cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Hartogs number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hartogs numbers
form: Hartogs' number
Etymology: After German-Jewish mathematician Friedrich Hartogs (1874–1943).
Senses: examples: text: 1973 [North-Holland], Thomas J. Jech, The Axiom of Choice, 2013, Dover, page 160,
Let p be an infinite cardinal, |X|=p and let א=א(p) be the Hartogs number of p.
text: 1995, The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, Volume 1, Association for Symbolic Logic, page 139,
If the Power Set Axiom is replaced by "א(x) is bound for every x" where
א(x)={a|∃f(f is one-to-one function from a into x)},
then the theory is denoted by ZFH (H stands for Hartogs' Number).
text: Since the proof of Hartogs' Theorem does not appeal to the Axiom of Choice, the Hartogs number of a set X exists whether or not X has a well-ordering.
ref: 2014, Barnaby Sheppard, The Logic of Infinity, Cambridge University Press, page 341:
topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: For a given set X, the cardinality of the least ordinal number α such that there is no injection from α into X.
wikipedia: Friedrich Hartogs
Related terms: equipotent
Hartogs function
Hartlepudlians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hartlepudlian
grubbies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grubby
grubbies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Clothes that are grubby.
mislocation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mislocations
Etymology: From mis- + location.
Senses: glosses: misplacement
glosses: incorrect specification of a location
mislocations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mislocation
trully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of truly.
roadcraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From road + craft, coined by the British police as a title for some driving handbooks.
Senses: glosses: The skill of driving a road vehicle.
oxysulfate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxysulfates
form: oxysulphate
Etymology: From oxy- + sulfate.
Senses: examples: text: Magnesium oxysulfate cement is formulated by the reaction between magnesium oxide and magnesium sulfate solution, and like that of magnesium oxychloride it has very good binding properties.
ref: 2006, Mark A. Shand, The chemistry and technology of magnesia, page 234:
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound containing both an oxide and a sulfate anion.
Related terms: oxychloride
oxysulphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxysulphates
Etymology: From oxy- + sulphate.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oxysulfate.
third screen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
marketing
glosses: The screen of a mobile device (as opposed to earlier television and computer screens), regarded as a means of transmitting advertisements etc.
oxysulphates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxysulphate
oxysulfates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxysulfate
intraquartile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + quartile.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Within a quartile.
Related terms: interquartile
alphamerics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: alphanumeric characters
videoframe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: videoframes
Etymology: From video + frame.
Senses: glosses: A frame of video data; a screenful.
videoframes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of videoframe
viewdatas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of viewdata
Wiener filters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wiener filter
X-junctions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of X-junction
Cambro-Briton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cambro-Britons
Etymology: From Cambro- + Briton.
Senses: examples: text: This eminent and ever-memorable Cambro-Briton, Vavasoh Powell, was a native of Radnorshire, of no mean origin, or ignoble descent, being related to some of the best families in that county, and also in those of Montgomery and Salop.
ref: 1820, William Richards, The Welsh nonconformists' memorial, or, Cambro-British biography, Sherwood, Neely and Jones, page 141:
glosses: A Welsh person.
Cambro-Britons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cambro-Briton
inclined planes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inclined plane
AM-GM Inequality
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: AM-GM inequality
Etymology: From arithmetic mean – geometric mean inequality.
Senses: glosses: The fact that the arithmetic mean of nonnegative numbers is not less than their geometric mean, and is more if some of the numbers are distinct.
predicand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: predicands
Senses: examples: In, "downhearted, he left," the predicand for downhearted is the person denoted by he (cf. he was downhearted).
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
syntax
glosses: What a clausal predicate, predicative complement or adjunct relates to.
examples: For example, in They appear uneasy, the property of being uneasy is predicated of (the referent of) they, which is therefore the predicand.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
glosses: The referent of the phrase of which another constituent (the predicate) is predicated.
paraspecies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + species.
Senses: glosses: A species that gave rise to daughter species without itself becoming extinct
in dutch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of in Dutch.
no hell
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of no screaming hell.
peameal bacon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Back bacon that has been brined and coated with fine cornmeal or with a meal made of ground, dried peas.
mithridatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mithridatic
form: most mithridatic
Etymology: General application of Mithridatic, q.v.
Senses: glosses: Of or related to mithridates, universally curative against all poisons.
examples: text: He turned the pages slowly, moving on to other metropolitan catastrophes, the next mithridatic outrage, the pages fluttered behind the front page but the headline remained the same, in the same place hovering across from her.
ref: 1999, Colson Whitehead, The Intuitionist, Fleet (2017), pages 180-181:
glosses: Of or related to mithridatism, the gradual acquisition of immunity to poison through repeated exposure.
