cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nocturia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nycturia
Etymology: From noct- + -uria.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A frequent need to arise during the night in order to urinate.
Related terms: wet the bed
neuropsychiatric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + psychiatric.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to neuropsychiatry; both neurological and psychiatric.
Derived terms: neuropsychiatrically
out-of-town
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more out-of-town
form: most out-of-town
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of out of town.
hews
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hjuːz/
homophone: hues
rhymes: -uːz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hew
get out of town
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Compare Danish den må du længere ud på landet med.
Senses: examples: text: "Get out of town!" Magdalena gave me a quizzical look. "That's just an expression, dear," I said kindly.
ref: 1998, Tamar Myers, So Faux, So Good, page 191:
text: "Shae has four kids. All girls." / "Get out of town!" Tempest exclaimed, drawn back in shock.
ref: 2002, Zane, The Heat Seekers, page 140:
text: "Let me pick another word," he said smoothly. "Fascinating." / "Oh, get out of town. Fascinating, my butt."
ref: 2005, Shannon McKenna, Out Of Control, page 68:
glosses: Expression of incredulity.
Synonyms: wow
bullshit
Related terms: get out
get out of
get out of here
autobahns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autobahn
quick fix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quick fixes
form: quick-fix
Senses: glosses: A simple solution; an easy way out.
glosses: A temporary solution; a stopgap measure.
Synonyms: sense: temporary solution
word: workaround
auditoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of auditorium
synchromysticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From synchro- + mysticism; see synchronicity.
Senses: glosses: The drawing of connections in modern culture (movies, music lyrics, historical happenings and esoteric knowledge); and finding connections that could be coming from the "collective unconscious mind"; and finding connections between occult knowledge (i.e. esoteric fraternities, cults and secret rituals), politics and mass media.
Related terms: resonators
synchronistic
anatomical position
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The position of the human body, standing erect, with the face directed anteriorly, the upper limbs at the sides and the palms turned anteriorly (supinated), and the feet pointed anteriorly; used as the position of reference in description of site or direction of various structures or parts as established in official anatomical nomenclature. Note: The palms are toward our view and we cannot see the back of the hands.
A/G
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of air-to-ground.
pea pod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pea pods
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of peapod (all senses)
RDS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of respiratory distress syndrome.
glosses: Initialism of radio data system.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of rate-determining step.
glosses: Initialism of relational database service.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Initialism of respondent-driven sampling.
DCS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DCSs
form: D.C.S.
form: D. C. S.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of distributed control system.
examples: text: It is being led by DCS Jim Taylor, who is the head of Opal, the national intelligence unit for organised acquisitive crime.
ref: 2023 December 22, Robyn Vinter, “Britons increasingly turning to food black market, experts say”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Initialism of detective chief superintendent, a police rank.
examples: text: She’d been worried about DCS as well – she could barely remember ascending – but the symptoms hadn’t persisted and she was fine now.
ref: 2023, Martin MacInnes, In Ascension, Atlantic Books, page 87:
topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
underwater-diving
glosses: Initialism of decompression sickness.
Coordinate terms: sense: detective chief superintendent
word: DSupt
sense: detective chief superintendent
word: supt.
sense: detective chief superintendent
word: SP
sense: detective chief superintendent
word: SSP
sense: detective chief superintendent
word: CSP
sense: detective chief superintendent
word: DCI
sense: detective chief superintendent
word: DI
sense: detective chief superintendent
word: DS
sense: detective chief superintendent
word: DC
sense: detective chief superintendent
word: WPC
sense: detective chief superintendent
word: PC
DFMR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
glosses: Initialism of Design for Minimum Risk: a process that allows safety-critical mechanisms to achieve fault tolerance through rigorous design, analysis, testing, and inspection practices rather than through true physical redundancy.
expected value
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭk-spĕkt′ĭd văl′yo͞o
ipa: /ɪkˈspɛkt.ɪd ˈval.juː/
note: Received Pronunciation, conservatism
ipa: /ɪkˈspɛkt.ɪd ˈvæl.juː/
ipa: /ɪkˈspɛkt.ɪd ˈvæl.ju/
ipa: /ɪkˈspekt.ɪd ˈvæl.jʉː/
ipa: /əkˈspekt.əd ˈvɛl.jʉː/
ipa: /ɪkˈspɛkt.ɪd ˈval.jʉ/
ipa: /ɪkˈspɛkʈ.ɪɖ ˈval.juː/
Forms: form: expected values
Senses: topics: mathematics
probability-theory
sciences
synonyms: expectation
expectancy
expectation operator
mathematical expectation
mean
expectation value
first moment
coordinate_terms: mean
glosses: The weighted average of outcome values, using probability as the weighting function.
