cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hemippe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemippes
Etymology: From the subspecific epithet hemippus, from Ancient Greek ἡμῐ- (hēmĭ-, “half”) + ῐ̔́ππος (hĭ́ppos, “horse”).
Senses: glosses: The Syrian wild ass (Equus hemionus hemippus).
hemippes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemippe
pharmacopsychiatric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to pharmacopsychiatry.
pharmacopsychiatrist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pharmacopsychiatrists
Senses: glosses: A practitioner of pharmacopsychiatry.
pharmacopsychiatrists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pharmacopsychiatrist
beerophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beerophiles
Senses: glosses: A lover of beer.
beerophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beerophile
Weierstrass function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Weierstrass functions
Etymology: Discovered by Karl Weierstrass.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A real-valued function that is continuous everywhere but differentiable nowhere.
wikipedia: Karl Weierstrass
Related terms: fractal
Weierstrass functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Weierstrass function
Codrington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Codringtons
Etymology: From the Old English personal name Cūþhere + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A hamlet in Dodington parish, South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST726617).
glosses: A placename:
A community in Brighton, Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A placename:
A town on Barbuda, Antigua and Barbuda.
glosses: A placename:
A rural locality on Portland Bay, south-west Victoria, Australia.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Chausse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chausses
Etymology: Borrowed from French Chausse.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Chausses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Chausse
Codringtons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Codrington
Chamlee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chamlees
Etymology: A variant pronunciation spelling of Cholmondeley, now usually pronounced /t͡sʌmliː/. Cf. Chidley and Chulmleigh.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Delasancha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Delasanchas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish De La Sancha.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Delasanchas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Delasancha
Chamlees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Chamlee
McKendree
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McKendrees
Etymology: Variant of McHenry.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Madison County, Ohio, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States.
Boshears
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Boshearses
form: Boshers
Etymology: Americanized variant of French Bouchard.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Lillos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lillo
Boshearses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Boshears
McKendrees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McKendree
Brookinses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Brookins
Duddingtons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Duddington
Mango Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island of Ha'apai, Tonga, Polynesia, Oceania, Pacific Ocean.
Fonoifua
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Fonoifua Island.
glosses: Ellipsis of Fonoifua Township.
Fonoifua Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island of 'Otu Mu'omu'a, Tonga, Polynesia, Oceania, Pacific Ocean.
Nomukan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Nomukan
form: most Nomukan
Etymology: From Nomuka + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Nomuka.
Nomukan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nomukans
Etymology: From Nomuka + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Nomuka.
Nomukans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nomukan
HTS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HTSes
Etymology: Abbreviation.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of high-temperature superconductivity.
glosses: Abbreviation of high-temperature superconductor.
examples: text: Despite Jolani’s effort to distance his new group from al Qaeda, the United States designated HTS a Foreign Terrorist Organization in 2018 and placed a $10 million bounty on him.
ref: 2024 December 6, Jomana Karadsheh, Gul Tuysuz, Brice Laine, Lauren Kent and Eyad Kourdi, “Syrian rebel leader says goal is to ‘overthrow’ Assad regime”, in CNN:
glosses: Abbreviation of Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham.
HTS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HTSes
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans HTS, from hoër + tegniese + skool.
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Abbreviation of technical high school.
sink tidies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sink tidy
ring modulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ring modulations
Etymology: So called because the analog circuit of diodes originally implementing this technique took the shape of a ring.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A signal processing function in which two signals (typically a complex signal and a less complex carrier such as a sine wave) are combined to yield an output.
ring modulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ring modulation
relucency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relucencies
Etymology: From relucent + -ency.
Senses: examples: text: Each has a complex cellular structure, which leads to some internal dispersion of light, a feature called ‘relucency’. The more dense the optical structure is, the greater is its relucency. Relucency is a measure of the heterogeneity of a medium. There is no relucency in quality glass.
ref: 1981, Frederick Carson Rodger, Eye Disease in the Tropics: A Practical Textbook for Developing Countries, Churchill Livingstone, →ISBN, page 3:
text: The guttae (guttata is an adjective!) are evident on slit lamp biomicroscopy as tiny drop-like relucencies on the posterior corneal surface.
ref: 2011, Ralph C. Eagle, Eye Pathology: An Atlas and Text, 2nd edition, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, page 98:
text: Lesions appear as subepithelial to stromal gray/white, crystalline, relucencies within the corneal stroma.
ref: 2015, Douglas W. Esson, Clinical Atlas of Canine and Feline Ophthalmic Disease, John Wiley & Sons Inc, →ISBN, page 114:
glosses: Dispersion of light within the eye (leading to loss of focus), a typical symptom of cataracts.
relucencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relucency
hts.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hts.
form: Hts
form: hts
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of heights, as found in placenames.
hts.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hts.
form: Hts
form: hts
Senses: glosses: plural of ht.
hts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hts..
hts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ht
Hts.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hts..
gallium nitride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: However, with these previous LEDs full color displays were not possible because previous blue and green light emitting diodes were much too weak, and also did not cover the necessary color spectrum. The newly developed gallium nitride LEDs fill this gap.
ref: 2013, Shuji Nakamura, Gerhard Fasol, The Blue Laser Diode: GaN Based Light Emitters and Lasers, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 7:
synonyms: GaN
glosses: A semiconductor commonly used in blue light-emitting diodes.
