cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Padawan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Padawans
Senses: examples: text: Like, practically every day in third grade, Auggie and I would hang out together on FaceChat. We had decided to grow our Padawan braids before I moved away, so it was a great way to check how long they had gotten.
ref: 2015, R. J. Palacio, “FaceChat”, in Pluto: A Wonder Story, New York, N.Y.: Knopf Books for Young Readers, →ISBN:
text: Her underlings flanked her, like Padawans studying beneath some great Jedi.
ref: 2017, Marnie Riches, Born Bad, London: Avon, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of padawan.
Padawans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Padawan
North Pyongan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: North Phyongan
form: North Pyeongan
form: North Pyungan
Etymology: Partial calque of Korean 평안북도(平安北道) (pyeong'anbukdo).
Senses: examples: text: The major gold mining areas in northern Korea were originally developed with American capital and technical skill. The most famous mines are the Unsan and Pukchin mines, located in the mountainous area northeast of the plains of North Pyongan Province.
ref: 1956, Shannon McCune, “Mineral and Hydroelectric Power Resources”, in Korea's Heritage: A Regional & Social Geography, 1st edition, Charles E. Tuttle Company, published 1963, →OCLC, page 222:
text: The delegation of P'ing-an Pei-tao and Hsin-i-chou municipality led by Li Ken-ho (2621 2704 3109), the vice chairman of the people's council of Hsin-i-chou municipality, P'ing-an Pei-tao, the Korean Democratic People's Republic, attache Cheng Feng-kuei (6774 7685 3802) of the Korean Embassy in China, and the Korean comrades in Tan-tung attended the meeting upon invitation.
ref: [1965 March 31 [1965 March 12], “A Solemn Ceremony to Change the Name of An-tung Municipality to Tan-tung Municipality”, in Translations of Political and Sociological Information on Communist China, number 271, Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Jen-min Jih-pao, Peiping, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, page 47:
text: I worked at a clothing export factory from May 2004 to February 2010 at Pihyon County, North Pyongan Province. They exported manufactured clothing to China, and with the money they earned, they issued regular rations. The amount was 14kg of rice and 1 kg of cooking oil per month, and 1 kg of sugar every 3 months.
ref: 2013 July, “The Reality of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights”, in White Paper on Human Rights in North Korea 2013, Korea Institute for National Unification, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 317:
text: Kim Jong-un visited a cosmetics factory situated in Sinuiju, capital of the North Pyongan province, situated on the south bank of the Yalu River, which marks the border between the two countries.
ref: 2018 July 1, “Kim Jong-un highlights China ties with second border visit”, in EFE, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2018:
text: My grandfather began as a young fisherman, selling his catch at a market held on boats in the open ocean, before learning he could study fisheries at university.
August 1945 found them living near Sinuiju, in North Pyongan Province, along the border with China, just north of Pyongyang, where he had been assigned to work as a civil servant in a fisheries laboratory run by the colonial government.
ref: 2020 August 27, Alexander Chee, “My Family’s Shrouded History Is Also a National One for Korea”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Aug 2020:
glosses: A province of North Korea. Capital: Sinuiju.
Synonyms: North Pingan
Related terms: South Pyongan
teem with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: teems with
form: teeming with
form: teemed with
form: teemed with
Senses: glosses: Synonym of crawl with.
synonyms: word: crawl with
jumpspace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compound of jump + space.
Senses: examples: text: The Fergus entered jumpspace, but never emerged. The Scandyans were kind enough to let us check their records, and they show a clean drop.
ref: 2003, L[eland] E[xton] Modesitt Jr., The Ethos Effect, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 176:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Hyperspace.
jumpship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jumpships
Etymology: Compound of jump + ship.
Senses: examples: text: Ben stared at the hologram. "The megacorps don't have quite the monopoly on fast transit that they think they have," he said. "But it would certainly help if we had a few more jumpships. That would solve a lot of transit problems."
ref: 2015, Jacey Bedford, Crossways, New York, N.Y.: DAW Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 59:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A spaceship able to instantaneously move large distances through space by traveling through hyperspace or jumpspace.
jumpships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jumpship
lifeship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lifeships
Etymology: Compound of life + ship.
