cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
chroococcoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chroococcoids
Senses: glosses: Any blue-green alga of the family Chroococcaceae
chroococcoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chroococcoid
chrotta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chrottas
Senses: glosses: Synonym of crwth.
synonyms: word: crwth
chrottas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chrotta
wrop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɒp/
ipa: /ɹɑp/
rhymes: -ɒp
rhymes: -ɑp
Forms: form: wrops
form: wropping
form: wropped
form: wropped
Senses: examples: text: […]as Peter doth ſaye / they which were clene eſcaped / of them are agayne wropped in erroures.
ref: 1529, John Frith, A piſtle to the Chriſten reader […] :
text: […]So I wropped 'em up in a five dollar bill and tied 'em up and sent 'em, and they ain't back yet.”
ref: 1935, Cabins in the Laurel, University of North Carolina Press, published 19 March 2014, →ISBN, page 231:
text: All de niggers had shoes and plenty warm clothes and we wrop up at night in everything we can git.
ref: 1941, Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, volume 13, Washington, DC: Library of Congress, →OCLC, page 339:
glosses: Alternative form of wrap.
wrops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wrop
wropping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wrop
wropped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wrop
golden penda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golden pendas
Senses: glosses: A native Australian tree, Xanthostemon chrysanthus, family Myrtaceae, of north Queensland, having large yellow flowers.
golden pendas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of golden penda
South Hampton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States.
idiot's lantern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idiot's lanterns
Senses: examples: text: The idea of restoring a car is very tempting on many levels, whether it is the sense of achievement in having saved a 2CV from the scrap man, the acquiring and exercising of new skills, better use of your time than hours glued to the idiot's lantern or last but not least, the chance to save some hard earned money.
ref: 2007, Mark Paxton, The Essential Buyer's Guide: Citroën 2CV, Veloce Publishing, page 51:
glosses: A television set.
Synonyms: sense: television set
word: boob tube
sense: television set
word: goggle box
sense: television set
word: idiot box
idiot's lanterns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of idiot's lantern
alkylamidation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkylamidations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: amidation involving an alkyl amide
arylamidation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arylamidations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: amidation involving an aryl amide
bisabolenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bisabolene
bivariables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bivariable
dipodial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dipodal.
marginotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marginotomies
Etymology: From margin + -tomy.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The cutting (or incomplete copying) of the margins of a polynucleotide
methylamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methylamides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The N-methyl derivative of an amide
oligoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of oligomeric.
synonyms: word: oligomeric
jocteleg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: joctelegs
form: jockteleg
Senses: examples: 1836, Joanna Baillie, Witchcraft, Act 1, p.41.
'O you ugly witch! show your elrich face from behint the hangings there, an' I'll score you aboon the breath wi' a jocteleg.'
glosses: Pocketknife.
pendelluft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pendellufts
Etymology: Borrowed from German Pendelluft (literally “pendulum air”).
Senses: glosses: The effect of air movements between the penultimate branches of the lungs
prohedonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + hedonic.
Senses: glosses: That seeks to maintain or increase positive effects
contrahedonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From contra- + hedonic.
Senses: glosses: That seeks to decrease positive effects
pseudorange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoranges
Etymology: From pseudo- + range.
Senses: glosses: An approximate range obtained by analysis of GPS signals
veraprinil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of verapamil.
synonyms: word: verapamil
wrap-around
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From wrap + around.
Senses: examples: text: The latter produced a handsome front end, clearly based on the Glasgow suburban 'Blue Train' electric multiple units, with wrap-around windscreens.
ref: 2021 January 13, David Clough, “Trans-Pennine transport transformers”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 59:
glosses: Alternative form of wraparound.
Synonyms: wrap-round
wrap-around
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wrap-arounds
Etymology: From wrap + around.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wraparound.
up-and-down
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: They were men; and they were fighting; savage, desperate, up-and-down fighting, such as Tom had seen too many times before.
