cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
chymic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chymic
form: most chymic
Senses: examples: text: Till lastly, when by chymic jolt / And sheer corrosion of the thatch, / What time the withering woodlands moult / My love shall moult to match, / And all those curls I loved to beg / For keepsakes on the earth be strewed, / Leaving her cranium like an egg / Incomparably nude.
ref: 1914, Various, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 11, 1914:
text: Less shone the tresses Egypt's princess wore, / Which sweet Callimachus so sung before; / Here courtly trifles set the world at odds, / Belles war with beaux, and whims descend for gods, / The new machines in names of ridicule, / Mock the grave frenzy of the chymic fool.
ref: 1738, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Gray, Tobias Smollett, Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett:
text: So the all-seeing sun each day Distills the world with chymic ray.
ref: 1681, Andrew Marvell, edited by G. A. Aitken, Ed. London: Lawrence & Bullen, The Poems of Andrew Marvell, pages 36–38:
glosses: chemic
chymic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chymics
Senses: examples: text: The subtle chymic can divest / And strip the creature naked, till he find / The callow principles within their nest
ref: 1633, George Herbert, Vanity:
glosses: chemic
cistus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪstəs/
Forms: form: cistuses
form: cisti
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Cistus.
Senses: examples: text: drawing his huge ungainly form from the soft cushion of moss, where the daisies and golden cistus flowers had shut their eyes for the night
ref: 1892, Emma Marshall, Bristol Bells:
text: Everywhere in spring the ground is carpeted with a profusion of wild-flowers, cistus and brown orchis, narcissus and the scarlet anemone; sometimes the forest scenery sweeps away, and leaves us among olive-grounds and orange-gardens arranged in formal, picturesque rows.
ref: 1876, John Richard Greene, Stray Studies from England and Italy:
text: There is as yet no evening-primrose to open suddenly, no cistus to drop its petals; but the May-flower knows the hour, and becomes more fragrant in the darkness, so that one can then often find it in the woods without aid from the eye.
ref: 1861, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Volume 7, Issue 42, April, 1861:
text: If the court had its clustering noisettes, and fraxinellas, and sweetbriar, and great tall white lilies, the moorland had its little creeping scented rose, its straggling honeysuckle, and an abundance of yellow cistus; and here and there a gray rock cropped out of the ground, and over it the yellow stone-crop and scarlet-leaved crane's-bill grew luxuriantly.
ref: 1851, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, The Moorland Cottage:
glosses: A rockrose; a plant of the genus Cistus.
Derived terms: gum cistus
residue class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: residue classes
Senses: topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: A coset of an ideal of the ring of integers.
emmure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: emmures
form: emmuring
form: emmured
form: emmured
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of immure (“to wall up”).
emmures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of emmure
smart cookie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smart cookies
Senses: examples: text: “Who is it, out there.”
“I’m lost on the road can you tell me where I am.”
“You’re right here, stranger. You got me out of bed. Clear off before I sprinkle your ass with buckshot.”
“It’s a dire emergency.”
“Don’t try to be a smart cookee stranger.”
ref: 1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 182:
text: Newland, lead cook and a smart cookie, would find some way to feed them if they got stranded ashore.
ref: 1992, Eugene B. Fluckey, Thunder Below!: The USS Barb Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II, University of Illinois Press, published 1997, →ISBN, page 373:
text: Is it a coincidence that Fox Home Entertainment, one smart cookie in sell-through, has designated the $170 million hit "There's Something About Mary" for rental?
ref: 1998 November 28, Seth Goldstein, “DVD Not The Only Concern For Tape's Sell-Through Biz; DVD Packagers Roll 'Em Out”, in Billboard:
text: This dog was one smart cookie and was quickly picking up the game plan.
ref: 2008, Douglas E. Egenolf, The Last Seasons: The Story of the Bird Hunter, Dog Ear Publishing, published 2008, →ISBN, page 64:
glosses: An individual regarded as clever, astute, or judicious.
smart cookies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smart cookie
epopeas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epopea
epopoeia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epopoeias
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of epopee.
epopœia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epopœias
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of epopee.
epopoeias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epopoeia
epopœias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epopœia
antigenic variation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antigenic variations
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The mechanism by which an infectious organism changes its surface proteins in favor of circumventing a host immune response.
peels away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of peel away
stoccado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stoccados
form: stoccadoes
Etymology: From Italian stoccata.
