cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sweetheart tax deals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweetheart tax deal
Debye unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Debye units
Senses: glosses: Synonym of debye.
synonyms: word: debye
Debye units
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Debye unit
Dehwar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dehwars
form: Dehwar
Senses: glosses: A member of an ethnic group of the Balochistan region of Pakistan and Iran, who speak Dehwari.
Dehwars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dehwar
American Beauty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: American Beauties
Senses: glosses: A deep pink to crimson rose cultivar, bred by Henri Lédéchaux in France in 1875.
American Beauties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of American Beauty
room party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: room parties
Senses: examples: text: At most cons I host a room party, usually related to the zine, but not always. They're quiet room parties because I'm one of those weirdo fans who doesn't really drink, and a lot of my fannish friends have small children, so we just don't serve alcohol at our parties.
ref: 2000 October 2, gbres...@my-deja.com, “Even more lifestyle questions”, in alt.lifestyle.furry (Usenet):
glosses: A small fan gathering, typically held in a hotel room.
Anatolian Shepherd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Anatolian Shepherds
Senses: glosses: Any dog descended from regional Turkish livestock guardian dogs, particularly the Kangal Shepherd Dog but also the Akbash.
room parties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of room party
Apollinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In this naiveté and forgetting, Nietzsche finds the triumph of the Apollinian illusion.
ref: 2012, Robert R. Williams, Tragedy, Recognition, and the Death of God, page 146:
glosses: Alternative form of Apollonian (“relating to Apollo”).
aquadag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the trade name Aquadag, short for aqueous deflocculated Acheson graphite.
Senses: examples: text: Provide a short thick lead from the spark gaps to a good contact with the aquadag (the outer coating on the tube) to return the energy to the tube.
ref: 2014, K. G. Jackson, G. B. Townsend, TV & Video Engineer's Reference Book:
glosses: A waterbased colloidal graphite coating commonly used in cathode ray tubes.
unmystifying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmystifying
form: most unmystifying
Etymology: From un- + mystifying.
Senses: glosses: Not mystifying.
Arizona sycamore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Arizona sycamores
Senses: glosses: Platanus wrightii, a sycamore tree native to Arizona and New Mexico.
Arizona sycamores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Arizona sycamore
Aryanist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aryanists
Etymology: From Aryan + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of Aryanism.
Related terms: Indo-Aryanist
Aryanists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aryanist
Ashe juniper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ashe junipers
Etymology: Named after American forester and botanist William Willard Ashe.
Senses: glosses: The tree Juniperus ashei.
wikipedia: William Willard Ashe
Ashe junipers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ashe juniper
Bahama grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In the meantime, Tichborne worked himself into a fury about Bahama grass. It had been planted years ago by Ballard, intended as a pretty border round the estate, but had proved rapacious and near impossible to eradicate. It dug itself in everywhere, spread rapidly, sucked the life out of the soil, killed off native species, and was altogether a blight upon the land.
ref: 2023, Zadie Smith, The Fraud, Hamish Hamilton, page 299:
glosses: Synonym of Bermuda grass.
synonyms: word: Bermuda grass
Banbury tart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Banbury tarts
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Banbury cake.
synonyms: word: Banbury cake
Banbury tarts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Banbury tart
Beardslee trout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Admiral Lester Beardslee (1836–1903).
Senses: synonyms: blueback
glosses: Oncorhynchus mykiss irideus f. beardsleei, a kind of rainbow trout that is endemic to Lake Crescent in Washington.
tip-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tip-up
Bayogoula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bayogoulas
form: Bayogoula
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bayagoula.
Bayogoulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bayogoula
Bayagoula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bayagoulas
form: Bayagoula
form: Bayogoula
Senses: glosses: A member of a Native American tribe from what is now Mississippi and Louisiana.
Bayagoulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bayagoula
Biloxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Biloxi
Bellabella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bella Bella.
Bella Bella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bellabella
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Heiltsuk.
synonyms: word: Heiltsuk
Bella Bella
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bellabella
Senses: examples: text: "It's particularly frustrating for me, because the reason why I have an incorrect name is because it was anglicized by Indian agents. I didn't create the problem, but I'm not getting any help to fix that," said H̓áust̓i, 34, who lives in the Heiltsuk coastal community of Bella Bella, B.C.
ref: 2021 July 8, Betsy Trumpener, “Heiltsuk woman unable to restore Indigenous surname on ID because system can't handle its spelling”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 10 Dec 2024:
glosses: An unincorporated community in Central Coast, British Columbia, Canada.
