cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
do one's own thing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does one's own thing
form: doing one's own thing
form: did one's own thing
form: done one's own thing
Etymology: 1960s counterculture.
Senses: examples: text: The psychological patter of the '70s is as inescapable as Muzak and just as numbing: Are you relating? Going through heavy changes? In touch with yourself and doing your own thing?
ref: 1977 October 3, “Behavior: Psychobabble”, in Time, retrieved 08 Dec 2019:
text: This weekend, Mr. Rouse is doing his own thing: leading his own quartet with John Hicks on piano, Santi DeBriano on bass, and Ed Blackwell on drums, and playing his own compositions.
ref: 1988 July 1, John S. Wilson, “Sounds Around Town”, in New York Times, retrieved 08 Dec 2019:
text: OK, so I want my kids to find their own way, do their own thing, become their own people.
ref: 2010 December 11, Gill Sutherland, “I want my kids to rebel”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 08 Dec 2019:
text: If we look at Stephen Harper’s wife, she was basically a non-entity in public. She maintained real distance from political life and just kept doing her own thing.
ref: 2016 May 12, Shannon Proudfoot, “Sophie’s role: What do we expect of prime ministers’ spouses?”, in Macleans, Canada, retrieved 08 Dec 2019:
glosses: To do what one considers to be best suited or most satisfying for oneself; to do what expresses one's distinctive interests or talents; to do as one chooses.
Synonyms: suit oneself
suit oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: suits oneself
form: suiting oneself
form: suited oneself
form: suited oneself
Senses: examples: text: - Do you want to come out tonight?
- No, I'm watching TV.
- Okay. Suit yourself.
synonyms: word: do one's own thing
word: help oneself
word: knock oneself out
word: ;
english: in the second person, as a reply
translation: in the second person, as a reply
word: whatever floats your boat
word: you do you
glosses: To do whatever one wants to do.
Related terms: have it your way
secret recipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secret recipes
Senses: glosses: A recipe whose details are held under secrecy.
glosses: Synonym of secret sauce (“secret idea or plan; crucial element for success”).
synonyms: word: secret sauce
extra: secret idea or plan; crucial element for success
secret recipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secret recipe
financial economics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The branch of economics characterized by a concentration on monetary activities.
beginner's luck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Good luck supposedly enjoyed during a beginner's first attempt.
fashion design
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: art
arts
fashion
lifestyle
glosses: The art of applying design, aesthetics and natural beauty to clothing and its accessories.
nannolith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of nanolith.
nanolith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanoliths
Etymology: From nano- + -lith.
Senses: glosses: A calcareous nanofossil
nanocell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanocells
Etymology: From nano- + cell.
Senses: glosses: A nanosize cell (in any of several contexts)
nanocells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanocell
nanopackaging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌdʒɪŋ
Etymology: From nano- + packaging.
Senses: glosses: packaging using nanomaterials
nanopeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanopeptides
Etymology: From nano- + peptide.
Senses: glosses: A peptide used as a biological nanomaterial
nanopeptides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanopeptide
uninforms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uninform
Chilean mussel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chilean mussels
Senses: synonyms: Chilean blue mussel
glosses: A species of mussel Mytilus chilensis and its edible flesh, native to southern South America and the Kerguelen Islands.
Chilean mussels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chilean mussel
Chilean blue mussel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chilean blue mussels
Senses: glosses: Chilean mussel.
Chilean blue mussels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chilean blue mussel
Magellan mussel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Magellan mussels
Senses: glosses: A species of mussel Aulacomya atra and its edible flesh, native to southern South America.
Synonyms: ribbed mussel
Magellan mussels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Magellan mussel
ribbed mussel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ribbed mussels
Senses: glosses: Magellan mussel
ribbed mussels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ribbed mussel
Dombey's beech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dombey's beeches
Etymology: Named after French botanist Joseph Dombey (1742–1794).
Senses: synonyms: coigue
glosses: The tree Nothofagus dombeyi native to southern South America.
Dombey's beeches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dombey's beech
coigue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coigues
form: coihue
Etymology: From Mapudungun koywe, via Spanish coigue.
Senses: glosses: Dombey's beech
coigues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coigue
Magellan's beech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Magellan's beeches
Senses: glosses: The tree Nothofagus betuloides native to southern South America
Magellan's beeches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Magellan's beech
lenga beech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lenga beeches
Senses: glosses: The tree Nothofagus pumilio native to southern South America
lenga beeches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lenga beech
holly barberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holly barberries
Senses: glosses: A shrub of species Berberis ilicifolia, native to southern South America used in basketweaving by the Yámana people.
