cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
transsemiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + semiotic.
Senses: examples: text: If, in other words, the achievements of nonaesthetic discourses could be conceived of in terms of a reason detached from language, they would in fact be resistant to aesthetic negativity: as transsemiotic, they would escape aesthetic negativity, since the latter starts with the understanding of semiotically constituted representations, which it interminably defers.
ref: 1999, Christoph Menke, The Sovereignty of Art: Aesthetic Negativity in Adorno and Derrida, →ISBN:
text: The conceptual integration is constituted through the transsemiotic integration of iconic, indexical and symbolic signs to complex symbolic media offers that defy to be classified solely as icons, indices or symbols, but rather establish an emergent semiotic model that encompasses all three aspects of the sign. These transsemiotic semiotic units are designed by cultural codes and refer in multi-faceted intertextual relations to both the integrated semiotic models themselves as well as to sociocultural discourse on the aesthetic implementation of iconic devices.
ref: 2007, Elżbieta Tabakowska, Christina Ljungberg, Olga Fischer, Insistent Images, →ISBN, page 342:
text: However, with a Deleuzian transsemiotic approach the otherwise prescriptive technicalities of cognitivist structuring can be critically engaged, so as to examine the hierarchies and forces implied in those relationships and image-orders.
ref: 2011, Felicity Colman, Deleuze and Cinema: The Film Concepts, →ISBN:
text: He writes that “diagrammaticism brings into play more or less deterritorialized transsemiotic forces, systems of signs, of code, of catalysts and so on, that make it possible in various specific ways to cut across stratifications of every kind” (Guattari 1984, 145). Here the “transsemiotic forces” include mathematical formulae and operations (such as the banking system of Renaissance Venice, Pisa, and Genoa). They are transsemiotic because they are not tethered by the signifying processes that code experience or speaking positions according to given stratifications such as class, gender, nation, and so forth.
ref: 2017, Adrian Mackenzie, Machine Learners: Archaeology of a Data Practice, →ISBN, page 43:
glosses: Having an influence that does not depend on specific signs or signifiers.
rushnik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rushniks
form: rushniki
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rushnyk.
rushniks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rushnik
rushnyk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rushnyks
form: rushnyky
form: rushnik
form: ruchnik
Etymology: From Belarusian рушні́к (rušník), ручні́к (ručník) or Ukrainian рушни́к (rušnýk).
Senses: glosses: A cloth/towel embroidered with symbols and cryptograms of the ancient world, used in Eastern Slavic ceremonies.
rushnyks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rushnyk
nisi prius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin nisi prius (“unless previously”), from the first two words of the old Latin writ summoning the juries to appear at Westminster unless, before the day appointed, the judges had come to the county.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: In the 19th century, those legal actions tried before judges of the King's Bench Division, and in the early 20th century those actions tried at assize by a judge given a commission.
Gustavian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Gustavian
form: most Gustavian
Senses: examples: text: When a Gustavian writer translated or adapted a play, his work was influenced by a variety of factors. If he wrote for Dramatiska teatern, he must take into account the king’s translation policy at which I hinted earlier, a policy which sometimes led to translations being camouflaged as originals.
ref: 1991, Paul Britten Austin, transl., edited by Hans Åstrand, Inger Mattsson, and Gunnar Larsson, Gustavian Opera: An Interdisciplinary Reader in Swedish Opera, Dance, and Theatre, 1771–1809 (Kungliga Musikaliska Akademiens Skriftserie [Royal Academy of Music Book Series]; 66), Stockholm: Kungliga Musikaliska Akademien [Royal Swedish Academy of Music], →ISBN, →ISSN, page 157:
text: A Gustavian clock ticktocked on the carved marble mantelpiece.
ref: 2017, Emily Carpenter, chapter 4, in The Weight of Lies, Seattle, Wash.: Lake Union Publishing, →ISBN, page 23:
glosses: Pertaining to the era of King Gustav III of Sweden, e.g. its furniture style, and to the Gustavians.
Gustavian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gustavians
Senses: glosses: A loyalist supporting King Gustav III of Sweden.
Gustavians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gustavian
motionwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From motion + -work.
Senses: glosses: The moving parts of a mechanical device.
Toledan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Toledan
form: most Toledan
form: Toletan
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to the city of Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.
Derived terms: Toledan Tables
Toledan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Toledans
form: Toletan
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.
Toledans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Toledan
epistolist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epistolists
Senses: glosses: A writer of epistles or letters.
Synonyms: sense: writer of epistles
word: epistolarian
sense: writer of epistles
word: epistolean
epistolists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epistolist
subordinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + ordinal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a taxonomic suborder.
wedgefish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wedgefish
form: wedgefishes
Etymology: From wedge + fish, from its body shape.
