cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
figging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Generally thought to derive from feaguing.
Senses: glosses: The insertion of ginger root into the anus, vagina or urethra, applied to people as a punishment (typically in BDSM), or to horses to make them deceptively lively (feaguing).
Related terms: word: fig
figging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fig + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Figging is usually considered to indicate a good quality of soft soap, but such is really not the case. A first-class soft soap can be made which will not fig, while, on the other hand, a poor soap can be produced which will fig.
ref: 1897, The National Provisioner, page 27:
text: The figging is probably due to the separation of the potash salts of some of the fatty acids having a high solidifying point, i. e., [...]
ref: 1918, The Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association:
text: Artificial figging was at one time produced by dispersing insoluble fillers in the base.
ref: 1949, Soap, Cosmetics, Chemical Specialties, volume 25, page 42:
qualifier: soap-making
glosses: (Development of) white streaks or granulations in soap, a natural development in some soaps once considered a sign of quality and therefore sometimes artificially imitated.
Related terms: ricing
figging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From fig + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fig
illusioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From illusion + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Under an illusion; deceived.
Derived terms: unillusioned
intencely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more intencely
form: most intencely
Etymology: From intence + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of intensely.
active galactic nucleus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: active galactic nuclei
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A compact region at the center of a galaxy that has a much higher than normal luminosity over at least some portion of the (measurable) electromagnetic spectrum.
Synonyms: word: AGN
Derived terms: word: AGN
Related terms: active galaxy
predictor variable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: predictor variables
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An independent variable that may be used to predict the value of another, especially in statistical regression
active galactic nuclei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: word: AGNs
word: AGNe
word: AGNi
glosses: plural of active galactic nucleus
alkali flat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkali flats
Senses: glosses: A dry lake or playa whose bed contains abundant alkali salts.
Hyponyms: dry lake
playa
salt flat
alkali flats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alkali flat
dry lake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dry lakes
Senses: glosses: A former lake, especially a lake that has dried and habitually remains dry, (US) opposed to playas.
Synonyms: hardpan
Hypernyms: pan
flat
Hyponyms: salt flat
salt pan
alkali flat
Derived terms: Muroc Dry Lake
Rogers Dry Lake
Related terms: word: playa
word: paleolake
dry lakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dry lake
mud flats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mud flat
salt flats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salt flat
outcome variable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outcome variables
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A dependent variable thought to change as a function of changes in a predictor variable.
angiocardiographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From angio- + cardiographic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to angiocardiography.
angiocardiography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From angio- + cardiography.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A technique for radiographic examination of the heart chambers and thoracic vessels wherein a liquid radiocontrast agent is injected into the bloodstream, then the tissues are examined using X-rays.
Derived terms: cineangiocardiography
rollator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rollators
Etymology: From roll + -ator; originally a brand name.
Senses: glosses: A walking frame equipped with wheels, especially one designed for the disabled or elderly.
caprines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caprine
concessionnaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concessionnaires
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of concessionaire.
cementogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cementum + -o- + -genesis.
Senses: examples: text: These enamel-like aberrations in cementogenesis are intriguing and could offer new insights and strategies to regenerate acellular cementum.
ref: 2002, John Ide Ingle, Leif K. Bakland, Endodontics, volume 1, page 28:
text: Evidence supporting a role for EMPs^([enamel matrix proteins]) in cementogenesis has been accumulating from investigations employing immunohistochemistry, in situ hybridization, and in vitro assays, all supporting EMP expression by HERS^([Hertwig's epithelial root sheath]) cells in several species[…].
ref: 2007, Brian L. Foster, Tracy E. Popowics, Hanson K. Fong, Martha J.Somerman, “Advances in Defining Regulators of Cementum Development and Periodontal Regeneration”, in Gerald P. Schatten, editor, Current Topics in Developmental Biology, volume 78, page 68:
text: Cementogenesis persists throughout the life of the tooth, allowing for continuous reattachment of the periodontal ligaments.
ref: 2010, Peter S. Ungar, Mammal Teeth: Origin, Evolution, and Diversity, page 23:
topics: anatomy
dentistry
medicine
sciences
synonyms: cementification
glosses: The process of the development of cementum.
Derived terms: cementogenetic
maranta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marantas
Senses: glosses: Any of the family Marantaceae of plants
glosses: Any of the family Marantaceae of plants
arrowroot plant (Maranta arundinacea)
glosses: Arrowroot starch, traditional and commonly made from Maranta arundinacea.
fenocchi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fenocchio
remblai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remblais
Etymology: Borrowed from French remblai, from remblayer (“to fill up an excavation, to embank”).
