cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Howe truss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Howe trusses
Etymology: Invented by William Howe in 1840.
Senses: glosses: A truss bridge consisting of chords, verticals, and diagonals whose vertical members are in tension and whose diagonal members are in compression.
Howe trusses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Howe truss
Hudsonian curlew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hudsonian curlews
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Hudsonian whimbrel (Numenius hudsonicus)
synonyms: word: Hudsonian whimbrel
extra: Numenius hudsonicus
Hudsonian curlews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hudsonian curlew
Hudsonian whimbrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hudsonian whimbrels
Senses: synonyms: Hudsonian curlew
glosses: A wader of species Numenius hudsonicus.
Hudsonian whimbrels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hudsonian whimbrel
Huntingdon elm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Huntingdon elms
Senses: glosses: The tree Ulmus × hollandica 'Vegeta'.
Huntingdon elms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Huntingdon elm
Hutchesonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hutchesonian
form: most Hutchesonian
Etymology: From Hutcheson + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Francis Hutcheson (1694–1746), Scottish philosopher.
Gutsul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gutsuls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hutsul.
Hutzul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hutzuls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hutsul.
Gutsuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gutsul
Hutzuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hutzul
IALC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of International Association of Language Centres.
Indian boys and girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Dutchman's breeches (“the plant Dicentra cucullaria”).
synonyms: word: Dutchman's breeches
extra: the plant Dicentra cucullaria
Mediterranean cypress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mediterranean cypresses
Senses: synonyms: Italian cypress
glosses: The cypress Cupressus sempervirens.
Mediterranean cypresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mediterranean cypress
Italian cypress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Italian cypresses
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Mediterranean cypress.
synonyms: word: Mediterranean cypress
Italian cypresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Italian cypress
Japanese chestnut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Japanese chestnuts
Senses: synonyms: Korean chestnut
glosses: Castanea crenata, a chestnut native to Japan and Korea.
Japanese chestnuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Japanese chestnut
Korean chestnut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Korean chestnuts
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Japanese chestnut.
synonyms: word: Japanese chestnut
Korean chestnuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Korean chestnut
JCS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Joint Chiefs of Staff.
glosses: Initialism of Journal of Cell Science.
glosses: Initialism of Journal of Consciousness Studies.
glosses: Initialism of Journal of Croatian Studies.
glosses: Initialism of Journal of Cuneiform Studies.
Kansas Citian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkænzəˈsɪtiən/
Forms: form: Kansas Citians
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Kansas City.
Kansas Citians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kansas Citian
WNBR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of World Network of Biosphere Reserves.
book town
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: book towns
Senses: examples: text: It has an appealing medieval centre and its population is enthusiastic about throwing open its doors to book-loving visitors. Bellprat is also the first book town in Catalonia (the second in Spain, after Urueña).
ref: 2018 April 26, Alex Johnson, “10 of the world’s best book towns”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A town or village with many used bookstores, often visited by bibliophile tourists.
book towns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of book town
Kansas horse plague
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: equine viral encephalomyelitis
Q'eqchi'
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkɛkˈt͡ʃiː/
Senses: glosses: A Maya people of Guatemala, Belize, and Mexico.
Q'eqchi'
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌkɛkˈt͡ʃiː/
Forms: form: Kacchi
form: Kekchi
form: Quecchi
form: Quekchi
Senses: glosses: One of the Mayan languages of the Quichean branch.
Kacchi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Q'eqchi' (“a Mayan language”).
Kekchi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Q'eqchi'
Kekchi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Q'eqchi' (“a Mayan language”).
Quecchi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Q'eqchi' (“a Mayan language”).
Quekchi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Q'eqchi' (“a Mayan language”).
Squiggol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of squiggly + ALGOL, from the “squiggly” symbols it uses.
Senses: examples: text: The overall goal of Squiggol is to calculate programs from their specifications in the way a mathematician calculates solutions to differential equations, or uses arithmetic to solve numerical problems.
ref: 1991 June, Erik Meijer, Maarten Fokkinga, Ross Paterson, “Functional programming with bananas, lenses, envelopes and barbed wire”, in Proceedings of the 5th ACM conference on Functional programming languages and computer architecture, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 124–144:
qualifier: functional programming
glosses: The Bird–Meertens formalism.
QMG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: QMGs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of quartermaster-general.
QMGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of QMG
Quashgai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Qashqai.
Quashgai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Qashqai.
Quashqai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Qashqai.
Quashqai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Qashqai.
Qashgai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Qashqai.
Qashgai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Qashqai.
Kashgai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Qashqai.
Kashgai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Qashqai.
see oneself out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sees oneself out
form: seeing oneself out
form: saw oneself out
form: seen oneself out
Etymology: From see out.
Senses: examples: text: The butler was nowhere to be found, so I saw myself out.
glosses: To depart from a dwelling unaccompanied.
Cazayoux
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cazayouxes
Etymology: Most prevalent in Louisiana. Possible respelling of a French surname as it is absent from France. Cazailloux is a toponym of Dordogne.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
semicell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semicells
Etymology: From semi- + cell.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Half of a cell.
semicells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semicell
semiarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiarches
Etymology: From semi- + arch.
Senses: glosses: Half of an arch.
semiarches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semiarch
semidurables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semidurable
semigregarious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛəɹi.əs
Etymology: From semi- + gregarious.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Somewhat or partly gregarious.
sensationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sensationists
Etymology: From sensation + -ist.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of sensationalist.
sensationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sensation + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of sensationalism.
sensationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sensationist
senser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛn.sə/
ipa: /ˈsɛn.sɚ/
homophone: censer
homophone: censor
homophone: sensor
rhymes: -ɛnsə(ɹ)
Forms: form: sensers
Etymology: From sense + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The senser is here determined from outside, i.e., his bodiliness is determined by something external.
ref: 2014, Valentina Ricci, Federico Sanguinetti, Hegel on Recollection, page 65:
glosses: One who senses.
Related terms: sensor
sensers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of senser
sensitive pea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sensitive peas
Senses: glosses: Any of the flowering plants of the genus Chamaecrista.
sensitive peas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sensitive pea
separate out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: separates out
form: separating out
form: separated out
form: separated out
Senses: glosses: To separate, or become separated, by removal from a larger group or mass.
sequoia pitch moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sequoia pitch moths
Senses: glosses: Synanthedon sequoiae, an American moth.
sequoia pitch moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sequoia pitch moth
seven and a half
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An Italian comparing card game similar to blackjack, in which players try not to gain more than seven-and-a-half points (face cards being worth a half a point each, and certain other cards removed from the deck before play).
Shoal Harbour
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A community and former town in the town of Clarenville, eastern Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
fezolinetant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The most exciting addition to the guidelines — so new it had to be inserted just before publication — is a nonhormonal medication recently approved by the FDA called fezolinetant, which is available by prescription, Shufelt said.
ref: 2023 June 7, Sandee LaMotte, “Fight hot flashes with these expert-approved methods”, in CNN:
glosses: A medication to treat vasomotor symptoms due to menopause.
pegunigalsidase alfa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An enzyme replacement therapy for the treatment of Fabry disease.
sgabellos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sgabello
sftwd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sftwds
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of softwood.
hdwd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hdwds
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of hardwood.
sftwds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sftwd
hdwds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hdwd
he laughs best that laughs last
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of he who laughs last laughs best.
mob mentality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mob mentalities
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pack mentality.
synonyms: word: pack mentality
herd mentality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: herd mentalities
Senses: examples: text: The herd mentality appears strong at Cardiff. When the train pulls in, the majority of folk jam themselves into the car straight in front of them, while I walk to the back unit to share the rear car with just two other people.
ref: 2024 November 13, Paul Bigland, “Much to admire... but pockets of neglect”, in RAIL, number 1022, page 49:
glosses: Synonym of pack mentality.
synonyms: word: pack mentality
mob mentalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mob mentality
herd mentalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herd mentality
COMAL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Acronym of common algorithmic language, inspired by ALGOL (“algorithmic language”).
