cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Sawzalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sawzall
winner's curse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
game-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: auctions
glosses: The phenomenon whereby the winner of an auction is likely to overpay, since each bid represents a bidder's estimate of the item's value, and one would expect the average bid to be the most accurate.
Related terms: bid shading
buck moon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buck moons
Etymology: So called because the new antlers of a buck emerge around this time of year.
Senses: glosses: A full moon occurring in July.
buck moons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buck moon
Wang tile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wang tiles
Etymology: First proposed by mathematician, logician, and philosopher Hao Wang in 1961.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A square tile with a colour on each side. Possible sets of such tiles are studied to determine whether they can tile the plane (arranged with like colours touching, and without rotations or reflections) and whether this can be done in a periodic pattern.
Wang tiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wang tile
sulcalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: The pronunciation of a sound with a deep, longitudinal groove running along the center of the tongue dorsum, roughly opposite of the uvula.
Related terms: sulcal
sulcus
sulcalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sulcalization
parapenile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + penile.
Senses: glosses: near the penis
pemafibrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -fibrate (“clofibrate derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A drug that modulates peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors
perfluorobutanoate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perfluorobutanoates
Etymology: From perfluoro- + butanoate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any perfluoro derivative of a butanoate group or anion
perfluorodecanoate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perfluorodecanoates
Etymology: From perfluoro- + decanoate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any perfluoro derivative of a decanoate group or anion
perfluorohexanoate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perfluorohexanoates
Etymology: From perfluoro- + hexanoate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any perfluoro derivative of a hexanoate group or anion
perfluorononanoate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perfluorononanoates
Etymology: From perfluoro- + nonanoate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any perfluoro derivative of a nonanoate group or anion
perfluoroundecanoate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perfluoroundecanoates
Etymology: From perfluoro- + undecanoate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any perfluoro derivative of an undecanoate group or anion
pericentromerically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From peri- + centromerically.
Senses: glosses: In a pericentromeric manner
periphytivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: periphytivores
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any organism that eats periphyton
periphytivores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of periphytivore
Berzerkeley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps someday they'll understand that if it weren't for the “unwelcome intruders,” the folks in Berzerkeley wouldn't even have the right to insult the very people who recruit other people to take their verbal abuse!
ref: 2008, Ali Elizabeth Turner, Ballad for Baghdad:
glosses: Alternative form of Berserkeley.
phoront
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phoronts
Etymology: From phoresis + -ont.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any organism that attaches itself to another in order to travel.
Related terms: phoresis
phoretic
phoronts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phoront
funishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌnɪʃmənt/
ipa: /ˈfʊnɪʃmənt/
Forms: form: funishments
Etymology: Blend of fun + punishment.
Senses: examples: text: I cannot elaborate in full detail here on the way things would unfold, but the crux is that hard determinism is seen to collapse upon itself: institutions of “funishment” will lose their ability to deter, and prove self-defeating.
ref: 2013, Gregg D. Caruso, Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility, page 107:
text: Funishment would resemble punishment in that criminals would be incarcerated apart from lawful society; and institutions of funishment would also need to be as secure as current prisons, to prevent criminals from escaping.
ref: 2014, Derk Pereboom, Free Will, Agency, and Meaning in Life, page 172:
text: If constraint, no matter how minimal, involves an adverse element that is undeserved punishment, quarantine advocates must provide, in [Saul] Smilansky's words, compensatory “funishment.”
ref: 2023, Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:
topics: ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A proposed treatment of criminals that would take them out of wider society (like a traditional prison) but without aiming to punish them.
examples: text: […] when punishment turns into “funishment”, and the Minuscule starts “acting out” in order to have some desired masochistic play.
ref: 2014, Raven Kaldera, Sabrina Popp, Unequal By Design: Counseling Power Dynamic Relationships:
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: A "punishment" administered for the enjoyment of the submissive, rather than as discipline.
Preedy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
phosphosynthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phospho- + synthetic.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to the biosynthesis of phospholipids
new thinking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of new political thinking.
synonyms: word: new political thinking
photodepleted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photo- + depleted.
