cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
one-arm joint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one-arm joints
Senses: glosses: Synonym of one-arm lunchroom.
synonyms: word: one-arm lunchroom
one-arm joints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of one-arm joint
HPGP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of hydrogen peroxide gas plasma.
Related terms: sense: hydrogen peroxide gas plasma
english: vaporous hydrogen peroxide
translation: vaporous hydrogen peroxide
word: VHP
sense: hydrogen peroxide gas plasma
english: hydrogen peroxide vapor
translation: hydrogen peroxide vapor
word: HPV
sense: hydrogen peroxide gas plasma
english: liquid hydrogen peroxide
translation: liquid hydrogen peroxide
word: LHP
sense: hydrogen peroxide gas plasma
english: hydrogen peroxide
translation: hydrogen peroxide
word: HP
one-arm lunchroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one-arm lunchrooms
Senses: synonyms: one-arm joint
one-arm restaurant
glosses: A diner serving snacks and simple meals.
one-arm lunchrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of one-arm lunchroom
one-arm restaurant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one-arm restaurants
Senses: glosses: Synonym of one-arm lunchroom.
synonyms: word: one-arm lunchroom
one-arm restaurants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of one-arm restaurant
star clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: star clocks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nocturnal (“device for telling time”).
synonyms: word: nocturnal
extra: device for telling time
star clocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of star clock
diagonal calendar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diagonal calendars
Senses: glosses: A kind of astronomical diagram used to tell time in Ancient Egypt.
diagonal calendars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diagonal calendar
diagonal spread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diagonal spreads
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: In derivatives trading, an options spread position having features of both a calendar spread and a vertical spread. It is established by simultaneously buying and selling equal amount of option contracts of the same type (call or put) but with different strike prices and expiration dates.
diagonal spreads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diagonal spread
Winwick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈwɪnɪk/
Forms: form: Winwicks
form: Winick
form: Winnick
Etymology: From the Old English personal name Wina + wīc (“village”).
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL1080).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Warrington borough, Cheshire, England, historically in Lancashire (OS grid ref SJ6092).
glosses: A small village, a civil parish and a lost settlement in Daventry district, Northamptonshire, England (OS grid ref SP6273).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
LHP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LHPs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of liquid hydrogen peroxide.
synonyms: LOOH
LPO
LHPO
glosses: Abbreviation of lipid hydroperoxide.
Derived terms: sense: liquid hydrogen peroxide
english: alkalized liquid hydrogen peroxide
translation: alkalized liquid hydrogen peroxide
word: A-LHP
Related terms: sense: liquid hydrogen peroxide
english: hydrogen peroxide gas plasma
translation: hydrogen peroxide gas plasma
word: HPGP
sense: liquid hydrogen peroxide
english: hydrogen peroxide vapor
translation: hydrogen peroxide vapor
word: HPV
sense: liquid hydrogen peroxide
english: vaporous hydrogen peroxide
translation: vaporous hydrogen peroxide
word: VHP
sense: liquid hydrogen peroxide
english: hydrogen peroxide
translation: hydrogen peroxide
word: HP
weather radar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weather radars
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A type of radar used to locate precipitation, calculate its motion, and estimate its type.
weather radars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weather radar
weak AI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weak AIs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of weak artificial intelligence.
weak artificial intelligence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weak artificial intelligences
Senses: synonyms: narrow AI
qualifier: artificial intelligence
glosses: An artificial intelligence only capable of solving one specific problem or set of problems.
strong AI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strong AIs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of strong artificial intelligence.
strong artificial intelligence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strong artificial intelligences
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of artificial general intelligence.
synonyms: word: artificial general intelligence
full AI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of full artificial intelligence.
full artificial intelligence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of artificial general intelligence.
synonyms: word: artificial general intelligence
general intelligent action
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: general intelligent actions
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of artificial general intelligence.
synonyms: word: artificial general intelligence
narrow AI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narrow AIs
Senses: examples: text: In the years since, my team has used them to help develop features on Pixel phones for specific “narrow AI” functions, such as face unlocking, image recognition, speech recognition and language translation.
ref: 2022 June 9, Blaise Agüera y Arcas, “Artificial neural networks are making strides towards consciousness, according to Blaise Agüera y Arcas”, in The Economist, →ISSN:
qualifier: artificial intelligence
glosses: Abbreviation of narrow artificial intelligence.
narrow artificial intelligence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narrow artificial intelligences
Senses: qualifier: artificial intelligence
glosses: Synonym of weak artificial intelligence.
synonyms: word: weak artificial intelligence
mutation pressure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of mutationism.
synonyms: word: mutationism
groundrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: groundrows
form: ground row
Etymology: From ground + row.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A low, narrow flat used to suggest the presence of a building, fence, hedge, etc.
ground row
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ground rows
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of groundrow.
groundrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of groundrow
ground rows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ground row
psychocivilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From psycho- + civilization.
