cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Silk Road
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Silk Road
Etymology: Calque of German Seidenstraße.
Senses: examples: text: China had received with more or less good grace the flood of Buddhist missionaries but had long since sent out her own missionaries— priests, not of a transcendental religion of salvation, but of a secular way of life, of a worldly and refined civilization. Expansion in Turkestan and Central Asia took place simultaneously with expansion in Southeast Asia. As fast as the famed Silk Road started winding itself through thousands of miles of Eurasian deserts, swamps, jungles and mountains toward Persia and the Mediterranean world, increasingly numerous fleets of junks began to ply the warm waters of the tropical south.
ref: 1958, Amaury de Riencourt, “The Moonlight Civilizations”, in The Soul of China, Revised edition, Harper & Row, published 1965, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 109-110:
text: But halfway back, he learned that there had been a change in dynasties and decided he would be better off staying where he was. And so Lu Kuang set up his own Silk Road kingdom at Wuwei in the middle of the Kansu Corridor.
ref: 2016, Bill Porter, The Silk Road: Taking the Bus to Pakistan, Counterpoint, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 172:
text: In this old Silk Road city in western China, a state security campaign involving the detention of vast numbers of people has moved to its next stage: demolishing their neighborhoods and purging their culture.
ref: 2019 March 21, “After mass detentions, China razes Muslim communities to build a loyal city”, in EFE, archived from the original on 21 Aug 2022:
text: Six hours are enough to devour the over 900 miles from Shanghai to Xi’an, the landlocked capital of Shaanxi Province in China’s central northwest, standing on the bones of the imperial city of Chang’an. In the seventh and eighth centuries A.D., this was the center of not only China but the globe — the eastern origin of the trade routes we call the Silk Road and the nexus of a cross-cultural traffic in ideas, technology, art and food that altered the course of history as decisively as the Columbian Exchange eight centuries later. A million people lived within Chang’an’s pounded-earth walls, including travelers and traders from Central, Southeast, South and Northeast Asia and followers of Buddhism, Taoism, Zoroastrianism, Nestorian Christianity and Manichaeism.
ref: 2020 May 11, Ligaya Mishan, “Eating in Xi’an, Where Wheat and Lamb Speak to China’s Varied Palette”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 May 2020:
glosses: An extensive interconnected network of trade routes across Asia, North and Northeast Africa, and Europe, historically used by silk traders.
Derived terms: Silk Road disease
gameworld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gameworlds
form: game world
form: game-world
Etymology: From game + world.
Senses: examples: text: As an “all-female” humanoid species not bound to the traditional forms of mating, in that they reproduce through a form of telepathic parthenogenesis, the design of the Asari collapses boundaries of sex and sexuality. The Asari are a species rendered as Other, even in comparison to the various beings populating the gameworld. Characters recognize and struggle against prejudice and limited understanding of Asari customs, culture, and practices. These gameworld features allow for a space where awareness and exploration of sexualities outside of the heterosexual binary can take place.
ref: 2015, Summer Glassie, “"Embraced eternity lately?": Mislabeling and subversion of sexuality labels through the Asari in the Mass Effect trilogy”, in Matthew Wysocki, Evan W. Lauteria, editors, Rated M for Mature: Sex and Sexuality in Video Games (Media Studes / Game Studies), Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 162:
topics: video-games
hyponyms: open world
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: The fictional universe of a game.
kaama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːmə/
Forms: form: kaamas
form: kama
form: khama
Etymology: Borrowed from Tswana kgama.
Senses: examples: text: For, in the morning one of the Hottentots found at some distance from our station, the remains of a kaama or hartebeest, which had been devoured by a lion [...].
ref: 1824, William John Burchell, Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa, volume 2:
text: Very great numbers of the large game, buffaloes, zebras, giraffes, tsessébes, kamas or hartebeests, kokongs or gnus, pallahs, rhinoceroses, etc., congregated at some fountains near Kolobeng, and the trap called ‘hopo’ was constructed, in the lands adjacent, for their destruction.
ref: 1858, David Livingstone, Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa:
glosses: The hartebeest.
gameworlds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gameworld
hartebeest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑːtəbiːst/
Forms: form: hartebeest
form: hartebeests
form: hartebeesten
Etymology: From early Afrikaans hartebeest (now hartebees), from Dutch hert (“deer, hart”) + beest (“(wild) animal, beast”).
