cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mutton bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mutton birds
form: mutton-bird
form: muttonbird
Senses: examples: text: He dubbed them mutton-birds, for they came like lambs to the slaughter.
ref: 1941, Ernestine Hill, My Love Must Wait, A&R Classics, published 2013, page 186:
text: Mutton Bird (Puffinus tenuirostris) Ornithosis
Early in 1953 Dr. D. L. Serventy sent us twelve mutton birds from the Bass Strait Islands for another investigation. One of these birds died shortly after reaching Adelaide.
ref: 1959, Monographiae Biologicae, volume 8, page 422:
text: The oil he sprayed on his customers was derived from the oil glands of mutton birds hunted in the islands of the Bass Strait by the descendants of nineteenth-century sailors and the Tasmanian Aboriginal women they had kidnapped.
ref: 1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin, published 2009, page 17:
text: Thousands of small birds, Tasmania′s entire population of mutton birds, take flight at the crack of dawn, headed toward Antarctica.
ref: 2000, Donna Eden, David Feinstein, Brooks Garten, Caroline Myss, Energy Medicine, page 260:
glosses: Any of various seabirds whose flesh is said to taste like mutton when cooked, especially Puffinus griseus, Puffinus tenuirostris, or a petrel of the genus Pterodroma.
Related terms: muttonbirder
muttonbirding
mutton birds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mutton bird
fauxnetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: fō'-nĕtʹ-ĭk
ipa: /ˌfəʊˈnɛtɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Etymology: Blend of faux + phonetic
Senses: examples: text: George H.'s use of "ah" is, strictly speaking, erroneous, although we can't expect much more from a fauxnetic transcription.
ref: (Language Log, "A pretentious and altogether lamentable affectation", 2010 December 28)http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2870
glosses: Of a pronunciation respelling system, in contrast to a phonetic alphabet.
swamp gum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swamp gums
Senses: examples: text: Two years before, under the swamp-gum in their Mosman garden, away from the children's ears, they had talked of separating […].
ref: 1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin, published 2009, page 51:
glosses: Any of various species of Eucalyptus native to Australia.
glosses: Any of various species of Eucalyptus native to Australia.
Eucalyptus bensonii (mountain swamp gum)
glosses: Any of various species of Eucalyptus native to Australia.
Eucalyptus camphora (mountain swamp gum)
glosses: Any of various species of Eucalyptus native to Australia.
Eucalyptus ovata
glosses: Any of various species of Eucalyptus native to Australia.
Eucalyptus regnans
glosses: Any of various species of Eucalyptus native to Australia.
Eucalyptus rudis
qualifier: North Carolina; South Carolina
glosses: Either of two species of Nyssa native to the southeast United States.
Nyssa aquaticus (water tupelo)
qualifier: North Carolina; South Carolina
glosses: Either of two species of Nyssa native to the southeast United States.
Nyssa biflora (swamp tupelo)
social ladder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: social ladders
Senses: glosses: The hierarchy of a society.
Related terms: corporate ladder
social climber
social mobility
economic mobility
upwardly mobile
upward mobility
declimb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪm
Forms: form: declimbs
form: declimbing
form: declimbed
form: declimbed
Etymology: From de- + climb.
Senses: examples: text: It has saddled us with an insoluble puzzle: How to declimb from heights that make us dizzy and that we cannot endure forever without slipping into an incalculable slide that we can [not] arrest with all existing brakes[…]
ref: 1965, United States Senate Committee on Banking and Currency, Subcommittee on International Finance, Eighty-ninth Congress, First Session, Hearings on Balance of Payments, part 2, page 949:
text: I had been told that, if the principal really didn't like you, he would assign you five classrooms, one for each period and each on different floors, so that you might find yourself climbing and declimbing four flights of stairs, plus descending to the half basement, whose windows were half-covered with snow during the winter and tall grass the rest of the time.
ref: 2010, Jane Juska, A Round-Heeled Woman, pages 183–184:
glosses: To climb down.
light novel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: light novels
Etymology: Calque of Japanese ライトノベル (raito noberu), ultimately from light + novel.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
synonyms: LN
hypernyms: novel
coordinate_terms: novel
novella
novelette
glosses: A Japanese novel primarily targeting young adults, typically illustrated (in an anime/manga style) and containing not more than 50,000 words.
Derived terms: LN
light novels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of light novel
part with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: parts with
form: parting with
form: parted with
form: parted with
Senses: examples: text: I really love this new stereo system but I'm not willing to part with the cash to buy it.
text: Celia, for thy sake, I part / With all that grew so near my heart.
ref: a. 1687, Edmund Waller, To the Mutable Fair:
text: But capital was proving difficult to raise; rumours were in the air that the G.W.R. and L.S.W.R. were about to patch up their quarrel, and the people of Southampton, who twelve months earlier had staged a torch-light procession to celebrate the passing of the D.N.S.R. Act, were increasingly loath to part with their cash.
ref: 1955 February, T. B. Sands, “The Didcot, Newbury & Southampton Railway—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 79:
text: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see part, with.
