cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
psychotraumatologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychotraumatologists
Senses: glosses: One who studies psychotraumatology.
psychotraumatologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychotraumatologist
psychotraumas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychotrauma
make a habit of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes a habit of
form: making a habit of
form: made a habit of
form: made a habit of
Senses: glosses: To do often.
Related terms: get used to
opilionologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opilionologists
Senses: examples: text: For more than 30 years I have been accustomed to write of "opilionology" and to call myself an "opilionologist", words that are to be recommended on account of their euphony.
ref: 1977, Theodore Horace Savory, Arachnida, page 298:
text: It is possible for experienced opilionologists to identify harvestmen in the field, say with a 10 x lens, but records for publication must be checked with a microscope.
ref: 1989, Paul D. Hillyard, Harvestmen: Keys and Notes for the Identification of the Species:
text: Whenever multiple characters can be chosen for recognizing groups. we have focused on those that are easily observable without the need for sophisticated techniques. having the amateur opilionologist in mind.
ref: 2007, Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha, Harvestmen: The Biology of Opiliones, page 88:
glosses: One who studies the Opiliones or harvestmen.
Related terms: opilionology
opilionologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opilionologist
opilionology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There are certain to be differences, and 'comparative opilionology' presents a wide field.
ref: 1974, Theodore Horace Savory, Introduction to arachnology, page 35:
text: During the 1920s the German zoologist Alfred Kastner emerged as the leading student of opilionology and arachnology in general.
ref: 2007, Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha, Harvestmen: The Biology of Opiliones, page 14:
text: Broad interest in harvestman phylogenetic relationships and biogeographic history has advanced the field of opilionology greatly […]
ref: 2015, G Giribet, “Evolutionary biology of harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones)”, in Annual Review of Entomology, volume 60, page 157:
glosses: The study of the Opiliones or harvestmen.
Related terms: opilionologist
forlongs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forlong
forlongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forlong
forlonged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forlong
bithematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + thematic.
Senses: glosses: Involving or relating to two themes.
restandardize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: restandardizes
form: restandardizing
form: restandardized
form: restandardized
Etymology: From re- + standardize.
Senses: glosses: To standardize again.
Karens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Karen
puppychino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puppychinos
Etymology: Blend of puppy + cappuccino
Senses: glosses: Frothed milk or cream served in a small receptacle to dogs at a dog-friendly café.
Related terms: puppuccino
puppychinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puppychino
restandardizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of restandardize
restandardizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of restandardize
dog-friendly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: dog-friendlier
form: more dog-friendly
form: dog-friendliest
form: most dog-friendly
Senses: glosses: Of a café, restaurant, etc., allowing patrons to bring their pet dogs.
sherardisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sherardization.
kinesiotherapist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinesiotherapists
Senses: glosses: A practitioner of kinesiotherapy.
kinesiotherapists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kinesiotherapist
kinesitherapists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kinesitherapist
glycocyamines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glycocyamine
semi-rural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + rural.
Senses: examples: text: The station at Putney Bridge opened in time for the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race in March 1880. Fulham was semi-rural at this point.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 80:
glosses: Alternative form of semirural.
qaqarssukite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Qaqarssuk, Greenland + -ite. Named in 2006 by JD Grice and others.
Senses: qualifier: minerals
glosses: A barium rare earth fluorocarbonate mineral with ideal formula BaCe(CO₃)₂F
fluorocarbonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluorocarbonates
Etymology: From fluoro- + carbonate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A substance containing both fluoride and carbonate ions.
Synonyms: fluocarbonate
fluorcarbonate
carbonate fluoride
carbonatefluoride
fluoride carbonate
fluoridecarbonate
fluorocarbonates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluorocarbonate
alkanamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkanamides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The amide of an alkyl carboxylic acid
alkanamides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alkanamide
allogamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From allogamy + -ic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: allogamous
glosses: Relating to allogamy
amebopore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amebopores
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A peptide responsible for pore formation in cell walls
amyloidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: amyloid + -ity
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: The condition of being amyloid
Dunhuangology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dʊnhwæŋˈɒlɒd͡ʒi/
/dʊnhwɑŋˈɒlɒd͡ʒi/
Forms: form: Tunhuangology
Etymology: From Dunhuang + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The academic study of the city of Dunhuang, China, in particular its cultural and historical heritage.
