cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
time eaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The last few weeks have been full of time eaters.
glosses: plural of time eater
wireable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wirable.
GOE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GOEs
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of grade of execution.
examples: text: About a year and a half ago, Schroeppel and Hickerson found a bunch of patterns with very small predecessor counts. These are used as modules in existence proofs for GOE's within various rectangles, some quite cozy.
ref: 1991 March 28, Bill Gosper, “on Life (and Death)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
text: This describes briefly the discovery of the first GOL GOE by Roger Banks, saying: "[he] used sophisticated mathematical techniques to prove that a certain 9-by-33 rectangular pattern is itself a Garden-of-Eden pattern."
ref: 1999 April 1, Tim Tyler, “proof for garden of eden in GOL ?”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
text: As far as I know, even a definite result for the 6x6 case would be progress. The most recent investigation of GoEs that I know about was some interesting work that Donald Knuth recently did in passing for his upcoming Volume 4 of _The Art of Computer Programming_, using binary decision diagrams.
ref: 2008 October 22, Dave Greene, “State wrt "Garden of Eden"in Conway's "Game of Life"”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Garden of Eden.
GOE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
qualifier: earth science
glosses: Initialism of Great Oxygenation Event.
fidget-spinning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The act of spinning a fidget spinner.
spinathon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spinathons
Etymology: From spin + -athon.
Senses: glosses: A long period of spinning.
spinathons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spinathon
half a mo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: word: mo
word: sec
word: tick
word: bat of an eye
word: bit
word: blink of an eye
word: crack
word: eyeblink
word: flash
word: glimpse
word: half a mo
word: instant
word: jiff
word: jiffy
word: jot
word: minute
word: mo
word: moment
word: New York minute
word: New York second
word: no time
word: sec
word: second
word: span
word: split-second
word: spurt
word: stound
word: tick
word: trice
word: twink
word: twinkle
word: twinkling
word: while
glosses: A brief time; a jiffy.
muchan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muchans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of machan.
homomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homo- (“homosexual”) + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: The civil and industrial life is too intensely masculine to possess perfect health, and its worst symptom is homomania, in which play selfishness, cunning, and intrigue. Its cure is aided by a more general diffusion of woman's spirit of mercy, love and intuitive honesty; and that spirit is a better medium also for the introduction into the industrial system and the legislature of the spirit of benevolence as formulated by the commandments of the love we have already considered.
ref: 1891, The Post-Graduate and Wooster Quarterly, volume 5, page 18:
glosses: Homosexuality, regarded as a mental disorder.
examples: text: After decades when homosexuality was either hidden or the subject of medical and psychiatric television reporting, French gays and lesbians started to appear on various sorts of television programmes after 1999. From 2000 onwards, gay and lesbian couples were regular guests on many TV shows that addressed topics characterised as 'marital issues', such as monogamy, fidelity and weight problems. Both commercial and public channels were affected by this 'homomania' […]
ref: 2007, Renate Günther, Wendy Michallat, Lesbian Inscriptions in Francophone Society and Culture, page 85:
text: If you say something negative about homosexuals, you will be labelled an intolerant "homophobic." But if you say something positive (like "I think they're fine. There's nothing wrong with them"), you are deemed neutral. Disapproval is intolerant, while approval is neutral? See what I mean? Approval ought to mean homomania, a promoter of homosexuality.
ref: 2007, William D. Gairdner, The War Against the Family:
glosses: Enthusiastic support for homosexuality.
homomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homo- (“same”) + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: The civil and industrial life is too intensely masculine to possess perfect health, and its worst symptom is homomania, in which play selfishness, cunning, and intrigue.
ref: 1891, Wooster Alumni Bulletin - Volume 5, page 18:
text: Yesterday Mrs. Titterington said she could not imagine anything more awful than for you to hear that gun every morning at ten o'clock when your husband's character and habits are turned wrongside out before that Court; and the tears came to her queer-looking eyes as she spoke. I thought you'd like to hear of her sympathy. “As I get all my news from others nowadays, I'll add that Mrs. Santley (she's got the homomania bad, I can tell you!), well, she read a letter from the chief, […]
ref: 1904, Anna Alexander Rogers, Peace and the Vices, page 223:
text: If we were asked to take Marjorie seriously we should say she had a bad touch of homomania; but surely we are not asked to take her seriously. No sane and pretty girl would carry on in so irresponsible and maladroit a manner.
ref: 1907, The English Illustrated Magazine - Volume 37, page 184:
glosses: Self-centeredness.
filkable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more filkable
form: most filkable
Etymology: From filk + -able.
