cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
maid-of-honor tart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maid-of-honor tarts
Senses: examples: text: “Sixpenny worth of chambermaid cakes. Please make haste, for we wish to catch the bus.” “We have no such thing,” was the surprising answer. “Why, the sign over the door declares this to be the original shop where Anne Boleyn bought them for King Henry!” expostulated Lura, impatiently. “Oh,” said the young woman, in a tone of superiority that Lura’s cousin off into an almost hysterical laugh, “you mean maid-of-honor tarts.”
ref: 1910 May 12, “The King’s Goodies”, in The Youth’s Companion, New England edition, volume 84, number 19, Boston, Mass.: Perry Mason Company, page 254, column 2:
text: Cheesecake(s) / Maid-of-Honor Tarts, 190
ref: 1986, Michael Smith, The Afternoon Tea Book, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum, published 1987, →ISBN, page 264, column 2:
text: “Is Milton bringing tea in here today? How cosy. You will make sure there are plenty of maid-of-honor tarts, won’t you? You know how I love maid-of-honor tarts.”
ref: 1988 June, Irene Saunders, The Willful Widow, New York, N.Y.: Signet, New American Library, →ISBN, page 26:
text: [Recipe] Maid-of-Honor Tarts, p. 227 [Servings] 24
ref: 1993, Country Home, Stay for Supper, Meredith Books, →ISBN, page 230:
text: One sample menu from the interwar period includes cream cheese and pimento sandwiches, buttered crumpets, coffee éclairs, chocolate sponge roll, buttered date and walnut loaf, maid-of-honor tarts, and queen cakes.
ref: 2019, Julia Skinner, “The Empire and the Teacup”, in Afternoon Tea: A History, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 54:
glosses: Alternative form of maids of honour tart.
maid-of-honor tarts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maid-of-honor tart
troop the color
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: troops the color
form: trooping the color
form: trooped the color
form: trooped the color
Senses: examples: text: The ceremony of trooping the color is remarkable, if for no other reason, as being the only occasion in peace time when the sergeant-major draws his sword and salutes with it in exactly the same manner as does a commissioned officer.
ref: 1896 September, “Trooping the Color. (From The Navy and Army Illustrated.)”, in Journal of the Military Service Institution of the United States, volume XIX, number LXXXIII, page 566:
text: However, back in the seventeenth century trooping was apparently a daily ceremony, when the battalion providing the king’s guard for the day trooped the color, and the Brigade of Guards still perpetuates this old custom during the month of June, when the regiment assigned to guard duty troops the color on the Horse Guards’ parade ground before marching off to the Palace, a display which many onlookers mistakenly take to be a dress rehearsal for the birthday parade.
ref: 1953 [1952], Allan A[ndrew] Michie, God Save the Queen: A Modern Monarchy: What It Is and What It Does, New York, N.Y.: William Sloane Associates, Inc., →LCCN, page 72:
text: A mixed force of regulars trooped the color; a salute of fourteen guns was fired in Tecumseh’s honor; and speeches (one by Dr. Tecumseh K. Holmes, president of the Kent County Historical Association) recalled his services.
ref: 1985, John Sugden, Tecumseh’s Last Stand, Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, page 6:
text: After four years in America, it was like stepping back into the eighteenth century: the young recruit shouldered arms, trooped the color, and stood guard outside the royal palace and other important buildings.
ref: 2004, Peter Conradi, Hitler’s Piano Player: The Rise and Fall of Ernst Hanfstaengl, Confidant of Hitler, Ally of FDR, New York, N.Y.: Carroll & Graf Publishers, →ISBN, page 22:
text: They even crowned a queen for me the year I was born and trooped the color on my first birthday.
ref: 2009, Tony Michaelides, The Insights Collection: Insights from the Engine Room: Lessons Learned from Rock and Roll, [Bayonet Point, Fla.]: Janson Media Group, →ISBN, page 29:
text: But then she would ride back and be immensely proud of her troops because we’d just trooped the color for her and although it’s gone on the same every year, every year’s exciting.
ref: 2012, Craig Taylor, Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now—As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It, and Long for It, New York, N.Y.: Ecco, →ISBN, page 61:
glosses: Alternative form of troop the colour.
troops the color
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of troop the color
trooping the color
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of troop the color
trooped the color
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of troop the color
techneme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technemes
Etymology: From French technème; the French word is found in J. Baudrillard.
