cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
milk monitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milk monitors
Senses: glosses: A schoolchild assigned the duty of handing out servings of milk to the other children.
milk monitors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milk monitor
FOBS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Acronym of fractional orbit bombardment system.
fonting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of font
fonted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of font
fonted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: It was expensive and the gothic/oriental fonted menu, the random buffet was truly bizarre – coleslaw, potato salad, egg rolls, spicy chicken, kiwi mussels in black bean sauce.
ref: 2008, Rebecca Rosenblum, Once, page 200:
glosses: In a particular typographical font.
Tamashek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tamasheq.
forty-eights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forty-eight
four-wall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: […] since the typical four-wall arrangement allows the theater to keep all the money made on concessions.
ref: 2012, Thomas A. Crowell, The Pocket Lawyer for Filmmakers, page 311:
text: When the theatre is a four-wall rental (i.e., the only thing the theatre provides in the rental agreement is the four walls), most lighting designers first carefully check the tech specs to see exactly what, if anything, may be useful or available for the show.
ref: 2013, Steven Louis Shelley, A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting, page 157:
text: He did, however, successfully secure a four-wall distribution deal—a process by which a studio rents a movie theater for a period of time and receives all of the box office revenue—with Laemmle Theaters.
ref: 2014, Greg Sestero, Tom Bissell, The Disaster Artist, page 263:
glosses: Relating to the rental of a cinema or theater for a fixed fee rather than a portion of the box office revenue.
Related terms: four-waller
four-walling
four-waller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: four-wallers
Senses: examples: text: With their audience's desires carefully measured and films made to match those desires, four-wallers then saturated local television markets with advertisements for their movies […]
ref: 2009, Joshua Blu Buhs, Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend, page 155:
topics: broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: A company that rents a cinema or theater under a four-wall arrangement.
examples: text: The sets and corridors were all built with very low ceilings. They were four-wallers, so that meant lighting through grills or hiding lights or having in-shot lamps. I think the look of the film is due to the nature of the sets […]
ref: 1979, American Cinematographer, volume 60, page 768:
text: Now it is more common for studios to operate as 'four wallers', that is just the buildings with very limited supporting facilities and for all the personnel to be engaged by the production company.
ref: 2004, Robert Angell, Getting Into Films & Television, page 24:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A studio consisting of buildings but little in the way of equipment.
four-walling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The rental of cinema or theater under a four-wall arrangement.
four-wallers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of four-waller
foxhole radio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foxhole radios
Senses: glosses: A makeshift radio of a kind built by soldiers in World War II to pick up local entertainment broadcasts.
foxhole radios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foxhole radio
Foxhole Circuit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Foxhole Circuit
Senses: examples: text: Big names did tour the Foxhole Circuit. And like all female performers they were instructed by the USO's Guide to the Foxhole Circuit to dress for their stage shows like "girls back home on an important Saturday night date."
ref: 2010, Emily Yellin, Our Mothers' War:
glosses: The practice of entertainers visiting troops where they were stationed and performing for them there.
fox message
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fox messages
Etymology: In reference to the pangram "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog", often used for this purpose.
Senses: examples: text: The punched paper tapes containing the standard Fox messages are passed through an IBM 047 Tape-to-Card Printing Punch which has been modified to recognize and punch every pertinent teletype symbol, […]
ref: 1964, IEEE International Convention Record:
text: Output Test Patterns: (1) Standard FOX message with 5-letter programmable in the field for station call letters.
ref: 1970, United States. Dept. of Defense, Military Standard (issues 1362-1381, page 263)
glosses: A message sent to test a teletype machine, incorporating most or all of the available text characters.
fox messages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fox message
TACAMO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Shortened from take charge and move out.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A system of survivable communications links designed to relay signals between decision-makers and weapon delivery systems in the event of nuclear war.
tack-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tack-ups
Etymology: Deverbal from tack up.
Senses: examples: text: Tack-ups serve for windows of miscellaneous shops, proprietors of these places being rewarded for their indulgence […]
ref: 1916, Arthur Edwin Krows, Play Production in America, page 324:
text: They monogram napkins for department and specialty stores, print millions of cards and gift wrappings, design a wide variety of invitations, dance programs, decals and tack-ups.
ref: 1953, Ebony, volume 9, page 48:
coordinate_terms: pin-up
pinup
glosses: A poster.
tack-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tack-up
detack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: detacks
form: detacking
form: detacked
form: detacked
Etymology: From de- + tack.