Senses: glosses: Modified by photodepletion
new political thinking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
politics
synonyms: new thinking
glosses: The doctrine put forth by Mikhail Gorbachev as part of his reforms of the Soviet Union. Its major elements were international collaboration, priority of universal human interests over the interests of any class, and mutual security based on political rather than military instruments.
Related terms: New Thought
photoenhancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photoenhancers
Etymology: From photo- + enhancer.
Senses: glosses: Anything that employs photoenhancement
photoenhancers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photoenhancer
Vaisey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
windbell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windbells
Etymology: From wind + bell.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of windchime.
synonyms: word: windchime
windbells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of windbell
phytobiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phyto- + -biotic.
Senses: glosses: plant-based and macrobiotic
phytobiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytobiotics
Etymology: From phyto- + -biotic.
Senses: glosses: Such a material or food
phytobiotics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phytobiotic
blue dart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue darts
Senses: glosses: Synonym of blue angel (“blue flame produced by lighting one's flatus”).
synonyms: word: blue angel
extra: blue flame produced by lighting one's flatus
blue darts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue dart
supercodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supercode
bid shading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: In an auction, the practice of bidding less than what one believes the goods are worth.
Related terms: winner's curse
Shippey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: "Dweller at the isle where the sheep are kept", from Old English sċēap (“sheep”) + īeg (“island”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
patulent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more patulent
form: most patulent
Senses: glosses: Synonym of patulous.
synonyms: word: patulous
sandwich caring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the idea of being "sandwiched" between the younger and older generation.
Senses: glosses: The position of having to look after both young children and elderly relatives.
Related terms: sandwich carer
sandwich carer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandwich carers
Senses: glosses: A person who has to look after both young children and elderly relatives.
Related terms: sandwich caring
sandwich carers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sandwich carer
tag rugby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: word: flag rugby
word: rippa rugby
glosses: A sport, resembling rugby league and touch football, in which pulling an adhesive tag from a player's belt takes the place of full-contact tackles.
supertrunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supertrunks
Etymology: From super- + trunk.
Senses: examples: text: In the past, supertrunks were often constructed using coaxial cable.
ref: 1990, Stuart N. Brotman, Telephone Company and Cable Television Competition: Key Technical, Economic, Legal, and Policy Issues, page 71:
text: A client installed a supertrunk circuit in June 2000, […]
ref: 2003, M. S. Mastel, Telecom Audit, page 42:
text: The system also incorporates fiber supertrunks to reduce amplifier cascades, making the cost savings quite significant with this approach.
ref: 2013, David Goff, Fiber Optic Video Transmission: The Complete Guide:
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: A low-loss, dual cable underground link that offers high speed and high bandwidth
Related terms: supertrunking
supertrunks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supertrunk
supertrunking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: The use of a supertrunk.
supervaluationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supervaluationists
Etymology: From supervaluation + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A logician who uses the system of supervaluationism.
supervaluationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supervaluationist
equisummable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From equi- + summable.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of two or more series: such that their difference is summable.
Related terms: equisummability
equispace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: equispaces
form: equispacing
form: equispaced
form: equispaced
Etymology: From equi- + space.
Senses: glosses: To space apart at equal distances.
equispaces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of equispace
equispacing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of equispace
pinoquercetin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The flavone derivative 6-methylquercetin that is a plant metabolite
plurilobed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pluri- + lobed.
Senses: glosses: Having several lobes
polythetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a polythetic manner
postfixated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of postfixed.
melanophlogites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melanophlogite
Wolferton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Sandringham parish, King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF6628).
Planetos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: planet + -os, a suffix used in the series in the names of continents, e.g. Westeros, Essos, and Sothoryos.
