cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mirmecochory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of myrmecochory.
monocentrality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being monocentral
monooleoyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mono- + oleoyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A single oleoyl group in a compound
morphobiometrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From morpho- + biometrical.
Senses: glosses: morphological and biometrical
morphobiometrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From morpho- + biometrically.
Senses: glosses: In a morphobiometrical manner
neuroinflammed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + inflammed.
Senses: glosses: Affected by neuroinflammation
nondimensionalised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + dimensionalised.
Senses: glosses: Not dimensionalised
nonfeminizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + feminizing.
Senses: glosses: Not feminizing
omnicultural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From omni- + cultural.
Senses: glosses: Relating to all cultures
orphenadol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A combination of orphenadrine and paracetamol
osteoconductance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: osteoconductivity
oxypyrimidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxypyrimidines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A phenol or ether derived from a pyrimidine
oxypyrimidines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxypyrimidine
palaeoeconomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From palaeo- + economics.
Senses: glosses: palaeoeconomy
pedometrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pedo- (“soil”) + -metrics.
Senses: glosses: The measurement of the characteristics of soil.
Related terms: pedometric
chorda tympani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɔɹ.də ˈtɪm.pəˌnaɪ/
Forms: form: chordae tympanorum
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin chorda tympanī (“cord of the tympanum”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: A branch of the facial nerve that traverses the middle ear cavity and the infratemporal fossa and supplies autonomic fibers to the sublingual and submandibular glands and sensory fibers to the anterior part of the tongue.
Wishmans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Wishman
Ahernes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Aherne
Hebburn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in the Metropolitan Borough of South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ3164).
Flahertys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Flaherty
McCords
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McCord
hijabers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hijaber
rainchecking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of raincheck
rainchecked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of raincheck
muwallad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muwallads
form: muwalladun
Etymology: Transliteration of Arabic مُوَلَّد (muwallad, “Arabized”).
Senses: synonyms: muladi
glosses: A Muslim of non-Arab descent in medieval Islamic Spain (Al-Andalus), being a local convert or a descendant of one.
Related terms: mawla
Mozarab
eutocias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eutocia
pilled out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Under the influence of recreational drugs in pill form.
Byzantineness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Byzantine + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being Byzantine.
Motilon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Motilons
form: Motilon
Senses: synonyms: Bari
glosses: An indigenous people of the Catatumbo River basin in Norte de Santander Department in Colombia.
Motilon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Bari
glosses: The Chibchan language of these people.
Motilons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Motilon
Chebyshev space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chebyshev spaces
Etymology: Named after Pafnuty Chebyshev.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Haar space.
synonyms: word: Haar space
Chebyshev spaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chebyshev space
Haar space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Haar spaces
Etymology: Named after Hungarian mathematician Alfréd Haar.
Senses: synonyms: Chebyshev space
qualifier: approximation theory
glosses: A finite-dimensional subspace V of 𝒞(X, 𝕂), where X is a compact space and 𝕂 either the real numbers or the complex numbers, such that for any given f∈𝒞(X, 𝕂) there is exactly one element of V that approximates f "best", i.e. with minimum distance to f in supremum norm.
Haar spaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Haar space
chessboard distance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chessboard distances
Etymology: So called because, in the game of chess, the minimum number of moves needed by a king to go from one square on a chessboard to another equals the Chebyshev distance between the centers of the squares, if the squares have side length one, as represented in 2-D spatial coordinates with axes aligned to the edges of the board.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of Chebyshev distance.
synonyms: word: Chebyshev distance
chessboard distances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chessboard distance
Chebyshev distance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chebyshev distances
form: Tchebychev distance
Etymology: Named after Pafnuty Chebyshev.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: chessboard distance
glosses: A metric defined on a vector space where the distance between two vectors is the greatest of their differences along any coordinate dimension.
Related terms: Cartesian distance
Euclidean distance
Manhattan distance
taxicab distance
Tchebychev distance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tchebychev distances
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chebyshev distance.
Chebyshev distances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chebyshev distance
Tchebychev distances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tchebychev distance
Gibbins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Gibbins-Weidenhagen Gambit
Related terms: Gibbons
pellucidin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pellucidins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An antinociceptive present in Peperomia pellucida
Rimell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
periintraventricular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + intraventricular.
