cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
every bit
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: The display and result must be placed in the context that was it was against a side that looked every bit their Fifa world ranking of 141 - but England completed the job with efficiency to record their biggest away win in 19 years.
ref: 2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Exactly, to its full degree
fall to bits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls to bits
form: falling to bits
form: fell to bits
form: fallen to bits
Senses: glosses: To fall apart.
Fifa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of FIFA.
gulfweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gulfweeds
Etymology: From gulf (“Gulf of Mexico”) + weed.
Senses: glosses: sargassum; algae of the genus Sargassum.
gulfweeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gulfweed
great beyond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the great beyond
Senses: examples: text: First his mother passed into the Great Beyond, and by the time the poignant misery of his loss had become a dull ache, his father had also solved the Great Riddle.
ref: 1920 May 24, The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 33, column 2:
glosses: the afterlife.
termor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: termors
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Alternative form of termer.
termors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of termor
thalamifloral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹəl
-ɒɹəl
Etymology: See thalamus, and floral.
Senses: examples: text: thalamifloral exogens
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Bearing the stamens directly on the receptacle.
Synonyms: thalamiflorous
thalamiflorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thalamifloral.
perfricating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of perfricate
perfricated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of perfricate
perfricates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of perfricate
consopited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of consopite
consopiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of consopite
consopites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of consopite
anchoretic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæŋ.kəˈɹɛtɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Forms: form: more anchoretic
form: most anchoretic
Etymology: From anchoret + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to an anchoret or hermit.
Synonyms: anchoretical
Derived terms: anchoretically
cests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cest
gymnal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gymnals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gimmal.
gymnals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gymnal
skin of the teeth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Nothing, or next to nothing; the least possible hold or advantage.
Derived terms: by the skin of one's teeth
whimsying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of whimsy
whimsied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of whimsy
typologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒlədʒɪst
Forms: form: typologists
Etymology: From typology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A linguist who specializes in linguistic typology.
typologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of typologist
all the world
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Everyone; the whole world
Derived terms: all the world and his wife
all the world and Little Billing
Related terms: all the world's a stage
leaguering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of leaguer
leaguered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of leaguer
Hatorade
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of hatorade.
hatorade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈheɪtəɹeɪd/
Forms: form: Hatorade
form: haterade
Etymology: Blend of hater + Gatorade
Senses: examples: text: […] you have to be on guard for those drinking hatorade. That was another lesson for him.
ref: 2008, George Stowers, Straight Up, No Sippin': Memoirs of Life and Work Onboard Mega Cruise Ships, page 491:
text: Put the hatorade down, step away from the ground
where the successful have commonly gathered,
yea, fall back, 'cause your game is whack,
focusing on his funky lather.
ref: 2010, John Anthony Lewis, “Hatorade”, in John Anthony Lewis! Poetry, Prose, and Other Selected Writings, page 47:
glosses: An imaginary drink which haters are said to be drinking.
demigrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of demigrate
demigrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of demigrate
demigrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of demigrate
stereographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: stereographical projection
glosses: stereographic
cock rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cock-rock
form: cockrock
Etymology: See cock (“penis”).
Senses: examples: text: Ellen performs with incredible force and strength. Her guitar style is unique and very special, and her slide work could probably destroy any number of male institutions, particularly the one that says women can't play electric guitar, plus the feminist myth that all electric music is cock-rock. Ellen could probably squash the main proponents of cock-rock under her thumb-pick.
ref: 1979 August 18, Maida Tilchen, Ellie McIlwaine, “The Diversity of Women's Music”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 5, page 9:
text: People have this image of us. They think we're cock rock. It's time to rein it in a bit. We're not going, Wahey! and pouring champagne on girls' tits.
ref: 2004, Dave Black, The Darkness "Talking":
text: Since first tossing its cartoonish, good-time cock-rock to the masses in the early ’00s, The Darkness has always fallen back on this defense: The band is a joke, but hey, it’s a good joke. With Hot Cakes—the group’s third album, and first since reforming last year—the laughter has died. In its place is the sad wheeze of the last surviving party balloon slowly, listlessly deflating.
ref: 2012 August 21, Jason Heller, “The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: A style of rock music performed by male bands, emphasizing aggressive sexuality.
Hypernyms: rock
Derived terms: cock rocker
sceptreless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sceptreless
form: most sceptreless
Etymology: From sceptre + -less.
Senses: glosses: Having no sceptre; without authority; powerless.
