cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
grammatisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grammatisations
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of grammatization.
grammaticisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grammaticisation
grammatisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grammatisation
net zero
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of net-zero.
net zero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Carbon offsets are a popular route for reaching “net zero” – Oliver cited one study which found that two-thirds of companies in heavily polluting industries relied on offsets instead of emissions reductions to reach carbon neutrality.
ref: 2022 August 22, Adrian Horton, “John Oliver on corporate ‘net zero’ proposals: ‘We cannot offset our way out of climate change’”, in The Guardian:
text: It is understood he [Chris Skidmore] had no problem in working with Rees-Mogg but wanted to continue promoting net zero.
ref: 2022 September 6, “Jacob Rees-Mogg, who decried ‘climate alarmism’, to take on UK energy brief”, in The Guardian:
text: The Cop28 presidency released a draft text in the early evening on Monday, which called for “reducing both consumption and production of fossil fuels, in a just, orderly and equitable manner, so as to achieve net zero by, before or around 2050, in keeping with the science”.
ref: 2023 December 11, Fiona Harvey, Patrick Greenfield, Nina Lakhani, Adam Morton, Damian Carrington, “Cop28 draft climate deal criticised as ‘grossly insufficient’ and ‘incoherent’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
qualifier: climate change
glosses: Ellipsis of net zero greenhouse gas emissions; carbon neutrality.
stationary phase approximation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stationary phase approximations
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A principle of asymptotic analysis that relies on the cancellation of sinusoids with rapidly varying phase.
grammatize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grammatizes
form: grammatizing
form: grammatized
form: grammatized
Senses: examples: text: "Every language," says Macaulay, "throws light on every other. We acknowledge, too, that the great body of our countrymen learn to grammatize their English by means of their Latin. This, however, proves, not the usefulness of their Latin, but ...
ref: 1899, The Arena, page 42:
text: A poet must learn to speak, to write, to grammatize, before he can impart his emotion; he must learn a lot about the universe before he can have anything of emotional worth to impart; and he must learn some sort of prosodical technique from ...
ref: 1911, William Winslow Hall, English Poesy: An Induction, page 108:
glosses: Synonym of grammaticalize (“to make grammatical”).
synonyms: word: grammaticalize
extra: to make grammatical
examples: text: Grosu notes that different languages grammatize different constraints — English, for instance, has grammatized a constraint against complex prenominal modifiers, while German has not.
ref: 1973, Working Papers in Linguistics:
text: I predict that some languages grammatize both notions, some grammatize only one of the two, and some grammatize neither (see Chapter Six). Such a view also sheds considerable light on the debate about the status of durativity: durativity is ...
ref: 2007, Andrea Luise Wilhelm, Telicity and Durativity: A Study of Aspect in Dëne Suliné (Chipewyan) and German, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of grammaticalize (“to to cause (something) to be required by the rules of grammar”).
synonyms: word: grammaticalize
extra: (“to to cause (something) to be required by the rules of grammar”)
examples: text: For example, it is sometimes suggested that German has a pair of verbal suffixes -l/-r which impart durative, or rather iterative, meaning on a verb […] Suffixation with -l/-r is thus not an instance of a productive morphosyntactic contrast, and cannot be said to grammatize durativity (or iterativity).
ref: 2007, Andrea Luise Wilhelm, Telicity and Durativity: A Study of Aspect in Dëne Suliné (Chipewyan) and German, Routledge, →ISBN, page 6:
text: […] nouns and partly so in the case of genericity, which could have helped to grammatize Ø as an article of its own.
ref: 2019, Andrii Danylenko, Motoki Nomachi, Slavic on the Language Map of Europe: Historical and Areal-Typological Dimensions, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN, page 414:
glosses: Synonym of grammaticalize (“to cause to undergo grammatization/grammaticalization”).
synonyms: word: grammaticalize
extra: to cause to undergo grammatization/grammaticalization
grammatise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grammatises
form: grammatising
form: grammatised
form: grammatised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of grammatize.
trepostome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trepostomes
Senses: synonyms: trepostomate
glosses: Any bryozoan of the extinct order Trepostomata.
trepostomate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trepostomates
Senses: glosses: Synonym of trepostome.
synonyms: word: trepostome
grammatizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grammatize
grammatizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of grammatize
grammatized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grammatize
grammatises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grammatise
grammatising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of grammatise
grammatised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grammatise
dot-comers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dot-comer
Shepreth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL3947).
