cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
forestart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forestarts
Etymology: From fore- + start.
Senses: examples: c. 1726, Patrick Walker, quoting Alexander Peden in "Remarkable Passages in the Life and Death of Mr. Alexander Peden", Biographia Presbyteriana
John, you and I will be both in heaven shortly; but though you be much older than I, my soul will get the forestart of yours, for I will be first in heaven, but your body will have the advantage of mine, for ye will get rest in your grave until the resurrection, and die there; […]
glosses: A head start.
mancus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mancuses
Etymology: Latinized form of Arabic منقوش (manqūsh).
Senses: glosses: A gold coin used in medieval Europe.
glosses: An equivalent unit of monetary account.
Synonyms: mancosus
mancosus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mancosi
Senses: glosses: mancus
Airy beam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Airy beams
Etymology: Named after George Biddell Airy.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A non-diffracting waveform that gives the appearance of curving as it travels.
wikipedia: George Biddell Airy
Related terms: Airy integral
kyloe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌɪlə/
Forms: form: kyloes
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic gaidhealach (“Gaelic, Highland”); see Gàidheal.
Senses: glosses: One of a breed of small Highland cattle.
kyloes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kyloe
fortake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fortakes
form: fortaking
form: fortook
form: fortaken
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: fortake
form: fortake
form: fortook
form: fortake
form: fortakest
form: fortook
form: fortookst
form: fortakes
form: fortaketh
form: fortook
form: fortake
form: fortook
form: fortake
form: fortook
form: fortake
form: -
form: fortaking
form: fortaken
Etymology: From Middle English fortaken, equivalent to for- + take. Cognate with dialectal Norwegian fortaka (“to assail, assault”), Swedish förta (“to deprive, take away, deaden”).
Senses: examples: text: Be ye not willing to hoard to you gold hoards on earth, where rust and moth fortake it, and where thieves delve it and forsteal, [...]
ref: 1861, Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Spoon and sparrow:
text: In a slaughter wide they fell, woeful days of Bale came on; Famine-death fortook fortitude from men!
ref: 1898, Stopford Augustus Brooke, English literature: from the beginning to the Norman conquest:
glosses: To take away; remove; deprive.
glosses: To mistake; make a mistake.
glosses: To aim or deal a blow at; hit.
japeworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more japeworthy
form: most japeworthy
Etymology: From jape + -worthy, apparently from Chaucer.
Senses: examples: text: All over Europe, people were cracking the lewdest jests about them; no one could decide which of the two was the most japeworthy;[…].
ref: 1975, Georgette Heyer, My Lord John, Bantam Books, published 1976, page 299:
glosses: Worthy of being japed, mockable.
wikipedia: Geoffrey Chaucer
birthfather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birthfathers
form: birth father
Etymology: From birth + father.
Senses: glosses: The biological father of an adopted child.
Synonyms: biofather
Related terms: birthmother
birthparent
complectional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From complection + -al.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of complexional.
basileiolatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: băsĭlāŏʹlətri
ipa: /basɪleɪˈɒlətɹi/
Forms: form: basileolatry
form: basilolatry
Etymology: Ancient Greek βασίλειος (basíleios, “of the king”) (from βασιλεύς (basileús, “king”)) + -latry (from the Ancient Greek λατρεία (latreía, “worship”)).
Senses: examples: text: At Westminster the established religion is Basileiolatry.
ref: 1872, Sacristy, volume II, footnote, page 10:
text: The “basileiolatry” which we are told is now the prevailing worship at Westminster seems to have begun in the middle ages.
ref: 1897, John Wickham Legg, Missale Ad Usum Ecclesie Westmonasteriensis, volume III, page 1,407:
text: When…the Second Recension was revised, the revisers…took pains to give greater significance to the queen’s coronation.…Different as it was, the same spirit of basileiolatry inspired the alternative version.
ref: 1960, Johannes Quasten, Stephan Kuttner, editors, Traditio, volume XVI, page 122:
text: Already in the tenth century basileiolatry…was established in England. The king was God’s thegn, His vicar upon earth.
ref: 1963, Henry Gerald Richardson, George Osborne Sayles, The Governance of Mediaeval England, page 142:
text: Maybe you have some half-baked mixture of feudal and absolutist theories in mind…and the basileiolatry you display suggests so.
ref: 2000 April 23rd, François R. Velde, alt.talk.royalty, “Re: Male Swedish Crown Prince?”, message 25
text: Boyd’s ensuing burst of proud Scots patriotism quickly gives place to a flood of boundless basileiolatry and optimism.
ref: 2008, Julian Goodare, Alasdair A. MacDonald, editors, Sixteenth-Century Scotland, page 414:
glosses: Worship of the king.
raw_tags: in figurative use
Related terms: basil
basilean
basilic
basilica
basilical
basilicon
basilics
basilisk
Emmett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of the female given name Emma.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
glosses: A male or unisex given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Gem County, Idaho.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Pottawatomie County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A charter township in Calhoun County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township and village therein, in St. Clair County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Paulding County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Navarro County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia.