Senses: glosses: A simple technical element that is combined with other technemes within technological evolution.
foreign muck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From foreign + muck (“grub, slop”).
Senses: glosses: Foreign food.
germacryl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Related to germacrene, in particular the gemracryl cation which comes about by the addition of a hydrogen cation.
yellow-necked field mouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow-necked field mice
Senses: glosses: The yellow-necked mouse.
sandy soil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Related terms: sodosol
sandveld
psamment
cleanup in aisle
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cleanup on aisle.
armadillo ant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armadillo ants
Senses: glosses: The Neotropical ant Tatuidris tatusia.
armadillo ants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of armadillo ant
xBase
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Chosen to avoid lawsuits over the unauthorized use of the proprietary name dBASE. See x (“an unknown variable or placeholder”).
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Any programming language that derives from, or is a clone of, the dBASE system.
little tunny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: little tunny
Senses: glosses: A small tuna of species Euthynnus alletteratus, native to the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, and Black Sea.
Synonyms: sense: Euthynnus alletteratus
word: false albacore
sense: Euthynnus alletteratus
word: albie
sense: Euthynnus alletteratus
word: little tuna
thunderword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thunderwords
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thunder word.
thunder word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thunder words
form: thunderword
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
synonyms: thunder
thunderclap
glosses: Any of the ten 100-letter words occurring in James Joyce's experimental 1939 novel Finnegans Wake, the first of which is constructed of words for thunder in various different languages.
thunder words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thunder word
thunderwords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thunderword
melanolysosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to melanolysosomes.
Elejalde syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A rare autosomal recessive syndrome characterized by moderate pigment dilution, profound central nervous system dysfunction, no immune defects, and hair with a metallic silvery sheen.
elegization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process or result of elegizing.
false albacore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false albacore
Senses: glosses: A small species of tuna, a little tunny.
Synonyms: little tunny
albie
little tuna
DDNS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of dynamic Domain Name System.
subtrader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subtraders
Etymology: From sub- + trader.
Senses: glosses: A secondary or subsidiary trader.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A subcontractor who carries on a subtrade.
subtraders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subtrader
step on someone's lines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: steps on someone's lines
form: stepping on someone's lines
form: stepped on someone's lines
form: stepped on someone's lines
Senses: examples: text: The person who introduced me stepped on my lines by giving a long summary, including all the good anecdotes.
text: ... interrupting often takes place when someone else in the group is telling a joke and the bright youngster blurts out the punch line — not because he has heard the joke before but because he sees what is coming and finds it funny. And so, out it tumbles and he has "stepped on my lines" and spoiled the joke for the teller.
ref: 1986, Carol Addison Takacs, Enjoy Your Gifted Child, page 51:
text: Mr. KYL. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. […] do you want to take any additional testimony before we get to questioning? I have read the statements. / Mr. SKELTON. I think, as I understand it, I was told that the other gentlemen were here to answer questions. / Mr. KYL. Fine. I didn't want to step on your lines there, but I have read the statements and find them to be good and cooperative.
ref: 1994, Hearings Before and Special Reports Made by Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives on Subjects Affecting the Naval and Military Establishments, Contributor United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services, page 71:
text: Carol was unhappy with Buttons mostly because he had the habit of stepping on her lines, intentionally or not. It throws actors off when another begins speaking their lines before they have finished saying their dialog and it diminishes their part.
ref: 2020, Tom Lisanti, Carol Lynley: Her Film & TV Career in Thrillers, Fantasy & ...:
glosses: To interfere with someone's role, as in a performance, by interfering with their scripted or intended speech.
Related terms: upstage
subresinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + resinous.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat resinous.
minimism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The belief that physical extents can be divided into amounts of smallest size, or minima.
Related terms: minimist
minimalism
minimist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minimists
Senses: glosses: A proponent of minimism.
Related terms: minimalist
minimists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minimist
maximist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maximists
Senses: glosses: A proponent of maximism.
Related terms: maximalist
maximists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maximist
dark side of the Force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the Star Wars saga.