Senses: glosses: To remove the tack (harness, reins, saddle etc.) from a horse.
detacked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of detack
detacks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of detack
detacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of detack
detrack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: detracks
form: detracking
form: detracked
form: detracked
Etymology: From de- + track.
Senses: topics: education
synonyms: destream
glosses: To eliminate a system of tracking, where pupils are taught separately according to perceived ability level, from (a school).
destream
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: destreams
form: destreaming
form: destreamed
form: destreamed
Etymology: From de- + stream.
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Synonym of detrack (“eliminate separate teaching based on pupils' ability level”).
synonyms: word: detrack
extra: eliminate separate teaching based on pupils' ability level
detracks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of detrack
detracking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of detrack
detracked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of detrack
destreamed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of destream
destreams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of destream
destreaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of destream
geographicals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geographical
taxi squads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taxi squad
TCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TC
strike a stroke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strikes a stroke
form: striking a stroke
form: struck a stroke
form: struck a stroke
form: stricken a stroke
Senses: examples: text: 1625, Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes, London: Henry Fetherstone, Part 4, “Voyages to and about the Southerne America,” Chapter 5, section 4, pp. 1395-1396,
[…] it is reported, and credibly beleeued, that hee did much more good with his words, and presence, without striking a stroke, then a great part of the Armie did with fighting to the vtmost.
text: “Methinks,”—said he,—“it would be no great shame
“If we should strike a stroke to set us free; […]”
ref: 1821 August 8, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, Cantos III, IV, and V, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto V, stanza 48, page 156:
glosses: To hit (especially with a sword); to successfully land a hit.
examples: text: You all consented unto Salisbury’s death,
For none would strike a stroke in his revenge.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:
text: He saw his followers pining around him under the blighting malaria, wasting before an invisible enemy, and unable to strike a stroke in their own defence.
ref: 1847, William Hickling Prescott, History of the Conquest of Peru, New York: Harper and Brothers, Volume 2, Book 4, Chapter 5, p. 194:
text: In the year ’45, my brother raised a part of the ‘Gregara,’ and marched six companies to strike a stroke for the good side;
ref: 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, “chapter 25”, in Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC, page 263:
text: “I know you are the best knight in the world, but be careful ’ow you fight in a wrong quarrel. God might strike a stroke for justice, Sir Lancelot, after all.”
ref: 1958, T. H. White, The Once and Future King, New York: Putnam, Part 3, Chapter 43, p. 535:
glosses: To do something to support or defend (for) or to hinder or harm (at / against) something or someone.
Synonyms: strike a blow
skish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A game used to practice fishing skills, involving casting a small lead weight at a series of targets.
mathematical space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mathematical spaces
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: A set (a "universe") that consists of selected mathematical objects that are treated as points, and selected relationships between them.
Hypernyms: space
Hyponyms: Banach space
Euclidean space
Hilbert space
inner product space
linear space
locally convex space
metric space
normed vector space
probability space
topological space
vector space
Anang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Anaang.
Annang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Anaang.
mathematical spaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mathematical space
Anaang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Anang
form: Annang
Senses: glosses: An ethnic group of southern Nigeria.
Larkinson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
slack fill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slack fills
Senses: examples: text: […] consumers don't understand chemical terms, and consumers really don't have a problem with slack fills, information and label type size.
ref: 1983, Processed Prepared Food, volume 152, page 41:
topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: The inadequate filling of a package so that it contains too little of the product.
slack fills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slack fill
kickability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kick + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: Yet there are, I am inclined to think, degrees of kickability: we can't kick quasars, David Bohm reminds me.
ref: 1992, Karl Raimund Popper, William Warren Bartley, Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics, page 46:
glosses: The ability to be kicked.
slatbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slatback
sleepering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sleeper
sleepered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sleeper
sleepered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The line from Nyon to La Cure (17½ miles) was opened in 1916, and is on independent track throughout, leaving the road immediately after passing under the Swiss Federal line from Lausanne to Geneva, where grooved tramrails with tie-bars give place to steel-sleepered track.
