cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
narcosub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narcosubs
form: narco sub
form: narco-sub
Etymology: From narco- + sub.
Senses: examples: text: “OK, so for a few weeks I've been working on a bit of a side project. I give you the Red Kriegtober.” “Um--” “Or the Red Octkrieger. I can't decide. It's a narco sub for transporting cocaine. It's totally undetectable by the Coast Guard. Thoughts?”
ref: 2014 March 24, Adam Reed, “On the Carpet” (17:49 from the start), in Archer, season 5, episode 9, spoken by Dr. Algernop Krieger (Lucky Yates):
synonyms: narcosubmarine
narcosubmersible
glosses: A semi-submersible or submarine purpose-built to smuggle narcotics.
Hypernyms: drug boat
Related terms: narcotorpedo
semisub
semisubmersible
submarine
submersible
Shizuka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A unisex given name from Japanese.
bokes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of boke
bokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boke
residentials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of residential
nikujaga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Japanese 肉じゃが
Senses: glosses: A Japanese dish of meat, potatoes and onion stewed in sweetened soy sauce.
teenths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teenth
Cornish engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cornish engines
Senses: glosses: A kind of beam engine used mainly for pumping water from mines. A heavy pump rod or plunger, raised by the steam, forces up the water by its weight in descending.
Cornish engines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cornish engine
Venetianness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Venetian + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or characteristic of being Venetian.
owl monkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: owl monkeys
Senses: glosses: Synonym of douroucouli.
synonyms: word: douroucouli
owl monkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of owl monkey
China aster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: China asters
Etymology: It was brought from China to France by a missionary in the 18th century.
Senses: examples: text: ‘[S]he carelessly bound a glowing wreath of African marygolds and purple China-aster, surmounting the whole with a light kerchief of pink Italian gauze, embroidered by herself in lilies of the valley.’
ref: 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 224:
glosses: Callistephus chinensis, an ornamental plant native to China.
China clay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: China clays
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of china clay.
lava millstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lava millstones
Senses: glosses: A hard, coarse basaltic millstone from the Rhine region.
lava millstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lava millstone
manual exercise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manual exercises
Senses: examples: text: A little clump of soldiers stood upon the poop going through the manual exercise, and it was from them that the call had come which had sounded so unexpectedly in the ears of the castaways.
ref: 1893, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, chapter XXVII, in The Refugees: A Tale of Two Continents, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:
text: The officers of the Voulnteers will do their utmost to assist the naval officers to preserve discipline. They may, if they think fit, set an example to their men by taking an active part in all the duties and manual exercises. They may fall in at quarters, and take any number at the gun. In short, they may become, as much as they please, active working seamen and efficient practical gunners.
ref: 1874, Thomas Brassey, The organisation of the Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers explained:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The military exercise by which soldiers are taught the use of their muskets and other arms.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: manual exercise.
without day
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The meeting was adjourned without day.
glosses: Without a day being fixed for reconvening.
virgin's bower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any of various plants of the genus Clematis, including Clematis virginiana and Clematis viticella.
quantum sufficit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: q.s.
Etymology: From Latin quantum (“however much”) sufficit (“is enough”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A sufficient quantity.
quantum sufficit
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: q.s.
Etymology: From Latin quantum (“however much”) sufficit (“is enough”).
Senses: glosses: To a sufficient extent; only as much as is needed.
quantum valebat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A count in an action to recover from the defendant, for goods sold, as much as they were worth.
antispirituality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + spirituality.
Senses: glosses: Opposition to spirituality.
antispiritualism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + spiritualism.
Senses: glosses: Opposition to spiritualism.
sister hook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sister hooks
Senses: glosses: Either of a pair of hooks fitted together, the shank of one forming a mousing for the other.
Synonyms: match hook
sister hooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sister hook
Haycocks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
have a care
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has a care
form: having a care
form: had a care
form: had a care
Senses: examples: text: "If I don't have a care," reflected Lady Bell in alarm, and with the crude unmincing expression of opinion which belonged to her years and her generation, "I'll soon be as great a brute as Trevor."
ref: 1874, Sarah Tytler, Lady Bell: A Story of the Last Century, page 82:
glosses: take care; be on one's guard
haycap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haycaps
Etymology: From hay + cap.
