cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
selfcest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self + -cest.
Senses: examples: text: And this is where selfcest comes in. For those unfamiliar with Adventure Time, it has two series: the main, phallogocentric one, Adventure Time, and another spin-off version, Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake, in which gender-flipped versions of the original characters are presented. Marceline spawns Marshall Lee, Jake turns into Cake, Finn becomes Fionna, Princess Bubblegum is chewed up and spat out as Prince Gumball… you get the picture. Enter Fanfiction, which causes them to hook up. Creepy, yes.
ref: 2013, Boo Patrick, "Selfcest", Manifesto (University of New South Wales College of Fine Arts), April 2013, page 8
text: Several Loki fans shared their horror over the idea of Loki and Sylvie getting together, as it would be an example of selfcest.
ref: 2021 July 2, Sabrina Barr, “Loki fans defend Marvel series over ‘queerbaiting’ claims as director says God of Mischief’s bisexuality won’t be explored further”, in Metro, UK:
text: '"The Time Traveler's Wife” having selfcest was not on my 2022 bingo card,' another [Twitter] user commented.
ref: 2022 May 25, Erica Tempesta, “'Selfcest was not on my 2022 bingo card': The Time Traveler's Wife baffles viewers with 'wild' and 'disturbing' oral sex scene between the HBO show's protagonist and HIMSELF”, in The Daily Mail:
topics: fiction
lifestyle
literature
media
publishing
glosses: Sexual activity with an alternate version of oneself, such as a clone, duplicate, alter ego, or a version of oneself from a different time or alternate universe.
death-defying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more death-defying
form: most death-defying
Senses: examples: text: Mature might not have been in on the singing, but he does get to end the movie in fine style with a spectacular helicopter chase at an abandoned airbase, where we witness a death-defying stunt as the helicopter flies through an open hangar.
ref: 2012, James McKay, The Films of Victor Mature (Chapter "The Las Vegas Story")
glosses: Very perilous; involving a lot of danger.
l8z
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Leetspeak rendering of lates/laters.
Senses: examples: text: I know I sound real lame, but I can get good if someone gets me starteD! Thanx a lot, L8z
ref: 1995 December 2, warrior [username], “Hey..could you all read this??”, in tw.bbs.comp.hacker (Usenet):
text: Anyways, I'll stop rambling. I don't know what this means for me...but hey at least I got a chance. L8z!
ref: 1999 September 11, Sparkle [username], “The Roseanne Show”, in alt.acting (Usenet):
text: Kthxbye. Being immortal rocks! I can type like demon speed! Fear me! L8z.
ref: 2010, Christopher Moore, Bite Me: A Love Story, William Morrow, →ISBN, page 179:
glosses: See you later.
tarans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taran
dowrying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dowry + -ing.
Senses: examples: ref: 1995, Lindsey Harlan, Paul B. Courtright, From the Margins of Hindu Marriage: Essays on Gender, Religion, and Culture, page 22:
glosses: The act of bestowing a dowry as part of a marriage.
sazans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sazan
Lazy Susan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lazy Susans
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of lazy Susan.
lazy susan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lazy susans
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of lazy Susan.
lazy Susans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lazy Susan
Lazy Susans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lazy Susans.
lazy susans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lazy Susans.
feshfesh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fesh-fesh.
fechfech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fesh-fesh.
fech-fech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fesh-fesh.
soffietta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soffiettas
Etymology: From Italian soffietta, from soffiare + -etta.
Senses: topics: arts
crafts
glassblowing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A tool consisting of a metal tube, often swan necked, attached to a conical nozzle. The nozzle is used to block the mouth of a glass vessel so that it can be further inflated by blowing into the tube.
Synonyms: puffer
Related terms: steam stick
wet one's beak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wets one's beak
form: wetting one's beak
form: wet one's beak
form: wet one's beak
form: wetted one's beak
form: wetted one's beak
Senses: examples: text: Rinaldo . . . is represented as a gluttonous feeder, and rather disposed to quarrel over his meat; liking also to ‘wet his beak’ in generous liquor.
ref: 1876, “The Charlemagne Romances: Part 4—Pulci,”, in The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings, volume 22, page 467:
text: Then, very softly, she says, "I'll stick the kettle on so we can wet our beaks."
ref: 2005, John Lynch, Tom Water, →ISBN, page 168:
text: “Yo, it's gonna be a few minutes before the acts go on so let's hit the VIP and wet our beaks a li'l bit,” Gotti screamed in Tone's ear over the music.
ref: 2011, K'wan Foye, Eviction Notice: A Hood Rat Novel, →ISBN, page 248:
glosses: To drink a beverage.
examples: text: "Giorgio," the Don said, ". . . our Family will now serve only as financial advisors to all the other Families. . . . [W]e must protect everyone's money, for which they will let us wet our beaks."
