cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
coordinate map
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coordinate maps
Senses: examples: text: Let (W#95;0,#92;psi) be a smooth coordinate chart for P, and let (E#95;1,#92;dots,E#95;#123;n-p#125;) be a local orthonormal frame for the normal bundle NP; by shrinking W#95;0 if necessary, we can assume that the coordinates and the local frame are defined on the same open subset W#95;0#92;subseteqP. Let #92;hat#123;W#125;#95;0#61;#92;psi(W#95;0)#92;subseteq#92;mathbb#123;R#125;ᵖ, and let NP#92;vert#95;#123;W#95;0#125; be the portion of the normal bundle over W#95;0. The coordinate map #92;psi and frame (E#95;j) yield a diffeomorphism #92;hat#123;W#125;#95;0#92;times#92;mathbb#123;R#125;#123;n-p#125;#92;rightarrowNP#92;vert#95;#123;W#95;0#125; defined by[…]
ref: 2019 January 2, John M. Lee, Introduction to Riemannian Manifolds (Graduate Texts in Mathematics), Springer, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 135:
qualifier: differential geometry
glosses: Synonym of coordinate chart.
synonyms: word: coordinate chart
coordinate maps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coordinate map
Fergusson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fergussons
Etymology: Variant of Ferguson.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Fergee
Fergie
Fergusson Island striped possum
Fergy
Related terms: Fergus
Ferguson
jeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jeon
transition map
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transition maps
Senses: qualifier: differential geometry
glosses: Synonym of transition function.
synonyms: word: transition function
transition maps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transition map
finite-state machines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of finite-state machine
died hard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of die hard
structurationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From structurational + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of structuration.
HRA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HRAs
Senses: examples: text: This provision codifies the final 2019 regulations permitting Individual Coverage HRAs and renames the policy as Custom Health Option and Individual Care Expense (CHOICE) arrangements. […] This section allows employees, at the employer’s discretion, to convert FSA and HRA balances into an HSA contribution upon enrolling in an HDHP-HSA. The conversion amount is capped at the annual FSA contribution limit ($3,300 in 2025).
ref: 2025 May 24, “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill”, in United States House Committee on Ways & Means, pages 18, 20:
glosses: Initialism of health reimbursement arrangement.
qualifier: materials science
glosses: Abbreviation of hardness on Rockwell scale A.
HRAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HRA
Van Winkle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Van Winkles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Vanwinkle.
Rip
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Dutch.
examples: Rip Weaver, Rip Rawlings
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Ripley.
dwaggies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dwaggy
heroinomaniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪniæk
Forms: form: heroinomaniacs
Etymology: From heroin + -o- + -maniac.
Senses: examples: text: In his [P. Duhem’s] opinion, heroin is not only no less toxic than morphine, but the symptoms which appear in heroinomaniacs, such as weakness, prostration, leaden complexion, etc., are more marked than is the case in morphinomaniacs.
ref: 1912, E. Merck’s Annual Report of Recent Advances in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Therapeutics, page 262:
text: Eycmans, Fr., suggests that heroinomaniacs may soon add to the army of neurotics, and cautions pharmacists as to the sale of these dangerous medicaments.
ref: 1912, United States Congressional Serial Set, page 429:
text: At the Sing-Sing Prison in New York, for instance, it is estimated that, of the number of prisoners addicted to narcotics, at least 75 per cent are heroinomaniacs.
ref: 1924, Health Committee: Minutes, page 58:
text: […]the substance is exported on a large scale to foreign countries purely for euphoric purposes, and the deprivative cure is accompanied in physically enfeebled heroinomaniacs by grave symptoms.
ref: 1931, P. H. A. Wirth, transl., Phantastica: Narcotic and Stimulating Drugs; Their Use and Abuse, translation of original by Louis Lewin, published 1964, page 73:
text: Heroin is more and more frequently used as a substitute for morphine, and there are now almost as many heroinomaniacs as morphinomaniacs.
ref: 1982 June 8, International Herald Tribune, number 30,885, Paris:
glosses: A heroin addict.
Synonyms: heroinist
Related terms: heroinomania
heroinomaniacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heroinomaniac
Asant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The Galles and thoſe pilling Briggandines,
That yeerely ſaile to the Uenetian goulfe,
And houer in the ſtraightes for Chriſtians wracke,
Shall lie at anchor in the Iſle Aſant.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:
glosses: Obsolete form of Zante (“the island of Zakynthos”).
