cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Tsingkiangpu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Postal Romanization of the Nanking court dialect Mandarin 清江浦 (Qīngjiāngpǔ), from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].
Senses: examples: text: On the return, he left the canal eighty-five miles below Tsingkiangpu, and to the astonishment and alarm of country folk, he roared and bumped home along the Imperial Highway, narrow and rough, easily beating the record for a journey between Shanghai and Tsingkiangpu.
ref: 1971, John C. Pollock, A Foreign Devil in China, Minneapolis, Minn.: World Wide Publications, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 44:
text: The upper four-fifths of the Jiangsu Province was almost untouched by the Gospel with less than 100 Chinese believers among, perhaps, 30 million people. Eventually the Grahams moved to Tsingkiangpu, a town in northeastern Jiangsu with a population of approximately 130,000 (in modern China the city of Tsingkiangpu is renamed Huaiyin).
ref: 2006, Stephen Fortosis, Boxers to Bandits, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 25:
text: In the end an opening was found for him as stand-in for a colleague on furlough in Zhenjiang, the city he had left a decade earlier to open up Tsingkiangpu and its hinterland.
ref: 2010, Hilary Spurling, Burying the Bones, Profile Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22:
glosses: Alternative form of Qingjiangpu.
wikipedia: Mandarin (late imperial lingua franca)
Hwaian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Postal Romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 淮安 (Huái'ān).
Senses: examples: text: Chou's life bridged traditional and revolutionary China. He was born in the waning years of the Manchu Dynasty, in 1898—the exact date is unclear— in the eastern city of Hwaian, in Kiangsu Province.
ref: 1979, Alden Whitman, “The Political Career of Chou En-lai”, in China Yesterday and Today, 2nd edition, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 441:
text: She spent her very early years in the ancient city of Hwaian (now spelled Huaian) in the eastern section of China. Hwaian sits on the banks of the Grand Canal, the world's oldest and longest artificial waterway at more than 1000 miles.
ref: 2005, Marylou Morano Kjelle, “"Spook Baby"”, in Katherine Paterson (Classic StoryTellers), Hockessin, Delaware: Mitchell Lane Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 14:
text: In the spring of 1917 Nelson knew enough Chinese to take the big clinic at the larger, rich city of Hwaian, ten miles south on the Grand Canal.
ref: December 2010, John Pollock, A Foreign Devil in China, World Wide Publications, →ISBN, page 41:
glosses: Alternative form of Huai'an.
uie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of uey.
semiproletarianized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: semiproletarianised
Senses: examples: text: Thus his analysis underscores, once again, the “availability” of both peasantry and semiproletarianized workers (self-evidently the dividing line is not a clean one) for revolutionary purposes.
ref: 1985, John S. Saul, chapter I, in John S. Saul, editor, A Difficult Road: The Transition to Socialism in Mozambique, New York: Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, section 1, page 59:
glosses: Having been made somewhat proletarian.
catapleurotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cataplerotic.
flare path
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flare paths
form: flarepath
Etymology: From flare + path.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A runway (or simple field) that is illuminated at night, or during fog, to enable aircraft to land or take off safely.
flare paths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flare path
underfloor heating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: floor heating
glosses: Any of various central heating (and sometimes cooling) systems that achieve indoor climate control for thermal comfort using conduction, radiation, and convection.
Kaoyu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The postal romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 高郵／高邮 (Gāoyóu).
Senses: examples: text: That bitterly cold winter the Grand Canal had frozen, and Nelson roared down the old Imperial Highway beside it until he reached open water eighty-three miles south of Tsingkiangpu, at Kaoyu.
ref: 1971, John C. Pollock, A Foreign Devil in China, Minneapolis, Minn.: World Wide Publications, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 56:
text: From nearby Kaoyu county they learned of a remedy made from a medicinal herb.
ref: 1975 March, “Herbal Medicines a Boon to Co-op Medical Care”, in China Reconstructs, volume 24, number 3, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 39:
text: Kaoyu, with its back against the Kaopao Lake, had "the lake serving as a barrier" and was also an important stronghold covering T'aichou, Chang's strategic town for river defense; militarily it must not be abandoned lightly. But, more importantly, Chang, formerly a salt dealer, always regarded Kaoyu as his mecca.
ref: 2000, Anita M. Andrew, John A. Rapp, Autocracy and China's Rebel Founding Emperors, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 136:
glosses: Alternative form of Gaoyou.
wikipedia: postal romanization
Gaoyou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: gouʹyōʹ
Forms: form: Kaoyu
form: Kao-yu
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 高郵 /高邮 (Gāoyóu).
