cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
renued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of renue
Ossau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ossaus
Etymology: Borrowed from French Ossau, itself from Occitan Aussau.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French [in turn from Occitan].
arke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arkes
Senses: examples: text: Afterwards the Lord renued this Covenant with Noah, Gen. 6.10. and did further reveale it in another Type, namely, the ſaving of Noah and his family in the Arke, which was borne up by the flood of Waters; […]
ref: 1640, [George Walker], chapter VI, in The Manifold Wisedome of God: In the divers diſpenſation of Grace by Ieſus Christ. […], London: Printed by R. H[odgkinson] for Iohn Bartlet, page 61:
glosses: Obsolete form of ark.
Ossun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Ossun, itself from Occitan Ossun.
Senses: glosses: A town in Hautes-Pyrénées department, Occitania, France.
Ossun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ossuns
Etymology: Borrowed from French Ossun, itself from Occitan Ossun.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French [in turn from Occitan].
doing nothing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of do nothing
Ollier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Olliers
Etymology: Borrowed from French Ollier.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Derived terms: Ollier disease
reveale
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reveales
form: revealing
form: revealed
form: revealed
Senses: examples: text: Afterwards the Lord renued this Covenant with Noah, Gen. 6.10. and did further reveale it in another Type, namely, the ſaving of Noah and his family in the Arke, which was borne up by the flood of Waters; […]
ref: 1640, [George Walker], chapter VI, in The Manifold Wisedome of God: In the divers diſpenſation of Grace by Ieſus Christ. […], London: Printed by R. H[odgkinson] for Iohn Bartlet, page 61:
glosses: Obsolete form of reveal.
smoake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoakes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of smoke.
smoake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smoakes
form: smoaking
form: smoaked
form: smoaked
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of smoke.
windowsole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windowsoles
Senses: glosses: windowsill
khelat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: khelats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of khalat.
Old North
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Old North
Etymology: Calque of Welsh yr Hen Ogledd.
Senses: glosses: The region of modern northern England and southern Scotland inhabited by Cumbric-speaking Celtic Britons in the Early Middle Ages.
shamma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shammas
Senses: glosses: An Ethiopian shawl.
LGBTIQA+
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: If LGBTIQA+ people were asked what they wanted for Christmas in 2022, many would simply wish for Government action to achieve equality and reduce the strange and unnecessary obstacles to living our best lives. Where WA once led the nation on LGBTIQA+ law reform, we have fallen behind.
ref: 2022 December 19, Misty Farquhar, “Misty Farquhar: There is still plenty more to do before we reach LGBTIQA+ equality”, in The West Australian:
synonyms: LGBTQIA+
glosses: Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual, intersex, queer/questioning, allied/asexual/aromantic/agender, etc..
ILSI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of International Life Sciences Institute.
antichauvinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + chauvinism.
Senses: glosses: Opposition to chauvinism.
antichauvinist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antichauvinists
Etymology: From anti- + chauvinist.
Senses: glosses: One who opposes chauvinism.
antichauvinists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antichauvinist
unchauvinistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unchauvinistically
form: most unchauvinistically
Etymology: From unchauvinistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an unchauvinistic manner.
lamb's fry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Mrs. Micawber and I had a lamb's fry in private, surrounded by the sleeping family.
ref: 1850, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield:
glosses: Lamb offal prepared as food, such as the testicles, liver, sweetbreads, heart, kidneys, and sometimes the brain and abdominal fat.
Related terms: lamb fries
banana slice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banana slices
Senses: topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Synonym of slice (“shot that curves unintentionally”).
synonyms: word: slice
extra: shot that curves unintentionally
examples: text: Peel banana and slice lengthwise to make long strips ¼ inch thick. Lay a couple of banana slices on top of bread slices.
ref: 2003, Rob Feenie, Marnie Coldham, Lumière Light: Recipes from the Tasting Bar, Douglas & McIntyre, published 2004, →ISBN, page 100:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see banana, slice.
banana slices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banana slice
Texas wedge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Texas wedges
Senses: topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The putter, when used to take a shot that is not on the green.
Texas wedges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Texas wedge
Texarkanan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Texarkanan
form: most Texarkanan
Etymology: From Texarkana + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Texarkana.
Texarkanan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Texarkanans
Etymology: From Texarkana + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Texarkana.
