cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
summerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: summerites
Etymology: From summer + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: This bag has an overlapping flap which buttons up, and is possibly intended for those summerites who will visit out of the way places.
ref: 1896 July 9, The American Stationer, page 61:
text: “Well, Joe, how d’ you feel about hitting the trail, and getting away from these darn soft summerites and these women and all?”
ref: 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 25, in Babbitt, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 298:
text: There existed a mild division between the Niagara locals and the summerites, but it disappeared this day.
ref: 1980, Robert Lewis Taylor, chapter 17, in Niagara,, New York: Putnam, page 128:
glosses: A summer vacationer; a person visiting a place during the summer (as opposed to one who lives there throughout the year).
Coordinate terms: year-rounder
summerites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of summerite
laggyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: On one end of the performance testing spectrum, there's user-perceived performance. This is where one of our customers is complaining about laggyness, and sure enough, it's easy for us to replicate the problem.
ref: 2016 May 23, Adam Boduch, Flux Architecture, Birmingham, West Midlands: Packt Publishing, →ISBN, page 303:
glosses: Alternative spelling of lagginess.
red spiral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red spirals
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of red spiral galaxy.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, spiral.
red spiral galaxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red spiral galaxies
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A relatively rare type of galaxy (accounting for less than 2% of galaxies locally), a type of spiral galaxy which have a red-coloured presentation, and are found to be passive galaxies, galaxies which have ceased to form new stars, lacking young blue stars while rich in old red stars.
Synonyms: red spiral
Hypernyms: word: disc galaxy
word: galaxy
word: galaxy
word: red galaxy
word: spiral galaxy
Related terms: sense: spiral galaxy
word: barless spiral
sense: spiral galaxy
word: barless spiral galaxy
sense: spiral galaxy
word: barred spiral
sense: spiral galaxy
alt: SB
word: barred spiral galaxy
sense: spiral galaxy
word: flocculent spiral
sense: spiral galaxy
word: flocculent spiral galaxy
sense: spiral galaxy
word: grand design spiral
sense: spiral galaxy
word: grand design spiral galaxy
sense: spiral galaxy
word: intermediate spiral
sense: spiral galaxy
alt: SAB
word: intermediate spiral galaxy
sense: spiral galaxy
word: Magellanic spiral
sense: spiral galaxy
alt: Sm, Im
word: Magellanic spiral galaxy
sense: spiral galaxy
word: spiral
sense: spiral galaxy
alt: S
word: spiral galaxy
sense: spiral galaxy
word: unbarred spiral
sense: spiral galaxy
word: unbarred spiral galaxy
waterheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more waterheaded
form: most waterheaded
Senses: glosses: Filled with waterheads.
examples: text: Lolek, the market boy, a waterheaded child of five, crawled among the wilted cabbage leaves and dead-eyed fishheads nodding his monstrous head to the shrill voice of the nun.
ref: 1988, Hart Wegner, Houses of Ivory, page 81:
text: We rented a shotgun house from the county patriarch Hugh Jordan, and esperienced the ordinary novelties of country life: the plump redheaded babysitter who showed us her freckled bottom, the wild boy who shot my brother in the face with BBs, the waterheaded baby at the county fair.
ref: 2001, Diane McWhorter, Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama:
text: And lo, the mind of the little waterheaded boy with both arms wrapped about his teacher's hips, his face buried in her crotch, definitely needs a bodyguard, or at least a mental prophylactic.
ref: 2016, Paul Beatty, The Sellout:
glosses: Hydrocephalic.
examples: text: Kahlem's not a bad Watchman , ” Renaer said , “ but his waterheaded ideas on how to investigate crimes–"
ref: 2008, Steven E. Schend, Blackstaff Tower, page 16:
text: Jack left it there, turned his back on Charlie and walked down the bar and into the table area where only one table was occupied: by that beauty in a white linen suit and white pumps; and at the table with her a five-foot-five, one-eyed, waterheaded gnome.
ref: 2011, William Kennedy, Legs:
text: Be sure to sashay out of here and into a loveless marriage with a waterheaded Goldwater supporter.
ref: 2012, Nick Mamatas, The Damned Highway:
glosses: Stupid and/or ugly.
waterheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of waterhead
bootflash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bootflashes
Etymology: From boot + flash.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A flash memory used at bootstrap time for a device, commonly containing a bootloader and simple configuration information.