Moyasta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet near Kilrush, County Clare, Ireland (Irish grid ref Q 9658).
heroinomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From heroin + -o- + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: He points out, however, that to obviate inurement care should be exercised to exclude insufficient doses or such as might give rise to heroinomania.
ref: 1905, Report on the Advancements in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Therapeutics, page 100:
text: In more recent times, however, heroin has appeared, with the resultant heroinomania.
ref: 1919 January 19, “Drug-Taking. An Insidious and Increasing Danger. Cocaine and Morphia”, in The Observer, 128th year, number 6,661, London, page 3:
text: In recent years Western society has witnessed an outburst of toxicomanias: heroin toxicomania or heroinomania, Cannabis (marijuana and hashish) toxicomania, and most recently methaqualone (Quaalude, Sopors) tox-
ref: 1973 July 12, Roy H. Hart, “Is Man Entitled To Drugs?”, in The State, 82nd year, number 193, Columbia, S.C., page 5-A:
glosses: Heroin addiction.
Synonyms: heroinism
Related terms: heroinomaniac
African rhinoceros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: African rhinoceroses
Senses: glosses: Any of the rhinoceroses of Africa, which have two horns
Ceratotherium simum (white rhinoceros)
glosses: Any of the rhinoceroses of Africa, which have two horns
Diceros bicornis (black rhinoceros)
doughnutery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doughnuteries
form: donutery
form: donuttery
form: doughnuttery
Etymology: From doughnut + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Visited one of those uptown doughnuteries noted for its good grade of drinkable coffee.
ref: 1937 October 17, The Pasadena Post, volume 19, number 35, Pasadena, Calif., page 18:
text: He goes into an all-night doughnutery at 3:40 a. m. and falls to talking with the lonely counterman, who is a college student as well and who isn’t satisfied with just selling doughnuts and coffee.
ref: 1958 October 12, Cumberland Sunday Times, volume LXXXIX, number 281, Cumberland, Md., page four:
text: Donut Delite, one of the Quad-Cities’ top doughnuteries with locations in Moline, Silvis and Rock Island, is celebrating its fifth anniversary today with 15 cent coffee and cake and raised doughnuts selling for $2 a dozen.
ref: 1985 January 12, The Daily Dispatch, 107th year, number 163, Moline, Ill., page 23:
glosses: A doughnut shop.
doughnuteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doughnutery
donutery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: donuteries
Senses: examples: text: Observed very early for a member of the financing fraternity was W. A. Hoage, of Pacific First Federal, stowing away a very early breakfast at Jim Lesher’s donutery on 6th avenue, on Monday.
ref: 1940 August 15, The Tacoma News Tribune, 57th year, number 329, Tacoma, Wash., page 7:
text: Chick and Chuck, pleased as punch with their new donutery in the Shop Center …
ref: 1956 November 14, Concord Transcript, volume 69, number 290, Concord, Calif., page 1:
text: No change in [n]ame is planned, however, as the donutery has become quite a landmark in our fair city.
ref: 1959 February 18, Daily Transcript, volume 66, number 551, Concord, Calif., page 1:
text: It never ceases to amaze and bewilder me, during these nocturnal jaunts to the nearest donutery, to see youngsters, many of them just barely in their teens if that old, roaming the downtown streets of Sarnia.
ref: 1970 May 23, Don Kolfage, “‘Old fogey’ Kolfage for curfew”, in The Windsor Star, Windsor, Ont., page 7:
text: Ole Harper’s. This has got to be the most laidback donutery around.
ref: 1992 March 4, Ken Beck, “Follow our taste tester on a trip to area shops”, in The Tennessean, volume 88, number 64, Nashville, Tenn., page 1-D:
text: Especially when all the little breakfasteries, the delis and donuteries and muffineries, are rattling up their shutters and putting on the coffee to brew.
ref: 2004, Henry Shukman, “Road Movie”, in Darien Dogs, Vintage, published 2005, →ISBN, page 148:
glosses: Alternative form of doughnutery.
donuteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of donutery
Cerf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cerfs
Etymology: From the French surname, from the noun cerf (“deer”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
bike station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bike stations
Senses: glosses: A place where many bicycles can be parked and locked, generally closed and larger than a bike rack
alcian blues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alcian blue
Raphoe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small town in east County Donegal, Ireland, west of Strabane.
Consistorialrath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Consistorialraths
form: Consistorialrat
form: consistorialrath
Etymology: Borrowed from German Consistorialrath, obsolete spelling of Konsistorialrat.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Consistorialrath.
topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: councillor of the consistory
topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: consistory council
Philthadelphia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of filth + Philadelphia, in reference to the litter in the city.
Senses: glosses: The city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
consistorialrath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consistorialraths
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Consistorialrath.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Consistorialrath.
