cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Milpitas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Santa Clara County, California, United States.
Palo Alto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌpæloʊ ˈæltoʊ/
Etymology: From Spanish palo alto (literally “tall stick”), named after El Palo Alto, a more than 1000-year-old coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) tree near the city.
Senses: glosses: A city in Santa Clara County, California, United States.
wikipedia: El Palo Alto
Derived terms: Palo Alto County
herpetofaunas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herpetofauna
Rhona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹəʊnə/
rhymes: -əʊnə
Senses: glosses: A female given name of Scottish origin.
interruptibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interruptability
Senses: examples: text: In tasks probing the interruptibility of speech, speakers can interrupt themselves between movements associated with the same segment.
ref: 2016 January 14, “Anticipatory Posturing of the Vocal Tract Reveals Dissociation of Speech Movement Plans from Linguistic Units”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The quality of being interruptible.
interruptability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of interruptibility.
intravitreously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intravitreous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Cells were then washed with PBS, counted and 10,000 cells were injected intravitreously using a 33-gauge Hamilton syringe, into healthy wild type mice.
ref: 2016 January 14, “Imbalances in Mobilization and Activation of Pro-Inflammatory and Vascular Reparative Bone Marrow-Derived Cells in Diabetic Retinopathy”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Into the vitreous humour of the eye.
subellipsoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + ellipsoidal.
Senses: examples: text: This considerable variation (68%) is due to the subellipsoidal form of the protoconch.
ref: 2016 January 14, “Paleobiology of the Latest Tithonian (Late Jurassic) Ammonite Salinites grossicostatum Inferred from Internal and External Shell Parameters”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Somewhat ellipsoidal.
decontextualisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decontextualisations
Senses: examples: text: Modularity and decontextualisation are core principles of a service-oriented architecture.
ref: 2016, Pavel Zaichenkov, Olga Tveretina, Alex Shafarenko, “A Constraint Satisfaction Method for Configuring Non-Local Service Interfaces”, in arXiv:
glosses: Alternative form of decontextualization.
decontextualisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decontextualisation
multilead
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + lead.
Senses: examples: text: We study a model of resonant multilead point-contact tunneling by using the boundary state formulation.
ref: 2016, Taejin Lee, “Resonant Multilead Point-Contact Tunneling: Boundary State Formulation”, in arXiv:
glosses: Involving more than one lead (electrical cable).
same-sexer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: same-sexers
form: samesexer
Etymology: From same-sex + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Also, a point that would really distress her, a teacher known to be a same-sexer would be a splendid role model for those same-sexers that he—or she—is teaching.
ref: 2009, Gore Vidal, Jay Parini, The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal - Page 346:
text: I think that marriage equality will benefit the entire same-sexer community, not because of what it will allow married same-sexers to do but because of what it will allow — perhaps force — straight people to perceive.
ref: 2013, Joel Derfner, Lawfully Wedded Husband:
glosses: One who is attracted to, or engages sexually with, members of the same sex; a homosexual.
same-sexers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of same-sexer
silker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silkers
Etymology: From silk (noun) + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who works with silk such as an embroiderer.
silker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silkers
Etymology: From silk (verb) + -er.
Senses: glosses: A machine that removes silk from corn.
log-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: log-ins
Etymology: Deverbal from log in.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of login.
log-in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: logs in
form: logging in
form: logged in
form: logged in
Etymology: Deverbal from log in.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of log in.
log-on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: log-ons
Etymology: Deverbal from log on.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of logon.
log-on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: logs on
form: logging on
form: logged on
form: logged on
Etymology: Deverbal from log on.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of log on.
ag-gag
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: "Ag-gag laws criminalize undercover investigations by prohibiting one or more of three types of behavior: trespass, recording of videos, and failure to submit a video to law enforcement."
ref: 2015, Gregg Barak, editor, The Routledge International Handbook of the Crimes of the Powerful:
glosses: That prevents undercover or unauthorized investigations at agricultural facilities.
raw_tags: of a law
ag-gag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ag-gags
Senses: examples: text: "However, the proliferation of ag-gag also has other insidious ramifications at the local, national, and global scales."
ref: 2015, H. Louise Davis, Karyn Pilgrim, Madhudaya Sinha, The Ecopolitics of Consumption: The Food Trade:
glosses: A law that prevents undercover or unauthorized investigations at agricultural facilities.
ag-gags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ag-gag
Gilroy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gilroys
form: Gildroy
Etymology: From Middle English Gilry, from Irish Giolla rua (“servant of the red-haired lad”).
