cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Eton crop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eton crops
Etymology: Due to the former tendency for boys studying at Eton to have similar haircuts.
Senses: glosses: A typically female haircut where the sides and the back are left shorter than the top of the hair and the fringe is often cut short and slicked down.
Coordinate terms: short back and sides
pixie cut
whitewall
Related terms: Eton jacket
graylet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graylets
Senses: glosses: A moth of the genus Hyperstrotia.
POPIA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Protection of Personal Information Act.
PoPIA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of POPIA: Protection of Personal Information Act
goat grazing problem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goat grazing problems
Senses: glosses: The problem: given a field of radius 1, and a goat tied to a point on the edge of said field; how long a rope should the goat be tied to, so that the goat has access to exactly half of the field? Equivalently: given a unit circle C and a point P on the rim of C, what is the value of r such that exactly half of the area within C, is within distance r of point P?
glosses: The same problem generalized to any number of dimensions: given a unit n-sphere (n-dimensional hypersphere) S, and a point P on the edge of S, what is r such that exactly one-half of the space (content) within S, is within distance r of P?
Synonyms: goat problem
goat problem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goat problems
Senses: glosses: Synonym of goat grazing problem.
synonyms: word: goat grazing problem
n-sphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: n-spheres
Senses: glosses: An n-dimensional hypersphere: the 2-sphere is a circle, the 3-sphere is the usual sphere, the 4-sphere is a glome, etc.
n-spheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of n-sphere
Pennersax
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pennersaugh
Etymology: -sax apparently from Proto-Brythonic *Sėɨs (“Saxon, Englishman”).
Senses: glosses: An ancient parish of Middlebie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
Rowldemort
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Rowling + Voldemort.
Senses: examples: text: Big ups to Rick Riordan for being a good one. Disappointing that Rowldemort continues to not listen.
ref: 2020 June 6, Crow, in Autumn Clad(@unlimitedBLACK), Twitter:
text: People want to morally justify putting money in Rowldemort's pockets.
ref: 2022 December 29, @The_Terroirist, Twitter:
text: Like seriously, you're being silenced? Then why the fuck do I keep hearing from your ass, huh? Conjure me up an answer to that one, Rowldemort.
ref: 2023 April 14, Kilroy A. L. Mioruilt (@superiordriger), Twitter:
synonyms: She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named
glosses: J. K. Rowling, viewed as villainous for her espousal of gender-critical or anti-transgender views.
wikipedia: J. K. Rowling
random access memories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of random access memory
Saudia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Arabic السُّعُودِيَّة (as-suʕūdiyya).
Senses: examples: text: A Saudia aircraft was damaged by gunfire in Khartoum amid the military clashes that erupted in Sudan’s capital earlier Saturday.
ref: 2023 April 15, Abeer Khan, “Saudia aircraft damaged by gunfire in Sudan, cabin crew safe”, in Al Arabiya English:
qualifier: trademark
glosses: An airline transport company of Saudi Arabia, formerly known as "Saudi Arabian Airlines".
slaughterbots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slaughterbot
tricked-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tricked-up
form: most tricked-up
Senses: examples: text: It is not known how much was paid for the cleverly tricked-up specimen, but I suspect it was a great deal.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 64:
glosses: Falsely assembled; faked.
Shigu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 石鼓 (Shígǔ).
Senses: examples: text: On the fifteenth of that month, the Shigu District People’s Government of Hengyang decided to grant the title of revolutionary martyr to Ding.
ref: 2002 August 9, Deng Fei, Wu Sanmeng, Chen Ying, “Missing the Martyr Mark”, in Beijing Today [今日北京], number 65, →ISSN, →OCLC, 声音 [shēngyīn, Voice], page 6, column 1:
english: Voice
roman: shēngyīn
translation: Voice
text: "Guan asked some of his friends from Hengyang to go with him to register, and all four of them were detained there," he said, adding that another associate of Guan's was visited by government officials in his home district of Shigu, and warned not to get involved with his bid for candidacy.
ref: 2016 September 20, Siu-san Wong, Sing Man, Luisetta Mudie, “Four Held in China's Hunan Over Bid For Independent Election Candidacy”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2016, China:
text: Thirdly, from the perspective of economic connection, the 12 districts and counties in Hengyang are divided into five levels. The first level is the connection between Shigu District and Yanfeng District in the central city. The second level connection intensity is between Shigu District and Zhengxiang District in the central city and between Zhengxiang District and Hengyang County.
ref: 2020, Zhi-yuan Wang, Chen Hai-ting, Ou Yang-mei, “Research on Regional Traffic and Economic Linkage Based on Accessibility and Gravity Model--Taking Hengyang, China as an example”, in 2020 4th International Workshop on Renewable Energy and Development (IWRED 2020), →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Apr 2023, page 1:
text: The time bank in Shigu District of Hengyang City, together with the School of Nursing in the University of South China, formed a model featuring a combination of medical treatment and daily care.
ref: 2022, Fan Ying, “Localization of foreign community-based care models in urbanizing China”, in Aging in the Context of Urbanization: Social Determinants for the Depression of the Chinese Older Population, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=MORFEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT64:
glosses: A district of Hengyang, Hunan, China.
asinico
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asinicos
Senses: glosses: A stupid fellow
asinicos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asinico
Perinton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Apparently from the surname Perrin + -ton, and originally spelt Perrinton.
