cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
in one's midst
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Mona: A living mannequin is in our midst, and you're worried about your fashion show outfit?! Just look at her, trying to be inconspicuous.
ref: 1999, Mona the Vampire, "The Living Mannequin" (season 1, episode 5b)
text: Some of us are deeply troubled by the presence of the US spy base at Menwith Hill – in our midst and in beautiful Nidderdale.
ref: 2010 July 3, Lindis Percy, “Letters - Blows against the American empire”, in The Guardian:
glosses: In the middle of a group; among a group.
Related terms: in the midst of
decipherability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˌsaɪfəɹəˈbɪlɪti/
Forms: form: decipherabilities
Etymology: From decipher + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being decipherable.
glosses: The extent to which something can be deciphered.
geomaterials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geomaterial
gravitoelectromagnetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of or pertaining to gravitoelectromagnetism
gravitoelectromagnetism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gravito- + electromagnetism.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: gravitomagnetism
nonGaussian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of non-Gaussian.
orthogonalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthogonalisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of orthogonalization.
Derived terms: reorthogonalisation
amboyna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amboynas
Senses: glosses: A south-east Asian tree, Pterocarpus indicus.
glosses: The reddish, mottled or striped wood of this tree, used in cabinet-making.
Synonyms: padauk
bivvy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bivvies
Etymology: From bivouac + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It would be alarming and disconcerting if people sleeping on roll-mats in central London emerged from their bivvies at breakfast, box-fresh, and sporting a crease down each leg of their slacks.
ref: 2011 November 12, Caitlin Moran, ‘Protestors? They're Beautiful’, The Times:
glosses: A small tent or shelter.
Derived terms: bivvy bag
bivvy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bivvies
form: bivvying
form: bivvied
form: bivvied
Etymology: From bivouac + -y.
Senses: glosses: To erect, or to stay in, such a tent or shelter.
bivvy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Perhaps related to beverage.
Senses: examples: text: Well, if you're willing to sub me a shant of bivvy, then I'll tell ya
ref: 2016, Christopher James, Sherlock Holmes and The Adventure of the Ruby Elephants, →ISBN:
glosses: Beer.
breechblock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breechblocks
form: breech block
Etymology: From breech + block.
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: The metal block that closes the breech of a breech-loading gun after insertion of the cartridge.
bivvying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bivvy
bivvied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bivvy
bivies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bivy
bivies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bivy
breechblocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breechblock
charadriids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charadriid
charadriid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charadriids
Senses: examples: text: Darting among the penguins on the foreshore are little charadriids, members of the plover and lapwing family who feed on the insects that the massed animals attract […].
ref: 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 83:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: A bird of the taxonomic family Charadriidae.
snow morel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow morels
Senses: glosses: Any of species Gyromitra gigas of edible mushrooms.
drop bears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drop-bears
form: dropbears
Senses: glosses: plural of drop bear.
unflattered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unflattered
form: most unflattered
Etymology: From un- + flattered.
Senses: glosses: Not flattered.
unflattered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + flattered.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unflatter
antimasonry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + masonry.
Senses: glosses: Opposition to Freemasonry.
Related terms: antimasonic
antimasonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antimasonic
form: most antimasonic
Etymology: From anti- + masonic.
Senses: glosses: Opposed to Freemasonry.
Related terms: antimasonry
antigambler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antigamblers
Etymology: From anti- + gambler.
Senses: glosses: One who opposes gambling.
Related terms: antigambling
antigamblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antigambler
gangsterisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gangsterism
antihelicopter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + helicopter.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps one of the most ingenious antihelicopter mines was constructed by planting a group of pressure-sensitive mines in a potential landing zone and then covering the mines with a sheet of metal.
ref: 2006, Norman Youngblood, The development of mine warfare: a most murderous and barbarous conduct:
text: Britain, which has not experienced a helicopter escape since the late 1970s, has been more aggressive about installing antihelicopter nets in its prisons.
ref: 2009 August 9, Nicola Clark, “In Some Prison Breaks Across Europe, Helicopters Replace the File in the Cake”, in New York Times:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Intended for use against helicopters.
antiairport
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiairport
form: most antiairport
Etymology: From anti- + airport.
