cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ZioJew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ZioJews
Etymology: Blend of Zio + Jew.
Senses: examples: text: Israel has an ESTABLISHED track record of attacking the US and blaming those Israel wants attacked. The ZioJews are NOTHING if not CALCULATING, BACKSTABBING and TREACHEROUS. You help them, you will eventually get the knife in your back.
ref: 2012 January 25, Dennis M Reed "Califa", “hateful? Re: [ot] dmreed scurries back under his favorite rock”, in rec.music.afro-latin (Usenet), retrieved 28 Jul 2022:
text: LOL true stuff is the funiest and that's is all true; the ZioJews can't stand truth either.
ref: 2006 August 6, Jason P, “for ariadne and sxb and o'reily...the hypersensitive and the pc dorks are warned not to look”, in uk.politics.misc (Usenet), retrieved 28 Jul 2022:
text: And Rakes IN the BILLIONS...where?? to TelAVIV of course...He is Just Like Howard, A Hiding ZioJew....there are lots of these maggots
ref: 2004 July 8, xYmassyXmass:=~#*, “Re: The story of GWB & the Texas Air National Guard”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet), retrieved 28 Jul 2022:
glosses: A Jewish Zionist.
ZioJews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ZioJew
purohit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purohits
Etymology: From Hindi पुरोहित (purohit), from Sanskrit पुरोहित (purohita) from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰey-.
Senses: examples: text: The purohit helps the pilgrim should he fall sick or have difficulties with officials.
ref: 1996, Lise McKean, Divine Enterprise, page 327:
text: At the end of a long drawn-out ceremony, the purohit put a tilak on his forehead.
ref: 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 42:
text: The purohit then comes back to conduct the bridegroom and his followers to the bride's house accompanied by the musicians.
ref: 2006, Shyam Singh Shashi, The World of Nomads, page 66:
glosses: A family priest.
Eckardt point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eckardt points
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A point of intersection of three lines on a cubic surface.
Eckardt points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eckardt point
neo-atheist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neo-atheists
Etymology: From neo- + atheist.
Senses: glosses: new atheist
neo-atheists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neo-atheist
epitrochoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From epitrochoid + -al.
Senses: glosses: Being or relating to an epitrochoid.
equiaffine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From equi- + affine.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Being an affine transformation that preserves area.
equiaffinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equiaffinities
Etymology: From equi- + affinity.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An affine transformation that preserves area.
equiaffinities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equiaffinity
equianharmonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equianharmonic
evectant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evectants
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A contravariant constructed from an invariant by acting on it with a differential operator called an evector.
Related terms: devection
evect
evection
evector
evectants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of evectant
evector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evectors
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A differential operator that allows a contravariant to be constructed from an invariant.
Related terms: evect
evectant
evection
evectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of evector
Schläfli double six
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Schläfli double sixes
form: Schläfli's double six
Etymology: Named after Ludwig Schläfli.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A configuration of 30 points and 12 lines. The lines can be partitioned into two subsets of six: each line is disjoint from (skew with) the lines in its own subset of six lines, and intersects all but one of the lines in the other subset of six lines. Each of the 12 lines of the configuration contains five intersection points, and each of these 30 intersection points belongs to exactly two lines, one from each subset.
accountless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more accountless
form: most accountless
Etymology: From account + -less.
Senses: glosses: Not held to account; treated as unaccountable.
topics: business
computing
engineering
finance
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Not possessing an account.
almsless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more almsless
form: most almsless
Etymology: From alms + -less.
Senses: glosses: Not having any alms; impoverished.
altarless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more altarless
form: most altarless
Etymology: From altar + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The hypothesis that the cult center was in some such place would explain why it was altarless. It would resemble the cult of Hestia, the sacred Hearth, a cult that was generally housed in public or private buildings and was usually altarless because the sacred fire of the hearth substituted for an altar.
ref: 1990, Norman Oliver Brown, Hermes the Thief: The Evolution of a Myth, page 117:
text: Gradually, the exteriors of stone-mound tumuli took on different shapes, from altarless to altar-equipped and tier-type structures.
ref: 2004, Korea Now - Volume 33, page 30:
text: But when attending the Quaker service, he still encounters a certain 'special' silence: in the wholly undecorated, altarless room, there is nothing to be heard except 'the crackling of the fireplace and muffled coughing', until, in an odd combination of spontaneity and planning, someone 'moved' by the spirit holds a 'carefully prepared' speech.
