cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
jonque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jonques
Senses: examples: text: I know not, indeed, if the artist could give the beautiful orange which distinguish ^([sic]) the jonque, or the mellowness of tint that pervades the mealy.
ref: 1800, The New and Complete Canary-bird Fancier, page 8:
text: Canary-birds, however, are not likely to become extinct; […] each flock is said to have its own peculiar song, but we must not think the "jonques," so popular among us, form the majority in a flock.
ref: 1865, All the Year Round, volumes 13-14, page 85:
text: Pied birds are produced by matching a green jonque with a clean jonque, or a mealy hen.
ref: 1875, The Bird-Keeper's Guide and Companion, page 19:
coordinate_terms: mealy
glosses: A canary that is of a single color with no dark feathers.
vertice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈvɝtɪsiː/
Forms: form: vertices
Etymology: Back-formation from vertices.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vertex.
fritinancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Cicada is most upon trees; and lastly, the note or fritiniancy thereof is farre more shrill then that of the Locust.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, “Of the Picture of a Grasshopper”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 5th book, page 199:
text: Trees will make the old noises in my ears—their trunks lay the same purple stain along the path, and the grass, with a silver fritinancy, answer the same branch-noises; but the cause must be, as heretofore, wind, sun, and grasshopper!
ref: 1857 July, Jack Tupper, “Extracts from the Diary of an Artist”, in The Crayon, page 202:
text: And perhaps in these days when the hens hold conventions and their fritinancy disturbs the ears of thoughtful men it may not be superfluous to iterate the old truth that woman is physically, mentally, and morally inferior to man.
ref: 1895 October, “Leader”, in M'lle New York, volume 1, number 6, page 2:
text: If there were not so many people who play the piano, the piano-playing of Paderewski would not be so glorified.[…]One cannot help surprise[…]that the man Paderewski should lend himself to such fritinancy.
ref: 1900 February 22, Pasquin, “Paderewski: How his playing struck a Philistine”, in The Mirror (St Louis), volume 10, number 2, page 12:
text: 'The native thought of mankind is gratitude. The most significant noise of earth is the singing of birds,' said the professor with determination.
'Fritinancy,' declared the young man beside the fire.
ref: 1929, Eric Linklater, Poet's Pub, J. Cape, published 1952, page 281:
glosses: Chirping, twittering.
East Berliners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of East Berliner
East Berliner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: East Berliners
Etymology: From East Berlin + -er.
Senses: glosses: A resident of East Berlin.
tautologia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin, from Ancient Greek.
Senses: glosses: Tautology.
enzym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enzyms
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of enzyme.
remote desktop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remote desktops
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A real-time network mirroring of one computer's graphical display onto another computer (with or without knowledge of the mirrored computer's user, with or without shared mouse and keyboard interaction).
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A specific software program that accomplishes that mirroring.
thereminist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thereminists
Etymology: From theremin + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who plays the theremin.
thereminists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thereminist
oboists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oboist
riddle wrapped in an enigma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A variation of Winston Churchill's quotation, made in a radio broadcast in October 1939.
Senses: glosses: Something very mysterious and hidden.
wikipedia: Winston Churchill
mazame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mazames
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mazama.
hammermen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hammerman
laundrymen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laundryman
handcraftsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handcraftsman
gaso
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gas-.
Derived terms: gasotransmitter
electron configuration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electron configurations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The arrangement of electrons in an atom, molecule, or other physical structure like a crystal.
reodorant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reodorants
form: reodourant
Senses: examples: text: Care must be taken never to use a reodorant to mask or cover up a toxic concentration of gas.
ref: 1960, American Society of Heating, Air-Conditioning Engineers, Heating, Ventilating, Air Conditioning Guide, page 83:
text: Some new material, the mask or reodorant which has something in common with the unwanted odour is added, eg an acid odour can be built up to a fruity note.
ref: 1966, R. W. Moncrieff, Odour Preferences, page 314:
text: Aromatics, sometimes referred to as reodorants, are added to fabric sizing to disguise the glue or casein smell, leaving the product with a fine fresh odor.
ref: 1984, Nicholas Basta, George T. Austin, Shreve's Chemical Process Industries Handbook, 5th edition, page 485:
glosses: A chemical additive designed to restore, enhance or disguise an odor.
raiments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raiment
electron capture detector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electron capture detectors
Senses: qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: An item of laboratory equipment used coupled to a gas chromatograph for the detection and quantification of very minute amounts halogenated organic compounds.
ECD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ECDs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of electron capture detector.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of expanded-criteria donor.
