cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Chavril
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Chad + Avril.
Senses: examples: text: However one feels about the engagement of Canadian pop stars Avril Lavigne and Chad Kroeger, one thing is certain: When People magazine stunned the world with the news late Tuesday, the reaction was instantaneous. Twitter was afire with news of Canada’s answer to Brangelina. In Chavril, Canada had its own royal couple.
ref: 2012 August 23, Marsha Lederman, “Is Chavril our own Brangelina pairing?”, in The Globe and Mail:
text: Avril Lavigne is rumoured to have been married in her "favourite place to be."
The Here's To Never Growing Up hitmaker was set to tie the knot with Chad Kroeger in Cannes, France, on Monday.
ref: 2013, "Chavril hitched in France", The Province, 2 July 2013 (only used in title)
text: A three-album compilation by various adult artists, including Canuck crooners Sarah Harmer, The Barenaked Ladies, Sarah McLachlan and Canada's pre-Chavril sweethearts Chantal Kreviazuk and Raine Maida.
ref: 2013 September 17, Lyranda Martin Evans, Fiona Stevenson, “Kids' CDs even parents will like”, in Metro, Edmonton, page 35:
glosses: The couple consisting of celebrities Chad Kroeger and Avril Lavigne, together from 2012 to 2015.
drip tips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drip tip
Earnshaw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Earnshaws
Etymology: Habitational surname from a place in Lancashire, from Old English earn (“eagle”) + healh (“nook, angle, recess”).
Senses: glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Eckert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Eckerts
Etymology: Borrowed from German Eckert.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Eckert projection
Dates
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Date
age of criminal responsibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ages of criminal responsibility
Senses: glosses: The age at which a person is deemed fit for criminal liability for their actions.
jump scare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jump scares
form: jump-scare
form: jumpscare
Senses: examples: text: They'd do something horrible, maybe kill off a few protagonists, and then make people sit around waiting for the next terrible thing to come along. They called it “setting up a jump scare.”
ref: 2011, Mira Grant, Deadline, Orbit, published 2011, →ISBN:
text: Drag Me to Hell capitalizes on the jump scare, scattering it liberally throughout the film to the point where it becomes almost numbing.
ref: 2011, John Rosenberg, The Healthy Edit: Creative Techniques for Perfecting Your Movie, Focal Press, →ISBN, pages 80–81:
text: This quiet is broken suddenly with an initial jump scare of the puppet's iconic laughter.
ref: 2013, Jeffrey Bullins, “Hearing the Game: Sound Design”, in James Aston, editor, To See the Saw Movies: Essays on Torture Porn and Post-9/11 Horror, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 188:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences
glosses: The technique, typically used in horror films and video games, of having something occur suddenly and without warning to frighten the audience.
glosses: The sudden arrival or advent of something unpleasant.
examples: text: The loud knock at the door gave me a terrible jump scare.
glosses: A fright caused by this.
jump scare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jump scares
form: jump scaring
form: jump scared
form: jump scared
form: jump-scare
form: jumpscare
Senses: glosses: To frighten (a film audience or video game player, etc.) by means of something that happens suddenly without warning.
jump scares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jump scare
jump scares
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jump scare
shintai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shintai
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 神体(しんたい) (shintai).
Senses: examples: text: But Ryōtora had definitely moved a shintai during the makeshift festival – and it must have been Saiun-nushi’s, because Sekken couldn’t imagine the shugenja could call a kami into a foreign vessel without noticing.
ref: 2021, Marie Brennan [pseudonym; Bryn Neuenschwander], chapter 18, in The Night Parade of 100 Demons (Legend of the Five Rings), Nottingham, Nottinghamshire: Aconyte Books, →ISBN, page 211:
topics: Shinto
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A physical object (either natural or man-made) worshipped at or near Shinto shrines as a repository for spirits or kami.
transitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more transitable
form: most transitable
Senses: examples: text: He quitted the lake on the 23rd of September, and on the 4th of October arrived at Queenstown, on the shores of Lake Wakatipu, having succeded in finding a transitable route.
ref: 1865, Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, page 33:
glosses: Passable; traversable.
viagra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: viagras
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Viagra.
viagras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of viagra
jump-scare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jump-scares
Senses: examples: text: There's jump-scares a-plenty and all the obvious manipulation that goes into making a fright-flick work.
ref: 1995, Film Review, Issues 12-13, unknown page
text: Jump-scares, suspense, and sudden violence are all a major part of the horror genre.
ref: 2012, Xander Bennett, Screenwriting Tips, You Hack: 150 Practical Pointers for Becoming a Better Screenwriter, Focal Press, →ISBN, page 103:
text: Walking through the dark, I felt like I was drawing to a movie jump-scare.
ref: 2013, Scot Sotherrn, Cub Service: A Memoir, Soft Skull Press, →ISBN, page 185:
glosses: Alternative spelling of jump scare.
jump-scares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jump-scare
jump-scares
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jump-scare
delayed miscarriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delayed miscarriages
Senses: glosses: A missed abortion.
early fetal demise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: early fetal demises
Senses: glosses: A missed abortion.
silent miscarriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silent miscarriages
Senses: glosses: A missed abortion.
missed miscarriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: missed miscarriages
Senses: glosses: A missed abortion.
overdue abortion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overdue abortions
Senses: glosses: A missed abortion.
prolonged abortion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prolonged abortions
Senses: glosses: A missed abortion.
jumpscare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jumpscares
Etymology: From jump + scare.
