cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
SAL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Society of Antiquaries of London.
SALs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SAL
structural adjustment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: structural adjustments
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The offering of loans by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to countries experiencing economic crisis, with the aim of adjusting their economic structure, improving international competitiveness, and restoring the balance of payments.
Derived terms: word: structural adjustment loan
sense: SAP
word: structural adjustment program
structural adjustments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of structural adjustment
demotape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demotapes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of demo tape.
Caras
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Carases
Etymology: * As a Greek surname, variant of Karas. Compare also Carras.
* Also as a Greek surname, from the personal name Kyriakos, see also Kyriacou.
* As a Romanian surname, from caras (“crucian carp”), see Karas.
* As a Jewish surname of Slavic (Ukrainian, Belarusian, Czech, Serbo-Croatian, Slovene), variant of Karas.
* As a Polish (Karaś), Hungarian (Kárász) and Jewish surname, from the "carp" sense above.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Carases
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Caras
Chants
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Chant
panams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panam
devoved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of devove
devoving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of devove
Brinlee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Brinlees
Etymology: Variant of Brinley.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Brumett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Brumetts
Etymology: Variant of Brummitt.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Brumetts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Brumett
Brinlees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Brinlee
antepost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: ante-post
Etymology: From ante- + post, the second component in the sense of the traditional "betting post", a stake set up at a racecourse to signal the beginning of fixed betting.
Senses: topics: gambling
games
glosses: Being a kind of bet, in horse-racing and greyhound racing, placed before the racecourse's betting market has opened, on the expectation that the price of the animal is presently more favourable than it will be when the market opens.
ante-post
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antepost.
foccacia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of focaccia.
thimbling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɪmblɪŋ/
Etymology: From thimble + -ing.
Senses: glosses: gerund of thimble: the act of using a thimble.
glosses: Synonym of thimblerigging (“the act of cheating (someone) in a thimblerig game, or by trickery”).
synonyms: word: thimblerigging
extra: (“the act of cheating (someone) in a thimblerig game, or by trickery”)
thimbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɪmblɪŋ/
Etymology: From thimble + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of thimble
proximalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of proximalize
proximalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of proximalize
proximalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of proximalize
proximalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proximalization
proximalisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proximalisation
McCardell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McCardells
Etymology: Variant of McArdle.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
McCardells
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McCardell
suede-shoe operator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suede-shoe operators
Senses: examples: text: In any event, the first time the homeowner comes in contact with the contractor is when the job is actually performed. By then, Childers said, the "suede shoe" operator has skipped town and the contractor is responsible […]
ref: 1959, Weekly News Letter, volumes 1-2:
text: The profit allowance must be such that it will discourage the "speculator" or "suede shoe" operator. The purpose is to exclude from FHA insured properties the possibility of exorbitant profits at the purchaser's expense.
ref: 1970, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity, Equal Educational Opportunity: Hearings, page 10855:
text: Here's the best way to smoke out the Suede Shoe Operator: Ask about money. Insist on knowing the dates you'll get paid and the exact amount.
ref: 1986, William D. Mitchell, Contractor's Survival Manual, page 128:
glosses: A flashy and dishonest trader.
Related terms: suede-shoe salesman
suede-shoe operators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suede-shoe operator
Margulies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Margulieses
form: Margolies
form: Margolyes
Etymology: From the Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation of Hebrew מרגליות.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hebrew.
Plattes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Platte
Margulieses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Margulies
sunrise industry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunrise industries
Senses: antonyms: sunset industry
glosses: A type of business that is relatively new, fast-growing, and expected to become more important in future.
sunrise industries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sunrise industry
sunset provision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunset provisions
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sunset clause.
synonyms: word: sunset clause
sunset provisions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sunset provision
inken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ink + -en.
Senses: glosses: made of or written with ink
prebudgetary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + budgetary.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of prebudget.
synonyms: word: prebudget
pasar malam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pasar malams
Etymology: Borrowed from Malay pasar malam.
