cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
teacherhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From teacher + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: The examination of the leasure^([sic]) time trajectories manifests the change in the significance of teacherhood.
ref: 2007, Ari Antikainen, Transforming a Learning Society, page 252:
text: However, this chapter will focus less upon the work specific tasks and more upon the ways in which trainees came to reflect upon and assess their own teacherhood.
ref: 2013, Richard Rose, Ian Grosvenor, Doing Research in Special Education: Ideas into Practice, page 59:
glosses: The state or condition of being a teacher.
Related terms: teachership
ah so
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From Japanese ああ、そう (ā, sō, “I see”).
Senses: examples: text: 'Ah so,' said a Japanese passenger.
'Ah so to you,' said a rough sailor.
'Ach, a wee Japannee,' said McGonagall, and went into a series of Buckingham Palace photographic poses.
ref: 1988, Spike Milligan, Jack Hobbs, William McGonagall Meets George Gershwin: A Scottish Fantasy:
text: “One other thing,” Jack said, “let's not play here, at the Tropicana.”
“Ah, so,” Harry said with a Chinese accent. “The wise fox doth not despoil its own nest.”
ref: 1998, Robert W. Bliss, A. N. G. E. L. S., Inc., page 91:
glosses: Stereotypical utterance of wise understanding by a Japanese or Chinese person.
Related terms: sense: US brand of Asian sauces and marinades
word: Ah-So
Japanee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Japanees
Etymology: Back-formation from Japanese.
Senses: examples: text: Then there was more low bows, and we ladies swept back our trains, took steps and curtsied just as easy and graceful as they did, and Mrs. Grant talked a little with a Japanee.
ref: 1874, Ann Sophia Stephens, Phemie Frost's Experiences, page 173:
text: In dealing with a Japanee you are dealing with one of nature's gentlemen. For nature's gentlemen are the Japanese, made in the older fashion of the world before money-grubbing had soiled the souls of men, cankered their hearts, […]
ref: 1879, James Hingston, The Australian Abroad, page 87:
glosses: A person from Japan.
Related terms: Chinee
Portugee
Japanees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Japanee
Skolemnization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Skolemization.
Turán graph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Turán graphs
Etymology: Named after the Hungarian mathematician Pál Turán.
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A complete multipartite graph T(n,r) formed by partitioning a set of n vertices into r subsets, with sizes as equal as possible, and connecting two vertices by an edge if and only if they belong to different subsets.
wikipedia: Pál Turán
Hyponyms: cocktail party graph
Related terms: Turán's theorem
Turán graphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Turán graph
mufassir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mufassirs
Etymology: From Arabic مُفَسِّر (mufassir)
Senses: glosses: An author of a tafsir.
mufassirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mufassir
snozzle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnɔ.zəl/
ipa: /ˈsnɒ.zəl/
rhymes: -ɒzəl
Forms: form: snozzles
Etymology: Blend of skin-piercing + nozzle.
Senses: examples: text: A few minutes later, when the two RMFD vehicles arrived, the on-scene commander instructed one of them to take up a position on the left side of the airplane and to use its snozzle to apply firefighting agents in the airplane's main cargo compartment.
ref: 2005, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.15.3 Emergency Response”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Hard Landing, Gear Collapse, Federal Express Flight 647, Boeing MD-10-10F, N364FE, Memphis, Tennessee, December 18, 2003, archived from the original on 18 Oct 2020, page 24:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
firefighting
government
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A reinforced firefighting nozzle used to pierce the exterior skin of an aircraft and spray water or firefighting foam inside the aircraft to help extinguish a fire.
nanoaggression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanoaggressions
Etymology: From nano- + aggression.
Senses: examples: text: A recent jag in the feminist jihad has to do with what they are pleased to call microaggressions—what Jonah Goldberg recently worried might become nanoaggressions.
ref: 2016, Douglas Wilson, Same Sex Mirage: Phantasmagoria at the Altar & Some Biblical Responses, page 201:
text: […] and they are obdurately determined to find, or to invent, some nanoaggression that will make it easy for them to stage a bout of moral or social outrage, which, in turn, will help them maintain their status as valiant social justice warriors.
ref: 2020, Thomas Tsakalakis, Political Correctness: A Sociocultural Black Hole:
glosses: A particularly trivial microaggression.
nanoaggressions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanoaggression
snozzles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snozzle
Mutley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An inner suburb of Plymouth, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX4855).
sailby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sailbys
form: sail-by
form: sail by
Etymology: From sail + by.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of sail-by salute.