Emmitt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Emmett
form: Emmott
Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of the female given name Emma.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
Emmott
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Emmett
form: Emmitt
Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of the female given name Emma.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
Ide
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the medieval male (and less often female) given name Ida.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
glosses: A village in Devon, England, named after Saint Ida.
Related terms: Ide Hill
Ide
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: Were it to search the furthest Northern clime / Where frosty Hyems with an ycie Mace / Strikes dead all living things, Ide find it out, / And borrowing fire from those fayre sunny eyne / Thaw Winters frost and warme that dead cold clime: […]
ref: 1605, The Trial of Chivalry, (a play of uncertain unauthorship):
glosses: Obsolete form of I'd.
Tiresias
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Teiresias
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τειρεσίας (Teiresías).
Senses: examples: text: […]somewhere a ship's radio was blaring out the latest jazz-hit to reach Alexandria:
Old Tiresias / No one half so breezy as, / Half so free and easy as / Old Tiresias.
ref: 1958, Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar, page 35:
ref: 1997, Nicole Loraux, translated by Paula Wissing, The Experiences of Tiresias: The Feminine and the Greek Man, Princeton University Press, →ISBN:
text: The myth associated with how Tiresias became a hermaphrodite reveals much about relations between the sexes.
ref: 2004, Leonard Shlain, Sex, Time, and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution, page 255:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A long-lived blind soothsayer who participated over seven generations in the legendary history of (the Greek city) Thebes, noted also for being transformed into a woman for seven years, so being symbolic of androgyny.
Related terms: Tiresian
menippea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A consequence of this universalism is the appearance in the menippea of what Bakhtin calls the three-planed construction of earth, Olympus, and the nether world.
ref: 1992, Thomas Jemielity, Satire and the Hebrew Prophets, →ISBN, page 65:
text: Typical for the menippea is syncrisis (that is, juxtaposition) of precisely such stripped-down "ultimate positions in the world."
ref: 2004, David Sandner, Fantastic Literature: A Critical Reader, →ISBN, page 120:
text: The entire medieval development of the menippea is permeated with elements of local carnival folklore and reflects the specific features characteristic of various periods in the Middle Ages.
ref: 2009, Harold Bloom, Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky, →ISBN, page 48:
glosses: Alternative form of Menippea.
Airy beams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Airy beam
netlist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: netlists
Etymology: From net + list.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A technical description of the connectivity of an electronic design.
Related terms: back-annotation
netlists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of netlist
titmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of titman
subpœna'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of subpœna
Johannine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒəʊˈhænaɪn/
ipa: /d͡ʒoʊˈhæˌnaɪn/
Forms: form: more Johannine
form: most Johannine
Etymology: From Johannes (“variant of John”) + -ine.
Senses: glosses: of, or pertaining to John, usually John the Apostle or John the Baptist.
Derived terms: Johannine Comma
reflash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reflashes
form: reflashing
form: reflashed
form: reflashed
Etymology: From re- + flash.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To flash again; to overwrite the memory of an updatable component such as a BIOS chip.
glosses: To burst back into flame after being extinguished and then receiving a large amount of oxygen.
raw_tags: of a fire
reflash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reflashes
Etymology: From re- + flash.
Senses: glosses: The situation where a fire bursts back into flame after being extinguished and then receiving a large amount of oxygen.
reflashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -æʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reflash
reflashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reflash
reflashing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reflashings
Senses: glosses: An instance of something being reflashed.
reflashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reflash
reflashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reflash
riplock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rip + lock.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A deliberate slowdown in the transfer rate when reading data from a DVD, so as to reduce the amount of noise from the drive.
make history
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes history
form: making history
form: made history
form: made history
Senses: examples: text: Neil Armstrong made history in 1969 when he was the first person to walk on the Moon.
glosses: To do something that will be widely remembered for a long time.