Senses: glosses: Civilization constructed according to psychological notions.
Flynn's taxonomy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Proposed by Michael J. Flynn in 1966.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A system for classification of computer architectures, based on the number of concurrent instruction (or control) streams and data streams available.
wikipedia: Michael J. Flynn
Related terms: MIMD
MISD
SIMD
SISD
SISD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by American computer scientist (*1934) Michael J. Flynn in 1966.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: MIMD
MISD
SIMD
glosses: Acronym of single instruction, single data.
MISD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by American computer scientist (*1934) Michael J. Flynn in 1966.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: MIMD
SIMD
SISD
glosses: Acronym of multiple instruction, single data.
MIMD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by American computer scientist (*1934) Michael J. Flynn in 1966.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: MISD
SIMD
SISD
glosses: Acronym of multiple instruction, multiple data.
nonheritability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The property of being nonheritable.
Minshull Vernon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet and civil parish (Minshull Vernon and District) in Cheshire East borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6760).
Related terms: Church Minshull
wire chamber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wire chambers
Senses: glosses: A kind of proportional counter that detects charged particles and photons and can give positional information on their trajectory, by tracking the trails of gaseous ionization.
wire chambers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wire chamber
multiwires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multi- + wires.
Senses: examples: text: The multiwires were used to measure the profiles of the injected beam as it passed through the 8-GeV beam-transfer line and passed once through part of the Main Ring.
ref: 1989, Melvin Month, Margaret Dienes, Physics of Particle Accelerators: Fermilab Summer School:
glosses: Multiple wires.
Dow process
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Dow process
Etymology: Developed by Herbert Henry Dow and patented in 1891.
Senses: glosses: The electrolytic method of bromine extraction from brine.
wikipedia: Herbert Henry Dow
Raschig-Hooker process
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Raschig-Hooker process
Etymology: Named after the German chemist Friedrich Raschig.
Senses: glosses: A chemical process for the production of phenol, involving the initial production of chlorobenzene from benzene, hydrochloric acid and oxygen, and then the hydrolysis of chlorobenzene to phenol.
Baeyer-Villiger oxidation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Baeyer-Villiger oxidations
Etymology: Named after Adolf von Baeyer and Victor Villiger, who first reported the reaction in 1899.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An organic reaction that forms an ester from a ketone or a lactone from a cyclic ketone, using peroxyacids or peroxides as the oxidant.
Baeyer-Villiger oxidations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Baeyer-Villiger oxidation
peroxyacid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peroxyacids
Etymology: From peroxy- + acid.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of peracid (“acid containing an acidic -OOH group”).
synonyms: word: peracid
extra: acid containing an acidic -OOH group
peroxyacids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peroxyacid
calcarious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kælˈkɛəɹi.əs/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.əs
Senses: examples: text: At the top of the left ventricle, in the substance of the fleshy fibres, there was a concretion of calcarious phosphate, of a rounded form, and about the size of a small nut.
ref: 1833, R. J. Bertin, translated by Charles W. Chauncy, Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart, and Great Vessels, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blnachard, page 176:
glosses: having calcium carbonate; chalky
Safaites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Safaite
arteria innominata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arteriae innominatae
Etymology: From Latin artēria (“artery”) and innōmināta (“unnamed”).
Senses: examples: text: The carotids were in their natural state; the arteria innominata and the subclavian were twice their natural diameter: their smaller branches were proportionally dilated and bent zigzag.
ref: 1833, R. J. Bertin, translated by Charles W. Chauncy, Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart, and Great Vessels, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blnachard, page 169:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The innominate artery or brachiocephalic artery.
Standon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English stān (“stone”) + dūn (“hill”).
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Hursley parish, Winchester district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU4226).
glosses: A village and civil parish in East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL3922).
glosses: A small village and civil parish in Stafford borough, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ8134).
index patient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: index patients
Senses: topics: epidemiology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of patient zero.
synonyms: word: patient zero
index patients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of index patient
patient 0
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patient 0s
Senses: topics: epidemiology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of patient zero (“index case”).
patient 0s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patient 0
patient zeroes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patient zero
Zialo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The language spoken by the Zialo people of Guinea.
Carluke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS8450).
glosses: A locality in the Rai Valley, Marlborough, New Zealand.
slavefic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slavefics
Etymology: From slave + fic.