Senses: coordinate_terms: light side of the Force
glosses: The side of evil; the side that works for evil; the side of the villains.
wikipedia: Star Wars
maximism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: After the minimalism of the past, fashion is witnessing a peaking of maximism.
ref: 2005, Kanika Gahlaut, India Today - Volume 30, page 66:
text: If boondockers want minimalism, glampers want maximism.
ref: 2021, Christopher Hodapp, Alice Von Kannon, RVs & Campers For Dummies, page 16:
glosses: A tendency toward excess and extravagance.
examples: text: It goes with fondness for moralising over life– an ethical maximism that belongs to the age.
ref: 1906, William Shakespeare, John Macmillan Brown, The Merchant of Venice: A Study, page 54:
text: Larin's radicalism in particular, and the era's maximism in general, demanded that the old bourgeois be removed from industry entirely.
ref: 1945, Simon Isaevich Liberman, Building Lenin's Russia, page 26:
text: There is much reason to believe that, even in the dogmas of immaculate conception and assumption, the Holy See has acted chiefly as a restraint on the "mariologial maximism" of the body of the faithful.
ref: 1970, The Critic - Volume 29, page 67:
text: Jabotinsky's Revisionist ideology had three main ideas: hadar (dignity and pride), monism, and territorial maximism.
ref: 2013, Thomas G. Mitchell, Israel/Palestine and the Politics of a Two-State Solution, page 29:
text: Amongst the implications we identify the following: management and leadership; arbitration and advocacy; entitlement and surveillance; bureaucratic maximism and minimalism.
ref: 2021, Routledge Library Editions: Special Educational Needs, page 166:
glosses: The tendency to maximize the application of a particular approach or to strive for maximum acquisition of a particular resource; extremism.
examples: text: As to minimism and maximism — microscopic and telescopic tendencies — the cosmical laws are themselves of such vast range that we should naturally expect the greatest embodiments to have occurred first, as in the case of a thousand Suns and Jupiters they manifestly did.
ref: 1872, Henry Thomas Braithwaite, Esse and posse, page 56:
text: […] theologians were puzzled by Newman's apparent combination of liberalism and ultramontanism, of maximism and minimism.
ref: 1912, The Nineteenth Century and After, volume 72, page 70:
text: […] maximism of the Cluniacs on the one hand and the minimism of puritanic Cistercianism on the other.
ref: 1918, Edmund Bishop, Liturgica Historica, page 229:
text: The monks' practice of "eschatological maximism” did not make them a group apart from the rest of the Church.
ref: 1966, Cistercian Studies - Volume 24, page 179:
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: A belief that religious observances should be applied as widely as possible.
Related terms: maximist
maximalism
ice-albedo feedback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A climate process involving positive feedback, where a change in the area of ice caps, glaciers and sea ice alters the albedo and surface temperature of a planet, because ice reflects more solar energy back into space than land or open water.
sound bowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sound bowls
Senses: glosses: Synonym of singing bowl.
synonyms: word: singing bowl
sound bowls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sound bowl
Darboux's theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Jean Gaston Darboux.
Senses: qualifier: differential geometry
glosses: A theorem providing a normal form for special classes of differential 1-forms, partially generalizing the Frobenius integration theorem. One of its many consequences is that any two symplectic manifolds of the same dimension are locally symplectomorphic to one another.
light side of the Force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the Star Wars saga.
Senses: coordinate_terms: dark side of the Force
glosses: The side of good; the side that works for the greater good.
wikipedia: Star Wars
symplectomorphically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From symplectomorphic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a symplectomorphic manner.
plate glass university
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plate glass universities
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of plate-glass university.
Pascal's barrel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Said to have been performed by Blaise Pascal in 1646 (though not mentioned in his preserved works).
Senses: glosses: A hydrostatic experiment in which a long vertical tube is inserted into an otherwise sealed barrel filled with water. Pouring water into the tube leads to an increase in hydrostatic pressure and causes the barrel to burst.
wikipedia: Blaise Pascal
Related terms: ruina montium
underreadings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underreading
overreadings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overreading
water bead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water beads
Senses: glosses: Any gel which absorbs and contains a large amount of water.
water beads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water bead
underreference
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underreferences
form: underreferencing
form: underreferenced
form: underreferenced
Etymology: From under- + reference.
