cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
songlark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: songlarks
Etymology: From song + lark.
Senses: glosses: A bird of the species Cincloramphus cruralis or Cincloramphus mathewsi, native to Australia.
Peter's penny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Peter's pence.
finchbill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finchbills
Etymology: From finch + bill.
Senses: glosses: Any of the birds in the genus Spizixos, found in Southeast Asia and China.
speirops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A bird of any of the species Zosterops brunneus, Zosterops leucophoeus, Zosterops lugubris, or Zosterops melanocephalus, native to the islands of the Gulf of Guinea and a mountain in Cameroon.
barwing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barwings
Etymology: From bar + wing.
Senses: glosses: Any of the birds in the genus Actinodura, found in South and Southeast Asia.
cap on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: caps on
form: capping on
form: capped on
form: capped on
Etymology: From cap (“a lie or exaggeration”) + on.
Senses: examples: text: That guy is always capping on me—don't believe a word he says.
text: For the first few weeks I didn't say anything when the guys capped on me. My lack of response only encouraged them to bear down, and they capped on me mercilessly.
ref: 1990, Ben Carson, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story, Zondervan, →ISBN, page 48:
text: And when somebody started calling us, when somebody started capping on you, talking about you, saying, well capping is a whole bunch of derogatory statements thrown at eachother^([sic])...
ref: 1994, Ramah Lillian Commanday, Survival Or Superiority, University of California Press, page 163:
text: Dad agreed with her, but then added, "Yeah, but I'll tell you one thing. You cap on me... you better not cap on me, 'cause I'll go upside your ass."
ref: 2009, Mishna Wolff, I'm Down: A Memoir, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN:
text: "Sounds like you got some bad intel," he told Carmen. "More like those chicks were capping on me about working at the pool."
ref: 2013, Matt de la Peña, The Living, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 83:
glosses: To spread caps (lies) or false rumors (about someone); to slander (someone); to insult (someone's) family.
caps on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cap on
capping on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cap on
capped on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cap on
outcap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outcaps
form: outcapping
form: outcapped
form: outcapped
Etymology: From out- + cap.
Senses: examples: text: I ſhall only inſtance in the Quakers, who of all People in the World apply themſelves moſt to the Reading of Scriptures: nay there is ſcarce a Quaker Woman, but ſhall outcap the ableſt Divine of any other Religion in Scripture Texts.
ref: 1721, Robert Manning, A Plain and Rational Account of the Catholick Faith, page 111:
text: In rapping out oaths a cad outcaps a Chesterfield; scarcely bearable in a buss, oaths in type are too bad, and at such malice prepense printers' devils recoil.
ref: 1849, William Nelson Hutchinson, “Dog-breaking—the Pocket and the Stud”, in Quarterly Review, volume 84, page 355:
text: The new myth certainly outcapped the Babeque fable, but why should they follow myths forever?
ref: 1893, Albion W. Tourgée, Out of the Sunset Sea, Merrill & Baker, page 282:
text: I thought myself pretty tall, but many of the Senecas, Oneidas, and Onondagas far outcapped me.
ref: 1910, Joseph Edward Sanderson, The First Century of Methodism in Canada: 1840-1883, W. Briggs, page 97:
glosses: To cap or top; exceed.
examples: text: A mean remark? Certainly, but I comforted myself by saying, "Everybody does it. Outcapping everyone else is the only way to survive."
ref: 1990, Ben Carson, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story, Zondervan, →ISBN, page 49:
glosses: To cap ("lie") more than.
outcaps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outcap
outcapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outcap
outcapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outcap
Tiffanie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A respelling of Tiffany.
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Tiffanie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tiffanies
Etymology: A respelling of Tiffany.
Senses: glosses: A breed of cat similar to the Asian Shorthair except for its semilong fur length.
airpersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airperson
airpeople
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airperson
thoracobiliary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thoraco- + biliary.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Involving both bile duct and pleural space.
ferrite cores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ferrite core
-pilled
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Forms: form: more -pilled
form: most -pilled
Etymology: Influenced by redpilled, blackpilled, etc. whose stems refer to the colour of the notional pill rather than their actual effects. Popularized from a scene in the 1999 film The Matrix.
