cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nongod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nongods
Etymology: From non- + god.
Senses: examples: text: On one hand, nonreligious people worship nongods such as work, possessions, spouses...
ref: 2009, Samir Selmanovic, It's Really All About God: Reflections of a Muslim Atheist Jewish Christian:
glosses: One who, or that which, is not a god.
nongods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nongod
nontranscendental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + transcendental.
Senses: glosses: Not transcendental.
Derived terms: nontranscendentally
akhirah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Arabic الآخِرَة (al-ʔāḵira, “the hereafter”).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: afterlife
nontranscendentally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nontranscendental + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a nontranscendental manner.
nondiscovered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + discovered.
Senses: glosses: undiscovered
unpluggable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From unplug + -able.
Senses: examples: an unpluggable computer chip
glosses: That can be unplugged.
unpluggable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pluggable.
Senses: examples: an unpluggable hole
an unpluggable leak
glosses: Not pluggable; that cannot be plugged.
haji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑːdʒi
Forms: form: hajis
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hajji.
hajis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haji
unforged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + forged.
Senses: glosses: Not having been forged.
Synonyms: nonforged
nondesktop
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + desktop.
Senses: examples: text: We now move on to the section of this chapter in which we will discuss product installation in a nondesktop environment.
ref: 1995, Michael Abbey, Michael J Corey, Oracle, a beginner's guide:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to desktop computers.
shoegazey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shoegazey
form: most shoegazey
form: shoegazy
Etymology: From shoegaze + -y.
Senses: examples: text: ...unaffected harmonies over fairly conventional shoegazey rock, though usually to exceptionally beautiful effect.
ref: 1997, Ira A Robbins, The Trouser Press guide to '90s rock:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Having elements of the shoegaze style.
shoebomber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoebombers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shoe bomber.
nongreased
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + greased.
Senses: glosses: Not greased.
nongelatinized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + gelatinized.
Senses: glosses: Not gelatinized.
keymapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keymappings
Etymology: From key + mapping.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A mapping of keys on a keyboard to commands; a key binding.
keymappings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keymapping
inia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inion
inia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inias
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any South American freshwater dolphin of genus (Inia), with a hairy snout.
apricotlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more apricotlike
form: most apricotlike
Etymology: From apricot + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of apricots.
Synonyms: apricotty
bonedry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bonedry
form: most bonedry
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bone-dry.
nonmutated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + mutated.
Senses: glosses: Not mutated.
palanka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palankas
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish پلانقه (palanka). Doublet of planch, plank, and phalanx.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A permanently entrenched wooden camp attached to Turkish frontier fortresses.
palanka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palankas
Etymology: From Sanskrit पल्यङ्क (palyaṅka), variant of पर्यङ्क (paryaṅka, “bed, couch, litter”).
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of palanquin.
nonmutating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + mutating.
Senses: glosses: Not mutating; not causing a change.
pilav
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: pilaf, in Turkish cuisine
pilaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pilaws
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pilaf.
pilaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pilaw
erogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more erogenic
form: most erogenic
Senses: glosses: Synonym of erogenous.
synonyms: word: erogenous
Derived terms: erogenicity
magnetic north
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Magnetic North
Senses: glosses: At a given point on Earth's surface, the direction of Earth's magnetic field, i.e. the direction into which the compass needle of a magnetic compass points.
Related terms: grid north
true north
dukat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dukats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ducat (“historical European coin”).
grid north
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The direction northwards along the grid lines of a map projection. The grid north for a particular map is usually chosen so that it deviates very little from the true north.
Related terms: magnetic north
true north
marbled polecats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marbled polecat
binary antonyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of binary antonym
chronophage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chronophages
Etymology: From chrono- + -phage.
