cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Gorbasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gorbasms
Etymology: Blend of Gorbachev + orgasm, coined by American radio host Rush Limbaugh.
Senses: examples: text: For instance, [Rush Limbaugh] coined the term “Gorbasm” to describe liberals' “expression of sheer delight” whenever Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev “was on the scene.” News of a Gorbasm was accompanied by its own theme song—the “Imperial March” from Star Wars, also known as Darth Vader's theme.
ref: 2019, Brian Rosenwald, Talk Radio’s America […] , Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 25:
glosses: The affection shown by US liberals for Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
Related terms: Gorbymania
Hildebeast
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪldəbist/
Forms: form: Hildebeast
form: the Hildebeast
form: Hildabeast
Etymology: Blend of Hillary + wildebeest, beast, coined or popularized by conservative radio host Neal Boortz.
Senses: examples: text: And, naturally, it was the one politician who “has never showed [sic] anything but contempt for our military” who refused to meet with the delegation. Who? Who else: “the Queen herself, the Hildebeast—Hillary Clinton.”
ref: 2002 July 21, Carol Muske-Dukes, “The Electronic Pillory”, in Los Angeles Times, page M6:
text: Trouble for some is, the Hildebeast is ahead.
ref: 2007 November 23, Marie Cocco, “Having it both ways with Hillary”, in The Palm Beach Post, volume 99, number 213, page 15A:
text: It’s not too soon for Republicans to marshal our forces for a little shock and awe when the Hildebeast finally announces.
ref: 2013 November 2, “Republicans will need more than attacks on Hillary”, in Calgary Herald, page A11:
text: It is just another chance for libs to showcase their ignorance and express faux outrage just like the hypocrisy they display when comparing Sarah Palin and the Hildebeast.
ref: 2015 April 14, R Craig Bolander, “The daily STEW”, in Star-Telegram, 109th year, number 354, Fort Worth, Tex., page 15A:
text: Lesser people have gone to prison or had their careers destroyed for far less than what this criminal has done. But, hey, there’s nothing to see here, let’s move on. After all, she is the Hildebeast.
ref: 2015 September 6, Roddy D. Riggs, “What difference?”, in Belleville News-Democrat, page C2:
text: First Amendment will be reduced to rubble if Hildebeast is elected so maybe you can petition her to outlaw anti-Lobo speak.
ref: 2016 October 28, Jim, “Sports Speak Up!”, in Albuquerque Journal, page D4:
text: GHS are you guys smoking pot or doing coke to invite Hildebeast to speak.
ref: 2017 October 14, Tom Ambrosia, “30 Seconds”, in Press Enterprise, page 26:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Hillary Clinton.
wikipedia: Neal Boortz
Hildabeast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hildabeasts
Etymology: Blend of Hilda + wildebeest, beast.
Senses: examples: text: Go to a party. Half the college was there. Write for a student rag. Hildabeasts were running the show. Act, row, you couldn’t escape them. In a nice normal mixed college like Lincoln, they all spent three years in the bar wrestling with knot theory and acne. In St Hilda’s we’d written the book, got the doctorate and gone out clubbing.
ref: 1997 March 19, Glenda Cooper, “The lusty ways of St Hilda”, in The Independent, number 3,248, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19, columns 4–5:
qualifier: Oxford University slang; self-referent; Oxford University slang; self-referent
glosses: A member or alumnus of St Hilda's College, Oxford.
Hildabeast
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hildabeast
form: the Hildabeast
Senses: examples: text: If a person like Hildabeast can run with all the criminal activity she’s involved in, all hope is lost.
ref: 2016 July 22, Bloom man [pseudonym], “:30”, in Press Enterprise, Bloomsburg, Pa., page 25, column 1:
text: Hildabeast sells the remaining 80 percent of American uranium to Russia, after Putin’s assurance that it is strictly for “medical research.”
ref: 2016 December 31, David Mosley, “Republican Worst Fears”, in “Our Worst Fears”, in Waco Tribune-Herald, Waco, Tex., page 105, column 2:
text: It appears that the Hildabeast hired some tech people to infiltrate the Trump campaign computer servers to try and plant LIES about Trump being involved with Russia.
ref: 2022 March 6, Stan Crone Jr, “:30”, in Press Enterprise, Bloomsburg, Pa., page 15, column 5:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Alternative spelling of Hildebeast.
mic fright
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪk ˌfɹaɪt/
Forms: form: mike fright
Etymology: From mic + fright.
