cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
storkish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more storkish
form: most storkish
Etymology: From stork + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a stork (the bird).
stethokyrtograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stethokyrtographs
Senses: glosses: An instrument for measuring a person's chest.
stethokyrtographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stethokyrtograph
feed two birds with one scone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: feeds two birds with one scone
form: feeding two birds with one scone
form: fed two birds with one scone
form: fed two birds with one scone
Etymology: Variant of kill two birds with one stone promoted by PETA in 2018 in an attempt to “reduce animal cruelty”.
Senses: examples: text: So, what can we do to feed two (or more) birds with one scone and create ... a happy income and a happy outcome?
ref: 2004, Swami Beyondananda, Swami for Precedent, page 91:
text: To remove any dreaded exercise stigma, finding forms of exercise that are fun is a way to feed two birds with one scone.
ref: 2016, Mark Reinfeld, Healing the Vegan Way, page xviii:
text: Ghosts and campfires go hand in hand, so why not feed two birds with one scone?
ref: 2020, CBC Music, CBC, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2023:
text: Doorknobs send palpable shivers of fear through her body, and she has a habit of circling the lounge and nudging household objects with her long sleeves into neat lines, burning extra calories and fixing everything at right angles to each other in one go: two birds, one scone!
ref: 2021, Evanna Lynch, The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up; A Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN:
text: "Estates are often owned by influential people. I thought it was a great way to feed two birds with one scone[," said Jackson.]
 "Don't you mean "kill two birds with one stone?..."
 "My phrasing is less violent...."
ref: 2022, Helena Hunting, Starry-Eyed Love:
glosses: Synonym of kill two birds with one stone.
synonyms: word: kill two birds with one stone
wikipedia: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Related terms: there's more than one way to feed a cat
stereoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Resembling the fungi of the genus Stereum.
Cream City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Cream City
Etymology: From the cream-colored bricks used in many of its buildings.
Senses: glosses: Nickname for Milwaukee: a major city in Wisconsin, United States.
scribing blocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scribing block
scriber blocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scriber block
Steens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Steen
stauroscopically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: By means of the stauroscope.
stauroscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the stauroscope.
stampedable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stampedable
form: most stampedable
Etymology: From stampede + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be scared or roused into a stampede.
thumb splitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thumb splitter
sherardizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sherardizers
Etymology: From sherardize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who or that which sherardizes.
sherardizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sherardizer
Krishnamurti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Krishnamurtis
form: Krishnamoorthi
form: Krishnamoorthy
form: Krishnamoorti
form: Krishnamoorty
form: Krishnamurthi
form: Krishnamurthy
form: Krishnamurty
Etymology: From Krishna + murti.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
diktytaxitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diktytaxitic
form: most diktytaxitic
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrology
glosses: Texture of certain basalts containing abundant angular interstitial gas cavities between the plagioclase laths
osteotoxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of osteotoxin
Sabazian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sabazian
form: most Sabazian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Sabazios.
Sabazios
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Σαβάζιος (Sabázios).
Senses: glosses: A god of the Phrygians and Thracians, depicted on horseback wielding a staff of power.
Derived terms: Sabazian
Sabbathize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Sabbathizes
form: Sabbathizing
form: Sabbathized
form: Sabbathized
Etymology: From Sabbath + -ize.
Senses: synonyms: sabbatize
glosses: To observe the Sabbath.
Sabbathized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Sabbathize
Sabbathizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Sabbathize
Sabbathizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Sabbathize
cascading style sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cascading style sheets
form: Cascading Style Sheet
Senses: examples: text: Conversely, one cascading style sheet can be applied to a potentially infinite number of Web pages, giving Web page authors heretofore unknown ease of application of style across that potentially infinite number of pages.
ref: 1998, Peter Belesis, Dynamic HTML Unleashed, 2nd edition, Sams.net Publishing, →ISBN, page 62:
text: His prose is a cascading style sheet of aperçus.
ref: 2006 May 20, Toby Litt, “In with IT crowd”, in The Times, archived from the original on 21 Oct 2021:
text: You will also need to add a cascading style sheet (CSS) by producing the following file in an editor and saving it in the same file as your “hello.xml”: hello {display: block; font-size: 30pt; font-weight: bold;}
ref: 2009, J.D. Applen, Rudy McDaniel, The Rhetorical Nature of XML: Constructing Knowledge in Networked Environments, New York, N.Y.; London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 47:
text: In addition to cookies, advertisers can use a computer’s IP address to determine a user’s geographic location, can use invisible “web bugs” to monitor activity and can look at an individual’s browser history by using JavaScript or a cascading-style-sheet technique.
ref: 2011 November 21, Deborah M. Todd, “Internet tracking: As more advertisers monitor every click of your mouse, should someone monitor the monitoring?”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, volume 85, number 113, page A-8:
text: A theme must have at least one cascading style sheet.
ref: 2013, Brad Williams, David Damstra, Hal Stern, Professional WordPress® Design and Development, 2nd edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 214:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
web-design
hypernyms: stylesheet
glosses: A stylesheet in Cascading Style Sheets format.