Senses: glosses: A city in Santa Clara County, California, United States.
glosses: A surname.
balmorality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balmoralities
Senses: examples: text: Would I injure your admirable balmorality, my dear friend ?
ref: 1869, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Punch - Volumes 56-57, page iii:
text: Modesty forbade Fanny to describe her fellow-passengers' travelling costumes, for they were all gentlemen; but she recommended her own and little Ada's outfits to the ladies: a balmoral skirt (' balmorality' raged in the New World as well as in the Old); as many calico dresses as possible (but you had to remove the hoops, she warned, for crinolines with stiffeners in them would hardly permit a lady to get through the door of a western stage-coach, much less sit at ease in it for eight hours at a stretch); waterproof cloaks ; huge sunbonnets, with voluminous green veils ; buckskin gloves and stout, calf-length boots.
ref: 1963, Blackwood's Magazine - Volume 293, page 228:
text: Most recently, Ronald 1 Black refers to Highlanders' experience of 'a ghastly 200 year cycle of Macphcrson's Ossian, Calvinism, landlordism, emigration, clearance, famine, cannon-fodder, balmorality, land struggle, educational deracination and population drift' (1998:3).
ref: 2000, Gordon McCoy, Maolcholaim Scott, Gaelic Identities, →ISBN, page 34:
glosses: Alternative form of Balmorality.
balmoralities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balmorality
feather-beds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feather-bed
feather-beds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of feather-bed
feather-bedding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of feather-bed
feather-bedded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of feather-bed
Balmorality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Balmoralities
form: balmorality
Etymology: From Balmoral + -ity, coined by George Scott-Moncrieff as the title of an essay published in Scotland in Quest of Her Youth (1932).
Senses: examples: text: The most obvious way is to buy a home in the country, or at the very least to know how to behave during a weekend in the country; and in order to play thepart, to get kitted out in green wellies, jackets, thick-soled shoes and Viyella shirts, all in a fawning copy of the Balmorality of the modern Royals.
ref: 1991, John R. Short, Imagined Country: Environment, Culture, and Society, →ISBN, page 74:
text: Barring the castle-building and Bayreuth fantasies of the mad Ludwig in Bavaria, there is nothing like it, and Balmorality has had a longer and more profound impact than the architectural dreamings of Wagner's patron, now emptied of their Wittelsbach inhabitants.
ref: 2000, Ian Mitchell, On the Trail of Queen Victoria in the Highlands, →ISBN, page xxvi:
text: At Balmoral Castle, on the banks of the Dee, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert recreated Scott's world with a kilt uniform of dubious provenance, a 'Balmorality' of Highland informality and ethical equality between master and servant (extended to quite scandalous degrees in the relationship between the Queen and John Brown), but all within the context of laird authority.
ref: 2010, Tristram Hunt, Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City, →ISBN, page ii:
text: Although Edward loved to dress up in a kilt and have a 'blaw' on the bagpipes, he was no upholder of the great and austere tradition of 'Balmorality', which, since the castle's reconstruction by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, had come to define the essence of the British royal family.
ref: 2010, Denys Blakeway, The Last Dance: 1936: The Year Our Lives Changed, →ISBN:
text: It would rid us of our obsession with tartanry and Balmorality, and replace the kailyard fantasies with a much deeper cultural grounding.
ref: 2013, Gary West, Voicing Scotland: Folk, Culture, Nation, →ISBN, page 164:
glosses: A superficial idealization of Scottish culture, especially the popularity engendered by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's enthusiasm for Scotland.
examples: text: What has come over them all ? Is this a bad day with the Balmoralities ?
ref: 1888, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Punch - Volume 95, page 149:
glosses: An act inspired by Balmorality.
Balmoralities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Balmorality
oogruk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oogruks
form: ugrug
form: ugruk
Etymology: From Inuktitut ᐅᒡᔪᒃ (ocyok, “bearded seal”).
Senses: examples: text: As soon as the seals are born the first part of April, the ice stops forming around the island. It does not freeze anymore. When that happened we went out with our kayaks, mostly for oogruks, or big bearded seals.
ref: 1987, Paul Tiulana, A place for winter: Paul Tiulana's story, page 13:
glosses: Synonym of bearded seal.
synonyms: word: bearded seal
oogruks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oogruk
bearded seal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪədɪd siːl/
ipa: /ˈbɪədəd siːl/
ipa: /ˈbɪɹdəd siːl/
ipa: /ˈbiɚdəd siːl/
Forms: form: bearded seals
Senses: glosses: Erignathus barbatus, an earless seal with conspicuous whiskers, found in and around the Arctic Ocean.