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Lindsey's letter in Vol. 5, No. 11 made some misleading claims for COMAL. He stated that COMAL, like BASIC, is free. Well, back in October of 1981, a price of $49.95 for a COMAL starter package was mentioned in Robert Baker's PET-pourri column in Microcomputing.
ref: 1983 May 23, Willi Kusche, “COMAL claims are questionable”, in InfoWorld, volume 5, number 21, page 39:
topics: computer-languages
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A programming language influenced by BASIC and Pascal.
bellow out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bellows out
form: bellowing out
form: bellowed out
form: bellowed out
Senses: examples: text: The fans were bellowing out all the songs at the Hellacopters gig.
glosses: To yell; to say or sing in a loud voice
airline hostess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airline hostesses
Senses: glosses: An air stewardess; a female flight attendant
airline stewardess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airline stewardesses
Senses: coordinate_terms: airline steward
glosses: An air stewardess; a female flight attendant.
airline hostesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airline hostess
airline stewardesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airline stewardess
dinner bell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dinner bells
Senses: glosses: A bell which, when rung, indicates it is dinnertime.
glosses: A signal or announcement of a specific event or opportunity, acting as a clear invitation or notification for people to gather or respond.
Derived terms: monkey's dinner bell
dinner bells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dinner bell
hand bell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand bells
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of handbell.
hand bells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hand bell
fire bell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire bells
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of firebell.
fire bells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire bell
observation tower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: observation towers
Senses: glosses: a structure used to view events from a long distance and to create a full 360 degree range of vision
observation towers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of observation tower
war-horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: war-horses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of warhorse.
war-horses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of war-horse
off stage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of offstage.
dirty up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dirties up
form: dirtying up
form: dirtied up
form: dirtied up
Senses: glosses: To make dirty; to sully
Conception Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: In Newfoundland, adapted from Portuguese Baia da Conceição. The name of the Namibian bay may be from the same source, although in German colonial days it was Empfängnisbucht; the Afrikaans name is Conceptionbaai.
Senses: glosses: A bay on the south-east coast of Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
glosses: A bay on the coast of Namibia.
Derived terms: Conception Bay South
waiting period
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waiting periods
Senses: glosses: A certain amount of time of required delay before some other action is allowed.
demon catshark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demon catsharks
Senses: examples: text: That led to a fact-finding mission that eventually revealed a new species of demon catshark. […] The Apristurus genus, the second-most diverse group of sharks that counts about 40 species, is commonly known as the ghost or demon catshark.
ref: 2023 May 12, Lauren McCarthy, “‘A Bit Spooky’: The New Shark Species With Bright, White Eyes”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Any of the catsharks of the genus Apristurus.
full faith and credit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An obligation under the United States Constitution for each state to recognize the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of other states.
F.D.A.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, for example, might take this guidance into account and institute its own concerns or tweak labeling, Ms. McBurnett said. […] The F.D.A. did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
ref: 2023 May 15, April Rubin, “World Health Organization Warns Against Using Artificial Sweeteners”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2023:
text: On Monday, the F.D.A. also announced that it approved an old, generic drug called leucovorin for symptoms of autism in some children.
ref: 2025 September 22, Azeen Ghorayshi, “Trump Issues Warning Based on Unproven Link Between Tylenol and Autism”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Sep 2025:
glosses: Uncommon spelling of FDA (“Food and Drug Administration”).
drop acid, not bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: Originally coined in the late 1960s by those who opposed the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War.
Senses: glosses: A hippie anti-war slogan encouraging LSD use.
Related terms: make love, not war
lipovitamin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lipovitamins
Etymology: From lipo- + vitamin.
Senses: examples: text: A deficit of biliary lipids in the alimentary tract causes: (a) fat malabsorption¹⁴², principally of lipovitamins, cholesterol and monoacylglycerols, but not of long-chain fatty acids¹⁶; (b) delayed formation of gut chylomicrons with larger sizes¹⁴³; […].
ref: 2008, M. C. Carey, M. R. Leonard, “Pathophysiology of bile secretion”, in M. C. Carey, P. Dité, A. Gabryelewicz, V. Keim, J. Mössner, editors, Falk Symposium 161: Future Perspectives in Gastroenterology, Dordrecht: Springer, →ISBN, page 88:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any fat-soluble vitamin.
Alstonefield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK1355).
lipovitamins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lipovitamin
puppuccinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puppuccino
teenagership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From teenager + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: The filmmaker put his daughter on the same couch on her birthday, at the same time, for 17 years. It captured the beauty of youth and the torments of “teenagership.”
ref: 2023 May 14, Alix Strauss, “How the Head of a Filmmaking Center Spends His Sundays”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: teenagerhood
glosses: The condition of being a teenager.
outsnob
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outsnobs
form: outsnobbing
form: outsnobbed
form: outsnobbed
Etymology: From out- + snob.
