cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
musturbation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: musterbation
Etymology: Blend of must + masturbation, coined by Dr. Albert Ellis.
Senses: examples: text: Once the parents get a handle on their own musturbation, then they are in better shape to help deal with their children
ref: 1999, Arthur M. Horne, Mark S. Kiselica, Handbook of Counseling Boys and Adolescent Males: A Practitioner's Guide, →ISBN:
text: Musturbation makes us too sensitive to failure and I-can't-stand-it-itis makes even minor problems seem disastrous.
ref: 2003, Julia Russell, Matt Jarvis, Angles on Applied Psychology, →ISBN:
text: Thus, Irrational Beliefs that lead to such disturbed emotions as anxiety, anger/hostility, hurt, depression, shame and embarrassment, guilt, and jealousy largely stem, according to REBT theory, from a thinking process known as musturbation.
ref: 2007, Albert Ellis, Windy Dryden, The Practice of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The compulsive insistence that things ought to be a particular way.
Coordinate terms: oughtism
goalodicy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of goal + theodicy, coined by business professor Chris Kayes, PhD.
Senses: examples: text: If you suffer from goalodicy then you will find yourself so obsessed by the future goal that you ignore the practical realities of your situation.
ref: 2011, Shaa Wasmund, Stop Talking, Start Doing: A Kick in the Pants in Six Parts, →ISBN:
glosses: The obsessive pursuit of goals to the point of self-destruction.
torchiere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torchieres
form: torchère
form: torchière
form: torchier
Etymology: From French torchère (“floor lamp”).
Senses: synonyms: floor lamp
standard lamp
torch lamp
glosses: A floor lamp with a bowl on top for reflecting light upwards.
glosses: A large ornamental candelabrum.
torchieres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torchiere
torchiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torchier
summit fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Now that we were so close on Kilimanjaro, summit fever was taking me again.
ref: 2010, Daniel Dorr, Kissing Kilimanjaro:Leaving it All on Top of Africa, →ISBN:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
mountaineering
sports
glosses: The compulsion to reach the summit of a mountain at all costs.
examples: text: We suffer from summit fever. We push just a little harder, hoping we can rest when we get to the top. When we postpone an oasis until our to-do list is finished or until we've answered all of the 193 emails in our in-box, then we have summit fever.
ref: 2004, Steve Donahue, Shifting Sands: A Guidebook for Crossing the Deserts of Change, →ISBN:
glosses: The obsessive urge to complete a task.
briarberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: briarberries
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of brierberry.
goalsetting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of goal setting.
brierberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹaɪə(ɹ)ˌbɛɹi/
Forms: form: brierberries
form: briarberry
Etymology: From brier + berry.
Senses: glosses: a prickly bush found in the eastern United States, Rubus cuneifolius
glosses: the brownish black fruit of that bush
brierberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brierberry
briarberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of briarberry
openture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of open + closure
Senses: examples: text: Still, the writer and director jokingly cautions that Serenity is not the start of a trilogy. “If I never got to shoot anything of Serenity again, I would still feel that I had told my story and I had given the actors what they needed and the fans what they needed and myself what I needed. There is closure here. But having killed Buffy twice, I’m also a great proponent of openture."
ref: 2005 October 1, Daniel Eagan, “Finding Serenity”, in Film Journal International:
text: If you choose a life of awe, you will surrender the solace of certitude. You will live with more openture than closure and, unless you can learn to find a strange, exciting comfort in being presented with and grappling with the tremendous mysteries life offers, you will seldom feel calm or at ease for very long.
ref: 2007 October 17, Paul Pearsall, “Awe”, in Health Communications:
text: To use an old cliché of therapy-speak, we spend too much of our lives seeking “closure”….What we need more of, instead, is what the psychologist Paul Pearsall called openture. Yes, it’s an awkward neologism; but its very awkwardness is a reminder of the spirit that it expresses, which includes embracing imperfection, and easing up on the search for neat solutions.
ref: 2012, Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote, Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking, →ISBN:
glosses: Refraining from seeking a resolution or ending for an emotionally difficult experience.
HITs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HIT
HSD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HSDs
Senses: hypernyms: data#Noun
glosses: Initialism of hyperspectral data.
hypernyms: diploma#Noun
glosses: Initialism of high school diploma.
hypernyms: disorder#Noun
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condition#Noun
coordinate_terms: EDS
glosses: Initialism of hypermobility spectrum disorder.
