cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
overshare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overshares
form: oversharing
form: overshared
form: overshared
Etymology: From over- + share.
Senses: antonyms: undershare
glosses: To share too much or in excess.
examples: text: "I've been told by certain people that I have a tendency to overshare with strangers. I hope I haven't bored you with the details of my life.
ref: 2007, Carol Culver, Manderley Prep, page 25:
text: To be clear, I love Twitter. It is the culture of oversharing and status anxiety that disturbs me. And that is inseparable from the grip of social media.
ref: 2012 December 10, Roger Cohen, “Time to Tune Out”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: More often than not, the person does know the “offending” parent and has been pushed to the edge. If a submitter says, “This person never usually overshares,” I’ll take that into consideration and might not run the submission. But most of the time, that’s not the case. Once a poop picture oversharer, always a poop picture oversharer.
ref: 2013 April 2, CNN Living Staff, “Beware the parental overshare”, in CNN:
text: I’ve overshared about my mother in print. Let me briefly reshare. It’s complicated.
ref: 2018 January 23, John Sutherland, “Oversharing has its perils, but telling all about my mother worked for me”, in The Guardian:
text: Most parents do not overshare online because they are malicious; they simply have not fully considered the significance of their child’s digital footprint.
ref: 2020 August 4, Stacey Steinberg, “Why Parents Should Pause Before Oversharing Online”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To offer inappropriate disclosure concerning one's personal life to others, now especially on social media.
Derived terms: oversharent
oversharer
oversharey
Related terms: too much information
trauma dump
overshare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overshares
Etymology: From over- + share.
Senses: examples: text: In light-hearted cases, the response to an overshare may be the collective online “Ewwww!” and some online needling.
ref: 2019, Management Association, Information Resources, Cyber Law, Privacy, and Security, page 635:
text: The sore throat was because of his late night and deep connection with another woman, which he confessed to Zerrin in an honest but unsolicited overshare.
ref: 2021 October 22, Kayla Ringelheim, “Two Wrongs Don’t Make Mr. Right”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: An instance of sharing or divulging too much.
unsubtly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unsubtly
form: most unsubtly
Etymology: From unsubtle + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In fact, anxiety about female sexuality might be considered a displaced version of anxiety about female authority, insofar as a causative relation between these two can ever be established. Accusations of sexual impropriety often were unsubtly coded attacks on women's perceived dominance over men in a nonsexual sphere.
ref: 1994, M. Lindsey Kaplan, Katherine Eggert, ““Good queen, my lord, good queen” - Sexual Slander and the Trials of Female Authority in “The Winter's Tale””, in Renaissance Drama, volume 25, →DOI, page 90 of 89–118:
glosses: In an unsubtle manner.
panser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pansers
Etymology: From Old French pansiere, from panse (“belly”).
Senses: glosses: A piece of armour for the abdomen.
stonehard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: stone-hard
Etymology: From Middle English ston-hard, ston-harde, from Old English *stānheard, equivalent to stone + hard.
Senses: examples: text: To stare into his cold stonehard heart.
ref: 1998, Oliver Stone, A Child's Night Dream, →ISBN, page 51:
text: The second patient of Cosmas and Damian was suffering from a stone-hard tumour in the breast, that had given rise to a contraction around the nipple.
ref: 2013, D. de Moulin, A short history of breast cancer, page 12:
glosses: Hard as stone
geopathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more geopathic
form: most geopathic
Etymology: From geo- + -pathic.
Senses: examples: text: This informative book will help you protect your health and well-being at home and at work, by explaining what GS is and how its energies react with the body;
ref: 1996, Jane Thurnell-Read, Geopathic Stress: How Earth Energies Affect Our Lives:
text: GEOPATHIC STRESS / The Earth has its own subtle energy field and meridians (called ley lines). If the earth's grid is disturbed, creating geopathic stress
ref: 2002, Judy Hall, Crystal User's Handbook: An Illustrated Guide, page 72:
text: As geopathic stress often occurs in thin bands, relocating the bed elsewhere
ref: 2007, Herbert Ross with Keri Brenner, Alternative Medicine Magazine's Definitive Guide to Sleep Disorders, page 172:
glosses: Relating to the theory that natural irregularities in the earth's magnetic field can be intensified by power lines, underground pipelines, and other natural and man-made features such that a stress field harmful to human health and well-being is created.
naiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naïfness
form: naïveness
Etymology: From naive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Rare form of naïveté.
quality-adjusted life years
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quality-adjusted life year
naivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of naivety and nativity.
