cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Yankovich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yankoviches
Etymology: Variant of Jankovic.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Serbo-Croatian.
glosses: Alternative form of Yankovic.
FDG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of fluorodeoxyglucose.
Derived terms: 18F-FDG
FDG-PET
Vondrak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vondraks
Etymology: Borrowed from Czech Vondrák.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Czech.
Vondraks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Vondrak
Yankoviches
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Yankovich
Alayon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Alayons
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Alayón. This surname is mostly found in the Philippines.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Alayons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Alayon
Wiemerses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Wiemers
charging point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charging points
Senses: examples: text: "[...] This will include identifying ways to improve accessibility, create new commercial space and improve connections with walking, cycling and other transport services, as well as supporting sustainable travel in rural areas with electric vehicle charging points in car parks."
ref: 2021 June 30, Anthony Lambert, “A railway station fit for the 21st century”, in RAIL, number 934, page 43:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A facility provided for the purpose of charging / recharging batteries of electric vehicles.
Related terms: charge
chargepoint
charger
charging stall
charging station
Youtsey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Youtseys
Etymology: Probably an Americanized spelling of German Jutze or Jütze.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Youtseys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Youtsey
Zysks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Zysk
charging points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charging point
Zalazar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zalazars
Etymology: Variant of Salazar. This variant is mostly found in Argentina.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Yousaf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yousafs
Etymology: Variant of Youssef. From Urdu يوسف, from Arabic يُوسِف (yūsif), from Hebrew יוסף. This variant is mostly found in Pakistan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Arabic, equivalent to English Joseph.
Yousafs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Yousaf
Zalazars
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Zalazar
McAteer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McAteers
form: McTeer
form: McTier
form: Minteer
Etymology: Anglicized form of Northern Irish Mac an tSaoir (“son of the craftsman”), from saor (“craftsman”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Plemons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Plemonses
Etymology: Variant of Plemmons.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Barreiros
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Barreiro
McAteers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McAteer
Plemonses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Plemons
puts asunder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of put asunder
putting asunder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of put asunder
napabucasin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A drug that induces apoptosis in cancer cells
phomamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A piperazinedione present in the fungus Phoma lingam
programme-maker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: programme-makers
form: program-maker
Senses: examples: text: But there are, of course, TV programme-makers who see beyond the easy opportunities to show conflict and false jeopardy.
ref: 2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, page 46:
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
television
glosses: A person responsible for the creation of television or radio programmes.
programme-makers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of programme-maker
Chungchia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: an ethnic group of Guizhou, China
non-sensational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + sensational.
Senses: examples: text: They had previously shown a kind, thoughtful, non-sensational ethos with their Rail Restorations series for Channel 4.
ref: 2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, page 46:
glosses: Alternative form of nonsensational.
diphenylamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diphenylamides
Etymology: From diphenyl + -amide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any N,N-diphenyl derivative of an amide
furfurman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A dectin agonist present in the pathogenic fungus Malassezia furfur
polyacryl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + acryl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: composed of, or derived from, many acryl groups
getting on with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of get on with
well-fitted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more well-fitted
form: most well-fitted
Senses: synonyms: fitting
well-adapted
suited
glosses: Very suitable; appropriate.
synonyms: close-fitting
glosses: Adapting well to one's natural body shape and size. (of clothing, etc.)
glosses: Fully equipped or furnished.
chair-lift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chair-lifts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chairlift.
clearance rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clearance rates
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
qualifier: crime
glosses: The proportion of crimes that are solved by the police with respect to the total number of crimes reported.
qualifier: housing
glosses: The percentage of properties sold at auction on a particular week or month.
carotid triangle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carotid triangles
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: superior carotid triangle
glosses: A space in each lateral half of the neck that is bounded in back by the sternocleidomastoid muscle, below by the omohyoid muscle, and above by the stylohyoid and digastric muscles.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
meronyms: inferior carotid triangle
superior carotid triangle
glosses: Either of the two spaces in the anterolateral neck.
superior carotid triangle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superior carotid triangles
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: inferior carotid triangle
glosses: Synonym of carotid triangle.
synonyms: word: carotid triangle
Hei-ho
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 黑河 (Hēihé) Wade–Giles romanization: Hei¹-ho².