Senses: examples: text: Besides these, there are bles bucks, quaggas, ostriches, steen bucks, ree bucks, and a few hartebeesten.
ref: 1842 February 16, O. P. Q., “New Zealand and the Cape”, in The New Zealand Journal, volume III, London: […] Henry Hobbs Chambers, […], page 46, column 1:
text: Immense troops of elephants roamed the coastlands and the thorns; lions and panthers lurked in the kloofs and among broken ground; elands, hartebeesten, and other antelopes swarmed in the veld; and hippopotami and crocodiles abounded in the rivers.
ref: 1891, Robert Russell, “Natal in 1800”, in “Sailors and Natives”, in Natal: The Land and Its Story: A Geography and History for the Use of Schools (with Map), Pietermaritzburg: P. Davis and Sons, page 113:
text: Here all kinds of animals are found, viz., lions, rhinoceroses, horses (zebras), ostriches and hartebeesten in multitudes, there being always good water and grass here. […] We also saw 13 horses (zebras), 5 rhinoceroses, some ostriches and thousands of hartebeesten. […] A little further on I encountered a herd of hartebeesten, four of which I wounded, though I only secured one, which I laid on one of the oxen.
ref: 1897, H[endrik] C[arel] V[os] Leibbrandt, Precis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope, January, 1659–May, 1662. [Abraham van] Riebeeck’s Journal, &c., part III, Cape Town: W[illiam] A[ttwell] Richards & Sons, […], pages 230–231:
synonyms: kaama
coordinate_terms: wildebeest
glosses: A type of grassland antelope, Alcelaphus buselaphus, native to parts of Africa.
Derived terms: bastard hartebeest
Coke's hartebeest
Jackson's hartebeest
Lelwel hartebeest
Neumann's hartebeest
Swayne's hartebeest
tora hartebeest
ethnomethodological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ethnomethodological
form: most ethnomethodological
Etymology: From ethnomethodology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or by means of ethnomethodology.
Derived terms: ethnomethodologically
ethnomethodology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethnomethodologies
Etymology: From ethno- + methodology.
Senses: glosses: An academic discipline that attempts to understand the social orders people use to make sense of the world through analysing their accounts and descriptions of their day-to-day experiences.
Derived terms: ethnomethodologically
ethnomethodological
ethnomethodologist
ethnomethodologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ethnomethodology
ethnomethodologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethnomethodologists
Etymology: From ethnomethodology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person engaged in ethnomethodology.
ethnomethodologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ethnomethodologist
ethnomusic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethnomusics
Etymology: From ethno- + music.
Senses: glosses: The traditional music associated with an ethnic group; the kinds of music studied in ethnomusicology.
kegel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kegels
Etymology: After Arnold Kegel. The surname is of German origin; see Kegel (“skittle, bowling pin”).
Senses: examples: text: The parenting magazines are on a higher moral plane than the how-to-get-a-guy magazines, just as a man going home to his wife and children (or a woman breast-feeding a baby) is on a higher moral plane than a man out trolling for nookie (or a woman flexing her Kegels in preparation for a date).
ref: 1999 July 19, Hendrik Hertzberg, “The Parent Trap”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: The pubococcygeal muscles.
examples: text: Done for a few minutes a day, Kegels can ease childbirth, help with recovery, prevent incontinence — even improve your sex life.
ref: 2014 July 14, Roni Caryn Rabin, “Pelvic Exercises for Men, Too”, in The New York Times:
text: Hop on top, I wanna ride / I do a kegel while it's inside
ref: 2020 August 7, Cardi B, “WAP” ft. Megan Thee Stallion, Atlantic Records:
glosses: A contraction of the pubococcygeal muscles, performed for the purpose of strengthening them.
Derived terms: kegel balls
kegel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kegels
form: kegeling
form: kegelling
form: kegeled
form: kegeled
form: kegelled
form: kegelled
Etymology: After Arnold Kegel. The surname is of German origin; see Kegel (“skittle, bowling pin”).
Senses: examples: text: To future appointments, I wear a skirt and thigh-highs so that I can Kegel with my outfit intact.
ref: 2022 October 2, Cara Schacter, “My Year of Stress and Constipation”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To clench one's perineum and pelvic muscles.
kegels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kegel
kegels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kegel
thring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thrings
form: thringing
form: thrang
form: thrung
form: thringed
form: thrung
form: thringed
form: dring
Etymology: From Middle English thringen, from Old English þringan (“to press, squeeze, crowd”), from Proto-West Germanic *þringwan, from Proto-Germanic *þrinhwaną (“to press, throng, crush”), from Proto-Indo-European *trenkʷ- (“to beat, hew, press”).
