cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Ferberized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Ferberize
Ferberizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Ferberize
Ferberizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Ferberize
Ferber method
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Invented by Dr. Richard Ferber.
Senses: glosses: A technique to treat infants' sleep problems, involving teaching the infant to soothe itself by allowing it to cry for a period of time before external comfort is offered.
Related terms: Ferberization
Ferberize
Segwaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Segway
Segwayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Segway
Stirlingshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Stirling + -shire.
Senses: glosses: A historical county and registration county of Scotland, based in Stirling. The historic county was absorbed into Central Region in 1975.
adjectivisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adjectivisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of adjectivization.
Synonyms: adjectivalisation
Related terms: adverbialisation
nominalisation
substantivation
substantivisation
verbalisation
verbisation
adjectivisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adjectivisation
miscatalogue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: miscatalogues
form: miscataloguing
form: miscatalogued
form: miscatalogued
Etymology: From mis- + catalogue.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of miscatalog.
miscatalog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: miscatalogs
form: miscataloging
form: miscataloged
form: miscataloged
Etymology: From mis- + catalog.
Senses: glosses: catalog incorrectly.
miscatalogs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of miscatalog
miscataloging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of miscatalog
miscataloged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of miscatalog
miscatalogued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of miscatalogue
miscatalogues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of miscatalogue
miscataloguing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of miscatalogue
misdempt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: With that, out of his bouget forth he drew
Great ſtore of treaſure, therewith him to tempt;
But he on it lookt ſcornefully askew,
As much diſdeigning to be ſo miſdempt,
Or a war-monger to be baſely nempt;
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 550:
glosses: simple past and past participle of misdeem
misrefer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misrefers
form: misreferring
form: misreferred
form: misreferred
Etymology: From mis- + refer.
Senses: examples: text: What are we trying to communicate, and what are we trying to assert? The U.S. government often misrefers to the Freely Associated States as part of the American homeland. Are these mistakes or is there intent behind it?
ref: 2023 July 7, Sarah A. Topol, quoting Michael Walsh, “The America That Americans Forget”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Jul 2023:
glosses: To refer incorrectly.
Related terms: misreferral
misreferred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misrefer
misrefers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misrefer
misreferring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misrefer
misstyle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misstyles
form: misstyling
form: misstyled
form: misstyled
Etymology: From mis- + style.
Senses: examples: text: […] plaintiff's misstyling himself as corporation in initial complaint constituted case of misnomer.
ref: 1994, Illinois. Appellate Court, Stephen Davis Porter, Illinois Appellate reports, page 257:
glosses: To style or name incorrectly.
misstyled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misstyle
misstyles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misstyle
misstyling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misstyle
ursine seal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ursine seals
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of eared seal, but especially the northern fur seal, Callorhinus ursinus
ursine seals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ursine seal
redeletion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redeletions
form: re-deletion
Etymology: From re- + deletion.
Senses: glosses: deletion again
boobfeeding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of breastfeeding.
synonyms: word: breastfeeding
boobfeeding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of boobfeed
boob cancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of breast cancer.
synonyms: word: breast cancer
boobfeed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: boobfeeds
form: boobfeeding
form: boobfed
form: boobfed
Etymology: From boob (“breast”) + feed.
Senses: examples: text: Seems that somepeople^([sic]) are distressed that those awful ethnic Albanian refugees are accepting donated formula and AREN'T BOOBFEEDING, those awful lousy mothers.
ref: 1999 April 22, IleneB, “Guilty Admission”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):
ref: 2000 December 10, Gutterboy [username], “Moo arrested for boobfeeding a 6-year-old”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):
text: A goober told me it's ok for a moo to boobfeed in a pool because the chlorine will kill any germs.
ref: 2002 August 16, Lots42 [username], “Re: b-f-ing in starbucks”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):
glosses: To breastfeed.
Derived terms: boobfeeder
boob milk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Natalie said, "Esther's going to be none too pleased to find she's dining on formula this morning instead of her usual fare."