Synonyms: holly-leaved barberry
holly barberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holly barberry
holly-leaved barberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holly-leaved barberries
Senses: glosses: holly barberry (Berberis ilicifolia, syn. Mahonia ilicifolia)
glosses: An Oregon grape (Berberis aquifolium, syn. Mahonia aquifolium)
holly-leaved barberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holly-leaved barberry
trans broken arm syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There’s this thing called 'trans broken arm,' right? You know, where someone might come into the doctor with a broken arm and if you’re cis or not presenting in a way that’s confusing for people, it’s a broken arm, but if you’re presenting as trans. there’s this whole other layer of, ‘Okay, so did you get the broken arm because you’re trans?’ I know that’s kind of a ridiculous statement, but there are layers that go on top of that [identity] that…you have to navigate. (Bailey).
ref: 2016, Douglas Knutson, Julie M. Koch, Tori Arthur, T. Andrew Mitchell, and Meredith A. Martyr, "Trans broken arm": Health care stories from transgender people in rural areas, page 31:
text: Trans Broken Arm Syndrome appears to be most common among mental health service providers, many of whom appear to regard trans people's mental health as relevant only in terms of or in relation to transition.
ref: 2018, Ruth Pearce, Understanding Trans Health: Discourse, Power and Possibility, page 111:
text: It would also reduce the incidence of 'trans broken arm syndrome', where doctors attribute every ailment we have to our transition, even completely unrelated things like the flu or a broken limb.
ref: 2019, Eris Young, They/Them/Their: A Guide to Nonbinary and Genderqueer Identities, page 217:
text: Additionally, transgender patients navigate "trans broken arm syndrome" in medical appointments, wherein providers casually misattribute unrelated medical problems to their gender identity or aspects of their transition.
ref: 2021, Dagoberto Heredia Jr., Tyson L. Pankey, Cesar A. Gonzalez, “LGBTQ-Affirmative Behavioral Health Services in Primary Care”, in Jessica Lapinski, Kristine Diaz, editors, LGBTQ+Health: An Issue of Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, unnumbered page:
glosses: The tendency of medical providers to center transness when caring for transgender patients, typically by connecting unrelated medical conditions or symptoms to the transition process, or asking for medical information (e.g. gender confirmation surgery status) that is not relevant to the patient's complaint.
Stechford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP1387).
Golborne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɡoʊlbɔː(ɹ)n/
/ˈɡɒlbɔː(ɹ)n/
Forms: form: Golbornes
form: Goulburn
Etymology: From Old English golde (“marigold”) + burna (“stream, bourn”).
Senses: glosses: A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SJ6097).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Levenshulme
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The second part, 'hulme', likely shares an etymological connection with the placename Hulme.
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, south-east of the city centre (OS grid ref SJ8794).
Wickham Bishops
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: In the Domesday Book as Wicham, the land belonged to the Bishop of London.
Senses: glosses: A village in Maldon district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL8412).
Altens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Aberdeen, City of Aberdeen council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ9502).
Cove Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in City of Aberdeen council area, Scotland (OS grid ref SJ9501).
Synonyms: Cove
Insch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ6328).
Corris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and community in Gwynedd, Wales, historically in Merionethshire (OS grid ref SH7507).
Derived terms: Corris Uchaf
Upper Corris
Corwen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small town and community with a town council in Denbighshire, Wales (OS grid ref SJ0743).
katamari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: katamari
form: katamaris
Etymology: From Japanese 固(かた)まり (katamari, “clump”), popularized by the 2004 video game Katamari Damacy and its sequels, in which players have to roll everyday objects into huge balls.
Senses: examples: text: ... a lawyer from Washington says he met Obama on Mars after listening to David Wilcock discuss jump rooms on UFOs, somewhere back behind all the extra details that have been tacked on at every point in this chain like a katamari
ref: 2013, S Peter Davis, Occam's Nightmare, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 5:
text: Also, like a katamari, she tended to destroy things in her path. I would miss her. Hopefully marriage wouldn't change her too much.
ref: 2017 March 14, Max Wirestone, The Astonishing Mistakes of Dahlia Moss, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
text: It's like a Katamari effect. It would take only the slightest hint of a revolution to roll it all up.
ref: 2022 March 20, Douglas Palermo, 2021: A Year Inverse, iUniverse, →ISBN:
text: Sunk costs snowball, like a katamari. The resources you have already spent make it less likely you will quit, which makes it more likely you will accumulate additional sunk costs, which makes it again less likely you will quit[…]
ref: 2022 October 4, Annie Duke, Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away, Random House, →ISBN:
glosses: Something which rolls up other objects, growing increasingly large.
