cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
antisocialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: antisocializes
form: antisocializing
form: antisocialized
form: antisocialized
Etymology: From antisocial + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: A bad experience with an unfriendly person, rough child, or aggressive dog could have an antisocializing effect, turning your Beagle into an overly shy dog, or even a dog who bites out of fear.
ref: 2009, Eve Adamson, Beagles, page 26:
text: In other words, the harsh child rearing to obtain unconditional obedience did not of itself antisocialize many Germans.
ref: 2014, Henri Parens, War Is Not Inevitable: On the Psychology of War and Aggression:
glosses: To make antisocial.
antisocializes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of antisocialize
antisocializing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of antisocialize
antisocialized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of antisocialize
decisioning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From decision + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Data that is reflective of a similar period of time but was considered relevant to model against for another group of applicants or customers who were part of decisioning made for another product.
ref: 2008, Stephen D. Morris, The Basel II "Use Test" - a Retail Credit Approach:
glosses: Decision making, especially by means of a formal computational methodology.
decisioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From decision + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decision
mafia hypothesis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the mafia hypothesis
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A hypothesis attempting to explain why most hosts of brood parasites care for the parasite's nestlings. Since the host's nest is attacked if the parasite's egg is detected and rejected, this indirectly enhances selective pressures favouring aggressive parasite behaviour that may result in positive feedback between mafia-like parasites and compliant hosts.
inadequates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inadequate
easier than falling off a log
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of easy as falling off a log: more easy as falling off a log
semisparkling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + sparkling.
Senses: glosses: Of wine and similar drinks: lightly sparkling, but not highly fizzy.
BPOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BPO
GPO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: "Yes. He gets to Paris at seven in the morning. He promised to telephone the first thing."
"You expensive little monkey!"
"Why?"
"It's ten shillings for three minutes, or something like that, and you have to go to the G.P.O. or the Mansion House or some such place, I believe."
ref: 1909, Algernon Blackwood, You May Telephone From Here:
glosses: Initialism of General Post Office.
glosses: Initialism of German patent office.
glosses: Initialism of Government Publishing Office, formerly Government Printing Office.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Green Party of Ontario.
glosses: Initialism of government press office.
GPO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GPOs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of group purchasing organization.
warblogger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warbloggers
Etymology: From war + blogger.
Senses: examples: text: Possibly the most famous warblogger was the Baghad architect, Salam Pax, who logged on regularly to provide eyewitness reports on the bombing of his city.
ref: 2005, Graeme Turner, Ending the Affair: The Decline of Television Current Affairs in Australia, page 138:
text: And when Lileks turned into a warblogger, he made his bones. His audience swelled as Lileks turned tremendous writing skills to the issues of the war and a post-9/11 world.
ref: 2005, Hugh Hewitt, Blog: Understanding the Information Reformation That's Changing Your World, page 106:
text: Another notable difference is that warbloggers eventually made themselves heard on their own terms by the mainstream media, which had initially scorned them.
ref: 2009, Melissa Wall, “The Taming of the Warblogs: Citizen Journalism and the War in Iraq”, in Stuart Allan, Einar Thorsen, editors, Citizen Journalism: A Global Perspective, page 33:
glosses: The writer of a warblog.
Hyponyms: milblogger
milblogger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milbloggers
Etymology: Etymology tree
English military
Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-?
Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós
Proto-Germanic *weraz
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂életi
Proto-Germanic *alaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Germanic *-þiz
Proto-Germanic *aldiz
Proto-Germanic *weraldiz
Proto-West Germanic *weraldi
Old English weorold
Middle English world
English world
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁-der.
Proto-Germanic *wīdaz
Old English wīd
English wide
English -wide
English worldwide
Proto-Indo-European *webʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *webaną
Proto-Germanic *wabją
Old English webb
Middle English web
English web
English World Wide Web
English Web
Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *légʰyeti
Proto-Germanic *ligjaną
Old Norse liggjader.?
Middle English logge
English log
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵosder.?
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g-der.?
Proto-Germanic *bōks
Proto-West Germanic *bōk
Old English bōc
Middle English bok
English book
English logbook
English log
English weblog
English blog
blend
English milblog
Latin -ariusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English milblogger
From milblog + -er.
