cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
West Clandon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Guildford borough, Surrey, England (OS grid ref TQ0452).
Related terms: East Clandon
Zys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
East Clandon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish in Guildford borough, Surrey, England (OS grid ref TQ0551).
Related terms: West Clandon
blue pages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue pages
Senses: glosses: A telephone directory listing American and Canadian state agencies, government agencies and other official entities.
Related terms: white pages
yellow pages
linicolous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the cultivation of flax
Clandon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Recorded as Clanedun, Domesday Book 1086; from Old English clāne + dūn.
Senses: glosses: The villages of East Clandon and West Clandon in Surrey, England.
dynamitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dynamitic
form: most dynamitic
Etymology: From dynamite + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The short note by R . R . Hunt read at the last meeting , relative to destroying snags by dynamitic charges , has led me to bring this subject again before the members, as I believe an alteration in the manner of firing the charges, which was carried out by the fuse, may lead to more comprehensive working in this matter, with more certainty, safety, and economy.
ref: 1878, New Zealand Institute, Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute:
text: And two days later: There have been more attempts at explosions discovered. Dynamitic portmanteaus of evidently American origin have been found at Charing Cross and Paddington Stations.
ref: 2011, Jane Stanford, That Irishman: The Life and Times of John O'Connor Power:
glosses: Involving the use of dynamite.
examples: text: The public that had reacted strongly to his “Editor's Study" could not be shaken by the polite statement of his social radicalism. His important essays on Liberty, Equality and Fraternity – which Howells thought were “terribly dynamitic" and which Walter H. Page felt hesitant to publish – finally went off "like wet firecrackers."
ref: 1982, Amerikastudien - Volume 27, page 228:
text: In this article he urges the community to develop the "dynamitic element" and agitate for their civil rights, which, according to Fortune, "are all such as affect the whole people, and are regulated by them in their collective capacity as a government."
ref: 2008, Timothy Thomas Fortune, Shawn Leigh Alexander, T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator:
glosses: Explosive; volatile.
dynamitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dynamitic
form: most dynamitic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δυναμικός (dunamikós, “powerful”), from δύναμις (dúnamis, “power”), from δύναμαι (dúnamai, “I am able”).
Senses: examples: text: The punctuality of news writing and reading—its “dynamitic” potential—is distinct from the timelessness of fictive discourse, which seeks to suspend a reader's sense of duration, the better to seduce the reader into the world of its text.
ref: 2006, Jacqueline Goldsby, A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature:
text: A dynamitic schedule is built with the following criteria: * Customer satisfaction: with the reduced patient length of stay for the improved satisfaction level. * Resource utilization: through balancing each unit work load and total time for the improved efficiency and utilization. * Employee performance: by the measure of ratio of patents stay and staff working hours.
ref: 2009, Paranjape, Raman, Sadanand, Asha, Multi-Agent Systems for Healthcare Simulation and Modeling:
text: The government's restrictive policies towards civil society does not detract from Chinese NGOs' roles in opening up the political field and expanding civil society over the years in a dynamitic interaction with the state, as well as constituting an effective force in tackling specific issues in their campaigns.
ref: 2012, J. Chen, Transnational Civil Society in China: Intrusion and Impact, page 78:
glosses: Characterized by movement or change; dynamic.
dynamitic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dynamitics
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δυναμικός (dunamikós, “powerful”), from δύναμις (dúnamis, “power”), from δύναμαι (dúnamai, “I am able”).
Senses: examples: text: The adaptive filter tunes its gain automatically based on the system dynamitic sensed by the movement state to yield optimal performance.
ref: 2011, Yanwen Wu, Advances in Computer, Communication, Control and Automation:
text: As labor force participation rates change, they affect unemployment rates and other variables within the model, and once again the model's dynamitics come into play.
ref: 2012, E.J. Visser, Transport decisions in an age of uncertainty:
text: “I’m super stoked for this year,” Steketee said this week. “We have amazing girls that are returning and our team dynamitic is extremely powerful. They get along well and really want to work hard for each other.”
ref: 2018 September 6, Jeannette Boner, “Teton volleyball set to spike a winning season”, in Teton Valley News:
glosses: Misconstruction of dynamic.
dynamitics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dynamitic
Shalford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English sċeald (“shallow”) + forde (“ford”). Doublet of Scalford and Shelford.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Braintree district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL7229).
glosses: A hamlet in South Somerset district, Somerset, England, partly in Charlton Musgrove parish (OS grid ref ST7230).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Guildford borough, Surrey, England (OS grid ref TQ0047).
disimpropriate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disimpropriates
form: disimpropriating
form: disimpropriated
form: disimpropriated
Etymology: From dis- + impropriate.