Senses: examples: text: I sit shaking in fear and shock from the horrible jumpscare.
ref: 2011 January 27, [ste parker], “Re: BA Alan Wake”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet):
text: Do you like jumpscares? Well then, here's your movie!
ref: 2011, Justin Mancini, "'Paranormal Activity 3' delivers more of the same scares", The Signal (College of New Jersey), Volume 135, Number 8, 20 October 2011, page 21
text: It seemed that for every legitimate moment of tension and terror caused by Wan's brilliant style of camerawork (of which there surprisingly weren't many), there was a cheap jumpscare that just made you think: “Did they really just do that to me?”
ref: 2013, Patrick Shanahan, "Insidious Chapter 2 Falls Flat", The Record (Saint Louis Priory School), Volume 44, Issue 5, 27 September 2013, page 6
glosses: Alternative form of jump scare.
jumpscare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jumpscares
form: jumpscaring
form: jumpscared
form: jumpscared
Etymology: From jump + scare.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jump scare.
jumpscares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jumpscare
jumpscares
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jumpscare
gestational sac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gestational sacs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The intrauterine structure around an embryo in the very early stage of a fetus that can be used to determine if an intrauterine pregnancy exists until the embryo is identified.
Synonyms: gestation sac
gestation sac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gestation sacs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gestational sac.
Assburgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assburgers
Etymology: From ass + burger, as a jocular play on Asperger.
Senses: examples: text: We all know you don't really have Assburgers, you're just making excuses to justify your fucktardery on this newsgroup, stupid attention-whore.
ref: 2007 July 29, Industrial One, “Re: OT but might help: My Disability”, in comp.compression (Usenet):
text: Stop making fun of people with Assburgers. It's a serious health issue.
ref: 2012 June 7, owl, “Re: How many times can Snit say "herd" in one month?”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet):
text: and does Assburgers run in the [redacted] family?
ref: 2013 February 16, sweetbac, “Re: Now....let's see that CasKe'T”, in rec.martial-arts (Usenet):
glosses: Asperger's syndrome.
assburgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] If anything, I'm on the autism spectrum, just a trace of assburgers, which is fairly rare in a girl. […]
ref: 2010, Sam Lipsyte, The Ask, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 118:
text: Have you ever been diagnosed with assburgers?
ref: 2010 April 22, Non scrivetemi, “Re: Bobbi Sanchez claims anonymous remailers have been compromised”, in soc.support.fat-acceptance (Usenet):
text: "I wouldn't be having no stupid assburgers kid in the first place."
ref: 2011, Hari Kunzru, Gods Without Men, Knopf, →ISBN, page 289:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Assburgers.
Spicanese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of spic + Japanese
Senses: examples: text: Outdoor signs were always displayed in English. Now it's English & Spicanese.
ref: 2002 October 27, XtremePrejudice, “Re: Harlow's Obsessed with me. Somebody help the pathetic ass!”, in alt.alien.visitors (Usenet):
text: The problem is not only a poorly secured border,but how people accomodate^([sic]) these vile cocksuckers!"Press 1 for English..press 2 for Spicanese"..
ref: 2006 March 26, The Yiddish Yoddler, “On this Immigration thing.....”, in alt.politics (Usenet):
text: Department stores English and Spicanese signs hanging from the ceiling.
ref: 2008 March 8, Hybrid Angel, “Re: Nasa footage of UFOs in our orbit”, in alt.fan.cropcircles (Usenet):
glosses: The Spanish language.
beclown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beclowns
form: beclowning
form: beclowned
form: beclowned
Etymology: From be- + clown.
Senses: examples: text: To the extent that the demand for Black English comes from people with this attitude it is not a serious demand, and to answer their arguments would be to play their game and beclown onself.^([sic])
ref: 1972, J. Mitchell Morse, The Irrelevant English Teacher, Temple University Press, →ISBN, page 82:
text: In 1971, when I discussed his work in terms of this complex Renaissance understanding of folly, well documented in his own work and quite consistent with the traditions of the learned satire that he was trying to compose, he suggested that I had "beclowned" him, […]
ref: 2001, Donald Theall, Virtual Marshall McLuhan, McGill-Queen's University Press, →ISBN, page 106:
text: Even Democratic hopeful Joe Biden, whose mouth churns up huge yardage every time he answers a question the long way around, hasn't "beclowned" himself, to borrow a word much beloved in the conservative blogosphere.
ref: 2007 June, James Wolcott, “The YouTube Election”, in Vanity Fair:
glosses: To make a fool of.
beclowns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beclown
beclowning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beclown
beclowned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beclown
debigulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: debigulates
form: debigulating
form: debigulated
form: debigulated
Etymology: Back-formation from Debigulator, itself from de- + big + -ule + -ate + -or, a fictional shrink ray featured in the 1996 episode "Treehouse of Horror VII" of the American animated television series The Simpsons.
