cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dihydroxyvitamin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dihydroxyvitamins
Etymology: From di- + hydroxy- + vitamin.
Senses: examples: text: It is also well understood that the vitamins themselves are not biologically active but that they are first converted to the 1a,25-dihydroxyvitamins (386 and 154, respectively) which exhibit the biological behavior associated with the vitamins.
ref: 2008, Vitamin D Handbook: Structures, Synonyms, and Properties, page vii:
glosses: A physiologically active metabolite of a vitamin, with two hydroxy groups substituted in any position.
dihydroxyvitamins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dihydroxyvitamin
time twin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time twins
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Either of two people born at the same time on the same day and thus supposed to have similar traits or life events.
time twins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time twin
noble lie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noble lies
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A myth or untruth, often of a religious nature, knowingly propagated by an elite to maintain social harmony or to advance an agenda.
noble lies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noble lie
multiburial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + burial.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to more than one burial.
kalette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kalettes
Etymology: From kale + -ette.
Senses: glosses: A vegetable that is a hybrid of kale and Brussels sprouts.
Synonyms: Brusselkale
kalettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kalette
nuclear pasta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the resemblance of its phases to various types of pasta.
Senses: examples: text: Watanabe, Gentaro; Iida, Kei; Sato, Katsuhiko (24 August 2000), “Thermodynamic properties of nuclear "pasta" in neutron star crusts”, in Nuclear Physics A, volume 676, numbers 1-4, →DOI, pages 455–473
text: The elastic properties of neutron star crusts are relevant for a variety of currently observable or near-future electromagnetic and gravitational wave phenomena. These phenomena may depend on the elastic properties of nuclear pasta found in the inner crust.
ref: 2018 September 24, M. E. Caplan, A. S. Schneider, C. J. Horowitz, “Elasticity of Nuclear Pasta”, in Physical Review Letters, volume 121, number 13, →DOI, retrieved 26 Aug 2021, page 132701:
text: The inner crust [of a neutron star] is where the nuclear pasta phase, a novel state of matter having nucleons arranged in a variety of complex shapes, is expected to appear. In the innermost layers near the crust/core boundary, because of the large effect of the Coulomb lattice energy, cylindrical and planar geometries can occur, both as nuclei and as bubbles. These phases are collectively named nuclear pasta (by analogy to the shape of spaghetti, macaroni and lasagna).
ref: 2013, José A. Pons, Daniele Viganò, Nanda Rea, “Too much "pasta" for pulsars to spin down”, in Nature Physics, volume 9, number 7, →Bibcode, →DOI, [arxiv.org arXiv] 1304.6546, pages 431–434:
topics: astrophysics
glosses: A type of degenerate matter found within the crusts of neutron stars, where the competition between nuclear attraction and Coulomb repulsion forces of similar magnitude allows for the formation of a variety of complex structures assembled from neutrons and protons.
docblock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: docblocks
Etymology: From doc + block.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A specially formatted comment in source code, used to document a specific segment of the code.
docblocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of docblock
padeye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: padeyes
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A ring attached to a vessel and used as a fairlead.
padeyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of padeye
wackaging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of wacky + packaging
Senses: examples: text: Laidback labelling is here to stay. However normalised "wackaging" becomes, I just can't shake the feeling that talking food is best left to toddlers. Lucie Bright of Innocent is probably right that this cultural lightening up is, broadly, a good thing. But must we label food in such a self-consciously crazy way?
ref: 2014 March 25, Sophy Grimshaw, The Guardian:
text: A mash up of wacky and packaging, wackaging is a way of marketing which makes everything 'such fun'! Or, in the case of dog food marketing, such natural, wholesome, everything-in-the-garden-is-rosy fun. That can of food you're serving up? From the picture on the side, you'd think it was lovingly prepared by the WI in a church hall kitchen.
ref: 2016, Kate Bendix, The Dog Diet: Eight weeks to a happier, healthier dog:
glosses: Product packaging that uses quirky and eye-catching text or images to attract the buyer.
succès d'estime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French succès d'estime.