Senses: examples: text: Some of these types also outsnobbed British students in looking down at some of their fellow Rhodes Scholars – those who were not from the “good” universities back home or who refused to smooth their rough American edges while in Britain.
ref: 2010, Thomas J. Schaeper, Kathleen Schaeper, “Yanks and Brits”, in Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite, New York, NY: Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 50:
text: File the term in this clue — “What a zythophile loves” — under how to outsnob a self-described oenophile when you prefer BEER.
ref: 2023 May 12, Caitlin Lovinger, “Place for Reactions and Solutions”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To surpass in snobbery; to be snobbier than.
doom folk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: While best known for lending her haunting pipes to doom-folk troupe Espers, Meg Baird's quavering voice reveals itself as singularly lucid and enchanting on her solo work.
ref: 2011 October, Andy Beta, SPIN, page 73:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A subgenre of folk music.
Related terms: doom rock
doom metal
Notre Dame Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Partial calque of French baie Notre-Dame (literally “Our Lady Bay”), itself possibly a calque of an earlier Portuguese name.
Senses: glosses: A large bay on the north coast of Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
out-Muslim
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: out-Muslims
form: out-Musliming
form: out-Muslimed
form: out-Muslimed
Etymology: From out- + Muslim.
Senses: examples: text: […] but on the basis of some economic, social or personal advantage, that he may have been promised or is expecting to receive, can be achieved only by an open demonstration of his devoutness. This he does by out-Musliming Muslims in the number of times he says his prayers.
ref: 1977, S. Harman, Plight of Muslims in India, New Delhi: DL Publications, →ISBN, page 27:
glosses: To behave in a more Muslim manner than.
Placentia Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A bay on the south-east coast of Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
peatsmoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There was a door, and a window on one side of it, and a chimney from which a small spiral of pungent peatsmoke ascended.
ref: 1969, Eona K. Macnicol, The Hallowe'en Hero: And Other Stories, page 54:
text: Celia lay staring up at the beams blackened from peatsmoke.
ref: 1973, Anya Seton, Green Darkness:
text: Out in the village there was a new smell: peatsmoke, a much more romantic smell than coalsmoke – the railway was now far away.
ref: 1988, A[rthur] Bryson Gerrard, “Scotland”, in Butterflies & Coalsmoke, Oxford: Susan Abrahams, →ISBN, page 109:
text: He could smell the spilled whisky from the broken glass, a ghost of peatsmoke.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 147:
glosses: Alternative form of peat-smoke.
open-concept
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: architecture
coordinate_terms: closed-concept
glosses: Where rooms share a large, connected space.
closed-concept
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: architecture
coordinate_terms: open-concept
glosses: Where rooms are segregated by walls.
peat-smoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “I would rather sleep on the fresh heather, as I have done many a night on less occasion,” said Roland Graeme, “than in that smoky garret of your father’s, that smells of peat-smoke and usquebaugh like a Highlander’s plaid.”
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter VII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 145:
text: And inland from the castle, nestling below it on the low-lying greensward of the peninsula, was an entire town of cot-houses and huts, over which hung a blue haze of peat-smoke.
ref: 2012, Nigel Tranter, Past Master:
text: For example: you smell peat-smoke, and you recall some occasion when you smelt it before.
ref: 2015, Bertrand Russell, The Analysis of Mind: Top Philosophy Collections:
text: Firelight and a cloud of peat-smoke met us on the threshold, and set me to coughing. Mixed with the peat-smoke was the wonderful odor of hot food.
ref: 2015, G. R. Grove, Flight of the Hawk:
hypernyms: smoke
<
emission
coordinate_terms: coal-smoke
woodsmoke
oilsmoke
;
cigar smoke
glosses: Smoke from burning peat.
