cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
besprays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bespray
bespraying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of bespray
besprayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bespray
picturegraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picturegraphs
Etymology: From picture + -graph.
Senses: glosses: Eggcorn of pictograph.
glosses: A photograph.
picturegraphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picturegraph
hydrox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroxes
Etymology: From an abbreviation of hydrogen + oxygen.
Senses: glosses: A breathing gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen used for its lighter weight than air.
R. S. S.s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of R. S. S.
13th stepper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 13th steppers
Senses: examples: text: One of Boston AA’s stronger suggestions is that newcomers avoid all romantic relationships for at least a year. So somebody with some sober time predating and trying to seduce a newcomer is almost tantamount to rape, is the Boston consensus. Not that it isn’t done. But the ones that do it never have the kind of sobriety anybody else respects or wants for themselves. A 13th-Stepper is still running from the mirror himself.
ref: 1996, Wallace, David Foster, Infinite Jest:
text: Amanda Rollins: You went undercover to an A. A. meeting?[…]
Nick Amaro: Rollins, look. I went out with some of the other guys from the group. All right, they said Nate preys on women new to the program. They call him a "13th-stepper".
ref: 2013, “Rapist Anonymous”, in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit:
text: Guy told me that he was a “13th stepper” in AA for many years and had sex with over 200 women.
ref: 2016, Guy B Yeadon, “Archived copy”, in Guy B. Yeadon, MA Counseling Psychology, archived from the original on 10 Nov 2016:
glosses: A more experienced member of a 12 step recovery program who targets newcomers for romantic or sexual relationships.
Related terms: 13th step
13th step
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In Boston AA, newcomer-seducing is called 13th-Stepping and is regarded as the province of true bottom-feeders.
ref: 1996, Wallace, David Foster, Infinite Jest:
text: He was known around the recovery rooms as a perineal “13th stepper” which meant he hit on every woman that came into the rooms
ref: 2017 November 6, Charlie Gardner, Always Remember This Moment:
text: […]I started asking literally anyone that would pick up the phone with me, you know, have you heard of the 13th step? And it turns out a lot of people had.
ref: 2023, “'The 13th step' investigates sexual misconduct in New Hampshire's addiction centers”, in Montana Public Radio:
glosses: the targeting of 12-step addiction recovery newcomers for romantic or sexual relationships.
Derived terms: 13th stepper
13th stepping
Gerasimov
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Гера́симов (Gerásimov).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Russian
wikipedia: Gerasimov
carnivore diet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carnivore diets
Senses: examples: text: The carnivore diet involves, as the name suggests, eating like a carnivore. This means following in the footsteps of many carnivorous species, as well as our own ancestors, and limiting your diet to essentially meat and water.
ref: 2021, Mary Nabors, The Carnivore Diet: The Ultimate Guide for Weight Loss with Special Recipes, Youcanprint, →ISBN:
synonyms: zero carb diet
glosses: A fad diet that is limited to the consumption of meat; sometimes eggs and dairy are included.
Related terms: Paleo diet
FOVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of FOV
ouija board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ouija boards
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Ouija board.
ouija boards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ouija board
Down syndrome regression disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined in 2022.
Senses: topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: A strong cognitive regression affecting people with Down syndrome.
wikipedia: The Washington Post
Derived terms: DSRS
believeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of believable.
13th steppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 13th stepper
con flu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of con crud.