Senses: examples: text: In fact the problem I've always had with slavefics and brothelfics is that they pretty much put men into situations that, historically, only women and boys have ever been in.
ref: 2003 June 25, Alara Rogers, “Re: Addendum to the slavery comment”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (Usenet):
text: And as usual for slashy slave fics, there's nary an explanation of how or why this pseudo-Renaissance society maintains slavery as a societal institution.
ref: 2003 September 27, LadyCyrrh [username], “{ASSM} {REVIEW} The Annex Reviews, 9/26/03”, in alt.sex.stories.moderated (Usenet):
text: These fics, and others like them, fics which focus on rape and torture, orgies, BDSM (Bondage, Dominance, Sadism, and Masochism) fics, slave fics, […]
ref: 2009, Robin Ann Reid, “Thrusts in the Dark: Slashers' Queer Practices”, in Extrapolation, volume 50, number 3:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fanfic centered on the enslavement of one or more characters.
examples: text: First off, go to the "Boys in Chains" site:[…] Girls, too, now. Slavefic by the hundreds.
ref: 2000 November 30, Mary Ellen Curtin, “Re: Master/Slave stories, sites, theory, history, etc.”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (Usenet):
text: If you just link to the slavefic index, some people are going to miss out on some seriously good stuff . . .
ref: 2003 May 6, Hypatia Kosh, “Re: new trek linklist project - bdsm, slavery, torture, rape, whatever ;)”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (Usenet):
text: It focuses its emotional journey on the relationship between the swarthy-skinned Prince Damen and his pale northern captor, Prince Laurent, confounding both racial and sexual norms of medievalist fantasy while cleaving closely to the norms of slash and the "slavefic" subgenre of fan fiction ("slavefic" depicts characters in often romantic or sexually charged master-slave relationships).
ref: 2019, Maria Sachiko Cecire, Re-Enchanted: The Rise of Children's Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century, unnumbered page:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Such fan fiction collectively.
feline infectious peritonitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
glosses: An uncommon but usually fatal cat disease caused by an aberrant immune response to infection with feline coronavirus (FCoV).
Synonyms: word: FIP
COVIDiot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: COVIDiots
Senses: examples: text: A COVIDiot snarls if the lineup is too long at the cash; squeezes all the fruit on display (then puts most of it back); hops into his vehicle and speeds down the now-wide-open city streets with no thought of public safety.
ref: 2020 March 29, “EDITORIAL: Cooperation is way better than being a COVIDiot”, in Ottawa Sun:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of covidiot.
covidiots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of covidiot
COVIDiots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of COVIDiot
KV
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Klang Valley.
topics: Egyptology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of Valley of the Kings.
oneirocrisy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὄνειρος (óneiros, “dream”) + the middle voice of κρίνω (krínō, “I separate, judge, decide”).
Senses: examples: text: Having consulted his father thereupon, well skilled in Oneirocrisy, he called his son Kilkhan, and explained them thus: That according to the first dream, out of the progeny of Kilkhan should arise three princes which should possess the empire of the Moguls, and should transmit it to a fourth, who should subjugate a great part of the world, and divide it amongst his children.
ref: 1842, Charles Daubuz, Peter Lancaster, Matthew Habershon, A symbolical dictionary, page 175:
text: It seems clear that he was a proficient in this art of oneirocrisy ; it being the practice after his apotheosis (for he became a god) for his worshippers to sleep beside his altar in the pious hope of a prophetic dream.
ref: 1852, Abraham Moore Pindar, The Odes of Pindar, page 196:
text: The three types are oneirocrisy, cledonomancy and the investigation of chance omens encountered "on the way", i.e. while traveling.
ref: 1975, David Sansone, Aeschylean metaphors for intellectual activity, page 42:
text: There exists, nevertheless, a certain category of dreams, well-known to traditional oneirocrisy, the memory of which persists with an incisive clarity, and this can happen even if the profound content of these dreams appears to conceal itself.
ref: 1987, Titus Burckhardt, William Stoddart, Mirror of the Intellect, page 57:
glosses: Prognostication based on the interpretation of dreams.
oneirocrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oneirocrites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀνειροκριτικός (oneirokritikós, “fit for interpreting dreams”), from ὄνειρος (óneiros, “dream”) + κριτικός (kritikós, “fit for judging”), from κριτής (kritḗs, “judge”).
Senses: examples: text: Often these were obscure and had to be interpreted, the task of the oneirocrites, as the Greeks called such specialists among the priests.
ref: 1973, Leopold Sabourin, Studies in the History of Religions - Issue 25, page 92:
text: On the contrary, he warned aspiring oneirocrites that "those who attribute . . . too much hidden meaning to dreams should be treated with contempt since they have no insight into the structure of a dream ..." (IV, 63 [P 286, 13-15]).
ref: 1991, The Second Century - Volume 8, page 107:
text: This guidance came in dreams which had to be interpreted by the oneirocrites.
ref: 2005, Raymond Buckland, The Spirit Book: The Encyclopedia of Clairvoyance, page 127:
glosses: One skilled in oneirocrisy; an interpreter of dreams.
Synonyms: oneirocritic
oneirocrites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oneirocrite
oneirocritick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oneirocriticks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of oneirocritic.
oneirocriticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oneirocritick
onwarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of onward
onwarded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of onward
keeps going
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of keep going
keeping going
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of keep going
kept going
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of keep going
bunker down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hunker down.
antipestilential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antipestilential
form: most antipestilential
Etymology: From anti- + pestilential.
