cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
impractical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɹæktɪkəl/
Forms: form: more impractical
form: most impractical
Etymology: From im- + practical.
Senses: examples: text: "I can't leave you here alone with these cutthroats, and you certainly can't venture into the jungle with me; yet someone must go in search of your father. He is more than apt to wandering off aimlessly, regardless of danger or direction, and Mr. Philander is only a trifle less impractical than he. ...
ref: 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes:
antonyms: practical
glosses: Not practical; impracticable.
Derived terms: impracticality
impractically
impracticalness
impracticable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɹaktɪkəb(ə)l/
Forms: form: more impracticable
form: most impracticable
Etymology: From im- + practicable.
Senses: examples: text: It has not been used for many years, and although it was impracticable to photograph the engine in the small confines of the shed it was possible to obtain a picture of the plate which it still carries showing the former ownership.
ref: 1952 February, H. C. Casserley, “Permanent Wayfarings”, in Railway Magazine, page 77:
text: Prison abolitionists are dismissed as utopians and idealists whose ideas are at best unrealistic and impracticable, and, at worst, mystifying and foolish. This is a measure of how difficult it is to envision a social order that does not rely on the threat of sequestering people in dreadful places designed to separate them from their communities and families.
ref: 2003, Angela Y. Davis, chapter 1, in Are Prisons Obsolete?, archived from the original on 19 May 2023, pages 9-10:
antonyms: practicable
glosses: Not practicable; impossible or difficult in practice.
glosses: impassable (of a passage or road)
examples: text: And yet this tough impracticable heart / Is govern'd by a dainty-finger'd girl ; […]
ref: 1713, Nicholas Rowe, The Fair Penitent, published 1797:
text: H. is a person of extraordinary health & vigor, of unerring perception, & equal expression; and yet he is impracticable, and does not flow through his pen or (in any of our legitimate aqueducts) through his tongue.
ref: c. 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks, published 1960, page 18:
glosses: unmanageable
raw_tags: of a person or thing
Derived terms: impracticability
impracticableness
impracticably
impracticable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɹaktɪkəb(ə)l/
Forms: form: impracticables
Etymology: From im- + practicable.
Senses: examples: text: They were not allowed, of course, to join us in the sitting room, partly that their practice might not be disturbed, but principally, that I was looked upon as an utter impracticable.
ref: 1829, Henry Barkley Henderson, The Bengalee, or Sketches of Society and Manners in the East, page 13:
text: The strict constructionists had dwindled to a few impracticables, headed by John Randolph.
ref: 1867, James Parton, Famous Americans of Recent Times, page 83:
text: Then there are the gladiators, to whom it is always a battle; 't is no matter on which side, they fight for victory; then the heady men, the egotists, the monotones, the steriles, and the impracticables.
ref: 1870, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Clubs”, in Society and Solitude. Twelve Chapters, Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, page 208:
glosses: an unmanageable person
impracticality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˌpɹæktəˈkæləti/
ipa: /ɪmˈpɹæk.tɪˌkæl.ɪ.ti/
Forms: form: impracticalities
Etymology: From impractical + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Fashion has often deliberately hindered bodily functions and emphasized impracticality.
ref: 2015, Alison Matthews David, Fashion Victims: The Damages of Dress Past and Present, →ISBN, page 135:
antonyms: practicality
glosses: The state or quality of being impractical.
glosses: Something which is impractical.
Synonyms: infeasibility
unrealizability
Coordinate terms: impossibility
impractically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more impractically
form: most impractically
Etymology: From impractical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an impractical manner.
impracticalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From impractical + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being impractical; impracticality.
impracticability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impracticabilities
Etymology: From impracticable + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: It is more than possible that the distress I was now in for money, and the impracticability of going on in this manner, might have restored me at once to my senses and to my studies, had I opened my eyes before I became involved in debts from which I saw no hopes of ever extricating myself.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The quality or condition of being impracticable.
glosses: An impracticable thing.
impracticableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From impracticable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being impracticable; impracticability.
impracticably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more impracticably
form: most impracticably
Etymology: From impracticable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an impracticable way.
eroticise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eroticises
form: eroticising
form: eroticised
form: eroticised
Etymology: From erotic + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of eroticize.
Derived terms: uneroticised
Fremantle Doctor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the city (now within Perth suburbs) of Fremantle, which is the direction the wind comes from to reach central districts of Perth; called the "doctor" for the relief it brings on hot summer days.
Senses: examples: text: Afterwards, you go up with your oldies to the beer garden and you get a lemon squash and sit in the shade and wait for the Fremantle Doctor.
ref: 1986, Tim Winton, That Eye, the Sky, Scribner Paperback, published 2002, page 38:
text: Just offshore from Rous Head, the Fremantle Doctor had its effect on the America′s Cup defence in 1987, where the course was positioned.
ref: 2005, Australian Geographic: The Journal of the Australian Geographic Society, numbers 77-80, page 18:
text: The Western Australian sailors were gloating because they didn't think we would be up to the Fremantle Doctor (a strong wind which usually blows up at 3pm).
ref: 2009, Nic Compton, Iain Oughtred: A Life in Boats, page 23:
glosses: The sea breeze that blows from the Indian Ocean over Perth, Western Australia.
