cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
glucagonlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From glucagon + -like.
Senses: examples: a glucagonlike peptide
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Resembling glucagon.
oxyntomodulins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxyntomodulin
glicentin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A peptide hormone found in the gut, of uncertain biological function.
Lemkinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lemkinian
form: most Lemkinian
Etymology: From Lemkin + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Raphael Lemkin (1900–1959) or his writings against genocide (a word which he coined).
Persephonean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Persephonean
form: most Persephonean
Etymology: From Persephone + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Persephone in Ancient Greek mythology.
dombra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dombras
Etymology: From Kazakh домбыра (dombyra) via Russian домбра́ (dombrá).
Senses: glosses: A long-necked lute found in parts of Asia and Eastern Europe.
dombras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dombra
dundun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dunduns
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dun dun (“African drum”).
dunduns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dundun
telepointer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telepointers
Etymology: From tele- + pointer.
Senses: glosses: A cursor used to mark the point on a screen display at which the presenter is pointing.
telepointers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telepointer
GNC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of General Nutrition Corporation, an American retailer of health and nutrition related products.
GNC
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: related: word: gnc
glosses: Initialism of gender-nonconforming.
set foot on land
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sets foot on land
form: setting foot on land
form: set foot on land
form: set foot on land
Senses: glosses: To disembark.
bigature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪɡət͡ʃə/
ipa: /ˈbɪɡət͡ʃəɹ/
Forms: form: bigatures
Etymology: Blend of big + miniature. Coined by Weta Workshop during the production of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
Senses: examples: text: Richard brought me in to see the 'bigatures,' the not-so-miniature miniature sets the crew had painstakingly constructed, and they were so beautiful, so perfect, so real, that I wanted to cry.
ref: 2004, Sean Astin, Joe Layden, There and Back Again: An Actor's Tale, Virgin, →ISBN, page 134:
text: In the sequence of The Fellowship of the Rings where Frodo and friends paddle through the feet of the Argonaths the camera vertiginously swivels up and beyond the two massive statues disturbing some nesting birds. The statues, of course, do not exist as they are just 'bigatures', neither do the birds, which are digitally created: […]
ref: 2011, Alfio Leotta, Touring the Screen: Tourism and New Zealand Film Geographies, Intellect, →ISBN, page 172:
text: Obscuring the view of the Sweet Charity bridge was a “bigature” of the S.S. Venture from Peter Jackson's King Kong (2005).
ref: 2015, Sam Gennawey, Universal versus Disney: The Unofficial Guide to American Theme Parks' Greatest Rivalry, Keen Communications, →ISBN, page 38:
glosses: A very large scale model.
wikipedia: The Lord of the Rings (film series)
Weta Workshop
bigatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bigature
islamophobias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: While Muslim diasporas have evoked islamophobias,17 earlier instances of islamophobia were subsumed by debates...
ref: 2010, Patricia Walker, Learning and Teaching in a Metropolis, Page 140
text: Most "islamophobias" have more to do with Islamic contempt of western culture and have nothing to do with race.
ref: 2010, Irfan Yusuf, Legacy of a whingeing bogan:
text: 2011, Marian Grau, Rethinking Mission in the Postcolony
The specter of world wars and Holocaust still looming, real and imagined fears of Islamization, fired up by political ideologies fostering islamophobias, complicate the real complexities of religiocultural integration.
glosses: plural of islamophobia
stuck on oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stuck on oneself
form: most stuck on oneself
Senses: glosses: self-obsessed; vain
TEDster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TEDsters
Etymology: From TED + -ster.
Senses: glosses: An enthusiast of the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) series of conferences.
TEDsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TEDster
lexicosemantically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From lexicosemantic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of lexicosemantics.
aphasiologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From aphasiological + -ly.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
speech-therapy
glosses: In terms of aphasiology.
lexicosemantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lexico- + semantic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to lexicosemantics.
Derived terms: lexicosemantically
sharesies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From share + -sies.
Senses: glosses: The situation where something is shared.
Related terms: halfsies
pawedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pawed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of having either the left or the right paw dominant; the handedness of an animal.
ptochocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ptochocracy
half-embraces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half-embrace
half-embraces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of half-embrace
half-embracing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of half-embrace
half-embraced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of half-embrace
Henoch-Schönlein purpura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Henoch-Schönlein purpuras
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A disease of the skin and other organs, resulting in palpable purpura, often with joint and abdominal pain, and occasionally leading to kidney disease.
Synonyms: anaphylactoid purpura
HSP
purpura rheumatica
Schönlein-Henoch purpura
self-obsessed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-obsessed
form: most self-obsessed
Etymology: From self- + obsessed.
