cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
percomorphacean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: percomorphaceans
Senses: glosses: Any fish of the clade or subdivision Percomorphaceae
percomorphaceans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of percomorphacean
percopsiforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of percopsiform
periaxoplasmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + axoplasmic.
Senses: glosses: Surrounding the axoplasm
peribroncheolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of peribronchiolar.
pericavernous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ævə(ɹ)nəs
Etymology: From peri- + cavernous.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Surrounding a cavernous nerve
cavernous nerve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cavernous nerves
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of a group of nerves, in the penis and clitoris, that facilitate erection.
peridigital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + digital.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Surrounding a finger or toe
YNWA
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Initialism of you'll never walk alone, an anthem commonly used by Liverpool football club Liverpool F.C. and the Scottish club Celtic F.C.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Initialism of you'll never walk again, used as a taunt in reference to the Hillsborough Disaster.
perinervous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + nervous.
Senses: glosses: Surrounding a nerve
periorbitopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: periorbitopathies
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The change in the eyelid and orbit following administration of some eye drops
one-up-womanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one-up-womanships
Senses: examples: text: In the lounge, Lorenson was at a desk in the corner looking over his notes, and suppressing a smile at this bit of one-up-manship (or even worse, one-up-womanship) over Brewster.
ref: 2002, Johnny John Heinz, Means to an End, →ISBN, page 94:
text: Judith's self-irony easily beats Quincy's attempts at one-up-womanship.
ref: 2013, Claudia Barnett, Wendy Wasserstein: A Casebook, →ISBN, page 150:
text: This natural one-up-womanship manifests itself in many ways and at many levels in the workplace and needs to be understood by the leader so attentions can be equitably distributed to ensure a greater level of harmony.
ref: 2016, A. Kakabadse, L. Lee-Davies, Leading for Success: The Seven Sides to Great Leaders, →ISBN, page 188:
glosses: Alternative form of one-upwomanship.
one-up-manship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one-up-manships
Senses: examples: text: In the lounge, Lorenson was at a desk in the corner looking over his notes, and suppressing a smile at this bit of one-up-manship (or even worse, one-up-womanship) over Brewster.
ref: 2002, Johnny John Heinz, Means to an End, →ISBN, page 94:
text: In truth, he'd passed me by with a devilish grin on his face and a look of challenging one-up-manship.
ref: 2006, Ken Ewell, Traveling with Philosophes, →ISBN, page 479:
text: Ebiz.com also developed a culture of time one-up-manship‚ in which employees challenged each other to stay for longer and longer hours.
ref: 2006, Bonnie Kaplan, Duane P. Truex, David Wastell, Information Systems Research: Relevant Theory and Informed Practice, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of one-upmanship.
one-up-manships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of one-up-manship
one-up-womanships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of one-up-womanship
archaeographist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑːkiːˈɒɡɹəfɪst/
Forms: form: archaeographists
Etymology: From archaeography + -ist.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: archaeographer
glosses: A person who specializes in archaeography, the study of antique writings
Related terms: archaeography
archaeographists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archaeographist
archaeographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From archaeographical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in an archaeographical sense
Related terms: archaeography
archaeographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From archaeo- + -graphical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to archaeography
Derived terms: archaeographically
phaleristics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From German Phaleristik, from Latin phalera, from Ancient Greek Φάληρος (Phálēros, “Phalerus, a mythological hero”).
Senses: examples: text: For a longer and less well-focused systematising definition of the themes of phaleristics, see Attila Pandula, 'Orden und Auszeichnungen — Besondere Spiegelbilder der Geschichte', in Das Erste und Zweite Gunzenhäuser Phaleristik-Symposium (Offenach am Main, 1997), 16-21).
ref: 2008, Antti Matikkala, The Orders of Knighthood and the Formation of the British Honours System:
text: The study of orders has evolved into a discipline of its own, called phaleristics (coined after the Roman order, phalera).
ref: 2017, Brune S. Frey, Honours Versus Money: The Economics of Awards, page 21:
glosses: The study of orders, fraternity, and award items.
avonymic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin avus (“grandfather”) + -nym + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Derived from one's grandfather.
avonymic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avonymics
Etymology: From Latin avus (“grandfather”) + -nym + -ic.
Senses: glosses: A name acquired from one's grandfather.
