cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
purloiner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purloiners
Etymology: From purloin + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who purloins.
purloiners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purloiner
purpurate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more purpurate
form: most purpurate
Etymology: From Latin purpura (“the color purple”) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Of a purple colour.
purpurate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purpurates
Etymology: From purpuric acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt of purpuric acid.
purpurates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purpurate
puplican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puplicans
Senses: examples: text: Matthevv vvhiche vvas other vvyſe alſo called Leui, beyng of a Puplican made an Apoſtle, firſt of all others compoſed and vvrote in Jevvrye, the ghoſpell of Chriſte in the Hebrue tounge, […]
ref: 1549 February 10 (Gregorian calendar; indicated as 1548), Jerome, “The Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Gospell of Saincte Matthew. The Lyfe of Sainct Matthew […].”, in Nicolas Udall [i.e., Nicholas Udall], transl., The First Tome or Volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testamente, London: […] Edwarde Whitchurche, →OCLC, folio xix, recto:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of publican.
puplicans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puplican
refollow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: refollows
form: refollowing
form: refollowed
form: refollowed
Etymology: From re- + follow.
Senses: glosses: To follow again.
refollowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of refollow
refollowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of refollow
refollows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of refollow
pupillometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pupil + -o- + -metry.
Senses: glosses: The measurement of the diameter of the pupil of the eye.
puncheons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puncheon
routing number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: routing numbers
Etymology: routing + number
Senses: examples: text: This new check may appear to be the account of John Doe, although the actual account and routing number are for Jane Smith's checking account at the Acme Bank. Fraudsters then use these checks to purchase items and get cash back.
ref: 2009, Martin T. Biegelman, Identity Theft Handbook: Detection, Prevention, and Security, page 202:
text: But the odd thing is the routing numbers. In the case of the two near matching account numbers, the routing numbers are different. Possible? Maybe. But it's also possible for me to win the lottery twice in the same week […]
ref: 2012, James Harrison, Quest for Power, page 158:
glosses: A number used by a banking institution to designate a certain geographic area in order to sort inquiries and transactions and direct them to the correct district. It is usually shown at the bottom left of a check.
routing numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of routing number
pupilages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pupilage
pultruded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pultrude
pultrudes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pultrude
pultruding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pultrude
pulpwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pulpwood
polyethersulphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyethersulphones
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of polyethersulfone.
polyethersulphones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyethersulphone
propenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of propene
propended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of propend
propends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of propend
propending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of propend
probang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: probangs
Senses: examples: text: In regard to foreign bodies in the œsophagus, Prof. Chiene's case of the bone, which was not capable of detection by the ordinary probangs and bougies, had some points of similarity […]
ref: 1885 November, Edinburgh Medical Journal, volume 30, page 479:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A tool consisting rod, originally made of whalebone, with a sponge on the end, used for removing obstructions from the oesophagus, etc.
Related terms: probe
probangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of probang
Nor-cal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Norcal.
Socal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈsoʊ.kæl/
Forms: form: So-cal
form: SoCal
form: Southern California
Senses: examples: I lived in Socal for about 10 years.
antonyms: Norcal
glosses: Abbreviation of Southern California.
glosses: The South Coast region of California.
So-cal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Socal.
dynemes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dyneme
chlorosulfonated polyethylenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chlorosulfonated polyethylene
glycero-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Derived from glycerol
Derived terms: glycerophospholipid
pan-fried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pan-fry
glycerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From glycerine + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to glycerine.
guotie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guotie
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 鍋貼／锅贴 (guōtiē).
Senses: glosses: potsticker, panfried dumpling
Related terms: gyoza
dispersivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dispersivities
Etymology: From dispersive + -ity.
Senses: glosses: An empirical property of a porous medium that determines the characteristic dispersion of the medium by relating the components of pore velocity to the dispersion coefficient.
Derived terms: polydispersivity
Related terms: dispersal
dispersedness
dispersing
dispersion
dispersity
interspersion
Arab World
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Arab World
Senses: glosses: Those Arabic-speaking independent states where Arabic is the main official and spoken language.
raw_tags: as a minimum
glosses: All states, territories and populations in North Africa, Western Asia and elsewhere where Arabic is a language of a significant minority or is a co-official language (including Israel, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia and South Sudan) or a territory is not recognised as independent, such as Palestine and Western Sahara.
raw_tags: as a maximum
rompope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rompopes
Etymology: From Spanish rompope. Compare rompopo.
