cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
white mustard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Sinapis alba, an annual mustard of the family Brassicaceae.
Wilfley table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wilfley tables
Etymology: Named after the inventor.
Senses: glosses: An inclined percussion table for dressing ore, usually with longitudinal grooves in its surface, agitated by side blows at right angles to the flow of the pulp.
Wilfley tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wilfley table
Winesap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Winesaps
Etymology: Modification of winesop?
Senses: glosses: A medium-sized winter apple of a deep red variety with yellowish, somewhat acidic flesh.
Winesaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Winesap
bewish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /bɪˈwɪʃ/
Forms: form: bewishes
form: bewishing
form: bewished
form: bewished
Etymology: From be- + wish.
Senses: examples: text: Och, murther! faix, some spell my pipe bewishes, I've played a wail and raised the little fishes.
ref: 1862, Sir Francis Cowley Burnand, John Palgrave Simpson, King of the Merrows, Or, The Prince and the Piper:
text: Where litle babes fro windows were pusht down, Yong Ladies blotted with adulteries, Old fathers scourg'd with all base villanies ? O mourne her mine and bewish the Turke, etemall depriuation of his Crowne, [...]
ref: 1876, William Barksted, The poems of William Barksted, ed. by A.B. Grosart - Page 72:
text: I could not bewish that the stars and stripes were wavering from its top.
ref: 2006, Robert Julyan, The Mountains of New Mexico - Page 130:
glosses: To confer, grant, or make a wish; wish.
Wollaston's doublet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wollaston's doublets
Etymology: After W. H. Wollaston, English physicist.
Senses: glosses: A magnifying glass consisting of two planoconvex lenses, designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion.
word method
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: education
glosses: A method of teaching reading in which words are first taken as single ideograms and later analyzed into their phonetic and alphabetic elements.
Coordinate terms: alphabet method
sentence method
Wollaston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Northamptonshire, England.
glosses: A village in Shropshire, England.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: wollastonite
Wollaston prism
Wollaston's doublet
Wollaston doublet
microbivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microbivores
Etymology: From microbe + -vore.
Senses: glosses: A hypothetical nanobot that would destroy microbes inside the body.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A microbivorous organism
microbivores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microbivore
California Sound
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the California Sound
form: California sound
Senses: examples: text: The Beach Boys struck gold with swoony choral harmonies, twangy surf-music guitars and beats cresting like waves on an eternally sunny Pacific shoreline: the “California sound”, as it was dubbed.
ref: 2025 June 14, Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, “Obituary: Visionary who grew from Surfin' to audacious experimenter”, in FT Weekend, page 10:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A popular music aesthetic engendered by 1960s pop and rock recording artists from the California area, associated with optimistic youth culture.
Related terms: sunshine pop
sunshine pop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A pop music genre originating in the United States in the mid-1960s as an offshoot of the California Sound, and characterized by a cheerful attitude, warm sounds, prominent vocal harmonies, and sophisticated production.
reconcentrado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reconcentrados
Etymology: From Spanish reconcentrado.
Senses: glosses: In Cuba, the Philippines, etc., during the revolution of 1895-98, one of the rural noncombatants who were concentrated by the military authorities in areas surrounding the fortified towns, and later were reconcentrated in the smaller limits of the towns themselves.
reconcentrados
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reconcentrado
royal spade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: royal spades
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: In auction bridge, a spade when spades are trumps under the condition that every trick over six taken by the successful bidder has a score value of 9.
royal spades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of royal spade
cuckolder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuckolders
Etymology: From cuckold + -er.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A male of certain kinds of fish that interrupts a mating pair to release sperm in an attempt to fertilize the female.
examples: text: The friends of the respective parties, those of the cuckolder on one side, and those of the cuckoldee on the other side; and the public (as far as play-house audiences are the public) have fairly decided in favour of the cuckolder! What an admirable system of “public instruction”!
ref: 1825 February 5, William Cobbett, “To Mr. Brougham—On Newspaper Government; and on his Education Project”, in Cobbett's Weekly Register, volume 53, number 6, page 333:
text: Gascoigne, Hundreth Sundrie Flowres (1573) 78 has a teasing passage in which cuckold and cuckolder are out hunting.
ref: 2001, Gordon Williams, A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 277:
glosses: One who commits cuckoldry; one who cuckolds.
