cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
zebra striping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Rollover techniques, for example, once required JavaScript, but have been possible with CSS for many years now. The same thing is true of table-row zebra striping, which until recently could only be achieved by using additional markup on tr elements, or by using JavaScript to dynamically add this markup. […] One of the most common ways of styling data tables, both in print and on the web, is to alternate the background colors of rows of data—a technique sometimes referred to as zebra striping. Typically, zebra stripes are implemented in HTML and CSS by applying a class such as odd or even to every other row in the HTML markup, then using a class selector to apply a background color to odd, even, or both classes of row.
ref: 2009 December, John Allsopp, Developing with Web Standards, New Riders Press, →ISBN:
text: Listing 10.4. Zebra Striping Function […] We again used the autocomplete search form application to illustrate how to apply Ajax methods to the codebase. We then moved on to extending libraries through plug-in development and used a zebra striping function as an example.
ref: 2012 July, Tim Wright, Learning JavaScript: A Hands-On Guide to the Fundamentals of Modern JavaScript, Addison-Wesley, →ISBN:
text: When you have to present a large amount of data, it’s very important to preserve readability. Zebra striping is the method of alternating the color of rows in a table. This method has been used in print for many years and only recently have web designers been trying to spread its use on the Web. […] In this solution, we provide an example that shows you how you can create a zebra-striped table by setting different colors for odd and even rows of the table.
ref: 2012 August, Marco Casario, Nathalie Wormser, Dan Saltzman, Anselm Bradford, Jonathan Reid, Francesco Improta, Aaron Congleton, “Chapter 5: Tables and Lists”, in CSS3 Solutions: Essential Techniques for CSS3 Developers, Friends of ED, →ISBN, Solution 5-1: Zebra-striping table rows, page 99:
glosses: The alternation of plain and coloured backgrounds to aid readability where a document contains a table with rows of data or similar.
glosses: The practice of alternating between drinking an alcoholic beverage and drinking a non-alcoholic one.
Related terms: zebra crossing
zebra marking
judgeful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more judgeful
form: most judgeful
Etymology: From judge + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Making a judgment; discerning; evaluating.
hooshtah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hooshta.
liliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Shaped like a lily flower.
ciliolate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪl.i.ə.lət/
Etymology: Compare taxonomic Latin ciliolatus.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: covered in cilia (small hairs)
achilid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: achilids
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of planthoppers in the family Achilidae.
basestealers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basestealer
multiframe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + frame.
Senses: glosses: Involving or composed of multiple frames.
gladed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: containing, or composed of, glades
lirulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lirula
multilineality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being multilineal.
multilineally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From multilineal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a multilineal manner.
monumentalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to monumentalism
historic rhyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: historic rhymes
Etymology: From historic + rhyme.
Senses: glosses: Rhymes that were full rhymes in an older stage of the language, but have since become eye rhymes owing to sound changes. Historic rhymes are used by historical linguists to reconstruct the phonology of old languages.
historic rhymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of historic rhyme
Kingdom of Iceland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Iceland from 1918 to 1944.
pillow bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pillow bags
Senses: synonyms: pillow pouch
glosses: A pouch-like container flattened and sealed at both ends, used for packaging food etc.
pillow pouch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pillow pouches
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pillow bag.
synonyms: word: pillow bag
pillow bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pillow bag
pillow pouches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pillow pouch
law agent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: law agents
Senses: qualifier: Scots law
glosses: A solicitor, certified by the Law Society of Scotland.
law agents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of law agent
FNAF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of FNaF.
chefery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cheffery (“culinary skill”).
old stager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: old stagers
Senses: examples: text: “There'll be no holding you,” continued the old stager, grimly.
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 32:
text: Thank goodness for 'old stagers' such as BBC veteran journalist Paul Clifton, who saw the truth behind the spin.
ref: 2023 August 9, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Disinterested and dishonest”, in RAIL, number 989, page 3:
synonyms: old timer
old hand
glosses: A veteran; an experienced person.
old stagers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of old stager
gray-headed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having gray hair, especially from age
MEnvSci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of master of environmental science.
candlelighting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: candlelightings
Etymology: From candle + lighting.