Derived terms: mithridatically
mithridatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mithridatics
Etymology: General application of Mithridatic, q.v.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of antidote: a treatment which functions like a mithridate.
synonyms: word: antidote
extra: a treatment which functions like a mithridate
toast of the town
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toasts of the town
Senses: examples: text: I sat, but neither heard nor saw:
Tho' this was fair, and that was braw,
And yon the toast of a' the town,
I sigh'd, and said among them a',
"Ye are na Mary Morison."
ref: c. 1780, Robert Burns, Mary Morison:
text: Miss Moore was the toast of the town, and numerous were the advantageous opportunities of matrimony of which she was the recipient.
ref: 1898 November 25, “A Woman's Unique Revenge”, in Atlanta Constitution, page 4:
text: Miss Dorothy Parker seems to be the newest literary toast of the town.
ref: 1928 May 20, O. O. McIntyre, “Giving Things the "O. O." With McIntyre”, in Miami News, retrieved 29 Aug 2011, page 8:
text: Newhouser was the toast of the town for his masterful, 11 to 0 shutout in which he struck out 10 batters.
ref: 1945 September 28, Allen V. Dowling, “Detroit Needs Just One More”, in Warsaw Daily Union, USA, retrieved 29 Aug 2011, page 5:
glosses: A person, male or female, who is admired and very popular in local society, and who is sought after to attend parties, public events, etc.
Synonyms: local hero
man of the hour
woman of the hour
person of the hour
Related terms: talk of the town
manœuvrability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: After a week's manœuvrability tests at Winwick, the locomotive was to undergo three weeks' trials, light engine and loaded, between Whitchurch and Tattenhall Junction.
ref: 1960 December, “Motive Power Miscellany: London Midland Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 767:
glosses: Alternative form of manoeuvrability.
manœuvrable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more manœuvrable
form: most manœuvrable
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of maneuverable.
Derived terms: unmanœuvrable
colonizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more colonizable
form: most colonizable
Etymology: From colonize + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Gazing at the magniscreen, he rubbed his palms together in satisfaction. His ship was swinging smoothly in an orbit high above a newly-discovered planet, and the magniscreen was focused on the landscape below. No Dal ship had ever been in this part of the galaxy before, and it was comforting to have discovered a colonizable planet so quickly.
ref: 1957 July, Randall Garrett, “The Best Policy”, in Astounding Science Fiction:
glosses: Capable of being colonized.
Paganini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Paganinis
Etymology: From Italian Paganini.
Senses: examples: text: Hannah King stands on 'paganinis' (wooden blocks) to embrace Patrick Ryecart […]
ref: 1993, Daniel Meadows, Set pieces: being about film stills mostly, page 42:
text: […] a small wedge of wood used to hold open doors and level furniture on the set. Usually carried by the stagehands, standby carpenters, etc., its use is more precise than Paganinis.
ref: 2009, Tony Bill, Movie Speak: How to Talk Like You Belong on a Film Set, page 113:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: One of a set of blocks for raising the height of a person or equipment.
right identities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of right identity
leg spinners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leg spinner
soss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɒs/
rhymes: -ɒs
Forms: form: sosses
form: suss
Etymology: From Middle English sosse, sos, soos (“hounds' meat; a mess of food”), of uncertain origin. See sesspool.
Senses: glosses: Anything dirty or muddy; a dirty puddle.
soss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɒs/
rhymes: -ɒs
Forms: form: sosses
form: sossing
form: sossed
form: sossed
form: suss
Etymology: From Middle English sosse, sos, soos (“hounds' meat; a mess of food”), of uncertain origin. See sesspool.
Senses: glosses: To soil; to make dirty.
soss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɒs/
rhymes: -ɒs
Forms: form: sosses
form: sossing
form: sossed
form: sossed
Etymology: Compare souse.
Senses: examples: text: sossing in an easy chair
ref: 1723, Jonathan Swift, Stella at Wood Park:
glosses: To fall suddenly into a chair or seat; to sit lazily.
examples: text: the coach sosses up and down as one goes that way
ref: May 24 1711, Jonathan Swift, Journal to Stella – Letter 24
glosses: To throw in a negligent or careless manner; to toss.
soss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɒs/
rhymes: -ɒs
Forms: form: sosses
Etymology: Compare souse.
Senses: glosses: A lazy fellow.
examples: text: wi a soss aboon the claiths
Ilk ane their gifts down flang
ref: 1828, William Carr, The Dialect of Craven:
glosses: A heavy fall.
soss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɒs/
rhymes: -ɒs
Forms: form: sosses
Etymology: Phonetic spelling of a clipping of sausage
Senses: examples: text: "Where's Bozz? He never misses a soss sizzle."
ref: 2012, Carl Leckey, The Very, Very, Last Moa, page 28:
glosses: A sausage (food product).
soss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɒs/
rhymes: -ɒs
Forms: form: sosses
Etymology: Phonetic spelling of a clipping of sausage
Senses: glosses: eye-dialect spelling of sauce
proscænium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proscænia
Senses: examples: text: The square whose side is nearest to the “scaena,” and cuts off a segment of the circle, determines by this line the limits of the “proscænium” (A–B).
ref: 1918, Sheldon Cheney, The Open-Air Theatre (M. Kennerley), page 179
glosses: Archaic form of proscenium.
