cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
communitizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of communitize
lemon tea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lemon teas
Senses: glosses: Black tea with lemon slices, zest or juice added.
lemon teas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lemon tea
conflict diamond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conflict diamonds
Senses: glosses: Synonym of blood diamond.
synonyms: word: blood diamond
conflict diamonds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conflict diamond
Huddart
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
consonantalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consonantalizations
Senses: glosses: The process or result of consonantalizing.
consonantalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of consonantalization
cat-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cata-.
Cotherstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A kind of cheese resembling Stilton, from Cotherstone in Durham, England.
cothurnal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the cothurnus style of tragedy.
cottage fried potatoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cottage fries.
synonyms: word: cottage fries
lat pulldowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lat pulldown
fasciae latae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fascia lata
pull-tabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pull-tab
pulmonectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pulmonectomy
push-pulls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of push-pull
push rims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of push rim
pushrims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pushrim
push-up bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of push-up bar
counterinstitution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterinstitutions
Etymology: From counter- + institution.
Senses: glosses: An institution set up in opposition to another institution.
counterinstitutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterinstitution
countersinker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countersinkers
Etymology: From countersink + -er.
Senses: glosses: A device that countersinks.
countersinkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countersinker
counts off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of count off
counting off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of count off
counted off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of count off
gas-house egg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gas-house eggs
Senses: examples: text: Oscar, he of Waldorf-Astoria fame, would be (or should be) proud to serve the following gas-house egg recipe we’ve heard from one of the culinary artists of this city: Take a slice of bread, pinch out the center, put in a frying pan with melted butter (or a reasonable amount thereof) and pour the egg in the hole.
ref: 1943 June 30, Ruth Walker, “The Breakfast Hour”, in The Greenville News, volume LXIX, number 181, Greenville, S.C., page nine:
text: […] she had breakfast well on the way when he returned—“gas-house” eggs (fried in the center of slices of bread punched out with a water glass) and crisp bacon.
ref: 1950 February, Theodore Sturgeon, “The Dreaming Jewels”, in Fantastic Adventures, volume 12, number 2, page 59, column 1:
text: “Mama’s making gas-house eggs, ’Nessa,” said Danny, cutting into a slice of melon. “Come and eat them before they’re cold,” Annie prompted. Vanessa slid into her seat at the table. “What are gas-house eggs?” Annie served her two from the cast iron skillet. “Oh, sure, we used to call ’em bull’s-eyes.”
ref: 1984, Lynn Cartier, Intimates, Dell, →ISBN, page 114:
text: Cooking is very popular but I don’t cook, unless you count gas-house eggs.
ref: 2001 October 27 – November 2, John Peel, Radio Times, →ISBN; republished in “WI”, in The Olivetti Chronicles: Three Decades of Life and Music, Bantam Press, 2008, page 339:
text: On the morning after Edith Campbell’s lawn party, Jed quietly dressed in his work clothes and decided to introduce Micaela to gas-house eggs. After cooking the bacon, he made a little-larger-than-yolk-sized hole in a piece of bread. He laid the bread in the skillet and let it soak up the bacon grease, then cracked an egg into the center of the hole.
ref: 2007, Wallace Westfeldt, Limestone Concerto, Boulder, Colo.: MudBug Press, →ISBN, page 132:
text: After Lemus, came a breakfast of gas-house eggs—after eleven years, I was finally tired of Cheerios. Gas-house eggs consisted of a piece of bread from which the center had been cut out and replaced by an egg that was then fried to taste. I wasn’t up to drinking coffee, so, argh, I washed the gas-house eggs down with a pint of milk, whole milk.
ref: 2007, Jerry Tovo, The Bible Reading Contest, iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 232:
glosses: Alternative form of gashouse egg.
gas-house eggs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gas-house egg
country damage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Damage caused to cotton before it is shipped, due to poor storage etc.
counted in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of count in
counts in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of count in
counting in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of count in
Jarnacs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Jarnac
credit life insurance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A type of credit insurance sold by a lender to pay off an outstanding loan balance if the borrower dies.
cream wove
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of creamwove.
cream wove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cream woves
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of creamwove.
cream woves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cream wove
creashak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creashaks
Senses: glosses: The bearberry, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi.
creashaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creashak
creedsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creedsmen
Etymology: From creed + -s- + -man.