Wakey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Clipping of Wakefield + -y
Senses: examples: text: Barnsely General? Or are you in that posh private one in Wakey?
ref: 2008, Milly Johnson, The Yorkshire Pudding Club:
text: Eddie: Alright well I'll steer right clear away from Wakey [Wakefield in West Yorkshire] County Council death squad then.
ref: 2014, Nicholas Rombes, 10/40/70: Constraint as Liberation in the Era of Digital Film Theory:
text: Yorkshire is a bloody beautiful county. ... there are worse commutes than Manchester to 'Sheff' or 'Wakey' or 'Tarn' across this landscape, past the tough and tender towns and villages: Tintwistle, Edale, Stalybridge, Glossop, Chapel-en-le-Frith and the rest, overlooked by sombre ridges, nestled in those scooped Pennine hollows, dotted by dark, shining reservoirs.
ref: 2020, Stuart Maconie, The Nanny State Made Me: A Story of Britain and How to Save it:
glosses: Clipping of Wakefield: an industrial city and metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England; traditionally a centre for the cloth and coal industries.
Papendrecht
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Papendrecht.
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality of South Holland, Netherlands.
Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht.
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality of South Holland, Netherlands.
force the pace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forces the pace
form: forcing the pace
form: forced the pace
form: forced the pace
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile the larger company was showing no great eagerness to yield to the pressure of South Wales interests to convert its gauge, and with a view to forcing the pace, the Llynvi & Ogmore in 1871 promoted a remarkable railway from an extension of its system already authorised near Blackmill, eastward across country to join the Rhymney Railway at Nantgarw, in the Vale of Taff, above Cardiff.
ref: 1955 July, D. S. Barrie, “Railways of the Bridgend District”, in Railway Magazine, page 447:
glosses: To undertake a decisive, fast-paced approach.
Zwijndrecht
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Zwijndrecht.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of South Holland, Netherlands.
Hoeksche Waard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Hoeksche Waard.
Senses: glosses: An island and municipality of South Holland, Netherlands.
dialpainter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dialpainters
Etymology: From dial + painter.
Senses: examples: text: Miss Wiley---from the Consumer's League---persuaded me to assist Dr. Martland in testing the dialpainters for radium exposure.
ref: 2000, D. W. Gregory, Radium Girls: A Play in Two Acts, Dramatic Publishing, page 100:
glosses: One who paints dials
Hypernyms: painter
Related terms: Radium Girl
faster than Minute Rice
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: faster than minute rice
form: quicker than Minute Rice
Senses: glosses: Very fast.
ferbile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ferbile
form: most ferbile
Senses: examples: text: So that here the practice was in direct opposition to two rules which I believe are pretty generally acted on by the proffession, viz. 1st. Not to give mercury while there is much ferbile excitement; […]
ref: 1837, Abraham Colles, “On the Use of Mercury in Venereal Hectic Fever”, in Practical Observations on the Venereal Disease, and on the use of Mercury, Philadelphia: A. Waldie, page 131:
text: His patient was a female aged 28 years, with a ferbile inflammation of the naso-pharynx.
ref: 1925 August 24, Dalamere F. Hardbridge, “The Conjunctiva”, in William H. Crisp, editor, The Ophthalmic Yearbook, volume 21, Herrick Book and Stationery Company, →OCLC, page 59:
text: The bovine ephemeral fever virus (BEFV), a member of the ephemerovrus genus of Rhabdoviridae family causes an acute ferbile illness in cattle with low mortality rates, […]
ref: 2015 March 24, Asit K. Pattnaik, Michael A. Whitt, “Overview of Rhabo- and Filoviruses”, in Asit K. Pattnaik, Michael A. Whitt, editors, Biology And Pathogenesis Of Rhabdo- And Filoviruses, World Scientific, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 5–6:
glosses: Misspelling of febrile.
Savora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Savoraim
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sabora (“Jewish rabbi”).
preampullary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + ampulla + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: Patients were grouped into a preampullary or postampullary group according to the obstruction in relation to the ampulla of Vater.
ref: 2010, Li-Yi Tsai, Wu-Shiun Hsieh, Chien-Yi Chen, Hung-Chieh Chou, Po-Nien Tsao, Wen-Ming Hsu, “Distinct clinical characteristics of patients with congenital duodenal obstruction in a medical center in Taiwan”, in Pediatrics and Neonatology, volume 51, number 6, →DOI, →PMID, page 343−346:
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Before an ampulla, as for example (usually, more specifically) upstream of the ampulla of Vater in the lumen of the duodenum; structures and events that are preampullary thus exist in the foregut rather than in the midgut.
