cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
health faucets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of health faucet
bidet shower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bidet showers
Senses: synonyms: bidet spray
bidet sprayer
health faucet
glosses: A hand-held triggered nozzle that delivers a spray of water to assist in cleaning the anus and genitalia after using the toilet.
bidet showers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bidet shower
bidet spray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bidet sprays
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bidet shower.
synonyms: word: bidet shower
bidet sprayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bidet sprayers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bidet shower.
synonyms: word: bidet shower
bidet sprays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bidet spray
bidet sprayers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bidet sprayer
Lagny-sur-Marne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in Seine-et-Marne department, Île-de-France, France.
vacuumed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vacuum up
vacuums up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vacuum up
vacuuming up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vacuum up
kabuki syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The faces of affected individuals were thought to resemble the stage makeup used in Japanese kabuki theater.
Senses: synonyms: kabuki makeup syndrome
Niikawa-Kuroki syndrome
glosses: A congenital disorder characterized by distinctive facial features and various physical and mental disabilities.
kabuki makeup syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of kabuki syndrome.
synonyms: word: kabuki syndrome
Niikawa-Kuroki syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: It was first identified and described in 1981 by two Japanese groups, led by scientists Norio Niikawa and Yoshikazu Kuroki.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of kabuki syndrome.
synonyms: word: kabuki syndrome
kabuki plays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kabuki play
giant hogweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giant hogweeds
Senses: synonyms: hogsbane
glosses: The plant Heracleum mantegazzianum.
giant hogweeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giant hogweed
SIO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SIOs
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Initialism of senior investigating officer.
glosses: Initialism of snap-in-one.
SIOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SIO
representation theories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of representation theory
Auslander-Reiten theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Introduced by Maurice Auslander and Idun Reiten (1975).
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The study of the representation theory of Artinian rings using techniques such as Auslander-Reiten sequences (almost split sequences) and Auslander-Reiten quivers.
almost split sequence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: almost split sequences
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of Auslander-Reiten sequence.
synonyms: word: Auslander-Reiten sequence
almost split sequences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of almost split sequence
thwacketh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of thwack
tough tacos
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: A lot of the same people read both NGs, thus the people who are interested in TOS there are frequently also reading this one. If they don't like non-slash, tough tacos; I figure there are more than enough people writing that sub-genre, and I don't need to do that just to get people to comment. I don't write slash, period.
ref: 2000 April 14, Gamin Davis, “Re: Another Hiatus?”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):
text: It helped me to write it and look at it and say well, tough tacos, honey, she doesn't give a damn, so you need to just move on.
ref: 2006 November 6, Dover Beach, “Re: Blog/rant/lament”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet):
glosses: Synonym of tough cookies.
synonyms: word: tough cookies
non-slash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonslash
Etymology: From non- + slash.
Senses: examples: text: A lot of the same people read both NGs, thus the people who are interested in TOS there are frequently also reading this one. If they don't like non-slash, tough tacos; I figure there are more than enough people writing that sub-genre, and I don't need to do that just to get people to comment. I don't write slash, period.
ref: 2000 April 14, Gamin Davis, “Re: Another Hiatus?”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Fan fiction that is not slash fiction.
guift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guifts
Senses: examples: text: And I will boot thee with what guift beſide / Thy modeſtie can begge.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v], page 348, column 2:
glosses: Obsolete form of gift.
guifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guift
bootflashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bootflash
Hartley function
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Hartley function
Etymology: Introduced by Ralph Hartley in 1928.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A measure of uncertainty. If a sample from a finite set A uniformly at random is picked, the information revealed after the outcome is known is given by the Hartley function H_0(A):=log_b|A|, where |A| denotes the cardinality of A.
wikipedia: Ralph Hartley
clubhousefuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clubhouseful
club goods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of club good
magazineful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magazinefuls
Etymology: From magazine + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Enough to fill a magazine.
halidame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halidames
Senses: examples: text: [C]an your Highneſs keep a ſecret? if it ſhould ever come out of your lips⸺it ſhall not, it ſhall not: Cried Manfred—nay, but ſwear, your Highneſs—by my halidame, if it ſhould ever be known that I ſaid it⸺[…]
ref: 1764 December 24 (indicated as 1765), Onuphrio Muralto, translated by William Marshal [pseudonyms; Horace Walpole], chapter V, in The Castle of Otranto, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Lownds […], →OCLC, page 170:
glosses: Alternative form of halidom.
halidames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halidame
Xfic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Xfics
Etymology: From X-Files + fic.
