cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
antirequisite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antirequisite
form: most antirequisite
Etymology: Coined by Elliott Jaques in contrast to his use of requisite to describe an organization that promotes positive and effective human interactions.
Senses: examples: text: His book is about the conditions for requisite institutions and how to change antirequisite, “alienating, paranoiagenic, entropic” organizations.
ref: 1977 October, Noel Tichy, “A General Theory of Bureaucracy (Book review)”, in The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science:
text: I have also learned that antirequisite social arrangements massively outweigh personality makeup in calling forth behaviors that reveal the primitive greed, and envy, and destructiveness—the capacity for evil split away in our inner lives.
ref: 2001, Elliott Jaques, The Life and Behavior of Living Organisms: A General Theory, →ISBN:
text: On the other hand, anti-requisite organizations hinder and prevent the formation of normal relationships and are in fact 'paranoiagenic', that is, they create envy, hostile rivalry, and anxiety.
ref: 2014, Robert De Board, The Psychoanalysis of Organizations, →ISBN:
topics: management
glosses: Counter to human nature; tending to make people dysfunctional and to interfere with cooperation.
antirequisites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antirequisite
airs and graces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛəz‿n̩ ˈɡɹeɪsɪz/
ipa: /ˌɛɚz‿n̩ ˈɡɹeɪsɪz/
rhymes: -eɪsɪz
Senses: examples: text: He made a thouſand uggly Faces, / VVhich (as ſometimes in Ladies caſes) / VVere all deſign'd for Airs and Graces.
ref: 1697, [John Vanbrugh], “[Part I]”, in Æsop. A Comedy. […], 3rd edition, London: […] Richard Wellington, […], published 1702, →OCLC, Act II, page 18:
text: Nature has laid out all her airt in beautifying the face; […] giving it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
ref: 1711 July 3 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “FRIDAY, June 22, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 98; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 43:
text: Indeed, she rehearsed that exalted part in life with great satisfaction to herself, and to the amusement of old Sir Pitt, who chuckled at her airs and graces, and would laugh by the hour together at her assumptions of dignity and imitations of genteel life.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “A Cynical Chapter”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 357:
text: The station (1840) was originally Cheltenham but the more grandiose Cheltenham Spa since 1925, which feels a bit pretentious as the town has never allowed itself to assume such airs and graces.
ref: 2023 January 11, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: castles and cathedrals”, in RAIL, number 974, page 56:
synonyms: word: affectations
word: hoity-toity
word: huffiness
word: pretensions
glosses: Behaviour adopted to demonstrate (originally) one's good upbringing; or (now) one's superiority; pretentious or snobbish behaviour.
Related terms: give oneself airs
put on airs
stand on ceremony
endopolyploidizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endopolyploidization
panchrestons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panchreston
beachkeeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beachkeepers
Etymology: From beach + keeper.
Senses: examples: text: Unable to go herself, she graciously gave us a note to her beachkeeper, who probably has nothing to do six days out of the week, for he was so happy to introduce us to his family and help us up and down the steep slopes that we thought we'd never get into the water.
ref: 1966, The Road to Panama, page 151:
text: The closer you get to Queens, the less happy local beachkeepers are going to be to see you.
ref: 1978, New York - Volume 11, page 154:
text: As a youth, I spent many summers volunteering as a “beachkeeper” to inform park visitors about “environmentally friendly beach behaviour,” working as a day camp leader, and enjoying recreational activities in Belcarra Regional Park.
ref: 2016, Sarah Marie Wiebe, Everyday Exposure:
text: Long-term volunteers undergo training to become independent 'beachkeepers' – monitoring beaches all around the island.
ref: 2018, Ray Bartlett, Paul Clammer, Lonely Planet Cruise Ports Caribbean, →ISBN:
glosses: One whose job is to control access to and maintain a beach.
beachkeeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beachkeepers
Etymology: Blend of beach + peacekeeper
Senses: examples: text: Soldiers from both peacekeeping missions were referred to by locals as “beachkeepers” because of the time they spent at the beachfront bars in Freetown.
ref: 2013, Janie L. Leatherman, Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict, →ISBN, page 20:
text: The peacekeepers failed to convince both civilians and rebels of their authority in the country. UNAMSIL was referred to as “U-nasty” and peacekeepers were called “beachkeepers” because cohorts could often be found enjoying the country's beaches.
ref: 2015, Megan H. MacKenzie, Female Soldiers in Sierra Leone, →ISBN:
text: With hardly any other option than becoming a ‘beachkeeper, they emphasize the value of humanitarian assistance, travel and cultural exchange to become a competent soldier.