Senses: examples: text: During an epidemic of the disease in Hei-ho, northern Manchuria, in 1941, ten per cent of the personnel in the Japanese army were affected.
ref: 1946, Tsai-yu Hsiao, Epidemiology of the Diseases of Naval Importance in Manchuria, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, →OCLC, page 27:
text: Because of the high latitude, and being located in the east of the mainland, this is the coldest region in the country. To the extreme north is the Hei-ho area that has an average yearly temperature under zero degree centigrade.
ref: 1959, Sun Ching chih, editor, Economic geography of Northeast China (Liaoning, Kirin, Heilungkiang)., Peiping, →OCLC, page 4:
text: In respect to population distribution, two points deserve mention. One is the extremely uneven density pattern which can best be illustrated by drawing an imaginary line from Hei-ho in the northwest corner of Heilungkiang province to T'eng-ch'ung in Western Yunnan.
ref: 1976, C. T. Hu, “China After the Cultural Revolution”, in Christianity and the New China, volume I, Ecclesia Publications, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 9:
glosses: Alternative form of Heihe.
superferocious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superferocious
form: most superferocious
form: super-ferocious
Etymology: From super- + ferocious.
Senses: examples: text: A cat becomes ultraplacid when part of its forebrain is removed, and superferocious when all the forebrain is removed.
ref: 1948, Collier's, Volume 122, Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, page 93:
text: It was conjectured that the likeliest candidate was the superferocious General Bradley.
ref: 1950, New Times, Newspaper "Trud", page 17:
text: The Chachi and blacks think in a related manner and populate their arboreal surroundings with all sorts of creatures: gigantic snakes, superferocious jaguars, anthropormorphic giants and dwarfs, ogres and nymphs --- generally sinister beings that devour the flesh, steal the soul, hurl death-dealing, or seduce the unwary away from cultural proprieties.
ref: 1996, Warren DeBoer, Warren R. DeBoer, Traces Behind the Esmeraldas Shore, University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 117:
glosses: Extremely ferocious; of tremendous ferocity.
superferociously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more superferociously
form: most superferociously
form: super ferociously
form: super-ferociously
Etymology: From superferocious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a superferocious manner.
superferociousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From superferocious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being superferocious; extreme ferocity.
superferocity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superferocities
Etymology: From super- + ferocity.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps no Englishman other than Selous understood that desert lion than that boy. What a strange medley of superferocity and inexplicable gentleness!
ref: 1916, The Saturday Evening Post, Volume 189, G. Graham, page 14:
text: Then read the awful tales of superferocity served up for world-wide consumption by the very people so well armed that the that they can interfere and disturb as freely as they like in absolute safety.
ref: 1936, Smithsonian Institution, Board of Regents, Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Institution, page 262:
text: When we invoke gods of superferocity that scare Death to death, we're not only talking on some grand level, we are also working on taking that little triumph in the day that when you get rid of your self-involvement and just release yourself into your play or work.
ref: 1999, Robert A. F. Thurman, Tad Wise, Circling the Sacred Mountain: A Spiritual Adventure Through the Himalayas, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 193:
glosses: The condition of being superferocious.
superferocities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superferocity
hyperoptimizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperoptimization
Caifung
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From irregular romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 開封 /开封 (Kāifēng). Compare Caifum.
Senses: examples: text: The chief City Caifung lies about two Leagues from the Yellow-River, whoſe Water is ſaid to be higher than the City...
ref: 1693, Robert Morden, “Of China”, in Geography Rectified..., 3rd edition, page 440:
glosses: Alternative form of Kaifeng.
Shaoyang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shouʹyängʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 邵陽 /邵阳 (Shàoyáng).
Senses: examples: text: Top, left, weighing shed of a surface coal mine in Shaoyang, southwestern Hunan.[...]The Executive Yuan is understood to be planting the establishment of three “national industrial defence lines,” namely, a northwestern line with headquarters in Paochi, a southwestern line with headquarters in Shaoyang, and a southeastern line in Kiangchow.
ref: 1939 February 4, C. Y. W. [孟長泳] Meng, “China Fights and Rebuilds Simultaneously”, in The China Weekly Review, volume 87, number 10, →OCLC, pages 298–299:
text: Mr. Tan’s journey from migrant worker to labor organizer began in a small farming community near the city of Shaoyang, in central China’s Hunan Province, where Mao Zedong was born.
ref: 2010 June 13, David Barboza, “In China, Unlikely Labor Leader Just Wanted a Middle-Class Life”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Jan 2013, Global Business:
text: The four high school graduates were born in a small city of Shaoyang in central China’s Hunan province in 2003, but were transferred to a major regional hospital almost immediately because of their unstable vital signs, reported the Xiaoxiang Morning Herald.
ref: 2021 June 9, “Quirky China: Nude chat scam hits fully-clothed man, woman gives birth in street, and quadruplets thank hospital for lives”, in AP News, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2022:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Hunan, China.
Synonyms: Paoking
Paoking
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Shaoyang.
synonyms: word: Shaoyang
rinch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rinches
form: rinching
form: rinched
form: rinched
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rinse.
rinches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rinch
rinching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rinch
rinched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rinch
Hwaining
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Letters have recently been received from Ulf Cronhielm, Bill Rae, and Jim Smail, all of '34, telling of their progress in learning the Chinese language at Hwaining, Anhwei.
ref: 1935 March, “Personals”, in Toronto Bible College Recorder, volume 41, number 1, Toronto, page 8, columns 1-2:
glosses: Synonym of Anqing.
synonyms: word: Anqing
Sikang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hsikang
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 西康 (Xīkāng).
