cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
burocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bjʊˈɹɑ.kɹə.si/
ipa: /bjɝɹɑ.kɹə.si/
Forms: form: burocracies
Senses: examples: text: … 1962 Style Book, p63, specifies the following: aging, altho, ameba, analog, apolog, burocracy, burocratic, …
ref: 1963, Henry Louis Mencken, The American language: an inquiry into the development of English in the United States., Digitized edition, published 2009, page 491:
text: In this way, inter-unit relationships can be specified in order to define at communication level some well-known agent organizations model such as hierachies, burocracies, federations, etc.
ref: 2009, Joan Cabestany, Francisco Sandoval, Alberto Prieto, Bio-Inspired Systems: Computational and Ambient Intelligence, Springer, →ISBN, page 525:
text: Burocracy is a choice!
ref: 2010, Bert Hedeman, Gabor Vis van Heemst, Hans Fredriksz, Project Manaagement Based on Principle2, 2009, Van Haren Publishing, →ISBN, page 173:
text: … namely the non human structure that enables a country generate future benefits: business structure, burocracy, …
ref: 2011, Geoff Turner, Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Intellectual Capital, Academic Conferences Limited, →ISBN, page 190:
text: But still more, even Marx himself in his criticism of Hegel's Theory of the State recognized the actual behavior of burocracy in contradiction …
ref: 2012, Armando P Ribas, Rule of Law: The Path to Freedom, Stockcero, →ISBN, page 107:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bureaucracy.
Related terms: burocrat
burocratic
xanchromatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A lumbar puncture was done and the three tubes contained nonclotting blood and the supernatant fluid was xanchromatic.
ref: 1937, New York State Journal of Medicine:
glosses: Having a yellow colour.
Synonyms: xanthochromic
xanthochromic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From xantho- + chromic.
Senses: glosses: Having a yellow colour
Synonyms: xanchromatic
xanthematin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From xanth- + hematin.
Senses: glosses: A yellow pigment formed by the action of nitric acid on haematin.
xanthide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xanthides
Senses: examples: text: Besides the imido xanthides, we synthesized two xanthogenamides.
ref: 1951, Journal of General Chemistry of the USSR in English Translation, page 832:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any derivative of xanthogen.
Zira
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
salt chuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salt chucks
Senses: examples: text: Back on the beach in the far-flung Southeast, Tony Route and I hauled our gear into a USDA Forest Service cabin set in a bench of hemlocks over a remote salt chuck (a sort of brackish lake, connected to the sea by a channel that floods[…])[…].
ref: 2009, Fodor's 2010 Alaska, page 481:
glosses: Alternative form of saltchuck.
burocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more burocratic
form: most burocratic
form: bureaucrat
Etymology: From burocrat + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: … 1962 Style Book, p63, specifies the following: aging, altho, ameba, analog, apolog, burocracy, burocratic, …
ref: 1963, Henry Louis Mencken, The American language: an inquiry into the development of English in the United States., Digitized edition, published 2009, page 491:
text: … but always there is some thing forgotten or a detail wanting in these burocratic times …
ref: 2010, tefan Zweig, Lotte Zweig, Darién J. Davis, Oliver Marshall, Stefan and Lotte Zweig's South American Letters: New York, Argentina and Brazil, 1940–42, Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 82:
text: Particularly in large companies, it may be difficult or even impossible for research and development people to access data processed in operation departments due to legal, political, or burocratic constraints.
ref: 2011, Gokhan Tur, Renato De Mori, “7.4.4”, in Spoken Language Understanding, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
text: But there is an astonishing aspect of the official treatment of emancipados in burocratic documents of the colonial state.
ref: 2011, Ulrike Schmieder, Michael Zeuske, Katja Füllberg-Stolberg, The End of Slavery in Africa and the Americas, LIT Verlag Münster, →ISBN, page 68:
text: Veto Players and Decision-making in the EU After Nice: Policy Stability and Burocratic/Judicial Discretion …
ref: 2011, Niels M. Blokker, Henry G. Schermers, International Institutional Law: Unity within Diversity (Law), Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, →ISBN, page 558:
glosses: Of or pertaining to burocracy or the actions of burocrats.
Related terms: administrative
peag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the latter part of the Narragansett wampumpeag.
Senses: glosses: Wampum.
Related terms: seawan
wampum
suckanhock
footsie-wootsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: feet
begab
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: begabs
form: begabbing
form: begabbed
form: begabbed
Etymology: From Middle English bigabben, equivalent to be- (“over, at, about”) + gab. Cognate with Swedish begabba.
Senses: examples: text: "You begabbed her, of course. A tit for a tattle is her bargain. And then?"
ref: 1974, Richard Gardner, Richard Cummings, The adventures of Don Juan:
glosses: To deceive; mock.
glosses: To gab about; talk over; report from one (person) to another.
suckauhock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suckanhock
Etymology: Of Native American origin, probably Algonquian, origin. Roger Williams writes that "suck-" signifies "black"; compare Unami sëk- (“black”).