Senses: examples: text: But, at the same time, their acceptance of Massport funds is viewed by antiairport groups as "a sellout" that threatens the long-term future of the community.
ref: 1974, Dorothy Nelkin, Jetport: the Boston airport controversy:
glosses: Opposing the construction of an airport.
plans on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of plan on
planning on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plan on
antidrink
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antidrink
form: most antidrink
Etymology: From anti- + drink.
Senses: examples: text: Historians have also neglected to explore drink culture because of their own antidrink prejudices.
ref: 1999, Madelon Powers, Faces Along the Bar: Lore and Order in the Workingman's Saloon, 1870-1920:
glosses: Opposed to the drinking of alcohol.
Synonyms: antialcohol
antidrinking
planned on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of plan on
antidocumentaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antidocumentary
public-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: public-houses
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, to arrive after dusk, when the multitude of garish little public-houses are lit up, giving glimpses of crowded jostling bars and taprooms, is an introduction to a fine city well calculated to affect even the most nonchalant.
ref: 1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 703:
glosses: Alternative spelling of public house.
antitherapeutic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antitherapeutic
form: most antitherapeutic
Etymology: From anti- + therapeutic.
Senses: examples: text: Although he noted the antitherapeutic effects of prolonged litigation, he argued that litigation might actually be neutral or therapeutic for tort claimants, rather than antitherapeutic, because he asserted that pursuing litigation against the wrongdoer does not necessarily prolong the plaintiff's illness or injury.
ref: 2003, Irving B. Weiner, Donald K. Freedheim, Alan M. Goldstein, Handbook of Psychology: Forensic psychology:
glosses: Having a damaging psychological effect opposite to that of therapy.
public-houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of public-house
empasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of empasm
volvelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɒlˌvɛl/
ipa: /ˈvɑlˌvɛl/
Forms: form: volvelles
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English volvelle, from Medieval Latin volvellum, volvella, from volvō + -ellum.
Senses: examples: text: Tholomye and Haly were cunnynd and wyſe
In the voluell, in the quadrant, and in the aſtroloby,
To pronoſtycate truly the chaunce of fortunys dyſe.
ref: c. 1521, John Skelton, Speke Parott:
glosses: A type of slide chart, a paper construction with rotating parts, formerly used for organization and calculation in astronomy and other subjects.
volvelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of volvelle
moondial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moondials
Etymology: From moon + dial, modelled on sundial.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for telling time, like a sundial but relying on the light of the Moon.
moondials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moondial
antigangster
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antigangster
form: most antigangster
Etymology: From anti- + gangster.
Senses: glosses: Opposing the criminal activities of gangsters.
telescreen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telescreens
Etymology: From tele- + screen, from television. Popularized by George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), in which they are used for government surveillance of citizens.
Senses: examples: text: Too many millions of people, watching their telescreens, had seen his unpardonable arrogance.
ref: 1973, Robert Theobald, Stephanie Mills, The failure of success: ecological values vs. economic myths:
text: She pushed buttons at a new, small oval kind of telescreen, quickly gathering together the high-level authorizations it had taken hours of preparation to collect.
ref: 2002, Teresa Plowright, Dreams of an Unseen Planet:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A screen for broadcasting television or similar media.
wikipedia: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Related terms: videoscreen
vidscreen
telescreens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telescreen
nonticketed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + ticketed.
Senses: glosses: unticketed
antizoo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antizoo
form: most antizoo
Etymology: From anti- + zoo.
Senses: examples: text: A few years ago, very little antizoo sentiment existed and zoos received little criticism, but today we find ourselves painted with the same broad brush as the consumers of wildlife—i.e., the fur trade and pet shop industry—despite the fact that zoos have reproduced many thousands of animals, including some rare and endangered species.
ref: 1977 April, The Rotarian, volume 130, number 4, page 12:
glosses: Opposing the keeping of animals in captivity in zoos.
antiracing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiracing
form: most antiracing
Etymology: From anti- + racing.
Senses: examples: text: Sport historians have maintained that the growth of trotting was directly related to the antiracing legislation passed by several northern states […]
ref: 1995, David Kenneth Wiggins, Sport in America: from wicked amusement to national obsession:
glosses: Opposing racing.
anticircus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticircus
form: most anticircus
Etymology: From anti- + circus.