Senses: glosses: Lending itself to filk music; easily adapted into a filk, or song parody.
Sakharov condition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sakharov conditions
Etymology: Proposed in 1967 by Andrei Sakharov.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of the three necessary conditions that a baryon-generating interaction must satisfy to produce matter and antimatter at different rates: (i) baryon number violation; (ii) C-symmetry and CP-symmetry violation; (iii) interactions out of thermal equilibrium.
wikipedia: Andrei Sakharov
Sakharov conditions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sakharov condition
sleeveholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleeveholders
form: sleeve holder
form: sleeve-holder
Etymology: From sleeve + holder.
Senses: examples: text: He resolved to make himself just as neat and attractive as possible. So he went straightway to a notion store and bought himself the finest pair of nickel-plated coiled wire sleeveholders they had in stock.
ref: 1914 July 17, Fred C. Kelly, “Statesmen, Real and Near”, in Duluth Evening Herald:
text: The sleeves of the shirt were too long. A pair of sky-blue, rosette-fastened, satin ribbon sleeve-holders above his elbows kept the cuffs from slipping over his hands.
ref: 1920, Earl Wayland Bowman, chapter 10, in The Ramblin’ Kid, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 144:
text: There was a time when a man’s home was his castle. He could return at the end of a trying day’s work, take off his sleeve holders, stretch out on the couch, and relax.
ref: 1954 March 2, Henry McLemore, “Hank Dead Set Against Trend of ‘Fixing’ Things for Home”, in The Times News:
glosses: A band made of fabric, elastic or coiled wire worn on the upper arm to hold the shirtsleeve up and prevent the cuff from protruding too far out of the jacket sleeve.
sleeve-holder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleeve-holders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sleeveholder.
sleeve-holders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sleeve-holder
sleeve holder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleeve holders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sleeveholder.
sleeve holders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sleeve holder
sleeveholders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sleeveholder
ups the ante
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of up the ante
upping the ante
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of up the ante
upped the ante
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of up the ante
jolly good show
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: An exclamation of praise or endorsement of an achievement.
Synonyms: well done
commanderly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more commanderly
form: most commanderly
Etymology: From commander + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of or befitting a commander
commanderlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more commanderlike
form: most commanderlike
form: commander-like
Etymology: From commander + -like.
Senses: glosses: Like or resembling a commander
Synonyms: commanderly
trigintillion
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: -ɪljən
Etymology: From Latin trīgintā (“thirty”) + -illion.
Senses: qualifier: modern British & Australian; short scale; modern British & Australian; short scale
glosses: 10⁹³.
qualifier: dated British & Australian; long scale; dated British & Australian; long scale
glosses: 10¹⁸⁰.
Derived terms: duotrigintillion
novemtrigintillion
octotrigintillion
quattuortrigintillion
quintrigintillion
septentrigintillion
sextrigintillion
tretrigintillion
untrigintillion
Related terms: Previous: novemvigintillion: short scale 1090
long scale 10174
Next: untrigintillion: short scale 1096
long scale 10186
squirrel-proof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more squirrel-proof
form: most squirrel-proof
Etymology: From squirrel + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: He uses a squirrel-proof bird bath.
glosses: Alternative form of squirrelproof.
pigproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pigproof
form: most pigproof
Etymology: From pig + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Resistant to pigs.
slim-fit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slim-fit
form: most slim-fit
Senses: examples: text: They are wearing slim-fit shirts.
glosses: Having a smaller, tighter cut. (of clothes)
arthrokatadysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arthrokatadyses
Etymology: From arthro- + katadysis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An intrapelvic protrusion of the acetabulum
arthropathia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arthropathias
Etymology: From arthro- + -pathia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: arthropathy
glosses: Any disease of a joint
Derived terms: arthropathia psoriatica
Icelandic raven
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Icelandic ravens
Senses: examples: text: The Icelandic raven flits around us, and runs among the stones in a bold contemptuous manner, flinging us a disdainful croak when we pelt it.
ref: 1863, Sabine Baring-Gould, Iceland: Its Scenes and Sagas, page 187:
text: Sometimes a black flag flickered for a moment above one of the distant bastions ; it was the wing of a raven—the great Icelandic raven that kills and devours the lambs.
