cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
multistructured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + structured.
Senses: glosses: Having multiple, superimposed structures
myasthenogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That causes myasthenia
Tilmon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
roughworks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of roughwork
hedenbergitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hedenbergite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to hedenbergite.
Theadore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Spelling alteration of Theodore, from Ancient Greek Θεόδωρος (Theódōros).
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
nanobiosensor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanobiosensors
Etymology: From nano- + biosensor.
Senses: glosses: A nanoscale biosensor
nanobiosensors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanobiosensor
nanoblinker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanoblinkers
Etymology: From nano- + blinker.
Senses: glosses: A nanoscale blinker (optical oscillator)
nanoblinkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanoblinker
twistled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of twistle
twistling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of twistle
nanoferrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanoferrites
Etymology: From nano- + ferrite.
Senses: glosses: A nanoscale ferrite (crystal)
nanoferrites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanoferrite
narketan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: ketamine used as a veterinary anaesthetic
Vinchenzo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Spelling alteration of Vincenzo, from Italian Vincenzo, from Latin Vincentius.
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
connivancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: connivancies
Senses: glosses: connivance
connivancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of connivancy
nectobentonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of nektobenthic.
neoprotosappanin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A polycyclic antioxidant present in Caesalpinia sappan
field meeting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: field meetings
Senses: glosses: A conventicle, or unauthorized religious meeting.
field meetings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of field meeting
neurectomize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: neurectomizes
form: neurectomizing
form: neurectomized
form: neurectomized
Etymology: From neurectomy + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To perform a neurectomy upon
neurectomized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of neurectomize
neurectomizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of neurectomize
neurectomizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of neurectomize
neuromesenchimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of neuromesenchymal.
neuropituitary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + pituitary.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: neural and pituitary
nicotelline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A tricyclic heterocycle composed of three linked pyridine rings, 2,4-dipyridin-3-ylpyridine
post-entry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: post-entries
Etymology: From post- + entry.
Senses: glosses: An additional entry of merchandise at a custom house.
glosses: A competitor, such as a horse in a race, that is entered late.
post-entries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of post-entry
Post-Nicene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + Nicene.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: After the First Council of Nicaea in 325 AD.
nonlagomorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonlagomorphs
Etymology: From non- + lagomorph.
Senses: glosses: An animal that is not a lagomorph
nonlagomorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonlagomorph
nonylglucoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonylglucosides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A nonylic glucoside (2R,3S,4S,5R,6R)-2-(hydroxymethyl)-6-nonoxyoxane-3,4,5-triol
noradrenergically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a noradrenergic manner
lallygagger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lallygaggers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lollygagger.
lallygaggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lallygagger
norditerpene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: norditerpenes
Etymology: From nor- + diterpene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A norditerpenoid, but especially such a hydrocarbon
norditerpenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of norditerpene
nucleoribosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nucleo- + ribosomal.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Relating to nuclear ribosomes
in it
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: “You heard the sheriff yelling?” he said.
“Yes,” he said. You're in it now, aren't you, Aubrey? he thought. You're a big man, until you're not, until someone steps in your way and says, “Stop, in the name of the law.”
ref: 2012, Pam Durban, The Tree of Forgetfulness, page 133:
glosses: In trouble.
glosses: Getting on successfully, especially in a game.
glosses: Taking part in something, such as a lottery.
examples: text: So you're taking all our trash to the dump, for free? I don't understand. What's in it for you?
glosses: Serving as an expected payout or reward.
Derived terms: you've got to be in it to win it
what's in it for me
for one's heart
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of for one's life.
synonyms: word: for one's life
heart cam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heart cams
Senses: glosses: heart wheel
heart cams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heart cam
burrow duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burrow ducks
Senses: glosses: A sheldrake (Tadorna tadorna) or bergander.
burrow ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burrow duck
esophagodynia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From esophago- + -dynia.
