cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
kick in the teeth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kicks in the teeth
Senses: examples: text: This kick in the teeth, brutal under any circumstances, is more so, given Matoussem Ramoud's gentle, trusting nature and his infatuation with America.
ref: 1996, Evelyn Shakir, “Arab-American Literature”, in Alpana Sharma Knippling, editor, New Immigrant Literatures in the United States: A Sourcebook to Our Multicultural Literary Heritage, page 13:
text: King had remarked after the bill failed that a lot of people had lost faith in America; Roy Wilkins had said, “This defeat was a kick in the teeth to the civil rights effort.”
ref: 1998, Annetta Louise Gomez-Jefferson, In Darkness with God: The Life of Joseph Gomez, a Bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, page 331:
text: She had found her niche by being truant from school, giving people a bad time, and basically giving her parents' strict moral values a good, strong kick in the teeth.
ref: 2006, Kevin Leman, Sex Begins in the Kitchen: Creating Intimacy to Make Your Marriage Sizzle, page 119:
synonyms: slap in the face
glosses: A humiliating insult or instance of bad treatment, especially when one is expecting friendship or in need of support; a sudden and unexpected setback; a strong rebuff.
Derived terms: better than a kick in the teeth
laminaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlæmɪˈnɛəɹi.ə/
ipa: /ˌlæmɪˈnɛɹi.ə/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.ə
Forms: form: laminarias
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Laminaria.
Senses: examples: text: The stands of sea tangles and long-stalked laminarias are, in their way, an Atlantic counterpart of the great submarine jungles of the Pacific, where the kelps rise like giant forest trees, 150 feet from the floor of the sea to the surface.
ref: 1955, Rachel Carson, The Edge of the Sea:
glosses: Any of the genus Laminaria of brown algae.
topics: gynaecology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A thin rod made of the dried stems of this alga, used to dilate the cervix.
facemail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪsˌmeɪl/
Forms: form: facemails
Etymology: From face + mail, modelled after email.
Senses: examples: text: It's been said that some high-tech experts think so little of actual conversation that they call it “facemail,” in their minds an inefficient and inferior form of communication.
ref: 2001, Andrew Finlayson, Questions that work:
text: So we had a facemail meeting and took him out to the woodshed, so to speak.
ref: 2002, Zack Urlocker, Valley of the Geeks:
text: That cyberlanguage has become firmly established in language communities can be observed in the practice of turning common, everyday expressions into technical metaphor: [...] talking personally is to use facemail, [...]
ref: 2006, Donna Gibbs, Kerri-Lee Krause, Cyberlines 2.0: languages and cultures of the Internet:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
technology
glosses: Face-to-face communication, as opposed to other non-personal forms of communication.
facemail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪsˌmeɪl/
Forms: form: facemails
form: facemailing
form: facemailed
form: facemailed
Etymology: From face + mail, modelled after email.
Senses: glosses: To engage in face-to-face conversation.
examples: text: All other tasks, except those designated as crucial by the governing council, are suspended until further notice. Colony members are to report to Hydroponics for assignments. To apply for an exemption, facemail the council.
ref: 2002, Laura J. Mixon, Burning the Ice:
glosses: To send a facemail.
Related terms: facetime
facemail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪsˌmeɪl/
Forms: form: facemails
Etymology: Blend of Facebook + mail.
Senses: examples: text: Zaria was surprised as she opened her e-mail a few days later to find new facemail from none other than Michael Kennedy. [...] I was surprised that you accepted my friend request, but then receiving facemail from you ... Am I dreaming? ...
ref: 2009, Pamella Gray, Life of My Dreams:
glosses: An email message sent via Facebook.
cross-compatible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cross-compatible
form: most cross-compatible
Etymology: From cross- + compatible.
Senses: examples: text: The new video game is cross-compatible for anyone playing it online with teammates from any computer (Linux, Mac, or Windows), smartphone, or video game console.
glosses: Able to use, connect, interact, and function universally with various systems.
adequal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ad- + equal.
Senses: glosses: Approximately equal, in the context of infinitesimal calculus.
Related terms: adequality
lanuginose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈnjuːd͡ʒənəʊs/
ipa: /ləˈnjuːd͡ʒɪnəʊs/
ipa: /ləˈnud͡ʒənoʊs/
ipa: /ləˈnjud͡ʒənoʊs/
Forms: form: more lanuginose
form: most lanuginose
form: lanuginous
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lānūginōsus, from lānūgō, lānūginis (“woolly substance, down”), from lāna (“wool”).
