cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
gilloflower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gilloflowers
Senses: examples: text: I will alſo diſtinguiſh and ſeparate them, entreating in the next Chapter of thoſe that beare yellow flowers and greene leaves, which is the diſtinction betweene a Wallflower and a Gilloflower, yet I will here give you the figure of the ſingle garden Stocke Gilloflowers.
ref: 1640, John Parkinson, Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants, chapter 72 “Leucoium. Stocke Gilloflowers”, page 622
glosses: Alternative spelling of gillyflower.
gilloflowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gilloflower
tajweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tajwid.
tajwid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tæd͡ʒˈwiːd/
Forms: form: tajweed
Etymology: From Arabic تَجْوِيد (tajwīd), literally "elocution".
Senses: topics: Islam
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
phonology
religion
sciences
glosses: The rules governing pronunciation during recitation of the Qur'an.
crossish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crossish
form: most crossish
Etymology: From cross + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Slightly cross or irritable.
mad as a box of frogs
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Completely mad; insane; crazy.
itemiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: itemisers
Etymology: From itemise + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of itemizer.
itemisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of itemiser
Bassora
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Basra.
coprimality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From co- + primality.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being coprime.
Synonyms: coprimeness
Chen prime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chen primes
Etymology: Named after Chinese mathematician Chen Jingrun, who proved in 1966 that there are infinitely many such numbers.
Senses: examples: text: 2013, Laura Hemphill, Buying In, Haughton Mifflin Harcourt (New Harvest), page 278,
She tried counting Chen primes. 2, 3, 5... 7, 11... 13... 17... She couldn't concentrate.
text: There are even magic square of primes, like this one containing Chen primes discovered by Rudolf Ondrejka:[…]
ref: 2014, Christian Bessiere et al., “Reasoning about Constraint Methods”, in Duc-Nghia Pham, Seong-Bae Park, editors, PRICAI 2014: Trends in Artificial Intelligence, Springer, page 804:
text: A prime number p is called a Chen prime if p + 2 is either a prime or a product of two primes.[…]There are infinitely [many] Chen primes and the first ten are: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23 and 29.
ref: 2014, Rajesh Kumar Thakur, The Power of Mathematical Numbers, Ocean Books, page 155:
topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: Any prime number p such that p+2 is either a semiprime or another prime.
wikipedia: Chen Jingrun
Related terms: cousin prime
prime gap
prime pair
sexy prime
Chen primes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chen prime
safe prime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: safe primes
Etymology: These primes are called safe because they are safe to use in cyptography due to the fact that one less than the prime has the largest possible prime factor.
Senses: glosses: Any prime number of the form 2p + 1, where p is also a prime.
safe primes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of safe prime
Sophie Germain prime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sophie Germain primes
Etymology: Named after French mathematician Sophie Germain (1776–1831), who used them in her investigations of Fermat's Last Theorem.
Senses: coordinate_terms: Fermat prime
Mersenne prime
glosses: Any prime number p where 2p+1 is also prime.
Sophie Germain primes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sophie Germain prime
cototient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cototients
Etymology: From co- + totient.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The value of n – φ(n), i.e. the number of positive integers less than or equal to n that are divisible by at least one prime that also divides n.
Derived terms: noncototient
cototients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cototient
built-ins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of built-in
Cunningham chain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cunningham chains
Etymology: Named after mathematician A. J. C. Cunningham.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A certain kind of sequence of prime numbers, with applications in cryptography.
A Cunningham chain of the first kind of length n is a sequence of prime numbers (p₁, ..., pₙ) such that for all 1 ≤ i < n, pᵢ₊₁ = 2pᵢ + 1.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A certain kind of sequence of prime numbers, with applications in cryptography.
A Cunningham chain of the second kind of length n is a sequence of prime numbers (p₁,...,pₙ) such that for all 1 ≤ i < n, pᵢ₊₁ = 2pᵢ − 1.
Cunningham chains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cunningham chain
strawbale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strawbales
Etymology: From straw + bale.
Senses: examples: text: Strawbale construction is a sustainable method for building, from the standpoint of both materials and energy needed for heating and cooling.
glosses: A bale of straw.
strawbales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strawbale
maljunction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maljunctions
Etymology: From mal- + junction.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: anomalous union of the pancreatic and biliary ducts outside the duodenal wall.
maljunctions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maljunction
metri gratia
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Latin metrī grātiā.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: for the sake of the meter.