Related terms: the Cape Doctor
extraordinaire
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˌstɹɔː(ɹ).dɪˈnɛː(ɹ)/
Etymology: Borrowed from French extraordinaire. Doublet of extraordinary.
Senses: glosses: Extraordinary, remarkable, outstanding.
examples: text: He was a dancer extraordinaire.
text: Charlie Parker, saxophonist extraordinaire, released many records.
text: there will be Tom Cruise, as spy extraordinaire Ethan Hunt, running as fast as he can, jumping off cliffs and ultimately saving the day after surviving many close calls.
ref: 2023 July 5, Murtada Elfadl, “Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One review: Tom Cruise runs, jumps, and delivers again”, in AV Club:
glosses: (of a person) Particularly skilled; unusually active; particularly successful.
extraordinaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˌstɹɔː(ɹ).dɪˈnɛː(ɹ)/
Etymology: Borrowed from French extraordinaire. Doublet of extraordinary.
Senses: examples: text: "The very best of Swiss dining in this essentially rural country is as much about experience as culinary extraordinaire."
ref: 2012, Lonely Planet, Nicola Williams, Kerry Christiani, Lonely Planet Switzerland:
glosses: Something particularly remarkable or outstanding.
eroticize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eroticizes
form: eroticizing
form: eroticized
form: eroticized
Etymology: From erotic + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make erotic.
Derived terms: eroticizable
Related terms: eroticization
Belvoir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːvə/
enpr: bēʹvər
ipa: /ˈbivɚ/
homophone: beaver
homophone: bever
homophone: bevor
Etymology: The name is of Old French origin, from bel (“beautiful”) + voir (“view”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Melton borough, Leicestershire, England, 13 kilometres west of Grantham, famous for the Belvoir Hunt (OS grid ref SK8233).
occupying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑk.jə.paɪ.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɒk.jʊ.paɪ.ɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of occupy
river rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: river rats
Etymology: river + rat
Senses: examples: 2000, Elvira Woodruff, The Christmas Doll http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0590318799&id=lHd3LzrLmDcC&pg=PA49&lpg=PA49&sig=Db_PVv86h_T9YfO5JyIsw6XRaTM
To her horror, she discovered that the rope she was holding was not a rope at all, but a tail. And attached to the tail was a large river rat that scrambled frantically in midair, thrashing to get away.
glosses: A rat that lives on or along a river.
examples: 1989, Orson Scott Card, Prentice Alvin http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0812502124&id=u8x5Q2IHw_8C&pg=PA179&lpg=PA179&sig=frn2Tg8bgUQjDpkNJJxvJOcUm9c
The river rat he fought was one of a gang of them lolling under the eaves of the porthouse, probably waiting for a gaming house to open.
1993, Peter Filichia, Let’s Put on a Musical! http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0823088170&id=-d20I7gBCs8C&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23&sig=UvFcIJYiS-CwLdeKLlKGo7fT2Ck
Cap’n Andy claims that his show boat is “one big happy family”—and that includes his wife, daughter Magnolia, as well as stars Julie and husband Steve, and black help Queenie and Joe. But it won’t be for long; because a river rat’s love for Julie goes unrequited, and he informs the sheriff that she’s a “half-breed” with Negro blood.
1994, Betty Bryant, Here Comes the Showboat! http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN081311862X&id=RD-qvwUlYH0C&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&sig=maP0RIjIHNnAVNzJOYGW01vfudw
While other children were learning how to walk, I was learning how to swim, and I knew how to set a trotline, gig a frog, catch a crawfish, and strip the mud vein out of a carp by the time I was four.
Dad called me a river rat.
glosses: A lower-class person living on or along a river.
glosses: A poker player that wins a Texas Hold'em hand by making the winning hand on the river card.
erratical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more erratical
form: most erratical
Senses: glosses: erratic
Derived terms: erraticalness
Connacht
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒ.nɔːt/
ipa: /ˈkɒ.nɔt/
ipa: /ˈkɑ.nɑt/
ipa: /ˈkɒ.nɔːt/
ipa: /ˈkɒ.nəxt/
rhymes: -ɒnɔːt
Forms: form: Connaught
Etymology: From Irish or Old Irish Connacht, genitive form of Connachta (“Connacht”).
Senses: coordinate_terms: Leinster
Munster
Ulster
glosses: The western province of Ireland, inclusive of the counties Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon, and Sligo.
glosses: See also: Connacht Irish
cutround
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cutrounds
Etymology: From cut + round.
Senses: glosses: A bun made with a yeast fermented white dough which is rolled like pastry and cut into rounds. Traditionally a constituent of a North Devon (UK) cream tea. Now largely replaced by the common scone.
victimless crime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: victimless crimes
Senses: glosses: An act that is prohibited by law, yet which neither directly harms nor violates the rights of any specific person, although some people may claim it harms society as a whole.
