cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
shadowless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shadowless
form: most shadowless
Etymology: From shadow + -less.
Senses: examples: text: There is something in the shadowless sky and the unbroken moonshine which mocks us with repose. We have no part in it; our own unrest has no sympathy with the blue and spiritual horizon, whose hope is not with this life.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXXVIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 313:
text: […] fluorescent lighting has been adopted for the upper deck lounges and smokerooms, so giving shadowless lighting.
ref: 1947 September and October, “First Southern Railway Post-War Vessel”, in Railway Magazine, page 294:
glosses: Lacking a shadow.
villainously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more villainously
form: most villainously
Etymology: From villainous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a villainous manner; in the manner of a villain; evilly.
examples: text: I am now at liberty to confess, that much which I have heard objected to my late friend’s writings was well-founded. Crude they are, I grant you—a sort of unlicked, incondite things—villainously pranked in an affected array of antique modes and phrases.
ref: 1833, [Charles Lamb], “Preface. By a Friend of the Late Elia.”, in The Last Essays of Elia. […], London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page v:
text: “You're singing villainously out of tune, Kurrell,” said the Major, truthfully. “Pass me that banjo.”
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “A Wayside Comedy”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 76:
glosses: Dreadfully; awfully.
Synonyms: villainly
trespassers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trespasser
tendernesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenderness
blunderbusses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblʌndəbʌsɪz/
ipa: /ˈblʌndəɹbʌsɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of blunderbuss
Judaically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Judaically
form: most Judaically
Etymology: From Judaic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a Judaic manner; in a manner that is of or pertaining to Judaism.
Catholically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Catholically
form: most Catholically
Etymology: From Catholic + -ally.
Senses: synonyms: Catholicly
glosses: In a Catholic manner; in terms of Catholicism.
Hinduistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Hinduistically
form: most Hinduistically
Etymology: From Hinduistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a Hinduistic manner; in terms of Hinduism.
Hinduistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hinduistic
form: most Hinduistic
Etymology: From Hindu + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Hinduism.
animistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more animistically
form: most animistically
Etymology: From animistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an animist manner; in a manner that is of or pertaining to animism.
East Jesus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: So G. and I had a good piss-up together, as happy with one another as if we were both natives of East Jesus, Kansas, newly met in the Rue Scribe.
ref: c. 1954, Behan, Brendan, The Letters of Brendan Behan (1992), page 55
text: I'm just a plain hillbilly from East Jesus Nowhere with this adopted child that everybody keeps on telling me is dumb as a box of rocks.
ref: 1998, Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees: A Novel, page 102:
text: Only gave him seventy-five for the night; said he'd get the rest if he worked a black rodeo way the hell and gone over in East Jesus, Texas.
ref: 1999, Sarah Bird, Virgin of the Rodeo, page 70:
text: Their staffs were also well looked after—except for the French, whom we packed off to motels in East Jesus in retaliation for their high-handedness toward the American delegation when they had been hosts a year earlier.
ref: 2000, David Gergen, Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership Nixon to Clinton, page 151:
glosses: A fictional remote, backward, inhabited place.
Related terms: BFE
entrained thinking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A conditioned response that occurs when people are blocked from understanding and using new ways of thinking by the perspectives they acquired through past experience.
Pi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: pē
Forms: form: Pe
form: P'i
Etymology: From Mandarin 郫 (Pí).
Senses: examples: text: In addition to my own residential complex, I also engaged in ethnographic observation and conducted interviews with Party cadres and local residents in four similar apartment complexes in Dujiangyan and two in neighboring Pi County.
ref: 2017, Christian P. Sorace, “The Utopia of Urban Planning”, in Shaken Authority: China's Communist Party and the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 82:
glosses: A county of Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
Synonyms: word: Pixian
word: Pe Heen
word: P'i Hsien
word: Pidu
Europanto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /jʊəɹ.əˈpæn.təʊ/
ipa: /jʊɹ.əˈpæn.toʊ/
Etymology: A blend from Latin Eurōpa (“Europe”) + Ancient Greek πᾰντός (păntós), from πᾶς (pâs, “all, whole”). Literally, “all Europe”.
Senses: glosses: An artificial language originally created by Diego Marani in 1996, combining vocabulary from a number of European languages.
Danni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæni/
rhymes: -æni
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Dani (female name)
Daniella
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Daniellas
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew derived from Daniel, variant of Daniela and Danielle.
mineral water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mineral waters
Senses: glosses: Water from a spring that naturally contains dissolved minerals, often treated in any of several ways (filtering, aerating etc) and bottled; used either therapeutically or by preference, as a beverage, bath, or food ingredient.