Senses: examples: text: One milblogger who writes anonymously, (as many do), commented in private correspondence with the author: […]
ref: 2006, Carl E. Dauber, “Life in Wartime: Real-Time News, Real-Time Critique, Fighting in the New Media Environment”, in Military Life: The Psychology of Serving in Peace and Combat, page 203:
text: A number of milbloggers converted their work to published books after returning home.
ref: 2008, Michael D. Doubler, The National Guard and the War on Terror: Operation Iraqi Freedom, page 81:
text: The rise of milbloggers writing from within the war zone itself suggests that in terms of international news reported from outside the West, citizen journalism—just like mainstream news reporting—is likely to be more easily done by Westerners.
ref: 2009, Melissa Wall, “The Taming of the Warblogs: Citizen Journalism and the War in Iraq”, in Stuart Allan, Einar Thorsen, editors, Citizen Journalism: A Global Perspective, page 35:
glosses: A military service member who writes a blog.
examples: text: Some proxy officials from occupied Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts also operate as milbloggers because they voice their opinions, share analysis from other milbloggers, and disseminate footage from the frontlines independent of the Kremlin and often at odds with the official MoD and Kremlin lines.
ref: 2022 November 20, Kateryna Stepanenko, Frederick W. Kagan, Grace Mappes, “Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 20”, in understandingwar.org, Institute for the Study of War, archived from the original on 21 Nov 2022:
glosses: A blogger, usually one with a close relationship to armed forces, who blogs, often from the front lines, about an ongoing war.
milbloggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milblogger
warbloggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warblogger
warblog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warblogs
Etymology: From war + blog.
Senses: examples: text: September 11 also spawned a generation of "warblogs,” mostly hawkish sites that focused on the U.S. response to the terrorist attacks.
ref: 2002, Rebecca Blood, The Weblog Handbook, page 156:
text: Roggio, a former US soldier, turned his long-running warblog into a grander enterprise called the Long War Journal.
ref: 2009, Donald Matheson, Stuart Allan, Digital War Reporting, page 123:
text: Some of the most interesting are the warblogs created by soldiers and others.
ref: 2010, Peter Steven, The News, page 81:
glosses: A blog documenting an ongoing military conflict or presenting analysis or opinions related to it.
Hyponyms: milblog
Derived terms: warblogger
warblogging
warblogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warblog
warblogging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From war + blogging.
Senses: glosses: The writing and publication of a warblog.
milblogging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The writing and publication of a milblog.
blogland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From blog + land.
Senses: glosses: The realm or sphere of blogs.
n00bish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more n00bish
form: most n00bish
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of noobish.
neonists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neonist
bridal carry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bridal carries
Etymology: Traditionally this was how a newly married man would carry his bride over the threshold of their home.
Senses: glosses: A means of carrying a person, with one's arms supporting their back and legs in front of one's own body.
Synonyms: princess carry
reportours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reportour
Fredkin gate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fredkin gates
Etymology: Invented by Edward Fredkin.
Senses: glosses: A three-bit computational circuit that swaps the last two bits if the first bit is 1. Any logical or arithmetic operation can be constructed entirely of such gates.
Fredkin gates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fredkin gate
Kakchiquel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kaqchikel.
Kakchiquel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kaqchikel.
Cachiquel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kaqchikel.
Toffoli gate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Toffoli gates
Etymology: Invented by Tommaso Toffoli.
Senses: synonyms: CCNOT gate
glosses: A three-bit computational circuit that inverts the third bit if the first two bits are set, or in other cases leaves all bits unchanged.
wikipedia: Tommaso Toffoli
Toffoli gates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Toffoli gate
Madrassi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Madrassis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Madrasi.
Madrassi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Madrasi.
Chennaiite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chennaiites
Etymology: From Chennai + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: For months together now, Chennaiites couldn’t stop talking about the wedding and speculating who’d get lucky and who’d be left out […]
ref: 2010 September 3, Srinivasa Ramanujam, P. Sangeetha, “Abhi-Ash bless Rajnikanth’s daughter at wedding”, in The Times of India:
glosses: A native or resident of Chennai in India.
Synonyms: word: Madrasi
peremptory challenge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peremptory challenges
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The right of an attorney to reject potential jurors without stating a reason.
peremptory challenges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peremptory challenge
Chennaiites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chennaiite
Madrasi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Madrasis
form: Madrassi
Senses: examples: text: Runga Charlu was subjected to grave accusations in Mysore as he had the misfortune to be a Madrasi.
ref: 1896, G. Paramaswaran Pillai, Representative Men of Southern India, Introduction, p. vii:
glosses: A native or resident of Chennai in India.
examples: text: When the hardships of a Madrassi are complained of, we are told that a Panjabi is well off: that the taxation “on an average” is only so-and-so, Northern India being more lightly taxed than Southern.
