cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
corradiates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of corradiate
LLSVP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LLSVPs
Senses: examples: text: (2010) argued that kimberlite eruptions, and thus diamond deposits, occur preferentially within 15° of the edge of the African LLSVP, defined as the –1% ΔVS contour in the deep mantle. They claim that ~80% (1112 out of 1395) kimberlites and related volcanics erupted since ca. 320 Ma lie within this zone, and therefore propose that, in addition to causing hotspots and LIPs, deep-mantle plumes cause this distinctive style of volcanic activity, comprising clusters of pipes, dikes, and sills.
ref: 2015, Gillian R. Foulger, Michele Lustrino, Scott D. King, The Interdisciplinary Earth: In Honor of Don L. Anderson, Geological Society of America, →ISBN, page 117:
text: The global distribution of sources and permanent seismic stations limits the resolution of velocity gradients and total extent of the LLSVPs under Africa (Figure 9) and the Pacific, so deployments of portable instruments have been important for detailed differential traveltime analyses and waveform modeling used to improve resolution of LLSVP structure. Ritsema et al. (1998) and Ni and Helmberger (2003a,b) find that low-shear-velocity structure under southern Africa involves 3% ...
ref: 2010, Barbara Romanowicz, Adam Dziewonski, Seismology and Structure of the Earth: Treatise on Geophysics, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 637:
text: At a more regional scale, Farnetani et al. [2012] point out that 208Pb*/206Pb* increases from Hawaiʻi southward to Samoa. Their modeling results demonstrate that such large-scale latitudinal variations in isotopic signatures do not obscure bilateral asymmetry in the Hawaiian plume, but only add azimuthal and radial variations within the compositional hemispheres. Thus, whereas it may not be possible to characterize the geochemical properties of the LLSVP precisely at this time, ...
ref: 2014, Karen S. Harpp, Eric Mittelstaedt, Noémi d'Ozouville, David W. Graham, The Galapagos: A Natural Laboratory for the Earth Sciences, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 38:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
synonyms: LLVP
superplume
glosses: Initialism of large low-shear-velocity province; a characteristic structure of parts of the lowermost mantle of the Earth.
Hyponyms: sense: Earth
word: African LLSVP
sense: Earth
word: Pacific LLSVP
LLSVPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LLSVP
Ngkoth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An extinct Paman language formerly spoken on the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, Australia.
deck-chair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deck-chairs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of deck chair.
blankened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blanken
blankening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blanken
swartened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of swarten
poshen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɒʃən/
Forms: form: poshens
form: poshening
form: poshened
form: poshened
Etymology: From posh + -en.
Senses: examples: text: ([…] He's a grammar-school lad on the make, who poshened up at Cambridge and now can't speak normal, which makes him sound ludicrous when he tries. Along the way he also poshened up his team, dumping Fulham to follow Chelsea.)
ref: 1997, New Statesman, volume 126, numbers 4316-4327, page 35:
text: Most people tend to poshen up their accent if they go for a job interview and a lot of us have a Sunday-best voice for when we answer the phone or talk to the doctor. We save our real accent for our family and friends.
ref: 2005, Judith Holder, It's Grim Up North, page 99:
glosses: To make or become posh, to posh up
lushen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lushens
form: lushening
form: lushened
form: lushened
Etymology: From lush + -en.
Senses: examples: text: Give me the alchemy that packaging promises, that brings out my eyes and raises my cheeks and softens my nose and lushens my lips.
ref: 2006, Robert Hill, When All Is Said and Done, page 56:
text: Seeing, beneath age-lushened eyebrows, the look of worry in his eyes.
ref: 2011, Pete Dunne, Arctic Autumn: A Journey to Season's Edge, page 189:
text: Cam once explained to my brother that Stradivarius had sprinkled volcanic ash between the wood and the varnish on his violins, lushening their sound.
ref: 2012, Leni Zumas, The Listeners, page 72:
text: And then he slid away. She was going to say something, but she was warm and soft—so soft, I couldn't stop running my hands along her lushening curves.
ref: 2016, Amy Lane, Rampant:
glosses: To make or become lush or luscious
stricten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strictens
form: strictening
form: strictened
form: strictened
Etymology: From strict + -en.
