cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
WAFF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WAFFs
Etymology: Acronym of warm and fuzzy feeling(s). Reportedly coined by fans of the television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993-1997). First attested on alt.tv.lois-n-clark as part of a fandom glossary in January 1996.
Senses: examples: text: Why wait until the series is close to an end to change their relationship, leaving fans with a feeling of having been cheated of great WAFFs (Warm And Fuzzy Feelings)?
ref: 1996 January 7, Nancy Lemieux, “Re: The girlfriend/boyfriend thing”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):
text: Sharon remembers the WAFFs, the romance, the cuddling, the tender bits, the honesty and openness between our heroes and gives the episode an A+.
ref: 1996 March 18, Colonel X, “Re: Camping With Clark”, in alt.tv.lois-n-clark (Usenet):
text: I did love Dad Kent's response to her, beginning with "Dearest Lois, a love... [I've forgotten the rest, but it was a major WAFF for me :-)]
ref: 1996 May 14, Polly Robinson, “Re: Clark's disappearance”, in alt.tv.lois-n-clark (Usenet):
text: Any idiot would have to know that 99% of the fans expect the relationship to progress, but Singer's answer just doesn't give fans that WAFF that they may need after feeling so betrayed by the current arc.
ref: 1996 March 6, KalElFan, “Damage Control at TPTB Central”, in alt.tv.lois-n-clark (Usenet):
text: Well, I can now see why ABC did not hop on the boards here to try and quell the disquiet the 'wedding' arc caused. A) because there is no wedding in the arc, and B) The episode isn't quite the WAFF one might expect.
ref: 1996 March 16, Zoomway, “Updated Spoilers on OW”, in alt.tv.lois-n-clark (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A warm and fuzzy feeling, especially in relation to a ship.
examples: text: It's a pity that this term isn't used on atxc, as I'd describe this as a lovely slice of Moose & Squirrel WAFF (stands for warm-and-fuzzy-feelings).
ref: 1999 July 14, Harper, “Re: xfc NEW: When God Dreams, 3 of 3. by Snark, rated PG”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Such feelings collectively.
Derived terms: WAFFy
WAFFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of WAFF
crack fic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crack fics
form: crackfic
Etymology: Referring to the erratic behaviour of a person on crack cocaine.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: A work of fan fiction that is absurd, surprising or ridiculous, often intentionally.
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Such fan fiction collectively.
Synonyms: humorfic
jokefic
sillyfic
crack fics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crack fic
Curetonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /kjʊə(ɹ)ˈtəʊ.ni.ən/
note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /kjɔː(ɹ)ˈtəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /kjʊɹˈtoʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /kjɝˈtoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Curetonian
form: most Curetonian
Etymology: From Cureton + -ian.
Senses: glosses: of or relating to William Cureton, and specifically the Egyptian manuscripts recognised as Syriac Gospels, edited and published, by the assistant keeper of manuscripts at the British Museum, William Cureton in 1858.
deathfic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deathfics
Etymology: From death + fic.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: A work of fan fiction centered around the death of a character.
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Such fan fiction collectively.
deathfics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deathfic
ghost piece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghost pieces
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A representation of where a piece will land if it falls without intervention (such as moving it away or rotating it) in the video game Tetris.
ghost pieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghost piece
South African Sign Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A sign language used in South Africa.
Argentine Sign Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A sign language used in Argentina.
Chilean Sign Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A sign language used in Chile.
Brazilian Sign Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A sign language used in Brazil.
Colombian Sign Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A sign language used in Colombia.
fornicatrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fornicatrices
Etymology: From Latin fornicātrīx. By surface analysis, fornicate + -trix.
Senses: examples: text: She would be a what was it…a fornicatress?…trix! Fornicatrix is preferable! Very preferable.
ref: 1926, Ford Madox Ford, A Man Could Stand Up— (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 524:
glosses: A female fornicator.
Synonyms: fornicatress
Hausa Sign Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A sign language used in Nigeria.
Honduras Sign Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Honduran Sign Language
glosses: A sign language used in Honduras.
Adamorobe Sign Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An indigenous sign language used in Adamorobe, a village of Ghana.
fornicatrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fornicatrix
Algerian Sign Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A sign language used in Algeria.
Bolivian Sign Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A sign language used in Bolivia.
Galia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Galias
Senses: glosses: A kind of hybrid melon with greenish flesh.
mamillae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mamilla
matutine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈtu.tɪn/
ipa: /ˈmæt͡ʃ.ʊˌtaɪn/
Etymology: From Latin matutinus (“pertaining to morning”), from Matuta (“Roman goddess of the morning”); related to Latin maturus (“early”) (compare mature).
