cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Sye
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: 4: VERB MORPHOLOGY
Referring to Sye, Capell (1954:107) wrote, “The language is rather difficult.” No doubt he had the verbs of the language in mind when he made this statement.
ref: 1998, Terry Crowley, An Erromangan (Sye) Grammar, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, page 77:
glosses: The Erromangan language.
Sye
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: I was gripping on to Sye's shirt so hard that my fingers had lost blood circulation and they cramped when I let go. I sat up and held on to Sye with an exploding mixture of emotions. I cried into his chest, and he embraced me ...
ref: 2011, Andrea Bruden, The Secret of Vehnna, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 143:
text: Many things came to Sye's mind that wanted to be said, but his tongue refused to push them into reality. Struggling for a moment, Sye finally settled to whisper in a strained voice,
ref: 2013, Andrew Suzanne, The Towers of Adrala: Book One - Part One: Saranoda, Andrew Suzanne, →ISBN:
text: Rae listened to Sye as she talked; the excitement was clearly read in Sye's face and felt in her words.
ref: 2015, Linda S. Grant, Out Of The Ice: Birth of a Shaman, FriesenPress, →ISBN:
glosses: A male or female given name.
chuflay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A traditional Bolivian mixed drink made from singani and ginger ale or lemonade.
singani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A South American pomace brandy distilled from white Muscat of Alexandria grapes in the high valleys of Bolivia.
Teck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tecks
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Teck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Likely shortened from Tecumseh, a given name from the Native American leader of the Shawnee tribe.
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
Derived terms: Teck's Ass
Aimara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Aymara.
Aimara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Aymara.
ecotechnologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In ecotechnological terms.
oroya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oroyas
Etymology: From Spanish oroya, from Quechua oroya.
Senses: glosses: A hanging basket attached to a cable, anciently used in South America to cross ravines.
Related terms: Oroya fever
oroyas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oroya
test double
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: test doubles
Senses: examples: text: A test double is something that stands in for a real system when tests are being run. It comes from the idea of a double who stands in for the real actor when shooting a movie.
ref: 2010, Ken Pugh, Lean-Agile Acceptance Test-Driven-Development, Pearson Education, →ISBN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: An object or procedure that looks and behaves like its release-intended counterpart, but is actually a simplified version to reduce complexity and facilitate testing.
Hyponyms: dummy
fake
mock object
mock
spy
stub
distantiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distantiations
Senses: examples: text: The reversal of the direction of the traditional peephole gaze (we see the looker, not the lookee) is only part of this painting's correspondences to Eh Joe; consider, too, the distantiation created by the two focuses: […]
ref: 1995, Catharina Wulf, Oeil Fauve, page 54:
glosses: The act or process of distantiating.
distantiations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of distantiation
distannynes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of distannyne
necropolitically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In terms of necropolitics.
test doubles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of test double
indeedy-doody
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Reduplicative form of indeedy.
Senses: glosses: Indeed.
multigestation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + gestation.
Senses: glosses: Involving the simultaneous gestation of more than one fetus.
multigestational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + gestational.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of multigestation.
synonyms: word: multigestation
death houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of death house
Tafea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the initial letters of its main constituent islands: Tanna, Aneityum, Futuna, Erromango and Aniwa.
Senses: glosses: The southernmost of the six provinces of Vanuatu.
futuramic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more futuramic
form: most futuramic
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a futurama.
five-a-sides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of five-a-side
dur-brains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dur-brain
futtock shrouds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of futtock shroud
futtock plates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of futtock plate
Keilah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: An ancient city in the lowlands of Judah, mentioned in the Bible. David rescued it from the attack of the Philistines (1 Samuel 23:1-8) but the inhabitants sought to deliver him up to Saul (23:12).
keikogis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keikogi
kehuas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kehua
kehillahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kehillah
kehilloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kehillah
kegeler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kegelers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kegler.
kegelers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kegeler
crocodile clips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crocodile clip
carbon arcs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carbon arc
undetestable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undetestable
form: most undetestable
Etymology: From un- + detestable.
Senses: glosses: Not detestable.
unblackmailed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + blackmailed.
Senses: glosses: Not blackmailed.
unblackmailable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + blackmailable.
Senses: glosses: Not blackmailable.
Italophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Italophobes
Senses: antonyms: Italophile
glosses: A person who has a fear of or aversion towards Italy, the Italian people or their culture.
Italophobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Italophobe
equinoctial years
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equinoctial year
pseudohomosexuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + homosexuality.
Senses: glosses: The property of being pseudohomosexual.
pseudohomosexuals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudohomosexual
pseudohomosexual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + homosexual.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: According to Lionel Ovesey: having become a (male) homosexual as a result of abnormal interpersonal relationships, rather than having an innate homosexual orientation.
pseudohomosexual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudohomosexuals
Etymology: From pseudo- + homosexual.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A pseudohomosexual man.
Related terms: pseudohomosexuality
commentatorially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a commentatorial manner.
faving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fave
glosses: present participle and gerund of fav
faved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fave
glosses: simple past and past participle of fav
unfavourites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unfavourite
unfavouriting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unfavourite
call originators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of call originator
ptilolites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ptilolite
secret history
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secret histories
Senses: synonyms: shadow history
glosses: A revisionist interpretation of history, claimed to have been deliberately suppressed, forgotten, or ignored by established scholars.
secret histories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secret history
shadow history
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shadow histories
Senses: glosses: Synonym of secret history.
synonyms: word: secret history
shadow histories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shadow history
shadow banks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shadow bank
runrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: runrates
form: run-rate
form: run rate
Etymology: From run + rate.
Senses: examples: text: In addition, the group dealt with all the routine tasks served up by a company with a revenue runrate of $40 billion and more than 300,000 owners.
ref: 2009, Richard J. Connors, Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha:
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: Extrapolation of financial results into future periods.
Related terms: burn rate
runrates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of runrate
run-rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: run-rates
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of runrate.
run-rates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of run-rate
run rates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of run rate
plighty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪti
Forms: form: plightier
form: more plighty
form: plightiest
form: most plighty
Etymology: From Middle English plighty, plighti, equivalent to plight + -y.
Senses: examples: text: [...] — as the company is so small, the impresario is in a continual flap, having to nurse his people as much as he can, in case some sudden illness should fling him into the plightiest of plights, not being able to mount any show at all!
ref: 1981, Julian Rushton, W. A. Mozart: Don Giovanni:
text: The government it can give, it loves to give to everybody, but if the government gives away that money, spreads all its money to the plighty, you know, it goes down.
ref: 1999, Ronaldo Munck, Denis O'Hearn, Critical Development Theory: Contributions to a New Paradigm:
text: The whole set of them were in a most plighty condition. Many were in rags, and not a few had their bodies covered with most offensive sores.
ref: 2012, Hans Derks, History of the Opium Problem:
glosses: Relating to or indicating plight; misfortunate; dire; precarious; needy
Goddard-Thorn theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Peter Goddard and Charles Thorn.
Senses: topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: A theorem about certain vector spaces, relating to string theory.
wikipedia: Charles Thorn
Peter Goddard (physicist)
Synonyms: no-ghost theorem
Kac-Moody algebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kac-Moody algebras
Etymology: Named after Victor Kac and Robert Moody, who independently discovered them.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A Lie algebra, usually infinite-dimensional, that can be defined by generators and relations through a generalized Cartan matrix. They have applications in theoretical physics.
kacapis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kacapi
Kac-Moody algebras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kac-Moody algebra
kadams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kadam
Killing form
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Killing forms
Etymology: Named after Wilhelm Killing.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A symmetric bilinear form that plays a basic role in the theories of Lie groups and Lie algebras.
wikipedia: Wilhelm Killing
Killing forms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Killing form
killions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of killion
gnits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gnit
cupressophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cupressophytes
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any member of the Cupressophyta.
cupressophytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cupressophyte
alternative algebras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alternative algebra
Albert algebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Albert algebras
Etymology: Named after Abraham Adrian Albert, who pioneered the study of non-associative algebras, usually working over the real numbers.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A 27-dimensional exceptional Jordan algebra.
Albert algebras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Albert algebra
Jordan algebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jordan algebras
Etymology: Introduced by Pascual Jordan.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A non-associative algebra over a field whose product satisfies the axioms (i) xy=yx (the commutative law) and (ii) (xy)(xx)=x(y(xx)) (the Jordan identity).
