cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Fringeverse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From fringe + -verse.
Senses: examples: text: Now: “Neither Here Nor There,” last night’s season premiere of Fringe, synthesized key elements of past premieres to launch a rebooted Fringe'''verse, one where many of the archetypes and events (surprisingly) remain much the same, with one profound exception: Peter Bishop has been scrubbed from history, apparently from the point of his childhood death.
ref: 2011 September 24, Jeff Jensen, “Fringe season premiere recap: Get On Your (Re)Boots!”, in Entertainment Weekly:
text: The Fringeverse, as fans called the Universe created around Fringe, is richer with the comic books since they provide new insights on who William Bell and Walter Bishop really are and how they are related to the Fringe events.
ref: 2013 August, Mélanie Bourdaa, “‘Following the Pattern’: The Creation of an Encyclopaedic Universe with Transmedia Storytelling”, in Adaptation, volume 6, number 2, page 209:
text: 2016, Mar Guerrero-Pico, "Dimensional Expansions And Shiftings: Fan Fiction And Transmedia Storytelling The Fringeverse", in Series: The International Journal of TV Serial Narratives, Volume 11, Number 2, Winter 2016
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The fictional universe which serves as the setting for the television series Fringe.
PCRM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.
Eskdaleside cum Ugglebarnby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Scarborough district, North Yorkshire, England.
Eskdaleside
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village next to Sleights, Eskdaleside cum Ugglebarnby parish, Scarborough district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref NZ8606).
deep ecologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒlədʒɪst
Forms: form: deep ecologists
Etymology: From deep ecology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Bookchin, in turn, called deep ecologists "eco-fascists," partly because they wanted to limit the population radically.
ref: 2006 August 7, Douglas Martin, quoting Murray Bookchin, “Murray Bookchin, 85, Writer, Activist and Ecology Theorist, Dies”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A proponent of deep ecology.
deep ecologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deep ecologist
Ugglebarnby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Eskdaleside cum Ugglebarnby parish, Scarborough district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref NZ8807).
Bupyeong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Romanization of Korean 부평(富平) (Bupyeong).
Senses: examples: text: Strategically located at the intersection of the Seoul and Incheon subway lines, Bupyeong is a relatively new and rapidly developing area of wide roads and orderly apartment blocks, prized for its convenience and abundance of facilities, which include the city’s largest gym, a lively nightlife district, and a massive underground shopping complex connected to Bupyeong subway station.
ref: 2010, Jonathan Hopfner, “Prime Living Locations”, in Living Abroad in South Korea (Moon), 1st edition, Avalon Travel, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 192:
text: The advanced design studio has moved from Bupyeong, Incheon, to the fashionable Seoul neighborhood of Gangnam, evidently Seoul’s answer to Greenwich Village.
ref: 2010 April 22, Jim Motavalli, “G.M. Looks for Design Edge With New Studio in Seoul”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Nov 2023:
text: "We have to fight so that the future of the No.2 assembly line (in the city of Bupyeong) does not follow that of the Gunsan factory," union workers at the assembly line said in the newsletter.
ref: 2018 April 2, Haejin Choi, Hyunjoo Jin, “GM Korea's March sales dive; seeks to halt one shift at Bupyeong plant”, in Muralikumar Anantharaman, Christopher Cushing, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 07 Jul 2025:
glosses: One of the 10 administrative divisions that comprise Incheon, South Korea.
EBOV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EBOVs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of ebolavirus.
EBOVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of EBOV
Hillegom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Hillegom.
Senses: glosses: A village and municipality of South Holland, Netherlands.
Hollinrake
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Brabin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
qvevri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qvevris
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kvevri.
aristomere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aristomeres
Etymology: From arista + -mere.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A segment of the arista.
D and G
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: I know your purse say D and G, holdin' my FN
ref: 2020, Moneybagg Yo, Match My Fly:
glosses: Dolce and Gabbana
scutellars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scutellar
Barton Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An inner suburb of Bristol, England (OS grid ref ST6072).
glosses: A village in Ryedale district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE7064).
Wrottesley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
tax declaration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tax declarations
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tax return.
synonyms: word: tax return
Verney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Verney Junction
Deepcar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Stocksbridge parish, Metropolitan Borough of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK2897).
ubhayapada
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From the phrasal pseudo-word Sanskrit उभयपद (ubhayapada). (MW does not treat it as a word, but as the origin of the Sanskrit word उभयपदिन् (ubhayapadin).)
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Using forms from both the active and middle voices.
Northenden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area in the City of Manchester, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SJ8290).
all lives matter
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Coined in reaction to the slogan black lives matter.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A response to "black lives matter" (the phrase, its political and social movement), suggesting that African-American people should not be singled out for special attention.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see all, lives, matter.