ref: 1996, Mario Puzo, The Last Don (2004 Random House edition), p. 5 (Google preview)
text: [I]nvestigators who track organized crime believe that some members have geared up to take advantage of the swift and enormous cash influx . . . looking, as the old Sicilian expression goes, to wet their beaks.
ref: 2009 August 30, William K. Rashbaum, “Concern Is High That the Mob May Seek a Cut of the Stimulus Pie”, in New York Times, retrieved 15 Aug 2013:
text: "See, the thing about the mob, everybody had to wet his beak. . . . I was supposed to give them a piece of my hard work."
ref: 2012, Nick Taylor, Sins of the Father: The True Story of a Family Running from the Mob, →ISBN, page 356:
qualifier: gangster slang
glosses: To take one's share from the financial proceeds of illicit activity.
Synonyms: sense: drink a beverage
word: wet one's whistle
sense: take one's share from illicit financial activity
word: get a piece of the pie
sense: take one's share from illicit financial activity
word: get a piece of the action
glass cutters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glass cutter
producer milk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: producer milks
Senses: glosses: Milk, including the skim milk, nonfat components, and butterfat, that is delivered to a milk pool plant or another milk handler, but has not yet been processed.
omnipolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From omni- + polar.
Senses: glosses: Operating with either (north or south) magnetic pole
perpetual motion machines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perpetual motion machine
post-concussion syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: post-concussion syndromes
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: word: PCS
word: post-concussive syndrome
word: postconcussive syndrome
coordinate_terms: chronic traumatic encephalopathy
second impact syndrome
glosses: A syndrome where the effects of a concussion extend well beyond the normal time period.
Satanic Bible
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: The Satanic Bible
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: The central religious text in LaVeyan Satanism.
Tao Te Ching
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌtaʊ ˌteɪ ˈt͡ʃɪŋ/
Forms: form: the Tao Te Ching
form: Daodejing
form: Dao De Jing
Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 道德經 /道德经 (Dàodéjīng, “Classic of the Dao and De”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
qualifier: Taoism
glosses: A Chinese classic text fundamental to both philosophical and religious Taoism.
Synonyms: Laozi
Irish Traveller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Irish Travellers
form: Irish Traveler
Senses: glosses: A member of an indigenous nomadic ethnic minority in Ireland, the Pavee.
Synonyms: english: the Pavee are not descendants of the Romani
translation: the Pavee are not descendants of the Romani
word: Gypsy
alt: endonym
word: Minkier
word: Pavee
alt: endonym
word: pavee
word: Pikey
word: pikey
word: Pikie
word: pikie
word: Traveler
word: Traveller
Hypernyms: Caucasian
Caucasoid
Celt
European
Gael
Irish
Coordinate terms: english: the language of the Irish Travellers
translation: the language of the Irish Travellers
word: Shelta
Traveller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Travellers
form: Traveler
Etymology: From traveller.
Senses: examples: text: The auctioneer said he had no animus against Travellers but that some headstones verged on “monstrous”.
ref: 2024 March 3, Rory Carroll, “‘A clash of cultures’: Irish opinion split over Travellers’ elaborate headstones”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Ellipsis of Irish Traveller, a member of a nomadic ethnic minority in Ireland.
qualifier: Norway
glosses: A member of a nomadic ethnic minority in Norway.
Irish Travellers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Irish Traveller
Travellers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Traveller
rahoonery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Derived from the suburb of Rahoon in Galway where residents expelled Travellers from their camp by force in 1969; + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: In a widely publicized incident in 1968, residents of Rahoon, a housing estate on the outskirts of Galway City, picketed a proposed official campsite in their area and forced the city to abandon work on it. A year later, a group of residents still angry because several Traveller families remained camped near the abandoned site armed themselves with sticks and attacked the families. They uprooted tents and physically pushed the Travellers and their belongings into the street. The incident gave rise to a new word in the national lexicon, "rahoonery," meaning violently anti-Traveller sentiment and action.
ref: 1986, Sharon Gmelch, Nan: The Life of an Irish Travelling Woman (Biography), →ISBN, page 237:
glosses: Violently anti-Traveller sentiment and action.
imperceivably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more imperceivably
form: most imperceivably
Etymology: From imperceivable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: imperceptibly
cathode ray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cathode rays
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: electron beam
e-beam
glosses: A ray consisting of a stream of electrons in a vacuum tube that are emitted by the cathode and accelerated towards the anode by an electric field.
Derived terms: cathode ray tube
knife block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knife blocks
Senses: glosses: A block of wood (or other material) having slits in which kitchen knives may be stored safely.
cathode ray tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cathode ray tubes
form: cathode-ray tube
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: CRT
picture tube
Braun tube
glosses: A vacuum tube that displays still or moving images (such as for a television), by controlling the direction of a cathode ray emitted towards the front of the tube. The front is coated by a layer of fluorescent material, so that it emits light when struck by the beam.