ref: 2019, Eva van Roekel, “Inaction as only alternative. Contemporary Argentinian peacekeepers in search of respect”, in Program and abstracts 15th Biennial Conference of ERGOMAS To be held at Lisbon Portugal, page 105:
glosses: A soldier on a peacekeeping mission who spends a lot of time at the beach.
beachkeepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beachkeeper
emery cloths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emery cloth
rahmonic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rahmonics
Etymology: From harmonic with the first syllable reversed, like cepstrum from spectrum.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
glosses: A harmonic of a cepstrum.
gamnitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gamnitudes
Etymology: From magnitude with the first syllable reversed, like cepstrum from spectrum.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
glosses: A magnitude of a cepstrum.
rahmonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rahmonic
gamnitudes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gamnitude
cepstrally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From cepstral + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of a cepstrum.
speed-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speed-up
Blum's speedup theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: First stated by Manuel Blum in 1967.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A fundamental theorem about the complexity of computable functions, stating that for any complexity measure there are computable functions that are not optimal with respect to that measure.
staminas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stamina
Flying Vs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Flying V
LoDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LoD
tremend
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tremend
form: most tremend
Etymology: From Latin tremendus. Doublet of tremendous.
Senses: examples: text: A greater fault in truth can not be named, then this was. But to them who eſteme the tremend Myſteries foꝛ pꝛophane Idols, it ſemeth moꝛe greuouſe, that theſe falſe bꝛethꝛen burned ⁊ rent not only al kinde of Church bokes, but moꝛe ouer deſtroied whole Libꝛaries and bokes of al ſciences and tõgues, yea the holy Scriptures, and the Auncient Fathers, and toꝛe in peeces the Maps, and charts of the deſcriptions of Countries.
ref: 1567, Nicolas Sander, “The Argument of the Treatise folowing”, in A Treatise of the Images of Christ, and of His Saints: and that It Is Vnlaufull to Breake Them, and Lauful to Honour Them. […], Leuven: Apud Ioannem Foulerum, →OCLC, folio 4, verso:
text: IN the Hebrew, thou ſhalt not bear or carry, namely in thy Mouth; which is the ſame with, Thou ſhalt not take, viz. into thy Mouth. Here alſo is, of the Lord; becauſe by that Title the tremend Majeſty of God is beſt underſtood.
ref: 1682, [Walter Charleton], “The Third Precept explicated. Οὐ λήμψη τὸ ὄνομα τȣ̃ Κυρίȣ τȣ̃ Θεȣ̃ σȣ,˙ Thou ſhalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God, &c.”, in The Harmony of Natural and Positive Divine Laws, London: […] Walter Kettilby, […], page 143:
glosses: Synonym of tremendous.
synonyms: word: tremendous
caligidosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From caligid + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A disease associated with infection with caligid sea lice
cardiogenetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cardio- + genetics.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: cardiological genetics
Related terms: cardiogenetic
cervicomental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntəl
Etymology: From cervico- + mental.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the neck and the chin
cladodromous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From clado- + -dromous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a single, central vein from which secondary veins radiate on each side
raw_tags: of a leaf
clearence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of clearance.
commelinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commelinoids
Senses: glosses: Any flowering plant of the subfamily Commelinoideae
commelinoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commelinoid
complon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: complons
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A complementation subunit
complons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of complon
conjunctivocorneal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: conjunctival and corneal
coprophagously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a coprophagous manner
corticostriatopallidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cortico- + striatopallidal.
Senses: glosses: cortical and striatopallidal
cryocauterization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryocauterizations
Etymology: From cryo- + cauterization.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: cauterization by the application of extreme cold
cryoshock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryoshocks
Etymology: From cryo- + shock.
Senses: glosses: shock as the result of extreme cold, typically following cryotherapy
cyclotetrasiloxane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclotetrasiloxanes
Etymology: From cyclo- + tetrasiloxane.
Senses: glosses: A cyclosiloxane having four silicate groups
cytotoxigenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyto- + toxigenic.
Senses: glosses: toxicogenic to cells
Ka-gi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hokkien 嘉義 /嘉义 (Ka-gī).