Senses: examples: text: The Bank of Japan strictened, since August, its guidance on the fund position of city banks; it raised, as from September, the official interest rate by #0.001 (per 100 yen per diem); and it also enforced a measure for restricting the increased loans to be extended by urban banks.
ref: 1967, Economic Statistics, volume 10, numbers 3-12:
text: According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Overall, the study indicates that paraffinic HVO fuels are suitable for emission reduction with valve and injection timing adjustment and thus provide possibilities for engine manufacturers to meet the strictening emission."
ref: 2013, Issues in Global Environment—Pollution and Waste Management:
text: He has no other option than to find some laws that can be strictened, well knowing that it is wrong to make hasty legislation in a highly emotional climate.
ref: 2013, A. Fog, Cultural Selection:
glosses: To make or become strict; tighten
astronym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæs.tɹəʊ.nɪm/
ipa: /ˈæs.tɹoʊ.nɪm/
Forms: form: astronyms
Etymology: From astro- + -onym.
Senses: glosses: The name of a star, planet or other heavenly body.
astronyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astronym
blithened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blithen
blithening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blithen
telonym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telonyms
Etymology: From telo- + -onym.
Senses: glosses: A term formed from the terminal letter or letters of several words.
examples: text: John Smith adopted the telonym N. H. for his novel.
glosses: A term formed from the terminal letter or letters of several words.
A pseudonym formed in this way from an author's first name or full name.
ground-plan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ground-plans
Senses: examples: text: Complex shows may require more than one ground-plan; one for each set-change is common.
ref: 2001, John Blurton, Scenery, →ISBN:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: Alternative form of groundplan.
A diagram showing set layout.
examples: text: It was a castellated mansion as regular as a chessboard on its ground-plan, ornamented with makebelieve bastions and machicolations, behind which were stacks of battlemented chimneys.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, The Duchess of Hamptonshire:
glosses: Alternative form of groundplan.
A floorplan.
examples: text: What this book has sought to do is to lay out the ground-plan and describe the most salient features of what may come to be a new school of economic thought, which has here been called 'living economics'.
ref: 2006, Paul Ekins, Manfred Max-Neef, Real Life Economics, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of groundplan.
A framework or pattern.
examples: text: The ground-plan of the Chilognatha thus is a reconstruction of the species from which all chilognathan millipedes have descended— the ancestral chilognathan.
ref: 1990, Alessandro Minelli, Proceedings of the 7th International Congress of Myriapodology, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of groundplan.
The hypothetical ancestor of a clade.
telonyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telonym
ground plan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ground plans
Senses: examples: text: You will need the ground plan of the set, a scale rule, a fifty-foot tape measure, a shorter tape measure, spike tape, chalk, chalk line, and pencils.
ref: 1992, Daniel Ionazzi, The Stage Management Handbook, →ISBN, page 47:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: Alternative form of groundplan.
A diagram showing set layout.
examples: text: If in the ground plan, or the elevation, one part keeps another out of sight, the part hid must be drawn, before its perspective can be made.
ref: 1835 April-September, James Whitelaw, “Perspective Made Easy”, in Iron: The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette, volume XXIII:
glosses: Alternative form of groundplan.
A floorplan.
examples: text: In our ground plan, treatment follows management, care and assessment of the child.
ref: 1988, Treating Problem Children: Issues, Methods and Practice, →ISBN, page 51:
glosses: Alternative form of groundplan.
A framework or pattern.
examples: text: The arthropod ground plan, including that for ticks, is of a multisegmented organism; the basic ground plan for an individual segment is shown in Fig. 4.1.
ref: 2013, Daniel E. Sonenshine, R. Michael Roe, Biology of Ticks - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 74:
glosses: Alternative form of groundplan.
The hypothetical ancestor of a clade.
ground plans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ground plan
groundplans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of groundplan
ground-plans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ground-plan
telonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telonisms
Senses: glosses: Synonym of telonym.
synonyms: word: telonym
telonisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telonism
profanement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: profanements
Senses: glosses: profanation
Sanming
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: San-ming
Etymology: From Mandarin 三明 (Sānmíng).
Senses: examples: text: The Southeast uplands are generally poor in mineral resources, but coal and iron were evidently abundant enough to justify the construction of a medium-size integrated iron and steel plant in Fukien at Sanming during the Great Leap. Coal for the Sanming operation is mined in the Changping-Lungyen district and iron ore at nearby Hwaan.
ref: 1972, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 170:
text: In 1959, on my way to Changting from Sanming in north Fukien, the bus stopped at an eating place and I got into conversation with a young woman at the same table.
ref: 1976, Hung-ying Liao, “My Old Home Revisited”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XV, number 2, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14:
text: A young woman had just finished her dancing class and was on her way home when I accosted her. She was Wan Li, a cadre at the economics ministry. She had gone to the Dalian Foreign Language Institute (she hadn't met Cherry Blossom there, unfortunately) but she had been raised in the central Fujian town of Sanming. That town had the reputation in China of being somewhat utopian. It had been developed by people from all over China, before the Cultural Revolution. Miss Wan claimed that everything that had been said about Sanming was true—no problems, no pollution, perfect integration, a model city.