Related terms: driveby
flyby
sail-by salute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sail-by salutes
Etymology: From sail + by + salute.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A close passage by a nautical vessel to a fixed point (on shore), to "salute" the location or persons assembled at the location.
Synonyms: sailby
sail by
sail-by
salute
Derived terms: sailby
sail-by
sail by
salute
Related terms: flyby
sail-by
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sail-bys
form: sail by
form: sailby
Etymology: From sail + by.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of sail-by salute.
Related terms: drive-by
fly-by
sail by
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sail bys
form: sail-by
form: sailby
Etymology: From sail + by.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of sail-by salute.
Related terms: drive by
fly by
deep stall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deep stalls
Senses: examples: text: And even though my father had learned from past experience to watch this particular FAA pilot closely because of his tendency to pull back too far on the control column, Dad said he was still taken by surprise when the guy abruptly pulled back so hard that the 727 entered an extreme angle of attack—70 degrees rather than the usual maximum of 25 to 30 degrees—what an aerobatics pilot would do to start a snap roll or a spin. Suddenly, unbelievably, they were in a deep stall.
ref: 2014 May 24, Rebecca Wallick, “Seventeen Seconds in the Life of a Boeing Experimental Test Pilot”, in Seattle Magazine, archived from the original on 31 Jan 2021:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An extremely dangerous type of aerodynamic stall (sudden loss of lift caused by airflow separation) where the angle of attack of a T-tailled aircraft becomes so high that the horizontal stabilizer and elevators are blanketed by the turbulent wake of the main wings, rendering the stabilizer and elevators ineffective and often preventing recovery from the stall.
deep stalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deep stall
come one's way
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes one's way
form: coming one's way
form: came one's way
form: come one's way
Senses: qualifier: set phrase
glosses: To occur or present itself to one.
Keyham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: Plymouth
ipa: /ˈkiːəm/
Senses: glosses: A western suburb of Plymouth, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX4556).
glosses: A small village and civil parish in Harborough district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK6706).
blowdown limits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blowdown limit
Wearde
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Saltash, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX4258).
second-mile service
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the concept of "going the extra mile” to provide good service.
Senses: glosses: Exceptional customer service.
oversour
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oversour
form: most oversour
Etymology: From Middle English oversour, equivalent to over- + sour.
Senses: examples: text: Let milk become oversour and observe odors of decomposition.
ref: 1903, Monthly Bulletin, volumes 3-4, page 24:
glosses: Overly or excessively sour; too sour.
oversour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oversours
form: oversouring
form: oversoured
form: oversoured
Etymology: From Middle English oversour, equivalent to over- + sour.
Senses: examples: text: On warm days the milk might oversour, while on cooler days it would be found comparatively sweet unless a good deal of attention was given to keeping the temperature where it would sour in the proper length of time.
ref: 1914, John Michels, Creamery Butter-making, page 85:
glosses: To become too sour.
armed struggle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armed struggles
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: An irregular political conflict waged by an armed rebel group attempting to overthrow the prevailing regime or otherwise achieve or secure political rights.
acentrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acentric
compoplot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compoplots
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A barplot of the genetic composition of a population
compoplots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compoplot
cirripedial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the cirripedians
cirrocumular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cirrocumulative
form: cirrocumulous
Senses: glosses: Relating to cirrocumuli
enterocoelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enterocoely
cruel mistress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cruel mistresses
form: harsh mistress
Senses: examples: text: For bandleaders, society can be a cruel mistress. At debutante parties they receive compliments but not calling cards, at charity balls they take their breaks with their players instead of their patrons […]
ref: 1965 December 17, “Snow Job”, in Time Magazine:
text: Even if you can’t afford a new one, the cruel mistress of depreciation will soon have her way with the Stinger and that’s very good news.
ref: 2017 January 24, Chris Okula, “The Kia Stinger Will Be One Hell Of A Used Car”, in Shifting Lanes, retrieved 31 Jan 2021:
glosses: Something which has both significant positive and negative aspects.