Senses: examples: 1833, Captain Mundy, Pen and Pencil Sketches, from the Journal of a Tour in India, quoted in 1833, Recent Travels in Upper India, The Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal, Volume 57, page 362,
During a residence of nearly two years in Switzerland, the first object that my eyes opened upon every morning was the snow-clad summit of Mount Blanc; and I thought that a glorious sight. But the glaciers that now form, next to the Omnipotent Being who created them, my first objects of matutine contemplation, present a battalion of icy pinnacles, amongst which Mount Blanc, with its pitiful fifteen thousand feet, would scarcely be admitted in the rear rank!
glosses: Of or relating to early morning; occurring in the early morning; matutinal.
examples: text: 1817, Ebenezer Sibly, The New and Complete Illustration of the Celestial Science of Astrology, Volume 2, Revised Edition, 1822 printing, page 1031,
If, at the time of the matutine ſetting of the Dolphin, there be ſhowers, there will be none at the riſing of Arcturus. […] The matutine riſing of the greater Dog begetteth heat, troubleth the ſeas, and changeth all things.
text: Matutine planets are those which in their rising precede the Sun.[…]We must also know in what conditions the matutine star rejoices and in what the vespertine star rejoices, for they are protected in a favorable position whenever they precede the Sun.
ref: 1975, Julius Firmicus Maternus, translated by Jean Rhys Bram, Ancient Astrology Theory And Practice: Matheseos libri VIII, page 39:
text: The star indicates much trouble for the native in whose chart it is matutine rising or setting, but if the aspect is matutine culmination Arcturus brings riches and honor.
ref: 1990, George Noonan, Fixed Stars and Judicial Astrology, page 14:
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Before the sun (of the rising of a planet or star); that rises before the sun (of a planet or star).
Synonyms: sense: of, relating to or occurring in early morning
word: matutinal
Hypernyms: sense: of, relating to or occurring in early morning
word: crepuscular
Coordinate terms: sense: of, relating to or occurring in early morning
word: vespertine
sense: that rises before the sun
word: vespertine
Related terms: matutinal
matutinally
potioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potioners
Etymology: From potion + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The “potioners,” so far from casting evil spells around the ball, say that rubber centres cannot be moulded to the perfect shape; […]
ref: 1921, The Australasian Manufacturer, volume 6, page 18:
text: The woman’s knees were swollen, misshapen knobs of bone. Hopelessly arthritic. “Aren’t they pretty, Vice Prefect? They’re the price an athlete pays. And the pain is unbearable. No medicine, no amulet relieves it, not even the compassionate Isis to whom I pray daily. Only wine mixed with opium—which I buy from the potioners, yes—dulls it enough so that I can live my life as I wish to.[…]”
ref: 2010, Bruce Macbain, Roman Games, Poisoned Pen Press, →ISBN, page 181:
text: “That Ceid thing? Bad business. You want to know about the poison.” That was the Grillig I remembered. “It didn’t come from around here,” he said. “There might be a handful of potioners in Gerse who deal in stuff like that. Freitag up in Sixth, or maybe Ver — nay, he’s gone to the gallows. Anyway, with the restrictions and the embargoes, nobody wants to take that kind of risk these days.”
ref: 2011, Elizabeth C. Bunce, Liar’s Moon, Arthur A. Levine Books, →ISBN, page 46:
text: We don’t have wars anymore. We have Warlocks, but the name doesn’t mean what it sounds like: In Underground, the Warlocks are potioners.
ref: 2013, Andrew Vachss, Mortal Lock, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, →ISBN, pages 229–230:
text: Clive said that it was the parasites in the food and that they were getting to his brain. He recommended that the potioners give Malcolm the medicine of all medicines. The seasoned ones knew that it could be the cure, but feared that the main side effect of the potion was death to both the host and the parasites if the monkey was allergic to the drug.
ref: 2014, Subhas, Imagination Drift: A Prince for Three Days, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 239:
text: “I’m just sitting here, enjoying the breeze.” And definitely not trying to steal, er, borrow, um…take a little water to make potions in a town that doesn’t think too highly of potioners.
ref: 2021, Nicky Drayden, Minecraft: The Dragon, Del Rey, →ISBN:
text: “You have to be a crazy person to try to make them. It takes years and years of training to be able to put one together.” “I studied under one of the best potioners that I know,” Kiara responds. “We never made one, but he taught me all the basic principles behind personalized potions.[…]”
ref: 2022, Cady Hammer, Chasing Fate, Black Lily Press, →ISBN:
glosses: One who makes potions.
pungis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pungi
pungas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of punga
Whiggery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: wiggery
Etymology: From Whig + -ery.