Zell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: I hope I ſhall not greatly offend in alſo bringing to remembrance at this time, the miſchief and horrors that the French ſpread at Bengal, and the piercing ſcenes of woe which they baſely perpetrated at Zell, and how aſtoniſhingly furious they raged there with brutal madneſs, being ſo amazingly wanton and inhuman in their obſcenery and cruelties, […]
ref: 1761, William Thompson, A Copy of Thompson's Justification, Founded on the Solid Principles of Truth and Public Virtue, London: [s.n.], page 8:
glosses: Obsolete name for the island of Yell, one of the Shetland islands.
glosses: A town in Germany in the region of Lower Saxony.
glosses: A town in Austria in the state of Salzburg.
vocaliser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vocalisers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vocalizer.
visualiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: visualisers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of visualizer.
OCP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: OCPs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of oral contraceptive pill.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
science
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Open Closed Principle.
Related terms: SOLID
open/closed principle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the open/closed principle
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: Alternative spelling of open-closed principle.
sunly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sunlier
form: more sunly
form: sunliest
form: most sunly
Etymology: From Middle English sonnelych, sunnelich, from Old English sunlīċ (“of the sun, solar”). Equivalent to sun + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Aside he flung his sunly symbols. Like a falling star, from the Vale of Gods He dropp'd, like a falling star shot through the Shoreless space; like a golden morning reach'd The earth, —reach'd the lake.
ref: 1874, Lew Wallace, The fair God:
text: "Nay, The sun is single, but her eyes are twain, — Twain firmaments that mock with heavenlier hue The heavens' less lordly and less gracious blue, And lit with sunlier sunlight through and through."
ref: 1907, Harper's magazine:
text: She agreed with Mark Twain that it "is the peacefulest, restfulest, sunliest, balmiest, dreamiest haven of refuge [...] the surface of the earth can offer."
ref: 2001, Carl M. Franklin, Carolyn Craig Franklin: Favorite Poems, Quotes and Hymns:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Sun; solar.
examples: text: [...] than to win less never than alive less bigger than the least begin less littler than forgive it is most sane and sunly and more it cannot die than all the sky which only is higher than the sky [...]
ref: 1964, Norman Friedman, E. E. Cummings; the growth of a writer:
glosses: Sane.
raw_tags: in contrast with moonly
Coordinate terms: earthly
moonly
starly
sunly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: sunlier
form: more sunly
form: sunliest
form: most sunly
Etymology: From Middle English sonnelych, sunnelich, from Old English sunlīċ (“of the sun, solar”). Equivalent to sun + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Hopes that beam the sunliest, Like the wavelet's silver crest, [...]
ref: 1863, James Wallis, David King, The British millennial harbinger:
glosses: In a sunly manner.
plain-woven
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Woven with the most basic textile weave, called plain weave.
moonly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more moonly
form: most moonly
Etymology: From Middle English monelich, from Old English mōnlīċ (“lunar”), from Proto-West Germanic *mānalīk (“pertaining to the moon, moon-like”), equivalent to moon + -ly. Cognate with Middle Dutch maenlijc (“moonly, lunar”), German mondlich (“lunar”).
Senses: examples: text: Here and there were young moonly faces selling refreshments.
ref: 1839, James Silk Buckingham, John Sterling, Frederick Denison Maurice, The Athenæum:
text: Then, the regenerative process will be changed; the moonly changes will begin to go the reverse way around the zodiac. Ladies will observe that the time of their moonly weakness will come one sign earlier or about two and a half days […]
ref: 1888, Hiram Erastus Butler, The Esoteric:
text: When the Gopis looked towards the fruit-laden trees lit up with the moonly light, the Gallant-lover remarked, "fruits I alone can reward and this is best congenial atmosphere to beg to to^([sic]) Me.
ref: 1983, Vyāsa, Viśvanātha Cakravartin, Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati, Srimad Bhāgavatam of Sri Krishnadvaipāyana Vyāsa:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Moon; lunar; moonlike.
glosses: Lunatic.
Coordinate terms: earthly
starly
sunly
Related terms: moonish
moonlike
moony
starly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more starly
form: most starly
Etymology: From star + -ly. Compare sunly, moonly.