Laascaanood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Somali Laascaanood.
Senses: glosses: A town, the administrative center of Sood, SSC-Khaatumo, Somalia.
Synonyms: Las Anod
Lemaitre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lemaitres
form: LeMaitre
form: leMaitre
form: Le Maitre
form: le Maitre
form: Maitre
form: Lemaistre
form: LeMaistre
form: leMaistre
form: Le Maistre
form: le Maistre
form: Maistre
Etymology: From French Lemaître Literally, “the master”.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French, equivalent to English Masters
semiophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiophores
Etymology: Coined by Polish philosopher Krzysztof Pomian in 1990. Equivalent to semio- + -phore.
Senses: glosses: a semiotic object that represents historical, political and cultural identity
green bean galaxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green bean galaxies
form: greenbean galaxy
Etymology: Blend of bean + green pea galaxy. From being similar in appearance to green pea galaxies but larger, as with beans and peas.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A type of galaxy with a green tinge. They are thought to be caused by an ionization wave from a nearby quasar whose beam blasted through the galaxy, causing the glow.
Synonyms: GB
GBG
GB galaxy
greenbean
green bean
Hypernyms: galaxy
Derived terms: GB
GBG
GB galaxy
green bean
greenbean
Related terms: bean
galaxy
green
green bean
green galaxy
green pea
green pea galaxy
pea
pea galaxy
geophilid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geophilids
Senses: glosses: Any member of the Geophilidae family of centipedes.
declipping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: declippings
Etymology: From de- + clip + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The process of reconstructing an audio signal in order to reverse clipping.
photoligation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photoligations
Etymology: From photo- + ligation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Ligation triggered by light.
neurofibromatosic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to neurofibromatosis.
eurybiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eury- + biotic.
Senses: glosses: Capable of living in a broad range of conditions, such as a range of salt concentrations
crosswalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crosswall
crosswall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crosswalls
form: cross-wall
Etymology: From cross + wall.
Senses: qualifier: building
glosses: A load-bearing wall perpendicular to the main axis of a building.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A cell wall partitioning hypha.
omnisignificant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: meaningful in every detail
raw_tags: of a book or writing
photospectroheliograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photospectroheliographs
Senses: glosses: spectroheliograph
spectroheliometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spectroheliometers
Senses: glosses: An instrument that measures solar radiation from the sun at different wavelengths.
spectrohelioscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a spectrohelioscope.
spectrohelioscopically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: By means of a spectrohelioscope.
stereo-cinematography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stereo-cinematographies
Senses: glosses: Three-dimensional cinematography.
stereocinematography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stereocinematographies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stereo-cinematography.
stereo cinematography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stereo-cinematography.
Rothbauer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rothbauers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Rothbauer.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Ryner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ryners
Etymology: Americanized spelling of German Reiner.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Ryners
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ryner
Rothbauers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rothbauer
Noska
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Noskas
Etymology: Borrowed from Czech and Slovak Noška, derivative of Nosek. Also from nôška, diminutive of noša (“backpack”) (compare nosiť (“to carry”)).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Staveses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Staves
Noskas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Noska
two-hundredth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtuː ˈhʌn.dɹədθ/
ipa: /ˈtuː ˈhʌn.dɹɪdθ/
Senses: glosses: The ordinal form of the number two hundred.
Synonyms: 200th
Nasworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nasworthys
Etymology: Variant of Norsworthy.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Odes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ode
Nasworthys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Nasworthy
Morazan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Morazans
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Morazán; this surname is predominantly found in Honduras.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Moretto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Morettos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Moretto.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Morettos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Moretto
Morazans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Morazan
Mischel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mischels
Etymology: Borrowed from German Mischel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Merrihew
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Merrihews
Etymology: Most probably a variant of Meredith, or possibly Mayhew.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
macrocinematography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The filming of small objects in motion.
Merrihews
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Merrihew
Mischels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mischel
roentgen cinematography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The filming of the function of internal organs by means of a succession of skiagrams transferred to cinematographic film.
roentgencinematography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of roentgen cinematography.
roentgen-cinematography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of roentgen cinematography.
stereo-roentgencinematography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Three-dimensional roentgen cinematography.
Milich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Miliches
Etymology: Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Milić.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Serbo-Croatian.