Senses: examples: text: Evening chatting to Mr Vang, who is a chronophage, though an interesting one. Here one cannot turn a cold shoulder, as Goethe did, because personal relationships are probably more important than material achievements.
ref: 2007, Henry Hamilton, Phan Rang Chronicles, page 60:
text: Bad suggestions have a banal influence. Counter them. Your effort to cultivate self-discipline go waste^([sic]) if you do not master the art of dealing with time wasters. They are chronophages.
ref: 2009, Nancy Williams, A Penny for Your Thoughts, page 144:
glosses: Something that wastes time.
chronophages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chronophage
unschooling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A set of educational philosophies which champion education outside the standard school environment, including homeschooling.
unschooling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unschool
agalactia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agalactias
form: agalaxia
form: agalaxy
Etymology: From New Latin agalactia, from Ancient Greek ἀγαλακτία (agalaktía, “lack of milk”), from ἀγάλακτος (agálaktos) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā), from ᾰ̓- (ă-, “not; without”) + γᾰ́λᾰ, γᾰ́λᾰκτος (gắlă, gắlăktos, “milk”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The failure of a mother (human or otherwise) to produce sufficient milk following birth.
Synonyms: agalactorrhea
deschooling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of adjusting to the non-school environment of everyday life after leaving the education system.
examples: text: The events continue this weekend: the squat's website, temporaryschool.org, says there will be a session on "labyrinth building with Steph" tomorrow, followed by "deschooling society".
ref: 2009 January 9, Helen Pidd, “Posh-squat artists take Mayfair mews”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The concept, or belief that a formal education system is counter-productive to the education of young people.
adjectivize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: adjectivizes
form: adjectivizing
form: adjectivized
form: adjectivized
form: adjectivise
Etymology: From adjective + -ize.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: adjective#Verb
adjectify
glosses: To convert a word into an adjective.
Derived terms: alt: adjectivisation
word: adjectivization
steds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sted
pubco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pubcos
Etymology: Short for pub company. Compare telco.
Senses: examples: text: Many tenants complained that the wholesale price they paid for tied products was excessive, which made them uncompetitive in their local marketplace. However, pubcos told us their wholesale selling price was broadly similar to the standard national wholesale prices, before discount, published by the brewers and charged to free house operators.
ref: 2009, “House of Commons Select Committee on Trade and Industry Second Report.”, in Hansard:
glosses: A large business enterprise that owns a number of pubs under tenant agreements, or as managed houses.
pubcos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pubco
managed house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: managed houses
Senses: glosses: A public house which is owned by a brewery, or other holding company, and run by a manager rather than a tenant.
Synonyms: managed pub
Hypernyms: tied house
tied pub
managed houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of managed house
typeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: typable
Etymology: From type + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being identified as a particular type, particularly by automatic means.
qualifier: particularly of a writing system
glosses: Capable of being typed on a keyboard.
typable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of typeable.
free house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: free houses
Senses: glosses: A public house that is not owned or managed by a brewery company, and can therefore stock a range of beers from several producers
tied house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tied houses
Senses: examples: text: [T]he scandal was the pretty common one of a corrupt agreement between hotel proprietors and a salesman who took and gave secret commissions, so that his business had a monopoly of all the drink sold in the place. It wasn't even an open slavery like an ordinary tied house; it was a swindle at the expense of everybody the manager was supposed to serve.
ref: 1935, G. K. Chesterton, The Scandal of Father Brown:
glosses: A public house which is either owned by a brewery, or other holding company, and run by a manager, or rented and run by a tenant, or perhaps contractually tied because of loans from a brewery, and which therefore is obliged to purchase a certain percentage of its stock from said pubco.
Synonyms: tied pub
Hyponyms: managed house
managed pub
tied houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tied house
ursid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɝsɪd/
ipa: /ˈɜːsɪd/
Forms: form: ursids
Etymology: See Ursidae.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any species of the family Ursidae; a bear, a giant panda, or any of certain extinct relatives.
ursids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ursid
holyhedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holyhedra
Etymology: Blend of hole or holey and polyhedron
Senses: examples: text: John Conway of Princeton University offered a reward in the 1990s to anyone producing a holyhedron, a polyhedron with a finite number of faces and with a hole in every face. […] Conway had predicted that someone will eventually find a holyhedron with fewer than 100 faces.
ref: 1969, Charles Miller, Vern Heeren, John Hornsby, Margaret Morrow, Jill Van Newenhizen, Mathematical Ideas, 11th edition:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polyhedron with a finite number of faces and with a polygonal hole in every face, the holes' boundaries sharing no point with each other or the face's boundary.
suni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunis
form: suni
Senses: glosses: A small antelope of Southern Africa, Nesotragus moschatus.
warmware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From warm + -ware.