Hyponyms: Albert algebra
Jordan algebras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jordan algebra
jorbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jorb
Kantor-Koecher-Tits construction
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Introduced by Jacques Tits (1962), Kantor (1964), and Koecher (1967).
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A method of constructing a Lie algebra from a Jordan algebra.
Cartanian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Cartan + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Élie Cartan (1869–1951), influential French mathematician who did fundamental work in the theory of Lie groups and their geometric applications.
Oslo breakfasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Oslo breakfast
Cartan integer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cartan integers
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any of the scalar products a_ij=2(r_i,r_j)/(r_i,r_i) that make up the Cartan matrix of a simple Lie algebra.
Cartan integers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cartan integer
cart stalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cart stall
classical studies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Classical Studies
Senses: glosses: The study of Ancient Greek and Latin, their literature, history, etc., sometimes inclusive of the study of the ancient Mediterranean generally.
Synonyms: classics
humanities
rejection region
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rejection regions
Senses: examples: text: Now it turns out that practically speaking a given rejection function induces only two rejection regions.
ref: 2006, William A. Dembski, No Free Lunch, →ISBN:
text: Thus, any event in the rejection region leads to rejection of the null hypothesis.
ref: 2010, Chris Spatz, Basic Statistics: Tales of Distributions, →ISBN, page 180:
text: How does this affect our rejection region? In this case, we calculate the area of the rejection region on only one side of the sampling distribution.
ref: 2013, David Weisburd, Chester Britt, Statistics in Criminal Justice, →ISBN, page 185:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A range of test values for which the null hypothesis is rejected.
rejection regions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rejection region
reverse cycler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reverse cyclers
Senses: examples: text: Maybe you could market this amazing invention to mothers of reverse cyclers all over the world.
ref: 2013 May 27, coniferous, “Reverse cyclers”, in WhatToExpect.Community.Babies (Usenet):
text: The upside with a reverse cycler is that you may not have to do as much expressing during the day.
ref: 2014, Diane Wiessinger, Diane West, Linda J. Smith, Sweet Sleep: Nighttime and Naptime Strategies for the Breastfeeding Family, →ISBN:
glosses: A nursing infant that tends to feed mostly at night and sleep mostly during the day.
reverse cyclers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reverse cycler
rope into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ropes into
form: roping into
form: roped into
form: roped into
Senses: examples: text: They could be quickly strapped into the jump-seats with seatbelts, rather than roping them into the bed of the truck in a downpour.
ref: 2010, Kurt Lewis Allen, The Service, →ISBN, page 202:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rope, into.
examples: text: Efforts to contain the discontent in the plants through the creation of new bargaining institutions gave the unions an apprenticeship in institution building without roping them into a defense of the status quo;
ref: 1982, Charles F. Sabel, Work and Politics: The Division of Labour in Industry, →ISBN, page 157:
text: She's roped me into making six chocolate truffle tortes for a hospice do and to help with the spring fair.
ref: 2012, Susan Hill, Simon Serrailler Bundle: The Pure in Heart/The Various Haunts of Men, →ISBN:
text: He wondered if it was a case of deliberate set up, to rope him into something bigger than him.
ref: 2016, Alpha Dominion, Shattered Dreams, →ISBN:
glosses: To inveigle someone into (doing something) that they are reluctant to do.
Related terms: rope in
ropes into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rope into
roping into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rope into
roped into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rope into
self-punishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] O Jealousie (said she) the phrensie of wise folkes, the well-wishing spite, the unkinde carefulnesse, the selfe-punishment for others faults, and selfe-miserie in others happinesse, the cousin of envie, daughter of love, & mother of hate, how couldest thou so quietly get thee a seate in the unquiet hart of Gynecia, […]
ref: 1590, Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, Cambridge University Press, published 1912, Book 2, Chapter 25, p. 308:
text: How could he appease the wrath of Him who died on the cross, save by years of bitter supplication and self-punishment?
ref: 1853, Charles Kingsley, chapter 24, in Hypatia:
glosses: The act of punishing oneself.
Related terms: self-chastisement
self-chastisement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + chastisement.