Synonyms: word: oogruk
word: ugruk
word: ursuk
word: squareflipper
bearded seals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bearded seal
babeldom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babeldoms
Senses: examples: text: Written by and for a myopic, microscopical insomniac, it's a babeldom that puts all noveldom in the shade, that puts culture, with a sardonic laugh, in a cul-de-sac.
ref: 2004, Kenneth White, The wanderer and his charts, →ISBN, page 177:
text: To do this, it was necessary to exile myself from doctors and medical conventions; for I could not think for myself while listening to the babblings of babeldom.
ref: 2007, John H. Tilden, Toxemia Explained, →ISBN, page 18:
text: In a tall huge wagon, with only its breadth to count for one's idea of elegance, beauty, or comfort, covered over half its length by a gray tarpaulin and, against the country's custom, with four horses harnessed side by side, horses as stout as a fellow could knock down with a fist not uncommonly hard, some ten, twenty, thirty, or forty individuals of all ages and all sexes huddle together at a time at the back, in front, on the driver's seat, on the side ladders, sitting up, lying down, crouching, standing, all reeking of garlic and of onion, all spitting, waving hands, talking all at once in a savage vernacular, patched out of every idiom, although German prevails; they are scruffy, unbuttoned and tattered, praying in a hurried babeldom and beating their breasts with their fists in token of humility or grief.
ref: 2009, Andrei Oisteanu, Inventing the Jew, →ISBN:
text: To a babeldom of worry, the bus slowed down until it finally came to a stop.
ref: 2010, Morgan Benson, The Mating Rituals of the Burning Giraffe, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of Babeldom.
babeldoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of babeldom
brelly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brellies
form: brellie
form: brolly
Etymology: Clipping of umbrella + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of umbrella.
brellie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brellies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of brelly.
brellies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brelly
glosses: plural of brellie
Babeldoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Babeldom
afterhand
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From after + hand.
Senses: examples: an afterhand rent
qualifier: Scots law
glosses: Paid afterwards, rather than in advance.
afterhand
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From after + hand.
Senses: examples: text: To be sure, ye ken best, " said the writer; “ hut, after a', now, wad it no be better to lay by this hundred pound in Tam Turnpenny's, in case the young lady should want it afterhand, just for a sair foot?“
ref: 1824, Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well: In Four Volumes - Volume 2, page 153:
text: Deduction is knowledge beforehand ; induction is knowledge afterhand.
ref: 1880, The North American Review - Volume 131, page 283:
text: If necessary it would afterhand always be possible to integrate over larger time intervals.
ref: 1950, Proceedings of the Section of Sciences:
text: The author forgets that the resurrection implied death as its antecedent, and that if believed in, it would have made death appear in an altogether different light, and that if it failed to do that, it would beforehand share the same fate as the death, that, viz., of being disregarded ; and afterhand would seem " too good news to be true."
ref: 1971, Alexander B. Bruce, The Training of the Twelve: Timeless Principles for Leadership Development, →ISBN, page 495:
glosses: Afterwards; subsequently.
bailivate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bailivates
Senses: examples: text: She granted him also the office of purveyor of the said manor of Eltham, together with the bailivate of the town of Eltham
ref: 1822, John Strype, Historical and biographical works - Volume 12, page 45:
text: During his bailivate he ceases to be reckoned one of the approved men; but on the expiration of his year of office, he takes again among them the rank he held before.
ref: 1835, Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the Municipal Corporations in England and Wales:
text: And the aforesaid merchants and likewise the aforesaid abbot and Thomas by their attorneys come, and the same merchants complain that the aforesaid Thomas, on Monday in the Eve of S. Martin in the 14th year of the reign of the now King, under colour of his bailivate and without warrant arrested cloths and other goods and merchandises of the aforesaid merchants in the fair of Westminster to the value of 500l.
ref: 1961, The Publications of the Selden Society - Volume 46, page 90:
glosses: The office of bailiff.
bailivates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bailivate
balatron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balatrons
Etymology: From Latin balatrō (“jester, buffoon”). Cognate with Galician baladrón, Spanish baladrón, both meaning "braggart".
Senses: examples: text: If we are "students of the Balatronic dialect" — a dialect so called from the "Balatrons" or professional buffons who invented most of it — we shall perhaps refer to its users as: — "Blunderkins, having their heads stuffed with nought but balderdash.
ref: 1927, The Dalhousie Review - Volume 7, page 65:
text: His fat body shook like a balatron, as if his soul, biting for anger at a mouth inadequately circumferential, desired in vain to fret a passage through it.
ref: 1981, Alexander Theroux, Darconville's cat, page 32:
text: But he did not want to look a complete balatron in front of the Rabbi.
ref: 1990, Christopher Maslanka, The Guardian Book of Puzzles, →ISBN, page 52:
text: Anyone who discounts the peril is a self-important, arrogant balatron.
ref: 2015, Peter N. Milligan, Bulls Before Breakfast, →ISBN, page 87:
glosses: A buffoon; one who speaks a lot of nonsense and is characterized by self-indulgence.