Synonyms: CSS
sabbatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sabbatically
form: most sabbatically
Senses: glosses: With regard to, or in accordance with, the Sabbath.
sabellarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sabellarians
Etymology: translingual Sabellaria + -an.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the worms of the genus Sabellaria.
sabellarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sabellarian
sajodin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Brand name.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Calcium iodobehenate.
Related terms: sabromin
sabromin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Brand name.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A bromine preparation used to treat epilepsy.
Related terms: sajodin
iodobehenate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iodobehenates
Etymology: From iodobehenic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of iodobehenic acid.
iodobehenates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iodobehenate
Sabuja
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sapoya
Senses: synonyms: Pedra Branca
glosses: An extinct Karirian language of northeastern Bahia, Brazil.
Sapoya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sabuja (“language”).
Papal State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Papal State
Senses: examples: text: In this war Sixtus IV had been allied with Venice; but, the conflict going badly in the Papal State, he suddenly made a separate peace […]
ref: 1968, William J. Bouwsma, Venice and the Defense of Republican Liberty: Renaissance Values in the Age of Counter Reformation, page 81:
text: In later retrospect, indeed, the middle decades of the fourteenth century may be seen to foreshadow a radical change in the balance of power within the Papal State, […]
ref: 1974, P. J. Jones, The Malatesta of Rimini and the Papal State: A Political History, page 92:
glosses: singular of Papal States
sacatra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sacatras
Etymology: Uncertain; see Wikipedia for theories.
Senses: glosses: A person having one black and one griffe parent; a person whose ancestry is seven-eighths black and one-eighth white.
sacatras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sacatra
saccharinish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more saccharinish
form: most saccharinish
Etymology: From saccharine + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat saccharine.
States of the Church
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the States of the Church
form: State of the Church
Senses: examples: text: It may be necessary to enquire into the origin and progress of the temporal authority of the Court of Rome—the means by which the aggrandizement of the States of the Church has been at different periods effected—and the only possible object with which a European congress can have replaced them under an antiquated subjection.
ref: 1832 July, “Political Condition of the Italian States”, in The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, volume 55, number 110, page 381:
text: On September 20, 1870, Victor Emmanuel captured Rome, and the inhabitants of the district voted one hundred and thirty-three thousand to one thousand five hundred for annexation to Italy. […] Thus came to an end the States of the Church, the oldest continuous secular sovereignty then existing in Europe.
ref: 1918, Williston Walker, A History of the Christian Church, 1st edition, page 671:
glosses: The Papal States.
macroinfluencer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macroinfluencers
form: macro-influencer
Etymology: From macro- (“large”) + influencer (“influential person on social media”).
Senses: examples: text: The events of that year […] were “ultimately accelerations to industrial shifts that had been percolating for some time — long overdue bookends, perhaps, to an era wherein the thin, white, heterosexual, wealthy and apolitical macroinfluencer set the standards,” Hund writes.
ref: 2023 February 1, Jessica Grose, “Tired: Organized Fridges. Wired: Shoe Boxes in the Kitchen.”, in The New York Times:
coordinate_terms: microinfluencer
qualifier: social media
glosses: An Internet celebrity with a large following on a social media platform.
macroinfluencers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macroinfluencer
saccharofarinaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: a saccharofarinaceous diet
glosses: Based on sugar and starch.
Pontifical States
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Pontifical States
form: Pontifical State
Etymology: Calque of Italian Stati Pontifici.
Senses: examples: text: After nearly a quarter of a century’s residence in Milwaukee, […] he was invited by President Lincoln, immediately after his inauguration, to take the appointment of Minister to the Pontifical States in Italy, […]
ref: 1891, George W. Cullum, “Rufus King”, in Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, N. Y. […], 3rd edition, volume 1, page 538:
glosses: The Papal States.
Sacian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sacian
form: most Sacian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Saka people.
Sacian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sacians
Senses: glosses: A member of the Saka people.