Senses: glosses: The lighting of a candle, especially as part of a ceremony
glosses: The specific time eighteen minutes before sundown when Shabbat or holiday candles are supposed to be lit, according to halacha.
candlelightings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of candlelighting
peep of day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peeps of day
form: peep o' day
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, the whole chapter of Life in London has been so repeatedly perused by your Majesty, in such a variety of shapes, from the elegant A. the refined B. the polite C. the lively D. the eloquent E. the honest F. the stately G. the peep-o'day H. the tasteful I. the manly J. the good K. the noble L. the stylish M. the brave N. the liberal O. the proud P. the long-headed Q. the animated R. the witty S. the flash T. the knowing U. the honourable V. the consummate W. the funny X. the musical Y. and the poetical Z. that it would only be a waste of your Majesty's valuable time to expatiate further upon this subject.
ref: 1821 July 19, Pierce Egan, “Dedication to His Most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth”, in Life in London; […], London: […] Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, page vii:
text: I shall cancel, without further provocation, the next lecture engagement that is implicated with a peep o' day train.
ref: 1879, Robert J[ones] Burdette, Hawk-Eyes, New York, N.Y.: G. W. Carleton & Co., Publishers, page 137:
synonyms: day-peep
glosses: The very beginning of the day; the crack of dawn; daybreak, dawn.
Derived terms: Peep o' Day Boy
synharmony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From syn- + harmony.
Senses: glosses: The property of being an echo vowel.
Related terms: synharmonic
fresh as paint
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪnt
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: very fresh
bear date
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bears date
form: bearing date
form: bore date
form: borne date
Senses: glosses: To be marked with the date of writing, production etc.
long-pending
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That lasts a long time; long-lasting
harp on the same string
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: harps on the same string
form: harping on the same string
form: harped on the same string
form: harped on the same string
form: harp on one string
Senses: glosses: To repeatedly say the same thing.
megamodel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megamodels
Etymology: From mega- + model.
Senses: examples: text: The St. Louis model also seems to perform well without the large number of extraneous variables—oil prices, coal miners' wage rates, the stock of used cars, etc., all of which tend to contribute to the cumbersomeness of the megamodels.
ref: 1976, James Gardner Witte, Economic Models for Planning, page 36:
text: There are, however, at least three practical considerations that suggest that splitting the task into two steps may be expedient. First, the megamodels may be just too complicated to solve analytically, […]
ref: 2003, Vladimir Klyuev, The Distributional Consequences of Real Exchange Rate Adjustment:
glosses: A megascale model.
megamodels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megamodel
hanger on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hangers on
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hanger-on.
effectivize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: effectivizes
form: effectivizing
form: effectivized
form: effectivized
Etymology: From effective + -ize.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To make effective.
Related terms: effectivization
effectivized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of effectivize
effectivizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of effectivize
effectivizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of effectivize
nonadhesion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + adhesion.
Senses: glosses: Lack of adhesion.
synecthran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synecthrans
Etymology: From syn- (compare symbiosis) + Ancient Greek ἐχθρός (ekhthrós) + -an.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
hypernyms: inquiline
coordinate_terms: symphile
synoekete
glosses: An organism that lives in the home of another organism in order to exploit it, and is treated with hostility or indifference.
Related terms: synechthry
symbiote
synecthrans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synecthran
cockbag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockbags
Etymology: From cock + bag.
Senses: examples: text: Have you all forgotten that I'm tied to a chair where I've pissed myself numerous times over days and days because you cockbags forget that you're holding a guy here for no reason?
ref: 2013, Mikey Neumann, The Returners: Season One:
glosses: A stupid or otherwise undesirable person
cockbags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cockbag
Watari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wataris
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 亘理 (Watari).
Senses: glosses: A district of Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.
glosses: A town in the district of Watari, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.
hyperphantasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + phantasia; from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía, “perception, impression, image, look, appearance”).
Senses: examples: text: Charles Darwin left behind writings hinting at hyperphantasia: When he was once asked to recall the objects that had been on his breakfast table that morning, he said they were “as distinct as if I had photos before me.”
ref: 2021 June 8, Carl Zimmer, “Many People Have a Vivid ‘Mind’s Eye,’ While Others Have None at All”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
pathology
psychology
sciences
antonyms: aphantasia
glosses: A condition where one's mental imagery (the mind's eye) is extremely realistic, to the point of confusion with reality.
Derived terms: hyperphantasic
plumpkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plumpkins
Etymology: From plump + -kin; the suffix is not normally productive, so likely formed under the influence of pumpkin.
Senses: examples: text: On one FA's answering machine, he says, “Have you complimented a plumpkin today?”
ref: 2019, Erich Goode, Deviant Behavior:
glosses: A fat person.
plumpkins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plumpkin
downsweeping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of downsweep
monarticular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: monoarticular
Etymology: * mon- + articular
Senses: examples: monarticular arthritis
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Affecting a single joint of the body.
Related terms: oligoarticular
polyarticular
microspherocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microspherocyte
monarthritis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monoarthritis
Etymology: * mon- + arthritis
Senses: glosses: inflammation, or arthritis, of one joint at a time.