Senses: glosses: pain in the oesophagus
ask a silly question, get a silly answer
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer
Senses: glosses: If one asks a question that is stupid or to which the answer is obvious, one should not be surprised or displeased to receive a silly or bizarre response.
Related terms: garbage in, garbage out
play stupid games, win stupid prizes
on the knocker
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Going from door to door attempting to buy or sell goods fraudulently.
knife fight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knife fights
Senses: glosses: A fight between combatants armed with knives.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A dogfight (aircraft battle) at close quarters.
knife fights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knife fight
Kaffir Circus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Kaffir Circus
Senses: examples: text: He became the central figure in a nation of frenzied speculators who made the so-called “Kaffir Circus” the wildest financial orgie in the history of the world.
ref: 1897, The Review of Reviews, volume 16, page 19:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Traders in South African mining shares.
water ribbons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The whole marsh was densely clothed with reeds (Juncus spp.), water-ribbons, (Triglochin procera) and blown grass (Agrostis avenacea), the bed was sticky clay, and the burrows of freshwater crayfish gave each step interesting possibilities.
ref: 1956, The Emu, volume 57, page 343:
text: We wade through the delicate water, the moon spilling on our colourless bodies. Brolgas ruffling their wings against water ribbons, making the muddy bath flinch in coiling waves.
ref: 2006, Tara June Winch, Swallow the Air, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 241
glosses: An aquatic plant, Triglochin procera, of southeastern Australia.
interaction matrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interaction matrixes
form: interaction matrices
Senses: glosses: A simple diagram, equivalent to an adjacency matrix in graph theory, used to model the structure of complex systems or projects.
interaction matrixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interaction matrix
interaction matrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interaction matrix
interdictional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From interdiction + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to interdiction.
obtusilactone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obtusilactones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of unsaturated aliphatic cytotoxic lactones present in Lindera obtusiloba
Derived terms: isoobtusilactone
octahedrane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A hypothetical paddlane derivative, in the form of an octahedron, that would be an allotrope of carbon
trackie daks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: [W]hy was this happening at night, why was the gender chick in trackie daks and no make-up instead of jacket and heels for the cameras?
ref: 2015, Charlotte Wood, The Natural Way of Things, Allen & Unwin, published 2018, page 91:
glosses: Tracksuit bottoms; tracksuit trousers/pants.
oligoalanine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligoalanines
Etymology: From oligo- + alanine.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An oligomer of alanine as part of a peptide
oligoneural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oligo- + neural.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of oligoneuronal.
synonyms: word: oligoneuronal
red-bellied black snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red-bellied black snakes
Senses: examples: text: A red-bellied black snake moves through her mind, sliding through the grass.
ref: 2015, Charlotte Wood, The Natural Way of Things, Allen & Unwin, published 2018, page 99:
glosses: A snake, Pseudechis porphyriacus, of eastern Australia.
omphalophlebitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From omphalo- + phlebitis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: inflammation of an umbilical vein
oncogenics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From onco- + -genics.
Senses: glosses: The study of the formation of tumours.
Related terms: oncogene
oncogenesis
oncogenetic
oncogenetics
oncogenic
oncogenome
oncogenomic
oncogenomics
oncologic
oncological
oncology
oncoprotein
oncoproteogenome
oncoproteogenomic
oncoproteogenomics
oncoproteome
oncoproteomic
oncoproteomics
proto-oncogene
proto-oncogenic
ophiopsid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ophiopsids
Senses: glosses: Any extinct fish of the family Ophiopsidae
ophiopsids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ophiopsid
organodetrital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From organo- + detrital.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or composed of organic detritus
osmophobicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being osmophobic
osteoblastosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From osteoblast + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A disease associated with osteoblasts
gross national income
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gross national incomes
Senses: examples: text: The key issue has been that a nation's income, as measured by gross national income (GNI), does not account for all the resource costs that are attributable to the production of goods and services during a given accounting period, […]
ref: 2004, Ahmed M. Hussen, Principles of Environmental Economics, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 280:
topics: economics
sciences
synonyms: GNI
coordinate_terms: gross domestic product
glosses: A more recent designation for gross national product, the total market value of all the goods and services produced by a nation.