Senses: examples: text: You target our habs and lifeships, you slaughter us in our millions. We attack your military and infrastructure. And you call us the terrorists.
ref: 2004, Iain M. Banks, The Algebraist, London: Orbit, →ISBN, page 459:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A spaceship serving as an emergency medical center.
lifeships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lifeship
Agwa bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Agwa bombs
Senses: glosses: A cocktail made with energy drink and Agwa de Bolivia herbal liqueur.
Agwa bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Agwa bomb
Lunite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lunites
Etymology: From Lun(a) (“the Moon”) + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: "Our situation," Lamar remarked, "is similar to that which a Lunite might have encountered had he visited New England in 1690. Any wretch who claimed ancestry among the people of the moon in those days, would have been convicted of witchcraft and burned at the stake without mercy."
ref: 1933 February, Julian Kendig, Jr., “The Eternal Mask”, in Amazing Stories, volume 7, number 11, page 1036, column 2:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Synonym of Lunarian (“inhabitant of the Moon”).
synonyms: word: Lunarian
extra: inhabitant of the Moon
Lunites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lunite
Lunarite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lunarites
Etymology: From Lunar (“pertaining to Luna”) + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: Although his achievements were not numerous, he was able to hammer out a successful trade agreement with the Moon. The Lunarites were certainly pleased that their rich mining resources, needed by the Earth, were traded practically straight across for the air and water which they so desperately needed.
ref: 1993, Linda Hall, The Josiah Files, Nashville, T.N.: Thomas Nelson Publishers, →ISBN, page 132:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Synonym of Lunarian (“inhabitant of the Moon”).
synonyms: word: Lunarian
extra: inhabitant of the Moon
Lunarites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lunarite
shell hunger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Prior to the war, for instance, Russia's total production of machinery of all kinds met less than 50 percent of the empire's internal demand. [...] The deleterious result was the great "shell hunger" of 1915, the German conquest of Poland, Livonia, and[…]
ref: 2000 January 1, J. M. Winter, Geoffrey Parker, Mary Ruth Habeck, Mary R. Habeck, Professor Jay Winter, The Great War and the Twentieth Century, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 39:
text: The weapon plants of the German Empire succeed in overcoming the shell hunger faster than the others. The photo shows a Russian artillery battery[…]
ref: 2021 October 29, Rem Word, Revolutionary. Frame by frame, Litres, →ISBN:
text: It [the Ukrainian government] also said that Russian forces appeared to have plenty of munitions, deviating from a “shell hunger,” or lack of ammo supplies, preciously reported by the Russian private military group Wagner.
ref: 2023 April 18, Olga Voitovych, Ukrainian commander says Russians "unsuccessful" in most areas of frontline, CNN:
glosses: A shortage of ammunition, particularly artillery shells.
BPV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BPVs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of bovine papillomavirus.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of basis point value.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Initialism of bipolar violation.
BPVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BPV
Bramantesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bramantesque
form: most Bramantesque
Etymology: From Bramante + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Reminiscent of the style or works of Donato Bramante (1444–1514), Italian architect and painter.
Bulgarize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Bulgarizes
form: Bulgarizing
form: Bulgarized
form: Bulgarized
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Bulgarianize.
synonyms: word: Bulgarianize
Bulgarized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Bulgarize
Bulgarizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Bulgarize
Bulgarizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Bulgarize
moonman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moonmen
form: Moonman
Etymology: From moon + man.
Senses: examples: text: Towser lifts his nose and howls / Toward the moonman, far and dim; / But the moonman only scowls, / For no dog can frighten him.
ref: 1916, John Morrison, “Towser and the Moonman”, in Youth's Companion, volume 90, page 279:
text: I sat within a cedar grove alone / And watched the moonman walk across the hill
ref: 1961, George Ross Ridge, Under the Georgia Sun: Poems, Wake-Brook House, retrieved 10 May 2023, page 20:
glosses: Synonym of man in the moon (“face perceived in the moon, or the character imagined for it”).
synonyms: word: man in the moon
extra: face perceived in the moon, or the character imagined for it
examples: text: In this manner did I discourse with the Moonmen while taking my repast; after which they told me, if I had no objection, that they intended taking me to Moontown, to introduce me to their king […]
ref: 1863, William George Caldcleugh, “Story of Chico Capaac, or the Man in the Moon (the Story of the Moonmen)”, in Eastern Tales, James Challen and Son, retrieved 10 May 2023, page 230:
text: On the floor the Moonman's body shivered again.