Meldreth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL3746).
Kelbrook
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Kelbrook and Sough parish, Pendle borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD9044).
Howes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Howeses
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Dent County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Meade County, South Dakota, United States.
glosses: A hamlet just west of the town of Annan, Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NY1866).
Howes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Howe
kilobarn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kilobarns
Etymology: From kilo- + barn.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A unit of surface area equal to 1,000 barns.
megabarn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megabarns
Etymology: From mega- + barn.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A unit of surface area equal to 1,000,000 barns.
megabarns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megabarn
kilobarns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kilobarn
attobarn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attobarns
Etymology: From atto- + barn.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A unit of surface area equal to 10⁻¹⁸ barns.
attobarns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attobarn
Carbrook
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An industrial area of the Metropolitan Borough of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK3989).
glosses: A suburb in Logan City, Queensland, Australia; the name was anglicised from German Gramzow during WWI.
Attercliffe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An industrial suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK3788).
Ilustrado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ilustrados
Etymology: From Spanish ilustrado (“erudite, learned, an enlightened one”).
Senses: glosses: the Filipino intelligentsia during the Spanish colonial period in the late 19th century.
Ilustrados
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ilustrado
obrazovanshchina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Russian образованщина (obrazovanščina) ("educationdom," "educaties," or "smatterers").
Senses: glosses: a class of people with superficial education but without the higher ethics of an educated person
Gleadless Townend
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An outer suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK3883).
barrack stanchion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barrack stanchions
Senses: topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: A sailor who remains on land for a long time, not taking any sea voyage.
barrack stanchions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barrack stanchion
on-brand
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more on-brand
form: most on-brand
Senses: examples: text: The use of red and yellow is very on-brand for McDonald's.
text: "The Zipcar Low-Car Diet, a very on-brand promotion that gets people to blog about giving up their cars, fits the lifestyle."
ref: 2010 December 15, David A. Aaker, Brand Relevance: Making Competitors Irrelevant, John Wiley & Sons:
text: 2017, "How to Write an On-Brand and Engaging Staff Handbook", TEAMango.com, 23 January.
topics: business
marketing
glosses: Serving the public image which a company seeks to associate with its product.
examples: text: A Canadian who loves hockey? I guess that's pretty on-brand.
text: 2019, Morgan Chalfant and Brett Samuels, "Trump attacks on Vindman trigger backlash", The Hill, 29 October.
"The attack was on-brand for Trump, who has a well-earned reputation as a counterpuncher when criticized."
text: 2020, Kole Musgrove, "Seahawks QB Russell Wilson talks Super Bowl interception during AMA", Seahawkswire.usatoday.com, 31 January.
"However, Wilson’s response was rather on-brand for the eternally optimistic signal-caller."
glosses: Consistent with one's reputation, perhaps to a stereotypical degree.
bubble ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bubble up
Hackenthorpe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban village in the Metropolitan Borough of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK4183).
conquerment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From conquer + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: The nuns of new-won Cales his bonnet lent, In lieu of their so kind a conquerment.
ref: 1753, Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.), William Thompson, Virgidemiariam. Satires in six books [ed. by W. Thompson.]., page 48:
text: I think that it is important to know at this point that the reconstruction treaty wherein the United States received concessions from the Five Civilized Tribes under the theory of their conquerment although all tribes had split during the war and that no tribe remained united.
ref: 1977, American Indian Policy Review Commission: Final Report, page 288:
text: Western aesthetics are now aspiring to a more harmonious relation between subject and object, and the “encounter” between the two domains as a form of appreciation rather than conquerment or submission (Gablick 1991).
ref: 2015, Eva Kit Wah Man, Issues of Contemporary Art and Aesthetics in Chinese Context, page 28:
text: hues that would suggest the rockies are nervous about impending conquerment
ref: 2016, Matt Clifford, Ballad of Todd Last Year, page 39:
glosses: The state of being conquered.
