cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
microtopographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microtopographers
Etymology: From micro- + topographer.
Senses: examples: text: More significantly, it has shown that the surface of dielectric paper can be measured with acceptable precision by use of a microtopographer. This instrument may be used to trace over and record the surface of the paper.
ref: 1978, The United States patents quarterly, volume 196, page 18:
glosses: An instrument used to measure the surface topography of small objects.
microtopographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microtopographer
Perate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Perates
form: Peratae
Etymology: Ancient Greek πέρας (péras, “to penetrate”).
Senses: glosses: A member of an ancient Christian Gnostic sect.
Perates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Perate
Peratae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Perate
hypercompensation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypercompensations
Etymology: From hyper- + compensation.
Senses: examples: text: Manifestations of this “protection” can be various. They are — apathy, lack of interest in the surroundings, defiant behavior (hypercompensation of the inferiority complex), etc.
ref: 2008, Vladimir Antonov, Spiritual Work With Children, page 60:
text: This identification gives rise to the ego alienation of the Jew from his original archetypal constellations expressed by the Jewish culture; therefore the frequent processes of unconscious hypercompensations become sources of neurosis.
ref: 2011, Andrew Samuels, Psychopathology: Contemporary Jungian Perspectives, page 317:
glosses: Excessive compensation for something.
Related terms: hypercompensatory
hypercompensations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypercompensation
Sethianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Sethian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The beliefs and practices of the Sethians.
Sethian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sethians
Etymology: From Seth + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A member of an ancient Christian Gnostic sect who venerated the Biblical Seth, third son of Adam and Eve, depicted in their creation myths as a divine incarnation.
Sethian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sethian
form: most Sethian
Etymology: From Seth + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Sethians
examples: text: But if these hippopotami are Sethian, how could Apophis, a professed follower of Seth, allow this to go on in his own city of Avaris?
ref: 1960, John Gwyn Griffiths, The conflict of Horus and Seth from Egyptian and classical sources: a study in ancient mythology, page 47:
text: At any rate this shows that Sekhemib-Peribsen certainly did not pass into history as a Sethian schismatic or heretic.
ref: 1967, Herman te Velde, Seth, God of Confusion: A Study of His Role in Egyptian Mythology and Religion (volume 6 of Probleme der Ägyptologie), page 73
text: Associated with Horus: in the Late Period the nome-sign is often written with a falcon (Horus) on the back of an oryx, which itself was a Sethian animal.
ref: 1974, Herbert Walter Fairman, The Triumph of Horus: An Ancient Egyptian Sacred Drama, page 124:
synonyms: Setian
Typhonic
Typhonian
antonyms: Osirian
Horian
glosses: Of or relating to the Egyptian god Set
Sethians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sethian
Setian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Setian
form: most Setian
Etymology: From Set + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The Oryx was one of the Setian animals and it was perhaps during the wars of the “Followers of Horus” (i.e., the Falcon people) with the Set clan, towards the end of the IInd Dynasty, that this conquest took place.
ref: 1914, Percy E. Newberry, “Notes on some Egyptian Nome Ensigns and their Historical Significance”, in Ancient Egypt, issue, page 6:
text: Under the New Empire Rameses II, whose father was named Seti, the ‘Setian’, did not hesitate to proclaim himself the ‘Beloved of Set’.
ref: 1959, Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology, page 20:
text: At any rate, Muller goes on to note that when the myth was related to the sea, the latter changed from Osirian to Anti-Osirian, i.e. “Setian” or, Typhonic, to use the later Greek form.
ref: 1970, Henry O. Thompson, Mekal, the God of Beth-Shan, page 135:
synonyms: Sethian
Typhonic
Typhonian
antonyms: Osirian
Horian
glosses: Of or relating to the Egyptian god Set
glosses: Of or relating to the Temple of Set, its members, or its doctrines
Setian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Setians
Etymology: From Set + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Temple of Set, an occultist organization following the left-hand path.
Setians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Setian
Setianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Setian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The beliefs and practices of the Setians.
voken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vokens
Etymology: Blend of virtual + token
Senses: examples: text: […] a Web portal that features voken-style campaigns.
ref: 2004, Keith J. Tuckwell, Canadian Marketing in Action, page 425:
text: He also had a key role in designing and building the eyeReturn Voken engine for online advertising and loyalty programs.
ref: 2005, Shaun Walker, Patrick J. Santry, Joe Brinkman, Professional DotNetNuke ASP.NET Portals, page xxi:
text: Hey, I was approached today asking^([sic]) about Voken ad's and if i knew how they were done.
ref: 2006, Spot3313, “Flash Voken Ads”, in macromedia.flash (Usenet):
glosses: A pop-up advertisement that is displayed over the top of the content but without spawning a separate window.
vokens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voken
yellowhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellowheads
Etymology: From yellow + head.