Related terms: go down in history
makes history
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of make history
making history
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of make history
made history
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of make history
decreet-arbitral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of decree arbitral.
decree arbitral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decrees arbitral
Etymology: From Old French decré arbitral.
Senses: qualifier: Scots law
glosses: An award made by an arbiter.
phaseoliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phaseoliform
form: most phaseoliform
Etymology: From Latin phaseolus (“bean (diminutive)”) + -iform. See Latin phaselus (“bean”).
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Shaped like a bean; like a bent ellipsoid.
raw_tags: of a spore
offhold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: offholds
form: offholding
form: offheld
form: offheld
form: offholden
form: off-hold
Etymology: From Middle English ofholden, from Old English ofhealdan (“to withhold, retain”), equivalent to off- + hold. Cognate with Dutch afhouden (“to detain, deter”), German abhalten (“to discourage, prevent, deter”).
Senses: glosses: To retain.
examples: text: A scleral rim should be maintained in contact lenses to off-hold and balance the corneal portion from the cornea, preventing exertion of any pressure.
ref: 1950, Washington Institute of Medicine, General practice clinics:
text: No, Love, you must be shunned by every means, offheld and offstood afar, for the man that has fallen headlong into love comes o greater grief than if he cast himself off a cliff.
ref: 1968, Titus Maccius Plautus, Paul Nixon, Plautus:
text: The mighty foundation of massive natural stone, in the Mediterranean realm, in India as well as in Middle- and South America, almost always represents the world of the toiling earthlings who have to off-hold the demons of depth as well as to support their god-miming oppressors.
ref: 2009, A.J.J. Mekking, Eric Roose, The global built environment as a representation of realities:
glosses: To hold off; prevent; refrain; avoid; shun.
concordial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Late Latin concordialis.
Senses: glosses: correlated to grammatical concord
glosses: concordant, harmonious
uilleann piper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uilleann pipers
Etymology: Partial calque of Irish píobairí uilleann, or from uilleann pipes.
Senses: examples: text: Associated with The Long Note, he became its producer in 1978, in this series devoting time to documentary features, such as that on nineteenth-century uilleann piper and composer, Johnny Patterson.
ref: 1999, Fintan Vallely, The companion to Irish traditional music, page 38:
text: A twentieth-century master uilleann piper and mentor of many of today's finest pipers.
ref: 2001, June Skinner Sawyers, Celtic music: a complete guide, page 106:
text: He went on to become one of Ireland's foremost uilleann pipers [...]
ref: 2004, Claire McKenna, A Complete Guide to Learning the Irish Tin Whistle, page 41:
text: Uilleann bagpipes in Ireland differ from Scottish pipes in that the uilleann piper uses bellows under the arm to keep the bag full rather than blowing into the bag.
ref: 2008, Jo Sprague, Douglas Stuart, David Bodary, The Speaker's Handbook, page 157:
glosses: One who plays uilleann pipes.
stinkeye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stink eye.
pretas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preta
premate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: premates
form: premating
form: premated
form: premated
Etymology: From pre- + mate.
Senses: glosses: To mate prior to some other operation
raw_tags: of an animal
kombis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kombi
lutite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lutites
Etymology: From lute + -ite.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A rock composed of clayey or silty sediment.
gum up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gums up
form: gumming up
form: gummed up
form: gummed up
Senses: examples: text: Some types of lubricating grease gum up as they age.
glosses: To become gooey or gummy.
examples: text: Aging grease had gummed up the record changer.
text: I guess they's about 6 other clubs in the American League that if they had seen my name in the dead they wouldn't shed off enough tears to gum up the infield.
ref: 1919, Ring Lardner Sr., chapter 2, in The Real Dope:
text: He knew when the tools were in clay and had become gummed up. He could tell just when the drill had cut into hard rock at an acute angle and was running out of the perpendicular to follow the softer stratum.
ref: 1921, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 21, in Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country:
text: The timer was digital, so there was no way to physically gum up the mechanism.
ref: 2000, Jeffery Deaver, Death of a Blue Movie Star, →ISBN, page 286:
glosses: To cause to be gooey or gummy, especially with the effect of obstructing the operation of some mechanism or process.
examples: text: He had the car pushed to a near-by stable, amidst the mixed emotions of the little crowd, and next day he had it hauled home. / "You were right," he said, when I met him out again in it, a week later. "It was gummed up, so to speak; but it's working like a charm to-day.[…]"
ref: 1918, Henry B[lake] Fuller, On the Stairs, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Hougton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, →OCLC, part V, section I, pages 148–149:
text: Erhard presumably felt it was no time to give his enemies grounds for charging him with gumming up relations with France.
ref: 1966 July 29, “Europe: Permanent Watch?”, in Time:
text: In the old days, a storm like this would gum up the entire system.
ref: 2010 December 30, Sam Howe Verhovek, “Can Air Travel Be Improved in Bad Weather?”, in New York Times, retrieved 15 Aug 2011:
glosses: To make non-functional; to interfere with or put into a state of disorder; to ruin.