GNI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GNIs
Senses: examples: text: In considering the low per capita income adjustment, the Committee recalled that, according to the current scale methodology, the threshold below which the adjustment was applied was the average per capita GNI of all the Member States.
ref: 2005, United Nations, Report of the Committee on Contributions: Sixty-fifth Session (6-24 June 2005), United Nations Publications, →ISBN, page 9:
topics: economics
sciences
coordinate_terms: GDP
glosses: Initialism of gross national income.
otocone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: otocones
Etymology: From oto- + cone.
Senses: glosses: The conical part of an otoscope that is inserted into the ear
otocones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of otocone
ovoprotection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ovo- + protection.
Senses: glosses: protection of the ovary, typically from cancer
Related terms: ovoprotective
ovoprotective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ovoprotective
form: most ovoprotective
Etymology: From ovo- + protective.
Senses: glosses: That provides ovoprotection
hunnies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hunny
Hunniford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
paciltaxel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of paclitaxel.
paleochronology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From paleo- + chronology.
Senses: glosses: prehistoric chronology
Related terms: paleochronological
paleochronological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From paleo- + chronological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to paleochronology
palaeochronological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From palaeo- + chronological.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleochronological.
Related terms: palaeochronology
palaeochronology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From palaeo- + chronology.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleochronology.
Related terms: palaeochronological
paleoentomology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From paleo- + entomology.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of palaeoentomology.
Related terms: paleoentomological
paleoentomologist
paleoforest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleoforests
Etymology: From paleo- + forest.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of palaeoforest.
paleoforests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paleoforest
paleoparasitologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleoparasitologists
Etymology: From paleo- + parasitologist.
Senses: glosses: A parasitologist whose speciality if paleoparasitology
paleoparasitologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paleoparasitologist
periependymal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + ependymal.
Senses: glosses: Surrounding the ependyma
Oenone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Œnone
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Oenōnē, from Ancient Greek Οἰνώνη (Oinṓnē).
Senses: examples: text: They went to that fair villa by the sea; and pleasantly did many a morn pass in the large hall, on whose frescoed walls was painted the story of Œnone, she whom the Trojan prince left, only to return and die at her feet.
ref: 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Forget Me Not 1833, Giulietta—A Tale of the Forteeenth Century:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The first wife of Paris of Troy, whom he abandoned for Helen.
examples: text: 'Dinah and Oenone Lendrim.'
'I-now-ny? What the fuck kind of name's that?'
'Greek mythological.' Sam smiled, knowing Gibbs would assume he knew this because his father was Greek. 'She's Nonie for all practical purposes. She and her sister Dinah are the children of Sharon Lendrim.'
ref: 2012, Sophie Hannah, Kind of Cruel: Culver Valley Crime, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
perinaeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of perineal.
peritonaeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of peritoneal.
kontomire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kontomires
Senses: qualifier: Ghana
glosses: cocoyam leaves usually used for stew and soups
dinner's ready
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: dinner's ready !
form: dinner is ready
Western-style toilet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Western-style toilets
Synonyms: Western toilet
prunted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From prunt + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: a prunted vase
text: This ornate wine glass, or roemer — with a hollow, prunted stem — bears an enameled scene of Mercury's rescue of the infant Bacchus. This type of prunted roemer was especially popular among Dutch glassmakers around 1690.
ref: 1959, The Glass Industry, volumes 40-41, page 106:
text: G. D. Weinberg argues that glass beakers with prunted decoration, optic-blown glass beakers, and simple mold-blown glass beakers were being produced in Corinth in the first half of the 12th century (Fig. 25.6).
ref: 2003, Charles K. Williams, Nancy Bookidis, Corinth, the Centenary, 1896-1996, ASCSA, →ISBN, page 430:
text: A type of beaker more commonly found in the Latin East is the prunted beaker, a beaker with small protrusions of glass (prunts) attached to its exterior (Photo 7.4).
ref: 2016, Adrian Boas, Crusader Archaeology: The Material Culture of the Latin East, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: Thereafter, it passed into the repertoire of the transalpine glasshouses and inspired the creation of the typical prunted roemer of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
ref: 2017, David F Grose, The Hellenistic, Roman, and Medieval Glass from Cosa, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 208:
glosses: Ornamented with prunts.
pharmaconutrition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pharmaconutritions
Etymology: From pharmaco- + nutrition.
