cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
menagery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: menageries
Senses: examples: text: In 1843, with references from Owen, Gray and Waterhouse, he came to work at the Earl of Derby's menagery, aviary and museum.
ref: 2005, Kate Hill, Culture and Class in English Public Museums, 1850-1914:
glosses: Archaic form of menagerie.
dischargement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dischargements
Etymology: From discharge + -ment.
Senses: glosses: An instance or act of discharging.
dischargements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dischargement
sunbrella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunbrellas
Etymology: Blend of sun + umbrella
Senses: glosses: Synonym of parasol.
synonyms: word: parasol
sunbrellas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sunbrella
Sta. Maria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Santa Maria in its various senses.
good doctor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: good doctors
Senses: examples: text: Doctor: ...So, good night;
My mind she has mated, and amaz’d my sight.
I think, but dare not speak.
Gentlewoman: Good night, good doctor.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
text: Sir Cred. Spare me, good Doctor!
ref: 1734, James Miller (1734), The mother-in-law; or, The doctor the disease, London: J. Watts, Act IV, Scene 1, page 60
text: Every woman too is her own legislatrix. Good doctor, reprint this sheet; add, but in capitals,—“every woman is her own legislatrix.”—These words alone will sell at least nine more editions of your work.
ref: 1776, John Lind (1776), "Letter II: Of civil liberty, and the principles of government", in: Three letters to Dr. Price, London: T. Payne, J. Sewell, and P. Elmsly, page 40
glosses: An honorific form of address to a doctor.
Hypernyms: doctor
Related terms: the good doctor
curses, like chickens, come home to roost
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: 1850, speech of Thomas W. Gibson, in H. Fowler, Report of the Debates and Proceedings of the Convention for the Revision of the Constitution of the State of Indiana, Indianapolis, page 448.
I did not expect, Mr. President, to hear such a doctrine as this from the gentleman who, this morning, so eloquently denounced alt attempts at disunion. That gentleman should remember the old Spanish proverb—“Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.”
text: 1860, Timothy Shay Arthur, "Worse Enemies than Lions and Tigers", in Shadows and Sunbeams, J.W. Bradley, page 19.
Have you ever heard the old Spanish proverb, “Curses, like chickens, come home to roost?” If so, it were well for you to ponder its meaning.
text: “Peace, old mother,” he said in Spanish. “Remember that curses, like chickens, come home to roost. Put another on my head and I'll blow your beads down your throat.”
ref: 1907 April 12, “The Bradys and "Kid Joaquin"; or, The Greasers of Robbers Canyon.”, in Secret Service: Old and Young King Brady, Detectives, number 429, page 1:
glosses: Alternative form of the chickens come home to roost.
Maligaya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Dinalupihan, Bataan, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of El Nido, Palawan, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of General Nakar, Quezon, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Lamitan, Basilan, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Malaybalay, Bukidnon, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Palayan, Nueva Ecija, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of the city of Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of San Narciso, Quezon, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Tarlac City, Tarlac, Philippines.
Laxamana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Laxamanas
Etymology: Respelling of Lacsamana.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Kapampangan.
divinish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more divinish
form: most divinish
Etymology: From divine + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: That divinity itself is but divinish Is a proof that it is perfectly divine — And the power that made the universe Einsteinish Must be (relatively) something pretty fine!
ref: 1923, Life - Volume 81:
text: I'm so sorry I'm late but the second plane was late and I missed the first plane 'cause I was snarfing around in this divinish little perfume boite at the airport.
ref: 1963, David Rogers, It Happens Every Summer, page 16:
text: […] when we observe that the sculptures occupy a certain place, are on the outside of the temple, and in the subsidiary components of the structure, but never in the garbh-grih, the cella, where the deity's image is set; or that, upon the wall, sexual activity of the bestial and orgiastic type is placed as friezes near the base, or that as tiers rise upon tiers of sculpture, the erotic becomes less earthy and more and more mystical, and divinish, if not divine, we are already walking upon good philosophic ground.
ref: 1967, Kanwar Lal, The Cult of Desire, page 51:
text: This book's concertedly wacky juxtapositions upset even easy distinctions between supposedly anonymous forces and reputedly individual protagonists (whether divinish kings, lionized generals, salvific missionaries, cherished martyrs ...
ref: 2005, Anthropology and Humanism - Volumes 30-31, page 239:
glosses: Somewhat or nearly divine.
Licup
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Samal, Davao del Norte, Philippines.
Saidic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sahidic.
Sabangan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Kankanaey Sabangan. See that for more details.
Senses: examples: Meronyms: Bao-angan, Bun-ayan, Busa, Camatagan, Capinitan, Data, Gayang, Lagan, Losad, Namatec, Napua, Pingad, Poblacion, Supang, Tambingan — barangays of Sabangan
glosses: A municipality of Mountain Province, Philippines.