Senses: examples: text: Among the rebel leaders who appeared in the Huai area after the 1351 floods was a more ambitious man than Fang Kuo-chen, named Chang Shih-ch'eng 張士誠 (1321-1367). Like Fang, Chang had a salt trade background. Native to the Kao-yu region of modern Kiangsu province, north of the Yangtze, Chang and his brothers grew up as canal boatmen employed by the state salt monopoly.
ref: [1978, Charles O. Hucker, The Ming Dynasty, its Origins and Evolving Institutions, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 10:
text: Seven people were killed in Gaoyou city in neighboring Jiangsu province, the agency said, adding that 53 were injured.
"Winds and heavy rain cut off power and telecommunications, ripped off rooftops and uprooted thousands of trees," a Gaoyou government official was quoted as saying.
ref: 2007 July 4, “Tornado kills 14, injures 146 in eastern China”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2016, Green Business:
text: Chen specifies that the river shrimp are from Gaoyou, a city in Jiangsu. “Its geographic advantage and waters contribute to the sweet and bouncy shrimps. The most prized river shrimp tends to be small, resembling an agate bead. So the dish represents a pairing of agate beads and gold ingots, representing affluence.”
ref: 2019 January 31, Jenny Wang, “Chinese New Year: auspicious dishes around China, from ‘accessible windfall’ to ‘a room of gold and silver’”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Feb 2019, Food & Drink:
glosses: A county-level city of Yangzhou, Jiangsu, in eastern China.
bufferedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From buffered + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: This is also the result of a comparative analysis of Japanese, North American and European automobile companies concerning relative leanness or bufferedness of the plant production management policies.
ref: 1993, Ioannis A. Pappas, Ilias P. Tatsiopoulos, Advances in production management systems:
text: Those qualities make bufferedness more than a situation where provincial vaguenss and limited monitoring provide a window of opportunity for locals to run with local ideas.
ref: 1995, Kenneth Leithwood, Effective School District Leadership, page 201:
text: Some soft, muffled bufferedness was bound to take over, as if she were buttressed by excess packaging.
ref: 2016, Lionel Shriver, The Self-Seeding Sycamore:
glosses: The quality of state of being buffered.
LDW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LDWs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of loss disguised as a win (as presented by gambling machines etc.)
LDWs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LDW
pachinko allocation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: In machine learning and natural language processing, a suite of algorithms to determine the thematic structure of a collection of documents by modelling correlations between topics in addition to the word correlations that constitute topics.
fame digger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fame diggers
Etymology: From fame + digger, in analogy with gold digger.
Senses: glosses: A person (usually female) who cultivates a personal relationship in order to attain fame.
Hypernyms: english: see also Thesaurus:hypergamist
translation: see also Thesaurus:hypergamist
word: hypergamist
Related terms: english: not always differentiated
translation: not always differentiated
word: fame whore
word: famous for being famous
word: gold digger
takh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: takhs
Etymology: From Khalkha Mongolian тахь (taxʹ).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Przewalski's horse.
synonyms: word: Przewalski's horse
takhs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of takh
wooze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woozes
Etymology: From Middle English wosen, from Old English wōsan, variant of wēsan. Doublet of ooze.
Senses: examples: text: No person shall set the fats in tan hills, or other places, where the woozes or leather may take any unkind heats; or shall put any leather into any hot or warm woozes; or shall tan any hide or skin with any hot or warm woozes; [...]
ref: 1772, Richard Burn, The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer, volume III, page 84:
text: [B]y tanned hides or ſkins, or by tanned pieces of hides or ſkins, are meant only ſuch as are tanned in wooſe made of the bark of trees, or ſumack, or whereof the principal ingredients ſhall be ſuch bark, or ſumack; [...]
ref: 1779, Gorges Edmond Howard, “Duties”, in An Abstract and Common Place of All the Irish, British, and English Statutes Relative to the Revenue of Ireland, and the Trade Connected therewith. […], London: Printed by the executors of David Hay, assignee of the late Boulter Grierson, […], →OCLC, page 183:
text: Afterwards put them into handlers with a part of the bark which comes out of the leaches or tubs, and fill them up with a weak wooze; in this situation they are to remain for about two or three weeks, more or less, handling them, however, during that time once or twice every day; this operation takes the lime out which the hides may contain, and prepares them for the tannage.