Senses: examples: text: Suppose now that I disimpropriate the tithe, and as Patron present myself. The case is in no wise altered. The proposing Tenant will still offer me, as Parson, a rent diminished by the value of the labour he is required to provide.
ref: 1856, Charles Abbot Stevens, Remarks on the rating of tithe commutation rent-charge:
text: So if a man be seised of an advowson, and take a wife, and after title of dower given he join in impropriating the church, and dieth; now because the feme cannot have the third turn because of the perpetual incumbency, she shall have all the turns during her life: for it shall not be disimpropriated to the benefit of the heir contrary to the grant of tenant in fee-simple.
ref: 1859, Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works, page 354:
text: First the sea disimpropriates all property, even during peace; and only special agreement with particular states could somewhat protect it.
ref: 1880, Francis Lieber, The Miscellaneous Writings of Francis Lieber:
glosses: In ecclesiastical law, to remove (ecclesiastical property) from control or management of a layperson.
disimpropriate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disimpropriate
form: most disimpropriate
Etymology: From dis- + impropriate.
Senses: examples: text: The will of the donor was that the company to whom this bequest was entrusted should purchase the inheritance of some impropriate benefice or parsonage, allowing a competent sum to the minister, for his maintenance; and the remaining profits to accumulate till the stock again amounted to £2000, when the entire profits of the disimpropriate benefice should be allowed the rector, or parson; and a new purchase of an impropriate benefice to be made out of the accumulated stock.
ref: 1828, Great Britain. Commissioners for Inquiring Concerning Charities, An Account of Public Charities in England and Wales:
glosses: Of ecclesiastical property: removed from control or management by a layperson.
disimpropriates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disimpropriate
disimpropriating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disimpropriate
disimpropriated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disimpropriate
disintensify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disintensifies
form: disintensifying
form: disintensified
form: disintensified
Etymology: From dis- + intense + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: All the same, Of absolute and irretrievable And all-subduing black, — black's soul of black Beyond white's power to disintensify, — Of that I saw no sample : such may wreck My life and ruin my philosophy
ref: 1884, Robert Browning, “A Bean-stripe; also Apple-Eating”, in Ferishtah's Fancies:
text: You know Susie'll have to be told to disintensify her soul-huntin', for religion even isn't an excuse for saying that a man'll become a cockatrice.
ref: 1927, Sean O'Casey, The Silver Tassie:
text: They may also choose to disintensify, neutralize, or dramatize different types of facial expressions to achieve specific interaction outcomes or goals in their particular culture.
ref: 2012, Stella Ting-Toomey, Communicating Across Cultures:
glosses: To make less intense.
disintensifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disintensify
disintensifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disintensify
disintensified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disintensify
Charlton Musgrove
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST7331).
disintoxicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disintoxicates
form: disintoxicating
form: disintoxicated
form: disintoxicated
Etymology: From dis- + intoxicate.
Senses: examples: text: We all admit an individual, functional power for the elimination of waste products which, as life goes on, is likely to lessen, a stage being reached at which the cells, especially those of the liver, if not of other organs, have diminished or lost their function to disintoxicate certain products of disturbed and lowered metabolism, which retained in the body predispose or cause the clinical symptoms of asthma and hay fever.
ref: 1918, New York Medical Journal - Volume 108, page 57:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To neutralize the intoxicating effects of
examples: text: We are justified in assuming, therefore, that one of the functions of the suprarenals is to disintoxicate the blood.
ref: 1903, Albert Henry Buck, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, A Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences Embracing the Entire Range of Scientific and Practical Medicine and Allied Science, Volume 6, page 412:
text: Failure to relieve chronic constipation by the employment of such vegetable drugs as are commonly combined in the so-called anti-constipation pills or tablets results from the simple fact that these agents do not disintoxicate the muscular coat of the intestinal tract.
ref: 1912, The Medical World - Volume 30, page 336:
text: This time may vary from a few days up to a month or more, and the amount of salt solution necessary to disintoxicate the patient may vary from 750 cc once a day to 1000 cc three times a day.
