cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
1700s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: When Nakanishi became the headmaster of his own ryu, in the later 1700s, he began looking for a way to make swordsmanship less hazardous, concentrating on the improvement of practice equipment.
ref: 1982 April, Dave Lowry, “Jutsu and Do: The Art and the Way; Part II”, in Black Belt, page 37, column 2:
text: Pound cakes, butter cakes with a tender fine crumb, are English in origin. In the 1700s and 1800s, the basic cake formula was based on the pound cake—butter, sugar, flour, and eggs in equal proportions by weight, with no chemical leavening added.
ref: 2002, Greg Patent, Baking in America, page 159:
text: In colonial times, when land was not worth much and banks didn’t exist, most lending was based on human property. In the early 1700s, slaves were the dominant collateral in South Carolina. […] Enslavers were not the first ones to securitize assets and debts in America. The land companies that thrived during the late 1700s relied on this technique, for instance.
ref: 2019 August 14, Matthew Desmond, “In order to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2019:
glosses: The period from year 1700 to 1799, almost the same period as the 18th century (which, however, was from 1701 to 1800).
examples: text: Wildlife biologist Stanley Temple hypothesised that perhaps the dodo tree was dependent on its seeds passing through the digestive system of dodos in order to properly germinate and that the handful of individuals in the 1970s were the last remaining trees from seeds that passed through a dodo in the 1690s-1700s when they went extinct.
ref: 2017 May 3, Mark Carnall, “Finding zombies, ghosts and Elvis in the fossil record”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The years 1700 to 1709, almost the same period as the 1st decade of the 18th century (which, however, was from 1701 to 1710).
Related terms: 1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s
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1600s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The decade from 1600 to 1609.
examples: text: After the 1600s, the discourse on affects becomes confused with musical rhetoric: think of the first list of musicorhetorical figures published by Burmeister (1599), […]
ref: 2013, Tom Cochrane, Bernardino Fantini, Klaus R. Scherer, The Emotional Power of Music:
text: However, one could make a strong correlation to her success ruling Europe in the 1600s to her having a snatched waist while strutting around the castle in heels. Come on, you know the world bends to a woman with 36-24-36 body measurements.
ref: 2020 January 7, Chloé Hilliard, F*ck Your Diet: And Other Things My Thighs Tell Me, Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 131:
text: Beer as a cocktail ingredient isn’t a revolutionary idea. It’s long played a part in drinkmaking. The original flips, concocted in the late 1600s, were made with beer, rum, sugar and whole egg, and served hot.
ref: 2020 August 14, Rebekah Peppler, “Beer Truly Is the Champagne of Cocktails”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2020:
text: Among Professor Spence’s most ambitious books was “The Search for Modern China,” which made The New York Times’s best-seller list and is now a standard text. It took an 876-page view of China’s history from the decline of the Ming dynasty in the 1600s to the democracy movement of 1989.
ref: 2021 December 27, Neil Genzlinger, “Jonathan Spence, Noted China Scholar, Dies at 85”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Dec 2021, Books:
glosses: The century between 1600 and 1699.
Related terms: 1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s
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water pepper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water peppers
Senses: synonyms: word: arsesmart
word: marshpepper knotweed
word: hydropiper
alt: archaic
glosses: A plant of species Persicaria hydropiper.
water peppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water pepper
xalwo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A type of halva, a staple of Somali cuisine, made from sugar, corn starch, cardamon powder, nutmeg powder, ghee, and sometimes peanuts.
1400s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: However, after the 1980s, the "North-South dipole" disappeared and snowpack declined across the entire range, indicating temperature is playing an increasingly important role in snowpack levels. This West-wide decline appeared to occur only one other time in the tree-ring record during the 1350s and early 1400s when temperatures were nearly as warm as today.
ref: 2011 June 9, Laura Petersen, “1,000-Year Record Shows Unusual Snowpack Declines -- Study”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 14 Dec 2024:
glosses: The decade from 1400 to 1409.
examples: text: Another people, the Surinen, lived near the coast. Like the Arawaks and the Caribs, they had migrated northward into Suriname. The Arawak and Carib peoples greatly outnumbered the Surinen. The Surinen were disappearing by the late 1400s.
ref: 2009 January 8, Thomas Streissguth, Suriname in Pictures, →ISBN, page 20:
text: If you have time to go farther afield, the artist invites you to visit Kam Tin. Away from the bustle and grind of the main city, the district is made up of small villages including Kat Hing Wai, a walled village built in the middle to late 1400s.
ref: 2023 March 22, Christy Choi, “Hong Kong Locals on Where to Eat, Drink and Play During Art Basel”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Mar 2023, Travel:
glosses: The century between 1400 and 1499.