Minceirtoiree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: McDonagh traces the origins of Travellers back to at least the twelfth century by referring to Traveller-like characters in Irish mythology and emphasizing connections between Traveller language, referred to as Shelta, Gammon, Cant or Minceirtoiree, which literally means "Traveller Talk," and Old Irish.
ref: 2007, Colleen Anne Hynes, Strangers in the House: Twentieth Century Revisions of Irish Literary and Cultural Identity, Austin: University of Texas, page 147:
glosses: Shelta, a language spoken by Irish Travellers.
kathode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kathodes
Senses: glosses: Dated form of cathode.
Derived terms: kathodal
slow-burning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slow-burning
form: most slow-burning
Etymology: From slow + burning.
Senses: glosses: Which burns more slowly than comparable objects.
antonyms: long-burning
glosses: Made of material designed to resist fire.
examples: text: There are elements of low-key black comedy in our hapless hero’s dealing with clinic superiors, who are so clueless that their suspicions fall on entirely the wrong person. As a thriller, however, “La Dosis” is slow-burning to a fault, never quite arriving at the boil anticipated.
ref: 2021 June 8, Dennis Harvey, “‘La Dosis’ Review: Slow-Burn Thriller Imagines War Between Angels of Death in an ICU”, in Variety:
text: When the Missouri-born 26-year-old released her debut album last September, it marked the beginning of a slow-burning second act in pop.
ref: 2024 August 9, Laura Snapes, “It’s a femininomenon! How Chappell Roan slow-burned her way to stardom”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: slow-burn
glosses: Emerging or unfolding slowly or gradually.
Related terms: slow burn
slow-burn
slow burner
Jinsha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪnˈʃɑ/
other: /d͡ʒin-/
other: /t͡ʃin-/
enpr: jǐnʹshäʹ
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: Kinsha
form: Kin-sha
form: Kin Sha
form: Chinsha
form: Chin-sha
form: Chin Sha
form: Jin Sha
raw_tags: from Hanyu Pinyin
form: Jingsha
Etymology: From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 津沙 (Jīnshā).
Senses: examples: text: These establishments charge a premium due to their proximity to the port, but with the exception of the Holiday Hotel (see p.485) none are worth the price, and you'll do much better heading to one of the atmospheric homestays at either Jinsha or Nioujiao village.
ref: 2007, Stephen Keeling, Brice Minnigh, The Rough Guide to Taiwan (Rough Guides), Penguin, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 487:
text: Jinsha One of the archipelago’s most attractive villages, Jinsha has benefited from local government subsidies to preserve and restore traditional one- and two-storey granite houses.
ref: 2014, Steven Crook, Taiwan (Bradt Guides), 2nd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 330:
text: Homestays are springing up in the villages of Fuxing, Jinsha and Qingshui, which have restored their traditional houses to make the towns a better match to the lovely surroundings.
ref: 2014, Robert Kelly, Chung Wah Chow, “Taiwan's Islands”, in Taiwan, 9th edition (Travel), Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 293, column 2:
text: Continuing along the coast past pretty Jinsha village (津沙), there’s a succession of lovely views over the ocean all the way to Magang (馬港), once the main gateway to Matsu for ships from Taiwan.
ref: 2017 September 15, Richard Saunders, “Off the Beaten Track: Nangan island: Gateway to stunning Matsu”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Sep 2017, Features, page 2:
glosses: A village in Nangan, Lienchiang County, Taiwan.
Jinsha Jiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɪnˈʃɑː ˈd͡ʒjɑŋ/
/-d͡ʒi.æŋ/
Forms: form: Kinsha Kiang
form: Kinshakiang
form: Kin-sha-kiang
form: Kin-sha Kiang
form: Kin Sha Kiang
form: Chin-sha Chiang
form: Chinsha Chiang
form: Chinshachiang
form: Chin-sha-chiang
form: Chin Sha Chiang
form: Jinshajiang
raw_tags: from Hanyu Pinyin
form: Jin Sha Jiang
raw_tags: from Hanyu Pinyin
form: Jingsha Jiang
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 金沙江 (Jīnshā Jiāng).