Senses: examples: text: bread + -pilled → breadpilled (referring to The Conquest of Bread and anarcho-communism)
text: No longer simply an allegory for the trans experience in the Matrix, or right wing radicalisation on shady corners of the internet, the 'pilled' suffix has moved beyond internet-speak and has become a part of our everyday vernacular. Have you discovered the benefits of fish oil? You're fish oil-pilled. Are you fangirling over Rihanna? You're Riri-pilled. Are you obsessed with the salacious dynamic between Euphoria's Maddy and Cassie? You're bitchpilled.
ref: [2022 June 3, Günseli Yalcinkaya, “Are you content? How the internet rewired our brains”, in Dazed, archived from the original on 16 Dec 2022:
text: Like a lot of the online-pilled, my brain has been rotted by memes, which have become cornerstones of the way I talk to my friends who suffer from the same affliction.
ref: 2023 January 9, Lauren O'Neil, “I Simply Love To Put A Little 'X' After Everything”, in Refinery29, archived from the original on 16 Jan 2023:
text: By merely looking at a pie, I can tell you whether the cornicione is too puffy or just right, if the crust could use a bit more leoparding, and whether the dough should have spent another day in the fridge. I am now, in a word, pizza-pilled.
ref: 2023 January 13, Saahil Desai, “You Don't Know How Bad the Pizza Box Is”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 16 Jan 2023:
text: The social media app, in which users are encouraged to log, rate, and review every movie they’re watching and have ever watched, has in recent years become the social platform du jour. Martin Scorsese is Letterboxd-pilled.
ref: 2024 February 29, Jack King, “Why everyone you know is suddenly a Letterboxd head”, in GQ:
glosses: Forming adjectives denoting dedication to or a heightened awareness of something.
wikipedia: Language Log
The Matrix
Derived terms: blackpilled
bluepilled
pinkpill
red pilled
interspine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + spine.
Senses: examples: text: The devices limit the range of motion of the spine that are trapped within it so that there is a reduction in the amount of interspine bending and interspine torsion for the regions in which the garments are applied.
ref: 1980, Developments in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, page 82:
text: For example, inhibitory synapses on the trunk dendrite would reduce interspine communication and could control saltatory conduction between spines (Shepherd and Brayton, 1987).
ref: 2004, Gordon M. Shepherd, The Synaptic Organization of the Brain, page 547:
text: This effect is aimed at inducing large interspine intervals to accommodate a high number of voltage dependent Ca²⁺ channels.
ref: 2004, Chris I. De Zeeuw, Federico Cicirata, Creating Coordination in the Cerebellum, page 54:
text: Finally, based on the link between spine head diameter and interspine distance, one could also expect corresponding increases in interspine distances in distal dendrites.
ref: 2010, Rafael Yuste, Dendritic Spines, page 38:
glosses: Between spines.
interspine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interspines
Etymology: From inter- + spine.
Senses: examples: text: It consists of 10 short rays, articulating with 10 long and slender interspines, the anterior one of the series being 1 8/10 inch in length.
ref: 1864, Geological Survey of Great Britain, Figures and Descriptions Illustrative of British Organic Remains:
text: The first interspine is roughly parallel to the outline of the brain and to it is attached the succeeding ray.
ref: 1922, Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, volume 12, page 201:
text: Interspines begin to differentiate, but hypurals and epurals do not.
ref: 2012, J.H.S. Blaxter, The Early Life History of Fish, page 680:
glosses: A spine of connective tissue that connects the rays of a fish's fin.
examples: text: This convective signature is the same in spines and interspines.
ref: 2013, Issues in Astronomy and Astrophysics, page 924:
text: It was proposed that the PJs form as a result of reconnection between two magnetic components of penumbra (spines and interspines), and that they could contribute to the transition region (TR) and coronal heating above sunspot penumbrae.
ref: 2015, Sanjiv K. Tiwari, Ronald L. Moore, Amy R. Winebarger, Shane E. Alpert, “Transition-Region/Coronal Signatures and Magnetic Setting of Sunspot Penumbral Jets: Hinode (SOT/FG), Hi-C and SDO/AIA Observations”, in arXiv, →DOI:
glosses: The area between spines on a sunspot.
examples: text: Avoid unnecessary dissection, especially of the interspine and ligaments.
ref: 2016, Michael P Steinmetz, Edward C. Benzel, Benzel's Spine Surgery:
glosses: The interior of the spinal cord.
isoclass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isoclasses
Senses: glosses: An isomorphism class.
