cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Axumite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Axumites
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Aksumite.
Aksumites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aksumite
Axumites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Axumite
perceptuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perceptualities
Etymology: From perceptual + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being perceptual.
perceptualities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perceptuality
Shan Van Vocht
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Phonetic rendering of the Irish phrase an tSeanbhean Bhocht ("The Poor Old Woman"), a traditional name for Ireland.
Senses: glosses: Ireland
fiberwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fiberwoods
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fibrewood.
fiberwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fiberwood
fibrewoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fibrewood
pulpboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pulpboard
pulpboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulpboards
Etymology: From pulp + board.
Senses: glosses: A board made from compressed pulp from wood, paper, etc.
fibrewood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fibrewoods
Etymology: From fibre + wood.
Senses: glosses: fiberboard
albertosaurines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of albertosaurine
cataplerosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κατά (katá, “down”) + πλήρωσις (plḗrōsis), from πληρόω (plēróō, “to fill”) + -σῐς (-sĭs).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The removal of intermediate metabolites, especially in the citric acid cycle, to prevent their accumulation in the mitochondrial matrix.
Derived terms: cataplerotic
Related terms: anaplerosis
cataplerotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to cataplerosis.
Derived terms: cataplerotically
catchability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catchabilities
Etymology: From catch + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being catchable.
glosses: The relative or absolute amount of fish in a population that could be caught in a unit time under specified conditions
characiform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: characiforms
Senses: synonyms: characin
glosses: Any fish of the order Characiformes
craniomedial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːdiəl
Etymology: From cranio- + medial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the middle part of the cranium
Derived terms: craniomedially
craniomedially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more craniomedially
form: most craniomedially
Etymology: From craniomedial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a craniomedial manner or direction
cyprinodontoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyprinodontoids
Senses: glosses: Any of the family Cyprinodontidae of pupfish.
cyprinodontoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyprinodontoid
moracin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moracins
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of organic compounds found in Morus species.
Derived terms: chalcomoracin
moracins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moracin
epicoprostanol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From epi- + coprostanol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An isomer of coprostanol, 5β-cholestan-3α-ol.
epistigmastanol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From epi- + stigmastanol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An isomer of stigmastanol, 24α-ethyl-5α-cholestan-3β-ol
foldscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foldscopes
Etymology: From fold + -scope.
Senses: glosses: A microscope or similar optical instrument made by origami-like folding of a single piece of card (plus one or more lenses)
glucoincretin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glucoincretins
Etymology: From gluco- + incretin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of peptide hormones derived from preproglucagon
glucoincretins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glucoincretin
glucolipotoxicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gluco- + lipo- + toxicity.
Senses: glosses: toxicity to β-cells due to the deleterious effects of elevated glucose and fatty acid levels
Related terms: glucolipotoxic
ichnofamily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ichnofamilies
Etymology: From ichno- (“trace”) + family.
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Any family known only from trace fossils, such as footprints, coprolites or nests.
Related terms: ichnogenus
ichnospecies
ichnotaxon
ichnotaxonomy
ichnospecies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ichnospecies
Etymology: From ichno- (“trace”) + species, suggesting an analogy with the species level of the taxonomy of organisms.
Senses: examples: text: There is certainly little discussion of distinctive features that warrant the establishment of new ichnospecies. In short, the ichnospecies labels are something of a compromise. By this we mean that the use of familiar ichnogenera (Grallator, Eubrontes, and Batrachopus) acknowledges similarity, whereas the use of new ichnospecies names conveys the suggestion that the track assemblages are distinct in some way.
ref: 2000, Martin Lockley, Christian Meyer, Dinosaur Tracks and Other Fossil Footprints of Europe, Columbia University Press, page 112:
text: Oldhamia encompasses six ichnospecies, O. alata, O. antiqua, O. curvata, O. flabellata, O. geniculata, and O. radiata, all of them present in lower Cambrian rocks, with a few ichnospecies persisting into the middle Cambrian (Fig. 3.5) (Seilacher et al. 2005; Herbosch and Verniers 2011; Jensen et al. 2013).
ref: 2016, M. Gabriela Mángano, Luis A. Buatois, “3: The Cambrian Explosion”, in M. Gabriela Mángano, Luis A. Buatois, editors, The Trace-Fossil Record of Major Evolutionary Events: Volume 1, Springer, page 85:
text: A recent paper by a team from Brazil described a new ichnospecies of these tracks: Brasilichnium saltatorium.
ref: 2017 March 22, Elsa Panciroli, The Guardian, Walking in the footsteps of giants and gerbils: what fossil prints can tell us
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A level of taxonomical classification of trace fossils.