Texarkanans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Texarkanan
turn on red
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turns on red
Senses: examples: text: Only some U.S. states permit turns on red.
glosses: A turn by a vehicle at a red light into the direction of traffic nearer to the vehicle.
turns on red
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turn on red
OBRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of OBR
overhead bridge restaurant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overhead bridge restaurants
Senses: synonyms: word: OBR
word: overhead restaurant
glosses: A kind of rest area with restaurants forming a bridge above the expressway, accessible to traffic heading in either direction.
overhead bridge restaurants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overhead bridge restaurant
overhead restaurant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overhead restaurants
Senses: glosses: Synonym of overhead bridge restaurant.
synonyms: word: overhead bridge restaurant
overhead restaurants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overhead restaurant
carrot bacon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A vegan substitute for bacon, made from marinated strips of carrot.
toothach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toothachs
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of toothache.
Buridan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from French
Derived terms: Buridan formula
Buridan's ass
Buridan's bridge
Buridan's donkey
Buridanian
Point Nemo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the character Captain Nemo in Jules Verne's 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. The novel was a childhood favorite of Croatian survey engineer Hrvoje Lukatela, who first discovered Point Nemo in 1992.
Senses: examples: text: Samples taken near the planet’s most remote area, Point Nemo, which is 2,688km (1,450 nautical miles) from land in all directions, revealed 320 microplastic particles per cubic metre, compared with 9-41 in the last race.
ref: 2023 June 5, Yvonne Gordon, “Microplastics found in every sample of water taken during Ocean Race”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The location in the ocean that is farthest from land, situated in the South Pacific Ocean at roughly 48°52.6′S 123°23.6′W, equally distant from the three closest land vertices which are each roughly 2,688 km (1,670 mi) away; the oceanic pole of inaccessibility.
wikipedia: Captain Nemo
Jules Verne
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
Related terms: english: another place that is most remote by a certain measure
translation: another place that is most remote by a certain measure
word: North Pole of inaccessibility
insect house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insect houses
Senses: glosses: Synonym of insect hotel.
synonyms: word: insect hotel
insect houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insect house
film bro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: film bros
Senses: glosses: A male fan of arthouse cinema, typically viewed as pretentious.
film bros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of film bro
post-transcriptional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of posttranscriptional.
post-transcriptionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of posttranscriptionally.
post-transplantation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of posttransplantation.
post-translationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of posttranslationally.
post-cholecystectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of postcholecystectomy.
posthospitalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of posthospitalization.
post-hospitalization
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of posthospitalization.
post-hospitalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of posthospitalization.
post-foundational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of postfoundational.
post-foundationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of postfoundationally.
post-foundationalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of postfoundationalism.
post-foundationalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: post-foundationalists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of postfoundationalist.
postindustrialisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of postindustrialization.
post-industrialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of postindustrialization.
post-industrialisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of postindustrialization.
poonjah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of punja.
nunjah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nanja.
nanjah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nanja.
nunja
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nanja.
Brunnian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Brunn + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Karl Hermann Brunn (1862–1939), German mathematician.
Derived terms: Brunnian braid
Brunnian link
Brunnian braid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brunnian braids
Etymology: Named after Hermann Brunn.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: A braid that becomes trivial upon removal of any one of its strings.
wikipedia: Hermann Brunn
Brunnian braids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brunnian braid
Jewellery Quarter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Jewellery Quarter
Senses: glosses: An inner city area of Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP0687).
driver's seats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of driver's seat
Dua's layers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dua's layer
Forster's terns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Forster's tern
Horsfield's bats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Horsfield's bat
Mueller's geebungs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mueller's geebung
Naumann's thrushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Naumann's thrush
Pallas's buntings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pallas's bunting
Pallas's gulls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pallas's gull
Palmer's liveforevers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Palmer's liveforever
Richard's pipits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Richard's pipit
Scaglia's tuco-tucos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Scaglia's tuco-tuco
'shrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'shroom
Skinner's ground mantises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Skinner's ground mantis
'stans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'stan
'Stans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'Stan
Swainson's thrushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Swainson's thrush
Tanishpa's dwarf geckos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tanishpa's dwarf gecko
Temminck's stints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Temminck's stint
Trudell's spleenworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Trudell's spleenwort
what's-its-names
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of what's-its-name
Wilson's phalaropes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wilson's phalarope
goldfish plants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goldfish plant
sandfish skinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sandfish skink
Sumatran frogmouths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sumatran frogmouth
false monarchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of false monarch
red king crabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red king crab
golden king crabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of golden king crab
golden crabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of golden crab
white-sided dolphins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white-sided dolphin
probasisternites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of probasisternite
outbrothers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outbrother
thigmotherms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thigmotherm
fatherlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fatherline
yo-he-ho theories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yo-he-ho theory
Hecke algebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hecke algebras
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Iwahori-Hecke algebra.