Senses: examples: text: I have moved to Silicon Valley to gain real-time, warmware access to heroes of a truly virtual community.
ref: 1986, Bernard Mergen, Cultural dimensions of play, games, and sport:
text: Warmware are the teachers, learners, and users of languages and technologies. We realize the advantages that computers bring...
ref: 1987, Language monthly:
text: Where a simpler version would have served the application well, a new, more complex version is offered, requiring more warmware (customer support personnel)...
ref: 2007, Marc A Annacchino, The pursuit of new product development: the business development process:
glosses: Humans, i.e. the users of technologies, as opposed to the hardware, software or firmware.
Related terms: liveware
meatware
enswell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enswells
Senses: glosses: a small piece of metal with a handle. It is traditionally kept on ice and is used to cool the area of a bruise or a cut by applying direct pressure to decrease the blood flow to the area.
Synonyms: end-swell
endswell
stop-swell
no-swell
enswells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enswell
akepiro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɑːkəˈpɪɹoʊ/
Forms: form: akepiros
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: A small tree of New Zealand (Olearia furfuracea).
akepiros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of akepiro
plastic art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plastic arts
Senses: glosses: An art form which involves physical manipulation of a three-dimensional medium by moulding or modeling such as sculpture or ceramics.
glosses: A visual art.
Related terms: performance art
freezing points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freezing point
boiling points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boiling point
four-wheel drive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: four-wheel drives
Senses: synonyms: 4WD
FWD
glosses: The state or trait of having four drive wheels.
synonyms: 4WD
FWD
glosses: A vehicle with this arrangement.
Related terms: english: often synonymous
translation: often synonymous
word: 4x4
english: usually coordinate
translation: usually coordinate
word: all-wheel drive
english: coordinate
translation: coordinate
word: front-wheel drive
english: front-wheel drive
translation: front-wheel drive
word: FWD
english: coordinate
translation: coordinate
word: rear-wheel drive
english: rear-wheel drive
translation: rear-wheel drive
word: RWD
english: manual transmission
translation: manual transmission
word: four-on-the-floor
spread-eagled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spread-eagle
spread-eagled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spread-eagled
form: most spread-eagled
Senses: glosses: In a spread eagle position.
lez out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lezzes out
form: lezzing out
form: lezzed out
form: lezzed out
Senses: examples: text: Jeez, Rae, don't lez out on me.
ref: 2006, Sarah Bird, The Flamenco Academy, page 104:
text: I just figured, a two-girl call and you'd have to lez out for them.
ref: 2004, Michelle Tea, Laurenn McCubbin, Rent Girl, page 85:
glosses: Chiefly of a heterosexual woman, to engage in lesbian activity.
Related terms: lesbian
lesbianism
unmelodious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmelodious
form: most unmelodious
Etymology: From un- + melodious.
Senses: examples: text: Prussian Trenck […] jargons and jangles in an unmelodious manner.
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume III (The Guillotine), London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, book III (The Girondins), page 184:
text: Here we have brought our three gifts and mingled them with yours: a gift of story and song—soft, stirring melody in an ill–harmonized and unmelodious land; the gift of sweat and brawn to beat back the wilderness, conquer the soil, and lay the foundations of this vast economic empire two hundred years earlier than your weak hands could have done it; the third, a gift of the Spirit.
ref: 1903, W. E. B. DuBois, chapter 14, in The Souls of Black Folk:
text: Watt listened for a time, for the voice was far from unmelodious.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, chapter IV, in Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC, page 216:
glosses: Not melodious.
Synonyms: unmelodic
Derived terms: unmelodiously
unmelodiousness
hundi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hundis
form: hundies
form: hundee
Etymology: From Hindustani ہنڈی / हुंडी (huṇḍī).
Senses: glosses: hawala (informal system of money transfer from India and the Middle East)
glosses: a collection box used in Indian temples to collect cash offerings from devotees
gravitational lenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gravitational lens
pearl millet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pearl millets
Senses: glosses: A widely grown millet (Cenchrus americanus, syn. Pennisetum glaucum).
Synonyms: bulrush millet
proso millet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹoʊsoʊ ˈmɪlit/
Forms: form: proso millets
Etymology: From any Slavic language, from Proto-Slavic *proso.
Senses: glosses: Panicum miliaceum, a grass species used as a crop.