But they always parted with an increased regard for one another.
glosses: To let go of; to give up; to relinquish.
Duck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌk/
homophone: duck
rhymes: -ʌk
Etymology: The surname is originally a nickname from Middle English doke (“duck”). See duck.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the nickname.
glosses: A town in North Carolina.
glosses: An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
radiodiffusions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radiodiffusion
works of fiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of work of fiction
misíthra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mizithra.
nork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɔːk/
ipa: /nɔɹk/
ipa: /noːk/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: norks
Etymology: Unknown, originally used in Australia, attested since the 1960s. One theory suggests that the source is Norco Co-operative, a butter manufacturer that featured a cow's udder on package labels, but this is considered dubious.
Senses: examples: text: I lay there so close I could've reached out in any direction and just grabbed a nork.
ref: 1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin, published 2009, page 91:
text: Ernie constantly badgered me to get her to talk to him but I suspected she would throttle him if he merely glanced in the direction of her norks.
ref: 1999, Louis Nowra, The twelfth of never:
text: And her norks! Like a hundred times bigger than his sister's. Why was he thinking about his sister's norks? Gross.
ref: 2002, Kate Atkinson, Not the end of the world:
glosses: A woman's breast.
wikipedia: Green's Dictionary of Slang
Norco Co-operative
renversements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of renversement
pigface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪɡfeɪs/
Forms: form: pigfaces
form: pig-face
form: pig's-face
Etymology: From pig + face.
Senses: examples: text: The road cut through sand dunes spread patchily with pigface and tumbleweeds and led obliquely to the sea […]
ref: 1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin, published 2009, page 124:
text: that other fleshy plant, the one called pig-face, had lain across a corner of the cliffs like vivid pink shantung flung across a draper's counter.
ref: 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 256:
text: My father was forever trying to tame this lumpen block, buttressing it with rock gardens and rock walls garlanded with pigface, courtesy of my mother.
ref: 2015, Magda Szubanski, Reckoning, Text Publishing, page 52:
glosses: Any of various mesembryanthemums of the genus Carpobrotus, native to coastal areas of Australia, and producing edible fruits.
examples: text: Shut up, pigface!
glosses: Term of abuse for an ugly person.
crissa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crissum
cramponné
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cramponee.
looard
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Alteration of leeward.
Senses: examples: text: So my great-uncle, who were bosin, made an observation, and says he, 'There's just ten days' provision for seven men, and we're twenty days to looard of Silly Bes (Celebes), if we only row ten miles a day.
ref: 1877, Charles W. Hall, Adrift in the Ice-Fields:
text: "Keep away, boy--keep to looard.
ref: 1884, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete:
text: I heard the starboard steward Singing abaft the poop; He lewdly sang to looard And sleep fled from the sloop.
ref: 1921, Christopher Morley, Plum Pudding:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: leeward
destituent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more destituent
form: most destituent
Etymology: From Latin destituens (“abandoning”), present participle of destituo (“I forsake, I abandon”).
Senses: examples: text: a destituent condition
text: When any condition intrinsically and in the nature of the thing included in an affirmative precept is destituent or wanting , the duty itself falls without interpretation
ref: 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] James Flesher, for Richard Royston […], →OCLC:
glosses: deficient; lacking
entractes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entracte
sarments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarment
cassonades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cassonade
kadaitcha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kurdaitcha.
gwarder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gwarders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gwarda.
gwarda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡwɑːdə/
Forms: form: gwardas
form: gwardar
form: gwarder
Etymology: From Nyunga gwanda, gunda.
Senses: examples: text: At the time he was recovering from another snake bite, a gwarder, and not himself.
ref: 1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin, published 2009, page 152:
glosses: A very venomous Australian snake, Pseudonaja nuchalis.
gwardas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gwarda
white willow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white willows
Senses: examples: text: Here, Tess interjected. Follow me, and she took them to a clearing filled with willow: I think these are white willows and by spring they will flourish, don’t they look kind of feminine? The male and female flowers grow on separate trees.
ref: 2023, Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat, Vintage (2024), pages 150-151:
glosses: A willow native to Europe and western Asia (Salix alba).
white willows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white willow
pay one's debt to society
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pays one's debt to society
form: paying one's debt to society
form: paid one's debt to society
form: paid one's debt to society
Senses: glosses: To serve time in prison or a similar correctional facility.