Waterthorpe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An outer suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK4382).
predeveloper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: predevelopers
Etymology: From pre- + developer.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A substance used prior to developer.
topics: business
real-estate
glosses: An agent who acquires land for the purpose of later development.
predevelopers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of predeveloper
lives out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of live out
living out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of live out
lived out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of live out
bathtubby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bathtubby
form: most bathtubby
Etymology: From bathtub + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I stride through my nursery domain / And the bathtubby ocean I scan; / While faithfully march in my train / Weird creatures of cotton and bran.
ref: 1912, Harper's Magazine, volume 125, page 969:
text: I think opera recordings which present these big bathtubby sounds in extremely prominent positions, the way they would never be in the context of the opera, are a mistake, to my ear. I don't like that.
ref: 1987, John Harvith, Susan Edwards Harvith, Edison, Musicians, and the Phonograph: A Century in Retrospect:
text: Water creeps up my neck, warm and bathtubby.
ref: 2007, Eric Puchner, Music Through the Floor: Stories, page 181:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a bathtub.
zygentoman
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more zygentoman
form: most zygentoman
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the order Zygentoma, or to the primitive wingless insects in that order.
zygentoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zygentomans
Senses: glosses: Any insect in that order
zygentomans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zygentoman
mp3
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mp3s
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of MP3.
pony-trekking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊniˌtɹɛkɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈpoʊniˌtɹɛkɪŋ/
Forms: form: pony trekking
Etymology: From pony + trekking.
Senses: glosses: The practice of riding for pleasure across country on a pony or horse
Related terms: pony-trek
pony-trekker
pony-trekker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊniˌtɹɛkə/
ipa: /ˈpoʊniˌtɹɛkɚ/
Forms: form: pony-trekkers
Etymology: From pony + trekker.
Senses: glosses: Someone who goes pony-trekking
pony-trekkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pony-trekker
lebneh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of labneh.
labaneh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of labneh.
labnah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of labneh.
Netherthorpe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area in Staveley, Chesterfield borough, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK4474)
glosses: A suburb of Killamarsh, North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK4581).
glosses: An inner suburb of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK3487).
glosses: A hamlet in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, near Netherthorpe Airfield (OS grid ref SK5380).
lebeneh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of labneh.
labna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of labneh.
labane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of labneh.
Malin Bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK3289).
kilowatt alley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: CB radio slang
glosses: A particularly crowded portion of the 20-meter band.
bandplan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bandplans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of band plan.
bandplans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bandplan
Luba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lubas
Etymology: From Slavic
* (English-language female given name found in Canada): From Ukrainian Люба (Ljuba)
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ukrainian [in turn from Slavic].
Luba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Baluba
hyponyms: Luba-Kantanga
Hemba
Lulua
glosses: A member of any of various groups of agricultural and hunting people inhabiting the southeastern part of Democratic Republic of the Congo.
synonyms: Tshiluba
hyponyms: Luba-Kasai
Luba-Lulua
glosses: A Bantu language spoken by the Luba people of central Africa; one of the two Bantu languages spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
glosses: Ellipsis of the Luba Empire and Kingdom of Luba: a historical country in Africa.
Derived terms: Kingdom of Luba
Luba Empire
baton round
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baton rounds
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: Any of various generally non-lethal projectiles made of plastic, rubber, wood, etc.
Derived terms: plastic baton round
baton rounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baton round
degrammaticalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: degrammaticalisations
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of degrammaticalization.
degrammaticalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: degrammaticalises
form: degrammaticalising
form: degrammaticalised
form: degrammaticalised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of degrammaticalize.
degrammaticalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of degrammaticalise
degrammaticalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of degrammaticalise
degrammaticalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of degrammaticalise
degrammaticalisations
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: plural of degrammaticalisation
Dark Learning
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque from Chinese 玄學／玄学 (xuánxué).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Xuanxue.
synonyms: word: Xuanxue
Xuanxue
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ʃwænˈʃweɪ/
Etymology: From the pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 玄學／玄学 (xuánxué).
Senses: glosses: A metaphysical post-classical Chinese philosophy from the Six Dynasties (222-589) period, bringing together Daoist and Confucian beliefs through revision and discussion.
Synonyms: Dark Learning
Middlewood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in North Hill parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX2775).
glosses: A small settlement in Poynton with Worth parish, Cheshire East borough, Cheshire, England; the railway station with this name is just inside Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SJ9484).
glosses: A hamlet in Clifford parish, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO2844).
glosses: An outer suburb of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK3291).
