cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sure as death and taxes
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃʊɹ æz dɛθ ænd tæksəz/
enpr: sho͝or ăz dĕth ănd tăksəz
Forms: form: sure as death or taxes
Etymology: Primarily a reference to a 1789 quote by Benjamin Franklin:
Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
—Benjamin Franklin
First attested in 1726, but in common usage only as of the 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: Time, with his stealing steps, hath clawed me in his clutch, as the old song says: And this cursed gout; but it is what we must all come to. Nothing so sure as death and taxes.
ref: 1824, Jonathan Swift, The novels of Swift, Bage and Cumberland, Hurst, Robinson, and Company, page 425:
text: Things as certain as Death and Taxes, can be more firmly believ'd: The Devil not have a Cloven-Foot!
ref: 1726, Daniel Defoe, chapter 6, in The History of the Devil, as well Ancient as Modern, second edition, The Modern History of the Devil, page 269:
text: This bad practice may be followed for years before the runaway follows, but that it will eventually is "as sure as death and taxes."
ref: 1907, F.B. Farmer, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen's Magazine, volume 43, A Dangerous Air Brake Practice, page 59:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Totally certain.
sure as death and taxes
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃʊɹ æz dɛθ ænd tæksəz/
enpr: sho͝or ăz dĕth ănd tăksəz
Forms: form: sure as death or taxes
Etymology: Primarily a reference to a 1789 quote by Benjamin Franklin:
Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
—Benjamin Franklin
First attested in 1726, but in common usage only as of the 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: "As sure as Death and Taxes", the old proverb says. But there's a difference. You may evade, dodge or lie out of your taxes, but Death will not be deceived or denied.
ref: 1908, The Insurance Age, volume 36, page 445:
synonyms: sure as eggs is eggs
qualifier: simile
glosses: Most certainly.
Synonyms: certain as death and taxes
certain as death or taxes
Derived terms: death and taxes
sure as taxes
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Most certainly.
Fornwalts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fornwalt
Fortinis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fortini
McClaflin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McClaflins
Etymology: Variant of McLaughlin.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
swing over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: swings over
form: swinging over
form: swung over
form: swung over
Senses: glosses: Synonym of swing by (“pay a brief informal visit”).
synonyms: word: swing by
extra: pay a brief informal visit
Dungworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dungworths
Etymology: From Old English dung (“dungeon, underground place”) + worþ (“enclosure”).
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Bradfield civil parish, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK2889).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
swing set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swing sets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of swingset.
swing sets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swing set
Dungworths
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dungworth
McClaflins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McClaflin
switching yard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: switching yards
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of switchyard.
switch box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: switch boxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of switchbox.
switching yards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of switching yard
switch boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of switch box
half-mile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-miles
Senses: examples: text: These trains in the course of their day's work often travel a distance little less than that from London to Glasgow, stopping and starting every half-mile.
ref: 1951 January, “The Inner Circle and its Rolling Stock”, in Railway Magazine, page 61:
text: They were greeted with applause, medals and the skirl of bagpipes from our lone piper - a sound some told us encouraged tired legs for the last half-mile as the pipes could be heard on the mountain.
ref: 2024 August 7, Paul Bigland, “'3 Peaks by Rail': ain't no mountain high enough”, in RAIL, number 1015, page 51:
synonyms: half a mile
glosses: Half of a statute mile, a measurement of 880 yards, or 2,640 feet, or 804.672 metres.
Related terms: quarter-mile
sea-monster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea-monsters
Senses: examples: text: To thee Poseidon, Lord of the sea, did Amyntichus give these his last gifts, when he ceased from his toil on the deep—his nets edged with lead that plunge into the sea, his oar still drunk with the brine, his spear for killing sea-monsters, strong lance of the waters, his weel ever betrayed by floats, his anchor, firm hand of his boat, and the flint, dear to sailors, that has the art of guarding the seed of fire.
ref: 1916, W[illiam] R[oger] Paton, transl., The Greek Anthology (The Loeb Classical Library), volume I, London: William Heinemann; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, page 319:
text: With naked swords we slashed through the waves / ready with warblades for wandering whales / dark sea-monsters.
ref: 1991, Frederick Rebsamen, transl., Beowulf: A Verse Translation, New York, N.Y.: IconEditions, HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 18, lines 539–541:
text: There are many references in antiquity to this story of an earlier Trojan War, in which Hercules, after killing a sea-monster and rescuing the princess Hesione, requested the princess as a bride in reward for his work.