Related terms: monarthritic
monoarthritic
monarticular
monoarticular
oligoarticular
polyarticular
monarthritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mon- + arthritic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of monoarthritic.
gijinka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gijinka
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 擬人化 (“personification”).
Senses: hypernyms: anthropomorphization
humanization
personification
glosses: A non-human character, thing, or idea that has been turned into a human or humanoid in artwork; a humanization.
glosses: The practice of creating such characters.
stressiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: That was the stressiest day of my life!
glosses: superlative form of stressy: most stressy
stressier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of stressy: more stressy
Dien Bien Phu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /djɛnbjɛnˈfuː/
Forms: form: Dienbien Phu
form: Dienbienphu
form: Điện Biên Phủ
Etymology: Borrowed from French Diên Biên Phu, from Vietnamese Điện Biên Phủ (literally “Dienbien Prefecture”), from 奠邊府 (Chinese 奠邊府 /奠边府 (Diànbiānfǔ)); from the province of Điện Biên (literally “stable frontier”) + phu. Of phu, from 府 (Chinese 府 (fǔ)). Of Điện Biên, from 奠邊 (Chinese 奠邊 /奠边 (Diànbiān)); from điện + biên; from 奠 (Chinese 奠) + 邊 (Chinese 邊 /边 (biān)).
Senses: examples: text: It was argued that during the rainy season the enemy would be roadbound, and the Dien Bien Phu position would therefore prove a real cork in the bottle. To remove it the Communists would attempt to reduce Dien Bien Phu, which would enable the French to induce the main Vietminh forces into a pitched battle on ground where the French could concentrate their supposedly superior forces.
ref: 1963, Dwight Eisenhower, Mandate for Change 1953-1956, Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 339:
text: Westmoreland reported that the threat in northern I Corps was the most serious of the war. He also noted new intensity in enemy activity in other areas, especially in III Corps, where Saigon is located. He thought that the North Vietnamese saw a similarity between the allied base at Khe Sanh and the base at Dien Bien Phu, where the French had suffered a disastrous defeat in 1954.
ref: 1971, Lyndon Johnson, “The Making of a Decision: Vietnam 1967-1968”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 381:
text: Early in April there was a respite from the crisis; it seemed that the French troops might be able to hold on at Dien Bien Phu.
ref: 1978, Richard Nixon, RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 152:
glosses: A city in Dien Bien Phu prefecture, Dien Bien, Northern Vietnam, North Vietnam, Vietnam.
glosses: A prefecture of Dien Bien, Northern Vietnam, North Vietnam, Vietnam.
Related terms: Dien Bien
Hindutvist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hindutvists
Etymology: From Hindutva + -ist.
Senses: synonyms: Hindutvavadi
glosses: A supporter of Hindutva, or Hindu nationalism.
Dien Bien
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dienbien
Etymology: From French Diên Biên, from Vietnamese Điện Biên, from 奠邊 (Chinese 奠邊 /奠边 (Diànbiān)), from 奠 (Chinese 奠) + 邊 (Chinese 邊 /边 (biān)) Literally, “stable frontier”.
Senses: glosses: A province of Northern Vietnam, North Vietnam, Vietnam.
Synonyms: Dienbien Province
Dien Bien Province
Province of Dienbien
Province of Dien Bien
Related terms: Dien Bien Phu
VCUs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of VCU
sewage fungus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A filamentous colony of bacteria (e.g. Sphaerotilus natans) and fungi (e.g. Fusarium aqueductum), protozoa and other species, which may be found adhering to surfaces in sewage treatment plants or in natural waters as a result of the discharge of incompletely treated waste water.
texturizing shears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A type of shears used in hairstyling. One edge is serrated, like a hair comb.
Synonyms: word: texturizing scissors
word: thinning shears
word: chunking shears
sellisternium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sellisternia
Senses: glosses: A ritual feast, in Ancient Rome, to celebrate goddesses
texturizing scissors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪzə(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: Synonym of texturizing shears (UK)
synonyms: word: texturizing shears
extra: UK
no ways
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: No ways, I don’t use traditional healers.
ref: 2018, Tariq, Shema, et al., ““I did not see a need to get tested before, everything was going well with my health”: a qualitative study of HIV-testing decision-making in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa”, in AIDS care, →DOI:
glosses: Synonym of no way (“absolutely not”).
synonyms: word: no way
extra: absolutely not
examples: text: No ways! Is that real?
glosses: Synonym of no way (“indicates astonished disbelief”).
synonyms: word: no way
extra: indicates astonished disbelief
no ways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: And there's no ways I am being dramatic about this state of affairs […]
ref: 2010, Cheryl Roberts, “Government intervention needed to improve status of women in Sport: Letter addressed to the Portfolio Committee on Sports and Recreation by Cheryl Roberts”, in Agenda, →DOI:
glosses: Synonym of no way.
synonyms: word: no way
creep on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: creeps on
form: creeping on
form: creeped on
form: creeped on
Senses: examples: text: creep on your ex's Facebook
glosses: To monitor in a covert and creepy manner; to stalk.
glosses: To sneak up to (someone) in preparation to attack or rob them.