Synonyms: Dunhuang studies
Related terms: Dunhuangologist
anaesthesiometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anesthesiometry.
anesthesiometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The measurement of anesthesia
Dunhuang studies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dunhuangology.
Dunhuangologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dʊnhwæŋˈɒlɒd͡ʒɪst/
/dʊnhwɑŋˈɒlɒd͡ʒɪst/
Forms: form: Dunhuangologists
Etymology: From Dunhuangology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An expert in Dunhuangology.
Dunhuangologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dunhuangologist
anemoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anemosides
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of antiinflammatory substances present in anemones and passion flowers
angiologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In an angiological manner
anguinid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anguinids
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Anguina of nematodes.
anguinids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anguinid
antevaginal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪnəl
-ædʒɪnəl
Etymology: From ante- + vaginal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: anterior to the vagina
anticalcifying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + calcifying.
Senses: glosses: That prevents calcification
anticandicidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: candicidal
antiechinococcal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + echinococcal.
Senses: glosses: That counters echinococcus parasites
antiperoxidant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + peroxidant.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of antiperoxidative.
synonyms: word: antiperoxidative
antroposphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of anthroposphere.
apelinergic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From apelin + -ergic.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Produced or activated by apelin
apicalwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From apical + -wards.
Senses: glosses: towards an apex
appresorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of appressorial.
aspherize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: aspherizes
form: aspherizing
form: aspherized
form: aspherized
Etymology: From aspherical + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make aspherical
aspherized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of aspherize
aspherizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aspherize
astigmatid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astigmatids
Senses: glosses: Any mite of the clade Astigmatina
astigmatids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astigmatid
autocorrellogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of autocorrelogram.
auxosporulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: auxosporulates
form: auxosporulating
form: auxosporulated
form: auxosporulated
Etymology: From auxo- + sporulate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To undergo auxosporulation
auxosporulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of auxosporulate
azetidinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azetidinones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A lactam, derived from azetidine, that is the basis beta-lactam antibiotics
azokeratin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:azokeratin.
glosses: A blue dye obtained from keratin.
Synonyms: keratin azure
neocolonist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neocolonist
form: most neocolonist
Senses: glosses: Synonym of neocolonialist.
synonyms: word: neocolonialist
neocolonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neocolonists
Senses: glosses: Synonym of neocolonialist.
synonyms: word: neocolonialist
poor dab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpʊə(ɹ)ˈdæb/
ipa: /pɔː ˈdæb/
ipa: /ˌpuə ˈdab/
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: poor dabs
Etymology: From poor + dab (“small child, chit; untidy woman”).
Senses: glosses: Someone to be pitied, poor thing
poor dab
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpʊə(ɹ)ˈdæb/
ipa: /pɔː ˈdæb/
ipa: /ˌpuə ˈdab/
rhymes: -æb
Etymology: From poor + dab (“small child, chit; untidy woman”).
Senses: glosses: poor thing
hitching rail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hitching rails
Senses: glosses: A horizontal rail with vertical supports to which a horse can be hitched, or tied up to.
Related terms: hitching post
Brina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: 'Brina
Etymology: Aphetic form of Sabrina.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Sabrina.
hitching rails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hitching rail
beled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of belead
Eidsvold
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Norwegian, since 1918 revised to Eidsvoll.
Senses: glosses: A town in Queensland, Australia.
antigenaemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antigenaemia
chapters of accidents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chapter of accidents
cyclooxygenations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclooxygenation
bow grips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bow grip
waltzy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: waltzier
form: waltziest
Etymology: From waltz + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The idea of melodic references to existing hymns serves the composer well, even though the Gloria gets a little "waltzy."
ref: 1971, Church Music, numbers 1-2, page 39:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a waltz.
waltzier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of waltzy: more waltzy
to this effect
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of to the effect.
to that effect
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of to the effect.