Senses: examples: text: I have just completed an Xfic, and would like to post it to get some feedback. The story is in 9 parts, with some parts up to 2000 words. Is 2000 words acceptible^([sic]) for a posting length, or should I break the longer parts into smaller lengths for posting?
ref: 1997 February 26, Sean, “posting length query”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fanfic based on The X-Files television series.
examples: text: I'd have to reccommend^([sic]) Paige Caldwell's "Comfortably Numb". It has 3 parts right now. It is a stark, daring look at a scenario that can quite possibly happen with Mulder and Scully... and it is something I have not read before in Xfic.
ref: 1999 August 18, Exley_61, “Re: WIP recs & so forth”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Such fan fiction collectively.
Hagenow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Ludwigslust-Parchim district, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
Derived terms: Hagenow-Land
glosing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of glose
overliterally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: The Roman Catholic doctrine, "outside the church, no salvation," has been the subject of many a theological treatise, and has wrecked the mood in advance of many an auspicious American interfaith gathering. Catholic theologians explain that it must not be overliterally interpreted. Non-Catholic Christians, they say, if "invincibly ignorant" that Catholicism is the only way to salvation, can save themselves by leading good lives; for this makes them, whether they know it or not, Catholics "by desire."
ref: 1953 March 2, “Religion: Excommunication”, in Time, retrieved 26 Jun 2023:
text: In Job 42:10 the A.V. translates overliterally, and the Lord turned the captivity of Job. Here clearly the R.S.V. gives the real meaning, and the Lord restored the fortunes of Job. Throughout the Old Testament we are faced with […]
ref: 1954, Anglican Theological Review, volume 36, number 3, page 188:
text: τὰλόγια, Papias' words for what Matthew writes here, are widely viewed as referring to his gospel in Aramaic form. It is unjustified to insist on taking it overliterally, e.g. by restricting it to a sayings collection: Mark's gospel is said to consist of "what the Lord said and did" but is also said to pass along logioi. Both Irenaeus and other sources confirm this […]
ref: 2020, Eta Linnemann, “The origin of the synoptic gospels”, in Robert W. Yarbrough, transl., Is There A Synoptic Problem?: Rethinking the Literary Dependence of the First Three Gospels, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 189:
glosses: In an overliteral way.
Hypernyms: literally
Coordinate terms: etymonically
hyperliterally
clubsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clubster
clubbies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clubbie
Breddin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Ostprignitz-Ruppin district, Brandenburg, Germany.
Falkensee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Havelland district, Brandenburg, Germany, just outside Berlin.
Linyuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Mandarin 林園 (Línyuán).
Senses: examples: text: A cluster of Japanese encephalitis virus infection has been confirmed in Kaohsiung's Linyuan District, including two confirmed cases and one suspected case, an official with the city's health department said Monday.
ref: 2018 May 28, “Japanese encephalitis cluster confirmed in Kaohsiung”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 17 Mar 2024, Society:
text: A fire broke out at Kaohsiung’s Linyuan petrochemical plant on Saturday (March 16), per CNA.
ref: 2024 March 17, Michael Nakhiengchanh, “Fire breaks out at Kaohsiung’s Linyuan plant”, in Taiwan News, sourced from TAIPEI (Taiwan News), archived from the original on 01 May 2024, Society:
glosses: A district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
cluster developments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cluster development
cluster variables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cluster variable
overproves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overprove
overproving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overprove
overproven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of overprove
overproved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overprove
poppered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From popper + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Toothed zip front with poppered flap.
ref: 1980, Mountain, numbers 71-76, page 7:
text: At night unless you secured a poppered vest over his nappy he would empty the contents over the floor, walls, his face, everywhere.
ref: 2013, Wolfie Blue, Diary of an Autism Mother:
glosses: Having a popper (type of fastener).
gaugeability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Ability to be gauged.
Changchien
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Changchiens
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 張簡 /张简 (Zhāngjiǎn) Wade–Giles romanization: Chang¹-chien³.
Senses: examples: text: The play begins even before the audience members sit down; they first walk through an exhibit that culminates with a full-size art installation piece (the Play Company requested that details not be revealed here). Then a Chinese artist named Lin Bo (played by Louis Ozawa Changchien) enters and recounts how he was jailed for dissidence.
ref: 2016 August 18, Diep Tran, “Truth, Lies and Chinese Art Inspire ‘a Puzzle Box of a Play’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Aug 2016, Theater:
text: Chen lastly visited 100-year-old former martial artist Changchien Chan Ching-yeh (張簡詹清葉) in Daliao District (大寮).
ref: 2021 October 10, Fang Chih-hsien, Kayleigh Madjar, “Kaohsiung centenarians receive visit from mayor”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Oct 2021, Taiwan News, page 3:
glosses: A surname from Mandarin.