'00s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Since first tossing its cartoonish, good-time cock-rock to the masses in the early ’00s, The Darkness has always fallen back on this defense: The band is a joke, but hey, it’s a good joke. With Hot Cakes—the group’s third album, and first since reforming last year—the laughter has died. In its place is the sad wheeze of the last surviving party balloon slowly, listlessly deflating.
ref: 2012 August 21, Jason Heller, “The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: Alternative spelling of 00s.
Related terms: 1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s
1800s · 1810s · 1820s · 1830s · 1840s · 1850s · 1860s · 1870s · 1880s · 1890s
1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s
2000s · 2010s · 2020s · 2030s · 2040s · 2050s · 2060s · 2070s · 2080s · 2090s
2100s · 2110s · 2120s · 2130s · 2140s · 2150s · 2160s · 2170s · 2180s · 2190s
2200s · 2210s · 2220s · 2230s · 2240s · 2250s · 2260s · 2270s · 2280s · 2290s
00s · 10s · 20s · 30s · 40s · 50s · 60s · 70s · 80s · 90s
'00s · '10s · '20s · '30s · '40s · '50s · '60s · '70s · '80s · '90s
00's · 10's · 20's · 30's · 40's · 50's · 60's · 70's · 80's · 90's
zeros
zeroes
aughts
noughties
oughts · oneties
tens
teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties
Hungry Forties · Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties
cock rocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cock rockers
Senses: glosses: A cock rock musician or fan.
microaggressive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: more microaggressive
form: most microaggressive
Etymology: From micro- + aggressive.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or relating to microaggression.
Derived terms: microaggressively
microaggression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmaɪ.krəʊ.əˈɡrɛ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌmaɪ.kroʊ.əˈɡrɛ.ʃən/
Forms: form: microaggressions
Etymology: From micro- + aggression, coined by American psychiatrist Chester M. Pierce in 1970.
Senses: examples: text: At McGill, someone has established a McGill Microaggressions website inviting students and staff to report instances of “sexism, heteropatriarchy, transphobia, classism, racism [and] ableism.”
ref: 2014 February 18, Graeme Hamilton, “McGill student forced to apologize for racial ‘microaggression’ after emailing joke Obama clip”, in National Post, retrieved 19 Feb 2014:
text: Two terms have risen quickly from obscurity into common campus parlance. Microaggressions are small actions or word choices that seem on their face to have no malicious intent but that are thought of as a kind of violence nonetheless.
ref: 2015 September, Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt, “The Coddling of the American Mind”, in The Atlantic:
text: For many of us, microaggressions are so commonplace that it seems impossible to tackle them one at a time. Psychologists often compare them to death by a thousand cuts.
ref: 2020 March 3, Hahna Yoon, “How to Respond to Microaggressions”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Ask whether microaggressions merit the same response as physical assault and the Elect do not receive this as a challenging query.
ref: 2021, John H. McWhorter, chapter 6, in Woke Racism, New York: Forum, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Any small-scale verbal or physical interaction between those of different races, cultures, beliefs, or genders that may have no malicious intent, but that can be interpreted as an aggression.
Hyponyms: microassault
microinsult
microinvalidation
nanoaggression
Related terms: microaggress
microaggressive
microaggressor
microinvalidate
microaggressions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microaggression
stadium rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] Hot Cakes marks the point where The Darkness has stopped cannibalizing the golden age of stadium rock and simply started cannibalizing itself.
ref: 2012 August 21, Jason Heller, “The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)”, in The Onion AV Club:
text: They did everything art is supposed to do when it meets the world and consents to be changed by it. From blanket rock to stadium rock, with no loss of vision.
ref: 2018 October 25, James Parker, “R.E.M., in Retrospect”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Synonym of arena rock.
synonyms: word: arena rock
mirific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /maɪˈɹɪf.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɪfɪk
Forms: form: more mirific
form: most mirific
Etymology: From Latin mirificus and Middle French mirifique.