Paolella
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Paolellas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Paolella.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Paolellas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Paolella
Miliches
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Milich
anergistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anergistic
form: most anergistic
Etymology: From anergy + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to anergy
Layards
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Layard
Gotobed
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gotobeds
Etymology: Probably a nickname, from go + to + bed.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the nickname.
Tingay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tingays
Etymology: Variant of Tanguy.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Tanguys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tanguy
Tingays
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tingay
Gotobeds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gotobed
Mayhews
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mayhew
ichthyophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ichthyophobic
form: most ichthyophobic
Etymology: From ichthyo- + -phobic.
Senses: examples: text: We are unaccomplished in open-water swimming for this very reason. Because, as we mentioned in an earlier chapter, we are ichthyophobic. And although we have never actually seen any fish up close and personal in their natural environment, we know they are there.
ref: 1993, Tom Raabe, Sports for the Athletically Impaired, Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, →ISBN, page 190:
glosses: Of, relating to, or afflicted with ichthyophobia.
tcdA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The gene that encodes Clostridium difficile toxin A.
ichthyophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ichthyophobes
Etymology: From ichthyo- + -phobe.
Senses: examples: text: To-day, when fish no longer inhabited its tanks, it was a by-word; it was a failure in every other direction; it was despised by its owners. So abject was its condition that recently efforts had actually been made by a hardened and determined ichthyophobe named Clayton to convert it into a garage for char-à-bancs.
ref: 1922 September 20, E. V. L., “The Fishes’ Revenge”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume 163, page 286:
glosses: A person afflicted with ichthyophobia.
ichthyophobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ichthyophobe
Phillip Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Both are named after Arthur Phillip.
Senses: glosses: An island of Bass Coast Shire, Victoria, Australia.
glosses: An island off Norfolk Island, a territory of Australia.
Tabby's Star
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Tabetha, from the discovery by Tabetha S. Boyajian and her team, of the unusual variability in brightness of this star.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A star in Cygnus constellation, Milky Way Galaxy. A star that dramatically dimmed in an odd non-repeating pattern, that was suspected to be due to a partial Dyson swarm, indicating a extraterrestrial megastructure construct and thus a sign of intelligent aliens.
wikipedia: en:Tabetha S. Boyajian
Synonyms: Boyajian's Star
WTF Star
WTF Star
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From WTF + star, because of its surprising light curve.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of Tabby's Star: A star in Cygnus constellation, Milky Way Galaxy.
synonyms: word: Tabby's Star
extra: A star in Cygnus constellation, Milky Way Galaxy
Related terms: flux
-'s
star
Star
the
where
WTF
Boyajian's Star
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Boyajian+star. From the discovery by Tabetha S. Boyajian and her team, of the unusual variability in brightness of this star.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of Tabby's Star: A star in Cygnus Constellation, Milky Way galaxy.
synonyms: word: Tabby's Star
extra: A star in Cygnus Constellation, Milky Way galaxy
wikipedia: en:Tabetha S. Boyajian
Related terms: Boyajian
-'s
Star
star
Bass Coast
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Ultimately from explorer George Bass.
Senses: glosses: A local government area in southern Victoria, Australia; in full, Bass Coast Shire.