ref: 1954, Catherine Lucile Moore, Northwest of Earth, Gnome Press, retrieved 10 May 2023, page 54:
text: As the first moonmen worked to set up their rudimentary base, supply ships would have to be sent periodically with additional provisions for more permanent materials for the eventual large lunar base. Meanwhile, the moonmen would continue to live in their pressurized domes. As supplies accumulated, construction of the permanent base would begin.
ref: 1958 March 24, William Leavitt, “Man in space”, in Air Force Magazine, retrieved 10 May 2023, page 122:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Synonym of Lunarian (“inhabitant of the Moon”).
synonyms: word: Lunarian
extra: inhabitant of the Moon
moonmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moonman
Bulgarianize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Bulgarianizes
form: Bulgarianizing
form: Bulgarianized
form: Bulgarianized
Etymology: From Bulgarian + -ize.
Senses: synonyms: Bulgarize
glosses: To make Bulgarian.
Bulgarianizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Bulgarianize
Bulgarianizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Bulgarianize
Bulgarianized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Bulgarianize
CADs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CAD
CADD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of computer-aided design and drafting.
bionomenclature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + nomenclature.
Senses: glosses: The nomenclature used in the field of biology.
pinch grafting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the way the person performing the procedure pinches the skin in order to harvest tissue to graft.
Senses: examples: text: Pinch grafting is a simple procedure that can be performed at the bedside by a nurse trained in the technique.
ref: 2006, Sylvie Hampton, Fiona Collins, Tissue Viability, page 198:
text: By 3 to 4 weeks after punch or pinch grafting, a ring of pink epithelium can be detected around the grafts, and by 42 to 56 days, hair begins to grow from the grafts.
ref: 2009, Norman Edward Robinson, Kim A. Sprayberry, Current Therapy in Equine Medicine, page 722:
text: In general, the technique resulted in faster healing, less car formation, and less contracture than pinch grafting.
ref: 2022, Lindsey Fitzharris, The Facemaker, page 149:
glosses: A technique of skin grafting in which the graft is harvested by pinching the skin and shaving off a small bit of epidermis without drawing blood.
plough under
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ploughs under
form: ploughing under
form: ploughed under
form: ploughed under
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of plow under.
Flopsy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Flopsys
form: Flopsyes
form: Flopsies
Etymology: From flop + -sy. From flopsy (“floppy”), from flop. Usually from describing floppy eared animals.
Senses: glosses: A given name for pet animals, typically bunny rabbits.
Coordinate terms: sense: stereotypical names for pet animals
word: Felix
sense: stereotypical names for pet animals
word: Mopsy
sense: stereotypical names for pet animals
word: Peanut
sense: stereotypical names for pet animals
word: Rover
sense: stereotypical names for pet animals
word: Spot
sense: stereotypical names for pet animals
word: Tiger
Bialik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bialiks
Senses: glosses: A surname
pull a lever
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls a lever
form: pulling a lever
form: pulled a lever
form: pulled a lever
Etymology: In reference to older voting machines where a lever was pulled to vote for each candidate choice.
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, lever.
examples: text: She tried to pull a lever for the mainstream candidate and it wouldn't work.
ref: 2007, Mark Crispin Miller, Fooled Again:
text: You may dislike much about a candidate, but God calls us to make the hard choice and pull a lever for one or the other—even if it means voting less for a candidate than against another.
ref: 2020, Stephen E. Strang, God, Trump, and the 2020 Election:
glosses: To vote.
Mayim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mayims
Etymology: Popularized by U.S. actress Mayim Bialik, Bialik's name originated as a diminutive contraction of Maryam, her grandmother's name. It has been reinterpreted as deriving from Hebrew מים (“water”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
A diminutive of the female given name Maryam.
glosses: A female given name.
A female given name from Hebrew.
factory mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: factory marks
Senses: glosses: A mark such as a logo or date that a manufacturer puts on an item in order to authenticate it.
