cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
calendar day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calendar days
Senses: examples: text: Travel insurance is available at the special price of pounds 4 for one calendar day, pounds 10 up to 36 hours.
ref: 1997 November 21, “French shopping and lunch from pounds 29”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 26 May 2014:
text: The $28 billion budget was approved by committees in both houses Wednesday. Since one calendar day must elapse before a floor vote, the votes will take place after midnight Thursday unless Republicans agree to suspend the rule.
ref: 2004 June 24, Laura Mansnerus, “Trenton Approves $28 Billion Budget Plan”, in New York Times, retrieved 26 May 2014:
text: "[T]he Games were stopped for a full 24 hours, though it was not a calendar day."
ref: 2012 May 2, Simon Burnton, “The terrorist outrage in Munich in 1972”, in The Guardian, UK, retrieved 26 May 2014:
topics: law
glosses: A timespan of exactly 24 hours, measured from one midnight to the next.
examples: text: '[T]is wonderful where or when we ever got anything of this which we call wisdom, poetry, virtue. We never got it on any dated calendar day.
ref: 1844, Ralph Waldo Emerson, chapter 2, in Essays: Second Series:
text: My story started on a calendar day — July 2nd,1977 — and ended on a calendar day — February 14th, 1978 — but in between there was no calendar.
ref: 2001, Yann Martel, Life of Pi, published 2007, →ISBN, page 186:
text: The number 666 has long held significance . . . that it's a mark of the devil. But now that the actual calendar day is about to arrive — on Tuesday, 6/6/06 — it's not only the superstitious among us who are looking ahead nervously.
ref: 2006 June 5, Jeremy Caplan, “A Devil of a Day”, in Time, retrieved 26 May 2014:
glosses: A day having a conventional designation on a recognized calendar, such as a numerical identification within a named month.
Synonyms: sense: 24 hours, measured from one midnight to the next
word: civil day
civil day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: civil days
Senses: glosses: Synonym of calendar day.
synonyms: word: calendar day
saw log
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saw logs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sawlog.
saw gin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saw gins
Senses: glosses: A form of cotton gin in which the cotton fibres are drawn, by the teeth of a set of revolving circular saws, through a wire grating which is too fine for the seeds to pass through.
sling cart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sling carts
Senses: glosses: A kind of cart used to transport cannon and their carriages, large stones, machines, etc., the objects transported being slung, or suspended by a chain attached to the axletree.
sling dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sling dogs
Senses: glosses: One of a pair of iron hooks used as part of a sling.
uberfic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uber- + fic.
Senses: examples: text: Kate Bolin cited the mellow, friendly, castrated Spike; another example would be the alternate universes which are popping up with increasing frequency these days: you know, the kind of almost-but-not-quite-uberfic where everything's so different from the show that the author has to literally reconceptualize about half the characters to get them all in so everyone up to and including Jonathan will have somebody to exchange bodily fluids with.
ref: 1999 June 21, David Hines, “Re: Hmm...Willow and Angel?”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):
text: On a related topic, it occurred to me t'other day to wonder whether there was in fact any Uberfic in existence before "The Xena Scrolls".
ref: 1999 June 24, damaged justice [username], “First known Uberfic sighting? (was Re: Season 2 Review: "The Xena Scrolls")”, in alt.tv.xena (Usenet):
text: There are a few genres where you can get away with it (Xena/Gabrielle uberfic, for example -- S.X. Meagher's I Found My Heart In San Francisco series was repubished^([sic]) in a slightly different form; […]
ref: 2003 October 19, Shalon Wood, “Re: {ASSD} Hijacked! I feel like one of the gang now.”, in alt.sex.stories.d (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A genre of alternate universe fan fiction which features archetypes of canon characters (including ancestors, descendants, and reincarnations) living in a different time, setting, or reality than that found in canon.
nose of wax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noses of wax
Senses: examples: text: […] but vows with you being like / To your religion, a nose of wax / To be turn'd every way […]
ref: 1639, Philip Massinger, The Unnatural Combat, act 5, scene 2:
text: It is contended indeed by some reasoners, that we must have listened to the Ottoman complaint, on the broad principle of the law of nations. This sounds well, but in this, as in many other cases, the aforesaid law of nations is a nose of wax, and twistable into any form.
ref: 1825 October 24, Galignani's Messenger, number 3305, Paris: [John] A[nthony Galignani] and W[illiam] Galignani, page 2:
glosses: A person who is pliant and easily influenced.
Synonyms: little girl
mollusc
pushover
grand action
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grand actions
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A pianoforte action, used in grand pianos, in which special devices are employed to obtain perfect action of the hammer in striking and leaving the string.
hair cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hair cells
Etymology: Referring to the tufts of stereocilia that protrude from the apical surface of the cell, a structure known as the hair bundle, into the scala media, a fluid-filled tube within the cochlea.