Senses: examples: text: For the purpose of this article, pharmaceutical products and toilet articles shall be registered by the presentation of a document certified by the register in the office of Inscriptions and Pharmaceutical Specialities of the Pharmaceutical College and wines and rompopes* by means of submission of […]
ref: 1946, World Trade Law Journal, volume 1, page 231:
text: Mexican-produced table wines, ciders and rompopes
ref: 1982, Banco Nacional de Comercio Exterior (Mexico), Comercio Exterior de México, page 42
text: "Mom also has the rompope out, if you're up for disgusting sweet yellow goop that'll knock you on your can." "Gee, what a salesman you are, Luis. I'll have a beer — if there's any real beer in the house."
ref: 2009, Martha Egan, Coyota: A Novel, Papalote PressLlc, →ISBN:
text: The story goes that each nun had a specialty, and that Sister Eduviges not only made the rompope, but was also responsible for its popularity, as her rompope was made with spirits. The nuns produced it for guests but were not permitted to [partake].
ref: 2013, Andrea Lawson Gray, Adriana Almazan Lahl, Celebraciones Mexicanas: History, Traditions, and Recipes, AltaMira Press, →ISBN, page 93:
text: Sister Eduviges was the nun with the rompope gig, and it was her perfected recipe—she added an additional ingredient that she never revealed—that made the rompope wildly popular and profitable. It raised a lot of money for the convent.
ref: 2017, Rachel Khong, the editors of Lucky Peach, Lucky Peach All About Eggs: Everything We Know About the World's Most Important Food, Clarkson Potter, page 192
glosses: A traditional, eggnog-like Mexican drink made with eggs, milk, sugar and vanilla flavoring.
rompopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rompope
dismembre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dismembres
form: dismembring
form: dismembred
form: dismembred
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of dismember.
thermometre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /θəˈmɒmɪtə/
ipa: /θərˈmɑmədər/
rhymes: -ɒmɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: thermometres
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:thermometre.
qualifier: nonstandard and now largely obsolete
glosses: Alternative form of thermometer.
thermometres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thermometre
dismembring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dismembre
dismembred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dismembre
trisome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trisomes
Etymology: From tri- + -some.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A chromosome which is represented three times instead of the usual two.
remembres
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of remembre
remembring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of remembre
remembred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of remembre
philosophick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more philosophick
form: most philosophick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of philosophic.
polystilbene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polystilbenes
Etymology: From poly- + stilbene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any polymer produced by the polymerization of stilbene
ketoaldehyde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ketoaldehydes
Etymology: From keto- + aldehyde.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any aldehyde that also contains a ketonic carbonyl group
anthropopœia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ănthrō'pōpēʹyə
enpr: ăn'thrəpōpēʹyə
ipa: /ænˌθɹəʊpəʊˈpiːjə/
ipa: /ˌænθɹəpəʊˈpiːjə/
Senses: examples: text: These laws, not to be compared, indeed, with those of nature in general, are the subject of a special department in human physiology. They can only be known and reduced to anything like precision, by acquiring exact notions respecting the anatomy, psychology, and biology of man, and consequently, after having accurately distinguished the two elements of the human dynamism. The code of this association is what we denominate, anthropopœia; a science essentially medical, intimately connected with moral principles, and having no equivalent in comparative physiology.
ref: 1852, M. Lordat, “Mental Dynamics, in Relation to the Science of Medicine”, in Stanhope Templeman Speer, transl., edited by Forbes Winslow, Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology, volume 5, page 392:
glosses: Obsolete form of anthropopeia.
anthropopeia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ănthrō'pōpēʹyə
enpr: ăn'thrəpōpēʹyə
ipa: /ænˌθɹəʊpəʊˈpiːjə/
ipa: /ˌænθɹəpəʊˈpiːjə/
Forms: form: anthropopoeia
form: anthropopœia
form: anthropeia
form: anthropoeia
form: anthropœia
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek ἀνθρωποποιία (anthrōpopoiía), from ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “man, human being”) + -ποιία (-poiía, “making”).
Senses: glosses: Scientific enquiry aimed at the deduction of the laws that regulate the interactions of the anatomical, biological, and psychological elements of human physiology.
glosses: Depiction or representation as human; anthropomorphism.
anthropopoeia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In a brilliant figure that combines anthropopoeia and simile, the Lord is likened to a man who takes a lamp to make a diligent search.
ref: 2003, Richard D. Patterson, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah: An Exegetical Commentary, page 281:
glosses: Alternative spelling of anthropopeia.
anthropeia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Syncopic form of anthropopeia.
anthropoeia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Syncopic form of anthropopeia.
anthropœia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of anthropoeia.
thi sen
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: /ðɪ ˈsɛn/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thee sen.
it's raining
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Indicates that rain is falling.
