cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
1v1
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 1v1s
Senses: examples: text: With all my teams, we conduct 1v1s at least every third or fourth training session all season long.
ref: 2016, Thomas DeNigris, Play Faster: Speed, Agility & Quickness for Soccer, Page Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:
text: SOCCER IS A GAME OF 1V1S […] Anytime you mention 1v1 to coaches, we immediately picture players lined up facing each other practicing step-overs and feints. But, as Michael [Beale] says, “it most certainly isn’t that.”
ref: 2018, Josh Faga, The Real Giants of Soccer Coaching: Insights and Wisdom from the Game’s Greatest Coaches, Meyer & Meyer Sport, →ISBN, page 144:
text: He was occasionally caught out in 1v1s, especially against Derby’s fast and strong CF, who was able to ‘pin and spin’ on Billy twice.
ref: 2023, A. Mark Williams, Paul R. Ford, Barry Drust, editors, Science and Soccer: Developing Elite Performers, 4th edition, Routledge, →ISBN:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An exercise in which one player is pitted against one other player, as opposed to team play.
examples: text: I got back into StarCraft in 2007 and got really, really into competitive 1v1, and followed the Korean pro gamer scene and all that.
ref: 2017, David Snyder, Matthew Wilhelm Kapell, Speedrunning: Interviews with the Quickest Gamers:
text: If you’re getting into 1v1s but can never manage to eliminate your foe first, then you need to work on your aim and reflexes.
ref: 2019, Tyler Blevins, Will Partin, Ninja: Get Good: My Ultimate Guide to Gaming, New York, N.Y.: Clarkson Potter/Publishers, →ISBN, page 77:
text: From the sound of it, there was only one of them. If they had all come at me together, I would’ve been able to sweep them all at once with explosions. They’d probably taken that into account already. So they’re going to go for 1v1s, huh?
ref: 2023, Tsuyoshi Fujitaka, translated by Kevin Chen, These Legs Don’t Lie! Harumi’s Legacy as the Strongest Mimic, volume 1, J-Novel Club, →ISBN:
topics: video-games
glosses: A style of player versus player gaming in which one player is pitted against one other player.
1v1
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: 1v1s
form: 1v1ing
form: 1v1ed
form: 1v1ed
Senses: examples: text: In any other universe, they’d probably be 1v1ing Batman since you’re sure they’re the Joker incarnate.
ref: 2015, Tertangala; 2015: A Nerd Odyssey:
text: Moreover, if you ever have a class on Upper Campus, you can get off at the second stop which is High St, saving you the trouble of 1v1ing Basser Steps.
ref: 2016 February, Bizzness One, UNSW Business Society, page 16:
text: “1V1 ME BRO”
ref: 2016 December, Oyungezer, page 41:
text: Is she pissed that I barely did anything in our last battle but took all the credit and gloated in the end anyway?! Does she want to 1v1 me?!
ref: 2022, Kota Nozomi, translated by Tristan K. Hill, When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace 2, J-Novel Club, →ISBN:
text: JLINGZ was spurred on by it, Oscar ‘Yuki’ Jiang (江铭亮) felt the boost as he 1v1ed eventual winner Phillip ‘ImperialHal’ Dosen, and the home advantage had a palpable effect.
ref: 2023 February 16, Ben Sledge, “ALGS New Boys Northeption Are Here To Stay”, in TheGamer, archived from the original on 16 Feb 2023:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
video-games
glosses: To compete as one player pitted against one other player.
stria vascularis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin stria + Latin vascularis.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The upper portion of the spiral ligament that forms the outer wall of the cochlear duct; it contains numerous capillary loops and small blood vessels.
geddoff
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Get off.
chelirubine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The biosynthetic investigation of chelirubine (3) and macarpine (4) has not been reported. A proposal for the biogenetic conversion of sanguinarine (1) into chelirubine (3) had been made.
ref: 1983, Helvetica Chimica Acta, volume 66, number 1, page 478:
text: The first breakthrough in the problems of the structures came from a proposal of the structure of chelirubine (18) by Ishii and co-workers who upon thorough inspection of various spectral data revised the previously proposed structures, […]
ref: 1984, Syntheses of the Benzo[c]phenanthridine Alkaloids:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: a positive organic ion, with chemical formula C₂₁H₁₆NO₅⁺, having six interlinked carbon rings (including three aromatic benzene rings); commonly formed in combination with a negative halide ion, such as chelirubine chloride.
myostracal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the myostracum.
myostracum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myostraca
Senses: examples: text: At this place in the myostracum the smaller, second-order prisms […] range from two to 15 microns in diameter.
ref: 1964, Shell Structure and Muscle Scars of Cap-shaped Archaeogastropods:
text: In contrast to the muscle scars, the growth tracks of which are marked by a radial stretch of myostracum, the growth track of the pallial line is the boundary surface between two shell layers.
ref: 2014, Adolf Seilacher, Alan D. Gishlick, Morphodynamics, page 68:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Part of shell wall secreted at attachment of adductor muscles.