Senses: glosses: A follower of a creed.
creedsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creedsman
creekology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The practice of prospecting for oil along creeks.
crèming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crème
crèmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crème
cryopedologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryopedologists
Senses: glosses: One who studies cryopedology.
cryopedological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to cryopedology.
cryopedologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to cryopedology.
cryopedologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryopedologist
eye lenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eye lens
cubarithm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cubarithms
Senses: glosses: A small cube having raised points on its faces, used by blind people to perform arithmetic.
cubarithms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cubarithm
Java pepper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Java peppers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cubeb (Piper cubeba)
synonyms: word: cubeb
extra: Piper cubeba
Java peppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Java pepper
Mohr's circle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after German engineer Christian Otto Mohr.
Senses: glosses: A two-dimensional graphical representation of the transformation law for the Cauchy stress tensor.
Meadian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Meadian
form: most Meadian
Etymology: From Mead + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Margaret Mead (1901–1978), American cultural anthropologist.
damnyankee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: damnyankees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of damn Yankee.
damnyankees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of damnyankee
axotomization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of axotomisation.
daredevilish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more daredevilish
form: most daredevilish
Etymology: From daredevil + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of daredevil.
synonyms: word: daredevil
debasedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From debased + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being debased.
debasings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of debasing
effed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of eff up
effs up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of eff up
effing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of eff up
Edwardsian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Edwardsian
form: most Edwardsian
Etymology: From Edwards + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758), American revivalist preacher, philosopher, and Congregationalist theologian.
Edwardsian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Edwardsians
Etymology: From Edwards + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A follower of Jonathan Edwards, or of Edwardsianism.
Edwardsians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Edwardsian
Edwardsianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Edwardsian + -ism.
Senses: topics: Christianity
synonyms: New England theology
glosses: A school of theology that grew up among the Congregationalists of New England, originating in the year 1732, when Jonathan Edwards began his constructive theological work, culminating a little before the American Civil War, declining afterwards, and rapidly disappearing after the year 1880.
edible snail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: edible snails
Senses: glosses: Synonym of escargot (Helix pomatia)
synonyms: word: escargot
extra: Helix pomatia
edible snails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of edible snail
Beckfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Eskdale parish, Cumberland, Cumbria, England, previously in Copeland borough (OS grid ref NY1600).
glosses: A coastal hamlet in Holme St Cuthbert parish, Cumberland district, Cumbria, previously in Allerdale borough (OS grid ref NY0949).
Related terms: Beck Foot
detective inspector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: detective inspectors
form: DI
Etymology: From detective (adjective) + inspector.
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: A police rank used in Commonwealth countries.
Gelbvieh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gelbviehs
Etymology: From German Gelbvieh (literally “yellow cattle”).
Senses: glosses: A bull or cow of a breed originating in Bavaria, Germany, in the mid-18th century.
Gelbviehs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gelbvieh
Holme St Cuthbert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish in Cumberland district, Cumbria, England, previously in Allerdale borough (OS grid ref NY1047).
melaninlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more melaninlike
form: most melaninlike
Etymology: From melanin + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of melanin.
morthouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morthouses
form: mort house
form: mort-house
Etymology: From mort (“death”) + house. Compare mort bell, mort cloth, mort stone.
Senses: examples: text: That the bodies of all persons dying in these towns, and, if need be, in all other towns, and also in country parishes, unclaimable by immediate relatives, or whose relatives decline to defray the expenses of interment, shall be conveyed to a morthouse appointed in the said towns for their reception.
ref: 1828 April 8, William Mackenzie, “Anatomical Dissections. An Appeal to the Public and to the Legislature, on the necessity of affording Dead Bodies to the Schools of Anatomy, by Legislative Enactment.”, in The Kaleidoscope; or, Literary and Scientific Mirror, volume VIII, number 406, page 335:
text: Morthouses were sturdily built, with iron linings on wooden doors, even a skin of steel within the whole structure in some cases.
