cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
power-hungry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more power-hungry
form: most power-hungry
Senses: examples: text: The accused politician was a power-hungry man who broke the law so he could help his buddies.
glosses: Having a strong desire for power.
examples: text: The latest model is also the most power-hungry in the lineup.
text: Could we eventually see Class 800/802 trains exchanging their diesel engines for Fast Charge battery technology and 'opportunity charging', at each station stop on their long journey west? We're a long way from that being a possibility for heavy, power-hungry inter-city trains, but the Greenford line trial will provide GWR with the experience and data it needs to start the process of making diesel history.
ref: 2023 August 23, Ben Jones, “A Fast Charge to DMUs' demise?”, in RAIL, number 990, page 33:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: power-intensive
energy-intensive
glosses: Of a device, using or requiring a large amount of electrical power.
Related terms: power trip
refoul
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: refouls
form: refouling
form: refouled
form: refouled
Etymology: From French refouler.
Senses: glosses: To refuse entry to a country and repatriate (an immigrant or asylum-seeker)
Related terms: refoulement
refouled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: His visa to live in Australia had been revoked, but he could not be refouled to Afghanistan because he faced a “well-founded fear of persecution” there.
ref: 2015 September 17, Ben Doherty, “Ali Jaffari dies after setting himself on fire in Perth detention centre”, in The Guardian:
glosses: simple past and past participle of refoul
refouls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of refoul
refouling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of refoul
dehalogenative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: We study the electronic structure of an ordered array of poly(para-phenylene) chains produced by surface-catalyzed dehalogenative polymerization of 1,4-dibromobenzene on copper (110).
ref: 2015, G.Vasseur, Y. Fagot-Revurat, M. Sicot, B. Kierren, L. Moreau, D. Malterre, L. Cardenas, G. Galeotti, J. Lipton-Duffin, F.Rosei, M. Di Giovannantonio, G. Contini, P. Le Fèvre, F. Bertran, L. Liang, V. Meunier, D. F. Perepichka, “Quasi one-Dimensional Band Dispersion and Metallization In long Range Ordered Polymeric wires”, in arXiv:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Accompanied by dehalogenation
divisorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Etymology: From divisor + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: An important piece of information in the theory of the arithmetic Galois action on the geometric fundamental groups of schemes is that divisorial inertia is acted on cyclotomically.
ref: 2015, Filippo Callegaro, Giovanni Gaiffi, Pierre Lochak, “Garside elements, inertia and Galois action on braid groups”, in arXiv:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Related to a divisor
envyfree
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: We then extend quota mechanisms to randomized settings, and show that the random serial dictatorship quota mechanisms (RSDQ) are envyfree, strategyproof, and ex post efficient for any number of agents and objects and any quota system, proving that the well-studied Random Serial Dictatorship (RSD) satisfies envyfreeness when preferences are lexicographic..
ref: 2015, Hadi Hosseini, Kate Larson, “Strategyproof Quota Mechanisms for Multiple Assignment Problems”, in arXiv:
glosses: Alternative form of envy-free.
Derived terms: envyfreeness
envyfreeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From envyfree + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: We then extend quota mechanisms to randomized settings, and show that the random serial dictatorship quota mechanisms (RSDQ) are envyfree, strategyproof, and ex post efficient for any number of agents and objects and any quota system, proving that the well-studied Random Serial Dictatorship (RSD) satisfies envyfreeness when preferences are lexicographic..
ref: 2015, Hadi Hosseini, Kate Larson, “Strategyproof Quota Mechanisms for Multiple Assignment Problems”, in arXiv:
glosses: The state of being envyfree
fibral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The structure of such couplings is unraveled by exploiting the perturbative and non-perturbative homological relations, introduced in our companion paper arXiv:1506.06764, which encode the interplay between the self-dual 3-form flux on the M5-brane, the background 4-form flux and certain fibral curves.
ref: 2015, Luca Martucci, Timo Weigand, “Hidden Selection Rules, M5-instantons and Fluxes in F-theory”, in arXiv:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having the form of a fiber or fibril
Derived terms: interfibral
fibrant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This means that the fibrant replacement functor does not preserve the causal structure.
ref: 2015, Philippe Gaucher, “About the choice of cofibrations of higher dimensional transition systems”, in arXiv:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Relating to a fibration
Derived terms: cofibrant
framelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: framelets
Etymology: From frame + -let.
