cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
at one's own risk
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: /ət wʌnz ˈəʊn ɹɪsk/
Forms: form: at one's risk
Senses: examples: text: CDEM ADVISORY: Visitors to Tuchanka land at their own risk. The CDEM will not attempt to extract citizens threatened by clan warfare.
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Tuchanka:
synonyms: at one's own peril
on one's own account
glosses: Taking personal responsibility for any harm that arises from a dangerous activity.
Related terms: at the risk of
proxy votes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proxy vote
blodge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blodges
Senses: examples: text: A blodge of blue on the eyelids, a blodge of black on the eyelashes, white face and red mouth. Like a little clown.'
ref: 1995, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, A Well-Painted Passion, page 110:
text: A purple blodge, a yellow blodge, a green blodge, a brown blodge for God's sake. I hadn't noticed it before.
ref: 2005, Laurence Fleming, On Torquemada's Sofa, page 51:
glosses: An uneven patch of color.
examples: text: Whether an amoebic blodge or a zebra, the struggle for existence has always been a bloodbath of death and displacement, without sentiment, without compassion.
ref: 2010, Jeffrey Schloss, Michael Murray, The Believing Primate:
text: My nose be purple veined, a blodge that dribbles like a leaking tube of glue.
ref: 2011, Aidan Chambers, Breaktime & Dance on My Grave, page 96:
glosses: Something with an irregular amorphous shape.
blodge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blodges
form: blodging
form: blodged
form: blodged
Senses: examples: text: The varnish goes on more smoothly when blodged on thickly but will take a day or two to dry really hard—and then you can scrape the smears off the lenses
ref: 1951, Corona: The Journal of His Majesty's Colonial Service:
text: A pocket of dread blodged into my belly about what might happen next.
ref: 2016, Holly Bourne, How Hard Can Love Be?:
glosses: To splat; to hit a surface and deform into a blodge.
examples: text: The handwriting hardly changes, except in moments of great distress when it shrinks, becoming barely legible while the pages are often blodged with ink, or even with tears.
ref: 1989, A bright remembrance, page 4:
text: She kept trying to stop the tears, but they rushed down her cheeks blodging her careful make-up, clogging her nose.
ref: 1995, Anne Redmon, The Judgement of Solomon, page 50:
text: The window was open and the pillow of the bed was blodged with rain.
ref: 2008, P. D. James, Cover Her Face:
glosses: To mark with blodges.
blodges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blodge
blodges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blodge
blodging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blodge
blodged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blodge
conspiracied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of conspiracy
conspiracying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of conspiracy
mind-your-own-business
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The plant Soleirolia soleirolii, baby's tears.
fundamental frequency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fundamental frequencies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fundamental (“the lowest frequency of a periodic waveform”).
synonyms: word: fundamental
extra: the lowest frequency of a periodic waveform
fundamental frequencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fundamental frequency
Armazic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Armazi + -ic, in reference to Armazi, an ancient site near Mtskheta, Georgia, where several specimens of a local idiom of written Aramaic have been found.
Senses: glosses: An extinct written Aramaic language used for administration in the South Caucasus in the first centuries AD.
wikipedia: Armazi
armbanded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From armband + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing an armband.
Gepidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Gepidic
form: most Gepidic
Etymology: From Gepid + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Gepids.
Gepidic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Gepid + -ic.
Senses: glosses: The hypothetical East Germanic language once spoken by the Gepids.
a jour
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: pierced, cut away, or made translucent in such a way as to form a design
glosses: having figured openwork
glosses: decorated with translucent, pierced, or openwork designs (used of carving, metalwork, lace, drawnwork, or cutwork)
Newport News
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An independent city in Virginia, United States.
mahleb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mahlab
form: mahaleb
Etymology: From Arabic مَحْلَب (maḥlab, “mahaleb cherry”), from حَلَبَ (ḥalaba, “to milk”).
Senses: examples: text: What makes them [(kahke)] unique is the fragrant mahleb (also spelled mahlab or mahaleb)—a spice ground from wild cherry kernels, with a flavor reminiscent of fresh cherries—elusive, but fruity and very pleasant.
ref: 2010, Richard Sax, Classic Home Desserts: A Treasury of Heirloom and Contemporary Recipes, page 287:
glosses: A Middle Eastern spice derived from the pit of the mahaleb cherry (Prunus mahaleb)
taraxacology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒlədʒi
Senses: examples: text: British taraxacology in general and we ourselves in particular owe Chris Haworth a massive debt, as we have explained in the dedication of this book.
ref: 1997, A. A. Dudman, Dandelions of Great Britain and Ireland, page 5:
text: The result is that in the United Kingdom alone about 250 microspecies of Taraxacum officinale are currently recognized. Although this kind of "taraxacology" seems to be a secret science for the layman, there are arguments that justify the recognition and naming of agamospecies.
ref: 2001, Christa Kletter, Tibetan Medicinal Plants, page 129:
glosses: The study of the dandelion genus Taraxacum.
