cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Taimali
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 太麻里 (Tàimálǐ).
Senses: examples: text: After leaving Chihpen, ride south through Taimali, passing fields of day-lily flowers. The bright orange flowers from this area are considered a superior ingredient for Taiwanese soups and sautés.
ref: 1994, Roger Grigsby, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China's East Coast (China by Bike), The Mountaineers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 99:
text: New suspected cases of the disease have also been found in the eastern city of Hualien and in an aboriginal tribe in remote Taimali, Agence France-Presse reported.[…]
In Taimali, a woman from one of the ethnic Malay tribes that dominated the island before mainland Chinese began arriving three centuries ago was ruled a SARS victim five days after her death.
ref: 2003 May 15, Donald G. McNeil Jr., “THE SARS EPIDEMIC: OUTBREAK; Thousands Are Quarantined at Taiwan's Top Hospital”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015, WORLD:
text: Migration to the cities for work or higher education has also reduced the number of tribe members still living on the land. Religious differences, brought on by exposure to Taiwanese and Western missionaries, have also led to differences and discord between the various tribes.
But activists such as Sakinu -- who goes by just one name and runs a community center in Taimali -- warn that the island’s 13 recognized tribes, totaling about 400,000 of Taiwan’s 23 million population, could lose their land, rights and identities unless they cling to their roots and unify their ranks.
ref: 2007 May 28, Ralph Jennings, “Taiwan aboriginals seek the past to stay unified”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2022, Lifestyle:
text: A traditional bamboo raft was on Monday launched in Taitung County’s Taimali Township (太麻里) as part of a Taiwanese-Japanese project to explore a sea route between Taiwan and Okinawa that might have been traveled 30,000 years ago.
ref: 2017 June 7, “Raft to explore ancient sea route”, in Taipei Times, sourced from Staff writer, with CNA, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Oct 2024, Taiwan News, page 4:
glosses: A rural township in Taitung County, Taiwan.
Thurbon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Thurbons
Etymology: Variant of Thorburn.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
learnèd borrowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: learnèd borrowings
Senses: examples: text: His discussion is in general extensive and detailed, operating with mechanisms customarily recognized in linguistic history—sound-change, phonemic replacement (so-called “irregular” sound-change: assimilation, dissimilation, metathesis, etc.), analogy, and dialectal and learnèd borrowing.
ref: 1945, Word: Journal of the Linguistic Circle of New York, page 119:
text: Other learnèd borrowings, of peripheral importance to our problem and, for the most part, ephemeral, include umbra itself, plus derivatives in -áculo (alongside vernacular sombr-ajo, -aje—the latter through contamination with a borrowed trans-Pyrenean reflex of -āticu: ‘sombra que hace uno poniéndose delante de la luz y moviéndose de modo que estorbe al que la necesita’, cf. Sp. vent-aja: Ptg. vant-agem), -al, and -átil, quite apart from umbela, umbelífero, and penumbra.
ref: 1983, Yakov Malkiel, “Identification of Origin and Justification of Spread in Etymological Analysis”, in From Particular to General Linguistics: Selected Essays 1965-1978 (Studies in Language Companion Series 3), Amsterdam; Philadelphia, Pa.: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, section L (Etymology), page 467:
text: Rotwelsch hebraisms which deviate from Yiddish pronunciation norms have been ascribed to distortions introduced by Christian speakers (Thiele 1843:199) or to learnèd borrowings by Christians (M.Mieses 1915:25);[…].
ref: 1988, Paul Wexler, Three Heirs to a Judeo-Latin Legacy: Judeo-Ibero-Romance, Yiddish and Rotwelsch (Mediterranean Language and Culture Monograph Series; volume 3), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 147:
text: In Spanish, word-medial codas include stops and /f/, usually found in learnèd borrowings, as well as more frequent /s θ n l ɾ/: asco ‘disgust’, manta ‘blanket’;[…].
ref: 2016, Donald N. Tuten, Enrique Pato, Ora R. Schwarzwald, “Spanish, Astur-Leonese, Navarro-Aragonese, Judaeo-Spanish”, in Adam Ledgeway, Martin Maiden, editors, The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages (Oxford Guides to the World’s Languages), Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part III (Individual Structural Overviews), page 392:
glosses: Alternative spelling of learned borrowing.
learnèd borrowings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of learnèd borrowing
velitary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: velitaries
Etymology: Derived from velitation.