time's a-wasting
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Time is running out; time is being wasted
Moonrakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Moonraker
raise someone's spirits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: raises someone's spirits
form: raising someone's spirits
form: raised someone's spirits
form: raised someone's spirits
Senses: synonyms: word: cheer up
word: hearten
word: beatify
word: begladden
word: blissen
word: bright
word: cheer
word: cheer up
word: content
word: delight
word: elate
word: enbliss
word: exhilarate
word: fain
word: gay
word: gladden
word: gladden someone's heart
word: gratify
word: happify
word: happy
word: hearten
word: jollify
word: laetificate
word: light up
word: make someone's day
word: perk up
word: please
word: raise someone's spirits
word: rejoice
word: turn the frown upside down
word: upcheer
word: warm someone's heart
word: warm the cockles of someone's heart
glosses: To make someone feel in a better mood
put the heat on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts the heat on
form: putting the heat on
form: put the heat on
form: put the heat on
Senses: glosses: Synonym of turn up the heat.
synonyms: word: turn up the heat
innovention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnəˈvɛnʃən/
Forms: form: innoventions
Etymology: Blend of innovation + invention
Senses: glosses: Something innovented.
glosses: The act of innoventing.
glosses: The capacity to innovent.
innoventions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of innovention
divulgators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of divulgator
transvestigations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transvestigation
bodhisattvahood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The state of being a bodhisattva.
innoventor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnəˈvɛntɚ/
ipa: /ɪnəˈvɛntə/
rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: innoventors
Etymology: Blend of innovator + inventor.
Senses: glosses: One who innovents.
Related terms: innoventing
innoventors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of innoventor
Kilcher
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kilchers
Senses: glosses: A surname
protussive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more protussive
form: most protussive
Etymology: From pro- + tussive.
Senses: examples: Coordinate term: antitussive
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Enhancing coughing, either by making coughing more frequent or by increasing expectoration.
protussive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protussives
Etymology: From pro- + tussive.
Senses: examples: Coordinate term: antitussive
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A protussive agent.
protussives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protussive
Negroland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From negro + -land.
Senses: glosses: A vaguely defined region of Africa inland from the Guinea Coast.
glosses: Synonym of sub-Saharan Africa.
synonyms: word: sub-Saharan Africa
Synonyms: topics: region
location
word: Nigritia
Spermageddon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌspɜː(ɹ).məˈɡɛ.dn̩/
ipa: /-ˈɡɛ.dən/
ipa: /ˌspɜːɹməˈɡɛ.dn̩/
ipa: /-ˈɡɛ.dən/
rhymes: -ɛdən
Forms: form: spermageddon
Etymology: Blend of sperm + Armageddon; coined in response to a controversial 2017 study which claimed that average human sperm count decreased by 52% between 1973 and 2011.
Senses: examples: text: Are the stats misleading, or have we been distracted by fears of overpopulation, when in fact spermageddon – a fertility time bomb – has been sneaking up on us all along?
ref: 2018 January 27, India Sturgis, “Spermageddon: Why the human race could be infertile in 50 years”, in The Daily Telegraph, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2022:
text: Inevitably, there were headlines about "Spermageddon" and the risk that humans would disappear, but then we moved on to chase other shiny objects.
ref: [2021 February 20, Nicholas Kristof, “Opinion | What Are Sperm Telling Us?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 11 Oct 2022:
text: Is humankind really facing "Spermageddon," a decline in sperm count that could spell the end of the species? Maybe, maybe not.
ref: 2021 May 10, Ruth Schuster, “Spermaggedon in the West? Relax, Harvard Has Good News for You”, in Haaretz, archived from the original on 16 Jan 2023:
text: Now a group of interdisciplinary researchers from Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology contend that fears of an impending Spermageddon have been vastly overstated.
ref: 2021 June 4, Rachel E. Gross, “The Sperm-Count 'Crisis' Doesn't Add Up”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Dec 2022:
text: The other problem here is that the 50 per cent decline in sperm counts, or "spermageddon" as it’s been called, has been called into question. Last year, "The Future of Sperm," a paper published by researchers from both Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, showed that the methodology behind the sperm panic was flawed.
ref: [2022 April 25, Christine Sismondo, “Unpacking testicle tanning, the so-called spermageddon and shedding light on medical misinformation”, in Toronto Star, archived from the original on 23 Aug 2022:
text: Some took issue with this forecast of an imminent Spermageddon. A group of Harvard researchers stated that the study was based on "questionable assumptions", such as the belief that sperm count alone is an accurate predictor of overall male fertility.
ref: 2022 November 5, Ellie Austin, “Why are so many young men freezing their sperm?”, in The Times, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2023:
glosses: The (disputed) phenomenon of human sperm count decreasing over time, potentially leading to human extinction.
wikipedia: Human Reproduction (journal)
Oxford University Press
desulfination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desulfinations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Removal of sulfur dioxide from a sulfinate.
sunspiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sunspider
sunspider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunspiders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sun spider.
alethe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alethes
Etymology: From translingual Alethe.