Derived terms: balatronic
balatrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balatron
catch wind of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: catches wind of
form: catching wind of
form: caught wind of
form: caught wind of
Senses: examples: text: One of her chief informants is Alicent’s handmaiden Talya (Alexis Rabin), whose inside info runs so deep that she’s the first to catch wind of Viserys’ death.
ref: 2022 October 16, Jenna Scherer, “An enticing House Of The Dragon crowns Westeros' new ruler”, in AV Club:
glosses: Alternative form of get wind of.
gasteral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: 1977, {Unattributed}, Report of the Plant Pest Control Branch for the Month Of...
"Morphologically, ponerine ants can be characterized by having a pronounced constriction between the first and second gasteral segments and the sting is well developed."
glosses: Of or pertaining to the stomach.
Related terms: gaster
gastric
Trumpish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹʌmpɪʃ/
Forms: form: more Trumpish
form: most Trumpish
form: Donald Trumpish
Etymology: From Trump + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Similar to Donald Trump in action, speech, or style.
Synonyms: Trumpian
Trumpesque
Derived terms: Trumpishness
Related terms: Trumpist
trumpery
Trumpesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹʌmˈpɛsk/
Forms: form: more Trumpesque
form: most Trumpesque
form: Donald Trumpesque
form: Trump-esque
Etymology: From Trump + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: The day before Trump was presented as an egg on legs in the New York Post, the paper celebrated the re-election of Ron DeSantis, the Trump-esque Florida governor rumored to be planning a presidential run, with a front page which declared him “DeFuture”.
ref: 2022 November 10, Adam Gabbatt, “Has ‘Trumpty Dumpty’ taken a great fall from Rupert Murdoch’s grace?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Resembling or similar to Donald Trump.
Synonyms: Trumpish
Trumpian
Related terms: Trumpist
Donald Trumpesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Donald Trumpesque
form: most Donald Trumpesque
Etymology: Donald Trump + -esque
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Trumpesque.
wikipedia: Donald Trump
Donald Trumpish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Donald Trumpish
form: most Donald Trumpish
Etymology: Donald Trump + -ish
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Trumpish.
synonyms: word: Trumpish
wikipedia: Donald Trump
Donald Trumpian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Donald Trumpian
form: most Donald Trumpian
Etymology: From Donald Trump + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Unfortunately, frequent heartburn is a common occurrence during many pregnancies, not just for moms who give birth to babies with Donald Trumpian locks.
ref: 2006, Carley Roney, The Nest Newlywed Handbook: An Owner's Manual for Modern Married Life, Clarkson Potter, →ISBN, page 212:
text: A middle-aged man with a Donald Trumpian comb-over sat at the curb in an expensive Lexus.
ref: 2008, Scott Sherman, First You Fall: A Kevin Connor Mystery, Alyson Books, →ISBN, page 106:
glosses: Alternative form of Trumpian.
wikipedia: Donald Trump
rhomboideus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔɪdiəs
Forms: form: rhomboidei
Etymology: Latin
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of the rhomboid muscles.
Zika virus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ZIKV
Etymology: After the Zika Forest in Uganda, from Luganda; see Zika Forest.
Senses: glosses: A particular flavivirus, causing mild illness and linked with birth defects in humans.
wikipedia: Zika Forest
Related terms: zika
Zika disease
Zika fever
Lonely Star of Autumn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The star Fomalhaut.
out upon
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: out on
Senses: examples: text: You skie-ſtaring Cocks combes you: you fat braines, out upon you; you are good for nothing but to ſweat night-caps, and make rug-gownes deare: […]
ref: 1599 (first performance), B. I. [i.e., Ben Jonson], The Comicall Satyre of Euery Man out of His Humor. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for William Holme, […], published 1600, →OCLC, Act III, scene ii, signature K, verso:
text: Clown: Out upon him! prig, for my life, prig: he haunts wakes, fairs and bear-baitings.
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
text: To be his whore, is witles; Out upon't;
ref: 1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson; […], published 1634, →OCLC, Act II, scene iii, page 31:
text: – Out upon you, said I! I cannot bear you.
ref: 1741, [Samuel Richardson], chapter 6, in Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: […] C[harles] Rivington, […]; and J. Osborn, […], →OCLC:
text: Out upon them! that they should dishonor their own mothers by such teaching.
ref: 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 3, in The White Company:
text: Out upon you, dark witches of evil!
ref: 1919, John Galsworthy, chapter 19, in The Burning Spear:
glosses: Shame on; away with; curses upon.
Synonyms: a pox on
fie upon
to hell with
out on
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of out upon.
melktert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melkterts
Senses: glosses: A South African dessert consisting of a creamy milk-based filling in a sweet pastry crust.
archchaplain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archchaplains
Etymology: From arch- + chaplain.
