cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pseudohyperkalemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudohyperkalemia
pseudoinversions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoinversion
pseudolesbians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudolesbian
pseudo-logicians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudo-logician
pseudomagnitudes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudomagnitude
pseudonormalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudonormalization
pseudomyotonias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudomyotonia
East Haven
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: Alternative form: Easthaven
glosses: A coastal hamlet in Angus council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO5836).
glosses: A town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Wayne County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: A town in Essex County, Vermont, United States.
Feast of Weeks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Feast of Weeks
Senses: glosses: Shavuot
Easthaven
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of East Haven, Angus, Scotland.
blind rage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The defense argues that he went into a blind rage and did not intend to kill his girlfriend.
glosses: Uncontrollable, psychologically-blinding anger.
Gailes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia.
glosses: The location of a golf course on the coast near Irvine, North Ayrshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS3236).
PS5
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PS5s
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: Initialism of PlayStation 5.
Related terms: PS1
PS2
PS3
PS4
first-line
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The embankment was the first-line defense against the flood.
glosses: Of first resort.
glosses: Of prime quality or importance.
examples: text: first-line manager
text: Police sergeant is a first-line position.
glosses: At the lowermost supervisory level.
Related terms: second-line
second-line
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of second resort.
glosses: Of mediocre quality or peripheral importance.
glosses: At the next-to-lowest supervisory level.
Related terms: first-line
Glen Douglas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A valley in Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland, which extends from near Loch Long to Loch Lomond (OS grid ref NS3198).
Related terms: Douglas Water
Dagg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Daggs
Etymology: From Old French dague (“dagger”), hence a metonymic occupational surname for a maker or seller of daggers.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old French.
agonal respiration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: agonal breathing
agonal gasp
glosses: Shallow or labored breathing preceding death, or similar breathing associated with cardiogenic shock or cardiac arrest.
Douglas Water
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Glen Douglas, Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland, which flows into Loch Lomond.
glosses: A river in Argyll and Bute council area which flows into Loch Fyne.
glosses: A river in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland, which joins the Clyde. Douglas in South Lanarkshire is also on this river.
glosses: A village in South Lanarkshire council area named after the river (OS grid ref NS8736).
cardiogenic shock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardiogenic shocks
Senses: topics: cardiology
medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A medical emergency resulting from reduced blood flow to the body caused by ventricular dysfunction.
Tsungming
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Postal Romanization of Mandarin 崇明 (Chóngmíng).
Senses: examples: text: The fall of the Yangtsz’ is nearly double that of the Nile and Amazon, and half that of the Mississippi. The amount of water discharged is estimated at 500,000 cubic feet a second at Íchang, about 700 miles up, and it may reasonably be concluded that at Tsungming it discharges in times of flood a million cubic feet per second.
ref: 1883, S. Wells Williams, The Middle Kingdom: A Survey of the Geography, Government, Literature, Social Life, Arts, and History of the Chinese Empire and Its Inhabitants, revised edition, volume I, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →OCLC, page 22:
text: Mr. Ware arranged that we should call on the way at several out-stations in his district. This made it needful for us to go partly by water and partly by land. The first place which we wished to visit is Tsungming. This is a large island in the mouth of the Yangtsze, with a population of a million.
ref: 1897, A. McLean, “From Shanghai to Nankin”, in A Circuit of the Globe: A Series of Letters of Travel Across the American Continent, through the Hawaiian Republic, Japan, China, the Straits Settlements, Burma, India, Ceylon, Australia, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Scandinavia, France and England, St. Louis: Christian Publishing Company, page 131:
glosses: Synonym of Chongming.
synonyms: word: Chongming
Harburn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A hamlet in West Lothian council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT0461).
glosses: A community and former township in the municipality of Dysart et al, Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada.
lawnmown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of lawnmow
mishammer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mishammers
form: mishammering
form: mishammered
form: mishammered
Etymology: From mis- + hammer.