Senses: examples: text: (1) At about the same time their number was 573,981 in the eastern half of Sikang Province, including nineteen districts east of the Kin-sha River; (2) and 321,945 in the western half.
ref: 1949, Han-seng Chen, “The Kamba and their Relations with Central China”, in Frontier Land Systems in Southernmost China, Institute of Pacific Relations, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 73:
text: The southern limit of the Roe deer in China seems to be about latitude 30°N but in Sikang and Szechwan provinces it may extend slightly south of this latitude in the Kinsha River area.
ref: 1972, G. Kenneth Whitehead, “The Deer of Europe and Northern Asia”, in Deer of the world, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 84–85:
text: Where five channels in the Northwest Passage were known, Ericsson opened a sixth. He found a peak in Sikang Province of western China, in the Amne Machin Range, which was almost a thousand feet higher than Everest, but he lost his instruments and his companions and Mount Everest remained on the books the highest mountain on the planet.
ref: 2008 [1946], Ellery Queen, “The Adventure of the Needle's Eye”, in Paul D. Staudohar, editor, Murder: Short & Sweet (Fiction), Chicago: Chicago Review Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 205:
glosses: A former province of China.
ethnoclass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethnoclasses
Etymology: From ethno- + class.
Senses: glosses: A group defined by both ethnicity and social class.
xenism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xenisms
Etymology: Borrowed from French xénisme, from Ancient Greek ξενισμός (xenismós, “strangeness, novelty”).
Senses: examples: text: The first stage is when a word from one language is used in an utterance of another language in order to create a somewhat exotic effect. At this stage, the word is not a borrowing, but rather what they term a xenism. An example of a xenism used in an English sentence would be At the harbour, we went for a sail in a gulet, where gulet is the word for a type of Turkish sail boat, which has no real equivalent in English.
ref: 2013, Mari Jones, Ishtla Singh, Exploring Language Change, Taylor & Francis, published 2005, →ISBN, page 34:
text: My objective was to collect all loanwords, such that this work is as complete as possible, though some words may not be commonly used by speakers of a given language that seem to be pure Arabic xenisms (see Swahili hamsa ‘five’ < ḫamsa 841).
ref: 2020 November 30, Sergio Baldi, Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa (Handbuch der Orientalistik; Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten; 145), Leiden • Boston: Brill, page 5
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: borrowing
glosses: A word used in utterances of a language but generally marked as foreign.
xenisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xenism
target of opportunity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: targets of opportunity
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A target onto which one's attack is diverted as soon as it is seen or becomes known.
glosses: An object to which one's efforts are diverted as soon as it becomes known.
successantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /səkˈsɛsəntli/
Forms: form: more successantly
form: most successantly
Etymology: From success + -ant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Saturnius: Then go successantly, and plead to him.
ref: c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv], line 116:
glosses: Synonym of successively; in order or succession.
synonyms: word: successively
extra: in order or succession
lopped off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lop off
Nan Yang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nanyang.
supersuperlativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From supersuperlative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of super-superlativeness.
go-fer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: go-fers
Senses: examples: text: Or a clerk may be regarded as a paralegal, or even little more than a glorified “go-fer.”
ref: 1976, Student Lawyer, page 43, column 1:
text: On a typical day at JPL’s Von Karman Auditorium, one would encounter hard-boiled newspapermen straight out of The Front Page, dedicated young correspondents for obscure scientific periodicals, science-fiction authors, overbearing television correspondents complete with their camera crews and “go-fers,” bewildered feature writers, a small army of Japanese reporters who speak little or no English, and clusters of starry-eyed space enthusiasts who know every line of dialogue in both Star Wars movies.
ref: 1983, Mark Washburn, Distant Encounters: The Exploration of Jupiter and Saturn, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, →ISBN, pages 118–119:
text: To make ends meet after her graduation from Yale, she was a go-fer for the O’Neill Playwrights Conference.
ref: 2016, Susan Johann, “Wendy Wasserstein”, in Focus on Playwrights: Portraits and Interviews, The University of South Carolina Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of gofer.
go-fers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of go-fer
budget airline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: budget airlines
Senses: examples: text: I'll be interested to see how this service does. It will be basic with fares to match, so will be akin to a budget airline taking on a flag-carrier.
ref: 2021 June 30, Philip Haigh, “Regional trains squeezed as ECML congestion heads north”, in RAIL, number 934, page 52:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: A low-cost carrier.