Senses: glosses: A canvas covering for a haycock.
haycaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haycap
pulleylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pulleylike
form: most pulleylike
Etymology: From pulley + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a pulley.
trasheries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trashery
trash ice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Crumbled ice mixed with water.
greengroceress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greengroceresses
Etymology: From greengrocer + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female greengrocer.
scarlet admiral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scarlet admirals
Senses: glosses: red admiral (a butterfly)
e-access
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From e- + access.
Senses: glosses: Electronic access to resources, such as publications at a library.
Related terms: open access
remote access
online
post and pair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A 16th-century English gambling card game.
votively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From votive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a votive manner; in fulfilment of a vow.
universal lever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: universal levers
Senses: glosses: A machine formed by a combination of a lever with the wheel and axle, in such a manner as to convert the reciprocating motion of the lever into a continued rectilinear motion of some body to which the power is applied.
vestibule train
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vestibule trains
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
synonyms: vestibuled train
glosses: A train of passenger cars having space between the end doors of adjacent cars enclosed, so as to allow the doors to be left open for access between adjacent cars.
writ of right
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: writs of right
Senses: examples: text: a claimant in fee-simple may have a mere writ of right; which is in its nature the highest writ in the law
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
topics: law
glosses: A writ which lay to recover lands in fee simple, unjustly withheld from the true owner.
quadrilemma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛmə
Forms: form: quadrilemmas
Etymology: Compare dilemma, trilemma, and see quadri- (“four”).
Senses: glosses: A circumstance in which a choice must be made between four undesirable options.
quadrilemmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadrilemma
painter's colic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Plumbism as an occupational hazard of painting (buildings or manufactured goods) in the era of lead paints.
Related terms: red lead
white lead
lead colic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plumbism
Devon colic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Once common in Devon, England, as a result of the use of lead-lined cider presses.
Senses: glosses: plumbism
iron cement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iron cements
Senses: glosses: A cement for joints, composed of cast-iron borings or filings, sal ammoniac, etc.
Belphegor's prime
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The prime number 1,000,000,000,000,066,600,000,000,000,001, a palindrome which contains 666 (the Number of the Beast) and also two sets of thirteen zeroes.
Belphegor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛlfəɡɔɹ/
Forms: form: Beelphegor
Etymology: Borrowed from Koine Greek Βεελφεγώρ (Beelphegṓr), ultimately from Biblical Hebrew בַּעַל פְּעוֹר (Báʿal-pəʿór, “Lord of the Gap”), discussed in the article on the Heresy of Peor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.
Senses: glosses: A demon who is one of the traditional seven princes of Hell. He seduces people by suggesting to them ingenious inventions that will make them rich.
Derived terms: Belphegor's prime
shoulder block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoulder blocks
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A block with a projection, or shoulder, near the upper end, so that it can rest against a spar without jamming the rope.
shoulder blocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoulder block
object glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: object glasses
Senses: glosses: Synonym of objective (“part of a microscope, telescope, etc.”).
synonyms: word: objective
extra: (“part of a microscope, telescope, etc.”).
glory tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glory trees
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of the genus Clerodendrum, showy flowering shrubs of tropical regions.
thumb blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An indigo dye, in the form of small balls or lumps, used in the 19th century for dyeing linen etc.
seed down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsiːd ˈdaʊn/
ipa: /ˈsiːd ˌdaʊn/
Forms: form: seeds down
form: seeding down
form: seeded down
form: seeded down
Senses: examples: text: In order to seed down a field it is first plowed deeply, and the soil well loosened — which is easy in these sandy soils — then pieces of the roots of lucern are planted 50 to 60 centimeters (20 to 24 inches) apart.
ref: 1908, Karl Frederic Kellerman, Robert Winthrop Pratt, Albert Elliott Kimberly, The Disinfection of Sewage Effluents for the Protection of Public Water Supplies, United States Department of Agriculture:
glosses: To sow with seeds to make grass grow.
seed down
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsiːd ˈdaʊn/
ipa: /ˈsiːd ˌdaʊn/
Senses: glosses: The down on cotton, etc.
loams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loam
loams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of loam
eyeletted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eyelet + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Fitted with eyelets.
hotwashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hotwash
Roman alum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A cubical potassium alum formerly obtained in large quantities from Italian alunite, and highly valued by dyers on account of its freedom from iron.
hunting cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hunting cats
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hunt, cat.
glosses: A cheetah.
Roman balance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Roman balances
Senses: glosses: An old form of balance closely resembling the steelyard.
frogeater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frogeaters
Etymology: From frog + eater, after the French custom of eating frog legs. Attested since at least the 18th century.