Senses: examples: text: You would hav men think, that if you have ſo many men in a skirmiſh or velitation, you have many moe againſt a day of battel. But if these your velitaries be discomfited (as some of them are already,) I suppose your armado wil never enter this feild. Let us therfore try their strength.
ref: 1615, Henry Ainsworth, The Trying Out of the Truth:
glosses: A participant in a velitation; a soldier.
velitary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See velleitary.
Senses: examples: text: The Preface of the S.T. being vindicated from the exceptions of Mr. T. wherein his skirmiſhings have been manifeſted to be velitary, and weak indeed.
ref: 1668, Robert Brown, Jerubbaal, Or, A Vindication of The Sober Testimony Against Sinful Complyance:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of velleitary.
y'all means all
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: I stay here to continue to insist, as the saying goes, that y'all means all, that the loudest, crudest voices don't get to have the last word. Oh, I could move to a liberal enclave in the no-nonsense North, but I like a bit of nonsense,[…]
ref: 2018 May 16, Susan Cushman, Southern Writers on Writing, Univ. Press of Mississippi, →ISBN:
text: "Y'all means all," I proclaimed from the pulpit. The message was simple enough : If we're going to be a welcoming church , we've got to open the doors to everyone. No exceptions. Some folks nodded in approval , but others looked[…]
ref: 2019, Rob Lee, A Sin by Any Other Name: Reckoning with Racism and the Heritage of the South, Convergent Books, →ISBN, page 118:
text: You see, to Sherri and to the library, "Y'all" means "all." All. No exceptions. Everyone deserves to be respected and have a space to explore and learn. Everyone is loved and cherished by God. For Jesus, "y'all" means "all.
ref: 2022 March 22, Andy Stanton-Henry, Recovering Abundance: Twelve Practices for Small-Town Leaders, Fortress Press, →ISBN, page 221:
glosses: Bigotry and intolerance are unacceptable; no one should be discriminated against.
St Blaise
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Saint Blaise.
Senses: glosses: A civil parish with a town council serving St Blazey, Cornwall, England.
wikipedia: Saint Blaise
towndweller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: towndwellers
Etymology: From town + dweller.
Senses: examples: text: The urban Arab living in Jaffa is relatively less likely than the Arab villager to develop friendly contacts outside the family circle. Villagers tend to spend time with neighbours and friends more than towndwellers whatever their level of education. On the other hand, citydwellers spend more time at the cinema.
ref: 1968, Alexander Berler, Urbanization and Communication: Communication Systems and Their Impact on Socio-cultural Urbanization in Israel, volumes 5-14:
text: Moreover, just as some literate laymen were to be found at the secular court, so is the same increasingly true of towndwellers, first as scribal transactions move from Latin to the vernacular,²⁶⁰ then as merchants, perhaps still illiterate, see the advantages of schooling for their songs.261 Like the princely courts towndwellers depend on clerical litterati and also see the point of acquiring literacy for themselves.
ref: 1994, Dennis Howard Green, Medieval Listening and Reading: The Primary Reception of German Literature 800-1300, page 291:
text: Seen from one particular urban area a 'permanent towndweller' may be a transient towndweller and thus little different than the man who commutes daily between town and village.
ref: 2019, Riall W. Nolan, Bassari Migrations: The Quiet Revolution:
glosses: Alternative spelling of town dweller.
town-dweller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: town-dwellers
Etymology: From town + dweller.
Senses: examples: text: The specter of fire has ever haunted the town-dweller.
ref: 2013, Carl Bridenbaugh, Cities in the Wilderness: The First Century of Urban Life in America 1625-1742:
text: The burgher or bourgeois is, by definition, a town-dweller.
ref: 2016, Ellen Meiksins Wood, The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View:
text: Victory is the life of the soul: the soul is not the town-dweller.
But the gates of victory are open to the town-dweller also.
ref: 2021, Acharya Mahapragya, March to Victory, page 16:
glosses: Alternative spelling of town dweller.
Saint Andrews
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪnt ˈæn.dɹuːz/
homophone: St Andrews
homophone: St. Andrews
Etymology: Possibly derived from French. Local tradition holds that a French missionary erected a cross near the town and named the area after Saint Andrew.