synonyms: word: con crud
lymphoproteins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lymphoprotein
lynguriums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lyngurium
lysergyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lysergyl
machloviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of machlovirus
macins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macin
machbagrals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of machbagral
macrohomogeneities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrohomogeneity
macrosporophylls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrosporophyll
macroviscosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macroviscosity
lyxonates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lyxonate
magnetodromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magnetodrome
magnetochromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magnetochrome
macutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macute
maldispositions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maldisposition
maleamates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maleamate
malonamates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malonamate
Maltese centauries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Maltese centaury
maltoheptoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maltoheptose
maltohexoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maltohexose
maltopentaosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maltopentaoside
maltorsions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maltorsion
maltosyltransferases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maltosyltransferase
maltoters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maltoter
mammoglobins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mammoglobin
Mamils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mamil
mannolipids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mannolipid
mandarinquats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mandarinquat
mannonic acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mannonic acid
mannosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mannosome
mannosaminuronic acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mannosaminuronic acid
mannostatins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mannostatin
Manzanites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Manzanite
Marinduqueños
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Marinduqueño
marine artists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marine artist
marinopyrroles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marinopyrrole
Masbateños
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Masbateño
mashas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of masha
maslinates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maslinate
multipartists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multipartist
Tokarevs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tokarev
Tokarevs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tokarev
symphonettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of symphonette
summitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of summitter
monogenotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monogenotype
polygenotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polygenotype
polymatypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polymatype
subecotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subecotype
Yankovic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjaŋkəvɪt͡ʃ/
ipa: /ˈjæŋkəvɪk/
Forms: form: Yankovich
Etymology: From Slovene Jankovič.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Slovene
Frank John “Frankie” Yankovic (1915–1998, son of Andrej Jankovič), American accordion player and polka musician
glosses: A surname from Slovene
Alfred Matthew “Weird Al” Yankovic (born 1959, grandson of Matija Jankovič), American musician, comedian, and actor
Sognefjord
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Norwegian Sognefjorden.
Senses: glosses: A fjord in Vestland, Norway, the longest and deepest fjord in the country.
quantum weirdness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by American physicist Heinz Pagels in 1982.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps the most famous example of quantum weirdness is Schrödinger’s cat, a thought experiment devised by Erwin Schrödinger in 1935.
ref: 2018 October 29, Jonathan O’Callaghan, ““Schrödinger's Bacterium” Could Be a Quantum Biology Milestone”, in Scientific American, archived from the original on 29 Oct 2018:
glosses: The phenomena of quantum mechanics that cannot be explained in terms of the experiences of everyday life.
Generation Beta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Using beta as the letter that follows alpha, as in Generation Alpha.
Senses: examples: text: Given all this disruption, coupled with the normalization of lower-paid work-from-home jobs and gig work, Generation Z began missing key economic milestones. They were unemployed or underemployed and unable to afford travel, or to make large purchases, such as homes and cars. College graduation rates for their children, Generation Beta, dropped precipitously.
ref: 2022, Amy Webb, Andrew Hessel, The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology, New York, N.Y.: PublicAffairs, →ISBN:
text: Generation Beta will begin around 2025 & could grow up in a home without a hardline phone, media player, or desktop computer.
ref: 2022 September 1, “Jobs: Past, Present, Future”, in The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint, volume 62, number 35, San Diego, Calif., →OCLC, page 17:
text: By 2050, Gen Z will be aged between 40 and 55, and will be travelling with their own offspring – Generation Beta, the first ‘AI natives’.
ref: 2023 December – 2024 January, “Who’s sitting next to me? How population shifts will change the face of travel”, in Wanderlust, London, →ISSN, page 156:
text: Now, we’re just months away from the first Generation Beta babies — and firmly on the cusp of a new era of baby naming.
ref: 2024 February 2, Lizzy Francis, “The Future Of Baby Naming Is Here, And It's Genderless”, in Tyghe Trimble, editor, Fatherly, New York, N.Y.: BDG Media, Inc., archived from the original on 02 Feb 2024:
synonyms: Gen Beta
glosses: The generation following Generation Alpha, defined as those born between the mid 2020s and the late 2030s.
Generation Beta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Generation Betas
Etymology: Using beta as the letter that follows alpha, as in Generation Alpha.
Senses: examples: text: It is hard to believe that 2025 will officially be the year that the first Generation Betas are born.
ref: 2024 April, Lisa Morgan, “Move over Gen Alpha – is your business ready for the Artificials?”, in Toy World: The Business Magazine with a Passion for Toys, volume 13, number 8, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire: Alakat Publishing, page 22, column 1:
text: Kids born in 2025 and into further generations will be Generation Betas.
ref: 2024 December 30, TOI Trending Desk, “Welcome ‘Generation Beta’: The future after Gen Alpha and Gen Z, arriving in 2025”, in The Times of India, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Dec 2024:
text: Generation Betas will experience a world shaped by rapid changes in technology, climate change, and social issues.
ref: 2024 December 31, Aliyya Sawadjaan, “Buhbye, Gen Alpha! Babies born from this moment on will be from Generation Beta”, in Daily Tribune, Makati: Concept and Information Group, Inc., archived from the original on 10 Apr 2025:
text: GLP-1 agonist medications such as Ozempic come off patent in a decade, after which cheaper and more widespread generic options will be available. This could allow Generation Betas to avoid diabetes and obesity.