ref: 1856, English Patents of Inventions, page 4:
glosses: A liquid formed by leaching bark that is used for soaking hides during the tanning process.
examples: text: "Ah, but you are punishing yourself needlessly, Sonya, I think." Ilya said expansively, leaning a bit closer himself, and seeming to weave in her vision woozily, though whether she was woozing, or he was woozing, or both of them were sharing a friendly little wooze together, it was hard to tell.
ref: 2013, Norman Spinrad, Russian Spring, →ISBN:
text: He felt that postbennie wooze.
ref: 2014, James Ellroy, Perfidia, →ISBN:
glosses: A state of wooziness.
woozes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wooze
woozes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wooze
woozing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wooze
woozed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wooze
woozed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more woozed
form: most woozed
Senses: examples: text: Long months and years With sobs and tears, He sat, all woozed and whizzy, And his soul did flit As the 'phone box split With a last, long, wheezy “Busy!”
ref: 1897, The Phonographic Journal - Volume 4, page 81:
text: All of my efforts to abandon Chicago had hitherto been conceived, planned and unsuccessfully executed while I was woozed, poetic, and therefore non-practical; my work had been gritty and minus the decisive clutch ;
ref: 1902, Clarence Louis Cullen, More ex-tank tales, page 35:
text: A few weeks ago the editors of this land of the partially free and the home of the brave more or less, all grew woozed concerning the fate of Ouida.
ref: 1907, Elbert Hubbard, The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest - Volume 25, page 185:
text: I put a mask on that made me dizzy and woozed.
ref: 1999, The Leo & Antonia Gershanov Holocaust Arts & Writing Contest of the Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois:
glosses: Woozy.
risk society
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: risk societies
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A modern human society focused on possible future outcomes and what could go wrong.
risk societies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of risk society
nongarish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nongarish
form: most nongarish
Etymology: From non- + garish.
Senses: examples: text: How could I have forgotten old nongarish Joan.
ref: 1988, Carol Budd, White lies, page 204:
text: People in the upper-upper class often live in fashionable, nongarish houses nestled comfortably on family estates.
ref: 1989, Rodman B. Webb, Robert R. Sherman, Schooling and Society, →ISBN, page 402:
text: It is not necessary for a widow to wear black and a heavy veil at a spouse's funeral, nor are guests any longer required to wear black; any nongarish color is acceptable.
ref: 1990, Letitia Baldrige, Letitia Baldrige's Complete Guide to the New Manners for the 90's, →ISBN:
text: The illumination they produce is tranquil, more shimmering and diffuse, and nongarish.
ref: 2014, Vinod Kumar Khanna, Fundamentals of Solid-State Lighting, →ISBN:
glosses: Not garish.
fame diggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fame digger
humpback bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: humpback bridges
Senses: glosses: (usually) a single-arch bridge with steep approaches on either side
humpback bridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of humpback bridge
parapolitical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: para-political
Etymology: From para- + political.
Senses: examples: text: In addition, a more formalized committee structure was also emerging to complement and focus the political energy stirring in such meetings. This involved the establishment of an elected committee (and, more often than not, a local militia unit) at the circulo or locality level. True, the exact format of this basic institution varied somewhat from place to place since, in Mondlande’s words, “existing parapolitical structures, traditional and modern, have been incorporated in the structure of the liberation movement.”
ref: 1985, John S. Saul, chapter I, in John S. Saul, editor, A Difficult Road: The Transition to Socialism in Mozambique, New York: Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, section 1, page 68:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Of or pertaining to parapolitics.
postclass
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + class.