Related terms: consensual crime
malum prohibitum
speed limit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌspiːd ˈlɪ.mɪt/
Forms: form: speed limits
Senses: examples: text: John is a careful driver. He never exceeds the speed limit.
text: Sam has already gone over the speed limit thrice.
text: Speed limits in the United States are set by each state or territory.
text: Speed limits apply at many points on the line, in addition to the general 25 m.p.h. limit over the whole Dromod-Belturbet section, but it is an open secret that speeds often rise above the statutory limit.
ref: 1951 May, R. K. Kirkland, “The Cavan & Leitrim Railway”, in Railway Magazine, pages 343-344:
text: No stop signs, speed limit
Nobody's gonna slow me down
ref: 1979, AC/DC, Highway to Hell:
text: A number of Dundee businessmen commuted across the bridge from their homes in Wormit, and some became concerned at the speeds that trains were crossing the bridge. Ex-Dundee Provost William Robertson timed one train at 43mph, way in excess of the 25mph speed limit.
ref: 2020 September 23, Paul Bigland, “The tragic tale of the Tay Bridge disaster”, in Rail, page 81:
text: December 23, 2021, ETSC, New legislation will boost availability of digital speed limit information
In a proposed legislative update to EU rules on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), the European Commission says EU Member States will have to supply data on speed limits. The data will then be available for use by in-vehicle safety systems such as Intelligent Speed Assistance, helping to ensure more accurate information.
glosses: The maximum speed permitted by law for vehicles.
Related terms: speeder
speeding
speedometer
speed trap
km/h
kph
KPH
mph
MPH
M.P.H.
faena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /fɑˈeɪ.nə/
Forms: form: faenas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish faena. Doublet of hacienda and fazenda.
Senses: examples: text: Faena is the vital third act in which the matador exhibits his skill with the muleta. Tradition requires that during the faena he keep his sword in his right hand, which usually also holds the muleta. Experts judge that the excellence of any single fight depends about sixty to seventy percent on the faena, which can excuse poor work elsewhere.
ref: 2013, James A. Michener, Iberia, Dial Press, →ISBN, page 736:
topics: bullfighting
entertainment
lifestyle
glosses: A series of passes performed by a matador with a muleta or a sword before the kill.
religiopolitical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From religio- + political.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to both religion and politics.
SPC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of St. Petersburg College.
glosses: Initialism of State Property Committee (of Mongolia)
glosses: Initialism of Storm Prediction Center (United States NOAA)
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of Software Productivity Consortium.
glosses: Initialism of Southwest Preparatory Conference.
qualifier: Oxford University
glosses: Initialism of St Peter's College, Oxford.
glosses: Initialism of secretariat of the Pacific Community.
glosses: Initialism of Supreme Political Council (of Yemen).
SPC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SPCs
Senses: topics: intellectual-property
law
patent-law
glosses: Initialism of supplementary protection certificate.
glosses: Initialism of saeclum post Christum (“era after Christ”).
glosses: Initialism of security in pervasive computing.
glosses: Initialism of serum protein concentrate.
glosses: Initialism of soy protein concentrate.
glosses: Initialism of special purpose carbine.
glosses: Initialism of special purpose cartridge.
glosses: Initialism of structure-property correlation.
glosses: Initialism of segregated portfolio company.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of single pill combination.
blinded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblaɪn.dɪd/
ipa: /ˈblaɪn.dəd/
ipa: /ˈblɑɪn.dɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blind
blinded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblaɪn.dɪd/
ipa: /ˈblaɪn.dəd/
ipa: /ˈblɑɪn.dɪd/
Senses: examples: text: blinded by perinatal vertical transmission of gonorrhea
glosses: Deprived of sight; thus:
Deprived of sight in a way that is or may be permanent, by damage to the eyes or brain.
synonyms: blind
sightless
examples: text: blinded by the light
glosses: Deprived of sight; thus:
Deprived of sight temporarily, by being either dazzled or blindfolded.
synonyms: dazzled
blindfolded
glosses: Lacking intellectual discernment, as for example because of greed or stupidity.
topics: sciences
synonyms: masked
blind
antonyms: nonblinded
open-label
hyponyms: single-blind
double-blind
triple-blind
glosses: Willingly prevented from knowing certain information that, were it known, might bias an outcome or decision (either consciously or unconsciously).
examples: text: blinded windows
glosses: Covered by blinds.
examples: text: The bus was blinded for route 100 to the city centre.
glosses: Displaying a particular destination or route number on the blinds.
raw_tags: of a bus
Derived terms: blindedly
quavers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quaver
quavers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of quaver
feitorias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feitoria
lex lata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lēx lāta (“the law borne”) (see below).
Senses: examples: text: 1997, Lyal S Sunga, The Emerging System of International Criminal Law http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN9041104720&id=Dbb8eQH-vbQC&pg=PA127&lpg=PA127&sig=3A8fBOXMx7bQAO7AWXOIUA6Lzyw
At that point, little purpose would be served in maintaining categories fashioned so closely to the lex lata that the Code would crystallize traditional technical distinctions.
text: 2000, Nikolaos K. Tsagourias, The Jurisprudence of International Law http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0719054656&id=V_YiUMuaIQwC&pg=PA30&lpg=PA30&sig=Gpm22qlBVtypDtVqQreLbz6pDrw
This also betrays an interest in transforming world order by approximating lex lata with lex ferenda.
text: Lex ferenda serves as a label for something which has at least conceptual existence, as a contrast or opposite to lex lata, the law that exists and obliges the subjects of law to adopt, or to refrain from, certain defined courses of conduct in certain defined circumstances.
ref: 2002, Netherlands Yearbook of International Law, 2001 http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN9067041556&id=7tV2LgZzjn8C&lpg=PA5&pg=PA4&sig=tqI91yfti-e5shuss0twPraRca8
topics: law
glosses: The law as it is.
feitoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feitorias
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese feitoria.