Senses: glosses: The feeding of pharmaconutrients
common madder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common madders
Senses: glosses: Rubia cordifolia
glosses: Rubia tinctorum (dyer's madder)
pherogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pherograms
Senses: glosses: A graphical representation of a phoresis
Related terms: electropherogram
pherograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pherogram
phosphoanhydridic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to phosphoanhydrides
phosphortungsten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An alloy, especially a specialist form of steel, that contains phosphorus and tungsten
Related terms: phosphotungsten
model building
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪldɪŋ
Etymology: From model + building.
Senses: glosses: The activity of making models, miniature representations of things.
snappy gum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snappy gums
Senses: examples: text: The timber consists of Scribbly gum (known here as Snappy Gum), Mountain Ash, pepperment, interspersed with patches of Bloodwood, Mohogany, Stringy Bark, and Apple and on the sides of the mountain gullies to the south grows sparsely Iron Bark, box (Eupts. quadrangulata) and Water Gum.
ref: 1902 July 15, The Australasian Beekeeper, page 9:
text: The first six children born had sat beside her under the shade of a snappy gum until she erected a more permanent shade with two blankets.
ref: 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 14:
glosses: Any of various eucalypts having brittle timber, including Eucalyptus brevifolia, Eucalyptus haemastoma and Eucalyptus rossii.
Related terms: brittle gum
scribbly gum
fringe dweller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fringe dwellers
Etymology: Compound of fringe + dweller.
Senses: examples: text: The Fringe Dwellers.
ref: 1961, Nene Gare, title
text: Over time, they all became fringe dwellers living next to the rich white man's municipality, all squatting next to Angel Day's lake, on her so-called land, where she reigned like a queen over her dominion.
ref: 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 27:
glosses: An Aboriginal person living on the outskirts of a town or other settlement.
black stump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An imaginary marker at the edge of civilised land.
Derived terms: beyond the black stump
this side of the black stump
this side of the black stump
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Best horseman this side of the black stump, Ric is.
ref: 1961, Gwen Meredith, Into the Sun, page 7:
text: He said the government should put the Abos to work and he would write a letter to every politician this side of the black stump telling them exactly that.
ref: 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 35:
glosses: Within the known world; anywhere.
godkiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: godkillers
form: Godkiller
Etymology: From god + killer.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Godkiller.
synonyms: deicide
glosses: A person, weapon, etc., who or which kills a god.
godkillers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of godkiller
Godkiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Godkillers
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Godkiller.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of godkiller.
Godkillers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Godkiller
protozoea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A group of larval stages in the growth of decapods in which the antennae are used for movement, and mandibles for chewing.
evangelship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From evangel + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: ... and not to Timothy and Titus in respect of their evangelship, as the presbyterists affirm; then can there be no question but this new discipline is a very dream, …
ref: 1842, Thomas Bilson (successively Bishop of Worcester and of Winchester), The Perpetual Gouernement of Christes Church: a new edition, with a biographical notice, by Robert Eden, page 387
text: We infer, therefore, that Christian discipleship is a necessary qualification for Christian evangelship. But what of Judas? Was he a true disciple? Yet was he not one of the apostles? His case was, confessedly, an exception to our principle ...
ref: 1873, David Thomas, The genius of the gospel; a homiletical commentary on the Gospel of st. Matthew, ed. by W. Webster, page 148:
glosses: The condition of being an evangel (evangelist).
mysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin, from Ancient Greek μῡ́ειν (mū́ein, “to close”, used of the lips or eyes).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A set of growth stages in the larvae of Decapoda after protozoea and prior to the juvenile stage, in which pereiopods are used to move.
interdispute
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more interdispute
form: most interdispute
Etymology: From inter- + dispute.