ref: 1923, Therapeutic Gazette - Volume 47, page 754:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To remove or counter an intoxicating substance from
examples: text: Our greatest need vis-a-vis China would seem to be somehow to disintoxicate the issue.
ref: 1966, Edmund O. Stillman, William Pfaff, Power and Impotence: The Failure of America's Foreign Policy:
text: In so far as poetry, or any other of the arts, can be said to have an ulterior purpose, it is, by telling the truth, to disenchant and disintoxicate.
ref: 1993, A. Trevor Tolley, Roy Fuller: A Tribute, page 30:
text: I want to disintoxicate myself from TV.
ref: 2006, Alexander Stille, The Sack of Rome:
text: They acknowledged the complex nature of politics and the fragility of political liberty and the social order, and they attempted “to disintoxicate minds and calm fanaticism.”
ref: 2012, Aurelian Crăiuțu, A Virtue for Courageous Minds:
glosses: To disenchant; to restore a realistic perspective.
disintoxicates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disintoxicate
disintoxicating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disintoxicate
disintoxicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disintoxicate
Pye Bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Somercotes parish, Amber Valley district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK4452).
Somercotes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large village and civil parish in Amber Valley district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK4253).
Related terms: North Somercotes
South Somercotes
Seaside
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Monterey County, California, United States.
glosses: A barangay of Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Isabela, Basilan, Philippines.
Prunedale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Monterey County, California, United States.
Pacific Grove
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Monterey County, California, United States.
King City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Monterey County, California, United States.
Castroville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Monterey County, California, United States.
Del Monte Forest
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Monterey County, California, United States.
Carmel Valley Village
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Monterey County, California, United States.
Carmel-by-the-Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Monterey County, California, United States.
Pajaro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Monterey County, California, United States.
Las Lomas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Monterey County, California, United States; formerly, Hall.
Pine Canyon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Monterey County, California, United States.
Boronda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Monterey County, California, United States.
Del Rey Oaks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Monterey County, California, United States.
Elkhorn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Monterey County, California, United States.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Walworth County, Wisconsin, United States.
Chualar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Monterey County, California, United States.
Spreckels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Monterey County, California, United States.
San Ardo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Monterey County, California, United States.
Sand City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Monterey County, California, United States.
San Lucas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Monterey County, California, United States.
Moss Landing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Charles Moss.
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Monterey County, California, United States; formerly, Moss.
eurytopical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Redundant addition of the adjective-forming suffix -al to the adjective eurytopic.
Senses: glosses: Rare form of eurytopic.
Ash-Shaytan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic اَلشَّيْطَان (aš-šayṭān) (اَل (al-) is the definite article).
Senses: glosses: Satan
raw_tags: in Muslim usage
you only go around once
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: you only go around once in life
form: you only live once
Senses: examples: text: Young men washed in the ecstasy of macho male companionship rode a jeep through barren country and embraced at a bar piled up with beer cans. "You only go around once," the announcer said.
ref: 1979, Kate Braverman, chapter 3, in Lithium for Medea: A Novel, published 2011, →ISBN:
text: "Thank God I'm here. I figure you should play as long as you can because you only go around once, and I know it."
ref: 1986 May 5, Heidi Evans, “The 55-and-Over Crowd Pops Up at the Ballpark for Senior League Softball”, in Los Angeles Times, retrieved 09 May 2020:
text: "Two years ago when I first heard of the Ferrari Challenge I never would have thought I would be doing something like this," said Mr. McCormick, president of First Manhattan Consulting Group in Manhattan. "Then I turned 48 and said, 'You only go around once.'"
ref: 1996 October 13, James V. O'Connor, “With a Dream (and a Ferrari), An Executive Takes Up Racing”, in New York Times, retrieved 09 May 2020:
text: The agency boosted Schlitz's name recognition with the "Gusto" campaign. Consumers […] were even reminded that "You only go around once in life: go for all the gusto you can."
ref: 2015, John McDonough, Karen Egolf, The Advertising Age Encyclopedia of Advertising, →ISBN, page 1403:
glosses: A person has only one lifetime, and should therefore take every opportunity to enjoy a wide variety of experiences in order to maximize their achievements and satisfaction.
Synonyms: YOLO
Related terms: carpe diem
you only go around once in life
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of you only go around once.
you only live once
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of you only go around once.