Senses: examples: text: Students who just had a 90-minute (smoke-free) class were either asked to participate in our study before or after they had their postclass cigarette.
ref: 1999, Douglas L. Medin, Psychology of Learning and Motivation: Advances in Research and Theory, →ISBN:
text: The postclass survey consisted of 19 open-ended questions, focusing on participants' hopes of their future work as leaders who would support adult development, their conceptions of supporting adult learning after LTL, and any experiences that supported their learning and leadership development in LTL.
ref: 2009, Eleanor Drago-Severson, Leading Adult Learning: Supporting Adult Development in Our Schools, →ISBN:
text: Results From Teacher Surveys To examine if attitudes toward technology had changed over the course of the class, paired t-tests were conducted between preclass and postclass survey responses.
ref: 2013 -, Carl A. Young, Sara Kajder, Research on Technology in English Education, →ISBN, page 46:
glosses: Occurring after a class is finished.
examples: text: Sharryn Kasmir's analysis enables us to penetrate the otherwise paradoxical situation in which cooperators in this putative postclass paradise are beginning to organize syndicates to protect their interests.
ref: 1996, Sharryn Kasmir, The Myth of Mondragon, →ISBN:
text: Nor will the emergence of postclass society imply the end of social division and conflict.
ref: 1997, David Owen, Sociology after postmodernism, →ISBN, page 37:
text: For all its postclass pretentions, modern Britain was just as feudally cleaved into serfs and landowning genrtry as it had been in the Middle Ages, and entering his own middle age Ellio was personally out, while gloating facades on either side of the road rose implacably against this poor asshole American who hadn't the brains to have swung onto the much-vaunted "housing ladder" when he'd had the chance.
ref: 2018, Lionel Shriver, Exchange Rates:
glosses: Having no rigid class structure (in a society that previously had one).
British Museum algorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the British Museum algorithm
Etymology: Named by Newell, Shaw, and Simon in allusion to the inefficient idea of placing monkeys in front of typewriters in order to reproduce all the books in the British Museum.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A search procedure which involves generating and checking all possible scenarios.
wikipedia: British Museum
semiaffordable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + affordable.
Senses: examples: text: The route disgusted me, but it led to the only semiaffordable, partially accessible place I could find.
ref: 1981, Raymond Lifchez, Barbara Winslow, Design for Independent Living, →ISBN:
text: Serious shoppers who cannot afford serious prices, however, can walk around the corner to the vicinity of the Rue Boccador, where there are small shops with affordable, or at least semiaffordable, treasures.
ref: 1986, Abraham Michael Rosenthal, Arthur Gelb, The Sophisticated traveler:
text: It seemed like a week ago that she, Juliet and Ethan had stopped for a quick bite before checking out house listings in semiaffordable neighborhoods.
ref: 2007, Carla Neggers, Abandon, →ISBN, page 217:
glosses: Expensive but affordable if one stretches one's resources.
semi-affordable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + affordable.
Senses: examples: text: As a paid-up member of the blue-sky theory of thinking, I envisioned an estate of more than modest splendour and semi-affordable opulence, which was not surprising given all the Merchant Ivory films I'd seen.
ref: 2007, Leslie Ann Bosher, To the Manor Drawn: Courting the Countryside, →ISBN:
text: Such was student life in NYC, and Mia was one of the lucky ones to have a semi-affordable apartment so close to campus.
ref: 2016, Anna Zaires, Dima Zales, Dark and Alpha: An Addictive Romance Duet, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of semiaffordable.
nanoperforations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanoperforation
cryodenervations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryodenervation
FRELIMO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Frelimo.
twot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more twot
form: most twot
Senses: examples: text: Anyboy could see he was gettin' twot on her.
ref: 1895, T. Pinnock, Tom Brown's Black Country Annual:
qualifier: Staffordshire
glosses: Having a liking or affection (for); enamoured with; fond of; sweet on.
raw_tags: followed by on
go gentle into that good night
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes gentle into that good night
form: going gentle into that good night
form: went gentle into that good night
form: gone gentle into that good night
Etymology: From the poem Do not go gentle into that good night (1947) by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas.
Senses: glosses: To die without protest.
Synonyms: die
camisa de chino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmiː.sə ˈdeɪ ˈt͡ʃiː.noʊ/
Forms: form: camisa de chinos
Etymology: From Spanish camisa de chino. Cognate with Tagalog kamisa tsino.
Senses: glosses: a thin cotton collarless cuffless shirt with a few buttons extending a short distance below the neckline (either sleeveless or sleeved, ascribed to Chinese laborers during and before the Spanish colonial era of the Philippines)
Related terms: polo shirt
LaRouchebag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LaRouchebags
Etymology: Blend of LaRouche + douchebag.