Senses: examples: text: When my most jesus fear is crucified By ready nails at every stranger's eye, By christian words mishammered at my ear, They are my fears, not I, that die.
ref: 1947, Here and Now, page 63:
text: Now in its 46th year, the Society welcomes everyone who can sing, act, dance, paint, sew, draw, hammer nails or remove nails that have been mishammered.
ref: 1993, Discover: The Greater Ann Arbor Area, page 75:
text: If they cut a board wrong or mishammered a nail, the board went into the scrap heap.
ref: 1996, Earl Proulx, Yankee Magazine's Make It Last, page 114:
text: I should know to be still when, down below the house in his workshop, he is mishammering a nail.
ref: 2008, Kathleen Stewart, The After Life: A Memoir, page 20:
glosses: To hammer improperly.
mishammers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mishammer
mishammering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mishammer
mishammered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mishammer
averrest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of aver
averreth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of aver
Coylton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in South Ayrshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS4119).
Related terms: Colyton
titanic prime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: titanic primes
head_nr: 1
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
head_nr: 2
glosses: A prime number with at least 1000 decimal digits.
titanic primes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of titanic prime
Kilbowie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS4971).
prime lens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prime lenses
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A photographic lens with a constant focal length, as opposed to a zoom lens.
Kingskettle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: .
synonyms: Kettle
glosses: A village south of Ladybank, Fife council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO3008).
mishang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mishangs
form: mishanging
form: mishung
form: mishung
Etymology: From mis- + hang.
Senses: examples: text: The New York Museum of Modern Art recently mishung a cut-and-pasted gouache of a sailboat and reflection by Henri Matisse.
ref: 1962, The Music Magazine and Musical Courier, page 31:
text: On my catch-up review for this edition, I was dutifully checking out the larger size rack, only to discover someone had accidently^([sic]) or intentionally mishung some very choice stuff, just right for my size-twelve bod.
ref: 1995, N. Berman, Thrift Shop Maniac's Guided Tours, page 124:
text: What if the rigger (the person who anchors the grids to the building ceiling) mishangs a single cable?
ref: 1998, Glen Ballou, Handbook for Sound Engineers: The New Audio Cyclopedia, page 1250:
glosses: To hang improperly.
mishangs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mishang
mishanging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mishang
mishung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mishang
Knockando
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Moray council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ1941).
gunhandler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gunhandlers
Etymology: From gun + handler.
Senses: examples: text: Despite these words of caution regarding the famous dictum in Weaver v. Ward, the language still leaves us with the impression that a showing of complete blamelessness could serve to exonerate the hapless gunhandler who inadvertently injured another.
ref: 1970, The Origin and Development of the Negligence Action, page 14:
text: William M. Breakenridge was one of the thousand or more professional gunhandlers on the frontier.
ref: 1992, William M. Breakenridge, Richard Maxwell Brown, Helldorado: Bringing the Law to the Mesquite, page xii:
text: Actor Glenn Ford loved Western movies and became an excellent horseman and gunhandler.
ref: 2013 August 28, Scott Dyke, “Meandering the Mesquite: GLENN FORD — The Forgotten Movie Star”, in Green Valley News:
text: The woman shook dangerously, an obvious virgin gunhandler.
ref: 2014, Jeremiah Sanchez, Eden's Scarecrow: Real Eyes:
glosses: One who uses a gun.
gunhandlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gunhandler
rowdy-sheeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rowdy-sheeters
form: rowdy sheeter
Etymology: From "rowdy sheet", the name given to charge sheets in the British Raj (comparable to "rap sheet" in American English).
Senses: glosses: a person with a criminal record
Related terms: rowdy
LTN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LTNs
Senses: examples: text: LTNs are areas closed to through-traffic, which allow people to drive to them but not through them, to prevent motorists using residential roads as shortcuts. […] Earlier this month a technical glitch involving LTN data resulted in dozens of roads in Oxford incorrectly appearing as closed on satellite navigation devices.
ref: 2021 June 19, “Hundreds protest over Oxford Low Traffic Neighbourhoods”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2021:
text: In fact, LTNs are championed by the Oxfordshire county council; the separate Oxford City Council has cited the 15-minute city as an inspiration for its vision of the city in 2040.
ref: 2023 March 28, Tiffany Hsu, “He Wanted to Unclog Cities. Now He’s ‘Public Enemy No. 1.’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2023:
qualifier: urban studies
glosses: Initialism of low-traffic neighbourhood.
Related terms: 15-minute city
Mundellian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mundellian
form: most Mundellian
Etymology: From Mundell + -ian.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the theories of the 20th-century Canadian economist Robert Mundell.
veily
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From veil + -y.
Senses: glosses: translucent, diaphanous
veinery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: veineries
Etymology: From vein + -ery.
