cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
contraktnik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contraktniks
form: contraktniki
Senses: examples: text: The contraktniki are implicated in the worst brutalities. […] On the night of April 7th the contraktniki went into the village. By the next morning over 200 people were dead.
ref: 1995, “Chechnya: Still bleeding”, in The Economist, volume 335, number 7918, page 45:
text: One witness who had been held in a pit last month said: 'It was freezing. At night they would chuck in smoke canisters and let off CS gas. They threw stones down on us. It was the contraktniki – mercenaries – who did it.'
ref: 2000 October 15, John Sweeney, “Cries from Putin's torture pit: One year on, John Sweeney returns to Chechnya to speak to survivors of horrific abuse inflicted in a Russian prison camp”, in The Observer, London, page 24:
text: Underpinning that power was a reign of terror the like of which Chechens had not seen since the days of Stalin. Even the Russian contraktniki, or freelance fighters, were not as feared as Mr Kadyrov's private army of kidnappers, torturers and executioners were.
ref: 2004 May 11, “Prisoners of the Caucasus”, in The Guardian:
text: The 331st was also a showcase for Russia's policy of replacing national service soldiers with contraktniki - professionals under contract. It is understandable why the generals should have given it an important role in the invasion.
ref: 2022 April 2, Mark Urban, The heavy losses of an elite Russian regiment in Ukraine (Newsnight), via BBC:
glosses: Alternative form of kontraktnik.
contraktniki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Russian контрактники (kontraktniki).
Senses: glosses: plural of contraktnik
contraktniks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Russian
Senses: glosses: plural of contraktnik
Bredt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bredts
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Clint cum Hamlets
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Harrogate borough, North Yorkshire, England.
Julmann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Julmanns
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Julman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Julmans
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Clerc
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Clercs
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Kreff
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kreffs
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Trou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Trous
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Troux
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Trouxes
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Troud
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Trouds
Senses: glosses: A surname.
war is hell
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: The short-term and long-term effects of war are greatly devastating and immeasurable.
Bedlam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈbɛdləm/
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Clint cum Hamlets parish, Harrogate borough, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2661).
glosses: A hamlet in Bitterley parish, south Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO5877).
glosses: A hamlet in Great Elm parish, Mendip district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST7549).
glosses: Bethlem Royal Hospital, a famous psychiatric hospital, now located in Bromley, South London.
Derived terms: bedlam
Bedlam beggar
Tom of Bedlam
cup check
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cup checks
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A tap on the groin given from one (male) athlete to another, to check if the other is wearing a cup by hitting them lightly in the testicles.
fiine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪn
Forms: form: fiiner
form: fiinest
Senses: glosses: Elongated form of fine.
ozt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ozts
form: ozt's
form: ozt
Senses: synonyms: ozt.
coordinate_terms: oz
glosses: Abbreviation of troy ounce (ounces, troy).
balloon head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balloon heads
form: balloonhead
Senses: glosses: A round, swollen, or large head.
glosses: An overly arrogant or conceited individual.
balloon heads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balloon head
autigender
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more autigender
form: most autigender
Etymology: Blend of auti(stic) + gender.
Senses: examples: text: Specifically, nonbinary and autigender people were more likely to use gender-neutral terms like “kid” or “person” instead of gendered terms like “boy” or “man.”
ref: 2021, Kelly L. Coburn, "Spoken Narratives by Autistic Adults of Under-Represented Genders", dissertation submitted to Pennsylvania State University, pages 123-124
text: Yeah...I'm autistic and my experience of my gender is linked to my experience of autism, and so I identify as autigender.
ref: 2021, Sabrina Symington, Coming Out, Again: Transition Stories, unnumbered page:
text: Neurogender and autigender people are often met with anger and prejudice, even by some T/GE people who view such new forms of gender identification as threatening to trans respectability.
ref: 2022, Sarah Cavar, Alexandre Baril, “Disability”, in Laura Erickson-Schroth, editor, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource by and for Transgender Communities, page 85:
glosses: Having a gender identity linked to one's autism.