Senses: glosses: A town in Monroe County, New York, United States.
Reing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Reings
Senses: glosses: A surname.
live actor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: live actors
Senses: examples: text: In this film, the live actors interact with cartoon characters.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
video-games
glosses: A filmed actor.
live actress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: live actresses
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
video-games
glosses: A filmed actress.
runaway diesel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: runaway diesels
form: runaway diesel engine
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A diesel internal combustion engine which is uncontrollable with conventional means due to an aspirated fuel leak that revs faster and faster to destruction unless stopped.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A runaway train with a diesel locomotive.
live actors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of live actor
live actresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of live actress
Baudrit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Baudrits
Etymology: From French Baudrit.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French
Related terms: Baudry
Beaudry
Budry
Star Wars–esque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Star Wars–esque
form: most Star Wars–esque
Senses: examples: text: “I’ve tried so hard to get you, and you never even knew. You really don’t know.” “Know what?” I asked impatiently. “Who your father is.” I didn’t really appreciate the Star Wars'''–esque routine. “Roland Markham is my father. And the next time I see him, we’re going to come back and kick your ass together. If I don’t do it now.”
ref: 2008, Richelle Mead, chapter 10, in Storm Born, Zebra Books, →ISBN:
text: These waves of sand roll for 50km along the Morocco–Algeria frontier in a Star Wars'''–esque landscape justifiably touted as the quintessential Sahara experience.
ref: 2015, Lonely Planet’s Ultimate Travel: Our List of the 500 Best Places to See… Ranked, Lonely Planet Publications, →ISBN:
text: From giving one of his films a Star Wars'''–esque title (Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back), to creating bar scenes explicitly inspired by the famous Mos Eisley cantina (Dogma), to writing Hooper X’s devastating and hilarious response to the proposal that Lando Calrissian is a “strong black role model” (Chasing Amy), Smith’s movies out their creator as a fellow Star Wars geek.
ref: 2016, Charles C. Camosy, “Chasing Kevin Smith: Was It Immoral for the Rebel Alliance to Destroy Death Star II?”, in Jason T. Eberl, Kevin S. Decker, editors, The Ultimate Star Wars and Philosophy: You Must Unlearn What You Have Learned, Wiley Blackwell, →ISBN, page 67:
text: The combination of progressive feminism with nostalgia (which we can remember was argued by Janice Doane and Devon Hodges to be inherently antifeminist) is complicated, but uniquely Star Wars'''–esque.
ref: 2019, Dan Golding, Star Wars After Lucas: A Critical Guide to the Future of the Galaxy, University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN:
text: Dark reimagining of the Star Wars'''–esque Battlestar Galactica from 1978.
ref: 2019, Karen A. Romanko, Women of Science Fiction and Fantasy Television: An Encyclopedia of 400 Characters and 200 Shows, 1950–2016, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 31:
text: The prospect of Star Wars'''–esque battles in space has become much more likely with the rollout of fifth generation (5g) wireless technology, powered by tens of thousands of satellites approved by the Federal Communications Commission and on track to be launched into space without significant public oversight.
ref: 2021 November 9, “Thousands of 5G Satellites Pose Risk of Future Space Wars”, in Andy Lee Roth, Mickey Huff, editors, Project Censored’s State of the Free Press 2022, Censored Press/Seven Stories Press, published 2022, →ISBN:
text: While it was cool to see a Star Wars–esque'' planet come to life, practically speaking, it was very hard to find your way around without some kind of markers or signs.
ref: 2022, Seth Kubersky, Bob Sehlinger, Len Testa, Guy Selga Jr., The Unofficial Guide to Disneyland 2022, AdventureKEEN, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of Star Warsesque.
Star Wars–y
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Star Wars–y
form: most Star Wars–y
Senses: examples: text: And all the language that we attribute to it is so Star Wars'''–y, you know.
ref: 2011, Peter Rodger, The OMG Chronicles: One Man’s Quest to Discover What God Means to People All Over the World, Hay House, Inc., →ISBN, page 289:
text: Amanda felt like the minivan had become some Star Wars'''–y rocket ship with lasery tasery things darting at her from every direction.
ref: 2017, Eric Tipton, Susanna Rosenblum, Beautiful Criminals, Emily Bestler Books / Atria Books, →ISBN, page 23:
text: I remember being in the editing room with Glen and he’d say, “Cut out that creature, it’s too Star Wars'''–y.”
ref: 2018, Mark A. Altman, Edward Gross, So Say We All: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Battlestar Galactica, Tor Books, →ISBN:
text: This Lou Ferrigno vehicle reprises the absurd Star Wars'''–y approach of the 1983 film, with an even lower budget and cheaper effects.
ref: 2023, Lawrence Ellsworth, Cinema of Swords: A Popular Guide to Movies About Knights, Pirates, Barbarians, and Vikings (and Samurai and Musketeers and Gladiators and Outlaw Heroes), Applause Books, →ISBN, page 135:
glosses: Alternative form of Star Warsy.