Coordinate terms: ampullary
postampullary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + ampulla + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: Patients were grouped into a preampullary or postampullary group according to the obstruction in relation to the ampulla of Vater.
ref: 2010, Li-Yi Tsai, Wu-Shiun Hsieh, Chien-Yi Chen, Hung-Chieh Chou, Po-Nien Tsao, Wen-Ming Hsu, “Distinct clinical characteristics of patients with congenital duodenal obstruction in a medical center in Taiwan”, in Pediatrics and Neonatology, volume 51, number 6, →DOI, →PMID, page 343−346:
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: After an ampulla, as for example (usually, more specifically) downstream of the ampulla of Vater in the lumen of the duodenum; structures and events that are postampullary thus exist in the midgut rather than in the foregut.
Coordinate terms: ampullary
Cirkiel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cirkiels
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Cirkiels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cirkiel
mouli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moulis
Senses: examples: text: Certain fruits must be sieved or put through a mouli to get out the skins and pips.
ref: 1978, Ireland of the Welcomes, volume 27, Irish Tourist Board:
text: Some moulis come with a selection of fine, medium or coarse discs.
ref: 2014, Tracklements Savoury Preserves: Traditional, handmade accompaniments for meat, cheese or fish:
text: He'd won her over by not only fronting to her annual making-of-the-tomato-sauce day, but also hand-cranking almost two hundred kilos of tomatoes through the moulis.
ref: 2019, Susan Hurley, Eight Lives:
text: I then get out my trusty mouli and run the whole lot through it (my lovely friend and clever cooking teacher, Paola Bacchia, tells me Italians call a mouli, a 'passatutto', which sounds so much more lyrical to me).
ref: 2021, Belinda Jeffery, A Year of Sundays: A cookbook, a conversation, and reflections on the world around me:
glosses: A hand-operated kitchen utensil designed for grating or pureeing small quantities of food.
moulis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mouli
sermountain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɜːˌmaʊn.tɪn/
ipa: /ˌsɜːˈmaʊn.tɪn/
ipa: /ˈsɝˌmaʊn.tən/
ipa: /ˌsɝˈmaʊn.tən/
Etymology: From Middle English sermontayne, from Old French sermontain. The modern English form has been remodelled after mountain.
Senses: examples: text: Take of the freſh Roots of both Peonies, at Full Moon, each one Ounce and an half; ſlice them, and infuſe them in white-wine for the ſpace of a Day; of Contrayerra^([sic]) half an Ounce, of Sermountain ſix Drams[…]
ref: 1694, John Pechey, “Peony, in Latin Paeonia”, in The compleat herbal of physical plants, Henry Bonwicke, page 146:
text: La Cerda fancies it to be the Siler montanum, or Sermountain, because he thinks it more elegant for the poet to speak of two which grow in the plains, and two in the rivers[…]
ref: 1814, “Liber Secundus”, in Vergil, edited by John Martyn, Georgicorum libri quatuor, 4th edition, Oxford: W. Baxter, page 112:
text: […]though both sermountain species grew abundantly among young Scots pines on the rocky, south-facing slope bordering the road.
ref: 1990, Bulletin de la Société entomologique suisse, volumes 62-63, Schweizerische Entomologische Gesellschaft, page 304:
glosses: A plant of the genus Laserpitium.
misguesstimate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misguesstimates
form: misguesstimating
form: misguesstimated
form: misguesstimated
Etymology: From mis- + guesstimate.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:misguesstimate.
glosses: To guesstimate incorrectly.
charity case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charity cases
Senses: glosses: One who is dependent upon charity
coke whore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coke whores
Etymology: From coke + whore. First use appears c. 1979. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: There is a phrase used among cocaine users-"a coke whore." This is a person, male or female, who hangs around the coke scene and will do anything, sexual or otherwise, for a snort, shot or drag of cocaine.
ref: 1979, Sidney Cohen, “Health Hazards of Cocaine”, in Drug Enforcement, page 12:
text: Then, Ashlee, who is only eighteen, walks the runway and Danielle calls her a cokewhore? Who says that about a young girl?
ref: 2021, Dave Quinn, Not All Diamonds and Rosé: The Inside Story of The Real Housewives From the People Who Lived It, page 154:
glosses: A person who is addicted to cocaine and who finances the habit through prostitution.
Hypernyms: dope whore
Hyponyms: crack whore
Related terms: coked up
cokehead
fame whore
coke whores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coke whore
grabbily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more grabbily
form: most grabbily
Etymology: From grabby + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a grabby manner.
put one's foot in someone's ass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts one's foot in someone's ass
form: putting one's foot in someone's ass
form: put one's foot in someone's ass
form: put one's foot in someone's ass
form: put one's foot up someone's ass
Senses: examples: text: Keep fucking with me, and I'm gonna put my foot in your ass.
glosses: To beat the shit out of someone.