Coordinate terms: patronymic
matronymic
papponymic
anti-Antifa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A collection of various far-right and fascist groups which oppose Antifa.
re-teases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of re-tease
re-teasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of re-tease
re-teased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of re-tease
retease
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reteases
form: reteasing
form: reteased
form: reteased
Etymology: From re- + tease.
Senses: examples: text: .Practically all of the woolen rags are sold at auction or direct to manufacturers in Yorkshire (England), who retease the wool and remake it into cloth (called " shoddy”).
ref: 1921, Commerce Reports - Volume 1, page 179:
text: Distribute teased stuffing over the seat to the roll by holding the stuffing in your left hand while the right hand pulls, reteases, interweaves, and distributes the stuffing smoothly in place, the left hand helping in the process.
ref: 1949, Blanche Romick Pope, Upholstering Home Furniture, page 44:
text: She had a small butt and long thighs, and she had her arms raised to retease her hair that spread up and out like tongues of flame.
ref: 1981, Meredith Sue Willis, Higher Ground, →ISBN, page 1086:
glosses: Alternative form of re-tease.
reteases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retease
reteasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retease
reteased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retease
rerepeal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rerepeals
form: rerepealing
form: rerepealed
form: rerepealed
Etymology: From re- + repeal.
Senses: examples: text: As the Noble Lord on the woolsack thinks it would be better not to rerepeal the whole of the Act of the 13th George II., I now propose only to repeal the two clauses which have given power to informers to bring vexatious and frivolous suits.
ref: 1840, Mirror of Parliament - Volume 2, page 1522:
text: For the purpose of permitting slavery there, the “ Missouri compromise " (which limited slavery to the south of 36° 30') was rerepealed, under the leadership of Stephen A, Douglas.
ref: 1891, Portrait and Biographical Album of Barry and Eaton Counties, Mich:
text: It also rerepeals a Section that was amended by an Act of the 87th General Assembly after it was repealed by an internal repealer.
ref: 1991, Laws of the State of Illinois Enacted by the General Assembly at the Extra Session:
glosses: To repeal again after reinstating.
rerepeal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rerepeals
Etymology: From re- + repeal.
Senses: examples: text: I do not think we can cite anything that has been done in the fiscal area to try to either stimulate the economy or slow it down that has had more effect than the enactment, the repeal, the reenactment, the rerepeal, the reenactment of the investment tax credit.
ref: 1977, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business, Impact of the Administration's Tax Stimulus Package on Small Business and Examination of Employment Tax:
text: P.A. 85-1440, the First 1989 Revisory Act, provides in Art. II, for the nonsubstantive revision, renumbering, repeal or rerepeal of certain Acts of the 8th General Assembly and, where successor laws have been enacted, incorporates such amendments into successor laws, and corrects errors, revises cross-references and deletes obsolete text in such sections contained in P.A. 85-1015 through P.A. 85-1427.
ref: 2009, West's Smith-Hurd Illinois compiled statutes annotated, page 135:
glosses: An instance of rerepealing.
rerepeals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rerepeal
rerepeals
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rerepeal
rerepealing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rerepeal
rerepealed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rerepeal
resoothe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resoothes
form: resoothing
form: resoothed
form: resoothed
Etymology: From re- + soothe.
Senses: examples: text: When the man had gone he resoothed the horse, but his hand stuck out only a few inches from his body.
ref: 1962, The Love Guy, page 51:
text: Not remembering eats at you, but remembering soothes and resoothes.
ref: 2005, Susan Orlean, Robert Atwan, The Best American Essays 2005, →ISBN, page 61:
text: They spent the rest of the day soothing and resoothing, sorting rhythms, and filling one another in on every facet of this crazy, ice-laden time.
ref: 2013, Blue Balliett, Hold Fast, →ISBN:
glosses: To soothe again.
resoothes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resoothe
resoothing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resoothe
resoothed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resoothe
Dallara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Italian Dallara.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
uncley
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncley
form: most uncley
Etymology: From uncle + -y or uncle + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Those events were memorable but they were memories only, misted and vague as the uncley sort of God one heard stories about in Sunday School.
ref: 1946, Cyril Connolly, Horizon, volumes 13-14, page 42:
text: I looked at him. There was nothing uncley about that look.
ref: 1969, Stanley Dehlet Mayer, Fantasy, volumes 6-7:
text: In another way and this may be where I started believing this helpless character I'd imagined actually existed to the point that I wondered if he was uncley enough, if maybe I could get him and have something better than the flight plans that she wanted.
ref: 2015, Catherine Therese, The Weight of Silence:
glosses: Characteristic of an uncle; avuncular
uncley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uncleys
form: uncly
form: unclie
Etymology: From uncle + -y (diminutive ending).