ref: 1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby:
text: As I entered the room, the fire [...] flickering light through the wide-open door over the room, which was very deep, and furnished in the old style with high-backed Russia leather chairs, and one of those settees which were intended for farthingales and straight up-and-down positions.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 4:
glosses: Alternative form of up and down (in various senses)
high-backed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: On one side of the room was a large coffer, whose carving was worn smooth and shining with time; and on the other was a cumbrous book-case, filled with large and silver-clasped tomes. The only other articles of furniture were a small table, and a heavy, high-backed chair, covered with black serge.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 204:
text: As I entered the room, the fire [...] flickering light through the wide-open door over the room, which was very deep, and furnished in the old style with high-backed Russia leather chairs, and one of those settees which were intended for farthingales and straight up-and-down positions.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 4:
glosses: Of a chair, having a long back that reaches up to or beyond the head of a seated person.
axi-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Clipping of axis, from Latin axis.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the axis
Derived terms: axi-symmetric
axisymmetric
Related terms: axis
axle
axi-symmetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more axi-symmetric
form: most axi-symmetric
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of axisymmetric.
semi-major axis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semi-major axes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of semimajor axis.
semi-major
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of semimajor.
semi-minor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of semiminor.
coast to coast
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: coast-to-coast
Senses: examples: text: Coast-to-coast, L.A. to Chicago: Western male / Across the North and South, to Key Largo: love for sale
ref: 1984, Sade Adu, Ray St. John, “Smooth Operator”, in Diamond Life, performed by Sade:
text: On weekdays, five trains ran coast to coast (up from three) with a further four between Leeds and Liverpool and one from Leeds to Manchester.
ref: 2021 January 13, David Clough, “Trans-Pennine transport transformers”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 60:
glosses: All the way across an island, continent, or country with two opposite coasts.
sledgebell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sledgebells
Etymology: From sledge + bell.
Senses: examples: text: Finally I sailed through the air towards the church, while some merry sledge bells were ringing in my ears.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 14:
glosses: One of a set of small bells traditionally attached to a sledge that ring when the sledge is in motion; a sleighbell.
sledgebells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sledgebell
Bashee Channel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: A strong north-easterly current had been experienced since coming through the Bashee channel, and we were happy to find the ship well to windward on making the land.
ref: 1837 September, S. Wells Williams, “Narrative of a voyage of the ship Morrison, captain D. Ingersoll, to Lewchew and Japan, in the months of July and August, 1837”, in The Chinese Repository, volume VI, number V, Canton, page 212:
text: The position of Swatow at a point opposite the Bashee Channel renders it pecularly exposed to typhoons, the principal range of which is in this narrow seaway.
ref: 1878, Alexander George Findlay, A Directory for the Navigation of the Indian Archipelago, China, and Japan, 2nd edition, Richard Holmes Laurie, page 1011:
text: April and May were spent in the ports of French Indo-China, where Rojdestvensky was given a final reinforcement. Then, on 14 May, he embarked on the final leg of his passage before the inevitable clash with the Japanese. He used the Bashee Channel between Formosa and the Philippines, and headed for Shanghai.
ref: 1963, Oliver Warner, Great Sea Battles, →ISBN, page 245:
text: A community in Pingtung county in southern Taiwan refused to allow a group of Japanese honor the memory of Japanese soldiers killed in the Bashee Channel during World War II.
ref: 1982 September 5, “ROC deplores Japan's history revision”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXIII, number 35, Taipei, page 2:
glosses: Alternative form of Bashi Channel.
spring dance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spring dances
Senses: glosses: A folk dance traditionally held to celebrate the season of spring.
glosses: A dance held in the spring.
examples: text: "There lies the parson, and here am I," he said, with one of his well known airs, "and now let us have a spring-dance!" In an instant the whole congregation was in the midst of a wild dance; a big tall peasant came towards me and took me by the shoulder and said: "You'll have to join us, my lad!"
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 14:
glosses: A vigorous dance with jumping or leaping moves.
Related terms: springdans
spring dances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spring dance
chrysocarpous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chryso- + -carpous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having golden / yellow berries / fruit
coffee-kettle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coffee-kettles
Senses: examples: text: A middle-aged peasant woman of a very common and unintellectual appearance was busy blowing into a blaze some branches and sticks of wood under the coffee-kettle on the open hearth.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 296:
glosses: A kettle or metal pot used to brew coffee.
chrysograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chrysographs
Etymology: From chryso- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: A document written or printed in gold ink.
Related terms: chrysographer
chrysography
coffee-kettles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coffee-kettle
chrysom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chrysoms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chrisom.
chrysome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chrysomes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chrisom.
chrysomonadine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chrysomonadines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chrysomonad.
birdtrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birdtraps
Etymology: From bird + trap.