Rozwi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rozvi
Etymology: From Kalanga rozvi (“destroyer, plunderer”).
Senses: glosses: a person from or the people of the historical Rozwi Empire in present-day Zimbabwe
Rozwi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Rozvi
Etymology: From Kalanga rozvi (“destroyer, plunderer”).
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to the Rozwi Empire
Derived terms: Rozwi Empire (1684-1889)
Yayan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /jɑːˈjɑːn/
Forms: form: yayan
Etymology: From the pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 雅言 (Yǎyán), literally, "elegant speech".
Senses: glosses: A standard form of spoken Chinese, and lingua franca, of ancient China.
yayan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Yayan.
Buganda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Soon after his arrival Sir Andrew toured the ssazas of Buganda and I accompanied him.
ref: 1979, Paulo Kavuma, Crisis in Buganda, 1953-55, page 16:
glosses: A geographic region and non-sovereign kingdom in Uganda, comprising all of Uganda's Central Region; originated as a vassal state of Bunyoro during the 14th century and became the dominant kingdom of the region by the 17th century and still exists today.
Related terms: english: a person from Buganda
translation: a person from Buganda
word: Muganda
english: of or pertaining to Buganda
translation: of or pertaining to Buganda
word: Ganda
english: the people of Buganda
translation: the people of Buganda
word: Baganda
english: the language spoken in Buganda
translation: the language spoken in Buganda
word: Luganda
word: ssaza
continentalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of continentalize
continentalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of continentalize
continentalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of continentalize
continentalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: continentalises
form: continentalising
form: continentalised
form: continentalised
Senses: examples: text: I have no doubt Mrs. Sparkleton will continentalise, and, unless you have lost all regard for Lord Fitzhauton, — you had better not drive him to despair.
ref: 1851, The gold-worshippers: or, The days we live in., page 95:
text: I know that there are some persons who object to it upon moral grounds ; they say that it will continentalise England ; and introduce practices and opinions which I do not believe anything can introduce.
ref: 1883, Great Britain. Parliament. Joint Select Committee on the Channel Tunnel, Report from the Joint Select Committee of the House of Lords:
text: By March Che's plans gradually and carefully to continentalise the struggle were also proving unattainable.
ref: 2009, Simon Reid-Henry, Fidel and Che: The Revolutionary Friendship Between Fidel Castro and Che Guevara:
glosses: Alternative form of continentalize.
continentalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of continentalise
continentalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of continentalise
continentalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of continentalise
Bunyoro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a subnational kingdom in Western Uganda; it was one of the most powerful kingdoms in Central and East Africa from the 13th century to the 19th century
Related terms: topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Lunyoro
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Nyoro
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Runyoro
sense: people
word: Nyoro
sense: people
word: Banyoro
Wadai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a former independent sultanate of the Sudan region in north central Africa, in present-day Chad, which lasted from 1501-1912
Related terms: sense: region of Chad
word: Ouaddaï
degrammatize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: degrammatizes
form: degrammatizing
form: degrammatized
form: degrammatized
Senses: examples: text: […] lasted for centuries in Indic and Hellenic (in Iranian the sigmatic categories were ultimately degrammatized from phonology by the fricative weakening (s > h > Ø); in Baltic there are no traces of the sigmatic Aorist, […]
ref: 2017, Vit Bubenik, Development of Tense/Aspect in Semitic in the Context of Afro-Asiatic Languages, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 8:
glosses: Synonym of degrammaticalize.
synonyms: word: degrammaticalize
degrammaticize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: degrammaticizes
form: degrammaticizing
form: degrammaticized
form: degrammaticized
Senses: examples: text: ... the new clusters, as in 21 d, but cannot affect stems followed by a pronominal suffix because of the continued intervening presence of the old short suffixal vowels, or their degrammaticized reflexes, in original word-internal positions.
ref: 1988, Journal of Afroasiatic Languages:
text: It seems more likely that the "vowel-final target" motivation conspired with an second motivation — possibly simply a tendency to make words bulkier by accruing a "degrammaticized" augment. Synchronically, the nominative suffix in Kayardild ...