Senses: examples: text: Rivalries began with the first dispute and continued as long as there were disputes, assuming that the interdispute waiting time was not too long.
ref: 2000, Manus I. Midlarsky, Handbook of War Studies II - Volume 2, →ISBN, page 232:
text: Instead of using the interdispute period as part of the dependent variable, it appears as the independent variable in the "frustration-aggression" deterrence hypothesis: can early deterrence success lead to failure in later crises?
ref: 2001, Paul F. Diehl, Gary Goertz, War and Peace in International Rivalry, →ISBN, page 100:
text: The data set includes 1,853 militarized interstate disputes (MIDs) that capture three types of events: (1) dispute years in which mediation took place, (2) dispute years in which mediation did not take place and (3) mediation attempts that took place in interdispute years.
ref: 2016, Lesley G. Terris, Mediation of International Conflicts: A Rational Model, →ISBN, page 47:
glosses: Occurring during peaceful times between disputes.
interdispute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interdisputes
Etymology: From inter- + dispute.
Senses: examples: text: If I may, prior to your conversation with Mr. Faine and Mr. Fox, I would like to point out — and I think it is important — that during this interdispute that they had between the three labor unions, I was sort of caught in the middle.
ref: 1948, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor, Investigation of Associated Actors and Artists of America and Affiliated Union, page 132:
text: But alas, the bright civilization of the East produced by several millennia vanished amid the medieval age into which Europe as a whole was plunged. This, chiefly because of its interdisputes and then because of the barbarian onslaughts on their countries.
ref: 1987, Salīm Wākīm, Iran, the Arabs, and the West: the story of twenty-five centuries:
text: The Legislature appears to have made a policy decision, based on financial interdispute that secondhand tobacco smoke, and its effect on the health of the public, is a matter of deep and abiding public interest.
ref: 2002, Individual Employment Rights Cases - Volume 17, page 1189:
glosses: A dispute between multiple groups or rival factions.
interdisputes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interdispute
Continentals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Continental
van-girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: van-girls
Senses: examples: text: She was a van-girl jumping off the back of a truck all day delivering parcels.
ref: 1968, James Holledge, Women of the Darkness, page 105:
glosses: A woman who works driving or travelling in a van; a woman who works from a van.
van-girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of van-girl
uncontent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncontent
form: most uncontent
Etymology: From un- + content.
Senses: examples: text: But, be our fortune what it may in respect to these, there remains another ear — our own mind's ear— still uneasy and uncontent.
ref: 1868, Norman Macleod, Good words, page 636:
text: “Madame Suzanne would be uncontent, certainly uncontent, if I went away without to see her,” he said;
ref: 1875, Margaret Oliphant, White Ladies, page 283:
text: So much remains to be done, so much that is done is imperfectly done, so much that we feel ought to be done seems so drearily impossible, that we are bound to be uncontent ; at least, that is what is said, and too well we know that whether we are bound or not to be uncontent, we are miserably so, and that not rarely.
ref: 1877, Stopford Augustus Brooke, The fight of faith, sermons, page 355:
text: “I am not uncontent,” he said, the hint of a self-deprecating smile tugging at the corner of his mouth.
ref: 2008, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Roman Dusk: A Novel of the Count Saint-Germain, →ISBN:
glosses: Not content; uncontented.
uncontent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + content.