Belgian Blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Belgian Blues
Senses: glosses: A breed of beef cattle from Belgium, typically having blue-grey mottled hair.
Belgian Blues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Belgian Blue
double muscling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being double-muscled.
double-muscled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of cattle: carrying any of a number of genetic mutations that limit and reduce the activity of the myostatin protein, augmenting muscle growth and reducing fat deposits, resulting in lower-fat, less marbled meat.
Related terms: double muscling
Bermuda petrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bermuda petrels
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cahow.
synonyms: word: cahow
Bermuda petrels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bermuda petrel
Bermuda cedar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bermuda cedars
Senses: synonyms: Bermuda juniper
glosses: Juniperus bermudiana, a species of juniper endemic to Bermuda.
Bermuda juniper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bermuda junipers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Bermuda cedar.
synonyms: word: Bermuda cedar
Bermuda cedars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bermuda cedar
Bermuda junipers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bermuda juniper
Tzotzils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tzotzil
Tzotzile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tzotziles
form: Tzotzile
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tzotzil.
Tzotzile
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tzotzil.
Zotzil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zotzils
form: Zotzil
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tzotzil.
Zotzil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tzotzil.
Zotzile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zotziles
form: Zotzile
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tzotzil.
Zotzile
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tzotzil.
Tzotziles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tzotzile
Zotzils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zotzil
Zotziles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zotzile
TPW
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Tactical Provost Wing.
TPW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of total precipitable water.
trail ridge scrub grasshoppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trail ridge scrub grasshopper
Tsotsile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tsotsiles
form: Tsotsile
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tzotzil.
Tsotsile
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tzotzil.
Tsotsil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tsotsils
form: Tsotsil
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tzotzil.
Tsotsil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tzotzil.
Tsotsiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tsotsile
Tsotsils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tsotsil
Turcologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Turcologists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Turkologist.
Turcologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Turcologist
Turcology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Turkology.
Turcological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Turkological.
Turkish draughts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: dama
Turkish checkers
glosses: A variant of the game of draughts/checkers, played in Turkey and other locations around the Mediterranean Sea and Middle East.
Turkish checkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Turkish draughts.
synonyms: word: Turkish draughts
Raque
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Raques
Senses: glosses: A surname
Uchatius bronze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Invented by Franz von Uchatius (1811–1881), Austrian artillery general and inventor.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bronze steel.
synonyms: word: bronze steel
wikipedia: Franz von Uchatius
Uitoto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Witoto.
VRM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VRMs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of viscous remanent magnetization.
glosses: Initialism of voltage regulator module.
glosses: Initialism of variable range marker.
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of vendor relationship management.
glosses: Initialism of vehicle registration mark.
VRMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of VRM
fat innkeeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fat innkeepers
Etymology: So called from its shape and the fact that its tunnels often contain other animals.
Senses: glosses: Urechis caupo, a kind of spoonworm.
fat innkeepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fat innkeeper
Suellas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Suella
UKC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of University of Kent at Canterbury.
glosses: Initialism of United Kennel Club.
UKC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of under keel clearance
TLZ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: coordinate_terms: LZ
TZ
glosses: Initialism of titanium-lead-zinc, a type of paint.
TMTD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: thiram
glosses: Initialism of tetramethylthiuram disulfide.
RSHM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary.
PVO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PVOs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of private voluntary organization.
glosses: Initialism of probabilistic velocity obstacle.
PVO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Pioneer Venus Orbiter.
PVOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PVO
PTVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PTV
pulverator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulverators
Senses: glosses: A device for pulverising material.
pulverators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pulverator
star billings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of star billing
NSIC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Scholastic Indoor Championships.
glosses: Initialism of National Small Industries Corporation.
glosses: Initialism of National Space Intelligence Center.
glosses: Initialism of National Spinal Injuries Centre.
glosses: Initialism of National Sport Information Centre.
glosses: Initialism of Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference.
NIDDM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.
hurriquake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hurriquakes
Etymology: Blend of hurricane + earthquake. First attested in 1999 as a nonce word.