Related terms: ichnofamily
ichnogenus
ichnology
ichnotaxon
ichnotaxonomy
ichnotaxonomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ichno- (“trace”) + taxonomy.
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: The branch of taxonomy that attempts to classify an animal based on its footprints, burrows, or other traces
glosses: The taxonomy of ichnofossils
Related terms: ichnofamily
ichnogenus
ichnospecies
ichnotaxon
ichnotaxonomic
lamnoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lamnoid
artoindonesianin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of organic compounds derived from Artocarpus species.
thistle crown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thistle crowns
Senses: glosses: An English gold coin of the reign of James I, worth four shillings.
cardosanto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardosantos
Etymology: From Spanish cardosanto.
Senses: glosses: A Mexican prickly poppy (Argemone mexicana), a hardy plant found in Mexico, with bright yellow latex.
multicaulisin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From translingual multicaulis + -in.
Senses: glosses: An organic compound found in the roots of Morus alba multicaulis.
sanggenons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sanggenon
crossbedding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crossbeddings
Etymology: From cross- + bedding.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: oblique lamination of horizontal beds
sulphochlorinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sulpho- + chlorinated.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sulfochlorinated.
squirrel corn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: D. Canadénsis, DC. (Squirrel-Corn). Subterranean shoots tubiferous; leaves and raceme as in No. 1; corolla merely heart-shaped, the spurs very short and rounded; crest of the inner petals conspicuous, projecting.
ref: 1862, Asa Gray, Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States, page 27:
text: SQUIRREL CORN. See Dicentra.
ref: 1862, G. Ripley, editor, The new American cyclopædia, page 21:
text: Bulbocapnine, derived from squirrel corn, has been used to treat méniére's disease and muscular tremors, and the botanical drug complex, corydalis, which is found in the bulblets of both dutchman's breeches and squirrel corn, has been shown to be useful in treating chronic skin lesions and was once used to treat syphilis.
ref: 2012, Carol Gracie, Spring Wildflowers of the Northeast: A Natural History, page 46:
glosses: Dicentra canadensis, a herbaceous plant in the fumitory family with small yellow clustered bulblets, finely dissected leaves, and white heart-shaped flowers, native to deciduous woodland in eastern North America.
squirrel grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squirrel grasses
Senses: glosses: foxtail barley (Hordeum jubatum)
foxtail barley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Hordeum jubatum, a perennial grass with attractive inflorescences.
NFD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NFDs
Etymology: From NF (“Normalization Form”) + D (“Canonical Decomposition”).
Senses: qualifier: Unicode
glosses: Initialism of Normalization Form: (Canonical) Decomposition.
Related terms: sense: in Unicode
word: NFC
sense: in Unicode
word: NFKC
sense: in Unicode
word: NFKD
NFKC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From NF (“Normalization Form”) + KC (“Compatibility Decomposition, followed by Canonical Composition”).
Senses: qualifier: Unicode
glosses: Initialism of Normalization Form: Compatibility (K) Composition.
Related terms: sense: in Unicode
word: NFC
sense: in Unicode
word: NFD
sense: in Unicode
word: NFKD
NFKD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NFKDs
Etymology: From NF (“Normalization Form”) + KD (“Compatibility Decomposition”).
Senses: qualifier: Unicode
glosses: Initialism of Normalization Form: Compatibility (K) Decomposition.
Related terms: sense: in Unicode
word: NFC
sense: in Unicode
word: NFD
sense: in Unicode
word: NFKC
Plantingian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Plantingian
form: most Plantingian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Plantingan.
Plantingan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Plantingan
form: most Plantingan
form: Plantingian
Etymology: From Plantinga + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Alvin Plantinga (born 1932), American analytic philosopher, known for his work in philosophy of religion, epistemology, metaphysics and Christian apologetics.
span shackle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: span shackles
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A large bolt driven through the forecastle deck, with a triangular shackle in the head to receive the heel of the old-fashioned fish davit.
span roof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: span roofs
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes these linhays are double: the same span roof furnishing two ranges of sheds
ref: 1805, William Humphrey Marshall, The Rural Economy of the West of England:
glosses: A common roof, having two slopes and one ridge, with eaves on both sides.
span counter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Henry the Fifth, in whose time boys went to span-counter for French crowns
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
text: Boss out, or boss and span, also called hit or span, wherein one bowls a marble to any distance that he pleases, which serves as a mark for his antagonist to bowl at, whose business it is to hit the marble first bowled, or lay his own near enough to it for him to span the space between them and touch both the marbles; in either case he wins, if not, his marble remains where it lay and becomes a mark for the first player, and so alternately until the game be won. Span-counter is a pastime similar to the former, but played with counters instead of marbles. I have frequently seen the boys for want of both perform it with stones. This sport is called in French tapper, a word signifying to strike or hit, because if one counter is struck by the other, the game is won.
ref: 1845, Joseph Strutt (1749-1802), The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, page 384:
glosses: An old English children's game, in which one throws a counter on the ground, and another tries to hit it with his counter, or to get his counter so near it that he can span the space between them, and touch both the counters.
