cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
molestable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From molest + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Whereas Clement and Merton immediately place the illegitimate Evelina in the class of molestable not marriageable women...
ref: 1993, Susan Fraiman, Unbecoming Women: British Women Writers and the Novel of Development:
text: I could understand his touching Nok, but did he view every female as molestable?
ref: 1994, Cleo Odzer, Patpong sisters: an American woman's view of the Bangkok sex world:
text: […] allow their virtual selves to be metamorphosed by VR technology into those of molestable children.
ref: 1997, John Weckert, Douglas Adeney, Computer and information ethics:
text: In constantly declaring that children are molestable we are making them into bodies that draw attention to their molestability.
ref: 2010, Tomas Moniz, Rad Dad, volume 18:
glosses: Capable of, or suitable for, being molested.
Related terms: molestability
SMACNA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors' National Association.
cyberethics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + ethics.
Senses: glosses: Ethics in cyberspace.
high dependency unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high dependency units
Senses: topics: government
healthcare
glosses: An area for patients who require more intensive observation, treatment and nursing care than would be usually provided on a general ward. A standard of care between the general ward and full intensive care.
DSM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of distinguished service medal.
qualifier: space flight
glosses: Initialism of deep space maneuver, an orbital maneuver for a spacecraft far from Earth.
topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of digital surface model.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
glosses: Initialism of distributional semantic model.
DSM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Because there is no HIPAA requirement that insurance companies also accept DSM-IV-TR codes, insurance companies are likely to only accept electronic claims that use ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes, and which will require psychologists who are only familiar with DSM-IV-TR to convert their DSM-IVTR diagnosis codes into ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes.
ref: 2012 July 24, “Covered Diagnoses & Crosswalk of DSM-IV Codes to ICD-9-CM Codes”, in CNN en Español, page 1:
text: The DSM is considered the “bible” of psychiatry because it’s the criteria mental health professionals use to diagnose their patients.
ref: 2012 December 2, Miriam Falco, “Psychiatric association approves changes to diagnostic manual”, in CNN:
text: While samhainophobia is not a distinct diagnosis in the DSM-5, the fear of Halloween may meet the diagnostic criteria for a specific phobia.
ref: 2020 March 6, Lisa Fritscher, “Could You Have Samhainophobia or the Fear of Halloween?”, in Verywell Mind:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: a publication by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) for the classification of mental disorders.
Derived terms: DSM-I
DSM-II
DSM-III
DSM-III-R
DSM-IV
DSM-IV-TR
DSM-5
bisagre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bisagres
Senses: glosses: A small spiny cactus of Mexico and the southwest United States that is sometimes cut into slices and candied.
D.U.I.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: D.U.I.s
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of DUI.
manometrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From manometric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: using a manometer.
D.W.I.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The only time he got into trouble with the law was when he was cited for D.W.I. in college.
topics: law
glosses: Initialism of driving while intoxicated.
Synonyms: drunk driving
D.U.I.
manoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manoscopes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μανός (manós, “thin, rare”) + -scope, equivalent to mano- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: manometer
manoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: manometry
manslaughterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manslaughterers
Etymology: From man + slaughterer.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Someone who commits manslaughter.
manslaughtering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From man + slaughtering.
Senses: glosses: Committing manslaughter; slaying men.
manslaughterous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From manslaughter + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to, manslaughter.
manslayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manslayers
Etymology: From Middle English mansleere, man-slere, manslaer, from Old English mannslaga, equivalent to man + slayer.
Senses: examples: text: The right of an accidental manslayer to flee to the protective custody of a city of refuge.
ref: 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 763:
glosses: One who commits homicide or manslaughter
Synonyms: manslaughterer
murderer
manslayers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manslayer
manslot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmanzlɒt/
ipa: /ˈmænzlɑt/
Forms: form: manslots
Etymology: From early Scandinavian (compare Old West Norse mannshlutr), apparently with the second element assimilated to lot.
Senses: glosses: A smallholding in medieval England, especially one given to a Danish soldier settling in England.
amfebutamone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: former name
glosses: The drug bupropion.
bupropion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bjuːˈpɹəʊ.pi.ən/
ipa: /bjuːˈpɹoʊ.piˌɑn/
Forms: form: buproprion
Etymology: Blend of bu(tyl) + propion(yl).
