cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
overalled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From overall + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: He meant the four other young faces in the picture, two bare-footed girls and a pair of overalled boys.
ref: 1958, Truman Capote, chapter 9, in Breakfast at Tiffany's, Penguin, published 2008, page 58:
glosses: Wearing overalls
peperino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peperinos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian peperino.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A light, porous volcanic rock composed of small grains of sand etc.
rectangularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rectangularities
Etymology: From rectangular + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being rectangular
glosses: A rectangular form
registrary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: registraries
Senses: glosses: The chief administrative officer of Cambridge University
glosses: A registrar.
raise eyebrows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: raises eyebrows
form: raising eyebrows
form: raised eyebrows
form: raised eyebrows
Senses: examples: text: How did we lose the future? Gelernter's answer may raise some eyebrows. He believes that the United States realized the fair's predictions of a technological and economic utopia—and the country subsequently imploded with its own success.
ref: 1995 May 21, Steven Levy, “The Unabomber and David Gelernter”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Southgate's team selection raised eyebrows when he decided to leave the creative talents of Grealish and Phil Foden on the bench and showed huge faith in Arsenal teenager Bukayo Saka by starting him after his fine performance against the Czechs.
ref: 2021 June 29, Phil McNulty, “England 2-0 Germany”, in BBC Sport:
text: Microsoft, the software, gaming, and cloud-computing giant, secured a contract to sell “mixed reality” goggles to the U.S. Army that could be worth nearly $22 billion over a decade. All of this raised eyebrows at the time. But then computers started generating eyebrows that raised themselves.
ref: 2023 June 6, Ian Bogost, “The Age of Goggles Has Arrived”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: To cause surprise.
examples: text: The fact that a Chinese state-owned company was awarded the contract to build the structure also raised eyebrows.
ref: 2022 July 27, Tamara Hardingham-Gill, “New Croatia bridge redraws map of Adriatic coast”, in CNN:
glosses: To cause mild disapproval.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see raise, eyebrows.
Related terms: eyebrow-raising
raise one's eyebrows
knit one's eyebrows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knits one's eyebrows
form: knitting one's eyebrows
form: knitted one's eyebrows
form: knitted one's eyebrows
form: knit one's eyebrows
form: knit one's eyebrows
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of knit one's brows.
throw a tantrum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: throws a tantrum
form: throwing a tantrum
form: threw a tantrum
form: thrown a tantrum
Senses: synonyms: throw a wobbly
glosses: To have a temper tantrum; to display a fit of childish anger.
Derived terms: throw tantrums
sammie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æmi
Forms: form: sammies
form: sammy
Etymology: Abbreviation of sandwich (pronounced "sammich") + -ie (colloquial/diminutive suffix).
Senses: glosses: A sandwich.
Synonyms: word: sambo
word: sammo
word: sanger
word: sango
word: sarnie
sammies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sammie
glosses: plural of sammy
rooigras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Afrikaans rooigras.
Senses: glosses: A perennial grass, Themeda triandra, that has large red-brown spikelets
Synonyms: kangaroo grass
red grass
rooikat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rooikats
Etymology: From Afrikaans rooikat (“red cat”).
Senses: glosses: caracal
sawbench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sawbenches
Etymology: From saw + bench.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of table saw.
synonyms: word: table saw
shamiana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shamianas
form: shameanah
form: shameeana
form: shamiyanah
form: shamyana
form: shamyanah
Etymology: From Urdu شامیانہ (śāmiyānā), from Persian شامیانه (šâmiyâne, “(India) a marquee”).
Senses: examples: text: It was the rainy season and we had put up a big shamiana around the open-air pit to accommodate everyone.
ref: 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 155:
text: At a time when free expression in India is under pressure from many directions […] the podiums and shamiana tents of the Jaipur festival have become pop-up shops for thinkers with contrarian positions.
ref: 2016, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin, published 2017, page 87:
glosses: A large, ornate tent or pavilion; a marquee.
shatterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shatterers
Etymology: From shatter + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who, or thing that shatters something.
shavehook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shavehooks
form: shave hook
form: shave-hook
Etymology: From shave + hook.
Senses: glosses: A tool used for scraping metals, consisting of a sharp-edged triangular steel plate attached to a shank and handle.
shatterers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shatterer
shavetail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shavetails
Etymology: From shave + tail.