Senses: examples: text: He talked about hunting and shooting, and told me how unfair it was that Ole Gjortler, who really belonged to Gjerdrum parish, should set his bird-traps on Solberg Common[.]
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 26:
glosses: A trap designed or used to catch wild birds.
birdtraps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birdtrap
chrysopal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chrysopals
Senses: glosses: Synonym of chrysoberyl.
synonyms: word: chrysoberyl
Zuoying
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: dzôʹyǐngʹ
Forms: form: Tsoying
form: Tso-ying
form: Tso Ying
Etymology: From Mandarin 左營 (Zuǒyíng, literally “left barracks”).
Senses: examples: text: In the suburb of Tsoying (zuǒyíng) are two magnificent temples within a 10-minute walk of each other. Both are on the shore of a lake. The Spring Autumn Temple (chūn qiū gé) has a unique design and includes two pagodas that extend into the lake.
ref: [1994 July, Robert Storey, “South-West Taiwan”, in Taiwan - A Travel Survival Kit, 3rd edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 241:
text: In their senior year, Zhang Zewei had been sent back from the military outpost on Jinmen and reassigned to serve in Zuoying, a more comfortable posting in a small town in the south.
ref: 2001, He An, “Andante”, in Patricia Sieber, transl., edited by Patricia Sieber, Red is Not the Only Color: Contemporary Chinese Fiction on Love and Sex between Women, Collected Stories, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 178:
text: In the Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung a category killer may have a store in the northern part of town in the district called Nanzih and the management would name its outlet after the district: Nanzih Store. In this case the problem would be that many target customers living just 7 or 8 minutes away would not shop there, for reasons in large part psychological and first-degree. Because they live in Zuoying district, for example, they will feel that if the store is in another district, it is probably cumbersome to go all the way.
ref: 2011, Laurent Sausset, “What Location Means in Asian Markets”, in Shopping Behavior in Asia, Paramount Market Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 72:
text: During a visit to the navy’s main base in Tsoying, also spelled Zuoying, Tsai oversaw the signing of a memorandum of understanding on the construction of submarines.
ref: 2017 March 21, “Taiwan announces plan to build own submarines”, in AP News, archived from the original on 08 Oct 2022:
text: Set in Zuoying District, in the northeast of Kaohsiung, the largest city of Taiwan Island lays adjacent to Zuoying Harbor to the west and north of Nanzi District. With approximately 59 Taiwanese Veterans' Villages near Kaohsiung (Chen 2006, p. 1),² 23 find themselves in Zuoying.³
ref: 2018, “Cultural Memory in Mainland Immigrants' Settlement of Taiwan: A Case Study of Zuoying Naval Veteran's Villages”, in Dynamics of Community Formation: Developing Identity and Notions of Home, →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 63:
text: In a verdict issued Thursday, the High Court said that at the time of the crime, Yang was living in Kaohsiung's Zuoying District and the sole caregiver of 1-year-old and 5-month-old daughters.
ref: 2022 October 20, Yi-ning Tseng, Matthew Mazzetta, “Mother receives 7.5 year sentence for death of infant left home alone”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 20 Oct 2022, Society:
glosses: A district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Synonyms: sense: from Japanese
word: Saei
chrysophenine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The azo dye disodium;5-[(4-ethoxyphenyl)diazenyl]-2-[(E)-2-[4-[(4-ethoxyphenyl)diazenyl]-2-sulfonatophenyl]ethenyl]benzenesulfonate
chrysophilist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chrysophilists
Etymology: From chryso- + -philist.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of chrysophilite.
synonyms: word: chrysophilite
chrysoprasi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chrysoprasus
chrystocrene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chrystocrenes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of rock glacier.
synonyms: word: rock glacier
huldre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: huldres
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Norwegian hulder, with the same meaning.