Senses: examples: text: A common solution is switching to bupropion, which is a norepinephrine-dopamine reuptake inhibitor, or NDRI.
ref: 2024 March 21, Kristen Rogers, “If antidepressants are killing your sex life, here’s what you can do”, in CNN:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
synonyms: amfebutamone
Wellbutrin
glosses: An antidepressant drug which is also given to relieve the symptoms of nicotine withdrawal.
Hypernyms: amphetamine
phenethylamine
aminoketone
bute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From its middle syllable.
Senses: glosses: Phenylbutazone.
citral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: citrals
Senses: glosses: Either of a pair of terpenoids, geranial and neral, that have the molecular formula C₁₀H₁₆O and are used in perfumery and flavourings.
Synonyms: lemonal
Derived terms: isocitral
mantegar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mantegars
Senses: glosses: mandrill (formerly thought to be a type of baboon)
Mantegnesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Mantegna + -esque.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: Having a style similar to Andrea Mantegna, Italian Renaissance painter.
mantelboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mantelboards
Etymology: From mantel + board.
Senses: glosses: A mantel.
man-tiger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: man-tigers
Senses: glosses: mandrill
Synonyms: word: mantegar
allergological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more allergological
form: most allergological
Etymology: From allergology + -ical.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the study and treatment of allergies.
Derived terms: allergologically
Dreyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dreyers
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: a Dreyer object — an entry/object in the New General Catalogue (NGC) compiled by J. L. E. Dreyer.
Dreyer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: the Dreyer Catalogue — the NGC compiled by JLE Dreyer.
Synonyms: sense: object
word: NGC object
sense: object
word: NGC entry
sense: catalogue
word: New General Catalogue
sense: catalogue
word: NGC
quaysides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quayside
scaturiginous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scaturiginous
form: most scaturiginous
Etymology: From Latin scaturigīnus, from scaturīgo (scatūr(iō) + -igō) + -īnus.
Senses: examples: text: For their own protection, the tribes on the Susquehannah formed a league, which was strengthened by daily accessions of straggling families, scattered, as chance or fancy dictated, along the brook-sides or under the edge of some forest glade of the umbrose, scaturginious land.
ref: 1856, Winthrop Sargent and Robert Orme, The history of an expedition against Fort Du Quesne, in 1755 under Major-General Edward Braddock (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co), page 96
text: It would be an inconceivably macilent language which contained only words from one source, and which did not draw supplies from any scaturiginous country through which it passed.
ref: 1910, William Henry Hills, Robert Luce, The Writer: A Monthly Magazine for Literary Workers, page 136:
text: Such areas not being scaturiginous, and arable, will ever be sparcely populated.
ref: 2008 September 14 [????], Thomas Stone, Frontier Experience, →ISBN, page 10:
glosses: Having a copious supply of springs or sources of water; vernal.
Related terms: scaturient
algaes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of algae
cynologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cynologists
Etymology: From cynology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Buffon's table is here reproduced as it was a sincere attempt towards laying a foundation upon which cynologists might work out the origin of breeds and their varieties and the analysis of dog groups.
ref: 1948, Clifford L.B. Hubbard, Dogs In Britain, MacMillan & Co:
glosses: One who studies dogs.
UBC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: Initialism of Uniform Building Code.
examples: text: “Iʼm going to UBC in the fall.”
“Good for you. Thatʼs a good school.”
ref: 2020, Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel, Picador (2021), page 26:
glosses: Initialism of University of British Columbia.
glosses: Initialism of United Brotherhood of Carpenters.
synonyms: UEB
glosses: Initialism of Unified Braille Code
UBC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: UBCs
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Initialism of unipolar brush cell.
great green macaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of great green macaw
TPO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TPOs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of thermoplastic olefin.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Initialism of travelling post office.
glosses: Initialism of tree preservation order.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of thyroid peroxidase.
topics: law
medicine
sciences
glosses: Acronym of treatment, payment, and (healthcare) operations.
topics: law
glosses: Initialism of temporary protective order.
ancestorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Etymology: From ancestor + -ial.
Senses: glosses: Ancestral.
Derived terms: ancestorially
-ial
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: enpr: -ē-əl
ipa: /-iː.əl/
ipa: /-i.əl/
ipa: /-iː.al/
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English -ial, derived from Old French -ial, derived from Latin -ālis after radical in -ius, -ia, -ium. Equivalent to -i- + -al.
Senses: examples: text: baron + -ial → baronial
glosses: Alternative form of -al.
-ial
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: enpr: -ē-əl
ipa: /-iː.əl/
ipa: /-i.əl/
ipa: /-iː.al/
Forms: form: -ials
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English -ial, derived from Old French -ial, derived from Latin -ālis after radical in -ius, -ia, -ium. Equivalent to -i- + -al.