Related terms: sense: hyperspectral data
english: hyperspectral imaging
translation: hyperspectral imaging
word: HI
sense: hyperspectral data
english: hyperspectral imaging technique
translation: hyperspectral imaging technique
word: HIT
survivor bias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: survivor biases
Senses: examples: text: Survivor bias commonly weakens observational studies, even those published in premier journals. It occurs because patients who live longer are more likely to receive treatment than those who die early.
ref: 2011, Q. Ashton Acton, PhD, Heart Diseases: New Insights for Healthcare, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of survivorship bias.
synonyms: word: survivorship bias
millionairehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From millionaire + -hood.
Senses: synonyms: millionairedom
millionism
millionaireship
glosses: The condition of being a millionaire.
half-embrace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-embraces
Etymology: From half- + embrace.
Senses: examples: text: “But throughout these calamities.“ huskily continued Don Benito. painfully turning in the half-embrace of his servant. “I have to thank those Negroes you see, who, though to your inexperienced eyes appearing unruly, have, indeed, conducted themselves with less restlessness than even their owner could have thought possible under such circumstances."
ref: 1855, Herman Melville, Benito Cereno:
glosses: A partial hug.
examples: text: This half-embrace of failure, as Coward suggests, is something the British like to think of as distinctly British.
ref: 2012, Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote, Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking, →ISBN:
glosses: An ambivalent acceptance or adoption.
half-embrace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: half-embraces
form: half-embracing
form: half-embraced
form: half-embraced
Etymology: From half- + embrace.
Senses: examples: text: Flowers destitute of ray; leaves pinnatised, toothed, half-embracing the stem.
ref: 1835, William Withering, An Arrangement of British Plants:
glosses: To embrace or wrap around partially.
examples: text: One solution, which his own England would later half-embrace, was socialism or collectivism, “in which the means of production” are “in the hands of the political officers of the community.
ref: 2010, Benjamin Wiker, 10 Books Every Conservative Must Read: Plus Four Not to Miss and One Impostor, →ISBN:
glosses: To adopt in an ambivalent or partial manner.
Kebnekaise
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: [ˈkɛbnəˌkaisə]
Etymology: From Swedish Kebnekaise, from Northern Sami Giebmegáisi, from giebmi (“kettle, cauldron”) + gáisi (“tall mountain”).
Senses: glosses: The highest mountain in Sweden.
nisbas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nisba
plate sale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: plate sales
Etymology: plate refers to the VIN containing the year of manufacture.
Senses: qualifier: auto
glosses: A sale of cars from the previous year.
anthropogony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anthropo- + -gony.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of anthropogenesis.
synonyms: word: anthropogenesis
anthropometrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The philosophical doctrine founded on the principle of Protagoras that man (humanity) is the measure of all things
anthropotechnics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anthropo- + -technics.
Senses: glosses: The science and technology concerning the close interaction of man and machines
bequiet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bequiets
form: bequieting
form: bequieted
form: bequieted
Etymology: From be- + quiet.
Senses: examples: text: [...] that has formed almost without observation on the arena, begins chanting, in regular Gregorian mood, a metrical version of the story ; and this calls back the audience to itself, and, imperceptibly, at last soothes and bequiets it again.
ref: 1910, Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, volume 58, Page, published 1020:
glosses: To make quiet or still; silence; becalm; bestill.
Derived terms: bequieting
Related terms: quieten
anzianate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: These twelve magistrates were renewed every two months; and afterwards, as appears by a law of 1277, it was established, that the anzianate should not continue longer than one month […]
ref: 1787, John Adams, A defence of the constitutions of government of the United States of America:
text: […] and various procedural rules such as the requirement laid on governing bodies like the Pisan anzianate of a larger majority for decisions on private than public affairs.
ref: 1997, Philip Jones, The Italian City-State: From Commune to Signoria, page 588:
text: In the republic of Lucca, for instance, where the college of nine Anziani headed by a Gonfaloniere di Giustizia sat for two months, and continued to be drawn from an electoral purse made up every two years, in theory, the Anzianate was open to nearly all adult male citizens.
ref: 2006, Christine Shaw, Popular Government and Oligarchy in Renaissance Italy, page 192:
text: The four top ranking families in the anzianate were thus not only banking families but three of the four held a significantly larger proportion of their terms in the anzianate in the second period, after the bankers (along with their merchants) lost their numerical advantage in that office.
