cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
risk-taking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more risk-taking
form: most risk-taking
form: risktaking
Senses: examples: text: We're actually quite a risk-taking species, as species go: and because of that we've managed, in the space of little more than 100,000 years, to go from being a bunch of monkeys (hominids, if you want to be strictly correct about this) somewhere in Africa to more or less total world domination. Not to mention flying to the moon.
ref: 2008, Warwick Cairns, How to Live Dangerously: Why We Should All Stop Worrying, and Start Living, Macmillan, published 2008, →ISBN:
text: At a cost of an estimated $9 million, The Hire series consists of short movies (five or six minutes) about a risk-taking professional driver driving a BMW.
ref: 2008, John Vernon Pavlik, Media in the Digital Age, Columbia University Press, published 2008, →ISBN, page 159:
text: “We are a risk-taking organization,” Kirk said. “We are doing multimillion-dollar deals. We guarantee loans. We could fail. But my view is that Bob Dylan thing, 'He not busy being born is busy dying.'”
ref: 2011, Barry Estabrook, Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit, Andrews McMeel, published 2011, →ISBN, page 172:
glosses: Prone to engaging in risky behaviour or unafraid to do things with uncertain outcomes.
risk-taking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: risktaking
Senses: examples: text: Unfortunately, these are the types of risks kids and teens are most likely to take, when risk-taking can seem like a cool way to be independent or escape problems.
ref: 2007, David E. Woodward, quoted in I've Got This Friend Who: Advice for Teens and Their Friends on Alcohol, Drugs, Eating Disorders, Risky Behavior, and More (ed. Anna Radev), Hazelden (2007), page 48
text: They are similar mainly in the characteristics that brought them together—a positive (or negative) attitude toward schoolwork, in the case of the children in Kindermann's study, or a penchant for risk-taking, in the case of the antisocial gangs.
ref: 2009, Judith Rich Harris, The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do, Free Press, published 2009, →ISBN, page 363:
text: During the development era, Koreans seem to have ignored the increase of risks and, at times, appear to have considered high-stakes risk-taking as heroic.
ref: 2010, Jaeyeol Yee, “Risk Governance in a Double Risk Society: From System Failure to Unknown Complexities”, in Raymond K. H. Chan, Lillian Lih-Rong Wang, Mutsuko Takahashi, editors, Risk and Public Policy in East Asia, Ashgate, →ISBN, page 174:
glosses: The practice or tendency of doing things that are risky or have uncertain outcomes.
overconnectedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From overconnected + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: This Israeli motorist with a cell phone in each ear, driving with his elbows, gets my vote as the poster boy for the social disease of the next millennium -- overconnectedness.
ref: 1999 August 10, Thomas L. Friedman, “The Y2K Social Disease”, in The New York Times:
text: The novels are set in the 1960s, partly, Smiley says, because she didn't want the overconnectedness of today's mobile phone and Facebook generation […]
ref: 2011 September 10, Fiona Gruber, “Writing a horse”, in Sydney Morning Herald:
text: The pundits who opined about the negative effects of information overload, of overconnectedness and too much choice, of a society being entertained and digitized to death, did not have it quite right.
ref: 2014, Kevin Morris, White Man's Problems, Sweet Devil Press, →ISBN:
glosses: The quality or condition of being overconnected.
one-stop shops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of one-stop shop
married sector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: married sectors
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see married, sector.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel
qualifier: fare construction
glosses: Any of two or more flight sectors in an itinerary that can not be rebooked or changed separately from the other sectors, due to fare rules or market restrictions.
gnomophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gnome + -o- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Pop superstar Elton John says "gnomophobia" is partly to blame for the delay in getting his animated film, "Gnomeo and Juliet," brought to life.
ref: 2009 May 26, “Elton John, Ont. premier announce animation funding”, in CTV News:
text: “It’s good to confront the received wisdom that all gnomes are nasty,” Mr. Llewelyn-Bowen said. Referring to his wife, he added: “Also, Jackie has had to overcome her poshness and confront her gnomophobia.”
ref: 2013 May 20, Sarah Lyall, “Common Gnomes Pop Up at Rarefied Flower Show, to Horror of Many”, in The New York Times:
text: As for me, I’m a fence sitter. The little red-shirted men sitting with fishing poles beside ponds are — ouch — insufferably cute. Yet I also think there is way too much snobbery in gardening.