Senses: examples: text: Walter Minton, he felt convinced, had resigned himself to Putnam's other Nabokov books earning no more than a succès d'estime, and so had projected limited sales, offered modest advances, and advertised little.
ref: 1993, Brian Boyd, Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years, →ISBN, page 518:
text: The surreal Being John Malkovich, for instance, was pretty far down the highest-grossing list, but it was a succès d'estime (it showed up on most critics' lists of the year's best movies), as was the stylish and often grisly (far more violent than the average animated movie) Japanise animated production, Princess Monoke.
ref: 2012, Gardner Dozois, The Mammoth Book of Best New SF, →ISBN:
text: In the literary world he was rapidly gaining renown: there had been the succès d'estime of his first three books, and then the publication of Austerlitz earlier that year. In the classroom—where David Lambert and I were two of sixteen students—Sebald was unassuming, almost shy, and asked that we call him Max.
ref: 2013 March 22, Emily Temple, “'He Had No Set Assignments': Students' Recollections of Authors as Professors”, in The Atlantic:
text: The former, though a famous title, has never established itself in revival even as a succès d'estime.
ref: 2015, Ethan Mordden, Sing for Your Supper: The Broadway Musical in the 1930s, →ISBN, page 170:
glosses: Critical success for a work of art, regardless of whether the work is popular with the general public.
succès fou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: succès fous
Etymology: Borrowed from French succès fou (literally “mad success”).
Senses: examples: text: This coyness produced the desired effect: the exhibit at the Fine Arts Society Gallery on Bond Street proved "a howling success” and “a mob scene.” “It was a succès fou, recalled Arthur Houghton much later. A succès fou is right,” added Gates.
ref: 2001, Davis Dyer, Daniel Gross, The Generations of Corning: The Life and Times of a Global Corporation, →ISBN:
text: I'm glad to report that the masses are still attending my orations at 12 on Mondays and I'm even given to understand, through some of my more faithful former pupils, that I am having what ladies in Henry James call a succès fou.
ref: 2013, Andrew Burrows, David Johnston, Reinhard Zimmermann, Judge and Jurist: Essays in Memory of Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, →ISBN:
text: “I am caged! I don't fit in, and I never will. You are so right. It's not being American—it's being myself. I'm a writer, Adrian!” “Well, what if you are? You're a succès fou.”
ref: 2014, May Sarton, Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel, →ISBN:
text: For the past year,Natasha Lawrence had been playing the title role in Estella, a musical by a celebrated English composer which had been a succès fou in London,and was now a succès fou in New York.
ref: 2014, Sally Beauman, Sextet: Lovers and Liars Trilogy, →ISBN:
glosses: A tremendous success.
cripplesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cripplesome
form: most cripplesome
Etymology: From cripple + -some.
Senses: examples: text: And, Mr. Speaker, it's interesting to note, the Finance minister when in Swift Current said no, we can't change the taxation system, we cannot address the E&H tax, which is a cripplesome burden to businesses in small communities along the western side of this province and also along the eastern border in many of the communities on my side of the province.
ref: 1995, LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF SASKATCHEWAN
text: “Fly-bitten—”The girl paused. “You have yet to say cripplesome or crookleg or leaden foot. Why do you not?”
ref: 2010, Karen Cushman, Alchemy and Meggy Swann:
text: "Kind of — cripplesome, is n't if?" said Dorothy rather confusedly. "Cripplesome?" exclaimed the Admiral. "Why, that's no word for it. It's positively decrepitoo-dle" [...]
ref: 2013, Charles Edward Carryl, Reginald Bathurst Birch, The Admiral's Caravan:
glosses: Characterised or marked by crippledness; crippled
crippledness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From crippled + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being crippled
suprême sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suprême sauces
Senses: examples: text: For example, to make suprême sauce, you add cream to chicken velouté. To make Albufera sauce, you can add meat glaze (glace de viande) to your suprême sauce.
ref: 2010, Wayne Gisslen, Professional Cooking, College Version, →ISBN, page 181:
text: Serve with an appropriate sauce such as suprême sauce or white wine and mustard sauce.
ref: 2012, David Foskett, John Campbell, Patricia Paskins, Practical Cookery Level 3, →ISBN, page 123:
text: Suprême sauce gives its name to several dishes dear to epicures—suprême de volaille, suprême de Toulouse, etc.
ref: 2013, Catherine Owen, Choice Cookery, →ISBN:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A sauce based on chicken velouté and heavy cream, known in French cuisine for its mellowness.
suprême sauces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suprême sauce
guayusa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guayusas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish guayusa.
Senses: examples: text: One thing for certain is that every guayusa tree that exists today was planted by a person, and this reciprocal relationship between humans and guayusa stretches back thousands of years. The earliest physical evidence of guayusa use is a bundle of the plant dating back to around A.D. 500, which was found in a shaman's tomb in the Bolivian Andes.
ref: 2017, Tyler Gage, Fully Alive: Using the Lessons of the Amazon to Live Your Mission in Business and Life, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
glosses: A tree native to the Amazon Rainforest, Ilex guayusa, whose leaves contain caffeine and are brewed like a tea for their stimulative effect.