Senses: examples: text: 1685, Robert Boyle, An Essay of the Great Effects of Even Languid and Unheeded Motion, London: Richard Davis, “An Experimental Discourse of some Unheeded Causes of the Insalubrity and Salubrity of the Air,” Proposition 3, p. 65,
[…] during this time [when the Nile is overflowing] the Air is so antipestilential, that not only the Plague does not make a new Eruption; but is either wonderfully check’d or quite suppress’d in those houses that it has already invaded,
text: Antipestilential Pills.
ref: 1722, Daniel Defoe, “A Journal of the Plague Year”, in et al., London: E. Nutt, page 36:
glosses: Preventing or acting as a remedy against bubonic plague or other infectious diseases.
antipestilential
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antipestilentials
Etymology: From anti- + pestilential.
Senses: examples: text: 1665, Gideon Harvey, A Discourse of the Plague, London: Nath. Brooke, Distinction 12, p. 15,
Neither, as we may universally observe, is the Plague more shie in attaquing those that are armed with the said Antipestilentials, than others that slight all Preservatives.
text: The electuary, which was formerly in high repute as an antipestilential, has been replaced, in English pharmacy, by the Electuarium catechu.
ref: 1848, Theophilus Redwood, Gray’s Supplement to the Pharmacopœa, 2nd edition, London: Longman, et al, page 665:
glosses: A preventative or remedy against bubonic plague or other infectious diseases.
antipestilentials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antipestilential
Mystrade
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Mycroft + Lestrade.
Senses: examples: text: The latter include Lestrade (as played by Graves) appreciation and fanfic sites [URLS redacted], a significant strand of (self-evidently, fanon/non-canon) ‘Mystrade’ slash activity, in which Lestrade is imagined to be in a romantic/sexual relationship, or even civil partnership, with Mycroft Holmes (played by Sherlock’s co-creator, Mark Gatiss) […]
ref: 2011 November, Claire Monk, “Heritage Film Audiences 2.0: Period Film Audiences and Online Fan Cultures”, in Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 7, number 2, page 474:
text: It seems natural in the context of fandom that Mystrade and Wincest are important generic categories, or that Kirk and Spock is an entirely different fictional animal from Kirk/Spock.
ref: 2013, Anne Jamison, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, page 361:
text: […] whereas SailorChibi's Walking Together is labelled an 'AU' featuring 'Johnlock & mentions of Mystrade'.
ref: 2016, Maria Lindgren Leavenworth, “Paratextual Navigation as a Research Method: Fan Fiction Archives and Reader Instructions”, in Gabriele Griffin, editor, Research Methods for Reading Digital Data in the Digital Humanities, page 62:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ship of characters Mycroft Holmes and Greg Lestrade from the television series Sherlock.
Altamaha-ha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Altamaha-has
Senses: examples: text: "That Altamaha-ha has nothing to do with anything." Troy almost laughed because Keven was pointing to the Ha-ha even in the midst of his denials. "If we didn't have Altamaha-has and unicorns and dreams of flying we'd never come up with […]"
ref: 1987, Doris Buchanan Smith, Karate Dancer, Putnam Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 62:
text: The Altamaha-ha, as the serpent has been named, is said to be from twelve to twenty feet long, about two feet in diameter, and gunmetal gray on top with a creamy underside. Most descriptions suggest a creature that is part eel, part alligator, ...
[…] Despite many sightings since 1969, no one has yet landed an Altamaha-ha, but the marshes around Darien still roil at high tide.
ref: 2005, Emily Ellison, Chuck Perry, Liars and Legends, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN:
text: Some reports suggest the monster, dubbed Altamaha-ha, first surfaced along the river in the 1960s. But according to Southern author D. L. Tanner, the Altamaha River monster has a much longer history. “This thing has been reported for more than two hundred years," says Tanner [in 2003. ...] Although dozens of other ordinary people swear they've also seen Altamaha-ha, experts […] insist there is no such thing. [...A] juvenile Altamaha-ha model is on display in the Rock Eagle Museum […]
ref: 2006, Kelly Milner Halls, Rick Spears, Roxyanne Young, Tales of the Cryptids: Mysterious Creatures That May Or May Not Exist, Millbrook Press, →ISBN, page 31:
text: The most famous one, Altamaha-ha, is said to make his home in the Altamaha River, a vast tidal estuary of rivers, creeks, and marshes affected by the tides of the Atlantic. Altamaha-ha, fondly known as Altie, is reported to be twenty to thirty feet [long...]
ref: 2006, Jim Miles, Mark Sceurman, Weird Georgia: Your Travel Guide to Georgia's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 77:
glosses: A mythical aquatic creature (cryptid) supposed to inhabit the Altamaha River and connected streams and marshes in Georgia in the United States (either considered one specific creature, or a species).