Kazanian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Kazan + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Kazan Tatar; Tatar proper, an agglutinative language belonging to the Altai group of Turkic languages. It is an official language of Tatarstan, and distinguished from Crimean Tatar and Siberian Tatar.
Synonyms: Kazan Tatar
Kazan Tatarian
Kazanian Tatar
Tatar
Tatarian
Kazanian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Kazan + -ian.
Senses: glosses: From, of or pertaining to Kazan.
glosses: From, of or pertaining to the Kazan Tatars, the "nominate" Tatarian ethnic group (who are indigenous people of Eastern Europe and Russia) that are simply called Tatars, distinguished from Crimean Tatars and Siberian Tatars.
glosses: From, of or pertaining to Kazan Tatar, Tatar proper, an agglutinative language belonging to the Altai group of Turkic languages. It is an official language of Tatarstan, and distinguished from Crimean Tatar and Siberian Tatar.
Synonyms: Kazan Tatar
Kazan Tatarian
Kazanian Tatar
Tatar
Tatarian
Kazanian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kazanians
Etymology: From Kazan + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A person from Kazan.
glosses: A Kazan Tatar; a member of the "nominate" Tatarian ethnic group (who are indigenous people of Eastern Europe and Russia) that are simply called Tatars, distinguished from Crimean Tatars and Siberian Tatars.
Synonyms: Kazan Tatar
Kazanian Tatar
Tatar
wear leveling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wear levelling
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A technique for extending the service life of some kinds of erasable storage media, such as flash memory, by arranging data so that erasures and rewrites are distributed evenly across the medium.
wear levelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wear leveling.
interarticle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + article.
Senses: glosses: Between articles.
interentry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + entry.
Senses: glosses: Between entries.
Kernighan-Lin algorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Kernighan-Lin algorithm
Etymology: Devised by Shen Lin and Brian Kernighan.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A heuristic algorithm for finding partitions of graphs, having important applications in the layout of digital circuits and components in VLSI.
Fiduccia-Mattheyses algorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Fiduccia-Mattheyses algorithm
Etymology: Introduced in a 1982 paper by Fiduccia and Mattheyses.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: FM algorithm
glosses: An iterative heuristic algorithm for bipartitioning a hypergraph.
Lin-Kernighan heuristic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Lin-Kernighan heuristic
Etymology: Devised by Shen Lin and Brian Kernighan.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: In combinatorial optimization, a heuristic for solving the symmetric travelling salesman problem, involving the swapping of pairs of subtours to make a new tour.
separable extension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: separable extensions
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A finite (and thereby algebraic) extension of a base field such that every element of the extension is the root of a separable polynomial over the base field.
Hypernyms: algebraic extension
Hyponyms: Galois extension
Related terms: separable polynomial
lift girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lift girls
Senses: examples: text: Selfridges wouldn't have an escalator until 1952, but then it was famous for its gilded electrical lifts (and lift girls).
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 83:
glosses: a female lift (elevator) operator.
Related terms: liftboy
lephet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lahpet.
lift girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lift girl
electric light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electric lights
Senses: examples: text: As late as 1910, only 7 per cent of Londoners had electric light in their homes.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 83:
glosses: Artificial light using electricity as a source of illumination.
examples: text: The electric light system at Paddington is a very large one. There are 101 of these big lights of 2.000 candle power each, 4,000 of 25, and 23 of 100 candle power respectively, […].
ref: 1944 July and August, “London Railway Stations in 1893”, in Railway Magazine, page 201, taken from The English Illustrated Magazine of June 1893:
glosses: A device producing such light.
Derived terms: electric light bug
electric lights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electric light
well-pointed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Said of a category or topos: that it has a terminal object (or that it has no zero object, if it is a topos) and in which any distinct pair of parallel morphisms can be distinguished by their distinct compositions with a global element of their domain; i.e. any pair of parallel morphisms is distinct if and only if there is a global element in their domain that does not equalize them.
deep-level
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The deep-level Tubes required the invention of a tunnelling machine and a means of propelling trains through those tunnels that would not choke the passengers. The answer to the latter was electricity, and we have seen how electric traction had become established by the late nineteenth century.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 86:
glosses: Built or occurring underground at a relatively deep level.