Senses: examples: text: Pasar malams are fabulous though, aren't they? The night markets are one of the highlights of living in Singapore […]
ref: 2010, Neil Humphreys, Complete Notes from Singapore: The Omnibus Edition, page 19:
glosses: A night market.
Saijō
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Ehime Prefecture, Japan.
Penicuik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cumbric *penn (“head, top, summit”) + Cumbric *ı (“(of) the”) + Cumbric *cog (“cuckoo”).
Senses: glosses: A town in Midlothian council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT2360).
swab jockey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swab jockeys
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A member of the United States Navy.
swab jockeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swab jockey
swearing contest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swearing contests
Senses: examples: text: Dershowitz pithily illustrates the dilemma of the courts in deciding the swearing contest in his “rules” of the criminal justice system: […]
ref: 1985, Dublin University Law Journal, page 47:
text: Such one-on-one “swearing contests” are routinely decided in favor of law enforcement officers, but in this case the district court sided with the accused bank robber.
ref: 1999, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice Oversight, The Clinton Justice Department's Refusal to Enforce the Law on Voluntary Confessions: Hearing, page 56:
topics: law
glosses: A trial whose outcome comes down to which of two parties swearing to the truth of opposing accounts is to be believed.
swearing contests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swearing contest
sweetheart contract
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweetheart contracts
Senses: glosses: A sweetheart deal taking the form of a contract.
sweetheart contracts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweetheart contract
sweetman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweetmen
Senses: examples: text: He recalled the colored sweetmen and touts and girls with whom he had been familiar in America, some who lived in the great obscure region of the boundary between white and black.
ref: 1929, Claude McKay, Banjo: A story without a plot:
text: They needed whores, pimps, the sweetmen; bistros, honky-tonks, spider-nests; the perverse, the perverted, the psychopathic.
ref: 1939, J. Saunders Redding, To Make a Poet Black, page 119:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: A male pimp.
Westhill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small town in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland, to the west of Aberdeen (OS grid ref NJ8307).
glosses: A village in Highland council area, Scotland, to the east of Inverness (OS grid ref NH7144).
Related terms: West Hill
West Hills
sweetmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweetman
switch dealing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
glosses: The situation where a Western country, trading with the Eastern Bloc, accepted goods as part payment despite having no use for them, and then sold them on to others.
self-partnered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self- + partnered.
Senses: glosses: single (not involved in a romantic relationship)
gazookuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gazookus
open the range
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: opens the range
form: opening the range
form: opened the range
form: opened the range
Senses: examples: text: Even after receiving the order to withdraw, the battle-cruiser squadron took several more hits before they managed to open the range.
text: In the confusion, Johnston manages another about-face and heads away to open the range, with its torpedoes spent.
ref: 2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 18:40 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2022:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To draw oneself or one's vehicles (warships, tanks, aircraft, etc.) out of range of the enemy's fire.
opens the range
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of open the range
opening the range
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of open the range
mugwumping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mugwump
opened the range
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of open the range
mugwumped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mugwump
suckholing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of suckhole
suckholed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of suckhole
culshie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: culshies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of culchie (“unsophisticated rural person”).
culshies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of culshie
slutishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From slutish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of sluttishness.
slutish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slutish
form: most slutish
Senses: glosses: Dated form of sluttish.
bumwad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bum + wad.
Senses: glosses: Toilet paper.
bumwad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bumwads
Etymology: From bum + -wad.
Senses: synonyms: word: asswad
glosses: An obnoxious person; a jerk.
bumwads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bumwad
coonshit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From coon + shit.
Senses: examples: text: If your brains was coonshit, you couldn't find a hackberry seed.
ref: 1984, Ken Weaver, Texas Crude, page 37:
text: It was utter banal coonshit, and we loved to read it aloud.
ref: 2001, Judy H. Tucker, Charline R. McCord, Christmas Stories from Mississippi, page 94:
glosses: Synonym of bullshit (“nonsense; rubbish”).
synonyms: word: bullshit
extra: nonsense; rubbish
baywop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baywops
Etymology: From bay + wop.