Senses: glosses: The fear of speaking (usually on stage) using a microphone.
Related terms: stage-fright
mike fright
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mic fright.
scratchitti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of scratch + graffiti
Senses: examples: text: Stage 2 is to develop a well-controlled scratchitti removal instrument or tool for manual operation and test it on NYCT rail transit cars.
ref: 2000, New IDEAS for Transit, page 39:
text: The singer seemed somewhat alarmed by my desperate scratchitti but smiled gamely and said he was flattered.
ref: 2008, Carl Capotorto, Twisted Head: An Italian American Memoir, page 14:
text: They had had to make do with the weed killer and scratchitti.
ref: 2014, Gerald Hansen, An Embarrassment of Riches:
text: You were hiding out in the sweet-foul stench of a bathroom stall, gazing emptily at the scratchitti of various sexual positions someone had etched into the aluminum, as you tried to hold fast to the sweet image of Rebekkah's eyes on yours.
ref: 2017, Stefan Merrill Block, Oliver Loving, →ISBN, page 64:
glosses: A form of graffiti that is scratched or etched into a surface, especially one of glass or plexiglass.
Anzoátegui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Anzoátegui.
Senses: glosses: A state of Venezuela. Capital: Barcelona.
inductric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Coined by English polymath William Whewell in 1837 for Michael Faraday.
Senses: glosses: Relating to electric induction.
wikipedia: Michael Faraday
scrubgrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scrub + grass.
Senses: glosses: A plant, the scouring rush.
picanha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picanhas
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese picanha.
Senses: synonyms: rump cap
rump cover
sirloin cap
coulotte
glosses: A cut of beef consisting of the biceps femoris muscle and its fat cap.
dodecasilicate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dodecasilicates
Etymology: From dodeca- + silicate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound with twelve silicate groups in the formula.
take ship
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪp
Forms: form: takes ship
form: taking ship
form: took ship
form: taken ship
Senses: synonyms: take shipping
glosses: To embark on a voyage by ship.
dodecasilicates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dodecasilicate
sea ape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea apes
Senses: glosses: A sea otter (Enhydra lutris).
sea beaver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea beavers
Senses: glosses: The sea otter.
sea beavers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea beaver
sea apes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea ape
captology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by American behavior scientist B. J. Fogg in 1996, from the initials of computers as persuasive technologies + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: In the last decade, persuasion has been investigated in two apparently distinct lines of research: captology, and teaching as persuasion.
ref: 2006, Wijnand IJsselsteijn, Yvonne de Kort, Cees Midden, Berry Eggen, Elise van den Hoven, Persuasive Technology: First International Conference on Persuasive Technology for Human Well-Being, PERSUASIVE 2006, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, May 18-19, 2006, Proceedings, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 145:
text: The relatively new field of computers as persuasive technology (captology) has begun to explore the powerful effects of presentation of information on computers.
ref: 2015, Rand J. Spiro, Michael DeSchryver, Michelle Schira Hagerman, Paul M. Morsink, Penny Thompson, Reading at a Crossroads?: Disjunctures and Continuities in Current Conceptions and Practices, Routledge, →ISBN, page 142:
glosses: The study of computers as persuasive technologies.
captological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to captology.
cityscapist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cityscapists
Etymology: From cityscape + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Like other cityscapists, Van de Velde attempted to fit the entire city into his painting. He therefore depicted it from a distance and at a wide angle, so that the entire length of the city walls would fit in the picture.
ref: 2004, Albert Blankert, Selected writings on Dutch painting:
glosses: An artist who produces cityscapes.
cityscapists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cityscapist
sea whistle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea whistles
Senses: glosses: A kind of seaweed whose bladders may be used by children as whistles.
sea whistles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea whistle
sea worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea worms
form: seaworm
Senses: examples: text: Below the thunders of the upper deep;
Far far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His antient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep,
The Kraken sleepeth: […]
There hath he lain for ages and will lie
Battening upon huge seaworms in his sleep […]
ref: 1830, Alfred Tennyson, “The Kraken”, in Poems, Chiefly Lyrical:
glosses: A marine annelid.
sea worms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea worm
eigenfinger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eigenfingers
Etymology: From eigen- + finger.