Synonyms: snowball
snowball effect
Ufton Nervet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in West Berkshire district, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU6367).
Schweinfurt green
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the city in which it was first made, Schweinfurt, Germany.
Senses: examples: text: For example, Schweinfurt green, also known as emerald or Paris green, was used in wallpaper and upholstery in the 19th century and contained high levels of arsenic. Wallpaper is even said to have killed Napoleon Bonaparte.
ref: 2015 June 26, Rachel Dixon, “Why green just can’t be trusted”, in The Guardian:
head_nr: 1
glosses: Alternative form of Paris green.
Vienna green
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Emerald green was also called Schweinfurt green, Paris green, and Vienna green. The toxicity of dye made with emerald green was not initially recognized, until the recipe was published in 1822
ref: 2010 March 5, “Emerald Green or Paris Green, the Deadly Regency Pigment”, in Jane Austen World:
head_nr: 1
glosses: Alternative form of Paris green.
end one's days
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ends one's days
form: ending one's days
form: ended one's days
form: ended one's days
Senses: synonyms: end one's life
glosses: To spend the rest of one's life in a certain way.
end one's life
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ends one's life
form: ending one's life
form: ended one's life
form: ended one's life
Senses: synonyms: word: take one's own life
word: an hero
word: catch the bus
word: commit hara-kiri
word: commit seppuku
word: commit sudoku
word: end one's life
word: kill oneself
word: off oneself
word: rope
word: ropemaxx
word: self-delete
word: self-kill
word: suicide
word: take one's own life
word: top oneself
glosses: To commit suicide.
synonyms: end one's days
glosses: To spend the rest of one's life a certain way.
Gospel Oak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An inner urban area in the borough of Camden, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2885).
until one's dying day
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: till one's dying day
form: to one's dying day
Senses: glosses: As long as one lives.
Related terms: with one's dying breath
to one's dying day
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of until one's dying day.
with one's last breath
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: with one's dying breath
Senses: glosses: At the point when one about to die.
Related terms: draw one's last breath
on one's deathbed
in articulo mortis
with one's dying breath
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of with one's last breath.
dewirement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dewirements
Etymology: From dewire + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: A de-wirement on the Colchester Town branch near East Gate Junction on November 8, involving Greater Anglia 321348/363 and 321426 working the 0619 Colchester Town-London Liverpool Street, resulted in their rescue by a local Direct Rail Services rail treatment train.
ref: 2019 December 4, “Fleet News”, in Rail, page 32:
glosses: An instance of an electric train, tram or trolleybus becoming dewired.
dewirements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dewirement
Greenholme
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Orton parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY5905).
UAS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: UAS
form: UASs
Senses: examples: text: The FAA [Federal Aviation Administration] is using this same methodology to manage the integration of the new UAS technology into the NAS [National Airspace System]. While UASs offer a promising new technology, the limited safety and operational data available to date does not yet support expedited or full integration into the NAS. Because current available data is insufficient to allow unfettered integration of UASs into the NAS—where the public travels everyday—the FAA must continue to move forward deliberately and cautiously, in accordance with our safety mandate.
ref: 2010 September 13, United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security, “The Integration of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) Into the National Airspace System (NAS): Fulfilling Imminent Operational and Training Requirements: Field Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, Second Session, September 13, 2010”, in Senate Hearings of the United States Congress, volume 111, number 1067, United States Government Publishing Office, →ISBN, page 6:
text: Looking at the commercial entities looking to fly in the UAE, they are able to capture images and data via UAS/drone use, and have access to large areas through the approval process of the UAE.
ref: 2017, Harrison G. Wolf, Drones: Safety Risk Management for the Next Evolution of Flight, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: Their presence in the skies and news have become so evident that Time recently titled a Special Report issue devoted to UAS "The Drone Age" (Time 2018). UAS are free-flying, powered aircraft that may be flown remotely by a pilot on the ground or programmed to fly autonomously along specified routes to designated waypoints.
ref: 2019, James S. Aber, Irene Marzolff, Johannes Ries, Susan Elizabeth Ward Aber, Small-Format Aerial Photography and UAS Imagery: Principles, Techniques and Geoscience Applications, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 119:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: drone
UAV
coordinate_terms: RPV
OPV
AUV
ROV
glosses: Initialism of uncrewed aerial system, unmanned aerial system, uncrewed aircraft system, or unmanned aircraft system: an aircraft with no onboard pilot, and sometimes completely unpiloted, as well as the other components of the system, including automated guidance and telemetry, a remote operator if any, etc.
