cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dissolvement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dissolvements
Etymology: From dissolve + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: The disc is Arden's first collection of original material since sorting out business woes that resulted in the dissolvement of her management company.
ref: 2009 October 4, Ashante Infantry, “Free to do her thing”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: The process of dissolving; dissolution.
dissolvements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dissolvement
streetstyle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From street + style.
Senses: examples: text: Karl Lagerfeld spices up Chanel offerings with current streetstyle trends. British fashion is widely acknowledged as having a creative streetstyle edge […]
ref: 1996, Franklin on Fashion:
text: It's one of only three street plazas in the country, a new generation of parks for streetstyle skateboarding.
ref: 2009 October 2, Patty Winsa, “Ontario's largest skateboard park set to open”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: In a style associated with the streets; urban.
high-card
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Now that the fallacy of basing bids on high-card values only has been realized, experts are modifying their systems of valuation more and more, so as to count actual tricks and not merely high-card tricks (Quick Tricks or Honour Tricks).
ref: 2013, F. Courtenay, The Losing Trick Count - A Book of Bridge Technique:
topics: card-games
games
glosses: Of or related to a high suit card.
pornographess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pornographesses
Etymology: From pornography + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: The only explanation I can offer is that the diligent pornographess was already back at work on her next endeavor.
ref: 1989 May, Spy, page 64:
glosses: A female pornographer.
vook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vooks
Etymology: Blend of video + book
Senses: examples: text: Jude Deveraux, a popular romance author who has written 36 straightforward text novels, said she loved experimenting with “Promises,” an exclusive vook set on a 19th-century South Carolina plantation in which the integrated videos add snippets of dialogue and atmosphere.
ref: 2009 October 1, Motoko Rich, “Curling Up With Hybrid Books, Videos Included”, in New York Times:
glosses: A digital book that combines text with video and Internet material.
vooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vook
faithfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faithful
ojek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ojeks
Etymology: Borrowed from Indonesian ojek.
Senses: examples: text: It empties its perennially clogged streets of ojeks, the kamikaze-like motorcycle taxis that weave in and out of traffic, and find shortcuts on sidewalks.
ref: 2009 September 28, Norimitsu Onishi, “Nannies Get a Holiday. Rich Families Get a Suite.”, in New York Times:
glosses: A motorcycle taxi in Indonesia.
ojeks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ojek
formfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From formful + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Given that Turner's previous book, The Pornographer's Poem, most closely resembled a traditional novel, 8 x 10 can be read as an apology for his daring to veer so close to formfulness.
ref: 2009 September 27, Ryan Bigge, “A snapshot carousel delivers in increments”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: The quality of being formful.
lakefill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lakefills
Etymology: From lake + fill.
Senses: glosses: Land reclaimed from a lake by filling it.
lakefills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lakefill
imagemaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imagemakers
Etymology: From image + maker.
Senses: glosses: One who produces pictures or photographs.
examples: text: First, when Squires blamed Bush's "campaign imagemakers" for the low road he's traveled, even blaming them for picking Quayle.
ref: 1988 October 28, Michael Miner, “The Next Best Thing to Reagan; Hair Today; Striking a Deal”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2016:
glosses: One who develops another person's public image.
imagemakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imagemaker
nonesoteric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + esoteric.
Senses: examples: text: "They're very human, down to earth, nonesoteric kinds of people," he said.
ref: 1988 December 2, Michael Miner, “A Gentleman Among Jocks; Strike Tactics”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 02 Nov 2019:
glosses: Not esoteric.
totable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more totable
form: most totable
Etymology: From tote + -able.
Senses: examples: text: By way of ingenious analogy, we may note that while most totable humanoids are babies, just because you're non-totable doesn't mean you're not a baby […]
ref: 1988 December 2, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2016:
glosses: Capable of being toted, or carried around; portable.
anthemlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anthemlike
form: most anthemlike
Etymology: From anthem + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Garrett shows a remarkable (and utterly un-Clash-like) ability to connect with the audience through anthemlike choruses.
ref: 1988 November 25, Ted Cox, “Midnight Oil: rock around the apocalypse”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Resembling an anthem.
as-yet-unknown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: as yet unknown
Senses: examples: 1990, David Layzer Professor of Astrophysics Harvard University, Cosmogenesis : The Growth of Order in the Universe: The Growth of Order in ...