Senses: glosses: A yellowhead butterflyfish (Chaetodon xanthocephalus).
glosses: A yellowheaded jawfish (Opistognathus aurifrons).
glosses: A plant of some species of genus Inula of the daisy family.
glosses: A plant in genus Trichoptilium, in the daisy family.
glosses: A plant of species Zanthoxylum flavum, related to citrus.
examples: text: A pustule is the typical pus spot or yellowhead.
ref: 2007, Tim Mitchell, Alison Dudley, Acne: The At Your Fingertips Guide, page 5:
glosses: A pimple or pustule without a blackhead.
glosses: A mohua (Mohoua ochrocephala), a bird of New Zealand.
yellowheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yellowhead
Borborian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Borborians
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βόρβορος (bórboros, “mud”) + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A Borborite.
Borborians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Borborian
nitrolime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nitrolim
Etymology: From nitro- + lime.
Senses: glosses: Crude calcium cyanamide
Borborite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Borborites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βόρβορος (bórboros, “mud”) + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A member of an ancient libertine Gnostic sect, said to be descended from the Nicolaitans.
Synonyms: Barbalite
Borborian
Koddian
Phibionite
Secundian
Socratite
Borborites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Borborite
calcium cyanamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The compound CaCN₂ produced by reacting calcium carbide with nitrogen; it is used as a fertilizer
Synonyms: nitrolime
Kjeldahl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Danish.
Derived terms: Kjeldahl flask
Kjeldahlize
Kjeldahlization
Kjeldahl method
Kjeldahl method
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Developed by Johan Kjeldahl in 1883.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: azotometry
glosses: An analytical method for the determination of nitrogen in food, soil etc.
wikipedia: Johan Kjeldahl
Related terms: Kjeldahl flask
Kjeldahl flask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kjeldahl flasks
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A round-bottomed flask that has a very long neck; it is used in the Kjeldahl method
Deer gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Deer guns
Senses: glosses: a basic pistol intended for distribution to South Vietnamese guerrillas as a weapon against North Vietnamese soldiers.
air raid sirens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of air raid siren
cross-trainers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross-trainer
WAGR syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The letters stand for "Wilms' tumor", "aniridia", "genitourinary anomalies" (or sometimes "gonadoblastoma"), and "mental retardation".
Senses: glosses: aniridia-Wilms' tumor syndrome
Related terms: WAGRO syndrome
WAGR complex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See WAGR syndrome.
Senses: glosses: aniridia-Wilms' tumor syndrome
demand draft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demand drafts
Senses: glosses: A telecheck.
amits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of amit
amitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of amit
amitted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of amit
give away the farm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives away the farm
form: giving away the farm
form: gave away the farm
form: given away the farm
Senses: examples: text: Joe has made a career of giving away the farm.
glosses: To pay more than one should have; to pay more than fair market value.
garbage mitt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garbage mitts
Etymology: A type of mitt once commonly seen worn in cold weather by garbagemen.
Senses: examples: text: Western kids often wore what they called “garbage mitts”—padded for heavy duty by city workers—instead of hockey gloves; Maritimers used their father’s work gauntlets, with heavy leather up the wrists. But the essential rules were the same everywhere: no goal-sucking, no raising, unless whoever’s younger brother was stuck in goal was also foolish enough to wear shin-pads, no long shots, no throwing your stick to stop a breakaway.
ref: 1981, Peter Gzowski, The Game of Our Lives, Surrey, B.C.: Heritage House Publishing, published 2004, page 77:
text: She looked like a man, like a miniature version of Buck wearing his old red toque with the ragged pompom, his garbage mitts stained with fish blood, the army green parka.
ref: 2004, Cara Hedley, Twenty Miles, Toronto: Coach House Books, published 2007, page 188:
text: I would get into the most fabulous fistfights — dropping my garbage mitts and hurling my fluxing body onto another adolescent, and we would roll around in the freshly plower street tasting salt and each other’s fists.
ref: 2005, Jon Paul Fiorentino, “Electrolux”, in Asthmatica, Toronto: Insomniac Press, page 29:
qualifier: especially Manitoba
glosses: A thick hide mitten, with thick pile lining.
garbage mitts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garbage mitt
goldies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “The ad kind of looked like one of those oldies-goldies collections. You know those ads?” “I hate those ads,” he said. She laughed. “Yeah, me too.”
ref: 2000, Lee K. Abbott, Dave Barry, The Putt at the End of the World:
text: Some songs blanket the Oldies Goldies Airwaves [like WCBS-FM, New York, or WBZO, Bay Shore, Long Island]. Some soar to fame, flop to earth, and croak.
ref: 2003, Maury Dean, Rock and Rock Gold Rush: A Singles Uncyclopedia, page 51:
glosses: plural of goldie
hydroskeletal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hydro- + skeletal.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a hydroskeleton.
