cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Tau Cetan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tau Cetian.
Tau Cetan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tau Cetans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tau Cetian.
Tau Cetan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tau Cetian.
Tau Cetans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tau Cetan
super-weapon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: super-weapons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of superweapon.
super-weapons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of super-weapon
four score
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: examples: text: Blanch. How old art thou now, Adam? / Wint[erton]. Four ſcore, come Martlemas: and, by our Lady, I can run with a lapwing.
ref: 1796, George Colman, the Younger, The Iron Chest: […], Dublin: […] Thomas Burnside, for P. Wogan, J. Rice, and G. Folingsey, act I, scene II, page 14:
text: His eldest son is at this present four score years of age, and his second son may now reckon three score; at our lady-day last he made up the years of his life just 102.
ref: 1826, William Hone, The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information, column 841:
text: Although this patent is taken for a very important article, the door lock, the specification of the invention does not contain more than four score words.
ref: 1834, Thomas P[ascal] Jones, editor, Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania; Devoted to the Mechanic Arts, Manufactures, General Science, and the Recording of American and Other Patented Inventions, Philadelphia, Pa.: […] [T]he Franklin Institute, […], page 178:
glosses: Alternative form of fourscore.
four-score
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: examples: text: This Work, beſides the Poetry, will contain about four-ſcore Plates of Muſic.
ref: 1773, Orfeo ed Euridice; Orpheus and Eurydice; an Opera in One Act. As Performed at the King’s Theatre in the Hay-Market., London: […] W. Griffin, […], page 16:
text: 3. Every subscriber of one penny per week, who is sixty years of age, or upwards, and under four-score, to be entitled to receive treble his subscription at the end of the year; that is, his own subscription, and twice as much more. 4. Every subscriber of one penny per week, who is four-score years of age, or upwards, and under ninety, to receive four times his subscription at the end of the year; that is, his own subscription, and three times as much more.
ref: 1806, The Orthodox Churchman’s Magazine and Review; or, A Treasury of Divine and Useful Knowledge, volume X, London: […] J. G. Barnard, […], and sold by F[rancis,] C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], page 140:
text: I was then about four-score years of age, and my infirmities much increased by the severity of my confinement, yet as my day was, so strength was given.
ref: 1814, W. L. S. G., The Trial of Antichrist; Otherwise, The Man of Sin, for High Treason Against the Son of God, Tried at the Sessions House of Truth, […], 2nd edition, Dublin: […] [T]he Author, and Sold by T. Johnstone, […], Ogle […], Ogle & Aikman, […], page 174:
text: In twenty minutes after I left the pulpit, being anxious for letters from my family at home, I threw myself into a coach, and did not halt till I reached Liverpool, where I expected to find some: a journey of nearly four-score miles, not a small work for three-score and ten years!
ref: 1833, An Account of the Infancy, Religious and Literary Life, of Adam Clarke, LL.D., F.A.S., &c. […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: […] B. Waugh and T. Mason, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, […], page 140:
text: Sir George Mackenzie, nine years of age when it occurred, thus refers to the event, with additional circumstances, as being in his time notorious and uncontroverted:⁠—“And our accusers should remember, that these women were executed for higher crimes than the following Montrose’s camp, for which four-score women and children were drowned;[…]”
ref: 1856, Mark Napier, Memoirs of the Marquis of Montrose, volume second, Edinburgh: Thomas G. Stevenson, […]; London: Hamilton, Adams & Co., page 587:
text: Nearly four-score children received gratuitous medical attention and care during 1874, and, had the accommodations been more ample, many more little sufferers would have been treated.
ref: 1875, Circulars of Information of the Bureau of Education, numbers 6-1875 (Statements Relating to Reformatory, Charitable, and Industrial Schools for the Young), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 96:
text: While the survey goes far beyond the upwards of four-score plates, they make it possible to check the argument at all crucial points.
ref: 1930, The International Studio, page 77:
glosses: Alternative form of fourscore.
nondisplacement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + displacement.