Senses: glosses: Surrounding and/or within a ventricle
headstroke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headstrokes
Etymology: From head + stroke.
Senses: glosses: A horizontal line at the top of a letter such as F or T.
examples: text: The distinguishing feature of Oriya letters is the curved headstroke instead of the straight horizontal headstroke of Devanagari, Bengali, and Gurmukhi.
ref: 2003, Richard Gillam, Unicode Demystified: A Practical Programmer's Guide to the Encoding Standard:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In some language scripts, a line written over the letters of a word.
Related terms: overbar
pernambucone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The tropone 3,8-dimethyl-5-isopropyl-2,3-dihydro-1H-azulene-1,6-dione present in Croton argyroglossum
aeroscreen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aeroscreens
Etymology: From aero- + screen.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: A kind of transparent screen fixed in front of the cockpit, to protect the driver from flying debris.
Hounsell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Hounshell
peroxinitrites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peroxinitrite
Bodansky unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bodansky units
Etymology: Named after Aaron Bodansky, American biochemist.
Senses: glosses: An obsolete measure of alkaline phosphatase concentration in blood, defined as the quantity of alkaline phosphatase that liberates 1 mg of phosphate ion during the first hour of incubation with a buffered substrate containing sodium β-glycerophosphate.
Bodansky units
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bodansky unit
Armstrong's axioms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Developed by William W. Armstrong in a 1974 paper.
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A set of references (or, more precisely, inference rules) used to infer all the functional dependencies on a relational database.
fanmeeting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fanmeetings
Etymology: From fan + meeting.
Senses: synonyms: fansign
qualifier: South Korean idol fandom
glosses: An event, especially in South Korea and Japan, at which fans can meet a pop group.
fanmeetings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fanmeeting
aeroscreens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aeroscreen
bestfriend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bestfriends
Senses: examples: text: Alice’s bestfriend was at the party.[…]And the bestfriend would smile and look self-satisfied as plain bestfriends will. But the bestfriend’s bestfriend (they all had bestfriends) was not Alice. The bestfriend’s bestfriend was Sophie.
ref: 1991, Ben Sonnenberg, “Multiple Sclerosis and the Single Man”, in Lost Property: Memoirs and Confessions of a Bad Boy, The New York Review of Books, published 2020, →ISBN:
text: One of my bestfriends said raining was a sign to tell people that god was crying because of sadness caused by human. At the teenager age, I did not wonder why my bestfriend had that idea in his mind. I never cared about the silly feeling about the rain that my bestfriend had in his mind.
ref: 2001, Catherine Vi Tran, “The Convent”, in Sense of Memory: Diary of a Bitter Heart, Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 40:
text: My sincere thanks go to: Arya Bayu Permadi, a great bestfriend, who has also contributed in this book as the co-editor. Bayu is one of few bestfriends who can understand me even without me uttering any word.
ref: 2021, Yoga Pramartha, Diary of an Ordinary Contemplator: A Textbook for Quarter Life Crises, page iii:
text: Sometimes it is hard to find the true bestfriend
ref: 2021, Rexie Reblando, “Bestfriend”, in Spoken Word Poetry, Ukiyoto Publishing, →ISBN, page 70:
glosses: Alternative form of best friend.
Delpriore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Delpriores
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Del Priore.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
monofacial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: having a single face
headstrokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headstroke
divebomber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: divebombers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dive bomber.
Deshaw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Deshaws
Etymology: Americanized spelling of French Deschamps.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
overbarring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overbar
divebombers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of divebomber
jetpipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jetpipes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jet pipe.
Deshaws
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Deshaw
jetpipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jetpipe
Delpriores
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Delpriore
Sabbath mode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A feature of some household appliances that temporarily prevents them from doing productive work in order to comply with Jewish restrictions on working on the Sabbath.
jet pipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jet pipes
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A pipe at the back of a gas turbine out of which exhaust gases are discharged
droneless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: without a drone
perprotonated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From per- + protonated.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: protonated at all possible positions
jet pipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jet pipe
flameback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flamebacks
Etymology: From flame + back.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of goldenback (“woodpecker”).
synonyms: word: goldenback
extra: woodpecker
gangsterize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gangsterizes
form: gangsterizing
form: gangsterized
form: gangsterized
Etymology: From gangster + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To adapt to the norms of gangsters, or violent organized crime.
examples: 1970s, Francis E. Dec, Worldwide Open Secret, tract
[…] such banks as Island Federal Bank of Hempstead gangsterized me and swindled me […]
hyponyms: terrorize
glosses: To subject to the abuses of gangsterism.
gangsterization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of gangsterizing.
phanerosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The expansion of individual droplets of a colloid, so that they become visible.