Senses: examples: text: 1892, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Phase the Fourth, Chapter 28,
[…] in almost a terror of ecstasy Tess divined that, despite her many months of lonely self-chastisement, wrestlings, communings, schemes to lead a future of austere isolation, love's counsel would prevail.
text: Wani rarely blushed, or showed embarrassment of any kind, beyond the murmured self-chastisement with which he offered a seat to a lady or confessed his ignorance of some trivial thing.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 8, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
glosses: The act of chastising oneself.
Related terms: self-punishment
self-reproach
Balkh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Classical Persian بلخ (balx).
Senses: glosses: A town in Balkh, province of Afghanistan, historically an ancient city and centre of Buddhism, Islam, and Zoroastrianism and capital of Bactria.
glosses: A province of Afghanistan, named after the ancient city.
Synonyms: Bactra
R+L=J
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: This is particularly true of the “R+L=J” phenomenon, the theory that Jon Snow is actually the son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark, which is commonplace on “Westeros.org,” “Tower of the Hand,” and other sites of online fandom.
ref: 2015, Andrew Howe, "The Hand of the Artist: Fan Art in the Martinverse", in Mastering the Game of Thrones: Essays on George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire (eds. Jes Battis & Susan Johnston), page 250
text: R+L=J: This is a heavily supported theory that has been referenced in the books.
ref: 2015 March, Ford Maddox Brown, “The Hand of the King”, in Starburst Magazine, page 21:
text: Still, this evidence was strong enough that R+L=J was the default theory for most readers, to the point where some believed that the strongest evidence against it was that it was too obvious.
ref: 2017, Rowan Kaiser, 100 Things Game of Thrones Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die, page 102
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The theory that the character Jon Snow, initially presented in A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones as the bastard son of Ned Stark by an unknown woman, is actually a secret child born of the union of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark.
Related terms: fAegon
La Trobian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lə ˈtɹəʊbɪən/
ipa: /lə ˈtɹoʊbɪən/
Forms: form: more La Trobian
form: most La Trobian
Etymology: From La Trobe + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of, belonging to, or characteristic of La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Charles La Trobe, the first lieutenant-governor of Victoria, Australia.
La Trobian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lə ˈtɹəʊbɪən/
ipa: /lə ˈtɹoʊbɪən/
Forms: form: La Trobians
Etymology: From La Trobe + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A member or graduate of La Trobe University.
shonkies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shonky
La Trobians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of La Trobian
elderates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elderate
VHD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of video high density, a videodisc format.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of virtual hard Disk, a disk image file format used by Microsoft Virtual PC.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of volumetric haptic display, a display that about informs touch instead of vision.
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: VDH
glosses: Initialism of valvular heart disease, a disease involving one or more of the four valves of the heart.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of viral haemorrhagic disease, also known as the rabbit haemorrhagic disease.
VMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of VM
Abdons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Abdon
homme fatale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homme fatales
form: hommes fatales
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of homme fatal.
hommes fatals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homme fatal
morcellators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morcellator
spins up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spin up
spinning up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spin up
spun up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spin up
spinquels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spinquel
delevelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of delevel
delevelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of delevel
delevered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of delever
delevers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of delever
delevering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of delever
powers on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of power on
powering on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of power on
powered on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of power on
powers off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of power off
powering off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of power off
powered off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of power off
analytic philosopher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: analytic philosophers
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Someone who practices analytic philosophy.
Dummettian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Dummettian
form: most Dummettian
Etymology: From Dummett + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: In characterizing Aquinas as a realist, despite his alleged rejection of such a notion of truth, Haldane is implicitly rejecting Dummettian claims as to how realism should be formulated.
ref: 1993, Ian McFetridge, “Realism and Anti-Realism in a Historical Context”, in John Haldane, Crispin Wright, editors, Reality, Representation, and Projection, New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 39:
glosses: Of or relating to Michael Dummett (1925–2011), British analytic philosopher.
toy problem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toy problems
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: A simplified problem with clear constraints and parameters, usually used as a tool to understand a related real-world problem.
toy problems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toy problem
tikal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tikals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tical.
rub someone's nose in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rubs someone's nose in
form: rubbing someone's nose in
form: rubbed someone's nose in
form: rubbed someone's nose in
Etymology: From the technique of rubbing a pet's nose in the feces or urine when it makes a mess where it shouldn't.