Ali Baba bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ali Baba bags
Etymology: A reference to the story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, in which the thieves hide in large oil jars; perhaps based on the idea that the bag is large enough to fit a person. Compare senses of Ali Baba related to large containers.
Senses: examples: text: Each enlistee leaves.. with items packed into a duffel bag more commonly known as the ‘Ali-Baba’ bag.
ref: 2015, Martin Choo, editor, The Singapore Armed Forces, 1981, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English:
text: To the young recruit who is already carrying a civilian bag packed with his belongings and spare civilian clothing, the Ali Baba bag is a man-size load.
ref: 2015, Mickey Chiang, Fighting Fit: The Singapore Armed Forces, 1990, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English:
text: Upon completion, you can redeem a mini Ali Baba bag! My goodness, I’ve been waiting for so many years to get rid of that bag, and now my wife and kids are trying to get a few more Ali Baba bags….
ref: 2007 May 21, laokokok, “BMT to ROD”, in Times of My Life, retrieved 16 Apr 2023:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A soldier's duffel bag.
wikipedia: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Ali Baba bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ali Baba bag
corrective facility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corrective facilities
Senses: glosses: Synonym of correctional facility.
synonyms: word: correctional facility
corrective facilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corrective facility
Marvelophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Marvelophiles
Etymology: From Marvel + -o- + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: A true Marvelophile can recall even the most obscure Marvel superhero, tell what issue that superhero made its debut in, and deliver a kind of thumbnail biography, including some observation on the character's peculiarities and frailties.
ref: 1978 October 10, Bill Marvel, “His web of fantasy has captured the public”, in The Tampa Times, volume 86, number 211, page 4-A:
glosses: A fan of Marvel Comics.
Star Trek–ish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Star Trek–ish
form: most Star Trek–ish
Senses: examples: text: The glass doors open and you are greeted by a walkie-talkie–carrying personal assistant in a Star Trek'''–ish designer black tracksuit who whisks you to a pod seating booth in the bar.
ref: 2006, Alison Culliford, Night+Day Paris (Cool Cities), Pulse Guides, →ISBN, page 59:
text: What’s hazardous about Bullshit 1’s lavatory door is that it opens and closes laterally, sliding with a Star Trek'''–ish whoosh at the light touch of the DOOR button just inside—i.e., you go in, lightly push DOOR to close, attend to business, lightly push DOOR again to open: […]
ref: 2008, David Foster Wallace, McCain’s Promise: Aboard the Straight Talk Express with John McCain and a Whole Bunch of Actual Reporters, Thinking About Hope, Back Bay Books / Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN:
text: For instance, when the Star Trek'''–ish computer is finally invented that recognizes your voice in all of your common environments, is easily programmable, and is managed by you with vocal commands, you will simply say out loud: “Computer!”
ref: 2010, David Allen, Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life, Hachette Digital, →ISBN:
text: Today some two-thirds of Sienese live outside the city walls in what we would consider suburban neighborhoods—what some locals dub the “neutral zone” (sounds seriously Star Trek'''–ish if you ask me).
ref: 2014, Thomas W. Paradis, Living the Palio: A Story of Community and Public Life in Siena, Italy, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 51:
text: “We like the term ‘neutral zone’ better than ‘safe zone,’” I told him. “It sounds less judgmental and more businesslike.” Also more Star Trek'''–ish.
ref: 2017, Patricia Briggs, Silence Fallen, New York, N.Y.: Ace, →ISBN, page 14:
text: The lighting was discreet, indirect, Star Trek'''–ish.
ref: 2021, Robert Carr, Corby Falls, Mosaic Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of Star Trekkish.
duckweed fern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duckweed ferns
Senses: examples: text: If you have ever had a pond you will know Azolla, a.k.a. pondweed, duckweed fern or fairy moss.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 76:
glosses: Any of various species of aquatic fern in the genus Azolla.
duckweed ferns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duckweed fern
fairy moss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fairy mosses
Senses: examples: text: If you have ever had a pond you will know Azolla, a.k.a. pondweed, duckweed fern or fairy moss.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 76:
glosses: Any of various species of aquatic fern in the genus Azolla.
terminator pig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terminator pigs
Senses: examples: text: [T]he Oligocene's signature species were an unsavoury group of pigs and pig-like creatures, foremost among which were the entelodonts, more popularly known as hell pigs, or terminator pigs.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 85:
glosses: hell pig.