ref: 2014, Jan Rehmann, Max Weber: Modernisation as Passive Revolution:
glosses: Not having an altar.
examples: text: The elders silent, glad to hear retold The tales, familiar, of their downthrown gods, Not utterly unloved though altarless.
ref: 1881, George Washington Wright Houghton, The Legend of St. Olaf's Kirk, page 13:
text: The goddess altarless, without a throne.
ref: 1881, The Californian, page 290:
text: Common Sense, you unpleasant goddess, altarless in ancient Athenian days, why did I not sacrifice to thee instead of cutting strange capers at the base of Parnasus?
ref: 1892, Fergus Hume, When I Lived in Bohemia:
text: In this hour of your triumph, I say this, Say it not only to you But to Zeus and all on Olympus: Think of the altarless Fates
ref: 1994, William Allison Shimer, The American Scholar - Volume 63, page 295:
glosses: To which there is no dedicated place of worship.
examples: text: The wandering and altarless homes of this wild people are, as it were, a neutral ground between the lands of the Bible and of the Koran, the traditional customs of which still serve to explain how Jew and Mahometan, members of the same race, while most widely parted in doctrine, may yet maintain the closest union in many important points of the moral and social system.
ref: 1856, Edinburgh Review, Or, Critical Journal - Volume 104, page 365:
text: Liam's poem about the Irish as wandering in 'feastless, houseless, altarless' exile repeats Keating's belief that Ireland's hope is the Almighty God.
ref: 1996, Thomas Heffernan, Gathering in Ireland, page 67:
text: Such a reading would not in any case explain its author's use of the frequentative tense of the verbs, which indicates that he did not understand Josiah's action described in v. 8aα as such a one-off measure, but rather, we must presume, as making provision for these now altarless priests to exercise their priestly office at the altar in Jerusalem, should any of them wish to do so.
ref: 2014, Ernest Nicholson, Deuteronomy and the Judaean Diaspora, page 32:
glosses: Having no place to hold religious services.
answerlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more answerlessly
form: most answerlessly
Etymology: From answerless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without an answer; without answering.
baggageless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more baggageless
form: most baggageless
Etymology: From baggage + -less.
Senses: glosses: Not having any baggage.
bearless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bearless
form: most bearless
Etymology: From bear + -less.
Senses: glosses: Not having any bears.
Derived terms: bearlessness
goatless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more goatless
form: most goatless
Etymology: From goat + -less.
Senses: glosses: Not having any goats.
mooseless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mooseless
form: most mooseless
Etymology: From moose + -less.
Senses: glosses: Not having any moose.
billetless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more billetless
form: most billetless
Etymology: From billet + -less.
Senses: glosses: Not having a billet.
blankless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blankless
form: most blankless
Etymology: From blank + -less.
Senses: glosses: Not having any blanks.
boonless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more boonless
form: most boonless
Etymology: From boon + -less.
Senses: glosses: Not having a boon.
bootyless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bootyless
form: most bootyless
Etymology: From booty + -less.
Senses: glosses: Not having any booty.
bowerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bowerless
form: most bowerless
Etymology: From bower + -less.
Senses: glosses: Not having a bower.
braceless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From brace + -less.
Senses: glosses: Not having a brace or braces.
breechesless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more breechesless
form: most breechesless
Etymology: From breeches + -less.
Senses: glosses: Not having any breeches.
glosses: Not wearing breeches; pantless.
brineless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From brine + -less.
Senses: glosses: Not having any brine.
breechless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From breech + -less.
Senses: glosses: Not having any breeches.
glosses: Not wearing breeches; pantless.
Derived terms: breechlessness
watch the pennies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: watches the pennies
form: watching the pennies
form: watched the pennies
form: watched the pennies
Senses: examples: text: The Royal Household faces very different cost of living pressures to everyone else, but it is still required to watch the pennies (well, the millions anyway).
ref: 2025 July 9, Dickon Ross, “Cost-effective Royal Train: the King's conundrum”, in RAIL, number 1039, page 3:
glosses: To be careful about how much one spends; to try to save money wherever possible.
Related terms: take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves
de gras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dégras
Etymology: From French de + gras ("from fat").
