cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ballybetaghs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ballybetagh
Moortown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Ringwood, New Forest district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU1504).
glosses: A suburb of Brighstone, Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ4283).
glosses: A small village in South Kelsey parish, West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF0799).
glosses: A rural locality in South Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST3723).
glosses: A suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE3039).
glosses: A village in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
chose sides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of choose sides
South Kelsey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (served by South Kelsey and Moortown Parish Council) in West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF0498).
Related terms: North Kelsey
Brighstone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish on the Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ4282).
orbitoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an orbitoid.
mackerel sky and mare's-tails make tall ships carry low sails
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: mackerel sky and mare's-tails make lofty ships carry low sails
Senses: glosses: Cirrus clouds forebode bad weather.
Dumoulin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dumoulins
form: DuMoulin
form: duMoulin
form: du Moulin
form: Du Moulin
Etymology: Borrowed from French Dumoulin.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Bardet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bardets
Etymology: From French Bardet.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Derived terms: Bardet-Biedl syndrome
BBS
Kezilesu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kotzulosu
form: K'o-tzu-le-su
form: K'o-tzu-lo-su
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 克孜勒蘇／克孜勒苏 (Kèzīlèsū).
Senses: examples: text: The new town of Wuqia better reflects the intention of a general plan with its relatively full set of functions as well as beautiful surroundings which accommodate the people well in both work and recreation. This town, with not only national style but also construction standards of the 1980s, has come into being. Situated in our most western prefecture, Kezilesu Autonomous Prefecture, it will benefit the stability and unity of this multi-ethnic region as well as the economy.
ref: 1996, Zhang Mianzheng, Zeng Linxiang, “Inquiry into Reconstruction of Changed Place in Wuqia County Town”, in F. Y. Cheng, Y. Y. Wang, editors, Post-Earthquake Rehabilitation and Reconstruction, 1st edition, Elsevier Science, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 181:
text: Kezilesu Autonomous Prefecture, Kashgar’s close neighbor, shared the same experience. In recent years, the annual rate of outflow of Han intellectuals has been about 10 percent.
ref: 2003, Ma Rong, “Population Distribution and Relations Among Ethnic Groups in the Kashgar Region, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region”, in China's Minorities on the Move: Selected Case Studies, East Gate Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 119:
text: Given how the sheer volume of people in China made everyone seem sort of faceless, I wondered if Nash's fortitude, his willingness to stop again and again and again to pose and scribble his name and stretch out his hand, was in some way a measure of his ability to particularize an abstraction—that is, to know that everything he was doing to improve the lives of girls in that all-but-Platonic realm known as the Xinjiang Kezilesu Keerkzi^([sic – meaning Ke'erkezi]) Autonomous Region^([sic – meaning Prefecture]) would give a real and particular child a real and particular book that would sweeten her day, or awaken an idea that would make a difference in her life. Whoever she was. . .
ref: 2007 October 28, Chip Brown, “Not to Get Too Mystical About It”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2015, Play Magazine; republished as William Nack, editor, The Best American Sports Writing 2008, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 337:
glosses: Synonym of Kizilsu: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
synonyms: word: Kizilsu
extra: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name
wikipedia: Frederick A. Praeger
no cap
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /noʊ kæp/
Etymology: From AAVE cap (“to lie, exaggerate”, verb), popularized by the rappers Future and Young Thug in their track "No Cap" (2017).
Senses: examples: text: I just found $20 on the ground, no cap.
text: Yellow diamonds like banana, that's cap / Put some dirt in Mello Yello, no cap / Rockin' Maison Margielas, that's cap / Red bitch, Cinderella, no cap
ref: 2017, “No Cap”, in Super Slimey, performed by Future and Young Thug:
text: yall no cap i lowkey think women deserve equal rights to men 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
ref: 2024 May 12, @gojoballs69, Twitter, archived from the original on 28 Jun 2024:
synonyms: no 🧢
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Used to emphasize that one is telling the truth.
wikipedia: Future (rapper)
Green's Dictionary of Slang
Super Slimey
Young Thug
Derived terms: no kizzy
Related terms: for real
Rentenmark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rentenmarks
Senses: glosses: A currency issued in 1923 in Weimar Germany to counter hyperinflation. It was subdivided into 100 Rentenpfennig and was replaced in 1924 by the Reichsmark.
zomby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zombies
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of zombie.
fleet-footed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fleet-footed
form: most fleet-footed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fleetfooted.
fleet footed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fleet footed
form: most fleet footed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fleetfooted.
Brisvegan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɪzˈveɪɡən/
Forms: form: Brisvegans
Etymology: From Brisvegas + -an.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of Brisvegas (Brisbane, Queensland).
Brisvegans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brisvegan
Toyotism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Toyotaism
Etymology: From Toyota + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The management culture and associated business practices associated with Japanese manufacturing companies
Dinnie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Stuchbury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A lost settlement near Helmdon, South Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, England (OS grid ref SP5643).