ref: 2025 January 18, Cherie Howie, “Generation Beta: What’s the future in health, tech, education and climate change for our newest Kiwis?”, in The New Zealand Herald, Auckland: New Zealand Media and Entertainment, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Jan 2025:
text: The Generation Betas born today will have a complex life ahead of them and will have to contend with issues alien to their parents and grandparents.
ref: 2025 January 31, Juliet Schooling Latter, “BLOG: Investing for Generation Beta”, in Yourmoney.com, London: AE3 Media Ltd, archived from the original on 31 Jan 2025:
synonyms: Beta
Gen Beta
glosses: A member of Generation Beta.
Hardangerfjord
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Norwegian Hardangerfjorden.
Senses: glosses: A fjord in Vestland, Norway, the second longest in the country.
Debye-Falkenhagen effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Debye-Falkenhagen effects
Etymology: Named after Peter Debye and Hans Falkenhagen.
Senses: glosses: The increase in the conductivity of an electrolyte solution when the applied voltage has a very high frequency.
wikipedia: Hans Falkenhagen
Peter Debye
Debye-Falkenhagen effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Debye-Falkenhagen effect
benzone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Benzophenone-n, a class of UVA/UVB absorbers that include a central benzene ring with two phenyl groups attached at different positions.
Derived terms: dioxybenzone
monobenzone
benzodioxane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a three isomeric chemical compounds with the molecular formula C₈H₈O₂, for which the second atom of oxygen of the dioxane group can be in a second, third or fourth position.
Derived terms: doxazosin
Related terms: benzodioxan
Dellinger effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dellinger effects
Etymology: Named after John Howard Dellinger who discovered the effect around 1935.
Senses: glosses: A ionospheric perturbation, resulting from abnormally high ionization or plasma density in the D region of the ionosphere and caused by a solar flare and/or solar particle event.
wikipedia: John Howard Dellinger
Dellinger effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dellinger effect
Etsian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Etsians
Etymology: From Etsy + -ian (“one from, belonging to”); Etsy was named in June 2005 by co-founder Robert Kalin as a nonsense word inspired by the Italian phrase eh, si (“huh, yes”), which he repeatedly heard in the film 8½ (1963) and erroneously transcribed as etsi.
Senses: examples: text: Etsying, as any Etsian (as Etsy sellers call themselves) will tell you, is a highly addictive pastime.
ref: 2013, Emily Matchar, Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 73:
text: She "quit" her "day job' to dedicate more time" to her "family" and "business." mommymogul [Esty user] hopes to "grow" her "business to the point" that she "can quit" her "day job (like so many of the stories" she has "read about fellow etsians)."^([sic])
ref: 2015, Michele White, quoting mommymogul, Producing Women: The Internet, Traditional Femininity, Queerness, and Creativity, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 37:
text: This feeling of being a part of a global movement is to a great extent enabled by the spatial quality of Etsy, being both locally and globally embedded. Etsy's spatial dimensions are thus a key characteristic of this global movement toward sustainability, as it is referred to by Etsians.
ref: 2018, Lydia Maria Arantes, “Mapping Etsy: Reflections on (Spatial) Relations in an E-Commerce for Handmade Things”, in Clare Burke, Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood, editor, Crafting in the World: Materiality in the Making, Springer International Publishing, →ISBN, page 133:
glosses: A seller on the American e-commerce service Etsy.
Etsians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Etsian
D region
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the D region
form: D-region
Senses: glosses: The innermost layer of the ionosphere, located 48 km (30 mi) to 90 km (56 mi) above the surface of the Earth.
Synonyms: D layer
D-region
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the D-region
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of D region.
D layer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the D layer
form: D-layer
Senses: glosses: Synonym of D region.
synonyms: word: D region
D-layer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the D-layer
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of D layer.
F region
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the F region
form: F-region
Senses: glosses: The middle layer of the ionosphere, located 90 km (56 mi) to 150 km (93 mi) above the surface of the Earth.
Synonyms: F layer
F-region
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the F-region
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of F region.
F layer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the F layer
form: F-layer
Senses: glosses: Synonym of F region.
synonyms: word: F region
F-layer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the F-layer
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of F layer.
hoopstick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoopsticks
Etymology: From hoop + stick.