Related terms: prison
correctional facilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of correctional facility
correctional institutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of correctional institution
done time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of do time
does time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of do time
doing time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of do time
did time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of do time
Ganai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Gunai.
Ives
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /aɪvz/
Etymology: From the medieval English given name mostly found in the Latinate form Ivo today.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Stoddard County, Missouri, United States, named after John Ivester.
Derived terms: Ivesian
Iveson
Related terms: St Ives
wendy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wendies
Senses: examples: text: Toughen up, you big wendy.
qualifier: particularly northern UK
glosses: A wuss; someone who is particularly cowardly.
Alvis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An American surname.
examples: text: It was not easy growing up with a first name like Alvis. Every year on the first day of school when the teacher would read off her seating chart, Alvis, all the snotty little kids in my class would laugh.
ref: 2010 December 15, David Moon, “The Lunar Report”, in The Herald:
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
press tits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: presses tits
form: pressing tits
form: pressed tits
form: pressed tits
Senses: examples: text: 'Press tits at four thirty a.m.'
ref: 2010, Frank Barnard, Blue Man Falling: A riveting World War Two tale of RAF fighter pilots:
text: […] For the rest of my life / I'd take me a wife / A Wimpy bomb-aimer, / For he'd press a tit, / And I'd press a tit, / We'd all press tits together, […]
ref: 2011, Lewis Brandon, Albert Smith, Ian Smith, Night Flyer/Mosquito Pathfinder: Night Operations in World War II:
topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: RAF
glosses: To initiate a start-up sequence.
subintrant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: With paroxysms succeeding one another so fast as to be almost continuous.
sustentatio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin sustentātiō. Doublet of sustentation.
Senses: glosses: Suspense.
vectigal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vectigals
Etymology: From Latin vectīgal.
Senses: glosses: A tax.
fordrive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fordrives
form: fordriving
form: fordrove
form: fordriven
Etymology: From Middle English fordriven, from Old English fordrīfan (“to drive, sweep away, drive on, impel, compel, drive away, expel, overtax”), from Proto-West Germanic *fradrīban, from Proto-Germanic *fradrībaną (“to drive away, drive out, expel”), equivalent to for- + drive.
Cognate with West Frisian fordriuwe, ferdriuwe (“to expel”), Dutch verdrijven (“to expel”), German Low German verdrieven (“to drive away”), German vertreiben (“to expel, drive out, banish”), Danish fordrive (“to oust, expel”), Swedish fördriva (“to drive away, drive out, banish”).
Senses: glosses: To drive away; expel.
glosses: To drive about; drive here and there; drive astray.
Related terms: drive
narmean
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of do you know what I mean.
fordread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fordreads
form: fordreading
form: fordreaded
form: fordreaded
Etymology: From Middle English fordreden, from Old English fordrǣdan (“to terrify”), equivalent to for- + dread.
Senses: glosses: To be in dread of.
glosses: To terrify greatly.
commuter marriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commuter marriages
Senses: glosses: a voluntary arrangement where dual-career couples maintain two residences in different geographic locations and are separated at least three nights per week for a minimum of three months
horaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horary
acorn woodpecker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acorn woodpeckers
Senses: synonyms: California woodpecker
glosses: A woodpecker native to the area from the southwestern United States to Colombia, of species Melanerpes formicivorus.
acorn woodpeckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acorn woodpecker
wampi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wampis
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wampee.
wampis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wampi
clapper board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clapper boards
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Alternative form of clapperboard.
thingman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thingmen
Etymology: Calque of Old Norse thingman, which is þing (“thing”) + maðr (“man”), or else a back-formation from "thingmen", which was borrowed morpheme for morpheme from þingmenn (“thingmen”).
Senses: examples: text: Now if the debtor pleads that "I do not know the law but I will comply with whatever the thingmen think lawful," he [the creditor] must summon him before the thing after five nights, at the shortest, and five times five at the longest, if he knows when the thing is to meet; […] it is then the duty of the thingmen to decide the matter and to award him his money.
ref: 2008, The Earliest Norwegian Laws: Being the Gulathing Law and the Frostathing Law, translated from Old Norwegian by Laurence Marcellus Larson, page 63
glosses: One of several men gathered at a thing, for example to settle a dispute over a debt.
examples: text: A thingman and chieftain owed each other duties of support. […] The ideal is well stated by Eyjolf to his own thingmen as he requests their support in his struggles against the Ljosvetning kin group […]
ref: 1989, Law and literature in medieval Iceland: Ljósvetninga saga and Valla-Ljóts saga, Theodore Murdock Andersson, William Ian Miller, page 8:
glosses: (One of several) men serving as the army, particularly the mercenary army, (of a specific ruler).
