cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
stealth nerf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stealth nerfs
form: stealth nerfing
form: stealth nerfed
form: stealth nerfed
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: To cripple or weaken an element of a video game (such as a character, a weapon, or a spell) without announcing the change to the playerbase.
stealth nerf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stealth nerfs
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: The weakening or worsening of an element of a video game (a character, a weapon, a spell, etc.) in an update without the change being announced to the players of the game.
lecanomantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lecanomantic
form: most lecanomantic
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to lecanomancy.
Brimsdown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood in the borough of Enfield, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3697).
Enfield Lock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after a lock on the River Lee Navigation.
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood in the borough of Enfield, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3698).
wikipedia: Lee Navigation
chosen one
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chosen ones
Senses: examples: text: Many of these fantasy novels feature a main character portrayed as a chosen one who will save everyone else.
text: Qui-Gon: He... is the Chosen One. He... will bring balance... Train him.
ref: 1999, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace:
topics: authorship
broadcasting
communications
film
journalism
literature
media
publishing
television
writing
glosses: A character in a narrative work who is predestined to save the world or accomplish some other grand and heroic deed; one who is predestined to become the one.
Related terms: Chosen People
barn-star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barn-stars
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of barnstar.
Elsenham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Uttlesford district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL5326).
Frinton-on-Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small coastal town in Frinton and Walton parish, Tendring district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TM2420).
lenticella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lenticellae
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lenticel.
synonyms: word: lenticel
Frinton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Frinton-on-Sea: a small coastal town in Frinton and Walton parish, Tendring district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TM2420).
Derived terms: Frinton and Walton
Frinton and Walton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish with a town council in Tendring district, Essex, England.
Related terms: Frinton-on-Sea
Walton-on-the-Naze
Hatfield Peverel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The Peverel affix refers to William Peverel (or Ralph Peverel).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Braintree district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL7911).
wikipedia: William Peverel
Kelvedon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Braintree district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL8618).
screen crunch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: The condition in which a video game's camera focuses too closely on the player character, partially obscuring the player's sight radius within the game.
South Woodham Ferrers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in Chelmsford borough, Essex, England (OS grid ref TQ8097).
Woodham Ferrers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Woodham Ferrers and Bicknacre parish, Chelmsford borough, Essex, England (OS grid ref TQ7999, TL7900).
Derived terms: South Woodham Ferrers
Woodham Ferrers and Bicknacre
Bicknacre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Woodham Ferrers and Bicknacre parish, Chelmsford borough, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL7802).
Stansted Mountfitchet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The affix Mountfitchet came from a Norman family.
Senses: glosses: A large village and civil parish in Uttlesford district, Essex, England, north-west of Stansted Airport (OS grid ref TL5125).
Feast of Tsing Ming
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Tsing Ming.
synonyms: word: Tsing Ming
Crindau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An inner city area in Newport, Wales (OS grid ref ST3189).
Paris of the East
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the Paris of the East
form: Parises of the East
Etymology: Usually a calque of French Paris de l'Orient, praising a location for its supposed resemblance to the glamor and nightlife of 19th-century Paris.
Senses: examples: text: "You know, of course," noted another officer, "there are any number of Parises of the East, from Warsaw to Bucharest."
ref: 2004, Cornelia Golna, City of Man's Desire: A novel of Constantinople, Go-Bos Press, translation of original in Dutch, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 318:
glosses: A major city that is considered as magnificent or culturally significant as Paris.
Paris of the East
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Paris of the East
Etymology: Usually a calque of French Paris de l'Orient, praising a location for its supposed resemblance to the glamor and nightlife of 19th-century Paris.
Senses: glosses: Former nickname for Bucharest: the capital and largest city of Romania.
glosses: Former nickname for Casablanca: a major city in Morocco.
glosses: Former nickname for Lahore: a major city in modern Pakistan; in use during the time of the British Raj.
glosses: Former nickname for Phnom Penh: the capital and largest city of Cambodia.
glosses: Former nickname for Hanoi: a major city in Vietnam.
glosses: Former nickname for Shanghai: a major port city and direct-administered municipality of China.
soft paywall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soft paywalls
Senses: examples: text: Soft paywalls retain more users than hard paywalls - by a big margin.
ref: 2014, The Guardian:
glosses: A paywall that allows limited free access, such as by allowing each user to read a certain number of articles per month without paying.
denudatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more denudatory
form: most denudatory
Etymology: From denude + -atory.