Senses: examples: text: I have always suffered from a tendency to generate panic out of my own fears and imaginings; I think it is a common weakness of the self-obsessed.
ref: 1993, John Banville, Ghosts:
glosses: Deeply interested in oneself to the exclusion of others; vain and narcissistic; egotistical.
FHS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.
Degema
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A local government area in Rivers State, Nigeria.
glosses: A Nigerian Delta Edoid language spoken on Degema Island, Nigeria.
endoclisis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of mesoclisis.
synonyms: word: mesoclisis
Edoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Edo + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a language family of southern Nigeria, including the Edo language.
Derived terms: Proto-Edoid
thiazocine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thiazocines
Senses: glosses: A particular benzomorphan drug.
fluorophen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A fluorinated analog of phenazocine.
benzoazocine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzoazocines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of benzazocine.
benzoazocines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benzoazocine
etazocine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An opioid analgesic of the benzomorphan family.
war profiteer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: war profiteers
Etymology: Compound of war + profiteer.
Senses: examples: text: Microsoft workers are calling on their employer to cancel a $480m contract to provide the US army with augmented reality (AR) headsets, saying they “do not want to become war profiteers”.
ref: 2019 February 22, Julia Carrie Wong, quoting Microsoft workers, “‘We won't be war profiteers’: Microsoft workers protest $480m army contract”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A person or group that gains a significant amount of revenue from selling weapons and military equipment.
wikipedia: Smedley Butler
War Is a Racket
Related terms: warmonger
arms dealer
armsmaker
merchant of death
resurfacings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resurfacing
drink shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drink shops
Senses: qualifier: Asia
glosses: A convenience store, selling drinks and other items.
drink shops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drink shop
Eea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A short river in south Cumbria, England, that flows into the estuary of the River Leven, on Morecambe Bay.
necrophilous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From necro- + -philous.
Senses: examples: text: There are many factors, personal and cultural, that are responsible for this unevenness; in addition, some necrophilous traits may not be discovered in people who hide them successfully.
ref: 1992, Erich Fromm, The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, page 408:
glosses: Thriving on death or on dead things.
neurolymphomatosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of Marek's disease causing asymmetric paralysis of one or more limbs.
Marek's disease
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after József Marek, a Hungarian veterinarian.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
synonyms: fowl paralysis
glosses: A contagious viral neoplastic disease in chickens.
Wesak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Thai วิสาข (wí-sàak) via Malay.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Vesak.
semifermented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + fermented.
Senses: examples: a semifermented tea
glosses: Partially fermented.
musquashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of musquash
agalaxia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See agalaxy.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of agalactia.
al-Andalus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑl ændəˈlus/
ipa: /ˌæl ændəˈlus/
ipa: /ˌæl ɑndəˈlus/
ipa: /ˌæl ændəˈluːs/
rhymes: -uːs
Forms: form: Al-Andalus
Etymology: From Arabic الْأَنْدَلُس (al-ʔandalus). See Andalusia for more.
Senses: glosses: The Muslim ruled region in what is now Spain and Portugal (from 711–1492 C.E.).
Related terms: Andalusi
ecopoems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecopoem
semifermentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From semi- + fermentation.
Senses: glosses: Partial fermentation.
Ratisbon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹætɪzbɑn/
ipa: /ˈɹætɪzbɒn/
Etymology: From Latin Ratisbona, from Gaulish.
Senses: glosses: Regensburg (a city in Germany).
ethnophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ethnophilic
form: most ethnophilic
Etymology: From ethno- + -philic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to ethnophilia
ethnophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethnophiles
Etymology: From ethno- + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: I would suggest that the narrative sets up an opposition between what is portrayed as a majority of racist Europeans uncritical of the flaws of their own civilization and the ethnophile Max who is highly aware of the shortcomings of Western societies.
ref: 2005, Mita Banerjee, Race-ing the Century, page 183:
glosses: A person who exhibits an unusual obsession with ethnicity or race.
ethnophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ethnophile
Noguchi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Noguchis
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 野口 (Noguchi, literally “field entrance”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
Derived terms: Noguchi table
NAC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Native American Church.
glosses: Initialism of New Administrative Capital.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The station code of Nam Cheong in Hong Kong.
NAC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of network access control.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of N-acetylcysteine.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of N-acetylcarnosine.
NYCTA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of New York City Transit Authority.
crurotarsan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crurotarsans
Etymology: Crurotarsi + -an
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the Crurotarsi, a taxonomic group including the archosaurs and phytosaurs.
crurotarsans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crurotarsan
Niobean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Niobean
form: most Niobean
Etymology: From Niobe + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the mythical Niobe.
nonnoradrenergic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + noradrenergic.