Senses: examples: text: Yass. I never got above the rank of shavetail. We were the dogfaces who gave ’em hell at Chateau Thierry.
ref: 1962, Joseph Commings, “The X Street Murders”, in The Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes & Impossible Mysteries, published 2006:
text: You stupid, goddamn shavetail son of a bitch! You keep your fucking weapon pointed downrange or I will shove that fuckin' piece up your sorry fucking ass!
ref: 2010, Laurence Andries, Bruce C. McKenna, The Pacific (miniseries), episode 5, spoken by Elmo M. Haney (Gary Sweet):
glosses: An inexperienced person, especially a newly-commissioned military officer.
shavetails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shavetail
strelitzia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strelitzias
Etymology: From the genus name, from Queen Charlotte, wife of George III, of the house of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
Senses: glosses: Any of several flowering plants of the genus Strelitzia.
Synonyms: bird of paradise flower
surrebuttal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surrebuttals
Senses: examples: text: The written costs arguments of counsel have been made with fastidious attention to detail. There are 15 sets of written submissions (in recognition of the milky way of points raised by counsel, I permitted submissions by way of reply, rebuttal, surrebuttal and beyond). I do not have the requisite life-expectancy to address all of the points in these Reasons.
ref: 2013 December 20, J.W. Quinn, “Verge Insurance et al. v. Sherk et al, 2013 ONSC 7855 (FC)”, in CanLII, retrieved 19 May 2024:
glosses: surrebutter
syrette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syrettes
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Syrette.
taperer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taperers
Etymology: From taper + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who carries a taper in a religious service
taperers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taperer
tarweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tarweeds
Etymology: From tar + weed.
Senses: examples: text: Some of the weeds that cause an undesirable flavor in milk are: onion, tarweed, scaleweed, garlic, mustard, pepper grass.
ref: 1944, Oregon. Agricultural experiment station, Circular of Information - Issues 323-395, page 3:
text: To this group belong feeds such as: Silage, alfalfa hay, turnips, kale, apples, potatoes, beet pulp, beet tops, rape, cabbage; and also weeds such as garlic, scaleweed, dog-fennel, tarweed, peppergrass, wild mustard, and others.
ref: 1951, Practical Butter Manufacture, a Manual for Buttermakers, page 25:
glosses: Any of various American flowering plants that have sticky leaves.
Derived terms: island tarweed
syrettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syrette
tarwhine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tarwhines
form: tarwhine
Senses: glosses: A yellowish sea bream, Rhabdosargus sarba.
tarweeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tarweed
strelitzias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strelitzia
shavehooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shavehook
tochus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tuchus.
sawbenches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sawbench
trackie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trackies
Etymology: From tracksuit + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).
Senses: examples: text: Dylan was wearing a light trackie top in the colours of the flag.
ref: 2005, Peter Docker, Someone Else′s Country, ReadHowYouWant, published 2010, page 300:
text: ‘I′ve fucking had it with this town,’ she said. ‘I go into the super last night, they reckon they seen me taking frozen stuff out of me trackie at the car. So I′m gonna walk around with fucking frozen peas down me trackie, right? Right?’
ref: 2005, Peter Temple, The Broken Shore, page 99:
text: Carriages crammed with more sportswear than JD, including what looks like an orange and black trackie, similar to Casey′s; some dad out with his kid. You get a better class of person in Wembley.
ref: 2006, Niven Govinden, Graffiti My Soul, Penguin, page 69:
text: Pulling on a pair of trackie pants and a jumper, she quietly unclipped the flyscreen and pushed up the old window and climbed through, landing outside with a hollow thud.
ref: 2009, Fleur McDonald, Red Dust, ReadHowYouWant, page 118:
glosses: A tracksuit.
Derived terms: trackie bottoms
trackie daks
trackie top
underdrawing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underdrawings
Etymology: From under- + drawing.
Senses: examples: text: Depending on the medium used, underdrawing in embroidery and other decorative techniques may be revealed by radiography where it is relatively radio-absorbent in comparison to other materials used either in the original artefact or in later mounting and conservation methods.
ref: 2007, Sonia O'Connor, Mary Brooks, X-Radiography of Textiles, Dress and Related Objects, page 153:
text: When subjected to printing or photocopying, the blue underdrawing will disappear, leaving only the ink lines.
ref: 2013, Chip Sullivan, Drawing the Landscape, pages 3-35:
text: The 'Aegyptiaca' would thus have removed herself from the embrace in the underdrawing and have turned towards the woman who is just awakening from her dream.