Senses: examples: text: However, the comet’s presence is not limited to the sky over Drogo’s pyre, and winter is coming to all of Planetos; […]
ref: 2016, Patrice A. Loar, "'On the Cusp of Half-Remembered Prophecies': Interpreting Prophecy in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire", thesis submitted to the University of New Orleans, page 4
text: We aim to solve this problem by calculating the mass of Drogon from his size, and then estimating the lift that his wings would be able to generate, assuming that gravity on Planetos is the same as on Earth.
ref: 2017, J. Edwards, J. Hancock, S. Nayak, “Do We Have Liftoff?”, in Journal of Physics Special Topics:
text: […] and Oberyn continues having sexual tension with every human on Planetos.
ref: 2019, Kim Renfro, The Unofficial Guide to Game of Thrones, page 116:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The unnamed fictional planet which serves as the setting for the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series and its television adaptation Game of Thrones.
fancy sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fry sauce.
synonyms: word: fry sauce
pseudomaxillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪləɹi
-æksɪlɛəɹi
Etymology: From pseudo- + maxillary.
Senses: glosses: Apparently connected to the maxilla (typically of a fold in the mouth of a coelacanth)
raffinosaccharide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raffinosaccharides
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any saccharide (sugar) that has one or more raffinose moieties
raffinosaccharides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raffinosaccharide
reprocessability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being reprocessable
resuspendable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From re- + suspendable.
Senses: glosses: That can be resuspended
rhododendric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Derived from rhododendrons
Derived terms: rhododendric acid
ketsup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ketsups
Senses: glosses: Dated form of ketchup.
ketsups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ketsup
raffinases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raffinase
rhododendric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of triterpenoid carboxylic acids present in rhododendron
sectorectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: sectorectomies
Etymology: From sector + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Excision of a sector of the liver
equibounded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From equi- + bounded.
Senses: examples: text: The stability is shown to be uniform with respect to the singular parameter or the solutions are shown to be equibounded.
ref: 1994, Stability & Applied Analysis of Continuous Media, volume 3, page 277:
text: An important example of such a semigroup in infinite dimensional Hilbert space is the weak operator closed monothetic semigroup generated by a linear operator with equibounded iterates.
ref: 2011, M. A. Kaashoek, T. T. West, Locally Compact Semi-Algebras, page 8:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having the property that there exists a positive number M such that for all functions f in the family of functions F defined on X, |f(x)| ≤ M for all x in X.
raw_tags: of a family of functions
Derived terms: equiboundedness
word vector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: word vectors
Etymology: From word + vector.
Senses: topics: computational
computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A vector of weights that represents a word in numerical form.
word vectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of word vector
solvolyze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: solvolyzes
form: solvolyzing
form: solvolyzed
form: solvolyzed
Senses: glosses: To subject to, or to undergo solvolysis
softboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: softboys
form: softboi
form: soft boy
Etymology: Univerbation of soft + boy.
Senses: glosses: A man who is not traditionally masculine, but willing to show emotion and to wear feminine or androgynous clothing.
Related terms: softhearted
softy
CBOW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CBOWs
Senses: topics: computational
computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of continuous bag of words.
skip-gram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skip-grams
Etymology: From skip + -gram.
Senses: topics: computational
computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An n-gram in which component words need not be adjacent.
continuous bag of words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: continuous bags of words
Etymology: From continuous + bag of words.
Senses: topics: computational
computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A bag of words comprised of the words in the vicinity of a specific target.
one-hot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one-hots
Etymology: From one + hot.
Senses: topics: business
computer
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
science
sciences
antonyms: one-cold
glosses: A set of bits with only a single high (1) bit, with the remaining bits low (0).
Derived terms: one-hot encoding
activation function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: activation functions
Etymology: From activation + function.
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: A function that defines the output of a particular node in an artificial neural network on the basis of its inputs.
schwa deletion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From schwa + deletion.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: schwa dropping
glosses: The phenomenon of the dropping of the orthographic inherent vowel in speech, in Indo-Aryan languages that use abugidas.
inherent vowel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inherent vowels
Etymology: From inherent + vowel.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In an abugida, the vowel sound (often a schwa in Brahmic scripts) appended by default to a consonant symbol lacking a vowel diacritic.
Wadsley Bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area in the Metropolitan Borough of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK3391).