Butterey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Buttereys
Senses: glosses: A surname
Related terms: Buttery
Buttrey
Buttry
pendant lights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pendant light
parking lights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parking light
scoff down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scoffs down
form: scoffing down
form: scoffed down
form: scoffed down
Senses: glosses: Synonym of scarf down.
synonyms: word: scarf down
air up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: airs up
form: airing up
form: aired up
form: aired up
Senses: examples: text: We need to air up the tire if we want to continue.
glosses: To inflate (something, such as a tire or air mattress)
track lights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of track light
candlelight dinners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of candlelight dinner
flickies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flicky
flight controllers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flight controller
flight sequences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flight sequence
gas lighters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gas lighter
flight jackets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flight jacket
gas lightings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gas lighting
gas-lighters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gas-lighter
gas-lightings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gas-lighting
hydroflights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydroflight
leadlightings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leadlighting
light dues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of light due
light lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of light line
light waterlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of light waterline
light organs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of light organ
lightcyclers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lightcycler
lightfields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lightfield
microlighters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microlighter
paraflights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paraflight
parking spots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parking spot
track shoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of track shoe
track suits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of track suit
flat-faced longhorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flat-faced longhorn
stonebasher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stonebashers
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of fish
Derived terms: dwarf stonebasher
longnose stonebasher
stonebashers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stonebasher
BeyHive
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the BeyHive
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Beyhive.
eID
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eIDs
form: EID
form: E-ID
form: e-ID
form: eid
form: e-id
form: E-id
form: Eid
Etymology: From e- + ID.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of electronic identity document.
glosses: Initialism of electronic identification.
glosses: Initialism of electronic identifier.
glosses: Initialism of electronic identity.
e-ID
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-IDs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eID.
junk party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: junk parties
Senses: glosses: A party organised on yachts; a boat party.
signs manual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sign manual
jewelled nawabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jewelled nawab
jewelry boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jewelry box
Jezes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jez
Jezzies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jezzy
jewings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jewing
Firefoxers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Firefoxer
Bulwer's petrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bulwer's petrels
Etymology: Named after the English naturalist James Bulwer.
Senses: glosses: Bulweria bulwerii, a small petrel found in tropical and subtropical regions of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Bullock's oriole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bullock's orioles
Etymology: Named after the English naturalist William Bullock.
Senses: glosses: Icterus bullockii, a small New World blackbird.
Blanding's turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Blanding's turtles
Etymology: Named after the American naturalist Dr. William Blanding.
Senses: glosses: A semiaquatic turtle of species Emydoidea blandingii, native to central and eastern parts of Canada and the United States.
Brewer's mole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brewer's moles
Etymology: Named after the American naturalist Thomas Mayo Brewer.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hairy-tailed mole.
synonyms: word: hairy-tailed mole
hairy-tailed mole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hairy-tailed moles
Senses: synonyms: Brewer's mole
glosses: Any of species Parascalops breweri of medium-sized North American mole having dark gray fur with lighter underparts, a pointed nose and a short, hairy tail.
Bicknell's thrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bicknell's thrushes
Etymology: Named after the American ornithologist Eugene Bicknell.
Senses: glosses: Catharus bicknelli, a medium-sized North American thrush.
Bidder's organ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bidder's organs
Etymology: Named after Friedrich Bidder.
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: A spherical, brownish organ in most members of the family Bufonidae (true toads), located just in front of the kidney, or mesonephros, and apparently involved in regulating sex hormones.
wikipedia: Friedrich Bidder
biddy-bid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of biddi-biddi.
biddy-biddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of biddi-biddi.
Arnoux's beaked whale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Arnoux's beaked whales
Senses: glosses: A whale of species Berardius arnuxii.
video-game console
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: video-game consoles
Senses: examples: text: The FBI recently arrested four Chinese nationals in New York for allegedly distributing video-game consoles containing Nintendo game software.
ref: 2005 April 22, “The Player’s Page”, in TGIF (The Palm Beach Post), page 19:
text: Subscribers to Amazon’s Prime Video service will be able to watch the games on smartphones, video-game consoles and connected TVs.
ref: 2022 August 24, Gerry Smith, “Amazon will show ‘Thursday Night Football’ in bars”, in Belleville News-Democrat, page 3A:
text: Sony, which makes the PlayStation video-game console and has movie and music businesses, showed an electric car concept at the CES gadget show in Las Vegas two years ago, and has been eager to find an auto partner.
ref: 2022 October 17, Yuri Kageyama, “Sony, Honda team for EVs slated to hit the US in 2026”, in Naples Daily News, volume 99th, number 84, page 4B:
glosses: Alternative form of video game console.
video-game consoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of video-game console
compucondria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of computer + hypochondria
Senses: examples: text: Cyberchondria (compucondria) is the unfounded escalation of concerns about common symptomology based on a review of search results and literature online (13).