wikipedia: George Bass
great-grandnephews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of great-grandnephew
great-grandnieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of great-grandniece
great albatrosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of great albatross
Great Britainers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Great Britainer
great cardiac veins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of great cardiac vein
great circle arcs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of great circle arc
great comets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of great comet
great reed warblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of great reed warbler
great martyresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of great martyress
greater flamingos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greater flamingo
great white egrets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of great white egret
greater flamingoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greater flamingo
greater kudus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greater kudu
greater roadrunners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greater roadrunner
greater whitethroats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greater whitethroat
greater wings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greater wing
great-great-nephews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of great-great-nephew
English setters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of English setter
freeskates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freeskate
French fists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of French fist
French macaroons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of French macaroon
French safes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of French safe
free-soloed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of free-solo
free-solos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of free-solo
free-solos
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of free-solo
free-soloing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of free-solo
German Shepradors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of German Sheprador
German flutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of German flute
Chinese farmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chinese farmer
Chinese trumpet vines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chinese trumpet vine
Chinese water chestnuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chinese water chestnut
Russian desmans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Russian desman
Japanese bayberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Japanese bayberry
Japanese jack mackerels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Japanese jack mackerel
Japanese sparrowhawks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Japanese sparrowhawk
Japanese wagtails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Japanese wagtail
European greenfinches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of European greenfinch
European hophornbeams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of European hophornbeam
European pied flycatchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of European pied flycatcher
European serins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of European serin
European spotted flycatchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of European spotted flycatcher
European squids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of European squid
European stonechats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of European stonechat
European sturgeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of European sturgeon
Ankole African mole-rats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ankole African mole-rat
Asian brown flycatchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Asian brown flycatcher
Asian desert warblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Asian desert warbler
Eurasian crag martins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eurasian crag martin
Eurasian hobbies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eurasian hobby
Eurasian scops owls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eurasian scops owl
Eurasian spoonbills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eurasian spoonbill
Eurasian tree sparrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eurasian tree sparrow
Asian koels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Asian koel
Franco-Americans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Franco-American
Hiberno-Americans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hiberno-American
South American bollworm moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of South American bollworm moth
orange Americans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orange American
Australian bugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Australian bug
Australian pratincoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Australian pratincole
australobatrachians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of australobatrachian
Brazilian orchid trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brazilian orchid tree
argentinosaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of argentinosaur
Indonesian angelsharks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Indonesian angelshark
Indonesian leaffishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Indonesian leaffish
dot Indians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dot Indian
Indian chrysanthemums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Indian chrysanthemum
Indian feather mosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Indian feather moss
Ethiopian crosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ethiopian cross
Mongolian poplars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mongolian poplar
Persianists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Persianist
Mexican needlefishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mexican needlefish
Mexican chickadees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mexican chickadee
Indian swiftlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Indian swiftlet
Indian meal moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Indian meal moth
Indian lilacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Indian lilac
Indian gifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Indian gift
Madagascar jacanas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Madagascar jacana
scrub turkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrub turkey
Egyptiots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Egyptiot
Swedish wrenches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Swedish wrench
Scandinavian miles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Scandinavian mile
Sino-Vietnameses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sino-Vietnamese
Italian tree crickets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Italian tree cricket
Italo-Normans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Italo-Norman
Iceland gulls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Iceland gull
sensationalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sensationality
Tabetha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name, variant of Tabitha.
frivolosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frivolosity
grand-mothers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grand-mother
foot-stools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foot-stool
angried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of angry
angrying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of angry
apiphobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apiphobes
Etymology: From Latin apis (“bee”) + -phobe.
Senses: glosses: An apiphobic person.
apiphobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apiphobe
apiphobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more apiphobic
form: most apiphobic
Etymology: From Latin apis (“bee”) + -phobic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to or afflicted with apiphobia, the fear of bees.
praise-worthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more praise-worthy
form: most praise-worthy
Senses: examples: text: This is a pitiful defence, for ’tis certain there are people who are not judged to be praiſe-worthy altho they be praiſed by others: but I ſay that there are others which are deemed praiſe-worthy in effect, only becauſe we find ’em generally commended in the Age wherein they lived, and in the following ones, without being blamed by any body.
ref: 1684, Jean Claude, translated by J. R. R., The Catholick Doctrine of the Eucharist in All Ages, R. Royston, page 261:
text: Before we close this part of the cathedral, it is impossible not to notice the very praise-worthy manner in which the Sunday service is performed in the choir; […]
ref: 1814, J[ohn] Britton, J[ames] Norris Brewer, J[ohn] Hodgson, F[rancis] C[harles] Laird, The Beauties of England and Wales: or, Original Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County, volume XV, London: […] J. Harris; Longman and Co.; J. Walker; R. Baldwin; […], page 83:
text: “[…] And you know there is generally an uncle or a grandfather to leave a fortune to the second son.” “A very praise-worthy practice,” said Edmund, “but not quite universal. I am one of the exceptions, and being one, must do something for myself.”