Senses: glosses: To thrust; crowd; press; squeeze.
glosses: To push; to force one's way.
Synonyms: sense: crowd
word: mass
word: throng
word: assemble
sense: squeeze
word: compress
word: condense
word: compress
Related terms: thrang
throng
winnets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of winnet
dimestore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dimestores
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dime store.
dimestores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dimestore
briks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brik
fondnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fondness
Transalpine Gaulish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An extinct European language of the Indo-European family, spoken in Gaul.
pond-skaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pond-skater
nonreferentially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nonreferential + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a nonreferential manner.
nonreferent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonreferents
Etymology: From non- + referent.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, is not a referent.
nonreferents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonreferent
beaconlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beaconlike
form: most beaconlike
Etymology: From beacon + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a beacon.
buoylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more buoylike
form: most buoylike
Etymology: From buoy + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a buoy.
docklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more docklike
form: most docklike
Etymology: From dock + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a dock (place for securing vessels).
examples: docklike leaves
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a dock (type of plant).
duchessy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more duchessy
form: most duchessy
Etymology: From duchess + -y.
Senses: examples: text: And she had a figure, too; one of them big, duchessy-looking ladies she was, as would make you think as they'd need extra webbing in their beds.
ref: 1906, Warwick Deeping, Bess of the woods:
text: Fortunately Kathryn looks her most duchessy in evening gowns and Bo is unusually philosophical about boiled shirts.
ref: 1945, Joseph Chamberlain Furnas, How America lives:
glosses: Like a duchess; with a superior feminine elegance.
Synonyms: duchesslike
rudbeckia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /rʌdˈbɛ.ki.ə/
Forms: form: rudbeckias
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Rudbeckia.
Senses: glosses: Any member of the genus Rudbeckia of coneflowers.
rudbeckias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rudbeckia
dead ringers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dead ringer
spitting images
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spitting image
God boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of God boy
hotlisting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hotlist
hotlisted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hotlist
prebuffer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prebuffers
form: prebuffering
form: prebuffered
form: prebuffered
Etymology: From pre- + buffer.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To place into a buffer in preparation for later retrieval or playback.
prebuffers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prebuffer
prebuffering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prebuffer
prebuffered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prebuffer
zeaxanthins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zeaxanthin
canthaxanthins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canthaxanthin
transformerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænsˈfɔɹmɚləs/
ipa: /tɹænsˈfɔːmələs/
ipa: /tɹɑːnsˈfɔːmələs/
Etymology: From transformer + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without an electrical transformer.
visbreaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: visbreakers
Etymology: From viscosity breaker.
Senses: glosses: A processing unit in oil refinery that reduces the quantity of residual oil produced in the distillation of crude oil to increase the yield of more valuable middle distillates (heating oil and diesel) by thermally cracking large hydrocarbon molecules in the oil.
Related terms: visbreaking
visbreakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of visbreaker
swan upper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swan uppers
Senses: glosses: A person who engages in swan upping.
reflecting telescopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reflecting telescope
refracting telescopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of refracting telescope
jailbroke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of jailbreak
curtain coating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curtain coatings
Senses: glosses: A coating process in which an uninterrupted curtain of fluid falls onto a substrate transported underneath it by means of a conveyor belt.
glosses: A coating applied by this process.
nonvinyl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + vinyl.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to vinyl.
nonmechanically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nonmechanical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a nonmechanical fashion.
Burmese rosewood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Burmese rosewoods
Senses: glosses: Dalbergia oliveri, a southeast Asian tree and its wood, valuable for its red lumber used in ornamental work including woodturning and furniture. The sapwood is yellowish-white with dark brown heartwood. The heartwood is very hard and heavy.
glosses: Any of species Dalbergia bariensis of similar trees.
glosses: Any of species Pterocarpus indicus of similar trees.
glosses: The wood of such trees.