Senses: examples: text: I want him to rub his nose in the issue. I want a local judgement about a local or specific event, supposed to have happened in a particular region of time and space.
ref: 2005, Simon Blackburn, Truth: A Guide, →ISBN:
text: This weekend you're here to rub his face in one failure, his not securing a Beaumaris to marry one of his stepdaughters, while I rub his nose in the ultimate failure for any Beaumaris, true or not, by informing him he needs to pack his bags and get...the fuck...out.
ref: 2011, Kristen Ashley, Penmort Castle, →ISBN:
text: Anyone could have told him he'd overdone the dyed hair and should lose a few pounds, but Colin was delighted to be able to rub his nose in the fact that he was meeting someone and merely passing time with Max, if one could believe that was actually his name.
ref: 2011, Pauline Mclynn, Summer in the City, →ISBN:
text: Consequently, Socrates engages in repeated elenctic episodes with the same interlocutor, not to rub his nose in his ignorance and thereby incur his wrath but, rather, at least in part to lead the interlocutor to the recognition of his ignorance.
ref: 2015, Hugh H. Benson, Clitophon's Challenge: Dialectic in Plato's Meno, Phaedo, and Republic, →ISBN:
glosses: To confront someone with (facts or evidence) that they find unpleasant in order to make them suffer.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rub, nose, in.
rubs someone's nose in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rub someone's nose in
rubbing someone's nose in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rub someone's nose in
rubbed someone's nose in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rub someone's nose in
Permanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Marketing coinage, presumably permanent + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A very durable form of plastic, marketed as unbreakable.
Soxhlet apparatus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Soxhlet apparatuses
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Soxhlet extractor.
synonyms: word: Soxhlet extractor
rub someone's face in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rubs someone's face in
form: rubbing someone's face in
form: rubbed someone's face in
form: rubbed someone's face in
Senses: examples: text: This weekend you're here to rub his face in one failure, his not securing a Beaumaris to marry one of his stepdaughters, while I rub his nose in the ultimate failure for any Beaumaris, true or not, by informing him he needs to pack his bags and get...the fuck...out.
ref: 2011, Kristen Ashley, Penmort Castle, →ISBN:
text: Jake bristled at the insinuation that he never visited his father unless he wanted something. Even if it was true, Joe didn't need to rub his face in it.
ref: 2014, Jami Davenport, Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?, →ISBN:
text: Leaving it out would only make Geraint think she was taunting him with it, trying to rub his face in the fact they'd found not one but two of the treasures, and instead of building bridges between them it would only serve to burn them.
ref: 2014, Alex Archer, Celtic Fire, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of rub someone's nose in.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rub, face, in.
rubs someone's face in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rub someone's face in
rubbing someone's face in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rub someone's face in
rubbed someone's face in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rub someone's face in
ruin of the year
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ruins of the year
Senses: examples: text: Oh ! bid them cull the myrtle green, Whose deathless bowers adorn the scene, That round her humid cell appear Saved from the ruins of the year;
ref: 1813, David Irving, A Memorial of Anne Margaret Anderson, the Wife of David Irving:
text: And, adding to the ruins of the year, Distress the footed or the feathered game.
ref: 1816, James Thomson, The seasons; to which is added the life of the author, page 202:
text: ...which were certainly alive in the cunning with which they slipped away, the two boys were prancing about like young fawns in the ruin of the year. Wart's shoulder was well again.
ref: 1958, T. H. White, The Once and Future King:
glosses: The dying back of deciduous plants in late autumn.
ruins of the year
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ruin of the year
Rashi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hebrew רַשִׁ״י (rash"i), acronym of רַבִּי שְׁלֹמֹה יִצְחָקִי (rabí sh'lomó yitskhakí).
Senses: examples: text: The new book enlarges the genealogical pyramid, connecting it to Rabbi Jehiel Lurie, head of the 13th-century rabbinical court in Brest-Litovsk, then back to Rashi and beyond.
ref: 2004 October 24, Bill Gladstone, “The oldest family in the world”, in Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
glosses: Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki, a medieval Rabbi from Troyes, known for his commentary on the Hebrew Bible and Babylonian Talmud.
glosses: Rashi's commentary on the Hebrew Bible or Talmud.
glosses: A semicursive typeface for the Hebrew alphabet, customarily used for printing Rashi's commentaries.