Senses: examples: text: In mammals, the auditory hair cells are located within the organ of Corti on a thin basilar membrane in the cochlea of the inner ear.
glosses: Any of the sensory receptors of both the auditory system and the vestibular system in all vertebrates.
hair plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hair plates
Senses: glosses: An iron plate forming the back of the hearth of a bloomery fire.
Haushoferian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Haushoferian
form: most Haushoferian
Etymology: From Haushofer + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Karl Haushofer (1869–1946), German general, geographer and geopolitician.
crutchless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From crutch + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without crutches.
palmworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palmworms
Etymology: From palm + worm.
Senses: glosses: The larva of a palm weevil.
palmworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palmworm
edgestone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: edgestones
Etymology: From edge + stone.
Senses: glosses: kerbstone
edgestones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of edgestone
stockless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stock + -less.
Senses: examples: text: stockless anchor
text: stockless inventory
text: stockless delivery system
text: stockless carbine
text: stockless rifle
glosses: Being without stock (in various senses).
Related terms: out of stock
stock control
stocked up
understock
unstocked
inventoryless
just-in-time
JIT
Dutch liquid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: It was discovered in 1795 by an association of four Dutch chemists.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: (An impure form of) dichloroethane
Synonyms: Dutch oil
smart ticket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smart tickets
Senses: examples: text: [T]he commodore pulled out his purse, saying, “Here, you bitch's baby, here's something better than a smart ticket”; and threw it at his silent deliverer, who received and pocketed his bounty […].
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A certificate given to wounded seamen, entitling them to smart money.
glosses: An e-ticket.
counterstatement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterstatements
Etymology: From counter- + statement.
Senses: synonyms: denial
rebuttal
contradiction
glosses: A statement made in opposition to, or denial of, another statement.
counterstatements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterstatement
counterrevolutionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterrevolutionists
Etymology: From counterrevolution + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of counterrevolutionary.
synonyms: word: counterrevolutionary
counterrevolutionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterrevolutionist
electric bath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electric baths
Senses: glosses: An early (and dangerous) form of tanning bed.
countersense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countersenses
Etymology: From counter- + sense; adaptation of French contresens.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, I find there are ſome Words now in French which are turn'd to a counterſenſe, as we uſe the Dutch Word Crank in Engliſh to be well-diſpos'd, which in the Original ſignifieth to be ſick; ſo in French, Cocu is taken for one whoſe Wife is light, and hath made him a paſſive Cuckold; whereas clean contrary, Cocu, which is the Cuckoo, doth uſe to lay her Eggs in another Birds Neſt.
ref: c. 1645, James Howell, “XIX. To the R.H. the Earl of Clare.”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume IV, London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], published 1655, →OCLC, section VI, page 462:
text: But in order to gauge the concept of Evil in all its forms we must compare it with the corresponding forms of Good. For the law of relativity applies here as elsewhere, giving us sense and countersense, thesis and antithesis, positive and negative.
ref: 1895, Herbert Baynes, chapter IV, in The Idea of God and the Moral Sense in the Light of Language, volume II, page 5:
text: Panurge's comedy is the agony of indecision as he struggles obstinately and vainly to interpret every unfavorable omen in its countersense, to substitute his willful imagining for reality and fate.
ref: 1968, Francis L. Lawrence, Moliere: The Comedy of Unreason, page 102:
glosses: An opposite meaning.
examples: text: On that line we reach simply the old countersense: "All is Reality" is as meaningless a proposition as "All is Illusion."
ref: 1905, J. M. Robertson, chapter IV, in Letters on Reasoning, page 225:
text: A state theatre, where it exists in a democratic country, is always a legacy from an autocratic past. If it be a worthy and well-managed theatre, to which popular sentiment is habituated, it is no doubt a highly desirable legacy. But for a democracy, and especially an Anglo-Saxon democracy, to set about creating such a theatre would be, I think, a countersense.
ref: 1899, William Archer, “What Can Be Done for the Drama?”, in The Anglo-Saxon Review, volume IV, page 232:
text: This Introit is to be sung broadly, but always without heaviness, and almost in half voice, without great nuances, and in a rather low tonality. It would give a serious countersense to sing it with a great cry of joy, and to give it "éclat" under the pretext that "it is Easter".
ref: c. 1900, Lura F. Heckenlively, The Fundamentals of Gregorian Chant, page 247:
glosses: A nonsensical idea; a contradiction in terms; something that contradicts an established principle, architectural or musical style, etc.
countersenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countersense
counterslope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterslopes
Etymology: From counter- + slope.