Senses: examples: text: The year of the hurriquake?
ref: 1999 September 30, Old Curmudgeon, “1999 year of the Quake? Or Hurricane?”, in alt.obituaries (Usenet):
ref: 2011 August 30, Jason Samenow, “Hurriquake: Footprint of Hurricane Irene and earthquake onslaught in Washington, D.C. region”, in The Washington Post
text: HURRIQUAKE 2011 ¶ The week of August 22, 2011 may go down in weather history as one of the strangest in the Washington, DC area : On Tuesday, August 23, our area was hit with a magnitude 5.8 earthquake. […] ¶ […] The following Saturday night, Hurricane Irene passed just east of the area.
ref: 2011 November 16, ARRL Web site, “The ARES E-Letter for November 16, 2011”, in rec.radio.info (Usenet):
text: Push notifications began to warn Southern California residents of the risk of flash flooding just a few hours before alerts about the earthquake arrived. Memes began to circulate instantly, as well as a T-shirt that read: “I Survived Hurriquake Hilary.”
ref: 2023 August 22, Laura J. Nelson, “What happened when a ‘hurriquake’ struck Ojai? Little damage, plenty of weird vibes”, in Los Angeles Times:
text: "Like most of my peers, I did not expect a 'hurriquake' to start off the year," said senior Peter King of Lenexa, Kansas.
ref: 2023 August 24, Gina Christian, “'There's no knocking down God': Catholic college students weather 'hurriquake' with faith”, in Detroit Catholic:
glosses: An incidence of a hurricane and an earthquake occurring in quick succession.
Nicobar dove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nicobar doves
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Nicobar pigeon.
synonyms: word: Nicobar pigeon
Nicobar doves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nicobar dove
hurriquakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hurriquake
Nicobar pigeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nicobar pigeons
Senses: synonyms: Nicobar dove
glosses: A bird of species Caloenas nicobarica, found on small islands and in coastal regions from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India, east through the Indonesian Archipelago, to the Solomons and Palau.
Nicobar pigeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nicobar pigeon
putscher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: putschers
Etymology: From putsch + -er.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of putschist.
synonyms: word: putschist
Newarkite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Newarkites
Etymology: From Newark + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Newark.
Newarker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Newarkers
Etymology: From Newark + -er.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Newark.
Newarkites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Newarkite
Newarkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Newarker
shis
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Etymology: Blend of she + his.
Senses: examples: text: a,d,c,b. A is first, because s/he would do anything to get to see shis love. D is second, because of shis loyalty to shis friend. C is third, because though sex as currency in lieu of anything else is amoral, coercing someone to do something against shis will is kinda icky. B, of course, is last, because s/he is a total ingrate for shis love making such a sacrifice just to see herm. S/he deserved much more than to be beat up.
ref: 1989 August 25, Robert J. Kudla, “Re: Ethical Dillemas”, in soc.singles (Usenet):
text: Say that Cetaceans are ocean "people." When one is killed, it is MURDER. Imagine carving up your next door neighbor in order to use part of shis body to make perfume last longer. Many whale products are used as scent extenders.
ref: 1993 July 9, Glenda Stocks, “Cetaceans Part [D]”, in talk.religion.newage (Usenet):
glosses: Belonging to them; their.
Nessus sphinx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Amphion floridensis, a day-flying sphingid moth.
NCUP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Conference of University Professors.
laying it on thick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of lay it on thick
MWG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Milky Way galaxy.
glosses: Initialism of Metadata Working Group.
glosses: Initialism of Manhattan Waterfront Greenway.
glosses: Initialism of Military World Games.
North Hwanghae
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 황해북도(黃海北道) (Hwanghaebukdo).
Senses: examples: text: The circumstances of the crash, which occurred in North Hwanghae province, near the border with South Korea, remained unclear on Monday, and there was limited coverage in China’s state-run news media.
ref: 2018 April 23, Javier C. Hernández, “36 Killed in Tour Bus Crash in North Korea, Chinese Officials Say”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2018, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A province of North Korea. Capital: Sariwon.
South Hwanghae
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 황해남도(黃海南道) (Hwanghaenamdo).