Daniell cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Daniell cells
Etymology: It was invented in 1836 by John Frederic Daniell, a British chemist and meteorologist.
Senses: glosses: An early battery consisting of a copper pot filled with a copper sulphate solution, in which was immersed an unglazed earthenware container filled with sulphuric acid and a zinc electrode.
wikipedia: John Frederic Daniell
Related terms: crowfoot cell
gravity cell
Daniell cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Daniell cell
green tape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From green (“environmentally friendly”) and red tape (“bureaucratic regulations”).
Senses: examples: text: “We were bitterly disappointed with the pull back on the green tape reduction and we felt the federal government had been held hostage by the Greens for their electoral fortunes,” Mr Nicholls told The Australian Financial Review.
ref: Australian Financial Review, January 14, 2013
glosses: Time-consuming bureaucratic procedures or regulations relating to environmental concerns.
crowfoot cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crowfoot cells
Etymology: Named from the distinctive shape of the electrodes.
Senses: glosses: A later variant of the Daniell cell, using a layer of zinc sulphate on top of the copper sulphate, the two liquids kept separate by their differing densities.
Synonyms: gravity cell
crowfoot cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crowfoot cell
gravity cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gravity cells
Senses: glosses: A crowfoot cell.
gravity cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gravity cell
Disneyesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Disneyesque
form: most Disneyesque
Etymology: From Disney + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: This place is EPCOT Center at Walt Disney World, a theme park cum world exposition, a kind of world's fair that allows for a continual Disneyesque rewriting of history, a Distory, as Stephen Fjellman has called it. Disney World offers its guests multiple pleasures within the context of Disneyesque representations of race and gender.
ref: 1995, Ramona Fernandez, “Pachuco Mickey”, Elizabeth Bell, Lynda Haas, Laura Sells (ed.), From Mouse to Mermaid: The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture, Indiana University Press, part 3, chapter 15, 236
text: In Ms. Murray’s mature work, eccentrically shaped or multipanel canvases fused Cubism’s shattered forms and Surrealism’s suggestive biomorphism with the scale and some of the angst of Abstract Expressionism and more than a touch of Disneyesque humor and motion.
ref: 2007 August 13, Roberta Smith, “Elizabeth Murray, 66, Artist of Vivid Forms, Dies”, in New York Times:
glosses: Reminiscent of the work or style of the animator Walt Disney or his Walt Disney Company.
Disneyan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Disneyan
form: most Disneyan
Etymology: From Disney + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the American animator Walt Disney or his Walt Disney Company.
Monchique
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Portuguese Monchique.
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality of Faro district, in southern Portugal.
glosses: A small island off the coast of the island of Flores, in the western part of the Azores autonomous region, Portugal.
emotional cripple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emotional cripples
Senses: examples: text: The truth is I was an emotional cripple when I met her, drunk more often than not, punishing myself for doing things that went against my nature.
ref: 1997, Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version, →ISBN:
text: His mother's affliction was "panic disorder with agoraphobia, which made her an emotional cripple for many years."
ref: 1999 April 24, Sarah Boxer, “Think Tank: A Son's Simple Diagnosis of His Father's Complexities”, in New York Times, retrieved 23 Jan 2013:
text: [I]f I ever come across as a maladjusted, socially isolated, sad, hunched emotional cripple (I'm thinking mainly of Sunday mornings in February, here), then it's those four weeks of having to wear short trousers in September 1964 that are to blame.
ref: 2002, Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time, →ISBN, page 9:
glosses: A person who has been rendered indecisive, alienated, uncaring, confused, or helpless through experiencing debilitating emotions, such as worry, fear, panic, despair, etc.
