cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
stranging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of strange
stranges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of strange
stranges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strange
stranged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of strange
lakiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of laky: most laky
medise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: medises
form: medising
form: medised
form: medised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of medize.
Medise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Medises
form: Medising
form: Medised
form: Medised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of medize.
Medize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Medizes
form: Medizing
form: Medized
form: Medized
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of medize.
medize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: medizes
form: medizing
form: medized
form: medized
form: Medize
form: medise
form: Medise
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek verb μηδίζω (mēdízō, literally “side with the Medes”), corresponding to Mede + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: It is sometimes said that in giving unfavourable or ambiguous responses to Athens, Delphi was medizing. But surely this view is wide of the mark. What could Delphi possibly hope to gain by siding with the Persians? If Delphi was in fact medizing, why did the Persians attempt to take it and to plunder its sanctuary? The truth is that Delphi's overriding aim was the preservation of traditional religion,
ref: 1979, Hypomnemata: Untersuchungen zur Antike und ihrem Nachleben, Heft 55, Servants of the Gods: A Study in the Religion, History and Literature of Fifth-century Athens, page 74
text: There would also have been the problems of deciding in each particular case whether the medizing had been voluntary or done under duress, and within each community whether all had been guilty or only some dominant group.
ref: 1983, John Van Antwerp Fine, The Ancient Greeks: A Critical History, page 327:
glosses: To side with the Persians; to be loyal to the Persian Empire rather than Greeks.
raw_tags: of ancient Greeks
Related terms: Medism
Medizer
Hellenize
Medizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Medize
Medizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Medize
Medized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Medize
Medises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Medise
Medising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Medise
Medised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Medise
medises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of medise
medising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of medise
medised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of medise
medizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of medize
medizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of medize
medized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of medize
rat king
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rat kings
Etymology: Calque of German Rattenkönig.
Senses: coordinate_terms: squirrel king
glosses: A conglomeration of rats whose tails have become knotted or stuck together.
Related terms: ratmageddon
rat's nest
barebum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Remembering how even the pious people accepted nude bathing 65 years ago, I'm somewhat confused as to why, in this age when Penthouse, Playboy, Playgirl and the rest are never far out of reach, and are so close to respectability that an interview with a president may be featured in Playboy or one with Jerry Falwell may make the pages of Penthouse - why so many people still get up tight because a few other people want to hang their clothes on a hickory limb and go barebum in the water.
ref: 1986 July 19, H. Gordon Green, “Here's a naked truth”, in Toronto Star:
text: But up went the barebum baby, over their heads like a chuckling moon.
ref: 1990, John Harvey, The Legend of Captain Space, Collins, published 1990, →ISBN, page 34:
text: Eminem has confirmed that Sacha Baron Cohen's Bruno barebum stunt at the weekend's MTV Movie Awards was staged.
ref: 2009 June 5, “Eminem confirms Bruno barebum stunt was staged”, in Asian News International:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bare-bum.
barebutt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bare + butt.
Senses: examples: text: And when the old Coeur d'Alene priest said "seasoned braves" he wasn't talking about tipi Indians or mission mascots. And he wasn't talking about oldsters or squaws or barebutt kids.
ref: 1953, Will Henry, To Follow a Flag, Random House, page 59:
text: You're bowlegged, she told her. You walk like you're riding barebutt on a porcupine.
ref: 1980, Belinda Hurmence, Tough Tiffany, Doubleday, published 1980, →ISBN, page 61:
text: He does not want his Uncle Donald Duk to tell him again how Daddy was a terrible man to name his little boy Donald Duk, because all the bokgwai, the white monsters, will think he is named after that barebutt duck in the top half of a sailor suit and no shoes.
ref: 1991, Frank Chin, Donald Duk, Coffee House Press, published 1991, →ISBN, page 7:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bare-butt.
barebums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barebum
easely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of easily.
tassell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tassells
Etymology: Alteration of tiercel.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of tiercel.
tercel gentle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tercel gentles
form: tercels gentle
Etymology: Ultimately from Latin tertius (“third”) (for complete etymology, see tercel) + gentle (in the archaic sense of "well-born, noble"), ultimately from Latin gens (“[Roman] clan”) (for complete etymology, see gentle)
Senses: examples: text: Like as a fearefull Dove, which through the raine / Of the wide ayre her way does cut amaine, / Having farre off espyde a Tassell gent, / Which after her his nimble winges doth straine, / Doubleth her hast for feare to bee for-hent [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: O for a Falkners voice, / To lure this Tassell gentle backe againe [...].