"Does that mean we're out of boob milk?" Kolt looked genuinely distraught.
ref: 2011, Laura Marie Altom, A Baby in His Stocking, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 81:
text: I used to watch Miles fall asleep from drinking boob milk late into the night.
ref: 2011, Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water: A Memoir, Hawthorne Books, →ISBN:
text: After all, you're the only one manufacturing that boob milk.
ref: 2013, April Peveteaux, Gluten Is My Bitch: Rants, Recipes, and Ridiculousness for the Gluten-Free, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang, →ISBN:
glosses: Human breast milk.
boob augmentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boob augmentations
Senses: glosses: Synonym of breast augmentation.
synonyms: word: breast augmentation
GCFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of GCF
Pierian spring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pierian springs
form: Pierian Spring
Etymology: From the spring of the Muses in Greek mythology.
Senses: examples: text: A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring.
ref: 1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC:
text: At school I enjoyed the inestimable advantage of a very sensible, though at the same time, a very severe master. […] [H]e showed no mercy to phrase, metaphor, or image, unsupported by a sound sense, or where the same sense might have been conveyed with equal force and dignity in plainer words. […] In fancy I can almost hear him now, exclaiming "Harp? Harp? Lyre? Pen and ink, boy, you mean! Muse, boy, Muse? Your Nurse's daughter, you mean! Pierian spring? Oh 'aye! the cloister-pump, I suppose!"
ref: 1817, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “The Motives of the Present Work—Reception of the Author’s First Publication—The Discipline of His Taste at School—The Effect of Contemporary Writers on Youthful Minds—[William Lisle] Bowles’s Sonnets—Comparison between the Poets before and since Mr. [Alexander] Pope”, in Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, volume I, London: Rest Fenner, […], →OCLC, pages 7–9:
text: […] a studious land
Where humming youth, intent upon the page,
Thirsting for knowledge with a noble rage,
Drink dry the whole Pierian spring
ref: 1892, Ambrose Bierce, “A Poet's Father”, in Black Beetles in Amber:
text: For him the library represented a Pierian spring, that metaphorical source of knowledge and inspiration. He drew deeply there, quelling his intellectual insecurities and nourishing his fanatic ambitions.
ref: 2009 January 2, Timothy W. Ryback, “First Chapter: Hitler’s Private Library”, in New York Times, retrieved 09 Aug 2015:
glosses: The source of knowledge, inspiration, or learning.
Pierian Spring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pierian Springs
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Pierian spring.
libfem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: libfems
Etymology: Shortened to the first syllables.
Senses: glosses: A liberal feminist.
Coordinate terms: radfem
coffeeholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɔfiˈhɔlɪk/
Forms: form: coffeeholics
Etymology: From coffee + -holic.
Senses: glosses: Somebody addicted to coffee.
ISIN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ISINs
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of International Securities Identification Number: a 12-character identification number that uniquely identifies a security.
ISIN
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of intrasinal (pertaining to the periorbital and nasal sinuses).
Related terms: intra-
sinal
sinus
ISYN
north-westerly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more north-westerly
form: most north-westerly
Etymology: From north + westerly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of northwesterly.
north-westerly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more north-westerly
form: most north-westerly
Etymology: From north + westerly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of northwesterly.
north-westerly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: north-westerlies
Etymology: From north + westerly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of northwesterly.
get with the times
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets with the times
form: getting with the times
form: got with the times
form: got with the times
form: gotten with the times
Senses: examples: text: Kyle: This fat fuck thinks he's PewDiePie! Because of him I can't get Ike to come out of his room!
Cartman: Because of me?! I'm pretty sure I'm not the person who invented Let's Plays, Kyle.
Kyle: Let's Plays?
Cartman: That's what they're called, dude. Get with the times.
ref: 2015, Southpark, Season 18, Episode 9
synonyms: move with the times
glosses: To become aware of modern trends, words or ideas.
tagball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæɡbɔːl/
ipa: /ˈtæɡˌbɔl/
Etymology: Blend of tag + paintball
Senses: topics: games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: a game/sport similar to paintball, where one tags out opponents with rubber balls fired from air pistols or paintball guns, without the mess of paint, akin to dart tag
Related terms: airsoft
archery tag
dart tag
MilSim
paintball
wargames
dart tag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æɡ
Etymology: From dart + tag.
Senses: topics: games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hypernyms: tag#Noun
;
war game
coordinate_terms: airsoft
archery tag
laser tag
MilSim
paintball
tagball
glosses: A game/sport similar to paintball using suction darts fired from air pistols to tag out one's opponents; the variant game/sport that uses soft-headed tag darts instead of suction cups.