Now suppose that neutrons had some as-yet-unknown property that, if it could be observed, would enable us to predict their individual lifetimes.
glosses: currently unknown
as-yet-unknown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: as-yet-unknowns
form: as yet unknown
Senses: examples: text: In their chapter Ellerton and Clements consider what is involved in the task of solving the equations that arise from acknowledging ignorance and using letters to stand in for as-yet-unknowns.
ref: 2011, Jinfa Cai, Eric Knuth, Early Algebraization: A Global Dialogue from Multiple Perspectives:
glosses: Something that is currently unknown.
as-yet-unknowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of as-yet-unknown
relative pressure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Synonym of gauge pressure.
synonyms: word: gauge pressure
gauge pressure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gauge + pressure.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The absolute pressure minus the atmospheric pressure.
as yet unknown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of as-yet-unknown.
synonyms: word: as-yet-unknown
underassess
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underassesses
form: underassessing
form: underassessed
form: underassessed
Etymology: From under- + assess.
Senses: examples: text: So a school district whose property is underassessed will get more state aid than it deserves.
ref: 1988 December 9, Ben Joravsky, “Property-tax assessments rise; north siders are revolting”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 24 Oct 2020:
glosses: To assess at too low a value.
underassessed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underassess
underassesses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underassess
underassessing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underassess
subscene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subscenes
Etymology: From sub- + scene.
Senses: glosses: A scene making up part of a larger scene.
subscenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subscene
waltziest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of waltzy: most waltzy
unhilly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪli
Forms: form: more unhilly
form: most unhilly
Etymology: From un- + hilly.
Senses: glosses: Not hilly.
gagfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gagfests
Etymology: From gag + -fest.
Senses: glosses: An event, film, etc. that involves many jokes.
gagfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gagfest
poleboat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poleboats
Etymology: From pole + boat.
Senses: glosses: A barge; a kind of boat propelled by the use of a pole.
poleboats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poleboat
hypermacho
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypermacho
form: most hypermacho
Etymology: From hyper- + macho.
Senses: examples: text: John Brown plays a disturbing A. C., a hypermacho restaurateur who wraps his cocaine in shots of vaginas cut out from Hustler magazine.
ref: 1988 October 14, Achy Obejas, “The Collage Project”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Extremely macho.
nonclassics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonclassic
intefadeh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intefadehs
Senses: examples: text: After more than six months of the courageous intefadeh or uprising in the West Bank and Gaza, it is hard indeed to maintain either side of the equation--either Israeli democracy or Palestinian barbarism.
ref: 1988 June 24, Steve Lapin, “Tirade Against Israel”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Alternative spelling of intifada.
intefadehs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intefadeh
bansheelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bansheelike
form: most bansheelike
form: banshee-like
Etymology: From banshee + -like.
Senses: examples: text: A veteran of the tough audiences on the black rhythm and blues circuit, Houston wastes no time noodling around on stage; he begins his show from the back of the club, screaming bansheelike saxophone war cries through a cordless microphone and slowly stalking through the crowd in the general direction of the bandstand.
ref: 1988 September 16, David Whiteis, “Rock's early raunch: Joe Houston saves the wails”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2016:
text: ... only when he, crowned in cockle shells with slitherin’ tentacle tail and steaming beard take up his fell befinned arm, his coral-tine trident screeches banshee-like in the tempest and plunges right through yer gullet ...
ref: 2019, Robert Eggers, Max Eggers, The Lighthouse (motion picture), spoken by Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe):
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a banshee.
antievangelical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antievangelical
form: most antievangelical
Etymology: From anti- + evangelical.
Senses: examples: text: So much of the communications media is poisoned by an antievangelical bias, that a lot of us take a defensive stance when approached by them.
ref: 1988 November 25, David S. Landon, “Astonishing Stories”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Opposing evangelism.
keelboaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keelboater
noncentrally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From non- + centrally.
Senses: examples: text: And even if the feds could be persuaded to approve a new construction site, the proposed I-park and garage at Kilbourn and Chicago would be so inconveniently, noncentrally located for the CTA that they would have to spend an extra $650,000 a year running their routes from that point.
ref: 1988 August 26, Ben Joravsky, “Risky business: Should the CTA get mixed up in a development deal?”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: In a noncentral position.
virgil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: virgils
Etymology: An anglicization of French virgule, from Latin virgula.