"Any Tibetans in Sanming?"
"No," Miss Wan said. "They have to stay in Tibet and solve their own problems. But people in Sanming are very civilized. They are from all places. Like the United States!"
ref: 1988, Paul Theroux, “The Night Train to Xiamen: Number 375”, in Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China, G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 410–411:
text: The outbreak in Sanming city in Fujian killed 27 animals on a farm of 11,950 pigs, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said in a statement on its website.
ref: 2018 December 20, Hallie Gu, Tom Daly, “China confirms new African swine fever outbreak in Fujian province”, in Tom Hogue, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2018, Health News:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Fujian, China.
ironym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ironyms
Etymology: From irony + -onym.
Senses: glosses: An ironic pseudonym.
ironyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ironym
animal experimentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of animal testing.
synonyms: word: animal testing
Hypernyms: experimentation
PAT testing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Action of performing a Portable Appliance Test or PAT
Hypernyms: testing
work-master
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: work-masters
Senses: examples: text: 1560, Geneva Bible, Wisdom of Solomon 13:1-2,
Surely all men are vaine by nature, and are ignorant of God, and colde not knowe him that is, by the good things that are sene, nether consider by the workes the work-master. But thei thoght the fyre, or the winde or the swift aire, or the course of the starres, or the raging water, or the lights of heaven to be governours of the worlde, and gods.
text: Our garments also should be referr’d to the licencing of some more sober work-masters to see them cut into a lesse wanton garb.
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica: A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, page 17:
text: So every carpenter and work-master, that laboureth night and day; and they that cut and grave seals, and are diligent to make great variety, and give themselves to counterfeit imagery, and watch to finish a work.
ref: 1790, The Christian's Complete Family Bible:
text: A question had arisen as to the fitness of additional securities on the projected new coinage of crown gold, in consequence of the advancement of Sir Richard Martin from the office of Warden to that of Master-worker, or Work-master, of the Mint.
ref: 1840, François Egerton, The Egerton papers, page 188:
glosses: Alternative form of workmaster.
voiceprinting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of creating a voiceprint.
athletic tapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of athletic tape
HIL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
qualifier: embedded systems
glosses: Initialism of Hardware-In-the-Loop.
Synonyms: HITL
HWIL
plushen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plushen
form: most plushen
Etymology: From plush + -en (“made of”).
Senses: examples: text: The faded rose in its plushen case
Was the ghost of each vanished year, […]
ref: 1898, Junius Lackland Hempstead, Musings of Morn, page 97:
text: Whence throbbings hale
Of tireless deeds of toil
'Neath walls that pale
The day, or from the plushen soil, […]
ref: 1913, Samuel Henry Marcus, The Passing Singer and Other Poems, page 113:
text: We'd think that jay would can the Tam,
And eke the plushen breeches, […]
ref: 1918, Oregon Voter: Magazine of Citizenship--for Busy Men and Women:
text: O, Life, pack up your plushen ploys — I'll forfeit all for my four boys!
ref: 2013, Cledith Cassidy Tolbert, A Mother's Hands, page 89:
glosses: Made of, or having the qualities of plush; (by extension) soft; velvety
subber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: subbers
Etymology: From sub + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Each item placed under a header is known as a subber. The purpose header in our example has four subbers: solving problems more effectively; raising levels of creativity; improving planning, communication, and organization; and increasing participation.
ref: 1994, James M. Higgins, 101 Creative Problem Solving Techniques:
glosses: A subheading.
examples: text: Any book, magazine, or collection paying for cartoons. Ads: 3 lines free to subbers.
ref: 1994, Len Fulton, International Directory of Little Magazines & Small Presses:
glosses: A subscriber.
examples: text: In turn, the generation of subbers who came of age in the first wave of digisubbing complains about the new generation of subbers who have lax ethical standards and fansub series that are already licensed and released on DVD. As the technology and culture of fansubbing continue to evolve, we can expect to see ongoing generational differences between subbers who came of age during different moments in the scene.
ref: 2017, Jonathan Gray, Cornel Sandvoss, C. Lee Harrington, Fandom, Second Edition: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fansubber.
subbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subber
Amalgamverse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From amalgam + -verse, after Amalgam Comics.