Senses: glosses: Any of the rays in the genus Rhynchobatus
glosses: Any member of the two other species in family Rhinidae, known as shark rays.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Rhynchobatus luebberti
word: African wedgefish
taxonomic: Rhynchobatus australiae
word: bottlenose wedgefish
taxonomic: Rhynchobatus springeri
word: broadnose wedgefish
taxonomic: Rhynchobatus palpebratus
word: eyebrow wedgefish
taxonomic: Rhynchobatus mononoke
word: Japanese wedgefish
taxonomic: Rhynchobatus cooki
word: roughnose wedgefish
taxonomic: Rhynchobatus laevis
word: smoothnose wedgefish
taxonomic: Rhynchobatus immaculatus
word: Taiwanese wedgefish
taxonomic: Rhynchobatus djiddensis
word: whitespotted wedgefish
wedgefishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wedgefish
sillograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sillographs
Etymology: From the Silloi (Ancient Greek Σίλλοι (Sílloi)) of Timon of Phlius, circa 280 B.C., + -graph.
Senses: synonyms: sillographer
sillographist
glosses: A satirist.
sillograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sillographs
Senses: glosses: A solid silhouette of (usually a three-quarter view of) an aircraft, to aid in recognizing it.
Bido
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bidos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Bidó. This surname is mostly found in the Dominican Republic.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
sillographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sillograph
exterminative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exterminative
form: most exterminative
Senses: glosses: Serving to exterminate; exterminatory.
trifacials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trifacial
trigeminals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trigeminal
revulsor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revulsors
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A device for applying heat and cold alternately for medical purposes.
revulsors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revulsor
cradle walk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cradle walks
Senses: examples: text: [T]he door opened into a garden, laid out in a cradle-walk, and intervening parterres of roses and other flowers.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: A garden footpath with trees arching over it.
cradle walks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cradle walk
tuism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The theory that all thought is directed to a second person or to one's future self as such.
hypnotistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypnotistic
form: most hypnotistic
Senses: glosses: Relating to hypnotism.
hypnotoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypnotoid
form: most hypnotoid
Senses: glosses: Resembling hypnotism.
entomography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From entomo- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: descriptive entomology
rusul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Arabic رُسُل (rusul)
Senses: glosses: plural of rasul
rasuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rasul
ready to hand
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: close to a person and therefore available for use when necessary
suversed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The key insight was to replace the law of cosines by a law of versed sines or a law of suversed sines, where the suversed sine of an angle is the versed sine of the supplement of that angle.
ref: 2015, Maria Zack, Elaine Landry, Research in History and Philosophy of Mathematics, page 45:
topics: mathematics
sciences
trigonometry
glosses: versed and belonging to the supplement
daxophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daxophones
Etymology: From German Dachs (“badger”) (since it can generate animal sounds) and saxophone.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An electric wooden experimental musical instrument, a kind of friction idiophone.
Derived terms: daxophonist
daxophones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daxophone
codfishery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: codfisheries
Etymology: From cod + fishery.
Senses: glosses: A fishery specifically dealing with cod.
codfisheries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of codfishery
brown creeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brown creepers
Senses: glosses: A North American species of treecreeper, Certhia americana, known for walking up tree trunks looking for insects in the bark.
synonyms: pipipi
New Zealand creeper
New Zealand titmouse
glosses: A passerine bird found only in New Zealand, the pipipi, Mohoua novaeseelandiae.
brown creepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brown creeper
implyings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of implying
Gendlinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Gendlinian
form: most Gendlinian
Etymology: From Gendlin + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Eugene Gendlin (1926–2017), American philosopher and psychotherapist.
heel-and-toe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: An advanced driving technique that involves operating the throttle and brake pedals simultaneously with the right foot, facilitating normal activation of the clutch with the left foot.
synonyms: toe-and-heel
glosses: A mode of walking in which the heel of one foot is put on the ground before the toe of the other leaves it.
examples: text: It is most essential on a passage where the watches are heel and toe, four on, four off, that the watch below be a time of real rest.
ref: 1965, Boating (volume 18, numbers 1-6, page 28)
text: Back when we'd started the heel-and-toe watches, I'd offset the schedule six hours in order to have both squadrons up and ready during the initial attack.
ref: 2011, Phil Geusz, No Victory Won, page 354:
topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: Of a system of watches: comprising equal-length periods on and off watch.
gabbrodolerites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gabbrodolerite
rockwrens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rockwren
Johnsoniana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɒnˌsəʊ.niˈɑːnə/
ipa: /d͡ʒɑnˌsoʊ.niˈɑnə/
ipa: /-ˈænə/
rhymes: -ɑːnə
Etymology: From Johnson + -iana.