Neustadt (Dosse)
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Neustadt
form: Dosse
Etymology: The affix (Dosse) refers to a river passing by the town.
Senses: glosses: A town in Ostprignitz-Ruppin district, Brandenburg, Germany.
Althusserianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Althusserian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Althusserian philosophy.
Banks Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Explored by William Bligh and named after his patron, Joseph Banks.
Senses: glosses: A group of islands to the north of Vanuatu.
wikipedia: Joseph Banks
William Bligh
gavel out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gavels out
form: gaveling out
form: gavelling out
form: gaveled out
form: gaveled out
form: gavelled out
form: gavelled out
Senses: examples: text: After a marathon session that included more than 14 hours of mostly negative public comment, the council agreed 11 to 4 to fund the center, and then gaveled out just before 6 a.m.
ref: 2023 June 10, Patricia Murphy, “OPINION: ‘Atlanta way’ long gone as city leaders face death threats over training center”, in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
glosses: To bang the gavel to indicate the conclusion of a court session.
boo'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /buːd/
rhymes: -uːd
Senses: examples: text: As some in the crowd chanted and boo’d, three white protesters pushed toward a barrier in front of Winston
ref: 2023 June 10, Patricia Murphy, “OPINION: ‘Atlanta way’ long gone as city leaders face death threats over training center”, in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
glosses: simple past and past participle of boo
simulpub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: simulpubs
Etymology: Probably a blend of simulcast + publish.
Senses: glosses: Simultaneous publication of manga in multiple markets.
simulpub
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: simulpubs
form: simulpubbing
form: simulpubbed
form: simulpubbed
Etymology: Probably a blend of simulcast + publish.
Senses: glosses: To simultaneously publish manga in multiple markets.
everythink
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of everything.
somethink
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of something.
T*
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: examples: text: I just kept running into the problem of what to call non-T*people in various discussions, and one day it just hit me: non-trans = cis. Therefore, cisgendered.
ref: 1996 April 16, Carl Buijs, “A new perspective on an old topic”, in soc.support.transgendered (Usenet):
text: You say it is fake, artificial, unnatural. In essence, that we who are T* are these things. I am not unnatural - I'm exceedingly unusual (and not just because of my T*ness), but not unnatural - there was no human intervention that played with my DNA to give me the abilities that I have, or that made me whole brained and mostly ambidexterous, and there was no human intervention that diddled with my gender or my body (which ain't "normal" but it's sure natural). Far from fake, I make a true effort to be as honest, as open, as "real" if you like, as is possible. T*ism is just one facet of who I am; I am a complex human being.
ref: 1998 April 27, Kris, “I'm not a woman”, in soc.support.transgendered (Usenet):
text: The Albany clinic is a well-known organization in the UK which takes advantage of T*'s fear of outing and seeking private sources of hormones.
ref: 1999 August 29, sa_a...@my-deja.com, “Albany Gender Clinic”, in soc.support.transgendered (Usenet):
text: What has shocked me is the T* people I've met who wanted to talk with me about his stuff who are on HRT but living as male/men.
ref: 2000 December 6, Stephe Thayer, “Trapped or stuck in a woman's body”, in soc.support.transgendered (Usenet):
text: There are a lot of wiccan T*'s who, IMHO, tend to be a little outspoken of people of other religious convictions.
ref: 2002 November 14, Helen Smith, “Over-dialation possible?”, in alt.support.srs (Usenet):
qualifier: transgender slang
glosses: Representing the word transgender.
Related terms: trans*
hard counter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hard counters
form: hard-counter
Senses: examples: text: "Bastion is currently in a pretty bad spot," Rarithlynx wrote earlier this month. "He has the most counters out of all heroes in the game, including quite a bit of hard counters. He's big and immobile, and has no defensive or escape abilities, and requires the team to babysit him all the time."
ref: 2017 January 30, Michael McWhertor, “Overwatch's Bastion is finally getting some much-needed buffs”, in Polygon, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2023:
text: In a blog post, the Overwatch team said it wanted to enable players to have more impact on games with a broad range of strategies and heroes. "We've made changes to reduce the amount of hard counters that Overwatch has," game director Aaron Keller said in an interview.