ref: 1913, Henry De Vere Stacpoole, The Children of the Sea, page 111:
text: For it was and still is my belief that the bezoar must be much more potent in the Icelandic raven than in its namesake elsewhere, on account of its affinity with that king of fools, Odin, and his heathen tribe here in the north of the world…
ref: 2011, Sjón, translated by Victoria Cribb, From the Mouth of a Whale, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 21:
glosses: A subspecies of the common raven, Corvus corax varius (including the extinct colour morph leucophaeus), native to Iceland and the Faroe Islands.
arthropodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From arthropod + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or characteristic of arthropods
arthrorisis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arthrorises
Senses: glosses: Synonym of arthroereisis.
synonyms: word: arthroereisis
arthrosclerosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arthroscleroses
Etymology: From arthro- + sclerosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A stiffening of a joint
arthrostomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arthrostomies
Etymology: From arthro- + -stomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Construction of an opening into the cavity of a joint
arthrosynovitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arthrosynovites
Etymology: From arthro- + synovitis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: inflammation of the synovial membrane of a joint
specific risk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: specific risks
Senses: examples: text: Therefore, the value is actually exposed to changes in two different risk factors, i.e., systemic risk and specific risk.
ref: 2000, Financial Risk Management: A Practical Approach for Emerging Markets, Inter-American Development Bank, page 64:
text: The fourth type of risk is called specific risk. As the name implies, specific risk is associated with the risk of a specific investment or a specific investment manager. Specific risk is one of the most dangerous types of risk, but fortunately it's also one of the easiest to eliminate.
ref: 2004, Andrew Springett, The Pension Strategy: The Ultimate Guide to Personal Investing, Insomniac Press, page 43:
text: By investing in individual companies, you're exposing yourself to specific risk, or unique business challenges faced by companies. Specific risk is very different than systematic risk, or risk faced by all stocks.
ref: 2010, Matt Krantz, chapter 18, in Fundamental Analysis for Dummies, Wiley Publishing:
topics: business
finance
glosses: A risk inherent in a small group of assets that can be mitigated by diversifying, investing in a broad portfolio of assets.
Synonyms: diversifiable risk
unsystematic risk
Related terms: residual risk
specific risks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of specific risk
diversifiable risk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diversifiable risks
Senses: examples: text: The Comments certainly contemplate that, with respect to uncompensated, diversifiable risk, fiduciaries act with that objective in mind: “[M]ore than conservatism or a duty of caution,” the duty to diversify is a “warning” that a “central feature” of the prudence of risk-taking “ordinarily is the reduction of uncompensated risk through diversification.”
ref: 2004, Harvey E. Bines and Steve Thel, Investment Management Law and Regulation (Second Edition), Aspen Publishers, page 412
text: Diversifiable risk is an asset's risk that is related to a particular business event, such as a strike, and which can be overcome by diversification.
ref: 2008, Business Management: A Contemporary Approach, Juta & Co., page 109:
text: The risk of an investment consists of two components: diversifiable and non-diversifiable risk. Diversifiable risk, sometimes called unsystematic risk, results from uncontrollable or random events that are company-specific, such as labour strikes, lawsuits and regulatory actions.
ref: 2011, Fundamentals of Investing (Third Edition), Pearson, page 144
topics: business
finance
glosses: An investment risk that can be mitigated by diversification of an asset portfolio.
Synonyms: specific risk
unsystematic risk
Related terms: residual risk
undiversifiable risk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undiversifiable risks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of non-diversifiable risk.
undiversifiable risks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undiversifiable risk
nondiversifiable risk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nondiversifiable risks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of non-diversifiable risk.
nondiversifiable risks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nondiversifiable risk
diversifiable risks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diversifiable risk
non-diversifiable risk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-diversifiable risks
form: nondiversifiable risk
form: undiversifiable risk
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: An investment risk that cannot be mitigated by diversification of an asset portfolio.
Synonyms: systematic risk
Related terms: residual risk
non-diversifiable risks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-diversifiable risk
Navis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Navises
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Navis.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
instant karma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From instant + karma.
Senses: examples: text: Don't surround yourself with yourself
Move on back two squares
Send an instant karma to me
Initial it with loving care.
ref: 1971, Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, “I've Seen All Good People”, performed by Yes:
text: The eyes that met Paul's across a crowded London club 22 years ago when she was an unknown freelance photographer and he was, what? A god? "Instant karma" — this said romantically.
ref: 1991 May 5, The Canberra Times, page 9, column 2:
glosses: A circumstance where something deserving but unexpected happens, especially, when a person's actions backfire and cause an immediate unforeseen and unintended effect that may be deemed just deserts for those actions.