synonyms: word: Iwahori-Hecke algebra
Hecke algebras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hecke algebra
titan beetles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of titan beetle
water scavenger beetles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water scavenger beetle
green June beetles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green June beetle
green fruit beetles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green fruit beetle
hairy click beetles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hairy click beetle
lined flat bark beetles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lined flat bark beetle
Iwahori-Hecke algebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Iwahori-Hecke algebras
Etymology: Named for Erich Hecke and Nagayoshi Iwahori.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: Hecke algebra
glosses: A deformation of the group algebra of a Coxeter group.
Nechells
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An inner suburb of Birmingham, West Midlands, England, north-east of the city centre (OS grid ref SP0989).
smash burger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smash burgers
form: smashburger
Senses: glosses: A hamburger patty (or the resulting hamburger) that is pushed down onto the grill or griddle in order to sear the meat.
smash burgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smash burger
two-thousandths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of two-thousandth
seaside rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A type of confectionery made from sugar in the shape of a stick; rock.
Burgum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Burgums
Senses: glosses: A surname
extended reality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extended realities
Senses: examples: text: “XR” has been used to describe some sort of visual extension of reality for decades. It has referred to cross reality, and also, extended reality. Wearable computing researcher and inventor Steve Mann has used the phrase “mediated reality” in the past; more recently he has proposed the term “*R”, with an asterisk, to signal all mediated realities. In a white paper published last April, Mann notes that photographer Charles Wyckoff filed a patent for an “XR” film back in the 1960’s, “which allowed people to see nuclear explosions and other phenomena beyond the range of normal human vision.”
ref: 2019 January 5, Lauren Goode, “Get Ready to Hear a Lot More About 'XR'”, in Wired:
text: Apple could also vault to the forefront of the XR market — a term for extended reality, similar to virtual reality, Mr. Fieldhack said.
ref: 2023 June 5, Kellen Browning, quoting Jeff Fieldhack, “Apple Debuts Its Next Big Product, a Virtual Reality Headset”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Still more are selling headsets for “extended reality” (XR), a name that seems to indicate nothing more than a desire to avoid choosing between AR and VR.
ref: 2023 June 6, Ian Bogost, “The Age of Goggles Has Arrived”, in The Atlantic:
synonyms: XR
glosses: The technologies augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR).
Related terms: spatial computing
metaverse
prelicked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + licked.
Senses: examples: text: Despite the impressive revolving capability of the feline neck, which allows it to take care of its back, it can't give a feline tongue access to its nape or head, and cats therefore give these areas a good scrub by rubbing them with a prelicked forepaw, following a precise routine.
ref: 2003, Clare Gibson, The Cat-Care Handbook, New York, N.Y.: Barnes & Noble, →ISBN, page 73:
text: There is also an omnipresent whitewash of rabbit fur across my carpets. I tried lint-rolling, but after clearing about an inch, the roller ended up looking like a prelicked Fab lolly dropped on the floor of the hairdresser's.
ref: 2015 February 15, Alexander Fury, “Watership gown: A rabbit-related fashion loss”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2022:
glosses: Having been previously licked.
kick out the jams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kicks out the jams
form: kicking out the jams
form: kicked out the jams
form: kicked out the jams
Senses: examples: text: Then the unthinkable might be actual, the unprecedented possible. You could safely kick out the jams, dissolve the old hesitations, break with adults, be done with compromises, get on with it.
ref: 1998, John Downton Hazlett, My Generation: Collective Autobiography and Identity Politics, page 192:
text: After that, we kick out the jams and explore some of the more interesting things you can do with a webcam.
ref: 2006, Tom Green, Jordan L Chilcott, Foundation Flash 8 Video, page 240:
text: Bella was in her mid-thirties, had long prematurely gray hair and the face of a serene earth mother, but she could kick out the jams and lay down some howling firepower with her cherry-red 1975 Gretsch Streamliner.
ref: 2013, Robert McCammon, The Five, page 219:
text: That Friday, Ken retired, signifying the start of a new era without any Bogers involved in the company's operations. It was a good time to acknowlege^([sic]) progress, take stock, paint a vision, back-pat, then feast, drink, and kick out the jams.
ref: 2014, Barry Werth, The Antidote: Inside the World of New Pharma, page 321:
glosses: To behave in a raucous, wild, passionate manner free from restraint; to let loose.