Senses: examples: text: My observations of the general features of the country in 1821 led me not merely to doubt, but to deny altogether, that there is any reason for referring the denudatory action to which its valleys are due to any single cataclysm or diluvial phenomenon.
ref: 1858, G. Poulett Scrope, The Geology and Extinct Volcanos of Central France, page 37:
text: Not even the underclay, with its matted, carbonised roots, is sufficient evidence of the nearness of a bed of coal, for such a material has sometimes been deposited, and either the conditions for the abundant growth of the coal-plants have not supervened, or the coal may have been formed, and subsequently been removed by natural denudatory action.
ref: 1873, Sir Warington Wilkinson Smyth, A Rudimentary Treatise on Coal and Coal Mining, page 105:
text: His awareness of the denudatory power of water enabled him to recognize fossils as organic remains buried in strata debris, and he pointed to the similarities between fossil and living specimens.
ref: 1977, Anthony Hallam, Planet Earth: an Encyclopedia of Geology, page 305:
glosses: Synonym of denudative.
synonyms: word: denudative
Small Heath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area in the Metropolitan Borough of Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP1085).
de-parochialise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: de-parochialises
form: de-parochialising
form: de-parochialised
form: de-parochialised
Senses: examples: text: Further reflection then requires us to look beyond a narrow, local conception of justice, to de-parochialise our thinking (Sen has described this as a 'comparative broadening') and to acknowledge that there may exist more than just one unique reason for acting in a particular way.
ref: 2014, Sionaidh Douglas-Scott, Law after Modernity:
text: But then, why has it proven so difficult to de-parochialise a field that is otherwise expected to caution everyone else against looking through their narrow windows on the world?
ref: 2016, Pinar Bilgin, The International in Security, Security in the International:
text: Home international studies help to disturb national monologues and de-parochialise research.
ref: 2018, Teacher Training and Professional Development, page 2114:
glosses: Alternative form of deparochialize.
de-parochialises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of de-parochialise
de-parochialising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of de-parochialise
de-parochialised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of de-parochialise
deparochialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deparochializes
form: deparochializing
form: deparochialized
form: deparochialized
form: de-parochialize
form: deparochialise
form: de-parochialise
Etymology: From de- + parochialize.
Senses: examples: text: But doing so can also help deparochialize understandings, and illuminate the world, the other, and ultimately, one's own society and self.
ref: 2004, David L. Szanton, The Politics of Knowledge: Area Studies and the Disciplines, page 2:
text: Therefore, I shall refer to specific instances of practice drawn from various teacher education programs that have begun to deparochialize education.
ref: 2011, Bob Lingard, Jon Nixon, Stewart Ranson, Transforming Learning in Schools and Communities:
text: Thus, the need to deparochialize sociology is as relevant today as it was in the mid twentieth century when area studies began.
ref: 2017, William Outhwaite, Stephen Turner, The SAGE Handbook of Political Sociology:
glosses: To make or become less parochial; to broaden into a more universal and sophisticated perspective.
deparochializes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deparochialize
deparochializing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deparochialize
deparochialized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deparochialize
de-parochialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: de-parochializes
form: de-parochializing
form: de-parochialized
form: de-parochialized
Senses: examples: text: These developments in the means of communication de-parochialize contexts by bringing them into contact with others.
ref: 2005, David Holmes, Communication Theory: Media, Technology and Society, page 128:
text: The chapters in this book consider some of the different paths taken in the study of globalization to de-parochialize our understanding of educational aims, processes and outcomes.
ref: 2010, Thomas S. Popkewitz, Fazal Rizvi, Globalization and the Study of Education, page 7:
text: In an effort to de-parochialize modern Jewish culture, participants in Russian Jewry's cultural renaissance translated large quantities of European literature into Hebrew and Yiddish.
ref: 2013, Joshua M. Karlip, The Tragedy of a Generation, page 155:
glosses: Alternative form of deparochialize.
de-parochializes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of de-parochialize
de-parochializing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of de-parochialize
de-parochialized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of de-parochialize
deparochialise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deparochialises
form: deparochialising
form: deparochialised
form: deparochialised
Senses: examples: text: In this field, documentary might do much to deparochialise some of our common ways of thought.
ref: 1998, Ian Aitken, The documentary film movement: an anthology, page 112:
text: On the one hand are demands to 'deparochialise' research (Rizvi & Lingard, 2010), or broaden the scale from within nation-states to global arenas, in the 21st century.
ref: 2013, Malcolm Tight, Jeroen Huisman, Theory and Method in Higher Education Research, page 36:
text: The Scottish poet Edwin Morgan has commented that Trocchi had been desperate to 'deparochialise', and it was this that had swept him into the 'new internationalism of the later 1950s and the 1960s, especially on its French-American axis'.
ref: 2014, Angela Bartie, Edinburgh Festivals, page 102:
glosses: Alternative form of deparochialize.
deparochialises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deparochialise
deparochialising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deparochialise
deparochialised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deparochialise
debellatio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin dēbellātiō.