Irina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Russian Ири́на (Irína), akin to English Irene.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Russian.
glosses: A transliteration of the Russian female given name Ири́на (Irína).
unkindled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + kindled.
Senses: examples: text: But "blind oblivion" obscured the memory of this ordinance, and the altars remained unkindled.
ref: 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 8, page 132:
glosses: Not kindled (lit, or set alight).
glosses: Not aroused, awakened or stirred.
Bernd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bernds
Etymology: From German Bernd.
Senses: glosses: A German anon (“anonymous poster”).
glosses: A participant on German online forums and imageboards.
Coordinate terms: /b/tard
vip
tard
anon
chantard
vipper
Bernd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Bernd.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from German.
Berndt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Berndts
Etymology: Borrowed from German Berndt.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
marais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maraises
Etymology: Borrowed from French marais (and in Louisiana, Louisiana French marais).
Senses: examples: text: […] and as all along the sea-coast, at least in those parts where I have resided, there has always been a vast extent of marais, or marsh, which has been bien communal, the poorer classes experienced no obstacle to their living in this manner. And no porte d'arme is required.
ref: 1855, Christopher Idle (pseudonym), Hints on shooting and fishing, page 97:
text: […] and when rains filled the maraises, and the cold nor'westers blew from Texas and the sod was spongy with much water, and he went out for feathered game, the numberless mallards, black ducks, gray ducks, teal - […]
ref: 1888, George Washington Cable, Bonaventure: A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana, page 66:
text: First of all, on the East, in that part of the Town which still takes its name from the marais or marsh in which Camulogenes entangled Cæsar, there was a collection of palaces, the mass of which extended to the waterside.
ref: 1891, Victor Hugo, Notre-Dame, page 143:
text: Fencing in a "marais" [marsh] on the prairie, they raised "providence rice," depending on providential rainfall to water the crops. The Acadians raised only a fraction of Louisiana's rice crop, but they pioneered an ideal environment for rice growing. The fertile prairie loams overlay a subsoil[…]
ref: 1994 April 30, John Otto, Southern Agriculture During the Civil War Era, 1860-1880, Praeger, page 93:
text: […] unexpected eyes the color of lilac-blue water orchids, or of maraises under a blue sky, those sudden, clear, circular ponds in the short-turfed flatlands of the Louisiana prairie.
ref: 1992, Alison McLeay, Sea Change: A Novel:
text: Boiling water was also used […] for crawfish, which were harvested in maraises (swampy or floodprone areas) on meatless Lenten days. Also boiled, usually in gumbos, were saltwater shellfish caught during coastal hunting and fishing forays by Acadian farmers from the lower prairies[…]
ref: 1992, Carl A. Brasseaux, Acadian to Cajun: Transformation of a People, 1803-1877, Univ. Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, page 23:
glosses: A marsh; a marshy area, one intermittently covered with water, particularly in Louisiana, or in other French-speaking areas.
marais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marai
gamo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Combining form of Ancient Greek γάμος (gámos).
Senses: examples: e.g. gamomania, gamophobia
glosses: marriage
examples: e.g. gamodeme, gamogenesis, gamophyte
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: gametes
examples: e.g. gamopetalous, gamosepalous, gamophyllous
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: united, fused, merged
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from gamo- relating to gametes
word: agamogony
sense: terms derived from gamo- relating to gametes
word: gamodeme
sense: terms derived from gamo- relating to gametes
word: gamogenesis
sense: terms derived from gamo- relating to gametes
word: gamogony
sense: terms derived from gamo- relating to gametes
word: gamophyte
sense: terms derived from gamo- relating to marriage
word: gamomania
sense: terms derived from gamo- relating to marriage
word: gamophobe
sense: terms derived from gamo- relating to marriage
word: gamophobia
sense: terms derived from gamo- relating to marriage
word: gamophobic
sense: terms derived from gamo- relating to united
word: gamopetalous
sense: terms derived from gamo- relating to united
word: gamophyllous
sense: terms derived from gamo- relating to united
word: gamosepalous
gynaeco-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: /ˌɡaɪnɪkə/
/ˌdʒaɪnɪkə/
Forms: form: gynæco-
form: gyneco-
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γυναικός (gunaikós), genitive of γυνή (gunḗ).
Senses: glosses: woman, female.
Related terms: gyn-
gyno-
gynaecophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡaɪnɪkəˈfəʊbɪə/
Forms: form: gynæcophobia
form: gynecophobia
Etymology: From gynaeco- + -phobia.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: An irrational fear of women.
mephitically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /mɪˈfɪtɪkli/
Forms: form: more mephitically
form: most mephitically
Etymology: From mephitical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: There was a hissing sound, almost drowned out by the creature's single shrill scream of agony, and a small cloud of steam rose mephitically from the thing's face as it pitched to the floor.
ref: 1971, Brian Lumley, Rising with Surtsey:
glosses: In a mephitic manner.
mouchard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmuːʃɑː/
ipa: /muˈʃɑɹd/
Forms: form: mouchards
Etymology: Borrowed from French mouchard, from mouche (“a fly”).