Senses: glosses: Forms a noun from a verb ending in -y.
cut-throat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cut-throats
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cutthroat.
cut-throat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cut-throat
form: most cut-throat
Senses: examples: text: As from January 1, 1899, the former cut-throat rivalry between the South Eastern Railway (under Sir Edward Watkin) and the London, Chatham & Dover Railway (led by James Staats Forbes) was composed by a joint management and traffic sharing (S.E.R. 59 per cent. and L.C.D.R. 41 per cent.) under the South Eastern & Chatham Railway Companies Managing Committee, which was established by Act of August 1, 1899.
ref: 1957 July 24, Charles E. Lee, “The Changing Face of Transport”, in Railway Magazine, page 446:
glosses: Alternative spelling of cutthroat.
tractrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tractrices
Etymology: Formed after tractor, as if from a Latin *tractrīx (from trahō (“to pull”) + -trīx).
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A curve that satisfies the following property: that segment of the tangent line that lies between the point of tangency and a fixed line has length independent of the point of tangency chosen.
orthotetrahedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthotetrahedra
Etymology: From ortho- + tetrahedron.
Senses: glosses: A tetrahedron with three pairs of faces at right angles to one another.
Related terms: orthotetrahedral
orthotetrahedra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthotetrahedron
tractrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tractrix
saturnal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Saturnal
Etymology: From Latin saturnalis, itself from the Roman god Saturnus + -alis '-al'.
Senses: examples: text: This increased period extends in the trans-Saturnal sphere of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
ref: 2004, Mantak Chia, Dirk Oellibrandt, Taoist Astral Healing: Chi Kung Healing Practices Using Star and Planet Energies, →ISBN, page 92:
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Ancient Roman god Saturn or to the corresponding planetary entity in astrology.
Related terms: Saturday
saturnalia
saturnid
saturnine
saturnism
Saturnal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of saturnal.
bichons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bichon
assassin bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assassin bugs
Etymology: From assassin + bug.
Senses: glosses: Any true bug from the subfamily Reduviinae of the family Reduviidae, all of which eat other insects. They can inflict a very painful bite, but don't cause disease.
glosses: Any true bug from any of the subfamilies of the Reduviidae, including those in the subfamily Triatominae, which suck blood and may transmit Chagas' disease to humans.
Derived terms: alt: Lopodytes spp.
word: grass assassin bug
kissing bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kissing bugs
Etymology: From kissing + bug: they often feed on the lips of human victims.
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of haematophagous bugs belonging to the subfamily Triatominae that feed on the blood of vertebrates, including humans, and which are known for spreading Chagas' disease.
Synonyms: conenose bug
vampire bug
Hypernyms: assassin bug
chokeslam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chokeslams
Etymology: From choke + slam.
Senses: glosses: A wrestling move in which someone is picked up by their neck and driven into the mat.
chokeslam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chokeslams
form: chokeslamming
form: chokeslammed
form: chokeslammed
Etymology: From choke + slam.
Senses: glosses: To perform this move on (an opponent).
sodoku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 鼠毒.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A bacterial zoonotic disease, a form of rat-bite fever caused by the bacterium Spirillum minus.
Cádiz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Cadiz:
A port city and municipality, the capital of the province of Cadiz, Andalusia, Spain.
glosses: Alternative spelling of Cadiz:
A province of Andalusia, Spain.
Blagoveshchensk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌblɑɡəˈvɛʃt͡ʃɛnsk/
enpr: blǔgu̇vyěshʹchǐnsk
enpr: blə-gə-vyěshʹchǐnsk
Etymology: Transliteration of Russian Благове́щенск (Blagovéščensk), from Благове́щение (Blagovéščenije, “Annunciation”), named after the Church of Annunciation.
Senses: examples: text: Foreign trade goes not to Aigun, but to the Chinese town of Taheiho, which is situated about 30 miles distant from Aigun and is directly opposite the Siberian city of Blagovestchensk, on the other side of the Amur River.
ref: [1915 August 24, Charles K. Moser, “Harbin”, in Supplement to Commerce Reports, number 52h, →OCLC, page 1:
text: The Heilungkiang River which the Russians call the Amur is rather narrower than I had expected it to be, and the old Chinese town of Hailanpao, now the Russian one of Blagoveshchensk, is dominated by a television tower.
ref: 1977 November, Rewi Alley, “To Heiho on the Heilungkiang”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVI, number 11, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8, column 2:
text: The Siberian city of Blagoveshchensk is located over 8,000 kilometres from Moscow, but barely 800 metres from China. The two countries are only separated by the Amur river.
ref: 2012 September 28, Ksenia Bolchakova, “Is Siberia becoming Chinese?”, in France 24, archived from the original on 04 Oct 2012:
glosses: A city, the administrative center of Amur Oblast in Siberia, Russia, on the border with China.