Related terms: duskarma
karma
karmic blowback
karmic debt
schul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schuls
form: schuln
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shul (“Ashkenazic synagogue”).
multiconditional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + conditional.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to more than one condition.
multicondition
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + condition.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to more than one condition.
ARMA
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Initialism of autoregressive moving average
ARIMA
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Initialism of autoregressive integrated moving average.
ARCH
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Initialism of autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity
GARCH
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Initialism of generalised autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity
goes potty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go potty
going potty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go potty
went potty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go potty
gone potty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go potty
shade tree mechanic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shade tree mechanics
form: shadetree mechanic
Etymology: From stereotypically working not in a garage but under a spreading tree.
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A person who repairs cars as a hobby.
Related terms: grease monkey
shade tree mechanics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shade tree mechanic
shadetree mechanic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shadetree mechanics
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shade tree mechanic.
shadetree mechanics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shadetree mechanic
Magnon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Magnon.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Related terms: Cro-Magnon
banker's lamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banker's lamp
bankers' lamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banker's lamp
arytenoepiglottidean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of aryepiglottic.
synonyms: word: aryepiglottic
arytenoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From arytenoid + -al.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the arytenoids
arytenoidectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: arytenoidectomies
Etymology: From arytenoid + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Removal of the arytenoids in order to widen the larynx.
arytenoidei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæɹ.ə.tiˈnɔɪ.diˌaɪ/
Senses: glosses: plural of arytenoideus
arytenoideus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæɹ.ə.tiˈnɔɪ.di.əs/
rhymes: -ɔɪdiəs
Forms: form: arytenoidei
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin arytēnoīdeus, clipping of musculus arytēnoīdeus (“arytenoid muscle”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of arytenoid muscle.
relations of production
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relation of production
Senses: glosses: The sum total of social relationships that people must enter into in order to survive, produce, and reproduce their means of life.
arytenoiditis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From arytenoid + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: inflammation of the arytenoids
arytenoidopexy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arytenoidopexies
Etymology: From arytenoid + -pexy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: fixation of the arytenoids
asbestoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From asbestos + -oid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Resembling asbestos
ascaridiasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ascaridiases
Senses: glosses: infection with roundworms of the genus Ascaris.
chomu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chomus
Senses: glosses: A communist.
horseliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From horsely + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being horsely
inseminatee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inseminatees
Etymology: From inseminate + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who has been inseminated.
unsexualize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unsexualizes
form: unsexualizing
form: unsexualized
form: unsexualized
Etymology: From un- + sexualize.
Senses: glosses: To make unsexual.
Agashe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Agashes
Senses: glosses: A surname.
cricoid cartilage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cricoid cartilages
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: cricoid
glosses: A ring of hyaline cartilage which articulates with the lower cornua of the thyroid cartilage and with which the arytenoid cartilages articulate; it forms the inferior wall of the larynx.
Sellick manoeuvre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sellick manoeuvres
Etymology: Described by British anesthesiologist Brian Arthur Sellick (1918–1996).
Senses: topics: emergency-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: A technique used to reduce the risk of regurgitation by applying pressure to the cricoid cartilage at the neck, thus occluding the esophagus which passes directly behind it.
wikipedia: Brian Arthur Sellick
paying attention
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pay attention
paid attention
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pay attention
cricoid cartilages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cricoid cartilage
oban
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obans
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of obang (“Japanese coin”).
someone's jaw dropped
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Morris's jaw dropped — his countenance became the colour of tallow — his teeth chattered, and he gave visible signs of the utmost consternation.
ref: 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy:
glosses: somebody was very surprised.
Related terms: jaw-dropping
make someone's jaw drop
Biallas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bialas
Etymology: From Polish białas.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
too cool for school
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Firstable (the latest word for first of all, for those not too cool for school), the decline in teen users can be largely attributed to rival messaging apps and the public distrust of Facebook.
ref: 2014 December 23, Quinten Plummer, “Teens Show Thumbs Up to Instagram but Thumbs Down to Facebook”, in Tech Times:
glosses: Very cool (trendy, fashionable, etc.).
leisure time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Free time.
thiccness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thicc + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being thicc; voluptuousness.
take personally
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes personally
form: taking personally
form: took personally
form: taken personally
Senses: glosses: To regard someone's remarks as offensive or hostile to oneself.