Senses: examples: text: lanuginose fruit
text: lanuginose twigs
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Covered with down or fine soft hairs (lanugo); downy or fuzzy.
Brady Bunch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brady Bunches
Etymology: A reference to the television sitcom The Brady Bunch, which featured the joining of two single-parent families.
Senses: examples: text: And even if individuals can afford it, it's also become clear that the planet probably can't — that the world, were it composed of a billion Brady Bunches, would buckle under the environmental strain.
ref: 2006, Bill McKibben, The Age of Missing Information, page 67:
text: I haven't heard anything from Sariel or Rufus, not that I hear anything from those two and their respective Brady Bunches except for reports on babies and pregnancy stages.
ref: 2007, Jessica Inclan, Believe in Me, page 12:
glosses: A large number of children in a family; a large family.
examples: text: The other families group themselves differently: empty nests, single parents, working mothers, spinsters with cats, curmudgeons with canes, the Brady bunches, reconstituted households of halves, steps, formers, and presents.
ref: 1984, Jane O'Reilly, The Girl I Left Behind, page 60:
text: I have only one child gone and not a gaggle like the Kennedys, like the Brady Bunches of steps and halves of children that went off wholesale with her, so I suppose I don't have as much anger.
ref: 2002, Center for the Study of the Child, Oakland Community College, Witness, volume 16, page 127:
glosses: Children in a family who are from previous partnerships of the parents; a family that includes children from previous partnerships of the parents.
manace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manaces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of menace.
manace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: manaces
form: manacing
form: manaced
form: manaced
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of menace.
gallows tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gallows trees
form: gallow tree
Etymology: From earlier gallow tree, from Middle English galowetre, galwe tree, from Old English gealgtrēow, equivalent to gallows + tree. Cognate with Danish galgetræ, Swedish galgträd, Norwegian galgetre, Icelandic gálgatré. Compare also West Frisian galgebeam, German Galgenbaum.
Senses: glosses: A tree used as a gallows, a tree from which people are hanged (killed by hanging).
Synonyms: hanging tree
Hypernyms: tree
gallow tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gallow trees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gallows tree.
Hypernyms: tree
hanging tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hanging trees
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gallows tree.
synonyms: word: gallows tree
Hypernyms: tree
as all get out
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of as all get-out.
CWT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CWTs
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of center wing tank (a fuel tank located in the fuselage between an aircraft's wings).
topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of continuous wavelet transform.
qualifier: numismatic slang
glosses: Initialism of Civil War token.
Coordinate terms: DWT
CWT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Central War Time.
unsulliedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unsullied + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being unsullied.
texton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: textons
Etymology: From texture + -on.
Senses: glosses: A basic microcomponent of an image that may be recognised visually before the entire image is.
texton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: textons
Etymology: From text + -on.
Senses: examples: text: A hypertext such as Afternoon (Joyce 1990) will have a fixed number of scriptons (and textons), while the game Adventure (Crowther and Woods 1976) will have a fixed set of textons but a variable number of scriptons (texton cominations), determined by the progress of the play. In a MUD, where other concurrent users can type in anything, the number of textons is not known.
ref: 1997, Espen J. Aarseth, Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature, →ISBN, page 63:
text: First of all, reading the whole text is the strongest literary convention, but as was implicit in the earlier discussion, it can now mean at least four slightly different things: reading every texton and scripton, reading every texton, reading every scripton, and taking every given path through the text (i.e. exhausting the variety of paths).
ref: 2012, Markku Eskelinen, Cybertext Poetics: The Critical Landscape of New Media Literary Theory, →ISBN:
text: Relative ergodic events are chains of events produced by the efforts of one or more individuals or mechanisms that have limited effect upon the textons or scriptons of a narrative such that the impact is only capable of affecting change in monor events within a scripton, or changing narratives at the micro scale and do not impact narratives at the macro scale.
ref: 2013, Zach Waggoner, Terms of Play: Essays on Words That Matter in Videogame Theory, →ISBN, page 21:
glosses: A string of text that acts like a variable, from which the scriptons of a dynamic text are assembled.
textons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of texton
gin mill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gin mills
form: ginmill
Senses: coordinate_terms: rum mill
glosses: A tavern that serves gin.
reporteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: report + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of report
reportest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: report + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of report
ergogenics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Enhancement of sporting performance.
Related terms: ergogenic
socializee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: socializees
Etymology: From socialize + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who is socialized.
glosses: One who is converted to socialism.
socializees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of socializee
unsocialized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + socialized.