Synonyms: metri causa
watta satta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Urdu وٹہ سٹہ, literally "give-take".
Senses: glosses: A form of bride exchange in Pakistan and Afghanistan, involving the simultaneous marriage of a pair (brother and sister, uncle and niece, etc.) from each of two households.
donkey kong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: donkey kongs
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Donkey Kong.
donkey kongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of donkey kong
von Mangoldt function
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the German mathematician Hans von Mangoldt.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A certain arithmetic function that is neither multiplicative nor additive. It is denoted by Λ(n) and defined as :Λ(n)= log p mbox ifn=pᵏ mbox forsomeprimep mbox andintegerk>1,\0 mbox otherwise.
Knopp
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Knopps
Etymology: Borrowed from German Knopp.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Ersa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɜːsə/
ipa: /ˈɜɹsə/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἕρσα (Hérsa, literally “Dew”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The goddess/personification of the dew.
glosses: A female given name.
Australianization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Australian + -ization.
Senses: glosses: Act or process of making Australian.
flexplate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flexplates
form: flex plate
Etymology: From flex + plate.
Senses: glosses: A disk that connects the output from an engine to the input of a torque converter in a vehicle equipped with an automatic transmission, taking the place of the flywheel found in a conventional manual transmission setup.
flexplates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flexplate
Castilla-La Mancha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Castile-La Mancha
Senses: glosses: An autonomous community in central Spain.
Merkle tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Merkle trees
Etymology: Named after American computer scientist Ralph Merkle (1952–), who patented it in 1979.
Senses: examples: text: 2001, Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Mobile Agent Route Protection through Hash-Based Mechanisms, C. Pandu Rangan, Cunsheng Ding (editors), Progress in Cryptology - INDOCRYPT 2001: 2nd International Conference, Proceedings, Volume 2, Springer, LNCS 2247, page 17,
The second solution uses Merkle trees and minimizes the cost of route protection by the agent owner, so that a single digital signature suffices to protect the whole route; for hosts along the route, the verification cost is similar to the cost of previous schemes in the literature, namely one digital signature verification per route step.
text: 2004, Michael Szydlo, Merkle Tree Traversal in Log Space and Time, Christian Cachin, Jan Camenisch (editors), Advances in Cryptology - EUROCRYPT 2004: International Conference, Proceedings, Springer, LNCS 3027, page 541,
Merkle trees have found many uses in theoretical cryptographic constructions, having been specifically designed so that a leaf value can be verified with respect to a publicly known root value and the authentication data of the leaf.
text: In order to support dynamic data operations, the Merkle Tree is made dynamic by making use of relative index.
ref: 2015, Puonam M. Pardeshi, Bharat Tidke, “Improvement of Data Integrity and Data Dynamics for Data Storage Security in Cloud Computing”, in J. K. Mandal, Suresh Chandra Satapathy, Manas Kumar Sanyal, Partha Pratim Sarkar, Anirban Mukhopadhyay, editors, Information Systems Design and Intelligent Applications, Proceedings of 2nd International Conference, Volume 1, Springer, page 279:
topics: computer
computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: A binary hash tree.
Derived terms: Merkle-Patricia tree
Verkle tree
hash tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hash trees
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A tree (data structure) in which every non-leaf node is labelled with the hash of the labels of its children.
Synonyms: Merkle tree
Bézout's identity
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A theorem in the elementary theory of numbers: let a and b be integers, not both zero, and let d be their greatest common divisor. Then there exist integers x and y such that ax + by = d.
Synonyms: Bézout's lemma
bitlength
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitlengths
Etymology: From bit + length.
Senses: glosses: The number of bits (binary digits) needed to represent a given value.
bitlengths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bitlength
nonfueled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + fueled.
Senses: glosses: Not fueled.
unrefuelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + refuelled.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unrefueled.
unrefueled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unrefuelled
Etymology: From un- + refueled.
Senses: examples: the first unrefueled flight around the world
glosses: Not refueled.
pavonated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈpæv.ə.neɪ.tɪd/
Forms: form: more pavonated
form: most pavonated
Etymology: From Latin pāvō (“peacock”).