Related terms: taraxacologist
taraxacologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taraxacologists
Senses: examples: text: Generally speaking, for the experienced taraxacologist, it is easier to identify material in the field. Constructing a key for the identification of dandelions presents considerable difficulties.
ref: 1997, A. A. Dudman, Dandelions of Great Britain and Ireland, page 17:
text: The problem of handling numerous taxa has been solved differently by the batologists and the taraxacologists.
ref: 1999, Inger Nordal, The Species Concept in the High North:
glosses: One who studies taraxacology or dandelions.
taraxacologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taraxacologist
beardworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beardworms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of beard worm.
beard worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beard worms
form: beardworm
Senses: glosses: Any annelid worm of the family Siboglinidae, particularly those with beard-like protrusions.
kahke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Armenian Egg Biscuits (Kahke)
ref: 2010, Richard Sax, Classic Home Desserts: A Treasury of Heirloom and Contemporary Recipes, page 287:
text: Greg's earliest memories are of ... his aunt Larisse's kahke bread
ref: 2011, Greg Malouf, Lucy Malouf, Saha: A Chef's Journey Through Lebanon and Syria, page 12:
text: The desserts peculiar to Gaziantep Jews' cuise were ... Kahke, a kind of cookie; Knafeh (in Turkish Künefe or Kadayıf) ....
ref: 2018, Süleyman Şanlı, Jews of Turkey: Migration, Culture and Memory:
glosses: A kind of Armenian baked good, flavored with mahleb.
piggyback plant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piggyback plants
Senses: glosses: A plant native to moist forests near the coast of northwestern North America, Tolmiea menziesii, grown as an ornamental groundcover or container plant for its attractive green foliage with plantlets growing from the bases of the leaves.
Synonyms: youth-on-age
thousand mothers
piggyback plants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piggyback plant
Yanshui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 鹽水 (Yánshuǐ).
Senses: examples: text: THE FENG PAO FESTIVAL takes place in the Yanshui district of Tainan City, in Taiwan, on the 15th day of each Lunar New Year, with a smaller procession the day before (on February 10 and 11, this year).
ref: 2017 January 23, Nic Barkdull, “How to survive this Taiwanese Lunar New Year fireworks festival – wearing a helmet helps”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Jan 2017, Asia Travel:
text: A rural district in the far north of Tainan City, the town of Yanshui is mainly known for the Yanshui Beehive Fireworks Festival. For the local faithful this is an important religious ritual; for the young and daring, however, it is more of a crazy thrill. Except for this event, Yanshui is quite and peaceful for most of the year, which is good news if you come to explore the town's old streets and alleys.
ref: 2019, STEVEN CROOK, “YANSHUI A Little Town That Charms”, in Travel in Taiwan, page 48:
text: The Beehive Fireworks Festival in Yanshui, close to Taiwan's old capital of Tainan, is renowned for its noisy and fiery atmosphere - participants wear motorcycle helmets and thick coats to avoid being injured as the streets are bombarded with fireworks and firecrackers.
ref: 2021 February 27, Ann Wang, Ben Blanchard, “Firecrackers fly as Taiwanese celebrate pared back festival”, in Richard Pullin, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 05 Sep 2024, Asia Pacific:
text: The Beehive Fireworks Festival in Tainan's Yanshui District kicked off Saturday, with the event set to reach its climax on Sunday evening when participants with proper protective gear will be able to "bathe" in the exploding fireworks.
ref: 2023 February 4, Ssu-jui Yang, Sean Lin, “Tainan Yanshui Beehive Festival kicks off”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 04 Feb 2023, Culture:
glosses: Alternative form of Yanshuei.
Holly Oak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in New Castle County, Delaware, United States.
langlaufs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of langlauf
langlaufs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of langlauf
langlaufing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of langlauf
langlaufed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of langlauf
buzz pollination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A technique of pollen collection practised by certain bee species in which the bee holds the flower and vibrates so as to shake pollen free.
Cohoes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Albany County, New York, United States.