Senses: examples: text: The crude wool-fat, pure “de gras”, imported by the shipload to this country, principally from Marseilles, free from rosin oil, fish oil and other extraneous fats, selling at about 5 cents per pound, yields an article of as good absorbent power as lanolin, when prepared by the following process: 60 parts de gras is freed from grosser impurities by melting and straining.
ref: 1889, C. S. Hallberg, “On Wool-Fat or Lanoleum”, in Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting, pages 98–9:
text: The oil, when cool, solidifies, and it is sold under the name of “de gras”, or Yorkshire grease.
ref: 1909, Herman Stabler and Gilbert H. Pratt, The Purification of some Textile and other Factory Wastes, (US GPO, 1909) p. 18
text: ... they could busy themselves greasing the mill machinery to preserve it from muddy water and any consequent rusting, use the barrels of de gras on hand for lubricating hemp. The mill would stink like a sheepfold, but nothing was more water-resistant than a thick layer of wool fat.
ref: 1982, Helen Hooven Santmyer, "...And Ladies of the Club" (OSU Press, 1982) (Berkley edition, p. 1255, Chapter "1913")
glosses: Purified wool fat (lanolin).
Synonyms: Yorkshire grease
Related terms: lanolin
C. of E.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsiːəvˈiː/
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Church of England.
Second Amendment
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Chip called from New Hampshire to tell me about Jack's representing me at the National Rifle Association meeting. Jack not only told them I was a hunter all my life and a good shot, but also said in a loud voice, "My daddy will approve anything you want to do in the woods."[…]
The key words were "in the woods." The NRA, basing its argument on the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution regarding the right to bear arms, has acquired tremendous influence within the U.S. Congress and among state and local governments.
ref: 2011 [1980 February 19], Jimmy Carter, White House Diary, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 402–403:
text: The Second Amendment “means nothing if the government can prohibit all persons from acquiring any firearm or ammunition,” Judge Lawrence VanDyke wrote. “But that’s what happened in this case.”[…]
Firearms Policy Coalition vice president of programs Adam Kraut said in a statement that the cases resulted “when authoritarian governments used COVID as an excuse to attack Second Amendment rights.”
The 9th Circuit opinions “confirm our claims that the COVID closures of gun stores and firing ranges violated the Second Amendment rights of Californians,” he said.
ref: 2022 January 20, Don Thompson, “California’s COVID gun store shutdowns ruled illegal”, in AP News, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2022:
text: The big gun rights case the Supreme Court is set to hear on Tuesday presents the justices with a tricky problem.
They must start to clear up the confusion they created last year in a landmark decision that revolutionized Second Amendment law by saying that long-ago historical practices are all that matter in assessing challenges to gun laws. That standard has left lower courts in turmoil as they struggle to hunt down references to obscure or since-forgotten regulations.
ref: 2023 November 6, Adam Liptak, “Supreme Court’s Devotion to Gun Rights Faces a Challenging Test”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Nov 2023, Politics:
text: I think it's worth to have the cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.
ref: 2025 September 13, Edward Luce, quoting Charlie Kirk, “A descent into mutual loathing”, in FT Weekend, page 7:
synonyms: word: 2A
glosses: The amendment to the constitution of the United States pertaining to the right to keep and bear arms.
Derived terms: Second Amendmenter
rice burners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rice burner
sisalagenin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A chemical compound found in Agave sisalana.
biogeoclimatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + geo- + climatic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a biogeoclimate
chambress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chambresses
Senses: glosses: A woman in charge of clothing and bedding in a convent.
chambresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chambress
fratress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fratresses
Etymology: From frater + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: On this occasion the abbess' kitchen had to provide each lady of the convent with half a goose, the two chantresses, as well as the four usual recipients, receiving doubles, and with a hen or a cock, the fratresses and the subprioress also receiving doubles.
ref: 2010, Eileen Power, Medieval English Nunneries: C.1275 to 1535, page 567:
glosses: A woman in charge of the furniture in a convent.
Related terms: frater
fratresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fratress
biocular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + ocular.
Senses: glosses: In which the optical components are shared by both of the viewer's eyes.
raw_tags: of an optical system
Related terms: binocular
creatinuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From creatine + -uria.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of creatine in the urine
Derived terms: hypercreatinuria
Tryphosa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τροφή (trophḗ, “softness, delicacy”).
Senses: examples: text: Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 16:12:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Name of a Christian woman mentioned in the Bible.
glosses: A female given name.
gork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɔːɹk/
ipa: /ɡɔːk/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: gorks
Etymology: 1970–75; perhaps back-formation from gorked (slang), meaning "anesthetized"; apparently an expressive coinage.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A terminal patient whose brain is nonfunctional and the rest of whose body can be kept functioning only by the extensive use of mechanical devices and nutrient solutions.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A stuporous or imbecilic patient; a patient who has lost brain function.
glosses: A despised person; dork, geek, jerk.
gork
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɔːɹk/
ipa: /ɡɔːk/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: gorks
form: gorking
form: gorked
form: gorked
Etymology: 1970–75; perhaps back-formation from gorked (slang), meaning "anesthetized"; apparently an expressive coinage.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To sedate a patient heavily.