Masaka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A district in central Uganda.
Mityana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A district in central Uganda.
Mpigi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A district in central Uganda.
Mubende
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A district in central Uganda.
dincha
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪnt͡ʃə/
Etymology: From didn't + -cha.
Senses: examples: text: "It's like lookin' at a nakid lady," she said. "It ain't." "Dincha ever see one?"
ref: 1937, Whit Burnett, Martha Foley, Story:
text: "Thought you'd seen the last of me, dincha, girlie?" Clay Larsson leered down at Shane and me.
ref: 2001, Jenny Carroll, Code Name Cassandra:
glosses: Didn't you.
Related terms: dontcha
uncollar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncollars
form: uncollaring
form: uncollared
form: uncollared
Etymology: From un- + collar.
Senses: glosses: To remove a collar from.
uncollars
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uncollar
uncollaring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uncollar
uncollared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uncollar
uncollared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not collared; without a collar.
cinéfilm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cinéfilms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cinefilm.
cinéfilms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cinéfilm
cinefilm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cinefilms
Etymology: From cine- + film.
Senses: glosses: Any of various obsolete film formats, including 8 mm, 9.5 mm, 16 mm, and Super 8, formerly much used for making home movies to be viewed on a projector.
glosses: A film recorded on this medium.
Hypernyms: film
cinefilm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cinefilms
form: cinefilming
form: cinefilmed
form: cinefilmed
Etymology: From cine- + film.
Senses: glosses: To record onto cinefilm.
cinefilms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cinefilm
cine film
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cine films
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cinefilm.
ciné film
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ciné films
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cinefilm.
cine films
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cine film
ciné films
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ciné film
greengrocers' apostrophes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greengrocers' apostrophe
greengrocery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greengroceries
Etymology: From greengrocer + -y, alternatively blend of greengrocer + grocery.
Senses: examples: text: Where greengrocery is concerned there is a distinction between the sale in the shops or in special greengrocery shops […]
ref: 1925, Theodor Cassau, J F Mills, The Consumers' Co-operative Movement in Germany:
glosses: The trade of a greengrocer.
examples: text: When William was twenty-four and Emma was twenty-three, they were married and took over a greengrocery in Stratford.
ref: 2004, Patrick McGilligan, Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light:
glosses: A greengrocer's shop.
Synonyms: sense: store
word: greengrocer's
greengroceries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greengrocery
greengroceries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The commodities sold by a greengrocer or in a greengrocery (fresh fruit and vegetables).
foggetaboutit
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈɡɛdəˌbaʊ.dɪt/
Forms: form: fuggedaboudit
form: fuhgeddaboudit
form: fuhgetaboutit
Etymology: Based on a New York City accent, and associated with Italian gangsters; popularized by media like Donnie Brasco (1997) and The Sopranos (1999–2007).
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of forget about it.
French honeysuckle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: French honeysuckles
Senses: glosses: A perennial herb, Hedysarum coronarium, native to Northern Africa and Spain.
Synonyms: cock's head
sulla clover
Spanish sanfoin
demonstrative determiners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demonstrative determiner
afwillite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: afwillites
Etymology: Alpheus Fuller Williams (1874-1953) of the De Beers diamond company, and -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A calcium hydroxide nesosilicate mineral, occurring as glassy, colourless to white prismatic monoclinic crystals.
afwillites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of afwillite
romanèchite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: romanèchites
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of romanechite.
romanèchites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of romanèchite
menoroth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɪˈnɔːɹət/
Senses: examples: text: Representations of five-branched menoroth are uncommon in such reliefs, although they are found on mosaic floors, lamps, etc.²⁶
[…] human heads (Pl. 62: C), probably decorative inlays for wooden boxes; a glass bracelet ornamented with menoroth; a mirror frame made of soft limestone and carved with two pillars supporting a gable; and an incense burner […]
ref: 1974: Israel Miśrad ha-ḥinukh ṿeha-tarbut, the Department of Antiquities and Museums, Ḥevrah la-ḥaḳirat Erets-Yiśraʾel ṿe-ʻatiḳoteha, and Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim Makhon le-arkheʾologyah, Israel Exploration Journal, volumes 24–25 (1974–1975), pages 195 & 284 (Israel Exploration Society)
text: It was much larger than the niche or aediculae, and, therefore, could house the Ark and probably the menoroth which were also needed in the ceremony.