ref: 1954 September, George Behrend, “The Nyon-St. Cergue-Morez Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 605:
text: Nor, having married coach and bogie design successfully, does it follow that good riding will ensue, whatever the track carrying it—as the performance of B.R. standard coaches on flat-bottom, concrete-sleepered track bears witness.
ref: 1960 December, “Talking of Trains: The riding of B.R. coaches”, in Trains Illustrated, page 705:
glosses: Relating to railway sleepers.
resleeper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resleepers
form: resleepering
form: resleepered
form: resleepered
Etymology: From re- + sleeper.
Senses: examples: text: The last winter's bad weather meant that only 1,500 sleepers were renewed but it is hoped that the increased programme will see the line resleepered in about seven years' time.
ref: 1979 August, Michael Harris, “A line for all reasons: the North Yorkshire Moors Railway”, in Railway World, pages 411–412:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: To replace the sleepers of (a track).
Prickwillow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Ely parish, East Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL5982).
resleepered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resleeper
resleepering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Repair of the many tunnels and high masonry viaducts on the eastern side of Semmering, appears to have necessitated this single-line working, although complete rerailing with long welded rails and resleepering and reballasting are being undertaken.
ref: 1951 June, John L. Buckland, “The Semmering Line and its Traffic”, in Railway Magazine, page 414:
text: Ludborough: The Lincolnshire Wolds Railway has been distracted from completing its Peartree Lane extension by the relaying of track into the station's bay platform, and resleepering to North Thoresby.
ref: 2022 August 10, Howard Johnston, “Regional News: Eastern”, in RAIL, number 963, page 28:
glosses: present participle and gerund of resleeper
resleepers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resleeper
snow-job
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow-jobs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of snow job.
slices of life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slice of life
snow-jobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snow-job
slimwear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From slim + -wear.
Senses: examples: text: LATEX RUBBER SLIMWEAR and Leatherwear carefully made to measure.
ref: 1966, Time & Tide, volume 47, numbers 27-43, page 132:
text: SLIMWEAR AND RUBBERWEAR. Catalogues $1.
ref: 1968, Rod and Gun in Canada, volumes 70-71, page 68:
text: Perhaps more surprisingly for the 1960s, hidden under the euphemism of slimwear, ski-clothes, skin-diving suits, riding macs and rubber sheeting, fetish clothing was already being widely advertised in the Sunday press […]
ref: 1996, Nick Sinclair, David Mellor, Anthony Shelton, The Chameleon Body: Photographs of Contemporary Fetishism:
glosses: Fetishwear made from skintight materials such as latex.
goes in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go in
going in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go in
went in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go in
gone in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go in
slopped out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slop out
slops out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of slop out
agroproduct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agroproducts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of agriproduct.
agroproducts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agroproduct
agropark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agroparks
Etymology: From agro- + park.
Senses: glosses: A business area with a concentration of agriculture-related services such as storage and logistics; an agribusiness complex.
agroparks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agropark
West Ealing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in the borough of Ealing, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ1680).
pre-prepare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pre-prepares
form: pre-preparing
form: pre-prepared
form: pre-prepared
Senses: examples: text: some stone[s] were pre-prepared, and also the wood-work of a coffer dam, but, as before stated, work on the shoal was not commenced.
ref: 1850, Millard Fillmore, Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress:
text: For example, when a few frozen vegetables are used in a food service department, a worker might still be needed to pre-prepare the remainder of the vegetables and by working at a slightly slower preparation speed it might take this worker the same length of time to pre-prepare the vegetables.
ref: 1961, Nancy Ellen Correll, A Status Survey of the Use of Pre-prepared Foods and a Study of the Effect of the Use of Various Proportions of These Foods on Food and Labor Costs:
text: I ask all the students to pre-prepare four or five points that will illustrate their argument individually.
ref: 2004, Kate Exley, Reg Dennick, Small Group Teaching: Tutorials, Seminars and Beyond, page 72:
glosses: Alternative form of preprepare.
