cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
happy Valentine's Day
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: A greeting used during Valentine's Day to recognize its celebration.
heartly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑːtli/
ipa: /ˈhɑɹtli/
Forms: form: heartlier
form: more heartly
form: heartliest
form: most heartly
Etymology: From Middle English hertly, hertely, hertelyche, from Old English *heortlīċ, *ġeheortlīċ (attested only as an adverb: ġeheortlīċe (“thoroughly, virorously”)), equivalent to heart + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: '[…] I wish you very good fortune.' He found a card of his own. 'If I can be of any help to you' His hand was gripped. 'Very kind indeed. My heartliest thanks.' The man bowed and strode off into the mist.
ref: 1926, Sir Hugh Walpole, Harmer John: an unworldly story:
text: He said the sword was a “heartly present” because it had been hand-made by its donor.
ref: 2001, Charles Neider, Edge of the World:
text: Great scarcity of every necessary of life in this house but the man is glad to see us, and gives us the best he has got with a heartly welcome.
ref: 2009, Harold B. Gill Jr., George M. Curtis III, A Man Apart: The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774 - 1781:
text: “Heartly,” he said—they celebrated in a heartly way,” and two days later now, I can't even remember the Hindi word, but the concept remains, and how am I going to give this up?
ref: 2009, Katherine Russell Rich, Dreaming in Hindi:
text: Out of the largest and deepest well of everlasting life in the most open wound in Christ's blessed side seize up deepest and heartliest water of joy and bliss without end, beholding there inwardly how Christ Jesu, God and man, to bring thee to everlasting life, […]
ref: 2012, Andrew Burnham, Aidan Nichols, Customary of Our Lady of Walsingham:
glosses: Full of heart; cordial; from the heart; hearty
Derived terms: heartliness
heartly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑːtli/
ipa: /ˈhɑɹtli/
Forms: form: heartlier
form: more heartly
form: heartliest
form: most heartly
Etymology: From Middle English hertly, hertliche, from Old English ġeheortlīċe (“thoroughly; virorously”), equivalent to heart + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a hearty or heart-felt manner; cordially; heartily
side-lever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: side-levers
Senses: examples: text: In the Byronic fashion of the period the hair falls into a curling side-lever on each cheek.
ref: 1934, Brian Penton, chapter 2, in Landtakers: The Story of an Epoch:
text: Riding Misanthropy was test of manhood enough for Tim. What if the fellow cleaned his teeth and reamed his nails and wore side-lever whiskers?
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XIII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 212:
text: He was […] clean shaved with the exception of very short reddish side lever whiskers.
ref: 1938 July 7, John E. Bennett, “Dr William Hobbs”, in The Central Queensland Herald, Rockhampton, QLD:
glosses: Sideburn.
side-levers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of side-lever
tuna casseroles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tuna casserole
N64
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛn ˌsɪksti ˈfɔɹ/
Forms: form: N64s
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: Abbreviation of Nintendo 64.
PS4
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PS4s
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: Initialism of PlayStation 4.
Related terms: PS1
PS2
PS3
PS5
damely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more damely
form: most damely
Etymology: From dame + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Will she be remembered more as a character, thoroughly damely and commanding, or for her writings?
ref: 2005, Rosemary Dinnage, Alone! Alone!: Lives of Some Outsider Women:
text: Instead of compromising her damely dignity, they arguably give a fuller sense of a well-rounded individual which runs counter to the usual (rather restrictive) cultural logic of what is appropriate for women over 60, and perhaps women of her particular class milieu especially.
ref: 2015, Deborah Jermyn, Susan Holmes, Women, Celebrity and Cultures of Ageing:
glosses: Of, relating to, or befitting a dame (all senses)
foredamn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foredamns
form: foredamning
form: foredamned
form: foredamned
Etymology: From fore- + damn.
Senses: examples: text: Pious Rousseau foredamn or save his soul / As he might hit or miss a cork-tree's bole ?
ref: 1883, Alfred Domett, Ranolf and Amohia: A Dream of Two Lives - Volume 1:
text: We believe environment has as much to do with the bringing in of the Kingdom of God as does personal conversion. The time is past when children should be born and bred in places that foredoom and foredamn them.
ref: 1918, The American Home Missionary
text: We slouch and bellow, reminding in prayers our deathless woe And foredamn ourselves more by the ignorance of what we could not know.
ref: 1959, Mehdi Ali Seljouk, My Goddess: A Devotional Epic:
glosses: To damn beforehand or in advance
Derived terms: foredamned
foredamned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more foredamned
form: most foredamned
form: fore-damned
Etymology: From foredamn + -ed and/or fore- + damned.