Helmdon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, England, previously in South Northamptonshire district (OS grid ref SP5843).
rosey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of rosy.
Forsinard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Sutherland, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NC8943).
Quy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Stow cum Quy
Stow cum Quy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stow-cum-Quy
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL5260).
Six Mile Bottom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Situated at the bottom of a valley six miles from Newmarket, Suffolk.
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Little Wilbraham parish, South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL5757).
Little Wilbraham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Little Wilbraham and Six Mile Bottom Parish Council) in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL5458).
Related terms: Great Wilbraham
Wilbraham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A town in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States, named after the Cambridgeshire villages listed below.
Related terms: Great Wilbraham
Little Wilbraham
Fourrage
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fourrages
Etymology: Borrowed from French Fourrage, which is from fourrage (“forage, fodder”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Fourrages
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fourrage
pibling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pĭbʹ-lĭng
ipa: /ˈpɪb.lɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪblɪŋ
Forms: form: piblings
Etymology: Blend of parent + sibling. Attested from the 21st century.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:pibling.
synonyms: auncle
hyponyms: aunt
uncle
coordinate_terms: nibling
glosses: Used especially as a gender-neutral term: the sibling or sibling-in-law of one's parent.
piblings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pibling
pseudobiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + biology.
Senses: glosses: Any body of knowledge or work purporting to adhere to the scientific standards of biology that in fact does not; biological pseudoscience.
Related terms: pseudobiological
pseudobiologist
pseudobiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudobiological
form: most pseudobiological
Etymology: From pseudo- + biological.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or employing pseudobiology.
Derived terms: pseudobiologically
pseudobiologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudobiologists
Etymology: From pseudo- + biologist.
Senses: glosses: A would-be biologist who advocates pseudobiology.
pseudobiologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudobiologist
Antikythera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἀντικύθηρα (Antikúthēra).
Senses: glosses: A Greek island located between Peloponnese and Crete, near Kythira.
Derived terms: Antikythera mechanism
Related terms: Kythira
pseudobiologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pseudobiologically
form: most pseudobiologically
Etymology: From pseudobiological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a pseudobiological manner; by means of pseudobiology.
ricecels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ricecel
looksmaxxes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of looksmaxx
looksmaxxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of looksmaxx
looksmaxxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of looksmaxx
fakecels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fakecel
information hazard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: information hazards
Etymology: Coined by philosopher and writer Nick Bostrom.
Senses: examples: text: Information hazards are risks that arise from the dissemination or the potential dissemination of true information that may cause harm or enable some agent to cause harm. Such hazards are often subtler than direct physical threats, and, as a consequence, are easily overlooked.
ref: 2011 August, Nick Bostrom, “Information Hazards: A Typology of Potential Harms from Knowledge”, in Review of Contemporary Philosophy, volume 10, →ISSN:
text: He thinks the scientific enterprise needs better norms around potentially dangerous information. First: Don’t spread it. Second: If someone tells you that your work represents an information hazard, “you should seriously respect their call.”
ref: 2018 October 4, Ed Yong, “A Controversial Virus Study Reveals a Critical Flaw in How Science Is Done”, in The Atlantic:
text: In cases where one expects a few highly sophisticated bad actors, easy‐to‐discover information hazards can be shared widely: good actors may benefit, and bad actors likely already know or are likely to rediscover the information hazard themselves.
ref: 2019 May, Gregory Lewis with Piers Millett, Anders Sandberg, Andrew Snyder‐Beattie, and Gigi Gronvall, “Information Hazards in Biotechnology”, in Risk Analysis, volume 39, number 5, →DOI, pages 975–981:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A risk arising from the dissemination of true information.
information hazards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of information hazard
Langford's basilisk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Langford's basilisks
form: Langford basilisk
Etymology: After an object in David Langford's short story "BLIT".
Senses: examples: text: Dead easy: the ones who watched it all died. (Invoke Langford's Basilisk if you need a real reason.)
ref: 2002 February 27, Charles Stross, “What to throw in?”, in rec.arts.sf.composition (Usenet), message-ID <slrna7qjct.sdj.charlie@raq981.uk2net.com.antipope.org>:
text: The technical term is "Langford basilisk". I expect the real deal would induce nothing more permanent than an inconveniently-timed reboot, if it can even exist.
ref: 2013 December 29, RecArtsSfPolicyWonk, “What Did You Watch? 2013-12-29 (Saturday)”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet), message-ID <w3nrp8vuk7cz.m05n26piatio$.dlg@40tude.net>:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
hypernyms: cognitohazard
glosses: An image which causes insanity or death on viewing.
wikipedia: BLIT (short story)
David Langford
Langford's Basilisk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Langford's Basilisks
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Langford's basilisk.