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Hailanpao
Related terms: Ust-Zeysky
pozzolan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pozzolans
form: pozzolana
Etymology: From Italian pozzolana.
Senses: examples: text: Both are what are called pozzolans, reactive materials that help make the concrete stronger.
ref: 2009 March 31, Henry Fountain, “Concrete Is Remixed With Environment in Mind”, in The New York Times:
text: The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (Gilliland & Moran 1949; Moran & Gilliand 1950) developed a mortar bar expansion test using Pyrex glass as a “standard reactive aggregate” to evaluate the efficacy of pozzolans for controlling ASR. For example, in the specification for the Davis Dam in Arizona the requirement for the pozzolan, among other properties, was to affect a reduction of at least 75% in the 14-day expansion of mortar bars produced with high-alkali cement plus 20% pozzolan plus Pyrex glass when stored over water at 100°F (38ºC).
ref: 2020 May 24, Michael Thomas, David Smith, and Edward Moffatt, “THE USE OF GROUND GLASS AS A POZZOLAN”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 1:
glosses: Any material which, when combined with calcium hydroxide, exhibits cementitious properties; often used as an extender with Portland cements.
Derived terms: pozzolanic
Related terms: pozzolana
pozzolanic cement
pozzolanic fly ash cement
pozzolans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pozzolan
phleboliths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phlebolith
phlebotomize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: phlebotomizes
form: phlebotomizing
form: phlebotomized
form: phlebotomized
Etymology: From phlebotomy + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To perform a phlebotomy on (a vein): to open (a vein) to withdraw or let blood.
glosses: To perform a phlebotomy on (a person): to open a vein of (a person) to withdraw or let blood.
glosses: To perform a phlebotomy; to open a vein to withdraw or let blood.
Derived terms: phlebotomization
intercensal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + censal.
Senses: glosses: Between censuses.
translationese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From translation + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: Note on the Sources and Translations / Some of the works translated here are poetic in form. Hesiod, the hymnists, Lucretius, Vergil, and Horace, for example, all wrote in meter. I have not attempted to render these works metrically in English, and to capture all the irony, double-entendres, and wordplay of these texts was simply not possible, though I have striven to communicate some of their poetic qualities. In any event, at every turn I have studiously avoided translationese, while still trying to convey accurately what a given author actually wrote and meant. I hope I have succeeded, and also captured something of each writer's personality and charm.
ref: 2021, M.D. Usher, transl., edited by M.D. Usher, How to Be a Farmer: An Ancient Guide to Life on the Land (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers series), Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page xiii:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
translation-studies
synonyms: translatese
translatorese
glosses: Language exhibiting awkwardness or ungrammaticality of translation, such as due to overly literal translation of idioms or syntax.
lyonnaise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌliː.əˈneɪz/
ipa: /ˌlaɪ.əˈneɪz/
Etymology: From French lyonnaise (“in the manner of Lyon”).
Senses: examples: text: For dinner, we had beef with potatoes lyonnaise.
glosses: Cooked with onions, especially caramelized onions.
examples: text: The essential ingredients of salad lyonnaise are bacon, croutons and poached egg.
glosses: Prepared in a style typical to Lyon.
Afro-Eurasia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæf.ɹoʊ.jʊɹˈeɪ.ʒə/
Etymology: From Afro- + Eurasia.
Senses: glosses: A supercontinent that comprises Africa and Eurasia.
Synonyms: word: Africa-Eurasia
word: Eurafrasia
word: Afrasia
word: world island
Meronyms: Subsahara
Eurasia
fourth dimension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: algebraic-geometry
geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The fourth coordinate indicating a position along the fourth axis.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The dimension of time.
Related terms: four-dimensional
drink alert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drink alerts
Senses: examples: text: My SIL sent this to me and it took me 10 minutes to stop laughing!
Drink alert ... put your soda, coffee, wine glass, or whatever you're drinking down first.
ref: 1999 June 21, Jo, “Just a funny to brighten your day :D”, in alt.support.childfree.moderated (Usenet):
text: A while back I heard a perfect description of the idiots who troll around in newsgroups.