ref: 2022 September 15, Kris Holt, “Here's Why New 'Overwatch 2' Heroes Are Locked Behind A Battle Pass”, in Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2023:
text: The depth of the game's 66 other operators means that there are already some hard counters and interesting interactions.
ref: 2023 February 18, Jake Tucker, “New operator Brava is going to shake up 'Rainbow Six Siege'ʼs meta”, in NME, London: NME Networks Media Limited, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Jun 2023:
topics: video-games
glosses: A character, item, or playstyle able to utterly defeat or nullify another.
hard counter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hard counters
form: hard countering
form: hard countered
form: hard countered
form: hard-counter
Senses: examples: text: Unfortunately, Dragon's Breath is not a good option right now. It trades some initial damage for the burning effect, but that burn is hard-countered by EOD.
ref: 2021 December 8, Charlie Biggerstaff, “Best Marshal loadout in Warzone, plus how to unlock the Marshal in Warzone”, in Rock Paper Shotgun, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2023:
text: For instance, while those enemy rocket ships are hard countered by bombers, I was also abble to destroy them with a group of Interceptors who were able to flank while the missiles targeted Recon units that were hidden in cover.
ref: 2022 August 26, Matt Purslow, “Homeworld 3's Space Terrain Makes the Death Star Trench Run an RTS Tactic”, in IGN, archived from the original on 26 Jun 2023:
topics: video-games
glosses: To act as a hard counter against (something).
examples: text: Since this is the case, you will want to be aware of all of the potential options Cliff has at his disposal so you can counter them accordingly. Unfortunately, you won't know which opponents you'll battle for certain until they appear, so hard-countering Cliff's entire potential team can be tricky.
ref: 2021 April 3, Spencer Whitworth, “How to beat Cliff in Pokemon GO (April 2023)”, in Sportskeeda, archived from the original on 27 Jun 2023:
text: They're relatively easy to get once you unlock the Gun Shop Vendor, and there are not many options to hard counter their suppressive fire other than running away.
ref: 2022 November 3, Matthew McKeown, “Hell Is Others: Guide To PvP”, in The Gamer, archived from the original on 04 Nov 2022:
topics: video-games
glosses: To use a hard counter against (something).
hard counters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hard counter
hard counters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hard counter
hard countering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hard counter
hard countered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hard counter
hard-counter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hard-counters
form: hard-countering
form: hard-countered
form: hard-countered
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hard counter.
hard-counters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hard-counter
hard-countering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hard-counter
hard-countered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hard-counter
cluebie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cluebies
Etymology: Blend of clue + newbie.
Senses: examples: text: I've been out of it so long now that if you gave me an axe I probably wouldn't know which end to use to chop down a tree, but I still know enough of the basics to scare the cluebies off and to set up some protection against the majority of the people who think downloading "toolz" like WinNuke makes them a threat to national security.
ref: 2000 June 3, Magic, “MT ?”, in alt.wow-sucks (Usenet):
text: New builders pick up code cues from their peers in the pits, and newbies who are quick studies of this code soon find themselves respected as cluebies.
ref: 2001, Alison Bing, Erin Conley, Robot Riots: The Good Guide to Bad Bots, New York, N.Y.: Barnes & Noble, →ISBN, page 125:
text: So, that's my basic explanation without investing any real thought into it. Do you think that cluebies would start to get the picture from this or should there be pictures also?
ref: 2002 June 6, HarleyDude®, “how do I setup a new newsgroup ?”, in 24hoursupport.helpdesk (Usenet):
text: Considering that APEWS is only used by a handful of cluebies running mail servers in their attics for 5 family friends and 3 cats, does anyone besides the NANAE peanut gallery actually think the game of pretending people are blocked and must do things to 'get off' APEWS is anything but a game of lying to try to rope other people into the fight?
ref: 2007 August 1, Steve Linford, “Help! APEWS blocked the World!”, in news.admin.net-abuse.blocklisting (Usenet):
glosses: A new or inexperienced user who is more knowledgeable than a newbie; a newbie who "has a clue".
cluebies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cluebie
circummartian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: circum-Martian
Etymology: From circum- + Martian.
Senses: examples: text: Soter (1971) first suggested that two tiny martian moons, Phobos and Deimos, should act as sources of dust for the circummartian space. The proposed mechanism of dust ejection from the satellite surfaces is their continuous hypervelocity bombardment by interplanetary micrometeoroids.
ref: 2006 August, Alexander V. Krivov, Artem G. Feofilov, Valeri V. Dikarev, “Search for the putative dust belts of Mars: The late 2007 opportunity”, in Planetary and Space Science, volume 54, numbers 9–10, →DOI, page 871:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: That surrounds or circles the planet Mars.