Senses: examples: text: 2181 Very dark copper red, slightly pavonated Copper Pyrites, in Quartz; from Freiberg. 2182 Very beautifully pavonated Copper Pyrites, with traversing slips of Siderocalcite; from Grosskamsdorf.
ref: 1798, Dietrich Ludwig Gustav Karsten, A Description of the Minerals in the Leskean Museum, page 243:
text: She guided me into a courtyard whose thrumming intensity of blue could only have been created by a fusion of hyacinthine and pavonated cobalt exalted by lapis. This hot blue kingdom was planted with orange trees heavy with fruit.
ref: 2010 April 5, Michelle Lovric, The Book of Human Skin, A&C Black, →ISBN:
text: The icebergs glowed different shades of blue: turquoise, cerulean, azure, pavonated, sapphire, ultramarine. When our Zodiac stopped to allow people to take photographs I just stared at the surreal magnificence of that glittering blue[…]
ref: 2019 May 30, Rosita Boland, Elsewhere: One Woman, One Rucksack, One Lifetime of Travel, Random House, →ISBN:
topics: sciences
glosses: Colored like the neck of a peacock: peacock blue.
thread lace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thread laces
Senses: glosses: lace made from linen thread
needle-and-thread grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Hesperostipa comata, a North American grass.
micromomentary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + momentary.
Senses: examples: micromomentary facial expressions
glosses: Existing for only a very brief moment in time.
microfacial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪʃəl
Etymology: From micro- + facial.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to microfacies.
glosses: Relating to micromomentary facial expressions.
elephant apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elephant apples
Etymology: Compound of elephant + apple.
Limonia acidissima: due to the skin of the fruit being akin to the skin of elephants.
Senses: glosses: The fruit of several tropical Asian trees:
species of Dillenia, especially
otenga (Dillenia indica)
glosses: The fruit of several tropical Asian trees:
species of Dillenia, especially
katmon (Dillenia philippinensis)
glosses: The fruit of several tropical Asian trees:
wood apple, a citrus relative (Limonia acidissima)
glosses: The fruit of several tropical Asian trees:
bael, another citrus relative (Aegle marmelos)
katmon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: katmons
Senses: glosses: Dillenia philippinensis, a tree endemic to the Philippines, whose fruit is known as the elephant apple.
katmons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of katmon
elephant apples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elephant apple
elephant beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elephant beetles
Etymology: Referring to its large size.
Senses: glosses: Megasoma elephas, a large rhinoceros beetle.
salt cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salt cakes
Senses: glosses: Impure solid sodium sulfate, produced in 19th-20th cc. by pouring sulfuric acid on table salt and formerly used in production of glasses, soaps etc.
thunder rod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thunder rods
Senses: glosses: lightning rod
milksnake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milksnakes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of milk snake.
milksnakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milksnake
chicken snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chicken snakes
Etymology: So called because they like to eat chicken eggs.
Senses: synonyms: rat snake
glosses: Any of various North American colubrid snakes.
thunder snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thunder snakes
Senses: glosses: Any of various North American snakes.
Agkistrodon contortrix laticinctus, the broad-banded copperhead.
glosses: Any of various North American snakes.
Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen, the northern copperhead.
glosses: Any of various North American snakes.
Lampropeltis getula getula, the eastern kingsnake.
in blood
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: If we be English deer, be then in blood:
Not rascal-like, to fall down with a pinch.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
topics: hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: In a state of perfect health and vigour.
examples: text: ... his privies in blood (heirs) and privies in representation (executors and administrators). For it has not been doubted, that privies in blood and privies in representation might, after the death of the insane party, avoid his[…]
ref: 1870, Joseph Story, Commentaries on Equity Jurisprudence: As Administered in England and America, page 225:
glosses: In a blood relationship, in which one is related by blood.
examples: text: Members of the foreign legion paid in blood for their new citizenship.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in, blood. With blood; by losing blood.
false rib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false ribs
Senses: glosses: Any of the ribs that do not articulate directly with the sternum, but connect indirectly via cartilage.
French rice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: spelt (Triticum spelta)
cherry currant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cherry currants
Senses: glosses: A large variety of red currant native to North America, Ribes cereum.
keep term
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps term
form: keeping term
form: kept term
form: kept term
Senses: qualifier: universities
glosses: To reside during a term.
qualifier: universities
glosses: To follow the course by attending the necessary lessons.
topics: law
glosses: To eat a sufficient number of dinners in hall, at the Inns of Court, to make the term count for the purpose of being called to the bar.
platinum sponge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: platinum sponges
Senses: glosses: A porous, grayish-black form of platinum.
chloroazotic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: aqua regia
beat the wing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beats the wing
form: beating the wing
form: beat the wing
form: beaten the wing
form: beat the wing
Senses: examples: text: Thrice have I beat the wing, and rid with night / About the world.