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: Marry, out upon thee, foul kite, that would fain be a tercel gentle.
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter 4, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A male falcon.
tercel gentles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tercel gentle
tercels gentle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tercel gentle
apple-berry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apple-berries
Etymology: From apple + berry.
Senses: glosses: A vine or low shrub native to Australia, Billardiera scandens in the taxonomic family Pittosporaceae, which bears edible fruits said to taste like stewed apples.
basuco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basuko
form: bazuco
form: bazuko
Etymology: From Colombian Spanish basuco, perhaps related to Spanish bazucar (“to shake violently”) or basura (“waste, trash”), or, alternatively, from English bazooka (“rocket launcher”), presumably because of the drug’s explosive effect. Doublet of bazooka (“crack cocaine”).
Senses: examples: text: Insidiously, the producers of basuco deliberately created a demand for this vicious product and priced it so that whole new segments of society—the young and the poor—could become drug consumers.
ref: 1986, The Department of State Bulletin, page 90:
text: In Columbia there seems to be no discrimination in the use of basuco by social class. However, the more expensive cocaine hydrochloride powder is generally used by artists, industrialists, and executives, who usually snort [it].
ref: 2012, David F. Allen, The Cocaine Crisis, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 200:
glosses: Cocaine paste, especially in the context of its manufacture or consumption in South America.
wikipedia: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
bazuko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of basuco.
bazuco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Colombian Spanish bazuco.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of basuco.
basuko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of basuco.
bimboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪmˌbɔɪ/
rhymes: -ɪmbɔɪ
Forms: form: bimboys
Etymology: Blend of bimbo + boy
Senses: examples: text: the bimboy-seeking wife
ref: 1995, Cosmopolitan, volume 218:
text: The doors were opening and Dolly was leading the bimboy out by the hand.
ref: 2010, Ewan Morrison, Swung, page 255:
glosses: A male bimbo; a physically attractive man, typically feminine in appearance, who lacks intelligence.
Related terms: himbo
thembo
bimboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bimboy
canyoner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canyoners
Etymology: From canyon + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who takes part in the sport of canyoning.
canyoners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canyoner
not your father's
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: not your dad's
Etymology: From an advertising slogan for the Oldsmobile car, "this is not your father's Oldsmobile".
Senses: examples: text: This is not your father's computer programmer. The days when the typical information technology professional sat in a cubicle all day hunched over a keyboard, a can of Jolt Cola and a half-eaten Twinkie within arm's reach, seem about as quaint now as a genuine whistle-stop political campaign in the mass media age.
ref: 2001, Leslie Jaye Goff, Get Your IT Career in Gear!, →ISBN, page 3:
text: Make no mistake about it, this ain't your dad's Final Fantasy. If you want an effiminate spikey haired main character with amnesia or serious social issues that must shoulder the burden of fighting a great and ancient evil, you're not going to find that here.
ref: 2005, Shoeless Wayne Santos, “Final Fantasy XII”, in GameAxis Unwired, page 54:
text: Just as this isn't your father's army — it's also not your father's VA. The bureaucracy is bigger, the forms have multiplied, the benefits have become more complicated.
ref: 2011, Peter S. Gaytan, For Service to Your Country: The Essential Guide to Getting the Veterans' Benefits You've Earned, →ISBN, page xv:
glosses: Recently changed, made unconventional through modernisation.
browntops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of browntop
Blairist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Blairist
form: most Blairist
Etymology: From Blair + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq left him looking like the leader of a Blairist 'front' party as he backed the government on these and other issues.
ref: 2006, David Childs, Britain Since 1945: A Political History, page 298:
text: The Blairist emphasis on inclusiveness and recruitment by post code will likewise set off a new downward spiral in education[…]
ref: 2000, The Salisbury Review: Volumes 19-20:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Favouring, or according to, the policies of Tony Blair, British prime minister 1997-2007.
Blairista
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Blairistas
Etymology: From Blair + -ista.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of Tony Blair, British prime minister 1997-2007, or his policies.