Langford's Basilisks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Langford's Basilisk
Primrose Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Several places in England:
A hamlet in Witchampton parish, Dorset (OS grid ref ST9808).
glosses: Several places in England:
A suburb of Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham (OS grid ref NZ4420).
glosses: Several places in England:
A suburb of Lydney, Forest of Dean district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SO6303).
glosses: Several places in England:
A suburb and park in London in the borough of Camden, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ2884).
glosses: Several places in England:
A hamlet in Halsall parish and Scarisbrick parish, West Lancashire district, Lancashire (OS grid ref SD3809).
glosses: Several places in England:
A northern suburb of Bath, Somerset (OS grid ref ST7366).
glosses: Several places in England:
A suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, West Midlands (OS grid ref SO9587).
glosses: Several places in England:
An inner suburb of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE1415).
glosses: Several places in England:
A neighbourhood in Wakefield, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE3420).
glosses: The name of some hills in England.
Langford's basilisks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Langford's basilisk
Langford basilisk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Langford basilisks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Langford's basilisk.
Langford basilisks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Langford basilisk
Budden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
memetic hazard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: memetic hazards
Senses: examples: text: Warning. Unidentified object. Warning. Unknown hazard. Possible radiation hazard. Possible biohazard. Possible memetic hazard.
ref: 2008 July 18, Sam Hughes, “halfway homes, catacombs, twilight zones”, in Fine Structure, retrieved 31 Aug 2020:
text: (caution: TV Tropes is a recognized memetic hazard. Don't click the link unless you have a high resistance to interesting things and/or a day or two of spare time to kill)
ref: 2009 December 22, Bryan Derksen, “The old "Galactic Federation" meme”, in rec.arts.sf.science (Usenet), message-ID <8HhYm.116799$gg6.81292@newsfe25.iad>:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: An infohazard.
memetic hazards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of memetic hazard
Dano-Faroese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Dano-Faroese
form: most Dano-Faroese
Etymology: From Dano- + Faroese.
Senses: glosses: Of or related to Denmark and the Faroe Islands, or the Danish and Faroese people or languages.
Dano-Faroese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Dano- + Faroese.
Senses: glosses: A variant of the Danish language spoken in the Faroe Islands, with intonation and pronunciation that are influenced by Faroese.
infohazard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infohazards
Etymology: Blend of information + hazard or info + hazard.
Senses: examples: text: A basilisk, in this context, is information that can hurt you simply because you are aware of it. Yudkowsky uses the term 'infohazard'.
ref: [2019 June 13, Tom Chivers, The AI Does Not Hate You, Orion Publishing Group, →ISBN:
text: If a meme is any idea that gets in your head, then an "infohazard" is a meme that's actively harmful to its host.
ref: 2019 August 28, Fletcher Wortmann, “Infohazard Warning: How Internal Memes Infect Your Brain”, in Triggered, Psychology Today, retrieved 31 Aug 2020:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
synonyms: memetic hazard
coordinate_terms: cognitohazard
glosses: A piece of information which is directly harmful to one who knows it.
glosses: An information hazard; a piece of information which can be used to cause harm by one who knows it.
Derived terms: infohazardous
infohazards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infohazard
Bramhope
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Bramhope and Carlton Parish Council) in the Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2543).
fat is flavor
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: fat is flavour
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Foods need to contain fat to appear flavorful to consumers.
fat is flavour
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fat is flavor.
unprotestantise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unprotestantises
form: unprotestantising
form: unprotestantised
form: unprotestantised
Etymology: From un- + Protestantise.
Senses: examples: 1867–82, James Anthony Froude, Short Studies on Great Subjects
the attempt to unprotestantise the Church of England
glosses: To cause to change from Protestantism to some other form of religion.
Hinshelwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
category error
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: category errors
Senses: examples: text: So, is lambasting the Manifesto for inaccuracy a category error, akin, say, to fact-checking a slogan?
ref: 2022, China Miéville, chapter 1, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC:
glosses: Synonym of category mistake.
synonyms: word: category mistake
category errors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of category error
mammothly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mammoth + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: At the head of the low-slung, mammothly expensive table, Miles Sterner ran his frequently manicured fingers over two days' worth of stubble.
ref: 2004, John McCabe, Herding Cats, page 335:
text: The cardinal-v.-ordinal distinction turns out to be mammothly important in Cantorian set theory, […]
ref: 2010, David Foster Wallace, Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity, page 192:
text: We are finite beings who, from our very beginnings, have been faced – both individually and collectively – with the task of understanding a mammothly complex world.
ref: 2012, Michael J. Shaffer, Counterfactuals and Scientific Realism, unnumbered page:
glosses: To a mammoth extent; greatly; extremely.
Greater Minnesota
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: All of Minnesota except for the Twin Cities metropolitan area.
outstater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outstaters
Etymology: From outstate + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone from a different state.
qualifier: chiefly Minnesota
glosses: Someone from outstate (the part of a state outside the major metropolitan areas).
homophobephobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homophobephobes
Etymology: From homophobe + -phobe.