Synonyms: word: YOLO
wet meadow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛt ˈmɛdəʊ/
ipa: /wɛt ˈmɛdoʊ/
Forms: form: wet meadows
Senses: glosses: An area of saturated soil during the growing season.
switch tack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: switches tack
form: switching tack
form: switched tack
form: switched tack
Senses: glosses: Synonym of change tack.
synonyms: word: change tack
litholatric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to litholatry
pair of ladders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pairs of ladders
Senses: glosses: A ladder connected to another ladder by a hinge.
pairs of ladders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pair of ladders
schematicness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From schematic + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being schematic.
well-favored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more well-favored
form: most well-favored
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of well-favoured.
Van Dievoet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Dutch Van Dievoet.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch. (chiefly found in Belgium)
Vandievoet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Van Dievoet
Etymology: From Dutch Vandievoet.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch. (chiefly found in Belgium)
logaedic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of logaoedic.
logaedic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logaedics
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of logaoedic.
qualified immunity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It is no disparagement of the offices held by petitioners to hold that Presidential aides, like Members of the Cabinet, generally are entitled only to a qualified immunity.
ref: 1982 Harlow v. Fitzgerald 457 U.S. 800
text: Erma Aldaba sought to hold police liable for her son’s deadly encounter with police, but qualified immunity ended her lawsuit before it could even get to trial.
ref: 2020 May 8, “Shielded”, in Reuters:
text: How many courtrooms can these cowards walk right through? / In the land of opportunity, where qualified immunity / Keeps a red dot locked on the community, uh / Tell you to face up when your face is getting laced up / Shooting from the hip, always aiming for the waist up / Untouchables can still get touched / Let 'em call for backup, 'cause there's always more of us, run up
ref: 2022, “'III'”, performed by Stray From The Path:
topics: law
glosses: A doctrine protecting some government officials from suit if no prior court decision had declared similar conduct to be actionable, or if they acted in good faith.
Lamport
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Stowe parish, north Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP6837).
glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Lamport and Hanging Houghton Parish Council) in West Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England, previously in Daventry district (OS grid ref SP7574).
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Lamport timestamp
Hanging Houghton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Lamport parish, West Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England, previously in Daventry district (OS grid ref SP7573).
plombir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Russian пломби́р (plombír), from French plombières (“ice cream made with almond extract, kirsch, and candied fruit”), possibly after the commune of Plombières-les-Bains.
Senses: examples: text: There are two dessert choices, baklava and plombir, a creamy almond ice.
ref: 1983, Alena Lasley, Paul Lasley, Frommer’s 1983-84 Guide to San Francisco, New York, N.Y.: Frommer/Pasmantier Publishers, →ISBN, page 57:
text: There were Russian hors d’oeuvres of black caviar, a roasted pheasant as an entrée, and cream plombir for dessert.
ref: 1999, Muse Norcross Kotenev, “Father Writes Books”, in Through the MOONgate, Lincoln, Neb.: toExcel Press, iUniverse.com, Inc., →ISBN, page 77:
text: For desserts there were “airy pie,” charlottes, mousses, kissel, plombir and “zephyrs.”
ref: 2003, Valentina Antonievna Seletzky, “The Evgoschino Interlude”, in Mosaic: A Child’s Recollections of the Russian Revolution, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN:
text: [W]arm plombir drops drip on the pavement, on her bag and shoes.
ref: 2016, Anna Nemzer, translated by Ronan Quinn, “Trigger”, in Prisoner, London: Glagoslav Publications Ltd, →ISBN:
text: You can also use silicone baking molds or silicone ice cube trays, which allow the plombir to be easily popped out after freezing.
ref: 2017, Bonnie Frumkin Morales with Deena Prichep, “Plombir with Black Currant Tea Milk Caramel”, in Kachka: A Return to Russian Cooking, New York, N.Y.: Flatiron Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A type of ice cream made with vanilla, cream, eggs, and sugar.
patch box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patch boxes
form: patch-box
form: patchbox
Senses: topics: cosmetics
lifestyle
glosses: A fancy box, generally with a mirror under the lid, for holding artificial beauty spots, or patches, worn on the face.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A lidded container fitted to a gun to hold the cloth patches used when shooting round shot.
patch boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patch box
Obamagate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Obama + -gate. Coined by Donald Trump.