Hts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hts..
ht.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of height; alternative form of ht.
Derived terms: sense: height
word: hts.
sense: height
word: Hts.
powdered milks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of powdered milk
dried milks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dried milk
underpressurization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underpressurizations
Etymology: From under- + pressurization.
Senses: glosses: Inadequate pressurization.
underpressurizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underpressurization
underpressurize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underpressurizes
form: underpressurizing
form: underpressurized
form: underpressurized
Etymology: From under- + pressurize.
Senses: examples: text: For example, there was a program that calculated water pressure for systems of water lines; it enabled planners to determine which lines needed to be replaced to ensure that new water lines did not underpressurize the system.
ref: 2009, Albert Meijer, Kees Boersma, Pieter Wagenaar, ICTs, Citizens and Governance: After the Hype!, page 164:
antonyms: overpressurize
glosses: To bring to too low a pressure.
underpressurizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underpressurize
underpressurizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underpressurize
cup fungus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cup fungi
Etymology: From cup + fungus, from its natural cup-like shape.
Senses: glosses: Any of the family Pezizaceae of ascomycotic fungi that tend to grow in the shape of a cup.
cup fungi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cup fungus
ascomycotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Ascomycota.
Qadian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkɑː.dɪ.jɑːn/
Forms: form: Qadiyan
form: Kadian
Etymology: Borrowed from Urdu قادیان (qādiyān), itself a corruption of قاضی ماضی (qāẓī māẓī), shortened to قادی (qādī), and eventually قادیان (qādiyān).
Senses: glosses: A town and municipal council in Gurdaspur district, Punjab, India, the founding place of the Ahmadiyya community.
Derived terms: word: Qadiani
pornware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From porn + -ware.
Senses: examples: text: How can I delete rb32.exe popup adware(pornware). Says access denied. File properties show as archive. How do these programs prohibit access to delete them.??
ref: 2003 February 12, Frank den Ouden, “Cant deltere Rapid blaster”, in alt.windows-xp (Usenet), retrieved 18 Jan 2022:
text: For real excitement, however, you simply cannot beat Windows XP! Mysterious crashes, data loss, strange cryptic messages, spyware, pornware, gatesware, all abound. And if you listen attentively, you can hear viruses, worms, and Trojan horses stampeding through the registry. Or simply use Outlook email client as instructed, and you'll be able to see the little buggers...right on your screen. And any update is an adrenalin-pumper. Egads, I miss it!
ref: 2004 March 9, bill, “Linux and future.”, in alt.os.linux.suse (Usenet), retrieved 18 Jan 2022:
text: Neo Security Flash allows an efficient detection of cyber threats and virus through advanced algorithms. It includes protection against Spyware, Adware, Pornware and Riskware allowing you to easily scan files in your portable device.
ref: 2009 April 28, submissio...@rambler.ru, “Neo Security Flash 1.3.1”, in comp.software.shareware.announce (Usenet), retrieved 18 Jan 2022:
text: >>I am trying to create an application for the Windows Mobile 5.0 (or
>>higher)
>>platform. One of the features of the application is that it has a panic
>>button that automatically closes down the application and deletes the
>>executable.
>
> Why does this sound like you're trying to build malware?
Or "pornware"?
ref: 2009 November 20, Scott M., “Creating a self deleting executable using .NET”, in microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion (Usenet), retrieved 18 Jan 2022:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Pornographic software or malware.
gesithcundman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gesithcundmen
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English ġesīþcund man / mon, equivalent to gesithcund + -man.
Senses: examples: text: The gesiths, gesithmen, or gesithcundmen, were the military companions or followers of the Anglo-Saxon chiefs and Kings.
ref: 1830, John Allen, Inquiry into the Rise and Growth of the Royal Prerogative in England, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, page 149:
text: The penalty of the adultery of the gesithcundman goes to his lord, ‘according to ancient usage.’
ref: 1874, William Stubbs, The Constitutional History of England in Its Origin and Development, volume I, Oxford: at the Clarendon Press:
text: Now, if we might regard the gesithcundman as one of a class to whom ten hides or twenty hides had been allotted by King Ine on a system providing in this practical way inter alia for the night’s entertainments, it would be natural that the food rent of the unit of ten hides should be fixed.
ref: 1902, Frederic Seebohm, Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law:
glosses: A gesith.
gesithcundmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gesithcundman
gesithman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gesithmen
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English ġesīþman, equivalent to gesith + -man.