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 190:
glosses: Archaic form of praiseworthy.
sadden'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: And if we may ſay of a Soldier who goes very unwilling to the Fight, that aſſuredly he has little or no Courage; ſo we may ſay of a Chriſtian who is too much sadden’d and dejected at ſuffering that he has not any true Patience.
ref: 1695, [Jacques du Bosc], translated by T[heophilus] D[orrington], The Excellent Woman Described by Her True Characters and Their Opposites. […], part II, London: […] John Wyat […], page 234:
text: Fanny’s heart was not absolutely the only sadden’d one amongst them, as she soon began to acknowledge herself.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XVII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 334:
text: And anything she look’d on sadden’d her; […]
ref: 1871, T[homas] Ashe, Poems, […] H. Knights, […], page 80:
glosses: simple past and past participle of sadden
23d
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: On the 23d, the Besiegers sprung a Mine under the Salient Angle, upon the Right of the Half Moon, which had the desired Success, the Enemy's Gallery on that Side, and the Mason-Work of the Counterscarp, being thereby demolished.
ref: 1747, The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer:
text: ...we baled up our peltry, and on the 23d of May left Lac la Mort, with four small birch canoes richly laden with the skins of beavers, otters, martens, minx, loup serviers, beaver eaters, foxes, bears, &c.
ref: 1791, John Long, Voyages and Travels (2006 reprint), page 132:
text: “He was four-and-twenty the 8th of last June, and my birth-day is the 23d—just a fortnight and a day’s difference! which is very odd!”
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 56:
text: Tom Oliver thought he'd a very heavy stake in this here affair, as he was to fight Shelton, on the 23d, for a hundred.
ref: 1819 December, “The Pugilistic Ring”, in The Sporting Magazine or Monthly Calendar of the Transactions of the Turf, the Chase and Every Other Diversion Interesting to the Man of Pleasure, Enterprise & Spirit, volume 5 (New Series; volume 55, Old Series), number 27, London: Printed for J[ohn] Wheble & J. Pittman, […], published 1820, →OCLC, page 126:
text: On the morning of the 23d ultimo I left the harbor of Kelung, island of Formosa, for Manila, in the island of Luzon, leaving the “Supply” to sail soon for Hong Kong.
ref: 1854 August 24, USA House of Representatives, House Documents, page 143:
text: Another of his works which would be very attractive is the Psalm 23d for two soprani and two alti.
ref: 1858 April 24, “My Diary. No. 3”, in John S. Dwight, editor, Dwight’s Journal of Music, a Paper of Art and Literature, volume XIII, number 4 (Whole No. 316), Boston: Oliver Ditson and Co., […], published 1859, page 28, column 1:
text: 1st Cav. and h’dq’rs and 23d Inf.
ref: 1870, Report of the Secretary of War, Being Part of the Message and Documents Communicated to the Two Houses of Congress at the Beginning of the Third Session of the Forty-first Congress, volume I, Washington: Government Printing Office, page 84:
glosses: Obsolete form of 23rd.
nonalingual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪŋɡwəl
Etymology: From nona- + lingual.
Senses: glosses: Written in nine languages.
glosses: Characterized by the use or presence of nine languages.
glosses: Knowing nine languages.
decalingual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪŋɡwəl
Etymology: From deca- + lingual.
Senses: glosses: Written in ten languages.
glosses: Characterized by the use or presence of ten languages.
glosses: Knowing ten languages.
Peacehaven
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From peace + haven, a 20th century naming around the end of the First World War.
Senses: glosses: A coastal town and civil parish with a town council in Lewes district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ4101).
Kaixian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: kīʹshyěnʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 開縣 /开县.
Senses: examples: text: Avowedly anti-foreign disturbances on a serious scale were confined to the trouble at Kaihsien, Szechuan, at the beginning of June, when a number of missionaries were attacked and severély handled,[…]
ref: [1908 January 7, “CHINA IN 1907.”, in The Hongkong Telegraph, number 5660, →OCLC, page 3, column 3:
text: For this purpose, the peri-urban zone in Kaixian County of the Chongqing reservoir section[…]These construction workers, mostly carpenters and tillers, are mainly from Fengle.
ref: 2003 March 25, Yan Tan, Yi Qian Wang, “Rural resettlement and land compensation in flooded areas: The case of the Three Gorges Project, China”, in Asia Pacific Viewpoint, volume 44, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: A combo picture shows the demolition of the last county seat to be inundated by the Three Gorges reservoir, in Kaixian county of southwest China's Chongqing municipality, November 15, 2007.[…]Kaixian was the last of Chongqing’s eight counties to finish relocation work for the project, the report said.
ref: 2007 November 15, “China defends mega dam, guards against disaster”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 01 Mar 2023, Environment:
text: Fuji town, a peri-urban area of the new county seat of Luxian, received 81 migrant households (276 persons) from Fengle town (a peri-urban district of Kaixian county).