Related terms: 1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s
1800s · 1810s · 1820s · 1830s · 1840s · 1850s · 1860s · 1870s · 1880s · 1890s
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multilingualize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: multilingualizes
form: multilingualizing
form: multilingualized
form: multilingualized
Etymology: From multilingual + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: For example, in the case of employing the Language Grid to multilingualize Wikipedia articles, the performance of language services should be given higher priority due to the huge amount of articles and users.
ref: 2011, Toru Ishida, The Language Grid: Service-Oriented Collective Intelligence for Language Resource Interoperability:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: To adapt or localize something to, into, or for multiple languages.
Derived terms: multilingualization
multilingualizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of multilingualize
multilingualizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of multilingualize
multilingualized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of multilingualize
lingualization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lingualizations
Etymology: From lingualize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act of representing something as a text in some language.
examples: 1997, Pondicherry Institute of Linguistics and Culture, https://books.google.com/books?id=XpR2AAAAIAAJ&q=%22lingualization%22&dq=%22lingualization%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiUsan0nojPAhUJLmMKHXx1Do0Q6AEIRTAI
In the process of lingualization the child internalizes the system of language values and norms […]
glosses: The ability to represent something as text.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: The process of a sound becoming lingual.
examples: text: As already stated, there is a natural mechanism in most Class III cases that compensates for the sagittal skeletal discrepancy, so that during growth a lingualization of the mandibular incisors develops together with a vestibularization […]
ref: 2005, Paolo Ronchi, Orthodontic-surgical treatment of dentofacial anomalies: an integrated esthetic-functional approach:
qualifier: orthodontics
glosses: The procedure of moving teeth towards the tongue side of the arch.
lingualizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lingualization
water gut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water guts
Senses: examples: text: In this point of the water gut you will find an accumulation of sand, grit, &c., which are difficult to pass out.
ref: 1915 January, “The Horse: Outlines of Anatomy for First Aid”, in Journal of the Department of Agriculture, South Australia, page 515:
glosses: A horse's caecum.
water guts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water gut
Haas effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Haas effects
Etymology: Derived from a 1951 paper by Helmut Haas.
Senses: glosses: The phenomenon whereby humans localize sound sources in the direction of the first arriving sound, even in the presence of a single reflection from a different direction.
Haas effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Haas effect
pseudarthrotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to pseudarthrosis.
pseudoarthrotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pseudarthrotic.
Miño
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Minho
Senses: glosses: A river in Spain and Portugal.
sakawa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Abuda said he was initially introduced to that aspect of sakawa where the Internet was used to defraud people.
ref: 2015 May 4, Dominic Moses Awiah, “The confession of three Sakawa boys; We want to stop but ...”, in Graphic Online:
glosses: In Ghana and other African countries, a form of Internet fraud involving ethnic or religious rituals supposed to aid the fraudster.
Dugla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Duglas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Dougla.
duglas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dugla
Dougla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Douglas
form: Dogla
form: Dugla
Etymology: Borrowed from Caribbean Hindustani dugalaa (“many, much, a mix”), from Hindi दोग़ला (doġlā, “mixed blood, crossbreed, mixed breed, mixed race, illegitimate, hybrid, half-caste”).
Senses: examples: text: But the dilemmas facing douglas and their parents are often different: being born dougla is not the same as choosing intermarriage and bearing a dougla. Parents are not often douglas themselves.
ref: 2002, Yasurō Hase, Hiroyuki Miyake, Fumiko Oshikawa, South Asian migration in comparative perspective, movement, settlement and diaspora:
glosses: A Caribbean person of mixed African and Indian descent.
Derived terms: douglarisation
douglarization
WAR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of White Aryan Resistance.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: Java programming language
glosses: Initialism of Web Application aRchive (a Java archive file).
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Winchester Automatic Rifle.
glosses: Initialism of Women Against Registry.