Senses: glosses: Absence of displacement; failure to displace something or somebody.
drexil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drexils
form: dreshel
form: dreshol
form: dreshul
form: drescel
form: dreskal
form: dressel
form: dresshel
Senses: examples: text: But, after a bit, father up and out after the cattle, and there he found you, as I said, in a faint, and wet as seaweed, on the drexil .
ref: 1887, Sabine Baring Gould, The Gaverocks, page 48:
glosses: The threshold of a door.
uveoparotid fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Heerfordt syndrome.
synonyms: word: Heerfordt syndrome
Heerfordt-Waldenström syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Heerfordt syndrome.
synonyms: word: Heerfordt syndrome
Heerfordt-Mylius syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Heerfordt syndrome.
synonyms: word: Heerfordt syndrome
Boulaq
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bulaq
Senses: glosses: A district of Cairo, Egypt.
Waldenström's uveoparotitis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Heerfordt syndrome.
synonyms: word: Heerfordt syndrome
Bulaq
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Boulaq, Cairo.
DTLS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: communications
computing
electrical-engineering
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Initialism of Datagram Transport Layer Security.
technical group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technical groups
Etymology: Such groups are formed for "technical" reasons, so that members enjoy rights or benefits that would remain unavailable to them outside a formally recognised parliamentary group.
Senses: topics: government
politics
synonyms: mixed group
glosses: A heterogeneous parliamentary group composed of elected officials from political parties of differing ideologies (or independent of any party) who are not numerous enough to form groups on their own.
technical groups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technical group
monkey dust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bath salt (“any of a class of methylenedioxypyrovalerone-based psychoactive recreational drugs”).
synonyms: word: bath salt
extra: any of a class of methylenedioxypyrovalerone-based psychoactive recreational drugs
oral allergy syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: word: OAS
glosses: A food allergy consisting of a cluster of allergic reactions in the mouth and throat in response to eating certain fruits, nuts, and vegetables.
obstrepalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more obstrepalous
form: most obstrepalous
Senses: glosses: obstreperous
on the regs
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: That show came out when I was seven years old and I watched it on the regs.
ref: 2018, Phoebe Robinson, Everything's Trash, But It's Okay, page 81:
glosses: Alternative form of on the reg.
BEAST
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Browser Exploit Against SSL/TLS.
physics gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: physics guns
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: Synonym of gravity gun.
synonyms: word: gravity gun
physics guns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of physics gun
Yörüks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Yörük
Yuruk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yuruks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Yörük.
Yorouk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yorouks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Yörük.
Yorouks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Yorouk
Yuruks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Yuruk
gleds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gled
Foxxs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Foxx
Vinicunca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A mountain in the Andes of Peru, having a striped appearance due to its mineralogical composition.
Chislev
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kislev (“Jewish calendar month”).
Clear Lake gnat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Clear Lake gnats
Etymology: Known from Clear Lake (California).
Senses: glosses: Chaoborus astictopus, a kind of phantom midge.
wikipedia: Clear Lake (California)
Clear Lake gnats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Clear Lake gnat
Cleveland Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cleveland Bays
Senses: glosses: A horse of a well-muscled, short-legged, bay-coloured breed that originated in England during the 17th century.
Cleveland Bays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cleveland Bay
CNM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CNMs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of centronuclear myopathy.
glosses: Initialism of certified nurse‐midwife.
glosses: Initialism of consensual nonmonogamy.
CNMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CNM
Coade stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Coade stones
Etymology: The product (originally known as "Lithodipyra") was created around 1770 by Eleanor Coade.
Senses: glosses: A kind of artificial stoneware used for statues and ornaments.
Coade stones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Coade stone
coadding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coadd
Coddington magnifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Coddington magnifiers
Etymology: Popularized and refined by Henry Coddington.
Senses: glosses: A magnifying glass consisting of a single thick lens with a central deep groove diaphragm at the equator, limiting the rays to those close to the axis and minimizing spherical aberration.
wikipedia: Henry Coddington
Coddington magnifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Coddington magnifier
Colchestrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Colchestrian
form: most Colchestrian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Colchester, England.
Colchestrian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Colchestrians
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Colchester, England.
glosses: A pupil or alumnus of Colchester Royal Grammar School (founded 1128).