ref: 2018, Meinhard Michael, Hieronymus Bosch ́s The Garden Of Earthly Delights, page 161:
topics: art
arts
glosses: A sketch done on the ground of a work of art before paint, pastel, ink, or other more permanent medium is applied.
examples: text: You can use a croquis as an underdrawing for fashion drawing
ref: 2016, Irina V Ivanova, Haute Couture Fashion Illustration Resource Book, page 11:
text: Used as a base or underdrawing, it can be slipped under a page in the sketchbook and worked off of from there.
ref: 2022, Linda Tain, Portfolio Presentation for Fashion Designers, page 75:
text: To ensure that their focus is on the design of the garment, not the proportions of the figure, they may rely on an underdrawing or lay figure—a well-proportioned pose that can be slid under a page and used as a template to help control proportions and the location of garment details.
ref: 2022, Sandra Keiser, Deborah Vandermar, Myrna B. Garner, Beyond Design: The Synergy of Apparel Product Development:
topics: arts
design
fashion
lifestyle
glosses: An image of a figure that is slid under the page on which a designer draws a garment, so that the result conforms to the figure's proportions.
examples: text: He has the whole of the room underdrawn, with the exception of two bays at one end; he admits plenty of air by the windows in the roof into the triangular shaped space formed by the roof and the underdrawing; it is here deprived of its moisture, and passes into the spinning room, where the underdrawing stops short of the length of the room.
ref: 1876, Great Britain. HM Factory Inspectorate, Factories and Workshops, page 37:
text: Tongued and grooved boards ⅝ in. thick form the underdrawing for the roof.
ref: 1950 September, “Fish Vans for British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 583:
text: The amount of uncomfortable drafts and heat loss may increase with the removal of the underdrawing.
ref: 2002, Phil Parnham, Chris Rispin, Residential Property Appraisal, page 226:
glosses: An underdrawn cover or lining of the underside of a floor or roof with plasterwork, boarding, or similar.
underprice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underprices
form: underpricing
form: underpriced
form: underpriced
Etymology: From under- + price.
Senses: examples: text: Still, the spokesman, Cory Shields, said NBC Universal was determined to change what it saw as Apple’s underpricing of video.
ref: 2007 September 1, Brooks Barnes, “No New NBC Shows to Be Sold by Apple”, in New York Times:
coordinate_terms: undervalue#Verb
glosses: To set a price at less than the value or cost of an item.
examples: Near-synonym: undercut
glosses: To sell at a lower price than another (especially than a competitor).
Related terms: price war
chodder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chodders
Senses: glosses: A fat person.
nonobligated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + obligated.
Senses: glosses: not obligated
virtu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vertu.
wambenger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wambengers
Etymology: Possibly from Nyunga wambang.
Senses: glosses: A phascogale.
Synonyms: phascogale
tuan
Related terms: noolbenger
woodentop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodentops
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wooden-top.
www
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of WWW when used as a high-level qualifier in a website address
tussore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌsɔɹ/
ipa: /ˈtʌsoʊɹ/
Forms: form: tussores
Senses: examples: text: now and then the fantastic shadows of birds of flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect […]
ref: 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage, published 2007, page 5:
text: The next day, when Hsi-men Ch’ing returned from the yamen, he had the chests opened up and took out a bolt of block printed tussore fabric from the Imperial Silk Manufactory in the south.
ref: 2001, David Tod Roy, transl., The Plum in the Golden Vase, or Chin P'ing Mei, Volume Two: The Rivals, Princeton University Press, pages 657–8:
glosses: Alternative form of tussar.
Carnegie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑɹnəɡi/
ipa: /kɑɹˈneɪɡi/
ipa: /kɑːˈnɪɡi/
ipa: /kɑːˈnɛɡi/
Forms: form: Carnegies
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A place in the United States; some were named after Andrew Carnegie:
A ghost town in San Joaquin County, California; the area is now part of Carnegie State Vehicular Recreation Area.
glosses: A place in the United States; some were named after Andrew Carnegie:
An unincorporated community in Randolph County, Georgia.
glosses: A place in the United States; some were named after Andrew Carnegie:
A ghost town in Rock County, Minnesota.
glosses: A place in the United States; some were named after Andrew Carnegie:
A town in Caddo County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A place in the United States; some were named after Andrew Carnegie:
A borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A place in the United States; some were named after Andrew Carnegie:
An unincorporated community in the town of Superior, Douglas County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A suburb of Melbourne in the City of Glen Eira, Victoria, Australia.