Sacians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sacian
TOEFLs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TOEFL
Sakastan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Former name of Sistan.
sack time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sacktime
Senses: glosses: Time spent sleeping.
Related terms: hit the sack
sacktime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Just before sacktime, the Captain stood beside his sleeping bag doing his daily calisthenics; stripped down to his flaming red long johns, […]
ref: 1968, Seon Manley, Gogo Lewis, Polar Secrets: A Treasury of the Arctic and Antarctic, page 105:
glosses: Alternative form of sack time.
sacrolumbal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sacrolumbar.
tsadiqs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tsadiq
saddik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saddiks
form: saddikim
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tzaddik.
saddiks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saddik
saddikim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saddik
Beaumont-sur-Oise
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in Val-d'Oise department, Île-de-France, France.
sacrosecular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having both sacred and secular aspects.
aminozide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of daminozide.
synonyms: word: daminozide
Saadhu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Saadhus
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sadh.
Saadhus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Saadhu
Saffarid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Saffarids
Senses: glosses: A member of a Persianate dynasty of eastern Iranian origin that ruled over parts of Persia, Greater Khorasan, and eastern Makran from 861 to 1003.
Saffarids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Saffarid
Saffarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Saffarians
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Saffarid.
synonyms: word: Saffarid
Saffarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Saffarian
saffronwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From saffron + wood.
Senses: glosses: The evergreen tree Elaeodendron croceum.
Renaissance women
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Renaissance woman
Valmondois
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in Val-d'Oise department, Île-de-France, France.
men ☕
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Patterned after women ☕.
Senses: examples: text: the design is very...
Men ☕
HAHAHAHHAAHAHAHA
ref: 2023 April 14, @me_snch, Twitter, archived from the original on 24 Jul 2023:
glosses: Expresses disdain for male behavior, particularly toxic masculinity.
Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in Val-d'Oise department, Île-de-France, France.
Juvisy-sur-Orge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in Essonne department, Île-de-France, France.
Westergren method
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Described by Swedish physician Alf Vilhelm Albertsson Westergren (1891–1968) in 1921.
Senses: topics: hematology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A method, used to estimate the erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), which measures the distance (in millimeters) which red blood cells in anticoagulated whole blood fall to the bottom of a standardized upright tube over a period of one hour.
Related terms: Westergren tube
Wintrobe method
Fleury-les-Aubrais
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune near Orléans, Loiret department, Centre-Val de Loire, France.
Souillac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and commune in Lot department, Occitania, France.
glosses: A village in Savanne district, Mauritius.
whole blood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Blood taken directly from a human in which no components have been removed (which is common after blood donation).
Derived terms: word: WB
knifecraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From knife + -craft.
Senses: glosses: The skill or art of using a knife.
Lunel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in Hérault department, Occitania, France.
jumpster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jumpsters
Etymology: From jump + -ster.
Senses: examples: text: “You don't actually want me to wear toddler jumpsters do you?” The boots came in large sizes, and most pairs for adults were just gathering dust on shelves, because older people believed that toddler jumpsters were solely for immature kids under the age of six.
ref: 2012, Matt Zanders, Jon Lundin, Lightning Bolt and Blazer, page 183:
text: The Dixieland tune was performed in 1959 by Joyce Mayo, recorded at Bourbon Street Records, and advertised to “bopsters, hopsters, jumpsters, humpsters, flipsters, and hipsters” as “the song that immortalized New Orleans' entertainment […]
ref: 2014, Richard Campanella, Bourbon Street: A History, page 176:
glosses: Synonym of jumper (all senses)
synonyms: word: jumper
extra: all senses
jumpsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jumpster
La Seyne-sur-Mer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in Var department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France, west of Toulon.
bancketting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Now I cannott lett you go without putting you in mynd what I said the last day in the Bancketting House at Whitehall.
ref: 1641 The Heads of the Kings Speech concerning Lord Stafford. (Quoted in Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Volume 10, Issue 6, page 140. HMSO. (1887))
glosses: Banqueting.
examples: 1563 Romans 13:12 given in Common Places of Christian Religion, Wolfgang Musculus trans. John Man (1512-1569), pub R. Wolfe, London
The nyghte is paste, and the Daye is come on, let us therfore cast of the workes of darknes, & put one the armoure of lyght, & let us walke honestely, as in the day time, not in bancketting and dronkennes, in chambrynge and wontonnes.
9 April 1550 A Sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, the xiiii. day of December,Thomas Lever, Publisher: John Daie and William Seres.