Senses: glosses: veins collectively; a veined pattern
velodyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: velodynes
Etymology: From Latin velox (“fast”) or velo- + -dyne.
Senses: glosses: A device that regulates the rotational speed of a shaft
veltheimia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: veltheimias
Senses: glosses: A South African plant of the genus Veltheimia
veltheimias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veltheimia
Zino's petrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zino's petrels
Etymology: Named after British ornithologist Paul Alexander Zino (1916–2004), who was instrumental in the species' conservation.
Senses: examples: text: A more detailed knowledge of the length of these^([rat population]) cycles and of the factors triggering population explosions would be helpful in preventing sudden increases in rat numbers in Zino's Petrel breeding areas.
ref: 1996, Borja Heredia, Laurence Rose, Mary Painter, Globally Threatened Birds in Europe: Action Plans, Council of Europe Publishing, page 39:
text: Plumage of Zino's Petrel is basically identical to Fea's Petrel, but note [the] relatively small head and fine bill.
ref: 2012, Steve N. G. Howell, Petrels, Albatrosses, and Storm-Petrels of North America: A Photographic Guide, Princeton University Press, page 189:
glosses: The Madeira petrel, Pterodroma madeira, an endangered species of gadfly petrel endemic to the island of Madeira, Portugal.
wikipedia: Paul Alexander Zino
Synonyms: sense: Pterodroma madeira
word: Madeira petrel
sense: Pterodroma madeira
word: freira
veneficous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: veneficial
Zino's petrels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zino's petrel
venesector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: venesectors
Senses: glosses: bloodletter
glosses: phlebotomist
venidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: venidiums
Senses: glosses: An African daisy of the genus Arctotis (syn. Venidium), native to South Africa.
venigenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having veins, typically of metal or quartz
raw_tags: of rock
venomy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more venomy
form: most venomy
Etymology: From venom + -y.
Senses: examples: text: You will find me rather venomy.
ref: 2016, Marilyn Singer, Miss Muffet, or What Came After:
glosses: venomous
ventric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntɹɪk
Senses: glosses: ventral
verbate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: verbates
form: verbating
form: verbated
form: verbated
Etymology: Back-formation from verbatim. Equivalent to verb + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: I have al onely verbated and folowed mine auctour as nyghe as I coulde with the profoundite of good herte, and where as oni faute bi me or wrong Impression be found intelligibly after their science to correct and amend in pardoning al ygnoraunce.
ref: 1512(?), Helyas, in 1827, Robert Copland, The History of Helyas: Knight of the Swan', page 2
glosses: To transcribe or repeat verbatim.
verderership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verdererships
Etymology: From verderer + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The office of a verderer
veridicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: veridicality
vermicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vermicles
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of vermicule.
Langloan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS7264).
verminicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verminicides
Etymology: From vermin + -icide.
Senses: examples: text: But at Sam Suffy there were worse than mosquitoes. During the summer verminicide became a necessary item in the “bazar.”
ref: 1925 September, Edmund Candler, “The Dinosaur’s Egg”, in Blackwood’s Magazine, volume CCXVIII, number MCCCXIX, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood & Sons, […], section XII (The Simple Life at Nurien), page 313, column 2:
glosses: A substance that kills vermin
spinning rods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spinning rod
verseless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From verse + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Yet in spite of today's boom in books and libraries, some children still live in a verseless world.
ref: 1978, Parents and Children, volumes 16-18, page 25:
glosses: Without poetry.
examples: text: After making several changes (such as shifting the time signature from 3/4 to 4/4, changing “will” to “shall,” and dropping the old verses, making it a verseless song that was all chorus with a number of new lines to provide variety), […]
ref: 2013, Steve Sullivan, Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, volume 1, page 695:
glosses: Not divided into verses.
Loch Awe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A long freshwater lake in Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland.
glosses: Alternative form of Lochawe, a village at the head of the loch.
Mannings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Manningses
Etymology: Variant of Manning.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Loeber
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Loebers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Löber.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Loebers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Loeber
Manningses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mannings
Lochawe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village at the head of Loch Awe, Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NN1227).
grandiloquy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grandiloquies
Etymology: Probably partly from post-classical Latin grandiloquium.