Senses: examples: text: Of a great Institution like Smithfield, [the French] are unable to form the least conception. A Beast Market in the heart of Paris would be regarded an impossible nuisance. Nor have they any notion of slaughter-houses in the midst of a city. One of these benighted frog-eaters would scarcely understand your meaning, if you told him of the existence of such a British bulwark.
ref: 1851, Charles Dickens, A Monument of French Folly:
text: Sir Andrew Ffoulkes is a gallant gentleman, you may take your Bible oath on that, but he that fights the murdering frogeaters single-handed is he whom they call The Scarlet Pimpernel: the bravest gentleman in all the world.
ref: 1908, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, The Elusive Pimpernel:
glosses: A French person.
frogeaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frogeater
ride and tie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rides and ties
form: riding and tying
form: rode and tied
form: ridden and tied
Etymology: From the expedient adopted by two persons with one horse, one of whom rides the animal a certain distance and then ties him for the use of the other, who is approaching on foot.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Adams discharged the Bill, and they were both setting out, having agreed to ride and tie: a Method of travelling much used by Persons who have but one Horse between them […]
ref: 1742, Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews, 3rd edition, London: A. Millar, published 1743, Volume 1, Book 2, Chapter 2, p. 100:
text: If those who vote the supplies are the same persons who receive the supplies when voted, and are to account for the expenditure of those supplies to those who voted them, it is themselves accountable to themselves, and the Comedy of Errors concludes with the Pantomine of HUSH. Neither the ministerial party, nor the opposition, will touch upon this case. The national purse is the common hack which each mounts upon. It is like what the country people call, Ride and tie—You ride a little way, and then I.
ref: 1791, Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, London: J.S. Jordan, page 64:
text: “I see you are main willing, your honour, to hear what daddy Dennison says,” cried Jonathan, who had returned into the chamber with Jerom—“and I,” exclaimed the latter, “will read it, were it as cramp and crooked as our own.” “Aye we’ll make him out I warrant,” answered Jerom, “an if it be long, why we can ride and tie you know, cousin. You a bit and I a bit.”
ref: 1797, Samuel Jackson Pratt, chapter 33, in Family Secrets, volume 5, London: T.N. Longman, page 274:
text: […] the music of the duet is flexible and sweet, and the bass and tenor progress with it not in the ride-and-tie fashion but marking time with the title-syllable.
ref: 1906, Theron Brown, Hezekiah Butterworth, “Come”, in The Story of the Hymns and Tunes, New York: American Tract Society, page 453:
text: 1941, Mary Grayson, interviewed in A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Washington: Library of Congress, Volume 13, Oklahoma Narratives, p. 122,
After three or four days of walking we came across some more Negroes who had a horse, and mammy paid them to let us children ride and tie with their children for a day or two.
glosses: To take turns with another in labour and rest.
glosses: To ride an animal and travel on foot alternately.
ride the lightning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rides the lightning
form: riding the lightning
form: rode the lightning
form: ridden the lightning
Senses: glosses: To be executed by electric chair; to go to the chair.
Related terms: ride a horse foaled by an acorn
ride a hobby
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rides a hobby
form: riding a hobby
form: rode a hobby
form: ridden a hobby
Senses: glosses: To have some favourite occupation or subject of talk.
by the rood
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Sim[on]. I pray thee tell me now, coulde such a shrow as thou,
Content thy selfe with such a sheepe as I, how sayst thou now?
Sus[an]. A sheepe, nay by the Roode, I rather would haue guest
you, more a Hog like, then a sheepe […]
ref: 1577, Nicholas Breton, The Workes of a Young Wyt, London: Thomas Dawson and Thomas Gardyner:
text: Gertrude. Have you forgot me?
Hamlet. No, by the rood, not so!
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
text: By the rood! if I had my will upon ye, I should nail you upon the abbey doors, as they hang vermin before their holes.
ref: 1891, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, chapter 9, in The White Company, New York, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.: Thomas Y[oung] Crowell & Company […], →OCLC:
glosses: Used as an oath to emphasize the veracity of an associated statement; equivalent to "I swear on Christ's cross."
Related terms: swear on
swear upon
spruce beer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spruce beers
Etymology: German Sprossenbier. Sprosse (“sprout, shoot”) was changed into spruce because the beer came from Prussia, or because it was made from the sprouts of the spruce.
Senses: glosses: A kind of beer which is flavored with parts of the spruce tree.
glosses: A spruce-flavored soft drink.
cholekinetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cholekinetic
form: most cholekinetic
Etymology: From chole- + kinetic.