Related terms: creep up on
walrus operator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: walrus operators
Etymology: The notation := humorously reinterpreted as the face of a walrus, with two eyes and two tusks.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: The operator := that assigns values to variables in certain programming languages, such as Python.
Related terms: Elvis operator
Flu Manchu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Pun on flu and Fu Manchu.
Senses: examples: text: Hysteria is mounting about this Asiatic flu from far-off places. If that's the way it is to be, let’s go all the way and call it Flu Manchu.
ref: 1957 August 27, Ardie Rettop, “Who’s Afraid?”, in Daily News, New York, page 25:
text: Away back in 1936, the year that Life began, the nation’s bloodstream flowed free of penicillin, and neither the virus, the Flu Manchu nor the tranquilizing pill were known to the average American.
ref: 1960 December 26, Elliot Chaze, “March of Mad Fads”, in Life, page 110:
text: In a similar vein, Sax Rohmer’s fiendish mastermind Dr Fu Manchu, an appallingly racist caricature of the “evil Chinaman”, makes his appearance not only in Fu Manchu flu and Fu Manchu Virus, but also, as might be expected, in Flu Manchu (sometimes spelled flu man choo) […]
I would be quaffing a few ales in Artists Rifles club at Bisley right about now and enjoying all things firestick if it weren’t for those meddling Chinese and the flu man choo. (23rd May; uk) | However, there is high mortality with the Flu Manchu. (26th February; us)
ref: 2020, Antonio Lillo, quoting anonymous Twitter users, “COVID-19, the beer flu; or, the disease of many names”, in Lebende Sprachen, volume 65, →DOI:
text: Like Knowles, Andrew Klavan is another host for The Daily Wire who has referred to the coronavirus as “the kung flu.” On the July 22, 2020, edition of his show, he began by stating: “Senators continue to debate a new relief bill to deal with fallout from the Chinese flu, or wu flu, or kung flu, or flu manchu, or Chinese act of bacteriological warfare, or as they call it in Hollywood, ‘Thank you for the COVID-19, Mr. Producer, sir.’”
ref: 2021 March 18, Eric Hananoki, quoting Andrew Klavan, “Numerous right-wing media figures and outlets have contributed to anti-Asian hate by celebrating racist “kung flu” term”, in Media Matters for America:
glosses: An epidemic of influenza or other illness associated with China or Asia.
wikipedia: 1957–1958 influenza pandemic
COVID-19 pandemic
Related terms: kung flu
COVID-19
yellow peril
martini shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: martini shots
Etymology: In reference to the martini cocktail: after the final shot of the day, the crew can depart for a drink.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
glosses: The final shot of the day.
reshelvings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reshelving
Agadoo dance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Agadoo dances
Senses: glosses: A simplistic novelty dance performed to the 1984 novelty song Agadoo recorded by the band Black Lace.
Agadoo dances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Agadoo dance
tendencial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: When the tone figures as an element in a musical context, a new quality is added, a tendencial quality. The tone is now part of a system, or order, and demonstrates this fact dynamically through that quality.
ref: 1946, Year Book - The American Philosophical Society, page 212:
glosses: Alternative form of tendential.
equidiagonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From equi- + diagonal.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a convex quadrilateral: having the two diagonals of equal length.
customer research
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of consumer research.
synonyms: word: consumer research
Related terms: market research
consumer research
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: customer research
glosses: The study of the reactions of consumers to various (possible) products they might buy.
Related terms: market research
consumer resistance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
marketing
synonyms: customer resistance
glosses: A resistance on the part of consumers toward adopting or using a particular product.