pre-prepares
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pre-prepare
pre-preparing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pre-prepare
pre-prepared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pre-prepare
Zhdanovshchina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Russian ждановщина (ždanovščina); after Andrei Zhdanov, who was in charge of the "Anti-Cosmopolitan Campaign" under Stalin
Senses: examples: text: The Zhdanovshchina thesis about the party spirit of literature was based on the Marxist-Leninist doctrine of society and of forms of social ideology.
ref: 1972, Linden M. Renner, Andrei Aleksandrovich Zhdanov: A Political-career Sketch, page 81:
text: Traditional accounts portray the Zhdanovshchina as a return to the prewar strident party line, the reassertion of ideological control over culture, and the purging of literature and the arts of Western influences.
ref: 2001, Serhy Yekelchyk, “Celebrating the Soviet Present: The Zhdanovshchina campaign in Ukrainian Literature and the Arts”, in Donald J. Raleigh, editor, Provincial Landscapes: Local Dimensions of Soviet Power, 1917-1953, page 256:
text: The commencement of the Zhdanovshchina can be dated to the founding of a newspaper that would be the voice of the Central Committee's cultural apparatus until 1950, when the focus on ideology was supplanted by greater attention to personnel issues.
ref: 2018, Kiril Tomoff, Creative Union: The Professional Organization of Soviet Composers, 1939-1953, page 98:
glosses: The ideological repression of artists and intellectuals in the Soviet Union during the 1940s and 1950s.
wikipedia: Andrei Zhdanov
Stalin
shuttlecock diplomacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shuttlecock diplomacies
Senses: examples: text: Afghanistan, the traditional buffer state between the British and the Russian powers in Central Asia, passed into the hands of the communists of that country while the Americans were intensifying their shuttlecock diplomacy between the Arabs and Israel and, shortly after the Camp David peace process had borne some intended result with some climatic stimulants fot eh Afghan rebels, the Karmal government came to get planted in that country with the sharp follow-up of the Soviet military intervention.
ref: 1988, Anwarul Haque Haqqi, West Asia Since Camp David, page 83:
text: Rumours about the shuttlecock diplomacy being conducted by Prime Minister Miklós Kállay went the rounds, with people saying that “a deal” was going to be struck with the Allies behind the backs of the Germans.
ref: 2013, Imre Kertész, Dossier K: A Memoir:
text: Behind the scenes, international shuttlecock diplomacy moved at a frenzied pace.
ref: 2015, Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin's Daughter, →ISBN, page 287:
glosses: Alternative form of shuttle diplomacy.
shuttlecock diplomacies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shuttlecock diplomacy
write for the drawer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: writes for the drawer
form: writing for the drawer
form: wrote for the drawer
form: written for the drawer
Etymology: Calque of Czech psát do šuplíku.
Senses: examples: text: It was a middle-aged intellectual crowd. Publishers who abandoned their writers, writers who wrote for the drawer, artists who had become wealthy by turning Social Realism into kitsch.
ref: 2013, Martin Cruz Smith, Tatiana: An Arkady Renko Novel, page 19:
text: It seemed suddenly miraculous that she was here, in America, holding in her hands a book that she had written for the drawer four years earlier in Moscow.
ref: 2015, Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin's Daughter, →ISBN, pages 341–342:
text: Since I first began to write I had to write for the drawer.
ref: 2016, Our Mythical Childhood, page 351:
glosses: To write a work for posterity or for friends that one cannot publish except as samizdat.
writes for the drawer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of write for the drawer
writing for the drawer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of write for the drawer
wrote for the drawer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of write for the drawer
written for the drawer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of write for the drawer
Hugoesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hugoesque
form: most Hugoesque
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Hugolian.
synonyms: word: Hugolian
hyperscale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + scale.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Able to scale appropriately as increased demand is added to the system.
Related terms: hyperscalar
hyperscaling
hyperscaler
Hugolian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hugolian
form: most Hugolian
Senses: examples: text: One can reasonably say the lake represents the Verlainian side of him, as the volcano itself represents the Hugolian.
ref: 1976. The University of Denver Quarterly, vol. 11, p. 147
glosses: Of or pertaining to the style of Victor Hugo.