Hypernyms: gendervague
neurogender
balloonhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balloonheads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of balloon head.
balloonheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balloonhead
open defecation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: open defecations
Senses: qualifier: public health
glosses: The human practice of defecating outside rather than into a toilet.
open defecations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of open defecation
open-aired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to the outside or outdoors
termination codon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: termination codons
Senses: glosses: Synonym of stop codon.
synonyms: word: stop codon
termination codons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of termination codon
wiikite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: vēk′īt
ipa: /ˈviːkaɪt/
Forms: form: wiikites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral, likely consisting of samarskite, betafite, and allanite.
church tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: church taxes
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A tax collected by the state from members of some religious denominations to provide financial support of churches, such as the salaries of its clergy and to pay the operating cost of the church
gross receipts tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gross receipts taxes
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A tax on the total gross revenues of a company, regardless of their source
gift tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gift taxes
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The tax on money or property that one living person or corporate entity gives to another
Sloppy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sloppys
Senses: glosses: A surname.
queernormativity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From queer + normativity.
Senses: examples: text: The day of the actual parade is very special due to the fact that for a period of time heteronormativity is not the rule of public space and "queernormativity" takes over.
ref: 2001, Meredith Risk, Paul Moore, editors, Culture of Cities: Under Construction, page 9:
text: As I attentively plan my upcoming wedding, I can't help but wonder, how might refusing to get married, just to remain radically queer, be understood as queernormativity – the dominant, queer non-status-quo?
ref: 2014, Hillery Glasby, “Let Me Queer My Throat: Queer Rhetorics of Negotiation: Marriage Equality and Homonormativity”, in Brian Bailie, Steve Parks, editors, Best of the Independent Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2014, page 45:
text: Queer spaces often give rise to a “queernormativity” premised on an “alternative respectability” that dictates how to be the “right” kind of queer.
ref: 2020, Ellen Lamont, The Mating Game: How Gender Still Shapes How We Date, page 113:
glosses: Normalization of queer people, identities, and relationships, especially in a manner that centers or privileges some forms of queerness over others.
Related terms: queernormative
gross receipts taxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gross receipts tax
gift taxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gift tax
Caliga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Caligas
Senses: glosses: A surname.
church taxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of church tax
Calligas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Calligases
form: Kalligas
Etymology: Borrowed from Greek Καλλιγάς (Kalligás).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Greek, equivalent to English Farrier.
personal property tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: personal property taxes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of property tax.
synonyms: word: property tax
real estate tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: real estate taxes
form: real-estate tax
Senses: glosses: Synonym of property tax.
synonyms: word: property tax
real estate taxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of real estate tax
personal property taxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of personal property tax
Leparmentier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Leparmentiers
Etymology: Borrowed from French Leparmentier.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Balduc
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Balducs
Etymology: Borrowed from French Balduc.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
queernormative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more queernormative
form: most queernormative
Etymology: From queer + normative.
Senses: examples: text: If queernormative spaces keep people constantly on guard, fearful others will attack them for a wrong move, then those spaces will be alienating, even for those who stay within them.
ref: 2017, Jason Orne, Boystown: Sex and Community in Chicago, page 233:
text: Apart from rediscovering/decolonising the queernormative heritage of the Indian Indigenous past, […]
ref: 2020, Kaustav Chakraborty, Queering Tribal Folktales from East and Northeast India, page ix:
text: Defying this, Western queer culture actively defuses from cisnormative values, yet in so doing may also fuse with their new, queernormative value constructs.
ref: 2020, Alex Stitt, ACT for Gender Identity: The Comprehensive Guide, page 202:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting queernormativity.
Strook
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Strooks
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Strooks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Strook
Kirmses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kirmse
Suttons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sutton
ablenormativity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: able-normativity
Etymology: From able + normativity.
Senses: examples: text: To illustrate: one example of the way in which ablenormativity exerts a withering pressure on the 'imagined possible futures' of disabled children lies in what Hans Reinders calls 'the presumption of suffering' of the disabled and those who care for them (Reinders, 2000, ch. 10).
ref: 2009, Kevin McDonough, “The 'Futures' of Queer Children and the Common School Ideal”, in Graham Haydon, Mark Halstead, editors, The Common School and the Comprehensive Ideal: A Defence by Richard Pring with Complementary Essays, page 296:
text: Ablenormativity requires performing abledness and neurotypicality—apparent disability cannot be tolerated.
ref: 2016, Lydia Brown, “'You don't feel like a freak anymore': Representing Disability, Madness and Trauma in Litchfield Penitentiary”, in Adrienne Trier-Bieniek, April Kalogeropoulos Householder, editors, Feminist Perspectives on Orange Is the New Black: Thirteen Critical Essays, page 185:
text: Ablenormativity, and ableism more broadly, are racialized in multiple ways.
ref: 2021, Ryan Lee Cartwright, Peculiar Places: A Queer Crip History of White Rural Nonconformity, page 11:
glosses: The assumption that all human beings are nondisabled, or the marginalization, stigmatization, or pathologization of disability and/or disabled people.