Related terms: sales resistance
customer resistance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
marketing
glosses: Synonym of consumer resistance.
synonyms: word: consumer resistance
sales resistance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Throughout recent years, a vast amount of money and time and brains has been employed in overcoming sales resistance, i.e. in inducing unoffending persons to waste their money in purchasing objects which they had no desire to possess.
ref: 1996, Bertrand Russell, Harry Ruja, Mortals and Others: American Essays, 1931-1935, page 98:
text: The objections could revolve around your price, the customer's satisfaction with his or her existing supplier, complacency with the existing situation, the newness of or lack of familiarity with your product, or even knee jerk sales resistance that comes automatically.
ref: 2002, Brian Tracy, Be a Sales Superstar, page 84:
text: Even though they may agree that they should have life insurance, their sales resistance starts to take over and they become reluctant.
ref: 2012, Benson Smith, Tony Rutigliano, Discover Your Sales Strengths:
text: Eicoff was convinced that sales resistance would be highest during prime time and lowest during late night.
ref: 2015, John McDonough, Karen Egolf, The Advertising Age Encyclopedia of Advertising:
text: However a significant percentage of the salesmen selling your products (approximately 55%) can't distinguish between a sales resistance and a legitimate obstacle if their life depends upon it, and then two things occur.
ref: 2021, Richard M. White, The Entrepreneur's Manual:
topics: business
marketing
glosses: A general reluctance on the part of a potential buyer to buying a product (as opposed to a specific, legitimate, concern or objection).
examples: text: Ideas of democratic freedom periodically lived, and were periodically buried under years of oppressive sales resistance and dictatorial domination.
ref: 1957, Charles E. Irvin, How to sell yourself, your ideas, your products, page 18:
text: As the intellectual's role is to make people know for true and good what they did not previously recognize as such, he encounters a formidable sales resistance, and he works at a loss.
ref: 1960, George Bernard Huszar, The Intellectuals: A Controversial Portrait, page 396:
text: Christians must learn to examine both sides in order to develop “sales resistance” to the many dubious ideas hawked in the media, politics, education, entertainment, and yes, churches.
ref: 2015, Nancy Pearcey, Finding Truth, page 254:
text: Secondly, the emotional sales resistance to liberal ideas is particularly virulent among those who play a crucial role in promoting government services which directly impinge on the everyday lives of citizens (the social services), while intellectual scepticism towards liberal policies is both marked and influential among those who run our industrial affairs inside and outside the public sector.
ref: 2016, Alan Peacock, “The Credibility of Liberal Economics”, in Geoffrey E. Wood, editor, Explorations in Economic Liberalism: The Wincott Lectures, page 97:
glosses: A resistance to accepting a new idea or a change in the way things are done.
Related terms: consumer resistance
half columnar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From half + columnar.
Senses: glosses: semicolumnar
back in the days
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of back in the day.
vervaine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of vervain.
bossware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From boss + -ware, or blend of boss + malware.
Senses: examples: text: Our organisation sent us laptops to work from home, but it has some very intrusive bossware installed on it.
text: While aimed at helping employers, bossware puts workers’ privacy and security at risk by logging every click and keystroke, covertly gathering information for lawsuits, and using other spying features that go far beyond what is necessary and proportionate to manage a workforce.
ref: 2020 June 30, Bennett Cypher and Karen Gullo, “Inside the Invasive, Secretive “Bossware” Tracking Workers”, in Electronic Frontier Foundation:
text: Amid the rise of “bossware” or “tattleware” – essentially spyware that enables managers to monitor their employees working from home – is a new program called Sneek, which uses your webcam to take a photo of you about once a minute and makes it available to your supervisor, to prove that you are not away from your desk doing God knows what.
ref: 2021 September 16, Jessa Crispin, “Employers are spying on Americans at home with ‘tattleware’. It’s time to track them instead”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Software installed on employees' computers for the purpose of allowing a manager to track their working time and activity.
Rimes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Guitiriz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Galician Guitiriz.
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality of Lugo, Galicia, Spain, Spain.
glosses: A locality in Capela parish, Capela, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain.
glosses: A locality in San Fiz de Monfero parish, Monfero, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain.
glosses: A locality in Visantoña parish, Mesía, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain.
Durdle Door
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A natural arch near Lulworth, Dorset, England
Westenhanger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Stanford parish, Folkestone and Hythe district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR1236).
Cutlack
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
wikipedia: Frederic +
Raybould
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Feniton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SY0999).
Pharaohess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pharaohesses
Etymology: From Pharaoh + -ess.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of pharaohess.
Clyst
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Devon, England, which flows into the Exe estuary.
Derived terms: Bishop's Clyst
Broadclyst
Clyst St Mary
rail-motor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rail-motors
Senses: examples: text: There was a time when the Adams 0-4-4 tanks then working the Exmouth branch were supplemented by steam rail-motors. [...] As built they were under-boilered, but as a result of the experience gained from them fifteen more steam rail-motors had been put into service by 1906.
ref: 1960 May, R. C. Riley, “The coastal branches of South-East Devon: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 292:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Alternative form of railmotor.
hairfall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hair + fall.