Senses: examples: text: The floor is of 2⅜-in. boards, and the roof of ⅞-in. boards covered with roofing canvas is laid on hardwood hoopsticks bolted to the steel carlines.
ref: 1952 January, “British Railways Standard Wagons”, in Railway Magazine, page 61:
glosses: A light framing member for a carriage or wagon hood or roof.
glosses: A stick used for rolling a child's play hoop.
denomination effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: denomination effects
Senses: glosses: A cognitive bias in which people may be less likely to spend larger currency denominations than their equivalent value in smaller denominations.
denomination effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of denomination effect
Diderot effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Diderot effects
Etymology: Named after French philosopher Denis Diderot who first described the effect in 1769.
Senses: glosses: A phenomenon in which acquiring a new possession leads to a spiral of consumption that results in the acquisition of even more possessions.
wikipedia: Denis Diderot
Diderot effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Diderot effect
hoopsticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoopstick
Ting Hai effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ting Hai effects
Etymology: Named after Ting Hai, the primary antagonist in the Hong Kong drama The Greed of Man, who was portrayed by Adam Cheng.
Senses: glosses: The phenomena in which whenever a film or a television series starring Hong Kong actor Adam Cheng is released, a sudden and unexplained drop in the stock market takes place.
wikipedia: Adam Cheng
The Greed of Man
Ting Hai effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ting Hai effect
disposition effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disposition effects
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: The tendency of investors to sell assets that have increased in value, while keeping assets that have dropped in value.
disposition effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disposition effect
Dole effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dole effects
Etymology: Named after American chemist Malcolm Dole.
Senses: topics: climatology
natural-sciences
glosses: An inequality observed in the ratio of the heavy isotope oxygen-18 to the lighter oxygen-16, measured in the atmosphere and seawater.
wikipedia: Malcolm Dole
Dole effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dole effect
Downing effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after C. L. Downing, who first observed the effect.
Senses: glosses: The tendency of people with a below average IQ to overestimate their IQ, and of people with an above average IQ to underestimate their IQ.
Related terms: Dunning-Kruger effect
Stajic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stajics
Etymology: Transliteration of Serbo-Croatian Stajić.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Serbo-Croatian surname Stajić.
glosses: A surname from Serbo-Croatian.
Eagle effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eagle effects
Etymology: Named after Harry Eagle who first described it.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A phenomenon observed in which higher concentrations of antibiotics paradoxically improve bacterial survival.
wikipedia: Harry Eagle
Eagle effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eagle effect
Early effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Early effects
Etymology: Named after American electrical engineer James M. Early who discovered the effect.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The variation in the effective width of the base in a bipolar junction transistor due to a variation in the applied base-to-collector voltage.
wikipedia: James M. Early
Early effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Early effect
Henise
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Henises
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Efimov state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Efimov states
Etymology: Named after Russian theoretical physicist Vitaly Efimov.
Senses: qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: Each of the infinitely many three-body bound states due to the interaction of three identical bosons, when a two-body state is exactly at the dissociation threshold.
wikipedia: Vitaly Efimov
Efimov states
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Efimov state
electrocaloric effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrocaloric effects
Senses: glosses: A phenomenon in which a material shows a reversible temperature change under an applied electric field.
electrocaloric effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrocaloric effect
merisa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merisas
form: merissa
form: marissa
Etymology: From Juba Arabic meriisa, from Sudanese Arabic مريسة (marīsa).
Senses: examples: text: Many of the Sudan women earned cash by making the local merisa beer, weaving mats and rugs and tanning skins for sale in the local markets.
ref: 1975, United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa, Employment of Women in the Sudan: Paper:
glosses: a form of millet beer popular in South Sudan
route mile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: route miles
Senses: examples: text: In June, 1950, therefore, the Railway Board prepared a tentative regrouping scheme, which contemplated the formation of six new railway systems, each serving a specific zone, and consisting of approximately 5,000 to 6,000 route-miles of line, the total mileage being 33,000.
ref: 1952 January, “Notes and News: The Indian Regrouping Scheme”, in Railway Magazine, pages 62-63:
text: The mountainous nature of Norway has always been a serious obstacle to the development of railways, and although some 2,700 route miles are now open for traffic, several schemes have yet to be completed.
ref: 1956 April, H. A. Vallance, “To Oslo via Stavanger”, in Railway Magazine, page 213:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A mile of track on a route between places.