Colchestrians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Colchestrian
Colorado fir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Colorado firs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of white fir (“the coniferous tree Abies concolor”).
synonyms: word: white fir
extra: the coniferous tree Abies concolor
Colorado firs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Colorado fir
Comacine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Comacines
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Comacine master.
Comacines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Comacine
Comacine master
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Comacine masters
Senses: synonyms: Comacine
glosses: An early medieval Lombard stonemason working in a region of excellent building stone who gave to Lombardy its preeminence in the stone architecture that preceded the Romanesque style.
Comacine masters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Comacine master
Comstockery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of comstockery.
COMSATS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South.
stoolless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stool + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a stool.
rangoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rangoon
congregationalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of congregationalist
Congressite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Congressites
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A member of the Indian National Congress, an Indian political party.
Congressites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Congressite
Toyotaism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Toyotism.
Connemaras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Connemara
Hollywoodland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the original word on the Hollywood Sign (from 1923 until 1949). By surface analysis, holly + wood + land.
Senses: qualifier: originally
glosses: A housing development in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles, California; its large advertising sign later became a symbol for both the Hollywood district and its film industry.
examples: text: Here, I am in the heart of Hollywood, but the folks living in Hollywoodland are just like the ones in the small towns back home in North Dakota.
ref: 1939, Modern Pharmacy, Parke, Davis and Company:
glosses: Synonym of Hollywood.
synonyms: word: Hollywood
glosses: The silent-film era of Hollywood.
Consomol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Komsomol.
Konsomol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Komsomol.
Cooper Hewitt lamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cooper Hewitt lamps
Etymology: Invented by Peter Cooper Hewitt.
Senses: glosses: An early mercury-vapour lamp.
wikipedia: Peter Cooper Hewitt
Cooper Hewitt lamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cooper Hewitt lamp
good-humor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The speech of Hist produced a retort, and the dispute, though conducted in good-humor, and without any of the coarse violence of tone and l gesture that often impairs the charms of the sex in what is called civilized life, grew warm and slightly clamorous.
ref: 1850 [1841], J[ames] Fenimore Cooper, chapter XVI, in The Deerslayer: or, The First War-Path. A Tale. (The Leather-Stocking Tales; volume I), New York, N.Y.: George P[almer] Putnam, […], page 307:
text: What, perhaps, with other things, made Stubb such an easy-going, unfearing man, so cheerily trudging off with the burden of life in a world full of grave peddlers, all bowed to the ground with their packs; what helped to bring about that almost impious good-humor of his; that thing must have been his pipe.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Knights and Squires”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 129:
text: With a spirit naturally gay, and a disposition to join the circles of consistent good-humor, he could readily have filled these pages with general instruction and amusement.
ref: 1852 May, Abel C[harles] Thomas, “Preface”, in Autobiography of Rev. Abel C. Thomas: Including Recollections of Persons, Incidents, and Places, Boston, Mass.: […] J. M. Usher, […], page 4:
glosses: Archaic American form of good humour.
Cornish elm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cornish elms
Senses: glosses: Ulmus minor 'Stricta', a cultivar of the field elm, once commonly found in Cornwall.
Cornish elms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cornish elm
DED
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Dutch elm disease.
Cuban crocodile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cuban crocodiles
Senses: glosses: A crocodile of species Crocodylus rhombifer, endemic to Cuba.
Cuban crocodiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cuban crocodile
Cuban pine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cuban pines
Senses: glosses: Pinus cubensis, a pine tree endemic to the eastern highlands of the island of Cuba.
Cuban pines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cuban pine
tiger stripe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tiger stripes
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:tiger stripe.
glosses: A stretch mark.
examples: text: Echocardiography revealed severe eccentric mitral regurgitation with multiple high-intensity signals (tiger stripes) on continuous wave (CW) Doppler. The patient was managed as rheumatic carditis with steroids. Repeat echocardiography after 1 month showed the resolution of tiger stripes.
ref: 2022, Najeeb Ullah Sofi, Santosh Kumar Sinha, Mohit Sachan, Ramesh Thakur, “Tiger stripes in carditis of rheumatic origin”, in Heart Views, volume 23, number 4, page 230:
text: Striated pattern of internal enhancement (tiger stripe sign) relatively specific for nonsuppurative tonsillitis
ref: 2023, Dania Tamimi, Specialty Imaging: Temporomandibular Joint and Sleep-Disordered Breathing, page 5569:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A striated pattern on a sensor image that indicates movement or variation in scanned tissue or objects.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tiger, stripe.