Senses: examples: text: Such symmetric quincunx tight framelets are associated with quincunx tight framelet filter banks #92;#123;a#59;b#95;1,b#95;2,b#95;3#92;#125; having increasing orders of vanishing moments and enjoying the additional double canonical properties: b#95;1(k#95;1,k#95;2)#61;(-1)#123;1#43;k#95;1#43;k#95;2#125;a(1-k#95;1,-k#95;2),b#95;3(k#95;1,k#95;2)#61;(-1)#123;1#43;k#95;1#43;k#95;2#125;b#95;2(1-k#95;1,-k#95;2). For a low-pass filter a which is not a quincunx orthonormal wavelet filter, we show that a quincunx tight framelet filter bank #92;#123;a#59;b#95;1,#92;ldots,b#95;L#92;#125; with b#95;1 taking the above canonical form must have L#92;ge 3 high-pass filters.
ref: 2015 July 27, Bin Han, Qingtang Jiang, Zuowei Shen, Xiaosheng Zhuang, “Symmetric Canonical Quincunx Tight Framelets with High Vanishing Moments and Smoothness [arXiv:1507.07492v1]”, in arXiv:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A wavelet frame.
framelets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Symmetric quincunx tight framelets constructed by both approaches in this paper are of particular interest for their applications in computer graphics and image processing..
ref: 2015, Bin Han, Qingtang Jiang, Zuowei Shen, Xiaosheng Zhuang, “Symmetric Canonical Quincunx Tight Framelets with High Vanishing Moments and Smoothness”, in arXiv:
glosses: plural of framelet
gonality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gonalities
Senses: examples: text: If C is reducible, we compare its gonality to that of its irreducible components.
ref: 2015, Juliana Coelho, Frederico Sercio, “On the gonality of stable curves”, in arXiv:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The "angularity" of a curve (See the Wikipedia article for a more rigorous definition)
hyperensemble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperensembles
Etymology: From hyper- + ensemble.
Senses: examples: text: It is now evident that our hyperensemble has the functional form of the entropic distribution, a probability of probabilities..
ref: 2007, Gavin E. Crooks, “Beyond Boltzmann-Gibbs statistics: Maximum entropy hyperensembles out-of-equilibrium”, in Phys. Rev. E, volume 75, →DOI, page 041119:
text: In particular, we provide a bound on the spectral radius of the symmetric Bernoulli hyperensemble..
ref: 2015, Joshua Cooper, “Spectra of Random Hypermatrices and Hypergraphs”, in arXiv:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A group of related probability distributions
Synonyms: metaprobability
intersonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + sonic.
Senses: examples: text: We demonstrate that if the coefficient of friction is high enough, the sliding localizes within stick-slip pulses, which transform into opening waves propagating at intersonic speed in the direction of sliding or, for high Poisson's ratios, at supersonic speed in the opposite one.
ref: 2015, Vladislav A. Yastrebov, “Sliding without slipping under Coulomb friction: opening waves and inversion of frictional force”, in arXiv:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having a speed between that of the dilational wave and the shear wave
macronova
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macronovas
form: macronovae
Etymology: From macro- + nova. From macro- (“larger”), taking macro- being less than super-. From being much brighter than a nova, but less so than a typical supernova.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of kilonova.
synonyms: word: kilonova
minibatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minibatches
Etymology: Attested since 1993, mini- + batch. Quickly displaced original term "blockupdate" coined by Martin Møller in 1992.
Senses: examples: text: Interestingly, unlike the vanilla SGD algorithm, the stochastic normalized gradient descent algorithm provably requires a minimal minibatch size.
ref: 2015, Elad Hazan, Kfir Y. Levy, Shai Shalev-Shwartz, “Beyond Convexity: Stochastic Quasi-Convex Optimization”, in arXiv:
qualifier: machine learning
glosses: A batch less than one epoch
multidimensions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multi- + dimensions.
Senses: examples: text: Quasi-convexity broadens the concept of unimodality to multidimensions and allows for certain types of saddle points, which are a known hurdle for first-order optimization methods such as gradient decent.
ref: 2015, Elad Hazan, Kfir Y. Levy, Shai Shalev-Shwartz, “Beyond Convexity: Stochastic Quasi-Convex Optimization”, in arXiv:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: multiple dimensions
Related terms: multidimensional
re-sentence
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-sentences
form: re-sentencing
form: re-sentenced
form: re-sentenced
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of resentence.
re-sentences
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of re-sentence
re-sentencing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of re-sentence
re-sentenced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of re-sentence
overrecruit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overrecruits
form: overrecruiting
form: overrecruited
form: overrecruited
form: over-recruit
Etymology: From over- + recruit.