Senses: glosses: That increases the contractile power of the bile duct
cholekinetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cholekinetics
Etymology: From chole- + kinetic.
Senses: glosses: Any agent that increases the contractile power of the bile duct
cholekinetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cholekinetic
Bohemian chatterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bohemian chatterers
Senses: glosses: A bird, the Bohemian waxwing.
Bohemian glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bohemian glasses
Senses: examples: text: […] Bohemians used it like rock crystal, cutting and grinding it to the desired shapes and patterns. The sons and grandsons of these men who had made Bohemian glass in England made English glass in England [now].
ref: 1944, Clay Products News and Ceramic Record, volumes 17-19, page 7:
text: 1717 The Miottis [were] given permission to make "Bohemian" glass in Venice. 1718 The making of artificial pearls was invented by Janin, a paternoster and coral worker. […] 1736 Guiseppe Briatti (?) receives ten-year patent to make "Bohemian" glass in Venice.
ref: 1975, Histoire Et Archéologie:
glosses: A variety of hard glass of fine quality (often remarkable for beauty of colour), originally and traditionally made in Bohemia, classically containing silica, lime, and potash rather than soda, and no lead.
postyuppie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + yuppie.
Senses: examples: text: […] whether Ben can best be understood as an evolved postpatriarchal metrosexual or a caricature of postyuppie conformity, and whether Andrew represents a bohemian hipster ideal or a version of the bromantic perpetual adolescent.
ref: 2013, John Alberti, Masculinity in Contemporary Popular Cinema: Gender as Genre:
glosses: After the era of the yuppies.
postrave
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + rave.
Senses: examples: text: The effects of breathing Bristol's atmosphere have been evident on EbtG's subsequent work — particularly the haunting, postrave Sonics of 1996's Walking Wounded LP (Atlantic).
ref: 1998 October, Vibe, page 65:
glosses: After the era of rave music.
powder pink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powder pinks
Senses: glosses: A very pale pink colour.
powder pink
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of a very pale pink colour.
Related terms: powder blue
pond scum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Algae, especially when growing on the surface of a pond.
synonyms: pondlife
glosses: Worthless, insignificant person or people.
Ponca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Poncas
form: Ponca
Senses: glosses: A member of a Native American people of the Dhegihan branch of the Siouan-language group. There are two federally recognized Ponca tribes: the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska and the Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma.
Ponca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small city, the county seat of Dixon County, Nebraska, United States.
Derived terms: Omaha-Ponca
Ponca City
Poncas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ponca
Dhegihan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Dhegiha + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a Siouan language family that includes Kansa–Osage, Omaha–Ponca, and Quapaw.
Dhegihan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dhegihans
Etymology: From Dhegiha + -an.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Dhegiha.
synonyms: word: Dhegiha
mineral acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mineral acid
mineral blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: powdered azurite used as a pigment
Bavarian cream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: bavarois (creamy dessert)
wheel within a wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheels within wheels
Etymology: From the Bible, Book of Ezekiel, 1:16.
Senses: examples: text: The fact is, there’s something I rather wanted to call to your attention. You don’t know it, but for private and personal reasons I particularly want to hold this Tiny Tots job for a year. There are wheels within wheels. It’s a sort of bet, as a matter of fact. Have you ever met a girl called Gertrude Butterwick?… However, it’s a long story and I won’t bother you with it now. But you can take it from me that there definitely are wheels within wheels and unless I continue in your employment, till somewhere around the middle of next June, my life will be a blank and all my hopes and dreams shattered.
ref: 1933, P. G. Wodehouse, Heavy Weather:
glosses: A complication of circumstances, motives, etc.
wheels within wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheel within a wheel
transtainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transtainers
Etymology: Blend of transporter + container
Senses: examples: text: Transtainers (transporter-containers) for SM-68 [Titan ICBM] are of novel design, with a structure of aluminium alloy.
ref: 1957, Flight International, volume 72, page 906:
text: In the factory, each stage of the missile is placed on an individual transtainer — or missile trailer. From this point on, transtainers will carry the missile stages wherever they go.
ref: 1959, Western Aerospace, volume 39, page 20:
text: Because the Atlas must be substantially complete when transported (the nose cones originate and usually are transported from another point to Cape Canaveral, and in some instances the guidance system is separate from the body of the missile in transit) and because it must be retained under pressure until fueled, a specially constructed trailer, called a transtainer, is necessary for the over-the-road movement.