Senses: examples: text: He was able to add largely to the existing stores of Johnsoniana, and Dr. Hall, Dr. Harwood, Lord Rokeby, Lord Stowell, Sir James Mackintosh, Sir Walter Scott, and many others, give him valuable memoranda.
ref: 1887 August 5, The Bookseller, page 767:
glosses: The sayings or writings of Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), English writer and lexicographer.
Klein paradox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Klein paradoxes
Etymology: Discovered by physicist Oskar Klein in 1929.
Senses: qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: A surprising result of applying the Dirac equation to the problem of electron scattering from a potential barrier. In non-relativistic quantum mechanics, electron tunnelling into a barrier is observed, with exponential damping. However, if the potential is of the order of the electron mass, V∼mc², the barrier is nearly transparent; moreover, as the potential approaches infinity, the reflection diminishes and the electron is always transmitted.
wikipedia: Oskar Klein
Related terms: Klein tunnelling
Klein tunneling
Klein zone
Klein paradoxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Klein paradox
beenah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beena
Senses: glosses: An early form of marriage in Sri Lanka, where the man went to live with his wife's family as a relatively unimportant family member.
womanslaughter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woman-slaughter
Senses: glosses: Synonym of femicide.
synonyms: word: femicide
heather ale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heather ales
Senses: glosses: An alcoholic drink traditionally brewed in Scotland from the bells of heather.
heather ales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heather ale
Mileikowski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Mileikowsky.
Mileikowsky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mileikowski
Etymology: From Russian Милейко́вский (Milejkóvskij), from the name of several villages in Russia, Belarus and Poland.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Russian surname Милейко́вский (Milejkóvskij).
-scopic
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From -scope + -ic.
Etymology tree
English -scope
English -ic
English -scopic
Senses: glosses: Forming adjectives relating to observation or viewing.
within a bull's roar
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: 2019, Kevin Rudd, Think the Commonwealth can save Brexit Britain? That’s utter delusion in the Guardian
Much as any Australian, Canadian and New Zealand governments of whichever persuasion would do whatever they could to frame new free-trade agreements with the UK, the bottom line is that 65 million of us do not come within a bull’s roar of Britain’s adjacent market of 450 million Europeans.
text: The team never came within a bull's roar of winning.
glosses: Anywhere near (a place or target).
raw_tags: in negative constructions
maritality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From marital + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The marital state; being married.
glosses: Fondness of a wife for her husband.
squantums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squantum
Eustaquio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Eustaquios
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Eustaquio; this surname is predominantly found in the Philippines.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Zadracarta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Zadracarta, from Ancient Greek Ζαδρακάρτα (Zadrakárta), from Old Iranian. Compare Persian زرد (zard, “yellow”), Persian ساری (sâri, “Sari”), a city known for its abundant citrus fruits located in former Hyrcania, and Middle Persian 𐭪𐭫𐭲 (-kirt, -gird), a suffix forming city names.
Senses: glosses: an Achaemenid city in Hyrcania
Parthyene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: Seleucid period
glosses: the region Parthia
walk-on girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌwɔːk ɒn ˈɡɜːl/
ipa: /ˌwɔk ɑn ˈɡɝl/
ipa: /ˌwɑk ɑn ˈɡɝl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l
Forms: form: walk-on girls
Senses: examples: text: Again anticipating opportunity, Tommy Cox jets to Alaska and books Sarah Palin to be a walk-on girl at the 2009 Desert Classic final.
ref: 2010, Paul Siegel, chapter 7, in 2008: The Year in Darts, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 39:
text: His then girlfriend, Bernice Grey was a minor model turned darts walk-on girl. Jack's checklist-life could not have got much better compared to his childhood ambitions.
ref: 2012, Mark Wollacott, “Blank Jack (Teaser)”, in 108 Breaths, Circencester, Gloustershire: Wyrd Works, →ISBN, page 112:
text: The rah-rah girls dancing onstage were shaking their thing as Phil wobbled his way down the runway flanked by a Dutch walk-on girl dressed like a Thunderbirds pilot, all enhancements bouncing to the Eurobeat, as the surgeon intended. Then it was Mike's turn. His girl was dressed in a lime-green minidress and fat gold rope chain (subconsciously channelling Run DMC), which wasn't the only plastic on show. Neither walk-on girls I recognise. They must be the continental ones.
ref: 2017, King Adz, “Continental Darts”, in Fear and Loathing on the Oche: A Gonzo Journey through the World of Championship Darts, London: Yellow Jersey Press, →ISBN:
text: Flanked by a minder and a walk-on girl he strode down the walkway, hands in prayer, eyes turned heavenward.