Senses: glosses: Any of the birds in the genus Alethe or Chamaetylas, found in the subtropical and tropical forests of Africa.
silverbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silverbirds
Etymology: From silver + bird.
Senses: glosses: A bird of the species Empidornis semipartitus, native to eastern Africa.
niltava
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: niltavas
Etymology: From translingual Niltava.
Senses: glosses: Any of the birds in the genus Niltava, found in the China, Southeast Asia and South Asia.
dash it all
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dash it.
firethroat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firethroats
Etymology: From fire + throat.
Senses: glosses: A bird of the species Calliope pectarden, native to western and central China.
blackthroat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackthroats
Etymology: From black + throat.
Senses: glosses: A bird of the species Calliope obscura, native to north-central China.
puaiohi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puaiohis
Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian puaiohi.
Senses: glosses: A bird of the species Myadestes palmeri (small Kauai thrush), native to Kauai.
fruithunter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fruithunters
Senses: glosses: A bird of the species Chlamydochaera jefferyi, native to Borneo.
soft girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soft girls
Senses: examples: text: Commemorate your relationship with siblings and cousins by buying them their team's newest jersey from your local Adidas or Nike if they're sports fans. Maybe a cute scarf or some pearl-studded hairpins if they're going for the new "soft girl" look.
ref: 2019 December, Nada Abdelkader, “Confused About Holiday Presents? Here's Your Gift Guide”, in Identity, page 14:
text: You will find the soft girl online, pigtailed, clad in pastels, perhaps with a spray of faux freckles – or little clouds, or hearts – painted across her blush-pinkened cheeks and highlighted nose.
ref: 2019 December 4, Adrienne Matei, “TikTok's soft girls: could a hyper-cute aesthetic be a symbol of empowerment?”, in The Guardian^(print/online):
text: Soft girls often paint clouds on their cheeks and wear lots of blush and highlighter.
ref: 2021, Damian Ryan, Understanding Digital Marketing: A Complete Guide to Engaging Customers and Implementing Successful Digital Campaigns, 5th edition, Kogan Page, →ISBN, page 228:
text: Unlike the VSCOs who tirelessly work towards ending global warming by saving one sea turtle at a time or the Dark Academics who remove themselves from the world by pretending to live in outdated times, being a soft girl requires nothing other than maintaining an ultra feminized appearance. Thus, by having one's identity be solely based upon superficial notions of beauty and more specifically ultra femininity, the Soft Girl aesthetic promotes exclusivity based on unrealistic standards of appearance.
ref: 2021 April, Dunya Mostaghimi, “How to: AeSthEt!C”, in C Magazine, volume 9, edition 4, Palo Alto High School, page 17:
text: Junior Katie Wilson displays a typical soft girl aesthetic look with jewelry, a pleated skirt and frilled socks.
ref: 2021 April 28, “Dressed to express: The reasoning behind student fashion choices”, in The Charger Account, volume S, number 5, San Jose, Calif.: Leland High School, page 11:
text: Soft girl makeup, as the name suggests is a pastel, sweet style that focuses on accentuating natural features with a signature element being blush and faux freckles.
ref: 2022 November, Vaishnavi Maloth, “Popular Makeup Aesthetics to Follow”, in Tulip, volume 13, number 5, page 66:
text: "I got a little vulnerable (on this new music)," [Dess] Dior said. "(My old music) is a little rough, a little hard, so we're going to tap into my soft-girl era next."
ref: 2022 December 27, DeAsia Paige, “Dess Dior: Rapper”, in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution^(print/online):
synonyms: softie
qualifier: TikTok aesthetic
glosses: A girl who adopts a look or aesthetic involving a wholesome and feminine appearance in subdued pastel colours, as well as (often) watching anime and listening to K-pop.
soft girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soft girl
guesstimative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more guesstimative
form: most guesstimative
Etymology: From guesstimate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: An old tool - economic analysis - is gaining prominence in a relatively new domain of interest - energy. This is a healthy trend; in fact, it is essential if decision-making in this highly visible area is to evolve into an objective rather than an intuitive or "guesstimative" process.
ref: 1974, Navy Civil Engineer (NAVFAC P), volume 15, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 19:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a guesstimate.
Abeleda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Abeledas
Senses: glosses: A surname.
GOPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of GOP
polyplethysmographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyplethysmograph
polyplethysmograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyplethysmographs
Senses: glosses: photoplethysmograph.