Related terms: put foot to ass
put one's foot up someone's ass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts one's foot up someone's ass
form: putting one's foot up someone's ass
form: put one's foot up someone's ass
form: put one's foot up someone's ass
Senses: examples: text: Keep fucking with me, and I'm gonna put my foot up your ass.
glosses: Alternative form of put one's foot in someone's ass.
Related terms: put foot to ass
SOGI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SOGIs
Senses: examples: text: In addition, persecution from within the refugee community can make it imperative that LGBTQI Syrians hide their SOGI, which may limit their access to protection.
ref: 2018, Alex Odlum, “To Stay or to Go?: Decision-Making of LGBTQI Syrians in Mixed Migration Flows”, in Arzu Güler, Denise Venturi, Maryna Shevtsova, editors, LGBTI Asylum Seekers and Refugees from a Legal and Political Perspective: Persecution, Asylum and Integration, page 84:
text: There are diverse terminologies in use because individuals think about and experience their SOGI in various and diverse ways.
ref: 2019, Patrick Tomczyk, “Queer bodies and queer practices: The implications of queer theory for dramatherapy”, in Susan Hogan, editor, Arts Therapies and Gender Issues: International Perspectives on Research, page 111:
text: Asking patients their SOGI will enable you to provide relevant, specific, and compassionate care that is patient centered and grounded in appropriate language.
ref: 2020, Lynn S. Bickley, Bates' Guide To Physical Examination and History Taking, unnumbered page:
glosses: Initialism of sexual orientation and gender identity.
Jacob's membranes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jacob's membrane
Yasha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive Яша of the Russian/Ukrainian male given name Яков (Jákov)/Яків (Jákiv), equivalent to English Jake
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: nickname for Yandex (calque, Russian slang)
oligospermy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The fertilization of an oocyte by several spermatozoa.
Derived terms: oligospermic
Related terms: monospermy
receipter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: receipters
Etymology: From receipt + -er.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:receipter.
glosses: Alternative form of receiptor.
receipters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of receipter
left periphery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: left peripheries
Senses: examples: text: Four kinds of elements typically occurring in the left periphery will be taken into account: interrogative and relative pronouns, topics and focalized elements.
ref: 1997, Luigi Rizzi, “The Fine Structure of the Left Periphery”, in Liliane Haegeman, editor, Elements of Grammar: Handbook in Generative Syntax, Dordrecht: Springer, →ISBN, page 281:
text: The polar-question particle sheds useful light on the syntax of the BH [Biblical Hebrew] left periphery. [...] With an overt Force head and the obligatory movement of the finite verb to the Topic head, the structure of the left periphery becomes more visible.
ref: 2017, Elizabeth Cowper, Vincent DeCaen, “Biblical Hebrew: A formal perspective on the left periphery”, in Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics, volume 38, page 14:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The part of a syntactic tree above the inflectional phrase(s) (expressing tense, aspect, and/or mood), where topic, focus, illocutionary force, etc. are expressed.
wikipedia: Luigi Rizzi (linguist)
busine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: busines
Senses: examples: text: The transformation of the busine (buccina) into the sackbut involved two or three processes […]
ref: 1911, The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information, page 974:
text: In a busine of 1460, made in the workshop of the Nuremberg trumpet and trombone-maker Haas, it may be observed how easily an efficient slide could be formed on its cylindrical tube, […]
ref: 1982, George B. Lane, The Trombone in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance:
text: Did you know that Roger Voisin made a recording using tenor cornetto as well as a busine? That Edward Tarr recorded on a trumpet mouthpiece, Friedemann Immer recorded a Bach cantata on the natural horn, […]?
ref: 1991, Historic Brass Society Newsletter:
glosses: Alternative form of buisine.
busines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of busine
Byzas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin Bȳzās, from Ancient Greek Βύζας (Búzas).
Senses: examples: text: Romulus and Byzas are obviously parallel figures not only in their capacity as founders, but also in their genealogies.
ref: 2019, Marion Kruse, The Politics of Roman Memory: From the Fall of the Western Empire to the Age of Justinian, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 49:
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: The legendary founder of Byzantium.
cementochronological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to cementochronology
interannular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + annular.
