cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pyelograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyelogram
pulmonitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin pulmō (“lung”) + -itis.
Senses: glosses: pneumonitis
georectification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geo- + rectification.
Senses: glosses: A form of image rectification that transforms an image and a map onto a common coordinate system
Related terms: georectified
image rectification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The transformation of multiple images onto a common coordinate system
donutty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more donutty
form: most donutty
form: doughnutty
Etymology: From donut + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or pertaining to donuts.
doughnutty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From doughnut + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of donutty.
exploitably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more exploitably
form: most exploitably
Etymology: From exploitable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner that is capable of being exploited.
population inversion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: population inversions
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The creation of a system in which more atoms or molecules are in an excited state than in a ground state.
unpopularize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unpopularizes
form: unpopularizing
form: unpopularized
form: unpopularized
form: unpopularise
Etymology: From unpopular + -ize or un- + popularize.
Senses: glosses: to render unpopular
unpopularise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unpopularises
form: unpopularising
form: unpopularised
form: unpopularised
Etymology: From unpopular + -ise or un- + popularise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unpopularize.
fluorescent tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluorescent tubes
Senses: hypernyms: discharge tube
<
tube
coordinate_terms: cathode ray tube
vacuum tube
glosses: The removable, light-emitting part of a fluorescent lamp.
Rayleigh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈreɪli/
Etymology: Of the same origin as Raleigh (which is usually pronounced differently); see Wikipedia at Rayleigh, Essex § Toponymy.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: Lord Rayleigh, English physicist
glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in Rochford district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TQ8090).
glosses: A neighbourhood of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, named after the English town.
Derived terms: Rayleigh-Bénard convection
Rayleigh-Jeans law
Rayleigh scattering
Related terms: english: not to be confused; usually sounds different
translation: not to be confused; usually sounds different
word: Raleigh
spysat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spysats
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: A spy satellite.
spysats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spysat
smeltings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smelting
kinaesthetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kinesthetics.
stuff it
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: stuff it !
Senses: examples: text: I was going to clean my room, but thought, "Stuff it, nobody's going to see it."
glosses: An expression of indifference or nonchalance.
examples: text: Stuff it, will you? I'm trying to sleep!
glosses: Shut up!
Related terms: shove it
get stuffed
shedded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: a shedded pier
glosses: Having, or covered by, a shed.
shedded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: qualifier: except Etymology 3
glosses: simple past and past participle of shed
shrived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shrive
shutted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shut
slided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: “Now, Dombey,” said Miss Blimber. “How have you got on with those books?”
[…] When poor Paul had spelt out number two, he found he had no idea of number one; fragments whereof afterwards obtruded themselves into number three, which slided into number four, which grafted itself on to number two.
ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: simple past and past participle of slide
misleaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mislead
spinned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spin
spreaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spread
standed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stand
strided
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stride + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Although you can think of these specialized functions as wrappers around cudaMemcpy, they are well-optimized to transfer both strided and unstrided data.
ref: 2014, John Cheng, Max Grossman, Ty McKercher, Professional CUDA C Programming, page 342:
text: Ranges support a number of operators including intersection ([]), counting (#), striding (by), and setting the alignment of a strided range (align).
ref: 2015, Pavan Balaji, Programming Models for Parallel Computing, page 141:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Arranged sequentially in memory so as to be accessed by moving in fixed increments larger than one.
strided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From stride + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: He then rose up, strided to the fire, and stood for some time laughing and exulting.
ref: 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson:
glosses: simple past and past participle of stride
skinny dip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skinny dips
Senses: examples: text: On the last night of camp, it was tradition for the girls' cabin to sneak down to the lake for a midnight skinny dip.
text: About Skinny Dipping a group of teenagers including one of my sons went swimming at an old abandoned quarry that was popular for late night skinny dips.
ref: 2019 March, Tom Bissonette, Moved by MeToo - Owning Up and Reaching Out, Lulu.com, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 11, →ISBN:
glosses: The act of swimming naked.
skinny dip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: skinny dips
form: skinny dipping
form: skinny dipped
form: skinny dipped
Senses: examples: text: Wanting to cool off after a long hike, the women decided to stop and skinny dip under the waterfall.
glosses: To swim naked.