Senses: examples: text: According to the International Law doctrine of debellatio (KO’d by war), under which we profess to operate, it is the coalition, through Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III and his administration, that makes the important political and economic decisions for the Iraqis.
ref: 2003 February 22, Victor T. Le Vine, “Factions Need Some Autonomy”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
text: The invasion of Iraq by the British and U.S.-led Coalition forces in March 2003 silently effected debellatio, the ancient doctrine by which a military victor takes title to territory in which the defeated government has ceased to function.
ref: 2006, Melissa Patterson, “Who’s Got the Title: or, The Remnants of Debellatio in Post-Invasion Iraq”, in Harvard International Law Journal, volume 47, number 2, page 467:
text: Further, occupation based on debellatio must be distinguished from the situation in which a belligerent conquers the whole territory of an adverse party but meets resistance movements (including those of sporadic nature).
ref: 2009, Yutaka Arai-Takahashi, The Law of Occupation, →ISBN, page 38:
qualifier: international law
glosses: Debellation, the annihilation of a sovereign state through complete destruction in a war.
try someone's patience
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tries someone's patience
form: trying someone's patience
form: tried someone's patience
form: tried someone's patience
Senses: glosses: Synonym of test someone's patience.
synonyms: word: test someone's patience
Edinbugger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Edinbuggers
Etymology: Blend of Edinburger + bugger.
Senses: examples: text: An Edinbugger is as good as his word – and his word is no good.
ref: 2006, Ian Black, The Wee Book of Weegie Wit and Wisdom:
text: It was always a tough match between the Weegies and the Edinbuggers but, on that occasion, we came out on top and afterwards we went to Glasgow University Union to celebrate our success.
ref: 2009, Dennis Canavan, Let the People Decide: The Autobiography of Dennis Canavan:
text: We're not needing some hotshot Edinbugger coming here and mucking us about.
ref: 2018, Aline Templeton, Human Face:
glosses: An Edinburger (resident of Edinburgh, Scotland) (especially used as an insult by Glaswegians)
shipgirls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shipgirl
Marston Moreteyne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Marston Moretaine
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP9941).
Marston Moretaine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Marston Moreteyne.
Chowchilla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Madera County, California, United States.
Madera Acres
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Madera County, California, United States.
Bonadelle Ranchos-Madera Ranchos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Madera County, California, United States.
Yosemite Lakes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Madera County, California, United States.
Oakhurst
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Madera County, California, United States.
Parksdale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Madera County, California, United States.
Parkwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Madera County, California, United States.
Ahwahnee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Southern Sierra Miwok awwo (“mouth”).
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Madera County, California, United States.
Coarsegold
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Madera County, California, United States.
Fairmead
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English fæġer (“beautiful”) + mǣd (“meadow”).
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Madera County, California, United States.
Rolling Hills
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in Madera County, California, United States.
Bass Lake
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Madera County, California, United States.
Nipinnawasee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Madera County, California, United States.
La Vina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Madera County, California, United States.
Edinbuggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Edinbugger
hebraica veritas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Composed of the Latin hebraica (“Hebrew”, feminine nominative singular of adjective hebraicus) + vēritās (“truth”).
Senses: examples: text: It is impossible to understand the book of Job without consulting the hebraica veritas.
text: “Once again it becomes apparent that the Christians, however devoted to the hebraica veritas, could not be so bold as the Jews; for their interpretations were always subject to censorship by the custodians of an infallible tradition that was partly independent of Scripture.”
ref: 2003, Frank Kermode, Pieces of My Mind: Essays and Criticism, 1958-2002, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 239:
text: “Jerome had gone to Palestine to study the Hebrew language at its source and produce a new translation of the Bible from a restored hebraica veritas.”
ref: 1964, Marie Aquinas McNamara, Friends and Friendship for Saint Augustine, Alba House, page 197:
text: “With the rise of towns and universities, the interest of Christian scholars in the Hebraica Veritas rose.”