Senses: examples: text: During the eighteenth century Chinese immigrants continued to pour into the country, and soon Hakka and Fo-kienese villages sprang up all along the coast. On their arrival they were sent inland by the local authorities in search of suitable localities outside the territory already cleared by other pioneers. Large towns sprang up in course of time, like Tai-wan-fu with its 200,000 inhabitants, Ka-gi or Ka-i to the west of Mount Morrison, and Chang-hua a little north of lat. 24″, and, in the north, Teckcham, the local name for Hsin-chu, the populous town of Banka with 40,000 inhabitants, and Twa-tu-tia with 20,000 to 30,000.
ref: 1895, John Dodd, “Formosa”, in Scottish Geographical Magazine, volume XI, number XI, Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, page 567:
text: Ka-gi city is the place which has come more prominently before our notice in connection with this war scare. The region after which this city takes its name occupies the middle-western part of the Island, and form the largest and most populous of the Formosan counties. We require to travel right through it while visiting the Sek-hwan stations, and although there is an encouraging work going on among the Pi-po-hwan of Ka-gi county, our great desire was to begin stated preaching work in some purely Chinese community there.
ref: 1915, William Campbell, Sketches from Formosa, Marshall Brothers Limited, page 72:
glosses: Synonym of Chiayi.
synonyms: word: Chiayi
degasify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: degasifies
form: degasifying
form: degasified
form: degasified
Etymology: From de- + gasify.
Senses: synonyms: degas#Verb
antonyms: gasify
regasify
glosses: To remove gas from.
coordinate_terms: regasify
glosses: To liquefy; to change (a gas) (back) to liquid form.
Related terms: degasification
degasifier
degasser
degasified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of degasify
degasifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of degasify
dehybridisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dehybridisations
Etymology: From de- + hybridisation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dehybridization.
delipidification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + lipidification.
Senses: glosses: The removal of lipids (from)
demibranchial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to demibranchs
Derived terms: interdemibranchial
desorbability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desorbabilities
Senses: glosses: The condition of being desorbable
desorbable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Able to be desorbed
transfinite induction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transfinite inductions
Senses: examples: text: The validity of the principle of transfinite induction for well-ordered sets enables us to carry out proofs by transfinite induction and definitions by transfinite induction. A proof by transfinite induction is a direct application of the principle when it is required to show that each element of a well-ordered set A has a property P.[…]To understand the method of definition by transfinite induction some preparation is necessary.
ref: 1967, Kam-Tim Leung, Doris Lai-chue Chen, Elementary Set Theory, Parts I and II, Hong Kong University Press, page 108:
text: 1970 [Addison-Wesley], Howard DeLong, A Profile of Mathematical Logic, Dover, 2004, page 218,
Just what kinds of transfinite inductions are to be considered finitary is debatable. Transfinite induction up to an arbitrary ordinal is certainly not finitary. However, it can be shown that certain transfinite inductions are reducible to ordinary mathematical inductions. For example, induction up to ω^ω is reducible to ordinary induction. Gentzen in his proof used transfinite induction up to ε₀.
text: The published version of 1936 had a different proof based on the famous principle of transfinite induction up to the ordinal #92;varepsilon#95;0 by which consistency^([of Peano arithmetic]) followed. A third proof of 1938 used transfinite induction but the logical system was a sequent calculus.
ref: 2009, Jan von Plato, “Gentzen's Logic”, in Dov M. Gabbay, John Woods, editors, Handbook of the History of Logic, Volume 5: Logic from Russell to Church, Elsevier (North-Holland), page 667:
topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: An extension of mathematical induction to well-ordered sets of transfinite cardinality, such as sets of ordinal numbers or cardinal numbers.
Synonyms: sense: extension of mathematical induction to well-ordered sets of transfinite cardinality
word: Noetherian induction
sense: extension of mathematical induction to well-ordered sets of transfinite cardinality
word: structural induction
sense: extension of mathematical induction to well-ordered sets of transfinite cardinality
word: well-founded induction
Hyponyms: sense: extension of mathematical induction to well-ordered sets of transfinite cardinality
word: ε-induction
sense: extension of mathematical induction to well-ordered sets of transfinite cardinality
word: epsilon-induction
Related terms: transfinite number
transfinite recursion
well-founded relation
transfinite inductions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transfinite induction
rescinsions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rescinsion
eat one's fill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eats one's fill
form: eating one's fill
form: ate one's fill
form: eaten one's fill
Senses: glosses: To eat to one's satisfaction, until full. (This entry is a translation hub.)