Hemingways
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Hemingway
Hemingwaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Hemingway
Hemingwayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Hemingway
Mussetian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mussetian
form: most Mussetian
Etymology: From Musset + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Alfred de Musset (1810–1857), French dramatist, poet, and novelist.
pseudo-liberation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudo-liberations
Senses: examples: text: In many developed societies the sexual liberation movement has become a pseudo-liberation which has exchanged old taboos, morals and disciplinary patterns for openly exposed and commercialised sex, a no less repressive situation than before.
ref: 1977, Family Welfare and Development in Africa:
text: Pop art's subsequent celebration of the commodity world seemed like no more than pseudo-liberation to Marcuse.
ref: 2007, Herbert Marcuse, Douglas Kellner, Art and Liberation: Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse:
text: Its chief effect, perhaps, is to remind us that we live in an age not of liberation but of pseudo-liberation.
ref: 2015, Barry Keith Grant, The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film, page 401:
glosses: Alternative form of pseudoliberation.
pseudo-liberations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudo-liberation
pseudoliberation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoliberations
Etymology: From pseudo- + liberation.
Senses: examples: text: In such reconciliation of doing and undergoing, liberation becomes mutual, in contrast to the one-sided pseudoliberation of the revolutionary who, in his moment of triumph, turns into vengeful counteroppressor and thereby perpetuates a negative mutuality; rather, a positive mutuality through which both parties gain a new awareness of, and freedom for, each other, is needed.
ref: 1981, Helm Stierlin, Separating parents and adolescents: individuation in the family:
text: Viewing instinctual liberation as a purely individual process is as paradoxical as attempting to "save" a wild animal by removing it from its habitat: in both cases, foregrounding the individual and ignoring the context ensures that the liberation is a pseudoliberation into an industrialist arena rather than an authentic articulation of individual structures into a sympathetic natural space.
ref: 2001, David W. Kidner, Nature and Psyche: Radical Environmentalism and the Politics of Subjectivity:
text: He understood the male desire for escape, and his movies are a kind of “man's movie” not unlike the old women's pictures that gave women a form of pseudoliberation and lots of terrific clothes and furniture to ogle.
ref: 2012, Jeanine Basinger, Silent Stars:
glosses: False liberation; The process or instance of appearing to be liberation while not actually liberating.
pseudoliberations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoliberation
seatstay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seatstays
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of seat stay.
re-defect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-defects
form: re-defecting
form: re-defected
form: re-defected
Etymology: From re- + defect.
Senses: examples: text: He later tried to re-defect back to the North.
ref: 2011, Bruce Cumings, North Korea: Another Country, page 153:
glosses: Alternative form of redefect.
re-defects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of re-defect
re-defecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of re-defect
re-defected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of re-defect
Gorby-mania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A heady Western mood of Gorby-mania swept the American capital.
ref: 1994, Martin Walker, The Cold War and the Making of the Modern World, page 295:
text: As the Soviet Union disintegrated and "Gorby-mania" pervaded America, she was certain her newly completed manuscript, "A Book for Granddaughters," would never be published in the United States.
ref: 2015, Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin's Daughter, →ISBN, page 576:
glosses: Alternative form of Gorbymania.
harman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harmans
Senses: examples: text: I Frisky Moll, with my rum coll, / Wou'd Grub in a bowzing ken; / But ere for the scran he had tipt the cole, / The Harman he came in.
ref: 1724, “Frisky Moll's Song”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris, published 1896, page 41:
text: I pray you now send me some dub, / A bottle or two to the needy. / I beg you won't bring it yourself, / The harman is at the Old-Bailey; / I'd rather you'd send it behalf, / For, if they twig you they'll nail you.
ref: 1765, “A Song in High Life”, in The Merry Medley, volume 1, London: W. Hoggard, page 35:
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: A policeman.
examples: text: Harman is a common compound in several foods, plants and beverages. Numerous studies have demonstrated its mutagenic, co-mutagenic and carcinogenic effects; however, the exact mechanism has not been fully identified.
ref: 2010, El Gendy MA, El-Kadi AO, Harman induces CYP1A1 enzyme through an aryl hydrocarbon receptor mechanism., Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, page 55
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An indole alkaloid, 1-methyl-9H-β-carboline (C12H10N2) found in several foods, plants and beverages which is carcinogen. It is a specific, reversible inhibitor of monoamine oxidase A.