OPC UA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: communication
communications
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of OPC Unified Architecture (an industrial M2M communication protocol for interoperability developed by the OPC Foundation).
Hypernyms: OPC
M2M
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of machine to machine, technologies that allow both wireless and wired systems to communicate with other devices of the same type.
M2M
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Eclipse' implementation of the OMG QVT standard.
topics: business
finance
coordinate_terms: HTM
glosses: Initialism of mark-to-market.
Hyponyms: OM2M
SmartM2M
QVTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of QVT
OpenXPS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of Open XML Paper Specification.
quad rugby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of quadriplegic + rugby from official players of this sport needing to be affected by some form of quadriplegia or equivalent missing limbs.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of wheelchair rugby (US regional name and American English vernacular name)
synonyms: word: wheelchair rugby
extra: US regional name and American English vernacular name
wheelchair rugby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of wheelchair basketball + rugby from its development from wheelchair basketball for play by quadriplegics, instead of paraplegics; and its rough aggressive play reminiscent of rugby.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A variation of rugby played by players in wheelchairs, primarily players with some disability. It is a full-contact sport and is played on a hardwood court with a ball similar to a basketball.
Synonyms: english: original name
translation: original name
word: murderball
english: American English name
translation: American English name
word: quad rugby
noun substantive proper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nouns substantive proper
Senses: examples: text: Q. What is a Noun Substantive Proper? A. That which is proper to the thing which it betokeneth. Q. Give an Example of a Noun Substantive Proper. A. Eduardus is my proper Name.
ref: 1730, Charles Hoole, The Common Accidence Examined and Explained by Short Questions and Answers According to the very Words of the Book, Conducing very much to the Ease of the Teacher, and Benefit of the Learner, London, lib.I. p.4:
text: The Name of any Thing or Being, or any Word in English, which will admit of a, an or the, before it, so as without any other Word to make Sense, is a Noun Substantive; if it is common to all of that Kind, it is a Noun Substantive Common; as Homo a Man, Angelus an Angel; but if it is proper to one, or to some of that Kind, it is a Noun Substantive proper, as Joannes, Gabriel.
ref: 1759, a Clergyman, Who hath taught Grammar for twenty Years past: A Short Grammar, or Rudiments, of the Latin Tongue., London, page 4:
text: Whether is lignorum a noun substantive proper, or a noun substantive common? Lignorum is a noun substantive common because it is common to more sticks than one.
ref: 1876, Henry Barnard, English Pedagogy - Old and New: or, Education, the School and the Teacher, in English Literature. Second Series, Brown & Gross, Hartfort, p.252 (at books.google)
text: A noun substantive proper is the name of some particular person, place, or thing: as Thomas is my proper name.
ref: 1780, Thomas Huntley, A grammar of the Latin Tongue …, p.7 (at books.google)
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of proper noun.
synonyms: word: proper noun
Nachlass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈnɑːx.las/
Forms: form: Nachlässe
Etymology: Borrowed from German Nachlass.
Senses: glosses: Writings remaining unpublished at an author's death.
DCOM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Distributed Component Object Model.
Hypernyms: COM
Derived terms: DCOM call
DCOM client
hi five
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hi fives
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of high five.
Zalaegerszeg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Hungary.
mussie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mussies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of muzzie.
Related terms: tussie-mussie
sweet-toothed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sweet-toothed
form: most sweet-toothed
Etymology: From sweet tooth + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Fond of sweet, sugary foods.
encinas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of encina
opinion piece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opinion pieces
Senses: topics: journalism
media
glosses: An article in which the author expresses his or her personal opinion on a given subject.
Hyponyms: op-ed
think piece
conyngry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Rare form of conynger.
higry-pigry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of hiera picra.
melanocarcinoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melanocarcinomas
form: melanocarcinomata
Etymology: From melano- + carcinoma.
Senses: glosses: melanoma
melanocarcinomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melanocarcinoma
melanocarcinomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melanocarcinoma
podagry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: podagries
Senses: glosses: Rare form of podagra.
nidiot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nidiots
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of idiot.
topdeck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: topdecks
form: topdecking
form: topdecked
form: topdecked
form: top deck
form: top-deck
Etymology: From top + deck.