route miles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of route mile
skull-measurer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skull-measurers
Senses: examples: text: Language, albeit an abstraction, is yet a more subtle and pervasive criterion of individuality than the culture-group formed by comparing flints and potsherds or the "races" of the skull-measurer.
ref: 1926, V. Gordon Childe, chapter 1, in The Aryans, page 4:
text: Some classified them as irreducibly distinct from Europeans while others, such as the prolific skull-measurer Samuel George Morton, classified them as nearly "Caucasian," that is, White.
ref: 2021, Matthew W. Dougherty, chapter 5, in Lost Tribes Found: Israelite Indians and Religious Nationalism in Early America, page 136:
glosses: A phrenologist.
spongecase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sponge + case, referring to the “Mocking SpongeBob” meme, where this type of capitalization is used to convey mocking.
Senses: examples: text: At this time, the app is only available on iOS (maybe because the operating system almost uses sPoNGeCaSe in its name?) and it costs $0.99 to download.
ref: 2019 January 24, B. Miller, “Someone Created An App That Turns Your Words Into SpongeBob Meme Text 😂”, in Comic Sands, Oh Myyy LLC, archived from the original on 20 Sep 2020:
text: This short program uses the upper() and lower() string methods to convert your message into “spongecase.”
ref: 2021, Al Sweigart, “Spongecase”, in The Big Book of Small Python Projects: 81 Easy Practice Programs, San Francisco, Calif.: No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 343:
glosses: Synonym of alternating caps (“a form of capitalization where capital letters are randomly placed throughout the word(s), now used to convey mockery through text messages or in internet comment sections”).
synonyms: word: alternating caps
extra: (“a form of capitalization where capital letters are randomly placed throughout the word(s), now used to convey mockery through text messages or in internet comment sections”)
domiati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Domiati
Etymology: From Arabic دُمْيَاطِي (dumyāṭī), from دُمْيَاط (dumyāṭ, “Damietta city”).
Senses: examples: text: Then, during the curing, domiati is pickled in salt whey or salt milk brine for four to eight months.
ref: 1982, L. Patrick Coyle, “Domiati”, in The World Encyclopedia of Food, New York, N.Y.: Facts On File, Inc., →ISBN, page 234, column 1:
text: Domiati cheese tastes salty and has been described as being chewy in a way that is almost squeaky on the teeth.
ref: 2016 October 25, The Oxford Companion to Cheese, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 233:
glosses: a soft white salty cheese made primarily in Egypt
middle child syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: middle child syndromes
form: middle-child syndrome
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The belief or idea that the middle child of a family, who is born in between siblings, is treated or seen differently by their parents from the rest of their siblings.
middle child syndromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of middle child syndrome
attributive verb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attributive verbs
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A verb that modifies (expresses an attribute of) a noun in the manner of an attributive adjective, rather than express an independent idea as a predicate.
attributive verbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attributive verb
Arkwright Town
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named from the family of the English inventor and entrepreneur Richard Arkwright (1732–1792), whose son Richard Arkwright junior (1755–1843) purchased Sutton Scarsdale Hall, a stately home in nearby Sutton Scarsdale, in 1824.
Senses: glosses: A village in Sutton cum Duckmanton parish, North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK4271).
wikipedia: Richard Arkwright
Richard Arkwright junior
Sutton Scarsdale Hall
semi-Markov process
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semi-Markov processes
Etymology: Named after Russian mathematician Andrey Markov (Андре́й Андре́евич Ма́рков) (1856—1922), who researched the processes.
Senses: topics: mathematics
probability-theory
sciences
glosses: A generalization of the Markov chain in which the distribution of the amount of time that the process spends in a given state is permitted to be nonexponentially (generally) distributed.
wikipedia: Andrey Markov
semi-Markov processes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semi-Markov process
Senses: glosses: plural of semi-Markov process
well-near
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Synonym of well-nigh.
synonyms: word: well-nigh
Sutton cum Duckmanton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England, which includes the settlements of Sutton Scarsdale and Long Duckmanton.
embedding effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embedding effects
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The inconsistency in the value of a specific public good by using a contingent valuation or willingness-to-pay method due to the difficulty for individuals to identify the particular value that they attach to one particular thing which is embedded in a collection of similar things; these resulting problems are called the part-whole bias and sequencing and nesting.
embedding effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of embedding effect
nominal state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nominal states
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: pronominal state
glosses: In the Coptic language, the form preceding a nominal complement.
pronominal state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pronominal states
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: nominal state
glosses: In the Coptic language, the form preceding a pronominal complement.
pronominal states
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pronominal state
nominal states
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nominal state
part-whole bias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: part-whole biases
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The empirical finding that a good is perceived to have greater value when assessed individually rather than as part of a larger group, often related to contingent valuation.