ref: 2016, J.G. Farrow, Introduction to Mythology, 3rd edition, Dubuque, Ia.: Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, published 2017, →ISBN, page 131:
glosses: Alternative form of sea monster.
sea-monsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea-monster
seamonster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seamonsters
Senses: examples: text: The past is like a seamonster; it stretches out it’s callous arms and drags a man down—down.
ref: 1913, A. Patrick, Jr., Jimmy: A Play in One Act, New York, N.Y.; London: Samuel French, page 7:
text: The cluster of menacing avengers were hardly able to hold their balance as the huge barrel of a nao wallowed and plunged in the gigantic thundering combers like a seamonster in its last dreadful agonies.
ref: 1964, Charles McKew Parr, Jan van Linschoten: The Dutch Marco Polo, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, →LCCN, page 137:
text: The Skell was dripping on the cold stones of the terrace, bedraggled like a seamonster – Fisher had the impression of air escaping from the Skell’s body.
ref: 1986, Paul Theroux, O-Zone, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1987, →ISBN, page 127:
text: It is the black FRENCH BULLDOG, swimming right at her like a seamonster in the darkness, its coal eyes bugging.
ref: 1997, James Cameron, Titanic: James Cameron’s Illustrated Screenplay, New York, N.Y.: HarperPerennial, published 1998, →ISBN, page 139:
glosses: Alternative form of sea monster.
seamonsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seamonster
kittly-benders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The sport of running on thin, bending ice.
klunked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of klunk
klunking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of klunk
klunks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of klunk
klunks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of klunk
kummis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kummi
kolattam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kolattams
Senses: glosses: A kind of Indian folk dance.
kolattams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kolattam
Don Juanish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Don Juanish
form: most Don Juanish
Etymology: From Don Juan + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Don Juanesque.
synonyms: word: Don Juanesque
Don Juanesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Don Juanesque
form: most Don Juanesque
form: donjuanesque
form: Donjuanesque
Etymology: From Don Juan + -esque.
Senses: synonyms: Don Juanish
donjuanist
glosses: Reminiscent of Don Juan; seducing numerous women.
Donjuanesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Donjuanesque
form: most Donjuanesque
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Don Juanesque.
donjuanesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more donjuanesque
form: most donjuanesque
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Don Juanesque.
subport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subports
Etymology: From sub- + port.
Senses: examples: text: Charleston was a subport of New York until January 1942.
ref: 1956, Chester Wardlow, The Transportation Corps: Movements, Training, and Supply, page 100:
glosses: A secondary or subsidiary port.
subports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subport
superzealot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superzealots
Etymology: From super- + zealot.
Senses: glosses: A person exhibiting a great deal of zealotry.
superzealots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superzealot
square-jawed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: squarejawed
Senses: examples: text: The horse was not in the least like a Greek horse (nor even a Trojan), and F.M. the Duke of Wellington was not represented with the ensis or short sword in his grasp, the chlamys flying from his shoulder, or the paludamentum, as more suitable for the cool of the English climate (totidem divisos orbe &c.), the kothornos on his leg, the galea slung at the crupper? no reins, and his naked nether-man, not (as in these precious models) seated on the bare back of the bull-necked, square-jawed, dray-limbed steed.
ref: 1847, “The Wellington Statue”, in The Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c., London, page 523, column 2:
text: A square-jawed ruffian, in mud-anointed overcoat, is preluding to a fight with a woman about some etiquette, in one of these dens.
ref: 1853 November 17, “Shocking State of Society”, in The Tri-Weekly Commercial, volume VIII, number 105 (whole 1065), Wilmington, N.C., page [4], column 1:
text: Chief Blasdel proved to be a square-jawed, white-moustached individual reminding me somehow of pictures I had seen of General Pershing.
ref: 1928, Eugene Jones, “The Murderer”, in The Last Clue, London: Selwyn & Blount […], page 266:
glosses: Having a square jaw.
squarejawed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The other breeder, obviously an old timer, weatherbeaten and squarejawed says, “Nope, Melvin. That’s a lot of dog. Typey. As well put down as any dog I’ve seen in years and for that matter, well let down.[…]”
ref: 1952 August 31, Louise Rucks, “Dogs”, in Sunday Magazine (The Daily Oklahoman), Oklahoma City, Okla., page 5, column 1:
text: I never ended up meeting the boyfriend, who was working on a detective series out in L.A., but I’m sure he looked just like Berty, all thin and squarejawed and energetic.