Senses: examples: text: [William] Page. I haue heard the French-man hath good skill in his Rapier. / [Robert] Shal[low] Tut ſir: I could haue told you more: In theſe times you ſtand on diſtance: your Paſſes, Stoccado’s, and I knovv not vvhat: […]
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 45, column 1:
text: Yet will not such leave to lift-up their joyned hands to heaven, give them but a stoccado [translating coup d'espée] on their breast […]
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter XII, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: A stab with a pointed weapon.
misbelievings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misbelieving
complement membrane attack complex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: complement membrane attack complexes
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A formation of transmembrane channels on the surface of a pathogenic bacterial cell that disrupts the phospholipid bilayer of the target cell resulting in its destruction.
passive immunity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passive immunities
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: active immunity
glosses: The translocation of active humoral immunity from one individual to another in the form of custom-made antibodies.
afterborn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: after-born
Etymology: From Middle English *afterboren, *efterboren, *æfterboren, from Old English æfterboren (“afterborn, posthumous, born after the father’s death”), equivalent to after- + born. Cognate with Scots efterborn.
Senses: glosses: Born after the father's death; posthumous.
examples: text: an afterborn daughter
glosses: Of later birth; younger.
topics: law
glosses: Born after the will of a parent has been made.
primary immunodeficiency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primary immunodeficiencies
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of the many genetic disorders due to an aspect of the body's immune system being either absent or failing to function normally.
wacken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ækən
Forms: form: more wacken
form: most wacken
Etymology: From Middle English waken, from Old English wacen, ġewacen, from Proto-Germanic *wakanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *wakaną (“to wake, be awake, arise”), equivalent to wake + -en (past participle ending).
Senses: glosses: Watchful.
glosses: Lively; sharp; wanton.
aftercomings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aftercoming
Tylerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tylerisms
Etymology: From Tyler + -ism. The abandoning-political-party sense came from John Tyler who is said to have done this after William Henry Harrison died in office.
Senses: examples: text: The Herald of Saturday last, contained the first notice of a sale Public Lands ever advertised in [Illinois]! The last resort of Tylerism is not only destined to be a signal failure, but those who pretend to be Mr. Tyler's friends, and have some little knowledge of the people, will tell him that it was conceived in folly and madness; and that it will not secure him an additional supporter among the people.
ref: 1842 March, Courier and Esquire, quoted in The Foreign Quarterly Review:
glosses: The policies of U.S. president John Tyler.
examples: text: Of his ragged army, the impedimenta, the vile baggage, fell to our share — the armory and military chest were betrayed to our enemies. This position of things was entirely unparalleled in the course of political contests in our country: we fervently pray that it may never occur again. The defunct carcass of Tylerism bred a political pestilence, congenial to the vitality of Locofocoism, and it throve upon it—fatal to healthier organs, and we were enfeebled by the malaria.
ref: 1845 February, The American Review:
text: For even though the hour has not yet quite arrived, which is to be brightened by the reflection that Tylerism has ceased to exist, in any other than the past tense, yet, by the time this page shall reach the eyes of most of its readers, they will have ceased to blush for the government of their country.
ref: 1845 March, The United States Democratic Review:
glosses: The practice of abandoning the political party to which political office is owed, defecting while in office, committing political apostasy.
topics: Christianity
glosses: The Reformed theology of Bennet Tyler.
Related terms: Tylerize
merswine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merswine
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mereswine.
Tylerize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Tylerizes
form: Tylerizing
form: Tylerized
form: Tylerized
Etymology: From Tyler + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Seward was not trusted by Greeley, Phillips, Lovejoy, and the radicals of their complexion. They apprehended that after using the "American citizens of African descent," until he (Seward) should be safely seated in the Presidential chair, he would abandon the negro and "Tylerize" their Party; hence, they would not trust him
ref: 1864, Thomas Jefferson Miles, To All Whom It May Concern:
text: "The great doctrine of equal rights will prevail," wrote Medill, of the Chicago "Tribune," to President Johnson in September, 1865, warning him not to Tylerize his party nor go back on those who had elected him.
ref: 1902, The Outlook:
text: Thus to Tylerize became a term meaning to forsake the party to which one owes allegiance or office.
ref: 1962, Hans Sperber, Travis Trittschuh, Hans Sperber, American Political Terms:
glosses: To abandon the political party to which political office is owed, as United States President John Tyler did during his term of office (1841-45), to defect to another party or political position while in office, to commit political apostasy.