Senses: examples: text: How highly their firſt God tranſcendenth our God the Creator, appeareth from the ſwelling nonſenſical Grandiloquies, which the Platoniſts of the Chriſtian Church derive from their School;
ref: 1706, Richard Brocklesby, “A Consectary from the foregoing Chapter, That the Pagans were so far ignorant of the true God, that He is not to be found amongst the Supreme Deities of their Theopolity.”, in An Explication of the Gospel-Theism and the Divinity of the Christian Religion. Containing the true Account of the System of the Universe, and of the Christian Trinity. […], book II, “An Idea of the Pagans Imperial Polity according to the Scriptures”, London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall; […], remark 6, page 236, column 2:
text: I trust, therefore, that the same allowance will be accorded me, if I should be betrayed, whilst writing about Marseilles, into similar grandiloquy.
ref: 1847 September, Moses Margoliouth, “Letter XIV. To the Rev. Dr. J. Horlock, Rector of Box. Marseilles, Sept. 1847.”, in A Pilgrimage to the Land of My Fathers, volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], published 1850, page 140:
text: If I stated the number of chloroform applications that I have made with complete safety, it might be considered as grandiloquy, and as a slur upon professional brethren who have had the misfortune of meeting with fatal accidents.
ref: 1868, Louis Bauer, “Treatment of Joint Diseases”, in Lectures on Causes, Pathology, and Treatment of Joint Diseases. Delivered at the McGill University Medical College, Montreal, Canada., New York, N.Y.: Wm. Wood & Co., […], page 48:
text: And treason, swift as the dawn of morn, / Flies through the land, to destruction borne— / If you wish to stop the grandiloquy / Of the approaching storm, of which you, / As yet, have the prologue, / Hie quickly home.
ref: 1869, “The Dawn of Liberty”, in The Dawn of Liberty; or Cadunt regum coronæ; vicit libertas. An Original Drama, Serio-Comical, in Three Acts, Chicago, Ill.: Co-operative Print, […], act I, scene III, page 23:
text: These grandiloquies, whether at the official marts or casual meeting-places, produced no shortlived effect.
ref: c. 1932, Zeitschrift für Semitistik und verwandte Gebiete, page 126:
glosses: Synonym of grandiloquence.
synonyms: word: grandiloquence
grandiloquies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grandiloquy
coreside
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪd
Forms: form: coresides
form: coresiding
form: coresided
form: coresided
Etymology: From co- + reside.
Senses: glosses: To reside with another
coresiding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪdɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coreside
Musch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Musches
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch and German Musch.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Monacelli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Monacellis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Monacelli.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
ketena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ketenas
Senses: glosses: A form of kebele
Monacellis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Monacelli
ketenas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ketena
Musches
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Musch
that's why
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: a statement to emphasise the reason or explanation just given
Morals
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Moral
Noy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɔɪ
Forms: form: Noys
Etymology: Several origins:
* A variant of the English surname Noe, related to Noah.
* Ornamental surname, from Hebrew נוי (nói, “decoration, adornment”), in part adopted as a Hebraicized form of various Ashkenazi surnames containg the unrelated German element neu (“new”)
* Borrowed from Catalan Noy, variant of Noi, nickname from noi (“boy, lad”)
* Borrowed from Lao ຍ (nya)
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Neris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nerises
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Neris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Neri
Nerises
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Neris
Noys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Noy
fag packet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fag packets
Senses: examples: text: But what they have done is to make an announcement and then patch it up with a 'back of a fag packet' announcement... and then practically banned fag packets! […] The list may have sounded impressive as Rishi Sunak rattled them off in his speech, but it did not take more than a cursory examination to reveal that the fag packet had been used to draw it up.
ref: 2023 October 18, Christian Wolmar, “The back of a fag packet used for unworkable rail plans”, in RAIL, number 994, pages 44-45:
glosses: A cigarette packet.
Related terms: back-of-the-fag-packet
magniloquy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Late Latin magniloquium.
