cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
guineafowls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guineafowl
guinea fowls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guinea fowl
typosquatting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of typo + cybersquatting.
Senses: examples: text: It's a technique, a sort of "typosquatting," that Maly has used repeatedly. A Web site called "Jobonline.cz" was registered last March and two months later Maly bought jobsonline.cz.
ref: 2000 April 4, ICB Toll Free News, “TYPO-SQUATTING IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC”, in Toll Free 800, Domain Name, and ENUM Industry News and Information, archived from the original on 17 Jan 2004:
text: The decline in traditional, direct cybersquatting was accompanied by a rise in a form of indirect cybersquatting known as typosquatting. A typosquatter attempts to cash in on the traffic generated by high-volume Web sites.
ref: 2014, Aaron Schwabach, Internet and the Law: Technology, Society, and Compromises, 2nd edition, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 59:
glosses: A form of cybersquatting that involves the registration of domain names likely to be mistyped by users.
Derived terms: typosquat
typosquatter
ctor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ctors
Senses: examples: text: There is one important caveat with ctor-initializers: They initialize data members in the order that they appear in the class definition, not their order in the ctor-initializer.
ref: 2014, Marc Gregoire, Professional C++, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 162:
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: Abbreviation of constructor.
Related terms: dtor
werefox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweə.fɒks/
ipa: /ˈweəɹ.fɑks/
Forms: form: werefoxes
Etymology: From were- + fox.
Senses: examples: text: Lycanthropy also was common, in early times at least, and belief in werewolves and werefoxes existed among all tribe.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 183:
topics: fantasy
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A person who transforms into a fox or foxlike form.
nativisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From native + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nativization.
wolflike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wolflike
form: most wolflike
Etymology: From wolf + -like.
Senses: examples: text: And when, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolflike, it was his ancestors, dead and dust, pointing nose at star and howling down through the centuries through him.
ref: 1903 July, Jack London, “The Law of Club and Fang”, in The Call of the Wild, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 62:
glosses: Wolfish (all senses); lupine.
foxlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more foxlike
form: most foxlike
Etymology: From fox + -like.
Senses: examples: text: “Nynaeve did not have to see her face to know it had large blue eyes and a foxlike shape.."
ref: 1992, Robert Jordan, “Chapter 52: Need”, in The Shadow Rising (The Wheel of Time; 4), London: Orbit Books, published 2021, →ISBN, page 849:
antonyms: unfoxlike
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a fox.
Derived terms: unfoxlike
unirrigated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + irrigated.
Senses: glosses: Not irrigated.
uncurse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncurses
form: uncursing
form: uncursed
form: uncursed
Etymology: From un- + curse.
Senses: glosses: To remove a curse from.
undemonstrable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + demonstrable.
Senses: glosses: Not demonstrable.
unreasoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + reasoned.
Senses: glosses: Not reasoned; irrational.
unreferenced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + referenced.
Senses: glosses: Not referenced.
unpolite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpolite
form: most unpolite
Etymology: From un- + polite. Compare earlier unpolished.
Senses: glosses: Unsophisticated, not refined; coarse, uncultured.
examples: text: [H]e has all along, by his threatening and unpolite behaviour to my friends, and whenever he ſpeaks of them, given me reaſon to conclude, that there is more malice to them, than regard to me, in his perſeverance.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LVII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume II, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 66:
glosses: Lacking in good manners; impolite, discourteous.
undenominational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + denominational.
Senses: glosses: Nondenominational: not denominational, used e.g. of a church.
uninitialised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + initialised.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of uninitialized.
uninitialized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + initialized.
Senses: glosses: Not initialized.
enragement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enragements
Etymology: From enrage + -ment.
Senses: glosses: Rage.
tail lift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tail lifts
Senses: glosses: A mechanical device permanently fitted to the back of a vehicle, designed to facilitate the transfer of goods from ground level onto the vehicle.
idealise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: idealises
form: idealising
form: idealised
form: idealised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of idealize.
Derived terms: unidealise
zina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic زِنَى (zinā).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: adultery, fornication
pathline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pathlines
Etymology: From path + line.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The path taken by an individual fluid particle over a given time period.
qorma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qormas
Senses: examples: text: "Ai Manto Sahib, who uses turmeric in qorma?" Safia asked in horror. And he launched into an argument with her.
ref: 2001, ʻIṣmat Cug̲h̲tāʼī, Tahira Naqvi, My friend, my enemy: essays, reminiscences, portraits:
text: The two main curries served in Rampur were the qaliya and the qorma.
ref: 2001, Jahanara Habibullah, Remembrance of Days Past, page 90:
text: She glanced quickly at the thick meat qorma curry simmering quietly on the other stove and then rushed to the phone.
ref: 2005, Shaila Abdullah, Beyond the Cayenne Wall:
glosses: Alternative spelling of korma.