Guinea plum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Guinea plums
Senses: glosses: Parinari excelsa, a plant in the family Chrysobalanaceae, found in African mountains.
synonyms: gingerbread plum
glosses: The sweet edible fruit of this plant.
kuwanon G
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An antimicrobial bombesin receptor antagonist, isolated from Morus alba.
Guinea pepper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any of several not closely related black pepper-like spices from West Africa.
Aframomum melegueta (grains of paradise) from the ginger family (Zingiberaceae).
glosses: Any of several not closely related black pepper-like spices from West Africa.
Piper guineense (West African pepper) from the pepper family (Piperaceae).
glosses: Any of several not closely related black pepper-like spices from West Africa.
Xylopia aethiopica (grains of Selim) from the custard apple family (Annonaceae).
merteens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of merteen
dragon arum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any of species Dracunculus vulgaris of aroid plants.
dragonfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dragonfish
loosejaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loosejaws
Etymology: From loose + jaw.
Senses: glosses: A fish whose jaw can unhinge to swallow large prey.
loosejaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loosejaw
dry rent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dry rents
Senses: examples: text: Rent-Seek, or dry Rent, is where a Man passeth his Estate to another, and reserves to him and his Heirs a certain Rent
ref: 1722, Gilles Jacob, A New Law Dictionary:
topics: law
glosses: A rent reserved by deed, without a clause of distress.
dry rents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dry rent
antigreed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antigreed
form: most antigreed
Etymology: From anti- + greed.
Senses: glosses: Opposing greed.
wormgrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wormgrass
glove sponge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glove sponges
Senses: synonyms: turkey cup sponge
glosses: A fine and soft variety of commercial sponge (Spongia officinalis).
globe animalcule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: globe animalcules
Senses: glosses: A green alga of species Volvox globator, once thought to be an animal, .
globe sight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: globe sights
Senses: glosses: A front sight component used to assist the aiming of a projectile weapon. It consists of a hollow cylinder with a threaded cap, which allows differently shaped interchangeable front sight elements to be used.
Cronquist system
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Developed by Arthur Cronquist.
Senses: glosses: A taxonomic classification system for flowering plants.
watch paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watch papers
Senses: related: word: watchpaper
hypernyms: paper#Noun
glosses: A paper label, note, picture, or ornament for the inside of a watchcase.
devil's interval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devil's intervals
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The tritone.
Synonyms: the devil in music
wood nettle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wood nettles
Senses: glosses: Laportea canadensis, an annual or perennial herbaceous plant of the nettle family Urticaceae, native to eastern and central North America.
Synonyms: Canada nettle
deerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From deer + -less.
Senses: examples: a deerless forest
glosses: Lacking deer.
yellow precipitate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Mercury(II) oxide
Yiddo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɪd.əʊ/
ipa: /ˈjɪd.oʊ/
rhymes: -ɪdəʊ
Forms: form: Yiddos
form: yiddo
Etymology: From Yid + -o. In sense 2, the derogatory term for Jews being applied due to the large historical Jewish support for the team.
Senses: examples: text: Dave, ’e’s a nutter in school. ’E used to go to exams, get a big quiet hall, real quiet like with a right strict teacher there in the exam room and ’e used to see all the yiddos there doing their exam and Dave is trying to copy off ’em and then the teacher’d say “I have got to be back at school now, I’m leaving Mr Arman or something here for twenty minutes” and an Indian teacher would come in […]
ref: 1972, Pat Doyle et al., quoting a member of the Collinwood gang, “Schools”, in Susie Daniel, Pete McGuire, editors, The Paint House: Words from an East End Gang, Harmondsworth, Greater London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, pages 39–40:
text: And down at Tottenham Hotspur - where the fans were once largely of Jewish origin and the thickheads have labelled Spurs as the “yiddos” - the term has been accepted by football fans who are appearing on the terraces with all the NF [National Front] and swastika drag plus the Jewish skullcap (to keep it on they have to tape it to their shaven skulls) and chant away: “We are the yiddos”.