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, there was the important distinction on the island between townies and baymen, or baywops.
ref: 1987, Nigel Rapport, Talking Violence, page 16:
text: How Memorial has changed since then! Back then, the townies may have owned the very few cars that were on the go, may have dominated the best tables in the cafe and certainly didn't need coaching in putting the baywops in their preordained place, […]
ref: 1992, Cabot Martin, No Fish and Our Lives: Some Survival Notes for Newfoundland:
glosses: A rural Newfoundlander.
baywops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baywop
arresting gear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arresting gears
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: A system used to quickly decelerate a landing aircraft, essential for landing on an aircraft carrier (although land-based airfields can also be equipped with arresting gear); the most common system consists of a series of transverse wire ropes designed to snag an aircraft's tailhook, connected to a hydraulic or mechanical energy-absorbing system, but other systems exist (typically only for use in an emergency situation) which use a net to slow down an aircraft.
arresting gears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arresting gear
pepsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pepsi
coney-catching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cony-catching.
Chigwell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish in Epping Forest district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TQ4393).
glosses: A suburb of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
Derived terms: Chigwellian
antilaplacian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antilaplacians
Etymology: From anti- + laplacian.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The number of which a given number is the Laplacian
surfiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Raymond Federman in his 1973 manifesto "Surfiction—A Position".
Senses: examples: text: ...it was of a piece with a broader postwar codification and intensification of modernist reflexivity in the form of what came to be called "surfiction" or, more durably, "metafiction."
ref: 2009, Mark McGurl, The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing, Harvard University Press, page 9:
glosses: A style of fiction that rejects realism and advertises its own fictional status, similar to metafiction, postmodernism or fabulation.
wikipedia: Raymond Federman
antipercolation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + percolation.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of AB percolation.
synonyms: word: AB percolation
arbeloses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arbelos
biflecnodal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + flecnodal.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Relating to a biflecnode
play favorites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays favorites
form: playing favorites
form: played favorites
form: played favorites
form: play favourites
Senses: glosses: To show favoritism towards one party.
Synonyms: favoritize
flecnodal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Relating to a flecnode
Derived terms: biflecnodal
circumconic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circumconics
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A conic section that passes through all the vertices of a triangle
Related terms: circumellipse
circumconics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circumconic
circumconics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The study or construction of such shapes
circumellipse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circumellipses
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An elliptical circumconic
circumellipses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circumellipse
oilworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oilworks
Etymology: From oil + works.
Senses: glosses: A factory producing oil (whether petroleum, oil shale, or vegetable oils).
circumscriptable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having an inscribed circle that is tangent to each side
raw_tags: of a polygon
defringed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of defringe
defringing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of defringe
rolling spider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rolling spiders
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A kind of spider (support for a camera tripod, preventing it from sliding) with lockable wheels allowing it to be moved around easily when needed.
rolling spiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rolling spider
circumsphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circumspheres
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A sphere that is circumscribed about a polyhedron and touches each of its vertices
Related terms: circumcircle
circumspheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circumsphere
cochleoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cochleoids
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A strophoid shaped somewhat like a snail
cochleoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cochleoid
inquisitorial system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inquisitorial systems
Senses: topics: law
antonyms: adversarial system
glosses: a trial system in which the prosecutor also acts as judge
Grange Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in County Durham, England, near Coundon (OS grid ref NZ2329).
glosses: A suburb in Epping Forest district, Essex, England, on the border of Greater London (OS grid ref TQ4492).
glosses: A locality near Beith, North Ayrshire council area, Scotland, spelt Grangehill on one map (OS grid ref NS3554).
glosses: A settlement in Westmoreland parish, Jamaica.
glosses: A number of hills in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.
bumper bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bumper bars
Senses: examples: text: By grasping the bumper bar at the center a slight backward pull accompanied by a lifting motion enables the driver to swing the bumper bar to a position where it will not in any way interfere with the filing of the buckets.
ref: 1920, Oildom - Volume 11, Issues 2-11, page 6:
text: In order to attach the main iron to the bumper bar, an angle bar is run over the main iron and back of the bumper bar.
ref: 1937, Ray Forest Kuns, Trailer Engineering, page 48:
text: It is used to stiffen the assembly carrying the bumper bar, to carry the front edge of a tread plate if one is used for a rear step, and to hold the rear ends of hangers, indicated as H, if a spare tire carrier rack or compartment is added.
ref: 1951, Autobody and the Reconditioned Car - Volume 30, page 57:
glosses: A metal bar or set of bars that are installed to protect the front or back of a vehicle.
bumper bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bumper bar
pseudopoetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudopoetic
form: most pseudopoetic
Etymology: From pseudo- + poetic.