Blairistas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Blairista
controlless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more controlless
form: most controlless
Etymology: From control + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without control.
examples: text: The controlless core / Of human hearts.
ref: 1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto I, stanza 116:
glosses: uncontrollable
Derived terms: controllessness
controllingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From controlling + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: She married not only despite his controllingness, but partially because of it. Lacking belief in herself, she unconsciously sought a partner who would "take over" for her.
ref: 2002, Mark A. Reinecke, Michael R. Davison, Comparative Treatments Of Depression, page 130:
glosses: The quality of being controlling.
controllingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more controllingly
form: most controllingly
Etymology: From controlling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a controlling manner; so as to control.
chaologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chaologists
Etymology: From chaology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies chaology.
chaologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaologist
chaological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chaological
form: most chaological
Etymology: From chaology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to chaology.
chaoticist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chaoticists
Etymology: From chaotic + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies chaos theory.
chaoticists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaoticist
chaotics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaotic
chaotics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As I see it, chaotics represents more of a general outlook, a set of ideas describing the world, including literary texts, in ways used in a number of different disciplines.
ref: 1999, Hans C. Werner, Literary texts as nonlinear patterns:
text: The very process of discovering chaotics and overturning established views of science and systems chimes with the emphasis in literature of the day on uncertainty and indeterminacy, free play of the signifier, and rewritings of various sorts.
ref: 2000, Gordon Slethaug, Beautiful Chaos, page xii:
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: A branch of literary and cultural studies based on chaos theory and the inherent structure of apparently chaotic systems.
biotectures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biotecture
biotectural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From biotecture + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to biotecture.
biotechnique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biotechniques
Etymology: From bio- + technique.
Senses: examples: text: It can be used to analyze the biological differences in WUE among species and varieties, providing the theoretical basis for using the molecular biotechnique to increase the WUE of crop varieties.
ref: 2002, Donald L. Sparks, Advances in Agronomy: Volume 75, page 141:
glosses: Any technique used in biotechnology.
biotechniques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biotechnique
MMCD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MMCDs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of multimedia compact disc, a proposed storage medium eventually superseded by DVD.
anticontrol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-control
Etymology: From anti- + control.
Senses: qualifier: chaos theory
glosses: The deliberate promotion or increase of chaos in a system.
bodyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From body + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Politically, nothing is a more powerful distraction from the female conscience than focusing on bodyism.
ref: 2007, Stephanie Vermeulen, “Survival of the Prettiest”, in Kill the Princess, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 93:
text: When do we cease to be a collection of many different beauties and become a bunch of “isms” instead, such as ageism, sexism, racism, bodyism, and on and on? We can make positive attitudes the underpinning of our classrooms.
ref: 2012, Daniel Heller, “Kindness”, in Curriculum on the Edge of Survival, R&L Education, →ISBN, page 52:
glosses: Prejudice based on the appearance of someone's body
Synonyms: word: bodyism
word: lookism
word: looksism
Hypernyms: word: prejudice
Hyponyms: word: beardism
word: colorism
word: faceism
word: fatphobia
word: fattism
word: gingerism
word: heightism
word: shadism
word: sizeism
word: weightism
Derived terms: able-bodyism
Related terms: word: ageism
word: handism
word: racism
word: guise
BPR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of bypass ratio.
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of Business process reengineering.
glosses: Initialism of Bilhorod People's Republic.
CFTR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator.
multioccupancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multi- + occupancy.
Senses: glosses: occupancy of a building by more than one separate resident or household
downloadability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From download + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: He also correctly emphasized the importance of compatibility and downloadability.
ref: 1980 June 16, Computerworld, volume 14, number 24, page 38:
coordinate_terms: uploadability
glosses: The property of being downloadable.
Related terms: downloadable
downloader
downloading
upshock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upshocks
Etymology: From up + shock.
Senses: glosses: Any shock caused by a sudden increase (in temperature, pressure, etc.).
upshocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upshock
dub poetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of performance poetry of West Indian origin, accompanied by music and often of a political nature.
ledum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ledums
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant of the genus Ledum.
hedgy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛdʒi
Forms: form: hedgier
form: more hedgy
form: hedgiest
form: most hedgy
Etymology: From hedge + -y.