Senses: glosses: To recruit too many people.
overrecruited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overrecruit
overrecruits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overrecruit
overrecruiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overrecruit
over-recruit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: over-recruits
form: over-recruiting
form: over-recruited
form: over-recruited
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of overrecruit.
over-recruits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of over-recruit
over-recruiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of over-recruit
over-recruited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of over-recruit
antichoreography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + choreography.
Senses: examples: text: But though intriguing at first, his knowingly enigmatic narration, stylish antichoreography and overripe cinematography wear thin in the long run.
ref: 2009 May 22, Ken Johnson, “Video Spectacles, Imagined or, in One Case, Real”, in New York Times:
glosses: unconventional choreography
match-merge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: match-merges
form: match-merging
form: match-merged
form: match-merged
Senses: examples: text: The lists are match-merged, so if you are on both lists, you are not twice as likely to be chosen.
text: "When you want to match-merge several data sets and the data sets do not all match by the same variables […]"
ref: 2012, Michele M. Burlew, SAS Hash Object Programming Made Easy:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To merge sets of objects while excluding duplicates.
match-merge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: match-merges
Senses: examples: text: The last match-merge produced the list we reported.
glosses: the process of match-merging
match-merges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of match-merge
match-merges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of match-merge
match-merging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of match-merge
match-merged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of match-merge
shipova
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: academic, NNSE
ipa: [ˈʃǐpova]
note: Americanized
ipa: [ʃɪˈpowva]
Forms: form: shipovas
form: shipover
Etymology: Propagated into the US 1959 from Yugoslavia—1986 again from Macedonia as smokvarka / смокварка (smokvarka)—, which itself has only grafts descending from a single tree described 1834 in the Parisian Jardin du Roi, as the hybrid’s fruits are mostly sterile. Given that the Serbo-Croatian accent is imitated in the current pronunciation, we can be confident to say that this word is from the Serbo-Croatian descendant of Proto-Slavic *šipъ used itself or in derivatives to refer to rosaceous plants + *-ovъ (suffix used to form relative adjectives) + *-a (feminine ending)
Senses: examples: text: His latest book, “Landscaping With Fruit” (Storey, 2009), dives into the world of the little-known lingonberry, clove currant, maypop, shipova, hardy kiwi and other fruits that are easy to grow, he says, and as delicious as they are ornamental.
ref: 2009 May 21, Anne Raver, “From Novel Fruits, a Lush Landscape”, in New York Times:
glosses: A sweet edible fruit, a hybrid of the European pear (Pyrus communis) and the common whitebeam (Aria edulis, syn., Sorbus aria).
wikipedia: Jardin des plantes
Serbo-Croatian accent
shipovas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shipova
Capernaum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Late Latin Capharnaum, from Ancient Greek Καφαρναούμ (Kapharnaoúm), from Biblical Hebrew כְּפַר נַחוּם (Kfar Nahum, “Nahum's Village”).
Senses: glosses: An ancient town in Galilee, Israel, a biblical and archaeological site.
non-responder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-responders
Etymology: From non- + responder.
Senses: examples: text: A vaccine non-responder is a person who does not develop protective surface antibodies after completing two full series of injections.
text: The court sent "requests to show cause" to all questionnaire non-responders.
glosses: Someone who does not respond.
non-responders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-responder
hodgepodgery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hodgepodge + -ery.
Senses: glosses: Miscellany.
order to show cause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orders to show cause
Senses: topics: law
synonyms: word: OSC
word: OTSC
glosses: A type of court order that requires a person to justify, explain, or prove something to the court.
orders to show cause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of order to show cause
cross-check
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cross-checks
form: cross-checking
form: cross-checked
form: cross-checked
Etymology: From cross- + check.
Senses: examples: text: Aft doors armed and cross-checked.
glosses: To verify (information, data, or calculations) by using an alternative source or method.
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: To commit the infraction of checking an opponent by using the shaft of one's stick with both hands.
plurisubharmonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pluri- + subharmonic.
Senses: examples: text: We prove that any embedded Maslov index two analytic disc attached to a totally real torus in the complex two-dimensional affine space extends to an analytic filling provided that the torus is contained in a regular level set of a strictly plurisubharmonic function..
ref: 2015, Kai Zehmisch, “Analytic filling of totally real tori”, in arXiv:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Describing a generalization of subharmonic functions
Derived terms: plurisubharmonically
plurisubharmonicity
cross-checks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cross-check
cross-checking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cross-check
cross-checked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cross-check
Simmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Simmers
Etymology: From Sim + -er.