Related terms: high-level
low-level
far-sightedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From far-sighted + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Marc Brunel was a royalist refugee from revolutionary France. He specialised in ideas that were ahead of their time - of which he seems to have had one a week - and he had a gift for making those around him seem churlish and reactionary in comparison to his own far-sightedness.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 87:
glosses: Alternative form of farsightedness.
eefers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eefer
Lanky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Clipping of Lancashire with -y.
Senses: examples: text: The rest of us , whether we spoke Lanky or Urdu, whether we were born in Karachi or Keighley, could go to hell.
ref: 2008 September 4, Stuart Maconie, Pies and Prejudice: In search of the North, Random House, →ISBN, page 167:
glosses: The dialect of English spoken in Lancashire.
examples: text: The Lanky was 'The Business Line' – cotton, wool and coal – but a lot of northern towns now had their own 'wakes' or holiday week, and the Lanky was all for that, because then people wanted to pack up, and they wanted to be off.
ref: 2009 April 2, Andrew Martin, The Blackpool Highflyer, Faber & Faber, →ISBN:
text: We had an extra pilot [engine] on summer Saturdays for excursion traffic and on this particular day we had a Lanky ' A ' class.
ref: 2012 July 1, Kenn Pearce, Shed Side in South Lancashire and Cheshire: The Last Days of Steam, The History Press, →ISBN:
glosses: The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.
Lanky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lankies
Etymology: Clipping of Lancashire with -y.
Senses: examples: text: It is often observed that Lankies (Lancashire folk), on entering a room, whether in the heat of summer or the cold of winter, invariably rush to the fire-place.
ref: 1878, Henry Mills Alden, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, page 320:
text: I am what a Yorkshireman would call a 'Lanky', and perhaps as poor a specimen of the cotton county's human produce as ever trounced barefoot through its lanes, or shuddered at the sound of its factory bells.
ref: 1884, Benjamin Brierley, Tales and Sketches of Lancashire Life, page 25:
glosses: Someone from Lancashire.
Lanky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Clipping of Lancashire with -y.
Senses: examples: text: Despite several stellar features - amongst others Phelps - he was Lanky, too
ref: 1909, Harry Lindley, Merely Players ..., page 21:
text: In any case, Butch spoke the Yankee way, not the Lanky way and, no matter where you look, it's not until the football age of industry and terraces that Homo Northwestus gets heroes.
ref: 1992, Bill T. Jones, Liz Andrew, Homo Northwestus: A Quest for the Species, North-West Man : Based on the Granada Television Series with Ray Gosling:
text: Burnley's deputy mayor, Alderman Keighley, sent them on their way with a brief address, which concluded with a Lanky send-off for Lancashire lads
ref: 2015 October 22, Stewart Binns, The Darkness and the Thunder: 1915: The Great War Series, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
glosses: From Lancashire or having distinctive Lancashire traits.
counter-authoritarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more counter-authoritarian
form: most counter-authoritarian
form: counterauthoritarian
Etymology: From counter- + authoritarian.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of antiauthoritarian.
synonyms: word: antiauthoritarian
anti-authoritarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anti-authoritarian
form: most anti-authoritarian
Etymology: From anti- + authoritarian.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of antiauthoritarian.
anti-authoritarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-authoritarians
Etymology: From anti- + authoritarian.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of antiauthoritarian.
counterauthoritarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more counterauthoritarian
form: most counterauthoritarian
Etymology: From counter- + authoritarian.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of counter-authoritarian.
sub-aqueous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + aqueous.