ref: 1990, Clarence C. Walton, Enriching Business Ethics, Plenum Press, page 12:
text: “Guy returned to Salomon’s a week later. ‘It is audacious of me to ask you for a favor that will only waste your time, but I have come to think that to truly understand scripture, I must ascertain the Hebraica veritas from the original Hebrew.’”
ref: 2005, Maggie Anton, Rashi’s Daughters, Book III: Rachel, Plume, page 124:
text: “In a pair of chapters on the neglected story of how Hebrew figured in the Christian imagination, Mr. Glinert tells how Christians learned Hebrew both to access ‘hebraica veritas,’ or Hebrew truth, and to monitor the Jews in their midst ‘with the goal of mastering the mischief and the falsehoods of the Jews,’ as a 14th-century writer put it.”
ref: 2017, Benjamin Balint, “The Language of Survival”, in The Wall Street Journal, European, vol. 35, no. 39, Friday-Sunday, March 24-26, 2017, page 9A:
glosses: The traditional Hebrew and Aramaic text of the Jewish Bible, viewed as its original, correct, and authoritative text.
examples: text: At this point the Old Latin versions are almost incoherent: we must follow Jerome's hebraica veritas instead.
text: “Jerome began it, offering hebraica veritas, and Greek truth also, but in Latin.”
ref: 2003, Frank Kermode, Pieces of My Mind: Essays and Criticism, 1958-2002, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 235:
glosses: Saint Jerome's Latin Vulgate translation of the Jewish Bible, viewed as a faithful and authoritative rendering of the original Hebrew and Aramaic.
pereional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pereional
form: most pereional
Senses: examples: text: The head is large, almost circular, twice as long as the first pereional segment.
ref: 1886, Carl Bovallius, Notes on the Family Asellidae, page 51:
text: The most obvious is in the structure of the lateral pereional extensions—bifid in C. australis, single in C. unicornis and C. frigida.
ref: 1976, Annals of the South African Museum, volume 69, page 313:
text: Males and females are similar, although the two males examined have the pereional segments more loosely articulated.
ref: 2001, Brian Frederick Kensley, Isopod Systematics and Evolution, page 59:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a pereion.
leucocytometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The measurement of white blood cells in blood
Related terms: leucocytometer
leucocytopoiesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of leukocytopoiesis.
leukogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to leukogenesis.
Maygan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name, variant of Megan.
Kassie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Kassandra.
dickslapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dickslap
dickslapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dickslap
golden images
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of golden image
neopaganize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: neopaganizes
form: neopaganizing
form: neopaganized
form: neopaganized
form: neopaganise
Etymology: From neo-pagan + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make neo-pagan.
neopaganized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of neopaganize
neopaganizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of neopaganize
neopaganizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of neopaganize
leuc-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: prevocalic form of leuco-
bicolors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bicolor
untitillated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untitillated
form: most untitillated
Etymology: From un- + titillated.
Senses: glosses: Not titillated.
untitillating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untitillating
form: most untitillating
Etymology: From un- + titillating.
Senses: glosses: Not titillating.
forestology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From forest + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: Was this a new discovery in forestology? The thought was too exciting, and forgetting the weariness of the tired limbs, I proceeded to climb up and get specimens of leaves and cones, and to make notes of the new discovery.
ref: 1902, Thomas W. Webber, The Forests of Upper India and Their Inhabitants, page 83:
text: West Virginia, from the standpoint of forestology, is located in the north central portion of that more or less oval-shaped but distinct forest region […]
ref: 1929, David G. White, “The Hardwoods of West Virginia in Industry”, in The Southern Lumberman, volume 137, page 159:
text: […] and, in a few cases, long experience almost makes up for the fact that their knowledge of the higher branches of forestology does not reach the standard of that of the professional officer.
ref: 1952, Northern Rhodesia. Commission to Review the Salary Structure, Remuneration and Terms of Service of the Civil Service, European staff. pt. 2. African staff, page 27
glosses: The study of forests.
enervatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more enervatingly
form: most enervatingly
Etymology: From enervating + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an enervating manner.
forcovered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forcover
forcovering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forcover
forcovers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forcover
bulletproof host
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bulletproof hosts
Senses: glosses: A company offering bulletproof hosting.
bulletproof hosts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bulletproof host
bulletproof hosting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A web hosting service that allows customers to publish all kinds of material, including spam, pornography, etc. that may be forbidden on other services.