Senses: examples: text: A United Nations food agency released grim video on Friday of what it said were severely malnourished North Korean children. The Rome-based World Food Program said it shot the video at the Haeju Pediatric Hospital in the western South Hwanghae Province in mid-August.
ref: 2011 September 10 [2011 September 9], “North Korea: U.N. Says Video Shows Malnourished Children”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Sep 2011, Asia Pacific, page A6:
text: The organization has been present in North Korea since 1997 and carries out projects to improve food security, water supply and sanitation in the East Asian nation. Agricultural schemes supported by the agency in South Hwanghae and North Pyongyang provinces are improving the quality of seeds, diversifying and intensifying agricultural production and maintaining agricultural equipment more efficiently.
ref: 2015 April 13, Julian Ryall, “Cracking down on foreign NGOs”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 13 Oct 2024:
text: South Korea is willing to cooperate with the North to tackle the disease outbreak, but Pyongyang remains unresponsive to any offers for dialogue, including Seoul's earlier proposal to provide COVID vaccines, said another official at the unification ministry.
South Hwanghae Province, where Haeju is located, is North Korea's key agricultural region, raising concerns over possible impacts on the country's already dire food shortage.
ref: 2022 June 16, Soo-Hyang Choi, Hyonhee Shin, “North Korea faces infectious disease outbreak amid COVID battle”, in Lincoln Feast, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2022:
glosses: A province of North Korea. Capital: Haeju.
South Pyongan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 평안남도(平安南道) (Pyeong'annamdo).
Senses: examples: text: In its report, which was released on Friday, the UN agency also said floods had forced about 60,000 people from their homes, most of them in South Pyongan Province in central North Korea.
ref: 2006 July 24, “UN says North Korean crop loss heavy - Asia - Pacific - International Herald Tribune”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Jan 2024, Asia Pacific:
text: The biggest loss of human life was in two counties of South Pyongan province, which were hit by torrential rains on Monday and Tuesday, it said.
ref: 2012 July 28, “Scores die, thousands homeless after North Korea floods”, in France 24, archived from the original on 29 Jul 2012, Asia / Pacific:
text: The UN mission said immediate food aid was needed in the worst affected counties: Anju and Songchon in South Pyongan province and Chonnae in Kangwon province.
It also said that some 50,000 families lacked clean drinking water and stood in need of purification tablets or other help to prevent disease.
ref: 2012 August 4, “More deaths in N. Korea floods”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 13 Oct 2024:
glosses: A province of North Korea. Capital: Pyongsong.
Related terms: North Pyongan
D&M
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: D&Ms
Etymology: Initialism of "deep & meaningful".
Senses: examples: text: Tom and Liam are out on the back patio having a D&M about their relationships.
text: Anyway, so, it's 24 hours earlier, and Felix and Thomas are walking along the beach, having a D&M. Felix says he is finding out the reason he hasn't been in a proper relationship for so long.
ref: 2023 January 17, Adrienne Tam, Mamamia:
text: I’ve had my fair share of d&m’s with friends over guys I’ve dated.
ref: 2019 March 21, Melissa Mason, Pedestrian:
text: 11. When you and your girlfriend get locked in a D&M that lasts for hours.
ref: 2015 December 11, BuzzFeed:
glosses: An earnest conversation covering emotional topics, often as a smaller side conversation at a social occasion.
D&M
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: D&Ms
form: D&Ming
form: D&Med
form: D&Med
Etymology: Initialism of "deep & meaningful".
Senses: examples: text: We tucked in, then got stuck into serious D&Ming. I probably told him about my childhood dog and how he died.
ref: 2023 March 17, R. F. Coleman, Yahoo:
text: These accepting venues offer an array of options for D&Ming that'll seriously put the mate in workmate.
ref: 2017 September 27, Steph D'Souza, Concrete Playground:
text: If we were regular high school students by day, by night we were D&Ming, never-have-I-evering machines
ref: 2015 May 5, Bennett Sheldon, Honi Soit:
glosses: To participate in a D&M.
RWI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RWIs
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of rotary-wing intercept.
Related terms: sense: rotary-wing intercept
word: rotary wing
rotary wing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rotary wings
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A primary lift surface that produces lift in rotation, such as found in helicopters.
Derived terms: word: rotary-wing aircraft
alt: RWI
word: rotary-wing intercept
Other
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Other
form: Others
Etymology: Semantic loan from French Autre, principally after French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (also as grand Autre) and philosopher Emmanuel Levinas.