So if our gnomophobia is waning, that’s surely a good thing.
ref: 2014 March 29, Sonia Day, “Gnomes back in gardeners’ good graces: The Real Dirt”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: A fear or dislike of garden gnomes.
twoosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twooshes
Etymology: Blend of Twitter + swoosh.
Senses: examples: text: Intentionally trying to write a twoosh is almost as challenging as writing haiku, although twooshes do frequently occur on their own!
ref: 2010, Hollis Thomases, Twitter Marketing: An Hour a Day, Wiley Publishing, →ISBN, page 21:
text: On Friday, the administration also released some behind-the-scenes footage. It shows an aide, deputy director for online outreach Kori Schulman, complimenting the president for what she calls a “twoosh," or a perfect, 140-character tweet (a Twitter swoosh).
"Are you proud of me?" he asks.
“It was a record for twooshes," Schulman says.
"I'm the twoosh master," Obama says.
ref: 2012 May 25, Michael A. Memoli, “Obama declares himself a 'master tweeter'”, in Los Angeles Times:
text: 5 a.m. Dubuque time: "Dear friends, I am pleased to get in touch with you through Twitter. Thank you for your generous response. I bless all of you from my heart." It was a twoosh, a Twitter term for a tweet of exactly 140 characters.
ref: 2012 December 13, Jim Winter, “OMG! Pope Sends Tweet”, in Telegraph-Herald:
glosses: A tweet which exactly meets the 280-character (previously 140) limit set by microblogging service Twitter.
twooshes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twoosh
Twittermob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Twittermobs
Etymology: From Twitter + mob.
Senses: examples: text: We live in an age when the old media claim to be the voices of calmness and reason amid the storm, comparing themselves favourably with the lawless frontier towns and torch-wielding Twittermobs of social media.
ref: 2011 July 30, Steven Baxter, “The press will not learn from the Chris Jefferies case”, in New Statesman:
text: What is it about the era we live in that means these kind of Twittermobs can emerge with such speed and ferocity?
ref: 2012 April 3, Brendan O'Neill, “The Twitterstorm against Samantha Brick is infinitely uglier and nastier than the article she wrote”, in The Telegraph:
text: 2012, David Banks, "How do you prosecute a Twittermob?", 26 April 2012 (used in title only)
glosses: A group of Twitter users targetting an issue or individual, especially one that forms suddenly and is viewed as hostile.
Twittermobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Twittermob
unyieldly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unyieldly
form: most unyieldly
Etymology: From un- + yieldly.
Senses: examples: text: The stiff and unyieldly limb was of no use in Indian raids.
ref: 1999, Luther Butler, The Mysterious Valley - Page 1:
text: Over a million mom-and-pop stores in this unyieldly system use political power to slow the expansion of efficient, large-scale retail businesses. In many cases orders must be delivered by bicycles through back alleys too narrow for cars.
ref: 2001, Paul Leppert, Doing Business with Japan - Page 61:
text: Such explosion-proof motors also necessitate the use of explosion-proof cables which are also more costly and heavier and are also more unflexible and unyieldly.
ref: 2005, U.S. International Trade Commission, Certain Electric Robots and Components Thereof, Inv. 337-TA-530:
synonyms: nonproductive
glosses: Not yieldly; yielding little or nothing; unproductive; useless.
siblingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more siblingly
form: most siblingly
Etymology: From sibling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to a sibling or siblings.
Synonyms: siblinglike
little sib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: little sibs
Senses: examples: text: When your friends throw you a surprise party, they invite your family too, including your little sibs.
ref: 2013, Arlene Hamilton, The All-New Teen Quiz Book:
glosses: A sibling's younger sibling (used especially by children or by parents in speaking to their children).
little sibs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of little sib
half-sib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-sibs
Etymology: From half- + sib.
Senses: glosses: The offspring of only one of one's parents.
half sib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half sibs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of half-sib.
sib-in-law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sibs-in-law
Etymology: From sib + -in-law.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sibling-in-law.
fullsib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fullsibs
Etymology: From full + sib.