Senses: examples: text: All these things, it was said, must have a cause, and from ignorance of nature, joined to superstition and a lively imagination, the idea suggested itself of conjuring up beings, to whom all these phenomena might be ascribed, and who, according to the places of sojourn assigned them, were called Forest-trolls, Huldres, Mountain-trolls, Vættir, Elves, Dwarfs, Nisser, Mares, etc.
ref: 1851, Benjamin Thorpe, Northern Mythology, volume II, page xiii:
text: One time a huldre was present at a gathering, where everyone wanted to dance with the pretty stranger, but in the midst of the merriment, the young fellow who was dancing with her, caught sight of her long tail.
ref: 1896, William A. Craigie, Scandinavian Folk-lore, page 167:
qualifier: Norwegian folklore
glosses: A type of supernatural being in the shape of a beautiful woman with a cow's tail.
examples: text: In Norway, the Huldre drive cattle before them, which are as blue as they are themselves.
ref: 1828, T. Crofton Croker, Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland, volume 3, page 138:
text: "Well, the first time I came across the huldre, I was about eight or nine years old, and it was somewhere up on the main road between Bjerke and Mo."
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 27:
text: The mention of the tail relates the wood-fairy to the Huldre who were very beautiful except for a long tail which they always tried to hide, as the Wood Elves hid their hollow back.
ref: 1978, Katherine M. Briggs, The Vanishing People, page 76:
glosses: Such beings collectively.
huldres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of huldre
Pingxi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pinghsi
form: Pingsi
Etymology: Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 平溪 (Píngxī).
Senses: examples: text: People release sky lanterns to celebrate the traditional Chinese Lantern Festival in Pingxi, Xinbei city, northern Taiwan, January 28, 2012. Believers gathered to release sky lanterns as a form of prayer for good luck and blessings. The tradition of releasing lanterns began during the Ching Dynasty when bands of outlaws frequently raided villages, forcing local residents to seek refuge in the mountains.
ref: 2012 January 28, Pichi Chuang, Reuters, archived from the original on 11 Feb 2024:
text: The annual sky lantern festival in northern Taiwan's Pingxi District was named by the world's largest publisher of travel guides as one of the world's 14 festivals a person must attend in their lifetime.
ref: 2013 December 7, “Pingxi sky lantern festival chosen as a 'must-see before death'”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 21 Aug 2023, Society:
text: In this photo by Chiang Ying-ying, hundreds of people release lanterns into the air in hopes of good fortune and prosperity at the traditional lantern festival during the Lunar New Year in the Pingxi district of New Taipei City, Taiwan. The lantern festival starts 15 days after the Chinese New Year and falls on Feb. 22 this year.
ref: 2016 February 22, “Image of Asia: Lanterns released in hopes of good fortune”, in AP News, sourced from Associated Press, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2024:
glosses: A district of New Taipei City, Taiwan.
rock glacier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rock glaciers
Senses: glosses: An unstable mass of scree
Fengtai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: fǔngʹtīʹ
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: Feng-t'ai
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 豐臺 /豐台 /丰台 (Fēngtái).
Senses: examples: text: Only Japan, since 1933, had exercised the right of stationing troops at most of the twelve places specified in Article IX. In addition, from the end of 1935 Japan arbitrarily assumed the right of stationing a military force at Tungchow, and from September 1936 at Fengtai. The maintenance of Japanese troops at these two towns was clearly contrary to the provisions of the Boxer Protocol.
ref: 1938, T. A. Bisson, Japan in China, New York: Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 13:
glosses: A rural settlement, later a town, to the southwest of Beijing city wall, in China.
examples: text: In fact, the existing admission procedures apply only to what are known as “intellectual youth”, that is to say secondary school graduates transferred to the country or a factory, and only students in large towns fall into this category. Fengtai, near Peking, has a population of 150,000 and is nevertheless regarded as belonging to the country, its secondary school graduates being excluded from selection for the universities. On the other hand, secondary school graduates in Peking who have been sent to Fengtai factories are entitled to apply for a university place.
ref: 1977, Marianne Bastid-Bruguière, “Higher Education in the People's Republic of China”, in Science and Technology in the People's Republic of China, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 121:
text: “The circumstances of the criminality were slight and they were able to acknowledge and repent their crimes,” the procuratorate, or prosecutors’ office, of Fengtai district in south Beijing, said of the officers.
ref: 2016 December 23, Chris Buckley, Adam Wu, “No Trial for Beijing Officers Over Death of Environmentalist”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Dec 2016, Asia Pacific:
text: An outbreak in the Xinfadi wet market, in Fengtai District of southern Beijing, in mid-June led to a complete lockdown of 12 communities near the market and mass testing of over 11 million residents across Beijing by 6 July. A total of 335 new cases were detected.