Senses: topics: business
fortifications
government
military
mining
politics
war
glosses: earth or materials made into an embankment after excavation.
pumping lemmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pumping lemma
pumping lemmata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pumping lemma
pumpions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pumpion
stadium mustard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The condiment was originally only available at Cleveland Municipal Stadium.
Senses: glosses: A mildly spicy brown mustard.
applicationwide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From application + -wide.
Senses: examples: text: For example, you may wish to maintain an applicationwide connection string that can be used by all pages, a common DataSet used by multiple pages, or any other piece of data that needs to be accessed on an applicationwide scale.
ref: 2007, Andrew Troelsen, Pro C# with .NET 3.0, page 898:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Throughout an application (software program).
regionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From region + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without regions.
examples: text: On the other hand you have freeware and shareware—much of it developed by dedicated open-source programmers—that will let you do almost anything you want with a DVD. You can build a regionless DVD that will play anywhere in the world […]
ref: 2004, PC Mag, volume 23, number 3, page 49:
glosses: Not confined or limited to a single region.
wrecking amendment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wrecking amendments
Senses: examples: text: Senator Littlebrain's wrecking amendment made the bill nonsensical by deleting the clauses that said what the law would do.
text: This is such a dumb (and dangerous) idea that it has all the characteristics of a wrecking amendment, added to the Bill just to eat up parliamentary time so that the whole Bill will fall at the dissolution for the upcoming election.
ref: 2010 March 11, Richard Clayton, “A wrecking amendment ?”, in Light Blue Touchpaper, archived from the original on 04 Feb 2023:
topics: government
politics
glosses: An amendment made in bad faith by a legislator who disagrees with the principles of a bill and seeks to make it useless rather than simply voting against it.
wrecking amendments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wrecking amendment
backchanneling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backchannel
backchannelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backchanneling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backchannel
backchanneled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of backchannel
backchannelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of backchannel; alternative spelling of backchanneled.
back-channels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of back-channel
back-channeling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of back-channel
back-channelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of back-channel
back-channeled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of back-channel
back-channelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of back-channel
perais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perai
banana peel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banana peels
Senses: synonyms: banana skin
glosses: The several outermost layers of a banana, especially once removed from the rest of the banana, which may be slippery if stepped on.
examples: text: Furthermore, he is completely surrounded by banana peels. Canada's economy is slowing down, though less so far than extreme pessimists feared. Newly released figures show that our merchandise trade surplus in 1989 fell by more than half to its lowest level in 10 years. And, ever since it peaked on Jan. 12, the dollars yo-yo motion has juddered erratically, signalling confusion to the money markets of the world where the mismanagement of a national economy is judged with a harsh and unforgiving coldness. The freshest banana peel under Mr. Wilson's foot is the report that inflation in January jumped from December's 5.1 per cent to 5.5 per cent -- right on the heels of Thursday's rise of more then half a percentage point in the Bank of Canada rate.
ref: 1990, Vancouver Sun, February
text: We had the first black president, trying to bring home a victory on healthcare. I didn’t want to be a banana peel for him.
ref: 2012, Van Jones, “Prologue: There and Back Again”, in Rebuild the Dream, Nation Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A cause of difficulty, or potential embarrassment.
Derived terms: have one foot on a banana peel
banana peels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banana peel
ball-and-socket joint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ball-and-socket joints
form: ball and socket joint
Senses: glosses: A joint in which one segment has a rounded end and the next segment has a bowl-shaped end, with the rounded end being fitted into the bowl shape, allowing the first segment to move around an indefinite number of axes which have one common center. Examples include the human shoulder joint and the balljoints of some automotive suspensions.
Synonyms: enarthrosis
balljoint
ball-and-socket joints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ball-and-socket joint
ball and socket joint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ball and socket joints
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ball-and-socket joint.
ball and socket joints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ball and socket joint (alternative spelling of ball-and-socket joints).
antigypsyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Antigypsyism
Etymology: From anti- + gypsy + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Hostility, prejudice or racism toward Romani people (Gypsies).
Synonyms: antiziganism
Related terms: Romaphobia
antiziganism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See tzigane.
Senses: glosses: Antigypsyism (hostility, prejudice or racism toward Romani people).
funkabilly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of funk + rockabilly
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A subgenre of popular music that blends rockabilly with funk.