Related terms: word: BLM
word: black lives matter
word: WLM
word: white lives matter
word: PLM
word: police lives matter
english: blue for police officers
translation: blue for police officers
word: blue lives matter
word: red lives matter
white lives matter
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Coined in analogy to black lives matter.
Senses: topics: government
politics
qualifier: white supremacy
glosses: A phrase used to protest against "black lives matter" (rally call, political and social movement) mostly by white people, to protect their traditional white prerogatives and privileges.
Related terms: black lives matter
all lives matter
police lives matter
blue lives matter
red lives matter
white power
police lives matter
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Coined in analogy to black lives matter.
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
politics
synonyms: blue lives matter
PLM
coordinate_terms: police brutality
glosses: A phrase used to counter "black lives matter", rallying people to defend police officers and their use of lethal force in carrying out their duties.
Related terms: black lives matter
all lives matter
white lives matter
red lives matter
WLM
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: government
politics
qualifier: white supremacy
glosses: Initialism of white lives matter.
WLM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: social media
glosses: Initialism of women-loving men.
black lives matter
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: Black lives matter
Etymology: Originally used in the form of the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter on social media (2013), protesting against the deaths of African Americans at the hands of the police.
Senses: examples: text: The ADL’s work covers the usual left-wing causes célèbres: fighting voting integrity measures, pushing for open-borders policies and amnesty for illegal aliens, and vigorously defending the Black Lives Matter riots, to name a few.
ref: 2024 February 16, Mike Howell, “Partnership With ADL Compromises FBI’s Integrity and Fairness”, in The Daily Signal:
topics: government
politics
synonyms: BLM
glosses: A rallying call and statement of protest, concerning police brutality and racially motivated violence against black people.
wikipedia: George Floyd
Related terms: WLM
white lives matter
ALM
all lives matter
PLM
police lives matter
blue lives matter
red lives matter
Black liberation
Black studies
Black Power
TfGM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Transport for Greater Manchester (in England)
GADT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iː
Forms: form: GADTs
Senses: examples: text: Generalized Algebraic Data Types, or GADTs for short, are an extension of the variants we saw in Chapter 7 (Variants). GADTs are more expressive than regular variants, which helps you create types that more precisely match the shape of the program you want to write.
ref: 2022, Anil Madhavapeddy, Yaron Minsky, Real World OCaml: Functional Programming for the Masses, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Initialism of generalized algebraic data type.
GADTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of GADT
hairmageddon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hairmageddons
Etymology: Blend of hair + Armageddon
Senses: examples: text: Sassy tugged on a curl. It straightened and bounced back to its former loopy state. “This is a disaster. This is worse than a disaster. This is hairmageddon.”
ref: 2016, Lexi George, Demon Hunting With a Dixie Deb, unnumbered page:
text: This is hairmageddon — I look like the love child of an 18th-century duchess and a drag queen circa 1988.
ref: 2018 February 14, Frankie McCoy, “Hairmageddon: what happens when you get yourself a Kaia Gerber style Eighties bouffant?”, in Evening Standard:
text: Even though we mostly now see people onscreen, by June we may hit an unseemly Hairmageddon. As for the DIY coiffure, Google “lockdown haircuts” to see how they’re going.
ref: 2020 April 24, Jonathan Margolis, “The online solutions to lockdown grooming problems”, in Financial Times:
glosses: An instance in which one's hair is unsightly or out of control.
Synonyms: bad hair day
beemageddon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Beemageddon
Etymology: From bee + -mageddon.
Senses: examples: text: Now, a new study has pinpointed some of the probable causes of bee deaths and the rather scary results show that averting beemageddon will be much more difficult than previously thought.
ref: 2013 September, Todd Woody, “Scientists discover what’s killing the bees and it’s worse than you thought”, in The Beekeepers Quarterly, page 41:
text: You've probably heard about Beemageddon. Over the past few years, colony collapse disorder – thought to be brought on by a pernicious combination of overwork, bad weather, pesticides and infestations of parasitic varroa mites – has been threatening to wipe out honeybees all over the world, and with them many of our food crops.
ref: 2013 November 16, Caroline Williams, “I, bee bot”, in New Scientist, page 43:
text: The harrowing mystery of CCD [colony collapse disorder] carried on for the next two years, spawning documentaries, reports from major news networks, magazine features, and various “Beemageddon” hoopla surrounding the bees' steady decline […]
ref: 2017, David MacNeal, Bugged: The Insects Who Rule the World and the People Obsessed with Them, pages 253–254:
glosses: The widespread incidence of colony collapse disorder, feared to portend a coming mass extinction of honeybees.