Derived terms: skinny dipper
sit the fence
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sits the fence
form: sitting the fence
form: sat the fence
form: sat the fence
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sit on the fence.
edge case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: edge cases
form: edgecase
Senses: glosses: A problem or situation that occurs only at an extreme (maximum or minimum) operating parameter or under other unusual operating conditions.
examples: text: The first thing to do is analyze the situation and determine whether the need to provide additional use is an edge case, or if it will become a common use-case scenario.
ref: 2010, Charles Edge, William Barker, Beau Hunter, Gene Sullivan, Ken Barker, Enterprise Mac Security: Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Apress, →ISBN, page 96:
text: One edge case is when the code processing the message has not finished, but the invisibility window lapses, and another copy of the same message gets dequeued. At this point, there are two active copies of that message being processed.
ref: 2012, Bill Wilder, Cloud Architecture Patterns, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN, page 32:
synonyms: corner case
glosses: Any unexpected input or user behaviour.
Related terms: limit case
edge cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of edge case
rabbit on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rabbits on
form: rabbiting on
form: rabbited on
form: rabbited on
Senses: glosses: To talk for an exceedingly long time, annoying the audience.
gold-collar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Compare blue-collar, white-collar, and see gold (“precious metal”).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to skilled knowledge workers, traditionally classified as white-collar, but essential to a business.
glosses: Of or relating to young, low-wage workers who invest in conspicuous luxury.
set of wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sets of wheels
Senses: examples: text: That's a great set of wheels you've got!
text: “We need a set of wheels to carry out this plan of yours.”
ref: 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A car.
set the world on fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sets the world on fire
form: setting the world on fire
form: set the world on fire
form: set the world on fire
Etymology: With reference to the Bible, the Gospel according to Luke, ch. 12, v.49 Lk.12.49
Senses: examples: text: Tonight
We are young.
So let’s set the world on fire.
We can burn brighter than the sun.
ref: 2011, Fun, “We Are Young”:
synonyms: set the Thames on fire
glosses: To do something sensational.
hit it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hits it
form: hitting it
form: hit it
form: hit it
Etymology: Compare typologically Russian уда́риться (в) (udáritʹsja (v)), тро́гать (trógatʹ), тро́нуться (trónutʹsja).
Senses: examples: text: He looks at the band behind him and says, “Hit it, boys!” The band launches into its own rendition of happy birthday.
ref: 2010, E. K. Schiller, Holly Schiller, The Midnight Hour, page 196:
glosses: To start performing; start playing a song, etc.
glosses: To leave, to hit the road.
examples: text: If I say you look fuckable, how would you react?
 Starin' at you, daydreamin' 'bout hittin' it from the back
ref: 2020, Moneybagg Yo, Match My Fly:
text: Charli likes boys, but she knows I'd hit it.
ref: 2024, Charli XCX, Billie Eilish, “Guess featuring Billie Eilish”Atlantic Recording Corporation:
glosses: To have sex.
glosses: To smoke a cigarette, take an illicit drug, or drink an alcoholic beverage.
glosses: To drive a vehicle, especially a car or motorcycle, really fast.
glosses: To try a gambling game.
Related terms: beat it
influency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It ascribes the extraordinary occurrences in nature to the influency of invisible beings, and supposes the thunder, the jurricane, and the earthquake, to be the immediate effect of their agency.
ref: 1792, William Robertson, An historical disquisition concerning the knowledge which the ancients had of India:
glosses: influence
influentialness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From influential + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: He never had been young. He had done more than man's work, when he was a boy. He had always lain under a man's responsibilities. He had lived his life out at thirty-nine. He had attained, in his short life, a most extensive influentialness.
ref: 1859, William Buell Sprague, Annals of the American Pulpit: Episcopalian. 1859, page 768:
glosses: The quality of being influential; influence.
Niebuhrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Niebuhrian
form: most Niebuhrian
Etymology: From Niebuhr + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: From his studies of these thinkers and activists, Mr. Obama took what he called the “Niebuhrian” lesson that we can have “a cleareyed view of the world and the realities of cruelty and sin and greed and violence, and yet, still maintain a sense of hope and possibility, as an act of will and leap of faith.”
ref: 2020 December 8, Michiko Kakutani, “Obama, the Best-Selling Author, on Reading, Writing and Radical Empathy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Of or relating to Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971), American theologian, ethicist, and political commentator.
pick and choose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: picks and chooses
form: picking and choosing
form: picked and chose
form: picked and chosen
Senses: glosses: To choose selectively or fastidiously.