Senses: glosses: A town in Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada.
glosses: A civil parish of Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada.
cacqueteuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cacqueteuse
town dweller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: town dwellers
form: town-dweller
form: towndweller
Senses: examples: text: M. 2:3 "...On condition that I am a priest," and he turns out to be a Levite, "...on condition that I am a Levite," and he turns out to be a priest, "...a Netin," and he turns out to be a mamzer, "...a mamzer," and he turns out to be a Netin, "...a town dweller," and he turns out to be a villager, "...a villager," and he turns out to be a town dweller, "...on condition that my home is near the bath," and it turns out to be far away, "...far," and it turns out to be near: "...On condition that I have a daughter or a slave girl who is a hairdresser"' and he has none, "...on condition that I have none," and he has one; "...on condition that I have no children," and he has; "...on condition that he has," and he has none — in the case of all of them, even though she says, "In my heart I wanted to become betrothed to him despite that fact," she is not betrothed. And so is the rule if she deceived him.
ref: 2000, Jacob Neusner, The Comparative Hermeneutics of Rabbinic Judaism, Volume Two: Seder Mo'ed, page 389:
text: A town dweller should not sell the goods on behalf of the desert dweller.
ref: 2007, Mohammad Ben Ismaïl Al' Bukhari, Al' Bukhari's Sahih: The Correct Traditions of Al' Bukhari, Volume II, page 56:
text: The illusory nature of urban area reduces the stability of the consciousness of a town dweller, promotes his estrangement from the real environment of existence.
ref: 2019, Elena G. Popkova, Growth Poles of the Global Economy: Emergence, Changes and Future Perspectives, page 652:
hypernyms: word: person
glosses: A person who lives in a town.
town dwellers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of town dweller
cacqueteuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cacqueteuses
Senses: glosses: An antique French armchair with a narrow back and splayed arms.
Related terms: caquetoire
caqueteuse
towndwellers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of towndweller
town-dwellers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of town-dweller
overbanks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overbank
Jaggard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jaggards
Etymology: From the personal name Jackard, a pejorative form of Jack.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
falcatid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: falcatids
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A member of the Falcatidae family.
paraortygid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paraortygids
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A bird from the extinct Paraortygidae family.
Hnatykiw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hnatykiws
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Lanuéjols
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Lanuéjols.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Gard department, Occitania, France.
glosses: A village and commune of Lozère department, Occitania, France.
marRAB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: bacteriology
biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: multiple antibiotic resistance operon of Escherichia coli.
Cappellanti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cappellantis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Cappellanti.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
fbiC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named in https://doi.org/10.1128/JB.184.9.2420-2428.2002
Senses: topics: bacteriology
biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A gene found in Mycobacterium bovis that codes an enzyme involved in the production of coenzyme F₄₂₀-5.
hydrodolasetron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A drug chemical with the formal name (10-hydroxy-8-azatricyclo[5.3.1.0^(3,8)}]undecan-5-yl) 1H-indole-3-carboxylate
undecan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: undecane.
Thurbons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Thurbon
sun-chaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sun-chasers
Senses: examples: text: The first effort of the "sun-chaser" with a thorough appreciation of the pastime, is directed towards finding the warmest corner in the garden, notwithstanding the fact that very likely there isn't one.
ref: 1911 September 28, The Worker, Wagga Wagga, NSW, page 13, column 4:
text: You can call as sun-chasers because we have left our southern homes to chase the sun in Queensland's winter playgrounds.
ref: 1933 June 1, The Telegraph, Brisbane, page 11, column 4:
text: The liquor license was relaxed to allow sun chasers to take a tipple on a daybed[.]
ref: 2022 August 1, Off the Leash, Darwin, NT, page 17, column 1:
glosses: A person who travels in order to seek sunny weather or a sunny spot.
sun-chasers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sun-chaser
coffee pause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coffee pauses
Etymology: Calque of Finnish kahvipaussi, Finnish kahvitauko, French pause-café, or German Kaffeepause.
Senses: examples: text: Ok, after a coffee pause, I found it in 10 minutes :)))) Thanks for reading anyway. I just had to use the cos(a)*cos(b) stuff twice, et voila.
ref: 1995 March 29, Alain Fontaine, “Trigo”, in sci.math (Usenet), retrieved 11 Aug 2022:
text: While they had a coffee pause, and one of them was not able toopen^([sic]) the jar, he suddenly explored increased blood pressure which was seen on his face, and odd words were flowing out of his mouth - and all of sudden there was jam everywhere, for everybody.