Senses: examples: text: [Donald] Trump unleashed a relatively unfamiliar hashtag on the world – “#OBAMAGATE!”
ref: 2020 May 14, “Explainer: What is ‘Obamagate’ and where did it come from?”, in Al Jazeera:
glosses: Alleged attempts by President Barack Obama and those in his administration to sabotage Donald Trump's candidacy and administration through various illegitimate means, according to a conspiracy theory promoted by Trump.
antivibrational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + vibrational.
Senses: glosses: Preventing vibration.
antivibrating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + vibrating.
Senses: glosses: Preventing vibration.
vibroabsorbing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vibro- + absorbing.
Senses: glosses: Absorbing vibration.
Petropolis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Brazilian Portuguese Petrópolis.
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and historic state capital.
glosses: A neighbourhood of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
glosses: Ellipsis of Treaty of Petropolis.
Petropolis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From petro- + -polis.
Senses: glosses: Nickname for Fort McMurray: an urban service area (equivalent to a city) in northeastern Alberta, Canada; the center of the Alberta oil industry.
Petropolis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Petropoulis
form: Petropoulos
form: Petropolos
form: Petropouleas
Etymology: From Greek Πετρόπουλος (Petrópoulos).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Nova Petropolis
earther
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earthers
Etymology: From earth + -er.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of a particular theory about the Earth.
Derived terms: flat earther
globe earther
hollow earther
Old-Earther
round earther
Young-Earther
Related terms: Middle-earther
Broadwayish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Broadwayish
form: most Broadwayish
Etymology: From Broadway + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: That’s a tip-off that the film is a fantasy musical, ala Baz Luhrmann (“Moulin Rouge”). And “The Bitch is Back,” is sung by Taron Egerton, not John, in a Broadwayish rock ‘n’ roll arrangement.
ref: 2019 June 13, L. Kent Wolgamott, “'Rocketman' and its knowing look at Elton John is a better rock biopic than 'Bohemian Rhapsody'”, in Lincoln Journal Star:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of Broadway theatre.
queth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: queths
Etymology: From Middle English cweth, queth, queye (mistake), related to the verbs quethe and bequeath, from Old English cweþan, from Proto-Germanic *kweþaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet- (“to say, speak”).
Senses: glosses: Speech, talk.
glosses: Statement, saying, proverb.
glosses: The howling upon finding prey by hunting dogs during a hunt; quest.
glosses: A corsepresent, mortuary.
lumen-hour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lumen-hours
Senses: glosses: The quantity of light equal to a lumen radiated or received in one hour.
lub-dup
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lub-dub.
couchmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: couchmates
Etymology: From couch + -mate.
Senses: glosses: A person with whom one shares a couch.
heart sound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heart sounds
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of the noises that can be heard on auscultation over the heart, generated by the beating heart and the resultant flow of blood through it.
heart sounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heart sound
ACSM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɛm
Senses: examples: text: The two are often one and the same, says Walt Thompson, professor of kinesiology at Georgia State University and lead author of the ACSM survey – although functional fitness can apply to the younger generation as well.
ref: 2013 July 3, Jacque Wilson, “‘Functional fitness’ keeps seniors moving”, in CNN:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of American College of Sports Medicine: an American sports medicine and exercise science membership organization founded in 1954.
memey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmiːmi/
homophone: Mimi
Forms: form: memier
form: memiest
Etymology: From meme + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Today his view is essentially that ROFL is just another element of the information cycle: he is the founder of BuzzFeed.com, a news-and-entertainment aggregator that’s partly devoted to these new sources of memey entertainment.
ref: 2010 July 16, Rob Walker, “When Funny Goes Viral”, in New York Times Magazine, →ISSN:
text: It’s true that things that seem very zeitgeisty at the moment may be incomprehensible to future generations,” he said. That’s particularly true these days, as each new word seems more memey than the last.
ref: 2015 January 16, Jessica Bennett, “At the Super Bowl of Linguistics, May the Best Word Win”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: While you’ll find a giddy variety of sounds on TikTok – ranging from the classic ('Paint It Black' by the Rolling Stones is currently trending) to the extremely memey (‘Be Gone Thot’ by an alien influencer called Lil Mayo) – the most consistently trending sounds tend to err towards the childlike.
ref: 2019 October 31, Emma Madden, “TikTok has broken rap music”, in Wired UK, →ISSN:
glosses: Characterized by or relating to memes.