ref: 1989, Dane Love, Scottish Kirkyards, London: Robert Hale, →ISBN, page 154:
text: From burial grounds in the heart of Glasgow to quiet country graveyards in Aberdeenshire, this book takes you to every cemetery ever raided, and reveals where you can find extant pieces of anti-resurrectionist graveyard furniture, from mortsafes, coffin cages and underground vaults to watchtowers and morthouses.
ref: 2010, “Other titles published by The History Press”, in David Kinnaird, Haunted Stirling, The History Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A specialised secure building usually located in a churchyard where bodies were temporarily interred before a formal funeral took place.
morthouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morthouse
METO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Middle East Treaty Organization.
Deviant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Deviants
Senses: examples: text: Matuszczak credits the advice offered up by fellow “Deviants” for his artistic and technical development. […] In such a thicket of creativity, notes Gamiddo, who says he spends up to 10 hours a week on the site, “you have to do some work to get noticed. You get what you give.” In keeping with this philosophy, he has operated over the past three years as a news administrator, heralding the latest software and contests, such as the recent competition calling for Deviants to design a new icon for the legendary metal band Megadeth.
ref: 2006 March 1, Deidre Stein Greben, “Cool 2 Know, deviantART.com”, in Newsday, page B02:
text: Cosgrove is one of many Deviants — as DeviantArt users call themselves — who believe that the unbiased commentary and advice of his peers has been crucial in their professional advancement. […] Cosgrove has created a tutorial about what he does and studies tutorials fellow Deviants have posted.
ref: 2006 August 9, Chris Marlowe, “Designer takes Deviant path to career success”, in The Hollywood Reporter, volume 395, page 6:
text: DeviantART's biggest milestone to date was celebrating its 10-year anniversary, he said. "It gave all of us on staff a concrete day to look back and see how far we had come. We sold out the House of Blues in Hollywood to Deviants who flew in from all around the world. […]
ref: 2012 August 21, “Smart enough to follow its audience; Social media; Industry pioneer took ‘ceiling’ off of art”, in National Post, page FP.12:
text: If you have a strong teen/young adult population, you probably have a decent number of Deviants in your community already.
ref: 2012 November, Donna F. Ekart, “What’s Your Flickr Backup Plan?”, in Computers in Libraries, volume 32, number 9, Information Today, page 37:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of deviant (“a member of the online art community DeviantArt”).
Deviants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Deviant
webhost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: webhosts
Etymology: From web + host.
Senses: examples: text: If you have a reputable internet service provider or webhost, much of the spam that would otherwise come your way should be stopped before it even reaches your computer.
ref: 2007, Mike Pywell, Bill Hilton, Working for Yourself, Which?, →ISBN, page 142:
text: I assembled my servers and shipped them to a facility in Chicago called BBN Planet. They were in the business of selling physical space in small, medium, and large chunks to webhosts.
ref: 2008, Kimberly Spinks Burleson, Robyn Collins, quoting Chris Faulkner, Prepare to Be a Teen Millionaire, Deerfield Beach, Fla.: Health Communications, Inc., →ISBN, page 187:
text: So the happiest solution possible is to find out that gd is already installed, and PHP already has gd support enabled (whether that’s due to the diligence of your webhost or because the PHP you installed by yourself had it included).
ref: 2009, Steve Suehring, Tim Converse, Joyce Park, PHP 6 and MySQL 6 Bible, Wiley, →ISBN, pages 696–697:
glosses: An Internet hosting service that hosts websites for clients.