ref: 2017, Matthew E. Pointon, “Holy Mass”, in Short Stories Volume 2 (2006–2010), [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu, →ISBN, page 179:
text: Walk-on girls will no longer be used by the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) after talks with broadcasters. The long-established practice of women escorting male players to the stage will be abandoned, starting with this weekend's Masters in Milton Keynes. […] But walk-on girl Charlotte Wood, who says darts accounts for 60 per cent of her income, says her rights "are being taken away". […] The Women's Sport Trust tweeted: "We applaud the Professional Darts Corporation moving with the times and deciding to no longer use walk-on-girls. Motor racing, boxing and cycling … your move."
ref: 2018 January 27, “Darts: PDC to Scrap Walk-on Girls after Broadcaster Talks”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2018:
topics: darts
games
glosses: A woman who escorts a player to the stage at a darts event.
wikipedia: 2017 German Darts Grand Prix
Coordinate terms: topics: motor-racing
racing
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: brolly dolly
topics: motor-racing
racing
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: grid girl
topics: motor-racing
racing
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: pit babe
topics: motor-racing
racing
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: race queen
Howland Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for brothers George and Matthew Howland, who were early investors in guano mining on the island.
Senses: examples: text: By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Act of June 25, 1910, Ch. 421, 36 Stat. 847, as amended by the Act of August 24, 1912, ch. 369, 37 Stat. 497, and as President of the United States, it is ordered that Jarvis Island located in the Pacific Ocean approximately in latitude 0°22'30" S. and longitude 160°01' W. from Greenwich; Baker Island located in the Pacific Ocean approximately in latitude 0°13'30" N. and longitude 176°33' W. from Greenwich; and Howland Island located in the Pacific Ocean approximately in latitude 0°49' N. and longitude 176°43' W. from Greenwich, as indicated upon the diagram hereto attached and made a part of this order, be, and they are hereby, reserved, set aside, and placed under the control and jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior for administrative purposes.
ref: 1936 May 13, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order 7368—Placing Certain Islands in the Pacific Ocean Under the Control and Jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior, archived from the original on 09 Feb 2023:
glosses: An uninhabited coral island located just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean, about 1,700 nautical miles (3,100 km) southwest of Honolulu. It is an unincorporated, unorganized territory of the United States.
Taranaki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: A region in western North Island, New Zealand.
glosses: A stratovolcano in the region.
Manawatu-Wanganui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Manawatū-Whanganui
Etymology: From two separate Maori names.
Senses: glosses: A region in southern North Island, New Zealand.
New Plymouth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Taranaki, North Island, New Zealand.
glosses: A city in Idaho.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Brown Township, Vinton County, Ohio, named after Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Masterton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large town in the Wellington region, North Island, New Zealand.
glosses: A territorial authority in Wellington region which includes the town, known as Masterton District.
glosses: A surname.
Wairarapa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌwaɪrəˈræpə/
Senses: glosses: A lake in southern North Island, New Zealand.
glosses: A geographical region in the south-east of the North Island, New Zealand.
Derived terms: South Wairarapa
Tongariro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A volcano in Ruapehu district, Manawatū-Whanganui region, in the centre of the North Island of New Zealand.
glosses: A river in the North Island, New Zealand, which flows into Lake Taupo.
Taupo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: touʹpō
ipa: /ˈtaʊpəʊ/
enpr: touʹpō
ipa: /ˈtaʊpoʊ/
enpr: touʹpō
enpr: tōʹpô
ipa: /ˈtæopɐʉ/
ipa: /ˈtɐʉpoː/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: Taupō
Etymology: From a shortening of Maori Taupō-nui-a-Tia (“Lake Taupo”, literally “The great cloak of Tia”).
Senses: glosses: The largest lake in New Zealand, located in Waikato region on the North Island.
glosses: A town in Waikato, New Zealand, on the shore of the lake.
Tauranga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaʉ.ra.ŋa/
ipa: /ˈtæʊ.ɹɒŋ.a/
Etymology: From Maori Tauranga.
Senses: glosses: A city in the northwest corner of the Bay of Plenty region, on the north coast of the North Island, New Zealand.
acherontic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Acherontic.