Senses: glosses: An undercover investigator; a police spy, especially in a French-speaking country.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An inverted compass hanging above the captain's bed
Derived terms: mouchardism
xanthochroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /zænˈθəʊkɹɔɪd/
Forms: form: more xanthochroid
form: most xanthochroid
Etymology: From Xanthochroi.
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the Xanthochroi; having fair hair and a pale complexion.
xanthochroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /zænˈθəʊkɹɔɪd/
Forms: form: xanthochroids
Etymology: From Xanthochroi.
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A member of the Xanthochroi.
dice with death
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dices with death
form: dicing with death
form: diced with death
form: diced with death
Senses: examples: text: By now, I think everyone is aware that to drink and drive is to dice with death.
text: 2012, The Economist, 06 Oct 2012 issue, Business and America’s fiscal cliff: Give us a brake
Benjamin Franklin once said: “Nothing is certain but death and taxes.” These days, taxes are far from certain. And if that doesn’t change, American businesses could be dicing with death.
glosses: To do or perform an activity which is very risky, or dangerous, and could even cause one's death.
saule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɔːl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
Forms: form: saules
Senses: examples: text: To purgatory fire thou comest at laste ; And Christe receive thye saule.
ref: 1802, “Lyke-Wake Dirge”, in Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Walter Scott:
glosses: Obsolete form of soul.
glosses: A hired mourner at a funeral.
brassware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brasswares
Etymology: From brass + -ware.
Senses: glosses: Articles made from brass, treated as a group.
Everglades
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Everglades
Senses: glosses: An area of subtropical marshland in southern Florida.
examples: text: Beginning this year, federal park officials will restrict airboat use to those who, in 1989, used them regularly in the eastern part of Everglades National Park near Miami. That was the year Congress passed a far-reaching law to protect and expand the park by nearly 109,000 acres, and to help it recover from engineering projects that had left the Everglades starved for water.
ref: 2016 June 11, Lizette Alvarez, “In a Corner of the Everglades, a Way of Life Ebbs”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Everglades National Park, a national park in south of the Everglades.
Synonyms: the Glades
Derived terms: Everglades palm
Port Everglades
Badlands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Badlands National Park, a national park in South Dakota.
Acadia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkeɪ.di.ə/
rhymes: -eɪdiə
Etymology: Two possibilities:
* from Italian Arcadia, from Ancient Greek Ἀρκαδία (Arkadía, “Arcadia”), a place of rural peace in pastoral poetry
* from Mi'kmaq akadie (“fertile land”)
Senses: glosses: A former French colony in North America in the 17th and early 18th centuries, spanning over what are now the Maritime provinces of eastern Canada (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island) and part of the state of Maine in the United States.
examples: text: The fall rush around Acadia helps workers survive winter’s lean months. But that’s all at risk if a government shutdown forces America’s national parks and monuments to lock their gates, scuttling millions of vacations and school trips, and costing tourist towns from the Everglades to Yellowstone to Death Valley an estimated $70 million a day.
ref: 2023 September 28, Jack Healy, “National Parks, and Those Who Count on Them, Brace for Possible Shutdown”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Acadia National Park, a national park in Maine.
glosses: A parish in southern Louisiana, first settled by some Acadian exiles then by mostly Franco-Americans: see Acadia Parish.
Derived terms: acadialite
Acadian
Acadian Coast
Acadia Parish
Arches
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Arches National Park, a national park in Utah
Big Bend
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Shasta County, California, United States.
glosses: A bend in the Rio Grande, on the border of United States and Mexico.
glosses: A region of western Texas, United States, on the Mexican border.
glosses: Ellipsis of Big Bend National Park: a national park in Big Bend, Texas, United States.
glosses: An embayment in Florida peninsula, on the Gulf of Mexico, forming its northwestern quadrant.
glosses: A region of northwestern Florida, United States.
Biscayne
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to Biscay or to the Biscayne language.
Synonyms: Biscayan
Biscayne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Biscayne National Park, a national park in Florida
Related terms: Biscayne Bay
Canyonlands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From canyon + lands.
Senses: glosses: Canyonlands National Park, a national park in Utah
Congaree
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in South Carolina.
glosses: Congaree National Park, a national park in South Carolina.
Congaree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A tribe of Native Americans who lived alongside the Congaree River.
Death Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Commonly connected to the Death Valley '49ers, a group of prospectors on the way to Gold Country, see quotations.