Senses: examples: text: None the less is it of inestimable value to all to have an ideal which shall preserve us from taking the shadows for the reality, the shreds for a sufficient garment, and keep alive in us that “divine uncontent ” which is the spring and strength of all higher aspirations.
ref: 1881, The Fortnightly Review - Volume 35, page 782:
text: But they ought to tolerate those who are like Shelley, uncontent, and whose uncontent makes them look forward with unconquered hope to a new world, which is unsubstantial as yet, save to the eye of faith; men who find in Shelley the expression of their indignation, their ideal, and of the kingdom of the great Three who abide with them for man, Faith, Hope, and Love.
ref: 1888, Shelley Society's Publications, page 17:
text: I rather say a source of uncontent, and unsatisfaction. These are very different from discontent and dissatisfaction. A thing may be good—content or satisfaction would let it stand. Uncontent would strive to make it better.
ref: 1916, Friends' Intelligencer - Volume 73, page 477:
glosses: A lack of contentment.
who are you telling
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: That performance was off the chain!
Who are you telling?
glosses: Used in response to an assertion that one is already fully aware of.
Related terms: you think
you're telling me
quantum tomography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quantum tomographies
Senses: qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: The process of reconstructing the quantum state (density matrix) for a source of quantum systems by measurement on the systems coming from the source.
Related terms: quantum measurement problem
quantum indeterminacy
impersonal passive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impersonal passives
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A construction that removes the subject from an intransitive verb, as in the Dutch sentence Er wordt gefloten ("[Someone] whistled"). Also known as pseudopassive.
impersonal passives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impersonal passive
Sherman neckties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sherman necktie
photoefficiency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photoefficiencies
Etymology: From photo- + efficiency.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The efficiency of a material in capturing incident light and converting it into useful energy
phototreat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: phototreats
form: phototreating
form: phototreated
form: phototreated
Etymology: From photo- + treat.
Senses: glosses: To treat waste water with ultraviolet light
Related terms: phototreatment
phototreated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of phototreat
phototreatment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phototreatments
Etymology: From photo- + treatment.
Senses: glosses: The treatment of waste water with ultraviolet light
Related terms: phototreat
physiosorption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: physiosorptions
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of physisorption.
phytaspase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytaspases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A caspase of plant origin
phytaspases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phytaspase
phytoavailability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phyto- + availability.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being phytoavailable
phytophysiognomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytophysiognomies
Etymology: From phyto- + physiognomy.
Senses: glosses: The physiognomy (appearance) of a plant
Related terms: phytophysiognomic
phytophysiognomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phytophysiognomy
phytosteryl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytosteryls
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A univalent radical derived from a phytosterol
piezoresistor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piezoresistors
Etymology: From piezo- + resistor.
Senses: glosses: A device whose electrical resistance depends upon the strength of an applied pressure
Related terms: piezoresistive
piperidineamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piperidineamines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of three isomeric primary amines derived from piperidine
Synonyms: amino piperidine
planoparallel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From plano- + parallel.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of plane-parallel.
plethysmometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to plethysmometry
glosses: Measured using a plethysmometer
Derived terms: plethysmometrically
plethysmometrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of plethysmometric.
plethysmometrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From plethysmometric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a plethysmometric manner
pleuralin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pleuralins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A cell wall protein present in diatoms of the genus Cylindrotheca
pleuralins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pleuralin
pollinastanol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A sterol present in the tobacco plant
polygynandrously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a polygynandrous manner
polytomography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + tomography.
Senses: glosses: tomography performed along multiple planes or orientations
Related terms: polytomograph
polytomographic
postmaxillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪləɹi
-æksɪlɛəɹi
Etymology: From post- + maxillary.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: posterior to the maxilla
postnuchal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + nuchal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: posterior to the nuchal
potoroine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potoroines
Senses: glosses: Any small marsupial of the family Potoroidae
potoroines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potoroine
potworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potworm
prediagnostically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pre- + diagnostically.
Senses: glosses: In a prediagnostic manner
preophthalmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ælmɪk
Etymology: From pre- + ophthalmic.
Senses: glosses: anterior to the eye
proaerolysin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pro- + aerolysin.
Senses: glosses: The protoxin of aerolysin
figurational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From figuration + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to figurations.
protesomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of proteasomal.
protesome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of proteasome.
pseudoaltruistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + altruistic.