Senses: glosses: Apparently, but not actually, poetic; having a false appearance of poetry.
pseudo-poetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudo-poetic
form: most pseudo-poetic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pseudopoetic.
Meigs' syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Meigs syndrome.
nonsurgeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonsurgeons
Etymology: From non- + surgeon.
Senses: examples: text: Commonly, the surgeons view nonsurgeons with disdain. The most disdain is directed toward the “shrinks” or the “spooks,” as the psychiatrists are called.
ref: 1975, Robert O. Pasnau, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, page 124:
glosses: One who is not a surgeon.
nonsurgeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonsurgeon
spreadeaglism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spreadeagleism.
spreadeagleism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spreadeaglism
form: spread-eagleism
Etymology: From spread-eagle + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A pretentious, boastful, jingoistic attitude.
post-WIMP
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + WIMP.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Belonging to user interface designs that move away from the traditional windows, icons, menus and pointer in an attempt to find something better.
squad bay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squad bays
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A barracks for junior members of the Marine Corps.
squad bays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squad bay
mouth-pussies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mouth-pussy
short trousers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From short + trousers.
Senses: glosses: Trousers reaching as far as the knee, typically worn by young boys.
Synonyms: word: short pants
Derived terms: in short trousers
half-long
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In French most vowels are half-long, and are only occasionally lengthened or shortened into full longs and shorts.
ref: 1877, Henry Sweet, A Handbook of Phonetics, volume 2, page 60:
glosses: Between a short vowel and a long vowel in length.
half-long
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-longs
Senses: synonyms: half-long vowel
glosses: A vowel that is between a short vowel and a long vowel in length.
Oxfordish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Oxfordish
form: most Oxfordish
Etymology: From Oxford + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of the English city of Oxford.
Oxfordish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Oxford + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: "[…] Did I not forbid all these nicknames and all this Oxfordish, by proclamation, last Long."
"Last Long?"
"Hem! last protracted vacation."
ref: 1863, Charles Reade, Hard Cash:
glosses: The slang spoken at the University of Oxford.
half-longs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half-long
short pants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From short + pants.
Senses: examples: text: You can be young enough to wear short pants or old enough to hide your opponents' shoes with your beard over a disputed point.
ref: 1935, Skagit Darigold:
glosses: short trousers
Derived terms: in short pants
Related terms: shorts
adjustment center
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adjustment centers
Senses: glosses: Part of a prison used for the segregation and isolation of difficult prisoners.
adjustment centers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adjustment center
24-hour flu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: gastroenteritis; stomach flu
in short pants
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: From an early 20th century practice of reserving short pants only for small children.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: in diapers
text: Look, honey, this ain't my first rodeo, OK? I was doing this when you were in short pants.
text: Dr. Smith said a moment ago that we are scientifically adult but spiritually in short pants.
ref: 1948, Albert Craig Baird, Lester Thonssen, Waldo Warder Braden, Owen Peterson, Representative American Speeches:
glosses: Synonym of in short trousers (“quite young”).
synonyms: word: in short trousers
extra: quite young
Related terms: big-boy pants
big-girl pants
hunkie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hunkies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hunky.
administrative loading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
antonyms: tactical loading
glosses: The loading of troops and equipment so as to make the maximal use of the available space, without regard to tactical considerations such as speed and convenience of unloading.
tactical loading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: combat loading
antonyms: administrative loading
glosses: The loading of troops and equipment in a way that facilitates their tactical operations, rather than merely making the maximal use of the available space.