Senses: antonyms: overreference
glosses: To reference insufficiently or inadequately.
tl;dr's
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tl'dr's
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tl;dr
tl;dr'ing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tl
form: dr'ing
Senses: glosses: present participle of tl;dr
tl;dr'ed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tl
form: dr'd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tl;dr
TL-DNR
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tl;dr.
tl dr
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tl;dr.
sell one's soul to the Devil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sells one's soul to the Devil
form: selling one's soul to the Devil
form: sold one's soul to the Devil
form: sold one's soul to the Devil
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sell one's soul.
synonyms: word: sell one's soul
sell one's soul to the devil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sells one's soul to the devil
form: selling one's soul to the devil
form: sold one's soul to the devil
form: sold one's soul to the devil
Senses: examples: text: You sold your soul to the devil when you put on your first pair of Jimmy Choos, I saw it.
ref: 2006, Aline Brosh McKenna, Lauren Weisberger, The Devil Wears Prada, spoken by Emily Charlton (Emily Blunt):
glosses: Synonym of sell one's soul.
synonyms: word: sell one's soul
narcissistic number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narcissistic numbers
Senses: topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
synonyms: Armstrong number
glosses: A number that, in a given base, is the sum of its own digits each raised to the power of the number of digits.
narcissistic numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of narcissistic number
Armstrong number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Armstrong numbers
Etymology: Named after Michael F. Armstrong.
Senses: topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
synonyms: narcissistic number
glosses: ;
Armstrong numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Armstrong number
PBSs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PBS
lede to kum
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: journalism
media
glosses: A placeholder for ‘lead to come’, spelled this way so it is not inadvertently thought to be part of the article.
nulede
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuledes
Etymology: A deliberate misspelling of new lead.
Senses: topics: journalism
media
glosses: A new lede.
nuledes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nulede
buried the lede
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bury the lede
junk head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: junk heads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of junkhead (“kind of piston engine cylinder head”).
junk heads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of junk head
buries the lede
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bury the lede
buries the lead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bury the lead
buried the lead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bury the lead
underreferences
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underreference
underreferencing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of underreference
underreferenced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underreference
Cincinnati water mazes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cincinnati water maze
water ballet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water ballets
Senses: glosses: Synonym of synchronized swimming.
synonyms: word: synchronized swimming
Rodney Dangerfields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rodney Dangerfield
tortas ahogadas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torta ahogada
casual water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A temporary accumulation of water which does not constitute a regular hazard of a golf course.
struggle buses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of struggle bus
confluences of sinuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of confluence of sinuses
water-soak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: water-soaks
form: water-soaking
form: water-soaked
form: water-soaked
Senses: glosses: To soak (something) in water.
water-soaks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of water-soak
water-soaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of water-soak
water-soaked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of water-soak
water-soaked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more water-soaked
form: most water-soaked
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of watersoaked.
night hunting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A traditional Bhutanese courtship custom in which a young man creeps through a girl's window at night to engage in sexual activity.
Related terms: yobai
Schrödinger's douchebag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Schrödinger's douchebags
Etymology: Blend of Schrödinger's cat + douchebag.
Senses: examples: text: "Schrödinger’s douchebag" [i]s someone who makes an unacceptable remark and then waits to see the reaction before declaring retrospectively whether they meant it for real or were "just joking".
ref: 2016 August 27, Mark Thompson, “From Trump to Brexit rhetoric: how today's politicians have got away with words”, in The Guardian, retrieved 24 Sep 2023:
text: Schrodinger's douchebag refers to someone who tests what they say before taking responsibility for what they've said.
ref: 2019 August 14, Gyles Brandreth, Have You Eaten Grandma?: Or, the Life-Saving Importance of Correct Punctuation, Grammar, and Good English, →ISBN, retrieved 24 Sep 2023, page 218:
text: Vivek Ramaswamy is an American politician capturing conservative and immigrant hearts but stuck in a high school persona: a Schrodinger's douchebag.
ref: 2023 September 18, Neil Mahto, “Vivek Ramaswamy has no platform”, in The Johns Hopkins News-Letter, retrieved 24 Sep 2023:
glosses: A person who makes offensive or inflammatory remarks and characterizes these statements as either sincere or joking based on the reactions of others.
illipene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A substance found in illipe butter.
houseblessing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: houseblessings
Etymology: From house + blessing.
Senses: glosses: The ritual of blessing a house, usually in modern forms of witchcraft.
houseblessings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of houseblessing
cuckcels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuckcel
Bushongo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bushong (“a Bantu language”).
Bushoong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bushong (“a Bantu language”).
Busoong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bushong (“a Bantu language”).
Shongo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bushong (“a Bantu language”).
Bezzecchi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /bɛtsɛki/
Etymology: From Italian Bezzecchi.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian
ecotonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ecotone + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to ecotones.
introscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: introscopes
Etymology: From intro- + -scope.