Senses: glosses: A senior chaplain in a French royal court
bedroom tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedroom taxes
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A reduction in housing benefit for people who live in social housing that is deemed underoccupied.
remoldable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more remoldable
form: most remoldable
Etymology: From re- + moldable.
Senses: glosses: Repeatedly moldable.
Ziggy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɪɡi/
rhymes: -ɪɡi
Etymology: From German Siggi, a nickname for any number of names beginning with Sieg-, e.g. Sieglinde, Siegfried, Siegmund etc.
Senses: glosses: A nickname mainly for men, but occasionally also for women.
hussle and bussle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of hustle and bustle.
hussle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of carbonaceous shale found between coal deposits.
Related terms: crozzle
hussle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of hustle.
crozzle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crozzles
Senses: examples: text: Crozzles, burrs and clinkers are bricks which have partly lost their shape through overheating.
ref: 1914, Alfred Broadhead Searle, Cement, Concrete and Bricks, page 377:
text: Excessive heating in the kiln may produce misshapen bricks known as crozzles.
ref: 1938, William Barr McKay, McKay's Building Construction:
text: When a brick is roasted, the duration of heating should be proper and even to avoid place brick or crozzle.
ref: 2011, Haimei Zhang, Building Materials in Civil Engineering, page 172:
glosses: A brick deformed by excessive heating during its manufacture.
examples: text: The furnace was again entered, and the crust to the chests broken down; it had partially vitrified and had absorbed iron oxide and was removed in black, craggy pieces, often referred to as 'crozzle' - still sometimes to be found as a capping to walls in the vicinity of the old furnaces.
ref: 1991, Joan Day, The Industrial revolution in metals, page 272:
text: With or without her knowledge, with or without her consent, with or without her effort, she would sail onwards, away from Breaseborough, away from the smoke and the grime and the slag and the crozzle, away from stifling Dora, away from the hot fevered hours of study, away from the condescension of Gertrude Wadsworth and the rationed contempt of Miss Strachey, away from that snub about Mary Anning and the fossil bones.
ref: 2012, Margaret Drabble, The Peppered Moth:
text: The topping of stone walls all around the Sheffield area, which looks like large, crude, black lumps of Aero chocolate, is in fact furnace slag mostly from cementation furnaces. It has its own dialect name – crozzle.
ref: 2016, Ian D. Rotherham, Secret Sheffield:
glosses: Hardened slag from a cementation furnace.
examples: text: Between the ammonoid bands are three horizons of highly sheared mudstone resembling the 'crozzle' beds described by Cope (1946) at a similar stratigraphical level west of Buxton, and known also in Lancashire.
ref: 1998, J. G. Rees, Geology of the country around Stoke-on-Trent, page 17:
glosses: A form of non-carbonaceous shale found between coal deposits.
Related terms: hussle
crozzle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crozzles
form: crozzling
form: crozzled
form: crozzled
Senses: examples: text: Gaston de Mowbray ground his hair in powder, and tore his teeth out in handfuls; his breath gushed forth with that icy coldness as to crozzle up the table before which he sat into a cinder; he paces the room to such an extent, that the past hung in penny cakes all over the apartment.
ref: 1865, “The Terrible Mistake”, in Dollar Monthly Magazine, page 333:
text: When undiluted all these oils burn badly causing the wick to char, or, as it is technically described, to "crozzle," which renders constant attention necessary if a good dlight is to be maintained.
ref: 1911, Lucius Trant O'Shea, Elementary Chemistry for Coal-mining Students:
text: The high temperature tends to cause the material to crozzle, which makes it difficult to work in a kiln.
ref: 1929, Fred Clements, Blast Furnace Practice, volume 1, page 384:
glosses: To shrink or shrivel from exposure to heat.
papering over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of paper over
papering over
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The superficial disguising of a defect
bytime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bytimes
form: by-time
Etymology: From Scots bytime, equivalent to by- + time.
Senses: examples: text: "[…] Doth our doughty Captain go birdsnesting and nutting in his bytimes?”
ref: 1976, Robert Haven Schauffler, Thanksgiving:
glosses: A period of leisure; spare time
FFM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FFMs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of fat free mass.
glosses: Initialism of female female male (“a sexual act between two females and one male”).
topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
underwater-diving
glosses: Initialism of full face mask.
bytimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bytime
biomatrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biomatrix
desferricoprogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Various compounds with siderophore activity, including pyoverdines-Fe-complex, desferricoprogen and salicylic acid, were found to stimulate the growth of difficult-to-culture strains […]
ref: 2016 January 15, “In Vitro Cultivation of ‘Unculturable’ Oral Bacteria, Facilitated by Community Culture and Media Supplementation with Siderophores”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A siderophore with chemical formula C₃₅H₅₆N₆O₁₃.
hyporeflectivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyporeflectivities
Senses: glosses: The quality of being hyporeflective
macitentan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌmæsɪˈtɛntæn/
Etymology: From [Term?] + -entan (“endothelin receptor antagonist”).