Senses: examples: text: Yibin, known as the First Port on the Yangzi, is a small city at the point where the Min Jiang and Jinsha Jiang join to form the Yangzi River.
ref: 1988, K. Mark Stevens, George E. Wehrfritz, “Sichuan”, in Paddy Booz, editor, Southwest China: Off the Beaten Track, Passport Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 199:
text: Above Yibin, the river is the River of Golden Sands, the Jinsha Jiang, a tumultuous thousand-mile-long tributary whose wild waters reflect the bandit-ridden heritage of its remote tribes. When it reaches into Qinghai Province and the Tibetan Plateau, the Jinsha Jiang becomes known as the Tongtian Ho — the River to Heaven, whose crystalline waters nourish the nomads at the farthest reach of the Celestial Kingdom.
ref: 1989, Richard Bangs, Christian Kallen, “The Yangtze in History”, in Riding the Dragon's Back: The Race to Raft the Upper Yangtze, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 4:
text: The Reds had no interest in Kunming. The way was open to the Jinsha Jiang, the river of Golden Sands.[…]
The first of these targets was the riverside hamlet of Jiaopingdu, as important to me on my route of badges as it had been to the Communists who wanted to cross the Jinsha Jiang there and to the Nationalists who wanted to prevent them.
ref: 1993, William Lindesay, “Victory and Punishment at Jiaopingdu”, in Marching with Mao: A biographical journey, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 88–89:
glosses: Synonym of Jinsha, the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in China.
synonyms: word: Jinsha
extra: the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in China
wikipedia: Encyclopædia Britannica
Derived terms: jinshajiangite
Jin Sha Jiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Yalong is a tributary to Jin Sha Jiang (Yangtze) and Ertan Project is situated 30 km above the confluence of the two rivers, some 40 km from the city of Panzhihua.
ref: 1997, Qian Yang et al., “Ertan hyrdoelectric project: Experiences during construction”, in Hydropower '97, A.A.Balkema, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 590:
text: Along with the four Lancang dams already completed or underway by the mid-2000s, there were another four planned for the Lnacang, thirteen more planned for the Nujiang with one of these already under construction, and another twelve planned for the Jin Sha Jiang, with at least one of these under construction (Dore, Yu, and Li 2007, 71-73).
ref: 2010, Jim Glassman, “Going West, by Southwest”, in Bounding the Mekong, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 126:
text: The upper Chang Jiang River (Yangtze River) originates from the small Jin Sha Jiang (Jinsha River).
ref: 2020 December, Hanli Zhou, Volker Grabowsky, “Demarcation of the Yunnan-Burma Tai Minority Area in Warry's Report of 1891-97: A Critical Evaluation against the Background of Contemporary Chinese Historiography·”, in Southeast Asian Studies, volume 9, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of Jinsha Jiang.
Kinsha Kiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Nanjing-dialect (later Postal Romanization) romanization of 金沙江 (Jīnshājiāng).
Senses: examples: text: The original plan, strictly adhered to in our subsequent journeyings, provided that we should penetrate to the headwaters of the Kinsha Kiang, tributary of the Yangtse, and by a portage across the wild mountain fastnesses of Koko Nor descend to the source of the Hoang Ho, following its stream to the east- ward and to civilisation once more.
ref: 1899, William Jameson Reid, chapter I, in Through Unexplored Asia, Boston: Dana Estes & Company, →OCLC, page 16:
text: We may conjecture that in this section of the route Marco worked down into the valley of the Kinsha Kiang, Upper Yangtse, or Brius; that his Sinugul is Siuchau at the confluence of the Min and the Kiang; and that he passed into the basin of the latter river in the neighbourhood of Tungchwan ⁶.
ref: 1949, C. Raymond Beazley, chapter II, in The Dawn of Modern Geography, volume III, New York: Peter Smith, →OCLC, page 111:
text: The Yangtze Kiang was known to the Chinese as the Ta Chiang, or Great River, and changed its name more than once over its three thousand miles as it ran from Tibet into China; first the River of Golden Sand, then the Kinsha Kiang, then, as it deepened and boiled through its gorges to reach the sea, the Yangtze Kiang.
ref: 1987, John Harris, “1923-1939”, in China Seas, Arrow Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 305:
glosses: Alternative form of Jinsha Jiang.
wikipedia: Encyclopædia Britannica
Postal Romanization
Chin-sha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Mandarin 金沙 (Jīnshā) Wade–Giles romanization: Chin¹-sha¹.
Senses: examples: text: The boundary between Tibet and China settled by the Manchu Emperor and the Tibetans in 1727 and lasting down to 1910 ran from the Mekong just north of A-t'un-tzu, crossed northward into the Chin-sha Chiang valley and followed the water divide between the Chin-sha and the upper Mekong sources to the Kokonor Territory.
ref: 1954, Herold J. Wiens, “The South China geographical environment”, in Han Chinese Expansion in South China, Shoe String Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 22:
text: In view of the situation, however, there was little alternative but to withdraw to southern Kweichow and then to veer towards northeastern Yunnan to find a new crossing point on the Chin-sha, the upper course of the Yangtze.