Senses: glosses: Not noradrenergic.
noncholinergically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From non- + cholinergically.
Senses: glosses: In a way that is not cholinergic.
nonchosen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + chosen.
Senses: glosses: Not chosen.
kinesialgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinesalgia
Etymology: From kinesi- + -algia.
Senses: examples: text: Cinesialgia, or kinesialgia, means, according to him, that state of the muscle in which its contractility cannot come into play without producing locally a keen and sometimes intolerable pain, which is always more or less incompatible with the regular exercise of the motor function.
ref: 1875 March 10, “Gubler on Cinesialgia”, in The London Medical Record:
glosses: Pain on muscular exertion; pain caused by muscular movement.
nostophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek νόστος (nóstos, “a return home”) + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: A fear of, or aversion to, returning to one's home.
glosses: An aversion to the past, the antithesis of nostalgia.
Related terms: oikophobia
notalgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From noto- + -algia.
Senses: examples: text: An acquaintance of mine was fortunate enough to discover the most impressive word notalgia for back-ache.
ref: 1946, George Mikes, “How to be a General Alien”, in How to be an Alien (fiction), →ISBN, The Language:
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: dorsalgia
dorsodynia
glosses: back pain
Derived terms: notalgia paraesthetica
notalgia paresthetica
notalgic
Related terms: dorsopathy
omnigender
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From omni- + gender; title of a 2001 book by Virginia Ramey Mollenkott.
Senses: examples: text: The omnigender term nipote (nee-POH-teh) can refer to either a grandchild of either sex or to a niece or nephew.
ref: 2006 March 16, Raymond Lowry, You Already Know Italian: Learn the Easiest 5,000 Italian Words and Phrases That Are Nearly Identico to English, McGraw Hill Professional:
text: Also bathrooms would all be unisexual, without differentiation. Basically, the ultimate goal of an omnigender society would be an acceptance of the full range of sexual and gender identities, from the most feminine of females to the[…]
ref: 2010 August 4, Patricia Hawley, Desperate for Authenticity: A Critical Analysis of the Feminist Theology of Virginia Ramey Mollenkott, University Press of America, →ISBN, page 54:
text: Charity Hundley had made, in fact, two leaps: one from enslavement, the other from the not female/not male omnigender role that human bondage forced on black women, who were and reproduced the labor force. Undoubtedly Charity Hundley's[…]
ref: 2012 April 16, Lawrence P. Jackson, My Father's Name: A Black Virginia Family after the Civil War, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 94:
glosses: Treating all genders as one or the same, not discriminating or distinguishing between them; unisex.
glosses: Identifying with all genders.
Related terms: pangender
multigender
polygender
octadecagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octadecagons
Etymology: From octadeca- + -gon.
Senses: examples: text: A regular octadecagon cannot be constructed using a compass and straightedge.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polygon with 18 sides and 18 vertices.
Synonyms: 18-gon
octadecagons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of octadecagon
omnigendered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From omni- + gendered.
Senses: glosses: omnigender
neckmold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neckmolds
Etymology: From neck + mold.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of neckmould.
neckmolds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neckmold
plain-spoken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plain-spoken
form: most plain-spoken
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of plainspoken.
dramless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dram + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Now the Three Mariners was the inn chosen by Henchard as the place for closing his long term of dramless years.
ref: 1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge:
glosses: Without an alcoholic drink.
Oaktown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Oakland (a city in California).
glosses: A town in Indiana.
papedas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of papeda
national interests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of national interest
pappiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pappy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: A filthy ring of scum dwelt around the inside of the washbasin and the soap took on a repulsive pappiness having lain steeped in a cracked soap dish half full of murky water for days.
ref: 2013, Michael Taylor, Love Songs:
glosses: Quality of being pappy.
UUism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Unitarian Universalism.
national interest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: national interests
Senses: examples: text: While it was not in the national interest to disclose details of the exhaustive plans made to enable the railway organisations to meet possible eventualities, certain information was made public in July indicating some of the activities in which the railways were directly concerned and the steps they were taking.
ref: 1939 November, Charles E. Lee, “Railways and the War — I”, in Railway Magazine, page 313:
topics: government
politics
glosses: An economic, military, or cultural goal of a country.
Graecity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹiːsɪtɪ/
ipa: /ˈɡɹiːsɪti/
Forms: form: Græcity
form: Grecity
Etymology: An adaptation of the Late Latin Graecitās (“the Greek language”).