Senses: examples: text: a wall with a counterslope
text: Embrasures of howitzers and guns firing under great angles of elevation may receive a counterslope, giving the sole nearly the same inclination, from the sill upwards, as the least angle of elevation under which it may be required to aim the piece
ref: 1867, Dennis Hart Mahan, An Elementary Course of Military Engineering, volume 1, John Wiley & Son, page 206:
glosses: An overhanging slope.
counterslope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: counterslopes
form: countersloping
form: countersloped
form: countersloped
Etymology: From counter- + slope.
Senses: glosses: To slope on the opposite side or direction.
counterslopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterslope
counterround
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterrounds
Etymology: From counter- + round.
Senses: glosses: A body of military officers whose duty it is to visit and inspect the rounds and sentinels.
counterrounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterround
countersea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterseas
Etymology: From counter- + sea.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A sea running in an opposite direction from the wind.
counterseas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countersea
masked crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masked crabs
Senses: synonyms: helmet crab
glosses: Corystes cassivelaunus, a burrowing crab with patterns on the carapace which may resemble a human face.
pass check
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pass checks
Senses: glosses: A ticket of admission to a place of entertainment, or of readmission for one who goes away expecting to return.
pigeongrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pigeongrasses
Etymology: From pigeon + grass.
Senses: glosses: Any of various grasses of the genus Setaria.
pigeongrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pigeongrass
you attract more flies with honey than vinegar
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: She would call her mother in tears, and Mom would comfort and console her, then suggest that Amy simply try to be nicer to Ted: "You attract more flies with honey than vinegar," she would counsel.
ref: 1996, Henry Cloud, John Sims Townsend, The Mom Factor, Zondervan, →ISBN, page 110:
text: You may have gotten attention in high school by being the class heckler, but chances are your semi-rude behavior will not be appreciated by your classmates or your professors. Plus, as the old adage goes, you attract more flies with honey than vinegar.
ref: 2009, Jessica Linnell, Off to College: Now What? a Practical Guide to Surviving and Succeeding Your First Year of College, Atlantic Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 164:
text: You attract more flies with honey than vinegar. You resolve more disputes with professionalism and communication than with irritability and vitriol.
ref: 2012, Karen Lacey, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Elance, Alpha Books, →ISBN, page 244:
glosses: Alternative form of you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
incel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnˌsɛl/
rhymes: -ɪnsɛl
Etymology: Blend of involuntary + celibate. Coined by "Alana" in 1997 on an online forum (originally as invcel). Came to widespread usage in the mid-2010s, chiefly online, but now more widespread.
Senses: examples: text: People who are 'incel' are often suspected as being gay. It's annoying.
ref: 2001 May 30, Gra - gra, “I love you!”, in alt.support.shyness (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
seduction-community
sexuality
hypernyms: love-shy
glosses: Not having sexual relations despite wishing to.
Related terms: word: MGTOW
word: nice guy syndrome
word: orbiter
Adonides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈdɒnɪdiːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of Adonis
ghutrah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghutrahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ghutra.
hattah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hattahs
form: hatta
Etymology: From Arabic حَطَّة (ḥaṭṭa).
Senses: synonyms: word: chafiye
word: cemedanî
word: ghutra
word: hattah
word: keffiyeh
word: kufiya
word: mashadah
word: rezza
word: scarf
word: shawl
glosses: A headscarf, a keffiyeh.
akara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæk.əɹ.ə/
/-ɑɹ-/
/-ɑ/
Forms: form: akara
Etymology: Borrowed from Yoruba àkàrà. Doublet of accra.
Senses: examples: text: Why are you buying akara that you don't want?
ref: 2013, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah, Anchor Books (2014), page 547:
glosses: A bean cake, made of fried black-eyed pea flour.
ninjette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪnˈd͡ʒɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: ninjettes
Etymology: From ninja + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: Light applause from the shaded edges of the courtyard, where in twos and threes curious ninjettes had been pacing, whispering, touching.
ref: 1990, Thomas Pynchon, Vineland, Vintage, published 2000, page 163:
text: Whatever you say, ninjette
ref: 1999, Elizabeth Cage, Spy Girls are Forever, Pocket, →ISBN, page 42:
text: It was Auntie Hong's ninjettes who captured him, the Claws of Hekate.
ref: 2000, S. M. Stirling, On the Oceans of Eternity, Penguin, →ISBN, page 231:
text: You my lady ninjette?
ref: 2011, S.M.Stirling, The Tears of the Sun, Penguin, →ISBN, page 499:
glosses: A female ninja-like warrior or martial artist; a kunoichi.