Senses: examples: text: 1681, Arthur Bury, The Constant Communicant, Oxford: Stephen Botton, Part 4, Chapter 1, p. 192,
The Spirit of Grace, in whose mirific power our Savior first, and his Apostls afterward, proclaimed the Gospel […]
text: See the very intelligible Theorist is at hand in our Necessity, to teach the impetuous Motions of mirifick Exultation.
ref: 1700, Thomas d’Urfey, An Essay towards the Theory of the Intelligible World, London, Section 32, p. 140:
text: […] there is the Doctor, whom Mrs. P. does not condescend to visit: that man educates a mirific family, and is loved by the poor for miles round;
ref: 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 31, in The Book of Snobs, London: Punch Office, page 120:
text: a carpet overgrown with huge, gorgeous flowers, and the walls overgrown with huge, gorgeous flowers of another but equally mirific plant
ref: 1922, Arnold Bennett, Lilian, London: Cassell, Part 3, Chapter 1, p. 133:
text: In as blasé a tone as I could manage in such mirific circumstances, I murmured, “Ma’am, if you would care to glance out of the window—over there—you will see a flying saucer.”
ref: 1977, Leo Rosten, chapter 5, in The Power of Positive Nonsense, New York: McGraw-Hill, page 186:
glosses: Working wonders; wonderful.
Synonyms: mirifical
Derived terms: mirificent
portières
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of portière
at a loose end
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Once the schools break up for the holidays, children across the country are at a loose end and instances of kids doing stupid things on the railway become far too common.
ref: 2021 August 25, Stefanie Foster, “Comment: A dumb way to die”, in RAIL, number 938, page 3:
glosses: Idle; bored
Related terms: at loose ends
German Question
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the German Question
form: German question
Etymology: Calque of the German Deutsche Frage.
Senses: glosses: The question of which historically German(-speaking, -inhabited, and/or -ruled) areas — particularly of whether northern German areas and Austria or only northern German areas — should constitute a unified German state.
Related terms: Deutschlandfrage
Großdeutsche Lösung
Kleindeutsche Lösung
Jewish Question
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Jewish Question
form: Jewish question
Etymology: Compare the German term Judenfrage.
Senses: glosses: The question of and debate over the appropriate status and treatment of Jews in society, particularly in Europe.
Synonyms: word: JQ
Related terms: Final Solution
Final Solution
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of final solution (“attempted mass murder of the Jews by the Nazis”).
Armenian Question
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Armenian Question
form: Armenian question
Senses: glosses: The issues surrounding the status (and protection by western powers) of Armenians in Ottoman and formerly Ottoman areas.
Schleswig-Holstein Question
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Schleswig-Holstein Question
Senses: glosses: The question of which state(s) possessed, or should possess, control over (which parts of) Schleswig-Holstein.
Schleswig-Holstein question
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Schleswig-Holstein Question.
Jewish question
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Jewish Question.
German question
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of German Question.
Eastern question
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Eastern Question.
Armenian question
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Armenian Question.
Karelian question
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Karelian Question.
Karelian Question
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Karelian question
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The question of whether or not Finland should regain sovereignty over Karelia and other territories ceded to the Soviet Union as a result of the Winter War and the Continuation War.
Roman question
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Roman Question.
Roman Question
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The political dispute between the Italian government and the Roman Catholic Church, which lasted from 1861 to 1929, concerning control of Rome.
motion detector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motion detectors
Senses: glosses: A device used in security systems that can alert the user of the presence of a moving object.
pull in one's horns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls in one's horns
form: pulling in one's horns
form: pulled in one's horns
form: pulled in one's horns
form: draw in one's horns
Etymology: In reference to the behaviour of a snail when it is threatened.
Senses: examples: text: Barry . . . stood, during this tirade, half stupefied with rage, and half frightened, at the open attack made on him. . . . However, he couldn't pull in his horns now, and he was obliged, in self-defence, to brazen it out.
ref: 1848, Anthony Trollope, chapter 7, in The Kellys and the O'Kellys:
text: "I see Cooky's finish," I heard Smoke say to Horner. "You bet," was the reply. "Hump runs the galley from now on, and Cooky pulls in his horns."
ref: 1904, Jack London, chapter 9, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
text: Anyone else would have pulled in his horns and gone slow for a spell, but he's one of those fellows whose horse is always going to win the next race.
ref: 1912, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 14, in The Adventures of Sally:
text: Editor & Publisher Edwin Palmer Hoyt decided to pull in his horns. Said Hoyt: "We've decided it is time to pause, recapitulate and prepare to recommence."
ref: 1950 October 30, “The Press: Time to Pause”, in Time:
text: "Smaller hardware stores in the area were scared," he said. "They stopped making investments. They pulled in their horns."
ref: 2003 April 6, Susan Warner, “Fighting Off the Chains”, in New York Times, retrieved 10 Sep 2012:
glosses: To become less impassioned, aggressive, or argumentative; to exercise restraint; to yield or capitulate.