Related terms: phanerotic
gangsterized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gangsterize
gangsterizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gangsterize
gangsterizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gangsterize
phanerotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or exhibiting phanerosis
hotelware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hotel + -ware.
Senses: glosses: Tableware designed for use in hotels and restaurants.
flamebacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flameback
headgrowth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headgrowths
Senses: glosses: A wen, especially on a fish
hammerbeam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hammerbeams
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hammer beam.
polyenergetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + energetic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Composed of photons or other particles that have a range of energies
Related terms: monoenergetic
Curti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Curtis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Curti, from Neapolitan curto (“short”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Dinizes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Diniz
polyvictimized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + victimized.
Senses: glosses: Subjected to polyvictimization
preconfluently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pre- + confluently.
Senses: glosses: In a preconfluent manner
premiparous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of primiparous.
Bussing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bussings
Etymology: Borrowed from German Büssing.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
procedurality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From procedural + -ity.
Senses: glosses: proceduralism
MacNaughton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of McNaughton.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Chalupas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Chalupa
Bussings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bussing
pronominalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pronominalisations
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The replacement of a noun by a pronoun
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The attachment of a pronoun to the end of a verb to indicate its subject or object
rhabdomyoblastoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhabdomyoblastomas
form: rhabdomyoblastomata
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: rhabdomyoblastic rhabdomyosarcoma
white rattlesnake root
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: Boott's rattlesnake root
white lettuce
cankerweed
glosses: Nabalus albus, an asteraceous plant native to Canada and the eastern United States.
white lettuce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of white rattlesnake root.
synonyms: word: white rattlesnake root
Boott's rattlesnake root
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after John Wright Boott, who discovered the plant.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of white rattlesnake root.
synonyms: word: white rattlesnake root
Ferraz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ferrazes
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Ferraz.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Portuguese.
HMVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HMV
Frickey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Frickeys
Etymology: Unexplained.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Frickeys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Frickey
Ferrazes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ferraz
upside-down fire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upside-down fires
Senses: glosses: A long-burning wood fire that burns from the top to the bottom.
upside-down fires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upside-down fire
rhizomide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhizomides
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of antimicrobial cyclic xenopeptides produced by the bacterium Paraburkholderia rhizoxinica
xenopeptides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xenopeptide
rilmazafone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A benzodiazepine sedative
Conlys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Conly
Lemass
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
semiround
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + round.
Senses: glosses: semicircular
semiroundly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From semiround + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a semiround manner
serodiscrepant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sero- + discrepant.
Senses: glosses: Inconsistently seropositive or seronegative
Flemons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Flemonses
Etymology: Variant of Flemings.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Gillyard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gillyards
Etymology: Variant of Gilyard.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Gillyards
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gillyard
Flemonses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Flemons
Gottwald
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gottwalds
Etymology: Borrowed from German Gottwald.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Galster
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Galsters
Etymology: Borrowed from German Galster.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Galsters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Galster
Gottwalds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gottwald
McConathy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McConathys
Etymology: Variant of McConaghy.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Onate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Onates
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Oñate, Basque habitational surname from the town of Oñati.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
take the words out of someone's mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes the words out of someone's mouth
form: taking the words out of someone's mouth
form: took the words out of someone's mouth
form: taken the words out of someone's mouth
Senses: glosses: To say what someone else was about to say themselves.
Related terms: put words in someone's mouth
Burruss
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Burrusses
Etymology: Unexplained.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Burrusses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Burruss
Onates
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Onate
McConathys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McConathy
Afro-rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Afro rock
Etymology: From Afro- + rock.
Senses: glosses: rock music with West African influences
Aokis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Aoki
Drawdys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Drawdy
Aurangzeb
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Classical Persian اورنگزیب (awrang-zēb, literally “Ornament of the Throne”).