Derived terms: don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining
piss on someone's leg and tell them it's raining
Roman Republic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Roman Republic
Senses: coordinate_terms: word: Roman Kingdom
word: Roman Empire
word: Western Roman Empire
word: Byzantine Empire
alt: Byzantium, Eastern Roman Empire
glosses: The period of Ancient Rome where its government operated as a republic (approx. 509 BC – 27 BC).
glosses: A French puppet state which existed from 1798 to 1799 in what was previously the Papal States.
glosses: A polity centred in Rome which existed for a few months in 1849.
kata thermometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kata thermometers
form: catathermometer
form: katathermometer
form: kata-thermometer
form: Kata thermometer
form: Kata-thermometer
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κατά (katá, “down”).
Senses: examples: text: 1945, Institution of Heating and Ventilating Engineers (Great Britain), The Building Services Engineer, Volume 13, page 90,
Though the kata-thermometer was originally designed for measuring human comfort, it afterwards turned out to be far more useful as an anemometer.
text: 1953, Thomas Bedford, Thermal Factors in the Environment which Influence Fatigue, Alan Traviss Welford, Symposium on Fatigue and Symposium on Human Factors in Equipment Design, page 9,
Leonard Hill (1914, 1919) introduced his kata thermometer for the measurement of the "cooling power" of the environment.
text: The Kata thermometer (Hill et al., 1916), for example, is an alcohol thermometer with a large bulb which is heated and exposed to the environment.[…]The Kata thermometer provides a good general measure of air velocity; however, in fluctuating air the variation in air velocity will affect human response and should be quantified.
ref: 2003, Kenneth C. Parsons, Human Thermal Environments: The Effects of Hot, Moderate and Cold Environments on Human Health, Comfort and performance, page 103:
qualifier: measuring instrument
glosses: A device consisting principally of an alcohol thermometer, used to measure air cooling power and, indirectly, small wind speeds in circulating air, by measuring the time taken for the temperature of the bulb of alcohol to make a specified drop (100° to 95°F).
Related terms: kata factor
kata thermometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kata thermometer
scabiosa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scabiosas
Senses: glosses: scabious (plant)
theosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /θiːˈəʊ.sɪs/
ipa: /θiˈoʊ.sɪs/
rhymes: -əʊsɪs
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin theōsis, from Ancient Greek θέωσις (théōsis).
Senses: examples: text: For him, theosis or deification was the destination for human salvation, whose attainment Adam’s sin in Eden had imperilled but not rendered impossible;[…]
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, Viking Press, →ISBN, page 440:
topics: Christianity
lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The likeness to or union with God; deification.
topics: Christianity
lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The process of attaining this state.
Related terms: apotheosis
deification
Monothelete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈnɒθɪliːt/
ipa: /mɒˈnɒθɪliːt/
Forms: form: Monotheletes
Etymology: Variant form of Monothelite after its etymon, Byzantine Greek μονοθελήτης (monothelḗtēs).
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Someone who believed Christ had two natures (human and divine), but one single will; a Monothelite.
Coordinate terms: Monophysite
Monothelete
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈnɒθɪliːt/
ipa: /mɒˈnɒθɪliːt/
Forms: form: more Monothelete
form: most Monothelete
Etymology: Variant form of Monothelite after its etymon, Byzantine Greek μονοθελήτης (monothelḗtēs).
Senses: examples: text: The increasing desperation of the imperial authorities to reap political benefits from their Monothelete compromise in the face of Arab military successes led them into brutal measures, not merely against Maximus but against Pope Martin; that did more to harm than help the Monothelete cause.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, pages 441–2:
topics: Christianity
glosses: Pertaining to such a belief.