jack fruit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jack fruits
form: jack fruit
Senses: examples: text: At the time of our inspection, eight months and one growing season later, we found that most jack fruit, many kapok trees, and some guava trees (all dicotyledons) had died in the interim. […] These farmers’ then current crops of vegetables of numerous kinds, of pineapples, of guavas, of jack fruit, of papayas, and of many, many more, were simply destroyed.
ref: 1972, Arthur H. Westing, “Herbicidal Damage to Cambodia”, in Harvest of Death: Chemical Warfare in Vietnam and Cambodia, New York, N.Y.: Free Press; London: Collier-Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, part II (Herbicides), pages 185 and 194:
glosses: Alternative spelling of jackfruit.
jalapenos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jalapeno
joke book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: joke books
Senses: glosses: A book containing a collection of jokes.
jillstrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jillstraps
Etymology: By humorous analogy with jockstrap, Jock and Jill being male and female names respectively.
Senses: glosses: A pelvic protector, a woman's equivalent of a man's jockstrap.
Synonyms: jill
jurywoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jurywomen
Etymology: From jury + woman.
Senses: glosses: A female juror.
ring sting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Irritation of the anus as a result of eating spicy food.
chef de partie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chefs de partie
Etymology: From French chef de partie.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: sous-chef, subchef, underchef, subcook, undercook (all sometimes synonymous)
text: Various of his clean-cut, youthful chefs de partie, cast as if from a late 2000s Lanvin menswear show, move around in purposeful silence prepping their sections, with quick, hesitant moves, as they reprioritise their mental to-do lists.
ref: 2020, Paul Mendez, Rainbow Milk, Dialogue Books (2021), page 263:
synonyms: station chef
line cook
hypernyms: chef#Noun
cook#Noun
coordinate_terms: head chef
chief cook and bottle washer
glosses: A chef in charge of a particular area of production in the kitchen, such as fish or roast meats.
Related terms: chief of party
Quant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Quants
Etymology: Nickname from Middle English cwointe (“intelligent, smart, cunning”), the origin of quaint.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Middle English.
chili sin carne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Spanish chili sin carne (“chili without meat”), based on chili con carne (“chili with meat”).
Senses: synonyms: chili non carne
glosses: A vegetarian version of chili con carne.
ruralite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ruralites
Etymology: From rural + -ite.
Senses: synonyms: country dweller
antonyms: urbanite
glosses: A person who lives in the country.
NNTP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Network News Transfer Protocol, a standard mechanism for transferring messages between a server and a newsreader program.
oldbie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oldbies
Etymology: From old + -bie, coined as an antonym for newbie.
Senses: antonyms: newbie
hyponyms: dino
coordinate_terms: midbie
glosses: An old-timer, a person with experience.
Synonyms: english: associated with 4chan subculture
translation: associated with 4chan subculture
word: oldfag
word: oldhead
shellfisherman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shellfishermen
Etymology: From shell + fisherman.
Senses: glosses: A person who attempts to catch shellfish.
glosses: A person whose profession is catching shellfish.
dro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 'dro
Etymology: Clipping of hydroponic.
Senses: examples: text: They upset for sho', cause they think they know / That they catching me with plenty of the drank and dro
ref: 2005, Chamillionaire (featuring Krayzie Bone), "Ridin'", The Sound of Revenge
text: Premro, full of that dro.
ref: 2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG:
text: The 'Licious Lovers / Known for the closed lips / Letting the 'dro drift/whole click, boat trips/Pocono slope shit / Running our own shit
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, unnumbered page:
glosses: Marijuana grown hydroponically.
UCE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of unsolicited commercial email; spam.
blogroll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blogrolls
Etymology: Blend of blog + logroll, or as back-formation from blogrolling.
Senses: glosses: A blogger's list of hyperlinks to other blogs that he/she recommends.
provisionality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From provisional + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Deliberative democracy accepts the provisionality of its principles but rejects the provisionality of moral reasoning itself as a way of assessing politics.
ref: 2003, James S. Fishkin, Peter Laslett, Debating Deliberative Democracy, Blackwell Publishing, page 46:
glosses: The quality of being provisional or temporary.
link exchange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: link exchanges
Senses: hyponyms: banner exchange
glosses: A scheme of reciprocal linking whereby two or more websites link to one another to increase traffic.
user group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: user groups
form: usergroup
Senses: examples: text: Members of the Accounting user group can print financial reports.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A set of users grouped together on a system for administrative purposes.
examples: text: I joined a local Linux user group.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A community of users of a particular machine, operating system, etc.
favelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: favelets
Etymology: From fave + -let as abbreviation of favorite (the term used in the Internet Explorer browser for a bookmark).