Senses: examples: text: If any one received into his family a ceorl who fled from justice, he was obliged to pay his own were, but if he refused he was compellable to pay his own were, and then his gesithman was bound to pay his were also. Here the stranger, by being admitted into the family of another, became the gesithman of his host.
ref: 1818, Samuel Heywood, A Dissertation upon the Distinctions in Society, and Ranks of the People, under the Anglo-Saxon Governments, London: […] W. Clarke and Sons, page 251:
text: The gesiths, gesithmen, or gesithcundmen, were the military companions or followers of the Anglo-Saxon chiefs and Kings.
ref: 1830, John Allen, Inquiry into the Rise and Growth of the Royal Prerogative in England, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, page 149:
text: Next to him in dignity came the ealdorman, and then the king’s thanes or gesithmen.
ref: 1865, W[illiam] E[densor] Littlewood, The Essentials of English History, 2nd edition, London: Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts; Wakefield: Alfred W. Stanfield, page 8:
glosses: A gesith.
gesithmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gesithman
econarratology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒlədʒi
Etymology: From eco- + narratology.
Senses: examples: text: In this book, I highlight the way narratives grapple with the often-collapsed concerns of subjectivity, representation, and environment by bringing together narratological and ecocritical concerns via a mode of reading I call econarratology.
ref: 2015, Erin James, The Storyworld Accord: Econarratology and Postcolonial Narratives, University of Nebraska Press, page xv:
text: In the four books exploring the humanism of the Great Story, he expands this biosemiotic analysis to encompass a new econarratology, describing this expansion with an image from aeronautics ...
ref: 2015, Christopher Watkin, “Michel Serres’ Great Story: From Biosemiotics to Econarratology”, in SubStance, volume 44, number 3, page 174:
text: In combining my focus on climate crisis flood fiction with an attention to the narratological elements of time, space and character, ths chapter develops works done in the field of econarratology.
ref: 2021, Astrid Bracke, “The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Anthropocene”, in John Parham, editor, The Novel, Cambridge University Press, page 91:
glosses: An approach to literary criticism combining aspects of ecocriticism and narratology.
gesithcund
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English ġesīþcund.
Senses: examples: text: The eorlcundman is worth his high wergild even if he be landless: the ceorl may attain to thegn-right and yet his children to the third generation will not be gesithcund.
ref: 1874, William Stubbs, The Constitutional History of England in Its Origin and Development, volume I, Oxford: at the Clarendon Press:
text: The same class which, regarded from the point of view of the wergeld, possessed completeness of kindred and the twelve-hynde oath, when looked at from another point of view was gesithcund, i.e. more or less directly in the service of the King and belonging to the official and landed class.
ref: 1902, Frederic Seebohm, Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law:
text: Among the gesithcund class were men who, by virtue of the value the king put on their services, as military subordinates, as his representations in recently subjected territories, or as officers within his kingdom, acquired additional distinction. It became normal for men of gesithcund status to attach themselves not only to kings but to the greatest of their servants.
ref: 1973, D. J. V. Fisher, The Anglo-Saxon Age, c. 400–1042, Longman, →ISBN, page 131:
glosses: Having the rank of a gesith (member of the king's retinue) in medieval England; well-born.
Related terms: gesith
gesithcundman
eorlcundman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eorlcundmen
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English eorl-cund manna.
Senses: examples: text: The eorlcundman was generally, though not necessarily, a freeholder;
ref: 1848, Henry Hallam, Supplemental Notes to the View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages, London: John Murray, pages 208–209:
text: The eorlcundman is worth his high wergild even if he be landless: the ceorl may attain to thegn-right and yet his children to the third generation will not be gesithcund.
ref: 1874, William Stubbs, The Constitutional History of England in Its Origin and Development, volume I, Oxford: at the Clarendon Press:
text: And so, to Inisfallen and Cashel came the sons of the kings and sub-kings of Munster; and the sons of the privileged, although not royal, classes of airigh – the flatha, owners of landed property and counterparts of the eorls or eorlcundmen of later Anglo-Saxon times;
ref: 1983, Roger Chatterton Newman, Brian Boru, King of Ireland, Anvil Books, →ISBN, page 60:
glosses: A kinsman of an Anglo-Saxon eorl.
eorlcundmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eorlcundman
stakeholderism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stakeholder + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The state ownership of industry, as opposed to public services, would be abandoned, but social partnership and stakeholderism would be advanced as ways of balancing and humanising market relations.
ref: 2005 August 15, David Clark, “Labour's new divide”, in The Guardian:
text: Moreover, since the constitution of crossfunctional projects often involves the participation of actors from both customer and supplier firms, new-style principles of stakeholderism are diffusing along the supply chain.
ref: 2010, Gary Herrigel, Manufacturing Possibilities […] , OUP Oxford, →ISBN, page 224:
topics: business
synonyms: stakeholder capitalism
coordinate_terms: shareholderism
glosses: The view that a business should promote the interests of its stakeholders (employees, customers, suppliers etc.), as opposed to only its shareholders.
Related terms: multistakeholderism
harassest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of harass
harasseth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of harass
multi-stakeholder
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multi-stakeholder
form: most multi-stakeholder
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of multistakeholder.
staphylo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σταφυλή (staphulḗ, “bunch of grapes”).
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to a microorganism cluster with a grape-like arrangement.
glosses: Pertaining to the uvula.
Related terms: botryoid
grapelike
gekkering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gekker
gekkers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gekker
gekkered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gekker
ecklein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eckleins
Senses: glosses: An old measure of capacity.
eckleins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecklein
Senators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Senator
ecrustaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From e- + crustaceous.
Senses: examples: text: Thallus ecrustaceous, or represented by a few pallid lobate-crenate scale-like laciniæ.
ref: 1891, Frederick Manson Bailey, Contributions to the Queensland Flora, volume 10, page 25:
glosses: Not crustaceous.
ecthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐκθετικός (ekthetikós).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An exposition or setting out; used by Aristotle in setting forth various proofs, though the nature of the process is disputed; perhaps simply writing out in letter notation.
Related terms: word: ecthetic
word: ecthetically
sense: a letter published in 638 CE by the Byzantine emperor Heraclius which defined Monothelitism as the official imperial form of Christianity.
word: The Ecthesis
ecthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to ecthesis.
ecthetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In terms of, or by means of, ecthesis.
educive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more educive
form: most educive
Senses: examples: text: This, of course, is true of Marxism where what is postulated is considered educive of the necessary next phase after capitalism.
ref: 2012, G. H. Bantock, Studies in the History of Educational Theory, volume 2, page 11:
glosses: That educes.
have more chins than Chinatown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has more chins than Chinatown
form: having more chins than Chinatown
form: had more chins than Chinatown
form: had more chins than Chinatown
form: have got more chins than Chinatown
Etymology: A pun on the word chin and the common Chinese surname Chin. The phrase was popularised by the American parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic.
Senses: examples: text: All physical types work in commercials. Perhaps you're so large that Richard Simmons won't deal you a meal and your photo has to be taken from satellite. Maybe your body has more nooks and crannies than an English muffin and you have more chins than Chinatown.
ref: 2005, Tom Logan, “The Importance of Commercials”, in Acting in the Million Dollar Minute: The Sequel:
glosses: To be exceedingly fat, especially under the chin (as in a "double chin").
wikipedia: "Weird Al" Yankovic
Related terms: have more chins than a Chinese phonebook
semi-finished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + finished.
Senses: examples: text: A daily movement of steel across country is another interesting haul over the G.C. route. Semi-finished steel is hauled from Scunthorpe and Consett to South Wales.
ref: 1960 December, B. Perren, “The role of the Great Central—present and future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 763:
topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: Alternative form of semifinished.
poleine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poleines
Senses: examples: text: Below the cuisses were knee pieces called poleines, which were half round or slightly pointed in profile, usually with a spade- or kidney-shaped wing on the outside to protect the back of the joint. Articulated at the base of the poleine was a demi-greave, a small plate ...
ref: 2008, Jeffrey L. Forgeng, Will Mclean, Daily Life in Chaucer's England, 2nd Edition, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 166:
glosses: Alternative form of poleyn (“knee armor”).
examples: text: No one under the estate of a lord was permitted to wear the indecently-short jackets, gowns, &c. mentioned by Monstrelet, or pikes or poleines to his shoes and boots exceeding two inches in length.
ref: 1836, James Robinson Planché, History of British Costume, page 202:
glosses: Alternative form of poulaine (“long, pointed toe of a shoe”).
chitranna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Kannada ಚಿತ್ರಾನ್ನ (citrānna).