Senses: examples: text: The territory and towns of Judæa…from the period of the Maccabees dated the era of their Græcity (suam receperunt Græcitatem).
ref: 1845, O.T. Dobbin (tr.), D. Diodati (aut.), “Dominici Diodati I. C. Neapolitani, De Christo Græce Loquente Exercitatio” in The Biblical Repository and Classical Review, Third Series: № I (Whole Number: LVII), art. vii, § 8, 175
synonyms: Hellenization
glosses: Adoption of Greek naming and/or the Greek language.
examples: text: [Hebrew] now possesses a series of prefixes to translate such elements as mono-, di-, tri-, sur-, sub-, inter-, etc., partly even simulating the Latinity or Graecity of the European morphemes by using Aramaic elements.
ref: 1969, Journal of Tamil Studies, I, № 1, 57:
text: The overall climate of the Old Babylonian scribe school was as repressive as that seventeenth to nineteenth century Latin school which inculcated “Latinity” or “Graecity” into the sore backs of future priests and officials.
ref: 1995, J. Høyrup, As Regards the Humanities…, page 11:
text: The k in skope is in effect a marker of graecity, and as such conserves the original Greek seme of sight.
ref: 1998, R. Kuin, Chamber Music, e.n. 24 to ch. 2, 247
text: A revised understanding of the Iliad and Odyssey…raises two…inescapable questions, namely: first, how did these works come into the Hellenic World? and, second, how did these works…become the very quintessence of Graecity?
ref: 2006, R.S. Price, chapter X, in Homeric Whispers, page 235:
glosses: Greek (especially linguistically Greek) character or style.
examples: text: Special areas of the Greek lexicon were worked on by specialists; the graecity treated was exactly described: the complete lexicon of Greek, including inscriptions and papyri until and including the sixth century AD, was to be recorded.
ref: 2013, J. Kramer, “The ancient languages of Greek and Latin”, in Dictionaries: An International Encyclopedia of Lexicography • Supplementary Volume, pt VII, ch. xxxviii, § 4.4.2, 629/2:
text: When it will be finished, the DGE will be the largest and most reliable dictionary of antique graecity.
ref: ibidem, 630/2
glosses: Greek texts and other language materials, regarded as a corpus.
Græcity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Græcity.
glosses: Archaic spelling of Graecity.
miscalculators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miscalculator
go a bundle on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes a bundle on
form: going a bundle on
form: went a bundle on
form: gone a bundle on
Senses: glosses: to be extremely fond of
gastric reflux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gastric refluxes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of heartburn.
synonyms: word: heartburn
glosses: Synonym of acid reflux.
synonyms: word: acid reflux
glosses: Synonym of acid reflux.
Ellipsis of gastric reflux disease.
foelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more foelike
form: most foelike
Etymology: From foe + -like.
Senses: examples: text: To nurse up cruelty with mild aspect, Were to begin, but never for to end; Kindness with tigers never takes effect, Nor proffer'd friendship with a foelike friend: [...]
ref: 1840, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, Thomas Dekker, The Works of Thomas Middleton:
text: Although called Foeniculum vulgare in Latin, there is nothing foelike or vulgar about these plants that are part of the carrot family.
ref: 2013, Raghavan Iyer, Indian Cooking Unfolded:
glosses: Of, like, or characteristic of a foe or enemy; adversarial.
Synonyms: foesome
niqabi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: niqabis
Senses: glosses: A Muslim woman wearing a niqab
terra sigillata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɛɹə ˌsɪdʒɪˈleɪtə/
ipa: /ˌtɛɹə ˌsɪdʒɪˈlɑːtə/
ipa: /ˌtɛɹə ˌsɪdʒəˈleɪtə/
rhymes: -eɪtə
rhymes: -ɑːtə
Etymology: From Medieval Latin terra sigillāta (literally “sealed, stamped earth”).
Senses: examples: text: Terra sigillata (sealed earth) was a greasy clay, containing silica, alumina, chalk, magnesia and oxide of iron, found on the Greek islands of Lemnos, Melos and Samos.
ref: 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 77:
glosses: A type of astringent earth or clay originally from the Greek islands, formerly used as a medicine and antidote.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A type of fine, red Roman pottery made from the first to the third centuries AD in Gaul.
examples: text: Terra sigillata, or ‘terra sig’ for short, is made by mixing a suitable clay with water and a deflocculant and leaving it to stand until the heavier particles of clay settle out.
ref: 2024, Sumi von Dassow, “Terra Sigillata 101: How to Make, Apply, and Troubleshoot Terra Sig”, in Ceramic Arts Network Daily, retrieved 23 Aug 2024:
qualifier: pottery
glosses: A type of fine clay slip produced by mixing clay-water mixture with deflocculant and decanting the resulting water.