Senses: examples: text: A long hedgy path led through the woodland to the house.
text: The Isle of Wight is a pocket edition of England,- an epitome, a compact gem, of all England's beauties of rolling hills, quiet valleys, emerald meadows, hedgy lanes, broken cliffs, and shaggy ocean bays.
ref: 1868, James Mason Hoppin, Old England: Its Scenery, Art and People:
text: Little picket gates and hedgy archways provide interesting access points to the gardens and their crazy paving winding among small lawns, rose arrays and vegetable patches.
ref: 1998, Ciaran Carson, The Star Factory, page 122:
glosses: Pertaining to or like a hedge.
examples: text: He remained hedgy until he knew exactly what was being asked of him.
text: Naturally they were curious, the businessmen and cadre and assorted visitors, who offered up cigarettes and tea before making their first hedgy attempts at conversation.
ref: 2004, John Dalton, Heaven Lake: a novel, page 216:
text: Indicators of hesitation such as em, and other lexis associated with the realm of vague, fuzzy or hedgy language can be found in the examples, sort, mean, think, terms, bit, maybe, just, little, and some.
ref: 2010, Fionna Farr, The Discourse of Teaching Practice Feedback, page 107:
glosses: Indecisive, hesitant, noncommittal, unwilling to take a side.
Derived terms: hedgy-boar
gobstruck
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gobstruck
form: most gobstruck
Etymology: From gob + struck.
Senses: glosses: gobsmacked; astonished; astounded
GIFT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GIFTs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: ZIFT
glosses: Acronym of gamete intrafallopian transfer.
footballene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From football + -ene, because the structure resembles a football, or soccer ball.
Senses: glosses: buckminsterfullerene
helpdesker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helpdeskers
Etymology: From helpdesk + -er.
Senses: examples: text: We also have the remaing^([sic]) helpdesker developing an internet catalogue and ordering system and assisting the accounts system administrator.
ref: 2001, Dave Francis, “To replace or not”, in novell.community.chat (Usenet):
text: Licensed helpdesker indeed. Please. A monkey with a screenshot can be a helpdesker.
ref: 2001, Orchid, “Anybody?”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):
text: Helpdesker: “Which email program do you use?”
ref: 2007, Andy Walker, Microsoft Windows Vista Help Desk:
glosses: One who works on a helpdesk.
helpdeskers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helpdesker
eruption columns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eruption column
chemical castrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemical castration
rugger buggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rugger bugger
hardbag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of hard + handbag, i.e. a harder form of the earlier genre handbag or handbag house.
Senses: examples: text: They present a wide range of dance styles, including electro, trance, acid house, handbag, hardbag, hardcore, happy hardcore, drum-and-bass, hi-NRG and even industrial.
ref: 2003, Aline Scott-Maxwell, John Whiteoak, Currency companion to music and dance in Australia:
glosses: A melodic genre of electronic dance music of the mid-1990s, usually with female vocals.
hopefullest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of hopeful: most hopeful
gabberhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gabber + house.
Senses: glosses: A style of music with elements of gabber and house music.
homesitting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: home-sitting
Etymology: From home + sitting. Compare babysitting.
Senses: glosses: Living in and taking care of a home when the usual occupants are away.
Related terms: home-sit
homesitter
homesitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From homesit + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of homesit
octadecanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of octadecane
arachnophobias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arachnophobia
assations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assation
geekishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more geekishly
form: most geekishly
Etymology: From geekish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a way or to an extent that is geekish.
geekishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geekish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I would just like to comment on the present epidemic of geekishness which is pervading the ranks of freshmen here at the college. I should correct myself and say that this rare disease seems to have been an integral aspect of the class of '81 ever since it set foot in this once geek-free environment.
ref: 1978 November 14, Jeff Boylan, “Excerpts”, in Bob Wasserman, editor, The Tech, volume 98, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2014, page 1:
glosses: The state of being geekish.
massification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: massifications
Etymology: From mass + -ification.
Senses: glosses: The process of bringing something to a mass audience.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Conversion of a count noun to a mass noun.
skeletalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From skeletal + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: We can say, broadly, that minimalism in House and Techno tends to take one of two paths: either skeletalism or massification.
ref: 2004, Philip Sherburne, Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music:
text: A linguistic skeletalism noted by Steinhagen: "in the fourteen words of the poem there is not a single local adverb, no prepositions, no colour adjectives and no verbs of perception" (Statischen Gedichte 162).
ref: 2007, Martin Travers, The poetry of Gottfried Benn: text and selfhood, page 387:
glosses: The process of making something skeletal, or reducing it to the barest form.
Synonyms: skeletalization
skeletalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From skeletal + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of making something skeletal, or reducing it to the barest form.