ref: 1674, John Dryden, State of Innocence:
glosses: To flutter or flap; to move with fluttering agitation, or to rush.
beat into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beats into
form: beating into
form: beat into
form: beaten into
Senses: glosses: To teach or instil by harsh repetition.
scarlet shiner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scarlet shiners
Senses: glosses: A fish of species Lythrurus fasciolaris, a native of fresh waters of the eastern United States.
pass box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pass boxes
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A box used to carry cartridges from the service magazine to the piece.
leading case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leading cases
Senses: examples: text: It is remarkable , that in the leading case cited as the foundation of the whole doctrine
ref: 1857, Austin Abbott, Reports of Practice Cases:
topics: law
synonyms: landmark case
glosses: A reported decision which has come to be regarded as settling the law of the question involved.
Related terms: precedent
wine of opium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: Sydenham's laudanum
glosses: A tincture of opium in aromatized sherry.
Sydenham's laudanum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪdənəmz ˈlɔːdənəm/
/ˈsɪdənəmz ˈlɔːdnəm/
Etymology: Named after Thomas Sydenham.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of wine of opium.
synonyms: word: wine of opium
wikipedia: Thomas Sydenham
wine stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wine stones
Senses: glosses: A kind of crust deposited in wine casks; crude argol.
German steel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A kind of steel made from bog iron ore in a forge, with charcoal for fuel.
extended Euclidean algorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the extended Euclidean algorithm
Senses: glosses: An extension to the Euclidean algorithm, which computes the coefficients of Bézout's identity in addition to the greatest common divisor of two integers.
German paste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: With great care it (a young woodpecker) was fed, and eventually reared on such soft food as liver (generally chopped up), German-paste, and fruit not too hard, and became very tame, readily coming to the hand which fed it, darting out its long tongue directly anything was presented, as well as drinking with it, and climbing up me as if I was a tree.
ref: 1901, John Henry Gurney, “Ornithological notes from Norfolk”, in The Zoologist, volume 4th series, vol 5, number 718, page 128/129:
glosses: A prepared food for caged birds, consisting of eggs, peasemeal, etc.
cagebird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cagebirds
Etymology: From cage + bird.
Senses: glosses: A bird kept in a cage.
cagebirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cagebird
German bit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: German bits
Senses: glosses: A wood-boring tool with a long elliptical pod and a screw point.
rankless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rank + -less.
Senses: glosses: Devoid of rank.
German carp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: mirror carp
pearl moss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Irish moss
pearl spar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pearl spars
Senses: glosses: A crystallized variety of dolomite, having a pearly lustre.
wolf eel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wolf eels
Senses: glosses: Anarrhichthys ocellatus, a superficially eel-like fish found in the northern Pacific Ocean.
wolf eels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wolf eel
low side window
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: low side windows
Senses: topics: architecture
synonyms: low
glosses: A type of window that is generally narrow, near the ground, and not aligned with the rows of windows, commonly found in medieval churches.
low wine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: low wines
form: low-wine
Senses: examples: text: A low-wines still's distilling power cannot be ascertained by the actual bulk of the distillates in strong and weak feints and spirits obtained in a given time, […].
ref: 1893, John Albert Nettleton, The Manufacture of Spirit: As Conducted at the Various Distilleries of the United Kingdom, London: Marcus Ward & Co., Limited, page 125:
text: In distillation of Irish whiskey the low wine fraction is split into two, a weak low wine and a strong low wine.
ref: 1987, Vidar F. Larsen, “Alcohol recovery”, in David R. Berry, I. Russell, G.C. Stewart, editors, Yeast Biotechnology, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, page 507:
coordinate_terms: high wine
glosses: A liquor containing about 20 percent alcohol, produced by the first distillation of wash; the first run of the still.
Tassoan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Tassoan
form: most Tassoan
Etymology: From Tasso + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Torquato Tasso (1544–1595), Italian poet.
throw up the sponge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: throws up the sponge
form: throwing up the sponge
form: threw up the sponge
form: thrown up the sponge
Etymology: From a custom of the boxing ring, the person employed to sponge a pugilist between rounds throwing his sponge in the air in token of defeat.