Senses: glosses: A bookmarklet.
wikipedia: Internet Explorer
hostee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hostees
Etymology: From host + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: My main domain (currently) is www.lovesuicide.com and you can see just by looking there's a LOT of stuff on there, some of my hostees themselves take up more than 20 megs of space.
ref: 1999, manda, “I don't want to be another cihost casualty”, in alt.www.webmaster (Usenet):
text: Hi. Well, I'm starting a Hanson Fanfiction domain, but before I can actually start the process of registering the domain, I need atleast^([sic]) 4 hostees.
ref: 1999, BabyCarrot, “Hanson fanfiction domain”, in alt.fan.hanson (Usenet):
text: Since there's a router port somewhere between your servers and the Internet, you can query it (or your host can if it's shared among multiple hostees) to find out your total incoming and outgoing data rate.
ref: 2008, Cal Henderson, Building Scalable Web Sites:
glosses: A person whose content is hosted on a domain owned by somebody else.
VRML
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: file format
glosses: Initialism of Virtual Reality Modeling Language: a computer language describing three-dimensional objects for interpretation and display by a web browser.
hostmask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hostmasks
Etymology: From host + mask.
Senses: examples: text: The channel operator banned the hostmask *!*@*example.com, so nobody could connect from example.com any more.
glosses: On IRC, a partial address that matches a number of hosts.
aimbot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aimbots
Etymology: From aim + bot.
Senses: examples: text: For the British, in the first confrontation, [a range-clock system] probably would've been somewhat useful - especially if Iron Duke was giving the ranges, considering that thing seemed to have an aimbot installed - but it would've maybe only marginally improved things for the British, I think.
ref: 2021 May 2, Drachinifel, 3:58:12 from the start, in The Drydock - Episode 144, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2022:
topics: video-games
glosses: A program or patch that allows the player to cheat by having the character's weapon aimed automatically.
aimbot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: aimbots
form: aimbotting
form: aimbotted
form: aimbotted
Etymology: From aim + bot.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: To cheat in a video game using an aimbot.
Derived terms: aimbotter
tagboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tagboards
form: tag board
Etymology: From tag + board.
Senses: examples: text: The purpose of cam girl blogs vary wildly. They may contain anything from one-line entries about how the girl is feeling that day[…] or when she will be online to chat (often conducted via a tagboard—an instant message board—on her site), […]
ref: 2012, Anita Harris, editor, Next Wave Cultures: Feminism, Subcultures, Activism, Routledge, →ISBN, page 123:
synonyms: chatbox
shoutbox
glosses: A small message board on a webpage, usually located in the sidebar, where visitors can leave a name and short message.
examples: text: Lay one piece of tagboard, 14" x 4", on the wrong side of the cretonne, 2 1/4" x 5", with a one-half-inch border of cretonne on all four sides. Draw a pencil line on the cretonne around the tagboard, then remove the[…]
ref: 1925, S. E. Evalyn Hammond, Paper Craft Problems, Bookbinding, Basket and Box Making, and Gift Novelties, page 96:
text: Cut two equal pieces of tagboard the size of a greeting card.
ref: 2013, Kathleen Glavich, Arts and Crafts from A to Z: Over 150 Ideas for Catechists and Religion Teachers, Twenty-Third Publications, →ISBN, page 90:
glosses: Synonym of oaktag.
synonyms: word: oaktag
klepsydra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: klepsydras
form: klepsydrae
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of clepsydra.
lazy eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lazy eyes
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: amblyopia
Pineapple Express
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: A warm, wet rainstorm—the notorious "Pineapple Express"—hit Western Washington the weekend before Thanksgiving in 1986.
ref: 1990 December 1, Hill Williams, “Another Nasty November”, in Seattle Times, retrieved 19 Oct 2008:
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: The jetstream and accompanying strong, moist airflow from the vicinity of the Hawaiian Islands to the west coast of North America.
Hypernyms: atmospheric river
cabezone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cabezones
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cabezon.
superexponential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + exponential; so called because such a function eventually exceeds the value of any exponential function.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having the properties that f(0) = 1 and ∀ g,h ≥ 0: f(g)f(h) ≤ f(g+h) .
raw_tags: of a real-valued function f on the non-negative real numbers
superimmense
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superimmense
form: most superimmense
form: super-immense
Etymology: From super- + immense.