Related terms: cut both ways
basinhopping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basin-hopping
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A particular Monte Carlo method of optimization
dinatural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + natural.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: That can be transformed in two related ways.
Related terms: dinaturality
dinaturality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The condition of being dinatural.
grassfrog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grassfrogs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of grass frog.
grass frog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grass frogs
form: grassfrog
Etymology: Compound of grass + frog.
Senses: glosses: Any of several Australian terrestrial tree frogs.
heminodal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hemi- + nodal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to heminodes
infrabiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From infra- + biological.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing a simple biological system or organism that lacks metabolism
rheotacting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: moving by means of rheotaxis
unparcellated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + parcellated.
Senses: glosses: Not parcellated
carfleet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carfleets
Etymology: From car + fleet.
Senses: glosses: the complete group of cars belonging to an organization
Cottian Alps
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: coordinate_terms: Maritime Alps
glosses: A mountain range in the southwestern part of the Alps.
no matter that
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: examples: text: She refused to think about Dominic. [...] There had never been any future for them. No matter that she loved him. No matter that he had followed her through time. There was no place for them to come together.
ref: 2013, Amanda Ashley, chapter 20, in A Whisper of Eternity:
glosses: It is unimportant that; it doesn't (didn't) matter that.
shaking in one's boots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shake in one's boots
Croft Spa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Croft-on-Tees, North Yorkshire.
synonyms: word: Croft-on-Tees
word: North Yorkshire
Croft-on-Tees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Richmondshire district (OS grid ref NZ2809).
Synonyms: Croft Spa
chalkbags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chalkbag
lansat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lansats
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of langsat.
cirrolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A basic phosphate of calcium and aluminium
cirronebula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cirronebulas
form: cirronebulae
Senses: glosses: A thin, amorphous cirrus cloud
cirronebulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cirronebula
cirronebulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cirronebula
cirropodous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cirro- + -podous.
Senses: glosses: relating to, or characteristic of the cirripeds
Synonyms: cirripede
cirrostrative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cirrostratous
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or characteristic of cirrostratus clouds
cirrostratous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cirrostrative.
Wood Walton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Woodwalton
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL2180).
cirrovelum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cirrovela
Senses: glosses: a continuous covering of cirrostratus cloud
cirrovela
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cirrovelum
cisandine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cis- + Andine.
Senses: glosses: On the nearer side of the Andes mountains
Cisgangetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cis- + Gangetic.
Senses: glosses: On the nearer (or western) side of the Ganges river
cisjurane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cis- + Jurane.
Senses: glosses: On the nearer side of the Jura mountains
Jurane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the Jura mountains
glosses: Relating to Burgundy
cisleithan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Cisleithan
Etymology: From cis- + Leithan.
Senses: glosses: On the nearer (or western) side of the Leitha river
cisrhenane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cis-Rhenane
Etymology: From cis- + Rhenane.
Senses: glosses: On the nearer (or western) side of the river Rhine.
Related terms: transrhenane
Woodwalton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Wood Walton, Huntingdonshire.
wikipedia: Woodwalton Fen
dissapointment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of disappointment.
cissa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cissas
Senses: glosses: Any magpie of the genus Cissa.
cissas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cissa
cissie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cissies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cissy.
glosses: Alternative form of sissy.
cissing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cissings
Etymology: See ciss.
Senses: examples: text: […] results in a painted film without micro defects, such as pinholes and cissings. We consider that good corrosion resistance can be realized.
ref: 2019, Fadzli Mohamed Nazri, Proceedings of AICCE'19: Transforming the Nation for a Sustainable Tomorrow, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 595:
glosses: The formation of small craters, drops or streaks on a freshly-painted or varnished surface if the paint or varnish fails to adhere to it.
cissing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See ciss.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ciss
cissus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cissuses
Senses: examples: text: He had identified a cestrum, a malpighia, and a climbing vine he suspected was a cissus when Dorrie and Gerry came across the terrace and pulled up deck chairs on either side of him.
ref: 2016, Joan Hess, The Deadly Ackee:
glosses: Any of the genus Cissus of woody vines.
cistophoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or composed of cistophoruses
Lortz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lortzes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Lortz.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Lortzes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lortz
Macedonios
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Macedonio
citharoedic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Relating to a cithara or a citharist.
cithren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cithrens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cittern.
cithrens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cithren
citoler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: citolers
Senses: glosses: A musician who plays the citole
citolers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of citoler
citrean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of citrine.
citrinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of citrine.