Senses: examples: text: But he was too brave a man to throw up the sponge to fate, and had work to do yet.
ref: 1870, James Russell Lowell, “Lessing”, in Among My Books, Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, page 330:
glosses: To give up a contest; to acknowledge defeat; to throw in the towel.
false croup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false croups
Senses: glosses: croup (viral infection manifested by spasmodic affection of the larynx attended with the symptoms of membranous croup, but unassociated with the deposit of a fibrinous membrane)
Synonyms: word: pseudocroup
false keel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false keels
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The timber below the main keel, used to serve both as a protection and to increase the ship's lateral resistance.
false scorpion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false scorpions
Senses: glosses: pseudoscorpion (Pseudoscorpiones)
false rail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false rails
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A thin piece of timber placed on top of the headrail to strengthen it.
headrails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headrail
false tack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false tacks
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A coming up into the wind and filling away again on the same tack.
false fire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false fires
Senses: glosses: A combustible carried by vessels of war, chiefly for signalling, but sometimes burned for the purpose of deceiving an enemy.
glosses: A light on shore for decoying a vessel to destruction.
Rhiannon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: Celtic mythology
glosses: A figure in Welsh mythology.
glosses: A female given name from Welsh.
Related terms: Rhianna
Jewiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Jewy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Negative stereotypical Jewish qualities
tower defense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TD
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A style of real-time strategy video game in which the player attempts to stop enemies from crossing a map by building traps to slow them down and towers or turrets which shoot at them as they pass within range.
against the hair
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: He is the wiser man, master doctor: he is a curer of souls, and you a curer of bodies; if you should fight, you go against the hair of your professions.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
text: But his Army loved him not; all went unwillingly with him, and against the hair.
ref: 1644, David Hume, The History of the Houses of Douglas and Angus, Edinburgh, Part II, p. 248:
text: And yet hee’l smile, but then beware,
For sure it is against the hair;
ref: 1663 (indicated as 1664), [Samuel Butler], “The Second Part of Hudibras”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, page 74:
glosses: In a rough and disagreeable manner; against the grain.
unlaconic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unlaconic
form: most unlaconic
Etymology: From un- + laconic.
Senses: glosses: Not laconic.
fish pound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish pounds
Senses: examples: text: the River St. Francis and its tributary Rivers and Streams should at all seasons remain open and unencumbered by fish pounds, so that Salmon may be left unmolested at and in ascending to their spawning places
ref: 1841, The Provincial Statutes of Canada:
glosses: A net attached to stakes, for catching fish; a weir.
fish trowel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish trowels
Senses: glosses: fish slice
fish strainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish strainers
Senses: glosses: A colander with handles, used for taking fish out of a cookpot.
examples: text: an earthenware fish strainer
glosses: A perforated slab at the bottom of a dish, used to drain the water from a boiled fish.
neither fish nor flesh
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring (synonym of neither fish nor fowl).
pudding time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Jack was received with a hearty welcome by his uncle, for he came in pudding-time, and was invited to dinner; […]
ref: 1841, Frederick Marryat, Olla Podrida, page 225:
glosses: Dinnertime, (pudding being formerly the dish first eaten).
examples: text: I wyll (quoth he) wyfe, by god almyghty. / This geare comth even in puddyng tyme ryghtly.
ref: 1546, John Heywood, A dialogue conteinyng the nomber in effect of all the prouerbes in the englishe tongue:
text: But that our Land-lord did that shift prevent, / Who came in pudding time, and tooke his Rent
ref: 1623, John Taylor, A new discovery by sea, with a wherry from London to Salisbury:
text: Mars, that still protects the stout, / In pudding time came to his aid.
ref: 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part I Canto II:
text: 17th century The Vicar of Bray
When George in Pudding time came o'er, / And Moderate Men looked big, Sir,
glosses: In the nick of time; critical time, just in time.
pudding pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pudding pies
Senses: examples: text: three well larded pudding-pies
ref: 1630, John Taylor, “The Great Eater of Kent”, in All the Workes of John Taylor the Water Poet:
glosses: A pudding with meat baked in it.
examples: text: Hey, puddin' pie, cool it, will ya? I mean, c'mon, babe... Everyone's watchin'.
ref: 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Keelhaul Key:
glosses: A term of endearment
shell lime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: lime made by burning the shells of shellfish
shell jacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shell jackets
Senses: glosses: A short jacket reaching the hips, once part of military uniforms.
glosses: The jacket of a shell suit.