Senses: examples: text: In its most fundamental dimension, sacrifice is a “gift of reconciliation” to the Other, destined to appease its desire. Sacrifice conceals the abyss of the Other’s desire, more precisely: it conceals the Other’s lack, inconsistency, “inexistence,” that transpires in this desire. Sacrifice is a guarantee that “the Other exists” […]
ref: 1992, Slavoj Žižek, Enjoy Your Symptom! Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out, →ISBN, page 56:
text: The transformations of writing bear an ethical as well as an aesthetic or literary significance; writing implies orientation towards the Other in the midst of which a renewal of the self becomes possible.
ref: 2006, Lisa Guenther, The Gift of the Other: Levinas and the Politics of Reproduction, →ISBN, page 123:
text: Critiquing the Western philosophical tradition of privileging the autonomy of the ‘I’, in which he uses Heidegger as exemplar, Levinas provocatively argues that the ‘I’ ultimately exists to be responsible for the Other – a responsibility based not on reciprocity (whether the Other behaves in accordance to expectations of the ‘I’) but on an asymmetrical and infinite kind of responsibility.
ref: 2015, Jonathan Corpus Ong, The Poverty of Television: The Mediation of Suffering in Class-Divided Philippines, →ISBN, page 17:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
philosophy
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
glosses: Radical alterity or otherness conceived or reified as a separate entity; “other people” altogether in their difference from oneself.
Related terms: ingroup and outgroup
tribalism
us versus them
Other
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
cleaning rod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cleaning rods
Senses: glosses: A firearm maintenance tool used to clean the inside (bore) of a gun's barrel.
canned benchmark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canned benchmarks
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
video-games
glosses: A computer program designed for the sole purpose of benchmarking the hardware it's being run on.
topics: video-games
glosses: An automated benchmark sequence built into a video game.
talksy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: talksier
form: talksiest
Etymology: From talk + -sy.
Senses: examples: text: We took a tricycle whose driver was short and dark, but also nice and talksy.
ref: 2017, J. Neil C. Garcia, Closet Queeries, Anvil Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:
glosses: Talkative.
Nesttun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An urban settlement in Fana borough, Bergen, Vestland, Norway.
candle-wick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: candle-wicks
Senses: examples: text: Accordingly, the next day I came provided with six large candles of my own making (for I made very good candles now of goat’s tallow, but was hard set for candle-wick, using sometimes rags or rope-yarn, and sometimes the dried rind of a weed like nettles); and going into this low place I was obliged to creep upon all-fours as I have said, almost ten yards—which, by the way, I thought was a venture bold enough, considering that I knew not how far it might go, nor what was beyond it.
ref: 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC:
text: My improvements in the manufacture of candle-wick apply particularly to the common or well-known plaited or platted wick, used in candles, for supporting combustion, and consist, / Firstly, in the introduction of one, two, or more straight distended warps, to form the base of a platted or woven candle-wick, such wick being made from three or more strands of cotton; […]
ref: 1843 January 14 (date sealed), Nathaniel Card, “Specification of the Patent Granted to Nathaniel Card, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Candle-wick Manufacturer, for Certain Improvements in the Manufacture of Candle-wick, and in Machinery or Apparatus for Producing such Manufacture”, in The Repertory of Patent Inventions, and Other Discoveries and Improvements in Arts, Manufactures, and Agriculture; […], volume II (Enlarged Series), number V, London: Published for the proprietor, by Alex[ander] Macintosh, […]; and sold by Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., […]; J[ohn] Weale, […]; and G. Hebert, […], published November 1843, →OCLC, pages 292–293:
text: What they did not want for candle-wicks, they employed in stuffing and wadding their doublets and other articles of dress.
ref: [1874], S. W[arren], “The Wool-bearing Shrub”, in Cotton, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York, N.Y.: Pott, Young, & Co., →OCLC, page 14:
text: He showed Huck the fragment of candle-wick perched on a lump of clay against the wall, and described how he and Becky had watched the flame struggle and expire.
ref: 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXIII, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 258:
glosses: Archaic form of candlewick.