Senses: examples: text: > think moe will get his ears enlarged 2.27.00?
No, he'll get them debigulated.
ref: 2000 February 27, Ben Mann, “Re: X'tapolapocetl (Quetzelsacatanango?)”, in alt.tv.simpsons (Usenet):
ref: 2002 October 22, Ed, “Button to enlarge or debigulate size of text?”, in netscape.public.mozilla.wishlist (Usenet):
text: Does debigulating a table first delete blank rows? (I don't know if blank rows are always at the end or not.)
ref: 2008 May 13, Ron Newcomb, “I7: Dynamic Tables extension for Glulx”, in rec.arts.int-fiction (Usenet):
synonyms: ensmallen
antonyms: embiggen
glosses: To reduce or shrink; to make or become smaller.
wikipedia: The Simpsons
Treehouse of Horror VII
debigulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of debigulate
debigulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of debigulate
adultivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From adult + -ive + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Kearney: Good evening, young man. My name is Charles Norwood. Furthermore to this beer, I would also like three of your finest, cheapest cigars. Here's my ID which confirms my adultivity.
ref: 1996 5 May, David X. Cohen, "Much Apu About Nothing", episode 7-23 of The Simpsons, 00:11:46-00:11:59
text: Also, just so we can verify your adultivity, please give us your credit card number and expiration date...
ref: 1999 May 16, Eric NRTJ Roberts, “Re: EASY MONEY”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):
text: All the 'performers' were of legal consenting adultivity, and I could easily track them down if I needed to get any sort of signed statement to verify their age.
ref: 2000 December 9, Green Hell, “I need a lab in the US that will develop erotic subject matter”, in alt.movies.cinematography.super8 (Usenet):
glosses: The state or quality of being an adult; majority.
river runner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: river runners
form: river-runner
Senses: examples: text: There are many ways to go down a whitewater river. . . . If you paddle a play boat, you will play. If you paddle a more stable river runner, you may play a little less or a little differently.
ref: 2008, Gregory Shea, Robert E. Gunther, Your Job Survival Guide: A Manual for Thriving in Change, →ISBN, page 76:
text: [C]heck out the Jackson Kayak Zen—it’s a full-on river runner but will still surf and flat spin nicely.
ref: 2012 July 11, Dustin Urban, “Jackson Fun Runner Review”, in dustinurban.com, retrieved 19 Jan 2014:
glosses: A raft, kayak, or similar watercraft used especially for traveling with the current of a river in a swift manner.
examples: text: Books like WHITEWATER RAFTING by William McGinnis, go into great, and very necessary, detail to explain all of the hazards which the river runner may have to face and the proper procedures which should be followed to negotiate each of these.
ref: 1980, Don Hubbard, The Complete Book of Inflatable Boats, →ISBN, page 164:
text: "It's fabulous, spectacular, a little scary and sometimes a lot scary," John Williams, a Moab river runner for 30 years, said of the Cataract spring flood.
ref: 1998 March 11, Christopher Smith, “Moab's Natives Struggle With an Overabundance of Wildlife”, in New York Times, retrieved 09 Jan 2014:
text: A Missouri man is being charged with second-degree murder after shooting a man from a float group that he claims to have found on his property. . . . Loretta Dart, the victim's wife, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that her husband was trying to prevent an altercation between Crocker and one of the river-runners.
ref: 2013 July 23, Adam Roy, “Missouri Man Shoots River Runner”, in Outside Online, retrieved 09 Jan 2014:
glosses: A person who uses such a watercraft.
examples: text: In 1919, C.P. built a true work of art, a 26-foot mahogany river runner, with a stepped hull and an aft cockpit
ref: 1997 Feb, Michael Verdon, “All-time-Classic”, in Motorboating & Sailing, volume 179, number 2, page 101:
text: The boat, a flat-bottomed river-runner with a forty-horse jet, slides off Mac's trailer, onto crumbling shelf ice and into the river, green, translucent.
ref: 1999, Ken Marsh, Breakfast at Trout's Place: The Seasons of an Alaska Flyfisher, →ISBN, page 16:
text: The river runner was a broad flat boat, capable of holding a lot of cargo.
ref: 2009, Michelle Mythe, Aura Sight, →ISBN, page 150:
glosses: A recreational or commercial boat used for regular operation on a riverway.
examples: text: [I]t was Captain Tod Halsey who had the responsibility of the whole thing. If the great marble shaft couldn't be dragged up the face of the bluff, the squint-eyed old river runner would be the loser.
ref: 1940 Oct., A. Capwell Wyckoff, "River Bank Position," Boys' Life, p. 12 (Google preview)
glosses: A person who is an experienced worker or traveler on a riverway.
Related terms: river running
whitewater rafting
river-runner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: river-runners
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of river runner.
riverway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riverways
form: river way
form: river-way
Etymology: From river + way.
Senses: examples: text: "That is the boat of Captain Hyde. What comes he this way for?"