Senses: examples: text: The useful life of the introscope could be limited by several factors: acquired radioactivity, failure of the lamp, and loss of transparency in the lenses caused by their darkening under gamma-radiation .
ref: 1959, “Nuclear Power: The Journal of British Nuclear Engineering”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 110:
text: The photograph shows the examination of the internal surface of a tube with a moving mirror, two-power magnification introscope.
ref: 1960, Chemical & Process Engineering, volume 41, page 11:
text: The picture shows the introscope mounted on a valve over one of the charging holes of the fast reactor.
ref: 1962, New Scientist (volume 14, number 287, page 338)
text: The results show that, of the conductivity probe and the introscope, the latter instrument indicated a higher level of accuracy;
ref: 1975, Quarterly Review of Agricultural Economics - Volumes 28-31, page 31:
text: These measurement were examined for their ability to predict the corresponding carcass introscope measurements.
ref: 1984, Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, page 512:
glosses: An optical device similar to an endoscope, used in various industrial settings such as checking jet engines for cracks, observing nuclear reactors for cracks, or measuring the fat layer on a meat carcass.
introscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of introscope
countercurve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countercurves
Etymology: From counter- + curve.
Senses: examples: text: The major curve is in the thoracic region, with an equal countercurve in the lumbar region.
ref: 2006 May, Yoga Journal:
text: A third option of creating a postoperative scoliosis, or rather a postoperative decompensation of a curve, has been observed in patients who had a correction of an idiopathic thoracic scoliosis in their adolescence and the nontreated lumbar compensatory counter-curve or the countercurve in a double curve progressed to a scoliosis on the base of a progressive segmental degeneration.
ref: 2005, Marek Szpalski, Robert Gunzburg, editors, The Failed Spine, Lippincott Williams & Willkins, page 47:
glosses: A curve running in the opposite direction to another curve.
countercurves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countercurve
nitromusk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nitromusks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nitro musk.
nitromusks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nitromusk
nitro musk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nitro musks
form: nitromusk
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a number of synthetic musks involving a certain arrangement of nitro groups.
nitro musks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nitro musk
mosaic plot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mosaic plots
Senses: synonyms: Marimekko chart
glosses: A kind of graphic visualization of data from two or more qualitative variables, where the area of each tile is proportional to the number of observations within that category.
mosaic plots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mosaic plot
Marimekko chart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Marimekko charts
Etymology: So called from the resemblance to certain printed designs by the Finnish company Marimekko.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of mosaic plot.
synonyms: word: mosaic plot
wikipedia: Marimekko
Marimekko charts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Marimekko chart
wikipedia: Marimekko
alpha-naphthylthiourea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: α-naphthylthiourea
form: alpha-naphthyl thiourea
Etymology: From alpha- + napthyl- + thio- + urea.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A white, crystalline, organosulfur compound, C₁₁H₁₀N₂S, used as a pneumotoxic rodenticide, especially against adult brown rats.
Synonyms: 1-(1-Naphthyl)-2-thiourea
ANTU
Dirax
naphthalen-1-ylthiourea
Hoʻoleilana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ho'oleilana.
honey chillun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honey chile
microstretching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of microstretch
microstretched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of microstretch
leishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leish
takes it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take it
taking it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take it
taken it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take it
moemishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moemish
royal straight flushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of royal straight flush
grandstand finishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grandstand finish
grand iftars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grand iftar
took hostage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take hostage
taken hostage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take hostage
taking hostage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take hostage
nun's fart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of French pet-de-nonne
Senses: synonyms: nun's puff
glosses: A small choux pastry eaten during carnival season in France (especially Alsace) and Belgium.
Related terms: nun's butter
takes hostage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take hostage
nun's puff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nun's fart (“type of choux pastry”).
synonyms: word: nun's fart
extra: type of choux pastry
heterodomains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterodomain
facilities maintenances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of facilities maintenance
facility maintenances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of facility maintenance
nun's butter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: coordinate_terms: fairy butter
glosses: A mixture of butter with sugar, wine, and nutmeg.
mainprivs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mainpriv
mainferes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mainfere
metalloplastics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metalloplastic
α-naphthylthiourea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of alpha-naphthylthiourea.