candle-wicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of candle-wick
Ardouin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ardouins
Etymology: Borrowed from French Ardouin.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
SAG-AFTRA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
bobbasheelies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bobbasheely
canned benchmarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canned benchmark
cleaning rods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cleaning rod
rotary wings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rotary wing
RWIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RWI
D&Ms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of D&M
transcommunity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transcommunities
Senses: examples: text: Who knows what to call transpeople these days? The dominant discourse in the transcommunity is at best a moving target. Transgender began its life as a name for those folks who identified neither as crossdressers nor as transexuals—primarily people who changed their gender but not their genitals.
ref: 1997, “Foreword”, in Riki Anne Wilchins, Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender, Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, →ISBN, page 15:
glosses: Dated form of trans community.
trans community
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trans communities
form: transcommunity
Senses: glosses: The community of transgender and transsexual people.
nontransexual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Uncommon form of nontranssexual.
nontransexual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nontransexuals
Senses: examples: text: Since there are tens of thousands of us (maybe in your building alone!), the fact that some of us can “pass” (a nasty concept if ever there was one) as nontransexuals only prophesies that, wedded to the entirely fragile notion that you should be capable of identifying all of us on sight, you are destined for a life of more or less unending private humiliations.
ref: 1997, “17 Things You Don’t Say to a Transexual”, in Riki Anne Wilchins, Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender, Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, →ISBN, page 28:
glosses: Uncommon form of nontranssexual.
giddy-go-round
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giddy-go-rounds
Senses: glosses: Synonym of merry-go-round (“carousel ride”).
synonyms: word: merry-go-round
extra: carousel ride
giddy-go-rounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giddy-go-round
re-architect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-architects
form: re-architecting
form: re-architected
form: re-architected
Senses: examples: text: Now transpeople themselves, while seeking furiously to narrow the social gap between themselves and nontransexuals, continually re-architect the original difference.
ref: 1997, “Imaginary Bodies, Imagining Minds”, in Riki Anne Wilchins, Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender, Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, →ISBN, page 146:
glosses: Alternative form of rearchitect.
midwivery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It was a time that the promiſe of God to David was at the birth, and the Midwivery of Abner was offered.
ref: 1646, Richard Vines, The Hearse of the Renowned, the Right Honourable Robert Earle of Essex and Ewe, […], London: […] T. R. and E. M. for Abel Roper […], page 12:
text: Poetry indeed hath a Fluence of Expreſſion that chiefly ſtammers, and ſhortens of Perfection it ſelfe (as to Mentall Midwivery and communication of our Notions) only in this, that it can better expreſſe any other thing, than its own worth.
ref: 1654, Richard Whitlock, Ζωοτομι'α, or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English: Briefly Anatomizing the Living by the Dead. […], London: […] Tho. Roycroft, […], page 478:
text: To which is added, the Art of Midwivery, Chymically Aſſerted, with the Character of an Ortho-Chymiſt, & Pſeudo Chymiſt.
ref: 1674 March 18–22, The London Gazette, number 974:
text: National Midwivery Week will be celebrated October 6 - 10, 2003. What is midwivery you ask? […] Cynthia Odom, CNM, and Jennifer Donald, R.N. are part of the midwivery services available at The Medical Group. […] Midwivery services are recognized by most insurances, Medicaid and Medicare, and Tri-Care. […] If you are interested in the midwivery services at The Medical Group in Quitman, please call[…].
ref: 2003 October 2, Jennifer Perry, “Midwife services are available”, in Clarke County Tribune, Quitman, Miss., page 1A:
glosses: Alternative form of midwifery.
buck converter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buck converters
Senses: glosses: A kind of switched-mode power supply: a DC-to-DC converter that steps down voltage (while stepping up current) from its input (supply) to its output (load).
buck converters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buck converter
ploughperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From plough + person.
Senses: examples: text: Now, I recommend the cheese ploughman's. Or ploughperson's should we be calling it these days?
ref: 2010, Rachel Hore, A Place of Secrets:
text: Ten years from now (when you're a longer-living person) you may think nothing of asking for a ploughperson's lunch! This is the fascinating future.
ref: 2013, Terry Deary, Horrible Histories Special: Wicked Words:
text: 2023, Ben Dupre, 50 Political Ideas You Really Need to Know
There are plenty of others who shake their heads in disbelief at the latest absurdity of the earnest and po-faced PC brigade: Christmas banned for fear of giving offence to non-Christians; a menu listing a 'ploughperson's lunch'; […]
glosses: A person who operates a plough.
stick-nest rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stick-nest rats
Senses: glosses: Any of the rodents of the genus Leporillus.