Senses: examples: text: There be five manner of points and divisions most used among cunning men; the which if they be well used, make the sentence very light and easy to be understood, both to the reader and hearer: and they be these, virgil,—come,—parenthesis,—plain point,—interrogative... it is a slender stroke leaning forward, betokening a little short rest, without any perfectness yet of sentence.
ref: 1824, J. Johnson, Typographia:
text: No points were used by the ancient printers, excepting the colon and the period; but, after some time, a short oblique stroke, called a virgil, was introduced, which answered to the modern comma.
ref: 1828, Richard Thomson, Illustrations of the History of Great Britain, Vol. II, page 145
text: Whoever introduced the several points, it seems that a full-point, a point called come, answering to our colon-point, a point called virgil answering to our comma-point, the parenthesis-points and interrogative-point, were used at the close of the fourteenth, or beginning of the fifteenth century.
ref: 1842, F. Francillon, An Essay on Punctuation, page 9:
text: Other Chaucerian manuscripts had the virgule (or virgil or oblique: /) at the middle of lines.
ref: 1990, John McDermott, Punctuation for Now, page 20:
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩.
synonyms: word: slash
extra: /
Related terms: alt: '; ’
word: apostrophe
word: curly brackets
word: brace
word: square bracket
word: bracket
alt: :
word: colon
alt: ,
word: comma
alt: ‒; –; —; ―
word: dash
alt: …
word: ellipsis
alt: !
word: exclamation mark
alt: ⁄
word: fraction slash
alt: « »; ‹ ›
word: guillemet
alt: -; ‐
word: hyphen
alt: ·
word: interpunct
alt: ‽
word: interrobang
word: bracket
word: parentheses (US
alt: ( )
word: Canada)
word: full stop
alt: .
word: period
alt: ?
word: question mark
alt: ‘ ’ ‚; „
word: quotation marks
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
alt: "; '
word: quotation marks
alt: ;
word: semicolon
word: slash
alt: /
word: stroke
alt: ] [
word: space
virgils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of virgil
roundleaf bat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roundleaf bats
Etymology: From the shape of the nasal ornament.
Senses: glosses: Any of the bats of the genus Hipposideros.
Derived terms: Semon's roundleaf bat
roundleaf bats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roundleaf bat
gutbreads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gut-breads
form: gut breads
Senses: glosses: plural of gutbread.
Utah roundmouth snail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪl
Forms: form: Utah roundmouth snails
Senses: glosses: A freshwater snail of species Valvata utahensis, with a gill and an operculum, endemic to the United States.
Synonyms: sense: Valvata utahensis
word: Utah valvata
sense: Valvata utahensis
word: desert valvata
Utah roundmouth snails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Utah roundmouth snail
full-point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: full-points
Senses: examples: text: Whoever introduced the several points, it seems that a full-point, a point called come, answering to our colon-point, a point called virgil answering to our comma-point, the parenthesis-points and interrogative-point, were used at the close of the fourteenth, or beginning of the fifteenth century.
ref: 1842, F. Francillon, An Essay on Punctuation, page 9:
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Synonym of full stop or period ⟨.⟩.
synonyms: word: full stop or period
extra: ⟨.⟩.
full-points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of full-point
plain point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plain points
Senses: examples: text: There be five manner of points and divisions most used among cunning men; the which if they be well used, make the sentence very light and easy to be understood, both to the reader and hearer: and they be these, virgil,—come,—parenthesis,—plain point,—interrogative.
ref: 1824, J. Johnson, Typographia:
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Synonym of full stop or period ⟨.⟩.
synonyms: word: full stop or period
extra: ⟨.⟩.
plain points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plain point
plabic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of planar + bicoloured.
Senses: examples: text: Of course, as illustrated in the example above, merely reordering the face variables of a fixed plabic graph by an odd permutation will change the orientation of the resulting volume-form.
ref: 2016, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Grassmannian Geometry of Scattering Amplitudes, page 116:
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: planar and bicoloured
parenthesis-point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parenthesis-points
Senses: examples: text: Whoever introduced the several points, it seems that a full-point, a point called come, answering to our colon-point, a point called virgil answering to our comma-point, the parenthesis-points and interrogative-point, were used at the close of the fourteenth, or beginning of the fifteenth century.
ref: 1842, F. Francillon, An Essay on Punctuation, page 9:
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Synonym of parenthesis.
synonyms: word: parenthesis
parenthesis-points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parenthesis-point
gut-bread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gut-breads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gutbread.
gut bread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gut breads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gutbread.