Synonyms: beepocalypse
fallen on deaf ears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of fall on deaf ears
beepocalypse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Beepocalypse
Etymology: From bee + -pocalypse.
Senses: examples: text: Yet the media has peddled alarming stories of a “beepocalypse” — a crash in honeybee populations.
ref: 2015 May 25, Dany Kelley, “Ounce of prevention won't help honeybees”, in Farmweek, page 16:
text: The numbers suggest Canada's beekeeping industry is in good shape while the Americans are struggling with a “beepocalypse,” but a U.S. expert says the story is more complicated.
ref: 2016 August 18, Robert Arnason, “Winter bee losses decline, summer losses still mystery”, in The Western Producer, page 14:
text: In the decade since, there's been a boom in beekeeping, with new hives offsetting losses of old hives, staving off the “beepocalypse,” Ellis says.
ref: 2019, Cindy Spence, "Hive Help", Explore (University of Florida), Spring 2019, page 20
glosses: The widespread incidence of colony collapse disorder, feared to portend a coming mass extinction of honeybees.
Synonyms: beemageddon
little space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: littlespace
Senses: topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: The state of mind a little enters when they are comfortable engaging in ageplay.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The state of mind a little enters when regressing, often as a coping mechanism.
Synonyms: baby space
xtreme
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more xtreme
form: most xtreme
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of extreme.
CERB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CERBs
Senses: topics: government
politics
qualifier: employment
glosses: Initialism of Canada emergency response benefit Income supplement for self-employed and employees, who are those directly affected by the COVID-19 shutdown.
-pocalypse
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From the latter part of apocalypse.
Senses: examples: text: Pollan's book spurred a whole genre of foodpocalypse writing, including novelist Barbara Kingsolver's book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle.
ref: 2012, Leslie Miller, Uncle Dave's Cow: And Other Whole Animals My Freezer Has Known, page 30:
ref: 2016, Adam Herbets, “California debates 'Gunpocalypse': 11 gun control bills in one day”, in Bakersfield Now:
text: But there are two things Criteo have that will probably help them survive the coming ‘cookiepocalypse’: Hooklogic and their thousands of marketer-direct relationships.
ref: 2019, Ciaran O'Kane, “In This Privacy-First Era, Ad Tech Needs to Evolve or Die”, in ExchangeWire:
glosses: Denoting a catastrophic event caused by or related to the stem word.
Related terms: -ageddon
-geddon
-mageddon
playception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playceptions
form: play-ception
Etymology: From play + -ception.
Senses: examples: text: Playception: Each actor must portray a character playing another character.
ref: 2012, Maura Breen, "Latest play presents challenge for actors", Tan & Cardinal (Otterbein University), Volume 94, Issue 5, 26 September 2012, page 4 (image caption)
text: "[title of show]" tells the story about two guys writing a play about two guys who are writing a play. You get a play-ception sort of feel watching this performance.
ref: 2016, Katherine Bauer, "[title of show] plays off of reality in playwrights' struggles toward success", The Times-Delphic (Drake University), 2 March 2016, page 8
text: “It's playception,” junior Isabel Leiva described, explaining the premise of the play. With an endless list of costumes, props, and characters, and a play-within-a-play, the complexity of the show has proven to be a big challenge for the cast and crew.
ref: 2016, Taylor Balfour & Isabella Levine, "Noises Off: audience laughs on", The Tide (Richard Montgomery High School, Rockville, Maryland), May 2016, page 1
glosses: A play that portrays actors staging a play or features an internal play; a play-within-a-play.
lewisson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lewissons
Senses: examples: text: I wanted to go to the cupola, one of the most famous domes in the world, built by Filippo Brunelleschi, a renowned architect who created special lifting devices and lewissons for hoisting heavy objects.
ref: 2012, Zbylut J. Twardowski, Around the World with Nephrology: An Autobiography, page 342:
synonyms: lewis
glosses: A cramp iron inserted into a cavity in order to lift heavy stones.
lewissons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lewisson
bookception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bookceptions
form: book-ception
Etymology: From book + -ception.