Senses: examples: text: Ribaric et. al. [5] proposed a biometric identification system by extracting the eigenpalm and eigenfinger features from subimages of palm and fingers.
ref: 2009, Been-Chian Chien, Tzung-Pei Hong, Opportunities and Challenges for Next-Generation Applied Intelligence, page 26:
glosses: The eigenmap that provides a biometric description of a finger.
Related terms: eigenpalm
eigenpalm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eigenpalms
Etymology: From eigen- + palm.
Senses: examples: text: Ribaric et. al. [5] proposed a biometric identification system by extracting the eigenpalm and eigenfinger features from subimages of palm and fingers.
ref: 2009, Been-Chian Chien, Tzung-Pei Hong, Opportunities and Challenges for Next-Generation Applied Intelligence, page 26:
glosses: The eigenmap that provides a biometric description of a palm.
Related terms: eigenfinger
eigenorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eigenorders
Etymology: From eigen- + order.
Senses: examples: text: Equation 58 shows that the energy in the phase spectrum increases directly with eigenorder and, therefore, with range.
ref: 1975, William John Gould, Carl Wunsch, W. J. Schmitz, Preliminary Field Results for a Mid-ocean Dynamics, page 6:
text: This paper first presents a proof of the intuitively well understood fact — that the "eigenorder” of a “chain" join will be the best pre-defined combinatorial order in which to implement the algorithm.
ref: 1995, Documentation Abstracts - Volume 30, Issues 1-5, page 39:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The order (number of dimensions) of an eigenvector.
eigenorders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eigenorder
eigenversor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eigenversors
Etymology: From eigen- + versor.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A versor form of an eigenvector
eigenversors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eigenversor
electrohysterogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrohysterograms
Etymology: From electro- + hysterogram.
Senses: glosses: The graphical result of electrohysterography
electrohysterograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrohysterogram
endocytobiont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endocytobionts
Etymology: From endo- + cytobiont.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An endocytobiotic organism
endocytobionts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endocytobiont
endoepithelial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + epithelial.
Senses: glosses: Within the epithelium
endofungus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + fungus.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of endofungal.
endoneurocranial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + neurocranial.
Senses: glosses: Within the neurocranium
glosses: Relating to the endoneurocranium
sea stock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Fresh provisions to be consumed during a sea voyage.
sea strawberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea strawberries
Senses: glosses: A soft coral of species Gersemia rubiformis (syn. Alcyonium rubiforme) in the family Nephtheidae, found in the northwest Atlantic.
glosses: A colonial sea squirt of species Aplidium elegans, a benthic tunicate in the family Polyclinidae.
sea strawberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea strawberry
heptahydroxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hepta- + hydroxy.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: seven hydroxy groups. (OH)₇
taglessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tagless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of tags.
termlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From termless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of terms.
lustrelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lustreless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of lustre.
lusterlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lusterless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of luster.
rancourlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rancourless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of rancour.
sea-sleeve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea-sleeves
Senses: glosses: A cuttlefish.
sea-sleeves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea-sleeve
sea-willow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea-willows
Senses: glosses: A polyp with slender branches like the osier, Pterogorgia anceps or other soft corals in the family Gorgoniidae.
sea-willows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea-willow
onaholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of onahole
sea woodlouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea woodlice
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sea slater (“littoral woodlouse”).
synonyms: word: sea slater
extra: littoral woodlouse
glosses: A chiton (type of mollusk).
sea woodlice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea woodlouse
marsh rosemary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Rhododendron tomentosum.
glosses: Synonym of sea lavender.
synonyms: word: sea lavender
sea rosemary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sea lavender.
synonyms: word: sea lavender
savanna flower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: savanna flowers
form: savannah flower
Senses: glosses: Any of several plant species of genus Echites, in the milkweed family, found in the West Indies
glosses: Any of several plant species of genus Echites, in the milkweed family, found in the West Indies
especially, Echites suberectus, now Pentalinon luteum.