Senses: examples: text: Understandably, as both Cyborg and Deathlok were by and large good guys for most of their appearances. But, I guess the answer could be much like the Age of Apocalypse (where some formerly very good X-men were awfully mean) -- some events in the Amalgamverse were so different from regular continuity that a few of the good guys were warped (and some of the bad guys were un-warped, too, I think, though no examples come to mind).
ref: 1997 April 16, shawn h, “Re: Magnetic Men amalgams, part 2”, in rec.arts.comics.dc.universe (Usenet), message-ID <5j1aks$mo0$1@news.fas.harvard.edu>:
text: Not to mention the fact that bringing Access into continuity emphasizes the existence of at least two alternate Universes, the Marvelverse and the Amalgamverse.
ref: 1997 November 23, Bala Menon, “Re: return to glory”, in rec.arts.comics.dc.universe (Usenet), message-ID <658hj5$krl@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net>:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The fictional universe of the Amalgam Comics, which is populated by alternate versions of characters merged from Marvel Comics and DC Comics.
wikipedia: Amalgam Comics
Related terms: Marvelverse
reverse brain drain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reverse brain drains
Senses: hypernyms: brain gain
coordinate_terms: brain drain
glosses: The return of people who emigrated from a country during the process of a brain drain.
gidda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of giddha.
work-masters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of work-master
soothen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: soothens
form: soothening
form: soothened
form: soothened
Etymology: From sooth (“pleasing, comforting, reassuring”) + -en.
Senses: examples: text: The cool green foliage around her soothened the eyes of beholders even in the blazing sun.
ref: 1999, M. L. Augustine, Fort William Calcutta's Crowning Glory: Calcutta's Crowning Glory:
text: These nutrients combine together to soothen the body; and according to Susruta, such a process is attributed to mucus.
ref: 2006, Pradip Kumar Bose, Health and Society in Bengal:
text: Since Melitta is honored in the chamber of Persephone, then the grief for her death is significantly soothened.
ref: 2008, Christos Tsagalis, Inscribing Sorrow: Fourth-Century Attic Funerary Epigrams, page 36:
text: A very close friend of Dad helped me to rent a place large enough to have an inpatient of about ten beds, a good waiting area (patients need to soothen their taut nerves before they see the doctor) and a spacious operation theatre.
ref: 2011, Reina Khadilkar, Oh! to be a Lady Surgeon, page 101:
text: For migra[i]nes and headaches drop a few drops in boiling water or use a cold compress and inhale when there is nervous ex[h]austion, wrap a warm towel to soothen tense and agitated nerves.
ref: 2016, Dr. Shiv Kumar, Aroma Therapy:
glosses: To make comforted; cause to feel soothed; to ease, relieve, or alleviate
soothened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of soothen
soothening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of soothen
soothens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of soothen
decarceration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˌkɑː.səˈɹeɪʃən/
ipa: /diːˌkɑɹ.səˈɹeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: decarcerations
Etymology: Modeled on incarceration, replacing the prefix with de-.
Senses: examples: text: Whereas rates of COVID-19 vary nationwide, our results add to a growing body of literature emphasizing high COVID-19 rates in carceral settings and the importance of testing and decarceration.
ref: 2020 August 21, Jiménez, M. C. et al., “Epidemiology of COVID-19 among incarcerated individuals and staff in Massachusetts jails and prisons”, in JAMA, →DOI:
glosses: A policy of reducing the amount of imprisoned people in a given population.
Related terms: decarcerate
incarceration
decarcerate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈkɑː.səˌɹeɪt/
ipa: /diːˈkɑɹ.səˌɹeɪt/
Forms: form: decarcerates
form: decarcerating
form: decarcerated
form: decarcerated
Etymology: Modeled on incarcerate, replacing the prefix with de-.
Senses: examples: text: Refusing to decarcerate and now increasing spending on policing that will drive the shuttling of even more Americans into jails and prisons is especially perverse given the recent attention paid to the worsening conditions of confinement and the mistreatment of the incarcerated.
ref: 2022 January 25, Eric Reinhardt, “How Joe Biden Launched a New Prison Boom”, in Slate:
glosses: To implement a policy of decarceration; to reduce prison populations.
Related terms: decarceration
incarcerate
Star of Bethlehem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Star of Bethlehem
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The bright star in the Gospel of Matthew that lead the "wise men from the East" to travel to Bethlehem.