ref: 1992, Xander Mellish, “Heart-Hooked”, in Shelley Anderson, Marjorie K. Jacobs, Kathe Stolz, editors, Side Show 1992-1993: An Annual of Contemporary Fiction, El Cerrito, Calif.: Somersault Press, →ISBN, page 333:
text: Eventually, one of those painful pauses, clear evidence that we were all talked out, when one squarejawed, nondescript woman from town commented softly, “But no one said anything about women’s spirituality.”
ref: 1995, Jo C. Searles, “From Robot to Roarer”, in Nancy Owen Nelson, editor, Private Voices, Public Lives: Women Speak on the Literary Life, Denton, Tex.: University of North Texas Press, →ISBN, page 77:
glosses: Alternative form of square-jawed.
lantern shield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lantern shields
Senses: glosses: A small shield combined with a lantern, used during the Italian Renaissance, especially for night-time duels.
lantern shields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lantern shield
elephantarchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elephantarch
dogmaticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogmaticisms
Etymology: From dogmatic + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dogmatism.
synonyms: word: dogmatism
dogmaticisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dogmaticism
disjunctivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The property of being disjunctive.
dilatedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dilated + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being dilated.
limbically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From limbic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a limbic manner.
dicts.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dict.
axleweight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axleweights
Etymology: From axle + weight.
Senses: examples: text: These locomotives contained every modern feature, had proved remarkably successful, and were built to dimensions and axleweights which gave them very high route availability throughout the country.
ref: 1951 January, “Standardisation and Comparative Costs of Motive Power on B.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 61:
glosses: Alternative form of axle weight.
dhaman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dhamans
Senses: glosses: The colubrid snake Ptyas mucosa.
dhamans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dhaman
schoolage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From school + -age.
Senses: examples: text: Thoſe teachers that be of the wiſer ſort, cal for their ſchoolage and minervals of their ſcholars, not all after one maner, but diverſly: a number of them, according as the preſent occaſion requireth, who promiſe not to make them wiſe men, and that within a yeere; […]
ref: 1603, Plutarch, “The Contradictions of Stociek philoſophers”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, page 1068:
glosses: A fee required for tuition at a school; a salary paid to a teacher.
schoolage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schoolages
Senses: examples: text: After the Civil War, in order to determine how much revenue would be needed to educate all of the children of the state, a census was taken of schoolage children.
ref: 1994, Anne S. Lipscomb, Kathleen S. Hutchison, Tracing Your Mississippi Ancestors, Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, page 28:
glosses: Alternative form of school age.
axleweights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of axleweight.
derangeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more derangeable
form: most derangeable
Etymology: From derange + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be deranged or disordered.
death-come-quickly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of herb Robert.
synonyms: word: herb Robert
deassimilation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deassimilations
Senses: glosses: The process of deassimilating.
deassimilations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deassimilation
deassimilate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deassimilates
form: deassimilating
form: deassimilated
form: deassimilated
Etymology: From de- + assimilate.
Senses: glosses: To undo the assimilation of.
deassimilated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deassimilate
deassimilates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deassimilate
deassimilating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deassimilate
daffadilly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daffadillies
Senses: glosses: A daffodil.
daffadillies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daffadilly
dad-burned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dadburn.
Schlafly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Unless one final Schlafly paradox gets in the way. Before she died, the First Lady of the Conservative Movement endorsed Trump. That makes sense: Schlafly was a paleoconservative who was worried about immigration. But Trump has turned out to be the most unchivalrous candidate in living memory, the very antithesis of Schlafly’s ideal Christian standard.
ref: 2016 September 6, Timothy Stanley, “How Phyllis Schlafly gave us Sarah Palin”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname.
hopemonger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hopemongers
Etymology: From hope + monger.
Senses: glosses: A person who offers (possibly unrealistic) hope for the future.
hopemongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hopemonger
unhappying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unhappy
puff-pastry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puff-pastries
Senses: examples: text: In my opinion it is so very inferior to puff-paste, that I recommend its use in no branch of cookery whatever. If a cook be wholly incapable of making eatable puff-pastry, he may, of course, be permitted to fall back upon his “butter crust,” but I would never allow him to do so unless quite satisfied of his incompetence.
ref: 1884, Wyvern [pseudonym; Arthur Robert Kenney-Herbert], chapter VII, in Sweet Dishes: A Little Treatise on Confectionery and Entremets Sucrés, Madras: Higginbotham and Co., page 65:
glosses: Archaic form of puff pastry.