Related terms: peat bog
peat smoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Hence the unpleasant smell, and the poignant pain in the eyes, which are felt from peat smoke, especially by those that are least accustomed to breathe in such an atmosphere.
ref: 1812, Edward Wakefield, Introductory remarks, page 88:
text: The chemical composition of peat smoke is very complex.
ref: 2014, Graham Stewart, Inge Russell, Whisky: Technology, Production and Marketing, page 58:
text: Only about 25% of Scotch whiskies have any peat smoke character at all.
ref: 2021, Margarett Waterbury, Scotch: A Complete Introduction to Scotland's Whiskies:
glosses: Alternative form of peat-smoke.
light pipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: light pipes
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: light tube
glosses: A transparent structure that diffuses light via internal reflection.
alpha-dog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: alpha-dogs
form: alpha-dogging
form: alpha-dogged
form: alpha-dogged
Senses: examples: text: At the left was Mr. Trump, the volatile presence who alpha-dogged a season of Republican debates. Now he grimaced, squinted, nodded, pursed his lips, sniffed, huffed and interrupted, becoming, over the night, an agitated man in a box.
ref: 2016 September 27, James Poniewozik, “How the Split Screen Framed Trump and Clinton”, in The New York Times:
text: Stormy boasts that she has “grown balls”. Given her “alpha-dogging” of Trump and her jokes about his furry sporran, who knows whether this is more than a metaphor?
ref: 2018 October 22, Peter Conrad, “Full Disclosure by Stormy Daniels review – duck, Donald…”, in The Guardian:
text: Harper Spiller (Aubrey Plaza): And I don't know, I guess, I just don't want him rubbing off on you. You know, and I don't like the way he alpha-dogs you.
Ethan Spiller (Will Sharpe): He doesn't alpha-dog me. I mean, he kind of used to, I guess, but it's different now.
ref: 2022 November 6, Mike White, “Italian Dream”, in Mike White, director, The White Lotus, season 2, episode 2, via HBO:
glosses: To behave like an alpha dog; to behave in a crassly dominant manner, especially at the expense of another male.
alpha-dogging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of alpha-dog
alpha-dogged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of alpha-dog
alpha-dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of alpha-dog
at a draught
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: at a draft
Senses: examples: text: I then made another ſign that I wanted Drink. They found by my eating, that a ſmall Quantity would not ſuffice me, and being a moſt ingenious People, they flung up with great dexterity one of their largeſt Hogſheads, then rolled it towards my Hand, and beat out the top; I drank it off at a Draught, which I might well do, for it did not hold half a pint, and taſted like a ſmall Wine of Burgundy, but much more delicious.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Gives Some Account of Himself and Family, His First Inducements to Travel. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), page 13:
text: I emptied the glass at a draft, and another, and another. I felt disgusted with the world, and took another—to think that men will be so bamboozled—one more—when they can get the real thing, right on the spot, too—a sip—and no false bottom in the bot tle—madame's good health—wonder if she's not the daughter of the prince—sip, sip, sip—amazing large bottles, but the road long—vita brevis est—positively no more, Madame Metternich!
ref: 1857, [W. W. Wright], Doré by a Stroller in Europe, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, page 231:
text: The Time Traveler did not seem to hear. "Don't let me disturb you," he said, with a certain faltering articulation. "I'm all right." He stopped, held out his glass for more, and took it off at a draught.
ref: 1895 May 29, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Time Traveler Returns”, in The Time Machine: An Invention, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, page 36:
text: Lord Winchelmere said quietly: "We've been just striking a bargain, Geraldi, and I've given Mary Ingall the emerald . . . as duly agreed." Deliberately he reached down for the cup of coffee and drained it at a draft.
ref: 2000, Max Brand [pseudonym; Frederick Schiller Faust], The Bright Face of Danger: A James Geraldi Trio, Unity, M.E.: Five Star, →ISBN, page 154:
glosses: In a single swallow.
at a draft
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: US standard spelling of at a draught.
polismen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polisman
buff jerkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buff jerkins
Senses: examples: text: Fal. Thou ſay'ſt true Lad: is not my Hoſteſſe of the Tauerne a moſt ſweet Wench? / Prin. As is the hony, my old Lad of the Caſtle: and is not a Buffe Ierkin a moſt ſweet robe of durance?
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 I, scene ii], page 49, column 2:
text: […] ſome of them attempted with Spears to ſtick me in the Sides; but, by good luck, I had on me a Buff Jerkin, which they could not pierce.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Gives Some Account of Himself and Family, His First Inducements to Travel. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), page 10:
glosses: A jacket made of buff leather, formerly worn beneath a soldier's armour.
buff jerkins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buff jerkin
Willingdon and Jevington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Wealden district, East Sussex, England, which includes the named places.