Related terms: Thingmen
Thingman
thingmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thingman
there is nothing new under the sun
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: nothing new under the sun
Etymology: Calque of Latin nihil sub sōle novum, itself a calque from the Hebrew אֵין כָּל חָדָשׁ תַּחַת הַשָּׁמֶשׁ (en kol chadásh táchat hashámesh, “there is nothing new under the sun”) found in Ecclesiastes 1:9.
Senses: glosses: There is nothing truly novel in existence; every new idea has some sort of precedent or echo from the past.
Related terms: everything old is new again
nothing is said that has not been said before
SSDD
the more things change, the more they stay the same
LSC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: LS
glosses: Initialism of Local Supercluster.
glosses: Initialism of Legal Services Commission.
examples: text: LSC provides grants to nonprofits nationwide that in turn provide civil legal aid to those who otherwise can't afford it. The beneficiaries of LSC funding include homeless veterans, low-income workers and victims of domestic abuse.
ref: 2017 March 9, Jeanne Sahadi, “Lawyers fear Trump may kill legal aid funding for the poor”, in CNN Business:
glosses: Initialism of Legal Services Corporation.
Local Supercluster
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌloʊkl̩ ˈsupɚˌklʌstɚ/
Etymology: Coined by Gerard de Vaucouleurs in 1958.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The supercluster that includes the Milky Way galaxy.
Synonym of Virgo Supercluster, a lobe of the Laniakea Supercluster; a supercluster representing all the nearby galaxies which have clumped together
synonyms: word: Virgo Supercluster
word: Virgo SCl
word: Vir SC
word: VirSC
word: Virgo Supercluster
extra: a lobe of the Laniakea Supercluster; a supercluster representing all the nearby galaxies which have clumped together
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The supercluster that includes the Milky Way galaxy.
Synonym of Laniakea, a supercluster representing all the galaxies drawn towards the local gravitational center
synonyms: word: Laniakea Supercluster
word: Laniakea SCl
word: Laniakea
word: Laniakea
extra: a supercluster representing all the galaxies drawn towards the local gravitational center
Synonyms: LS
LSC
Derived terms: word: LS
word: LSC
Related terms: Local Arm
Local Bubble
Local Cluster
Local Filament
Local Fluff
Local Galaxy
Local Group
Local Hole
Local Space
Local Spur
Local Star
Local Universe
Local Void
Local Wall
Virgo Supercluster
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɚɡoʊ ˈsu.pɚˈklʌstɚ/
Etymology: Virgo + supercluster; from where the supercluster is centered, on the Virgo Cluster in the Virgo Constellation
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The supercluster that includes the Milky Way galaxy.
Synonyms: Local Supercluster
LS
LSC
Virgo SC
VirSC
Vir SC
Derived terms: word: Virgo SC
word: VirSC
word: Vir SC
Related terms: Virgo
Virgo A
Virgo Cluster
Virgo Constellation
Virgo Dwarf
Virgo Dwarf Galaxy
Virgo Overdensity
Virgo Stellar Stream
Virgo Super Star Cluster
VirSC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of Virgo Supercluster.
Synonyms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: Vir SC
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: Virgo SC
Virgo SC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of Virgo Supercluster.
Synonyms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: Vir SC
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: VirSC
UN*X
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: UN*Xes
Senses: glosses: A Unix-like operating system (e.g., Linux, macOS, Solaris, etc.).
Synonyms: *nix
notspot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: notspots
Etymology: Blend of not + hotspot.
Senses: examples: text: The exchange enablement phase of the RIBS programme was completed in July 2007. Now seeking to address broadband notspots.
ref: 2009, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Welsh Affairs Committee, Digital inclusion in Wales: thirteenth report of session 2008-09, page 140:
text: 2009, Jane Wakefield (BBC News), Need to tackle 'social' notspots
Some 17 million people in the UK - 30% of the population - are estimated to be offline because they simply don't want it. Some have opted out for economic reasons while others believe broadband has no relevance to their lives.
text: "We've been able to do this work for £50,000," said Mr Lewis.
"I'm not sure why BT said it would cost so much more, but essentially this is a case of community action and a small company working together.
"This is now the first Welsh notspot area to receive broadband using this method. We hope to go live in October."
ref: 2010, BBC News, Erbistock villagers quoted £550,000 for broadband link:
synonyms: dead zone
glosses: An area where wireless Internet access or mobile phone access is not available.