Derived terms: shell-jacketed
oil beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oil beetles
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Meloe of blister beetles, which release oily droplets of toxic hemolymph from their joints when disturbed.
oil of talc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: That for the oil of Talc, dare spend / More than citizens dare lend / Them, or all their officers - Ben Jonson, To Sickness
glosses: A nostrum made of calcined talc, famous in the 17th century as a cosmetic.
oil test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oil tests
Senses: glosses: A test for determining the temperature at which petroleum oils give off vapor which is liable to explode.
Mungbam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Southern Bantoid language of Cameroon.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Mungbam terms
oil green
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A pale yellowish green colour.
oil of wine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: enanthic ether
Derived terms: concrete oil of wine
postprint
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + print.
Senses: examples: text: The coming of the digital age has made possible new postprint forms of representation, such as the blog and the online diary.
ref: 2009, G. Thomas Couser, Signifying Bodies: Disability in Contemporary Life Writing, page 12:
glosses: After (the era or technology of) printing.
postprint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postprints
Etymology: From post- + print.
Senses: glosses: The version of a manuscript after it has gone through the peer-review process, but prior to publication in a learned journal; the author's final submission.
Cabra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Shortening (in NSW).
Senses: glosses: Cabramatta, a suburb in New South Wales.
glosses: A western suburb of Dublin, Ireland (Irish grid ref O 1336).
oil of brick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An empyreumatic oil obtained by subjecting a brick soaked in oil to distillation at a high temperature; formerly used in medicine and by lapidaries.
wheat thief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: So called because it is a troublesome weed in wheat fields.
Senses: glosses: gromwell
hard coal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hard coals
Senses: glosses: Anthracite, as distinguished from bituminous soft coal.
guard lock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guard locks
Senses: glosses: tide lock
run the guard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs the guard
form: running the guard
form: ran the guard
form: run the guard
Senses: glosses: To pass the watch or sentinel without leave.
forbare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of forbear
blind rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blind rats
Senses: glosses: mole rat
rat pit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rat pits
Senses: glosses: An enclosed space into which rats are placed to be killed by a dog for sport.
examples: text: Kurrell looked round the rat-pit of Kashima and made no reply.
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “A Wayside Comedy”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 73:
glosses: A dreadful place.
Related terms: rat-baiting
ratting
diamond mortar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diamond mortars
Senses: glosses: A small steel mortar used for pulverizing hard substances.
giant fennel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Ferula communis, a tall herbaceous perennial (not a true fennel), of the family Apiaceae, native to the Mediterranean and eastern Africa.
club topsail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: club topsails
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A kind of gaff-topsail, used mostly by yachts having a fore-and-aft rig. It has a short "club" or "jack yard" to increase its spread.
honey kite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honey kites
Senses: glosses: honey buzzard
shaft alley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shaft alleys
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A passage extending from the engine room to the stern, and containing the propeller shaft.
over the left shoulder
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: He said it, and it is true — over the left shoulder.
synonyms: bender
over
over the bender
over the left
glosses: Used as an aside to indicate insincerity, negation, or disbelief.
tongue bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tongue bones
Senses: glosses: hyoid bone
keep shady
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps shady
form: keeping shady
form: kept shady
form: kept shady
Senses: glosses: To stay in concealment.
glosses: To be reticent.
German millet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: foxtail millet (Setaria italica)
crosswire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crosswires
Etymology: From cross + wire.
Senses: glosses: crosshair; reticle
crosswires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crosswire
bone lace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bone laces
Etymology: Traditionally woven with bobbins of bone.
Senses: glosses: A lace made of linen thread.
hag's tooth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hag's teeth
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An ugly irregularity in the pattern of matting or pointing.
program trading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: programme trading
Senses: examples: text: But the controversy over program trading, the sophisticated investment strategy responsible for the upheavals that have sometimes marked “witching” Fridays, is far from over.
ref: 1986 September 21, James Sterngold, “Wall Street rethinks its latest trading fad”, in New York Times, retrieved 31 May 2014:
text: When program trading came into vogue in the mid-1980s, it was at the forefront of Wall Street's computer revolution—and its practitioners included the Street's largest and most luminous brokerages.
ref: 1992 May 17, “Program Traders: They're Back, Without The Bad Vibes”, in Businessweek, retrieved 31 May 2014:
text: A more bewildering development is the array of complex, computer-assisted trading techniques that, in taking the stock exchanges by storm, have become a major cause of the market's extraordinary peaks and valleys. The most controversial is known as program trading, in which computers, for example, launch massive buy and sell orders.