Millimetternich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German Millimetternich, in reference to Dollfuss's diminutive stature. Equivalent to a blend of millimetre + Metternich.
Senses: glosses: Nickname for Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrofascist dictator of Austria.
Lumbang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Lipa, Batangas, Philippines.
praise name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: praise names
Senses: examples: text: Jacob Zuma will change all that hasn't been changed to make better the better life for all. Msholzi, his praise-name: one of them, the workers; Zuma, their own.
ref: 2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury, published 2013, page 269:
glosses: A ceremonial name or title used by various African peoples.
Magallanes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Magallaneses
Etymology: From Spanish Magallanes, from Portuguese Magalhães.
The places are named after Ferdinand Magellan (Spanish: Fernando de Magallanes)
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
glosses: Several places in the Chile and the Philippines.
A region of Chile.
glosses: Several places in the Chile and the Philippines.
A province of Chile.
glosses: Several places in the Chile and the Philippines.
A municipality of Agusan del Norte, Philippines.
glosses: Several places in the Chile and the Philippines.
A municipality of Cavite, Philippines.
glosses: Several places in the Chile and the Philippines.
A municipality of Sorsogon, Philippines.
glosses: Several places in the Chile and the Philippines.
A former department of Chile.
Derived terms: territory of Magallanes
Related terms: Magellan
Magellanic
Badian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪdiən
Forms: form: Badians
Senses: glosses: A Barbadian
Badian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪdiən
Forms: form: more Badian
form: most Badian
Senses: glosses: Barbadian
Argao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Cebu, Philippines.
Oslob
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Cebu, Philippines.
Liloan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Cebu, Philippines.
Southern Leyte
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsaʊ̯.təɹn ˈlɛɪ̯.tɛ/
Etymology: From southern + Leyte.
Senses: glosses: A province of Eastern Visayas, Visayas, Philippines. Capital and largest city: Maasin.
Leyte
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪ̯.tɛ/
ipa: /ˈleɪ̯.tɪ/
ipa: /ˈleɪteɪ/
Senses: glosses: An island of Eastern Visayas, Visayas, Philippines
examples: Meronyms: Abuyog, Alangalang, Albuera, Babatngon, Barugo, Bato, Baybay, Burauen, Calubian, Capoocan, Carigara, Dagami, Dulag, Hilongos, Hindang, Inopacan, Isabel, Jaro, Javier, Julita, Kananga, La Paz, Leyte, MacArthur, Mahaplag, Matag-ob, Matalom, Mayorga, Merida, Ormoc, Palo, Palompon, Pastrana, San Isidro, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Tabango, Tabontabon, Tanauan, Tolosa, Tunga, Villaba — cities and municipalities of Leyte
synonyms: Northern Leyte
glosses: A province of Eastern Visayas, Visayas, Philippines. Capital and largest city: Tacloban
examples: Meronyms: Bachao, Baco, Bagaba-o, Basud, Belen, Burabod, Calaguise, Consuegra, Culasi, Danus, Elizabeth, Kawayan, Libas, Maanda, Macupa, Mataloto, Palarao, Palid I, Palid II, Parasan, Poblacion, Salog, Sambulawan, Tag-abaca, Tapol, Tigbawan, Tinocdugan, Toctoc, Ugbon, Wague — barangays of Leyte
glosses: A municipality of the province of Leyte, Philippines.
Derived terms: Leyte Gulf
New Leyte
Northern Leyte
Southern Leyte
overlicensed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overlicensed
form: most overlicensed
Etymology: From over- + licensed.
Senses: examples: text: By the early 1980s, Gucci was overlicensed, with its logo on every product imaginable from headscarves to key rings to lighters.
ref: 2015, Ashok Som, Christian Blanckaert, The Road To Luxury:
glosses: Licensed too much or too widely.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having purchased more licences than are legally required.
Ordovices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin Ordovīcēs.
Senses: glosses: An ancient tribe of Britannia, situated opposite the island of Anglesey.
Derived terms: Ordovician
underlicensed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underlicensed
form: most underlicensed
Etymology: From under- + licensed.