Senses: examples: text: In some communities it was customary for ministers and priests to preach anticircus sermons in all churches on the Sunday preceding the circus.
ref: 1974, Edwin Hardin Sutherland, Donald Ray Cressey, Criminology:
text: Not until 1933 were all anticircus laws, except those regarding towns' rights to license circuses, repealed in that state (Thayer 1981).
ref: 1990, Robert Bogdan, Freak show: presenting human oddities for amusement and profit:
text: On its anticircus Web site, PETA lists hundreds of captive animal attacks it says have occurred since 1990. PETA claims that these rampages result from the animals' rebelling against years of abuse and deprivation.
ref: 2005, Kim Masters Evans, Animal rights:
glosses: Opposing circuses.
Munsee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmʌn.si/
Forms: form: Munsees
form: Munsee
Etymology: From Munsee mŭnúsunk (“at the island”), from munús (“island”). Compare Minisink, a doublet from Munsee; cognate for example with Ojibwe minis (“island”), minising (“at the island”).
Senses: glosses: A member of a subtribe and one of the three divisions of the Lenape people.
Munsee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈmʌn.si/
Etymology: From Munsee mŭnúsunk (“at the island”), from munús (“island”). Compare Minisink, a doublet from Munsee; cognate for example with Ojibwe minis (“island”), minising (“at the island”).
Senses: examples: text: They stare at her like she’s just spoken in Munsee.
ref: 2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 298:
glosses: An endangered Eastern Algonquian language, one of the two Lenape/Delaware languages (the other is called Unami), spoken aboriginally in the vicinity of what is now New York City.
Related terms: Unami
brushwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From brush + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: They made their ink from lamp-black and gum-solution, their pens — used brushwise at first, but later cut like quills — from rushes.
ref: 1993, Thomas Kingston Derry, Trevor Illtyd Williams, A short history of technology: from the earliest times to A.D. 1900:
glosses: In the manner of a brush.
test card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: test cards
Senses: synonyms: Snellen chart
glosses: A card printed with various letters or symbols, used in testing vision.
examples: text: In 1967, the BBC needed a ‘test card’ for its new colour broadcasts, to be put on the screen when programmes were not being transmitted so engineers could adjust the quality of the picture.
ref: 2013, Chris McManus, Right Hand, Left Hand, Hachette, →ISBN:
topics: broadcasting
media
television
synonyms: test pattern
glosses: A test signal, typically broadcast at times when the transmitter is active but no programme is being broadcast (often at startup and closedown).
test cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of test card
anticable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticable
form: most anticable
Etymology: From anti- + cable.
Senses: examples: 1998, F. Leslie Smith, John W. Wright (II.), David H. Ostroff, Perspectives on radio and television: telecommunication in the United States
Most anticable rhetoric centered on the operator's role as carrier and gatekeeper of broadcast signals...
glosses: Opposing cable television.
antibussing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antibussing
form: most antibussing
Etymology: From anti- + bussing.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of antibusing.
antirailroad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antirailroad
form: most antirailroad
Etymology: From anti- + railroad.
Senses: glosses: Opposed to a railroad or railroads.
antirail
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antirail
form: most antirail
form: anti-rail
Etymology: From anti- + rail.
Senses: glosses: Opposed to rail transport.
jointweeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jointweed
silverfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silverfish
nonwinding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + winding.
Senses: examples: a nonwinding curve
a nonwinding road
glosses: That does not wind.
ragequit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪd͡ʒˌkwɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: ragequits
form: ragequitting
form: ragequit
form: ragequit
form: ragequitted
form: ragequitted
form: rage quit
form: rage-quit
Etymology: From rage + quit.
Senses: examples: text: Having had my share of ragequitting teammates and unfinished campaigns -- I still haven't completed a L4D2 campaign on Expert -- I'll take a positive outlook and say that the complaints about difficulty amount to a longer and taller learning curve, that will give this game a longer lifespan than the first.
ref: 2009 November 28, rms, “What have you been playing... IN NOVEMBER 2009?”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action (Usenet), message-ID <herjp3$ucc$1@news.eternal-september.org>:
text: Cheap insta-kill attacks have made me ragequit at least twice.
ref: 2010 February 8, Chris Whitworth, “Pow, Wallop & Bam”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet), message-ID <slrnhn0725.gik.usenet.chris@parm.vs.topper.me.uk>:
topics: video-games
glosses: To quit an online video game in anger.
glosses: To quit (something) in anger.