Related terms: web hosting
webhosts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of webhost
webhosting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Make sure that your webhosting service has room for expansion. As your site grows and your web traffic increases, you’ll probably need to buy more webhosting space.
ref: 2008, Kimberly Spinks Burleson, Robyn Collins, Prepare to Be a Teen Millionaire, Deerfield Beach, Fla.: Health Communications, Inc., →ISBN, page 144:
text: They would take 4closureFraud off WordPress and onto its own server, and Carol would cover all webhosting expenses.
ref: 2016, David Dayen, Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street’s Great Foreclosure Fraud, New York, N.Y.; London: The New Press, →ISBN, page 164:
text: They provide logistical support for third parties, enable webhosting in their cloud for businesses, and so on.
ref: 2017, Wijnand Jongen, The End of Online Shopping: The Future of Retail in an Always Connected World, Nubiz, →ISBN, page 23:
text: With the cursor hovering over the message button, I’d held my breath as I opened it, only to discover it was an invoice for webhosting from the parent site.
ref: 2020, M. A. Hunter, Ransomed (The Missing Children Case Files), One More Chapter, HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd, →ISBN, page 295:
glosses: Alternative form of web hosting.
WordPresser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WordPressers
Etymology: From WordPress + -er.
Senses: examples: text: There are testimonials from happy WordPressers, fan art, and official logos and graphics to splatter over your digital universe.
ref: 2010, Bud Smith, Michael McCallister, WordPress in Depth, Indianapolis, Ind.: Que, Pearson Education, →ISBN, page 382:
text: Local meetups tend to draw people from all aspects of the WordPress community, including developers, designers, entrepreneurs, academics, hobbyists, marketers, and more. They’ve proven extremely beneficial for both novice and seasoned WordPressers alike.
ref: 2011, Mick Olinik, Raena Jackson Armitage, The WordPress Anthology, SitePoint, →ISBN, page 18:
text: To help our fellow WordPressers keep up on the progress of this monumental mission, as well as the ongoing efforts of other planet-hunters, we are going to build a menu for the Toolbar that displays the current number of confirmed exoplanets, as well as the number of candidates that have yet to be independently verified.
ref: 2013, Aurélien Denis, Useful Tricks and Techniques for WordPress, Smashing Magazine, →ISBN:
text: My advice to you, as a novice WordPresser, can be described in one word: anticipate.
ref: 2013, Jesse Friedman, Web Designer’s Guide to WordPress: Plan, Theme, Build, Launch, New Riders, Peachpit, →ISBN:
text: However, there’s a trick called caching that will satisfy even the most performance-obsessed WordPresser.
ref: 2013, Matthew MacDonald, WordPress: The Missing Manual, O’Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 306:
text: Google Analytics data of unique views and reader numbers was the currency for amateur publishers to justify value in an immature market, where banner advertising and a CPM model was the de facto monetisation option for aspiring-to-be-professional WordPressers.
ref: 2017, Mike Sharman, The Best Dick: A Candid Account of Building a $1m Business, Tracey McDonald Publishers, →ISBN, page 18:
glosses: A user of WordPress.
WordPressers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of WordPresser
downward drift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
glosses: The phenomenon of people with mental illness moving ever downward along the social and economic scale after they reach adulthood and live independently.
asparagussy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more asparagussy
form: most asparagussy
Senses: examples: text: […] an asparagus quiche and salad (£2.25 or £1.35 for just the quiche) had soggier wholemeal pastry than was probably intended, but was determinedly asparagussy in flavour.
ref: 1984, Kathryn McWhirter, editor, Which? Wine Guide 1985, London: Consumers' Association; Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 528:
text: But I do like to delight people with intense, focused, essential flavors, to give them the pure joy of fresh asparagus in springtime. I'm looking to amuse them and maybe (occasionally) keep them guessing: "How did he get that asparagus to taste so... asparagussy?"
ref: 2006, Geoffrey Zakarian, Geoffrey Zakarian's Town/Country: 150 Recipes for Life Around the Table, New York, N.Y.: Clarkson Potter/Publishers, →ISBN, page 8:
text: Some veg varieties are robust enough in our relatively benign climate to stay in the soil all winter, and to provide us with winter crops or welcome spring treats. My favourite is purple sprouting broccoli, with its nutty, asparagussy flavour, delicate texture and rich colouring.
ref: 2011, Jane Powers, The Living Garden: A Place That Works With Nature, London, England: Frances Lincoln Limited, →ISBN, page 132:
text: For Sauvignon followers who crave a softer style, this asparagussy contrivance might serve.
ref: 2013, Ned Halley, Best Wines in the Supermarket 2014, London; […]: Foulsham, page 107:
glosses: Alternative form of asparagusy.