Synonyms: calm down
chill
chill out
cool off
cool one's jets
hold one's horses
settle down
press someone's buttons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: to press someone's buttons
form: presses someone's buttons
form: pressing someone's buttons
form: pressed someone's buttons
form: pressed someone's buttons
Senses: examples: text: But I'm pretty persuasive, and I've learned how elected officials think. I know how to press their buttons.
ref: 2020 December 2, Andy Byford talks to Paul Clifton, “I enjoy really big challenges...”, in Rail, page 55:
glosses: Alternative form of push someone's buttons.
Heathen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːðən
Etymology: From heathen.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining or adhering to the Germanic neo-pagan faith Heathenry.
Heathen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːðən
Forms: form: Heathens
Etymology: From heathen.
Senses: examples: text: […] these examples, and others I have come across, illustrate most strikingly how Heathens follow a reactionary politics carefully constructed by politicians and pundits to help whites feel like victims, thereby making them useful political tools.
ref: 2013, Jennifer Snook, “Reconsidering Heathenry: The Construction of an Ethnic Folkway as Religio-ethnic Identity”, in Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, volume 16, number 3, page 61:
glosses: An adherent of the Germanic neo-pagan faith of Heathenry.
congenital heart defect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: congenital heart defects
form: CHD
Senses: topics: cardiology
medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A defect in the structure of the heart and great vessels present at birth.
Thor's hammers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Thor's hammer
congenital heart defects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of congenital heart defect
contents insurance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Insurance that pays for damage to, or loss of, an individual’s personal possessions whilst they are located within that individual’s home.
Related terms: fire insurance
home insurance
homeowner's insurance
liability insurance
short-tack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: short-tacks
form: short-tacking
form: short-tacked
form: short-tacked
Senses: examples: text: I started short-tacking every hour down the coast, heading further offshore, as I knew I'd find better wind there.
ref: 2010, Mike Perham, Sailing the Dream, page 143:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To tack several times in rapid succession when sailing upwind in a narrow waterway.
cross join
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross joins
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A join that returns a Cartesian product.
Hypernyms: join
cross joins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross join
rouanne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rouannes
Etymology: From French [Term?].
Senses: examples: text: One Maverick formerly owned such immense herds that many of his animals unavoidably escaped his rouanne in the spring, were taken up by his neighbors, branded and called Mavericks.
ref: 1889, John Stephen Farmer, Americanisms - Old & New, page 87:
glosses: A branding iron.
rouannes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rouanne
microassault
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microassaults
Etymology: From micro- + assault.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A form or instance of microaggression involving purposeful discriminatory action, such as a verbal attack or avoidant behaviour.
microassault
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: microassaults
form: microassaulting
form: microassaulted
form: microassaulted
Etymology: From micro- + assault.
Senses: glosses: To engage in the practice of making microassaults.
microassaults
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microassault
microassaults
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of microassault
microinsult
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microinsults
Etymology: From micro- + insult.
Senses: examples: text: In contrast to microassaults, microinsults and microinvalidations function as unconscious expressions of sexist ideals, making them more difficult to detect. Microinsults are characterized by covert expressions of ethnocentrism and patriarchy. Gender-based microinsults convey hidden offensive messages, while the perpetrators may remain unaware of the negative connotations reflected by their words and actions.
ref: 2017, Kevin L. Nadal, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Psychology and Gender, SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 1182:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A form or instance of microaggression that demeans a person's racial heritage or identity.
microinsult
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: microinsults
form: microinsulting
form: microinsulted
form: microinsulted
Etymology: From micro- + insult.
Senses: examples: text: For example, changing seats to be further away from a^([sic]) LGBT person would be microinsulting, while creating an environment where someone feels pushed to "stay in the closet" can be considered microinvalidating. Second, the heterosexist and homonegative behaviors may appear to be harmless but may have a cumulative impact on the LGBT recipient of these microaggressions.
ref: 2010, Kevin L[eo] Nadal, David P. Rivera, Melissa J. H. Corpus, “Sexual Orientation and Transgender Microaggressions: Implications for Mental Health and Counseling”, in Derald Wing Sue, editor, Microaggressions and Marginality: Manifestation, Dynamics, and Impact, Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, →ISBN, part III (Other Socially Devalued Group Microaggressions: International/Cultural, Sexual Orientation and Transgender, Disability, Class, and Religious), page 223:
text: Depending on the consciousness and intent of his actions, these may be considered microassaults or microinsults. Similarly hostile sexism may also take microassaultive, microinsulting, or microinvalidating forms.
ref: 2010, Michele Antoinette Paludi, Feminism and Women's Rights Worldwide, →ISBN, page 163:
glosses: To engage in the practice of making microinsults.
microinsults
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microinsult
microinvalidation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microinvalidations
Etymology: From micro- + invalidation.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A form of microaggression that excludes or negates a person's experience, thoughts or feelings.