Related terms: topics: mathematics
sciences
word: moment
Leroi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A spelling variant of Leroy.
Senses: glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
Quai d'Orsay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A quay and street in Paris, France, the home of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
bear market
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bear markets
Senses: examples: text: Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.
ref: 2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68:
topics: business
finance
antonyms: bull market
coordinate_terms: correction
crab market
glosses: A stock market where a majority of investors are selling ("bears"), causing overall stock prices to drop. Often operationally defined as a market value drop of 20% or more on some specific stock market index.
examples: text: Now bids are submitted by button companies for the Teddy Bear contract, and Germany plush factories manufacture plush especially for the bear market at Giengen Brenz.
ref: 1908 November 5, “The First “Teddy Bears.””, in Presbyterian Banner, volume 95, Pittsburgh, →OCLC, page 16 (692), column 2:
text: It is significant that in the last 5-10 years the preferred method of safely transporting cubs purchased at bear markets and near “Dangs” or forests has been through friendly truck drivers, […]
ref: 1997 August, Geeta Seshamani, Kartick Satyanarayan, “The dancing bears of India”, in World Society for the Protection of Animals, archived from the original on 23 Feb 2022:
text: During the summer of 1906 the bear market surged when toy bears, sold as zoo souvenirs, attracted crowds of little boys and their parents along boardwalks at the seaside resorts of the Jersey Shore.
ref: 1999 November 15, Gary Cross, Kids' Stuff: Toys and the Changing World of American Childhood, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 95:
text: Bear images are now sold to an ever-increasing circle of admirers (as evidenced by Catalina producing videos aimed at the bear market).
ref: 2016 April 8, Thomas McCann, “Laid Bear: Masculinity with All the Trappings”, in Les Wright, editor, The Bear Book II: Further Readings in the History and Evolution of a Gay Male Subculture, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, page 323:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bear, market.
mind you
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: These shirts are very expensive. Mind you, they are excellent quality.
text: Mind you, it was not an outing I would recommend as relaxing.
ref: 1960 January, G. Freeman Allen, “"Condor"—British Railways' fastest freight train”, in Trains Illustrated, page 47:
text: Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. There was a great deal of them, lavish both in material and in workmanship.
ref: 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:
synonyms: however
nevertheless
be aware
nonetheless
on the other hand
but
glosses: Used to introduce a qualification or contrastive statement, especially when toning down or rectifying
dividend equalisation reserve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dividend equilisation reserve
form: dividend equalisation reserves
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A fund set up to ensure that dividends remain stable despite changes in a company's earnings
neuropsychiatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + psychiatry.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The branch of medicine dealing with disorders that have both neurological and psychiatric features.
Related terms: neuropsychiatric
neuropsychiatrist
neuropsychological
neuropsychologist
neuropsychology
pinacothek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinacotheks
Senses: glosses: pinacotheca
pinacotheca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinacothecas
form: pinacothek
form: pinacotheke
form: pinakothek
Etymology: From Latin pinacotheca, from Ancient Greek πινακοθήκη (pinakothḗkē).
Senses: glosses: An art gallery, especially one exhibiting pictures.
oculogyric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oculo- + gyro- + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the rotation of the eyeballs within their orbits.
Derived terms: oculogyric crisis
monolinear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + linear.
Senses: glosses: Having vertical and horizontal strokes of the same visual weight
raw_tags: of a typeface
Derived terms: monolinearity
music therapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: music therapies
Senses: glosses: Any of various supposed therapeutic uses of music.
neuma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neumae
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of neume
neume
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /njuːm/
ipa: /n(j)um/
rhymes: -uːm
Forms: form: neumes
form: neum
form: neuma
form: pneume
Etymology: From 15th c. Middle English newme, nevme, neme; from Middle French neume, in turn from Medieval Latin neuma or pneuma, either from Ancient Greek νεῦμα (neûma, “sign”), or else a corruption of πνεῦμα (pneûma, “breath”). In the latter case a doublet of pneuma.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Any of a set of signs used in early musical notation.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A sequence of notes to be sung to one syllable.
Derived terms: neumic
neumatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Written using neumes
notational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From notation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to notation.
Derived terms: notationality
notationally
getting around to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of get around to
gets around to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get around to
got around to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of get around to
watch-tower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watch-towers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of watchtower.
wellbeing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wellbeings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of well-being.
whole-heartedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more whole-heartedly
form: most whole-heartedly
Etymology: From whole-hearted + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Dated form of wholeheartedly.