Senses: glosses: A Portuguese trading post, usually fortified and built in coastal areas along the West and East African coasts, Indian Ocean and Brazil, from 1445 onward.
howff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: howffs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of howf.
howff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: howffs
form: howffing
form: howffed
form: howffed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of howf.
dub sack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dub sacks
Senses: glosses: A bag of marijuana worth twenty dollars.
dana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dāna
form: daana
Etymology: Transliteration of Sanskrit दान (dāna) or Pali dāna.
Senses: glosses: The virtue of generosity or giving, a form of alms, in Indian philosophy.
wikipedia: dana
haemostat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haemostats
form: hemostat
Etymology: From haemo- + -stat.
Senses: glosses: A clamp used in surgery to close the severed end of a blood vessel to stop bleeding.
Derived terms: haemostasis
haemostatic
Hacky-Sack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hacky-Sacks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hacky sack.
old woman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: old women
Senses: glosses: An elderly woman.
examples: text: Stop being such an old woman and get on with it.
glosses: A person (irrespective of age or sex) who is always complaining about his or her situation.
glosses: One's wife.
glosses: One's mother.
glosses: The plant sea wormwood.
Synonyms: word: wife
word: old woman
word: babushka
word: bag
word: bat
word: beldame
word: biddy
word: bluehair
word: bubbe
word: carline
word: carlin
word: crone
word: gammer
word: geezer
word: gogo
word: grandam
word: granny
word: grimalkin
word: hag
word: maum
word: old lady
word: old maid
word: prune
word: spinster
word: tabby
word: trot
word: trout
word: witch
Hypernyms: word: old person
word: woman
Hyponyms: word: grandmother
Derived terms: old-womanish
Related terms: word: old lady
word: old man
word: elderly
word: wife
square drive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: square drives
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A shot played by swinging the bat down through the line of the ball, hitting it along the ground in the direction of point.
Related terms: cover drive
off drive
on drive
Jewdar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Jew + -dar.
Senses: examples: text: And slap on a gag order if we dare say that these traits triggered our "Jewdar" (my Semitic equivalent of gaydar) and allowed us to identify someone as a fellow Jew.
ref: 2001, Ophira Edut, “Bubbe Got Back: Tales of a Jewess with Caboose”, in Danya Ruttenberg, editor, Yentl's Revenge: The Next Wave of Jewish Feminism, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 30:
text: So she was Jewish. It wouldn't have occurred to me, but Melissa always faulted my Jewdar.
ref: 2011, Lawrence Douglas, The Vices, Other Press, →ISBN:
text: The name Grossman, the physician father, the mention of Florida—my Jewdar went whirring away, strongly suggesting that he could be a member of the tribe.
ref: 2015, Joseph Epstein, Masters of the Games: Essays and Stories on Sport, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 82:
glosses: The supposed ability of a person to detect or intuitively sense whether another person is Jewish.
Related terms: gaydar
game drive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: game drives
Senses: glosses: A safari. A trip into the wild to see animals in their own environment.
brouter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brouters
Etymology: Blend of bridge + router
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A network device that acts as both a bridge and a router by routing packets for known protocols and forwarding all others, as a bridge would.
pings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ping
pings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: If he pings my bra strap once more, I shall flatten him.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ping
raccoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: racoons
form: r'coons
Senses: glosses: plural of raccoon
Orange County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒ.ɹɪndʒ ˈkaʊn.ti/
rhymes: -aʊnti
Etymology: The county in Vermont is named after William III (1650 - 1702).
Senses: synonyms: word: O.C.
glosses: One of 58 counties in California. County seat: Santa Ana. Abbreviation OC (usually with "the.")
glosses: One of 67 counties in Florida, home to various tourist destinations. County seat: Orlando.
glosses: One of 92 counties in Indiana. County seat: Paoli.
synonyms: word: O.C.
glosses: One of 62 counties in New York. County seat: Goshen.
glosses: One of 100 counties in North Carolina. County seat: Hillsborough.
glosses: One of 254 counties in Texas. County seat: Orange.
glosses: One of 14 counties in Vermont. County seat: Chelsea.
glosses: One of 95 counties in Virginia. County seat: Orange.
Derived terms: word: O.C.
sporgery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sporgeries
Etymology: Blend of spam + forgery; coined by Tilman Hausherr in 1999 on the alt.religion.scientology newsgroup.
Senses: examples: text: Since February the poetry-bot has dominated the discussions, forging the names of legitimate human posters and blindly countering every argument-- pro or con-- with such succinct rebuttals as "Above no cough at no writer every considerate profit addressed," and mind-bending riddles like "Why is another horseman either cytoplasm enchantingly?" Usenet defenders are countering the assault with automation of their own, crafting programs that kill the "sporgeries" -- a term coined by ARS's Tilman Hausherr "because it's both spam, and forgery."