Coordinate terms: SCD
DBD
DCD
Ionians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ionian
decimal places
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decimal place
butt hinge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butt hinges
Senses: topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, lid, covers, etc.; so named because fastened on the edge of the door, which butts against the frame, stop molding, and casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called a butt.
arepa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arepas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish arepa.
Senses: examples: text: The menu darts among Latin American cuisines like arepas, empanadas (a duo) and […] a gigantic Peruvian-style rotisserie chicken.
ref: 2009 January 25, Kris Ensminger, “On the Cheap”, in New York Times:
glosses: A type of cornbread originating from the northern Andes and resembling a tortilla.
barbacoa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɑː(ɹ)bəˈkoʊ.ə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish barbacoa (whence also barbecue), from Taíno barbakoa (“framework of sticks”), the raised wooden structure the natives used to either sleep on or cure meat. Originally “meal of roasted meat or fish”.
Senses: examples: text: At first Andablo tried to make barbacoa with cow heads, but something about American beef didn't taste right. "
ref: 2004 January 16, Mike Sula, “The Cooking Life”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Meat slow-cooked over an open fire, characteristic of Latin American cuisine.
Related terms: barbecue
balbacua
soldered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of solder
soldered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more soldered
form: most soldered
Senses: glosses: Fastened by means of solder.
allineate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: allineates
form: allineating
form: allineated
form: allineated
Etymology: Borrowed from the past participle of Italian allineare.
Senses: examples: text: the intended base line allineated by placing a telescope a little beyond one of its proposed extremities
ref: 1867, John Frederick William Herschel, Familiar Lectures on Scientific Subjects:
glosses: To align.
solderings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soldering
God bless you
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: God bless you !
Etymology: From Middle English God blesse you, God blisse you. A clause in the present subjunctive inherited intact from a time when English was freely productive of it. Diachronically it is not a shortening; synchronically it is often surface-analyzed as such; present-day English has a heavy need for the modal auxiliary (may) to ensure syntactic clarity, whereas earlier English could more easily drop it.
Senses: examples: text: I heard you helped them with clearing away the downed tree. God bless you! The Lord provides!
text: You got that whole area cleaned up in one day? God bless you! I'll buy your coffee today!
text: “But she will be gained by some one else. And if that some one should be the very he whom, of all others, I could least bear—But I will not stay to rob myself of all your compassionate good-will, by shewing that where I have most injured I can least forgive. Good bye,—God bless you!” And with these words, he almost ran out of the room.
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume III, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 185–186:
synonyms: God bless
bless you
glosses: May God bless you; said as a short prayer, benediction, or valediction for the recipient; usually religiously; sometimes nonliterally but rhetorically or culturally.
glosses: Said to somebody who has sneezed, as a rhetorical response; alternative form of bless you.
Derived terms: word: God bless
Related terms: God love someone
God-bless
adultry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of adultery.
nastiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of nasty: most nasty
without a doubt
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: without doubt
Senses: glosses: certainly; doubtlessly; unquestionably; indisputably; doubtless; surely; no doubt; without any doubt.
ring-bark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ring-barks
form: ring-barking
form: ring-barked
form: ring-barked
form: ring bark
form: ringbark
Senses: examples: text: Six or eight inches above this graft the stem should be ring-barked, but leaves above the ring-bark left for shade for two or three weeks […].
ref: 2007, Niya Gopal Mukerji, Handbook of Indian Agriculture, page 389:
glosses: To girdle a tree; to kill a tree by removing a ring of bark, phloem, and cambium.
ring-bark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ring bark
form: ringbark
Senses: glosses: The bark removed by ring-barking.
glosses: The area of the tree from which the bark has been removed by ring-barking.
gas syringe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gas syringes
Senses: qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: An item of laboratory equipment used to withdraw a volume of gas from a closed chemical system, for measurement and/or analysis.
expansion adapter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expansion adapters
Senses: glosses: A piece of laboratory apparatus used to connect equipment having ground glass joints of different sizes
graduated cylinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graduated cylinders
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: measuring cylinder
glosses: An item of glass laboratory equipment consisting of a tall, narrow cylinder with a scale, or graduations marked up its length, which is used to measure liquids and solutions fairly accurately, but not precisely.
measuring cylinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: measuring cylinders
Senses: glosses: Synonym of graduated cylinder.
synonyms: word: graduated cylinder
ground glass joint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ground glass joints
Senses: glosses: Any of several standard sized joints, made from ground glass, used to connect laboratory glassware without leaks.
ground glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ground glasses
form: ground-glass
Senses: glosses: Glass having a rough, flat surface produced by abrasion or etching.