Related terms: apostatize
Tylerism
secondary immunodeficiency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secondary immunodeficiencies
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Immunodeficiency caused by malnutrition or exposure to disease or a specific drug treatment.
innate immune system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: innate immune systems
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The initial line of defense that entails a cascade of cells and mechanisms that protect the host from infection by different organisms in an indeterminate pattern.
Coordinate terms: adaptive immune system
Related terms: innate immunity
immune system
complement system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: complement systems
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: An aspect of the innate immune system that supplements the actions of the antibodies and phagocytic cells in clearing out pathogens from an organism
Related terms: complementopathy
ultra light rail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultra-light-rail
form: ultra-light rail
Etymology: Said to be an improvement on light rail technology.
Senses: examples: text: 1992, The Architects' Journal, Volume 196, link
His solution was ultra-light-rail
text: 2005, Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain), Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Civil engineering: Issues 1-3, link
At the same time various proposals for the use of innovative modes such as personal rapid transit or ultra-light rail have failed to progress much beyond concept design or demonstration projects.
text: A new bus interchange next to the railway station must be worked up, also the suggested use of ultra-light-rail on the short street tramway to the harbour should be evaluated.
ref: 2006, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee, Going for Gold, page 202:
text: The alignment of the “rapid transit busway also prevents any future ultra light rail service along the Harbour railway.
ref: 2012, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee, Bus Services After the Spending Review, page 169:
text: For example, Parry People Movers Ltd (PPM) has integrated a flywheel into an ultra light rail vehicle (ULRV).
ref: 2007, Dr. Ulises Diego Ayala, PhD, An investigation into hybrid power trains for vehicles with regenerative braking, page 42:
glosses: A small single-railcar on-demand rail system with trunk-separated stations that does not operate on any fixed route but rather to stations where it has been requested, similar to an elevator.
Related terms: dial-a-ride
ignoranus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ignoranuses
Etymology: Blend of ignoramus + anus.
Senses: examples: text: "Because it reminds me how much I hate ignoranus jocks."
ref: 2005, Alex Sánchez, Rainbow Road, Simon Pulse, →ISBN, page 62:
glosses: A person who is both stupid and rude; an ignorant asshole.
ignoranuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ignoranus
adaptive immune system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adaptive immune systems
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A system, activated by the innate immune system, that consists of particularly specialized systemic cells and processes that remove or counter pathogenic growth.
Coordinate terms: innate immune system
Related terms: adaptive immunity
immune system
more power to your elbow
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɔː ˈpaʊə tʊ jə ˈɛlbəʊ/
ipa: /mɔɹ ˈpaʊɚ tʊ jɚ ˈɛlboʊ/
Etymology: Possibly an elaboration of more power to you, with the speaker expressing the wish that the person addressed will have more strength to achieve their goal.
Senses: examples: text: Naturally the forms of traction occupy Mr. [Geoffrey] Freeman Allen much of his time and he sits on no fence here; he is an "electrifier", with good reasons advanced—more power to his elbow.
ref: 1959 May, G. F. Fiennes (reviewer), “New Reading on Railways: British Railways Today and Tomorrow. By G. Freeman Allen. Ian Allan. 25s.”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 271:
synonyms: best of luck
more power to your arm
more grease to your elbow
glosses: Used to express admiration of a person coupled with wishes for their continued success in an endeavour of their own choosing: all the best; good luck.
picture paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picture papers
Senses: glosses: comic book
Towie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Only Way Is Essex, a television reality show based in Essex, England.
caringness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From caring + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being caring.
detailless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From detail + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without detail or details; bare; simplified.
Derived terms: detaillessness
sandhopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandhoppers
Etymology: From sand + hopper.
Senses: glosses: sand flea
sandhoppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sandhopper
negroidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more negroidal
form: most negroidal
form: Negroidal
Senses: examples: text: […] employing the word "dominant" to refer to those persons who appear more European in type, and "recessive" to the more negroidal type […]
ref: 1932, Oric Bates, Varia africana: Volume 10:
text: And what pisses me off is the arrogance of people whose whole thing is just a blatant imitation of the negroidal tradition. Blatant. And even the major exponents of this type of music have said that themselves.
ref: 1985, Musician: Issues 75-86:
text: Raising the specter of miscegenation, this pro-segregationist and anti-rock tract recoiled over "teenage daughters ... squealing and drooling over Negroidal crooners."
ref: 2006, Steven F. Lawson, Civil Rights Crossroads, page 252:
glosses: negroid
antisegregationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antisegregationists
Etymology: From anti- + segregation + -ist.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: One who opposes racial segregation.
antisegregationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antisegregationist
aboulias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aboulia
akataphasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: disorder of thought expression in speech and results due to dissolution of logical ordering of trains of thought
antifoundationalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antifoundationalists
Etymology: From anti- + foundationalist.