VSCO girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of VSCO girl
wikipedia: VSCO
pseudo-professional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudo-professional
form: most pseudo-professional
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pseudoprofessional.
Cannington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * In Somerset, recorded as Cantuctun c.880 and Cantoctona in 1086 (DB), a settlement by the Quantock Hills. Present spelling adopted c.1641.
* In Western Australia, from Canning + -ton, being named after the Canning River.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in Sedgemoor district (OS grid ref ST2539).
glosses: A community in Brock township, Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A mine in McKinlay Shire, Queensland, Australia, named after a pastoral property.
glosses: A suburb of Perth in the City of Canning, Western Australia.
mallsoft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mall + soft.
Senses: examples: text: It seems the late 1980s and 1990s are making a comeback, with new music genres like Vaporwave and Mallsoft.
ref: 2017 December 28, Tyler Fister, “Why acid rain is out”, in Lexington Herald-Leader, volume 35, number 360, page 9A:
text: Genres such as mallsoft, vaporwave, or hypnogogic pop, to name but a few, arise in a heartbeat and die out before many people, certainly mainstream music listeners, are likely even aware of them.
ref: 2020, Ken McLeod, Driving Identities: At the Intersection of Popular Music and Automotive Culture, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: 슈퍼마켓 Yes! We’re Open is categorised as mallsoft, the vaporwave subgenre which evokes the sounds and atmosphere of shopping malls, and which obliquely references their current, precarious state.
ref: 2021, Roisin Kiberd, The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet, Serpent’s Tail, →ISBN:
text: Such an aesthetic might recall some ‘hyperreal’ (Baudrillard, 1994) image of an American shopping mall in the 1980’s, one that could be said to have that unique aesthetic that has come to be synonymous with Vaporwave’s derivative, ‘mallsoft’.
ref: 2022, Sideeq Mohammed, “The Ethnographer as Conceptual Persona: On the Many Shopping Centres”, in Barbara Simpson, Line Revsbæk, editors, Doing Process Research in Organizations: Noticing Differently, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 159:
text: An Ultimate Guitar contributor pungently described this music as “us[ing] ambience as an instrument.” “The most interesting part of ‘Mallsoft’ music is the inclusion of the ‘space’ around the music that’s playing,” he wrote. “When you listen to ‘Mallsoft,’ you’re not listening to a recording of the music that was played in a mall, you’re listening to how that mall sounded when music was added to it.”
ref: 2022, Alexandra Lange, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: A vaporwave subgenre themed after retro shopping malls.
wikipedia: Cat System Corp.
fairycore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faeriecore
Etymology: From fairy + -core.
Senses: examples: text: Aesthetics Wiki Rabbit hole for anyone seeking clarity on online aesthetics. (Ghostcore, Fairycore, Vaporwave, anyone?)
ref: 2021 July 10, “From Maximilian Davis to merch: this week’s fashion trends”, in The Guardian:
text: Fairycore, for example, incorporates things like soft pastels, butterflies, mushrooms, springtime and a sense of magic.
ref: 2021 October 9, Melissa Hank, “Gear up for Halloween any witch way you like”, in Edmonton Journal, page E3:
text: The homepage has all themes organized in folders for your choosing such as horoscope, autumn vibes, summer vibes, fairycore, cinematic and more.
ref: 2022 June 20, Deema Al-Khudair, “Prequel”, in Arab News:
text: Fairycore also exists as an ode to the fairytales we read growing up, primarily consisting of whimsical, fairy-like clothing.
ref: 2022 June 30, Vianna C. Villegas, “The Gen Z Guide to Dressing ‘Clean’”, in The Philippine Star:
text: Adults and teens can sculpt their own mini fairycore landscape at the Westside Learning Lab’s Mushroom Forest Centrepiece program Aug. 13 and Aug. 20 from 2 to 4 p.m.
ref: 2022 August 10, “Community”, in The Daily Courier:
text: With the rise of social media, consuming fashion has become increasingly more accessible and has taken a new turn when it comes to its marketing by boxing it into certain aesthetics/styles (street style, grunge, fairycore, Y2K, dark academia, and more).
ref: 2022 November 10, Monique F. Pardillo, “What to put in your wardrobe capsule”, in SunStar Cebu:
text: The kids are on board, with #WitchTok (a sect of video platform TikTok populated by purple-nailed, crystal-collecting modern practitioners of Wicca) attracting thousands of users and “fairycore aesthetic” (think Pinterest boards filled with mushroom-shaped lamps and vine-covered wind chimes) blowing up across social media.
ref: 2022 December 24, Rebecca Baird, “Why Pagans are finding a place”, in The Courier:
qualifier: aesthetic
glosses: An aesthetic focusing on imagery and fashion related to fairies.
paleochemotaxonomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Use of biomarker chemicals in sedimentary rocks to classify lifeforms.
blendshape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blendshapes
form: blend shape
Etymology: From blend + shape.