Derived terms: ground glass hepatocyte
ground glass joint
ground glass opacity
ground glass screen
brewskies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brewsky
ahlspiessen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ahlspiess
Pasteur pipette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pasteur pipettes
Etymology: Named after the French scientist Louis Pasteur, who used them in his research.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An item of laboratory equipment consisting of a simple pipette with a very long, fine nose and a rubber bulb, used to draw small amounts of liquid from a chemical liquid or solution. Often used to separate two phases in a small sample.
wikipedia: Louis Pasteur
Synonyms: pastette
watch glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watch glasses
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An item of glass laboratory equipment consisting of a simple, slightly concave circle of glass. It is a general utility item, used to hold small samples, to evaporate liquids, to cover a beaker, and so on.
glosses: The glass covering of the face of a watch.
glosses: A sandglass, hourglass.
paperknives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paperknife
parablepsia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pæɹəˈblɛpsɪə/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of parablepsis.
carpet muncher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carpet munchers
Etymology: See rug muncher § Etymology.
Senses: synonyms: rug muncher
cunnilinguist
muff diver
pussylicker
glosses: A person who performs cunnilingus.
synonyms: rug muncher
cunnilinguist
muff diver
pussylicker
glosses: A person who performs cunnilingus.
A lesbian.
Related terms: carpet munching
eat pussy
high-definition televisions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of high-definition television
rug muncher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rug munchers
Etymology: By a metaphor in which the pubic hair is the rug.
Senses: examples: text: Marc knows all too well that a party without punch-ups, drugs, rug-munchers and corpses is hardly worth sticking around for.
ref: 2007, Frédéric Beigbeder, Frank Wynne, Holiday in a coma: and, Love lasts three years, page 102:
text: She'd never had much to do with rug munchers in the past and was fascinated by this woman.
ref: 2008, Kimberley Chambers, Billie Jo:
text: One man, two bisexual women, and a total rug-muncher: the possibilities are endless.
ref: 2011, Brett Kiellerop, My Big Fat Gay Life, page 55:
synonyms: carpet muncher
pussylicker
coordinate_terms: cockmuncher
cock gobbler
glosses: Someone who performs cunnilingus.
synonyms: carpet muncher
pussylicker
coordinate_terms: cockmuncher
cock gobbler
glosses: Someone who performs cunnilingus.
A lesbian.
Related terms: eat cunt
girdling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of girdle
Schlenk flask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Schlenk flasks
Etymology: From the inventor, Wilhelm Schlenk.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An item of glass laboratory equipment consisting of a flask designed for the extraction of air to leave an inert gas or vacuum before introducing the reagents.
Synonyms: Schlenk tube
ringbarking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ringbark
Schlenk tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Schlenk tubes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of Schlenk flask.
synonyms: word: Schlenk flask
ring-barking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ring-bark
thistle tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thistle tubes
Etymology: From its resemblance in shape to a thistle.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An item of glass laboratory equipment like a funnel consisting of a long, fine tube and a bulbous reservoir at the top. Used for introducing liquids, with care, into a solution.
suh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "Good-mawnin', suh," he said, lifting his cap politely.
ref: 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:
related: word: sah
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of sir, usually to suggest the speech of African-American slaves.
Related terms: yessuh
saar
suh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Suh, dude?
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of sup (“what's up”).
mesially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mesially
form: most mesially
Etymology: From mesial + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The second premolar has two roots, one located mesially and one distally under the crown
ref: 1999, Friderun Ankel-Simons, Primate Anatomy: An Introduction, page 246:
glosses: Toward the central plane of a body with bilateral symmetry.
Derived terms: anteromesially
labiomesially
posteromesially
Related terms: mesial
distally
denialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈnaɪ(j)əlɪzəm/
Forms: form: denialisms
Etymology: From denial + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: climate denialism
text: vaccine denialism
text: At this point Rudd confronts a new denialism. Just as John Howard was wrong to deny the confessional value of the apology, many Laborites are wrong to deny the abject failures of past generation policies.
ref: 2008 February 16, Paul Kelly, The Australian:
text: Denialism is an expansion, an intensification, of denial. At root, denial and denialism are simply a subset of the many ways humans have developed to use language to deceive others and themselves. Denial can be as simple as refusing to accept that someone else is speaking truthfully.
ref: 2018 August 3, Keith Kahn-Harris, “Denialism: what drives people to reject the truth”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: In other words, the pattern of resistance to the coronavirus vaccines looks less like COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and more like COVID-19 denialism.
ref: 2021 April 27, David A. Graham, “It’s Not Vaccine Hesitancy. It’s COVID-19 Denialism.”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: The practice of rejecting propositions which are strongly supported by scientific or historical evidence, and often of seeking to influence policy processes and outcomes accordingly.