ref: 1982 [1975], Otto Braun, “On the Long March, 1934-1935”, in Jeanne Moore, transl., Chinesische Aufzeichnungen (1932-1939) 一个共产国际顾问在中国 [A Comintern Agent in China 1932-1939], Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 111:
english: A Comintern Agent in China 1932-1939
translation: A Comintern Agent in China 1932-1939
text: The Yun-Kwei region, a plateau in which virtually no rivers are navigable and all official and commercial transport moved by land, was defined to include the upper reaches of the Hung-shui (a tributary of the West River), of the Wu (a tributary of the Yangtze), and of the Chin-sha (as the Yangtze is known along its upper course) from approximately the point where each becomes unnavigable even for small junks.
ref: 1986, G. William Skinner, “Regional Urbanization in Nineteenth-Century China”, in The Chinese: Adapting the Past, Building the Future, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 106; “Regional Urbanization in Nineteenth-Century China”, in The Chinese: Adapting the Past, Facing the Future, 2nd edition, 1991, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 125:
glosses: Alternative form of Jinsha (River in China)
Related terms: Chin-sha Chiang
Chin-sha Chiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of 金沙江 (Jīnshājiāng) Wade-Giles romanization: Chin¹-sha¹ Chiang¹.
Senses: examples: text: At last he descended the Nan-kuang River and reached the right bank of the Great River, the local name of the Upper Zangtsze, at a point below Hsü-chou Fu, an im- portant city at the junction of the Min River and the Chin-sha Chiang, or River of Golden Sand.[…]From Ning-yüan, locally called Chien-ch‘ang, and lying in a valley famous, among other things, as the habitat of the white-wax insect, he passed southwest through the mountainous Cain-du of Marco Polo, inhabited in great part by Mantzŭ tribes, and struck the left bank of the Chin-sha Chiang two months after leaving Ch‘ung-ch‘ing.
ref: 1885 October 8, “SECTION E—GEOGRAPHY”, in Nature, volume 32, number 832, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 564, column 2:
text: The boundary between Tibet and China settled by the Manchu Emperor and the Tibetans in 1727 and lasting down to 1910 ran from the Mekong just north of A-t'un-tzu, crossed northward into the Chin-sha Chiang valley and followed the water divide between the Chin-sha and the upper Mekong sources to the Kokonor Territory.
ref: 1954, Herold J. Wiens, “The South China geographical environment”, in Han Chinese Expansion in South China, Shoe String Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 22:
text: From the confluence of its two headwaters in the upland of southern Tsinghai, it flows southward to western Szechwan as the Chin-sha Chiang; then, beyond the great bend in northwestern Yunnan it turns sharply to the east and traverses the whole length of Central China to the East China Sea.
ref: 1967, Chang-tu Hu et al., “Geography, People, and Natural Resources”, in Chinese Society under Communism: A Reader, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., →LCCN, →OCLC, page 20:
text: “We must cross the Chin-sha Chiang River,” Kublai said suddenly. He had pictured maps in his imagination, his recall almost perfect.
ref: 2011, Conn Iggulden, chapter 14, in Conqueror: A Novel of Kublai Khan (Fiction), New York: Delacorte Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 135:
glosses: Alternative form of Jinsha Jiang.
wikipedia: Encyclopædia Britannica
Dogo Argentino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dogos Argentinos
Etymology: From Spanish dogo argentino, from dogo (“molosser”) (from English dog) + argentino (“Argentine”).
Senses: glosses: A huge dog breed used in Argentina for big-game hunting which resembles a very large pitbull terrier.
wikipedia: Dogo Argentino
Synonyms: Argentine Dogo
oh my word
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: “Oh my word ... Mr. Williams ... I am so sorry about before. I had no idea it was you.”
ref: 2008, E. Lawrence Hardin, Andre's Song: A Young Man Scorned Creates a New Life, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 95:
text: Within two minutes there was a very distinct double pink line indicating that I was, in fact, knocked up. And my first thought was, Oh my word, I am pregnant.
ref: 2013, Melanie Shankle, Sparkly Green Earrings: Catching the Light at Every Turn, Tyndale, →ISBN, page 8:
text: “He goes up this ladder and drops the rats into this giant funnel, and the poor little things are rolled flat here before being formed into patties.”
“Oh my word!” said Dad. “So it is true.”
ref: 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: An expression of surprise or astonishment.
Synonyms: wow
neurobehaviours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurobehaviour
neurobehavior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurobehaviors
Etymology: From neuro- + behavior.
Senses: glosses: neurological development
Livermore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪvɚmoɹ/
Etymology: The surname is probably habitational, from Livermere. The city is named after Robert Livermore.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A city in Alameda County, California, United States.
Derived terms: livermorium
Related terms: Livermere
puritanicals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puritanical
zoism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Derived from Ancient Greek [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A reverence for animal life or belief in animal powers and influences, as among primitive groups.
glosses: A former doctrine claiming that the phenomena of life are due to a peculiar vital principle; the theory of vital force.