Related terms: take the wrong way
take offence
take exception
take to heart
top billing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: top billings
Senses: examples: text: She had top billing on the past three films.
topics: broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
synonyms: star billing
topline
glosses: The most prominent name on lists of cast and crew, or in advertising.
examples: text: I am proud to say that the royal Arctic survey ship will be named after David Attenborough. There was strong support for Boaty McBoatface. I think the submarine on the boat will be named Boaty McBoatface but, quite rightly, Attenborough will take top billing.
ref: 2016 May 11, David Cameron, “Engagements”, in parliamentary debates (House of Commons), volume 609, column 617:
glosses: A position of prominence.
Related terms: undercard
star billing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: star billings
Senses: examples: text: give somebody star billing
synonyms: top billing
glosses: top billing
executive ball clicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: executive ball clickers
Senses: examples: text: Then she clapped a hand over her mouth and her eyes switched between Mom and Dad with a clicking sound, reminding me of those executive ball clickers you find in . . . well, executive ball clickers' offices.
ref: 2012, Rio Youers, Westlake Soul, →ISBN:
text: On his desk was one of those executive ball clickers, a Newton's cradle, and it was all Ethan could do to keep himself from reaching out and playing with it, but he knew to keep his hands to himself.
ref: 2014, Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings, →ISBN, page 209:
glosses: Alternative form of Executive Ball Clicker.
executive ball clickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of executive ball clicker
Executive Ball Clicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Executive Ball Clickers
form: executive ball clicker
Senses: examples: text: Continuous Collisions of Newton's Cradle (Executive Ball Clicker) in CMS
ref: 2010, Akizo Kobayashi, Fumiko Okiharu, “Active Learning Approaches by Visualizing ICT Devices with Milliseconds Resolution for Deeper Understanding in Physics”, in AIP Conference Proceedings, volume 134:
text: When executive desk toys first began to appear, they tended to be ornamental gadgets made from such endlessly fascinating materials as sand and magnets. The Newton's Cradle or "Executive Ball Clicker," which demonstrates physics principles of momentum and energy, has been sold since the 1960s.
ref: 2012 September 4, Rose Hoare, “Toy story: Office playthings come of age”, in CNN International:
text: Whether you know it as Newton's Cradle or the Executive Ball Clicker, chances are you've seen the educational desk toy that seems to defy explanation.
ref: 2013 August 28, Elizabeth Palermo, “How Does Newton's Cradle Work?”, in Live Science:
text: Picture a Newtons Cradle, or as some call it an Executive Ball Clicker, sitting on someones desk, clicking and clacking away.
ref: 2016, Felipe Sostre, A liberation-oriented theological paradigm for evangelicals and sexual minorities caught at the nexus of orthodoxy and identity (MA thesis, Empire State College: SUNY):
glosses: Synonym of Newton's cradle.
synonyms: word: Newton's cradle
Executive Ball Clickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Executive Ball Clicker
Newton's Cradle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Newton's Cradles
Senses: examples: text: Continuous Collisions of Newton's Cradle (Executive Ball Clicker) in CMS
ref: 2010, Akizo Kobayashi, Fumiko Okiharu, “Active Learning Approaches by Visualizing ICT Devices with Milliseconds Resolution for Deeper Understanding in Physics”, in AIP Conference Proceedings, volume 134:
text: When executive desk toys first began to appear, they tended to be ornamental gadgets made from such endlessly fascinating materials as sand and magnets. The Newton's Cradle or "Executive Ball Clicker," which demonstrates physics principles of momentum and energy, has been sold since the 1960s.
ref: 2012 September 4, Rose Hoare, “Toy story: Office playthings come of age”, in CNN International:
text: Whether you know it as Newton's Cradle or the Executive Ball Clicker, chances are you've seen the educational desk toy that seems to defy explanation.
ref: 2013 August 28, Elizabeth Palermo, “How Does Newton's Cradle Work?”, in Live Science:
text: Picture a Newtons Cradle, or as some call it an Executive Ball Clicker, sitting on someones desk, clicking and clacking away.
ref: 2016, Felipe Sostre, A liberation-oriented theological paradigm for evangelicals and sexual minorities caught at the nexus of orthodoxy and identity (MA thesis, Empire State College: SUNY):
glosses: Alternative form of Newton's cradle.