Related terms: tiger stripes
Danaë
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Danae.
D&X
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: D&E
glosses: Initialism of dilation and extraction.
D&E
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of D&X (“dilation and extraction”).
synonyms: word: D&X
extra: dilation and extraction
Danebrog
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Dannebrog.
DAV
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Democratic Association of Victoria.
glosses: Initialism of Disabled American Veterans.
glosses: Initialism of Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam.
DBCP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of dibromochloropropane.
dibromochloropropane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: word: DBCP
glosses: 1,2-dibromo-3-chloropropane, a soil fumigant.
Decca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of Dhaka.
Delsartian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Delsartian
form: most Delsartian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Delsartean.
Khalajestan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Khalajistan
Etymology: From Persian خلجستان (xalajestân). By surface analysis, Khalaj + -stan.
Senses: glosses: A district of Iran.
Della Cruscan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Della Cruscan
form: most Della Cruscan
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Dellacruscan.
Della Cruscan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Della Cruscans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Dellacruscan.
Della Cruscans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Della Cruscan
side stitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: side stitches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sideache.
DFDT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of difluorodiphenyltrichloroethane.
difluorodiphenyltrichloroethane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: word: DFDT
glosses: A chemical compound having the same composition as the insecticide DDT, but with two chlorine atoms replaced by two fluorine atoms.
Dubonnet cocktail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dubonnet cocktails
Senses: glosses: A cocktail made with Dubonnet and gin.
Dubonnet cocktails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dubonnet cocktail
EAON
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of European Asteroidal Occultation Network.
cast round
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: casts round
form: casting round
form: cast round
form: cast round
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cast around.
synonyms: word: cast around
Nower
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname
glosses: A number of places in Surrey, England.
quadravigesimal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkwɒdˈɹɑvaɪd͡ʒɛsɪməl/
Forms: form: quadravigesimals
Etymology: From quadra- + vigesimal.
Senses: topics: arithmetic
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A number system with base twenty-four, using the digits 0–9 and A–N (or Greek α-ω without numerals).
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A number expressed in the quadravigesimal system.
Synonyms: topics: arithmetic
computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: base twenty-four
quadravigesimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌkwɒdˈɹɑvaɪd͡ʒɛsɪməl/
Etymology: From quadra- + vigesimal.
Senses: glosses: Of a number, expressed in quadravigesimal.
Synonyms: topics: arithmetic
computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: base-twenty-four
Related terms: base
binary
decimal
octal
0x
quadravigesimals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadravigesimal.
hexavigesimals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexavigesimal.
hexatrigesimals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexatrigesimal.
Khalajs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Khalaj
hinge upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hinges upon
form: hinging upon
form: hinged upon
form: hinged upon
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hinge on.
drink out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drinks out
form: drinking out
form: drank out
form: drunk out
Senses: examples: text: Lift your glass and drink it out!
text: Yes, ... then, drink out drink out the glass!
ref: 1890, Carl Millöcker, Der Arme Jonathan: Operette in drei Akten, page 8:
text: that was very odd ! that so much punch could be drank out already!
ref: 1807, Oliver Goldsmith, The Poems and Essays of Oliver Goldsmith, page 23:
glosses: To finish a beverage; to empty a cup by drinking the contents.
glosses: To drink alcohol in a pub, bar, restaurant or other public establishment.
raw_tags: from eat out
plot out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plots out
form: plotting out
form: plotted out
form: plotted out
Senses: examples: text: I've plotted out a whole trilogy.
glosses: To plan out a plot for a story or to create a scheme or plan.
equire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equires
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of esquire (“squire”).
equire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equires
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of esquire (“gyron-like shape”).
equires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equire
pull into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls into
form: pulling into
form: pulled into
form: pulled into
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pull in (To park frontways in a parking spot)
synonyms: word: pull in
extra: To park frontways in a parking spot
saltwater taffy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salt water taffy
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A kind of soft taffy characteristic of the eastern United States, made with butter, glycerin, corn syrup, salt and water but not seawater.
salt water taffy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of saltwater taffy.