ref: 1995, Nicholas Evans, A Grammar of Kayardild: With Historical-comparative Notes on Tangkic, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 138:
text: This markedness relation together with a preference for 'degrammaticizing' constructional schemas for causal clause combining in conversation conspire to favor only one of the intonational and sequential patterns with because, thus ...
ref: 1996, Pragmatics: Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association:
text: Otherwise this may be a further argument for the Rooth-von Fintel program of degrammaticizing the phenomena of focus-sensitivity.
ref: 1999, Peter Bosch, Rob van der Sandt, Focus: Linguistic, Cognitive, and Computational Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 220:
text: The studied integrity encourages, I think, a momentary degrammaticizing of the hierarchies of the sentence. Since the phrases are usually of similar length visually, and are given identical prominence by their isolation in the line, the reader is ...
ref: 2001, Chris Beyers, A history of free verse, Univ of Arkansas Pr, →ISBN:
text: Privatization is accomplished by "degrammaticizing" the wishes, which is to say, by removing their expression from the grammar of ordinary language and banishing them to a prelinguistic realm, namely, the unconscious.
ref: 2004, Fred Rush, The Cambridge Companion to Critical Theory, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 94:
text: The degrammaticized and imagistically compressed language of the dream provides', he holds, “some clues to an excommunication model of this sort. . . . The splitting-off of individual symbols from public communication would mean at the ...
ref: 2013, David Held, Introduction to Critical Theory: Horkheimer to Habermas, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 468:
glosses: Synonym of degrammaticalize.
synonyms: word: degrammaticalize
degrammaticizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of degrammaticize
degrammaticizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of degrammaticize
degrammaticized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of degrammaticize
degrammatizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of degrammatize
degrammatizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of degrammatize
degrammatized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of degrammatize
case fatality rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: case fatality rates
Senses: examples: text: That 3.4 percent mortality rate, though still fluid, is formidable, even compared next to the case fatality rates (the number of deaths compared to the total number of those diagnosed) for other recent outbreaks.
ref: 2020 March 12, Matt Stieb, “Does the Coronavirus Think I’m Old?”, in New York:
topics: epidemiology
mathematics
medicine
pathology
sciences
statistics
glosses: A percentage derived by the division of the number of fatalities by the number of confirmed (diagnosed) cases (sufferers) of a disease.
Synonyms: word: CFR
word: case fatality risk
word: case fatality ratio
Coordinate terms: death rate
infection fatality rate
mortality
mortality rate
Derived terms: word: CFR
Related terms: mortality rate
incidence rate
morbidity
CFRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CFR
case fatality rates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of case fatality rate
mitochondrial DNAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mitochondrial DNA
Fooching
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌfuːˈt͡ʃɪŋ/
Etymology: From the Postal Romanization of Mandarin 福清 (Fúqīng).
Senses: examples: text: Delivered by Rev. Hu Young Mi, at the Self-support Anniversary, held during the session of the eleventh annual meeting of the mission, in Fooching city.
ref: 1873, “Address on 'Self-support'”, in The Foreign Missionary, volume 31, page 280:
text: In recent years, the district of Fooching has sent out about 20,000 people, or about one thirty-third of its total population.
ref: 1923, Ta Chen, Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, number 340, page 15:
text: Soon afterward, there arrived a twenty-year-old migrant named Liem Sioe Liong, from the port of Fooching. People there speak Hokchia, a subgroup of the Hokchiu. When Hokchia speakers go overseas, they tend to cluster. Today, thanks in large part to Liem, the Hokchia are one of the wealthiest groups of Chinese in the world. Many are in textiles, where they have their own kongsi, the Yu Yong, with its own secret army.
ref: 1995, Sterling Seagrave, Lords of the Rim, Bantam Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 182:
glosses: Alternative form of Fuqing.
Huangqu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhwɑŋ tʃu/
enpr: hwängʹchüʹ
Forms: form: Huang-ch'ü
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 黃渠 /黄渠 (Huángqú).