ref: 2001 June 24, George Russell, “Manic Market”, in Time, retrieved 31 May 2014:
text: I’ll say it again: program trading, now known as “high-frequency” trading, serves no purpose but to line the pockets of the program-trading firms at the expense of the millions of other investors participating in the market.
ref: 2010 May 8, Sy Harding, “Program Trading Needs To Be Banned”, in Forbes, retrieved 31 May 2014:
topics: business
computing
engineering
finance
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: high-frequency trading
glosses: High-volume and high-speed buying and selling of investment securities, such as stocks and bonds, which is initiated and executed by brokerage firms' computer programs that continually monitor market conditions.
high-frequency trading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of program trading.
synonyms: word: program trading
Clermont
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Clermont, from Latin clarus (“clear, famed”) + mons (“mount, mountain”).
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Clermont-Ferrand.
glosses: A commune of Oise department, Hauts-de-France, France.
glosses: A commune of Landes department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
glosses: A commune of Haute-Savoie department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
glosses: A commune of Ariège department, Occitania, France.
glosses: A town in Capitale-Nationale, Quebec; named for Clermont-Ferrand in honor of Blaise Pascal.
glosses: A town in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec.
glosses: A city in Florida.
glosses: A town in Georgia, United States.
glosses: A town in Indiana.
glosses: A city in Iowa.
glosses: A town in New York; named for the nearby Taconic mountains.
glosses: A town in Queensland; named for Clermont-Ferrand, the hometown of a founder.
glosses: A town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; named after an early landowner.
Derived terms: Clermont County
Cancún
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kænˈkuːn/
/kɑːnˈkuːn/
Forms: form: Cancun
form: Cancoon
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Cancún, from Yucatec Maya kaan (“snake”) + kun (“overfilled”).
Senses: glosses: A resort city in Quintana Roo, in southeastern Mexico, on the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula.
Derived terms: Cancún Cruz
comes on to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of come on to
coming on to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of come on to
came on to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of come on to
value judgments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of value judgment
breaks the bank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of break the bank
breaking the bank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of break the bank
broke the bank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of break the bank
broken the bank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of break the bank
upstates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upstate
pezant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pezants
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of peasant.
painted Jezebel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: painted Jezebels
Etymology: From Jezebel, the Phoenician princess and Queen of Ancient Israel who appears in the Old Testament (1 Kings). She incited heresy and lured the Jews away from their God and back to idols. Before her death, knowing that she was soon to be slain, she took the time to fix her hair and paint her face.
From the 16th century, some people believed that makeup was worn only by immoral women; hence the wearing of makeup implied immorality.
Senses: examples: text: [I]n her absence Olive might give any version of her she chose. "I have told him you are a radical, and you may tell him, if you like, that I am a painted Jezebel."
ref: 1885–1886, Henry James, The Bostonians […], London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 16 February 1886, →OCLC:
glosses: A Jezebel; an evil, scheming, shameless or immoral woman, especially one who uses physical attractiveness to evil ends.
glosses: Delias hyparete, a species of butterfly of the family Pieridae.
sweet ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweet balls
Senses: examples: text: Let them take heed of Esay's prophecy, that their slippers and attires be not taken from them, sweet balls, bracelets, ear-rings, veils […].
ref: , III.2.2.iii
glosses: A ball of some aromatic substance.
not have a pot to piss in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: not have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of
Senses: examples: text: When I grew up, my family was so poor we didn't have a pot to piss in, so we pissed in other people's pots. We'd break into people's houses in the dead of night, find people's pots and take a giant piss in them because we had accumulated full bladders from holding down urine all day long from waiting to piss in people's pots.
ref: 2017, Norm Macdonald Live, season 3, episode 12, spoken by Norm Macdonald:
glosses: To possess no money or resources.
Related terms: piss-poor
two pennies to rub together
without a pot to piss in
ergometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ergo- + -metric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to ergometry.
Related terms: ergometry
ergometer
ergometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ergometries
Etymology: From ergo- + -metry.
Senses: glosses: measurement with an ergometer
Derived terms: cycloergometry
spiroergometry
Related terms: ergometer
ergometric
recarpet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recarpets
form: recarpeting
form: recarpeted
form: recarpeted
Etymology: From re- + carpet.