terminator pigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terminator pig
Star Trek–ian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Star Trek–ian
form: most Star Trek–ian
Senses: examples: text: It shoots out Star Trek'''–ian transporter light beams, pumps thermonuclear colors, whirls up raging bubbles, sucks coffee grounds dry, and then extracts every particle of flavor to produce a $6 cup just for you.
ref: 2012, Karen Brooks, Gideon Bosker, Teri Gelber, The Mighty Gastropolis: Portland: A Journey Through the Center of America’s New Food Revolution, San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 169, column 1:
text: Police were guys in cars who passed through like tourists, but they were told not to violate the Star Trek'''–ian prime directive—Don’t interfere—even when provoked.
ref: 2017, Matt Taibbi, I Can’t Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street, New York, N.Y.: Spiegel & Grau, →ISBN, page 66:
text: But the opportunity to partake in this sweeping Star Trek'''–ian future might depend on our behavior in just the next few decades.
ref: 2017, Peter Brannen, The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans and Our Quest to Understand Earth’s Past Mass Extinctions, Oneworld Publications, →ISBN:
text: The show’s run its course; it’s never going to be the ten-year or twelve-year Star Trek'''–ian type of show, so let’s end it now.
ref: 2018, Mark A. Altman, Edward Gross, So Say We All: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Battlestar Galactica, Tor Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of Star Trekkian.
North Dumfries
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A township in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Doctor Whovian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Doctor Whovians
Etymology: From Doctor Who + -v- + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: These Doctor Whovians, as they call themselves, will be particularly earnest in their pleas because the future depends on it. […] Many of the Doctor Whovians are members of a 2-year-old Seattle organization called the Society of the Rusting Tardis.
ref: 1987 April 24, Andee Beck, “‘Dr. Who’ fans have hopes of bringing their hero to KTPS”, in The News Tribune, 105th year, number 17, Tacoma, Wash., page D7, columns 1–2:
text: Doctor Whovians will further get the chance to see a real Tardis (a time-travel vehicle), a mockup of the ship’s control panel, and Bessie, the banana-colored 1953 Ford that belonged to Doctor No. 3 (played by Jon Pertwee).
ref: 1987 September 9, Andee Beck, “Dr. Who’s coming to Tacoma: The real McCoy will sign autographs at Bates school”, in The News Tribune, 105th year, number 155, Tacoma, Wash., page D10, column 2:
text: Why Doctor Whovians Owe It All To H.G. Wells
ref: 2012, Jean Asta, Quicklet: An Unofficial Guide: H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine, Hyperink Inc., →ISBN:
text: To maintain cover, I went to some UFO conventions in America, and Star Trek ones too. That was a blast, because I had been a Trekkie and also a Doctor Whovian.
ref: 2014, Don Bambrick, 5 Short Stories, Xlibris, →ISBN:
text: For Doctor Whovians, the episode downloaded was the final episode of season seven 'The Name of the Doctor'.
ref: 2014 August 19, James Vincent, “North Korean internet users download Top Gear, violent video games and American porn”, in The Independent, archived from the original on 08 Jul 2022:
text: As I was staring way too hard, I caught sight of faint Jolt grid marks up her right arm and forgot to breathe. Were those for real? Or was she just fangirling, like those Doctor Whovians with their pen-and-ink hash marks?
ref: 2016, Jill Williamson, Broken Trust, Novel Teen Press, →ISBN, page 23:
text: He was a longtime Parrothead, Beatlemaniac, Doctor Whovian and a (Star) Trekker.
ref: 2018 February 24–25, “[Obituaries] Jack Carver”, in Elizabethton Star, volume 93, number 40, Elizabethton, Tenn., page 5A, column 2:
glosses: Synonym of Whovian.
synonyms: word: Whovian
Doctor Whovians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Doctor Whovian
passion point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passion points
Senses: examples: text: What Westin needed was a passion point — something to serve as the focal point that would turn its simply satisfied guests into advocates.
ref: 2007, Chris Denove, James Power, Satisfaction: How Every Great Company Listens to the Voice of the Customer, page 143:
text: It helps if facilitators model this process by introducing themselves through the use of a passion point and a story that makes it come alive.
ref: 2012, Jay Rothman, From Identity-Based Conflict to Identity-Based Cooperation, page 30:
topics: business
glosses: A person's special interest, something that they care about and are driven by.
passion points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passion point
Widlarize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪdləɹaɪz/
note: commonly
ipa: /ˈwɪdləɹaɪz/
Forms: form: Widlarizes
form: Widlarizing
form: Widlarized
form: Widlarized
Etymology: From Widlar + -ize. Named after American electronics engineer Bob Widlar (1937–1991), pronounced /ˈwaɪdləɹ/, who was known for destroying his components using the method.