Senses: glosses: Dark-coloured shell-money, used by Native Americans.
Related terms: english: white shells
translation: white shells
word: wampum
word: seawan
kneesies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From knee + -sies.
Senses: examples: text: She kept trying to play kneesies with me under the table.
text: If Bill wanted to play kneesies, let him play kneesies.
ref: 1952, Lawrence L. Schoonover, The Quick Brown Fox, page 137:
text: Get her brimming with slops and gratitude and then test the atmosphere with a little kneesies behind the drape of the tablecloth.
ref: 1966, William Stevens, The Peddler, page 138:
text: "He played kneesies with me.” “But he sat beside you.” “Sideways kneesies.”
ref: 1968, John Updike, Couples, page 38:
glosses: flirtatious touching using the knee(s)
glosses: plural of kneesie
Related terms: footsie
kiloflops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kiloflop
bedwell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bedwells
form: bedwelling
form: bedwelt
form: bedwelt
Etymology: From be- (“around, about”) + dwell. Compare Middle Dutch bedwellen.
Senses: examples: text: [...] At first like a twilight cloud, Yet momently clearer in colour, I saw church-domes and steeples, And lastly a whole city, Ancient-looking, Netherlandish, Man-bedwelt in.
ref: 1841, Alexander Crawford Lindsay Crawford (Earl of), Ballads, songs and poems:
text: Gentry of narrow income used to bedwell Montreuil; they are gone, war, want or death knows where.
ref: 1843, Robert Southey, Sir Walter Scott, A memoir of the life and writings of the late William Taylor:
text: Even as he looks squarely at calculable nature, he "retrieves readily be seen to be involved in the reference to "that which announces itself in the processes and conditions of nature that pervasively rule the world we bedwell."
ref: 1995, William Lovitt, Harriet Brundage Lovitt, Modern technology in the Heideggerian perspective:
glosses: To dwell around or about (a place); inhabit.
bedoctor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bedoctors
form: bedoctoring
form: bedoctored
form: bedoctored
Etymology: From be- (“on, at, upon”) + doctor.
Senses: examples: text: [...] why bedoctor this charming French writer?
ref: 1887, The Academy and Literature:
text: Given the recent trend, the profession will soon bedoctor each year twice as many practitioners as the original total membership of the Association.
ref: 1967, Albert Somit, Joseph Tanenhaus, The development of American political science:
glosses: To confer a doctoral degree upon.
glosses: To address as 'doctor'.
examples: text: And half the neurotic, ever-bedoctored women owe their cowardly physical condition to the fact that when they were little children they were allowed to stay away from school, excused from common household duties because they had a headache or a cramp somewhere.
ref: 1906, The Independent:
text: I'm with yearn, (my) sweetheart's too; Both of us should have a doctor, Doctor to bedoctor us, To deliver us from yearning.
ref: 1967, Béla Bartók, Benjamin Suchoff, Rumanian Folk Music:
glosses: To care for in the manner of a doctor.
befree
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: befrees
form: befreeing
form: befreed
form: befreed
Etymology: From Middle English *befreen, *bifreen, from Old English befrēoġan (“to free, liberate”); equivalent to be- + free. Cognate with West Frisian befrije (“to liberate”), Dutch bevrijden (“to liberate, deliver”), German befreien (“to set free, liberate”), Swedish befria (“to liberate, free, deliver”).
Senses: examples: text: Such is the fascinating future for Russia in the event of the establishment and welding of the befreed Russian Nation into a strong and firm democratic State.
ref: 1917, Massachusetts. Constitutional convention, Journal...:
text: They helped rather the big industrialists than to befree the poors from the yoke of the money-lenders.
ref: 1975, Asia Institute, Asian perspectives, Hague, Netherlands:
glosses: To make or set free; liberate; deliver; release.
yagouaroundi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yagouarundi
Senses: examples: text: Azara, who describes this animal, states, that there is some uncertainty as to its name; but he believes that this, as well as his yagouaroundi, is known by the name eira.
ref: 1821, Edward Griffith, General and Particular Descriptions of the Vertebrated Animals, page 86:
text: I profited, however, by my acquaintance with the Portuguese padre, for on another occasion he gave me a fine specimen of the Yagouaroundi
ref: 1839, Charles Darwin, “Part 29 Harvard Classics”, in Voyage of the Beagle, →ISBN, page 38:
glosses: Alternative form of jaguarundi.
pour out one's heart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pours out one's heart
form: pouring out one's heart
form: poured out one's heart
form: poured out one's heart
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pour one's heart out.
clambaked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of clambake
clambaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clambake
Dol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Uyghur دول (dol).