Related terms: ablenormative
ablenormative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ablenormative
form: most ablenormative
Etymology: From able + normative.
Senses: examples: text: It produces two subject positions: a “disabled development subject” and an “ablenormative development subject”.
ref: 2016, Carol Bacchi, Susan Goodwin, Poststructural Policy: Analysis A Guide to Practice, page 79:
text: If we were to adopt the values that Davidson articulates, we would need to change the fundamental social conditions that currently maintain scarcity of resources and uphold ablenormative standards for education, labor, and other aspects of life.
ref: 2016, Lydia X. Z. Brown, "Legal Ableism, Interrupted: Developing Tort Law & Policy Alternatives to Wrongful Birth & Wrongful Life Claims", in Disability Studies Quarterly, Volume 38, Number 2, Spring 2018
text: At the heart of the early twentieth-century US pastoral was a nostalgic, heteronormative, and ablenormative vision of the rural white American family as the natural embodiment of national social ideals: […]
ref: 2021, Ryan Lee Cartwright, Peculiar Places: A Queer Crip History of White Rural Nonconformity, page 27:
glosses: Exhibiting, characteristic of, or related to ablenormativity.
Adjiedj
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
Bakases
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bakas
Waldiger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Waldigers
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Waldigers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Waldiger
Bitterley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in southern Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO5677).
Wrestlingworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Old English personal name *Wrǣstel, a nickname from wrǣste (“delicate; noble”) or wrǣstan (“to twist”), + -ing (“belonging to”) + worþ (“enclosure”).
Senses: glosses: A village in Wrestlingworth and Cockayne Hatley parish, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL2547).
Wrestlingworth and Cockayne Hatley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire, England.
Related terms: Cockayne Hatley
Wrestlingworth
queerantagonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From queer + antagonism.
Senses: examples: text: Sie [Leslie Feinberg] was forced to move out and seek work as an adolescent, due to hir family's queerantagonism.
ref: 2017, Charlie McNabb, Nonbinary Gender Identities: History, Culture, Resources, page 77:
text: In other words, ableism is to heterosexism what disableism is to queerantagonism, and both terms convey valuable linguistic interpretation of our lived experiences.
ref: 2017, Lydia X. Z. Brown, quoted in "Intersectionality: A dialogue with Devonya N. Havis and Lydia X. Z. Brown", in Jennifer Seuro, Addressing Ableism: Philosophical Questions Via Disability Studies, page 48
text: The history and institutionalization of Jotería Studies is rooted in the resistance of patriarchy, heteronormativity, queerantagonism, and transantagonism by queer Latinx/a/o scholars and activists (Alvarez Jr. & Estrada, 2019).
ref: 2021, Lindsay Pérez Huber, “Testimonio As A Critical Race Feminist Methodology In Higher Education”, in Cristobal Salinas Jr, Jesus Cisneros, Nichole M. Garcia, editors, Studying Latinx/a/o Students in Higher Education: A Critical Analysis of Concepts, Theory, and Methodologies, unnumbered page:
glosses: Antipathy toward queer people.
Synonyms: queerphobia
Ryukyu Kingdom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Ryukyu Islands state from 1429 to 1879.
Ryūkyū Kingdom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Ryukyu Kingdom.
Molinses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Molins
Wolgamott
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wolgamotts
Etymology: Americanized spelling of German Wohlgemuth.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Schanck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schancks
Etymology: Variant spelling of Schank or Schenk.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Schancks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Schanck
Wolgamotts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Wolgamott
Seebeck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Seebecks
Etymology: Borrowed from German Seebeck.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Seebeck coefficient
Seebeck effect
Seebecks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Seebeck
Berggruen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Berggruens
Etymology: Borrowed from German Berggrün.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Sellards
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sellardses
Etymology: Variant of Sellars.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Sahoo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sahoos
Etymology: Borrowed from Odia ସାହୁ (sāhu).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Odia.