Related terms: bulletproof host
Siegel's paradox
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Identified by economist Jeremy Siegel in 1972.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The phenomenon that uncertainty about future prices can theoretically push rational consumers to temporarily trade away their preferred consumption goods (or currency) for non-preferred goods (or currency), as part of a plan to trade back to the preferred consumption goods after prices become clearer.
necktie paradox
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the necktie paradox
Senses: glosses: An apparent paradox within the subjectivistic interpretation of probability theory, in which two people wager over whose necktie is cheapest, with the owner of the more expensive tie giving it to the other. Taking the wager seems to be to the advantage of both people.
boy or girl paradox
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: two child problem
two children problem
glosses: An apparent paradox in probability theory, illustrated by various questions about the probability of a child within a family being of a particular sex.
two child problem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the two child problem
Senses: glosses: Synonym of boy or girl paradox.
synonyms: word: boy or girl paradox
two children problem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the two children problem
Senses: glosses: Synonym of boy or girl paradox.
synonyms: word: boy or girl paradox
librettology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The study of opera librettos
lycorexia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek λύκος (lúkos, “wolf”) + ὄρεξις (órexis, “appetite”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: cynorexia
glosses: Constant, excessive hunger.
bugdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bug + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: Among the most potent of biological control agents are the natural enemies, the predators, of bugdom.
ref: 1991, Rhonda Massingham Hart, Using Beneficial Insects:
text: The next second all the bugs in the field became frozen into silence by the appearance of the loveliest form in all bugdom.
ref: 2012, R. Evans Pansing, Fact and Fiction: Fiction and Reality, page 66:
synonyms: insectdom
glosses: The essence of being a bug.
Fletcherist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fletcherists
Etymology: From Fletcher + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Fletcherite.
synonyms: word: Fletcherite
Fletcherists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fletcherist
traction battery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traction batteries
Senses: examples: text: In order to avoid the use of shunting locomotives at the ports a 230 amp./hr. traction battery is provided so that the vans can move under their own power on to the necessarily unelectrified quayside lines.
ref: 1959 November, “Talking of Trains: S.R. Motor Luggage Vans”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 523, 526:
text: At Derby, the '165' will be fitted with Magtec traction motors, range extender engines and traction batteries.
ref: 2020 May 6, “Network News: '165' at Derby for hybrid conversion”, in Rail, page 15:
coordinate_terms: accessory battery
glosses: A rechargeable battery used to power the electric motor(s) of a battery electric vehicle (BEV) or hybrid electric vehicle (HEV).
saggered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sagger
saggering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sagger
saggared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of saggar
saggaring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of saggar
traction batteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of traction battery
Kitasato flask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kitasato flasks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kitassato flask.
Kitazato flask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kitazato flasks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kitassato flask.
Deucalion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: yod-coalescence
ipa: /d͡ʒuːˈkeɪlɪən/
note: without the yod-coalescence
ipa: /djuːˈkeɪlɪən/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Δευκαλίων (Deukalíōn).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The son of Prometheus, husband of Pyrrha. Both survived a deluge sent by Zeus to punish the human race.
Portree
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɔɹˈtɹi/
ipa: /pɔːˈtɹi/
ipa: /poɾˈtɾiː/
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic Port Rìgh (literally “King’s Port”).
Senses: glosses: The largest town on the Isle of Skye, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NG4843).
boilability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From boil + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being boilable.
hard paywall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hard paywalls
Senses: examples: text: Soft paywalls retain more users than hard paywalls - by a big margin.
ref: 2014, The Guardian:
glosses: A paywall that hides all content from unregistered or nonpaying users.
hard paywalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hard paywall
soft paywalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soft paywall
Brahmanee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brahmanees
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Brahmini.
Brahmanees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brahmanee
set the world to rights
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sets the world to rights
form: setting the world to rights
form: set the world to rights
form: set the world to rights
form: put the world to rights
Etymology: From set to rights.
Senses: glosses: To talk about improving the world.
put the world to rights
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts the world to rights
form: putting the world to rights
form: put the world to rights
form: put the world to rights
Etymology: From put to rights.
Senses: examples: text: One of the most affordable Turkish baths in the UK, with entry costing £7.10, they have a devoted community of regulars who put the world to rights in the sauna and three hot rooms several nights a week.
ref: 2022 October 2, Helen Pidd, “‘I’d be lost without it’: locals battle to save Carlisle’s Turkish baths”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of set the world to rights.