…waste at greye gaming, glotonous bancketting, and suche riote,…
glosses: Overindulgence, debauchery, or riotous behaviour.
revoicings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revoicing
Brig-Glis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Brig district, Valais canton, Switzerland, which includes the towns of Brig and Glis.
Brig
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A district in Valais canton, Switzerland.
glosses: A town in Brig-Glis municipality, Valais canton, Switzerland.
Synonyms: english: French spelling sometimes used in English, though Brig itself is German-speaking
translation: French spelling sometimes used in English, though Brig itself is German-speaking
word: Brigue
Related terms: Brig Bretach
Lenina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The taxicopter landed on the roof of Lenina's apartment house. 'At last,' she thought exultantly as she stepped out of the cab.
ref: 1932, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, London: Chatto & Windus:
glosses: A female given name.
powder coating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powder coatings
Senses: glosses: Coating in the form of powder made by a thermoplastic or a thermoset polymer which is applied free-flowing and dry by electrostatics and then cured.
Related terms: word: powder-coat
powder-coat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: powder-coats
form: powder-coating
form: powder-coated
form: powder-coated
form: powdercoat
Senses: glosses: To apply coating in the form of a powder.
Related terms: word: powder coating
Madridian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Madrid + -ian.
Senses: synonyms: Madrilene
Madrilenian
Madrileño
glosses: Of or pertaining to Madrid, Spain, or to its inhabitants.
Madridian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Madridians
Etymology: From Madrid + -ian.
Senses: synonyms: Madrilene
Madrilenian
Madrileño
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Madrid, Spain.
Madridians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Madridian
bounded rationality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by American political scientist Herbert A. Simon.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
glosses: A model of human behaviour which states that individuals often make decisions that are merely adequate rather than optimal.
Related terms: satisfice
satisficer
Kirchdorf an der Krems
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and district in Upper Austria, Austria.
cross-bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-bones
Etymology: From cross + bone, a calque of German Kreuzbein (“sacrum”).
Senses: examples: text: Next comes the cross-bone (sacrum), which is inserted between the two halves of the pelvic girdle. This cross-bone consists of five fixed and amalgamated cross-vertebræ.
ref: 1879, Ernst Haeckel, “Development of the Organs of Motion”, in The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human Ontogeny and Phylogeny, volume 2, New York: D. Appleton and Company, page 282:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The sacrum.
Related terms: crossbones
cross-bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crossbones.
cross-bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross-bone
marshmallowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of marshmallow
marshmallowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of marshmallow
disagreeings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disagreeing
Adani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Adanies
form: Adanis
Senses: glosses: A surname
wikipedia: + (surname)
Related terms: al-Adani
alAdani
AlAdani
Al Adani
Aladani
Al-Adani
al Adani
bin Adani
Bin-Adani
Bin Adani
bin-Adani
binAdani
BinAdani
Binadani
Eladani
El Adani
elAdani
el Adani
el-Adani
El-Adani
ElAdani
Ibnadani
ibnAdani
Ibn-Adani
IbnAdani
ibn Adani
Ibn Adani
ibn-Adani
Van de Graaff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Van de Graaffs
Senses: examples: text: One time we tried to make a Van de Graaff, which is something you touch that makes your hair static. It was pretty entertaining because we couldn’t do it!
ref: 2020 March 17, Jennifer Johnson, “Shout Out: Danielle Lesinski, National Merit Scholarship finalist from Maine South”, in Chicago Tribune:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Ellipsis of Van de Graaff generator.
thrillorama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thrilloramas
Etymology: From thrill + -orama.
Senses: synonyms: thrillfest
glosses: Something very thrilling.
thrilloramas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thrillorama
Bruck an der Mur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Bruck-Mürzzuschlag District, Styria, Austria.
panoramist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panoramists
Etymology: From panorama + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: He sulks and schemes. And Russia, in its wretched boom, sulks with him. "Let us be certain: the cold war was won by one side and lost by another." This epic collapse is continuing, we sense, inside the circus tent of smutty new money that Misha has. Shteyngart is a master panoramist who paints in just three tones: exhausted grays, despairing browns and superficial golds.
ref: 2006 April 30, Walter Kirn, “Russian Unorthodox”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A person who creates panoramas.
Haggis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Haggises
Senses: examples: text: Primarily seen as a publicity vehicle for late-year releases, the awards show and its promoters have lately made pretensions to Oscar oracling: Jamie Foxx won the “breakthrough actor of the year” prize for “Ray” in 2004, after all, and Paul Haggis and his ensemble cast were honored for “Crash” four months before it won best picture.
ref: 2006 October 18, David M. Halbfinger, “Hollywood Film Chain’s Latest Link”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2025:
glosses: A surname.