Senses: examples: text: These holy things are to be adored with that worship of latria which does not belong to anything else except the superimmense and supertremendous hypostasis of the divine Word (in Ps 133:3).
ref: 1987, Godfrey Anstruther, Opening the Scrolls: Essays in Catholic History in Honour of Godfrey Anstruther, Downside Abbey, →ISBN, page 41:
text: They are not only triadic but also triangular: following Boethius’s notion of figured (geometric) number, Roussel sees the “number” of the human mind as a triangle that echoes the “superimmense” triangle of the divine mind: This triangle is not so much a number as the principle of number, not so much a figure as its principle, equally prior to every number and figure.
ref: 2011, Rebecca Zorach, The Passionate Triangle, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 21:
text: "Emergence selects the restricted world of the real from the superimmense world of the possible."
ref: 2018, Bradford McCall, A Modern Relation of Theology and Science Assisted by Emergence and Kenosis, Wipf & Stock, →ISBN, page 54:
text: Sandesh Jhingan and Anas Edathodika have formed a great partnership at the heart of the defence and have been there to hold fort everytime^([sic]) India faced stiff competition. However, the duo has only delivered mediocre performances for Kerala Blasters. Jhingan may have maintained similar figures from last season, but he has not rendered superimmense performances.
ref: 2018 December 11, Ali Shibil Roshan, “Analysis: Examining the permutations and combinations thrown up by India’s AFC Asian Cup squad”, in khelnow.com:
glosses: Extremely immense; of exceptional immensity.
superoverwhelming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /suːpəɹˌoʊvɚˈ(h)wɛlmɪŋ/
Forms: form: more superoverwhelming
form: most superoverwhelming
form: super-overwhelming
Etymology: From super- + overwhelming.
Senses: examples: text: The Cross in its horrible illustration of overwhelming sin was in itself a demonstration of superoverwhelming grace.
ref: 2010, Leslie C. Allen; Stuart Briscoe; Myron Augsburger; Earl Palmer; Kenneth L. Chafin; Gary W. Demarest; Russell H. Dilday; Maxie D. Dunnam; Louis Evans; Sinclair B. Ferguson; Roger Fredrikson; John Guest; David A. Hubbard; John A. Huffman; David Jackman; Walter C. Kaiser, Jr.; Bruce Larson; John C. Maxwell; David L. McKenna; James Philip; Mark D. Roberts; Douglas Stuart; Don Williams, “The Four Monarchs: Romans 5:12–21” (chapter 9), in The Preacher's Commentary Series, Volumes 1-35, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, The Reign of Grace, unnumbered page:
text: The bright light of the faeries was superoverwhelming, and my eyes started to water.
ref: 2016, Huda Ayaz, Freeze-Land: Morulta Confusion, Archway Publishing, →ISBN:
text: It's a blessing. It's amazing. It's the first time in my career when I feel like I'm at a place where I know what I'm doing, I can handle things, and it doesn't feel so superoverwhelming.
ref: 2020, Caitlyn Collins, Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 207:
glosses: Extremely overwhelming.
supermajor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪdʒə(ɹ)
Etymology: From super- + major.
Senses: glosses: Very major; of great significance or importance.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An interval larger in size than a major interval but smaller than the next largest minor interval.
supermajor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪdʒə(ɹ)
Forms: form: supermajors
Etymology: From super- + major.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Freeman prefers smaller yet still diversified companies with stronger growth profiles than the supermajors, like Apache, which has interests in natural gas as well as oil, and Occidental Petroleum, which produces oil, gas and chemicals. […] “The supermajors are still a great place to be because they’re starting to bring large projects on line that have been years in the making,” she said.
ref: 2008 June 7, Conrad De Aenlle, “Big Oil Is Owed Some Love”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022:
text: Not surprisingly, the oil “supermajors” and the IEA disagree. […] Currently, Exxon Mobil vies with Apple as the world’s biggest listed company. Yet Exxon and the other oil supermajors are more vulnerable than they look (see article).
ref: 2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2020:
text: International oil companies operating in Africa range from the supermajors to majors, the still smaller independents, and finally the lean frontier specialists that operate in emerging producers.
ref: 2014, John R. Heilbrunn, Oil, Democracy, and Development in Africa, page 90:
glosses: Any of the world's largest privately owned oil and gas companies.
synonyms: supersoldier
glosses: A very large soldier ant, bigger than a major.
prosodification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prosodifications
Etymology: From prosody + -ification.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The imposition of prosodic structure (e.g. syllables, feet, stress, etc.) onto string of segments (i.e. sounds such as consonants and vowels)
diplosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diplosomes
Etymology: From diplo- + -some.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: In cell biology, a pair of centrioles arranged perpendicularly, located near the nucleus. It is present in all eukaryotic cells except for higher plants. It plays an important role in mitosis.
Shalhevet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hebrew.
diplosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diplosome
reradiates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reradiate
reradiating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reradiate
reradiated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reradiate
katharobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of katharobe
polyhedrins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyhedrin
manhua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmænhwɑː/
ipa: /ˈmɑːnhwɑː/
ipa: /-wɑː/
ipa: /ˈmɑnhwɑ/
ipa: /ˈmænhwɑ/
ipa: /-wɑ/
rhymes: -ænhwɑː
rhymes: -ɑːnhwɑː
rhymes: -ænwɑː
rhymes: -ɑːnwɑː
homophone: manhwa
Forms: form: manhuas
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 漫畫 /漫画 (mànhuà), from Japanese 漫(まん)画(が) (manga). Doublet of manga and manhwa.