They are called Seagulls. They fly in, make a lot of noise, shit all over everything and then fly off.
ref: 2001 August 16, Sue Bishop, “NG Has Value - Proof/Drink Alert”, in rec.equestrian (Usenet):
glosses: A warning that information to follow may cause the reader to laugh unexpectedly and, if drinking, cause drink to exit the nose.
Synonyms: spew alert
Related terms: spew
C|N>K
splork
Dongguan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʊŋˈɡwɑn/
enpr: do͝ongʹgwänʹ
Forms: form: Tungkuan
form: Tung-kuan
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 東莞／东莞 (Dōngguǎn).
Senses: examples: text: In Tungkuan County, the Houchieh Brigade under Houchieh Commune, with the assistance of the Mao Tsetung Thought propaganda team, made[…]
ref: [1970, Union Research Service, volume 59, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19:
text: Dongguan was different. It rose by no one’s decree; it simply grew. While Shenzhen aspired to advanced technology and innovation, Dongguan took what it could get, which meant low-tech factories from Hong Kong and Taiwan that made clothing, toys, and shoes.
ref: 2008, Leslie T. Chang, Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China, New York: Spiegel & Grau, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 29:
text: China is undergoing the harshest anti-vice campaign the government has mounted in years, and the crackdown is taking a toll on the economy of Dongguan, a southern city of more than eight million people. It is a manufacturing center for the export business and a Mecca for migrant workers, but it is also the nation’s sin city. Now, the red-light industry here is blushing a deep pink.
ref: 2014 March 6, Edward Wong, “Red Lights Dim in China’s Sin City”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2014, Asia Pacific:
text: In February 2014, a massive crackdown on prostitution in the southern manufacturing city of Dongguan, dubbed "Sin City" for its huge vice industry, raided 2,000 establishments and detained more than 900 people.
ref: 2015 April 24, Euan McKirdy, “What a send-off: China's funeral strippers told to cover up”, in CNN, archived from the original on 24 Apr 2015:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Guangdong, in southeastern China.
Synonyms: sense: from Cantonese
word: Tungkun
word: Tungkoon
quae erant demonstranda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin quae erant dēmonstranda (“which were to be proved”).
Senses: examples: text: Therefore it is established that the join CD will be equal, or less, or greater than this AB, according as the angles at the same CD are right, or obtuse, or acute. Quae erant demonstranda.
ref: 1894, Benjamin Franklin Finkel, The American mathematical monthly: devoted to the interests of collegiate mathematics, volume 1, Mathematical Association of America, page 190:
text: The proving of a geometrical theorem is, of course, an exercise in logical thinking, but the pupil needs to be made conscious of this, and also conscious of the fact that the same processes of thought are applicable in quite other fields and will lead to equally satisfactory results (quae erant demonstranda) there too.
ref: 1955, Maurice Leonard Jacks, The education of good men, Gollancz, page 47:
glosses: plural of quod erat demonstrandum
closed door
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: closed-door
Etymology: Metaphor of an isolated room, behind doors that are closed.
Senses: examples: text: The leaders held a closed door meeting to decide on a future course of action in the case.
text: […] a former Republican lawmaker who left the Legislature earlier this year after she clashed with party leaders over a series of proposed transgender bills and closed-door meetings, she said, devolved into yelling and name-calling.
ref: 2023 April 27, Jim Robbins, Mike Baker, Jacey Fortin, “A Transgender Lawmaker Is Exiled as Montana G.O.P. Flexes New Power”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: behind closed doors
with closed doors
glosses: Not open to participation by non-members or the public.
rosquilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rosquillas
Etymology: From Spanish rosquilla.
Senses: examples: text: Before returning to Managua, I ate lunch at doña Queta’s and then bought a large bag of rosquillas from doña Octavia, both on the recommendation of doña Tula.
ref: 2005, Silvio Sirias, “Partus (The Birth)”, in Bernardo and the Virgin: A Novel, Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, →ISBN, page 167:
text: This study aimed to understand the way in which the chains of production and commercialization of rosquillas work.
ref: 2005, Marissa Olivares, K. Fabiola Alvarado A. y Jahaira V. Rivera M, “The Protagonism of Women in the Production and Commercialization Network of Rosquillas from Somoto”, in Encuentro, number 72, page 4:
text: But that evening while we dunked the rosquillas in the hot chocolate and watched the street below, the familiar scene of shoppers, those offering a variety of goods and services, and casual passers-by had changed.