Derived terms: Carnegian
Carnegie library
Carnegie unit
tussah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tussahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tussar.
tussur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tussurs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tussar.
dain't
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: didn't
gentilesse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English gentilesse, from Old French gentilesce.
Senses: examples: text: […] nor loved he less / Stately lords in palaces, / Princely women hard to please, / Fenced by form and ceremony, / Decked by courtly rites and dress / And etiquette of gentilesse.
ref: 1870, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude:
text: 1913, Francis Thompson, "Love's Almsman Plaineth His Fare" in The Complete Poems of Francis Thompson, New York: Modern Library, no date, p. 252, https://archive.org/details/completepoemsoff00thomiala
Who bound thee to a body nothing worth, / And shamed thee much with an unlovely soul, / That the most strainedst charity of earth / Distasteth soon to render back the whole / Of thine inflamèd sweets and gentilesse?
text: […] in consideration of your youth and the ill nurture, devoid of all gentilesse and courtesy, which you have doubtless had in the land of slaves and tyrants, we are disposed to set you free, unharmed […]
ref: 1954, C. S. Lewis, chapter 15, in The Horse and His Boy, Collins, published 1998:
glosses: Courtesy, refinement; gentleness.
ebracteolate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin ebracteolatus.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having no bracteoles.
bracteolate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bracteole + -ate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having bracteoles.
Derived terms: bibracteolate
unibracteolate
ebulliency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ebulliencies
Senses: glosses: ebullience
ebulliometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ebulliometers
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A device used to measure the boiling points of liquids.
Related terms: ebullient
ebulliometry
ebullism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Acute hypoxia, possibly aggravated by ebullism (the vaporization of body fluids at ambient pressures below 47 mm Hg), may always be a major potential medical emergency in space.
ref: 1972, National Academy of Sciences, Human Factors in Long-duration Spaceflight, page 51:
text: The ebullism syndrome arises when an individual is exposed to an ambient pressure that is less than the vapor pressure of body fluids at normothermic temperature, about 6kPa [197]. Whereas DCS is primarily characterized by the formation in tissues of the gas phase of inert gas, ebullism is characterized by the formation of the gas phase of water.
ref: 2008, William T. Norfleet, “11: Decompression-Related Disorders: Decompression Sickness, Arterial Gas Embolism, and Ebullism Syndrome”, in Michael R. Barratt, Sam Lee Pool, editors, Principles of Clinical Medicine for Space Flight, page 240:
text: Exposure to 63 000 feet introduces the additional hazard of ebullism. At this altitude, ambient pressure (47mmHg, 6.25 kPa) equals the saturated vapour pressure of water at body temperature (37°C) and spontaneous boiling and degassing of bodily fluids and tissues will occur (ebullism).
ref: 2013, Jane Risdall, “50: Clinical managemement of decompression illness”, in Michael Robertson, Garry Walter, editors, Ethics and Mental Health: The Patient, Profession and Community, page 758:
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The formation of bubbles of gas in biological fluids due to reduced environmental pressure.
Related terms: ebullient
fabiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin faba (“bean”) + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Shaped like a bean
gabionade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gabionades
Senses: glosses: A construction of gabions
gabionades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gabionade
clape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clapes
Senses: glosses: A bird, the northern flicker.
open game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: open games
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Open Game.
open games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of open game
semi-open game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semi-open games
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Semi-Open Game.
semi-open games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semi-open game
dorsiflexions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dorsiflexion
toothachey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more toothachey
form: most toothachey
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of toothachy.
toothachy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more toothachy
form: most toothachy
form: toothachey
Etymology: From toothache + -y.
Senses: glosses: Suffering from a toothache.
woodentops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woodentop
flimflammeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flimflammery
cohesions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cohesion
songlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of songline
shockproofing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shockproof
shockproofs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shockproof
shockproofed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shockproof
rayproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rayproof
form: most rayproof
Etymology: From ray + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Shielded to prevent the emission of X-rays.
venographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of venography
xenographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From xenography + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The preliminary conclusion was that the SARS virus crossed the xenographic barrier from palm civet to humans.
glosses: Of or pertaining to xenography (surgical transplantation between species).
examples: text: Xenographic abecedaria are written by ‘non-native writers’ and they are conserved in manuscripts using a script different from that of the abecedarium.
ref: 1999, Roland Marti, Abecedaria — a Key to the Original Slavic Alphabet: The Contribution of the Abecedarium Sinaiticum Glagoliticum:
glosses: Of or pertaining to xenography (writing in a language one has not learned).
aerospatial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aero- + spatial.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to aerospace.