Related terms: myostracal
myostraca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myostracum
discohexact
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discohexacts
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A hexact with axes enlarged at the extremity.
discohexacts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discohexact
hexaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexasters
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A hexact with axes that branch into rays at the extremity.
Related terms: oxyhexaster
hexasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexaster
imprimed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of imprime
payeeship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: payeeships
Etymology: From payee + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Persons who receive income-payment benefits from a government agency may voluntarily seek, or be involuntarily subjected to, representative payeeship.
ref: 1983, Stanley S. Herr, Stephen Arons, Richard Edward Wallace, Legal Rights and Mental-Health Care, page 136:
glosses: The role or status of payee.
payeeships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of payeeship
X-by-wire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Any electronic system that replaces a conventional mechanical system in an automobile.
Related terms: fly-by-wire
long-welded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Rail joints affect it but do not in themselves cause bad riding, which may indeed be aggravated on long-welded track.
ref: 1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 135:
text: About 20 per cent of the Federal Railways' main-line track has been laid with long-welded rail by the beginning of this year; further progress is hindered by the many curves.
ref: 1964 July, “Beyond the Channel: Switzerland: Long-welded rails”, in Modern Railways, page 64:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Of rails for railway track, welded into longer lengths, usually before they are laid, to help eliminate jointed track.
Related terms: CWR
phylacogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phylacogens
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Φύλαξ (Phúlax, “guard”) + γενναν (gennan, “to produce”).
Senses: examples: text: As patient was steadily growing worse and becoming more emaciated and suffering from the increased pain, rheumatism phylacogen treatment was suspended, and a tuberculin test was made, which was markedly positive.
ref: 1912, College of Physicians of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, Symposium on the use of phylacogens (modified bacterial derivatives) (page 62)
text: Administer phylacogen to combat the effects of the toxemia from the infecting organisms.
ref: 1915, The Therapeutic Gazette, page 515:
text: When phylacogens were first introduced the best means of regulating the dosage to the individual patient had not been determined, and constitutional reactions were more frequent and more pronounced than they are at the present time.
ref: 1920, Hospital Corps Quarterly, numbers 12-15, page 89:
glosses: Any of several bacterial derivatives developed by Dr. A. F. Schafer in 1910 to combat bacterial infections.
phylacogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phylacogen
transindividuation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transindividuations
Etymology: From trans- + individuation.
Senses: examples: text: In Sri Aurobindo's own texts however, he does not see cosmisization and supramentalization in terms of transindividuation, but as the results of the freedom and extension of individual consciousness and personhood (psychic being) […]
ref: 2016, Debashish Banerji, Makarand R. Paranjape, Critical Posthumanism and Planetary Futures, page 271:
text: There are processes of collective individuation that produce the transindividual in the course of a process of transindividuation (which Simondon does not theorize as such).
ref: 2018, Bernard Stiegler, Automatic Society: The Future of Work, page 152:
glosses: The process of transcending individuality.
transindividuations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transindividuation
electronogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electronograms
Etymology: From electron + -o- + -gram.
Senses: examples: text: Therefore, it is most often the practice to determine the instrument constant by taking the electronogram of the sample for a short period of time (a second or less) after obtaining electronograms by reflection […]
ref: 1961, Daniil Vasilʹevich Ignatov, R. D. Shamgunova, Mechanism of the Oxidation of Nickel and Chromium Alloys, page 14:
text: […] electron microscopy is of limited application for polymers due to possible changes in the structure of the material when an electron beam acts on it, and also due to the smearing of reflexes in the polymer electronograms.
ref: 2013, V. A. Bely, A. I. Sviridenok, M. I. Petrokovets, Friction and Wear in Polymer-Based Materials, page 196:
glosses: The image produced by scanning electron microscopy (SEM).
electronograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electronogram
eleutherozoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eleuthero- + -zoic, from Ancient Greek ἐλεύθερος (eleútheros, “freedom”) + ζῷον (zōîon, “animal”).