budget airlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of budget airline
free-est
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This is the free-eſt letter in the whole ſet; and yet, is there ſcarce a paragraph in it that might not ſupply a theſis for a boarding-ſchool lecture?
ref: 1761, “The Letters of Mademoiselle Ninon de l’Enclos to the Marquis de Sevigné”, in “a Lady”, transl., The Memoirs of Ninon de l’Enclos, with Her Letters to Monsʳ de Sᵗ Evremond and to the Marquis de Sevigné, volume I, London: […] R. and J. Dodsley, […], letter X, page 220:
text: In the sense that I have been using the term, Tigerman’s classicism is ultimately the free-est of Free Style because it selects and combines from all systems without restraints (even those of good taste, it need hardly be added).
ref: 1982, Charles Jencks, Free-Style Classicism, page 37, column 1:
text: The Aikido master is “loosely dressed” in clothing that in no way restricts his or her ability to respond and move in the free-est way possible.
ref: 2007, Max Comfort, “Obeying Ourselves”, in FreeDress for Success: A Businessman’s Guide to Sartorial Disarmament, Dana Point, Calif.: Pandit Press, →ISBN, page 93:
glosses: superlative form of free: most free
unfree-est
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The Philippines therefore ceased to be one of the world’s free-est countries, and became one of the unfree-est.
ref: 1972 November 4, Nicholas Tomalin, “Filipinos enjoy the ‘novelty’ of order”, in The Age, Melbourne, Vic., page 10, column 1:
text: The part TA names parent is usually a know-it-all and a nag, the unfree-est spirit of them all.
ref: 1977 February 27, Linda Weltner, “The family under the microscope”, in Boston Sunday Globe, volume 211, number 58, Boston, Mass., page 9:
text: Seems like I-94 (the Ford Freeway) is the unfree-est freeway around, always jammed in the central city area.
ref: 1982 September 13, Bill Laitner, “Commuting / Labor Day fatalities were down this year; details coming up, but first …”, in Detroit Free Press, volume 152, number 132, Detroit, Mich., section “The Ford Frenzy”, page 3C, column 2:
text: He bore a strange resemblance to the actor George Reeves and thus at least to V. and me suggested a Superman gone to seed, a ruined entity, a vat of violence, frustration and disappointment, truly the unfree-est of all as he calls himself despite being the ruler of the universe.
ref: 2008, William Guy, “Germany, Austria, Italy. June-July 2007”, in Something Sensational, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 584:
glosses: superlative form of unfree: most unfree
at a price
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: for a price
Senses: examples: text: I will give you the secret plans, but at a price.
glosses: Requiring a great expense for something to be given over or conceded.
examples: text: Winning the war came at a price.
text: He was grateful for the recognition, even though it was achieved at a price.
glosses: Gained at the cost of incurring unwelcome consequences.
current shock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: current shocks
Senses: examples: text: Due to the current shock they suffered burn injuries and immediately the school authorities shifted the four children to a hospital in an autorickshaw.
ref: 2019 August 10, Srinath Vudali, “Hyderabad: Four school students injured after suffering electric shock”, in The Times of India:
text: The patient feels like an insect is flying across his/her body from the top of his/her head to leg like a current shock.
ref: 2021 March 17, Anushree Madhavan, “The migraine mandate”, in The New Indian Express:
glosses: An electric shock.
quintilliards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quintilliard
breakee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breakees
Etymology: From break + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: A breaker must inform the breakee of the dissolution of the MAD relationship directly and face-to-face, unless the grounds for the breakup is terminal noncompliance such as neglect or infidelity.
ref: 2001, Jeff Wise, The Universal Dating Regulations and Bylaws, page 177:
text: Whether you are the breaker or the breakee, you can expect to suffer loss.
ref: 2009, Les and Leslie Parrott, Relationships: An Open and Honest Guide to Making Bad Relationships Better, page 157:
text: The nonmarital breakee may indeed be relieved not to be caught up in the divorce industry or railroaded by a plot to make an enemy of someone whom he or she once loved.
ref: 2013, Brian H. Spitzberg, William R. Cupach, The Dark Side of Close Relationships, page 298:
glosses: One who is broken, or with whom a relationship is broken.
breakees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: By the way, the participants were the breakees rather than the breakers, and they reported feeling quite rejected.
ref: 2013, Christopher Peterson, Pursuing the Good Life: 100 Reflections in Positive Psychology, page 138:
glosses: plural of breakee
tenuki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛˈnuːki/
rhymes: -uːki
Forms: form: tenuki
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 手抜き (tenuki).
Senses: topics: board-games
games
shogi
qualifier: go
glosses: playing elsewhere; ignoring the opponent's last move.
Related terms: intermezzo
zwischenzug
tenuki
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛˈnuːki/
rhymes: -uːki
Forms: form: tenukis
form: tenukiing
form: tenukied
form: tenukied
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 手抜き (tenuki).