Senses: examples: text: [...] The exact setting of position of the Pyramids with regard to the points of the compass; The ceremony of "Stretching Cord"; Constellation of the Great Bear; History of the starly guardians of the poles; [...]
ref: 1962, Jozef Marie Antoon Janssen, International Association of Egyptologists, Bibliographie égyptologique annuelle:
text: If g separates starly points from closed sets, g is a COC-map giving rise to a Nagata function as can be seen by the argument above.
ref: 1984, Taehan Suhakhoe, Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a star or stars; astral.
Coordinate terms: earthly
moonly
sunly
starly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more starly
form: most starly
Etymology: From star + -ly. Compare sunly, moonly.
Senses: examples: text: For the sense-datum theory, we have a sense-datum produced by it as it was; on the adverbial view, we are sensing "starly" in the way we would have if we had received the relevant visual stimuli at the time the star produced them.
ref: 2004, Ilkka Niiniluoto, Matti Sintonen, Jan Woleński, Handbook of epistemology:
text: [...] and he could see the stars in the well again and there came again the rising feeling of falling well-ward into the watery sky, falling freely, well and sky, uply downly skyly, starly brightly well-ly wishing her mother No finish go [...]
ref: 2010, Ralph Ellison, John Callahan, Adam Bradley, Three Days Before the Shooting:
glosses: In a starly manner.
Related terms: starrily
mouthly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mouthly
form: most mouthly
Etymology: From mouth + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Wherefore if in very deed they eat the Substance of the Flesh and Blood of Christ, they are not far from the mouthly eating of the Lutherans, […] Which if any one deny, the whole Building of the Mass and Transubstantiation falls to the ground, together with the mouthly and real Eating of the Substance of the Flesh and Blood of Christ.
ref: 1708, John Dunton, The phenix:
text: Gerhard Botz organised an exploratory half-day session on oral history (or more precisely, 'mouthly history') […]
ref: 1979, Oral History Society (Great Britain), Oral history:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the mouth or of mouths; oral.
Shaftesburian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Shaftesbury + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Johnſon bore [the 3rd Lord Shaftesbury] no good will, neither did he ſeem at all to reliſh the cant of the Shafteſburian ſchool.
ref: 1787, Sir John Hawkins, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., page 255:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, of his writings, or of his philosophical doctrines.
Shaftesbury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: shăftsʹbrĭ
ipa: /ˈʃæftsbɹɪ/
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in north Dorset, England (OS grid ref ST8623).
glosses: A community and ward in Newport, Wales.
glosses: An English earldom.
Derived terms: Shaftesburian
footly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English *fotlich, from Old English fōtlīċ (“on foot, pedestrian”), equivalent to foot + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It has been officially confirmed that this refers to the four-legged variety and is in no way connected with any footly revival of Aneurin Bevan's previous detection about the place of two-legged dextral vermin.
ref: 1971 June 3, New Scientist:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the foot or feet.
examples: text: All footly were the Illiterates, […]
ref: 1906, The Strand Magazine:
glosses: Pedestrian; on foot.
footly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Middle English *fotlich, from Old English fōtlīċ (“on foot, pedestrian”), equivalent to foot + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Oh! foot it featly, and feat it footly, and dance and sing, and tootle-ty ting!"
ref: 1902, Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Captain January:
glosses: In a footly manner; by foot.
century breaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of century break
triple goddess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triple goddesses
Senses: examples: text: The goddess Brig was a triple goddess of poetry, smithcraft and healing, along with her two sisters of the same name.
ref: 2012, Sharon Paice MacLeod, Celtic Myth and Religion: A Study of Traditional Belief, with Newly Translated Prayers, Poems and Songs, McFarland & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 51:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A female triune deity, either one goddess with three distinct aspects or manifestations, or three goddesses who form a unit.
Coordinate terms: maiden
mother
crone
goddess
Horned God
Antlered God
triple goddess
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: Wicca
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Triple Goddess.
convex combination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: convex combinations
Senses: topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A linear combination (of vectors in Euclidean space) in which the coefficients are non-negative and all add up to one.
Hypernyms: affine combination
linear combination
rowling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: There stood a Hill not far whose griesly top / Belch'd fire and rowling smoak
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 670–1:
glosses: present participle and gerund of rowl (“roll”)
Synonyms: rolling
middle-end
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Modelled on high-end and low-end, though it makes little logical sense in the context of a two-ended range of prices.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: middlebrow, midbrow
synonyms: mid-range
mid-market
coordinate_terms: low-end#Adjective
high-end#Adjective
glosses: Moderately priced; average quality.
nosely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nosely
form: most nosely
Etymology: From nose + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: That was unusual because Barnesville is a place like most low cost housing areas where people did not only know wone another but are nosely to the point of finding out each others business.