"The river way is free to all, Joanna."
ref: 1886, Amelia E. Barr, chapter 3, in The Bow of Orange Ribbon:
text: Manhattan was a line of constellations, the riverway a gulf of darkness in which were scattered stars.
ref: 1921, Basil King, chapter 25, in The Empty Sack:
text: Barge traffic on the country's most important commercial riverway is completely paralysed.
ref: 1993 July 17, Rupert Cornwell, “Defences crumble as mighty rivers merge”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 19 Jan 2014:
text: An advanced Mesoamerican civilization of temples, pyramids, ball courts and paved roads sprouted and grew not near a seaport or on a riverway, but deep inland at jungle oases.
ref: 2007 February 23, Stephen Regenold, “Deep Inside the Yucatán”, in New York Times, retrieved 19 Jan 2014:
glosses: The segment of a river or route on a river which is traversed by watercraft.
river way
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: river ways
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of riverway.
river-way
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: river-ways
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of riverway.
3DTDS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Unlike graphene, 3DTDS allows electrons to be assembled in a collective to flow in all directions. More important, the electrons on the surface of the material remember their magnetic spin, so data can be stored by reversing the polarity of a bit.
ref: 2014 February 10, Lucas Mearian, “Graphene-like 3D Material May Advance Storage”, in Computerworld, volume 48, number 2, Framingham, →ISSN, page 4:
text: In the newly discovered materials, named '3D topological Dirac semimetals' (or 3DTDS in short), electrons can travel along any direction in its 3D bulk with energy linearly dependent on its momentum. Furthermore, the electrons in 3DTDS can race at much higher speeds than in silicon, which promises not only new physical insights, but also exciting applications for the high-tech industry such as much faster transistors and far more compact hard drives.
ref: 2014 Autumn, Yulin Chen, “Graphene's 3D Counterparts”, in Department of Physics Newsletter, University of Oxford, page 7:
text: One of the best features of the 3DTDS carbon nanotube is that the electron will be essentially free of mass while travelling, so creating enough velocity and mobility will require even less energy input. At the same time, these materials are still difficult and costly to produce. Current projections have mainstream use and acceptance of these materials in 30 years or more.
ref: 2014, Yune Leou-On, “The Philosopher's Singularity”, in SSRN, page 49:
text: Therefore, in principle, there is a critical value, x = x_c, at which a topological phase transition from 3DWTI to 3DTDS can take place.
ref: 2019, Shengshan Qin et al., “Topological vortex phase transitions in iron-based superconductors”, in Science Bulletin, volume 64, number 17, Elsevier, →ISSN, page 1213:
glosses: Abbreviation of three-dimensional topological Dirac semi-metal.
Related terms: english: topological Dirac semi-metal
translation: topological Dirac semi-metal
word: TDS
word: 3D (3-dimentional)
Gusu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ku-su
Etymology: From the pinyin romanization of Mandarin Chinese 姑蘇 /姑苏 (Gūsū).
Senses: glosses: A district of modern Suzhou, established in 2012 and comprising the Old City and downtown
glosses: Mount Gusu, a mountain near Suzhou
glosses: The capital of the state of Wu during the Zhou dynasty; a former city located at the site of present-day Suzhou
glosses: Modern Suzhou itself
Synonyms: word: Gusu District
word: Mount Gusu
word: Gusushan
word: Gusu Shan
alt: see Suzhou
word: Suzhou & numerous others
Ku-su
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Wade-Giles romanization of Mandarin Chinese 姑蘇 /姑苏 (Gūsū).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Gusu.
Liao-ning
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Liao Ning
Etymology: From the Wade-Giles romanization of its Mandarin 遼寧 /辽宁 (Liáoníng).
Senses: examples: text: The strategic and naturally rich province of Liao-ning was turned into an under-supplied and severely mismanaged backwater. In an effort to make a name for himself and prove the efficacy of his leadership in the province, Mao Yuan-hsin fabricated a series of 'new events' in Liao-ning.
ref: 1978, Chi Hsin (research group), Teng Hsiao-ping: A Political Biography, Hong Kong: Cosmos Books, →OCLC, page 113:
text: (Chinese: Shen-Yang) Capital of China's province of Liao-ning, northeast on the Hun River, controlling north-south routes along the plain of south Manchuria.
ref: 2007, “Mukden”, in William R. Keylor, editor, Encyclopedia of the Modern World 1900 to the Present, volume II, Facts on File, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 883:
text: HUANG Tê-kung 黃得功 (T. 滸山, 虎山), d. 1645, June 15, Ming loyalist general, was a native of Kʻai-yüan, (Liao-ning), to which place his ancestors had moved from Ho-fei, Anhwei.
ref: 2010, Arthur W. Hummel Sr., editor, Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period (1644-1912), volume 1, Global Oriental, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 348:
glosses: Alternative form of Liaoning: A province in northeastern China.