Stonington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and borough of New London County, Connecticut, United States.
glosses: A village in Christian County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Lawrence County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: A town in Hancock County, Maine, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Delta County, Michigan, United States.
rocks in one's head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Fancy bringing all the chaplains together at six o'clock on a Friday night in the heart of Sydney. They've got rocks in their head.
ref: 2007, Don Woodland, Simon Bouda, Picking Up the Pieces:
text: Either that or it's the rocks in your head.
ref: 2009, Robert Arellano, Havana Lunar:
text: They must have rocks in their heads. But then they were young, one of them was only nineteen, and what nineteen year old wouldn't fancy a few virgins after a suicide bombing?
ref: 2013, Alexander Logan, Two Women: Two Worlds, page 313:
text: My mother always said I had rocks in my head, ever since I was a boy, perhaps the yoke of being an Irish American.
ref: 2019, Virginia Biggar, Lynda Everman, Steven M. Glazer, Dementia-Friendly Worship, page 51:
glosses: An inability to think clearly and rationally.
having it in for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of have it in for
had it in for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of have it in for
single-entry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
coordinate_terms: double-entry
glosses: Describing a method of bookkeeping that relies on a one-sided accounting entry to maintain financial information, with each entry appearing only once on one side or other of the account.
hundred twenty-eighth note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hundred twenty-eighth notes
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A note played for ¹⁄₁₂₈ of the duration of a whole note.
Synonyms: quasihemidemisemiquaver
two hundred fifty-sixth note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊt
Forms: form: two hundred fifty-sixth notes
Senses: examples: text: When you cut four quarter notes in half, you get eight eighth notes, and so on, down the road, all the way to two-hundred-fifty-sixth notes.
ref: 2009, Phyllis Sdoia-Satz, Practicing sucks, but it doesn't have to!: surviving music lessons:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A note played for 1⁄256 of the duration of a whole note.
forenote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forenotes
Etymology: From fore- + note.
Senses: glosses: A preceding note or message; a preface.
forenotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forenote
Möbius function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after August Ferdinand Möbius (1790–1868), a German mathematician and theoretical astronomer who introduced it in 1832.
Senses: topics: combinatorics
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A function from the natural numbers to the set {−1, 0, 1} which maps perfect squares to 0, prime numbers to −1, and is multiplicative.
wikipedia: August Ferdinand Möbius
solvable group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solvable groups
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
qualifier: Galois theory
glosses: A group G which is part of a finite chain Gᵢ (0 ≤ i ≤ n) of subgroups, where G₀ is the trivial subgroup and Gₙ = G, such that each intermediate subgroup Gᵢ is a normal subgroup of the next in the chain (i.e., Gᵢ ◁ Gᵢ₊₁) and each quotient Gᵢ₊₁/Gᵢ is a cyclic group.
Hyponyms: abelian group
Republic of Haiti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Official name of Haiti: a country in the Caribbean.
Yaghan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yaghans
form: Yaghan
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Yahgan.
Yaghan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Yahgan.
organosilene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organosilenes
Etymology: From organo- + silene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a molecule containing a silicon atom doubly bonded to a carbon atom
lowtide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The point at which the sea level is at its lowest during any given cycle
Yámana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The people indigenous to the southernmost portion of South America, from about 300 kilometers south of the Strait of Magellan and southward to Cape Horn.
glosses: The language spoken by these people.
Yenshui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 鹽水 (Yen²-shui³).
Senses: examples: text: A total area of more than 650 hectares is scheduled for industrial use at Yenshui, Hsuehchia, Chiali, Anting, Liuying, Jenteh, and Shanshang.
ref: 1981 December 13, “Scenery, relics in Tainan”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly], volume XXII, number 49, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 2:
english: Free China Weekly
translation: Free China Weekly
text: Yenshui is a fairly ordinary town situated between Tainan and Chiayi. However, during the Lantern Festival, on the 15th day of the first moon, the whole town goes insane.
ref: 1998, Robert Storey, “South-West Taiwan”, in Taiwan (Lonely Planet), 4th edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 292, column 2:
text: To commemorate the hundred-year anniversary of eliminating the plague, citizens of Yenshui, Taiwan, held a celebration with fireworks.
ref: 2003, Leland Gregory, Hey, Idiot!, Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 89:
text: An annual two-day fireworks festival -- the Yenshui Beehive Fireworks Festival -- opened in the town of the same name in southern Taiwan's Tainan County Saturday morning and will culminate in a finale on Sunday night.
ref: 2010 February 27, “Fireworks festival in Tainan County unveiled with deafening fanfare”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 24 Sep 2022, Culture:
text: The slag was reportedly dumped at the site by members of a nearby temple. It was sourced from a contractor at Walsin Lihwa Co’s (華新麗華) steel plant in Tainan’s Yenshui District (鹽水) and was to be used in the construction of a parking lot, said Chung Hwa University of Medical Technology professor Huang Huan-chang (黃煥彰), who exposed the incident.