Senses: examples: text: “The Words” offers too many “stories,” and this “bookception” fails to offer a seamless serious drama.
ref: 2012 September 13, Nathan Fisher, “Lazy writing leads to forgettable 'Words'”, in The Pioneer, Whitman College, page 4:
text: This wishy-washy literary thriller is masquerading as a “book-ception” of sorts, with incessant narration and a heavy-handed score just as cliched as its plot.
ref: 2012 September 20, Rob Marvin, “Unimaginative plot wastes talented cast on dull, plodding story”, in The Daily Orange, Syracuse University, page 15:
text: After I finished “Outrun the Moon,” it took me two weeks to realize the extent of Lee’s book-ception. In a twist on par with Möbius or Escher, “The Book for Business-Minded Women” describes not only Mrs. Lowry’s book, but Lee’s as well.
ref: 2016 August 1, Katie Ward Beim-Eche, “'Outrun the Moon' features a stellar YA heroine set in historic Chinatown”, in Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: A work of fiction (especially a novel) featuring a frame story or metanarrative structure.
praegnans constructio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʰɹeɪɡ.nænz‿kɒnˈstɹʊk.tiː.oʊ/
Forms: form: constructio praegnans
form: constructio praegans
form: praegans constructio
Etymology: From Latin cōnstructiō (“a grammatical construction”) and Latin praegnāns (“pregnant”).
Senses: examples: text: "I attacked the dog into the fire" employs a rough form of praegnans constructio.
glosses: A construction commonly found in Greek and Hebrew in which either a verb of motion is paired with a locative prepositional phrase or a static verb is paired with an allative preposition phrase.
Hypernyms: word: brachylogy
Related terms: brachylogy
Sea Mills
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A western suburb of Bristol, England (OS grid ref ST5576).
glosses: A locality near Trevorrick, St Issey parish, Cornwall, England, once a mill on Little Petherick Creek operated by tidal power (OS grid ref SW9273).
Wroxall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish on the Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ5579).
glosses: A small village in Beausale, Haseley, Honiley and Wroxall parish, Warwick district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP2271).
Trumpocalypse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Trump + -pocalypse.
Senses: examples: text: In case the Trumpocalypse happens Novemer^([sic]) 8, hordes of Americans are stocking their Doomsday shelters, and some are making arrangements to flee.
ref: 2016, “icumi”, in Boulder Weekly, 13 October - 19 October 2016, page 77:
text: Protecting our rights is more important than ever in the Trumpocalypse.
ref: 2017 January 12, Michele Karlsberg, “Words”, in San Francisco Bay Times, page 20:
text: Last year, we put together a health and wellness issue about preparing to fight through the Trumpocalypse.
ref: 2018 January 3, Grant Kratzer, “Be Still”, in Willamette Week, page 11:
glosses: The election, inauguration, and/or presidency of Donald Trump, viewed as a crisis or catastrophe.
guanobious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From guano + bi- + ("life") + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Two guanobious mycetophilids have larvae which possess the curious habit of spinning webs in the manner of spiders, but certainly for different reasons.
ref: 2013, A. Vandel, Biospeleology: The Biology of Cavernicolous Animals:
glosses: Living in guano.
Trumplican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹʌmplɪkən/
Forms: form: Trumplicans
Etymology: Blend of Trump + Republican.
Senses: examples: text: Also, the public needs to recognize that not all Trump supporters are the same. While you rail against one policy of his or another, you may not know you are speaking to a closet Trumplican.
ref: 2018, Omarosa Manigault Newman, Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House, unnumbered page:
text: "Trumplicans" (Trump Republicans) seized power by promising extreme market fundamentalism reliant on fossil fuels, an authoritarianism that would have made Richard Nixon proud, and a toxic rejection of what they referred to as "political correctness," which was really just a dog-whistle invoking their hatred of Democratic values.
ref: 2019, Dina Gilio-Whitaker, As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock, page 11:
text: Another Trumplican wrote this about the requirement to wear masks: […]
ref: 2020, Ed Raymond, “A trip to Oz”, in Duluth Reader, 28 May - 4 June 2020, page 19:
topics: government
politics
synonyms: Trumpublican
glosses: A Republican who supports Donald Trump.
Synonyms: MAGAt
Retrumplican
Trumpublican
guanoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guano
VWAP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VWAPs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of volume-weighted average price.
glosses: Initialism of victim-witness assistance program.
VWAPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of VWAP
TWAP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TWAPs
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of time-weighted average price.
TWAPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TWAP
Los Alamitos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Orange County, California, United States.
Scutoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scutoid
Etymology: From scutellum + -oid; the genetic mutation results in loss of scutellar bristles. Coined in 1959 by J.D. Krivshenko.