Yule tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yule trees
form: Yuletree
form: Yule-tree
form: yuletree
Etymology: From Yule + tree.
Senses: examples: text: Over the forest , over the towns swept the Christmas Angel. He bore folded in his shining robe the little Yule-tree.
ref: 1917, The Kindergarten and First Grade, volume 2, page 428:
text: There was no excited whispering among the children of gifts or of Yuletree.
ref: 1974, Dorothy Burton Skårdal, The Divided Heart:
text: The yuletree, a natural product of the forests, has been prevented from full growth, cut or transplanted, then prettified and decorated in a domestic environment, like Nora herself.
ref: 1989, Brian Johnston, Text and Supertext in Ibsen’s Drama:
text: The house at the end of its black-paved drive was lit up like a Putchkin Yuletree.
ref: 2011, Lilith Saintcrow, Dante Valentine:
text: PINE & FIR TREES–such as Spruce, Hemlock, Douglas and Fraser Fir, Scotch Pine and Cedar–are the most common and are perhaps the most generally known symbols of Yule today, as they are often used as Yule Trees.
ref: 2013, Montague Whitsel, The Fires of Yule, page 73:
text: It was from these beliefs that the custom of decorating Yule trees (now popularly known as Christmas trees) evolved.
ref: 2022, Edain McCoy, Sabbats: A Witch's Approach to Living the Old Ways, page 60:
glosses: A Christmas tree.
examples: 1993 The Rites of Odin, Ed Fitch, Llewellyn, →ISBN, page 135.
Modern Yule Tree decorations are acceptable for this season, of course, though parents may wish to decorate the Yule tree so that it reflects Yggdrasill, the mythic World-Tree.
1997 Thunder issue 2 (Heathen Journal), The Folk's Noisy Friend, Garman Lord.
Then again; what about those Indian shamans whose idea of a quick sure fire way to do a vision quest is to go stand on a mountain outcrop where lightning is about to strike, until they light up like Yule trees with static electricity, jumping off the rock to safety (hopefully) at the last possible moment?
2000 Ratatosk Volume 4 issue 4 (Heathen Journal) Yule not Xmas, Red Raven.
Those without an outdoor tree can hang gifts indoors on the Yule tree, or go for a walk to the local woods.
topics: lifestyle
paganism
religion
glosses: A yuletide decoration comprising a potted tree decorated with ribbons and religious symbols.
Hypernyms: tree
Related terms: Christmas tree
Yule wreath
SMIC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, a large semiconductor company in mainland China.
suboptimally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more suboptimally
form: most suboptimally
Etymology: From suboptimal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a less than optimal manner.
getting out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of get out
gets out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get out
got out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of get out
gotten out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of get out
orpailleur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orpailleurs
Etymology: Borrowed from French orpailleur.
Senses: examples: text: In early 2007, a large migration of workers, triggered by the discovery of placer gold made by an orpailleur, started a new gold rush at the Moralia gold placer in Kenieba.
ref: 2006, Minerals Yearbook, volume 3, page 1962:
glosses: gold prospector, gold panner
homorhythmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more homorhythmic
form: most homorhythmic
Etymology: From homo- + rhythmic.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Having the same rhythm throughout
Derived terms: homorhythmically
manele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Romanian manele, plural of manea, of Turkish origin.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of folk music from the Balkans
homorhythm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homo- + rhythm.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A style of music that has the same rhythm throughout.
ordinale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ordinales
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ordinal (religious book)
Number 10
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: No 10
form: No. 10
form: Number Ten
Senses: examples: text: There are honourable people in the government and principled advisers working in Number 10, even if their unheralded service is obscured by the crass antics of spin doctors and the demagoguery of some ministers.
ref: 2009 April 23, Bagehot, “Who's Nasty Now?”, in The Economist, page 61:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Synonym of 10 Downing Street.
synonyms: word: 10 Downing Street
Related terms: Number Eleven
Number 11
No. 11
deposit contract
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deposit contracts
Senses: examples: text: Diamond and Dybvig show that a bank offering an ordinary deposit contract can provide allocations superior to those of simple exchange markets.
ref: 1986, David C. Webb, “Comment”, in Recent Developments in Corporate Finance, →ISBN, page 178:
topics: banking
business
law
glosses: A contractual agreement governing the handling of deposited assets, for example in a bank.
Synonyms: deposit agreement
postimpressionist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more postimpressionist
form: most postimpressionist
Etymology: From post- + impressionist.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to postimpressionism.
postimpressionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postimpressionists
Etymology: From post- + impressionist.