ref: 2010, Sarah Rubin Blanshei, Politics and Justice in Late Medieval Bologna, page 130:
glosses: A particular council in some medieval Italian towns.
camelopardine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more camelopardine
form: most camelopardine
Senses: examples: text: Nevertheless, there she was — dressed out in white satin, with a red velvet toque, and a bird-of-paradise feather, several strings of pearls set off to the greatest advantage by the white and yellow skin of her camelopardine neck, and a pair of diamond bracelets hanging loose upon either skinny arm.
ref: 1843, George Payne Rainsford James, The Commissioner, page 201:
text: As soon as it has enten the tender and green portion of the grass, it rejects the remainder as unfit for camelopardine consumption.
ref: 1865, John George Wood, The Illustrated Natural History: Mammalia, page 686:
glosses: Pertaining to a giraffe.
aortocoronary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aorto- + coronary.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the aorta and the coronary arteries
collective memory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collective memories
Senses: examples: text: Is it important, or even possible, for people to remember the events of Sept. 11 as they happened? Or is it more important for a society to concentrate on collective memory?
ref: 2001 October 27, Sarah Boxer, “A Memorial Is Itself A Shaper Of Memory”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: At the same time it vividly evokes the almost preposterous horror of war itself, which Mr. [Walid] Raad experiences both first hand and from a distance, and has evoked as semifictional collective memory.
ref: 2006 March 5, Holland Cotter, “The Collective Conscious”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: The shift in the collective memory is also taking place in local schools, where some teachers still refuse to teach lessons on 1921.
ref: 2020 February 11, Russell Cobb, “Shifting Collective Memory in Tulsa”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
coordinate_terms: institutional memory
glosses: A shared pool of information held in the memories of multiple members of a group.
collective memories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collective memory
to one's way of thinking
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: He shouldn't be given a promotion, to my way of thinking.
glosses: in one's opinion; as far as one is concerned
that way
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: like that
glosses: Gay; homosexual.
examples: text: Not so loud, can't you be still? Aw, gee! Don't be that way now
ref: 1926, Roy Turk, “Aw, Gee! Don't Be That Way Now”:
glosses: difficult. Usually used with "be."
that way
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: This way; as a result.
oestrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːstɹɪn/
Forms: form: oestrins
form: estrin
Etymology: From oestr(us) + -in.
Senses: examples: text: Encouraged by his friends Solly Zuckerman and J. B. S. Haldane, Bernal had obtained crystals of calciferol and the female sex hormone oestrin.
ref: 1998, Georgina Ferry, Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An oestrogen, specifically oestrone.
creolisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creolisations
Etymology: From creole + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of creolization.
creolisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creolisation
creolizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creolization
decreolisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decreolisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of decreolization.
decreolisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decreolisation
decreolise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decreolises
form: decreolising
form: decreolised
form: decreolised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of decreolize.
decreolised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decreolise
decreolises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decreolise
decreolising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decreolise
softcoded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of softcode
stinkfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stinkfests
Etymology: From stink + -fest.
Senses: glosses: A very bad-smelling place or situation.
stinkfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stinkfest
bee escape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bee escapes
Senses: examples: text: Bee escapes have a long history in bee removal. These are simply one-way doors—bees leave a honey super and can't return, or at least they can't return the same way they left.
ref: 2009, Kim Flottum, The Backyard Beekeeper's Honey Handbook, page 67:
glosses: A panel having holes or mesh allowing bees to be removed from a hive before honey is harvested.
bee escapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bee escape
redditives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redditive
counterfacades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterfacade
metroethnic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From metro- + ethnic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to metroethnicity.
metroethnicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metroethnicities
Etymology: From metro- + ethnicity, coined by John C. Maher.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A hybrid ethnicity associated with a modern multicultural urban lifestyle.
Related terms: metroethnic
metrolanguage
metroethnicities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metroethnicity
OUP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: While the OED itself does not feature these definitions, they do appear in other reference books produced by the publisher, as well as online dictionary Lexico, which takes its content from OUP dictionaries.
ref: 2019 September 18, Lianne Kolirin, “Thousands sign petition to remove sexist terms from Oxford Dictionaries”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of Oxford University Press.
nigari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 苦汁 (nigari, “bittern”).