Jevington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Willingdon and Jevington parish, Wealden district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ5601).
dray-man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dray-men
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of drayman.
dray-men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dray-man
Molucca Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: […] we were driven a little to the Eaſt of the Molucca Iſlands, and about three Degrees Northward of the Line, as our Captain found by an Obſervation he took the 2d of May, at which time the Wind ceaſed, and it was a perfect Calm, whereat I was not a little rejoyced.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “A Great Storm Described, the Long-Boat Sent to Fetch Water, the Author Goes with It to Discover the Country. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), pages 150–151:
glosses: Synonym of Moluccas.
synonyms: word: Moluccas
sprit-sail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sprit-sails
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spritsail.
sprit-sails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sprit-sail
in increment
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: ... dexter, per fess on a chief azure, the moon in increment argent; in base, gules, a bear passant proper; sinister, the national eagle displayed, with the radiant All-seeing eye above, but no tinctures are indicated.
ref: 1900, American Journal of Numismatics, page 22:
text: [...] between fesswise a crescent moon in her increment and one in her decrement argent.
ref: 1992, Donald R. Mandich, Joseph Anthony Placek, Russian Heraldry and Nobility, Dramco:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Waxing.
raw_tags: of a moon
Coordinate terms: increscent
decrescent
crescent
in decrement
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: It is an observation amongst Fishermen, that when the Moon is in her Decrement or Wane (as we commonly call it) these […]
ref: 1664, John Guillim, A Display of Heraldrie, page 238:
text: […] Crest - A fawn's head holding in its mouth a moon in its decrement and gorged with a wreath of pears slipped on the […]
ref: 1921, Sir Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain, page 750:
text: LUKIN -2- A : Argent, on a bendlet thrice embattled gules, masoned sable, three crescent moons in their decrement in bend Or. […] […] between fesswise a crescent moon in her increment and one in her decrement argent.
ref: 1992, Donald R. Mandich, Joseph Anthony Placek, Russian Heraldry and Nobility, Dramco:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Waning.
raw_tags: of a moon
Coordinate terms: decrescent
increscent
crescent
oh, dip
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: I was in the middle of research in support of my hypothesis that the age of any child can be determined almost to the hour and minute if one knows what the child's favorite word is for expressing revulsion. Any kid who says, "Oh, dip!" is certainly 9.
ref: [1987 January 5, “In Person”, in Newsday, volume 47, number 122, Melville, N.Y.: Newsday Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 98:
text: "Look at your pretty face," the girl continued. "I love your little blue eyes, mister, and your big fat smile—oh, dip! If you lost some weight, you could be one of those fat movie stars."
ref: 2006, Gary Shteyngart, Absurdistan, London: Granta Books, →ISBN, page 31:
text: "Son! Isn't that gay dude your cousin?" Sean asked me. / I manned up and told him, "Yes." / Oh dip! No, I didn't. I was too embarrassed I had a gay cousin.
ref: 2010, Torrey Maldonado, Secret Saturdays, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 192:
text: "Oh, dip. You got nothing? You let me down, yo."
ref: 2016, R. M. Scorpio, Junction Boulevard: A Novel, →ISBN, page 220:
text: Oh, dip! I get it! It's like, I knew this girl Sheila. She was a black market alligator dealer with a pierced jawbone.
ref: 2016 October 6, “Category 55 Emergency Doomsday Crisis”, in The Good Place, season 1, episode 5, spoken by Jason Mendoza (Manny Jacinto):
text: Oh, dip! I got Rosa to feel her feelings too? Inadvertent Gina Moment. Two for one.
ref: 2019 January 31, “Four Movements”, in Brooklyn Nine-Nine, season 6, episode 4, spoken by Gina Linetti (Chelsea Peretti):
glosses: An expression of mild surprise or annoyance.
do you
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of you do you.
bead-rattler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bead-rattlers
Etymology: A reference to rosary beads.