fambams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fambam
family allowances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of family allowance
family roofs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of family roof
FAMUans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of FAMUan
Obamites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Obamite
subamolides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subamolide
Lorenz curves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lorenz curve
kei cars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kei car
Los Angelinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Los Angelino
lounge cars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lounge car
low post areas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of low post area
low posts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of low post
squadcars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squadcar
poststates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poststate
hunting reactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hunting reaction
hunting responses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hunting response
legal remedies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of legal remedy
rearguard actions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rearguard action
triboreactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triboreaction
lesser wings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lesser wing
lesser roadrunners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lesser roadrunner
lesser jacanas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lesser jacana
lesser clubmosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lesser clubmoss
great-circle arcs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of great-circle arc
electro-ultrafiltration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electroultrafiltration
Etymology: From electro- + ultrafiltration.
Senses: glosses: A process by which small particles are separated and removed from a liquid by being filtered through an ultrafiltration membrane by means of an electric field.
Hyponyms: ultrafiltration
leisure batteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leisure battery
ringleists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ringleist
Francophils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Francophil
fresh breezes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fresh breeze
fraktalkines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fraktalkine
fractances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fractance
jump passes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jump pass
jump suits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jump suit
jump-offs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jump-off
jugular trunks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jugular trunk
June plums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of June plum
jungermannealeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jungermannealean
Junin grebes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Junin grebe
junior jumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of junior jump
judicial remedies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of judicial remedy
closed class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: closed classes
Senses: examples: text: Songs and other mnemonics are popular ways to teach parts of speech in closed classes. Parts of speech like nouns and verbs are said to be in open classes; that is, new nouns and verbs are added all the time. You can't teach what a noun is by having your students memorize a song containing every noun in the English language. On the other hand, pronouns are a good example of a closed class. Look at all the failed attempts through the centuries to add a gender-neutral third-person singular pronoun to the language. For a part of speech that includes only a couple dozen words, an extensional definition can be much easier to teach than the defining characteristics of the class, especially since closed classes tend to be made up of "function words" that don't have easily stated meanings.
ref: 2012 March 2, Neal Whitman, “The Forgotten Helping Verbs”, in Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2023:
text: Determiners are a closed class of words that provide information such as familiarity, location, quantity, and number about a noun or noun phrase. Determiners differ in form and function from adjectives, which describe attributes of nouns and noun phrases. […] The four demonstrative determiners in English grammar are: this, that, these, those.
ref: 2013 July 30, “The Demonstrative Determiner in English Grammar”, in Linguistics Girl, archived from the original on 18 Aug 2013:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
antonyms: open class
glosses: A set of words in a given language that cannot easily gain new members.
neuropredictions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuroprediction
hydrodictyons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrodictyon
rhizoremediators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhizoremediator
open class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: open classes
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
antonyms: closed class
glosses: A set of words in a given language that can readily gain new members.
gnomides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gnomide
rhizomides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhizomide
goatrels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goatrel
Ffrench
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname; alternative letter-case form of ffrench.
gongxianosaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gongxianosaur
gyromagnetic compasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyromagnetic compass
hallelujah lasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hallelujah lass
hallpasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hallpass
lampglasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lampglass
hanging compasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hanging compass
spin classes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spin class
sugar grasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sugar grass
hangarkeepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hangarkeeper
hangarounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hangaround
Inscriptional Pahlavi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From inscriptional + Pahlavi.
Senses: glosses: The earliest attested form of Pahlavi scripts, dating to the reign of Mithridates I (r. 171–138 BC).
Related terms: Book Pahlavi
Psalter Pahlavi
heteroexchanges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heteroexchange
name changes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of name change
named parameters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of named parameter
Psalter Pahlavi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A cursive abjad that was used for writing Middle Persian on paper.
Related terms: Book Pahlavi
Inscriptional Pahlavi
sea-changes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea-change
Tanchangyas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tanchangya
overchangings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overchanging
microornamentations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microornamentation
taxonomic names
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taxonomic name
tax bases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tax base
tax dodges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tax dodge
technicolours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technicolour
technifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technification
Ab-Ex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: Syllabic abbreviation of Abstract Expressionism.
addressals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of addressal
magnetoluminescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From magneto- + luminescent.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting, or relating to, magnetoluminescence.
lutruwita
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the palawa kani language.