Related terms: embedding effect
part-whole biases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of part-whole bias
Chiliasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chiliasms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chiliasm.
contingent valuation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contingent valuations
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A survey-based technique for the valuation of non-market resources, such as environmental preservation or the impact of externalities like pollution.
contingent valuations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contingent valuation
Emerson effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Emerson effects
Etymology: Named after Robert Emerson who described the effect in 1957.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The increase in the rate of photosynthesis after chloroplasts are exposed to light of wavelength 680 nm (deep red spectrum) and more than 680 nm (far red spectrum).
wikipedia: Robert Emerson (scientist)
Emerson effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Emerson effect
endowment effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endowment effects
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The tendency of people to retain an object they own rather than acquire that same object when they do not own it.
endowment effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endowment effect
Chiliasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chiliasm
Eötvös effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eötvös effects
Etymology: Named after physicist Loránd Eötvös.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The change in measured Earth's gravity caused by the change in centrifugal acceleration resulting from eastbound or westbound velocity.
wikipedia: Loránd Eötvös
Eötvös effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eötvös effect
Long Duckmanton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Sutton cum Duckmanton parish, North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK4471).
Sutton Scarsdale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Sutton cum Duckmanton parish, North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK4468).
lays claim
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lay claim
laying claim
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of lay claim
laid claim
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lay claim
staked a claim
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stake a claim
staking a claim
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of stake a claim
stakes a claim
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stake a claim
gain momentum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gains momentum
form: gaining momentum
form: gained momentum
form: gained momentum
Senses: glosses: To increase something's own speed while being acted on by gravity.
glosses: Synonym of gain ground (to further the progress of; to obtain an advantage)
synonyms: word: gain ground
extra: to further the progress of; to obtain an advantage
examples: text: The pilgrimage has gained momentum!
ref: 1983 April 12, “Pilgrimage”, in Murmur, performed by R.E.M.:
glosses: To become popular among a large amount of people; to have many people participate in a trend or social movement.
gain traction
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gains traction
form: gaining traction
form: gained traction
form: gained traction
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gain ground.
synonyms: word: gain ground
Scarsdale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An ancient hundred in Derbyshire, England.
glosses: A village and town in Westchester County, New York, United States.
glosses: A town in Golden Plains Shire, Victoria, Australia.
Derived terms: Sutton Scarsdale
self-regulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of self-regulate
tandeming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tandem
tandemed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tandem
Epps effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Epps effects
Etymology: Named after T. W. Epps, who proposed the effect.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The phenomenon that the empirical correlation between the returns of two different stocks decreases with the length of the interval for which the price changes are measured.
Epps effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Epps effect
Evershed effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Evershed effects
Etymology: Named after British astronomer John Evershed.
Senses: glosses: The radial flow of gas across the photospheric surface of the penumbra of sunspots from the inner border with the umbra towards the outer edge.
wikipedia: John Evershed
Evershed effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Evershed effect
soymovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soymoviruses
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Soymovirus of plant viruses in the family Caulimoviridae.
Fåhræus-Lindqvist effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fåhræus-Lindqvist effects
Etymology: Named after Swedish scientists Robin Fåhræus and Johan Torsten Lindqvist who first reported the effect.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The phenomenon in which the viscosity of blood changes with the diameter of the tube it travels through, when the diameter is between 10 and 300 micrometers.
wikipedia: Robin Fåhræus
Related terms: Fåhræus effect
Fåhræus-Lindqvist effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fåhræus-Lindqvist effect
Fåhræus effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fåhræus effects
Etymology: Named after Swedish scientist Robin Fåhræus.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The decrease in average concentration of red blood cells in human blood as the diameter of the glass tube in which it is flowing decreases.
wikipedia: Robin Fåhræus
Related terms: Fåhræus-Lindqvist effect
Fåhræus effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fåhræus effect
Fink effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fink effects
Etymology: Named after British physician Bernard Raymond Fink, who first explained the effect in 1955.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The temporary increase in both the concentrations and partial pressures of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the alveoli when water-soluble gases (e.g. nitrous oxide) are breathed in large quantities so they can be dissolved in body fluids rapidly.