Related terms: punkabilly
money pit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: money pits
Senses: examples: text: [T]he district does not want to hold on to the nearly 50-year old^([sic]) school for very much longer, as it has outlived its usefulness and has become a money pit.
ref: 1989 March 10, Laurence Iliff, “Parents Poll Hits Closing Of Ramona”, in The Press-Courier, USA, retrieved 27 Sep 2011, page 1:
text: Critics lambasted the building's design, the art collection and Mr. Hartford, whose gallery became a money pit. Within a year he was nosing around for a partner or buyer.
ref: 1997 February 15, Michael Kimmelman, “An Old Dream For the Arts, A New Chance For the City”, in New York Times, retrieved 27 Sep 2011:
text: Close to two decades past deadline and now carrying a projected $100 billion price tag, it has not returned a lick of good science — nor is it likely to.
ref: 2007 June 14, Jeff Kluger, “Is the Space Station a Money Pit?”, in Time:
glosses: A possession or financial commitment, especially a building or vehicle, that creates substantial ongoing expenses, especially one whose costs are considered to be unsustainable.
Related terms: time sink
money pit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the money pit
Senses: examples: text: In 1896 . . . work was again started with two engines and steam pumps, with the intention of pumping out the "money pit".
ref: 1909 May 20, “Is Capt. Kid's Treasure in Chester Basin, N.S.?”, in St. John Sun, Canada, retrieved 27 Sep 2011:
text: They sank twenty shafts in a ring round the central money pit, and drove tunnels endlessly in the hope of intercepting the underground channel and so draining the treasure shaft.
ref: 1926 June 6, Catherine MacKenzie, “Tide Guards Oak Island's Buried Gold”, in New York Times, page SM11:
text: Edward Reichert, a New Yorker, was planning "a gigantic project" . . . to move in power excavation equipment to seek the storied "money pit".
ref: 1947 June 4, “Gigantic Search For Treaure May Move Island”, in Ottawa Citizen, Canada, retrieved 27 Sep 2011, page 29:
text: The Money Pit shaft rested atop two 500 foot "protection tunnels" which were connected to the bay.
ref: 1972 December 5, Tom Tiede, “Diggers Keep Seeking Hole Truth of Island's Pirate Treasure Shaft”, in Milwaukee Journal, USA, retrieved 27 Sep 2011, page 1:
text: But the granddaddy of all hoards could be resting at the bottom of a 200- foot shaft on Oak Island, off Nova Scotia. This so-called Money Pit has exercised a moth-to-flame attractive power over investors since it was discovered in 1795.
ref: 1991 July 15, “Hunting for the Grandddaddy of Pirate Treasures”, in CNNMoney.com, retrieved 27 Sep 2011:
glosses: A complicated, seemingly man-made excavation on Oak Island in Nova Scotia, Canada, rumored to contain pirate treasure and which has been repeatedly and unsuccessfully probed at great expense.
foresighty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more foresighty
form: most foresighty
Etymology: From foresight + -y. Cognate with Scots foresichtie, forsichty, Dutch voorzichtig, German vorsichtig.
Senses: examples: text: Wi' thoughts like these hid in her breast, Awa flew the foresighty beast, [...]
ref: 1801, James Thomson, Poems, in the Scottish dialect:
text: Surely, my dear lady, you are, as they say in the north, 'fearfu' foresighty.'
ref: 1856, Anna Cabot Lowell, Seed-grain for thought and discussion:
glosses: Foresighted; provident; cautious; careful.
Related terms: foresight
foresightly
chartre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chartres
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of charter.
coolhunting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cool + hunting.
Senses: glosses: The observation of emerging trends and styles, usually involving street fashion, as a form of market research.
Related terms: coolhunter
thou'lt
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /ðaʊlt/
/ðaʊəlt/
Senses: glosses: Contraction of thou shalt.
glosses: Contraction of thou wilt.
thou'st
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ðaʊst/
rhymes: -aʊst
Senses: glosses: Contraction of thou hast.
finocha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “Finocha” is probably meant for finocchio, the Italian name for fennel (fœniculum).
ref: 1894, William White, Notes and Queries, XC, page 325:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of finocchio.
foresightly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more foresightly
form: most foresightly
Etymology: From foresight + -ly. Compare foresighty.
Senses: examples: text: I have thought more of it than you have done — for I have two or three presents carefully [laid] by for her, and I have also been so foresightly as to purchase two Dutch toys for your Children in case you might marry before we had free […]
ref: 1893, William Gershom Collingwood, The life of John Ruskin:
text: "I suppose that you, as a foresightly person, have made arrangements to turn all your cases and clients over to some other Analyst in the event of your timely (for to an Analyst nothing is untimely) death" Jonah asked matter-of-factly […]
ref: 1992, R. A. Lafferty, Iron Tears:
glosses: Possessing, exercising, or demonstrating great care or foresight; thoughtful; provident.
ostracode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ostracodes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ostracod.
ostracodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ostracode
gainside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gain + side.