Senses: topics: food
lifestyle
glosses: bittern: the liquor remaining after halite (common salt) has been harvested from saline water (brine), used as a coagulating agent in the manufacture of tofu.
glosses: salt derived from bittern, a powdered form also used in making tofu
kinetocardiograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinetocardiographs
Senses: glosses: The recording device used in kinetocardiography.
keratinosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keratinosomes
Etymology: From keratin + -o- + -some.
Senses: glosses: lamellar granule
keratinosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keratinosome
lamellar granule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lamellar granules
Senses: glosses: A secretory organelle found in type II pneumocytes and keratinocytes, associated with skin barrier function.
Synonyms: keratinosome
lamellar body
MCG
membrane-coating granule
Odland body
lamellar granules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lamellar granule
Odland body
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Odland bodies
Etymology: Named after the biologist G. F. Odland.
Senses: glosses: lamellar granule
Odland bodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Odland body
apocytium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apocytia
form: apocyte
Etymology: From apo- + cyte + -ium.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A multinucleate mass of protoplasm that lacks a distinct cell membrane
koaita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coaita.
keratinases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keratinase
keratinase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keratinases
Etymology: From keratin + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A proteolytic proteinase enzyme produced in the presence of keratin-containing substrate.
koilosternia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From koilo- + stern(um) + -ia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of pectus excavatum.
synonyms: word: pectus excavatum
non-academic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmɪk
Etymology: From non- + academic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonacademic.
non-academic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛmɪk
Forms: form: non-academics
Etymology: From non- + academic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonacademic.
oculopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oculopathies
Etymology: From oculo- + -pathy.
Senses: glosses: eye disease
oculopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oculopathy
œnocyan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From œno- + cyan.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A bluish pigment found in red wine.
odontoblastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From odontoblast + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to odontoblasts.
apollonicon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apollonicons
Etymology: Formed from Apollonic, like harmonicon from harmonic.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A particular type of barrel organ that also had a keyboard.
oxazocines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxazocine
thiazocines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thiazocine
apological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From apologue + -ical?
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: Relating to an apologue
osseocartilaginous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of osteocartilaginous.
pseudoalkaloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoalkaloids
Etymology: From pseudo- + alkaloid.
Senses: examples: text: Caffeine is a pseudoalkaloid.
glosses: Any alkaloid-like compound that does not originate from amino acids.
pseudoalkaloids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoalkaloid
onyxitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of onychitis.
Likudnik
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Hebrew לִיכּוּדנִיק (likúdnik), from לִיכּוּד (likúd, “Likud”, literally “consolidation”) + ־נִיק (-nik, suffix denoting persons by membership, occupation or attribute). By surface analysis, Likud + -nik.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Likudniks and their policies.
Likudniks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Likudnik
oculozygomatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ætɪk
Etymology: From oculo- + zygomatic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the eye and the zygoma or zygomatic bone.
Ohoyamatsumi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Romanization of Japanese おほやまつみ (Ohoyamatsumi), historical hiragana reading of 大山祇 (おおやまつみ, Ōyamatsumi).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Ōyamatsumi.
granther
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: granthers
Senses: examples: text: There comes father too, and granther! Whatever shall I do? I am in such a flutter!
ref: 1870, William Taylor Adams, Oliver Optic's Magazine, volumes 7-8, page 573:
glosses: grandfather
granthers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of granther
ovulational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ovulation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to ovulation.
Derived terms: nonovulational
oreades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oread
ovulocyclic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ovulo- + cyclic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the cycle of ovulation.
orchiditis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of orchitis.
oncometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oncometry + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to oncometry.
juristic act
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: juristic acts
Senses: qualifier: civil law
glosses: Any conduct by a person intended to create, modify, transfer, preserve, or extinguish a right, obligation, or legal relationship.
Synonyms: juridical act
legal act
Hyponyms: legal transaction
Coordinate terms: juristic fact
footganger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footgangers
form: foot-ganger
Etymology: Perhaps from Dutch or Afrikaans voetganger (“pedestrian”, literally “foot-goer”), or a partial calque of German Fußgänger (“pedestrian”), equivalent to foot + ganger (“goer, walker, stepper”).