Senses: examples: text: A singular irony pertaining to the Tasmanian devil is the small human population of its home island: lutruwita (c. 40,000 years), also Van Diemen's Land (from 1803) and subsequently Tasmania (from 1856).
ref: 2024, David Owen, David Pemberton, Tasmanian Devil, Allen & Unwin, page 104:
glosses: The island of Tasmania, especially seen as an Aboriginal territory.
mahogany snapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mahogany snappers
Senses: glosses: The fish Lutjanus mahogoni.
mahogany snappers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mahogany snapper
palawa kani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A constructed language created as a composite of the now-extinct Tasmanian Indigenous languages.
to someone's credit
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: To his credit, the captain ensured that all passengers were taken off the sinking ship before himself.
glosses: In such a way that someone deserves praise.
Related terms: fair play
maiden's blush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A moth of species Cyclophora punctaria.
glosses: A tree of species Euroschinus falcatus of eastern Australia.
glosses: A tree of species Sloanea australis of eastern Australia.
maid-in-waiting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maids-in-waiting
Senses: glosses: Synonym of waiting maid.
synonyms: word: waiting maid
mail-cheeked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of fishes: having a plate of bone that runs across each cheek.
plazzy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplæzi/
rhymes: -æzi
Forms: form: plazzie
Etymology: From plastic + -y. Compare spazzy from spastic.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Nar, listen, ’e foun’ these postcards in a plazzy bag. Two ’undred a’ fifteen pee each from this shop in town. […]
ref: 1987, Arthur Perkins, Trash, London: Robert Hale, →ISBN, page 22:
glosses: Synonym of plastic (“made of plastic”).
synonyms: word: plastic
extra: made of plastic
examples: text: Fucken plazzy gangsters, the lot of them. Deal a bit of weed and they think they’re the fucken boys.
ref: 1998, Kevin Sampson, Awaydays, London: Vintage, published 1999, →ISBN, pages 33–34:
glosses: Synonym of plastic (“fake”).
synonyms: word: plastic
extra: fake
plazzy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplæzi/
rhymes: -æzi
Forms: form: plazzies
form: plazzie
Etymology: From plastic + -y. Compare spazzy from spastic.
Senses: examples: text: Scousers hate 'plazzies' because they aren't real Scousers but cheap wannabes with no style.
ref: 2008 September 4, Stuart Maconie, Pies and Prejudice: In search of the North, Random House, →ISBN, page 62:
synonyms: woolly back
wool
qualifier: Liverpool
glosses: A plastic (fake) Scouser; a person from the area around Liverpool but not the city itself, especially one who claims to be Scouse.
plazzie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of plazzy.
MGLA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The station code of Islamabad railway station in Pakistan.
malarialized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Infected with malaria.
malform
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: malforms
form: malforming
form: malformed
form: malformed
Etymology: From mal- + form.
Senses: synonyms: misform
glosses: To form badly or wrongly.
malform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malforms
Etymology: From mal- + form.
Senses: glosses: Something formed badly or wrongly.
Derived terms: malformin
malforms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of malform
malforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malform
malforming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of malform
malleabilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: malleabilizes
form: malleabilizing
form: malleabilized
form: malleabilized
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of malleableize.
malleabilized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of malleabilize
malleabilizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of malleabilize
malleabilizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of malleabilize
managing editors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of managing editor
downcurves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downcurve
let it alone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lets it alone
form: letting it alone
form: let it alone
form: let it alone
Senses: glosses: Synonym of let it be.
synonyms: word: let it be
Related terms: let alone
Ilyashov
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Russian.
leave it alone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: leaves it alone
form: leaving it alone
form: left it alone
form: left it alone
Senses: glosses: Synonym of let it be.
synonyms: word: let it be
Related terms: leave alone
leave well enough alone
let alone
let it alone
leaves it alone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of leave it alone
leaving it alone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of leave it alone
left it alone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of leave it alone
leaves it be
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of leave it be
leaving it be
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of leave it be
MACA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Military aid to the civil authorities.
left it be
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of leave it be
lets it alone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of let it alone
letting it alone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of let it alone
keep it in the family
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps it in the family
form: keeping it in the family
form: kept it in the family
form: kept it in the family
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: keep one's own counsel, keep one's mouth shut, STFU; see also Thesaurus:be quiet
glosses: To restrict knowledge or information to only the members of a family or another small, intimate group.
glosses: To remain loyal to one's family; to retain family ownership of a business for long period of time.
Related terms: closely held
family business
on the down-low
keeps it in the family
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of keep it in the family