Roth's theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Klaus Roth.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A fundamental result in Diophantine approximation to algebraic numbers, stating that these numbers cannot have many rational number approximations that are 'very good' (variously defined through history).
wikipedia: Klaus Roth
Related terms: Roth's theorem on arithmetic progressions
Siegel-Walfisz theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Siegel-Walfisz theorem
Etymology: Obtained by Arnold Walfisz as an application of a theorem by Carl Ludwig Siegel.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A particular refinement of the prime number theorem and of Dirichlet's theorem on primes in arithmetic progressions.
Blunden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Munns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Meakin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Meakins
Etymology: Variant of Makin.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
fly-pitcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fly-pitchers
Senses: examples: text: Because of their ‘here today, gone today’ character, fly pitchers do not have to worry about selling to more or less the same pool of customers or passers-by week in, week out.
ref: 1995, Colin Clark, The Hard Sell: The Language and Lessons of Street-wise Marketing, page 173:
text: Once, Jason Statham sold cheap watches. Among other pieces of crap. “I was a ‘fly pitcher’ is what they call it,” he says. He used the streets of London to make a living, starting when he was around 14
ref: 2015 July/August, Tom Chiarella, quoting Jason Statham, “Jason Statham for your amusement”, in Esquire, page 52:
glosses: An illicit street trader; one who engages in fly-pitching.
fly-pitchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fly-pitcher
sacrificialness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sacrificial + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being sacrificial.
sacrificiality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sacrificial + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being sacrificial.
Freegard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
kaffir fink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kaffir finks
Etymology: Following a common pattern of naming South African flora and fauna kaffir (originally a neutral term for Bantu, now offensive) followed by an analogous European plant or animal. The compounding may have happened in English or Afrikaans; the components derive from Dutch kaffer and vink.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sakabula.
synonyms: word: sakabula
vacuum exercise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vacuum exercises
Senses: synonyms: word: abdominal vacuum
word: stomach vacuum
word: vacuum workout
word: vacuuming
word: vacuum pose
glosses: An exercise targeting mostly the Musculus transversus abdominis by keeping a straight spine, holding one's breath and lifting the organs into the rib cage.
vacuum exercises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vacuum exercise
Bamber Bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An urban village in South Ribble borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD5626).
macaronage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French macaronage.
Senses: examples: text: So, my thought is to whip up all of the meringue with yellow and then do the macaronage with half of the meringue. As those are baking, I'll add green to the meringue left in the mixer, briefly whip that, and then do the macaronage on that half. Between the two sessions of macaronage and piping, I suspect I'll want a break.
ref: 2015 September 29, Jolenealaska, “How long and how can I hold meringue before macaronage?”, in Seasoned Advice, retrieved 05 Jul 2020:
text: Did I learn a lot about the intricacies of macaronage (the term used for folding the macaron batter), that I actually didn't know how to make a proper French meringue at the time, and the importance of using a kitchen scale? Yes. Did I master macarons? No.
ref: 2019 April 2, Tessa Huff, Icing on the Cake, →ISBN:
topics: baking
cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: The step in making macarons where the wet and dry ingredients are carefully folded together.
Tila
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tilas
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
glosses: A surname.
Synonyms: sense: female given name
word: Teela
flesh-eating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: His ferocious cry and the horrible energy of his pursuit both assured me that this was surely one of the great flesh-eating dinosaurs, the most terrible beasts which have ever walked this earth.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: Certain flesh-eating peoples will not partake of animal blood in any form, but require all blood to be first drained from the meat.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 164:
glosses: That consumes flesh; meat-eating.
glosses: Of bacteria, necrotizing.
Derived terms: flesh-eating disease
Great White Brotherhood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Certain cults and individuals from the West look towards Tibet as the abode of mysterious Mahatmas and "Masters", and the home of the Great White Brotherhood.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 176:
glosses: A purported secret society of enlightened mystics who guide the spiritual development of the human race.
computings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The curriculum he or she seeks is individual — finding additional experiences, readings, and computings for each individual student.
ref: 1984, John Lawrence Taylor, Teacher Shortage in Science and Mathematics, page 257:
glosses: plural of computing
Speedway
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Capitalization of speedway. Named after the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (The Brickyard), a superspeedway (“banked oval motor racetrack”).
