cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Sinnetts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sinnett
Yokoyama
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yokoyamas
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 横山 (Yokoyama).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
Yokoyamas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Yokoyama
Bordonaro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bordonaros
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Bordonaro.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Bordonaros
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bordonaro
Weingartner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Weingartners
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Weingartners
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Weingartner
Louderback
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Louderbacks
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Louderbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Louderback
Bronk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bronks
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Bronks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bronk
Fabry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fabrys
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Fabrys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fabry
Hoffmeyer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hoffmeyers
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Hoffmeyers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hoffmeyer
Leap
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Leaps
Etymology: Scottish and English surname, from the noun leap (“basket”). Compare Leeper.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Leaps
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Leap
Paolino
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Paolinos
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Paolinos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Paolino
Vierling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vierlings
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Vierlings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Vierling
Boettger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Boettgers
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Boettgers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Boettger
Riding
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ridings
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Broomhaugh and Riding
Riding Mill
Ridings Mill
Ridings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: plural of Riding
Roehrig
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Roehrigs
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Roehrigs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Roehrig
Rozek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rozeks
Etymology: From Polish Rożek and Czech Rožek.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Rozeks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rozek
Rosenbalm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rosenbalms
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Rosenbalms
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rosenbalm
Traverso
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Traversos
Senses: examples: text: The bloom was detected in late July in the Oakland and Alameda areas, and dead fish have since washed ashore in the bay as well as at Oakland’s Lake Merritt, California fish and wildlife department spokesperson Jordan Traverso said.
ref: 2022 September 3, Taylor Romine and Jason Hanna, “An algae bloom has killed thousands of fish in the San Francisco Bay Area”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname.
Traversos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Traverso
Naegele
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Naegeles
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Naegeles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Naegele
Northam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Northams
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A placename
A small town and civil parish with a town council in Torridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS4528).
glosses: A placename
A suburb of Southampton, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU4312).
glosses: A placename
A town in Limpopo, South Africa.
glosses: A placename
A town and local government area (Shire of Northam) in Western Australia.
Related terms: Eastham
Southam
Westham
Northams
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Northam
Negrin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Negrins
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Negrins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Negrin
Lesueur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lesueurs
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Le Sueur
Lesueurs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lesueur
Luffman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Luffmans
Etymology: From the Middle English personal name Lefman.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Middle English.
Luffmans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Luffman
Friberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fribergs
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Fribergs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Friberg
laminar flows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laminar flow
turbulent flows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turbulent flow
sealing washers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sealing washer
slocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slock
peanut pastes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peanut paste
discoteque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discoteques
Senses: glosses: alternate spelling of discotheque
discoteques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discoteque
qualy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qualies
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Alternative form of quali.
saleless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪl.ləs/
Etymology: From sale + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Until I arrived, that was considered tantamount to making a sale a day, but despite my record of successful entrances I always made saleless exits.
ref: 1997, Ben H. Bagdikian, Double Vision: Reflections on My Heritage, Life and Profession, page 146:
glosses: Without any sales.
jurisdictionalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jurisdictionalisms
Etymology: Equivalent to jurisdictional + -ism
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A policy of affirming a laical jurisdiction over an ecclesiastical one.
Synonyms: regalism
jurisdictionalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jurisdictionalism
burgravine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burgravines
form: burggravine
Etymology: From burgrave + -ine.
Senses: glosses: The wife of a burgrave.
burggravine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burggravines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of burgravine.
septavalent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From septa- + valent.
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Heptavalent.
Neidenburg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: To tell you the truth, Neidenburg was taken on the 22nd, and I only heard of it on the 23rd.
ref: 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 85:
glosses: Former name for Nidzica, a town in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in Poland, between Olsztyn and Mława.
schizocarpic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a schizocarp.
Japanophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Japanophilic
form: most Japanophilic
Etymology: From Japano- + -philic.
Senses: synonyms: Nipponophilic
antonyms: Japanophobic
Nipponophobic
glosses: Fond of Japan or related to Japanophilia.
Related terms: Japanophile
corseque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corseques
form: corsesque
Etymology: Borrowed from French corsèque, from Corse and -esque
Senses: glosses: A pole weapon with a spike and two lateral blades on a shaft.
Sinophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sinophilic
form: most Sinophilic
Etymology: From Sino- + -philic.