Senses: examples: text: If you don't have the blendshapes your character needs then your character cannot act except with body language.
ref: 2013, Tina O'Hailey, Rig it Right!: Maya Animation Rigging Concepts, Focal Press, →ISBN, page 86:
text: Similarly, avatar facial animation through vision-based methods has been explored following a similar approach in which facial features on the user's face are tracked via a Kinect [15] or single image acquisition methods [3, 4, 10] to generate animation via detailed face rigs or pre-defined blendshapes.
ref: 2015, Konstantinos Cornelis Apostolakis, Petros Daras, “Natural User Interfaces for Virtual Character Full Body and Facial Animation in Immersive Virtual Worlds”, in Lucio Tommaso De Paolis, Antonio Mongelli, editors, Augmented and Virtual Reality: Second International Conference, AVR 2015, Lecce, Italy, August 31 – September 3, 2015, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), Springer International Publishing Switzerland, →ISBN, section 1 (Introduction), pages 371–372:
text: Second, and more widely used for real-time purposes, facial blendshapes (predefined morph targets) can be defined as morph properties of the avatar's face and deformed according to tracking software inputs [Orvalho et al., 2012].
ref: 2019, William R. Sherman, editor, VR Developer Gems, A K Peters, →ISBN:
qualifier: animation
glosses: A face rig allowing an animator to generate new facial expressions by combining or blending a set of predefined expressions (known as the targets).
blendshapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blendshape
covid parties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of covid party
coronavirus parties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coronavirus party
cypressoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: cupressoid
glosses: Of a Surtseyan volcanic cloud, resembling a clump of cypress trees in shape.
Tayabeña
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tayabeñas
Senses: glosses: Female equivalent of Tayabeño.
Tayabense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tayabenses
Etymology: From Tagalog Tayabense, from Spanish tayabense, from Tayabas + -ense.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Tayabas, Quezon.
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Quezon.
Synonyms: sense: native or inhabitant of Tayabas
word: Tayabasin
sense: native or inhabitant of Tayabas
word: Tayabeño
sense: native or inhabitant of Quezon
word: Quezonian
sense: native or inhabitant of Quezon
word: Quezonin
sense: native or inhabitant of Quezon
word: Tayabasin
sense: native or inhabitant of Quezon
word: Tayabeño
Tayabense
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Tagalog Tayabense, from Spanish tayabense, from Tayabas + -ense.
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to Tayabas, Quezon.
glosses: Of, or pertaining to Quezon.
Synonyms: word: Tayabasin
word: Tayabeño
sense: of, or pertaining to Quezon
word: Quezonian
sense: of, or pertaining to Quezon
word: Quezonin
sense: of, or pertaining to Quezon
word: Tayabasin
sense: of, or pertaining to Quezon
word: Tayabeño
ding right
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ding rights
Etymology: Partial calque of Cantonese 丁權 /丁权 (ding¹ kyun⁴).
Senses: glosses: The right to build a village house under the Small House Policy.
Tayabenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tayabense
TRCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TRC
TRNs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TRN
TRPGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TRPG
tTGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tTG
TTRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TTR
TTRPGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TTRPG
TURPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TURP
TVQs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TVQ
txns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of txn
TYRP1s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TYRP1
UCLs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of UCL
UCPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of UCP
UFAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of UFA
UGVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of UGV
UKTTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of UKTT
ULFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ULF
UMEs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of UME
Uqaylids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Uqaylid
URBIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of URBI
USAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of USA
UTMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of UTM
Utrechters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Utrechter
UTVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of UTV
UVPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of UVP
V/STOLs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of V/STOL
V4s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of V4
co-adjutrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-adjutrixes
form: co-adjutrices
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of coadjutrix.
transterminologization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transterminologizations
Etymology: From trans- + terminologization.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: reterminologization
glosses: The process of a termineme during which it is rethought and moved to another domain and becomes the property of that domain.
Related terms: determinologization
reterminologization
terminologization
goes overboard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go overboard.
WoS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Web of Science.