Newton's Cradles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Newton's Cradle
neatish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈniːtɪʃ/
Forms: form: more neatish
form: most neatish
Etymology: From Middle English netish, netiss, equivalent to neat (“bovine”) + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: We walked down and had a peep into the stables, saw a neatish hunter or two, and two mares, which appeared clippers.
ref: 1841, The New Sporting Magazine, page 100:
text: "Neatish horse," at length observed he, half to himself, half to our friend; "neatish horse — lightish of bone below the knee, […]"
ref: 1858, Robert Smith Surtees, John Leech, "Ask Mamma," Or, The Richest Commoner in England:
text: Alice is a neatish hack and a mover, but a little raw in her manners; […]
ref: 1868, The Farmer's Magazine, page 127:
glosses: Characteristic of or resembling a neat; bovine.
neatish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈniːtɪʃ/
Forms: form: more neatish
form: most neatish
Etymology: From neat + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat neat.
take someone to the grave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes someone to the grave
form: taking someone to the grave
form: took someone to the grave
form: taken someone to the grave
form: take someone to their grave
Senses: examples: text: Two weeks later, cancer took him to the grave.
glosses: To kill someone; to cause someone's death.
ball clicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ball clickers
Senses: examples: text: Double steel ball clickers in windage and elevation adjustments.
ref: 1947, Charles Richmond Jacobs, John T. Amber, Ken Warner, The Gun Digest - Volume 3, page 150:
text: Redfield 70 Steel ball clicker system insures sharp, definite clicks.
ref: 1954, Charles R. Jacobs, The New Official Gun Book, page 69:
text: Its cap has a hidden, connecting arm with hidden, 1-mm “ball clickers,” which click when completely open
ref: 2017 March 7, Mark Bernardo, “Single-Malt “Watch”: Urwerk Teams Up With The Macallan”, in Watch Time:
glosses: A mechanism that uses ball bearings which fall into an indentation to create a clicking noise when an adjustment knob is turned to a correct position.
Related terms: Executive Ball Clicker
takes someone to the grave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take someone to the grave
taking someone to the grave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take someone to the grave
took someone to the grave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take someone to the grave
taken someone to the grave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take someone to the grave
ball clickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ball clicker
boundary term
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boundary terms
Senses: examples: text: 'Sustainability' is a boundary term, signifying complex interactions between science, politics, policy making and development (Scoones, 2010: 153-4).
ref: 2013, Frances Fahy, Henrike Rau, Methods of Sustainability Research in the Social Sciences, →ISBN, page 91:
text: 'Poor white trash' is likely the most enduring and degrading in a long line of 'stigmatypes'– 'stigmatizing boundary terms that simultaneously denote and enact cultural and cognitive divides between ingroups and outgroups' –such as 'redneck,' 'cracker,' and 'hillbilly.'
ref: 2014, Michael Raiber, David Teachout, The Journey from Music Student to Teacher: A Professional Approach, →ISBN:
text: A term which could be seen as a high boundary term ('the enemy' as opposed to 'the friend') is used, but Paul tells them, as it were, to dismantle such a boundary from the inside, by undertaking acts of love and compassion.
ref: 2017, Paul Raymond Trebilco, Outsider Designations and Boundary Construction in the New Testament, →ISBN, page 227:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A word or phrase that is used for othering; a term that serves to identify someone or something as other than the speaker.
examples: text: If M is truncated to have toral boundary, there will be a boundary term after the integration by parts step.
ref: 1996, Kojima Sadayoshi, Saito Kyoji, Matsumoto Y, Topology And Teichmuller Spaces, →ISBN:
text: Thus the boundary term ambiguity is under physical control: Each distinct choice of the quasi-local expression given by the Hamiltonian boundary term is associated with a physically distinct boundary condition.
ref: 2017, Ni Wei-tou, One Hundred Years Of General Relativity, →ISBN:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A term that must be added to an equation to represent a boundary condition.
Derived terms: Gibbons-Hawking-York boundary term
ATTOW
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of at the time of writing.
boundary terms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boundary term
boundary conditions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boundary condition
unsluggish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsluggish
form: most unsluggish
Etymology: From un- + sluggish.