oozle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oozles
Senses: examples: text: The painting of foliage is next shown and explained by O'Hara—he blocks out the large areas with a rough brush: labels these areas with marks that characterize the leaves themselves as in the catalpa, horse chestnut. eucalyptus, and other trees from many parts of the country: paints trees in blossom with a trick of his own which he has nicknamed "oozles"; and finally paints a landscape in which some trees are sharply detailed and others blurred in the distance.
ref: 1954, AV Guide: The Learning Media Magazine - Volume 33, page 336:
text: The clusters of Queen Anne's lace are suggested by "oozles," drops of clear water falling on the wash just before it is dry.
ref: 1966, Rex Brandt, The artists' sketchbook and its uses, page 85:
text: Jade distinguished between using what he called "oozles" of clean water to make runs within a painted area and spattering color over an area to create textures.
ref: 1985, Ernest William Watson, Arthur Leighton Guptill, American Artist - Volume 49, page 83:
text: Here you see your life as a watercolorist's work: a fluid smear of selves laid over and shimmering against a blank background, what Buddhists call shunyata, emptiness or basic openness. You hope the artist knows about oozles, can keep the paper wet, feet green, faces half-hidden in the water, vision shifting and kaleidoscopic.
ref: 2001, Barbara Hurd, Stirring the mud: on swamps, bogs, and human imagination, page 43:
text: Watercolor effects like accidental bursts of color, what Meyer calls “oozles,” are no longer prevented or covered up, but instead have become important parts of the painting.
ref: 2002, the artist's magazine, page 57:
qualifier: painting; watercolor; painting; watercolor
glosses: An effect created by dropping clear water onto a painted section before it is dry, forming a burst of color.
oozle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oozles
form: oozling
form: oozled
form: oozled
Senses: examples: text: The woman regarded me closely, I think for the first time. "Why, hello, Jasper! When did you oozle in?"
ref: 1924, Harry Leon Wilson -, Professor how Could You!:
text: Margaret loses some of her cool and her sing-song voice turns a shade hysterical as a Mudman oozles up beside her.
ref: 1971, The Bulletin - Volume 93, Issues 4762-4774, page 43:
text: Blackie started to oozle forward, inching along on his belly.
ref: 2012, W. Michael, Kathleen O'Neal Gear, A Searing Wind:
glosses: To sneak; to creep or sidle.
examples: text: The Saint lit his long clay pipe and the smoke oozled up around the puffs on his wig and drifted and sank soothingly about his troubled countenance.
ref: 1897, The Yale Literary Magazine - Volume 62:
text: I done fin' out, Brer Wolf, dat w'en you git in a holler tree un somebody sets it a-fier, dat de nat'al honey des oozles out uv it, un mor'n dat, atter you git de honey all over you, 't aint no use ter try ter burn you up, 'kaze de honey will puzzuv you.
ref: 1883, Joel Chandler Harris, Nights with Uncle Remus:
text: He smoked a black pipe with a stem two inches long by actual measurement, and he talked through it : the words and smoke seemed to oozle out together.
ref: 1903, Jerome Klapka Jerome, Robert Barr, Arthur Lawrence, The Idler: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine - Volume 22, page 207:
text: For this method is what the Hungarians refer to as "wine-asking", and "wine-asking" it is. inasmuch as after a bite of it the wine oozles down your throat like an opened bottle of ink over a Bokhara rug.
ref: 1931, Harper's Bazaar - Volume 65, page 166:
glosses: To flow sinuously; to seep or ooze;
oozles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oozle
oozles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oozle
oozling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oozle
oozled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oozle
Batsquatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Batsquatches
Etymology: Apparently a blend of bat + sasquatch.
Senses: examples: text: The closest thing to what the caller describes is a creature called the Batsquatch. Batsquatch is seen at Mount St. Helens. Some people theorize that when Mount St. Helens erupted it also opened up a dimensional portal, ...
ref: 2011, Paul Dale Roberts, Shannon McCabe, H.P.I. Chronicles, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 337:
text: page 58: Unlike the sugar glider, however, this creature displayed the trademark glowing red eyes of a Batsquatch, and was the size of a human.
page 61: Batsquatches never need feel lonely in the Texas sky; apparently a wide variety of anomalous flying creatures patrol the state from the Panhandle to the Mexican border.
ref: 2014, Linda S. Godfrey, American Monsters: A History of Monster Lore, Legends, and Sightings in America, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: Looking around the woods, Gabe wondered if their bear encounter ruined their chances of seeing a Batsquatch. Then, he spotted something high in one of the half-burned trees. For a second, he wondered if it might be a bear cub […]
ref: 2014, Jan Fields, Hunt for Sewer Gators, ABDO, →ISBN, page 11:
text: "Perhaps it's the Batsquatch," she said, laughing at her joke. Sadie didn't laugh. She knew very well what it was. The creature drew closer, giving both girls a true impression of its size. "It can't be," said Candice. "It's the Batsquatch, isn't it?"
ref: 2018, Steve Wilson, Around the World in 366 Tales - February Frights, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 17:
text: Batsquatch, pterosaurs and the River Man. She had three weeks in Washington State tracking down the local legends. There was nothing ordinary about her job as the biologist on the television show Cryptid or Hoax?
ref: 2020, Shona Husk, Close to the Truth, HarperCollins Australia, →ISBN:
glosses: A mythical flying creature (cryptid) supposedly sighted around Mount St. Helens in the United States, resembling a flying, bat-winged (sometimes bat-eared) primate (either considered one specific creature, or a species).