Senses: examples: text: opp [...] was one turn short of death, when he topdecked wrath... i topdecked skizzik, but he had counter...
ref: 2002 January 7, Watman, “Re: [t2] deck critique - mono red (and counter-burn too)”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet), message-ID <a1dvht$mv9$3@news.tpi.pl>:
qualifier: collectible card games
glosses: To draw (a card) from one's deck and play it on the same turn.
examples: text: I've countered, burned, destroyed pretty much everything he's played, but now I'm out of cards and so is he. So now it's a topdecking game.
ref: 1998 November 8, Steven Merritt, “Re: Is it really the Academy?”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet), message-ID <36461201.2C67@165.95.92.10>:
qualifier: collectible card games
glosses: To draw cards from one's deck and play them immediately turn after turn because one has no other cards to play.
topdecking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of topdeck
topdecked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of topdeck
topdecks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of topdeck
on the Pat and Mick
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: on the pat and mick
Etymology: Rhyming slang for on the sick. Pat and Mick are stereotypical Irish names.
Senses: examples: text: Things are very different when you are off on the sick. . . . For a start, when you are on the Pat and Mick you no longer go to work.
ref: 1981 October 2, Jack McLean, “Limping along the road to recovery”, in Glasgow Herald, Scotland, retrieved 10 Aug 2015:
text: I'm on the pat and mick at the mo. Only went to town to see my mother off on the train, as she'd come down for the weekend to cheer me up.
ref: 2008 July 22, Daisy Dart, “Re: Fatal bus accident in Leeds”, in Bus and Coach Forum, UK, retrieved 10 Aug 2015:
text: While lifting the SD1's battery the handle came off. . . . [I]t then bounced and landed on my foot—good job I was wearing my toetectors otherwise I would have spent Christmas on the pat and mick.
ref: 2013 Dec. 8, Bren, "Dropped car battery," autoshite.com Motoring chat forum (UK) (retrieved 10 Aug 2015)
glosses: Sick; out of commission due to being unwell.
Synonyms: laid up
diseased
on the pat and mick
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of on the Pat and Mick.
Seereer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Serer.
non-aggression principle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NAP
form: nonaggression principle
Senses: glosses: The legal or political principle asserting that initiating conflict against persons or their property, or threatening to do so, is illegitimate.
Synonyms: non-aggression axiom
non-aggression axiom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonaggression axiom
Senses: glosses: Synonym of non-aggression principle.
synonyms: word: non-aggression principle
half term
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half terms
form: half-term
Senses: examples: text: I have just visited him at his mother's home where he is spending half term and we reminisced while looking at his photo album.
ref: 1979, SWT, Social Work Today:
text: Georgia's not a very good correspondent, which is perfectly reasonable at her age, but she didn't come down for half term and then she didn't come for Easter either.
ref: 2011, Marcia Willett, Hattie's Mill, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
text: “Good idea. The boy seems to be coping quite well, although I had a feeling he wasn't too happy about spending half term in Crete with his old grandpa."
ref: 2011, Patricia Fenn, Poseidon's Trident, Andrews UK Limited, →ISBN:
text: "We had an extraordinary February half term - I think we had 22,000 visitors in the seven days. Which actually is a bit like bedlam at times."
ref: 2020 June 3, Sam Mullins OBE discusses with Stefanie Foster, “LTM: a new chapter begins at 40”, in Rail, page 54:
glosses: A short school holiday in the middle of the term.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see half, term.
half-term
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The Roystones took advantage of the long half-term break and went to Paris.
ref: 1992, John Penn, Mortal Term, Ulverscroft Large Print, →ISBN:
text: Before 1974 the children of Lincoln were given an annual day's holiday for the mayor's birthday, but this is now calculated as part of the school Spring half-term holiday, so this seems the best location at which to place it.
ref: 1997, Maureen Sutton, A Lincolnshire Calendar:
text: The half-term trip to Nethercombe had to be postponed because of her funeral and John felt a new guilt.
ref: 2012, Marcia Willett, The Courtyard, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
text: The cartoon dog made its debut in half-term week in October, featuring on promotional children's tickets as well as fun children's activities such as colouring sheets and spot the difference.
ref: 2022 November 30, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 971, page 87:
glosses: Pertaining to the half term school holiday.
half-term
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-terms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of half term.