ref: 2010, Miguel Montero, “Facets of Life”, in Manolo: A Child in the Spanish Civil War, [Morrisville, N.C.]: [Lulu.com], →ISBN, page 22:
text: Unintentionally, her question provoked a broad analysis of the deteriorating quality of rosquillas, a typical Madrilenian sweet pastry usually served at traditional festivities and which concluded in Lola’s spontaneous decision to visit the market’s bakery that apparently still served the best pastry in town.
ref: 2020, Conny Jansky, “Friday, 12 August 2011”, in Two Cats and a Chicken Shop Mystery, 2nd edition, →ISBN:
text: Rounding the turn, he spotted a man moving from stall to stall, peddling rosquillas. His mouth watered at the thought of the greasy delectable, and a new idea occurred to him.
ref: 2022, Iris Munchinsky, chapter 18, in Shadow of the Masters, Winnipeg, Man.: Word Alive Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A type of traditional Spanish doughnut.
rosquillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rosquilla
inambu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inambus
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ynambu.
pudu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpuːduː/
ipa: /puːˈduː/
Forms: form: pudus
form: pudu
form: pudú
Etymology: From South American Spanish pudú, from Mapudungun pudu (“small deer”).
Senses: examples: text: Whereas the southern pudu is more uniformly dark chestnut-brown, the northern form is light but has a very dark (aggressive) face in both sexes.
ref: 1998, Valerius Geist, Deer of the World, page 120:
text: In the undergrowth, native pudú deer scutter, lower than knee-height and wary of visitors; even shyer are the tall, elegant huemul deer, threatened almost to extinction and now only to be found high up the mountainsides.
ref: 2002 November 30, Chris Moss, “The ultimate wilderness”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Although protected by law, pudus are hunted locally for their hide and meat.
ref: 2008, Sharon R Chester, A Wildlife Guide to Chile, page 309:
synonyms: word: venada
glosses: A very small South American deer of the genus Pudu (in some classifications divided to Pudu and Pudella), native to the Andes.
pudú
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pudu.
gardenless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From garden + -less.
Senses: examples: text: I was disgusted the other day, in a prosperous district of the West Riding, where public-spirited men have erected libraries and institutes for the factory hands, to find that even new cottages are still, as a rule, gardenless or with only a tiny patch.
ref: 1913, Francis Wrigley Hirst, The Six Panics and Other Essays, page 243:
text: Predictably, however, developers made a travesty of Cerdà's plans and a concrete orchard of gardenless, fortress-like, six- or seven-storey blocks grew up instead.
ref: 2009, Time Out Barcelona, page 99:
text: I'm talking this morning to Wanda Relphs from the charity, Bleak Midwinter. Wanda, tell us what Bleak Midwinter aims to do for the homeless and gardenless.
ref: 2010, Laurie Graham, Perfect Meringues:
glosses: Without a garden.
glucide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glucides
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of glycose.
synonyms: word: glycose
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: saccharin
Related terms: glucidic
hyperacute
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperacute
form: most hyperacute
Etymology: From hyper- + acute.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Very acute.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Tall-amplitude and asymmetrically peaked, often as an early finding in ST-elevation myocardial infarction.
raw_tags: of T waves on ECGs
Derived terms: hyperacuteness
monose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monoses
Etymology: From mono- + -ose.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: monosaccharide
Norwegian Nynorsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Nynorsk
Related terms: Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Bokmål
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Bokmål
Related terms: Norwegian Nynorsk
bicycle kicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bicycle kick
bicycle kicks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bicycle kick
set pieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of set piece
free kicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of free kick
ooecia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ooecium
aureolae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aureola
aureolas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aureola
kiwano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kiwanos
Senses: glosses: A horned melon.
autoecious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɔːˈtiːʃəs/
Etymology: From auto- + -oecious.
Senses: synonyms: autoxenous
antonyms: heteroecious
glosses: Of a fungus, most often a rust: completing its life cycle on one host.
Derived terms: autoeciously
autoeciousness
Pindaric flights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pindaric flight
Pskov
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Russian Псков (Pskov).
Senses: glosses: An oblast in northwestern Russia.
glosses: A city, the administrative center of Pskov Oblast, Russia.
Derived terms: Pskovian
sociohistory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sociohistories
form: socio-history
Etymology: From socio- + history.
Senses: examples: text: His doctoral dissertation on the Cold War presents a controversial sociohistory of 1950s America.
glosses: The social aspect or aspects of a historic event or era.