ref: 1985?: Nicola N. Hubbard, Holocene Settlement in the Western Cape, South Africa, № 498, page 347 (BAR International Series)
text: Three plaques are decorated with menoroth (IS15.1-3; Figure II-35; Pls. II-65-66). On one plaque, two menoroth flank a Torah shrine; one has the menorah carved under the façade of a structure; on another a menorah is flanked by birds and architectural designs.
ref: 2001, Rachel Hachlili, The Menorah, the Ancient Seven-armed Candelabrum: Origin, Form, and Significance, BRILL, →ISBN, page 104, →ISBN:
glosses: plural of menorah
lollingite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lollingites
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of löllingite.
lollingites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lollingite
loadable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From load + -able.
Senses: examples: text: This operating system can run a loadable image.
glosses: Capable of being loaded.
Derived terms: unloadable
löllingite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loellingite
form: lollingite
Etymology: Lölling, Austria, where it was first described, and -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An iron arsenide mineral often found with arsenopyrite.
Synonyms: leucopyrite
löllingites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of löllingite
loellingite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loellingites
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of löllingite.
loellingites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loellingite
leucopyrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leucopyrites
Etymology: From leuco- + pyrite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: löllingite.
leucopyrites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leucopyrite
lorgnettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lorgnette
Lapps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lapp
National Socialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of German Nationalsozialismus.
Senses: glosses: The ideology of the Nazi Party, including an authoritarian government, ethnic nationalism (including but not limited to Pan-Germanism) and adequate territory (Lebensraum), and economic cooperation between the state and capital.
glosses: The ideology of any other (neo-)Nazi party; Nazism.
Synonyms: Nazism
Hitlerism
Strasserism
Derived terms: National Socialist
Related terms: Nazi
qandilite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An opaque black metallic mineral with the chemical formula (Mg,Fe)₂(Ti,Fe,Al)O₄.
qilianshanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A soft colourless monoclinic mineral with the chemical formula NaHCO₃·H₃BO₃·2H₂O.
lateralling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lateraling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lateral
lateralled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lateraled
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lateral
qitianlingite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A black orthorhombic mineral with the chemical formula (Fe,Mn)₂(Nb,Ta)₂WO₁₀.
lateraling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lateralling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lateral
qingheiite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qingheiites
Etymology: From Mandarin [Term?] + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A complex yellow or green mineral with vitreous lustre.
qingheiites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of qingheiite
ollied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ollie
lateraled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lateralled
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lateral
beer hall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beer halls
Senses: glosses: A large German public house that specialises in beer.
beer halls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beer hall
microbreweries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microbrewery
microbrewer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microbrewers
Etymology: From micro- + brewer.
Senses: glosses: The person or company that operates a microbrewery.
microbrewers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microbrewer
bock beers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bock beer
limbos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of limbo
lapidaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lapidary
skatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more skatable
form: most skatable
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of skateable.
cyberpunks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberpunk
skateable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more skateable
form: most skateable
Etymology: From skate + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The lack of skateable ice outdoors also prevented the Club giving its usual set of races to help encourage this sport and keep up interest.
ref: 1919, New York Athletic Club, The Winged Foot:
text: I thought about the strips of ice, beautiful skateable ice, that emerged from underneath his shovel as he cleared the deep, powdery snow off our pond.
ref: 2001, Margaret A Salinger, Dream Catcher: A Memoir:
text: When the skaters are out in public, while you guys see it as a curb, stairs, a handrail, a bank, or a ledge, we look at it as, Is it skateable?
ref: 2005, Robert MacNeil, William Cran, Robert McCrum, Do You Speak American?:
glosses: Suitable for skating (or skateboarding) upon.
