cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
landbanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "Without house-price inflation and having written down their landbanks, it is no surprise that these two companies look as if they need to raise cash," said Mark Hughes, Panmure Gordon's housebuilding sector analyst.
ref: 2009 September 22, Nick Mathiason, “Barratt and Redrow 'in £850m cash call'”, in Guardian:
glosses: plural of landbank
sympton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: But the persistence of the camps appearing along the Normandy coast is a sympton of the failure of a wider European asylum policy.
ref: 2009 September 22, Alan Travis, “There will be no 'invasion' from 'jungle camps'”, in Guardian:
glosses: Misspelling of symptom.
fourpiece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fourpieces
Etymology: From four + piece.
Senses: examples: text: The London-based fourpiece – fronted by the shaven-headed Skin, who combined the vocal range of Mariah Carey with the swagger of Michael Hutchence, alongside bassist Cass and drummer Mark Richardson – had sold 4m albums, headlined Glastonbury, and played at Nelson Mandela's 80th birthday party.
ref: 2009 September 23, Laura Barnett, “Skunk Anansie: 'We burnt out'”, in The Guardian:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A group (of musicians and/or singers) comprising four people; a quartet.
supertrawler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supertrawlers
Etymology: From super- + trawler.
Senses: examples: text: The proposition that foreigners may be depriving British workers of their cod is politically potent. […] This argument, of course, denies the long British history of overfishing and the fact that the dread Spanish supertrawlers, which are now so universally denounced, wre a British invention.
ref: 1997, Mark Kurlansky, Cod, page 209:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A very large, industrialised trawler
supertrawlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He voted against bans on supertrawlers and investing in renewables.
ref: 2015 June 30, Jason Wilson, “Libertarians aren't our allies in building a progressive Australia”, in The Guardian:
glosses: plural of supertrawler
unfulfilment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unfulfilments
Etymology: From un- + fulfilment.
Senses: examples: text: […] Brings those fearful unfulfilments, that red ravage through her zones / Whereat all creation groans.
ref: 1902, Thomas Hardy, “The Lacking Sense”, in Poems of the Past and the Present, New York: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 84:
text: Strong eyeliner game, but as a romanticisation of eternal unfulfilment and dysfunctional relationships, not a great blueprint for life.
ref: 2015 June 30, Jess Cartner-Morley, “Clueless? As if! This is the best fashion film ever made”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of unfulfillment.
white hot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of white-hot.
premetastatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-metastatic
Etymology: From pre- + metastatic.
Senses: examples: text: Since metastasis is what kills patients with breast cancer, it is, of course, generally true that the ability to detect and remove premetastatic tumors saves womenʼs lives.
ref: 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), pages 302–303:
glosses: Prior to metastasis.
phanerozoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Secular distribution of biogenic silica through the phanerozoic: comparison of silica-replaced fossils and bedded cherts at the series level .
ref: 2009 January 8, Daniel L. Rabosky, Ulf Sorhannus, “Diversity dynamics of marine planktonic diatoms across the Cenozoic”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7226, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of Phanerozoic.
macroscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macroscopes
Etymology: From macro- + -scope.
Senses: examples: text: Ratzlaff, E. H. & Grinvald, A. A tandem-lens epifluorescence macroscope: hundred-fold brightness advantage for wide-field imaging .
ref: 2008 January 22, Aniruddha Das Yevgeniy B. Sirotin, “Anticipatory haemodynamic signals in sensory cortex not predicted by local neuronal activity”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7228, →DOI:
glosses: A wide-field imaging device
Derived terms: cryomacroscope
photomacroscope
aeroallergy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aeroallergies
Etymology: From aero- + allergy.
Senses: examples: text: Der p 2-mediated facilitation of TLR4 signalling under conditions of very low ambient LPS exposure, those associated with increasing rates of atopy and aeroallergy, may thus shift the LPS-response curve into the T H 2-inducing range.
ref: 2008 December 7, Aurelien Trompette et al., “Allergenicity resulting from functional mimicry of a Toll-like receptor complex protein”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7229, →DOI, pages 585–588:
glosses: An allergy to an airborne allergen
Related terms: aeroallergen
chlorines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chlorine (atoms of chlorine)
parasha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parashas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of parashah.
transprimers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Plasmids with etpA-mapped, non-redundant insertions were digested with PmeI, and re-ligated to remove most of the transprimers.
ref: 2008 December 7, Koushik Roy et al., “Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli EtpA mediates adhesion between flagella and host cells”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7229, →DOI, pages 594–598:
glosses: plural of transprimer
transprimer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transprimers
Etymology: From trans- + primer.