Sahoos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sahoo
Sellardses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sellards
Berggruens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Berggruen
Riggen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Riggens
Etymology: Perhaps a variant of Reagan.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Rochell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rochells
Etymology: Variant of Rochelle.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Rochells
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rochell
Riggens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Riggen
Roggow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Roggows
Etymology: Borrowed from German Roggow.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Telleria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tellerias
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Tellería, a habitational surname of Basque origin.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Tellerias
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Telleria
Roggows
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Roggow
Tetterton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tettertons
Etymology: Apparently a habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place in England.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Timblin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Timblins
Etymology: From a pet form of the personal name Timothy.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
glosses: A borough of Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Timblins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Timblin
Tettertons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tetterton
McAvity
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McAvitys
Etymology: Variant of McVittie.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Skiptons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Skipton
McAvitys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McAvity
Pugin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pugins
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Puginesque
Hordley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hordleys
Etymology: Perhaps from Old English hord (“hoard, treasure”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to hoard + -ley (“lea”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ3830).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Hordleys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hordley
Pugins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Pugin
Skipton-on-Swale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Hambleton district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE3679).
Chingtao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Wade–Giles.
Senses: examples: text: A CORRESPONDENT in Shantung sends us the following note, under date the 23rd ult., and adds that "the subject is of vital interest for commerce, especially if this action of Germany's contemplates the opening of Chingtao as a port in the near future. It is well known that such has been their desire for some time past."
ref: 1897 December 3, North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette, volume LIX, number 1583, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 982, column 1:
text: Telegram from Gen. Chang Hui-chan reported that most of red-bandit activities in Kiangsi had been suppressed, the reds fleeling in the direction of Chingtao.
ref: 1930 June 21, “On the Communist and Bandit Front”, in The China Weekly Review, volume 53, number 3, →OCLC, page 92, column 2:
text: Mrs. Chia was born in Chingtao city in Shantung province on the mainland.
ref: 1982 November 21, “82-year-old philanthropist brings relief to the sick”, in Free China Weekly [自由中國週報], volume XXIII, number 46, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 3:
english: 自由中國週報
translation: 自由中國週報
text: In Tientsin and in Shantung Province in north China, Japan’s exports declined to a lesser degree because the boycotts were much less vigorous.³⁵ They fell only slightly in Tientsin, and it was in this region, in Chingtao, that they first started to recover.
ref: 2008 December, Michiko Ikeda, “Anti-Japanese Boycotts as Trade Barriers in China”, in Japan in Trade Isolation, 1926-37 and 1948-85, 1st English edition, Tokyo: International House of Japan, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 49:
text: Qingdao with its excellent harbor became the German administrative center (from which time dates one of China’s famous beers, known by its old Wade-Giles transliteration Chingtao).
ref: 2014, “"Against Foreign Imperialist Oppression": East Asia I”, in Fairy Tales, Patriotism & the Nation State: The Rise of the Modern West and the Response of the World, Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 552:
text: Overwhelmed by the huge number of their rivals, the fishermen of Okikamuro inevitably headed to Taiwan, Chingtao in China, and, finally, Hawaiʻi during the first decade of the twentieth century.
ref: 2015, Manako Ogawa, “Japanese Fishermen Enter Hawaiian Waters”, in Sea of Opportunity: The Japanese Pioneers of the Fishing Industry in Hawaiʻi, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 42:
glosses: Alternative form of Qingdao.
Roles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Rolesville
Rolesville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Roles + -ville, named after William H. Roles.
Senses: glosses: A town in Wake County, North Carolina, United States, and a suburb of Raleigh.
mamgus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mamgu
FitzGeraldian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more FitzGeraldian
form: most FitzGeraldian
Etymology: From FitzGerald + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Such an expression of attribution to Khayyam is justified, for it refers to poems that have been found in manuscripts dating back to the pre-FitzGeraldian era, having been attributed to the historical Omar Khayyam […]
ref: 2021, Mohammad H. Tamdgidi, Omar Khayyam’s Secret:
glosses: Of or relating to Edward FitzGerald (1809–1883), English poet best known for translating The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
Touareg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Touaregs
form: Touareg
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tuareg.