Related terms: gorked
testilying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of testifying + lying. Coined by New York City police officers, appearing in print in 1994 in the report of the Mollen Commission (see 1994 quotation).
Senses: examples: text: Several officers also told us that the practice of police falsification in connection with such arrests is so common in certain precincts that it has spawned its own word: “testilying.“
ref: [1994, Commission to Investigate Allegations of Police Corruption and the Anti-Corruption Procedures of the Police Department, Committee Report, page 36:
text: “Testilying,” police fabricating evidence or lying in court, is a type of police corruption.
ref: 2007, Jack R. Greene, “Courtroom testimony and ‘testilying’”, in The Encyclopedia of Police Science, volume 1, page 273:
text: Shadow vigilantism can also be seen in the conduct of officials within the system who feel morally justified in subverting the system because they see it as regularly and indifferently producing failures of justice.[…] It’s also apparent in police “testilying” to subvert search and seizure technicalities (and judicial toleration of it) and in prosecutorial overcharging to compensate for past perceived justice failures.
ref: 2018, Paul H. Robinson, Sarah Robinson, Shadow Vigilantes: How Distrust in the Justice System Breeds a New Kind of Lawlessness: Section III. The Subversions and Perversions of Shadow Vigilantism:
topics: law
glosses: The act of a police officer giving false testimony (perjury).
testilying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Blend of testifying + lying. Coined by New York City police officers, appearing in print in 1994 in the report of the Mollen Commission (see 1994 quotation).
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of testilie
shootresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shootress
shabti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ushabti.
shawabti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ushabti.
Ishihara plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ishihara plates
Etymology: Designed by Dr. Shinobu Ishihara at the University of Tokyo, who first published his tests in 1917.
Senses: glosses: Any of a set of colored plates each containing a pattern of dots of various colors and sizes, forming a number or shape clearly visible to those with normal color vision; used in testing for color blindness.
Related terms: Ishihara test
Ishihara plates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ishihara plate
Whorfianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Whorfian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Whorfian linguistics
SOI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: semiconductor industry
glosses: Initialism of silicon on insulator.
glosses: Initialism of sphere of influence.
Related terms: ETSOI
ETSOI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ETSOIs
Senses: qualifier: semiconductor industry
glosses: Initialism of extremely thin silicon-on-insulator.
Related terms: SOI
yah boo sucks
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: ya boo sucks
Senses: examples: text: Since this is the world of the comics, it seems likely that scientific evidence of the true nature of the phenomenon will not end the debate. If it does, then Yah, boo, sucks!
ref: 1971, Dr Martin Sherwood, New Scientist and Science Journal:
text: These things should be in pockets the world over, saying: 'Made in Britain, so yah-boo-sucks'.
ref: 1991, Punch, volume 300:
text: 'How do you know?' said the pretend Hamish. 'Nobody can tell the difference. Yah boo sucks!'
ref: 2004, Humphrey Carpenter, Mr Majeika and the Haunted Hotel:
glosses: A childish expression of derision or scorn.
Synonyms: yah boo
turra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turras
Etymology: From Hindi/Urdu, from Persian طره (torre).
Senses: examples: text: The most ornate and flashy piece of clothing was the turban. It was red in colour with a might turra of gold thread.
ref: 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 43:
text: Having earlier met Malik Nur Khan, and his tall, wiry father with in his black sherwani and white turban with a turra enhancing his height, I was somewhat more reassured.
ref: 1997, Bir Dodraj Mansingh, in Bikram Singh, Sidharth Mishr (Eds.), Where Gallantry is Tradition, p. 131
text: A headman of a village, called a Chaudhary or a Malik, would wear a Turra or a ridge on his turban.
ref: 2003, Tejwant Singh, The Bold Brave and Fearless, page 269:
glosses: A feather-like ornament projecting from a tied turban.
saat phere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hindi सात फेरे (sāt phere).