Related terms: pick 'n' mix
progressible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more progressible
form: most progressible
Etymology: From progress + -ible.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being progressed.
sogo shosha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sogo shoshas
form: sogo shosha
Etymology: Japanese 総合商社
Senses: glosses: A kind of general trading company in Japan, trading in a wide range of products and materials and historically also acting as investment banks and private equities.
sogo shoshas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sogo shosha
sugar tit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sugar tits
Senses: examples: text: “You married? You ain’t hardly old enough to be weaned. Ah betcha you still craves sugar-tits, doncher?”
ref: 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, chapter 4, in Their Eyes Were Watching God, University of Illinois Press, published 1978, page 48:
glosses: A baby's pacifier consisting of a spoonful of sugar or honey in a small patch of cloth which is then twisted to form a bulb and secured with twine etc.
sugar tits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “Hey, sweet-cheeks! Can you take my order real quick?” “Hi. Sure thing.” “Sorry--” “What can I get you?” “Uh, mixed green salad, and we'll do the garlic zoodles.” “Zoodles. Good choice.” “Thank you.” “(inhales deeply) "Good choice."” (indistinct chatter) “Zoodles are zucchini noodles.” “"Sweet cheeks"? Seriously, dude?” “She had cherubic cheeks. It's a compliment.” “"Sweet cheeks" is your butt.” “No, it's not.” “It is. It's like calling somebody, I don't know, "sugar tits."” “That's totally inappropriate. (scoffs) Her tits are way too big to be sugar tits. Sugar tits are like smaller, perkier tits. Like... yours. Uh, technically, I think you may have sugar tits, too...” “Oh, yeah?” “...but somehow that also feels inappropriate.” “All right, Peacemaker. That's enough. You don't have to be happy with this detail, but you do have to treat your fellow soldiers with respect.”
ref: 2022 January 13, James Gunn, “A Whole New Whirled” (26:41 from the start), in Peacemaker, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Peacemaker (John Cena):
glosses: plural of sugar tit
situatednesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of situatedness
tight whites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I wanted them down to their boxers or briefs, and from looking at Jasper's sitting under his jeans peeking out he was a briefs kind of guy. Rick looked slightly worried; I didn't see any underwear peeking out from his jeans. Either he had on tight whites or he was commando which would explain his hesitation to take off the pants when I said too the first time, he took off his boot instead.
ref: 2015, Alicia Morgan, Texas Daydream:
glosses: Alternative form of tighty whities.
TTTT
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Initialism of to tell the truth.
pubic boot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pubic boots
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A wide expansion at the end of the pubis in some dinosaurs.
pubic boots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pubic boot
director's loan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: directors' loans
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: The borrowing of money by a company director from their company.
dead-ender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead-enders
Etymology: From dead end + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who has no prospects for the future; a loser; a dropout.
examples: text: In the first months after the fall of Baghdad, Rumsfeld and his aides still had a limited view of the insurgency, seeing it as little more than the work of Baathist "dead-enders," criminal gangs, and foreign terrorists who were Al Qaeda followers.
ref: 2004 05, Harold Wallace Ross, William Shawn, Tina Brown, David Remnick, Katharine Sergeant Angell White, Rea Irvin, Roger Angell, The New Yorker:
text: Unlike the ideological dead-enders, veterans of the Goldwater campaign, they didn't see much difference between Reagan and Ford—and, other things being equal, they were more inclined to side with the establishment than with the insurgency[…]
ref: 2015 August 11, Rick Perlstein, The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 734:
glosses: One who still holds onto a political position or other viewpoint that is considered outdated or defeated.
dead-enders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dead-ender
chestpad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chestpads
Etymology: From chest + pad.
Senses: examples: text: The black belt fighters wore protective chestpads and headgear like the helmets worn in kendo.
ref: 1976 February, Black Belt, volume 14, number 2, page 61:
glosses: protective padding for the chest
chestpads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chestpad
Schub
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schubs
Senses: glosses: A surname.
zygosporangial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the zygosporangium.
zoogoing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zoo + going.
Senses: examples: the zoogoing public
glosses: Visiting zoos.
Related terms: zoogoer
xanthinuric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more xanthinuric
form: most xanthinuric
Etymology: From xanthinuria + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or exhibiting, xanthinuria.
xanthinurias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xanthinuria
manoeuvrabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manoeuvrability
maneuverabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maneuverability
periseptal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛptəl
Etymology: From peri- + septal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Around a septum.
e-library
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-libraries
Etymology: From e- + library.
Senses: glosses: A digital library; a virtual library offering books in computerized form.
Related terms: cybrary
e-libraries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-library
tranty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ænti
Forms: form: trantier
form: more tranty
form: trantiest
form: most tranty
form: trantie
Etymology: From trant (“cunning, trickery”) + -y.
Senses: glosses: (used in reference to children) Intelligent, advanced, or forward for one's age; precocious.
Synonyms: old-farrant
teleclass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teleclasses
Etymology: From tele- + class.