Scheherezade
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Scheherazade.
servingman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: servingmen
form: serving man
form: serving-man
Etymology: From Middle English servyng man; equivalent to serving + -man.
Senses: examples: text: [N]ow my whole charge conſiſts of Ancients, Corporals, Lieutenants, gentlemen of companies: ſlaues as ragged as Lazarus in the painted cloth, where the gluttons dogs licked his ſores, and ſuch as indeed were neuer ſouldiours, but diſcarded, vniuſt ſeruingmen, yonger ſonnes to yonger brothers, reuolted tapſters, and Oſtlers, tradefalne, the cankers of a calme world, and a long peace, ten times more diſhonourable ragged then an olde fazd ancient, […]
ref: c. 1597 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The History of Henrie the Fourth; […], quarto edition, London: […] P[eter] S[hort] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1598, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], signature H,iii, recto:
text: What, ſhall Ioan haue a Seruingman: is her father ſo madd as he wyll marrie her to a Seruingman: What to a Seruingman ſayes one: To a Seruingman ſayes another: he neyther hath any thyng, nor can earne any thyng.
ref: 1598, Gervase Markham, A Health to the Gentlemanly profeſsion of Seruingmen: or, The Seruingmans Comfort:
text: Well! the greateſt plague of a ſervingman, is to be hir’d to ſome great Lord! They care not what drudgery they put upon us, while they lie lolling at their eaſe a-bed, and ſtretch their lazy limbs, in expectation of the Whore which we are fetching for them.
ref: 1752, The British Stage, volume 1, page 24:
text: Madame Badeau lived in a rather shabby-looking rough stone house, quite small in the front, but plenty large enough for her and a serving-man and maid, and running back to a pretty garden, where she cultivated all manner of beautiful flowers, and such roses that lovers of them were always begging a slip or piece of root.
ref: 1900, Amanda Minnie Douglas, A Little Girl in Old Washington:
text: A minor character in Romeo and Juliet, Abram is a servingman in the Montague household who fights with the Capulet servants in the opening scene of the play.
ref: 2000, Louise McConnell, “Abram”, in Dictionary of Shakespeare, Fitzroy Dearborn, →ISBN, page 1:
text: We see little of Lear’s court in formal action, but there is moral cowardice in its general readiness to accede to unjust actions and say nothing. There is Goneril using Oswald to destabilize the king, Edgar’s depiction of a servingman’s life, the disguised Kent’s undiplomatic irritation of Cornwall and Regan and their spiteful retaliation.
ref: 2015 February 15, Keith Linley, 'King Lear' in Context: The Cultural Background, →ISBN, page 78:
glosses: A male servant.
Synonyms: manservant
Coordinate terms: maidservant
servingmaid
servingwoman
womanservant
servingmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of servingman
wishcycling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wish-cycling
Etymology: Blend of wish + recycling, said to have been coined by Bill Keegan, president of a recycling company.
Senses: examples: text: Some new innovative packaging can’t be recycled, but nonetheless ends up in the single-sort bin through what Keegan calls “wish cycling.”
ref: 2015 September 19, Eric Roper, “Global shifts put squeeze on Twin Cities recycling”, in Star Tribune:
text: Not only that, but wishcycling is playing a big role in the current global recycling meltdown.
ref: 2019 August 30, Jackie Flynn Mogensen, “One Very Bad Habit Is Fueling the Global Recycling Meltdown”, in Mother Jones:
synonyms: aspirational recycling
wishful recycling
glosses: The disposal of consumer waste in a recycling bin in the hope of it being recycled, when it cannot or is unlikely to be recycled.
wishcycling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wish-cycling
Etymology: Blend of wish + recycling, said to have been coined by Bill Keegan, president of a recycling company.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wishcycle
Derived terms: word: wishcycle
naked license
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naked licenses
Senses: examples: text: We have held that the proponent of a naked license theory of trademark abandonment must meet a “stringent standard of proof.”
ref: 2010, FreecycleSunnyvale v. The Freecycle Network, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals:
topics: law
glosses: A license of a trademark granted without quality control over the use of the trademark.
Related terms: bare license
naked licensing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Because we find that TFN engaged in naked licensing and thereby abandoned its trademarks, we affirm.
ref: 2010, FreecycleSunnyvale v. The Freecycle Network, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals:
topics: law
glosses: The act of granting a naked license.
naked licenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naked license
unikernel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unikernels
Etymology: From uni- (“single-”) + kernel.