Related terms: notwork
social notworking
notspots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of notspot
Gaian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡaɪ.ən/
rhymes: -aɪən
Forms: form: more Gaian
form: most Gaian
Etymology: From Gaia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Having recognised the Gaian phenomenon I would like to explain where I think Gaia comes from and ask for how long this Gaia phenomenon has persisted on the surface of the Earth. And then I would like to raise some of the objections to the Gaia hypothesis. To my knowledge the Gaia hypothesis has never been discussed in polite scientific society by sympathetic scientists; this is an all time first.
ref: 1988, Lynn Margulis, “Jim Lovelock’s Gaia”, in Peter Bunyard, Edward Goldsmith, editors, Gaia, the Thesis, the Mechanisms and the Implications: Proceedings of the First Annual Camelford Conference on the Implications of the Gaia Hypothesis, held on 21–24th October 1987 in Cornwall, Camelford, Cornwall: Wadebridge Ecological Centre, →ISBN, page 50:
glosses: Of or relating to Gaia.
Gaian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡaɪ.ən/
rhymes: -aɪən
Forms: form: Gaians
Etymology: From Gaia + -an.
Senses: glosses: A radical Green who views the ecology of the Earth's biosphere not only as the basis of human moral examples, but of all cognition and even sentience.
examples: text: Inspired by comic-book and anime fans, “Gaians” play games, […]
ref: 2008 July 3, Corilyn Shropshire, “AVATAR SHOPPING / Virtual clotheshorses / A little cash goes a long way to get the latest wardrobe - even though it isn't real”, in Houston Chronicle, page E.1:
text: Within the offering’s first hour of launch, Gaians acquired over 28,000 Scions, a figure that grew to 600,000 within six months.
ref: 2010, Rick Mathieson, The On-Demand Brand: 10 Rules for Digital Marketing Success in an Anytime, Everywhere World, AMACOM, →ISBN, page 9:
text: Gaians create customizable avatars and virtual homes using Gaia Cash and Gaia Gold and allow users to shop at their Gold Shops, Cash Shops, and marketplaces for trading on the Gaia Exchange (Gaiaonline.com).
ref: 2023, Nathalie Rébé, editor, Cyber Laundering: International Policies And Practices, World Scientific, →ISBN, page 131:
glosses: A member of the anime-themed social networking and forums-based website Gaia Online.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: An inhabitant of Earth.
afferentia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin afferentia. Doublet of afference.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any afferent vessels, whether blood or lymph vessels; specifically, the afferent arteries of the kidneys.
Gaianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Gaian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A spiritual philosophy following the Gaia Theory of James Lovelock.
Related terms: Gaian
amicite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Amici + -ite, after physicist Giovan Battista Amici (1786–1863).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A monoclinic-sphenoidal zeolite mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, oxygen, potassium, silicon, and sodium.
amomum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amomums
Etymology: From Latin amomum.
Senses: glosses: Any of several spices of genus Amomum, family Zingiberaceae, including cardamom.
zip fasteners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zip fastener
danceathon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: danceathons
Etymology: From dance + -athon.
Senses: examples: text: The first-time event, modeled after a Seattle danceathon, raised an estimated $10,000...
ref: 1989 June, Cincinnati Magazine, volume 22, number 9, page 12:
text: Out of desperation promoters hit upon the idea of marathon events - walkathons, danceathons, and almost inevitably skateathons.
ref: 2009, Adam Russ, 101 Sports Not to Try, page 140:
glosses: A charity event in which participants engage in a prolonged session of dancing.
danceathons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of danceathon
byssine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /bɪˈsiːn/
Forms: form: more byssine
form: most byssine
Etymology: From Latin byssinus (“made of byssus”), from Ancient Greek βύσσινος (bússinos, “made of byssus”). See byssus.
Senses: glosses: Made of, or resembling, silk; silken.
citharae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin citharae, plural of cithara.
Senses: examples: text: At least, the mashrokitha, would stand between the citharae and the trumpets, with more propriety than sacrifice-basons.
ref: 1835, O. A. Taylor, “No. XX”, “Article III. Pfeiffer on the Music of the Ancient Hebrews”, in The Biblical Repository and Quarterly Observer, volume 6, numbers XIX, XX, conducted by B. B. Edwards, Andover: Gould and Newman. Boston: Perkins, Marvin and Co., “II. Wind Instruments”, pages 394–395:
text: At last he gave a signal to the leader of the music, and at that signal the citharae began to sound lightly, and youthful voices accompanied.
ref: 1924, Charles Herbert Sylvester, The Writings of Mankind: Latin Literature, page 3258:
text: There are also similar elements in the citharae on the punch-dies of L and M: high sound-chest, short arms with thick base and tapering ends, the method of effecting the juncture between arms and uprights (compare particularly P63 of L with P67 and P69-70 of M).
ref: 1938, Excavations at Olynthus, page 100:
glosses: plural of cithara
blind item
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blind items
Senses: examples: text: Judy came from a different era, when blind items stayed blind and you could control the story.
ref: 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 435:
glosses: A news story in which the identities of the persons involved are not revealed.
blind items
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blind item
small-pox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of smallpox.
small pox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of smallpox.
back labor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back labors
form: back labour
Senses: glosses: Intense pain in one's back while in labor (giving birth).
back labors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back labor
back labour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back labours
Senses: glosses: UK spelling of back labor.
back labours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back labour
rebluff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rebluffs
Etymology: From re- + bluff.