Senses: glosses: hair loss; the visible falling out of hair.
rail-motors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rail-motor
BECO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BECOs
Senses: glosses: Acronym of booster engine cut-off.
Related terms: english: main engine cut-off
translation: main engine cut-off
word: MECO
english: sustainer engine cut-off
translation: sustainer engine cut-off
word: SECO
english: secondary engine cutoff
translation: secondary engine cutoff
word: SECO
english: engine cutoff
translation: engine cutoff
word: ECO
Clyst St Mary
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish served by Bishop's Clyst parish council in East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX9790).
Bishop's Clyst
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area in East Devon district, Devon, England, and the parish council for Clyst St Mary parish and Sowton parish (OS grid ref SX9791).
& hoc genus omne
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:& hoc genus omne.
glosses: Alternative form of et hoc genus omne.
subcommentary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌbˈkɒməntɹi/
ipa: /sʌbˈkɒməntəɹi/
ipa: /sʌbˈkɑmənˌtɛɹi/
Forms: form: subcommentaries
form: sub-commentary
Etymology: From sub- + commentary.
Senses: glosses: A commentary (series of comments or annotations) on another commentary.
Synonyms: supercommentary
metacommentary
sub-commentary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sub-commentaries
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of subcommentary.
subcommentaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subcommentary
sub-commentaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sub-commentary
super-commentary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: super-commentaries
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of supercommentary.
super-commentaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of super-commentary
committment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of commitment.
cestui que trust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cestuis que trust
form: cestuies que trust
form: cestuy que trust
Senses: topics: law
glosses: One who has the equitable and beneficial interest in property, the legal interest in which is vested in a trustee.
Related terms: cestui que use
cestui que vie
shiai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shiais
form: shiai
Etymology: From Japanese しあい.
Senses: glosses: A judo competition.
Pichal Peri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Urdu پچھل پيری, Persian پیچھل پری, meaning "reverse-footed".
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A creature from Pakistani/Arabian culture, who's said to be reverse-footed and demonic.
water skipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water skippers
form: waterskipper
form: water-skipper
Senses: glosses: Synonym of water strider.
synonyms: word: water strider
glosses: The bufferfly Parnara monasi.
glosses: A motorized recreational over-water vehicle built from modifying a snowmobile, that is run at high speeds, to hydroplane across the surfaces of bodies of water.
glosses: A human powered hydrofoil, that has an appearance akin to a tricycle or a snoracer.
Synonyms: sense: Gerridae
word: water strider
sense: Gerridae
word: water skeeter
sense: Gerridae
word: water scooter
sense: Gerridae
word: water skimmer
sense: Gerridae
word: water bug
sense: Gerridae
word: pond skater
sense: Gerridae
word: Jesus bug
sense: Parnara monasi
word: water watchman
sense: modified snowmobile
word: watersled
sense: modified snowmobile
word: watercrosser
sense: modified snowmobile
word: water crosser
Breonna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Breonnas
Senses: examples: text: One of the Louisville detectives who fatally shot Breonna Taylor during a botched raid is appealing his termination this week.
ref: 2021 December 13, Amir Vera, “Louisville detective who fatally shot Breonna Taylor is appealing his termination from the police department”, in CNN:
glosses: A female given name of African-American usage.
charrer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charrers
Etymology: From char + -er.
Senses: glosses: A worker who chars the insides of barrels in which whisky is to be aged
naturian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naturians
Etymology: From nature + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: […] noteth in that place. Amongst Philosophers Aristotle was wise, profound; Plato humane, diuine; Pythagoras hot, precise; and all sound exquisite naturians. Amongst Diuines, Saint Augustine plaine; Saint Gregerie mild; […]
ref: 1602, W. Watson, Decacordon, 358, quoted in part in the NED and in full in 1974, David McGregor Rogers, English Recusant Literature, 1558-1640
text: Great ... aduantages hath a Christian by virtue of his Faith, aboue any Natunan or Politique by all his reason.
ref: 1621, S. Ward, Life of Faith, section 83:
text: There is no judgment comes, but naturians will find out other causes for it than God.
ref: 1633, T. Adams, Exp. 2 Peter, ii. 5:
text: They were described as 'naturians', often 'mere' or 'sole' naturians. 'The disease incident to your profession', one preacher told physicians, is 'even to be half Atheists, and that by ascribing so much to natural and second causes, and too little to God'.
ref: 2019, Alec Ryrie, Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt, Harvard University Press, →ISBN:
glosses: One who studies nature; one who ascribes natural rather than supernatural or divine explanations to phenomena.