Related terms: ahool
Adlock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæd.lɒk/
ipa: /ˈæd.lɑk/
Etymology: Blend of Adler + Sherlock.
Senses: examples: text: Adlock fans cite the episode "A Scandal in Belgravia" as evidence of Sherlock Holmes' enduring love for "the Woman," Irene Adler.
ref: 2016, Jennifer Phillips, Katharina Freund, “Engaging with 'Herself': Fandom and Authorship in the Age of Tumblr”, in Valerie Estelle Frankel, editor, Adoring Outlander: Essays on Fandom, Genre and the Female Audience, page 36:
text: As you've probably gathered, I do not ship Johnlock. I can roll with pretty much any Sherlock ship, except that one and Adlock.
ref: 2018, Daneel, quoted in Katie Wilson, "Red Pillers, Sad Puppies, and Gamergaters: The State of Male Privilege in Internet Fan Communities", in A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies (ed. Paul Booth), page 434
text: The ships most likely to be attacked are those which feature a male/female pairing such as Sherlolly, Adlock (Irene Adler/Sherlock), and Warstan (John Watson/Mary Morstan), […]
ref: 2019, E. J. Nielsen, “The Gay Elephant Meta In The Room: Sherlock And The Johnlock Conspiracy”, in Joseph Brennan, editor, Queerbaiting and Fandom: Teasing Fans Through Homoerotic Possibilities, pages 87–88:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ship of characters Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler from the television series Sherlock.
J/7
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Initialism from the names Janeway and Seven.
Senses: examples: text: In that sense, Seven transcends femininity herself (and J/7 transcends lesbian slash) because feminine sentimentality is insufficient.
ref: 1998 February 11, Emily Salzfass, “Re: Pokes at Antnests”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):
text: I've just started a new Web site (still under construction) for J/7 fanfic and have posted my new story "Sensations" on there.
ref: 1999 May 17, Tenderware, “New Janeway/Seven Site!”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):
text: Tigermoth wrote some really hot, interesting J/7 stories, and I hope that she continues to do so, and perhaps branches out into some longer pieces!
ref: 2006 March 30, Rocky, “ASC AWARDS Comment Digest # 71 VOY Stories”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ship of characters Kathryn Janeway and Seven of Nine from the television series Star Trek: Voyager.
alphacoronaviral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of alphacoronavirus + viral.
Senses: examples: text: [Caption of figure 3:] (C and D) MTase assays of alphacoronaviral nsp16 (C) and betacoronaviral nsp16 (D) stimulated by the noncognate nsp10 from a coronavirus of the same genus.
ref: 2015 August, Wang Y, Sun Y, Wu A, et al., “Coronavirus nsp10/nsp16 Methyltransferase Can Be Targeted by nsp10-Derived Peptide In Vitro and In Vivo To Reduce Replication and Pathogenesis”, in Journal of Virology, volume 89, number 16, →DOI, page 8421:
text: Topology of the HCoV-NL63 M protein has not been assessed yet, but one may assume that alphacoronaviral M proteins may adopt Nₑₓₒ-Cₑₓₒ topology allowing for C-terminal modification.
ref: 2018 September 5, Naskalska A, Dabrowska A, Nowak P, Szczepanski A, Jasik K, Milewska A, et al., “Novel coronavirus-like particles targeting cells lining the respiratory tract”, in PLoS ONE, volume 13, number 9, →DOI, page 16:
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: Relating to alphacoronaviruses.
palaeodemographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palaeodemography
papilotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of papillotomy.
parachromatoblepsia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of parachromatopsia.
synonyms: word: parachromatopsia
paravestibular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪbjʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From para- + vestibular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Across a vestibule
betacoronaviral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of betacoronavirus + viral.
Senses: examples: text: [Caption of figure 3:] (C and D) MTase assays of alphacoronaviral nsp16 (C) and betacoronaviral nsp16 (D) stimulated by the noncognate nsp10 from a coronavirus of the same genus.
ref: 2015 August, Wang Y, Sun Y, Wu A, et al., “Coronavirus nsp10/nsp16 Methyltransferase Can Be Targeted by nsp10-Derived Peptide In Vitro and In Vivo To Reduce Replication and Pathogenesis”, in Journal of Virology, volume 89, number 16, →DOI, page 8421:
text: S1 Fig. Sequence alignment of betacoronaviral Mᵖʳᵒ. Modified from an output from ESPript [36].
ref: 2015 December 14, Ho B-L, Cheng S-C, Shi L, Wang T-Y, Ho KI, Chou C-Y, “Critical Assessment of the Important Residues Involved in the Dimerization and Catalysis of MERS Coronavirus Main Protease”, in PLoS ONE, volume 10, number 12, →DOI, page 15:
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: Relating to betacoronaviruses.
parthograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of partograph.
noncoronavirus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-coronavirus
Etymology: From non- + coronavirus.