Senses: examples: text: Paint nursery, Write regularly in Baby's Book, let aunties and unclies know.
ref: 2015, Murray W. Nabors, The Adventures of Terrence the Tabby Cat:
glosses: Familiar or endearing form of uncle
uncly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unclies
Etymology: From uncle + -y (diminutive suffix).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of uncley.
unclie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unclies
Etymology: From uncle + -ie (diminutive suffix).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of uncley.
unclies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uncly
glosses: plural of unclie
auntish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more auntish
form: most auntish
Etymology: From aunt + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: In fact, everything about her seemed solid, reassuring in an auntish sort of way.
ref: 2014, Judith Cutler, Cold Pursuit:
glosses: Characteristic of an aunt; auntlike
Derived terms: auntishly
auntishness
Related terms: auntly
uncleys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uncley
nontreasure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nontreasures
form: non-treasure
Etymology: From non- + treasure.
Senses: examples: text: The hundreds of other wrecks that are nontreasure ships are being destroyed by people, treasure hunters, including professional salvors, who do not have the expertise to determine the difference between them.
ref: 1982, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Oceanography Miscellaneous:
text: It's all treasure—in which case, it's all junk. There's no treasure in the world save for its relationship to nontreasure.
ref: 2012, Tim Clark, The Employee Engagement Mindset, →ISBN:
text: In some cases, the presentation of this theory has been useful to stop treasure and nontreasure artifacts from being legally and scientifically recovered by the private sector.
ref: 2012, Robert MacKinnon, Dallas Murphy, Treasure Hunter: Diving for Gold on North America's Death Coast, →ISBN:
text: And a rock that would fall on it for good measure, which couldn't be dug up because no one would want that particular nontreasure.
ref: 2014, Dexter G. Thompson, In Remembrance of Feelings, →ISBN:
glosses: Something or someone that is not a treasure.
nontreasures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nontreasure
non-treasure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-treasures
Etymology: From non- + treasure.
Senses: examples: text: Several of our non-treasures had to be dismissed within days for intolerable personal filthiness (there was the celebrated case of the louse on the table-napkin. . .) or irredeemable incompetence, or both.
ref: 1979, Dervla Murphy, Wheels Within Wheels, page 90:
text: Even in the normative tradition of recent centuries, core treasure liturgies are enhanced by ritual texts composed by means of ordinary, non-treasure authorship and yet these become regarded as treasure as well.
ref: 2016, Daniel Hirshberg, Remembering the Lotus-Born:
glosses: Alternative form of nontreasure.
non-treasures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-treasure
first five-eighth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first five-eighths
Senses: glosses: A position in Rugby football in the back line.
second five-eighth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second five-eighths
Senses: glosses: A position in rugby football in the back line.
worldweariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “You get a hold of yourself,” he said contemptuously. “Spare me your bile and worldweariness; my wife would not agree with you."
ref: 2010, Elizabeth Haydon, Requiem for the Sun: A New Adventure in the Symphony of Ages, →ISBN:
text: He praised Mitchum, always his favorite actor and interview, whose worldweariness was the lost soul of noir.
ref: 2012, Todd Rendleman, Rule of Thumb: Ebert at the Movies, →ISBN, page 169:
text: As the grizzled, almost-retired lawman on the thieves' trail, Bridges adds a layer of mordant worldweariness to “Hell or High Water.”
ref: 2016 August 11, Ann Hornaday, “Chris Pine and Ben Foster star in the superb crime thriller 'Hell or High Water'”, in Washington Post:
text: "Germany, land of drugs, of escapism and worldweariness, had been looking for a super-junkie," Norman Ohler, the author of Blitzed: Drugs In Nazi Germany, writes. "And it had found him, in its darkest hour, in Adolf Hitler."