Synonyms: basket case
Related terms: damaged goods
Monforte
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Monfortes
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian and Spanish Monforte, both habitational surnames.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Montijo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Montijos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese Montijo. This surname is mostly found in Mexico.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
mampalons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mampalon
Székesfehérvár
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Hungary.
toeier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of toey: more toey
eructated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of eructate
eructates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of eructate
eructating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of eructate
octanitrocubane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From octa- + nitro- + cubane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A high explosive derived from cubane, and one of the most powerful chemical explosives known.
orthonitrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthonitrates
Etymology: From ortho- + nitrate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The anion NO₄³⁻ or any salt containing this anion
Related terms: orthonitrite
orthonitric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ortho- + nitric acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: hypothetical acid H₃NO₄
Derived terms: orthonitrate
neverthriving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neverthrivings
Etymology: From never + thriving. Included in a list of collective nouns in the Book of Saint Albans, published in 1486.
Senses: examples: text: where did i go wrong? *sob, sob* i merely wanted to point out that not all neverthrivings consist of solely men, that there are some average juggling women.......who don't have testicles.
ref: 1994 April 1, labegael, “Re: What's average?”, in rec.juggling (Usenet):
text: For those who don't know, there was a juggling party (not quite a convention, but an informal neverthriving) in Bermuda over the weekend.
ref: 2005 April 4, Scott Seltzer, “Re: - Voting results and next theme”, in rec.juggling (Usenet):
text: Minnesota Neverthriving (15th-century jargon for a company of jugglers) meets in south Minneapolis.
ref: 2012 October 30, Jeff Strickler, “Juggling is bouncing back”, in Star Tribune:
glosses: A group of jugglers.
polynitrogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polynitrogens
Etymology: From poly- + nitrogen.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several unstable allotropes of nitrogen that have more than two atoms in each molecule
Related terms: hexazene
octaazacubane
pentanitrogen
pentazenium
tetranitrogen
DRPM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Delta RPM Package Manager.
liceity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /lɪˈsiːɪti/
Forms: form: liceities
Etymology: From Latin licere.
Senses: examples: text: Validity affects the act, while liceity affects the 'legality' of the act. So if a baptism is invalid, then the baptism never occurred (i.e. one has not been baptized and needs to be baptized). So if a baptism is illicit, then it was not celebrated under the structures that the Catholic Church has defined (i.e. one has been baptized, but the Sacrament was not celebrated in a way directed/authorized by the Church or with the full approval of the Church).
ref: 2011, “Validity and liceity”, in Ship of Saint-Peter, archived from the original on 28 Jul 2011:
qualifier: religious
glosses: The legitimacy of an act or its consequences, by opposition to the validity.
Synonyms: topics: legal
law
word: legitimacy
liceities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liceity
litster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: litsters
Etymology: From Middle English litestere, from liten (“to dye”) (from Old Norse litr) + -stere (see -ster).
Senses: examples: text: But it was the woolen industry that provided the elder Smibert with a livelihood, for as a litster he spent his days dyeing wool, which was then woven into cloth.
ref: 1995, Richard H. Saunders, John Smibert: Colonial America's First Portrait Painter, Yale University Press, →ISBN, pages 1–2:
text: Other women ran businesses that required reliance on a network of suppliers, sometimes of raw materials. Isobel Provand in the Canongate was a litster.
ref: 2002, Margaret H. B. Sanderson, A Kindly Place?: Living in Sixteenth-Century Scotland, Tuckwell Press, published 2002, →ISBN, page 122:
text: The smell of the tanners' and the litsters' work still hung in the night air, although they had long since gone to their weary beds.
ref: 2008, Shona Maclean, The Redemption of Alexander Seaton, Penguin Canada, published 2010, →ISBN:
glosses: A dyer.
litsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of litster
STPC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: Initialism of stopover paid by carrier, pre-arranged hotel transit accommodation, paid by an airline to encourage use of a bad connection on their services.
monomath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monomaths
Etymology: From mono- (“one, single”) + Ancient Greek μάθη (máthē, “learning”), from μανθάνω (manthánō, “I learn”). Compare polymath.
Senses: examples: text: It is not a refuge for self-indulgent monomaths to channelize their aggressions within a community of colleagues and students.
ref: 1960, National Review, volume 8, page 52:
text: We don't like polymaths any more. Perhaps it's because even being a monomath is too difficult now; even specialists specialise only in a small subset of their specialty, and learning is an either/or business.
ref: 2006 November 13, Michael Bywater, “Master of all trades”, in New Statesman:
text: Posner first made his name as a monomath. “I had a very big intellectual commitment for many years to anti-trust law. I wrote a lot about that.” Eventually, though, the polymath rose to the surface and he put anti-trust behind him.
ref: 2009, Edward Carr, "The Last Days of the Polymath", Intelligent Life, Autumn 2009
coordinate_terms: automath
opsimath
polymath
glosses: A person with an extensive knowledge of a single subject or field, but little knowledge of others.