Cordano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kɔː(ɹ)ˈdɑːnəʊ/
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish
La Calle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Former name of El Kala, Algeria.
El Kala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: Former name: La Calle
glosses: A town and port in El Taref province, Algeria.
El Taref
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: El Tarf
Senses: glosses: A city and province in north-east Algeria.
Vidaurre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vidaurres
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Vidaurre, variant of Vidaurri. From Basque.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish
Fernandini
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fernandinis
Senses: glosses: A surname
freezing-point depression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freezing-point depressions
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A drop in the minimum temperature at which a substance freezes, caused when a smaller amount of another, non-volatile substance is added, such as salt or alcohol.
Maidencreek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from Maiden Creek, a local stream.
Senses: glosses: A township in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States.
wikipedia: Maiden Creek
Wock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wock
Etymology: Shortened from Wockhardt (company that produces a cough syrup used in lean).
Senses: examples: text: Sippin' on the wock, and I'm laid back, ayy
ref: 2017, “Achoo!”, performed by Keith Ape and Ski Mask the Slump God:
text: I took the Wock to Poland
ref: 2022, “Poland”, performed by Lil Yachty:
glosses: Lean (recreational drug).
CIDP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CIDPs
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
coordinate_terms: AIDP
glosses: Initialism of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy.
AIDP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AIDPs
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
coordinate_terms: CIDP
glosses: Initialism of acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy.
backclash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Eggcorn of backlash.
mithun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mithun
form: mithuns
form: mithan
Etymology: From Assamese মেঠন (methon). Cognate Naga Pidgin methon.
Senses: examples: text: Early one morning, a tiger on the prowl overheard two mithun gossiping as they grazed in a clearing.
ref: 2005, “Tseube”, in First Sun Stories: Unusual Folk Tales from the North East, Katha, published 2011, →ISBN, page 28:
glosses: Bos frontalis, a Southern Asiatic species of wild cattle.
Synonyms: sense: Bos frontalis
word: gaur
word: gayal
mithuns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mithun
quasistrategies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quasistrategy
moosewort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A name for Botrychium tunux.
trip sitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trip sitters
form: trip-sitter
Etymology: Of trip (“period of drug-induced reverie”) + sitter (“one who watches or tends something”). Attested from the 20th century; see quotations below.
Senses: examples: text: As a psychedelic researcher, she was a “trip sitter” the straight person charting drug trips and documenting the findings.
ref: 1996 June 7, Kathleen McCloud, “‘Artists choice’ promotes idea of mentoring debuts lesser-known work”, in The Santa Fe New Mexican, page 6:
text: In some cases, a trip sitter may be a medical professional, such as nurses used in psychedelic research or a therapist who performs psychedelic psychotherapy. […] However, the most common trip sitter is a friend or family member whom the drug user trusts.
ref: 2009, Sean Williams, The Big Picture, page 30:
text: Trip sitters are especially handy for your first few psychedelic experiences, or if you’re planning on taking a moderate to high dose.
ref: 2019, Michelle Janikian, Your Psilocybin Mushroom Companion, page 83:
text: Of the 492 women declaring substance use at festivals, late alcohol initiation[…], late illicit drug initiation[…], and late festival initiation[…] favoured testing their drugs. A similar correlation was observed for ensuring the presence of a trip-sitter: very weak association was observed for late alcohol initiation
ref: 2020, Iga Kender-Jeziorska, “Patterns of recreational drug use and harm reduction strategies among women a music festivals: The case of Hungary and Poland”, in J. Buxton, G. Margo, L. Burger, editors, The Impact of Global Drug Policy on Women, page 208:
topics: medicine
sciences
qualifier: recreational drugs
glosses: A person who watches over a person who is using drugs.
Related terms: trip sit
microbasic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + basic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a shaft less than one and a half times as long as the capsule in relation to nematocysts.
Related terms: macrobasic
mesobasic
mesobasic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meso- + basic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a shaft between than one and a half and four times as long as the capsule in relation to nematocysts.
Related terms: macrobasic
microbasic
macrobasic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macro- + basic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a shaft over four times as long as the capsule in relation to nematocysts.
Related terms: microbasic
mesobasic
tribodont
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: (of teeth) Blunt and rounded used for crushing.
Cikampek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: Older spelling: Tjikambek
glosses: A subdistrict in Karawang Regency, West Java province, Indonesia.
trophophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trophophores
Etymology: By surface analysis, tropho- + -phore
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The sterile part of a fern's leaf, as opposed to the sporophore.
dunewort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duneworts
Senses: glosses: A common name for the fern Botrychium campestre.