Senses: glosses: Not having been socialized.
preattention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + attention.
Senses: examples: text: However, to develop a comprehensive model of how Web advertising works, it is recommended to examine different levels (ie, low, medium, and high) of preattention and focal attention.
ref: 2007, Chan Yun Yoo, Preattentive Processing of Web Advertising, page 27:
glosses: The noticing of something before attention is fully focused on it.
Related terms: preattentive
preattentive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + attentive.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to preattention.
endurantism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From endurant + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The theory that material objects are persistent three-dimensional individuals wholly present at every moment of their existence.
Related terms: perdurantism
perdurantism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From perdurant + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The theory that material objects have distinct temporal parts throughout their existence, rather than being persistent individuals that move through time.
Related terms: endurantism
four-dimensionalism
preattentional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From preattention + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to preattention.
protentions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protention
nonproteinuric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + proteinuric.
Senses: glosses: Not proteinuric.
proteinurias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proteinuria
precertification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + certification.
Senses: glosses: Certification in advance.
precertification
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + certification.
Senses: glosses: Prior to certification.
Related terms: precertify
jockeys for position
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jockey for position
jockeying for position
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jockey for position
jockeyed for position
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jockey for position
shanny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shannies
Etymology: Unknown
Senses: glosses: A fish, the prickleback.
shannies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shanny
poeticalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poetical + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The belief that the poeticalness of poetry is just that relationship between sound and sense is widespread in the teaching of English and other modern languages.
ref: 2011, David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?, Penguin, published 2012, page 150:
synonyms: poeticality
poeticity
poeticness
antonyms: unpoeticality
unpoeticalness
unpoeticity
unpoeticness
glosses: The state or quality of being poetical.
intuitionisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intuitionism
achily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more achily
form: most achily
Etymology: From achy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an achy manner.
towkay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈt̪au̯.keɪ/
/ˈt̪ʰau̯.keɪ/
Forms: form: towkays
Etymology: From Hokkien 頭家 /头家 (thâu-ke, “boss”). Doublet of taoke.
Senses: examples: text: My own experience would lead me to suggest that the Chinese immigrants should be placed under one Towkay, or head man, who would control those villages under his care.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 352:
glosses: A business owner; boss (especially a Chinese Malaysian or Chinese Singaporean boss).
synonyms: taoke
boss
sir
ma'am
glosses: Term of address for a business owner boss.
towkays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of towkay
kelims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kelim
hatee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hatees
Etymology: From hate + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: The most obvious riot potential situation is one where there is a ritualized display of force by haters or hatees.
ref: 2009, Samuel Cameron, The economics of hate, page 138:
glosses: One who is hated.
hatees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hatee
bewitcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bewitchers
Etymology: From bewitch + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who bewitches; an enchanter.
bewitchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bewitcher
stalkee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stalkees
Etymology: From stalk + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who is stalked; the victim of a stalker.
stalkees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stalkee
waitee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waitees
Etymology: From wait + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who is waiting for service.
waitees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waitee
offendee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: offendees
Etymology: From offend + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who is offended.
offendees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of offendee
offendest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: offend + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of offend
rolelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From roleless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: In an article that helped encourage sociological thinking about women with disabilities, Michelle Fine and Adrienne Asch argue that such women often suffer from rolelessness, that is, the absence of socially sanctioned roles to fill...
ref: 1996, Kenneth J. Neubeck, Davita Silfen Glasberg, Sociology: a critical approach:
glosses: Absence of a role.
offendedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more offendedly
form: most offendedly
Etymology: From offended + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an offended manner.
offendedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From offended + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: “No great theater director ever said to an actor, ‘Okay, this scene calls for some real emotion, now go out there and give me lots of offendedness!’”
ref: 2015, Paul Beatty, The Sellout, Oneworld Publications (2016), page 130:
glosses: The state or quality of being offended.
Russenorsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An Arctic pidgin language combining elements of Russian and Norwegian, mainly used by traders in the nineteenth century.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Russenorsk terms
acquired tastes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acquired taste
wastelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wasteless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: It is not surprising that rugged, thrifty Scotsmen, noted for their idealism of wastelessness, were the ones to develop a beef making machine that through the years has met public approval, public needs, payments on mortgages […]
ref: 1946, American National Cattlemen's Association, American beef producer: Volume 28:
glosses: Absence of waste.
videotext
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Despite the industry's failures in launching videotext services (electronically disseminated news and information) for general consumers several years ago, such systems are definitely a major part of the future.
ref: 1989, University of Maryland at College Park, Washington journalism review:
glosses: Alternative form of videotex.
playership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From player + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The status or condition of being a player (in a game, on a team, etc.).
playest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: play + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of play
time attack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time attacks
form: time-attack
Etymology: From time + attack. The time-trial sense is a calque of Japanese タイムアタック (taimu atakku), itself from English.