Senses: examples: text: [I don't want to be tarred as a homophobephobe, or any kind of phobe really.]
ref: 1997 June 11, Ben Edgington, “Re: Same-sex blessing...???”, in uk.religion.christian (Usenet):
text: Dorothy and Mary, from your excessive reaction, you are troll/homophobephobes.
ref: 2011 May 13, Hyogoro, “Re: The code in Mona Lisa's eyes solved.”, in rec.arts.mystery (Usenet):
text: Of course, if one is a “phobe” for opposing a behavior, then those who call others homophobes are actually by their own standards "homophobephobes."
ref: 2014, Steve C. Halbrook, God Is Just: A Defense of the Old Testament Civil Laws, page 240:
glosses: A person who dislikes or fears homophobes.
Synonyms: homophobophobe
Betws-y-Coed
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh betws y coed (“chapel in the wood”).
Senses: glosses: A village and community in Conwy borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SH7956).
Woketopia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From woke + -topia.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Woketopia.
topics: government
politics
glosses: A woke utopia; a world or state of affairs based around social justice demands.
Derived terms: woketopian
Tse-p'u
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 澤普 /泽普 (Zépǔ), Wade–Giles romanization: Tsê²-pʻu³.
Senses: examples: text: 5. Su-fu to Ho-tien
Mostly motor highway. Post road between So-ch'e to Yeh-erh-ch'iang and between Yeh-erh-ch'iang and Tse-p'u. Daily day and night deliveries on foot; mounted carrier or horse-cart delivery once a day. Also mounted carrier or horse-cart delivery once every 2 days between Su-fu and Su-lo.
ref: 1949, POSTAL ROUTES IN SINKIANG, CIA, published 2002, Document Number: CIA-RDP80-00926A001300020009-8, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2023, page 2:
text: Upon emerging from the Kunlun gorges, the Yarkand loses the characteristics of a raging mountain torrent and spreads out in many branches over an alluvial fan to irrigate the Yarkand oasis. The oasis, one of the largest in Sinkiang, contains the towns of Yarkand (So-ch’e) and Tse-p’u (Posgam). Upon leaving the Yarkand oasis, the river flows north past Mai-kai-t'i (Merket-Bazar) and then northeast around the eastern margins of the Takla Makan desert. South of the Aksu oasis it joins the Kashgar, Aksu and Khotan rivers to form the Tarim.
ref: 1964, YARKAND (Encyclopedia Britannica), volume 23, →OCLC, page 877:
text: Posgām (in Arabic letters written Būskām) is a large town to the southeast of Yārkand, situated on the trade route coming from Karġalik (today: Yeh-ch‘eng) at a distance of 21 miles from Karġalik. Posgām is the modern Tse-p‘u.
ref: 1986, Monika Gronke, “The Arabic Yārkand Documents”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, volume XLIX, number 3, School of Oriental and African Studies, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 491:
glosses: Alternative form of Zepu (Poskam)
wikipedia: Army Map Service
clausify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clausifies
form: clausifying
form: clausified
form: clausified
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: To convert logic statements into standard clauses
clausification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clausifications
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The process of converting logic statements into standard clauses.
clausifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clausifiers
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A method, algorithm or program that converts logic statements into standard clauses.
CNCS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The largest age group for volunteers was 35-44, the CNCS survey said, and volunteers were most likely to be parents with children under 18.
ref: 2018 July 19, Thom Patterson, “Stats reveal how many Americans volunteer and where”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of Corporation for National and Community Service.
complex geometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Included in complex geometry are the application of transcendental methods to algebraic geometry, as well as the more geometric aspects of complex analysis.
text: I tried to teach the subject in a way that would enable the students to follow recent developments in complex geometry and in particular some of the exciting aspects of the interplay between complex geometry and string theory.
ref: 2004, Daniel Huybrechts, Complex Geometry: An Introduction, Springer, page vi:
text: 2004, Yum-Tong-Siu, Hyperbolicity in Complex Geometry, Olav Arnfinn Lauda, Ragni Piene (editors), The Legacy of Niels Henrik Abel, Springer, page 543,
The hyperbolicity problem in complex geometry studies the conditions for a given complex manifold X to be hyperbolic.
text: Professor Phillip Griffiths is a giant in complex geometry.
ref: 2014, Robert S. Doran, Greg Friedman, Scott Nollet, Hodge Theory, Complex Geometry, and Representation Theory, American Mathematical Society, page ix:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The study of complex manifolds, complex algebraic varieties, and functions of several complex variables.
examples: text: More discussion on the use of the parallel axis theorem in modeling the inertia of rigid bodies with complex geometry is presented in Chapter 8 of this book.
ref: 2013, Ahmed A. Shabana, Dynamics of Multibody Systems, Cambridge University Press, page 253:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see complex, geometry.
Spatialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈspeɪʃəlɪzəm/
Etymology: From spatial + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A type of modern art in which elements of colour, sound, space, movement, and time are synthesized.
Paulistano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Paulistanos
Etymology: From Portuguese paulistano.
Senses: examples: text: Paulistanos are infamous workaholics; other Brazilians joke about their obsession with meetings and office politics and all the trappings of business.
ref: 2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 212:
glosses: Someone from São Paulo, Brazil.
Paulistanos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Paulistano
hellsite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hellsites
Etymology: From hell + site.
Senses: examples: text: once we finally #VerifySteakUmm and blow the lid off this corrupted hellsite we'll do a @reddit AMA so all the fresh faces pouring in may know who we are and what we stand for
ref: 2018 January 16, Josh Hafner, “Steak-umm, the frozen cheesesteak brand, defeats Twitter in epic battle for verification”, in First Coast News:
text: For those of you not active on the hellsite known as Twitter, Naked managed to finish the job of alienating the wine-writing community with a deliberately provocative piece of marketing copy […]
ref: 2018 June, David Williams, “Naked guns for a soft target”, in The Wine Merchant, page 15:
text: "I had no idea that it would end up consuming so much of my time, so I just picked two things I enjoy," he says about his Twitter handle. "I might've chose something else that made more sense if I had known how popular this hellsite would become!"
ref: 2019, @recordsANDradio, quoted in Kelyn Soong, "People & Places," Washington City Paper, 10 May 2019, page 88
text: Every other news cycle, when any particular quake related to someone saying something stupid or disagreeable or out of touch or oftentimes simply oversharey occurs, it triggers a recurrent tsunami of contemplation of why any of us in the industry are on the hellsite at all.
ref: 2022 April 14, Delia Cai, “Severance, the New York Times’s Twitter Guidelines, and the Forever Illusion of Work-Life Balance”, in Vanity Fair:
glosses: A social media platform (particularly Facebook, TikTok, Twitter or Tumblr) that attracts users despite issues with its design, functionality, or culture.
BookTube
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈbʊk.t͡ʃuːb/
note: without the yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈbʊk.tjuːb/
ipa: /ˈbʊk.tub/
Etymology: Blend of book + YouTube. By surface analysis, book + -Tube.
Senses: examples: text: By introducing BookTube to students studying literature, teachers may be able to inspire additional engagement in both the reading and the reports or other assignments that are based on it.
ref: 2014, Marohang Limbu, Binod Gurung, Emerging Pedagogies in the Networked Knowledge Society: Practices Integrating Social Media and Globalization: Practices Integrating Social Media and Globalization, page 96:
text: I started my own BookTube channel in 2014 as a way to review books and talk about my writing.
ref: 2019, Jen Campbell, "BookTube", in Giles Clark & Angus Phillips, Inside Book Publishing, page 271
text: Booktube is a small community in YouTube that has exploded during these past few years.
ref: 2019, Rose Brock, Young Adult Literature in Action: A Librarian's Guide, 3rd Edition, page 30:
glosses: The community of book and reading-related channels on YouTube.
Hypernyms: Bookternet
Coordinate terms: alt: Tumblr
word: Booklr
alt: Instagram
word: Bookstagram
alt: TikTok
word: BookTok
Derived terms: BookTuber
Booklr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊklə/
ipa: /ˈbʊklɚ/
rhymes: -ʊklə(ɹ)
Etymology: Blend of book + Tumblr.
Senses: examples: text: Over the last few years, we've seen the booklr community grow as quickly as our shelves, […]
ref: 2016, K. A. Beestone, "Introduction to The Book Nest", The Book Nest, Spring 2016, page 4
text: Booklr user ladybookmad started #readthemargin, dedicating the month of December to reading books by marginalized authors.
ref: 2016 December, Jenna Kilpinen, “Bookternet and diversity”, in Contrawoman, page 18:
text: On YouTube, users who describe themselves as BookTubers are vlogging about books and reading, on Instagram we find posters using hashtags such as #bookstagram, while Tumblr has a sub-community Booklr.
ref: 2018, Dorothee Birke, Johannes Fehrle, “#booklove: How Reading Culture is Adapted on the Internet”, in Komparatistik, page 63:
glosses: The community of book and reading-oriented blogs on Tumblr.
Hypernyms: Bookternet
Coordinate terms: alt: Instagram
word: Bookstagram
alt: TikTok
word: BookTok
alt: YouTube
word: BookTube
Slavhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Slav + -hood.