Senses: examples: text: Midway between Bloomfontein and Kimberley, while riding with Major Beresford, of the South African Constabulary, at the foot of some low hills in the Karoo bush, I came across great numbers of the footgangers.
ref: 1902, Journal of the Society of Arts:
text: We passed several swarms of locusts in the footganger stage; but owing to the lateness of their appearance the damage they effected was slight, though we met many people coming from the west, whose crops had been utterly destroyed.
ref: 1904, Mark Sykes, John Hugh Smith, Edward Granville Browne, Dar-ul-Islam: A Record of a Journey Through Ten of the Asiatic Provinces of Turkey:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A juvenile locust or grasshopper while in its wingless or flightless phase.
footgangers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of footganger
foot-ganger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foot-gangers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of footganger.
PCW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of polycrystalline wool.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of postconception weeks.
PCW
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Personal Computer World.
glosses: Initialism of Philippine Commission on Women.
CMU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CMUs
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: Initialism of concrete masonry unit.
glosses: Initialism of Carnegie Mellon University.
Cornwallis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: As with Cornwall, ultimately from Old English Cornwēalas (“Cornwall, inhabitants of Cornwall”).
Senses: glosses: An English ethnic surname transferred from the nickname for someone with Cornish ancestry.
glosses: A placename:
A neighbourhood of the City of Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A placename:
A coastal settlement west of Auckland, Auckland region, New Zealand.
glosses: A placename:
A rural municipality in south-west Manitoba, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Cornwallis.
glosses: A placename:
An unincorporated community in Ritchie County, West Virginia, United States.
glosses: A placename:
Ellipsis of Cornwallis River.
glosses: A placename:
Ellipsis of Cornwallis Island.
glosses: A placename:
Ellipsis of Cornwallis Township.
Derived terms: Cornwallis Island
Cornwallis Park
Cornwallis River
Cornwallis Square
Cornwallis Township
Fort Cornwallis
Little Cornwallis Island
Related terms: word: Cornouailles
Lear
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪə/
ipa: /lɪəɹ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: The name of a legendary early king of Britain, the central character in Shakespeare's King Lear.
examples: text: First-generation Lears are beasts to fly.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Clipping of Learjet.
stype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stypes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of stipe.
stypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stype
cup discharger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cup dischargers
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A cup-shaped bracket, mounted on the end of a rifle barrel, used to propel hand grenades.
flip shit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flips shit
form: flipping shit
form: flipped shit
form: flipped shit
Senses: examples: text: If my mom finds out about this, she'll flip shit!
synonyms: flip one's shit
glosses: To freak out.
Kiwi bear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kiwi bears
Senses: glosses: The meat or carcass of the Australian native brush-tailed possum which has colonised New Zealand, used as a food source in South-East Asia.
fall victim
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls victim
form: falling victim
form: fell victim
form: fallen victim
Senses: examples: text: Obviously, birds are very vulnerable to human persecution at such passage sites, where hecatombs of raptors fall victim every year to human greed or pleasure. Examples of important areas for seasonal mass migration and / or resting of[…]
ref: 1961, The Horace M. Albright Conservation Lectureship:
text: F. Platten led a group of several score Swiss workers with their families (many of them subsequently also fell victim to repression) who had organized an agricultural co-operative not far from Simbirsk, Lenin's birthplace, back in 1923.
ref: 1989, The Stalin Phenomenon, Stosius Incorporated/Advent Books Division:
text: Arsenal also have a score to settle with Liverpool after losing 2-0 at home in the recent FA Cup third-round tie, when they had so many chances to score before almost inevitably falling victim to two late sucker-punches.
ref: 2024 January 30, Phil McNulty, “Nottingham Forest 1-2 Arsenal: Gunners in title race after they close gap to leaders Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: fall prey
glosses: To suffer as a result of external circumstances or someone else's actions.
RBF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RBFs
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of rat-bite fever.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of radial basis function, a type of equation used to approximate a vector field, used in neural networks.
examples: text: "When I first met you I was scared of you."