Senses: examples: text: These Pelmatozoa in a way are to be regarded as intermediate between the statozoic and eleutherozoic forms, as regards their mode of life, and may be dealt with to advantage in the present paper.
ref: 1912, Proceedings of the United States National Museum:
text: They considered articulates to be pre-adapted for an eleutherozoic existence because they possess muscular arms which are potentially of value in crawling and swimming, as in comatulids.
ref: 1977, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History):
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: of or pertaining to the Subphylum Eleutherozoa
statozoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: These Pelmatozoa in a way are to be regarded as intermediate between the statozoic and eleutherozoic forms, as regards their mode of life, and may be dealt with to advantage in the present paper.
ref: 1912, Proceedings of the United States National Museum:
text: […] the marked radial symmetry which prevails, even among the most perfectly eleutherozoic modern forms, is usually ascribed to a prolonged statozoic phase in their evolution.
ref: 1950, Outlines of Palaeontology, page 110:
glosses: Sedentary, especially when attached to a surface.
apelmatozoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + pelmatozoic.
Senses: glosses: Not pelmatozoic.
vassalitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vassalitic
form: most vassalitic
Senses: examples: text: For a good supply of money they were always ready to grant an equivalent, immunity from some vassalitic obligation, the confirmation of some disputed right, or the enjoyment of some privilege not warranted by preceding usage.
ref: 1845, Edward Smedley, Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose, Encyclopaedia Metropolitana: History and biography, page 642:
text: But when feudality made such progress in the kingdom — when compelled to exchange their allodial for vassalitic lands, and to march at the bidding of their temporal or ecclesiastical chief — they lost their noble independence.
ref: 1853, Theodore Alois Buckley, The great cities of the Middle Ages, page 108:
glosses: Pertaining to or characteristic of the status of vassal.
Related terms: vassal
FAs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of FA
FAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of FA
harborsides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harborside
Upton-on-Severn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Upton upon Severn
form: Upton-upon-Severn
Senses: glosses: A small town and civil parish in Malvern Hills district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8540).
heterologicality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From heterological + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The property of being heterological.
heterologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From heterological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a heterological manner.
nothotaxa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nothotaxon
excito-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: excitation of a stimulus
Ashchurch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Ashchurch Rural parish, Tewkesbury district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO9233).
Derived terms: english: parish
translation: parish
word: Ashchurch Rural
unversatile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unversatile
form: most unversatile
Etymology: From un- + versatile.
Senses: glosses: Not versatile.
hypocricy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of hypocrisy.
unremuneratively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unremuneratively
form: most unremuneratively
Etymology: From unremunerative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unremunerative manner.
cherry orange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cherry oranges
Senses: glosses: A small orange-like fruit and the plant that produces it.
Kumquat (Citrus japonica).
glosses: A small orange-like fruit and the plant that produces it.
Citropsis spp..
Derived terms: taxonomic: Citropsis articulata
word: African cherry orange
taxonomic: Citropsis articulata
word: Uganda cherry orange
taxonomic: Citropsis articulata
word: West African cherry orange
dandruffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dandruff
dandruffs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dandruff
dandruffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dandruff
Westerham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Westerhams
form: Westrum
Etymology: From Old English westerne (“western”) + hām (“homestead”).
Senses: glosses: A small town and civil parish with a town council in Sevenoaks district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ4454).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Kaelian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Kaelian
form: most Kaelian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Pauline Kael (1919–2001), American film critic.
pigeon drop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pigeon drops
Senses: examples: text: “You some kind of confidence man or dope peddler or something? You trying to work one of those pigeon drops on me?”
ref: 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 330:
glosses: A confidence trick in which the mark or "pigeon" is persuaded to give up a sum of money in order to secure the rights to a larger sum of money or more valuable object.
Related terms: pigeon dropper
pigeon dropping
Spanish handkerchief
pigeon drops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pigeon drop
diesel-hydraulic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In November 1959, a paper entitled "The Swindon-built Diesel-Hydraulic Locomotive" was presented to the Institute of Locomotive Engineers by Mr. G. E. Scholes and it contained some very interesting figures. One set was a comparison between the mileages achieved during a period of the first five months in 1959 by "King" and "Castle" 4-6-0s and "Britannia" 4-6-2s and those of D800 to D805, the first of the Swindon-built 2,000 h.p. diesel-hydraulic locomotives of the "Warship" class, then brand new and subject to the teething troubles of all such complicated units in the earliest stages of their use.
ref: 1961 March, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 153:
text: The elimination of vacuum-braked wagons would be slowed down, and the Western Region's flirtation with diesel-hydraulic locomotives was questioned.
ref: 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 52:
topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: diesel locomotive
<
locomotive
coordinate_terms: diesel-electric
glosses: Powered by a diesel engine via a hydraulic transmission.
diesel-hydraulic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diesel-hydraulics
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A diesel-hydraulic locomotive.