Senses: examples: text: Your meaning was always clear. Equally clear is how adherance to LaRouche "philosophy" effectively negates one's ability to have a meaningful impact on most discussions, if for no other reason than others' inability to take a LaRouchebag seriously.
ref: 2003 August 21, Jamie, “#HOT! US deploys nuclear missiles in Israeli subs”, in talk.politics.misc (Usenet):
text: Larouchebag is a racist douche bag who was one of the originators of Urban mythology.
ref: 2005 November 14, George, “Many in Jordan See Old Enemy in Attack: Israel”, in soc.culture.usa (Usenet):
text: ..., 29, is a follower of cultish, crypto-anti-Semitic pseudo-leftist Lyndon Larouche, also known as a LaRouchebag.
ref: 2010 August 9, Twitchell, “Crazy Town Hall Lady Wants To Win Barney Frank's Seat, Colonize Mars”, in alt.gossip.celebrities (Usenet):
topics: government
politics
glosses: A political follower of Lyndon LaRouche.
wikipedia: Lyndon LaRouche
LaRouchebags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LaRouchebag
aldoketoreductases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aldoketoreductase
aldosteronemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aldosteronemia
Alentejans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Alentejan
Aleppans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aleppan
Aleppoans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aleppoan
aleukaemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aleukaemia
aleukias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aleukia
aleuriospores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aleuriospore
alintataos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alintatao
alkalinisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alkalinisation
alkoxycarbonyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alkoxycarbonyl
alkoxymethylidenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alkoxymethylidene
alkoxysulfoniums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alkoxysulfonium
alkyl halides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alkyl halide
alkylaluminiums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alkylaluminium
alkylcyclohexanols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alkylcyclohexanol
alkylcyclohexanones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alkylcyclohexanone
alkylglucosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alkylglucoside
alkylglycerone phosphate synthases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alkylglycerone phosphate synthase
alkylhydroperoxides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alkylhydroperoxide
alkylideneaminoxyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alkylideneaminoxyl
alkylideneaminyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alkylideneaminyl
alkyliminos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alkylimino
alkylindoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alkylindole
alkyloxys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alkyloxy
dateliners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dateliner
dorsalins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dorsalin
welding machines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of welding machine
alkylzincs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alkylzinc
allelopaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allelopath
all-courters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of all-courter
allergizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allergization
alliacols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alliacol
alligatorines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alligatorine
alloacceptors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alloacceptor
alloactivations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alloactivation
allochimeras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allochimera
allofathers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allofather
allogroups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allogroup
alloisomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alloisomer
allomerisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allomerisation
allomerizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allomerization
alloploidizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alloploidization
allseeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allseed
allylbenzamides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allylbenzamide
allyloxys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allyloxy
allylrhodiums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allylrhodium
allylsamariums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allylsamarium
alnums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alnum
alpha acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alpha acid
alpha globins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alpha globin
alpine snowboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alpine snowboard
alpine snowboarders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alpine snowboarder
aluminofluorides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aluminofluoride
knock dead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knocks dead
form: knocking dead
form: knocked dead
form: knocked dead
Senses: examples: text: I'm feeling very confident about my job interview. I'm going to go in and knock 'em dead.
glosses: To amaze or greatly impress (someone) by delivering an outstanding performance.
bad-assery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Her police officer brother was strong, formidable, and seven years Cane's senior, but there was no beating her fake fiancé when it came to general bad-assery.
ref: 2013, Rachel Harris, Seven Day Fiance: A Love and Games Novel, →ISBN:
text: But this was one of those times when he could put his bad-assery skill set to good use.
ref: 2017, Delores Fossen, Branded As Trouble/Just Like A Cowboy, →ISBN:
text: You just packed up and left? But it sounds like you were essentially the national champion of bad-assery in Denmark...
ref: 2018, Timon Singh, Born To Be Bad: Talking to the Greatest Villains in Action Cinema:
glosses: Alternative form of badassery.
hanky-twist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hanky-twists
form: hanky-twisting
form: hanky-twisted
form: hanky-twisted
Etymology: From the image of an anxious person twisting a handkerchief in the hands.