Related terms: yerba mate
surfcasts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of surfcast
surfcasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surfcast
surfcaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surfcasters
form: surf caster
form: surf-caster
Etymology: From surfcast + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Ron is a dyed-in-the-wool surfcaster, the sort of man who speaks about the mystical beauty of long nights as a lone sentry beside the sea waiting for the fish to arrive.
ref: 2010, David Kinney, The Big One, →ISBN:
text: Even the most weathered and experienced surfcaster will tell you that there are always innovative ways to fish the mighty Atlantic.
ref: 2012, Cameron Wright, The Southern Surfcaster, →ISBN:
text: For any Garden State surfcaster, all the pent-up wintertime anxiety comes to a head, from being locked inside, a slave to only eight hours of daylight, freezing and snow-blind through blizzards and massive nor'easter snowdrifts covering the house.
ref: 2014, Nick Honachefsky, The Jersey Surf Diaries, →ISBN:
text: A born pier fisherman was a totally different kind of breed from a surfcaster or a boat fisherman.
ref: 2014, Jay Quinn, Metes and Bounds: A Novel, →ISBN:
glosses: One who fishes by surfcasting.
surfcasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surfcaster
surf caster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surf casters
Senses: examples: text: Surf casters pick the reel with care, as proficiency in making long casts over the surf depends to a great extent on smooth and reliable operation of the reel.
ref: 1952 June, “ABC of surf fishing”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 97, number 6, page 159:
text: The novice surf caster should consider graphite because its lighter weight and better casting ability will help him learn the basics of the sport without becoming discouraged by awkwardness in the tackle.
ref: 2006, Eric B. Burnley, Surf Fishing the Atlantic Coast, →ISBN:
text: Some of the better places to fish in this area include: Oceanside Beach Banks Just south of Oceanside Harbor, sandy beaches invite the surf caster to ply his craft for the many surf species that feed along the beach.
ref: 2007, Jeff Spira, Saltwater Angler's Guide to Southern California, →ISBN, page 295:
glosses: Alternative form of surfcaster.
surf casters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surf caster
surf-caster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surf-casters
Senses: examples: text: Epert surf-caster Bud Oliver, who can toss a plug more than 150 yards, begins his cast with the rod straight forward.
ref: 1953 October 12, “Stalking the striper”, in LIFE, page 109:
text: Ken Lauer, primo surf-caster at the Outer Banks of North Carolina was also a great help, as was Joel Arrington, well-known low-country outdoor writer.
ref: 1991, Frank Sargeant, The Redfish Book: A Complete Anglers Guide, →ISBN, page 3:
text: Some journal entries maybe raw and unrefined, others inspirational and detailed, but all show the truth and unbridled passion of what it is to put in your time as a true surf-caster, and maybe you can learn something from it.
ref: 2014, Nick Honachefsky, The Jersey Surf Diaries, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of surfcaster.
surf-casters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surf-caster
surfcasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of surfcast
surf cast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: surf casts
form: surf casting
form: surf cast
form: surf cast
form: surf casted
form: surf casted
Senses: examples: text: According to the old fisherman, who always came to that same spot each day to surf cast and look for the perfect striped bass, water came up through the center of the earth from China.
ref: 2003, Chris Komisarjevsky, Reina Komisarjevsky, Peanut Butter and Jelly Management, →ISBN:
text: So many fishermen surf casted in that rough, rocky ocean that it was always like Easter when we snorkeled only the eggs we hunted were gray, lead fishing weights of various shapes and sizes.
ref: 2010, J. Arthur Rath III, Slices of Life in Hawaii - Volume 1, →ISBN:
text: It looks like he's going fishing off the pier but maybe he surf casts.
ref: 2013, Henry Broder, Killing Little Ralphie: A Coney Island Story, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of surfcast.
surf cast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surf casts
Senses: examples: text: While it is certainly true that the angler's physical size confers some advantage with regard to achieving a long cast, most surf casts will be well short of the distances (500 to 600 feet) reached by professional casters in tournaments.
ref: 2011, Stan Ulanski, Fishing North Carolina's Outer Banks, →ISBN:
text: A fisherman, getting in his last surf casts before the rain, offers it to me. “Blues are too oily,” he says, complaining about the absence of striped bass this year.
ref: 2014, William Powers, New Slow City: Living Simply in the World's Fastest City, →ISBN, page 186:
glosses: Alternative form of surfcast.
surf casts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of surf cast
surf casts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surf cast
surf casted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of surf cast
surf casting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of surf cast
surf casting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, surf casting is the lowest-percentage fishing technique you might choose, other than, say, scooping fish bare-handed.