Liao Ning
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Before the war iron objects of late-Chou date had been discovered in systematic excavation only in the north-eastern provinces of Liao Ning and Hopei.
ref: 1961, William Watson, China, Frederick A. Praeger, page 141:
text: Dalian is an attractive learning city and port in Liao Ning Province in northeast China.
ref: 2006, Roger Boshier, Yan Huang, “Will the Chinese Learning Initiative Evoke the Long-Awaited Fifth Modernization?”, in Planning and Changing, volume 37, number 1&2, page 62:
text: The samples from the Liao Ning province were kept in a rearing chamber at 25±3°C with 70±5% relative humidity, with fresh Chinese oak leaves for feeding the larvae (adult moths have a lifespan of a few days and do not eat). The samples from the Ji Lin and He Nan provinces were frozen after collection and stored at — 80 °C until processing.
ref: 2014 March, Peng Geng et al., “Genetic Characterization of a Novel Iflavirus Associated with Vomiting Disease in the Chinese Oak Silkmoth Antheraea pernyi”, in PLOS One, volume 9, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 2:
glosses: Alternative form of Liaoning.
heptafluoroniobate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heptafluoroniobates
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The anion NbF₇²⁻ or any salt containing this anion
Liao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 廖 (Liào).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Chinese.
Liao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation of 僚 (Liáo)
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Rau, a people of southeastern China
synonyms: word: Rau
extra: a people of southeastern China
cavity resonator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cavity resonators
Senses: glosses: A form of waveguide, closed at each end, used to create an intense electromagnetic wave.
Related terms: cavity magnetron
methyl isobutyl ketone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MIBK
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The aliphatic ketone (CH₃)₂CH-CH₂-CO-CH₃, that is used as a solvent
MIBK
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of methyl isobutyl ketone.
Khatumo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The region composed of Cayn, Sool and the Fiqifuliye district, that collectively is congruous with Darwiishia.
SSC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Sool, Sanaag and Cayn (“a state founded by the reer darawiish”).
glosses: Initialism of Superconducting Supercollider.
SSC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SSCs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of super star cluster.
glosses: Initialism of skin-to-skin contact.
glosses: Initialism of spermatogonial stem cell.
SSC
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: Initialism of safe, sane and consensual.
Sool, Sanaag and Cayn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Just south of the Warsangeli, the Dhulbahante set up the Sool, Sanaag and Cayn (SSC) administration in 2009. This was succeeded by the Khaatumo State of Somalia, founded in the Dhulbahante territories in January 2012.
ref: 2017, Markus Virgil Hoehne, “The Rupture of Territoriality”, in Christian Lund, Michael Eilenberg, editors, Rule and Rupture, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 197:
text: This resulted in a meeting in Nairobi in 2009 during which the Sool, Sanaag and Cayn (SSC) administration was established.
ref: 2019, Omar S. Mahmood, “Overlapping claims by Somaliland and Puntland”, in East Africa Report, volume 2019, number 27, Institute for Security Studies, →ISSN, page 6:
text: For many years Lasanod, the capital of the Sool region of northern Somalia, has been claimed by competing authorities—the Somaliland, Puntland, Khaatumo and Sool, Sanaag and Cayn (SSC) administrations.
ref: 2021, Ahmed M. Musa, “Lasanod: City at the margins”, in XCEPT (Cross-Border Conflict Evidence/Policy/Trends), Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, page 7:
glosses: An administration in northern Somalia formed by the reer darawiish in 2009, subsequently called the Khatumo State (2012–2017).
soleras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solera
draw the cloth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: draws the cloth
form: drawing the cloth
form: drew the cloth
form: drawn the cloth
Senses: examples: text: The silence of our meal was alone broken by the dull clattering of knives and forks, and the tinkling of the bell to summon the brisk waiter to bring wine and draw the cloth.
ref: 1855, Susanna Moodie, Geoffrey Moncton, page 327:
text: At last, when the cloth had been drawn and the King's health drunk in a glass of port suited to a very young head, they took their coffee and ratafia biscuits (the sea-going equivalent of petits fours) in the great cabin.
ref: 1996, Patrick O'Brian, The Yellow Admiral, page 174:
glosses: To clear the table after a meal.
Synonyms: clear the table
unset the table
Sir Humphrey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sir Humphreys
Etymology: From the fictional character Sir Humphrey Appleby, a self-important, Oxford-educated civil servant first depicted in the 1980 premiere of the BBC television series Yes Minister.
Senses: examples: text: Wanted: a Sir Humphrey for funds to hide behind
[...]