Senses: examples: text: It was a time attack; if my opponents did not get up to my position and were not able to drive me from that position by a certain time, I won the day.
ref: 1891, Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, volume 35, page 364:
glosses: An attack in which one may gain an advantage in time against one's opponent or rival.
examples: text: Starting off in Japan, Time Attack, Super Lap and Tuner Battles were organised by the media as a proving ground to see the difference between street tuned cars, produced by the tuning industries most respected tuners.
ref: 2006, “Time Attack FAQ's”, in Time Attack - Official Website, archived from the original on 12 Sep 2007:
text: There are only eight levels but the varied game modes (including time attacks, survivals, team deathmatches, hunts, and sieges) in both single and multi-player keeps things interesting.
ref: 2013, Matt Fox, The Video Games Guide:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
video-games
coordinate_terms: score attack
glosses: Synonym of time trial.
synonyms: word: time trial
Derived terms: real-time attack
shudderingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more shudderingly
form: most shudderingly
Etymology: From shuddering + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: These wintry nights, if she turned from the fire and the beguilement of Jim's songs, to shudderingly look outside at the frosty moonlit world, Andrew's prediction that their waiting pints of water would be all ice in the morning was often a little consolation.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 183:
glosses: With a shuddering motion.
squanderingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more squanderingly
form: most squanderingly
Etymology: From squandering + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to squander; wastefully.
ambushee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ambushees
Etymology: From ambush + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who is ambushed.
ambushees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ambushee
Scrabbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Scrabblers
Etymology: From Scrabble + -er.
Senses: examples: text: More specifically, Scrabblers are diehard, competitive, and occasionally cutthroat players who treat the game like it's chess or baseball...
ref: 2010, Kate Stevens, Freak Nation, page 159:
synonyms: Scrabblist
glosses: A player of the word game Scrabble.
UCCJEA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act.
analyst programmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: analyst programmers
Senses: glosses: A computer programmer who also does the work of a systems analyst.
unanalytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unanalytic
form: most unanalytic
Etymology: From un- + analytic.
Senses: glosses: Not analytic.
betine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: betines
form: betining
form: betined
form: betined
form: betyne
form: betune
form: betun
Etymology: From Middle English betinen, betynen, bitunen, bituinen, from Old English betȳnan (“to hedge in, enclose, shut, bury; shut out; conclude, end”), from Proto-West Germanic *bitūnijan (“to inclose, hedge about”), equivalent to be- + tine. Cognate with Middle Dutch betuinen, Middle Low German betü̂nen, Middle High German beziunen (German bezäunen (“to fence in, surround, border”)).
Senses: examples: text: This year began Ida to reign, from whom arose the royal race of Northumbria; and he reigned twelve years and 'getimbered' Bebbanburh, which at first was 'betined' with a wall.
ref: 1904, The Eagle, volumes 25-26, page 325:
glosses: To hedge about; enclose; shut up.
Derived terms: betined
betine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: betines
form: betining
form: betined
form: betined
Etymology: From be- + tine, variation of tind (“to set fire to”). More at tind.
Senses: glosses: To set fire to.
betear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈtɛɚ/
Forms: form: betears
form: betearing
form: betore
form: betorn
Etymology: From be- + tear (“to rend”).
Senses: glosses: To tear; tear around the sides of; tatter.
betear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈtɛɚ/
ipa: /bɪˈtɪɚ/
ipa: /bɪˈtɛɚ/
Forms: form: betears
form: betearing
form: beteared
form: beteared
Etymology: From be- + tear.
Senses: glosses: To wet with tears.
God does not play dice with the universe
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From a quotation of Albert Einstein, "I, at any rate, am convinced that [God] does not throw dice" [Jedenfalls bin ich überzeugt, daß der nicht würfelt.], by which he expressed his dissatisfaction with the preeminence of probability in the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. Einstein himself used variants of the phrase at different times. (See Albert Einstein on Wikiquote.Wikiquote).