ref: 2015 December 21, Wei-han Chen, “Tonnes of toxic slag found dumped in Chiayi County”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Jul 2018, Front Page, page 1:
text: Police are investigating an apparent suicide pact following the discovery of four bodies in Tainan’s Yenshui District (鹽水) on Wednesday.
ref: 2016 March 12, Jason Pan, “Police probe apparent suicide pact”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Mar 2016, Taiwan News, page 5:
text: It appears to be Thursday March 1 2018 sandwiched between 228 Holiday and Lantern festival Holiday making for what could be a long 5 day weekend for some people. (Yenshui seems to be used more than Yanshui for the event title even though event is in Yanshui)
ref: 2019 November 28 [2018], tango42, “Tainan Yenshui Beehive Fireworks Festival 18-19 Feb 2019 鹽水蜂炮節”, in Forumosa, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2021:
glosses: Alternative form of Yanshuei.
128th note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 128th notes
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Abbreviation of hundred twenty-eighth note.
256th note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 256th notes
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Alternative form of two hundred fifty-sixth note.
blodger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blodgers
Senses: examples: text: He was the leader of what were scornfuiiy called the "high souls" against the "blodgers."
ref: 1910, The Nation - Volume 90, page 586:
text: Tearing herself away irritably, Maureen said abruptly: 'That he's a skite, a larry, a blodger and a drongo all rolled into one.
ref: 1966, Colin MacInnes, All Day Saturday, page 97:
text: In fact, all the executives who'd seen that Joe Moran was "really a bit of a blodger," in Jack Kelly's words, the ones who still owned copies of early white papers that revealed Moran's recent policy flip-flops, had been moved far away from him now.
ref: 1988, Donald R. Katz, The big store: inside the crisis and revolution at Sears, page 156:
text: Am I such a callous blodger, then? You can't imagine that I might feel bad about the way we've invaded your life?
ref: 2008, Donna Kauffman, The Royal Hunter: A Novel, page 115:
text: Officers and noncoms did not wear insignia of rank. “Nobody put up stripes in our outfit, that was for base blodgers,” one man remembered.
ref: 2012, David Hackett Fischer, Fairness and Freedom: A History of Two Open Societies:
glosses: Alternative form of bludger.
blodgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blodger
laptopped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This is in stark contrast indeed with the modern laptopped, linguistically handicapped and 'aeroplaned' consultant who needs Rapid Rural Appraisals to know what is going on.
ref: 1995, J. B. Schiere, Cattle, straw and system control, page 28:
text: The young white laptopped middle classes have come to Balham with their artful casuals and polite terror of the remaining browns and blacks.
ref: 2007, Glen Duncan, The Bloodstone Papers, page 34:
text: Even so, on that flight, I switched mental places with the laptopped visitors, their skins angry, red and peeling (had they ever encountered such intense heat before?).
ref: 2008, Shobha Dé, Superstar India: From Incredible to Unstoppable:
glosses: Having and using a laptop
Downingtown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the surname Downing + town.
Senses: glosses: A borough of Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States.
comparison operator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comparison operators
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: a binary operator that tests for equality or inequality and evaluates to true or false
Synonyms: relational operator
Hypernyms: operator
comparison operators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comparison operator
relational operator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relational operators
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: synonym of comparison operator
synonyms: word: comparison operator
relational operators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relational operator
Nansi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: nänʹsûʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 南四.
Senses: examples: text: Nansi Lake is also part of the South-North Water Transfer Project, a multi-billion dollar effort to move Yangtze River water through canals and reservoirs into the Yellow River watershed in arid northern China. Nansi Lake helps convey some of that water and serves as a storage point on the project’s eastern route, which began operating in December 2013.
ref: 2014 March 21, “Nansi Lake, China”, in NASA, archived from the original on 02 Jul 2019:
text: Nansi Lake is also a recipient of medical, sewage treatment plant, livestock and aquaculture wastewater, which are the major sources of antibiotic pollution. In 2009, the aquaculture area of the Nansi Lake Basin reached 735.01 km2 with 0.495 million fishery products, and the numbers of cows, pigs and chickens were 0.95, 7.2 and 105 million heads, respectively (Wang et al., 2015). According to the report, the amount of antibiotics in medical wastewater in Jining is as high as μg·L−1 (Sun, 2015), and antibiotics have been found in pig faeces from a farm in Heze, which had the highest concentration of 764.4 mg kg−1 (Pan et al., 2011). The wastewater is mainly transmitted through inflowing rivers into Nansi Lake, and approximately 200,000 m3 of domestic sewage and 600,000 m3 of industrial wastewater are discharged every day (Wang et al., 2016a, 2016b).