Synonyms: specialist
Derived terms: monomathic
monomaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monomath
Wainwrights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wainwright
tramp juice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Stereotypically consumed by tramps (homeless people).
Senses: glosses: Very strong lager or cider.
ruminoreticula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ruminoreticulum
akill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: akills
form: akilling
form: akilled
form: akilled
Etymology: Short for automatic kill.
Senses: topics: IRC
glosses: To ban (a user) from an IRC server so that he/she is automatically disconnected on any future attempt to connect.
akilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of akill
akilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of akill
akills
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of akill
goal suck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goal sucks
Etymology: From goal + suck (“self-pitying person”, noun).
Senses: examples: text: A chicken is often called a “goal suck”, a “one way player” or a “cherry picker” during the course of his deviant career. These three types all involve an emphasis on scoring goals and avoiding situations and places on the ice where physical confrontations are likely to occur.
ref: 1983, Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences Proceedings, page 14:
text: His team mates called him a goal-suck, but were pleased that he was.
ref: 1993, Australian & New Zealand Studies in Canada - Issues 9-10, page 9:
text: Gretzky always broke out of his own zone really early — in shinny terms he'd be called a goal suck — while the other team still had the puck.
ref: 1999, Andrew Podnieks, The Great One: The Life and Times of Wayne Gretzky, page 1:
text: Included with each CD was a ballot, which the Hansons asked people to sign and return, boosting Williams for the Hall ahead of “some of those fancy-schmancy, no-hitting prima-donna whining millionaire goal sucks.”
ref: 2009, Don Weekes, The Biggest Book of Hockey Trivia, Vancouver: Greystone Books, page 76:
text: He was seen as an out-of-shape goal suck capable of only one thing: flinging the puck into the net every few games.
ref: 2016 June 7, James Mirtle, “Phil Kessel's playoff performance is proof he was fine in Toronto”, in The Globe and Mail:
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: A player who loiters near the opposing net, hoping to score goals without doing the work of moving the puck down the ice. One who goal-sucks.
goal-suck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goal-sucks
form: goal-sucking
form: goal-sucked
form: goal-sucked
Etymology: Denominal verb of goal suck.
Senses: examples: text: [p 77] But the essential rules were the same everywhere: no goal-sucking, no raising, unless whoever’s younger brother was stuck in goal was also foolish enough to wear shin-pads, no long shots, no throwing your stick to stop a breakaway.
[p 88] Forwards lurked near their opponents’ line and called for the puck by banging their sticks on the ice until someone hollered goal-sucking.
[p 238] Old rules came back. Anderson threw his stick along the ice at a breaking-away Semenko—how graceful he looked from this perspective!—and Semenko was awarded an automatic goal. Driscoll was called for goal-sucking.
ref: 1981, Peter Gzowski, The Game of Our Lives, Surrey, B.C.: Heritage House Publishing, published 2004:
text: [p 63] goal-sucking [i.e., waiting near the opponent’s goal for a long pass and ensuing scoring opportunity]
[p 64] In shinny, everyone wins. Though rules are scaled back, the game is not loosened beyond all form, and the driving competitive element remains. [. . .] ‘Goal-sucking’ is banned because there are neither offsides nor referees to judge them.
ref: 2010, Jason Blake, Canadian Hockey Literature, Toronto: University of Toronto Press:
text: For a second Charlie was tempted to goal suck and look for the stretch pass.
ref: 2012, David Skuy, Game Time: Overtime, →ISBN, page 181:
text: Wound up with nothing to show for his night except a well-deserved -1 in the dying seconds when he was goal-sucking out at the blueline for an empty netter while his man slipped into the slot to narrow the lead to one.
ref: 2013 March 17, Bruce McCurdy, “Edmonton Oilers player grades — Oil's 3-2 win over Preds no beauty, but 2 points are 2 points”, in Edmonton Journal:
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: To loiter near the opposing net, hoping to score an easy goal.
Related terms: alt: n
word: goal suck
benzamidines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benzamidine
cops on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cop on
copping on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cop on
copped on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cop on
fonio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfəʊnjəʊ/
Etymology: From French fonio, from Wolof foño.