Touareg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tuareg.
Touaregs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Touareg
Parkinson's mask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Parkinson's masks
Senses: glosses: The lack of facial expression and animation associated with Parkinson's disease.
Parkinson's masks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Parkinson's mask
angustibalin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A cytotoxic sesquiterpene lactone found in Balduina angustifolia, related to helenalin.
chamissonolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A sesquiterpene lactone found in Arnica chamissonis.
junque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of junk + antique
Senses: examples: text: Finding the "junque" among the junk takes more than luck.
ref: 1980 June 24, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, volume 34, number 6:
text: You people should make it a point to research the antique and junque markets to be sure you don't have unrecognized treasures.
ref: 1981, James Michael Ullman, How to Hold a Garage Sale, page 26:
text: Like most good antique stores, a musty scent pervaded the crowded maze of furniture, knick-knacks, books, clothing, and other junque.
ref: 2011, Wendy V, How to Eat a Pizza From a Can, page 100:
text: JUNQUE OR JUNK: / I suppose junque is deluxe or fancystyle junk. I also suppose that junque has been rescued and displayed, where junk is found as is and might not even be disposed of yet.
ref: 2014, Joe Willard, Picker's Bible: How to Pick Antiques Like the Pros:
text: A local antique/junque-store owner retired to Delray Beach.
ref: 2019, Susan Isaacs, Takes One to Know One:
glosses: Used items offered or potentially offered for sale of unknown, but probably low value.
raw_tags: in signage and promotional materials
Frenglish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of French + English
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Franglais.
synonyms: word: Franglais
articulatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From articulative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an articulative manner.
Turkmeno-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: examples: the Turkmeno-Khorassan mountains
glosses: Turkmenistan; Turkmen.
Barton-Zard reaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Barton-Zard reactions
Etymology: Named after Derek Barton and Samir Zard, who first reported it in 1985.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A route to pyrrole derivatives via the reaction of a nitroalkene with an α-isocyanoacetate under basic conditions.
Barton-Zard reactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Barton-Zard reaction
jaw winking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
hypernyms: Marcus Gunn phenomenon
glosses: An involuntary upward jerking of the eyelid accompanying movements of the lower jaw.
Gorontaloan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Gorontaloan
form: most Gorontaloan
Etymology: From Gorontalo + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Gorontalo in Indonesia.
Sam Spades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sam Spade
regioselection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regioselections
Etymology: From regio- + selection.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: regioselective activity
regioselections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regioselection
tosylacetylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tosyl + acetylene.
Senses: examples: text: This is regioselectively trapped in situ by the tosylacetylene 87 via one of two mechanisms to generate 88 or 89.
ref: 2007, M. Green, Organometallic Chemistry, volume 31, page 222:
text: […] accomplished via the Diels–Alder reaction of tosylacetylene with butadiene […]
ref: 2012, V. Nenajdenko, Isocyanide Chemistry: Applications in Synthesis and Material Science:
text: The addition of a thiol to tosylacetylene affords the corresponding tosylvinyl sulfide as a mixture of Z-and E-isomers (4:1) in excellent yields.
ref: 2014, Johann Mulzer, Science of Synthesis, page 370:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Ethynyl p-tolyl sulfone, C₉H₈O₂S, used as a reagent in a wide variety of applications.
Koloshan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Of this mercantile enterprise of the Alaska Indians, Mr. Louthan says: Whilst the manners and customs of the whole Koloshan race (the tribes residing on the southeastern coast of Alaska) are the same, […]
ref: 1870, United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs, Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, page 535:
text: […] Tshilkaat tribes of the T'hlinkit or Koloshan stock.
ref: 1886, United States. Congress. House, Miscellaneous Documents: 30th Congress, 1st Session - 49th Congress, 1st Session, page XLV:
text: There are several distinct linguistic stocks here, the Koloshan, the Haidan, Tsimsian, Haeltzukan, and Salishan, […]
ref: 1891, United States National Museum, Report of the National Museum (part 2, page 282)
text: The Salish, Aht, or Wakash tribes, the Haida, Tsimshian, and Koloshan were all originally head-hunters, but in later times adopted here and there scalping after an intermediary form of procedure.