Senses: topics: gambling
games
glosses: Act of responding to a bluff with another bluff.
rebluff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From re- + bluff.
Senses: glosses: To respond to a bluff with another bluff.
rebluffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rebluff
Aphroditus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /æfɹəˈdaɪtəs/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἀφρόδιτος (Aphróditos), masculine form of Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A male Aphrodite, from Cyprus, represented as a herm with a phallus, who in later mythology became known as Hermaphroditus, the son of Hermes and Aphrodite.
Related terms: epicene
androgynous
gynandrous
intersex
gynandromorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having male and female characteristics.
raw_tags: of an organism
evomit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: evomits
form: evomiting
form: evomited
form: evomited
Etymology: From Latin ēvomitus, past participle of ēvomere (“to vomit forth”); ē- (“out”) + vomere.
Senses: glosses: To vomit.
execrator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: execrators
Etymology: From execrate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who execrates.
transsubstantiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of transubstantiation.
Primitive Methodist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Primitive Methodists
Senses: glosses: A member of an early evangelical form of Methodism.
Oriental Orthodox
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the Oriental Orthodox churches, a branch of Eastern Christianity distinguished by their miaphysite Christology.
Oriental Orthodox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Oriental Orthodoxes
Senses: glosses: A member of an Oriental Orthodox church.
Primitive Methodists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Primitive Methodist
OLL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: Rubik's-Cube
games
glosses: Initialism of orientation of the last layer: placing all the cubies of the last layer so that the last-layer colour of each cubie is facing the last layer.
Coordinate terms: PLL
tsundere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tso͞on'dər-ā
ipa: /ˈtsun.dəɹ.eɪ/
Forms: form: tsundere
form: tsunderes
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese ツンデレ (tsundere), from つんつん (tsun-tsun, “in a cross, aloof, or standoffish manner”, adverb) + でれでれ (dere-dere, “in a lovey-dovey, infatuated, or lovestruck manner”, adverb).
Senses: examples: text: I usually draw very peaceful, happy manga, so it has been a real challenge for me to illustrate the vice president's death glare and Ri-chan's subtle tsundere attitude.
ref: 2008, Kio Shimoku, Kujibiki Unbalance 1, Del Rey/Ballantine Books, →ISBN, unnumbered page:
text: Even Kaname's rude and overbearing tsundere personality is explained by her having gone to school in the United States where she was socialized to just bluntly say what she thought.
ref: 2010 August 14, David Johnston, “Full Metal Panic: One Night Stand”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):
text: Despite his apparent power, the boy behaves with uncharacteristic meekness toward the formidable tsundere Misato Tachibana, whose grotesquely distorted romantic feelings for Koujirou almost invariably result in her shooting him all over the school with heavy weaponry (which seems to spring out of nowhere).
ref: 2012, Dani Cavallaro, Kyoto Animation: A Critical Study and Filmography, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 157:
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A fictional character who fits the archetype of being cold or even hostile towards another person before gradually showing a warm and caring side.
Related terms: dandere
kuudere
yandere
deredere
himedere
tsundere
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: tso͞on'dər-ā
ipa: /ˈtsun.dəɹ.eɪ/
Forms: form: more tsundere
form: most tsundere
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese ツンデレ (tsundere), from つんつん (tsun-tsun, “in a cross, aloof, or standoffish manner”, adverb) + でれでれ (dere-dere, “in a lovey-dovey, infatuated, or lovestruck manner”, adverb).