Senses: topics: comics
literature
media
publishing
coordinate_terms: manga
manhwa
glosses: A comic originating in China or Taiwan.
Derived terms: pornhua
Related terms: manhuajia
priggeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of priggery
apple fritters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apple fritter
hopologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hopologist
manhwa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmænhwɑː/
ipa: /ˈmɑːnhwɑː/
ipa: /-wɑː/
ipa: /ˈmɑnhwɑ/
ipa: /ˈmænhwɑ/
ipa: /-wɑ/
rhymes: -ænhwɑː
rhymes: -ɑːnhwɑː
rhymes: -ænwɑː
rhymes: -ɑːnwɑː
homophone: manhua
Forms: form: manhwas
form: manhwa
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 만화(漫畫) (manhwa), from Japanese 漫(まん)画(が) (manga). Doublet of manga and manhua.
Senses: examples: text: In fact, many manga fans don't realize that their favorite comics — such as Priest, Ragnarock, and Island — are actually Korean manhwa!
ref: 2004, Christopher Hart, Manhwa Mania: How to Draw Korean Comics, Watson-Guptill Publications, →ISBN, page 7:
text: Since the Korean language reads left to right (unlike Chinese and Japanese), manhwa are printed left to right in the same format as English books.
ref: 2007, Jason Thompson, Manga: The Complete Guide, Del Rey, published 2007, →ISBN:
text: As the best Japanese titles were mined, the American companies began to look for alternatives, and Tokyopop's founder Stuart Levy already had a budding interest in Korean manhwa.
ref: 2008, Mark James Russell, Pop Goes Korea: Behind the Revolution in Movies, Music, and Internet Culture, Stone Bridge Press, published 2008, →ISBN:
topics: comics
literature
media
publishing
coordinate_terms: manga
manhua
glosses: A comic originating in Korea.
Derived terms: pornhwa
Related terms: manhwaga
comic book
comic strip
4-koma
braes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A garnish of old times; a certain grace / Of pensive memories lays about the braes: / The old chestnuts gossip tales of bygone days.
ref: 1918, Robert Louis Stevenson, “I now, O friend, whom noiselessly the snows”, in New Poems, Chatto & Windus, page 101:
glosses: plural of brae
rupestrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɹuːˈpɛstɹiən/
Forms: form: more rupestrian
form: most rupestrian
Etymology: From New Latin rupestris, from Latin rūpes (“rock”).
Senses: glosses: Occurring, or executed on rocks, or on cave walls
Related terms: rupestral
rupestral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From New Latin rupestris, from Latin rūpes (“rock”).
Senses: examples: text: Having departed from Sardis and before reaching the mnema of Tos, the traveller saw a monument which was either a free-standing pillar or a rupestral tablet, depending on how we interpret the word.^([στήλη])
ref: 1982, William Kendrick Pritchett, Studies in Ancient Greek Topography, page 277:
text: In the course of the last decade, a fair number of ancient rupestral (rock-cut) horoi have been published from various sites in southern Attica.
ref: 1995, Josiah Ober, “Greek Horoi: Artifactual Texts and the Contingency of Meaning”, in David B. Small, editor, Methods in the Mediterranean: Historical and Archaeological Views on Texts & Archaeology, page 115:
text: Representational art appears in two major categories: rupestral art (as in the paintings of the Palaeolithic caves) and mobiliary art (also called mobile or portable art).
ref: 2008, Harald Haarmann, Joan Marler, Introducing the Mythological Crescent: Ancient Beliefs and Imagery connecting Eurasia with Anatolia, page 14:
topics: archaeology
art
arts
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Made on or placed on rock surfaces.
examples: text: On the north side of the city, just outside the wall, the rupestral sanctuary of S. Biagio consists of a series of artificial caves or tunnels in the rocky hillside.
ref: 2007, Jennifer Larson, Ancient Greek Cults: A Guide, page 82:
text: 2011, Ömür Harmaşah, 28: Monuments an Memory: Architecture and Visual Culture in Ancient Anatolian History, Sharon R. Steadman, Gregory McMahon (editors), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia: (10,000-323 BCE), page 643,
The sculpted and columnar rupestral tombs of Achaemenid Paphlagonia, the mountainous Black Sea region west of the Halys (Kızıl Irmak), are equally fascinating in their place-making qualities and their deliberate use of the living rock.
glosses: Constructed in rock; made of rock.
examples: text: The rupestral species have been the next class of lichens to suffer from the atmospheric pollution; and the effects are particularly noticeable in the hilly districts in the eastern part of South Lancashire.
ref: 1915, The Journal of the Linnean Society: Botany, volume 43, Linnean Society of London, page 93:
text: By contrast, in the oak woodland on a steep hillside at Keskadale in Cumberland the occurrence is solely rupestral.
ref: 1973, James Holms Dickson, Bryophytes of the Pleistocene, page 123:
text: Among the more notable of these rupestral oceanic and Atlantic bryophytes of acidic rocks are the mosses[…].
ref: 2012, Derek Ratcliffe, A Nature Conservation Review, volume 1, page 78:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Growing on rocks.