Related terms: diesel-electric
diesel-hydraulics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diesel-hydraulic
Russianly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Russian + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Some few thankless foreigners may be as you say sadly Russian, but as to me I am Russianly sad. ...”
ref: 1852, Joseph de Maistre, Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal, page 162:
text: To Americans, who, as I have pointed out, are as much concerned in the Censorship as the English are, the drama being practically international, this state of things may seem so Russianly subversive of fundamental western rights as to stand condemned by the mere statement of it.
ref: 1899, G. Bernard Shaw, The North American Review, page 256:
text: L’Histoire du Soldat is still a piece that excites me Russianly and makes me think of the devil.
ref: 1973, Eve Babitz, Eve’s Hollywood, page 11:
text: WHAT LINKS the very disparate chapters that follow is the constant, implicit theme that has been the explicit subject of these introductory essays: that of defining Russia musically, along with its converse, defining music Russianly.
ref: 2000, Richard Taruskin, Defining Russia Musically: Historical and Hermeneutical Essays, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 105:
glosses: in a Russian manner.
rescrew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -uː
Forms: form: rescrews
form: rescrewing
form: rescrewed
form: rescrewed
Etymology: From re- + screw.
Senses: examples: text: 5th, for single bands, unscrew the large pivots, so that the bands slipping come easily to the desired dimension (rescrew to retain the exact position.
ref: 1857, English Patents of Inventions, Specifications: 1856, 1872 - 1937, page 7:
text: If it be seen that any of the pins are unscrewed stop the shafting at once and rescrew these pins; rescrew the collars immediately if need be.
ref: 1908, Paul Dumesny, J. Noyer, Wood products: distillates and extracts, page 177:
text: If you screw up unscrew the corkscrew and rescrew to unscrew what you have screwed up.
ref: 1994, Carole Marsh, Arkansas "Crinkum-Crankum", Carole Marsh Books, →ISBN, page 57:
glosses: to screw again.
huratoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From translingual Hura + toxin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A poisonous diterpene found in trees of genus Hura.
chemocommunication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemocommunications
Etymology: From chemo- + communication.
Senses: glosses: communication between organisms by means of chemical signals
chemocommunications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemocommunication
undercolouring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undercolour
undercolored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undercolor
undercoloring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undercolor
undercoloured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undercolour
overfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overfoots
form: overfooting
form: overfooted
form: overfooted
Etymology: From over- + foot.
Senses: examples: text: Another device is to underfoot the accounts receivable column and the net cash column in the record of cash receipts and to underfoot the debit or overfoot the credit side of one or more accounts in the customer's ledger by equal amounts.
ref: 1932, Frank Hatch Streightoff, Advanced Accounting, page 140:
text: Stay away from the client or taxpayer who conceals, pads, overstates or understates, alters, duplicates, overfoots or underfoots, diverts, manipulates, omits, falsifies and flagrantly disregards the IRS regulations.
ref: 1980, The CPA Journal - Volume 50:
text: In manually balancing the cash receipts journal prior to posting to the ledgers, it is quite possible to underfoot or overfoot columns deliberately in order to manipulate the account records to cover cash shortages.
ref: 1983, Accounting and information systems: instructor's manual, →ISBN, page 258:
topics: accounting
business
finance
antonyms: underfoot
glosses: To assign a column summary that is greater than the sum of all the entries in that column.
overfoots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overfoot
overfooted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overfoot
overfooting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overfoot
undoctor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undoctors
form: undoctoring
form: undoctored
form: undoctored
Etymology: From un- + doctor.
Senses: examples: July 15, 1833, Jane Carlyle, letter to Thomas Carlyle
My brother-in-law is a paragon of the class, but he is so by—in as much as possible—undoctoring himself.
glosses: To divest of the character or status of a doctor.
examples: text: If their accountants are undoctoring the books properly, there's evidence he's ripped off something close to two million bucks on this Arizona thing alone.
ref: 2012, William L. DeAndrea, Killed in the Act:
glosses: To restore (something illicitly altered) to its correct form.
undoctoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undoctor
undoctors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undoctor
un-English
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more un-English
form: most un-English
form: unEnglish
Etymology: From un- (“negative”) + English.