Monotheletes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Monothelete
kata factors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kata factor
kata factor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kata factors
form: Kata factor
Senses: examples: text: The Kata factor is changed to B.t.u. per square foot by multiplying by 0.003687.
ref: 1924, Journal of the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers, Volume 30, American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers, page 455:
text: These workers believe that on account of these convection currents the kata factor varies with the temperature. In our opinion, the kata factor cannot vary; it is the coefficient of heat transmission — heat transmission per unit of time[…].
ref: 1929, American Association of Industrial Physicians and Surgeons, The Journal of Industrial Hygiene, volume 11, page 282:
text: Each type of thermometer has a specific kata factor inscribed on its stem.
ref: 2006, G. M. Dhaar, I. Robbani, Foundations of Community Medicine, page 41:
text: A Kata factor, which is the amount of heat lost from the bulb surface during cooling (typically 475 mcal/cm² of bulb surface as the thermometer cools through 2.8°C), is inscribed on the stem.
ref: 2007, David Vincent Chadderton, Building Services Engineering, page 17:
glosses: A conversion factor, constant for a given kata thermometer, used to convert the measured time for a standardised drop in temperature into the environmental cooling rate.
Related terms: kata thermometer
coble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒbəl/
rhymes: -ɒbəl
Forms: form: cobles
form: cobble
Etymology: From Middle English coble, from the Cumbric equivalent of Welsh ceubal (“skiff”); ultimately from Latin caupulus.
Senses: examples: text: Its streets fan out towards the clifftops, and its sheltered North Landing harbours open-decked fishing boats, called 'cobles'.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 188, about Flamborough:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A small flat-bottomed fishing boat suitable for launching from a beach, found on the north-east coast of England and in Scotland.
Derived terms: cobleman
frondeurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frondeur
proskynesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proscynesis
Etymology: From Ancient Greek προσκύνησις (proskúnēsis).
Senses: examples: text: The participants in turn drank a toast, performed proskynesis and received a kiss from the king.
ref: 1993, AB Bosworth, Conquest and Empire, page 285:
text: Alexander, it seems, did attempt to impose proskynesis on both Greeks and Macedonians, and he aroused determined opposition, represented and articulated by Callisthenes of Olynthus.
ref: 1994, DM Lewis, John Boardman, The Cambridge Ancient History, volume IV, page 873:
text: Perhaps most notably, in 66 CE, Nero accepted a formal proskynesis from the Armenian prince Tiridates, who paid a visit to him in Rome to be crowned king of Armenia.
ref: 2008, Eirene, volume 44, page 195:
glosses: The act of bowing down before a lord or ruler, especially in ancient Persia.
examples: text: The Carolingian theologians rejected adoration of images but paid too little attention to the fine distinction between latria, the adoration due to God alone, and proskynesis, the reverence paid to the image.
ref: 1975, Karl Rahner, Encyclopedia of Theology, page 684:
text: It was proskynēsis which the worshipper at home or in church offered to an icon.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 448:
qualifier: Eastern Orthodoxy
glosses: The level of veneration properly given to God's creations rather than to God himself.
acheiropoieton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪˈkaɪɹəʊpɔɪˌiːtən/
Forms: form: acheiropoieta
Etymology: From Byzantine Greek ἀχειροποίητον (akheiropoíēton), from ἀ- (a-, “a-, the alpha privative”) + χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + ποιεῖν (poieîn, “to make”).
Senses: examples: text: These legends not only established the value of the Mandylion and the Vera Icon as authentic portraits of Christ, but also as acheiropoieta, i.e., images made without the intervention of human hands.
ref: 1995, Maurits Smeyers, “An Eyckian Vera Icon in a Bruges Book of Hours, ca. 1450 (New York, Pierpoint Morgan Library, Ms 421)”, in Werner Verbeke et al., editors, Serta Devota in Memoriam Guillelmi Lourdaux. Pars Posterior: Cultura Mediaevalis (Mediaevalia Lovaniensia; Series I, Studia XXI), Leuven: Leuven University Press, →OCLC, page 199:
text: An example of an acheiropoieton, or image made without human hands, the icon and its copies alike were believed to possess miraculous qualities that aided spiritual conversion.
ref: 2003, Gauvin A[lexander] Bailey, Between Renaissance and Baroque: Jesuit Art in Rome, 1565–1610, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 10:
text: The special nature of Orthodox icons was emphasized by the growth of a notion, much encouraged by these bitter disputes, that there was one quite exceptional class of art: acheiropoieta, images of Jesus not made by human hands, the archetype of which was the now-mysterious Mandylion given by Christ himself to King Abgar of Edessa […].