Synonyms: word: cornutor
word: cuckolder
word: cuckold-maker
word: two-timer
Hypernyms: word: adulterer
word: person
Hyponyms: word: cuckoldress
word: horner
Related terms: word: cuckoldize
cuckolders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuckolder
reforestizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reforestize
undertheorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undertheorizes
form: undertheorizing
form: undertheorized
form: undertheorized
Etymology: From under- + theorize.
Senses: examples: text: While Sharp acknowledges creative nonviolent intervention as a technique of nonviolent action, he undertheorizes its centrality for promoting political change.
ref: 2005, Kurt Shock, chapter 2, in Unarmed Insurrections: People Power Movements in Nondemocracies, page 45:
text: While Hutcheon stresses that irony cannot actively create communities, that they must exist prior to the enunciation, she undertheorizes the potential of making members of existing discursive communities present to one another and of strengthening the visceral experience of community.
ref: 2011, Amber Day, chapter 5, in Satire and Dissent: Interventions in Contemporary Political Debate, page 148:
glosses: To theorize insufficiently.
undertheorizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undertheorize
undertheorizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undertheorize
parlour match
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parlour matches
form: parlor match
Senses: glosses: A friction match that contains little or no sulphur.
paystreak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paystreaks
Etymology: From pay + streak.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: The zone, parallel to the walls of a vein, in which the ore is concentrated, or any narrow streak of paying ore in less valuable material.
qualifier: oil boring
glosses: A stratum of oil sand thick enough to make a well pay.
paystreaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paystreak
upside-down income statement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upside-down income statements
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: A planned income statement laid out in the reverse of the usual order, i.e. starting with the bottom line and continuing with the figures that the business must achieve in order to meet it.
Pembroke table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pembroke tables
Senses: examples: text: […]the boarded table and wicker chairs were replaced by a Pembroke and neat japan elbow ones,[…]
ref: 1838, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XV, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 218:
glosses: A kind of table introduced in the 18th century, having a rectangular or oval top with dropleaves on each side, and sometimes having drawers.
Pembroke tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pembroke table
upside-down income statements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upside-down income statement
Peltier's cross
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A cross formed of two strips of different metals, used to illustrate the Peltier effect.
photochromography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + chromo- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: The art or process of printing color photographs.
photochromoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photochromoscopes
Etymology: From photo- + chromo- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: A device for giving shifting effects of color to a photograph. The unmounted print, made translucent, is illuminated from behind with colored light.
glosses: A combination of three optical lanterns for projecting objects on a screen in natural colors. The images of three partial photographs taken through color screens (red, green, and blue, respectively) are superimposed. Each image is given its own primary color, and these colors blend and reproduce the colors of the object.
photochromoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photochromoscope
photochronograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photochronographs
Etymology: From photo- + chronograph.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An instrument for recording very short intervals of time. The record is made by the power of a magnetic field, due to an electric signaling current, to turn the plane of polarization of light. A flash, coinciding in time and duration with the signal, is thus produced and is photographed on a moving plate.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: An instrument for the photographic recording of star transits.
phototaxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: phototaxis
phototactically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From phototactic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of or by means of phototaxis.
pilonce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪləns
Forms: form: pilonces
Senses: glosses: pilon (sugar loaf)
pilonces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pilonce
pierre perdu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French pierre perdue, literally "lost stone".
Senses: glosses: Blocks of stone or concrete heaped loosely in the water to make a foundation (as for a sea wall), a breakwater, etc.
Sancho Pedro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: card-games
games
synonyms: Pedro Sancho
glosses: A variety of auction pitch in which the nine (Sancho) and five (Pedro) of trumps are added as counting cards at their pip value, and the ten of trumps counts game.
safety chain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: safety chains
Senses: topics: railways
transport
glosses: A normally slack chain for preventing excessive movement between a truck and a car body during a slue.
glosses: An auxiliary watchchain secured to the clothes, usually out of sight, to prevent stealing of the watch.
glosses: A chain of sheet metal links with an elongated hole through each broad end, made by doubling the first link on itself, slipping the next link through and doubling, and so on.
glosses: A security chain that allows a door to be opened to see who is on the other side without allowing them to enter.
safety chains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of safety chain
seecatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seecatchie
form: seacatch
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian сека́ч (sekáč, “adult male boar, hog or seal”).