Synonyms: skeletalism
skeletalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: skeletalizes
form: skeletalizing
form: skeletalized
form: skeletalized
Etymology: From skeletal + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To reduce to a bare or skeletal form.
skeletalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of skeletalize
skeletalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of skeletalize
skeletalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of skeletalize
FTPable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From FTP + -able.
Senses: examples: text: While all areas of engineering are not abundantly represented in the over 1000000 FTPable items, computer science reports certainly are.
ref: 1993, Database: Volume 16:
text: The list, derived from "The EFF's Guide to the Internet" is by no means all-inclusive, but it should cover about 98 percent of the FTPable files you will find.
ref: 1995, Urban A. LeJeune, Jeff Duntemann, Mosaic and Web Explorer:
glosses: accessible using FTP
senticous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more senticous
form: most senticous
Senses: glosses: Prickly, thorny.
heliskier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heliskiers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of heli-skier.
heliskiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heliskier
gomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gomer
oscillographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an oscillograph
Derived terms: oscillographically
glycobiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From glyco- + biological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to glycobiology.
odobenid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odobenids
Senses: topics: biology
mammalogy
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the family Odobenidae; a walrus
odobenids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of odobenid
phonendoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phonendoscopes
Etymology: From phono- + endo- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: A form of stethoscope used in auscultation
extropianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From extropian + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The main tenets of Extropianism are ‘boundless expansion, self-transformation, dynamic optimism, intelligent technology, and spontaneous order’. The goal of Extropianism is to enable those who want to be at the vanguard of the incumbent transformation into a ‘posthuman’ age.
ref: 2004, Malcolm Miles, Tim Hall, Iain Borden, The City Cultures Reader, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 238:
coordinate_terms: posthumanism
glosses: Belief in, or support for, the theory of extropy.
HSF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of High Sierra Format, the early logical file system used for CD-ROMs.
topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: Initialism of High Seas Fleet.
HSF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HSFs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of heat sink and fan.
topics: nautical
transport
hypernyms: HSV
HSC
glosses: Initialism of high speed ferry.
topics: nautical
transport
hypernyms: HSV
HSC
HST
glosses: Initialism of high speed freighter.
high-top
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high-tops
form: hightop
form: high top
form: hi-top
Senses: examples: text: When not clad in standard issue dress shoes, Turner wears a mean pair of hightops.
ref: 1990 April 14, Elizabeth Pincus, “Hot Blue Steel”, in Gay Community News, page 16:
text: Got your tongue pierced anyway / You in your high-tops any day / You in your skinny jeans anyway
ref: 2012, “Sex”, performed by The 1975:
text: His canvas high-tops were still perfectly folded over, and the white rubber toe was still white.
ref: 2020, Diane Cook, The New Wilderness, Oneworld Publications, page 263:
glosses: A kind of sports shoe that extends significantly over the wearer's ankle.
hightop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hightops
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of high-top.
hightops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hightop
ferriable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ferriable
form: most ferriable
Etymology: From ferry + -able.
Senses: examples: 1876-1888, John Ruskin, Bibliotheca Pastorum
It will not be easy to guard a hundred miles' length of ferriable river against him.
glosses: Capable of being ferried.
magainins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magainin
Gulf War syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A chronic multisymptom disorder affecting veterans and civilians after the 1991 Gulf War, possibly related to chemical weapons.
Synonyms: Gulf War illness
hackerdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hacker + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: REM says that "somebody" should castigate the media for using "hacker" when they mean "cracker". That "somebody", gentle reader, is you, baby, nobody but you. If you don't do it, nobody else will. You, and you, and you, and you and, of course, you. Write a letter to the T.V. station or the local newspaper each and every time you hear them use "hacker" when they mean "cracker". It can be the same short letter each time, with the station name and program or paper name and article changed. Keep it online (unless you are paranoid about DOD and computer use, see article in same issue of HUMAN-NETS); change the details and print it to lpr (or however you get hardcopy). This will be easier when E-Com hookups become prevalent; for now, keep licking stamps and mailing to the media. They may listen iff they get enough abuse from real hackers (the good side, not the dark side, of hackerdom!).