Trinder
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
healthbar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: healthbars
Etymology: From health + bar.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of health bar.
healthbars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of healthbar
Stanley Pontlarge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Prescott parish, Tewkesbury borough, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO9930).
candle salad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: candle salads
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A children's dish, composed of leaves of lettuce, pineapple rings, a banana, a cherry, mayonnaise, assembled to look like a lit candle in a candleholder, popular in mid-century United States.
unmonetize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unmonetizes
form: unmonetizing
form: unmonetized
form: unmonetized
form: unmonetise
Etymology: From un- + monetize.
Senses: glosses: To disable monetization for published content.
Related terms: demonetize
unmonetizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unmonetize
unmonetizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of unmonetize
unmonetise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unmonetises
form: unmonetising
form: unmonetised
form: unmonetised
Etymology: From un- + monetise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unmonetize.
unmonetises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unmonetise
unmonetising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of unmonetise
unmonetised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + monetised.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unmonetized.
unmonetised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From unmonetise + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unmonetise
unrusts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unrust
Portumna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A market town in south-east County Galway, Ireland, on the border with County Tipperary.
veganifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of veganify
veganifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of veganify
veganified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of veganify
Concordski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈkɔːdski/
ipa: /kəŋˈkɔːdski/
ipa: /kənˈkoɹdski/
ipa: /kəŋˈkoɹdski/
ipa: /kɔn-/
ipa: /kɔŋ-/
ipa: /kɑn-/
ipa: /kɑŋ-/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dski
Forms: form: Concordsky
Etymology: From Concorde (supersonic airliner) + -ski as a satirical coinage, due to being a Soviet aircraft with very similar role and visual profile, and as an allusion to the alleged Soviet industrial espionage of Concorde which was purported to have made the aircraft's design and construction possible.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The Tupolev Tu-144 (a Soviet supersonic airliner).
wikipedia: Soviet Union
Soviet industrial espionage of Concorde
big as the Beatles
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Teen-agers sing out his name / Big as the Beatles / Sing out in chorus / Everybody loves Lyndon Baines!
ref: 1964, Tedd Browne, “Everybody Loves Lyndon”, in LBJ Musical Portrait:
text: Wendell [Burton] stated that he feels Crosby, Stills, and Nash could be as big as the Beatles if they wanted to be since they compose their own music and back themselves up instrumentally.
ref: 1970 September 7, “Review”, in Psyche Pscene:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Very popular.
beertender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beertenders
Etymology: Blend of beer + bartender
Senses: glosses: A bartender who serves beer.
mistighten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mistightens
form: mistightening
form: mistightened
form: mistightened
Etymology: From mis- + tighten.
Senses: examples: text: to detect when a bolt has been mistightened
ref: 1978, American Machinist - Volume 122, Issues 1-6, page 75:
text: Mistightening can be checked visually .
ref: 1985, The Japan Industrial & Technological Bulletin - Volume 13, page 17:
text: If you change cooler and PC won't boot or has ram problems, it is usually the mount, but I don't know how easy it is (or if it possible) to mistighten/overtighten this cooler.
ref: 2023 September 22, Tetras, “Troubleshooting: DRAM light on MOBO”, in Linus Tech Tips:
glosses: To tighten improperly.
mistightens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mistighten
mistightening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mistighten
mistightened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mistighten
mistightened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mistightened
form: most mistightened
Senses: examples: text: Castering nosewheel which readily locked with mistightened shimmy dampened collar.
ref: 2002, Verti-flite - Volumes 48-49, page 57:
text: It would waste more oxygen they couldn't afford to spare. All because of a mistightened valve.
ref: 2005, Syne Mitchell, End in Fire, page 118:
text: The authorities on Franklin didn't like having to retrieve drifting lines, but they really hated mistightened lines pulling a ship and the station back into uncontrolled contact.
ref: 2012, Jack Campbell, Burden of Proof:
glosses: Improperly tightened.
LPCC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LPCCs
Senses: qualifier: professional title
glosses: Abbreviation of licensed professional clinical counselor.
Longaretti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Longarettis
form: Longaretties
Etymology: From Italian Longaretti.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian
Jeseri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Malayalam ജസരി (jasari), from Arabic جَزَرِيّ (jazariyy, “islander”).
Senses: synonyms: Dweep Bhasha
glosses: A dialect of Malayalam spoken in the union territory of Lakshadweep in India.
swollen assets theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swollen assets theories
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The legal theory that it is possible to trace a claimant's money to the defendant's general assets without identifying a specific asset which is the claimant's property.
ancient times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Ancient history
central tendency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: central tendencies
Senses: examples: text: Central tendency describes a single number that aims to give you a sense of the most representative value in your data. In other words, if you were to choose one number that would best represent all the numbers on a variable in your data set, this would be it.
ref: 2013, Donncha Hanna, Martin Dempster, Psychology Statistics For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 54:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A central or typical value for a probability distribution.