Senses: topics: epistemology
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: One who rejects foundationalism.
antifoundationalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antifoundationalist
dyslogia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dyslogias
Etymology: From dys- + -logia.
Senses: glosses: Difficulty in expressing ideas in speech.
Related terms: alogia
dyslogic
mercats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mercat
Schneiderian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Schneiderian
form: most Schneiderian
form: schneiderian
Etymology: From Schneider + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Kurt Schneider (1887–1967), German psychiatrist, or the psychotic symptoms he listed as being particularly characteristic of schizophrenia.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Discovered or described by Konrad Viktor Schneider, a German anatomist of the 17th century.
Derived terms: Schneiderian membrane
aphemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aphemia
aphemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aphemia + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
speech-pathology
glosses: Of, relating to, or afflicted with aphemia.
induhvidual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: induhviduals
Etymology: Blend of individual + duh. In 1995, Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams asked readers of the Dilbert Newsletter to come up with a "good derogatory nickname for non-DNRC [Dogbert's New Ruling Class, the official Dilbert fanclub] people" that "should sound harmless and endearing but have a clever double meaning", ultimately selecting "induhvidual" (submitted by "Heather of Beantown") as the winning entry. Issues of the newsletter since then have included a section called "True Tales of Induhviduals" featuring reader-contributed stories about people doing foolish things.
Senses: examples: text: These are the same induhviduals who can't be bothered to pull their behemoths into the block-long bus zones fiercely defended by $250 fines.
ref: 1999 November 30, Kim L. Serkes, “Draconian Plan”, in The San Francisco Chronicle:
glosses: A foolish person, especially one whose blundering creates difficulty for others.
induhviduals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of induhvidual
doublequote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doublequotes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of double quote.
double quote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double quotes
form: doublequote
Senses: glosses: A double quotation mark, as in She said, "Go ahead".
Related terms: single quote
asyndesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin asyndesis, from Ancient Greek ἀσύνδεσις (asúndesis), from ἀ- (a-, “a-, un-: without”) + σύνδεσις (súndesis, “binding, joining”), from συνδεῖν (sundeîn, “to join, to bind”) + -σῐς (-sĭs, “-sis: forming nouns”), from σῠν- (sŭn-, “together”) + δεῖν (deîn, “to bind, to tie”). Equivalent to a- + syn- + -desis or a- + syndesis.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A pattern of spoken or written discourse demonstrating inability or diminished capacity to connect ideas.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of asyndeton: lack or omission of conjunctions, especially for rhetorical effect.
synonyms: word: asyndeton
extra: lack or omission of conjunctions, especially for rhetorical effect
Derived terms: asyndetic
asyndetically
Related terms: asyndeton
autoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoscopies
Etymology: From auto- + -scopy.
Senses: glosses: The experience of seeing one's body from the outside while awake, as if disembodied.
Related terms: autoscopic
autoscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autoscopy
avolitional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more avolitional
form: most avolitional
Etymology: From a- + volition + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to avolition; lacking willpower.
Derived terms: avolitionally
bruxistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to bruxism.
bruxist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bruxists
Senses: glosses: One who has bruxism; a person who grinds the teeth.
bruxists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bruxist
cerea flexibilitas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: waxy flexibility
circumstantialities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circumstantiality
dementia pugilistica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin dementia pugilistica (“boxer's madness”).
Senses: topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
pathology
sciences
synonyms: punch drunk syndrome
glosses: A neurodegenerative disease or dementia associated with repeated concussions, as in boxers.
dereistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dereistic
form: most dereistic
Etymology: From Latin de re (“away from the thing”) + -istic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: Not in accordance with reality.
ultra-light rail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ultra light rail.
ultra-light-rail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ultra light rail.
extracampine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Seeing somebody standing behind you is a visual extracampine hallucination experience.