Senses: glosses: A commercial transposon.
trifluoromethylphenyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trifluoromethylphenyls
Etymology: From trifluoromethyl + phenyl.
Senses: examples: text: n-Type organic field-effect transistors with very high electron mobility based on thiazole oligomers with trifluoromethylphenyl groups .
ref: 2009 January 21, He Yan et al., “A high-mobility electron-transporting polymer for printed transistors”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7230, →DOI, pages 679–686:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of three isomeric trifluoromethyl derivatives of the phenyl radical
podcase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: podcases
Etymology: From pod + case.
Senses: examples: text: In some species, this selective pressure was not local but species-wide; evolution in maize, for example, turned the hard podcase of teosinte into easily milled, but still glumed, pod-corns and then into naked-grained cobs 41, 42 .
ref: 2009 February 11, Dorian Q. Fuller Michael D. Purugganan, “The nature of selection during plant domestication”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7231, →DOI, pages 843–848:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The case of a pod
mapholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mapholders
Etymology: From map + holder.
Senses: glosses: A transparent holder for a map (for use in wet weather etc).
mapholders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: And now thousands of funny people with brightly coloured outdoor clothing and maps in plastic mapholders follow in their footsteps, ticking them off.
ref: 2009 September 21, Sam Wollaston, “Merlin and Trinity”, in Guardian:
glosses: plural of mapholder
scatalogical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: But his paint-bombing bombardment and this train are generative, fecund gestures, as well as scatalogical.
ref: 2009 September 21, Adrian Searle, “Anish Kapoor: A very fine mess”, in Guardian:
glosses: Misspelling of scatological.
exco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excos
Etymology: From the initial syllables.
Senses: examples: text: Debates within the Budget Council were described as taking place largely within the framework of treasury decisions but the implications of this were not lost on the provincial excos […]
ref: 2001, Norman Levy, Chris Tapscott, Intergovernmental Relations in South Africa:
text: Blatter said Asia and Africa were not democratically represented on the exco he has chaired as president since 1998.
ref: 2015 June 27, “Sepp Blatter says decision to leave Fifa was ‘liberating’”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Executive committee or council.
selectorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Senses: examples: text: No great selectorial issues have been decided.
ref: 2015 June 27, Vic Marks, “Australia’s Mitchell Marsh punishes Kent bowlers to disturb the peace”, in The Guardian:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Relating to selection.
nightery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nighteries
Etymology: From night + -ery.
Senses: glosses: A night club, disco or similar establishment open at night
nighteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Things would soon become bigger than the local nighteries.
ref: 2015 July 1, Tim Jonze, “Cunard Yanks: the sailors who taught Britain how to rock'n'roll”, in The Guardian:
glosses: plural of nightery
serifless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From serif + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Zapf called it a “serifless roman”.
ref: 2015 July 1, “Hermann Zapf”, in The Guardian:
glosses: sans serif
penetratively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more penetratively
form: most penetratively
Etymology: From penetrative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a penetrating manner.
headtorch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headtorches
form: head torch
form: head-torch
Etymology: From head + torch.
Senses: examples: text: Unless you’re glamping – which, let’s face it, bears little relation to camping bar the fact that the two words rhyme – there are a few bits of essential kit you’ll need: sleeping bag and mat, tent, headtorch and suncream.
ref: 2015 July 9, Tess Riley, “From wild camping to festivals: have a sustainable student summer”, in The Guardian:
text: Of course, the wires and terminals are not colour-coded. Both are black and neither had labels. And the technicians were working at night with just their headtorches for illumination.
ref: 2023 November 15, Philip Haigh, “Near-miss reveals why proper testing is absolutely critical”, in RAIL, number 996, page 52:
glosses: A torch (flashlight) worn on the head, thus leaving the hands free.
screengrabbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Before the cake, a malformed gateau would have seemed fine, like kittens falling off tables (only small tables, so they don’t get hurt) or people screengrabbing iPhone autocorrects that cause them to accidentally send rude texts to their mum.
ref: 2015 July 9, Rebecca Nicholson, “Frozen’s Princess Elsa and the fairytale of the plucky little cake that could”, in The Guardian:
glosses: present participle and gerund of screengrab
smoothify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smoothifies
form: smoothifying
form: smoothified
form: smoothified
Etymology: From smoothie + -ify.
Senses: glosses: To convert (fruit, vegetables, etc.) into a smoothie.
smoothify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smoothifies
form: smoothifying
form: smoothified
form: smoothified
Etymology: From smooth + -ify.