Senses: examples: text: Just as we were ready to leave and return to camp we took off our hats, and then overlooking the scene of so much trial, suffering and death spoke the thought uppermost saying:—“Good bye Death Valley!” then faced away and made our steps toward camp. Even after this in speaking of this long and narrow valley over which we had crossed into its nearly central part, and on the edge of which the lone camp was made, for so many days, it was called Death Valley.
ref: [1894, William Lewis Manly, chapter X, in Death Valley in '49 […] , San Jose: The Pacific Tree and Vine Co., pages 216–217:
glosses: A valley in eastern California, remarkable for being the lowest-elevated place in North America, and the hottest place on Earth during summer.
examples: text: Temperatures in Death Valley, which runs along part of central California’s border with Nevada, reached 128F (53.3C) on Sunday at the aptly named Furnace Creek, the National Weather Service said.
ref: 2023 July 17, “Death Valley approaches global heat record as US reels from extreme weather”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Park rangers, the advisory noted, encourage people to visit Death Valley safely in the summer by sightseeing only short distances from air-conditioned cars, or hiking in the park’s cooler mountains.
ref: 2023 July 20, Edward Helmore, “Man dies in Death Valley as California national park swelters in extreme heat”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A national park in California and Nevada that includes said valley.
glosses: Any foreboding location.
A nickname for Memorial Stadium, a football stadium in Clemson, South Carolina.
glosses: Any foreboding location.
A nickname for Tiger Stadium, a football stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Derived terms: Death Valley driver
Yosemite
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /joʊˈsɛmɪti/
Etymology: From Utian yohhe'meti or yos se'meti (“those who kill”), referring to the Miwok tribe that inhabited the Yosemite Valley.
Senses: glosses: An area of California, home to Yosemite National Park.
Derived terms: Yosemite toad
rule OK
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rules OK
form: ruling OK
form: ruled OK
form: ruled OK
Senses: examples: text: Yet nationalism rules OK across most public management.
ref: 2006 May 31, David Walker, “Beware leadership by syringe.”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To be popularly accepted, or supported by the general majority of people.
taglierini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtæljəˈɹiːni/
enpr: tăl'yə-rēʹnē
rhymes: -iːni
Forms: form: taglierinis
form: tagliarini
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Italian taglierini, tagliarini, from tagliare (“to cut”).
Senses: synonyms: tagliolini
glosses: A kind of egg pasta with a ribbon shape, like tagliatelle but thinner.
valetudinaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of valetudinarium
vanilline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of vanillin.
grand-parent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grand-parents
form: grand-parenting
form: grand-parented
form: grand-parented
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of grandparent.
Disneyland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪz.niːˌlænd/
ipa: /ˈdɪz.niˌlænd/
rhymes: -ɪznilænd
Etymology: From Disney + -land.
Senses: glosses: The archetypical theme park, located in Anaheim, California. Other Disneyland theme parks exist in other cities such as Chessy (Seine-et-Marne, France), Tokyo, Shanghai, and Hong Kong.
Derived terms: Brisneyland
Disneylandification
Prisneyland
Disneyland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪz.niːˌlænd/
ipa: /ˈdɪz.niˌlænd/
rhymes: -ɪznilænd
Forms: form: Disneylands
Etymology: From Disney + -land.
Senses: examples: text: With its talking statuary, its enormous and elaborate monuments and museums, and its variety of daily shows, it has become a Disneyland of the dead...
ref: 1979, Myron Matlaw, editor, American popular entertainment:
text: Certainly anyone devoted to maintaining Christ as a lacquered benevolent spirit in a Disneyland of happiness is not going to like this movie.
ref: 1988 August 29, “The Last Temptation of Christ”, in New York Magazine, volume 21, number 34:
text: This approach can lead to a Disneyland of a garden that busily vies for attention with the view, bringing out the best in neither.
ref: 2007, Valerie Easton, A pattern garden: the essential elements of garden making:
text: But there is another future that these statistics and our nostalgic reaction to them might produce: the research library as a Disneyland of books, with banker’s lamps and never-cracked spines providing the suggestion of, but not the true interaction with, knowledge old and new.
ref: 2019 May 26, Dan Cohen, “The Books of College Libraries Are Turning Into Wallpaper”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Jul 2019:
glosses: A place resembling the Disneyland theme park, often typified by a corporately-designed cheerfulness.