ref: 2021 May 13, Zhenjie Yang, Guilan Zhu, Linda Chelan Li, Yilong Sheng, “Services and surveillance during the pandemic lockdown: Residents’ committees in Wuhan and Beijing”, in China Information, volume 35, number 3, →DOI, page 425:
text: Local authorities have identified Fengtai district in southern Beijing as the epicentre of a cluster of six new confirmed infections, taking the number of cases in the capital to 34.
ref: 2022 January 23, “Beijing tests 2 million for Covid as Winter Olympics loom”, in France 24, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2022:
glosses: A district of Beijing, China, with the forementioned town inside as the namesake.
chultunes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chultun
chupon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chupons
Senses: glosses: Any of several South American trees (Bumelia obtusifolia or Gustavia yaracuyensis)
chupons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chupon
churm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: churms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chirm.
churrigueresque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Churrigueresque.
Barsabe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Middle English Barsabe, from Latin Bathsabee in Jerome’s Vulgate, which is from Hebrew בַּת שֶׁבַע (bat shéva', “daughter of an oath”), from בַּת (bát, “daughter”) + שֶׁבַע (shéva, “oath”).
Senses: examples: text: Love to gyve law vnto his ſubiect hertes
ſtode in the Iyes off barſabe the bryght
ref: c. 1527–1542, Thomas Wyatt, “Penitential Psalms”, in Egerton MS 2711, page 86r:
glosses: Bathsheba
churruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of churrus
chylifactory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chylifactive.
chylificatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chylifactive.
chylocauly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The condition of being chylocaulous
chylocyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chylocysts
Etymology: From chylo- + cyst.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cisterna chyli.
synonyms: word: cisterna chyli
chylocysts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chylocyst
chyloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of chyliform.
synonyms: word: chyliform
chylophyllous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chylo- + -phyllous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having fleshy or succulent leaves.
Related terms: chylophylly
chylophylly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chylo- + -phylly.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The condition of being chylophyllous.
Serviss
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Servisses
Etymology: Altered form of Service.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Rozases
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rozas
Servisses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Serviss
Rulli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rullis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Rulli.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Rumery
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rumerys
Etymology: Variant of Rummery.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Rumerys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rumery
Rullis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rulli
Persky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Perskys
Etymology: Borrowed from Czech Perský, from perský (“Persian”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Czech.
Perskys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Persky
Nute
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nutes
Etymology: Perhaps a patronymic surname, derived from a clipped form of the personal name Canute, or an alternative form of Nutt.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Minniear
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Minniears
Etymology: Perhaps, a variant of Dutch Mynhier.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
Minniears
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Minniear
Nutes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Nute
Minasyan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Minasyans
form: Minasian
form: Minassian
Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian Մինասյան (Minasyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Mulhearn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mulhearns
Etymology: Variant of Mulhern.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Mulhearns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mulhearn
Minasyans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Minasyan
Kildow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kildows
Etymology: Variant of Kilduff.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Kellis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kellises
Etymology: A variant of Kelly or from Greek Κέλλης (Kéllis), a nickname for a bald man, from Turkish kel (“bald”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Greek.
Kellises
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kellis
Kildows
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kildow
Denbow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Denbows
Etymology: Perhaps from an Old English personal name Denebeald, which is composed of the elements Dene (“Dane”) + beald (“bold, brave”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
Hoefs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hoefses
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Hoefs.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
Hoefses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hoefs
Denbows
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Denbow
cola chicken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An Asian dish of chicken glazed in cola, often with soy sauce, barbecue sauce, or ketchup.
undesperate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undesperate
form: most undesperate
Etymology: From un- + desperate.
Senses: glosses: Not desperate.
undesirously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more undesirously
form: most undesirously
Etymology: From undesirous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an undesirous manner.
rat lungworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rat lungworm
/me
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Etymology: From IRC (Internet Relay Chat) and related systems, in which this command generates a text-based action performed by a user: for example, /me dances around might produce the message John dances around.