colon-point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colon-points
Senses: examples: text: Whoever introduced the several points, it seems that a full-point, a point called come, answering to our colon-point, a point called virgil answering to our comma-point, the parenthesis-points and interrogative-point, were used at the close of the fourteenth, or beginning of the fifteenth century.
ref: 1842, F. Francillon, An Essay on Punctuation, page 9:
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Synonym of colon ⟨:⟩.
synonyms: word: colon ⟨
extra: ⟩
colon-points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colon-point
interrogative-point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interrogative-points
Senses: examples: text: Whoever introduced the several points, it seems that a full-point, a point called come, answering to our colon-point, a point called virgil answering to our comma-point, the parenthesis-points and interrogative-point, were used at the close of the fourteenth, or beginning of the fifteenth century.
ref: 1842, F. Francillon, An Essay on Punctuation, page 9:
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Synonym of question mark ⟨?⟩.
synonyms: word: question mark
extra: ?
interrogative-points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interrogative-point
comma-point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comma-points
Senses: examples: text: Whoever introduced the several points, it seems that a full-point, a point called come, answering to our colon-point, a point called virgil answering to our comma-point, the parenthesis-points and interrogative-point, were used at the close of the fourteenth, or beginning of the fifteenth century.
ref: 1842, F. Francillon, An Essay on Punctuation, page 9:
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Synonym of comma ⟨,⟩.
synonyms: word: comma
extra: ,
comma-points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comma-point
pizza boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pizza boys
form: pizza-boy
Senses: glosses: A young man who delivers pizza to people.
Hypernyms: pizza guy
Coordinate terms: pizza man
rannygazoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɹæ.ni.ɡəˈzu/
Forms: form: ranny-gazoo
Senses: examples: text: Her lips were tightly glued together, her chin protruding, her whole lay-out that of a girl who intended to stand no rannygazoo.
ref: 1974, P. G. Wodehouse, Aunts Aren't Gentlemen:
glosses: Nonsense, deception; foolishness, fuss, exaggeration
Tyrannosauri reges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This is because “histological examination of bone in coprolites can give the approximate stage of life of the consumed animal” and thus show whether Tyrannosauri reges tended to prey on the youngest and oldest (hence most vulnerable) members of herds or instead to scavenge on carrion of all ages, gregarious or not (cf. the more accessible discussion in Erickson 1999: 49).
ref: 2003, Brian D. Joseph, Richard D. Janda, “On Language, Change, and Language Change – Or, Of History, Linguistics, and Historical Linguistics”, in Brian D. Joseph, Richard D. Janda, editors, The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, Blackwell Publishing, →ISBN, page 18:
glosses: plural of Tyrannosaurus rex
untouchable number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: untouchable numbers
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A positive integer that cannot be expressed as the sum of all the proper divisors of any positive integer (including the untouchable number itself).
untouchable numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of untouchable number
unreserves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unreserve
unreserves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unreserve
upheaps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upheap
upheapings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upheaping
uvulars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uvular
uvularly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From uvular + -ly.
Senses: glosses: By means of the uvula.
khilat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: khilats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of khalat.
khilats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of khilat
nonburdensome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + burdensome.
Senses: glosses: not burdensome
blinkerdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From blinker + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: in place of someone objective to blend the impressions of the ear with those of the eye, one has the domination of the musician, the professional expert, with the inevitable blinkerdom that specialisation brings.
ref: 1954, Drama : the quarterly theatre review, Issues 32-43:
glosses: Narrow-mindedness; hostility to non-traditional ideas; inability to see beyond the obvious, usual or familiar.
protoorganism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protoorganisms
form: proto-organism
Etymology: From proto- + organism.
Senses: examples: text: This tree represents a complex “phylogeny” of macromolecules all within one ancestral lineage, before the proto-organism.
ref: 2013, Geoffrey Eglinton, Mary Teresa Joseph Murphy, Organic Geochemistry: Methods and Results:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An organism whose nature is so difficult to determine that it might be referred to either the animal or the vegetable kingdom.
proto-organism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proto-organisms
Etymology: From proto- + organism.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of protoorganism.
protoorganisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protoorganism
proto-organisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proto-organism
exo-planet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exo-planets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of exoplanet.
exo-planets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exo-planet
greensman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greensmen
Etymology: From green + -s- + -man.
Senses: glosses: A member of a film crew responsible for taking care of plants and other outdoor landscaping materials.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A greenkeeper.