Related terms: raise the roof
clutch disc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clutch discs
Senses: glosses: A spinning disc at the end of the driveshaft that is squeezed against the engine flywheel when the clutch is engaged, so that friction from the surface causes the engine and the transmission to turn at the same speed; clutch plate.
VH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VHs
Senses: examples: text: Virtual humans (VHs)—automated, three-dimensional agents—can serve as realistic embodiments for social interactions with human users.
ref: 2021 April 12, Daniel Pimentel, Charlotte Vinkers, “Copresence With Virtual Humans in Mixed Reality: The Impact of Contextual Responsiveness on Social Perceptions”, in Frontiers in Robotics and AI, volume 8, →DOI, →ISSN:
glosses: Initialism of virtual human.
VHs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of VH
co-present
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of copresent.
Glounthaune
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village east of the city of Cork, County Cork, Ireland.
Alpha Orionis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Thus, to take an example, a concert in Boston can be copresent with a soccer match in Sydney, but not with a soccer match on, say, Alpha Orionis: the present as it is defined relative to the soccer match extends some ninety light minutes into space, and so includes Sydney, but not Alpha Orionis, which is several hundred light years away.
ref: 2007, Yuval Dolev, Time and Realism: Metaphysical and Antimetaphysical Perspectives, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 198:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of Betelgeuse.
synonyms: word: Betelgeuse
co-presence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-presences
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of copresence.
archipelagoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of archipelago
childhood memory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: childhood memories
Senses: glosses: A memory formed during the childhood years.
SAH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SAHs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of subarachnoid hemorrhage.
SAHs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SAH
archipelagoed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From archipelago + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Imagine a poor exile contemplating that inert thing; and imagine an angel suddenly sweeping down out of a better land and setting before him a mighty porter-house steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the gridddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits of butter of the most unimpeachable freshness and genuineness; the precious juices of the meat trickling out and joining the gravy, archipelagoed with mushrooms; […]
ref: 1880, Mark Twain [pseudonym] (Samuel L[anghorne] Clemens), “”, in A Tramp Abroad; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 572:
text: A vast drugget had been laid down, a buffet ran right across the stage some six feet from the back wall, and tables and little golden chairs were archipelago'd in corners.
ref: 1954, Clemence Dane [pseudonym; Winifred Ashton], The Flower Girls, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company Inc, published 1955, page 538:
text: The German boys whose names all sounded the same were archipelagoed around the edge of the room, being interviewed by the Reichssender or napping.
ref: 2015, Ryan Graudin, Wolf by Wolf, New York, N.Y.; Boston, M.A.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 215:
glosses: Consisting of or arranged in the form of an archipelago.
archipelagoed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From archipelago + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of archipelago
in one's own little way
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: They are all helping each other, as loving sisters should; and perhaps some day they will meet, and will realize how each in her own little way has done some service for the others.
ref: 1885, Jane Andrews, The Seven Little Sisters Prove Their Sisterhood, page 159:
text: In their own little way, they made me feel like I was special — just being me.
ref: 1994, Tisha Pia Escober De La Rosa, Communication Patterns Between the Consolidated Union of Employees' Leaders and Members:
text: In her own little way, Thérèse tried to remedy that community deficiency.
ref: 2012, Brother Joseph Schmidt, Walking the Little Way of Therese of Lisieux:
text: Like the little white Sheep, the most important thing I admire about you, honestly, is how in your own little way you seem to amaze people, especially me; how you can take the bad experiences that have occurred in your hidden past, and turn them into positive achievements.
ref: 2022, Phillip Berrian, Testimonial Of One's True Greatness, page 450:
synonyms: in one's own small way
modestly
glosses: In an individual manner that creates an effect from a small action.
IVH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IVHs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of intraventricular hemorrhage.