Senses: examples: text: Journey across desert. Two Langars at 5th and 8th mile. Enter on cultivation at 14th mile, close to the village of Dol. Road excellent.
ref: 1893, Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), “Journey of Carey and Dalgleish in Chinese Turkistan and Northern Tibet in 1885–7”, in Supplementary Papers, volume 3, J. Murray, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 22, part 1:
text: Obul Kasem Imin, a Uighur from Dol village in Lop county, near Khotan, was reportedly taken into custody by public security officers from Lop County in September 1996 for "speaking out against the government".
ref: 1999, People's Republic of China: Gross Violations of Human Rights in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, Amnesty International USA, →OCLC, page 50:
text: Memtimin Abla, deputy chief of police of the Lop county police department, told RFA that the three attackers were all from Dol township in Lop county and between the ages of 18 and 20.
ref: 2015 May 13, Roseanne Gerin, Shohret Hoshur, “Six Dead, Four Injured in Two Successive Suicide Attacks in China’s Xinjiang”, in Shohret Hoshur, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 18 May 2015:
text: “Head out boldly and bring back the cash,” a village official in Dol Township in southern Xinjiang told dozens of farmers, according a local government report last year. The village officials urged team leaders to take special care of three villagers in their 60s who had signed up to pick cotton, the report said.
ref: 2019 December 30, Chris Buckley, Austin Ramzy, “To China, Muslim Workers Are Eager Recruits. Others See Forced Labor.”, in New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Dec 2019:
glosses: A township in Lop, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Duolu
word: To-lu
Dol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Dol-de-Bretagne, France.
synonyms: word: Dol-de-Bretagne
word: France
table talk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: table-talk
Senses: examples: text: [T]hey all came out to supper. […] She was also pleased to see how Gregory toned up the table-talk and skilfully led it away from disagreeable topics.
ref: 1874, Edward Payson Roe, chapter 33, in Opening a Chestnut Burr:
text: He ate like a starving Eskimo. […] The growing boy evidently did not believe in table-talk when he could use his mouth for more practical purposes.
ref: 1920 March – 1921 February, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter 1, in Indiscretions of Archie, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published 1921, →OCLC:
text: Grand Opera mishaps are usually more silly than solemn, and provide people with amusing table talk.
ref: 1937 February 8, “Music: Stage Dagger”, in Time:
text: On the first day of a new statute in New York City to restrict smoking, the table talk in many restaurants was about lighting up.
ref: 1995 April 11, “Inside: p. B3”, in New York Times, retrieved 18 Sep 2012:
text: [E]ven though there are announcers, they largely remain quiet, letting us hear all the table talk that goes on during and in between hands.
ref: 2007 January 5, “It's late, poker's on”, in The Herald, Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA:
text: Slowly, slightly, faith is trickling back, at least into Britain. […] Religion is civilised table talk.
ref: 2025 May 31, Tanjil Rashid, “Finding their religion”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 9:
glosses: Conversation, especially of an informal or somewhat gossipy nature, among a group seated together for a meal or other social activity.
examples: text: This then, is my hope: if at least one of us does not talk bridge at the table, the table talk will eventually be lessened.
ref: 2002, Roselyn Teukolsky, How to Play Bridge with Your Spouse and Survive, →ISBN, page 186:
text: "Did you see that?" Paula pointed a lit cigarette. “No table-talk!” Alex snarled.
ref: 2002, David Fiore, Darkling I Listen, →ISBN, page 192:
text: One of the rules of the game is NO TABLE TALK, which means you don't want to bring moves to other players' attention that might benefit them or prevent them from making a damaging one.
ref: 2007, Joan Butman, Table Talk: Food for Thought That's Easy to Swallow!, →ISBN, page 1:
topics: games
glosses: Conversation that illicitly conveys information or suggestions to another player.
Related terms: small talk
table talker
table-talk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: [T]hey all came out to supper. […] She was also pleased to see how Gregory toned up the table-talk and skilfully led it away from disagreeable topics.
ref: 1874, Edward Payson Roe, chapter 33, in Opening a Chestnut Burr:
text: He ate like a starving Eskimo. […] The growing boy evidently did not believe in table-talk when he could use his mouth for more practical purposes.
ref: 1920 March – 1921 February, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter 1, in Indiscretions of Archie, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published 1921, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of table talk.
Sulaimitian Arabic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Says here, the message on the mirror was translated by one of the department's volunteer translators who said it was clearly written in Sulaimitian Arabic, or Libyan Arabic.
ref: 2012, J. E. Booth, Worlds Move, Time Calls, page 99:
text: A balaclava'd figure, speaking in Sulaimitian Arabic, claimed responsibility for the atrocity on behalf of a rebel group still loyal to the memory of the ousted Gaddafi regime.
ref: 2013, Chris Ryan, Masters of War:
glosses: Libyan Arabic.
ambuscader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: ambuscaders
Etymology: From ambuscade + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who ambushes, or who is involved in an ambush.
sayes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of saye
Pallas's cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pallas's cats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pallas' cat.
Pallas cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pallas cats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pallas' cat.
Pallas cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pallas cat
Pallas's cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pallas's cat
Pallas' cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pallas' cats
form: Pallas cat
Etymology: Named for the German naturalist Peter Simon Pallas.
Senses: glosses: The manul.