Senses: examples: text: The tunnel is 4 miles 628 yd. long, and is the longest tunnel on a British main-line railway, and the longest sub-aqueous tunnel in the world.
ref: 1948 September and October, “Weekend Works in the Severn Tunnel”, in Railway Magazine, page 298:
text: [...] he'd been hoping to build a bridge over the River Nova in St Petersburg. The Russians would eventually decide to go under the river, but not before Brunel had shown the way, by building the first sub-aqueous tunnel in the world.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 87:
glosses: Alternative form of subaqueous.
Stinking Bishop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Stinking Bishops
Etymology: A reference to Frederick (or Percy) Bishop, who owned Moorcroft Farm in the early 1800s and was presumably the cultivar's breeder; he is said to have had an ugly temperament.
Senses: glosses: A pear of a variety bred near Dymock in Gloucestershire, England, primarily for perry.
glosses: A washed-rind cheese made from the milk of Gloucester cattle and immersed in perry made from Stinking Bishop pears.
Stinking Bishops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Stinking Bishop
neocolonists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neocolonist
somniphobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of somniphobe
thyropathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æθɪk
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to thyropathy.
SGAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SGA
angle of His
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angles of His
Etymology: Posthumously named after Wilhelm His Jr. in 1906 by Daniel John Cunningham.
Senses: glosses: The acute angle formed between the cardia at the entrance to the stomach, and the esophagus. It forms a valve that prevents reflux of stomach acid etc.
wikipedia: Wilhelm His Jr.
angles of His
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angle of His
antiflatus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + flatus.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Serving to prevent flatus.
leadcolored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leadcolored
form: most leadcolored
Senses: examples: text: Male atrous leadcoloured on the upper side, under side a mixture of whitish and ferruginous with cuspidate fasciae ;
ref: 1830, Jonathan Stokes, Botanical Commentaries- Volume 1:
text: Antennae leadcolored with narrow white annulations; first joint white on the underside. Face white.
ref: 1913, Charles Fuller Baker, William Atwood Hilton, Journal of Entomology and Zoology - Volume 5, page 99:
text: SYMPHOROMYLA PLUMBEA, new species. Female.—Head, thorax, and abdomen black, covered with smooth leadcolored pollen; antennae and legs black, knees red;
ref: 1916, Proceedings of the United States National Museum:
glosses: Alternative form of lead-colored.
lead-colored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lead-colored
form: most lead-colored
form: lead-coloured
Senses: glosses: Having a dull grey (the color of lead) as its color.
LBWAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LBWA
relowered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of relower
relowering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of relower
relowers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of relower
Radhanites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Radhanite
gunfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gunful
rescrewing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rescrew
rescrews
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rescrew
rescrewed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rescrew
candlesticking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of candlestick
candlesticked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of candlestick
sofaing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sofa
sofaed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sofa
Hampstead Heath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: We had a nice picnic over at Hampstead Heath.
meronyms: Vale of Health
glosses: A large park or open space located mainly in the borough of Camden, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2786).
Hampstead Heath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hampsteads
Etymology: Rhyming slang for teeth, from Hampstead Heath.
Senses: glosses: teeth.
Synonyms: Hampstead
phycites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phycite
strawbed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strawbeds
form: straw-bed
form: straw bed
Etymology: From straw + bed.
Senses: examples: text: The lying-in woman was not allowed to lie in bed, but a strawbed was prepared for her on the floor.
ref: 1946, Knut Liestøl, Scottish and Norwegian Ballads - Issues 1-4, page 157:
text: To cut down labor pains , put something made of iron or steel between the strawbed and the featherbed.
ref: 1967, North Carolina Folklore - Volumes 15-18, page 180:
text: It is very difficult for me to make my strawbed in accordance with military regulations.
ref: 1987, Karl Fuchs, Horst Fuchs Richardson, Dennis E. Showalter, Sieg Heil!: war letters of Tank Gunner Karl Fuchs, 1937-1941, page 24:
text: Molitor escaped and "hid in the strawbed of his French mistress" before inexplicably leaving Germany and "arriving safely" in New York.
ref: 1990, Michigan History - Volumes 74-75, page 8:
glosses: A mattress made of dry straw in a cloth sack, often used beneath a featherbed or other softer mattress.