PCI DSS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: payment
glosses: Initialism of Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, a proprietary information security standard for organizations that handle branded credit cards from the major card schemes.
PCIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PCI
kerb crawl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kerb crawls
form: kerb crawling
form: kerb crawled
form: kerb crawled
Senses: glosses: To halt one's vehicle in the vicinity of a prostitute for the purpose of having sex.
ASVS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Initialism of Advanced Space Vision System, a computer vision system designed primarily for the ISS assembly.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: security
glosses: Initialism of Application Security Verification Standard, a standard to performing application-level security verifications.
digitron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: digitrons
Etymology: Blend of digital + electronic
Senses: examples: text: Such displays may be built using cathode ray tubes with electronically generated characters or by using arrays of digitrons and alphabet tubes, or by using electro-magnetic indicators.
ref: 1961, British Communications and Electronics - Volume 8, Part 3, page 683:
text: In digit indicator lamps (digitrons), (one of which, type HH-1, is shown in the photograph in Fig. 1.15) the cathodes are made of nichrome wires shaped as the first ten digits and arranged one after the other along the lamp axis about one mm apart.
ref: 1964, Izrailʹ Lʹvovich Kaganov, Electronics in industry, page 50:
text: The time is displayed to 0.0001 second in digital form by means of digitrons (nixie tubes).
ref: 1970, COSPAR Transactions - Issue 7, page 173:
glosses: Synonym of Nixie tube.
synonyms: word: Nixie tube
examples: text: The LEDs display and keystroke identifying are accomplished by using HD7279A, which is an intelligent control chip for 8-bit LED digitrons and 64-key keyboard with serial interface.
ref: 2011, Qihai Zhou, Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, →ISBN:
glosses: Any electronic device for displaying digits.
OPC DA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: communication
communications
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Initialism of OPC Data Access, the first of a group of specifications known as the Classic OPC Specifications.
Hypernyms: OPC
Hyponyms: OPC HDA
PLCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PLC
Amon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Amun.
OPC HDA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: communication
communications
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Initialism of OPC Historical Data Access, a group of standards of the OPC Foundation that provides COM specifications for communicating data from devices, like databases, and applications that provide historical data.
Hypernyms: OPC
Related terms: OPC DA
HDA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: communication
communications
glosses: Initialism of historical data access, an OPC standard.
HDA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HDAs
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of higher-dimensional algebra.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of helicase dependent amplification.
topics: chemistry
geography
hydrology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
coordinate_terms: LDA
MDA
HGW
ice I
ice Ih
ice Ic
ice II
ice III
ice IV
ice V
ice VI
ice VII
ice VIII
ice IX
ice X
ice XI
ice XII
ice XIII
glosses: Initialism of high-density amorphous ice.
topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of hot-dip aluminization.
HDA
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of hot-dip aluminized.
Related terms: sense: hot-dip aluminiz[ed/ation]
word: aluminized steel
sense: hot-dip aluminiz[ed/ation]
word: HDB
sense: hot-dip aluminiz[ed/ation]
word: HDG
sense: hot-dip aluminiz[ed/ation]
word: HDT
sense: hot-dip aluminiz[ed/ation]
word: HDZ
LAN house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LAN houses
Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese LAN house.
Senses: glosses: A kind of telecentre or cybercafé in Brazil.
Luys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Luy
handball player
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handball players
Senses: glosses: A person who plays handball, especially professionally.
Synonyms: sense: person who plays handball
word: handballer
Nasca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nazca.
handball players
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handball player
Nehemias
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nehemiah.
Sinay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sinays
Etymology: Two main origins:
* A variant of Sinai, a Jewish surname.
* Borrowed from a Mayan language of Guatemala, apparently from Proto-Mayan *sihnaʼng (“scorpion”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
OPC AE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: communication
communications
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Initialism of OPC Alarms & Events, an OPC Specification for alarms and events.
Hypernyms: OPC
soccerer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soccerers
Etymology: From soccer + -er.
Senses: examples: text: This means that a tennis player or soccerer has to be punished for a doping offence in exactly the same way as a track and field athlete, a canoeist or a skier.
ref: 2013, Helmut Digel, Sociological Aspects of Modern Sports, Meyer & Meyer Sport (UK) Ltd., chapter II.7, 161
glosses: A soccer player.
soccerers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soccerer
well-deserved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more well-deserved
form: most well-deserved
form: well deserved
Etymology: From well + deserved.