ref: 2020 March, Guodong Zhang, Xiaohuii Liu, Shaoyang Lu, Jinpeng Zhang, Weiliang Wang, “Occurrence of typical antibiotics in Nansi Lake’s inflowing rivers and antibiotic source contribution to Nansi Lake based on principal component analysis-multiple linear regression model”, in Chemosphere, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Feb 2024:
text: Nansi Lake Basin is located in the southwest of Shandong Province, China, which is a typical area affected by fluorosis due to high F⁻ in drinking water. It is reported high fluoride groundwater is widely distributed in the plain area on the west side of the Nansi Lake, and its prevalence is closely related to the hydrogeological conditions, climate, and geomorphology (Liu et al., 2021; Xu et al., 2020; Gao et al., 2019; Liu et al., 2018).
ref: 2023 December 15, Chunli Su, Mengzhu Wang, Xianjun Xie, Zhantao Han, Jiaqi Jiang, Zhen Wang, Dawei Xiao, “Natural and anthropogenic factors regulating fluoride enrichment in groundwater of the Nansi Lake Basin, Northern China”, in Science of the Total Environment, volume 904, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2024:
glosses: A lake in Jining, Shandong, China.
San Clemente
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /sæn kləˈmɛnti/
/sæn kləˈmɛnteɪ/
Etymology: From Spanish San Clemente (“St. Clement”), various places named in honor of Clement of Rome, from Latin Clemens, from clemens (“merciful”).
Senses: glosses: A coastal city in Orange County, California, United States.
glosses: An island of Los Angeles, California, United States, off the coast, one of the Channel Islands.
glosses: The name of places in Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Italy, the Philippines and Spain
glosses: Former name of Santa Cruz: an island of Galapagos, Ecuador.
Radebaugh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Radebaughs
Etymology: Americanized spelling of German Radebach.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
glosses: A community in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Crookton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A populated place in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States.
Related terms: Crookston
Doswell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Hanover County, Virginia, United States.
Ivy City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɪti
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood of Washington, D.C., United States.
Northern Isles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A pair of archipelagos off the north coast of mainland Scotland, comprising Orkney and Shetland.
East Glacier Park
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated village and census-designated place in Glacier County, Montana, United States.
uhligite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named in honour of Alfred Louis Uhlig (1883 - 1919), a German geologist who led the expedition on which the mineral was found.
Uhlig + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A black isometric mineral containing aluminium, calcium, oxygen, titanium and zirconium.
uakitite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the type locality, the Uakit meteorite deposit, Baunt District, Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia
Uakit + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An isometric mineral containing vanadium and nitrogen.
melilitolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melilitolites
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A plutonic rock containing more than 10% melilite and where there is more melilite than foids
ultramelilitolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ultra- + melilitolite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A melilitolite with more than 65% melilite.
Truronian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹʊəɹˈəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /tɹʊɹˈoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Etymology: From Truro + -n- + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A person from the city of Truro, Cornwall.
Altoona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ælˈt(j)uː.nə/
ipa: /ælˈtu.nə/
Senses: glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town mostly in Etowah County, Alabama.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Lake County, Florida.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Polk County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A small city in Wilson County, Kansas.
examples: text: Making nice on a cooking program or game show is the macropopulist equivalent of knocking down pins in a bowling alley in Altoona, Pa., or belting down Crown Royal whiskey in a bar in Crown Point, Ind., only better: the setting, be it Rachael Ray’s kitchen or Howie Mandel ’s array of suitcases on “Deal or No Deal,” is as familiar as home to millions of viewers.
ref: 2008 April 22, Alessandra Stanley, “Politicians as Comics: A Sideshow on Pop TV”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Blair County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Wahkiakum County, Washington.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin.
unidactyl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + -dactyl.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having one digit.
liplocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of liplock
liplocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Marcus Kent didn't see her liplocked with someone else in the hall — he saw her liplocked with me.
ref: 2003, Rhonda Nelson, Just Toying Around, page 106:
text: I went into all the lurid details about that night we'd gone to the show and I'd seen Karen liplocked with another girl.
ref: 2007, Larry Groves, Seasons in Time, page 123:
text: Swear to God, I would have rather seen Griff Shipley and Blond Audrey instead. Even if they were liplocked and handing out wedding invitations.
ref: 2017, Sarina Bowen, Bountiful:
glosses: In the act of kissing passionately.
liplocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of liplock
Groton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: In Suffolk, recorded as Grotena in 1086 (DB), probably from Old English groten + ēa (“sandy or gravelly stream”). Places in the United States were directly or indirectly named after this village.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Babergh district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TL9541).
glosses: A town and city in New London County, Connecticut, United States.
glosses: A town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
glosses: A town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States.
glosses: A town and village in Tompkins County, New York, United States.
glosses: A city in Brown County, South Dakota, United States.
glosses: A town in Caledonia County, Vermont, United States.
lip-locking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lip-lock
lip-locked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lip-lock
lip-locked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of liplocked.