ref: 2020 June 12, Christina Nikolova Grupcheva, Mladena Nikolaeva Radeva, Dimitar Ivanov Grupchev, “How to run an efficient eye care practice during and after the COVID-19 pandemic”, in Scripta Scientifica Medica, volume 52, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 9–16:
glosses: Synonym of cyberchondria.
synonyms: word: cyberchondria
earth divinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earth divinities
Senses: examples: text: Anyhow we seem to perceive that from the early beginnings (in the Stone Age) of self-consciousness in Man there has been a gradual development - from crass superstition, senseless and accidental, to rudimentary observation, and so to belief in Magic; thence to Animism and personification of nature-powers in more or less human form, as earth-divinities or sky-gods or embodiments of the tribe[.]
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 15:
text: As such they were at first the natural places for rites intended to compel the earth; later they became definite sanctuaries of earth divinities.
ref: 1922, Jane Ellen Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 125:
glosses: A god or goddess of the Earth, as opposed to the sky.
earth divinities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earth divinity
proveability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proveabilities
Senses: examples: text: Though the worship of Sun-gods and divine figures in the sky came comparatively late in religious evolution, I have put this subject early in the book (chapters ii and iii), partly because (as I have already explained) it was the phase first studied in modern times, and therefore is the one most familiar to present-day readers, and partly because its astronomical data give great definiteness and "proveability" to it, in rebuttal to the common accusation that the whole study of religious origins is too vague and uncertain to have much value.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 17:
glosses: Alternative spelling of provability.
proveabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proveability
Brewster's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the Scottish physicist Sir David Brewster (1781–1868).
Senses: glosses: The equation that defines Brewster's angle.
Pennyburn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Farther north there is the Londonderry & Lough Swilly with its service to Buncrana, and the locomotive shops at Pennyburn, about a mile beyond the Londonderry terminus, […].
ref: 1948 May and June, J. Macartney Robbins, “A Railway Tour of Ireland”, in Railway Magazine, page 150:
glosses: A suburb of Derry, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, on the west side of the River Foyle.
Catapult centre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Catapult centres
Senses: glosses: Any of the organizations set up from 2011 onwards by Innovate UK in the United Kingdom to promote research and development through business-led collaboration between scientists and engineers.
Catapult centres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Catapult centre
Bishops' Bible
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bishops' Bibles
Senses: glosses: An English edition of the Bible produced under the authority of the established Church of England in 1568. It was substantially revised in 1572, and the 1602 edition was prescribed as the base text for the King James Version that was completed in 1611.
Bell's vireo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bell's vireos
Etymology: Named by Audubon after John Graham Bell, who accompanied him on his trip up the Missouri River in the 1840s.
Senses: glosses: Vireo bellii, a songbird, dull olive-gray above and whitish below, with a faint white eye ring and faint wing bars, that migrates between a breeding range in Western North America and a winter range in Central America.
Derived terms: least Bell's vireo
Brewer's blackbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brewer's blackbirds
Etymology: Named after the ornithologist Thomas Mayo Brewer.
Senses: glosses: Euphagus cyanocephalus, a medium-sized New World blackbird.
Brandt's cormorant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brandt's cormorants
Etymology: Named after the German naturalist Johann Friedrich von Brandt
Senses: glosses: A strictly marine bird of the cormorant family that inhabits the Pacific coast of North America (Urile penicillatus, syn. Urile penicillatus).
wikipedia: Johann Friedrich von Brandt
Bewick's wren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bewick's wrens
Etymology: Named by John James Audubon after his friend Thomas Bewick, an engraver.
Senses: glosses: Thryomanes bewickii, a North American wren.
Brewer's blackbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brewer's blackbird
Baird's beaked whale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Baird's beaked whales
Etymology: Named after Spencer Fullerton Baird, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
Senses: glosses: A whale of species Berardius bairdii.
terrellae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terrella
retreatal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From retreat + -al.
Senses: examples: text: a retreatal moraine
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to a retreat.
hyperfragile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperfragile
form: most hyperfragile
Etymology: From hyper- + fragile.
Senses: glosses: Extremely fragile.
cyberhoarding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + hoarding.