Senses: examples: text: ENOTUITS! /me is already sorely over-committed
ref: 2010 January 29, "David E. Wheeler" (username), "[HACKERS] Review: listagg aggregate", in pgsql.hackers, Mailing list
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: I (the person writing)
authentify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: authentifies
form: authentifying
form: authentified
form: authentified
Senses: examples: text: Then the device has to "phone" with the infrastructure of the supermarket, and must authentify the owner of the device in order to step forward the reading of the card.
ref: 2007, Klaus Kornwachs, “Vulnerability of Converging Technologies: The Example of Ubiquitous Computing”, in Gerhard Banse, Armin Grunwald, Imre Hronszky, Gordon Nelson, editors, Assessing Societal Implications of Converigng Technological Development, Edition Sigma, page 59:
text: In addition, other certification authorities may also be involved, e.g. to authentify or to certify software agents.
ref: 2008 October 24, Daniel Le Métayer, “A Formal Privacy Management Framework”, in Pierpaolo Degano, Joshua Guttman, Fabio Martinelli, editors, Formal Aspects in Security and Trust, Springer, page 164:
text: His seal has been inherited by his grandchildren, who no doubt use it to authentify their right of ownership when they sell family property.
ref: 2009, Michael Tanret, “The Texts and the Seals”, in T. Abusch, M.J. Geller, S.M. Maul, F.A.M. Wiggermann, editors, The Seal of the Sanga: On the Old Babylonian sangas of Šamaš of Sippar-Jaḫrūrum and Sippar-Amnānum (Cuneiform Monographs), volume 40, Brill, →ISBN, page 67:
qualifier: chiefly non-native speakers' English
glosses: To authenticate.
Related terms: authentification
authentified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of authentify
authentifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of authentify
Levinthal's paradox
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: After Cyrus Levinthal, who remarked upon it in 1969.
Senses: glosses: The observation that, because of the very large number of degrees of freedom in an unfolded polypeptide chain, the molecule has an astronomically large number of possible conformations, and therefore sequentially sampling all the possible conformations is not practical, yet most small proteins fold spontaneously on a millisecond or even microsecond timescale.
wikipedia: Cyrus Levinthal
lameass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lameasses
Etymology: From lame + -ass.
Senses: glosses: An uncool person; a dork.
lameass
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lameass
form: most lameass
Etymology: From lame + -ass.
Senses: glosses: Uncool; dorky.
lameasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lameass
regentrifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of regentrify
slugburger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slugburgers
Etymology: From slug + -burger, perhaps from slug (“counterfeit coin used in vending machines”).
Senses: qualifier: Mississippi
glosses: A burger with a deep-fried patty made from a mixture of beef or pork and an inexpensive extender such as soybeans.
slugburgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slugburger
hanging over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hang over
serveware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: servewares
Etymology: From serve + -ware.
Senses: glosses: Utensils from which food is served at table, such as platters, tureens and shakers.
Synonyms: serviceware
servingware
servewares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of serveware
Fauci ouchie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fauci ouchies
Etymology: Named after Anthony Fauci (born 1940), chief medical advisor to US president Joe Biden from 2021-2022. Chosen for the rhyme, ouchie because a vaccine injection may be painful.
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile… some people are lining up to get their “Fauci Ouchie.” CNN reports: “Vaxxies” are the new selfies…taken with a needle in your arm. In the CNN clip, we see Biden, Harris, Pence, and Fauci given the vaccine.
ref: 2021 January 9, Mary Pearson, “Covid-19 Vaccine”, in Co-op City Times, volume 56, number 2, page 8:
text: To Joey Gilbert, a Reno criminal trial attorney, former professional boxer and now one of a dozen (and counting) Republican candidates for governor, COVID-19 vaccination shots are still “Fauci ouchies,” masks are “face diapers,” and actions Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak undertook to fight the pandemic were, and remain, “criminal.”
ref: 2022 March 11, Bill Dentzer, “‘Trump from the jump:’ Reno lawyer and ex-boxer fights to become governor”, in Las Vegas Review-Journal:
text: The new ideas face scientific, developmental, manufacturing, financial and regulatory hurdles, and must clear clinical trials. But the government would be wise to do everything possible to help. The Fauci “ouchie” was just short of a miracle. Now, we need another.
ref: 2022 July 27, “The Fauci ‘ouchie’ was a near miracle. We need another.”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: A COVID-19 vaccination.
wikipedia: Anthony Fauci
Chief Medical Advisor to the President
Joe Biden
Fauci ouchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fauci ouchie
Chinese remainder theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Chinese remainder theorem
Etymology: The earliest known formulation of the theorem was in the Chinese Sun Zi's Mathematical Manual circa 400 AD.