Senses: glosses: A class taught remotely by means of a conference call.
teleclasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teleclass
Frankfurt plane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Frankfurt planes
Etymology: Established in 1884 at the World Congress on Anthropology in Frankfurt, Germany.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The anatomical position of the human skull, based on a plane passing through the inferior margin of the left orbit and the upper margin of each ear canal or external auditory meatus.
Frankfurt planes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Frankfurt plane
stadiometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stadiometer
stadiometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: measurement by means of a stadiometer
buttoned-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more buttoned-up
form: most buttoned-up
form: buttoned up
Senses: glosses: Conservative.
glosses: Carefully planned and executed.
examples: text: It should be obvious by now that most of what goes on in the Bulova commercial does not depend very much on an appeal to the rational part of the mind—the “logos” of Aristotle. If it were to depend on such an appeal to the reason, it might show the same woman, but dressed sensibly in a nice buttoned-up dress and wearing her glasses.
ref: 1989, William H[enry] Roen, “The Words of My Mouth”, in The Inward Ear: A Sermon Evaluation Method for Preachers and Hearers of the Word, Washington, D.C.: The Alban Institute, Inc., →LCCN, →OCLC, page 7:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see button up.
buy-back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buy-backs
Etymology: Deverbal from buy back.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of buyback.
encephalomalacia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encephalomalacias
Etymology: From encephalo- + malacia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A localized softening of the brain substance, due to hemorrhage or inflammation.
Related terms: Millard-Gubler syndrome
encephalomalacias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of encephalomalacia
norpatchoulenol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A tricyclic terpenoid found in commercial patchouli extract in small quantities, and thought to contribute significantly to the aroma of patchouli oil.
politicohistorical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more politicohistorical
form: most politicohistorical
Etymology: From politico- + historical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to politics and history.
Aarskog-Scott syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Dagfinn Aarskog, a Norwegian pediatrician and human geneticist who first described it in 1970, and Charles I. Scott, Jr., an American medical geneticist who independently described it in 1971.
Senses: glosses: An inherited disease characterized by short stature, facial abnormalities, and skeletal and genital anomalies.
VIPoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VIPomas
form: VIPomata
Etymology: From VIP + -oma.
Senses: glosses: A rare endocrine tumor that produces vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP).
Related terms: Verner-Morrison syndrome
VIPomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of VIPoma
VIPomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of VIPoma
viperishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From viperish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Elizabeth Taylor, young, beautiful, bare-shouldered and photographed through the kaleidoscope-covered lens while eating from a fork, is multiplied and reversed into a creature of exquisite Pre-Raphaelite viperishness, a ravishing, ravaging Medusa.
ref: 2000 July 7, Roberta Smith, “ART IN REVIEW; Weegee”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being viperish.
Ekpe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Egbo
Etymology: From Ibibio, meaning "leopard".
Senses: glosses: A Nigerian male secret society.
glosses: A mysterious spirit supposed to live in the jungle and preside at the society's ceremonies.
Ekpe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ekpes
form: Ekpe
form: Egbo
Etymology: From Ibibio, meaning "leopard".
Senses: glosses: A member of this society.
Ekpes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ekpe
Egbo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ekpe.
Egbo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Egbos
form: Egbo
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ekpe.
Egbos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Egbo
hexynoates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexynoate
hexylthiophenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexylthiophene
ponerology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πονηρός (ponērós, “grievous, knavish”) + -ology; compare Ancient Greek πονηρολογίᾱ (ponērologíā, “bad reasoning”).
Senses: examples: text: Christian ponerology is divided into two leading sections, that of sin or the bad participating in guilt, and that of death or the bad which has participated in the same.
ref: 1849, Carl Immanuel Nitzsch, System of Christian doctrine, page 214:
text: The end for which God created the world is not an impotent thought, but an earnest one, incessantly striving to become actual in the world; for which reason it cannot be thwarted by actual sin, which is to be treated of in ethical ponerology.
ref: 1887, Isaak August Dorner, System of Christian Ethics, page 53:
text: To the charlatans who so desperately strive to perpetuate these pious frauds, such a threatened warm welcome is an essential feature of their gloomy ponerology — hence the puerile solemnity with which it continues to be invoked against all who temerously thumb the nose at their bogus thaumaturgy.
ref: 1958, Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, page 27:
text: To call Mao either the saint or the devil of China is relevant only to those who see history as a branch of ponerology.
ref: 1962, Edgar Snow, The Other Side of the River: Red China Today, page 122:
glosses: The study of evil.
winter depression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
synonyms: winter blues
glosses: Winter seasonal affective disorder.