ref: 1961 June 23, United States Interstate Commerce Commission, “Dealers Transit, Inc., Extension—Missiles”, in Interstate Commerce Commission Reports: Motor carrier cases, published 1965, page 331:
text: The orifice controlled the flow of oil during strut retraction and extension, which in turn determined the load factor in the transtainer and missile.
ref: 1963 March 24, Shock, Vibration and Associated Environments:
topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A specialized container used to transport and protect large guided missiles.
transtainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transtainers
Etymology: Blend of trans- + container; coined by the Pacific Coast Engineering Company (now Paceco) as a brand name.
Senses: examples: text: The transtainers (system A) are all assumed to have a 62ft span and to straddle a five wide stack.
ref: 1987, Ernst G. Frankel, Port Planning and Development, page 197:
text: Other parameters, such as the number of transtainers and portainers, have been found to be of secondary influence.
ref: 1993, M Ahmad, Flexible Automation and Integrated Manufacturing 1993, page 300:
text: Containers are then removed from the train by a transtainer and placed on truck chassis attached to a tractor and hauled to container storage areas or ship departure areas.
ref: 2013, Khalid Bichou, Risk Management in Port Operations, Logistics and Supply Chain Security:
glosses: A mobile gantry crane used for stacking intermodal containers within the stacking areas of a container terminal.
Related terms: portainer
transtainers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transtainer
container crane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: container cranes
Senses: glosses: A kind of dockside gantry crane found at container terminals for loading and unloading intermodal containers from container ships.
tank iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plate iron thinner than boilerplate and thicker than sheet iron or stovepipe iron
geekwads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geekwad
whitedamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From white + damp.
Senses: glosses: A noxious mixture of gases formed by the combustion of coal, usually in an enclosed environment such as a mine.
geekwad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geekwads
Etymology: From geek + -wad.
Senses: examples: text: From the Gateway and Spellcasting series to Eric the Unready to its latest endeavor, Companions of Xanth, Legend seems to delight in administering the digital equivalent of an atomic wedgie to all those geekwad fantasy-gamer types who take their genres a bit too seriously.
ref: 1994, Rick Barba, CD-Rom Games Secrets, Volume 1, Prima Publishing, →ISBN:
text: We ordered cosmopolitans. They came with umbrellas. That was how top-of-the-line geekwad this bar was.
ref: 2008, Matthue Roth, Candy in Action, Soft Skull Press, →ISBN, page 73:
text: You don't have to be a stereotypical geekwad to give yourself over to the philosophical tenets of Nerdism, the ideology for us obsessive types.
ref: 2011, Chris Hardwick, The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life), Berkley, →ISBN:
glosses: A geeky or uncool person.
damp sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: damp sheets
Senses: glosses: A curtain in a mine gallery to direct air currents and prevent accumulation of gas.
stinkdamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stink + damp.
Senses: glosses: hydrogen sulfide when it builds up in an enclosed space such as a mine
negaholism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A persistently negative or pessimistic outlook.
Related terms: negaholic
neosemanticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neosemanticisms
Etymology: From neo- + semantic + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The assignment of a new meaning to an existing word
glosses: A new meaning attributed to an existing word
neosemanticisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neosemanticism
Haredi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /xəˈɹeɪdi/
/h-/
/xɑːɹeɪˈdiː/
Forms: form: Haredis
form: Haredi
form: Haredim
form: Charedi
form: Chareidi
form: Hareidi
Etymology: From Hebrew חֲרֵדִי (ḥărēḏî).
Senses: examples: text: Throughout Israel’s history, the Haredim have been reluctant participants in mainstream society, often prioritizing the study of scripture over conventional employment and army service.
ref: 2021 February 17, Dan Balilty, Patrick Kingsley, “‘How Many Funerals Will Come Out of This One?’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: frummer
glosses: A member of a stream of Orthodox Judaism characterized by rejection of modern secular culture.
Derived terms: Haredi Judaism
Haredic
Haredi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /xəˈɹeɪdi/
/h-/
/xɑːɹeɪˈdiː/
Forms: form: more Haredi
form: most Haredi
form: Charedi
form: Chareidi
form: Hareidi
Etymology: From Hebrew חֲרֵדִי (ḥărēḏî).
Senses: synonyms: word: frum
word: ultra-Orthodox
glosses: Pertaining to Haredi Jews.