Senses: examples: text: A couple of broad ideas they determined included converting Indianapolis into a single, countywide government led by a strong mayor, and, for political purposes, omitting the school districts and the cities of Beech Grove, Lawrence, Southport and Speedway from any consolidation efforts.
ref: 2014 May 24, Jeff Wachter, “40 Years After Unigov: Indianapolis and Marion County’s experience with consolidated government”, in Abell Foundation, page 6:
glosses: An enclave of Indianapolis, Wayne Township, Marion County, Indiana, United States.
wikipedia: en:Indianapolis Motor Speedway
miscoordinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: miscoordinates
form: miscoordinating
form: miscoordinated
form: miscoordinated
Etymology: From mis- + coordinate.
Senses: examples: text: Because the players react to the full history, and the error rate is zero, they are sure to miscoordinate again.
ref: 2001, H. Peyton Young, Individual Strategy and Social Structure, page 70:
text: If they both carry out threats to go to their preferred restaurants, or if they both give in, they will miscoordinate.
ref: 2014, Peter Vanderschraaf, Learning and Coordination: Inductive Deliberation, Equilibrium and Convention, page 9:
text: Or their actual sequence of plays oscillates between both trying to play and both trying to watch, so they miscoordinate on every play!
ref: 2014, Brian Skyrms, Social Dynamics, page 130:
glosses: To fail to coordinate properly.
miscoordinates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of miscoordinate
miscoordinating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of miscoordinate
intercomplementations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intercomplementation
Blak
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blak.
misdecipher
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misdeciphers
form: misdeciphering
form: misdeciphered
form: misdeciphered
Etymology: From mis- + decipher.
Senses: examples: text: Then a number of these mistakes are corrected and lines necessary for sense recovered by modern editors from the previous editions themselves, which effectually shows that the plays were transcribed, and that these mistakes were largely made from misdeciphering the manuscript, as no printer, however bad, could possibly have made them if he had print to copy from.
ref: 1881, George Gould (of Bermondsey.), Corrigenda and Explanations of the Text of Shakspere, page 53:
text: Spinden completely misdeciphers this I. S. He gives two variant readings, both based upon incorrect decipherments of the terminal date, as follows:
ref: 1938, Sylvanus Griswold Morley, The Inscriptions of Petén - Volume 3, page 128:
text: The supplementary puzzles, like the half-burned note whose message we decipher (or misdecipher) in Death in Ecstasy, do not further the main investigation, and can send us down a blind alley or after a red herring.
ref: 1983, Essays on Detective Fiction, page 37:
text: I don't know how people misdecipher the loving beats of a heart
ref: 2019, Saroja Krishnamurthy, “A Mother's Thought”, in Sending Love to Mom, page 87:
glosses: To decipher incorrectly.
misdeciphers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misdecipher
misdeciphering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misdecipher
misdeciphered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misdecipher
competition caution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: competition cautions
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: A caution (“yellow flag”) flown during a race to separate a race into different stages. During the yellow period, standard caution flag rules apply.
Qumranic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Qumran + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Belonging to the Qumran region.
misdecorate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misdecorates
form: misdecorating
form: misdecorated
form: misdecorated
Etymology: From mis- + decorate.
Senses: examples: text: “By George that's not a bad idea of yours, Gurney,” said Mr. Rivers, misdecorating the patentee of the invention with a charming naiveté.
ref: 1884 March, “A Shepherd at Court”, in The Overland Monthly, volume 3, number 3, page 271:
text: Well, not as a rule the shawl-bedecked immigrant you so fondly hoped you were going to help, not the 'harmless and pleasure-loving “flapper,” whom the ladies and society wish “someone could reach,” nor the knot of carefree young men who misdecorate the street corners —oh, no!
ref: 1917, Musical America - Volume 26, page 29:
text: Stratfordians were unsure what a “jubilee” was meant to be, and worried whether it might “notify and misdecorate a new Species of Bacchanalian Revelling at Stratford Upon Avon."
ref: 2019, Andrew McConnell Stott, What Blest Genius?: The Jubilee That Made Shakespeare:
glosses: To decorate incorrectly.
misdecorates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misdecorate
challaning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of challan
misdecorating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misdecorate
misdecorated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misdecorate
Doornbos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Doornbos.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
superchaperone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superchaperones
Etymology: From super- + chaperone.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A complex of proteins that act as a chaperone
superclustering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superclusterings
Etymology: From super- + clustering.