Key skills required:
— Ability to move head vertically rather than horizontally when asked to promote anything desired by the fund management companies who pay your salary
— Ability to confuse fact with fiction via misleading random statistics (a mathematics skill would be helpful here)
— Ability to pull wool over the regulators’ eyes while maintaining a straight, poker-like face
— Ability to come up with new reasons à la Humphrey from Yes Minister, as to why any progressive change that might help the consumer is currently unworkable.
ref: 2012 May 22, Simon English, “Wanted: a Sir Humphrey for funds to hide behind”, in The London Evening Standard:
text: Among the most senior honours, the dominance of Sir Humphreys and courtiers is striking. There are gongs galore for the deputy director of this Whitehall department and the head of strategy group at that one, to say nothing of the pile of baubles handed to those who serve the Windsors.
ref: 2013 December 31, Jonathan Freedland, “New Year honours should reward achievement, not cronyism”, in The Guardian:
text: Obsessed only with cost, 'Sir Humphrey' saw that Transport for London 'got away' with ticket office closures on the Tube with only minor public pushback and miscalculated that it could do the same on the national network. This assumption backfired spectacularly.
ref: 2023 August 9, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Disinterested and dishonest”, in RAIL, number 989, page 3:
glosses: A high-ranking bureaucrat, particularly one who is elitist and deliberately obscure.
wikipedia: Humphrey Appleby
Yes Minister
pollinarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɒlɪˈnɛəɹi.əm/
ipa: /ˌpɑləˈnɛɹi.əm/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm
Forms: form: pollinaria
Etymology: First used in H. F. Link's Elementa philosophiæ botanicæ (1824), formed from classical Latin pollin- (pollen) and the suffix -arium (place for).¹
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The structure in an orchid flower which becomes attached to an insect during pollination. Includes the pollinia, caudicle, and viscidium.
Related terms: pollinium
sleepaholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleepaholics
Etymology: From sleep + -aholic.
Senses: examples: text: […] becoming "sleepaholics" — staying in bed as many as fourteen or even sixteen hours a night simply because they can't cope without a challenge.
ref: 1974, John Wesley White, Future Hope, Creation House, →ISBN, page 58:
text: In fact, the New York Theatre Scene outside the safety of the small apartment looked so intimidating that he became a sleepaholic as a means of avoiding it. Sometimes, he would sleep around the clock in order to avoid going outside […]
ref: 1983, Douglas Brode, The Films of Dustin Hoffman, Citadel Press, →ISBN, page 14:
text: Blocking the bed from first view not only helps avoid inviting too much sexual energy into one's life; it also helps if you sleep too much — so, sleepaholics take note as well.
ref: 2000, Karen Rauch Carter, Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life: How to Use Feng Shui to Get Love, Money, Respect, and Happiness, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 106:
glosses: A person who loves sleeping or has a tendency to oversleep.
sleepaholics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sleepaholic
daysleeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daysleepers
Etymology: From day + sleeper.
Senses: examples: text: "I rose early to speak with you: I know you are a daysleeper."
ref: 1975, Lester Del Rey, editor, Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year, volume 4, Dutton, page 96:
text: I see today with a newsprint fray / My night is colored headache gray / Daysleeper
ref: 1998, R.E.M., “Daysleeper”, in Up:
text: Individuals and societies may choose to extend days into nights, but this choice can invite sleep disorders, insofar as the sleep needs of daysleepers are understood as variances from social norms of sleep.
ref: 2012, Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life, University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 76:
glosses: One who sleeps during the daytime.
daysleepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daysleeper
jettatura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jettaturas
Etymology: From Italian jettatura.
Senses: examples: text: The golden bulla (as also those of brass) was hollow, and contained, it is supposed, remedies against the jettatura.
ref: 1828, The Foreign Quarterly Review, volume 2, page 561:
glosses: The evil eye.
fucktardery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fucktard + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: And this collection of grammatical errors and fucktardery is somehow emblematic of mature adulthood?
ref: 2001 April 6, smr, “Re: ATT/Mediaone questions”, in chi.internet (Usenet):
text: Why is it that when I back a kook up against the wall and reveal their fucktardery for all to see, they never debate the facts, instead they choose to attack ME?
ref: 2012 October 15, HVAC, “Re: Eternity in Hell - Why Choose That”, in sci.physics (Usenet):
text: Once Slick drug her away, Squire apologized for all the fucktardery that had transpired under his command.
ref: 2013, Bobbi Romans, Under the Full Moon, Crimson Romance, →ISBN:
glosses: Behaviour that is obnoxiously or annoyingly foolish.
Synonyms: fuckedness
fuckwaddery
fuckwittery
coëfficient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coëfficient
form: most coëfficient
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of coefficient.
coëfficient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coëfficients
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of coefficient.
Aachener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aacheners
Etymology: Borrowed from German Aachener, equal to Aachen + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Von Schwerin arrived in Aachen late on the night of the twelfth, his Army Volkswagen fighting its way through the panic-stricken Aacheners, fleeing from the city which was already burning from the first American shells.
ref: 1972, Charles Whiting, Werewolf: The Story of the Nazi Resistance Movement 1944–1945, London: Leo Cooper Ltd, →ISBN, page 24:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
malparkage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mal- + park + -age. Perhaps introduced in the animated TV series The Simpsons; see Citations:malparkage.