Levenshtein distances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Levenshtein distance
edit distance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: edit distances
Senses: examples: text: We introduce an exact formula for the maximum number of common supersequences shared by sequences at a certain edit distance, yielding an upper bound on the number of distinct traces necessary to guarantee exact reconstruction.
ref: 2016, Frederic Sala, Ryan Gabrys, Clayton Schoeny, Lara Dolecek, “Exact Reconstruction from Insertions in Synchronization Codes”, in arXiv:
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of string distance.
synonyms: word: string distance
edit distances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of edit distance
unencoded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + encoded.
Senses: glosses: Not encoded.
Chvostek sign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chvostek signs
Etymology: Named after František Chvostek, Austrian-born surgeon who described it.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the signs of tetany seen in hypocalcemia. When the facial nerve is tapped at the angle of the jaw (i.e. masseter muscle), the facial muscles on the same side of the face contract momentarily.
Related terms: Weiss sign
high score
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high scores
form: hi-score
Senses: examples: text: There's a fine bit of strategy involved in maximising your points — and if ever there was a high score freak's dream, this is it!
ref: 1986, Rachael Smith, Bomb Jack (review in Your Sinclair magazine)
text: To make the game more interesting, let's create a personal score display that matches the global high score display.
ref: 2002, Jesse Jacobson, Flash and XML: A Developer's Guide:
topics: video-games
glosses: A score that is the highest or among the highest for a particular game, often recorded in a high-score table.
high scores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of high score
high-score table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high-score tables
Senses: topics: video-games
synonyms: hall of fame
glosses: A list of high scores presented in tabular format.
high-score tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of high-score table
high score table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high score tables
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of high-score table.
high score tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of high score table
boot loaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boot loader
bootloader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bootloaders
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of boot loader.
bootloaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bootloader
penmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penman
demonises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of demonise
demonising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of demonise
demonised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of demonise
meese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /miːs/
rhymes: -iːs
Etymology: Pluralization of moose on the pattern of Germanic strong declension nouns such as goose → geese, tooth → teeth, foot → feet, and the similarly jocularly-formed shoop → sheep.
Senses: glosses: plural of moose
meese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /miːs/
rhymes: -iːs
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch mees.
Senses: glosses: A titmouse.
concretizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of concretize
concretizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of concretize
concretized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of concretize
IRCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of IRC
IRCs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of IRC
IRCing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of IRC
IRCed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of IRC
Magnoxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Magnox
deoxidise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deoxidises
form: deoxidising
form: deoxidised
form: deoxidised
Etymology: From de- + oxidise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of deoxidize.
deoxidises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deoxidise
deoxidising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deoxidise
deoxidised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deoxidise
deoxidize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deoxidizes
form: deoxidizing
form: deoxidized
form: deoxidized
Etymology: From de- + oxidize.
Senses: glosses: (chemistry) To remove oxygen from.
Derived terms: deoxidizer
deoxidizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deoxidize
deoxidizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deoxidize
deoxidized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deoxidize
web-footed geckos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of web-footed gecko
pre-release
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of prerelease.
prerelease
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + release.
Senses: examples: text: They were aided by beta testers, ordinary people outside the company who were willing to try prerelease software and report bugs […]
ref: 2004, William Poundstone, How Would You Move Mount Fuji?:
text: In both years, only 10 to 12 percent had participated in formal prerelease programs designed to prepare prisoners for the transition from life in prison […]
ref: 2006, Mary Pattillo, David Weiman, Bruce Western, Imprisoning America: The Social Effects of Mass Incarceration:
glosses: Before release.
prerelease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prereleases
Etymology: From pre- + release.
Senses: glosses: A preliminary version of a work, released in advance.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: An inadvertent (premature) release of a skiboot from the bindings of a ski, caused by excessive vibration, such as going over an extremely bumpy piste.
prerelease
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prereleases
form: prereleasing
form: prereleased
form: prereleased
Etymology: From pre- + release.
Senses: glosses: To release in advance
weather forecasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weather forecaster
wedding fingers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wedding finger
web beacons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of web beacon
quart-pots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quart-pot
couriering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of courier
couriered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of courier
invariant noun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: invariant nouns
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A noun in which number is not marked; that is, a noun which does not change form in the plural, such as, in English, fish and series.