sharp ends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sharp end
drinkerd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drinkerds
form: drinkard
Senses: examples: text: He bought it because he had been thirsty, not because he wanted to be social. Therefore he felt immensely superior to all the fooderds and drinkerds around him.
ref: 1959, Fantastic Universe: Science Fiction - Volume 11, Issues 1-6, page 95:
text: It is, however, to be stressed that a comrad is never overwell; we are drinkerds, not drunkards.
ref: 1982, Edwin Felix Gray Haig, The Nigerian Field - Volume 47, page 7:
text: I was a palm-wine drinkard since I was a boy of ten years of age.
ref: 1984, Amos Tutuola, The Palm-wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-wine Tapster in the Dead's Town, page 7:
text: We need drinkerds, we sit for lunch when leaves are laid, we offer milk and banana libations to our theriomorphic gods.
ref: 1991, Indian Association for English Studies, Indian English Literature Since Independence, page 148:
glosses: One who routinely drinks alcoholic beverages socially, but who is not a drunkard.
drinkerds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drinkerd
TLH
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of transcendental law of homogeneity.
generative AI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: generative AIs
Senses: examples: text: Generative AI won’t be the end of employment, we are told, only “boring work” – with chatbots helpfully doing all the soul-destroying, repetitive tasks and humans merely supervising them.
ref: 2023 May 8, Naomi Klein, “AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: ChatGPT's sudden popularity has triggered an arms race among the world's leading tech companies and start-ups that are rushing to obtain the H100, which Huang describes as “the world's first computer [chip]^([sic]) designed for generative AI”—artificial intelligence systems that can quickly create humanlike text, images and content.
ref: 2023 May 28, Tim Bradshaw, Richard Waters, “Nvidia reaps rewards from early lead in AI chipmaking”, in FT Weekend, page 14:
text: The document states that despite its ongoing advancements, generative AI is liable to the United States’s current copyright principles, which take a strict stance on what material—human- or machine-made—qualifies for protection.
ref: 2025 January 30, Tessa Solomon, “AI Art Lacking ‘Human Expression’ Cannot Be Copyrighted, US Officials Say”, in ARTnews:
text: Meta has invested heavily in generative AI, with the majority of its planned $72bn in capital expenditure this year earmarked for data centres and servers.
ref: 2025 June 14, “Meta invests $15bn in scale AI as it builds ‘superintelligence’ team”, in FT Weekend, Companies & Markets, page 12:
glosses: Generative artificial intelligence.
generative AIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of generative AI
leafy-stemmed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a stem with leaves attached to it.
Gaianists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gaianist
Gaianist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gaianists
Etymology: From Gaian + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Gaianists derive their ideas from the recent theory of James Lovelock, who argues that the biosphere operates as if it were a single living entity which he calls Gaia, after the Greek Goddess of the earth (Chapter 1).
ref: 1992, A. M. Mannion, S. R. Bowlby, editors, Environmental Issues in the 1990s, Wiley, →ISBN, page 166:
text: Lovelock’s hypothesis does not attribute intelligence to Gaia. But many Gaianists do: particularly deep ecologists and New Agers.
ref: 1993, David Pepper, Eco-Socialism: From Deep Ecology to Social Justice, Routledge, published 2003, →ISBN:
text: Rather than talk of increasing control of nature, deep ecologists and Gaianists, for example, warn of the ‘revenge of nature’, a notion that has also started to appear in some recent environmental histories such as that of Murphy (1994).
ref: 2000, Martin Phillips, Tim Mighall, Society and Exploitation Through Nature, London; New York, N.Y.: Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 30:
glosses: An adherent of Gaianism.
Synonyms: Gaian
policy-making
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: It is the policy-making and financial body, responsible for establishing and maintaining proper co-ordination between the various Executives, and has a duty to ensure that each Executive carries out efficiently the duties delegated to it in its particular sphere of operations.
ref: 1948 January and February, “British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 2:
glosses: That formulates policies.
policy-making
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of policymaking.