Senses: examples: text: He had to be helped up and steadied for the saat phere.
ref: 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 44:
text: In HINDUISM the couple takes SAAT-PHERE, in other words the couple circles round the fire for seven times, while the priest recites religious verses.
ref: 2010, Sher Gill, The Way to God, page 140:
text: So, did your parents have a romantic love affair followed by the saat phere or did it all happen the conventional way?
ref: 2013, Neeta Iyer, Find_Love.com:
glosses: The ‘seven steps’ or circuits taken around a sacred fire by the bride and bridegroom at a wedding ceremony, or the seven vows recited during this ceremony.
hot abscess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot abscesses
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A recently formed, inflamed abscess.
Synonyms: acute abscess
odhani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odhanis
Senses: examples: text: The girl's odhani was tied to the siropa cloth in his hand.
ref: 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 44:
text: During the initial days, Manju would appear before her father-inlaw in an odhani almost a foot long.
ref: 2003, Amlan Dash, translating Pratibha Roy, in Chandrasekhar, Twenty Stories from South Asia, p. 163
glosses: A type of small sari worn over other clothing.
amateur press association
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amateur press associations
Senses: examples: text: The Eastern Amateur Press Association held its first Convention at the St. Nicholas Hotel, New York, recently, and was attended by thirty members of the amateur Press.
ref: 1872 February, “Convention of Amateur Editors”, in The Typographic, volume 2, number 2, page 5:
text: I was in the Esoteric Order of Dagon, which is an amateur press association dedicated to Lovecraft and weird fiction.
ref: 1990 Fall, Chet Williamson, “Weird Tales Talks With Chet Williamson”, in Weird Tales, number 298, page 66:
text: An amateur press association is a small group, seldom more than thirty and usually many fewer members, who collaborate in the publication of an apa.
ref: 1992, Camille Bacon-Smith, Enterprising Women, →ISBN, pages 44–45:
glosses: A group of people who collaborate on publishing a periodical for distribution internally to the group.
Derived terms: word: APA
word: apahack
word: apazine
amateur press associations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amateur press association
Alaskanized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Alaskanize
Iranianize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Iranianizes
form: Iranianizing
form: Iranianized
form: Iranianized
Etymology: From Iranian + -ize.
Senses: synonyms: Iranify
Iranize
glosses: To make Iranian.
Related terms: Omanize
Iranianizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Iranianize
Iranianizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Iranianize
Iranianized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Iranianize
Iranianization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: Iranization
glosses: The process of Iranianizing.
Iranification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Iran + -ification.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Iranianization.
synonyms: word: Iranianization
Iranianisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Etymology: From Iranian + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Iranianization.
Iranianise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Iranianises
form: Iranianising
form: Iranianised
form: Iranianised
Etymology: From Iranian + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Iranianize.
Iranianises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Iranianise
Iranianising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Iranianise
Iranianised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Iranianise
Iranianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Iranianisms
Etymology: From Iranian + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: According to his conception of the struggle between Iranianism and Kushitism, the antithesis of the principles represented by Orthodox Russia would have to be sought in Africa or Asia rather than in Western Europe […]
ref: 1989, Andrzej Walicki, The Slavophile Controversy: History of a Conservative Utopia in Nineteenth-century Russian Thought:
glosses: Cultures and traditions associated with Iranians and Iran.
Iranianist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Iranianists
Etymology: From Iranian + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of Iranianism.
glosses: A linguist who specializes in studying Iranian languages.
Derived terms: Indo-Iranianist
Iranianists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Iranianist
Iranify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Iranifies
form: Iranifying
form: Iranified
form: Iranified
Etymology: From Iran + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: The north-eastem provinces, indeed, were the scene of an intense cosmopolitan life in which Greek or Hellenized elements mingled with Iranian and partially Iranified Central Asiatic elements.
ref: 2012, Cyprian Rice, The Persian Sufis (RLE Iran A), page 24
glosses: To Iranianize.
Iranifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Iranify
Iranifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Iranify
Iranified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Iranify
air freight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of airfreight.
apazine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apazines
Etymology: From APA (“amateur press association”) + zine.
Senses: examples: text: Such apazines are contributed to the bundle by their publishers without charge, being considered exchanges for the other members' fanzines.
ref: 1959, Richard "Dick" Harris Eney, Fancyclopedia II, APA:
text: So, the inclusion of my personal opinions in the original apazine articles was not, I think, out of place.
ref: 1977 September, Peter Pross, “The Documents in the Case (letters)”, in The Mystery Fancier, volume 1, number 5, page 59:
text: A certain knowledgeable science fiction fan whom I know from my apazine days sees in this a precursor of the Jovian sentinels in Arthur C. Clarke's 2001.
ref: 1986, Leon L. Gammell, The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories, →ISBN, page 26:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A periodical created by a member of an amateur press association for distribution to all of its members.
apazines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apazine
on the gripping hand
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: From the 1993 novel The Gripping Hand, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, in which three-armed aliens use the phrase in a way akin to "on the other hand".