Parthava
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former empire in Central Asia and West Asia, ruled by dynasts from Parthia; the Parthian Empire; the Arsacid Empire
duku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dukus
Senses: glosses: Synonym of langsat (“the tree”).
synonyms: word: langsat
extra: the tree
glosses: Synonym of langsat (“the fruit”).
synonyms: word: langsat
extra: the fruit
back-rapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back-rappers
Senses: examples: text: Very few houses were lighted up, in consequence of a protest of the Insurance Companies. But the people contented themselves with parading the streets, and with seeing what was to be seen. As on the previous evening, the juvenile portion of the population indulged themselves ad libitum in the use of crackers, back-rappers, serpents, and squibs. How so many got into Newfoundland is a problem no one I have questioned is able to solve.
ref: 1860 July 24, Robert Cellem, Visit of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to the British North American Provinces and United States in the Year 1860, Toronto: Henry Rowsell, published 1861, page 39:
text: How I used to plague him! Once I pinned a back-rapper to his coat-tail! Lord, what a fiendly young urchin and revolting pest I must have been!
ref: 1945, Jeffery Farnol, The Piping Times:
glosses: Alternative form of backarapper.
back-rappers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back-rapper
Tworek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tworeks
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Tworek.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
chute house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃuːt haʊs/
Forms: form: chute houses
form: chute-house
Etymology: From chute + house.
Senses: glosses: A building that covers a chute and the material being moved on it, particularly coal
red flag warning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red flag warnings
Senses: examples: text: During red flag warnings, firefighting agencies will alter their staffing and equipment resources dramatically to accommodate the increased forecast risk.
ref: 2014, Jeffery Sims, The No-Nonsense Guide to Heat Wave, Drought, & Hot Weather Safety:
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
synonyms: Red Flag
glosses: A warning issued by the United States National Weather Service that conditions are ideal for wildfires.
red flag warnings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red flag warning
krimmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: krimmers
Senses: examples: text: The knit constructions include the knit krimmers, the brushed knit fur prints, and knit mouton.
ref: 1950, Fabric Facts, number 1, page 12:
text: There are a number of cloths which are made with extra filling of a loopy, bouclé, or krimmer novelty yarn.
ref: 2009, NPCS Board of Consultants & Engineers, Woollen Spinning, Weaving, Knitting, Dyeing, Bleaching and Printing Technology Handbook, page 209:
glosses: Synonym of astrakhan.
synonyms: word: astrakhan
esshole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: essholes
Senses: examples: text: They 'ad twelve sons, and there was one son called Ashypelt. He was the youngest son, and they didn't never think but very little o' Ashypelt, as 'ee was allus used to be i' the esshole under the fire, an' the brothers used to spit on 'im and laugh at 'im an' make fun of 'im an' that.
ref: 1899, Francis Hindes Groome, “Ashypelt”, in Gypsy Folk-Tales, London: Hurst and Blackett, page 235:
glosses: Alternative spelling of asshole (“receptacle for ash”).
essholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of esshole
unstabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unstability
defreaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of defreak
defreaks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of defreak
manyhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English *manyhode (found only as manyhede, manihede), equivalent to many + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: Then shalt thou rede the blessed law of the singleness that dieth for the more holy round of manyhood, to thrive, and speechless say by what we be: — […]
ref: 1907, William Norman Guthrie, The City of St. Francis: Being Three California Poems, page 27:
text: Let it be that state of manyhood bound and loathing.
ref: 1913, Equinox: The Review of Scientific Illuminism:
glosses: The state or condition of being many; multiplicity; abundance
Synonyms: sense: state or condition of being many
word: multeity
word: multipleness
word: manyness
arrows of time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arrow of time
mutual inductances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mutual inductance
misrank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misranks
form: misranking
form: misranked
form: misranked
Etymology: From mis- + rank.
Senses: examples: text: All alternative methods misrank these proposals, but this does not mean that all of them lead to serious error.
ref: 2015, Martin B. Soloman Jr., Investment Decisions in Small Business, page 43:
glosses: To rank wrongly or incorrectly
misranked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misrank
misranking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misrank
misranks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misrank
butchier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of butchy: more butchy
butchiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of butchy: most butchy
meming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of meme
memed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of meme
e-address
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-addresses
Etymology: From e- + address.
Senses: examples: text: I've mailed a copy of this to uucpmap and both #E addresses. (I don't have a clean path to the AT&T gandalf; I'm trying ihnp4.)
ref: 1985 February 28, Mark Brader, “Duplicate site name "gandalf"”, in net.news.config (Usenet), retrieved 04 Feb 2018, message-ID <lsuc.455>:
text: #E-Address pupthy!wrs
ref: 1986 January 19, W R Somsky, “pupthy - princeton university physics theory”, in net.news.newsite (Usenet), retrieved 04 Feb 2018, message-ID <22@pupthy.UUCP>:
text: To the five who were not selected I have sent a list of each other's names and e-addresses so that they can more easily solicit two more players and a GM.