ref: 1982 June–July, “BM [British Movement]”, in Black Flag: Organ of the Anarchist Black Cross, volume VI, number 12, Sanday, Orkney: Black Flag, →OCLC, page 6, column 4:
text: A group of young Jewish kids are being harangued by a group of young men. They yell: ‘Yiddo, yiddo, yiddo!’ at the kids.
ref: 1987, Hanif Kureishi, “Int. The tube. Day”, in Sammy and Rosie Get Laid: The Script and the Diary, London: Faber and Faber, published 1988, →ISBN, page 47:
text: Many people claim that “yiddo” is just a lighthearted nickname, happily used by Spurs fans and nothing to do with actual Jews (which is certainly the defence made for stewards’ failure to do anything about these cries, when they will eject users of other racist language), but that doesn’t explain why rival fans also chant: “Spurs are on their way to Auschwitz” and make hissing noises to represent gas ovens – nor why “Yiddo” gets shouted at the Israeli midfielder Yossi Benayoun, who’s never played for Tottenham in his life. God, football’s awful.
ref: 2012 February 26, Victoria Coren, “Comment: You’re a brave man, Rowan: The comedian is a rarity these days, a man prepared to speak up and make a principled stand”, in The Observer, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 42:
glosses: A Jew.
glosses: A supporter of Tottenham Hotspur F.C.
Yiddos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Yiddo
fruit leather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fruit leathers
Senses: synonyms: fruit rollup
glosses: Puréed fruit that has been poured on a flat surface to form a layer, then dehydrated, yielding a dry, thin, pliable food product that resembles a sheet of leather.
Related terms: candied fruit
dried fruit
yellow Sally
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow Sallys
form: yellow Sallies
Senses: topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A greenish or yellowish European stonefly of the family Chloroperlidae.
glosses: A critically endangered stonefly (Isogenus nubecula), presumed extinct in the UK after 1995 but rediscovered in 2017.
yellow Sallys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yellow Sally
yellow Sallies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yellow Sally
coastrange sculpin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coastrange sculpins
Senses: glosses: Cottus aleuticus, a freshwater sculpin.
spoonhead sculpin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spoonhead sculpins
Senses: glosses: Cottus ricei, a North American freshwater fish.
Rat Indian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rat Indians
Senses: glosses: A member of a Gwich'in (Athabascan) tribe dwelling near Fort Yukon, Alaska.
rat snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæt sneɪk/
Forms: form: rat snakes
form: ratsnake
Senses: synonyms: chicken snake
glosses: Any of many medium to large colubrid constrictors of a kind found through a great portion of the Northern Hemisphere, primarily feeding on rodents and birds.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Bogertophis rosaliae
word: Baja California rat snake
taxonomic: Elaphe taeniura
word: beauty rat snake
taxonomic: Pantherophis alleghaniensis
word: black rat snake
taxonomic: Elaphe dione
word: Dione's rat snake
taxonomic: Pantherophis alleghaniensis
word: eastern ratsnake
word: European rat snake
taxonomic: Zamenis situla
word: European ratsnake
word: gray rat snake
taxonomic: Pantherophis spiloides
word: grey rat snake
taxonomic: Platyceps ventromaculatus
word: Gray's rat snake
taxonomic: Pantherophis emoryi
word: Great Plains rat snake
taxonomic: Platyceps ventromaculatus
word: Hardwicke's rat snake
taxonomic: Ptyas mucosa
word: Indian rat snake
taxonomic: Elaphe climacophora
word: Japanese rat snake
taxonomic: Euprepiophis mandarinus
word: Mandarin rat snake
taxonomic: Ptyas mucosa
word: Oriental rat snake
taxonomic: Zamenis persicus
word: Persian rat snake
taxonomic: Coelognathus erythrurus
word: Philippine rat snake
taxonomic: Pantherophis guttatus
word: red rat snake
word: rhicoceros rat snake
taxonomic: Gonyosoma boulengeri
word: rhino rat snake
word: steppe rat snake
taxonomic: Elaphe dione
word: steppes rat snake
taxonomic: Pantherophis obsoletus lindheimeri
word: Texas rat snake
taxonomic: Bogertophis subocularis
word: Trans-Pecos rat snake
taxonomic: Pantherophis obsoletus
word: western rat snake
taxonomic: Pseudelaphe flavirufa
word: yellow-red rat snake
Related terms: rat terrier
the handbags come out
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Coined 2004, circa March 2nd, by Jeremy St. Louis on the radio show Fox Sports World Report. From women hitting each other with handbags during a catfight; compare earlier handbags, handbags at dawn.
Senses: examples: text: "I'm ready to take the blame for all the problems of English football, if that is what he wants."