Senses: glosses: The formation of a supercluster
Reutemann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Reutemanns
Etymology: From German Reutemann.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Related terms: Reut
Reute
Reuteman
Reuter
Reuterman
Reutermann
Reuters
surroundedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From surrounded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being surrounded, especially the condition that gives rise to the "figure / ground" phenomenon
symphyomyrtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: symphyomyrtles
Etymology: Partial calque of translingual Symphyomyrtus.
Senses: glosses: Any eucalypt of the genus Symphyomyrtus
symphyomyrtles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of symphyomyrtle
tenoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenoscopies
Senses: glosses: A form of arthroscopy typically used to treat injuries in the horse
Related terms: tenoscopic
tenoscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to tenoscopy or to the use of a tenoscope
tetradecadienoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetradecadienoic acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any aliphatic dicarboxylic acid that has fourteen carbon atoms and two double bonds
Related terms: tetradecadienoate
tetradecadienoate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetradecadienoates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of a tetradecadienoic acid
thalianol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A tricyclic triterpene alcohol related to squalene
transamidination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transamidinations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The intramolecular or intermolecular transfer of an amidine group
tyrosinylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Modified by reaction with a tyrosinyl group
vasodilatator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vasodilatators
Senses: glosses: Synonym of vasodilator.
synonyms: word: vasodilator
vasodilatators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vasodilatator
vibronectin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein similar to vitronectin and fibronectin
voxelation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voxelations
Senses: glosses: The formation and use of voxels
inspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inspeaks
form: inspeaking
form: inspoke
form: inspake
form: inspoken
Etymology: From in- + speak.
Senses: examples: text: And he called him only to redeem him, to inspeak the promised seed, the word of life into him, to be a redeemer of him and all his posterity.
ref: 1855, Christopher Walton, An Introduction to Theosophy:
glosses: To speak into, instill into.
WalK
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular histidine kinase
waldiomycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A WalK inhibitor present in some Streptomyces strains
PiP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PIP
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Initialism of picture-in-picture.
and I oop
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From a 2015 YouTube video in which drag queen Jasmine Masters exclaimed "oop!" mid-sentence when she accidentally hit her testicles while talking.
Senses: examples: text: At around 10 PM I said I was just gonna take a 5 minute nap and I ended up sleeping through the entire thing. And I oop...
ref: 2019 May, Kyle Estimos, “Relay For Life”, in Charger Territory, page 7:
text: The famous place to get ice cream in I.V. surprisingly also has a selection of sandwiches, treats, and I oop — coffee.
ref: 2019 November 20, Linda Chong, “Searching for the best Iced Latte in Isla Vista”, in The Bottom Line, University of California, Santa Barbara, page 5:
text: “And I oop! Sorry, you just became a part of the cancel culture. Cancelled!” Bella said, and I cracked the fuck up.
ref: 2020, Tabeitha Pollard, Felicity and Jason 3: A Southern Love Story, unnumbered page:
glosses: Used to humorously convey embarrassment or shock.
wikipedia: Jasmine Masters
trans-misogynist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trans-misogynist
form: most trans-misogynist
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of transmisogynist.
trans-misogynist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trans-misogynists
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of transmisogynist.
trans-misogynistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trans-misogynistic
form: most trans-misogynistic
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of transmisogynistic.
tranarchist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tranarchists
Etymology: Blend of trans + anarchist. By surface analysis, tranarchy + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: What follows is a distillation of hours of conversation with two of these women, Justine and Zoë, founding members of the "tranarchist" affinity group that has helped jump-start a movement that has swept the nation and the world.
ref: 2011 November 9, Gina Quattrochi, “When the System Itself is the Problem”, in Gay City News, page 10:
text: As Justine Tunney (27), self-described "tranarchist" and founder of the main OWS website (occupywallst.org) phrased it, "I believe that the hetero-normative, cis-normative, patriarchal, state-capitalist establishment is evil and must be destroyed."
ref: 2013, Mark Bray, Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street, unnumbered page:
text: Some noted with bemused incuriosity that Tunney, an avowed anticapitalist “tranarchist” (transgender anarchist), was at one time a prominent and divisive fixture of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
ref: 2018, Corey Pein, Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley, unnumbered page:
glosses: A transgender anarchist; a transgender person who supports anarchist views.