ref: 2016 October 6, “Adolf Hitler was a 'super junkie', claims new book”, in The Week:
text: Juliet's worldweariness and face-powder dry wit make her an affecting, engaging companion, but not necessarily one to love: she lacks the warmth of Atkinson's most compelling characters.
ref: 2018 September 7, Lisa Allardice, “Transcription by Kate Atkinson review – second world war spying hijinks”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of world-weariness.
warweariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The European Concert of Powers leagued together to cooperate while warweariness and the common fear of revolution remained to worry conservative states.
ref: 1987, Richard N. Rosecrance, The Rise of the Trading State: Commerce and Conquest in the Modern World, →ISBN, page 87:
text: In the business world certain tolerances and understandings had grown up between enemy states despite the daily massacre on the front lines. Warweariness was the prevailing mood.
ref: 2013, John Dos Passos, Mr. Wilson's War, →ISBN:
text: Iraq hangs heavy over the American psyche and contributes to the war­weariness, but the 2003 invasion was not an intervention to stop an ongoing conflict.
ref: 2013 September 13, Sebastian Junger, “A Syria strike in the name of peace”, in Washington Post:
glosses: Alternative form of war-weariness.
war-weariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warweariness
Etymology: From war-weary + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Bouts of war-weariness now began to grip me from time to time, rather after the fashion of bouts of malaria.
ref: 2013, Molly Lefebure, Murder on the Home Front, →ISBN:
glosses: A state of exhaustion brought on by fighting in a war.
examples: text: One common imputed cause of this changed attitude toward force in the nineteenth century and the anomalous peace of that century in general is war-weariness.
ref: 2013, Martha Finnemore, The Purpose of Intervention: Changing Beliefs about the Use of Force, →ISBN:
glosses: Weariness of war.
pummice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In order to avoid a great deal of trouble, and to perform the vvork more effectually, by diveſting the nevv made Cyder of vvhat pummice and other impurities remain; after ſtraining it through a hair ſieve, on its coming from the VVring, or Preſs, it is neceſſary to be provided vvith a large open vat, keeve, or clive, vvhich vvill contain a vvhole pounding, or making of Cyder; or as much as can be preſſed in one day: […]
ref: 1753, Hugh Stafford, “Sect. VI. Of Proper Vessels for Receiving the Cyder for Its Fermentation; the Vigilance, Exact Care, and Attention Required in the First Fermentation of Cyder for Making It Sweet, and as Long as It Continues in a Fermenting State.”, in A Treatise on Cyder-making, Founded on Long Practice and Experience; […], London: […] E[dward] Cave, […], →OCLC, page 48:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of pomace.
wring-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wring (“press”) + house.
Senses: examples: text: A building comprising granary and corn-store and machinery under, provided with the requisites to be worked by a water-wheel 20 ft. diameter; also, cyder-store, wring-house, and apple-loft over, is attached to a mill-stream adjacent, close to the homestead at a much lower level[…]
ref: 1878, The Builder, page 12:
text: Down in the heart of the apple-country nearly every farmer kept a cider-making apparatus and wring-house for his own use, building up the pomace in great straw 'cheeses', as they were called[…]
ref: 1887, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders, London, page 209:
text: Apples from the estate orchards are collected and stored in the lofts above the wring-house[…]
ref: 2000, Joan Marie Salzmann, The Harbin Newsletter, volumes 12-17, page 26:
glosses: The room or building where a cider press is stored.
cerebral palsied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cerebral palsied
form: most cerebral palsied
Senses: examples: text: cerebral palsied child
glosses: Having cerebral palsy.
Galápagos syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Modelled on Japanese ガラパゴス化 (Garapagosu-ka, literally “Galápagos-ization”) or ガラパゴス現象 (Garapagosu genshō, literally “Galápagos phenomenon”).
Senses: glosses: The domestic specialization of something, separated from international convention and standards.
stiff-lipped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌstɪf ˈlɪpt/
rhymes: -ɪpt
Forms: form: more stiff-lipped
form: most stiff-lipped
Etymology: The term refers to a person having a stern expression with the mouth closed and the lips pressed together.