Related terms: microinvalidate
microinvalidations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microinvalidation
zoopark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zooparks
Etymology: Abbreviation of zoological park, equivalent to zoo- + park.
Senses: examples: text: In the future, as human populations shift, grow, and further crowd nature reserve borders, zoological gardenlike park accessories may make sense. Such zooparks could act not only to sustain critically small animal populations[…]
ref: 1983, Alan H. Brush; George A. Clark, Jr., Perspectives in Ornithology, page 32:
text: I believe we will see an increasing need for these sorts of techniques in the coming decades as the biosphere undergoes the final change from unmanaged wilderness ecosystems to managed nature preserves, megazoos, and zooparks[…]
ref: 1988, Edward O. Wilson, Frances M. Peter, Biodiversity, page 286:
text: The disease has been noted in reindeer in a zoopark as well (Nichols et al., 1986).
ref: 1992, Roy Claude Anderson, Nematode parasites of vertebrates: their development and transmission:
glosses: A zoological park.
zooparks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoopark
technolust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From techno- + lust.
Senses: examples: text: The ultimate source of CMW lies in the first blushes of technolust, when the hobbyist realizes with startling certainty that he has to have a motherboard[…]
ref: 1984 December 31, InfoWorld, volume 6, number 53, page 8:
text: John Buschmann has raised some compelling points about technolust in libraries. He suggests that electronic resources are perceived as having a higher status than print resources[…]
ref: 1995, Walt Crawford, Michael Gorman, Future Libraries: Dreams, Madness and Reality, page 42:
glosses: A strong desire for modern technology.
delinker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delinkers
Etymology: From delink + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The Dillon feeder/delinker assembly is considerably strengthened and improved over the original to keep jamming to a minimum.
ref: 2006, Charles Q. Cutshaw, Tactical Small Arms of the 21st Century, page 399:
glosses: A device in a gun for delinking ammunition.
delinkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delinker
antimugging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + mugging.
Senses: examples: text: Antimugging insurance is now offered by the American Bankers Insurance Company.
ref: 1985, Richard W. Snarr, Bruce I. Wolford, Introduction to corrections:
glosses: Opposing or countering the crime of mugging.
oozings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oozing
antifirearm
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antifirearm
form: most antifirearm
Etymology: From anti- + firearm.
Senses: glosses: Opposing firearms.
antifirearms
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antifirearms
form: most antifirearms
Etymology: From anti- + firearms.
Senses: glosses: Opposing firearms.
mesiofacial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪʃəl
Etymology: From mesio- + facial.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to or connecting the mesial and facial surfaces of a tooth.
distolingual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪŋɡwəl
Etymology: From disto- + lingual.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to or connecting the distal and lingual surfaces of a tooth.
Derived terms: distolingually
distobuccal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From disto- + buccal.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to or connecting the distal and buccal surfaces of a tooth.
Derived terms: distobuccally
distofacial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪʃəl
Etymology: From disto- + facial.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to or connecting the distal and facial surfaces of a tooth.
brachyfacial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪʃəl
Forms: form: more brachyfacial
form: most brachyfacial
Etymology: From brachy- + facial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having a short face.
dolichofacial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪʃəl
Forms: form: more dolichofacial
form: most dolichofacial
Etymology: From dolicho- + facial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having a long face.
distoincisal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From disto- + incisal.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to or connecting the distal and incisal surfaces of a tooth.
mesioincisal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mesio- + incisal.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to or connecting the mesial and incisal surfaces of a tooth.
patternation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patternations
Etymology: From pattern + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Therefore, ignoring for the time being patternation and related factors, they had been concerned also […]
ref: 1948, The Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, volume 52, page 179:
text: Patternations were done to acquire swath widths for each pressure/height treatment.
ref: 1987, Pesticide Formulations and Application Systems, volume 7, page 160:
text: The names for the patternations in Figure 2.1 indicate shapes and symmetries, of the spray boundaries, but it is not possible to assume how droplet mass flux varies within the cross-section.
ref: 2013, Ghasem G. Nasr, Industrial Sprays and Atomization: Design, Analysis and Applications, page 8:
glosses: The act or result of forming a pattern, particularly of a spray from a nozzle.
patternations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patternation
Pindarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Pindarian
form: most Pindarian
Etymology: From Pindar + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Ancient Greek poet Pindar.