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, London: Allen Lane, ISBN 978-0-7139-9869-6; republished London: Penguin Books, 2010, ISBN 978-0-141-02189-8, page 452
qualifier: chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy
glosses: A religion icon (chiefly of Christ or the Virgin Mary) believed not to have been created by human hands; a miraculous image.
wikipedia: Edessa
Image of Edessa
Saint Catherine's Monastery
Saint Catherine, Egypt
encaustic painting
acheiropoieta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acheiropoieton
kontakion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kontakia
form: contakion
Etymology: Borrowed from Byzantine Greek κοντάκιον (kontákion).
Senses: examples: text: The liturgical form of hymn which replaced the kontakion was the canon, a set of nine hymns.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 454:
text: When awakened, Kyr Avram sits in bed and, as if out of fear, sings troparia and contakia in honor of his ancestors, when the Serbian church has declared saints.
ref: 1988, Milorad Pavić, translated by Christina Pribićević-Zorić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage, published 1989, page 31:
qualifier: Eastern Orthodoxy
glosses: A form of hymn or poem recited as a dialogue between a chanter and the choir.
kontakia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kontakion
ROTGLOL
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of rolling on the ground laughing out loud.
parallel key
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parallel keys
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A key with the same tonic as another key.
parallel keys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parallel key
relative key
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relative keys
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A key with the same key signature as another key.
relative keys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relative key
let the chips fall where they may
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lets the chips fall where they may
form: letting the chips fall where they may
form: let the chips fall where they may
form: let the chips fall where they may
Etymology: Originally a woodcutting metaphor (in full, "hew to the line and let the chips fall where they may").
Senses: examples: text: [H]e said tinny things to me, thinks like . . . "I want to talk cold turkey to you, man to man!" And he took me down to what he called his "den" in order that we might ". . . call a spade a spade, and let the chips fall where they may."
ref: 1963, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 87, in Cat's Cradle, Random House Digital, →ISBN:
text: "My agenda is to let the Council members come into their own, to be freethinkers and push what they think is right, and let the chips fall where they may," Mr. Vallone said.
ref: 1988 January 29, Alan Finder, “City Council Wakes Up but Still Lags”, in New York Times, retrieved 10 Oct 2011:
text: "We acted very directly, very swiftly, we told the truth and we'll let the investigation play out and let the chips fall where they may."
ref: 2008 May 14, Sean Scully, “Philly's Cop Beating: No Rodney King”, in Time:
synonyms: let the dice fall where they may
glosses: To allow events to unfold naturally; to accept what occurs without prejudice, worry, or regret.
Related terms: take things as they come
modelbuilding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: model building
Etymology: From model + building.
Senses: glosses: The activity of making models, miniature representations of things.
mortal combat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mortal combats
Senses: glosses: Fighting to the death; a physical fight between persons or groups wherein each side is attempting to kill the other.
glosses: Any very spirited competition between persons or groups.
tone sandhi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tone + sandhi.
Senses: examples: text: The most frequent occurrence of tone sandhi in Mandarin Chinese occurs in the third tone.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: The change of tone that occurs in some tonal languages when certain tones are pronounced successively.
neckbone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛkˌbəʊn/
ipa: /ˈnɛkˌboʊn/
Forms: form: neckbones
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English nekke bon, equivalent to neck + bone.
Senses: glosses: Any bone in the neck; often of poultry, in cooking.
neckbones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neckbone
preproperate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preproperates
form: preproperating
form: preproperated
form: preproperated
Senses: glosses: To do too soon; to hasten too much.
Related terms: preproperation
orange sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orange stick
mystick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mystick
form: most mystick
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of mystic.
Derived terms: mystickal
mystick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mysticks
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of mystic.
geographick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more geographick
form: most geographick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of geographic.
hieroglyphick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hieroglyphick
form: most hieroglyphick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of hieroglyphic.
hieroglyphick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hieroglyphicks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of hieroglyphic.
emphatick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more emphatick
form: most emphatick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of emphatic.
characteristick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more characteristick
form: most characteristick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of characteristic.
characteristick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: characteristicks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of characteristic.
dramatick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dramatick
form: most dramatick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of dramatic.
clerick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clericks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of cleric.
Gate Night
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gate Nights
Etymology: So called because the Gates of Hell supposedly opened up the night before Halloween, which would allow demons to wander towns and cause mischief. In some areas, the name refers to the mischief of lifting residential gates off their hinges and either exchanging them with other people's gates, or placing them in awkward places such as suspended in trees.
Senses: qualifier: around New York City; Connecticut; Winnipeg; Rhode Island; around New York City; Connecticut; Winnipeg; Rhode Island
glosses: A particular night, commonly the night of the 30th to the 31st of October, during which young people play pranks and do mischief in their neighborhoods.