N-word pass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: N-word passes
form: n-word pass
Etymology: From the fact that the word nigga is commonly used in African American Vernacular English, despite being popularly perceived as racist when used by a nonblack individual.
Senses: examples: text: Behn jokes about the kid being just another white boy looking for an "n-word pass", but then Adam accepts a challenge by a cocky rapper looking for an Old West-type draw (the punk even calls himself Billy Pistols).
ref: 2018 November 2, Rafael Motamayor, “Bodied is one of the most surprising, scorching satires of the year”, in Polygon, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2022:
text: I have had the N-word said to me three times and when I said, "Hey that's not OK," they replied that I have the "N-word pass," I am 1% African American, or they said that racism is over, and that is sadly not true. People today are still being treated differently because the color of their skin.
ref: 2019 May 26, Matthew McClure, “End the "N-word pass"”, in The Spokesman-Review, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2022:
text: Your son might question this last idea if he is familiar with the concept of an "N-word pass," by which a black person grants a nonblack person permission to use the term.
ref: 2020 January 23, Lisa Damour, “My Son's Friends Use Slurs in Online Games. What Can I Do?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 25 Nov 2022:
text: The doctored photo shows Martin Luther King Jr. next to a student who is holding a sheet of paper that reads, "Official N-word pass."
ref: 2020 June 11, Janelle Griffith, “Georgia high school investigating racist yearbook photo involving Martin Luther King Jr.”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 26 Dec 2022:
text: It found that some non-Black students demanded Black students give them an "N-word Pass," which would allegedly give them permission to use that slur freely, and said that if Black students resisted, they were sometimes threatened or physically assaulted.
ref: 2021 October 21, Laura Meckler, “Justice Dept. finds Utah school district allowed 'severe racial harassment' of minority students”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 24 Oct 2021:
glosses: A notional pass giving permission for a nonblack person to say the words nigga or nigger without being perceived as racist.
N-word passes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of N-word pass
Robellus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: portmanteau of Rogers, Bell, and Telus.
Senses: glosses: collective term for three major Canadian telecommunications companies Rogers Communications, Bell Canada, and Telus.
Dark Academia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Dark Academia.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of dark academia.
flamecrest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flamecrests
Etymology: From flame + crest.
Senses: synonyms: Taiwan firecrest
Taiwan flamecrest
glosses: A bird of the species Regulus goodfellowi, native to the mountains of Taiwan.
manufactor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manufactors
Senses: examples: text: […] the Manufactors become impoverished, especially in those of Woollen Cloth and Iron; […]
ref: 1674, Richard Haines, The Prevention of Poverty, page 3:
glosses: A manufacturer.
Salwarpe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish (served by Hindlip, Martin Hussingtree and Salwarpe (combined) Parish Council) in Wychavon district, Worcestershire, England, next to Droitwich (OS grid ref SO8761).
glosses: A river near Salwarpe and Droitwich Worcestershire, a tributary of the Severn; in full, the River Salwarpe.
hyperserotonergic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + serotonergic.
Senses: glosses: More than normally serotonergic
Bhimrao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit.
Hindlip
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish (served by Hindlip, Martin Hussingtree and Salwarpe (combined) Parish Council) in Wychavon district, Worcestershire, England, north-east of Worcester (OS grid ref SO8858).
sharpsichord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A musical instrument that is a combination harp and music box operated by pins in a rotating cylinder, invented by Henry Dagg
Martin Hussingtree
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish (served by Hindlip, Martin Hussingtree and Salwarpe (combined) Parish Council) in Wychavon district, Worcestershire, England, between Droitwich and Worcester (OS grid ref SO8860).
biophosphorescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The emission of visible light from a living organism after stimulation by light.
Related terms: bioluminescence
biofluorescence
biolasing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Production of a laser beam in biological materials.
Related terms: biolaser
Toybob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Toybobs
Senses: glosses: One of a breed of small and compact cats with short kinked tails.
biolaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biolasers
Etymology: From bio- + laser.
Senses: glosses: A laser produced in biological materials.
petroplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petroplastics
form: petro-plastic
Senses: glosses: A plastic produced from petroleum, as opposed to bioplastic.
transcarbamoylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transcarbamoylations
Etymology: From trans- + carbamoylation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The transfer of a carbamoyl group (NH₂-CO-) to another molecule.
diimidates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diimidate
diimidate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diimidates
Etymology: From di- + imidate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound containing two imidate groups.
transcarbamoylations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transcarbamoylation
Kanaky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kəˈnækiː/
Etymology: Likely from Kanak.