Senses: examples: text: Mapping close to the structural gene for alcohol dehydrogenase (Adh) on chromosome arm 2L of Drosophila melanogaster is the dominant mutation Scutoid (Sco).
ref: 1982, M. Ashburner, S. Tsubota, R. C. Woodruff, “The genetics of a small chromosome region of Drosophila melanogaster containing the structural gene for alcohol dehydrogenase. IV: scutoid, an antimorphic mutation”, in Genetics, page 401:
text: Two independent lines of research led to the finding that the dominant Scutoid (Sco) mutation causes a diminshed extracellular electroantennogram response to the odorants ethyl acetate (EtAC) and acetone (AC).
ref: 1995, Adrienne E. Dubin, Nathan L. Heald, Byrd Cleveland, John R. Carlson, Greg L. Harris, “Scutoid mutation of drosophila melanogaster specifically decreases olfactory responses to short‐chain acetate esters and ketones”, in Journal of Neurobiology, →DOI:
glosses: An induced genetic mutation in the fly Drosophila melanogaster.
examples: text: Here have found that snail is ectopically expressed in the eye-antennal and wing imaginal discs in Scutoid larvae, and that this expression is reduced in Scutoid revertants.
ref: 1999, N. Fuse, Hitoshi Matakatsu, Misako Taniguchi, Shigeo Hayashi, “Snail-type zinc finger proteins prevent neurogenesis in Scutoid and transgenic animals of Drosophila”, in Development Genes and Evolution:
glosses: An individual fly with the genetic mutation.
examples: text: A mutation in scutoid is also known to affect the orientation of mechanosensory bristles of the eye (Birkholz et al. 2009).
ref: 2019, Subhashree Priyadarsini, Moumita Sahoo, Swetapadma Sahu, Rasu Jayabalan, Monalisa Mishra, “An infection of Enterobacter ludwigii affects development and causes age-dependent neurodegeneration in Drosophila melanogaster”, in Invertebrate Neuroscience, →DOI:
glosses: The gene affected by the mutation in D. melanogaster, or analogous genes in other species.
QPA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: QPAs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of quality point average.
Coordinate terms: GPA
Spavor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Spavors
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Kovrig
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kovrigs
Senses: glosses: A surname.
seaplane carrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seaplane carriers
Senses: glosses: A type of warship, a form of seaplane tender and an early variety of aircraft carrier, which carries seaplanes onboard, and can launch and retrieve them, as well as tend to them.
Hypernyms: seaplane tender
aircraft carrier
warship
ship
Hyponyms: english: the only constructed ones; the I-400 class, were seaplane carriers
translation: the only constructed ones; the I-400 class, were seaplane carriers
word: submarine aircraft carrier
Coordinate terms: floatplane
flying boat
helicopter carrier
Related terms: seaplane
carrier
seaplane carriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seaplane carrier
solo parent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solo parents
Senses: glosses: A single parent, resulting from divorce or separation, or by the death of the other parent, who is raising a family in the absence of the other parent
DKM
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From German DKM, from German Deutsche Kriegsmarine, from deutsch+Kriegsmarine, from Krieg+Marine.
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
synonyms: KMS
DKMS
qualifier: World War II
glosses: A ship prefix used for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine.
Coordinate terms: english: United States Ship
translation: United States Ship
word: U. S. S.
raw_tags: of America
english: His Majesty's Ship; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
translation: His Majesty's Ship; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
word: H. M. S.
english: His Majesty's Canadian Ship
translation: His Majesty's Canadian Ship
word: H. M. C. S.
english: His Majesty's Australian Ship
translation: His Majesty's Australian Ship
word: H. M. A. S.
english: Imperial Japanese Navy
translation: Imperial Japanese Navy
word: IJN
nothing sandwich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nothing sandwiches
Senses: examples: text: Why then is this thin slice of something wedged between volumes of nothing called a something instead of a nothing sandwich?
ref: year unknown, Who Owns The Planet, Sermon On The Flats, page 516
text: Sometimes we be^([sic]) so broke, we would be in the house with no food. The both of us making a nothing sandwich.
ref: 2011, Melody Davidson, Ain't Nothing Like Being Married to an Old, Elderly Man, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 50:
glosses: A bland sandwich with nothing, or very little, between the bread.
glosses: Synonym of nothingburger (something of less importance than its treatment suggests)
synonyms: word: nothingburger
extra: something of less importance than its treatment suggests
Related terms: shit sandwich
nothing sandwiches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nothing sandwich
GEN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GENs
Senses: topics: economics
government
sciences
taxation
glosses: Initialism of group exemption number.
GENs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of GEN
AFMA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Air Force Manpower Agency.
glosses: Initialism of Americans For Medical Advancement.
Khwarazmshah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Khwarazmshahs
Etymology: From Classical Persian خْوَارَزْمْشَاه (xwārazmšāh).
Senses: glosses: A title borne by mediaeval rulers of Khwarazm.
glosses: A title borne by mediaeval rulers of Khwarazm.
A title borne by rulers of the Khwarazmian Empire (c. 1077–1231).
raw_tags: in particular
al-Khwarizmi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ælˈxwɑrɪzˌmi/
Etymology: From Arabic الخَوَارِزْمِيّ (al-ḵawārizmiyy).