Synonyms: harman-beck
nuthook
PC Plod
police officer
Derived terms: norharman
Related terms: harman-beck
harmans
bolshi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bolshis
form: bolshies
Senses: examples: text: In his conversation with Ribentrop that took place at the beginning of April, 1943 in Hitler's headquarters, the King said from the Bulgarian Jews "he wanted deported only an in significant number who were communists and bolshis.
ref: 1982, Annual - Volume 17, page 321:
text: We were unaware at the time that the rest of Australia regarded it as a dirty, ugly industrial city inhabited by a lot of 'bolshis' who'd go on strike at the drop of a hat.
ref: 1997, Anne Collett, Lars Jensen, Anna Rutherford, Teaching Post-colonialism and Post-colonial Literatures, page 23:
text: Old drunk Yeltsin and all the 'apparatus' behind him are still the old 'bolshis,' only now masquerading to be something else.
ref: 2015, Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin's Daughter, →ISBN, page 614:
glosses: Alternative form of bolshie.
bolshi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bolshi
form: most bolshi
Senses: examples: text: For some a 'bolshi' attitude towards authority was extended to a generalised 'they', usually meaning their bosses but also official bodies.
ref: 1995, Pat Kirkham, David Thoms, War Culture:
text: So you've got bolshi in your old age, have you? You always were difficult.
ref: 2010, Katie Fforde, Thyme Out, page 1:
text: Olga was getting rather bolshi herself.
ref: 2020, Jim Connibeer, And Dog Created Basingstoke:
glosses: Alternative form of bolshie.
bolshis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bolshi
knock someone for six
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knocks someone for six
form: knocking someone for six
form: knocked someone for six
form: knocked someone for six
Senses: examples: text: When things happened that, before, would have knocked her for six, she would be able to laugh herself out of anger.
ref: 2015, Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin's Daughter, →ISBN, page 620:
glosses: Alternative form of hit someone for six.
Mutare
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: You are confused. What is the difference between Mutare and Umtali? You know there is a difference between them, but you do not know what it is or what it means.
ref: 2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body, Faber & Faber (2020), page 133:
text: Former name: Umtali.
glosses: A city, the capital of Manicaland, Zimbabwe, close to the border with Mozambique.
Marondera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: Former name: Marandellas (until 1982)
glosses: A city in Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe.
Gweru
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: Former name: Gwelo (until 1982)
glosses: A city, the capital of the province of Midlands, Zimbabwe.
seatstays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seatstay
dolamas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dolama
HDBs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HDB
komainu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: komainu
form: komainus
Etymology: From Japanese 狛犬 (komainu, “lion-dog”).
Senses: examples: text: The Buddhist priest Ryōtei declares that the komainu are lions, which came from Koma and were called dogs by Japanese because they did not know lions.
ref: 1909, Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, page 60:
text: The komainu can be traced to India and that culture’s stylized representations of the lion.
ref: 2015, Stan Sakai, The Usagi Yojimbo Saga. Volume 4, page 577:
synonyms: foo dog
glosses: Carved stone statues of stylized lions that guard the entrance to some Japanese temples or shrines.
neuropsychs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuropsych
Big Board
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Big Board
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: The New York Stock Exchange.
funnywoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: funnywomen
Etymology: From funny + woman.
Senses: glosses: A humorous woman, especially a professional comedienne.
Related terms: funnyman
big-character poster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big-character posters
Etymology: Calque of Mandarin 大字報 /大字报 (dàzìbào)
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dazibao.
synonyms: word: dazibao
funnywomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of funnywoman
big-character posters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of big-character poster
bigot list
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bigot lists
Etymology: Origin uncertain.
* One common etymology is that BIGOT is a reversal of the codewords "TO GIB", meaning "To Gibraltar", connected to the Allied invasion of North Africa in November 1942.
* Alternatively, other sources state that BIGOT was a codeword for Operation Overlord, the Western Allies' plan to invade German-occupied western Europe during World War II, and that the term was an acronym for "British Invasion of German Occupied Territory".
See bigot list on Wikipedia for more.
In either case, not derived from or related to the word bigot (“a person devoted to their own beliefs”).