Senses: synonyms: lemon rice
glosses: a dish from Karnataka, popular in South India in general, that mixes rice, lemon juice and a mixture of spices, chilies and seasonings
poleines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poleine
rack-rent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rack-rents
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rack rent.
rackrent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rackrents
Senses: glosses: Rare form of rack rent.
rack-rents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rack rents; plural of rack-rent.
rackrents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Rare form of rack rents; plural of rackrent.
chases a rainbow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chase a rainbow
chasing a rainbow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chase a rainbow
chased a rainbow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chase a rainbow
buzz button
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buzz buttons
Etymology: So named for generating a buzzing or electrified sensation in the mouth, due to the presence of spilanthol.
Senses: examples: text: In culinary terms the flower heads are known as buzz button, Szechuan button and electric button
ref: 2018, Abdul Ghani Hussain, Normah Mohd Noor, Khatijah Hussin, Nature’s Medicine: A collection of Medicinal Plants from Malaysia’s Rainforest, Landskap Malaysia, →ISBN:
text: I tried my first buzz button (one of the common names for the edible flower buds of Acmella Oleracea) when I was interviewing a gardener who grew the most amazing array of crops for an award-winning local restaurant
ref: 2019 May 2, Cinead McTernan, Grow Your Own Botanicals: Deliciously Productive Plants for Homemade Drinks, Remedies and Skincare, Octopus, →ISBN, Electric Daisy (Acmella Oleracea):
text: Eating a buzz button feels like soda on your tongue, or like Pop Rocks.
ref: 2021 November 2, Monica Nelson, Edible Flowers: How, Why, and When We Eat Flowers, Monacelli Press, →ISBN, page 51:
synonyms: electric button
Szechuan button
glosses: An edible flower from the plant paracress (Acmella oleracea).
buzz buttons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buzz button
electric daisy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electric daisies
Etymology: So named because its flowers generate an electrified sensation in the mouth, see buzz button.
Senses: examples: text: Electric daisy (Acmella oleracea aka toothache plant, Pará cress)
ref: 2019 March 12, Holly Farrell, The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Herbs: The Art and Science to Grow Your Own Herbs, Frances Lincoln, →ISBN, Electric daisy (Acmella oleracea aka toothache plant, Pará cress), page 23:
text: Electric Daisy (Acmella Oleracea)
ref: 2019 May 2, Cinead McTernan, Grow Your Own Botanicals: Deliciously Productive Plants for Homemade Drinks, Remedies and Skincare, Octopus, →ISBN, Electric Daisy (Acmella Oleracea):
glosses: Synonym of paracress.
synonyms: word: paracress
Related terms: buzz button
spilanthol
electric daisies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electric daisy
voxies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voxie
dwelling-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dwelling-houses
Senses: examples: text: The house was partly pulled down, and that portion which remains, makes a tolerably-sized dwelling-house, nothing more, and is let by the present family.
ref: 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XIX, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 331:
glosses: Alternative form of dwellinghouse.
voxie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voxies
Etymology: From vox + -ie, shortening of vox pop.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: A vox pop.
dwelling-houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dwellinghouses; plural of dwelling-house.
white-naped crane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white-naped cranes
Senses: glosses: Antigone vipio, a bird of the crane (Gruidae) family
grey crowned crane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grey crowned cranes
Senses: synonyms: African crowned crane
golden crested crane
golden-crowned crane
East African crane
East African crowned crane
African crane
eastern crowned crane
South African crane
crested crane
glosses: Balearica regulorum, a bird of the crane (Gruidae) family
red-crowned crane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪn
Forms: form: red-crowned cranes
Etymology: Calque of Chinese 丹頂鶴 /丹顶鹤 (dāndǐnghè).
Senses: synonyms: Manchurian crane
Japanese crane
glosses: Grus japonensis, a bird of the crane (Gruidae) family, native to East Asia
Manchurian crane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Manchurian cranes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of red-crowned crane.
synonyms: word: red-crowned crane
Japanese crane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Japanese cranes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of red-crowned crane.
synonyms: word: red-crowned crane
sabatine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæbəˌtin/
Forms: form: sabatines
Etymology: From Middle English sabatin, Latin sabatēnum; compare sabaton.
Senses: examples: text: They have the queue, and the sabatines, and their thighs are protected by sockets. […] They have sockets on their saddles, and sabatines on their feet, with queues to their back-plates.
ref: 1842, S. R. Meyrick, A Critical Inquiry Into Antient Armour, as it Existed in Europe, Particularly in Great Britain, from the Norman Conquest to the Reign of King Charles II: Ill. by a Series of Illuminated Engravings : with a Glossary of Military Terms of the Middle Ages, page 202:
text: Sabatines, or steel clogs, with which long-rowelled spurs were worn.
ref: 1867, Henry Godwin, The English Archæologist's Handbook, page 264:
text: A knight of the reign of Henry VI. was not fully equipped without fifteen pieces of war-gear, beginning with his sabatines, or steel clogs with long rowelled spurs, […]
ref: 1867 December 7, The Builder, page 883:
synonyms: sabaton
solleret
glosses: A kind of metal shoe, worn as part of a suit of armor.