ref: 1998 September 11, Olavi Noronen, “DID and PTSD”, in sci.psychology.psychotherapy (Usenet), retrieved 11 Aug 2022:
text: Different question totally is does your boss have to allow smoking at work. Of course not! Work is work, usually there is^([sic]) two coffee pauses and one lunch break during standard work day, and those breaks should be enough for smokers too...
ref: 2000 January 17, Sir Robin, “Smokers in CA don't find nicotine a drug”, in alt.law-enforcement (Usenet), retrieved 11 Aug 2022:
text: Registration fees include Acts of the workshop and coffee-pauses. It will be possible to have lunch on the campus on the 21 th,^([sic]) 22th and 23th.
ref: 2001 September 4, GODS...@home.com, “Di: foNETiks newsletter”, in alt.conspiracy.princess-diana (Usenet), retrieved 11 Aug 2022:
text: You should try Lavazza just before and just after you paint, Bruce. Coffee, then attach the painbrushes^([sic]) to your feet and on you go. Then a coffee pause, and on you go (on the wet paint) again:-) This way you'll get the "look" that is very "in" where I live. Patiné. Old look!Excellent exercise and I guarantee that you won't think of T for one second.
ref: 2002 September 30, Susanne Sourire, “Need some advise^([sic]) about what I have to look forward too^([sic])”, in alt.support.tinnitus (Usenet), retrieved 11 Aug 2022:
qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: A coffee break.
coffee pauses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coffee pause
pyroglutamase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pyroglutamate + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme that catalyzes hydrolysis of pyroglutamic acid.
Jaggards
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Jaggard
bao bun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bao buns
Senses: glosses: Any of various types of steamed bread or bun used in Chinese cuisine; bao.
bao buns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bao bun
Boudakian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Boudakians
Etymology: From Armenian Բուդաքյան (Budakʻyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Miserlian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Miserlians
Etymology: From Armenian Մսրլյան (Msrlyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Miserlians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Miserlian
Boudakians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Boudakian
teddy bears' picnic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teddy bears' picnics
Etymology: After a popular children's song, The Teddy Bears' Picnic, music composed by John Walter Bratton, 1907, with lyrics by Jimmy Kennedy, 1932.
Senses: examples: text: Thursday Island Child Care Center had a teddy bear's picnic on Friday June 7 where children, staff and teddy bears had fruits and snacks, played games and sang songs.
ref: 2013 June 17, Torres News, Thursday Island, page 17, column 1:
text: The cuddliest event of the Darwin Festival calendar, City of Darwin's Teddy Bears' Picnic is back, presenting a fun-filled morning for all the mama, papa and baby bears.
ref: 2022 August 1, Off the Leash, Darwin, NT, page 6, column 1:
glosses: A picnic to which attendees bring their teddy bears, typically as an organised community event.
teddy bears' picnics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teddy bears' picnic
Oundle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈaʊndəl/
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English Oundel, Undle, from Old English Undolum (recorded as Undolumc), perhaps related to under (“under, among”).
Senses: glosses: A market town and civil parish with a town council in North Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, England, previously in East Northamptonshire district (OS grid ref TL0488).
twisty puzzles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twisty puzzle
hpaB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Abbreviation of hydroxyphenylacetate + B
Senses: topics: bacteriology
biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A gene encoding the 4-hydroxyphenylacetate 3-monooxygenase enzyme in Escherichia coli.
hydroxyphenylacetate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroxyphenylacetates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Ion or salt derived from hydroxyphenylacetic acid.
Shang-hae
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: We narrowly escaped running ashore near the island of Nan-jih, which belongs to Footeen district. Several junks had anchored in this harbour, some of which we visited, and were advised to go to Shang-hae in Keang-nan, where we might find a ready market for our cargo.
ref: 1834, Charles Gutzlaff, Journal of Three Voyages along the Coast of China, in 1831, 1832, & 1833, with Notices of Siam, Corea, and the Loo-Choo Islands, London: Frederick Westley and A.H. Davis, page 205:
text: Connected, however, as it is by an elaborate system of inland navigation with all the principal cities of the rich and productive province in which it is situated, among which Soo-chow-foo, the most important manufacturing town of the empire, occupies the foremost rank, Shang-hae must necessarily serve as the entrepôt of a considerable export and import trade, receiving, in exchange for the stuffs, silks, and wares of the province, the cargoes of grain, metals, and woollen goods, brought by the junks from Japan, Corea, Formosa, the southern ports, and Singapore.[…]
Shang-hae is apparently a very ancient town, bearing on its walls and buildings, private as well as public, evidence of the ravages of long periods of time.