ref: 1983, C. William Allen, An obituary for Hawa Barchue: a novel:
glosses: Of, relating to, or characteristic of the nose or noses, nasal; nosey.
nosely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more nosely
form: most nosely
Etymology: From nose + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: If any one desired to meet real American people, without a trace of the pronunciation of a Briton; people who talked right nosely, — Milltown.
ref: 1877, John Trowbridge, The great match, and other matches:
text: May I ask Brother Elmer Hayden where he gets that stuff that so nosely blooms.
ref: 1920, Amalgamated Transit Union, Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees of America, In transit
glosses: In a nosey or nasal manner; nasally.
eyely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English ely, eiȝely, equivalent to eye + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Ofttimes we look upon an eyely prize, / And conjure means by which we may obtain / That morsel for ourself; […]
ref: 1892, Creedmore Fleenor, “Passion's Pandemonium”, in Thought Throbs, § "Despondency", page 199:
text: […] and I quoted a few places where the first part of my accusation is capable of "eyely and euident demonstration,' to use a phrase of Leicarraga's time.
ref: 1903 January 24, Notes and Queries, volume 11, 9th series, Oxford University Press, page 64:
glosses: Visible or apparent to the eye; evident; obvious.
Synonyms: blatant
manifest
obvious
eyely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From the adjective (see above), equivalent to eye + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He was eyely delited at the site you may be sure but Becky being timersome shut her eyes all the time she was seeing it.
ref: 1822 May, Thomas Hood, “Mr. Martin's Pictures and the Bonassus”, in The London Magazine, volume 5, number 29, page 428; republished in Tom Hood, Frances Freeling Broderip (née Hood), editors, The Works of Thomas Hood, volume 4, London: Ward, Lock & Co, 1882, page 424:
glosses: Obviously; evidently; apparently.
Synonyms: blatantly
manifestly
obviously
demonisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demonisations
Etymology: From demon + -isation.
Senses: examples: text: Each side's current demonisation of the other generates heat rather than light, and pushes a settlement further away.
ref: 2022 August 24, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Rail strikes deadlock”, in RAIL, number 964, page 3:
glosses: Alternative spelling of demonization.
demonisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demonisation
ground-effect machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ground-effect machines
Senses: synonyms: word: GEM
word: GEV
word: ground-effect vehicle
glosses: Synonym of ground-effect vehicle.
air-cushion vehicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air-cushion vehicles
Senses: synonyms: word: ACV
word: hovercraft
hypernyms: GEM
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glosses: Synonym of hovercraft.
GEM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GEMs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of ground-effect machine.
topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Acronym of Graphite-Epoxy Motor.
air cushion vehicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air cushion vehicles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of air-cushion vehicle.
ground effect machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ground effect machines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ground-effect machine.
items of clothing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of item of clothing
apely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more apely
form: most apely
Etymology: From ape + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: There is now a danger, we presume, that people may do such things by the rules of Darwinism, but the author fails to inform us whether we are likely to select servants and intimate friends because they do, or because they do not, present in their faces and on their persons indications of their apely origin?
ref: 1879, The Popular science monthly, volume 15, page 69:
text: Our family is Hominidae, and we share it with four living species of great apes — chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans — as well as dozens of extinct predecessors of varying apely or humanesque traits.
ref: 2007, Natalie Angier, The canon: a whirligig tour of the beautiful basics of science - Page 168:
glosses: Of, relating to, or characteristic of apes; simian.
lateral lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lateral line
laughing geese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laughing goose
laughing gulls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laughing gull
laughing owls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laughing owl
letter grades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of letter grade
apehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ape + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state or essence of being an ape.
saleworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more saleworthy
form: most saleworthy
Etymology: From sale + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: But even before he could do so, half-a-dozen black Somanlis, now eager for gain, interposed their strong arms to prevent such culpable waste of good saleworthy slave stuff.
ref: 1896, Grant Allen, A bride from the desert - Page 31:
glosses: Worthy or capable of being sold; sellable.
archdukedom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archdukedoms
Etymology: From archduke + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The territory or dignity of an archduke or archduchess; an archduchy.
Anglo-Saxondom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Anglo-Saxon + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The Anglo-Saxon domain; the whole body of Anglo-Saxons.
butcherdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊt͡ʃədəm/
ipa: /ˈbʊt͡ʃɚdəm/
Etymology: From butcher + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: Opossum certainly was not confined to the Negro diet. Most whites ate the animal and many sought them eagerly. Young ones could be fried, but the preferred method was roasting and serving with sweet potatoes. An ex-slave commented on their gastronomical worth: “but verily there is nothing in all butcherdom so delicious as a roasted ’possum.”
ref: 2014, Sam Bowers Hilliard, Hog Meat and Hoecake: Food Supply in the Old South, 1840-1860, University of Georgia Press, →ISBN, pages 47–48:
glosses: The condition or trade of a butcher.
vendable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vendable
form: most vendable
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vendible.
vendable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vendables
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vendible.
talk past
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: talks past
form: talking past
form: talked past
form: talked past
Senses: glosses: To talk at cross purposes with; to speak in such a way that a listener fails to understand one's meaning.
talks past
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of talk past
talking past
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of talk past
talked past
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of talk past
4D
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: 4-D
Senses: coordinate_terms: 1D
2D
3D
glosses: Abbreviation of four-dimensional.