Coordinate terms: english: a female ninja
translation: a female ninja
word: kunoichi
english: a male ninja
translation: a male ninja
word: shinobi
english: a warrior that practices ninjitsu
translation: a warrior that practices ninjitsu
word: ninja
alt: the martial art of a ninja
word: ninjutsu
roman: the martial art of a ninja
alt: the martial art of a ninja
word: ninjitsu
english: a female warrior or heavily muscled woman
translation: a female warrior or heavily muscled woman
word: amazon
Related terms: ninja
ninjettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ninjette
kunoichis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kunoichi
café society
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: café societies
form: cafe society
Senses: examples: text: Manhattan café society provokes a lot of writing, most of it about as enduring as a café socialite's hangover.
ref: 1938 Sept. 19, "Books: Caf" (book review of The Happy Island by Dawn Powell), Time (retrieved 26 May 2014)
text: He was one of those who in the 1930's pioneered . . . candid shots of socialites and entertainers out-on-the-town and eager to be seen. . . . His photography became one of the elements on which café society thrived.
ref: 1988 August 23, Wolfgang Saxon, “Obituary: Jerome Zerbe, 85, Photographer Of Café Society and a Columnist”, in New York Times, retrieved 26 May 2014:
text: This was the moment […] when he realised that the free-wheeling café culture of the 1930s or the 1950s – when Jean-Paul Sartre held court in Montparnasse – had vanished. Overall, he concludes (rightly, I think) that the French café is thriving but French café society is dead.
ref: 2009 November 20, John Lichfield, “Cafe society is dead, but long live the cafe”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 26 May 2014:
text: Iran's cafe society has been targeted as a fertile breeding ground for dissidents.
ref: 2013 January 23, “Iran's morality police crack down on coffee shops: Popular hangout for Tehrani intellectuals closes”, in The Guardian, UK, retrieved 26 May 2014:
glosses: Especially from the late-19th century through the mid-20th century in Europe and America, a culture characterized by continual socializing in bistros, coffee shops, and nightclubs, sometimes extravagantly frivolous and sometimes intensely intellectual in nature but always high-spirited.
Related terms: intelligentsia
jet set
cafe society
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cafe societies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of café society.
aegritude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aegritudes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of egritude.
Swiss Standard German
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: For instance, while the Swiss German word Färnseer (television set) derives from Fernseher, Hutte (tub) and Beige (pile) are Swiss German words that are now used also in Swiss standard German.
ref: 1990, Stephen Barbour, Patrick Stevenson, Variation in German: A Critical Approach to German Sociolinguistics, page 213:
text: The independent position of Swiss Standard German has been strengthened by Swiss neutrality and the recent German past.
ref: 1995, Michael G. Clyne, The German Language in a Changing Europe, page 47:
glosses: The form of the German language used for publishing, broadcasting and writing in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, as distinguished from the Swiss German language used in speech.
Related terms: Swiss German
American longhair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: American longhairs
form: American Longhair
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Maine Coon (a breed of cat)
synonyms: word: Maine Coon
extra: a breed of cat
American longhairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of American longhair
double dip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: double dips
form: double dipping
form: double dipped
form: double dipped
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of double-dip.
double dip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double dips
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of double-dip.
steely-nerved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more steely-nerved
form: most steely-nerved
Etymology: People who were always brave and collected in the face are said to have "nerves of steel".
Senses: glosses: Having a hard, strong, and determined mindset, with very steady nerves; great patience and courage.
Synonyms: steely-eyed
steely-spined
diehard
hardcore
tough as nails
Related terms: nerves of steel
OR gate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: OR gates
Senses: examples: text: The output state of OR gate will be high i.e., (1) if any of the input state is high or 1, else output state will be low i.e., 0.
ref: 2025 August 30, “Logic Gates - Definition, Types, Uses”, in GeeksforGeeks, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2025:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A logic gate performing a Boolean logic OR operation.
AND gate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AND gates
Senses: examples: text: An AND gate is used to perform logical Multiplication of binary input.
ref: 2025 August 30, “Logic Gates - Definition, Types, Uses”, in GeeksforGeeks, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2025:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A logic gate performing a Boolean logic AND operation.
NOT gate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NOT gates
Senses: examples: text: In digital electronics, the NOT gate is one of the basic Logic Gate having only a single input and a single output.
ref: 2025 August 30, “Logic Gates - Definition, Types, Uses”, in GeeksforGeeks, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2025:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A logic gate performing a Boolean-logic NOT operation.
NAND gate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NAND gates
Senses: examples: text: The NAND Gate is another type of Universal logic gate. The NAND gate or "Not AND" is the combination of two basic logic gates AND gate and the NOT gate connected in series.
ref: 2025 August 30, “Logic Gates - Definition, Types, Uses”, in GeeksforGeeks, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2025:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A logic gate performing a Boolean logic NAND operation.
NOR gate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NOR gates
Senses: examples: text: The NOR gate is the type of universal logic gate. It takes two or more inputs and gives only one output.
ref: 2025 August 30, “Logic Gates - Definition, Types, Uses”, in GeeksforGeeks, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2025:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A logic gate performing a Boolean logic NOR operation.