Related terms: sociohistorical
sociohistoric
sociohistorically
sociohistorian
Foshan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: fǔʹshänʹ
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: Fo-shan
form: Fo-chan
Etymology: From Mandarin 佛山 (Fóshān).
Senses: examples: text: At Foshan, about four leagues above Canton, Père Bouvet speaks of a Milanese Jesuit as presiding over a church, with a flock of 10,000 persons : at this day there is probably not one single individual at that same place.
ref: 1836, John Francis Davis, The Chinese : A General Description of the Empire of China and its Inhabitants, volume 1, New-York: Harper & Brothers, page 38:
text: Foshan is a town in the neighbourhood of Canton, and happened to be the scene of Colonel Chesney's ill usage.
ref: 1857 July-December, Thomas De Quincey, “Hints Towards an Appreciation of the Coming War in China.”, in Titan A Monthly Magazine, volume XXV, →OCLC, page 69, column 1:
text: At Foshan, south of Canton, 147 Japanese soldiers have died of cholera.
ref: 1939 May 20 [1939 May 19], “Chinese Attacks Cost Japanese 24 Planes and 3 Warships”, in Daily Worker, volume XVI, number 120, New York, sourced from CHUNGKING, China, page 2, column 5:
text: Ghappar is Uighur, a Muslim minority group that has been the target of discrimination and oppression by Chinese officials in recent years. In January 2020, officials took Ghappar from his home in the southern city of Foshan to a police station in Kucha, Xinjiang. He was held for 18 days in a police detention centre, then transferred to a temporary “epidemic prevention centre” where he filmed the video.
ref: 2020 August 7, Sophie Stuber, “Video of Uighur handcuffed to bed in quarantine centre refocuses attention on Chinese persecution”, in France 24, archived from the original on 24 Aug 2020:
text: This time, metals markets are fixated on an incident in the southern province of Guangdong, in which several traders claim they were duped into providing credit against fictitious quantities of aluminum. More than 500 million yuan ($75 million) may have been loaned, backed by stockpiles of the metal stored in a warehouse in the city of Foshan that turned out to be worth significantly less than that.
ref: 2022 June 6, “‘Fake’ Aluminum Stocks Put Perils of China’s Commodities Funding in Spotlight”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2023, Energy:
glosses: A large prefecture-level city of Guangdong, in southeast China.
Synonyms: sense: from Cantonese
word: Fatshan
word: Fat Shan
pubalgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting New Latin combining forms: pub- + -algia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: osteitis pubis, groin pain
wikipedia: classical compound
international scientific vocabulary
semiacetal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiacetals
Etymology: From semi- + acetal.
Senses: glosses: Hemiacetal.
semiketal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiketals
Etymology: From semi- + ketal.
Senses: glosses: hemiketal
vicuñas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vicuña
negative side waterproofing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: An application wherein the waterproofing system and source of hydrostatic pressure are on opposite sides of the structure.
manteltree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manteltrees
Etymology: From mantel + tree.
Senses: glosses: a mantel
Hypernyms: english: structurally
translation: structurally
word: tree
mantid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mantids
Senses: glosses: mantis (insect)
Derived terms: mantidfly
praying mantid
praying mantid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: praying mantids
Senses: glosses: praying mantis (insect)
Mantinean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Mantinea + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or relating to, Mantinea.
Mantinean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mantineans
Etymology: From Mantinea + -an.
Senses: glosses: Someone from Mantinea.
Mantineans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mantinean
EPDM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of ethylene propylene diene monomer.
mantis crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mantis crabs
Senses: glosses: squilla (shrimp)
Synonyms: mantis shrimp
mantispid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mantispids
Senses: glosses: Any insect in the family Mantispidae.
Synonyms: mantidfly
mantis-fly
mantissae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mantissa
April-fool
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: April-fools
form: April-fooling
form: April-fooled
form: April-fooled
Senses: glosses: To prank on April Fool's Day.
April fooler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: April foolers
Senses: glosses: A prankster on April Fool's Day.
fooler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfuːlə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: foolers
Etymology: From fool + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something who fools.
Related terms: April fooler
EIP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of ethylene interpolymer.
ethylene interpolymer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethylene interpolymers
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A group of thermoplastic compounds generally based on PVC polymers.
make a fool of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes a fool of
form: making a fool of
form: made a fool of
form: made a fool of
form: make a fool out of
Senses: synonyms: make a monkey of
make a monkey out of
glosses: To cause (someone) to seem foolish.
ASHRAE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers.
primaveras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of primavera
maker-outer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maker-outers
Etymology: From make out + -er.