Zend
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zand
Etymology: Via Zoroastrian Middle Persian znd (zand, “understanding, interpretation”), from Avestan 𐬰𐬀𐬌𐬥𐬙𐬌 (zainti, “understanding”), from Avestan verbal root 𐬰𐬀𐬥- (zan-, “to know, to understand”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-.
Senses: examples: text: Zand or 'Interpretation' is a term for the exegesis of Avestan texts through glosses, commentaries and translations.
ref: 1984, Mary Boyce, Textual Sources for the Study of Zoroastrianism, Manchester: UP, page 3:
glosses: Exegetical glosses, paraphrases, commentaries and translations of the Avesta's texts.
examples: text: As to grammatical forms, the Gâtha dialect shows not a few deviations from the current Zend language.
ref: 1878, Martin Haug, Essays on the Sacred Language, Writings, and Religion of the Parsis. Trübner, page 115
text: [The Avesta] is the only work known to be written in the Zend language.
ref: 1819, William Erskine, “On the Sacred Books and Religion of the Parsis”, in Trans. of the Lit. Soc. of Bombay, II, 1820, page 312:
text: The dialect in which these writings are composed goes usually by the name of the Zend ; it is also styled the Avestan, and sometimes the Old Bactrian, from the country Bactria, the north-easternmost region of the great Iranian territory, which is supposed to have been its specific locality.
ref: 1867, William Dwight Whitney, Language and the Study of Language, Trübner, page 222:
glosses: The Avestan language.
Related terms: Zend-Avesta
hectad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛktæd/
Forms: form: hectads
Etymology: From hect- + -ad.
Senses: examples: text: Those taxa that show interesting distributions have been mapped and included here, their maps incorporating earlier records made by Laflin and others from 1958 to 1968 which had been based only on localities with hectad grid references.
ref: 1998, John Killick, Alan Roy Perry, Stan[ley Reginald John] Woodell, The Flora of Oxfordshire, [Newbury, Berkshire]: Pisces Publications, →ISBN:
text: This comprises the proportion of each hectad covered by each of ten land-cover types: sea, coastal, arable, broadleaf forest, built-up, conifer forest, improved grassland, open water (rivers, lochs, etc.), semi-natural and upland. The temperature used was taken to be the annual temperature per hectad averaged over the period 1920–1999 […]
ref: 2007, Glenn Marion et al., “Towards an Integrated Approach to Stochastic Process-based Modelling: With Applications to Animal Behaviour and Spatio-temporal Spread”, in David L. Swain et al., editors, Redesigning Animal Agriculture: The Challenge of the 21st Century, Wallingford, Oxon.; Cambridge, Mass.: CAB International, →ISBN, page 166:
text: They took figures for the abundance of invasive weeds mapped according to the normal grid unit of the 'hectad', or 10 × 10 km square, and then looked at how abundant these species were mapped at a much finer scale – in 'tetrads', or 2 × 2 km squares, inside these hectads.
ref: 2010, Richard Mabey, Weeds: How Vagabond Plants Gatecrashed Civilisation and Changed the Way We Think about Nature, London: Profile Books, →ISBN:
text: Certainly pampas grass made a slow start in the wild in this country [United Kingdom]; despite being grown here since 1848, it was recorded in only 21 hectads (10 x 10km squares) up to 1986, but is now recorded in 425.
ref: 2014 December 12, Ken Thompson, “Do plants have a gender? Most plants are hermaphrodite, but not all – and an interesting situation arises when only one sex is imported into the UK [print version: Alien plant species in search of a mate: Although most plants are hermaphrodite, some come in two distinct genders. So how does a single-sex community develop?, page W28]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Weekend), archived from the original on 15 Mar 2016:
topics: biology
cartography
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: A unit of land area, ten by ten (that is, a hundred) square kilometres, often used for assessing how widely distributed particular animals or plants are.
hectads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hectad
toril
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torils
Etymology: From Spanish toril.
Senses: glosses: A bullpen, especially one attached to a bullfighting arena where the bull is held prior to the fight.
make up the numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes up the numbers
form: making up the numbers
form: made up the numbers
form: made up the numbers
Senses: examples: text: We need eleven players, but we are only nine. Can you help us make up the numbers?
glosses: To provide sufficient people to make an event worthwhile.
Zand
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Persian زندیه, named after the founder Karim Khan Zand, from زند.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the Zand dynasty.