Senses: examples: text: a well-deserved holiday / reward / (prison) sentence
glosses: emphatic form of deserved (when used as an adjective); richly deserved, well and truly earnt.
ovarian follicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ovarian follicles
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A spherical cellular aggregation found in the ovaries, each of them containing a single oocyte, or an immature ovum.
cupuassu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cupuaçu
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese cupuaçu (formerly spelled cupuassu), from Nheengatu kupuasú, from Old Tupi kupu'yûasu.
Senses: glosses: A tropical fruit tree related to cacao, Thebroma grandiflora, the source of an edible fruit whose seeds can be used like cocoa beans.
uber-fabulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uber-fabulous
form: most uber-fabulous
form: über-fabulous
form: überfabulous
form: uberfabulous
Etymology: From uber- + fabulous.
Senses: examples: text: “This is Cristal the fabulous one enjoying an uberfabulous life. If you're calling you're not with me living it up too. Aw. Too bad. Too sad.”
ref: 2011, Niobia Bryant, Show and Tell:
text: “You see, honey,” Eva piped in, “when you change, yeah sure, you get amazing superhuman abilities like speed, strength, and maybe even the uber-fabulous potential to shape shift like myself, but just like in life, it all comes at a cost.”
ref: 2012, Melissa Hansen, Taste: A Vampire Fairy Tale:
text: And the celebrities. And the Europeans. And the supermodels. The old hotels were buffed and puffed, painted and pampered and neon-ed up, and South Beach blossomed again into a playground for the über-fabulous. Oh-so-very fabulous.
ref: 2013, Sophia Dembling, 100 Places in the USA Every Woman Should Go:
text: The companies on this list are not überfamous name brands, but they are über-fabulous!
ref: 2014, Talia Fuhrman, Love Your Body:
glosses: Exceedingly fabulous; beyond fabulous; super great.
uber-famous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uber-famous
form: most uber-famous
form: über-famous
form: überfamous
form: uberfamous
Etymology: From uber- + famous.
Senses: examples: text: Coco's got the voice, but when it comes to the stage, can she out-sparkle her über-famous mom?
ref: 2008, Zoey Dean, Almost Famous, A Talent novel:
text: Isak Guerrere, the handsome, uberfamous fashion designer who had owned and lost his own line many times and had become single-name famous for being Isak more than anything else.
ref: 2014, Mitchell Kriegman, Being Audrey Hepburn: A Novel:
glosses: Exceedingly famous; super famous
uber-delicious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uber-delicious
form: most uber-delicious
form: über-delicious
form: überdelicious
form: uberdelicious
form: über delicious
form: uber delicious
Etymology: From uber- + delicious.
Senses: examples: text: These patata pittas are like über-delicious potato knishes, the Eastern European Jewish pastries that are stuffed with potatoes mashed with onion.
ref: 2012, Marlena Spieler, Yummy Potatoes: 65 Downright Delicious Recipes:
glosses: Very delicious.
hiam
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hjʌm(˦)/
Forms: form: more hiam
form: most hiam
Etymology: Borrowed from Hokkien 薟／莶 (hiam, “spicy”).
Senses: examples: text: At best, it was just so-so – nothing like what we would cook for ourselves at home. It was not “hiam” enough probably from the lack of ginger or ginger juice and there was insufficient wine.
ref: 2011 Aug, “STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS!”, in suituapui.wordpress.com, retrieved 12 Aug 2016:
glosses: hot and spicy.
raw_tags: of food
pardao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pardaos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pardo.
reys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rās
ipa: /ɹeɪs/
rhymes: -eɪs
Forms: form: reyses
Etymology: From Middle English reys (“a journey; military expedition”), from Proto-West Germanic *raisu. Cognate with Danish rejse (“journey, trip, travel”), Dutch reis (“journey, trip, travel”), German Reise (“journey, travel”), Low German Reis (“journey, travel”) North Frisian reyse (“travel, expedition”), Norwegian reise (“trip, journey”), Swedish resa (“trip, journey”). See also reyse.
Senses: glosses: A journey or a military expedition.
tamara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A condiment popular in Italy, made of powdered cinnamon, cloves, coriander, etc.
white amurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white amur
Drainbow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Drainbows
Etymology: Blend of drain + rainbow.