WWAN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of wireless wide area network.
Related terms: english: wireless local area network
translation: wireless local area network
word: WLAN
cuff out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuffs out
form: cuffing out
form: cuffed out
form: cuffed out
Senses: glosses: To eject violently; to kick out.
grand quarters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grand quarter
margate grunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: margate grunts
Senses: glosses: white margate (Haemulon album), a food fish of the western Atlantic.
Synonyms: margate fish
Margaret fish
Margaret grunt
Margaret fish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Margaret fish
Senses: glosses: Eggcorn of margate fish.
white margate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white margates
Senses: synonyms: margate fish, margate grunt, Margaret fish, Margaret grunt
glosses: An edible fish, a grunt of the west Atlantic (Cyprinus carpio).
in glory
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Arms : party per fess Azure and Sable, three suns in their glory, impaling, Argent, on a chevron Sable, before three hawks' heads erased proper, as many cinquefoils of the field. Crest : on a wreath a garb Or. Sacred to the[…]
ref: 1842, William Robinson, The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Stoke Newington in the County of Middlesex: Containing an Account of the Prebendal Manor, the Church, Charities, Schools, Meeting Houses, &c., with Appendices ..., page 166:
text: The sun is usually given 'in his glory,' or splendour, and represented by a human face, surrounded with sixteen rays of glory - see the Arms of Richmond, 'Gu. the sun in his glory, Arg.' Occasionally it is 'eclipsed,' the tincture being then sable.
ref: 1857, The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church, page 146:
text: However on 9 Feb. 1585-6 he was awarded to pay 400 marks, and to leave goods to the value of £ 20. Arms : A. on a fess betw. 3 bibles G. a falcon rising O. betw. 2 suns in their glory. Granted by sir Gilbert Dethick, Garter king[…]
ref: 1861, Charles Henry Cooper, Thompson Cooper, Athenae Cantabrigienses: 1586-1609, page 168:
text: Az. three suns in their glory or.
ref: 1864, Bernard Burke, The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales: Comprising a Registry of Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time, page 1161:
text: Az. a sun in its glory Or. [ST. CLERE.]
ref: 1871, William Harvey, The Visitations of the County of Oxford Taken in the Years 1566 by William Harvey, Clarencieux ; 1574 by Richard Lee, Portcullis ; and in 1634 by John Philpott, Somerset, and William Ryley, Bluemantle, ... ; Together with the Gatherings of Oxfordshire, Collected by Richard Lee in 1574, page 48:
text: Gu. two bars erm. in chief three suns in glory or. NICHOLSON, Ballow House, co. Down; derived from Nicholson of Cumberland; quartering STEELE.[…]
ref: 1874, John Woody Papworth, An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, page 29:
text: Sa. the sun in his glory between nine stars arg., 3, 2, 3 and 1. BAILLIE OF JERVISWOOD. Sa. the sun in his glory between nine stars arg., 3, 2, 3 and 1, a crescent for difference. BAILLIE OF MANORHALL.
ref: 1893, Sir James Balfour Paul, An Ordinary of Arms Contained in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland, page 217:
text: Gules, two bars ermine in chief three suns in glory or -- NICHOLSON, Co. Down.[…]
ref: 1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 558:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Synonym of in splendor.
synonyms: word: in splendor
Related terms: in all one's glory
milemarkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milemarker
fingernet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fingernets
Senses: glosses: fingernet caddisfly
fingernet caddisfly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fingernet caddisflies
Senses: glosses: Any in family Philopotamidae of caddisflies.
demi-culverine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demi-culverines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of demiculverin.
demi-culverin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demi-culverins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of demiculverin.
demi-culverins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demi-culverin
demi-culverines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demi-culverine
booktalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: booktalks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of book talk.
book talk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: book talks
form: booktalk
Senses: glosses: A speech given about a book, in order to motivate others to read it.
booktalks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of booktalk
book talks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of book talk
disambulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disambulatories
Senses: examples: text: Another bomb came through the disambulatory roof and vaulting and made a direct hit on one of the four stone pillars carrying the tower crossing and the iron spire
ref: 1961, Stanley Richard Baron, The Road to Barcelona, and the Costa Brava:
topics: architecture
glosses: An extension of the ambulatory that allows one to walk along the sides of a cathedral.