Senses: glosses: Fond of China.
corseques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corseque
cyclothymiac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Related to, or affected by cyclothymia.
cyclothymiac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclothymiacs
Senses: glosses: A person affected by cyclothymia.
Nucflash
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Code word indicating the actual or possible detonation of a nuclear weapon and consequent risk of an outbreak of nuclear war.
trichosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trichoses
Etymology: From tricho- + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any disease or abnormality of the hair.
glosses: An overgrowth of hair; hairiness.
clotted creams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clotted cream
cotton velvets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cotton velvet
homecarer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homecarers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of home carer.
homecarers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homecarer
shootingstar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shootingstars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shooting star (flowering plant)
shootingstars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shootingstar
Soggies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From SOG + -ie + -s.
Senses: glosses: Members of a Special Operations Group.
delusion of doubles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delusions of doubles
Senses: glosses: Fregoli delusion
delusions of doubles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delusion of doubles
cane brakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cane brake
strategic materials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strategic material
lizard beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lizard beetles
Senses: glosses: Any beetle of the tribe Languriini.
lizard beetles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lizard beetle
southern topeyed lamprey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: southern topeyed lampreys
Senses: glosses: A lamprey of the genus Mordacia, of Chile and Australia
Hyponyms: sense: genus
taxonomic: Mordacia lapicida
word: Chilean lamprey
sense: genus
taxonomic: Mordacia mordax
word: Australian lamprey
sense: genus
english: species
translation: species
taxonomic: Mordacia praecox
word: Australian brook lamprey
mock silver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare modern Greek ψευδάργυρος (psevdárgyros, “zinc”).
Senses: topics: alchemy
pseudoscience
glosses: A metal known to the ancients, possibly zinc.
Indian tin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: zinc
Suvorov
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Suwarrow (“island”).
examples: text: The main problem—where were the Germans hiding in East Prussia?—was lost sight of amid all these alarms and excursions. Any Russian not racked beyond endurance by the riddle (where have they got to? what has become of them?) had no drop of Suvorov’s blood in his veins.
ref: 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 94:
glosses: A transliteration of the Russian surname Суворов (Suvorov).
bottom on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bottoms on
form: bottoming on
form: bottomed on
form: bottomed on
Senses: examples: text: Unversed in financial projects and calculations and budgets, his approbation of them was bottomed on his confidence in the man. But Hamilton was not only a monarchist, but for a monarchy bottomed on corruption.
ref: 1839, Henry Lee, Charles Carter Lee, Observations on the writings of Thomas Jefferson:
text: Commutative justice relates to the exchange of one thing for another, and is bottomed on the principle of something for something, or as the lawyers say, quid pro quo.
ref: 1844, Edward Dorr Griffin, Sermons, Not Before Published, on Various Practical Subjects:
text: Karen Stimson, director of Largesse, a group that fights sizism, weighed in with this comment to The A.P.: "Being fat has always meant being downwardly mobile, especially for women. Society discriminates against people of size." The phrase is bottomed on people of color, an 18th-century term for "nonwhites" enjoying new popularity among those not pigmentally deprived.
ref: 1993, William Safire, Mangled Metaphors:
glosses: To ground or base on.
bottomed on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bottom on
vertex covers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vertex cover
Kuropatkin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The Germans knew whom they were up against and did not expect him to put them under pressure. He belonged to the Kuropatkin school of saintly passivity.
ref: 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 94:
glosses: Russian Imperial Minister of War from 1898 to 1904.
Kutuzov
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: “Remember—you are Kutuzov’s heirs!” Asses! Imagine having three cavalry divisions—and not one of them out in front looking for the vanished Germans! How could they possibly hope to encircle this most formidable of enemies?
ref: 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 94:
glosses: A Field Marshal of the Russian Empire under the reign of Catherine II, Paul I and Alexander I.
wheat breads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheat bread
bracefaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of braceface
almond milks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of almond milk
antisocial personality disorders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antisocial personality disorder
mythbust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mythbusts
form: mythbusting
form: mythbusted
form: mythbusted
Etymology: Back-formation from mythbuster. Equivalent to myth + bust.