Senses: examples: text: There must in other fields be analogous forms of the brow-knitting and hanky-twisting which have accompanied the more narcissistic aspects of the 'literary turn' in anthropology (of which Writing Culture is least typical) and cognate fields.
ref: 1993, Stephen L. Nugent, Amazonian Caboclo Society: An Essay on Invisibility and Peasant Economy:
text: After years of hanky-twisting, here we are, irreversibly committed to this thing.
ref: 2011, Jack Walker, The Extraordinary Rendition of Vincent Dellamaria: A Political Fiction, →ISBN:
text: Cinema's standout bad guys didn't hanky-twist their lives away whimpering “Gee, am I doing something wrong?”
ref: 2016, Lionel Shriver, Paradise to Perdition:
glosses: To fret; to worry ineffectually.
hanky-twists
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hanky-twist
hanky-twisting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hanky-twist
hanky-twisted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hanky-twist
enmoisten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enmoistens
form: enmoistening
form: enmoistened
form: enmoistened
Etymology: From en- + moisten.
Senses: examples: text: 'Twas dawn, and the sprays from the river And mist had enmoistened the air
ref: 1984, Sydney S. K. Fung, Shu Tim Lai, T'ang poets: index to English translations, page 351:
text: Now, as your body, chaste and unimpaired By virgin birth, resumed its shape, The name you took of mother, and your lips Enmoistened with your happy tears;
ref: 2007, Clive Brooks, Reading Latin poetry aloud, →ISBN:
text: A temple of tears would be built upon the marshes of memory And I am able to write again While tears of elation enmoisten my eyes. ...
ref: 2015, Daemeon Pratt, Lying in Bed With Daemeon Pratt, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of moisten.
synonyms: word: moisten
enmoistens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enmoisten
enmoistening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enmoisten
enmoistened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enmoisten
VISA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus.
Related terms: MRSA
VRSA
VRE
fussbudgetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuss-budgetry
Etymology: From fussbudget + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: All these interested Porter, but not most New Yorker readers; and his self-indulgent operation has produced most of the time not the valuable critical writing his gifts promised but a flood of historical and musical fussbudgetry that was a waste of his attention and time and theirs.
ref: 1984, Bernard H. Haggin, Music and ballet, 1973-1983, page 202:
text: Romeo and Juliet refuses the audience a pause at Romeo's death; rather it switches perspective, with a welcome shock, to fussbudgetry.
ref: 1991, Kent Cartwright, Shakespearean Tragedy and Its Double:
text: Alas, fussbudgetry has no place in prayer, just as emotional manipulation has no place in a loving relationship.
ref: 1997, David Yount, Breaking Through God's Silence, →ISBN:
glosses: The characteristics and behaviors of a fussbudget; petty complaining.
fuss-budgetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: But bringing his micro-managing and fuss-budgetry to exploration changed the whole business entirely and made it much more successful.
ref: 2012, Roland Huntford, Scott And Amundsen: The Last Place on Earth, →ISBN:
text: I braced for the explosion of fuss-budgetry to erupt from Victor. It didn't.
ref: 2014, Sarah Graves, Nail Biter, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of fussbudgetry.
Homo insipiens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Homo sapiens (“the human species”, literally “wise man”), replacing sapiēns (“wise”) with Latin īnsipiēns (“foolish”).
Senses: examples: text: On the contrary, at the moment there seems to have been a slight retrograde movement; man is Homo insipiens. We are hovering on the brink of a precipice, winding round that dizzy path up which we may ultimately reach the peaks of Wisdom, but off which we may so easily topple to destruction.
ref: 1935, The Atlantic, Volume 156, Atlantic Monthly Company, page 8:
text: What Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin have called the Sixth Extinction is the one now being perpetrated by Homo sapiens – or Homo insipiens as my old German teacher William Cartwright preferred to say.
ref: 2010, Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life, Hachette UK, →ISBN, page 201:
text: Homo sapiens, lost in his arrogance and avarice, destroys and razes planet Earth, turning himself into Homo insipiens, in fact unshering in the sixth great destruction and extinction of species in present time.
ref: 2016, Antonis Anastasiadis, Crystals II: 2nd Battle of the Titans: Clash between Hypercosmic and the Supernatural (Celestial Battle), AKAKIA Publications, →ISBN, page 315:
glosses: Humans as a group, seen as a foolish species.