Pindaresque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Pindaresque
form: most Pindaresque
Etymology: From Pindar + -esque.
Senses: examples: a Pindaresque ode
glosses: Reminiscent of the work of the Ancient Greek poet Pindar.
tail call
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tail calls
Senses: examples: text: Tail calls can be implemented without the need for an additional frame on the call stack.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A function call that is itself the last instruction in a function.
norbergenin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nor- + bergenin.
Senses: examples: text: Norbergenin can be isolated from rhizomes of Bergenia stracheyi.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The O-demethylated derivative of bergenin.
bergenin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Bergenia + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A trihydroxybenzoic acid glycoside with an immunomodulatory effect, found in Bergenia and other plants.
Synonyms: cuscutin
Derived terms: norbergenin
cuscutin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: bergenin
enclitical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: enclitic
unslackening
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unslackening
form: most unslackening
Etymology: From un- + slackening.
Senses: examples: Lyra Apostolica
Faster each hour, on Time's unslackening gale,
The dreaming world drives on.
glosses: Not slackening; without loss of speed.
cochleate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cochleate
form: most cochleate
Etymology: From Latin cochleatus (“spiral or screw-formed”). See cochlea.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a snail's shell; spiral; turbinated
Synonyms: cochleated
Derived terms: ectocochleate
cochleate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cochleates
Etymology: From Latin cochleatus (“spiral or screw-formed”). See cochlea.
Senses: glosses: A particulate composed of lipid bilayers rolled up into a spiral
cochleated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cochleated
form: most cochleated
Etymology: From cochleate + -d.
Senses: glosses: cochleate
barley-bree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Literally "barley broth". See brew.
Senses: examples: text: When neibors anger at a plea, / An' just as wud as wud can be, / How easy can the barley-bree / Cement the quarrel! / It's aye the cheapest lawyer's fee, / To taste the barrel.
ref: 1785, Robert Burns, Scotch Drink:
synonyms: barley-broo
glosses: Liquor that is made from barley; strong ale.
glycerole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glyceroles
Senses: glosses: Dated form of glycerol.
glyceroles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glycerole
ectocuneiform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ectocuneiforms
Etymology: From ecto- + cuneiform.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the bones of the tarsus.
mesocuneiform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesocuneiforms
Etymology: From meso- + cuneiform.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the bones of the tarsus
Derived terms: ectomesocuneiform
endomesocuneiform
entomesocuneiform
mesocuneiforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesocuneiform
ectocuneiforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ectocuneiform
lemuriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to the infraorder Lemuriformes.
lemuriform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lemuriforms
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the infraorder Lemuriformes.
lemuriforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lemuriform
rape culture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rape cultures
Etymology: From rape (“non-consensual sex”) + culture.
Senses: examples: text: By exposing the facts of our rapes, the numbers of them, the events surrounding them, and the men who commit them, we begin to break down the myths that support the rape culture.
ref: 1977 Spring, Suzanne Lacy, “"Three Weeks in May": Speaking Out on Rape, a Political Art Piece”, in Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, volume 2, number 1, →JSTOR, page 67:
text: In a rape culture both men and women assume that sexual violence is a fact of life, inevitable as death or taxes.
ref: 1993 September 1, Emilie Buchwald with Martha Roth and Pamela R. Fletcher, Transforming a Rape Culture, Milkweed Editions, →ISBN, →OL, page vii:
text: To prevent further incidences of rape on college campuses, we need to understand what it is about fraternities in particular and college life in general that may contribute to the maintenance of a rape culture on college campuses.
ref: 1996 April, A. Ayres Boswell with Joan Z. Spade, “Fraternities and Collegiate Rape Culture: Why Are Some Fraternities More Dangerous Places for Women?”, in Gender & Society, volume 10, number 2, →ISSN, →JSTOR, page 134:
text: Rape culture is regarding violence as sexy and sexuality as violent. Rape culture is treating rape as a compliment, as the unbridled passion stirred in a healthy man by a beautiful woman, making irresistible the urge to rip open her bodice or slam her against a wall, or a wrought-iron fence, or a car hood, or pull her by her hair, or shove her onto a bed, or any one of a million other images of fight-fucking in movies and television shows and on the covers of romance novels that convey violent urges are inextricably linked with (straight) sexuality.