Senses: examples: text: The postimpressionists went much further in augmenting the limited evidence of our eyes with material of the mind.
ref: 2003, John H. Lienhard, Inventing Modern: Growing up with X-Rays, Skyscrapers, and Tailfins:
glosses: A painter of the style of postimpressionism.
equilisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of equalization.
prodelision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹəʊdɪˈlɪʒn̩/
ipa: /ˌpɹoʊdəˈlɪʒn̩/
Forms: form: prodelisions
Etymology: From the Latin prepositional prefix prōd, variant of prō (“in front of”) used before vowels, + the English word elision.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A form of elision in which the latter word loses its first vowels.
at a premium
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Above par value.
glosses: At a high, or higher than expected, price.
examples: text: Disk space on that server is at a premium.
text: So many people were doing up their apartments that supplies of high-grade fixtures and fittings were at a premium. There were waiting lists for baths, doorknobs, imported hardwoods, antiqued fireplaces, bidets, marble slabs.
ref: 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 3:
text: Flair and invention were very much at a premium, suffocated by the relentless pace and often fractious nature of proceedings. The absence of James Morrison from the centre of Scotland’s midfield, the West Brom man ruled out on the morning of the game by illness, had already diminished the creative capacity of the home side in that department.
ref: 2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman:
text: Both Ameobi and Sunderland forward Darren Bent had gone close in the early exchanges but chances were at a premium thereafter.
ref: 2011 January 16, Saj Chowdhury, “Sunderland 1 - 1 Newcastle”, in BBC:
glosses: Scarce, in short supply.
UTFSE
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Initialism.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of use the fucking search engine.
war bond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: war bonds
Senses: glosses: A type of savings bond used by nations to help fund war efforts.
war bonds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of war bond
unclarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unclarities
Etymology: From un- + clarity, modelled after unclear.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unclear or confusingly formulated; ambiguousness; imprecision.
glosses: A statement that is unclear.
laxadaisical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of lackadaisical.
brome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹəʊm/
rhymes: -əʊm
Forms: form: bromes
Etymology: From the genus name, New Latin Bromus, from Ancient Greek βρόμος (brómos, “oat, wild oat”).
Senses: glosses: Any grass of the genus Bromus.
Synonyms: bromegrass
Derived terms: ripgut brome
smooth brome
Related terms: cheat grass
cheatgrass
brome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹəʊm/
rhymes: -əʊm
Etymology: From French brome, coined from Ancient Greek βρῶμος (brômos, “stink”). Doublet of bromus.
Senses: glosses: bromine
Related terms: english: see there for translations and more cognates
translation: see there for translations and more cognates
word: bromine
lolcat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑl.kæt/
Forms: form: lolcats
form: LOLcat
Etymology: From lol + cat.
Senses: glosses: An image macro of, usually, a kitten or a cat with a humorous caption.
glosses: The deliberately misspelled and grammatically quirky form of English associated with such images' captions.
Coordinate terms: word: lolspeak
word: LOLspeak
Related terms: kitteh
Caturday
interoperates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of interoperate
ex proprio motu
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin [Term?].
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Of one's own accord.
interoperating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of interoperate
interoperated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of interoperate
exemplative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exemplative
form: most exemplative
Senses: examples: text: The United Nations War Crimes commission had in fact approved the list and considered the enumerated acts are not exhaustive but exemplative war crimes.
ref: 1982, Yougindra Khushalani, Dignity and Honour of Women as Basic and Fundamental Human Rights, Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page 28:
text: 1987, "Some pitfalls in applied general equilibrium modeling", Jean Waelbroeck, in Advances in Econometrics: Fifth World Congress, Truman Fassett Bewley (ed), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 199,
The discussion of applications will be exemplative only.
text: Connely also refers to a scrolling feature, but provides no exemplative mechanism for allowing the light to travel along the sword.
ref: 2000, US Patent Office, US patent 6036576: Light sword toy with moving internal object:
glosses: Serving as or providing a typical example.
glosses: Exemplary.
Synonyms: sense: providing an example
word: illustrative
sense: providing an example
word: demonstrative
seal script
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seal scripts
form: Seal Script
Etymology: Calque from Chinese 篆文 (zhuànwén).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of small seal script.
synonyms: word: small seal script
glosses: All forms of ancient Chinese calligraphy used for seals and chops, including the Zhou-era large seal script.
deletionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deletion + -ism.
Senses: taxonomic: Wikimedia jargon
glosses: The condition of being deletionist.