Derived terms: panzoism
zoist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoists
Senses: glosses: One who subscribes to the doctrine of zoism.
zoists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoist
Tats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tat
Somalilander
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Somalilander
form: most Somalilander
Etymology: From Somaliland + -er, analogous with Jubalander and Puntlander.
Senses: examples: text: […] the impact that Somalian and Somalilander Americans had […]
ref: 2010, Jonathan Paquin, A Stability-Seeking Power: U.S. Foreign Policy and Secessionist Conflicts, page 167:
text: […], Somali and Somalilander music is widely listened to, […]
ref: 2012, Philip Briggs, Somaliland, page 32:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Somaliland.
Somalilander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Somalilanders
Etymology: From Somaliland + -er, analogous with Jubalander and Puntlander.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Somaliland.
Hypernyms: Horner
Horn African
sub-Saharan
African
picker-upper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picker-uppers
form: picker-up
form: picker-upperer
Etymology: From pick up + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who picks things up.
glosses: A tool used to pick things up.
Synonyms: sense: tool
word: grabber
sense: tool
word: grabber-reacher
civil registry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: civil registries
Senses: glosses: A government repository, database recording the vital events (births, deaths, etc.) of its citizens and residents, its office.
civil registries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of civil registry
no trespassing
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Used on notices, indicating that entry or access to a place is forbidden.
Synonyms: keep out
soulular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more soulular
form: most soulular
Etymology: Blend of soul + cellular.
Senses: examples: text: A sense of lightness permeated my being to what I thought must be a cellular — indeed a soulular — level.
ref: 1997, Lynnclaire Dennis, The Pattern, Integral Publishing, →ISBN, page 30:
text: The final important thread of this phase of my spiritual "rivering" came when I encountered Aldous Huxley's The Perennial Philosophy where I discovered the convergence among ancient and modern spiritual teachings around a core set of shared beliefs that resonated with me on a soulular level.
ref: 2010, Dan Shafer, The Power of I Am: Claiming Your Inherent Power to Consciously Create a Life of Purpose, Meaning, and Joy, PathBinder Publishing, →ISBN, pages 11–12:
text: The spirit-filled power of his beautiful, rich voice reverberates at the cellular and soulular core of my being.
ref: 2011, Ollie Mae Farley, The Life He Chose: Biography of Pastor Tom Weeks, Jr., Xlibris, →ISBN, page 31:
glosses: Of, relating to, or characteristic of the soul.
Synonyms: spiritual
isotopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isotopy
allotopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allotopies
Senses: glosses: A contradiction between two basic meaning traits (semes) within a story.
Related terms: allotopic
isotopy
allotopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allotopy
allotopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Etymology: From allotopy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or relating to allotopy.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Relating to expression from the nuclear genome of genes that normally are expressed only from the mitochondrial genome.
pryse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pryses
form: prysing
form: prysed
form: prysed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of prize.
black-necked grebes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black-necked grebe
nonconformant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + conformant.
Senses: glosses: Not conformant.
Burkian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Burkian
form: most Burkian
Etymology: From Burke + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Burkean.
Burkean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜːkɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˈbɝki.ən/
Forms: form: more Burkean
form: most Burkean
form: Burkian
Etymology: From Burke + -ean.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Edmund Burke (1729–1797), Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher, remembered for his support of the cause of the American Revolutionaries, and for his later opposition to the French Revolution.
glosses: Of or relating to Kenneth Burke (1897–1993), American writer and literary theorist who based his analyses on the nature of knowledge.
asynclitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to asynclitism.
asynclitism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The position of a baby in the uterus such that the head is presenting first, tilted to the shoulder and thus no longer in line with the birth canal.
Related terms: asynclitic
cloud forest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cloud forests
Senses: examples: text: Cloud forests often exhibit an abundance of mosses covering the ground and vegetation.
glosses: A generally tropical or subtropical, evergreen, montane, moist forest characterized by a persistent, frequent or seasonal low-level cloud cover, usually at the canopy level.
Synonyms: fog forest
Derived terms: word: cloud forest frog
alt: Strabomantidae spp.
word: cloud forest land frog
taxonomic: Ptychohyla euthysanota
word: cloud forest stream frog
taxonomic: Megastomatohyla nubicola
word: cloud forest tree frog
cloud forests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cloud forest
fog forest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fog forests
Senses: glosses: cloud forest
fog forests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fog forest
arylamidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arylamidases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The enzyme cytosol alanyl aminopeptidase.
arylamidases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arylamidase
aminopolypeptidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aminopolypeptidases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The enzyme cytosol alanyl aminopeptidase.
aminopolypeptidases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aminopolypeptidase
hylozoistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hylozo(ism) + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to hylozoism.