ref: 1999 May 6, Kevin Poulsen, “Attack of the Robotic Poets”, in ZDnet:
text: Nobody's going to mistake any of the fakes for the real you once they hear a few words, of course, but there's no easy way for them to tell which is which without listening to them all in turn. Which means, in all likelihood, that many of them will never find the real you. If it happens often enough, sooner or later everyone's going to just give up and go home, and newcomers will be both mystified and discouraged. This extraordinary state of affairs is happening right now on Usenet [and yes, it is to a first approximation still happening in late 2006], and it's called "sporge". Sporge is a neologism coined by German software developer Tilman Hausherr; it's a contraction of "spammed forgery". "Spam" is here used in its original meaning; not unsolicited commercial e-mail, but irrelevant or inappropriate messages posted to Usenet, which were annoying people - though far fewer people - long before Amazing Business Opportunities and come-ons for porn sites started routinely cluttering up e-mail in-boxes.
ref: 1999 September 16, Daniel Rutter, “Gibbering clones the future of Usenet?”, in Australian IT:
text: Tilman Hausherr, a daily contributor to alt.religion.scientology, coined the word 'sporgeries' (spam-forgeries), and promoted software to kill the unwelcome messages.
ref: 2005, M. Hojsgaard, Religion and Cyberspace, Routledge, →ISBN, page 111:
text: Sporgery - This is the act of sending a flood of posts with fake article headers that make them appear to have been sent by other newsgroup regulars (the word is a composite of spam and forgery). It's a good way to discredit other users by making it seem like they are sending offensive posts.
ref: 2007, Michael Powell, Forbidden Knowledge: 101 Things NOT Everyone Should Know How to Do, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 252:
glosses: The disruptive act of posting a flood of articles to a newsgroup, the article headers having been falsified so as to make the articles appear to have been posted by people other than the true poster.
Related terms: sporge
froggery
aboulia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbu.li.ə/
ipa: /eɪˈbu.li.ə/
Forms: form: aboulias
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of abulia.
Derived terms: aboulic
desktop computer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛsktɒpˌkəmˈpjuːtə/
Forms: form: desktop computers
Senses: synonyms: desktop
hyponyms: all-in-one
glosses: A computer of a size designed to be used on a desk or table, as opposed to larger machines, such as mainframes, and smaller machines, such as laptops and palmtops.
Related terms: laptop
microcomputer
palmtop
personal computer
workstation
aeolipyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈiːəʊlɪpʌɪl/
Forms: form: aeolipyles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aeolipile.
aeolipile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈiː.əʊ.lɪ.pʌɪl/
Forms: form: aeolipiles
form: aeolipyle
form: eolipile
Etymology: From French éolipyle, from Latin Aeoli pylae (“doorway of Aeolus”).
Senses: glosses: A steam engine powered by rocket propulsion due to escaping steam, consisting of a pressure vessel mounted on a bearing, with one or more tubes which exhaust steam tangentially to the rotation axis so as to create rotation.
aerolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛə.ɹə.laɪt/
Forms: form: aerolites
Etymology: From aero- + -lite.
Senses: glosses: A meteorite consisting of silicate minerals.
Derived terms: aerolitic
-lite
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /-ˌlaɪt/
Forms: form: -lith
Etymology: Representing Ancient Greek λίθος (líthos, “stone”).
Senses: glosses: Used to form the names of rocks and minerals.
Related terms: -litic
aggiornamento
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌdʒɔːnəˈmɛntəʊ/
ipa: /əˌd͡ʒɔɹnəˈmɛntoʊ/
Forms: form: aggiornamentos
Etymology: From Italian aggiornamento. Doublet of adjournment.
Senses: examples: text: Aggiornamento with the increasingly truculent magistrates was a major plank of Choiseul's recovery strategy for the state.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 249:
glosses: A bringing up to date, especially of the Roman Catholic Church by the Second Vatican Council of 1962-65; modernization.
agrise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈɡɹaɪz/
Forms: form: agrises
form: agrising
form: agrised
form: agrised
Etymology: From Old English āgrīsan. Compare and see English grisly.
Senses: examples: text: And powring forth their bloud in brutishe wize,
 That any yron eyes to see it would agrize.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To shudder with horror; to tremble, to be terrified.
glosses: To make tremble, to terrify.
bollocking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bollockings
Senses: examples: text: "[…] He told me what to expect, he didn't wrap me in cotton wool, and was always a great guide who treated me the same as everybody else, which is really what I needed. He didn't treat me any differently from the male managers in his team. I got a bollocking the same way everyone else did!"
ref: 2024 January 24, Dyan Perry talks to Nick Brodrick, “The industry has given me so much”, in RAIL, number 1001, page 42:
qualifier: chiefly non-US
glosses: A severe reprimand.
Related terms: bollock
dog's bollocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dog's ballocks
Etymology: Origin uncertain.
Senses: examples: text: That new flat screen TV you bought is the dog's bollocks.
synonyms: word: all that and a bag of chips
word: antelope's cantaloupes
word: ant's pants
word: bee's knees
word: bollocks
word: cat's ass
word: cat's meow
word: cat's pajamas
word: cat's pyjamas
word: cat's whiskers
word: cream of the crop
word: crème de la crème
word: da bomb
word: dog's bollocks
word: dog's dangly bits
word: finger-lickin' good
word: finger-licking good
word: flea's eyebrows
word: fox's socks
word: greatest thing since sliced bread
word: gold standard
word: kitty's titties
word: llama's pajamas
word: mutt's nuts
word: ne plus ultra
word: spider's ankles
word: the bomb
word: the business
word: the shit
word: the tits
word: dog's dangly bits
glosses: Something that is outstandingly good.