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: Beyond the possible sensory field.
raw_tags: of hallucination
light railway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: light railways
Senses: examples: text: Under a Light Railway Order of 1904, the line was extended to Appledore, and opened thence on May 1, 1908, bringing the route length up to a fraction over 7 miles. The whole system was worked under this Order as a light railway, but this caused some friction with the local authorities when, under the authority of the Board of Trade, the gates were removed at five level crossings in May, 1905.
ref: 1939 June, “Pertinent Paragraphs: The Bideford, Westward Ho! & Appledore Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 459:
text: Although the line is officially a light railway, it is of standard gauge, and the traffic, particularly during and since the war years, is anything but light.
ref: 1948 September and October, G. E. C. Webb, “By Light Railway to Fawley”, in Railway Magazine, page 307:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A railway built at a lower cost, with a lighter track and to a lower standard than a main-line railway.
Related terms: light rail
negativisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of negativism
rapid transit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rapid transits
Senses: glosses: A commuter rail system that combines aspects of an interurban railway with those of a subway, using a menagerie of pathways such as viaduct, tunnel, beam, cut and cover, trench, at grade, and others.
commuter rail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Boston and Philadelphia's commuter rails each have thirteen active lines, but Boston's lines reach, on average, over a third again farther out from the central city than their counterparts in Philly.
text: I took the commuter rail in to work today, since it's quicker and more convenient than driving on the highway at rush hour.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
synonyms: word: overground/Overground
raw_tags: in London
word: S-Bahn
raw_tags: in Germany and Austria
glosses: A rail transport system with trains used to transport commuters between two places, typically their homes and works, normally within a metropolitan area and its surrounding environs, and generally distinguished from other rail transport systems (i.e. subways, metros, tramways) by having less frequent service, lacking free transfers between trains and using heavy rolling stock running on a mainline railway
hyperphagias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperphagia
at grade
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of at-grade.
cut and cover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cut-and-cover
Senses: topics: business
construction
engineering
manufacturing
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A method of building a tunnel by digging a trench, constructing tunnel walls therein, and refilling the trench with earth.
ineptocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ineptocracies
Etymology: From inept, from French inepte (“feckless”) + -o- + -cracy, from Ancient Greek κράτος (krátos, “strength, power”).
Senses: examples: text: "People like to talk about a neoconservative cabal in the White House," he said, referring to the chief architects of the Iraq War, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz. "But what you really have is an ineptocracy: these people can't do anything right."
ref: 2011, Christopher Merrill, The Tree of the Doves: Ceremony, Expeditions, War, Milkweed Editions, →ISBN, page 46:
glosses: A government characterized by incompetent leaders.
examples: text: The road users should at least get some benefit from this waste, another case of Somerset Highways showing ineptocracy.
ref: 2011 November 17, Richard Fry, “Another case of inept action by highways”, in Wells Journal:
glosses: The phenomenon of governance or leadership by the incompetent.
ineptocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ineptocracy
Radney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Probably a variant of Rodney.
Senses: examples: 'Mr. Radney, I will not obey you. Take that hammer away, or look to yourself.’
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
extrasocietal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + societal.
Senses: glosses: Outside of society.
lesser of two evils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: lesser evil
antonyms: greater of two evils
glosses: The least harmful or unpleasant of two undesirable alternatives.
Related terms: necessary evil
damned if one does and damned if one doesn't
logoclonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logoclonias
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Tendency to repeat words or syllables.
Derived terms: logoclonic
logoclonias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of logoclonia
intrasocietal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + societal.
Senses: glosses: Within society.
logoclonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more logoclonic
form: most logoclonic
Etymology: From logoclonia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or exhibiting, logoclonia.
nonreduplicative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + reduplicative.
Senses: glosses: Not reduplicative.
paramnesias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paramnesia
sonorizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sonorization
rabbit syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A rare extrapyramidal side effect of antipsychotic drugs, causing perioral tremors.
ecoanarchist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecoanarchists
Etymology: From eco- + anarchist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of ecoanarchism.
ecoanarchists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecoanarchist
ecosocialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecosocialists
form: eco-socialist
Etymology: From eco- + socialist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of ecosocialism.
Synonyms: word: environmental socialist
word: enviro-socialist
word: envirosocialist
word: green socialist
word: red green
word: watermelon
Hypernyms: environmentalist
ecosocialist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ecosocialist
form: most ecosocialist
form: eco-socialist
Etymology: From eco- + socialist.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to ecosocialism.