Hyponyms: aeronautical
astronautical
palettization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From palette + -ization.
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The act or process of palettizing.
nonidempotent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + idempotent.
Senses: glosses: Not idempotent.
nontotemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + totemic.
Senses: glosses: Not totemic.
nonenumerative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + enumerative.
Senses: glosses: Not enumerative.
noncervical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)vɪkəl
Etymology: From non- + cervical.
Senses: glosses: Not cervical.
nonaviation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + aviation.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to aviation.
nonaerospace
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + aerospace.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to aerospace.
hyperregulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hyperregulate
hyperregulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hyperregulate
hyperregulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hyperregulate
baconer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baconers
Etymology: From bacon + -er.
Senses: examples: text: 1955, James Wyllie, Farm Management, Farmer & Stock-Breeder Publications, page 220,
The typical porker is shorter and more compact than the typical baconer and it must be capable of forming a well-finished carcase at a comparatively early age.
text: Baconers for export were currently graded under regulations under the Meat Act, but very few baconers were still exported. The grading standards, though still applied when baconers were killed in export works, were not necessarily associated with any price differentials.
ref: 1958, New Zealand Parliament, Parliamentary Debates: House of Representatives, Volume 316: 10 June to 23 July 1958, page 520:
text: Ham comes from the hind leg of a baconer pig, which has been cut away from the carcass and cured or pickled in brine, and sometimes smoked.
ref: 1996, Rowland Foote et al., Food Preparation and Cooking, 2nd edition, Nelson Thornes, page 45:
synonyms: porker
coordinate_terms: sausager
glosses: A pig raised to produce bacon.
baconers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baconer
midbrow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more midbrow
form: most midbrow
Etymology: From mid- + brow.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of middlebrow.
midbrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midbrows
Etymology: From mid- + brow.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of middlebrow.
modeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mode + -less.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Not modal; not having separate modes in which user input has different effects.
examples: text: Dialogs can be modal, in which case the user is required to provide necessary information before work in the main window can continue, or modeless. Modeless dialogs do not prevent the user from interacting with any of the other windows in the application.
ref: a. 2011, “Dialog Windows”, in Qt Widgets Documentation, archived from the original on 07 Feb 2020:
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Not modal; not requiring immediate user interaction and thus allowing interaction with other widgets.
Derived terms: modelessly
modelessness
modelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From modeless + -ness.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The property of being modeless.
coolamon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coolamons
Etymology: From Gamilaraay guliman (and similar forms in neighbouring languages).
Senses: examples: text: Yinti was perishing for a drink of water. He fell down on the sand, and put his mouth to the coolamon.
ref: 1992, Jimmy Pike, Yinti, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 140
text: Wiradjuri people in New South Wales also built large dams, and then carried fish and yabbies in coolamons over large distances to stock the new waterholes.
ref: 2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 47:
glosses: A vessel with curved sides, typically of wood or bark, used by Australian Aboriginals for holding water, collecting berries etc.
Synonyms: pitchi
coolamons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coolamon
domaining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From domain + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The buying and selling of domain names.
glosses: The identification of anthropological (and other) domains.
Related terms: domainer
preslavery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + slavery.
Senses: glosses: Prior to a historical period of slavery.
Related terms: postslavery
roadkilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From road + killed.
Senses: examples: text: In most parts of the United States, only about one out of five roadkilled deer will be an antlered buck . . . and by the next day, it will still be a dead buck, but it won't still be antlered if someone else has beaten you to it.
ref: 2005, Dennis Walrod, Antlers: a guide to collecting, scoring, mounting, and carving:
glosses: Killed by a road vehicle (used of animals).
threespace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: threespaces
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of three-space.
threespaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of threespace
Mambila
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mambilas
form: Mambila
form: Mambilla
Senses: glosses: A member of a people of Nigeria and Cameroon.
doublestrike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From double + strike.
Senses: glosses: A feature of early computer printers that printed text twice at the same position for a heavier, darker appearance.
Related terms: double-struck
doublestriking
noteworthily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more noteworthily
form: most noteworthily
Etymology: From noteworthy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a noteworthy manner; notably.
dicklet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪklɪt/
Forms: form: dicklets
Etymology: From dick + -let.