Derived terms: gum up the works
austrocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more austrocentric
form: most austrocentric
Etymology: From austro- + -centric.
Senses: glosses: Focused on Australia or the people and culture of Australia
examples: text: In his extensive scholarly work, including his four-volume Deutsche Einheir, Srhik tried to merge and transcend Prussocentric and Austrocentric approaches to German history.
ref: 2001, Peter Thaler, The Ambivalence of Identity: The Austrian Experience of Nation-building in a Modern Society, Purdue University Press, →ISBN, page 76:
text: Although the author claims not to plead for or against the Austrian policy, his study implies on the one hand a criticism of the somewhat biased, austrocentric policy of the government.
ref: year unknown, Günter Bischof, Anton Pelinka, Austria in the New Europe, Transaction Publishers →ISBN, page 168
glosses: Focused on Austria or the people and culture of Austria
examples: text: Expressions such as “North of Watford Gap” testify to the perceptions of southerners in this “austrocentric” nation (Wales 2002: 46).
ref: 2004, A Handbook of Varieties of English: CD-ROM., Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 113:
text: All of them have extended "our knowledge of the development of English beyond Southern England" (Rissanen 2000: 11), thereby favouring a non-austrocentric perspective.
ref: 2010, Javier Ruano-García, Early Modern Northern English Lexis: A Literary Corpus-based Study, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 25:
glosses: Focused on the South of England or the people and culture of Southern England
ouphe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈuːf/
/ˈaʊf/
Forms: form: ouphes
form: aulf
form: ouph
Etymology: From the same origin as awf, oaf (“elf child”).
Senses: examples: text: Strew good luck, ouphes, on every ſacred room,
That it may ſtand 'till the perpetual Doom,
In ſtate as wholſom, as in ſtate 'tis fit;
Worthy the owner, as the owner it.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv]:
text: For an Ouphe has broken his vestal vow;
He has loved an earthly maid,
And left for her his woodly shade;
ref: 1835, Joseph Rodman Drake, “The Culprit Fay”, in The Culprit Fa[y], published 1899, page 4:
text: 1835, Review of The Culprit Fay and Other Poems by Joseph Rodman Drake and Alnwick Castle by Fitz-Greene Halleck, Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 2, page 329,
The plot is as follows. An Ouphe, one of the race of Fairies, has "broken his vestal vow," […] in short, he has broken Fairy-law in becoming enamored of a mortal.
glosses: A small, often mischievous sprite; a fairy; a goblin; an elf.
noded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From node + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Polygonization is the process of forming polygons from linework which encloses areas. Linework to be formed into polygons must be fully noded – that is, linestrings must not cross and must touch only at endpoints.
glosses: Having or divided into nodes.
examples: text: The noded philosophy is also about flexibility and efficiency in collaboration, especially among people who are geographically far apart.
glosses: Pertaining to a group of individuals, possibly geographically separated from each other, that form temporary or recurring project teams.
Derived terms: unnoded
Related terms: node
noder
West Slavic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A subgrouping of the Slavic language family spoken mainly in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Lusatia (a small area in Germany).
Related terms: East Slavic
South Slavic
breaking bad
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of break bad
plaçage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plaçages
Etymology: From French.
Senses: glosses: a form of marital union, often illegal in nature, found in the Caribbean during the colonial period between a Caucasian man and a woman of mixed races (such as a mulatta or a Creole)
Related terms: placée
turn a new leaf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns a new leaf
form: turning a new leaf
form: turned a new leaf
form: turned a new leaf
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of turn over a new leaf.
fullbring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fullbrings
form: fullbringing
form: fullbrought
form: fullbrought
form: fulbring
Etymology: From Middle English fulbringen, fulbrengen, equivalent to full- + bring. Cognate with Dutch volbrengen (“to accomplish”), German vollbringen (“to accomplish, complete”).