Senses: examples: text: Among the issues they are hoping to explore are cyberhoarding—reluctance to delete information gathered online—and cyberchondria—compulsively using search engines and websites in the hope of finding reassurance about medical fears, only to self-diagnose further ailments.
ref: 2018 October 8, Nicola Davis, “Cyberchondria and cyberhoarding: is internet fuelling new conditions?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Though he never looked at the photos, organizing them took between 2 and 5 h a day and had severely affected his daily life, leading to overwhelming stress and anxiety. The authors suggested that cyberhoarding maybe be comparable to physical hoarding as it also involves the accumulation of items, leading to increased digital clutter and disorganization, […]
ref: 2021, Dan J. Stein, Naomi A Fineberg, Samuel R. Chamberlain, editors, Mental Health in a Digital World, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 272:
glosses: Synonym of digital hoarding.
synonyms: word: digital hoarding
Belding's ground squirrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Belding's ground squirrels
Senses: glosses: A squirrel of species Urocitellus beldingi, that lives on mountains in the western United States.
Bowman's gland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bowman's glands
Etymology: Named after the surgeon and anatomist Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet.
Senses: glosses: An olfactory gland consisting of an acinus in the lamina propria and a secretory duct going out through the olfactory epithelium.
wikipedia: Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet
Bowman's glands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bowman's gland
Attwater's prairie chicken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Attwater's prairie chickens
Etymology: Named after the naturalist Henry Philemon Attwater.
Senses: glosses: A highly endangered subspecies, Tympanuchus cupido attwateri, of the greater prairie chicken.
wikipedia: Henry Philemon Attwater
Bacon's cipher
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Devised by Francis Bacon.
Senses: synonyms: Baconian cipher
glosses: A certain method of steganographic message encoding.
wikipedia: Francis Bacon
Baconian cipher
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Baconian cipher
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Bacon's cipher.
synonyms: word: Bacon's cipher
Ampère's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Ampère's circuital law.
synonyms: word: Ampère's circuital law
glosses: Synonym of Ampère's force law.
synonyms: word: Ampère's force law
Ampère's force law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A physical law dealing with the force of attraction or repulsion between two current-carrying wires, each generating a magnetic field.
closed loops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of closed loop
Ampère's circuital law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A physical law that relates the integrated magnetic field around a closed loop to the electric current passing through the loop.
Beer-Lambert law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Beer-Lambert law
Etymology: Named after scientists August Beer and Johann Heinrich Lambert.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: Beer-Lambert-Bouguer law
Beer's law
Bouguer's law
Lambert-Beer law
glosses: An empirical law that relates the attenuation of light to the properties of the material through which the light is travelling.
wikipedia: August Beer
Johann Heinrich Lambert
Beer's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after scientist August Beer.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Beer-Lambert law.
synonyms: word: Beer-Lambert law
wikipedia: August Beer
Bouguer's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the French scientist Pierre Bouguer.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Beer-Lambert law.
synonyms: word: Beer-Lambert law
Beer-Lambert-Bouguer law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Beer-Lambert-Bouguer law
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Beer-Lambert law.
synonyms: word: Beer-Lambert law
Lambert-Beer law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Lambert-Beer law
Etymology: Named after scientists Johann Heinrich Lambert and August Beer.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Beer-Lambert law.
synonyms: word: Beer-Lambert law
wikipedia: August Beer
Johann Heinrich Lambert
Lamberts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lambert
Paipai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An indigenous people of Mexico, living in northern Baja California.
Paipai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Their Yuman language.
solar hero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solar heroes
Senses: examples: text: It is obvious that these three streams would mingle and interfuse with each other a good deal; but as far as they were separable the first would tend to create Solar heroes and Sun-myths; the second Vegetation-gods and personifications of Nature and the earth-life; while the third would throw its glamour over the other two and contribute to the projection of deities or demons worshipped with all sorts of sexual and phallic rites.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 20:
glosses: A sungod.
solar heroes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solar hero
Quevenne's iron
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Very finely divided iron prepared by means of heat and hydrogen gas, formerly used in medicine.
birthfeast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birthfeasts
Etymology: From birth + feast.
Senses: examples: text: The birthfeast of Mithra was held in Rome on the 8th day before the Kalends of January, being also the day of the Circassian games, which were sacred to the Sun.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 21:
glosses: A feast held to celebrate a birthday.
birthfeasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birthfeast
Chapman's zebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chapman's zebras
Etymology: Named after its describer, James Chapman.