ref: 2009 October 9, Melissa McEwan, “Rape Culture 101”, in Shakesville, archived from the original on 07 Jan 2013:
text: Women's rights activists in Britain and the US have accused Facebook of promoting rape and "rape culture" after the social networking site refused to take down pages on which users made jokes and apparent confessions about sexual assault.
ref: 2011 September 30, Lizzy Davies, “Facebook refuses to take down rape joke pages”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Or "I wrote on rape culture my junior year at Brown / So I'm allowed to say what all his raps are about"
ref: 2011, “Backpackers”, in Camp, performed by Childish Gambino:
text: We have started to demystify Neruda now, because we have only recently begun to question rape culture.
ref: 2018 November 23, Charis McGowan, quoting Vergara Sánchez, “Poet, hero, rapist – outrage over Chilean plan to rename airport after Neruda”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A culture, environment or society where rape or other forms of sexual assault are common, and in which social attitudes or practices work to trivialize sexual violence, make rape seem normal, or shift responsibility from rapists to rape victims.
Related terms: rapism
rape culture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rape (“Brassica rapa plant”) + culture.
Senses: examples: text: In Flanders, where rape culture is practised upon the most extensive and economical scale, the stubble is ploughed twice […]
ref: 1801, The Farmer's Magazine, page 280:
text: It may be added, as a final recommendation of rape culture, that this plant is valuable for its yield of honey.
ref: 1873, The Canada Farmer, page 216:
text: The progress in rape culture in this country is one of the marvels of latter day husbandry.
ref: 1899, GW Koiner, Report of the State Board of Agriculture of Virginia:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: The cultivation (growing or production) of rape.
Synonyms: rapeseed culture
nonmulticast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + multicast.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Not using multicast.
suffocations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suffocation
pull one's horns in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls one's horns in
form: pulling one's horns in
form: pulled one's horns in
form: pulled one's horns in
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pull in one's horns.
draw in one's horns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: draws in one's horns
form: drawing in one's horns
form: drew in one's horns
form: drawn in one's horns
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pull in one's horns.
draw one's horns in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: draws one's horns in
form: drawing one's horns in
form: drew one's horns in
form: drawn one's horns in
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pull in one's horns.
IOCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of IOC
IoC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of inversion of control.
teints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teint
PoEAA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.
veneur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: veneurs
Etymology: From French veneur.
Senses: glosses: A huntsman, especially in France.
CITV
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Children's ITV, a British television station aimed at children.
Villard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A commune in Creuse department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
glosses: A commune in Haute-Savoie department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
glosses: A minor city in Pope County, Minnesota, United States.
glosses: A township in Todd County, Minnesota, named after railroad official Henry Villard.
veneurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veneur
go wonder
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Go wonder! It did work after all.
text: How many of the stormtrooper shots actually hit something other than walls? Foor example the scene in TNH just after freeing princess Leia from the cell and before the carbage dump escape : there are at least several squads of storm troopers against the four escapees. Many storm troopers are left dead or wounded after firefight, but no shots hit the heroes.. Go wonder..
ref: 1997 May 30, Mikko V.I. Parviainen, “Star Trek VS Star Wars (Scenarios)”, in alt.tv.star-trek.ds9 (Usenet):
text: I guess in your small world, multiple posts mean something? Go wonder!!!
ref: 1999 November 17, “joan...@gionline.net is a piece of crap!”, in alt.support.divorce (Usenet):
ref: 2000, Henrik, “HP48GX display fixed itself - hmm, go wonder?? ;-)))”, in comp.sys.hp48 (Usenet):
text: His info shows him as still under SP1. Go wonder particularly since I have a home LAN set up and both computers access the internet through the same router.
ref: 2004 August 24, “XP2 out early for me”, in microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (Usenet):
glosses: Expression of amusement over apparently unexpected but predictable result.
Related terms: go figure
toho
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: "Toho!" shouted Duncan, holding up his hand, and the old dog, to my great surprise, imitated Don's action at once, he became cataleptic and rigid also.
ref: 1877, George Rooper, The fox at home; and other tales, page 90:
glosses: tallyho (used to urge on a fox hunt)
phloeophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek φλοιός (phloiós, “bark”) + -φᾰγῐ́ᾱ (-phăgĭ́ā, “eating”)
Senses: examples: text: The Scolytinae are a subfamily of weevils, called the bark beetles because of their habit of phloeophagy.
glosses: The act or custom of feeding on bark.