Senses: examples: text: There is no accessible public roll of the knights of the order. [...] At this moment any stiff-lipped impostor may enter the jeweller's shop at the corner of Essex-street and the Strand, furnish himself with an imitation cross, and parade his counterfeit hero-certificate with impunity.
ref: 1879 July, John Augustus O’Shea, “Accidents of War”, in Tinsleys’ Magazine. An Illustrated Monthly, volume XXV, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 34, column 2:
text: Again, in art, who holds the scales of notice for the Academy and the Grosvenor, and such like exhibitions? [...] a stiff-lipped, white-faced man, no longer young, whose creed is that no good pictures were painted in the English school before 1880.
ref: 1892 May, “My Matinée”, in The Cornhill Magazine, volume XVIII, number 107 (New Series), London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 508:
text: Stiff-lipped, stiff-haired, the father gave his orders to the man in red.
ref: 1902 July, Alfred Ollivant, “Danny”, in Everybody’s Magazine, volume VII, number 1, New York, N.Y.: Ridgway Company, →OCLC, book 2, chapter 1 (The Apostate), page 43, column 2:
text: Twyla watched it all with the stiff-lipped shock he recalled seeing on patients when he had done his emergency medicine rotation. "Don't tell me," Rob said to her. "Let me guess. Your ex-husband."
ref: 1999, Susan Wiggs, chapter 13, in Husband for Hire (Heart of the West), Don Mills, Ont.: Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN, page 170:
text: Radical youth, who later became educated liberals, saw in the old-school factory workers of his father's generation an image of stiff-lipped industrial union men as "the principal perpetrators of racism, sexism and narrow-mindedness in American society. [...]"
ref: 2012, Michelle Chen, “What Labor Looks Like: From Wisconsin to Cairo, Youth Hold a Mirror to History of Workers’ Struggles”, in Daniel Katz, Richard A. Greenwald, editors, Labor Rising: The Past and Future of Working People in America, New York, N.Y.: The New Press, →ISBN, part 1 (Community and Coalitions), page 55:
text: [T]he zippy musical numbers in which Mary Poppins (a stiff-lipped Emily Blunt) whisks cherubs Annabel, John, and Georgie (Pixie Davies, Nathanael Saleh, and Joel Dawson, respectively) away into colorful hyperreal fantasias impress.
ref: 2018 December 12, Charles Bramesco, “A Spoonful of Nostalgia Helps the Calculated Mary Poppins Returns Go Down”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 24 May 2019:
glosses: Maintaining a stiff upper lip.
gloomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡluːmiz/
ipa: /ˈɡlumiz/
Etymology: A fanciful plural of gloomy: gloomy + -ies (suffix forming plural nouns ending in y). Gloom is derived from Middle English *gloom, *glom, from Old English glōm (“gloaming, twilight; darkness”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley- (“to gleam, glow, shimmer”).
Senses: examples: text: The drear departing day, the coming night, / Increase the gloomies of the tempest's sound, / And damp the last faint hope those trembling souls had found.
ref: 1825, [Richard Rotton], “Canto I”, in Herban, a Poem. In Four Cantos, London: G. B. Whittaker, […], →OCLC, stanza XXXVI, page 23:
text: […] Chichester was too good-natured not to exert himself for the enlivenment of a handsome girl suffering under a fit of the gloomies—more especially of one who happened to be an intimate friend of his sweet Cecilia!
ref: 1840, [Catherine] Gore, chapter XI, in The Dowager; or, The New School for Scandal. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […] , →OCLC, page 295:
text: If anything happens to me I want you to promise me something. Promise me you'll make a new life for yourself. As soon as you can. You're very young. Don't get the gloomies and be a martyr, please.
ref: 1964, H[erbert] E[rnest] Bates, chapter 15, in A Moment in Time, London: Pollinger in Print, published 2006, →ISBN, page 168:
text: The Pacific Northwest is often overcast, and the Grumneys' decision to keep almost all of their trees around and in the middle of the compound meant we could be into the dark and gloomies if we were not careful.
ref: 1996, Jeffrey Prentiss, “A Cost-conscious House in North Carolina”, in Country Houses (Fine Homebuilding Great Houses), Newtown, Conn.: Taunton Press, published 1997, →ISBN, page 14:
text: But thanks for the opening night gift. If anything can keep away the gloomies and bad luck, this will.
ref: 2004 August, Flo Fitzpatrick, chapter 29, in Ghost of a Chance, New York, N.Y.: Zebra Books, →ISBN, page 287:
text: He's down in the dumps because nobody wants to buy his art and his wife died, while she's got a case of the gloomies in response to public apathy for the plight of the underclass.
ref: 2018 December 12, Charles Bramesco, “A Spoonful of Nostalgia Helps the Calculated Mary Poppins Returns Go Down”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 24 May 2019:
glosses: Preceded by the: gloom, despondency.