Synonyms: sense: member of a film crew
word: greensperson
greensmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greensman
greensperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greenspeople
Etymology: From green + -s- + person.
Senses: glosses: A member of a film crew responsible for taking care of plants and other outdoor landscaping materials.
Synonyms: greensman
greenspeople
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greensperson
starshina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starshinas
Etymology: From Russian старшина (staršina).
Senses: glosses: A sergeant major in Russia.
glosses: A kind of overseer (of a village etc.) in Russia.
writings on the wall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of writing on the wall
feldwebel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feldwebels
form: feldweibel
Etymology: Borrowed from German Feldwebel.
Senses: glosses: A German sergeant.
criminal lawyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of criminal lawyer
white nights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white night
home helps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of home help
Mera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The seventh month of Meitei traditional lunar calendar.
Taormina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Tornatore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tornatores
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Tornatore.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
group selection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡɹuːp sɪˈlɛkʃən/
Senses: examples: text: Although so-called “group selection” has enjoyed some increased followership of late, the overwhelming consensus among evolutionary biologists is that it is unlikely to be an important cause of evolution among nonhuman animals, for a number of reasons […].
ref: 2016, David P. Barash, Out of Eden, Oxford, page 164:
text: Ever since, students of evolution have been taught that group selection is possible in principle; it just happens that it can be ignored in practice. Generations of students have learned about group selection with the help of a Gary Larson 'Far […]
ref: 2007, Louise Barrett, Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 51:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
qualifier: evolution
glosses: A form of natural selection whereby traits that may be disadvantageous to the individual can be propagated when they are advantageous to the survival of a group as a whole.
daughter of a bitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daughters of bitches
Etymology: From son of a bitch.
Senses: glosses: A detestable woman.
Alleghanies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Alleghany
fraction bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fraction bars
Senses: examples: text: The fraction bar is a kerned character, so unlike the solidus it will not push the numerals away a full em space.
ref: 2006, Gavin Ambrose et al., The Fundamentals of Typography, page 74:
topics: mathematics
media
publishing
sciences
typography
glosses: The line separating the numerator from the denominator, whether horizontal, oblique, or diagonal.
Synonyms: sense: horizontal line
word: horizontal bar
sense: diagonal line
alt: as the kerned diagonal line ⟨⁄⟩
word: fraction slash
sense: diagonal line
word: diagonal
sense: diagonal line
english: as a diagonal line regardless of kerning
translation: as a diagonal line regardless of kerning
word: diagonal mark
sense: diagonal line
alt: as the unkerned oblique line ⟨/⟩
word: slash
Related terms: division sign
megalosauri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megalosaurus
smash and dash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smashes and dashes
form: smashing and dashing
form: smashed and dashed
form: smashed and dashed
Senses: glosses: To have sex and leave immediately afterwards.
Synonyms: hit it and quit it
hump and dump
jump and dump
smash and dash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smashes and dashes
Senses: examples: text: I'm not looking for a long-term relationship: I'm okay with an occasional smash and dash.
glosses: An act of sex after which one immediately leaves.
Related terms: dine and dash
hit and run
wham, bam, thank you ma'am
lahpet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈpɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: laphet
form: lehpet
form: lephet
Etymology: From Burmese လက်ဖက် (lakhpak, “fermented or pickled tea”). The first element is ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la and hence a distant doublet of tea.
Senses: examples: text: [How long the tea] leaves stay underground is largely determined by the price the leaves would sell for; in other words, a laphet producer waits until the price is favorable enough to justify the effort of emptying out the pit all at once. According to locals, the best quality laphet is made in the Shan State hills [... which] area also produces black and green tea, for drinking.
ref: 2005, Fresh Cup: The Voice of the Specialty Coffee Industry, volume 14, page 45:
text: When satisfied with the level of fermentation, transfer to refrigerator. Lahpet will keep, refrigerated, for several months. Lahpet is popular in Myanmar, where it is considered a national delicacy […]
ref: 2015, Adam Elabd, Fermenting Food Step by Step: Over 80 step-by-step recipes for successfully fermenting kombucha, kimchi, yogurt, vinegar, and kefir, Penguin, →ISBN, page 7:
text: Occasionally a piece of fruit may be provided as well. The second way is the appearance of lahpet (pickled tea) – a bittersweet, astringent and savoury food that's unique to Burma.
ref: 2019, MiMi Aye, Mandalay: Recipes and Tales from a Burmese Kitchen, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: A dish, popular in Burma, consisting of pickled or fermented tea leaves (encountered in the West especially as tea leaf salad).
camel-jockey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camel-jockeys
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of camel jockey.
i-word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: i-words
Senses: glosses: The word illegal, illegal alien, or illegal immigrant.
glosses: Any word beginning with i that is considered (often humorously) to be taboo in the given context, such as idiot, or incest.