Describes a 3D film experience that is supplemented with synchronized physical effects.
examples: text: 4D-CT
coordinate_terms: 1D
2D
3D
glosses: Abbreviation of four-dimensional.
Denotes imaging modes with 3D capability that can also record over time.
examples: text: Being considered 4D is usually when an idol behaves and acts differently or strangely compared to the usual Korean standards.
ref: 2018, Hayley Marland, K-Pop Survival Guide, page 99:
text: If every K-pop group has a “4D” member, V was probably BTS's. He's grown up significantly since then, emanating maturity and wisdom […]
ref: 2021, Entertainment Weekly The Ultimate Guide to BTS:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Having a quirky or oddball personality.
Derived terms: 4D chess
Related terms: 4WD
corruscation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corruscations
Senses: glosses: Dated form of coruscation.
Related terms: corruscate
palmitine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of palmitin.
paludicole
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin palūs (“marsh”) + -cole. Compare French paludicole.
Senses: examples: text: The species are strictly paludicole[…]
ref: 1892, Elliott Coues, Key to North American birds:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Paludicolous; inhabiting marshes.
subquest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌbˌkwɛst/
Forms: form: subquests
Etymology: From sub- + quest.
Senses: examples: text: If each of five paths through the game has an entirely independent set of locations, monsters, spells, characters, subquests, and game objectives, the designer is essentially faced with creating five wholly different games.
ref: 2001, Neal Hallford, Jana Hallford, Swords and circuitry: a designer's guide to computer role playing games, page 195:
text: This is an example of a subquest that must be completed before the main one can be finished. Or the subquest could be finding a key that unlocks the room holding the princess since the room has been magically sealed against all entry without the key.
ref: 2009, Jim Perry, RPG programming using XNA game studio 3.0, page 232:
text: The quest is broken down into a number of episodes that progress in a linear sequence, each with its own subquest and major challenge at the end.
ref: 2010, Ernest Adams, Fundamentals of game design, page 458:
topics: video-games
glosses: A secondary quest that forms part of a larger quest.
subquests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subquest
rabbit starvation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of acute malnutrition caused by excess consumption of any lean meat (such as rabbit), coupled with a lack of nutrients and usually other stressors such as a cold or dry environment.
sociopsychoanalytical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From socio- + psychoanalytical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to sociopsychoanalysis.
Klabee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Klabees
Senses: examples: text: Dragons, Klabees and Cyclopses were present in robes of gold, purple, scarlet. And Imperial Wizard HW Evans made a keynote speech.
ref: 1923, Time, volume 2:
text: Despite the assurance of Klabee Robert F. Howard in November 1926 that the Salt Lake Klan was "still functioning with great vigor and holding meetings every Monday evening," interest in the order was drastically on the wane.
ref: 2004, Shawn Lay, The invisible empire in the West, page 145:
glosses: A treasurer in the Ku Klux Klan.
Klabees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Klabee
Kleagle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kleagles
Etymology: Blend of Klan + eagle?
Senses: examples: text: At last, when the tribute slackened, he motioned to his retainers to sweep up the treasure. Then he strode off to a near-by pavilion to consult with his attendant Kleagles, Cyclopses, and Titans.
ref: 1984, John Henry Cary, Julius Weinberg, The Social Fabric: American life from 1607 to 1877:
glosses: A recruiter for the Ku Klux Klan.
Kleagles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kleagle
klecktoken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: klecktokens
form: klectoken
Etymology: Probably from Klan and token.
Senses: examples: text: The Indiana scandals utterly discredited the Klan in the eyes of the general public and alienated most of its own members, who dropped their memberships en masse by not renewing their annual klecktokens.
ref: 2007, Thomas Streissguth, The roaring twenties, page 68:
glosses: A subscription fee paid by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
klecktokens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of klecktoken
kligrapp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kligrapps
Senses: examples: text: A directive from the Indiana KKK Department of Propaganda and Education to all state exalted Cyclops and kligrapps on the occasion of Mother's Day 1925, for example, instructed Klansmen to honor their "glorious mothers as the only reliable source of counsel, sympathy, and courage in a man's life."
ref: 1925, Kathleen M. Blee, Women of the Klan: racism and gender in the 1920s, page 46:
glosses: A secretary in the Ku Klux Klan.
kligrapps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kligrapp
klonvocation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: klonvocations
Etymology: Blend of Klan + convocation
Senses: examples: text: But other klonvocations, held contemporaneously with Norfolk's, he pointed out, had displayed a more malevolent quality.
ref: 2002, Alexander Leidholdt, Editor for justice: the life of Louis I. Jaffé, page 169:
glosses: A meeting of the Ku Klux Klan.