Kohlmann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kohlmanns
form: Kohlman
Etymology: Borrowed from German Kohlmann, an occupational surname for someone who grew and sold cabbage.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Kohlmanns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kohlmann
Levels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Level
citrophilous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From citro- + -philous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: That is attracted to, and eats citrus plants
citternhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: citternheads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cittern-head.
citternheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of citternhead
citybilly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: citybillies
Etymology: From city + hillbilly.
Senses: glosses: An urban singer / player of country music
citybillies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of citybilly
Kosel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kosels
Etymology: Habitational surname borrowed from German Kosel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
cladanthous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From clado- + -anthous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of pleurocarpous.
synonyms: word: pleurocarpous
Lansdown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lansdowns
form: Lansdowne
Etymology: Habitational surname, probably from Old English langet (“long strip of ground”) + dūn (“hill”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
glosses: A neighbourhood in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO9321).
glosses: A hamlet in Charlcombe parish, Bath and North East Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST7268).
glosses: A suburb of Bath, Somerset (OS grid ref ST7466).
Lansdowns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lansdown
Kosels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kosel
cladautoicous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: that has the male inflorescence on a special branch
raw_tags: of a moss
Related terms: monoicous
Keshishyan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Keshishyans
form: Keshishian
Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian Քեշիշյան (Kʻešišyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Kenkel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kenkels
Etymology: Borrowed from German Kenkel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Kenkels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kenkel
cladonioid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the genus Cladonia of cup lichen.
Keshishyans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Keshishyan
cladoptoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cladoptosis
clairvoyante
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clairvoyantes
Etymology: From French clairvoyante.
Senses: examples: text: Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante, / Had a bad cold, nevertheless / Is known to be the wisest woman in Europe, / With a wicked pack of cards.
ref: 1922 October, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “Part I. The Burial of the Dead.”, in The Waste Land, 1st book edition, New York, N.Y.: Boni and Liveright, published December 1922, →OCLC, page 13:
glosses: A female clairvoyant.
clamflat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clamflats
form: clam-flat
Senses: glosses: A flat area of mud populated by clams
clamflats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clamflat
clamjamfrey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clamjamfreys
form: clamjamfry
Senses: glosses: A disordered crowd of people; a mob.
Kainz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kainzes
Etymology: Borrowed from Austrian German Kainz.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Mulkern
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mulkerns
Etymology: Variant of Mulhern
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Mulkerns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mulkern
Kainzes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kainz
Mou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mous
Etymology: Borrowed from Chinese 牟 (móu).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Chinese.
McGuinn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McGuinns
Etymology: Variant of McQuinn.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
McGuinns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McGuinn
Nethercleuch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nethercleugh
Senses: glosses: A locality north of Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NY1286).
pulsest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of pulse
pulseth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pulse
McGuigan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /məˈɡwɪɡən/
Forms: form: McGuigans
form: McFeggan
Etymology: Anglicized form of Northern Irish and Scottish Gaelic Mac Uiginn (“son of the viking”), from uiging (“Viking; pirate”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Dinwoodie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A locality north of Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NY1090).