Senses: glosses: Persian mathematician (c. 780 – c. 850), the father of algebra.
Beausale, Haseley, Honiley and Wroxall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Warwick district, Warwickshire, England.
bofa
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈboʊfə/
rhymes: -əʊfə
Forms: form: bopha
Etymology: Contraction of both of.
Senses: examples: text: "Hey, do you know what bofa is?" "What's bofa?" "Bofa deez nuts in your mouth!"
qualifier: typically considered vulgar
glosses: An interjection of "both of my balls" or "both of deez nuts".
Related terms: fugma
ligma
sugma
Beausale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the personal name Bēaw + Old English halh; recorded as Beoshelle [sic] (Domesday Book), Beausala in 12th century.
Senses: glosses: A village in Beausale, Haseley, Honiley and Wroxall parish, Warwick district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP2470).
Freeda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Honiley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English hunig (“honey”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, leigh”), recorded as Hunilege in 1208. Equivalent to honey + -ley (“lea”).
Senses: glosses: A small village in Beausale, Haseley, Honiley and Wroxall parish, Warwick district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP2472).
Haseley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Possibly from Old English hæsel + lēah, as for Great and Little Haseley in Oxfordshire. Equivalent to hazel + -ley (“lea”).
Senses: glosses: A small village in Beausale, Haseley, Honiley and Wroxall parish, Warwick district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP2367).
Derived terms: Beausale, Haseley, Honiley and Wroxall
Great Haseley
Haseley Green
Haseley Knob
Little Haseley
bring down the curtain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brings down the curtain
form: bringing down the curtain
form: brought down the curtain
form: brought down the curtain
form: bring the curtain down
Senses: examples: text: At the other end of the day, Crewe Carriage Sidings is the destination of rolling stock from all routes, which bring terminating workings into the station before going to the depot for servicing. The 2155 ex-Cardiff brings down the curtain at 0103.
ref: 2020 June 17, David Clough, “Then and now: trains through Crewe”, in Rail, page 63:
synonyms: pull down the curtain
qualifier: at
glosses: To bring something to an end.
Related terms: final curtain
SOAB
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Initialism.
Senses: glosses: son of a bitch
MLCIN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Mean layer convective inhibition, higher values of which reduce storm formation.
water allergy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water allergies
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any of several conditions where exposure to quantities of water results in allergic responses.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: aquagenic urticaria; A condition that causes hives when exposed to quantities of water.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: aquagenic pruritus; A condition that causes itching when exposed to quantities of water.
Synonyms: water urticaria
aquagenic urticaria
water pruritus
aquagenic pruritus
Related terms: english: fear of water
translation: fear of water
word: aquaphobia
english: rabies
translation: rabies
word: hydrophobia
brings down the curtain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bring down the curtain
bring the curtain down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brings the curtain down
form: bringing the curtain down
form: brought the curtain down
form: brought the curtain down
Senses: examples: text: Arsenal's scenes of celebration at the final whistle at the City Ground were in the sharpest contrast to their last visit to Nottingham Forest, when defeat brought the curtain down on a season-long Premier League title quest.
ref: 2024 January 30, Phil McNulty, “Nottingham Forest 1-2 Arsenal: Gunners in title race after they close gap to leaders Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Alternative form of bring down the curtain.
Rachman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname, notoriously that of Peter Rachman.
Derived terms: Rachmanism
zero-derivation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zero-derivations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zero derivation.
zero-derivations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zero-derivation
zero derivations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zero derivation
zero derive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌzɪəɹəʊ dəˈɹaɪv/
ipa: /ˌziɹəʊ dəˈɹaɪv/
Forms: form: zero derives
form: zero deriving
form: zero derived
form: zero derived
form: zero-derive
Etymology: A back-formation from zero derivation, as if zero + derive.
Senses: examples: text: Table 2. Thirty adjective lexemes which zero-derive into verbs.
ref: 1986, Terence Odlin, “Markedness and the zero-derived denominal verb in English: synchronic, diachronic, and acquisition correlates”, in Fred Eckman, Edith A. Moravcsik, Jessica Wirth, editors, Markedness, →ISBN, page 160:
text: […]assuming the presence of lexical classes in Kharia would force us to productively zero-derive verbs not from nouns but rather from entire NPs, i.e. not in the lexicon but in the syntax.
ref: 2013 August 29, John Peterson, “Parts of speech in Kharia: a formal account”, in Jan Rijkhoff, Eva van Lier, editors, Flexible Word Classes: Typological studies of underspecified parts of speech, →ISBN, page 144:
text: Some adjectives zero derive from adverbs, e.g. daily, down, faraway, far out, monthly, up, way out, well off (note that many derive from a pair of adverbs).
ref: 2014 February 3, Keith Allan, Linguistic Meaning (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics), →ISBN, Lexicon semantics, page 220:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To derive a word from another word (of a differing part of speech) without modification; to perform zero derivation.
zero derives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of zero derive
zero deriving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of zero derive
zero derived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of zero derive
gut up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɡʌt ˈʌp/
Forms: form: guts up
form: gutting up
form: gutted up
form: gutted up
Etymology: From gut + up, influenced by expressions like man up and shut up. Compare guts (“courage”).