Senses: examples: text: If you are in the situation where the shortfall or deficit is too large, clearly you will need to establish if the installed software that is underlicensed is actually in use and/or required in the business.
ref: 2011, Martyn Hobbs, IT Asset Management: A Pocket Survival Guide, page 31:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having purchased fewer licences than are legally required.
orcine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orcines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Dated form of orcin.
osmide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osmides
Etymology: From osmium + -ide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any binary compound of osmium and a more electropositive metal
antimetaphysicalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-metaphysicalism
Etymology: From anti- + metaphysical + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, the theory of history served as a powerful pragmatic reinforcement, in Comte's scheme, for the epistemological premises of positivism—relentless phenomenalism, antimetaphysicalism, and unitarian hierarchy of knowledge.
ref: 2004, John H. Zammito, A Nice Derangement of Epistemes, →ISBN:
text: Wolin does not treat Kristeller, but we can add Kristeller's case to the list; although Kristeller refrained from extended critique and self-indulgent consideration of the Heidegger problem, Kristeller's rationalist project was in effect a rebuttal in practice of Heidegger's antimetaphysicalism.
ref: 2005, Christopher S. Celenza, The Lost Italian Renaissance: Humanists, Historians, and Latin's Legacy, →ISBN:
text: Antimetaphysicalism dated back to Hume, who, in his celebrated Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, declares: When we run over libraries... if we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
ref: 2013, Edwin Hung, Philosophy of Science Complete, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The denial of any metaphysics that is not grounded in science and positivism.
bedying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bedye
cum receptacle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cum receptacles
Senses: examples: text: [...] Once you're in the Fleet Marine Force and they find out you lied on your contract, they'll put you in the brig. Do you want to go to the brig someday, Swofford?” “Sir, the recruit will admit something, sir.” “Don't lie to me, you worthless cum receptacle.”
ref: 2003, Anthony Swofford, Jarhead: A Solder's Story of Modern War, →ISBN:
text: As soon as it dawned on me that Leo's mom wasn't checking me out because I was an adorable specimen clearly out of Bruno's league, but because she thought I was some mail order cum receptacle, I was pissed.
ref: 2014, Jenny Mollen, I Like You Just the Way I Am: Stories About Me and Some Other People, →ISBN, page 18:
text: She continued to think about how dirty and degrading the situation would look to an outside observer. Male IT worker uses the office female as his cum receptacle. The more she thought about it, the stronger the throbbing grew. The yearning tingle between her legs was getting scratched by the thoughts running through her head.
ref: 2017, Eric Magni, The Initiate, →ISBN:
text: [...] Last night, I jacked off into cum receptacle. And I asked him, 'A cum receptacle? What do you call that?' And he said 'Well, I just call her Amara.'” “And all these sick jokes that he makes...like...” “Amara kneeled down to worship just the other day. Did it help? Well, let's just say, I cried 'Jesus!', she spoke in tongue and God said don't talk with your mouth full.”
ref: 2017, Mitchell Warren, Attempted Rapture: The Complete Series, →ISBN:
synonyms: cum dumpster
glosses: A person used for casual sex.
outslides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outslide
trinkles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of trinkle
trinkling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trinkle
trinkled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trinkle
anti-metaphysicalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Now it may seem as if this is pushing Rorty's anti-metaphysicalism too far.
ref: 2008, David Wood, José Medina, Truth: Engagements Across Philosophical Traditions, →ISBN, page 345:
text: Moral: If realism is the view that there is a definite, subject-independent fact of the matter about how the world is, then anti-metaphysicalism is no less of a realist position than metaphysicalism.
ref: 2013, Agustín Rayo, The Construction of Logical Space, →ISBN, page 25:
text: But the question is whether they are sufficient to establish physicalism as Carnap and Hempel understood it, namely, as anti-metaphysical Physicalism; and whether, if so, the anti-metaphysicalism of Physicalism is a better approach to the mind-body problem than Kim's preferred metaphysical physicalism.
ref: 2013, Michael Beaney, The Oxford Handbook of The History of Analytic Philosophy, →ISBN, page lxvii:
glosses: Alternative form of antimetaphysicalism.
respersed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resperse
resperses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resperse
respersing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resperse
multipolars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multipolar
VBR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: CBR
glosses: Initialism of variable bitrate.
underhousemaid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underhousemaids
Etymology: From under- + housemaid.
Senses: glosses: A lower-ranking housemaid.
underhousemaids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underhousemaid
bagel belt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛlt
Forms: form: bagel belts
Senses: glosses: A region inhabited by many Jews.
Related terms: Borscht Belt
bagel belts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bagel belt
semuncial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the coin called a semuncia.
problem bear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: problem bears
Senses: glosses: A bear that poses a danger to humans because it has adapted to human activities or habitat.
problem bears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of problem bear
geach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geaches
Senses: qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: A thief.
geach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: geaches
form: geaching
form: geached
form: geached
Senses: qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: To steal.
geaching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of geach
geached
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of geach
geaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geach
geaches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of geach
hang a shingle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hangs a shingle
form: hanging a shingle
form: hung a shingle
form: hung a shingle
Etymology: The names of small businesses are often displayed on shingles.
Senses: examples: text: Delena had been overwhelmed with business since she hung a shingle and the Festival of Nations became a confirmed reality.
ref: 2000, Lon LaFlamme, Black Lies:
glosses: To start a small business of one's own.