Senses: examples: text: The only party which was on the gainside was Sriranga Raya, for he got back Chandragiri and its dependencies which he had lost.
ref: 1969, B. Muddhachari, The Mysore-Maratha relations in the 17th century:
text: All of the years that they went to school they costed a lot of money, whereas the chance that they ever will contribute to the gainside is very low.
ref: 1987, Paul Vedder, Learning in a second language: a study in Curacaon primary schools:
glosses: The side on which gain, increase, or prosperity is accrued; the upside.
Camdenite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Camdenites
Etymology: From Camden + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of any of the four Camden counties in the United States.
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Camden in London, England.
Hypernyms: sense: inhabitant of Camden in London
word: Londoner
Camdenites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Camdenite
besique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of bezique.
supracondylar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + condylar.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Above a condyle.
hindsightly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hindsightly
form: most hindsightly
Etymology: From hindsight + -ly. Compare foresightly.
Senses: examples: text: This can't happen all at once, says the nasty piece of perk, the old Houyhnhnm is hindsightly.
ref: 1996, Christine Brooke-Rose, Remake:
text: The hindsightly choice is for Michael Moore to privately fund insurance for every uninsured person in the US from the profits from Sicko instead of putting it all into getting Obama elected, [...]
ref: 2009, Freida Bee, MD, Things Like That are Happening:
glosses: Of or pertaining to hindsight; retrospective.
hindsightly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hindsightly
form: most hindsightly
Etymology: From hindsight + -ly. Compare foresightly.
Senses: examples: text: My thought process was similar to the theory, but when I realized it, I was hindsightly biased.
ref: 2011, Derek Brenwall, The Need to Achieve:
glosses: Retrospectively; in retrospect.
offencive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more offencive
form: most offencive
Senses: examples: text: This Court doeth declare against this ill custome as offencive to them, and diuers sober Christians amongst us[…]
glosses: Obsolete form of offensive.
Bostonese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bostonese
form: Bostoneses
Etymology: From Boston + -ese.
Senses: glosses: A Bostonian.
Bostonese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Boston + -ese.
Senses: glosses: The style of speech typical of Bostonians.
Bostoneses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bostonese
nonoolitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + oolitic.
Senses: glosses: Not oolitic.
paleoecologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paleoecologist
ostreolith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ostreoliths
Etymology: From ostreo- + -lith.
Senses: glosses: A fossil consisting of accumulated oyster shells.
Synonyms: oyster ball
ostreoliths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ostreolith
exaerobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ex- + aerobic.
Senses: glosses: Between the anoxic and hypoxic zones of an underwater environment.
overrelaxations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overrelaxation
overrelax
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overrelaxes
form: overrelaxing
form: overrelaxed
form: overrelaxed
Etymology: From over- + relax.
Senses: examples: text: They may have diabetes, or be taking a medication that overrelaxes the muscular sphincter at the bottom of the esophagus.
ref: 2003, Mark Hyman, Mark Liponis, Ultraprevention: The 6-Week Plan That Will Make You Healthy for Life, page 70:
glosses: To relax excessively.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To solve using overrelaxation.
overrelaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overrelax
overrelaxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overrelax
overrelaxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overrelax
ptychopariid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ptychopariids
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Any trilobite of the order Ptychopariida.
ptychopariids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ptychopariid
one-stop shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one-stop shops
Senses: examples: text: a one-stop shop for dispute processing
text: Smartly Styled Winter Outdoor Wear for Men and Boys. Make LUCAS' your one-stop-shop. You get all you need there !
ref: 1948 April 8, The Morning Bulletin, Rockhampton, page 5, column 6:
text: If anything on the internet makes a politician feel sad, from alleged copyright infringement to “the right to be forgotten”, there is now a one-stop shop to sort it all out: Google.
ref: 2014 August 12, Tim Harford, “Monopoly is a bureaucrat’s friend but a democrat’s foe”, in Financial Times:
text: It was a one-stop political and policy shop, a sort of shadow Republican Party but crafted in the libertarian molds of the Kochs and entirely controlled by them.