Synonyms: eco-socialistic
ecosocialistic
environmental-socialist
enviro-socialist
envirosocialist
green-socialist
red-green
redgreen
Related terms: ecocapitalist
ecosocialists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecosocialist
ecosocialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecosocialisms
form: eco-socialism
Etymology: From eco- + socialism.
Senses: examples: text: Mrs. Lienemann, the French Housing Minister, sees socialist and ecological forces proposing what she calls “a new culture”—perhaps named “Ecosocialism”—that might, she believes, work for innovations like a 32-hour workweek, more democracy at the workplace, and “a greater stress on quality than quantity in everyday life.”
ref: [1992 November 1, Roger Cohen, quoting Marie-Noelle Lienemann, “Ideology Wanes for Europe, Leaving Politicians Adrift”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Whenever he launched an ideological crusade, he did so zealously — even if, as in the case of ecosocialism, its very definition and the collateral demand for an appealing alternative to capitalism were not self-evident.
ref: 2018 May 4, Sam Roberts, “Dr. Joel Kovel, a Founder of Ecosocialism, Is Dead at 81”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: An ideology merging aspects of Marxism, socialism, green politics, environmentalism, etc. that opposes capitalism.
Synonyms: environmental socialism
envirosocialism
enviro-socialism
green socialism
Hypernyms: environmentalism
Derived terms: ecosocialist
Related terms: ecocapitalism
postcapitalism
edgework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From edge + work.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Behaviour at the edge of what is normally allowed or accepted; risky or radical behaviour.
infoganda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of information + propaganda.
Senses: examples: text: GOP-TV, the television arm of the Republican Party, debuted in 1995 with the news magazine Rising Tide, a pseudo-news program (less "infotainment" than "infoganda") spreading the conservative gospel and raising money on some two thousand cable systems.
ref: 1999, Jeffrey Scheuer, The Sound Bite Society: How Television Helps the Right and Hurts the Left, Routledge, published 2001, →ISBN, page 31:
glosses: Journalistic content, particularly news, published or broadcast in the interest of advancing an ideological agenda.
one's damned if one does and one's damned if one doesn't
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: “[…] He’s been there for her, and where has Jack been? He’s gone, long gone.” / “That’s true,” Richard said in a crushing manner, “but he wouldn’t be, had it not been for Glenda getting him involved. He’s only doing what she asked him to do. You’re putting him in a no-win situation; he’s damned if he does and he’s damned if he doesn’t.”
ref: 2010, Gail Soberg-Sorenson, chapter 40, in Vengeance, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 310:
text: My job takes a lot of my time and the hours are crazy, but I put Ryan and Whitney first. Dammit, if I didn’t work that would be a problem. It seems like I’m damned if I do and I’m damned if I don’t.
ref: 2016, Tracee Boyd, “Chapter 13 – Harper”, in Hardheaded in Love, Royalty Publishing House, →ISBN, page 81:
text: One of the most awkward situations known to humankind (apart from turning up to work in the same outfit as someone else) is receiving a social media contact request from a member of the senior management team. Should you ignore the invitation or accept it on diplomatic grounds? In either case, you’re damned if you do and you’re damned if you don’t.
ref: 2017, Simon Holland, “Social Media Management”, in How Bad Is Your Boss? Do You Work for a Mentor or a Menace?, New York, N.Y.: Skyhorse Publishing, →ISBN, page 79:
glosses: Alternative form of damned if one does and damned if one doesn't.
dhat syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hindi धात (dhāt, “semen involuntarily discharged in urination”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A condition found in the cultures of the Indian subcontinent in which male patients report that they suffer from premature ejaculation or impotence and believe that they are passing semen in their urine.
intropunitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more intropunitive
form: most intropunitive
Etymology: From intro- + punitive.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Tending to punish oneself.
Derived terms: intropunitively
puncept
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puncepts
Etymology: Blend of pun + concept. Coined by Gregory Ulmer.