Certa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Certas
Senses: glosses: A surname
circumjovian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: circum-Jovian
Etymology: From circum- + Jovian.
Senses: examples: text: The differential migration of the newly formed Galilean satellites due to interactions with a circumjovian disk can lead to the primordial formation of the Laplace relation n₁ − 3n₂ + 2n₃ = 0, where the nᵢ are the mean orbital angular velocities of Io, Europa, and Ganymede, respectively.
ref: 2002 October 18, S. J. Peale, Man Hoi Lee, “A Primordial Origin of the Laplace Relation Among the Galilean Satellites”, in Science, volume 298, number 5593, →DOI, page 593:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: That surrounds or circles the planet Jupiter.
nonslash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Any given person can have the same reaction to specific characters and situations regardless of sexuality. Slash is an exemplar of the category “fair use,” but that doesn’t make slash any better, even as fair use, than nonslash, any more than a robin is a better bird than an ostrich.
ref: 2009 November, Rebecca Tushnet, “Economies of Desire: Fair Use and Marketplace Assumptions”, in William & Mary Law Review, volume 51, number 2, →SSRN, page 529:
glosses: Alternative form of non-slash (“fan fiction that is not slash fiction”).
heat storm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heat storms
Etymology: From heat + storm.
Senses: glosses: An extended heat wave, defined as high temperatures over 100 degrees Fahrenheit over a large area for three consecutive days.
Related terms: heat dome
Lingiari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname
glosses: A surname
Vincent Lingiari
glosses: An electoral division in the Northern Territory, Australia.
Eden-Monaro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An electoral division in New South Wales, Australia.
Shortland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: An electoral division in New South Wales, Australia.
Related terms: Shortland Islands
Berowra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: An electoral division in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Blaxland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A town in the City of Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A locality in Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia.
Chifley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname
glosses: A surname
Ben Chifley
glosses: An electoral division in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Grayndler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname
glosses: An electoral division in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Kingsford Smith
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname
glosses: An electoral division in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport (an airport in Mascot, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia).
Macarthur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A place in Australia:
A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, named after John Macarthur (wool pioneer).
glosses: A place in Australia:
A region of Sydney in the City of Campbelltown, Camden council area and Wollondilly Shire, New South Wales, named after John Macarthur and Elizabeth Macarthur.
glosses: A place in Australia:
A town in the Shire of Moyne, south-west Victoria.
Mackellar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname
glosses: An electoral division in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
concession-contraexpectation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Unexpectedness between propositions.
Warringah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A local government area of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: An electoral division in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
contraexpectation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From contra- + expectation.
Senses: glosses: The situation where something runs contrary to expectation; an unexpected outcome.
Derived terms: concession-contraexpectation
concession-counter-expectation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of concession-contraexpectation.
Werriwa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ngunawal Weereewa (“Lake George”).
Senses: glosses: An electoral division in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
optical depth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: optical depths
Senses: examples: text: The previous attempt of direct observational detection, undertaken with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) during the Mars equatorial plane crossing in May 2001, set an upper limit on the normal optical depth to #92;sim 3#92;times 10#123;-8#125; for the Phobos ring and #92;sim 10#123;-7#125; for the Deimos torus.
ref: 2006 August, Alexander V. Krivov, Artem G. Feofilov, Valeri V. Dikarev, “Search for the putative dust belts of Mars: The late 2007 opportunity”, in Planetary and Space Science, volume 54, numbers 9–10, →DOI, page 871:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: optical thickness
glosses: The natural logarithm of the ratio of amount of radiation that hits an object to the amount of radiation that emerges from that object on the other side.
Mallee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A region of Victoria, Australia.
glosses: An electoral division in Victoria, Australia.
Derived terms: fit as a Mallee bull
Silicon Mallee
Wannon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Victoria, Australia.
glosses: An electoral division in Victoria, Australia.
Poynting-Robertson drag
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Poynting-Robertson drag
Senses: examples: text: To study the observability of the martian dust belts in this paper, we employed our dynamical code that numerically integrates orbit-averaged equations of motion of a circummartian particle in Lagrange elements derived by Krivov et al. (1996)[…], which we recently generalized to accommodate the Poynting–Robertson drag (Makuch et al., 2005).
ref: 2006 August, Alexander V. Krivov, Artem G. Feofilov, Valeri V. Dikarev, “Search for the putative dust belts of Mars: The late 2007 opportunity”, in Planetary and Space Science, volume 54, numbers 9–10, →DOI, page 873:
topics: astrophysics
glosses: Synonym of Poynting-Robertson effect.
synonyms: word: Poynting-Robertson effect
Poynting-Robertson effect
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Poynting-Robertson effect
Etymology: Named after English physicist John Henry Poynting (1852–1914) and American mathematician Howard P. Robertson (1903–1961).