Parkinson-plus syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Parkinson-plus syndromes
form: Parkinson's plus syndrome
form: Parkinson's-plus syndrome
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any of a group of neurodegenerative disorders characterized by the classical features of Parkinson's disease (including tremor, rigidity, akinesia/bradykinesia, and postural instability) with additional features that distinguish them from idiopathic Parkinson's disease.
Parkinson-plus syndromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Parkinson-plus syndrome
sdDNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of short duplex DNA.
Aesopianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Aesopian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The positions expressed in Aesopian fables.
subgleba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subglebas
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: A sterile base.
probing amendment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: probing amendments
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: An amendment put forward by a legislator with the intent of providing an opportunity for discussion of a specific topic, rather than with the intent of actually changing the proposed legislation.
probing amendments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of probing amendment
handle without mittens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: handles without mittens
form: handling without mittens
form: handled without mittens
form: handled without mittens
Senses: examples: text: Oh, madam, by the happieſt chance in the world, I met in the ſtreet juſt by the door the three chaﬆiſers of the pariſh, newly riſen from ſitting in judgment on a young fornicator, who they have handled without mittens, and therefore will feague an old adulterer; I have told them all.
ref: 1794 [1689], Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, Mr. Anthony: A Comedy, London: T. Wilkins, page 47:
glosses: Synonym of handle without gloves.
synonyms: word: handle without gloves
Strathbogie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From strath + River Bogie.
Senses: glosses: A valley and district in north-west Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland; the valley is also spelt Strath Bogie.
glosses: A town in the Strathbogie Ranges and the shire in Victoria, Australia.
glosses: A local government area in northern Victoria, Australia; in full, the Shire of Strathbogie.
rubricism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rubric + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: […] finally both were wedded to an extreme high-church theory of discipline and doctrine, John Wesley being quite as far gone in this respect in 1735 as Newman himself was in 1835,—and indeed carrying his rigid rubricism and his asceticism very much farther than the Tractarians at any time carried theirs […]
ref: 1864 October, “Mr. Kingsley and Dr. Newman”, in The London Quarterly Review, volume 23, number 45, page 148:
text: Theodor Klauser, author of perhaps the most widely read general account of the project, did not help matters when he described the liturgy of the period from Trent to St Pius X (Pope, 1903–14) in terms of rigid unification […] and rubricism.
ref: 1995, Simon Ditchfield, Liturgy, Sanctity and History in Tridentine Italy: Pietro Maria Campi and the Preservation of the Particular, →ISBN, page 19:
text: The earlier rubricism and strict observance of the laws governing valid liturgical celebration, were considered stultifying and obsolete by the Council Fathers.
ref: 2000, David Torevell, Losing the Sacred: Ritual, Modernity and Liturgical Reform, →ISBN, page 148:
topics: Christianity
glosses: A pedantic or scrupulous emphasis on following rubrics, that is, written directions and regulations, in celebrating the liturgy.
Related terms: rubrician
rubricist
christians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of christian
cable needle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cable needles
Senses: topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: a type of knitting needle used to temporarily hold stitches, allowing them to be interchanged
Southern Midlands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A local government area in south-east Tasmania, Australia; in full, Southern Midlands Council.
Related terms: Northern Midlands
circular needle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circular needles
Senses: topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: a knitting implement consisting of two needles connected by a thin wire; used to knit round tubes
Related terms: english: for smaller tubes
translation: for smaller tubes
word: double-pointed needle
double-pointed needle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double-pointed needles
Senses: topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: a knitting needle with points at both ends; used in sets of four or five to knit narrower tubes than possible with a circular needle
screw eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹu ˌaɪ/
enpr: skro͞oˈ-īˌ
Forms: form: screw eyes
form: eye screw
form: eyescrew
form: screweye
Etymology: From screw + eye.
Senses: coordinate_terms: eye hook
eyebolt
screw hook
glosses: A screw with a loop on one end and threads on the other end.
Glaston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (without a council) in Rutland, England, east of Uppingham (OS grid ref SK8900).
complementary DNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
synonyms: word: cDNA
glosses: DNA produced from a single-stranded RNA template in a reaction catalyzed by the enzyme reverse transcriptase.
NAAT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NAATs
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
hypernyms: NAT
glosses: Initialism of nucleic acid amplification test.