Senses: glosses: To make smooth.
smoothified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of smoothify
smoothified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: But then it became famous – really, really famous – as smoothified liquid.
ref: 2015 July 9, Henrietta Clancy, “Dry it, freeze it, spice it: inspired ideas to reboot your fruit”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Converted into a smoothie
bignoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Johnson et al. conclude, then, that tapetails, bignoses and whalefishes are in fact larvae, males and females of members of the family Cetomimidae.
ref: 2009 February 18, Rory Howlett, “TaxonomyThree into one will go”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7232, →DOI:
glosses: plural of bignose
shorth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shorths
Etymology: Abbreviation of "shortest half"
Senses: examples: text: To estimate the mode of a (distance) distribution, we used the midpoint of the shorth (the shortest interval that covers half the values).
ref: 2009 January 25, Wu Wei Zhenyu Xu et al., “Bidirectional promoters generate pervasive transcription in yeast”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7232, →DOI, pages 1033–1037:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: The shortest interval containing a specified fraction (typically a half) of a distribution
eubrachythoracid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eubrachythoracids
Senses: examples: text: The presence of embryos in the arthrodire Incisoscutum indicate that internal fertilization was the main reproductive mode for this species, and that viviparity could have evolved in other eubrachythoracid arthrodires.
ref: 2009 February 26, John A. Long et al., “Devonian arthrodire embryos and the origin of internal fertilization in vertebrates”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7233, →DOI, pages 1124–1127:
glosses: Any arthrodire of the clade Eubrachythoraci
kyrs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Denton, G. H., Broecker, W. S. & Alley, R. B. The mystery interval 17.5 to 14.5 kyrs ago .
ref: 2009 February 26, Stephen Barker et al., “Interhemispheric Atlantic seesaw response during the last deglaciation”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7233, →DOI, pages 1097–1102:
glosses: plural of kyr
preorbitals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: PRO, left and right preorbitals; r.
ref: 2009 February 26, John A. Long et al., “Devonian arthrodire embryos and the origin of internal fertilization in vertebrates”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7233, →DOI, pages 1124–1127:
glosses: plural of preorbital
rectifiability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rectify + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: We characterize the rectifiability of #92;partial#92;Omega in terms of the absolute continuity of surface measure with respect to harmonic measure.
ref: 2015, Murat Akman, Matthew Badger, Steve Hofmann, José María Martell, “Rectifiability and elliptic measures on 1-sided NTA domains with Ahlfors-David regular boundaries”, in arXiv:
glosses: The quality or state of being rectifiable.
roadbook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roadbooks
Etymology: From road + book.
Senses: examples: text: "For a few days, Michel wasn't happy with the roadbook.
ref: 2009 January 16, AFP, “'I didn't see danger spot' - Carlos Sainz”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 17 Jan 2009:
glosses: A diagrammatic book describing a rally route.
examples: text: […] who fancy that they know a country from the descriptions of these who have run through it with a road-book and a dictionary, and return home to publish their tour.
ref: 1818, The Edinburgh Review, volume 29, page 454:
glosses: A guidebook for travellers.
blindfoldee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blindfoldees
Etymology: From blindfold + -ee.
Senses: glosses: A person who is blindfolded.
blindfoldees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blindfoldee
legside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From leg + -side.
Senses: examples: text: Captain Simon Katich (35 off 26) swiped three legside sixes to keep the scoreboard ticking along until he was dismissed right at the halfway point of the innings to leave NSW at 5-67.
ref: 2009 January 17, AAP, “NSW earn top spot and home final after win over Victoria”, in Herald Sun:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: On the leg side
blindfolder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blindfolders
Etymology: From blindfold + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or an object which, blindfolds someone.
blindfolders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blindfolder
narkiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From narky + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: "It's not your typical reality format which encourages narkiness," she says.
ref: 2009 January 18, Luke Dennehy, “Grenier to return to Oz”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 19 Jan 2009:
glosses: Narky behaviour.
tour buses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tour bus
non-sense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: At the core of our study is the way each approach can illuminate the process of sense-making by its opposite, which we call "non-sense".
ref: 1998, David Grant, Tom W Keenoy, Cliff Oswick, Discourse and Organization:
text: something about this passage may have actually affected me, which I know doesn't exactly follow, especially since that would imply something in it really does make sense, and I just got finished calling it non-sense.
ref: 2000, Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves, page 25:
text: The non-sense syllable HOX is remembered as COCK and the non-sense syllable GAH is remembered as GOAT.