Senses: glosses: Between rings; especially between successive tree rings
protolyzes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of protolyze
protolyzing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of protolyze
protolyzed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of protolyze
piroplasmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æzmɪk
Senses: glosses: Related to piroplasmata
Derived terms: antipiroplasmic
Fergussons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fergusson
Theedoms
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Theedom
Cerfs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cerf
Fishes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fish
coprescription
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coprescriptions
Etymology: From co- + prescription.
Senses: glosses: prescription of two or more things
Related terms: coprescribe
nonhaematological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + haematological.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonhematological.
Wiedmann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wiedmanns
form: Wiedman
Etymology: Borrowed from German Wiedmann.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
dustbin of history
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Soon, the old scientific method – hypothesise, predict, test – would be relegated to the dustbin of history.
ref: 2022 January 9, Laura Spinney, “Are we witnessing the dawn of post-theory science?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Synonym of trash heap of history.
synonyms: word: trash heap of history
Wiedmanns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Wiedmann
autoproteolyze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autoproteolyzes
form: autoproteolyzing
form: autoproteolyzed
form: autoproteolyzed
Etymology: From auto- + proteolyze.
Senses: glosses: To undergo autoproteolysis
autoproteolyzed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of autoproteolyze
autoproteolyzed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Subjected to autoproteolysis
Trefethen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Trefethens
Etymology: Variant of Trevethan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Cornish.
Altemose
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Altemoses
Etymology: Variant of Altemus.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Altemoses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Altemose
Trefethens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Trefethen
Ahmetovic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ahmetovics
Etymology: Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Ahmetović.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Serbo-Croatian.
Nigerian princes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /naɪˌdʒɪəɹɪən ˈpɹɪnsɪz/
/naɪˌdʒɪɹiən ˈpɹɪnsɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of Nigerian prince
Bougher
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Boughers
Etymology: Americanized spelling of German Bucher.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Boughers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bougher
Ahmetovics
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ahmetovic
subsubspecies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subsubspecies
Etymology: From sub- + subspecies.
Senses: examples: text: […]and any geographical sections of the whole which have been called by distinct names are, by definition, only subspecies, or even subsubspecies.
ref: 1898, A[dolf] B[ernhard] Meyer, L[ionel] W[illiam] Wiglesworth, The Birds of Celebes and the Neighbouring Islands, volume I, Berlin: R. Friedländer & Sohn, page 52:
text: Kinsey’s species of Cynips are considered to be only subspecies or subsubspecies by Goldschmidt (282).
ref: 1944, Stanley A. Cain, Foundations of Plant Geography, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, page 383:
text: Cases may also be encountered where very distinct subspecies appear to have been further segregated into what might be equivalent to “subsubspecies.”
ref: 1944 November, E. Gorton Linsley, “The Naming of Infra-Specific Categories”, in Entomological News, volume LV, number 9, Philadelphia, Pa.: The American Entomological Society; The Academy of Natural Sciences, pages 227–228:
text: Moreover, a species usually encompasses subordinate classification groups such as subspecies (or varieties), subsubspecies (or races), and strains, and these too are distinguished by particular, unique variations (Fig. 16.2).
ref: 1966, Paul B. Weisz, The Science of Zoology, McGraw-Hill Book Company, →LCCN, page 437:
glosses: A subspecies of a subspecies.
Related terms: infrasubspecific
subspecific
subsubdomain
subsubpopulation
subsubtype
Berkovich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Berkoviches
Etymology: A variant of Berkowitz or borrowed from Slovene Berkovič.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Slovene.
Baatz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Baatzes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Baatz.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Baatzes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Baatz
Berkoviches
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Berkovich
Armond
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Armonds
Etymology: Respelling of French Armand.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Axtman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Axtmans
Etymology: Variant of German Axtmann.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Axtmans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Axtman
Armonds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Armond
Barnston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Barnstons
Etymology: From the Old English personal name Beorna + -s- + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Uttlesford district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL6419).
glosses: A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ2883).
glosses: A community in Coaticook, Quebec, Canada.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Related terms: Barnstone
Turck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Turcks
Etymology: Borrowed from German Turck or Türck, variant spelling of Türk, which see for more.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Cherokee County, Kansas, United States.
Urbaez
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Urbaezes
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Urbáez. This surname is predominantly found in the Dominican Republic.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Urbaezes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Urbaez
Turcks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Turck
Barnstons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Barnston
McKim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McKims
Etymology: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Shim (“son of Sim”), a pet form of the personal name Simon.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Tyler County, West Virginia, United States.