Rashi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rashis
Etymology: From Hebrew רַשִׁ״י (rash"i), acronym of רַבִּי שְׁלֹמֹה יִצְחָקִי (rabí sh'lomó yitskhakí).
Senses: examples: text: The first Rashi on the Torah explores the purpose of the book of Genesis.
text: We had to memorize two Rashis for homework.
glosses: a single piece of Rashi's commentary on the Hebrew Bible or Talmud
blurpy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blurpy
form: most blurpy
Etymology: From blurp + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I'm wielding the camera from over Henry's shoulder, zooming in on Jesse's chubby cheeks and blissed-out smile, recording his blurpy chuckles. "Who's the baby?" Henry says again, and I can be heard, normal-voiced, issuing instructions […]
ref: 2006, Kim Moritsugu, The Restoration of Emily, page 81:
text: Pour in the stock and add the carrots, peas, celery, tomatoes, thyme, and rosemary. Simmer, uncovered, for 45 minutes, stirring occasionally, then stir in the cream. Simmer for about 30 minutes more, until the sauce bubbles and gets blurpy.
ref: 2012, Ron Silver, Jen Bervin, Bubby's Homemade Pies:
text: All Emily could hear were blurpy noises and a shrill whistle. “Are you there Matthew? Hello, hello... Matthew?... What happened?” “Don't worry Mom. I just passed through a giant rock cut. I'm O.K., the phone's O.K. […]
ref: 2015, Sarah Ditchburn Neal, Lynnehurst, Books III & IV, page 167:
glosses: Making blurp noises.
R-modules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of R-module
flead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flea
fleaing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flea
Medraut
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
qualitiless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Hence the need to postulate the substratum, which is in itself (though of course it never exists naked and alone) quite qualitiless.
ref: 1950, W. K. C. Guthrie, The Greek Philosophers from Thales to Aristotle:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Lacking qualities.
dirty power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Power filters can filter out dirty power. Dirty power occurs when random noise enters the power line and is carried on the sine wave.
ref: 2011, Darril Gibson, Microsoft Windows Networking Essentials:
glosses: An abnormality in the power quality that is being delivered to a system.
clean power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Another way to ensure clean power is available is to recreate a clean sine wane signal by electronically reproducing it ...
ref: 2003, John Kramer, The CISA Prep Guide: Mastering the Certified Information Systems Auditor Exam:
glosses: Electric power that is free from voltage spikes and drops, or any other abnormalities.
examples: text: Remind them, if necessary, that properly done, microhydro will generate clean power for many years without damaging the environment in any way.
ref: 2003, Scott Davis, Microhydro: Clean Power from Water:
glosses: Electric power generated without polluting the environment.
Synonyms: clean electricity
clean electricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of clean power.
synonyms: word: clean power
rate of return
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rates of return
Senses: examples: text: Kaufmann (and others) show that macro-policy distortions, such as overvalued exchange rates, trade restrictions, and poor fiscal policies, partially account for the disappointing rates of return.
ref: 1992, William Ascher, Coping with the Disappointing Rates of Return of Development Projects That Affect the Environment:
text: The initial fair rate of return studies in insurance adopted the book value approach. These studies looked at accounting returns in insurance (usually, rate of return on equity or on total assets) and compared them to returns in other industries.
ref: 2013, J. David Cummins, Scott E. Harrington, Fair Rate of Return in Property-Liability Insurance, →ISBN, page xiii:
topics: business
finance
glosses: The amount of profit earned in a reporting period, expressed as a percentage of the cost.
rates of return
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rate of return
clean shells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clean shell
clean skins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clean skin
clean chits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clean chit
red up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reds up
form: redding up
form: redded up
form: redded up
form: red up
form: red up
Senses: glosses: To become or make (something) red in color.
examples: text: When they had red up the house, the Auld Licht lassies sat in the gloaming at their doors on three-legged stools, patiently knitting stockings.
ref: 1888, J. M. Barrie, Auld Licht Idylls:
text: Mom asks if you'll wait a minute, please, sir, while she reds up a little.