The handbags come out early doors when Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger responds to Ferguson's dig about the Gunners' foreign contingent.
ref: 2008, Chris Charles, BBC Sport, 12 May 2008, “Premier League quotes of the season”
text: The handbags have come out after a diplomatic argument between Israel and Brazil got, well, very personal.
ref: 2014, Oliver Wheaton, Metro, 26 Jul 2014, “Handbags: Israel has dig at Brazil’s 7-1 World Cup defeat after diplomatic row over Gaza bombing”
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A row intensifies; a dispute becomes heated.
wikipedia: Jeremy St. Louis
Related terms: handbags
handbags at dawn
sand pillar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sand pillars
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: dust devil
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
synonyms: sandspout#Noun
;
willy willy
hypernyms: spout#Noun
vortex#Noun
coordinate_terms: landspout#Noun
;
waterspout#Noun
glosses: A whirling, columnar vortex of sand occasionally seen in desert regions.
dragonroot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dragon + root.
Senses: glosses: Green dragon, certain plants of family Araceae.
stressbuster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stressbusters
Etymology: From stress + buster.
Senses: examples: text: My patients laud qigong as a stressbuster and cure for pesky chronic symptoms that baffle doctors.
ref: 2004, Judith Orloff, Positive Energy, page 112:
glosses: Any technique that works against mental stress.
stressbusting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stress + busting.
Senses: glosses: The use of techniques that work against mental stress.
stressbusters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stressbuster
calm your farm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaːm jə ˈfaːm/
Forms: form: calm the farm
Senses: examples: text: “Calm your farm, Mum. You'll do yourself an injury.” She laughed and swatted his arm with a tea towel.
ref: 2013, Emilie Richards, Janice Kay Johnson, Sarah Mayberry, The Christmas Wedding Quilt:
text: 'Okay, calm your farm and let's think this through,' Mitch said. 'Jase, go and get him a glass of water or something.'
ref: 2013, James Roy, City:
glosses: Calm down.
strike a lead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strikes a lead
form: striking a lead
form: struck a lead
form: struck a lead
form: stricken a lead
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: To find a vein of ore.
glosses: To find a way to fortune.
strike a jury
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strikes a jury
form: striking a jury
form: struck a jury
form: struck a jury
form: stricken a jury
Senses: examples: text: After these motions were argued, the parties met in the prothonotary's office, and struck a jury, leaving twenty-four names in the panel not struck
ref: 1845, Pennyslvania Law Journal:
topics: law
qualifier: jurisprudence
glosses: To constitute a special jury ordered by a court, by each party striking out a certain number of names from a prepared list of jurors, so as to reduce it to the number of persons required by law.
scruffed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scruff
scruffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scruff
shlock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shlocks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of schlock.
exotify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: exotifies
form: exotifying
form: exotified
form: exotified
Etymology: From exotic + -ify.
Senses: glosses: To treat as exotic.
Related terms: exotification
exotifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of exotify
exotifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of exotify
exotified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of exotify
exotification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exotifications
Senses: glosses: Act or process of exotifying.
exotifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exotification
return day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: return days
Senses: glosses: The day when a defendant is to appear in court, and the sheriff is to return the writ and his proceedings.
return bend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: return bends
Senses: synonyms: U-bend
glosses: A U-shaped pipe fitting for connecting the contiguous ends of two nearly parallel pipes lying alongside or one above another.
obtusities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obtusity
quarter badge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarter badges
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An ornament on the side of a vessel near the stern.
spring stay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spring stays
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A preventer stay, to assist the regular one; a smaller stay placed above the stays as a duplicate if needed.
spring pin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spring pins
Senses: glosses: In locomotives, an iron rod fitted between the springs and the axle boxes, to sustain and regulate the pressure on the axles.
deck floor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deck floors
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A floor which also serves as a roof, as of a belfry or balcony.
deck bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deck bridges
Senses: qualifier: railway
glosses: A bridge that carries the track upon the upper chords, distinguished from a through bridge, which carries the track upon the lower chords, between the girders.
bell deck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bell decks
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: The floor of a belfry, made to serve as a roof to the rooms below.
permafrowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of permafrown
butter-ham
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʊtəɹam/
Forms: form: butter-hams
Etymology: From butter + ham, a calque of Dutch boterham.