Senses: glosses: To show courage and hide one's apprehension.
Synonyms: man up
endure
put up with
take lying down
Related terms: shut up
zero-derive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: zero-derives
form: zero-deriving
form: zero-derived
form: zero-derived
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zero derive.
zero-derives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of zero-derive
zero-deriving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of zero-derive
zero-derived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of zero-derive
Gaetan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɡɑːeɪˈtɑːn/
/ɡaɪˈtɑːn/
Etymology: From French Gaëtan and Gaétan, from Italian Gaetano, from Latin Caiētānus.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from French, equivalent to English Cajetan.
LOCKSS
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Chosen for resemblance to locks.
Senses: glosses: Acronym of lots of copies keep stuff safe.
rearrangingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From rearranging + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Of course, Pablo Picasso certainly leapt to his work, and upgathering and rearrangingly, he defined and redefined art and our understanding of art throughout most of the 20th century […]
ref: 2012, Jim Asher, Great American Poems – Repoemed, page 107:
glosses: So as to rearrange.
tasksheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tasksheets
Etymology: From task + sheet.
Senses: topics: education
glosses: A list of tasks to be performed or exercises to be completed.
tasksheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tasksheet
pitching woo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pitch woo
Lotka's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Alfred J. Lotka.
Senses: glosses: One of a variety of special applications of Zipf's law, describing the frequency of publication by authors in any given field.
undisguisably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more undisguisably
form: most undisguisably
Etymology: From undisguisable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Such that it cannot be disguised.
squishies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squishy
glosses: plural of squishie
undispassionate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undispassionate
form: most undispassionate
Etymology: From un- + dispassionate.
Senses: glosses: Not dispassionate.
pie rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pie rules
Etymology: From the idea of dividing up a pie fairly: one person cuts and the other chooses a slice.
Senses: topics: games
synonyms: swap rule
glosses: A rule used in certain strategy games for the purpose of fairness, where immediately after the first player's initial move the opposing player may optionally switch, taking over the first player's role and position for the rest of the game.
Related terms: komi
pie rules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pie rule
coxa valga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A hip deformity where the angle between the head and neck of the femur and its shaft is increased, usually above 135 degrees.
Related terms: coxa vara
genu valgum
genu varum
cactus pear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cactus pears
Senses: glosses: prickly pear (Opuntia spp.)
coxa vara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A hip deformity where the angle between the head and shaft of the femur is reduced to less than 120 degrees, resulting in a shortened leg and a limp.
Related terms: coxa valga
cactus pears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cactus pear
desert pears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desert pear
spindle toxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spindle toxins
Senses: glosses: Synonym of spindle poison.
synonyms: word: spindle poison
spindle toxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spindle toxin
spindle poison
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔɪzən
Forms: form: spindle poisons
Etymology: From spindle + poison.
Senses: synonyms: spindle toxin
glosses: A poison that disrupts cell division by affecting the protein threads that connect the centromere regions of chromosomes, known as spindles.
desert pear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desert pears
Senses: glosses: prickly pear
spindle poisons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spindle poison
nopalitos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nopalito
fille fatale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filles fatales
Etymology: From French [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A young femme fatale, one who is a girl rather than a woman.
filles fatales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fille fatale
Pavlik harness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pavlik harnesses
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A kind of harness worn in early life to correct hip dysplasia.
Frejka splint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Frejka splints
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A kind of splint worn in early life to correct hip dysplasia.
Pavlik harnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pavlik harness
Frejka splints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Frejka splint
hiptop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hiptops
Etymology: Blend of hip + laptop. Perhaps introduced as a brand name; see Danger Hiptop.
Senses: examples: text: Newer browsers will ignore them; mobile phones, palmtops, and hiptops often have very basic browsers that understand only the basic tags.
ref: 2006, Eve Astrid Andersson, Philip Greenspun, Andrew Grumet, Software Engineering for Internet Applications, page 346:
text: But the Web comes in two flavors on mobile devices. On newer “smart” phones, PDAs, and hiptops, you can get the regular, glorious Web—the one you're used to seeing on your desktop or laptop computer—via a small Web browser.
ref: 2006, Sarah Milstein, J. D. Biersdorfer, Rael Dornfest, Google: The Missing Manual:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A small portable personal computer somewhat like a smartphone.
wikipedia: Danger Hiptop
hiptops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hiptop
metalearning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + learning.