Synonyms: sense: to start a small business
word: hang out one's shingle
quantum supremacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by American theoretical physicist John Preskill in 2012.
Senses: examples: text: Google said on Wednesday that it had achieved a long-sought breakthrough called “quantum supremacy,” which could allow new kinds of computers to do calculations at speeds that are inconceivable with today’s technology.
ref: 2019 October 23, Cade Metz, “Google Claims a Quantum Breakthrough That Could Change Computing”, in New York Times:
glosses: The potential ability of quantum computers to solve problems that are intractable for classical computers.
glumming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of glum
glummed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of glum
roggle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɒɡəl
Forms: form: roggles
form: roggling
form: roggled
form: roggled
Senses: glosses: To shake.
roggling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of roggle
roggled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of roggle
roggles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of roggle
macadamised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of macadamise
macadamising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of macadamise
coonty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coonties
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coontie.
coonties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coontie
glosses: plural of coonty
drop tank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drop tanks
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An expendable external fuel tank on an aircraft.
topics: firefighting
government
glosses: A portable tank used at the scene of a fire to hold water from the fire engine.
heckin'
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛ.kɪn/
Forms: form: heckin
form: hecking
Etymology: From heck as a euphemism for hell.
Senses: examples: text: A heckin' kleptomaniac, he was it.
ref: 2012, Murray L. Peters, Boyle-Breath Breathes, →ISBN, page 196:
text: But how does a doggo, even a heckin' good doggo, warrant such honors?
ref: 2017 August 16, Wayne Alan Brenner, “Dusty-Danger Dog Day in Austin”, in The Austin Chronicle:
text: Better yet, when the annual Community Street Fair is on, you can enjoy all that alongside live music (featuring Other Colors, Nina Gala, Sac Au Lait, Hexgirlfriends, and more playing across two stages), food (including a crab feast), drinks, and a heckin' cute children's parade.
ref: 2017 September 12, “Sunday: Abell Community Street Fair”, in Baltimore City Paper:
text: Now our social media feeds are full of heckin’ good doggos and puppers, cute kittehs and cattos.
ref: 2019 March 24, Linda Rodriguez McRobbie, “When bad pets happen to good people”, in Boston Sunday Globe, volume 295, number 83, page K4:
text: Millennials' love for their pups is so intense, it's spawned its own language. Us hoomans chase our heckin floofers, iPhones in hand, snapping pics of their snoots and bleps to share with frens, posting with captions about the goodest boy in the world.
ref: 2019 December, Stephanie Wilson, “Woo-Woo Woofers”, in Sensi Magazine, page 37:
text: If your idea of heaven is being surrounded by hecking good boys (and girls) then you've come to the right place.
ref: 2021, Charlie Ellis, Love Is a Cockapoo: A Dog-tastic Celebration of the World’s Cutest Breed, Summersdale Publishers:
glosses: A minced oath used as an intensifier.
examples: text: And when in the darn heckin heck is this fix?! It's one of the most annoying bugs ms has stupidly made
ref: 2003 October 1, LAM, “Can the default attachment folder be changed in OEx6”, in microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress (Usenet):
text: Is your significant other doing you a heckin distress?
ref: 2017 August 9, Tasnim Odrika, “How to deal with trust issues in a relationship”, in The Daily Star:
glosses: A minced oath used to indicate something undesirable or annoying
heckin'
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛ.kɪn/
Forms: form: heckin
form: hecking
Etymology: From heck as a euphemism for hell.
Senses: examples: text: All I heckin' know is that the RB has a mechanical shutter, and the RZ has a^([sic]) electronic shutter.
ref: 1996 July 8, Serge Pontejos, “What does RB 67 stand for?”, in rec.photo.equipment.medium-format (Usenet):
text: I'm heckin fine :-)
ref: 1999 January 22, Panther, “Shimon & Muzzer”, in alt.abuse.recovery (Usenet):
text: word is, terrence howard declined to perform the song under pressure that blacks would be painted as "pimps" by the performance. how shallow. and then the song heckin' WON!
ref: 2006 June 3, Believe!, “What a disgrace”, in alt.gossip.celebrities (Usenet):
text: Are memes really more than just words or pictures and have they evolved into a lifestyle? Honestly, I don’t have the answer to that question, so for now, in the words of my favorite Facebook doggos: Heckin’ bamboozled.
ref: 2017 October 19, Rachel Henry, “Heckin’ bamboozled”, in The Daily Californian, archived from the original on 04 May 2023:
glosses: A minced oath used as an intensifier.
heckin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛ.kɪn/
Forms: form: heckin
form: hecking
Etymology: From heck as a euphemism for hell.