Senses: examples: text: “I definitely prefer limiting our hands-on action-adventure to our attempts to mythbust my love scenes.” Pete smiled and pulled her close.
ref: 2017, Suzanne Brockmann, Some Kind of Hero:
glosses: To dispel a stereotype or misconception.
mythbusts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mythbust
mythbusting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mythbust
mythbusted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mythbust
Kham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌm/
homophone: come
homophone: cum
rhymes: -ʌm
Etymology: Borrowed from Tibetan ཁམས (khams).
Senses: examples: text: In the summer of 1956, Chinese troops bombed a large monastery in the eastern Kham region. The Chinese had begun to destroy the religious and cultural artifacts of Tibet.
ref: 1996, Whitney Stewart, “The Chinese Takeover”, in The 14th Dalai Lama: Spiritual Leader of Tibet, Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 86:
text: The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader told the French newspaper Le Monde that the army opened fire during a protest in the eastern Tibetan region of Kham on Monday.[…]
“We know about disturbances in the Kham region. But we do not have any details or figures about injuries or deaths,” said the aide, Chhime Chhoekyapa, in the northern town of Dharamsala.[…]
“The military presence in Tibet is old, but the frenzy of new construction in the Amdo and Kham regions makes me say that this colonisation by the army is designed to last,” he said.
ref: 2008 August 21, “China to crack down on use of leanness enhancers in cattle and sheep”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 17 May 2022, Top News:
text: For Samdhong Rinpoche, this tour around the world is also his last trip as PM, now that his term is over and cannot be extended. He has decided to take his future after March 20 as it comes. If he could do what he wanted, he would go back to his home monastery in Kham, where he has not returned since 1959 and where he used to sit under the trees and meditate as a young man. He said, "they are wonderful and they are still standing."
ref: 2011 February 23, Adrienne Woltersdorf (sb), “Tibetans searching for a future beyond the Dalai Lama”, in Thomas Baerthlein, editor, Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 25 May 2021, Asia:
text: Much of what is today the mountainous western part of China’s Sichuan Province was, before the 1950 takeover, politically and culturally a part of Tibet, known as Kham.[…]
While the arrival of thousands of international tourists brings environmental and social changes, it has also allowed families to remain in the mountains and to profit off the nature around them and Tibetan culture.
A case in point would be the nomadic Tibetan family I met on the grasslands of the Kham region, who, working side by side with a local guesthouse, were offering tourists the chance to stay with them in their traditional yak-wool tent and learn something of traditional Tibetan nomadic life.
ref: 2021 July 12, Stuart Butler, “Scattered Among the Himalaya, Glimpses of a Changing Tibet”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Jul 2021:
glosses: One of the three traditional regions of Tibet, covering a land area largely divided between eastern parts of the Tibet Autonomous Region, western parts of Sichuan, and smaller parts of Qinghai and Yunnan.
Related terms: Amdo
Ü-Tsang
Kham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌm/
homophone: come
homophone: cum
rhymes: -ʌm
Forms: form: Khams
Etymology: Transliteration of Lao ຄຳ (kham).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Lao.
luncheon meats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of luncheon meat
self-willedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English self-willednes, self-wyllydnes, equivalent to self-willed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being self-willed.
self-willedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more self-willedly
form: most self-willedly
Etymology: From self-willed + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a self-willed manner.
biogeotechnologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biogeotechnology
geotechnologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geotechnology
agribiotechnologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agribiotechnology
psychotechnologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychotechnology
histotechnologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of histotechnology
mycotechnologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mycotechnology
radiotechnologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radiotechnology
xenotechnologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xenotechnology
information technologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of information technology
information and communications technologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of information and communications technology
saw-horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saw-horses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sawhorse.
apocarotenal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apocarotenals
Etymology: From apo- + carotenal.
Senses: glosses: A carotenoid found in spinach and citrus fruits.
Related terms: apocarotenoid
reverse integration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The process of merging different team branches into the main trunk of a versioning system.
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A form of social integration where the dominant group integrates with the minority or marginalized, rather than the other way round, e.g. where able-bodied people take part in parasports.
half full
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: halfful
Senses: examples: text: Some see the glass as half-empty, some see the glass as half-full. I see the glass as too big.
ref: 1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 72:
synonyms: half-filled
half empty
glosses: holding about half of the full capacity
Related terms: the glass half-full
BWRA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of British Welding Research Association.
glosses: Initialism of British Wheelchair Racing Association.
half gyps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half gyp
KJO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Initialism of King James Only.
homoioteleuton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homoioteleutons
form: homoioteleuta
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of homeoteleuton.
homeoteleuton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homeoteleuta
form: homeoteleutons
form: homoeoteleuton
form: homoioteleuton
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὁμοιοτέλευτον (homoiotéleuton, “like ending”).