Derived terms: C-UAS
CUAS
sUAS
Related terms: UAP
Shap
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A linear village and civil parish (joint with Shap Rural parish) in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY5615).
Derived terms: Shap Rural
Shap Wells
faces up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of face up
facing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of face up
faced up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of face up
upface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upfaces
Senses: examples: text: Channel terraces should be constructed by moving most of the dirt from the upface of the terrace.
ref: 1949, United States. Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, United States. Dept. of Agriculture. Production and Marketing Administration, Agricultural Conservation Program: Handbook, page 104:
text: Naturally, we take as the set of possible outcomes S = (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), where the possible outcomes are the possible numbers on the upface.
ref: 1974, Steven Jerome Bryant, College algebra and trigonometry, page 388:
text: When we assume only that the die is not fair, without assigning probability values to each of the upfaces, then the distribution is not determined exactly and the hypothesis is composite.
ref: 2012, Hung T. Nguyen, Gerald S. Rogers, Fundamentals of Mathematical Statistics, page 104:
glosses: The face that is oriented upwards.
examples: text: Oddy has the squarest muzzle and best filled-in foreface that we have ever seen on a Bulldog, while his "upface" expression is marvelous.
ref: 1926, The Dog Fancier - Volume 35, page 27:
text: The downface is much the more serious fault, and a very slight upface or dishface can be tolerated without penalty.
ref: 1952, Milo Grange Denlinger, The complete Saint Bernard, page 159:
text: In solids we had two most excellent Champions of the King Charles Variety and they were of superb type, with excellent domed heads, good muzzles and the very typical upface of a cushioned and recessed nose.
ref: 1971, American Kennel Gazette, Pure-bred Dogs:
topics: dogs
lifestyle
pets
glosses: A face that has a protruding chin and/or recessed nose.
upface
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upfaces
form: upfacing
form: upfaced
form: upfaced
Senses: examples: text: Harry Borden upfaced his hidden card.
ref: 1923, Leon Stern, Elisabeth Gertrude Stern, A Friend at Court, page 275:
text: But chiefly I remember the incident for that moment when M— stared down, stunned, at the incriminating cards upfaced before him by Stanton, while Webster, Ray Rohn and I waited in throbbing silence for his eyes to lift to our faces.
ref: 1934, Berton Braley, Pegasus Pulls a Hack: Memoirs of a Modern Minstrel, page 142:
text: If the touched card is not the right one, keep it back in the pack and upface the other. If the touched card is the real thing, upface it immediately.
ref: 1989, The Illustrated Weekly of India - Volume 110, Issues 14-26, page 68:
glosses: To turn face-up.
upface
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more upface
form: most upface
Senses: examples: text: The RPM must be capable of producing surface finishes of 64 RMS or better on all surfaces of the finished parts and 10 RMS or better on all upface surfaces without post process finishing.
ref: 1995, Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Communities:
glosses: On the upward-oriented face.
upface
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more upface
form: most upface
Senses: examples: text: He is like Ratnasambhava: yellow, r.h. holds a jewel marked with a vajra with the middle finger as he enacts the varada mudrā, l.h. likes upface in the lap.
ref: 1999, Lokesh Chandra, Dictionary of Buddhist iconography, page 1165:
glosses: With the face pointing upwards.
examples: text: As he edged into old age he let his sideburns grow into chops and the chops curved upface to form a moustache, about as distinctive a set of hirsute decorations to be seen in all Middle Europe.
ref: 1963, Saturday Review - Volume 46, Part 3, page 50:
text: This development is opposite of 'lateral flattening' seen in Heterohelix glabrans (Cushman) in which chambers flatten rapidly and aperture is reduced to a narrow slit extending upface.
ref: 1980, Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India - Volume 25, page 61:
text: Start in a broken area of the wall and continue upface in a series of steps and chimneys.
ref: 1987, Fred W. Beckey, Cascade Alpine Guide: Columbia River to Stevens Pass, page 76:
glosses: Upwards along the face
examples: text: Corresponds to condition of concrete, (except for a thin portion upface), in dam during early stages of flow as long as water is saturated with lime.
ref: 1936, American Concrete Institute, Proceedings - Volume 32, page 231:
text: Your work camp is upface from our facility.