Senses: examples: text: Right and left ventricular collagen content was increased with pulmonary artery banding compared to sham-operated controls and ameliorated by macitentan.
ref: 2016 January 15, “Dual Endothelin Receptor Blockade Abrogates Right Ventricular Remodeling and Biventricular Fibrosis in Isolated Elevated Right Ventricular Afterload”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An endothelin receptor antagonist used to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Related terms: ambrisentan
bosentan
oligocone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oligo- + cone.
Senses: examples: text: Final diagnoses of participating subjects included RP (34 cases), cone-rod dystrophy (23 cases), cone dystrophy (eight cases), macular dystrophy (eight cases), Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA; three cases), achromatopsia (three cases) and oligocone trichromacy (two cases).
ref: 2016 January 15, “Mutation Detection in Patients with Retinal Dystrophies Using Targeted Next Generation Sequencing”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having a reduced number of functioning cone cells.
postburst
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + burst.
Senses: examples: text: Another possible physiological role for a hyperpolarization-activated inward current could be in the postburst hyperpolarization that is characteristic of parasol cells.
ref: 2016 January 15, “Electrophysiological Evidence for Intrinsic Pacemaker Currents in Crayfish Parasol Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: After a burst or occurring after a burst.
parasol cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parasol cells
Senses: glosses: A kind of retinal ganglion cell. Parasol cells project their axons to the magnocellular layers of the lateral geniculate nucleus, where they synapse with magnocellular cells.
parasol cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parasol cell
Exner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German Exner.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Call-Exner body
Exner's area
Exner's nerve
Exner's plexus
vagotomize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vagotomizes
form: vagotomizing
form: vagotomized
form: vagotomized
Etymology: From vagotomy + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To perform vagotomy upon.
vagotomized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vagotomize
vagotomized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Modified by vagotomy
vagotomizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vagotomize
vagotomizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vagotomize
longform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: long-form
Etymology: From long + form.
Senses: topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: Running for a relatively long time, typically more than two minutes.
raw_tags: of a television advertisement
examples: a longform article; a longform news broadcast
topics: broadcasting
journalism
media
glosses: Longer and more detailed than is normal.
shortform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: short-form
Etymology: From short + form.
Senses: topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: Running for a relatively short time, typically no more than two minutes.
raw_tags: of a television advertisement
examples: a shortform article; a shortform news broadcast
topics: broadcasting
journalism
media
glosses: Relatively short and punchy, lacking detail or in-depth analysis.
preburst
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + burst.
Senses: glosses: Before a burst.
choroidopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of choroidopathy
eigenoscillations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eigenoscillation
multisweep
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + sweep.
Senses: examples: text: As main ingredient we introduce a new algorithm, named Similarity-First-Search (SFS), which extends Lexicographic Breadth-First Search (Lex-BFS) to weighted graphs and which we use in a multisweep algorithm to recognize Robinsonian matrices.
ref: 2016, Monique Laurent, Matteo Seminaroti, “Similarity-First Search: a new algorithm with application to Robinsonian matrix recognition”, in arXiv:
glosses: Involving more than one sweep.
nilspaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nilspace
superspike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super- + spike, because of the resulting shape of the histogram.
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An algorithm for image segmentation that averages pixels based on the peaks in a histogram.
supertartrates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supertartrate
Tarbellizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Tarbellize
Tarbellizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Tarbellize
Tarbellized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Tarbellize
Bufton Tuftons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bufton Tufton
Lawsonized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Lawsonize
Lawsonizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Lawsonize
Lawsonizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Lawsonize
chomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chomers
Etymology: From Hebrew חומר / חֹמֶר (khómer, “clay, heap, large unit of volume”).
Senses: topics: units-of-measure
glosses: Alternative form of homer: a former Hebrew unit of volume.
Claudian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to Claudius (the Roman emperor)
Derived terms: Claudian letters
Julio-Claudian
naughty parts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The genitals.
masculinazi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masculinazis
Etymology: Blend of masculine + Nazi
Senses: examples: text: > So women should be seen and not heard? Men are the alpha and the omega? Anyone writing
>anything similar but about MEN would have been labeled a FEMINAZI by you,
>T.
And rightly so. However, those who write it about women are
MasculiNazi's^([sic]) as well.
ref: 1996 May 2, Matt, “"Church Referendum"”, in tnn.religion.catholic (Usenet):
text: Boy, I hope your wife really put her foot down with you and made you get a
vasectomy! Men have no damned right to determine their own lives; the idea
that they do is ugly anarchic propoganda^([sic]) put forth by masculinazis.
ref: 1997 August 16, Frenchy, “Butchslapped ;)”, in alt.brother-jed (Usenet):
text: I don't give ear to fringe from either side of the argument...Feminazis or
Masculinazis....
ref: 2003 September 24, Jude, “definition of evil according this this ng”, in alt.feminism (Usenet):
text: You might be a Masculinazi if . .