Synonyms: sense: Dalbergia oliveri
word: Asian rosewood
sense: Dalbergia oliveri
word: Laos rosewood
sow wild oats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sows wild oats
form: sowing wild oats
form: sowed wild oats
form: sown wild oats
form: sowed wild oats
Senses: examples: text: ‘Mr Swiveller,’ said Quilp, ‘being pretty well accustomed to the agricultural pursuits of sowing wild oats, Miss Sally, prudently considers that half a loaf is better than no bread.
ref: 1840 April – 1841 November, Charles Dickens, “Chapter the Thirty-third”, in The Old Curiosity Shop. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1841, →OCLC:
text: ‘Hope so, I'm sure. He's just the fellow to do rash things and come to glory—climbing the Matterhorn, taking a “header” into Niagara, or finding a big nugget. That's his way of sowing wild oats, and perhaps it's better than ours,’ said Tom thoughtfully; for he had gained a good deal of experience in that sort of agriculture since he became a medical student.
ref: 1886, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, Jo's Boys […] , Boston: Roberts Brothers:
text: Miriam pondered this. She saw what he was seeking—a sort of baptism of fire in passion, it seemed to her. She realised that he would never be satisfied till he had it. Perhaps it was essential to him, as to some men, to sow wild oats; and afterwards, when he was satisfied, he would not rage with restlessness any more, but could settle down and give her his life into her hands.
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XII, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
text: That many able men have sown wild oats is indisputable, and that many men who are respectful husbands, have also gone "through the mill" is also true, but this need not blind us to the fact that thousands upon thousands, who could have been successful men of affairs and creditable husbands and fathers, have been utterly ruined, as a result of having sown wild oats.
ref: 1914, W. Grant Hague, The Eugenic Marriage, volume 2:
text: As the time of his marriage approached, he felt that he had indeed sowed wild oats, and he felt, moreover, what a good thing it would be if he could have but one wild fling more, play the good fellow and the wastrel one last time, ere he settled down to grey lecture-rooms and sober matrimony.
ref: 1914, Jack London, “South of the Slot”, in The Strength of the Strong, New York: MacMillan:
glosses: Alternative form of sow one's wild oats.
bring a knife to a gunfight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brings a knife to a gunfight
form: bringing a knife to a gunfight
form: brought a knife to a gunfight
form: brought a knife to a gunfight
form: take a knife to a gunfight
Senses: examples: text: Isn't that just like a wop? Brings a knife to a gun fight.
ref: 1987, David Mamet, The Untouchables:
text: That is why one should never bring a knife to a gunfight, a worm should not challenge Godzilla, and a chump should never box a boxer.
ref: 1994, Gus Lee, China Boy, →ISBN, page 310:
text: [W]e can shoot down missiles. . . . Our Kingfisher sonars can detect mines. . . . Our ships are hardened against chemical and biological weapons. But how do you stop a torpedo? . . . The best engineers in the business agree that nearly every class of torpedo currently being deployed has the capacity to sink one of our ships with a single shot. . . . [W]e are the poor bastards that brought a knife to a gunfight.
ref: 2006, Jeff Edwards, Torpedo, →ISBN, page xiii:
glosses: To enter into a confrontation or other challenging situation without being adequately equipped or prepared.
Related terms: fight fire with fire
use a sledgehammer to crack a nut
take a knife to a gunfight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes a knife to a gunfight
form: taking a knife to a gunfight
form: took a knife to a gunfight
form: taken a knife to a gunfight
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bring a knife to a gunfight.
nonstarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonstarches
Etymology: From non- + starch.
Senses: glosses: A substance that is not a starch.
nonpolysaccharide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonpolysaccharides
Etymology: From non- + polysaccharide.
Senses: glosses: A substance that is not a polysaccharide.
nonstarches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonstarch
nonpolysaccharides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonpolysaccharide
nonmyth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonmyths
Etymology: From non- + myth.
Senses: glosses: That which is not a myth; a truth or reality.
Related terms: nonmythical
nonmyths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonmyth
nonwine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + wine.
Senses: glosses: Not wine.
nonbeer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + beer.
Senses: glosses: Not beer.
superparamagnetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more superparamagnetically
form: most superparamagnetically
Etymology: From superparamagnetic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a superparamagnetic way; by means of superparamagnetism.
nonparamagnetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + paramagnetic.
Senses: glosses: Not paramagnetic.
glycocholate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycocholates
Etymology: From glyco- + cholate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of glycocholic acid.
glycocholates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glycocholate
glycocholic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From glyco- + cholic acid.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A crystalline bile acid involved in the emulsification of fats, a conjugate of cholic acid with glycine.
Synonyms: cholylglycine
Related terms: glycocholate
cholylglycine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cholyl- + glycine.
Senses: glosses: glycocholic acid
noncholinergic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + cholinergic.
Senses: glosses: Not cholinergic.
Derived terms: noncholinergically
cholinergically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From cholinergic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a cholinergic manner.