Senses: examples: text: You must outpuff the puffers of this puffing people, and strike dumb the altiloquence of the immortal vendor of the barbal alkahest, and diamond paste by the terrisonous explosion of your altisonant and ceraunic magniloquy!
ref: 1810, Piomingo, The Savage, Philadelphia, Pa.: […] Thomas S. Manning; […], page 60:
text: It is fortunate, for the sake of his conduct escaping misconstruction, that he is not a clerical descendant of some of those worthies, whose mottoes he perpetually holds forth to us as the very concentrated spirit of wisdom and honour, and whose names he occasionally parades with such Homeric magniloquy, from “the Marquises of Hertford, Newcastle, Worcester, and Ormond,” to the Esquires, “Sidney, Godolphin, Murray, Kenelm Digby, Bridgman, Luttrell, Dudley Smith, Lane.”
ref: 1824, “Art. III. The Broad Stone of Honour: or Rules for the Gentlemen of England. 12mo. 390 pp. 9s. Rivingtons.”, in The British Critic, volume XXII, London: […] for C. & J. Rivington, […]; By R. Gilbert, […], page 44:
text: Aph. XI. Of many anatomical terms, the chief characteristics are antiquity, magniloquy, and unintelligibility.
ref: 1894, Burt G. Wilder, “Terminology, Anatomical”, in Albert H. Buck, editor, A Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences Embracing the Entire Range of Scientific and Practical Medicine and Allied Science, volume VIII, New York, N.Y.: William Wood & Company, “Organonymy”, section 43, “Aphorisms Respecting Nomenclature”, page 520, column 2:
glosses: Synonym of magniloquence.
synonyms: word: magniloquence
wikipedia: William Dwight Whitney
Poissant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Poissants
Etymology: Borrowed from French Poissant. This surname is mostly found in Canada.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Stiverson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stiversons
Etymology: Variant of Steverson.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Stiversons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Stiverson
Poissants
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Poissant
St. Jacques
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: St. Jacqueses
Etymology: Borrowed from French.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Stechschulte
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stechschultes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Stechschulte.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Shirzat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Uyghur شىرزات (shirzat).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Uyghur.
Stechschultes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Stechschulte
St. Jacqueses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of St. Jacques
Bawudun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Uyghur باۋۇدۇن (bawudun).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Uyghur.
fag packets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fag packet
Sawut
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Uyghur ساۋۇت (sawut).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Uyghur.
Sulayman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Uyghur سۇلايمان (sulayman).
Senses: examples: Mexmut Sulayman, b. 1968
glosses: A surname from Uyghur.
McIver
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McIvers
form: MacIver
form: McEver
form: McEvers
form: McIvor
form: McKiver
Etymology: Anglicized form of Irish and Scottish Gaelic Mac Íomhair (“son of Íomhar”), Gaelic adaptation of the Old Norse name Ívarr.
Senses: examples: text: Video taken during the scrum appears to show McIver using her body to push past federal agents and get to Baraka as he was being taken away in handcuffs.
ref: 2025 May 20, Shania Shelton and Holmes Lybrand, “Democratic congresswoman says federal charges in ICE facility scuffle are ‘absurd’”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname.
Mexmut
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Uyghur مەخمۇت (mexmut).
Senses: examples: Mexmut Sulayman, b. 1968
glosses: A male given name from Uyghur.
Oquendo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Oquendos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Oquendo, Castilianized form of Basque Okendo. This surname is mostly found in Colombia.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Oquendos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Oquendo
McIvers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /məkˈaɪvɚz/
rhymes: -aɪvə(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: plural of McIver
glosses: A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Mapes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mapeses
Etymology: Possibly a plural form of French Mape.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Mapeses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mapes
cardiogenic shocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cardiogenic shock
Locheilside
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A location with a railway station on the shore of Loch Eil, near Kinlocheil, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NM9978).
poges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poge
glamp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlamp/
Forms: form: glamps
form: glamping
form: glamped
form: glamped
Etymology: Blend of glamorous + camp.
Senses: glosses: To practice glamping.
glamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlamp/
Forms: form: glamps
Etymology: Blend of glamorous + camp.
Senses: glosses: A glamping site.
Related terms: camp
camper
camping
champ
glamped
glamper
glamping
glamp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlamp/
Forms: form: glamps
form: glamping
form: glamped
form: glamped
Etymology: First appears c. 1768 in the works of Alexander Ross.
Senses: glosses: To grope, to make snatches at.
cosmian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosmians
Senses: glosses: cosmist
cosmians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cosmian
cosmognosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The supposed instinct that tells animals when and where to migrate
cosmogonize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cosmogonizes
form: cosmogonizing
form: cosmogonized
form: cosmogonized
Senses: glosses: To theorize a cosmogony
cosmographize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cosmographizes
form: cosmographizing
form: cosmographized
form: cosmographized
Senses: glosses: To describe a cosmography
PKM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: hypernyms: KM
glosses: Initialism of personal knowledge management.