Senses: glosses: Muhyi'd-Din Muhammad (1618–1707), the sixth Mughal emperor, who ruled over almost the entire Indian subcontinent for a period of 49 years.
appisode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæp.ɪ.səʊd/
ipa: /ˈæp.ə.soʊd/
Forms: form: appisodes
Etymology: Blend of app + episode
Senses: examples: text: Unlike a webisode, an appisode often incorporates interactive features. Players can tap on characters on the screen to make them talk, find hidden objects, or collect items as part of a quest.
ref: 2014, Carolyn Handler Miller, Digital Storytelling, page 334:
text: Also the minor characters of a drama series can become somewhat more famous as the hero in a web series or “appisodes” for mobile devices.
ref: 2017, Sergio Sparviero, Corinna Peil, Gabriele Balbi, Media Convergence and Deconvergence, page 166:
text: Indeed, summative research on the first four appisodes found that, even after less than one hour with each appisode, children improved in all four topics, […]
ref: 2018, Dafna Lemish, Amy Jordan, Vicky Rideout, Children, Adolescents, and Media:
glosses: An episode of a show in the form of an interactive software application.
Related terms: webisode
appisodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appisode
deconvergence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + convergence.
Senses: glosses: The opposite of convergence; a process of separating and taking different directions.
mute as a mouse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Synonym of quiet as a mouse.
synonyms: word: quiet as a mouse
accras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accra
Ahhiyawa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Hittite 𒆳𒌷𒄴𒄭𒅀𒉿𒀀 (Aḫḫiyawa).
Senses: glosses: A land mentioned in ancient Hittite texts as lying to the west.
audioactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From audio- + active; coined by John Horton Conway.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Being or relating to the look-and-say sequence.
wikipedia: John Horton Conway
push the right buttons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pushes the right buttons
form: pushing the right buttons
form: pushed the right buttons
form: pushed the right buttons
Senses: glosses: To take suitable actions, or exert suitable influence on people, to achieve some desired result.
Related terms: button pusher
push someone's buttons
pull strings
pull the strings
pin a rose on your nose
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Suggesting the idea of an award in the form of a rosette.
Senses: examples: text: "Yes. Not only have you learned how to move objects around, you've discovered how electricity works. Pin a rose on your nose," I huff, mostly to cover my surprise.
ref: 2015, Lyla Payne, Not Quite Clear:
text: "What in the hell is wrong with my offer? Any woman within a hundred miles would jump at the chance to become my wife."
She stared at him, incredulous. "Well, pin a rose on your nose, you cocky bastard. […]
ref: 1996, Jane Bonander, Winter Heart, page 117:
glosses: Sarcastically suggesting that the addressee deserves a prize.
Billinton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Billintons
Etymology: Variant of Billington.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
irritable heart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: irritable hearts
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Neurocirculatory asthenia.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A person's heart affected by this condition.
irritable hearts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of irritable heart
oil-burning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of oil-fired.
synonyms: word: oil-fired
oil burner route
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oil burner routes
Etymology: In reference to the smoke trails that jet engines may leave behind at low altitudes.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: A region of airspace in which military jets are authorized to carry out low-altitude training.
oil burner routes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oil burner route
open admission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: open admissions
Senses: topics: education
synonyms: open enrollment
glosses: An unselective and noncompetitive college admissions process, where the only entrance criterion is a high-school diploma or a certificate of attendance or General Educational Development (GED) certificate.
open admissions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of open admission
open enrollment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: open enrollments
Senses: glosses: Synonym of open admission (“type of college admissions process”).
synonyms: word: open admission
extra: type of college admissions process
open enrollments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of open enrollment
sialodacryoadenitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A viral disease of rats
spectranomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to spectranomics
spectranomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: spectroscopic taxonomy and botany
Related terms: spectranomic
sphingophospholipids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sphingophospholipid
opportunity class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opportunity classes
Senses: topics: education
glosses: A separate primary-school class for teaching gifted children.
examples: text: Opportunity classes. — These are classes for retarded overgrown pupils. Many of these children come to our city from rural areas where their education has been irregular.
ref: 1944, United States. Congress. House, Hearings, volume 9, page 361:
text: Mildly retarded children, who are usually termed "educable mentally retarded" formed the largest group of handicapped children in Alberta. Most of them attended "Opportunity Classes".