Callejases
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Callejas
McKims
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McKim
Altemus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Altemuses
form: Altemose
Etymology: Americanized spelling of German Altemoos.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Krzyzanowski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Krzyzanowskis
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Krzyżanowski.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Krzyzanowskis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Krzyzanowski
Altemuses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Altemus
Kingswoods
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kingswood
HLAI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HLAIs
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, if HLAI leads machines to automate rather than augment human labor, it creates the risk of concentrating wealth and power. And with that concentration comes the peril of being trapped in an equilibrium where those without power have no way to improve their outcomes, a situation I call the Turing Trap.
ref: 2022 January 12, Erik Brynjolfsson, “The Turing Trap: The Promise & Peril of Human-Like Artificial Intelligence”, in Stanford Digital Economy Lab:
qualifier: artificial intelligence
glosses: Initialism of human-like artificial intelligence.
Laughtons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Laughton
Blodwell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Blodwells
Etymology: Apparently from Old English blōd (“blood”) + wielle (“well, source, spring”), first recorded as Blodwelle c.1200; also incorporated into Llanyblodwel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
Ellesborough
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Recorded as Esenberge in the Domesday Book, the placename derives from Old English esol (“ass, donkey”) + beorg (“hill”), denoting a place where asses were pastured.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP8306).
wikipedia: Domesday Book
Colvile
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Colviles
Etymology: Variant of Colville.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
hydropletismometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of hydroplethysmometer.
hornache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hornaches
Senses: glosses: A pain or ache at the horns.
hornaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hornache
ruled out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rule out
doomism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From doom + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Plenty of Gen Zers are still optimistic about the climate crisis and recognize an inherent fallacy within doomism.
ref: 2020 September 21, Alexandra Villarreal, “Meet the doomers: why some young US voters have given up hope on climate”, in The Guardian:
text: Both denial and doomism serve the purpose of creating a justification for inaction, but doomism serves those who can't stomach the fever swamps of denialism.
ref: 2020, Ketan Joshi, Windfall: Unlocking a fossil-free future, →ISBN:
text: Finally, and most significantly, doomism has a strange view on the escapability of climate change.
ref: 2021, Michael E. Mann, The New Climate War, PublicAffairs, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: climate denialism
delayism
qualifier: climate change
glosses: The belief that serious damage from climate change is unavoidable.
Related terms: doomerism
doomer
doomist
doomster
deep adaptation
time-piece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time-pieces
Senses: examples: text: "I cannot understand the cause of Sir George Kingston's not calling this morning; he knows that I am returned to town:" and a flush of haughty anger coloured Lady Marchmont's brow; but the colour deepened when she looked at the time-piece, and had been expecting him for hours.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Discovery”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 163–164:
text: “[…] I shall be glad when I can get my watch mended, it loses so,” said Martin, pulling out an old silver article with a steel chain,—a time-piece, like the rest of the world, deceptive;[…]
ref: 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter IX, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 155:
glosses: Alternative spelling of timepiece.
time-pieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time-piece
simianity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From simian + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being simian.
presimian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + simian.
Senses: glosses: Existing or occurring before the existence of anthropoid apes.
simian shelf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: simian shelves
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A bony thickening on the front of the mandible of an ape.
simian shelves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of simian shelf
second-hand shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second-hand shops
Senses: glosses: Synonym of thrift shop.
synonyms: word: thrift shop
Synonyms: second-hand store
thriftshop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thriftshops
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thrift shop.
thriftshops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thriftshop
second-hand shops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of second-hand shop
thrift stores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thrift store
modi vivendi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of modus vivendi
non-electrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + electrical.
Senses: examples: text: About 40 tons were available in each case for the non-electrical parts, so weight saving was a prime consideration.
ref: 1960 December, “The first hundred 25 kV electric locomotives for B.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 726:
glosses: Alternative form of nonelectrical.
thermosalient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thermo- (“heat”) + salient (“leaping, jumping”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to or exhibiting a phenomenon whereby some crystals undergo a phase transition causing them to jump upon being heated or cooled down.
Related terms: thermosalience
jumping crystal
gaison
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gaison
form: most gaison
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of geason.
all is fair in love and war
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of all's fair in love and war.
courtlage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: courtlages
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of courtledge.
Crow Indian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Crow Indians
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Crow.
synonyms: word: Crow
Crow Indians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Crow Indian
Crows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Crow
Absaroki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of Crow.
synonyms: word: Crow
courtledge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔːtlɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹtlɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: courtledges
form: courtlage
Etymology: A variant of curtilage.