Related terms: mass noun
singulare tantum
plurale tantum
invariant nouns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of invariant noun
cannonballing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cannonball
cannonballed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cannonball
channelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: channeling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of channel
channelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: channellings
form: channeling
Senses: examples: text: The course of these channellings or furrows is southwest and northeast; they cross the present channel of the river obliquely, and appear upon the north as well as the south side.
ref: 1842, William Williams Mather, Ebenezer Emmons, Lardner Vanuxem, Geology of New York:
glosses: A channel or furrow.
examples: text: The medium claimed to have taken part in channellings of the spirits of the dead.
glosses: The act by which something is channelled.
chain saw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chain saws
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chainsaw.
chain saws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chain saw
telepath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telepaths
Etymology: From telepathy.
Senses: topics: literature
media
parapsychology
pseudoscience
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A person with telepathic ability, capable of reading the thoughts of others around them. Telepaths also have the ability to project thought.
Synonyms: word: teep
english: typ. negative or ironic
translation: typ. negative or ironic
word: mind-reader
telepath
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: telepaths
form: telepathing
form: telepathed
form: telepathed
Etymology: From telepathy.
Senses: examples: text: Jan. 3rd, 1984.—I was in the front sitting-room and dare not go out of the room for the cold; my plants were awfully dry, and hearing E. [her niece] in the kitchen, I telepathed to her to bring me in some water. She at once came with a jug full and asked if I would water the plants.
ref: 1896 October, “A Diary of Telepathic Impressions”, in Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, volume 7, number 132, page 300:
text: He does not attribute one single experience to what we might term a "ghost" for lack of a better term. Witches, poltergeists, goblins, gremlins, fairies, dwarfs—all of them are real, physical, alive, being either the real thing or the teleported or telepathed image of the real thing.
ref: 1947 June, Raymond A. Palmer, “Observatory”, in Amazing Stories, volume 21, number 6, page 9:
text: Thanos: "Did you not suspect I could tell you had been telepathing?"
ref: 1973 February, Stan Lee, Iron Man, number 55
text: In your mind you have capacities you know / To telepath messages through the vast unknown
ref: 1976, John Woloschuk and Terry Draper, “Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft”, in 3:47 EST, performed by Klaatu:
topics: literature
media
parapsychology
pseudoscience
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: To communicate by thought; to use telepathy.
Synonyms: teep
Related terms: empath
technopath
cyberpath
telepaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telepath
telepaths
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of telepath
go to the wall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes to the wall
form: going to the wall
form: went to the wall
form: gone to the wall
Etymology: From a fight or military retreating until they cannot escape; see have one's back to the wall and retreat to the wall doctrine in common law.
Senses: examples: text: He'll be the one who goes to the wall when it's needed.
text: He's always been willing to go to the wall for his friends.
text: That was the one point he was willing to go to the wall on.
glosses: To make an all-out effort.
examples: text: While he was doing his stories, and « getting on » in the world, Tevershall was going to the wall.
ref: 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter IX, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC, page 125:
text: That may be cold comfort for the many import-reliant businesses that have gone to the wall as a result of the rial’s recent plunge of 40% against the dollar [...]
ref: 2012 October 13, “Iran and its currency crisis: A comeback for the reformers?”, in The Economist:
glosses: To fail, to run out of options. (especially of a business)
glosses: To be put aside or forgotten.
glosses: To take an extreme and determined position or measure.
Related terms: have one's back to the wall
retreat to the wall
balls to the wall
go to the mat
up against the wall
asperser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aspersers
Etymology: From asperse + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who asperses.
direct mail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of advertising mail.
synonyms: word: advertising mail
advertising mail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: admail
direct mail
qualifier: postal
glosses: Mail that is directly sent to recipients to advertise goods and services.
Related terms: mailing list
mail merge
admail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ad + mail.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of advertising mail.
synonyms: word: advertising mail
aplustre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈplʌstriː/
Forms: form: aplustres
Etymology: From Latin aplustre.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An ornamental appendage of wood at the stern of a Roman ship, usually spreading like a fan and curved like a bird's feather.
symploce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪmploʊsi/
Forms: form: symploces
Etymology: From Ancient Greek συμπλοκή (sumplokḗ, “interweaving”).