ref: 1986 February 5, Matt Crawford, “Another diplomacy game begins”, in net.games.pbm (Usenet), retrieved 04 Feb 2018, message-ID <1157@oddjob.UUCP>:
text: e-address: ...!topaz!gaynor
ref: 1986 August 31, Andy Gaynor, “Re: Build a Better MouseTrap”, in talk.bizarre (Usenet), retrieved 04 Feb 2018, message-ID <topaz.5638>:
text: [Subject: Valerie Polichar's e-address] I tried to mail you a letter, but I couldn't figure out how to get it to you. It got returned.
ref: 1986 September 11, Anand Sivaramakrishnan, “Valerie Polichar's e-address”, in net.poems (Usenet), retrieved 04 Feb 2018, message-ID <1246@utastro.UUCP>:
glosses: E-mail address.
e-addresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-address
EGOT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Initialism, coined by actor Philip Michael Thomas.
Senses: examples: text: Billions of dollars; millions of followers; EGOT status; a household name across the world.
ref: 2021, Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl, Bloomsbury, page 180:
glosses: Four major annual US entertainment awards: the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony.
chuck up the sponge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chucks up the sponge
form: chucking up the sponge
form: chucked up the sponge
form: chucked up the sponge
Senses: examples: text: The fighting spirit of the German army is supplied by the officer and N. C. O. It has been proved that when a German soldier sees his bayonet his fighting value is finished — he "chucks up the sponge."
ref: 1916, Pamphlets on the European War - Volume 26, page 10:
text: A bombing attack along a trench can only be met by a bomb defence. The bayonet is practically neglected by the Bosche, except when our men compel him to use it. He is not much good with it, and if his bomb defence fails him, usually chucks up the sponge.
ref: 1918, Dixhuit, Safety in Trench Warfare for Yourself & Your Men:
text: The moment Hindenburg chucks up the sponge off goes William to Chelsea Hospital, there to spend the autumn of his days pitching the yarn and displaying his honourable scars gained in many a bloody battle in the mule lines.
ref: 1919, Crosbie Garstin, The Mud Larks, page 136:
text: For my part, I think the best thing to do is to chuck up the sponge at once; the company is practically bankrupt now, and the longer we waits the worser it will be.
ref: 1962, Robert Tressell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, →ISBN, page 322:
text: July 1960: Oxford City Council reverses all reversals, chucks up the sponge, and asks Minister for "inquiry at large".
ref: 1974, Jennifer Sherwood, Nikolaus Pevsner, Oxfordshire, page 72:
glosses: To quit; to give up; to admit defeat.
e-signature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-signatures
Etymology: From e- + signature.
Senses: synonyms: electronic signature
glosses: Data used by a signatory to sign something electronically. It may involve cryptography or may simply be a name typed into a document.
Related terms: digital signature
wet signature
e-signatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-signature
ESOP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: Aesop
Forms: form: ESOPs
Senses: examples: text: Another factor is that ESOPs had a rocky beginning, which for a while made them appear sketchy. A few widely publicized companies set up ESOPs purely as defenses against hostile takeovers.
ref: 2016 September 8, John Case, “The Life-Changing Magic of Turning Employees Into Shareholders”, in The Atlantic:
topics: business
glosses: Acronym of Employee Stock Ownership Plan.
glosses: a company that implements such a plan
ESOP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: Aesop
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: Initialism of European Symposium on Programming.
ESOPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ESOP
PIPEDA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Acronym of Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act.
Ferrers diagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ferrers diagrams
Etymology: Named after Norman Macleod Ferrers.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A diagram that shows the possible partitions of a positive integer as rows of dots.
Coordinate terms: Young diagram
Ferrers diagrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ferrers diagram
sunomono
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 酢の物 (sunomono).
Senses: glosses: A traditional Japanese salad of vegetables dressed with vinegar.
namasu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 膾 (namasu).
Senses: glosses: A Japanese dish consisting of thinly sliced uncooked vegetables and meat or seafood, marinated in rice vinegar.
tommytoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tommytoes
Senses: glosses: tomato
tommytoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tommytoe
balance bike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balance bikes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of balance bicycle
synonyms: word: balance bicycle
balance bicycles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balance bicycle
balance bikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balance bike
breakfast club
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breakfast clubs
Senses: topics: education
glosses: A facility to provide children with a morning meal at school, before classes.
breakfast clubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breakfast club
rainbow baby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rainbow babies
Etymology: In reference to a rainbow appearing after bad weather.
Senses: glosses: A baby conceived after a miscarriage or other loss of a baby.
rainbow babies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rainbow baby
tomorrowness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tomorrow + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being tomorrow, or in the future generally.