Senses: examples: text: Now, when I have finished my inspection, and I am still mad as hell because I have wasted a lot of time being fooled by a bad component—what do I do? I usually WIDLARIZE it, and it makes me feel a lot better. How do you WIDLARIZE something? You take it over to the anvil part of the vice, and you beat on it with a hammer, until it is all crunched down to tiny little pieces, so small that you don't even have to sweep it off the floor. It sure makes you feel better. […] And the late Bob Widlar is the guy who showed me how to do it.
ref: 1991, Robert A[llen] Pease, “First Things First: The Philosophy of Troubleshooting”, in Troubleshooting Analog Circuits: With Electronics Workbench Circuits, Boston, Mass.: Newnes, published 1993, →ISBN, page 9:
text: Abuse of them by people who don't care about the RF they generate is leading certain people to buy up and Widlarize ones floating around hamfests.
ref: 1999 February 9, Doug, “High Output Tube Amp”, in rec.audio.tubes (Usenet):
text: […] I recommend that you join me in doing this "Widlarizing" when a bad component fools you. You will feel a lot better.
ref: 1999 July 25, Bob Pease, “Pease Porridge: What’s All that Widlar Stuff, Anyhow?”, in Stephen E. Scrupski, editor, Electronic Design, volume 39, number 14, Cleveland, Oh.: Penton Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 146, column 3:
text: I decided to "Widlarize" the failed drive, first dropping it 4 feet onto the floor (1/2" thick carpet with concrete underneath). To my surprise, about half the chips popped off the PC board! […] Close inspection of the failed joints seems to indicate a failure of the bond between the solder and the copper of the PC board.
ref: 2002 April 28, Daniel Lang, “Interesting Failure, Seagate ST41600N”, in sci.electronics.design (Usenet):
text: A diode-like interconnect once cost me, another engineer and a tech 3 days once – we narrowed the fault down to a resistive divider that didnt work linearly. replacing the protoboard fixed the problem; the old one got Widlarised.
ref: 2006 February 8, Terry Given, “IGBTs are pretty fast”, in sci.electronics.design (Usenet):
text: [Bob] Widlar's intolerance for defective parts and malfunctioning prototypes was so intense, he was in the habit of destroying them with a sledge hammer. This came to be known as "widlarizing" them.
ref: 2014 May 25, Charles Platt, “Experiment 13: No Loud Speaking!”, in Brian Jepson, editor, Make: More Electronics, Sebastopol, Calif.: Maker Media, →ISBN, page 91:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To destroy (a defective electronic component) using a hammer.
Widlarizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Widlarize
Widlarizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Widlarize
Widlarized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Widlarize
copassenger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copassengers
form: co-passenger
Etymology: From co- + passenger.
Senses: hypernyms: fellow traveller
glosses: A passenger who travels with another.
copassengers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copassenger
Kronie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kronies
Senses: examples: text: 'No, I mean what do you want to drink?'
'Half a Kronie.'
'Two Kronies and a packet of crisps,' she called to the woman serving.
ref: 2018, Kathy Burke, Irvine Welsh, A. L. Kennedy, 24 Stories of Hope for Survivors of the Grenfell Tower:
glosses: Kronenbourg, a pale lager originating in France.
Kronies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kronie
bitransitivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The property of being bitransitive.
Yankophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Yank + -o- + -philic.
Senses: examples: text: The local, predominantly white bourgeoisie tended to disparage salsa as música de monos—monkey music—just as in Puerto Rico, affluent, Yankophilic rock fans (rockeros) deprecated salsa lovers by the similarly racist term cocolos (loosely, “coconut-heads”).
ref: 1995, Peter Manuel, “Latin Music in the New World Order: Salsa & Beyond”, in Ron Sakolsky, Fred Wei-han Ho, editors, Sounding Off!: Music As Subversion/Resistance/Revolution, Brooklyn, New York, NY: Autonomedia, →ISBN, page 279:
glosses: Fond of or admiring the United States or American culture.
Related terms: Yankophile
semiprojectivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The property of being semiprojective.
semiprojection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiprojections
Senses: examples: text: We now show that closure under a semiprojection operation is not in general a sufficient condition for tractability.
ref: 1997, Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, page 544:
text: Let f be the semiprojection defined by the bitransitive relation R. Then [f] is a minimal clone.
ref: 2012, Janos Aczel, Aggregating clones, colors, equations, iterates, numbers, and tiles, page 13:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A function f of rank k, where k is greater than or equal to three, such that for some index i between one and k (inclusive), f(x₁, x₂, ... xₖ) = xᵢ whenever |{x₁, x₂, ... xₖ}| < k.
semiprojections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semiprojection
photolab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photolabs
Etymology: From photo + lab.