Senses: glosses: To play elsewhere; to ignore the opponent's last move.
glosses: To shift one's attention away from an ongoing task; to change gears.
tenukiing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tenuki
tenukied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tenuki
tenukis
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tenuki
superbrilliant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superbrilliant
form: most superbrilliant
form: super brilliant
form: super-brilliant
Etymology: From super- + brilliant.
Senses: examples: text: In the section "Dios - Tinieblas" his thoughts turn about God the Eternal Father, the superbrilliant invisible sun, perceptible only as Dionysian divine darkness.
ref: 1960, Hispanic Review, Department of Romance Languages of the University of Pennsylvania, page 30:
text: The mystical initiation in the experimental knowledge of the love of God takes place according to Psuedo-Dionysiusm "in the superbrilliant darkness of the silence thatreveals mysteries."
ref: 1964, Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Volumes 6-7, Catholic Biblical Association of America, page 155:
text: On came the superbrilliant light. It was not just a flash, and it did not stop. For a moment, I was terrified.
ref: 2019, Yvonne Kason, Touched by the Light: Exploring Spiritually Transformative Experiences, Dundurn Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Extremely brilliant; of exceptional brilliance.
cremey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cremey
form: most cremey
form: creme-y
form: crème-y
form: crèmey
Etymology: From creme + -y. Piecewise doublet of creamy.
Senses: examples: text: Year round use of custard-like fillings and toppings is possible with the development of “Rich ’n Cremey” pastry filling — a no-egg, no-milk, dry mix product developed by Ph. Orth Co.
ref: 1962, Baker’s Digest, section “New All-Weather Pastry Filling”, page 92, column 1:
text: With New Sunshine Cremers, the cremey middle is only half the story. We’ve sandwiched the cremey centers between two of our delicious Chocolate or Peanut Butter or Cinnamon Graham Cookies.
ref: 1983 February 16, “Sunshine Introduces the Creme of Their Crop”, in The Alabama Journal, number 33, Montgomery, Ala., page 3:
text: Cremey, chocolately, the great taste of Hydrox really stands out. Sunshine, where taste is everything.
ref: 1986, Bakery Production and Marketing, page 73, column 1:
text: Cremey Filling
ref: 1996, MC: The Manufacturing Confectioner, page 98:
text: So Cremey! / Light or dark chocolate / Butter cremes / Raspberry / Lemon ~ Orange ~ Lime / Vanilla ~ Mint / $6.30 lb
ref: 1996 January 22, The Times-News, number 22, Twin Falls, Ida., page D-3, column 1:
text: Hershey’s Pot of Gold Cameo Angels / 8 Molded White Cameos in Cremey Solid Milk Chocolate / 5.6 OUNCES
ref: 1998 December 2, “Santastic Savings!”, in The Daily Sentinel, volume 106, number 13, Grand Junction, Colo., page 7, column 2:
text: Cremey snacks [solution: “OREOS”]
ref: 1999 August 29, Merl Reagle, ““Advanced Placement Test”: Merl Reagle’s Crossword”, in Hartford Courant, volume CLXI, number 241, Hartford, Conn., section “Down”, page 5, column 1:
glosses: Containing or resembling creme.
examples: text: WEST 31ST / LEATHER OXFORD[…]HUSH PUPPIES / ANGEL II & ANGEL MID[…]SELECT LIFE / STRIDE PUMPS[…]MOOTSIES TOOTSIES / CHICAGO & CREMEY[…]BASS “CHRISSIE” / OXFORD[…]ESPRIT / “COLORADO” CASUAL[…]WEST 31ST “ELOISE” / SKIMMER
ref: 1996 April 19, “All Day Specials Saturday 8 A.M. - 11 P.M.”, in Billings Gazette, number 352, Billings, Mont., section “Ladies’”, page 6A, column 6:
text: RECLINER sofa Lazy Boy cremey Leather
ref: 1996 September 5, “Classified”, in Albuquerque Journal, number 248, Albuquerque, N.M., section 1196 (Furniture), page C6, column 9:
text: Gibson Electrics Used / 80 LP Custom, cremey white, $999 / 79 LP Standard, tab/sunburst, $999 / 79 LP Custom, cremey, NICE $1299
ref: 1997 May 23, “Classifieds”, in The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash., section 438 (Musical Instruments), subsection “Rock City Music: Memorial Weekend Specials; Now Open Sundays 12-5), page C12, column 4:
text: CLEOPATRA- 1 1/2 year old female cremey orange and white with short hair who had kittens recently but wants you to pick her so she won’t litter again.
ref: 1998 May 27, “Classified”, in The Daily News, volume 156, number 47, Galveston, Tex., section 601 (Pets & Supplies), subsection “Cats”, page B10, column 6:
glosses: Creme-colored.