akshly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Akshly, I've been here for an hour — not that I wanted to disturb you, dear, but I thought if you weren't awfly busy right at the moment since I was...
ref: 1969, Lawrence O'Sullivan, The Miscreant, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, page 187:
text: Akshly ... um yeah. If there's one there, for whatever reason, it'll use it. If not, ya make one.
ref: 2001 February 3, Steve Rindsberg, “Templates”, in microsoft.public.powerpoint:
text: But when you told me about your JR and that harassment case, I knew that name rang a bell, akshly, tooted a bloody great hooter[…]
ref: 30 June 2011, Imogen De La Bere, Understanding Of Jenner Ransfield, Random House, →ISBN, page 94:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of actually.
Ramboesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ramboesque
form: most Ramboesque
Etymology: From Rambo + -esque, after the fictional film protagonist.
Senses: glosses: Fearless, recklessly aggressive, and independent-minded.
telesport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: televised sport
all standing
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: […] and then with a terrific crash the ship brought up all standing, and we were hurled against the bridge screens by the force of the collision.
ref: 2008, Robert C. Stem, Destroyer Battles: Epics of Naval Close Combat:
topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: Brought to a sudden halt.
examples: text: A couple of girls were standing alongside an ambulance drawn up next to the lorry, out of which they had apparently just crawled, having slept all standing, as all had I suppose.
ref: 1917, Edward Percy Stebbing, At the Serbian Front in Macedonia, page 77:
text: No man had aught to cover him save his blankets, in which he slept “all standing,” i.e., with his clothes on.
ref: 1925, Fitzhugh Green, Our Naval Heritage, page 106:
topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: Wearing one's clothes, for example while sleeping.
Coundon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in County Durham, England, east of Bishop Auckland (OS grid ref NZ2329).
glosses: A suburb in north-west Coventry, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP3181).
ackshly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: I've heerd say, by gents who were at Cambridg College, that his love for the young fellers was ackshly affecting to see[…]
ref: 1847, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Mr. Jeames' Sentiments on the Cambridge Election”, in The Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, volume XXI, Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, published 1889, page 222:
text: Ackshly, it already exists, so you can't :-) You'd still need your two nameservers...
ref: 1995 December 30, Marcus Bainbridge, “InterNIC has bounced my .COM registration - Help needed!”, in demon.ip.www:
text: “You write it for me then.” He stopped his pacing. “Ackshly, that's not a bad idea.” “I can't come into the room with you. Exam conditions."
ref: 2017 April 27, Kate Dunn, chapter 24, in The Dragonfly, Aurora Metro Books, →ISBN, page 184:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of actually.
ackshually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: To shaw 'e, neighbours, just the man he is, I may tell 'e that a larnèd piece like Martin Grimbal ackshually comed all the way to Newtake[…]
ref: 1898, Eden Phillpotts, “The Zeal of Sam Bonus”, in Children of the Mist, G. P. Putnam's Sons, published 1889, page 207:
text: Ackshually, Ontario Hydro, per se, no longer exists. The Provincial Crown authority was split up a few years back.
ref: 2005 December 15, Nobody, “Denver light rail to open early”, in misc.transport.urban-transit:
text: Says solemnly, 'ack-shually – that'd be really fun, because, ackshually – there hasn't been anyone to take me for a while'
ref: 2013 April 24, Wendy James, The Steele Diaries, Pan Macmillan Australia, →ISBN, page 185:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of actually.
Arctic smoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of frost smoke.
synonyms: word: frost smoke
Arctic sea smoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of frost smoke.
synonyms: word: frost smoke
grazing fire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Gunfire approximately parallel to the ground and where the centre of the cone of fire does not rise above one metre from the ground.
gumbah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gumbahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of goombah (“close friend or associate, especially among Italian-American men”).
gumbahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gumbah
fokontanies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fokontany
fokonolona
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fokonolonas
form: fokonolona
Etymology: From Malagasy.