WAR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of write after read, a kind of data hazard.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Acronym of wins above replacement.
Moriscoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Morisco
fletikumab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From -k- (“interleukin”) + -umab (“human monoclonal antibody”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A monoclonal antibody designed for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
perakizumab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -ki- (“interleukin”) + -zumab (“humanized monoclonal antibody”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A humanized monoclonal antibody designed for the treatment of arthritis.
promegapoietin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A drug given during chemotherapy to increase blood cell regeneration.
two-minute hates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of two-minute hate
slummings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slumming
natya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The classical Indian forms of dance, singing, and dramatics.
myrmecoidy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From myrmecoid + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Among the celebrated cases of myrmecoidy may be mentioned the Sudanese cricket Myrmecophana fallax, which is extremely ant-like, and the Indian wasp Rhinopsis ruficornis, which closely mimics Sima rufonigra.
ref: 1913, William Morton Wheeler, Ants: Their Structure, Development and Behavior, page 422:
glosses: The quality of being myrmecoid.
myrmecoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myrmeco- + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: ant-like
Derived terms: myrmecoidy
five-dollar word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: five-dollar words
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ten-dollar word.
synonyms: word: ten-dollar word
unprettying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unpretty
unpretties
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unpretty
treacle papers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of treacle paper
golden syrups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of golden syrup
treacling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of treacle
yuppie disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of yuppie flu, i.e. chronic fatigue syndrome.
synonyms: word: yuppie flu
extra: i.e. chronic fatigue syndrome.
SOCMINT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of social media + intelligence
Senses: topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: Acronym of social media intelligence.
Related terms: english: intelligence
translation: intelligence
word: INT
english: human intelligence
translation: human intelligence
word: HUMINT
english: signals intelligence
translation: signals intelligence
word: SIGINT
metaword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metawords
Etymology: From meta- + word.
Senses: glosses: A word, such as a search keyword or dictionary headword, that stands for itself as a word rather than having a meaning and a context.
metawords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metaword
cowboy showers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cowboy shower
INT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: INTs
Senses: topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of intelligence.
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: Initialism of intelligence point.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of interrupt.
examples: text: His near-perfect stat line (25 of 30 passing, 235 yards, 2 TDs, 0 INTs) could have improved if Jamal Agnew had not dropped a would-be touchdown on a deep crossing route late in the second quarter, but here’s a guess that Jacksonville won’t quibble about it.
ref: 2022 September 18, Derrik Klassen, “What We Learned From Week 2 of the N.F.L. Season”, in The New York Times:
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Abbreviation of interception.
Synonyms: intelligence
intell
intel
Related terms: english: electronic intelligence
translation: electronic intelligence
word: ELINT
english: human intelligence
translation: human intelligence
word: HUMINT
english: signals intelligence
translation: signals intelligence
word: SIGINT
social media intelligence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From social media + intelligence.
Senses: topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
synonyms: word: SOCMINT
glosses: Intelligence gathered from social media.
Related terms: english: INT
translation: INT
word: intelligence
english: ELINT
translation: ELINT
word: electronic intelligence
english: HUMINT
translation: HUMINT
word: human intelligence
english: SIGINT
translation: SIGINT
word: signals intelligence
DUB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of dysfunctional uterine bleeding.
metropathia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It is a very significant fact that similar changes occur in endometrium which is the seat of certain types of metropathia.
ref: 1931, Medical Journal of Australia, volume 1, page 69:
text: Late menopause is a risk factor because of excess and prolonged oestrogen exposure and also the frequency of late anovulatory (oestrogenic) cycles and the presence of metropathia.
ref: 2014, Jeffrey S. Tobias, Daniel Hochhauser, Cancer and its Management, page 332:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: disease of the uterus
Synonyms: metropathy
Derived terms: metropathia haemorrhagica
metropathia hemorrhagica
metaplasmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æzmɪk
Etymology: From metaplasm + -ic.
Senses: topics: biology
human-sciences
linguistics
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Relating to metaplasm.
Gonja
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Gonja Ngbanya.
Senses: glosses: A former kingdom in northern Ghana.
glosses: A North Guang language (which has several dialects) spoken by a few hundred thousand mostly ethnically-Gonja people in northern Ghana.
Gonja
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Gonja Ngbanya.