Synonyms: list in Mischief Night
Trick Night
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Trick Nights
Senses: qualifier: around New York City; Connecticut; Rhode Island; around New York City; Connecticut; Rhode Island
glosses: A particular night, commonly the night of the 30th to the 31st of October, during which young people play pranks and do mischief in their neighborhoods.
Synonyms: list in Mischief Night
Mischief Night
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mischief Nights
Senses: glosses: A particular night during which young people play pranks and do mischief in their neighborhoods.
The night before May Day.
qualifier: originally
glosses: A particular night during which young people play pranks and do mischief in their neighborhoods.
Mostly practiced in the North West of England, Mischief night (“missie night” in Liverpool ) is the 30th of October (the night before Halloween).
glosses: A particular night during which young people play pranks and do mischief in their neighborhoods.
The night of the 30th to the 31st of October (the night before Halloween).
qualifier: Maryland; Delaware; Massachusetts; Rhode Island; Connecticut; Maryland; Delaware; Massachusetts; Rhode Island; Connecticut
Synonyms: sense: around New York City, Connecticut, Rhode Island
word: Trick Night
sense: around New York City, Connecticut, Rhode Island
word: Gate Night
sense: upstate New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont
english: especially in upstate New York, Vermont, and Bergen County, NJ
translation: especially in upstate New York, Vermont, and Bergen County, NJ
word: Cabbage Night
sense: around New York City
word: Goosey Night
sense: Chicago, Michigan, Maryland, New Jersey, coastal New England
word: Devil's Night
raw_tags: in Michigan
sense: Liverpool
word: Mizzy Night
Cabbage Night
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cabbage Nights
Etymology: * Perhaps from the use of rotten cabbages in pranks on this night.
* Perhaps because some towns used to pile all the left-over cabbage from the fields and light a bonfire on the night before Halloween.
Senses: qualifier: around New York City; Connecticut; Rhode Island; Massachusetts; and especially upstate New York and Vermont; around New York City; Connecticut; Rhode Island; Massachusetts; and especially upstate New York and Vermont
glosses: A particular night, commonly the night of the 30th to the 31st of October, during which young people play pranks and do mischief in their neighborhoods.
Synonyms: list in Mischief Night
Goosey Night
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Goosey Nights
Senses: qualifier: around New York City
glosses: A particular night, commonly the night of 30 or 31 October, during which young people play pranks and do mischief in their neighborhoods.
Synonyms: list in Mischief Night
Devil's Night
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Devil's Nights
Senses: qualifier: Chicago; Maryland; coastal New England; and especially Michigan; Chicago; Maryland; coastal New England; and especially Michigan
glosses: A particular night, commonly the night of the 30th to the 31st of October, during which young people play pranks and do mischief in their neighborhoods.
Synonyms: list in Mischief Night
nerve impulses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nerve impulse
bioch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioches
Senses: examples: text: I am 22, I am fairly slim, and I won't post a picture of my face on the internet along with pictures of me spreading my asshole you dumb fuck. So step off befo I bus a cap up in ya ass ya ponk bioch.
ref: 2000 September 18, hotl...hotmail.com, “914 Looking for a good time”, in alt.personals.gay (Usenet):
text: I had one customer playing the fruit game, (one armed bandit casino game) and it went 777 but the last 7 was up too high for her to win, so the stupid bioch gets a large magnet and tries to drag down the 7 and completely ruins the new 19 inch monitor.
ref: 2001 February 23, yAtGiRL tHeBuCkEt, “Suck My Cake”, in alt.silly.little.newsgroup (Usenet):
text: Happy New Year!!! pass me another case, ya bioches, the day is still young! Sleep?! What's that?
ref: 2002 January 1, -=Mr_B=-┊, “Happy new year”, in alt.games.quake3 (Usenet):
text: Suck this up, bioch, she thought, beaming for the camera. She hoped Amelia would choke on her supper when she saw Marc's tweets and photos. “So tell me about the funeral,” she said, nibbling on the caviar,[…]
ref: 2020 March 10, Patricia Scanlan, The Liberation of Brigid Dunne: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 23:
glosses: Alternative form of biatch.
bioches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioch
biach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biaches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of biatch.
byotch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: byotches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of biatch.
biaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biach
byotches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of byotch
dragqueen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dragqueens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of drag queen.
dragqueens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dragqueen
she-male
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: she-males
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shemale.
she-males
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of she-male
pornophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From porno- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: 1968 Quest
Fear of pornography, or 'pornophobia' as I choose to call it, is a terribly unbalancing mental condition.