ref: 1916, Annie Besant, chapter 2, in India a Nation: A Plea for Indian Self-Government, London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, page 40:
text: ‘Oh, hell! I’d snivel psalms to oblige the padre, but I can’t stick the way these damned native Christians come shoving into our church. A pack of Madrassi servants and Karen school-teachers. […]’
ref: 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 2”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:
text: The midwife, an old, thin, inscrutable Madrassi, came to the hall and sat on her haunches in a corner, smoking, silent, her eyes bright.
ref: 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part One, Chapter 6:
text: Moses Nagamootoo explores the creation of a landscape and a heritage in Guyana by the Madrassi in his novel Hendree’s Cure […]
ref: 2010 May 20, “Post-independence literature”, in Stabroek News:
text: Coming from a South Indian Tamil family that had settled in the western India, “Madrasi” was my family’s nickname in the neighbourhood and so was mine at school. The name in itself was obnoxious, not to mention the stereotyping it brought along with it. For North Indians, anyone from the South was a Madrasi, irrespective of where they came from.
ref: 2012 July 26, Xavier Bennet, “Discrimination is everywhere”, in The Times of India:
text: Hindi cinema has been guilty of stereotyping the “Madrasi” since the days of Mehmood. […] The “Madrasi” usage probably stems from the days of the British Raj when the Madras Province covered Tamil Nadu, parts of Kerala (excluding Travancore) and Andhra Pradesh and even Karnataka (excluding Mysore) and thus anyone from the South was automatically presumed to be from the Madras Presidency…a Madrasi.
ref: 2014 May 21, Sudhish Kamath, “The Mythical Madrasi”, in The Hindu:
glosses: A native of South India; a person of South Indian extraction (exonym; often considered offensive).
Synonyms: sense: native of Chennai
word: Chennaiite
Madrasi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Madrassi
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the city of Chennai in India, formerly known as Madras.
emotives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emotive
grapevined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: grape-vined
Senses: examples: text: On those lovely shores and grapevined hills Voltaire and Gibbon enjoyed a highly civilized life, and Rousseau grew up and suffered, and placed his Julie's virtuous household (at Clarens, near Vevey).
ref: 2011, Will Durant, Ariel Durant, The Age of Voltaire: The Story of Civilization, Volume IX:
text: She married him the following summer under the grapevined trellis in his father's apple orchard.
ref: 2012, Dawn Tripp, Moon Tide: A Novel:
text: When we slowed to admire a bronze statue of a woman with arms stretching up toward the sky, a disheveled man well into his eighties with wild white hair and plaster-spotted clothes called out and waved to us from his grapevined balcony.
ref: 2015, Samantha Waltz, Blended: Writers on the Stepfamily Experience:
glosses: Planted or adorned with grapevines.
grapevined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grape-vined
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grapevine
grapevining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of grapevine
camel clutch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camel clutches
Senses: glosses: A wrestling move in which the wrestler applies a chinlock and pulls back on the opponent's upper body while sitting on his/her back.
camel clutches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camel clutch
worked over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of work over
works over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of work over
working over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of work over
clons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clon
requotation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: requotations
Etymology: From re- + quotation.
Senses: glosses: The act of quoting something again.
Related terms: requote
requotations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of requotation
Westminster bubble
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The collective group of Members of Parliament, civil servants, lobbyists, etc., seen as out of touch with the realities of life outside Parliament.
Synonyms: Westminster village
Westminster village
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Synonym of Westminster bubble.
synonyms: word: Westminster bubble
cue sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cue sheets
form: cuesheet
Senses: glosses: A list of theatrical cues with timing and volume/intensity information.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A text file that details the layout of tracks on a compact disc.
cue sheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cue sheet
piriformis syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A neuromuscular disorder that occurs when the sciatic nerve is compressed or otherwise irritated by the piriformis muscle, causing pain or numbness in the buttocks and legs.
juxtaposable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From juxtapose + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being juxtaposed.
mudpuddles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mudpuddle
spud washer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spud washers
Senses: examples: text: With the tank upside down, pull or twist off the rubber spud washer and use a spud wrench to unscrew the large locking net from the flush valve.
ref: 2002, Bill Marken, How to Fix (just About) Everything, →ISBN, page 171:
text: Loose mounting bolts can also damage the spud washer and leak water behind the bowl.
ref: 2007, Sid Davis, The First-time Homeowner's Survival Guide, →ISBN:
text: The same package that contained the bowl caps will contain a large rubber spud washer and tank bolts and washers.