Senses: glosses: Support for whiggish attitudes.
pelerin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pelerins
form: pilleryn
Etymology: From Middle English pelerin, from Old French pelerin, from Latin peregrīnus (“foreigner, traveler”). Doublet of pilgrim.
Senses: examples: text: Can e're thy bountyes be by vs repayed?
 All-vertuouse princes! Africk's gloriows starre!
 We straying Pelerins will ne'r assay't,
 Thy great deserts exceed owr pow'r so farre.
ref: 1614, William Mure, Dido and Æneas:
glosses: A pilgrim.
thyine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin thyinus (“of a certain wood”).
Senses: examples: text: The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble […]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 18:12:
glosses: The fragrant wood of a North African tree (Tetraclinis articulata) in the family Cupressaceae.
Synonyms: sandarac
vitreum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: vitreous humor
smaragde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smaragdes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of smaragd.
porky pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porky pies
form: pork pie
form: porkie pie
Senses: examples: text: We all know politicians like telling lies / Big ones, little ones, porky pies.
ref: 2017, Captain SKA, Liar Liar GE2017:
synonyms: porker
porky
glosses: A lie (false statement).
porky pies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porky pie
death by PowerPoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deaths by PowerPoint
Senses: examples: text: 2000, David Greenberg, Avoiding Death by PowerPoint, 45 Proven Strategies to Breathe Life Into Dull Presentations, Goldleaf Publications, →ISBN, illustrated.
text: In corporations, death by overhead has been replaced by death by PowerPoint. Nothing has changed but the technology.
ref: 2000, Dave Meier, The Accelerated Learning Handbook, A Creative Guide to Designing and Delivering Faster, More Effective Training Programs, McGraw-Hill Professional, illustrated, page 180
text: We’ve all endured them ... PowerPoint presentations that drone on forever. I call this “Death by PowerPoint.”
One of my near-death-by-PowerPoint experiences occurred in Newfoundland, Canada.
ref: 2007, Rob Waite, “Real-World Story No. 18”, in The Lost Art of General Management, robwaite.com inc., →ISBN, page 74:
text: And, as audience members, we have all experienced death by PowerPoint, the comatose state that results from being subjected to one stultifying slide after another.
ref: 2008, Mary Civiello and Arlene Matthews, Communication Counts, Business Presentations for Busy People, Safari Books Online, John Wiley and Sons, illustrated, page 132
text: Where a 10-page presentation with one or two charts would have been acceptable before, now we all suffer from death by PowerPoint.
ref: 2010, Jo Owen, The Death of Modern Management, How to Lead in the New World Disorder, John Wiley and Sons, illustrated, chapter 9, unpaged
glosses: The boredom of a dull PowerPoint presentation, normally consisting of simple bulleted lists and conventional graphics.
take on the chin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes on the chin
form: taking on the chin
form: took on the chin
form: taken on the chin
Etymology: A reference to the sport of boxing.
Senses: examples: text: Elsewhere in Sweden recently, two underage girls pressed charges when a teenage boy exposed himself to them at a lake. The court decided, despite the victims' testimonies, that the offence was "not of a sexual nature" and dismissed it. But I'm guessing the girls didn't push for molestation charges because they were censorious prudes who would grow into knowing how to take such behaviour on the chin – they felt genuinely threatened, they took their concerns to court, and they deserved more than being told that they'd misread the situation all along.
ref: 2013 September 20, Holly Baxter, “Is masturbating in public a laughing matter?”, in The Guardian, retrieved 06 Jan 2014:
glosses: To accept without flinching or complaining.
examples: text: The situation seems to be designed so the taxpayers take it on the chin no matter what. District residents who vote down a budget believing they are voting against any tax raise still receive higher tax bills.
ref: 2005 May 20, Robert David Kostoff, My Line Story, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 136:
glosses: To be deeply impacted by something.
Related terms: take something in stride
pull-back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pull-backs
Etymology: Deverbal from pull back.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pullback.
save someone's skin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: saves someone's skin
form: saving someone's skin
form: saved someone's skin
form: saved someone's skin
Senses: glosses: To save someone's life.
examples: text: Centre-back Branislav Ivanovic then took a wild slash at the ball but his captain John Terry saved Chelsea's skin by hacking the ball clear for a corner with Kevin Davies set to strike from just six yards out.
ref: 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC:
glosses: To prevent an undesirable occurrence.