ref: 2008, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, volume 17, Scalabrini Migration Center, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 21:
text: In Sichuan the rates were much higher. In Kaixian county, a close examination by a team sent by the provincial party committee at the time concluded that in Fengle commune, where 17 per cent of the population had perished in less than a year, up to 65 per cent of the victims had died because they were beaten, punished with food deprivation or forced into committing suicide.
ref: 2011, Frank Dikötter, Mao's Great Famine, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 297–298:
glosses: Synonym of Kaizhou.
synonyms: word: Kaizhou
utility monster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: utility monsters
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A hypothetical sentient being that derives much more hedonic pleasure from resources than ordinary beings do; in some critiques of utilitarianism, such a being would demand an extremely hedonistic lifestyle at the expense of everyone else, due to its greater capacity to feel pleasure.
Related terms: hedonism
utilitarianism
utility
cyaphide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyaphides
Senses: glosses: the phosphorus analogue of cyanide
head-ache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head-aches
Senses: examples: text: I saw the lions the next morning, acquired a considerable dizziness and head-ache, in my way to the top of King’s Chapel, and got baked in the hot house of the botanical garden, with the dregs of yesterday’s wine still in my head:—[…]
ref: 1800, The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners, volume X, page 148:
text: […] if the good people who used to kneel and gape in that gallery could have foreseen that the time would ever come when men and women might lie another ten minutes in bed, when they woke with a head-ache, without danger of reprobation, because chapel was missed, they would have jumped with joy and envy.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 179–180:
text: I also asked the great favour of him, as he would sit next to me in the canoe, to smoke as little as possible, as it always made me sick, and gave me a head-ache, to which he replied that he only smoked the kinnekinnic, which is a mild preparation […]
ref: 1847, George William Featherstonhaugh, A canoe voyage up the Minnay Sotor, page 265:
glosses: Archaic form of headache.
whisk'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The Inventor of this Fire-work, ſitting himſelf down on the End of one of theſe Rockets, order’d it to be fir’d, and was whiſk’d up into the Air higher than any four Steeples in the World could reach, were they ſet one upon another.
ref: 1739, The Persian and Turkish Tales, Compleat. Translated Formerly from Those Languages into French, by M. Petis de la Croix, […]: And Now into English from That Translation, by the Late Learned Dr. King, and Several Other Hands. […], 4th edition, volume II, London: […] Richard Ware, […], page 403:
text: Not that she was incommoded by many fears of Sir Thomas’s disapprobation when the present state of his house should be known, for her judgment had been so blinded that except by the instinctive caution with which she had whisk’d away Mr. Rushworth’s pink satin cloak as her brother-in-law entered, she could hardly be said to shew any sign of alarm; but she was vexed by the manner of his return.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 11–12:
text: But, just as the storm wash’d their cuticles clean, / It whisk’d off the bardoo, for none can be seen!
ref: 1893, Robert Bruce, Echoes from Coondambo, Adelaide: Hutchison, Craker, & Smith, […], page 101:
glosses: simple past and past participle of whisk
Ashdon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English æsċ (“ashtree”) + dūn (“hill”), "hill growing with ashtrees".
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Uttlesford district, Essex, England, located about 6 km (4 miles) (6 km) northeast of Saffron Walden and 37 km (23 miles) northwest of Chelmsford (OS grid ref TL5842).
Ashtree
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English æsċ (“ash tree”) + Old English trēo (“tree”).
Senses: glosses: A Surname.
happiness pump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: happiness pumps
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A hypothetical sentient being who suffers pain by making others happy, but continues to do so because the happiness others feel is greater than the pain that the pump being feels.
Related terms: hedonism
utilitarianism
utility
Einspanier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Einspaniers
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Staubach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Staubachs
Etymology: Borrowed from German Staubach.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
overadjectived
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overadjectived
form: most overadjectived
form: over-adjectived
Etymology: From over- + adjectived.