Senses: examples: text: There’s a certain magic to fonio, a tiny golden grain believed to be Africa’s oldest cultivated cereal. The ancient grain’s potential to solve pressing modern environmental and economic challenges inspired Pierre Thiam, the Senegalese-born chef, to become fonio’s No 1 champion.
ref: 2023 July 6, Maria C. Hunt, “Could an ancient, climate-friendly crop be the future of beer?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: hungry rice
glosses: Digitaria exilis, a cereal cultivated in western Africa; white fonio
glosses: Digitaria iburua, a cereal cultivated in western Africa, black fonio
Synonyms: acha
Hypernyms: sense: grain crop
word: grain
sense: grain crop
word: cereal
beachberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beachberry
search me
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: —Where did he find the money to buy a car like that? —Search me!
synonyms: don't ask me
beats me
glosses: I don't know; I have no idea.
Related terms: your guess is as good as mine
balantidiasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balantidiases
Etymology: Balantidium + -iasis
Senses: glosses: A protozoan infection caused by Balantidium coli.
balantidiases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balantidiasis
balneotherapeutics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From balneo- + therapeutics.
Senses: glosses: balneotherapy
Yah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɑː/
ipa: /jɑ/
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: Jah
Etymology: Transliteration of Hebrew יָהּ (Yāh)
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Jah more closely representing the Hebrew pronunciation.
Related terms: Yahu
baragnosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From baro- + agnosis.
Senses: glosses: Inability to judge weight differences accurately.
barbiturism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From barbiturate + ism.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A morbid condition caused by excessive use of barbiturates.
baroceptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baroceptors
Etymology: From baro- + ceptor.
Senses: glosses: A baroreceptor.
baroceptors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baroceptor
barotaxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From baro- + taxis.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The movement of a cell or an organism in response to pressure.
Related terms: barotactic
baritosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A benign pneumoconiosis caused by long-term exposure to barium dust.
baghouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baghouses
Etymology: From bag + house.
Senses: glosses: A fabric filter; an air pollution control device that removes particulates out of air or gas released from commercial processes or combustion for electricity generation.
baghouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baghouse
bacteriocide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bacteriocides
Etymology: From bacterio- + -cide.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bactericide.
bacteriocides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bacteriocide
bartonellosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bartonelloses
Etymology: Bartonella + -osis
Senses: glosses: An infectious disease produced by bacteria of the genus Bartonella.
bartonelloses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bartonellosis
basopenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basopenias
Etymology: From baso- + -penia.
Senses: glosses: A condition where the basophil quantity is abnormally decreased.
basopenias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basopenia
ballismus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek βαλλισμός (ballismós, “jumping about”)
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A condition characterised by violent involuntary rapid and irregular movements.
Synonyms: ballism
Derived terms: hemiballismus
monoballismus
ballicaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ballicater
Bashkirian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bashkirians
Etymology: From Bashkiria + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Bashkiria.
Bashkirian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Bashkiria + -an.
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A subdivision of the Carboniferous period.
Related terms: Bashkir
Bashkirian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bashkirian
form: most Bashkirian
Etymology: From Bashkiria + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Bashkiria.
Bashkirians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bashkirian
Bartholin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Bartholinian
bartholinitis
Bartholin's cyst
bartholinitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Bartholin + -itis.
Senses: glosses: inflammation of Bartholin's cyst
Bartholinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bartholinian
form: most Bartholinian
form: bartholinian
Etymology: From Bartholin + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Caspar Bartholin the Younger (1655–1738), Danish anatomist who first described the Bartholin's gland.
lebenswecker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lebensweckers
Etymology: German Lebenswecker, literally "life-awakener".
Senses: glosses: A medical device used in Baunscheidtism to pierce the skin with many fine needles, and used on skin treated with toxic oil, the resulting inflammation claimed to draw the body's attention away from various illnesses in other parts of the body.
lebensweckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lebenswecker
codaless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From coda + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a coda.
Batson venous plexus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after anatomist Oscar Vivian Batson, who first described it in 1940.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A network of valveless veins in the human body, connecting the deep pelvic veins and thoracic veins (draining the inferior end of the urinary bladder, breast, and prostate) to the internal vertebral venous plexuses.
Batson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæt.sən/
rhymes: -ætsən
Etymology: From a diminutive form of Bartholomew + -son.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Hardin County, Texas, United States.
Derived terms: Batson venous plexus
beeturia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beet + -uria.