Senses: examples: text: For example, fullsibs, considered as a genealogical category, are symmetrically related to ego. However, “fullsibs,” considered as an innate category, are ego's matrikin because of the possibility of undetected cuckoldry.
ref: 2012, In the Light of Evolution: Volume V: Cooperation and Conflict, National Academy of Sciences:
glosses: A full sibling.
half-sibs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half-sib
fullsibs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fullsib
Usonans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Usonan
intifadists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intifadist
muzrats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muzrat
lesbianists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lesbianist
Fakestinians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fakestinian
Philistinians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Philistinian
yellow states
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yellow state
green states
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green state
tribbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tribber
cunt-lappers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cunt-lapper
crack snackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crack snacker
clam smackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clam smacker
bulldykers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bulldyker
boondaggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boondagger
beaver eaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beaver eater
beanflickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beanflicker
massage therapists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of massage therapist
heterofascists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterofascist
Universal Unitarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Universal Unitarian
todger dodgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of todger dodger
temple-goers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of temple-goer
gurdwara-goers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gurdwara-goer
templegoers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of templegoer
bulldikers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bulldiker
ghair muqallids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghair muqallid
Word of Allah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The Qur'an.
sunset prayers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sunset prayer
lone wolfers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lone wolfer
aggressivists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aggressivist
faithheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faithhead
morning tents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morning tent
promuslim
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more promuslim
form: most promuslim
Etymology: From pro- + Muslim (“Islam believer”).
Senses: examples: 2000, Sam, Re: The plight of the Indian Muslims Group: soc.culture.indian
Actually India is not secular whatever that means if it means the Govt is neutral! India is a promuslim country. India was divided into a muslim country and a promuslim country called India!
2003, Revanchist, Re: FRENCH VIOLATIONS Group: alt.security.terrorism
Your own spiel on the other hand is clearly plaiarized from typical promuslim terrorist propaganda. Collected evidence always comes from a variety of *acknowledged* sources.
2002, Scott Naylor, Re: AL QAEDA SADDAM & IRAN Group: alt.politics.usa.congress
just a footnote, being for the moment in the UK, Another silly promuslim silly lie. You have lied so much in the past Naylor, why do you think anyone believes you now.
glosses: Rare form of pro-Muslim.
Muslimity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muslimity
Etymology: From Muslim + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Now there is a really good reason for not converting to Muslimity I cannot be feeling well[.]
ref: 2006, GP, “Re: Islam, religion of peace article in Yahoo news”, in alt.tasteless.jokes (Usenet):
text: I'm getting that the Canadian guy's actions were explained due to insanity, while the Buffalo guy's actions were explained by his Muslimity[.]
ref: 2009 Woodswun, Re: Prominent Orchard Park man charged with beheading his wife, alt.prophecies.nostradamus, Usenet
text: Insofar as Muslimity is a religion founded on the same god concept as is the Christian religion, and linked to those religions through the prophet Abraham, and insofar as Pope John Paul has just been beatified
ref: 2011, Gareth, Obama RIP, uk.politics.misc, Usenet
glosses: Muslimness.
milfing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From milf + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: 2004, me, Re: McD's, Spring and MILF's Group: misc.fitness.weights
Breakfast is optional. Jim(getting too old for milfing) You're too old to MILF only when either they or you aren't interested anymore
text: 2005, John H, Re: Kendra's secret Group: alt.tv.amazing-race
MILF = Mothers I'd Like to F*ck, I don't think they do softcore milfing.
text: > I suspect Kitty Litter's 'boyfriend' will be moving on when the money runs out.
In my book he is milking her. Or is he milfing her. hahahahahaha.
ref: [2006 April 23, John Smith, “Re: Are these kids for real???”, in alt.support.divorce (Usenet), archived from the original on 18 Feb 2024:
glosses: The act of having sexual relations with middle-aged women
Afromerican
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Afromerican
form: most Afromerican
Etymology: Blend of Afro- + American
Senses: examples: text: the superstar black womri professor who helped build UW's Afromerican studies department
ref: 1991, Milwaukee Magazine, volume 16, numbers 7-12:
text: 2003, Perry Mason, Clean Scalp Group: alt.hair-removal
The problem is, as a Afromerican male, when I cut my hair, I always end up with razor bumps around my hair line.
text: 2007, gnarled gnu direct, Re: the old boys computer has karked again Group: az.general
I hear there's still space for your Afromerican colleagues in New Orleans
glosses: Of or pertaining to black Americans
Afromerican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Afromericans
Etymology: Blend of Afro- + American
Senses: glosses: African-American
Afromericans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Afromerican
anti-incest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anti-incest
form: most anti-incest
form: antiincest
Etymology: From anti- + incest.