This phrase is commonplace for people with an RBF. They come to accept the natural state of their face as one that exudes feelings of anger, disgust or misery.
ref: 2013, Caren Duane, "This Is Just What I Look Like", The Dartmouth Mirror (Dartmouth College), 8 November 2013, page 8
text: Her RBF has been with her ever since she was a baby, forcing her to fake a smile all the time so people would stop questioning her.
ref: 2014, Andie Leeds, "Sass and the Milly", The Colonnade (Georgia College & State University), 10 October 2014, page 11
text: If you're looking for a more positive outlook on your RBF, here are a few things to consider: solicitors on campus are less likely to hound you with flyers, you may be less prone to smile wrinkles, and you probably have a very effective poker face.
ref: 2015 April 27, Angie Burkhart, “For some, smiling is too much work”, in The Coyote Chronicle, volume 52, number 2, San Bernardino: California State University, page 8:
glosses: Abbreviation of resting bitch face.
kryptonate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kryptonates
form: kryptonating
form: kryptonated
form: kryptonated
Etymology: From krypton + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To infuse a solid with krypton gas (especially with radioactive krypton-85).
kryptonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kryptonates
Etymology: Either from krypton + -ate (forms nouns with perfect meaning, as if: "kryptonated") or a back-formation from kryptonation on the basis of the same suffix. Compare fermentate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The material formed by such kryptonation.
Related terms: krypton
kryptona
kryptonation
kryptonide
kryptonido
kryptony
kryptonation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kryptonate + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The infusion of a solid with krypton gas
krypton-85
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A radioactive isotope, ⁸⁵₃₆Kr, having thirty-six protons and forty-nine neutrons
Knoydart
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A peninsula in Scotland.
glosses: A community in Nova Scotia, Canada named after the peninsula.
Martock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST4619).
glosses: A community in Hants County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
pronator teres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A muscle in the human forearm which acts to pronate the forearm.
palmaris longus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: About 14 per cent of us lack a muscle called the palmaris longus, which helps to keep the palm tensed.
ref: 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 197:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of palmaris longus muscle (“a muscle in the mammalian forearm which inserts into the palmar aponeurosis”). In humans it is vestigial, and is absent in some people in one or both arms.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of palmaris longus tendon (“a tendon in the mammalian forearm, between the flexor carpi radialis and the flexor carpi ulnaris tendons”). In humans, it is vestigial and absent in about 1/8th of people in one or both arms; frequently repurposed for reconstructive surgery.
flexor carpi radialis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A muscle in the anterior compartment of the human forearm which flexes the radiocarpal joint.
flexor carpi ulnaris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A muscle in the anterior compartment of the human forearm.
flexor digitorum superficialis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From flexor (muscle that bends) + Latin digitorum (genitive singular; literally "finger") + Latin superficialis (relating to the surface), in all, "surface bending finger muscle".
Senses: glosses: A muscle in the intermediate layer of the anterior compartment of the human forearm.
glosses: One of the flexor digitorum communis muscles
flexor digitorum profundus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A muscle in the deep layer of the anterior compartment of the human forearm.
glosses: One of the flexor digitorum communis muscles
pronator quadratus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A muscle in the distal ends of ulna and radius which serves to pronate the forearm and stabilise the distal radioulnar joint.
extensor carpi radialis brevis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin. Cognate with French muscle court extenseur radial du carpe.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A muscle in the human forearm that acts to extend and abduct the radiocarpal joint.
anatomical snuffbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anatomical snuffboxes
Etymology: From the practice of using the surface to place and sniff snuff.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A triangular deepening on the radial, dorsal aspect of the hand, bounded by extensor pollicis longus and extensor pollicis brevis.
tenor saxophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenor saxophones
Senses: glosses: A member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments that is smaller than the baritone saxophone but larger than the alto saxophone, with a range of A♭₂ to E₅ or similar.
Synonyms: tenor sax
godman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: godmen
Etymology: From god + -man.
Senses: glosses: A charismatic male guru.
Related terms: godwoman
godmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of godman
bachelor degrees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bachelor degree
bachelor's degrees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bachelor's degree
public history
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The broad range of activities undertaken by people with some training in the discipline of history who generally work outside of specialized academic settings.
Related terms: public historian
public historian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: public historians
Senses: glosses: A professional who works in the field of public history.
public historians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of public historian
coastal waters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The sea area(s) along the coast.
Related terms: territorial waters
go to sea
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: goes to sea
form: going to sea
form: went to sea
form: gone to sea
Senses: glosses: To become a sailor.
take the waters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes the waters
form: taking the waters
form: took the waters
form: taken the waters
Senses: examples: text: The arrival of the railway turned this isolated fishing village into a popular seaside destination for Victorians who came to breathe fresh sea air, clear their lungs or take the waters.
ref: 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: Grange-over-Sands”, in RAIL, number 948, page 27:
text: And that evening, I have the chance to “take the waters” in the spa downstairs, which I do as much as I can while I am here–the hotel is the only one in Bath with direct access to the natural thermal spring water.
ref: 2025 May 10, Jemima Kelly, “My week with Jane Austen”, in FT Weekend, Travel, page 7:
glosses: To attend a spa with waters believed to offer healing qualities, such as mineral waters and (especially) hot springs.