Senses: topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: A theorem stating that, if one knows the remainders of the Euclidean division of an integer n by several integers, then one can determine uniquely the remainder of the division of n by the product of these integers, under the condition that the divisors are pairwise coprime.
wikipedia: Sunzi Suanjing
Euclidean division
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Euclidean divisions
Senses: topics: arithmetic
glosses: The process of dividing one integer by another to yield a quotient and a remainder smaller than the divisor.
Related terms: Euclidean algorithm
Euclidean divisions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Euclidean division
dummy-proof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dummy-proof
form: most dummy-proof
Etymology: From dummy + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Incapable of being misused even by the stupidest or most careless of users.
dummy-proof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dummy-proofs
form: dummy-proofing
form: dummy-proofed
form: dummy-proofed
form: dummyproof
Etymology: From dummy + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: I dummy-proofed the operations.
glosses: To render something dummy-proof.
Related terms: foolproof
idiot-proof
acute radiation syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acute radiation syndromes
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: radiation poisoning
glosses: An acute illness caused by irradiation of the entire body by a high dose of penetrating radiation in a very short period of time.
St Budeaux
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Saint Budoc.
Senses: glosses: A western suburb of Plymouth, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX4458).
wikipedia: Budoc
Idas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ida
Pangi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Maco, Davao de Oro, Philippines.
Millbay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Apparently Mill Bay originally.
Senses: glosses: A dockland suburb in Plymouth, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX4754).
Machell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
inhumaneness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inhumane + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being inhumane
Pennal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Probably from Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A village and community in southern Gwynedd, Wales, historically in Merionethshire (OS grid ref SH6900).
dictatoriality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dictatorial + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: In early life the father is gentle and loving; later on there is an abrupt change to brusqueness and dictatoriality when the child reaches puberty.
ref: 1971, James Provinzano, Chicano Migrant Farm Workers in a Rural Wisconsin County:
text: In this section I show that dictatoriality of the derived voting procedure implies dictatoriality of the original social welfare function. This establishes for the case of strict social welfare functions a new proof of Arrow's general possibility theorem […]
ref: 1993, Charles K. Rowley, Social Choice Theory: The aggregation of preferences:
glosses: Dictatorialness, the quality or state of being dictatorial.
pollen basket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pollen baskets
Etymology: From pollen + basket.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
synonyms: corbicula
corbiculum
glosses: An arrangement of hairs on part of the tibia on the hind legs of certain species of bees used in transporting pollen.
pollen baskets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pollen basket
sinnerhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sinner + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: These people regard such changes as hysterical phenomena, and believe that the sudden saints will just as suddenly return to their sinnerhood.
ref: 1912, John Hutton Balfour Browne, Fear and Other Essays in Fiction and Fact, page 31:
glosses: The condition of being a sinner.
Synonyms: sinnership
dummyproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dummyproof
form: most dummyproof
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dummy-proof.
dummyproof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dummyproofs
form: dummyproofing
form: dummyproofed
form: dummyproofed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dummy-proof.
Coonie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname, a variant of Cooney.
Coonie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Coonies
Senses: glosses: (sometimes spelled cooney or coony) a politer version of coonass.
Ryecroft
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Rawmarsh, Rotherham borough, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK4496).
glosses: A suburb of Walsall, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP0199).
dezombification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: de-zombification
Senses: antonyms: zombification
glosses: The process of dezombifying somebody or something.
MBAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MBA
tie breaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tie breakers
Senses: examples: text: The tie breaker transferred the current easily and represented only a slight interrupting duty.
ref: 1961, American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, The Society, page 18:
text: The accompanying illustration shows a standard automatic transfer scheme in which the two main breakers are normally closed and the tie breaker open. Failure of either source brings tripping of the associated main breaker and closing of the tie breaker.
ref: 1966, Electrical World, volume 165, McGraw-Hill, page 58:
text: The tie breaker relay in a normally open tie breaker application requires a relay with the 50 element to instantaneously trip the tie breaker if not blocked by the feeder relays.
ref: 1998, IEEE, 1998 IEEE Industrial & Commercial Power Systems Technical Conference, IEEE, →ISBN, page 30:
glosses: an electronic circuit that transfers a load to a different power source
examples: text: ..has had the responsibility of designating one of the court's commissioners in chancery as the tie breaker if the county has an even number of members on its board of supervisors.