ref: 2004, M. Rajamanickam, Experimental Psychology With Advanced Experiments:
glosses: Alternative spelling of nonsense.
formy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of formée.
go dark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes dark
form: going dark
form: went dark
form: gone dark
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To cease operation or shut down, often for purposes of concealment.
examples: text: “But this third cell,” Butler said, “they went dark. No one had heard from them in months. That is, until the bombs started going off last week.”
ref: 2009, Vince Flynn, Pursuit of Honor: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, page 204:
text: More systems have gone dark as their comm buoys were destroyed, and millions more batarians, trapped on their planets, sit waiting for the Reapers.
ref: 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: The Fall of Khar'shan Codex entry:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To cease communications.
went dark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go dark
macrodasyidan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrodasyidans
Etymology: Macrodasyida + -an
Senses: examples: text: In sandy samples from Thailand, we found numerous macrodasyidan gastrotrichs belonging to an undescribed species of difficult taxonomic affiliation.
ref: 2015 July 9, “An Integrated Morphological and Molecular Approach to the Description and Systematisation of a Novel Genus and Species of Macrodasyida (Gastrotricha)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any gastrotrich organism in the order Macrodasyida.
macrodasyidans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrodasyidan
systematisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: systematisations
Etymology: From systematise + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: With the exception of the Great Eastern Line, these embody the most complete systematisation of steam or diesel-operated main line services that has yet taken place in the country.
ref: 1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 590:
text: The abundance and original nature of the specimens prompted us to undertake a deep survey of both morphological and molecular traits aiming at a reliable systematisation of the new taxon.
ref: 2015 July 9, “An Integrated Morphological and Molecular Approach to the Description and Systematisation of a Novel Genus and Species of Macrodasyida (Gastrotricha)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of systematization.
pselaphine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pselaphines
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, chemically based protection for life with ants has independently evolved in a broad range of myrmecophilous invertebrates (e.g., pselaphine rove beetles [3 ] ant nest beetles [4 ,5 ], lycaenid butterflies [6 ], and spiders [7 ]).
ref: 2015 July 9, “The Pied Piper: A Parasitic Beetle’s Melodies Modulate Ant Behaviours”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any beetle in the subfamily Pselaphinae.
Synonyms: sense: beetle in Pselaphinae
word: short-winged mold beetle
pselaphines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pselaphine
centrosaurines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centrosaurine
chasmosaurines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chasmosaurine
coalify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coalifies
form: coalifying
form: coalified
form: coalified
Etymology: From coal + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: The fossils are produced from an approximately 40 cm thick, organic-fragment-rich clayey, sandy mudstone that is rich in coalified root traces, both horizontal and vertical, suggesting a saturated or water-logged anoxic deposit.
ref: 2015 July 9, “Cranial Anatomy of Wendiceratops pinhornensis gen. et sp. nov., a Centrosaurine Ceratopsid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Oldman Formation (Campanian), Alberta, Canada, and the Evolution of Ceratopsid Nasal Ornamentation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: To change into coal.
raw_tags: of a fossil
Related terms: word: charcoalize
word: coalification
coalified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coalify
aurignacoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Finally, he recalled that, in 1963, 11 blades “with more or less typical aurignacoid traits” were collected in layer D, and provides as corroborating illustrations nos. 9–10 of our Fig 4 .
ref: 2015 July 9, “Analysis of Site Formation and Assemblage Integrity Does Not Support Attribution of the Uluzzian to Modern Humans at Grotta del Cavallo”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Aurignacians.
cyclopsam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclopsams
Senses: examples: text: For example, the rhythmically interlaminated claystone with silt/sandstone facies in AND-1B are consistent with previously described cyclopsam and cyclopel facies from modern temperate to subpolar glacimarine environments in Alaska and the Greenland margin, where they are deposited in quiet-water basins by suspension settling from meltwater plumes 35, 36 .
ref: 2009 March 19, T. Naish et al., “Obliquity-paced Pliocene West Antarctic ice sheet oscillations”, in Nature, volume 458, number 7236, →DOI, pages 322–328:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternate layers of sedimentary sand and mud formed in a glaciomarine environment
Related terms: cyclopel
semimature
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English semimature, semymature, from Latin semimātūrus (“half-ripe”), equivalent to semi- + mature.