Related terms: kloncilium
klonklave
klonvocations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of klonvocation
Kloran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Klan + Koran.
Senses: glosses: The handbook of the Ku Klux Klan.
klavalier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: klavaliers
Etymology: Blend of Klan + cavalier
Senses: examples: text: In Indiana County, seventeen of twenty-four klavalier applicants were from the mining industry[…]
ref: 1997, Philip Jenkins, Hoods and shirts: the extreme right in Pennsylvania, 1925-1950, page 73:
glosses: A member of the Ku Klux Klan's "secret police" or flogging squads.
klavaliers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of klavalier
kludd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kludds
Senses: examples: text: Kludds preached that Klan and Church were synonymous. Friends in high places, non-members supporting Klan views, were willing to help. Distinguished visitors from abroad applauded the Klan fight.
ref: 1992, Michael Moorcock, The laughter of Carthage:
glosses: A chaplain or preacher in the Ku Klux Klan.
kludds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kludd
Klokard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Klokards
Senses: examples: text: By creating a hierarchy of Imperial Wizard, Grand Dragons, Klokards, and Kleagles and by creating a network of semiautonomous, local Klaverns, the Klan has devised a world of "alternative institutions" within the United States[…]
ref: 1998, Robert J. Kelly, Jess Maghan, Hate crime: the global politics of polarization, page 70:
text: The Klokard from his position, carefully surveys the Sacred Altar to make sure it is properly prepared[…]
ref: 2009, Brian Tackett, Inside the Klu Klux Klan: The Rise and Fall of a Grand Dragon, page 92:
glosses: A lecturer in the Ku Klux Klan.
Klokards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Klokard
Klexter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Klexters
Senses: examples: text: The Kleagles, and Klexters, and other nabobs should go with him.
ref: 1923, Paulist Fathers, Catholic world: Volume 116:
text: Sitting in on a Klan meeting. Wouldn't that be something? Bankhead thought about the details. How would it work? “First, you got to get by the Klexter.”
ref: 2009, Max Blue, Shorty Spooner, page 82:
glosses: An outer guard at meetings of the Ku Klux Klan.
Related terms: english: inner guard
translation: inner guard
word: Klarogo
Klexters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Klexter
Klarogo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Klarogos
Senses: examples: text: Later members of the Klans known as Night Hawks, Klarogos, and Klexters wore black uniforms void of robes for ease of movement. They were similar to Gestapo uniforms worn by elite Nazi military officers.
ref: 1999, Chester L. Quarles, The Ku Klux Klan and related American racialist and antisemitic organizations, page 68:
text: The wicket opened and the Klarogo inside demanded: "Who is it and what is your business?"
ref: 2011, Stetson Kennedy, David Pilgrim, The Klan Unmasked, page 59:
glosses: An inner guard at meetings of the Ku Klux Klan.
Related terms: english: outer guard
translation: outer guard
word: Klexter
Klarogos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Klarogo
Klokan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Klokans
form: Klokann
Senses: glosses: An officer of the Ku Klux Klan who investigates prospective members.
Klokann
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Klokan
Klokans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Klokan
Klaliff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Klaliffs
Etymology: Blend of Klan + caliph?
Senses: examples: text: If he should be in doubt as to the qualifications of the one seeking admission, he must satisfy himself from the Klaliff or Kligrapp.
ref: 1969, Stanley Frost, The challenge of the Klan:
glosses: An officer of the Ku Klux Klan.
Klaliffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Klaliff
Klankraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Klan + craft, respelled with k.
Senses: examples: text: He says he found interest in Klankraft running high and the members of the organization there are among the highest type of citizens.
ref: 1922, Henry Peck Fry, The modern Ku Klux Klan:
text: He had never communicated real Klankraft to his followers, and no one but him today knows the "sublime loftiness" of its "mystic philosophies."
ref: 2004, Charles W. Ferguson, The New Books of Revelations, page 264:
glosses: The activities and beliefs of the Ku Klux Klan.
Kladd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kladds
Senses: examples: text: When all officers were assembled, the kladd certified that everyone present was a valid member of the WKKK.
ref: 2008, Kathleen M. Blee, Women of the Klan: racism and gender in the 1920s, page 37:
text: The Kladd and Night Hawk staggered off with their burdens, and the Klan square opened and swallowed them up. In a moment they were both back. “Attention!” the Kladd bellowed. “Fall in—single file, right hand on the shoulder of the man in front of you!”
ref: 2011, Stetson Kennedy, David Pilgrim, The Klan Unmasked, page 46:
glosses: A conductor and custodian in the Ku Klux Klan.