Synonyms: exclusionism
inclusionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inclusion + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A policy of inclusion.
examples: text: Apart from writing encyclopedia pages, The Cunctator loved to discuss Wikipedia and its policies. He spoke for anarchy (or at least an absence of hierarchy), eventualism (Wikipedia will get there in the end; his pseudonym means 'the delayer') and inclusionism (the wikiphilosophy whose motto could be 'let there be more articles').
ref: 2009, Andrew Dalby, The World and Wikipedia: How We Are Editing Reality, Draycott, Somerset: Siduri Books, →ISBN, page 121:
antonyms: deletionism
taxonomic: Wikimedia jargon
glosses: A wikiphilosophy which advocates allowing a broader range of information to be included on Wikipedia (or a similar wiki), even if it is of marginal importance.
Related terms: inclusionist
maladious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more maladious
form: most maladious
Etymology: From French maladieux. Equivalent to malady + -ous.
Senses: glosses: sickly
Sconnie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Recorded in 1997. From Wisconsin + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A person or people from the U.S. state of Wisconsin.
pene-enclave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pene-enclaves
Etymology: From pene- + enclave.
Senses: hypernyms: region#Noun
place#Noun
coordinate_terms: enclave#Noun
exclave#Noun
pene-exclave#Noun
glosses: An area that is, for practical purposes, an enclave but does not meet the strict definition: an area that is not completely surrounded by another but can, in practice, be reached only by passing through another area. For instance, a region of a country that is not connected by road to the main part of the country without passing through another country.
pene-exclave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɛniˌɛkskleɪv/
Forms: form: pene-exclaves
Etymology: From pene- + exclave.
Senses: hypernyms: proruption#Noun
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region#Noun
place#Noun
coordinate_terms: enclave#Noun
exclave#Noun
pene-enclave#Noun
glosses: An area that is for practical purposes an exclave, but does not meet the strict definition: an area that is not completely separated from the main part, but can only in practice be reached by passing through another area. For instance, a region of a country that is not connected by road to the main part of the country without passing through another country.
failovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of failover
datatypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of datatype
pharynxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pharynges
Senses: glosses: plural of pharynx
cums
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌmz/
rhymes: -ʌmz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cum
suck donkey balls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sucks donkey balls
form: sucking donkey balls
form: sucked donkey balls
form: sucked donkey balls
Senses: glosses: To be terrible, of extremely poor quality.
Synonyms: suck
suck ass
suck donkey cock
don't quit your day job
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of don't give up your day job.
synonyms: word: don't give up your day job
arbitrable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more arbitrable
form: most arbitrable
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Able to be arbitrated; subject to arbitration.
Derived terms: nonarbitrable
Related terms: arbiter
arbitrage
arbitrary
arbitrate
arbitration
arbitrator
arbitrability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arbitrabilities
Etymology: From arbitrable + -ity or arbitrary + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: […] grievability-arbitrability cases; supervises the conduct of representation elections; and holds hearings as […]
ref: 1976, United States Senate Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare, and Related Agencies, Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1977: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Ninety-fourth Congress, Second Session, page 256:
topics: law
glosses: The characteristic of being arbitrable; the ability to be arbitrated.
arbitrabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arbitrability
arbitrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arbitration
couter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈku.tə/
ipa: /ˈku.tɚ/
Forms: form: couters
form: coutere
form: cowter
Etymology: From Middle English couter, said to be from an Anglo-French variant couter, cuter of continental French coudière, from coute (“elbow”).
Senses: examples: text: Helmets should be started in 10 or 12 gauge, couters and knees in 14 gauge.
ref: 2000, Brian Price, Techniques of Medieval Armour Reproduction: The 14th Century, →ISBN:
text: Full rerebraces enclosed the entire upper arm, with a hinge to allow them to be opened and straps and buckles to fasten them shut. Below the rerebrace was the elbow piece called a couter. The couter was small and conical, often shaped to a point, with a wing on the outer side as on the poleine, and with buckled straps to secure the arm harness snugly to the arm.
ref: 2009, Jeffrey L. Forgeng, Will McLean, Daily Life in Chaucer's England, →ISBN, page 169:
text: For example, it is unlikely that the right couter could be damaged or that it could be hit at all if the jouster had a large protective vamplate in place on his lance, though by the same token the folio of the Inventario iluminado on which Real Armeria harness A16 is illustrated (chapter 2, fig. 54) includes six vamplates of varying shapes and sizes for the joust royal so there is no guarantee that such capacious vamplates were used in each and every joust.
ref: 2010, Noel Fallows, Jousting in Medieval and Renaissance Iberia, →ISBN, page 205:
text: In some cases, the fashion for a short-sleeved hauberk similar to the earlier twelfth-century design allowed the lower canon to be worn beneath the mail, whilst the rerebrace, couter and spaudler still remained over the mail.
ref: 2013, Paul F Walker, History of Armour 1100-1700, →ISBN:
glosses: A piece of armor which covers the elbow.
couter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈku.tə/
ipa: /ˈku.tɚ/
Forms: form: couters
form: cooter
Etymology: Perhaps from "Danubian-Gipsy cuta, gold coin", compare Romani kotor (“piece, fragment”), reportedly used for a guinea.