Synonyms: sense: Panicum miliaceum
word: broomcorn millet
sense: Panicum miliaceum
word: common millet
sense: Panicum miliaceum
word: hog millet
sense: Panicum miliaceum
word: proso
sense: Panicum miliaceum
word: white millet
sense: Panicum miliaceum
word: panicled millet
Related terms: Panicum miliaceum
foxtail millet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foxtail millets
Senses: glosses: A plant of the second-most widely planted species of millet (Setaria italica), which is the most important species of millet in East Asia.
Synonyms: sense: Setaria italica
word: Italian millet
sense: Setaria italica
word: Hungarian grass
sense: Setaria italica
word: dwarf setaria
sense: Setaria italica
word: foxtail bristle-grass
sense: Setaria italica
word: giant setaria
sense: Setaria italica
word: green foxtail
sense: Setaria italica
word: German millet
sense: Setaria italica
word: Hungarian millet
Coordinate terms: sense: species called millet
taxonomic: Urochloa deflexa
alt: syn. Brachiaria deflexa
word: Guinea millet
sense: species called millet
alt: Urolchloa ramosa, syn. Brachiaria ramosa
word: browntop millet
sense: species called millet
taxonomic: Coix lacryma-jobi
word: Adlay millet
sense: species called millet
taxonomic: Digitaria exilis
word: Polish millet
sense: species called millet
word: Japanese barnyard millet
sense: species called millet
word: Indian barnyard millet
sense: species called millet
word: Sawa millet
sense: species called millet
word: Burgu millet
sense: species called millet
taxonomic: Echinochloa spp.
word: barnyard millet
sense: species called millet
taxonomic: Eleusine coracana
word: finger millet
sense: species called millet
word: proso millet
sense: species called millet
word: common millet
sense: species called millet
word: broom corn millet
sense: species called millet
word: hog millet
sense: species called millet
taxonomic: Panicum miliaceum
word: white millet
sense: species called millet
taxonomic: Panicum sumatrense
word: little millet
sense: species called millet
taxonomic: Paspalum scrobiculatum
word: kodo millet
sense: species called millet
taxonomic: Cenchrus americanus
alt: syn. Pennisetum glaucum
word: pearl millet
Derived terms: taxonomic: Setaria viridis
word: green foxtail millet
taxonomic: Setaria viridis
word: wild foxtail millet
Related terms: Eragrostis tef
white fonio
black fonio
pie server
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pie servers
Senses: glosses: A cake slice.
printo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: printos
Etymology: From print + -o, on the model of typo (“typographical error”).
Senses: examples: text: I can see why it would be tempting to treat a smart printer controller as a special case: the data is going onto paper and will never be seen by software again; if the user sees a printo on the paper, he can have it re-printed.
ref: 1993 June 29, Tom Fitzgerald, “RFC 1191 compliance”, in comp.protocols.tcp-ip (Usenet):
text: Most *English* calendars you have seen, I suppose. In Germany there is no such possible calendar. If you printed a calendar that way, it would be considered a printo. The same is true in most parts of the continent.
ref: 2001 March 14, Jim Mercer, quoting Peter Eisentraut, “[HACKERS] Re: Week number”, in muc.lists.postgres.questions (Usenet):
text: "I was informed by the doctor that the marshes here are still malarial, and the mosquitoes believed to have put paid to the thriving Greek colony of antiquity, as active as ever." ¶ Put paid? Might be a printo (but if it was, what was intended isn't clear), but I'm thinking I'm just having a brain fart.
ref: 2005 September 23, Blinky the Shark, “Parsing Help”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet):
coordinate_terms: clicko
copy-pasto
hearo
scanno
speako
spello
thinko
typo
writo
glosses: An error made during printing.
intransitives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intransitive
Zionazi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zionazis
form: Zio-nazi
Etymology: Possibly a blend of Zionist + Nazi.