Senses: topics: video-games
hypernyms: simmer
glosses: A fan of the video game series The Sims.
Simmer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Simmers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Simmer or a variant of Summer.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
ULD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ULDs
Senses: qualifier: logistics
glosses: Initialism of unit load device: a standardised pallet or container, used primarily for air freight.
glosses: Initialism of upper limb disorder, pain or discomfort in the fingers, hands, wrists, arms, shoulders, or neck.
glosses: Initialism of Unverricht-Lundborg disease.
Related terms: WRULD
zamorins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zamorin
jine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Ezry had his two little girls jine that night, and I ricollect the preacher made sich a purty prayer about the Savior a-cotin' from the Bible 'bout "Suffer little childern to come unto me" and all; and talked so purty about the jedgment day, and mothers a-meetin' the'r little ones there and all; and went on tel ther wasn't a dry eye in the house--and jist as he was a-windin' up, Abe Riggers stuck his head in at the door and hollered "fire" loud as he could yell.
ref: 1895, James Whitcomb Riley, Pipes O'Pan at Zekesbury:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of join.
sezee
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: Pretty business, ain't it?' he continued; 'Dyvis on the lush? Must say I thought you gave it 'im A1 today. He didn't like it a bit; took on hawful after you were gone.--"'Ere," says I, "'old on, easy on the lush," I says. "'Errick was right, and you know it. Give 'im a chanst," I says.--"Uish," sezee, "don't you gimme no more of your jaw, or I'll knock your bloomin' eyes out."
ref: 1894, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 5, in The Ebb-Tide:
glosses: says he
seuerall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of several.
shuld
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of should.
iudge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iudges
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of judge.
iudge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: iudges
form: iudging
form: iudged
form: iudged
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of judge.
shewe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of show.
hunderd
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of hundred.
dhrink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of drink.
dhrink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of drink.
onlie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of only.
manye
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of many.
fiew
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of few.
boyle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: boyles
form: boyling
form: boyled
form: boyled
Senses: examples: text: 1610?, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist
What makes the Divell so divelish, I would aske you, / Sathan, our common enemie, but his being / Perpetually about the fire, and boyling / Brimstone and Arsnike?
text: To cause nurses to have abundance of milk, I have taken the fresh branches or tops of fennell, and boyled them in water or wine, and given it to drinke at dinner or supper, and at all times, for it greatly augmenteth the milk.
ref: 1652, Leonard Phioravant, Three Exact Pieces:
text: Yet I observed that the Water at the burning place did boyle, and heave like Water in a Pot upon the Fire, though my hand put into it perceived it not so much as warm.
ref: 1666, Philosophical Transactions:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of boil.
boyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boyles
Senses: examples: text: ... a boyle or impostume comen forthe & broken
ref: 1541, Sir Thomas Elyot, The Castel of Health:
text: And they toke it, and layed it on the boyle, and he recouered.
ref: 1560, The Bible and Holy Scriptures. With Annotations, page 175:
text: And they took ashes of the fornace, and stoode before Pharaoh , and Moses sprinkled it toward heauen: and it became a boyle breaking forth with blaynes, upon man, and upon beast.
ref: 1613, The holy bible: conteining the old Testament and the New: Newly Transl. out of the Originall Tongues:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of boil.
farr
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of far.
darlint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of darling.
cary
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: caries
form: carying
form: caried
form: caried
Senses: examples: text: That firſt, and higheſt Sphere, / That mooues, and is not moou’d againe / Of any other heauen, that mooues one whit: / The which with his Careare, / And ſwifteſt courſe doth turne away / The loweſt heauens, and caries after it: / An order doth admit, / And doth maintaine, not erring in the leſt: / For it doth cary them with ſpeede, / And with more haſte (indeede) / The neareſt heauen to it, from Eaſt to Weſt: / But rule thou doſt diſdaine, / And onely without order doſt remaine.
ref: 1598, George of Montemayor, translated by Bartholomew Yong, Diana of George of Montemayor, London: […] Edm. Bollifant, [i]mpensis G[eorge] B[ishop], pages 194–195:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of carry.