Senses: glosses: A list of personnel who have appropriate security clearance to know the details of a particular operation or other sensitive information.
wikipedia: bigot list
Related terms: need-to-know
on a need-to-know basis
bigot lists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bigot list
billback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: billbacks
Etymology: Deverbal from bill back.
Senses: examples: text: Take greater advantage of opportunities to recover costs through billback agreements, which allow the Government to make warrantied repairs and obtain reimbursement from the manufacturer when it is impracticable to return trucks to an authorized dealer.
ref: 1974, Annual Report of the General Accounting Office, United States: General Accounting Office, page 112:
text: Please explain the procedure you have established to determine which headquarters activities will be funded through billbacks to the district offices.
ref: 1993, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, Energy and Water Development Appropriations for 1994:
topics: accounting
business
finance
hypernyms: billing#Noun
glosses: The process of charging the client for a portion of the cost of resources that the client has used in order to recover the capital expense.
Related terms: clawback
getback
payback
takeback
billbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of billback
Billy Williams' Cabbage Patch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after committee member William Williams, involved in purchasing the land as a market garden in 1907.
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
synonyms: Twickers
glosses: Twickenham Stadium, England.
binary weapon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binary weapons
Senses: glosses: A chemical weapon in which the toxic agent is stored as two separate precursors that are relatively harmless prior to being combined.
binary weapons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of binary weapon
binnacle list
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binnacle lists
Etymology: Traditionally posted on or near the binnacle.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
hypernyms: sick list
glosses: A sick list indicating those people excused from duty for health reasons.
Related terms: disabled list
binnacle lists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of binnacle list
yoke-pin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yoke-pins
Senses: synonyms: skey
glosses: One of four vertical wooden bars, half on each side of the animal's head, on a yoke.
PEDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PED
Lashio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Burmese လားရှိုး (la:hrui:).
Senses: glosses: A large town in Shan State, Burma (Myanmar).
Laikha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Shan လၢႆးၶႃႈ (láai khāa).
Senses: glosses: Laikha (a town in Myanmar).
umpy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: umpies
form: umpie
Etymology: umpire or ump + -y.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An umpire.
umpies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of umpy
glosses: plural of umpie
bichectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Etymology: From Bichat's fat pad + -ectomy.
Senses: examples: text: Nowadays, bichectomy or facial lipectomy is a surgical procedure in great evidence worldwide […]
ref: 2016, F Jaeger, CHBC de Castro, et al., “A novel preoperative ultrasonography protocol for prediction of bichectomy procedure”, in Arquivo Brasileiro de Odontologia, volume 12, number 2:
ref: 2018, Gustavo Steffen Alvarez, Evandro José Siqueira, “Bichectomy: technical systematization applied in 27 consecutive cases”, in Rev. Bras. Cir. Plást., volume 33, number 1, pages 74–81:
ref: 2018, Leandro Kluppel et al., “Complications associated with the bichectomy surgery”, in RGO Rev. Gaúch. Odontol., volume 66, number 3, pages 278–284:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Plastic surgery that removes a piece of buccal fat-pad tissue from each side of the face
Synonyms: buccal fat extraction
buccal fat removal
put the frighteners on someone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts the frighteners on someone
form: putting the frighteners on someone
form: put the frighteners on someone
form: put the frighteners on someone
Senses: examples: text: That scumbag still owes me five grand. Send Billy round to put the frighteners on him.
glosses: To intimidate or coerce someone using threats of violence.
roses and castles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A traditional style of painted decoration applied to British narrowboats, typically incorporating brightly coloured flowers and scenes of castles set within rural landscapes.
East Grinstead
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in Mid Sussex district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ3938).
Related terms: West Grinstead
loeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loerie
accidentily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of accidentally.
zlid
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: zlead
form: zleads
Etymology: Shortened form of God's lid.
Senses: examples: text: Zlid, before the Prologue had done, I had lost my purse.
ref: 1616, S. S., Honest Lawyer:
text: Z'lid, Jove forgive me that I ſwear, / Quoth he, how think'ſt, how came they here?
ref: 1665, Charles Cotton, Scarronides:
glosses: An oath; expressing fury, surprise etc.
Drumochter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic.