Senses: qualifier: Madagascar
glosses: A decision-making community within a geographical territory.
fokonolonas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fokonolona
akshully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: And then the amazin thing about it was, Jess, that the preecher akshully peered to bleeve his own dockturn, and put it into praktiss[…]
ref: 1892, Elijah P. Brown, chapter IV, in Blasts from a Ram's Horn: Meetin Matters on the Ciderville Sirkut - Sayings, Sermons, and Lectures, Eaton & Mains, page 119:
text: Can you believe that Knopf akshully is publishing a book/screenplay on Walter Winchell, the gossiper of the 1930s? They are.
ref: 1989, West Coast Review of Books, Rapport Publishing Company, page 19:
text: They didn't akshully go that way, but Finnen thought they had.” Diffi Maffin frowned, and the many lines of her face crinkled and spread over her features like ripples expanding across a pool.
ref: 2012 December 11, Robin Jarvis, Thorn Ogres of Hagwood, Open Road Media, →ISBN, page 217:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of actually.
ackshully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: But on a What does he do, but goes and buys a washin'-machine and sends it home, and ackshully the lite left me eyes when he tould me that with it[…]
ref: 1874 December 26, “Corney Cluskey's Calamities”, in The Shamrock, volume 12, number 428, Irish National Newspaper and Publishing Company, Limited, page 195:
text: But on a winding road it wasn't no manner o'good, I declare, They was onto, an'over you, before ackshully you knew they was there.
ref: 1914, Charles G. Harper, The Kentish Coast, Good Press, page 129:
text: It was, therefore, a relief when Erin almost light-heartedly announced: “I don't ackshully know the way from here to Marksty-thing-something, er, where is it you ackshully live?”
ref: 2020, George Lambelle, Call Me Stranger, Balboa Press UK, →ISBN, page 82:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of actually.
picter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picters
Senses: examples: text: ‘A, B, C,—you’ve tored my jacket—D, E, F,—you’ve spilt my ’lasses—G, H, I, J, K—you’re a ’tarnal rascal—L, M, N, O, P, Q,—I’ll larn you better manners, you scamp, you!—R, S, T, U, V,—I’ll spile your picter, you old wall-eye!—W, X, Y, Z, ampersand—now I’ll pound your insides out o’ you, you darned nigger!’
ref: 1843, The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, volume XXII, New-York: John Allen, page 123:
text: It looks well in a picter, I've heerd say; but there an't weather in picters, and maybe 'tis fitter for that, than for a place to live in.
ref: 1844 (date written), Charles Dickens, “Third Quarter”, in The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year out and a New Year in, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1845, →OCLC, page 119:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of picture.
naters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nater
picters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picter
kismetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From kismetic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a kismetic manner.
comboes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of combo
self-isolations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of self-isolation
WFHs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of WFH
antitail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antitails
Etymology: From anti- + tail.
Senses: glosses: A spike projecting from a comet's coma which seems to extend towards the Sun.
antitails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antitail
andabatarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more andabatarian
form: most andabatarian
Senses: glosses: Of or like an andabata, a gladiator who fought blindfolded.
glosses: Characterized by flailing, random, misdirected effort.
eugenical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eugenic + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Legislative reform campaigns aimed at restricting foreign immigration, mandating state institutionalization of the biologically unfit, and legalizing eugenical involuntary sterilization.
ref: 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 71:
glosses: Relating to eugenics.
edscottite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ed + Scott + -ite, after Edward R. D. Scott of the University of Hawaii, a pioneering cosmochemist.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An iron carbide mineral with the formula Fe₅C₂.
garbage patch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garbage patches
Senses: glosses: A piece of land used for dumping rubbish.
examples: text: A reconnaissance flight taken in a modified C-130 Hercules aircraft found a vast clump of mainly plastic waste at the northern edge of what is known as the “great Pacific garbage patch”, located between Hawaii and California.
ref: 2016 October 4, Oliver Milman, “‘Great Pacific garbage patch’ far bigger than imagined, aerial survey shows”, in The Guardian:
topics: geography
natural-sciences
oceanography
glosses: A gyre of marine debris particles caused by the effects of ocean currents and increasing plastic pollution by humans.