CSDH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CSDHs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
related: word: cSDH
coordinate_terms: ASDH
glosses: Initialism of chronic subdural hematoma.
cSDH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cSDHs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
related: word: CSDH
coordinate_terms: aSDH
glosses: Initialism of chronic subdural hematoma.
aSDH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aSDHs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
related: word: ASDH
coordinate_terms: cSDH
glosses: Initialism of acute subdural hematoma.
ASDH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ASDHs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
related: word: aSDH
coordinate_terms: CSDH
glosses: Initialism of acute subdural hematoma.
Cherry Orchard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Dublin, Ireland.
Clongriffin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Pseudo-Irish, from Irish cluain + griffin.
Senses: glosses: A community in Donaghmede, County Dublin, Ireland.
shit testing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shit test
shit tested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shit test
shit tester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shit testers
Etymology: From shit test + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Ok, 6 years ago I had this awful fling for about two months with the ultimate shit-tester bitch.
ref: 2001 August 18, Lars Hansen, “++ Tips for contacting a chyck from 6 years ago.”, in alt.seduction.fast (Usenet):
text: Except that if she's a shit-tester, she's already proven herself to be SHIT.
ref: 2002 April 24, Win At Betting, “Passing Shit Tests By NEVER TRUSTING HER”, in alt.seduction.fast (Usenet):
text: "I've just looked that up. Shit tester. It seems to mean, a woman who disagrees with you."
ref: [2014 December 13, Stella Grey, “Online dating: wandering into the manosphere”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Jun 2021:
topics: lifestyle
seduction-community
sexuality
glosses: Someone who shit tests.
shit testers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shit tester
shittests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shittest
shittests
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shittest
shittesting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shittest
shittested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shittest
stilt-walker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stilt-walkers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stiltwalker.
house-arrest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: house-arrests
form: house-arresting
form: house-arrested
form: house-arrested
Senses: glosses: To put on house arrest; to legally confine someone to their house.
autofactory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autofactories
Etymology: From auto- + factory.
Senses: examples: text: He had a moment's vision of the Inland Sea, blue through coastal haze. There were bobbles around the advanced estates, around the NM quarter of town. To the west were several large ones—around the autofactories? Everything was in stasis except the Korolev estate.
ref: 1986, Vernor Vinge, “Marooned in Realtime”, in Across Realtime, Garden City, N.Y.: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., page 312:
text: "If we used Phobos as the entrapping vehicle," Cocci mused, "we could establish a base on Mars, a dome city. We could even set up an autofactory there to support the work."
ref: 1986, Thomas Wren, The Doomsday Effect, New York, N.Y.: Baen Books, →ISBN, page 103:
text: Another tunnel took her through to a chamber from which many such tunnels debarked and thence to the small tubular autofactory that had made her.
ref: 2016, Neal Asher, War Factory (Transformation; 2), New York, N.Y.: Night Shade Books, →ISBN, page 406:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
synonyms: autofac
glosses: A factory capable of running autonomously.
autofactories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autofactory
autofac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autofacs
Etymology: Clipping of autofactory.
Senses: examples: text: Behind them, the dilapidated settlement lay spread out, a disorderly checkerboard of houses, buildings and streets. Since the autofac network had closed down its supply and maintenance, the human settlements had fallen into semi-barbarism.
ref: 1955 November, Philip K[indred] Dick, “Autofac”, in Galaxy Science Fiction, volume 11, number 2, page 87:
text: The autofacs were a different kind of machine altogether. They could make things. They could make anything from clothing to robots, from weapons to music machines.
ref: 1974, Edmund Cooper, The Slaves of Heaven, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Medallion, published 1975, →ISBN, page 57:
text: All around her the holo displays glowed faintly. Even some of the units that had gone blank over her long sleep were replaced, now that she and Jeffers had gotten the autofac working properly up on A Level.
ref: 1986, Gregory Benford, David Brin, Heart of the Comet, Toronto, O.N. […]: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 327:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Synonym of autofactory (“a factory capable of running autonomously”).
synonyms: word: autofactory
extra: a factory capable of running autonomously
autofacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autofac
Gaodeng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: gouʹdǔngʹ
Forms: form: Kaoteng
Etymology: From Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 高登 (Gāodēng).