Related terms: tranarchy
deinvestment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of deinvesting.
transtubally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From transtubal + -ly.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Across or through a tube.
glycaemic index
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycaemic indexes
form: glycaemic indices
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of glycemic index.
glycaemic indexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glycaemic index
glycaemic indices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glycaemic index
on 'Change
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: upon 'Change
Etymology: From on + 'Change (“stock exchange”).
Senses: examples: text: ‘[…] He was conſidered,’ he added, lowering his voice, ‘on ’Change as a ſwindler.’
ref: 1798, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, “[Maria: or, The] Wrongs of Woman”, in W[illiam] Godwin, editor, Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. […], volume II, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […]; and G[eorge,] G[eorge] and J[ohn] Robinson, […], →OCLC, chapter XI, page 49:
text: He knew he could make money on 'Change—he had demonstrated that over the last few years.
ref: 2013, P. Ryscavage, Norman B. Ream:
glosses: At the Royal Exchange; on the stock exchange.
black piller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black pillers
form: blackpiller
Etymology: From black pill + -er.
Senses: examples: text: But in contrast to a therapeutic mode of connecting with others, this nihilistic network does not seek to overcome its condition: Black Pillers accept their fate and even dwell in its finality.
ref: 2019, Jack Bratich, Sarah Banet-Weiser, “From Pick-Up Artists to Incels: Con(fidence) Games, Networked Misogyny, and the Failure of Neoliberalism”, in International Journal of Communication, volume 13, page 5017:
text: Hate and revenge are the principal driving satisfactions for Blackpillers targeted at women (especially fat women and Indian and Asian women because they only want to have sex with "Chads"); […]
ref: 2019, Stephanie Swales, Carol Owens, Psychoanalysing Ambivalence with Freud and Lacan: On and Off the Couch, unnumbered page:
text: Some biological essentialists blackpillers promote fatalism, believing that it is impossible to change female nature (gender essentialism), so we should just "give up".
ref: 2020, Incels.co wiki, quoted in Anne Jones, "Incels and the Manosphere: Tracking Men's Movements Online", thesis submitted to the University of Central Florida, page 66
glosses: A person who has adopted a nihilistic and often far-right philosophy, especially an incel who believes men's dating success is determined purely by their physical appearance.
powerbuilding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaʊə(ɹ)ˌbɪldɪŋ/
Etymology: Blend of powerlifting + bodybuilding
Senses: glosses: A workout program combining powerlifting and bodybuilding lifts and volumes.
brotherboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brotherboys
Etymology: From brother + boy.
Senses: examples: text: Senator McCarthy's plea to 'stay strong' resonates because all too often sistergirls and brotherboys suffer, not only from verbal harassment and ostracism, but also violence and sexual abuse.
ref: 2017, Stephen Kerry, Trans Dilemmas: Living in Australia’s Remote Areas and in Aboriginal Communities, unnumbered page:
text: This, however, is changing in some communities, with some sistergirls and brotherboys being able to negotiate participation in men's business or women's business, allowing for greater connection to country.
ref: 2019, Sonja J. Ellis, Damien W. Riggs, Elizabeth Peel, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex, and Queer Psychology: An Introduction, page 84:
text: For example, Jeremy, who identifies as a brotherboy (trans) and is bisexual, reveals: […]
ref: 2020, Corrinne Sullivan, “Indigenous Australian Sexualities Explored Through The Lens Of Sex Work”, in Anindita Datta, Peter Hopkins, Lynda Johnston, Elizabeth Olson, Joseli Maria Silva, editors, Routledge Handbook of Gender and Feminist Geographies, unnumbered page:
qualifier: Australian Aboriginal
glosses: A member of a traditional gender role in Australian Aboriginal cultures, resembling trans men.