Synonyms: Christmas star
Derived terms: star-of-Bethlehem
father tongues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of father tongue
TSBs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TSB
secks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛks
Forms: form: seckses
Senses: examples: text: Then I busted in 2 tears & wrung my hands, which it is the only way that a young person of the fare secks are expected to do on sech occasions.
ref: 1866, William Comstock, Betsey Jane Ward, (Better-half to Artemus) hur Book of Goaks with a Hull Akkownt of the Coartship and Maridge to A4said Artemus, and Mister Ward's Cutting-up with the Mormon Fare Secks, page 17:
text: “Sex,” Sam said into my left ear. “Secks,” he repeated to make sure I got it. I heard him but I still didn't get it. ¶ “Buddies,” declared Miriam, “you can also have sex with.”
ref: 2011, Ms. Gonick, “My buddies the oysters”, in Autumn Stephens, editor, Roar Softly and Carry a Great Lipstick, page 67:
glosses: Deliberate misspelling of sex.
Related terms: secksy
Tshangla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Sino-Tibetan language of the Bodish branch closely related to the Tibetic languages largely deriving from Classical Tibetan.
Synonyms: Sharchop
Sharchop
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Tshangla.
synonyms: word: Tshangla
Classical Tibetan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The form of Tibetan spoken from the early 10th century AD until the 12th century AD (after the Old Tibetan period) and still used as a written language.
Xavierian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Xavierians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Xaverian.
Xavierian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Xavierian
form: most Xavierian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Xaverian.
Usk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Middle Welsh Wÿsk (modern Welsh Wysg), from Proto-Brythonic *Uɨsk, a river name perhaps originally meaning "abundant in fish". Cognate with the river names Esk, Exe, and Axe.
Senses: glosses: A river in Powys and Monmouthshire, Wales, that empties into the Severn at Newport.
glosses: A town and community with a town council in Monmouthshire, Wales, on this river (OS grid ref SO3700).
Derived terms: Talybont-on-Usk
Uskmouth
wurlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of wurly: more wurly.
wurliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of wurly: most wurly.
yoghi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yoghis
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of yogi.
test suite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: test suites
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A container that has a set of tests with similar test cases to show that it has some specified set of behaviours.
Synonyms: validation suite
Hypernyms: suite
Hyponyms: abstract test suite
executable test suite
Related terms: test case
test plan
test suites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of test suite
validation suite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: validation suites
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of test suite.
synonyms: word: test suite
validation suites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of validation suite
PageRank
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Google co-founder Larry Page (1973–) and, punningly, (web) page.
Senses: glosses: The algorithm used by Google Search to rank webpages and other media on the Internet.
PageRank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PageRanks
Etymology: Named after Google co-founder Larry Page (1973–) and, punningly, (web) page.
Senses: glosses: The rank of a page calculated by the PageRank algorithm.
lanzon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lanzones
Etymology: See langsat for more.
Senses: glosses: Lansium domesticum, a species of tree in the mahogany family
examples: text: San Manuel and the neighboring towns around Mount Banahao, in Laguna, are famous for lanzones. The story goes that it used to be a wild fruit in the mountain that nobody attempted to eat because the locals knew it was poisonous.
ref: 2010, Leoncio V. Gregana, Into the Change of Time: The Nurse, page 55:
glosses: The fruit of this tree
Synonyms: langsat
platinated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of platinate
substrategy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: substrategies
Etymology: From sub- + strategy.
Senses: glosses: A secondary or subsidiary strategy.
Related terms: substrategic
substrategies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of substrategy
plasmaphysics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From plasma + physics.
Senses: glosses: The physics of plasmas.
nesiote
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek νησιώτης (nēsiṓtēs, “islander”).
Senses: examples: text: But a glance farther along at the notes upon item 342 will show that these languages which here omit the moon present it in that record as masina, again the shining one, the most conspicuous object in the perfect light, composite white. Few of these forms in our three nesiote areas but are self-explanatory.
ref: 1911, William Churchill, The Polynesian Wanderings:
glosses: insular; of islands
Related terms: nesiotic
nesiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nesiote.
synonyms: word: nesiote
bandoleered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bandoliered.
grey-box testing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gray-box testing
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
qualifier: testing
glosses: A combination of black-box testing and white-box testing, where knowledge about the internal data structures and algorithms is used to design tests while executing those tests at the user, or black-box, level.
Hypernyms: testing
ox-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ox-eyed
form: most ox-eyed
Senses: examples: text: Homer useth that epithite of ox-eyed, in describing Juno, because a round black eye is the best
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
synonyms: cow-eyed
glosses: Having large, full eyes, like those of an ox.
Derived terms: alt: Oreosoma atlanticum
word: ox-eyed oreo
taxonomic: Selar boops
word: ox-eyed scad
word: ox-eyed susan
word: ox-eyed daisy
cow-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cow-eyed
form: most cow-eyed
Etymology: From cow + eye + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having large, full, wide eyes, like those of cows.
gray-box testing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
qualifier: testing
glosses: Alternative form of grey-box testing.