Senses: glosses: Probability (as applied in the Copenhagen interpretation) is an unsatisfactory basis for understanding quantum mechanics.
wikipedia: Albert Einstein
Copenhagen interpretation
prasine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹeɪziːn/
Forms: form: prasines
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from a combination of Middle French prame (inherited from Late Latin prasinus) and Middle French prasine (borrowed from Late Latin prasinum), both ultimately from Latin prasinus (“leek-green”), from Ancient Greek πράσινος (prásinos), from πράσον (práson, “leek”).
Senses: glosses: A green gem; an emerald.
glosses: A type of green pigment.
examples: text: It is possible that just as chrysocolla is silicated malachite, so prasine is phosphated malachite; the physical appearance of these minerals strongly confirms this view.
ref: 1864 November 5, William Crookes, editor, The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science: […] , volume 10, number 257, London: J. H. Dutton, […] , →OCLC, Revision of the Mineral Phosphates, page 217, column 1:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pseudomalachite.
prasine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹeɪziːn/
Forms: form: more prasine
form: most prasine
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from a combination of Middle French prame (inherited from Late Latin prasinus) and Middle French prasine (borrowed from Late Latin prasinum), both ultimately from Latin prasinus (“leek-green”), from Ancient Greek πράσινος (prásinos), from πράσον (práson, “leek”).
Senses: examples: text: He recalled, in passing, the sweetness in his lap, her round little bottom, her prasine eyes as she turned toward him and the receding road.
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 5, in Ada, or, Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books, published 1970, →ISBN, part 2, page 287:
glosses: Synonym of leek-green.
synonyms: word: leek-green
Related terms: leek
puler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulers
Etymology: From pule + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who pules; a whinger or complainer
prasines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prasine
lapislazzuli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A table of red granite, above which is a relief in nero antico on a ground of lapislazzuli […]
ref: 1843, Jeremiah Donovan, Rome, Ancient and Modern: And Its Environs, volume 3, page 730:
glosses: Dated form of lapis lazuli.
Tabatha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Tabitha.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
eyepatched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eyepatch + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Other colorful villains include Adolfo Celi, the eye-patched villain Emilio Largo of Thunderball (1965), who steals a nuclear aircraft, obliging Bond to display his powers of diving underwater to discover the sunken craft in the Bahamas.
ref: 2014, Constantine Santas, James M. Wilson, Maria Colavito, The Encyclopedia of Epic Films, page 497:
glosses: Wearing an eyepatch.
spongeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sponge + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a sponge.
maliceless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From malice + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without malice.
Synonyms: unmalicious
unmalicious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmalicious
form: most unmalicious
Etymology: From un- + malicious.
Senses: glosses: Not malicious.
Related terms: nonmaleficence
panchira
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese パンチラ, itself from English panty.
Senses: glosses: upskirt, panty shot
auræ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Ocular auræ may consist of double vision, sudden blindness, flashes of light, vivid “stars,” or actual hallucinations of sight—faces, figures, or scenes. In auditory auræ various subjective noises or even definite words may be heard. Auræ of taste and smell also occur, but are rare.
ref: 1922, Arthur Albert Stevens, The Practice of Medicine, W. B. Saunders Company, page 1027:
glosses: plural of aura
Latona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈtəʊ.nə/
rhymes: -əʊnə
Etymology: From Latin Lātōna, a Latinization of Ancient Greek Λητώ (Lētṓ).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The Roman counterpart of the Greek goddess Leto and the mother of Apollo.
Derived terms: Latonian
Lattanzio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lattanzios
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Lattanzio.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
LQTM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LQTMs
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
hypernyms: QTM
qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: Initialism of linear quantum Turing machine.
LQTM
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Mustn't.... feed... the troll... Mustn't... feed... the troll.... ¶ Arrgggghhhh. ¶ A .483 slugging percentage does NOT mean that Stewart has a 48.3% chance of getting an extra base hit on (sic) his next at bat. ¶ LQTM LQTM LQTM
ref: 2001 May 16, Chuck Van Den Corput, “Re: OPS - an index for dummies”, in alt.sports.baseball.tor-bluejays (Usenet):
text: I'm sitting here LQTM, recalling Barry's explanation of my backing up instructions on the hand-held CB.
ref: 2012 June 7, Janet Wilder, “Re: was "Our Maiden Voyage", now JEEP towing”, in rec.outdoors.rv-travel (Usenet):
glosses: Initialism of laughing quietly to myself.
superhero insurance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A supposed form of insurance held by superheroes, who often cause excessive damage to property without having to deal with payments or lawsuits.
giant molecules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giant molecule
slaves to fashion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slave to fashion
fashion victims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fashion victim
Nastaliq
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnæstəˈliːk/
ipa: /ˈnæstəliːk/
enpr: năs'tə-lēkʹ
enpr: năsʹtə-lēk
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: Nastalik
form: Nastaleeq
form: Nastalique
form: Nastaʿlīq
form: Nasta'liq
Etymology: Borrowed from Classical Persian نَسْتَعْلِیق (nasta'līq), a compound of نسخ (nasx), from Arabic نَسْخ (nasḵ, literally “transcription”), and تَعْلِیق (ta'līq), from Arabic تَعْلِيق (taʕlīq, literally “hanging, suspension”), the names of two other styles.