- You think females have it "easier" than males
- You presume that no woman is strong enough to serve in military combat[…]
ref: 2004 January 3, ²“S&*^*%$@iŽ%$&&*@bbacnews.bccacanada ¡O.otrBBACNEWS ², “KKKarel is not a racist .....”, in van.general (Usenet):
text: 'Don't be such a MasculiNazi,' Ella said if he ever said anything. He hated it when she called him that. But it's important that we get more men out of prostitution, he'd been saying; that we get more men into Parliament.
ref: 2011 May 19, John Freeman, Granta 115: The F-Word, Granta Books, →ISBN, →OCLC:
glosses: A person who is aggressively masculinist.
Related terms: feminazi
nondirectionality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-directionality
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of having no direction.
non-directionality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nondirectionality.
bi-directionality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bi-directionalities
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bidirectionality.
uni-directionality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uni-directionalities
Etymology: Ultimately uni- + directional + -ity. See also unidirectional and directionality.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unidirectionality.
unidirectionalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unidirectionality
uni-directionalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uni-directionality
bi-directionalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bi-directionality
caudocephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From caudo- + cephalic.
Senses: examples: text: Cloacal gaping as a female response to males is also known in several snake species, where males perform caudocephalic waving (i.e. muscular contractions from cloaca to head) towards females [42 ,43 ], and the female responds by lifting her tail and gaping her cloaca [44 ,45 ].
ref: 2016 January 16, “Male Courtship Pheromones Induce Cloacal Gaping in Female Newts (Salamandridae)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Going from the tail to the head.
Related terms: cephalocaudal
mensing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mense
axle load
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axle loads
form: axleload
Senses: examples: text: To keep the axle load within a 28-ton maximum, two eight-wheel bogies are employed, all axles of which are motorised.
ref: 1963 August, “New 5,000 H.P.-Plus Diesels for U.S. Railroads”, in Modern Railways, page 127:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: the total weight, including load carried, transferred by one axle and its wheels to a road or railway surface. This is especially important in relation to what weight road and railway structures can carry, bridges in particular.
Related terms: axle loading
axle weight
vaulting box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vaulting boxes
Senses: topics: gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A layered wooden box that is padded with leather, used in gymnastics.
tartares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tartare
rituximabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rituximab
pro memorias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pro memoria
tridental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tridental
form: most tridental
Etymology: From trident + -al.
Senses: glosses: Having three prongs or tines.
thiefship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thief + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: The owners of the horses were very much pleased upon recovering their stock, and proposed starting immediately for home without making any search for the thief; but the Sheriff with an eye to giving his thiefship punishment for his wrongs, made search and discovered men whom he supposed to be guilty.
ref: 1961, Kirke Mechem, James Claude Malin, The Kansas Historical Quarterly - Volume 27 - Page 259:
glosses: The office, rank, or title of a thief; thiefhood; thiefdom
raw_tags: as an address
thiefhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thief + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: Genet's authenticity is the way he throws back at the world the very thiefhood it would have him accept. The world's thiefhood is ready made; there are crimes and there are laws and jails.
ref: 1996, Joseph S. Catalano, Good Faith and Other Essays: Perspectives on a Sartrean Ethics:
glosses: The state, quality, or condition of a thief; thiefdom
Synonyms: thiefness
thiefness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thief + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: He's high on something he's scrounged, this or that scrap makes him feel clean, clear of his former details: his feeling of thiefness disappears making a little promise it won't happen again in exchange for the core it took to get this innerness [...]
ref: 1987, Mary Ruefle, Life without speaking - Page 79:
text: Yuh mad or what? Don't involve me into thiefness.
ref: 2014, Aston Cooke, Country Duppy & Jonkanoo Jamboree:
glosses: The state or conduct of a thief; thievery
Tarquin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Tarquinius from Etruscan tarqu(s)na, also tarcna or tarχna.
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
glosses: Family name of a dynasty of Etruscan kings who ruled Rome until 509 B.C.
Tarquin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tarquins
Etymology: From Latin Tarquinius from Etruscan tarqu(s)na, also tarcna or tarχna.
Senses: examples: text: While visiting Oxford, I saw a group of Tarquins haw-hawing about their gap yah.
glosses: A posh young man from a privileged upper-class background.
barrel bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barrel bombs
Etymology: From barrel + bomb.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: A barrel filled with explosives, used as an improvised unguided bomb and dropped from a helicopter or airplane.