Alzies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Alz(heimer)'s + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Of course, they don't see the "other symptoms" ... just the memory and ability to think, which is 98% OK most of the time -- and I must say that's kinda' the norm for people without Alzies at this age, from what I've seen!
ref: 2007 April 14, maryle...@comcast.net, “Re: Aricept”, in alt.support.alzheimers (Usenet):
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Alzheimer's disease.
Parkie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Parkies
Etymology: From Park(inson's) + -ie.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A person with Parkinson's disease.
Parkies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Parkie
non-revenue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + revenue.
Senses: examples: text: On Mondays and Tuesdays, the day's mileage was increased to 195½ by a trip from Lewes to Berwick and back. This additional mileage provided the only instance of a non-revenue journey, as the "motor" returned empty from Berwick to Lewes.
ref: 1954 March, “Notes and News: A Stroudley "Terrier's" Long Day”, in Railway Magazine, page 214:
text: The second strategy is to develop specific care and maintenance rules that will need to be strictly followed by the system operator - including the use of specialised machines to clear the permanent way of snowfall, to de-ice the rail grooves and the running of non-revenue services at night to prevent ice formation on the OCL [overhead contact lines].
ref: 2020 May 6, “Advertisement feature: Preparing for climate change”, in RAIL, page 43:
glosses: Alternative form of nonrevenue.
MSer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MSers
Etymology: From MS (“multiple sclerosis”) + -er.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A person with multiple sclerosis.
MSers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MSer
creamy snuff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creamy snuffs
Senses: glosses: A paste consisting of tobacco, clove oil, glycerin, spearmint, menthol, and camphor, sold in a toothpaste tube, and marketed as a dentifrice, allowing the user to ingest nicotine without consuming it via the smoking or chewing of tobacco.
creamy snuffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creamy snuff
rail-served
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Rotherham is not the only rail-served site the business once had, but the additional one at Doncaster no longer operates.
ref: 2020 May 6, “Mk 3s reach the end of the line at Rotherham”, in Rail, page 44:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Having a connection to the railway network, such as a siding.
disjointure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disjointures
Etymology: From disjoint + -ure.
Senses: examples: text: With Henry's divorce and the creation of an autonomous Church of England, Italian intercourse with England entered into a period of disjointure that would continue, except for a brief revival under Mary, .through the end of Elizabeth's reign.
ref: 2005, Michael Wyatt, The Italian Encounter with Tudor England, page 65:
text: To distinguish between the two opposing possibilities of this disjointure, or disjunction – between 'injustice' and the opening to the other – a deconstructive move becomes necessary.
ref: 2016, Carolyn D'Cruz, Identity Politics in Deconstruction, page 81:
text: Theodor Adorno argued that what a given poem seems to say in a literal sense is often contradicted by its formal disjointures, by what he called a poem's parataxis, and that its truth content must be seen as illusory in a special sense.
ref: 2018, Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei, The Life of Imagination: Revealing and Making the World:
glosses: An instance or state of being disjoint; separation.
disjointures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disjointure
sangrita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Mexican non-alcoholic drink typically made from orange, lime and pomegranate juices and chili powder or hot sauce, and often served with tequila.
Related terms: sangria
dismalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dismalises
form: dismalising
form: dismalised
form: dismalised
Etymology: From dismal + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: This is, we fear, the case with many who dismalise all around them with their unavailing complaints and lamentations, instead of using proper means for self-improvement.
ref: 1851, Revivalism, its nature, importance, and means of attainment.:
text: Charley, changed not in nature but in lot, would become a unit to the year's list of "Juvenile Criminals," and serve to dismalise the visage of some excellent and sincere Exeter Hall orator, and to impart a sensational shock to an Exeter Hall audience.
ref: 1873, Benjamin Waugh, The Gaol Cradle: who Rocks It?, page 12:
text: One of the things which is doing more harm than good and helping to dismalise this country and to discourage trade is the appalling idea that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has on austerity.
ref: 1948, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).:
glosses: Alternative form of dismalize.
dismalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dismalise
dismalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dismalise
dismalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dismalise
dismalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dismalizes
form: dismalizing
form: dismalized
form: dismalized
Etymology: From dismal + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: And glancing through the pages of the “Lowell Offering” a year or two later, I see that I continued to dismalize myself at times, quite unnecessarily.