creme-y
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more creme-y
form: most creme-y
Senses: examples: text: Lipstick, creme base of satin sheen and incredible clinging power. 9 luscious shades. Rouge, creme or dry, to match. Cake make-up with the creme-y base that protects as it beautifies.
ref: 1946 February 25, “Louis Philippe”, in Life, page 20, column 1:
text: Words come easy for America’s favorite cookie. How about dance? You’ll dance for joy when you taste the crisp, chocolate-y wafers. You’ll dance some more for all that smooth, creme-y luscious filling.
ref: 1966 March 4, “Word game from each NABISCO cookie name?”, in Life, section “Dance for Oreo Creme Sandwich”, page 47:
text: Two layers of crisp wafers and creme-y filling inside.
ref: 1966 November 18, “Let’s have a show of hands for chocolatey Nabisco cookies”, in Life, page 46:
text: Super-delicious goodness over nabisco Creme Wafer Sticks (two crisp wafers, with creme-y filling) and nabisco Fancy Grahams (crunchy grahams inside).
ref: 1967 November 3, “Nabisco likes to pour it on thick”, in Life, page 7:
text: But even though John’s terrific service is reason enough to make a person love Little Debbie right there, it’s the ooey, gooey, sweet, molasses-y, oaty, oily, creamy — er, I mean creme-y (Little Debbie doesn’t even pretend there’s any cream in its creme) — characteristics of the pie itself that wedge that sucker under your skin.[…]Creme-y goodness: Inside the Little Debbie soft oatmeal cookie, there’s a distinctive — non-dairy — goopy white center.
ref: 2002 April 24, Karen Vibert-Kennedy, “Sometimes hard to find, but it goes down easy”, in The San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco, Calif., page C 7, column 4:
glosses: Alternative form of cremey.
flexibound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From flexi- + bound.
Senses: examples: text: Fatherhood ($6.95) by Bill Cosby is a flexibound paperback edition of the popular bestseller.
ref: 1987, Publishers Weekly, page 321, column 3:
text: Adams plans to launch the About.com series in October with four 8 x 8 flexibound books that will cover pregnancy/birthing, job searching, Southern cooking and guitar playing.
ref: 2006, Publishers Weekly, page 161, column 1:
text: First flexibound edition 2011[…]The Library of Congress has cataloged the flexibound edition of this book as follows:[…]
ref: 2011, Martha Bayne, Soup & Bread Cookbook: Building Community One Pot at a Time, Chicago, Ill.: Surrey Books, →ISBN:
text: The Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine (Oxford University Press) is a “flexibound” handbook for clinicians in low-resource settings;
ref: 2016 March, Christopher A. Sanford, Paul S. Pottinger (authors and editors), “Travel and Adventure Medicine Resources”, in Douglas S. Paauw, Edward R. Bollard, editors, Travel and Adventure Medicine (Clinics Review Articles; Medical Clinics of North America; volume 100, number 2), Elsevier, →ISBN, →ISSN, section “Printed Manuals and Textbooks”, page 413:
glosses: Synonym of flexiback.
synonyms: word: flexiback
flexiback
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From flexi- + back.
Senses: examples: text: The Book Machines Co. Ltd. announce an attachment to their flexiback book binding machine for the preparatory operations in “unsewn” binding.
ref: 1950, Library Science Abstracts, page 31:
text: A cursory glance at the list of the poems in this fine cloth-bound flexiback book reveals its dominant theme, which is love.
ref: 1973, Thought, page 17, column 3:
text: The Valley of Vision, by Lila Ray. A Writers’ Workshop Redbird Book, published by P. Lal from 162/92 Lake Gardens, Calcutta. 20 Rupees hardback, 10 rupees flexiback. Lila Ray’s second collection from this publisher (whose flexiback editions are exceptionally beautiful productions) may be described as poetry of spiritual travail.
ref: 1977, Orbis:
text: This flexiback book consists of 150 pages which are packed with military details and comparative charts and graphs for easy reference.
ref: 1984, Intelligence Digest, column 1:
text: Student’s Aid to Gross Anatomy / Richard S. Snell, M.D., Ph.D.[…]6/86, 544 pp., flexiback, illus., A8687-4, $ 16.95[…]Clinical Anatomy / Harold H. Lindner, M.D., F.A.C.S.[…]11/86, 704 pp. (approx.), flexiback, A1259-9, $25.00 (approx.)
ref: 1986, Directory of the Medical Library Association:
text: Casket, poems by Prabhjot Kaur. Vikendrit Group of Publications, D-203 Defence Colony, New Delhi 24. 116 pp. Hardback: Rs. 75, flexiback: Rs. 50.
ref: 1992, The Indian P.E.N., volume 53, page 24:
synonyms: flexibound
glosses: Having a flexible binding, as opposed to hardcover.
flexiback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flexibacks
Etymology: From flexi- + back.