Senses: examples: text: Lisa Simpson (reading letter): Dear motorist. Your vehicle is illegally parked in the borough of Manhattan. If you do not remedy this malparkage within 72 hours, your car will be thrown into the East River at your expense.
ref: 1997 21 September, Ian Maxtone-Graham, "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson", episode 9-1 of The Simpsons, 00:11:46-00:11:59
text: Coupled with said customer's malparkage in the handicapped zone right in front of the door, this will usually create an atmosphere of tense, suspect aversion.
ref: 2000 August 20, «tµßeguÿ», “Re: automobile tool definitions”, in 3do.bad-attitude (Usenet):
text: Supposedly, regular mortals have to shell out $50 for presumptuous malparkage among the elite.
ref: 2010 February 8, Sean Michael Ragan, “UC Berkeley has 'Nobel Laureate Only' parking spaces”, in Make, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2021:
glosses: An act of parking a vehicle illegally.
numbskullery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From numbskull + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: For every tuneful pop incision like "B-350" or "Chances Are," there's a lump of numbskullery like "Superman Is Dead" ("Now that Superman is dead/ Who will kick ass" — gee guys, I dunno, but if you're that worried . . .) […]
ref: 1997, Ira A. Robbins, The Trouser Press Guide to '90s Rock, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 820:
text: I felt just as I had at seventeen, the fumbling numbskullery of a boy in love without a brain in his head, […]
ref: 2002, Douglas Clegg, The Hour Before Dark, Leisure Books, →ISBN, page 167:
text: More than once you've even tried to make me feel better about my frequent numbskullery, tried to comfort me in a tender way when I've spilled a glass of orange juice or run into the door jamb with my forehead.
ref: 2012, Heather Armstrong, Dear Daughter: The Best of the Dear Leta Letters, Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 100:
glosses: The behaviour of a numbskull; foolishness; stupidity.
Aacheners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aachener
paddlesport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paddlesports
Etymology: From paddle + sport.
Senses: examples: text: Kayaking and canoeing are paddlesports.
glosses: Any sport involving the propulsion of a watercraft by means of a paddle.
paddlesports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paddlesport
reception room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reception rooms
Senses: glosses: A room for receiving and entertaining guests.
reception rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reception room
hemicorporectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemicorporectomy
jungle boot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jungle boots
Senses: examples: text: When plaster fell from the ceiling it lay to be trampled by heavy jungle-boots.
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 22:
text: The most common objects of pilfering were jungle fatigues and jungle boots, items that aircrew members were authorized – and encouraged – to wear, but which were difficult to obtain through normal supply channels since C-130 personnel were based outside of South Vietnam.
ref: 2011, Sam McGowan, Trash Haulers: The Story of the C-130 Hercules Troop Carrier/Tactical Airlift Mission:
glosses: A vented combat boot designed for use in hot, wet and humid environments.
jungle boots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jungle boot
kailkenny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See kail.
Senses: glosses: A variety of rumbledethumps using cream instead of butter.
rumbledethumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A traditional Scottish dish of potato, cabbage and onion with butter, salt and pepper.
Related terms: kailkenny
reprogrammings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reprogramming
darl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: därl
ipa: /dɐːl/
ipa: /daːl/
Forms: form: darls
Etymology: Clipping of darling.
Senses: examples: text: 'Well if you're sure. I was going to make myself a cup of tea before it gets too hot. Do you want one?' 'No. I'll be right. Listen darl, I brought you back something, and the kids,' he says, opening his backpack[…]
ref: 2004, Marie Seltenrych, Five Golden Rings and a Diamond, page 306:
text: 'Hello, darl. This must be the newest addition to our family.' Melissa's attention was wrenched away from her confusing thoughts about Joss as she was enveloped in a warm hug from a woman just a little shorter than her.
ref: 2010, Joanna Neil, Lucy Clark, Posh Doc, Society Wedding / New Boss, New-Year Bride:
glosses: darling (as a term of address)
pentanaldehyde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From penta- + -n- + aldehyde.
Senses: glosses: pentanal
pentanal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkyl aldehyde with molecular formula C₅H₁₀O, used in flavourings, resin chemistry, and rubber accelerators.
Synonyms: valeraldehyde
pentanaldehyde
postoperation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + operation.
Senses: glosses: After an operation.
roboteer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roboteers
Etymology: From robot + -eer.
Senses: examples: text: Covered with American Cyanamid decals, this contrivance is radio-controlled by a roboteer behind a rattan screen at one end of Cyanamid's make-believe lounge […]
ref: 1984, Orville Schell, Modern Meat, page 7:
glosses: One who operates a robot.
examples: text: There are roboteers who think it would be an advance to replace our brain tissue with computer circuits.
ref: 1994, David Clarke Burks, Place of the Wild: A Wildlands Anthology, page 52:
glosses: One who takes an interest in robotics.
roboteers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roboteer
conniption fits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conniption fit
transfered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of transferred.
pentachromat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentachromats
Senses: glosses: One whose vision exhibits pentachromacy; one who can distinguish five primary colors.
Related terms: pentachromate
pentachromacy
pentachromats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pentachromat
Pirkanmaa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Finnish Pirkanmaa.
Senses: glosses: A region of Finland.
Rovaniemi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹəʊvənɪəmɪ/
enpr: rōʹvə-nîr-mē
Etymology: From Finnish Rovaniemi (literally “cape of forested eskers”).
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality in Lapland, Finland.