Hyponyms: Pallas' kitten
Pallas' cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pallas' cat
Diaoyu Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tiaoyu Islands
Etymology: Partial calque from Mandarin 釣魚島／钓鱼岛 (Diàoyúdǎo).
Senses: examples: text: When Japan annexed the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands in 1895, it detached them from Taiwan and placed them under Okinawa Prefecture. Moreover, the Japanese name “Senkaku Islands” itself was first introduced in 1900 by academic Kuroiwa Hisashi and adopted by the Japanese government thereafter. Half a century later when Japan returned Taiwan to China, both sides adopted the 1945 administrative arrangement of Taiwan, with the Chinese unaware that the uninhabited “Senkaku Islands” were in fact the former Diaoyu Islands. This explains the belated protest from Taipei and Beijing over U.S. administration of the islands after the war.
ref: 2012 September 19, Han-Yi Shaw, “The Inconvenient Truth Behind the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Jun 2022, The Opinion Pages:
text: Beijing and Tokyo are involved in sovereignty disputes over the Diaoyu Islands, known as Senkaku in Japan, in the East China Sea.
ref: 2017 February 4, “China to crack down on use of leanness enhancers in cattle and sheep”, in EFE, archived from the original on 04 Feb 2017:
text: China’s Taiwan refers to Taiwan province (including Taiwan Island, Orchid Island, Green Island, Diaoyu Island and its affiliated islands, and the Penghu Islands) and Fujian province’s Jinmen, Mazu, Wuqiu and other islands, with a total land area of 36,000 square kilometers.
ref: [2020 July 28, Taiwan Affairs Office, “Basic facts about Taiwan”, in State Council of the People's Republic of China, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2020:
glosses: A chain of islands in the East China Sea: the People's Republic of China (mainland China) name.
Synonyms: word: Diaoyu
word: Tiaoyu
word: Diaoyutai
word: Tiaoyutai
word: Diaoyutai Islands
word: Tiaoyutai Islands
sense: from Japanese
word: Senkaku Islands
word: Pinnacle Islands
caveolins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caveolin
mesoherbivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesoherbivores
Etymology: From meso- + herbivore.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any medium-sized herbivore (approximately between 50 and 500 kilograms in weight)
Related terms: macroherbivore
microherbivore
macroherbivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macroherbivores
Etymology: From macro- + herbivore.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any large herbivore (over approximately 500 kilograms in weight)
Related terms: macroherbivorous
mesoherbivore
microherbivore
macrovegetation
piosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piospheres
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The zone of influence of grazing on a region's vegetation and soil.
piospheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piosphere
recoverin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recoverins
Etymology: From recover + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A calcium-binding protein found in the photoreceptor cell of the eye.
semiparametric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + parametric.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having some, but not all, components that are parametric
waterpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterpoints
Etymology: From water + point.
Senses: examples: text: Animals in good condition and not subjected to physical stress (such as having to transhume or walk far between pastures and waterpoints) usually suffer considerably less than animals on a poor nutritional level and having to expend much physical energy.
ref: 1990, M. M. H. Sewell, D. W. Brocklesby, Handbook on Animal Diseases in the Tropics, page 46:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A place (such as a watering hole) where water is available to local wildlife.
waterpoints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waterpoint
water birthing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of water birth.
jussives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jussive
archie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archies
Senses: examples: text: I had to take a large turn, for the "archies" were shooting pretty close.
ref: 1919, Thomas Herbert Russell, America's War for Humanity, →ISBN:
text: I'll pretend I'm scared of everything and sideslip away from every archie burst.
ref: 1935, W E Johns, Biggles Learns to Fly:
text: Several of our planes droned overhead, undeterred by the German 'archies', machine-gun and rifle fire, but not as yet the contact monoplane.
ref: 2013, I. L. (Dick) Read, Of Those We Loved: A Narrative 1914-1919 Remembered and Illustrated, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of Archie (“anti-aircraft artillery”).
annual general meeting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: annual general meetings
form: AGM
Senses: glosses: A meeting that official bodies, associations and companies hold each year to elect the board of directors and inform their members of previous and future activities.
Related terms: extraordinary general meeting
day labourer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: day labourers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of day laborer.
Dixonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪkˈsəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /dɪkˈsoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Etymology: From Dixon + -ian. From the BBC drama series Dixon of Dock Green.
Senses: examples: text: This was as true in 1974 when Regan first appeared as it is to police dramas in the twenty-first century. Notwithstanding his abrasive, recusant stance, Regan still stood for many of the core Dixonian values championed twenty years earlier.
ref: 2003, Frank Leishman, Paul Mason, Policing and the Media: Facts, Fictions and Factions, page 75:
text: However, 'nuisance or anti-social behaviour' is a source of grave unhappiness to millions. It is also the very thing that the old Dixonian police force was very good at controlling, discouraging and preventing.
ref: 2003, Peter Hitchens, A Brief History of Crime, page 99:
text: We have presented a model of policing to the public, a Dixonian model, which is oversimplified. It is about bobbies on the beat and their front police station counter.
ref: 2008 November 17, Ken Jones, Evidence to the Communities and Local Government Committee, page 61:
glosses: Pertaining to a traditional form of local policing, focused on officers walking the beat.
Dixonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪkˈsəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /dɪkˈsoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Etymology: From Alfred Dixon, English mathematician.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of, relating to or formulated by Alfred Dixon.
multiple-choice question
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiple-choice questions
Senses: examples: Holonyms: exam, examination, test, testbank
topics: education
glosses: A question where several answers are presented and the respondent must choose the correct one.
multiple-choice questions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multiple-choice question
DTOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DTO
data transfer object
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: data transfer objects
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: A design pattern used to transfer data between software application subsystems.
Synonyms: DTO
data transfer objects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of data transfer object
ship's husband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ships' husbands
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An agent who has the authority to repair and outfit a particular ship
archies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archie
Connolly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Conolly
Etymology: Anglicization of Irish Ó Conghalaigh and Ó Conghaile, patronyms of Conghalach. Doublet of Conley
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Related terms: Connelly
squozen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: If something you freeze becomes frozen, does that mean something you squeeze becomes squozen?
text: Frank the Mouse looked at his nurse. "What's all this? Where's Doc Layne? I thought I was all through bein' bandaged and squozen.
ref: 2002, Richard S. Prather, Shell Scott's Seven Slaughters, →ISBN, page 72:
text: Feeling the crush of gravity again, the insistent tug on limbs and jowls and eyelashes. He flexes an arm experimentally. "It feels... different." / "What does?" Radmer asks. "The gradient?" Lune, like Varna, was squozen to the point of Earthlike gravity and no farther.
ref: 2004, Wil McCarthy, Lost in Transmission (Sci-Fi), Random House, →ISBN:
text: In a bowl, combine the drained yogurt, squozen cucumber, juice from 1 lemon
ref: 2007 July 29, “Baba Ghanouj, Hummus, and Tzatziki - Ripping the "Whole" out of Wholesome”, in The Delicious Life, retrieved 18 Sep 2012:
glosses: past participle of squeeze
Related terms: squoze
Duke of York Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A group of islands off the coast of New Guinea, part of the Bismarck Archipelago.
inflatable castle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inflatable castles
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bouncing castle.
synonyms: word: bouncing castle
drama llama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɑːmə ˈlɑːmə/
Forms: form: drama llamas
Etymology: Chosen for the rhyme.
Senses: examples: text: Drama is consuming. It destroys relationships. It opens a door for gossip, lying, and jealousy and is a big, fat time-sucker. The Scripture above says it all! You and I both know when the drama llama, has not just paid a visit, but also made herself right at home. It is time to evaluate your life—starting with yourself—and kick that Llama out the door.
ref: 2011, Gillian M. Henriques, Toshana N. Sledge, Tina Turner, Marcy Bomhak, Hers to Treasure: 100 Devotional/Journal from Sisters in Christ (Women's Fellowship), Bloomington, Ind.: WestBow Press, →ISBN, page 173:
text: "Aw, Mom. Don't be a drama llama." / "Excuse me?" / "You know, don't make a fuss about nothing." / "But why a llama?" / "Because a drama llama throws drama around like a llama spits. Everywhere!"
ref: 2012, Mary Griggs, Crash Stop, Tallahassee, Fla.: Bella Books, →ISBN:
text: It was certainly true that Lewie was no ordinary llama. Other llamas didn't spend their days singing and dancing and acting! Even his parents, Mama and Papa Llama, had to admit that Lewie was a bit of a Drama Llama.
ref: 2013, Rose Impey, Llama Drama – In It To Win It! (Awesome Animals), HarperCollins Children's Books, →ISBN:
text: I try not to pay too much attention to the drama-llamas and gossip.
ref: 2015, Dena Celeste, Her Master's Gift (The Edge), Klawock, Ak.: Decadent Publishing, →ISBN, page 19:
synonyms: drama queen
glosses: A histrionic person.
drama llamas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drama llama
rule of Colel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: This method can be applied to Hebrew (as well as any other addition- based language). That this method is so laborious may be the reason for the invention of the Qabalistic rule Colel. By the rule of Colel, any word can be equal to any other word by plus or minus one.
ref: 2000, David Allen Hulse, The Eastern Mysteries: An Encyclopedic Guide, page xxviii:
text: By the rule of Colel in gematria, in which a margin of ±1 is allowed, we can call this 864, which is the gematria of the Greek 'Kyrios demei', "The Lord builds (His tabernacle)"
ref: 2005, Marke Pawson, Gematria, page x:
text: "That's not the same-"
"It is according to the Rule of Colel," said Byron.