ref: 1983 November 2, Ian, “Re: Hackers victim of Newspeak (HUMAN-NETS Digest V6 #64)”, in fa.human-nets (Usenet), retrieved 15 Dec 2016, message-ID <696@brl-bmd.UUCP>:
text: In a personal post on Medium, Laird said he hoped the ouster would help educate others about systemic sexism in hackerdom, exacerbated by a tendency toward rule-breaking, distrust of legal authorities in reporting transgressions, and some excessive scenesterism: “There's been a lot of looking the other way in the hacker community when powerful people overstep the bounds, and that has to stop."
ref: 2019, Joseph Menn, Cult of the Dead Cow, →ISBN:
glosses: The realm or sphere of computer hackers.
gothdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From goth + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: Still, Anne is clear that she was destined for gothdom. She explains: In high school, I made one or two desultory attempts at generally wearing black, varying from the established jeans or khakis. It was frowned upon heavily.
ref: 2008, Amy C. Wilkins, Wannabes, Goths, and Christians, page 32:
text: But the clothes don't make the goth: A number of groups flirt with gothdom, but aren't consistently accepted as gothic.
ref: 2011, Luc Reid, Talk the Talk, page 147:
text: Even goths who enjoy the social aspect of gothdom might not want to participate in anything as large as M'era Luna or Dracula's Ball[…]
ref: 2011, Micah L. Issitt, Goths: A Guide to an American Subculture, page 67:
glosses: The Gothic subculture generally.
Gulf War illness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Gulf War syndrome.
curariform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more curariform
form: most curariform
Etymology: From curare + -iform.
Senses: examples: text: With extremely large doses, the action of edrophonium becomes curariform and capable of potentiating rather than antagonizing the peripheral paralytic effect of curare.
ref: 1962, New and nonofficial drugs:
glosses: Resembling curare.
edrophonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛ.dɹəˈfoʊ.ni.əm/
Etymology: From e(thyl) + (hy)dro(xy)ph(enyl) + -onium (“quaternary ammonium compound”).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An anticholinesterase C₁₀H₁₆NO⁺ used especially to stimulate skeletal muscle and in the diagnosis of myasthenia gravis.
Derived terms: edrophonium chloride
potches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of potch
potching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of potch
potched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of potch
kazillionaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kazillionaires
Etymology: From kazillion + -aire, based on millionaire.
Senses: examples: text: If you can't bear to get off the boat and want to sail all the time, you need to become a kazillionaire to have your own yacht and crew, or learn necessary navigational skills and earn a license.
ref: 1998, Robert William Kirk, You Can Travel Free, page 87:
text: [Warren Buffett] The plainspoken Midwestern kazillionaire, supposedly the world's second richest man, announced this year that he was giving away up to 85 percent of his fortune to charity
ref: 2006 December 23, Wallace Baine, “Time magazine delivers with Metaphor of the Year”, in Santa Cruz Sentinel:
text: What would you do if you had millions of dollars just lying around, waiting to be foolishly spent? Buy a ride on a rocket ship! That's the story of American kazillionaire Greg Olsen...
ref: 2006, Don Mangus, James L. Halperin, edited by Gary Dowell, Heritage Signature Auction #819: The MAD Auction Catalog, page 70:
text: The Papster, my stepmom, her sister Angela the psychoanalyst, and Angela's husband Eric the kazillionaire were strolling along the canal.
ref: 2011, Josh Axelrad, Repeat Until Rich:
glosses: Someone who is immensely wealthy.
kazillionaires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kazillionaire
potchkied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of potchky
medicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medicide
grungey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more grungey
form: most grungey
Etymology: From grunge + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of grungy.
grungester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grungesters
Etymology: From grunge + -ster.
Senses: glosses: A fan of grunge music or subculture; a grunger.
grungesters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grungester
junglism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From jungle + -ism.
Senses: glosses: jungle music or its subculture
Related terms: junglist
Lymeswold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Marketing invention, perhaps derived from the place name Wymeswold.
Senses: glosses: A soft British blue cheese with edible rind, produced from 1982 until 1992.
netnews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From net + news.
Senses: examples: text: Usenet software has gotten much better over time to cope with the ever increasing aggregate flow of netnews[…]
ref: 1995, Mark Harrison, The Usenet handbook: a user's guide to Netnews:
text: In the UNIX tradition categories of netnews groups are structured hierarchically.
ref: 2003, Mark G. Sobell, A Practical Guide to Red Hat Linux 8, page 399:
glosses: Electronic messages distributed by means of newsgroups, such as on Usenet.
Abashev
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɑ.ʃəf/
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Аба́шев (Abášev).