Foz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Dingras, Ilocos Norte, Philippines.
Aramaneak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Armenak
form: Aramanyak
Etymology: Transliteration of Old Armenian Արամանեակ (Aramaneak).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A legendary patriarch of the Armenian nation, the eldest son of Hayk.
preëclampsia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preëclampsias
Etymology: From pre- + eclampsia.
Senses: examples: ref: 1928 July, Paul Titus, “The Nursing Care of Pregnancy Toxemias: Part II - Preëclampsia and Eclampsia Occurring in Late Pregnancy”, in The American Journal of Nursing, volume XXVIII, № 7, pages 659-661:
glosses: Alternative form of preeclampsia.
belandre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belandres
Etymology: Borrowed from French belandre, from Dutch bijlander (whence also English bilander), equivalent to by- + lander.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A small flat-bottomed craft, used principally on the rivers, canals, and roadsteads of France.
belchild
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belchildren
Etymology: From bel- (“great-, grand-”) + child. Compare beldam, belsire, etc.
Senses: glosses: A grandchild.
belchildren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of belchild
unpythonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpythonic
form: most unpythonic
form: unPythonic
form: un-Pythonic
Etymology: From un- + Pythonic.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Not following the idioms of the Python programming language.
beknottedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beknotted + -ness.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The measure or degree to which a knot is complicated, i.e., a knot's complexity; the number of times that it is necessary to pass one part of the curve of the knot projected upon a plane through another in order to untie the knot.
wantrepreneur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌwɒn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɜː/
ipa: /ˌwɑnt.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ/
ipa: /ˌwɑnt.tɹə.pɹəˈnʊɚ/
ipa: /ˌwʌn-/
ipa: /ˌwɔn-/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: wantrepreneurs
Etymology: Blend of want + entrepreneur.
Senses: examples: text: That's the reality, and if you can't get past the fear of scrutiny, you become a "wantrepreneur," someone who talks about starting a business but never gets around to it.
ref: 2010, Jen Groover, What If? and Why Not?: How to Transform Your Fears Into Action and Start the Business of Your Dreams, BenBella, →ISBN:
text: There is something to be said for difficult initial conditions, which separate the entrepreneurs from the wantrepreneurs.
ref: 2013 January 16, Danny Boice, “Why we need a 'Startup University' and how it would work”, in The Washington Post:
text: Others are concerned that “wantrepreneurs” are jumping on the bandwagon, putting early-stage business resources, like accelerators and incubators, under strain.
ref: 2014 September 13, Cian Traynor, “Start-up Ireland”, in The Irish Times:
glosses: A person who aspires to be an entrepreneur, especially one who never realizes this ambition.
wantrepreneurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wantrepreneur
Sterling Heights
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban city of Detroit, Michigan with a population of nearly 130,000.
piggy flu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of swine flu.
synonyms: word: swine flu
professional student
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: professional students
Senses: glosses: Someone who takes college classes to avoid having to assume adult responsibilities after graduating from high school.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see professional, student.
professional students
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of professional student
adiopocere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin adips, adeps (“fat”) + cēra (“wax”).
Senses: glosses: A wax-like organic substance formed by the decay, in a wet and low-oxygen environment (anaerobic bacterial hydrolysis), of a dead body's fat.
Synonyms: corpse wax
grave wax
mortuary wax
Narre Warren
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Woiwurrung words nurru nurru (red ochre) and nyarri warren (red)
Senses: glosses: A town in Victoria, Australia.
Cranbourne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Victoria, Australia.
Related terms: Cranborne
Dandenong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the surrounding Dandenong Ranges, from a Woiwurrung term.
Senses: glosses: A town in Victoria, Australia.
wikipedia: Dandenong Ranges
Tooradin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Victoria, Australia.
Moorabbin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in south-east Melbourne in the City of Kingston, Victoria, Australia.