Related terms: doom and gloom
gloom
gloomily
gloominess
gloomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡluːmiz/
ipa: /ˈɡlumiz/
Etymology: A fanciful plural of gloomy: gloomy + -ies (suffix forming plural nouns ending in y). Gloom is derived from Middle English *gloom, *glom, from Old English glōm (“gloaming, twilight; darkness”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley- (“to gleam, glow, shimmer”).
Senses: glosses: plural of gloomy
Spanish Road
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -əʊd
Forms: form: the Spanish Road
Senses: examples: ref: 2004, Geoffrey Parker, The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road, 1567-1659, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, published 1972:
text: 2008, Ciro Paoletti, A Military History of Italy, Greenwood Publishing (Praeger Security International), page 25,
Soon after the war began, Spain moved its troops north along the Spanish Road. It was impossible to prevent their movement in Italy, but it was possible to cut the Spanish Road in Switzerland, in the Valtelline.
glosses: A land route which was used from 1567–1620 for military supply and trade, and stretched from northern Italy to the Low Countries.
qualitative leap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qualitative leaps
Etymology: Modified from dialectical leap, the latter a calque of German dialektischer Sprung, a concept from Hegel's dialectical method. The modifier qualitative means that the leap in question is a transition in quality, where the latter should be understood in its original sense of “what-ness”, that is, the kind or nature of something.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: dialectical leap
glosses: A qualitative, non-gradual change resulting from a quantitatively minor change.
wikipedia: Hegel's dialectic
Related terms: the straw that broke the camel's back
phaeophorbide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phaeophorbides
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pheophorbide.
phonolocate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: phonolocates
form: phonolocating
form: phonolocated
form: phonolocated
Etymology: From phono- + locate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To move towards an attractive sound
phonolocated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of phonolocate
phosphaturic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Relating to phosphaturia.
Derived terms: hyperphosphaturic
phosphodependent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phospho- + dependent.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: dependent on the presence of phosphate
phosphoisomerase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphoisomerases
Etymology: From phospho- + isomerase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyses the isomerization of carbohydrate phosphates
phosphoisomerases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphoisomerase
biosulfur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biosulphur
Etymology: From bio- + sulfur.
Senses: glosses: Biologically-produced elemental sulfur.
brimfire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English brimfīr. For more on brim-, see brimstone.
Senses: examples: text: She let out a screech that could have been heard a mile away, while at the same time, calling us every ugly name she could think of and proceeded to call down brimfire and burning coals upon our heads.
ref: 2010, Carl Finney, Tales from the Pushin Off: Childhood During the 1940's and 1950's, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 179:
text: The circles with demons in them were brimful of brimfire, and the demons inside them were negotiating with the magicians.
ref: 2011, Sarah Rees Brennan, The Demon's Surrender, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 362:
text: [...] hellish creature seeming to rise from that brimfire of the Judgment time.
ref: 2014, D.N. Greenwald, Desire To Be Satisfied, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
glosses: Sulfurous fire such as is associated with Hell; hellfire.
numismatician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: numismaticians
Etymology: From numismatic + -ian.
Senses: glosses: One who studies and/or collects coins and/or currencies.
Synonyms: numismatist
numismat
Related terms: numismatic
numismatics
numismaticians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of numismatician
magnetophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetophones
Etymology: From magneto- + -phone. The sense “tape recorder” is probably a semantic loan from German Magnetophon (modern spelling Magnetofon), which was initially a brand name).
Senses: glosses: A tape recorder (device using magnetic tape as a storage medium).
glosses: An electromagnetic microphone.
magnetophones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magnetophone
photocapture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: photocaptures
form: photocapturing
form: photocaptured
form: photocaptured
Etymology: From photo- + capture.
Senses: glosses: To select and then produce a still image from a movie
photocaptured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of photocapture
photodensity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photodensities
Etymology: From photo- + density.
Senses: glosses: The optical density of an object, but especially that of tissue and bone to X-rays
photoirritancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + irritancy.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of photoirritation.
synonyms: word: photoirritation
photoirritation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + irritation.