Senses: examples: text: The German Nazis’ “final solution” to the Jewish question was the concentration camps; the Zionazis' solution to the problem of the Palestinian Arab is “withdrawal to the desert” or extermination by bombing and shelling.
ref: August 1982, “The Zionazis”, in The Freethinker, volume 102, number 8, page 114:
text: Among the worst campus-based anti-Semitic incidents to take place during the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht was the spray-painting of slogans, including "Kill the Kikes" and "Zionazi racists" on the wall of the Jewish Student Center at SUNY Binghamton.
ref: 1990, David Singer, American Jewish Year Book, volume 90, Jewish Publication Society, →ISBN, page 213:
text: The head of CAIR's Los Angeles office, Hussam Ayloush, uses the term "zionazi" when referring to Israelis.
ref: 2002, Daniel Pipes, In the Path of God, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 118:
text: At the University of Colorado at Boulder, there was a wave of highly abusive graffiti daubed around the campus, bearing the same message: Zionazis, as well as others.
ref: 2003, Raphael Israeli, Islamikaze: Manifestations of Islamic Martyrology, Routledge, →ISBN, pages 364-365:
synonyms: ziofascist
glosses: A Zionist with Nazi-like tendencies.
Zionazi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Zionazi
form: most Zionazi
form: Zio-nazi
Etymology: Possibly a blend of Zionist + Nazi.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Zionazism.
hose down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hoses down
form: hosing down
form: hosed down
form: hosed down
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: hose off; rinse down, rinse off, wash down, wash off, wet down
hypernyms: douse
drench
spray#Verb
coordinate_terms: wipe down#Verb
glosses: To spray thoroughly with a hose.
glosses: To put out or reduce a fire by squirting water on the fire with a hose.
glosses: To calm down a person, or a situation.
glosses: To have sex with (someone).
raw_tags: of a man
Related terms: throw cold water on
PSD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PSDs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of power spectral density.
glosses: Initialism of Professional Scrum Developer, a certification for scrum software development.
PSD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Payment Services Directive.
payment service
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: payment services
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Any service provided by a financial institution to allow one person or organization to pay another for a product or service.
Related terms: PSD
hoe down
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of hoedown.
hoe-down
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoe-downs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hoedown.
up there
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I'd always considered astrology bullshit, right up there with the legal, real estate and banking businesses in terms of thieving ass-sucking charlatanry, but it's clear I've been doing it a misservice.
ref: 2012, Elson Quick, Baddha:
text: “It is the most reckless challenge on a football pitch I think I’ve ever seen,” said the Palace chairman, Steve Parish, at half-time, going on to talk about the possibility of actually killing a fellow professional.
It was certainly up there, with shades of Harald Schumacher at the 1982 World Cup. That was, Schumacher admitted, a deliberate assault designed to stop Patrick Battiston scoring.
ref: 2025 January 3, Barney Ronay, “Crystal Palace through after Millwall keeper’s red for head-high tackle on Mateta”, in The Guardian:
glosses: In a position of prominence or importance.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see up, there.
palm card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palm cards
Senses: glosses: A small card listing items to be discussed in a speech or presentation, usually in bullet point form, to assist the speaker.
glosses: A leaflet or handbill, in a size small enough to be held in the hand (such as ISO 216 size A6 or North American size 4¼″ × 5½″), typically printed on heavier paper for mass distribution.
house dicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of house dick
spreckled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spreckled
form: most spreckled
Etymology: From Middle English sprekled, equivalent to spreckle + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The black eagle : blackish ; the head and upper neck mixed with red ; the tail feathers, the first half white, spreckled with black, the other half blackish ; the leg feathers dirty white.
ref: 1822, Oliver Goldsmith, A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature, volume 4:
text: c.1882-1898, Francis James Child, Child's Collected Ballads,
"What like were the fish, King Henry, my son?
What like were the fish, my pretty little one?"
"They were spreckled on the back and white on the belly; mother, make my bed soon,
For I'm sick to the heart, and I fain wald lie down."
text: Many are the cubs, and many are the spreckled fawns that I have reared with these old hands […]
ref: 1885, James Fenimore Cooper, The Prairie: a Tale:
glosses: Speckled.