ref: 2006 November, Fred Abatemarco, “Hallowed be thy beach: Montauk”, in Best Life, volume 3, number 9, page 34:
text: Surf casting originated on the East Coast, but anywhere there's breaking water on a beach or jetty, you'll find people casting lines.
ref: 2009, Scott Bowen, Knack Fishing for Everyone: A Complete Illustrated Guide, →ISBN, page 58:
text: Tom loaned me a big pole and a sun helmet . . . and I wandered down to the beach to try some surf casting.
ref: 2012, Rich Schaffer, Just One SIMAIR Story, →ISBN, page 190:
glosses: Alternative form of surfcasting.
surf-cast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: surf-casts
form: surf-casting
form: surf-cast
form: surf-cast
form: surf-casted
form: surf-casted
Senses: examples: text: We imagine that as he surf-casts and beachcombs, he may do a little Bikini gazing, he isn't too old to look yet.
ref: 1964, Princeton Alumni Weekly - Volume 65, page 548:
text: This also is a good time to surf-cast from the beaches for bluefish, spot, grey trout, and other catches.
ref: 1998, Victor Block, The Pelican Guide to Maryland, →ISBN, page 176:
text: He would teach her how to surf-cast. Joe could throw a line until it disappeared out over the water, and landed in the deep pools, where they might catch a striped bass, or a salmon (that's what he said).
ref: 2013, Richard Ben Cramer, Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life, →ISBN, page 340:
glosses: Alternative form of surfcast.
surf-casts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of surf-cast
surf-casted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of surf-cast
surf-casting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of surf-cast
surf-casting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: At that time I was mad about surf-casting, and here was a tanned and lithe fellow, young and black-haired, casting the long line with a masterful arc.
ref: 2005, Alistair Cooke, Letter from America: 1946-2004, →ISBN:
text: Jefferson Parish begins in the shallow waters of Lake Pontchartrain, wades ashore in Kenner and Metairie and stretches sixty miles south, across the Mississippi River, through a borderland of bayou-laced swampland and then over miles of marsh and coastal bays to two barrier islands for some surf-casting in the Gulf of Mexico.
ref: 2009, Paul F. Stahls, Jefferson Parish: Rich Heritage Promising Future, →ISBN, page 7:
text: The three most popular means of catching saltwater game fish are by boat, private or rental; pier fishing; or surf-casting.
ref: 2014, Harvey H. Jackson III, The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 16, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of surfcasting.
surgicalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surgicalists
Etymology: Blend of surgical + hospitalist
Senses: examples: text: The two are being hired as surgicalists, a new term coined from the more common title surgical hospitalist. Both mean the same thing: doctors hired by hospitals to treat patients full time, replacing local physicians who work at the hospital on an “on-call” basis.
ref: 2005 October 27, Alan Wechsler, “These doctors will work 24/7”, in The Times Union:
text: We now have two new specialists that are growing in numbers, the hospitalist and the surgicalist. Knowing everything about hospital care but having no experience with office and outpatient care presents a new set of problems for the patient.
ref: 2011, Dr. Lowell Fisher, Marcus Welby is Dead: Now Who is Your Advocate?, →ISBN, page 62:
text: You know, the surgicalist can take care of the appendicitis and drain simple abscesses and stuff like that.
ref: 2013, Martin A. Croce, David H. Livingston, Frederick A. Luchette, American Association for the Surgery of Trauma 75th Anniversary 1938-2013, →ISBN, page 459:
glosses: A surgeon who works exclusively in a hospital setting.
surgicalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surgicalist
sweet-gale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweet-gales
Senses: examples: text: The myrica or sweet-gale, also, with its serrated leaves and dry berry, the ancient substitute for hops, presented itself in almost every part of the uncultivated moor.
ref: 1800, Richard Warner, A Walk Through Some of the Western Counties of England, page 42:
text: On entering one of these forests, one observes at once that although there are many small trees of holly, and bushes of sweet-gale, the ground is free from litter and brush.
ref: 1900, John Clayton Gifford, The Forestal Conditions and Silvicultural Prospects of the Coastal Plain of New Jersey:
glosses: Alternative form of sweet gale.
flank steak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flank steaks
Etymology: From flank + steak from being a steak cut from the flank.
Senses: qualifier: beef
glosses: A beef steak cut from the abdominal muscles or buttocks of the cow.