E-head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: E-heads
Etymology: From E + -head.
Senses: glosses: A recreational user of the drug MDMA or ecstasy.
E-heads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of E-head
bobowler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bobowlers
Senses: qualifier: Black Country
glosses: A large moth.
bobowlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bobowler
Batangas knives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Batangas knife
cataleptoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Resembling catalepsy.
posaune
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: posaunes
Etymology: From German Posaune. Doublet of buccina and buisine.
Senses: glosses: trombone
chucks up the sponge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chuck up the sponge
posaunes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of posaune
chucking up the sponge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chuck up the sponge
chucked up the sponge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chuck up the sponge
manton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mantons
Etymology: From Spanish mantón.
Senses: glosses: A shawl or wrap.
Related terms: mantle
colachon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colachons
Senses: examples: text: The colachon is an instrument with a body like the lute and a very long neck; its total length is about 1 ½ metres.
ref: 1913, E. Nugues, H. C. Pouget, C. H. Martin, Practical Manual for the Piano and Harmonium Tuner:
text: The colachon was sometimes tuned a fourth lower than the six-course mandora.
ref: 2003, Don Michael Randel, The Harvard Dictionary of Music, →ISBN, page 484:
text: Jan van Kessel lived until 1679 and at that time, long-necked lute types appeared – the colachon and gallichon – and there are many pictures of long-necked lute types that do not correspond with the contemporary 'normal lutes.”
ref: 2016, Jan W.J. Burgers, Tim Crawford, Matthew Spring, The Lute in the Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of colascione.
colachons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colachon
danfo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: danfos
Etymology: From Yoruba dáńfó.
Senses: examples: text: "You crazy? Look where you day go, you bloody fool!" the man screamed at me as he shoved me into the path of a danfo which barely missed me. The bus conductor, who was standing on the steps of the danfo, leaned over, struck me on the side of my head, and gave me another shove that sent me back on the sidewalk into a final collision course with yet another pedestrian.
ref: 2010, Love P. Maya, Off The Village Mat, →ISBN, page 75:
text: Daring the consequence and to maintain his earlier position ahead of Adekunle, the danfo driver could have gone ahead to attempt hitting Adekunle's car. Danfo bus drivers often behaved that way.
ref: 2011, Emeke Obi, Bond of Three, →ISBN, page 123:
text: Danfo were classier and more expensive than bolekaja. Almost every danfo was painted yellow and on the side of the driver's door, in black, was “driver and 2 passengers.”
ref: 2015, Tade Thompson, Making Wolf, →ISBN:
text: The bus ride to the city was another three hours. It would likely have just been two had not the danfo broken down twice.
ref: 2016, Leopoldo Gout, Genius: The Game, →ISBN, page 82:
text: Ogboh has also focused critical attention on the familiar avatars of Lagos in popular imagination as visual signifiers that also drive its soundscapes, such as the ubiquitous yellow commercial kombi buses, popularly called danfo. The typical danfo is a VW transporter bus, painted in cadmium yellow with two black stripes.
ref: 2017, Arnd Schneider, Alternative Art and Anthropology: Global Encounters, →ISBN, page 39:
glosses: Synonym of shared taxi, especially a minibus operated as a shared taxi.
synonyms: word: shared taxi
extra: especially a minibus operated as a shared taxi
danfos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of danfo
unthrive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unthrives
form: unthriving
form: unthrived
form: unthrove
form: unthrived
form: unthrove
form: unthriven
Etymology: From Middle English unthryven, equivalent to un- + thrive.
Senses: examples: text: For upon trust of Calle's promise, we may soon unthrive; […]
ref: 1967, John Fenn, Laura Archer-Hind, The Paston letters, volume 2, page 25:
glosses: To be unsuccessful
unappoint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unappoints
form: unappointing
form: unappointed
form: unappointed
Etymology: From un- + appoint.
Senses: examples: text: "If Mazzilli appointed him," Costa e Silva retorted, "he is going to unappoint him."
ref: 1991, John W. F. Dulles, Carlos Lacerda, Brazilian Crusader: The years 1960-1977, page 232:
glosses: To undo or reverse an appointment
outfielding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From outfield + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Statistically, outfielding is tougher to judge than infielding. Some outfielders have gone entire seasons without committing errors but haven't been particularly useful.
ref: 1987, Jim Kaplan, Playing the Field, page 123:
glosses: The role of a baseball player in the outfield.
smartman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smartmen
Etymology: From smart + men.