Related terms: Anaheim
Disney
Disneyworld
Mickey Mouse
Kozani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in northern Greece, capital of the region of West Macedonia.
ontop
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of on top.
examples: text: "[…] he wen' t'row da buggah right ovah da cleef too, ontop all da res'."
ref: 1980, O. A. Bushnell, Ka'A'Awa: A Novel About Hawaii in the 1850s, page 85:
text: Senor Poochie at his feet, reclining like a Queen; and Nino eyeing them from ontop the table, her paws resting on an empty plate.
ref: 2005, Red Jordan Arobateau, Fisherpeople., page 97:
text: We pulled over to the shore, dragged the boat up ontop the sandbar, stretched our legs and ate some sandwiches.
ref: 2006, Dan Bomkamp, Thanks Thunderfoot, page 152:
glosses: atop.
degen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪɡən/
Forms: form: degens
form: degan
form: dagen
Etymology: From German Degen (“dagger”).
Senses: examples: text: "Crash the cull—down with him—down with him before he dubs the jigger. Tip him the degen, Fib, fake him through and through; if he pikes we shall all be scragged."
ref: 1828, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, chapter XXVIII, in Pelham: or The Adventures of a Gentleman, volume 1, New York: J. & J. Harper, page 228:
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: Sword.
degen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪɡən/
/ˈdiːd͡ʒɛn/
/ˈdeɪɡən/
Forms: form: degens
Etymology: Clipping of degenerate.
Senses: glosses: Degenerate.
splenike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of splenic.
splenick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of splenic.
journeymen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of journeyman
emissivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emissivities
Etymology: From emissive + -ity.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The energy-emitting propensity of a surface, usually measured at a specific wavelength.
sled dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sled dog
moving picture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moving pictures
Senses: examples: text: "You make moving pictures. In jungles and places." "That's me. And I've picked you for the lead in my next picture."
ref: 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 13:
glosses: A film or movie.
Synonyms: movie § Synonyms
Hypernyms: picture
Hyponyms: movie § Hyponyms
Coordinate terms: photograph
Meronyms: still frame
Derived terms: movie
moving-picture theater
moving pictures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moving picture
petit pois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petits pois
Etymology: Borrowed from French petit pois (literally “little pea”).
Senses: glosses: A type of small pea.
serial port
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serial ports
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: parallel port
glosses: A serial communication physical interface through which data is transferred in or out one bit at a time.
by George
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: "By (God and Saint) George" is an old English oath invoked immediately before charging into battle as late as World War I.
Versions of this oath can be found in several of William Shakespeare's plays: including:
*Henry VI, Part 1 (written circa 1591 and set in 1431):
**"God and Saint George, Talbot and England's right, Prosper our colours in this dangerous fight!"
**"Saint George and victory! Fight, soldiers, fight!"
*Henry VI, Part 3 (written circa 1591 and set 1460 to 1471):
**"Then strike up drums; God and Saint George for us!";
**"For Warwick and his friends, God and Saint George!"
**"Lords, to the field; Saint George and victory!"
* Richard III: "God and Saint George! Richmond and victory!"
* Henry V: "Follow your spirit, and upon this charge Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'"
Senses: examples: text: Heaven knows, I cannot find it in my heart to blame you, but this much I will say, be it kind or unkind: when Captain Smollett was well, you dared not have gone off; and when he was ill and couldn’t help it, by George, it was downright cowardly!
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
text: "Look at Clive - just a clerk, and he conquered India! By George! I'll do something in the world yet!" She laughed at my sudden Irish effervescence.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
qualifier: minced oath
glosses: By God!: expressing wonderment, zeal.
Synonyms: wow
Related terms: minced oath
graziers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grazier
RICO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Acronym of Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (Act).
look up to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: looks up to
form: looking up to
form: looked up to
form: looked up to
Senses: examples: text: A boy should look up to his father.
synonyms: respect
idolize
glosses: To show respect or admiration for (someone); to see (someone) as a role model.
Related terms: look up
banned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bænd/
rhymes: -ænd
homophone: band
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ban
banned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bænd/
rhymes: -ænd
homophone: band
Forms: form: more banned
form: most banned
Senses: examples: text: As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants.
ref: 2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2020:
glosses: Forbidden; not allowed.
Derived terms: permabanned
get well
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets well
form: getting well
form: got well
form: got well
form: gotten well
Senses: glosses: To recover from an illness or injury.
examples: text: With a single blockbuster, the studio got well.
topics: business
glosses: To recover from financial straits.
Derived terms: get well soon
Related terms: get better
get better
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets better
form: getting better
form: got better
form: got better
form: gotten better
Senses: glosses: To improve.
examples: text: [Sir Bedevere]: What makes you think she's a witch?
[Peasant]: Well, she turned me into a newt!
[Sir Bedevere]: A newt?
[Peasant]: ... I got better.
ref: 1975 from the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail (quotes from Monty Python and the Holy Grail on Wikiquote)
glosses: To recover from illness or other incapacitation.