Related terms: summer depression
LGBTQ
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: HRC said the October 10 primetime event, airing live on the eve of National Coming Out Day, will feature the largest ever audience for a Democratic presidential town hall devoted to LGBTQ issues.
ref: 2019 September 5, Mark Preston, “CNN, Human Rights Campaign to host Democratic presidential town hall focused on LGBTQ issues”, in CNN:
text: Portions of the ruling reflected the court’s culturally conservative roots, stating that because marriage is only for reproduction, LGBTQ relationships are unnatural because they cannot produce children.
ref: 2021 December 3, “LGBTQ couples, families and marriage are ‘against the natural order,’ Thai Constitutional Court rules”, in Coconuts Bangkok, Bangkok: Coconuts Media Limited, retrieved 03 Dec 2021:
glosses: Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer.
examples: text: They represent the “Q,” questioning, part of the LGBTQ acronym. How do such individuals deal with their uncertainty about their sexual orientation?
ref: 2014, David E. Newton, LGBT Youth Issues Today: A Reference Handbook, page 66:
glosses: Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning.
Derived terms: LGBTQ-friendliness
LGBTQ-friendly
Related terms: LGBTQ+
LGBTQI
LGBTQ2
LGBT
LGB
LG
LGBTQ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LGBTQs
Senses: examples: text: This confirms the claim that the internet is not an entirely safe space, and while blogs offer LGBTQs the opportunity to express their views freely and anonymously, they grant this possibility to haters and homophobes, too […]
ref: 2016, Alexander Dhoest, Lukasz Szulc, Bart Eeckhout, LGBTQs, Media and Culture in Europe, page 166:
text: Now, for example, he is moving forward with his intention to remove all LGBTQs from the military and to ban any further recruiting of LGBTQs.
ref: 2021, Rolland “Moose” Amos, Junk Poetry III (page 56)
coordinate_terms: LGBTQ+
glosses: A person who is lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer.
autophagia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + -phagia.
Senses: synonyms: autophagy
glosses: The eating of one's own body.
peripteros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peripteroi
Etymology: Ancient Greek περίπτερος (perípteros)
Senses: glosses: A type of Ancient Greek or Ancient Roman temple surrounded by a portico with columns.
Related terms: monopteros
dipteros
pseudoperipteros
peripteroi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peripteros
permaboner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: permaboners
form: perma-boner
Etymology: From perma- + boner.
Senses: examples: text: I did, however, have a huge desire to sleep with other men -- I practically had a permaboner from the time I was 14.
ref: 1997 April 1, Michael Thomas, “Re: So, he is HIV+”, in soc.bi (Usenet):
text: “If there were even one straight bone in this sexy as all hell body of mine, I'd have a raging permaboner.”
ref: 2008, Kiki Faran, Mr. Right Hand: An MF Spanking Novel, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 196:
text: While I like to think I avoided the overtly harmful extremes of that mindset, I was also a chronically horny young man, and compounding my permaboner was the fact that other dudes were playing the get-some game as intensely as they knew how.
ref: 2008, Brad Perry, “Hooking Up with Healthy Sexuality: The Lessons Boys Learn (and Don't Learn) About Sexuality, and Why a Sex-Positive Rape Prevention Paradigm Can Benefit Everyone Involved…”, in Jaclyn Friedman, Jessica Valenti, editors, Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power & a World Without Rape, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 199:
text: “He works for the insurance company, protecting stores from phony claims. I clashed with him three years ago at a Kroger in Randleman. He sent me away for 20 days of hard community service. Him being here just made my job a lot tougher. But you know I got a permaboner for a good challenge.”
ref: 2020 November 22, Andy Bobrow & Lauren McGuire, “Mega Lo Memories: Part Deux” (5:07 from the start), in Bless the Harts, season 2, episode 7, spoken by Betty Hart (Maya Rudolph):
glosses: A penis that is persistently erect; a prolonged erection.
Related terms: permahard
priapism
Poland syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after British surgeon Alfred Poland.
Senses: glosses: A rare birth defect characterized by underdevelopment or absence of the pectoralis on one side of the body, and usually also webbing of the fingers of the hand on the same side.
wikipedia: Alfred Poland
Synonyms: Poland's anomaly
Poland sequence
Poland's syndactyly
Poland's syndrome
quadband
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quad- + band.
Senses: examples: a quadband phone
a quadband antenna
coordinate_terms: multiband
pentaband
triband
glosses: Supporting four frequency bands.
triband
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + band.