Synonyms: save someone's bacon
come to someone's rescue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes to someone's rescue
form: coming to someone's rescue
form: came to someone's rescue
form: come to someone's rescue
Senses: examples: text: With the hosts not able to find their passes - everything that went forward was too heavy or too short - Terry once again had to come to his side's rescue after Davies had brilliantly nodded into the path of Elmander, who followed up swiftly with a deflected shot.
ref: 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC:
glosses: To rescue (or save) someone from further harm.
Related terms: come to someone's aid
sleep under the same bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sleeps under the same bridge
form: sleeping under the same bridge
form: slept under the same bridge
form: slept under the same bridge
Etymology: An allusion to “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under the bridge, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread”, a translation from the French "La majestueuse égalité des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain", Le Lys rouge, The Red Lily, 1894.
Senses: examples: text: The equally enforced prohibition not to sleep under the same bridge does not signify the reign of equality but rather its opposite for those without homes.
ref: 2000, Darrow Schecter, Sovereign states or political communities?, Manchester University Press, page 77:
glosses: To be formally, but not actually, equal under the law, due to circumstances being ignored.
wikipedia: Anatole France#Prose fiction
Related terms: justice is blind
back-track
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: back-tracks
form: back-tracking
form: back-tracked
form: back-tracked
Senses: examples: text: Yet the second period showed a marked contrast in style with Frank Lampard, making only his second start since August, completely splitting Bolton's defence with back-tracking Paul Robinson unable to intercept a well-weighted through-ball.
ref: 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC:
glosses: Alternative form of backtrack.
through-ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: through-balls
Senses: examples: text: However, Chelsea raised themselves for a final salvo of the half, as Frank Lampard's through-ball gave Ramires an opportunity he did not waste, chipping Victor Valdes from 15 yards.
ref: 2012 April 24, Phil Dawkes, “Barcelona 2-2 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Alternative form of through ball.
tip over
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tip overs
Senses: examples: text: Bolton then went even closer when Elmander's cross was met by a bullet header from Holden, which forced a wonderful tip over from Cech before Drogba then cleared the resulting corner off the line.
ref: 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: An action where the goalkeeper deflects the ball over the crossbar.
tip over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tips over
form: tipping over
form: tipped over
form: tipped over
Senses: glosses: (to cause) to topple over and fall
run down the clock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs down the clock
form: running down the clock
form: ran down the clock
form: run down the clock
Senses: examples: text: Energetic Malouda was denied twice by Jussi Jaaskelainen late on before Ancelotti ran down the clock by introducing Salomon Kalou and Paulo Ferreira in the closing seconds as Chelsea arrested their slide.
ref: 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To waste time at the end of a match such that it is terminated by running out of time, or during a match so a time penalty is made less severe.
Synonyms: run out the clock
run the clock down
body clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: body clocks
Senses: examples: text: Mummy sayin' that I need to get some sleep
All this flyin' overseas always fuckin' up my body clock
ref: 2019, Stormzy, Vossi Bop:
glosses: Biological clock.
spiritistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: spĭrĭtĭsʹtĭk
ipa: /spɪɹɪˈtɪstɪk/
rhymes: -ɪstɪk
Forms: form: more spiritistic
form: most spiritistic
Etymology: From spirit + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: That spiritistic ‘literature’ which has led astray…so many weak and impressionable minds.
ref: 1867, England’s Leader, 15th June 1867 issue, page 333, column 1
text: The only perfectly ascertained fact of spiritistic science is the rap.
ref: 1880, William Dean Howells, chapter 4, in The Undiscovered Country, page 70:
text: New support for unfounded spiritualistic and spiritistic chimeras.
ref: 1898, The Popular Science Monthly, volume 52, page 493:
text: No living person can enter the perception of his fellow save as a body. This holds in the most spiritistic of systems. Even the bodyless dead must have a living body for a medium of their manifestation; nor can any event of heaven or hell make sense except by way of bodily reference.
ref: 1949, Horace Meyer Kallen, The Education of Free Men: An Essay Toward a Philosophy of Education for Americans, 2nd edition, Farrar, Straus, page 151:
text: All conventional philosophies assume the existence of a real world — a reality apart from knowers and their knowing — although not all indulge themselves in speculations concerning ontological matters. I make this claim even of the most spiritistic forms of idealism, in that to speak about the universe at all implies someone speaking and something spoken about — these two constituting the existent reality.
ref: 1993, Steven C. Hayes, Varieties of Scientific Contextualism, Context Press, →ISBN, page 36, →ISBN:
glosses: Of or pertaining to, or associated, dealing, concerned, or connected with, spiritism (a.k.a. modern spiritualism); spiritualistic.
in good stead
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: That really should have been the signal for title-chasing Arsenal to move into a higher gear and dominate but Wigan showed a fighting spirit which should stand them in good stead for the second half of the season.
ref: 2010 December 29, Mark Vesty, “Wigan 2 - 2 Arsenal”, in BBC:
glosses: In a positive state or position.