ref: 2009, Albert Jackson, David Day, Popular Mechanics Complete Home How-to, →ISBN, page 352:
glosses: A flanged rubber or foam ring that covers the spud nut on the flush mechanism of a toilet, cushioning the tank-bowl juncture to prevent leaks.
spud washers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spud washer
stegocephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stegocephalic
form: most stegocephalic
Senses: examples: text: In Hylonomus this becomes strengthened by an apparently true stegocephalic skull-cover, as well as by the thick comb-like develop- ment of teeth in the roof of the mouth, and the presence of a ventral shield of bony scales.
ref: 1891 April, J. William Dawson, “I.—On New Specimens of Dendrepeton Acadianum, with Remarks on other Carboniferous Amphibians”, in Geological Magazine, volume 8, number 4:
text: One munches an apple, one buzzes his lips like a hornet, the third twiddles the radical of his stegocephalic posthon.
ref: 1980 Winter, Guy Davenport, “The Death of Picasso: Het Erewhonisch Schetsboek: Germinal, Floréal, Prairial 1973”, in The Kenyon Review, volume 2, number 1:
text: It is immediately obvious that the surface structure and the side-line channels of the cranial surface are strikingly stegocephalic.
ref: 1993 December, W Schad, “Heterochronical patterns of evolution in the transitional stages of vertebrate classes”, in Acta biotheoretica, volume 41, number 4:
glosses: Alternative form of stegocephalous.
hippy-dippy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hippy-dippy
form: most hippy-dippy
form: hippie-dippie
form: hippie-dippy
form: hippy-dippie
form: hippy dippy
form: hippie dippie
form: hippie dippy
form: hippy dippie
Etymology: Reduplication; see also dippy (“lacking common sense”).
Senses: examples: text: Garner, a magazine photographer named Grif, finds that he can not communicate with his hippie dippy son.
ref: 1968 September 13, “How Sweet It Is!”, in Time, archived from the original on 24 Jun 2013:
text: Osho died nine years ago after establishing his eclectic brand of hippy-dippy irrationalism, sexual therapy and ancient learning across the globe.
ref: 1999 April 8, Jason Burke, “Price of inner peace splits guru disciples”, in The Independent:
text: His company, The Panna Group, is hired by Wall Street executives, Fortune 500 companies, sales teams, and assorted people who just want something more out of life. This is not some hippy-dippy endeavor based on feel-good psychobabble. Joe’s background is solid academic psychology research. He’s studied hard numbers. Data. Double-blind things.
ref: 2014 December 22, Chris Lamorte, “Cult of possibility”, in Chicago Tribune:
glosses: Suggesting or characterized by hippie attitudes.
untransgressive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: more untransgressive
form: most untransgressive
Etymology: From un- + transgressive.
Senses: glosses: Not transgressive.
nontransgressive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Etymology: From non- + transgressive.
Senses: examples: text: Instead, she has to carve new territory: a nontransgressive, rose-colored female pop megastar, the likes of which haven’t been seen in decades.
ref: 2012 October 24, Jon Caramanica, “No More Kid Stuff for Taylor Swift”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Not transgressive.
lithium-ion battery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithium-ion batteries
form: lithium ion battery
Etymology: Calque of Japanese リチウムイオン電池 (richiumu ion denchi). Lithium-ion batteries were first commercially produced and marketed in Japan.
Senses: examples: text: The new trams will join an existing 21-strong Urbos tram fleet in Birmingham. The latter were delivered in 2012, and last year were fitted with Greentech on-board energy storage using lithium-ion batteries to enable catenary-free running. The new trams will have similar equipment.
ref: 2019 October 23, Rail, pages 26–27:
topics: business
chemistry
electrical-engineering
electricity
electrochemistry
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A form of rechargeable battery containing lithium compounds, but not elemental lithium, used in many consumer electronics devices.
Coordinate terms: alt: LAB/PAB/PbAB
word: lead-acid battery
word: sodium-ion battery
Derived terms: word: LIB
word: LIIB
word: LiIB
word: Li-ion
Related terms: alt: SIB/NIB/NaIB/NAIB
word: sodium-ion battery
word: lithium battery
stenopaeic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: stenopaic
form: stenopeic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek στενός (stenós, “narrow”) (see steno-) + ὀπαῖος (opaîos, “perforated”), from ὀπή (opḗ, “opening”).