ref: 1987, Robert Steelman, Blood and Dust, →ISBN, page 402:
text: In seminary, they teach us to red up by ourselves.
ref: 2010, Samuel Miller, A Place Called Hexie, →ISBN, page 110:
glosses: Alternative form of redd up.
glosses: To put on or wear redface makeup.
reds up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of red up
redding up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of red up
redded up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of red up
red-up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: red up
Senses: examples: text: Wonder how they are finding things upstairs. I hope she had it a little more red-up up there.
ref: 1916, Susan Glaspell, Trifles:
text: Daddy put down his fork to push himself up out of a progressive slouch and said, "all right that's enough! Pat, when you get done I want you to red-up the table and put things away then stack the dishes so Jay can wash 'em,” and then with a sigh, went back to his supper
ref: 2012, Jay Hennigan, The Call of Friends: A Bio, →ISBN, page 16:
glosses: Alternative form of redd up.
Alien
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 阿蓮 (Ālián) Wade–Giles romanization: A¹-lien².
Senses: examples: text: Premier Chiang Ching-kuo traveled to Alien village in Kaohsiung county May 23 to inspect the Chung-chou No. 3 oilwell prospect of Chinese Petroleum Corporation.
ref: 1977, 光華畫報, volume 2, numbers 2-12, →OCLC, page 25:
text: A woman holds up two bowls containing eggs at a press conference in Taipei yesterday. The left contains a regular egg, while the other bowl is an SGS-certified egg from Taiwan’s first company to use humanely raised egg-laying hens from Europe, the Shih An Farm in Greater Kaohsiung’s Alien District.
ref: 2012 July 5, Lee I-chia, “COA fights for hens’ rights”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2012, Taiwan News, page 3:
text: Res Matilin comes from Sandi Village, a Paiwan community in Pingtung County. Jimmy comes from Alien Township, Kaohsiung City and has Minnan ethnicity. “I decided to come back because I really missed home. I had been away from home for too long.”
ref: 2019 October 22, Liang Wen-Ching, “Take Pre-wedding Photo Shoot Back Home”, in Phoebe Szu-Yu Huang [黃思瑜], transl., Indigenous Sight [原視], archived from the original on 26 Nov 2023:
english: 原視
translation: 原視
glosses: Alternative form of Alian.
pepperoni nipple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pepperoni nipples
Etymology: The fact that these nipples are usually perceived to be of the size of pepperonis.
Senses: glosses: A nipple with a very large areola.
pepperoni nipples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pepperoni nipple
Texass
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tex-ass
Etymology: Blend of Texas + ass.
Senses: examples: text: We were all red-eyed from the continual mistral-winds of old Tex-ass.
ref: 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 4, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 5:
glosses: Derogatory name for Texas: a state of the United States.
Derived terms: Teck's Ass
ravenstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ravenstones
form: raven-stone
form: raven stone
Etymology: From a calque of German Rabenstein, equivalent to raven + stone.
Senses: examples: text: [...] — The raven sits / On the raven-stone, And his black wing flits / O'er the milk-white bone; [...]
ref: 1841, George Noël Gordon Baron Byron, The Works of Lord Byron:
text: Three years later, in 1811, King Friedrich of Wurttemberg ordered the dismantling of permanent gallows and ravenstones and the ending of the practice of exposing malefactors' corpses.
ref: 1996, Richard J. Evans, Rituals of Retribution: Capital Punishment in Germany, 1600-1987:
text: In 1811, for instance, King Friedrich of Württemberg ordered that the permanent gallows and ravenstones be dismantled and that the exposure of dead criminal bodies should be abandoned.
ref: 2015, Richard Ward, A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse:
glosses: A place of execution; gallows
glosses: A gravestone
kamatzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kamatz
kamatzim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kamatz
ravenstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ravenstone
reachlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From reachless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Some are Negligently Profane, and absent themselves from the ordinances of Jesus Christ, and the solemn worship of God, upon mere sloth and reachlessness.
ref: 1809, Ezelkiel Hopkins, Josiah Pratt, The works of Ezekiel Hopkins - Volume 1:
text: He wants to see the things that are on the other side of the world — to reach the stars, as we all do, and he realizes their reachlessness, and storms and rages in his great way, as we often do in our feeble one.
ref: 1903, The Four-track News - Volume 5, Issues 4-5
glosses: The property of being reachless
unreach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unreaches
form: unreaching
form: unreached
form: unreached
Etymology: From un- + reach.