Senses: examples: text: And can't you smell that bacon? To think that a poor bead-rattler like me can't have any, on a Friday, no matter how early he's up, and that you might have all you wanted, if you'd only take the trouble to come and get it, you lazy heretics!
ref: 1951, Frances Parkinson Keyes, Joy Street, page 236:
text: A young bead-rattler it was, made the same mistake as yersel.
ref: 2012, Jeff Torrington, Swing Hammer Swing!:
text: Seeing how ye're a native son of our beloved country, and ain't a bead rattler, I'm gonna be generous and set ya a task.
ref: 2013, Stephen L. Antczak, James C. Bassett, Clockwork Fairy Tales: A Collection of Steampunk Fables:
text: He's a bead rattler, a papist.
ref: 2013, Charles Knepper, The Fleecing, page 25:
text: I recall being impressed that you were able to translate it, though probably at the cost of the unreconstructed Rangers fans on the firm marking you down as a bead-rattler.
ref: 2017, Chris Brookmyre, Siege Mentality:
glosses: A Roman Catholic.
bead-rattlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bead-rattler
phonogrammatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to or involving a phonogram.
taughte
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of taught.
spectacle case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spectacle cases
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see spectacles, case. (This entry is a translation hub.)
spectacle cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spectacle case
misvocalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misvocalizes
form: misvocalizing
form: misvocalized
form: misvocalized
form: misvocalise
Etymology: From mis- + vocalize.
Senses: examples: text: Notice further that Stuart either misvocalizes or miscounts the third line of the tri-colon (wayiqrabu gives ten syllables; Stuart vocalizes wayi-qrab but still gives the syllable count as ten);
ref: 1981, Gordon Douglas Young, Ugarit in Retrospect, page 120:
text: For example, in the OT vowels of the Hebrew word for “shame” ( בושה) served to misvocalize Ashtart to Ashtoreth (1 Kgs 11:5, 33), Baal to Bosheth (Hos 9:10), and Melek to Molech (Jer 32:35; 2 Kgs 23:10).
ref: 2013, Jack R. Lundbom, Deuteronomy: A Commentary, page 425:
text: The name later came to be misvocalized and misconstrued as if there were such a pagan god.
ref: 2018, Saul A. Kripke, Reference and Existence: The John Locke Lectures, page 70:
glosses: To vocalize incorrectly.
misvocalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misvocalize
misvocalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misvocalize
misvocalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misvocalize
combining mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: combining marks
Senses: examples: text: Unicode allows more than one way of encoding the same character. The string “é”, for example, can be encoded as the single Unicode character \u00E9 or as a regular ASCII e followed by the acute accent combining mark \u0301.
ref: 2011, David Flanagan, JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 22:
qualifier: Unicode
glosses: Synonym of combining character.
synonyms: word: combining character
combining marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of combining mark
hemothoraxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemothorax
soniscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soniscopes
Etymology: Morphologically sonic + -scope
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A sensor that uses high-frequency sound.
Tumby Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The bay was originally named by Matthew Flinders after Tumby in Lincolnshire. The town of Tumby Bay was named Tumby until 1984.
Senses: glosses: A bay and town on the Eyre Peninsula, South Australia.
glosses: A local government area in this area of South Australia; in full, the District Council of Tumby Bay.
mantel-piece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mantel-pieces
Senses: examples: text: On the mantel-piece two alabaster figures supported each a little lamp, whose flame was tinted by the stained flowers; […]
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 52:
text: It was Friday—the next day was Saturday—the third—he read it on the japanned card-rack, which was nailed near his mantel-piece—was Sunday—he knew not how he should face his parishioners.
ref: 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XII, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 242–243:
text: […] while the suites of small rooms which had come into favor under the Regent led to a reduction in the size of mantel-pieces, and to the use of less massive and perhaps less architectural ornament. In the eighteenth century, mantel-pieces in Italy and France were almost always composed of a marble or stone architrave surmounted by a shelf of the same material, while the over- mantel consisted of a mirror, framed in mouldings varying in design from the simplest style to the most ornate.
ref: 1897, Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman Jr., “Fireplaces”, in The Decoration of Houses, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 79:
glosses: Archaic form of mantelpiece.
mantel-pieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mantel-piece
grapheme cluster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grapheme clusters
Senses: examples: text: First, a bit of jargon: a grapheme cluster is a generalization of the notion of combining characters. A character is in itself a grapheme cluster. When we apply non-spacing or enclosing combining characters to it, we extend the cluster.
ref: 2007, Yannis Haralambous, Fonts & Encodings, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 117:
text: Unicode calls such sequences of one base character and potentially several combining characters as a grapheme cluster. Strings in Perl 6 are based on these grapheme clusters.
ref: [2017, Moritz Lenz, Perl 6 Fundamentals: A Primer with Examples, Projects, and Case Studies, Apress, →ISBN, page 115:
qualifier: Unicode
glosses: A combination of code points representing a single graphical unit.