Senses: examples: text: What the goose but thought, that the swan fullbrought; […]
ref: 1859, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers, Philip Gengembre Hubert, The Atlantic monthly: Volume 4:
text: […] meaning 'to complete, to bring to a close, to execute (the preparation of ointments), to finish (metalwork), to fullbring'. Hence the title of the Book of Wisdom means, that it gives the necessary advice to complete and fulfill […]
ref: 1960, Janus:
glosses: To accomplish; bring about completely; complete; finish; achieve.
breathing spell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breathing spells
Senses: synonyms: breathing space
breathing while
glosses: An opportunity to rest or give thought to a situation; a short respite.
mignonnette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mignonnettes
Senses: examples: text: The marjorum stood in ruddy and fragrant masses; harebells and campanulas of several kinds, that are cultivated in our gardens, with bells large and clear; crimson pinks; the Michaelmas daisy; a plant with a thin, radiated yellow flower, of the character of an aster; a centaurea of a light purple, handsomer than any English one; a thistle in the dryest places, resembling an eryngo, with a thick, bushy top; mulleins, yellow and white; the wild mignonnette, and the white convolvulus; and clematis festooning the bushes, recalled the flowery fields and lanes of England, and yet told us that we were not there.
ref: 1850, Harper's Magazine, volume 1, page 449:
text: Mr. Blueapron — who keeps his vinery so moist that his vines put forth roots, in mid air, the whole length of their new-wood branches — who manures his vine-borders with quarters of dead horse, and will not allow even a mignonnette plant to exhaust their richness — would look aghast if he were told to cultivate such compost as that.
ref: 1855, Household Words, volume 30, page 228:
text: The fragrance of mignonnettes, and a hundred flowers that recall Old England, fill the air.
ref: 1857, Samuel Baker, The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon, page 21:
text: These are anemones, such as I put on your shelf yesterday morning, but these little starry mignonnettes did not grow wild, neither did those wax-balls in the middle.
ref: 1863, Mrs. H. C. Gardner, Rosedale: A Story of Self-denial, page 187:
text: The Victoria Regia, the fuchsias, the mignonnettes, the orchids, were almost life-like in their fidelity.
ref: 1873, Every Saturday, page 318:
text: A little forest of mignonnettes sets an example of soberness and fragrance, while that honest gilliflower looks like an old-fashioned English matron.
ref: 1875, Friends Intelligencer, volume 31, page 493:
text: Again, it is a fact that among the sweet mignonnettes some are less fertile than others, and that the least productive have the most odor.
ref: 1879, Scientific American, volume 8, page 3089:
text: Those desirous of raising a / mignonnette tree / may proceed as follows:—In April sow two or three seeds in a sixty-sized pot, and when the seedlings are large enough, and growing strongly, reduce to one plant, and shift this repeatedly into larger pots until August.
ref: 1880, George M F. Glenny, Floriculture, page 81:
text: On both sides of this main piece runs a conventional foliage forming a succession of curling motifs, or sprays of flowers of the umbelliferous genus, ferns, sprigs of rose buds, mignonnettes, myosotis, loosely entwined with thin and narrow ribbons, etc.
ref: 1893, The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review, volume 27, page 19:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of mignonette.
multipipeline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + pipeline.
Senses: examples: text: The idea of Unking vector operations can be generalized to a multipipeline networking concept.
ref: 1993, Kai Hwang, Advanced computer architecture:
glosses: Having or pertaining to more than one pipeline.
art union
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: art unions
Senses: examples: text: Art Unions are a substitute for State patronage.
ref: 1974, Thomas Osborne Davis, Essays of Thomas Davis, page 140:
text: Art unions often made lottery purchases at academy salons as well as at their own exhibitions; Friedrich's Evening on the Baltic, bought in Dresden by the Saxon Art Union in 1831, was an early example.
ref: 1997, Robin Lenman, Artists and society in Germany, 1850-1914, page 151:
text: Art unions, on the other hand, bought paintings directly from the artists in their studios, exhibited and sold them at their galleries, and distributed them by lottery.
ref: 2008, April F. Masten, Art Work: Women Artists and Democracy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York, page 26:
glosses: An organisation formed for the purpose of educating the general public about art and supporting artists.
examples: text: New bookkeeping regulations have been framed by the New South Wales Auditor-General's Department, at the request of the Attorney-General, to control the present loose state of affairs in regard to art unions.
ref: 1923 April 5, Barrier Miner, Broken Hill, NSW:
text: The Attorney-General (Mr. N F Macgroarty) yesterday described as absolutely inaccurate a statement that the Art Union Regulations provided for the Justice Department collecting a fee of 21 per cent of the gross receipts of art unions in excess of £100, this amount being allowed is an exemption...