Synonyms: negationism
Derived terms: climate denialism
Related terms: denialist
denialisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of denialism
ceiba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ceibas
form: ceiba
Etymology: From Spanish ceiba.
Senses: glosses: Any tree of the genus Ceiba, the best-known of which is Ceiba pentandra.
glosses: The silk-cotton tree, Bombax ceiba.
Related terms: taxonomic: Erythrina crista-galli
word: ceibo
homebrew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhoʊmˌbɹu/
Forms: form: homebrews
Etymology: From home + brew.
Senses: glosses: A beer brewed by enthusiasts rather than commercially.
glosses: Made or changed by amateurs (especially games or amateur radio equipment).
examples: text: Homebrews, American imports, former big-leaguers—the Terriers had it all.
ref: 2006, David Menary, Terrier Town: Summer of ’49, page 19:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A player who plays for the team named after their own native town.
Derived terms: homebrewer
homebrew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhoʊmˌbɹu/
Forms: form: homebrews
form: homebrewing
form: homebrewed
form: homebrewed
Etymology: From home + brew.
Senses: glosses: To brew one's beer or other alcoholic beverage at home.
glosses: To create something as an enthusiast, rather than using a commercial option.
topics: games
gaming
glosses: To jailbreak a video game console, specifically made by Nintendo, to run unofficial programs.
Synonyms: craft beer
homebrews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homebrew
homebrews
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of homebrew
homebrewing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of homebrew
homebrewers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homebrewer
pilsener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pilseners
Etymology: From German Pilsener.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pilsner.
pilseners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pilsener
stouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stout
uricemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjʊəɹɪˈsiː.mi.ə/
ipa: /ˌjʊɹɪˈsi.mi.ə/
rhymes: -iːmiə
Etymology: From uric + -emia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: uricacidemia
glosses: The presence of uric acid in the blood
Derived terms: hyperuricemia
hypouricemia
normouricemia
uricemic
lambic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæm.bɪk/
note: gallicized
ipa: /ˌlɑmˈbiːk/
rhymes: -æmbɪk
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: lambics
Etymology: First attested as allambique; probably (via Belgian Dutch lambiek) from French alambic (“alembic”). Doublet of alembic and ambix.
Senses: examples: text: Wooden casks serve a special role in the maturation of lambic by allowing a little oxygen to slowly contact the beer.
ref: 1990, Jean Guinard, Lambic, Brewers Publications, →ISBN:
glosses: A mid-strength traditional Belgian/Flemish sour beer of spontaneous fermentation.
lambics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lambic
hypocrisies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypocrisy
locavores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of locavore
evolutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌiːvəˈluːʃənz/
ipa: /ˌɛvəˈluʃənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of evolution
ozocerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ozocerites
form: ozokerite
form: ozokerit
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: earthwax
mineral wax
glosses: A dark waxy mineral, found associated with petroleum in some sandstones, used to make polishes.
ceresin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ceresins
form: ceresine
Senses: glosses: A refined form of ozocerite that is used in polishes and to make candles
platelets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of platelet
yiffers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yiffer
jerkwater town
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jerkwater towns
Etymology: See jerkwater.
Senses: synonyms: word: tank town
word: one-horse town
word: Podunk
word: Isolated town
word: bump in the road
word: jerkwater
word: jerk-water
word: jerkwater town
word: one-horse town
word: wide spot in the road
word: Isolated place
word: arse end of nowhere
word: back of beyond
word: back forty
word: backcountry
word: backwater
word: backwoods
word: beyond the black stump
word: boondock
word: boondocks
word: boonies
word: bumfuck middle of nowhere
word: bumfuck nowhere
word: dullsville
word: edge of the earth
word: edge of the world
word: ends of the earth
word: ends of the world
word: hinterland
word: middle of nowhere
word: north forty
word: off the beaten track
word: out of the way
word: sticks
word: the sticks
word: Actual places
word: back o' Bourke
word: Outer Mongolia
word: Timbuktu
word: Tuktoyaktuk
word: Fictional places
word: Anytown
word: BFE
word: Bumblefuck
word: Bumfuck
word: Egypt
word: Idaho
word: Iowa
word: Kansas
word: Minnesota
word: Nowhere
word: Ohio
word: Buttfuck
word: East Bumfuck
word: East Jesus
word: Hicksville
word: Nowheresville
word: Podunk
word: Squedunk
word: Whateverville
word: wop-wops
word: Woop Woop
hypernyms: backwater
glosses: A small town with minimal facilities and conveniences.
shoot blanks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shoots blanks
form: shooting blanks
form: shot blanks
form: shot blanks
Etymology: Likening the ejaculation of semen to bullets from a gun, as in ejaculating but no semen comes out; see blank (“cartridge that simulates gunfire”).