ref: 1969, Alberta. Dept. of Education, Annual Report of the Department of Education, page 78:
topics: education
synonyms: opportunity room
glosses: A separate class for teaching backward children.
opportunity classes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opportunity class
opportunity room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opportunity rooms
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Synonym of opportunity class (“a separate class for teaching backward children”).
synonyms: word: opportunity class
extra: a separate class for teaching backward children
opportunity rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opportunity room
stomaplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stomaplasties
Etymology: From stoma + -plasty.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: repair or reconstruction of a stoma
stomaplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stomaplasty
Irreecha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Irreechaa
Senses: glosses: A religious thanksgiving holiday of the Oromo people of Ethiopia, occurring at the beginning of spring.
Irreechaa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Irreecha.
irredundancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of irredundance.
subsignal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subsignals
Etymology: From sub- + signal.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any part of a signal that is formed by the combination of several sources.
subsignals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subsignal
theilovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theiloviruses
Senses: glosses: cardiovirus
Aspley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aspleys
Etymology: From Old English æspe (“aspen”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to asp + -ley (“lea”).
Senses: glosses: A suburban area and ward in the City of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK5442).
glosses: A hamlet in Eccleshall parish, Stafford borough, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ8133).
glosses: A suburb of Huddersfield, Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE1516).
glosses: A suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Aspley Guise
tracheocutaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tracheo- + cutaneous.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the skin of the trachea
triiodination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tri- + iodination.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The addition of three atoms of iodine to a compound
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: iodination at three positions in a compound
unregularly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From un- + regularly.
Senses: glosses: In an unregular manner
unsimilar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + similar.
Senses: glosses: dissimilar
ventamol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: salbutamol
vinylpyridine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vinylpyridines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any vinyl derivative of pyridine
volatilomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From volatile + -omic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to volatilomics or to volatilomes
judicial restraint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A theory of judicial interpretation that encourages judges to limit the exercise of their own power, and to avoid striking down laws unless they are obviously unconstitutional.
vinylpyridines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vinylpyridine
volatilomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From volatile + -omics.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The study of volatilomes
Related terms: volatilomic
wobbulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wobbulate
wobbulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wobbulate
zygnematophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zygnematophytes
Senses: glosses: zygnematophycean
zygnematophytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zygnematophyte
white telephones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white telephone
whamolas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whamola
the other body
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Either the Senate or the House of Representatives, from the point of view of the other.
Related terms: the other place
Eccleshall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Eccleshalls
form: Eckersall
Etymology: From Old English *eccles (“church”) + heall (“hall, dwelling house”).
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish in Stafford borough, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ8329).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Related terms: Ecclesall
yush
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: A greeting.
glosses: Hush; be quiet.
orthiconoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthiconoscopes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of orthoconoscope.
orthiconoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthiconoscope
orthodoxism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthodoxisms
Etymology: From orthodox + -ism.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Strict orthodoxy.
orthodoxisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthodoxism
Blang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bulong
Senses: glosses: A particular ethnic group of China and nearby regions.
Blang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pulang
Senses: glosses: The language of these people.
Pulang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Blang (“language”).
orthotonos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀρθός (orthós, “straight”) + τόνος (tónos, “tension”). See further at opisthotonos.
Senses: glosses: muscular rigidity associated with tetanus
if it were not for
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: were it not for
form: if it had not been for
Senses: glosses: If a certain condition were not met; used to indicate that a particular person, event, etc. prevented a certain outcome.
were it not for
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of if it were not for.
Bounevialle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
if it had not been for
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of if it were not for.
mostly plus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: ... two possible choices for the spacetime metric (either the mostly minus metric used in these lectures or the mostly plus metric), ...
ref: 2018, Essig Rouven, Low Ian, Anticipating the Next Discoveries in Particle Physics: TASI 2016Proceedings of 2016 Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics, World Scientific, →ISBN, page 356:
text: I allow myself to be inconsistent in using the “mostly plus” metric in some contexts, but tried to emphasize this deviation properly.
ref: 2014, Kurt Sundermeyer, Symmetries in Fundamental Physics, Springer, →ISBN, page 77:
text: We use the mostly plus convention wherein at any space time point a locally inertial frame can be found in which g#95;#123;MN#125;#61;#92;eta#95;#123;MN#125;#92;equiv(-1,#43;1,#92;dots,#43;1).