Senses: glosses: The people of the former kingdom of Gonja.
metepisternal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the metepisternum.
metaphorized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of metaphorize
metaphorizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of metaphorize
metaphorization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaphorizations
Etymology: From metaphor + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of metaphorizing.
metaphorizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metaphorization
metaphytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From metaphyte + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to metaphytes.
metaphorician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaphoricians
Etymology: From metaphor + -ician.
Senses: glosses: One who employs metaphors.
metaphoricians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metaphorician
mesokinetism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meso- + kineto- + -ism.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of mesokinesis.
synonyms: word: mesokinesis
metakinetism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of metakinesis.
synonyms: word: metakinesis
microseismically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From microseismic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a microseismic manner.
Mexican bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mexican beans
Senses: glosses: A variety of kidney bean.
Related terms: Mexican jumping bean
Mexican beans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mexican bean
twistlock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twistlocks
Etymology: From twist + lock.
Senses: glosses: A standardized rotating connector for securing shipping containers.
twistlocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twistlock
power tie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power ties
Senses: glosses: A tie in a striking colour, especially red, worn in business or politics to suggest confidence and power.
Related terms: power dressing
power move
power trip
power ties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of power tie
CALRAB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of California Raisin Advisory Board.
disabledness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disabled + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The recognition of disabledness has increased and, moreover, it has become one of the diversity criteria used by governments in making public policy.
ref: 2007, Stephen Brooks, Oxford University Press, Canadian Democracy: An Introduction:
glosses: The state of being disabled.
splendidiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more splendidiferous
form: most splendidiferous
Etymology: From splendid + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: Verily, the classical scholar must admit that there is nothing for beauty to be compared with the above in his favourite authors, and that the learned Orientalist and editor of the Persian Moonskee has selected a most splendidiferous specimen of Persian poetry.
ref: 1845, East India Company, The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany, The California University Press, page 235
text: The disciple made a most splendidiferous shy right across the road, and, if you had not been something of a horseman, you would have been off that trip. It would have taken more than a lion to have got the disciple that time.
ref: 1922, Evan Richard Calthrop, The Horse, as Comrade and Friend - Edition 3, Hutchinson & Co. - Paternoster Row - London, page 106
text: … splendidiferous …
ref: 1985, Philip George Hill, Our Dramatic Heritage: The Golden Age, The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, page 409
text: It is great and good and splendidiferous your liking Eton from the start.
ref: 2003, Andrew Birkin & Sharon Goode, J.M. Barrie & the Lost Boys, The Yale University Press - New Haven & London, page 253
text: Now he is in parliament, he will boil over; when he gets a wife what a splendidiferous creature she must be!
ref: 1877, William Henry Giles Kingston, Yatching Tales, The Oxford University Press, page 39
text: It's most awfully good of you to give me such a splendidiferous present.
ref: 1927, Harold Begbie, Julius Levine: A Novel, Mills & Boon - The Oxford University Press, page 103
text: Great opportunities lie ahead: we look forward to visiting a splendidiferous Mont Orgueil in twenty years time.
ref: 2002, A & W. Selkirk, Current Archaeology, Issues 181-192, The Northwestern University Press, page 420
text: A splendidiferous two-roomed tent was the surrounds, with the Thames glinting quietly just a few yards away.
ref: 1987, Napfield Limited, Blues & Soul, Issues 486-498, The Virginia University Press, page 33
glosses: Synonym of splendidious.
synonyms: word: splendidious
shucking knife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shucking knives
Senses: synonyms: oyster-shucking knife
glosses: A type of knife designed for shucking oysters, with a short, sturdy double-edged blade.
shucking knives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shucking knife
Klauss
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Rancourt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rancourts
form: Rancour
Etymology: Borrowed from French Rancourt.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Chengyu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Chinese.
Senses: glosses: A surname. Of Chinese ancestry. Also used in English-language transliterations.
bathing costumes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bathing costume
Stork
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Storks
Etymology: Two main origins:
* English surname from stork, a nickname for a thin man with long legs.
* Borrowed from German Stork, probably a nickname or a habitational surname from a place in Hesse.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Knoop
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from German or Dutch
Derived terms: Knoop hardness
Knoop test
first point of Libra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A point on the celestial sphere where the sun crosses the celestial equator on September equinox.