Senses: examples: text: To reach the Self, then, one has simply to 'unreach' all objects. The Self is ever-manifest, self-revealing.
ref: 1990, G. C. Pande, Foundations of Indian Culture:
text: We go over ground that we have traversed many times before, and reach conclusions only to unreach them again, and the whole ends, as usual, in floods of tears and mutual professions of esteem.
ref: 2015, E. M. Delafield, The Provincial Lady Goes Further:
glosses: To fail to reach
unreach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + reach.
Senses: examples: text: We outreach for our own sake and need — not looking for the neediest recipient but instead searching for the guilt-resolve that fits best within our schedule. There is an inherent problem with this sort of unreach.
ref: 2005, Mark Steele, Flashbang: How I Got Over Myself:
glosses: Failure to reach
Related terms: reachlessness
tyrannies of the majority
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tyranny of the majority
monochiral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + chiral.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having a single handedness
nomadical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nomad + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: Many Moorish families do not remain constantly at a fixed place of abode, but lead a nomadical life.
ref: 1804, “Account of Algiers”, in The Literary Magazine, and American Register, volume 1, page 123:
glosses: Synonym of nomadic.
synonyms: word: nomadic
adenocorticotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: There was no evidence of adrenal insufficiency with normal cortisol and adenocorticotropic hormone levels for pregnancy.
ref: 2013 August 23, Paul-Ann D Green et al., “Unilateral adrenal infarction in pregnancy”, in BMJ Case Reports, volume 2013, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of adrenocorticotropic.
annulotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: annulotomies
Etymology: From annulus + -otomy.
Senses: examples: text: An annulotomy was created and subtotal discectomy was performed.
ref: 2015 August 19, Chaoliang Lv et al., “Comparative effectiveness of two different interbody fusion methods for transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion: cage versus morselized impacted bone grafts”, in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, volume 16, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: An incision between intervertebral discs to allow decompression
annulotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of annulotomy
argentated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of argentate
argentated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Many commercial methods are available for producing gamma linolenic acid (GLA) concentrates include winterization, fractional distillation, urea-inclusion, high performance liquid chromatography and argentated silica gel chromatography [ 4 – 7 ].
ref: 2015 August 4, Jubie S., Dhanabal S. P., Chaitanya M. V. N. L., “Isolation of methyl gamma linolenate from spirulina platensis using flash chromatography and its apoptosis inducing effect”, in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, volume 15, →DOI:
glosses: Treated with a silver salt
autobiochemical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- + biochemical.
Senses: examples: text: The levels of alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and total bilirubin (TBIL) were measured with an autobiochemical analyzer (CX7; Beckman Coulter, Inc., Brea, CA, USA).
ref: 2015 August 21, Haizhi Qi et al., “Foxp3-modified bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells promotes liver allograft tolerance through the generation of regulatory T cells in rats”, in Journal of Translational Medicine, volume 13, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to autobiochemistry
biocartilage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + cartilage.
Senses: examples: text: In vitro preparation of functionally developed biocartilage substitutes is an attractive concept for future clinical treatments of cartilage injuries and degeneration.
ref: 2015 August 2, J.-F. Stoltz et al., “Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine: Myth or Reality of the 21th Century”, in Stem Cells International, volume 2015, →DOI:
glosses: Synthetic cartilage made from biological material
bioflavanol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioflavanols
Etymology: From bio- + flavanol.
Senses: examples: text: The experiments, each were carried out each in triplicate and the results are tabulated in Table 1 and compared with the standard drug Rutin (Fig. 7 ), a bioflavanol which is a well established promising anticancer agent and its mechanism may be due to the induction of apoptosis [ 21 ].
ref: 2015 August 4, Jubie S., Dhanabal S. P., Chaitanya M. V. N. L., “Isolation of methyl gamma linolenate from spirulina platensis using flash chromatography and its apoptosis inducing effect”, in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, volume 15, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A naturally-occurring flavanol
bioorgan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioorgans
Etymology: From bio- + organ.
Senses: glosses: A synthetic organ (of the body) manufactured from biological material