Katriese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kəˈtɹis/
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
lip locking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lip lock
lip locked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lip lock
Ciera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /siˈɛ.ɹə/
Senses: glosses: A female given name, a modern variant of Sierra.
Jahana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
DeLeon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /dəˈliˌɑn/
Senses: glosses: A habitational surname from Spanish, from de León (“from the province of León”)
boatside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boatsides
Etymology: From boat + side.
Senses: examples: text: At that same moment Gregson, excited too, flattened him against the boatside so that he could not move.
ref: 1947, Herbert Ernest Bates, The Cruise of the Breadwinner, page 41:
text: And as they leaned over the boatside, and looked into the dead calm, up came the three bubbles, and broke in three small sighs.
ref: 1952, Laurence Housman, The kind and the foolish, page 83:
text: Fish with teeth or those so heavy that they require more than a lip lock can be handled with a gill-cover grip when subdued at boatside.
ref: 2012, Jay Cassell, The Ultimate Guide to Fishing Skills, Tactics, and .Techniques:
glosses: The side of a boat.
boatside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From boat + side.
Senses: examples: text: There are low little bulging timber-houses to be soon seen; boatside dwelling-places for boatside men, wherein they can still exercise tarring and " shivering," and belaying, and some rat-catching, surely, and be quite at home.
ref: 1878, “A Walk below Bridge”, in All the Year Round, volume 21, page 545:
text: While in an airport waiting for a flight, he read an article about a new firm named Boatside Services that was offering boatside fueling, polishing, oil changes and head pump-outs.
ref: 1999 April, Bill Lindsey, “Rite of Passage”, in Boating, volume 73, number 4, page 152:
text: Boatside strikes on a figure eight are one of the most thrilling moments in muskie fishing.
ref: 2008, Jack Burns, Rob Kimm, Pro Tacticsᵀᴹ: Muskie, page 62:
glosses: Near or for boats.
boatside
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more boatside
form: most boatside
Etymology: From boat + side.
Senses: examples: text: When he of the men hooked a cobia, the level of their voices picked up and soon—too soon—they had it boatside.
ref: 1983, Wildlife in North Carolina - Volume 47, page 17:
text: In many catch-and-release muskellunge tournaments, musky length is measured boatside by a witness.
ref: 2006, Wisconsin Natural Resources - Volumes 30-31, page 14:
text: The exhausted fish came boatside and was aptly secured in the net.
ref: 2017, C.L. Marshall, Hunting & Fishing the Chesapeake:
glosses: Beside a boat.
boatsides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boatside
Carbondale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former settlement in Amador County, California, United States. Nothing remains of the settlement today.
glosses: A ghost town in Orange County, California, United States.
glosses: A home rule municipality in Garfield County, Colorado, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Whitfield County, Georgia, United States.
glosses: A city in Jackson County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Warren County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: A city in Osage County, Kansas, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Menominee County, Michigan, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Athens County, Ohio, United States.
glosses: A city in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States.
glosses: A hamlet in Sturgeon County, Alberta, Canada.
Jersey City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Veneza remains silent for the rest of the ride to Jersey City, which is only another ten minutes or so.
ref: 2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 170:
glosses: A city, the county seat of Hudson County, New Jersey, United States.
sunshineful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sunshine + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Rather was it the heart's desire to carry into my Arcadian exile the familiar faces and brief life sketches of staunch friends and pleasing acquaintances, and to leave in return a little volume that those who knew me best and with whom I have passed sunshineful hours may be occasionally reminded from their library book shelves that I once had a place in their associations, their thoughts, and possibly in their esteem.
ref: 1909, Samuel Hudson, Pennsylvania and its public men, page 3:
text: And the journey back is just as sunshineful, just as leisurely, just as blue, warm and exciting.
ref: 1965, Courier, page 21:
text: The man smiled. It was a sunshineful smile, glinty and warm,
ref: 2010, Victoria Bond, Tanya R. Simon, Zora and Me, Candlewick Press, →ISBN, page 27:
glosses: full of sunshine.
handlock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: handlocks
form: handlocking
form: handlocked
form: handlocked
Etymology: From hand + lock.