Senses: examples: text: These patients were selected retrospectively, and only those treated with complete bed-rest and stenopaeic spectacles alone were accepted.
ref: 1976 April, Thorkild Bramsen, “Traumatic hyphaema treated with the antifibrinolytic drug tranexamic acid”, in Acta ophthalmologica, volume 54, number 2:
text: Stenopaeic slit refraction is usually attempted when retinoscopy and more conventional subjective refractive techniques, i.e. JCC and FC, fail to provide satisfactory results.
ref: 2009, Mark Rosenfield, Nicola Logan, Keith H. Edwards, Optometry: Science, Techniques and Clinical Management, →ISBN, page 219:
text: By contrast, the more aquatic sea lion eye is emmetropic in water and depends upon a flattened cornea and stenopaeic aperture for the formation of a good image in air (WALLs, 1942; SCHUSTERMAN, 1972).
ref: 2013, F. Crescitelli, The Visual System in Vertebrates, →ISBN, page 680:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Pertaining to a narrow opening or slit in an opaque barrier that restricts the light which reaches the eye.
sunsetty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sunsetty
form: most sunsetty
Etymology: From sunset + -y.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of sunset.
hyperpyramid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperpyramids
Etymology: From hyper- + pyramid.
Senses: glosses: A higher-dimensional shape analogous to the three-dimensional pyramid.
Related terms: 5-cell
hyperpyramids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperpyramid
signum manus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The medieval practice of signing a document or charter with a special type of monogram or royal cipher.
WTFPL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From WTF, modelled on GPL etc.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Do What the Fuck You Want To Public License.
Related terms: GNU
LGPL
unrapes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unrape
unraping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unrape
unrape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unrapes
form: unraping
form: unraped
form: unraped
Etymology: From un- + rape.
Senses: examples: text: I could not unoppress all those women; I could not resurrect all the murdered witches; I could not unrape all the little girls.
ref: 2008, William Marten, A Killer of Serial Women: A True Story, page 74:
text: In fact, experience has demonstrated that “abortion does not unrape a woman,” and it “promises only to compound the trauma of rape with another experience of violence.”
ref: 2011, Nic Samojluk, From Pro-life to Pro-choice:
text: To illustrate with a crude parallel, the idea is the following: that one cannot unmurder the murdered and that one cannot unrape the raped.
ref: 2013, Avram Hiller, Ramona Ilea, Leonard Kahn, Consequentialism and Environmental Ethics:
glosses: Hypothetically, to undo the act of rape; to cause (a person) not to have been raped.
foilages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foilage
vyanjanabhakti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌvjɑːnd͡ʒənəˈbɑːkti/
Forms: form: vyanjanabhaktis
Etymology: Coined as the counterpart to svarabhakti, from Sanskrit व्यञ्जनभक्ति (vyañjanabhakti), compound of व्यञ्जन (vyañjana, “consonant”) + भक्ति (bhakti).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
synonyms: linking consonant
glosses: The epenthesis of a consonant, as in the p in consumption; excrescence.
streamies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of streamie
streamie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: streamies
Etymology: From stream + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: As a group, streamies represent a very desirable demographic for advertisers. Streamies are among the most active group of internet users, spending more time on-line than the average internet user.
ref: 2004, Christopher H. Sterling, Encyclopedia of Radio 3-Volume Set, →ISBN, page 1244:
text: Many streamies use their office PCs to tune in to their favorite stations. Some use Web radio as a way to keep up with hometown news from a distance. In particular, sporting event broadcasts are very popular with streamies. Marketing analysts have noticed that the proportion of Internet users who are streamies is increasing.
ref: 2005, Alan Kvanli, Robert Pavur, Kellie Keeling, Concise Managerial Statistics, →ISBN:
text: The streamie has important demographic characteristics that make them attractive marketing targets.
ref: 2006, Joe Follansbee, Hands-On Guide to Streaming Media, →ISBN:
topics: business
marketing
glosses: A consumer who frequently listens to, views and interacts with streaming media on the Internet.
glosses: A little stream.
streamie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more streamie
form: most streamie
Etymology: From stream + -ie.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of streamy.
stylometrist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stylometrists
Etymology: From stylometry + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: What is to be said of the authorship of the Epistles is in the end a matter for the Scripture scholar, not the stylometrist.
ref: 1997, Stanley E. Porter, D.A. Carson, Linguistics and the New Testament: Critical Junctures, →ISBN, page 224:
text: For every stylometrist whose research supports an attribution, there is another who can point out weaknesses in that research and cast doubt on the claim.
ref: 2010, Forgetful Muses: Reading the Author in the Text, →ISBN, page Ian Lancashire:
text: David Hoover — a skilled stylometrist, and therefore a great lover of lists—likes to play a game with his students in which he shows them a list of novels and asks them to rank them according to “vocabulary richness” (defined as the largest number of different words per fifty-thousand-word block)
ref: 2011, Stephen Ramsay, Reading Machines: Toward and Algorithmic Criticism, →ISBN, page 71:
glosses: A person who uses stylometry to analyze the style and content of text.