Kármán street
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kármán streets
Senses: glosses: Synonym of von Kármán vortex street.
synonyms: word: von Kármán vortex street
Beaconsfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛkənzˌfiːld/
ipa: /ˈbiːkənzˌfiːld/
Senses: glosses: A market town and civil parish with a town council in Buckinghamshire, England, previously in South Bucks district (OS grid ref SU9391).
glosses: A suburb of Melbourne in the City of Casey and Shire of Cardinia, Victoria, Australia.
Eumemmerring
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Victoria, Australia.
Doveton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after prominent early settler Captain John Doveton, who remained until around 1903.
Senses: glosses: A town in Victoria, Australia.
Hallam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Details of Thunberg’s charge came as Just Stop Oil said its cofounders, Indigo Rumbelow and Roger Hallam, were arrested on Wednesday morning following dawn raids at their homes.
ref: 2023 October 18, Damien Gayle, “Greta Thunberg charged with public order offence after London oil protest”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A surname.
glosses: Hallamshire, England.
glosses: A town in Victoria, Australia.
glosses: A village in Lancaster County, Nebraska, United States.
glosses: A borough in York County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Derived terms: West Hallam
Lynbrook
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A metathesis of the syllables in Brooklyn.
Senses: glosses: A town in Victoria, Australia.
glosses: A village in Nassau County, New York, United States.
Karman street
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Karman streets
Senses: glosses: Synonym of von Kármán vortex street.
synonyms: word: von Kármán vortex street
Karman vortex street
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Karman vortex streets
Senses: glosses: Synonym of von Kármán vortex street.
synonyms: word: von Kármán vortex street
von Karman vortex street
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: von Karman vortex streets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of von Kármán vortex street.
steaming up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of steam up
steaming up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steamings up
Senses: glosses: The formation of condensation on a transparent surface.
puddysticks
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pudsticks
Senses: glosses: easy peasy; very simple
kithfolk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kith + folk.
Senses: examples: text: Those that were kith-folk (?) to the great devil,
ref: 1860, Philological Society (London), Transactions of the Philological Society, digitized edition, Wiley-Blackwell, published 2011, page 37:
text: They seem instinctively to prefer their kith-folk of Russian Karelia.
ref: 1940, Eugenics Pamphlets, Issues 12-59, digital edition, Eugenics Society of Northern California, published 2008, page 46:
text: In the beginning there was one adult male and one adult female, with no kinfolk or kithfolk, and no culture.
ref: 1974, Albert Silversteen, Human Communication: Theoretical Explorations, →ISBN, page 205:
text: Maybe she, being smart as kithfolk usually were, could get a well-paid position in a guild or in the vicarial bureaucracy.
ref: 1999, Poul Anderson, Starfarers, →ISBN, page 81:
text: After that, he forced himself to think of the Wërgas kithfolk rather than beasts.
ref: 2015, Robert Stanek, Guardians & Dragons, →ISBN:
glosses: those of a kith or clan
Tzetzes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡sɛt͡siːz/
Etymology: From the Byzantine Greek Τζέτζης (Tzétzēs).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Byzantine Greek — famously held by
glosses: A surname from Byzantine Greek — famously held by:
John Tzetzes (circa 1110–1180), Byzantine poet and grammarian
discretizational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From discretization + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to discretization.
seven-layer salad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seven-layer salads
Senses: glosses: An American salad dish containing layers of vegetables and other ingredients.
seven-layer dip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seven-layer dips
Senses: glosses: An American appetizer containing layers of ingredients typical of Tex-Mex cuisine.
pizzalicious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pizzalicious
form: most pizzalicious
Etymology: From pizza + -licious.
Senses: examples: text: I stood over the table, breathing in the pizzalicious steam.
ref: 2011, Heather Zurevinski Brown, Tiny Blue Lemons, page 71:
text: If, for some reason, you're here and not feeling pizzalicious, then the manicotti and the meatball hero may be considered.
ref: 2014, Peter Gianotti, Food Lovers GT Long Island, page 199:
glosses: delicious in a way that involves or resembles pizza
shelltoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shell + toes.
Senses: glosses: A style of basketball shoe with a segmented rubber upper resembling a seashell.
ice-safe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice-safes
Senses: glosses: An early icebox or refrigerator.
ice-safes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ice-safe
genicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the knee.
glosses: Relating to a geniculum.
Derived terms: infragenicular
pregenicular
postgenicular
Related terms: geniculate