ref: 1907, Georg Friedrict, “Scalping in America”, in Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, volume 61, page 430:
text: Whenever time permitted he devoted the whole day to the study of the Koloshan or the Kodiak tongues.
ref: 1987, Michael Oleksa, Alaskan Missionary Spirituality, page 354:
glosses: An indigenous tribe native to the southeastern coast of Alaska.
examples: text: In January, 1945, a Crafts School was opened at the Ist Warphanage at Koloshan.
ref: 1946, News of China - Volume 5, Issues 1-5, page 3:
text: These children wait for us at Koloshan over three hundred of them.
ref: 1948, V. Elizabeth Moore, We Go to China with Lady Cripps on a Vivid and Exciting Tour of the New Republic, page 82:
text: Fortunately, Dr. H. P. Chu, the Director of the National Shanghai Medical College at Koloshan, some 20 miles outside Chungking, extended an invitation to me to become a Visiting Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the College, and to as many of our students as wished to join the College.
ref: 1998, Clifford Matthews, Oswald Cheung, Dispersal and Renewal: Hong Kong University During the War Years, page 90:
glosses: A suburb of Chongqing.
NATOist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NATOists
Etymology: From NATO + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Most recently, even staunch, traditional NATOists, such as Poland, seemed to have progressively shifted their interests from NATO to the European Union as a result of participation in ESDP procedures and missions […]
ref: 2009, Knud Erik Jørgensen, The European Union and International Organizations, page 115:
glosses: A follower or loyalist of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Related terms: NATOish
NATOists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NATOist
Valois sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Synonym of Foyot sauce.
synonyms: word: Foyot sauce
linear channel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linear channels
Senses: glosses: A traditional television channel broadcasting linear television.
linear channels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linear channel
Brazilian cherry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brazilian cherries
Senses: glosses: Any of several plants native to the New World tropics, with edible fruits:
Eugenia brasiliensis, endemic to southern Brazil.
synonyms: Brazil cherry
grumichama
glosses: Any of several plants native to the New World tropics, with edible fruits:
Eugenia uniflora.
synonyms: Suriname cherry
glosses: Any of several plants native to the New World tropics, with edible fruits:
Hymenaea courbaril (jatoba), in the legume family.
glosses: Any of several plants native to the New World tropics, with edible fruits:
Amburana acreana
Related terms: Brazil cherry
Brazilian cherries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brazilian cherry
hair iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hair irons
Senses: glosses: A tool that uses heat to curl, straighten, or crimp a person's head of hair.
hair irons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hair iron
hot comb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot combs
Senses: synonyms: pressing comb
glosses: A comb that is heated (sometimes electrically) and used to straighten a person's hair.
hot combs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot comb
pressing comb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pressing combs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hot comb.
synonyms: word: hot comb
pressing combs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pressing comb
isometabolism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The property of being isometabolic.
Scoles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
longbowstringmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: longbowstringmakers
Etymology: From longbow + string + maker.
Senses: examples: text: 1968, James Edwin Oxley, Worshipful Company of Fletchers, The Fletchers and Longbowstringmakers of London
(See title.)
text: […] a nautically-inclined 'potekary', longbowstringmaker and taverner.
ref: 2003, Geoffrey Vaughn Scammell, Seafaring, Sailors and Trade, 1450-1750, page 108:
text: Although he was apprenticed to a longbowstringmaker, he evidently earned his living as a wiredrawer.
ref: 2008, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register:
glosses: A manufacturer of strings for longbows.
longbowstringmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of longbowstringmaker
gheddic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of geddic acid.
ghedda wax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gedda wax.
gedda wax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghedda wax
Senses: glosses: A kind of beeswax from the Asiatic bees Apis dorsata, Apis florea and Apis indica.
Derived terms: geddic acid
geddic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gheddic acid
Etymology: From gedda wax and -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A carboxylic acid and saturated fatty acid found in cotton, carnauba, candelilla wax, and gedda wax.
Visé
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in the province of Liège, Wallonia, Belgium.
skates on thin ice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of skate on thin ice
skated on thin ice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of skate on thin ice
mediopassively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mediopassive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a mediopassive manner.
mediopassivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The property of being mediopassive.