examples: text: An old woman called "Ala Ju" (Mother Julia) walked three miles to get me a sample of the Granny Bush (Croton linearis), whose leaves are steeped and given to women for nine days after childbirth, or "strawbed" as it is termed here.
ref: 1960, Bahamas Handbook and Businessman's Annual:
text: It grows profusely in the Bahamas. It is used for "building up men's energy and body" and as a sponge bath for women, "after they come out of strawbed".
ref: 1969, Mrs. Leslie Higgs, Bush Medicine in the Bahamas, page 15:
text: "Strawbed fever" results from an infection caught in "strawbed" (childbirth).
ref: 1994, Patricia Glinton-Meicholas, How to be a True-true Bahamian, page 47:
glosses: Childbirth.
Related terms: bedstraw
strawbeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strawbed
straw-bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: straw-beds
Senses: examples: text: I have six chairs and a table, a straw-bed, a featherbed, and a bag of straw for Thomas, a tea kettle, an iron pot, an iron baking pan, a frying pan, a gridiron, cups, saucers, plates and dishes, knivesand forks, two candlesticks andapair of snuffers.
ref: 1892, Moncure Daniel Conway, The Life of Thomas Paine:
glosses: Alternative form of strawbed.
straw-beds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of straw-bed
straw bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: straw beds
Senses: examples: text: You see the boy leaping from his straw bed in the dark at the first news of a snow-fall, and hurrying forth with borrowed tools to face the biting wind for the chance of earning the meal for which he has been hungering for days;
ref: 1857, The Leisure Hour: An Illustrated Magazine for Home Reading:
text: The best way to do this is to lay a flock bed on top of a straw bed.
ref: 2015, Ruth Goodman, How to be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Everyday Life:
glosses: Alternative form of strawbed.
examples: text: They really are better off indoors, I think, and the collective sigh of pleasure from the newly housed ewes as they gratefully subside into a deep, dry, straw bed, tells me that they agree.
ref: 2010, Tim Tyne, The Sheep Book For Smallholders, page 88:
text: But if your ground is sticky clay, the furrowing or straw bed methods will work better than this one.
ref: 2012, Carla Emery, The Encyclopedia of Country Living:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see straw, bed.
straw beds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of straw bed
be no stranger to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: is no stranger to
form: being no stranger to
form: was no stranger to
form: been no stranger to
Senses: examples: text: The dentist is no stranger to ill-behaved patients.
text: We're no strangers to love; you know the rules and so do I.
ref: 1987, Rick Astley, Never Gonna Give You Up:
glosses: To be familiar with due to past experience.
squintless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more squintless
form: most squintless
Etymology: From squint + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without squinting or the need to squint.
lee-gage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lee gauge.
lee gage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lee gauge.
lee gauge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lee-gage
form: lee gage
Senses: examples: text: The ship, or fleet, with the lee-gage could not attack ; if it did not wish to retreat, its action was confined to the defensive, and to receiving battle on the enemy’s terms.
ref: 1890, Alfred Thayer Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783, page 6:
text: In 1694, the 40-gun ship “Scarborough” was captured off Tory Island in very much the same manner as the “Anglesea,” that is, by the enemy taking the lee gauge ; and going back still further, the printed accounts of the Four Days’ Fight, in June, 1666, all dwell on the disadvantage which we were at by being to windward of the enemy.
ref: 1896, J.K. Laughton, “The study of naval history”, in Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall Yard, page 804:
topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
antonyms: weather gauge
glosses: The position of a sailing vessel leeward of another in battle, often restricting manoeuvrability and gunnery.
uplevelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uplevel
upleveled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uplevel
uplevelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uplevel
upleveling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uplevel
uplevels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uplevel
uplevels
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: They had done a spec on it uplevels and found it was a registration plate for a ship; it must have massed six, eight kilos.
ref: 1987, Michael Reaves, Steve Perry, Dome, page 144:
text: A message was sent uplevels.
ref: 1990, David Wingrove, Chung Kuo: The Middle Kingdom, page 555:
text: Polian's father had taken him uplevels, to Sky-ceiling, where they rented an open skimmer, filter masks, and waders.