Related terms: sense: ‘x’-word euphemisms
word: a-word
word: b-word
word: c-word
word: d-word
word: e-word
word: f-word
word: g-word
word: G-word
word: h-word
word: j-word
word: k-word
word: l-word
word: m-word
word: n-word
word: o-word
word: p-word
word: q-word
word: Q-word
word: r-word
word: s-word
word: t-word
word: u-word
word: v-word
word: w-word
word: x-word
word: y-word
word: z-word
word: related terms C-bomb
word: f-bomb
word: f-slur
word: L-bomb
word: n-bomb
word: Q-slur
word: r-slur
Terps
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Maryland Terrapins, athletic teams representing the University of Maryland.
Campanians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Campanian
apple wines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apple wine
desk check
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desk checks
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A test of an algorithm by a human, who runs through its operations in sequence to verify the result.
desk checks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desk check
morow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morows
Senses: examples: text: Now good morow friends.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, Twelfe Night: Or, What You Will, Act II, scene iv
glosses: Obsolete spelling of morrow.
morows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morow
ifaith
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of in faith.
in faith
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: i' faith
form: ifaith
form: faith
Senses: glosses: really, truly
Related terms: in fact
in reality
in truth
Grigsonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɪɡˈsəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ɡɹɪɡˈsoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Grigsonian
form: most Grigsonian
Etymology: From Grigson + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the British writer and naturalist Geoffrey Grigson (1905–1985).
giddie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: giddier
form: giddiest
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of giddy.
Grigson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɪɡ.sən/
rhymes: -ɪɡsən
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Grigsonian
prethee
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of prithee.
paide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of paid.
worme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wormes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of worm.
wormes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of worme
drunkennesse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drunkennesses
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of drunkenness.
quickely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of quickly.
votership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voterships
Etymology: From voter + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The position or status of a voter; eligibility to vote.
glosses: Voters collectively; the electorate.
voterships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of votership
neece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neeces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of niece.
neeces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neece
monsterology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From monster + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The study of monsters or cryptids.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The study of the Monster group.
useful as a chocolate teapot
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: as much use as a chocolate teapot
Etymology: Since a chocolate teapot would be melted by hot tea and is therefore a useless idea.
Senses: synonyms: as much use as a chocolate fireguard
as much use as a chocolate teapot
useful as tits on a bull
qualifier: simile
glosses: Totally useless.
Derived terms: chocolate teapot
challenge exam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: challenge exams
Senses: examples: text: In other words, if you think that your learning in human anatomy is equivalent to what is being taught in a course in human anatomy, some schools will invite you to take a challenge exam in that subject.
ref: 1997, Lois S. Lamdin, Earn College Credit for what You Know, page 76:
text: Take “challenge exams”, such as a college-level equivalency exam: You can convert knowledge learned outside the classroom into credits toward a college program. This can save you time and money.
ref: 2016 After the Military Handbook (page 41)
glosses: An examination that assesses a person's existing knowledge rather than coming at the end of a taught course.
challenge exams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of challenge exam
an insult to one is an insult to all
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: When individuals are insulted based on their characteristics, that insult also applies to everybody who shares them.
hydropneumatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydro- + pneumatics.
Senses: glosses: hydropneumatic technology in general
white Christmas slice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white Christmas slices
Senses: examples: text: This popular white Christmas slice has been given an Aussie flavour and named after the sulphur-crested cockatoo.
ref: 2006, R.I.C. Publications, An Aussie Christmas, page 46:
text: Describe the changes Cophaᵀᴹ (a shortening agent derived from coconut flesh) makes to the mixture when making White Christmas slice.
ref: 2008, Lee-Ann Holmes, Rhymes for big rascals, R.I.C. Publications, page 74:
text: This version is richer and creamier than regular White Christmas slice.
ref: 2011, Sally Wise, Leftover Makeovers: Quick and Fabulous Food From Your Fridge and Pantry, unnumbered page:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A sweet food item made from dried fruits and nuts mixed with copha or white chocolate or similar sweet white binding and allowed to set in a tray to make slices.