Related terms: Sabbatine
red-crowned cranes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red-crowned crane
sabatines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sabatine
hooded crane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hooded cranes
Senses: glosses: Grus monacha, a bird of the crane (Gruidae) family, native to East Asia
hooded cranes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hooded crane
Eurasian crane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eurasian cranes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of common crane.
synonyms: word: common crane
blue crane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue cranes
Senses: synonyms: Stanley crane
paradise crane
glosses: Grus paradisea, a bird of the crane (Gruidae) family
Eurasian cranes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eurasian crane
paradise crane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paradise cranes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of blue crane.
synonyms: word: blue crane
Stanley crane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Stanley cranes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of blue crane.
synonyms: word: blue crane
Stanley cranes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Stanley crane
paradise cranes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paradise crane
black-necked crane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black-necked cranes
Senses: glosses: Grus nigricollis, a bird of the crane (Gruidae) family, native to Asia
black crowned crane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black crowned cranes
Senses: glosses: Balearica pavonina, a bird of the crane (Gruidae) family
wattled crane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wattled cranes
Senses: glosses: Grus carunculata, a bird of the crane (Gruidae) family
wattled cranes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wattled crane
east-west
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: One end of the east-west building is wet, the other windy, and at present there is smoke abounding, too; but these distressing yard elements can be completely excluded at each end by full-width folding doors [...].
ref: 1960 December, “New G.E. Line diesel loco maintenance depot at Stratford”, in Trains Illustrated, page 766:
text: The only silver lining for businesses and local residents was that there was at least an end in sight, and that the new station, once built, would enhance the area and provide improved east-west access for pedestrians.
ref: 2025 February 19, Chris Howe, “Euston: a work in progress”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 45:
glosses: Extending on an axis from east to west.
Related terms: north-south
nutbusting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: ballbusting (sexual practice)
non-productive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + productive.
Senses: examples: text: [...] every man has tools and amenities always within one minute's walk; thus non-productive man-hours are kept to a minimum.
ref: 1960 December, “New G.E. Line diesel loco maintenance depot at Stratford”, in Trains Illustrated, page 766:
glosses: Alternative form of nonproductive.
lobsterperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lobster + person.
Senses: examples: text: Have a lobsterperson show the students how to knit bait bags and heads.
ref: 1979, Lorraine L. Stubbs, The American Lobster, H̲o̲m̲a̲ṟu̲s̲ A̲m̲e̲ṟi̲c̲a̲ṉu̲s̲, page 35:
text: Regular readers of humorist Dave Barry's column will recognize Skip as the ultracapable "painter, carpenter, roofer and lobsterperson" who is frequently called upon to repair Barry's house.
ref: 1997, CIO, Dec 15, 1997–Jan 1, 1998, volume 11, number 6
text: Linda Greenlaw wrote The Lobster Chronicles (Hyperion, 2002), a compelling memoir of “life on a very small island,” about her experience as a female lobsterperson in the local Lobstermen's Association.
ref: 2011, Gernot Wagner, But Will the Planet Notice?, page 228:
text: She's the only lobsterman, excuse me, lobsterperson who reeks of cigarettes.
ref: 2017, Delia Ephron, Siracusa, page 225:
glosses: A person who fishes for lobster.
Hyponyms: sense: person who fishes for lobster
word: lobsterman
sense: person who fishes for lobster
word: lobsterwoman
escoffion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: escoffions
Senses: synonyms: bas
glosses: An item of European feminine headwear popular in the Late Middle Ages (1250–1500), made of a thick, circular roll of material like wool, felt or silk, shaped into a double-horned configuration.
gorgière
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡoɹˈʒjɛɚ/
Forms: form: gorgières
Etymology: Probably reborrowed directly from modern French gorgière, although also present in Middle English gorger (“throat-armour; neck-clothing”), both from Old French gorgiere.