Derived terms: hylozoistically
hylozoistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hylozoistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of hylozoism.
organologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organologists
Etymology: From organo- + -logist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies organology.
panvitalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more panvitalistic
form: most panvitalistic
Etymology: From pan- + vitalistic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to panvitalism.
organologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of organologist
panvitalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panvitalists
Etymology: From pan- + vital + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who believes in the doctrine of panvitalism.
panvitalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panvitalist
panexperientialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From panexperiential + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: It is certainly true that Whitehead's philosophy could be seen as a form of panexperientialism, in that all of reality is constituted as experience, and perhaps even hylopathism, where all matter is viewed as being sentient […]
ref: 2014, Jon Mills, Underworlds:
glosses: The doctrine, related to panpsychism, that all matter is capable of experience.
Related terms: panexperientialist
panexperientialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panexperientialists
Etymology: From panexperiential + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who believes the doctrine of panexperientialism.
panexperientialists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panexperientialist
Whiteheadian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Whiteheadian
form: most Whiteheadian
Etymology: From Whitehead + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947), English mathematician and philosopher.
Whiteheadian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Whiteheadians
Etymology: From Whitehead + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy.
zoistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more zoistic
form: most zoistic
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to zoism.
talectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: talectomies
Etymology: From talo- + -ectomy.
Senses: glosses: Astragalectomy.
talectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of talectomy
astragalectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: astragalectomies
Etymology: From astragalus + -ectomy.
Senses: glosses: The surgical removal of the astragalus, or talus, in order to stabilize the ankle.
Synonyms: talectomy
astragalectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astragalectomy
fauxpology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fauxpologies
Etymology: Blend of faux + apology.
Senses: examples: text: What satirist could then top Texas Republican Joe Barton's coerced, linguistically mangled fauxpology? "If anything I said this morning has been misconstrued to the opposite effect I want to apologize for that misconstrued misconstruction." Translation: It's your fault for hearing me right the first time.
ref: 2010 June 23, Ruth Marcus, “The Gulf oil disaster: when bad things happen to bad companies”, in The Seattle Times:
text: The old “sorry if I upset you” route is the go-to tactic of politicians, celebrities, media corporations and spouses for a reason. It looks and smells like an apology, but acknowledges no wrongdoing. It’s a fauxpology.
ref: 2010 October 20, Belinda Luscombe, “Thank You, Ginni Thomas”, in Time:
text: “Hey love. How'sit?” Jena greets without even a fauxpology for her lateness.
ref: 2012, Julie Golden, Vagilantes, Abbott Press, →ISBN, page 190:
glosses: Synonym of non-apology.
synonyms: word: non-apology
padlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more padlike
form: most padlike
Etymology: From pad + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Small padlike feet appeared at the rim, and then the creature heaved itself out of the goblet and hopped away to the south-southeast.
ref: 2004, Sara Douglass, Threshold, page 306:
glosses: Like a pad; having characteristics of a pad; cushionlike.
fauxpologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fauxpology
ailer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of ail: more ail
ailest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of ail: most ail
nullizygous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nulli- + -zygous.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Carrying two mutant alleles for the same gene, both alleles being complete loss-of-function or "null" alleles.
Derived terms: nullizygosity
Related terms: nullizygote
mateable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mate + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being mated or joined together.
autozygous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- + -zygous.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Being a genotype of a kind where two alleles at a locus originate from a common ancestor by way of nonrandom mating (inbreeding).
allozygous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From allo- + -zygous.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Being a genotype of a kind where two alleles at a locus come from completely different sources, as in most normal, random mating.
nullizygosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being nullizygous.
autozygosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + zygosity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being autozygous.
allozygosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From allo- + zygosity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being allozygous.
antevolates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of antevolate
antevolating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of antevolate
antevolated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of antevolate
Dans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Dans told CNN he will formally launch his campaign with a prayer breakfast Wednesday in Charleston.
ref: 2025 July 28, Steve Contorno, “Project 2025 architect Paul Dans to challenge Lindsey Graham for Senate in South Carolina”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname.
Dans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dan
romp home
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: romps home
form: romping home
form: romped home
form: romped home
Senses: examples: text: The hour soon passed, and Charteris, having first seen the Oldest Inhabitant's nevvy romp home in the egg and spoon event, took himself off to the dressing-tent, and began to get into his running clothes.
ref: 1903, P. G. Wodehouse, Tales of St. Austin's:
text: He’s a willing little beast, and not unlikely to romp home in the lead. I’d bet on him myself, except that I’m so damnably unlucky that it really wouldn’t be fair to you, Vane. I never back a horse but what he falls.
ref: 1904, Guy Wetmore Carryl, The Transgression of Andrew Vane, ch. 3:
glosses: To win easily, especially in a race.
dog teeth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dog tooth
laticifers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laticifer
nonremuneration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + renumeration.
Senses: glosses: Failure to remunerate; absence of remuneration.
nonremunerative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + remunerative.