Senses: examples: text: When a zeed me lookin at'm ah made wise that ah was only heckin for fun but I knowed different.
ref: 1969, The Anglo-Welsh Review - Volumes 18-19, page 180:
text: There I was heckin' around me bedroom like a schoolgirl — one shoe on me.
ref: 2003, Billy Roche, The Cavalcaders, →ISBN, page 11:
text: Well... not really. Just heckin' around.
ref: 2004 August 16, Kloka-mo', “The Facts, You Might As Well Go Warmoth, Etc. Anyway”, in alt.guitar.bass (Usenet):
glosses: Horsing around.
holochoanitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Other Early Paleozoic cephalopods have holochoanitic siphuncles
ref: 1942, Ozarkian and Canadian Cephalopods: Part III: Longicones and Summary, →ISBN:
text: He accepted the Plectronoceratidae as primitive, and the Ellesmeroceratidae as the derived next step, one characterized by holochoanitic structure and diaphragms, and leading to a group of endoceroids;
ref: 1964, Memoir - New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources, page 11:
text: However, over a short period of time (less than 10 Ma) during the late Devonian, the Clymeniida developed a dorsal (or internal) holochoanitic siphon.
ref: 2012, Raymond Enay, Palaeontology of Invertebrates, →ISBN:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Long, cylindrical, and reaching between adjacent septums.
Related terms: list in orthochoanitic
RNN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RNNs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of random neural network.
glosses: Initialism of recurrent neural network.
glosses: Initialism of recursive neural network.
Related terms: ANN
CNN
SNN
hoo boy
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: hoo-boy
form: hoo, boy
Senses: examples: text: It sounds a lot like a ... well, like a fart, but—hoo boy—I would not like to be standing behind whoever it was that let it out.
ref: 2009, Richard Scrimger, The Boy from Earth, →ISBN, page 146:
text: Mallory exhaled noisily. “Hoo boy, I was hoping to leave that one alone for a while. Like, years and years."
ref: 2015, Chris Loblaw, The Patchwork Boy, →ISBN, page 138:
text: “Hoo boy,” Duff says under his breath. “Jase got burned deep on that pass.”
ref: 2015, Huntley Fitzpatrick, The Boy Most Likely To, →ISBN, page 274:
synonyms: hoo doggy
whew
glosses: Used to express strong emotion, especially relief or mock dread.
hoo-boy
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Across the aisle, she was absentmindedly fiddling with a loose piece of yarn that had unraveled from her sweater, wrapping it around her finger the same way Derek was wrapped around her finger. And she didn't even know it. Hoo-boy. She killed him.
ref: 2005, Dallas Woodburn, 3 A.m.: A Collection of Short Stories, →ISBN:
text: And hoo-boy I'd like to see the expression on her face when whe realizes she has a bus with no driver.
ref: 2010, Jeff Adkins, The Boy Who Skipped, →ISBN, page 202:
text: Didn't think I'd like it, but hoo-boy, was I wrong.
ref: 2012, Loree Lough, A Man of Honor, →ISBN, page 246:
glosses: Alternative form of hoo boy.
recurrent neural network
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recurrent neural networks
Senses: qualifier: machine learning
glosses: An artificial neural network where the connections between units give them a kind of internal memory useful for processing arbitrary sequences of inputs as in speech recognition.
Synonyms: word: RNN
Related terms: convolutional neural network
hoo, boy
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: -ɔɪ
Senses: examples: text: Hoo, boy, Angie thought with only a vague sense of reality. She was in it now. Deep.
ref: 2012, Elizabeth Bevarly, Bride Of The Bad Boy, →ISBN:
text: The boy, on the other hand... hoo, boy! He was transformed with powers unknown to most humans.
ref: 2016, Melody J. Bremen, Super Farm Boy, →ISBN:
text: “Hoo, boy,” Joely said as she shifted the boxes to find the lightest one. "Do you have to listen to stuff like that every day? It was kind of spooky, the way she was looking at me."
ref: 2016, Jean Tennant, Ghost Boy:
glosses: Alternative form of hoo boy.
Bogan shower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /boʊɡən ˈʃaʊə/
Forms: form: Bogan showers
Etymology: In reference to the region around the Bogan River in outback New South Wales.
Senses: glosses: A dust storm.
wikipedia: Bogan River
New South Wales
Bogan showers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bogan shower
SHM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of system health management.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of simple harmonic motion.
glosses: Initialism of shake my head.
rhapontic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /rəˈpɒntɪk/
Forms: form: rhapontics
Etymology: From Latin rhaponticum, literally rha (“rhubarb”) ponticum (“Pontic; of the Black Sea”), from Ancient Greek ῥῆον (rhêon, “rhubarb”) and Ancient Greek Πόντος (Póntos, “Black Sea”).