Synonyms: stylometrician
stylometrists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stylometrist
stylometrician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stylometricians
Senses: examples: text: The dangers that beset the stylometrician may be illustrated from a comparison of C. Hitter's views, based on Stylometry, as expressed in 1888, and the same writer's views, based on general grounds, in 1910.
ref: 1976, Reginald Hackforth, The Authorship of the Platonic Epistles, →ISBN, page 17:
text: In one of George Schultz's 'Peanuts' comic strips Charlie Brown says to Lucy, 'Go ahead, tell me what I've been saying . . . tell me what you've heard', and Lucie replies: 'To, a, of, oh, but, and, the'. She need only have counted the frequencies of these words to have become a stylometrician.
ref: 2003, MacDonald Pairman Jackson, Defining Shakespeare: Pericles as Test Case, →ISBN, page 104:
text: Before examining any of the disputed texts, the stylometrician should decide on the classes of word which should be relegated to the category of 'others', regardless of how frequently they appear – for example, proper nouns, some verbs and/or pronouns.
ref: 2014, John Peter Gibbons, Language and the Law, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of stylometrist.
synonyms: word: stylometrist
stylometricians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stylometrician
succès de scandale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: succes de scandale
Etymology: Borrowing from French succès de scandale.
Senses: examples: text: Whatever else, Irréversible is already a succès de scandale.
ref: 2002 August 2, Geoffrey Macnab, “'The rape had to be disgusting to be useful'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: The book was a success – of a kind: a succès de scandale; but it secured him a valuable patron.
ref: 2010, Hugh Trevor-Roper, History and the Enlightenment, →ISBN, page 163:
text: She, on the other hand, was famous or infamous as the writer of a first novel which had had a succès de scandale ... the last thing she had wanted or expected, not realizing that honest probing of matters generally discussed with lifted eyebrows at dinner tables could shock.
ref: 2014, May Sarton, Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel, →ISBN:
text: She first achieved succès de scandale as a teenager with the novel Puberty Blues, which was made into a major film and a TV miniseries.
ref: 2014, Kathy Lette, Courting Trouble, →ISBN:
text: In 1972, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari registered a succès de scandale with the French publication of Anti-Oedipus, now widely considered one of the most important poststructuralist texts.
ref: 2014, Jennifer Birkett, Kate Ince, Samuel Beckett, →ISBN:
text: Nabokov may well have attended also, in early June 1921, the Busch-conducted premiere of Paul Hindemith's one-act operas Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen, and Das NuschNuschi, a major succès de scandale.
ref: 2015, Vincent Giroud, Nicolas Nabokov: A Life in Freedom and Music, →ISBN:
glosses: The success of work of art due primarily to scandalous subject matter rather than artistic merit.
succes de scandale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Some of the major controversies of the 1990s and beyond have been sparked off by, and coalesced around, arguments about or between writers, their aesthetic and political views, as well as the succes de scandale of individual works.
ref: 2007, Stuart Taberner, Contemporary German Fiction: Writing in the Berlin Republic, →ISBN, page 21:
text: Weill's first collaboration as composer with Bertolt Brecht was on the singspiel (or “songspiel,” as he called it) Mahagonny (1927), which was a succes de scandale at the Baden—Baden (Germany) Festival in 1927.
ref: 2009, Amy McKenna, The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time, →ISBN, page 174:
text: An early succes de scandale was A Modern Nativity Play, written in 1962 and permitted a brief stage run in Poznan in 1965 before being taken off.
ref: 2014, Kevin Windle, Ireneusz Iredynski: Selected One-Act Plays for Radio, →ISBN, page 3:
glosses: Alternative form of succès de scandale.
sporabola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sporabolas
Etymology: Blend of spore + parabola, coined by Buller (1909).
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: The trajectory of a basidiospore after it is discharged from a sterigma.
sporabolas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sporabola
ethnomasochism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ethno- + masochism.