Senses: qualifier: Alaska
glosses: A full-grown male northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus).
hypnofetish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypno- + fetish.
Senses: synonyms: hypnokink
glosses: A paraphilia in which a person is aroused by the idea of being hypnotized into submission.
hypnorape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypno- + rape.
Senses: glosses: rape carried out by first hypnotizing the victim
Related terms: hypnofetish
hypnopedia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hypnopaedia.
semidiesel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semidiesels
Etymology: From semi- + diesel.
Senses: glosses: An internal combustion engine of a type resembling the diesel engine in having heavy oil for its fuel, which is injected in a spray just before the end of the compression stroke and is fired without electrical ignition. The fuel is sprayed into an iron box (called a hot bulb or hot pot) opening into the combustion chamber, and heated for ignition by a blast lamp until the engine is running, when it is ordinarily kept red-hot by the heat of combustion.
Shastas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Shasta
shintiyan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shintiyans
form: shintiyan
form: shintyan
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic شِنْتِيَان (šintiyān) which is itself from Coptic ϣⲉⲛⲧⲱ (šentō).
Senses: glosses: A kind of wide loose drawers or trousers worn by women in Muslim countries.
shintyan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shintyans
form: shintyan
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shintiyan.
shintiyans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shintiyan
shintyans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shintyan
yeleks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yelek
stunnable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stunnable
form: most stunnable
Etymology: From stun + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be stunned.
Jahaveh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Yahweh.
Jahveh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Yahweh.
Yahve
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Yahweh.
obturates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of obturate
obturating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of obturate
obturated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of obturate
honor among thieves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honour among thieves
Etymology: From Plato.
Senses: examples: text: While a corrupt Chuch and untrustworthy nobles and kings scraped for power, businessmen in Italy honored pledges of businessmen from England and Scandinavia. This trust (some have called it honor among thieves) is still a hallmark of modern brokerage.
ref: 2000, Robert Sobel, The Big Board: A History of the New York Stock Market, →ISBN, page 4:
text: That sounds odd here in Washington these days, but some of the old-timers still like to pretend there is honor alive among the political thieves.
ref: 2003, Tony Hillerman, The Sinister Pig, →ISBN, page 2:
text: To cripple another person intentionally is to violate the same kind of code as the legendary honor among thieves. More linebackers than thieves believe this, but when it comes to politics — to a 28-year career of cheap shots, lies and thievery — there is no man in America who should understand what is happening to him now better than Richard Milhous Nixon.
ref: 2011, Hunter S. Thompson, The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time, →ISBN, page 281:
glosses: Trustworthiness within a group that is not considered trustworthy by outsiders.
wikipedia: Plato
Derived terms: there is no honor among thieves
Related terms: set a thief to catch a thief
timocratically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more timocratically
form: most timocratically
Etymology: From timocratic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a timocratic fashion; according to timocracy.
honour among thieves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Such people will observe honour among thieves because, within a closed group, failure to keep one's word is soon detected and leads to exclusion from the group, which conflicts with one's particular interests.
ref: 2003, Timothy O'Hagan, Rousseau, →ISBN, page 102:
glosses: Alternative form of honor among thieves.
oleo oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An oil expressed from certain animal fats (especially beef suet), the greater portion of the solid fat, or stearin, being left behind. It is a mixture of olein, palmitin, and a little stearin.
hyperoctant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperoctants
Etymology: From hyper- + octant.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of orthant.
synonyms: word: orthant
hyperoctants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperoctant
Eau Claire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊ ˈklɛɚ/
Etymology: From French eau claire (“clear water”).
Senses: examples: text: He lived […] with a guy named Mike who was from near Eau Claire.
ref: 2021, Brandon Taylor, “Mass”, in Filthy Animals, Daunt Books Originals, page 157:
glosses: A city, the county seat of Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, United States.
glosses: A tributary of the Chippewa River.
Derived terms: Eau Claire County
corpse powder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: anti'l
glosses: A powder made from corpses and used by Navajo witches to curse their victims.
hoses down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hose down
hosing down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hose down
hosed down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hose down
fossil fool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fossil fools
Etymology: A pun on fossil fuel.