Senses: examples: text: But, there is no previously unseen "far side" of Mars. It shows us all of itself.¶ On the other hand, the crew of the Kilroy would probably be able to see the back of the moon after the got past its orbit on their way to Mars.¶ On the gripping hand, by the time there was a flight to Mars, one would expect that flights past the moon had previously occurred.
ref: 1994 October 26, Michael Stemper, “Re: Dated Science Fiction”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), message-ID <CyAHDA.tq6@empros.com>:
text: Not all of us are protected by having common names or by having rare names which are all but impossible to remember or spell correctly.¶ However, I haven't seen evidence that such protection is especially necessary. On the gripping hand, con badges with nicknames seems like a low-risk way of making some people more comfortable.
ref: 2001 September 8, Nancy Lebovitz, “Re: Notes on a Worldcon”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), message-ID <9ndq8v$235@netaxs.com>:
text: Louise had two new books, one black, one red. Apparently they were about the occult. On the one hand, we needed to know what we were dealing with. On the other, I didn't think that it was the sort of thing we should be getting involved with ourselves. On the gripping hand we didn't have to use it ourselves, so that was alright.
ref: 2014, Sarah McGee, The Thin Ice, →ISBN, page 13:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: from a third point of view
Coordinate terms: on the one hand
on the other hand
mogra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈməʊɡɹə/
Forms: form: mogras
Etymology: From Hindi मोगरा (mogrā).
Senses: examples: text: There were strings of mogra and marigolds hanging from the frame of the bed.
ref: 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 44:
glosses: Arabian jasmine (Jasminum sambac, syn. Mogorium sambac).
Ziomedia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ziomedia
Etymology: Blend of Zionist + media
Senses: glosses: A form of journalism that is slanted towards a Jewish or Israeli point of view.
Moroccanise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Moroccanises
form: Moroccanising
form: Moroccanised
form: Moroccanised
Etymology: From Moroccan + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Moroccanize.
Malikism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Malik + -ism.
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A Sunnite school of thought, founded by Malik ibn Anas, that privileges the practices of Medinan scholars.
Maliki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Malikis
Senses: glosses: A follower or proponent of Malikism.
Malikis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Maliki
Malikite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Malikites
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Maliki.
Malikites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Malikite
Malikist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Malikists
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Maliki.
Malikists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Malikist
saafa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saafas
Senses: examples: text: She tried to do things for him, get his slippers, fetch his saafa, button his kurta, dry his wet hair after a bath.
ref: 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 72:
text: For years, she has been wrapping the traditional Rajasthani headgear, the saafa or pagdi, for the local deity Ghanghor.
ref: 2007, India Today International, volume 6, page 6:
text: ‘Fashion is tangible; it can't be understood just by looking at it,' he would say admonishingly, pulling off a sari from here, a saafa from there and turning them around to show their undersides.
ref: 2012, Shefalee Vasudev, Powder Room:
glosses: A headscarf or long cloth used to form a turban in parts of India.
Moroccanises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Moroccanise
Moroccanising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Moroccanise
Moroccanised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Moroccanise
Moroccanisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Moroccanization.
common rabbit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common rabbits
Senses: glosses: An animal of the species Oryctolagus cuniculus, native to southwestern Europe and northwest Africa, introduced and invasive elsewhere.
Synonyms: sense: Oryctolagus cuniculus
word: European rabbit
Tunisianize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Tunisianizes
form: Tunisianizing
form: Tunisianized
form: Tunisianized
Etymology: From Tunisian + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Tunisia further consolidated her independence by establishing an army, securing the partial evacuation of French troops (still garrisoned in certain zones), and Tunisianizing the courts, the civil service, and the radio and television stations.
ref: 1958, Cyrus Adler, The American Jewish Year Book - Volume 59 - Page 344
glosses: To make Tunisian.
Related terms: Moroccanize
Tunisianizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Tunisianize
Tunisianizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Tunisianize
Tunisianized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Tunisianize
Libyanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Libyanizes
form: Libyanizing
form: Libyanized
form: Libyanized
Etymology: From Libyan + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make or become Libyan.