Senses: examples: text: Symploce sometimes Anaphora will join
With Epistrophe, and both in one combine.
ref: 1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Turns.] Symploce.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 77:
hypernyms: epanaphora
antistrophe
glosses: The repetition of one word or phrase at the beginning and another word or phrase at the end of successive phrases or clauses.
dubieties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dubiety
MIRV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MIRVs
Senses: examples: text: Picking up where we had left off at Vladivostok, we discussed verification of underground nuclear tests that each side could conduct, and also the rules for counting MIRVs — how to tell whether a missile had a single or a multiple warhead. There the Soviets granted a concession. If they placed a MIRV in a certain location, then we had the right to assume that every missile in that field had a MIRV capability.
ref: 1980, Gerald Ford, A Time to Heal, New York: Berkley Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 294:
text: The M.I.R.V. is a tactical nuke. Uh, fifty kilotons, nominal yield, say… five times Hiroshima.
ref: 1989, James Cameron, The Abyss (motion picture), spoken by Lt. Hiram Coffey (Michael Biehn):
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of multiple independently-targettable reentry vehicle; the independently targettable reentry capsule for a ballistic missile's payload, typically a nuclear weapon, where the missile has multiple instances of such.
Derived terms: MIRV missile
Related terms: MRV
RV
MRV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MRVs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of multiple reentry vehicle: the reentry capsule for a ballistic missile's payload, typically a nuclear weapon, where the missile has multiple instances of such, but can only target one site with all reentry vehicles.
Derived terms: MIRV
MRV missile
Related terms: RV
SLBM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SLBMs
Senses: examples: text: The Circular Error Probable (CEPs) of SLBMs and SLCMs ought thus to be deliberately kept above the 'Hard Target Kill' (HTK) level.
ref: 1989, Marlies ter Borg-Neervoort, Wim Smit, Non-provocative Defence as a Principle of Arms Reduction:
topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: Initialism of submarine-launched ballistic missile.
Coordinate terms: ALBM
ABM
ICBM
LRBM
IRBM
MRBM
SRBM
LRBM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LRBMs
Senses: topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: Initialism of long range ballistic missile.
Coordinate terms: ABM
SLBM
ICBM
IRBM
MRBM
SRBM
IRBM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IRBMs
Senses: topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: Initialism of intermediate-range ballistic missile.
Coordinate terms: ABM
SLBM
ICBM
LRBM
MRBM
SRBM
MRBM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MRBMs
Senses: topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: Initialism of medium range ballistic missile.
Coordinate terms: ABM
SLBM
ICBM
IRBM
LRBM
SRBM
SRBM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SRBMs
Senses: topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: Initialism of short-range ballistic missile.
Coordinate terms: ABM
SLBM
ICBM
IRBM
LRBM
MRBM
bad hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bad hats
Senses: examples: text: Since Sam was known as a man with a hot temper and the sand to back it up, the bad-hat decided he'd pick on Roy.
ref: 1999, Charley F. Eckhardt, Tales of Badmen, Bad Women, and Bad Places: Four Centuries of Texas Outlawry:
glosses: A maker of mischief.
Synonyms: troublemaker
templated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of template
templated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Some neuropsychologists ask their psychometrists to write sections of the report, such as filling in a templated behavioral observation section.
ref: 2021, Christine S. Ghilain, A Neuropsychologist’s Guide to Training Psychometrists:
glosses: Based on or involving a template.
examples: text: The formation of carceplex 13 . guest was found to be a templated process, as indicated by the absence of any empty carcerand (13) in any of the product mixtures [22].
ref: 2008, François Diederich, Peter J. Stang, Templated Organic Synthesis, page 112:
glosses: Based on or involving a template.
Of a synthesis process, performed by means of a molecular template.
qualifier: molecular biology
examples: text: A templated method cannot be virtual.
ref: 2019, Andrew Hilton, Anne Bracy, All of Programming, page 351:
text: You can indicate that a class is a templated (also called parameterized) class by drawing a dashed rectangle in the upper-right corner of the class .
ref: 2005, Dan Pilone, Neil Pitman, UML 2.0 in a Nutshell, page 32:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Based on or involving a template.