Senses: examples: text: I think that will be around 2012, when the net present value of solar electricity will basically be at parity with grid-based fossil fool electricity in many markets without subsidy.
ref: 2008, Sustainable Industries Journal - Issues 60-70, page 17:
text: The supporters of the fossil-fool industry have tried to characterize conservation and solar as inefficient, uncomfortable, costly, and unproven.
ref: 2011, David Bainbridge, Ken Haggard, Passive Solar Architecture, →ISBN, page 260:
text: Proponents of “Fossil Fools Day” encourage people to kick the oil habit and avoid acting like a fossil fool via such means as walking, cycling, taking public transportation, or car-pooling whenever possible, buying fuel-efficient vehicles (e.g hybrids), living as close to work as possible, shopping at local stores, and buying regionally and seasonally produced food whenever possible.
ref: 2014, Tim Delaney, Tim Madigan, Beyond Sustainability: A Thriving Environment, →ISBN, page 44:
glosses: One who uses fossil fuels without concern for their environmental impact.
Jason masks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jason mask
killer diller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: killer dillers
Etymology: Perhaps a reduplicative rhyme for killer.
Senses: glosses: A person or thing that is astonishing, outstanding, or exciting.
killer diller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more killer diller
form: most killer diller
Etymology: Perhaps a reduplicative rhyme for killer.
Senses: glosses: Excellent, terrific, outstanding, or wonderful.
killer dillers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of killer diller
numbery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more numbery
form: most numbery
Etymology: From number + -y.
Senses: examples: text: But you might put autism aside and ask us what we have to say about someone like the three-year-old who announced at his first Math Circle class: “I'm very numbery”—and was.
ref: 2014, Ellen Kaplan, Robert Kaplan, Out of the Labyrinth: Setting Mathematics Free - Page 19:
glosses: Good with numbers; mathematically inclined.
examples: text: We started out, in Part I, with examples about acronyms and so on, but since then we’ve been working with numbery old numbers.
ref: 1999, Brian Harvey, Matthew Wright, chapter 5, in Simply Scheme: Introducing Computer Science, page 57:
text: The context refers to how you use an expression. You've actually already seen some contextual operations with numbers and strings. When you do numbery sorts of things, you get numeric results. When you do stringy sorts of things, you get string results.
ref: 2011, Randal L. Schwartz, brian d foy, Tom Phoenix, Learning Perl, page 56:
glosses: Resembling or involving numbers; numeric.
numberish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more numberish
form: most numberish
Etymology: From number + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: “So your memory tells you where each card is, and a numberish brain gives you the proper stacking order. But how do you then put them in that order? You didn't look away from my face even once.”
ref: 2012, Cecilia Grant, A Gentleman Undone - Page 88:
text: “Well, what did you expect?” “Have you noticed,” commented Morgan, “that all the male Paladins are named Arthur?” He nodded. “And looks like you were right about the middle names. Primus, Tertius, Octavius — those all sound numberish.
ref: 2014, David Alastair Hayden, Pepper Thorn, The Warlock's Gambit:
glosses: Characteristic of a number; numberlike.
Related terms: numbersome
numbery
numbersome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more numbersome
form: most numbersome
Etymology: From number + -some.
Senses: examples: text: In the Forum and along the Corso, the crowd congregated most : so numbersome and thickly wedged, it was with difficulty any made way.
ref: 1854, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn; or, The suppression of the religious houses, page 29:
text: WEAVER STEPHEN soon enlightened me as to Mr. Knockey's meaning. "Things are getting very numbersome now, sir, — oncommon I call it."
ref: 1886, Joseph Parker, Weaver Stephen, page 195:
glosses: Characterized by (great) number; numerous.
Synonyms: many
multiple
manifold
stress function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stress functions
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A function that finds a more tractable method for the elastic equations that describe the deformation of an elastic body subject only to boundary surface forces.
Hypernyms: function
Hyponyms: Airy stress function
Maxwell's stress function
Morera's stress function
stress functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stress function
number-theoretic function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: number-theoretic functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: a real or complex valued function of n defined on the set of natural numbers that expresses some arithmetical property of n.
