham entered the café with great strides all abluster, making the tiny bell spring on its gantry above the door.
ref: 2021, Eley Williams, The Liar's Dictionary:
glosses: With bluster; loudly or ostentatiously.
WNV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of West Nile virus.
repayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: simple past and past participle of repay (to cover with a waterproof substance again)
K-Drama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of K-drama.
Kdrama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of K-drama.
KDrama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of K-drama.
J-Drama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of J-drama.
Jdrama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of J-drama.
JDrama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of J-drama.
C-Drama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of C-drama.
Cdrama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of C-drama.
CDrama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of C-drama.
commixted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of commixt
hag1
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of have a good one (have a good one).
slow is smooth, smooth is fast
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: From marksmanship, where firing too quickly may lead to decreased accuracy.
Senses: examples: text: Since bullets follow walls, we kept about three feet away from the sandy buildings and moved very deliberately. Not fast, but safe. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.
ref: 2006 May 2, Jack Coughlin, Casey Kuhlman, Donald A. Davis, Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper, Macmillan Publishers, →ISBN, page 132:
text: He slowed to a walk, keeping his aim steady as he pulled the trigger with metronomic regularity. The words slow is smooth; smooth is fast ran through his mind as he found a stair down to lane level and moved into lane seventeen.
ref: 2014 October 14, Weston Ochse, Reign of Evil: A SEAL Team 666 Novel, Macmillan Publishers, →ISBN, page 63:
text: If you rush through your steps in the pursuit of efficiency, you waste time if the proper sequence is lost. Splint the leg first, then transport back to the river bank. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.
ref: 2015 July 15, Nate Ostis, NOLS River Rescue Guide, Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 38:
glosses: Approaching difficult situations slowly and methodically can lead to faster and more efficient outcomes.
commistion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English commistion, from Latin commistiō.
Senses: examples: text: Of muche aboundant ſuperfluous bloude contayned in the hole body: oꝛ of muche commiſtion of the melancholy humoꝛ ⁊ the bloude to gether / by the which the bloude is enfyꝛed and chawfed: and ſo diſtendeth openeth and ſetteth abꝛoade the vaynes whiche deſcende to the matrice.
ref: 1540, Eucharius [Rösslin], translated by Richard Jonas, The Byrth of Mankynde […], London: […] T[homas] R[aynalde], folio XXXV, recto:
text: And there is ſcarce any Natural Body, wherein the Form makes ſo ſtrict, durable, and indiſſoluble an Union of the parts it conſiſts of, as that, which, in that Factitious Concrete we call Glaſs, ariſes from the bare commiſtion of the Corpuſcles of Sand with thoſe Saline ones, wherewith they are colliquated by the violence of the fire: and the like may be ſaid of the Union of the proper Accidents of Glaſſe with the Matter of it, and betwixt one another.
ref: 1666, Robert Boyle, “Of the Origine of Forms”, in The Origine of Formes and Qualities, (According to the Corpuscular Philosophy,) Illustrated by Considerations and Experiments, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Hen[ry] Hall printer to the University, for Ric[hard] Davis, →OCLC, pages 182–183:
text: Chymiſtry handles all Bodies of the three Kingdoms; it acts by motion, and either unites or ſeparates Bodies by Commiſtion or Fire.
ref: 1732, [Herman] Boerhaave, anonymous translator, Dr. Boerhaave’s Elements of Chymistry, Faithfully Abridg’d from the Late Genuine Edition, Publish’d and Sign’d by Himself at Leyden. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], published 1734, page 24:
glosses: Commixture.
outtweet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outtweets
form: outtweeting
form: outtweeted
form: outtweeted
Etymology: From out- + tweet.
Senses: examples: text: What followed was a sad attempt by Dunkin’ to “outtweet” the First Lady, which obviously failed.
ref: 2022 December 2, Katie McCall, “What You Can Learn from Wendy’s Social Media Strategy”, in Rival IQ:
glosses: To tweet more or better than.
outtweets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outtweet
outtweeting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of outtweet
outtweeted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outtweet
SIBs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SIB
NIBs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NIB
Tweeting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Tweet
Tweeted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Tweet
big-eyed tree frogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of big-eyed tree frog
Kadric
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kadrics
Etymology: Transliteration of Serbo-Croatian Kadrić.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Serbo-Croatian surname Kadrić.
glosses: A surname from Serbo-Croatian.
unblacklist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unblacklists
form: unblacklisting
form: unblacklisted
form: unblacklisted
Etymology: From un- + blacklist.
Senses: examples: text: “But he’s blacklisted.” ¶ “You can unblacklist him. You can denazify him, or whatever the hell it’s called. All you have to do is tell the worid that he never was a commie. Which he never was. You won’t even, for a change, have to lie.”
ref: 1964, Don Robertson, A Flag Full of Stars, New York, N. Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 474:
glosses: To remove (someone or something) from a blacklist.