Senses: examples: text: The mistake on the part of the anti-incest taboo protagonists is not their insistence that we recognize the conventional features of our social arrangements […]
ref: 1990, Jean Elshtein, Power Trips and Other Journeys:
text: Of course, most systems have some failure rate — incest does occur, because innate behaviors direct rather than dictate (chimps also have an occasional anti-incest failure).
ref: 2005, Dale Guthrie, The Nature of Paleolithic Art, page 449:
text: Even when we're at our most arbitrary and forgetful of our own stance, we remain antibestiality and anti-incest.
ref: 2012, Tracy Morrissey, Pot Psychology's How to Be:
glosses: Opposed to incest.
loccers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loccer
skating rinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skating rink
L'Hospitalet de Llobregat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city southwest of Barcelona, Spain.
Granadan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Granada + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to the city of Granada, Andalusia, Spain.
glosses: Of, from or relating to the Emirate of Granada.
Granadan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Granadans
Etymology: From Granada + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Granada, Andalusia, Spain.
glosses: A native or inhabitant of the [[Emirate of Granada.
Granadans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Granadan
Cartagenan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Cartagena + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to the city of Cartagena, Murcia, Spain.
glosses: Of, from or relating to the city of Cartagena, Bolívar department, Colombia.
Cartagenan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cartagenans
Etymology: From Cartagena + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Cartagena, Murcia, Spain.
glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Cartagena, Bolívar department, Colombia.
Cartagenans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cartagenan
yolo
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of YOLO.
swai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /swaɪ/
Forms: form: swai
Etymology: Borrowed from Thai สวาย (sà-wǎai).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of iridescent shark (“a shark catfish of species Pangasianodon hypophthalmus”).
synonyms: word: iridescent shark
extra: a shark catfish of species Pangasianodon hypophthalmus
glosses: The meat of that fish
Synonyms: iridescent shark
tra
iridescent shark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iridescent sharks
Senses: synonyms: panga
swai
tra
glosses: A shark catfish (not a true shark) of species Pangasianodon hypophthalmus.
iridescent sharks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iridescent shark
shark catfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shark catfishes
form: shark catfish
Senses: glosses: Any sharklike catfish of the family Pangasiidae, found across southern Asia.
parentish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more parentish
form: most parentish
Etymology: From parent + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: It just shows how you were too young to be making parentish decisions.”
ref: 2013, Adele Griffin, Split Just Right:
text: Doesn't help much, does it?” He grinned. “Well, it's a pretty parentish thing to say.”
ref: 2013, Steven Parlato, The Namesake:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a parent.
parentship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parentships
Etymology: From parent + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: The rest of the children do not remain in a mother or father only family but live with a so called multiple parentship.
ref: 1997, Santiago Redondo, Advances in Psychology and Law: International Contributions - Page 55:
glosses: The condition, state, or status of a parent.
Synonyms: parentness
parentality
Derived terms: foster-parentship
parentdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From parent + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: In a comprehensive survey conducted by Lucado and Friends (I interviewed a couple of people in the hallway), I determined the most dreaded question in parentdom. What is the single query hated most by moms and dads?
ref: 2013, Max Lucado, When Christ Comes:
glosses: The realm, world, sphere, influence, jurisdiction, or authority of a parent; parenthood.
parentness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From parent + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition, state, or quality of a parent.
Synonyms: parentship
parentality
misland
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mislands
form: mislanding
form: mislanded
form: mislanded
Etymology: From mis- + land.
Senses: examples: text: Navy demolitions teams were also mislanded; the survivors did their best to clear channels through the obstacles, but could not mark them.
ref: 2000, Alan J. Levine, From the Normandy Beaches to the Baltic Sea:
glosses: To land wrongly, incorrectly, or amiss.
home education
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: homeschooling
hopeium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Unfortunately, “hopeium” only creates false expectations that, in many cases, lead us to rejection and loss of the sale.
ref: 2015, Dan S. Kennedy, Kim Walsh-Phillips, No B.S. Guide to Direct Response Social Media Marketing, Entrepreneur Press, →ISBN, page 239:
glosses: Uncommon spelling of hopium.
Judaeocide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Judaeocides
Etymology: From Judaeo- + -cide.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Judeocide.
Judaeocides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Judaeocide
Judeocide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Judeocides
form: Judaeocide
Etymology: From Judeo- + -cide, by analogy with genocide.