Senses: examples: text: To come to a Gathering and not work, to be a Drainbow, is to miss the point of the Gathering.
ref: 1997, Michael I. Niman, People of the Rainbow: A Nomadic Utopia, University of Tennessee Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 90:
text: He jogs and catches up with Burley Bear while Skip, not daring to return to the tipi, shouts "Drainbows!" at their back.
ref: 2002, Lawrence McGuire, The Gathering at Big Sur, Virtualbookworm.com, →ISBN, page 82:
text: You will be outfitted from a pile of donated clothes and gear, fed at the free kitchens, and unless you are a complete Drainbow you will gladly give some free labour in return.
ref: 2003, Richard Grant, Ghost Riders, Hachette, →ISBN:
glosses: A person who benefits from a Rainbow Gathering without doing their share of labour.
nuhou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hawaiian nū hou.
Senses: glosses: News, gossip.
hipsterfy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hipsterfies
form: hipsterfying
form: hipsterfied
form: hipsterfied
Etymology: From hipster + -fy.
Senses: examples: text: When you're finished at the market, don't leave—stroll around the surrounding hútòng and enjoy an older section of Beijing that hasn't been hipsterfied, at least not yet.
ref: 2014, Shannon Aitken, Living Abroad in Beijing, Avalon Travel, →ISBN:
text: Having said that I like real ale and have a fuzzy face, I don't own red trousers though so I don't think I have hipsterfied yet.
ref: 2014 March, “Walthamstow Diary”, in The E List, number 14, page 18:
text: One of many old boozers in the area to have been gussied up and hipsterfied, this backstreet pub has managed to keep a generally mellow vibe.
ref: 2015, The Rough Guide to Great Britain, Rough Guides, →ISBN:
glosses: To make or become a hipster or characteristic of hipsters.
Anzac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: At Milton the road is blocked by yet another Anzac parade, a straggle of people raw-faced in the cold.
ref: 2005, Joe Bennett, A Land of Two Halves, page 43:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of ANZAC.
glosses: A hamlet in northern Alberta.
Anzac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Anzacs
Senses: examples: text: The Anzacs were pretty drunk, and one of them was saying the Armistice was probably just another bloody piece of lying propaganda
ref: 1932, John Dos Passos, 1919, Houghton Mifflin Company 2000, page 233
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of ANZAC (“type of soldier”).
glosses: Short for Anzac biscuit
chinnies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chinny
chinniest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of chinny: most chinny
cleans house
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of clean house
cleaning house
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clean house
cleaned house
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of clean house
Vajda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vajdas
form: Vaida
form: Vayda
form: Wajda
Etymology: Borrowed from Hungarian Vajda, from Hungarian vajda, ultimately from Proto-Slavic *vojevoda.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hungarian.
closes out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of close out.
closing out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of close out
closed out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of close out
cook-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cook-up
counterdraining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of counterdrain
counterdrained
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of counterdrain
cross-shots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross-shot
Central Asian Ovcharka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Central Asian Ovcharkas
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A breed of large dog usually used as a livestock guardian.
Synonyms: Alabai
Alabay
Central Asian Shepherd Dog
acoustic bass guitars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acoustic bass guitar
amound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈmaʊnd/
Forms: form: amounds
form: amounding
form: amounded
form: amounded
Etymology: From a- + mound, compare amass; possibly influenced by amount.
Senses: examples: text: CRUFT: that which magically amounds in the Clubroom just before you walk in to clean up. In other words, rubbage.
ref: 1959, Peter Samson, AN ABRIDGED DICTIONARY of the TMRC LANGUAGE June 1959 (with 2005 commentary)
glosses: To accumulate, to mound up, to amount.
Synonyms: accumulate
amass
Central Asian shepherd dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Central Asian shepherd dog
sports bib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sports bibs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bib.
synonyms: word: bib
training bib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: training bibs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bib.
synonyms: word: bib
akontings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of akonting
Appalachian dulcimer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Appalachian dulcimers
Senses: glosses: A diatonically fretted and neckless string instrument, most commonly with three or four strings; a chordophone of the zither family.
Synonyms: mountain dulcimer
lap dulcimer
dulcimore
fretted dulcimer
hog harp
hog fiddle
church dulcimer
Appalachian dulcimers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Appalachian dulcimer
dutar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dutars
form: dotar
form: doutar
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A two-stringed lute with a long neck, found in Central Asia.