Senses: examples: text: O, misery, to be born a man like little Paul foredamned to have forever in his mouth the astringency of the piss in his biting temper!
ref: 2013, Gerald Kersh, The Implacable Hunter:
glosses: Damned beforehand
foredamned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fore-damned
Etymology: From foredamn + -ed and/or fore- + damned.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of foredamn
fore-damned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fore-damned
form: most fore-damned
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of foredamned.
State of Japan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: 2015, Embassy of Japan in Belgium https://www.be.emb-japan.go.jp/150jb/en/events/2016_01_23_miyabi_concert.html
On the occasion of the 150 years of friendship between the Kingdom of Belgium and the State of Japan, Fondation George Arthur Forrest has the pleasure of inviting you to attend the presentation of Miyabi, by the Kitanodai Gagaku Ensemble. A world first.
text: The court of the first instance issued the judgement partly awarding monetary compensation for the plaintiffs. The Osaka High Court modified the judgement in favor of the plaintiffs, and the State of Japan appealed to the Supreme Court.
ref: 2016, Waseda Bulletin of Comparative Law Vol. 34
text: 2019, The 90th anniversary of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations Between Japan and the Islamic Republic of Iran
I would like to extend my heartfelt congratulations to Your Excellency on the start of the 90th anniversary of establishment of diplomatic relationship between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the State of Japan.
glosses: De facto official name of Japan under the Constitution of Japan (1947-)
Related terms: Empire of Japan
gamophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gamophobes
Etymology: From gamo- + -phobe.
Senses: glosses: One who has gamophobia.
Related terms: gamophobia
gamophobic
gamophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gamo- + -phobic.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or exhibiting gamophobia.
Related terms: gamophobe
gamophobia
visual rhyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: visual rhymes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of eye rhyme.
synonyms: word: eye rhyme
visual rhymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of visual rhyme
philophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more philophobic
form: most philophobic
Etymology: From philo- + -phobic.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or exhibiting philophobia.
Related terms: philophobia
Kiangsu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: kyǎngʹso͞oʹ
jē-ängʹso͞oʹ
Forms: form: Kiang-su
form: Kiang Su
Etymology: From the Postal Romanization of the Nanking court dialect Mandarin 江蘇 /江苏 (Jiāngsū), from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].
Senses: examples: text: Some idea of the extent of the calamity, which is due to the excessive rains of the summer, resulting in the complete failure of the crops and the destruction of many homesteads, may be gathered from the fact that the committee with probably make an appeal for at least £250,000. Help will be solicited not only from Shanghai, but from Great Britain, America and the continent of Europe. Even should all the amount asked for be raised, it will only permit of an expenditure equal at most to about sixpence per head of the starving and homeless people. For although the term Kiangpeh is conveniently applied to the distressed district, the famine is felt in large portions of the four provinces of Kiangsu, Anhui, Honan, and Shantung, over a tract estimated at 40,000 square miles in area and in the most thickly populated part of the empire.
ref: 1907, “THE FAMINE IN KIANGPEH”, in The Missionary Herald, volume 103, number 2, page 92:
text: In "Notes of Ling-hsiao and I-shih," Kuo-wen chou-pao, chüan 9, No. 28, July 18, 1932, p. 1, Chang Ch'ien, native of Nan-t'ung, Kiangsu, who later founded the big cotton mills, is described as beginning to study poem and eight-legged sessay writing at twelve, becoming sheng-yüan at the early age of sixteen.
ref: 1967, Chung-li Chang, The Chinese Gentry Studies on Their Role in Nineteenth-Century Chinese Society, University of Washington Press, page 166:
text: Wu Chung's Chu Chih Tsu stated: "It is a tradition that Tung Chih is as important as the New Year. The practice of Kowu is after all a good custom. Children in every house-hold kneel and kowtow before their parents." In Soochow of Kiangsu Province, people burned incense at daybreak. During the day, stores were closed and people ate and drank, as if they were celebrating the New Year.
ref: 1982 December 26, Charlotte Summer, “Tung Chih festival a time for rejoicing”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXIII, number 51, Taipei, page 2:
text: Seven million people were homeless in North Kiangsu, and in Kirk Mosley's early days the Tsingkiangpu Hospital undertook relief work planned by Woods and equipped by Bell with a hired steam launch.
ref: December 2010, John Pollock, A Foreign Devil in China, World Wide Publications, →ISBN, page 168:
glosses: Alternative form of Jiangsu: the province of China northeast of the Yangtze Delta.
wikipedia: Army Map Service
Mandarin (late imperial lingua franca)
Nanjinger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nanjingers
Etymology: From Nanjing + -er, an adaptation of the earlier Nankinger.