Senses: glosses: Belonging to or pertaining to a Bronze Age era culture from the Chuvash region of Russia.See Abashevo culture
Qalyub virus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the Egyptian town where it was discovered.
Senses: glosses: A nairovirus discovered in Egypt, primarily transmitted by the tick Ornithodoros erraticus.
nairovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nairoviruses
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Nairovirus (now Orthonairovirus) of tick-borne bunyaviruses with circular, negative-sense single-stranded RNA.
nairoviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nairovirus
peripolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + polar.
Senses: glosses: Surrounding a (magnetic or electric) pole
NICAM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Near Instantaneous Companded Audio Multiplex, an early form of lossy compression for digital audio.
Exhibit A
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈzɪbɪt ˌeɪ̯/
ipa: /ɛɡ-/
ipa: /iɡˈzibət ˌeɪ̯/
Etymology: From the conventional way of labelling the first piece of physical evidence used in a criminal trial.
Senses: examples: text: The legislature can’t fight corruption when the politicians are Exhibit A.
text: Exhibit A—I had a boyfriend once. I was fifteen. He was fifteen. He had green eyes and floppy hair and liked Vampire Weekend, and if that doesn't guarantee a life of shared bliss, I don't know what does.
ref: 2016, Stefan Bachmann, A Drop of Night, New York, N.Y.: Greenwillow Books, →ISBN:
text: From 1924 onwards my little collection of evidence contained a mixture of literary references. Exhibit A was Evelyn Waugh in Vile Bodies (published in 1930): […]
ref: 2016, John Simpson, “Marshallers of Words”, in The Word Detective: A Life in Words: From Shenanigan to Selfie, London: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN; republished as The Word Detective: Searching or the Meaning of It All at the Oxford English Dictionary: A Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Basic Books, 2016, →ISBN, page 51:
text: Characters commenting on their own predicament as though they were the armchair jokesters of MST3K is almost never as smart as a film’s creative team thinks it is—something for which Urban Legend serves as Exhibit A.
ref: 2017 October 27, Alex McLevy, “Making a Killing: The Brief Life and Bloody Death of the Post-Scream Slasher Revival”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2018:
text: When countries break those pledges, they create a world of insecurity for everyone. Exhibit A: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
ref: 2023 September 19, Léonie Chao-Fong, quoting António Guterres, “Biden addresses UN and will warn of Russian ‘brutalizing’ Ukraine without consequence; UN chief says ‘world becoming unhinged’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
hypernyms: exemplar
glosses: The foremost example, often with a negative connotation.
OPRAF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: railways
transport
glosses: Initialism of Office of Passenger Rail Franchising.
pressperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presspersons
form: presspeople
Etymology: From press + person.
Senses: glosses: A member of the press; a journalist.
presspeople
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pressperson
presspersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pressperson
slapheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slapheaded
form: most slapheaded
Etymology: See slaphead.
Senses: glosses: bald; without hair on the head.
buh-bye
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: /bəˈbaɪ/
Senses: examples: text: A spinoff, “Major Crimes,” starring “Battlestar Galactica” veteran Mary McDonnell and a number of “Closer” cast members, premieres in August. Sedgwick won’t be among them, swapping Brenda’s syrupy “thank yew” for an upbeat “buh-bye now” to her co-workers.
ref: 2012 July 1, T.L. Stanley, “No more crimes for her to solve”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2021:
text: But then he worried that Hasta la vista might come off as glib and dismissive—as in “Buh-bye, I will never come back here again.” So he opted for the more forward-looking “I’ll be back.”
ref: 2023 March 8, Mark Leibovich, “Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Last Act”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 09 Mar 2023:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of bye-bye.
pindown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Deverbal from pin down.
Senses: glosses: solitary confinement, formerly used as a method of punishment in children's homes
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A hypothetical nuclear attack using a barrage of missiles to disrupt the target's ability to launch its own missiles.
polarographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polarography
wonkdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wonk + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: In fact, the Clinton administration seems practically a subsidiary of this academy of wonkdom.
ref: 1994, Sam Smith, Shadows of hope, page 145:
text: Surely it had no precedent in the world of welfare wonkdom.
ref: 2003, Eric Alterman, What liberal media?:
glosses: The realm or sphere of wonks; wonkery.
pharmafood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pharmafoods
Etymology: From pharma- + food.