Senses: glosses: Apparently, but not actually, altruistic.
pseudoverb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoverbs
Etymology: From pseudo- + verb.
Senses: glosses: A noun or other part of speech that functions as a verb
raw_tags: in some languages
glosses: A nonsense word substituted for a verb in a sentence
pseudoverbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoverb
punicalins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of punicalin
punicoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: punicosides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of various derivatives of punicic acid
punicosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of punicoside
Hopewellian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Hopewell + -ian, after Mordecai Hopewell, whose family owned the property where the earthworks are sited.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the Hopewell tradition, a network of Native American civilisations that engaged in exchange, flourishing during the first half of the first millennium CE.
kangaroo closure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kangaroo closures
Etymology: The skipping over certain amendments is likened to a kangaroo's leaps.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: In parliamentary procedure, the situation where the chairman or speaker selects certain amendments for discussion and excludes others.
kangaroo closures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kangaroo closure
kangaroo ticket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kangaroo tickets
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A ticket where the running mate is more popular than the primary candidate.
kangaroo tickets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kangaroo ticket
kid show
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kid shows
Etymology: Some sources suggest that these shows are aimed at children, others that the performers are regarded as children.
Senses: examples: text: CHARLES E. KELLEY, kid-show midget, whose home is in Birmingham, is employed as an electrician helper at Hunters Point Naval Drydocks, San Francisco.
ref: 1944, Billboard, volume 56, number 39:
text: The next year he framed a bingo game in Cleveland and in 1938 had a kid show on the W. C. (Spike) Huggins West Coast Shows. When war in Europe was declared in 1939 Glacy was touring the Hawaiian Islands with a freak show for E. K. Fernandez.
ref: 1950, Billboard, volume 62, number 38, page 74:
glosses: A carnival freak show.
kid shows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kid show
kinetic architecture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A form of architecture where buildings are designed to allow parts of the structure to move, without reducing their overall integrity.
unprenticed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + prenticed.
Senses: glosses: Not apprenticed.
multiwick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + wick.
Senses: examples: a multiwick candle
glosses: Having more than one wick.
multiwicked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + wicked.
Senses: examples: a multiwicked candle
glosses: Having more than one wick.
taleable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tale + -able.
Senses: examples: taleable goods
glosses: Able to be reckoned or counted individually.
currency intervention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: The buying or selling of foreign currency by a government or central bank in exchange for their own domestic currency, generally with the intention of influencing the exchange rate and trade policy.
investment dressing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Investment dressing on the classic track is safe banking, all right, but — was Picasso a classic painter? Does a Ferrari show the staid, sturdy lines of a BMW coupe? The point is, traditional classics are like granite, strong to build on, but to many eyes boring to look at. And when you spend big, you should get clothing that satisfies in a big way.
ref: 1983, Leonard McGill, Stylewise: a man's guide to looking good for less, page 122:
text: I used to preach "investment dressing." The whole idea was that you buy the best quality you can find, preferably a core wardrobe, and those clothes interchanged would last nearly forever. I don't believe that anymore.
ref: 2001, Brenda Kinsel, In the Dressing Room with Brenda:
glosses: The purchase of expensive clothing in the belief that it will last longer.
jumbo slice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jumbo slices
Senses: glosses: An oversized New York-style pizza sold by the slice to go, especially popular in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
jumbo slices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jumbo slice
Tipper sticker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tipper stickers
Etymology: Named after Tipper Gore, co-founder of the Parents Music Resource Center which had lobbied for a labelling system.
Senses: examples: text: Of course, like heavy metal in general, everything about Megadeth is a put-on, from its name to this album's title to its dutiful Tipper Sticker (a warning of offensive lyrics), which metal bands are now using to enhance sales in the teen market.
ref: 1988, Stereo Review, volume 53:
glosses: A Parental Advisory sticker.
wikipedia: Parents Music Resource Center
Tipper stickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tipper sticker
remetabolize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: remetabolizes
form: remetabolizing
form: remetabolized
form: remetabolized
Etymology: From re- + metabolize.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To metabolize again
remetabolized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of remetabolize
reperturbation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reperturbations
Etymology: From re- + perturbation.