Senses: glosses: A form of Arabic calligraphy mostly used for Persian and languages it has influenced, including Urdu and Ottoman Turkish.
Coordinate terms: Diwani
Hijazi
Jawi
Kufic
Maghribi
Mashq
Muhaqqaq
Ruq'ah
Thuluth
Related terms: Naskh
Shikasta Nasta'liq
flying bricks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flying brick
explodium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From explode + -ium.
Senses: topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: Any material that explodes extremely easily.
zonæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zona
pizza face
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pizza faces
form: pizza-face
form: Pizza Face
Etymology: From pizza + face. First use appears c. 1964 in the Delaware County Daily Times.
Senses: examples: text: The kid couldn't walk into a room without slamming into something, after which his pimply pizza face turned tomato red.
ref: 1997, Avi, What Do Fish Have to do with Anything?, published 2004, →ISBN, page 152:
text: Later, when he mouths off to a Broodwarrior (Hey, pizza face, looking for something?), he's brave.
ref: 1998 January 16, Anita Gates, “Film Review: Wimp to Superwimp”, in New York Times, retrieved 02 Jun 2011:
text: After 12 rounds he will be a pizza face—then I will knock him out.
ref: 2009 Apr. 20, "Haye taunts 'Bitchko' as heavyweight clash looms, Bangkok Post (retrieved 2 June 2011)
glosses: A person whose face has blemishes, acne, welts, bruises, colored splotches, etc.
examples: text: “You dated Dee?” “Mm.” “Briefly, yeah.” “We dated hard, yep?” “Both you girls dumped him because of his pizza face.” “Ooh, okay.”
ref: 2009 October 15, Glenn Howerton & Charlie Day, “The Waitress Is Getting Married” (12:50 from the start), in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, season 5, episode 5, spoken by Artemis Dubois (Artemis Pebdani):
glosses: The face of such a person.
pizza-face
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pizza-faces
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pizza face.
Pizza Face
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pizza Faces
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of pizza face.
poops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /puːps/
rhymes: -uːps
Senses: glosses: plural of poop
poops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /puːps/
rhymes: -uːps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of poop
hold fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holds fire
form: holding fire
form: held fire
form: held fire
Senses: glosses: To wait for an opportunity to shoot (with a firearm) at something or someone.
examples: text: I have seen so much really credible evidence that the situation did not devolve the way we're being told it did. And then, another body of credible evidence that it was very different from what we're being told it is that I'm holding fire until I see the Warren Commission report on the assissination of JFK.
ref: 2025 September 23, Lawrence Wilkerson, Nima R Alkhorshid's Dialogue Works, YouTube:
glosses: To delay taking action.
holds fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hold fire
holding fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hold fire
held fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hold fire
betalk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: betalks
form: betalking
form: betalked
form: betalked
Etymology: From be- (“about, concerning”) + talk.
Senses: examples: text: Likewise and moreover, Howaji, is it a time to betalk ourselves merrily of dates, I request you, when the pasha's visit is to be made preparations for?
ref: 1925, Albert Payson Terhune, Najib:
text: Today can we betalk about why Shacam broke up?
ref: 2016, Lesbian Youtubers^([sic]) 3; Vloggers of the lesbian kind:
glosses: To talk about; discuss; tell; count; give an account (of).
examples: text: Nevertheless, ere he departed, he contrived to betalk her to such effect, promising her to gamble no more, that the good woman gave him half a score ducats; [...]
ref: 1890, Matteo Bandello, The novels of Matteo Bandello: bishop of Agen:
glosses: To talk repeatedly.
betallow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: betallows
form: betallowing
form: betallowed
form: betallowed
Etymology: From be- + tallow. Compare German betalgen (“to daub”).
Senses: glosses: To cover with tallow.
betail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: betails
form: betailing
form: betailed
form: betailed
Etymology: From be- + tail.