1995 Read, reason, write
The Perils of Pornophobia Nadine Strossen Earning her law degree at Harvard University
2004 Unrepentant Whore
I don't want to fight my sisters, and pornophobia is not quite a recognized social ill at this point, so I just better relax.
2007 Pornology
“Pornophobic?” That's his response to my impassioned arguments about why porn is anti-feminist and misogynistic?
glosses: An aversion to pornography.
examples: 1994 Uncontrollable Bodies
Pornophobia means the fear of prostitutes.
glosses: Fear of prostitutes
Derived terms: pornophobe
pornophobic
pornophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pornophobes
Etymology: From porno- + -phobe.
Senses: examples: text: 1998 A Sexual Odyssey
Depictions of nude and seminude bodies are favorite targets of the pornophobes.
text: 2004 Unrepentant Whore
The slut radicals abhor the pornophobes.
text: 2005 Is Fashion A Woman's Right?
The ultra-libertarian and the ultra-pornophobe share one opinion: that it is almost, if not quite, impossible to distinguish between what is pornography and what isn't.
text: Larry Flynt fought against pornophobes when he took his obscenity lawsuit all the way to the Supreme Court and won!
glosses: A person opposed to or that hates pornography and sexuality in the arts
Related terms: pornophobia
pornophobic
pornophobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pornophobe
weakly interacting massive particles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weakly interacting massive particle
foul pole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foul poles
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: One of the two poles marking the area inside which a fair ball may be hit. It stands above a foul line.
pornophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɔː(ɹ)nəˈfəʊbɪk/
Forms: form: more pornophobic
form: most pornophobic
Etymology: From porno- + -phobic.
Senses: examples: text: Movements to close pornographic theaters and shops are run by a bunch of religious nutcase pornophobic censors.
text: Pornography proponents have even taken to calling their opponents “pornophobic.”
ref: 2006, Pornified:
text: I know this because I, Cindy Chupack, used to be slightly pornophobic myself.
ref: 2007, “Archived copy”, in Oprah Magazine, archived from the original on 03 Oct 2011:
text: “Pornophobic?” That's his response to my impassioned arguments about why porn is anti-feminist and misogynistic?
ref: 2007, Pornology:
glosses: Relating to or characteristic of pornophobia or pornophobes.
Related terms: pornophobe
pornophobia
foul poles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foul pole
Ellis Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Samuel Ellis, who bought the island in the late 18th century.
Senses: glosses: A 27.5-acre island in the states of New Jersey and New York where millions of immigrants and others were processed, up until the 1950s.
Derived terms: ellisize
NorCal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Norcal.
Hixkaryana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌhɪʃkæˈɹjɑːnə/
Forms: form: Hixkaryána
Senses: glosses: A Carib language of Brazil.
ketoaldehydes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ketoaldehyde
tendinopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tendinopathy
tendinitises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tendinitis
tendinitides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tendinitis
tendonitides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tendonitis
tenosynovitides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenosynovitis
desmin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desmins
Etymology: Possibly from Ancient Greek δέσμη (désmē, “bundle”) + -in
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein that is a type III intermediate filament found near the Z line in sarcomeres.
Derived terms: antidesmin
desminopathy
desmins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desmin
dicoumarol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dicoumarols
form: dicumarol
Senses: glosses: An anticoagulant that functions as a vitamin K antagonist, also used in biochemical experiments as an inhibitor of reductases.
sarcoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarcoid
cutlassfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cutlassfishes
form: cutlassfish
Etymology: From cutlass + fish.
Senses: glosses: A predatory perciform marine fish in the family Trichiuridae, with large sharp teeth and an eel-like appearance.
Hyponyms: frostfish
hairtail
scabbardfish
cutlassfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cutlassfish
damiana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Turnera diffusa, an American passifloraceous shrub used in making a traditional Mexican liqueur, and as an aphrodisiac.
examples: text: But most likely my judgement was distorted by my contempt for his acting the young buck [...] for ever waxing his moustaches and loading himself with medicaments supposed to replace the failing sap of youth, glycerophosphates, formates, nux vomica, yohimba, damiana.
ref: 1963, Xavier Herbert, Distubing Element, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 178:
text: In 1878, the firm's fluid extract of guaraná sold for $10 per pound, while[…]damiana (for the treatment of male sexual dysfunction) fetched $4.00; […].
ref: 2022, Seth Garfield, Guaraná […] , Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A preparation made from this plant.
passifloraceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From translingual Passifloraceae + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the family Passifloraceae of mostly tropical flowering plants.
sinuitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sinusitis.
schizzy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more schizzy
form: schizzier
form: most schizzy
form: schizziest
form: schizy
Etymology: From schiz- + diminutive with -y.