Haredim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Haredi
Haredis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Haredi
Charedi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Charedis
form: Charedi
form: Charedim
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Haredi.
Charedis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Charedi
Charedim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Charedi
kidneywood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kidneywoods
Etymology: From kidney + wood.
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Eysenhardtia of flowering plants in the legume family Fabaceae.
supermolecules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supermolecule
kidneywoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kidneywood
lignum nephriticum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin, meaning "kidney wood".
Senses: glosses: A traditional diuretic derived from the wood of the narra and the Mexican kidneywood.
nonnucleoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonnucleosides
Etymology: From non- + nucleoside.
Senses: glosses: That which is not a nucleoside.
nonnucleosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonnucleoside
Asian contagion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Chosen for the near-rhyme.
Senses: glosses: Asian flu
black chalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A slaty bluish mineral, a variety of argillaceous slate, used for drawing and for making black paint.
praying machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: praying machines
Senses: glosses: Synonym of prayer wheel.
synonyms: word: prayer wheel
praying wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: praying wheels
Senses: glosses: prayer wheel
Haredization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Haredi + -ization.
Senses: examples: the Haredization of urban and suburban areas of Israel, such as Beit Shemesh
glosses: conversion to Haredi Judaism
BAAM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Initialism.
Senses: glosses: Bromoacetylalprenololmenthane.
next world
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: word: afterlife
word: afterworld
word: by and by
word: byembye
word: deadland
word: hereafter
word: next world
word: other side
word: spirit world
word: spiritual world
glosses: afterlife
nick translation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A tagging technique in molecular biology in which DNA polymerase I is used to replace some of the nucleotides of a DNA sequence with their labelled analogues, creating a tagged sequence which can be used as a probe in hybridization or blotting techniques.
nu jazz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nujazz
form: nu-jazz
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
qualifier: jazz
glosses: Any music that blends jazz elements with other musical styles, such as funk, soul, or electronic dance music.
electrojazz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + jazz.
Senses: glosses: A form of nu jazz music with electronic elements.
Nipissing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nipissings
form: Nipissing
Etymology: From Ojibwe nibiinsing (“at-the-little-waters”), from nibyi- (“water”) + -ns (diminutive forming suffix) + -ing (locative forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: A member of the Nipissing First Nation, a people of Ojibwa and Algonquin descent whose ancestors lived in the area of Lake Nipissing in Ontario, Canada.
Nipissing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ojibwe nibiinsing (“at-the-little-waters”), from nibyi- (“water”) + -ns (diminutive forming suffix) + -ing (locative forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: A township in the Parry Sound District, Ontario, Canada.
Derived terms: Nipissing District
West Nipissing
Nipissings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nipissing
niggergram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: niggergrams
Etymology: From nigger + -gram.
Senses: examples: text: Porke is unaware of the fact that one of his most trusted slaves, through niggergrams, is keeping the four informed of Porke 's every move.
ref: 1974, Fiction, volumes 3-5, page 7:
text: Truth to tell, the niggergram can always count on Pansy and the boys.
ref: 2006, Pamela Mordecai, Pink Icing and Other Stories, page 32:
text: From the gunmen all over that television station that Friday night, there was almost a running commentary, a grapevine, a constant up to date “niggergram,” to use the Trinidad word, on events at the Red House downtown […]
ref: 2007, Raoul Pantin, Days of Wrath: The 1990 Coup in Trinidad and Tobago:
glosses: The informal circulation of gossip by black people.
niggergrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of niggergram
schiller-spar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schiller-spars
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An altered variety of enstatite, exhibiting, in certain positions, a bronze-like luster.
douchewad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: douchewads
Etymology: From douche + -wad.
Senses: examples: text: I'm never attending some douchewad's press conference.
ref: 2013, Jennifer duBois, Cartwheel, Random House, →ISBN:
text: Karen's husband left before Christmas last year. He was a total douchewad.
ref: 2013, Allie Larkin, Why Can't I Be You, Plume, →ISBN:
text: […] so let me find you a roommate. I'll even filter out the douchewads for you.
ref: 2014, M. L. Brennan, Iron Night, Roc, →ISBN:
glosses: A rude, obnoxious, or annoying person.
nien-hao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nien-haos
form: nien-hao
Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 年號／年号 (niánhào) Wade-Giles romanization nien²-hao⁴.