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shoot, blanks.
glosses: To be sterile.
raw_tags: of a male
nominalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nominalizations
form: nominalisation
Etymology: From nominal + -ization or nominalize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Writers who overload their sentences with nominalizations tend to sound pompous and abstract.
ref: 2012 July 23, Helen Sword, “Zombie Nouns”, in NY Times:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A noun derived from an adjective, verb, etc., often (in English) by adding a suffix such as -ity, -tion or -ism.
examples: text: The positive use of the feminine noun une rien has been gradually replaced by the nominalization of the pronoun and the adverb that commonly serve as negative auxiliaries, rien, un rien: “The word offers a short version of the evolution of the etymological meaning of chose inverted as néant (c. 1530)” (RT: DHLF)[…]
ref: 2014 February 9, Barbara Cassin, Emily Apter, Jacques Lezra, Michael Wood, Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 722:
text: Nominalization and agentless passives have attracted sustained attention in critical linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), where, it is argued, they ‘mystify’, i.e., reduce reader comprehension of, the role of social actors in depictions of events, particularly in news media discourse.
ref: 2017 April 24, William Alan Lingle, Nominalizations, Agentless Passives, and Social Actor Mystification: Newspaper Editorials on the Greek Financial Crisis:
text: Nominalization is a common feature of a more scientific style of writing and is used as an additional measure for syntactic complexity.
ref: 2023 October 30, Herbold et al., “A large-scale comparison of human-written versus ChatGPT-generated essays”, in Scientific Reports, volume 13, page 5:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The act or process of nominalizing; the use of such a noun.
Synonyms: word: nounification
word: substantivation
word: substantivisation
Derived terms: agentive nominalization
agentive nominalisation
nominalizer
jerk water
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jerks water
form: jerking water
form: jerked water
form: jerked water
Senses: examples: text: The Santa Fe, called the Jerk Water route because they "jerked" water from ponds and wallows for the engine, still frayed out at the Kansas line.
ref: 1954, Mari Sandoz, The Buffalo Hunters: The Story of the Hide Men, page 171:
text: […] by bailing from near streams with buckets, (the brake-man called this operation jerking water) and from this the road gets its name of jerkwater road.
ref: 1975 Mar, Indiana Historical Society, Indiana Magazine of History, volume 71, number 1, page 355:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
qualifier: apocryphal
glosses: To fill a steam locomotive water tank manually from natural water supplies (a hypothetical process whose use has been discredited).
examples: text: In 1870 at Montrose, N.Y., the New York Central made the first installation of a track pan and scoop to permit locomotives to take water on the fly. Since these installations invariably were in tiny communities, and since they permitted locomotives literally to “jerk water”
ref: 1979, The Train Dispatcher - Volumes 61-62, page 49:
text: The early, crude "jerk water" device applied by the New York Central is shown in figure 8.24.
ref: 2001, Anthony J. Bianculli, Trains and Technology: Track and structures, page 19610:
text: Towns with track pans no longer had as many trains stop there, and they became derisively known as “jerkwater” towns, where the trains would jerk water and just keep on going.
ref: 2016, Kevin EuDaly, Mike Schafer, Steve Jessup, The Complete Book of North American Railroading, page 335:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: To scoop water from a track pan mounted on the tracks directly into a steam engine's tank without stopping.
jerk water
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jerk water
form: most jerk water
Senses: examples: c. 1920, Ring Lardner, The Real Dope
But any way from the number of jerk water burgs we went through you would think we was on the Monon and the towns all looks so much like the other that […].
glosses: Of inhabited places, small, insignificant, isolated, backwards
Derived terms: jerkwater
jerk-water
press conference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: press conferences
Senses: examples: text: Pitarch went just days after the coach, Cesare Prandelli. A little before Christmas, Prandelli had held a press conference in which he had declined to answer questions and instead delivered a speech one minute 57 seconds long in which he accused his players of being unprofessional.
ref: 2017 January 18, Sid Lowe, “Chaos at Mestalla: Valencia's journey from Champions League to utter disarray”, in the Guardian:
topics: media
synonyms: word: news conference
word: presser
glosses: A question-and-answer session with members of television, print and other media.