Senses: glosses: A person from Nanjing, China, (particularly historical) a foreign resident of the city.
Synonyms: word: Nanjingese
Nanjingers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nanjinger
Nanjingese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Nanjing + -ese, after Chinese, Shanghainese, etc.
Senses: glosses: Of or related to Nanjing, China.
Synonyms: word: Nankinese
word: Nankingese
Nanjingese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Nanjing + -ese, after Chinese, Shanghainese, etc.
Senses: glosses: The language of the people of Nanjing, particularly
Synonym of Jianghuai Mandarin generally.
synonyms: word: Jianghuai Mandarin generally
glosses: The language of the people of Nanjing, particularly
The specific dialect of Jianghuai Mandarin spoken in Nanjing.
glosses: The language of the people of Nanjing, particularly
The dialect(s) of Wu formerly used by the people of Nanjing.
Synonyms: word: Nankinese
word: Nankingese
Nanjingese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Nanjing + -ese, after Chinese, Shanghainese, etc.
Senses: glosses: The people of Nanjing, China, (particularly) the local Chinese of the area.
Synonyms: sense: people
english: singular noun; individual & sometimes specifically foreign
translation: singular noun; individual & sometimes specifically foreign
word: Nanjinger
sense: people
word: Nankinese
sense: people
word: Nankingese
reed warbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reed warblers
form: reed-warbler
Senses: examples: text: Familiar summer-morning bird song rises from the trees, reeds and bushes – song thrush, wren, reed bunting and the rhythmic, steady, repeated “chit-chit-chit” of a reed warbler.
ref: 2016 July 12, Rob Yarham, The Guardian:
glosses: A warbler, of species of Acrocephalus scirpaceus in family Acrocephalidae, native to Eurasia and Africa.
glosses: Any of various similar Old World birds of the same genus, especially great reed warbler (A. arundinaceus) and clamorous reed warbler (A. stentoreus).
Synonyms: marsh warbler
Derived terms: word: Aguiguan reed warbler
taxonomic: Acrocephalus australis
word: Australian reed warbler
word: Basra reed warbler
taxonomic: Acrocephalus bistrigiceps
word: black-browed reed warbler
taxonomic: Acrocephalus dumetorum
word: Blyth's reed warbler
word: Caroline reed warbler
taxonomic: Acrocephalus stentoreus
word: clamorous reed warbler
taxonomic: Acrocephalus scirpaceus
word: common reed warbler
word: Cook Islands reed warbler
taxonomic: Acrocephalus scirpaceus
word: Eurasian reed warbler
taxonomic: Acrocephalus arundinaceus
word: great reed warbler
word: Henderson Island reed warbler
word: Kiritimati reed warbler
word: large-billed reed warbler
word: Manchurian reed warbler
word: Mangareva reed warbler
word: Moorea reed warbler
word: Nauru reed warbler
word: nightingale reed warbler
word: northern Marquesan reed warbler
taxonomic: Acrocephalus orientalis
word: oriental reed warbler
word: Pagan reed warbler
word: Pitcairn reed warbler
word: Rimatara reed warbler
word: Saipan reed warbler
word: Society Islands reed warbler
word: southern Marquesan reed warbler
word: streaked reed warbler
word: Tahiti reed warbler
word: Tuamotu reed warbler
grasshopper warbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grasshopper warblers
Senses: examples: text: Notoriously hard to see, the grasshopper warbler tends to throw its voice over long distances, while it stays out of sight.
ref: 2016 July 12, Rob Yarham, The Guardian:
synonyms: gropper
glosses: Any of a number of species of small songbirds in the genera Locustella and Helopsaltes, especially Locustella naevia.
Jiangsunese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Jiangsu + -n- + -ese.
Senses: glosses: Of or related to Jiangsu.
Jiangsunese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Jiangsu + -n- + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: The high percentage of Jiangsu natives in the civilian leadership is at least partially due to the fact that Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao, both Jiangsu natives, liked to promote their fellow Jiangsunese.
ref: 2014, Li Cheng, Xi Jinping's Inner Circle, page 5:
glosses: The people of Jiangsu.
cettiid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Trochocercus and Terpsiphone are now known to be unrelated to the muscicapid flycatchers of the preceding two plates, whereas Erythrocercus is a cettiid warbler, and Elminia and Stenostira are in a separate family allied to the warblers.
ref: 2012, Ian Sinclair, Sasol Birds of Southern Africa:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the warbler family Cettiidae.