XOR gate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: XOR gates
Senses: examples: text: The output of the XOR gate is logic 1 or high, when its inputs are dissimilar.
ref: 2025 August 30, “Logic Gates - Definition, Types, Uses”, in GeeksforGeeks, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2025:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A logic gate performing a Boolean logic XOR operation.
XNOR gate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: XNOR gates
Senses: examples: text: The output of the XNOR gate is high(1) when both the inputs are high (1) or low(0). In other words, the output of the XNOR gate is high(1) when both the inputs are the same. the XNOR gate can sometimes be called as Equivalence gate. In simple words, The XNOR gate is the complement of the XOR gate.
ref: 2025 August 30, “Logic Gates - Definition, Types, Uses”, in GeeksforGeeks, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2025:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A logic gate performing a Boolean logic XNOR operation; an equivalence gate.
equivalence gate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equivalence gates
Senses: examples: text: The output of the XNOR gate is high(1) when both the inputs are high (1) or low(0). In other words, the output of the XNOR gate is high(1) when both the inputs are the same. the XNOR gate can sometimes be called as Equivalence gate. In simple words, The XNOR gate is the complement of the XOR gate.
ref: 2025 August 30, “Logic Gates - Definition, Types, Uses”, in GeeksforGeeks, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2025:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: a logic gate performing a Boolean logic equivalence operation; an XNOR gate.
TRUE
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: one of two states of a Boolean variable; logic 1.
FALSE
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: one of two states of a Boolean variable; logic 0.
difference gate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: difference gates
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A logic gate whose output is TRUE when the two inputs are different; a Boolean logic XOR gate.
antimoniacal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antimoniacal
form: most antimoniacal
Senses: examples: text: For one of the most enthusiastic supporters of antimoniacal iatrochemistry was the mysterious Basil Valentine, apparently another wholly fictitious ‘great names’ of alchemy.
ref: 2006, Philip Ball, The Devil's Doctor, Arrow, published 2007, page 375:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to antimony.
bottlefeeder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottlefeeders
form: bottle-feeder
form: bottle feeder
Etymology: From bottle + feeder.
Senses: examples: text: One group of researchers (see page 11) have found that at eight days breastfeeders were more likely than bottlefeeders to kiss, rock and touch their babies while feeding and to talk to the babies between sucking bouts, […]
ref: 1982, Máire Messenger, The Breastfeeding Book, Van Nostrand Reinhold, →ISBN, page 15:
text: No matter how strong a mother's reason, there is always someone ready to second-guess her, though they may at the same time deny that that's what they're doing — as in this case of on-line criticism of a bottlefeeder by her breastfeeding in-law: […]
ref: 1995, Peggy Robin, Bottlefeeding Without Guilt: A Reassuring Guide for Loving Parents, Prima, →ISBN, page 68:
text: For Mary, the hardest part about the experience was the feeling of failure and her perception that other mothers thought of her as a "lazy bottlefeeder."
ref: 2005, Andy Steiner, Spilled Milk: Breastfeeding Adventures and Advice from Less-Than-Perfect Moms, Rodale, →ISBN, page xv:
glosses: One who feeds an infant or baby animal with a bottle.
Related terms: breastfeeder
domed land snail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: domed land snails
Senses: glosses: a small cave-dwelling land snail of species Zospeum tholussum (family Carychiidae), discovered in 2013 in caves in Croatia.
Related terms: undomed land snail
domed land slug
doomed land snail
habu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: habus
Etymology: From Japanese 波布 (habu).
Senses: glosses: Any of several venomous snake species of Asia.
glosses: An aircraft nicknamed for these snakes, the SR-71.
examples: text: Habus always joked that you could probably get a free cup of coffee anywhere just by presenting your Mach 3 card.
ref: 1996, Richard H. Graham, SR-71 Revealed: The Untold Story, Motorbooks International, →ISBN, page 22:
glosses: A crewmember of these aircraft.
Derived terms: Okinawan habu
leaf-tailed gecko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaf-tailed geckos
form: leaf-tailed geckoes
Senses: glosses: A gecko with a tail in the shape of a leaf.
Any of 14 species of geckos in the genus Uroplatus found in Madagascar.
glosses: A gecko with a tail in the shape of a leaf.
Any of 9 species of geckos in the genus Phyllurus in Australia.
glosses: A gecko with a tail in the shape of a leaf.
Any of 7 species of geckos in the genus Saltuarius found in Australia.
glosses: A gecko with a tail in the shape of a leaf.
Long-necked northern leaf-tailed gecko, Orraya occultus in Australia.