Coordinate terms: first point of Aries
first point of Cancer
first point of Capricorn
first point of Capricorn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A point on the celestial sphere where the sun reaches the southernmost point on December solstice.
Coordinate terms: first point of Cancer
first point of Aries
first point of Libra
first point of Cancer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A point on the celestial sphere where the sun reaches the northernmost point on June solstice.
Coordinate terms: first point of Capricorn
first point of Aries
first point of Libra
Earhart
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Earharts
Etymology: Anglicized borrowing of German Ehrhardt.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Earharts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Earhart
Lindbergh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lindberghs
Senses: examples: text: Ruth Elder was known for her beauty and acting, but her real dream was to become the female version of transatlantic aviator Charles Lindbergh.
ref: 2016 November 15, Karla Pequenino, “The women pilots that history forgot”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname.
glosses: Any of several place, school, rail station names.
A hamlet in the Municipal District of County of St. Paul No. 19, Alberta, Canada (Lindbergh, Alberta).
glosses: Any of several place, school, rail station names.
A neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia; see Lindbergh, Atlanta.
glosses: Any of several place, school, rail station names.
A section of Missouri state highway running through St. Louis.
glosses: Any of several place, school, rail station names.
A passenger rail station in Atlanta, Georgia (Lindbergh Center (MARTA station)).
glosses: Any of several place, school, rail station names.
Another name of the San Diego International Airport (Lindbergh Field).
glosses: Any of several place, school, rail station names.
A high school named after the aviator Charles Lindbergh (Lindbergh High School (St. Louis, Missouri)).
glosses: Any of several place, school, rail station names.
A high school named after the aviator Charles Lindbergh (Lindbergh Senior High School (Renton, Washington)).
glosses: Any of several place, school, rail station names.
Lindbergh Range in Greenland.
Lindberghs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lindbergh
TTX
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Just two or three milligrams of TTX may be lethal to a human — “more potent than arsenic, cyanide or even anthrax,” the American science writer Christie Wilcox notes in “Venomous: How Earth’s Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry” (2016).
ref: 2020 December 4, Ligaya Mishan, “The Appealing and Potentially Lethal Delicacy That Is Fugu”, in The New York Times Style Magazine, archived from the original on 01 Jan 2021:
glosses: Initialism of tetrodotoxin.
pseudo English
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + English.
Senses: examples: text: The Nobleman who had been complimented in elegant Latinity by Watson, our best sonnetter, could not have delighted much in the pie-bald, pseudo English prose of this wretched Rhymester who calls himself Soothern.
ref: 1880, Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester:
text: Hardware description of a simplified AM2903 in VHDL and pseudo English
ref: 2000, S. Ghosh, Hardware description languages: concepts and principles, →ISBN, page xxi:
glosses: Alternative form of pseudo-English.
pseudo English
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudo English
form: most pseudo English
Etymology: From pseudo- + English.
Senses: examples: text: They soon reached a dining room done out in a pseudo English style, full of small plaster statues, ships in bottles and a display of faded brown family photographs in front of which two flickering candles floated in bowls.
ref: 2008, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Nick Caistor, Tattoo, →ISBN, page 27:
text: Later at the close of the eighteenth century and the early part of the nineteenth century we find additional marks of eagles, eagles' heads, sheaves of wheat, stars, and other stamps with pseudo English hall-marks.
ref: 2012, Stephen G. C. Ensko, American Silversmiths and Their Marks, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of pseudo-English.
astroglaciology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From astro- + glaciology.
Senses: glosses: Part of glaciology studying the effects of ice and glaciers on extraterrestrial bodies.
Derived terms: astroglaciological
astroglaciological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From astroglaciology + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: The expected themes of the third symposium will be global in their orientation, including results of research carried out under various large-scale international programs, such as Earth System Science, Global Geoscience, Global Change, and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP), and may even include results of astroglaciological research, such as satellite glaciological studies of the Martian polar ice caps from data acquired by the Mars Observer spacecraft.
ref: 1987, Richard S. Williams Jr, Annals of Claciology 9:
glosses: Of or pertaining to astroglaciology.
myopist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myopists
Etymology: From myopia + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who is myopic.
CHiP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: CHP
glosses: Acronym of California Highway Patrol.
Related terms: highway patrol
CHiP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CHiPs
Senses: synonyms: CHPer
glosses: An officer of the California Highway Patrol.
CHiPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CHiP
FDNY
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: “It was one of the most severe beatings they’ve seen on tape,” an FDNY insider said, recalling the reaction by brass who viewed video of the bloody fisticuffs.
ref: 2018 August 18, Susan Edelman, New York Post:
text: Long said that FDNY workers could continue to work as long as they don’t have symptoms.
ref: 2020 March 21, Sonia Moghe, “EMS workers expected to keep working after coronavirus exposure”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of Fire Department of New York.
Synonyms: NYFD
Related terms: NYPD
myopists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myopist
chorusgirls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chorusgirl
short-answer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short-answers
Senses: topics: education
glosses: A type of question or prompt, especially found in school quizzes and tests, which usually requires the student to write in sentences, as opposed to multiple-choice, fill in the blank, or other question types which require less writing.
short-answers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of short-answer
narratees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of narratee
cheese-boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheese-box
Koo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Koos
Etymology: Romanization of Cantonese 顧／顾 (gu3).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Cantonese.
superemotional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superemotional
form: most superemotional
Etymology: From super- + emotional.
Senses: glosses: Highly emotional.
city and county
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cities and counties
Senses: examples: text: every county (other than the Dublin counties) and city and county will be divided into municipal districts
ref: 2013 October 15, Government of Ireland, Local Government Bill 2013; Explanatory Memorandum Chapter Two, Section 24
text: The State stands divided into local government areas to be known as—
(a) counties,
(b) cities, and
(c) cities and counties,
each of which shall be known as a county, a city or a city and county as provided for and set out in columns 1 of Parts 1, 2 and 3, respectively, of Schedule 5.
ref: 2014 Local Government Reform Act 2014, section 12 insertion of section 10(2) into principal act
text: 2016 September 9, "WLR live from the heart of the 8th annual Waterford Harvest Festival" WLR FM
As a city and county that takes huge pride in its food producers, this year’s festival will also shine the spotlight on its 'food heroes', the people who grow, cultivate, harvest, produce, prepare, promote and serve some of the country’s best food.
topics: law
glosses: a local authority area formed by uniting the territory of a county and a city
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see city, county.
Derived terms: City and County of Broomfield
City and County of Denver
City and County of Honolulu
City and County of San Francisco
cities and counties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see city, county.
examples: text: The State stands divided into local government areas to be known as—
(a) counties,
(b) cities, and
(c) cities and counties,
each of which shall be known as a county, a city or a city and county as provided for and set out in columns 1 of Parts 1, 2 and 3, respectively, of Schedule 5.
ref: 2014 Local Government Reform Act 2014, section 12 insertion of section 10(2) into principal act
glosses: plural of city and county
filter in turn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A kind of road junction where all traffic has equal priority regardless of the direction of travel.
green-beds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green-bed
soutzouki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Greek σουτζούκι (soutzoúki), from Turkish sucuk (see also: Georgian ჩურჩხელა (čurčxela, “churchkhela”)). Doublet of sujuk.
Senses: glosses: A dry, low-fat, spicy sausage from Greece and Turkey.
glosses: A jelly prepared from wine must, which has been enriched with walnuts and formed into a roll from Greece.
seednut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seednuts
form: seed-nut
Etymology: From seed + nut.
Senses: glosses: A nut that functions as a seed.
seednuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seednut
seed-nut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seed-nuts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seednut.
seed-nuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seed-nut
contradistinctly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From contradistinct + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a contradistinct manner.
dismal sciences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dismal science
Koryaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Koryak
Koriak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Koriaks
form: Koriak
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Koryak.
Koriak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Koryak.
Koriaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Koriak
ufocal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ufocals
Etymology: Blend of UFO + focal
Senses: examples: text: What is a fact is that at one point in Warminster thirteen leys converge, and this district is the scene of abundant UFO activity. A correlation certainly exists between ley centres and ufocals (areas of above average UFO activity).
ref: 1974, Paul Screeton, Quicksilver heritage: the mystic leys: their legacy of ancient wisdom:
text: Warminster became a bona fide ufocal: the center of a huge UFO flap, a UFO wave of such enormous proportions that most previous waves paled into insignificance.
ref: 2005, Steve Dewey, John Ries, In Alien Heat: The Warminster Mystery Revisited, page 4:
glosses: A focus of UFO activity.
ufocals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ufocal
holosystolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From holo- + systolic.