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile, the Mazu islands included a number of smaller islands, including Beigan (北竿) and Gaodeng.
ref: 2013, Bruce A. Elleman, “PRC Disputes with the ROC on Taiwan”, in Beijing's Power and China's Borders: Twenty Neighbors in Asia, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 271:
text: In addition to Taiwan Island, Taipei governs some distant groups of islands/ rocks (Mazu Islands and Kinmen Islands), some of which are located at a sight distance from mainland China (e.g., Gaodeng Island is located 9 km from mainland China and Kinmen Islands are situated a couple of km east of China’s Xiamen city).
ref: 2022, Alexander Lott, “Tensions in and over the Taiwan Strait in 2021”, in Nilufer Oral, editor, Hybrid Threats and the Law of the Sea: Use of Force and Discriminatory Navigational Restrictions in Straits (International Straits of the World), volume 19, Brill Nijhoff, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 177:
text: A Matsu website reported Friday (May 20) that two speedboats had recently appeared near Gaodeng Island, part of Matsu’s Beigan Township, with individuals on board wearing helmets and showing no intention of fishing.
ref: 2022 May 21, Matthew Strong, “Taiwan coast guard doubts PLA piloted speedboats near outlying island”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 21 May 2022, Politics:
text: For Matsu, Jyuguang Township (莒光) includes two major islands, Dongjyu (東莒) and Sijyu (西莒), as well as smaller islets.
When I was doing education and promotional work across Taiwan in the Young Women’s Working Brigade, I visited Matsu four times, visiting Beigan (北竿), Nangan (南竿) and Dongyin (東引) townships, as well Dongjyu and Sijyu, along with other islands such as Liang (亮島) and Gaodeng (高登), with each tour lasting three months.
ref: 2023 March 9, Ling-ling (張玲玲) Chang, “Soldiers should keep complaints off Internet”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Mar 2023, Editorials, page 8:
text: According to Lii, while port declarations show that boats carrying lobsters applied 33 times to leave for Daqiu Island, which is currently uninhabited, ship records show that the vessels instead sailed to waters off Gaodeng Island, which is located nearly 9.25 kilometers from the Beijiao Peninsula in China's Fujian Province, where they made transactions with Chinese fishing boats at sea.
ref: 2023 March 17, Chang Ai, Wang Chao-yu, Evelyn Kao, “Matsu lobster smugglers face NT$98 million fines”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2023, Cross-Strait:
glosses: An island of Beigan, Lienchiang County, Taiwan, in the Matsu Islands.
Walek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Waleks
form: Wallek
form: Walleck
form: Waleck
form: Valek
Etymology: From Polish Wałek, Walek, and from Czech Válek.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
helicopter seed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helicopter seeds
Senses: glosses: A samara.
Columns of Gediminas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A stylized trident-like symbol used by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and in modern times as a symbol of Lithuanian, or sometimes Belarusian, national identity.
beige flags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beige flag
papelonné
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: papelonny
form: pappellony
form: papellony
Etymology: Borrowed from French papelonné.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:papelonné.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Divided into a pattern (counted as one of the heraldic furs) which resembles scales, such as are found on fish or on butterflies' wings, perhaps originally representing stylized feathers or diaper. (Compare escaloped, plumetty.)
reresearch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reresearches
form: reresearching
form: reresearched
form: reresearched
form: re-research
Etymology: From re- + research.
Senses: examples: text: If the first reading reveals that the meaning of a piece of writing isn't clear, or if it has nothing to say, then it's a waste of time to spend energy reorganizing the piece or polishing the language. In fact, there is no way to choose the right word except by looking at content and meaning. If those elements are wanting, then the writer has to go back to reconsider the subject, reresearch it, refocus.
ref: 1989, Donald M[urray] Morison, Expecting the Unexpected: Teaching Myself—and Others—to Read and Write, Portsmouth, N.H.: Boynton/Cook Publishers, →ISBN, page 153:
text: Again, without guidance and good advice, particularly good tax advice, the money from your lump sum payout could be lost in a flash. In my experience, there is so much confusion about retirement benefits and their implications that I found myself second-guessing what I was taught and reresearching the entire subject.
ref: 2000, Susan Bradley, Mary Martin, Sudden Money: Managing a Financial Windfall, New York, N.Y. […]: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 4:
text: They said good-bye, and Lucy dragged her laptop into bed and reresearched Will. This time she went past the first couple of pages of links and found some references to William Devi, young performer from the midnineties.
ref: 2013, Sara Zarr, The Lucy Variations, New York, N.Y.; Boston, M.A.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 217:
glosses: To research again.