Senses: examples: betailed and bepowered
glosses: To furnish with a tail.
glosses: To take the tail off.
betag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: betags
form: betagging
form: betagged
form: betagged
Etymology: From be- + tag.
Senses: glosses: To furnish with a tag; deck with tags.
beswinge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪndʒ
Forms: form: beswinges
form: beswingeing
form: beswinged
form: beswinged
Etymology: From Middle English *beswingen, from Old English beswingan (“to flog, scourge, beat, strike”), equivalent to be- + swinge (“to scourge”).
Senses: glosses: To scourge; beat.
synathrœsmus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of synathroesmus.
pæderast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pæderasts
Senses: examples: text: In this form also sexual perversions predominate; signs are made by persons in a crowd that he is a pæderast, an onanist, that he is impotent.
ref: 1900, Henry Johns Berkley, A Treatise on Mental Diseases, D. Appleton and Company, page 272:
glosses: Dated spelling of pederast.
pæderasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Randolf Wilson has observed several cases of anal and urethral gonorrhœa evidently resulting from the practice of active and passive pæderasty by the boys of the House of Refuge.
ref: 1891, The Medical Standard, G.P. Engelhard & Co.; Volume IX, № 3, page 126
glosses: Obsolete spelling of pederasty.
decare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decares
Etymology: From deca- + (hect)are.
Senses: glosses: A unit of surface area equal to 10 ares (that is, 1,000 square metres, 0.10 hectares, or approximately 0.25 acres)
Synonyms: sense: Greece
word: stremma
sense: Greece
word: royal stremma
sense: Norway
word: dekar
sense: Norway
word: mål
sense: Turkey
word: dunam
Related terms: acre
hectare
work one's magic
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: works one's magic
form: working one's magic
form: worked one's magic
form: worked one's magic
Senses: examples: text: The company accountants worked their magic and found a way to lower overhead costs.
text: He's a smooth one. Always trying to work his magic on the ladies.
glosses: To achieve something favourable and desired through the application of special skills, talents, or expertise.
gowpens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gowpen
beswaddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beswaddles
form: beswaddling
form: beswaddled
form: beswaddled
Etymology: From be- + swaddle.
Senses: glosses: To wrap or envelop in swaddling-clothes.
swaddling-clothes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of swaddling clothes.
bestud
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bestuds
form: bestudding
form: bestudded
form: bestudded
Etymology: From be- + stud.
Senses: examples: text: His turban, or mandil [mandīl], was of finest white silk interwoven with gold, bestudded with pearl[s] and carbuncles; […]
ref: 1634, Thomas Herbert, A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. Into Afrique and the Greater Asia, especially the Territories of the Persian Monarchie: And some Parts of the Orientall Indies, and Iles Adiacent. Of their Religion, Language, Habit, Discent, Ceremonies, and other Matters Concerning Them: Together with the Proceedings and Death of the Three Late Ambassadours: Sir D. C[otton] Sir R. S[herley] and the Persian Nogdi-Beg: As also the Two Great Monarchs, the King of Persia, and the Great Mogol, London: Printed by William Stansby, and Iacob Bloome, OCLC 644078533; republished as William Foster, editor, Travels in Persia 1627–1629. Abridged and Edited by Sir William Foster … with an Introduction and Notes (Broadway Travellers), London: G. Routledge & Sons, 1928, OCLC 4900176, page 79
glosses: To set with or as with studs; adorn with bosses.
pæderasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In the case of this numerous class of pæderasts there is therefore no depraved fancy at work, no demoralisation through satiety of natural sexual appetite.(†) Their congenital impulse explains the fact, moreover, that very many pæderasts are addicted to what may be termed a Platonic voluptuousness, and feel themselves drawn towards the objects of their desire with a warmth of passion more fervent than is common in the relations of the opposed sexes ; that, in other cases again, they are satisfied with embracements, from which they derive a mutual pleasure.
ref: 1896, John Addington Symonds, chapter IV, in A Problem in Modern Ethics, page 26:
glosses: plural of pæderast
eupnœic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eupnœic
form: most eupnœic
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of eupneic.
eupneic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: eupnoeic
form: eupnœic
Etymology: From eupnea + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Characterized by eupnea; possessing healthy breathing.
raphane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raphanes
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin raphanus, from Ancient Greek ῥάφανος (rháphanos).