That wasn’t the only thing that the Koch brothers did differently.
ref: 2019 August 23, Chris Cillizza, “How the Koch brothers fundamentally changed modern politics”, in CNN:
text: General search engines are “one-stop shops” consumers can use to search the internet for answers to a wide range of queries.
ref: 2020 October 20, US v. Google Complaint:
text: Considerations are being made on how to create a "one-stop shop" for passengers, with the role of the Rail Ombudsman and the passenger regulation powers held by ORR and Transport Focus possibly rolled into one body.
ref: 2025 March 5, Richard Wilcock, “DfT sets out its plans with rail reform consultation”, in RAIL, number 1030, page 28:
glosses: A single place, institution, service, website, technology, etc., that provides everything necessary.
Related terms: full service
supermarket
turnkey operation
Onmyodo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Onmyōdō
Etymology: Japanese 陰陽道 (Onmyōdō おんみょうどう), from Middle Chinese 陰陽 (ʔim-yang "yin-yang") + 道 (dáu "Way").
Senses: glosses: A traditional Japanese esoteric cosmology, a mixture of natural science and occultism, formerly under the control of the imperial government.
Onmyōdō
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Onmyodo.
oyster ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oyster balls
Senses: glosses: An ostreolith.
oyster balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oyster ball
JVP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of jugular venous pressure.
hypernyms: VP
coordinate_terms: SVP
qualifier: corporate
glosses: Initialism of junior vice president.
JVP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: It also means that when a right-wing Jewish group such as the ZOA chooses to overlook Bannon’s well-documented links to anti-Semitic white nationalists, it puts itself on a moral par with J.V.P. Bannon is the man who expressly called Breitbart News “the platform for the alt-right,” knowing full-well the toxic range of opinion encompassed by the term.
ref: 2017 November 16, Bret Stephens, “Steve Bannon Is Bad for the Jews”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 18 Nov 2017:
text: Very few Palestinian student groups—or Palestinian people, for that matter—meet Hillel’s standards to co-host an event or to appear as a speaker; even Jewish groups like Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) are disallowed due to their support for BDS. […] In recent years, Hillel chapters have also come under fire for withdrawing support from or further marginalizing queer Jewish student groups that participate in events co-sponsored by JVP, and for banning legendary civil rights activist Dorothy Zellner from speaking at campus chapters after she discussed her commitment to Palestinian human rights work in a speech at Harvard’s Hillel.
ref: 2019 July 3, Jess Schwalb, “Red Line Rebellion”, in Jewish Currents:
glosses: Initialism of Jewish Voice for Peace.
endsay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From end + say.
Senses: examples: text: The backset of the endsay is alwayes the generall terme.
ref: 1878, The Academy and literature:
qualifier: otherwise obsolete
glosses: A final or closing word; conclusion.
Synonyms: epilogue
postamble
afterword
roll one's own
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rolls one's own
form: rolling one's own
form: rolled one's own
form: rolled one's own
Etymology: From cigarettes, which are available commercially rolled (i.e., with the paper around the substance being smoked) but which some prefer to roll.
Senses: examples: text: My custom wordprocessor? Yeah, I could have just installed Word or OpenOffice, but I always prefer to roll my own.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To create something of which an analogue is commercially available.
Related terms: handroll
roll-your-own
character actors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of character actor
character actress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: character actresses
Senses: glosses: A female character actor.
character actresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of character actress
disbelievable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disbelievable
form: most disbelievable
Etymology: From disbelieve + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be disbelieved; susceptible to disbelief.
Derived terms: disbelievably
disbelievably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disbelievably
form: most disbelievably
Etymology: From disbelievable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a disbelievable manner.
discommodious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more discommodious
form: most discommodious
Etymology: From dis- + commodious.
Senses: glosses: Not commodious; uncomfortable or inconvenient.
Derived terms: discommodiously
discommodiousness
dayglo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dayglo
form: most dayglo
Etymology: From Day-Glo.
Senses: glosses: Luminiscent; fluorescent; of colors, very bright.