Senses: examples: text: A quick scan of a couple of pages in a dictionary that records the origin of our vocabulary reveals that many entries in it are historically “un-English.” This is not surprising; languages travel […]
ref: 2009, Donka Minkova, Robert Stockwell, English Words: History and Structure, page 24:
text: Fowler effectively refuted critics who had argued that Milton's high style was un-English, but he overstated the case.
ref: 1999, Ton Hoenselaars, Marius Buning, English Literature and the Other Languages, page 41:
glosses: Not English.
un-English
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: un-Englishes
form: un-Englishing
form: un-Englished
form: un-Englished
form: unEnglish
Etymology: From un- (“reversive”) + English.
Senses: glosses: To make no longer English; to divest of English character or language.
un-Englished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of un-English
un-Englishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of un-English
un-Englishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of un-English
unmeddled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + meddled.
Senses: glosses: Not meddled (with).
unmeddled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unmeddle
untrading
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + trading.
Senses: examples: text: Men leave estates to their children in land, as not so liable to casualties as money in untrading and unskilful hands.
ref: 1691, [John Locke], Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest, and Raising the Value of Money. […], London: […] Awnsham and John Churchill, […], published 1692, →OCLC:
text: This income enabled him to give up general bookselling in 1762 and buy Linden House, a mansion valued at a colossal £12,000, in the suburbs at Turnham Green, where he was a regular at the Presbyterian church, kept a carriage and lived in some style. He became, through literature, 'an independent, untrading gentleman' […]
ref: 2016, Norma Clarke, Brothers of the Quill: Oliver Goldsmith in Grub Street:
glosses: Not engaging in commerce.
coupling rod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coupling rods
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A rod that couples the driving wheels of a locomotive, a steam locomotive in particular, so that the driving wheels act together as a unit.
Synonyms: side rod
siderod
Related terms: connecting rod
coupling rods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coupling rod
hexachlorothallate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexachlorothallates
Etymology: From hexa- + chloro- + thallate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt or anion containing thallium bound to six chlorine atoms. (TlCl₆³⁻)
Stormont
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɔː(ɹ)mənt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mənt
Senses: glosses: Stormont Estate, the seat of the Northern Ireland Assembly, located east of Belfast in County Down.
examples: text: The proposal requires Stormont to approve the special arrangements for Northern Ireland to remain aligned with the EU before the end of the transition period and every four years after that.
ref: 2019 October 3, Lisa O'Carroll, “What are the concerns over Stormont's role in proposed Brexit deal?”, in The Guardian:
text: Downing Street hopes the package, combined with parallel negotiations with the DUP over post-Brexit trading arrangements, will persuade the DUP leader, Jeffrey Donaldson, to restore Stormont after almost two years of political stasis.
ref: 2023 December 11, Rory Carroll, Ben Quinn, “Northern Irish leaders offered £2.5bn package in bid to revive Stormont”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The Northern Ireland Assembly.
Derived terms: North Stormont
South Stormont
Stormontgate
United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry
unspatial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unspatial
form: most unspatial
Etymology: From un- + spatial.
Senses: examples: text: The argument from this is that, as music is essentially unspatial, the more we eliminate elements of spatiality from our relations to it, from our consciousness while enjoying it, the more do we get its essence in a pure, unalloyed condition.
ref: 1899, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Programme, page 15:
glosses: Not spatial; not extending into physical space.
unspatially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unspatially
form: most unspatially
Etymology: From unspatial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unspatial manner.
unspatiality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unspatial.
unself-consciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + self-consciousness.
Senses: glosses: Lack of self-consciousness; ease in social situations.
covenant of grace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: God's promise of eternal life for all people who have faith in Christ.
femvertising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of feminism + advertising
Senses: examples: text: SheKnows Media, a digital marketing company, put out a survey in 2014 to find out precisely how women felt about femvertising ads.
ref: 2016, Joseph Quinlan, Jackie VanderBrug, Gender Lens Investing:
text: The wave of femvertising has only served to intensify since the launch of #IWILLWHATIWANT, with recent campaigns by Audi, H&M, Brawny, and even Barbie all attempting to capitalize on the femvertising trend.
ref: 2019, José Antonio Muñiz Velázquez, Cristina M. Pulido, The Routledge Handbook of Positive Communication:
text: Is International Women's Day today little more than an excuse for 'femvertising' as brands co-opt messages of equality and empowerment as means by which to flog us stuff?
ref: 2019 March 8, “How 'femvertising' edged out feminism - 'Two separate women’s movements which have always been in conflict'”, in The Independent:
glosses: The use of feminist messages to advertise products to women.
unheal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unheals
form: unhealing
form: unhealed
form: unhealed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unhele.
unheals
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unheal
Amurian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Amur + -ian.