Synonyms: arithmetic function
arithmetical function
Hypernyms: complex-valued function
real-valued function
Hyponyms: multiplicative number-theoretic function
Kaintuck
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: His single shot had clipped a boulder right by Coe's head, just the way a Kaintuck rifleman barks a squirrel.
ref: c. 1958, Theodore Sturgeon, "The Man Who Figured Everything" in The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Vol. X (2005 North Atlantic Books edition) (Google books preview)
text: I felt at home in the city. Me, a Kaintuck country cracker.
ref: 2009, Robert Hicks, A Separate Country, →ISBN:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the US state of Kentucky.
Kaintuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kaintucks
Senses: examples: text: "Sech deescriptions . . . brings back my yearlin' days in good old Tennessee. We-all is a heaplike you Kaintucks down our way."
ref: 1902, Alfred Henry Lewis, Wolfville Days, ch. 9 Colonel Sterett's Reminiscences (Google books preview)
text: There was a time when January would have been surprised that a Kaintuck could accomplish such mathematics.
ref: 1998, Barbara Hambly, Fever Season, →ISBN:
glosses: A native or resident of Kentucky, especially one who has a rustic character.
examples: text: Most New Orleans citizens . . . were used to the Kentucky riverboatmen, the Kaintucks others called them; they called themselves alligator-horses, and they were largely a rough and tumble breed.
ref: 1974, Sylvia Wrobel and George Grider, Isaac Shelby: Kentucky's First Governor and Hero of Three Wars, Cumberland Press, p. 130
text: By 1800 as many as ten thousand "Kaintucks" — the local term for boatmen from anywhere north of Natchez — annually journeyed on the trace, the most direct overland route home.
ref: 1996, Arthur P. Miller Jr., Trails Across America, →ISBN, page 76:
text: To the people along the lower Mississippi River, the flatboat men eventually came to be known as Kaintucks, whether or not they hailed from Kentucky.
ref: 2008, James A. Crutchfield, It Happened on the Mississippi River, →ISBN, page 44:
glosses: A worker, especially one having a crude or rowdy manner, on a boat that transported commercial goods on the Mississippi River.
Kaintuck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Si Higgins he's ben over to Kaintuck n' married a high-toned gal thar, outen the fust families.
ref: 1873, Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner, chapter 1, in The Gilded Age:
text: "There ain't no sech hunter as Jim ever came out of Virginny, no, nor out of Caroliny, neither. It was him that fust telled me of Kaintuck."
ref: 1921, John Buchan, chapter 12, in The Path of the King:
glosses: The US state of Kentucky.
Synonyms: sense: of or pertaining to Kentucky
word: Kentuckian
sense: native or resident of Kentucky
word: Kentuckian
number-theoretic functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of number-theoretic function
real functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of real function
terror birds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terror bird
mass function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
mathematics
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A relationship that describes the mass distribution.
Hypernyms: function
Hyponyms: halo mass function
initial mass function
probability mass function
distribution function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distribution functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: A function of seven variables of the form f(x,y,z,t;v_x,v_y,v_z) that gives the number of particles per unit volume in single-particle phase space.
Hypernyms: function
Hyponyms: Fermi-Dirac distribution function
particle distribution function
radial distribution function
distribution functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of distribution function
unit function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unit functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: a completely multiplicative function on the positive integers that is defined as equal to one for a special value and zero otherwise
Hypernyms: multiplicative function
Hyponyms: Heaviside unit function
unit functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unit function
form of address
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forms of address
Senses: glosses: Synonym of term of address.
synonyms: word: term of address
forms of address
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of form of address
fossil fools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fossil fool
zeta function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zeta functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
hypernyms: function
glosses: function of the complex variable s that analytically continues the sum of the infinite series ∑ₙ₌₁ ᪲1/(nˢ) that converges when the real part of s is greater than 1.
Hyponyms: Airy zeta-function
Arakawa–Kaneko zeta-function
arithmetic zeta-function
Artin–Mazur zeta-function
Barnes zeta-function
Beurling zeta-function
Dedekind zeta-function
double zeta-function
Epstein zeta-function
Euler-Riemann zeta-function
Goss zeta-function
Hasse–Weil zeta-function
height zeta-function
Hurwitz zeta-function
Igusa zeta-function
Ihara zeta-function
Lefschetz zeta-function
Lerch zeta-function
L-function
local zeta-function
Matsumoto zeta-function
Minakshisundaram–Pleijel zeta-function
Mordell–Tornheim zeta-function
Motivic zeta-function
multiple zeta-function
p-adic zeta-function
prime zeta-function
Riemann zeta-function
Ruelle zeta-function
Selberg zeta-function
Shimizu L-function
Shintani zeta-function
subgroup zeta-function
Witten zeta-function
zeta functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zeta function
buddhaheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buddhahead
correlation function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: correlation functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: function giving the statistical correlation between random variables at two different points in space or time
Hypernyms: function
Hyponyms: autocorrelation function
cross-correlation function
correlation functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of correlation function
Finkelstein reaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after German chemist Hans Finkelstein.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A SN2 reaction in which one halide is substituted with a different halide.