daown
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: "[…]ye must jest come right daown to plain livin'. How many servants d'yeh say they kep'[…]"
ref: 1869, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oldtown Folks, Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 326:
text: "Her ladyship, Lady Tichwudd; I knowed that bragian boy in front, as looketh daown on his own kearful moother. No room for he, in my kitchen. I was vorced to box the ears of 'un, last time."
ref: 1882, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, Christowell. A Dartmoor Tale. […], volume II, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 147:
text: the new Californians, hailing directly from "daown east,"
ref: 1893, Fannie E[llsworth] Newberry, The Odd One, Boston, Mass.: A. I. Bradley & Company, →OCLC, page 74:
text: “Y’ ever hear what Sim’on Peter Ca’houn said when they whacked up a match ’twix’ his sister Hitty an’ Lorin’ Jerauld, an’ the boys put up that joke on him daown to Georges?” drawled Uncle Salters
ref: 1896 November – 1897 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Captains Courageous”, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, published 1897, →OCLC, page 148:
text: "[…]They do treat 'em nefarious daown thah on the wholesale plantations.[…]"
ref: 1901 May, Winston Churchill, The Crisis, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, book I, page 37:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of down.
ebery
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: examples: text: And ebery time a lazy nigger stops to take a nap, / De grass keeps on a-growin' for to smudder up his crap.
ref: 1875, The Century, volume 11, page 760:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of every, representing caricature African American English.
avay
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of away.
beyant
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: 'Is't they swaggie beyant?'
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 191:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of beyond.
naow
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of now.
disna
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Etymology: From Scots.
Senses: examples: text: Ah but, Nanse woman, I'm sad to say that he disna believe what he reads in his Bible.
ref: 1874, “Is a Miracle Credible?”, in The Evangelical Repository and United Presbyterian Worker, page 209:
text: She was awful raised kind, and wanderin' and that, at the first; but she disna ken onything now, and she disna speak; she's just a sort o' done out, peer creature; but doctor thinks maybe there'll come a lightenin' or she go.
ref: 1884, Mary Charlotte J. Leith, From over the water, page 328:
text: No, she disna, she bides at the tother end o' the road.
ref: 1906, “The Auld Lads of Corrievreckan”, in The Idler: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume 28, page 145:
text: the East is just a smell ! It begins at Port Said and disna stop till ye come to San Francisco, … if there !
ref: 1923, “Olfaction and Public Health”, in Aromatics and the Soul: A Study of Smells, page 10:
glosses: does not
heauie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: heauier
form: heauiest
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of heavy.
cowld
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of cold.
befure
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of before.
righte
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of right.
chapt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of chapter.
chapt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chapt
form: most chapt
Etymology: From chap + -t.
Senses: examples: text: a remedy for chapt lips
text: Now therefore, while the youthful hue / Sits on thy skin like morning dew, / And while thy willing soul transpires / At every pore with instant fires, / Now let us sport us while we may, / And now, like amorous birds of prey, / Rather at once our time devour / Than languish in his slow-chapt power.
ref: c. 1650, Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress
glosses: Obsolete form of chapped.
apophthegmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more apophthegmatic
form: most apophthegmatic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of apothegmatic.
apophthegmatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more apophthegmatically
form: most apophthegmatically
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of apothegmatically.
agean
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of again.
apothegmatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more apothegmatically
form: most apothegmatically
form: apophthegmatically
Etymology: From apothegmatic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an apothegmatic way.
bofe
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of both.
abaout
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of about.
apophthegmatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more apophthegmatical
form: most apophthegmatical
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of apothegmatical.
mesilf
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of myself.
doobt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of doubt.
childern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of children.
reuenge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reuenges
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of revenge.
evere
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of ever.
haill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of hail.
doone
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of down.
enny
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of any.
vrom
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of from.
sicht
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of sight.
hafe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of have.
pitie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of pity.
wust
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of worst.
thoughte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of thought.
diuine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of divine.
dooant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of don't.
nothink
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of nothing.
bowe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bowes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of bow.
bowe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bowes
form: bowing
form: bowed
form: bowed
Senses: examples: text: We have a custome, that when one sneezes, every one els putts off his hatt, and bowes, and cries God bless ye Sir.
ref: c. 1691, John Aubrey, Naturall Historie of Wiltshire:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of bow.
yor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of your.
yir
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of your.
scorne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Disdaine and Scorne ride sparkling in her eyes,
Mis-prizing what they looke on […]
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of scorn.
clothworker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clothworkers
Etymology: From cloth + worker.