Senses: glosses: From, of or pertaining to Amur.
glosses: From, of or pertaining to the Amurian Plate.
glosses: From, of or pertaining to the Amurian Oblast.
Derived terms: Amurian Plate
Amurian Oblast
Amurian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Amurians
Etymology: From Amur + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A person from Amur.
glosses: A person from the Amurian Plate.
glosses: A person from the Amurian Oblast.
Unigenitus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin ūnigenitus (“only begotten”); its opening words were "unigenitus dei filius", meaning "only begotten son of God".
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: An apostolic constitution in the form of a papal bull promulgated by Pope Clement XI in 1713, which condemned 101 propositions of Pasquier Quesnel.
USMB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of United States Metric Board.
commonlie
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more commonlie
form: most commonlie
Senses: examples: text: But commonlie, the fairest bodies, ar bestowed on the foulest purposes.
ref: 1570, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of commonly.
scholemaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scholemasters
Senses: examples: text: For commonlie, many scholemasters, some, as I haue seen, moe, as I haue heard tell, be of so crooked a nature, as, when they meete with a hard witted scholer, they rather breake him, than bowe him, rather marre him, then mend him.
ref: 1570, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of schoolmaster.
scholemasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scholemaster
on the pad
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: As a reference to padding one's income.
Senses: examples: text: The badge showed that he was on the inspector's pad and the telephone numbers suggested that he had connections.
ref: 1978, Burgess Laughlin, Job Opportunities in the Black Market, page 5:
text: New York City police officers "on the pad" were found to receive up to $850 a month to protect a single dealer.
ref: 2002, Samuel Walker, Charles M. Katz, The Police in America: An Introduction, page 325:
text: But I swear to you, Dave, I never got any free action because of my badge, and I never went on the pad.
ref: 2011, James Lee Burke, A Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set:
topics: law-enforcement
police
glosses: Taking regular bribes.
on the pad
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: upon the pad
Etymology: From the sense of "to pad" meaning to practice highway robbery.
Senses: examples: text: . I crown thy nab with a gage of bene-bowse, And stall thee by the salmon into the clowes; To maund on the pad, and strike all the cheats,
ref: 1622, John Fletcher, Beggar's Bush:
text: I go on the pad.
ref: 1788, John O'Keeffe, The Prisoner at Large:
text: As for why I went on the pad, 'tis simple: I was poor as a church mouse.
ref: 1986, Maggie Mackeever, Lady Sherry and the Highwayman, page 218:
glosses: Practicing highway robbery; robbing travelers on the public roads.
perfite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more perfite
form: most perfite
Senses: examples: text: Or plaine and perfite way of teachyng children, to vnderstand, write, and speake, the Latin tong, but specially purposed for the priuate brynging vp of youth in Ientlemen and Noble mens houses, and commodious also for all such, as haue forgot the Latin tonge, and would, by themselues, without a Scholemaster, in short tyme, and with small paines, recouer a sufficient habilitie, to vnderstand, write, and speake Latin.
ref: 1570, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster:
glosses: Obsolete form of perfect.
upon the pad
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: A rogue, a very caner I, sir, one that maunds upon the pad.
ref: 1625, Jonson, Staple of News, page 9:
text: For Offences of this Nature, she was thrice burnt in the Hand, after which she marry'd one Humphry Jackson, a Butcher, who was taught by her to leave off his Trade, and go upon the Pad in the Day time, while she went upon the Buttock and Twang by Night;
ref: 1748, Capt. James MacKlecan, A General and True History of the Lives and Actions of the most Famous Highwaymen, Street-Robbers, Pirates, &c., page 414:
text: But the one restraint was as irksome as the other, and Harry Simms abandoned the needle, as he had scorned the grammar, to go upon the pad.
ref: 1895, The New Review - Volume 13, page 681:
text: Should our case be ne'er so bad, We will never be so mad As to go upon the pad Whilst our life endureth.
ref: 1968, George de Forest Lord, Poems on Affairs of State: 1685-1688, edited by G. M. Crump:
glosses: Alternative form of on the pad.
teachyng
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Or plaine and perfite way of teachyng children, to vnderstand, write, and speake, the Latin tong, but specially purposed for the priuate brynging vp of youth in Ientlemen and Noble mens houses, and commodious also for all such, as haue forgot the Latin tonge, and would, by themselues, without a Scholemaster, in short tyme, and with small paines, recouer a sufficient habilitie, to vnderstand, write, and speake Latin.