Related terms: rupestrian
rondocubism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rondo-cubism
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: A form of cubism, in post-World War One Czechoslovakia, that employed more rounded forms
Related terms: rondocubist
squinty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: squintier
form: squintiest
Etymology: From squint + -y.
Senses: glosses: Afflicted with a squint.
glosses: Sidelong.
cat's-eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cats'-eyes
form: cat's eye
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cat's eye.
moral system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moral systems
Senses: examples: text: There exists no moral system under which there do not arise unequivocal cases of conflicting obligation.
ref: 1861, John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A consistent set of moral axioms or principles.
Related terms: ethical system
nvm
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of NVM.
moral futurism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Hegelian moral positivism, according to Popper, holds that whatever historically is is right, whereas Marxist moral futurism holds that whatever inevitably will be in history is, for that very reason, right.
ref: 2001, Robert C. Tucker, Philosophy & Myth in Karl Marx:
text: Any revolutionary moral futurism that advocates sacrificing the revolutionary generation so as to enable future generations to enter a Promised Land should be discarded on the basis of my desert-generation test.
ref: 2009, Avishai Margalit, On Compromise and Rotten Compromises:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The moral stance of accepting that moral system that is probably going to be dominant in the future.
adunque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adunque
form: most adunque
Senses: examples: text: her nose adunque like the over-grown beak of an eagle
ref: 1768, Edmund Gayton, Festivous notes on the history and adventures of the renowned Don Quixote, page 114:
glosses: Alternative form of adunc (“hooked”).
centrifugate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centrifugates
Etymology: From centrifuge + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: The thicker product obtained from separation in a centrifuge.
centrifugate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: centrifugates
form: centrifugating
form: centrifugated
form: centrifugated
Etymology: From centrifuge + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The antigenic aluminum hydroxide is made in the following manner: The antigenic solution is treated with enough aluminum hydroxide to precipitate all the protein. The mixture is then shaken thoroughly and centrifugated.
ref: 1937, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus). College of Medicine. Dept. of Biological Chemistry, Collected Studies from the Dept. of Physiological Chemistry (page 33)
glosses: To separate using centrifugation.
Derived terms: cytocentrifugate
hended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hend
ignoramos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ignoramo
venters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of venter
ilustrado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ilustrados
Etymology: Borrowed from Philippine Spanish ilustrado.
Senses: glosses: An educated wealthy and elite Filipino during the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines.
do do
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: do͞oʹ do͞o
ipa: /ˈdu du/
Forms: form: do dos
Senses: glosses: Excrement, feces, dung.
Synonyms: word: dooky
english: animals
translation: animals
word: droppings
word: crap
word: poop
word: shit
unce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unces
Etymology: See ounce.
Senses: examples: text: TAke the oyle of Castoreum two vnces, oyle roset, and oyle of better Almondes of eche an vnce, of Aqua vite two vnces, mingle al together and seeth it vntill the Aqua vite be consumed.
ref: 1562, [Girolamo Ruscelli], anonymous translator, The thyrde and last parte of the Secretes of the reuerende Master Alexis of Piemont […], folio 3ʳ:
text: […] and when you wil vse it, take of this pouder, iij. Vnces, of Bole armoniack half an vnce, of Puluis alcamisticus one vnce.
ref: 1563, Thomas Gale, Certaine VVorkes of Chirugerie […], folio 53ᵛ:
text: […] of the séedes of Anise, and cumine, eche one vnce, raysons the stones piked oute, a handfull, boyle all these in a sufficient quantitie […]
ref: 1572, John Jones, The Bathes of Bathes Ayde […], folio 32ʳ:
glosses: Early Modern spelling of ounce.
arch-enemy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arch-enemies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of archenemy.
cold chills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Feelings of fear.
Fiorenza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fiorenzas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Fiorenza.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
brivet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: brĭvʹĭt
ipa: /ˈbɹɪvɪt/
Forms: form: brivets
form: briveting
form: brivetting
form: briveted
form: briveted
form: brivetted
form: brivetted
form: brivit
Senses: examples: text: Once Melanie had left the house, I entered her bedroom and began to brivet around.
text: And all the time she'd be brivetting about on the sly with any good-for-nothing young rascals she could get hold on.
ref: 1920, Eric Leadbitter, Shepherd's warning, page 148:
glosses: To wander an area, or look through items, without specific purpose or to satisfy idle curiosity, especially in a furtive and illicit manner.
Jerald
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages, a nonstandard spelling of Gerald.
Girard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Girard.