ref: 2006, Dmitri Kazakov, G. Smadja, Particle Physics and Cosmology: The Interface: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Particle Physics and Cosmology: The Interface Cargèse, France, 4-16 August 2003, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 465:
text: We use a “mostly plus” metric and the conventions that indices m, n = 0 , 1 , 2 , . . . , 9 run over all of ten - dimensional space - time, M , v = 0 , 1 , 2 , 3 run over the 3 - brane world volume ...
ref: 2000, The Journal of High Energy Physics: JHEP.. Paper archive:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
antonyms: mostly minus
glosses: in general relativity, describing the convention in which the metric tensor has a signature of (-,+,+,+).
turn one's life upside down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns one's life upside down
form: turning one's life upside down
form: turned one's life upside down
form: turned one's life upside down
form: turn one's world upside down
Senses: glosses: To completely disrupt one's life.
Related terms: turn upside down
turn one's world upside down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns one's world upside down
form: turning one's world upside down
form: turned one's world upside down
form: turned one's world upside down
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of turn one's life upside down.
down home
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more down home
form: most down home
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of down-home.
draw a sober breath
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: draws a sober breath
form: drawing a sober breath
form: drew a sober breath
form: drawn a sober breath
Senses: examples: text: He has hardly drawn a sober breath since leaving the army.
glosses: To refrain from drinking alcohol.
raw_tags: in the negative
dovens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of doven
dovening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of doven
dovened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of doven
teleconsulted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of teleconsult
teleconsults
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of teleconsult
Brixworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, England, formerly in Daventry district (OS grid ref SP7470).
rap someone's knuckles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: raps someone's knuckles
form: rapping someone's knuckles
form: rapped someone's knuckles
form: rapped someone's knuckles
Senses: examples: text: Just rap your knuckles on the wall when you're ready to go.
text: The professor let this go for a moment, then began to rap his knuckles on the podium until the room quieted again.
ref: 2012, Michael Kardos, The Three-Day Affair: A Novel, →ISBN, page PT65:
glosses: to tap one's knuckles on an object such as a desk or wall to attract attention or as a signal of commmunication.
examples: text: If the sales department doesn't get organized soon, the CEO is going to rap their knuckles.
text: ... while political science at Western had received a sharp rap across its knuckles.
ref: 2015, James G. Greenlee, “Crazy Quilt”, in McMaster University, Volume 3: 1957-1987: A Chance for Greatness, →ISBN, page 308:
glosses: to give someone a punishment.
examples: text: In the old days the teacher would rap someone's knuckles with a ruler if they misbehaved in class.
text: ...she commanded, sounding for all the world like a mean old schoolmarm about to rap his knuckles with her ruler.
ref: 2011, Lisa Plumley, chapter 7, in Outlaw, →ISBN, page PT45:
glosses: to strike someone on the back of the hand usually as a method of punishment.
fractionalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fractionalists
Etymology: From fractional + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of fractionalism.
fractionalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fractionalist
fractionalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fractional + -ism.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The division of a political party into groups that may have differing ideologies.
Related terms: fractionalist
Immie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Imogen.
denimy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more denimy
form: most denimy
Etymology: From denim + -y.
Senses: examples: text: […] has been around for over 20 years and draws a devoted clientele that tends to be leathery 'n denimy; […]
ref: 2001, David Andrusia, Frommer's Gay & Lesbian Europe, page 135:
text: Dee Tenorio, Serenade: Book One
Dressed in a soft denimy shirt over a white tee and jeans that looked older than AJ, the man was walking masculinity.
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of denim.
Palahniuk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
free-forms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of free-form
freeforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freeform
Gilardi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gilardis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Gilardi.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
baseboarded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From baseboard + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Furnished with baseboards.
on-premise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misconstruction of on-premises
Related terms: on-prem
microbakery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microbakeries
Etymology: From micro- + bakery.
Senses: glosses: A very small commercial bakery.
Related terms: microbrewery
microbakeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microbakery
opportunity makes a thief
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of opportunity makes the thief.
OPFOR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: OPFORs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of opposing force.
OPFORs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of OPFOR
microfranchise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microfranchises
Etymology: From micro- + franchise.