ref: 1570, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of teaching.
brynging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Or plaine and perfite way of teachyng children, to vnderstand, write, and speake, the Latin tong, but specially purposed for the priuate brynging vp of youth in Ientlemen and Noble mens houses, and commodious also for all such, as haue forgot the Latin tonge, and would, by themselues, without a Scholemaster, in short tyme, and with small paines, recouer a sufficient habilitie, to vnderstand, write, and speake Latin.
ref: 1570, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of bringing.
paines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paine
habilitie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: habilities
Senses: examples: text: Or plaine and perfite way of teachyng children, to vnderstand, write, and speake, the Latin tong, but specially purposed for the priuate brynging vp of youth in Ientlemen and Noble mens houses, and commodious also for all such, as haue forgot the Latin tonge, and would, by themselues, without a Scholemaster, in short tyme, and with small paines, recouer a sufficient habilitie, to vnderstand, write, and speake Latin.
ref: 1570, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster:
glosses: Obsolete form of ability.
couteres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coutere
abilitie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abilities
Senses: examples: text: Sondry and reasonable be the causes why learned men haue vsed to offer and dedicate such workes as they put abrode, to some such personage as they thinke fittest, either in respect of abilitie of defense, or skill for iugement, or priuate regard of kindenesse and dutie.
ref: 1570, Margaret Ascham, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster, foreword:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of ability.
kindenesse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kindenesses
Senses: examples: text: Sondry and reasonable be the causes why learned men haue vsed to offer and dedicate such workes as they put abrode, to some such personage as they thinke fittest, either in respect of abilitie of defense, or skill for iugement, or priuate regard of kindenesse and dutie.
ref: 1570, Margaret Ascham, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster, foreword:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of kindness.
remembryng
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: For well remembryng how much all good learnyng oweth vnto you for defense therof, as the Vniuersitie of Cambrige, of which my said late husband was a member, haue in chosing you their worthy Chaunceller acknowledged, and how happily you haue spent your time in such studies & caried the vse therof to the right ende...
ref: 1570, Margaret Ascham, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster, foreword:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of remembering.
learnyng
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: For well remembryng how much all good learnyng oweth vnto you for defense therof, as the Vniuersitie of Cambrige, of which my said late husband was a member, haue in chosing you their worthy Chaunceller acknowledged, and how happily you haue spent your time in such studies & caried the vse therof to the right ende...
ref: 1570, Margaret Ascham, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster, foreword:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of learning.
Cambrige
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: For well remembryng how much all good learnyng oweth vnto you for defense therof, as the Vniuersitie of Cambrige, of which my said late husband was a member, haue in chosing you their worthy Chaunceller acknowledged, and how happily you haue spent your time in such studies & caried the vse therof to the right ende...
ref: 1570, Margaret Ascham, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster, foreword:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of Cambridge.
contries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contrey
unguiculus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unguiculi
Senses: glosses: A diminutive claw or similar appendage at the end of an insect's foot.
benefites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benefite
thyrdly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: ...thyrdly how much my sayd husband was many wayes bound vnto you, and how gladly and comfortably he vsed in hys lyfe to recognise and report your goodnesse toward hym, leauyng with me then hys poore widow and a great sort of orphanes a good comfort in the hope of your good continuance...
ref: 1570, Margaret Ascham, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster, foreword:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of thirdly.
leavyng
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: ...thyrdly how much my sayd husband was many wayes bound vnto you, and how gladly and comfortably he vsed in hys lyfe to recognise and report your goodnesse toward hym, leauyng with me then hys poore widow and a great sort of orphanes a good comfort in the hope of your good continuance...
ref: 1570, Margaret Ascham, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster, foreward:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of leaving.
orphane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orphanes
Senses: examples: text: ...thyrdly how much my sayd husband was many wayes bound vnto you, and how gladly and comfortably he vsed in hys lyfe to recognise and report your goodnesse toward hym, leauyng with me then hys poore widow and a great sort of orphanes a good comfort in the hope of your good continuance...
ref: 1570, Margaret Ascham, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster, foreword:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of orphan.
unchristianise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unchristianises
form: unchristianising
form: unchristianised
form: unchristianised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unchristianize.
unchristianised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unchristianise
unchristianises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unchristianise
unchristianising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unchristianise
spectacled flowerpecker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spectacled flowerpeckers
Senses: glosses: A species of flowerpecker, Dicaeum dayakorum, native to the rainforests of Borneo.
spectacled flowerpeckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spectacled flowerpecker
keysmash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈki.smæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: keysmashes
Etymology: From key + smash.