Senses: examples: text: Faith, I was within ams-ace of being found out ; for one night at a mum-house, where I was eating a butter-ham and pickled herrings, with some of the states, and where I was giving my self airs of greatness and interest in my country, swearing I myself would take care that my country, and three counties round about me, should choose none but hearty Whigs.
ref: 1771, Charles Davenant, Charles Whitworth, The Political And Commercial Works, page 240:
text: Give me a butterham, with flesh, and a half-bottle wine.
ref: 1871, Lewis Baxter Monroe, Public and Parlor Readings, page 107:
glosses: A slice of buttered bread.
examples: text: A cloak, half a yard shorter than the Breeches, not through lin'd, but fac'd as far as 'twas turned back, with a pair of frugal butter-hams.
ref: 2003, Cynthia Lowenthal, Performing Identities on the Restoration Stage, →ISBN, page 89:
glosses: One of two strips of trim on either side of a cloak.
glosses: a person who is overly ostentatious in their dress or actions.
black canker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black cankers
Senses: examples: 1927, Plant Research Institute (Canada), Annual Report of the Canadian Plant Disease Survey
Scab and black canker is rapidly destroying Salix vitellina in Nova Scotia. Ten per cent of the trees surviving from previous years were killed. The damage caused by these two diseases can not be estimated separately.
glosses: Any of several plant diseases causing the formation of dark cankers.
examples: text: Among the numerous enemies to which turnips are liable, none have proved more fatal here than the black canker (a species of caterpillar) which in some years have been so numerous as to cut off the farmer's hopes in a few days.
ref: 1783, William Marshall, Account of the black canker caterpillar, which destroys the turnips in Norfolk, Royal Society, page 1:
text: In some seasons these pests are exceedingly numerous, and in the Eastern Counties the “Black Canker,” as it is called, lays waste entire fields of turnips.
ref: 1869, author unknown, Hardwick's Science Gossip, page 232:
glosses: The larva of the turnip sawfly (Athalia rosae), an agricultural pest having the appearance of a black caterpillar.
Synonyms: sense: larva
word: black jack
sense: larva
word: black palmer
sense: larva
word: nigger
Derived terms: black canker caterpillar
black quarter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: malignant anthrax with engorgement of a shoulder or quarter, etc., as of an ox
black rust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
phytopathology
sciences
glosses: A disease of wheat, in which a black, moist substance is deposited in the fissures of the grain.
oysterplants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oysterplant
FFO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: Initialism of funds from operations.
FFO
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: 2014, “Sea of Bones (Connecticut)/Snakewing/Titties/Spooky Basements/Ajna”
SNAKEWING (FFO: Black Flag, Negative Approach, Integrity, Melvins, the sound Sharon Osborne would make if Ozzy had a heart attack during sex)
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Initialism of for fans of, used by promoters to describe a band.
floating heart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floating hearts
Senses: synonyms: nymphoid
glosses: An aquatic flowering plant of the genus Nymphoides, having heart-shaped leaves that float on the water.
span block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: span blocks
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Any of the blocks at the topmast and topgallant-mast heads, for the studding-sail halyards.
span iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: span irons
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A special kind of harpoon, usually secured just below the gunwale of a whaleboat.
pea ore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pea ores
Senses: glosses: argillaceous oxide of iron, occurring in round grains the size of peas; pisolitic ore
shot prop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shot props
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A wooden prop covered with tarred hemp, to stop a hole made by the shot of an enemy in a ship's side.
cotton thistles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cotton thistle
householding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English housholding, equivalent to household + -ing (gerund ending). Compare Saterland Frisian Húushooldenge (“household”), West Frisian húshâlding (“household”).
Senses: glosses: Management of a household; housekeeping.
glosses: The fact of being a householder; ownership or occupation of a house
householding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English housholding, equivalent to household + -ing (participle ending).
Senses: glosses: Having the role of householder; managing a household.
pilot boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pilot boats
Senses: glosses: A kind of boat used to transport pilots between land and the inbound or outbound ships that they are piloting.
pilot engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pilot engines
Senses: glosses: A locomotive that is moving in advance of a train to make sure that the path is clear.
pilot nut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pilot nuts
Senses: qualifier: bridge building
glosses: A conical nut applied temporarily to the threaded end of a pin, to protect the thread and guide the pin when it is driven into a hole.
azz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æz
Forms: form: azzes
Etymology: From ass. Intended as a censored form of this noun.
Senses: qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: ass; backside
pilot jacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pilot jackets
Etymology: So called because it was worn by seamen.
Senses: examples: text: The door was opened by an odd, swarthy, dried-up person of uncertain age, with a dark pilot jacket and brown leather gaiters.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: A pea coat.