ANDRILL anemone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ANDRILL anemones
Etymology: From ANDRILL (the ANtarctic DRILLing Project) + (sea) anemone: it was discovered by researchers associated with the project.
Senses: glosses: Edwardsiella andrillae, a sea anemone of the family Edwardsiidae, found in the ice of the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
ANDRILL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Antarctic Drilling Project
tinkerbell fairyfly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tinkerbell fairyflies
Senses: glosses: Tinkerbella nana, a very small wasp (0.25 mm), of the family Mymaridae, found in the forests of Costa Rica, that lives off of the eggs of other insects.
happy ever after
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: happy ever afters
Etymology: From happily ever after (adverb).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences
synonyms: word: eucatastrophe
word: fairy-tale ending
word: happy ending
word: happily ever after
extra: a story, or a conclusion to a story, in which all the loose ends of the plot are tied up, and all the main characters are left in a state of contentment or happiness
glosses: Synonym of happily ever after (“a story, or a conclusion to a story, in which all the loose ends of the plot are tied up, and all the main characters are left in a state of contentment or happiness”).
synonyms: word: fairy-tale ending
word: happily ever after
extra: (“a happy period of time which is imagined never to end; specifically, the state of happiness in which one or more people (typically a loving couple) dwell for the rest of his, her, their, etc., lives”).
glosses: Synonym of happily ever after (“a happy period of time which is imagined never to end; specifically, the state of happiness in which one or more people (typically a loving couple) dwell for the rest of his, her, their, etc., lives”).
happy ever afters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of happy ever after
odorometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of odorometer
cholangiopancreatographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to cholangiopancreatography.
Derived terms: cholangiopancreatographically
cholangiopancreatographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cholangiopancreatography
buzz saw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buzz saws
form: buzz-saw
Senses: examples: text: The American mind exasperated the European as a buzz-saw might exasperate a pine forest.
ref: 1905, Henry Adams, chapter 12, in The Education of Henry Adams:
text: The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard
And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood
ref: 1916, Robert Frost, Out, Out–:
text: A population in full song can exceed 100 decibels, roughly the level of a circular buzz saw at full throttle.
ref: 1987 May 25, David Brand, “Tick, Buzz, It's That Time Again Locusts?”, in Time, retrieved 27 May 2014:
text: [T]hree inmates were freed today by accomplices who descended on a prison in central France in a helicopter, then used a buzz saw to rip through security netting.
ref: 2003 April 14, John Tagliabue, “Another Daring Jailbreak Embarrasses French Government”, in New York Times, retrieved 27 May 2014:
synonyms: circular saw
glosses: A powerful, noisy, motorized saw, typically having a rotary blade with large teeth, sometimes portable and sometimes mounted into a table.
glosses: A type of noisemaker in the form of a spinning disc spun on an untwisting string like a whirligig.
Derived terms: glacial buzz saw
Related terms: circular saw
buzz-saw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buzz-saws
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of buzz saw.
cholangiopancreatography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˌland͡ʒɪəʊˌpaŋkɹɪəˈtɒɡɹəfi/
Forms: form: cholangiopancreatographies
Etymology: Analysable as cholangio- (“related to the bile duct”) + pancreato- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: diagnostic imaging of the bile duct and pancreas
Hyponyms: endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography
cholangiopancreatogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cholangiopancreatograms
Senses: glosses: A diagnostic image created by cholangiopancreatography.
cholangiopancreatograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cholangiopancreatogram
deckside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From deck + -side.
Senses: glosses: On the deck of a vessel.
dichromatisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dichromatism
fendered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fender + -ed.
Senses: examples: a one-fendered chassis
glosses: Having a specified kind or number of fenders.
Derived terms: unfendered
fendering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fenderings
Etymology: From fender + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Material serving as a fender on a vessel.
fenderings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fendering
unfendered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + fendered.
Senses: glosses: Not equipped with a fender.
towmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: towmasters
Etymology: From tow + master.
Senses: examples: text: Each tug captain has a detailed set of tow-out instructions, positions and timing procedures. However, the whole float-out is controlled by a towmaster, who directs and controls all towing operations.
ref: 1978, Mark Williams, No cure, no pay: the story of salvage at sea, page 169:
glosses: One who is employed to manage the towing of a vessel.
towmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of towmaster
fueldraulic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of fuel + hydraulic.
Senses: glosses: Being or relating to a fuel-based hydraulic system.
Tapuria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former region on the southern coasts of the Caspian Sea.
Synonyms: Tabaristan
Tabaristan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Classical Persian تَبَرِسْتَان (tabaristān).
Senses: glosses: A former region on the southern coasts of the Caspian Sea.