Senses: glosses: A book of this kind.
cyaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cyaneous
form: most cyaneous
Senses: glosses: Of a deep or dark blue color.
Derived terms: subcyaneous
Cleavers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cleaver
Flukes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fluke
Dunches
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dunch
Athertons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Atherton
Brandle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Brandles
Etymology: Borrowed from German Brändle.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Brandles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Brandle
Sprang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sprangs
Etymology: Borrowed from German Sprang.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Solivens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Soliven
Sprangs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sprang
Sacca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Saccas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Sacca or Saccà.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Scheibel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Scheibels
Etymology: Borrowed from German Scheibel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Scheibels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Scheibel
Saccas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sacca
local trains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of local train
Senteno
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sentenos
Etymology: Variant of Centeno.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Sentenos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Senteno
Purtle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Purtles
Etymology: Variant of Purtill.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Nathe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nathes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Nathe.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Nathes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Nathe
Purtles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Purtle
magendo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Deputy Speaker, does the Minister intend to tell this House that magendo is a business that is impossible to eradicate because it started at the time of Adam and Eve?
ref: Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard) (volume 53, page 205)
glosses: contraband; the black market
Mogollons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mogollon
glosses: The Mogollon Mountains.
Naveses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Naves
McCutcheon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McCutcheons
form: McCutchan
form: McCutchen
form: McCutchin
Etymology: Anglicized form of Northern Irish and Scottish Gaelic Mac Uisdein (“son of Uisdean”), a Gaelicized form of Old French Huchon, a hypocoristic form of Hughe (“Hugh”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Washington County, Mississippi, United States.
McCutcheons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McCutcheon
dreckly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dreckly
form: most dreckly
Etymology: Local/dialectal phonetic spelling of direct + -ly.
Senses: glosses: directly
examples: text: "You know, pretty quick, soon — dreckly!" She said in frustration
ref: 1999, Janice Tate, Ken Tate, Good Old Days Remembers the Little Country Schoolhouse, page 45:
text: I'll be over there dreckly ' '; which could mean in the next hour or two , or "I'll be down in a bit". It's a real Cornish thing.
ref: 2006, Simon Elmes, Talking for Britain: A Journey Through the Voices of a Nation, page 13:
glosses: Soon; next; when it becomes convenient.
glosses: tomorrow
qualifier: Humorous
glosses: No time soon.
venous sinus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪnəs
Forms: form: venous sinuses
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: venosinus
glosses: A large vein or passage (as the canal of Schlemm) for venous blood.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of sinus venosus.
sinus venosus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsʌɪ.nəs viːˈnəʊ.səs/
ipa: /ˌsaɪ.nəs ˌviˈnoʊ.səs/
rhymes: -əʊsəs
Forms: form: sinus venosi
form: venous sinus
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from New Latin sinus vēnōsus (“venous hollow”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: The first chamber of the heart in fish, amphibians, and reptiles, emptying into the right atrium.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An enlarged pouch that adjoins the heart, is formed by the union of the large systemic veins, and is the passage through which venous blood enters the heart in lower vertebrates and in embryos of higher forms.
sinus venosi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsaɪ.nəs ˌviˈnoʊˌsaɪ/
Senses: glosses: plural of sinus venosus
diesel-electrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diesel-electric
Daks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dak
A1A-A1A
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: A1A-A1As
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A wheel arrangement for diesel and electric locomotives with two three-axle bogies / trucks, the two outer axles of each bogie are powered and the centre axle is unpowered.
glosses: A locomotive with this wheel arrangement.
NAFOD
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Acronym of no apparent fear of death, a disqualifying condition for hazardous or combat duty.
Related terms: sense: military terminology
word: balls to the wall
sense: military terminology
word: FUBAR
sense: military terminology
word: SNAFU
Dagu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: däʹgo͞oʹ
Forms: form: Taku
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大沽 (Dàgū).
Senses: examples: text: On the shore at Ta-ku (on the northern coast of the mouth of the Pei-ho) they were received by Brigadier General Shuang-jui of the Tientsin garrison, and Wen-ch’ien, Ch’ang-lu salt controller.
ref: [1964, Te-kong Tong, “The Pei-ho Expeditions—An Imperial Game”, in United States Diplomacy in China, 1844-60, Seattle: University of Washington Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 163:
text: On March 23, MacDonald formally requested that the Foreign Office send two warships to Ta-ku, the nearest port of Peking. The ships were required, he explained, for the protection of British missionaries, since new disturbances were breaking out in Shantung. He supported this appeal by pointing out that the United States was sending one ship to Ta-ku, that Italy had two ships ready to send, and that Germany had the use of her Kiaochow squadron.