Senses: glosses: A branch of metacognition concerned with learning about one's own learning and learning processes.
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A form of machine learning where automatic learning algorithms are applied to metadata about machine learning experiments, so that the machine learns how to learn.
topics: medicine
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: A certain theory about how neurotransmitters facilitate distributed learning mechanisms.
Related terms: metalearner
by-the-bye
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: […] it’s only a ward of Mr. Smallwood’s; he is on his way to Oxford, that is all. A surprisingly clever young man,—oh, by-the-bye, Miss Meadows, we are going to make up a little party on Friday, can you come, and bring your brother, Loftus.
ref: 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter V, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 71:
text: "Ah, by-the-bye, I wanted to ask you about that lady. Does anyone know who she is? My wife is very anxious to find out whether she is—well—er—quite the proper person, you know! When one has young girls, one cannot be too careful."
ref: 1897, Marie Corelli, “Chapter I”, in Ziska: The Problem of a Wicked Soul, New York: Stone & Kimball, page 25:
glosses: Alternative spelling of by the by.
Spikeophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Spikeophile
redemptionistas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redemptionista
podficcers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of podficcer
Targs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Targ
evilistas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of evilista
awarra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: awarras
Senses: examples: text: The food found in its stomach was the seed of the awarra, a species of palm (Aristocaryon spec?)
ref: 1841, Robert H[ermann] Schomburgk, “Banded Schizodon. Schizodon fasciatus, Agas.”, in William Jardine, editor, Fishes of Guiana. Part I (The Naturalist’s Library, Ichthyology; III), Edinburgh: W[illiam] H[ome] Lizars, […]; London: S. Highley, […], →OCLC, page 253:
text: With this prepared cutting-pole they succeeded, after a while, in detaching the cluster of palms, which fell heavily to the ground, scattering the awarra nuts in all directions. But with the bunch of awarras came also mother coomby with her brood of seven young ones on her back,—their long prehensile tails firmly entwined around the tail of the old lady.
ref: 1881, Charles Daniel Dance, Chapters from a Guianese Log-book: Or The Folk-lore and Scenes of Sea-coast and River Life in British Guiana; […], Georgetown, Demarara, British Guiana: Royal Gazette Establishment, →OCLC, page 95:
text: The five principal palms of the British Guiana rivers are the trooly, the aeta, the cocorite, the manicole, and the awarra, and all these grow in the greatest profusion on the banks of the Berbice.
ref: 1885, The Gardeners’ Magazine, volume XXVIII, London: Gardeners’ Magazine Office, →OCLC, page 642:
text: Above Ahwiemah, and upwards until the sandy ridges in the neighbourhood of Youacourie creek are met with, the district is almost a continuous swamp, in which the prickly awarra palms (Astrocaryum) luxuriate and in some places completely line the riverside.
ref: 1890 June, [J. J. Quelch], “On the Upper Berbice River”, in J. J. Quelch, editor, Timehri: Being the Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana, volume IV (New Series), part I, Demerara: J. Thomson, […]; London: E[dward] Stanford, […], →OCLC, page 317:
text: An Amerindian informant living in the area stated that it fed on fruits of the Awarra Palm Astrocaryum tucumoides and the Cuyuru Palm A. tucuma.
ref: 1976 June 18, E. McLoughlin, P. J. K. Burton, “Notes on the Hawk-headed Parrot Deroptyus accipitrinus”, in J. F. Monk, editor, Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club, volume 96, number 2, London: British Ornithologists’ Club, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 69:
text: As a punishment, they put him to sit on top of a tall awarra palm. The trunk of the tree was thickly covered with sharp thorns, which prevented him from climbing down. [...] One day, as a group of spiders arrived to eat the ripe yellow awarra on the tree, they were shocked to find Kamoa sitting among the branches.
ref: 2011, Odeen Ishmael, “The War of the Birds”, in Guyana Legends: Folktales of the Indigenous Amerindians, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 92:
glosses: Alternative spelling of awara.
anecdotalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: anecdotalizes
form: anecdotalizing
form: anecdotalized
form: anecdotalized
Etymology: From anecdotal + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To transform into, or present as, an anecdote.
anecdotalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of anecdotalize
anecdotalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of anecdotalize
awarras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of awarra
anecdotalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of anecdotalize
if wishes were horses, beggars might ride
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.