Senses: glosses: A photographic processing laboratory.
photolabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photolab
half-frame
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: Being or relating to a kind of film camera using a film format of half the usual exposure size of a 35mm camera.
glory boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glory boys
Senses: examples: text: “He's not a glory boy. He ain't looking to get his name in the papers, like some mall psycho,” said Bob.
ref: 2011, Stephen Hunter, Dead Zero, page 168:
text: He was a glory boy. Why else would he have spent three years studying the ritualized showing off that was theatre and then given it up when he realized he could be only a journeyman, never a master?
ref: 2012, Patricia Sitkin, Remembering Delphi County, page 91:
text: Always a glory boy, Jones worked hard at keeping his name and accomplishments under the noses of the higher ups.
ref: 2015, Gini Rifkin, Solace:
glosses: A man who seeks fame.
glory boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glory boy
Shprintzen-Goldberg syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Goldberg-Shprintzen syndrome
Etymology: Named after R. B. Goldberg and R. J. Shprintzen.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
qualifier: medical genetics
glosses: A congenital multiple-anomaly syndrome involving craniosynostosis, abdominal hernias, cognitive impairment, and other skeletal malformations.
tznius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tzniut.
tzenius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tzniut.
JWS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: JWSs
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Jackson-Weiss syndrome.
examples: text: Two closely related serializations for JWSs are defined.
ref: 2015 May, M. Jones, J. Bradley, N. Sakimura, “JSON Web Signature (JWS)”, in RFC Editor, →DOI, →ISSN, RFC 7515:
qualifier: computer security
glosses: Initialism of JSON Web Signature.
Jackson-Weiss syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after C. E. Jackson and L. Weiss.
Senses: synonyms: word: JWS
glosses: A genetic disorder characterized by foot abnormalities and craniosynostosis.
trekky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trekky
form: most trekky
Etymology: From Trek + -y.
Senses: examples: text: But our genes are mutable, and like the mutant hamster, we could still be attuned to another planet by a trekky travel clock.
ref: 1990 May 15, Hospital Practice, page 130:
text: DO NOT wear a trekky looking Bluetooth earpiece, unless you are strutting through a Star Trek convention.
ref: 2009, Kirtsy Takes a Bow: A Celebration of Women’s Favorites Online, Houston, Tex.: Bright Sky Press, →ISBN, page 120:
text: With barely any religion in Star Trek (exceptions are made for fraudulent religion) there is also no hint of mystery. Everything in the trekky world can be understood.
ref: 2015, Guy Collins, Faithful Doubt: The Wisdom of Uncertainty, ISD LLC, →ISBN:
text: A Trekky-style transporter is unlikely to exist in our lifetimes, if ever, but it’s clear that popular culture has an influence on the direction of scientific experimentation (and vice versa!).
ref: 2016, Lliana Bird, Jack Lewis, The Mice Who Sing for Sex, Sphere, →ISBN, page 292:
text: When online, we encounter writing systems and heroic fantasies that come from the past but also from the future, as Snowden describes the trekky fantasy of the NSA chief.
ref: 2019, Tarek El-Ariss, Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age, Princeton, N.J.; Oxford: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 178:
text: A trekky appearance, I’ve seen those movies and Jupiter Rising, no doubt have jet boots, […]
ref: 2021, Paul Stansby, The Dimension Hopper & the Outer Space Guys:
text: Well, I thought the trekky look of a communicator that you whack to activate was kind of a cool idea.
ref: 2022, Curtis Wilbur, Tides of Air: An Inferno-Earth Series Novel, →ISBN:
glosses: Characteristic of Star Trek.
trekky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trekkies
Etymology: From Trek + -y.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Are you a trekky?’ ‘A what?’ ‘Back home we have people called trekkies. They’re crazy about “Star Trek”, you know, they dress up as the characters and stuff.[…]’
ref: 1989, Adam Lively, The Burnt House, Vintage, published 1993, →ISBN, page 38:
text: Johnny would probably understand. He’s a trekky.
ref: 2001, Merrilee Moss, Fedora Walks, Spinifex Press, →ISBN, page 40:
text: “Eh, Jayne. I see there’s a new Star Trek movie out.” “Is there?” she replied, not taking her eyes off the episode of The Sopranos she was watching. “You’re not a trekky,” she added absently.
ref: 2003, Suzanne Higgins, The Woman he Loves, Poolbeg Press, →ISBN, page 199:
text: A flash of lights came on the Starship’s console. Kirk’s lips read, “Excellent.” Bernie asked, “Are you a trekky?” “Not really,” Philip replied.
ref: 2004, Evelyn Cole, A Tough Journey: To the Heart of Happiness, iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, pages 237–238:
text: Kirk/Spock in the 1970s is said to have been the first such story, involving characters from the Star Trek television series. It was published in a trekky fanzine. (There is also a distinction between groupy fans of Star Trek, known as trekkies, and more serious followers, known as trekkers. Trekkies say that trekkers are trekkies who are ashamed of being trekkies.)
ref: 2005, The Spectator, page 24, column 1:
text: ‘So…. those aren’t just stuck on?’ he said slowly, eyes narrowing as he pointed at the tips of her ears that protruded through her reddish brown hair, ‘I kind of hoped she was a trekky or something?’