Senses: glosses: The regnal year, reign period, or regnal title used when traditionally numbering years in a Chinese emperor's reign and in naming certain Chinese rulers.
wikipedia: Cambridge University Press
new beat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Belgian electronic dance music genre of the 1980s that fused elements of new wave, hi-NRG, electronic body music, acid house and hip-hop.
gravitonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From graviton + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to gravitons.
antigraviton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antigravitons
Etymology: From anti- + graviton.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: The hypothetical antipartner of a graviton.
antigravitons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antigraviton
nepotically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more nepotically
form: most nepotically
Etymology: From nepotic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a nepotic manner.
needle park
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: needle parks
Senses: glosses: A park where sterilized needles are made available to recreational drug users.
ball-and-stick model
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ball-and-stick models
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A molecular model of a chemical substance, displaying the three-dimensional position of the atoms (as spheres) and the bonds between them (as connecting rods).
New Christian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: New Christians
Senses: topics: Christianity
synonyms: neo-Christian
glosses: One of the Iberian Muslims and Jews who converted to Roman Catholicism, or their known baptized descendants.
New Christians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of New Christian
Newyorican
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nuyorican.
Newyorican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Newyoricans
Senses: examples: text: But the decade’s spirit of questioning and mobilization also took hold among minorities, including New York City’s more than three million Latinos—primarily Puerto Ricans, or “Newyoricans.” […] In the wake of the Black Panthers, the Young Lords mobilized Newyoricans to demand fair treatment and better social services.
ref: 1995, Peter Manuel, “Latin Music in the New World Order: Salsa & Beyond”, in Ron Sakolsky, Fred Wei-han Ho, editors, Sounding Off!: Music As Subversion/Resistance/Revolution, Brooklyn, New York, NY: Autonomedia, →ISBN, page 277:
glosses: Alternative form of Nuyorican.
Newyoricans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Newyorican
Newton-Raphson method
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Newton-Raphson method
Etymology: Named after Isaac Newton and Joseph Raphson.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of Newton's method.
synonyms: word: Newton's method
wikipedia: Isaac Newton
Joseph Raphson
Newton's method
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Isaac Newton.
Senses: topics: algebra
calculus
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A method for finding successively better approximations to the roots (or zeroes) of a real-valued function.
wikipedia: Isaac Newton
Synonyms: Newton-Raphson method
ngakas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ngaka
neoprimitivisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neoprimitivism
neuronlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neuronlike
form: most neuronlike
Etymology: From neuron + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of neurons.
unfumbled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + fumbled.
Senses: glosses: Not fumbled.
Maoridom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Maori + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The world or sphere of the Māori people.
Nimpkish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated form of 'Namgis.
prickwad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prickwads
Etymology: From prick + -wad.
Senses: examples: text: "That's right — Big Daddy Jackson watches over his flock, prickwad. Next time, check with your fag-bashing friends, ask 'em if it's safe to fuck with the Darkside! […]
ref: 1999, Best Gay Erotic 1999, Cleis Preis, →ISBN, page 149:
text: Telling Jessie that he was an asshalf prickwad Decent wouldn't be working toward a community at all.
ref: 2006, David Levithan, Wide Awake, Knopf, →ISBN, page 7:
text: About an hour ago, when Alona caught me crying in the hallway after my big blowout with the king of the prickwads, I figured, why not blame the little guys again?
ref: 2010, Lindsay Faith Rech, It Started with a Dare, Graphia, →ISBN:
glosses: A rude, obnoxious, or annoying person.
freeledges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freeledge
prickwads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prickwad
ooser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oosers
Senses: examples: text: What have made you so down? Have you seen a ooser?
ref: 1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, page 337:
glosses: A wooden horned mask used for folkloric and magical purposes. Possibly also the unknown creature upon which the mask was based.
New York bat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: New York bats
Senses: glosses: A bat of species Vespertilio noveboracensis, now Lasiurus borealis).
Synonyms: eastern red bat
neuromeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuromere + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a neuromere.
Derived terms: interneuromeric
neuterings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neutering
vital capacities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vital capacity
trade dollar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trade dollars
Senses: glosses: A silver coin minted as a trade coin by various countries to facilitate trade with China and the Orient.
trade dollars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trade dollar
elf arrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elf arrows
Etymology: From the folk belief that they were used by elves.