Derived terms: Great Pacific Garbage Patch
garbage patches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garbage patch
Hinduish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hinduish
form: most Hinduish
Etymology: From Hindu + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of Hindus or Hinduism.
slobberiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From slobbery + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being slobbery.
vote-a-ramas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vote-a-rama
vo-tech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vo-techs
Senses: glosses: A high school offering vocational and technical training.
vo-techs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vo-tech
farm club
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farm clubs
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Synonym of farm team.
synonyms: word: farm team
farm clubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of farm club
slagheap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slagheaps
Senses: examples: text: The smoke-pall of industrial Lancashire hung over the landscape; perhaps slagscape would be a more fitting term. The general prospect was a succession of chimney-stacks, factories, pit-heads, slagheaps, junctions, sidings and coal wagons.
ref: 1949 January and February, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–1”, in Railway Magazine, page 11:
glosses: Alternative form of slag heap.
slagheaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slagheap
one turn kill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one turn kills
form: one-turn kill
Senses: synonyms: OTK
coordinate_terms: one-hit kill
qualifier: collectible card games
glosses: A method of winning in a first round of the game.
farmerhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From farmer + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: I could not see his hands, for the thick gloves he wore, and his face was partially concealed by a red woollen comforter; but his entire appearance and manners tallied with what I had seen of Yorkshire farmerhood.
ref: 1864, George Etell Sargent, The Story of a City Arab, page 313:
glosses: The quality or state of being a farmer.
farmiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of farmy: most farmy
skifted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of skift
skifting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of skift
farmier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of farmy: more farmy
BOLOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BOLO
candy-coated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of candy-coat
candy-coats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of candy-coat
candy-coating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of candy-coat
delimitings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delimiting
delinkings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delinking
delinkage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delinkages
Etymology: From de- + linkage.
Senses: glosses: The process of something being delinked.
delinkages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delinkage
Fomor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fomors
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Synonym of Fomorian.
synonyms: word: Fomorian
Fomors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fomor
fontinas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fontina
foodware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foodwares
Etymology: From food + -ware.
Senses: hyponyms: cookware
serveware
glosses: Utensils for holding, cooking, or serving food.
foodwares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foodware
delinkable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From delink + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being delinked.
relinkable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From relink + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being relinked.
mumblier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of mumbly: more mumbly
mumbliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of mumbly: most mumbly
zhuzhed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of zhuzh
zhuzhing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of zhuzh
apparent temperature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apparent temperatures
Etymology: Invented by Robert Steadman, who published a paper about it in 1984.
Senses: glosses: The temperature perceived by humans, resulting from the combined effects of air temperature, relative humidity and wind speed.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see apparent, temperature.
apparent temperatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apparent temperature
clocks out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of clock out
clocking out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clock out
clocked out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of clock out
Euler's rotation theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707–1783), who proved the theorem in 1775.
Senses: examples: text: Otherwise, this approach will be valid subject to the previous rotation of the axes according to Euler's Rotation Theorem.
ref: 2003, On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2003: CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE, Proceedings, page 136:
text: 2005, JSME International Journal: Mechanical systems, machine elements and manufacturing, Volume 48, Issue 4, Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, page 501,
According to Euler's rotation theorem, any finite rotation transformations may be described using only three angles defined as Euler angles.
text: From Euler's rotation theorem we know that an arbitrary rotation in three dimensions can be parameterized by three independent variables called the Euler angles, each rotating around an orthogonal axis.
ref: 2006, Patricia J. Lee, Quantum Information Processing with Two Trapped Cadmium Ions, University of Michigan, page 40:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A theorem which states that, in 3-dimensional space, any displacement of a rigid body such that some point on it remains fixed is equivalent to a single rotation about some axis that runs through said point.
Related terms: Euler angle
Euler pole
go and play in traffic
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of go play in the traffic.
delightingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more delightingly
form: most delightingly
Etymology: From delighting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to cause delight; delightfully.
sit-up-and-begs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sit-up-and-beg
Bohemish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bohemish
form: most Bohemish
Senses: glosses: Bohemian; from Bohemia
breadings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breading
Anking
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: änʹchǐngʹ
änʹkǐngʹ
Etymology: From the Postal Romanization of the Nanking court dialect Mandarin 安慶 /安庆 (Ānqìng), from before the modern palatalization of [kʰ] to [t͡ɕʰ].