Senses: examples: text: But a Russian, in my observation, can go schizzy from just about anything, except from losing his job. She went schizzy. She was depressed for almost two years and still has her ups and downs.
ref: 1983, Ėduard Limonov, It's me, Eddie: a fictional memoir:
text: Typically he's schizzy or immature or homosexual, or in the exceptional cases such as you have to deal with, a total psychotic personality.
ref: 2003, Rex Miller, Iceman, page 77:
text: But, to cite an older example, not everything that schizophrenics say or think is "schizzy," and some of the things that are are not schizzy in principle, only in mode or degree of realization.
ref: 2003, Charles Goodwin, Conversation and brain damage, page 45:
glosses: schizoid, schizophrenic; crazy
Derived terms: schiziness
Damianist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Damianists
Etymology: From Damian + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A follower of Damian of Alexandria, who held heretical opinions on the doctrine of the Holy Trinity.
Damianists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Damianist
daubreelite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daubreelites
Etymology: From Daubrée + -lite, after a French mineralogist.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A sulphide of chromium observed in some meteoric irons.
daubreelites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daubreelite
decad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɛkæd/
Forms: form: decads
Etymology: Doublet of decade. By surface analysis, dec- + -ad.
Senses: examples: text: Since Averill was a decad and a half / His elder, and their parents underground
ref: 1864, Alfred Tennyson, “Aylmer’s Field”, in Enoch Arden, &c., London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 55:
glosses: Archaic form of decade (“period of ten years”).
examples: text: Plato […] extends number as far as to the decad.
ref: 1806, Aristotle, translated by Thomas Taylor, The Physics, or Physical Ausculation of Aristotle, page 167:
glosses: Archaic form of decade (“group of ten”).
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A group of ten notes from which the consonant triads may be constructed
Derived terms: heptadecad
decads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decad
decadienes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decadiene
barpersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barperson
intercolumniations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intercolumniation
debituminize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈbɪtjəmɪnaɪz/
Forms: form: debituminizes
form: debituminizing
form: debituminized
form: debituminized
Etymology: From de- + bitumen + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Use of debituminized peat for fertilizer production
ref: 1981, Charles H. Fuchsman, Potential industrial chemical utilization of Minnesota peat:
glosses: To deprive of bitumen; to remove bitumen from.
debituminizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of debituminize
debituminized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of debituminize
decaphyllous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛkəˈfɪləs/
Etymology: See deca-, phyllous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having ten leaves.
decatoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Only used in decatoic acid
Derived terms: pentadecatoic acid
deceitless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsiːtləs/
Forms: form: more deceitless
form: most deceitless
Etymology: From deceit + -less.
Senses: glosses: Free from deceit.
Derived terms: deceitlessness
Kamtschadale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kamtschadales
Senses: examples: text: The Kamtschadales frequently avail themselves, by way of regale, of a venenose species of champignon […]
ref: 1849, George Waterhouse, Conjugal Felicities and Infelicities, page 47:
glosses: Archaic form of Kamchadal.
Kamtschadales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kamtschadale
Kamchadal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kamchadals
Senses: glosses: A member of the ethnic group who are the original inhabitants of the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia.
Kamchadals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kamchadal
kelpware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: By surface analysis, kelp + ware
Senses: glosses: kelp
kelpfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kelpfishes
form: kelpfish
Etymology: From kelp + fish.
Senses: glosses: A perciform fish in the family Chironemidae, native to coastal Australia and New Zealand.
Derived terms: giant kelpfish
kelpfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kelpfish
kaique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kaiques
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of caique.
kaiques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kaique
kenogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to kenogenesis.
kenogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of caenogenesis.
kenpaullones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kenpaullone
kenoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kenosis
kerolites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kerolite
kerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kerites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κέρας (kéras, “horn”) + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A compound in which tar or asphalt combined with animal or vegetable oils is vulcanized by sulphur, the product closely resembling rubber; formerly used as an insulating material in telegraphy.