[…]
"So," said the Precious Sponge, adopting Andromeda's own phrasing, “according to Agrippa and the Rule of Colel, both your friend Daisy and jessup are forms of […]
ref: 2009, Frank Portman, Andromeda Klein, page 400:
glosses: The rule according to which one digit may be added to or subtracted from the gematric value of a word.
raw_tags: in print
gematric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gematria + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to gematria or values obtained by it.
rocket sled
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rocket sleds
Senses: glosses: A rocket-propelled vehicle constrained to run on a rail, used for experimental purposes.
begladden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: begladdens
form: begladdening
form: begladdened
form: begladdened
Etymology: From be- (“about, all over”) + gladden.
Senses: examples: text: Such a hope would begladden the heart of the most insipid.
ref: 2005, Gregory Claeys, Owenite Socialism: 1832-1837:
text: So acquaint me with the facts of the case for naught shall befal thee save that which shall begladden thee; and, when thou shalt have spoken sooth, fear not harm shall betide thee.
ref: 2008, Richard F. Burton, Arabian Nights:
text: Ruler of night and day begladdens thee with songs of rapture enclosed
ref: 2012, The Footladder of Notes Divine - Book 3 (2002) - Clover, storage.cloversites.com/.../The%20Footladder%20-%20Book%203%20(2002)%20PDF_2.pdf
synonyms: word: cheer up
word: hearten
word: beatify
word: begladden
word: blissen
word: bright
word: cheer
word: cheer up
word: content
word: delight
word: elate
word: enbliss
word: exhilarate
word: fain
word: gay
word: gladden
word: gladden someone's heart
word: gratify
word: happify
word: happy
word: hearten
word: jollify
word: laetificate
word: light up
word: make someone's day
word: perk up
word: please
word: raise someone's spirits
word: rejoice
word: turn the frown upside down
word: upcheer
word: warm someone's heart
word: warm the cockles of someone's heart
glosses: To gladden about or all over; make glad; overjoy.
besmall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɔːl
Forms: form: besmalls
form: besmalling
form: besmalled
form: besmalled
Etymology: From be- + small.
Senses: examples: text: And loneliness balked my pride, my innate pride, my integral native being, besmalling me all the more, until I couldn't remember myself the way I did last year and the years before.
ref: 1974, Pacific islands monthly:
text: "Weariness too faltered my conscience . . . besmalling me."
ref: 1984, Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, Bikmaus:
text: The besmalled position shocks Tusker to fell sick for a long time and finally die when he is asked to vacate the Lodge.
ref: 2000, Ed. Manmohan K. Bhatnagar, Twentieth Century Literature in English:
glosses: To make small; (figurative) to make as though small.
Derived terms: besmalled
straightsplain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: straightsplains
form: straightsplaining
form: straightsplained
form: straightsplained
form: straight-splain
Etymology: From straight + -splain, after mansplain.
Senses: examples: text: There are several different degrees of straightsplaining. That word, inspired by the increasingly common "mansplaining," describes the practice of straight people explaining how gay people are, or what gay people do, or how gay people do what they do, or why.
ref: 2014 July 2, Rich Juzwiak, “A Field Guide to Straightsplaining”, in Gawker, retrieved 19 Oct 2016:
text: What both Longhurst and Hartley-Brewer failed to notice was that, by trying to universalise the incident as an attack on, as they said, “the freedom of all people”, they were attempting to both whitewash and "straight-splain" Orlando.
ref: 2016 June 23, Alim Kheraj, “"Let LGBT People Of Colour Speak For Themselves"”, in Refinery29, retrieved 19 Oct 2016:
ref: 2016 October 18, Ben Winsor, “Comment: Thank you for straight-splaining the plebiscite to us 'naive' LGBT Australians”, in SBS Sexuality, archived from the original on 20 Oct 2016:
text: And now, the plebiscite is dead. And hopefully so is the straightsplaining.
ref: 2016 November 9, Rebecca Shaw, “The plebiscite is dead, hopefully it takes all the straightsplaining with it”, in SBS Comedy, retrieved 21 Apr 2017:
glosses: To explain LGBT issues, people or behavior to someone who is not of a heterosexual orientation (i.e. an LGBT individual) in a condescending manner, presuming the listener's inferior understanding.
Coordinate terms: cissplain
femsplain
mansplain
whitesplain
womansplain
Related terms: straightsplainer
straightsplaining
borfee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of barfi.
burfee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burfees
form: burfee
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of barfi.
burfi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burfis
form: burfi
Senses: examples: text: In India, milk is simmered for hours until only the dense, nutty solids remain. They’re mixed with sugar and spices, like cardamom and saffron, to make burfi, a category of sweets whose adornments might include pistachios and twists of silver leaf.
ref: 2023 May 24, Ligaya Mishan, “The Shortcut to Homemade Milk Candy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative form of barfi.
paleontologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more paleontologically
form: most paleontologically
Etymology: From paleontological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a paleontological manner.
baidarka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baidarkas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bidarka.
baidarkas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baidarka
iqyax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Unangan Aleut iqyax̂ (“kayak”).