Senses: glosses: The killing of Jews.
Judeocides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Judeocide
O clip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: O clips
Etymology: From its approximately round shape, like the letter O.
Senses: glosses: A kind of crimped hose clip over a barbed spigot, used with gas hoses in oxyfuel welding and cutting.
Jubilee clip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jubilee clips
Etymology: Genericized trademark from a brand name.
Senses: glosses: A circular metal band or strip with a worm gear fixed to one end, designed to keep a pliable hose attached to a rigid circular pipe, or sometimes a solid spigot, of smaller diameter.
wormgear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wormgears
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of worm gear.
wormgears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wormgear
nonenveloping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + enveloping.
Senses: examples: text: Corals may show steplike rugged undersides or nonenveloping growth bands that demonstrate that corals became partially buried while growing. Rugged margins are indicative of occasional sedimentary events […]
ref: 2001, George D. Stanley, The History and Sedimentology of Ancient Reef Systems:
glosses: Not enveloping.
sedimentologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From sedimentological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of sedimentology.
SOPA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Stop Online Piracy Act.
irrelationship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: irrelationships
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Quality of irrelation; lack of relationship.
irrelationships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of irrelationship
South Park Republican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: South Park Republicans
Etymology: Coined by commentator Andrew Sullivan in 2001.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A member of a generation of young people holding center-right political beliefs more or less aligned with those portrayed in the American animated television program South Park.
wikipedia: Andrew Sullivan
Derived terms: South Park Republicanism
curting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curtings
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of curtain.
curtings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curting
noonings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nooning
fampool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fampools
Etymology: Blend of family + carpool.
Senses: glosses: A carpool composed of members of the same family.
fampools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fampool
siriometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of siriometer
splash downs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splash down
hypoventilate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hypoventilates
form: hypoventilating
form: hypoventilated
form: hypoventilated
Etymology: From hypo- + ventilate.
Senses: glosses: To undergo hypoventilation.
Derived terms: hypoventilator
Related terms: underventilated
hypoventilates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hypoventilate
hypoventilating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hypoventilate
hypoventilated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hypoventilate
Texian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Texians
Etymology: From Texas + -ian.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of Texas.
glosses: An inhabitant of Texas.
An English-speaking inhabitant of Texas while it was part of Mexico.
Synonyms: Texan
Texian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Texian
form: most Texian
Etymology: From Texas + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Texas.
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Texas.
Of, from, or pertaining to Texas while it was part of Mexico.
Synonyms: Texan
HSCT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HSCTs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
glosses: Initialism of health and social care trust.
topics: education
glosses: Initialism of high-school competency test, a standardized test previously used by high schools in Florida.
HSCT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of High Speed Civil Transport, a NASA project to develop a supersonic passenger aircraft.
HSCTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HSCT
Texians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Texian
Aunt Jane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aunt Janes
Etymology: By analogy with Uncle Tom through use of Jane as a similarly general name in popular culture.
Senses: synonyms: Aunt Jemima
Aunt Thomasina
coconut
Oreo
glosses: A black woman who is obsequiously servile to white authority, a black female race traitor.
Hypernyms: race traitor
Dilmun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Telmun
Etymology: Representing the reconstructed Sumerian pronunciation.
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: An ancient civilisation and trading empire existing between the late-fourth and early-first millennia BC, mentioned in the Epic of Gilgamesh, believed to have centred on the island of Bahrain and at the height of its power encompassing also the Arabian coast of the Persian Gulf as far north as present-day Kuwait.
Derived terms: Dilmunite
ayanamsa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ayanamsas
form: ayanamsha
Etymology: From Sanskrit.
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The amount of precession.
ayanamsas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ayanamsa
ayanamsha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ayanamshas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ayanamsa.
Telmun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Representing the reconstructed Semitic pronunciation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Dilmun.
ayanamshas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ayanamsha
burnishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burnishments
Etymology: From burnish + -ment.
Senses: glosses: burnishing
burnishments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burnishment
JPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of JP
qibli
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic قِبْلِيّ (qibliyy), from قِبْلَة (qibla).
Senses: examples: text: The arwiqa (pl. of riwdq, the aisle of the prayer hall) on its qibli side were extended, and the qibli wall was given a marble dado, probably in accordance with the Mamluk style of covering qibli walls with colored marble dadoes as a mark of distinction.
ref: 1995, Nasser O. Rabbat, The Citadel of Cairo:
glosses: In the direction of qibla.
qibli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qiblis
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic قِبْلِيّ (qibliyy), from قِبْلَة (qibla).