Suchow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Postal Romanization of Mandarin 蘇州 /苏州 (Sūzhōu).
Senses: examples: text: The Chinese have a proverb which says: "Above is heaven; below are Su and Hang“ indicating the high esteem which they place upon the two cities, Suchow and Hangchow. Suchow is over twenty-three hundred years old, and has at present a population variously estimated at from three hundred thousand to half a million, though at one time it is said to have contained over a million.
ref: 1888, M. B. Chapman, The Lands of the Orient, Nashville, Tenn.: Southern Methodist Publishing House, page 127:
text: Like many other gardens the Wang Shih Yuan is situated in a large provincial town, in this case Suchow - a city of white-washed houses on a network of canals which has been celebrated since medieval times for its fine gardens.
ref: 1978, Maggie Keswick, The Chinese Garden, Hong Kong: Rizzoli International Publications, →ISBN, page 16:
text: She smoothed one hand over the rubbled texture. She had bargained for the fabric herself, on their last trip to Suchow.
ref: 2014, Dana Stabenow, Everything under the Heavens, Portland, Ore.: Gere Donovan Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 64:
glosses: Alternative form of Suzhou, Jiangsu.
Suchow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Postal Romanization of Mandarin 徐州 (Xúzhōu).
Senses: examples: text: The construction of railroads has increased the importance of a number of cities, especially those located at the intersection of two lines. On the Tientsin-Pukow Railway this growth is illustrated by Tsinan, which is the junction for the railroad to Tsingtao, and Suchow, where this line meets the Lung-Hai Railway.
ref: 1934, George Babock Cressey, China's Geographic Foundations: A Survey of the Land and Its People, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., page 178:
text: This blow was delivered by Communist Generals Liu Po-cheng and Chen Yi around the town of Suchow, 180 miles north of Nanking in November and December 1948. It was to prove catastrophic.
The city of Suchow, which lies at the junction of the east-west Lunghia^([sic – meaning Lunghai]) Railway and the north-south Tientsin—Nanking Railway, is perhaps the most strategic city in modern-day China. Situated at the southern boundaries of the North China Plain, this town and the area adjacent to it form a kind of gateway between the north and the south.
ref: 1949, Jack Belden, China Shakes the World, Harper & Brothers, page 420:
text: When Manchuria fell to the Chinese Communists and the curtain was rising for the battle of Suchow and Pengpu early in November, 1948, Communist troops in the vicinity of Peiping and Tientsin were also stirring into action.
ref: 1981, A Pictorial History of the Republic of China: Its Founding and Development, volume II, Modern China Press, →OCLC, page 291:
glosses: Alternative form of Xuzhou, Jiangsu.
Suchow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From an irregular romanization of Mandarin 敘州 /叙州 (Xùzhōu).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Xuzhou, Sichuan.
Suchow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Mandarin pronunciation of 肅州 /肃州 (Sùzhōu).
Senses: examples: text: Our fellows were at base camp no. 70, waiting for help. Their food supplies would not last till the end of June. Again and again, orally and in writing, we had asked for lubricating oil for the convoy. We had still, at camp no. 70, enough petrol to enable three motor-lorries and the small car to cover a stretch of 930 miles—i.e. the distance from Korla to Suchow via Hami and Anhsi.
ref: 1938, Sven Hedin, translated by F. H. Lyon, The Silk Road, Boston: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., page 159:
text: In 1876 Tso Tsung-t’ang, a Chinese general from Hunan who had already done much to subdue the Taipings and prove himself loyal to the Manchu Imperial Court, was appointed commander in chief of the Sinkiang expedition. His second in command was Liu Ching-t’ang, who proved himself so able that later he became the first governor of Sinkiang. At Suchow in Kansu he accumulated a stock of grain large enough to last his army for two years. When his army reached Komul, Barkul, and Kuchengtze, it was divided into two groups.
ref: 1950, Owen Lattimore, Pivot of Asia: Sinkiang and the Inner Asian frontiers of China and Russia, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, page 46:
text: Beyond is the final stretch of the Ch'in Great Wall, dividing Kansu from Mongolia and enclosing the cities of Kanchow and Suchow. Twenty-three miles west of Suchow the Great Wall came to an end.
ref: 1965, Robert Silverberg, The Great Wall of China, Chilton Books, page 48:
glosses: Alternative form of Suzhou, Gansu.
slash bunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slash bunts
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
softball
sports
glosses: A play by the team at-bat where the hitter assumes the position for a bunt and then changes grip and takes a swing at the ball.