Senses: glosses: Slavic peoples, collectively as a body, in ethnic, linguistic, cultural or historical terms
glosses: the area inhabited by Slavic peoples
Related terms: Slavdom
Slavness
Slavness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Slav + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: […] they continue to mirror-image the Greeks in their obsession with antiquity and in downgrading the Slavness of contemporary Macedonians.
ref: 1999, J. Pettifer, The New Macedonian Question, page 51:
text: Gogol's friend Mikhail Pogodin, who specialized in the topic, accepted the Norman theory yet argued for the basic Slavness of early Rusian culture.
ref: 2007, Edyta M. Bojanowska, Nikolai Gogol: Between Ukrainian and Russian Nationalism, page 116:
glosses: The quality of being Slavic, or belonging to the Slavs in terms of identity.
Related terms: Slavdom
Slavhood
pan-Slavism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Pan-Slavism.
pro-Slavic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pro-Slavic
form: most pro-Slavic
Etymology: From pro- + Slavic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to or exhibiting pro-Slavism (positive or favorable attitude towards Slavic peoples)
Related terms: anti-Slavic
pan-Slavic
proto-Slavic
proslavic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more proslavic
form: most proslavic
Etymology: From pro- + Slavic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pro-Slavic.
pan-Slavic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Pan-Slavic.
proto-Slavic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Proto-Slavic.
Bookstagram
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈbʊk.stəˌɡɹæm/
Forms: form: bookstagram
Etymology: Blend of book + Instagram.
Senses: examples: text: Some of the bigger Bookstagram accounts that I follow are @quoththebooklover who has 15.3k followers, […]
ref: 2017 March 30, Lottie Moulster, “The Rising Trend of 'Bookstagram”, in The Galleon, University of Portsmouth, page 13:
text: Blogging was already something I did, but then I indulged in writing book reviews, which was the start of my journey on Bookstagram.
ref: 2018 March, Vidhya Thakker, “Bookstagram Community”, in Unread, page 83:
text: Younger readers are passionate about new voices and new ideas but also about real, physical books and real, physical bookstores. They take photos of books. They create bookstagram accounts.
ref: 2019 May 1, Karen Schechner, “Q&Q with Mike Gustafson, Co-Owner of Literati Bookstore”, in Kirkus Reviews, page 124:
glosses: The community of book and reading-oriented accounts on Instagram, characterized by artful photos of books.
Hypernyms: Bookternet
Coordinate terms: alt: Tumblr
word: Booklr
alt: TikTok
word: BookTok
alt: YouTube
word: BookTube
Derived terms: Bookstagrammer
Related terms: shelfie
Bookstagrammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊk.stəˌɡɹæmə/
ipa: /ˈbʊk.stəˌɡɹæmɚ/
Forms: form: Bookstagrammers
form: bookstagrammer
Etymology: From Bookstagram + -er.
Senses: examples: text: It's a learning curve – each day you discover something new and it's through collaborating with other Bookstagrammers this is made possible.
ref: 2018 March, Vidhya Thakker, “Bookstagram Community”, in Unread, page 84:
text: We get a lot of people coming in to take pictures for Instagram, so we pay attention to Instagram poets and bookstagrammers to know what our audience might want.
ref: 2019, Katie Orphan, quoted in Karen Schechner, "A Conversation with Katie Orphan, manager of The Last Bookstore in Los Angeles", Kirkus Reviews, 1 August 2019, page 165
text: I was pleasantly surprised how immediately warm and welcoming all the other bookstagrammers were of my account.
ref: 2020, Sam Miller, quoted in Linnea Wingerup, "Cheers To Being Queer (On The Internet!)", Peacock Magazine (American University of Paris), Spring 2020, page 37
glosses: An Instagrammer whose account focuses on books and reading.
Haydon Bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Haydon parish, southern Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NY8464).
combinatorial geometries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of combinatorial geometry
combinatorial geometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: combinatorial geometries
Etymology: From circa 1955.
Senses: examples: text: The generation of combinatorial types of point configurations and hyperplane arrangements point configurations and hyperplane arrangements has long been an outstanding problem of combinatorial geometry.
ref: 2003, Lukas Finschi, Komei Fukuda, “Combinatorial Generation of Small Point Configurations and Hyperplane Arrangements”, in Boris Aronov, Saugata Basu, Janos Pach, Micha Sharir, editors, Discrete and Computational Geometry, Springer,, page 425:
text: The following problem of Erdős [Er46] is possibly the best known (and simplest to explain) problem in combinatorial geometry. How often can the same distance occur among n points in the plane?
ref: 2006, Peter Brass, William O. J. Moser, János Pach, Research Problems in Discrete Geometry, Springer, page 183:
text: 2012, Mohammed Mostefa Mesmmoudi, et al., Discrete Curvature Estimation Methods for Triangulated Surfaces, Ullrich Köthe, Annick Montanvert, Pierre Soille (editors), Applications of Discrete Geometry and Mathematical Morphology, Springer, LNCS 7346, page 28,
In combinatorial geometry, the most common discrete representation for a surface is a triangle mesh.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The field of mathematics which examines extremal problems of a combinatorial nature expressed geometrically.