Senses: glosses: New Caledonia (an archipelago and overseas territory of France in Oceania).
crodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crodie
Jokowi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Indonesian Jokowi.
Senses: qualifier: nickname
glosses: Joko Widodo (the current President of Indonesia)
Related terms: Albo
Scomo
I don't boil my cabbage twice
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of I don't chew my cabbage twice.
Hagnaby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Hannah cum Hagnaby parish, East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF4879).
Hannah cum Hagnaby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England, which includes the named places.
DIICOT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism.
comfort-eaten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of comfort-eat
comfort-eats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of comfort-eat
comfort-eating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of comfort-eat
comfort-ate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of comfort-eat
Slater determinant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Slater determinants
Etymology: Named after John C. Slater, who introduced the determinant in 1929 as a means of ensuring the antisymmetry of a many-electron wavefunction, although the wavefunction in the determinant form first appeared independently in Heisenberg's and Dirac's articles three years earlier.
Senses: qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: An expression that describes the wavefunction of a multifermionic system. It satisfies antisymmetry requirements, and consequently the Pauli exclusion principle, by changing sign upon exchange of two electrons (or other fermions).
wikipedia: John C. Slater
Slater determinants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Slater determinant
Fock matrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fock matrixes
form: Fock matrices
Senses: qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: In the Hartree-Fock method of quantum mechanics, a matrix approximating the single-electron energy operator of a given quantum system in a given set of basis vectors.
Fock matrixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fock matrix
Fock matrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fock matrix
M-way
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: M-ways
form: M way
Senses: examples: text: I've been out of town, spinning like segways / Break down the shh, flying up M-ways
ref: 2015, “3 the Hard Way”, in The End of the Beginning, performed by Skrapz, Nines, and J Man:
text: I'm tweakin', tweakin' / 120 on the M-way, speedin'
ref: 2019, “Professor X”, in Top Boy (A Selection of Music Inspired by the Series), performed by Dave:
text: Hit the M-Way with two phones up (uh-huh) / Now I'm tryna come back with guala
ref: 2020, “If Only You Knew”, in Dutch from the 5th, performed by Dutchavelli:
text: I mean, I just seen feds on the M-way
ref: 2021, “Money Talks”, in Money Can't Buy Happiness, performed by Fredo and Dave:
glosses: Abbreviation of motorway.
M way
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: M ways
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of M-way.
M-ways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of M-way
M ways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of M way
Deepika
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit.
I don't chew my cabbage twice
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: synonyms: I don't boil my cabbage twice
glosses: An impertinent refusal to repeat one's earlier statement when asked to do so.
Related terms: cauld kale het again
Zeenat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Arabic.
tar derby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the tar derby
Senses: glosses: A period in the 1950s when tar content became the focus of cigarette advertising.
block-booked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of block-book
block-books
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of block-book
block-booking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: block-bookings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of block booking.
block-booking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of block-book
blocks off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of block off
blocking off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of block off
blocked off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of block off
broad-brushes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of broad-brush
broad-brushing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of broad-brush
broad-brushed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of broad-brush
broadclothed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From broadcloth + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing broadcloth.
broadloomed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of broadloom.
synonyms: word: broadloom
broad-ranging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more broad-ranging
form: most broad-ranging
Senses: glosses: Synonym of wide-ranging.
synonyms: word: wide-ranging
slavehoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slavehood
Theudebert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin Theudebertus, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *Þeudōberhtaz, from *þeudō (“people”) + *berhtaz (“bright, shining”). Equivalent to French Thibault and German Dietbert.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages, of historical usage.
Theudebald
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Theodebald
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin Theudebaldus, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *Þeudubalþ, from *þeudō (“people”) + *balþaz (“bright, shining”). Doublet of Theobald.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages, of historical usage, notably borne by the Frankish king Theudebald.
radio alphabet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radio alphabets
Senses: glosses: Synonym of spelling alphabet.
synonyms: word: spelling alphabet
radio alphabets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radio alphabet
telephone alphabet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telephone alphabets
Senses: glosses: Synonym of spelling alphabet.
synonyms: word: spelling alphabet
telephone alphabets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telephone alphabet
voice procedure alphabet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voice procedure alphabets
Senses: glosses: Synonym of spelling alphabet.
synonyms: word: spelling alphabet
voice procedure alphabets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voice procedure alphabet
word-spelling alphabet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: word-spelling alphabets
Senses: glosses: Synonym of spelling alphabet.
synonyms: word: spelling alphabet
word-spelling alphabets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of word-spelling alphabet