Szekel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Szekels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Székely.
Szekels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Szekel
CSDP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Common Security and Defence Policy.
ESDP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Most recently, even staunch, traditional NATOists, such as Poland, seemed to have progressively shifted their interests from NATO to the European Union as a result of participation in ESDP procedures and missions […]
ref: 2009, Knud Erik Jørgensen, The European Union and International Organizations, page 115:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of European Security and Defence Policy, former name of the Common Security and Defence Policy.
So'ton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Soton.
big fish in little ponds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of big fish in a little pond
pseudosclerodermatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to pseudoscleroderma.
Churwell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in Morley parish, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, south-west of the city centre (OS grid ref SE2729).
Snozzle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈsnɒzəl/
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: St Austell
sportsmedical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sports + medical.
Senses: examples: text: The laboratories of this Institute for cardiorespiratory and sportsmedical research are geared mainly around the evaluation of performance characteristics of a population extending from the cardiac patient to the super athlete.
ref: 1961, Medical Newsletter, volume 2, number 3, page 5:
text: The idea that many top performances are no longer possible without a sophisticated sportsmedical establishment is likely to discourage those lacking such resources.
ref: 1997, Janet Lungstrum, Elizabeth Sauer, Agonistics: Arenas of Creative Contest, page 301:
glosses: Relating to sports medicine.
decocooned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decocoon
preembryo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preembryos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pre-embryo.
over-the-line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Well, we used to play over-the-line, and Larry and I were a team and it was great fun.
ref: 2005, Rick Wallenbrock, The Freedom House, page 113:
glosses: A game related to baseball and softball, but requiring only three players per team.
preembryos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preembryo
pre-embryos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pre-embryo
press gallery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: press galleries
Senses: glosses: A part of parliament in which members of the press can overlook the events
Welsh baseball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of British baseball.
synonyms: word: British baseball
British baseball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: Welsh baseball
glosses: A game resembling baseball and rounders, played primarily in Wales and Merseyside. The bat has a flat striking surface and the ball is thrown underarm.
prize-giving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prize-givings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of prizegiving.
old cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Boys had played "old cat" all over the country for forty years before the Knickerbockers ever thought of forming themselves into a club and making rules for the government of the sport.
ref: 1907, Mind and Body: A Monthly Journal Devoted to Physical Education, page 319:
text: The game of old cat could be modified to fit almost any number of players: from one-old-cat, which had two bases and one striker, to four-old-cat, which had four bases and four strikers.
ref: 2017, Martin C. Babicz, Thomas W. Zeiler, National Pastime: U.S. History Through Baseball, page 4:
glosses: A traditional game resembling baseball.
prize-givings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prize-giving
Essence
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name of African-American usage.
uluhe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uluhi
Senses: glosses: The fern Dicranopteris linearis.
uluhi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of uluhe (“kind of fern”).
unaccessory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + accessory.
Senses: examples: text: Henry had not been made a party to the concealment of Somerset behind the arras-hangings of the royal pavilion; and he was equally unaccessory to the Duke of York's arrest, […]
ref: 1858, Mary Cowden Clarke, World-Noted Women, page 220:
glosses: Not accessory.
ultraperfect
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultraperfect
form: most ultraperfect
Etymology: From ultra- + perfect.
Senses: examples: text: Mrs. Morton's kitchen would be a good model for any of the ultraperfect department store plans. The stove and refrigerator are sparkling latest models.
ref: 1949, Reclamation Era, volume 35, United States: Bureau of Reclamation, page 41:
glosses: Entirely perfect; exceptionally good.
unacclimatization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being unacclimatized, or unused to something.
unaccoutred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unaccoutered.
unaccoutered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + accoutered.
Senses: glosses: Not accoutered.
unabsolute
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + absolute.