ref: 2011, Robert Buettner, Undercurrents:
text: A half hour after Polian had left Orion Parker in the detention block interrogation Kube, he sat shivering in the blessed coolness of the first-class car that bore him back uplevels.
ref: 2014, Robert Buettner, Balance Point:
glosses: From, in, or to a higher level of an organization, society, or building.
uplevels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Evan said nothing until they were out into the public ways of the uplevels again.
ref: 1991, Diane Duane, Peter Morwood, Space Cops: Mindblast, page 68:
text: Uplevels won't go for it, Alex.
ref: 1998, Tom Clancy, Steve Pieczenik, Tom Clancy's net force, page 343:
text: And the Masbülc ops have gotten their claws hooked into that in a way that pisses off corporate uplevels.”
ref: 2013, Steve Perry, The Vastalimi Gambit, page 14:
glosses: The upper levels of an organization; elites.
atomaniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atomaniacs
Senses: examples: text: McBirnie thereby neatly absolves of responsibility our indigenous atomaniacs who openly advocate a third World War.
ref: 1970, Morris Kominsky, chapter V, in The Hoaxers: Plain Liars, Fancy Liars, and Damned Liars, volume I, Boston: Branden Press, Inc., 8283-1288-5, page 330:
glosses: A fanatical advocate for the nuclear arms race.
atomaniacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atomaniac
dorkery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dork + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: > […] I've slipped
> back into my dork mode instead of labeling my publications "self-parodies".
> iq.net might not like dorkery either.
ref: 1998 February 12, carrot, “Are we going to have to list the 10 Commandments?”, in alt.fan.oj-simpson (Usenet), archived from the original on 18 Jan 2025:
glosses: Dorky behavior.
top rope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: top ropes
form: top roping
form: top roped
form: top roped
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of top-rope.
top ropes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of top rope
top roping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of top rope
top roped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of top rope
ball grid array
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ball grid arrays
form: BGA
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A type of surface mount used to connect integrated circuits to printed circuit boards.
ball grid arrays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ball grid array
culinary arts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of culinary art
cum receptacles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cum receptacle
cum tributes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cum tribute
cumenols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cumenol
cunninghamias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cunninghamia
cunt munchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cunt muncher
cycliophorans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cycliophoran
cyclopeptolides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclopeptolide
DNI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DNIs
Etymology: Shortenings.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of direct neural interface.
glosses: Initialism of direct normal irradiance.
glosses: Initialism of direct normal insolation.
examples: text: “D.N.I. Gabbard is an important member of the president’s team and her work continues to serve him and this country well,” Mr. Cheung said.
ref: 2025 June 20, Julian E. Barnes, Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan, quoting Steven Cheung, “Trump’s Rebuke of Gabbard Signals an Uneasy Moment”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of director of national intelligence
DNI
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Shortenings.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of do not intubate.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of do not install.
DNI
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: DNI if you dislike the divinatory arts.
glosses: Initialism of do not interact.
Derived terms: english: minors, do not interact
translation: minors, do not interact
word: MDNI
DNI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DNIs
Senses: glosses: On social media, a list of types of people who are requested not to interact with the original user posting the list.
DNI
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: You are DNI.
text: "Enough cops down here," she agreed. She flashed back to Mukami's mental message, the brutal treatment in the hot shed, and felt unhappy uncertainty boiling in her stomach. "They know you were stealing from us? "Hell no. You guys are DNI. But I got tired of eating hospital food, so."
ref: 2023 September 26, HarryBlank, “We Stand Divided”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 25 May 2024:
glosses: In the list of types of people who are requested to not interact with the poster.
fourth rail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fourth rails
Senses: examples: text: It was the only line to operate by means of the third-rail system (as distinct from the fourth-rail system now universal on all London's Underground railways) and its coaches were of different design and appearance from those on other systems.
ref: 1948 January and February, C. R. L. Coles, “The Grouping Era”, in Railway Magazine, page 21:
text: The railway used the 'Third Rail' system of electrification, like all the early Tubes. (But it would soon be replaced across the network by another system even more exciting - Fourth''' Rail!)