Indons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Indon
hand-eye coordinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hand-eye coordination
recementings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recementing
stereociliar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the stereocilium.
ballotted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ballotte
mehaleks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mehalek
VDR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VDRs
Senses: synonyms: trip recorder
hypernyms: black box
glosses: Initialism of voyage data recorder.
glosses: Initialism of virtual data room.
glosses: Abbreviation of vitamin D receptor.
glosses: Initialism of voltage dependent resistor.
examples: Coordinate term: CDR
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of voltage divider rule or voltage division rule.
bewiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bewile
VDRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of VDR
voyage data recorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voyage data recorders
Senses: synonyms: VDR
hypernyms: black box
coordinate_terms: event recorder
event data recorder
flight recorder
glosses: A recording device aboard a ship, which may record wheelhouse audio, rudder directives, speed commands, heading, position, etc.
voyage data recorders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voyage data recorder
fudgelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fudgel
fudgelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fudgel
columnates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of columnate
columnating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of columnate
Aquaterra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From aqua + terra.
From Latin aqua+terra.
Senses: glosses: Collectively, all the submerged lands that were once above water in ice age glacial periods, since the start of the Pleistocene.
Hyponyms: Beringia
Doggerland
Sundaland
uncircumflexed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + circumflexed.
Senses: glosses: Not circumflexed.
pluractionals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pluractional
chinchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: chinchier
form: chinchiest
Etymology: From Middle English chynchy (“miserly, stingy”), from Middle English chinche (“stingy, miserly; miser”) + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chintzy (“miserly”).
tan liquor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The ooze using in tanning leather.
tasklet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tasklets
Etymology: From task + -let.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A kind of simple task in some operating systems.
tasklets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tasklet
taskable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From task + -able.
Senses: examples: text: a taskable intelligent agent; a taskable sensor
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
glosses: To which tasks can be assigned.
examples: 1789, record of sale of enslaved people by Thomas Washington, cited in Philip D. Morgan, Slave Counterpoint, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998, Part 1, Chapter 3, p. 198, footnote 85,
[The 16-year-old boy has] been taskable these 3 years past.
1796, court record, Neufville v. Mitchell, 1 Desaussure 480, South Carolina, cited in Helen Tunnicliff Catterall (ed.), Judicial Cases concerning American Slavery and the Negro, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1929, pp. 277-278,
defendant […] states […] many of them were diseased and not taskable;
1813, Bahama Gazette, 19 December, 1813, cited in Howard Johnson, The Bahamas from Slavery to Servitude, 1783-1933, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, p. 29,
to oblige Planters to plant a certain quantity of Provisions to each taskable Negro
glosses: (of an enslaved person held on a plantation) Considered to be capable of performing labour, especially field labour.
Related terms: able-bodied
taskable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taskables
Etymology: From task + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Those [slaves] actually in the field were 44 taskables, while the remaining 13½ were employed as cart drivers, nurses, cooks for the negroes, carpenters, gardeners, house servants and stock minders […].
ref: 1829, Basil Hall, chapter 18, in Travels in North America, volume 2, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey, page 229:
text: […] the whole labour of the 122 slaves maintained, does not exceed that which would be obtained from the employment of fifty-seven and a half able bodied labourers, or, in the language of the country, taskables.
ref: 1833, George Richardson Porter, The Tropical Agriculturalist,, London: Smith, Elder, page 40:
text: 1937, Guion Griffis Johnson, Ante-Bellum North Carolina, Chapel Hill, p. 83, cited in Melville Herskovits, The Myth of the Negro Past, Boston: Harper, 1941, Chapter 5, p. 128,
The very young and the old were usually engaged in the house, while the full “taskables” were more profitably employed in the field.
text: A listing of an early-nineteenth-century Lowcountry estate revealed but one driver for 104 slaves (or forty-five taskables), and he was both an old man and a mere half-hand.
ref: 1998, Philip D. Morgan, Slave Counterpoint, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, Part 1, Chapter 4, p. 222:
synonyms: taskable hand
working slave
glosses: On a plantation exploiting an enslaved labour force, a person considered to be capable of performing labour, especially field labour.
GLB
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of gay, lesbian, bisexual.
Coordinate terms: LGB
pull the long bow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls the long bow
form: pulling the long bow
form: pulled the long bow
form: pulled the long bow
Senses: glosses: Synonym of draw the long bow (“to exaggerate; to tell tall tales”).
synonyms: word: draw the long bow
extra: to exaggerate; to tell tall tales
macroscian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more macroscian
form: most macroscian
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μακρόσκιος (makróskios) + -an.