Coordinate terms: press gaggle
Derived terms: science by press conference
press conferences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of press conference
jerk-water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jerk-waters
Senses: examples: text: The mail was brought by a tiny "jerk-water" bobtail dummy and coach run by one, Tony, from Pearl City, a mile away, to a station near the end of the peninsula.
ref: 1918, Charmian London, Jack London and Hawaii, page 19:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A branch line train, using light equipment
jerk-water
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jerk-water
form: most jerk-water
Senses: examples: text: That seems to disappoint them, for every sociologist likes to go back to some jerk-water college and tell those who are in the sociological class how they had to get their information by pantomime."
ref: 1907, Charles Stelzle, Christianity's Storm Centre: A Study of the Modern City, page 103:
glosses: Of an inhabited place, small, isolated, backward.
examples: text: He had risen to the head of the greatest street car system in the world from the position of brakeman on a jerk-water railroad.
ref: 1915, Daniel Jacob Hauer, The Economics of Contracting: A Treatise for Contractors, Engineers […], volume II, page 212:
text: Can the keen-minded Mr. Willard at Baltimore be more anxious than the keen-minded Mr. Rea at Philadelphia to undertake the management of jerk-water branches in Connecticut or in Rhode Island or down on Cape Cod ?
ref: 1922, Edward Hungerford, Our Railroads To-morrow, page 297:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Railroads with low traffic.
Synonyms: See: Thesaurus:remote place
Related terms: jerk water
jerkwater
branch line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: branch lines
Senses: examples: text: But the states were generally concerned with the location of trunk lines and left it to cities and counties to worry about branch lines.
ref: 1987, William H. Rehnquist, The Supreme Court:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A secondary railroad route or one subsidiary to a railroad's mainlines.
examples: text: This is itself a cheerless spot, particularly on a rainy day, when, overshadowed by the great massif of rock that towers in the background, and surrounded by the grey and cheerless quarries, it has a depressing character much in contrast with the green verdure encountered on the northern end of this interesting branch line.
ref: 1954 August, H. M. Madgwick, “The Blaenau Festiniog Tunnel”, in Railway Magazine, page 569:
text: They saddled themselves with the handling of light flows on a multiplicity of branch lines, and they sacrificed the speed, reliability and low cost of through train operation, even over the main arteries of the system.
ref: 1962 December, “Dr. Beeching previews the plan for British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 377:
text: Above all, Eurostar needs to be proactive in improving the service, reducing fares, and getting back to a post-COVID normal, despite Brexit. Or is it that SNCF just feels London is on a branch line from the rest of Europe, and not worth bothering about?
ref: 2023 February 8, Christian Wolmar, “Pressing issues to help Eurostar fulfil its ambitions”, in RAIL, number 976, page 39:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A non-through line which joins a mainline (or another branch or secondary line) and ends at a terminus.
purpresture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purprestures
form: pourpresture
Etymology: From 1150–1200, Middle English purpresture, from Anglo-Norman purpresture; alteration of Old French porpresure (“enclosure, occupied space”), from porprendre (“to seize, occupy, enclose”), from por- (“for”) + prendre (“to take”); from Latin prehendere.
Senses: glosses: The unlawful personal appropriation of public lands; wrongful encroachment on, or enclosure of properties belonging to the public (e.g. highways, sidewalks, forests, harbors).
decastyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛkəˈstaɪəɫ/
Forms: form: decastyles
Etymology: From deca- + -style.
Senses: glosses: A portico with ten columns.
Related terms: tetrastyle
hexastyle
octostyle
politer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of polite: more polite
politest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of polite: most polite
Captain Planet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæptɪn ˈplanɪt/
ipa: /ˈkæptɪn ˈplænət/
Etymology: From Captain Planet, a fictional cartoon character who protects the natural environment.
Senses: examples: text: Ross does an ingenious riff on the picture of the United States “generating a ton of toxic waste every minute in peacetime”, now suddenly becoming “Captain Planet” responsible for the ecological well-being of all the earth’s inhabitants.
ref: 1993, Marjorie B. Garber, Jann Matlock, Rebecca L. Walkowitz, Media Spectacles, Routledge, →ISBN, page 64, →ISBN:
text: On July 1, 1999, Vice President Al Gore, Captain Planet, presented the US Army Corps of Engineers plan to restore the Everglades to Congress, boldly going where no vice president had gone before […].
ref: 2004, William Hodding Carter, Stolen Water: Saving the Everglades from Its Friends, Foes, and Florida, page 59:
glosses: Anyone who wishes to save the environment with an ambitious plan.
wikipedia: Captain Planet
vortex mixers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vortex mixer
homogeniser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homogenisers
Etymology: From homogenise + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of homogenizer.