Derived terms: Libyanization
Related terms: Tunisianize
Libyanizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Libyanize
Libyanizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Libyanize
Libyanized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Libyanize
European rabbit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: European rabbits
Senses: glosses: An animal of the species Oryctolagus cuniculus, native to southwestern Europe and northwest Africa, introduced and invasive elsewhere.
Synonyms: sense: Oryctolagus cuniculus
word: common rabbit
Tunisianization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Tunisian + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of Tunisianizing
Libyanization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Etymology: From Libyanize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Both the Government and the Bank had decided that to begin with only the force of moral suasion and voluntary means will be used to initiate and promote the process of Libyanization of existing commercial banks.
ref: 1967, Bank of Libya: A Brief History of Its First Decade, 1956-1966, →OCLC, page 84:
glosses: The process of Libyanizing.
youre
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of you're.
ive
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of I've.
Shiist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shiists
Senses: examples: text: ... which took them over, by either a Sunnist or Shiist hue, and whichever was the case, they existed in Azerbaijan before they came to Anatolia.
ref: 1974, Afro-Asian Writings, numbers 19-27, page 135:
text: The radical sunnists wrote ahadiths about Ali to defame him and degrade the Shiaist, the Shiist did the same thing..Ahadiths were maily written to justify some malices and some sins, and to please some rulers.
ref: 1999, To Fode: Questions sur la Bible, in soc.culture.algeria, Usenet:
text: ... established of a Theocratic Shiist Iraq highlights the problem of trying to establish a democracy through transplantion.
ref: 2007, Gary Gibson, Waveform Politics; A War to End Democide, volume 3, page 100:
glosses: A practitioner of fundamentalist Shiism.
Shiists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Shiist
Shi'i
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈʃiːi/
Forms: form: more Shi'i
form: most Shi'i
form: Shīʻī
form: Shii
Etymology: Transliteration of Arabic شِيعِيّ (šīʕiyy). By surface analysis, Shi'a + -i.
Senses: examples: Coordinate term: Sunni
glosses: Synonym of Shiite.
synonyms: word: Shiite
Derived terms: Shi'i Islam
Shi'i Muslim
Shi'i
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈʃiːi/
Forms: form: Shi'is
form: Shīʻī
form: Shii
Etymology: Transliteration of Arabic شِيعِيّ (šīʕiyy). By surface analysis, Shi'a + -i.
Senses: examples: Coordinate term: Sunni
glosses: Synonym of Shiite.
synonyms: word: Shiite
Shi'is
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Shi'i
worra
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: [ˈwɒɾə]
Senses: examples: text: Worra daft idea that was!
text: "Purée... bloody hell, worra good idea!" I declared, as I lay down without a care in the world and pressed my nose into the grass.
ref: 2009, Gérard Pidoux, The Footpath to the Collinettes, page 124:
text: Worra 'bout this one from Cilla Black, eh? Bet no-one knows that right through to the very end.
ref: 2011, John O'Neill, SPANISH ALPHABET: Travels from A to Z, page 189:
qualifier: chiefly Liverpool
glosses: Contraction of what a.
examples: text: Know worra mean?
qualifier: chiefly Liverpool
glosses: Contraction of what I.
denaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of denay
salateen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səlɑːˈtiːn/
ipa: /saləˈtiːn/
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic سَلَاطِين (salāṭīn), the plural of سُلْطَان (sulṭān, “sultan”).
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:salateen.
glosses: alternative plural of sultan
merchant fleet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merchant fleets
Senses: examples: text: the global merchant fleet
text: the Norwegian merchant fleet
synonyms: merchant marine
merchant navy
glosses: A fleet of merchant ships, calculated either on a country-by-country basis, or on a global basis.
whelmings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whelming
denayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of denay
vic.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of vicar.
soundlore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaʊnd.lɔː/
ipa: /ˈsaʊnd.lɔɹ/
Forms: form: sound-lore
Etymology: From sound + lore. Perhaps calqued from German Lautlehre (“phonology”, literally “sound-lore”).