Senses: glosses: Not remunerative.
nonremunerated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + renumerated.
Senses: glosses: Not renumerated.
dog tooths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dog tooth
dog-tooth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dog-teeth
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dog tooth.
dog-teeth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dog-tooth
stanking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stank
stanked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stank
Sea Peoples
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Sea Peoples
Etymology: Calque of Egyptian nꜣ ḫꜣswt nt pꜣ ym (“the peoples/foreigners of the sea”), as written in the Great Karnak Inscription.
Senses: glosses: A confederacy of seafaring raiders of unknown nationality who invaded the eastern Mediterranean at the end of the Bronze Age.
wikipedia: Great Karnak Inscription
dullers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duller
flagpost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flagposts
Etymology: From flag + post.
Senses: glosses: flagpole
flagposts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flagpost
exmo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ex-mo
form: Exmo
form: ExMo
form: Ex-mo
form: Ex-Mo
Etymology: Shortened form of ex- + Mormon.
Senses: examples: text: A few weeks ago we announced to several of the Ex-mo lists that the Foundation had made a decision to fund and produce a documentary that would be viewable on our website, and also in DVD form.
ref: 2006 November 20, Sue Emmett, “Exmo Foundation Documentary - Interviews This Weekend”, in The Mormon Curtain, The Exmormon Foundation, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2007:
text: If Exmo boards are any indication, learning the new and expanded vocabulary of coffee is a real challenge for someone who grew up Mormon.
ref: 2019 July 30, Dave B., “Have a Cup of Green Tea. Or Not.”, in Wheat & Tares, archived from the original on 23 Sep 2020:
glosses: A disaffiliate of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a dominant Mormon religious organization.
zoochosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of zoo- + psychosis
Senses: glosses: Abnormal animal behaviour caused by time in captivity.
Related terms: zoochotic
zoochotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more zoochotic
form: most zoochotic
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting, or relating to, zoochosis.
overburnt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: over-burnt
Etymology: From over- + burnt.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overburn
overburnt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overburnt
form: most overburnt
form: over-burnt
Etymology: From over- + burnt.
Senses: glosses: Being burnt for too long; excessively burnt.
universewide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From universe + -wide.
Senses: examples: text: If the United States wants to build a countrywide ABM system or a world-wide BDM system, or even some universewide defense system, let it be its own business.
ref: 2001, Bettie Moretz Smolansky, Oles M. Smolansky, The Lost Equilibrium: International Relations in the Post-Soviet Era, page 303:
glosses: Throughout the universe.
unblunted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + blunted.
Senses: glosses: Not blunted.
unaccusingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unaccusingly
form: most unaccusingly
Etymology: From unaccusing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "You never really loved me," she said simply, unaccusingly.
glosses: In an unaccusing manner.
unaccusing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unaccusing
form: most unaccusing
Etymology: From un- + accusing.
Senses: glosses: Not accusing.
kito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This type of blackmail, where an LGBT person is entrapped, is known in Nigeria's gay community as "kito" - the exact origin of the term is unclear. BBC Africa Eye interviewed 21 people in all about their experiences of being "kito'd".
ref: 2023 May 15, Ian Wafula, Tamasin Ford, “The Nigerians lured into a trap and blackmailed for being gay”, in BBC News:
text: One LGBTQ+ advocacy group that works with Nigerians told BBC Africa Eye that, each week, 15 to 20 people reach out to them with similar stories of entrapment and extortion. The scheme is known in Nigeria's gay community as "kito."
ref: 2023 May 16, Dylan Reber, “Gay Men in Nigeria Targeted in Dating App Extortion Scheme”, in Advocate:
glosses: A type of blackmail on LGBT people
linguines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linguine
linguinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linguini
preterite-presents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preterite-present
action noun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: action nouns
Senses: synonyms: nomen actionis
verbal noun
glosses: A noun denoting the action of the verb or verbal root from which it is derived.
Related terms: agent noun
nomen actionis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nomina actionis
form: nom. action.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: action noun
Coordinate terms: nomen agentis
nomen obiecti
somaclonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Produced by plant tissue culture
Related terms: somaclone
nomen loci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nomina locorum
form: nomina loci
Etymology: Latin
Senses: glosses: place name, toponym
suspensively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more suspensively
form: most suspensively
Etymology: From suspensive + -ly.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Involving a suspension
nomen patientis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nomina patientis
Etymology: Latin
Senses: glosses: A noun denoting the subject of the verb or verbal root that it is derived from.
nomen acti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nomina acti
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A noun denoting a result of a dynamic action.
Related terms: nomen actionis
action noun
verbal substantive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verbal substantives
Senses: glosses: verbal noun
nomen verbi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nomina verbi
Etymology: Latin
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: verbal noun
Synonyms: masdar