Senses: examples: text: Taken together, the results of this study demonstrated for the first time that the BCV genome contains a sequence that functions as a packaging signal, at least when appended to a noncoronavirus RNA.
ref: 2000 January, Raymond Cologna, Brenda G. Hogue, “Identification of a Bovine Coronavirus Packaging Signal”, in Journal of Virology, volume 74, number 1, →DOI, page 582:
text: Fort Carson soldiers worked Thursday to convert a Seattle football stadium into a 250-bed hospital that will treat noncoronavirus patients so that civilian hospitals can focus on those with the deadly, flu-like disease.
ref: 2020 April 2, Tom Roeder, “Fort Carson soldiers turn Seattle stadium into coronavirus relief hospital”, in The Gazette, Colorado Springs, CO:
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: Not pertaining to coronaviruses; noncoronaviral.
noncoronavirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noncoronaviruses
form: non-coronavirus
Etymology: From non- + coronavirus.
Senses: examples: text: The SARS virus is a coronavirus, which is significantly different from other human coronaviruses. There is no evidence of exchange of genetic material with noncoronaviruses.
ref: 2010, Michael Beach, “Pandemics”, in Disaster Preparedness and Management, Philadelphia: F.A. Davis Company, →ISBN, page 153:
text: It is unknown whether this signal of positive selection results from the MERS-CoV progenitor, from another DPP4-utilizing bat coronavirus, such as BtCoV-HKU4, or from a noncoronavirus that also utilizes DPP4.
ref: 2015, Kayla M. Peck, Christina L. Burch, Mark T. Heise, Ralph S. Baric, “Coronavirus Host Range Expansion and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Emergence: Biochemical Mechanisms and Evolutionary Perspectives”, in Annual Review of Virology, volume 2, number 1, →DOI, page 99:
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: That which is not a coronavirus.
noncoronaviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noncoronavirus
parentlock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of parent + Sherlock.
Senses: examples: text: Especially because of Season Three's depiction of heavily pregnant Mary in "His Last Vow," fans who ship Johnlock are more likely to consider the inclusion of a Watson baby within the parentlock narrative of Sherlock and John.
ref: 2016, Alyxis Smith, “Fan Fiction as an Argument: Arguing for Johnlock through the Roles of Women and Explicit Sex Scenes in Sherlock Fan Fiction”, in Lynnette Porter, editor, Who Is Sherlock?: Essays on Identity in Modern Holmes Adaptations, page 164:
text: The relevant tags here were very similar to LJ, if phrased slightly differently: e.g., parentlock (portmanteau of parent + Sherlock), military John, genderswap, mpreg.
ref: 2017, Judith May Fathallah, Fanfiction and the Author: How Fanfic Changes Popular Cultural Texts, page 65:
text: All of these AU parentlock stories or series become "alternate" because of a change in the Sherlock-John relationship and the inclusion of a child who becomes theirs.
ref: 2018, Jennifer Wojton, Lynnette Porter, Sherlock and Digital Fandom: The Meeting of Creativity, Community and Advocacy, page 41:
qualifier: Sherlock fandom slang
glosses: A subgenre of Sherlock fan fiction in which Sherlock and John raise a child or children together.
Hypernyms: babyfic
kidfic
gammacoronaviral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of gammacoronavirus + viral.
Senses: examples: text: Our high-resolution data have enabled a precise study of transcription and translation in cells infected with both pathogenic and attenuated forms of IBV and expand our understanding of gammacoronaviral gene expression.
ref: 2019 August, Adam M. Dinan, Sarah Keep, Erica Bickerton, Paul Britton, Andrew E. Firth, Ian Brierley, “Comparative Analysis of Gene Expression in Virulent and Attenuated Strains of Infectious Bronchitis Virus at Subcodon Resolution”, in Journal of Virology, volume 93, number 18, →DOI, page 1:
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: Relating to gammacoronaviruses.
rotaviruslike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rotaviruslike
form: most rotaviruslike
form: rotavirus-like
Etymology: From rotavirus + -like.
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: Resembling a rotavirus.
Derived terms: RVLP
Johnlocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Johnlockers
Etymology: From Johnlock + -er.
Senses: examples: text: As much as I dislike shipping people in real life, CumberBrealey/Beneloo/Cumberloo are my OTP.