Senses: glosses: kisser, someone who makes out
puller-outer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puller-outers
Etymology: From pull out + -er.
Senses: examples: text: My qualifications as a ragweed puller-outer once rated A+.
ref: 1998, Barbara G. Hallowell, Mountain year: a Southern Appalachian nature notebook, page 242:
glosses: someone who pulls out, or pulls out something.
cutter-offer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cutter-offers
Etymology: From cut off + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who cuts off something.
ECH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of epichlorohydrin.
ECH
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: ECHs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Enhanced Combat Helmet.
newsiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From newsy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Grim though the economic spur may be, some scientists see a slim silver lining in the sudden newsiness of laughably large numbers.
ref: 2009 March 31, Natalie Angier, “The Biggest of Puzzles Brought Down to Size”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality or state of being newsy.
reflood
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: refloods
form: reflooding
form: reflooded
form: reflooded
Etymology: From re- + flood.
Senses: glosses: To flood again.
Related terms: rewet
Hypalon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: brand name
glosses: chlorosulfonated polyethylene (CSPE).
ICBO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of International Conference of Building Officials.
protected membrane roof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protected membrane roofs
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
roofing
glosses: an insulated and ballasted roofing assembly in which the insulation and ballast are applied on top of the membrane (sometimes referred to as an "inverted roof assembly").
PMR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PMRs
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
roofing
glosses: Initialism of protected membrane roof.
glosses: Initialism of perpendicular recording.
PMR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic.
topics: education
glosses: Initialism of Penilaian Menengah Rendah.
pre-packaged bankruptcy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pre-packaged bankruptcies
Senses: topics: banking
business
finance
glosses: A filing for bankruptcy by submitting to the court a virtually complete plan designed to avoid a protracted court-guided period of reorganization and debt restructuring.
Synonyms: pre-pack
quick bankruptcy
surgery
pre-packaged insolvency
involuted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of involute
involuted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more involuted
form: most involuted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of involute.
involuting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of involute
anionotropies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anionotropy
nonfriable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + friable.
Senses: glosses: Not easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder.
nonfriable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonfriables
Etymology: From non- + friable.
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A material that, when dry, cannot be crumbled, pulverized or reduced to powder by hand pressure.
Derived terms: nonfriability
recopyright
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recopyrights
form: recopyrighting
form: recopyrighted
form: recopyrighted
Etymology: From re- + copyright.
Senses: glosses: To copyright again; to obtain a new or extended term of copyright protection for.
autapomorphies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autapomorphy
nonfriables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonfriable
recopyrighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recopyright
recopyrighted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recopyright
beats off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beat off
beating off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beat off
beaten off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of beat off
study halls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of study hall
jack offs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jack off
jacks off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jack off
jacked off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jack off
tosses off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of toss off
tossing off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of toss off
tossed off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of toss off
wanks off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wank off
wanking off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wank off
wanked off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wank off
jills off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jill off
jilling off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jill off
jilled off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jill off
drag king
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drag kings
Etymology: From drag (“men's clothing worn by women”) + king, by analogy with drag queen. First use appears c. 1954 in the newspaper National City News (California).
Senses: examples: text: Part of an ongoing ethnography of an imperial sovereign court I am undertaking, this chapter explores the world of the lesbian drag king and the gendered performance she undertakes in this realm.
ref: 1973, Abstracts in Anthropology, volume 4, Google Books
glosses: A person, usually female, who dresses up in men's clothing, typically in an exaggerated fashion and for public performance.
Hypernyms: transvestite
Coordinate terms: drag queen
drag kings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drag king
FtM
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of FTM (“female-to-male (transgender)”).
MtF
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of MTF (“male-to-female (transgender)”).
MtF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MtFs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of MTF (“male-to-female (transgender person)”).
MtF
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of more to follow.
gender dysphorias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gender dysphoria
fractal antenna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fractal antennas
form: fractal antennae
Senses: glosses: An antenna that uses a fractal, self-similar design in order to increase the range of frequencies which it can receive.
fractal antennas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fractal antenna
garblement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garblements
Etymology: From garble + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: But when the priest returns and launches into his next lecture, I think from his garblement that he understands no more than I
ref: 2003, Sophy Burnham, The treasure of Montsʹegur, page 240:
glosses: Garbling.
epididymides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɛpidɪdɪˈmiːdiːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of epididymis
garblements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garblement
bamfoozles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bamfoozle
bamfoozling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bamfoozle