Related terms: topics: management
information
word: PIM
genupectoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From genu- + pectoral.
Senses: glosses: Relating to (the posture of) the knees and chest
genyplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genyplasties
Etymology: From geny- + -plasty.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: plastic surgery to the cheek
geochemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmɪk
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of geochemical.
geodize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: geodizes
form: geodizing
form: geodized
form: geodized
Etymology: From geode + -ize.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: To form into a geode
geodized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of geodize
geodized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: transformed into a geode
Kinlocheil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic ceann + Loch Eil.
Senses: glosses: A hamlet at the head of Loch Eil in Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NM9779).
geognosist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geognosists
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A geologist whose speciality is geognosy
geognosists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geognosist
geologician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geologicians
Etymology: From geology + -ician.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: geologist
geologicians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geologician
geologue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geologues
Etymology: From geo- + -logue.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: geologist
geologues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geologue
Loch Eil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A sea loch in Highland council area, on the west coast of Scotland.
Derived terms: Kinlocheil
Locheilside
Related terms: Lochiel
grocery cart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grocery carts
Senses: glosses: A shopping cart or trolley.
good as wheat in the bin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Then write to any of the banks mentioned, to any rating agency, to any financial house, and they will tell you that here is an opportunity that is as good as wheat in the bin.
ref: 1917, Pearson's Magazine, volume 38, page 43:
text: He can get more potatoes on the strength of a telegram to some place or other than John D. Rockefeller can get on collateral, for everybody knows The Sky's word is as good as wheat in the bin.
ref: 1989, David Wheeler, No, But I Saw the Movie, page 167:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Perfectly good, sound, or reliable.
whetstoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of whetstone
whetstoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of whetstone
Ramesseum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Ramesseum
Senses: glosses: The memorial temple of Pharaoh Ramesses II, located in the Theban Necropolis in Upper Egypt, on the west of the River Nile.
Related terms: Memnonium
Lhotshampa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lhotshampas
form: Lhotshampa
form: Lhotsampa
Etymology: Borrowed from Dzongkha ལྷོ་མཚམས་པ (lho mtshams pa, literally “southern borderlander”).
Senses: glosses: A member of a heterogeneous Bhutanese people of Nepalese descent, native to southern Bhutan.
Lhotshampas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lhotshampa
Lhotsampa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lhotsampas
form: Lhotsampa
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Lhotshampa.
Lhotsampas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lhotsampa
GNU/Linux
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: In recent years GNU/Linux has emerged as a powerful and innovative UNIX workalike.
ref: 2003, Mark G. Sobell, A Practical Guide to Red Hat Linux 8, Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page 8:
text: I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.
ref: 2018, Richard Stallman, “Incorrect Quotation”, in GNU Project:
glosses: The free software operating system resulting from the combination of the Linux kernel and the GNU operating system.
Synonyms: topics: Linux
software
computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: Linux
white gas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A fuel for camping stoves and lanterns; naphtha.
glosses: Pure unleaded gasoline.
Satanization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Satanizations
Senses: glosses: The process of Satanizing.
Satanizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Satanization
take-that game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: take-that games
Senses: topics: games
gaming
glosses: A board game or card game that encourages players to attack their rivals, for example using special cards that impose undesirable effects.
take-that games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of take-that game
zitfaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zit + faced.
Senses: examples: text: […] the zitfaced prom king, the booze-whacked conventioneer or the randy trucker plying some local bimbo with sloe gin fizzes.
ref: 1990, Michael Garvey, Finding Fault, page 88:
glosses: Having zits on the face.
Related terms: zitface
reverse-sear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reverse-sears
form: reverse-searing
form: reverse-seared
form: reverse-seared
Etymology: So called because it reverses the usual order of cooking.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To cook (a steak etc.) at low heat until the centre reaches the desired temperature, then cook the outside at high temperature to sear it.
reverse-seared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reverse-sear
reverse-sears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reverse-sear
reverse-searing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reverse-sear
xMOOC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xMOOCs
Senses: topics: education
coordinate_terms: cMOOC
glosses: A MOOC (massive open online course) structured like a traditional course, with a clear syllabus of recorded lectures and self-test problems.
xMOOCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xMOOC
Lochiel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɒxˈiːl/
Etymology: From the Camerons of Lochiel.