Senses: examples: text: The TV channel Arte, funded by German and French taxpayers, promotes a culture of guilt, ethnomasochism and is infatuated with extreme left-wing causes when it comes to cultural and society-related issues.
ref: 2011, jean-mar...@laposte.net, “Arte = das Fernsehen das Dich, das uns verhässt (4)”, in soc.culture.german (Usenet):
text: We also need to do away with stupid theories of 'colonial and postcolonial exploitation' of poor states. We have had enough ethnomasochism. We keep hearing that they are 'great civilisations'. Let them prove it!
ref: 2012, Guillaume Faye, Convergence of Catastrophes, page 188:
text: Apparently it was not enough to be subjected to endless lectures of ethnomasochism inducing propaganda from hostile professors and naive elementary educators, hammering home the notion since kindergarten that his ancestors were evil […]
ref: 2016, Brandon Adamson, Beatnik Fascism, page 8:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Self-loathing on the grounds of one's own race or ethnicity.
ethnomedically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In terms of, or by means of, ethnomedicine.
Golden Dawner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Golden Dawners
Senses: glosses: A member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, an organization devoted to occultism and the paranormal during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Golden Dawners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Golden Dawner
public health funeral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: public health funerals
Etymology: So called because they are governed by the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pauper's funeral.
synonyms: word: pauper's funeral
wikipedia: Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984
public health funerals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of public health funeral
hyperliberal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperliberal
form: most hyperliberal
Etymology: From hyper- + liberal.
Senses: glosses: Extremely politically liberal.
de la Chapelle syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named for Albert de la Chapelle, who characterized it in 1972.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of XX male syndrome.
synonyms: word: XX male syndrome
XX male syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A rare disorder resulting in a sterile male with two X chromosomes.
Synonyms: de la Chapelle syndrome
Moslawi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Moslawis
Etymology: From Arabic مُصْلَاوِيّ (muṣlāwiyy), from مَوْصِل (mawṣil, “Mosul”).
Senses: glosses: A citizen or resident of Mosul.
Related terms: al-Moslawi
El Moslawi
Moslawi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Moslawi
form: most Moslawi
Etymology: From Arabic مُصْلَاوِيّ (muṣlāwiyy), from مَوْصِل (mawṣil, “Mosul”).
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to Mosul, Northeastern Iraq or Northern Mesopotamia.
Moslawi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Arabic مُصْلَاوِيّ (muṣlāwiyy), from مَوْصِل (mawṣil, “Mosul”).
Senses: glosses: A dialect of Arabic.
glosses: A habitational surname, of Mesopotamian origin, Abbreviation of al-Moslawi.
Synonyms: sense: ayp (ISO 639 language code)
word: dialaect
Moslawis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Moslawi
quadriwave
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quadri- + wave.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Involving four waves or (more often) four wavefronts
Derived terms: quadriwave lateral shearing interferometry
para-acetylaminophenol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: By surface analysis, para- + acetyl + amino- + phenol.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A pharmaceutical drug used to treat pain and fever
Synonyms: word: acetaminophen
word: APAP
word: N-acetyl-p-aminophenol
word: p-acetylaminophenol
word: paracetamol
word: tylenol
Coordinate terms: english: aspirin
translation: aspirin
word: acetylsalicylic acid
Derived terms: acetaminophen
paracetamol
Tylenol
Related terms: acetyl
amino-
aminophenol
para-
phenol
p-acetylaminophenol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From p- (“para-”) + acetylaminophenol.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of para-acetylaminophenol.
Gaas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gaass
Etymology: * (surname): Possibly borrowed, among other languages, from French Gaas (itself from Occitan).
Senses: glosses: A village in Landes department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
glosses: A surname.
FUP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FUPs
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
mobile-telephony
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: Initialism of fair usage policy.
N-acetyl-p-aminophenol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From N- + acetyl + p- + aminophenol.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of para-acetylaminophenol (acetaminophen / paracetamol / tylenol)
synonyms: word: para-acetylaminophenol
extra: acetaminophen / paracetamol / tylenol
Derived terms: word: APAP
anthracenecarboxylate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthracenecarboxylates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of the three isomeric carboxylate anions derived from an anthracenecarboxylic acid; and salt or ester containing this group
arylporphyrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arylporphyrins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any aryl derivative of a porphyrin
arylporphyrins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arylporphyrin
azabicyclo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A bicyclo group in which a carbon atom has been replaced by one of nitrogen
Derived terms: azasetron
zacopride
Related terms: azabicyclic
benzenedicarboxylate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzenedicarboxylates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any anion, salt or ester derived from benzenedicarboxylic acid
benzenedicarboxylic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzenedicarboxylic acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Either of phthalic acid, isophthalic acid or terephthalic acid
bisporphyrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bisporphyrins
Etymology: From bis- + porphyrin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound containing two porphyrin linked by zinc or some other metal
bisporphyrins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bisporphyrin
proxyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proxyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The free radical 2,2,5,5-tetramethyl-1-pyrrolidinyloxy
pyrrolidinyloxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrrolidinyloxys
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The N-oxygen free radical derived from pyrrolidine
carbamoylproxyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbamoylproxyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The carbamoyl derivative of the proxyl free radical
chronopotentiometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chrono- + potentiometric.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to chronopotentiometry
codeposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: codepositions
Etymology: From co- + deposition.