ref: 2006, Neil A. Harris, The Council of Elders (The Halfling Chronicles), AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 106:
text: What are the most important reasons that you give yourself for spending so much time in trying to get a successful conclusion to your development project? […] x) The future of this community – for the next generation(s) (no I’m not a trekky)
ref: 2009, Geoff Fagan, Liberation and Discourse in Community Learning and Development: An Application of Liberational and Discourse Theory to Community Capacity Building Through Non-Formal Learning in Rural Scotland, VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, →ISBN, page 256:
text: When I got to the white-board at five-thirty, ET was there with several computer printouts he had generated concerning random sightings of UFO's over the previous seventy years. He was looking for points of commonality in the hodge-podge of reports, some of which are available only from classified government data banks, and which are very eye-opening, even to a “trekky.”
ref: 2015, Karl Hemeyer, Saturn’s Sisters: A Bedtime Story, Lulu, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of Trekkie (“a fan of Star Trek”).
trekkies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trekkie
glosses: plural of trekky
Saethre-Chotzen syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Haakon Saethre and F. Chotzen, who separately described the condition.
Senses: synonyms: SCS
glosses: A rare congenital disorder characterized by craniosynostosis, blepharoptosis, hypertelorism, and minor abnormalities of the hands and feet.
GRT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: To help with inspiration five professional GRT artists were commissioned to create a poster […]. The resulting set of images show a mixture of contemporary and historical GRT lifestyles and language.
ref: 2008 June, “Poster Competition Results”, in Gypsy, Roma, Traveller History Month Magazine, The Gypsy Media Company, archived from the original on 16 Apr 2023, page 13:
glosses: Alternative form of GTR (“Gypsy, Traveller, Roma”).
GRT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of great replacement theory.
side-view mirror
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: side-view mirrors
Senses: coordinate_terms: rear-view mirror
glosses: Synonym of wing mirror.
synonyms: word: wing mirror
Springthorpe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SK8789).
glosses: A surname.
ice pole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice poles
Senses: examples: text: To us, these are (and always have been) called cool pops. To others - particularly on Twitter - they're everything from 'ice pops' to 'ice lollies' to 'ice poles' to 'freeze pops' to Tip-Tops.
ref: 2023 April 17 (last accessed), “The internet is arguing about what these frozen things are officially called”, in entertainment.ie, entertainment.ie, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2022:
qualifier: UK (especially Scotland)
glosses: A frozen snack consisting of flavored ice or juice in a tube; a freeze pop
working hypotheses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of working hypothesis
bipulmonary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + pulmonary.
Senses: examples: text: Bipulmonary mechanical ventilation for these patients reflects conventional intraoperative ventilation techniques. Initially, patients undergo mechanical ventilation using an oxygen/air mixture with an oxygen inspired fraction (FiO₂) between 0.35 and 0.50.
ref: 2013, Giulia Bottazzi, Andrea Gentili, Maria Elena Latrofa, Simonetta Baroncini, “Anesthesia for Thoracic Surgery”, in Mario Lima, editor, Pediatric Thoracic Surgery, Milan: Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, page 51:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to both lungs.
picnis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picni
lived under a rock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of live under a rock
lives under a rock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of live under a rock
living under a rock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of live under a rock
kotches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kotch
kotching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kotch
kotched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kotch
pornbot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pornbots
Etymology: From porn + -bot.
Senses: examples: text: As I learned, they [furries] are protective about their communities, as well they should be. Otherwise these worlds would be overrun with trolls and pornbots and idiots whose sole purpose is to cause trouble.
ref: 2005, Regina Lynn, The Sexual Revolution 2.0, page 125:
text: Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, which is the new owner of MySpace, could go bankrupt (wishful thinking), or, more likely, could allow the site to be overrun with ads, spam, or pornbots posing as humans.
ref: 2009, David Mathison, Be the Media: How to Create and Accelerate Your Message...Your Way, page 104:
text: I probably identify 50 new followers as pornbots every week. Twitter gives you two options for dealing with this kind of annoyance. You can “Block @name” or “Report @name for spam.”
ref: 2013, Shelly Palmer, Digital Wisdom: Thought Leadership for a Connected World, page 32:
glosses: An automated account on a social-media platform that spams users with advertisements for pornographic content or sexual services.
examples: text: “Pornbots” are the sexual Barbies of the future – virtual reality prostitutes run by artificial intelligence (not that they will need much intelligence).
ref: 2011, Dave Monroe, Porn - Philosophy for Everyone How to Think With Kink, page 207:
text: Of course pornbots had been going strong for years and I'd been on a few business trips where progressive hotels had begun listing robotic “services” as part of their adult offerings.
ref: 2016, John C. Havens, Heartificial Intelligence: Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines, page 4:
text: On the campaign's website, the campaigners declare that their number 1 goal is to “abolish pornbots in the form of women and girls.”
ref: 2023, Sven Nyholm, This Is Technology Ethics: An Introduction, page 26:
synonyms: word: fuckbot
word: sexbot
word: lovebot
word: pleasurebot
word: pornbot
word: sexdroid
glosses: A robot or artificial intelligence designed to have (simulated) sex with humans.