Senses: glosses: A textile worker.
clothworkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clothworker
spiralised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: And alongside all of this, I’d want someone to make a spiralised courgette salad and then pour it down the waste disposal as we watched, to the cheers of the assembled throng.
ref: 2015 September 18, Dale Berning Sawa, “Tim Hayward’s final meal”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of spiralized.
o'erload
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: o'erloads
form: o'erloading
form: o'erloaded
form: o'erloaded
Senses: glosses: Contraction of overload.
o'erloads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of o'erload. Contraction of overloads.
o'erloading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of o'erload.
o'erloaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of o'erload
courteouslie
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more courteouslie
form: most courteouslie
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of courteously.
o'erlook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: o'erlooks
form: o'erlooking
form: o'erlooked
form: o'erlooked
Senses: glosses: Contraction of overlook.
pivot table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pivot tables
Etymology: Introduced by Microsoft in 1994 as "PivotTable" (though the concept was older); their trademark was active until 2020.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A summary table used for automatic sorting, counting and averaging of the data in another table or spreadsheet.
pivot tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pivot table
nonancient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + ancient.
Senses: examples: text: And we ride through 1995 Berlin, a city of cranes and construction and nonancient ruins that seems a slightly sad, distant relation of the black-and-white city of this movie’s film within a film.
ref: 2015 September 17, Rachel Saltz, “Review: In ‘A Trick of the Light,’ the German Answer to the Lumière Brothers”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not ancient.
hardgoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hard + goods.
Senses: glosses: Durable products manufactured from relatively hard materials, such as cars, TVs, and household appliances.
Synonyms: durable goods
hardlines
Related terms: softgoods
fish cop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish cops
Senses: glosses: An officer of a fish and wildlife conservation commission.
fish cops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fish cop
gravel road cop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gravel road cops
Etymology: A humorous reinterpretation of French GRC (Gendarmerie Royale du Canada), in reference to the remote rural areas where such people often work.
Senses: synonyms: Mountie
Queen's cowboy
glosses: An officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
gravel road cops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gravel road cop
Siniform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: siniform
form: Sinoform
Senses: glosses: Resembling the Chinese script.
square balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of square ball
lobsterpot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lobsterpots
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lobster pot.
doenjang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 된장 (doenjang).
Senses: examples: text: Eun Hee An, chef and owner of Melbourne’s Moon Mart (the eatery is currently relocating from its West Melbourne spot), says her grandma used to make doenjang from scratch when she was growing up in Korea. “It was always our breakfast soup. So I grew up eating doenjang jjigae every day in my life,” she says.
ref: 2024 September 25, Jane Lee, “‘Jjigae is comfort food of the highest order’: my obsession with cooking Korea’s best-loved soups”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A thick salty paste made from fermented soybeans, used in Korean cuisine.
Related terms: doenjang-jjigae
kröhnkite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Kröhnke + -ite, named after B. Kröhnke, who first researched it.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare copper sulfate mineral with chemical formula Na₂Cu(SO₄)₂•2H₂O.
merge-sort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merge-sorts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mergesort.
merge-sort
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: merge-sorts
form: merge-sorting
form: merge-sorted
form: merge-sorted
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mergesort.
merge-sorts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of merge-sort
merge-sorts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of merge-sort
merge-sorting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of merge-sort
merge-sorted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of merge-sort
baghead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bagheads
Etymology: From bag + -head.
Senses: glosses: A drug addict.
bagheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baghead
inter-dependent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inter-dependent
form: most inter-dependent
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of interdependent.
redtwig dogwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redtwig dogwood
CRISPR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkrɪspər/
rhymes: -ɪspə(ɹ)
Forms: form: CRISPRs
form: Crispr
Etymology: Acronym of clustered, regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats.
Senses: examples: text: Crispr is a guide molecule made of RNA, that allows a specific site of interest on the DNA double helix to be targeted.
ref: 2018 October 14, Sarah Marsh, “Essays reveal Stephen Hawking predicted race of 'superhumans'”, in The Guardian:
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
synonyms: SRSR
glosses: Segments of bacteria and archaea DNA containing short repetitions of base sequences.
examples: text: For the first time, doctors in the U.S. have used the powerful gene-editing technique CRISPR to try to treat a patient with a genetic disorder.
ref: 2019 July 29, Rob Stein, “In A 1st, Doctors In U.S. Use CRISPR Tool To Treat Patient With Genetic Disorder”, in npr:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The CRISPR/Cas9 system, which functions to provide immunity to bacteria and archaea by finding a section of DNA and replacing it with an alternative.
glosses: Any technique or process or system for editing genomes by laboratory use of the CRISPR/Cas9 system.