ref: 1889, Lucy Larcom, A New England Girlhood: Outlined from Memory, page 213:
text: I remember he said to her, 'Why do young people like to dismalize themselves? Later in life we have no need to do that.'
ref: 1893, Margaret Sidney, Whittier with the Children, page 29:
text: The greater are those human tensions which dismalize and disintegrate, the more important creative recreation becomes.
ref: 1942, Journal of Physical Education and Recreation - Volume 13, page 492:
text: In the words of Dr. Irwin Edman in an article on "No Blackout for the Arts," appearing in a recent issue of RECREATION, we may "dismalize" and "demoralize" life in our pathetic eagerness to make first things first, if we do not recognize the "consolations and refreshment of the arts," and their "curative and energizing values."
ref: 1956, International Recreation Congress, Philadelphia, Proceedings - Volume 27, page 157:
glosses: To make dismal.
dismalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dismalize
dismalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dismalize
dismalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dismalize
disobstruct
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disobstructs
form: disobstructing
form: disobstructed
form: disobstructed
Etymology: From dis- + obstruct.
Senses: examples: text: Instead of measuring time and life in snatching at rags, let us counsel together to disobstruct the sources of riches, and organise industry, domestic labours, agricultural, manufacturing, — all the labours that produce wealth.
ref: 1969, New Moral World - Volume 5, page 175:
text: Treatment is largely supportive (nasogastric suction, antibiotics, parenteral fluids and electrolytes); saline washouts of the colon and colostomy to disobstruct the bowel are the only definitive measures to arrest this complication.
ref: 1975, Peter Paul Rickham, Robert T. Soper, Urs G. Stauffer, Synopsis of Pediatric Surgery, page 151:
text: I hope to show that their very existence is functional: they are involved ( they were born to become involved ) in a ritual action designed to disobstruct the ascendancy to kingship of their half-brother Alfonso, rey niño, ten-year- old heir to the throne vacated by Duarte.
ref: 1979, Revista hispánica moderna - Volume 40, page 17:
text: However, only nine patients in the control group did not disobstruct spontaneously and these were compared to 52 patients in whom disobstruction was spontaneous or therapeutically achieved.
ref: 2008, Giuseppe Borzellino, Claudio Cordiano, Biliary Lithiasis, page 387:
glosses: To clear away an obstruction.
Derived terms: disobstruction
disobstructs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disobstruct
disobstructing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disobstruct
disobstructed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disobstruct
serverwide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From server + -wide.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Throughout a server.
serverwide
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From server + -wide.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Throughout a server.
Portlander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Portlanders
Etymology: From Portland + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone from Portland, Oregon.
glosses: Someone from Portland, Maine.
Portlanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Portlander
Skarżysko-Kamienna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Polish Skarżysko-Kamienna
Senses: glosses: A city in Holy Cross Voivodeship, Poland.
Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɒsˈtɹəʊ.vi.ɛts ʃviˌɛn.təʊkˈʃɪs.ki/
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski.
Senses: glosses: A town in Holy Cross Voivodeship, Poland.
Jędrzejów
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jedrzejow
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Jędrzejów.
Senses: glosses: A town in Holy Cross Voivodeship, Poland.
Tarnobrzeg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Tarnobrzeg.
Senses: examples: Meronyms: Borek, Góra, Machów
glosses: A city in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland.
Piotrków Trybunalski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Piotrków Trybunalski.
Senses: glosses: A city in Lodz Voivodeship, Poland.
Tricity
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌtɹaɪˈsɪti/
Etymology: From tri- + city. Calque of Polish Trójmiasto.
Senses: glosses: A metropolitan area of Poland consisting of the three cities Gdańsk, Gdynia and Sopot
hadbot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hadbots
form: hadbote
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English hādbōt.
Senses: topics: law
qualifier: Anglo-Saxon
glosses: Recompense demanded under old English law for violence or insult to a person in holy orders.
dispersonify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dispersonifies
form: dispersonifying
form: dispersonified
form: dispersonified
Etymology: From dis- + personify.