Senses: examples: text: The general idea behind unikernel systems is not entirely new, as it builds up on top of the concept of library operating systems such as exokernel or Nemesis.
ref: 2016, Bartok, David, Walt, Estee van der, Lindemann, Jan, Eschrig, Johannes, Plauth, Max, Proceedings of the Third HPI Cloud Symposium "Operating the Cloud" 2015, Universitätsverlag Potsdam, page 37
text: In the unikernel approach, a developer selects a minimal set of libraries from a modular stack which correspond to the OS constructs required for their application to run.
ref: 2017, Kai Hwang, Cloud Computing for Machine Learning and Cognitive Applications: A Machine Learning Approach, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 143:
coordinate_terms: microkernel
qualifier: operating systems
glosses: A specialised, fixed-purpose machine image which can run directly on hardware or a hypervisor without an operating system such as Linux.
limnometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of limnimetry.
bare license
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bare licenses
Senses: examples: 1995 Rite-Hite Corp. v. Kelley Co., Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
If the party has not received an express or implied promise of exclusivity under the patent, i.e., the right to exclude others from making, using, or selling the patented invention, the party has a "bare license," and has received only the patentee's promise that that party will not be sued for infringement.
topics: law
glosses: A license to use intellectual or real property without any promise of exclusivity.
Related terms: naked license
bare licenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bare license
limnimetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limnometry
Senses: glosses: The measurement of water level
Related terms: limnimeter
limnimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limnimeters
Senses: glosses: The apparatus used in limnimetry
limnofauna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limnofaunas
Etymology: From limno- + fauna.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The animals that live in fresh water
breast line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breast lines
Etymology: From breast + line.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A rope used to tie a small ship to a dock, keeping it close to the pier
glosses: A rope to which the pontoons of a military bridge are fastened
Church of the East
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Church of the East
Etymology: From Classical Syriac ܥܕܬܐ ܕܡܕܢܚܐ (ʿĒḏtā d-Maḏenḥā), so called as it predominated to the east of the border of the Christian Roman Empire. Used as a proper noun in English from c. 1890s.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The church originally made up of the Christians of the Sasanid Empire, later exonymically known as the Nestorian church and characterised by its use of the East Syriac liturgical rite.
topics: Christianity
glosses: Any of the modern successors of that church following its schisms since the 16th century, in particular the Ancient Church of the East, Assyrian Church of the East, and Chaldean Catholic Church, or all of these considered together.
crateral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹeɪ.təɹ.əl/
ipa: /ˈkɹeɪ.tɚ.əl/
Forms: form: more crateral
form: most crateral
Etymology: From crater + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of the nature of a (volcanic) crater
limonitization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limonitation
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The conversion of ferrous rocks into limonite by weathering
limonitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of limonitization.
crastin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crastins
Etymology: From Old French crastin (“morrow, the day after (any feast)”), from Latin crāstinum (“morrow”).
Senses: glosses: The day after, the morrow.
Related terms: crastinal
procrastinate
lyngurium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lynguriums
Senses: glosses: A mythical gemstone supposedly formed from the dried urine of the lynx
lymphopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lymphopathies
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any disease of the lymph glands
Gelasian dyarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gelasian diarchy
Senses: examples: text: Father Murray is concerned to restate the Gelasian dyarchy in democratic terms.
ref: 1953, Religion in Life, volume 23, page 178:
text: Between secularists and anticlericals who would subject the Church to the state or entirely separate the institutions, and fanatical medievalists and curialists who would, against all reasonable hope, cling to their own inaccurate versions of theocracy, the pope steered a middle course that recalled the Gelasian dyarchy.
ref: 1962, Newman C. Eberhardt, A Summary of Catholic History, volume 2, page 161:
text: Determining the popes’ view of the relationship between church and state was their interpretation of “the Gelasian dyarchy,” the ancient papal teaching that “this world is ruled by two powers.”
ref: 2004, Robert Krieg, Catholic Theologians in Nazi Germany, →ISBN, page 18:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
government
politics
glosses: The doctrine, traced back to Pope Gelasius I, that there are two authorities governing human affairs, the spiritual authority of the church and the temporal authority of the empire or secular government.
Synonyms: Gelasian dualism
Related terms: two swords
irrumators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of irrumator
Sebastianist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sebastianists
Etymology: From Sebastian + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A believer in Sebastianism.