South Park-ian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more South Park-ian
form: most South Park-ian
Senses: examples: text: The game is split into six segments, each several stages long, with different storylines bound loosely together by a typically South Park'''-ian story about the impending arrival of a Bad Luck Comet.
ref: 1999 January 14, Steve Boxer, “Go to the park for quality anarchy”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 44,657, page 14, column 2:
text: As Entertainment Weekly noted in an article titled Death of the Sitcom, the line was unfunny — just the kind of “base, South Park'''-ian vulgarity that plays to endless swells of canned laughter,” and is all too common on network TV now.
ref: 1999 April 21, Steve Hall, “With less censoring, is there less sensitivity?”, in The Indianapolis Star, page E7:
text: Power-ups are appropriately South Park'''-ian in their lunacy (my favorite is Frida the Hooker who gives fellow racers a screen-blemishing case of herpes, the dildo homing missile, and an anal probe that makes opponents sing instead of race).
ref: 2000 April, Chuck Osborn, “South Park Rally”, in PC Accelerator, number 20, page 82:
text: In each spot, the animal succumbs to a different South Park'''-ian fate.
ref: 2001 July 21, Saturday Night (National Post), page 42:
text: If it was a dark, South Park'''-ian lampoon of social propaganda, it didn’t work due to the misjudged style choice and incompetent animation.
ref: 2023, Ben Mitchell, Independent Animation: Developing, Producing and Distributing Your Animated Films, 2nd edition, CRC Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of South Parkian.
globularism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From globular + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Advocacy for the observation that Earth is a globe, in opposition to flat-earthism.
raw_tags: used by flat-earthers
tongue sushi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A bit of tongue sushi, and you felt you had acquitted yourself with great distinction, and this gave you plenty of freedom for gross exaggeration when retailing your triumph to your male friends.
ref: 1993, David Profumo, The Weather in Iceland, page 192:
text: All that tongue sushi had been rather sweet, it was years since he'd just kissed a girl and nothing more.
ref: 2012, Amanda Craig, A Private Place:
glosses: French kissing.
crutted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crut
crutting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crut
Pac-Man effect
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Pac-Man effect
Etymology: In reference to the arcade game Pac-Man (1980), where the player character can warp through a tunnel from one side of the screen to the other.
Senses: glosses: The flat-earth belief that someone attempting to go over the edge of the flat Earth would teleport to the other side.
wikipedia: Pac-Man
flat-earthist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flat-earthists
form: flat earthist
Etymology: From flat-earth + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Visitors from built-up areas of the northern hemisphere have to stretch the limits of their vision in order to encompass three hundred and sixty degrees of featureless landscape, where the earth seems to come to an end at the horizon, giving some support to the beliefs of flat-earthists.
ref: 1984, The Splendour of South Africa, Johannesburg: Colour Library Books for Central News Agency, →ISBN, page XXIII:
glosses: Synonym of flat-earther.
synonyms: word: flat-earther
flat-earthists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flat-earthist
pericrane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pericranes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pericranium.
pericranes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pericrane
Perizzite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Perizzites
Senses: glosses: A member of a group of people mentioned many times in the Bible as having lived in the land of Canaan before the arrival of the Israelites.
Perizzites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Perizzite
pernicious scale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pernicious scales
Senses: glosses: Synonym of San Jose scale.
synonyms: word: San Jose scale
pernicious scales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pernicious scale
PCVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PCV
perplexful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more perplexful
form: most perplexful
Senses: glosses: perplexing
perseverers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perseverer
perseveringness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From persevering + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being persevering.
Petrarchianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Petrarchanism.
nonmagmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + magmatic.
Senses: glosses: Not magmatic.
petrographic province
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petrographic provinces
Senses: glosses: A geological region within which the igneous rocks reveal a relationship (so-called consanguinity) in chemical composition, which may be referred to a community of origin.
petrographic provinces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petrographic province
pettiauger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pettiaugers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pirogue (“a kind of boat”).
pettiaugers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pettiauger
pettyauger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pettyaugers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pirogue (“a kind of boat”).
pettyaugers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pettyauger
petty morel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: European black nightshade (Solanum nigrum).
glosses: American spikenard (Aralia racemosa).
Peyerian gland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Peyerian glands
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Peyer's patch.
synonyms: word: Peyer's patch
Peyerian glands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Peyerian gland
phagocytary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phagocyte + -ary.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of phagocytic.
synonyms: word: phagocytic
phonemal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phoneme + -al.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of phonemic.
synonyms: word: phonemic
phonemicness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phonemic + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of phonemicity.
synonyms: word: phonemicity
pickfork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pickforks
Senses: glosses: A pitchfork.
pickforks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pickfork
pied starling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pied starlings
Senses: glosses: The African bird Lamprotornis bicolor.
pied starlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pied starling
pigeondom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pigeon + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The world or sphere of pigeons.
pigmentize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pigmentizes
form: pigmentizing
form: pigmentized
form: pigmentized
Etymology: From pigment + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To color with, or as if with, a pigment.