Senses: examples: text: Nonetheless, Girard argues, the very fact that Christians have chosen to forgive and thus not to answer violence directly with violence is itself already a huge victory.
ref: 2008 November 24, Giles Fraser, “On the Genealogy of Morals, part 5: Breaking the cycle of conflict”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A surname from French.
glosses: Various places in the United States of America, including:
A town in Burke County, Georgia.
glosses: Various places in the United States of America, including:
A city in Macoupin County, Illinois.
glosses: Various places in the United States of America, including:
A city, the county seat of Crawford County, Kansas.
glosses: Various places in the United States of America, including:
A city in Trumbull County, Ohio.
glosses: Various places in the United States of America, including:
A borough of Erie County, Pennsylvania.
Derived terms: Girard form class
Girardian
deployability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deployabilities
Etymology: From deploy + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The extent to which something is deployable
crepuscle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɪˈpʌs.əl/
Forms: form: crepuscles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crepuscule.
working classes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of working class
middle classes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of middle class
professional classes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of professional class
upper classes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upper class
tin sandwich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tin sandwiches
Senses: examples: text: The reason that the harmonica sometimes is called a tin sandwich is that you hold it just like a sandwich.
ref: 2001, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing the Harmonica, By William Melton, Randy Weinstein, P.50
glosses: A simple harmonica.
deployable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deployable
form: most deployable
Etymology: From French déployable, deploy + -able.
Senses: examples: text: […] Germany had 284,500 active personnel in the armed forces with only 7500 readily deployable forces and 6810 committed to peace support operations; France had 259,050 personnel[…]
ref: 2005 October 31, A. Forster, Armed Forces and Society in Europe, Springer, →ISBN, page 166:
glosses: Able to be deployed.
examples: text: It played a significant role in the evolution of the deployable recorder, and offers an attractive alternative to "fixed recorders" in a "dual redundancy" installation (discussed later)
ref: 2000, Canadian Aeronautics and Space Journal:
text: For example, helicopters that ditch at sea are often unrecoverable and consequently, despite the systems' higher cost and increased complexity, the Navy needed deployable recorder systems for its helicopters.
ref: 2002, Aircraft & Aerospace Asia-Pacific:
glosses: Ejectable, separable from the aircraft.
raw_tags: of an aircraft flight recorder
Derived terms: nondeployable
undeployable
deployable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deployables
Etymology: From French déployable, deploy + -able.
Senses: glosses: Something, such as a software package or a military resource, that may be deployed.
gob iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gob irons
Senses: examples: text: One kid drummed on a washboard, another plunked a broom-handle bass, a third faked chords on guitar, another blew into a gob iron (which was what they called a harmonica), and they dubbed themselves a band.
ref: 2007, Joshua M. Greene, Here Comes the Sun, P.9:
glosses: A simple harmonica
psychomachia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌsaɪkə(ʊ)ˈmækiə/
Forms: form: psychomachias
Senses: glosses: psychomachy
psychomachy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychomachies
Etymology: From psycho- + -machy.
Senses: glosses: A conflict between the soul and the body, sometimes considered as between good and evil.
Synonyms: psychomachia
Mississippi sax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mississippi saxes
Senses: examples: text: Chicago was home to the reinvention of the harmonica from tiny dime store toy to amplified and distorted Mississippi sax.
ref: 2002, Art Tipaldi, Children of the Blues, P.67:
glosses: A simple harmonica.
over-consumption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overconsumption
Etymology: From over- + consumption.
Senses: glosses: An excessive level of consumption
opalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: opalizes
form: opalizing
form: opalized
form: opalized
form: opalise
Etymology: From opal + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To convert into a form of opal or chalcedony, especially to convert wood into such a fossilized form.
glosses: To make opalescent.
Derived terms: opalization
opalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of opalize
opalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more opalized
form: most opalized
Senses: glosses: Converted into a form of opal or chalcedony
opalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: opalises
form: opalising
form: opalised
form: opalised
Etymology: From opal + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of opalize.
one-stop
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Generalization of one-stop shop.
Senses: examples: text: At a local microlevel 'one-stop' or 'one-window' service delivery arrangements have proved popular.
ref: 2004, Christopher Pollitt with Geert Bouckaert, Public Management Reform: A Comparative Analysis, page 85:
text: Features like storefronts for brands could be understood as attempts by TikTok to catch up to Instagram’s own recent attempts at becoming a one-stop shopping destination.
ref: 2021 October 2, John Herrman, “Will TikTok Make You Buy It?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2022:
topics: management
glosses: Describing a service operation at which all of a customer's needs may be satisfied without visiting another.
Related terms: one-window
one-stop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one-stops
Etymology: Generalization of one-stop shop.