Senses: examples: text: Homoioteleuton makes the measure chime
With the same endings of the fetter'd rhyme.
ref: 1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Turns.] Homeoteleuton.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 91:
glosses: The repetition of endings in words; near rhyme.
glosses: The accidental omission, when copying a text, of a passage between repeated words or phrases, as the eye skips from one to the next without noticing the words between.
skimmed milks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skimmed milk
heart massage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heart massages
Senses: examples: text: Eyewitnesses reported seeing police give emergency heart massage to at least one of the injured.
ref: 2017 June 18, Gregory Katz, “1 Dead, 10 Hurt in Crash near Mosque Suspected as Terrorism”, in The Associated Press, The Associated Press, retrieved 19 Jun 2017:
glosses: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
oblique motions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oblique motion
military load classes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of military load class
brain weary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brain weary
form: most brain weary
Senses: glosses: fatigued by pressure of work
beggaress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beggaresses
Etymology: From beggar + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female beggar.
succrescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin succrescentia, from succresco.
Senses: examples: text: ſhe aboundeth in continuall ſuccreſcence of new ſeed.
ref: 1650, Edward Marbury, A Commentarie, or Exposition Upon the Prophecie of Habakkuk:
text: But it seems to be a protrusion or succrescence of tendonous matter grown hard and callous
ref: 1663, John Wallis, The Correspondence of John Wallis, Volume II:
glosses: An outward growth from underneath.
Related terms: succrescent
storm in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: storms in
form: storming in
form: stormed in
form: stormed in
Senses: glosses: To enter a place angrily.
wps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wp
carane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The bicyclic hydrocarbon 3,7,7-trimethylbicyclo[4.1.0]heptane
P.C.I.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: P.C.I.'s
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of PCI.
ILUC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ILUCs
form: iLUC
Senses: glosses: Initialism of indirect land use change.
YIMBY
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: /ˈjɪmbi/
Forms: form: yimby
Etymology: Coined as an antonym for nimby.
Senses: examples: text: YIMBY encompasses home composting, "grass cycling" and landscape alteration.
ref: 1993, BioCycle - Volume 34, Issues 1-6, page 34:
text: Buildings that actually boost local land value are, therefore, called "YIMBY" or "Yes In My Back Yard." These beneficial neighbors include Police Stations, Schools, Parks, etc.
ref: 2000, Greg Kramer, Sim City Three Thousand Unlimited:
glosses: Acronym of yes, in my backyard.
examples: text: YIMBY does not promise to eliminate risk; it simply spreads it among all those involved. Yesterday, we reiterated several times that equity is critical to any solution, and in this regard YIMBY provides a practical and equitable standard
ref: 1990, Thaddeus C. Trzyna, Ilze M. Gotelli, The Power of convening, page 46:
text: The concept of YIMBY, or "Yes-In-Many-Backyards," was introduced in the early 1980s in Southern California as a guiding principle to distribute unwanted hazardous waste facilities among all the counties participating in the Southern California Hazardous Waste Management Project (later transposed into a joint powers authority).
ref: 1991, Joseph F. DiMento, LeRoy Graymer, Confronting Regional Challenges: Approaches to LULUs, Growth, and Other Vexing Governance Problems:
text: In the early 1980s in southern California, the concept of YIMBY (yes in many backyards) was introduced as a guiding principle for distributing unwanted hazardous waste facilities among all the counties participating in the Southern California Hazardous Waste Management Project, which later was restructured into a joint powers authority. The YIMBY philosophy asked each county to take responsibility for its fair share of the waste problem, though not necessarily to manage all of its own wastes.
ref: 2019, Daniel Mazmanian, Beyond Superfailure: America's Toxics Policy For The 1990s:
glosses: Acronym of yes, in many backyards.
YIMBY
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈjɪmbi/
Forms: form: YIMBYs
form: yimby
Etymology: Coined as an antonym for nimby.