examples: text: For the generation of these combinatorial types no direct method is known, and it appears to be necessary to use combinatorial abstractions — allowable sequences of permutations, #92;lambda-functions, chirotopes, combinatorial geometries, or oriented matroids; in our work we will use oriented matroids [BLVS⁺99].
ref: 2003, Lukas Finschi, Komei Fukuda, “Combinatorial Generation of Small Point Configurations and Hyperplane Arrangements”, in Boris Aronov, Saugata Basu, Janos Pach, Micha Sharir, editors, Discrete and Computational Geometry, Springer, page 425:
text: Our purpose in this chapter is to derive fundamental properties of combinatorial geometries, and to show how these properties strengthen our intuitive understandings of figures.[…]In this section, we give an axiom system for combinatorial geometries and then prove that each combinatorial figure is a combinatorial geometry.
ref: 2012, Don Row, Talmage James Reid, Geometry, Perspective Drawing, and Mechanisms, World Scientific, page 15:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
qualifier: theory of matroids
glosses: A simple matroid.
Related terms: combinatorial topology
hyper-Calvinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: A branch of Protestant theology that emphasizes limited atonement to the point of exclusively proselytizing to the elect and/or denying the responsibility of humanity in salvation.
Hypernyms: Protestantism
euroky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: euryoky
Senses: glosses: The ability of an organism to survive under variable environmental conditions.
Related terms: eurokous
euryoecious
Bookternet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊk.təˌnɛt/
ipa: /ˈbʊk.tɚˌnɛt/
Etymology: Blend of book + Internet.
Senses: examples: text: I was inspired by all my newfound Bookternet friends—readers, writers, bloggers, booksellers, publishing world types, and fellow refugees.
ref: 2014, Maris Kreizman, “Publishing: A Story”, in Sari Botton, editor, Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York, page 171:
text: Through Goodreads, I was drawn into the world of the “bookternet,” an internet subculture of book-geeks, mostly young women who may have started their reading fanaticism with Harry Potter.
ref: 2018, Rebecca Hill, “Read Another Book: Repeat When Necessary”, in Jonathan Chambers, Stephannie S. Gearhart, editors, Reversing the Cult of Speed in Higher Education: The Slow Movement in the Arts and Humanities, page 176:
text: To my whole Booktube, Bookternet family, ALL OF YOU: Thank you for being the best, kindest, most welcoming, most understanding, most supportive, gorgeous friends a girl could ask for.
ref: 2019, "Acknowledgements", in Christine Riccio, Again, but Better, page 376
glosses: The online community and subculture of book lovers.
Hyponyms: alt: Tumblr
word: Booklr
alt: Instagram
word: Bookstagram
alt: TikTok
word: BookTok
alt: YouTube
word: BookTube
Manx longhorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Manx longhorns
Senses: glosses: A primitive breed of sheep native to the Isle of Man, noted for having multiple sets of horns, and shaggy wool.
Related terms: Loaghtan
Manxie
Instapoetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of Instagram + poetry.
Senses: examples: text: Literature itself is undergoing a similar transition. Indeed, as someone who once read a book a day for a whole year, the current wave of instapoetry, tiny tales, and Tumblr posts has introduced me to an interesting new dimension to storytelling and to engaging with one's audience.
ref: 2019, Shashi Tharoor, "Foreword", in Manoj Pandey, The Legacy of Nothing, unnumbered page
text: Meanwhile, The Washington Post considered the advent of Instapoetry to be a turning point for the art form—this was a new genre of poetry created for a global, online audience, and its legacy would be contingent on virality: […]
ref: 2019, Hussein Kesvani, Follow Me, Akhi: The Online World of British Muslims, page 146:
text: Moreover, she links Instapoetry to the #metoo movement speaking out against sexual harassment and exploitation, and sees in the new voices of the female Instapoets an outlet for the expression of the female sexual gaze.
ref: 2020, Bronwen Thomas, Literature and Social Media, unnumbered page:
glosses: A genre of short-form poetry, which emerged on Instagram in the late 2010s, and is typically presented in an aesthetically-pleasing manner.
Derived terms: Instapoet
Instapoet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Instapoets
Etymology: Blend of Instagram + poet.
Senses: examples: text: Instapoets were 'responsible for poetry going viral at a time when the genre was alleged to be all but dead', Bustle magazine wrote in 2018, in a piece looking at whether new social media poets were undermining or reviving the art and traditions of literary poetry.
ref: 2019, Hussein Kesvani, Follow Me, Akhi: The Online World of British Muslims, page 146:
text: Currently, no Instapoet has a higher profile than Rupi Kaur, the Punjabi-born Sikh Canadian whom Rolling Stone has called the “queen of Instapoets” and Fashion Magazine the “pop star of poetry.”
ref: 2020, Mike Chaser, Poetry Unbound: Poems and New Media from the Magic Lantern to Instagram:
text: Popular Instapoets such as Indian-Canadian Rupi Kaur have parlayed their online success into multi-book contracts with print publishers.
ref: 2020, Simon Murray, Introduction to Contemporary Print Culture: Books as Media, unnumbered page:
glosses: A poet working in the Instapoetry genre.