Related terms: sprengled
spreckled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From spreckle + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spreckle
agit-prop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agit-props
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of agitprop.
agit-prop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: agit-props
form: agit-propping
form: agit-propped
form: agit-propped
Senses: examples: text: More an insecure platform for Mr. [Mbongeni] Ngema's didacticism than a play with a life of its own, "Township Fever" is agit-propped with polemical sloganeering.
ref: 1990 December 20, Mel Gussow, “Review/Theater; apartheid re-echoes in a musical rendering of a strike’s bitterness”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 2015, section C, page 11, column 1:
text: The double agent was Grant Bristow, who agit-propped for—not against—the right-wing Heritage Front and is now hiding in a safe house.
ref: 1993, Instauration, Cape Canaveral, Fla.: Howard Allen Enterprises, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 31, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of agitprop.
shakeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shakeable
form: most shakeable
Etymology: From shake + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shakable.
shakable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shakable
form: most shakable
form: shakeable
Etymology: From shake + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be shaken.
glosses: Designed to be shaken.
agorai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ᾰ̓γοραί (ăgoraí).
Senses: examples: text: The Phaiacians have many agorai (7.43–45), but at least one built around a handsome shrine of Poseidon and surrounded by a wall of quarried stones, and one phrase suggests that an agora would have regular places in which to sit.
ref: 1997, Gregory Crane, “Oikos and Agora: Mapping the Polis in Aristophanes’ Wasps”, in Gregory W. Dobrov, editor, The City as Comedy: Society and Representation in Athenian Drama, University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 205:
text: Although difficult to prove archaeologically, it is traditionally accepted that early agorai were open spaces that were intentionally left unbuilt to host the citizens’ assembly, and to gather the troops for military exercises.
ref: 2018, Chiara Piccoli, Visualizing Cityscapes of Classical Antiquity: From Early Modern Reconstruction Drawings to Digital 3D Models; With a Case Study from the Ancient Town of Koroneia, in Boeotia, Greece, Archaeopress, →ISBN, page 176:
text: The reuse of statues in Late Antiquity is well-established, with examples of re-cutting of sculpture found on fora / agorai at Alba Fucens, Scolacium, Lepcis, Thessalonica, Athens, Corinth, Aphrodisias, and Cyrene.
ref: 2021, Luke Lavan, Public Space in the Late Antique City, volume 1, Brill, →ISBN, page 288:
glosses: plural of agora
filiety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪˈlʌɪəti/
Etymology: From Late Latin filietatem, from filius (“son”).
Senses: examples: text: The paternity of A and the filiety of B are not two facts, but two modes of expressing the same fact.
ref: 1843, John Stewart Mill, A System of Logic, volume 1:
glosses: The relation of a son to a father; sonship
Synonyms: filiation
Related terms: paternity
all-day sucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: all-day suckers
Senses: glosses: An extra-large lollipop.
something is rotten in the state of Denmark
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: something is rotten in Denmark
form: there is something rotten in the state of Denmark
Etymology: A line spoken by Marcellus in William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act I, scene iv.
Senses: examples: text: If the authorities knew about the problems and chose not to prevent them, then clearly something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
text: Something is rotten in the ſtate of Denmarke.
ref: [c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell, published 1603, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv], signature C3, verso:
text: If divided roughly, two-thirds of them work in desk jobs while one-third are involved in field work. When one gets that sort of proportion one begins to think, “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”.
ref: 1992 November 18, Lord Mackie of Benshie, “World Food Situation”, in parliamentary debates (Lords Chamber), volume 540, column 661:
text: My belief that something is rotten in the State of Denmark is bred by recent developments, both political and cultural. I feel that the feminist movement is now more on the defensive than the offensive, […]
ref: 2016, Robin Morgan, editor, Sisterhood Is Global […] , Open Road Media, →ISBN:
glosses: Something is not right, seriously amiss, especially when leading to suspicion of motive.
wikipedia: Hamlet
Hele
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of places in the West Country of England:
A hamlet in Bude-Stratton parish, Cornwall (OS grid ref SS2104).
glosses: A number of places in the West Country of England:
A small village in Bradninch parish, Mid Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref SS9902)
glosses: A number of places in the West Country of England:
A small village in Ilfracombe parish, North Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref SS5347)
glosses: A number of places in the West Country of England:
A hamlet in Ashburton parish, Teignbridge district, Devon (SX7470).
glosses: A number of places in the West Country of England:
A suburb of Torquay, Torbay borough, Devon (OS grid ref SX9065).
glosses: A number of places in the West Country of England:
A hamlet in St Giles on the Heath parish, Torridge district, Devon, on the border with Cornwall (OS grid ref SX3391).
glosses: A number of places in the West Country of England:
A hamlet in Bradford-on-Tone parish, Somerset, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district (OS grid ref ST1824).
rhonchi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɒŋkaɪ/
Senses: glosses: plural of rhonchus
impulsives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impulsive
TENS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛnz
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of toxic epidermal necrolysis.