Senses: examples: text: Adjoining the province of Kiangsu is the province of Anhui and in two of its river cities, Wuhu and Anking, we have centers of work.
ref: 1913, Arthur R. Gray, Arthur M. Sherman, The Story of the Church in China, New York: The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, page 220:
text: Plainly it was not the custom for a foreigner to travel down the Yangtze on a small boat, for no sooner was I nicely settled on the deck of a tug about to leave for Anking, ninety miles down the river, than a boatload of Chinese river police pulled alongside and requested to see my passport.
ref: 1922, Herold Speakman, Beyond Shanghai, The Abingdon Press, page 97:
text: But Anhui as a whole was still far from conquered ; the Taipings remained in Anking and only small detachments of loyal troops were available for necessary attacks on a few specific localities.
ref: 1927, William James Hail, Tsêng Kuo Fan And The Taiping Rebellion: With a Short Sketch of His Later Career, Yale University Press, →OCLC, page 188:
text: By autumn 1856, practically all the cities in North Anhwei had been lost to the Imperialists but T’ung-ch’eng, north of Anking.
ref: 1973, Jen Yu-wen, The Taiping Revolutionary Movement, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 214–215:
glosses: Dated form of Anqing.
wikipedia: Mandarin (late imperial lingua franca)
An-ch'ing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 安慶 /安庆 (Ānqìng), Wade–Giles romanization: An¹-chʻing⁴.
Senses: examples: text: " In the year 1460 the king Tu-ma-pan (Tumapel?)† sent envoys to carry tribute. When these envoys went back, and had arrived at An-ch’ing,‡ they got drunk and had a fight with foreign priests who came to bring tribute, and of whom six were killed.
ref: 1887, W. P. Groeneveldt, “Notes on the Malay Archipelago and Malacca”, in Miscellaneous Papers Relating to Indo-China and the Indian Archipelago, volume I, London: Trübner & Co., →OCLC, page 165:
text: But the virile and untiring energies of Yehonala, ably supported by Jung Lu and other faithful followers, soon put a new complexion on affairs, and the situation was further modified in her favour by the success of her nominee, the Commander-in-Chief, T'seng Kuo-fan, in capturing the city of An-ch’ing (in Anhui) from the rebels, a victory that was regarded as of good augury to her cause.
ref: 1910, J. O. P. Bland, E. Backhouse, China Under the Empress Dowager, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., →OCLC, →OL, page 37:
text: In contrast, Chiu-chiang served primarily as an accumulation point for Kiangsi rice and as a stop for commercial transport on the Yangtze river between Wuhan and An-ch’ing.
ref: 1973, Gilbert Rozman, “Regional Variations in Cities”, in Urban Networks in Ch’ing China and Tokugawa Japan, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 235:
text: The men installed in the central provinces by Yüan Shih-k’ai when order was restored—Feng Kuo-chang at Nanking, Tuan Ch’i-jui at An-ch’ing (in Anhwei), Li Chun at Nan-ch’ang—were not slow to demonstrate in turn their own desire to be independent of their protector.
ref: 1996, Jacques Gernet, “Political Developments in the First Half of the Twentieth Century”, in A History of Chinese Civilization, 2nd edition, Cambridge History Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 629:
text: Towns of lesser importance include An-ch'ing, the former provincial capital; Ma-an-shan; and Ta-t'ung.
ref: 1998, The New Encyclopaedia Britannica: Macropaedia: Knowledge in Depth, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 173:
text: Okino was still recuperating from the amputation of a leg when he received a letter from the senior Japanese officer in An-ch’ing (now Anqing), a city on the Yangtze River and the site of the nearest major Japanese base.
ref: 2003, Ulrich Straus, “A Few Very Special POWs”, in The Anguish of Surrender: Japanese POWs of World War II, University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 160:
glosses: Alternative form of Anqing.
wikipedia: Encyclopædia Britannica
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