Senses: examples: text: How did it shape itself, the morning of that macroscian day which I had dreaded for so long?
ref: 1946, The Atlantic, page 92:
text: […] the blazing luminescence spilling from oven doors and chinks in the huge circular furnace that rose, shivering and roaring, spectred with harsh steam, brown smoke, into the macroscian iron rafters and beams of soot and fire-seared dark.
ref: 1964, James Kirkup, Japan Industrial: Some Impressions of Japanese Industries, page 33:
glosses: Casting a long shadow.
preman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: premans
form: premen
Etymology: From Indonesian preman, from Dutch vrijman (“freeman”). Doublet of freeman.
Senses: glosses: A member of an organized criminal gang in Indonesia.
premans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preman
Faraday pointer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Faraday pointers
Senses: glosses: A pointer or torch/flashlight powered by a battery that may be recharged by shaking.
unturbaned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unturbanned.
unturbanned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + turbanned.
Senses: glosses: Not wearing a turban.
An-peng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: An-pêng
Etymology: From Hokkien 安平 (An-pêng) for the place in Taiwan.
Senses: examples: text: The dried Lung-ngan or Geng-Geng, which is largely exported from An-pêng, the port of Tainan, is described as the longan fruit (Nephelium Longana).
ref: [1899, “Lungan Pulp”, in Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, →JSTOR, page 219:
text: Next morning, however, Commander Bax of H.M.S. Dwarf generously gave me a passage up to An-peng, the Port of Taiwan-fu.
ref: 1915, William Campbell, Sketches from Formosa, Marshall Brothers Limited, →OCLC, →OL, page 16:
glosses: Synonym of Anping.
synonyms: word: Anping
siu laap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Cantonese language 燒臘 siu1 laap6.
Senses: glosses: Cantonese-style cooked meat.
good willer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: good willers
Senses: examples: text: 1548, Edward Hall, The Vnion of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre [and] Yorke, London: Richard Grafton, “The trobleous season of Kyng Henry the sixt,” The .xxxv. yere, p. 171,
[…] if these noble men admonished by their frendes, had not sodaynly departed, their lyfes threde had bene broken, and their mortall fate had them ensued, but by secrete admonicion of their good willers (to whome no earthly treasure is comparable) they auoided this net, and narowly escaped the snare,
text: 1625, Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes, London: Henry Fetherstone, Part 1, “Navigations and voyages of English-men alongst the coasts of Africa,” Book 3, Chapter 4, § 6, p. 184,
[…] because their Masters were no great good willers to the King, the Protectour in the Kings Name sent the Executioner to put them to death, with a Guard of Pikes.
text: 1696, Jane Leade, A Fountain of Gardens Watered by the Rivers of Divine Pleasure, London: J. Bradford, [Preface], p. 16,
So now I shall conclude, requesting you as you shall draw in any Light, or feel any Refreshment herefrom, that you would join with me in Acclamations and Praises to the Antient of Days, who hath put into the Hands of a Good-willer to these Divine Mysteries, to bring forth into the Publick, what might otherwise have been left in Oblivion and Secresie.
text: For all his disillusionments about men, and particularly politicians, Barkley is still deeply devoted to many causes sponsored by good-willers of all kinds. He is an ardent supporter of Truman’s civil-rights program, for example.
ref: 1950, George E. Allen, chapter 14, in Presidents Who Have Known Me, New York: Simon and Schuster, page 193:
text: I have never known anyone more profoundly and universally a person of good-will than she [i.e. Pippa Strachey] was, but she was entirely without the congenital vice of so many good-willers—sentimentality.
ref: 1969, Leonard Woolf, chapter 2, in The Journey Not the Arrival Matters: An Autobiography of the Years 1939-1969, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, page 120:
synonyms: well-willer
well-wisher
antonyms: evil willer
ill-willer
glosses: One who wishes someone well, or means kindly toward someone.
good willers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of good willer
infinitant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Sixty-fourthly, Negative expressions are more compendiously uttered in this language, than in any other in the world. Sixty-fifthly, The infinitant terms by this tongue are in one single word expressed […]
ref: 1653, Thomas Urquhart, Logopandecteision:
text: INFINITANT PARTICLE, “Not.”
ref: 1832, Charles Wesley, A Guide to Syllogism, Or, a Manual of Logic:
glosses: Serving to negate.
chirping cup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chirping cups
Etymology: See chirp (“to cheer”).