Related terms: dayglow
rolled one's own
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of roll one's own
rolls one's own
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of roll one's own
rolling one's own
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of roll one's own
honeydew list
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honeydew lists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of honey do list.
raised by wolves
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Were they raised by wolves? What exactly are you expecting them to do at your reception, dance on the tables?
ref: 2001, Kim Shaw, The New Book of Wedding Etiquette:
text: Do you think I was raised by wolves? Do I really seem that clueless to you?" He said nothing; nothing at all.
ref: 2001, Antoinette Stockenberg, Tidewater, page 60:
text: I thought that Carl was saying these negative things to me out of love, but then over time, the words he spoke grew more and more harsh by the day. He would ask me insulting things like, "were you raised by wolves?
ref: 2009, K. B. Whitaker, Fifty-Seven, page 11:
text: “Tell me, Drool, have you always known you were raised by wolves?” “Aye. I want to go outside and have a wee on a tree, now, Pocket. You want to come?” “No, you go, love, I'm going to stay here and shout at the old ladies."
ref: 2010, Christopher Moore, Fool, page 250:
text: However, he'd not been raised by wolves, and as he put the food down, he held his chair for the guest. “Care to join us?”
ref: 2011, Jo Leigh, Daddy 101:
glosses: Uncivilized, unmannered.
Synonyms: born in a barn
raised in a barn
raised in a barn
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Momma's all the time telling us to act like we weren't raised in a barn. Ole Miz Hawkins must've been raised in her daddy's milk barn, instead of in the house with the china cups like she claims.
ref: 2005, Tammy Robinson Smith, Emmybeth Speaks, page 9:
text: “Raised in a barn, some people. Raised in a muck-filled, stinking barn.” Mag and Morgan stared at the grumbler's departing back until he was gone.
ref: 2006, Philip J. Carraher, The Necklace of Stones, page 140:
text: "No, thanks, we'll keep them with us." "Peggy always got on to me if I didn't ask for people's coats. 'George, you weren't raised in a barn, ask them if you can take their coats.'" The imitation sounded accurate
ref: 2008, Laurell K. Hamilton, The Lunatic Café, page 275:
glosses: Uncivilized, unmannered.
Synonyms: born in a barn
raised by wolves
monographist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monographists
Etymology: From monograph + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who writes a monograph.
Synonyms: monographer
deep pocket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deep pockets
Senses: glosses: singular of deep pockets
UNS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Unified numbering system.
Volo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Illinois, United States.
cafila
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cafilas
form: cafilah
form: cafileh
form: kafila
form: kafilah
form: kafileh
Etymology: From Arabic قَافِلَة (qāfila). Doublet of coffle.
Senses: examples: text: [W]e heard sounds at a distance, which we conjectured to proceed from the bells of a Cafila, passing over the rocks.
ref: 1816, William Beckford, Vathek, Oxford, published 2013, page 41:
text: I heard someone who seemed to know say that Vodalus was far to the north, hiding among the frost-pinched forests and raiding kafilas.
ref: 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter X, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 100:
glosses: A caravan of travellers or supplies.
colourfull
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more colourfull
form: most colourfull
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of colourful.
glosses: Nonstandard spelling of colourful.
geographists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geographist
automatick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of automatic.
plastick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plastick
form: most plastick
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of plastic.
plastick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plasticks
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of plastic.
wading pool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wading pools
Senses: glosses: A shallow pool usually used by children in which to play.
Synonyms: paddling pool
T-unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: T-units
Etymology: Coined by Kellogg Hunt in 1965.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The shortest grammatically allowable sentence into which a piece of writing can be split.
Bay Staters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bay Stater
phantastique
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phantastique
form: most phantastique
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of fantastic.
phantasise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: phantasises
form: phantasising
form: phantasised
form: phantasised
Senses: glosses: Dated form of fantasize.
pin-money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pin money.
synalœpha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synalœphas
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of synalepha.
versionitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From version + -itis.
Senses: examples: text: This helps companies maintain an honest relationship with the software publisher and protects against versionitis.
ref: 1992, InfoWorld, volume 14, number 33, page 92:
text: Versionitis exists when the team is using multiple versions of the same software[…] Integration of modules can be a nightmare when a project catches versionitis.
ref: 2004, Joel Henry, Software project management: a real-world guide to success:
text: The Handbook can suffer from versionitis; at this writing, the Handbook is one release behind the current version of the software, making it out of date in parts.
ref: 2011, Bud E. Smith, Michael McCallister, WordPress in depth, page 455:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A situation in which there are many different (and possibly incompatible) versions of the same software, file or document.
Related terms: featuritis
adespotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: adespotick
Etymology: From a- + despotic.
Senses: glosses: Not absolute; not despotic.
Montanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒntənɪz(ə)m/
Etymology: From Montanus + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The disappearance of charismatic wandering Christian teachers or prophets and the assertion of the authority of bishops were probably sealed by the Catholic Church's confrontation in the later second century with a movement known as Montanism or ‘the New Prophecy’.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 138:
topics: Christianity
glosses: The doctrines of a heretical sect of the second to fifth centuries in Asia Minor, who held millenarian beliefs.