Synonyms: butcher boy
Coordinate terms: bunt
safety squeeze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: safety squeezes
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A play by the team at-bat where with a runner at third base, the batter puts down a sacrifice bunt with the aim of allowing the runner to score. In contrast to a suicide squeeze, the runner waits to see the trajectory of the ball before deciding whether to attempt to touch home plate.
caught stealing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Thrown out (i.e. put out) while attempting to steal a base.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see caught, stealing.
Haimen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: hīʹmǔnʹ
Forms: form: Hai-men
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 海門／海门 (Hǎimén, literally “sea gate”).
Senses: examples: text: At the mouth of the Yangtze, population-density on the island of Tsungming and the peninsula Haimen reaches an exaggerated figure, the one of 1475, the other of 700 inhabitants per square kilometre.
ref: 1926, Paul Vidal de La Blache, translated by Millicent Todd Bingham, Principles of Human Geography, London: Constable Publishers, published 1959, →OCLC, page 76:
text: Japanese authorities served notice today that they intended to land troops at Haimen, 200 miles down the coast from Shanghai, later tomorrow in a new move to tighten the China coast blockade.
ref: 1939 February 17, “JAPANESE TO SEIZE NEW COASTAL AREA; Foreign Shipping Is Warned of Move to Tighten Blockade South of Shanghai FRENCH IN HANKOW CLASH Gunboat to Aid Americans at Kuling--Invaders Shifting North in Guerrilla Fight”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Oct 2023, page 13:
text: The article by the cadres and commune members of the (Chunghsing) production brigade of (Tahsing) people's commune in Haimen County reveals that the correct method of work cannot be differentiated from the correct method of thinking and the correct world outlook, The method of work promoted by Chairman Mao is one of dialectic materialism.
ref: 1969 November 10 [1969 November 9], “Articles of Dialectic Materialism Hailed”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 218, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Nanking Kiangsu Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: East Region, page C 15:
text: The Holy See was informed "a few days ago" of the decision by China to transfer Bishop Shen Bin from Haimen, in the Jiangsu province, to the diocese of Shanghai, the Vatican said.
ref: 2023 April 4, Crispian Balmer, “Vatican says China has unilaterally appointed bishop to Shanghai”, in Raissa Kasolowsky, Jonathan Oatis, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2023, World:
glosses: A district of Nantong, Jiangsu, China; a former county-level city and former county of Nantong, Jiangsu, China.
europous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From europium + -ous.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing europium with valence two.
Related terms: europic
europic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From europium + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing europium with valence three.
Related terms: europous
paid the bills
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pay the bills
paying the bills
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pay the bills
pays the bills
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pay the bills
trirhenium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tri- + rhenium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Three atoms of rhenium in a compound.
exmatriculate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: exmatriculates
form: exmatriculating
form: exmatriculated
form: exmatriculated
Etymology: From German exmatrikulieren.
Senses: glosses: To deregister or unenroll (a student in Germany or Austria), as a result of graduation, expulsion, or voluntary termination of courses
Related terms: exmatriculation
exmatriculates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of exmatriculate
exmatriculating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of exmatriculate
exmatriculated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of exmatriculate
exmatriculation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of exmatriculating.
slash bunts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slash bunt
N64s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of N64
gamophobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gamophobe
safety squeezes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of safety squeeze
dead-bug
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Relating to a form of electronic prototyping where integrated circuits are stuck upside down to the breadboard and soldered to directly.
interfixation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interfixations
Etymology: From interfix + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of interfixing.
interfixation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + fixation.
Senses: examples: text: Interfixation distance is the metric that is often used to measure how readers space their fixations.
ref: 2012, Keith Rayner, Eye Movements in Reading: Perceptual and Language Processes:
glosses: Between fixations of the eyeballs.
interfixations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interfixation
sapiophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sapiophile
nabbie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nabbies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nabby.
nabies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naby
cuddle puddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuddle puddles
Senses: examples: text: Then Pug and I split a tab of E and passed a thermosful of mushroom tea back and forth—a "hippie flip," something I hadn't tried in more than a decade—and an hour later I was dancing my ass off and the world was an amazing place. I ended up in a wonderful cuddle puddle around 2 A.M., every nerve alive to the breathing chests and the tingling skin of the people around me.
ref: 2015 December 9, Cory Doctorow, Ken Liu, John P. Murphy, Jay O'Connell, William Preston, Alastair Reynolds, edited by Allan Kaster, The Year's Top Short SF Novels 5, volume 5, AudioText:
glosses: A group session of hugging and petting.
cuddle puddles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuddle puddle
hash marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hash mark
Kanner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Kanner's syndrome
till the cow come home
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of until the cows come home.
ATCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ATC
wankaholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wankaholics
Etymology: From wank + -holic.
Senses: glosses: Somebody who is addicted to masturbation.
Crusoean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Crusoean
form: most Crusoean
Etymology: From Crusoe + -an.
Senses: synonyms: Crusoesque
Robinsonesque
Robinsonian
glosses: Of or relating to the fictional castaway Robinson Crusoe, or the novel in which he appears.
Crusoesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Crusoesque
form: most Crusoesque
Etymology: From Crusoe + -esque.
Senses: synonyms: Crusoean
Robinsonesque
Robinsonian
glosses: Reminiscent of the fictional castaway Robinson Crusoe.
wankaholics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wankaholic
Spearman's rank correlation coefficients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Spearman's rank correlation coefficient
Robinson Crusoe Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Renamed in 1966 by the Chilean government, after the fictional castaway Robinson Crusoe: the island was home to the marooned sailor Alexander Selkirk from 1704 to 1709, and is thought to have inspired the novel.
Senses: synonyms: word: Aguas Buenas
english: former name
translation: former name
word: Más a Tierra
english: former name
translation: former name
glosses: The second largest of the Juan Fernández Islands.
tray ceiling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tray ceilings
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A tray-shaped recess in a ceiling.
tray ceilings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tray ceiling
shoulder-of-mutton sails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoulder-of-mutton sail
Karp reduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Karp reductions
Etymology: Named after Richard Karp.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A polynomial-time algorithm for transforming inputs to one problem into inputs to another problem, such that the transformed problem has the same output as the original.
wikipedia: Richard Karp
Related terms: Karp-reducible
Karp-reducibility
Karp reductions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Karp reduction
Karp-reducible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Capable of undergoing Karp reduction.
puppet governments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puppet government
interverts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of intervert
interverting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intervert
interverted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intervert
neofeudal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neofeudal
form: most neofeudal
form: neo-feudal
Etymology: From neo- + feudal.
Senses: examples: text: Ironically, the German university became more bourgeois just when contemporaries like Weber began to criticize the "social aristocratic tendency of our time" among the cultivated and when student subculture in the duelling corporations was becoming more neofeudal!
ref: 1982, Konrad H. Jarausch, Students, Society and Politics in Imperial Germany: The Rise of Academic Illiberalism, Princeton University Press, page 121:
text: With that decline, there was the potential that papal ideology on sociopolitical issues would be neofeudal in orientation and yet have no neofeudal social groups or social order to defend.
ref: 1992, Gene Burns, The Frontiers of Catholicism: The Politics of Ideology in a Liberal World, University of California Press, published 1994, page 46:
text: The creoles' legitimacy as a neofeudal elite thus hinged rather precariously, not on a natural right of birth, but exclusively on a spotless record in imperial service.
ref: 2012, Ralph Bauer, José Antonio Mazzotti, “Introduction”, in Ralph Bauer, José Antonio Mazzotti, editors, Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas: Empires, Texts, Identities, University of North Carolina Press, page 24:
glosses: Of or relating to neofeudalism.
Related terms: feudal
neofeudalism
Kropotkinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Kropotkinian
form: most Kropotkinian
Etymology: From Kropotkin + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Peter Kropotkin (Пётр Кропо́ткин; 1842–1921), Russian scientist and philosopher who advocated a communist society based on voluntary associations between workers.
neofeudalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neofeudalists
Etymology: From neo- + feudalist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of neofeudalism.
neofeudalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neofeudalist
jagunço
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jagunços
Etymology: From Portuguese jagunço.
Senses: examples: text: Maria Quadrado, Alexandrinha Correa, and Gertrudes […] went around placing the dead bodies of jagunços in hammock litters so that they could be carried back to Canudos to be buried.
ref: 1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 85:
text: Though the government forces carried modern rifles against their one-shot muskets and scraping knives, the jagunços repelled first a detachment of a hundred men and then a detachment of five hundred.
ref: 2016, Alex Cuadros, Brazillionaires:
glosses: A hired gunman in backland Brazil; a militiaman or bodyguard; a bandit or outlaw.
jagunços
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jagunço
snakes in the grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snake in the grass
Tintinology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Tintin + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The study of The Adventures of Tintin, especially in an academic context.
wikipedia: Tintin
Related terms: Tintinologist
Tintinologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tintinologists
Etymology: From Tintinology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who studies Tintinology.
protocolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of protocolary.
shoemender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoemenders
Etymology: Compound of shoe + mender.