Senses: examples: text: The camail that protected the neck has given place to the gorgière of plate, which for greater freedom of[…]
ref: 1843, Henry Shaw, Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages:
text: The throat is protected by a gorgière or standard of mail, the lower edge vandyked, resembling the specimen […]
ref: 1852, The Archaeological Journal, page 103:
glosses: A gorget (piece of armor).
examples: text: […] were all the arts of the cunning devoted to the guimpe, the gorgières, the mentonnières, the voluminous escoffions.
ref: 1904, The Connoisseur, page 95:
text: Woman wearing a gorgière. n. c.1310, French.
ref: 1975, Richard Corson, Stage Makeup, Prentice Hall:
glosses: A gorget (clothing item).
gorgières
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gorgière
jambeaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jambeau
trappour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trappours
Etymology: From Middle English trappour.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:trappour.
glosses: A horse's caparison.
trappours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trappour
electric button
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electric buttons
Senses: examples: text: In culinary terms the flower heads are known as buzz button, Szechuan button and electric button.
ref: 2018, Abdul Ghani Hussain, Normah Mohd Noor, Khatijah Hussin, Nature’s Medicine: A collection of Medicinal Plants from Malaysia’s Rainforest, Landskap Malaysia, →ISBN, page 14:
text: Also known as the Szechuan button and electric button, the buzz button has been widely used for its analgesic properties and
ref: 2021 November 2, Monica Nelson, Edible Flowers: How, Why, and When We Eat Flowers, Monacelli Press, →ISBN, page 51:
glosses: Synonym of buzz button.
synonyms: word: buzz button
electric buttons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electric button
Szechuan button
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Szechuan buttons
Etymology: Comparing the buzzing effect to Sichuan pepper.
Senses: examples: text: In culinary terms the flower heads are known as buzz button, Szechuan button and electric button.
ref: 2018, Abdul Ghani Hussain, Normah Mohd Noor, Khatijah Hussin, Nature’s Medicine: A collection of Medicinal Plants from Malaysia’s Rainforest, Landskap Malaysia, →ISBN, page 14:
text: Also known as the Szechuan button and electric button, the buzz button has been widely used for its analgesic properties
ref: 2021 November 2, Monica Nelson, Edible Flowers: How, Why, and When We Eat Flowers, Monacelli Press, →ISBN, page 51:
glosses: Synonym of buzz button.
synonyms: word: buzz button
Szechuan buttons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Szechuan button
hectocorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hectocorn
katagelasticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkætəd͡ʒəˈlæstɪsɪzm̩/
Etymology: Coined by Willibald Ruch and René T. Proyer, assisted by Christian F. Hempelmann and Sean Harrigan, from Ancient Greek καταγελαστής (katagelastḗs, “mocker”), from καταγελάω (katageláō, “to laugh at, jeer at, laugh down”), from κατά (katá, “downwards”) + γελάω (geláō, “to laugh”).
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:katagelasticism.
glosses: Obtaining pleasure from laughing at or mocking others.
Related terms: agelastic
gelastic
hypergelast
katagelast
katagelastic
katagelasticist
katagelasticists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of katagelasticist
katagelasticist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkætəd͡ʒəˈlæstɪsɪst/
Forms: form: katagelasticists
form: katagelast
Etymology: See katagelasticism.
Senses: examples: text: ; compare Thesaurus:ridicule
text: [in title]
ref: 2010, René T. Proyer, Tracey Platt, Willibald Ruch, “Self-conscious emotions and ridicule: Shameful gelotophobes and guilt free katagelasticists”, in Personality and Individual Differences, volume 49, number 1, page 54:
text: Aggressive humor might lead to “bad feelings” from others or to aggressive humor aimed at the katagelasticist in return.
ref: 2013, Yu-Chen Chan, Hsueh-Chih Chen, Joseph Lavallee, “The impact of gelotophobia, gelotophilia and katagelasticism on creativity”, in Humor: International Journal of Humor Research, volume 26, number 4:
text: Individuals with high superiority motivation (i.e., high-katagelasticists) experience increased humorousness and an improved attitude toward the brand when they identify with a character acting as victimizer in the disparaging ad.
ref: 2021, Leonidas Hatzithomas, Maria C. Voutsa, Christina Boutsouki, Yorgos Zotos, “A superiority–inferiority hypothesis on disparagement humor: The role of disposition toward ridicule”, in Journal of Consumer Behaviour, volume 20, number 4, page 923:
synonyms: mocker
jeerer
scorner
antonyms: gelotophobe
glosses: One who enjoys mocking and laughing at others.
Related terms: katagelasticism
T-back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: T-backs
Senses: glosses: A thong (type of underwear).
cycle threshold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cycle thresholds
Senses: qualifier: molecular biology
glosses: The number of times a sample of DNA must be copied using PCR before the total amount of DNA detectable is above a certain cut-off.
Synonyms: Ct
Derived terms: Ct
Related terms: cycle
threshold
Cts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ct
Cts.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ct.
Manchinema
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Manchin + Sinema.