Derived terms: noncholinergically
case studies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of case study
unmanifested
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + manifested.
Senses: glosses: Not manifested.
nontangible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + tangible.
Senses: glosses: intangible
nontangible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nontangibles
Etymology: From non- + tangible.
Senses: glosses: intangible
nontangibles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nontangible
form feed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: form feeds
Etymology: From form + feed.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: mul:\f
glosses: A control character traditionally used to cause the printer to eject the current page of output and start a new page, more recently equivalent to a carriage return.
formfeed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: formfeeds
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of form feed.
formfeeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of formfeed
vaginalike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vaginalike
form: most vaginalike
Etymology: From vagina + -like.
Senses: synonyms: cuntlike
twatlike
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a vagina.
pogonology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pogono- + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: Throughout the history of pogonology the owners of beards have made them the subject of much loving care.
ref: 1955, The Saturday Book, volume 15, page 53:
text: I would find it interesting to trace the whole question of facial hair back to antiquity, exploring developments in pogonology (to be technical again), quoting from the ancients, but you can have too much of a good thing.
ref: 1996, Ivan Vladislavić, Propaganda by Monuments & Other Stories, page 70:
text: The path to modern pogonology was not always straight or even. The dead ends and detours were many.
ref: 2011, Upton Uxbridge Underwood, “Pioneers of Pogonology”, in Poets Ranked by Beard Weight, page 94:
glosses: The study of beards.
nonconverging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + converging.
Senses: glosses: Not converging.
nonconvergent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + convergent.
Senses: glosses: Not convergent.
pogonophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pogonophile
Danegeld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪnɡɛld/
Forms: form: danegeld
form: Danegelt
form: danegelt
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English danegeld, from Dane, genitive plural of Dan (“Dane”), plus geld (“geld, tribute, payment”). Apparently modeled on a Scandinavian word such as Old Danish Danegjeld), from Old Norse *Danagjald, from the genitive plural of Danir (“Danes”) + gjald (“payment, tribute”).
Senses: examples: text: And who shall then stick closest to ye, and excite others? not he who takes up armes for cote and conduct, and his four nobles of Danegelt.
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
synonyms: heregeld
glosses: A tax raised originally to pay tribute or protection money to the Viking raiders in the 10th and 11th centuries to save a land from being ravaged, and later continued as a land tax.
examples: text: The best now pay danegeld to the sloths, the greedy, the manipulators. And congress has legitimized the channels of deceit through laws which pay danegeld to the most strident noise makers.
ref: 1989, Irwin M. Ryan, The Last Congress, Remco, →ISBN:
text: But this part of the industry still had to pay Danegeld to the already over-endowed City.
ref: 1988, Ken Smith, Free is Cheaper:
text: This is not just a question of intelligent men selling out or having to pay Danegeld to the fundamentalists and the unions; ...
ref: 1980, Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru:
text: He notes how 'the Conservatives confusedly thought that they had to pay danegeld to the Left and did so reluctantly and inappropriately, ...
ref: 1945, The Nineteenth Century and After:
text: When the challenge of the barbarians finally came , Rome had to pay Danegeld to buy off the marauders.
ref: 1963, Max Lerner, America as a Civilization: Culture and personality:
text: What's unfair is that we make it tough for young people to get a job unless they pay danegeld to a four-year college to get a certificate that says it's okay to employ them.
ref: 1998, Forbes:
glosses: Any kind of tribute.
Related terms: english: tax, tribute
translation: tax, tribute
word: gafol
acronymic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From acronym + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the use of acronyms.
Synonyms: acronymous
Derived terms: acronymical
acronymically
acronymous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From acronym + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the use of acronyms.
Synonyms: acronymic
Derived terms: acronymously
nonacronymous
nonperiodically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From non- + periodically.
Senses: glosses: In a nonperiodic manner.
unmanneredly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unmanneredly
form: most unmanneredly
Etymology: From unmannered + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unmannered way; rudely.
macelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more macelike
form: most macelike
Etymology: From mace + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a mace.
speech community
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speech communities
form: speech-community
Etymology: Probably a calque of German Sprachgemeinschaft.