re-research
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-researches
form: re-researching
form: re-researched
form: re-researched
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of reresearch.
reresearches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reresearch
reresearching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reresearch
reresearched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reresearch
re-researches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of re-research
re-researching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of re-research
re-researched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of re-research
ninja gym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ninja gyms
Etymology: From this style of obstacles being popularized by the Japanese aerobic sport competition obstacle course racing game show SASUKE which uses a ninja as its logo mascot. From the show being popularized in the English-speaking world as "Ninja Warrior" and having spin-offs across the world with variations on the name "Ninja Warrior". From competitors calling themselves "ninja", and building their own gyms for training, leading to businesses independent of the TV shows having such set-ups, and calling themselves ninja gyms.
Senses: glosses: A gym for obstacle course racing training, filled with NinjaWarrior/Sasuke-style obstacles as its exercise equipment.
Related terms: ninja show
ninja tour
extended realities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extended reality
Taniya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Taniyas
form: Tania
form: Tanya
Etymology: From Russian. See Tanya.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Russian, variant of Tanya or Tania.
Upper West Side
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Upper West Side
Senses: synonyms: word: UWS
glosses: A neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States.
Related terms: Lower East Side
Upper East Side
West Side
UWS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: After some new Shake Shack UWS plywood was revealed yesterday, there was some chatter in the comments and elsewhere that the creators were ripping off the...
ref: 2008 July 24, Amanda Kludt, “ShackWatch: Shake Shack’s New Design Explained”, in Eater New York:
text: When word of a dead woman at a local swimming hole gets out, for example, an Upper West Side transplant with the user name BOYMAMA laments, “Jesus Christ, we left the UWS to move somewhere safe!”
ref: 2022 April 5, Elizabeth Wetmore, “How Far Will Parents Go to Protect Their Sons?”, in The New York Times:
text: A 55-year-old man visiting from Denmark was slashed in the face in an unprovoked attack on the Upper West Side on Wednesday.
ref: 2024 November 20, “UWS slashing: Tourist hurt in Upper West Side attack in NYC”, in ABC7 New York:
glosses: Initialism of Upper West Side: a neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States.
glosses: Initialism of University of Wisconsin–Superior.
glosses: Initialism of University of the West of Scotland.
glosses: Initialism of University of Western States.
usernamed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From username + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: A few weeks ago a reader usernamed Sparling made his entrance into the newsgroup with a post: Duncan could kick Conner's a**!!!. He made some people laugh, some people angry and certainly got noticed. Since then he's settled down quite a bit.
ref: 1996 June 5, Jeri Jo Thomas, “Methos could easily kick Sparling's”, in alt.tv.highlander (Usenet):
text: To make use of the home directory shares, your Windows usernames and passwords must match up with their counterparts on the Linux server. For instance, to use the root user share, you must have a root user with the same password on your Windows computer. (If you create a usernamed root on your Windows computer, it will have no special privileges.)
ref: 1999, Paul G. Sery, Eric Harper, Red Hat® Linux® 6 in Small Business, Foster City, CA: M&T Books, →ISBN, page 187:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having a (specified) username.
Chefchaouen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chaouen
Etymology: Borrowed from French Chefchaouen, from Arabic شَفْشَاوَن (šafšāwan).
Senses: synonyms: word: Blue Pearl of Morocco
glosses: A city in the region of Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima, Morocco.
Chaouen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Chefchaouen.
synonyms: word: Chefchaouen
eyecolor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eyecolors
Senses: examples: text: The idea of matching shadow to your eyecolor is, happily, passé. […] Apply a special eyeshadow base to help eyecolors wear longer.
ref: 1982, Revlon, Inc., Revlon Art of Beauty, Dolphin Books, →ISBN, page 73:
text: A slight fraction of an inch too much out of the ferrule will make a lip brush too pliant or an eyecolor brush too stiff for best application. Figure 1.2 Make-up brushes. top to bottom: Eyebrow brush; shading and countershading brush #7, flat; lipcolor brush #4, flat; eyecolor brush #3, flat; eyelining brush #1, round.
ref: 1985, Vincent J-R Kehoe, The Technique of the Professional Make-up Artist for Film, Television, and Stage, Focal Press, →ISBN, pages 35–36:
text: The pressed-cake eyecolor, which can easily be applied either wet or dry, blends extremely well and is long-lasting. […] Begin by powdering the eye area with a translucent or no-color powder before applying the pressed-cake eyecolor. […] VI. Lipcolors […] VII. Eyecolors / Powders—loose, fairy dust, pressed / Pencils—white, black, brown, taupe, auburn, plum / Cremes—same
ref: 2016, Richard Corson, James Glavan, Beverly Gore Norcross, Stage Makeup, 10th edition, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of eye color.
eyecolors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eyecolor
holopneustic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ὅλος (hólos, “entire, whole”) and πνευστικός (pneustikós).