Aperol spritz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aperol spritzes
Senses: examples: text: For me, a well-made spritz is an ideal opener to the night. The best ones are more nuanced than the Aperol spritz, but no more complicated. If your finished drink tastes like a children’s vitamin, it’s wrong, and it’s a hangover biding its time.
ref: 2019 May 9, Rebekah Peppler, “The Aperol Spritz Is Not a Good Drink”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: We keep good boundaries, except for one Monday last January when I took him out to celebrate his new job. After a few too many Aperol spritzes, we tripped home.
ref: 2023 February 3, Alessandra Ranelli, “Two Kisses We Never Talked About”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Everything in both Keenan’s and Kerrigan’s accounts was calibrated to be just the right level of accessible yet enviable: fast fashion and white sneakers, Solidcore workouts and Aperol spritzes, all set against a picture-perfect backdrop of New York City, recognizable from everyone’s favorite middlebrow television shows.
ref: 2025 May 5, Brock Colyar, “It Must Be Nice to Be a West Village Girl”, in New York, archived from the original on 19 May 2025:
glosses: A variant of the spritz cocktail using Aperol as bitters.
Aperol spritzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aperol spritz
largifluous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more largifluous
form: most largifluous
Etymology: From Latin largifluus.
Senses: examples: text: Not the hundred orations of Croker, nor the largifluous verbosity of a Wetherall, nor the insidious sophistry of a Peel, were sufficient to prevent them from enrolling their names amongst the most determined supporters of Reform.
ref: 1832 August 25, Leicester Chronicle; or, Commercial and Agricultural Advertiser, volume 22, number 1,144, Leicester: […] T. Thompson, […]:
text: Since in this mighty Kosmic edifice / Man is her noblest work she charters him / With this strange life largifluous in his veins, / Until it fulminates within his breast / With such augmenting ire that he stands forth / Defiant of the Gods, a compeer of their ken, / A challenger and rival of their might / Ev’n in the mysteries of creative skill.
ref: 1881, Edward St. John-Brenon, The Tribune Reflects and Other Poems, London: Reeves & Turner, […], page 76:
text: The medieval knight had to be magnanimous, ingenious, largifluous, egregious, strenuous—a real Miles dei.
ref: 1957, August Closs, Medusa’s Mirror: Studies in German Literature, London: The Cresset Press, page 47:
text: Why is thy mind not expelling words in a largifluous manner?
ref: 2013, Percarus, Percarus, Xlibris, →ISBN:
glosses: Copious; abundant.
CRVO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CRVOs
Senses: topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of central retinal vein occlusion.
Related terms: CRAO
BRVO
BRAO
CRAO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CRAOs
Senses: topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of central retinal artery occlusion.
Related terms: CRVO
BRVO
BRAO
BRVO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BRVOs
Senses: topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of branch retinal vein occlusion.
Related terms: CRAO
CRVO
BRAO
BRAO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BRAOs
Senses: topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of branch retinal artery occlusion.
Related terms: CRAO
CRVO
BRVO
POAG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: POAGs
Senses: topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of primary open-angle glaucoma.
Related terms: AACG
AACG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AACGs
Senses: topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of acute angle-closure glaucoma.
Related terms: POAG
Langbank
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Renfrewshire council area, Scotland, alongside the River Clyde (OS grid ref NS3873).
glosses: A hamlet in the Rural Municipality of Silverwood No. 123, Saskatchewan, Canada, named after the Scottish village.
High Blantyre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Blantyre, South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS6856).
Related terms: Low Blantyre
churchal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more churchal
form: most churchal
Etymology: From church + -al.
Senses: examples: text: A few, more churchal, trembled, fearful that the devil was playing his tricks upon them; […] When we had inspected each other,—he with a sort of careless sociability, we with a coy and very churchal questioning,—he said, when alone, to test the heart-blending, “Bro. Barrett, I see your inner life and struggles, the drift of your love, and impending fate as a Universalist minister.[…]” […] In the mean while, the prime actors, noticing the great meeting in the churchal and spiritual presses, received responsive letters from eminent divines of the Unitarian sect,—such as David Wasson, Drs. Ellis, Livermore, Clarke, Bellows, E. C. Towne; […] Next to him come the moolahs and muftis, corresponding to churchal bishops, and then the ulemas, who are their priests.
ref: 1872, J[oseph] O[sgood] Barrett, The Spiritual Pilgrim: A Biography of James M[artin] Peebles, 3rd edition, Boston, Mass.: William White and Company, […], pages 46, 91, and 229:
text: That it was a spirit, is quite certain, because sprits have done such things in innumerable instances, and are now doing them daily, and that it was not the Holy Ghost, according to the churchal definition, is also nearly certain, for the reason that we have never had any knowledge that such an incomprehensible agency exists, and we cannot conceive how it can exist, while we do know that there are spirits, and that every man is influenced and impressed by them.