Sebastianists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sebastianist
ones and zeros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Hiro Protagonist [in Snow Crash (1992) by Neal Stephenson] must win, one might say, on both Surf and Turf against the wonderfully evil Evangelist Minister R. Bob Riff and his allies, both in the world of violence, swordplay, and aircraft carriers and in the world of ones and zeros.
ref: 1996, R[obert] James Woolsey [Jr.], “Resilience and Vulnerability in the Digital Age”, in Stuart J. D. Schwartzstein, editor, The Information Revolution and National Security: Dimensions and Directions (Significant Issues Series; vol. XVIII, no. 3), Washington, D.C.: Center for Strategic and International Studies, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 79:
text: [D]igitalization seems to be re(con)textualizing all those foundations into ones and zeros so thoroughly that one cannot find 'the programmer'.
ref: 2006, Timothy W. Luke, “Power and Political Culture”, in Leah W. Lievrouw, Sonia Livingstone, editors, Handbook of New Media: Social Shaping and Social Consequences of ICTs, updated student edition, London; Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications, →ISBN, part 1 (New Media, Culture and Society), page 163, column 2:
text: You once said that the "ones and zeros" in the world's computers were demons that could trick the human race into losing all its history.
ref: 2007, Henning Mankell, chapter 8, in Laurie Thompson, transl., Kennedy’s Brain: Translated from the Swedish, New York, N.Y.: The New Press, →ISBN, part 1 (Christ’s Cul-de-sac), page 83:
text: If you are a developer or an architect, you are one for a good reason: Your magic and craft is turning ones and zeros into a solution that makes life and work better.
ref: 2008, Steven C. Seow, “Preface”, in Karen Gettman, editor, Designing and Engineering Time: The Psychology of Time Perception in Software, Upper Saddle River, N.J.; Boston, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page xvii:
text: Neo has been hacking since he was in elementary school. He is more at ease with ones and zeros than his own language.
ref: 2012, Wayne M. Smith, “The Wraith of Frank—Cyber War Style”, in The Sand Castle, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, pages 99–100:
glosses: Alternative spelling of ones and zeroes.
Eden Park
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in the borough of Bromley, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3767).
glosses: A rural locality in the City of Whittlesea, north of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
glosses: A former coal town in Lincoln County, West Virginia, United States.
Petrinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Petrine + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Acts certainly follows the fortunes of Paul after Peter's release and departure; and the later New Testament shows no marked Petrinity.
ref: 1926, The New American Church Monthly, volume 19, page 228:
text: He says that Peter honoured (decoravit) Alexandria by sending his disciple Mark to be bishop there; he strengthened (firmavit) Antioch by occupying the see himself there for seven years; but he exalted (sublimavit) Rome where he spent his later days and died. The clear implication is that Rome remains pre-eminent even in Petrinity.
ref: 1980, Jeffrey Richards, Consul of God: The Life and Times of Gregory the Great, →ISBN, page 65:
text: The corollary to this principle of Petrinity is that any entity that threatens or denies the papacy its primacy is anathema.
ref: 2016, Jehangi Yezdi Malegam, “Pro-Papacy Polemic and the Purity of the Church: The Gregorian Reform”, in A Companion to the Medieval Papacy, →ISBN, page 58:
topics: Christianity
glosses: The quality of being comparable to or originating from Saint Peter.
toki pona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: About the last translation, some would deem necessary to tokiponize names, i.e. turning all the sounds not present in toki pona into their closest toki pona equivalent.
ref: 2024 March 3, Fabio, “Toki Pona Explained: Driving Change through Language”, in Turbolangs:
text: Today, there are known to be thousands of speakers of toki pona worldwide, with likely thousands more involved in the online and offline spaces where the 2022 toki pona census could not reach.
ref: 2024 April 16, Rebecca Bettencourt (jan Lepeka), et al., “Preliminary proposal to encode sitelen pona in the UCS”, in Unicode, page 2:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Toki Pona.
naswar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of moist, powdered tobacco snuff.
Wanborough
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish in Guildford borough, Surrey, England (OS grid ref SU9348).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Swindon borough, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU2082).
to those it may concern
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of to whom it may concern, used for avoiding the formal and quasi-archaic oblique pronoun whom (compare the use of of which for persons: “10 people, 3 of which were married”, instead of “3 of whom”.)
synonyms: word: to whom it may concern
extra: compare the use of of which for persons: “10 people, 3 of which were married”, instead of “3 of whom”.
word: used for avoiding the formal and quasi-archaic oblique pronoun whom
extra: compare the use of of which for persons: “10 people, 3 of which were married”, instead of “3 of whom”.