Senses: examples: text: They are justified by public policies, themselves referable to unabsolute normative principles, among which familiar arguments for liberty are prominent.
ref: 1987, Lloyd L. Weinreb, Natural Law and Justice, page 158:
glosses: Not absolute.
cefpodoxime proxetil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A cephalosporin antibiotic used to treat a wide variety of bacterial infections.
pulaskitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pulaskitic
form: most pulaskitic
Etymology: From pulaskite + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: There Strauss & Truter record a gradual transition from the white umptekite (fenite) to a pulaskitic rock with nepheline.
ref: 1956, The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, page 210:
glosses: Of or relating to the mineral pulaskite.
umptekite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: umptekites
Senses: examples: ref: 1905, John Henry Sears, Essex Institute, The Physical Geography, Geology, Mineralogy and Paleontology of Essex County, Massachusetts, page 213:
text: The rock-mass in which this umptekite form of hornblende occurs may therefore be called umptekite gabbro.
text: The Beverly syenite includes the alkaline syenites of Beverly, Manchester, Salem, and Marblehead, comprising pulaskites and umptekites.
ref: 1920, Alfred Reginald Schultz, Oil Possibilities in and Around Baxter Basin, page 85:
text: There Strauss & Truter record a gradual transition from the white umptekite (fenite) to a pulaskitic rock with nepheline.
ref: 1956, The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, page 210:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A syenitic rock consisting of microperthite, arfvedsonite, aegirine and, possibly, nepheline.
umptekites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of umptekite
fenitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fenitic
form: most fenitic
Etymology: From fenite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the mineral fenite.
fenites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fenite
unacknowledgement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unacknowledgment.
unacknowledgment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + acknowledgment.
Senses: glosses: Lack of acknowledgment; failure to acknowledge.
unacclimation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being unacclimated, or unused to something.
unadapt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unadapts
form: unadapting
form: unadapted
form: unadapted
Etymology: From un- + adapt.
Senses: examples: text: It seems clear that instead of simply adapting Das Nibelungenlied, Lang and von Harbou were seeking to unadapt it from Wagner by treating the rhetorical and presentational strategies of the Ring operas as encrustations […]
ref: 2015, Joe McElhaney, A Companion to Fritz Lang, page 189:
text: Cultivating it on a regular basis improves our attitude towards writing and makes us more resilient. But in order to make it work we have to 'unadapt' to the habituation that familiarity can bring, […]
ref: 2017, Michael Alvear, The Bulletproof Author:
glosses: To undo the process of adaptation; to revert or restore to an original form.
unadapting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unadapt
unadapts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unadapt
subideology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subideologies
Etymology: From sub- + ideology.
Senses: glosses: An ideology forming part of a larger ideology.
subideologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subideology
overbathe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overbathes
form: overbathing
form: overbathed
form: overbathed
Etymology: From over- + bathe.
Senses: examples: text: You have a combination of exceptionally dry, cold air — which indoor heating makes even drier — overbathing and use of harsh soaps,” which can strip the skin of its moisture, he said.
ref: 2007 February 8, Laurel Naversen Geraghty, “Feeling Parched? Itching Like Crazy? It Must Be Winter”, in New York Times:
text: Like rape victims, those who clean up after mass fatalities often overbathe, driven by a need to purge mind and body.
ref: 2015, Kathy Reichs, Fatal Voyage, page 49:
glosses: To bathe excessively.
overbathes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overbathe
overbathed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overbathe
unacting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + acting.
Senses: examples: text: While he himself was the embodiment of the masculine, spiritual Purusa — which, rather strikingly, he now interprets as passive and unacting — […]
ref: 2012, Hugh B. Urban, Tantra, page 101:
glosses: That does not take action.
unacting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unact
unadjustment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Several inspiring addresses dealing with the various factors contributing to a social unadjustment and, also, with the treatment of the unadjusted were delivered throughout the day.
ref: 1940?, Year Book of the Northern California Council for the Education of Exceptional Children (issue 11, page 5)
glosses: Lack of adjustment; failure to adjust to new circumstances.
unadmittably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unadmittable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Such that it cannot be admitted or confessed to.
break time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: break times
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of breaktime.
unadmitting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + admitting.
Senses: examples: text: […] too unadmitting of a real, formal accompaniment […]
ref: 1879, Fraser's Magazine, volume 19, page 386:
glosses: That does not admit or allow.
break times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of break time
unafeard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unafeard
form: most unafeard
Etymology: From un- + afeard.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unafeared.
unafeared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unafeared
form: most unafeared
Etymology: From un- + afeared.
Senses: glosses: unafraid
unaffiliation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + affiliation.
Senses: glosses: Lack of affiliation; the condition of being unaffiliated.