Senses: examples: text: […]and the House and Courtledge now in the possession of Cicely Benver, Widow for her life. (Except a small part thereof given by me by Deed to my Kinsman Elisha Paynter)[…]
ref: 1710 July 10, George Daniell, “Abstract of the Will of George Daniell […] ”, in John S. Amery, Maxwell Adams, E. Windeatt, H Tapley-Soper, editors, Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries, volume 6, J.G. Commin, published 1911, page 75:
text: […]and at the back a rambling courtledge of barns and walls, around which pigs and bare-foot children grunted in loving communion of dirt.
ref: 1855, Charles Kingsley, “How Salvation Yeo Slew the King of the Gubbings”, in Westward Ho!: Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, […], volume II, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 113:
text: The house, a square, two-storied building, of gray stone, roofed with heavy slates, was guarded in front by a small courtlage[…]
ref: 1898, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, “The Second Ship”, in I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter's Tales, Scribner, page 27:
glosses: A small personal garden surrounding a house; a curtilage.
courtledges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of courtledge
courtlages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of courtlage
nigger-fucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nigger-fuckers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of niggerfucker.
nigger-fuckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nigger-fucker
highway yellow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: highway yellows
Senses: glosses: Synonym of federal yellow.
synonyms: word: federal yellow
highway yellows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of highway yellow
tiggity-boo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tickety-boo.
diggity boo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tickety-boo.
UUW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: UUWs
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Initialism of unlawful use of weapon.
UUWs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of UUW
blue marsh hawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue marsh hawks
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A species of libellulid dragonfly, Orthetrum glaucum, of tropical and subtropical Asia, having a blue abdomen and thorax.
blue marsh hawks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue marsh hawk
tankist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tankists
Senses: glosses: A tanker.
see an argument
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: I can see an argument that it was the best movie of the year.
glosses: To believe an opinion has enough justification to sustain a debate about it, whether or not the opinion is ultimately true.
Oak Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island of Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, Canada in Mahone Bay, Atlantic Ocean, known for rumours of buried pirate treasure, and a booby trapped pit.
Proto-Pama-Nyungan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: PPN
glosses: The hypothetical common ancestor of the Pama-Nyungan languages.
Mahone Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈhoʊn ˈbeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Etymology: The name of the bay is derived from French mahonne (“type of low-slung pirate vessel”). The bay was a favored hiding place for pirates.
The town is named after the bay.
Senses: glosses: A bay in Lunenburg county, south shore of Nova Scotia peninsula, Nova Scotia, Canada, on the Atlantic Ocean.
glosses: A town on Mahone Bay in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Nobel disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nobel Disease
Senses: examples: text: According to many doctors, there was only one problem with [Linus] Pauling’s theories: they were all wrong. Pauling was afflicted with “Nobel disease,” a condition where a master in one field thinks he’s an authority in others, according to Dr. Steven Salzberg, professor of medicine and biostatistics at Johns Hopkins, and a frequent debunker of pseudoscience. “He wasn’t an expert in nutrition. He was just completely wrong about this. All the evidence says he’s wrong.”
ref: 2015, Jeff Wilser, The Good News About What's Bad For You..., page 53:
text: Thereafter, he [Luc Montaginer] appears to have contracted the 'Nobel disease', in which success apparently goes to the head of the erstwhile respected scientist, resulting in an embarrassing public embrace of crankery.
ref: 2018, Edzard Ernst, Kevin Smith, More Harm Than Good?: The Moral Maze of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, page 163:
text: Earned dogmatism might also further explain the bizarre claims of the scientists with "Nobel Disease" such as Kary Mullis.
ref: 2019, David Robson, The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes, unnumbered page:
glosses: The tendency of some Nobel laureates to advance pseudoscientific or fringe ideas, or to claim knowledge beyond their field of expertise.
Synonyms: Nobelitis
Related terms: ultracrepidarianism
keep one's head on a swivel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps one's head on a swivel
form: keeping one's head on a swivel
form: kept one's head on a swivel
form: kept one's head on a swivel
Senses: examples: text: You all kept your head on a swivel and that's what you gotta do when you find yourself in a vicious cock fight.
ref: 2004, Will Ferrell, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, spoken by Rob Burgundy (Will Ferrell), Apatow Productions; distributed by DreamWorks Pictures:
text: Head on a swivel, opposition like a block away
ref: 2021, Polo G, “Black Hearted”, in Hall of Fame:
text: "Reentering is about keeping your head on a swivel. Ya gotta keep your head on a swivel, I'm telling ya, because you don't know what's coming, where it's coming from."
ref: 2017, Keesha Middlemass, “Unwelcome Homecoming”, in Convicted and Condemned: The Politics and Policies of Prisoner Reentry, page 65:
qualifier: (with "for")
glosses: To be on the alert, to be watchful.
Synonyms: sense: to be watchful
word: keep an eye out
sense: to be watchful
word: keep one's eyes open