Synonyms: hammock viper's tail
savannah flower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: savannah flowers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of savanna flower.
savanna flowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of savanna flower
savannah flowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of savannah flower
transport rider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transport riders
Senses: glosses: A person working as a commercial carrier.
transport riders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transport rider
empty stock working
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: empty stock workings
Senses: examples: text: Proposed for wiring: the Shrewsbury route. Unit 221116 passes through Codsall on an empty stock working on 24 October 2018.
ref: 2019 October, photo caption, “Midlands Connect's £3.5bn plan”, in Modern Railways, page 16:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A train of empty passenger rolling stock that is moved from one location to another where, for example, it is needed to form a revenue-earning service.
empty stock workings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of empty stock working
whimsey man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whimsey men
Senses: glosses: The engine tender who works the winding engine.
whimsey men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whimsey man
runlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From runless + -ness.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Absence of runs scored.
redelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From redeless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being redeless.
tiplessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tipless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Lack of tips or gratuities.
Sabbathlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Sabbathless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The lack of a Sabbath.
harborlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of harbourlessness.
harbourlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From harbourless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of a harbour.
retchlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From retchless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Carelessness; recklessness.
fibrelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fibreless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of fibre or fibres.
fiberlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fiberless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of fiber or fibers.
glamourlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From glamourless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Lack of glamour.
genocentrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geno- + -centrism.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being genocentric; a focus on genes or genetics.
dutilessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dutylessness
Etymology: From dutiless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of duties.
dutylessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dutilessness.
strokelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From strokeless + -ness.
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Lack of strokes.
sicklessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sickless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Sicklessness, sinlessness, deathlessness, happiness—these were the characteristics of man's lot as God ordained it.
ref: 1907, The Homiletic Review, volume 53, page 305:
text: My early and young adult years of sicklessness planted the seeds of a phobia that took years to fully blossom and still bothers.
ref: 2014, Sharon Young, My Stroke Recovery: The Genesis, page 112:
glosses: Freedom from sickness.
metroisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metroization
Etymology: From metro + -isation.
Senses: examples: text: This forms part of TfL's strategic case for metroisation that was published earlier this year and covered enhancements on this and a number of suburban routes.
ref: 2019 October, “Funding for 20tph East London Line service”, in Modern Railways, page 18:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The process of converting a railway to a metro-style service.
Related terms: english: a rare verb
translation: a rare verb
word: metroise
legal vacuum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legal vacuums
form: legal vacua
Senses: topics: law
synonyms: legal void
legal gap
loophole
glosses: A state of regulation that is uncomfortable by there being no conspicuous provision for a certain situation.
Related terms: loophole
longer-distance
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: But despite this trend in catering, Transport Focus research shows that passengers still want to be able to buy food and drinks on longer-distance trains.
ref: 2021 July 14, Anthony Lambert, “Grand designs on superior interiors”, in RAIL, number 935, page 47:
glosses: comparative form of long-distance: more long-distance
Biggleswade
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Old English personal name *Biccel + -s- + wæd (“ford”).
Senses: glosses: A market town and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL1944).
meton.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of metonymy.
Suffolker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Suffolkers
Etymology: From Suffolk + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person from Suffolk in England.
Suffolkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Suffolker
undecahydroxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From undeca- + hydroxy.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Chemical containing eleven hydroxy groups, (OH)₁₁
tundrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tundrites
Etymology: Named after Lovozero tundra by E. I. Semenov in 1963 + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A triclinic mineral containing sodium, rare earths, titanium, silicate, carbonate and oxygen.
Synonyms: titanorhabdophane
tsilaisite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Tsilaizina in Madagascar + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A triclinic mineral containing sodium, manganese, aluminium, borate, silicate, and hydroxide.
caminalcule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caminalcules
Etymology: Blend of Camin + animalcule, named after American biologist Joseph Camin, who invented them.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: One of a group of made-up organisms used to teach concepts in phylogenetics.
betangle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: betangles
form: betangling
form: betangled
form: betangled
Etymology: From be- (“around, about”) + tangle.