Synonyms: Homo idioticus
Related terms: Homo economicus
Homo reciprocans
homo sovieticus
Homo superior
Homo superioris
loosen someone's tongue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: loosens someone's tongue
form: loosening someone's tongue
form: loosened someone's tongue
form: loosened someone's tongue
Senses: examples: text: He made a long stay in the dining-room after dinner, and, I fear, took an unusual quantity of wine, but not enough to loosen his tongue: for when he came in and found me quietly occupied with my book, too busy to lift my head on his entrance, he merely murmured an expression of suppressed disapprobation […]
ref: 1848, Anne Brontë, chapter 24, in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall:
text: We relapsed into silence. Presently he laughed. “There’s something in this starlight that loosens one’s tongue. I’m an ass, and yet somehow I would like to tell you.”
ref: 1896, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Chapter 4”, in The Island of Doctor Moreau (Heinemann’s Colonial Library of Popular Fiction; 52), London: William Heinemann, →OCLC; republished as The Island of Doctor Moreau: A Possibility, New York, N.Y.: Stone & Kimball, 1896, →OCLC:
text: He admired the dexterity with which their host directed the conversation. The five young men had various tastes and their tongues had been loosened.
ref: 1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “After the Race”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 54:
text: Tommy had apparently been plied with ice cream and soda pop at the police station, to loosen his tongue.
ref: 2000, Michael Chabon, chapter 11, in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, New York: Random House, page 552:
glosses: To cause one to speak more freely; to cause one to discuss a subject that would not usually be discussed.
Related terms: in vino veritas
in wine, there is truth
loose lips sink ships
roof of the mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roofs of the mouth
Senses: glosses: The upper internal surface of the mouth that separates the oral and nasal cavities, found in humans and some other mammals.
Synonyms: sense: Upper internal surface of the mouth
word: palate
globe sponge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: globe sponges
Senses: glosses: A species of sponge, Tethya aurantium, orange in colour and golf-ball-shaped, found under boulders in the intertidal zone off southern Africa.
hop about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hops about
form: hopping about
form: hopped about
form: hopped about
Senses: glosses: To jump around from place to place as a small bird.
Worst
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Worsts
Etymology: Borrowed from German Worst, a variant of Wurst (“sausage”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
biscuitries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biscuitry
Tsugaru
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tsugarus
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 津軽 (Tsugaru).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
Derived terms: Tsugaru Strait
Jediist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Jediist
form: most Jediist
Etymology: From Jedi + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the religion of Jediism.
snapped up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of snap up
pro-gamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pro-gamers
form: progamer
Etymology: From pro- + gamer.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A professional player of video games; a competitive video game player; an ethlete.
topics: gambling
games
glosses: A professional gambler; a competitive player of games of chance to win prizes.
progamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: progamers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pro-gamer.
prison break
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪk
Forms: form: prison breaks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of jail break.
synonyms: word: jail break
prison breaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prison break
AMEs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of AME
EASes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of EAS
RVPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RVP
OPIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of OPI
MICs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MIC
NSMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NSM
Sandouping
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: San-tou-p'ing
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 三斗坪 (Sāndǒupíng).
Senses: examples: text: So it is not surprising that, in this century, China's leaders should dream of harnessing the river, taming its floods and turning its raw power into electricity. And now, near the small town of Sandouping at the mouth of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze, their dreams are slowly taking shape.
ref: 1997 January 5, Zheng Nian, “A Flood of Troubles”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Dec 2022, Section 34, page 34:
text: The rural dwellers who will be moved are scattered throughout 19 counties and municipalities, from Sandouping in Yichang Municipality, to Mudong Township in Ba County.
ref: 1998, Dai Qing, translated by Yi Ming, edited by John G. Thibodeau and Philip B. Williams, The River Dragon has Come! The Three Gorges Dam and the Fate of China's Yangtze River and Its People, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 44:
text: The town of Sandouping in Xiling Gorge, now the site of the Three Gorges Dam, was known for a short time as "Little Wuhan" because of all the commercial activity generated by the thousands of people who stopped there on the way to Chongqing.
ref: 2002, Deirdre Chetham, “War Along the Yangtze”, in Before the Deluge: The Vanishing World of the Yangtze's Three Gorges, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 108:
text: Even before the onset of the economic crisis, power availability was improving owing to the completion of the Three Gorges dam and the installation of the last of the massive generating turbines at Sandouping.
ref: 2009 January 8, John Kemp, “Downturn hits China's manufacturing heartland: John Kemp”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 27 Aug 2022, Columns:
glosses: A town in Yiling district, Yichang, Hubei, China.
glosses: A residential community in Sandouping, Yiling district, Yichang, Hubei, China.
holococcolith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holococcoliths
Etymology: From holo- + coccolith.