Derived terms: pilot-jacketed
dead wall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead walls
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A blank wall unbroken by windows or other openings.
topics: board-games
games
mahjong
glosses: A section of the wall from which tiles are not normally drawn.
head sea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head seas
Senses: glosses: A sea that meets the head of a vessel or rolls against her course.
eye animalcule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eye animalcules
Senses: glosses: A flagellate protozoan belonging to Euglena and related genera, having a coloured spot like an eye at one end.
in the eye of the wind
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: A ship sails in the eye of the wind.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: In a direction opposed to the wind.
endbulb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endbulbs
form: end bulb
Etymology: From end + bulb.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the bulb-like bodies in which some sensory nerve fibers end in certain parts of the skin and mucous membranes.
endbulbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endbulb
Dudeism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dude + -ism.
Senses: glosses: An easygoing, vaguely Taoist philosophy and lifestyle inspired by the fictional character Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski, as portrayed by Jeff Bridges in the Coen Brothers' 1998 film The Big Lebowski.
Related terms: dudism
one-horse race
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one-horse races
Senses: examples: text: Since riding Harry Payne Whitney's Whiskery to victory in the Kentucky Derby, Jockey Linus ("Pony") McAtee has twice broken into the news in unconventional fashion. A fortnight ago, he won a one-horse race ("walkover") at Belmont Park, N. Y.
ref: 1927 June 13, “Sport: Again, McAtee”, in Time, retrieved 26 Jul 2014:
text: Sinister Minister . . . kept extending his lead and turned the stretch run into a one-horse race.
ref: 2006 April 16, Bill Finley, “Sinister Minister Joins Baffert's Derby Stable”, in New York Times, retrieved 26 Jul 2014:
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: A horse race in which a single horse takes such a considerable lead that the other horses are no longer contenders to win.
examples: text: Although Mr Balladur is far ahead in the opinion polls, the spring election is far from being a one-horse race.
ref: 1995 January 19, Andrew Marshall, “Balladur takes first step to presidency”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 26 Jul 2014:
text: A system for creating software that runs, unaltered, on all sorts of computers and devices . . . could transform the software business in the network era from a one-horse race led by Microsoft to a true contest.
ref: 1998 April 5, Robert D. Hof, “Commentary: JAVA can be a contender—If Sun lets it”, in Businessweek, retrieved 26 Jul 2014:
text: The dominance of the men in yellow over the past decade turned international cricket into a one-horse race.
ref: 2011 March 13, Shehan Karunatilaka, “How cricket saved Sri Lanka”, in The Guardian, UK, retrieved 26 Jul 2014:
glosses: An election campaign or other competitive situation in which only one competitor is entered or in which only one competitor has a realistic chance of winning.
hinoeuma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Chinese 丙午 (bǐngwǔ).
Senses: glosses: The year of the fire horse in the sexagenary cycle of the Japanese traditional calendar, last occurring in 1966. Women born in these years supposedly make poor wives.
swap horses in midstream
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: swaps horses in midstream
form: swapping horses in midstream
form: swapped horses in midstream
form: swapped horses in midstream
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of change horses in midstream.
know one's ass from a hole in the ground
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knows one's ass from a hole in the ground
form: knowing one's ass from a hole in the ground
form: knew one's ass from a hole in the ground
form: known one's ass from a hole in the ground
form: know the difference between one's ass and a hole in the ground
Senses: examples: text: "Why are you so sure and they aren't?" the landsman said. . . .
"Because Mr. Ricimer knows his ass from a hole in the ground, sir."
ref: 2004, David Drake, The Reaches, →ISBN:
text: Foxx gave a comic's pause. "Just goes to show you, don't it? Some folks don't know their ass from a hole in the ground."
ref: 2005 June 12, Gary M. Pomerantz, “First Chapter: Wilt, 1962”, in New York Times, retrieved 26 Jul 2014:
text: In the unofficial ad, the facilitator says about the man whose wife will be replaced, “This guy wouldn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground.”
ref: 2006 December 5, David Kiley, Chrysler "Whoops" Ads Part of Important New Genre, Bloomberg, retrieved 23 Sep 2016:
glosses: To have an adequate level of knowledge or skill; to understand what one is doing or talking about.