Synonyms: Tapuria
bottle-feeder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottle-feeders
Senses: examples: text: Lactating women resumed ovarian function later than bottle-feeders, […]
ref: 2001, Peter T. Ellison, On Fertile Ground: A Natural History of Human Reproduction, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 112:
text: But what if that bottle-feeder she had to despise couldn't feed her own baby for some reason and wanted to?
ref: 2007, Kate Figes, The Big Fat Bitch Book, Hachette, →ISBN:
text: Experienced bottle-feeders suggest you take four to six pre-sterilised bottles to the hospital […]
ref: 2010, The Complete Mumsnet Guides: Pregnancy, Babies, Toddlers, Bloomsbury, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of bottlefeeder.
bottle feeder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottle feeders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bottlefeeder.
bozo eruption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ʌpʃən
Forms: form: bozo eruptions
Senses: examples: text: Smokin’ Tom not only teaches political “science” […] he's a rich old white guy who advises our prime minister and his underlings on how to avoid “bozo eruptions.”
ref: 2010 December 9, David J. Climenhaga, “Smokin’ Tom Flanagan! Jumpin’ Steve Harper! Bozo eruptions erupting all over!”, in rabble.ca, retrieved 27 May 2014:
text: But things shifted the last week with the pro-Caucasian and anti-gay “bozo eruptions” from Wildrose candidates.
ref: 2012 April 23, Graham Thomson, “Progressive appeal of Conservatives wins 2012 election”, in Edmonton Journal, Canada, retrieved 27 May 2014:
text: NDP MP Pat Martin, known for the odd bozo eruption, is seeking the public's help for a legal defence fund.
ref: 2012 September 11, Matt Gurney, “The NDP's hothead needs your money”, in National Post, Canada, retrieved 27 May 2014:
text: Rob Ford remains Mayor of Toronto. . . . [A]re some correct in saying that in our quest to prevent disastrous Ford-style "bozo eruptions" on the campaign trail, we may have gone too far?
ref: 2013 May 20, David P. Ball, “What If Political Parties Stood behind Their Bozos?”, in The Tyee, Canada, retrieved 27 May 2014:
text: McKay says on a recording obtained by CTV News that he thought Trudeau had a “bozo eruption” and didn’t think about what he said when he declared that anti-abortion candidates won’t be allowed to run for the Liberals.
ref: 2014 May 26, “Liberal MP criticizes Justin Trudeau over abortion edict”, in Toronto Star, Canada: The Canadian Press, retrieved 27 May 2014:
synonyms: gaffe
glosses: A (usually unscripted) remark by a politician or other public figure which is especially ill-considered and foolish, and which has negative repercussions for that individual and their affiliated group.
Related terms: Bushism
forthwithal
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Middle English forthwithall, equivalent to forth + withal. Compare Old English forþ mid ealle (“forthwith”, literally “forward with everything”).
Senses: glosses: Forthwith; immediately.
hash mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hash marks
form: hashmark
Senses: glosses: The hash or pound sign (#).
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An inbounds line.
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: Either of the parallel lines on either side of the face-off circles.
glosses: A service stripe, as on an enlistee’s uniform sleeve.
atelophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌtɛləˈfəʊbɪə/
ipa: /əˌtɛləˈfoʊbɪə/
rhymes: -əʊbɪə
Etymology: From a- + telo- + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: The fear of imperfection or not being good enough.
Derived terms: atelophobic
Related terms: inferiority complex
self-esteem
anxiety disorder
syncategorematicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From syncategorematic + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: But closer examination suggests that there was perhaps not much disagreement about individual causal conditions like the knowledge of the feature of syncategorematicity.
ref: 1992, Pradyot Kumar Mukhopadhyay, The Nyāya Theory of Linguistic Performance: A New Interpretation of Tattvacintāmaṇi, The Jadavpur University Press - Calcutta, page 190
glosses: The property of being syncategorematic.
Hayashi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hayashis
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 林 (Hayashi).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
Derived terms: Hayashi limit
Hayashi track
monosexual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + sexual. In the second sense, by analogy with bisexual.
Senses: examples: text: The environment was composed of the students and servants who worked in the schools of Puebla, masculine and monosexual spaces that offered a favorable ambiance for the practice of the nefarious sin. Bear in mind that in pre-industrial societies it was not easy for an individual to escape the promiscuity of everyday life, hiding his acts from his relatives[…]
ref: 2003, Pete Sigal, Infamous Desire: Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 207:
text: And it was biopolitical in that, by assigning Barbin a "true" and "definite" identity as a man, the magistrates maintained sexual dimorphism as the law of populations, even or perhaps particularly in "monosexual" spaces such as the convent.Thus Barbin, as a person assigned to the category of maleness, could no longer belong to the world of the convent.
ref: 2017 September 28, David A. Rubin, Intersex Matters: Biomedical Embodiment, Gender Regulation, and Transnational Activism, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 63:
text: On the other hand, he did not go to a monosexual [all-boys] school as I did, as Isherwood and his kind did.