Senses: glosses: The false rhubarb (Rheum rhaponticum)
false rhubarb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false rhubarb
form: false rhubarbs
Senses: glosses: A plant, (Rheum rhaponticum), whose appearance is somewhat like rhubarb.
Related terms: wild rhubarb
wild rhubarb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wild rhubarbs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of burdock.
synonyms: word: burdock
Related terms: false rhubarb
city desk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: city desks
Senses: examples: text: There were many human interest stories culled from the police-court news or from anything else that came to the city desk.
ref: 1940, Helen Hughes, News and the Human Interest Story, page 21:
topics: journalism
media
newspapers
glosses: The department or staff responsible for reporting and editing local news.
examples: text: Many expected the then editor of the Daily Mirror, Piers Morgan, who had traded stock on the basis of his city desk's inside tips, to be fired, but he retained the support of the company, until eventually a bigger, ethical scandal involving faked pictures forced him from office.
ref: 2014, Ian Hargreaves, Journalism: A Very Short Introduction, page 87:
topics: journalism
media
newspapers
glosses: The department or staff responsible for reporting and editing financial and business news.
oxacyclopropane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxacyclopropanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of epoxide.
synonyms: word: epoxide
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of ethylene oxide.
synonyms: word: ethylene oxide
Jordan curve theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There is a vast generalization of the Jordan curve theorem to higher dimensions.
ref: 1995, William Fulton, Algebraic Topology: A First Course, Springer, page 343:
text: The Jordan curve theorem asserts that a simple closed curve in the complex plane divides the plane into exactly two connected components, one bounded (the "inside") and the other unbounded (the "outside" ).
ref: 2001, Theodore Gamelin, Complex Analysis, Springer, page 249:
text: The principal reason that orbit behavior in the plane is more limited than in higher dimensions is the Jordan curve theorem. Local sections will be the primary tool used to exploit the Jordan curve theorem.
ref: 2004, Nelson G. Markley, Principles of Differential Equations, Wiley, page 193:
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: The theorem that states that a simple closed curve (Jordan curve) divides the plane into precisely two distinct areas.
examples: 2009, Josef Šlapal, Jordan Curve Theorems with Respect to Certain Pretopologies on ℤ², Srecko Brlek, Christophe Reutenauer, Xavier Provençal (editors), Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery: 15th IAPR International Conference, Springer, LNCS 5810, page 252,
Some known Jordan curves in the basic topology are used to prove Jordan curve theorems that identify Jordan curves among simple closed ones in each of the four quotient pretopologies.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Jordan curve, theorem.
Monteclaro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish monte (“mountain”) + claro (“clear, shining”).
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Lopez, Quezon, Philippines.
Lasam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Cagayan, Philippines.
Rimando
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rimandos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Rimando. This surname is predominantly found in the Philippines.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Duldulao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Duldulaos
Etymology: Borrowed from Ilocano Duldulao.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Ilocano.
technopreneurship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technopreneurships
Etymology: From technopreneur + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The art or science of being a technopreneur.
glosses: The quality of being an technopreneur.
oxalovinic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: monoethyl oxalate
man-marks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of man-mark
man-marking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmænˌmɑːkɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈmænˌmɑɹkiŋ/
Etymology: man + marking
Senses: examples: text: In the most extreme form of man-marking, each player has a pre-established opponent to be followed and to be man-marked, from a more or less short distance, wherever he goes. The main objective of the defender is to steal the ball from his opponent if he receives it, or to place him in a threatened condition, thus forcing him to immediately get rid of the ball.
ref: 2003, Floriano Marziali, Vincenzo Mora, “The Factors in a Soccer Player’s Performance”, in Bryan R. Beaver, editor, The Zone, Spring City, Pa.: Reedswain Publishing, →ISBN, page 34:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The act of marking an opposition player closely.
man-marking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmænˌmɑːkɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈmænˌmɑɹkiŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of man-mark.
man-marked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of man-mark.
spadia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪdiə
Forms: form: spadias
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of spadea.
good doctors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Oh, good Doctors, do arise, and but give us one more chance for breath, one more chance, that we may at least have the comfort of a genteel death!!
ref: 1883, "Our reviewers" (editorial), The Exponent, 1(5):100–102 (May 1883), page 101
text: She smiled sweetly at Bryson and then turned to the men standing uncertainly nearby. “Yes, good doctors, what have you found?”
ref: 2005, Susan Carpenter (2005), Curse of the lyrestone: a Kingdom of Zhavahn novel, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA: iUniverse, Chapter 11, "Bryson"
text: Take heed, good doctors, having world-class training and clinical skills is not always enough to fend off potential legal action.
ref: 2008, Judy Capko (4 December 2008), "Have a risk management plan", Physicians Practice (retrieved 2017-10-25; archived from the original 2017-10-25)
glosses: plural of good doctor. An honorific form of address to a group of doctors.
technopreneurism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: entrepreneurism in the field of technology
Related terms: technopreneur
technopreneurial
-ein
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /iː.ɪn/
Forms: form: -eine
Etymology: Alteration of -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Used in a compound distinguished from a compound with a name ending in -in or -ine.
rougarou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rougarous
Etymology: From Cajun French rougarou (“werewolf”).