Related terms: get the better of
get drunk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets drunk
form: getting drunk
form: got drunk
form: got drunk
form: gotten drunk
Senses: examples: text: I'm going out tonight to get drunk.
text: Would I take someone here for a first date? No. Would I go here for a cheap bite? Also no, but would I go here to get drunk on the cheap? Absolutely.
ref: 2023 July 21, Billie Schwab Dunn, “I Tried Wetherspoons Food for the First Time-I Feared I'd Get Scurvy...”, in Daily Star:
glosses: To intoxicate oneself with alcohol. (This entry is a translation hub.)
examples: text: We got him drunk by spiking the punch.
glosses: To make drunk. (This entry is a translation hub.)
Synonyms: word: bedrink
get high
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets high
form: getting high
form: got high
form: got high
form: gotten high
Senses: examples: text: I get high with a little help from my friends
ref: 1967, “With a Little Help from My Friends”, in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, performed by Beatles:
text: But now you've sucked Your lemon peel dry, / so why not get high, high, high
ref: 1972, Lou Reed, “Goodnight Ladies”, in Transformer:
text: I was going to make love to you, but I got high
ref: 2001, “Because I Got High”, in Because I Got High, performed by Afroman:
synonyms: get stoned
get wasted
antonyms: come down
sober up
glosses: To intoxicate oneself with drugs or other substances.
glosses: To become euphoric by means of other than the use of drugs.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, high.
editorializing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of editorialize
editorializing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: editorializings
Senses: glosses: The writing of editorial material.
editorialising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: editorializing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of editorialise
social collaboration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: social collaborations
Senses: examples: text: Social collaboration produces such benefits as more effective food acquisition, better protection against predators, better care of young,
ref: 1997, Robert S. Robins, Jerrold M. Post, Political Paranoia: The Psychopolitics of Hatred, page 70:
text: Finally, opportunities for social collaboration also nurture motivation. Give children the opportunity to engage in learning through collaboration with a [...].
ref: 2002, James Flood, Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts, page 861:
text: An emphasis on social collaboration was seen in the arrangement of the physical classroom, including the grouping of desks and use of learning centers.
ref: 2002, Cathy Collins Block, Michael Pressley, Comprehension Instruction: Research-Based Best Practices, page 230:
glosses: A process that helps multiple people share information using interpersonal and social networks to achieve any common goal.
VAST
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VASTs
Senses: glosses: Acronym of visual audio sensory theater.
topics: ESA
aerospace
business
engineering
geography
geology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
volcanology
glosses: Acronym of volcanic ash strategic initiative team.
meeces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Originates from Huckleberry Hound, a series of cartoons from the 1960s, in which the character Mr. Jinks exclaims, "I hate meeces to pieces!"
Senses: examples: text: Not broken in pieces, like hated little meeces.
ref: 1983, The Cure (band), The Love Cats (song)
text: We hate meeces to pieces.
ref: 1988, 24 January, Married ... with Children (episode "Build a Better Mousetrap")
text: However, we also must urge you to get a mouse because the battle is over, and those hateful meeces have won.
ref: 1994, DBASE for DOS for Dummies, page 73:
text: Watch the little meeces carefully.
ref: 2002, Warning! This Book May Contain Life, page 6:
text: "I hate meeces to pieces," he said. Art Howe, manager of the New York Mets last year after seven years in Oakland and five in Houston.
ref: 2005, Miracle Over Miami: How the 2003 Marlins Shocked the World, page 78:
glosses: plural of mice (which is itself a plural of mouse).
contortions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contortion
determinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of determination
archbishops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archbishop
alternations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alternation
fascinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fascination
astrologers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astrologer
whisperings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whispering
provincials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of provincial
blandishments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blandishment
humiliations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of humiliation
visitations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌvɪzɪˈteɪʃənz/
rhymes: -eɪʃənz
Senses: glosses: plural of visitation
commendations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commendation
swiftboating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of swiftboat
swift boating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of swiftboating.
Wally World
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wallyworld
Etymology: Derived from "Walley World", the name of a fictional theme park patterned after Disneyland in the 1983 movie National Lampoon's Vacation.