ref: 1932 March 19, The Brisbane Courier:
text: The result was that the Government of the day had a spate of applications for permits to hold art unions.
ref: 1956, New Zealand House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates, page 278:
text: A person who conducts a trade promotion art union must ensure that a prize in the art union is delivered to the winner of the prize within 1 month of the drawing of the art union.
ref: 1992, the ART UNIONS AND PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS REGULATION 1992, promulgated by the government of Queensland
text: What exactly is an art union I hear you ask? Well it is simply an official term used by regulation boards such as the Queensland Office of Gaming Regulation that describes a lottery where the total value of the prizes exceeds $20,000 and the game is operated by a non profit organisation.
ref: 2011, Mater Prize Homes Website
text: Annually the Association conducts 10 major art unions with prizes from $80,000 - $120,000 each art union. Tickets are only $2 (AUS) each and the winner can choose any combination of prizes.
ref: 2011, Sporting Wheelies Organisation website
glosses: A raffle run to raise money for a charity.
I'm ashamed
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Indicates that the speaker is ashamed.
Related terms: I'm embarrassed
Extensible Markup Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computer-languages
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form.
Synonyms: XML
XUL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈzuːl/
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Xml User interface Language.
Hypernyms: english: a dialect
translation: a dialect
word: XML
Derived terms: XULRunner
teleportitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From teleport + -itis.
Senses: examples: text: Teleportitis is gained by eating a leprechaun or quantum mechanic or nymph.
ref: 1990, Aaron Sher, “Teleportation”, in rec.games.hack (Usenet):
text: That ring stayed on his finger until resists became more an issue than damage output, and stayed off when I got teleportitis in the Slime pits and had to rely on teleport control.
ref: 2006, Rorschach, “YAVP: Argos the Merry Minotaur”, in rec.games.roguelike.misc (Usenet):
topics: video-games
glosses: In some roguelike games, an intrinsic ability that causes the player's character to teleport from place to place without warning.
Related terms: polymorphitis
onhand
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more onhand
form: most onhand
Etymology: Equivalent to on- + hand.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of on hand.
20/20
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of twenty-twenty.
Coordinate terms: 6/6
Related terms: 20/15
20
200
güira
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: güiras
Etymology: From Spanish güira.
Senses: glosses: A percussion instrument from the Dominican Republic.
Kitchener stitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kitchener stitches
Etymology: Named after Horatio Herbert Kitchener, British army officer, though the technique pre-dates him.
Senses: topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A common method for the grafting of two knitted fabrics using yarn and a needle in an end-to-end ("wale-to-wale") seam.
wikipedia: Horatio Herbert Kitchener
dip stitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dip stitches
Senses: topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A stitch made by knitting into a stitch (or even the space between stitches) of an earlier row.
dip stitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dip stitch
güiras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of güira
BCL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BCLs
Senses: topics: education
law
glosses: Initialism of Bachelor of Civil Law.
BCL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Base Class Library.
lincRNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lincRNAs
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: long intergenic non-coding RNA
piRNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piRNAs
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of piwi-interacting RNA.
storyboarder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storyboarders
Etymology: From storyboard + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who creates and arranges storyboard drawings.
storyboarders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of storyboarder
Kitchener
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as an occupation for someone who worked in a kitchen.
glosses: A title:
A British earldom
glosses: A title:
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, British field marshal in the First World War
glosses: A city in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A small town in the City of Cessnock, New South Wales, Australia.
Derived terms: Kitchener bun
Kitchener stitch
KIT
carryless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From carry + -less.
Senses: examples: a carryless multiplication
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: In which no figures are carried over.
Chalcedon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkælsɪˌdɒn/
ipa: /kælˈsiːdən/
ipa: /ˈkeɪl.kəˌdɒn/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Chalcēdōn, from Ancient Greek Χαλκηδών (Khalkēdṓn). See Kadıköy.
Senses: glosses: An ancient maritime town of Bithynia, in Asia Minor in modern Turkey, almost directly opposite Byzantium.
Derived terms: Chalcedonian
chalk bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chalk bags
form: chalkbag
Senses: topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A small pouch attached to a climber's harness, designed to filled with climbing chalk.
richdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪt͡ʃdəm/
Forms: form: richdoms
form: rychedome
Etymology: Probably a calque of a similar formation in a continental West Germanic language, such as Dutch rijkdom (“wealth”) or German Reichtum (“wealth”); equivalent to rich + -dom.