Senses: examples: text: It is [Joseph] Conrad’s earliest style, a little lush, perhaps, a little overadjectived, but already the style of a man who knew how to subordinate the individual word to the total impression—a man who would always be the master, never the servant, of words[.]
ref: 1939, David Daiches, The Novel and the Modern World, Chicago, Ill.: The University of Chicago Press, published 1948, page 63:
text: Yet, as he stumbles through rhapsodic and overadjectived descriptions of the wild and lonely loveliness of nature, he reminds himself that simple phrasing is best.
ref: 1975, Lewis Leary, Soundings: Some Early American Writers, Athens, Ga.: The University of Georgia Press, →ISBN, page 183:
text: For a critic to declare these lines overadjectived and overwritten would not be a matter for surprise.
ref: 1986, Richard Poole, Richard Hughes: Novelist, Poetry Wales Press, →ISBN, page 93:
text: You’re an avid Pinterester and you can’t resist a good brunch or over-adjective’d Starbucks order.
ref: 2016, Grace Helbig, Grace & Style: The Art of Pretending You Have It, Touchstone, →ISBN, page 89:
glosses: Having too many adjectives.
compellence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compellance
Senses: examples: text: Accordingly, if Beijing desires continued prospects for peaceful reunification with Taipei, then it must cease its strategy of compellence and give Taiwan more international breathing space. Instead of inviting Taiwan's ire with its[…]
ref: 1999, 民主進步黨, 廿一世紀的中國國際硏討會:
text: Although deterrence and compellence both involve coercion by manipulating the adversary's calculation of costs and benefits, they differ in several crucial respects. Deterrence is a threat intended to keep an adversary from starting something. Compellence is a threat intended to make him do something new or cease doing something he has already begun.
ref: 2003, Forrest E. Morgan, Compellence and the Strategic Culture of Imperial Japan: Implications for Coercive Diplomacy in the Twenty-first Century, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 3:
text: Humanitarian operations will more often partake of compellence than deterrence. However, advocates of these operations often seem to imagine they are engaged in deterrence, and thus under-estimate the difficulties.
ref: 2009, Robert J. Art, Kenneth Neal Waltz, The Use of Force: Military Power and International Politics, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 431:
coordinate_terms: coercion
deterrence
glosses: The act of compelling.
compellance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Deterrence is distinguished from compellance, the use of threats to manipulate the behavior of others so they stop doing something unwanted or do something they were not previously doing. As with deterrence, in security affairs a[…]
ref: 2003 April 17, Patrick M. Morgan, Deterrence Now, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 2:
text: Compellance, too, is an idea that originated in the strategy of nuclear weapons and has been imported by the White Paper into the world of conventional forces. There is some considerable irony in this.
ref: 2006, Richard Little, Michael Smith, Perspectives on World Politics, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 116:
text: COMPELLANCE VERSUS DETERRENCE There are basically two courses of action that the UN may take when it decides that the events in a country represent a threat to international peace and security. Under this rubric, the UN is responding to[…]
ref: 2006, Jeanne M. Haskin, Bosnia and Beyond: The "quiet" Revolution that Wouldn't Go Quietly, Algora Publishing, →ISBN, page 141:
glosses: Alternative form of compellence.
douleia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: douleias
form: dulia
Etymology: Ultimately from Ancient Greek δουλεία (douleía).
Senses: examples: text: But paſſing by this fopperie, FIRST the diſtinction of religious worſhip into Latreia and Douleia is denyed, because there is no ſuch thing.
ref: 1644, David Pareus, A Commentary upon the Divine Revelation of the Apostle and Evangelist John, page 485:
text: But when we kiss the statue of St. Peter, with the intention of honouring St. Peter, this act is only Douleia, because St. Peter himself being only a man is not entitled to Latreia.
ref: 1825, P.A. Baines, A Defence of the Christian Religion, page 94:
text: The lowest degree of worship is called douleia (δουλεία) which, they say, is offered to saints and angels.
ref: 1870, The Bulwark, Or, Reformation Journal, page 134:
glosses: In Roman Catholicism, the inferior veneration accorded to saints and angels.
babe-in-a-cradle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babes-in-a-cradle
Senses: glosses: An Australian orchid with purple flowers, Epiblema grandiflorum.
Strottner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Strottners
Senses: glosses: A surname
Derived terms: SDSO-1
Sainty
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Saintys
Senses: glosses: A surname
Derived terms: SDSO-1
Local Void
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Local Void
Senses: topics: astronomy
cosmology
natural-sciences
glosses: A region of space with very low density, which our galaxy cluster, the Local Group, sticks into like a headland, and of which the Local Sheet, which the Local Group is attached to, forms one wall.