Senses: examples: text: I have already been invited to Two Christenings, and several Junketings, which I hope will be no Reflection upon my Character, having heard, that you your self, Sir, will take a chirping Cup upon Occasion.
ref: 1710, Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, “The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff Esq”, in The Tatler, volume 5, number 12, London: John Nutt, published 1712, page 62:
synonyms: cup that cheers
glosses: An alcoholic drink taken by way of merrymaking.
chirping cups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chirping cup
cups of coffee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cup of coffee
chirpines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chirpine
sanctificational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to sanctification.
binaric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more binaric
form: most binaric
Senses: examples: text: The visual display of this binaric opposition sets the stage for the later development of the plot.
ref: 2014, Iain Borden, Katerina Ruedi Ray, The Dissertation: A Guide for Architecture Students, →ISBN:
text: Students using these texts are presented with social, biological, and sex/gendered worlds from a binaric perspective.
ref: 2016, Jesse Bazzul, Ethics and Science Education: How Subjectivity Matters, →ISBN, page 16:
text: Editor's introduction Leonie Schmidt The traditional division of sex and gender into the binaric categories female/male and feminine/masculine, respectively, informs the definition and identification of subjects as women and men.
ref: 2018, Greta Olson, Mirjam Horn-Schott, Daniel Hartley, Beyond Gender, →ISBN:
glosses: Falling into distinct binary categories.
monological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From monologue + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: The claims of the universal monological subject often become obsessed with homogeneity, purity, and unity at the expense of those others who do not fit the master narrative of monological reason.
ref: 2002, Andrew Fiala, The Philosopher's Voice: Philosophy, Politics, and Language in the Nineteenth Century, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 13:
text: A monological ethos can be conceived as an absence of communication, embodied within the media by its inability to directly challenge governmental policies […]
ref: 2004, Naomi Sakr, Women and Media in the Middle East: Power Through Self-expression, I.B.Tauris, →ISBN:
text: On the self-expression of an autonomous subject or the Ich, is dialectic, which is utterly monological. And yet, the monological discourse is the one wherein everything is in nuce already finalized in its very intention […]
ref: 2006, Dmitriĭ Vladimirovich Nikulin, On Dialogue, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 195:
glosses: Relating to a monologue.
Derived terms: monologically
pupilary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pupillary.
parasitizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parasitizers
Etymology: From parasitize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who parasitizes.
parasitizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parasitizer
parasitofaunal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to parasitofauna.
parasitofaunas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parasitofauna
sting in the tail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stings in the tail
form: stings in tails
Senses: examples: text: The Budget comes with a sting in the tail – future tax increases.
text: The sting in the tail is that an appropriate level of service could be far lower than we see today. With funding best described as tight, we look to be entering a painful period for rail.
ref: 2022 December 14, Philip Haigh, “Comment: Tightening the purse strings”, in RAIL, number 972, page 3:
glosses: Something surprising and unpleasant that concludes a chain of events.
stings in tails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sting in the tail
stings in the tail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sting in the tail
swamee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swamees
Senses: glosses: Dated form of swami.
swamees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swamee
haematics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haematic
postremote
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + remote.
Senses: antonyms: preremote
glosses: More remote in subsequent time or order.
postcanonical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + canonical.
Senses: synonyms: postcanon
glosses: After the development of a religious canon.
postbrachial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + brachial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: posterior to the arm
prebrachial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + brachial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: anterior to the arm
snuff boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snuff box
odontophoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From odontophore + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the odontophore.
odontophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more odontophobic
form: most odontophobic
Etymology: From odonto- + -phobic.
Senses: examples: text: Odontophobia is a rather unique phobia with special psychosomatic components that impact on the dental health of odontophobic persons.
ref: 1990 January 24, R Moore, H Birn, “[Phenomenon of dental fear]”, in Tandlaegebladet, →PMID:
text: Clearly, some odontophobic patients have a perception of the dental environment as threatening beyond just the threat of physically painful treatment.
ref: 2004 April 19, Rod Moore, Inger Brødsgaard & Nicole Rosenberg, “The contribution of embarrassment to phobic dental anxiety: a qualitative research study”, in BMC Psychiatry, volume 4, number 10, →DOI:
glosses: Having an irrational fear of dentistry.
odontophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odontophobics
Etymology: From odonto- + -phobic.