Fink effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fink effect
spunk off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spunks off
form: spunking off
form: spunked off
form: spunked off
Senses: examples: text: Let me lick your hairy forearms while you beat your meat and spunk off in my face.
ref: 1991 December 1, “I'm A Slut (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 20, page 13:
glosses: To ejaculate.
diffusion hypoxia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of Fink effect.
synonyms: word: Fink effect
floor effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floor effects
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
coordinate_terms: ceiling effect
glosses: The phenomenon in which a data-gathering instrument has a lower limit to the data values it can reliably specify.
floor effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floor effect
Florence Nightingale effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing Florence Nightingale.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A trope where a caregiver falls in love with their patient, even if very little communication or contact takes place outside of basic care.
wikipedia: Florence Nightingale
Flutie effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after American football player Doug Flutie.
Senses: glosses: The increase in fame and applications for an American university caused by a successful sports team.
wikipedia: Doug Flutie
Forbush effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Forbush effects
Etymology: Named after American physicist Scott Forbush.
Senses: topics: astrophysics
glosses: A rapid decrease in the observed galactic cosmic ray intensity following a coronal mass ejection.
wikipedia: Scott Forbush
Forbush effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Forbush effect
soymoviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soymovirus
random act of kindness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: random acts of kindness
Senses: glosses: An unpremeditated, inconsistent action designed to cheer up another person or offer kindness towards the outside world.
random acts of kindness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of random act of kindness
nonpremeditated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of unpremeditated.
synonyms: word: unpremeditated
vatrushki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Russian ватру́шки (vatrúški).
Senses: glosses: plural of vatrushka
oladyi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oladi
Etymology: From Russian ола́дьи (oládʹi), plural of ола́дья (oládʹja).
Senses: examples: text: Mix thoroughly and cook the oladyi on a hot griddle.
ref: 1974, F. Siegel, transl., “[Fancy Breads and Pies] Thick Pancakes (Oladyi): Pumpkin, Squash Marrow or Carrot Thick Pancakes”, in Russian Cooking, Moscow: Mir Publishers, page 156, column 1:
text: But at night when they came to see me in the Ural, when they had knocked back huge amounts of Kunzevskaya and Stolichnaya and devoured piles of piroshki, oladyi, vatrushki, and bulochki with zimmes, they spoke French, English, kissed hands and paid compliments, knew the wittiest toasts, and fiddled their Russian souls inside out in order to dance on the most crooked roofs of the most Eastern shtetl at dawn.
ref: 2005, Ulla Berkéwicz, translated by Katharina Rout, Love in a Time of Terror, Lantzville, B.C.: Oolichan Books, →ISBN, page 29:
text: Now, I tink only of latkes and grenki with jam and curly sausages, and oladyi crepes and patato rolls…
ref: 2012, Kelly Andria, chapter 25, in The Art of Change, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 193:
text: At the moment Magnitsky was preparing Barsukov’s breakfast of oladyi pancakes and sausages with a pair of George Foreman grills kept on one of the broad concrete windowsills.
ref: 2012 January, Paul Christopher, Red Templar, New York, N.Y.: Signet, →ISBN, page 191:
text: Serve them as they come out of the pan or place the cooked oladyi on a plate loosely covered with a clean tea towel and repeat the process until all oladyi are ready to be enjoyed with a pat of butter and doused in maple syrup.
ref: 2022, Deirdre Buryk, “[Winter: January] Puffy Oat Oladyi (Ukrainian Pancakes)”, in Peak Season: 12 Months of Recipes Celebrating Ontario’s Freshest Ingredients, [Toronto, Ont.]: Appetite by Random House, →ISBN:
glosses: Small thick pancakes or fritters common in Russian and Ukrainian cuisines.
joy bell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: joy bells
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of joy-bell.
joy bells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of joy bell
delicated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more delicated
form: most delicated
Etymology: Apparently an alteration of delicate with -ed.