Senses: examples: text: Bayry, J., Triebel, F., Kaveri, S. V. & Tough, D. F. Human dendritic cells acquire a semimature phenotype and lymph node homing potential through interaction with CD4 + CD25 + regulatory T cells .
ref: 2009 August 27, Vishukumar Aimanianda et al., “Surface hydrophobin prevents immune recognition of airborne fungal spores”, in Nature, volume 460, number 7259, →DOI, pages 1117–1121:
glosses: Partially mature
generationwide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From generation + -wide.
Senses: examples: text: Iraq may be turning into a quagmire and civil war like Vietnam, but the current war has not inspired talk of generationwide rebellion (perhaps because there’s no draft to pit young against old) or any colorful, psychedelically defiant counterculture.
ref: 2007 January 2, Jon Pareles, “Pop Music and the War: The Sound of Resignation”, in New York Times:
glosses: Affecting an entire generation
shapefile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shapefiles
Etymology: From shape + file.
Senses: examples: text: Any shapefiles created during analysis will be created in decimal degrees.
ref: 1996, ArcView Spatial Analyst, page 16:
topics: computing
engineering
geography
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer file in the Shapefile format, used in geographic information systems.
shapefiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shapefile
cyclone sandwich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclone sandwiches
Senses: glosses: The occurrence of two or more cyclones converging over a small region of land; a compact tornado family (or more generally, cyclone family).
dental pelican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dental pelicans
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A set of forceps used to force overcrowded teeth apart.
dental pelicans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dental pelican
alodial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of allodial.
specialing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of special
specialling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of special
specialed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of special
clearwater
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From clear + water.
Senses: examples: text: These species largely inhabit whitewater and clearwater rivers (river classifications from Sioli) within the Amazon Basin, with rare reports in tannic blackwater rivers.
ref: 2015 July 9, “Diverse Early Life-History Strategies in Migratory Amazonian Catfish: Implications for Conservation and Management”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having relatively clear water, free of large quantities of mud or tannin.
raw_tags: of a stream
Synonyms: bluewater
Coordinate terms: blackwater
whitewater
specialled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of special
heshe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heshes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of he-she.
transvestophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transvestophiles
Senses: glosses: One who is sexually aroused by transvestism.
Related terms: transvestophilia
gynemimetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gynemimetics
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γυνή (gunḗ, “female”) + μῑμητικός (mīmētikós, “imitative”); equivalent to gyne- + mimetic. Literally “female mimic”. First put forward in a 1984 article by sexologists John Money and Malgorzata Lamacz.
Senses: glosses: A transfeminine individual or trans woman who has not had sex reassignment surgery.
gynemimetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γυνή (gunḗ, “female”) + μῑμητικός (mīmētikós, “imitative”); equivalent to gyne- + mimetic. Literally “female mimic”. First put forward in a 1984 article by sexologists John Money and Malgorzata Lamacz.
Senses: examples: text: In most large cities of the West there exists an unnamed gynemimetic community that corresponds to the social institution of hijras in India and xanith in Oman.
ref: 1984, John Money, Margaret Lamaczab, “Gynemimesis and gynemimetophilia: Individual and cross-cultural manifestations of a gender-coping strategy hitherto unnamed”, in Comprehensive Psychiatry, volume 25, number 4, pages 392–403:
glosses: Transfeminine.
Related terms: gynemimesis
gynemimetophilia
andromimetic
andromimesis
transgender
trans woman
gynemimesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gyne- + mimesis. Literally “female imitation”. First put forward in a 1984 article by sexologists John Money and Malgorzata Lamacz.
Senses: examples: text: Gynemimesis is a subtype of gender transposition or gender dysphoria in which a person with male anatomy and morphology lives in society as a woman without genital sex-reassignment surgery, and with or without taking female sex-hormonal therapy. The lover of such a person is a gynemimetophile. The corresponding terms that apply to the female are andromimesis and andromimetophile.
ref: 1984, John Money, Margaret Lamaczab, “Gynemimesis and gynemimetophilia: Individual and cross-cultural manifestations of a gender-coping strategy hitherto unnamed”, in Comprehensive Psychiatry, volume 25, number 4, pages 392–403:
glosses: The state of being a transfeminine individual, or trans woman, who has not had sex reassignment surgery.
wikipedia: John Money
Malgorzata Lamacz
Related terms: gynemimetic
gynemimetophilia
andromimetic
andromimesis
transgender
trans woman
andromimesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From andro- + mimesis. Literally “male imitation”. First put forward in a 1984 article by sexologists John Money and Malgorzata Lamacz.