Senses: glosses: Not sluggish; rapid or energetic.
reigns of terror
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reign of terror
commess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Romance, tragedy, a simply sweet love story, shame and scandal in the family, bacchanal, commess and sex at its best have been depicted in thousands of romance novels for generations.
ref: 2012 September 14, Bobie-lee Dixon, “Romance writing alive and well in T&T”, in Trinidad Guardian:
text: "The alternative would have been to let the country believe that there were all kinds of shady, nefarious bits of commess going on inside here," he said.
ref: 2012 April 10, “ASP Maharaj is new SSA director”, in Trinidad & Tobago Express:
text: With an entire house to ourselves, you can only imagine the commess (creative trouble) we got into.
ref: 2016 September 23, “Recipe – The Ultimate Island Spicy Fried Chicken”, in The St. Kitts-Nevis Observer:
glosses: Good-natured trouble; mischief; hanky-panky or high jinks.
examples: text: Even the recognition that commess is a pervasive feature of village life does not affect the judgment that it is alien to respectability, to mainstream morality and behavioral propriety. Again villagers are faced with a contradiction between needing to act out their disapproval of deviant sexual activity and their belief that commess is antithetical to good manners and a commitment to mainstream moral and behavioral norms.
ref: 1987, Hymie Rubenstein, Coping with poverty: adaptive strategies in a Caribbean village:
text: Not only is commess judged in this way, but it is related in the minds of Vincentians with such other traditional devices as joking ('ragging', 'making mock'), arguing ('making boderation', 'giving vextation') and ceremonial performances of a more ritualised sort. In other words, Vincentians seem to say that there is an 'art' in gossip just as there is in making a song or speech, or conducting an argument, and they judge the practice of commess accordingly.
ref: 2003, Philip Auslander, Performance: Media and technology, →ISBN, page 62:
text: It was a year after de election, As they celebrating their success, There came de strangest allegation, T&T name calling in commess;
ref: 2011 June 24, “Calypso queen updates Uncle Jack song”, in Trinidad Guardian:
glosses: Gossip about local scandals.
hanky-pank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hanky-panks
form: hanky-panking
form: hanky-panked
form: hanky-panked
Etymology: Clipping of hanky-panky
Senses: examples: text: He knew why he was so deeply angry: this situation had corrupted a fine young engineer, had lost him to the profession, while he, Drew, had hanky-panked with the enemy in the deluded belief that the conflict was not real.
ref: 1970, Borden Deal -, Interstate, page 362:
text: A man who hated communism and never "hanky-panked" with his secretary despite her "God- given beauty."
ref: 1990 -, Ellen Goodman, Making Sense, →ISBN, page 41:
text: A person in innocent until proven guilty, if you hanky-panked 20 years ago with an office-staff member, or even tried to and was rejected , you are part, of an unusual group of phylum humn being.
ref: 1995, United States Congress Senate Select Committee on Ethics, Documents Related to the Investigation of Senator Robert Packwood:
text: Professors don't hanky-pank students.
ref: 2005, Marc Estrin, The Education of Arnold Hitler, page 251:
glosses: To engage in hanky-panky.
hanky-panks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hanky-pank
hanky-panks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hanky-pank
hanky-panking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hanky-pank
hanky-panked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hanky-pank
hi-jinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It was a face familiar to millions of Americans around the country, an almost intimate face to anyone who'd ever watched a televised news program or any other national hi-jinks from Chicago.
ref: 1971, Don Pendleton, Chicago Wipeout (The Executioner; book 8), New York, N.Y.: Open Road Integrated Media, published 2014, →ISBN:
text: Those bastards hadn't left the school and gone back to their hi-jinks like we thought. Not at all. They'd been looking for us, eager to bash our brains in.
ref: 2005, Scott J. Evans, “Evil Deeds”, in Breathe Deep the Passing Wind, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN:
text: Apparently the man had a reputation for hi[-]jinks, such as filing fake flight plans to deceive [Bill] Clinton's barnstorming rivals.
ref: 2009, Taylor Branch, “Yeltsin and the Gingrich Revolution”, in The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President, London; New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 195:
glosses: Alternative spelling of high jinks (alternative form of hijinks).
hi-jinx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Day of the Dead stretches the zombie film just about as far as it can go – and the film [George Andrew] Romero wanted to make could have been even more challenging – but the horror movie audience is more interested in the partying hi-jinx of trendy monsters like [Dan] O'Bannon's funky zombies, Freddy Krueger or Herbert West.
ref: 2011, Kim Newman, “Postscript: The Post-modern Horror Film”, in Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen since the 1960s, revised edition, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, part 1 (Nightmare Movies), page 288:
text: Even though I have no arms or legs I did put my mom through some tough times. I did my share of rebellion and hi-jinx.