Derived terms: ragequitter
ragequit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪd͡ʒˌkwɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: ragequits
form: rage quit
form: rage-quit
Etymology: From rage + quit.
Senses: examples: text: Hardison: I don't know what happened. I had 'em and then I just—
Nate: Didn't anticipate the ragequit.
Hardison: You know gamer terminology?
Nate: I know the key to a good game is balancing boredom and frustration. Now the game — the puzzle's too easy, then the mark — the player — gets bored and walks away. The puzzle's too hard, then the player gets frustrated, and quits in a rage: ragequit.
ref: 2012 January 1, “The Gold Job”, in Leverage, season 4, episode 16 (Television), spoken by Alec Hardison and Nate Ford (Aldis Hodge and Timothy Hutton):
topics: video-games
glosses: The act of quitting an online video game in anger.
Related terms: Alt-F4
flounce
sore loser
ragequitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ragequit
ragequitted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ragequit
ragequits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ragequit
ragest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: rage + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of rage
catechetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From catechetic + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to catechesis.
Derived terms: catechetically
Libido
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Cushitic language spoken in Ethiopia.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Libido terms
gaynesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gayness
stackframe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stackframes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of stack frame.
stackframes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stackframe
cantharus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canthari
form: cantharuses
form: kantharos
Etymology: From Latin cantharus, from Ancient Greek κάνθαρος (kántharos).
Senses: glosses: A large drinking cup with two handles.
glosses: A fountain or basin in the courtyard of an ancient church for worshippers to wash before entering.
Synonyms: sense: drinking cup
word: kotyle
sense: drinking cup
word: cotyle
sense: drinking cup
word: kotylos
coughdrop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coughdrops
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cough drop.
coughdrops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coughdrop
canthari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cantharus
catechetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kă'tēkēʹtĭk
ipa: /ˌkatiːˈkiːtɪk/
Forms: form: catechetick
Etymology: From the Latin catēchēticus, from the Ancient Greek κᾰτηχητῐκός (kătēkhētĭkós), from κᾰτηχητής (kătēkhētḗs, “oral instructor”).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to catechesis.
glosses: In accordance with the catechism of a church.
Derived terms: catechetical
Related terms: word: catechetics
catechetick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of catechetic.
-iform
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of -form (with interfix -i-)
steady on
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: steady on !
Senses: examples: text: - I'm never going back to that restaurant!
- Steady on! They only brought you the wrong drink.
glosses: Indicates a need not to exaggerate or be excessive
glosses: A generic exclamation of surprise
what in the world
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: "What in the world are you talking about, Roger?" asked my father in amazement.
ref: 1875, Catholic World, volume 21, page 201:
synonyms: what on Earth
glosses: An exclamation of surprise.
Related terms: in what world
unwidened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + widened.
Senses: glosses: Not having been widened.
unlengthened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + lengthened.
Senses: glosses: Not having been lengthened.
unbroadened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + broadened.
Senses: glosses: Not having been broadened.
play catch-up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays catch-up
form: playing catch-up
form: played catch-up
form: played catch-up
Senses: examples: text: "We're now having to play catch-up," says the Mayor. "What are we now, five years on from the original announcement? It's probably going to take us another six months to present a business case to government to allow us to make the platform improvements and make sure the knock-on effects to the wider network are taken into account because that has to be costed as well."
ref: 2020 January 2, Graeme Pickering, “Fuelling the changes on Teesside rails”, in Rail, page 59:
topics: games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: In a losing scenario, to take risks in an attempt to regain the lead.
Related terms: play the percentages
on Earth
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of on earth.
cluster-fuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cluster-fucks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of clusterfuck.
old chap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: old chaps
Senses: examples: text: ‘Well, look here, old chap,’ he said, ‘let's have strict business between friends. If you'll pay me back four quid at the end of term, you shall have the two pounds. How does that strike you?’
ref: 1903, P. G. Wodehouse, A Prefect's Uncle, A & C Black:
synonyms: old fellow
glosses: Affectionate term of address for a man.
examples: text: Withnail: You fill this with piss, take this pipe down the trouser, and sellotape this valve to the end of the old chap. Then you get horribly drunk, and they can't fucking touch you.
ref: 1987, Bruce Robinson, Withnail and I:
text: 1997-99, various writers, Blue Jam
DR PERLIN: I'll need to have a look at your old chap.
synonyms: old fellow
glosses: The penis.