Senses: examples: text: Gynemimesis is a subtype of gender transposition or gender dysphoria in which a person with male anatomy and morphology lives in society as a woman without genital sex-reassignment surgery, and with or without taking female sex-hormonal therapy. The lover of such a person is a gynemimetophile. The corresponding terms that apply to the female are andromimesis and andromimetophile.
ref: 1984, John Money, Margaret Lamaczab, “Gynemimesis and gynemimetophilia: Individual and cross-cultural manifestations of a gender-coping strategy hitherto unnamed”, in Comprehensive Psychiatry, volume 25, number 4, pages 392–403:
glosses: The state of being transmasculine or a trans man.
wikipedia: John Money
Malgorzata Lamacz
Related terms: andromimetic
gynemimesis
gynemimetophilia
transgender
andromimetophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From andromimetic + -philia.
Senses: glosses: An attraction to trans men or to females who look and act like men (andromimetics).
pull-upped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pull-up
pull-upping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pull-up
go narrow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes narrow
form: going narrow
form: went narrow
form: gone narrow
Senses: examples: text: The Common Mind. Philip Petitt. 1996.
this should not be regarded as a good reason for going narrow.
text: 2007, Beyond Buzz. Lois Kelly. Pg. 101.
Going narrow doesn't imply that we don't understand all the issues
text: It's interesting to note that as you “go narrow“ along one of these dimensions
ref: 2010, Patrick Viguerie, Sven Smit, Mehrdad Baghai., Granularity:
text: I used to be impressed by a drummer liking what I did, so I pretty much only got a drum perspective, but I've gone wide and I've gone narrow.
ref: 2013, Bobby Owsinsky, The Mixing Engineer's Handbook:
glosses: To focus on one thing, person, topic or aspect of a situation.
examples: text: The change between futures and spot prices will either go wide -- expand or diminish -- go narrow
ref: Hedging Commodities: A practical guide to hedging strategies with futures ... Slobodan Jovanovic. Pg. 92
glosses: To change infrequently.
raw_tags: of a price
examples: text: Going wide to fit it all in will emphasize the foreground at the expense of the background; going narrow with a long lens will preclude the coloured 'jobbies' clinging to the cliff top that I'm trying not to tread on.
ref: 2013, David Noton., The Vision:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: To use a narrow-angle lens to take one or more photographs.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, narrow.
goes narrow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go narrow
going narrow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go narrow
went narrow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go narrow
gone narrow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go narrow
gone wide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go wide
went wide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go wide
going wide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: He finds going wide with his reading choices gives him a much-needed break from job-related stress.
ref: 2011, Angela Carstensen., Outstanding Books for the College Bound:
text: In the language of motion-picture distribution, going wide means launching a movie in thousands of theaters nationwide all on the same day.
ref: 2004. Real-World Digital Video Pete Shaner, Gerald E. Jones. Pg. 355
text: 2013. Canadian Public Administration in the 21st Century. Charles Conteh, Ian Roberge. pg 61.
Going wide with the scope of engagement, however, is only half of the equation behind fostering strong citizen engagement.
glosses: present participle and gerund of go wide
goes wide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go wide
go wide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes wide
form: going wide
form: went wide
form: gone wide
Senses: examples: 1998, Sport Diver. Vol. 6, No. 6. Pg. 36.
First and foremost, you'll need a wide-angle lens for going wide on your dive.
2004. Digital Photography Bible. Dan Simon. Pg. 48.
You need to go wide just to fit things in.
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: To use a wide-angle lens to take one or more photographs.
examples: text: The change between futures and spot prices will either go wide -- expand or diminish -- go narrow
ref: Hedging Commodities: A practical guide to hedging strategies with futures ... Slobodan Jovanovic. Pg. 92
glosses: To change frequently.
raw_tags: of a price
examples: text: Then I saw we were not growing deep because we were not going wide.
ref: 2003, Paul Wilkes, Marty Minchin., Best Practices From America's Best Churches:
text: I used to be impressed by a drummer liking what I did, so I pretty much only got a drum perspective, but I've gone wide and I've gone narrow.
ref: 2013, Bobby Owsinsky, The Mixing Engineer's Handbook:
text: One way to increase your chances of getting clicks, without bidding over your budget, is to go wide in your keyword niche.
ref: 2005, Boris Mordkovich, Eugene Mordkovich., Pay-per-click Search Engine Marketing Handbook:
glosses: To spread one's attention from a narrow focus to a more diverse one.
narrow-angle lens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narrow-angle lenses
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A telephoto lens
narrow-angle lenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of narrow-angle lens
telephoto lenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telephoto lens
bandwagoner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bandwagoners
Etymology: From bandwagon + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] a lonely figure was pointed out by a one-time machine follower, whose efforts to get aboard the "bandwagon" were pathetic. "Not a man has spoken to him in two hours," announced the would-be bandwagoner feverishly.
ref: 1911, Franklin Hichborn, Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1911, page 21:
text: Accepting the accomplishments on this album of diet club music perhaps requires a suspension of distaste for bandwagoners and carpetbaggers.
ref: 2015 July 8, Jon Caramanica, “Review: On ‘Communion,’ Years & Years Turns the Familiar Into Something of Its Own”, in New York Times:
glosses: Someone who supports or participates in something only because it is popular or successful.