Senses: examples: text: The local YIMBYs came out in favor of the project.
text: In my constituency, however, we have the YIMBYs—which stands for “yes in my backyard”. We want an airport at Finningley.
ref: 2001, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).:
text: Wltll respect to conserved lands, a reversal is occurring—NlMBY (not in my back yard) is being replaced by YIMBY (yes, in my back yard). I am one of thousands of YIMBYs who choose to live near Acadia National Park.
ref: 2003, National Parks - Volume 77, page 35:
text: The city council decided not to consider the measure at that meeting, which the YIMBYs considered a victory.
ref: 2017 July 5, Alana Semuels, “From 'Not in My Backyard' to 'Yes in My Backyard'”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2017:
text: Opponents paint YIMBYs as being in the pocket of real estate interests: naively helping rich developers at best, or outright shills at worst, with funding from tech millionaires.
ref: 2019 June 28, Patrick Sisson, “YIMBY in action: How pro-housing policies became a political rallying cry”, in Curbed, archived from the original on 05 Nov 2020:
text: YIMBYs also typically oppose the exclusionary nature of NIMBY campaigns that can lock out people of color and low incomes from certain neighborhoods.
ref: 2019 September 19, David Boraks, “YIMBYs say yes to urban density and affordable housing”, in The Charlotte Observer, archived from the original on 27 Sep 2019:
antonyms: NIMBY
glosses: Someone who endorses development (especially the construction of more housing) near them.
YIMBY
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈjɪmbi/
Forms: form: more YIMBY
form: most YIMBY
form: yimby
Etymology: Coined as an antonym for nimby.
Senses: examples: text: From a YIMBY perspective, the high-rises are good for the city.
text: But some communities have found that a YIMBY attitude (Yes, in my back yard)— with proper quality assurance controls— can pay good dividends.
ref: 1992, Solid Waste & Power - Volume 6, page 28:
text: Responses to both the PCED and YIMBY surveys identified a need for a variety of mesures to lower the financial and other barriers to the wider consumer uptake of microgeneration systems.
ref: 2014, Patrick Devine-Wright, Renewable Energy and the Public: From NIMBY to Participation:
text: YIMBY candidates for local Bay Area offices suffered defeat at the ballot box last November.
ref: 2017 July 5, Alana Semuels, “From 'Not in My Backyard' to 'Yes in My Backyard'”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2017:
text: YIMBY political groups still have no blanket national organization.
ref: 2019 June 28, Patrick Sisson, “YIMBY in action: How pro-housing policies became a political rallying cry”, in Curbed, archived from the original on 05 Nov 2020:
text: YIMBY groups support denser development with more housing — especially affordable housing.
ref: 2019 September 19, David Boraks, “YIMBYs say yes to urban density and affordable housing”, in The Charlotte Observer, archived from the original on 27 Sep 2019:
text: Encoded in YIMBY ideology is a belief that the best thing to do with NIMBYs is discard them.
ref: 2022 June 5, Conor Dougherty, “Twilight of the NIMBY”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 10 Jun 2022:
antonyms: NIMBY
glosses: Supporting nearby development (especially the construction of more housing).
Derived terms: YIMBYism
QDII
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: QDIIs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Qualified Domestic Institutional Investor
QDIIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of QDII
QFII
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: QFIIs
Senses: glosses: Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor
QFIIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of QFII
IMAX
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: īʹ-măks
ipa: /ˈaɪmæks/
rhymes: -aɪmæks
Forms: form: IMAXes
Senses: topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
glosses: A 70mm motion picture film format and set of cinema projection standards.
examples: text: Unless you have the space to set up a mini IMAX in your living room, your best bet is to get a decent 2.1 or 5.1 speaker set.
ref: 2006, Ben Hardwidge, Building Extreme PCs: The Complete Guide to Computer Modding:
glosses: A cinema screen in the IMAX format.
Derived terms: IMAX and climax
C2C
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of customer-to-customer.
C2C
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of cam-to-cam (“direct video communication by webcam”).
customer-to-customer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: that involves mutual interaction between customers
Chesterfield County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of 46 counties in South Carolina, United States. County seat: Chesterfield.
glosses: One of 95 counties in Virginia, United States. County seat: Chesterfield Court House. Named after the Earl of Chesterfield.
underlaugh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underlaughs
form: under-laugh
Etymology: Probably derived from Middle English underlaughen (“to smile; smile with the eyes”), Middle English underlaughteren (“to smirk”), equivalent to under- + laugh.