Derived terms: measure of central tendency
central tendencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of central tendency
Wathaurong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wadawurrung
form: Wada wurrung
form: Wathawurrung
Etymology: From Wathaurong.
Senses: glosses: A Kulinic Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal language formerly spoken in Victoria, from Geelong north to Ballarat.
Synonyms: Barrabool
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Wathaurong terms
Wadawurrung
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Wathaurong.
Wada wurrung
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Wathaurong.
Barrabool
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Wathaurong.
synonyms: word: Wathaurong
office lady
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: office ladies
Senses: qualifier: This entry is a descendant hub.
glosses: A woman who works in an office.
Blue Line
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Blue Line
Senses: examples: text: A UN peacekeeper on the Blue Line between Israel and Lebanon was injured in cross-border fire, the world body said.
ref: 2023 October 29, Bethan McKernan, “Civil order ‘starting to break down’ in Gaza as people raid UN warehouses”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: The demarcation line between Lebanon and Israel published by the United Nations in June 2000.
Kumetz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kumetzes
Senses: glosses: A surname.
semiminor axis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiminor axes
form: semi-minor axis
Etymology: From semi- + minor axis.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
coordinate_terms: semimajor axis
glosses: Half of the minor axis of a circle or ellipse.
coming-out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coming-outs
form: comings-out
Senses: examples: text: As he learns how much of himself he has suppressed in his quest for respectability, as he slowly and reluctantly begins to be a whole person, we will hear echoes of our own comings-out.
ref: 1986 April 12, Duncan Mitchel, “To Grow Gently and with Honor”, in Gay Community News, page 9:
glosses: The act of coming out of the closet
goyishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From goyish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Is the author aware, I wonder, how Joel's neglect of his religious heritage parallels his repression of his sexual past? […] In any case, it's there anyhow: Joel married not only into straightness but into goyishness.
ref: 1986 April 12, Duncan Mitchel, “To Grow Gently and with Honor”, in Gay Community News, page 9:
glosses: The fact of being goyish, or non-Jewish.
w/d
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of washer-dryer.
semi-vowel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semi-vowels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of semivowel.
Inverell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in northern New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A local government area in New South Wales which includes the town; in full, Inverell Shire.
West Torrens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A local government area in Adelaide, South Australia; in full, the City of West Torrens.
Belgian franc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Belgian francs
Senses: glosses: The former currency of Belgium, now superseded by the euro.
Related terms: French franc
Swiss franc
children's game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: children's games
Senses: glosses: Any game typically played by young children without direct involvement of adults.
markgravine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: markgravines
Senses: examples: text: Next ſat the Markgraves and Markgravines. […] His Majeſty went about all the Town, having in his Coach her Royal Highneſs and the Markgravines. […] Then came the Markgravines and the Dutcheſs of Saxe Zeitz, conducted by their Gentlemen according to their Rank; […]
ref: 1706, The Present State of Europe: or, The Historical and Political Monthly Mercury, […], volume XVIII, London: […] Henry Rhodes […]; And the Assigns of Eliz. Harris, pages 142, 144, and 526:
text: On the 8th of October N. S. the King of Great Britain arrived at Charlotteburgh from Heerenbauſen, and was receiv’d with great Magnificence and Reſpect by the King and Queen of Pruſſia, accompanied by the Prince Royal, the Four Young Princeſſes, the Markgraves Albert, and Chriſtian Ludowick, Uncles to his Pruſſian Majeſty, and the two Markgravines.
ref: 1723, [Abel] Boyer, The Political State, of Great Britain, volume XXVI, London: […] [T]he Author, page 448:
text: Some Hours afterwards a magnificent Supper was ſerved up; at which the King and the three Markgraves were ſeated at his Britannick Majeſty’s Right Hand, and the Queen, with the Princeſs Royal and the Markgravines, at his Left.
ref: 1750, [Éléazar de Mauvillon], translated by William Phelips, The Life of Frederick-William I. Late King of Prussia. […], London: […] T[homas] Osborne, […], page 305:
text: Two women played a lively part in the struggles of the German emperors against the papacy, the Markgravines Beatrix of Tuscany and her daughter Matilda.
ref: 1975, Sibylle Harksen, Women in the Middle Ages, A. Schram, →ISBN, page 41, column 2:
text: The tradition of collecting minerals extended from the Emperors on down to Kings, Princes, Electors, Dukes, Counts, Margraves and Markgravines, Landgraves and Landgravines across the German Empire.
ref: 1994, Wendell E. Wilson, The History of Mineral Collecting 1530-1799: […] (The Mineralogical Record →ISSN; volume 25, number 6), page 91:
glosses: Alternative form of margravine.
markgravines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of markgravine
pronuntiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pronuntiations
Etymology: From Latin prōnūntiātiō.