Synonyms: bavette
Coordinate terms: hanger steak
skirt steak
shonda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shondas
Senses: examples: text: Mendelabah, it's a shonda we have no shul. It's a shonda you should have to go to a room in back of Cohens' Feed and Grains store for a minyon. It's a shonda the boys have to study their Hebrew lessons in the Goodkowitz's kitchen while Mrs.Gooodkovitz is selling pickles and herring, and everyone is coming in and out and out and in.
ref: 2010, Leonard Rogoff, Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina, →ISBN, page 177:
text: You also have the free will to commit a shonda, or sin, and have this child out of wedlock. The choice is yours and yours alone.
ref: 2012, Zalman Velvel, The Care and Feeding of a Beard and Other Funny Stories, →ISBN:
text: "Shame on those who defile the community by resorting to brutal combat, combat which results in bruises and a bloodied nose. A shonda”, and when in Chelm, not long ago, Shmuel Yoel deserted his wife and three children, all under the age of five, the Chelm residents let out a collective wail, “A shonda. Could anything again ever shame the community so much”.
ref: 2015, Yoni Elkins, Chelm Stories My Saba Sent Me, →ISBN, page 25:
text: Such a shonda! Never have I seen such a thing.
ref: 2016, Russell Andresen, Memoirs of a Jewish Vampire: 6,000 Years of Kvetching, →ISBN, page 501:
glosses: Alternative form of shanda.
shondas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shonda
sharklet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈʃɑɹklɪt/
Forms: form: sharklets
Etymology: From shark + -let; aviation sense from the similarity to the dorsal fin of a shark.
Senses: glosses: A small or young shark.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An Airbus-branded blended winglet design.
minyen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minyonim
Etymology: From Yiddish מנין (minyen), from Hebrew מִנְיָן.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of minyan.
minyonim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minyon
minyon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minyonim
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of minyan.
signature strike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: signature strikes
Etymology: From the justification for such strikes being suspicious patterns of behavior thought to be "signatures" of terrorists.
Senses: examples: text: This group of civilians was marked as displaying suspicious behavior and consequently became the victime of a signature strike that killed twenty-three men and wounded twelve others, including a woman and three children.
ref: 2013, Joseph Pugliese, State Violence and the Execution of Law, →ISBN, page 196:
text: The United States does not disclose what behaviors justify a signature strike, nor does it provide any guidance on this issue.
ref: 2014, Peter L. Bergen, Daniel Rothenberg, Drone Wars, →ISBN, page 46:
text: For example, former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke responded to the news of the January 15, 2015, signature strike in Pakistan as follows, "President Obama said he was going to stop them [i.e., signature strikes], and clearly he didn't."
ref: 2015, Avery Plaw, Matthew S. Fricker, Carlos Colon, The Drone Debate: A Primer on the U.S. Use of Unmanned Aircraft Outside Conventional Battlefields, →ISBN, page 251:
text: This uncertainty is at the heart of signature strike targeting. Attacks that cannot determine whether a target is legitimate are illegal in IHL thanks to the ban on indiscriminate attacks in Article 51 of Additional Protocol I (1977).
ref: 2016, Jack McDonald, Ethics, Law and Justifying Targeted Killings: The Obama Administration at War, →ISBN:
glosses: A military attack which is based on detecting suspicious activity rather than confirmed intelligence of terrorism.
signature strikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of signature strike
social insurance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: social insurances
Senses: examples: text: Panama unified all social insurances in the 1970s and began a process of integration with the public sector that was later halted.
ref: 2008, Carmelo Mesa-Lago, Reassembling Social Security: A Survey of Pensions and Health Care, →ISBN, page 236:
text: Historical, cultural and institutional attributes influenced Scandinavian political choices for social insurance institutions and welfare policies at the time of the Bismarckian 'conception' of national social insurance on a grand scale in the 1880s.
ref: 2013, Maurizio Ferrera, Martin Rhodes, Recasting European Welfare States, →ISBN, page 209:
text: By 1942, Beveridge had been an advocate of social insurance for more than thirty years.
ref: 2014, Karel Williams, John Williams, A Beveridge Reader, →ISBN, page 72:
text: The original Social Security Act (1935) and the current version of the Act, as amended, encompass several social welfare and social insurance programs.
ref: 2016, Stanley L. Brue, Essentials of Economics, →ISBN:
glosses: Government-mandated provision for the unemployed, injured, or aged, typically funded by a combination of government spending, individual contributions, and employer contributions.
social insurances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of social insurance
dunsails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dunsail (alternative form of dunsels).
amorphize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: amorphizes
form: amorphizing
form: amorphized
form: amorphized
Senses: glosses: To make (a crystalline material) amorphous.
glosses: To become amorphous.