Senses: examples: text: It is almost impossible for the most prosaic mind to dispersonify a ship. It requires a greater effort probably on the part of the Englishman to view a ship as an inanimate object than for the ancient Greek to dispersonify the sun or moon.
ref: 1864, The Spectator - Volume 37, page 1363:
text: When even a stone was a cutter, a tooth a grinder, a gimlet a borer, the difficulty was not how to personify, but how to dispersonify.
ref: 1899, Friedrich Max Müller, Collected Works, page 407:
text: Along these lines we can approach a pure allegorical reading — pure in being univocal, not hybridized. In this reading predicates are construed so as radically to dispersonify their meanings.
ref: 1981, Harvard English Studies - Volume 9, page 35:
text: With these shifts in point of view, Thomson makes body parts not only the objects or the means but also the subjects of personification, granting the eyes and ears of a bee or a hare the power to dispersonify humans.
ref: 2016, Heather Keenleyside, Animals and Other People:
glosses: To view as impersonal; to see as an object rather than as having personal attributes.
dispersonifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dispersonify
dispersonifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dispersonify
dispersonified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dispersonify
bactophenol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of bactoprenol.
dropletize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dropletizes
form: dropletizing
form: dropletized
form: dropletized
Etymology: From droplet + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To form into droplets
Related terms: dropletization
dropletized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dropletize
dropletized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Formed into droplets
elosulfase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme that mimics the activity of a sulfatase
galsulfase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A replacement for some sulfatases
geosites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geosite
historesin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: historesins
Etymology: From histo- + resin.
Senses: glosses: A histological resin
hypostain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hypostains
form: hypostaining
form: hypostained
form: hypostained
Etymology: From hypo + stain.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: To accidentally stain with hypo
hypostained
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hypostain
moonlight tower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moonlight towers
Etymology: From moonlight + tower. From being a tower providing illumination akin to moonlight.
Senses: synonyms: moon tower
glosses: A high tower fitted with arclights, formerly common in 19th-century cities with electricity, as a means of illuminating public spaces.
pro-inflammatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of proinflammatory.
torquimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torquimeters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of torque meter.
self-surgery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-surgeries
Senses: glosses: The act of performing a surgical procedure on oneself.
self-surgeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of self-surgery
pass unnoticed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: passes unnoticed
form: passing unnoticed
form: passed unnoticed
form: passed unnoticed
Senses: synonyms: word: go unnoticed
word: forpass
glosses: To not be noticed.
Related terms: wash over
slip by
kyrbasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kyrbasias
Senses: glosses: An ancient Persian hat.
Baldwin's Gate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Whitmore parish, Newcastle-under-Lyme borough, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7940).
hypostains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hypostain
hypostaining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hypostain
often times
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of oftentimes.
Whitmore Heath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A residential area and heath in Whitmore parish, Newcastle-under-Lyme borough, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7941).
disinheritable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disinheritable
form: most disinheritable
Etymology: From disinherit + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Heirs of Heaven they are, but disinheritable for their misdemeanour. Married still to Christ, but deserving to be divorced for their adulteries.
ref: 1863, Thomas Fuller, Good Thoughts in Bad Times, and Other Papers, page 324:
text: It was known as a fact that people from the lower ranks were ennobled and allowed to pass into the rank of samurai; in the same way, too, samurai were clearly disinheritable, and for any offence passed down into the ranks beneath them.
ref: 1912, Transactions and Proceedings of the Japan Society, London:
text: It was in no way parallel to a disinheritable natural son, who might mature badly. Legally, however, a will could be revoked at any time during the testator's life.
ref: 2012, Jerome Murphy-O'Connor, Keys to Galatians: Collected Essays, page 108:
glosses: That can be disinherited;
examples: text: Or else that by some subtle Contract of Matrimony, they indeavour to make the goods of each side disinheritable, &c. So that it appears among the friends, as if there could be nothing don in the matter.
ref: 1923, A. Marsh, The Ten Pleasures of Marriage, page 14:
text: The fairest plan would be to enact a small “disinheritable” minimum — say , half the Scottish minimum - with power delegated to the Courts to increase the figure in cases where this amount could be proved inadequate
ref: 1937, The New Statesman and Nation - Volume 14, page 783:
glosses: That can be excluded from an inheritance.
Derived terms: undisinheritable
Camm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * As an English and Norman surname, from Caen in Normandy.
* Also as an English surname, named for the Cam river, from the Celtic root of Old Irish camm (“crooked, bent”). This adjective also has surname derivatives from Scottish Gaelic and Welsh.
* As a German surname, spelling variant of Kamm.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Buckingham County, Virginia, United States.