Senses: examples: text: Cardiovascular exam was positive for III/VI holosystolic murmur at the apex and significant pitting edema in her both lower extremities.
ref: 2015 July 22, Reshma M. Khan et al., “Embolic Stroke as the Initial Manifestation of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus”, in Case Reports in Rheumatology, volume 2015, →DOI:
glosses: Comprising all of the systole
Synonyms: pansystolic
Coordinate terms: midsystolic
postsystolic
presystolic
hyporeflective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypo- + reflective.
Senses: examples: text: Macular OCT on the left eye showed hyporeflective intraretinal cystoid cavities with subretinal fluid composed of retinal elevation.
ref: 2015 July 8, Julide Canan et al., “Postsurgical Cystoid Macular Edema following Posterior Chamber Toric Phakic Intraocular Lens Implantation Surgery: A Case Report”, in Case Reports in Ophthalmology, volume 6, →DOI:
glosses: Less than normally reflective
Derived terms: hyporeflectivity
intervariability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intervariabilities
Etymology: From inter- + variability.
Senses: examples: text: The presence of noise in the signals, data dependency, redundancy, limited sensitivity of the transducer, loss of information due to the analog-to-digital conversion, interferences, or expert's intra- and intervariability are some examples.
ref: 2015 July 21, Diego Alvarez-Estevez, Vicente Moret-Bonillo, “Computer-Assisted Diagnosis of the Sleep Apnea-Hypopnea Syndrome: A Review”, in Sleep Disorders, volume 2015, →DOI:
glosses: The condition of being intervariable
Related terms: intervariance
vulgar Marxism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The original, orthodox form of Marxism.
loratidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Table 3 Classes of medications filled a by patients with CIU/CSU CIU/CSU chronic idiopathic or spontaneous urticarial, NA not applicable a Claims data report only prescription fills, not actual medication use b The database did not include non-prescription antihistamines c Non-sedating H 1 -antihistamines included cetirizine HCl, desloratidine, fexofenadine HCl, levocetirizine dihydrochloride, and loratidine; sedating H 1 -antihistamines included brompheniramine, carbinoxamine, chlorpheniramine, clemastine, cyproheptadine, dexbrompheniramine, dexchlorpheniramine, diphenhydramine, doxylamine, pheniramine, promethazine, pyrilamine, tripelennamine, triprolidine d Cimetidine, ranitidine, famotidine, nizatidine e Montelukast, zafirlukast, zileuton f Parenteral medications do not report “days of supply” on claims, therefore the mean number of doses is reported here CIU/CSU patients had a mean of 15.1 all-cause office visits annually, 465 (7.3 %) were hospitalized at least once for any reason, and 1012 (15.9 %) had at least one ED visit (Table 4 ).
ref: 2015 June 9, Michael S. Broder et al., “Resource Use and Costs in an Insured Population of Patients with Chronic Idiopathic/Spontaneous Urticaria”, in American Journal of Clinical Dermatology, volume 16, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of loratadine.
lymphomatogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Epstein-Barr virus probably plays an important role in lymphomatogenesis in this environment.
ref: 2015 June 1, Ifeyinwa M. Onwubuya et al., “Lymphomas in Ile-Ife, Nigeria: Immunohistochemical Characterization and Detection of Epstein-Barr virus Encoded RNA”, in Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research : JCDR, volume 9, →DOI:
glosses: The production of lymphomata.
mesenchimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Mesenchimal progenitors in the fetal lung, ductal plate progenitors in fetal liver, cap mesenchimal cells in the developing kidney, fetal zone cells in adrenal glands, atrial and ventricular cardiomyocytes in the fetal heart, radial glial cells in the fetal cerebral cortex and skeletal muscle cell precursors showed the highest levels of WT1 immunoreactivity.
ref: 2015 June 29, R. Ambu et al., “WT1 Expression in the Human Fetus During Development”, in European Journal of Histochemistry : EJH, volume 59, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of mesenchymal.
sub-tropical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of subtropical.
sub-tropical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sub-tropicals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of subtropical.
sub-tropicals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sub-tropical
NSI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of National Savings and Investments.
glosses: Initialism of National Space Institute.
glosses: Initialism of National Security Intelligence.
mesodiencephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meso- + diencephalic.