Derived terms: stand in good stead
Related terms: good standing
basement battler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basement battlers
Etymology: A metaphor, likening the lower part of the sports table to the basement of a house.
Senses: examples: text: The Cottagers had previously gone eight games without a win and had slipped into the relegation zone over Christmas, with boss Hughes criticised by fans after their 3-1 home defeat by fellow basement battlers West Ham on Boxing Day.
ref: 2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham”, in BBC:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A team in or around the relegation zone.
race out of the traps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: races out of the traps
form: racing out of the traps
form: raced out of the traps
form: raced out of the traps
Senses: examples: text: As if spurred on by the recent barbs and an increasingly perilous league position, Hughes's side raced out of the traps, starting the game as though Premier League survival depended on the result of this encounter.
ref: 2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham”, in BBC:
glosses: To start something very quickly.
tee up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tees up
form: teeing up
form: teed up
form: teed up
Senses: topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To place a golf ball on a tee.
examples: text: This time the defender was teed up by Andrew Johnson's short free-kick on the edge of the box and Baird hammered his low drive beyond Begovic's outstretched left arm and into the bottom corner, doubling his goal tally for the season and stunning the home crowd.
ref: 2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham”, in BBC:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: To pass the ball to someone, facilitating a shot.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To place the ball on a tee, ready for kickoff.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To give a coach or player a technical foul.
glosses: To prepare; to make ready.
strong verb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strong verbs
Etymology: Calque of German starkes Verb, equivalent to strong + verb.
Senses: examples: text: CONJUGATION OF THE STRONG VERB "TO TAKE" (Commonly called Irregular.) [...] Present, Take. Past, Took. Perf. Part. Taken.
ref: 1850, William Chauncey Fowler, English Grammar: The English Language in Its Elements and Forms, New York: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 280:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Any of a class of Germanic verbs which use ablaut as opposed to a dental affix to indicate tense.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Any of a subset of English irregular verbs which lack the addition of a dental affix to indicate the simple past and past participle tenses.
examples: text: Three basic root consonant classes exist: the strong verb, roots with weak initial root consonant (I-weak verbs), roots with weak final consonants (III-weak verbs), and a composite class...
ref: 2009, Charles Häberl, The Neo-Mandaic Dialect of Khorramshahr, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 177:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A member of a "strong" class in a language with two or more verb classes.
Related terms: weak verb
weak verb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weak verbs
Etymology: Calque of German schwaches Verb, equivalent to weak + verb.
Senses: examples: text: A Weak Verb adds d, ed, or t, to the Present Tense, to make the Past Tense; as, invite, invited; betray, betrayed; step, stept.
ref: 1866, William Francis Collier, A Grammar of the English Language, with a Sketch of its History, etc., Edinburgh: Thomas Laurie, →OCLC, page 36:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: One of a class of Germanic verbs which use a dental affix appended to the stem to indicate tense; a Germanic weak verb.
examples: text: Three basic root consonant classes exist: the strong verb, roots with weak initial root consonant (I-weak verbs), roots with weak final consonants (III-weak verbs), and a composite class...
ref: 2009, Charles Häberl, The Neo-Mandaic Dialect of Khorramshahr, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 177:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A member of a "weak" class in a language with two or more verb classes.
examples: text: Storage clearly is assumed for irregular verb forms. But what about regular or weak verb forms?
ref: 1998, Katrin Linder, “Overgeneralization revisited: the case of German past participles”, in Ray Fabri, Albert Ortmann, Teresa Parodi, editors, Models of inflection, Tübingen: M. Niemeyer, page 161:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A verb the conjugation of which is regular.