O'Sullivan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish Ó Súilleabháin.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Derived terms: O'Sullivan's law
Sullivan
marry in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: marries in
form: marrying in
form: married in
form: married in
Senses: examples: text: Marriage patterns were likely exogamous to the band, with women marrying in as wives, and with daughters and sisters marrying out.
ref: 1998, Michael Winkelman, Ethnic Relations in the U.S.::
text: Others say that the bride will get on so long as she gets to know the family customs, and have no objection to a Japanese girl marrying in.
ref: 2004, Michael Weiner, Race, Ethnicity and Migration in Modern Japan, →ISBN:
text: A researcher reveals that he considers the “marrying in” of non-Hispanic family members into a large Mexican family cohort as rare events in an otherwise "pure" bloodline, although intermarriage is extremely common in North America.
ref: 2013, Fady I. Sharara, Ethnic Differences in Fertility and Assisted Reproduction, →ISBN, page 14:
glosses: To join a family or group through marriage.
examples: text: The single ancestry women have a 9 to 5 ratio of marrying in to marrying out; those of a mixed ancestry have a 5 to 8 ratio.
ref: 1976, Helena Znaniecka Lopata, Mary Patrice Erdmans, Polish Americans, →ISBN, pages 153–154:
text: Jews who marry out — especially women who marry out, marry substantially later than Jews who marry in.
ref: 1994, Steven Bayme, Gladys Rosen, The Jewish Family and Jewish Continuity, →ISBN, page 26:
text: Japanese were much less likely to 'marry out' than other groups in Hawaii. Even in the territory's multicultural setting the Issei's propensity to 'marry in' was extraordinarily high.
ref: 1994, Eileen Tamura, Americanization, Acculturation, and Ethnic Identity, →ISBN:
text: He emphasized the necessity of marrying in to preserve Bushman bodies and all their physically defining characteristics.
ref: 2006, Lola Romanucci-Ross, George A. De Vos, Takeyuki Tsuda, Ethnic Identity: Problems and Prospects for the Twenty-first Century, →ISBN:
antonyms: marry out
glosses: To marry someone of the same religious or ethnic group.
cruel mistresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cruel mistress
black helicopters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black helicopter
dishpanful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dishpanfuls
form: dishpansful
Etymology: From dishpan + -ful.
Senses: glosses: As much as a dishpan will hold.
dishpansful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dishpanful
dishpanfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dishpanful
tintyped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tintype
tintyping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tintype
centrifugings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centrifuging
raghouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raghouses
Etymology: From rag + house.
Senses: glosses: Part of a paper mill in which the rags are prepared.
raghouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raghouse
run thin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs thin
form: running thin
form: ran thin
form: run thin
Senses: examples: text: Patience is running thin.
glosses: To be nearly used up or consumed, so that little remains.
Related terms: run low
run out
run short
Cumwhinton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cumbric *cumm (“a valley”) + Norman Quentin.
Senses: glosses: A village in Wetheral parish, Cumberland district, Cumbria, England, previously in City of Carlisle district (OS grid ref NY4552).
Related terms: Cumwhitton
tintyper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tintypers
Etymology: From tintype + -er.
Senses: synonyms: tintypist
glosses: A maker of tintypes.
tintypers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tintyper
tintometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of colorimetric.
synonyms: word: colorimetric
overneutralization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + neutralization.
Senses: glosses: The process of overneutralizing.
overneutralize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overneutralizes
form: overneutralizing
form: overneutralized
form: overneutralized
Etymology: From over- + neutralize.
Senses: examples: text: If you will overneutralize the colors in the background and increase the Chroma of the colors in the foreground, you will discover that depth will begin to come into your picture.
ref: 1948, Laurence V. Burton, Week-end Painter, page 175:
text: The electrons overneutralize and underneutralize the beam.
ref: 2013, Stanley Humphries, Charged Particle Beams, page 506:
glosses: To make more neutral than required or expected, or (chemistry) beyond the neutral pH value.
Related terms: overneutralization
overneutralizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overneutralize
overneutralizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overneutralize
overneutralized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overneutralize
underneutralization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + neutralization.
Senses: glosses: The process of underneutralizing.
underneutralize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underneutralizes
form: underneutralizing
form: underneutralized
form: underneutralized
Etymology: From under- + neutralize.
Senses: examples: text: The electrons overneutralize and underneutralize the beam.
ref: 2013, Stanley Humphries, Charged Particle Beams, page 506:
glosses: To make less neutral than required or expected, or (chemistry) closer to the neutral pH value without reaching it.
Related terms: underneutralization
underneutralized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underneutralize
underneutralizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underneutralize
underneutralizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underneutralize
sweet smell of success
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the sweet smell of success
Senses: glosses: The rewarding sense of having succeeded.