ref: 1844, John Ochterlony, The Chinese War: An Account of All the Operations of the British Forces from the Commencement to the Treaty of Nanking, London: Saunders and Otley, →OCLC, pages 306–307:
text: The city of Shang-hae is surrounded by a wall about three miles and a quarter in circuit, which is not fortified in any manner; there are six entrances at gates, which give ingress and egress to the inhabitants of the city and environs; four of these gates open into the neighbourhood of the river where the warehouses of the merchants are situated.
ref: 1849, Henry Charles Sirr, chapter XIII, in China and the Chinese: Their Religion, Character, Customs, and Manufactures: the Evils Arising from the Opium Trade: with a Glance at our Religious, Moral, and Commercial Intercourse with the Country, volume I, Wm. S. Orr & Co., →OCLC, page 210:
glosses: Alternative form of Shanghai.
dumb as a brick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Synonym of thick as a brick.
synonyms: word: thick as a brick
chinwagger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chinwaggers
Senses: glosses: One who chinwags; a gossip.
chinwaggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chinwagger
Townsend daisy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Townsend daisies
Etymology: Named in honour of Pennsylvania botanist David Townsend (1787–1858).
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Townsendia of wildflowers.
wikipedia: David Townsend (botanist)
Related terms: Hooker's Townsend daisy
Townsend daisies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Townsend daisy
data swamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: data swamps
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A poorly managed data lake.
data swamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of data swamp
one-shotting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of one-shot
one-shotted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of one-shot
one-shot learning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: coordinate_terms: few-shot learning
N-shot learning
zero-shot learning
qualifier: machine learning
glosses: An object categorization problem, mainly in computer vision, involving the classification of objects based on one, or only a few, examples.
few-shot learning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: coordinate_terms: N-shot learning
one-shot learning
zero-shot learning
qualifier: machine learning
glosses: An object categorization problem, mainly in computer vision, involving the classification of objects based on only a few examples.
zero-shot learning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: coordinate_terms: few-shot learning
N-shot learning
one-shot learning
qualifier: machine learning
glosses: A problem setup in machine learning, where, at test time, a learner observes samples from classes that were not observed during training and attempts to predict the class that they belong to, typically based on auxiliary information.
asspat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asspats
Etymology: From ass + pat.
Senses: examples: text: Maybe everyone else wants to give you asspats for changing your tune, but me? I'd say the real heroes are the kids who were never delinquents to begin with.
ref: 2019, Sadanatsu Anda, Adam Fogle, Kokoro Connect Volume 5: Clip Time:
glosses: Undeserved sympathy or approval.
asspats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asspat
Tosafist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tosafists
Etymology: From Tosafot + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An author of the Tosafot.
Tosafists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tosafist
Tosafot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tosafos
form: Tosefos
form: Tosfot
Etymology: From Hebrew תוספות (tosafót).
Senses: glosses: Medieval commentaries on the Talmud, in the form of critical and explanatory glosses.
Derived terms: Tosafist
Tosafos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tosafot.
Tosfot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tosafot.
wet-leasing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wet + leasing.
Senses: examples: text: The airline started wet-leasing its planes to carriers in Europe.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The leasing of an airplane including crew, maintenance and insurance to another organisation, usually for a short period of time.
Related terms: wet lease
Ny-Ålesund
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian Ny-Ålesund.
Senses: glosses: A town in Svalbard, Norway.
tankside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tanksides
Etymology: From tank + side.
Senses: examples: text: An ex-LMS Class 3F 0-6-0T, No. 47482, emerges from Darlington works after overhaul with its number painted on the tankside in NER style.
ref: 1964 July, “Newsreel”, in Modern Railways, page 67, photo caption:
glosses: The side of a tank (for water etc.)
tanksides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tankside
causa sui
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin [Term?].
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Something that is generated within itself, or assigns itself a purpose.
Yashin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yashins
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Я́шин (Jášin).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Russian surname Я́шин (Jášin).
glosses: A surname from Russian.
quarter session
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarter sessions
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A local court traditionally held at four set times each year in the Kingdom of England from 1388, and later in Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and various other dominions of the British Empire.
quarter sessions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quarter session
nonextortion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + extortion.