Senses: examples: text: The phonetic laws always work without the consciousness of the speech community in which they act ; they are due wholly to physiological causes acting unknown to the will of the individual speaker.
ref: 1897, William Pierce Shepard, A contribution to the history of the unaccented vowels in Old French, page 17:
text: Another language of this group, Cantonese, probably ranks among the world's largest speech-communities.
ref: 1933, Leonard Bloomfield, Language, page 44:
text: Research indicates that men and women in the mainstream US culture tend to form separate speech communities.
ref: 2006, Mary Barrett, Marilyn Davidson, Gender and Communication at Work, page 271:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A group of people sharing a language, or a particular way of using that language
scarps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scarp
scarps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scarp
plungings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈplʌnd͡ʒɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of plunging
the Devil
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: What’s all this!-⁠-⁠-what’s here to do!-⁠-⁠-what the Devil are you all about!-⁠-⁠-Zounds! who do you want here, Mr. Trueman?
ref: 1771, Amyas Griffith, The Swadler. A New Comedy of Three Acts., Clonmell: […] Edward Collins, page 38:
text: Who the Devil are you? Where the Devil do you come from / And what the Devil are you doing crusted up like a cloud-cuckoo?
ref: 1982, The London Magazine, page 3:
text: “Whatever did happen to you, sir? How the Devil did ye get captured? Once the Dons ran off, we couldn’t find hide nor hair of you.”
ref: 2015, Dewey Lambdin, Kings and Emperors, Canelo, published 2020, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of the devil.
the Devil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see the, Devil.
dimethyl carbonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The methyl ester of carbonic acid (CO(OCH₃)₂) that is used in organic synthesis as a methylating agent
thiolane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thiolanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The five-membered saturated heterocycle having four carbon atoms and one sulfur atom; any derivative of this compound
Synonyms: tetrahydrothiophene
arabitol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A sugar alcohol derived from the pentose arabinose
Derived terms: arabityl
ergo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɜː.ɡə/
ipa: /ˌɝ.ɡə/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon).
Senses: glosses: work
Laozi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaʊdzə/
ipa: /-zi/
ipa: /ˈlaʊtzə/
ipa: /-ziː/
ipa: /ˈlaʊ.t͡sz̩/
Forms: form: Laosi
form: Lao Tse
form: Lao Tu
form: Lao-Tzu
form: Lao-Tsu
form: Laotze
form: Lao Zi
form: Laocius
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the standard Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 老子 (“the Old One, the Venerable One”).
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: An honorific title for the legendary Taoist philosopher Li Er, who supposedly lived in the 6th and 5th centuries BC and (Chinese mythology) has subsequently been worshipped as a Taoist god.
qualifier: inexact
glosses: Synonym of Tao Te Ching.
synonyms: word: Tao Te Ching
raw_tags: with 'the'
Synonyms: Laojun
Related terms: a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Old Breton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An early form of the Breton language, spoken in the North of France in the between the 9th and the 11th century AD.
Related terms: Breton
Middle Breton
Middle Breton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An early form of the Breton language, spoken in Brittany, in western France, between the 11th and the 16th century AD.
Related terms: Breton
Old Breton
Brittonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɪˈtɒnɪk/
Forms: form: more Brittonic
form: most Brittonic
Etymology: From Briton + -ic, with -tt- after Latin Brittō.
Senses: examples: text: The Welsh language is not a backwards, insignificant thing; it is a fundamental part of Britain’s collective history. I find it absurd that so few English people realise it is still spoken in families and communities across Wales, as part of a Brittonic culture which has survived through the ages.
ref: 2014 July 23, Ellie Mae O'Hagen, The Guardian:
glosses: Brythonic; pertaining to the Celtic people inhabiting Britain before the Roman conquest, and to their language.
Brittonic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɪˈtɒnɪk/
Etymology: From Briton + -ic, with -tt- after Latin Brittō.
Senses: glosses: The group of Insular Celtic languages.
wye switch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wye switches
Senses: examples: text: When the wye switch is opened the home signal is automatically set at danger and the distant signal at caution.
ref: 1909, Interstate Commerce Commission, Accident Adjustment Report, page 30:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A railroad switch, having a Y shape, in which one line splits into two lines that diverge at equal angles.
Synonyms: word: Y points
word: equilateral switch
wye switches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wye switch
Beltaine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Beltane.
ergotine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ergot + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A powerful astringent alkaloid extracted from ergot as a brown, amorphous, bitter substance. It is used to produce contraction of the uterus.
Related terms: ergotin
equiconcave
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more equiconcave
form: most equiconcave
Etymology: From equi- + concave.