Hermit Kingdom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Hermit Kingdom
Senses: examples: text: Few international observers credit the Hermit Kingdom with behaving in a rational manner, yet its current behavior appears to be drifting out of its usual, if slightly illogical, pattern of threatening its neighbors when it finds itself isolated.
ref: 2014 September 30, Clint Richards, “Why Isn’t North Korea Angry About Its Isolation?”, in The Diplomat, archived from the original on 06 Nov 2024:
text: Her name is Yeonmi Park, and she escaped from the “Hermit Kingdom” of North Korea at the age of 13.
ref: 2022 May 10, Catherine Swift, “Lessons from North Korea”, in The Niagara Independent, archived from the original on 12 Oct 2024:
text: The ministry pointed out that the envoys brought focus on North Korean workers as the Hermit Kingdom is expected to further reopen its international borders as the COVID-19 situation improves globally.
ref: 2023 April 8, “Stay Away: Why US, Japan, South Korea want the world to strictly ban North Korean workers”, in Firstpost, archived from the original on 02 May 2023:
glosses: North Korea.
baby queer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baby queers
form: babyqueer
Senses: examples: text: […] and kept me so connected to my congregation—and my Jewish identity—even when forces of queerness started to seem like they might push me away. The Sosteks, the Weisses, the Fischlers, the Arbeits: they welcomed baby-queer-me with tenderness, and ran interference with my parents about it for, oh, a decade. Ish.
ref: 2013 September 23, S. Bear Bergman, Blood, Marriage, Wine, & Glitter, arsenal pulp press, →ISBN:
text: "Wait, you just came out yesterday? I didn't realize you were just a baby queer." I look up and see her palm covering her face. This is the second time someone has called me a baby queer.
ref: 2019 February 5, Bridget Liang, What Makes You Beautiful, James Lorimer & Company, →ISBN, page 32:
text: Not only a newly out baby queer, I was also a baby Southerner. I had never lived south of the Verrazano Bridge. The learning curve was steep. To be queer in the Appalachian South was different than being queer in Brooklyn.
ref: 2021 October 28, Gregory Samantha Rosenthal, Living Queer History: Remembrance and Belonging in a Southern City, UNC Press Books, →ISBN, page 3:
glosses: An LGBT person who is newly out, newly active, unsure about their identity/queerness, or young compared to other members of the community.
bihawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bihawks
Etymology: From bi- + (Mo)hawk.
Senses: glosses: A hairstyle with two Mohawk-like crests on the left and right of the scalp.
lean-backs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lean-back
leaps in the dark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leap in the dark
pygmy blue whale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pygmy blue whales
Senses: glosses: A small kind of blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda
bioincubators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioincubator
biomedicalisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biomedicalisation
biopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biopathy
bioperspectives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioperspective
biopolysaccharides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biopolysaccharide
biopumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biopump
bioreductants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioreductant
biovariants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biovariant
biotransistors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biotransistor
BIOTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BIOT
biospectrophotometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biospectrophotometer
BIPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BIP
BiPAPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BiPAP
biparasites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biparasite
bipyrimidines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bipyrimidine
birtherists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birtherist
bisamino acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bisamino acid
bisection methods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bisection method
bisglycinates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bisglycinate
bismuthenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bismuthene
bispeptides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bispeptide
bisphenyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bisphenyl
bitherapies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bitherapy
BiWs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BiW
BIWs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BIW
BK polyomaviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BK polyomavirus
bitter boletes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bitter bolete
BK viruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BK virus
black cars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black car
black ants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black ant
equality money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From equality + money.