Related terms: old boy
old girl
old bean
old fart
CVV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CVVs
Senses: topics: banking
business
hypernyms: CSC
coordinate_terms: CVC
glosses: Initialism of card verification value.
acid drop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acid drops
Senses: examples: text: That he bestowed two acid drops and dried fig on Hetty.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 130:
synonyms: acidulated drop
glosses: An old-fashioned boiled sweet containing citric acid or tartaric acid.
coordinate_terms: bomb drop
glosses: A skateboarding trick in which the skater rides off a ledge and drops onto the board without performing an ollie.
autoanswer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + answer.
Senses: glosses: A feature of a telephone, modem, etc. that allows an incoming call to be answered automatically.
nondialup
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + dialup.
Senses: examples: text: The method used is to connect the autoanswer modem between the telephone line and a line to the nondialup network.
ref: 1989, James Arlin Cooper, Computer and communications security: strategies for the 1990s:
text: Here is a more complicated example in which we upload a text file to an IBM mainframe through a direct (nondialup) linemode connection.
ref: 1992, Christine M. Gianone, Using MS-DOS Kermit: connecting your PC to the electronic world:
text: However, lock-and-key also works over nondialup links.
ref: 2004, Richard A. Deal, Cisco router firewall security:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Not dialup.
picknick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picknicks
Senses: examples: text: With these delicacies, and keen appetites, we went out into the moonlight, and had a nocturnal picknick.
ref: 1847, Herman Melville, Omoo:
glosses: Archaic form of picnic.
picknick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: picknicks
form: picknicking
form: picknicked
form: picknicked
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of picnic.
dubtronica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of dub + electronica
Senses: glosses: A genre of music combining electronica and dub.
make one's mark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes one's mark
form: making one's mark
form: made one's mark
form: made one's mark
form: make a mark
Senses: examples: text: Terry, almost inevitably, made his mark on the game when he headed Chelsea back in front seconds before the interval, sending a scrambled finish past Szczesny from Lampard's corner.
ref: 2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: leave one's mark
put one's stamp
glosses: To make, or leave, a lasting impression, especially to achieve prominent success.
glosses: To sign (a document) by making a cross or other mark.
Related terms: mark
no-mark
remarkable
linemode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: line-mode
Etymology: From line + mode.
Senses: examples: text: This example, since it is via telnet, uses the linemode browser. The user will be able to explore the web, but will not be able to use a hypertext-based interface.
ref: 1993, A. Heck, Fionn Murtagh, Intelligent information retrieval:
text: In line-at-a-time or linemode, basically all the character processing including backspacing is done by the client, with the desired characters sent to the server only when the enter key is pressed.
ref: 2000, J. Scott Haugdahl, Network analysis and troubleshooting:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A mode of interaction with a remote server where all incoming text characters are printed to the current line, without the possibility of updating the text of previous lines.
cartridgeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cartridge + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without cartridges.
suboption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suboptions
Etymology: From sub- + option.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A secondary option available as part of a main option.
suboptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suboption
cross-referenced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cross-reference
bodynets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bodynet
bodynet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bodynets
Etymology: From body + net, in the sense of network.
Senses: examples: text: Think of yourself on some evening in the not-so-distant future, when wearable, fitted, and implanted electronic organs connected by bodynets are as commonplace as cotton […]
ref: 1996, William J. Mitchell, City of bits: space, place, and the infobahn:
text: A cathedral of light, if you will, of prefabricated carbon-fiber and lightweight synthetic thermal resins; equipped with stereo-immersive walls and motion sensors that respond via a bodynet to my ever shifting loci of desires and needs […]
ref: 1998, John Beckmann, The virtual dimension: architecture, representation, and crash culture:
text: With this technology, in the near future, people can participate in parties without leaving the house, needing only to dress in a bodynet (clothe^([sic]) with sensors).
ref: 2008, Julio Francisco Dantas de Rezende, Transpersonal Management: lessons from the Matrix trilogy:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: An array of technology attached to the body.
playspace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playspaces
Etymology: From play + space.