Related terms: amorphization
amorphizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of amorphize
amorphizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of amorphize
azafullerene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azafullerenes
Etymology: From aza- + fullerene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any heterofullerene in which one or more carbon atoms has been replaced by nitrogen
Related terms: hydroazafullerene
azafullerenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of azafullerene
borafullerene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: borafullerenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any heterofullerene in which one or more carbon atoms has been replaced by boron
borafullerenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of borafullerene
azananohoop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azananohoops
Etymology: From aza- + nanohoop.
Senses: glosses: Any nanohoop in which one or more carbon atoms has been replaced by nitrogen
azananohoops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of azananohoop
azaphenalene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azaphenalenes
Etymology: From aza- + phenalene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A tricyclic aromatic heterocycle formally derived from phenalene by replacing a carbon atom (of the cyclohexene ring) by nitrogen (more precisely, an >NH group)
place value
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: place values
Senses: topics: arithmetic
glosses: The value of a digit of numbers. For example, ones, tens, hundreds in the decimal counting; ones, sixes, thirty-sixes in the senary counting.
Derived terms: place value chart
place value table
planetary engineering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From planetary + engineering.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: geoengineering, terraforming
glosses: The manipulation of a planet's environment to create a new environment.
number ray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: number rays
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A number line that has one endpoint (typically at zero)
bedaquiline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The drug (1R,2S)-1-(6-bromo-2-methoxy-3-quinolyl)-4-dimethylamino-2-(1-naphthyl)-1-phenylbutan-2-ol that is used to treat tuberculosis
bioinertness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + inertness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being bioinert
bisboronate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bisboronates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound that has two boronate groups
bisboronates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bisboronate
bolaamphiphiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bolaamphiphile
bolaamphiphilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bolaamphiphile + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to a bolaamphiphile
crystallant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crystallants
Etymology: From crystal + -ant.
Senses: glosses: Any material added to a solution to encourage crystallization
Derived terms: cocrystallant
crystallants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crystallant
cocrystallant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocrystallants
Etymology: From co- + crystallant.
Senses: glosses: Any crystallant that is used in combination with another
cocrystallants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cocrystallant
comodified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + modified.
Senses: glosses: Modified along with another.
Related terms: commodified
decoordinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decoordinates
form: decoordinating
form: decoordinated
form: decoordinated
Etymology: From de- + coordinate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To remove (or be removed) from a coordination compound
diboronate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diboronates
Etymology: From di- + boronate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound that has two boronate ions or groups
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The anion O(BH-O⁻)₂; any salt containing this anion
dibromopyridine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dibromopyridines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of 10 isomeric dibromo derivatives of pyridine
endoenergetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + energetic.
Senses: glosses: That absorbs energy from its environment
Related terms: endothermic
exoenergetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exo- + energetic.
Senses: glosses: That releases energy to its environment
Related terms: exothermic
endosomolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or causing endosomolysis
Related terms: photoendosomolytic
endosomolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The lysis of endosomes
Derived terms: photoendosomolysis
Related terms: endosomolytic
hemifluorinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hemi- + fluorinated.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of semifluorinated.
synonyms: word: semifluorinated
semifluorinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + fluorinated.
Senses: glosses: Partially fluorinated
hydroazafullerene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroazafullerenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydroheterofullerene in which one or more carbon atoms have been replaced by >NH groups
hydroheterofullerene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroheterofullerenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any heterofullerene in which one or more carbon atoms are replaced by a heteroatom attached to a hydrogen atom
Related terms: hydroazafullerene
lipoquinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lipoquinones
Etymology: From lipo- + quinone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several related classes of quinone that have aliphatic (especially isoprenyl) side chains
Related terms: menaquinone
plastoquinone
ubiquinone
methylbutene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methylbutenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of three isomeric methyl derivatives of a butene
monolithiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mono- + lithiation.
Senses: glosses: lithiation involving a single atom of lithium
nanovehicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanovehicles
Etymology: From nano- + vehicle.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A nanoscale vehicle (for drug delivery)
nanovehicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanovehicle
oligoparaphenylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligoparaphenylenes
Etymology: From oligo- + paraphenylene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An oligomer composed of para-phenylene moieties
paraphenylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + phenylene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The para isomer of phenylene
Derived terms: oligoparaphenylene
customs value
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: the value of an item going through customs, as used to determine the duties levied
Wilding
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Wilding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wildings
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: Any of a series of British stamps that have an image of Queen Elizabeth II based on a portrait by Dorothy Wilding.
Wildings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wilding
polynucleic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + nucleic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a polynucleic acid or a polynucleotide
polynucleic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polynucleic acids
Senses: glosses: Synonym of polynucleotide.
synonyms: word: polynucleotide
polyprenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or derived from a polyprenol
presonication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presonications
Etymology: From pre- + sonication.