Senses: topics: astrophysics
synonyms: Poynting-Robertson drag
glosses: A process by which solar radiation causes a dust grain orbiting a star to lose angular momentum relative to its orbit around the star.
wikipedia: Howard P. Robertson
John Henry Poynting
non-detection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-detections
Senses: examples: text: This paper analyzes possible reasons for non-detection of the belts and focuses on the next, and the last for three decades to come, natural opportunity to search for the dust belts during the Mars ring plane crossing in December 2007.
ref: 2006 August, Alexander V. Krivov, Artem G. Feofilov, Valeri V. Dikarev, “Search for the putative dust belts of Mars: The late 2007 opportunity”, in Planetary and Space Science, volume 54, numbers 9–10, →DOI, page 871:
glosses: Alternative form of nondetection.
trans-Martian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + Martian.
Senses: examples: text: Then, less than a year before the discovery of Neptune, a fifth trans-Martian object and the twelfth planet, Astraea, had been found.
ref: 2009 [2007], David A. Weintraub, Is Pluto a Planet?: A Historical Journey through the Solar System, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 115:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Lying beyond the orbit of the planet Mars.
Bad Wilsnack
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Prignitz district, Brandenburg, Germany.
Friedrichsruh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Friedrich + -s- + Ruh.
Senses: glosses: A district of Aumühle municipality, Herzogtum Lauenburg district, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Daliao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɑ liˈɑʊ/
enpr: däʹlyouʹ
Etymology: From the Mandarin 大寮 (Dàliáo).
Senses: examples: text: On 6 November, a fire broke out at the waste dump in the Tafa scrap metal special zone in Taliao Township, Kaohsiung County, which provoked fierce protests among the villagers.
ref: [1987 May 6 [1987 January], “Report on 1986 Human Rights Situation in Taiwan”, in China Report: Political, Sociological and Military Affairs, number 87-035, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from KUANHUAI TSACHI^([sic – meaning TSACHIH]) [CARE MAGAZINE], No 53, pp 4-12, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, TAIWAN, page 119:
text: A couple and their two children were found dead inside a car on a riverside in Kaohsiung's Daliao District early Friday in what is believed to be a murder-suicide.
ref: 2020 December 4, Flor Wang, Hung Hsueh-kuang, “Family of four found dead in apparent murder-suicide in Kaohsiung”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 04 Dec 2020, Society:
glosses: A district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Lingya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Mandarin 苓雅 (Língyǎ).
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Lingya.
glosses: A district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
HZMB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge.
wikipedia: HZMB
Marampa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A chiefdom in Port Loko district, Sierra Leone, with its capital in Lunsar.
glosses: An iron ore mine based in Lunsar, Sierra Leone.
Sohag
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic سَوْهَاجْ (Sawhāj)
Senses: glosses: A city, the capital of Sohag governorate, Egypt.
glosses: A governorate in Upper Egypt; in full, Sohag Governorate.
Nag Hammadi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Qena governorate, Upper Egypt.
cheffier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of cheffy: more cheffy
TechTokers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TechToker
French Lick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Originally a French trading post near a salt lick. The township was named after French Lick Creek.
Senses: glosses: A township and town therein, in Orange County, Indiana, United States.
kan cheong
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˌkän˧ ˈt͡ʃjɔŋ˦]
ipa: [- ˈt͡ɕj-]
Forms: form: more kan cheong
form: most kan cheong
Etymology: From Cantonese 緊張 /紧张 (gan² zoeng¹), by way of Singapore Hokkien 緊張 /紧张 (kán-chiong, “nervous; stressed”).
Senses: examples: text: I was so ‘kancheong’ (Cantonese for worried) about his tests that I woke him up at 5:30 am to remind him not to make mistakes.
ref: 2002 August 13, Michelle Ho, quoting Diana Liaw, The Straits Times, Singapore, page L8:
text: I wasn’t always this kan cheong about elections.
ref: 2008 November 2, Colin Goh, The Sunday Times, Singapore, page 14:
text: […] they will just become more kan cheong and think that all the mata and SCDF kena nuked or something […]
ref: 2004, The Void Deck, soc.culture.singapore (Usenet):
glosses: Nervous, anxious, keyed up
kancheong
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kan cheong.