Senses: examples: a triband phone
a triband antenna
coordinate_terms: multiband
pentaband
quadband
glosses: Supporting three frequency bands.
pentaband
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From penta- + band.
Senses: examples: a pentaband phone
a pentaband antenna
coordinate_terms: multiband
quadband
triband
glosses: Supporting five frequency bands.
permaboners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of permaboner
slam piece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slam pieces
Senses: examples: text: The article, one paper said, was not a "slam piece, another one of those shots of bad national publicity about Buffalo."
ref: 1983, Mark Goldman, High Hopes: The Rise and Decline of Buffalo, New York, University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 274:
text: Rowland Evans and Robert Novak have produced another "slam piece" about the American Israel Public Affairs Committee […]
ref: 1991 March 11, Mayer Mitchell, Thomas A. Dine, “AIPAC's Action Alert”, in The Washington Post:
text: A Soldier of Fortune slam piece sought to devalue Gritz among his own jingoistic constituency.
ref: 1995, Adam Parfrey, Cult Rapture, Feral House, →ISBN, page 258:
glosses: A journalistic or other treatment which portrays its subject in a highly unfavorable manner.
examples: text: Discover gay roommate has just stumbled home from a night with his “slam piece.”
ref: 2008 February 11, Arianne Cohen, “The Multi-Orgasmic Woman Test-driving a Potential New Boyfriend”, in New York Magazine:
text: Of course, there’s also the holy Facebook trinity — wall posts, messages (it makes him feel like you’re keeping a big secret, which sends the right message that you’re not above being the secret slam piece on the side) and the coup de grace — pokes (which let him know you’re not a prude and happy to make things physical).
ref: 2009 February 13, Steve Austin, “Lustful advice for the loveless”, in Cavalier Daily:
text: Lorna: So, my daughter is just your slam piece?
ref: 2011, Keith Merryman, David A. Newman, Will Gluck, Friends with Benefits:
text: Ricky was crashing with his slam piece Liana; he said she had a posse of hot friends and everything would be raw as hell.
ref: 2012, Mike Lacher, On the Bro'd: A Parody of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, Adams Media, →ISBN:
text: Her straightforward messages of "meat is murder" and "every frat guy has a slam piece" really went over well with the student body.
ref: 2012 April 19, Kelsey Castanon, “S**t nobody says at K-state: from parking praise to spring fever”, in Kansas State Collegian, page 4:
glosses: A sexual partner to whom one has no particular emotional attachment.
Synonyms: sense: highly unfavorable treatment
word: hatchet job
sense: casual sexual partner
word: casual sexual partner
slam pieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slam piece
raw dog
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: rawdog
form: raw-dog
Etymology: From raw (“without a condom”) + dog out (“to approach someone sexually”).
Senses: examples: text: I advise against going raw dog unless you are in a committed relationship and somewhat certain she is not screwing other guys, but if you do it raw then make sure you never ejaculate inside her, even if she is on the pill.
ref: 2007, Roosh V, Bang, page 110:
text: And she lets me fuck her raw dog now, and cum all up in her until her ears pop.
ref: 2009, Omar Tyree, Dirty Old Men (And Other Stories), Strebor Books, published 2009, →ISBN, page 254:
text: […] When you were eating my pussy and going raw dog in me, you wanted to hear every little thing I had to say. . . "
ref: 2010, Cydney Rax, Brothers and Wives, Three Rivers Press, published 2010, →ISBN, page 23:
synonyms: raw
glosses: Without a condom; bareback.
raw dog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: raw dogs
form: raw dogging
form: raw dogged
form: raw dogged
form: rawdog
form: raw-dog
Etymology: From raw (“without a condom”) + dog out (“to approach someone sexually”).
Senses: examples: text: Never go raw dogging with the other woman; it's just not safe.
ref: 2005, Erica L. Perry, A Lesson or a Blessing, AuthorHouse, published 2005, →ISBN, page 27:
text: […] You don't now^([sic]) shit about that girl yet you round here raw dogging her. That ho could be dying from HIV or AIDS, she could have a million kids and trying to set you up to be her next baby daddy, you fucking dummy. For all I know she could be a fucking psycho.”
ref: 2006, Cheryl Sutherland, Chocolate Ty, Platinum Peach Press, published 2006, →ISBN, page 42:
text: “Well, you know...taking you into consideration and everything, I ended up letting him raw dog my coochie. […]
ref: 2008, Allison Hobbs, Big Juicy Lips: Double Dippin' 2, Strebor Books, published 2008, →ISBN, page 44:
text: The friend who did this raw dogged her drunk.