Senses: examples: text: Carleton gasped as lubricated fingers circled his sensitive dicklet. "That feels great."
ref: 2007, Victoria A. Brownworth, Bed: New Lesbian Erotica:
text: "Such bluster from a bitch with a five inch dicklet. Male bravado will get you nowhere here. We eat useless males for lunch, or we turn them into something more useful to a woman."
ref: 2010, Jennifer Campbell, Pitfalls of Desire: Winston:
glosses: A small penis.
dicklets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dicklet
tjuringa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tjuringas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tjurunga.
churinga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: churingas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tjurunga.
tjuringas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tjuringa
churingas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of churinga
tjurunga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tjurungas
form: churinga
form: tjuringa
Etymology: From Arrernte tywerrenge.
Senses: examples: text: A tjuringa is usually an oval-ended plaque, carved from stone or mulga wood, and covered with patterns which represent the wanderings of its owner's Dreamtime Ancestor.
ref: 1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 43:
text: He was told that these three tjurunga were unique among the Loritja in thatthey were never painted with red ochre, but instead had to be refreshed with human blood at frequent intervals.
ref: 2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre, page 58:
glosses: An object of religious significance among Aboriginal peoples of Central Australia.
Related terms: cyclon
tjurungas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tjurunga
hypercomputer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypercomputers
Etymology: From hyper- + computer.
Senses: examples: text: The roping together of networked computers into a single “hypercomputer” is a new fact—esoteric stuff; but it’s such an obvious and compelling idea, and it’s working so well in practice, that it continues to come on strong.
ref: 1991, David H. Gelernter, Mirror Worlds, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 179:
glosses: Any theoretical device capable of carrying out hypercomputation.
hypercomputers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypercomputer
ownability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From own + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The property of being ownable.
needleless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈniːdə(l).ləs/
homophone: needless (some accents)
Etymology: From needle + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a needle or needles (especially hypodermic needles).
spartanness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spartan + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being spartan (austere, lacking luxury).
spartanly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more spartanly
form: most spartanly
Etymology: From spartan + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a spartan manner.
Paris syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, his fantasy and idealization of Paris, characteristic of Paris syndrome, played a great part in his abnormal behaviors searching for his lost youth and love affaire.^([sic])
ref: 1998, Katada Tamami, “Reflexions on a case of Paris syndrome”, in Journal of the Nissei Hospital, volume 26, number 2, →ISSN, archived from the original on 30 Oct 2013:
text: The Paris syndrome apparently affects only the Japanese and only when visiting Paris; women in their early thirties on their first international trip are particularly prone to the affliction.
ref: 2008, Barbara Mennel, “The city of love: Paris”, in Cities and Cinema, Routledge, →ISBN, The Paris syndrome, or the city of love, page 62:
text: Paris Syndrome affects around 20 tourists a year, mostly Japanese, for some reason.
ref: 2010 March 26, Philip Hensher, “Parisians by Graham Robb: review”, in Telegraph.co.uk:
glosses: An alleged transient psychological disorder encountered by some people visiting or vacationing in Paris, France, resulting from shock at their discovery that Paris is not what they had expected it to be.
brashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brash
of choice
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Yesterday spears were the weapon of choice in the North Rift; today they are being replaced by the Kalashnikov and rocket-fired grenade.
ref: 2005 Autumn, Sidney L. Kasfir, “Narrating Trauma as Modernity”, in African Arts, volume 38, number 3, page 66:
text: "The Doors of Perception," as Aldous Huxley called them, had opened wide, and LSD became the drug of choice.
ref: 2006 Summer, Nicholas Delbanco, “Spring and Fall”, in The Southern Review, volume 42, number 3, page 536:
text: Once the cyst is diagnosed, surgical excision is the treatment of choice.
ref: 2010 May, Estiel Meyer with Wakisal Mulwafu, Johannes Fagan, Robin Brown, and Kathryn Taylor, “Ectopic thymic tissue presenting as a neck mass in children: A report of 3 cases.”, in ENT: Ear, Nose & Throat Journal, volume 89, number 5, page 228:
glosses: preferred above others.
GLWT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒiː ɛl dʌb.əl.juː tiː/
Forms: form: GLWTs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Georgia loaded wheel tester.
GLWT
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒiː ɛl dʌb.əl.juː tiː/
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Good luck with that.
barographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barograph
Vale of Tempe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Vale of Tempe
Senses: synonyms: Tempe
glosses: The ancient name of a gorge in northern Thessaly, Greece, located between Olympus to the north and Ossa to the south.