Synonyms: word: find one's ass with both hands and a flashlight
word: know B from a battledore
word: know one's ass from one's elbow
word: know one's head from a hole in the ground
word: know one's head from one's ass
word: know shit from Shinola
word: know what one is about
word: know which end is up
Related terms: know someone from a hole in the ground
know one's ass from one's elbow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knows one's ass from one's elbow
form: knowing one's ass from one's elbow
form: knew one's ass from one's elbow
form: known one's ass from one's elbow
Senses: glosses: Synonym of know one's ass from a hole in the ground.
synonyms: word: know one's ass from a hole in the ground
know the difference between one's ass and a hole in the ground
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knows the difference between one's ass and a hole in the ground
form: knowing the difference between one's ass and a hole in the ground
form: knew the difference between one's ass and a hole in the ground
form: known the difference between one's ass and a hole in the ground
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of know one's ass from a hole in the ground.
know the difference between one's ass and one's elbow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knows the difference between one's ass and one's elbow
form: knowing the difference between one's ass and one's elbow
form: knew the difference between one's ass and one's elbow
form: known the difference between one's ass and one's elbow
Senses: glosses: Synonym of know one's ass from a hole in the ground.
synonyms: word: know one's ass from a hole in the ground
Wii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wiː/
homophone: oui
homophone: we
homophone: wee
homophone: whee (wine–whine merger)
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: Wiis
Etymology: Marketing coinage: homophone for we, with the two i characters supposed to represent two people, suggesting players gathering together.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A video game system released worldwide by Nintendo in 2006, noted for its unique motion-based control system.
Derived terms: Mii
Wiimote
pitbulls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pitbull
black snakeroot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black snakeroots
Senses: synonyms: Cimicifuga racemosa
glosses: Actaea racemosa, black cohosh.
glosses: Sanicula spp.
Related terms: black snake
snakeroot
white snakeroot
Sunnitizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Sunnitize
Sunnitizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Sunnitize
Sunnitized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Sunnitize
sunnitize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sunnitizes
form: sunnitizing
form: sunnitized
form: sunnitized
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Sunnitise.
step-sister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: step-sisters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stepsister.
step-sisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of step-sister
step-brother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: step-brothers
form: step-brethren
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stepbrother.
step-brothers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of step-brother
Rhenish Palatinate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Rhenish Palatinate
Senses: glosses: The County Palatinate of the Rhine, particularly during the time between the Napoleonic Wars and the end of World War II (1816–1945), when it was in personal union with Bavaria.
glosses: The Palatinate, the lands of the former county in modern Germany.
Acridophagi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The plural of Latin acridophagus, from Ancient Greek ἀκρίς (akrís, “locust”) + φάγος (phágos).
Senses: glosses: A supposed locust-eating people in ancient ethnography, located by Diodorus Siculus, Jerome, Pliny the Elder, and Strabo, variously in Ethiopia, Libya, or Parthia.
schnozzola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schnozzolas
Senses: glosses: The nose.
Related terms: schnozz
schnozzle
warrant canary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warrant canaries
Etymology: Allusion to a miner's canary.
Senses: examples: text: However, it may be possible, via a warrant canary or a similar technique, for a CA to communicate the existence of a secret court order to the Internet community.
ref: 2012 July 9, Markus Jakobsson, editors, The Death of the Internet, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 159:
text: Warrant canaries are legal tricks employed by conscientious organisations to get around the fact that certain demands from the US government cannot be disclosed publicly.
ref: 2014 May 30, Alex Hern, “Encryption software TrueCrypt closes doors in odd circumstances”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: A warrant canary is a defense against the gag orders that come with National Security Letters and other secret subpoenas. With a warrant canary, the site would some sort of message posted saying, for example, “we have not received a secret subpoena as of July 24, 2014.”
ref: 2014 July 25, Jacob Long, “Exclusive: Private Internet Access talks warrants, canaries, transparency”, in Geeksided, archived from the original on 03 Aug 2014:
glosses: A public notice that a service provider has not received a secret government subpoena for their customers' data that they would be prohibited from saying they had received.
warrant canaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warrant canary
-tropism
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /-ˈtɹəʊpɪz(ə)m/
ipa: /-ˈtɹoʊˌpɪzəm/
Etymology: From Latin tropus (English trope) + -ism, from Ancient Greek τρόπος (trópos, “a turn, way, manner, style, a trope or figure of speech, a mode in music, a mode or mood in logic”), from τροπή (tropḗ, “turn; solstice; trope”). Early use in botany as geotropism and heliotropism.
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: movement, turning.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: growth towards.
Derived terms: tropism
Related terms: word: trope
word: -trope
word: -tropic
word: tropic
word: tropo-
alt: and its deratives
word: -tropy
lap of honour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laps of honour
form: lap of honor
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A victory lap (celebratory extra lap).
microdoublet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microdoublets
Etymology: From micro- + doublet.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A doublet lens (typically composed of a solid lens and a liquid-filled lens) made by microfabrication
microlayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microlayers
Etymology: From micro- + layer.
Senses: glosses: A very thin layer (typically having a thickness measured in micrometres)
microstratigraphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + stratigraphic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or using microstratigraphy