Senses: examples: text: But it is plain to all of us, that that woman is betangling you more and more every day; she has got you in her tiles; she's a-weaning you one by one from all your good old friends, and won't allow you even a single hour to spend amongst us.
ref: 1851, John Poole, Hablot Knight Browne, The Comic Miscellany, page 222:
text: It thought it had so finessed the problem of New Caledonia that the independence conflict there would not betangle next year's parliamentary election in France.
ref: 1985, The Economist, volume 296, page 34:
glosses: To tangle around or about, entwine, encumber.
betangled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of betangle
betangling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of betangle
betangles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of betangle
erenach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erenachs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of erenagh.
daggertooth pike conger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daggertooth pike congers
Senses: glosses: Muraenesox cinereus, a species of eel native to the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
middlish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more middlish
form: most middlish
form: middle-ish
form: middleish
Etymology: From middle + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat in the middle.
polyetherketoneetherketoneketone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + ether + ketone + ether + ketone + ketone.
Senses: synonyms: PEKEKK
glosses: A thermoplastic polymer used in surgical implants.
entomotoxicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From entomotoxic + -ity.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
toxicology
glosses: The condition of being entomotoxic
entomotoxicology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The toxicology of entomotoxins
enviroclimatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From enviro- + climatic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to environment and climate
enzymosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enzymosomes
Senses: glosses: A liposome, or similar vesicle, containing enzymes
enzymosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enzymosome
epigenotypic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From epi- + genotypic.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Relating to epigenotypes
episaturation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From epi- + saturation.
Senses: qualifier: soil science
glosses: The condition of a soil, saturated with water, that lies above an unsaturated layer
epitube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epitubes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Eppendorf tube.
synonyms: word: Eppendorf tube
epitubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epitube
eubaenine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eubaenines
Senses: glosses: Any extinct turtle of the baenid subfamily †Eubaeninae
eubaenines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eubaenine
eurytopicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The condition of being eurytopic
extraischemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːmɪk
Etymology: From extra- + ischemic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Remote from an ischemia
extrarenally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From extra- + renally.
Senses: glosses: In an extrarenal manner
feedmill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feedmills
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of feed mill.
feedmills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feedmill
feed mill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feed mills
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: grist mill, gristmill
related: word: feedmill
hypernyms: mill#Noun
<
facility#Noun
coordinate_terms: flour mill
flourmill
glosses: A mill in which animal feed is made by milling grains and mixing ingredients.
TfW
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Transport for Wales.
Related terms: TfL
Zimbel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Sipka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sipkas
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Zayets
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zaiets
Etymology: From Ukrainian заєць (zajecʹ, “hare”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Ukrainian.
dust down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dusts down
form: dusting down
form: dusted down
form: dusted down
Senses: examples: text: These preparations are being dusted down and refreshed and will continue to stand their owners in good stead in November.
ref: 2019 October, Rail Freight Group, “Consequences of a no deal Brexit”, in Modern Railways, page 20:
text: Hood explains: "It's never a case of just taking these units and dusting them down. Because they had been in storage, they had not undertaken their time-based overhaul, which had been due. They had also not undertaken their mileage-based overhaul, which was also due for all the sets. That caused a bit of a headache when it came to recommissioning them."
ref: 2025 August 6, Richard Wilcock, “Old units... new lease of life”, in RAIL, number 1041, page 31:
glosses: Alternative form of dust off.
glosses: To demean or verbally assault; to dress down.
examples: text: He was on the ground, so I helped him up, dusted him down and brought him home.
glosses: To clean (someone) off who has fallen.
dusted down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dust down
rail freight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪt
Senses: examples: text: For rail freight, the key axis is through freight to and from Europe via the Channel Tunnel.
ref: 2019 October, Rail Freight Group, “Consequences of a no deal Brexit”, in Modern Railways, page 20:
text: Here's the briefest history of rail freight. The railways are conceived for moving coal. They do well at that and immediately branch out into other freight. They do quite well at that, too - after all, compared with a horse and cart, they are a revelation.
ref: 2024 March 6, Pip Dunn, “Freight's future is in ISO containers”, in RAIL, number 1004, page 36:
glosses: Freight (or goods) transported by train.
wikipedia: + in Great Britain
+ transport
ferroxamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferroxamines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ferrioxamine.
ferrugination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferruginations
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A deposition of minerals (typically containing iron) on the walls of blood vessels
fibrobronchoscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fibro- + broncho- + -scopic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to fibrobronchoscopy
filozoan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filozoans
Senses: glosses: Any organism of the clade Filozoa, which includes animals and their nearest relatives.
filozoans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filozoan
fironection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of fibronection.
lo-lo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: LoLo
form: Lo/Lo
Senses: examples: text: Elsewhere, some trade appears to have moved away from the Dover Straits already, either coming into other ports as unaccompanied or accompanied trailers, or in some cases moving to lo-lo (lift on, lift off) routes to the east and west coast ports.
ref: 2019 October, Rail Freight Group, “Consequences of a no deal Brexit”, in Modern Railways, page 20:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Abbreviation of lift-on/lift-off.