Related terms: strong verb
kittening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kittenings
Etymology: From kitten + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: "If she's so terrific and powerful and all," said the predictable second voice, "why can't she make the kittening part grow back, and do something really useful with herself?"
ref: 1997, Diane Duane, The Book of Night With Moon:
glosses: The giving birth of kittens.
kittening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From kitten + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kitten
strong verbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strong verb
weak verbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weak verb
side-netting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: side netting
Senses: examples: text: But Gyan missed the best openings, shooting into the side-netting after showing good strength when chasing a long pass, and then hopelessly miskicking from six yards out.
ref: 2010 December 28, Owen Phillips, “Sunderland 0 - 2 Blackpool”, in BBC:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: The net at either side of the goal, extending from the touchline to a few yards behind it.
tape out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tapes out
form: taping out
form: taped out
form: taped out
Senses: examples: text: Tracks made of wooden slabs fastened together were the only roads by which men and pack-mules could cross this quagmire, and each of these ways became taped out by the enemy's artillery, and very perilous.
ref: 1918, Philip Gibbs, From Bapaume to Passchendaele, on the western front, 1917, G.H. Doran Co., page 25:
topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: To measure out (a piece of land) so as to be able to accurately fire upon it.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To complete the design of an integrated circuit so that the photomask can be sent out for fabrication.
Derived terms: word: tapeout
Ecumenical Patriarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ecumenical Patriarchs
Senses: glosses: The Orthodox archbishop of Constantinople who is generally recognised as the leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church
Ecumenical Patriarchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ecumenical Patriarch
Byzantine Patriarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Byzantine Patriarchs
Senses: glosses: The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
Byzantine Patriarchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Byzantine Patriarch
Copernicanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Copernican + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Belief in, or advocacy of the heliocentric model of the solar system
Related terms: Copernican Revolution
Western Christianity
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The form of Christianity traditionally practiced in Western Europe, consisting essentially of the Roman Catholic, Protestant, Anglican, and Old Catholic traditions.
Related terms: Western Christian
Copernican Revolution
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The paradigm shift, from the Ptolemaic model of the heavens based around the Earth to a heliocentric model, proposed by Nicolaus Copernicus and later supported by Galileo and others.
Hesychast controversy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: Eastern Orthodoxy
glosses: A particular controversy concerning dogma in the 14th-century Byzantine Empire, over whether the idea of divine light was polytheistic, postulating two eternal substances, a visible and an invisible God.
Related terms: Hesychasm
Late antiquity
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Late Antiquity.
Classical antiquity
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of classical antiquity.
Early Middle Ages
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Early Middle Ages
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: High Middle Ages
Late Middle Ages
glosses: The period of the Middle Ages that followed the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, c. 500 to 1000 CE.
High Middle Ages
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The period of European history, between the Early Middle Ages and the Late Middle Ages, that saw great social and political change, c. 1000 to 1300 CE.
Late Middle Ages
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The period of European history between the High Middle Ages and the Early Modern period, c. 1300 to 1500 CE.
miaphysite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: A modern coinage from Byzantine Greek μία (mía, “one”) + φύσις (phúsis, “nature, substance”) + -ite; see Miaphysitism for more.
Senses: examples: text: The leaders of the Miaphysite cause across the empire still loudly proclaimed their loyalty to the imperial throne, and there is no reason to doubt that most were sincere.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 233:
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: Of or pertaining to Miaphysitism; maintaining that Christ has a single, though composite, nature.
miaphysite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miaphysites
Etymology: A modern coinage from Byzantine Greek μία (mía, “one”) + φύσις (phúsis, “nature, substance”) + -ite; see Miaphysitism for more.
Senses: glosses: A believer in Miaphysitism, (specifically) a member of the Oriental Orthodox Church.
Anglican Communion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Anglican Communion
Senses: glosses: A worldwide network of Churches that are in communion with the Church of England as represented by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Synonyms: Anglican Church
Old Catholic Church
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A particular Christian denomination that split from the Roman Catholic Church over matters of doctrine.
dog slow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: dog-slow
Etymology: Possibly derives from the similar expression dog-tired, or alternately, that dogs, especially feral mutts, are often scrappy and sickly. Possibly came from a clipping of doggone slow.
Senses: glosses: Very slow.
tritium oxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: tritiated water
glosses: Super-heavy water (T₂O; or more correctly, ³H₂O).
beheadal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈhɛd(ə)l/
ipa: /bəˈhɛdəl/
Forms: form: beheadals
Etymology: From behead + -al.
Senses: glosses: beheading
hamiltons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hamilton
Chaldean Catholic Church
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Chaldean Catholic Church
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: An Eastern Catholic particular church (sui juris), which uses the Chaldean rite, in full communion with the Holy See and the rest of the Catholic Church.
Ancient Church of the East
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Ancient Church of the East
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A church descended from the historical Church of the East, which split from the Assyrian Church of the East over differences concerning the calendar.