Senses: examples: text: In a Gansu court record, Dui Hua discovered an incident leading to the arrest of more than thirty Almighty God members. On December 6, 2012, 32 members of the Almighty God group entered a busy area near a Huangqu Township government building in Dunhuang city to distribute religious texts and perform religious songs and dance.
ref: 2018 June, “PRISONER UPDATE”, in Dui Hua Foundation, archived from the original on 11 Apr 2021:
text: Tourists visit a forest of desert poplar or populus euphratica in Huangqu Town, Dunhuang City, Northwest China's Gansu Province. During the autumn months, the town has drawn tourists eager to see the striking golden leaves of the trees against clear, blue skies.
ref: 2018 October 12, “Golden leaves draw tourists to northwestern county (1/6)”, in Yao Lan, editor, China News Service, archived from the original on 20 Oct 2018:
glosses: A town in Dunhuang, Jiuquan, Gansu, China.
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Zhuanqukou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: jwänʹchüʹkōʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 轉渠口 /转渠口.
Senses: examples: text: Generally, the water level had a rising trend in the north of Huangqu town and Zhuanqukou town and along both sides of Dang river, but the level in the east and west of Danghe had a[...]
ref: 2011, Juncang Yang, Zhiheng Li, “The dynamic trends and prevention countermeasures of groundwater in Danghe irrigation, Dunhuang basin”, in 2011 International Symposium on Water Resource and Environmental Protection, →DOI, →OCLC:
text: A middle-aged famer from Zhuanqukou Village says that his annual income from the crops is only 2,000 yuan (US$322.2 yuan), a number which is barely there. Water shortage has become a bottleneck for the economic development of Dunhuang, Gansu Province.
ref: 2014 April 8, “The endless dry spells of Dunhuang”, in China Internet Information Center, archived from the original on 24 May 2021:
text: In addition, according to the monitoring data of groundwater level twice per year in the Danghe irrigation area from 2008 to 2010, the declined range of 0.10–0.50 m/a was mainly occurred from Suzhou town to Mengjiaqiao town and the Northeastern Mogao town; the declined range of 0.10–0.30 m/a was mainly distributed from Zhuanqukou, Guojiabao to Mogao town and around them; the declined range of 0.10–0.20 m/a was mainly distributed in the south of the Dunhuang irrigation area and other districts.
ref: 2016 June, “Land use/land cover change and driving effects of water environment system in Dunhuang Basin, northwestern China”, in Environmental Earth Sciences, volume 75, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Jul 2021, page 9:
text: A nurse of the Dunhuang medical community gives a patient an intravenous injection at the central hospital of Zhuanqukou town, Dunhuang city, Gansu province, Nov 27, 2018
ref: 2018 November 28, “Dunhuang medical community improves treatment”, in State Council of the People's Republic of China, archived from the original on 24 May 2021:
text: There are nine towns in Dunhuang, Shazhou Town, Mogao Town, Yueyaquan Town, Zhuanqukou Town, Qili Town, Yangguan Town, Suzhou Town, Guojiapuzhen Village and Huangqu Village.
ref: 2022, Jinbao Liu, “Thosuand's Years of Vicissitudes About Dunhuang”, in Ming Chen, Meng Wang, transl., The General Theory of Dunhuang Studies, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:
glosses: A town in Dunhuang, Jiuquan, Gansu, China.
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Bicolana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bicolanas
form: Bikolana
Etymology: From Spanish bicolana, from Bicol + -ana.
Senses: hypernyms: Filipina
coordinate_terms: word: Bicolano
glosses: A female native or inhabitant of the Bicol Region, Philippines.
Bicolana
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Bikolana
Etymology: From Spanish bicolana, from Bicol + -ana.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to female native or inhabitant of the Bicol Region, Philippines.
slobette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slobettes
Etymology: From slob + -ette.
Senses: glosses: A female slob.
slobettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slobette
hafod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hafods
Etymology: From Welsh hafod.
Senses: glosses: A Welsh summer dwelling.
phytobrick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytobricks
Etymology: From phyto- + brick.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A standard part used in plant synthetic biology
phytobricks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phytobrick
phytoclimatology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phyto- + climatology.
Senses: glosses: plant climatology
plurihormonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pluri- + hormonal.
Senses: glosses: Associated with several hormones
pneumolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pneumolyses
Etymology: From pneumo- + -lysis.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pneumonolysis.
synonyms: word: pneumonolysis
polytomously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a polytomous manner
posterocaudal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒdəl
Etymology: From postero- + caudal.