Hypernyms: testing
sempiternous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sempiternous
form: most sempiternous
Senses: examples: text: These, according to tradition, were originally a race of pestilent sempiternous beldames, who peopled these parts long before the memory of man.
ref: 1809, Washington Irving, A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, by Diedrich Knickerbocker:
glosses: everlasting; endless
emissory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: emissive; emitting something
foreordered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of foreorder
foreordering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of foreorder
foreorders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of foreorder
micrometrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In terms of, or by means of, micrometry.
CTCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CTC
CTCs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present of CTC
CTCed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past of CTC
CTCing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of CTC
panclastite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panclastites
Etymology: From pan- + -clast + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: Panclastites are shock-sensitive and difficult to handle, requiring their mixing immediately before use.
glosses: Any of a class of Sprengel explosives similar to oxyliquits, consisting of a mixture of liquid dinitrogen tetroxide serving as oxidizer with a suitable fuel.
panclastites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panclastite
oxyliquit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxyliquits
Senses: glosses: Any of a class of explosive materials consisting of a mixture of liquid oxygen and fuel.
Hypernyms: Sprengel explosive
oxyliquits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxyliquit
Sprengel explosive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sprengel explosives
Etymology: Invented by Hermann Sprengel in the 1870s.
Senses: glosses: Any of a class of explosives that are stoichiometric mixtures of strong oxidizers and reactive fuels, mixed just prior to use.
Sprengel explosives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sprengel explosive
microzoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microzoons
form: microzoa
Etymology: From micro- + -zoon.
Senses: glosses: Any animal microorganism
Related terms: microzoal
microzoa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microzoon
microzoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microzoon
pancake bond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pancake bonds
Senses: examples: text: Unusually long bonds or short intermolecular contacts occur in the title compounds reminiscent of pancake bonding. Pancake bonding interactions seem analogous to π-stacking interactions, but they display much shorter contact distances than normally seen in van der Waals (vdW) dimers.
ref: 2012, Habtamu Z. Beneberu, Yong-Hui Tian, Miklos Kertesz, PCCP, 2012,14, 10713-10725:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A type of chemical bond most prominently observed in polycyclic hydrocarbons, in which the nuclear distance between molecular constituents reaches or exceeds a bond length of approximately 305 pm.
pancake bonds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pancake bond
Theocritean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Theocritean
form: most Theocritean
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Theocritan.
Joplinesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Joplinesque
form: most Joplinesque
Etymology: From Joplin + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Reminiscent of the works of Scott Joplin (c. 1867–1917), American ragtime composer and pianist.
netster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: netsters
Etymology: From net + -ster.
Senses: examples: text: In the halcyon days before Napster and copyright fears, netsters freely admitted to downloading and sharing South Park material: […]
ref: 2007, Toni Johnson-Woods, Blame Canada!: South Park and popular culture, page 39:
glosses: An Internet user.
netsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of netster
hemiolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hemi- + holo- + -ic.
Senses: glosses: In the proportion of 1½ to 1, or 3 to 2.
Hellenians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hellenian
abacteremic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + bacteremic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Not caused by bacteria in the blood
Derived terms: abacteremically
lithotomical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or performed by, lithotomy.
bacteremically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bacteremic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: As mentioned, areas of trauma can be seeded bacteremically by H. influenzae.
ref: 1981, Ralph D. Feigin, Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, volume 1, page 866:
glosses: By means of bacteremia
unkippered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + kippered.
Senses: glosses: Not kippered.
demology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From demo- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: Demography.
psalmes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psalme
Dearbornistan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Dearborn + -i- + -stan, with regard to its majority Arab population.
Senses: glosses: The city of Dearborn, Michigan.
disorderly house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disorderly houses
Senses: examples: text: But there was also about him an indescribable air which no mechanic could have acquired in the practice of his handicraft however dishonestly exercised: […] the air of moral nihilism common to keepers of gambling hells and disorderly houses […].
ref: 1906 January–October, Joseph Conrad, chapter II, in The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Collection of British Authors; 3995), copyright edition, London: Bernhard Tauchnitz, published 1907, →OCLC, page 15:
text: Pekara, along with Officers Robert Margelewski and Roger O'Brien then ordered the theater lights turned on and began making arrests. Sixteen men were charged as inmates of a disorderly house and the cashier was arrested as the keeper of a disorderly house. The man from Elgin was arrested on charges of soliciting an act of prostitution.