Senses: topics: law
property
glosses: Money paid as part of an exchange of real estate to compensate for any difference in value.
black drums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black drum
black earwigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black earwig
black gangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black gang
black garlics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black garlic
black limpets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black limpet
black oat grasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black oat grass
black orioles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black oriole
black palmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black palmer
black pillers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black piller
black rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black room
hold one's piss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holds one's piss
form: holding one's piss
form: held one's piss
form: held one's piss
Senses: examples: text: They say I'm a camel because I can really hold my piss on long road trips.
synonyms: hold it
hold one's pee
hold one's water
glosses: To resist the urge to urinate.
examples: text: Hey, hold your piss, okay? You'll get your turn when your number comes up.
synonyms: word: abide
word: back that train up
word: bide
word: bide one's time
word: expect
word: defer
word: hang on
word: hold on
word: hold one's breath
word: hold one's horses
word: hold one's water
word: hold out
word: mark time
word: stand by
word: stay
word: twiddle one's thumbs
word: wait
glosses: To wait, particularly unwillingly.
examples: text: I'd had a lot of beer, but I was able to hold my piss and get through the security checks and into the club.
synonyms: hold one's liquor
hold one's alcohol
hold one's drink
glosses: To hide the effects of one's drunkenness; to convincingly behave as though sober while drunk.
Alpha and Omega
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Alpha and Omega
form: the Alpha and Omega
Senses: examples: text: I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 1:8:
text: Here you ſee the Alpha and Omega was Dead; And was not the Alpha and Omega God? And you ſee by the Scripture, that the Alpha and Omega was Dead: And was there any Alpha and Omega that Died but Jeſus Chriſt? And was there any Alpha and Omega that quickened out of Death to Life again, but Chriſt?
ref: 1764 [1699], Lodowicke Muggleton, The Acts of the Witneſſes of the Spirit, page 91:
text: I. The Lord Jesus Christ is the Alpha and Omega of the entire creation (Col. i. 16, 17).
II. That He is the Alpha and Omega of the Divine manifestations (John xiv. 8—11).
III. That He is the Alpha and Omega of the Scriptures (Isa. xliv. 6; Rev. i. 8).
IV. That He is the Alpha and Omega of man’s salvation (Rom. v. 19).
V. That He is the Alpha and Omega of spiritual life in the soul of the believer (John xv. 5).
VI. That He is the Alpha and Omega of the believer’s glory (Rev. xxi.).
ref: 1889, R. W. D. Nickle, Light and Colour: Emblematic of Revealed Truth, page 49:
text: God is the Alpha and Omega or the beginning and end and, appropriately, the book opens and closes with this self-designation. Similarly, Jesus is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and end and, once more, the book opens and closes with this self-designation.
ref: 2009, James L. Resseguie, The Revelation of John: A Narrative Commentary, page 80:
topics: Christianity
glosses: A title for Jesus Christ and/or God, signifying that he is the beginning and end of all things.
Alpha and Omega
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Alphas and Omegas
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of alpha and omega.
black sapotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black sapote
black scoters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black scoter
black storks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black stork
black-backed water tyrants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black-legged water tyrants
Senses: glosses: plural of black-backed water tyrant
blackboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blackbox
blackboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blackbox
blackbrushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blackbrush
blackflap blennies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blackflap blenny
black-pills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black-pill
black-pills
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of black-pill
Blanc de Hotots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Blanc de Hotot
BLLs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BLL
blank-cartridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blank-cartridge
blanket statements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blanket statement
blastomycetes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blastomycete
blastomylonites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blastomylonite
blawgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blawger
marriage value
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marriage values
Etymology: From marriage + value.
Senses: topics: law
property
glosses: The difference in value between a leasehold interest in land and the hypothetical value of its reversionary interest were the leasehold to be determined, which typically increases as the leasehold draws towards its end; frequently considered the market value chargeable to the tenant for a long extension of the leasehold, or for the purchase of the reversionary interest.
marriage values
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marriage value
insectian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: of, pertaining to, or resembling insects.
edit-wars
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of edit-war
edit-warring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of edit-war
edit-warred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of edit-war
reptologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reptologists
Senses: synonyms: reptilologist
glosses: A scientist who studies reptiles.
reptilologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reptilologists
Senses: synonyms: reptologist
glosses: A scientist who studies reptiles.
cheesy chips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Synonym of cheese fries.
synonyms: word: cheese fries
deuterolearning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist Gregory Bateson, from deutero- (“secondary”) + learning.