Zand
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Persian زندیه, named after the founder Karim Khan Zand, from زند.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Zend.
volapié
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: volapiés
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish volapié.
Senses: topics: bullfighting
entertainment
lifestyle
glosses: A mortal thrust to the bull. The bullfighter runs towards the stationary bull, facing it head-on, jumps on top of it and thrusts the estocada into the bull's back.
volapiés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of volapié
Mars bar party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mars bar parties
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Mars Bar party.
chated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chate
Grecity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Grecity.
glosses: Alternative spelling of Graecity.
V/A
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: V.A.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Initialism of various artists.
notoplates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of notoplate
notoplate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: notoplates
Etymology: From noto- + plate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The central posterior region of the neural plate that is elongated during neurulation.
Liangguang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Liangkwang
Etymology: From the pinyin romanization of Mandarin 兩廣／两广 (Liǎngguǎng, “the Two Expanses”).
Senses: glosses: Guangdong and Guangxi taken together
examples: text: She was one of the first to ship champagne to the East - China received 48 bottles of Veuve Clicquot in 1847, around the same time as the Treaty of Canton was signed between Sweden-Norway and Qiying, the viceroy of Liangguang.
ref: 2015 December 19, Nellie Ming Lee, “Behind many great champagnes is an even greater woman”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Dec 2015, FOOD & DRINK:
glosses: The Qing viceroyalty which oversaw the two provinces
Liangkwang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Postal Romanization of Mandarin 兩廣 /两广 (Liǎngguǎng, “the Two Expanses”).
Senses: examples: text: The most controversial Ch’ing figure during the boycott movement was probably Ts’en Ch’un-hsuan, the governor-general of Liangkwang. He was called the “suppressor” by certain boycotters, while American officials labeled him the “chief agitator.”
ref: 1983, Shih-shan Henry Tsai, “The Chinese Boycott of 1905: People's Reaction to Exclusion”, in China and the Overseas Chinese in the United States, 1868–1911, Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 118:
text: Hong-Kong The gage has been thrown down to Portugal by the Chinese of the Heungshan district, and unless the Lisbon Government is cautious in the handling of its affairs at Macao it will lose the colony. Two days ago (May 29) the Viceroy of the Liang-Kwang provinces journeyed from Canton and opened the port of Heungchow to trade. This is the first overt step taken in the agitation among the Chinese to demonstrate to Portugal that any effort to retain land and waterways, alleged by the Chinese to have been wrongly occupied, will be strongly resented. Heungchow is about ten miles to the north-east of Macao and there is nothing as yet to suggest that in time it will become a thriving port.
ref: [2009 May 31, “In Our Pages 100, 75, 50 Years Ago”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2018, Opinion:
glosses: Alternative form of Liangguang.
ekings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eking
theinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈθiː.ɪn.ɪz.əm/
Etymology: By surface analysis, theine + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: […] this special form of addiction is described as theism—which word has not, of course, any connection with the similar theological term but is derived from theine, […] Perhaps a better form of the word, in order to avoid ambiguity, is theinism.
ref: 1946 January, Hubert J. Norman, “Desultory thoughts on alcohol and on drugs”, in British Journal of Inebriety, volume 43, number 2, London: Society for the Study of Inebriety, →DOI, page 50:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: theism
theaism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈθiː.ə.ɪz.əm/
Etymology: By surface analysis, translingual Thea (“tea”) + -ism.
Senses: examples: ref: 1895, James Wood, “A remarkable case of theaism”, in The Medical News, volume 67, number 3, Philadelphia: Lea Brothers, →OCLC, page 66:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: theism (morbid condition resulting from excessive consumption of tea)
Kiwanian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kiwanians
Senses: glosses: A member of Kiwanis, an international coeducational service club founded in 1915 in Detroit, Michigan.
Kiwanians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kiwanian
service club
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: service clubs
Senses: glosses: A voluntary nonprofit organization whose members engage in charitable work or fundraising.
service clubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of service club
klephtic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more klephtic
form: most klephtic
Etymology: From klepht + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the klephts.
otherling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: otherlings
Etymology: From other + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: When is Tellus to give her dear fosterling her adaptable, rational, elect and plucked-out otherling a reasonable chance?
ref: 1992, David Jones, John Matthias, Selected Works of David Jones:
text: " [...] My little otherling." As he untied her leash and led her out of the kitchen and through the large waiting room, Dr. Homlin explained. He seemed to enjoy the sound of his own voice.
ref: 2006, Deborah Mercier, The Cat and the Canvas:
glosses: One who is different from others; someone or something possessing unique qualities; an exception.