white Christmas slices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white Christmas slice
Senses: glosses: plural of white Christmas slice
nonchallenge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonchallenges
Etymology: * non- + challenge
Senses: examples: 1980, Richard N. L. Andrews, Paul F. Nowak, United States. Dept. of Agriculture. Office of Environmental Quality, Off-road vehicle use: a management challenge
One, it reduces the management challenge to an unsporting nonchallenge.
glosses: Something that is not a challenge.
nonchallenges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonchallenge
fwend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fwends
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of friend.
fwiend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fwiends
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of friend.
overchallenge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overchallenges
form: overchallenging
form: overchallenged
form: overchallenged
Etymology: * over- + challenge
Senses: examples: text: For example, if a mother consistently overchallenges her child and responds negatively to the child's failures to meet her standards, the child will develop low confidence in her own ability and feel discouraged to take up new challenges.
ref: 2011, Karen L. Fingerman, Handbook of Life-Span Development:
glosses: To challenge to an excessive degree.
overchallenge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overchallenges
Etymology: * over- + challenge
Senses: examples: text: An overchallenge involves an imbalance, such that the level of difficulty in the occupational form exceeds the competencies in the developmental structure.
ref: 2003, Paula Kramer, Jim Hinojosa, Charlotte Brasic Royeen, Perspectives in Human Occupation: Participation in Life:
glosses: Challenge that is too difficult.
underchallenge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underchallenges
form: underchallenging
form: underchallenged
form: underchallenged
Etymology: * under- + challenge
Senses: examples: 2010, Jan Fawcett, M.D., Bernard Golden, Ph.D., Nancy Rosenfeld, New Hope For People With Bipolar Disorder Revised 2nd Edition: Your Friendly ...
If you underchallenge yourself, the goal won't serve its purpose of providing meaning and orienting you to the future.
glosses: To challenge to an insufficient degree.
underchallenge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underchallenges
Etymology: * under- + challenge
Senses: examples: text: An underchallenge also reflects an imbalance.
ref: 2003, Paula Kramer, Jim Hinojosa, Charlotte Brasic Royeen, Perspectives in Human Occupation: Participation in Life:
glosses: A challenge that is not sufficiently difficult.
Doberman Pinschers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Doberman Pinscher
superchallenge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superchallenges
Etymology: * super- + challenge
Senses: examples: text: They choose from a menu of regular challenges, superchallenges, or megachallenges.
ref: 2009, Kathleen Kryza, Alicia Duncan, S. Joy Stephens, Differentiation for Real Classrooms: Making It Simple, Making It Work:
glosses: A challenge that is more difficult than usual.
Weltpolitik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German Weltpolitik, a compound of Welt (“world”) + Politik (“politics”).
Senses: examples: text: 'The main decision made by Kaiser Wilhelm II in the 1890s was to pursue Weltpolitik.' a) What is meant by Weltpolitik in relation to German foreign policy between 1890 and 1914? (3 marks) Weltpolitik is a term used to describe the expanding […]
ref: 2003, Stephen J. Lee, Europe, 1890-1945, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 15:
text: Industrialists financed these pressure groups because they supported Weltpolitik. In the reign of William II German nationalism became more aggressive and had an increasingly unsettling effect upon relations between the Great Powers.
ref: 2004, Michael Scaife, History: Modern British and European, Letts and Lonsdale, →ISBN, page 60:
text: The policy of Weltpolitik had serious international repercussions. First, the Junkers got high grain tariffs, which angered Russia and forced it into an alliance with France and Britain. German Junkers wanted to eliminate competition from […]
ref: 2007, Greg Cashman, Leonard C. Robinson, An Introduction to the Causes of War: Patterns of Interstate Conflict from World War I to Iraq, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 54:
glosses: The aggressive foreign policy of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany beginning in 1891.
Related terms: Realpolitik
megachallenge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megachallenges
Etymology: From mega- + challenge.
Senses: examples: text: They choose from a menu of regular challenges, superchallenges, or megachallenges.
ref: 2009, Kathleen Kryza, Alicia Duncan, S. Joy Stephens, Differentiation for Real Classrooms: Making It Simple, Making It Work:
glosses: An exceptionally difficult challenge.
bespeakest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of bespeak
Lake Kinneret
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lake Kinnereth
form: Lake Kineret
form: Lake Kinereth
form: Kinneret
form: Kinnereth
form: Kineret
form: Kinereth
Senses: glosses: The Sea of Galilee.