Related terms: Local Arm
Local Bubble
Local Fluff
Local Galaxy
Local Group
Local Hole
Local Interstellar Cloud
Local Sheet
Local Space
Local Star
Local Supercluster
Local Universe
Local Volume
'NSYNCer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 'NSYNCers
Senses: examples: text: As if a hit album, hit singles and their much-appreciated presence weren’t enough for their fans, the ’NSYNCers kept their audience involved in the show.
ref: 2001, ’NSYNC (Who Are These People Anyway?), CheckerBee Publishing, →ISBN, page 118:
text: On January 14, 2002, ’NSYNCer Joey Fatone said the band’s scenes had been cut “because people made a big deal about it.”
ref: 2002, Watts Wacker, Ryan Matthews, The Deviant’s Advantage: How Fringe Ideas Create Mass Markets, New York, N.Y.: Three Rivers Press, published 2004, →ISBN, page 44:
text: With a solo record on the way, this ’NSYNCer [JC Chasez] is loving life.
ref: 2003 July, Seventeen, page 98:
text: The “Hunger Games: Catching Fire” star [Jennifer Lawrence] told AOL Moviefone that she almost barfed when she saw the ’NSYNCer [Justin Timberlake] backstage at an event.
ref: 2013 November 15, RedEye, page 48:
glosses: Alternative form of *NSYNCer.
NSYNCer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NSYNCers
Senses: examples: text: […] [Britney] Spears and NSYNCer Justin Timberlake smooching.
ref: 2000, Adweek, page 5:
text: As you recall, because you are still obsessed with the lovely lady and the man named Brady who had a hunch about forming a bunch, former NSYNCer Lance Bass put in a bid for the real “Brady Bunch” house, which was up for sale earlier this month.
ref: 2018 August 11, Matthew Gilbert, “TV Critic’s Corner: HGTV scoops up ‘Brady’ house”, in The Boston Globe, volume 294, number 42, page 6B:
text: Boyz N Girlz United: Had mini-hit in 2000 with ‘Messed Around’, written by NSYNCer JC Chasez. […] JC Chasez: Former NSYNCer.
ref: 2021, Jennifer Otter Bickerdike, Being Britney: Pieces of a Modern Icon, Nine Eight Books, →ISBN:
text: NSYNCers Chris Kirkpatrick and Joey Fatone will join Backstreet Boy AJ McLean at 9 p.m. on the outdoor LIV poolside stage at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach Hotel.
ref: 2021 September 25, Madeleine Marr, “The Fontainebleau will be ’90s central with this throwback concert by the pool”, in Miami Herald, volume 119, number 11, page 13A:
glosses: Alternative form of *NSYNCer.
Local Hole
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Hole referring to a low-density region of the universe; local since it encloses the Earth.
Senses: topics: astronomy
cosmology
natural-sciences
glosses: A supervoid around 2 billion light years across that encloses much of the local Laniakea supercluster.
Synonyms: KBC Void
Related terms: Local Arm
Local Bubble
Local Fluff
Local Group
Local Interstellar Cloud
Local Sheet
Local Spur
Local Supercluster
Local Void
Local Volume
Backstreeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Backstreeters
Etymology: From Backstreet Boys + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Read the “In Bed With the Backstreet Boys” feature in this month’s Spin and let SPINonline know which Backstreeter—Nick [Carter], Howie [Dorough], Brian [Littrell], A.J. [McLean], or Kevin [Richardson]—you’d most like to suck face with and why (300 words max).
ref: 1998 July, Spin, page 27:
text: 20-something John meets up with Backstreeter Kevin [Richardson] (above) and ’N Syncer Joey [Fatone].
ref: 2000 May 9, The Advocate, →ISSN, page 39:
text: On-target production from consistent team Max Martin and Kristian Lundin only ups the ante (note, too, that Backstreeter Brian Littrell gets a co-writing credit on this one).
ref: 2000 May 20, Billboard, page 28:
text: While Backstreeter Nick Carter also released a solo album, 2002’s dud Now or Never, the Boys mostly just got older.
ref: 2005, People, page 40:
glosses: A member of the American vocal group Backstreet Boys.
Synonyms: Backstreet Boy
Addonizio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Addonizios
Senses: glosses: A surname
Elwha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Elwhas
Senses: glosses: A river in Washington.