Related terms: bee's knees
cat's pyjamas
cat's whiskers
duck's guts
mutt's nuts
akasha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɑːˈkɑːʃə/
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of akasa.
Related terms: akashic
akasa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɑːˈkɑːʃə/
Forms: form: akasha
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit आकाश (ākāśa).
Senses: glosses: ether or atmosphere, as one of the elements in Hindu philosophy
coromandel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coromandels
Etymology: From the Coromandel Coast in India, a source of this wood.
Senses: examples: text: Rhoda took their battered hats, led the women upstairs for hairpins, and presently fed them all with tea-cakes, poached eggs, anchovy toast, and drinks from a coromandel-wood liqueur case.
ref: 1917, Rudyard Kipling, “My Son's Wife”, in A Diversity of Creatures:
glosses: Synonym of calamander.
synonyms: word: calamander
glosses: Synonym of Chinese violet.
synonyms: word: Chinese violet
akroposthion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ækɹə(ʊ)ˈpɒsθɪən/
Forms: form: acroposthion
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀκροπόσθιον (akropósthion).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
urology
glosses: The tip of the foreskin which extends beyond the glans.
Derived terms: acroposthitis
Related terms: aposthia
macroposthia
microposthia
WML
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Westmünsterländisch.
WML
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of wireless markup language: an XML-based document description language for creating content and user interfaces targeted at narrow-band devices implementing WAP such as mobile telephones and pagers.
Alcaic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ælˈkeɪ.ɪk/
Forms: form: more Alcaic
form: most Alcaic
Etymology: From Latin Alcaicus, from Ancient Greek Ἀλκαϊκός (Alkaïkós), from Ἀλκαῖος (Alkaîos, “Alcaeus”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”). By surface analysis, Alcaeus + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to Alcaeus, a Greek lyric poet of around 600 BC; especially, of a verse meter in a four-line stanza which he supposedly invented.
Alcaic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ælˈkeɪ.ɪk/
Forms: form: Alcaics
Etymology: From Latin Alcaicus, from Ancient Greek Ἀλκαϊκός (Alkaïkós), from Ἀλκαῖος (Alkaîos, “Alcaeus”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”). By surface analysis, Alcaeus + -ic.
Senses: glosses: An Alcaic verse.
alectoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin alectoria, formed from Ancient Greek ἀλέκτωρ (aléktōr, “cock”).
Senses: glosses: A magical stone said to be found in the gizzard of cocks.
confiture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒnfɪtjʊə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈkɑnfɪt͡ʃɚ/
Forms: form: confitures
Etymology: Borrowed from French confiture.
Senses: synonyms: preserve
comfit
comfiture
glosses: a preserve or jelly/jam of candied fruit
Upper Volta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Volta river, from Portuguese.
Senses: glosses: Former name of Burkina Faso: a country in West Africa, used from 1958-1984.
Derived terms: Republic of Upper Volta
Upper Voltaic
Upper Voltan
Upper Voltese
Related terms: Voltaic
Voltan
algedonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æld͡ʒɪˈdɒnɪk/
Forms: form: more algedonic
form: most algedonic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”) + ἡδονή (hēdonḗ) ‘pleasure’. Coined by Henry Rutgers Marshall in 1894.
Senses: examples: text: I have restrained myself, however, from the temptation to invent terms except in one particular, viz. in the word “algedonic” […] which I use adjectively to describe any phase of pain-pleasure experience […].
ref: 1894, Henry Rutgers Marshall, Pain, Pleasure, and Æsthetics, London: Macmillan, page vi:
text: For him even the most painful social confrontations and contrasts, which would have stabbed the conscience of even the vulgarest nouveau riche, were stingless. Without significance except as vignettes, as interesting discords, as pleasurable because vivid examples of the algedonic polarity of existence.
ref: 1965, John Fowles, The Magus, Boston: Little, Brown, Part 2, Chapter 29, p. 161:
glosses: Pertaining to both pleasure and pain.
Related terms: algedonics
dorgi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɔːɡi/
ipa: /ˈdɔɹɡi/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ɡi
Forms: form: dorgis
Etymology: Blend of dachshund + corgi.
Senses: examples: text: This wasn't the first time that one of the Queen's pets had been a victim; in 1989 her dorgi Chipper was killed by the Queen Mother's Corgi Ranger.
ref: 2007, Karen Bush, Everything Dogs Expect You to Know, page 69:
text: Back when the dorgi had been a small puppy he had ignored the more serious lessons and only seemed to be interested in the darker animal myths and legends.
ref: 2014, Aby King, Lupo and the Secret of Windsor Castle, Book 1:
glosses: A crossbreed dog resulting from the breeding of a dachshund and a corgi.
traipse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹeɪps/
ipa: [tɹeɪps]
ipa: [t͡ʃɹeɪps]
rhymes: -eɪps
Forms: form: traipses
form: traipsing
form: traipsed
form: traipsed
form: trapes
Etymology: Likely from French trépasser (“pass over or beyond”).
Senses: examples: text: Lo next two slipshod Muses traipse along, In lofty madness, meditating song, / With tresses staring from poetic dreams, / And never wash'd, but in Castalia’s streams [...].
ref: 1728, [Alexander Pope], “Book the Third”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin; London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC, lines 140-144:
glosses: To walk in a messy or unattractively casual way; to trail through dirt.
examples: text: After traipsing about in the fog they found the grave sure enough.