Senses: glosses: A new concept arising from, or named from, a pun on existing terms.
puncepts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puncept
guessings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɛsɪŋz/
Senses: examples: text: It was aptly said by Newton that "whatever is not deduced from facts must be regarded as hypothesis," but hypothesis appears to us a title too honourable for the crude guessings to which we allude.
ref: 1846, George Luxford, Edward Newman, The Phytologist: a popular botanical miscellany: Volume 2, Part 2, page 474:
text: These guessings of ours, for they are more than half guessings, may throw a glimmer of light on the mystery of doll selection.
ref: 1899, The Contemporary review: Volume 75, page 63:
text: 1924, Chinese Social and Political Science Association, Peking, The Chinese social and political science review: Volume 8, link
Column II gives the frequency of correct guessings.
text: When Grice first proposed such interpersonal guessings in 'Logic and Conversation', he brought them into play
ref: 1993, Richard Harland, Beyond superstructuralism: the syntagmatic side of language, page 117:
glosses: plural of guessing
Blanchotian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Blanchotian
form: most Blanchotian
Etymology: From Blanchot + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Maurice Blanchot (1907–2003), French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist.
irritainment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of irritating + entertainment.
Senses: examples: text: Because their volume interjects such an overwhelming ambiance to the party, make sure that your entertainers are the right ones. You want entertainment, not irritainment.
ref: 1997, Jaymz Bee, Cocktail Parties for Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 127:
glosses: Entertainment that annoys, embarrasses, or upsets more than or as much as it entertains, whether unintentionally or by design.
examples: text: Like others, I followed Clinton's apologies on TV and in print and laughed at the "I'm Sorry Chorus" from the also-unclean GOP choir. I've said it before: This is "irritainment" - a macabre mix of irritation and entertainment. The nastiness is a crime scene right in front of us.
ref: 1998 September 26, Lewis W. Diuguid, “Changing channels on scandal”, in The Kansas City Star:
glosses: A media spectacle, particularly a scandal, that is simultaneously irritating and engrossing.
dial-a-ride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: So called because requests for transport were traditionally made by telephone call; see dial.
Senses: glosses: A form of on-demand transportation similar to public transit usually in areas or during times where fixed route service is not available or possible and resembling paratransit, taxi, or shuttle service in its execution.
Derived terms: dial-a-ride problem
fixed route
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fixed routes
Senses: glosses: A form of public transit bus or ferry service without any regular deviation from schedules or course
rail-carriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rail-carriages
Senses: glosses: A railroad car
rail-carriages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rail-carriage
railway vehicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: railway vehicles
Senses: glosses: railroad car
railway vehicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of railway vehicle
rail vehicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rail vehicles
Senses: glosses: railroad car
rail vehicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rail vehicle
railway carriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: railway carriages
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A railroad car (for passengers)
railway carriages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of railway carriage
vajajay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vajajays
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of va-jay-jay.
stave-rhyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /steɪv.ɹaɪm/
Forms: form: stave-rhymes
form: stave rhyme
form: staff-rhyme
form: staff rhyme
Etymology: Most likely a calque of a Germanic term, such as German Stabreim or Danish stavrim.
Senses: examples: text: The poem is littered with stave-rhymes like "start, stop".
text: It is better to retain it in this line, as it is one of the 3 stave-rhymes.
ref: 1860, George Stephens, Two leaves of king Waldere's lay, a hitherto unknown Old-English epic, page 72:
text: c) MNT I 58 stave-rhymes (har/am; qat/qa) and near stave-rhymes (qu/qa) in the first five words, twofold genuine stave-rhyme (ö & ki) with grammatical assonant end-rhyme (söl/sal & sön/san) in the parallel phrases on revenge
ref: 2001, Altaic affinities: proceedings of the 40th meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC), Provo, Utah (1997), page 268:
text: The colophon penned in flowery style with stave-rhymes relates that the words of the Zaya Pandita's translation were written […]
ref: 2005, György Kara, Books of the Mongolian nomads: more than eight centuries of writing Mongolian, page 277:
glosses: A (stressed) word that rhymes with another, in that it begins with the same consonant, consonant cluster, or vowel.
examples: text: The poem exhibits stave-rhyme.
text: Our ancestors grounded their verse on stave-rhyme and accent […]
ref: 1860, George Stephens, Two leaves of king Waldere's lay, a hitherto unknown Old-English epic, page 22:
text: Now, of the Thornhill fragments, those I have numbered VII. give us part of an epitaph in stave-rhyme, conceived on the same plan as those at Dewsbury and Falstone, but with a remarkable variation; […]
ref: 1877, Daniel Henry Haigh, “On Runic Inscriptions Discovered at Thornhill”, in The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, volume 4, page 420:
text: c) MNT I 58 stave-rhymes (har/am; qat/qa) and near stave-rhymes (qu/qa) in the first five words, twofold genuine stave-rhyme (ö & ki) with grammatical assonant end-rhyme (söl/sal & sön/san) in the parallel phrases on revenge
ref: 2001, Altaic affinities: proceedings of the 40th meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC), Provo, Utah (1997), page 268:
glosses: This kind of rhyme.