Senses: glosses: irritation caused by exposure to light
photoradiographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photo- + radiographic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to photoradiography
photoradiography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + radiography.
Senses: glosses: A form of radiography that uses visible light
Related terms: photoradiographic
phototransparency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phototransparencies
Etymology: From photo- + transparency.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A photographic slide.
glosses: The optical transparency of an object, but especially that of tissue and bone to X-rays.
phytochamber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytochambers
Etymology: From phyto- + chamber.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A chamber in which plants may be grown in controlled conditions of temperature, humidity and lighting
piceids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piceid
plausable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of plausible.
plethysmometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The design, construction and use of plethysmometers
pontobulbar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ponto- + bulbar.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: pontine and bulbar
Derived terms: pontobulbar palsy
prohemostatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + hemostatic.
Senses: glosses: That promotes hemostasis
promelanin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + melanin.
Senses: glosses: That promotes the formation of melanin
pronephritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + nephritic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: That leads to the kidneys
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: That promotes nephritis
pseudoisotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + isotropic.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: That is isotropic in the three physical dimensions but not in some higher dimension
pyonephritis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pyelonephritis.
quadriradial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quadri- + radial.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having four radiating chromatids
raw_tags: of a chromosome
quadriradial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadriradials
Etymology: From quadri- + radial.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Such a chromosome
reascertain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reascertains
form: reascertaining
form: reascertained
form: reascertained
Etymology: From re- + ascertain.
Senses: glosses: To ascertain again
reascertaining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reascertain
reascertained
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reascertain
rectificatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That rectifies
Related terms: rectification
rectificator
resorfurin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of resorufin.
resveratrols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resveratrol
retrobulbarly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From retrobulbar + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a retrobulbar manner or direction
retrojugal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From retro- + jugal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Behind the jugal bone
retroplasmid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retroplasmids
Etymology: From retro- + plasmid.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any plasmid that replicates via reverse transcription
retroplasmids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retroplasmid
rhabdosarcoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhabdosarcomas
form: rhabdosarcomata
Etymology: From rhabdo- + sarcoma.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A malignant neoplasm derived from skeletal striated muscle
rhabdosarcomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhabdosarcoma
rhizobox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhizoboxes
Etymology: From rhizo- + box.
Senses: glosses: A container for plant experiments in which rhizosphere soil is held separate from the bulk soil
rhizoboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhizobox
rhizomatousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rhizomatous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being rhizomatous
rostafuroxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A derivative of digitoxigenin associated with salt gradients across membranes
mutual friend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mutual friends
Senses: examples: text: We first met through a mutual friend.
glosses: Someone who is a friend of two or more people, each of whom may not know each other.
mutual friends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Two people who count each other as friends
glosses: plural of mutual friend
proper article
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proper articles
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An article that indicates proper nouns.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see proper, article.
wechuge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: a demonic cannibal spirit known in North America, which is said to commit murder due to craving humans.
saccharobiose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saccharobioses
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any disaccharide, but especially sucrose
sarcopaenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarcopaenias
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sarcopenia.
sarcopaenias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarcopaenia
scedosporiosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any disease caused by the presence of a Scedosporium fungus
schisantherin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schisantherins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of compounds, based on a schisandrin skeleton, that are active against Parkinson's disease
schisantherins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schisantherin
sciaphilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: sciaphilous
antonyms: heliophilic
glosses: That thrives in the shade
Related terms: sciophyte
sciophytic
sclerobiont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sclerobionts
Etymology: From sclero- + -biont.
Senses: glosses: Any organism that lives on a hard surface, or bores into one
Related terms: sclerobiotic
sclerobionts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sclerobiont
scombriform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scombriforms
Etymology: Back-formation from translingual Scombriformes
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any fish of the order Scombriformes
scombriforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scombriform
booya
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of booyah.
booya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of booyah (“type of stew”).
scorpaeniforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scorpaeniform
secretogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secretogens
Senses: glosses: Any substance that induces secretion
Related terms: secretogenic
secretogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secretogen
valuation ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: valuation rings
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An integral domain D such that for every element x of its field of fractions F, at least one of x or x⁻¹ belongs to D.
valuation rings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of valuation ring
sedimentates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sedimentate
sedimentates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sedimentate
sedimentating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sedimentate
sedimentated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sedimentate
selenocysteinyl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From selenocysteine + -yl.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to, or derived from selenocysteine
seroprofile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seroprofiles
Etymology: From sero- + profile.