Related terms: homogeneous
homogenise
homogenizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homogenizer
homogenisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homogeniser
stuffier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: If Euston is not typically English, St. Pancras is. Its façade is a nightmare of improbable Gothic. It is fairly plastered with the aesthetic ideals of 1868, and the only beautiful thing about it is Barlow's roof. It is haunted by the stuffier kind of ghost. Yet there is something about the ordered whole of St. Pancras that would make demolition a terrible pity.
ref: 1941 August, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The English Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 358:
glosses: comparative form of stuffy: more stuffy
stuffiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of stuffy: most stuffy
bingle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪŋ.ɡəl/
rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl
Forms: form: bingles
Etymology: From bing (“thump, sudden bang”) + -le (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: It is always an advantage if you have a sexy car, but if you pick her up in a rusty Datsun 180B you may as well say goodnight.[…]There is also the worst-case scenario of being involved in a bingle. If this happens you will definitely be finished and she will probably sneak off on you if she manages to escape injury.
ref: 2005, Johnny Blue, The Blue Riders' Club, [144 page 144]:
text: "I, uh . . . " I managed, "I seem to have had a bit of a bingle." I pointed a thumb behind me at the car.
ref: 2006, Lee Battersby, A Stone to Mark My Passing: Through Soft Air, [138 page 138]:
text: ‘But you've still got your father′s car haven′t you?’ ¶ ‘No. Had a bingle in it the other night, nothing major. I just hope to hell it′s fixed before he finds out.[…]’
ref: 2010, Felicity Young, Take Out^([163]), page 163:
synonyms: crash
;
fender-bender
prang
glosses: A minor collision, especially between motor vehicles.
bingle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪŋ.ɡəl/
rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl
Forms: form: bingles
Etymology: Blend of bob + shingle.
Senses: glosses: A hairstyle for women that is somewhere between a bob and a shingle.
bingle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪŋ.ɡəl/
rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl
Forms: form: bingles
form: bingling
form: bingled
form: bingled
Etymology: Blend of bob + shingle.
Senses: glosses: To arrange the hair in this style.
bingle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪŋ.ɡəl/
rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl
Forms: form: bingles
Etymology: Possibly a blend of bat + single.
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A base hit in which the batter stops safely at first base; a single.
bingle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪŋ.ɡəl/
rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl
Forms: form: bingles
form: bingling
form: bingled
form: bingled
Etymology: Possibly a blend of bat + single.
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To achieve a base hit in which the batter stops safely at first base.
bracts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bract
exit wound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exit wounds
Senses: examples: text: Exit wounds, whether they are the result of contact, intermediate, or distant firing, all have the same general characteristics. They are typically larger and more irregular than entrance wounds and, with rare exception, do not possess an abrasion ring. Exit wounds can be stellate, slit-like, crescent, circular, or completely irregular (Figure 4.23).
ref: 1998, Vincent J. M. Di Maio, Gunshot Wounds: Practical Aspects of Firearms, Ballistics, and Forensic Techniques, 2nd edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 92:
topics: medicine
sciences
qualifier: forensics
glosses: A perforation of the skin caused by a projectile (such as a bullet) leaving the body.
Related terms: sense: perforation of the skin
word: entry wound
sense: perforation of the skin
word: entrance wound
god dammit
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: God dammit
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of goddamn.
choodle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃuː.dəl/
rhymes: -uːdəl
Forms: form: choodles
Etymology: Blend of chihuahua + poodle
Senses: glosses: A mixed breed dog that is partially chihuahua and partially poodle.
fak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Get the fak out.
text: punk as fak
glosses: Alternative form of fuck.
fak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Fak off!
text: Go fak yourself.
glosses: Alternative form of fuck.
Shui Xian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Chinese, meaning water nymph or narcissus.
Senses: glosses: A popular, high grade Chinese oolong tea from the Wuyi Mountains
jacks of all trades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jack of all trades
gynocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gynocracies
Etymology: From gyno- + -cracy.