Senses: examples: text: John Joy Tree greeted this with an ugly underlaugh, a barely audible sound which made Casher feel the whole situation was ridiculous.
ref: 1964, Galaxy Magazine - Volume 23, Issues 1-6, page 52:
text: “A stretcher case, surely,” he added, and an underlaugh rippled through the ranks and files.
ref: 2011, Ward McBurney, Sap's War:
text: So in this specific role, in this specific scene, my fontal rush of propulsive fear, my prickly self-strickenness, and my strangled underlaugh that was (and still is) a result of what Sigmund Freud identified as the “liminal dilemma between the intense desire for supplication and the concurrent need for masochistic provocation” all combined to create an illusion of a brilliant stage presence, bursting with potential and future possibility.
ref: 2012, Dana Spiotta, Stone Arabia, page 11:
text: Campbell laughed a quiet under-laugh, half sad, half humorous.
ref: 2013, Charles Kingsley, Delphi Complete Works of Charles Kingsley:
glosses: A suppressed laugh
Related terms: underlaughter
church giggles
Chesterfield Court House
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community, the county seat of Chesterfield County, Virginia, United States.
underlaughter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Probably derived from Middle English underlaughteren (“to smirk”), Middle English underlaughen (“to smile; smile with the eyes”), equivalent to under- + laughter.
Senses: examples: text: “Of course I am, thank you,” said Clover in a voice which also he would hardly have recognized, so gay was it with a ripple of underlaughter.
ref: 1922, Berta Ruck, The Subconscious Courtship, page 340:
text: Herrick could not guide Corinna, and Pope could not guide Mrs. Blount, into a definite, satisfying image because their ladies were too multiform and subtle, too likely to recede into airy sourire, underlaughter, to permit any resolution, any pinning tot he wall; […]
ref: 1985, Daniel Albright, Lyricality in English literature, page 126:
glosses: Suppressed laughter or laughing
Synonyms: snickering
Related terms: underlaugh
Blanco County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -aʊnti
Etymology: * Named after the Blanco River; the largest town in the county is also named Blanco.
Senses: glosses: One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Johnson City.
wikipedia: Blanco River (Texas)
Clackamas County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the Clackamas people.
Senses: glosses: One of 36 counties in Oregon, United States. County seat: Oregon City.
wikipedia: Clackamas people
Oregon City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Clackamas County, Oregon, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Butte County, California, United States.
palynodebris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From palyno- + debris.
Senses: glosses: debris in sediment composed of fossil pollen and other palynomorphs
Broome County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after John Broome.
Senses: glosses: One of 62 counties in New York, United States. County seat: Binghamton.
wikipedia: John Broome (politician)
Binghamton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: New York State
ipa: /ˈbɪŋəmtən/
Etymology: (New York) from Bingham + -ton
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Broome County, New York, United States, named after William Bingham.
glosses: A town in Broome County, New York, adjacent to the city of the same name.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Solano County, California, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Outagamie County, Wisconsin, United States.
underpriest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underpriests
Etymology: From Middle English underprest, unnderrpreost, equivalent to under- + priest. Cognate with Icelandic undirprestur.
Senses: examples: text: Once they dragged the man to the open metal casket, two of the underpriests stepped in to help secure him.
ref: 2007, Leigh Grossman, The Green Lion, page 174:
glosses: A subordinate priest
underpriests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underpriest
Crittenden County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of 75 counties in Arkansas, United States. County seat: Marion. Named after Robert Crittenden.
glosses: One of 120 counties in Kentucky, United States. County seat: Marion. Named after John J. Crittenden.
Pine County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for the many pine trees in the area.
Senses: glosses: One of 87 counties in Minnesota, United States. County seat: Pine City.
McLibel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Mc- + libel.
Senses: glosses: McDonald’s Corporation v Steel & Morris, a famous libel case involving McDonald’s.
Pine City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former mining settlement in Mono County, California, United States.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Pine County, Minnesota, United States.
glosses: A hamlet in Chemung County, New York, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Morrow County, Oregon, United States.
southern lamprey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: southern lampreys
Senses: glosses: A pouched lamprey (Geotria australis), of Australia
Powhatan County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of 95 counties in Virginia, United States. County seat: Powhatan.