Senses: glosses: A sovereign (the coin).
smoke like a chimney
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smokes like a chimney
form: smoking like a chimney
form: smoked like a chimney
form: smoked like a chimney
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: To smoke tobacco frequently.
wholistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wholistic
form: most wholistic
Etymology: Blend of whole + holistic.
Senses: examples: text: Illness is a wholistic reality, just as health is wholistic, and healing is the process of moving from illness to health.
ref: 2012, Anne Westhues, Canadian Social Policy: Issues and Perspectives:
glosses: Alternative form of holistic.
Derived terms: wholistically
disorganize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disorganizes
form: disorganizing
form: disorganized
form: disorganized
form: disorganise
Etymology: From French désorganiser, equivalent to dis- + organize.
Senses: examples: text: The arrival of her new baby would inevitably disorganize her life.
glosses: To make less organized; to reduce to chaos.
Derived terms: disorganizer
kajmak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kaymak.
disorganizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disorganising
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disorganize
diarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diarchies
form: dinarchy
form: dyarchy
Etymology: From di- + -archy.
Senses: examples: text: Djokovic finally cracked the Federer-Nadal diarchy in 2010.
glosses: Rule by two people.
examples: text: Swaziland is an absolute diarchy, ruled jointly by a king and a queen mother.
glosses: A state under the rule of two people; the form of government of such state.
Synonyms: government
Coordinate terms: government
Derived terms: diarchal
diarchic
diarchical
Gelasian diarchy
diarchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diarchy
kitchen-sinky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kitchen-sinky
form: most kitchen-sinky
form: kitchen sinky
Etymology: From kitchen sink + -y. Sense 1 alludes to the phrase everything but the kitchen sink, sense 2 to the phrase kitchen sink realism.
Senses: examples: text: Don't buy a [back]pack with loads of extra kitchen sinky bits unless you'll be using them frequently.
ref: 1999 November 5, Peter Clinch, “Re: Looking For a Backpack”, in rec.backcountry (Usenet):
text: It is not kitchen-sinky if we understand a kitchen-sink not simply [as] a language very loaded with various grammatical and phonological features but only a language where they are only for their own sake and don't make a functional system together.
ref: 2007, John Quijada, "Re: Aesthetics", Conlang Mailing list archives, 23 October 2007
text: I'm sure there are subjects I could have covered, but I didn't want it to get too kitchen-sinky.
ref: 2011, Nancy Deville, Healthy, Sexy, Happy: A Thrilling Journey to the Ultimate You, Greenleaf Book Group, published 2011, →ISBN:
text: "How to Read a Word" includes quite a bit of related material, including a slightly kitchen-sinky collection of "word stories," investigating words such as wordhoard, skulduggery, and yes, lexicographer; […]
ref: 2011 March 20, Erin McKean, “DIY dictionary”, in Boston Globe:
glosses: Inclusive of too wide a variety of features or items, typically with a resulting trade-off in efficiency or usefulness.
examples: text: Not that Warner's is merely a domesticated version of Euripides. It stars, after all, that least kitchen-sinky of actors.
ref: 2001 February 4, Susannah Clapp, “Mother knows best”, in The Guardian:
text: "Here was a kid who was imagining things and inventing things and none of this was odd to her, mum and dad being junkies. I didn't want to comment; I just present the story. And I didn't want to be too kitchen-sinky, because it's a heightened reality."
ref: 2007 April 29, Stephanie Bunbury, “Tide and emotions”, in The Age:
text: "He takes this seedy little story of seedy little people in seedy little rooms, and he makes it big and operatic and grandiose. I love that. It could have all been documentary-like or a bit kitchen sinky, and all rough and tough. […]
ref: 2011 February 7, Gina Picallo, “Helen Mirren interview”, in The Telegraph:
topics: broadcasting
drama
dramaturgy
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: Of or pertaining to the kitchen sink drama; depicting social realities in an unstylized and direct manner.
Related terms: feature creep
kitchen sinky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kitchen-sinky.
sand crack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sand cracks
form: sand-crack
form: sandcrack
Senses: glosses: A vertical fissure in the wall of a horse's hoof; a quarter crack.
glosses: A crack in a moulded brick before burning.
welfare Cadillac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: welfare Cadillacs
Etymology: The imagery is of a person arriving at a welfare office in a Cadillac automobile (an expensive car) to pick up a welfare payment. The implication is that the person does not need the benefit, or that the benefits are too generous.