Synonyms: bandwagoneer
Related terms: bandwagoning
bandwagoners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bandwagoner
estuarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛs.tjʊˈɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌɛs.t͡ʃʊˈ-/
ipa: /ˌɛs.t͡ʃuˈɛɹi.ən/
ipa: [ˌɛs.t͡ʃəˈwɛɹi.ən]
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: more estuarian
form: most estuarian
Etymology: From estuary + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: We would expect estuarian signatures to fall between the 87 Sr/ 86 Sr signature of the Amazon mouth and the global marine signature except very near the mouth of the Tocantins.
ref: 2015 July 9, “Diverse Early Life-History Strategies in Migratory Amazonian Catfish: Implications for Conservation and Management”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Related to or characteristic of an estuary.
Synonyms: estuarine
passed off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pass off
double penetrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: double penetrates
form: double penetrating
form: double penetrated
form: double penetrated
form: double-penetrate
Etymology: Back-formation from double penetration.
Senses: examples: text: However, his fantasy is to double penetrate her.
ref: 2014, J.A. Landry., Eaves Drop:
glosses: To sexually penetrate someone simultaneously in one or more orifices.
double penetrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of double penetrate
double penetrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of double penetrate
double penetrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of double penetrate
antennation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æntɪˈneɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: antennations
Etymology: From antennate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: Soldiers’ stridulations elicited a smaller amount of antennations, but not statistically different from those elicited by Paussus favieri single pulses or worker stridulations.
ref: 2015 July 9, “The Pied Piper: A Parasitic Beetle’s Melodies Modulate Ant Behaviours”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: An act of antennating, or touching the antennae to another insect.
raw_tags: of an insect
antennations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antennation
double-penetrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of double penetrate.
antennates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of antennate
antennating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of antennate
antennated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of antennate
antennated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Possessing at least one antenna.
antiguru
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiguru
form: most antiguru
Etymology: From anti- + guru.
Senses: examples: text: Paranoid behavior, too, is often seen in the manifestation of hostility toward such tales, when the listener thinks that he or she is being challenged by what sounds like an antiguru story.
ref: 1978, Human Nature - Volume 1, Issues 1-6, page 287:
glosses: Hostile to gurus, or to a specific guru.
antiguru
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antigurus
Etymology: From anti- + guru.
Senses: examples: text: He styles himself the antiguru, the anti-Martha Stewart, the anti-Rachael Ray. And his is the war to end all wars.
ref: 2007 January 4, Virginia Heffernan, “Stepping Back From the Ledge of the Overly Appointed Life”, in New York Times:
glosses: Someone who is or attempts to be the opposite of a guru.
antigurus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiguru
pushes under
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of push under
pushing under
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of push under
pushed under
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of push under
colours up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of colour up
colouring up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of colour up
coloured up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of colour up
ticked away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tick away
ticking away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tick away
ticks away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tick away
day of days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: days of days
Senses: examples: text: "It is a day of days," she said, as I approached; "a day of all days either to live or die. . . . I am dying, yet shall I live."
ref: 1850, Edgar Allan Poe, Morella:
text: At last came the day of days, my release.
ref: 1907, Jack London, The Pen: Long Days in a County Penitentiary:
text: It was a day of days for California railbirds. Not only was it the day of the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap, world's richest horse race, but this was the now-or-never race for doughty old Seabiscuit, darling of U. S. racing fans, Cinderella of the turf.
ref: 1940 March 11, “Sport: Four Hundred Grand”, in Time, retrieved 09 Jul 2015:
text: Super Saturday has been the centerpiece of the United States Open for nearly three decades. But this day of days is heading toward a multimillion-dollar extreme makeover.
ref: 2012 September 8, George Vecsey, “Tennis: Rain and Rest Days Spell the End of Super Saturday”, in New York Times, retrieved 09 Jul 2015:
glosses: A particularly noteworthy day; the day on which a milestone or especially memorable event occurs.