Senses: examples: text: In an equiconcave lens the foci are virtual and are crossed over; thus, the lens in fig. 25A is equiconcave, the focus F, instead of being measured from A to the right hand, must be measured to the left hand; consequently, § of the thickness must be subtracted from the focal length in order to determine the distance of F from the surface of the lens.
ref: 1901, William Benjamin Carpenter, William Henry Dallinger, The Microscope and Its Revelations, page 22:
text: In an equiconcave lens, the back surface would have a positive radius of curvature.
ref: 2022 October 4, Samantha Strong, Introduction to Visual Optics, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 202:
text: A thin equiconvex lens of radius of curvature R made of material of refractive index μ₁ is kept coaxially, in contact with an equiconcave lens of the same radius of curvature and refractive index μ₂ (> μ₁).
ref: 2024, YCT Expert Team, Physics Unsolved Papers, Youth Competition Times, page 215:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having surfaces with the same concave radius of curvature.
raw_tags: of a lens
Related terms: equiconvex
fortune tellers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fortune teller
nonvirility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + virility.
Senses: glosses: the state of being nonvirile
eriometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eriometers
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔριον (érion, “wool”) + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An optical device used to measure the diameters of fibres such as wool
erythro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: erythr-
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós, “red”).
Senses: glosses: Used to form scientific terms meaning red, or showing a relationship to red blood cells.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: In a compound with two chiral centers, having two identical substituents on the same side of the molecule.
Related terms: erythemato-
cubiclizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cubiclize
cubiclizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cubiclize
logodaedalies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of logodaedaly
astern of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: The ship left a wake astern of her.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: behind
contrary to
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: Contrary to what you might think, Antarctica is technically a desert.
glosses: despite; in opposition to (an assumption, etc.); differently from
Synonyms: contra
Derived terms: contrary to popular belief
plain lining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plain line
plain lined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of plain line
stroppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stropper
prior to
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Before, previous to.
sofers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sofer
soferim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sofer
eroto-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔρως, ἔρωτος (érōs, érōtos, “love”).
Senses: glosses: Used to form terms related to sexual desire.
Related terms: erotic
erotopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erotopathies
Etymology: From eroto- + -pathy.
Senses: glosses: An abnormality related to sexual desire
Derived terms: erotopathic
top it all off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tops it all off
form: topping it all off
form: topped it all off
form: topped it all off
Senses: glosses: Synonym of top it off
synonyms: word: top it off
industrial tribunals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of industrial tribunal
benevolent overlord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benevolent overlords
Senses: examples: text: Ever since our benevolent overlords, the Japanese, began to panic everything has been all turned around.
ref: 1990, Hisao Kimura with Scott Berry, Japanese agent in Tibet: my ten years of travel in disguise, page 103:
text: Look, the benevolent overlord attitude might have gone a lot further for you back in the day, but don't even think you can use it on me.
ref: 2007, Lara Adrian, Kiss of Midnight, page 279:
glosses: A person in a position of power who does not act tyrannically.
rare earths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rare earth
rare earth elements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rare earth element
rare spring-sedges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rare spring-sedge
kriges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of krige
pocket pistol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pocket pistols
Senses: glosses: A semi-automatic handgun designed to be carried inconspicuously in a pocket of one's clothing.
glosses: Any handgun suitable to be carried in a pocket of one's clothing, usually of a small caliber.
glosses: A small travelling flask for liquor.
Hyponyms: topics: weapon
weaponry
military
tools
engineering
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
war
government
politics
word: derringer
topics: weapon
weaponry
military
tools
engineering
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
war
government
politics
word: mouse gun
pocket pistols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pocket pistol
bread bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bread bag
fish bowls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fish bowl
Laosi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Laozi.
Lao Tse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Laozi.
Lao Tu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Laozi.
Lao-Tzu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Wade–Giles.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Laozi.
Lao-Tsu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Laozi.
Laotze
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Laozi.
Lao Zi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The Records of Henan Province notes that Taiqing Temple lies five kilometres east of Henan Province’s Luyi County (formerly known as Kuxian of the State of Chu), hometown of Lao Zi, the founder of the Taoist school of thought.
ref: 1995, Manchao Cheng, “Ancestral Emperor—Lord Lao Zi”, in The Origin of Chinese Deities, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 130:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Laozi.
Laocius
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Laozi.
K'ung-tzu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Mandarin 孔子 (Kǒngzǐ) Wade–Giles romanization: Kʻung³-tzŭ³.