Senses: glosses: Equus quagga chapmani, a subspecies of the plains zebra.
Kittlitz's murrelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kittlitz's murrelets
Etymology: Named after the German zoologist Heinrich von Kittlitz, who first collected the species.
Senses: glosses: Brachyramphus brevirostris, a small alcid found in the waters off Alaska and Eastern Siberia.
Jurin's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after James Jurin, who discovered it between 1718 and 1719.
Senses: glosses: The simplest analysis of capillary action, stating that the maximum height of a liquid in a capillary tube is inversely proportional to the tube's diameter.
PlayStationers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PlayStationer
Kater's pendulum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kater's pendulums
Etymology: Invented by British physicist and army captain Henry Kater in 1817.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A reversible free-swinging pendulum used as a gravimeter.
Josephine's lily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Josephine's lilies
Etymology: Named after Joséphine de Beauharnais, Napoleon's empress.
Senses: synonyms: candelabra lily
glosses: Brunsvigia josephinae, a deciduous subtropical flowering plant originating from South Africa, with deep pink to red flower heads.
candelabra lily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: candelabra lilies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Josephine's lily.
synonyms: word: Josephine's lily
candelabra lilies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of candelabra lily
Sanford's brown lemur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sanford's brown lemurs
Etymology: Named after Leonard Cutler Sanford, a trustee of the American Museum of Natural History.
Senses: synonyms: Sanford's lemur
glosses: The lemur Eulemur sanfordi.
Sanford's lemur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sanford's lemurs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Sanford's brown lemur.
synonyms: word: Sanford's brown lemur
Heermann's gull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Heermann's gulls
Etymology: Named after Adolphus Lewis Heermann, 19th-century explorer and naturalist.
Senses: glosses: Larus heermanni, a gull resident in the United States, Mexico and extreme southwestern British Columbia, nearly all nesting on Isla Rasa in the Gulf of California, and only rarely found inland.
star-map
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: star-maps
Senses: examples: text: Here Virgo the constellation is represented, as in our star-maps, by a woman with a spike of corn in her hand (Spica).
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 32:
glosses: A map detailing the distribution of prominent stars in the night sky.
star-maps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of star-map
Meldola's blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Raphael Meldola, British chemist, who discovered the dye.
Senses: glosses: A blue synthetic oxazine dye.
wikipedia: Raphael Meldola
Lawson cypress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lawson cypresses
Etymology: Named after Charles Lawson (1795–1873) of the Lawson & Son nursery in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Port Orford cedar.
synonyms: word: Port Orford cedar
Lawson cypresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lawson cypress
Lawson's cypress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lawson's cypresses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Lawson cypress.
McCown's longspur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: McCown's longspurs
Etymology: Named after then-Captain John P. McCown, an American army officer who in 1851 collected the specimen that led to the species first being scientifically described.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of thick-billed longspur (Rhynchophanes mccownii)
synonyms: word: thick-billed longspur
extra: Rhynchophanes mccownii
wikipedia: John P. McCown
Maggie's drawers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A red flag used on a firing range to indicate that a shot entirely missed the target.
Humboldt's lily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Humboldt's lilies
Etymology: Named after the naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt.
Senses: glosses: Lilium humboldtii, a lily native to California and Baja California.
Lincoln's sparrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lincoln's sparrows
Etymology: Named by John James Audubon after his friend Thomas Lincoln, who shot the bird on an expedition with Audubon to Nova Scotia in 1834.
Senses: glosses: Melospiza lincolnii, a small sparrow native to North America.
Lewis's woodpecker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lewis's woodpeckers
Etymology: Named by Alexander Wilson (ornithologist) after the explorer Meriwether Lewis, who first described the species.
Senses: glosses: A large woodpecker (Melanerpes lewis), of temperate western North America.
wikipedia: Alexander Wilson (ornithologist)
Meriwether Lewis
borolanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of borolane
boriranes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of borirane
Lawrence's goldfinch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lawrence's goldfinches
Etymology: Named after the American ornithologist George Newbold Lawrence.
Senses: glosses: Spinus lawrencei, a small American songbird.
borirenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of borirene
Boris buses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Boris bus
borkhas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of borkha
Borneo birdwings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Borneo birdwing
born-frees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of born-free
borohydroxides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of borohydroxide
Hutton's vireo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hutton's vireos
Etymology: Calque of translingual Vireo huttoni, named after the US surveyor William Rich Hutton.