Senses: examples: text: […] I cannot ſee (eſpecially conſidering how neceſſary a thing true pronuntiation is both for the grace of the ſpeech, as for the commodity and aduantage it may beget to the common-wealth as well at home, as in commerce and traffique had in forraine parts with other nations by conferring with them in their own languages) how in this it can be accounted vnneceſſary to ſeeke a meanes whereby to remedy theſe manifold abuſes and imperfections in ſpeech and writing, […]
ref: 1617, Robert Robinson, “A Preface declaring the great benefit of Speech and writing, and the order of this Treatise”, in The Art of Pronuntiation, Digested into Two Parts. Vox Audienda, & Vox Videnda. […], London: […] Nicholas Okes:
text: Now Eloth being written in the holy tongue אלות and אילת was by tranſmigration ſhifted and remoued to diuers pronuntiations, a thing vſuall in Ebrew names, both of places and perſons.
ref: 1625, [Samuel] Purchas, “A large Treatise of King SALOMONS Nauie sent from Eziongeber to Ophir: […]”, in Purchas His Pilgrimes. […], 1st part, London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, 2nd book, § VII ([…]), page 22, lines 8–10:
text: ETHICS from Séveral Authors, the words accented to rénder the ENGLISH PRONUNTIATION éaſy to Fóreigners.
ref: 1751, Charles Bertram, Ethics from Séveral Authors, the Words Accented to Rénder the English Pronuntiation Éasy to Fóreigners, Copenhagen: […] [F]or the Author, […], by L. H. Lillie, title page:
glosses: Obsolete form of pronunciation.
pronuntiations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pronuntiation
fourty-one
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of forty-one.
rhupus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of rheumatoid arthritis + lupus. Coined by Austrian-born American rheumatologist Peter H. Schur in 1971.
Senses: examples: text: As controls, 34 patients with rheumatoid arthritis and nine patients with rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus (rhupus) were included. […] In contrast, rheumatoid arthritis and rhupus patients had 30- and 23-fold higher than normal amounts of anti-CCP (p < 0.001, both comparisons).
ref: 2008, GN Damián-Abrego, J Cabiedes, AR Cabral, “Anti-citrullinated peptide antibodies in lupus patients with or without deforming arthropathy”, in Lupus, volume 17, number 4, →DOI, page 300:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A rare condition characterized by overlapping features of both rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus.
phantasmagorists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phantasmagorist
amuleted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: amuletted
Etymology: From amulet + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Each woman appeared to have taken a bit of the stream for herself, tucked up her dress, stepped into the water, and emptied her sack and her baskets into it; the ruddy hue of her flowers, being reflected, cast a glow on the olive-coloured faces, and the pretty amuleted arms were plunged again and again among the roses till they were all well washed, or rather wetted.
ref: 1868, “The Flowers and Fruits of Palestine”, in The Illustrated Magazine, volume XXV, London: Rogerson and Tuxford, […], page 38, column 1:
text: Their shields all amuleted, the four points decorated for war with feather tufts, leaned against their spears, which were planted in the ground, or reclined against trees and shrubs.
ref: 1930, Jack Herbert Driberg, People of the Small Arrow, Payson and Clarke, page 48:
text: The charmed, amuleted child now went and stood by her; from a close distance, he contemplated the painted mammae.
ref: 1979, Nuruddin Farah, Sweet and Sour Milk, London: Heinemann Educational Books Ltd, published 1980, →ISBN, page 147:
glosses: Adorned with an amulet.
amuletted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The Pānḍya then marched forth with his long sharp sword, his strong big horse and his amuletted long arms, as his only companions.
ref: 1921, S[akkottai] Krishnaswamy Aiyangar, South India and Her Muhammadan Invaders, Humphrey [Sumner] Milford, Oxford University Press, page 219:
text: The image is well-balanced and well-proportioned, having four amuletted arms, one of which carries a Kamandalu (monk’s bowl).
ref: 1945, Swami Jagadiswarananda, Hinduism Outside India, Shri Ramakrishna Ashram, page 209:
text: It didn’t cover her; she didn’t feel clothed, just amuletted.
ref: 1999, Grace Dane Mazur, Trespass, Graywolf Press, published 2002, page 7:
text: […] him leading the robed and amuletted men through the streets of our town, right down our street, cymbals crashing—strike up the band!—to set up camp in the burned-out lot nearby.
ref: 2009, Janet Mitchell, The Creepy Girl and Other Stories, Starcherone Books, →ISBN, page 113:
glosses: Alternative form of amuleted.