Senses: examples: text: Posner's second argument against enforcing surrogacy contracts invokes a principle of nonextortion, which might be entailed by basic liberty (depending on what nonextortion is taken to mean).
ref: 1996, Amy Gutmann, Dennis Frank Thompson, Democracy and Disagreement, page 398:
glosses: Lack of extortion.
nonextraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + extraction.
Senses: examples: text: [O]rthodontic treatments for malocclusion can be classified as extraction treatments and nonextraction treatments.
ref: 2011, Silvano Naretto, Principles in Contemporary Orthodontics, page 476:
glosses: Lack of extraction; failure to extract something.
nonexertion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + exertion.
Senses: examples: text: Restorative yoga includes the use of props to put your body into positions where you can reach a state of total comfort, tranquility, and nonexertion.
ref: 2015, Jena la Flamme, Pleasurable Weight Loss:
glosses: Lack of exertion.
nonorganization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonorganizations
Etymology: From non- + organization.
Senses: glosses: Lack of organization.
glosses: An entity that is not an organization.
nonorganizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonorganization
nonnavigation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + navigation.
Senses: glosses: Lack of navigation.
nonnavigation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + navigation.
Senses: glosses: Not relating to navigation.
Nasirist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nasirists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nasserist.
Nāṣirist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nāṣirists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nasserist.
subdialectally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From subdialectal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a subdialectal way.
yabs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of yab
yabbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of yab
yabbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of yab
Birkel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Birkels
Etymology: Borrowed from German Birkel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Aderhold
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aderholds
Etymology: Borrowed from German Aderhold.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Aderholds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Aderhold
Birkels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Birkel
Amanos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Amano
Adnans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Adnan
zeism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From New Latin zea, from Ancient Greek ζειά (zeiá, “spelt”), + -ism.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pellagra.
Related terms: zeist
zeist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zeists
Etymology: From New Latin zea, from Ancient Greek ζειά (zeiá, “spelt”), + -ist.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
antonyms: antizeist
glosses: One who believed that maize was the cause of pellagra.
Related terms: zeism
antizeist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antizeists
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
antonyms: zeist
glosses: One who believed that maize was not the cause of pellagra.
Related terms: zeism
zeists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zeist
antizeists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antizeist
unnixtamalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + nixtamalized.
Senses: glosses: Not nixtamalized.
Zempel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zempels
Etymology: From German Zempel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Zillmer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zillmers
Etymology: From German Zillmer.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Zillmers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Zillmer
Zempels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Zempel
Passamaquoddy Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An inlet of the Bay of Fundy, located between Maine and New Brunswick.
bar bikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bar bike
Bisher
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bishers
Etymology: Americanized form of German Büscher.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Zenú
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A pre-Columbian culture in Colombia from about 200 BCE to about 1600 CE, whose ancestral territory comprises the valleys of the Sinú and San Jorge rivers as well as the coast of the Caribbean around the Gulf of Morrosquillo.
Beissel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Beissels
Etymology: Borrowed from German Beissel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Beissels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Beissel
Bishers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bisher
Zaporozhe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Zaporozhye.
Zaporozhie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Zaporozhye.
beer bike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beer bikes
Etymology: From beer + bike, in reference to the beer frequently drunk while using them.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of party bike.
synonyms: word: party bike
beer bikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beer bike
pedibuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedibus
Bolf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bolfs
Etymology: Borrowed from Czech and Serbo-Croatian Bolf, a variant of Volf.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
zoosporocysts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoosporocyst
Brechtel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Brechtels
Etymology: Borrowed from German Brechtel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Brechtels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Brechtel
Bolfs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bolf
Zieger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ziegers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Zieger.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Nemenhah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A religious group founded circa 2000 that practises alternative medicine.
Weichert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Weicherts
Etymology: Borrowed from German Weichert.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Wittler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wittlers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Wittler.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Wittlers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Wittler
Weicherts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Weichert
Ziegers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Zieger
McGrouther
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McGrouthers
Etymology: Variant of McGruther.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Umfreville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Umfrevilles
Etymology: Habitational surname of Norman origin, from the village of Offranville, in Normandy.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Norman.
wikipedia: Offranville
reality warping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: The psychic ability to manipulate, control, distort or alter reality
glosses: An instance of reality being warped or manipulated by this ability or other kind of phenomenon
yungan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From an Aboriginal language.
Senses: examples: text: The yungan has a very thick skin, like that of the hog with the hair off.
ref: 1847, John Dunmore Lang, Cooksland in North-eastern Australia, page 97:
glosses: The dugong.