North Frisian Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A group of islands in the Wadden Sea, a part of the North Sea, off the western coast of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
fugies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fugie
fuge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuges
Senses: glosses: Clipping of refugium.
stop at nothing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stops at nothing
form: stopping at nothing
form: stopped at nothing
form: stopped at nothing
Senses: examples: text: He will stop at nothing to destroy his enemies.
synonyms: stick at nothing
glosses: To take any measures to do or achieve something, especially if it involves great risk or danger; to do everything in one's power.
carboniser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbonisers
Etymology: From carbonise + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of carbonizer.
flinchingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more flinchingly
form: most flinchingly
Etymology: From flinching + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a flinching motion.
chassisless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chassis + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a chassis.
jailbreaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jailbreakers
Etymology: From jail + breaker.
Senses: synonyms: prison breaker
glosses: One who breaks out of jail.
jailbreaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jailbreakers
Etymology: From jailbreak + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who jailbreaks an electronic device.
jailbreakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jailbreaker
legendariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From legendary + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I'd made Ed Edwards stop the cab outside a pub while I ran in, bought a pint of Guinness, and then asked the barman, with as much legendariness as I could muster, ‘Could you gift wrap this? I need to take it to England.’
ref: 2014, Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl, Ebury, published 2015, page 151:
glosses: The quality of being legendary.
stompbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stompboxes
form: stomp box
Etymology: From stomp + box.
Senses: glosses: A simple percussion instrument consisting of a small wooden box placed under the foot, which is tapped or stamped on rhythmically to produce a sound similar to that of a bass drum.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A guitar effect unit which can be controlled with the foot
Synonyms: sense: guitar effect unit
word: effects pedal
sense: guitar effect unit
word: pedal
stompboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stompbox
bass drums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bass drum
reloadability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From reload + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being reloadable.
underwings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underwing
cataclasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cataclasms
Senses: glosses: Dated form of cataclysm.
interfluent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more interfluent
form: most interfluent
Etymology: From Latin interfluens, present participle, and interfluus. See inter-, and fluent.
Senses: examples: text: Air may consist of any terrene or aqueous corpuscles, kept swimming in the interfluent celestial matter.
ref: 1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects, (Made, for the Most Part, in a New Pneumatical Engine) […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall, printer to the University, for Tho[mas] Robinson, published 1660, →OCLC:
glosses: flowing into one another.
raw_tags: of multiple wavelike objects or figuratively
Related terms: interfluence
monomaniæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Mental alienations, and especially partial insanities, monomaniæ, and the state of idiocy, are much more available than accidental injuries of the brain.
ref: 1834, Johann Gaspar Spurzheim, Phrenology: Physiological Part, page 99:
glosses: plural of monomania
zugzwänge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tso͞okʹtsvĕngə
ipa: /ˈtsuːktsvɛŋə/
Senses: glosses: plural of zugzwang
monophage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monophages
Etymology: From mono- + -phage.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A monophagous animal.
Related terms: monophagian
monophagous
monophague
monophagy
subheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsʌbˈhɛdɪd/
Etymology: From subhead + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Grouped under a subheader.
examples: text: "Mr. Bell, Miss Cather and Others," Vanity Fair, XIX, No. 2 (October 1922), 26-27. Section subheaded "Willa Cather's New Novel" (Review of Willa Cather's One of Ours)
ref: 1971, Richard David Ramsey, Edmund Wilson: A Bibliography, New York: D. Lewis, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 143:
text: Perhaps stakeholders and interests are implied in the final paragraph subheaded "Next Steps."
ref: 2013, Catherine F. Smith, Writing Public Policy: A Practical Guide to Communicating in the Policy-Making Process, third edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 48:
text: Identify the presenter and recipient, summarize in an overview, and organize content in subheaded sections.
ref: Ibid., page 140
glosses: Having a subhead.
stenciler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stencilers
form: stenciller
Etymology: From stencil + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, stencils.
stenciller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stencillers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of stenciler.
stencilers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stenciler
stencillers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stenciller
unstenciled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + stenciled.
Senses: glosses: Not stenciled.
unstencilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unstenciled.
Chinese cypress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinese cypresses
Senses: glosses: Cupressus duclouxiana, a conifer of the family Cupressaceae, found only in China.
-phonic
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Formed in English of -phone + -ic, from Ancient Greek -φωνος (-phōnos), combining form of φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”). Attested from the 19th century.