ref: 2018 August 22, Gore Vidal, The Second American Revolution and Other Essays 1976 - 1982, Vintage, →ISBN:
glosses: Composed of, or relating to, only one sex.
examples: text: How are we to understand the erasure of bisexuality in some of the fundamental works of queer deconstructive theory? […] a reliance on monosexual gay/lesbian historiography […]
ref: 2013 May 13, Karen Lovaas, LGBT Studies and Queer Theory: New Conflicts, Collaborations, and Contested Terrain, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: […] lesbian and gay people (i.e., monosexual minorities) regardless of sex and gender identities often face significant health disparities in relation to heterosexual people, that bisexual/pansexual/queer/fluid people (i.e. non-monosexual people) face significant disparities in relation to some lesbian/gay monosexual people and to monosexual heterosexual people in particular, and that asexual people (i.e., non-monosexual and non-sexual identified people) often experience significant disparities in relation to all of these[…]
ref: 2020 October 7, Alexandra C. H. Nowakowski, J. E. Sumerau, Nik M. Lampe, Transformations in Queer, Trans, and Intersex Health and Aging, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 11:
antonyms: multisexual
plurisexual
coordinate_terms: bisexual
glosses: Sexually attracted to members of only one sex or gender.
monosexual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monosexuals
Etymology: From mono- + sexual. In the second sense, by analogy with bisexual.
Senses: examples: text: Letitia, I fear, is a monosexual. Only men arouse her.
ref: 1968, Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge, Panther Books, →OCLC, page 106:
text: There are several other reasons for underestimating the number of lesbians. One, an effeminate male is usually associated with homosexuality, whether or not he is a monosexual. But masculine women are not usually defined as homosexual. Therefore, the defining of visual characteristics varies for men and women.
ref: 1976, Robert R. Bell, “Female Homosexuality”, in Social deviance: A substantive analysis (The Dorsey Series in Sociology), Revised edition, Dorsey Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 313:
text: While monosexuals (gay men, heterosexuals, and lesbians) tend to describe being attracted to people of only one gender, bisexuals tend to disregard gender when assessing attractions to others.
ref: 2014 December 16, Chuck Stewart, Proud Heritage: People, Issues, and Documents of the LGBT Experience, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 87:
antonyms: multisexual
plurisexual
glosses: A monosexual person.
Hyponyms: heterosexual
homosexual
Derived terms: automonosexual
monosexuality
Related terms: single-sex
unisex
unisexual
monosexuals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monosexual
monosexuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monosexualities
Etymology: From monosexual + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state of being monosexual.
glosses: A sexuality that involves attraction to only one sex: generally, homosexuality or heterosexuality.
Related terms: bisexuality
narcopathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From narco- + -pathic.
Senses: examples: text: The temptation of narcotics is a dangerous thing both for every man and for the man of arts: it may place him in a narcopathic dependence.
ref: 1972, Atti Del 5̊ Congresso Internazionale Di Igiene E Medicina Preventiva, Roma, 8-12 Ottobre 1968:
text: It is here that the illness begins and comes over and over again in repeated schizophrenic attacks, cyclophrenic phases, narcopathic leanings, neurotic breakdowns and psychopathic conflicts.
ref: 1973, Nikola Shipkovenski, “Principles of Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Their Realisation in Bulgaria”, in International Journal of Social Psychiatry, volume 19, page 230:
text: In the narcopathic patient, the specific pathogenous environmental conditions should be carefully examined to help him get rid of them. To most addicts, this means, first, a definitive separation from the group.
ref: 1977, Nikola Shipkovenski, Psychotherapy Versus Iatrogeny: A Confrontation for Physicians:
glosses: Exhibiting antisocial behaviour tied to narcotic addiction.
Related terms: narcopath
monosexualities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monosexuality
schmexy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: schmexier
form: schmexiest
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shmexy.
trimodally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From trimodal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a trimodal manner.
dysbiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to dysbiosis.
dysbioses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dysbiosis
astromathematical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From astro- + mathematical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to astromathematics.
nudifidian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nudifidians
Etymology: From Latin nuda fides (naked faith).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: One who relies on faith alone without works for salvation.
pigeonplum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pigeonplums
Etymology: From pigeon + plum.
Senses: glosses: The plant Coccoloba diversifolia.
doveplum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doveplums
Etymology: From dove + plum.
Senses: glosses: The plant Coccoloba diversifolia.
pigeonplums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pigeonplum
seagrape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seagrapes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sea grape.
seagrapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seagrape
leg before
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Leg before wicket.
reorganisational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of reorganizational.
intersensory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛnsəɹi
Etymology: From inter- + sensory.
Senses: glosses: Between senses (means of perception).