Senses: examples: text: Next he called on Paul Leblond, the shoemender he had visited before. As with Madame Vauclin, his return had been eagerly awaited and, again, he showed the list. The shoemender knew others, he said, who would be well placed to help: […]
ref: 2011, Margaret Mayhew, Those In Peril:
glosses: A person who repairs shoes.
shoemenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoemender
space-cadet keyboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: space-cadet keyboards
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A style of computer keyboard, traditionally used on MIT Lisp machines, equipped with seven modifier keys and three shift keys, arranged to facilitate chording.
Multician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Multicians
Etymology: From Multics + -ian; coined at Honeywell around the 1970s, according to the Jargon File.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A competent user of Multics.
wikipedia: Honeywell
Jargon File
Multicians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Multician
Aleppine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Aleppo + -ine.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Aleppo.
Aleppine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aleppines
Etymology: From Aleppo + -ine.
Senses: glosses: A person from, or an inhabitant of, Aleppo.
Aleppines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aleppine
Eskimological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Eskimology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Eskimology.
Miller flip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Miller flips
Etymology: Introduced by skateboarder Darrell Miller.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
sports
glosses: A frontside invert in which the rider cartwheels into the fakie position.
Miller flips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Miller flip
just on
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Harkness checked the time. It was just on half-past eleven.
ref: 1977, William McIlvanney, chapter 38, in Laidlaw:
glosses: exactly
Synonyms: dead on
Rule 110
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The binary number sequence 01101110, summarising the rule, is equivalent to the decimal number 110. This is the rule's Wolfram code.
Senses: topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A simple cellular automaton, unusual in being Turing-complete, where each cell's value changes depending on its current value and those of two neighbouring cells.
cellular automatons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cellular automaton
microstatement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microstatements
Etymology: From micro- + statement.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A statement in microcode.
microstatements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microstatement
microaggresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of microaggress
microaggressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of microaggress
microaggressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of microaggress
weight down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: weights down
form: weighting down
form: weighted down
form: weighted down
Senses: examples: text: […] the fact is that you can't move fast when you are sodden and mudded from head to foot and weighted down with a heavy rifle and bayonet and a hundred and fifty cartridges.
ref: 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter VII, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
text: The orchards of peaches with the lush fruit weighting down the dwarfed trees.
ref: 1940, Carson McCullers, chapter 15, in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, published 2000, page 321:
text: The Minister of Pensions and National Insurance has been told to carry out a pension reform which destroys National Insurance, which restores the purchasing power of the pension to the 1946 level, but at the cost of weighting down the contributor as never before
ref: 1957 November 13, Hansard:
text: Last week [the posters] so covered the walls of cities, government buildings and even private huts that the citizens of Canton had to read their messages on the ground, where frustrated Red Guards laid out their latest scribblings and weighted them down with stones.
ref: 1967 January 20, “The Handwriting on the Walls—and Streets”, in Time:
glosses: To place a weight on, attach a weight to, load with a weight; to encumber with a weight.
PUFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PUF
physical unclonable functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of physical unclonable function
physically unclonable function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: physically unclonable functions
Senses: glosses: Synonym of physical unclonable function.
synonyms: word: physical unclonable function
physically unclonable functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of physically unclonable function
gabillions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gabillion
tape libraries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tape library
gatrillions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gatrillion
eckie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛki
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ecky (“ecstasy”).
shotgun debugging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A poorly-directed form of debugging, making various experimental changes to the source code in the hope that one of them will eventually fix the problem.
Related terms: shotgun surgery
shotgun cloning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of shotgun sequencing.
synonyms: word: shotgun sequencing
despine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪn
Forms: form: despines
form: despining
form: despined
form: despined
Etymology: From de- + spine.