Senses: glosses: The case of a person or group receiving public benefits, although the benefits are not actually needed by the recipient or are obtained by fraud.
Related terms: welfare bum
welfare parasite
welfare queen
iterant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more iterant
form: most iterant
Senses: examples: text: There be three kinds of reflections of sounds; a reflection concurrent, a reflection iterant, which we call echo; and a super-reflection, or an echo of an echo
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “III. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: Marked by repetition or iteration.
security guard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: security guards
Senses: examples: text: Haz sits in the trailer for 10 hours straight, eyes trained on the patrons. If he sees the makings of a drug deal or a fight, he notifies the club’s in-house security by walkie-talkie. It amazes him how indiscreet drug dealers can be—with the bulges in their socks and their melodramatic handovers—despite the presence of security guards.
ref: 2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security have Put Us All under Surveillance. Is Privacy Becoming just a Memory?”, in National Geographic, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2018:
synonyms: security officer
coordinate_terms: rent-a-cop
watchman
watchperson
glosses: A person who is employed to provide security for people or property.
privatissimum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: privatissima
Etymology: From Latin superlative of prīvātus (“set apart from, private”).
Senses: glosses: A university lecture heard by only a small number of students.
frecency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɹiːsənsi/
Forms: form: frecencies
Etymology: Blend of frequency + recency, coined for the development of Mozilla Firefox.
Senses: examples: text: For example, a feature called "frecency" compiles the user's browing^([sic]) history to suggest similar websites and searches.
ref: 2008 February 13, Mark Raby, “Firefox 3 Beta 3 goes live”, in TG Daily:
text: […] the AwesomeBar will match what you’re typing (even multiple words!) against the URLs, page titles, and tags in your bookmarks and history, returning results sorted by “frecency” (an algorithm combining frequency + recency).
ref: 2008 April 17, Deb Richardson, quoted in Bill Scott and Theresa Neil, Designing Web Interfaces, O’Reilly Media (2009), page 264
text: So the more often and the more recently you’ve been there, the higher “frecency” it has and the higher it’s rated.
ref: 2008 August, unknown author, “Firefox 3: A Browser Odyssey”, Maximum PC, Future US, ISSN 1522-4279, page 52
text: […] or improve our cache performance so that we're keeping cached items that are related to sites with high frecency -- […]
ref: 2009 March 23, Mike Beltzner, “Re: Firefox privacy prefpane UI refresh”, in mozilla.dev.apps.firefox (Usenet):
text: No, Tb [Thunderbird] has yet to develope^([sic]) the Fx [Firefox] frecency thing. It's just simple pattern matching, IIUC.
ref: 2009 May 20, Ron K., “Re: Address selection preference”, in mozilla.support.thunderbird (Usenet):
text: Regarding collection usage, frecency metrics are employed, combining frequency and recency, to effectively capture concept drift and temporal trends.
ref: 2010, Mounia Lalmas et al., editors, Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries […] , Springer, →ISBN, page 544:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any heuristic that combines the frequency and recency into a single measure, typically used to predict page revisits in a web browser.
wikipedia: Firefox
fainaigues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fainaigue
fainaiguing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fainaigue
fainaigued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fainaigue
acculturational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əˌkʌl.t͡ʃəˈɹeɪ.ʃən.əl/
/əˌkʌl.t͡ʃəˈɹeɪ.ʃnəl/
Forms: form: more acculturational
form: most acculturational
Etymology: From acculturation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to acculturation
Derived terms: acculturationally
acculturative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkʌl.t͡ʃəˌɹeɪt.ɪv/
Forms: form: more acculturative
form: most acculturative
Etymology: From acculturate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Tending to produce acculturation.
Derived terms: nonacculturative
accumulatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more accumulatively
form: most accumulatively
Etymology: From accumulative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an accumulative manner
accusive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more accusive
form: most accusive
Etymology: From accuse + -ive.
Senses: glosses: accusative; accusing
adaptometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adaptometers
Senses: glosses: An optometric instrument that measures the minimum threshold of brightness that can be detected or how well the human eye can adapt to a recently darkened environment.
Related terms: adaptometry
optometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to optometry
Derived terms: optometrically
paraoptometric
adenoidism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From adenoid + -ism.
Senses: glosses: adenoiditis
adequation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adequations
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin adaequatio, from ad + aequatio.