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
glosses: To walk about, especially when expending much effort, or unnecessary effort.
examples: text: While you were traipsing round Africa, I had to take care of mum and dad!
text: So after all that work, I traipsed down to the shop to grab something to eat.
glosses: To travel with purpose; usually a significant or tedious amount.
examples: text: She only got handy the Union-house on Sunday morning 'a b'lieve, and 'tis supposed here and there that she had traipsed every step of the way from Melchester.
ref: 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd:
glosses: To walk (a distance or journey) wearily or with effort
glosses: to walk about or over (a place) aimlessly or insouciantly.
Synonyms: sense: walk about
word: gad
sense: walk about
word: travel
sense: walk about
word: walk
sense: walk about or over (a place)
word: cover
sense: walk about or over (a place)
word: travel
sense: walk about or over (a place)
word: traverse
Related terms: trespass
traipse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹeɪps/
ipa: [tɹeɪps]
ipa: [t͡ʃɹeɪps]
rhymes: -eɪps
Forms: form: traipses
form: trapes
Etymology: Likely from French trépasser (“pass over or beyond”).
Senses: examples: text: It was a long traipse uphill all the way home.
glosses: A long or tiring walk.
examples: text: it was an easy traipse down the rocky slope
ref: 2021, Neal Stephenson, Termination Shock:
glosses: A meandering walk.
Synonyms: sense: long or tiring walk
word: hike
sense: long or tiring walk
word: trek
peekapoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peekapoos
form: pekapoo
form: pekeapoo
form: pekepoo
Etymology: Blend of Pekingese + poodle; formed as a pun on peekaboo.
Senses: glosses: A crossbreed dog resulting from the breeding of a Pekingese and a poodle.
pekeapoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pekeapoos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of peekapoo.
alidade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæ.lɪ.deɪd/
Forms: form: alidades
form: alhidade
form: alhidad
form: alidad
Etymology: From French alidade, from Spanish alidada, from Arabic العِضَادَة (al-ʕiḍāda), perhaps from عَضُد (ʕaḍud, “upper arm”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
cartography
geography
natural-sciences
surveying
glosses: A type of sighting device used for measuring angles.
Synonyms: word: turning board
word: diopter
Derived terms: photoalidade
influenced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪn.flu.ənst/
ipa: /ˈɪn.flʊənst/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of influence
influenced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪn.flu.ənst/
ipa: /ˈɪn.flʊənst/
Forms: form: more influenced
form: most influenced
Senses: glosses: Subject to an effect caused by a person or thing outside of the subject's control.
Derived terms: noninfluenced
sex-influenced
underinfluenced
uninfluenced
sleepless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsliːpləs/
Forms: form: more sleepless
form: most sleepless
Etymology: From Middle English slepeles, from Old English slǣplēas; equivalent to sleep + -less.
Senses: examples: text: I spent a sleepless night worrying about the exams.
glosses: Characterized by an absence of sleep: wakeful.
Derived terms: sleeplessly
sleeplessness
feat.
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ft.
Senses: examples: text: At his peak, just how many music videos was Hype Williams directing? […] "California Love (Version 2: Mad Max)" by Tupac Shakur feat. Dr. Dre […] "If I Ruled The World (Imagine That)" by Nas feat. Lauryn Hill […]
ref: 2008 March, Vibe, page 60:
glosses: Abbreviation of featuring.
daimyō
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daimyō
form: daimyōs
Senses: examples: text: The classes of daimyōs as arranged and established by Ieyasu were not altered by his successors, although the number included under each class was liable to minor changes.
ref: 1894, David Murray, “Feudalism in Japan”, in Japan (The Story of the Nations; 37), London: T. Fisher Unwin […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 278:
text: Many daimyō followed the example of the Bakufu reformers and periodically attempted to reduce their expenses by implementing austerity programs, but these measures repeatedly failed to solve their financial problems.
ref: 1972, Mikiso Hane, “Economic Problems”, in Japan: A Historical Survey, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →ISBN, chapter 9 (The Late Tokugawa Period), page 225:
text: The first two Tokugawa shōguns, Ieyasu and Hidetada, inherited this traditional “warrior house” (buke) onari ceremony and used it as an occasion to demonstrate their control over the daimyō by conducting a sword exchange ceremony that symbolized the daimyō’s oath of loyalty (and his subordination) to the shōgun.
ref: 2000, Nam-lin Hur, “The Cultural Unity of Prayer and Play”, in Prayer and Play in Late Tokugawa Japan: Asakusa Sensōji and Edo Society (Harvard East Asian Monographs; 185), Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, →ISBN, chapter 2 (The Built-in Unity of Prayer and Play), pages 77–78:
glosses: Alternative form of daimyo.
cleptomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated form of kleptomania.
cnidarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nī-dâr′ē-ən
ipa: /naɪˈdɛː.iː.ən/
ipa: /naɪˈdɛɹ.i.ən/
ipa: /nɑɪˈdeː.iː.ən/
ipa: /naɪˈdeə̯.iː.ən/
ipa: /naɪˈder.i.ən/
ipa: /najˈɖæʳ.iː.an/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: cnidarians
Etymology: From translingual Cnidaria + -an, derived from New Latin Cnīdāria, derived from Ancient Greek κνῑ́δη (knī́dē, “sea nettle”).