Senses: examples: text: When a young brave in training could distinguish between these sounds he was well on the road to know what made them, but there was still an enormous amount of sound-lore to be learned.
ref: 2013, Allan and Paulette Macfarlan, Handbook of American Indian Games:
text: Back in the days before grammar split off from grimoire, when magic was taught alongside poetry, and rhetoric was an application of philosophy, Priest/esses and bards passed along to their initiates the correspondences between their languages' particles of sound and the parts and patterns of the world around them. Tragically, as cultures were conquered by new religions and their old wisdom-keepers persecuted, most of this oral soundlore was lost—forcibly forgotten, or buried beneath the new priesthood's patter and Babel.
ref: 2008, Dixie Deerman, Steve Rasmussen, The Goodly Spellbook: Olde Spells for Modern Problems:
glosses: Information or knowledge about sounds.
examples: text: The present opportunity has been used to enlarge and improve several departments of the Grammar, especially those of Soundlore and Derivation, and to bring out somewhat more prominently than before the leading facts of Comparative Philology, […]
ref: 1875, Notes on Books, Longmans, Green and co:
text: Since this volume contains a careful analysis and complete survey of what has been hitherto written on soundlore, the author would deserve the gratitude of all learners if his work were to be looked upon […]
ref: 1893, Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art:
text: I must reiterate excuse if I have seemed heedless or impertinent in my refusal seriously to consider works on prosody which are based upon "sound-lore."
ref: 1910, George Saintsbury, A history of English prosody from the twelfth century to the present day:
text: It may be, as he says, that these groups are not so generally studied as Greek, Teutonic and Latin, but they often (especially Lithuanian) supply forms which are of the greatest value for deciding difficult points of Aryan sound-lore.
ref: 1969, Demetrius Charles de Kavanagh Boulger, Asian Review:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: The study of sounds; phonology.
unalliterated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + alliterated.
Senses: glosses: Not alliterated.
unalliterative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unalliterative
form: most unalliterative
Etymology: From un- + alliterative.
Senses: glosses: Not alliterative.
cowheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cowheels
Etymology: From cow + heel.
Senses: examples: text: I shall trouble Mr Stanly for a Little of the fried Cowheel and Onion.
ref: 1789, Jane Austen, ‘The Visit’, Juvenilia:
glosses: The foot or trotter of a cow, used as food (typically stewed to form a jelly).
cowheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cowheel
group boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of group box
deontically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From deontic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a deontic manner.
distribucion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distribucions
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:distribution.
glosses: Obsolete spelling of distribution.
distribucions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of distribucion
frost-tender
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more frost-tender
form: most frost-tender
form: frost tender
Senses: examples: text: I found out to my cost that the tree fern I brought back from New Zealand was frost-tender, and it didn't survive the winter.
topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: Of plants: unable to tolerate frost, and liable to die if exposed to it.
nonepistemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + epistemic.
Senses: glosses: Not epistemic.
commissively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From commissive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a commissive manner.
bureautic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bureautic
form: most bureautic
Etymology: A shortened form of bureaucratic.
Senses: glosses: bureaucratic
bureautic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bureautics
Etymology: From French bureautique (“office automation”).
Senses: glosses: office automation
bureautic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bureautics
Etymology: From French bureautique (“office automation”).
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to office automation
bureautic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bureautics
Etymology: Substantive adjective formed from the disorder bureausis (“psychological aversion to bureaucracies and bureaucratic behavior”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: a person suffering from bureausis
bureautics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French bureautique.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bureautic.
bureautics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bureausis.
Senses: glosses: plural of bureautic
tanvin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: tanwin as it occurs in Persian
bureausis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bureau + -(o)sis.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A psychological aversion to bureaucracies or bureaucratic behaviors, which are perceived to be impersonal and dehumanizing.
Derived terms: bureautic
-ses
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: enpr: sēz
ipa: /siːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of -sis
-ses
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: enpr: sēz
ipa: /siːz/
ipa: /sɪz/
enpr: sēz
ipa: /siːz/
Senses: examples: hobbitses' pocketses; sockses on foxes
For quotations using this term, see Citations:-ses.
glosses: Alternative form of -sies (“diminutive modifier used to add childishness, informality, affectionateness or levity to a word”) (also used to form some nonstandard plurals like hobbitses, pantses)
-oses
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊsiːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of -osis
foretossed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more foretossed
form: most foretossed
Etymology: Alteration of what should properly be *fortossed, equivalent to for- + tossed.
Senses: examples: text: When thy Disciples were foretossed with Winds and Waves, thou camest to them in the fourth Watch of the Night, walking on the Waters; […]
ref: 1744, John Willison, The Afflicted Man's Companion:
text: So gnaws the grief of conscience evermore, "And in the heart it is so deep ygrave, "That they may" neither sleep nor rest therefor, "Nor think one thought but on the dread they hare; "Still to the death foretossed with the wave" Of restless woe [...]
ref: 1816, Francis Wrangham, The British Plutarch:
glosses: Tossed up; tossed about.