Senses: examples: text: The implications of deuterolearning take us into an anthropology that is wonderfully open.
ref: 2008, Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi, Jeanette Dickerson-Putman, editors, Pulling the Right Threads: The Ethnographic Life and Legacy of Jane C. Goodale, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 111:
text: Deuterolearning implies becoming aware of how organizations single- and double-loop learn—that is, “learning how to learn.”
ref: 2017, Moisés J. Schwartz, Ray C. Rist, The International Monetary Fund and the Learning Organization: The Role of Independent Evaluation, International Monetary Fund, →ISBN, page 70:
glosses: Second-order learning; learning how to learn.
North Hayling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village on Hayling Island in Havant borough, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU7303).
Related terms: South Hayling
last full measures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of last full measure
FHI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Future of Humanity Institute.
ladder wagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ladder wagons
Senses: glosses: An agricultural wagon with sides resembling ladders.
Garsington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP5802).
Craig-y-Nos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Tawe-Uchaf community, Powys, Wales, historically in Breconshire (OS grid ref SN8414).
aluminium bromide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any chemical compound with the empirical formula AlBrₓ.
USART
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: USARTs
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of universal synchronous and asynchronous receiver-transmitter.
Related terms: UART
USARTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of USART
beta test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beta tests
form: beta-test
Senses: glosses: A process of beta testing.
alpha test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alpha tests
Senses: glosses: A process of alpha testing.
beta tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beta test
alpha tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alpha test
tofersen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A medication used to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
beta iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The paramagnetic form of alpha iron or ferrite.
I beam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: I beams
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of I-beam.
I beams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of I beam
cotticed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cottised.
unintermittently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: For fifteen centuries before the last, it was erroneously supposed that all maladies lay in the humours of the body; and hence blood-letting was practised periodically to prevent disease, and almost unintermittently to cure it, though such treatment could only be right in a few out of many cases.
ref: 1834 January 4, “Is Ignorance Bliss?”, in William Chambers, Robert Chambers, editors, Chambers’ Edinburgh Journal, volume II, number 101, page 386, column 2:
text: I was once in the Grand Hôtel during the usual “exceptional season,” when it rained unintermittently for a fortnight; the place was empty; “tristeful,” as Adolf styled it.
ref: 1892 September 3, “Inns and Outs. No. II.—The Head-Wetter.”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume CIII, London: […] [T]he Office, […], page 105, column 2:
text: It retains only those miracles which are symbols of a continuous permanent miracle, through which the Saviour of the World works constantly, unintermittently, among men.
ref: 1910, Albert Schweitzer, “The Lives of Jesus of the Earlier Rationalism”, in W[illiam] Montgomery, transl., The Quest of the Historical Jesus: A Critical Study of Its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede, London: Adam and Charles Black, page 35:
text: A steady rain poured down unintermittently from the time I left my hotel in downtown Toronto until I returned dripping into the lobby and removed my soaking hat.
ref: 2001 July 22, Rhoda Amon, “Toronto: ‘New York, as Run by the Swiss’”, in Newsday, volume 61, number 322, page E13, column 1:
glosses: Not intermittently; in an unintermittent manner.
long pot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long pots
Senses: examples: text: Brecel fired in doubles, a succession of stunning long pots and seemingly cleared balls at will as he rattled through the first four frames in under an hour.
ref: 2023 May 1, Steve Sutcliffe, “World Snooker Championship 2023 final: Luca Brecel beats Mark Selby for first world title”, in BBC Sport:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
glosses: A shot that pots a ball from across most of the table.
get across the line
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets across the line
form: getting across the line
form: got across the line
form: gotten across the line
form: got across the line
Senses: examples: text: Selby's charge continued with a half-century in the 30th frame and a fluked red set him on the way to winning the 31st frame.
That opened up the possibility of a first Crucible finale to go the distance since Peter Ebdon's 18-17 victory over Stephen Hendry in 2002, but Brecel recovered his composure to get across the line for an emotional victory.
ref: 2023 May 1, Steve Sutcliffe, “World Snooker Championship 2023 final: Luca Brecel beats Mark Selby for first world title”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Alternative form of get over the line.
Yorkshire parkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yorkshire parkins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of parkin.
affixless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: without an affix
JWICS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈdʒeɪwɪks/
Senses: topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: Acronym of Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System.