Senses: glosses: Mistransliteration of ghibli.
Z particle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Z particles
Senses: glosses: Z-boson
Z particles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Z particle
Zabianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sabianism.
Zabiism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sabianism.
Zanesville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in Zanesville Township, Montgomery County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: A small town in Allen County and Wells County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Muskingum County, Ohio, United States.
Zurvanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zarvanism
Etymology: Of Persian origin, Zurvan + -ism, from Middle Persian [script needed] (Zurvān), from Avestan 𐬰𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬁𐬥 (zruuān, “time”).
Senses: topics: Zoroastrianism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A now-extinct branch of Zoroastrianism that had the divinity Zurvan as its primordial creator deity.
Related terms: Zurvanite
Zurvanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zurvanites
form: Zarvanite
Senses: glosses: A follower of Zurvanism.
Zurvanites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zurvanite
zeilanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: candite
zimbalom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cimbalom.
ziraleet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ziraleets
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic زَغَارِيد (zaḡārīd), plural of زَغْرَدَة (zaḡrada) or زُغْرُودَة (zuḡrūda)
Senses: glosses: A joyful chant uttered by a group of women in Muslim countries.
ziraleets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ziraleet
zitkamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zitkamers
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans sitkamer, from Dutch zitkamer.
Senses: glosses: Sitting room.
zizzy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more zizzy
form: most zizzy
Etymology: From zizz + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The irrepressible and arguably irredeemable Al Capp, an expansive, mature and very regular citizen from New Haven, Connecticut, is a man with a facility for open, cynical wise-cracks, a man who knows a zizzy pin-stripe when he sees one […]
ref: 1973, Punch:
text: How did you write a zizzy tabloid head in ten minutes from what they did have in the box?
ref: 1988, The Listener:
text: A week ago, she had daubed them all with body paint—Hugh and Robert red with spots, even the solemn Charles a zizzy green.
ref: 2012, Wendy Perriam, Born of Woman:
glosses: Zazzy; flashy; eye-catching.
examples: text: There's a zizzy feeling, prickles in my fingers and toes and a sudden blackness with whorls of light. When I come to Aunt is leaning over me, her ear next to my heart and her fat hot fingers loosening the buttons at the collar of my dress.
ref: 1998, Myra Schneider, John Killick, Writing for self-discovery:
text: I go to the window again in my terry-cloth robe, my heart pumping, a zizzy bee-sting quiver down my arms and legs, my bare feet cold on the floor planks.
ref: 2012, Richard Ford, The Lay of the Land:
glosses: Tingling.
unplanked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: an unplanked portion of the deck of a ship
glosses: Not fitted with planks.
unplanked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unplank
zonelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zonelets
Etymology: From zone + -let.
Senses: glosses: A small zone.
zonelets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zonelet
zoocephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zoo- + -cephalic.
Senses: examples: text: Minotaurs are zoocephalic creatures: men with bulls' heads.
glosses: Having the head of an animal.
sonogramming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sonogram
sonogrammed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sonogram
kamelaukion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kamelaukions
form: kamelaukia
form: kalimavkion
form: kalymauchion
form: kamilavkion
Etymology: Ancient Greek καλυμμαύχιον (kalummaúkhion)
Senses: glosses: A stiff brimless ornamental cap worn in Orthodox Christian and Eastern Catholic traditions.
kamelaukia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kamelaukion
kamelaukions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kamelaukion
zoomorphize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: zoomorphizes
form: zoomorphizing
form: zoomorphized
form: zoomorphized
form: zoomorphise
Senses: examples: text: This provides for greater communicability but it also introduces new pitfalls, for the possibility of anthropomorphizing birds is at least as great as that of a zoomorphizing man.
ref: 1964, Margaret Mead, Continuities in Cultural Evolution:
text: So evolutionary speculation about the origin of human mating strategies not only rests on science’s tendency to ‘zoomorphise’ us. It also entangles science in a dizzying web of anthropomorphic assumptions about other animals.
ref: 2017 August 9, Holly Dunsworth, Anne Buchanan, “Sex makes babies”, in Aeon:
glosses: To endow with animal qualities.