CRISPR
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkrɪspər/
rhymes: -ɪspə(ɹ)
Forms: form: CRISPRs
form: CRISPRing
form: CRISPRed
form: CRISPRed
form: Crispr
Etymology: Acronym of clustered, regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats.
Senses: examples: text: In this planned trial, doctors will remove cancer patients' T cells, “CRISPR” them, and then reinfuse them in the hope that they will recognize and attack the patients' cancers.
ref: 2017, Robin L. Smith, Max Gomez, Cells Are the New Cure:
text: Having CRISPRed the cells we next wanted to identify the types of modification that have been generated.
ref: 2017, Alexandra Franz, Erich Brunner, Konrad Baslter, “Generation of genome-modified Drosophila cell lines using SwAP”, in Fly, volume 11, number 4:
text: Two successful applications of the CRISPR-Cas9 system in an SCN- and cell-type-specific fashion [5] will all but certainly add to the common refrain of 'just CRISPR it' (grad students and postdocs, insert groan here).
ref: 2017 May, Marc D. Ruben, John B. Hogenesch, “Circadian Rhythms: Move over neurons—astrocytes mediate SCN clock function”, in Current Biology, volume 27, number 9:
glosses: To edit genomes by laboratory use of the CRISPR/Cas9 system.
dove tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dove trees
Etymology: From dove + tree.
Senses: synonyms: ghost tree
handkerchief tree
glosses: A Chinese tree grown ornamentally for the large white bracts around the flowers, which are said to resemble dove wings or handkerchiefs, Davidia involucrata.
dove trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dove tree
handkerchief tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhæŋkət͡ʃɪf ˈtɹiː/
ipa: /-t͡ʃiːf-/
ipa: /ˌhæŋkəɹt͡ʃəf ˈtɹi/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: handkerchief trees
Etymology: From handkerchief + tree.
Senses: synonyms: ghost tree
glosses: The dove tree (Davidia involucrata), which has large white bracts said to look like handkerchiefs.
glosses: An arrangement of handkerchiefs in the form of a tree, specifically on a stand as a display for sale.
handkerchief trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handkerchief tree
ghost tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghost trees
Senses: glosses: The dove tree, Davidia involucrata, which has large white bracts resembling white sheets like those used to represent ghosts.
wikipedia: Davidia involucrata
Synonyms: dove tree
handkerchief tree
ghost trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghost tree
woodvamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A large deciduous vine or ground-cover related to the hydrangeas, with fragrant white flowers, native to the southeastern US, Decumaria barbara.
slice bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slice bars
Senses: glosses: A tool with a broad flat end that is used to rake out a furnace grate.
Related terms: fire iron
fireplace poker
slice bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slice bar
Gethsemane
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɛθˈsɛməni/
rhymes: -ɛməni
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Γεθσημανή (Gethsēmanḗ), from Classical Syriac ܓܕܣܡܢ (Gat Šmānê, literally “oil press”).
Senses: glosses: A biblical location in ancient Jerusalem, a garden at the foot of the Mount of Olives where, according to the four Gospels of the New Testament, Jesus underwent the Agony in the Garden and was arrested the night before his crucifixion.
can't live with them and can't live without them
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of can't live with them, can't live without them.
cornelian cherries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cornelian cherry
business-friendly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more business-friendly
form: most business-friendly
Senses: topics: business
commerce
retail
glosses: Favoring or conducive to business concerns or interests.
Derived terms: business-friendliness
councilmembers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of councilmember
law-trained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From law + trained.
Senses: glosses: who studied law, who has a law degree
raw_tags: of a person or persons
free-falls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of free-fall
free-falling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of free-fall
free-fell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of free-fall
free-fallen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of free-fall
business-critical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more business-critical
form: most business-critical
Senses: glosses: crucial to the operation of a business
snap shots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snap shot
stroke of business
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strokes of business
Senses: examples: text: "How my father came to hear of this little stroke of business I never knew, but some little bird or other whistled it to him, and he was very soon down upon me in right earnest."
ref: 1898, Charles Spurgeon, The Autobiography of Charles H. Spurgeon: 1834-1854:
glosses: (of business or trade) a large or considerable amount
strokes of business
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stroke of business
place of business
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: places of business
Senses: glosses: A place where business is conducted, such as an office or a single shop in a franchise.