Senses: examples: text: The problem is that the area is grey so far as the authorities are concerned and it is difficult to know where to draw the line between a nutriceutical or pharmafood and a medicinal drug substance.
ref: 1995, Rita Greer, The Book of Vitamins and Healthfood Supplements:
text: Science seems to discover another new "pharmafood or neutraceutical" almost daily.
ref: 1996, Linda Page, Boosting Immunity with Power Plants, page 20:
text: Get creative and build a pharmafood salad by using healthier greens, like romaine lettuce or spinach.
ref: 2009, Jack Goldberg, The Four Corners Diet: The Healthy Low-Carb Way of Eating for a Lifetime:
glosses: A food supposed to have health benefits; a nutraceutical.
pharmafoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pharmafood
PCness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PC-ness
Etymology: From PC (“politically correct”) + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Political correctness.
SEAQ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of Stock Exchange Automated Quotation.
pencentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pencentric
form: most pencentric
Etymology: From pen + -centric.
Senses: examples: text: The application is fully pencentric and allows users to write into the spreadsheet's cells[…]
ref: 1991 October 14, InfoWorld, volume 13, number 41, page 17:
text: All pen applications can be categorized as either pencentric or pen-enabled.
ref: 1992, Data processing digest: Volumes 38-39:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Wholly or primarily operated by means of a pen or stylus.
bonifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bonification
ribozymology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ribozyme + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The study of ribozymes.
Etruscan shrew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Etruscan shrews
Senses: examples: text: Of particular interest is the Etruscan shrew (Suncus etruscus), the smallest living mammal, whose adult body mass averages no more than 2 g.
ref: a. 1980, Ewald R. Weibel et al., "The respiratory system of the smallest mammal". Published in: 1980, Knut Schmidt-Nielsen, Liana Bolis, Charles Richard Taylor, Comparative Physiology: Primitive Mammals, Cambridge University Press, page 181
text: Not much is known about the habits of the Etruscan shrew, but it swims well - most shrews do - and climbs well, but only if it has to.
ref: 1983, David Black, Animal wonders of the world, Exeter Books, page 15:
text: In spite of its small size, the Etruscan shrew is a fearsome predator for any living prey, provided it is small enough to be tackled: insects, worms, myriapods, and snails are all eaten voraciously because its survival requires incessant feeding.
ref: 1999, Jacques Blondel, James Aronson, Biology and Wildlife of the Mediterranean Region, Oxford University Press, page 82:
synonyms: Etruscan pygmy shrew
white-toothed pygmy shrew
glosses: Suncus etruscus, a species of shrew native to Eurasia.
wikipedia: Etruscan shrew
unabject
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + abject.
Senses: examples: text: He also showed me ways in which an adult gay man could think about, talk about, and have sex: ways that were unashamed and unabject, but at the same time too witty and self-aware ever to be boringly "normal."
ref: 2000, Reed Woodhouse, Unlimited Embrace: A Canon of Gay Fiction, 1945-1995, page 53:
glosses: Not abject.
peopleware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From people + -ware.
Senses: examples: text: The cost of peopleware and software has risen dramatically over the past years, while the cost of hardware has decreased.
ref: 1984 May 28, Computerworld, volume 18, number 22, page 29:
text: The primary objective is to define a group of peopleware activities, which are normally missing from traditional software process models, to take into account the capabilities of the people who play roles in the software process.
ref: 2005, Silvia T. Acuña, A Software Process Model Handbook for Incorporating People's Capabilities, page 18:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: People, regarded as a resource; human resources.
Synonyms: liveware
too much bed makes a dull head
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Too much inactivity makes one less mentally acute.
unabolish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unabolishes
form: unabolishing
form: unabolished
form: unabolished
Etymology: From un- + abolish.
Senses: examples: text: Once a parliament abolishes capital punishment, it's very hard to unabolish it. And the European Union has made abolition a de facto condition of membership.
ref: 2001 May 14, in The New Yorker, reprinted in 2005 in Politics: Observations & Arguments, 1966-2004 (Hendrik Hertzberg)
glosses: To reinstate (a law or institution which had been abolished).
unabolished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + abolished.
Senses: examples: text: There was no gas laid on at Overshott. Bedroom candlesticks were an unabolished institution.
ref: 1915, Richard Dehan, Off Sandy Hook: And Other Stories:
glosses: Not abolished.
unabolished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From unabolish + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unabolish