grapheme clusters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grapheme cluster
TWKB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Tiny WKB (TWKB) Tiny WKB is another format used for web mapping that was introduced in PostGIS 2.2. Similar to the MVT format, it is a compressed binary format, but it's based on WKB format.
ref: 2021, Leo S. Hsu, Regina Obe, PostGIS in Action, 3rd edition, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 183:
qualifier: file format
glosses: Initialism of tiny WKB (well-known binary).
cross-row
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-rows
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crossrow.
cross-rows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross-row
find-spot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: find-spots
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of findspot.
find-spots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of find-spot
eeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eerie
hybrid sleep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: Microsoft Windows
glosses: A variant of sleep mode in which current data is retained both in memory (allowing fast resumption, as if from hibernation) and on disk (to protect from data loss in the event of a power cut).
ecobrick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecobricks
Etymology: From eco- + brick.
Senses: glosses: A plastic bottle densely packed with used plastic to create a reusable building block that achieves plastic sequestration.
ecobricks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecobrick
geosocially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From geosocial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a geosocial context.
geosophically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In terms of geosophy.
Swarts fluorination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: First described by Frédéric Jean Edmond Swarts in 1892.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A process whereby the chlorine atoms in a compound are replaced with fluorine, by treatment with antimony trifluoride in the presence of chlorine or of antimony pentachloride.
Slowaris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of slow + Solaris, suggesting slow performance.
Senses: examples: text: Linux faithful mock Solaris with the adolescent nickname "Slowaris," but I challenge critics to find one instance among the innumerable huge-scale Solaris deployments where decision makers are considering a switch to Linux for speed's sake.
ref: 2006, InfoWorld, volume 28, number 38, page 24:
glosses: Solaris, a Unix-based operating system earlier known as SunOS and now developed by Oracle Corporation.
Lunix
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Linux + lunatic or perhaps loon.
Senses: glosses: Deliberate misspelling of Linux.
Lunix
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of little + Unix.
Senses: glosses: A Unix-like operating system, unrelated to Linux, for the Commodore 64 and Commodore 128 computers.
Trethewy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Artemovsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Russian Артёмовск (Artjómovsk).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Artemivsk.
blow someone's back out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blows someone's back out
form: blowing someone's back out
form: blew someone's back out
form: blown someone's back out
Senses: examples: text: Swagged out, for Milly we bringing them gats out
I still got some racks stuffed in the trap house
Off the '42, I'm blowing her back out
ref: 2020, CJ, “Whoopty”:
glosses: To sexually penetrate someone in a vigorous, intense manner, as if causing them to throw out their back.
of the colors
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: American standard spelling of of the colours.
of the colours
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: CREST – Upon a torce of the colours, a swan's neck and breast, with wings displayed, proper.
ref: 1801, William Betham, The Baronetage of England, Or the History of the English Baronets, and Such Baronets of Scotland, as are of English Families: With Genealogical Tables, and Engravings of Their Armorial Bearings, page 306:
text: Crests - 1. on a wreath of the colours, a cock proper, charged with a crescent gules (Corry); 2. on a wreath of the colours, a garland between two laurel branches vert (Lowry)[…]
ref: 1910, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour, page 1025:
text: The shield is ensigned by a helmet to dexter with mantlings or and gules, and surmounted by the crest; out of a torse of the colours a lion rampant issuant or.
ref: 1915, Rowland Winn St. Oswald (2d Baron of), Maurice Walter Brockwell, Catalogue of the Pictures and Other Works of Art in the Collection of Lord St. Oswald at Nostell Priory, page 290:
text: Unless other tinctures are specified, the torse, like the mantling, is of the colours, i.e. of the principal metal and the principal colour.
ref: 1983, Charles Boutell, Boutell's Heraldry, Frederick Warne Publishers, page 155:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
qualifier: etc
glosses: Having, in alternating sections, the principal metal and principal colour of the associated arms.
raw_tags: of a wreath
Bipasha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Bengali বিপাশা (bipaśa).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Bengali.
Stanford in the Vale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England, historically in Berkshire (OS grid ref SU3493).
Ashprington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Ashprington and Tuckenhay Parish Council) in South Hams district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX8157).
Tuckenhay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Ashprington parish, South Hams district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX8156).