Synonyms: word: joint
places of business
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of place of business
business is business
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Possibly a calque of French les affaires sont les affaires (or vice versa). The French phrase is found as far back as George Sand's Mattea (1833).
Senses: examples: text: I've a mortgage now on Tompkins' lot; / What a fool he was to become a sot! […] How she will blubber and sob and sigh, / But business is business,—and what care I?
ref: before 1843, anonymous author, The Grog-Seller's Dream:
text: But money first, you know, Mark; business is business as the saying is; and there's nothing like the ready.
ref: 1846, Charles Rowcroft, The Bushranger of Van Diemen's Land:
text: Although I am your nephew, I wouldn't think of asking you to lend me money without security. Business is business, so I say.
ref: 1874, Horatio Alger, Risen from the Ranks:
glosses: Business matters should not be influenced by friendship or sentiment.
say no more
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Last week the Brits appropriated a couple of all-American icons—persnickety Sally Albright and her friend Harry Burns—when the stage play of Rob Reiner's 1989 classic When Harry Met Sally opened in London's West End. . . . Next spring Americans will get their return when the musical version of Monty Python and the Holy Grail debuts on Broadway. The show will be called Spamalot. Say no more.
ref: 2004 March 1, Sora Song, “Fake an Orgasm, Fend Off a Rabbit”, in Time, retrieved 19 Sep 2015:
text: Nas walked through the garden of Gethsemane in his 1999 music video. Other scenes featured the rapper being crucified on the cross. Say no more.
ref: 2013 May 8, “Most controversial music videos”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 19 Sep 2015:
text: Those who left early missed a highlight of the event, a self-described "rising sophomore at the University of Connecticut" telling Franzen that The Corrections was the basis for her project on the "depressed male protagonist in post-9/11 literature."
"Say no more," answered a surprised, but amused Franzen.
ref: 2015 May 27, “Jonathan Franzen Talks Up, and Around, His New Novel”, in New York Times, retrieved 19 Sep 2015:
glosses: What has already been said conveys all the meaning and information needed to draw a conclusion concerning a matter which it would be imprudent to discuss further.
synonyms: say nothing
say none
antonyms: what you saying
glosses: A standard formula to end a conversation, i.e. bye, see you soon.
Related terms: say it all
Northern Min
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Partial calque of Chinese 閩北語 /闽北语 (mǐnběiyǔ).
Senses: glosses: A variety of Min Chinese, spoken in northern Fujian, represented by the Jian'ou dialect.
Synonyms: Min Bei
Hyponyms: Jianyang
Jian'ou
Songxi
Shibei
Shaowu
Jiangle
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Northern Min terms
Southern Min
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Partial calque of Chinese 閩南 /闽南 (Mǐnnán).
Senses: glosses: A group of local languages of Min Chinese, which can trace their origins to southern Fujian province, China.
examples: text: To truly complete the journey and discover the roots of Taiwan’s southern Min majority one would have to travel to the P’eng-hu islands (Pescadores) and then still farther west to the shores of southern Fukien and the cities and towns along the province’s east-facing coast, which is where new history of Taiwan begins.
ref: 1999, Murray A. Rubinstein, editor, Taiwan: A New History, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page xi:
glosses: Hokkien, including Amoy, Taiwanese Hokkien and other varieties in Southeast Asia.
glosses: Hokkien, including Amoy, Taiwanese Hokkien and other varieties in Southeast Asia.
the varieties of Hokkien spoken in mainland China, usually as opposed to Taiwanese Taigi spoken in Taiwan
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin
word: Min Nan
Related terms: Hokkien
Taiwanese
Eastern Min
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Partial calque of Chinese 閩東語 /闽东语 (mǐndōngyǔ).
Senses: glosses: A Chinese language, spoken in the eastern part of Fujian, including its capital city Fuzhou.
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin
word: Min Dong
Related terms: cdo ⁠
Wiktionary’s coverage of Eastern Min terms
Sichuanese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sichuanese
form: most Sichuanese
form: Szechwanese
form: Szechuanese
Etymology: From Sichuan + -ese.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to the province of Sichuan, China.
Sichuanese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Szechwanese
form: Szechuanese
Etymology: From Sichuan + -ese.
Senses: glosses: The variety of Mandarin spoken in Sichuan.
Synonyms: word: a Mandarin variety