Senses: examples: text: I thought I could replace him / so went down to a local wally world / and the salesman says / hey mister / what's a pet rock / and my heart grew cold / Lord / what's this world / coming to.
ref: 2002, R. D. McManes, “i buried my pet rock”, in We Ain't in Kansas No More, page 29:
text: "Wally World?" He felt like he was playing a new board game and was just getting the hang of the rules. “Around here,” Daisy said, “Wal-Mart is often called Wally World.
ref: 2002, Shelby Lewis, Simply Marvelous, page 83:
text: I had a nicely appointed (realtors' jargon for Wally World baroque) mobile home, a sort of plush culvert on wheels, and a new dog.
ref: 2004, Bob Wyatt., Trout Hunting: The Pursuit of Happiness, page 172:
text: "Her daughter was reported as saying Kandi ought to be used to Wally World by now.” “Guess so,” Daisy said, her manner thoughtful.
ref: 2004, Shelby Lewis, Simply Wild, page 238:
text: Over in the corner there was a raised platform, with a roll of background screens behind it, kind of like at the Wally World stores.
ref: 2007, Toni White, Ridge Street Home, page 36:
text: The man obviously had an aversion to Wally World: receiving stolen property in '73, […]; receiving stolen property in '78; […]; and grand theft […].
ref: 2007, L. W. Fugett, Murder in the Bluegrass, page 3:
glosses: Wal-Mart
examples: text: The Tennessee Valley Authority's scheme to turn the Land Between the Lakes into Wally World has been stopped.
ref: 1996, Field & Stream, volume 101, numbers 7-12, page 17:
text: Forget Disney, Universal, and Wally World. Vegas was there before them all — the ultimate adult theme park.
ref: 1996, Michael Roney, Michael Utvich, The Guerrilla Guide to High-tech Trade Shows, page 203:
text: South Australia is not for the flashy, wham-bam 'Wallyworld' tourist, rather it's a vast tapestry of many colours and moods.
ref: 2004, Debra Kandelaars, Postcards: A Few of Our Favorites, page vii:
text: Obviously he [Clark Griswold] is missing the point, but at least he made it to the canyon and, eventually, Wally World.
ref: 2010, Lee Silber, Time Management for the Creative Person, page 34:
text: Using the same technique I had used months before I should be able to get this old battle horse running all the way to Wally World.
ref: 2010, J. L. Bourne, Beyond Exile: Day by Day Armageddon, page 193:
text: I felt like Clark Griswold arriving at Wally World, only to find that it's closed for repairs.
ref: 2011, John Sellers, The Old Man and the Swamp, page 59:
text: “How far to Wallyworld?” Franny giggles.
ref: 2012, Maureen F. McHugh, "After the Apocalypse", in Gardner Dozois, ed., The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection, page 227
glosses: A fictional or hypothetical large theme park.
net tangible assets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
glosses: The total assets of a company, less any intangible asset such as goodwill, patents, and trademarks, less all liabilities and the par value of preferred stock. Similar to Book Value and Net Asset Value.
curlies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Locks of curly hair.
examples: text: When the condom gets caught on your curlies while you're trying to roll it off.
ref: 2001 December 1, Demetrios Hung, APA, “First helmet laws, now this...”, in rec.motorcycles (Usenet):
glosses: Pubic hair
examples: text: Some keywords, such as {abstract}, show up in curly brackets. It's never really clear what should technically be in guillemets and what should be in curlies.
ref: 2004, Martin Fowler, UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Curly brackets.
examples: text: Doing it manually can be a real drag and messy, but you can use a short macro to change all curlies to straights throughout an entire document.
ref: 1994, Woody Leonhard, The Underground Guide to Word for Windows, page 245:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Curly quotes.
Synonyms: sense: locks of hair
word: curls
Related terms: curl
short and curlies
goburra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡoʊbərə/
Forms: form: goburras
Senses: glosses: The laughing kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae).
Synonyms: laughing jackass
gogobera
kookaburra
direr
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of dire: more dire
direst
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of dire: most dire
nativity scene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nativity scenes
Senses: examples: text: In 1958, it was reported that for "the fourth year in succession, staff of four South London stations have combined to decorate the booking hall at Peckham Rye station". They installed a nativity scene, models of Father Christmas, and a sleigh driven by huskies, and Christmas trees were placed around the station.
ref: 2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 29:
topics: Christianity
synonyms: crèche
glosses: A depiction—which may be pictorial, dramatic, or by means of figurines—of the birth of Jesus Christ in a manger, as described in the New Testament account.
Related terms: nativity play
uneasinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uneasiness
motherhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motherhouses
Etymology: From mother + house.
Senses: examples: text: The Cistercian order is named after its motherhouse Cîteaux in Burgundy, where abbot St. Bernard initiated in 1113 the reform of their branch of the Benedictine order, which has its motherhouse at Monte Cassino.
glosses: The monastery from which the other 'houses' of a religious order or congregation were (directly or indirectly) founded, often eponymous.
glosses: The convent which is the seat (and often the above original foundation) of the superior of an order or congregation, and/or on which lower ranking houses (such as priories under an abbot) depend.
Thess.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Thessalonians.
1 Thessalonians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
head_nr: 2
synonyms: word: 1 Thess.
glosses: The thirteenth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the first epistle to the Thessalonians.