Senses: glosses: An environment where play can take place.
Hyponyms: playground
playspaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of playspace
mittent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mittent
form: most mittent
Etymology: From Latin mittens, present participle of mittere (“to send”).
Senses: examples: text: The symptomes of the imagination, sc. the Vertigo, which is […] cured, […] if from the liver, spleen, womb, or whole body, according to the mittent and recipient part, by phlebotomy, catharticks, revulsion and roborants […]
ref: 1661, Robert Lovell, “Anthropologia, &c. Of Man. &c.”, in ΠΑΝΖΩΟΡΥΚΤΟΛΟΓΙΑ [PANZŌORYKTOLOGIA]. Sive Panzoologicomineralogia. Or A Compleat History of Animals and Minerals, Containing the Summe of All Authors, both Ancient and Modern, Galenicall and Chymicall, …, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Hen[ry] Hall, for Jos[eph] Godwin, →OCLC, page 332:
text: Vicious Humours peccant in quantity or quality are either thrust forth by the Part mittent,[…]or attracted by the Part recipient.
ref: 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgical Treatises:
text: If the part mittent be less noble, the matter must be drawn to the ignoble part, if the pain of the Stomach proceed from arthritick pains, the Physician need not fear to send the pains to the former place.
ref: 1684, A guide to the practical physician, translated from Théophile Bonet's Mercurius compitalitius (1682?) and edited by anonymous translator, page 631:
glosses: Emitting harmful humors.
Odyssean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Odyssean
form: most Odyssean
form: Odyssian
Etymology: From Latin Odyssēa + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Odyssey, an Ancient Greek epic poem by Homer, or its hero Odysseus.
Derived terms: Odyssean Wicca
vuln
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /vʌln/
Forms: form: vulns
form: vulning
form: vulned
form: vulned
Etymology: Irregularly derived from Latin vulnerāre.
Senses: examples: text: The shield depicts a pelican vulning herself.
text: Of many other literary references to the pelican briefest mention can be now made . The variant relations of the piety of the bird are very interesting : according to one set of legends , it is to feed its young that the pelican vulns[…]
ref: 1903, The Pelican Record, page 197:
text: To left a gold pelican in nest vulns itself to draw blood for its young . 0287.0 pen : A naked arm and hand from clouds on left holding an iron stilus ( pen ) pointing to an inscription : ' I Petri Cap . 2 Ve .
ref: 1995, Peter Maurice Daly, Leslie T. Duer, Anthony Raspa, The English Emblem Tradition: Emblematic flag devices of the English Civil Wars 1642-1660:
text: The pelican was my high school's mascot, taken from the crest of our school's founding family. The pelican is a Christ symbol, I had been told, because according to legend it vulns itself to feed its young. I saw a second pelican[…]
ref: 2007 May 15, Mark Oppenheimer, Thirteen and a Day: The Bar and Bat Mitzvah Across America, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 103:
text: ... no to rent rise " posters'.40 Other campaign posters featured a giant pelican - the symbol of Corpus Christi - feasting on a group of tiny human beings , with the tag line : ' The vampire pelican vulns its young to feed itself.
ref: 2012 September 26, Mehdi Hasan, ED: The Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader, Biteback Publishing, →ISBN:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Of a pelican, to wound (oneself) by biting at the breast.
vuln
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /vʌln/
Forms: form: vulns
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of vulnerability.
vulns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vuln
vulns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vuln
infact
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of in fact.
Hofstadterian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hofstadterian
form: most Hofstadterian
Etymology: From Hofstadter + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Douglas Hofstadter (born 1945), American academic whose areas of research include cognition and creativity.
Related terms: Hofstadter's law
Zamboanga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /zɐmbˈwaŋ.ɡɐ/
Etymology: From Spanish Zamboanga, from Central Sama Samboangan (“mooring place”), from sambuwang (“large mooring post”) + -an (locative suffix). The root is cognate with Malay sembuang (“large mooring post”). The original etymon is attested in the Velarde map (1734).