Senses: examples: 1964 O.W. Richards & R.G. Davies A general textbook of entomology pub. Methuen
The Holopneustic Respiratory System... is the most primitive arrangement found in living insects, 10 pairs of functional spiracles being present, on the first 8 abdominal segments, the metathorax and either the prothorax or the mesothorax. It is characteristic of the nymphs and imagines of many orders and of the larvae of the Bibionidae (Diptera) and some Hymenoptera.
glosses: in tracheal systems, properly: having all ten pairs of spiracles functional, as occurs in the caterpillar larvae of some Hymenoptera. Loosely applied also to insects (properly termed hemipneustic) in which most, but not all, spiracles are functional.
Related terms: apneustic
amphipneustic
hemipneustic
metapneustic
peripneustic
propneustic
Shandaken
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Ulster County, New York, United States.
Tungyung
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 東湧 /东涌, Postal Romanization and/or Wade–Giles romanization: Tung¹-yung³.
Senses: examples: text: Tungyung was the site of the notorious wreck of the P&O S.S. Sobraon which ran on the rocks there in a fog on April 26, 1901, while on her maiden voyage to the Far East.
ref: 1976, ed gould, “The Pirates of Tungyung”, in the lighthouse philosopher: the adventures of bill scott, Saanichton; Seattle: Hancock House, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 76:
glosses: Synonym of Dongyin (island)
synonyms: word: Dongyin
extra: island
wikipedia: Postal Romanization
Lancashire Heelers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lancashire Heeler
Brazzavillian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Brazzavillian
form: most Brazzavillian
form: Brazzavillean
Etymology: From Brazzaville + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the city of Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of the Congo.
Brazzavillian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brazzavillians
form: Brazzavillean
Etymology: From Brazzaville + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: This initiative gave birth to an urban movement, the […] SAPE: a way of expressing an identity that was antipoverty, antidepression, and antipower (because it opposed the abas-cost, the uniform imposed by Mobutu) for thousands of young Kinshasans, as well as for Brazzavillians on the other side of the Congo River.
ref: 2002, Frank Tenaille, translated by Steven Toussaint and Hope Sandrine, Music Is the Weapon of the Future: Fifty Years of African Popular Music, Chicago, IL: Lawrence Hill Books, →ISBN, page 182:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Brazzaville.
Brazzavillians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brazzavillian
party list
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: party lists
Senses: examples: text: Each party was required to submit a list of candidates for voters to consider, and voters cast two votes: one vote for a district representative and one for a party list.
ref: 2009, Allen Hicken, Building Party Systems in Developing Democracies, page 148:
text: Candidates that are important in the party hierarchy can be guaranteed relatively safe seats by being placed toward the top of the party list, whereas candidates who fail to toe the party line can be placed toward the bottom of the party list.
ref: 2017, William Roberts Clark, Matt Golder, Sona Nadenichek Golder, Principles of Comparative Politics, page 557:
text: Although Russian candidates could win district contests while simultaneously holding electable positions on a party list, they could also decline the list mandate, which would then go to the next person on the party's list.
ref: 2022, Bryon Moraski, Party Politics in Russia and Ukraine, page 236:
glosses: An ordered list of political candidates registered by a political party that determines which candidates are elected based on how many votes the party gets in an election.
examples: text: I had a strange party list. I did not invite friends on my birthday. I invited just kids who danced well and looked beautiful.
ref: 2007, Michael Viner, Shattered Dreams, Broken Promises: The Cost of Coming to America, page 173:
text: That night she sat on the lanai and filled out her party list and invitations.
ref: 2012, Brendan T. Hoffman, Daddy's Promise, page 73:
text: This special invite now made my party list up to eleven.
ref: 2019, Edward Elley, Changing Tides:
glosses: A list of people invited to a party.
party boss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: party bosses
Senses: glosses: A leader of a political party.