Based on a template that is instantiated by means of parameters; parametrized.
examples: text: A templated ellipsoidal, equipped with a window template, produces that pattern of light on the floor, and can define the scene's location as an interior.
ref: 2013, Steven Shelley, A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting, page 14:
glosses: Based on or involving a template.
Using a device that is inserted into an ellipsoidal lighting instrument in order to break up or texture the quality of the light.
qualifier: stage lighting
troponin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: troponins
Etymology: From tropomyosin. Coined by the Japanese researcher Setsuro Ebashi in 1963.http://jb.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol59/issue4/index.dtl
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A complex of three regulatory proteins that is integral to muscle contraction in skeletal and cardiac muscle, or any member of this complex. The level of troponin in the blood is often used as an indicator of heart damage.
toughnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toughness
troponins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of troponin
templating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of template
tetramethylrhodamines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetramethylrhodamine
tetramethylrhodamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetramethylrhodamines
Etymology: From tetramethyl + rhodamine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A rhodamine in which four hydrogens have been replaced by methyl groups. Forms such as tetramethylrhodamine dextran are often used as fluorescent tracer dyes in cell research.
Synonyms: TAMRA
thyroglossal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒsəl
Etymology: From thyro- + glossal. Back-formation from "thyroglossal duct", from New Latin ductus thyroglossalis.
Senses: examples: a thyroglossal carcinoma
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the thyroglossal duct
Derived terms: thyroglossal cyst
thyroglossal duct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thyroglossal ducts
Etymology: Calque of New Latin ductus thyroglossalis
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An embryonic anatomical structure which connects the initial area of development of the thyroid gland to its final position
Synonyms: thyrolingual duct
ductus thyroglossus
thyroglossal ducts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thyroglossal duct
Kumyk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kumyks
Senses: glosses: A member of a Turkic-speaking ethnic group living predominantly in Dagestan.
Kumyk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a Turkic language spoken by the Kumyks in the Dagestan region of the Russian Federation.
amphictyony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amphictyonies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀμφικτυονία (amphiktuonía), from ἀμφί (amphí, “around, near”) + κτίζω (ktízō, “I found, people”).
Senses: glosses: A religious foundation or co-operative shared between Greek city states during the classical period, typically to support the temple or cult of a deity shared by the city states. Also used academically to refer to similar arrangements in non-Greek cultures.
doomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈduːmə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -uːmə(ɹ)
homophone: duma
Forms: form: doomers
Etymology: From doom + -er. The more recent sense was popularized via a meme, “30 Year-Old Boomer”. The derivations of which are other words that end in -oomer, describing various personality types.
Senses: examples: text: Those who suggest the likely return of the four horsemen of the apocalypse (famine, pestilence, war, and death) are more vocal than ever before despite being labeled Malthusian or just "doomer."
ref: 2009, David Holmgren, Future Scenarios, Chelsea Green:
text: […] while a Minnesotan in her early thirties summed up the general influence of apocalyptic popular culture: “I think it has made me more of a doomer. […]
ref: 2015, Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Peak Oil: Apocalyptic Environmentalism and Libertarian Political Culture, page 114:
hypernyms: peaknik
peakist
glosses: One who believes that petroleum depletion will inevitably lead to a severe recession or depression, followed by a Malthusian catastrophe.
examples: text: Doomers, meanwhile, are the nihilistic cousins of “Bloomers” and “Gloomers,” all three gradients of the same 20-something. Whereas Bloomers are well adjusted and Gloomers are depressed because they are not, Doomers have simply stopped trying. They are no longer pursuing friendships or relationships, and get no joy from anything because they know that the world is coming to an end.
ref: 2020 February 3, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “The Misogynistic Joke That Became a Goth-Meme Fairy Tale”, in The Atlantic:
text: Tim Joung, a 20-year-old student in New York, agrees with almost everything that so-called doomers believe: individual action makes little difference, and unscrupulous corporations are at fault for climate change.
ref: 2020 September 21, Alexandra Villarreal, “Meet the doomers: why some young US voters have given up hope on climate”, in The Guardian:
text: Today Yudkowsky is regarded as a leader of the “doomers”, a faction whose members believe that superintelligent AI will be unambiguously bad for humanity and perhaps even cause our extinction.