Senses: examples: text: A general feature of cnidarians, as I noted above, is their stinging cells.
ref: 2016, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds, William Collins, published 2018, page 35:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of various invertebrate animals, such as jellyfish, hydras, sea anemones, corals and formerly sponges and ctenophores that belong to the phylum Cnidaria.
Derived terms: cnidopsin
cnidarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: nī-dâr′ē-ən
ipa: /naɪˈdɛː.iː.ən/
ipa: /naɪˈdɛɹ.i.ən/
ipa: /nɑɪˈdeː.iː.ən/
ipa: /naɪˈdeə̯.iː.ən/
ipa: /naɪˈder.i.ən/
ipa: /najˈɖæʳ.iː.an/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: more cnidarian
form: most cnidarian
Etymology: From translingual Cnidaria + -an, derived from New Latin Cnīdāria, derived from Ancient Greek κνῑ́δη (knī́dē, “sea nettle”).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a cnidarian.
Related terms: coelenterate
cion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪən
Forms: form: cions
Senses: examples: text: 1621–1626 (published posthumously in 1627): Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum : or, A Natural History ; in ten centuries, century V, Experiments in consort touching the putting back or retardation of germination, ¶ 421; reprinted in:
text: 421. Men have entertained a conceit that showeth prettily ; namely, that if you graft a late-coming fruit upon a stock of a fruit-tree that cometh early, the graft will bear early ; as a peach upon a cherry ; and contrariwise, if an early-coming fruit upon a stock of a fruit-tree that cometh late, the graft will bear fruit late ; as a cherry upon a peach. But these are but imaginations, and untrue. The cause is, for that the cion overruleth the stock quite : and the stock is but passive only, and giveth aliment, but no motion to the graft.
ref: 1838, The works of Lord Bacon : with an introductory essay, and a portrait ; in two volumes, volume 1, page 133 (London : William Ball, Paternoster Row ; stereotyped and printed by John Childs and son)
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of scion.
neoconservatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neoconservatisms
Etymology: From neo- + conservatism.
Senses: topics: government
politics
coordinate_terms: paleoconservatism
glosses: A right-wing political movement that supports free markets, supply-side economics and an interventionist foreign policy.
Related terms: neoconservative
neocon
clichéd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clichéd
form: most clichéd
form: cliched
form: clichéed
Etymology: From cliché + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: While most of these small, family-owned eateries were mired in drab décor and had clichéd names like Golden Wok or China Gate, they made up for the kitsch with inexpensive prices.
ref: 2015, Huping Ling, Allan W. Austin, Asian American History and Culture: An Encyclopedia:
synonyms: word: banal
word: bromidic
word: quotidian
word: clichéd
word: commonplace
word: cookie-cutter
word: corny
word: dog-eared
word: everyday
word: hackneyed
word: hoary
word: meh
word: overdone
word: pat
word: played out
word: prosaic
word: shopworn
word: stale
word: stock
word: threadbare
word: timeworn
word: tired
word: trite
word: unoriginal
word: vapid
word: warmed-over
word: well-worn
glosses: Repeated so often that it has become stale or commonplace; hackneyed.
Derived terms: clichédly
clichédness
unclichéd
clichéd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cliched
form: clichéed
Etymology: From cliché + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cliché
cliched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cliched
form: most cliched
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of clichéd.
Derived terms: uncliched
cliched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cliche
clichéed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clichéed
form: most clichéed
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of clichéd.
clichéed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cliché
compresence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpɹɛzn̩s/
ipa: /kɒm-/
ipa: /kəmˈpɹɛz(ə)ns/
ipa: /kɑm-/
rhymes: -ɛzəns
Forms: form: compresences
Etymology: From com- + presence.
Senses: examples: text: The properties of redness and juiciness have compresence in apples.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The state of existing together concurrently.
glosses: The tie or relation responsible for holding properties in the bundle theory of substance. Also called 'togetherness'
Synonyms: coexistence
concurrency
copresence
togetherness
Related terms: compresent
alkahest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈal.kə.hɛst/
Forms: form: alkahests
form: alcahest
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin alcahest, apparently coined by Paracelsus, as Pseudo-Arabism.
Senses: examples: text: This perspective stimulated the alchemical quest for a ‘universal solvent’, that would dissolve and homogenize all substances – a solvent that Paracelsus named the alkahest.
ref: 2006, Philip Ball, The Devil's Doctor, Arrow, published 2007, page 267:
synonyms: universal solvent
;
firewater
glosses: A universal solvent sought by the alchemists.
wikipedia: Paracelsus
Derived terms: alkahestic
nonhomologous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + homologous.
Senses: examples: text: The nonhomologous RNA recombination resulted in an enhanced hemagglutinin cleavability.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Not homologous.
unitary state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unitary states
Senses: antonyms: federal state
federation
glosses: A state or country that is governed constitutionally as one single unit, with one constitutionally created legislature.
yinzer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yinzers
Etymology: From yinz + -er, in reference to the Pittsburgh dialect's use of that pronoun.
Senses: glosses: A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
crater face
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crater faces
Etymology: From crater + face.
Senses: glosses: Someone whose face is scarred or pockmarked.