Senses: examples: text: O mine ſeete, deerſt, kindeſt, mine louing, O mine towſand, ten towſand, delicated, petty ſeet art
ref: 1605, Iohn Marston [i.e., John Marston], The Dutch Courtezan. […], London: […] T[homas] P[urfoot] for Iohn Hodgets, […], →OCLC, Act II:
text: Facility generally diſguſts delicated nice Minds, but it produces a contrary effect, when a Lover regards it as a miracle of Love.
ref: 1673, [Marie-Catherine de Villedieu], anonymous translator, “The Loves of Great Men. Cato of Vtica.”, in The Amours of Solon. Socrates. Julius Cæsar. Cato of Vtica. D’ Andelot. Bussy D’ Amboyse. […], London: […] H. Herringman, and John Starkey, […], page 120:
text: These delicated muslins rather seem / Than be, you think?
ref: 1851, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Casa Guidi Windows. A Poem, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, part II, stanza XX, page 125:
text: The way the single, circular petal was folded in the bud, like a rolled umbrella, shows in lines pressed finely into its delicated flesh, as thin as fine silk, but so much more perishable.
ref: 1990 August 15, James Schuyler, edited by Nathan Kernan, The Diary of James Schuyler, Santa Rosa, Calif.: Black Sparrow Press, published 1997, →ISBN, page 274:
glosses: Delicate.
oladi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The oladi should be approximately the size of your palm.
ref: 1999 August 18, Constance E. Richards, “Community Cooks: Oladi pancakes bring back flavor of Russia”, in Asheville Citizen-Times, volume 130, number 230, Asheville, N.C., page E3:
text: Earlier, he’d tossed the pelmeni out to the pack, and now they were huddling about, waiting for the oladi, which he had finished himself.
ref: 2006, Dianne Drake, chapter 7, in Emergency in Alaska, Large Print edition, Richmond, London: Mills & Boon, published 2007, →ISBN, page 151:
text: Here is the simplest and most popular version of oladi, a traditional form of Russian pancake.
ref: 2011 February 22, “Recipe: Pancake pleasure”, in Russia Now (The Daily Telegraph), page 08:
text: I also love that the batter is make-ahead friendly and tastes even better as it sits and ferments in the fridge, which gives the oladi a subtle sourdough-like flavor.
ref: 2023, Natasha Kravchuk, “[Breakfast] Baba’s Fluffy Oladi Pancakes”, in Natasha’s Kitchen: 100+ Easy Family-Favorite Recipes You’ll Make Again and Again, New York, N.Y.: Clarkson Potter/Publishers, →ISBN, page 45:
glosses: Alternative form of oladyi.
Chung-sha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 中沙 (Zhōngshā), Wade–Giles romanization: Chung¹-sha¹.
Senses: examples: text: Unlike the East China sea, which is devoid of islands, the South China sea is speckled with a vast number of islands and reefs. These are part of the Pratas group (Tung-sha) the Paracel (Hsi-sha Ch’ün-tao group), Macclesfield (Chung-sha bank), and the Spratly (Nan-sha group), all of which are claimed by the People's Republic of China.
ref: 1964, Theodore Shabad, “CHINA SEA”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 5, →OCLC, page 612, column 2:
text: ISLETS OF THE SOUTH CHINA SEA
The list includes only those features that are high-tide elevations.[…]
MACCLESFIELD BANK / Chung-sha Ch'un-Tao / Middle Sand Islands / 15°50'N., 114°20'E.
SCARBOROUGH SHOAL / Min-chu Chiao / / 15°08'N., 117°45'E.
South Rock / / / 15°06'N., 117°46'E.
ref: 1971 September 14, RDHodgson, TVMcIntyre, South China Sea: Up for Grabs, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, published 2012, archived from the original on 12 May 2024, page 17:
text: We have our troops, fishermen and administrative organs on the Hsi-sha and Chung-sha islands, which have been Chinese territory from time immemorial. I remember that while I was still a schoolboy, I read about the islands in the geography books. At that time, I never heard anyone say that those island were not China's.
ref: 1979, “Problems with Socialist Countries”, in King C. Chen, editor, China and the Three Worlds: A Foreign Policy Reader, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 273:
text: And finally, Macclesfield Bank (Chung-sha), one of the principal groups claimed by China, is actually a permanently submerged atoll.
ref: 1982, Marwyn S. Samuels, “Introduction”, in Contest for the South China Sea, Methuen Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3:
glosses: Alternative form of Zhongsha.
Pircilla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.