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 103:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: An extra rail in addition to the third rail (live rail) which is used for current return purposes, mainly by London Underground, because of problems caused by using the running rails for current return underground.
bacculovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of baculovirus.
bacillopeptin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bacillopeptins
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of cyclic lipopeptide antibiotics present in Bacillus subtilis
bacillopeptins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bacillopeptin
Kate and Sidney pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kate and Sidney pies
form: Kate and Sydney pie
Senses: glosses: Spoonerism of steak and kidney pie
Kate and Sydney pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kate and Sydney pies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kate and Sidney pie.
bathygenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bathy- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Produced at great depth
belcomethasone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of beclomethasone.
bent function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bent functions
Etymology: So called because they are as different as possible from all linear functions (the simplest or "straight-line" functions) and from all affine functions (which preserve parallel lines).
Senses: topics: combinatorics
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A Boolean function f: Z ₂ⁿ→ Z ₂ whose Walsh transform has constant absolute value.
bent functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bent function
samplets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of samplet
benthophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bentho- + -philic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: That thrives at great depth
Walsh transform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Walsh transforms
Etymology: Named after the American mathematician Joseph L. Walsh.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Hadamard transform.
synonyms: word: Hadamard transform
Walsh function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Walsh functions
Etymology: Named after the American mathematician Joseph L. Walsh.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: In harmonic analysis, any of a complete orthogonal set of functions that can be used to represent any discrete function.
Walsh functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Walsh function
fourth rails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fourth rail
benzopyranol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzopyranols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any organic compound composed of a benzene ring fused to one of a pyranol
benzopyranols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benzopyranol
pyranol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyranols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any alcohol derived from a pyran.
Derived terms: benzopyranol
pyranols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyranol
biepicondilar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of biepicondylar.
wood poppy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wood poppies
Senses: glosses: A plant of the species Stylophorum diphyllum
Synonyms: sense: Stylophorum diphyllum
word: celandine poppy
sense: Stylophorum diphyllum
word: poppywort
sense: Stylophorum diphyllum
word: wood gold poppy
Derived terms: taxonomic: Glaucidium palmatum
word: Japanese wood poppy
PGSOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PGSO
biohydroxylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biohydroxylations
Etymology: From bio- + hydroxylation.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: biochemical hydroxylation, typically of hydrocarbons
biohydroxylations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biohydroxylation
bioidentity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioidentities
Etymology: From bio- + identity.
Senses: glosses: identity based on bioidentification
biophotometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + photometry.
Senses: glosses: photometry by means of a biophotometer
Related terms: biophotometric
biophotometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + photometric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to biophotometry
biotransported
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of biotransport
biovolatilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + volatilization.
Senses: glosses: biological volatilization
bolinopsin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A photoprotein present in the ctenophore Bolinopsis infundibulum
bromolactone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bromolactones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any brominated derivative of a lactone
nonpluralistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + pluralistic.
Senses: glosses: Not pluralistic.
bupremorphine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of buprenorphine.
nonplumbing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + plumbing.
Senses: examples: nonplumbing work; a nonplumbing firm
glosses: Not of or relating to plumbing.
incitomotor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Inciting to motion; applied to that action which, in the case of muscular motion, commences in the nerve centers, and excites the muscles to contraction.
Coordinate terms: excitomotor
excitomotory
incoupling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of incouple
incoupling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incouplings
Senses: examples: text: Depending on the process, the resist may be used at a film thickness either for maximum incoupling or for minimum incoupling.
ref: 1990, Microcircuit Engineering, page 121:
text: The dimension of the waveguides, i.e. a film thickness d = 1 µm, was chosen in order to find a compromise between efficient incoupling of the light and single mode guiding.
ref: 2004, Sebastian Bär, Crystalline Rare Earth Doped Sesquioxide PLD-films on α-Alumina, page 97:
glosses: The act of transferring incoming energy into an electronic device.
Santhali
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Santali.