Senses: synonyms: elf-shot
fairy dart
glosses: A prehistoric flint arrowhead.
glosses: An elf-bolt or belemnite.
examples: text: When they want beef or mutton on any festal occasion, they betake themselves to the Shetlanders' scatholds or townmails, and with elf-arrows bring down their game.
ref: 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 262:
topics: arts
fantasy
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
glosses: A magical arrow (weapon) used by elves or other mythological beings.
elf arrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elf arrow
jewel block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jewel blocks
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A block at the extremity of a yard, through which the halyard of a studding sail is rove.
elephantine tortoise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elephantine tortoises
Senses: glosses: A huge land tortoise, especially the Aldabra giant tortoise Aldabrachelys gigantea, from the Seychelles, or the Galápagos tortoise Chelonoidis niger, from the Galápagos Islands.
nesslerization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nesslerizations
Etymology: From Nessler + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of nesslerizing.
nesslerizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nesslerization
Nessler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Nessler cylinder
nesslerization
nesslerize
Nessler's solution
Nessler's test
corporal's guard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A small detachment of guards under the charge of a corporal.
examples: text: Our thousand did the Capitol little harm that a corporal’s guard of Biddies with mops and tubs could not repair in a forenoon’s campaign.
ref: 1863, Theodore Winthrop, edited by G. W. Curtis, Life in the Open Air, and Other Papers, Washington as a Camp:
glosses: A very small number of people.
lunar caustic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See Luna (“silver in alchemy”) + caustic.
Senses: examples: text: However, the doctor soon relieved his sufferings, though the treatment was severe; nothing short of an application of lunar caustic allayed the inflammation.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 78:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Silver nitrate fused into a stick and used for cauterizing.
burning house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burning houses
Senses: glosses: The furnace in which tin ores are calcined, to sublime the sulfur and arsenic from the pyrites.
wikipedia: John Weale
out at elbow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: out-at-elbow
form: out at elbows
Senses: examples: text: [T]he children [...] went about in shabby, out-at-elbow clothes, and much worn boots.
ref: 1894, Ethel Turner, Seven Little Australians, published 1912, page 18:
glosses: Of a coat, jumper, etc., worn through at the elbows; of clothes, shabby, in poor condition.
glosses: In needy circumstances.
smother-fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smother-flies
Senses: glosses: aphid
dumb cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dumb cakes
Senses: glosses: A cake made in silence by girls on St Mark's Eve, with certain mystic ceremonies, to discover their future husbands.
unlimited pump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unlimited pumps
Senses: glosses: A kind of deep-well pump placed at the level of the water, and operated from above ground.
crayon board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crayon boards
Senses: glosses: A cardboard with a surface prepared for crayon drawing.
sagecraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sage + -craft.
Senses: examples: text: Medical and public health discussion of firearms issues have consistently exemplified "sagecraft" in the Znanieckian concept of partisan academic "sages" inventing, selecting, or misinterpreting data to validate preordained conclusions.
ref: 1997, Don B. Kates, Gary Kleck, The Great American Gun Debate, page 123:
text: At that time he had come to wonder just why she wished so badly to serve as a mere aide when according to all her instructors she had excelled in the art of sagecraft.
ref: 2010, Tom Foster, Strength and Honor, page 425:
glosses: The skill of a sage.
turn bench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turn benches
Senses: glosses: A simple portable lathe, used on a bench by clockmakers and watchmakers.
tin frame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tin frames
Senses: glosses: A kind of buddle used in washing tin ore.
wig tree fern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wig tree ferns
Senses: glosses: Alsophila baileyana, a tree fern native to northeastern Queensland in Australia.
cauda galli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cauda gallī (“tail of a cock”).
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A feathery-shaped fossil, apparently a seaweed, characteristic of the lower Devonian rocks.
find the latchstring out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: finds the latchstring out
form: finding the latchstring out
form: found the latchstring out
form: found the latchstring out
Etymology: Intrusion is prevented by drawing in the latchstring.
Senses: glosses: To meet with hospitality; to be welcome.
glory pea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glory peas
Senses: glosses: Either of two similar leguminous plants with showy scarlet or crimson flowers, both of Australia and New Zealand.
Sturt's desert pea (Swainsona formosa syn. Clianthus dampieri)
glosses: Either of two similar leguminous plants with showy scarlet or crimson flowers, both of Australia and New Zealand.
Kakabeak (Clianthus puniceus)
lattens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of latten
prince's metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Prince's metal
Senses: glosses: Prince Rupert's metal.
Prince Rupert's metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Prince Rupert of the Rhine.
Senses: synonyms: prince's metal
glosses: A type of alpha brass used as imitation gold.
wikipedia: Prince Rupert of the Rhine