Wetzel County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Lewis Wetzel.
Senses: glosses: One of 55 counties in West Virginia, United States. County seat: New Martinsville.
wikipedia: Lewis Wetzel
pouched lamprey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pouched lampreys
Senses: glosses: A lamprey of Australia (Geotria australis), with an adult size of 0.5 meters.
New Martinsville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Wetzel County, West Virginia, United States.
Martinsville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small town in the City of Lake Macquarie, Hunter Region, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A small city in Clark County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Morgan County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Harrison County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Bridgewater Township, Somerset County, New Jersey.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Clinton County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An independent city, the county seat of Henry County, Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in the town of Springfield, Dane County, Wisconsin.
Derived terms: New Martinsville
Elbert County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of 64 counties in Colorado, United States. County seat: Kiowa. Named after Samuel Hitt Elbert.
glosses: One of 159 counties in Georgia, United States. County seat: Elberton. Named after Samuel Elbert.
Elberton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Elbert County, Georgia, United States. Named after Samuel Elbert.
glosses: A ghost town in Whitman County, Washington, United States. Derived from Elbert as a Christian name.
glosses: A village in South Gloucestershire district, England (OS grid ref ST6088).
Rawlins County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after John Aaron Rawlins
Senses: glosses: One of 105 counties in Kansas, United States. County seat: Atwood.
wikipedia: John Aaron Rawlins
Jesuism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛzu.ɪzəm/
Senses: examples: text: A sentiment this, which is as far from a weak Arminianism as it is opposite to a wicked Antinomianism, and which may strictly be denominated pure Jesuism.
ref: 1794, John Rippon, The Baptist annual register; including sketches of the state of religion among different denominations of good men at home and abroad, volume 2:
text: The Jesuism which makes Jesus an object of religious faith is pseudo-Christian. That Jesuism which makes Jesus very God, has some claims to be considered religion. But that which makes him, as Dr. Clarke's does, a mere "perfect specimen of a man," is no religion at all; it is mere hero-worship.
ref: 1870 November 24, “Dr. J. F. Clarke against theism”, in The Examiner, volume 1, number 1:
text: The religion of the Christians has for good reasons been called, not Jesuism after the name of Jesus, but Christianity after Christ, the ideal of humanity, which is not an individual being but a superpersonal presence, not a man who lived and died at a certain time, but like the Platonic ideas, an eternal type, the prototype of the highest ideal of manhood.
ref: 1909, Paul Carus, “Christianity as the pleroma”, in The Open Court, volume 23, page 424:
topics: Christianity
glosses: The teachings or worship of Jesus, as opposed to Christianity as a whole.
Synonyms: Jesusism
Jesuanism
rerequest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rerequests
form: re-request
Senses: glosses: A subsequent request.
rerequest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rerequests
form: rerequesting
form: rerequested
form: rerequested
form: re-request
Senses: glosses: To request once more.
re-request
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: re-requests
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rerequest.
re-request
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-requests
form: re-requesting
form: re-requested
form: re-requested
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rerequest.
Big Horn County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -aʊnti
Senses: glosses: One of 56 counties in Montana, United States. County seat: Hardin. Named after the bighorn sheep.
glosses: One of 23 counties in Wyoming, United States. County seat: Basin.
Mohar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mohars
Etymology: Borrowed from Slovene Móhar. It could also be a variant of Moher, an Irish surname from ó Mochair (“descendant of Mochar”), from mochar (“place with brushwood”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Slovene.
osteoclasy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteoclasies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀστέον (ostéon, “bone”) + Ancient Greek κλάσις (klásis, “breaking”).