naturians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naturian
dustie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dusties
Senses: examples: text: Swirling winds in a dustie can hit fifty miles an hour, or more, rising as fast as two-thousand feet per minute.
ref: 2007, John Quinn Olson, Tales From The Wild Blue Yonder *Recipes For Disaster *, page 100:
text: Father vos a dustie; – vos at it all his life, and grandfather afore him for I can't tell how long.
ref: 2011, R. E. Pritchard, Dickens's England: Life in Victorian Times, page 178:
glosses: Uncommon spelling of dusty.
dusties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dusty
glosses: plural of dustie
blackman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackmen
Senses: examples: text: On the summit of a hill they were seen by my fathers, my countrymen, on the top of the hill they were seen standing: they threw fire like a star,—it fell amongst the blackmen my countrymen.
ref: 1859, Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Van Diemen's Land, page 274:
text: “Recognised and compensated,” will both these condition[s] be occupied by the blackman in the world forty years hence?
ref: 1912, The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, volume XI, Duke University Press, published 2011, page 44:
text: Australia’s true history is never read, But the blackman keeps it in his head.
ref: 1971, Bill Day, aboriginal poem:
text: It is nearly a century since DuBois described the condition of the blackman thus […]
ref: 1990, Wole Soyinka, The Blackman and the Veil, SEDCO, published 1993, page 3:
glosses: Alternative form of black man.
blackmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blackman
Aduwallah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic عَدُوّ الله (ʕaduww allāh).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Enemy of the God; Satan; nickname of Iblis.
Synonyms: Satan
light upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lights upon
form: lighting upon
form: lit upon
form: lit upon
form: lighted upon
form: lighted upon
Senses: examples: text: [...] Yojo had told him two or three times over, and strongly insisted upon it everyway, that instead of our going together among the whaling-fleet in harbor, and in concert selecting our craft; instead of this, I say, Yojo earnestly enjoined that the selection of the ship should rest wholly with me, inasmuch as Yojo purposed befriending us; and, in order to do so, had already pitched upon a vessel, which, if left to myself, I, Ishmael, should infallibly light upon, for all the world as though it had turned out by chance; and in that vessel I must immediately ship myself, for the present irrespective of Queequeg.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 16, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 75:
glosses: To find or think of something unexpectedly; to come upon something by accident.
Barriball
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
wikipedia: Anna +
un-Englishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more un-Englishly
form: most un-Englishly
Etymology: From un-English + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Because of August he wears shorts and sandals, the Japanese geta sort called thongs. He wears them un-Englishly, without socks.
ref: 1963 March 16, Hal Porter, “Little old lady passing by”, in The Bulletin, page 22, column 3:
glosses: Not in an English way or manner.
Exton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: # The villages in Devon and Somerset, England: from Old English Ex (“River Exe”) + tūn (“village”), 'the farm or village by the river Exe'.
# The village in Hampshire, England: from Old English Ēastseaxe (“East Saxons”), genitive plural, Ēastseaxna + tūn (“estate”), 'the settlement or estate of the East Saxons'.
# The village in Rutland, England: from Old English oxa (“ox”), genitive plural *exna + tūn, 'the ox farm'.
Senses: glosses: A village in East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX9886).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Winchester district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU6121).
glosses: A village in Exton and Horn parish, Rutland, England (OS grid ref SK9211).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Somerset West and Taunton district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref SS9233).
glosses: A rural settlement near Deloraine, Tasmania, Australia.
glosses: A census-designated place in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States.
glosses: A surname.
question tag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: question tags
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The "tag" at the end of a tag question
question tags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of question tag
Exton and Horn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Officially formerly referred to as Exton (with Horn).
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Rutland, England, created in 2016.
Littleham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Torridge district, Devon, England, served by Littleham and Landcross parish council (OS grid ref SS4323).
glosses: A suburb of Exmouth, East Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref SY0281).
stative verb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stative verbs
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: dynamic verb
glosses: A verb which generally expresses a state rather than an action or activity. Not normally found in a continuous inflection.
stative verbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stative verb
dynamic verb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dynamic verbs
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: stative verb
glosses: a verb which generally expresses an action or activity rather than a state.
dynamic verbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dynamic verb
Landcross
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Torridge district, Devon, England, served by Littleham and Landcross parish council (OS grid ref SS4623)
insakas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insaka
East Budleigh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in East Budleigh with Bicton parish, East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SY0684).