Senses: glosses: posterior and caudal
precystic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + cystic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a precyst
glosses: Prior to the formation of a cyst
prehibernation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + hibernation.
Senses: glosses: Prior to hibernation
proximopalmar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From proximo- + palmar.
Senses: glosses: proximal and palmar
prurigenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prurigenic
form: most prurigenic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pruritogenic.
pseudochromosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊməl
Etymology: From pseudo- + chromosomal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a pseudochromosome
pseudoletter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoletters
Etymology: From pseudo- + letter.
Senses: glosses: A sign or symbol that has the characteristics of a letter but is not found in any alphabet.
Related terms: pseudoword
pseudoletters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoletter
pseudowhorl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudowhorls
Etymology: From pseudo- + whorl.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any arrangement of tightly-packed leaves that is not an actual whorl
pseudowhorls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudowhorl
psychodysleptics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychodysleptic
NJP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NJPs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of nonjudicial punishment.
NJPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NJP
quadravalent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quadrivalent.
broadsider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broadsiders
Etymology: From broadside + -er.
Senses: glosses: A gun on the broadside of a vessel.
broadsiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of broadsider
blip out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blips out
form: blipping out
form: blipped out
form: blipped out
Senses: examples: text: If we look, for example, at Laramie County, with a population density of 26.8 per square mile, if you blipped out Cheyenne, Laramie County would change significantly.
ref: 1990, Defining the Frontier: A Policy Challenge: Hearing before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, Second Session, Casper, Wyoming, July 23, 1990 (serial no. 101-25), volume 4, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 25:
text: He listened but his mind heard only words and blipped out meanings.
ref: 1995, John Dunning, The Bookman's Wake: A Mystery with Cliff Janeway, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN:
glosses: To eliminate; to skip over or ignore.
Bambiesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bambiesque
form: most Bambiesque
Etymology: Named from the protagonist of the 1942 animated film Bambi, a young white-tailed deer, + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: Her lips were absolutely perfect—whether they were natural, plumped up with silicone, or fortified with fat sucked from her butt was impossible to determine—and her eyes were Bambi-esque and honeycolored, with eyelash extensions.
ref: 2008, Zoey Dean, American Beauty: An A-List Novel, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: Endearingly sweet and innocent; doe-eyed.
wikipedia: Bambi
realveolarization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + alveolarization.
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent alveolarization.
overrace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overraces
form: overracing
form: overraced
form: overraced
Etymology: From over- + race.
Senses: examples: text: To most, that means keeping their horses fresh for the big day and making sure they have not been overraced in the days and months leading up to the main event.
ref: 2007 August 19, Bill Finley, “Racing Becomes Afterthought as Focus Turns to Breeding and Big Bucks”, in New York Times:
glosses: To race too often.
overraces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overrace
overracing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overrace
rectangularize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rectangularizes
form: rectangularizing
form: rectangularized
form: rectangularized
Senses: glosses: To convert by means of rectangularization
rectangularise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rectangularises
form: rectangularising
form: rectangularised
form: rectangularised
Etymology: From rectangular + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rectangularize.
rectangularised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rectangularise
rectangularised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rectangularized.
rectangularized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rectangularize
rectangularized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Modified by rectangularization
retroalveolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːələ(ɹ)
-əʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From retro- + alveolar.
Senses: glosses: Behind an alveolus
spring saddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spring saddles
Senses: topics: railways
transport
glosses: A bent metal bar on the top of a railway carriage journal-box, surrounding the arch-bar and supporting the spring.
spring saddles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spring saddle
spring net
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spring nets
Senses: topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A fishing net that closes by means of a spring.
spring nets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spring net
T'ai-lu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 苔菉 (Táilù), Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻai²-lu⁴.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tailu.
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Stocksbridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in the Metropolitan Borough of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK2798).
Related terms: Stockbridge
black cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black caps
Senses: glosses: A square of black fabric worn on the head by a judge delivering a death sentence.
glosses: Alternative spelling of blackcap.
black caps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black cap
Great Assassin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Great Assassin
Senses: glosses: A title sarcastically given on September 24, 1896, by Gladstone to sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire, in reference to the massacres of Ottoman Armenians.
self-elective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self- + elective.