Senses: examples: text: Each pain was a wave, and she tried to float above it, as though she were back in that small iqyax with Sok, riding the North Sea when she came as his bride to the River People.
ref: 2000, Sue Harrison, Cry of the Wind, page 51:
text: An especially genuine example is in the hands of a young Aleut man named Chris Lokanin, who aims to carry on his ancestral iqyax-building […]
ref: 2004, The Woodenboat, page 17:
glosses: A bidarka.
Unangan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Unangans
Etymology: From Aleut unangax, the people's autonym.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Aleut-speaking people of the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian islands.
Unangan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Aleut unangax, the people's autonym.
Senses: glosses: Of, belonging, pertaining or relating to the branch of Aleut-speaking people of the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian islands.
Abrantes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Abranteses
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Abrantes.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Portuguese.
P60
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: P60s
Senses: topics: economics
government
sciences
taxation
glosses: The end-of-year tax certificate given to each employee by their employer.
Related terms: P11D
P45
tupilak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tupilaks
form: tupilat
form: tupilaq
Etymology: From Greenlandic tupilak or Inuktitut ᑐᐱᓚᒃ (topilak), ᑐᐱᓚᖅ (topilaq).
Senses: qualifier: Inuit mythology
glosses: A monster (either invisible or having a physical form constructed from animal bones, sinew, etc) created in secret by a shaman and sent into the sea to seek and kill a specific enemy.
glosses: A (small) representation of such a monster, often carved from whale bone.
Related terms: Frankenstein
tupilat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: ... the word tupilak is used of a small carving 10 or 15 cm high representing a grotesque or composite being, stretched and slightly curved, following the shape of the sperm-whale tooth out of which it is carved. Some of these tupilat are inspired ...
ref: 1986, Joelle Robert-Lamblin, Ammassalik, East Greenland - End or Presistance of an Isolate, Museum Tusculanum Press, →ISBN, page 115:
text: To repeat, what the Eskimo does fear are the spirits of the dead or evil spirits — toornat or tupilat — which can bring misfortune and the most terrible suffering before death. Tupilat, who usually have big ears, some sort of horns, large protruding ...
ref: 1982, Jean Malaurie, The Last Kings of Thule: With the Polar Eskimos As They Face Their Destiny, New York: Dutton:
text: Tupilat were considered extremely dangerous and would demand stronger defence spirits than Equngasoq.
ref: year unknown, The Acculturative Role of Sea Woman, Museum Tusculanum Press →ISBN, page 15
text: The Inuit did not fear death but they did fear such spirits including the toornot, the spirits of the dead; the tupilat, the hideous creatures that populate nightmares; and the qivittoq, the glacier spirits which could take possession of a person who ...
ref: 1994, Deanna Swaney, Iceland, Greenland & the Faroe Islands: A Travel Survival Kit, Lonely Planet:
text: The Eskimos entertain a great fear of the Tupilat, the Spirits of the Dead, who kill every one daring to offend them.
ref: 1971, Transactions of the Anthropological Society of Washington:
text: Tupilat were there rumoured but neither fashioned nor seen. According to rumour , a tupilak could change size, from that of a fox to that of a caribou, and vice versa.
ref: 1987, Donnerska institutet för religionshistorisk och kulturhistorisk forskning, Saami religion:
text: New objects were developed; for instance bone sculptures (tupilat) as ...
ref: 2000, Yumtzilob:
glosses: plural of tupilak
tupilaq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tupilaqs
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps it was a tupilaq, all bone and gaping jaws, intent upon tormenting her even more. Then she saw Titanic written on it in big letters. A White Man's word. Maybe the word meant: We are too many.
ref: 2000, Northern latitudes: prose poems, page 13:
qualifier: Inuit mythology
glosses: Alternative form of tupilak.
tupilaqs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tupilaq
tupilaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tupilak
Almeida
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Almeidas
form: Almeyda
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Almeida.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Portuguese.
Derived terms: almeidaite
kuspuk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌspʌk/
ipa: /ˈkʌs-/
Forms: form: kuspuks
form: qaspeq
Etymology: Borrowed from Yup'ik qaspeq, from qai- (“surface; top”) + -peq (postbase denoting something at a certain place).
Senses: qualifier: originally
glosses: An Alaska Native (traditionally Yup'ik) garment worn on the upper body as an overshirt on top of a parka (“long jacket with a hood”).
glosses: A lightweight parka-like garment with a hood and a large front pocket worn by Alaska Native people of all sexes, either as an overshirt or as a shirt.
kuspuks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kuspuk
semisubterranean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + subterranean.
Senses: glosses: Partially subterranean.
kashims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kashim
kashim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kashims
Etymology: Apparently a Russian [Term?] term, perhaps ultimately from Yupik qasgiq (the terms are, at least, synonymous). In Inupiaq, the term qargi is used.
Senses: examples: text: One Eskimo tale describes a girl who arrives at a kashim feast uninvited; when the building's spirit tells her that it has eyes, nose, arms, legs, and male genitals, she dashes home in fear.
ref: 1990, Peter Nabokov, Robert Easton, Native American Architecture, page 204:
glosses: A traditional, large, semisubterranean men's communal house of the Yup'ik, Inuit, and Deg Hit'an Athabaskans, in which communal and ceremonial events are hosted.