Related terms: ro-ro
Rychly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rychlys
Etymology: From Czech rychlý, Slovak rýchly, or Polish rychły (“fast”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
double-tracking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double tracking
Etymology: From double track + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The 15-week closure enabled completion of double-tracking between Dyce and Inverurie and upgrades to the signalling system between Aberdeen and Huntly. Over 10 miles of new rail has been laid and 19 bridges refurbished or replaced, with double-tracking covering a 16-mile stretch in total.
ref: 2019 October, “A2I reopens after summer blockade”, in Modern Railways, page 22:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
antonyms: dedoubling
single-tracking
singling
glosses: The provision of double track, usually as a conversion from single track.
Related terms: double-track
doubling
double-tracking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From double track + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of double-track
video joker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: video jokers
Senses: glosses: A narrator who translates the dialogue of a film, adding their own jokes and commentary, as it is shown to an audience.
video jokers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of video joker
Ugawood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Uganda + Hollywood
Senses: glosses: The film industry of Uganda.
Netscaper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Netscapers
Etymology: Netscape + -er
Senses: examples: text: She would be coordinating the first-ever mass firing of Netscapers. What a difference a year had made. Not long before, Netscape had been receiving between 5,000 and 7,500 resumes a month […]
ref: 1999, Kara Swisher, AOL.COM:
text: As issues surfaced, they separated themselves into categories and were claimed. The next three months were devoted to resolving issues at the fanatical pace that Netscapers knew well.
ref: 1999, Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman, Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, page 199:
glosses: An employee of the former Internet company Netscape.
Netscapers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Netscaper
subpackaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subpackage
subpackaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of subpackage
semaphore signal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semaphore signals
Senses: glosses: Any signal sent by semaphore.
examples: text: The phased programme will run from 1 to 23 February, with semaphore signals replaced with modern colour lights.
ref: 2019 October, “February completion for Wherry lines resignalling”, in Modern Railways, page 22:
text: After dropping off travellers at Foregate Street, my train terminates at Shrub Hill - a station which boasts one of the best selection [sic] of semaphore signals left in the country.
ref: 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 67:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A railway signal with a moving arm mounted on a signal post or gantry, the position of the arm indicating whether a train should stop or proceed; they are now largely replaced by colour light signals.
subovoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subovoidal
form: most subovoidal
Etymology: From sub- + ovoidal.
Senses: glosses: subovoid
metacontent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + content.
Senses: glosses: Content that describes or deals with other content.
semaphore signals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semaphore signal
subhed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subheds
Etymology: See hed.
Senses: topics: journalism
media
glosses: Alternative form of subhead.
subheds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subhed
fieldwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fieldwomen
Etymology: From field + -woman.
Senses: glosses: A female agricultural labourer.
fieldwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fieldwoman
fieldwalker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fieldwalkers
Etymology: From field + walker.
Senses: glosses: One who takes part in the archaeological practice of fieldwalking.
fieldwalkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fieldwalker
fieldwalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fieldwalks
Etymology: From field + walk.
Senses: glosses: An archaeological expedition in which a person walks slowly through the target area looking for artifacts or other indicators on the surface.
fieldwalks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fieldwalk
Parfit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Parfits
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Parfitian
Parfitian survival
hoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of hoeing.
hoing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoings
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of hoeing.
kappa effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kappa effects
Senses: glosses: A temporal perceptual illusion that can arise when observers judge the elapsed time between sensory stimuli applied sequentially at different locations. Subjects tend to overestimate the time between stimuli when the distance between the stimuli is large, and to underestimate the time when the distance is small.