Cotehill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Wetheral parish, Carlisle district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY4650).
overtint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overtints
form: overtinting
form: overtinted
form: overtinted
Etymology: From over- + tint.
Senses: examples: text: The actual amount of color required is very small and care must be exercised not to overtint the wool, or a bluish tone will be obtained.
ref: 1909, Joseph Merritt Matthews, Laboratory Manual of Dyeing and Textile Chemistry, page 31:
glosses: To tint excessively.
glosses: To apply another tint over.
overtint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overtints
Etymology: From over- + tint.
Senses: examples: text: She wore the same dress she had worn that Sunday of their tryst; that exquisite dress, with the faint lavender overtint, like the tender colours of the beautiful day he made his own.
ref: 1905, Booth Tarkington, The Conquest of Canaan:
glosses: A tint layered over another.
overtinted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overtint
overtints
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overtint
overtints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overtint
overtinting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overtint
Long Marton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY6624).
rattlesnaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A kind of extrusion defect in cladding, characterized by circumferential cracks.
endowment-linked mortgage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endowment-linked mortgages
Senses: glosses: Synonym of endowment mortgage.
synonyms: word: endowment mortgage
Mallerstang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cumbric *mɛ̄l (“bald”) + Cumbric *bre (“hill”) + Old Norse *stǫng (“land mark”)
Senses: glosses: A valley and civil parish (without a council) in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY7801).
Perrelli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Perrellis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Perrelli.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
textilist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: textilists
Etymology: From textile + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A maker of textiles.
qualifier: nudism
glosses: One who believes in, or practices, textilism.
Synonyms: clothist
Related terms: textilism
Airbnb
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛəɹˌbiːɛnˈbiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: airbnb
form: AirBnB
Etymology: Shortening of the company's former name AirBed & Breakfast, coined by co-founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia in 2007, who originally came up with the idea of putting an air mattress in their living room and turning it into a bed and breakfast. Equivalent to air + B&B (“bed and breakfast”).
Senses: qualifier: trademark
glosses: An online vacation rental marketplace, operated by Airbnb, Inc.
Airbnb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛəɹˌbiːɛnˈbiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: Airbnbs
form: airbnb
form: AirBnB
Etymology: Shortening of the company's former name AirBed & Breakfast, coined by co-founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia in 2007, who originally came up with the idea of putting an air mattress in their living room and turning it into a bed and breakfast. Equivalent to air + B&B (“bed and breakfast”).
Senses: examples: text: It's more of an Airbnb model than a proper let.
ref: 2019, Jane Linfoot, A Cosy Christmas in Cornwall:
text: Congratulations, you're fully qualified to be part of the Airbnb revolution! Whether you're looking to start hosting your property or want to grow your existing reputation and profits, this is the perfect destination for you.
ref: 2020, Symon He, James Svetec, Airbnb For Dummies:
text: The market space in Airbnb is becoming more competitive as big money players are entering the game of home-sharing.
ref: 2020, Albert Prember, Airbnb Rental Investing:
glosses: The system of renting out apartments by means of an intermediary website, popularized by the company of the same name.
examples: text: I am staying at an Airbnb for the summer.
text: The thought of turning it into an Airbnb had crossed my mind – albeit only fleetingly.
ref: 2019, Maxine Morrey, Coming Home to Wishington Bay:
text: I'd found an Airbnb not far from the university and, after a quick nap, met up again with Trudy, who had promised to show me the Regina ropes.
ref: 2019, Dave Hill, Parking the Moose:
text: Tasteful, from a high-end store, not standard-issue teenager stuff. It was like they were living in a hotel or an Airbnb.
ref: 2021, Ed James, Before She Wakes:
glosses: An apartment offered for renting by means of this system.
schuits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schuit
skuyt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skuyts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of schuit.
skuyts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skuyt
loopline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: looplines
form: loop line
Senses: examples: text: […] with the necessary looplines to avoid the broad gauge points at the intermediate stations, with a view to the direct transit of goods traffic along the Northern Railway and its extensions.