Senses: glosses: A franchise of a microenterprise.
microfranchise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: microfranchises
form: microfranchising
form: microfranchised
form: microfranchised
Etymology: From micro- + franchise.
Senses: glosses: To create a franchise of a microenterprise.
microfranchises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microfranchise
microfranchises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of microfranchise
microfranchised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of microfranchise
microfranchising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of microfranchise
lingam massage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lingam massages
Senses: examples: text: Orgasm is not the only goal of the Lingam massage, although it can be a pleasant and welcome side effect. The goal is to raise you into a highly receptive state; a state of peak feelings, aided by studied mental perceptions, enabled by a fit body capable of aerobic exertion, leading to hours of sexual lust.
ref: 2012, Shido of Sukhavati, The Art and Science of Dating, page 109:
coordinate_terms: yoni massage
glosses: A tantric massage mainly focusing on the male genitalia.
Related terms: prostate massage
yoni massage
lingam massages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lingam massage
midwit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɪdwɪt/
Forms: form: midwits
Etymology: From mid- + wit; likely coined in line with nitwit, halfwit, etc.
Senses: examples: text: At no point in this process does the midwit have to review information for himself or consider ideas in abstract. […] How then should we not be midwits? Painting with broad strokes: avoid media. Cultivate taste. Grow and train your sense of aesthetics. Recognize beauty. Practice virtue. Pray.
ref: 2022 January 7, Merri, “Brief Genealogy of the Midwit”, in The Pillarist:
text: A true paragon nation captures the midwit, get-the-news-from-Trevor-Noah demographic.
ref: 2023 February 11, Janan Ganesh, “After Germany's fall, which is the paragon nation?”, in FT Weekend, page 22:
text: Congress is packed with midwits. There are no intellectuals in Congress. None could flourish in such a mediocre environment.
ref: 2023 February 21, David Sinclair, The Wolf Tamers: How They Made the Strong Weak:
text: Online, people make fun of midwits with a specific meme format: an IQ bell curve, with a character placed at each extreme and one above the bulge in the middle. […] One example of the midwit trap is investing. Above, the midwit – perhaps a Reddit-browsing amateur trader, or the solid kind of chap who works in wealth management – will go on about hot stocks and market conditions.
ref: 2023 June 27, Josiah Gogarty, “Beware the midwit trap”, in The New Statesman, archived from the original on 27 Jun 2023:
text: It is still a midwit dinner party applause line that such and such a percentage of Americans don't have passports.
ref: 2025 May 10, Janan Ganesh, “Why travel didn't bring the world together”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 19:
coordinate_terms: halfwit
lackwit
glosses: A person of middling intellect; someone who is neither particularly dumb nor notably intelligent, especially if they act as if they are smarter than they are.
Derived terms: midwittery
Related terms: midbrow
midcult
midwits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midwit
inapropro
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inapropro
form: most inapropro
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of inappropo (“inappropriate”).
I'll get my coat
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From a recurring sketch in British 1990s comedy series The Fast Show, in which a character embarrasses himself and announces "I'll get my coat" before departing.
Senses: synonyms: word: IGMC
word: I'll see myself out
glosses: An admission that one has embarrassed oneself and should leave.
wikipedia: The Fast Show
Related terms: cheque, please
too much information
beringing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bering
berings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bering
kitchen tunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kitchen tunks
Senses: glosses: An informal gathering with music and dancing, held in a private home.
kitchen tunks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kitchen tunk
level playing fields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of level playing field
if only the tsar knew
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: if only the czar knew
Etymology: A phrase attributed to Russian peasants who suffered mistreatment in the tsarist era. Peasants in the tsarist era often attributed their misfortunes to the aristocracy and imperial administration, believing the tsar did not know of injustices being committed and, if he did, would immediately correct them. Compare good tsar, bad boyars and German wenn das der Führer wüsste.
Senses: glosses: If only somebody at the top of an abusive hierarchy were aware of the abuses, they would take action to stop them.
if only the czar knew
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of if only the tsar knew.
inforg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inforgs
Etymology: From information and organism.
Senses: glosses: An entity made up of information, existing in the infosphere.
inforgs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inforg
no word of a lie
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: No falsehood at all; the absolute truth.
Related terms: not a word of a lie
without a word of a lie
not a word of a lie
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of no word of a lie.
synonyms: word: no word of a lie