Senses: examples: text: After an overnight in Inverness we returned to Edinburgh via the Highland Main Line, where Drumochter looked cold but spectacular with its rocks, mountains and snow. It was all very John Buchan!
ref: 2020 January 15, Nigel Harris, “HST's East Coast Farewell Tour”, in Rail, page 33:
glosses: A mountain pass in the Highlands of Scotland, known as the Pass of Drumochter, Drumochter Pass or Drumochter Summit, which is crossed by both the A9 road and the main railway line between Perth and Inverness (OS grid ref NN6376).
chamber lye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chamber-lee
Etymology: From chamber + lye. Compare early modern Dutch camerlooghe, obsolete German Kammerlauge.
Senses: examples: text: VVhy, you vvill allovv vs ne're a Iourden, and then we leake in your Chimney : and your Chamber-lye breeds Fleas like a Loach.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 53, column 1:
text: [A] Hand, / So white, it made Æneas ſtand / Amaz'd to ſee't (for know that ſhe / Still waſht her hands in Chamber-Lee) […].
ref: 1665, Charles Cotton, Scarronides:
glosses: Urine, especially as used for domestic or agricultural purposes.
dehydrotestosterones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dehydrotestosterone
dehydroxylases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dehydroxylase
deinactivations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deinactivation
deiphonines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deiphonine
delphinions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delphinion
delphinulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delphinula
deltidiodonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deltidiodont
demethoxylations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demethoxylation
demigauntlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demigauntlet
youth academy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: youth academies
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An institution run by a sports team to train up young players they have signed.
youth academies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of youth academy
demi-mondes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demi-monde
stopblock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stopblocks
Etymology: From stop + block.
Senses: examples: text: [...] we were losing speed for the descent into King's Cross Platform 8, where a large crowd had gathered. For the last time, an HST braked gently and smoothly to a stand at the stopblock, and it was all over.
ref: 2020 January 15, Nigel Harris, “HST's East Coast Farewell Tour”, in Rail, page 34:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: An obstruction placed at the end of a railway track to prevent rail vehicles from going any further.
Related terms: buffer stop
stopblocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stopblock
disco polo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Polish disco polo.
Senses: glosses: A genre of popular dance music, created in Poland in the late 1980s.
peg boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peg boys
Senses: glosses: A male prostitute who takes the passive role in anal intercourse.
Related terms: peg house
peg boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peg boy
penaid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penaids
Senses: glosses: Clipping of penetration aid.
penaids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penaid
penetration aid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penetration aids
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: penaid
glosses: Any device or tactic used to increase an ICBM warhead's chances of penetrating a target's defenses.
penetration aids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penetration aid
pencil whips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pencil whip
pencil whipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pencil whip
pencil whipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pencil whip
penetrating fluid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penetrating fluids
Senses: glosses: Synonym of penetrating oil.
synonyms: word: penetrating oil
penetrating fluids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penetrating fluid
non-tilting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nontilting
Etymology: From non- + tilting.
Senses: examples: text: Built by Bombardier, the 44 Class 221 Super Voyagers have tilting mechanisms and were delivered in a mixture of four-car and five-car versions. The remainder were the non-tilting four-car Class 220s.
ref: 2020 January 15, “Super Voyager's farewell Virgin voyages...”, in Rail, page 40:
synonyms: non-tilt
glosses: That does not tilt, or is not designed to tilt.
pensioneering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pension + -eer + -ing.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Campaigning on the basis of the pension benefits that one will introduce.
people journalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: For subjects, we decided to go to pictures of people, San Francisco people, whether they were celebrities or not. This sounds like another obvious move, since "people journalism" has been a successful formula for 20 years now.
ref: 1991, Roger Black, Roger Black's Desktop Design Power, page 248:
glosses: Journalism taking for its subject the lives of celebrities rather than traditional news and current affairs.
Related terms: citizen journalism
people's democracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: people's democracies
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A theoretical concept within Marxism-Leninism and a form of government in communist states which developed after World War II and in theory allowed for a multi-class, multi-party democracy on the pathway to socialism, rather than a pure proletarian dictatorship.
people's democracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of people's democracy
people sniffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: people sniffers
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Any of a series of devices used to detect concealed enemy soldiers by traces of effluents such as sweat and urine.
people sniffers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of people sniffer
allocationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From allocational + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of allocation.