Senses: examples: text: With respect to the discipline of the place, there appeared to be but little coercion: two patients only were manacled to their beds, and four were handlocked; the two that were manacled to their beds, and the four that were handlocked, had merely been so, according to the statement of the Keeper, for a few hours, the two in their beds having had, it being a remarkably hot day, a great accession of fever.
ref: 1836, Selection of Reports and Papers of the House of Commons:
text: Similarly, the burgesses for the city of Kilkenny were, on their return homewards from Parliament, made captive, and carried off handlocked by another servant of the Earl's, who swore at the time he led them away that he wished he had Henry VIII at one end of the handlock, and Viceroy Ormond at the other!
ref: 1859, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland:
text: Hi-Cinsellah, when he deemed my arm could help to prop his crazy throne, swore to handlock me in marriage with his daughter Eva, but, seeing the tide swept too strong against us, he cast me off as a broken oar, sens the princess and her maidens to the convent of St. Bridget in Cilldair, and with sixty followers, all his muster, scours away to England's king, to purchase with her hand his aid in the war he is about to wage with Eire.
ref: 1887, M. L. O'Byrne, The Court of Rath Croghan, Or, Dead But Not Forgotten, page 78:
text: With but a few exceptions, political establishments all over the world are handlocked by immobilism and the tight grip of the superpower's bid for global supremacy.
ref: 1988, Peter Schenkel, Eti: A Challenge for Change, page 85:
glosses: To restrain with, or as with, a handlock.
examples: text: She turns, and closes, and handlocks the door.
ref: 1983, A. E. Van Vogt, Computerworld, page 130:
glosses: To lock by means of a handlock.
examples: text: 'Vanity of vanities,' said Holdenough, smiling kindly at the same time, and still holding his recovered friend's arm inclosed and handlocked in his.
ref: 1826, Sir Walter Scott, Woodstock:
text: This time, his mother handlocked him, picked him up, and forced him to get into her car.
ref: 1970, California Journal for Instructional Improvement:
glosses: To restrain by holding so as to immobilize the hand.
handlocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handlock
handlocks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of handlock
handlocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of handlock
handlocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of handlock
Meriden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: A 500-year-old cross on the village green is said to mark the exact centre of England. Meriden also claims to be the home of English archery, […].
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 281:
glosses: A village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, West Midlands, England, historically in Warwickshire (OS grid ref SP2482).
glosses: A suburb of Watford borough, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TQ1299).
glosses: A place in the United States:
A city in New Haven County, Connecticut.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community and township in LaSalle County, Illinois.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A minor city in Cherokee County, Iowa.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A minor city in Jefferson County, Kansas.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A township in Steele County, Minnesota, named after Meriden, CT.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in the town of Plainfield, Sullivan County, New Hampshire.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community and coal town in Barbour County, West Virginia.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A crossroads in Laramie County, Wyoming.
Sayreville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A borough of Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.
Perth Amboy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.
Related terms: South Amboy
eyelock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eyelocks
form: eye lock
form: eye-lock
Etymology: From eye + lock.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, when the Sunday School classes marched into church for the last hour of the service, there would be added to the congregation young boys and girls, secured to their seats by the eyelocks of stern teachers.
ref: 1983, Harry Mark Petrakis, Reflections: A Writer's Life, a Writer's Work, page 21:
text: The first one to break the eyelock by looking away, dropping the eyes, or closing the eyes was the loser.
ref: 1988, Larry A. Samovar, Richard E. Porter, Intercultural communication: a reader, page 295:
text: But this girl in the flimsy dress, a girl who couldn't seem to break eyelock with the Greek god standing behind her?
ref: 2013, Joan Kilby, Gentlemen Prefer Nerds:
glosses: An occurrence of mutual staring, where each person gazes fixedly into the other's eyes.
eyelock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eyelocks
form: eyelocking
form: eyelocked
form: eyelocked
form: eye lock
form: eye-lock
Etymology: From eye + lock.