Woolfitt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Woolfitts
Etymology: Habitational surname from a minor place in the parish of Tickhill, South Yorkshire, now known as Woolthwaite, but called Woolfit in 1817. The name derives from Old Norse úlfr (“wolf”) + þveit (“clearing, glade, meadow”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old Norse.
Woolfitts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Woolfitt
Bagguley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bagguleys
Etymology: Variant of Baguley.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
McGrouthers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McGrouther
Umfrevilles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Umfreville
yilt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yilts
Senses: examples: text: […] or that when they wished to breed from sows or yilts there would be no boars available.
ref: 1918, Live Stock Journal, volume 87, page 359:
glosses: Alternative form of gilt (“young female pig, at or nearing the age of first breeding”).
yilts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yilt
Lelean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Leleans
Senses: glosses: A surname.
yabbi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjæb.i/
rhymes: -æbi
Forms: form: yabbis
Senses: examples: text: Using serious yabbis, Fela was able to retain control of the floor against the persistent heckler.
ref: 1993, Frank Thurmond Fairfax, Fela, the Afrobeat King, page 365:
glosses: Satirical verbal abuse; a roasting.
Related terms: yab
yabbis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yabbi
Catfords
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Catford
prebunk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prebunks
form: prebunking
form: prebunked
form: prebunked
Etymology: Blend of pre- + debunk. By surface analysis, pre- + bunk.
Senses: examples: text: They predicted that the warning would work by “pre-bunking” the false information that may come someone's way (rather than debunking it afterward). […] However, if the fake petition was “pre-bunked” with a vaccine, subjects held on to their higher estimation of a scientific consensus.
ref: 2017 February 12, Sean Greene, “Fake news may be vulnerable to ‘vaccination’ Experiment shows that ‘pre-bunking’ can offset false information”, in Baltimore Sun, page A 6:
text: The theory is that it is easier to “prebunk” disinformation before it spreads than to debunk it once it has taken hold.
ref: 2019 October 29, John Thornhill, “Developing tools in the fight against deepfakes”, in Financial Times, page 15:
text: Twitter on Monday announced a new effort to preemptively debunk, or “prebunk” in Twitter parlance, some of the most commonly circulated false and misleading information about the election.
ref: 2020 October 27th, Mike Isaac, “Twitter to Highlight Accurate Voting Information”, in New York Times, page A 15:
text: Just as Fox News viewers were more likely to believe Iraq had weapons of mass destruction at the turn of the century, in our current disinformation age the lies are fed from on high before they ricochet around the internet. Exposing the people who do so in Australia, and removing them from the perch they sing from, can help collectively prebunk us.
ref: 2022, Ed Coper, Facts and Other Lies: Welcome to the Disinformation Age, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, page 282:
text: It is impossible to know what would have happened if the FBI had not prebunked the allegations about Biden family influence peddling. But it is unquestionable that the FBI’s actions influenced the 2020 presidential election. And it cannot happen again. […] The FBI, through the FITF, engaged in a months-long campaign to influence the 2020 election by prebunking the story about Biden family influence peddling, as supported by material recovered from Hunter Biden’s laptop. […] Since 2020, independent watchdogs have criticized the lack of protocol that allowed the FBI to successfully prebunk the true Post story.
ref: 2024 October 30, “ELECTION INTERFERENCE: HOW THE FBI “PREBUNKED” A TRUE STORY ABOUT THE BIDEN FAMILY’S CORRUPTION IN ADVANCE OF THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION”, in United States House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, pages 928, 990:
glosses: To counter potential misinformation by warning people against it before it is disseminated.
prebunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prebunks
Etymology: Blend of pre- + debunk. By surface analysis, pre- + bunk.
Senses: examples: text: [Twitter] will also publish so-called ‘prebunks’ specific to potentially misleading information on vaccines, they said.
ref: 2020 November 30, Anumeha Chaturvedi, “No Vaccine Yet for Fake News Epidemic”, in The Economic Times, New Delhi:
text: The company already has a dedicated climate topic on its site and offered what it described as “prebunks” during last year’s UN climate conference to counter misinformation surrounding climate change.
ref: 2022 April 24, “Twitter outlaws climate sceptics”, in Sunday Post, Dundee, page 6:
text: The prebunk prepares readers with genuine information as well as the ability to spot the exact misinformation that may be coming their way.
ref: 2023 January 18, Targeted News Service, “National Association of Science Writers: Beyond The Debunk - How Science Journalists Can Report On Misinformation”, in Proquest (Wire Feed):
glosses: An act of prebunking.