Senses: examples: text: Ah, the cactus. / Truly the most tsundere of plants.
ref: 2015 September 15, Toby Fox, Undertale, Linux, Microsoft Windows, OS X:
glosses: Showing qualities typical of a tsundere.
fall from grace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: falls from grace
Senses: examples: text: But the row highlighted the fall from grace of the ethnically diverse women Sarkozy once promoted but later cast aside, who are now rebelling. The former young sports minister, Rama Yade, outspoken and hugely popular, has not only quit the government: she has left Sarkozy's party.
ref: 2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Feb 2023:
glosses: The loss of one's social position, prestige, status, power, etc.
fall from grace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls from grace
form: falling from grace
form: fell from grace
form: fallen from grace
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: To lose God's favour through sins or wrongdoings.
examples: text: His father fell from grace with the emperor.
text: The cyclist fell from grace because of steroids and lies.
text: The row started over who will run for parliament in a wealthy rightwing constituency on the left bank in Paris, a safe seat for Sarkozy's ruling UMP. Dati is already a local mayor in the neighbourhood, a job felt to have been handed to her on a plate when she was a Sarkozy favourite. She has since fallen from grace, and when she left government she took a European parliament seat, considered a consolation prize.
ref: 2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Feb 2023:
glosses: To fall from one's current social position to something lower, to lose one's prestige, status or power.
PowerPointing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of PowerPoint
PowerPointed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of PowerPoint
powerpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powerpoints
Etymology: From PowerPoint, trademarked brand of presentation software.
Senses: examples: text: The powerpoint shows the same model type of the Mitsubishi train, Crystal Mover, being run in Singapore's light rail transit.
ref: 2010 December 30, Natalie Leung, “Mitsubishi wins LRT tender”, in Macau Daily Times:
glosses: An electronic slide presentation.
n-bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: n-bombs
form: N-bomb
Etymology: From n (“abbreviation of nigger”) + bomb (“(euphemism marker)”).
Senses: examples: text: ALF’s racist N-bomb blooper reel has inspired another member of the 1980s sitcom cast to air an expletive of his own.
ref: 2010 December 28, Soraya Roberts, “John LaMotta, ‘ALF’ star, denigrates 1980s show after N-bomb outtakes go viral”, in New York Daily News:
glosses: The word nigger or nigga.
Synonyms: n-word
Related terms: c-bomb
f-bomb
n-word
rock crystal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rock crystals
Senses: examples: text: […] I have for Trials sake taken Lumps of Rock Crystal, and Heating them Red hot in a Crucible, I found according to my Expectation, that being Quench’d in Fair water, even those that remain’d in seemingly entire Lumps, exchang’d their Translucency for Whiteness […]
ref: 1664, Robert Boyle, chapter 1, in Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours, London: Henry Herringman, page 114:
text: […] I saw his Body, in Episcopal Robes, lying upon the Altar in a Shrine of Rock-Crystal.
ref: 1718, Joseph Addison, Remarks on Several Part of Italy, London: J. Tonson, pages 22–23:
text: […] there in the laboratory we beheld a larger edition of the little mechanism which we had seen vanish from before our eyes. Parts were of nickel, parts of ivory, parts had certainly been filed or sawn out of rock crystal.
ref: 1895, H. G. Wells, chapter 1, in The Time Machine, New York: Henry Holt, page 24:
text: I wondered whether I ought to speak to Brideshead, but that grim, rock-crystal mask forbade all confidence.
ref: 1945, Evelyn Waugh, chapter 5, in Brideshead Revisited, Boston: Little, Brown, page 131:
text: At New Year he had given Anne a present of silver forks with handles of rock crystal.
ref: 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, London: Fourth Estate, Part 4, Chapter 1, p. 296:
synonyms: clear quartz
pure quartz
glosses: A clear, colorless form of the silica-based mineral quartz.
mind rhyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mind rhymes
Senses: glosses: A form of rhyme in which a rhyming word is omitted, and left to be "heard" only in the reader's mind.
end rhyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: end rhymes
Senses: glosses: The form of rhyme (rhyming) which uses sameness of sound of the last words of lines from the vowels in their stressed syllables to their ends.
examples: text: In this poem, the words defense/tense, know/go, and Spain/Maine are end-rhymes.
ref: 1993, Elements of Literature, page 875:
glosses: A word that rhymes with another in that it is pronounced identically with the other word from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.
Hypernyms: rhyme
Related terms: stave-rhyme
eye rhyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eye rhymes
Etymology: Compound of eye + rhyme.
Senses: synonyms: sight rhyme
glosses: A pair of words (or syllables) that, because of their spelling, look as if they rhyme but, because of different pronunciation, do not. Many eye rhymes are historic rhymes.
wikipedia: eye rhyme
tail rhyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tail rhymes
Senses: glosses: rhyme in which the rhyming lines in each verse are followed by a shorter line; these shorter lines sometimes rhyme with each other
Synonyms: caudate rhyme
end rhymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of end rhyme
internal rhymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of internal rhyme
super-heavy water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: By surface analysis, super + heavy water, or, by surface analysis, superheavy + water.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
related: word: super heavy water
word: superheavy water
synonyms: tritiated water
tritium oxide
hypernyms: water
mul:H₂O
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substance#Noun
coordinate_terms: light water
heavy water
semi-heavy water
glosses: Water containing tritium instead of normal hydrogen (protium) (thus, ³H₂O).