Related terms: ambulatory
disambulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disambulatory
form: most disambulatory
Senses: examples: text: It affected its victims like an airborne LSD — and certainly left them “disambulatory.”
ref: 1989, Richard Engling, Body Mortgage, page 26:
text: I wasn't even close to her, being knocked out and disambulatory.
ref: 2018, Les Edgerton, Monday's Meal:
text: It's all perambulatory to disambulatory because nobody tells us that with increasing indolence our body bulk balloons.
ref: 2019, Ken West, My Pagan Ancestor Zuri: A Parallel Journey:
glosses: Unable to walk with ease.
monopitched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: monopitch
moity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moities
Senses: examples: text: Nor night, nor day, no rest: It is but weaknesse
To beare the matter thus: meere weaknesse, if
The cause were not in being: part o'th cause,
She, th' Adultresse: for the harlot-King
Is quite beyond mine Arme, out of the blanke
And leuell of my braine: plot-proofe: but shee,
I can hooke to me: say that she were gone,
Giuen to the fire, a moity of my rest
Might come to me againe. Whose there?
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of moiety.
metaleg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metalegs
Etymology: From meta- + leg.
Senses: examples: text: Likewise, in those insects where the metalegs are fitted for jumping, the prolegs and mesolegs are coordinated with the metalegs and fitted for walking
ref: 1923, Alexander Dyer MacGillivray, External Insect Anatomy:
text: The parts make up different but constant proportions of the entire leg for the pro- and mesolegs, but in the metaleg, the femur becomes relatively shorter and the tibia longer as size increases.
ref: 2013, Walter R. Tschinkel, The Fire Ants:
text: In X. flavitibia the first three tarsomeres of the metaleg are bright yellow.
ref: 2019, Jeffrey H. Skevington, Michelle M. Locke, Andrew D. Young, Field Guide to the Flower Flies of Northeastern North America:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Either of the two hind legs on an insect.
mesoleg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesolegs
Etymology: From meso- + leg.
Senses: glosses: Either of the two middle legs on an insect.
mesolegs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesoleg
echinulin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: echinulins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: C₂₉H₃₉N₃O₂, a metabolite of several molds, initially found in Aspergillus echinulatus and subsequently found in Aspergillus glaucus.
Derived terms: dihydroechinulin
isoechinulin
neoechinulin
preechinulin
eurypterine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eurypterines
Senses: glosses: Any in the suborder †Eurypterina of extinct arthropods.
Synonyms: eurypterid
eurypterines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eurypterine
cobyric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to cobyric acid
metalegs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metaleg
runs the gauntlet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of run the gauntlet
ran the gauntlet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of run the gauntlet
goes for the jugular
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go for the jugular
going for the jugular
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go for the jugular
went for the jugular
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go for the jugular
gone for the jugular
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go for the jugular
goes for the throat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go for the throat
going for the throat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go for the throat
went for the throat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go for the throat
gone for the throat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go for the throat
goes for the kill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go for the kill
going for the kill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go for the kill
went for the kill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go for the kill
gone for the kill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go for the kill
electroplasticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Morphologically electro- + plasticity
Senses: qualifier: materials science
glosses: The plastic behaviour of a solid material in an electric field.
Related terms: electroplastic
electroplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more electroplastic
form: most electroplastic
Etymology: Morphologically electro- + plastic
Senses: qualifier: materials science
glosses: Of a solid material that becomes plastic in an electric field
Derived terms: electroplasticity
Cape Ray
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A headland and community at the south-west extremity of Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
externall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more externall
form: most externall
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of external.
Humbermouth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Humber + mouth, the mouth of the Humber River (Newfoundland and Labrador).