Related terms: dumb bomb
gravity bomb
iron bomb
kettle bomb
pressure cooker bomb
pipe bomb
roadside bomb
smart bomb
IED
improvised explosive device
hexcraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛksˌkɹɑːft/
ipa: /ˈhɛksˌkɹæft/
Etymology: From hex + -craft.
Senses: examples: text: Sympathetic and imitative magick, herbal enchantment, charms and fetishes, candle magick, love magick, potion-brewing, mojo magick, hexcraft, and Hoodoo folk magick are but several examples of what many regard as low magick.
ref: 2001, Gerina Dunwich, Exploring Spellcraft: How to Create and Cast Effective Spells, page 29:
text: Unlike the Wiccans I was hanging out with lately—my friend Bronwyn and her good-natured coven—I don't shy away from hexcraft.
ref: 2011, Juliet Blackwell, Hexes and Hemlines: A Witchcraft Mystery:
glosses: The practice, art, or skill of casting hexes and spells; sorcery; witchcraft
stooged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stooge
native fuchsia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: native fuchsias
Senses: glosses: Any of several flowering plants resembling typical species of Fuchsia
Correa reflexa (common correa)
glosses: Any of several flowering plants resembling typical species of Fuchsia
Epacris longiflora (fuchsia-heath)
glosses: Any of several flowering plants resembling typical species of Fuchsia
Eremophila maculata (spotted emubush)
glosses: Any of several flowering plants resembling typical species of Fuchsia
Grevillea wilsonii
firewheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firewheels
Etymology: From fire + wheel.
Senses: glosses: Gaillardia pulchella, a flowering plant of southern US, from Arizona to Florida, and northern Mexico.
examples: text: Ashes from the firewheels, spread through the fields, guarantee bumper crops for the coming seasons.
ref: 1974, Rundschau, volume 4:
text: Weather conditions worsened and the bombers flew into a huge electrical storm that turned their propellers into giant firewheels, as one pilot reported, and blew them all over the sky.
ref: 2009, Richard J. Evans, The Third Reich at War: 1939-1945:
glosses: A wheel of or on fire.
Synonyms: sense: Gaillardia pulchella
word: Indian blanket
sense: Gaillardia pulchella
word: Indian blanketflower
sense: Gaillardia pulchella
word: Indian paintbrush
sense: Gaillardia pulchella
word: sundance
Derived terms: firewheel tree
roffia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of raffia.
Rish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rishathaim
form: Reshet
form: Rishim
Etymology: From Indo-Aryan.
Senses: glosses: Indo-Aryan military rulers of the Kingdom of Mitanni
Rish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rishathaim
form: Reshet
form: Rishim
Etymology: From Bulgarian Риш (Riš).
Senses: glosses: A village in Bulgaria.
Rasenna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rasena
form: Rasenae
form: Rasennae
Etymology: From the Etruscan autonym, 𐌓𐌀𐌔𐌍𐌀 (rasna, “the people”).
Senses: examples: text: The Rasenna were to the Romans a foreign nation speaking an unknown tongue.
[…]
The cities of the Rasenna in Campania, whose communications with the mother country, whether by land or sea, were not cut of, surrendered […].
ref: 1898, Walter Wybergh How, Henry Devenish Leigh, A History of Rome to the Death of Caesar, pages 12 and 79:
text: The Etruscan people of historical times—the Rasenna—were very likely the result of a gradual fusion of native and immigrant populations.
ref: 2013, Fred Kleiner, Gardner’s Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective:
glosses: The Etruscans, collectively.
karstifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more karstifiable
form: most karstifiable
Etymology: From karstify + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to undergo karstification
honey house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honey houses
Senses: glosses: A place where honey is extracted from honeycomb
the'e
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Forms: form: they
Etymology: From there.
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of there.
balzarine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balzarines
Senses: examples: text: Originally she had come to me, possessed but of one gown, and that a forlorn and ragged balzarine, with four draggled, torn flounces.
ref: 1857, Louisa Anne Meredith, Shadows of a Golden Image:
text: Then I have little messengers racing "like mad" through the galleries of my head ; spinning long yarns, and wearing fabrics rich and soft as the balzarine which I so much covet, until I shut my eyes and stop my ears and whisk away, with the 'wonderful lamp' safely hidden in my own brown braids.
ref: 1860, Asahel Clark Kendrick, The Life and Letters of Mrs. Emily C. Judson, page 95:
text: She was still wearing the crushed and crumpled morning-dress of balzarine that she had put on in her bedroom at the Abuthnots' bungalow in Delhi Cantonment ... how long ago?
ref: 2013, M M Kaye, Shadow of the Moon, →ISBN:
glosses: A lightweight fabric made from cotton and wool, used for summer dresses.
balzarines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balzarine