Senses: examples: text: Like other alkaloids, it is poorly absorbed, so that even after eating large amounts of beetroot, beeturia (the presence of betanin in the urine) is found in only 14 % of the normal population (Watson, Luke & Inall, 1963).
ref: 1964, Biochemical journal, volume 90, page 673:
text: The failure to metabolise betanin is controlled by genetic factors in man and beeturia (betanin in the urine) is found in approximately 14% of the population in this country (Watson, 1964).
ref: 1967, J.B. Harborne, Comparative Biochemistry of the Flavonoids, page 294:
text: An unusual effect of beets is that they can cause “beeturia,” or a red coloration to the urine, after ingestion.
ref: 2016, Andy Brunning, Why Does Asparagus Make Your Pee Smell?: Fascinating Food Trivia Explained with Science:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The passing of red or pink urine after eating beetroot, caused by the excretion of betalain (betacyanin) pigments such as betanin.
Synonyms: betaninuria
belemnoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more belemnoid
form: most belemnoid
Senses: glosses: dart-shaped; styloid
Derived terms: belemnoid process
belemnoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belemnoids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A member of the Belemnoidea, an extinct group of marine cephalopods.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The styloid process of the ulna or of the temporal bone.
belemnoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of belemnoid
basocytopenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From baso- + cyto- + -penia.
Senses: glosses: basopenia
beclomethasone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of beclometasone.
baylisascariasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbeɪ.lɪsˌæ.skəˈɹaɪ.əs.ɪs/
rhymes: -aɪəsɪs
Etymology: From translingual Baylisascaris + -iasis (“disease suffix”), from Ancient Greek ἴᾱσις (íāsis, “healing, remedy”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: infection with Baylisascaris nematodes
benzathine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛn.zəˌθin/
Etymology: From benz(yl)a(mino) + (e)th(ane) + -ine.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A diamine used in some medications to stabilize penicillin.
Derived terms: benzathine benzylpenicillin
benzathine penicillin
benzilate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzilates
Etymology: From benzilic acid + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt or ester of benzilic acid.
benzilates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benzilate
benzhydryl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any organic compound containing diphenylmethane, i.e. two benzene rings adjoining a single carbon (but typically excluding heteroaromatic ring moieties).
Derived terms: benzatropine
dimenhydrinate
diphenhydramine
Silk Road disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Behçet's disease.
synonyms: word: Behçet's disease
benzylideneacetophenone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzylideneacetophenones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The parent member of the chalcone series.
benzylideneacetophenones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benzylideneacetophenone
benzalacetophenone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzalacetophenones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: chalcone
benzalacetophenones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benzalacetophenone
barosinusitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From baro- + sinusitis.
Senses: glosses: aerosinusitis
basilemma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: basement membrane
ballism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The book deals with cerebral injuries impeding the clinical appearance of ballism, particularly stressing interrelations of ballism and chorea.
ref: 1965, Books from Hungary - Volumes 7-9, page 26:
text: Ballism overlaps with choreas, and both movements may coexist.
ref: 2012, Robert B. Daroff, Gerald M Fenichel, Joseph Jankovic, Neurology in Clinical Practice, →ISBN:
glosses: ballismus
Derived terms: biballism
hemiballism
paraballism
astasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əsˈteɪ.zi.ə/
/əsˈteɪ.ʒə/
Forms: form: astasias
Etymology: From New Latin a- (“without”) + Ancient Greek στάσις (stásis, “standing”) + New Latin -ia (“pathological condition”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Inability to stand without assistance.
Derived terms: abasia-astasia
astasia-abasia
Related terms: abasia
cataplexy
Craiova
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹəˈjoʊvə/
ipa: /kɹaɪˈoʊvə/
ipa: /kɹɑːˈjɔːvɑː/
ipa: /kɹɑːˈjoʊvɑː/
Etymology: From Romanian Craiova.
Senses: glosses: The capital and largest city of Dolj County, Romania.
chlorin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chlorins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A large heterocyclic aromatic ring consisting, at the core, of three pyrroles and one pyrroline coupled through four methine linkages.
glosses: Archaic form of chlorine.
Derived terms: bacteriochlorin
isobacteriochlorin
metallochlorin
subchlorin
chlorins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chlorin
bioecology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioecologies
Etymology: From bio- + ecology.
Senses: glosses: The specifically biological aspects of ecology
betacyaninuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From betacyanin + -uria.
Senses: glosses: The presence of betacyanin in the urine; beeturia.
staled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stale
bevonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -onium (“quaternary ammonium compound”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A particular antimuscarinic.
besnoitiosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Besnoitia + -osis.
Senses: glosses: A protozoan disease caused by infection with Besnoitia parasites.
bialaphos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A natural herbicide produced by the bacteria Streptomyces hygroscopicus and Streptomyces viridochromeogenes.