ref: 2011, John Tamar, 1,001 Drunk Acts, Strategic Book Group, published 2011, →ISBN, page 163:
glosses: To have sex without a condom; to bareback.
examples: text: Rather than using a framework, he's just raw dogging HTML.
text: Over the last few months, the slang term, which has historically been used to refer to sexual intercourse without a condom, has been adopted to describe almost any activity accomplished without the assistance of a buffer. Now, you can rawdog the flu by refusing medication; you can rawdog cooking by not using a recipe; you can even rawdog life, by being sober.
ref: 2024 July 17, Jessica Roy, “A Wildly Obscene Term’s Path to Mainstream Usage”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Jul 2024:
text: A bolero sweater is perfect for those times when it's too hot to wear a chunky sweater and too cold for your arms to raw-dog the crisp air. I love that it can fit in most of my purses, which is ideal for a night out on the town.
ref: 2024 October 8, Megan Uy, Tarah-Lynn Saint-Elien, “65+ Fall Prime Day Fashion Deals Your Closet Is Begging You to Shop”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: To undertake or undergo without the usual comforts, conveniences or supports.
Sherlockians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sherlockian
wabi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 侘び.
Senses: examples: text: A lamp here, table, bookcase, print on the wall. The incredible Japanese sense of wabi.
ref: 1962, Philip K. Dick, “The Man in the High Castle”, in Four Novels of the 1960s, Library of America, published 2007, page 94:
text: One of these changes would be the further refinement of the concept of wabi as an aesthetic ideal, and that was to be the work of Takeno Jōō, under whom the Way of Tea would mature.
ref: 1998, Sen Sōshitsu XV, translated by V. Dixon Morris, The Japanese Way of Tea, page 146:
qualifier: Zen Buddhism
glosses: A quality of simple or solitary beauty, especially as expressed in various forms of Japanese art or culture.
Related terms: wabi-sabi
Axon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: English surname, from the Middle English personal name Ackeson, equivalent to Acke (a pet form of Adam) + -son. The first element could also be from a variant of the female name Agatha, see also Agate.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Schubs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Schub
petta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pettas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pettah (“fortified town”).
cys
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cis (cisgender), used to avoid moderation on websites like Twitter.
catepan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catepans
form: catapan
Etymology: From Byzantine Greek κατεπάνω (katepánō, literally “[the one] placed at the top, or the topmost”).
Senses: glosses: The governor of a catepanate such as the Catepanate of Italy, a Byzantine province.
catapan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkætəpæn/
Forms: form: catapans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of catepan.
catapans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catapan
catepans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catepan
air fresheners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of air freshener
fuel rod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuel rods
Senses: examples: text: Since it began operating in 1950, Sellafield has had different duties. First it manufactured plutonium for nuclear weapons. Then it generated electricity for the National Grid, until 2003. It also carried out years of fuel reprocessing: extracting uranium and plutonium from nuclear fuel rods after they’d ended their life cycles.
ref: December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian:
text: Over the years, the railway has been the safest way to move hazardous chemicals, radioactive waste, fuel for Royal Navy nuclear submarines and imported fuel for reprocessing, as well as flasks containing fuel rods to and from British power stations.
ref: 2023 December 27, Ben Jones, “Inside Sellafield... by rail”, in RAIL, number 999, page 21:
glosses: A long zirconium tube, filled with pellets of uranium oxide, stacked in bundles inside a nuclear reactor as fuel.
Related terms: nuclear fuel
postboom
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + boom.
Senses: examples: text: Austin, even postboom Austin, has always been small enough to accommodate my haunts — the grocery, the laundromat, the burger joint, and the bookstore — within walking distance.
ref: 1988 September, Texas Monthly, volume 16, number 9, page 94:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: After a boom.
hula-hula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhuːlə ˈhuːlə/
enpr: ho͞o'lə ho͞oʹlə
ipa: /ˌhulə ˈhulə/
rhymes: -uːlə
Forms: form: hula-hulas
form: hula hula
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hula.
synonyms: word: hula
hula-hula
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhuːlə ˈhuːlə/
enpr: ho͞o'lə ho͞oʹlə
ipa: /ˌhulə ˈhulə/
rhymes: -uːlə
Forms: form: hula-hulas
form: hula-hulaing
form: hula-hulaed
form: hula-hulaed
form: hula hula
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hula.
synonyms: word: hula
huly-huly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Hawaiian dance, hula
hula hula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hula hulas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hula-hula.
hula hula
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hula hulas
form: hula hulaing
form: hula hulaed
form: hula hulaed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hula-hula.
madperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: madpersons
form: madpeople
Etymology: From mad + person.