Senses: examples: text: Odontophobics are normally inclined to continually postpone treatment, clinging to pharmacological therapies (antibiotics and/or painkillers) which, postponing the solution of the problem, produce a serious worsening of the initial picture with a progressive loss of mastication and a consequent aesthetic compromise [2].
ref: 2019 October 8, Rosa De Stefano, “Psychological Factors in Dental Patient Care: Odontophobia”, in Medicina, →DOI:
glosses: One who fears dentistry.
picayuneness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From picayune + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being picayune.
pickadill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pickadills
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of piccadill.
picadill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picadills
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of piccadill.
pickadills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pickadill
picadills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picadill
Boolean atom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Boolean atoms
Senses: examples: text: This is a consequence of a fact established earlier, namely, that any set C formed by choosing one formula from each Sⱼ must contain some formula πB and its conjugate, where B is a Boolean atom of X.
ref: 1975, Sue Ann Toledo, Tableau systems for first order number theory and certain order theories, page 234:
text: If C is a Boolean atom, the claim is obviously true.
ref: 1982, Krister Segerberg, Classical propositional operators, page 55:
text: A list is a bit vector if each of its members is a Boolean atom.
ref: 1994, Specification and Verification of Gate-level VHDL Models of Synchronous and Asynchronous Circuits, page 4:
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A logical proposition that cannot be derived from other logical propositions by a Boolean operation.
Boolean atoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Boolean atom
King Log
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: King Logs
Etymology: In reference to Aesop's fable The Frogs Who Desired a King.
Senses: glosses: A leader who does not exercise his powers, or fails to take action when necessary.
wikipedia: The Frogs Who Desired a King
Coordinate terms: King Stork
King Logs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of King Log
lithen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪðən/
Forms: form: lithens
form: lithening
form: lithened
form: lithened
Etymology: From Middle English *lithnien, equivalent to lithe + -en.
Senses: examples: text: “Nay, daughter, when thou art as old as Notte it will be time enough to reckon years!” returned the dark-skinned sybil, lithening the stiff folds of a viper in a blue oil, which cast out a noisome perfume as she stirred it.
ref: 1874, Emma Robinson, Cæsar Borgia:
text: "[…] I only know that for well-nigh all the stricken he hath lithened the fever, and that he hath recalled to life many an one whom the chirurgeon had given over to the chaplain."
ref: 1914, Mary Johnston, Sir Mortimer, page 278:
glosses: To make lithe, soften; to ease, mitigate
lithen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪðən/
Forms: form: lithens
form: lithening
form: lithened
form: lithened
Etymology: From lithe (“a mixture of oatmeal and water”) + -en.
Senses: glosses: To thicken a broth or gravy with a thickening agent (e.g. flour, oatmeal, etc.)
lithens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lithen
lithening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lithen
lithened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lithen
queals
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of queal
quealing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of queal
quealed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of queal
abs off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ab off
abbing off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ab off
abbed off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ab off
out of drawing
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: antonyms: in drawing
glosses: Drawn incorrectly, violating the principles of drawing.
in drawing
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: antonyms: out of drawing
glosses: Drawn correctly, obeying the principles of drawing.
abbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ab
contraspective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more contraspective
form: most contraspective
Senses: examples: text: Insofar as Intuitions 1 and 3 capture the essence of idealism and realism, respectively, those doctrines are contraspective.
ref: 2013, Ben Irvine, “The paradoxicality of consciousness: a sketch of a theory”, in Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, volume 25, number 3:
text: If this does not pass, he thinks, he will take himself to the doctor, or her to the veterinary – one of them will discover the truth, the contraspective madness.
ref: 2014, Sarah Hall, Mrs Fox:
text: Kalapalo also use two other forms with contraspective semantics. With these, the speaker references something that is observed or stated but that the mind of the speaker wishes were otherwise; the speaker seemingly knows (or pretends to know) that there is little if any possibility of that happening.
ref: 2015, Gunter Swnft, Ellen B. Basso, Ritual Communication, →ISBN, page 245:
glosses: Having two contradictory aspects, as in a paradox or oxymoron.
Maccles Lake
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A lake in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
rolling mills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rolling mill
jiggaboo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jiggaboos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jigaboo.
jiggaboos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jiggaboo
Blue Magic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A potent form of heroin.
compensation trade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Among the most important of these were export processing and compensation trade.
ref: 1993, Nicholas R. Lardy, Foreign Trade and Economic Reform in China, →ISBN, page 41:
text: But in the case of one category of investment, direct compensation trade (p. 137), the investment takes the form of productive capital, i.e. machinery and equipment.
ref: 1997, François Soulard, The Restructuring of Hong Kong Industries and the Urbanization of Zhujiang Delta, 1979-1989, →ISBN:
text: Incentives for using compensation trade include tax advantages, flexibility in structuring the agreement, and no involvement for the foreign party in labour issues.
ref: 2006, Jonathan Reuvid, Li Yong, Doing Business with China, →ISBN, page 140:
text: Why did E-S Pacific choose the joint-venture formula over compensation trade?
ref: 2014, Rosalie L. Tung, U.S.-China Trade Negotiations, →ISBN:
glosses: A form of countertrade in which an investor is paid back by a share of the proceeds or results generated by the goods and services that the investor provided.