Derived terms: greater stick-nest rat
lesser stick-nest rat
stick-nest rats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stick-nest rat
Sidcot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban hamlet in Winscombe and Sandford parish, North Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST4257).
zastrugas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zastruga
underrunner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underrunners
Etymology: From under- + runner.
Senses: examples: text: FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN. […] Four run stones, Munson underrunners, 3 ft diameter.
ref: 1890, The Northwestern Miller, volume 29, page 563:
text: The arrangement is preferably applied to an underrunner mill.
ref: 1896, Great Britain. Patent Office, Patents for Inventions. Abridgments of Specifications, page 11:
glosses: The lower of a pair of grinding millstones.
examples: text: Less than half a mile to the south the party sighted an underrunner of a sledge, and assumed it to mark the location the Norwegians had assigned for 90°S.
ref: 2002, Paul Simpson-Housley, Antarctica: Exploration, Perception and Metaphor, page 36:
glosses: An additional runner added to the bottom of a sledge to protect the main runners in harsh conditions.
examples: text: A triple tandem tow using underrunners. This method has been used for long ocean tows by tugs with a single-drum winch.
ref: 1989, John S. Blank, Modern Towing, page 302:
glosses: A runner (mechanical part intended to guide or aid something else to move) designed to be inserted underneath the item to be moved.
underrunners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underrunner
Antico
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Anticos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Antico.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Aliano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Alianos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Aliano.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Alianos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Aliano
Anticos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Antico
Adduci
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Adducis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Adduci.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Azuara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Azuaras
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Azuara.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Azuaras
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Azuara
Adducis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Adduci
Sneetches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sneetch
penperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penpersons
Etymology: From pen + -person.
Senses: examples: text: Making ministers into penpersons promises to have other favorable long-term effects. The new Church Vocations Unit will need to study the theology of penpersonship. Committees on the Ministry will need to consider copying as a valid call.
ref: 1987 June, Levi Tickus, “Holy Scribbles! Study Your Penpersonship”, in Presbyterian Survey, the Presbyterian Publishing House of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), →ISSN, page 48, column 3:
text: Once you are a superior penperson you become confident in all areas of your life. Those who have scrappy, untidy writing are often scrappy and untidy in their thinking.
ref: 2001, Richard Craze, Chill Out: 100 Creative Ways to Relax, Naperville, Ill.: Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN, page 135:
text: If anyone does ask you to do wedding invitations, offer to letter their favorite verse, in Copperplate, embellished with your best decorative painting techniques, on the wall of their dining room. The penperson can’t do that!
ref: 2002, Ken Brown, “Frequently Asked Questions”, in Brush Lettering: Copperplate Style, Plaid Enterprises, Inc., →ISBN, page 35:
glosses: A person with writing skills.
Related terms: penpersonship
penpersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penperson
Boeger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Boegers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Böger.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Bercaw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bercaws
Etymology: Possibly an Americanized form of the German habitational surname Berkau.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Braus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Brau
Boegers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Boeger
Bercaws
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bercaw
Rodney Stoke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish previously in Mendip district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST4850).
Tvedt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tvedts
Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian Tvedt, from Danicized tveit, from Old Norse þveit. Doublet of thwaite.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Norwegian.
classic hit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: classic hits
Senses: glosses: A song or record from a previous era.
examples: a classic hits radio station
glosses: The genre of music composed of popular music from previous eras.
Synonyms: oldie
Tvedts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tvedt
Venhuizens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Venhuizen
Waisanen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Waisanens
Etymology: Borrowed from Finnish Wäisänen, old form of Väisänen.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Finnish.
Sexauer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sexauers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Sexauer.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Wolmans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Wolman
Waisanens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Waisanen
Sexauers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sexauer
cheers my dears
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: 'Cheers, my dears,' chuckles Dottie, raising a glass and chinking it against ours.
ref: 2021, Erin Green, From Shetland, With Love:
glosses: Alternative form of cheers (“toast to drinking”).
Schnakenberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schnakenbergs
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schnakenberg.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Sarate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sarates
Etymology: Variant of Zarate.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Schnakenbergs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Schnakenberg
Sarates
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sarate
Jarlett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jarletts
Etymology: From a derivative of Old French gerle (“tub, cask”), perhaps a nickname for a cooper.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old French.
Rukhnama
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Ruhnama.
Ruhnama
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹuːˈnɑːmə/
ipa: /ɹuˈnɑmə/
rhymes: -ɑːmə
Forms: form: Ruhnama
form: the Ruhnama
form: Rukhnama
Etymology: Borrowed from Turkmen Ruhnama (literally “Book of the Soul”).
Senses: glosses: A two-volume work written by Saparmurat Niyazov, the president of Turkmenistan from 1990 to 2006, intended to serve as a tool of state propaganda.
Pennifold
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pennifolds
Etymology: Variant of Penfold.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Pennifolds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Pennifold
Jarletts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Jarlett
more than someone has had cooked dinners
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of more than someone has had hot dinners.
telpek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telpeks
Senses: glosses: A leather cap covered with sheepskin, part of the traditional clothing of the Turkmens.
telpeks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telpek
Wookey Hole
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wokey Hole
Senses: glosses: A village and caves in St Cuthbert Out parish, previously in Mendip district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST5347).
presidentialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presidentialists
Etymology: From presidential + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of government by a president.
presidentialistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more presidentialistic
form: most presidentialistic
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to presidentialism.
presidentialists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of presidentialist
text books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of text book
IHTFP
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of I hate this fucking place.
NSDA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Speech and Debate Association.
Wheatleys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Wheatley
fiya
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfai.a/
Etymology: A slang pronunciation of the word "fire".
Senses: glosses: Awesome, outstanding, spectacular.
Areopagan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Areopagus.
retrainings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retraining
retrainability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Ability to be retrained.
Semonidean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Semonidean
form: most Semonidean
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Semonides of Amorgos (fl. 7th century BC), Greek poet.
phallocentrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more phallocentrically
form: most phallocentrically
Etymology: From phallocentric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a phallocentric manner.
tiger mosquitoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tiger mosquito
Stredwick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
decitex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decitexes
Etymology: From deci- + tex.
Senses: glosses: A gram per 10,000 meters, a unit of linear mass density for thread or fiber. Symbol: dtex.
decitexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decitex
the dogs bark, but the caravan moves on
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of the dogs bark, but the caravan goes on.
kritiks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kritik
nontopicality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Absence of topicality; the property of not being topical.
big sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of big stick
bifurcatedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bifurcated + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a bifurcated manner.
pick and pass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: picks and passes
form: picking and passing
form: picked and passed
form: picked and passed
Senses: topics: backgammon
games
synonyms: hit and run
glosses: To hit the opponent's blot (exposed piece) and take the hitting checker to safety, within a single play.
pick and pass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Tiered facilities lend themselves to a number of picking schemes — and the automation of warehousing operations can serve to optimize those operations. One is called “multi-level pick and pass,” in which specific robots are assigned to each floor in the facility. The robotic solution clusters tasks on each floor for density and efficiency. When all of the picks on one level are complete, the robot travels to a drop-off station where the container is transported by conveyor to the level below.
ref: 2024 January 8, “Increase Picking Density with Mezzanines, Pick Towers, and Automation”, in SuplyChainBrain, United States, archived from the original on 05 Sep 2025:
qualifier: logistics
glosses: Synonym of zone picking.
synonyms: word: zone picking
state within a state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: states within a state
form: states within states
Senses: topics: geopolitics
government
politics
glosses: A powerful entity that is only partially controlled by the government, especially one that is nominally governmental itself; a deep state.
LCBOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LCBO
paratransits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paratransit
Binx
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
very yes
Language: English
Part of speech: particle
Etymology: Compound of very + yes. Popularized by Strong Bad Email, an animated Internet cartoon associated with Homestar Runner.
Senses: examples: text: Computer over? Virus = very yes? That's not a good prize!
ref: 2004 November 15, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Strong Bad Email #118: virus”, in Homestar Runner, spoken by Strong Bad:
glosses: An affirmative response, much more serious than a simple yes.
wikipedia: Homestar Runner
Synonyms: very much
crossplayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crossplay