Assyrian Church of the East
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Assyrian Church of the East
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A church descended from the historical Church of the East and seated in Erbil, distinguished from the Ancient Church of the East over issues concerning the calendar.
Methodist Church
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Christian Church based upon Methodism
Hamiltons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The Hamiltons are coming for dinner.
glosses: plural of Hamilton
Hamiltons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I dropped a couple of Hamiltons on the counter and walked out.
glosses: plural of Hamilton
Barents Region
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The land along the coast of the Barents Sea to establish international cooperation after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Related terms: Barents Sea
Anglican Community
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Anglican Community
Senses: glosses: All the Churches of the Anglican Communion, and their worshippers.
Episcopal Church
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Episcopal Churches
Senses: glosses: Any Church whose organization is based around bishops; but especially any Church of the Anglican Communion
Episcopal Churches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Episcopal Church
Reformed Episcopal Church
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Reformed Episcopal Church
Senses: glosses: A particular Anglican Church based in the United States.
Charismatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Charismatics
Senses: glosses: A member of the Charismatic Movement.
Derived terms: neo-Charismatic
Neo-Pentecostal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of neo-Pentecostal.
Charismatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Charismatic
speaks in tongues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of speak in tongues
spoken in tongues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of speak in tongues
speaking in tongues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: Christianity
Protestantism
synonyms: glossolalia
speaking with tongues
tongues-speaking
glosses: The act of speaking a language one does not know, or speaking elaborate but apparently meaningless speech, while in a trance-like state (or, supposedly, under the influence of a deity or spirits); glossolalia.
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
glosses: The ability of speaking fluently a foreign language without prior learning or knowledge, supposedly under the influence of God; glossolalia.
Related terms: praying in tongues
singing in the Spirit
singing in tongues
speak in tongues
tongue-speaker
tongue speaker
tongues-speaker
tongues speaker
speaking in tongues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of speak in tongues.
spoke in tongues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of speak in tongues
neo-charismatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: neocharismatic
form: neo-Charismatic
Etymology: From neo- + charismatic.
Senses: synonyms: neo-Pentecostal
glosses: Describing any of several Churches, based upon the Charismatic Movement, that are part of a spiritual renewal movement
Pentecostalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Pentecostalist
form: most Pentecostalist
Etymology: From Pentecostal + -ist.
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to Pentecostalism
Pentecostalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pentecostalists
Etymology: From Pentecostal + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Pentecostalism movement.
Southern Pentecostal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Southern Baptist (attributive)
Southern Pentecostal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Southern Pentecostals
Senses: glosses: Southern Baptist
Southern Pentecostals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Southern Pentecostal
Heffalumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Heffalump (alternative letter-case form of heffalumps)
Akelas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Akela
squink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squinks
Etymology: Imitative; compare plink, quonk.
Senses: examples: text: Immediately began that shrill and irritating squink-squink-squink.
ref: 1937, William Byron Mowery, The Black Automatic, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, →LCCN:
text: Well, I hear three distinct sounds: a low rumple, followed by a metallic squink […] followed by a mysterious glonk.
ref: 1996 Peter Mehlman, "The Soul Mate," Seinfeld, Season 8, Episode 2 (aired September 26, 1996), Spoken by Elaine Benes (Julia Louis-Dreyfus)
text: Edgar heard a click and a squink, and just when he thought the hood was about to pop open, it exploded with a tremendous blast and he was knocked clear across the garage.
ref: 2006, Dax Herrera, Edgar N Vective: Paranormal Detective,, page 5:
text: It stared at the audience with wide white eyes, then tapped the side of its throat, producing a drawn-out metallic squink.
ref: 2007, D. Harlan Wilson, Dr. identity, or, Farewell to Plaquedemia, Raw Dog Screaming Press, page 91:
glosses: A short, high-pitched metallic sound
examples: text: The Squink isn't particularly fussy about its diet, but has a great fondness for electric eels.
ref: 1939, Henry H. Tryon, Fearsome Critters:
text: The Sand Squink possesses an amazing ability to generate electric charges by touching the tip of its bushy tail to either of the nubs at the tips of its ears.
ref: 1998, W. Haden Blackman, The Field Guide to North American Monsters, page 144:
text: Normally a timid creature, when the sand squink eats the eels it gains both courage and an electric charge;
ref: 2014, Bathroom Readers' Institute, Uncle John's Facts to Go Modern Mythology:
text: The sand squink is an egg-laying creature; its eggs are made of a plastic-like material so as to protect the unborn young within from the mother's electrical discharge.