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent perturbation
Related terms: reperturb
reperturbations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reperturbation
wind-up radio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wind-up radios
form: windup radio
Senses: synonyms: clockwork radio
glosses: A portable radio which can operate where no external power source is available, and is activated by a winding mechanism.
reperturb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reperturbs
form: reperturbing
form: reperturbed
form: reperturbed
Etymology: From re- + perturb.
Senses: glosses: To perturb again
Related terms: reperturbation
reperturbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reperturb
retrogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Relating to retrogenes
retrogenically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a retrogenic manner
wind-up radios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wind-up radio
rhinocerotoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhinocerotoids
Senses: glosses: Any ungulate of the superfamily Rhinocerotoidea
rhinocerotoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhinocerotoid
rosavins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rosavin
rotomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of rotamer.
salidrosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salidroside
schistomicidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That kills schistosomes
glosses: Relating to schistomicides
semistandardized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + standardized.
Senses: glosses: Partially standardized
semitoroidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + toroidal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a semitoroid
semitoroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semitoroids
Etymology: From semi- + toroid.
Senses: glosses: A surface formed by the intersection of a toroid and a plane through its centre
Related terms: semitoroidal
semitoroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semitoroid
sensorigenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The formation and development of sensory hair cells
servopneumatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From servo- + pneumatic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to any pneumatic servomechanism
shmooing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The formation of shmoos in yeast
inflatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inflatory
form: most inflatory
Senses: examples: text: A contributory circumstance lay in the fact that the monetary situation was constantly inflatory: the quantity of money in circulation far surpassed the total value of the goods available in the stores.
ref: 1965, Bulletin, page 21:
text: […] work conducted in the »science of metaphor« is presently so huge that an extra attempt to spell out another theory of metaphor may have an inflatory effect […]
ref: 2013, Z. Radman, Metaphors: Figures of the Mind:
glosses: Relating to, or causing, inflation; inflationary.
human factors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The application of psychological and physiological principles to the engineering and design of products, processes, and systems, so as to reduce human error, increase productivity, and enhance safety and comfort.
hysterical historical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hysterical historicals
Senses: synonyms: bodice ripper
glosses: A historical-romance novel with a focus on sex and violence.
hysterical historicals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hysterical historical
hunter-killer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hunter-killers
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A submarine designed to seek and destroy other vessels.
hunter-killers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hunter-killer
party boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: party boys
form: partyboy
Senses: examples: text: He had arranged for two male prostitutes to corner and rape the priest while he looked on. […] He called the party boys and rescheduled the trick for an hour later promising extra cash for the inconvenience.
ref: 2016, Lisa Moreno, Ungodly Intent:
coordinate_terms: party girl
glosses: A male prostitute.
examples: text: They got some classy spread near the Park that Daddy bought them. Some penthouse thing with a huge deck on the roof. Private elevator. Servants. The works. Right next to the Museum. / They do anything for a living? / Joey snorted. / They try, he said. They’re party boys. But Daddy keeps pushing them. Get a job. Do something. […] They think they’re some kind of designers now.
ref: 2006, Grant McCrea, chapter 53, in Dead Money (A Rick Redman Mystery; 1), [Toronto, Ont.]: Random House Canada, →ISBN, page 158:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see party, boy.
party boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of party boy
COMINT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comint
Etymology: Blend of communications + intelligence. Compare HUMINT etc.
Senses: topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of communications intelligence.
Coordinate terms: ELINT
SIGINT
TELINT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of telemetry intelligence.
FISINT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of foreign instrumentation signals intelligence.
Humpty Dumpty word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Humpty Dumpty words
Etymology: See Humpty Dumptyism.
Senses: glosses: A word of no fixed meaning, used for different things by different people.