Kladds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kladd
Klannish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Klannish
form: most Klannish
Etymology: Blend of Klan + clannish
Senses: examples: text: I am an American Negro woman who, in spite of all the Klannish feeling in the world, is grateful to the Creator, since it pleased Him to create me thus, and proudly I join with those who denounce hatred and advocate love.
ref: 1970, Nancy Cunard, Hugh D. Ford, Negro: An Anthology, page 115:
text: Klannish political culture offered a way of life, a sense of purpose, and a worldview that drew on the ordinary racism and intolerance of white Protestant society[…]
ref: 2008, Kathleen M. Blee, Women of the Klan: racism and gender in the 1920s, page 155:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Ku Klux Klan.
cybercrew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cybercrews
Etymology: From cyber- + crew.
Senses: examples: text: The “Klaliffs” he must defer to within his cybercrew cannot control him offline, for they do not even know his real name.
ref: 2008, Tyrone Adams, Stephen A. Smith, Electronic tribes: the virtual worlds of geeks, gamers, shamans, and scammers, page 246:
text: Rather than view something forwarded from another monitor, the cybercrew remained mobile—especially Kurtzman with his wheelchair—so as not to risk any alterations or degradation of signal by continual forwarding.
ref: 2011, Don Pendleton, Extermination, page 180:
glosses: A crew or group of people who interact in cyberspace.
cephalad
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛfəlæd/
Forms: form: more cephalad
form: most cephalad
Etymology: From cephal- + -ad.
Senses: examples: text: Perianal disease is common in patients with Crohn’s disease. Unfortunately, the perianal area often is poorly evaluated by barium studies because the enema tip may be inserted too cephalad or because exquisite anal tenderness may preclude adequate retrograde distension and evaluation.
ref: 1996 July, Richard M. Gore, Emil J. Balthazar, Gary G. Ghahremani, Frank H. Miller, “CT Features of Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s Disease”, in American Journal of Roentgenology, volume 167, number 1, →DOI, page 9:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
antonyms: caudad#Adverb
glosses: Towards the head (or anterior extremity), a direction that in humans corresponds to superior.
Coordinate terms: cephalic
caudal
storage hypervisor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storage hypervisors
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A hardware-independent supervisory software program that operates as a transparent virtual layer across consolidated disk pools providing centrally managed storage control and supplementary functionality to improve availability, speed, and utilization.
netsex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From net + sex (in sense of network or internet).
Senses: examples: text: Many people who engage in netsex say that they are constantly surprised by how emotionally and physically powerful it can be.
ref: 1995, Sherry Turkle, Life On the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet:
text: Stories abound of individuals whose lives have been complicated by involvement in netsex.
ref: 1997, Journal of sex education and therapy: Volume 22, Issues 1-3:
text: Others claim that netsex is primarily attractive because it is safe sex.
ref: 2008, Julie Coiro, Handbook of research on new literacies:
glosses: Cybersex.
wing sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wing sauces
Senses: glosses: The sauce served with buffalo wings, usually made with vinegar, butter, and hot sauce.
kamado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kamados
form: kamado
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 竈.
Senses: glosses: A traditional Japanese wood- or charcoal-fired earthen vessel used as a stove or oven.
glosses: A modern cooker in this style, often used for barbecues.
kamados
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kamado
pursuite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pursuites
Senses: examples: 16??, Joseph Glanvill, A blow at modern Sadducism in some philosophical considerations about witchcraft
[…] apply our selves to pursuites that are more manly […]
glosses: Obsolete form of pursuit.
pursuites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pursuite
Storm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A unisex given name.
even-minded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more even-minded
form: most even-minded
Etymology: From even + minded.
Senses: synonyms: word: cool-headed
word: even-keeled
word: even-tempered
word: level-headed
word: calm
word: collected
word: composed
word: cool-headed
word: equable
word: equanimous
word: equanimitable
word: even-keeled
word: even-minded
word: even-tempered
word: imperturbable
word: laid-back
word: level-headed
word: mellow
word: pacate
word: pacific
word: peaceable
word: peaceful
word: phlegmatic
word: placid
word: quiescent
word: quiet
word: relaxed
word: roolie
word: sedate
word: serene
word: still
word: tranquil
word: unexcited
word: unfazed
word: unflappable
word: unflustered
word: unperturbable
word: unruffable
word: unruffled
word: untumultuous
glosses: Having equanimity.
Derived terms: even-mindedly
even-mindedness
Related terms: even-tempered
radioprotectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radioprotector