Senses: examples: text: Like the European werewolf and loup-garou, the French Canadian rougarou also often appears in the form of a dog. Whoever neglects his Easter duties or goes unconfessed for seven years finds himself changed into a rougarou at night.
ref: 1961, Maria Leach, God Had a Dog: Folklore of the Dog:
text: “I told you, I'm not the rougarou. And if I say anything, the rougarou will kill me. I may be old, but I don't want to go that way.” “Selena, I'm going to hurt you worse than any rougarou.”
ref: 2016, Heather Graham, Blood on the Bayou: A Cafferty & Quinn Novella, Evil Eye Concepts, Incorporated, →ISBN:
text: “The rougarou—him's a big, bad wolf.” “Bad?” asked Lizabeth. “What do you mean?”
ref: 2016, Jonathan Maberry, The Orphan Army, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 78:
topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
glosses: A werewolf or werewolf-like creature said to inhabit swamps in Louisiana (and sometimes French Canadian) folklore.
Related terms: loogaroo
epiphanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: epiphanizes
form: epiphanizing
form: epiphanized
form: epiphanized
form: epiphanise
Senses: glosses: To have an epiphany.
glosses: To induce an epiphany in (somebody).
epiphanise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: epiphanises
form: epiphanising
form: epiphanised
form: epiphanised
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of epiphanize.
field of quotients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fields of quotients
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A field all of whose elements can be represented as ordered pairs each of whose components belong to a given integral domain, such that the second component is non-zero, and so that the additive operator is defined like so: (a,b)+(a',b')=(ab'+a'b,bb'), the multiplicative operator is defined coordinate-wise, the zero is (0,1), the unity is (1,1), the additive inverse of (a,b) is (-a,b), equivalence is defined like so: (a,b)≡(a',b') if and only if ab'=a'b, and multiplicative inverse of a non-zero–equivalent element (a,b) is (b,a).
Synonyms: field of fractions
Related terms: localization
Okla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Okla.: Abbreviation of Oklahoma: a state of the United States.
Ok.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: OK
form: OK.
form: Ok
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Oklahoma: a state of the United States.
Synonyms: sense: Oklahoma
word: Okla.
sense: Oklahoma
word: Okla
sense: Oklahoma
word: Oklahoma
OK.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Oklahoma: a state of the United States.
CONY
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: related: word: CoNY
glosses: Initialism of City of New York.
CoNY
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of CONY
County of New York
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of New York County.
Orellana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for Francisco de Orellana (1511–46), Spanish explorer, who was the first to explore it in the 1540s.
Senses: examples: text: But if we shall speake more of rivers, that great floud called by some the river of Amazons, by others Marañon, and by some the river of Orellana, which our Spaniards sailed in their discoveries, ought to blemish all the rest; and, in truth, I am in doubt whither I may tearme it a river or a sea.
ref: 1605, Joseph de Acosta, translated by Edward Grimston, History of the Indies:
text: From all the roaring Andes, huge descends / The mighty Orellana.
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
glosses: The river Amazon.
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A province in Ecuador. Capital: Puerto Francisco de Orellana (or Coca).
glosses: A town in Ucayali province, Loreto region, Peru.
palladide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palladides
Etymology: From palladium + -ide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any binary compound of palladium and a more electropositive metal
palmine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of palmin.
Angelines
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Angeline
orcines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orcine
if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: if you can't dazzle them with your brilliance, blind them with bullshit
Etymology: Misattributed to W.C. Fields. Original source unknown.
Senses: examples: text: I said, "What do you do, Bill?" He says "Well, if I can't dazzle them with my brilliance I baffle them with my bull," and doggone if he doesn't.
ref: 1958, Pacific Northwest Advisory Board, 100th Regular Meeting, page 10:
text: The maxim that "if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull" won't serve. An artful proposal may sometimes win a grant for a less than brilliant project, but a rare exception doesn't make a rule.
ref: 1984, Roy Meador, Guidelines for preparing proposals, →ISBN:
text: This is where the opposing attorney would love to hammer you in a lie in an effort to offset or divert attention to their less than honest descriptions of whatever the issue you are at the time discussing. If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull !
ref: 2006, Raymond A. Heninger, Without Honor, →ISBN, page 78:
text: If so, there's no better recipe than that of W.C. Fields, who asserted: 'If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull."