Kinneret
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lake Kinneret
form: Lake Kinnereth
form: Lake Kineret
form: Lake Kinereth
form: Yam Kinneret
form: Kinnereth
form: Kineret
form: Kinereth
form: Chinnereth
form: Chinneroth
form: Kinnereth
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew כנרת (kinéret).
Senses: glosses: The Sea of Galilee.
glosses: A Bronze and Iron Age city situated on the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee, mentioned in the Bible.
Kinnereth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kinneret (“Sea of Galilee”).
glosses: Alternative form of Kinneret (“ancient city”).
Kineret
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kinneret (“Sea of Galilee”).
Kinereth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kinneret (“Sea of Galilee”).
Lake Kinnereth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Lake Kinneret (“Sea of Galilee”).
Lake Kineret
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Lake Kinneret (“Sea of Galilee”).
Lake Kinereth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Lake Kinneret (“Sea of Galilee”).
ur-race
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ur-races
form: Ur-race
Etymology: From ur- (“primal, original”) + race.
Senses: examples: text: The Jew, then, was at once seen as the definitive race and an equivocal one – at once the embodiment of an Ur-race and the composite body of a mongrel race.
ref: 2008, Daniel A. Novak, Realism, Photography and Nineteenth-Century Fiction - Page 108:
text: Günther adduced from this fact that the characteristics of the ur-race could be determined from close observation of contemporary Armenians.
ref: 2009, Alan E Steinweis, Studying the Jew: Scholarly Antisemitism in Nazi Germany - Page 28:
text: “Aryanism” broadened but also still racialized ideas about the origins of civilization by incorporating all speakers of Indo-European languages, including Indian speaker of Sanskrit-based tongues, into a single, civilizing ur-race, as in Sir Henry Maine's Taming Cannibals.
ref: 2011, Patrick Brantlinger, Taming Cannibals: Race and the Victorians - Page 118:
glosses: A primitive, primordial, or original race; a proto-race
Derived terms: ur-racial
ur-races
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ur-race
Ur-race
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ur-races
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ur-race.
proto-race
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proto-races
Etymology: From proto- + race.
Senses: glosses: A primal or primordial race; an ur-race
Derived terms: proto-racial
proto-racism
Related terms: proto-racialism
proto-races
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proto-race
proto-racial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more proto-racial
form: most proto-racial
Etymology: From proto- + racial.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to early or formative racial ideas or ideology
proto-racial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more proto-racial
form: most proto-racial
Etymology: From proto-race + -ial.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a proto-race
demetaphorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: demetaphorizes
form: demetaphorizing
form: demetaphorized
form: demetaphorized
Etymology: From de- + metaphorize.
Senses: examples: text: My aim is to demetaphorize the question and ask "What does it matter who is speaking?", where speaking is taken literally.
ref: 2010, Graham Bradshaw, Tom Bishop, David Schalkwyk, The Achievement of Robert Weimann:
glosses: To remove metaphors from.
remetaphorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: remetaphorizes
form: remetaphorizing
form: remetaphorized
form: remetaphorized
Etymology: From re- + metaphorize.
Senses: examples: text: We might rephrase and remetaphorize the idea again and say that Lazaro presents himself as a lens through which he makes us view his situation, and that the lens composes the image of the situation as he would like us to see it.
ref: 2000, Keith Whitlock, The Renaissance in Europe: A Reader:
glosses: To change metaphors in a description.
demetaphorizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of demetaphorize
demetaphorizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of demetaphorize
demetaphorized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of demetaphorize
remetaphorized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of remetaphorize
remetaphorizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of remetaphorize
remetaphorizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of remetaphorize
rocketmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rocketman
grandy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grandies
form: grandie
Senses: glosses: A grandparent: either a grandfather or a grandmother.
starshinas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of starshina
albizzia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ælˈbɪzi.ə/
ipa: /ælˈbɪtsi.ə/
rhymes: -ɪziə
Forms: form: albizzias
Etymology: From the commonly used, but invalid translingual taxonomic name Albizzia, a correction of Albizia to match Filippo degli Albizzi's name. Such corrections, however, are not allowed by the taxonomic rules.
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of trees and shrubs considered either now or formerly to belong to the genus Albizia.
wikipedia: Albizzi
albizzias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of albizzia