Senses: examples: text: The Manchinema caucus of two is still demanding a lower price tag for reconciliation, and Democrats do not want the government to shut down on Friday.
ref: 2021 September 28, Jacqueline Alemany, Theodoric Meyer, “Vulnerable House Democrats say it really better be infrastructure week”, in The Washington Post:
ref: 2022 January 18, Maxine Joselow, “Climate advocates argue against breaking up BBB, call it a 'mistake' for Democrats and the planet”, in The Washington Post:
topics: government
politics
glosses: U.S. Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema.
Republic of Türkiye
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Republic of Türkiye
Etymology: Partial calque of Turkish Türkiye Cumhuriyeti.
Senses: glosses: Official name of Turkey: a country in West Asia and Southeast Europe.
Related terms: english: official name until 2022
translation: official name until 2022
word: Republic of Turkey
tarriff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of tariff.
tarrif
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of tariff.
katagelastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌkætəd͡ʒəˈlæstɪk/
Forms: form: more katagelastic
form: most katagelastic
Etymology: * See katagelasticism.
Senses: examples: text: Katagelastic people are, in short, jerks. They enjoy calling people out and mocking others.
ref: 2018 October 19, Matt Davis, “Relationship hack: Why class clowns make better partners”, in Neuropsych:
text: While gelotophobic individuals fear aggressive humor, katagelastic individuals, in contrast, enjoy such humor[…]
ref: 2019, Vanja Kljajevic, “Neurology of Humor”, in T. Shackelford, V. Weekes-Shackelford, editors, Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, Springer:
text: His request, however, is followed by a mock-hidden laugh of the manager and then seconds later – the obsequious, toadying laugh of the rest of the employees[…]The laugh also creates a katagelastic atmosphere in the office, uncomfortable for the protagonist.
ref: 2020, Evelina Kazakevičiūtė, ‘It’s a sad and beautiful world’: The Poststructuralist Conception of Communication and Jim Jarmusch’s Films (PhD thesis), page 147:
glosses: Showing a predilection for mocking humor, that is, humor at the expense of others.
Synonyms: mocking
ridiculing
Related terms: katagelasticism
copper acetate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copper acetates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: a compound with the formula Cu(OAc)₂ (Ac = acetate, not actinium)
Synonyms: word: cupric acetate
word: verdigris
morover
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of moreover.
glosses: Misspelling of moreover.
copper acetates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copper acetate
cupric acetate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cupric acetates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of copper acetate.
synonyms: word: copper acetate
cupric acetates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cupric acetate
prodused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of produced.
zoöthome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoöthomes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zoothome.
GOX
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
related: word: gOx
word: GOx
word: gox
glosses: Acronym of gaseous oxygen.
Related terms: english: gaseous nitrogen
translation: gaseous nitrogen
word: GN2
english: gaseous hydrogen
translation: gaseous hydrogen
word: GH2
english: gaseous helium
translation: gaseous helium
word: GHe
english: liquid oxygen
translation: liquid oxygen
word: LOX
leg lock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leg locks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of leglock.
GOx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of glucose oxidase.
glosses: Alternative form of GOX (“gaseous oxygen”).
Murray code
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The code was modified by Donald Murray (1865–1945).
Senses: glosses: A later variant of Baudot code, designed to minimize wear on the machinery by assigning the code combinations with the fewest punched holes to the most frequently used characters.
zoothomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoothome
cyberoptimistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cyberoptimistic
form: most cyberoptimistic
Etymology: From cyber- + optimistic.
Senses: glosses: Expressing or relating to cyberoptimism.
cyberpessimistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cyberpessimistic
form: most cyberpessimistic
Etymology: From cyber- + pessimistic.
Senses: glosses: Expressing or relating to cyberpessimism.
Scheveningen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood in The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands.
hand-operated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: All these level crossings have hand-operated gates, and are manned by crossing-keepers.
ref: 1951 September, B. D. J. Walsh, “The Sudbury and Haverhill Line, Eastern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 619:
text: The two outside roads have one ton transporter hand-operated cranes, but there is provision for the installation of cranes on the inner roads also.
ref: 1960 December, “New G.E. Line diesel loco maintenance depot at Stratford”, in Trains Illustrated, page 766:
glosses: Operated or controlled manually, rather than by automatic, electronic or other means.
aposelenium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From apo- + seleno- + -ium, Latin form of -ion.
Senses: examples: text: Hence, the Earth gravity allows the decrease of the particle energy from zero to a negative value and its capture by the moon to an elliptical orbit, e.g., with a periselenium of ~2,000 km and a high aposelenium of ~70,000h km.
ref: 2004, Science and Technology Series, volume 108, American Astronautical Society, page 162:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The point of a body's elliptical orbit about the moon's centre of mass where the distance between the body and the centre of mass is at its maximum.
Synonyms: aposelene