Senses: glosses: sonication prior to some other process
pyrenylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrenylenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any cyclic polymer of pyrene
pyrenylenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyrenylene
pyridylidene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyridylidenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A carbene derived from pyridine
sterics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: steric effects in chemistry (or the study of such effects)
superhydrophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + hydrophilic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or exhibiting superhydrophilicity
thienylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thienylenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A five-membered heterocycle containing two double bonds and one sulfur atom
Synonyms: thiophene
tricoordinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + coordinated.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: coordinated with three (the same or different) ligands
troch.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of trochee.
troch.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of trochaic.
slingstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslɪŋ.stəʊn/
ipa: /ˈslɪŋ.stoʊn/
Forms: form: slingstones
form: sling-stone
Etymology: From sling + stone.
Senses: glosses: A stone, bullet, or other such missile or projectile thrown by a sling.
sling-stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sling-stones
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of slingstone.
fire-raiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire-raisers
Senses: glosses: An arsonist.
Tissa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Pali Tissa.
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The name of the 20th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.
wikipedia: + Buddha
fire-raisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire-raiser
star shower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: star showers
form: star-shower
Senses: examples: text: At first, we thought they were a star shower. But the “stars” stayed in a circle as if they were strung together like beads. Meteors scatter when they fall, so we soon realized we were seeing something else.
ref: 2001, Philip L. Rife, America's Nightmare Monsters, →ISBN, page 136:
text: The speaker opens by asking if we stayed up to watch the star shower known as Leonid that is “mysteriously pelted at us” once a year.
ref: 2007, Deirdre J. Fagan, Critical Companion to Robert Frost, →ISBN:
text: 'We're waitin' fer the shower,' Jack told them. 'I don't fink there's any chance of it rainin' ternight,' Linda remarked. 'The silly ole sod's talkin' about a star shower,' Bill told them, turning to Jack.
ref: 2012, Harry Bowling, That Summer in Eagle Street, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of meteor shower.
synonyms: word: meteor shower
star showers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of star shower
new bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: new bugs
Senses: examples: text: Hello, chappie... You a new bug?
ref: 1987 September 17, Richard Curtis, Ben Elton, Dish and Dishonesty (Blackadder the Third), season 3, episode 1, spoken by Pitt the Younger (Simon Osborne):
text: From the other end Porter was glaring at them. "Hey you! New bug!" The bath fell silent.
ref: 1993, Michael Morpurgo, The War of Jenkins' Ear:
qualifier: school slang
glosses: A new pupil.
Synonyms: word: fresher
word: freshman
english: Tonbridge School
translation: Tonbridge School
word: novi
english: Oxford University
translation: Oxford University
word: puny
english: Westminster School
translation: Westminster School
word: shadow
Hypernyms: beginner
new bugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of new bug
star-shower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: star-showers
Senses: examples: text: I see the waves upon the shore Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown;
ref: 1818, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples:
text: The next great star-shower from the Leonid swarm is expected before dawn on the morning of-November 17 or 18, 1999.
ref: 1978, Robert Burnham, Jr., Burnham's Celestial Handbook: An Observer's Guide to the Universe Beyond the Solar System: Volume Two: Chamaeleon Through Orion, →ISBN, page 1064:
text: On the morning of November 14, 1867, a star-shower equal in magnitude to that of 1866 was observed in France and America, but was almost wholly invisible in Britain, on account of the cloudy state of the atmosphere.
ref: 2009, Peter Terry, Proofs of the Prophets--The Case for Baha'u'llah, →ISBN, page 140:
glosses: Alternative form of star shower.
star-showers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of star-shower
stickfrog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stickfrogs
Senses: examples: text: A bit arter, I hears a jarring, — up goes I ; she comes at me with a knife — only a stickfrog it's sartin, but it's a knife — and a knife's a knife, all the world over; but howsomever that says nothing.
ref: 1825, Cruikshank, “Conjugal Delights”, in The Spirit of the public journals, page 188:
glosses: Alternative form of stick frog.
A blunt knife
examples: text: All day long (when we weren't gathering dog's-tongue) we'd swing through the cypresses on the rope vines, and if it rained we'd huddle beneath an umbrella tree and play stickfrog.
ref: 1960 July, James Hurst, “The Scarlet Ibis”, in Atlantic Monthly, page 142:
glosses: Alternative form of stick frog.