Senses: examples: text: Independent R&B music retailers around the country are banding together into coalitions, seeking to create the buying power of a chain and get increased attention and service from labels and one-stops.
ref: 1994, Billboard, volume 106, number 22, page 45:
glosses: A wholesaler serving the music industry.
hiding to nothing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hidings to nothing
Etymology: From horse racing, hiding (“beating”); to (“as used to express gambling odds”), e.g., 6 to 1. Literally, the phrase can be described as to bet on a contest whose outcome is at worst a beating, or at best nothing. A heavily favoured team in a sporting contest earns no credit for victory, but is shamed by defeat; this team is said to be on a hiding to nothing.
Senses: examples: text: It would have been madness to encourage them to back the mare : in fact I was on a hiding to nothing whatever happened.
ref: 1915, James Forman Sloan, A. Dick Luckman, Tod Sloan, page 245:
text: No legitimate excuse for introduction existed, or could exist, and the odds looked like a hiding to nothing should Bayard attempt to force a meeting […]
ref: 1931, The Atlantic Monthly, Making of America Project, page 60:
text: It is a nasty situation and DFR knows that he is on a good hiding to nothing. He sometimes feels that he is the least understood and most unloved ATCO in [the UK]
ref: 1989, Dave Graves, A layman's guide to United Kingdom air traffic control, page 76:
text: This often makes it a nervous, hiding-to-nothing game in which disasters are so much more memorable than successes
ref: 2003, Robin Birn, The international handbook of market research techniques, page 543:
text: Company directors are on a hiding to nothing when it comes to trusting their reputations to the accounting statements for which they are responsible.
ref: 2003, Frank L. Clarke with G. W. Dean and Kyle Gaius Oliver, Corporate collapse: accounting, regulatory and ethical failure, page 39:
glosses: A situation in which victory has little or no value, but defeat has a huge cost.
on a wing and a prayer
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Describes a damaged warplane barely able to return to base, possibly originating in the film Flying Tigers (1942) in which the dialog refers to a flight as “coming in on one wing and a prayer”, made popular by the World War II song “Comin’ in on a Wing and a Prayer” with lyrics by Harold Adamson.
Senses: examples: text: After seeing half the senior staff walk out, the school opened the new year on a wing and a prayer.
glosses: With the hope of averting disaster despite a desperate situation teetering on failure.
wikipedia: Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer
Harold Adamson
Synonyms: on a whim and a prayer
Olympism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Olympic + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A spirit or ideals of the Olympic Games
glosses: The advocacy or promotion of these principles
Old English Sheepdog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Old English Sheepdogs
Senses: glosses: A herding dog of a particular breed (also used as a pet), with shaggy grey and white fur also covering its face, and a docked tail.
Synonyms: bobtail
enteropathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛntəˈɹɒpəθi/
Forms: form: enteropathies
Etymology: From entero- + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An intestinal disorder or disease.
Derived terms: enteropathic
olecranon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊˈlɛkɹəˌnɑn/
ipa: /əˈlɛkɹənən/
Forms: form: olecranons
form: olecrana
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὠλέκρανον (ōlékranon).
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Fletcher, of Liverpool, reported a case of bony union of both olecranons, verified by examination after death. The patient, a boy 16 years old, was admitted to the hospital May 19, 1850, having fractured both olecranons a short time before by falling over some timber.
ref: 1883, Lewis A. Stimson, A Treatise on Fractures, Volume 1, Henry C. Lea's Son & Co., page 423:
text: Suspensory animals have extremely small olecrana, because of a minimal need for forearm extension, which is achieved by gravity.
ref: 1993, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Volume 13, University of Oklahoma, page 232:
text: The subcutaneous location of the olecranon makes it vulnerable to trauma.⁷ Isolated fractures of the olecranon comprise approximately 10% of fractures about the elbow,^(26,38) with an estimated incidence of 1.08 per 10,000 person-years.
ref: 2009, Julie E. Adams, Scott P. Steinmann, “Chapter 25: Fractures of the Olecranon”, in Bernard F. Morrey, Joaquin Sanchez-Sotelo, editors, The Elbow and Its Disorders, Saunders Elsevier, page 389:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The bony process at the top of the ulna forming the point of the elbow.
Synonyms: sense: process at top of ulna
word: elbow bone
Derived terms: olecranal
olecranial
olecranian
olecranoid
olecranon fossa
Related terms: cubital tunnel
humerus
semi-lunar notch
trochlear notch
theatergoer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theatergoers
form: theater goer
form: theater-goer
form: theatregoer
form: theatre goer
form: theatre-goer
Etymology: From theater + goer.
Senses: glosses: One who attends a performance at a theater.
tasseomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French tasse (“cup”) + -mancy (“divination”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tasseography.
synonyms: word: tasseography
Related terms: tasseographer
beta-sitosterol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: β-sitosterol
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: sitosterin
glosses: A phytosterol found in many plant sources; it is used to reduce blood cholesterol
winching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of winch