Senses: glosses: A small town in the Mid North of South Australia.
glosses: A rural community south of Winton, Southland, New Zealand.
glosses: A small town in Mpumalanga, South Africa.
glosses: A ghost town (still populated) and former Mexican border crossing in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Benton County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: A populated place in Union County, Pennsylvania, United States.
glosses: The original name of Wheeler, Wisconsin, USA.
Related terms: Loch Eil
cMOOC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cMOOCs
Senses: topics: education
coordinate_terms: xMOOC
glosses: A MOOC (massive open online course) taking a connectivist approach, focusing on student collaboration and the evolution of teaching materials over time.
cMOOCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cMOOC
soft-block
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: soft-blocks
form: soft-blocking
form: soft-blocked
form: soft-blocked
form: softblock
form: soft block
Senses: examples: text: Softblocking is not a built-in function, but a strategy. There are a few ways of doing it, but the idea is to create a sort of inverted mute.
ref: 2019 November 11, Brian Feldman, “How to Block, Mute, and Avoid Your Enemies Online”, in New York—Intelligencer:
coordinate_terms: hard-block
glosses: To block (a user) on social media and then immediately unblock them, so that the user will (perhaps unknowingly) no longer follow or engage with the blocking user's posts.
soft-block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soft-blocks
form: softblock
form: soft block
Senses: examples: text: Where a mute hides someone else’s posts from you, a softblock hides your posts from someone else, without completely blocking them. It’s less like building a wall and more like cutting a string.
ref: 2019 November 11, Brian Feldman, “How to Block, Mute, and Avoid Your Enemies Online”, in New York—Intelligencer:
text: And just last week, I gave my partner the silent treatment for not answering me after five minutes. On social media, all I seem to do is hard-block people left and right, foregoing the soft-block altogether. If I’m not doing that, I leave rude comments with super sassy emojis or direct message my friends with passive-aggressive cat GIFs.
ref: 2022 October 27, Paloma Torres, quoting Potentially Petty/Hot Person, “Advice Column: Am I becoming hotter or just pettier? Paloma Torres answers the age-old question constantly on everyone's minds”, in The Eyeopener, volume 56, number 7, page 3:
coordinate_terms: hard-block
glosses: The act of soft-blocking.
soft-blocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of soft-block
soft-blocks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of soft-block
soft-blocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soft-block
soft-blocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of soft-block
cyberscholar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberscholars
Etymology: From cyber- + scholar.
Senses: glosses: An academic who studies the Internet or cyberspace.
Related terms: cyberscholarship
cyberstudent
cyberscholars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberscholar
subpost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subposts
Etymology: From sub- + post.
Senses: examples: text: There are four subposts, which with Fort Mills, comprise the Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays.
ref: 1930, Antiaircraft Journal, volume 72, page 134:
glosses: A subsidiary post or station.
subposts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subpost
angioscintigraphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to angioscintigraphy.
percunctation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: percunctations
Senses: examples: text: His rhetorical questions and percunctations with repetition, here anaphora and epistrophe, have the urgency of a Massillon convincing a noble audience of the probability of their damnation: […]
ref: [1968], William E[arl] Buckler, A Preface to Our Times: Contemporary Thought in Traditional Rhetorical Forms, [New York, N.Y.]: American Book Company, →OCLC, page 232:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of percontation.
percunctations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of percunctation
relationshits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relationshit
Ercolani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ercolanis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Ercolani.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
rule of engagement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rules of engagement
Senses: examples: text: The military, which acknowledged that the killings violated its rules of engagement, announced the deaths on Friday, hours after saying it had recovered the bodies of three other Israeli hostages in Gaza.
ref: 2023 December 16, Aaron Boxerman, Ben Hubbard, Thomas Fuller, “Israel Says 3 Hostages Bore White Flag Before Being Killed by Troops”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: government
law-enforcement
military
politics
war
glosses: An internal rule among a military, police, etc. force defining the circumstances in which and manner with which to use force.
qualifier: transferred sense
glosses: An implied set of rules for when to undertake a certain approach.
rules of engagement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rule of engagement
Mosspark
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From moss + park.
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Glasgow, City of Glasgow council area, Scotland, south of the Clyde (OS grid ref NS5563).
Old Kilpatrick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village beside the Clyde in West Dunbartonshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS4673).