West Wickham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (served by West Wickham and Streetly End Parish Council) in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL6149).
glosses: A suburb in the borough of Bromley, Greater London, England, historically in Kent (OS grid ref TQ3866).
Chevenix
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Streetly End
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in West Wickham parish, South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL6148).
Peyzawat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Uyghur پەيزاۋات (peyzawat).
Senses: examples: text: The two dead and wounded officers all belong to the Muslim Uyghur ethnic group, according to police and the chief nurse at Peyzawat [in Chinese, Jiashi] county hospital. “All of them were stabbed,” the nurse said.
ref: 2008, Shohret and Gulchira, Ding Xiao, Sarah Jackson-Han, “Police Killed in New Xinjiang Clash”, in Omer Kanat, transl., Radio Free Asia:
text: In Peyzawat, in China's Xinjiang region, children play outside the entrance to a school ringed with barbed wire, security cameras and barricades near a sign which reads "Please use the nation's common language.”
ref: 2018, Fred Hiatt, “China has silenced American academics for years. Now they’re pushing back.”, in Washington Post:
text: The China Earthquake Networks Center reported that a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck the region at 9:21 p.m. at a depth of 16 kilometers (10 miles). The quake’s epicenter was 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Peyzawat County and shaking was felt in the cities of Kashgar and Artux, the agency said.
ref: 2020, “Strong quake hits China’s far west Xinjiang region”, in Associated Press:
glosses: Alternative form of Payzawat.
Instafamous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Instafamous
form: most Instafamous
Etymology: Blend of Instagram + famous.
Senses: examples: text: You see, this isn't such a rare sighting when it comes to the bald-headed, ultra-bendy, Instafamous yogi queen we know as Chocolate Yoga (@chocolate_yoga).
ref: 2018 January, Marley Jeranko, “Bending the Rules”, in Cherry Creek Lifestyle, page 54:
text: Anyway, the point is, I'll get Instafamous one day.
ref: 2018, Zoe Stojanovic-Hill, "Editorial", Honi Soit (University of Sydney), Week 9, Semester 2 (2018), page 2
text: Ta Tat Eatery makes its Instafamous katsu sando with toasted brioche, and it's safe to say none of its devotees seem to be sad for the lack of levain.
ref: 2019 October, Lauren Bravo, “The Rise and Fall”, in Foodism, page 56:
glosses: Well-known or popular on Instagram.
Related terms: Instafame
influencer
Instaceleb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Instacelebs
Etymology: Blend of Instagram + celeb.
Senses: examples: text: If you're an Instagram junkie (like me) you might better recognise Gracie under the name @pony_nuts because she's a bit of an Instaceleb in the equestrian world.
ref: 2018 July, Sophie Callahan, “Shoot of the Month”, in Absolute Horse, page 7:
text: The country ran shuttles and posted signs encouraging visitors to enjoy the display responsibly, but those precautions didn't prevent rattlesnake bites, twisted ankles, heat exhaustion, Instacelebs and other selfie-takers lying in or otherwise trampling the delicate blooms they'd come to see.
ref: 2019 July, Jeffrey Rindskopf, “The Costs of Instatravel”, in DOPE Magazine, page 90:
text: With nearly 200,000 followers, Men's Health fitness director EBENEZER SAMUEL is a bona fide Instaceleb.
ref: 2020 March, “Meanwhile, On Instagram...”, in Men's Health, page 12:
glosses: A famous user of the photo-sharing and social media platform Instagram.
Synonyms: Instacelebrity
Instaworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Instaworthy
form: most Instaworthy
Etymology: From Insta + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: That wildflower meadow may be an Instaworthy campsite – but your tent can crush delicate vegetation.
ref: 2016, Darby Levin & Haley Weiss, "Trail Foods: Noshing in Nature", Penn Appétit (University of Pennsylvania), Spring 2016, page 17
text: Most tourists make a quick stop at one of two places in La Jolla: the Children's Pool to see the famous sea lions, or the La Jolla Shores Park to take an Instaworthy shot of the Scripps Pier at sunset.
ref: 2017, Amber Manan, "San Diego Hidden Gems", Twist, Spring 2017, page 33
text: A stone's throw from the hustle and bustle of the CBD is Elk Espresso, where a visionary menu of Instaworthy breakfast spreads are every bit as much of a feast for the eyes as the mouth.
ref: 2018 March, Laura Dundovic, “Golden girl”, in Jetstar, page 23:
synonyms: Instagrammable
glosses: Lending itself to being photographed and posted on social media; photogenic.
trapezite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trapezites
Senses: glosses: A banker or money changer in Ancient Greece