have been in the wars
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has been in the wars
form: having been in the wars
form: had been in the wars
form: had been in the wars
Senses: examples: text: I can see that battered old hat of yours has been in the wars.
glosses: To have been seriously hurt, or greatly damaged.
rainchecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raincheck
Snickers pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪ
Forms: form: Snickers pies
Senses: examples: text: As you might expect, the dessert course is the best: bread pudding, apple strudel, brownies, Snickers pie, yogurts, malts, shakes, and ice cream.
ref: 1993, Gerry Frank, Where to Find It, Buy It, Eat It in New York, page 155:
text: A local cop I knew was finishing up a piece of Snickers pie at the counter.
ref: 1998, Jane Waterhouse, Dead Letter, page 59:
text: Better than the chocolate soufflé he'd brought to Trudy's and better than the crème brulée, the caramel apple crisp, the white chocolate raspberry cheesecake, the caramelized banana pudding, the mocha lava cake, the lemon supreme bars, the blackberry cobbler, the strawberry pie, the crunchy pecan bites, the Snickers pie, the red velvet brownies, the almond-amaretto pound cake and the buttered rum cake with the bananas Foster sauce.
ref: 2014, Erin Nicholas, Going for Four, page 239:
glosses: A pie containing the characteristic ingredients of a Snickers candy bar, particularly peanuts, caramel, and chocolate.
Snickers pies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Snickers pie
Uther
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈjuːθə(ɹ)/
/ˈuːθə(ɹ)/
Etymology: From Middle English Uther, from Middle Welsh Uthyr.
Senses: qualifier: Arthurian legend
glosses: The father of King Arthur.
rat-baitings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rat-baiting
spectatorships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spectatorship
forces majeures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of force majeure
beglare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beglares
form: beglaring
form: beglared
form: beglared
Etymology: From be- (“on, at”) + glare.
Senses: examples: text: Nor shall adornments of rhetoric beglare or beguile our solemn debate.
ref: 1852, Joseph Salkeld, William H. Onderdonk, Evergreen - Volumes 9-10 - Page 369:
glosses: To glare at or on.
head crashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of head crash
click of death
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clicks of death
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A clicking sound produced by the unexpected movement of the read-write actuator in a Zip drive or hard drive, associated with hardware failure.
webvertising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of Web + advertising
Senses: glosses: advertising on the World Wide Web
barwits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barwit
DYCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DYC
LBM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LBMs
Senses: examples: text: He reached in and pulled out about a dozen mushrooms, shriveled and dried beyond recognition, that could have been Conocybes, Inocybes, Coprini, Psathyrellae, or any of a dozen other kinds of LBMs, mostly inedible, some mildly to seriously toxic, and one, a Galerina, deadly poisonous.
ref: 1986, Sarah Ann Friedman, Celebrating the Wild Mushroom: A Passionate Quest, page 139:
text: All LBMs should be avoided as edibles.
ref: 1999, George Barron, Mushrooms of Northeast North America: Midwest to New England, page 209:
text: LBMs lack truly distinctive features that set them apart from the crowd, just like most Psilocybe mushrooms.
ref: 2010, Greg A. Marley, Chanterelle Dreams, Amanita Nightmares: The Love, Lore, and Mystique of Mushrooms, page 177:
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of little brown mushroom: any of a large number of small, dull-coloured agaric species that are difficult to tell apart.
examples: text: Long bone metastases (LBM) are a common occurrence in patients with advanced cancer, arising in up to 70% of patients with advanced disease.
ref: 2018, J.J. Willeumier et al., “An Easy-to-Use Prognostic Model for Survival Estimation for Patients with Symptomatic Long Bone Metastases”, in The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, volume 100, number 3, page 196:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of long bone metastases.
glosses: Initialism of lattice Boltzmann method.
glosses: Initialism of loose bowel movement: diarrhea.
Related terms: little brown job
LBMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LBM
fiskings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fisking
Law of Jante
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈjæntə/
Etymology: Introduced by the Dano-Norwegian author Aksel Sandemose in the 1933 novel A Fugitive Crosses His Tracks (En flyktning krysser sitt spor), in which Jante is a small Danish town where nobody is anonymous.
Senses: glosses: A social code in Scandinavian countries that opposes individualism, ambition, and vanity.
wikipedia: Aksel Sandemose
boffola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊlə
Forms: form: boffolas
Etymology: From boff + -ola.