Senses: examples: text: He had performed upwards of twenty osteotomies, and nearly as many osteoclasies.
ref: 1884, Gaillard's Medical Journal - Volume 38, page 434:
text: We need not here discuss the performance of instrumental osteoclasy, for it has never been received with favour in this country.
ref: 1891, The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery:
text: The tendency to flat-foot acquired through the flabbiness of the ligamentous apparatus during the attempts of the child at locomotion requires straightening and sustaining by a shoe made strong enough to support the ankle; scoliosis, a Sayre's plater-of-Paris or a felt jacket; the rhachitical groove round and above the insertion of the diaphragm, well-directed gumnastics of the chest; inflexible and ugly curvatures of the long bones, either osteoclasy (fracturing of the curved bone while leaving the periosteum intact, and resetting) or osteotomy (straightening the bone after it has undergone a cutting operation).
ref: 1896, Abraham Jacobi, Therapeutics of Infancy and Childhood, page 100:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The surgical fracture and resetting of a bone.
osteoclasies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of osteoclasy
parthenophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parthenophiles
Etymology: From partheno- + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: According to the age of the attracting person homosexuals are divisible into ephebophiles (lovers of youths, 14-21), androphiles (grown men up to the period of old age), gerontophiles (lovers of the aged) and pedophiles (lovers of small boys). The two latter are not as conspicuous as the two former, which compromise 45 per cent of the whole. The corresponding divisions in women are parthenophiles (lovers of young women, virgins), gynecophiles (lovers of adult women), grasphiles (lovers of old women), and korophiles (lovers of undeveloped girls).
ref: 1914 Leon Pierce Clark, A Critical Digest of Some of the Newer Work Upon Homosexuality in Man and Woman State Hospital Bulletin - Volume 7 - Page 351-352
text: Even for Caliban's unpeopled isle
Still taunted by the fragrance of Miranda.
Father Gilhooly, plump parthenophile,
Peeps through the alders, praying in the while
Saint Nicholas will send her comfort and a
Great cuddly plush, yet somehow sentient, panda.
(this also appears on page 19 of The Carleton Miscellany, Volume 9 Number 4, Fall 1968)
ref: 1968, Ramon Guthrie, Asbestos Phoenix: "Wunday the Worst of Weptober", 6th passage, page 99
text: So before damning Waldo Sabine, the parthenophile, I would draw your attention to an English proverb first recorded in 1670, “Eggs of an hour, fish of ten [hours], bread of a day, a woman of fifteen..."
ref: 2005, Strange Attractor - Volume 2, page 212:
text: in his 1914 magnum opus, Die Homosexualitat des Mannes und des Weibes, Hirschfeld specified the range of love objects as from "the beginning to the completion of maturity, so approximately ages 14-21." The German research estimated that 45 of all homosexuals were ephebophiles. For women, he used the term "parthenophiles."
ref: 2016, Encyclopedia of Homosexuality, page 361:
text: evolution is not 'interested': it does not proceed from the intentions of individual actors, be they scheming women or parthenophile (virgin-loving) men
ref: 2020, How We Use Stories and Why That Matters, page 250:
glosses: One who is sexually attracted to adolescent girls, particularly virgins
Related terms: word: parthenophilia
english: for sexual attraction to adolescent boys
translation: for sexual attraction to adolescent boys
word: ephebophile
english: for sexual attraction to pre-adolescent girls
translation: for sexual attraction to pre-adolescent girls
word: korophile
LINE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LINEs
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of long interspersed nuclear element, a type of retrotransposon in genomics.
glosses: A close quarters combat system, see LINE (combat system) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
LINEs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LINE
SINE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SINEs
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of short interspersed element, a type of retrotransposon in genomics.
glosses: Acronym of selective inhibitors of nuclear export, a drug for epithelioid sarcoma.
SINEs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SINE
superbolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superbolts
form: super bolt
form: super-bolt
Etymology: From super- + bolt (“lightning bolt”).
Senses: examples: text: A typical lightning bolt has an optical power of about 1 billion watts. The superbolt flashes radiate 100 billion to 10 trillion (10¹¹)-(10¹³) watts. They are quite rare.
ref: 1979, Kendrick Frazier, The Violent Face of Nature: Severe Phenomena and Natural Disasters, Morrow, →ISBN, page 97:
text: This low lightning rate is insufficient to affect the global NOx production, however it may cause local enhancement near Japan where most superbolts occur.
ref: 1981, Marta Kowalczyk, Lightning as a source of NOx in the troposphere:
text: In rare cases a positively charged giant 'superbolt' may discharge from the forward (or rear) anvil cloud to the negatively charged ground ahead of (or behind) the thunderstorm base.
ref: 2015, Derek M. Elsom, Lightning: Nature and Culture:
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A rare form of lightning where the bolt is much stronger (such as 100x) and lasts much longer (such as 5x) than the usual forms of lightning.