A popular folk etymology may also attribute it to Malay jambangan (“flower garden”), from jambang (“flower pot”) + -an (locative suffix), but this name has never been attested in any historical records prior to the 1960s with the place being historically attested usually instead as "Samboangan".
Senses: glosses: Zamboanga City (a city in Zamboanga Peninsula, Mindanao, Philippines)
glosses: Zamboanga Peninsula (an administrative region of Mindanao, Philippines).
glosses: Zamboanga peninsula (a peninsula in Mindanao, Philippines).
glosses: Province of Zamboanga (a former province of Mindanao, Philippines)
glosses: The Republic of Zamboanga, a short-lived revolutionary republic, founded after the collapse of Spanish colonial rule in the Philippines, existing between May and November 1899.
Derived terms: Zamboanga City
quethes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of quethe
quething
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quethe
quethed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of quethe
opinionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From opinion + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without an opinion or opinions.
Derived terms: opinionlessness
policyless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From policy + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a policy or policies.
Derived terms: policylessness
crums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crum
craigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of craig
collogues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of collogue
chapmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chapman
cailleachs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cailleach
dooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dook
dooks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dook
daiths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daith
go down the drain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes down the drain
form: going down the drain
form: went down the drain
form: gone down the drain
Senses: glosses: Synonym of go down the toilet: to fail.
synonyms: word: go down the toilet
extra: to fail
spunks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spunk
spunking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spunk
spunked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spunk
mittas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mitta
apartheids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apartheid
apartheids
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of apartheid
lealer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of leal: more leal
lealest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of leal: most leal
quethen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -iːðən
Senses: glosses: past participle of quethe
labrusca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labruscas
Etymology: From the species epithet in Vitis labrusca, from Latin labrusca.
Senses: glosses: The fox grape (Vitis labrusca).
protologue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹəʊtəʊlɒɡ/
/ˈpɹəʊtəlɒɡ/
Forms: form: protologues
form: protologus
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πρωτολόγος (prōtológos, “speaking first”). Equivalent to proto- + -logue.
Senses: examples: text: This is important, since the brief protologus of A. flava published in the Edinburgh Catalogus included only the first four lines from Solander’s original manuscript (our translation of Solander’s protologue: “calyx ovate, half the length of the upper petal claws, blade cordate-subrotund, stamens curved”) and therefore was incomplete and is inadequate for typification.
ref: 1987 July, Frederick Gustav Meyer, James W. Hardin, “Status of the name Aesculus flava Solander (Hippocastanaceae)” (pages 335–341), in S. A. Spongberg, E. B. Schmidt, P. S. Ashton, K. S. Bawa, P. F. Stevens, C. E. Wood, Jr., editors, Journal of the Arnold Arboretum, volume 68, number 3, Lawrence: Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, →ISSN, →JSTOR, pages 338–339:
topics: biology
botany
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: All the original material associated with a newly published name, comprising its description or diagnosis and any of a number of other elements such as illustrations, synonymy, etc.
Related terms: protology
misso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Local Man Invites His Misso On A Pub Crawl Throughout Different Rooms Of The House [due to covid-19 lockdowns]
ref: 2020 November 10, The Betoota Advocate, Betoota's Australia 2020, Macmillan Publishers Aus., →ISBN, page 123:
glosses: Missus (“wife or girlfriend”).
Northern Cyprus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: North Cyprus
glosses: A geographic region and de facto unrecognized country comprising the northeastern part of the island of Cyprus, internationally recognized as part of the country of Cyprus. Official name: Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Capital: North Nicosia.
Related terms: Northern Cypriot
North Cypriot
blastwave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blastwaves
Etymology: From blast + wave.
Senses: glosses: The destructive wave of pressure caused by an explosion.
clumpier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of clumpy: more clumpy
clumpiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of clumpy: most clumpy
multidimensionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more multidimensionally
form: most multidimensionally
Etymology: From multidimensional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a multidimensional manner; with respect to multiple dimensions.
nonbirefringent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + birefringent.
Senses: glosses: Not birefringent
ultrasparsifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ultrasparsifier
anteverted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anteverted
form: most anteverted
Senses: glosses: Turned or tipped forward.
anteverted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of antevert
Related terms: anteversion
bowknot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbəʊnɒt/
Forms: form: bowknots
Etymology: From bow + knot.