ref: 1986, John Wood Campbell, Analog Science Fiction/science Fact - Volume 106, page 14:
text: On one hand, their presence will give rise to considerable advance of beaches which are upface with respect to prevailing longshore currents; on the other hand, equally evident retreat will follow to the lee of beaches following the barriers.
ref: 2003, Italian Habitats: Sand dunes and beaches:
glosses: Farther up the face
upfaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upface
upfaces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upface
upfacing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upface
upfaced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upface
upfaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more upfaced
form: most upfaced
Senses: examples: text: The muzzle of the Pug is not upfaced.
ref: 2013, Edward M. Gilbert, Jr; Patricia H. Gilbert, Encyclopedia of K9 Terminology:
text: The muzzle should be short, blunt, but not upfaced.
ref: 2013, The Maltese Dog - A Complete Anthology of the Dog:
text: Puppies with undershot bites tend to be upfaced as adults, and the problem does not correct.
ref: 2014, Ross D. Clark, Medical, Genetic & Behavioral Risk Factors of Pugs:
topics: dogs
lifestyle
pets
glosses: Having an upface.
examples: text: When more than one upfaced card is in a column, the bottom card alone may not be shifted, but all the upfaced cards moved as a unit.
ref: 1943, Dale Adams, Fun with Cards, page 88:
text: The penny bowled down toward the gilgii, then tipped over, upfaced to the sun.
ref: 1969, Reginald Ottley, Brumbie Dust: A Selection of Stories:
text: And upfaced you stand, the blood quick-blown from your cheeks.
ref: 1980, Poetry Northwest - Volumes 21-23, page 8:
glosses: With the face pointing upwards; face-up.
Kings Norton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: King's Norton
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP0478).
Wylam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish on the River Tyne in Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NZ1164).
Port Adelaide
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An area and port in Adelaide in the City of Port Adelaide Enfield, South Australia.
Derived terms: Port Adelaide Enfield
Tiley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Tookey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
sigint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sigints
Etymology: Blend of signal + intelligence
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of SIGINT.
sigints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sigint
humint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: humints
Etymology: Blend of human + intelligence
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of HUMINT.
humints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of humint
Doling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Giddins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Fishwick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A suburb of Preston, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD5629).
glosses: A settlement in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT9151).
come-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: come-offs
Etymology: Deverbal from come off.
Senses: glosses: An outcome or conclusion; the way that a situation turns out.
coordinate_terms: come-on
glosses: An evasive answer or postponement; an act of putting someone off.
come-offs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of come-off
reposable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From repose + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be placed in a different pose.
reposable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of reusable + disposable
Senses: glosses: Reusable for a limited number of times, but ultimately disposable.
reposable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reposables
Etymology: Blend of reusable + disposable
Senses: glosses: A surgical instrument designed to be used a limited number of times before disposal.
posaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of posament
hanaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hanasters
form: hanster
Senses: examples: text: No trade gild might be started without the consent of the whole body of hanasters, who would insist that the regulations were not harmful to the burgesses as a whole; […]
ref: 1920, H. E. Salter, Munimenta Civitatis Oxonie, volume 71, page xxviii:
glosses: A person paying the entrance fee of the guild merchant, and admitted as a freeman of the city of Oxford.
hanasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hanaster
go in unto
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes in unto
form: going in unto
form: went in unto
form: gone in unto
Senses: examples: text: And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 38:8:
text: If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her […]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 22:13–17:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Of a man: to have sexual intercourse with (a woman).
Synonyms: coitize
go to bed with
sleep with
copulate with
tone-bearing unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tone-bearing units
form: TBU
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: In autosegmental phonology, a segment, usually a syllable nucleus, which can be associated with a tone.
tone-bearing units
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tone-bearing unit
grease the skids
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: greases the skids
form: greasing the skids
form: greased the skids
form: greased the skids
Senses: glosses: To create conditions likely to produce or hasten favorable future developments.
Synonyms: grease the wheels
pave the way
set the stage
orthographied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of orthography
orthographying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of orthography
Arak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Arâk
Etymology: From Persian اراک (arâk).
Senses: glosses: A city in Iran, the seat of Arak County's Central District and the capital of Markazi Province, formerly called Soltanabad.
glosses: A county of Iran, around the city.
Derived terms: Araki
broadleaf bamboo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bamboo grass (running bamboo in the genus Sasa, especially when referring to Sasa palmata)
synonyms: word: bamboo grass
extra: running bamboo in the genus Sasa, especially when referring to Sasa palmata
bamboo grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æs
Senses: synonyms: broadleaf bamboo
glosses: A kind of running bamboo, native to East Asia, in the genus Sasa.
nasocystic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From naso- + cystic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to nasal pseudocysts
naviculotrapezial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From naviculo- + trapezial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the navicular trapezium (bone of the wrist)
neosquamous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neo- + squamous.