Piershill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An eastern suburb of the City of Edinburgh, Scotland (OS grid ref NS2974).
ataxic respiration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A medical condition characterized by irregular breathing with periods of apnea, or the cessation of breathing.
Possilpark
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An inner suburb of the City of Glasgow, Scotland, north of the city centre (OS grid ref NS5968).
Rhu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village west of Helensburgh in Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS2684).
pompadom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pompadoms
Senses: examples: text: ‘The thin crispy wafer eaten with curry; “pompadom”’
ref: 1911, Douglas Craven Phillott, An Eng.-Hind. Vocabulary of 3000 Words for Higher Standard and Proficiency Candidates, https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/An_Eng_Hind_Vocabulary_of_3000_Words_for/zMAyAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Pompadom%22&dq=%22Pompadom%22&printsec=frontcover:
text: 1993 Apache Indian, Chok There (song), https://www.metrolyrics.com/chok-there-lyrics-apache-indian.html
‘Like the vindaloo curry and me two pompadom’
text: 2014 John Mayer ft. Tony Coe and Amancio D’Silva, Pompadom (song title), https://firsthandrecords.com/products-page/jazz/john-mayer-bread-is-your-only-friend-pompadom/ (this site claims the song was originally recorded as ‘Pompadom’ in the late 60s to early 70s but not released at the time).
glosses: Nonstandard form of poppadom.
Rothiemay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Milltown of Rothiemay: a village in Moray council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ5448).
glosses: A parish in Moray council area, Scotland, historically in Banffshire.
Bloshinsky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bloshinskys
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Блошинский (Blošinskij).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Russian.
cross the wires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crosses the wires
form: crossing the wires
form: crossed the wires
form: crossed the wires
Senses: examples: text: He called me shortly after the story crossed the wires and cursed at me nonstop for minutes.
ref: 2009, Laurence H. Meyer, A Term at the Fed: An Insider's View, page 16:
glosses: Of a news story: to break; to be published.
transcendability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From transcendable + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: ...for the Buddhist this negation never became an insistence on the unreality of this world, but rather an assertion of its transcendability.
ref: 1970, Paul Younger, The Indian Religious Tradition, page 43:
glosses: The quality or state of being transcendable.
Scotstoun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A western suburb in the City of Glasgow council area, Scotland, on the north bank of the Clyde (OS grid ref NS5267).
misharmonized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more misharmonized
form: most misharmonized
Etymology: From mis- + harmonize + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: He writes that the C in the bass “replaces a chord so longed for, and so painstakingly prepared over the previous few measures ... the actual granting of the tonic pitch in the melody intensifies the disappointment, for we actually hear the note we seek , but misharmonized.
ref: 2011, Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy - Volumes 25-26, page 27:
text: Furthermore many forms of industrial chronic and degenerative illness are thought to be the result from the effects of misharmonized vibration in the human body.
ref: 2018, Dickson Thom, James Paul Maffitt Odell, Jeoffrey Drobot, Bioregulatory Medicine, page 144:
text: In addition to the use of the unusual progressions noted earlier, ^3 (C♯) is “misharmonized” in several important ways.
ref: 2018, Laurel Parsons, Brenda Ravenscroft, Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers:
glosses: Failing to harmonize; discordant.
misharvest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪsˌhɑː(ɹ)vɪst/
ipa: /mɪsˈhɑː(ɹ)vɪst/
Forms: form: misharvests
Etymology: From mis- + harvest.
Senses: examples: text: The use of the profit criterion leads thus to the ridiculous conclusion that a misharvest is better than an abundant crop.
ref: 1983, Gerald M. Meier, Pricing Policy for Development Management, page 242:
text: In those farming systems the use of livestock is handy or even important as a security against misharvest or other misfortune, but is not a precondition for cultivation (Bosman and Moll, 1995).
ref: 1995, J. B. Schiere, Cattle, Straw and System Control, page 66:
text: Then there were misharvests. Potatoes rotted away and grains withered.
ref: 2005, Antonius Holtmann, A Lost American Dream, page 16:
text: Furthermore, the population in the Finnish countryside faced hardship in the aftermath of a serious misharvest and hunger catastrophe in the early 1860s.
ref: 2012, P. Glasbergen, Co-operative Environmental Governance, page 78:
glosses: A poor harvest; a crop failure.