ref: 2014 August 27, Kent Bell, “Hi-jinx Stories”, in Look Ma, No Hands, No Legs Either, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 41:
text: He had no idea what was going on up there at the house, hoped it was no more than some trivial case of assault or some drunken sexual hi-jinx – but his sense of discomfort, bordering at times on dread – would not go away.
ref: 2014, I. G. Armstrong, Slaughtering Butterflies, →ISBN, page 158:
glosses: Alternative spelling of high jinks (alternative form of hijinx).
dogliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dogly + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: My own observations would endorse that concept, especially in the case of Dido, my ninth dog and first Labrador, who epitomizes the spirit of dogliness more than any other I have encountered.
ref: 1995, Chapman Pincher, My Life as a Real Dog, page ix:
text: The moment when the wolf took its first step toward dogliness is no more specific than any other moment in evolutionary history.
ref: 2019, Maggie Ryan Sandford, Consider the Platypus:
glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being dogly.
spunkish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spunkish
form: most spunkish
Etymology: From spunk + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: After Lil Rocker hastily greeted me with a brotherly handshake and his spunkish smile, I quickly inquired as to where he was going in such a rush.
ref: 2011, Mike Scott, Great American Youth: A True Saga, →ISBN, page 82:
glosses: Synonym of spunky.
synonyms: word: spunky
examples: text: I do not know whether any of you have seen Mr. Crnwe. He is a thin, middle-sized chap of seven-and-twenty ; dark brown hair, a little frizzley ; face yellowfied by the West Indies ; grey eyes ; large teeth that project outwards like a horse's; spunkish legs, not very straight; and, withal, he has a rather delicate appearance.
ref: 1849, The Roscoe magazine and Lancashire and Cheshire literary reporter:
text: A shrunken elm-bole, which age and the lightnings have robbed of branch and twig, stands on a hump of earth beside a decayed and spunkish oak.
ref: 1907, Great Thoughts from Master Minds, page 352:
glosses: Decrepit or unsound.
tonal centres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tonal centre
power centres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of power centre
entertainment centres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entertainment centre
profit centres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of profit centre
fitness centres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fitness centre
Fulpmes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A market town and municipality in Tyrol, Austria.
nattersome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nattersome
form: most nattersome
Etymology: From natter + -some.
Senses: glosses: Characterised or marked by nattering; nagsome
luresome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more luresome
form: most luresome
Etymology: From lure + -some.
Senses: glosses: Characterised or marked by luring; alluring
Synonyms: tempting
Namibian English
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The English language as written and spoken in Namibia, and among Namibian expatriates in other countries.
tally hoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tally ho
tally hoed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tally ho
brushes one's teeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brush one's teeth
brushing one's teeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brush one's teeth
brushed one's teeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brush one's teeth
Deerfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From deer + field.
Senses: glosses: Several places in the United States:
Former name of Deerfield Beach, Florida.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
A village in Lake County, Illinois.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Randolph County, Indiana.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Chickasaw County, Iowa.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
A city in Kearny County, Kansas.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
The name of multiple communities in Maryland.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
A town in Franklin County, Massachusetts.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
A village in Lenawee County, Michigan.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
A village in Vernon County, Missouri.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
A town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
A township in Cumberland County, New Jersey. Related terms: Upper Deerfield.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
A town in Oneida County, New York.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Pennington County, South Dakota.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Augusta County, Virginia.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
A town and village in Dane County, Wisconsin.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
A town in Waushara County, Wisconsin.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
A number of other townships in the United States, listed under Deerfield Township.
Derived terms: Deerfield Beach
Deerfielder
Deerfieldian
South Deerfield
Upper Deerfield
Related terms: Deer Park
Deerpark
Raleigh
Rawley
Rayleigh
Deerfield Beach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Settled in 1890, it was named Deerfield in 1898 because of the numerous deer that roamed the area.
Senses: glosses: A city in Broward County, Florida, United States.
Deerfielder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Deerfielders
Etymology: From Deerfield + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone from any of several places called Deerfield.
Synonyms: word: Deerfieldian
Deerfielders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Deerfielder
Deerfieldian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Deerfieldian
form: most Deerfieldian
Etymology: From Deerfield + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to any of several places called Deerfield.
Deerfieldian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Deerfieldians
Etymology: From Deerfield + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Deerfielder.
synonyms: word: Deerfielder
Deerfieldians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Deerfieldian
asemasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of asemia.
synonyms: word: asemia
asymbolia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of asemia.
synonyms: word: asemia
voicey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more voicey
form: most voicey
Etymology: From voice + -y.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, using, or by means of voice.