Senses: examples: text: Even keysmash, that haphazard mashing of fingers against keyboard to signal a feeling so intense that you can't possibly type real words, has patterns. A typical keysmash might look like "asdljklgafdlik." or "asdfkfjas;dfs"—quite distinct from, say, a cat walking across the keyboard […]
ref: 2019, Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, Riverhead Books, →ISBN, page 6:
text: These seemingly nonsensical turns of phrase carry intricate meanings: the keysmash "sksksk" can be described as an awkward laugh, […]
ref: 2019, Alexa Atlas, "VSCO girl trend takes over East hallways", Eastside (Cherry Hill High School East), October/November 2019, page 21
text: And it's more pronounceable than a traditional keysmash—“as;ldfkjls”—so it can be said out loud.
ref: 2020 January 4, Zachary Jaggers, “3 Internet language trends from 2019, explained”, in Business Mirror, page A10:
synonyms: keyboard smash
glosses: A haphazard striking of keys on a keyboard to convey frustration, laughter, or other emotion; the text so produced.
keysmash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈki.smæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: keysmashes
form: keysmashing
form: keysmashed
form: keysmashed
Etymology: From key + smash.
Senses: examples: text: […] or I keysmash my feelings away every time there is an attractive picture of them that surfaced on the internet and since every picture is an attractive picture, let's just say my keyboard knows the pain I have to go through.
ref: 2013 February, Olivia Solomon, “Idol Worship and the Life Ruiners of Ecosoc”, in Echoes, University of the Philippines, page 50:
text: It's an abbreviation of the word "feelings," probably because it's easier to type a five letter word or to keysmash.
ref: 2013, Carolyn Hsu, "JustTumblrLanguage.Tumblr.com", The Apache Pow Wow (Arcadia High School, Arcadia, California), Volume 61, Issue 3, November 2013, page 17
text: I also heard from several people who use the Dvorak keyboard, where the home row begins with vowels rather than ASDF, who reported that they just don't bother keysmashing anymore at all because their layout makes it socially illegible.
ref: 2020, Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, page 7:
glosses: To type aggressively or randomly mash keys on a keyboard.
keysmashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keysmash
cox box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cox boxes
Etymology: From cox + box, coined as a brand name.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
glosses: An electronic device with a digital readout displaying the stroke rate and a voice amplifier allowing the coxswain to give instructions to the crew.
cox boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cox box
head-race
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head-races
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of headrace.
head-races
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of head-race
head race
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head races
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of headrace.
head races
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of head race
Horkheimerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Horkheimerian
form: most Horkheimerian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Max Horkheimer (1895–1973), German philosopher and sociologist.
breadboardable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more breadboardable
form: most breadboardable
Etymology: From breadboard + -able.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: That can be installed on a breadboard.
raw_tags: of an electronic board or component
unrespective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrespective
form: most unrespective
Etymology: From un- + respective.
Senses: examples: text: "A gentleman, please Sir," said the blushing Mary, (or Poll as some unrespective and light-minded persons have misnamed her), and the gentleman entered.
ref: 1833 The Pilgrim Brothers [signed Timotheus Scribewell], Romances of Chivalric Ages, H. Cope, page iv
glosses: disrespectful
Ostap
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Ukrainian Оста́п (Ostáp), ultimately from Ancient Greek Εὐστάθιος (Eustáthios). Doublet of Eustace.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Russian or Ukrainian male given name Оста́п (Ostáp).
Vadym
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vadim
Etymology: Transliteration of Ukrainian Вади́м (Vadým).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from the Slavic languages, equivalent to English Bademus.
wikipedia: Vadym
get the nod
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets the nod
form: getting the nod
form: got the nod
form: got the nod
form: gotten the nod
Senses: examples: text: Burnley's Nick Pope got the nod in goal but he barely touched the ball in the entire game. This was a cap and clean sheet for this talented keeper but nothing else.
ref: 2021 March 25, Phil McNulty, “England 5-0 San Marino”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: be selected; be approved
qualifier: literal
glosses: be signaled; get the message or signal
adiabatic cooling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: expansion cooling
Cape Fear
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A promontory of the coast of North Carolina.
glosses: A region of North Carolina surrounding Wilmington, adjacent to the cape.
faith supper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faith suppers
Senses: synonyms: Jacob's join
glosses: A potluck (shared meal where everybody contributes something) held by members of a church.
faith suppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faith supper
orphanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orphane
worthynesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of worthynesse