(Come at me, Johnlockers!)
ref: 2014, "Hades", "On Benedict Cumberbatch", The Nerdwriter, February 2014, page 9
text: Since the Johnlockers won't call out others within their own ship, I will.
ref: 2018, Daneel, quoted in Katie Wilson, "Red Pillers, Sad Puppies, and Gamergaters: The State of Male Privilege in Internet Fan Communities", in A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies (ed. Paul Booth), page 434
text: As a microcosmos, TJLCers and Johnlockers demonstrate that queer viewers can weaponize consumer culture to challenge essentialist stereotypes that still restrict what is socially expected and encouraged of individuals based on their biological gender, sexual preference, and mental health status.
ref: 2018, Diana W. Anselmo, "Gender and Queer Fan Labor on Tumblr: The Cast of BBC's Sherlock", Feminist Media Studies, Volume 4, Number 1, Winter 2018, page 96
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A shipper of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson from the television series Sherlock.
engelang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛnd͡ʒˌlæŋ/
Forms: form: engelangs
Etymology: Blend of engineered + language. By surface analysis, suffixed with -lang.
Senses: glosses: A language designed to test or prove hypotheses about language; an engineered language.
black radish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black radishes
Senses: glosses: A root vegetable of the family Brassicaceae cultivated for its edible root that has a tough black or dull brown skin and white flesh, Raphanus sativus var. niger
Synonyms: black Spanish radish
Erfurter radish
VTuber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈviːˌtʃuː.bə/
note: without the yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈviːˌtjuː.bə/
ipa: /ˈviˌtu.bəɹ/
rhymes: -uːbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: VTubers
form: Vtuber
form: vtuber
Etymology: From Japanese VTuber, from English virtual + YouTuber.
Senses: examples: text: It’s a rite of passage for a growing VTuber to gain a Gamer Supps partnership, let alone snag a merchandise run via the company’s Waifu Cups line. […] While some VTubers may wink or nod to conservative beliefs, Kirsche has never hidden her political leanings.
ref: 2025 April 21, Ana Velans, “Why Is This ‘Gamer Supps’ VTuber Pushing the Great Replacement Theory?”, in VICE, archived from the original on 14 May 2025:
glosses: Abbreviation of virtual YouTuber.
rotavirion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rotavirions
Etymology: From rota(virus) + virion.
Senses: examples: text: The core of the rotavirion consists of three proteins, including the viral RNA polymerase, and 11 segments of double-stranded (ds)RNA.
ref: 2001, M. Barro, P. Mandiola, D. Chen, J. T. Patton, E. Spencer, “Identification of sequences in rotavirus mRNAs important for minus strand synthesis using antisense oligonucleotides”, in Virology, →DOI:
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: An individual particle of a rotavirus.
rotavirions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rotavirion
zhanmadao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zhanmadaos
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 斬馬刀 /斩马刀 (zhǎnmǎdāo).
Senses: glosses: An ancient Chinese curved single-edged anti-cavalry sabre-type sword, with a 1-2 foot handle and 4-5 foot blade
Hypernyms: english: Chinese sword
translation: Chinese sword
word: dao
english: a curved single-edged sword
translation: a curved single-edged sword
word: sabre
english: a long blade with a handle
translation: a long blade with a handle
word: sword
english: an edged weapon
translation: an edged weapon
word: blade
word: anti-cavalry sword
rotavirology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: The scientific study of rotaviruses.
Related terms: rotavirologist
there's no smoke without fire
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of no smoke without fire.
TJLC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Initialism of The Johnlock Conspiracy.
Senses: examples: text: The queer utopianism infusing TJLC fanworks is shaped by a strand of collective fan labor often dismissed by mainstream sources as self-indulgent and overemotional: that of protest, in this case against toxic heteronormativity.
ref: 2018, Diana W. Anselmo, "Gender and Queer Fan Labor on Tumblr: The Case of BBC's Sherlock", Feminist Media Studies, Volume 4, Number 1, Winter 2018, page 93
text: These expectations became confronted with the decision on the side of the screenwriters that angered many fans supporting the TJLC theory.
ref: 2018, Małgorzata Lisowska-Magdziarz, “Authors, Owners, Influencers, Entitled Fans And Ultimate Fanboys: TJLC Controversy And The Politics Of Media Content Creation”, in Tadej Pirc, editor, Participation, Culture and Democracy: Perspectives on Public Engagement and Social Communication, page 85:
text: Where TJLC differs from traditional Sherlockian fandom and fannish scholarship is in its insistence on a single correct reading of the text: […]
ref: 2019, E. J. Nielsen, “The Gay Elephant Meta In The Room: Sherlock And The Johnlock Conspiracy”, in Joseph Brennan, editor, Queerbaiting and Fandom: Teasing Fans Through Homoerotic Possibilities, page 83:
qualifier: Sherlock fandom slang
glosses: The Johnlock Conspiracy; a theory prevalent in Sherlock fandom before series four, which interpreted the show as having a strong queer subtext, and held that the showrunners intended an eventual romance between Sherlock and John.
Derived terms: TJLCer