Senses: glosses: Relating to newly-formed squamous tissue
neuroalgorithmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + algorithmic.
Senses: glosses: neural and algorithmic
neuroischemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of neuroischaemic.
neuropathics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of neuropathy.
synonyms: word: neuropathy
Related terms: neuropathic
neurosterol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurosterols
Etymology: From neuro- + sterol.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
neuroscience
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A neuroactive sterol
Related terms: neurosteroid
neurosterols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurosterol
nitrothiazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nitrothiazoles
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any nitro derivative of a thiazole, but especially the 2-amino-5-nitrothiazoles that are veterinary antiprotozoal agents
Derived terms: nitazoxanide
nodulosporin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nodulosporins
Senses: glosses: Any antibacterial fungal metabolite produced by Nodulisporium
nodulosporins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nodulosporin
nonacosanol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonacosanols
Etymology: From nonacosane + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any aliphatic alcohol that has 29 carbon atoms, but especially 1-nonacosanol
nonthymomatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + thymomatous.
Senses: glosses: Not thymomatous
nontrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒfɪk
Etymology: From non- + trophic.
Senses: glosses: Not trophic
Chilean swallow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chilean swallows
Senses: glosses: A species of swallow Tachycineta leucopyga, native to southern South America.
normooxia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of normoxia.
Chilean swallows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chilean swallow
austral conure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: austral conures
Senses: glosses: Synonym of austral parakeet.
synonyms: word: austral parakeet
emerald parakeet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emerald parakeets
Senses: glosses: austral parakeet
austral conures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of austral conure
emerald parakeets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emerald parakeet
Sieyesian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sieyesian
form: most Sieyesian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sieyèsian.
black-chinned siskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black-chinned siskins
Senses: glosses: A species of South American finch, Spinus barbatus.
black-chinned siskins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black-chinned siskin
Sieyèsian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sieyèsian
form: most Sieyèsian
form: Sieyesian
Etymology: Sieyès + -ian
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès.
austral blackbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: austral blackbirds
Senses: glosses: A species of bird, Curaeus curaeus, found in southern South America.
austral blackbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of austral blackbird
black-browed albatrosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black-browed albatross
black-browed mollymawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black-browed mollymawks
Senses: glosses: black-browed albatross (Thalassarche melanophris)
black-browed mollymawks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black-browed mollyhawks
Senses: glosses: plural of black-browed mollymawk
albatroses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of albatros
octanone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octanones
Etymology: From octane + -one.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any aliphatic ketone that has eight carbon atoms
merchant mariner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merchant mariners
Etymology: From merchant marine + -er.
Senses: glosses: A sailor who works on a merchant marine (vessel), that is, in a merchant marine (fleet).
Longsight
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An inner city area of Manchester, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SJ8696).
Chamito-Semitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Hamito-Semitic.
Chamito-Semitic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Hamito-Semitic.
Raths
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rath
Rathes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rathe
omnicomparativist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From omni- + comparativist.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: having a tendency to compare disparate elements of language (e.g. different forms, unrelated languages) in an attempt to establish parallels
Related terms: parallelomania
New World blackbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: New World blackbirds
Senses: glosses: Certain blackbirds found in the New World in the genera of family Icteridae, to wit, Xanthocephalus, Nesopsar, Agelaius, Dives, Ptiloxena, Euphagus, Gymnomystax, Amblyramphus, Curaeus, Anumara, Gnorimopsar, Oreopsar, Agelasticus, Chrysomus, and Xanthopsar.
Old World blackbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Old World blackbirds
Senses: glosses: Any true thrush (Turdus spp.)
glosses: Any of the Old World orioles, passerine birds of family Oriolidae.
Hyponyms: sense: Turdus spp.
taxonomic: Turdus ludoviciae
word: Somali blackbird
sense: Turdus spp.
taxonomic: Turdus mandarinus
word: Chinese blackbird
sense: Turdus spp.
taxonomic: Turdus merula
word: common blackbird
sense: Turdus spp.
taxonomic: Turdus boulboul
word: grey-winged blackbird
sense: Turdus spp.
taxonomic: Turdus simillimus
word: Indian blackbird
sense: Turdus spp.
taxonomic: Turdus maximus
word: Tibetan blackbird
sense: Turdus spp.
taxonomic: Turdus albocinctus
word: white-collared blackbird
Old World oriole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Old World orioles
Senses: glosses: Any of the family Oriolidae of passerine birds.
glosses: Any bird of the genus Oriolus.