Leleans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lelean
prebunked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prebunk
prebunks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prebunk
prebunks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prebunk
Sitwellism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Sitwell + -ism.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: The opinions and practices of the Sitwell literary family.
Bagguleys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bagguley
Baguleys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Baguley
Tiddington-with-Albury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England, which includes these two villages.
Related terms: Albury
Tiddington
scene-room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scene-rooms
Senses: glosses: Synonym of scene-dock.
synonyms: word: scene-dock
scene-rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scene-room
Tiddington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Old English personal name Tytta + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Senses: glosses: A village in Tiddington-with-Albury parish, South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP6405).
Derived terms: Tiddington-with-Albury
Tiddington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Old English personal name Tīda + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Senses: glosses: A village in Stratford-upon-Avon parish, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP2256).
crossbiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crossbiters
Senses: glosses: One who crossbites; a deceiver; a cheat.
crossbiters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crossbiter
cross-biter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-biters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crossbiter.
cross-biters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross-biter
cross-bite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-bites
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crossbite.
cross-bite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cross-bites
form: cross-biting
form: cross-bit
form: cross-bitten
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crossbite.
cross-bitten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of cross-bite
cross-bites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross-bite
cross-bites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cross-bite
cross-biting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cross-bite
cross-bit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of cross-bite
bit of stuff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bits of stuff
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bit of skirt (“a sexually attractive woman”).
synonyms: word: bit of skirt
extra: a sexually attractive woman
glosses: A showy, overconfident man.
bits of stuff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bit of stuff
bit of muslin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bits of muslin
Senses: examples: text: She must have known that she was throwing her bonnet over the windmill, but for a girl like that to be a Nobleman's 'bit of muslin' is sometimes infinitely preferable to the stolid respectability of domestic service.
ref: 1949, Barbara Cartland, Hazard of Hearts:
glosses: Synonym of bit of skirt (“a sexually attractive woman”).
synonyms: word: bit of skirt
extra: a sexually attractive woman
bits of muslin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bit of muslin
Cashmore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cashmores
Etymology: Habitational surname from Cashmoor, in Dorset.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
cupcakey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cupcakey
form: most cupcakey
Etymology: From cupcake + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Tart lemon cake with sweet raspberry icing, it was a one-two punch of cupcakey goodness.
ref: 2016, Jenn McKinlay, Vanilla Beaned, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN, page 62:
text: […]I ask Sadie after I swallow the last bite of cupcakey goodness.
ref: 2016, Jen Malone, Gail Nall, “Lauren”, in You’re Invited Too, Aladdin M!X, →ISBN, page 215:
text: It looked so delicious, so real—like if you didn’t see its cupcakey bottom, you’d think it was a salty, slimy, crunchy, breakfast-time egg.
ref: 2021, Carter Higgins, Audrey L and Audrey W: Best Friends-ish, book 1, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 138:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a cupcake.
examples: text: I’ve always seen couples stroking each other and going all cupcakey and sending text messages every five seconds and stuff, but me and Jason weren’t like that.
ref: 2011, C. J. Skuse, Pretty Bad Things, Chicken House, →ISBN, page 12:
text: You must act cupcakey sweet on the outside.
ref: 2014, Barbara Stuber, Girl in Reverse, Margaret K. McElderry Books, published 2015, →ISBN, page 44:
text: […]for [Darcey] Steinke, the girl crush is not cute and cupcakey and frothy; it is serious, intense, dangerous and all-consuming.
ref: 2014 October 19, Porochista Khakpour, “A girl’s powerful coming of age in the ’70s”, in Los Angeles Times, page E11:
glosses: Sweet; affectionate; endearing.
Buffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Buff
one-er
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one-ers
Senses: examples: text: 'Do they often go where glory waits 'em, and leave you here?'
'Oh, yes; I believe you they do,' returned the small servant. 'Miss Sally's such a one-er for that, she is.'
ref: 1841, Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop:
glosses: Alternative form of oner.
one-ers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of one-er
covils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of covil
Wupper
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A tributary of the Rhine in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Derived terms: Wuppertal
Tolkienism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tolkienisms
Etymology: From Tolkien + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Something characteristic of J. R. R. Tolkien, such as a word from his constructed languages, or a style of high fantasy literature.
Tolkienisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tolkienism