Senses: topics: government
human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Synonym of gynecocracy.
synonyms: word: gynecocracy
hunting knife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hunting knives
Senses: examples: text: I had hacked at the head of one man with my hunting-knife, which was almost as big and heavy as a short sword, with such vigour, that the sharp steel had split his skull down to the eyes, and was held so fast by it that as he suddenly fell sideways the knife was twisted right out of my hand.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: Among other things he found a sharp hunting knife, on the keen blade of which he immediately proceeded to cut his finger. Undaunted he continued his experiments, finding that he could hack and hew splinters of wood from the table and chairs with this new toy.
ref: 1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as chapter 6, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, June 1914, →OCLC:
text: I had had to discard my rifle before I commenced the rapid descent of the cliff, so that now I was armed only with a hunting knife, and this I whipped from its scabbard as Kho leaped toward me.
ref: 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as “(please specify the chapter number)”, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
glosses: A knife optimized for use in hunting animals, usually with a substantial belly and sometimes with a back edge that is partially serrated for sawing; fixed-blade and folding versions are both popular, and tasks such as field dressing, skinning, and bushcraft are anticipated.
Related terms: Bowie knife
hunting knives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hunting knife
MLT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: SMLT
DSMLT
glosses: Initialism of multi-link trunking.
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Metropolis light transport.
synonyms: near space
ignorosphere
glosses: Initialism of mesosphere and lower thermosphere.
Related terms: SLPP
Finnair
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪ.nɛə(ɹ)/
homophone: thin air (th-fronting)
Etymology: From Finn + air, introduced as a brand name of the airline Aero Oy in 1953. In 1968 the name Aero was changed to Finnair.
Senses: examples: text: But all the same, pay attention to one thing which is a part of human existence: on a trip by Finnair from Helsinki to New York you can listen to all kinds of music.
ref: 1983, Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, translated by Beverley Wahl, Greetings from Lapland: The Sami, Europe's forgotten people, Zed Press:
text: “Yes,” Bond confirmed, “here in Helsinki. Unless Finnair got it wrong.”
ref: 1984, John E. Gardner, Icebreaker, Penguin Group, →ISBN, page 10:
english: “Finnair are like homing pigeons,” she laughed. “They don’t often get it wrong.”
translation: “Finnair are like homing pigeons,” she laughed. “They don’t often get it wrong.”
bold_translation_offsets: 1
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text: The Finnair employee leafed through the red pages, punched an entry into her computer and bent down to read the output.
ref: 1990, Douglas Terman, Enemy Territory, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 94:
text: Seeking cachet for his race, Lebow wanted to sign up top foreign runners, but his international contacts at the time consisted more of Hong Kong dress manufacturers than global running clubs. After convincing sponsor Finnair to bring over Finland's Pekka Paivarinta, Lebow turned for leads to the one solid international runner he actually knew—England's Chris Stewart—who was indebted to Lebow on two accounts: professionally, […]
ref: 2004, Ron Rubin, Anything for a T-Shirt: Fred Lebow and the New York City Marathon, the World's Greatest Footrace, Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, page 43:
glosses: A Finnish airline.
vibrometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vibrometers
Etymology: From vibro- + -meter.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: accelerometer
glosses: Any of several engineering devices that measure the characteristics of a vibrating structure.
synonyms: vibrophone
glosses: An electrical medical device used to treat deafness.
trade-offs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trade-off
spiral of Archimedes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spirals of Archimedes
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A spiral that increases in distance from the point of origin at a constant rate.
Synonyms: Archimedean spiral
arithmetic spiral
Archimedean spiral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Archimedean spirals
form: spiral of Archimedes
form: Archimedes' spiral
Etymology: Named after Archimedes of Syracuse (c. 287 – c. 212 BC), a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer.
Senses: examples: text: Max flees and tries to visit Sol, only to find that he has died. Max searches his house and finds mathematical scribblings similar to his own. On a Go board, with its pieces arranged in an Archimedean spiral, Max finds a piece of paper with the 216-digit number.
ref: 2010 November 16, Wikipedia contributors, “Pi (film)”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation:
topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: arithmetic spiral
hyponyms: Fermat's spiral
glosses: A spiral that increases in distance from the point of origin at a constant rate.
wikipedia: Archimedes of Syracuse
Related terms: logarithmic spiral
cGMP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cGMPs
Senses: examples: text: But the medicine that Campbell and Roberts were proposing would instead block PDE5, thereby pumping up levels of cGMP to relax smooth muscle, lower blood pressure, and increase blood flow.
ref: 2017, David Friend, The Naughty Nineties:
glosses: Cyclic guanosine monophosphate.
glosses: current good manufacturing practice
quashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of quash
preorder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹiːˈɔːdə/
ipa: /pɹiˈɔɹdɚ/
ipa: [pɹiˈɔɹɾɚ]
ipa: /pɹiːˈoːdə/
Forms: form: preorders
form: preordering
form: preordered
form: preordered
Etymology: From pre- + order.
Senses: glosses: To order (goods or services) in advance, before they are available.
glosses: To sort or arrange beforehand.