Synonyms: sense: bird in Oriolidae
word: Old World blackbird
Whakatane
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Whakatāne
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori Whakatāne.
Senses: glosses: A town in the Bay of Plenty region, North Island, New Zealand.
glosses: A river in the Bay of Plenty region, New Zealand, which flows into the Bay of Plenty at Whakatane; in full, Whakatane River.
Achanalt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A location with a railway station near Loch Achanalt in Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NH2661).
shishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shish
fluish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fluish
form: most fluish
Etymology: From flu + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The day after I'd finished the screenplay, I felt fluish and heavy in the legs. The fluishness and heavy-leggedness increased.
ref: 1988, D. M. Thomas, Memories and Hallucinations, page 183:
text: The sense of déja vu is caught up in my vague, fluish dreams.
ref: 2006, Sterling R. Braswell, American Meth:
text: Then some fluish malaise crept through him.
ref: 2008, Shirley Abbott, The Future of Love, page 89:
glosses: Characteristic of influenza; flulike.
Derived terms: fluishness
fluishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fluish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The day after I'd finished the screenplay, I felt fluish and heavy in the legs. The fluishness and heavy-leggedness increased.
ref: 1988, D. M. Thomas, Memories and Hallucinations, page 183:
text: It took her a while, but the more she thought about it, the more she realised that the symptoms she felt – the awful flu-ishness, the persistent dull headache and the heavy aching in her breasts – weren't heroin-related. She was pregnant.
ref: 2016, Ilana Fox, The Glittering Art of Falling Apart:
text: There isn't much I can do about the sensations of dizziness, weakness, or even a little fluishness that occur after a long day without my meds.
ref: 2017 October 6, “I Still Hate Self-Love: Advice from So Sad Today”, in VICE:
glosses: The quality of being fluish.
flu-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flu-like
form: most flu-like
Senses: examples: text: However, caffeine withdrawal can bring on symptoms like headache, fatigue or drowsiness, difficulty concentrating, depressed mood or irritability, and even flu-like symptoms such as nausea or muscle pain!
ref: 2014, Kristen Mancinelli, The Ketogenic Diet, page 121:
text: He had presented in the Cromwell Hospital, London with flu-like symptoms and initially received treatment for related renal bleeding.
ref: 2015, Justin D. Edwards, Technologies of the Gothic in Literature and Culture, page 113:
text: The most common adverse effects include injection-site redness and swelling, menstrual irregularities, flu-like symptoms (eg, fever, chills, and myalgias), and rarely injection-site necrosis.
ref: 2017, Joseph T. DiPiro, Robert L. Talbert, Gary C. Yee, Pharmacotherapy:
glosses: Alternative form of flulike.
make a cat laugh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes a cat laugh
form: making a cat laugh
form: made a cat laugh
form: made a cat laugh
Etymology: Coined in 1893 as part of the advertising for the Broadway production of the play Charlie's Aunt, ("it makes a cat laugh") based on the observation that cats do not laugh.
Senses: examples: text: The only play I know of that has ever established a trademark is "Charlie's Aunt." Perhaps some of you recall "Charlie's Aunt." Before that play was produced in New York City the only printed commentary was "it makes a cat laugh."
ref: 1914 March, Edmund Breese, “The Art of Advertising an Actor”, in The Rotarian, volume 4, number 7, page 28:
text: All the bowing and scraping was enough to make a cat laugh, but the Princess took it all in her stride — her demeanour commonsensical (didn't everyone who went by train get this sort of treatment?) and a shade demure.
ref: 2013, Robert Barnard, Death and the Princess:
text: It would have made a cat laugh to see the prof's face.
ref: 2013, Patrick Taylor, Fingal O'Reilly, Irish Doctor:
text: Carr added that he had never seen "another who provoked so much mirth, and who entered into rollicking fun with such glee. He could make a cat laugh.”
ref: 2015, Gordon Leidner, Lincoln's Gift: How Humor Shaped Lincoln's Life and Legacy:
glosses: To be extremely funny.
makes a cat laugh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of make a cat laugh
making a cat laugh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of make a cat laugh
Temple Mills
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Originally these were watermills on the River Lea belonging to the Knights Templar.