ref: 2009, John Farndon, Do You Think You're Clever?, →ISBN:
text: As Skip had always heard “If you can't dazzle them with brilliance baffle them with bull” is a pretty effective way out of a tight spot.
ref: 2011, Carl Capatina, You Don't Know Me, But My Name is Yea, →ISBN, page 108:
text: If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull. The phrase her mentor liked to quote had actually been a bit more descriptive than that, but it was the philosophy that was important.
ref: 2012, Christine Flynn, Finally His Bride, →ISBN:
glosses: When one doesn't have all the facts or have a brilliant explanation, one can often convince people or win an argument by using nonsense.
wikipedia: W.C. Fields
Losar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Tibetan ལོ་གསར་ (lo gsar).
Senses: glosses: A New Year festival in Tibet.
bromosulfalein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of bromsulphthalein.
synonyms: word: bromsulphthalein
paraphosphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paraphosphates
Etymology: From para- + phosphate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of pyrophosphate.
synonyms: word: pyrophosphate
Related terms: paraphosphoric
patchoulene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patchoulenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The triterpene 2,3,6,7,8,8a.alpha.-hexahydro-1.beta.,4,9,9-tetramethyl-1H-3a,7-methanoazulene found in patchouli
paullinic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: the cis- form of 13-eicosenoic acid found in Paullinia cupana
Related terms: paullinate
pentacontane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentacontanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of very many isomers of the aliphatic hydrocarbon having fifty carbon atoms, but especially n-pentacontane CH₃(CH₂)₄₈CH₃
fruit rollup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fruit rollups
form: fruit roll-up
form: fruit roll up
Etymology: Genericization of the trademark Fruit Roll-Ups, thin sheets of dried pureed fruits that were subsequently rolled up and packaged.
Senses: topics: food
lifestyle
glosses: Synonym of fruit leather.
synonyms: word: fruit leather
wikipedia: en:Fruit Roll-Ups
ELV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ELVs
Senses: topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: LV
qualifier: space flight
glosses: Initialism of expendable launch vehicle (an expendable spacelaunch rocket)
Derived terms: sense: expendable launch vehicle
english: evolved expendable launch vehicle
translation: evolved expendable launch vehicle
word: EELV
Related terms: sense: expendable launch vehicle
english: launch vehicle
translation: launch vehicle
word: LV
sense: expendable launch vehicle
english: reusable launch vehicle
translation: reusable launch vehicle
word: RLV
LVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LV
hotword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hotwords
Etymology: From hot + word.
Senses: examples: text: […] and will jump to the Web page "order.htm" if a user clicks on the hotword.
ref: 1997, S. M. H. Collin, Setting Up a Web Server, page 154:
text: Hotwords can be activated fast, typically by a single mouse click. But sometimes the link anchored in a hotword doesn't take the reader to the expected place, because of bad wording, for example.
ref: 2013, Wolfgang Schuler, Jörg Hannemann, Norbert Streitz, Designing User Interfaces for Hypermedia, page 211:
glosses: A hyperlink.
examples: text: Google recently killed an extension in the open source Chromium browser that enabled “OK, Google” hotword detection. The move follows developer concern that the proprietary functionality was included in Chromium to begin with.
ref: 2015 June 25, Ian Paul, “'OK Google' hotword detection yanked from Chromium after user revolt”, in PCWorld:
text: Smartphones make a lot of compromises to be compact and low power though, so the hotword performance was never as good as it could be thanks to tiny microphones and low-power modes that could kill hotword detection.
ref: 2016 November 3, Ron Amadeo, “The mesh hotword system is straight out of Star Trek”, in Ars Technica:
text: Home assistants all work in a similar way: you say a hotword — "Alexa" for Amazon Echo, "Hey Google" for Google Homes — and they switch on, ready to record your question/order, send it to the cloud, and then answer/execute your order.
ref: 2017 October 11, Gianluca Mezziofiore, “Google is forced to shut down Home Mini feature that quietly records everything”, in Mashable:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of wake word.
synonyms: word: wake word
Cometa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of the municipality of Pitogo, province of Quezon, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of the municipality of Quezon, province of Quezon, Philippines.
pentamerize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pentamerizes
form: pentamerizing
form: pentamerized
form: pentamerized
Etymology: From pentamer + -ize.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To polymerize to form a pentamer
Related terms: pentamerization
laiths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laith
pentol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentols
Etymology: From penta- + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: any organic compound having five hydroxy functional groups
Derived terms: iopentol
bitch hound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitch hounds
form: bitchhound
form: bitch-hound
Etymology: Compound of bitch (“female dog”) + hound (“hunting dog”).
Senses: synonyms: brach
glosses: A female hound; a bitch used for hunting; a brach.