tail rhymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tail rhyme
mind rhymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mind rhyme
broken rhyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broken rhymes
Senses: examples: text: The lofty passes of the mountain he has left to the more skilful climber, and hath contented himself with wandering round its base, picking up the blossoms that were scattered at his feet; or with endeavouring to portray some rustic pictures in broken rhyme.
ref: 1874, John King, Rustic Pictures and Broken Rhymes:
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: The splitting of the final word in a line of poetry (onto the next line) such that a rhyme is formed from a syllable other than the last.
eye rhymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eye rhyme
half rhyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half rhymes
Senses: synonyms: near rhyme
quasi-rhyme
slant rhyme
antonyms: exact rhyme
full rhyme
perfect rhyme
hypernyms: imperfect rhyme
;
rhyme
;
concord
glosses: A form of imperfect rhyme in which the final (coda) consonants of stressed syllables (and, in modern English poetry, any following syllables to the end of the words) are identical in sound, but the vowels of the stressed syllables are not.
glosses: An instance of this form of rhyme.
sprung rhyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sprung rhymes
Senses: glosses: A form of rhyme in which the number of syllables varies, the stressed syllable being the first one.
broken rhymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of broken rhyme
imperfect rhyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imperfect rhymes
Senses: antonyms: perfect rhyme
full rhyme
exact rhyme
hypernyms: rhyme
;
concord
glosses: A form of rhyme with some sound similarities but not others.
glosses: An instance of this form of rhyme.
head rhyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head rhymes
Senses: glosses: The use of alliteration at the beginning of stressed syllables
oblique rhyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oblique rhymes
Senses: glosses: half rhyme
syllabic rhyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syllabic rhymes
Senses: glosses: verse that has a fixed number of syllables per line (though not always the same number of stressed syllables)
slant rhyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slant rhymes
Senses: glosses: A half rhyme.
forced rhyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forced rhymes
Senses: glosses: A rhyme that is produced by changing the normal spelling of a word, or by changing the normal structure of a phrase.
masculine rhyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masculine rhymes
Senses: glosses: A simple rhyme on single stressed syllables.
feminine rhyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feminine rhyme GNSS
form: feminine rhymes
Senses: examples: text: She even composes a poem in honour of her school — seven stanzas so limp with feminine rhymes as to be almost boneless.
ref: 2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 557:
glosses: A disyllabic rhyme that occurs on an unaccented final syllable (a feminine ending).
oblique rhymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oblique rhyme
masculine rhymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of masculine rhyme
forced rhymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forced rhyme
imperfect rhymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imperfect rhyme
slant rhymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slant rhyme
sprung rhymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sprung rhyme
half rhymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half rhyme
head rhymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of head rhyme
syllabic rhymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syllabic rhyme
feminine rhymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feminine rhyme
job descriptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of job description
role conflict
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: role conflicts
form: rôle conflict
Senses: examples: text: “Most farm wives,” he [Alan D. Berkowitz] said, “report some degree of role conflict” – the sort of difficulty that arises, for example, when the wife is responsible for providing child care as well as carrying out her job. “And wives with extreme amounts of role conflict are more likely to experience psychological stress.”
ref: 1982 January 10, Lawrence Van Gelder, “Long Islanders: Farm Life Idyllic? He Says It Isn’t So”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A conflict among the roles corresponding to two or more statuses.
Roman Rite
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Roman Rite
Senses: glosses: The Latin rite used by the Roman Catholic Church.
Hyponyms: Extraordinary Form
Ordinary Form
wall kick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wall kicks
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A sideways movement that results from a rotation of a piece that is touching the left or right walls in certain versions of the video game Tetris.
topics: video-games
glosses: A wall jump.
wall kicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wall kick
mass flow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mass flows
Senses: glosses: The net movement of material matter from one location to another.
Synonyms: mass transfer
bulk flow
BAT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Abbreviation of Bathurst.
BAT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BATs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of best available technology: a principle applying to regulations on limiting pollutant discharges.
glosses: Initialism of brown adipose tissue.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
glosses: One or more of the Chinese technology companies Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent.
Related terms: BATNEEC
FANG
FAANG
MAMAA
eroge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eroge
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese エロゲ (eroge) (less commonly エロゲー (erogē)), a shortening of エロチックゲーム (erochikku gēmu), from English erotic game.
Senses: glosses: A visual novel with erotic content.
hard drop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hard drops
Senses: glosses: A manual downward motion of a piece in the video game Tetris that makes it land immediately (that is, within only one frame).
hard drops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hard drop
WAFF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of West African Frontier Force