Derived terms: Montanist
Montanistic
Montanistical
pre-echo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹiːˈɛkəʊ/
Forms: form: pre-echos
form: pre-echoes
Etymology: From pre- + echo.
Senses: examples: text: From the earliest days Christians had searched the Tanakh in their anxiety to find pre-echoes of their own passionate convictions about the God-Man Jesus Christ.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 140:
glosses: An early sign or indication of something; a foreshadowing.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
synonyms: forward echo
glosses: A digital audio compression artifact where a (typically percussive) sound is heard before it should occur.
pre-echoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pre-echo
se'nnight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: se'nnights
Senses: examples: text: Old woman, what was it the village Elders said a se'nnight since? Eh? Stir your memory.
ref: 1948 (1st collected edition 1953), Isaac Asimov, “Two Men and a Peasant”, in Second Foundation, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey, published 2020, →ISBN, part I (Search by the Mule), page 41:
glosses: Alternative form of sennight.
se'nnight
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: It will be in my power to assure him that her ladyship was quite well yesterday se'nnight.
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XVIII, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 224:
text: I was snowed up at a friend's house once for a week. Nothing could be pleasanter. I went for only one night, and could not get away till that very day se'nnight.
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter XIII, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 244:
text: We leave Bath, as she has perhaps told you, on Saturday se'nnight.
ref: 1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter II, in Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC, pages 26–27:
glosses: Alternative form of sennight.
se'nnights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of se'nnight
Rasŏn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rason
form: Raseon
form: Naseon
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 라선(羅先) (Raseon), from 라진(羅津) (Rajin) + 선봉(先鋒) (Seonbong), the two districts that form the city.
Senses: examples: text: North Korea also opened a free-trade zone in Rason, at its northeastern corner, in the 1990s.
ref: 2012 August 13, Choe Sang-Hun, “North Korea Reported to Be Pursuing Industrial Project With China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2012, Asia Pacific:
text: The most recent surge of reform is generally dated to January 2010. In rapid succession, North Korea announced the Strategic 10 Year Plan (2011-2020) for National Economic Development, created the Taepung International Investment Group and the National Development Bank, and elevated the Rason Economic and Trade Zone (luoxian jingji maoyi qu 罗先经济贸易区) to the new status of “special city” (tebie shi 特别市).
ref: 2012, Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga, “Prospects for Economic Reform in North Korea”, in China Perspectives, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2019:
text: Reuters: I just wanted to follow up on my question earlier about the transport of cargo between China and North Korea. The report talked about the transport of cargo from the Chinese city of Hunchun to the North Korean city of Rason or Luoxian. So I just want to ask whether the foreign ministry can confirm that this particular crossing is indeed open as this report describes.
Wang Wenbin: I just stated China’s position and have nothing further to share.
ref: 2023 May 25, Adam Cathcart, “Bridges, Anti-Corruption, and Minerals: Sino-North Korean Borderland News”, in Sino-NK, archived from the original on 25 May 2023, Borderlands:
glosses: A special city in North Korea.
Synonyms: word: Rajin-Sŏnbong
sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Luoxian
dodgerblue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dodgerblues
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Dodger blue.
dodgerblues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dodgerblue
business park
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: business parks
Senses: glosses: An area of land consisting solely of commercial buildings and enterprises, as opposed to industrial or residential concerns.
Related terms: industrial park
science park
trading estate
marantas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maranta
remblais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of remblai
complex fraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: complex fractions
Senses: topics: arithmetic
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any fraction in which either or both of the numerator or denominator are themselves fractions.
Related terms: simple fraction
it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Rough play results in injury.
does the Pope shit in the woods
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: A combination of the two rhetorical questions is the Pope Catholic? and does a bear shit in the woods?. Compare is a bear Catholic?.
Senses: examples: text: "You still interested in a writing job?" he asked. […] Is the Pope Catholic? Does a bear shit in the woods? Or, as one of the guys had said a few weeks before, Does the Pope shit in the woods? A writing job. “Yeah,” was all she could say.
ref: 2009, Iris Rainer Dart, Til the Real Thing Comes Along, Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN:
text: "I asked her if she would like a coffee. She turned round, smiled and said: 'Does the Pope shit in the woods?' The wife was aghast. Of course I got the blame!”
ref: 2009, James R. Vance, Killer Butterfly, The eBook Sale, page 233
text: "[…] do you understand that last point about combining two jokes together?" […] I almost replied 'Does a bear shit in the woods?' but then I […] saw the chance to answer in a way that would show I understood them perfectly. "Does the pope shit in the woods?" There was a huge round of applause from the invisible audience, in fact it wasn't just a round of applause, ...
ref: 2014, John Byrne, "Rapt In an Enigma" - "A True-life Tale of the Paranormal Unlike Any You Have Read Before", Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:
glosses: Obviously! Rhetorical question in response to a question where the answer is an emphatic yes.