Coordinate terms: tau effect
kappa effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kappa effect
tau effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tau effects
Senses: glosses: A spatial perceptual illusion that arises when observers judge the distance between consecutive stimuli in a sequence. When the distance between stimuli is constant but the time between stimuli is not, subjects tend to misperceive the shorter temporal interval as being accompanied by a shorter spatial interval.
Coordinate terms: kappa effect
tau effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tau effect
toolpathing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: engineering
machining
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The selection or configuration of a toolpath.
Related terms: toolpath
toolrest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toolrests
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tool-rest.
toolrests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toolrest
toolmarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toolmark
pseudoinstruction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoinstructions
Etymology: From pseudo- + instruction.
Senses: examples: text: The compiler constructs one or several instructions corresponding to the respective pseudoinstruction and adds them to the object program just being formed.
ref: 1967, Information processing machines, number 13, page 239:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A command that resembles, but is not in fact, a machine instruction, such as a special directive or a command that is mapped to a sequence of real instructions.
pseudoinstructions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoinstruction
lawfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lawful
PFOS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: PFOS is moderately water soluble, non-volatile, and thermally stable. The potassium salt of PFOS has a reported mean solubility of 680 mg/L in pure water.
ref: 2006, Ronald A. Hites, Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Great Lakes, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 398:
text: The new maximum contaminant level goal for PFOA and PFOS — a non-enforceable, health-based goal — will be zero.
ref: 2024 April 10, Jen Christiensen, “Biden administration sets first national standard to limit ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water”, in CNN:
coordinate_terms: PFOA
PFOSA
glosses: Abbreviation of perfluorooctane sulfonate.
Hypernyms: PFAS
Battenberg markings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the resemblance to a Battenberg cake.
Senses: glosses: A pattern of high-visibility markings used on emergency-service vehicles in several countries.
eel-blenny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blennies
form: eelblenny
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of slender fish:
carpet eel-blenny (Congrogadus subducens)
glosses: Any of several species of slender fish:
eared eel-blenny (Congrogadus subducens)
glosses: Any of several species of slender fish:
Shark Bay eel-blenny (Notograptus gregoryi)
glosses: Any of several species of slender fish:
small-spot eel-blenny (Congrogadus spinifer)
glosses: Any of several species of slender fish:
snake prickleback (Lumpenus sagitta)
glosses: Any of several species of slender fish:
spiny eel-blenny (Congrogadus spinifer)
metaconsumers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metaconsumer
FBs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of FB
friendship book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: friendship books
Senses: examples: text: Pen pals also make and pass around friendship books, slams and crams. In recent years, pen pal correspondence with prison inmates has gained acceptance on the Internet.
ref: 2019, Manjit Bal, Lovingly Yours - Penpals:
synonyms: FB
hyponyms: cram
deco
slam
slambook
glosses: A decorative stapled booklet or similar, made by a person who writes their name, address, interests etc. inside and gives it to a friend or pen pal. The book is passed on from one person to another, each adding their own details, and eventually returned to the originator.
friendship books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of friendship book
żubrówka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: żubrówkas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zubrowka.
gizmotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gizmotic
form: most gizmotic
Etymology: From gizmo + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: When the human player has been sufficiently affronted by the gizmo's calm 100 per cent efficiency, he can pull the lever toward him and reduce the gizmotic grasp of the situation to 98 per cent or to 95 per cent or to whatever mechanical I.Q. level, right down to idiocy, will give the human player a chance.
ref: 1962, Saturday Review - Volume 45, Issue 4, page 14:
text: Nobody had ever brought such neat gizmotic objects before, and Walt loves doodads, geegaws, and electronic Frisbees of all kinds
ref: 1994, PC/Computing - Volume 7, page 100:
text: Professor Nickell and his lazy-eyed underlings had been seated in front of their screens and gizmotic panels, dully performing their routine, but as for Eve?
ref: 2017, Stefan Merrill Block, Oliver Loving, →ISBN, page 127:
glosses: Pertaining to a gizmo or covered in gizmos.
on the quiet
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: synonyms: on the sly
glosses: surreptitiously
signal cabin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: signal cabins
Senses: examples: text: Having completed their task, Fireman Page telephoned from a lineside box to the next signal cabin, briefly reported the incident and said that, as no high explosive had dropped and the track was safe, they proposed proceeding "at caution".