ref: 1962, National Association of Counties, The County Officer, volume 27, National Association of Counties, page 138:
text: What is a tie breaker? A tie breaker is commonly used to complete a set when the score is 6-6 in games. Instead of playing until one player gains a two game lead, the players or teams play a series of points, the winner of which wins that set.
ref: 1980, Jim Brown, Tennis, Strokes, Strategy, and Programs, Prentice-Hall, →ISBN, page 18:
text: If necessary, the total proximity tie-breaker points will be used as a tie breaker, as described in the Ranking and Selection Criteria Section of these Instructions.
ref: 2002, Secretary of State, Division of Elections, Florida Administrative Weekly, volume 28, Secretary of State, Division of Elections, page 526:
glosses: Alternative spelling of tiebreaker.
Rawmarsh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large village in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK4396).
ten-ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ten colored balls are used, in addition to the cue ball.
Senses: glosses: A form of pool in which players must hit with the cue ball the object ball with the lowest numerical value, and must call the ball to be potted (which may or may not be the object ball initially struck). Any ball apart from the white may be legally potted; whichever player pots the ten ball wins the game (unless it is potted on the break, in which case it is spotted and play continues).
Coordinate terms: eight-ball
nine-ball
and alike
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Eggcorn of and the like.
soul-shaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more soul-shaking
form: most soul-shaking
Senses: examples: text: Nor was this all, for with the flashes came a soul-shaking sound like that of thunder and of crashing trees.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: Frightful; terrifying; extremely unsettling.
thunder-wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thunder-wheels
Senses: examples: text: Nearer it came, and nearer yet, till it was close upon us, rolling down like all the thunder-wheels of heaven behind the horses of the lightning.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: One of a set of supposed heavenly wheels that cause thunder when they roll.
thunder-wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thunder-wheel
golden whistler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golden whistlers
Senses: glosses: An insectivorous songbird (Pachycephala pectoralis), of Australia, whose male is conspicuously marked with black and yellow, and has a black crescent on the breast.
golden whistlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of golden whistler
doseable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more doseable
form: most doseable
form: dosable
Etymology: From dose + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be dosed.
dosable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dosable
form: most dosable
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of doseable.
Filippines
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Filippines
Etymology: A hypercorrection of Philippines using F from its earlier etymon, Spanish Filipinas, for the sake of a similar equivalent to the unanglicized demonym, Filipino.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Philippines.
position of strength
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: to argue from a position of strength
glosses: A strategic posture that is advantageous.
Kozikowski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kozikowskis
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Kozikowski.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Kopels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kopel
Kozikowskis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kozikowski
Holy Church
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Holy Church
form: holy Church
Etymology: From Middle English Holy Chirche, holi chirche, hali chirche, haly kirk, equivalent to holy + church.
Senses: examples: text: According to the second definition, we all of us believe in one Holy Church from end to end of the world, Apostolic and Catholic, founded not on mere earthen stones, but on the spiritual rock of the orthodox faith of CHRIST.
ref: 1861, Nikolaos Bulgaris, A Holy Catechism, page 46:
text: Hear ye, then, what is said in a prayer composed by a sainted father, approved by the Holy Church, and read for all in the name of the Church on earth, […]
ref: 1898, Sebastian Dabovich, The Holy Orthodox Church, page 55:
text: He defines the Church of Christ or the Holy Church as “the multitude which rejoices in holy unity , a unity understood , not as being physically united in some country or province , or in any bodily place , but according to the union of one sign […]”
ref: 1944, The American Ecclesiastical Review:
synonyms: Church of Christ
glosses: The Christian Church.
Liscano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Liscanos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Liscano, variant of Lazcano.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
McCorry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McCorrys
form: Corry
form: McCurry
Etymology: Anglicized form of Irish Mac Gothraidh (“son of Gothradh”), a Gaelicized form of the personal name Godfrey.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
McCorrys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McCorry
Liscanos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Liscano
anilinothiazolinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anilinothiazolinones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any heterocycle composed of an aniline linked to a thiazolinone through its nitrogen atom
thiazolinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thiazolinones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A heterocyclic ketone derived from thiazoline (the carbonyl group being opposite the double bond)
anilinothiazolinones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anilinothiazolinone