Senses: examples: text: Three specimens are partially decorticated. One of these items is not longitudinally split but is despined while another is longitudinally split into quarters and is despined. The last Yucca thomsoniana specimen is longitudinally split into less than quarter-sized segments and is despined.
ref: 1999, Perishable Industries from Hinds Cave, Val Verde County, Texas:
text: Prickly pears, known as tunas in Spanish, produce deliciously juicy fruits. They are sometimes available in Southwestern markets, or can be picked straight off the plants—but take care not to prick your fingers on the spines. (Those for sale in stores have been despined.)
ref: 2002, Scott Cunningham, Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Wicca in the Kitchen, page 22:
text: The carrot seed is first put through a despining machine, where the spine is broken through some sort of rubbing action.
ref: 2004, Babasaheb B. Desai, Seeds Handbook: Processing And Storage:
glosses: To remove the spines from a plant.
despines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of despine
despining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of despine
despined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of despine
spinalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spinalizes
form: spinalizing
form: spinalized
form: spinalized
Etymology: From spinal + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Such procedures may involve surgically separating the spinal cord from the brain. In this case, the animal is called spinalized or a spinal preparation. If we assume that every volitional act comes from the brain, then in a spinalized animal all muscle reactions to external stimuli are apparently reflexes, because signals from the brain cannot reach the spinal cord.
ref: 2008, Mark L. Latash, Neurophysiological Basis of Movement:
text: An injury that results in complete spinal transection at the thoracic or cervical level has the same effect as the surgical procedure used to spinalize animals for use in experiments.
ref: 2012, James Tresilian, Sensorimotor Control and Learning: An Introduction to the Behavioral Neuroscience of Action:
text: This conceptual experiment can be physically demonstrated by decerebrating or spinalizing an animal and using a neuromuscular blockade or deafferentiation to remove rhythmic sensory feedback.
ref: 2014, Shih-Chii Liu, Event-Based Neuromorphic Systems, page 94:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To surgically separate the spinal cord of (an animal) from the brain.
Related terms: spinalization
spinalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spinalize
spinalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spinalize
spinalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spinalize
framework agreement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: framework agreements
Senses: glosses: An agreement between two parties, recognising that they have not come to a final agreement on all matters relevant to the relationship between them, but have agreed on enough to move forward with the relationship, with further details to be determined in the future.
testosteronally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more testosteronally
form: most testosteronally
Etymology: From testosteronal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a testosteronal way.
nail cutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nail cutters
form: nail-cutter
form: nailcutter
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nail clippers.
synonyms: word: nail clippers
nailcutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nailcutters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nail cutter.
toe-biter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toe-biters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of toe biter.
toe-biters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toe-biter
nailcutters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nailcutter
nail cutters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nail cutter
framework agreements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of framework agreement
gyal dem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galdem
form: gyaldem
Etymology: Borrowed from Jamaican Creole gyal dem (“girls”).
Senses: examples: text: […] I make the gyaldem sing for me
ref: 2015, Stormzy, Been the Man:
coordinate_terms: mandem
glosses: group of girls or women
monstricides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monstricide
heavy metals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heavy metal
high bailiff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high bailiffs
form: high-bailiff
form: High Bailiff
form: High-Bailiff
Senses: examples: text: Every bailiff duly appointed may serve or execute any process which by any Act passed or to be passed is directed to be served or executed by a high bailiff, unless otherwise specially provided against therein.
ref: 1888, Henry D. Barton, Analytical Digest of Cases Published in the Law Journal Reports, Volume 57, page 270:
glosses: An officer of the county courts responsible for executing warrants and court orders.
glosses: The chief stipendiary magistrate of the Isle of Man, who acts as a judge, including passing sentence, imposing fines, etc.
monolexical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + lexical.
Senses: examples: text: In English there is no monolexical verb form to denote that the verbal subject is silent.
ref: 1998, Dennis Kurzon, Discourse of Silence, page 2:
glosses: Consisting of a single word.
Synonyms: monoverbal
monoverbal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + verbal.
Senses: glosses: Consisting of a single word.
Synonyms: monolexical
drinkwater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English drinkwater (attested as a nickname), equivalent to drink + water. Compare Saterland Frisian Drinkwoater (“drinkwater”), West Frisian drinkwetter (“drinkwater”), Dutch drinkwater (“drinkwater”), German Low German Drinkwater (“drinkwater”), German Trinkwasser (“drinkwater”).
Senses: examples: text: In very dry seasons some drinkwater is brought from wells dug in the bed of the river, about half-an hour from the village.
ref: 1905, Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). Colonial Secretary's Dept. Local Government and Health Branch, Reports:
text: “I'll come back and bring you some drinkwater," he said.
ref: 1916, McClure's Magazine, volume 47:
glosses: Potable water; water intended for drinking
Synonyms: sense: potable water
word: drinking water