Senses: examples: text: If they had been produced in the 1950s, the producers of such cultural texts (as well as those who consume them) would certainly have been judged either madpersons or geniuses.
ref: 1992, Lawrence Grossberg, We Gotta Get Out of This Place, page 212:
text: Specifically, it was during the Classical period that madpersons and criminals came to be confined in large numbers — in a sense, analyzed out of society at large, organized into prisons (as knowledge is organized into tables)[…]
ref: 2000, Patrick Colm Hogan, Philosophical Approaches to the Study of Literature, page 182:
glosses: A madman or madwoman.
madpeople
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of madperson
madpersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of madperson
opiniaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opiniasters
Etymology: Old French opiniastre
Senses: examples: text: but if you have no mercy upon them, yet ſpare your ſelfe, leſt you bejade the good Galloway, your owne opiniaſter Wit,
ref: 1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 164:
glosses: An opinionated person.
Related terms: opiniastrous
opiniasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opiniaster
trichogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trichogens
Etymology: From tricho- + -gen.
Senses: glosses: An epidermal cell that grows into a seta.
glosses: A substance that stimulates hair growth.
trichogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trichogen
musubis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of musubi
furikake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɚ.əˈkɑ.ki/
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 振(ふ)り掛(か)け (furikake), an nominalized form of 振(ふ)り掛(か)ける (furikakeru, “to sprinkle on top”).
Senses: glosses: A dry Japanese condiment for rice; typically a mixture of dried fish, sesame seeds, chopped seaweed, sugar, salt, and monosodium glutamate.
sortability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sort + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being sortable.
loco moco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Reportedly from Spanish loco (“crazy”), with an arbitrary rhyme for the second word.
Senses: glosses: A traditional Hawaiian meal, usually of white rice topped with a hamburger patty, a fried egg, and gravy.
lockstitching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lockstitch
lockstitched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lockstitch
lithotritor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithotritors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lithotripter.
lithotrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithotrites
Senses: glosses: A lithotripter.
Related terms: lithotrity
lithotrites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lithotrite
lithotritors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lithotritor
biggings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bigging
Castner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: Hamilton Castner, American industrial chemist
Derived terms: Castner cell
Castner process
Castner process
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Introduced in 1888 by Hamilton Castner.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A method for the production of metallic sodium by the electrolysis of molten sodium hydroxide
smither
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsmɪðə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: smithers
Senses: examples: text: My lass, when I cooms to die, / Smash the bottle to smithers, the Divil's in 'im,' said I.
ref: 1880, Alfred Tennyson, “[Ballads and Other Poems.] The Northern Cobbler”, in Ballads and Other Poems, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], →OCLC, stanza XVIII, page 38:
text: That claim of mine, which was yours, has got a seventeen-foot vein and a sandstone roof, and not a smither of slate or bone in it.
ref: 1920, Kennett Harris, Meet Mr. Stegg, page 164:
glosses: A fragment, shard or small piece.
Related terms: smithereens
smither
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsmɪðə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: smithers
Etymology: smith + -er
Senses: glosses: A smith (worker with iron or other metals; one who smiths)
staphylorrhaphies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of staphylorrhaphy
staphylorrhaphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staphylorrhaphies
form: staphyloraphy
Etymology: From staphylo- + -rrhaphy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: palatoplasty
Related terms: staphylorrhaphic
Chile saltpetre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chile saltpeter
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral rich in sodium nitrate that occurs naturally in parts of Chile and Peru.
staphyloraphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staphyloraphies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of staphylorrhaphy.
staphyloraphies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of staphyloraphy
bolning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of boln
bolned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of boln
shoggle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈʃɒɡəl/
Forms: form: shoggles
form: shoggling
form: shoggled
form: shoggled
Etymology: See shog, joggle.
Senses: examples: text: It stood for a moment in rigid immobility, then ere the maniacal echoes of that shout had quavered into silence among the cliffs, it shoggled over the ridge and was lost to view.
ref: 1897, Bertram Mitford, The Sign of the Spider:
text: The awful silence of this sepulchral place was presently , as we rested for ten minutes , broken by a posse of baboons , who having espied us from their krantzes above, came shoggling down to see what we were.
ref: 1889, Henry Anderson Bryde, Kloof and Karroo: Sport, Legend and Natural History in Cape Colony:
glosses: Alternative form of shoogle (“shake, rock rapidly”).
shoggled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shoggle
shoggles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shoggle
shoggling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shoggle
estafet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: estafets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of estafette.