Xanny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æni
Forms: form: Xannies
form: xanny
form: Xany
form: xany
Etymology: From Xanax + -y.
Senses: examples: text: She was eatin' Xannies, shootin' dope until she OD'd
ref: 2009 March 31, “Allison James”, in Slaine (lyrics), Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind (music), Decalogue, New York City: Babygrande Records:
text: And I might need Zoloft, but for now, these Xannies’ll do / Hear the sound, a manic depressive
ref: 2018, “OSOM”, in Redemption, performed by Jay Rock ft. J. Cole:
text: I'm in their second-hand smoke / Still just drinking canned Coke / I don't need a Xanny to feel better.
ref: 2019, “Xanny”, in Billie Eilish O'Connell, Finneas O'Connell (lyrics), When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?:
glosses: Xanax.
Xannies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Xanny
Chiang-hoa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From romanization of Hokkien 彰化 (Chiang-hòa).
Senses: examples: text: There is but one fresh water lake of any size in Formosa. This lies among the high mountain ranges, some three days' journey from the city of Chiang-hoa, to the south-east.
ref: 1898, W. A. Pickering, Pioneering in Formosa, Hurst and Blackett, page 36:
text: ON 14th October, 1872, Dr. Dickson and myself left the city to visit our stations among the Sek-hwan, who occupy the northern part of the county of Chiang-hoa.
ref: 1915, William Campbell, Sketches from Formosa, Marshall Brothers Limited, page 33:
text: While another missionary, William Campbell (1841–1921, active in Taiwan 1871–1917), and Moody in particular were known for articulating the virtues of station visiting and street preaching, some EPM missionaries in Taiwan did not regard these methods as particularly effective, which frustrated Moody. He expressed his feelings in a personal letter, writing that, with the exception of Campbell, the missionaries in Taiwan-fu “treat po-to [open-air evangelism] with a sort of mild scorn.”⁵ Nevertheless, with Chiang-hoa (Zhanghua) in central Taiwan as a base station, he continued to practice street preaching and supported the establishment of more than ten mission stations in mid-Taiwan, including churches in Lok-kang (Lugang, 1897), Chhau-tun (Caotun, 1900), Toa-siaN (Dashe, 1905), and Ji-lim (Erlin, 1924).
ref: 2014, Kazue Mino, “Campbell N. Moody’s Reflections on the Christian Mission”, in International Bulletin of Mission Research, page 135:
glosses: Synonym of Changhua.
synonyms: word: Changhua
pachypod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpækɪˌpɑd/
/-i-/
Forms: form: pachypods
Etymology: From pachy- + -pod.
Senses: examples: text: In size and form of the bones this metapodium suggests comparison with the pachypod mammals, and most conspicuously, by the presence of five digits, with the elephant, in which the metapodial bones are equally large.
ref: 1871, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, volume 8, page 313:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of a group of animals with thick feet.
pachypods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pachypod
flyswat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flyswats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fly swat.
flyswats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flyswat
heteroerotica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hetero- + erotica.
Senses: glosses: Heterosexual erotica.
drum tower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drum towers
Senses: glosses: A fortification in the form of a cylindrical tower, typically resembling a drum.
glosses: A tower in the center of a premodern Chinese city that houses signal drums.
drum towers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drum tower
panel strip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panel strips
Senses: glosses: A narrow piece of wood or metal for covering a joint between two panels.
panel strips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panel strip
panneled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pannel
pannelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pannel
pannelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pannel
pannelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pannellings
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of panelling.
panneling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pannel
panneling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pannelings
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of panelling.
pannellings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pannelling
pannelings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panneling
Skopian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Skopjan.
Skopian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Skopians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Skopjan.
COALition
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: 2017 Giles Parkinson, Big utilities about to pay price of saying no to coal and COALition Renew Economy, 11 September 2017. Accessed 3 June 2019.
2019 David Llewellyn-Smith, Can Albo out-coal the COALition? MacroBusiness, 28 May 2019. Accessed 3 June 2019.
topics: government
politics
glosses: The Coalition of the Liberal Party and the National Party, emphasising its pro-coal policies.
preprint servers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preprint server
diaminopropane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diaminopropanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any diamino derivative of propane, but especially 1,3-diaminopropane