Sèvres
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛvɹə/
Etymology: From French Sèvres.
Senses: examples: text: […]but at Sèvres and other places for shaping of courtly clay, the charmingest things were done,[…]
ref: 1871 June 1, John Ruskin, “Letter VI”, in Fors Clavigera. Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain, volume I, Orpington, Kent: George Allen, →OCLC, page 9:
glosses: A town in France on the outskirts of Paris.
examples: text: […]let them tell me candidly which is nearest truth, the gold of Turner, or the mourning and murky olive browns and verdigris greens in which Claude, with the industry and intelligence of a Sevres china painter, drags the laborious bramble leaves over his childish foreground.
ref: 1843, [John Ruskin], chapter 2, in Modern Painters […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, part II (Of Truth), section VI (Of Truth of Vegetation—Conclusion), § 7, page 123:
text: Finally his bell sounded, and Victor came in softly with a cup of tea, and a pile of letters, on a small tray of old Sèvres china, and drew back the olive-satin curtains, with their shimmering blue lining, that hung in front of the three tall windows.
ref: 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter VIII, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 137:
text: There was a bartop radio in the corner and a Sèvres china tea set on a copper tray beside a samovar.
ref: 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 142:
glosses: A type of expensive porcelain traditionally made there.
automatability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From automate + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: Montague adopted a very strong notion of systematicity and regularity in translation, much stronger than mere effective computability of the translation function (i.e., automatability in principle).
ref: 1981, David R. Dowty et al., Introduction to Montague Semantics, Kluwer, →ISBN, page 261:
text: All of these cases raise the issue of computer supportability and automatability of proof procedures.
ref: 2000, Ricarda Weber, Accounting and Payment Concepts for Fee-based Scientific Digital Libraries, Herbert Utz Verlag, →ISBN, page 262:
text: To validate the applicability of Furcas in practice as well as the automatability of certain aspects, such as the automatic inversion of OCL query expressions, several academic as well as industrial case studies were conducted….
ref: 2010, Thomas Goldschmidt, View-Based Textual Modeling, KIT Scientific Publishing, →ISBN, page 316:
glosses: The quality of being automatable; the ability to be automated.
loogan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluːɡən/
Forms: form: loogans
form: Loogan
form: lugan
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: examples: text: ‘You think he sent that loogan after you?’
‘What's a loogan?’
‘A guy with a gun.’
ref: 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 160:
glosses: A fool.
examples: text: ‘Excuse me,’ I said. ‘Marcelonas? Is that your name, Doyle Marcelonas?'
‘Marcelunis,’ he said.
‘That's a real Chicago name,’ I said. ‘Right?’
‘Marquette Park,’ he said.
‘A South Side boy,’ I said.
‘South Side loogan,’ he said. ‘Grew up in Marquette Park and I live in Beverly now.’
I thought I had him sidetracked. Loogan meant he was Lithuanian, and I wanted to take the conversation in that direction. Didn't get the chance.
ref: 2003, Donald Lehmann, “Thirty-two”, in Inc., iUniverse, page 30:
glosses: A Lithuanian.
loogans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loogan
gunpoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌnpəʊk/
Forms: form: gunpokes
Etymology: From gun + poke, after cowpoke.
Senses: examples: text: ‘He lets you win a lot of money and sends a gunpoke around to take it back for him.’
ref: 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 164:
glosses: Someone who carries a gun; an armed man.
gunpokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gunpoke
scowly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: scowlier
form: more scowly
form: scowliest
form: most scowly
Etymology: From scowl + -y.
Senses: examples: text: There was a faded picture on the mantel at home of Uncle Pete, age four, holding the hand of Aunt Bareeba, a fat three-year-old with frizzy dark hair and a scowlly expression.
ref: 1992, Deborah Moulton, Summer girl:
text: You said something about Lunn” said Krazzock turning to face the messenger. Krazzock had a scowlly look on his face.
ref: 2008, Ken Chartrand, Days of the Unicorn King:
glosses: Indicative of, or characterised by a scowl.
untriturated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + triturated.
Senses: examples: text: There was no clear stretch of snow untriturated by this widespread death; no drift without its graveyard.
ref: 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:
glosses: Not triturated.
oned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of one
hakeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haked