Senses: glosses: Equivalence.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A change in the meaning of a term depending upon context.
examples: a. 1603, Thomas Barlow, letter to Mr. John Goodwin
The principles of logick and natural reason tell us, that there must be a just proportion and adequation between the medium by which we prove, and the conclusion to be proved.
glosses: The act of equalizing; act or result of making adequate; an equivalent.
Derived terms: adequationism
adiathermancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A resistance to the flow of heat.
Related terms: adiathermic
adumbrative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adumbrative
form: most adumbrative
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to adumbration
Derived terms: adumbratively
descarga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: descargas
Etymology: From Spanish descarga.
Senses: examples: text: Jimmy Bosch is a trombonist who savors the Latin jazz tradition of the descarga, a jam session everyone can dance to.
ref: 2007 January 12, “Rock/Pop Listings”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A jam session in the tradition of Cuban music
adumbratively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more adumbratively
form: most adumbratively
Etymology: From adumbrative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an adumbrative manner
Weberian ossicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Weberian ossicles
Senses: topics: biology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of a chain of small bones that connect the auditory system to the air bladder of teleost fishes.
Hyponyms: claustrum
scaphium
intercalarium
tripus
Related terms: Weberian apparatus
adversatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more adversatively
form: most adversatively
Etymology: From adversative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an adversative manner
advisatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more advisatory
form: most advisatory
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Advisory.
advocatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more advocatory
form: most advocatory
Etymology: From advocate + -ory.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of an advocate.
adyta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adytum
glosses: plural of adyton
chanceless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chanceless
form: most chanceless
Etymology: From chance + -less.
Senses: glosses: Achieved without taking chances.
examples: text: a chanceless universe
glosses: Without random chance.
examples: text: They may be chanceless children, disowned and unloved, for whom life holds no promise.
ref: 1983, The A.M.E. Zion Quarterly Review, volumes 95-97, page 38:
glosses: Having no chance or opportunity.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Without a chance of being dismissed.
Derived terms: chancelessness
tetrahydrogestrinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɛ.tɹəˌhʌɪ.dɹə(ʊ)ˈd͡ʒɛ.stɹɪn.əʊn/
ipa: /ˌtɛ.tɹəˌhaɪ.dɹəˈd͡ʒɛ.stɹɪˌnoʊn/
Forms: form: THG
Etymology: From tetrahydro + gestrinone.
Senses: examples: text: An outstanding junior prospect, setting the world junior 100m record in 1997, he appeared close to fulfilling that potential in 2002 when he won the 100m at the European championship, but in August 2003 he failed a drug test for the designer steroid tetrahydrogestrinone (THG).
ref: 2008 February 13, The Guardian:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A banned anabolic steroid, C₂₁H₂₈O₂.
THG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of tetrahydrogestrinone.
nothin
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Contraction of nothing.
Weberian ossicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Weberian ossicle
kebap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kebaps
Senses: examples: text: A portion of döner or one of their many other kebaps, with a salad and something to drink, costs about US$5.
ref: 1993 November, Tom Brosnahan, Turkey: A Travel Survival Kit, 4th edition, Hawthorn, Vic.: Lonely Planet Publications, →ISBN, page 316, column 1:
glosses: Alternative spelling of kebab.
grammatical mood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grammatical moods
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A type of the relationship of a verb with reality and intent.
Synonyms: word: mode
word: mood
word: grammatical mood
Hyponyms: word: cohortative
word: commissive mood
word: conditional
word: conditional mood
word: conjunctive
word: conjunctive mode
word: conjunctive mood
word: declarative mood
word: hortative
word: imperative
word: imperative mode
word: imperative mood
word: indicative
word: indicative mode
word: indicative mood
word: infinitive
word: infinitive mode
word: interrogative mood
word: jussive
word: jussive mood
word: optative
word: optative mode
word: optative mood
word: potential mode
word: prohibitive
word: prohibitive mood
word: subjunctive
word: subjunctive mode
word: subjunctive mood
Related terms: word: :Category:Grammatical moods
word: :Appendix:Glossary of grammar
imperative mood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imperative moods
Senses: examples: text: Go to the gates of Bourdeaux, trumpeter: Summon their general unto the wall.
ref: 1591, Shakespeare, King Henry VI, part 1:
text: According to the definition of the imperative, this mood can express nothing but a command. Yet verbs of imperative form may also express entreaty or permission, as may, indeed, the indicative and the generally so-called potential.
ref: 1879, Kentucky Public Documents:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The grammatical mood generally expressing a command, though also used to express a request or permission.
Synonyms: imperative
imperative mode
Related terms: grammatical mood
amatrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amatrice