Tonawanda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tonawandas
form: Tonawanda
Senses: glosses: A member of a certain band of Seneca Indians.
Tonawanda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Erie County, New York, United States.
glosses: A town and census-designated place therein, in Erie County, New York, located next to and south of the city.
Derived terms: North Tonawanda
Tonawanda pine
Holdfast Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A bay at Glenelg, Adelaide, South Australia.
glosses: A local government area in Adelaide, South Australia; in full, the City of Holdfast Bay.
oinokhoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oinokhoai
form: oinokhoes
Senses: examples: text: Other vases are typical amphorae, jars, oinokhoes, small jars, aryballos, bowls, etc. clearly derived from classical greco-roman shapes.
ref: 1963, Kush: Journal of the Sudan Antiquities Service, volume 11, page 181:
text: […] it consists of Banded ware - fragments of oinokhoai, thick-sided vessels, kylikes and vessels of an open type; oinokhoai of the second half of the 6th century B.C.; […]
ref: 1994, John M. Fossey, editor, Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Archaeology and History of the Black Sea (McGill University, 22-24th November 1994), J.C. Gieben, published 1997, →ISBN, page 137:
text: Traditionally, the style of an artefact has been separated from its function. Thus, the function of a Greek pot – defined in terms of whether it was intended for transportation (hydriai or large amphorai), storage (pithoi and some kraters), distribution (oinokhoai) or consumption (cups, skyphoi and plates) – tends to be treated separately from any painted decoration on its surface.
ref: 1997, Jonathan M[ark] Hall, Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity, Cambridge University Press, published 2004, →ISBN, page 133:
text: Especially frequently they used various jugs, including oinokhoes –with three- or fourpetal mouth.
ref: 2003, Dēmētrios V. Grammenos, Elias K. Petropoulos, editors, Ancient Greek Colonies in the Black Sea, volume 1, Archaeological Institute of Northern Greece, →ISBN, page 449:
text: In later vase-iconography, oinokhoai and olpai appear in sympotic scenes where they are used for ladling wine from the krater and pouring it into cups (Richter & Milne, 1935: 18; Gericke, 1970: 32-35).
ref: 2011, Alexandra Alexandridou, The Early Black-Figured Pottery of Attika in Context (c. 630-570 bce) (Monumenta Graeca et Romana; 17), Brill, →ISBN, page 15, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of oenochoe.
oinokhoai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek οἰνοχόαι (oinokhóai).
Senses: glosses: plural of oinokhoe
oinokhoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oinokhoe
olpai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὄλπαι (ólpai).
Senses: glosses: plural of olpe
MCTD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of mixed connective tissue disease.
mixed connective tissue disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: word: MCTD
word: Sharp's syndrome
glosses: An autoimmune disease characterized by a mix of symptoms of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), systemic sclerosis, and polymyositis, associated with elevated levels of anti-U1 RNP antibodies.
May long weekends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of May long weekend
footpieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of footpiece
footmeals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of footmeal
mid-term breaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mid-term break
mid-wickets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mid-wicket
midtendons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midtendon
midprojects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midproject
midpregnancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midpregnancy
voicelets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voicelet
intertones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intertone
patient information leaflets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patient information leaflet
patwas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patwa
pit helmets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pit helmet
piriform recesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piriform recess
piriform sinuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piriform sinus
fluorocodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluorocode
fortifyings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fortifying
genovariations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of genovariation
gentilizings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gentilizing
pelikai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πελῐ́και (pelĭ́kai).
Senses: glosses: plural of pelike
pelikae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πελῐ́και (pelĭ́kai).
Senses: glosses: plural of pelike
infanteering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From infanteer + -ing.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The role of being an infantry soldier.
kotylai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κοτῠ́λαι (kotŭ́lai).
Senses: glosses: plural of kotyle
kotylae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κοτῠ́λαι (kotŭ́lai).
Senses: glosses: plural of kotyle
Meols
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛlz/
Etymology: From Old Norse melr (“sand-dune”).
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Hoylake, Merseyside, England.
Derived terms: Meols Cop
North Meols
metretai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metretes
footpan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footpans
Etymology: From foot + pan.