Senses: examples: text: We're planning to recarpet the dining room.
text: Compared to the last time they'd tangled with the U.S. Navy's carriers, the antiaircraft fire had been much, much more effective, even if the Wildcats hadn't done particularly well in their intercepts. They couldn't know it, of course, but the officer aboard Enterprise who'd recommended recarpeting the ship with 20-mm Oerlikons had, at least partially, been listened to, and the effect on the Japanese Navy's elite aircrews had been devastating.
ref: 2021 February 3, Drachinifel, 19:47 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - Santa Cruz (IJN 2 : 2 USN), archived from the original on 04 Dec 2022:
glosses: To replace the carpet of.
glosses: To resurface (a road).
recarpets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recarpet
recarpeting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recarpet
recarpeted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recarpet
preprandials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: praeprandials
form: præprandials
form: pre-prandials
Senses: glosses: plural of preprandial.
toad rush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toad rushes
form: toadrush
form: toad-rush
Etymology: So named because of its tendency to grow in the same habitat where toads live.
Senses: synonyms: toad-grass
glosses: Juncus bufonius, a common species of rush found worldwide, growing in moist and muddy places.
sailyards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sailyard
rambly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rambly
form: most rambly
Etymology: From ramble + -y.
Senses: examples: text: But the mere mention of garden design is anathema to many people; they love a "rambly" garden. Such a garden is based on rambly ideas. This shrub would "look well" here; a bed of roses would "be just the thing" there; […]
ref: 1947, Kenneth Hamlyn McConnel, Rex Hazlewood, Planning the Australian homestead, page 100:
text: Is your writing wordy and rambly? Try these two new products and you may discover that you can be a better, faster writer than you think!
ref: 1988, U-M Computing News, volume 3, page 71:
text: Boris Johnson's speech to the nation on Sunday May 10 was rambly, incoherent, and he failed dismally in his attempt to sound Churchillian.
ref: 2020 May 20, Christian Wolmar, “Clarity is required on social distancing and the railways”, in Rail, page 50:
glosses: Tending to ramble, to wander aimlessly or to make meandering digressions.
double Gloucester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double Gloucesters
form: double Gloster
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps because cream from the morning milk was added to the evening milk, because the milk was skimmed twice, or because the cheese was typically twice the height of a single Gloucester.
Senses: glosses: A variety of Gloucester cheese, stronger and aged for longer than single Gloucester.
stone's cast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: stone's throw
apellai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀπέλλαι (apéllai), plural form of ἀπέλλα (apélla, “fold, fence for animals”); compare Laconian Ancient Greek ἀπελλάζω (apellázō, “to assemble”).
Senses: glosses: An initiation family-festival which was dedicated to Apollo
apellai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀπέλλαι (apéllai), plural form of ἀπέλλα (apélla, “fold, fence for animals”); compare Laconian Ancient Greek ἀπελλάζω (apellázō, “to assemble”).
Senses: glosses: plural of apella
Abrek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Abreks
Etymology: From Ossetian абрӕг (abræg, “robber”) via Russian абре́к (abrɛ́k).
Senses: glosses: A North Caucasian highlander, a guerrilla fighter during Russian expansion in the North Caucasus in the 19th century.
glosses: A bandit, thug, a menacing looking man from the North Caucasus, especially if armed.
glosses: A North Caucasian (person from the North Caucasus).
Abreks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Abrek
twidiot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twidiots
Etymology: Blend of Twitter + idiot
Senses: glosses: Someone who posts stupid remarks on the Twitter microblogging service.
courtesy call
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: courtesy calls
Senses: glosses: A usually symbolic formal meeting in which a diplomat or representative of a state pays a visit out of courtesy to a head of state or state office holder.
Lunyu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese 論語 (Lúnyǔ, "The Analects").
Senses: glosses: The Analects (collected sayings) of Confucius
Synonyms: Analects
Analects
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From James Legge's 1861 translation of the work's Mandarin Chinese title 論語 (Lúnyǔ). "Analects" itself is a 1658 Ancient Greek loanword from ἀνάλεκτα (análekta, “things chosen”), from ἀνα- (ana-, “up”) + λέγειν (légein, “to gather”). Compare lecture.
Senses: glosses: The collected sayings of Confucius
bar shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bar shot
Senses: examples: text: Bar shot and chain shot were primarily used during sea battles to destroy the sails and rigging of enemy vessels. The first mention of bar shot was by the Dutch in 1819.
ref: 1987 January 1, Robert F. Marx, Shipwrecks in the Americas, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 104:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A double-headed shot, consisting of a bar, with a ball or half ball at each end; formerly used for destroying the masts or rigging in naval combat.
wikipedia: bar shot
avahi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avahis
Senses: glosses: woolly lemur