Senses: examples: text: Humbermouth and Corner Brook, outside St. Johns, comprise the most important industrial area in the country, with the extensive timber mills and the new port provided by the Humber River.
ref: 1948 July and August, T. W. Frost, “The Newfoundland Railway Jubilee”, in Railway Magazine, page 258:
glosses: A neighbourhood of Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
wikipedia: Humber River (Newfoundland and Labrador)
cousenage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cousenages
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of cozenage.
paperclip maximizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paperclip maximizer
clod-hopping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clod-hopping
form: most clod-hopping
Senses: examples: text: Farmers, with clod-hopping boots, two inches thick, bolted in when the Vicar’s wife was calling, leaving a strong odour of tobacco behind them, and staying just long enough to explain to the affronted Mrs. Meadows, that they “only stepped in about the toithes.”
ref: 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XIII, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 289:
text: What a mercy you are shod with velvet, Jane!—a clod-hopping messenger would never do at this juncture.
ref: 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter V, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, pages 126–127:
text: I may call Mr. Milliken what I please; but not you, you little scamp of a clod-hopping ploughboy.
ref: a. 1864 (date written), W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “The Wolves and the Lamb”, in Catherine: A Story. Little Travels. The Fitz-Boodle Papers. etc. etc. (Works of William Makepeace Thackeray in Twenty-four Volumes; 22), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1869, →OCLC, Act I, page 340:
glosses: Alternative form of clodhopping.
spit on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spits on
form: spitting on
form: spat on
form: spat on
form: spit on
form: spit on
Senses: examples: text: You just completely spat on my job performance here.
text: I spit on them!
glosses: To show contempt for someone or something.
Related terms: piss on
shit on
bride-cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bride-cakes
Senses: examples: text: THIS day my Julia thou must make
For Mistresse Bride, the wedding Cake:
Knead but the Dow, and it will be
To paste of Almonds turn’d by thee:
Or kisse it thou, but once, or twice,
And for the Bride-Cake ther’l be Spice.
ref: 1648, Robert Herrick, “The Bride-Cake”, in Hesperides:
text: When I was a little boy (before the Civill warres) I have seen (according to the custome then) the Bride and Bride-groome kisse over the Bride-cakes at the Table: it was about the later end of dinner: and yᵉ cakes were layd one upon another, like the picture of the Sew-bread in yᵉ old Bibles.
ref: 1687–1689, John Aubrey, edited by James Britten, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, London: […] [F]or the Folk-Lore Society by W. Satchell, Peyton, and Co., […], published 1881, page 22:
text: Smart bonnets and feathers were retreating as she entered the precincts of the house; and the footboy was retiring from the drawing-room with empty chocolate cups, and with mutilated bride-cake.
ref: 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XIII, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 286:
text: Mr Casaubon seemed even unconscious that trivialities existed, and never handed round that small-talk of heavy men which is as acceptable as stale bride-cake brought forth with an odour of cupboard.
ref: 1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter III, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I, page 48:
glosses: Alternative form of bridecake.
bride-cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bride-cake
white margates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white margate
FEPA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Family Entertainment Protection Act.
FEPC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Fair Employment Practice Committee.
glosses: Initialism of Federation of Electric Power Companies.
Fil-Ams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fil-Am
Hukbalahaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hukbalahap
Filamerican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Filamericans
Etymology: Blend of Filipino + American
Senses: examples: text: Although we had again been forced to withdraw, and finally abandon the first line of defense, the Filamericans had inflicted heavy casualties upon the enemy.
ref: 1984, Paul Ashton, Bataan Diary, page 109:
text: The Americans on Del Monte helped the Filamericans get the quinine cargo to the Cotabato coast. From there, they were able to make it to the American base in Cotabato, where they found it completely transformed.
ref: 2022, Summary of John R. Bruning's Indestructible:
glosses: A Filipino who supports the United States military.
Filamericans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Filamerican
Findon haddock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Findon haddocks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of finnan haddock.
synonyms: word: finnan haddock
Findon haddocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Findon haddock
Finno-Ugrist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Finno-Ugrists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Finno-Ugricist.