Related terms: 2 Thessalonians
2 Thessalonians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
head_nr: 2
synonyms: word: 2 Thess.
glosses: The fourteenth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the second epistle to the Thessalonians.
Related terms: 1 Thessalonians
1 Thess.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of 1 Thessalonians.
2 Thess.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of 2 Thessalonians.
Jas.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Jas.
blue balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: US English, 1910s, blue + balls (“testicles”).
Senses: glosses: A cramp-like ache in the testicles and prostate region caused by prolonged sexual arousal; testicles experiencing such an ache.
glosses: Unfulfilled sexual desire.
examples: text: [...] away the flesh and cause ulcers and buboes (blue balls).
ref: 1920, V.D. pamphlet, page 33:
text: It invades lymphatics, is carried to the inguinal lymph nodes, where multiple abscesses, buboes, or "blue balls" appear. A brawny edema of the labia, with deeply penetrating destructive ulcers may occur in the late stages.
ref: 1960, Laman Alexander Gray, A Text Book of Gynecology, page 47:
glosses: Buboes (in a person of any sex) caused by a sexually transmitted infection; the infection that causes them.
Derived terms: blue-ball
blue-baller
blue vulva
French wire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: French wires
Senses: topics: jewelry
lifestyle
glosses: Fine wire of silver or other metal wound into a flexible coil, used for finishing beaded jewelry.
Synonyms: French coil
gimp
Timon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: tīʹmən
ipa: /ˈtaɪmən/
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek Τῑ́μων (Tī́mōn).
Senses: examples: text: Great Timon, noble, worthy, royal Timon! / Ah! when the means are gone that buy this praise, / The breath is gone whereof this praise is made.
ref: c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 6:5:
glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek of mostly historical use.
French Indochina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A group of former French colonies, later a confederation of associated states, existing in Indochina in Southeast Asia from 1887 to 1954 and consisting of the current territories of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
messiahship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: messiahships
form: Messiahship
Etymology: From messiah + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: His miracles furnished evidence of Jesus' claim of messiahship.
glosses: Having the position of, or being ordained by God as messiah.
Messiahship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Messiah + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: His miracles furnished evidence of Jesus' claim of Messiahship.
glosses: Having the position of, or being ordained by God as the Messiah.
Related terms: Messiah
assay plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assay plates
Senses: qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: A flat plate with multiple "wells" used as small test tubes.
Synonyms: microtiter plate
microplate
sampling straw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sampling straws
Senses: qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: A fine glass tube used in a laboratory to extract very small samples of chemical liquids and solutions.
delabialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈleɪbɪəlaɪz/
Forms: form: delabializes
form: delabializing
form: delabialized
form: delabialized
form: delabialise
Etymology: From de- + labialize.
Senses: examples: text: the resulting labial vowels were soon delabialized into e and ē.
ref: 1884, Henry Sweet, First Middle English Primer, page 5:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: To make into a non-labial sound.
examples: text: /gw/ may delabialize to /g/.
ref: 1981, Charles Stephen Bird, The Dialects of Mandekan, page 170:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: To become a non-labial sound.
Derived terms: delabialization
delabialized
scintillation cocktail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scintillation cocktails
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: A solution of a beta particle emitter to be analysed in an organic solvent along with a fluor which emits a scintillation of light, which can then be detected by a liquid scintillation counter.
liquid scintillation counter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liquid scintillation counters
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: A piece of laboratory equipment used to analyse solutions of a beta particle emitter by measuring the scintillations from a scintillation cocktail.
to the gunnels
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: to the gunwales
Senses: examples: text: We were loaded down to the gunnels with luggage.
text: The room was packed to the gunnels with reporters.
synonyms: word: all the way
word: from soup to nuts
word: in excelsis
word: to the backbone
word: to the bone
word: to the brim
word: to the core
word: to the fullest
word: to the full
word: to the gills
word: to the gunnels
word: to the hilt
word: to the max
word: to the nines
word: to the nth degree
word: to the tonsils
word: to the top of one's bent
word: top to bottom
word: up to eleven
glosses: Full to the brim.
gunnel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌnəl/
ipa: /ˈɡʌn.l̩/
rhymes: -ʌnəl
Forms: form: gunnels
Etymology: From Middle English gonnewalle, itself from gonne (“gun”) + wale, as it used to support the ship's guns; equivalent to gun + wale.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gunwale.
glosses: A small eel-shaped marine fish of the family Pholidae, especially Pholis gunnellus.
Synonyms: sense: eel-shaped fish
word: gunnel fish
sense: eel-shaped fish
word: butterfish
sense: eel-shaped fish
word: rock eel
Derived terms: to the gunnels