examples: text: The residents skirting the line of the Harlem Railroad as far as Croton Falls, were not a little annoyed, last Sunday, by numerous cheap excursion trains. . . . [W]e doubt whether the law gave being to a great corporation for the purpose of tempting men from their homes on the Day of days.
ref: 1863 June 7, “To the Editor: Sunday Railway Excursions”, in New York Times, retrieved 09 Jul 2015:
text: To be sure, Christians celebrate the Resurrection of Christ every Sunday, but there is a special place for the celebration we call Easter. It should be approached as the Day of Days.
ref: 2009, Charles G. Fuller, Give Him Time, →ISBN, page 107:
topics: Christianity
glosses: Sunday, especially Easter Sunday.
Synonyms: red-letter day
prelitter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prelitters
form: prelittering
form: prelittered
form: prelittered
Etymology: From pre- + litter.
Senses: examples: text: When stores were prelittered with 140 marked handbills, the littering rate increased, but only to 5%.
ref: 2012, Thomas A. Heberlein, Navigating Environmental Attitudes, page 98:
glosses: To litter in (a place) in advance.
prelittered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prelitter
prelittering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prelitter
prelitters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prelitter
Einsteinian relativity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Einsteinian Relativity
Senses: glosses: Synonym of relativity (either Albert Einstein's special relativity or general relativity)
synonyms: word: relativity
extra: either Albert Einstein's special relativity or general relativity
riparians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of riparian
riparianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From riparian + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The result was a string of decisions that further established riparianism as a rule of law.
ref: 1993, Mary Catherine Miller, Flooding the Courtrooms: Law and Water in the Far West, →ISBN, page 180:
topics: law
glosses: A doctrine of riparian rights, based on the principle that the owners of riparian land had the right to remove reasonable amounts of water from the river, but others did not.
overgenerates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overgenerate
overgenerating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overgenerate
overgenerated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overgenerate
nomically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more nomically
form: most nomically
Etymology: From nomic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: In such a universe, a dynamic shift may well be nomically possible in a broad sense—in the sense that it is compatible with Newton’s first, second, and third laws.
ref: 2007 October 30, Gabriele Contessa, “A Note on the Nomic Possibility of a Dynamic Shift”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, →DOI:
glosses: In a nomic way or respect.
twins paradox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twins paradoxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of twin paradox.
introspectable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more introspectable
form: most introspectable
Etymology: From introspect + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The objection begins with the idea that the conscious −a/unconscious boundary is not introspectable, and concludes that there is no reason to suppose that that boundary is not vague.
ref: 2007 November 24, Michael V. Antony, “Are Our Concepts”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, →DOI:
glosses: Able to be understood by introspecting.
Day of Days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of day of days.
disjunctivitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disjunctive + -itis, by analogy with conjunctivitis.
Senses: examples: text: The following are some examples of educational disjunctivitis that have curtailed the supply of teachers and interfered with their appropriate preparation and effective utilization.
ref: 1972, Adeniji Adaralegbe, Nigeria Educational Research Council, A philosophy for Nigerian education: proceedings, page 92:
text: Secondly, our own integrated analysis, unlike the one suggested above, does not suffer from disjunctivitis.
ref: 2007 October 20, Toby Handfield, Charles R. Twardy, Kevin B. Korb, Graham Oppy, “The Metaphysics of Causal Models”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, →DOI:
glosses: Excessive disjointedness.
deliberational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deliberational
form: most deliberational
Etymology: From deliberation + -al.
Senses: examples: text: I advocate being a deliberational causal decision theorist.
ref: 2007 November 21, Frank Arntzenius, “No Regrets, or: Edith Piaf Revamps Decision Theory”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, →DOI:
glosses: Related to deliberation.
substantivalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: substantivalisms
Etymology: From substantival + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Several philosophers of science have argued that the general theory of relativity actually supports spacetime substantivalism (if not separate spatial and temporal substantivalisms) since it allows solutions consisting of nothing but a differentiable manifold with metric tensor field […]
ref: 1994, John Stachel, edited by John Earman, Allen Janis, and Gerald J. Massey, Philosophical Problems of the Internal and External Worlds, →ISBN, page 143:
text: In it, Clarke defends on behalf of Newton a form of substantivalism according to which (absolute) space exists independently of matter and is as real as matter.
ref: 2007 October 30, Gabriele Contessa, “A Note on the Nomic Possibility of a Dynamic Shift”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, →DOI:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The doctrine that space and time have an existence independent of physical things.
substantivalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of substantivalism