ref: [1966, Edmund S. Wehrle, “British Policy and the Boxer Rising”, in Britain, China, and the Antimissionary Riots, 1891-1900, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 154:
text: With China’s defenses still in an inchoate state of development, British forces seized Guangzhou and the Dagu Forts in northern China, from which they could easily march on Beijing.
ref: 2011, Henry Kissinger, “From Preeminence to Decline”, in On China (Foreign Relations / World Politics), New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 66:
text: The official said two British warships had been sent to Dagu, the coastal location nearest Beijing, to protect British lives and property. The United States also had sent a warship to Dagu, a response in part to an earlier attack by “secret society” mobs on an American medical mission near Chongjing.
ref: 2017, Robert W. Merry, “China”, in President McKinley: Architect of the American Century (Biography & Autobiography), Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 414:
glosses: A subdistrict of Binhai district, Tianjin, China.
A1A-A1As
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of A1A-A1A
Shantung Peninsula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The Yellow River—the “Sorrow of China”—comes down from the loess hills into the great plain of China on a gently sloping fan. The river has two possible outlets to the sea, the one north of the Shantung Peninsula into the Gulf of Chihli, the other some hundreds of miles to the south of the Peninsula.
ref: 1951, Herbert Hoover, The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover, Years of Adventure 1874-1920, New York: Macmillan Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 45:
text: Having secured agreement from the Allies and the United States to Japan’s claims to the Shantung peninsula, the Japanese government now supported Duan’s military efforts, offered loans, and provided technical assistance.
ref: 2014, William Mulligan, The Great War for Peace, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 198:
text: In response to British requests for material assistance during the war, and in exchange for cooperation in territorial moves both in the central Pacific and on the Shantung peninsula in China, Japan deployed a naval task force consisting of a cruiser and eight destroyers to bolster Royal Navy operations in the Mediterranean theater.
ref: 2016, John M. Lillard, Playing War: Wargaming and U.S. Navy Preparations for World War II, Potomac Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 170:
glosses: Alternative form of Shandong Peninsula.
examination of conscience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: examinations of conscience
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A review of one's thoughts, words, actions, and omissions for the purpose of ascertaining conformity with, or deviation from, the moral law.
Related terms: roman: muḥāsaba
word: مُحَاسَبَة
Prussian reds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Prussian red
Prussian red
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛd
Forms: form: Prussian reds
Etymology: Discovered by Prussian chemist Leopold Gmelin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Potassium ferricyanide, K₃[Fe(CN)₆], a highly poisonous ferric crystal salt of potassium cyanide used as a pigment.
glosses: The colour of this compound: a hue of semi-dark brownish red
Related terms: Prussian blue
Prussian red
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛd
Forms: form: more Prussian red
form: most Prussian red
Etymology: Discovered by Prussian chemist Leopold Gmelin.
Senses: glosses: Of a brownish hue of red colour.
Related terms: Prussian blue
pie plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pie plates
Senses: glosses: A small dish in which pies are baked.
well-adapted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more well-adapted
form: most well-adapted
Senses: glosses: Skillfully adjusted or modified to be of most use in a particular environment, situation, etc.
came to pass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of come to pass
attack page
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attack pages
Senses: examples: text: Under Wikipedia policy, users who create attack pages are likely to be blocked from editing.
text: This web page at mybank.com has been reported as an attack page and has been blocked […]
ref: 2013, Andrew A. Adams, Michael Brenner, Matthew Smith, Financial Cryptography and Data Security, page 110:
text: There was also an attack page about the IRS and illegal immigration along the borders.
ref: 2017, Harry Hurst, John Carter: Soldier, Business Tycoon, Politician:
hyponyms: hatelisting
glosses: A web page created for the purpose of attacking a person or group, either through hateful content or through hacking or other technological measures.
teresa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teresas
Etymology: Probably named after the Empress Maria Theresa (1717–1780).
Senses: examples: text: A black teresa, thrown round her shoulders, set off the dazzling whiteness of a neck, rounded by the hands of the graces.
ref: 1790, Amelia Opie, chapter 5, in Dangers of Coquetry, volume I:
glosses: A type of light lady's kerchief in the late eighteenth century.
wikipedia: Maria Theresa
teresas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teresa
Godsell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Godsells
Etymology: Habitational surname from any of various places called Godshill, from Old English god (“deity”) or gōd (“good”) + hyll (“hill”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
wikipedia: Godshill
Milaș
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Milaș.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Bistrița-Năsăud County, Romania.
Râciu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Râciu.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Mureș County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Râciu, Mureș County, Romania.
Ulieș
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Ulieș.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Harghita County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Ulieș, Harghita County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Gurasada, Hunedoara County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Râciu, Mureș County, Romania.