ref: 1944 July and August, “Top Link Drivers: XXI—Driver H. Blunt, L.N.E.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 226:
text: At Putney Bridge the train description transmissions for eastbound trains must be originated as there is no manned signal cabin on the London Transport system beyond this point; [...].
ref: 1960 December, “More L.T. progress with programme machines”, in Trains Illustrated, page 758:
text: The latest 'go live' introduced the new signalling across the complex junction at Baker Street and saw the decommissioning of the signal cabin at Edgware Road, which opened in 1926.
ref: 2019 October, “Edgware Rd cabin closes”, in Modern Railways, page 22:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Synonym of signal box.
synonyms: word: signal box
signal cabins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of signal cabin
predub
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: predubs
form: predubbing
form: predubbed
form: predubbed
Etymology: From pre- + dub.
Senses: examples: text: Then you will have the purist mixer who wants it to be predubbed without anything camouflaging the material.
ref: 2012, David Lewis Yewdall, The Practical Art of Motion Picture Sound, page 486:
text: Before the final dubbing sessions on feature films, several days to several weeks will be allotted for the predubbing of dialogue and effects. During the predubbing, the dubbing mixers premix as many as 30 or 40 tracks down to perhaps 18 or so to make the final mix manageable.
ref: 2013, Fred Karlin, Rayburn Wright, On the Track: A Guide to Contemporary Film Scoring, page 362:
glosses: To mix audio tracks such as dialog, music, and sound effects as a preliminary step, which does not include all the tracks in the final soundtrack.
predub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: predubs
Etymology: From pre- + dub.
Senses: examples: text: If your show includes a lot of effects, for example, explosions, music, sound effects, or loud noises over romantic dialogue, then your sound-effects supervisor will probably recommend a predub or prelay.
ref: 2002, Barbara Clark, Susan J. Spohr, Guide to Postproduction for TV and Film: Managing the Process:
text: Once the materials arrived at the stage, a dozen recordists and mix technicians required a half an hour to load the three or four dozen tracks a predub might require.
ref: 2014, Nicolae Sfetcu, The Art of Movies:
glosses: A preliminary soundtrack produced by predubbing.
predubbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of predub
predubbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of predub
predubs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of predub
predubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of predub
prelay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prelays
form: prelaying
form: prelaid
form: prelaid
Etymology: From pre- + lay.
Senses: examples: text: He'll be responsible for prelaying sound effects for film and television.
ref: 1990, The Hollywood Reporter, volume 313, numbers 18-34, page 18:
text: In this way, dialog, music and effects elements can be prelaid to hard disk or MO […]
ref: 1995, The Mix, volume 19, numbers 7-12, page 74:
glosses: To record music and other sound elements at the correct time code locations on a master format without regard to final levels and mixing.
prelay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prelays
Etymology: From pre- + lay.
Senses: examples: text: If your show includes a lot of effects, for example, explosions, music, sound effects, or loud noises over romantic dialogue, then your sound-effects supervisor will probably recommend a predub or prelay.
ref: 2002, Barbara Clark, Susan J. Spohr, Guide to Postproduction for TV and Film: Managing the Process:
glosses: The act of prelaying.
prelay
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + lay.
Senses: examples: text: An optimum method for feeding calcium is to start feeding the layer level (3.25% or more) slightly before the first egg, because after hens start laying there is a negative calcium balance when consuming the prelay calcium level of 2.0%.
ref: 2012, Donald D. Bell, William D. Weaver, Commercial Chicken Meat and Egg Production:
glosses: Before a bird lays eggs.
prelaid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prelay
prelaid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: a prelaid carpet
glosses: Laid down in advance.
prelays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prelay
prelays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prelay
prelaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prelay
prelaying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Before a bird lays eggs.
prelaying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The period before a bird lays eggs.
bye-letter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bye-letters
Senses: glosses: A postal letter carried only part of the way to the central post office, and delivered to its destination along the way.
Related terms: bye-post
bye-letters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bye-letter
Udod
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Udods
Etymology: From Russian удод (udod, “hoopoe”).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Russian surname Удод (Udod).
Stiglitz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Stieglitz (“goldfinch”), from Old Czech stehlec.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Dixit-Stiglitz model