ref: 2016, Theresa Bane, Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth, Legend and Folklore, page 90:
glosses: A cryptid supposedly found in Washington State, the Columbia River sand squink, which has a body like a fox, the head and ears of a jackrabbit, and a bushy tail like a squirrel.
examples: text: “Morning!” She did her best squink.
ref: 1995, Jonathan Evan Maslow, Torrid zone: seven voices from the Gulf Coast, page 253:
text: Okay, I'm going to pick up my car keys very carefully so as to not wake the squinky eye in case it's resting, and I'm going to go out the door and get into the car. You know, though, it's weird, once the squink goes away, you kind of realize that in a way, you sort of liked it. And sort of miss it..
ref: 2005, Laurie Notaro, We thought you would be prettier: true tales of the dorkiest girl alive, page 188:
text: The ghostly light hover in one spot, growing brighter absorbing the fear that is dripping like sweat over Richard's face. His eyes have been closed to a squink, seeing only a blurred shapeless bright light under his eyelids.
ref: 2014, Mark Richard Luther, Richard Tarbox, page 30:
glosses: An instance of squinking.
squink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: squinks
form: squinking
form: squinked
form: squinked
Etymology: Imitative; compare plink, quonk.
Senses: examples: text: "Do it again," he said. "How do you ever squink up your nose like that! Bet you can't do it three times in succession."
ref: c. 1912, Carolyn Wells, Marjorie at Seacote, page 40:
text: “The right hon. gentleman” squinked his eyes until his monocle dented cheek and forehead bones.
ref: 1944, Jack Jones, The Man David: An Imaginative Presentation, Based on Fact, of the Life of David LLoyd George from 1880 to 1914, page 99:
text: Small coins jingle from his pocket
to her furrowed hand.
She squinks her toothless smile,
then hobbles down the cobbled street.
ref: 2016, Nancy Bailey Miller, “Outside the Tackle Shop”, in Tacking Lessons, page 23:
glosses: To scrunch up, squinch (one's face, nose, etc).
Coptic Church
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An Orthodox Church based in Egypt
Swiss Reformation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Protestant Reformation in Switzerland
Arminianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Arminian + -ism.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A school of thought within Protestantism based on the theological ideas of Jacobus Arminius.
soteriologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soteriology
Southern Baptist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Southern Baptists
Senses: glosses: A member of a particular Baptist denomination based in the United States.
Southern Baptists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Southern Baptist
Upper South
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The northern part of the South (Southern United States), typically consisting of North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, and eastern Oklahoma, sometimes also inclusive of southern Missouri, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, eastern/southern/western Maryland, and southern Delaware.
glosses: In the American Civil War, those Confederate states which did not secede until after Fort Sumter: Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.
Related terms: Deep South
aeronomical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aeronomy + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to aeronomy
aeronomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aeronomy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to aeronomy
biconditionality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From biconditional + -ity.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The condition of being biconditional.
cristoballite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cristobalite.
gyrofield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyrofields
Etymology: From gyro- + field.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A gyrotropic field
heterarchical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From heterarchy + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to heterarchy
intrapolaron
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + polaron.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Within a polaron
isocurves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isocurve
micromixers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micromixer
microrotations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microrotation
molecularization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molecularizations
Etymology: From molecular + -ization.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Conversion into a molecule (or into molecular form).
monoarsenide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monoarsenides
Etymology: From mono- + arsenide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any arsenide containing a single atom of arsenic in each molecule or unit cell
Tiny Tim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tiny Tims
Senses: examples: text: The crutches on the bottom look like the Tiny Tim model, while the top sports stainless steel walkers and canes and a few crutches that look like they are made from the same stuff as fancy tennis rackets and golf clubs.
ref: 2006, Brendan Halpin, Long Way Back, Random House, published 2008, →ISBN, page 67:
glosses: A poor disabled boy whose death is ultimately averted by Ebenezer Scrooge in the classic tale A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A United States rocket, used in World War II and the Korean War.
multiadaptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multiadaptive
form: most multiadaptive
form: multi-adaptive
Etymology: From multi- + adaptive.
Senses: glosses: adaptive in multiple ways
nanomembranes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanomembrane
phototunable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phototunable
form: most phototunable
Etymology: From photo- + tunable.
Senses: glosses: Having optical properties that may be tuned (adjusted)
glosses: Having properties that may be tuned by means of light
Related terms: phototuning
phototuning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + tuning.
Senses: glosses: The tuning (adjustment) of optical properties.
glosses: The tuning of properties by means of light.
potentiodynamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From potentio- + dynamic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Involving the measured change in the electrical potential (voltage) of a system