Senses: examples: text: We eyelocked, looked really hard at eachother,^([sic]) each one thinking the other was the strange thing in the fishtank.
ref: 1999, Gale Zoë Garnett, Visible amazement: a novel, page 106:
text: Giant Kurt Stregner pauses, sneers as he eyelocks Joe.
ref: 2012, Iceberg Slim, Doom Fox:
text: He had these impossibly dark eyes, the intense kind that looked like they knew what you were thinking, even before you did. We both looked away so fast that I had to wonder if we'd eyelocked at all.
ref: 2014, Liz Fichera, Played:
glosses: To lock eyes (with).
eyelocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eyelock
eyelocks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of eyelock
eyelocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of eyelock
eyelocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of eyelock
lock eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪz
Forms: form: locks eyes
form: locking eyes
form: locked eyes
form: locked eyes
Senses: glosses: To stare into the eyes of someone who is staring back into your eyes.
locks eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lock eyes
locking eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lock eyes
locked eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lock eyes
eye lock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eye locks
Senses: examples: text: Glancing over the crowd as if looking for someone there, his piercing gaze caught my eye. With that one casual eye lock, I would have expected violins to begin to play and all motion to be suspended while I tried to catch my breath.
ref: 2007, Betty J. Reynolds, Louisiana Coffee ... with Lots of Cream: A Creole Family Memoir:
text: You walk by the guy, smile, give him a good “one Mississippi, two Mississippi” eye lock, and keep walking.
ref: 2013, Jess McCann, You Lost Him at Hello:
text: There are also people who maintain rigid eye lock not from an attitude of openness and interest or from any attempt to appear open and interested but as an aggressive and narcissistic show of dominance.
ref: 2014, Sam Harris, Waking Up: Searching for Spirituality Without Religion, page 164:
text: I gave Gillian and Jack a few special gazes into each other's eyes and some internal dialogue to go with the eye locks, but my thoughts kept going back to the conversation I'd had with Inspector Jamieson regarding Vicki.
ref: 2014, Hannah Reed, Off Kilter, page 228:
glosses: Alternative form of eyelock.
eye locks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eye lock
eye-lock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eye-locks
Senses: examples: text: Another useful insight is to watch for "eye-locks" between people during management meetings.
ref: 1979, Paul Preston, Communication for managers, page 161:
text: Stepping off an elevator, she finds herself in an eye-lock with Lili, who is standing in the doorway of her apartment, stock still, staring and uttering a miserable "How can this be?!!"
ref: 2005, John Anderson, Edward Yang, page 90:
text: Two series of moments, far apart yet with commonalities, involve experiences of eye-lock with a girlfriend and a hyena.
ref: 2014, Michael Eigen, Faith, page xv:
glosses: Alternative form of eyelock.
eye-lock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eye-locks
form: eye-locking
form: eye-locked
form: eye-locked
Senses: examples: text: McMahon was hugging Carter and trying to eye-lock me at the same time.
ref: 1999, Jody Jaffe, In Colt Blood, page 112:
text: If someone eye-locks you in a Gaze Glaze, don't look at your shoes, which you will instinctively want to do.
ref: 2008, Marcelle DiFalco, Jocelyn Greenky Herz, The Big Sister's Guide to the World of Work:
text: Danny locks eyes with one of the Caseys for a few seconds and then turns to eye-lock with the other while speaking.
ref: 2010, Danielle Kennedy, Warren Jamison, How to List and Sell Real Estate, page 221:
glosses: Alternative form of eyelock.
eye-locks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eye-lock
eye-locks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of eye-lock
eye-locking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of eye-lock
eye-locked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of eye-lock
cellhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cellhouses
form: cell house
Etymology: From cell + house.
Senses: examples: text: Such doorman will work at all times under the direct supervision of the cellhouse keeper and, during his tour of duty, will be responsible for the count of all inmates leaving or entering the cellhouse and for the security of the cellhouse door.
ref: 1962, Joseph Edward Ragen, Charles Finston, Inside the World's Toughest Prison, page 582:
text: 65 The correctional officer in charge of the cellhouse, a sergeant, noticed the inmate resisting his transfer enter the cellhouse with five others and then go up a flight of stairs to an upper tier.
ref: 1991, Bert Useem, Peter Kimball, States of Siege: U.S. Prison Riots, 1971-1986, page 73:
text: The two mess halls were inadequate to feed the four thousand convicts from the four cellhouses at the same time, so the North and West honor units ate first.
ref: 2013, Edward Bunker, The Animal Factory:
glosses: One of the buildings in a prison that contains cells for the inmates; cellblock.
cellhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cellhouse
Thunderdome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθʌndɚˌdəʊm/
enpr: thŭn′dər′dōm
Forms: form: Thunderdomes
Etymology: From thunder + dome.
Senses: glosses: A domed arena for steel-cage jousting in the Australian post-apocalyptic film Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985), now used to describe an enclosed arena where fighting events take place and have no rules.
scientophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scientophile
Kamchatka Krai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A krai of Russia, in the Russian Far East.
Khabarovsk Krai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Хаба́ровский край (Xabárovskij kraj).
Senses: glosses: A krai of Russia, in the Russian Far East.
Krasnodar Krai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A krai of Russia.