ref: 2025 March 5, J. Oliver Conroy, “They wanted to save us from a dark AI future. Then six people were killed”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Someone who is apathetic or has a negative prospect towards the world.
examples: text: Are not the heavens doomers of men's deedes?
ref: 1590, T[homas] L[odge], Rosalynde. Euphues Golden Legacie: […], London: […] Thomas Orwin for T. G[ubbin] and John Busbie, →OCLC; republished [Glasgow]: [ […] Hunterian Club], [1876], →OCLC:
text: That fatal look of a common intelligence, of a common assent, was exchanged among the doomers of the prisoner's life and death, as the judge concluded.
ref: 1869, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Prose Works:
glosses: One who, or that which, dooms.
Derived terms: doomerism
doomerist
Related terms: doomist
doomism
gloom-and-doomer
black pill
doomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doomer
amphictyonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amphictyony
length overall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lengths overall
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Length of a ship from bow to stern.
antiepileptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + epileptic.
Senses: examples: text: This drug has an antiepileptic effect.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Acting to prevent epileptic seizures
Hypernyms: anticonvulsant
Derived terms: antiepileptically
antiepileptic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiepileptics
Etymology: From anti- + epileptic.
Senses: examples: text: He was prescribed a course of antiepileptics.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A drug which acts to prevent epileptic seizures
Related terms: neurostabilizer
antiglycolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + glycolytic.
Senses: examples: text: The most common antiglycolytic agent is sodium fluoride.
ref: 2007, Ruth E. McCall, Cathee M. Tankersley, Phlebotomy Essentials, →ISBN, page 527:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Acting to prevent glycolysis
antimaternal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antimaternal
form: most antimaternal
Etymology: From anti- + maternal.
Senses: examples: text: The eponymous "Unnatural Mother," for one, certainly seems to show an antimaternal rather than a maternal reflex when she rapidly and automatically acts to save her town rather than her own child.
ref: 2007, Jill Rudd, Val Gough, Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Optimist Reformer, →ISBN, page 207:
glosses: Having characteristics opposite those associated with maternity
examples: an antimaternal antibody
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to an immune response against the mother
antiterrorism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + terrorism.
Senses: examples: text: Antiterrorism funding was increased after 2001.
topics: government
law-enforcement
military
politics
war
synonyms: counter-terrorism
glosses: Activity aiming at opposing or preventing terrorism.
Related terms: antiterrorist
arrythmogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of arrhythmogenic.
arrhythmogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more arrhythmogenic
form: most arrhythmogenic
Etymology: From arrhythmia + -genic.
Senses: examples: text: Catecholamines have an arrhythmogenic effect.
topics: cardiology
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Relating to arrhythmogenesis
Derived terms: arrhythmogenicity
nonarrhythmogenic
proarrhythmogenic
Related terms: arrhythmogenesis
antiarrhythmogenic
radiation dose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiation doses
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
hypernyms: dose#Noun
coordinate_terms: radioactivity
activity
exposure
glosses: The amount of radiation that reaches something from a radioactive source, or the effect that that amount has; it can be measured in several ways, three of which are expressed by SI in sieverts (non-SI, in rems) and one of which is expressed by SI in grays (non-SI, in rads).
ionizing radiations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ionizing radiation
Uecker
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ueckers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Uecker.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
absorbed doses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absorbed dose
radiation doses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radiation dose
kiddie cocktails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kiddie cocktail
boat person
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boat people
form: boat persons
Senses: glosses: A member of any of the ethnic or refugee groups known as "boat people".
glosses: Alternative form of boatperson.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see boat, person.
economizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of economize
economized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of economize
equerries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equerry
emergency room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emergency rooms
Senses: topics: government
healthcare
glosses: A department of a hospital where seriously ill or injured patients, often with life-threatening conditions that require urgent or immediate treatment, are brought in, usually by ambulance.
Synonyms: alt: ED
word: emergency department
alt: A&E
word: accident and emergency
word: casualty
alt: EW
word: emergency ward
word: emerg
word: ER
eyering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eyerings
form: eye ring
form: eye-ring
Etymology: From eye + ring.
Senses: glosses: A colored circle around the eye of a bird.
eyerings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eyering