Senses: glosses: The simultaneous deposition of two or more materials (on a surface)
Related terms: codeposite
codeposited
corrole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corroles
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An analogue of porphyrin derived from corrin
Derived terms: metallocorrole
corroles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corrole
primitive wrapper class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primitive wrapper classes
Senses: qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: Synonym of wrapper.
synonyms: word: wrapper
primitive wrapper classes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of primitive wrapper class
dioxygenation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dioxygenations
Etymology: From di- + oxygenation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: oxygenation involving both atoms of an oxygen molecule; typically catalyzed by a dioxygenase
electrospinned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of electrospun.
synonyms: word: electrospun
guanidinohydantoin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A mutagenic N-guanidino derivative of hydantoin, 1-(2,4-dioxo-1-imidazolidinyl)guanidine
hyperoxidation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperoxidations
Etymology: From hyper- + oxidation.
Senses: glosses: Excessive oxidation
linebroadening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linebroadenings
Etymology: From line + broadening.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The broadening of a spectral line.
mannuronate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mannuronates
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of mannuronic acid
Derived terms: oligomannuronate
polymannuronate
nanoleaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanoleaves
Etymology: From nano- + leaf.
Senses: glosses: A nanoscale leaf (part of a larger structure) that converts wind and solar energy into electricity
nanoleaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanoleaf
nonfavorable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + favorable.
Senses: glosses: Not favorable
octabromoporphyrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octabromoporphyrins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any octabromo derivative of a porphyrin, some of which may be used in the spectrophotometric determination of lithium
octabromo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From octa- + bromo.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Eight bromine atoms in a molecule
oxoguanine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oxo- + guanine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An oxidized form of guanine typically formed by ionizing radiation
piperidinyloxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piperidinyloxys
Etymology: From piperidine + -yl + -oxy.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An N-oxygen free radical derived from piperidine
pseudocapacity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudocapacities
Etymology: From pseudo- + capacity.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The capacity of a pseudocapacitor
pseudotetrahedral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + tetrahedral.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Approximately tetrahedral, typically as a result of having two bidentate ligands
semigraphitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + graphitic.
Senses: glosses: Partially graphitic
substoichiometrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more substoichiometrically
form: most substoichiometrically
Etymology: From sub- + stoichiometrically.
Senses: glosses: In a substoichiometric manner
unsolvated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + solvated.
Senses: glosses: Not solvated
textual criticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: textual criticisms
Senses: synonyms: word: lower criticism
glosses: A field of scholarly enquiry dedicated to reconstructing the oldest form(s) of a text that is or are possible to retrieve and to explaining any attested variants.
Related terms: text-critical
pseudocapacities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudocapacity
guapinol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guapinols
Senses: glosses: Synonym of courbaril (“South American tree”).
synonyms: word: courbaril
extra: South American tree
consistorie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consistories
Senses: examples: text: To call in queſtion the iuriſdiction of Archbiſhops, they affirme that no man is to take vpon him an office but hee that is called, as vvas Aaron: but they are not avvare, that the ſame poſition ſhreddeth avvay the vvilde autoritie of doctors, elders, conſiſtorie, conferences, & their abſurd and irregular Synodes, vvhich (as enemies in an aſſault enter the breach) vvould ſteale into the Church through the ruines thereof.
ref: 1590, Matth[ew] Sutcliffe, “Of the Contrarietie of Their Discipline”, in A Treatise of Ecclesiasticall Discipline: […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Nevvberie, →OCLC, page 111:
text: No man can [te]ll how soone hee shall bee arraigned in the great Iudge his Consistorie: The day of this life wherein onelie wee can worke, declineth a pace: The fearfull night cloud hath taken post. So soone as it shall come, man shall bee discharged to worke any more.
ref: 1629, Zachary Boyd, The Last Battell of the Soule in Death, Edinburgh: the heirs of Andro Hart, page 1253:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of consistory.