Compare Middle English richedom (“wealth, riches”), Old English rīċedōm (“dominion”), Swedish rikedom (“wealth, richness”), and Icelandic ríkidómur (“riches, power”).
Senses: examples: text: Free nature in her inexhaustible richdom of forms can never be fettered into the narrow bounds, which we may assign to any of our technic definitions.
ref: 1879, Ferdinand von Mueller, The native plants of Victoria, succinctly defined:
text: [...] and therefore still more approaches in its richdom of tan-principle to the genuine Sumach-leaves of Rhus coriaria.
ref: 1888, Royal Society of New South Wales, Journal and proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales:
text: Taking into consideration the taming of all creative richdoms of ideas on the basis of our graphic guidelines, we graphic specialists still have enough freedom to sensibly handle all design tasks.
ref: 1984, Wolfgang Schmittel, corporate design international:
text: In western Europe, the spirit of the bourgeois developed slowly towards a capitalist mentality. According to Werner Sombart, the bourgeois was a challenger of the nobility and used the accumulation of richdom to get access to the oligarchy of the different courts in Europe.
ref: 2006, José María Magone, The new world architecture:
glosses: Wealth; riches; richness; prosperity.
wikipedia: West Germanic
D-MER
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: clinical-psychology
human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of dysphoric milk ejection reflex.
dysphoric milk ejection reflex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: clinical-psychology
human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A brief dysphoria just prior to the milk ejection reflex.
hard stop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hard stops
form: hard-stop
Senses: glosses: A mechanical device that limits the travel of a mechanism.
examples: text: I have a hard stop at 4 pm, so please try to cover everything in the meeting before then.
glosses: A definite time when someone must end a task; a non-negotiable deadline.
glosses: A tactic used by armed police to stop a vehicle believed to contain dangerous criminals.
glosses: Synonym of full stop.
synonyms: word: full stop
Pigovian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: We have argued above that Pigovian taxes were not adequate in general to solve the externalities due to the information problem: the taxing authority in general can't be expected to know the costs imposed by the externalities.
ref: 1992, Hal C. Varian, Microeconomic Analysis, 3rd edition, W. W. Norton & Company, page 436:
glosses: Alternative form of Pigouvian.
othered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of other
mugus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mugu
cabulance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cabulances
Etymology: Blend of cab + ambulance.
Senses: examples: text: Doris unbuckled her seatbelt and went to the back of the cabulance, to the sheriff situation.
ref: 1997, Ivan Doig, Bucking the Sun, page 394:
glosses: A taxicab used as an ambulance.
Related terms: ambulance
whiggism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Whigism
form: Whiggism
Etymology: From Whig + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Principles, philosophy, methods of the Whigs.
hairpin curve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hairpin curves
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hairpin bend.
synonyms: word: hairpin bend
hairpin turn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hairpin turns
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hairpin bend.
synonyms: word: hairpin bend
Tamahaq
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The only known Northern Tuareg language, spoken in Algeria, western Libya, and northern Niger.
Related terms: alt: SIL
urls: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/thv
word: thv
word: thv ⁠
growth stock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: growth stocks
Senses: examples: text: Those lucky investors who years ago put $20,000 into International Business Machines, or a similar growth stock, and have seen it soar to $500,000 today, do have some problems.
ref: 1960 December 5, “Investment: Capital-Gains Stall”, in Time:
text: Two years later, when Brown took Stryker public, bankers told him it would need at least 20% annual earnings gains to be considered a growth stock.
ref: 2004 December 6, Kathleen Kerwin, “Knees And Hips — And Now What?”, in Businessweek, retrieved 16 Aug 2011:
text: What's the perfect small-cap growth stock? One with good growth prospects, fat margins, limited competition, and outstanding management.
ref: 2011 May 18, Jim Oberweis, “Wrinkles Worth Having”, in Forbes.com, retrieved 16 Aug 2011:
topics: business
finance
glosses: A corporate equity investment instrument which usually does not pay substantial dividends but which increases in value as the company grows, and which typically appeals to investors who have a long-term perspective.
fressing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The act of eating without restraint; devouring.
fressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fress
fress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /fɹɛs/
Forms: form: fresses
form: fressing
form: fressed
form: fressed
Etymology: From German fressen (“to eat, devour, gobble”) and/or Yiddish פֿרעסן (fresn), both from Middle High German vrezzen, from Old High German frezzan (“to eat up”), from Proto-West Germanic *fraetan, from Proto-Germanic *fraetaną (“to eat up”), from *fra- (intensive and perfective prefix) + *etaną (“to eat”), equivalent to for- + eat. Cognate with Old English fretan (“to devour”). Doublet of fret.