Cullington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cullingtons
Etymology: Variant of Collington.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
leanest and meanest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of lean and mean: most lean and mean
leaner and meaner
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of lean and mean: more lean and mean
long-distance relationships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of long-distance relationship
looked down one's nose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of look down one's nose
looks down one's nose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of look down one's nose
looking down one's nose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of look down one's nose
Herschels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Herschel
pursuit curves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pursuit curve
radiodromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radiodrome
requests for comments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of request for comments
Treasury Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Treasury Islands
Senses: glosses: A small group of islands in the Solomon Islands; consisting of Mono Island and Stirling Island.
Related terms: Treasury Island
Treasury Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Mono Island in the Solomon Islands
Related terms: Treasury Islands
Treasury Islander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Treasury Islanders
Senses: glosses: A resident of the Treasury Islands, or Treasury Island (Mono) in specific.
Highertown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Advent parish, near Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX1281).
examples: Alternative form: Higher Town
glosses: A western suburb of Truro, Cornwall (OS grid ref SW8044).
Lysette
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
neurogenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurogender
summer soldier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: summer soldiers
Senses: examples: text: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
ref: 1776 December 23, Thomas Paine, The American Crisis:
text: We want to assure you, however, that we are not summer soldiers, and we know that you are not a summer soldier. The fight for human rights, for freedom ... will go on.
ref: 1986 March 5, Kenneth J. Bialkin, Remarks at a White House Briefing:
glosses: A person who fights for a cause only when to do so is easy and costs little.
summer soldiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of summer soldier
academic freedoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of academic freedom
walrusine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: All things being equal, I'd rather face some grumpy, walrusine "owner" at the Ranch than an Xray and sigmoidoscope at gunpoint . Here is the world's Last Great Reserve of temperate climate surf, virtually untapped from Lambert's[…]
ref: 1994, Surfer:
text: Most decidedly present is one Olaf Gustafson Jr., walrusine president of Gustafson and Son Construction, with two pinstriped attorneys and one herringboned accountant. Off her father's starboard side is the critically pale Olaffe[…]
ref: 2002 January 8, Dale McGowan, Calling Bernadette's Bluff: A Novel, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 138:
text: On the tube, Deidre said, “Back to you, Phil,” and was replaced by a walrusine weatherman with a handlebar mustache and a grin shaped like a quarter wedge of watermelon.
ref: 2003 December 15, John Decure, Bluebird Rising: A Mystery, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 186:
text: ... walrusine voice, which I hears way more than I sees his gelatinous frame. Yet the voice lack effect, 'cause nobody ever do what he say. They's gruntin' and groanin' and dogfood-stool. They's Pringles can face and apple juice sticky.
ref: 2014 April 10, C.W. Thornton, Mommer 'n' Diddy What Live Next Door, First Edition Design Pub., →ISBN, page 64:
text: He was a mustachioed, walrusine guy in his forties with a tag that read “Tallman.” She turned to look back inside the van, back doors half-open and the inside of the van shrouded in shadow. She turned back toward them.
ref: 2020 July 21, Lindsay Ellis, Axiom's End: A Novel, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Walruslike, particularly in size.
walrusian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of walrusine (“walruslike”).
synonyms: word: walrusine
extra: walruslike
Portnoo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A settlement west of Narin, on the west coast of County Donegal, Ireland.
2-3 tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 2-3 trees
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A tree data structure whose every node with children (internal node) has either two children and one data element, or three children and two data elements; a B-tree of order 3.
Related terms: 2-3-4 tree
2-4 tree
2-4 tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 2-4 trees
Senses: glosses: Synonym of 2-3-4 tree.
synonyms: word: 2-3-4 tree
2-3-4 tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 2-3-4 trees
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: 2-4 tree
glosses: A tree data structure whose every node with children (internal node) has either two, three or four child nodes: a 2-node has one data element, and if internal has two child nodes; a 3-node has two data elements, and if internal has three child nodes; and a 4-node has three data elements, and if internal has four child nodes.
Related terms: 2-3 tree
B+ tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: B+ trees
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An m-ary tree data structure with a variable but often large number of children per node. It can be viewed as a B-tree in which each node contains only keys (not key–value pairs), and to which an additional level is added at the bottom with linked leaves.
Related terms: B-tree
bloc party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: block party
Forms: form: bloc parties
Etymology: Calque of German Blockpartei.