Senses: examples: text: The directions for personal cleanliness must have been much needed when one considers the small stock of linen and clothes that men not rich must have had; and if we may judge from a passage in Edward the Fourth’s Liber Niger, even the King himself did not use his footpan every Saturday night, and would not have been the worse for an occasional tubbing:⁠—[…]
ref: 1867, Frederick J[ames] Furnivall, Education in Early England. Some Notes Used as Forewords to a Collection of Treatises on “Manners & Meals in Olden Time” for the Early English Text Society, […], London: N[icholas] Trübner & Co., […], pages lxii–lxiii:
text: He was a native of Siouph, in the Saïte nome, and belonged to a house of no high distinction. Finding that this lessened his consideration with his subjects, he caused (says Herodotus) a golden footpan to be made into the image of a god, and when the Egyptians flocked to worship the image, he called them to an assembly, and, by comparing its change of condition to his own, won the respect which was due, at all events, to his cleverness.
ref: 1871, Philip Smith, The Ancient History of the East. From the Earliest Times to the Conquest by Alexander the Great. […] (The Student’s Ancient History), London: John Murray, […]; James Walton, […], page 152:
text: Men and women were not so luxurious in their ideas of comfort as they are now. Bathrooms were not in existence. Footpans were in general use to bathe the feet.
ref: 1907, George Tancred, Rulewater and Its People: An Account of the Valley of the Rule and Its Inhabitants, page 358:
text: During his travels in Egypt, Herodotus reported that an Egyptian king, Amasis, had owned a gold footpan used for washing his feet as well as for collecting vomit and urine.
ref: 1998, Julie L. Horan, Sitting Pretty: An Uninhibited History of the Toilet, Robson Books, →ISBN, page 8:
glosses: A pan used to bathe the feet.
footpans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of footpan
komastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more komastic
form: most komastic
form: comastic
Senses: examples: text: At most victory celebrations, presumably, there was no commissioned ode; and traditional songs could have been found for each of the three contexts—familiar symposiastic and komastic songs as well as victory songs.
ref: 1988, American Journal of Philology, volume 109, page 193:
text: In a komastic procession one youth leads another who wears a kidaris and carries a crooked stick; […]
ref: 1991, Margaret Miller, “Foreigners at the Greek Symposium?”, in William J. Slater, editor, Dining in a Classical Context, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 81:
text: […] of a vulgar performer in a komastic street parade, and accordingly brands his style of rhetorical accusation as falling beneath acceptable standards of political debate.
ref: 2004, Stephen Halliwell, “Aischrology, Shame, and Comedy”, in Ineke Sluiter, Ralph M. Rosen, editors, Free Speech in Classical Antiquity, Brill, →ISBN, page 126:
text: Thus, what begins as a komastic venture does not end in a symposion, even though the action keeps it firmly in mind.
ref: 2013, Fiona Hobden, The Symposion in Ancient Greek Society and Thought, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 177:
text: Those who see these verses describing a sympotic rather than a komastic scene explain that the reclining symposiast uses the komastic phrase to issue a sexual invitation to his companion (or companions).
ref: 2020, Richard L[awrence] Hunter, Rebecca Laemmle, “Commentary”, in Euripides: Cyclops (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 206:
glosses: Of or relating to a komast.
comastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more comastic
form: most comastic
Senses: examples: text: A brilliant and picturesque scene of such comastic ὕβρις is given by Herondas in the dicastic harangue of the Πορνοβοσκός, the low pander who, in spite of consciousness of his despised trade, pleads for justice against the violence of one who has set fire to his door-frame, broken in his door, beaten soundly the pander himself, and maltreated one of his girls.
ref: 1925, Classical Philology, volume 20, page 301:
text: Compare the tradition that in Syracuse it was customary for the countryfolk (agroikoi) to compete in song, and that the victor remained in the city while the others went out to the villages collecting food for themselves and no doubt causing quite a comastic commotion.
ref: 2001, Erich Segal, The Death of Comedy, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 461:
text: We could choose to imagine him (and hypothetical stagings are always themselves acts of interpretation) as joining the procession with some solemnity, perhaps. But we might prefer to picture him as contributing something more like a comastic sideshow to it.
ref: 2011, Stephen Halliwell, Between Ecstasy and Truth: Interpretations of Greek Poetics from Homer to Longinus, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 154:
glosses: Alternative form of komastic.
Arwi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Tamil அற்விய்யு (aṟviyyu).
Senses: glosses: The arabic writing system used for Tamil.
Hilltops
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A local government area in the South West Slopes region, New South Wales, Australia; in full, Hilltops Council.