Senses: glosses: An area mainly in Waltham Forest borough, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3785).
wikipedia: Knights Templar
River Lea
made a cat laugh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of make a cat laugh
Sprigg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Charchan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Hsüan-tsang, following the same route more than a century later, mentions in a position exactly corresponding to Charchan “the old kingdom of Chê-mo-tʻo-na which is the territory of Chü-mo.” He saw there the walls of an old town still standing, but there were no longer any inhabitants. Yet when Chinese rule had been re-established soon after his passage, Charchan or Chü-mo figures once more in the Tʻang dynasty’s Annals as a place duly garrisoned. In Marco Polo’s description of the ‘Province of Charchan,’ fully verified on other points, we read of “numerous towns and villages, and the chief city of the Kingdom bears its name, Charchan.”
ref: 1912, Aurel Stein, Ruins of Desert Cathay Personal Narrative of Exploration in Central Asia and Westernmost China, page 323:
text: The flights from Charchan are on an 18-seat Twin Otter, which flies to Korla and on to Ürümqi on Mon, Wed, Fri, and Sun mornings.
ref: 1997, Peter Neville-Hadley, China the Silk Routes (Cadogan Guides), Globe Pequot Press, page 307:
text: These buses stop at the oasis towns of Keriya (Yutian; 177km/110 miles; 3 hr.; ¥25), Niya (Minfeng; 294km/182 miles; 5 hr.; ¥55), and Charchan (Qiemo; 603km/374 miles; 8-10 hr.; ¥105-¥147).
ref: 2012, Frommer's China (Frommer's), 5th edition, Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., page 329:
glosses: Alternative form of Qarqan.
unjunk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unjunks
form: unjunking
form: unjunked
form: unjunked
Etymology: From un- + junk.
Senses: glosses: To mark or regard something as not junk.
semisweetly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more semisweetly
form: most semisweetly
Etymology: From semi- + sweet + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "Let's not and say we did," she said semisweetly— I didn't know her well enough to read her level of sarcasm.
ref: 2007, Jim Ray Daniels, Mr. Pleasant, page 57:
text: Kinsey smiled semisweetly.
ref: 2010, Alison Kent, Wicked Games, page 122:
text: In this connection, a student of mine once described Catullus as like a lucid drunk: drunk just enough to tell it like it is but semisweetly, maybe bitterly, indeed a bit salty.
ref: 2013, Benjamin Eldon Stevens, Silence in Catullus, page 80:
glosses: In a somewhat sweet manner, but with an element of asperity.
waters' edges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water's edge
waiting shelter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waiting shelters
Senses: examples: text: The remainder of the station had undergone a sympathetic restoration completed by NR in 2014 as part of the station's 150th anniversary celebrations, while the waiting shelter on Platform 2 will shortly be reroofed.
ref: 2019 December 4, Paul Stephen, “At the heart of the community”, in Rail, page 58:
glosses: A small roofed structure where intending passengers can wait for a train or bus to arrive.
Related terms: bus shelter
waiting shelters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waiting shelter
precolonials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of precolonial
unhumiliated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + humiliated.
Senses: glosses: Not humiliated.
unhumiliating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhumiliating
form: most unhumiliating
Etymology: From un- + humiliating.
Senses: glosses: Not humiliating.
shedable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This inherent source of error can be minimised if current transducers are fitted to the shedable loads.
ref: 2016, Alan L. Sheldrake, Handbook of Electrical Engineering: For Practitioners in the Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Industry, page 438:
glosses: Alternative form of sheddable.
NIPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NIP
INNs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of INN
Christmas Eve box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Christmas Eve boxes
Senses: glosses: A box of small gifts sometimes given on Christmas Eve, in addition to the main presents given on Christmas Day.
Christmas Eve boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Christmas Eve box
soilier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of soily: more soily
soiliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of soily: most soily
thermodurics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thermoduric
semisweetness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From semi- + sweet + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: We hoisted each cold, galvie snifter to our moist lips and, if we didn't freeze to it, drank the last half mouthful of semisweetness.
ref: 2005, Bode Miller, Bode: Go Fast, Be Good, Have Fun, Villard, →ISBN:
text: Once gym class rolled around, I knew Mallory's semisweetness wouldn't last.
ref: 2011, Ruth Ames, Poison Apple #2: This Totally Bites!, Scholastic Inc., →ISBN, page 92:
text: Because the vine produces grapes naturally lower in sugar, Muscadine is often fortified with sugar before fermentation and fermented to semisweetness.
ref: 2018, Amira Makansi, Literary Libations: What to Drink with What You Read, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
glosses: the state or quality of being semisweet.