Related terms: anthropomorphize
animalize
zoomorphized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of zoomorphize
zoomorphizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of zoomorphize
zoomorphizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of zoomorphize
zoometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zoo- + -metry.
Senses: glosses: measurement of the bodies of animals
zoogyroscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoogyroscopes
Etymology: From zoo- + gyro- + scope.
Senses: glosses: zoopraxiscope
zoogyroscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoogyroscope
zoophilous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /zuˈɒfɪləs/
Forms: form: more zoophilous
form: most zoophilous
Etymology: From zoo- + -philous.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or pollinated by means of zoophily (pollinated by animals).
Synonyms: sense: pollinated by animals
word: zoidiophilous
zoarial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /zəʊˈɛəɹi.əl/
ipa: /zoʊˈɛɹi.əl/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəl
Senses: glosses: Relating to a zoarium.
zimocca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /zɪˈmɒkə/
Forms: form: zimoccas
Senses: examples: text: We are shown the fine Turkey-cup or Levantine sponges, the African Zimoccas, the West-Indian grass-sponges and wire-sponges, the great elephants' ears from the Philippines, and many more […]
ref: 1928, Sir James Hopwood Jeans, The physics of the universe:
text: All types of Mediterranean sponges are found off the coast of Libya, but zimoccas and honeycombs are more common, especially on the Tripoli grounds.
ref: 1948, World Trade in Sponges:
glosses: The marine sponge Spongia zimocca.
zimoccas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zimocca
zoogeological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zoo- + geological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to zoogeology.
zoochorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zoochore + -ous or zoo- + -chorous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to zoochores or zoochory.
Derived terms: dyszoochorous
ectozoochorous
endozoochorous
zoochoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zoochore + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to zoochores.
anemochoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: anemochorous
anemochores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anemochore
Xstmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Xmas.
Berwickshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Berwick + -shire; Berwick-upon-Tweed was part of Scotland at the time of the county's formation.
Senses: glosses: A lieutenancy area and historical county of the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland.
xerapheen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xerapheens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of xeraphim.
xerapheens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xerapheen
Xiangtan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shē-ängʹtänʹ
shyängʹtänʹ
Forms: form: Hsiangtan
form: Hsiang-t'an
form: Siangtan
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 湘潭 (Xiāngtán, literally “[place of the] Xiang River eddy”).
Senses: examples: text: Mao’s hometown, Xiangtan City, in Hunan Province, is spending $2.5 billion on public events celebrating him.
ref: 2013 December 25, Gao Wenqian, “China Must Purge Mao's Ghost”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Dec 2013, Opinion:
text: The Industry Foundation of the Chinese city of Xiangtan, in the southern province of Hunan, Geely-backed GLy Capital and South Korea's Mirae Asset also participated in the capital raise, according to the statement.
ref: 2022 October 26, Roxanne Liu, Kane Wu, “Chinese automaker Geely's new energy brand Farizon raises over $300 mln”, in Bernadette Baum, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 26 Oct 2010, Autos & Transportation:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Hunan, China, on the lower Xiang River.
OSs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of OS
xylaloe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xylaloes
Etymology: From xyl- + aloe.
Senses: examples: text: The same difficulty may be brought against the opinion of those who are for rendering ahalim, by the wood of aloe, called agalloch or xylaloe.
ref: 1824, Thomas Mason Harris, The Natural History of the Bible:
glosses: Synonym of agalloch (“aromatic, resinous wood”).
synonyms: word: agalloch
extra: aromatic, resinous wood
xylaloes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xylaloe
Xuthus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈzuːθəs/
/ˈzjuːθəs/
Etymology: Ancient Greek Ξοῦθος (Xoûthos)
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A son of Hellen and Orseis, and founder (through his sons) of the Achaean and Ionian nations.
X-Y recorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: X-Y recorders
Etymology: From the letters X and Y used to denote the axes of a graph.
Senses: glosses: A device that plots a two-dimensional graph of the relationship between variables.
qua-birds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of qua-bird
quacksalving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Falsely claiming to possess medical or other skills, like a quacksalver.
quadraphonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadriphonics
form: quadrophonics
Etymology: From quadraphonic + -s.
Senses: glosses: quadraphonic sound
quadriphonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quadraphonic.
quadrisonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quadri- + sonic.