ref: 1981 August 22, Larry Goldsmith, “Theater Sex Charges Dropped”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 6, page 1:
text: Four years ago Cynthia Payne was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment for keeping a disorderly house. Madam Sin of Streatham gave the popular newspapers everything they had ever wished for – kinky sex, anonymous Top People, a police raid and, the most intriguing element of all, payment by Luncheon Voucher.
ref: 1982 October 12, Craig Brown, “Writing Cynthia Payne's biography”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Her crime was less dramatic: she was found guilty of keeping a disorderly house by the Westminster magistrate Sir John Gonson […].
ref: 2009, Dan Cruikshank, The Secret History of Georgian London, Random House, page 5:
glosses: A brothel.
disorderly houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disorderly house
glorifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more glorifiable
form: most glorifiable
Etymology: From glorify + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be glorified.
exeleutherostomizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of exeleutherostomize
exeleutherostomizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of exeleutherostomize
exeleutherostomized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of exeleutherostomize
leather knife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leather knives
Senses: glosses: A curved knife for cutting leather.
leather knives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leather knife
Ykybayev
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ykybayevs
Etymology: Borrowed from Kazakh Ықыбаев (Yqybaev).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Kazakh used in Kazakhstan.
Bayev
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bayevs
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Баев (Bajev), Ukrainian Баєв (Bajev), Armenian Բաև (Baew), etc.
Senses: glosses: A surname used in Eastern Europe and Russia.
Bayevsky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Ба́евский (Bájevskij).
Senses: glosses: A district of Altai Krai, Russia.
Ykybayevs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ykybayev
gymbro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gymbros
Senses: examples: text: I will not judge any of them save one: the random gymbro's discipline, something we'll call the Cybex Swolenado.
ref: 2012 July 27, Spencer Hall, “Weightlifting At The Olympics, The Most Moving Thing In Singlets Ever”, in SB Nation:
text: By the end of both of these books, you will know more about fitness than 99% of forum warriors, gymbros, and self-styled gurus.
ref: 2014, Michael Matthews, Beyond Bigger Leaner Stronger, →ISBN:
text: Visually, Lo Wang falls in line with the era's template: masculinity dialled up to 11, with more oblique muscles than any human being ought to have, and vascularity levels otherwise only found in the wildest fantasies of protein-chugging gymbros.
ref: 2017 November 7, Phil Iwaniuk, “1997 vs 2007 vs 2017: how is videogame character design evolving? Part One”, in PCGamesN:
glosses: Alternative form of gym bro.
gym bro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɪm ˌbɹəʊ/
Forms: form: gym bros
form: gymbro
Senses: examples: text: A fight broke out between two rival delegations: the gym bros and the bikers.
ref: 2014, Rob Colton, Enforcer, →ISBN:
text: It's time to stop listening to the gym bros and your friend of a friend for poor advice.
ref: 2016, John Chapman, Leon Bustin, The Lean Machines: Eat Well, Move Better and Feel Awesome, →ISBN:
text: You're already a father figure to so many gym bros, but it might be time to adopt a brotégé.
ref: 2016, Dom Mazzetti, The Swoly Bible: The Bro Science Way of Life, →ISBN, page 213:
text: But if you're training like a lot of 'gym bros' you'll only be doing sarcoplasmic training.
ref: 2016, Noah Daniels, Functional Strength, →ISBN:
text: The old gym bro adage that the body has no way of storing protein is another one of these things that is kind of true, but also kind of not true, and we should talk about that another day.
ref: 2022 February 21, Adam Ragusea, 8:46 from the start, in Rice, beans, and the "myth" of protein combining, Knoxville, via YouTube, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2022:
glosses: A man who spends much of his free time working out at a gym.
gym bros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gym bro
gymbros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gymbro
snow cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow caps
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of snowcap.
AFChicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of AFChick
Quek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hokkien 郭 (Koeh) or Teochew 郭 (guêh4). Doublet of Que, Guo, and Kwok.
Senses: glosses: A Chinese surname from Hokkien or Teochew.
homeology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homeologies
Etymology: By surface analysis, homeo- + -logy = home- + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: Homeology is usually measured by the ability or inability of chromosomes to pair and to form chiasmata.
ref: 1991, V. V. Sivarajan, N. K. P. Robson, Introduction to the Principles of Plant Taxonomy, →ISBN, page 172:
text: The limits of homeology (in terms of percent sequence divergence) have not been defined precisely, in part because of the variable response to homeology observed in different experimental systems.
ref: 1996, Charles C. Richardson, John N. Abelson, Christian R. H. Raetz, Annual Review of Biochemistry, →ISBN:
text: The data showed a high degree of sequence conservation between these genera, enabling heterologous hybridization of BACs, and the establishment of chromosomal homeologies.
ref: 2012, Advances in Chromatin Research and Application, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of homoeology.