Senses: glosses: A knot that has two loops and two loose ends, either used decoratively, or to tie shoelaces.
buckskinned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From buckskin + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing clothes made from buckskin.
charcoaled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of charcoal
charcoaled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The barbecue was over. It had been a good one; drinks, charcoaled T-bones, rare, a green salad and Meg's special dressing.
ref: 1984, Stephen King, The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet:
glosses: Cooked over charcoal.
Derived terms: uncharcoaled
chromakey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromakeys
form: chroma-key
form: chroma key
Etymology: From chroma + key.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: The use of a particular color, usually either green or blue) as a key in a studio in order to allow one image to be seamlessly partially superimposed upon another.
Hyponyms: bluescreen
blue screen
greenscreen
green screen
Derived terms: chromakeyer
chromakey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chromakeys
form: chromakeying
form: chromakeyed
form: chromakeyed
form: chroma-key
form: chroma key
Etymology: From chroma + key.
Senses: glosses: To modify an image in this way.
consecrator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consecrators
Senses: glosses: A person who consecrates
consecratory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more consecratory
form: most consecratory
Senses: glosses: That consecrates
glosses: Of or pertaining to consecration
consultee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consultees
Etymology: From consult + -ee.
Senses: coordinate_terms: consultant
glosses: A person who seeks a consultation.
consultees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of consultee
cowage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkaʊ.ɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: couhage
form: cowach
form: cowhage
form: cowitch
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi कवच (kavac).
Senses: glosses: A leguminous climbing plant, Mucuna pruriens, the spiculae of which are sometimes used as a mechanical vermifuge.
dancercise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dancercises
Etymology: Blend of dance + exercise
Senses: examples: text: Dancercise is good for weight loss.
glosses: Any aerobic exercise in the form of a vigorous dance.
dancercise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dancercises
form: dancercising
form: dancercised
form: dancercised
Etymology: Blend of dance + exercise
Senses: examples: text: Suzy dancercised at 4 PM to burn many calories.
glosses: To perform this kind of exercise.
deballast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deballasts
form: deballasting
form: deballasted
form: deballasted
Etymology: From de- + ballast.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To remove ballast from a vessel
dirtboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dirtboards
Etymology: From dirt + board.
Senses: glosses: A form of mountainboard.
deballasts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deballast
deballasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deballast
deballasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deballast
dirtboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dirtboard
discursus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discursuses
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin discursus. Doublet of discourse.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: argumentation; ratiocination; discursive reasoning
mountainboarded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mountainboard
dogskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogskins
Etymology: From dog + skin.
Senses: glosses: Leather made from the skin of a dog, or from sheepskin in imitation of it.
endolithic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + lithic.
Senses: glosses: Within rock.
Derived terms: cryptoendolithic
microendolithic
Related terms: endolith
ferreter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferreters
Etymology: From ferret + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who hunts with ferrets.
examples: text: There are, here and there, scattered throughout the scherzo, uncouthnesses of harmony and false relationships which hypercritical ferreters-out of blemishes might perhaps carp at but which we pass by respectfully[…]
ref: 1984, Charles Reid, The Music Monster, page 165:
glosses: One who uncovers or brings to light; one who ferrets out.
ferreters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ferreter
fluviometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluviometers
Etymology: From fluvio- + meter.
Senses: glosses: A device used to measure the depth of water in a river, and sometimes used to record its rise and fall
forehock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forehocks
form: fore-hock
Etymology: From fore- + hock.
Senses: glosses: The hock from the foreleg of a pig
gregarine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gregarines
Etymology: From Latin gregārius (“herd-like”).
Senses: glosses: Any of various sporozoan protozoans (subclass Gregarinasina) that are parasitic in the digestive tracts of some invertebrates.
Derived terms: eugregarine
grison
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grisons
Etymology: From Old French gris (“gray”) + -on (diminutive suffix). Doublet of Grisons.
Senses: glosses: A small, carnivorous South American mammal, of the genus Galictis, somewhat resembling a weasel.
Hyponyms: taxonomic: Galictis vittata
word: greater grison
taxonomic: Galictis cuja
word: lesser grison
chibouque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chibouques
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chibouk.
gregarines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gregarine
acute triangles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acute triangle
acute-angled triangles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acute-angled triangle
forehocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forehock