Senses: glosses: quadraphonic
quadrumanal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: quadrumane
quadrumanal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadrumanals
Senses: glosses: quadrumane
quadrumanals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadrumanal
quamoclit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quamoclits
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: Also, quamoclits fit well into window boxes, especially when paired with other vines such as thunbergia, and they will cascade over a wall or spread over the ground, low shrubs and rocks.
ref: 1990, Jennifer Bennett, Turid Forsyth, The Harrowsmith annual garden:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant of the former genus Quamoclit.
quamoclits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quamoclit
thunbergia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /θʌnˈbɜːrdʒiə/
Forms: form: thunbergias
Etymology: Named after Carl Peter Thunberg, a Swedish botanist.
Senses: examples: text: Also, quamoclits fit well into window boxes, especially when paired with other vines such as thunbergia, and they will cascade over a wall or spread over the ground, low shrubs and rocks.
ref: 1990, Jennifer Bennett, Turid Forsyth, The Harrowsmith annual garden:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any member of the genus Thunbergia of flowering plants.
thunbergias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thunbergia
quantitativist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quantitativists
Etymology: From quantitative + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who favours a quantitative approach.
Related terms: qualitativist
qualitativist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qualitativists
Etymology: From qualitative + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who favours a qualitative approach.
Related terms: quantitativist
quantitativists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quantitativist
qualitativists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of qualitativist
quantong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quantongs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quandong.
quantongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quantong
quantum jump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quantum jumps
Senses: examples: text: In Italy on a long summer leave, William [T.] Golden had a different response: […] But one thing I wrote him was, "We, the USA, should intensify our efforts toward development of superweapons. […] A quantum jump in intensity is called for as a matter of urgency comparable in every way to the wartime Manhattan Project." […] [Lewis L.] Strauss liked the phrase "quantum jump" and the idea of a new Manhattan Project. He began to compose a memorandum. […] Instead, echoing Golden, Strauss proposed [on October 5, 1949]: It seems to me that the time has now come for a quantum jump in our planning (to borow a metaphor from our scientist friends)—that is to say, that we should now make an intensive effort to get ahead with the super [a.k.a. the H-bomb].
ref: 1995, Richard Rhodes, chapter 19, in Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb:
glosses: Synonym of quantum leap.
synonyms: word: quantum leap
quantum jump
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quantum jumps
form: quantum jumping
form: quantum jumped
form: quantum jumped
Senses: glosses: Synonym of quantum leap.
synonyms: word: quantum leap
quarterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarterers
Etymology: From quarter + -er.
Senses: glosses: One of a group of agricultural workers who were entitled to keep a quarter of the harvest as payment, yielding up the rest to their lord.
quarterers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quarterer
quarterization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From quarter + -ization.
Senses: examples: the quarterization of a city, or of a traitor's body
glosses: division into quarters
topics: business
glosses: generation of quarterly data based on figures from periods of another size
quarter-hour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarter-hours
Etymology: From quarter + hour.
Senses: examples: text: These bells chime on the quarter-hour.
topics: time
glosses: quarter of an hour; period of time equal to 15 minutes; a quarter.
Synonyms: quarter of an hour
quarter
quartertones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quartertone
shocked quartz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shocked quartzes
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A form of quartz with an unusual microscopic structure that has been deformed along planes inside the crystal by the application of extremely high pressure at moderate temperature; generally produced only by hypervelocity impact events, lightning strikes, and nuclear explosions.
Quashie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Quashies
Etymology: Borrowed from Akan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Akan.
Quashie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Quashies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Quashee.
Quashies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Quashie
quasistellar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: quasi-stellar
Etymology: From quasi- + stellar.
Senses: glosses: Similar to a star.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see quasi, stellar.
Derived terms: sense: stars
word: QSO
sense: stars
word: QSR
sense: stars
word: quasar
sense: stars
word: quasistellar object
sense: stars
word: quasi-stellar object
sense: stars
word: quasistellar radio-source
sense: stars
word: quasi-stellar radio source
sense: stars
word: quasistellar radio source
sense: stars
word: quasi-stellar radio-source
Related terms: quasi-star
quasistar
quasisolid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quasi- + solid.
Senses: glosses: semisolid
quasisolid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quasisolids
Etymology: From quasi- + solid.
Senses: glosses: semisolid
quasisatellite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quasisatellites
Etymology: From quasi- + satellite.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quasi-satellite.
quasisatellites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quasisatellite
semisolidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From semi- + solidity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being semisolid.
quasisolids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quasisolid
semisolids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semisolid