Senses: glosses: Forms adjectives relating to sound
factette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: factettes
Etymology: * from fact + -ette
Senses: examples: text: The interesting factette to emerge from the wreckage is that the Co-op group paid out £150,000 for unfair dismissal to [a] former employee.
ref: 2003 August 7, Richard Adams, “City Diary”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A small snippet of true information. A minor fact.
factettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of factette
horseness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From horse + -ness.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The quality of being a horse.
Synonyms: equinity
stonecast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stonecasts
Etymology: From stone + cast.
Senses: examples: text: They passed beneath where we sat, and, when about a stonecast beyond, they all jumped into a trench or pit, which I had not noticed before, about twenty feet long, by eight wide.
ref: 1835, Michael Scott, Tom Cringle’s Log:
text: Brown, heavy clouds were drifting across the sky, and it was hard to see more than a stonecast.
ref: 1890 February, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Strange Story of Jonathan Small”, in The Sign of Four (Standard Library), London: Spencer Blackett […], →OCLC, page 246:
glosses: A short distance; a stone's throw.
stonecrops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stonecrop
strathspeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strathspey
tattie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tatties
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tatty (“potato”).
tattie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tatties
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tatty (“woven mat or screen”).
tattie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tatties
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tatty (“dance move”).
workstream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: workstreams
Etymology: From work + stream.
Senses: examples: text: […] so to speak, at the headwaters of the workstream. Unfinished parts flow downstream from operator to operator, section to section, division to division, until they are assembled, packed and shipped at the stream's end. Such a concept and image has several advantages. It enables one to visualize clearly, and also to plot graphically […] charter on one team was given greater reality because it was implemented by increased interaction along the whole workstream.
ref: 1962, Charles Rumford Walker, Modern Technology and Civilization: An Introduction to Human Problems in the Machine Age, McGraw-Hill, pages 188-192:
text: Civil Engineering: The engineering workstream developed the detailed design and tender documents for the airport site formation. It also identified preliminary engineering guidelines for the airport facilities.
ref: 1992, American Society of Civil Engineers, International Air Transportation: A New International Airport: Proceedings of the 22nd Conference, Denver, Colorado, June 23-25, 1992, American Society of Civil Engineers, →ISBN, page 275:
text: Northern Rock had already cracked by the time RBS bought ABN Amro, pointed out one MP. McKillop protested that "15 workstreams" at RBS were saying the numbers on the deal still made sense
ref: 2009 February 11, Nils Pratley, “A sorry excuse for an apology”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: project
hypernyms: stream#Noun
coordinate_terms: workflow
glosses: A stream (succession) of work done on some common theme, whether by a single team or workgroup or by various ones working in a crossfunctional or multidisciplinary effort.
workstreams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of workstream
alday
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English alday (“all day”), compound of al + day. Equivalent to all + day.
Senses: examples: text: To ſet the minde on the racke of long meditation (you ſay) is a torment: to follow the ſwift foote of your hound alday long, hath no wearineſſe: what would you ſay of him that finds better game in his ſtudie, then you in the fielde, and would account your diſport his puniſhment? ſuch there are, though you doubt and wonder.
ref: 1611, Joseph Hall, “Epistle VIII. To E.B. Dedicated to Sir George Goring.”, in Epistles […], volume III, London: […] [William Stansby and William Jaggard] for Samuell Macham, […], →OCLC, 5th decade, pages 95–96:
glosses: For the whole day; all day.
in the midst of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Etymology: From Middle English in the myddis of.
Senses: examples: text: I stepped out and advanced valiantly upon a long-maned bull in the midst of his wives. I was armed with the regular club with which the boat-pullers killed the wounded seals gaffed aboard by the hunters.
ref: 1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
text: To the West Station is less than a mile. The line runs first past water-meadows, with another fine view of the Cathedral, then under a bridge, and finally over a level crossing set in the midst of one of the main streets.
ref: 1952 July, A. W. V. Mace, “The Ashford, Canterbury, and Ramsgate Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 437:
text: He has been the master of the fire sale, swooping in to snap up bargains in the midst of panics and sell-offs.
ref: 2010 March 14, Paul Harris, “Carlos Slim: The world's wealthiest man”, in The Observer:
text: The pace of e-commerce was flying, and Magna Park 1 opened in the midst of a spell in which, between 2006 and 2016, the share of John Lewis deliveries going direct to customers rose 12-fold.
ref: 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian:
glosses: In the middle of; amidst, amongst.