Senses: glosses: radish (especially the root of the plant)
Derived terms: raphanoid
raphanoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From raphane + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of a radish.
preanalytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of preanalytical.
have time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has time
form: having time
form: had time
form: had time
Senses: glosses: To be available, to have the time, to be without commitments over a certain period of time (thus being able to choose what to do with it, instead of following a schedule).
examples: text: She had time to think about it.
text: Major, we don't have time for this. / It's just for one minute.
ref: 1997, 1:02:30 from the start, in The Fifth Element (Science Fiction / Action), →ISBN, →OCLC:
text: Shepard: I don't have time for this, Conrad. I'm not here to be a role model. / Conrad Verner: Oh, I see how it is. Commander Shepard doesn't have time for the little people! / Conrad Verner: Far be it for me to get in your way! You go be a hero.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:
glosses: To have enough time, e.g. for doing something.
has time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of have time
having time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of have time
had time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of have time
hemodonation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hemo- + donation; apparently a calque of Spanish hemodonación.
Senses: glosses: Donation of blood.
claying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈkleɪ.ɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clay
clayed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kleɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: more clayed
form: most clayed
Senses: examples: text: 1896, O. E. Meinzer, R. F, Hare, Geological Survey (U.S.), Water-Supply Paper 343: Geology and Water Resources of Tularosa Basin, New Mexico, page 201,
The soil of this belt is somewhat gravelly in the northeastern corner of the township and becomes more clayed toward the southwest.
text: 1981, Botanical Society of South Africa, Veld & Flora, Volumes 70-72, page 52,
The resultant soils are generally wetter, more clayed and compacted.
text: […] the matrix is yellow, more clayed but contains carbonate.
ref: 1997, Geodinamica Acta, volumes 10-11, page 184:
glosses: Containing clay.
Derived terms: unclayed
clayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kleɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of clay
introduction agency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: introduction agencies
Senses: glosses: A company which arranges dates and marriages between men and women, often from different countries.
sports writer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sports writers
form: sportswriter
Senses: glosses: Someone who writes about sports-related topics professionally.
Related terms: sports journalism
sports journalist
chum up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chums up
form: chumming up
form: chummed up
form: chummed up
Senses: examples: text: I chummed up with a few of my new work colleagues.
text: Having met Mr. Hodson many years at various shows, and “chummed up,” as naturally we should have, he invited me to go and see him at his home in Somersetshire.
ref: 1876 March 16, “Mr. Greville Hodson the Poultry Judge at Home”, in Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener, volume 30, page 221:
text: He said he met a stranger in a saloon last night, and that they chummed up together, and started in to make a night of it.
ref: 1919, Frank L. Packard, From Now On, Toronto: Copp Clark, Book 3, Chapter 3, p. 163:
text: “[…] which would you rather do: be in with a lot of greasy mechanics and laboring-men, or chum up to a real fellow like Lord Wycombe, and get invited to his house for parties?”
ref: 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXVI, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, page 309:
text: ‘Were you in your basha just before you went on guard duty?’
‘Yes, sir.’
‘With other chaps. Men you’d chummed up with?’
‘Yes, sir.’
ref: 2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 42, in Small Island, London: Review, page 396:
glosses: To be friendly toward (with or to) someone, especially in an ingratiating way; to form a friendship (with).
examples: text: They have a practice of “chumming up” a new fellow-prisoner—beating him with old swords and staves kept in the prison for the purpose, to exact a fee of a half-crown.
ref: 1844 January 13, The Spectator, volume 17, number 811, page 28:
text: 1849, John Brand, Popular Antiquities of Great Britain, revised by Henry Ellis, London: Henry G. Bohn, Volume 2, p. 452,
Mr. Miller. They are not very nice whom they chum up?
Boot. Not very; they would as soon chum you up as anybody else.
glosses: To initiate (a new prisoner) through a ritual involving beating him with sticks and swords, accompanied by music, to extort money from him.
Synonyms: make friends
Boolean ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Boolean rings
Etymology: Named after George Boole (1815–1864), an English mathematician, educator, philosopher and logician.
Senses: examples: text: From the defining idempotency property of a Boolean ring it is possible to prove that such ring has to have the further properties that each element is its own inverse and that such ring must be commutative.
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A ring whose multiplicative operation is idempotent.
wikipedia: George Boole
Hypernyms: linear algebra
Related terms: Boolean algebra
ring sum normal form
Boolean rings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Boolean ring
real superhero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: real superheroes
Senses: glosses: A crimefighter who imitates common characteristics of superheroes of fiction, typically by at least wearing colorful spandex clothes and a mask.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see real, superhero.
real superheroes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of real superhero