Related terms: Budleigh Salterton
Bicton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A settlement in East Budleigh with Bicton parish, East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SY0785).
glosses: A hamlet in Croft and Yarpole parish, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO4663).
glosses: A village and civil parish in central Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ4415).
glosses: A hamlet in Clun parish, south-west Shropshire (OS grid ref SO2882).
glosses: A suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
Mohéli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mohel
form: Moheli
Etymology: From French Mohéli.
Senses: glosses: An island of the Comoros, one of the three major islands that make up the country.
Grande Comore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Grande Comore.
Senses: synonyms: Ngazidja
glosses: An island of the Comoros.
Chapel Lawn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Clun parish, south-west Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO3176).
yousselves
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: […] for he sat and wept on my shoulder until my shirt was wringing wet where he had been weeping on it. “T'ink o' your little childer and your wives!” bellowed the skipper of the Star of Africa. “Every time yous makes beasts of yousselves wit […]”
ref: 1956, John Seymour, One Man's Africa:
text: "Yous gals enjoy yousselves.” And Sarah quickly walks away. Agnes notices how nervous the big woman is in the presence of Uncle Matthew. For Margaret, it is not unusual; she is use to people being somewhat in awe of her father.
ref: 2008, Andrew Shankland, Beyond the Grail: 'A Thorn Rose. Surely Not an Irish Lullaby.', →ISBN, page 109:
glosses: Yourselves, reflexive case of yous.
youseself
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Etymology: From youse + -self.
Senses: examples: text: I'll put youse in de scrap pile youseself if youse makes any such [moves].
ref: 1903, Profits, page 7:
text: "Nuzly, youse looks nutty, youseself!"
ref: 1912, Lucille Van Slyke, Eve's Other Children, page 58:
text: “De team youse don't get no chance to get on if youse don't chase youseself an' dig up a bat, youse solid iv'ry Dutchy!”
ref: 1912, Edward Jewitt Wheeler, Frank Crane, editors, Current Opinion ..., page 604:
coordinate_terms: youseselves
glosses: Yourself, reflexive case of youse.
Croft and Yarpole
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Herefordshire, England, served by Yarpole Group Parish Council.
clink-clanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: Sadly for you, the fuzz didn't take kindly to you running around in your birthday suit, and faster than you can say "Miranda rights," they've put the clink-clanks on you and are hauling you off to the joint.
ref: 2020 May 26, “What Happens When You Get Arrested”, in The Infographics Show:
glosses: handcuffs
Yarpole
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Croft and Yarpole parish, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO4764).
deschooler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deschoolers
Etymology: From deschool(ing) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: In other words, neither Almereyda's early pragmatic, if militant,anarchism nor his later meliorism ae tangible presences in Zero for Conduct, a film rooted in a utopian conception of childhood that not only looks backward to Fourier, but anticipates the work of radical deschoolers such as Paul Goodman, Everett Riemer, and Ivan Illich.
ref: 1999, Richard Porton, Film and the Anarchist Imagination, Verso, pages 195–6:
glosses: A practitioner of deschooling.
deschoolers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deschooler
Slobberhannes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If, in the same hand, a player wins all three tricks above mentioned, he is said to get Slobberhannes, and must score an extra point for it.
ref: 1903, Enquire Within Upon Everything, Houlston and Sons, page 55:
text: Slobberhannes is played with a Euchre pack, thirty-two cards, all below the Seven being deleted. The cards rank: A K Q J 10 9 8 7, the ace being the highest both in cutting and in play.
ref: 1922, Robert Frederick Foster, Foster's complete Hoyle, Good Press, page 368:
text: Also called Four Jacks, Stay Away, or Quatre Valets, this game is almost identical with Slobberhannes.
ref: 1961, Charles Henry Goren, Goren's Hoyle Encyclopedia of Games: With Official Rules and Pointers on Play, Including the Latest Laws of Contract Bridge, Greystone Press, page 246:
text: The splendidly named Slobberhannes uses the same pack, the same deal and the same method of play as Polignac, but here the object is to avoid winning the first trick, the last trick and the trick containing the Queen of clubs.
ref: 1990, Gyles Brandreth, The Card Player's Companion, Treasure Press, →ISBN:
text: The reversal of the ordinary condition of play may cause a few blunders at the outset, but a player who knows anything of Whist will soon master the pitfalls of Slobberhannes, and will find himself very well repaid for doing so.
ref: 1994, Edmond Hoyle, Lawrence H. Dawson, The Complete Hoyle's Games, Wordsworth Editions, →ISBN, page 210:
glosses: A trick-taking card game for four players in which the aim is to avoid taking the first and last tricks and the queen of clubs.
biosketch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biosketches
Etymology: From bio- + sketch.
Senses: glosses: A short piece of writing that summarizes an individual's experience and qualifications.