ref: 1882, Proceedings of the Parliament of South Australia, volume 1, page 237:
text: In settling the 1925–26 General Strike-Boycott, the British offered a $ 10 million loan to develop Whampoa Port, conditional upon the chief engineer and accountant being British, and upon the construction of the loopline.
ref: 1995, R. Yin-Wang Kwok, The Hong Kong-Guangdong Link: Partnership in Flux:
text: Between Raniganj railroad and the Rajmahal loopline a number of coal mines existed.
ref: 2006, Bhagawati Sharan Singh, Aspects of Industries in Bihar During the 19th Century, page 37:
text: It might be hidden away but it actually covers 30 hectres in all and can be reached from Salford's network of looplines or the historical Bridgewater Canal.
ref: 2020 February 25, Emma Gill, “The best family parks and walks in Salford”, in Manchester Evening News:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Alternative form of loop line.
onland
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Rocks from the ocean ridges also show the dual line of descent, though not as markedly as some of the onland ophiolites.
ref: 1974, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey:
text: Cairn Energy gave India its biggest onland oil discovery but exited the country after it was slapped with a Rs 10,247-crore tax demand using a legislation that gave the government the powers to tax companies retrospectively.
ref: 2021 January 31, “Govt may give oilfield in lieu of $1.4 billion it has to pay Cairn”, in Telangana Today:
glosses: On the land, as opposed to the ocean.
limne
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: limnes
form: limning
form: limned
form: limned
Senses: examples: text: [I]t will not be deny'd that he may be the competent Judge of a neat picture, or elegant Poem, that cannot limne the like.
ref: 1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 159:
glosses: Obsolete form of limn.
limnes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of limne
Blea Moor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A high moor in Craven district, North Yorkshire, England, which extends into Cumbria (OS grid ref SD7782).
murrein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: murreins
Senses: examples: text: [A] Church-mans Juriſdiction is no more but to vvatch over his Flock in ſeaſon, and out of ſeaſon, to deal by ſvveet and efficacious Inſtructions, gentle Admonitions, and ſometimes rounder Reproofs; […] againſt a perſiſting ſtubbornes, or the fear of a reprobate ſenſe, a timely ſeparation from the Flock by that interdictive Sentence, leſt his Converſation unprohibited, or unbranded, might breath a peſtilential murrein into the other Sheepe.
ref: 1642 April, John Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 159:
text: [page 47] [B]ecauſe Murreins among the Larger Cattle, and Rots among the Smaller, are the moſt Fatal of Diſeaſes, and ſvveep them avvay by Herds and Flocks, I ſhall (from Long Experience) ſhovv the neareſt vvay to fore-ſee the approaching Danger, […] [page 48] To prevent therefore this Murrein, Long-ſought; or as ſome call it, Gurget: If you are conſtrained to Paſture your Beaſts, bleed them as ſoon as ever the Leaf begins to fall; peg their Ears and Devv-laps vvith Helebore, or Bears-foot, a Plant ſo called; […]
ref: 1700, C. P. [pseudonym], “Signs of Murrein, Rot, or Such Like Destroying Diseases in Cattle; how to Prevent or Remedy Them”, in The Sheepherd’s New Kalender: or, The Citizen’s & Country Man’s Daily Companion: […], London: […] A. M. for J. Blare, […], →OCLC, pages 47–48:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of murrain.
without tears
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪθˈaʊt tiːɹz/
ipa: /wɪθˈaʊt tɪəz/
ipa: /wɪθˈaʊt tɪɹz/
Senses: glosses: Presented so as to be easy to learn.
Related terms: tearless
tearlessly
SISEA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Acronym of Stop Internet Sexual Exploitation Act.
Kotsur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kotsurs
form: Kocur
form: Koczur
form: Kotzur
Etymology: From East Slavic Коцур or a respelling of Kocur (from Polish or Slovak).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
nowcasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nowcast
murreins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 1622, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Philaster, or Love Lies a-Bleeding; republished in George Pierce Baker [General Editor], The Belles Letters Series, Section III: The English Drama […] , Act V, Scene III, lines 145–147, page 292.
May they have murreins raigne to keep the gentlemen at home unbound in easie freeze!
glosses: plural of murrein
cross-step
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross step
Etymology: From cross- + step.