ref: 1881, Eugene Crowell, The Identity of Primitive Christianity and Modern Spiritualism, 2nd edition, volume II, New York, N.Y.: […] the Office of “The Two Worlds”, page 127:
text: […] the bodies of persons who thus die will not have a churchal interment, but will be devoured by beasts and birds; […]
ref: 1890, W[illiam] J[oseph] Simmonite, W. J. Simmonite’s Complete Arcana of Astral Philosophy, or the Celestial Philosopher, Being Genethliology Simplified, or the Doctrine of Nativities, to Which Is Added the Ruling of the Microcosm, London, page 136:
text: […] his standpoint was, to belt and blucher him afore the hole pleading churchal and submarine bar yonder but he made no class at all in port and cemented palships between our trucers, being a refugee, didn’t he, Jimmy?
ref: 1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part III, page 587:
text: The great mistakes of the present churchal influence, are. I. An attempt to harmonize the Church and the world! II. An effort to combine, in one churchal organization, before there is a spiritual harmony in the understandings and heart's emotions of the different religious professors.
ref: 1983, Robley Edward Whitson, editor, The Shakers: Two Centuries of Spiritual Reflection, Paulist Press, →ISBN, page 325:
glosses: Of or relating to a church.
cuticleless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cuticle + -less.
Senses: glosses: Having no cuticle.
Meikle Earnock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A southern suburb of Hamilton, South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS7053).
grudginess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From grudgy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: […] laughing at her impatience over the delay, and grumbling a little over the grudginess with which they were bestowed; until, finally he threw the roll into her eager hands, and followed his laughing sister[…]
ref: 1891, Fannie Ellsworth Newberry, The Impress of a Gentlewoman, page 174:
text: Mrs. Pierre glanced around the parlor, and observed with the slightest hint of grudginess in her voice, “You is luckier than most. You is wealthy.” The older woman, obviously waiting for an answer, sat back in her chair,[…]
ref: 2003 12, Laflorya Gauthier, Charlotte's Tree, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 108:
text: We all got along very well, and there was none of that grudginess anymore. Instead of shooting twelve setups a day, as we had with a full crew, we were now shooting twenty-five or twenty-six setups a day.
ref: 2015 February 7, Paul Maher Jr., One Big Soul: An Oral History of Terrence Malick, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:
text: “You can't do anything,” Stanley groaned, “but wait for her grudginess to subside. She's always been like this, but I think with everything that's happened in the past couple months, it's worse.” I sighed.
ref: 2016 November 4, Molly Booth, Saving Hamlet, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, →ISBN:
glosses: The quality of being grudgy, of holding grudges.
trucer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trucers
Etymology: From truce + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Instantly, at the same place, a picket volley answered, and the trucers, each supposing that the opposite party was getting treacherous, took to their heels and gained their respective works, inwardly execrating the wretch who broke the truce by firing the unlucky shot.
ref: 1865, W[illiam] H[enry] Chamberlin, History of the Eighty-First Regiment Ohio Infantry Volunteers, During the War of the Rebellion, Cincinnati, Ohio: Gazette Steam Printing House, […], page 112:
text: Consequently we have returned the “olive twig” to its trucers and plan to resume our cannonades, if within 48 hours we get no fixed inaugural date.
ref: 1906, Cleveland Medical and Surgical Reporter, page 235:
text: […] his standpoint was, to belt and blucher him afore the hole pleading churchal and submarine bar yonder but he made no class at all in port and cemented palships between our trucers, being a refugee, didn’t he, Jimmy?
ref: 1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part III, page 587:
text: Pseudo patriots and ‘trucers’ were also active.
ref: 1992, Niall C[harles] Harrington, Kerry Landing, Anvil Books, →ISBN, page 8:
text: […] trucing began simultaneously at many points of the line and the principal trucers in the British sector were the Protestant Saxons.
ref: 1994, Malcolm Brown, Shirley Seaton, Christmas Truce: The Western Front December 1914 (Pan Grand Strategy Series), Pan Books, published 2011, →ISBN:
glosses: An advocate, proponent, or negotiator of a truce.
trucers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trucer
voltage dividers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voltage divider
muddy the water
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: muddies the water
form: muddying the water
form: muddied the water
form: muddied the water
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of muddy the waters.