Finno-Ugrists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Finno-Ugrist
Florida dogwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Probably a misunderstanding of the Latin name Cornus florida, which incorporates Latin florida (“flowery”) and not English Florida (“a state”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of flowering dogwood (“Cornus florida”).
synonyms: word: flowering dogwood
extra: Cornus florida
Fortisan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Brand name.
Senses: glosses: A kind of strong yarn once used to make parachutes.
Fortin barometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fortin barometers
Etymology: Invented by Jean Nicolas Fortin.
Senses: glosses: A kind of barometer using a variable-displacement mercury cistern, usually constructed with a thumbscrew pressing on a leather diaphragm bottom, which compensates for displacement of mercury in the column with varying pressure.
wikipedia: Jean Nicolas Fortin
Fortin barometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fortin barometer
Fortins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fortin
fu lion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fu lions
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of foo lion.
fu lions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fu lion
FSLIC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation.
Millertown Junction
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A settlement and former railway junction in central Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Hindemithian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hindemithian
form: most Hindemithian
Etymology: From Hindemith + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Paul Hindemith (1895–1963), German musician.
German fried potatoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of German fries.
synonyms: word: German fries
Gibraltar fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: brucellosis
GNMA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Ginnie Mae
glosses: Initialism of Government National Mortgage Association.
Hathor column
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hathor columns
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A column consisting of a round shaft surmounted by heads of the goddess Hathor, in turn surmounted by a kind of small shrine.
Hathor columns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hathor column
chick car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chick cars
Senses: glosses: An automobile (specifically, a high-performance sedan, coupe, or sports car) regarded stereotypically as being driven (and owned) by young women and teenage girls of legal driving age.
Syrahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Syrah
Havasupai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Havasupais
form: Havasupai
Senses: glosses: A member of a Yuman-speaking American Indian tribe inhabiting the Grand Canyon.
Derived terms: Havasupai-Walapai-Yavapai
Havasupais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Havasupai
Hawaiian duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hawaiian ducks
Senses: synonyms: koloa
glosses: Anas wyvilliana, a bird endemic to Hawaii.
Hawaiian ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hawaiian duck
Hefner candle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hefner candles
Senses: glosses: A unit of light intensity defined as that produced by the Hefner lamp burning amyl acetate with a 40 mm flame height.
Hefner candles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hefner candle
Hjelmslevian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hjelmslevian
form: most Hjelmslevian
Etymology: From Hjelmslev + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Louis Hjelmslev (1899–1965), Danish linguist.
Hohenzollernism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hohenzollern + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The character or policies of the Hohenzollerns.
IIB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IIBs
Senses: examples: text: An initialization block can be either static or nonstatic. In the upcoming section, you'll become familiar with non-static initialization blocks, which are also known as instance initialization blocks (IIBs).
ref: 2019, Vaskaran Sarcar, Interactive Object-Oriented Programming in Java: Learn and Test Your Programming Skills, Apress, →ISBN, page 43:
qualifier: Java programming language
glosses: Initialism of instance initialization block.
IIBs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of IIB
Hollywoodite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hollywoodites
Etymology: From Hollywood + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: The PCA was demonstrably a Communist-front organization, and most of the Hollywoodites whom it rallied to its support were members of the Communist Party, some of them having been notorious as such for many years.
ref: 1956, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities, Hearings, page 171:
glosses: Synonym of Hollywoodian (“someone who works in the film industry in Hollywood”).
synonyms: word: Hollywoodian
extra: someone who works in the film industry in Hollywood
Hollywoodites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hollywoodite
Hooperating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hooperatings
Etymology: Blend of Hooper + rating
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: A radio or television audience rating determined by the C. E. Hooper Company during the Golden Age of Radio.
Hooperatings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hooperating
Howeitat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Huwaitat
Etymology: From Arabic الحويطات.
Senses: glosses: A large Judhami tribe inhabiting parts of present-day southern Jordan, the Sinai Peninsula and Sharqia governate in Egypt, the Negev, and northwestern Saudi Arabia.
Huwaitat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Howeitat.
Götterdämmerungs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Götterdämmerung
repudiative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more repudiative
form: most repudiative
Etymology: From repudiate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of repudiatory.
synonyms: word: repudiatory