Senses: glosses: A serological profile
seroprofiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seroprofile
seroreversions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seroreversion
serorevert
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: seroreverts
form: seroreverting
form: seroreverted
form: seroreverted
Etymology: From sero- + revert.
Senses: glosses: To carry out a seroreversion
Related terms: seroreverter
seroreverted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of serorevert
silvopastural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From silva + -o- + pastural. Maybe decomposed as silvopasture + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to silvopasture
spectrophotofluorimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spectrophotofluorimeters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spectrophotofluorometer.
spectrophotofluorimeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spectrophotofluorimeter
spumigin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spumigins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of peptides that are protease inhibitors
spumigins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spumigin
sputtercoating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sputtercoatings
Senses: glosses: A coating deposited via sputtering
sputtercoatings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sputtercoating
meato-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: meatus
Monsky's theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Proved by Paul Monsky in 1970.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A theorem stating that it is not possible to dissect a square into an odd number of triangles of equal area.
equidissectable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From equi- + dissect + -able.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a polygon: able to be divided into triangles of equal area.
equidissection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equidissections
Etymology: From equi- + dissection.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The division of a polygon into triangles of equal area.
equidissections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equidissection
healy-feely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more healy-feely
form: most healy-feely
Etymology: From heal + -y (from how New Age pseudoscience often promotes a "healing" narrative to sell products) + feely (from the importance of feelings and emotions in such practices).
Senses: examples: text: Not to get all healy-feely on you or anything, but I believe that is what they call a “breakthrough” in the therapy game. For one thing, it shed some light on a behavior I'm now working through […]
ref: 2012, Dan Zevin, he Day I Turned Uncool: Confessions of a Reluctant Grown-up:
text: […] much more palatable to me than talking of chakras and clearing bad energy. It sounded more magical, less New Age. Once we settled on a not too healy-feely compromise, we sent out email flyers to everyone we knew.
ref: 2012, Lone Morch, Seeing Red: A Woman's Quest for Truth, Power, and the Sacred:
text: As anyone who has been around the healy-feely crowd long enough knows, the second Noble Truth of Buddhism states that the cause of all suffering is attachments.
ref: 2018, Paul M. Cole, POW/MIA Accounting: Volume I:
glosses: Relating to, or believing in, New Age pseudoscience.
Related terms: woo woo
hick-hop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of hick + hip-hop.
Senses: glosses: A genre that combines country and hip-hop, often equated with country rap.
link bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: link bars
Senses: glosses: A web tool that gives connections to other sections of the website.
tailgatings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tailgating
split bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: split bars
Senses: glosses: The bar or line that divides a screen or window. A split bar lets users customise how the two split windows are viewed.
title bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: title bars
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The bar at the top of a window or a dialogue box displaying the name of the application or open document.
view bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: view bars
Senses: glosses: A tool that allows users to see a number of different views of programmes.
tuftelins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tuftelin
fishy queen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fishy queens
Etymology: From fishy (“appearing very feminine and resembling a cisgender woman”).
Senses: examples: text: The drag world of course includes traditional queens with heavy lip lines and huge lashes, their makeup almost mask-like in its precision. But it also encompasses everything from "fishy" queens, whose gorgeous bodies and ultra-feminine images confuse the observer, to bearded ladies, who play with gender stereotypes and have come to represent the new, confrontational face of drag, […]
ref: 2016, Magnus Hastings, “Introduction”, in Why Drag?, San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, →ISBN:
qualifier: LGBTQ slang
glosses: A drag queen who adopts a particularly feminine appearance.
fishy queens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fishy queen
LCACs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LCAC
abaas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abaa
Gardnerians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gardnerian
euths
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of euth
bespeaketh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: bespeak + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bespeak
microtorque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microtorques
Etymology: From micro- + torque.
Senses: examples: text: Reactions at the nodes correspond then to forces and microtorques.
ref: 2009, Jacques Besson, Georges Cailletaud, Jean-Louis Chaboche, Non-Linear Mechanics of Materials:
glosses: A very small torque, a rotational or twisting force.
microtorques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microtorque
ittier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of itty: more itty
ittiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of itty: most itty