Synonyms: does a bear shit in the Pope's hat
does the Pope wear a funny hat
do fish swim
is a bear Catholic
is the Pope Catholic
a(n)
Language: English
Part of speech: article
Senses: examples: text: To be valid, a deed must contain a(n)
a. grantee's signature.
b. grantor's signature.
c. acknowledgment.
d. date.
ref: 2003, Wade E. Gaddy, Robert E. Hart, Judy Wolk, Real Estate Fundamentals, page 62:
glosses: A or an; the indefinite article (when the initial sound of what will follow is unclear).
Middle Greek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Byzantine Greek
DCPM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of data centre predictive modelling.
glosses: Initialism of differential pulse code modulation.
glosses: Abbreviation of bis(dicyclohexylphosphino)methane.
Tibbie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Her brothers call Mary Poor Mary, and indeed the meagreness and timidity of many of the women in their family has caused that word to be attached to the names they were given at their christening ― names that were themselves altered into something less substantial and graceful. Isabel became Poor Tibbie, Margaret, Poor Maggie, Jane, Poor Jennie.
ref: 2006, Alice Munro, The View from Castle Rock, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 36:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Isabel.
tiarellas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tiarella
antessive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Etymology: From ante- + essive.
Senses: examples: text: An antessive case is found in some Dravidian languages.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Indicating the spatial relation of preceding or being before something.
attenuative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more attenuative
form: most attenuative
Etymology: From attenuate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Ceramic armour is used in armoured vehicles for its attenuative properties.
glosses: Tending to attenuate or lessen the force of something.
topics: beverages
brewing
business
food
lifestyle
manufacturing
glosses: Of a yeast, capable of high attenuation, able to convert a high proportion of sugar to alcohol.
Derived terms: nonattenuative
Judas Iscariot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Judas the Iscariot
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἰούδας (Ioúdas) Ἰσκαριώτης (Iskariṓtēs)/ Ἰσκαριώθ (Iskariṓth); the original Hebrew or Aramaic term is unknown and the subject of much debate. For more information, see Judas Iscariot § Name and background.
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: One of the twelve disciples of Jesus in the New Testament, who betrayed Jesus into the hands of the chief priests for 30 pieces of silver.
Judas Iscariot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Judas Iscariots
form: Judas the Iscariot
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἰούδας (Ioúdas) Ἰσκαριώτης (Iskariṓtēs)/ Ἰσκαριώθ (Iskariṓth); the original Hebrew or Aramaic term is unknown and the subject of much debate. For more information, see Judas Iscariot § Name and background.
Senses: examples: text: —Ah (said he) she’s a Judas Iscariot, and has betrayed me with a kiss[…]
ref: 1771, [Tobias Smollett], The Expedition of Humphry Clinker […], volume II, London: […] W. Johnston, […]; and B. Collins, […], →OCLC, page 209:
text: Alf Bergan will speak to the long fellow. We’ll put a barleystraw in that Judas Iscariot’s ear this time.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[11]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: It was far more generous treatment than they deserved, because, to speak frankly and strongly, these men had been the industrial Judas Iscariots to the rest of the working classes and to the working-class movement.
ref: 1969, parliamentary debates:
text: But among these disciples there was a Judas Iscariot in the person of an ignorant and narrow-minded fanatic named De Francon, who played the same part in the martyrdom of Vanini as Mocenigo in the destruction of Bruno.
ref: 2005, Eugene Montague MacDonald, A Short History of the Inquisition: What It Was and What It Did, page 254:
glosses: A betrayer.
riparia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of riparium
man-midwives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of man-midwife
optionalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of optionality
nonmandatorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From non- + mandatorily.
Senses: examples: text: […]reducing the average sentence length for all nonmandatorily sentenced inmates[…]
ref: 2003, Kathleen Auerhahn, Selective incapacitation and public policy, page 88:
glosses: In a way that is not mandatory.
Kivi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kivis
Etymology: Borrowed from Estonian and Finnish Kivi.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
red-letter edition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red-letter editions
Senses: topics: Christianity
media
publishing
glosses: Any of various editions of the Bible in which the words of Christ are printed in red.