A game similar to mumblety peg
fineliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: superlative form of finely: most finely
stick frog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stick frogs
form: stickfrog
form: stick-frog
Senses: examples: text: The others could tell stories, play stick frog or such quiet games, but there was to be no noise to disturb the wonderful speaking going on upstairs for the betterment of Wayne County schools.
ref: 2002, Martha Mizell Puckett, Hoyle B. Puckett, Memories of a Georgia Teacher: Fifty Years in the Classroom, →ISBN, page 61:
text: To complicate things, in stick frog, one had to hold onto his right ear with his left hand and hold the knife in his right hand while extending his right hand through the loop formed by his left with one toss.
ref: 2006, Mac McQuagge, The Color of Angels, →ISBN, page 174:
text: Sometimes on Sunday, Ola, Ethel, Joe and I would go to the pasture, and sit under the sweet gum tree or play stick frog.
ref: 2008, Mary Ellen Baldree Forlines, Nancy and Joe Plus Seventeen, →ISBN, page 65:
glosses: A game similar to mumblety peg.
examples: text: One would scarcely think of hardening a quill in order to enable it to compete with a steel nib in some of the least desirable qualities, though one often wishes one could accomplish the reverse process, and soften or supple a steel 'stick frog' so as to give it the elasticity of the grey goose quill.
ref: 1985 October, Seymour Howard, “The steel pen and the modern line of beauty”, in Technology and Culture, volume 26, number 4:
glosses: A blunt, crudely-made knife.
stick-frog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stick-frogs
Senses: examples: text: He would play three handed seven up with Bob Dixon and Jack Stone -- listen with seeming delight to the rickety verses of Joe Delton, or indulge in a game of stick-frog with the skillful John Carter.
ref: 2010, Kittrell J. Warren, Floyd C. Watkins, Life and Public Services of an Army Straggler, →ISBN, page 94:
glosses: Alternative form of stick frog.
A game similar to mumblety peg.
examples: text: Put up your Stick-Frogs, good Mr. Devils, an't please Your Worships, and let us converse civilly ; we are honest, well-meaning Men, and love Peace better than War, as well as our Betters.
ref: 1733, Penelope Aubin, The Humours of the Masqueraders, page 41:
glosses: Alternative form of stick frog.
A blunt knife
stick frogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stick frog
floralize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: floralizes
form: floralizing
form: floralized
form: floralized
Etymology: From floral + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make floral.
floralized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of floralize
floralizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of floralize
floralizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of floralize
political lesbianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A feminist doctrine that advocates lesbianism and lesbian separatism as a part of the struggle against sexism.
Related terms: political blackness
political lesbian
political lesbian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: political lesbians
Senses: glosses: A proponent or practitioner of political lesbianism.
political lesbians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of political lesbian
sonifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sonification
blackout gag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackout gags
Etymology: In reference to burlesque and vaudeville, when the lights were quickly turned off after the punchline of a joke to accentuate it and encourage the audience to laugh.
Senses: examples: text: In some cases, Brooks could construct an entire sequence of nothing but blackout gags, as in the prehistoric sequence of History, which depicts the first artist and first critic, the discovery of fire, the invention of music, and so forth.
ref: 2015, Henry Jenkins, “Mel Brooks, Vulgar Modernism, and Comic Remediation”, in Andrew Horton, Joanna E. Rapf, editors, A Companion to Film Comedy, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 159:
glosses: A rapid-fire joke in slapstick comedy.
blackout gags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blackout gag
oneg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈoʊneɡ/
Forms: form: onegs
form: oyneg
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew עונג / עֹנֶג ('óneg, “pleasure”).
Senses: glosses: A casual festive gathering on Friday night after the first Shabbat meal, usually involving food, singing, dancing, and casual Torah study, fulfilling the mitzvah of enjoying Shabbat.
Related terms: alt: pl. onagei shabbat
word: oneg shabbat
alt: pl. onagei shabbos
word: oneg shabbos
horriblest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of horrible: most horrible
Hoyas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hoya
Nye
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nyes
Etymology: Topographic surname which derives from a misdivision of Middle English atten (“at the”) + ei (“island”) or æ (“river, waterway”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Middle English.
glosses: A placename
A village in Jönköping, Småland, Sweden.
glosses: A placename
An unincorporated community in Stillwater County, Montana, United States.
glosses: A placename
An unincorporated community in Umatilla County, Oregon, United States.
glosses: A placename
A neighborhood of Laredo, Webb County, Texas, United States.
glosses: A placename
An unincorporated community in Putnam County, West Virginia, United States.
glosses: A placename
An unincorporated community in Polk County, Wisconsin, United States.
glosses: A placename
Ellipsis of Nye County.
Derived terms: Nye County
Related terms: Nigh
Nighy
gnew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of gnaw