Synonyms: qasgiq
qaygiq
qargi
qasgiq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qasgiqs
Etymology: From Yupik qasgiq.
Senses: glosses: A kashim.
qargi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qargis
Etymology: From Inupiaq qargi.
Senses: glosses: A kashim.
SOHCAHTOA
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsoʊ.kɑˈtoʊ.ʌ/
ipa: /ˌsoʊ.kʌˈtoʊ.ʌ/
ipa: /ˌsɒ.kəˈtoʊ.ə/
Forms: form: sohcahtoa
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
trigonometry
glosses: sine: opposite over hypotenuse, cosine: adjacent over hypotenuse, tangent: opposite over adjacent
Synonyms: word: TOA-CAH-SOH
qasgiqs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of qasgiq
qargis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of qargi
field axiom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: field axioms
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any of the several axioms that an object should meet to be considered a mathematical field.
system of equations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: systems of equations
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: a set of equations required to be satisfied simultaneously or considered as a whole
field axioms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: associativity and commutativity of addition and multiplication
distributivity of addition over multiplication
additive and multiplicative identity elements
additive and multiplicative inverses (except for additive identity)
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: the requirements for an object to be considered a field
glosses: plural of field axiom
three-card trick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Three-card monte.
high altars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of high altar
Sandalwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the word sandalwood, a local product, as a reference to Bollywood.
Senses: glosses: The Kannada film industry located in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
pavillons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pavillon
tube well
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tube wells
form: tubewell
Senses: glosses: A well in which a stainless steel tube is bored directly down into an aquifer.
glosses: A diesel pump.
Proto-Western Malayo-Polynesian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From proto- + Western Malayo-Polynesian.
Senses: glosses: A proposed common ancestor to the group of Western Malayo-Polynesian languages.
Proto-Philippine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From proto- + Philippine.
Senses: glosses: A proposed common ancestor to the group of Philippine languages.
m-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: meta-
Related terms: o-
p-
perpetuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: incessant; perpetual
Derived terms: perpetuously
Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A proposed common ancestor to the group of Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages.
Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A proposed common ancestor to the group of Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages.
demand characteristics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demand characteristic
demand characteristic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demand characteristics
Etymology: From demand + characteristic.
Senses: glosses: An aspect of an experimental design that leads subjects to infer, and comply with, researcher expectations, thereby confounding the experimental results.
takes off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take off
sookier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of sooky: more sooky
sookiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of sooky: most sooky
southerly busters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of southerly buster
Amarante
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality of the district of Porto, Portugal.
araucarias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of araucaria
Angra do Heroísmo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Portuguese Angra do Heroísmo (“Bay of Heroism”).
Senses: glosses: A municipality and city on the island Terceira, Azores autonomous region, Portugal.
Arcos de Valdevez
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of the district of Viana do Castelo, Portugal.
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 1984
Etymology: After Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), a dystopian novel by George Orwell, set in the year 1984.
Senses: examples: text: I cannot help but follow such panopticism to its ultimate conclusion: a Nineteen Eighty-Four scenario.
ref: 2008, Ilan Kapoor, The Postcolonial Politics of Development, page 69:
text: The term 'nuclear family' may be found dislikable, but it is useful in avoiding the suggestion that Plato wants to abolish the family in favour of impersonal institutions of a Nineteen Eighty-Four type.
ref: 1999, Gail Fine, Plato Two: Ethics, Politics, Religion, and the Soul, page 265:
text: Dick's novel condemns this method, because she felt it destroyed creative work and encouraged a Nineteen Eighty-Four atmosphere of fear, and the novel ends with the triumph of hope and a faith in human love.
ref: 1995, Peter Parker, Frank Kermode, The reader's companion to twentieth-century writers, page 192:
text: Thus arises again the specter of a Nineteen Eighty-Four, of a brave new world of robots, of a waste land that is ever more sterile, of a West that is sick from lack of mysticism.
ref: 1970, William Johnston, The still point: reflections on Zen and Christian mysticism, page 171:
text: Whether produced as a Utopia or as a Nineteen Eighty-Four, a condition of changelessness would make man something less than human.
ref: 1969, Bryce F. Ryan, Social and cultural change, page 3:
text: Barnes finds an acceleration of the Orwellian trend in American life, and he cites C. Wright Mills' The Power Elite as providing "the best description of the progress made toward a Nineteen Eighty-Four social order in the United States.
ref: 1968, Arthur Goddard, Harry Elmer Barnes, learned crusader: the new history in action, page 331:
glosses: A society characterized by rigid government control enforced through propaganda and intensive surveillance.
wikipedia: Nineteen Eighty-Four
confrontable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more confrontable
form: most confrontable
Etymology: From confront + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be confronted; approachable.
Derived terms: unconfrontable