Senses: glosses: A form of coccolith, composed of minute calcite rhombohedra arranged in continuous arrays, produced by a holococcolithophore
Related terms: heterococcolith
holococcoliths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holococcolith
homotyrosine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homo- + tyrosine.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The amino acid (2~{S})-2-amino-4-(4-hydroxyphenyl)butanoic acid
Derived terms: dihydroxyhomotyrosine
N-acetyl-dihydroxyhomotyrosine
hornshark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hornsharks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of horn shark.
hornsharks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hornshark
hydropenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydro- + -penia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A bodily deficiency of water
Related terms: hydropenic
hyperargininemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + argininemic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Relating to hyperargininemia
hypercapnically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hypercapnic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a hypercapnic manner
hypercompensatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + compensatory.
Senses: glosses: Relating to hypercompensation
hyperferritinaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + ferritinaemia.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hyperferritinemia.
ferritinaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ferritin + -aemia.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ferritinemia.
Derived terms: hyperferritinaemia
hyperlactemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + lactemia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of an excessive amount of lactate in the blood
Related terms: hyperlactemic
hyperlactemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyperlactemia + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Relating to hyperlactemia
hyperthermally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hyper- + thermally.
Senses: glosses: In a hyperthermal manner
hypervacuolated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + vacuolated.
Senses: glosses: Excessively vacuolated
hypocapnically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hypocapnic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a hypocapnic manner
hypoornithinemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + ornithine + -emia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of a reduced amount of ornithine in the blood
Læsø
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island and municipality of Denmark in the Kattegat.
uggle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uggles
form: uggling
form: uggled
form: uggled
form: aggl
form: ugle
Etymology: From Norn alka (“dirty; defile”).
Senses: examples: text: Lass, doo'll ugle dy cleen cot, couldna da tooel dü—?
ref: 1898 August 27, Shetland News:
glosses: To make dirty.
Synonyms: besmear
besmirch
defile
dirty
smirch
soil
sully
uggles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uggle
uggling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uggle
uggled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uggle
Sahamalaza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A national park located in the Sofia region of northwestern part of Madagascar
alumings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aluming
alveolisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alveolisation
alveolizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alveolization
Kirindy Mitea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A national park located on the coast of the Mozambique Channel, in south-west Madagascar.
amands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of amand
amands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amand
amanding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of amand
amanded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of amand
amaroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amaroid
amastigophores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amastigophore
ichnotaxonomical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ichnotaxonomic.
ambitwistors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ambitwistor
ambonychiids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ambonychiid
American pancakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of American pancake
American wigeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of American wigeon
immunoabsorbtion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of immunoadsorbtion.
glosses: Misspelling of immunoabsorption.
immunotoxicant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunotoxicants
Etymology: From immuno- + toxicant.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any material that causes immunotoxicity
immunotoxicants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunotoxicant
indigogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That generates indigotin (or indigo)
Madame Berthe's mouse lemur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Madame Berthe's mouse lemurs
Etymology: Named after the conservationist and primatologist Berthe Rakotosamimanana, of Madagascar.
Senses: glosses: A small mouse lemur (Microcebus berthae)
wikipedia: Berthe Rakotosamimanana
indiscriminatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In an indiscriminative manner
amidiniums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amidinium
inflammopathology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒlədʒi
Etymology: From inflammo- + pathology.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The pathology of inflammation
infratrochanteric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From infra- + trochanteric.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Below the trochanter
intertuberal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + tuberal.
Senses: glosses: Between tubers
intradoudenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of intraduodenal.
intranationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intra- + nationally.
Senses: glosses: In an intranational manner
intraprostate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of intraprostatic.
intrasanally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of intranasally.
intraserovar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + serovar.
Senses: glosses: within a serovar
iridocyclectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iridocyclectomies
Etymology: From irido- + cyclectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Removal of the iris and the ciliary body.
Hypernyms: cyclectomy
iridectomy
joyweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: joyweeds
Senses: glosses: Any tropical plant of the genus Alternanthera
ketolactone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æktəʊn
Forms: form: ketolactones
Etymology: From keto- + lactone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any lactone that is also a ketone
ketolactones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ketolactone
amidiniumations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amidiniumation
amidinohydrolases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amidinohydrolase
amidiums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amidium
amidoalkyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amidoalkyl