Senses: synonyms: pig out
qualifier: Nova Scotia
glosses: to eat without restraint; eat heartily
fresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fress
fressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fress
fullmade
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fullmade
form: most fullmade
form: full-made
Etymology: From Middle English fulmade, volmad (“accomplished, perfected”), past participle of fulmaken (“to accomplish, perfect”), equivalent to full + made. Cognate with Dutch volmaakt (“perfect, complete”).
Senses: examples: text: "With a fullmade machine we concern ourselves, he says, only with what it can do, but this with this growing machine it is important that we have some control over its construction, and the poet's, who see something of man's nature, can best help as by imparting to us their gift of sight."
ref: 1893, Thomas Marc Parrott, An examination of the non-dramatic poems:
text: He must be "roundly turned" — "full-made" as the dealers say — with good length, standing over plenty of ground, and with a smoothly-flowing top line from his well-formed, well-set ears to his high- carried tail; well sprung in his ribs [...]
ref: 1907, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Country life: Volume 11:
text: He exemplifies the close, full-made form and high action of the show type, but has unusual bone and muscular development in his comparatively short legs.
ref: 1914, Carl Warren Gay, Principles & practice of judging live-stock:
text: And, you know, I am tall and fullmade, and he was but a little, wiry, short old man.
ref: 1958, Victoria Lincoln, A dangerous innocence:
glosses: Complete; fully made; perfected.
full-made
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more full-made
form: most full-made
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fullmade.
Ma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: ma
Senses: glosses: Mother, mom, mama.
raw_tags: in direct address
Ma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: ma
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of May.
Ma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Etymology: Transcription of 馬／马 (mǎ).
Senses: glosses: A common surname from Chinese of East Asian derivation.
Ma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Senses: glosses: A language spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Ma terms
belis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beli
CLS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Common Language Specification, a specification for .NET.
CLS
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: qualifier: social networking
glosses: Initialism of comment, like and share / subscribe.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of clear screen.
hand-egg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand-eggs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of handegg.
Common Type System
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A set of data types that are common to all .NET languages and can be shared over CLI.
Common Language Infrastructure
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: CLI
hypernyms: infrastructure#Noun
glosses: The open specification that describes the executable code and runtime environment that form the core of the Microsoft .NET Framework.
language-agnostic
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: In a manner that is independent of the computer language being used.
Synonyms: language-independent
Common Language Specification
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A subset of the base Common Type System comprising the rules to which any CLS-compliant language targeting the Common Language Infrastructure should conform.
VES
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Virtual Execution System.
VES
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of vent, enter, search (“a firefighting and rescue strategy”).
Related terms: VEIS
CIL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Common Intermediate Language.
CIL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CILs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of cousin-in-law.
glosses: Initialism of cash in lieu.
Common Intermediate Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The lowest level human-readable language defined by the Common Language Infrastructure.
intermediate language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intermediate languages
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A language of an abstract machine designed as an aid in the analysis of computer programs.
intermediate languages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intermediate language
software framework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: software frameworks
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: an abstraction used in software development to provide generic functionality for application-specific software.
Hypernyms: framework
software frameworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of software framework
Common Language Runtime
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A special runtime environment that serves as the underlying infrastructure of the Microsoft .NET Framework.
Bunn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bunns
Etymology: * As an English surname, variant of Bone.
* As a German surname, perhaps a variant of Bunde.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A town in Franklin County, North Carolina, United States.
mitrate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪ.tɹeɪt/
Etymology: From mitre + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Having a shape like that of an abbot's or bishop's mitre.
glosses: Wearing a mitre.
Related terms: mitre
mitred
mitriform
mitrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪ.tɹeɪt/
Forms: form: mitrates
Etymology: From a substantivation of the above adjective through the associated taxon's name (Mitrata). Equivalent to mitre + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: One of an extinct group of stem group echinoderms.
rearchitect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rearchitects
form: rearchitecting
form: rearchitected
form: rearchitected
Etymology: From re- + architect.
Senses: synonyms: redesign
restructure
glosses: To architect again or anew.
Related terms: word: architect
word: architecting
word: architecture
word: rearchitecture
word: software architect
word: software architecture
rearchitected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rearchitect
rearchitecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rearchitect