switching function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌŋkʃən
Forms: form: switching functions
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Synonym of Boolean function.
synonyms: word: Boolean function
Hypernyms: function
Hyponyms: self-dual switching function
beaded lizard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beaded lizards
Etymology: In reference to the many small bead-like protrusions on its skin.
Senses: glosses: A venomous lizard found principally in Mexico and southern Guatemala, Heloderma horridum.
switching functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of switching function
beaded lizards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beaded lizard
partition function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: partition functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: generalization of the definition of a partition function in statistical mechanics
topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: function that represents the number of possible partitions of a natural number.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
quantum-field-theory
glosses: generalization of the definition of a partition function in statistical mechanics
qualifier: statistical mechanics
glosses: function Z[J] that is the generating function of the correlation function
Hypernyms: function
Hyponyms: Einstein partition function
partition functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of partition function
control function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: control functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
systems-theory
glosses: A function that controls the recording, processing, transmission, or interpretation of data.
Hypernyms: function
Hyponyms: adaptive-control function
optimizing control function
control functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of control function
moment-generating functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moment-generating function
generating functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of generating function
generating function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: generating functions
Etymology: The concept was introduced by French mathematician Abraham de Moivre in 1730.
Senses: examples: text: A generating function is a device somewhat similar to a bag. Instead of carrying many little objects detachedly, which could be embarrassing, we put them all in a bag, and then we have only one object to carry, the bag.
ref: 1954, George Pólya, Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, Volume 1: Induction and Analogy in Mathematics, Princeton University Press, page 101:
text: Most often generating functions arise from recurrence formulas. Sometimes, however, from a generating function you will find a new recurrence formula, not the one you started with, that gives new insights into the nature of your sequence.
ref: 1990, Herbert S. Wilf, generatingfunctionology, Academic Press, page 2:
text: 2003, Sergei K. Lando (author & translator), Lectures on Generating Functions, American Mathematical Society.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A formal power series with one indeterminate, whose coefficients encode a sequence that can be studied by algebraic manipulation of the series; any one of several generalizations, such as to encode more than one sequence or use more than one indeterminate.
wikipedia: Abraham de Moivre
Hypernyms: formal power series
Hyponyms: exponential generating function
Bell series
Dirichlet series
Lambert series
ordinary generating function
Related terms: topics: probability
mathematics
sciences
statistics
mathematics
sciences
word: moment-generating function
word: power series
stream function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stream functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A function used to plot streamlines that represent the trajectories of particles in a steady flow.
Hypernyms: function
Hyponyms: Lagrange stream function
Stokes stream function
discriminant function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discriminant functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A function used to predict a categorical dependent variable by one or more continuous or binary independent variables.
Hypernyms: function
Hyponyms: linear discriminant function
stream functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stream function
discriminant functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discriminant function
distance function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distance functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: a function used to calculate the distance between two points.
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: a metric.
Hypernyms: topics: mathematics
sciences
word: function
Hyponyms: topics: mathematics
sciences
word: Minkowski distance function
distance functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of distance function
Hankel function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hankel functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Either of two functions that are solutions to Bessel's equation.
Hypernyms: function
Hyponyms: Hankel functions of the first kind
Hankel functions of the second kind
modified Hankel function
Hankel functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hankel function
error functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of error function
monotone functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monotone function
Steiner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstaɪnɚ/
Forms: form: Steiners
Etymology: Borrowed from German Steiner.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
glosses: A ghost town in Monroe County, Michigan, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Sunflower County, Mississippi, United States.
Derived terms: Steinerian
Steiner point
Steiner's spiral nematode
Steiner system
Steiner tree
Steiner triple
Wiedemann-Steiner syndrome
bodycam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bodycams
form: body cam
Etymology: From body + cam.