Senses: examples: text: The steelband movement has always had an attraction for "smartmen" — men who saw the movement as something to be exploited. These smartmen came in all guises, as the following story illustrates.
ref: 1991, George Goddard, Forty years in the steelbands, 1939-1979, page 120:
glosses: A conman.
smartmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smartman
wirebender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wirebenders
Etymology: From wire + bender.
Senses: examples: text: Benches and tables are set up for the workers headed by professional assistants like the wirebenders on whose expertise so much of the finery of Carnival costumes depend.
ref: 1992, Adrian Curtis Bird, Trinidad sweet: the people, their culture, their island, page 41:
glosses: An artisan responsible for shaping the wire structures upon which carnival costumes are created.
wirebenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wirebender
examination paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: examination papers
Senses: glosses: An exam paper.
grid paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grid papers
Senses: synonyms: graph paper
glosses: Sheets of paper with an outline grid of lines used for plotting graphs.
chromatography paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromatography papers
Senses: glosses: Absorbent paper used to soak up colours so that they separate out into their various components.
rudening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ruden
rudened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ruden
clothes stand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clothes stands
Senses: glosses: A simple upright piece of furniture, such as a pole with pegs, for hanging clothes on.
pro-build
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: builds
form: building
form: built
form: built
Senses: examples: text: "We can't just rebuild after every disaster," Jacob continued. "We need to pro-build, with a future of climate change in mind.
ref: 2013, The New Yorker:
glosses: To build prior to necessity.
jackpotted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jackpot
concordance cosmology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concordance cosmologies
Senses: examples: text: We show that the concordance cosmology can be resurrected using our phenomenological approach and our best-fitting model is in agreement with the PSCz observations.
ref: 2001, Martin Hirsch, Georg G. Raffelt, José Wagner Furtado Valle, editors, Frontiers in Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference, North-Holland, page 23:
text: The trouble, however, is that we do not have today a single viable alternative to the concordance cosmology.
ref: 2009, M. D'Onofrio, C. Burigana, “4: From Galileo to Modern Cosmology and Alternative Paradigms”, in Mauro D'Onofrio, Carlo Burigana, editors, Questions of Modern Cosmology: Galileo's Legacy, Springer, page 328:
text: The list of possible inflationary parameters that could enter future concordance cosmologies makes it clear[…].
ref: 2009, Scott Dodelson, Daniel Baumann, Asantha R. Cooray, Joanna Dunkley, Aurelien Fraisse, Mark G. Jackson, editors, CMB Polarization Workshop: Theory and Foregrounds : CMBPol Mission Concept Study, page 20:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A model of the universe that assumes a minimum number of parameters, especially the Lambda-CDM model.
concordance cosmologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concordance cosmology
befleck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈflɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: beflecks
form: beflecking
form: beflecked
form: beflecked
Etymology: From be- + fleck.
Senses: examples: text: The world is filled with changeful light,
 The clouds befleck the sky,
And o’er the fields, to harvest white,
 The trooping shadows fly.
ref: 1854, Jonathan Freke Slingsby, “A Slingsby Wedding, and the Doings Thereat”, in The Dublin University Magazine, A Literary and Political Journal, volume 44:
text: I am not of those Fairies seen
Tripping by moonlight on the green,
Whose dewdrop bumpers, nightly poured,
Befleck the mushroom’s virgin board,
[…]
ref: 1867, James Russell Lowell, “Hob Gobbling’s Song”, in Our Young Folks, volume 3:
text: Soon the heaps of rags become transformed into dark shapeless masses, patches of black which befleck the rosy gray of the enchanted city; but ever and anon a cough or a groan may be heard, and sometimes a leg or an arm protrudes from the ragged heap and stretches itself quiveringly into the air.
ref: 1903, Pierre Loti, India:
text: The buttercups befleck the hills with gold,
The bluejay calls, the lusty robin sings;
I look across the landscape and, behold!
The birds have brought the Southland on their wings.
ref: 1906, Nixon Waterman, “The Year’s Procession”, in Appleton’s Magazine, volume 8:
glosses: to cover with small spots or flecks
beflecks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of befleck
beflecking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of befleck
beflecked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of befleck
pignorates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pignorate
pignorating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pignorate
pignorated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pignorate
pignerates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pignerate
pignerating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pignerate
pignerated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pignerate
renewalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈnuəlɪzəm/
ipa: /ɹɪˈnjuːəlɪzəm/
Forms: form: Renewalism
Etymology: From renewal + -ism.
Senses: glosses: the broader current within Christianity that emphasizes the Holy Spirit, including the charismatic and Pentecostal movements
glosses: a movement within Islam that considers current Islamic society corrupted and calls for a return to what are perceived as its original religious practices and precepts through broad social movements
glucoronide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of glucuronide.
apepsias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apepsia