Senses: glosses: Having the right to elect oneself.
Washford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Old Cleeve parish, Somerset, England, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district (OS grid ref ST0441).
glosses: A locality in Redditch, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SP0765).
Derived terms: Washford Pyne
miles away
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not paying attention; distracted or daydreaming.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see mile, away.
propagandous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more propagandous
form: most propagandous
Etymology: From propaganda + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Characterized by propaganda.
Cattal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Harrogate borough, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE4454).
Weardale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Wear + dale.
Senses: glosses: The valley of the River Wear in County Durham, England.
strike the tent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strikes the tent
form: striking the tent
form: struck the tent
form: struck the tent
Senses: synonyms: strike camp
break camp
glosses: To pack up and leave.
glosses: To yield, give up, or surrender.
Synonyms: sense: yield, give up, surrender
word: wave the white flag
sense: yield, give up, surrender
word: strike one's flag
Witton-le-Wear
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish alongside the River Wear in County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ1431).
anti-proverb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-proverbs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antiproverb.
anti-proverbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anti-proverb
rhinoendoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhinoendoscopies
Etymology: From rhino- + endoscopy.
Senses: glosses: endoscopy of the nose and nasal cavities
rubefied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rubefy
rufloxacin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -floxacin (“nalidixic acid derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: The antibiotic 7-fluoro-6-(4-methylpiperazin-1-yl)-10-oxo-4-thia-1-azatricyclo[7.3.1.0^(5,13)]trideca-5(13),6,8,11-tetraene-11-carboxylic acid.
Wolsingham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small market town and civil parish in County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ0737).
Related terms: Walsingham
Frosterley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Stanhope parish, Weardale, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ0236).
scapulocoracoideum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: scapulocoracoid cartilage
looks on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of look on
looking on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of look on
looked on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of look on
secotioid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From translingual Secotium + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: For agariclike basidiocarps not discharging spores from the sterigmata, see the secotioid Gasteromycetes.
ref: 1965, C. G. Ainsworth, Frederick K[roeber] Sparrow, Alfred S. Sussman, editors, The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise, volume IVB (A Taxonomic Review with Keys: Basidomycetes and Lower Fungi), New York, N.Y.; London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 422:
glosses: Relating to fungi of the genus Secotium
thinking-cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thinking-caps
Senses: examples: text: Now suppose they put on their "thinking-caps" a moment or two, and consider what is going on in the great world around them. [...] Before you pull off your "thinking-cap" cast a look around your own country—free, prosperous, powerful, independent; yet how full of wickedness, and how unmindful of its obligation to the God of nations!
ref: 1855 February 28, “On with Your Thinking-caps!”, in Youth’s Penny Gazette, volume XIII, number 5 (number 317 overall), Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.: American Sunday-School Union, →OCLC, page 18, column 1:
text: The story you shall have, then, just as well as I can tell it: and you must put on your thinking-caps, so as to remember all you can of it; and be sure to ask questions about what you don't understand.
ref: 1864, William M. Thayer, “Introduction”, in A Child’s History of the Rebellion, from the Bombardment of Fort Sumter to the Capture of Roanoke Island, Boston, Mass.: Walker, Wise, and Company, […], →OCLC, page 24:
text: As time passed the Great Spirit grew fonder and fonder of his good-natured friend, and was grieved to see him suffer for the lack of a full dinner pot and stomach, so the Great Spirit put on his thinking-cap and learned a way to help Mr. Turtle. "The old fellow needs a wife!" said the Great Spirit taking off his thinking-cap.
ref: 1916, Sara H. Merrill, “The Hero Turtle”, in John Martin [pseudonym; Morgan van Roorbach Shepard], editor, John Martin’s Annual: A Jolly Big Book for Little Folks, Garden City, N.Y.: Published by John Martin’s House Inc. […] for Platt & Peck Co., →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of thinking cap.
thinking-caps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thinking-cap
septonodular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From septo- + nodular.
Senses: glosses: septal and nodular
shelterins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shelterin
sialysaccharide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sialysaccharides
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sialosaccharide.
sialysaccharides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sialysaccharide
silicoelastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From silico- + elastic.
Senses: glosses: elastic and manufactured from silicone