Derived terms: homeological
homeologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homeology
hot minute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot minutes
Senses: examples: text: She decided to pop up on her big brother because it had been a hot minute since she'd seen him.
ref: 2013, Caroline McGill, A Dollar Outta Fifteen Cent, →ISBN, page 209:
glosses: A long period of time.
examples: text: It didn't take but a hot minute to find out what squadron Craig was with.
ref: 2000, Eric Jerome Dickey, Cheaters, →ISBN:
text: She didn't trust me for a hot minute, but she trusted her perfect eldest child.
ref: 2012, Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, →ISBN:
text: Very cool could easily turn into very rude in a hot minute.
ref: 2014, Ray Mack, Underestimated: a searcher's story, →ISBN, page 163:
text: Too bad he considered me a suspect, because I'd be all over that in a hot minute. Okay, probably not. But I'd flirt a lot.
ref: 2016, Shéa MacLeod, The Corpse in the Cabana:
text: Not for a hot minute did she think it changed her inability to have lasting love.
ref: 2017, Julie Ann Walker, Hot Pursuit, →ISBN:
synonyms: red-hot minute
glosses: An extremely short period of time; a moment.
examples: text: Whatever happened to that guy Michael you dated for a hot minute way back in the stone age?
ref: 2010, Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy, →ISBN, page 138:
text: We might be in Montana—but, no, that's wrong. We spent time in Montana a month ago. After a few days we have to move. We settled in Oregon for a hot minute, figured it was a good place for disappearing, but one morning we woke to find footprints in the gravel around our rented cabin.
ref: 2011, Victor LaValle, Big Machine, →ISBN:
text: Still, it was always nice to run into each other in the supermarkets or restaurants and talk for a hot minute.
ref: 2012, Cholly Atkins, Jacqui Malone, Class Act: The Jazz Life of Choreographer Cholly Atkins, →ISBN, page 89:
text: At least Dexter can spell and sounds like he went to a junior college for a hot minute.
ref: 2013, Terry McMillan, Who Asked You?, →ISBN, page 71:
glosses: An unspecified period of time; a while.
red-hot minute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red-hot minutes
Senses: examples: text: “Just a red-hot minute!” Tim darted between her and the raging teenager.
ref: 2011, Hannah Alexander, Jill Elizabeth Nelson, Season of Danger: Silent Night, Deadly Night\Mistletoe Mayhem, →ISBN:
text: Somewhere behind the navy sky the Cairns ships hung in gravity-defying non-orbit, in any emergency a screaming red-hot minute away.
ref: 2012, Ken MacLeod, Engine City: Engines of Light, →ISBN:
text: I didn't buy their version of things for a red-hot minute.
ref: 2013, Ellen Kanner, Feeding the Hungry Ghost: Life, Faith, and what to Eat for Dinner, →ISBN:
topics: time
glosses: Synonym of hot minute (“an extremely short period of time”); a moment.
synonyms: word: hot minute
extra: (“an extremely short period of time”); a moment
Irad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hebrew עירד.
Senses: examples: text: And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 4:18:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A grandson of Cain.
CTA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Chicago Transit Authority: an operator of mass transit in Chicago and some of its surrounding suburbs.
glosses: Initialism of Central Tibetan Administration.
CTA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CTAs
Senses: topics: business
marketing
glosses: Initialism of call to action.
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: angio-CT
glosses: Initialism of computed tomography angiography.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of commodity trading adviser.
CTA
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Lungs ¶ Lung fields CTA bilaterally. Few basilar crackles, mild expiratory wheezing
ref: 2009, Julie M. Koehler, James E. Tisdale, “Hypertension”, in Terry L. Schinghammer, Julia M. Koehler, editors, Pharmacotherapy Casebook: A Patient-Focused Approach, 7th edition, McGraw Hill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 40:
topics: medicine
pulmonology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of clear to auscultation, used to describe the lung or lungs of patient.
Mehujael
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hebrew מחויאל.
Senses: examples: text: And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 4:18:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A descendant of Cain.
CFHQS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope High-z Quasar Survey.
Related terms: CFH
CFHT
ULAS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of UKIDSS Large Area Survey.
Related terms: english: UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey
translation: UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey
word: UKIDSS
english: United Kingdom
translation: United Kingdom
word: UK
Methusael
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Methushael
Etymology: From Hebrew מתושאל.
Senses: examples: text: And to Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 3:18:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The father of Lamech.