Senses: examples: text: I'll wear a bodycam – a copcam, which I'll have to get from the SPD.
ref: 2017, Bharti Kirchner, Season of Sacrifice: First in a new Seattle-based mystery series:
text: The use of bodycams has been mooted for years and the English FA was given permission by the International Football Association Board (IFAB), the body that determines the rules of the game, to begin a trial in February.
ref: 2023 April 4, Philip Buckingham, “‘The ref’s got a camera on’ – the bodycams being used to keep officials safe”, in The New York Times:
text: The sheriff’s office released a compilation of bodycam footage Friday from deputies at the scene that shows them handcuffing Earl and pinning him down for more than 20 minutes as he struggles and repeatedly shouts for help.
ref: 2024 September 30, Chelsea Bailey, “‘Take his pulse, he’s blue’: Bodycam footage shows fatal encounter between epileptic Indiana man and first responders”, in CNN:
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: A body camera.
dry orgasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dry orgasms
Senses: glosses: An orgasm with an ejaculation that does not produce semen due to prepubescence or having run out of seminal fluid.
arriero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arrieros
Etymology: From Spanish arriero.
Senses: glosses: A person who transports goods using pack animals.
deliverology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deliver + -o- + -logy.
Senses: examples: text: The term deliverology was originally developed in the British civil service as a gentle and light-hearted term of abuse for the process developed by the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit (PMDU), which Tony Blair had me set up; we have chosen to adopt it here and give it a positive definition.
ref: 2010, Michael Barber, Deliverology 101: A Field Guide For Educational Leaders:
text: This newfangled approach was roundly mocked as “deliverology”.
ref: 2015 March 28, “Delivery man”, in The Economist:
glosses: A method that uses inspections, goal-setting, etc. to ensure that government departments implement desired reforms.
Elsassian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Elsass + -ian. Compare Alsatian.
Senses: glosses: Alsatian: of or pertaining to Elsass (Alsace), especially when it is considered a German rather than a French area.
Synonyms: Elsatian
Alsatian
Elsassian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Elsassians
Etymology: From Elsass + -ian. Compare Alsatian.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Elsass (Alsace).
chowsed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: He ſtole your cloak, and pick'd your pocket,
Chowſ'd and caldeſ'd you like a blockhead,
ref: a. 1684, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, corrected and amended, with several additions and annotations edition, first part, London: Sawbridge [u.a.], published 1709, →OCLC, pages 133, lines 1009–1010:
glosses: simple past and past participle of chowse
panel truck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panel trucks
Senses: glosses: A small delivery truck with a fully enclosed body.
panel trucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panel truck
semifriend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semifriends
Etymology: From semi- + friend.
Senses: examples: text: The horribly ladylike lady who kept the teashop was a semifriend as well as an employer, and thus could sweat and bully Julia to the tune of 'dearest' and 'darling'.
ref: 1936, George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying:
glosses: A friendly acquaintance; a person with whom one has cordial relations but who is not truly a friend
semifriends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semifriend
Koshare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Koshare
Senses: examples: text: Sloan, in contrast, all but erased the social importance of the Koshare as mischief makers and satirists, instead presenting only their more serious religious function.
ref: 2008, Sascha T. Scott, Paintings of Pueblo Indians and the Politics of Preservation in the American Southwest, →ISBN, page 258:
text: The advertisement states that the “Koshare are said to be the Tradition Keepers and the Delight Makers of the tribe.”
ref: 2008, Matthew J. Martinez, Double Take: Tourism & Photography Endeavors Among the Northern Pueblos of the Rio Grande, →ISBN:
text: The clown groups, Koshare and Quirena, are associated, respectively, with Flint and Shi.'k'ame societies.
ref: 1939, Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons, Pueblo Indian Religion - Volume 2, →ISBN, page 900:
glosses: A jester or trickster in the Kachina religion of the Pueblo Indians of the southwestern USA, also called a sacred clown.
paper diaper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paper diapers
Senses: examples: text: Corn starch, likewise, adds little since its primary functions are to absorb leftover moisture and decrease friction in the diaper area, which is unnecessary with current paper diaper designs.
ref: 2001, Raymond C. Baker, Pediatric Primary Care: Ill-Child Care, →ISBN, page 17:
glosses: A disposable diaper made from paper and plastic, rather than cloth.
paper diapers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paper diaper
panel beater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panel beaters
Senses: examples: text: McGee was one of three siblings, born in 1959 and raised in Glasgow's Mount Florida area. His father, John, was a panel-beater.
ref: 2003, John Harris, The Last Party, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 105:
glosses: One who repairs vehicle bodywork; an auto body mechanic (US).
panel beaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panel beater
glosses: A business that repairs bodywork damage to vehicles; a body shop.
vagina lips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The labia majora.