Senses: examples: text: Following the rostrocaudal axis, a more frequent location of BD is the mesodiencephalic union.
ref: 2015 June 25, Emilio Franco-Macías et al., “Neuro-Behçet: Pons Involvement with Longitudinal Extension to Midbrain and Hypertrophic Olivary Degeneration”, in Case Reports in Neurology, volume 7, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to the middle of the diencephalon
microsnare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microsnares
Etymology: From micro- + snare.
Senses: examples: text: Coronary artery embolectomy should be performed if myocardial ischemia is reversible ( Figure 5 ). 33 Attempt should always be made to remove cerebral intravascular foreign body emboli, as mortality may be as high as 25–33% ( Figure 5 ). 2, 34 Depending on the size of the missile fragment, a microsnare may be used to remove intracerebral emboli. 35 Most authors recommend removal of missile emboli if the patient is symptomatic.
ref: 2015 July 10, Kevin Lu et al., “Approach to Management of Intravascular Missile Emboli: Review of the Literature and Case Report”, in Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, volume 16, →DOI:
glosses: A very small snare
midthorax
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mid- + thorax.
Senses: examples: text: The Stardust II (Philips Respironics, The Netherlands) is a Type-3 portable monitor designed to measure and record five diagnostic parameters: SpO 2 (via finger probe), pulse rate (from the oximeter probe), airflow (pressure based airflow through a nasal cannula), respiratory effort (piezoelectric sensor in a belt placed midthorax), and body position (built-in mercury switch).
ref: 2015 July 21, Diego Alvarez-Estevez, Vicente Moret-Bonillo, “Computer-Assisted Diagnosis of the Sleep Apnea-Hypopnea Syndrome: A Review”, in Sleep Disorders, volume 2015, →DOI:
glosses: In the middle of the thorax.
myoenteric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myo- + enteric.
Senses: examples: text: A recent study on WT1 expression in the human developing gut showed WT1 expression to be restricted to the sympathetic neuroblasts of the fetal gastro-enteric nervous system, progressively decreasing with differentiation of these cells along both ganglionic and chromaffin cell lineage. 38 In our study, WT1 expression was found in the myoenteric plexus of the fetal gut confirming the finding of Parenti et al.
ref: 2015 June 29, R. Ambu et al., “WT1 Expression in the Human Fetus During Development”, in European Journal of Histochemistry : EJH, volume 59, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of myenteric.
myopectineal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myo- + pectineal.
Senses: examples: text: PHS is a safe and better alternative to the time honored Lichtenstein hernia repair with the added advantage of strengthening whole of myopectineal orifice, and virtually eliminating any risk of recurrence.
ref: 2015 June 1, Mayank Badkur, Nitin Garg, “Comparative Study of Prolene Hernia System and Lichtenstein Method for Open Inguinal Hernia Repair”, in Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research : JCDR, volume 9, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to a muscle connected to the pecten
Millennium Development Goal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Millennium Development Goals
Senses: synonyms: MDG
glosses: Any of a set of eight international development goals established by the United Nations in 2000, scheduled to be achieved by 2015; superseded by the Sustainable Development Goals.
noncriteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + criteria.
Senses: glosses: plural of noncriterion
noncriteria
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + criteria.
Senses: examples: text: Our patient met noncriteria clinical findings for APS, including heart valve disease, thrombocytopenia, neurological manifestations, and borderline Cardiolipin IgG in addition to single reading of positive lupus anticoagulant.
ref: 2015 July 22, Reshma M. Khan et al., “Embolic Stroke as the Initial Manifestation of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus”, in Case Reports in Rheumatology, volume 2015, →DOI:
glosses: That is not a criterion
noncriterial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + criterial.
Senses: glosses: Not criterial.
nonscaring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Though the present case did not fulfill the ACR criteria at presentation, clinical diagnosis of SLE was advocated in the presence of mitral valve vegetation in an otherwise healthy lady with nonscaring alopecia, thrombocytopenia, and positive IF-ANA, anti-Smith, and anti-phospholipid antibodies.
ref: 2015 July 22, Reshma M. Khan et al., “Embolic Stroke as the Initial Manifestation of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus”, in Case Reports in Rheumatology, volume 2015, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of nonscarring.