Coordinate terms: sistergirl
castles in Spain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of French châteaux en Espagne, recorded in the Roman de la Rose in the 13th century and translated into English around 1365.
Senses: examples: text: Glittering castles in Spain were shaping themselves out of the mists and rainbows of her lively fancy; adventures wonderful and enthralling were happening to her in cloudland—adventures that always turned out triumphantly and never involved her in scrapes like those of actual life.
ref: 1908 June, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, chapter XXX, in Anne of Green Gables, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, →OCLC:
text: The show must go on / And time slipped away / Before you could build any castles in Spain / The chance had gone by
ref: 1977, “Day After Day (The Show Must Go On)”, in I Robot, performed by The Alan Parsons Project:
glosses: Synonym of castle in the air.
synonyms: word: castle in the air
wikipedia: Roman de la Rose
looksmaxx
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: looksmaxxes
form: looksmaxxing
form: looksmaxxed
form: looksmaxxed
form: looksmax
Etymology: From looks + -maxx.
Senses: examples: text: Incel culture advises men to “looksmaxx” or “statusmaxx”—to improve their appearance, to make more money—in a way that presumes that women are not potential partners or worthy objects of possible affection but inconveniently sentient bodies that must be claimed through cold strategy.
ref: 2018 May 15, Jia Tolentino, “The Rage of the Incels”, in The New Yorker:
text: Some attempt to “looksmaxx” with money by finding methods of increasing their sexual market value like getting plastic surgery.
ref: 2020, Annie Jones, "Incels and the Manosphere: Tracking Men's Movements Online", thesis submitted to the University of Central Florida, page 48
text: This can be achieved through one of two ways: by ‘looksmaxxing’ or improving one’s physical characteristics in order to become more attractive (Chapter Four) or through the ‘just be white’ (JBW) theory.
ref: 2020, Angus Charles Lindsay, "Swallowing the Black Pill: A Qualitative Exploration of Incel Antifeminism within Digital Society", thesis submitted to Victoria University of Wellington, page 79
glosses: To seek to enhance one's physical appearance to increase one's sexual market value.
Hyponyms: chadmaxx
gymmaxx
hardmaxx
softmaxx
surgerymaxx
Derived terms: looksmaxxer
-maxx
counter-revolution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counter-revolutions
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of counterrevolution.
counter-revolutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counter-revolution
beforehand in the world
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: beforehand with the world
Senses: examples: text: I almoſt ſtarved myſelf, till I once more got before-hand in the world.
ref: 1798, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, “[Maria: or, The] Wrongs of Woman”, in W[illiam] Godwin, editor, Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. […], volume II, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […]; and G[eorge,] G[eorge] and J[ohn] Robinson, […], →OCLC, chapter XIII, page 98:
text: I shall see how much I am before-hand with the world in the spring […].
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter VI, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 66:
glosses: In prosperous circumstances; comfortably-off.
soft robot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soft robots
Etymology: From soft + robot.
Senses: glosses: A robot that is physically compliant and deformable and typically employs biomimicry
Related terms: soft robotics
Dewing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Hookham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Buttle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
right side out
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: antonyms: inside out
glosses: With the right side surface correctly turned to be on the outside.
right side out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of right-side-out.
right-side-out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: antonyms: inside-out
glosses: With the outer surface correctly facing outward, unturned
right-side-out
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of right side out.
Hairsine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A neighbourhood of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Plaice
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Kei apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kei apples
Etymology: Named after the Kei River in what is now the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
Senses: glosses: The fruit of Dovyalis caffra, a tree native to southern Africa.
aroena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aroenas
Etymology: Borrowed or derived from Khoekhoe.
Senses: glosses: A plant of southern Africa of genus Quaqua, especially Quaqua mammillaris, or its fruit.
fateles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fatele
fekei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Tuvaluan dish of grated pulaka steamed in pulaka leaves and mixed with coconut cream.
paopao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paopaos
form: paopao
Senses: glosses: A traditional single-outrigger canoe of Tuvalu.