Synonyms: sense: broadly speaking
word: alliteration
Hypernyms: rhyme
Related terms: stave
stave-rhyme
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /steɪv.ɹaɪm/
Forms: form: stave-rhymes
form: stave-rhyming
form: stave-rhymed
form: stave-rhymed
form: stave rhyme
form: staff-rhyme
form: staff rhyme
Etymology: Most likely a calque of a Germanic term, such as German Stabreim or Danish stavrim.
Senses: examples: text: Richard Kienast, in a study of the prose style of the Old High German Isidor translation, remarked that the relics of elevated celebratory composition, as the ‘stave-rhyming formulas’ were described, need to be treated.
ref: 1995, John M. Jeep, Alliterating word-pairs in Old High German, page 35:
text: To find other Old High German parallels, it is necessary to include those genres which are not composed in stave-rhyming verse.
ref: 2002, Irmengard Rauch, Gerald F. Carr, editors, New insights in Germanic linguistics III, page 120:
glosses: To exhibit this kind of rhyme.
Synonyms: sense: broadly speaking
word: alliterate
Related terms: end rhyme
boulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boula
beet radish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beet radishes
Senses: glosses: The beet, Beta vulgaris.
beet radishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beet radish
begod
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: begods
form: begodding
form: begodded
form: begodded
Etymology: From be- + god.
Senses: examples: text: And thus by degrees paganism came to be christened into a new name, by their setting up their divi, or begodded tutelar saints, and prosecuting their apotheosis with divine worship.
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: To exalt to the dignity of a god; to deify.
begodded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of begod
begodding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of begod
begods
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of begod
chromule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromules
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χρῶμα (khrôma, “colour”) and ὕλη (húlē, “matter”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any colouring matter in plants other than chlorophyll, and especially in the petals.
chromules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chromule
epidermatoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: epidermoid
hornowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hornowls
Etymology: From horn + owl.
Senses: glosses: A horned owl.
hornowls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hornowl
insense
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: insenses
form: insensing
form: insensed
form: insensed
Etymology: From Old French ensenser (“to enlighten, to bring to sense”), from en- + sens (“sense”).
Senses: examples: text: eagle eyes upon the insensed yet fearful monarch
ref: 1825, Elijah Fenton, Mariamne:
glosses: To make to understand; to instruct.
insensed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of insense
insenses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of insense
insensing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of insense
lakao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Chinese [Term?].
Senses: glosses: The pigment sap green.
periblem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: periblems
Etymology: From peri- + root of Ancient Greek βλῆμα (blêma, “to sprout, shoot”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: nascent cortex, or immature cellular bark
peridrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peridromes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek περίδρομος (perídromos), meaning "running around, that which surrounds": compare French péridrome.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: The space between the columns and the wall of the cella in an Ancient Greek or Roman temple
peridromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peridrome
pourveyance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pourveyances
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of purveyance.
pourveyances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pourveyance
propretor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: propretors
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of propraetor.
propretors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of propretor
seak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: soap prepared for use in milling cloth
septentrial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more septentrial
form: most septentrial
Senses: examples: text: When Waveney in her way , on this Septentrial side
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of septentrional.
swanimote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swanimotes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of swainmote.
swanimotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swanimote
trachenchyma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From trachea + -enchyma.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A vegetable tissue consisting of xylem vessels.
glaucometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glaucometers
Senses: examples: text: Such circuits were actually built and verified in another device, referred to as a glaucometer or retinal topograph, being developed at Stanford Research Institute. This instrument is a direct offshoot of the basic optometer scheme.
ref: 1972, Tom N. Cornsweet, Hewitt Crane, Experimental Study of Visual Accommodation, page 5:
text: A glaucometer, blood sugar testing equipment, and a folding wheelchair have also been donated to a leprosy hospital. Thanks to club grants, 81 people affected by leprosy have received operations.
ref: 2003, The Rotarian, page 42:
glosses: A device for measuring the percentage of sugar in a fluid by means of specific gravity; gleucometer.
Related terms: gleucometer
glaucometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glaucometer
Nematoidean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: nematoid; of or related to the nematodes