Ploiești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Prahova County, Romania.
betacism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbiːtəsɪzəm/
Forms: form: betacisms
Etymology: From beta + -cism (“phenomenon related to a specific phoneme”).
Senses: examples: text: Betacism is a fairly common phenomenon: it has taken place in Greek, Hebrew, Spanish, and some Portuguese dialects, among others.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A sound change in which [b] (the voiced bilabial plosive) shifts to [v] (the voiced labiodental fricative).
glosses: A speech disorder involving excessive use of the [b] sound, or conversion of other sounds into it.
betacisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of betacism
bethanidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of betanidine.
bilharziosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bilharzia + -osis.
Senses: glosses: schistosomiasis
biohydrometallurgy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + hydrometallurgy.
Senses: glosses: A subfield of hydrometallurgy that includes aspects of biotechnology, used for example in microbial mining, oil recovery, bioleaching, and water treatment.
biohydrometallurgical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + hydrometallurgical.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to biohydrometallurgy.
biotinidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biotinidases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme that allows the body to use and recycle biotin.
biotinidases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biotinidase
terribler
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtɛɹɪb(ə)lə(ɹ)/
Senses: examples: text: […] they'd been strung out on harder drugs and had tried switching to grass to get off the original drugs and but then had gotten in even terribler trouble with grass than they'd been in with the original hard stuff.
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN:
glosses: comparative form of terrible: more terrible
horribler
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈhɒɹɪb(ə)lə(ɹ)/
Senses: glosses: comparative form of horrible: more horrible
accurater
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈa.kjʊɹ.ə.tə/
ipa: /ˈa.kjʊ.ɹə.təɹ/
Senses: examples: text: What was the Opinion, concerning Byzantium, of Strabo preceding Ptolemy, or of Hipparchus preceding Strabo, or of Eratosthenes antienter, and it may be accurater than all of them, […]
ref: 1749, Royal Society (Great Britain), The Philosophical Transactions and Collections to the End of the Year MDCC, Abridged, and Disposed Under General Heads, page 565:
text: The use of OFDA for estimation of fiber diameter and medullation will be discussed. The methods are more reliable, accurater and faster.
ref: 2006, M Khan, R Mohammad, A Faisal, “Study of some important wool characteristics of selected sheep breeds in Pakistan”, in 2006 China International Wool Textile Conference and IWTO Wool Forum, pages 65–69:
text: The dimensions theory, which splits the emotion into several dimensions, is a bit of hard for the unprofessional people to measure, so we chose the basic emotion set as our way in order to get accurater raw data.
ref: 2010, Jijun Wang, Kuo Zhang, “Music emotional classification and emotional curve fitting based On BP neural network”, in 2010 International Conference On Computer Design and Applications, volume 2, IEEE, →ISBN, pages V2-512:
qualifier: obsolete outside non-native speakers' English
glosses: comparative form of accurate: more accurate
viciouser
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈvɪʃəsə(ɹ)/
Senses: glosses: comparative form of vicious: more vicious
birnaviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birnavirus
miserabler
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈmɪzɹəb(ə)lə(ɹ)/
Senses: examples: text: Their tears poured down all the sides of them, and soaked their clothes through and through, and they got miserabler and miserabler, till one day the sun came to see what was the matter with them[…]
ref: 1936, Nancy Price, A Vagabond's Way, page 14:
text: [Bilbo] could feel inside that it was high time for some meal or other; but that only made him miserabler.
ref: 1937, J.R.R. Tolkien, chapter V, in The Hobbit:
glosses: comparative form of miserable: more miserable
bidactyly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bi- + dactyly.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of didactyly.
synonyms: word: didactyly
didactyly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of having two digits on each limb, as in the two-toed sloth.
Synonyms: bidactyly
bitewing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitewings
Etymology: From bite + wing.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A radiograph taken to visualize the crowns of the posterior teeth and the height of the alveolar bone in relation to the cementoenamel junctions, commonly used to examine for interdental caries and recurrent caries under existing restorations.
bitewings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bitewing
uselesser
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈjuːsləsə(ɹ)/
Senses: glosses: comparative form of useless: more useless
cementoenamel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cement + -o- + enamel.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the enamel and cementum.
bisferious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Exhibiting pulsus bisferiens.
raw_tags: of the pulse
pulsus bisferiens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin pulsus (“stroke”) + bis (“twice”) + feriens (“striking”): "striking a stroke twice".
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A sign where, on palpation of the pulse, a double peak per cardiac cycle can be appreciated.
Related terms: bisferious