Senses: glosses: In dancing, gymnastics: a step in which one foot is crossed over another; or the action of taking such a step or steps.
glosses: In surfing: a step or series of steps used to maintain trim on a longboard in which one foot is crossed over another
faceshield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faceshields
form: face shield
Etymology: From face + shield.
Senses: examples: text: The faceshield is another common form of eye and face protector used for industrial chemical protection.
ref: 2003, Daniel H. Anna, Chemical Protective Clothing, page 169:
text: The company has also had given about 40,000 faceshields in the first phase and later touched two lakh units, which were distributed across the country.
ref: 2020 December 18, B. Krishna Mohan, “SMT to roll out stents from Sultanpur in April: Official”, in Telangana Today:
glosses: A protective shield over the face.
faceshields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faceshield
Menshevism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Russian меньшеви́зм (menʹševízm).
Senses: glosses: The Communist political ideology of the Mensheviks.
Related terms: Bolshevism
silvology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From silva + -o- + -logy. From Latin silva (“forest”) + Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía, “study of”). Coined by Roeloff Oldeman in 1990 in his book Forests: elements of silvology.
Senses: glosses: The scientific study of forests.
Related terms: silviculture
silvologist
forestry
paleoarcheology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaeoarchaeology
Etymology: From paleo- + archeology.
Senses: glosses: archeology as applied to the material remains of ancient people
palaeoarchaeology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of paleoarcheology.
borrow from Peter to pay Paul
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: borrows from Peter to pay Paul
form: borrowing from Peter to pay Paul
form: borrowed from Peter to pay Paul
form: borrowed from Peter to pay Paul
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rob Peter to pay Paul.
beat one's face
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beats one's face
form: beating one's face
form: beat one's face
form: beaten one's face
form: beat one's face
Senses: examples: text: Nicole took her time as she laid all her MAC cosmetics on the dresser in a neat row. After beating her face down she took off the ivory silk robe to hang it behind the door.
ref: 2011, Natasha Johnigan, Unconditional, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 74:
text: Sitting on the bathtub ledge in our tiny apt and watching my mom beat her face. My mom was a makeup junkie.
ref: 2016, Jane Larkworthy, “Tyra Banks Loves Instagram Brows, Contouring and Discovering New Models”, in W Magazine:
qualifier: gay slang and African-American Vernacular
glosses: To apply makeup.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beat, face.
laundry egg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laundry eggs
Etymology: From laundry + egg.
Senses: glosses: An egg-shaped object used to clean clothes, using mineral pellets, as a substitute for laundry detergent.
Related terms: laundry ball
washing ball
stepgrandparent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stepgrandparents
Etymology: From step- + grandparent.
Senses: glosses: A stepgrandfather or stepgrandmother.
stepgrandparents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stepgrandparent
Dihua
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: dēʹhwäʹ
Forms: form: Tihua
form: Ti-hua
form: Tihwa
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 迪化 (Díhuà).
Senses: examples: text: The first stop they made in China was at the garrison city of Dihua, the Chinese Turkestan capital, where Wang Ming and Hang called on the local warlord, Sheng Shicai.
ref: 1992, John Bryon, Robert Pack, The Claws of the Dragon: Kang Sheng—the Evil Genius Behind Mao—and His Legacy of Terror in People's China, Simon & Schuster, page 130:
text: Sheng Shicai, the governor of the northwestern province of Xinjiang, the population of which was largely ethnic Uighur rather than Chinese, invited Du to take up the chancellorship of the Xinjiang Academy, the higher education institution for the province located in the city of Dihua (now known as Urumqi).
ref: 2004, Rana Mitter, A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World, Oxford University Press, page 180:
text: The fact is that there were goldfields in the Tianshan Mountain range located far closer to the provincial capital of Dihua and Xinjiang's provincial transport network. Similarly, earlier reports and even a few smaller-scale Russian surveys identified several oilfields located within 10 kilometers of Dihua, a major market for petroleum products, the center of government, and the primary hub on the provincial transport network.
ref: 2018, Judd C. Kinzley, Natural Resources and the New Frontier: Constructing Modern China's Borderlands, University of Chicago Press, pages 66–67:
glosses: Former name of Ürümqi.