Diadochi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /daɪˈædəkaɪ/
Forms: form: diadochi
Etymology: From a Latinization of Ancient Greek διάδοχοι (diádokhoi, “successors”).
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The rival generals of Alexander the Great who fought for control over his empire after his death in 323 BCE.
traumatic brain injuries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of traumatic brain injury
vector verb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vector verbs
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of light verb.
synonyms: word: light verb
vector verbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vector verb
go bye-bye
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes bye-bye
form: going bye-bye
form: went bye-bye
form: gone bye-bye
form: go bye bye
Senses: examples: text: Susie has to go bye-bye now, but she'll be back to play again tomorrow.
glosses: to leave; to be carried away.
tetraskelion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛliən
Forms: form: tetraskelions
form: tetraskele
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek τετρασκέλιον (tetraskélion, “four-legged”).
Senses: examples: Coordinate term: triskelion
glosses: A figure consisting of four limbs, radiating from the centre; especially a fylfot or swastika.
tetraskelions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetraskelion
citizen journalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of citizen journalist
port of entry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ports of entry
Senses: examples: text: For the Japanese, continued Russian control of Ying-k'ou was not simply a legal matter. Since Ying-k'ou was the major port of entry for Japanese goods into Manchuria, the Russian occupation threatened to undermine Japanese commercial interests.
ref: 1996, S. C. M. Paine, Imperial Rivals: China, Russia, and Their Disputed Frontier, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 212:
text: The Motor Carrier Act that opened the U.S. side of the U.S.-Mexican border shows that on average 46.4. local trucking and courier service establishments left each port of entry.
ref: 2014, John T. Jones, The Economic Impact of Transborder Trucking Regulations, →ISBN:
glosses: A harbor, airport, or border crossing where goods or immigrants enter a country.
examples: text: As it was becoming apparent in the development of Single port Access that we could begin applying the one port of entry approach to multiple procedures, applying it to cholecystectomies was simply a matter of time.
ref: 2011, Andrea Tinelli, Laparoscopic Entry, →ISBN:
text: Furthermore when the bacteria become pathogenic, the nasopharynx is the port-of-entry of the infection.
ref: 2010, C. A. Genco, Lee Wetzler, Lee M. Wetzler, Neisseria: Molecular Mechanisms of Pathogenesis, →ISBN, page 79:
text: Other psychoanalytically inspired mother-baby psychotherapeutic approaches, such as that practiced by Serge Lebovici and his colleagues in Paris, freely use the transference as a source of shared clinical focus and as a port of entry into the system.
ref: 1995, Daniel N. Stern, The Motherhood Constellation: A Unified View of Parent-infant Psychotherapy, →ISBN, page 128:
glosses: The location or mechanism by which a foreign entity gains entry into the body or self.
ports of entry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of port of entry
subaltern studies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: historiography
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The study and writing of history with a particular focus on the experiences and perspectives of common people, rather than that of political leaders or the elite.
street artists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of street artist
stress balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stress ball
bought and paid for
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bought, paid for.
examples: text: Frank you are bought and paid for. Bought and paid for. You are here to do what I say when I say it.
ref: 2000, Thomas Hollyday, Slave Graves, →ISBN:
text: Just like bought-and-paid-for politicians and bought-and-paid-for media, bought-and-paid-for scientists are an instrument of corporate power.
ref: 2000, Philip Shabecoff, Earth Rising: American Environmentalism in the 21st Century, →ISBN:
text: If we let this woman out of here, even if she's totally bought and paid for, how the hell can you ever rest easy again.
ref: 2003, Tony Hillerman, The Sinister Pig, →ISBN, page 209:
glosses: Corrupted by money from special interests; bribed.
bought and paid for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of buy and pay for