Mongolian gazelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mongolian gazelles
Senses: glosses: A medium-sized antelope native to the semiarid Central Asian steppes of Mongolia, as well as some parts of Siberia and China, Procapra gutturosa.
Synonyms: dzeren
zeren
Alabama rot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A vasculopathy caused by E. coli that affects greyhounds.
wub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wʌb/
ipa: /wʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Etymology: From a childish mispronunciation of love.
Senses: examples: text: Glad to see your^([sic]) back cuz I need some of your wub!
ref: 2001 April 16, Jayess, “Re: I'M BaAaCk!!!”, in 3do.bad-attitude (Usenet):
text: Give Cindy my wub.
ref: 2002 October 26, zippy, “Re: For Zippy”, in 3do.bad-attitude (Usenet):
text: Its^([sic]) OK tiger, you just need some wub!
ref: 2008 April 16, redcoat1982, “Re: Fuck the Church of Scientology”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):
glosses: Love.
wub
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wʌb/
ipa: /wʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: wubs
form: wubbing
form: wubbed
form: wubbed
Etymology: From a childish mispronunciation of love.
Senses: examples: text: “I wub you, Mommie,” he'd say over and over.
ref: 2003, Alice Kennedy, Extraordinary Circumstances, 1st Books Library (2003), page 219
text: One of the first real sentences uttered by our granddaughter sitting on my knee was, "I wub you, Papa," which I interpreted to mean, "I love you, Papa."
ref: 2005, Willard Scott, If I Knew It Was Going to Be This Much Fun, I Would Have Become a Grandparent First, Hyperion Books, →ISBN, page 104:
text: Just as a glorious game-winning homer can erase our memory of 812 dull innings, the sublime moment when our 3-year-old looks up from the mess she is making with her mashed potatoes and says, "I wub you, Daddy," can erase eight hours of no, not yet, not now and stop asking.
ref: 2006 June 11, Daniel Gilbert, “Does Fatherhood Make You Happy?”, in Time:
glosses: To love.
Related terms: wuv
wub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wʌb/
ipa: /wʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: wubs
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: For the uninitiated, a wub (or wobble bass, its technical name) is that distinctive long bass note that is “torn” or “bent” rhythmically or…wubbed, and is one of the distinctive features of dubstep music.
ref: 2012 February 2, Jimbo Ivy, “Lucky's Live!”, in The Hype Weekly, number 23, page 5:
text: Though the audience wasn’t instantly sold on Datsik’s opening wubs, the cheer that erupted when the DJ segued into Skrillex’s remix of “Levels” further shook the already-vibrating venue.
ref: 2012 February 24, Allegra Dimperio, “Grimy chills, champagne thrills on Deadmeat Tour”, in The Badger Herald, volume 43, number 93, University of Wisconsin, page 5:
text: It's an impressive, almost overwhelming synthesis of commercial influences, including, in their monster hit Radioactive, some rather mannered dubstep wubs.
ref: 2013 April 9, Graeme Virtue, “Imagine Dragons – review”, in The Guardian:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: wobble bass, a style of bass synthesizer heavily deployed by dubstep and drum and bass artists
Derived terms: wubby
wub
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wʌb/
ipa: /wʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: wubs
form: wubbing
form: wubbed
form: wubbed
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: For the uninitiated, a wub (or wobble bass, its technical name) is that distinctive long bass note that is “torn” or “bent” rhythmically or…wubbed, and is one of the distinctive features of dubstep music.
ref: 2012 February 2, Jimbo Ivy, “Lucky's Live!”, in The Hype Weekly, number 23, page 5:
text: In a repeat of the "electronica" boom of the 1990s, when the music of artists like Moby, Dirty Vegas, and the Crystal Method became inescapable on prime-time TV, dubstep is steadily wubbing its way into the commercial landscape.
ref: 2012 May 8, Philip Sherburne, “Dubstep Selling Candy, Helping to Stop Human Trafficking”, in Spin:
text: […] but enlisting Skrillex to wub all over “Wild For The Night” is a head-scratching move.
ref: 2013 January 15, Erik van Rheenen, “Overshadowed: A$AP Rocky's featured artists outshine him on own his own album”, in The Daily Orange, Syracuse University, page 13:
glosses: To produce this sound.
itai-itai disease
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Partial calque of Japanese イタイイタイ病 (itai-itai byō, “"ouch ouch" disease”)
Senses: glosses: A disease caused by cadmium poisoning that occurred in Toyama Prefecture, Japan.
wikipedia: itai-itai disease
kiddushim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kiddush
cinematize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cinematizes
form: cinematizing
form: cinematized
form: cinematized
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cinematise.
cinematizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cinematize
cinematizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cinematize
cinematized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cinematize
cinematisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cinematisations
form: cinematization
form: cinemazation
Senses: glosses: Adaptation for the cinema.
Related terms: cinematise
cinematization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cinematizations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cinematisation.
cinematisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cinematisation
cinematizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cinematization
vector image
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vector images
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An image file where the image’s elements (such as lines, circles and subimages) are stored as individual objects, as opposed to a raster or bitmap which stores the image’s pixels.
wikipedia: vector image