Senses: examples: text: Bloc party membership was largely opportunistic, offering a niche in public life (officially sanctioned yet apart from the SED), and opportunities for career advancement.
ref: 1996, Paul G. Lewis, editor, Party Structure and Organization in East-Central Europe, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 173:
glosses: A non-ruling political party that exists pro forma in what is de facto a one-party system, most notably in communist regimes.
order statistic tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: order statistic trees
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A variant of the binary search tree (or more generally, a B-tree) that supports, in addition to insertion, lookup and deletion, the operations of Select (find the ith smallest element stored in the tree) and Rank (find the rank of element x in the tree, i.e. its index in the sorted list of elements of the tree).
order statistic trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of order statistic tree
bloc parties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bloc party
one-party system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one-party systems
Senses: glosses: A political system in which only one political party has the right to form the government, usually based on the existing constitution.
hotel room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hotel rooms
Senses: hyponyms: single room
double room
twin room
glosses: A room at a hotel where a customer can spend the night.
Shangli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Mandarin 上栗.
Senses: examples: text: Fifteen miners are currently trapped in a flooded coalmine in Shangli County in Jiangxi province. The flooding occurred yesterday in a licensed coalmine located in Chishan Township.
ref: 2005 July 8, “Fifteen Miners Trapped in Flooded Coal Mine”, in China Labour Bulletin, archived from the original on 10 Jun 2016, News:
text: A pipeline carrying natural gas from Central Asia to southern China ruptured and exploded in Shangli county, Jiangxi province yesterday, injuring at least two people and halting gas supplies, state media reported.
ref: 2013 May 26, Mandy Zuo, “At least 2 injured in Jiangxi natural gas pipeline blast”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 2020, China:
text: The Yangjiawan caves are located in Shangli County, Pingxiang, Jiangxi Province, and the exact position of Cave 2 is 27°46'25"N, 113°50'25"E. They are karst caves which are filled with Late Pleistocene clay and silt deposits.
ref: 2020 August 20, Sun Ji-Jia [孙吉嘉], Zhang Bei [张贝], Chen Xi [陈曦], Deng Li [邓里], Wen Jun [文军], Tong Hao-Wen [同号文], “New fossils of Late Pleistocene Sus scrofa from Yangjiawan Cave 2, Jiangxi, China [江西萍乡杨家湾2号洞晚更新世野猪化石研究]”, in Vertebrata PalAsiatica [古脊椎动物学报], volume 59, number 1, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 65:
english: 古脊椎动物学报
translation: 古脊椎动物学报
text: The statement from Shangli County in Jiangxi province said the suspect, identified only by his surname, Huang, had been detained after the incident on Friday night and would be “rigorously prosecuted under the law.”
ref: 2023 February 19, “Drunk driver stabs 3 police to death in southern China”, in AP News, archived from the original on 20 Feb 2023:
glosses: A county of Pingxiang, Jiangxi, China.
deedlee ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deedlee balls
form: deedly ball
Senses: examples: text: The woman and the pony were posed before velvet draperies which were fringed with deedlee-balls. They were flanked by Doric columns.
ref: 1969 March 31, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five […] (A Seymour Lawrence Book), New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →OCLC, page 35:
text: […] it was only Leon, looking even droopier than usual in a floppy red felt Santa cap with a dangling white deedly-ball.
ref: 1996, Jonathan Nasaw, The World on Blood, New York, N.Y.: Dutton Books, →ISBN, page 139:
text: He felt the touch on his shoulder, turned and it was Gil Sibbernsen, the deputy, dressed for hunting: orange shirt, green wool coat and pants, pac-boots. He was tall as Marvin but big. On his head he wore a red wool collection of flaps and plaid, topped off with a deedlee ball.
ref: 1999, Kevin Canty, Nine Below Zero: A Novel, New York, N.Y. […]: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, →ISBN, page 75:
text: Martha Stewart has turned us all into home and hearth experts. Or has she? Phenomenally successful as she is, there are still those among us who think flower-patterned drapes with deedly-ball fringe are chic. I actually knew one man so nondomestic he thought deedly-balls were what his first lover had.
ref: 2000, Joel Perry, Funny That Way: Adventures in Fabulousness, Los Angeles, C.A.; New York, N.Y.: Alyson Books, →ISBN, page 164:
glosses: A small decorative ball made of yarn.
deedlee balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deedlee ball
deedly ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deedly balls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of deedlee ball.
deedly balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deedly ball
Pingxiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: pǐngʹshyängʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 萍鄉 /萍乡 (Píngxiāng).
Senses: glosses: A prefecture-level city of Jiangxi, China.