Senses: examples: text: The earliest leader of a school of thought was Confucius (K’ung-tzu).
ref: 1968 [1964], Jacques Gernet, “The Progress of Ideas During the Formation of the Military States”, in Raymond Rudorff, transl., Ancient China: From the Beginnings to the Empire [La Chine Ancienne], Faber and Faber, →OCLC, page 115:
english: La Chine Ancienne
translation: La Chine Ancienne
text: The earliest fundamental understanding of the nature of health and disease, expounded by the Nei Ching, would have been forgotten were it not for an element peculiar to Chinese culture: the worship of their ancestors, a practice which runs far deeper than the respect shown for Western patriarchs. It was formalized by the teaching of K’ung-tzu, whose Latinized name is Confucius.
ref: 1980, Stephen Fulder, “The Chinese Alternative”, in The Book of Ginseng: and Other Chinese Herbs for Vitality, Rochester, Vermont: Healing Arts Press, published 1993, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 56:
text: So, K’ung-tzu says: 'To master oneself and return to propriety is humanity' (Bk 12.1).
We see, in this view, that humaneness was a quality which K’ung-tzu believed to be embodied in li, tradition and custom.
ref: 1991, A Southern African Guide to World Religions, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 109:
glosses: Alternative form of Kongzi (Confucius)
wikipedia: Encyclopædia Britannica
Kongzi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: K'ung-tzu
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 孔子 (Kǒngzǐ).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Confucius.
synonyms: word: Confucius
Kong Zi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Kongzi (“Confucius”).
two-way mirrors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of two-way mirror
beam splitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beam splitter
one-way mirrors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of one-way mirror
five-finger exercises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of five-finger exercise
neo-Nazis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neo-Nazi
broadcast delays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of broadcast delay
profanity delays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of profanity delay
tape delays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tape delay
United Statesians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of United Statesian
consists in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of consist in
consisting in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of consist in
consisted in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of consist in
light rollers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of light roller
heavy rollers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heavy roller
John Lennon glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after British musician John Lennon.
Senses: examples: text: Everyone in New York / Had a position on Shanker, / A story about garbage, / An unconventional sex life, / John Lennon glasses, […]
ref: 1969 (7 Apr), Judith Viorst, "New York Visit, 1969", New York Magazine 2 (no.14): 43
text: "[…]Or, I could go to Harvard Square, browse the coffee shops wearing my John Lennon glasses, and look for an intellectual who's smart enough to see the woman inside."
ref: 1998, Barbara Delinsky, A Woman's Place, page 335:
text: A bookish young man with John Lennon glasses looked up, smiled, and answered in a northern accent. "The tool is calibrated. Just waiting to hit total depth."
ref: 2003, Greg Iles, Sleep No More, page 36:
synonyms: John Lennon spectacles
;
Harry Potter glasses
Harry Potter spectacles
tea glasses
Windsor glasses
glosses: A pair of eyeglasses (spectacles) with round lenses.
wikipedia: John Lennon
John Lennon spectacles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after British musician John Lennon.
Senses: examples: text: A clamp-jawed man in his early thirties, a Program attorney named Sean, sat up front as well, next to a trim, bearded fellow of the same age — the good Dr. Henderson, complete with a yachtsman's physique and John Lennon spectacles.
ref: 2004, Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, The Program, page 238:
glosses: Synonym of John Lennon glasses.
synonyms: word: John Lennon glasses
wikipedia: John Lennon
semi-monthly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more semi-monthly
form: most semi-monthly
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of semimonthly.
spin ices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: Professor Bramwell told BBC News that the development is unlikely to catch on as a means of providing energy, not least because the particles travel only inside spin ices. -- 'Magnetic electricity' discovered, BBC News online, 14 October 2009
glosses: plural of spin ice
polar question
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polar questions
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: yes-no question
hypernyms: closed question
coordinate_terms: open question
multiple-choice question
wh-question
glosses: A question which has only two possible responses: yes (affirmative) or no (negative).
mersh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [mɝʃ]
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʃ
Etymology: Shortening of commercial.
Senses: glosses: Low-grade or commercial-grade marijuana.
Synonyms: regs
schwag
Coordinate terms: mids
middies
kine bud
kind bud
KB
KBs
heads
headies
mersh
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [mɝʃ]
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʃ
Etymology: Shortening of commercial.
Senses: examples: text: mersh pop music
glosses: Commercial.
tin knocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tin knockers
Senses: examples: text: We can't hang drywall in here until the tin knockers are done.
glosses: A sheet metal worker, especially one who works with HVAC ductwork.