Senses: glosses: Vireo huttoni, a small songbird found from southern British Columbia in Canada to central Guatemala in Central America.
boronyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boronyl
bos'ns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bos'n
boson stars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boson star
boss heads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boss head
borotellurates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of borotellurate
bossheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bosshead
Botswanians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Botswanian
Trouton's rule
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Frederick Thomas Trouton.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
thermodynamics
glosses: A rule stating that the entropy of vaporization is almost the same value, about 85–88 J/(K·mol), for various kinds of liquids at their boiling points.
wikipedia: Frederick Thomas Trouton
Selkirk's violet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Selkirk's violets
Etymology: Named by Frederick Traugott Pursh after Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk.
Senses: glosses: The violet Viola selkirkii.
Schweizer's reagent
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the Swiss chemist Matthias Eduard Schweizer (1818–1860).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A deep-blue metal ammine complex with the chemical formula [Cu(NH₃)₄(H₂O)₂](OH)₂, prepared by dissolving copper(II) hydroxide in a solution of ammonia, and used in purifying cellulose.
Say's phoebe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Say's phoebes
Etymology: Named after Thomas Say, American naturalist.
Senses: glosses: Sayornis saya, a passerine bird in the tyrant flycatcher family, common across western North America.
Harlan's hawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Harlan's hawks
Senses: synonyms: Harlan's red-tailed hawk
glosses: Buteo jamaicensis harlani, a subspecies of the red-tailed hawk.
Harlan's red-tailed hawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Harlan's red-tailed hawks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Harlan's hawk.
synonyms: word: Harlan's hawk
Hooker's orchid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hooker's orchids
Etymology: Named after William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865).
Senses: synonyms: Hooker's bog orchid
glosses: Platanthera hookeri, a perennial wildflower found in temperate regions of North America ranging from Iowa to Newfoundland.
Enniscorthy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in County Wexford, Ireland.
Hooker's bog orchid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hooker's bog orchids
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Hooker's orchid.
synonyms: word: Hooker's orchid
Hooker's green
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hooker's greens
Etymology: Named after botanical artist William Hooker (1779–1832), who created it for illustrating leaves.
Senses: glosses: A dark green pigment made by mixing Prussian blue and gamboge.
Henle loop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Henle loops
Senses: glosses: Synonym of loop of Henle.
synonyms: word: loop of Henle
Henle's loop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Henle's loops
Senses: glosses: Synonym of loop of Henle.
synonyms: word: loop of Henle
Henle loops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Henle loop
Castigliano's method
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Carlo Alberto Castigliano.
Senses: glosses: A method for determining the displacements of a linear-elastic system based on the partial derivatives of the energy.
wikipedia: Carlo Alberto Castigliano
Related terms: Castigliano's theorem
Cassin's auklet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cassin's auklets
Etymology: Named after the American ornithologist John Cassin.
Senses: glosses: Ptychoramphus aleuticus, a small seabird that ranges widely in the North Pacific.
Wilson's plover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wilson's plovers
Etymology: Named after the Scottish-American ornithologist Alexander Wilson by his friend George Ord in 1814.
Senses: glosses: Charadrius wilsonia, a small coastal wading bird.
Wallace's Line
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Wallace Line.
synonyms: word: Wallace Line
Torricelli's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the Italian scientist Evangelista Torricelli.
Senses: synonyms: Torricelli's theorem
glosses: A theorem in fluid dynamics relating the speed of fluid flowing from an orifice to the height of fluid above the opening.
Torricelli's theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Torricelli's law.
synonyms: word: Torricelli's law
Sprague's pipit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sprague's pipits
Etymology: Named after the botanical illustrator Isaac Sprague.
Senses: glosses: Anthus spragueii, a small American songbird.
Sibbald's rorqual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sibbald's rorquals
Etymology: Named after Robert Sibbald, who first described the species.
Senses: glosses: The blue whale.
Harris's sparrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Harris's sparrows
Etymology: Named after the American ornithologist Edward Harris (1799–1863).
Senses: glosses: The sparrow Zonotrichia querula.
Perkin's purple
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Perkin's mauve.
synonyms: word: Perkin's mauve
Caro's acid
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: It was first described in 1898 by the German chemist Heinrich Caro.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of peroxymonosulfuric acid.
synonyms: word: peroxymonosulfuric acid