Senses: examples: text: "You're here to set off skyrockets for Barbara Anne, not to regale us with the steam-room boffolas of Beverly Hills." "Well, I thought it was a cute story," Mr. Blakelee said.
ref: 1961, Al Hine, Lord love a duck, page 215:
text: You laugh all the harder because the movie never winds up to hit you with a boffola.
ref: 1979, Newsweek (volume 94, part 2, page 70)
text: These are the people whose laughter you hear after the boffolas on shows that have been filmed without audiences. I don't suppose all these laughers are dead, but a lot of them must be by this time.
ref: 1992, Jib Fowles, Why Viewers Watch: A Reappraisal of Television's Effects, page 119:
glosses: A coarse or farcical gag; a joke provoking hearty laughter.
boffolas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boffola
Loyola
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish, from Basque Loiola.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A district of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
glosses: A census-designated place in Santa Clara County, California, United States.
Related terms: Loyola Heights
love a duck
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: An exclamation of surprise.
Synonyms: Lord love a duck
GHQs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of GHQ
barocyclonometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barocyclonometer
softship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: softships
Etymology: From soft + -ship, modelled after hardship.
Senses: examples: text: In 1856 I courted hardship, went out of my way in search of it, selected the North because hardship was most attainable there ; now my object is exactly reversed, it is not hardship, but (I should like to say "softship," but dare not) the utmost […]
ref: 1877, William Mattieu Williams, Through Norway with ladies - Page 2:
text: Until you have mended a tire on a muddy road at dusk and turned a crank for five reels of the most deadly movies, you have an entirely misleading notion as to the softships of relief work. I can think of no work of theirs more satisfying to the worker herself […]
ref: 1920, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, The North American Review - Volume 212 - Page 774:
text: Yet not a hardship only, because a sizeable sector of living in, on, and around motoring was softship and little else.
ref: 1943, Raymond Tift Fuller, Now that We Have to Walk: Exploring the Out-of-doors - Page 29:
text: […] hardships he so gracefully endured amid numbered leave-takings from the softship of his father's customized cabin were notable and should be recorded for future invalids. real and imaginary. Exactly who was part of this airborne sodality?
ref: 2012, Bruce Wagner, I'll Let You Go: A Novel - Page 239:
glosses: A situation marked by ease, comfort, or convenience.
softships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of softship
belandres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of belandre
intermutually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intermutual + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a mutual fashion.
orch dork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orch dorks
Senses: glosses: A member of a school orchestra.
orch dorks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orch dork
befilth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪlθ
Forms: form: befilths
form: befilthing
form: befilthed
form: befilthed
Etymology: From be- (“on, about, all over”) + filth.
Senses: examples: text: How people, with any pretence to decency or cleanliness, can, for a day, sit voiceless and patient and see these brutes destroy and befilth everything, public and private, is difficult to believe.
ref: 1890, Albert Kimsey Owen, Integral Co-operation at Work ... - Page 105:
text: Shall he be crest-fall'n, if some looser brain, In flux of wit uncivilly befilth His slight composures? Shall his bosom faint, If drunken Censure belch out sour breath From Hatred's surfeit on his labour's front? Nay, say some half a dozen rancorous [...]
ref: 1922, Jesse Franklin Bradley, Joseph Quincy Adams, The Jonson Allusion-book:
glosses: To cover with filth; make filthy; begrime.
befilthed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of befilth
befilthing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of befilth
presecondary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + secondary.
Senses: glosses: Before secondary education.
preprimaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preprimary
prenursery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + nursery.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
education
lifestyle
glosses: Before entering a nursery.
union pipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated form of uilleann pipes.
autopayments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autopayment
autoregressively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From autoregressive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an autoregressive manner.
neoliberalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neoliberalism
patientcare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From patient + care.
Senses: glosses: The care of patients; healthcare.
Esperantophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Esperantophones
Etymology: From Esperanto + -phone.
Senses: synonyms: Esperantist
glosses: One who speaks the Esperanto language.
Esperantophones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Esperantophone
enka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 演歌 (enka).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of Japanese music that originated in the 1960s and often features melodramatic themes.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of political songs spread by members of the Freedom and People's Rights Movement of Japan during the Meiji period (1868–1912).
outweird
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outweirds
form: outweirding
form: outweirded
form: outweirded
Etymology: From out- + weird.
Senses: examples: text: "Listen, three eyes," he said, "don't you try to outweird me. I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal."
ref: 1980 October, Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, London: Pan Books, →ISBN:
text: Meanwhile, Peter Murphy gets all mystic and esoteric, his impenetrable lyrics outweirding the weird efforts of his previous band.
ref: 2003, Peter Buckley, The Rough Guide to Rock, page 1817:
glosses: To be more weird than; to surpass in strangeness.
outweirded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outweird
outweirds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outweird
outweirding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outweird