Derived terms: dutarist
Related terms: dotara
sitar
setar
tar
Central Asian shepherd dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Central Asian shepherd dogs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Central Asian Ovcharka.
synonyms: word: Central Asian Ovcharka
Central Asian Ovcharkas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Central Asian Ovcharka
Uchina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈuːt͡ʃiˌnɑː/
Forms: form: Uchinā
Etymology: Borrowed from Okinawan 沖縄(うちなー) (Uchinā). Doublet of Okinawa. Cognate with Japanese うちなー (Uchinā).
Senses: glosses: Okinawa, especially in the context of native Okinawan culture.
pointe shoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pointe shoes
Senses: examples: text: Instead, I would stick to dancing and continue plunging my toes into the beautiful, tight, shiny sheaths called pointe shoes.
ref: 2004, Toni Bentley, The Surrender:
qualifier: ballet
glosses: A type of shoe with a strengthened toe, used for dancing on pointe.
pointe shoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pointe shoe
ovaries of steel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Intense courage.
MQTT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Message Queueing Telemetry Transport, a lightweight publish-subscribe messaging protocol used on top of the TCP/IP protocol.
Hypernyms: english: structurally
translation: structurally
word: MQ
Hyponyms: MQTT-SN
Related terms: MQTT broker
TCP/IP
MQTT-SN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Initialism of MQ Telemetry Transport for Sensor Networks, a variation of the MQTT protocol for embedded devices on non-TCP/IP networks.
Hypernyms: MQTT
Caucasian shepherd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Caucasian shepherds
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A dog of a large breed commonly used to guard livestock.
Related terms: molosser
Central Asian Ovcharka
JMS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Juberg-Marsidi syndrome
JMS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: hypernyms: API
glosses: Initialism of Java Message Service, a MOM API for sending messages between two or more clients.
hypernyms: specification
glosses: Initialism of Java Module System, a Java specification for collections of Java code and related resources.
hand-for-hand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: In a poker tournament consisting of multiple tables, the requirement that each next hand be dealt only after all tables have finished the current hand, to prevent players from stalling near an increase in the prize payouts, and/or when there must be a definitive player ranking.
KPIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of KPI
pit bull terriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pit bull terrier
Caucasian shepherds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Caucasian shepherd
unmountainous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmountainous
form: most unmountainous
Etymology: From un- + mountainous.
Senses: glosses: Not mountainous.
night safe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪf
Forms: form: night safes
Senses: examples: text: Banking after trading hours usually involves the use of a night safe. All the cash to be banked will have been placed inside a night safe wallet and that in turn must be carried in the cash carrying receptacle and only removed when immediately confronting the opened night safe.
ref: 1990, Peter H. Jones, Retail loss control, page 72:
text: This commonsense approach would indicate that monies should be paid into a bank as soon as possible for security reasons if nothing else. This is why most banks operate night safe systems as many organisations prefer to deposit their daily takings each evening rather than running the risk of having the cash on the premises over night.
ref: 2009, BPP Learning Media, CTH - Finance for Tourism and Hospitality, page 99:
text: The position is maybe less clear, however, with respect to one of the more recent incarnations of the safe-deposit services offered by banks, namely the night safe, which enables customers to deposit cash, cheques, or documents with a bank outside normal banking hours.
ref: 2011, E.P. Ellinger, E. Lomnicka, C. Hare, Ellinger's Modern Banking Law, page 742:
synonyms: night depository
glosses: A safe with access, typically in the outside wall of a bank, through which people may deposit money when the bank is closed
redetain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: redetains
form: redetaining
form: redetained
form: redetained
Etymology: From re- + detain.
Senses: examples: text: He came by boat to Australia, and lived in the community for three years before being redetained by immigration authorities.
ref: 2015 August 12, Ben Doherty, “Asylum seeker forcibly returned to Afghanistan after appeals exhausted”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To detain again.
redetained
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of redetain
redetains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of redetain
redetaining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redetain
GRX
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: GPRS roaming exchange
redetention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redetentions
Etymology: From re- + detention.
Senses: glosses: The act of redetaining.
redetentions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redetention
diaried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of diary
diarying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of diary
concisions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concision