Related terms: electrostimulation
Kirke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kirkes
Senses: glosses: A surname from Middle English, of less common usage, variant of Kirk.
Circe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɜː.si/
ipa: /ˈsɝ.si/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)si
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Circē.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An enchantress who turned Odysseus's men into pigs.
examples: text: Here is a nice state of affairs. I, at my age, to fall a victim to this modern Circe!
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: A woman having the characteristics of Circe; an enchantress.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 34 Circe, a main belt asteroid.
Synonyms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: 34 Circe
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: ㉞
Derived terms: Circean
plant of Circe
clumpinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clumpiness
repopulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repopulators
Etymology: From repopulate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, repopulates.
repopulators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repopulator
sweep something under the rug
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sweeps something under the rug
form: sweeping something under the rug
form: swept something under the rug
form: swept something under the rug
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: cover (sth.) up, draw a veil over (sth.)
text: “One of the problems with the entertainment industry is that, to protect the image of these people, they try to deal with the problem by sweeping it under the rug,” said John T. Schwarzlose, chief executive of the Betty Ford Center, the licensed addiction hospital in Rancho Mirage, Calif.
ref: 2011 March 7, Brooks Barnes, Bill Carter, Michael Cieply, “Sheen Is Surrounded by a Coterie of Enablers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: brush something under the rug
brush something under the carpet
sweep something under the carpet
coordinate_terms: deny
;
shrug off
wave away
dismiss
glosses: To conceal a problem (usually an embarrassing or illegal one) expediently, rather than remedy it thoroughly.
Related terms: word: bury one's head in the sand
word: change the subject
word: cover-up
Weegies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Weegie
nonrainforest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + rainforest.
Senses: examples: text: Radio-tracking studies of birds and flying foxes revealed that they also access nonrainforest habitat during periods of low fruit abundance...
ref: 2003, John A Bissonette, Ilse Storch, Landscape ecology and resource management: linking theory with practice:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to rainforest.
Timoteos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Timoteo
femtocell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: femtocells
Etymology: From femto- + cell.
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: A wireless communication system, smaller than a picocell, typically designed for use in a home or small business.
femtocells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of femtocell
nanoscientific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nano- + scientific.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to nanoscience.
country codes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of country code
currency codes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of currency code
dermatoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɜːməˈtɒskəpi/
Etymology: From dermato- + -scopy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The examination of skin lesions with a dermatoscope—a magnifier (typically x10) with a light and a liquid medium between the instrument and the skin, thus illuminating the lesion without reflected light.
Derived terms: dermatoscopic
videodermatoscopy
auscultations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of auscultation
Chinese medicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: traditional Chinese medicine
upliftment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upliftments
Etymology: From uplift + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: For instance, the most plausible stylistic progenitors of Yorick's rhapsodic upliftments of language are the astonishing outbursts of Theocles in 'The Moralists'.
ref: 1982, Mark Loveridge, Laurence Sterne and the argument about design:
text: We turn to the spirit because the material world has nothing to offer us; we declare spiritual upliftments to be the highest virtues.
ref: 1993, Amit Goswami, Richard E Reed, Maggie Goswami, The self-aware universe: how consciousness creates the material world:
text: Intermarriage, he apparently thought, would produce racial upliftment, biologically as much as spiritually and culturally, through generational enhancement.
ref: 2002, David Theo Goldberg, The racial state:
glosses: Lifting up; elevation or promotion.
upliftments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upliftment
phratry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɹætɹi/
Forms: form: phratries
Etymology: PIE word
 *bʰréh₂tēr
From Latin phrātria, from Ancient Greek φρατρία (phratría, “tribe, clan”), from φράτηρ (phrátēr) + -ία (-ía).
Senses: examples: text: To be sure, he plays a decisive role at the time of the birth, since he confers on the child legitimacy, at least on the son, by taking him in his arms, walking him around the house and declaring him his son in front of the members of his phratry: in Athens, no one may obtain citizenship without these familial rites.
ref: 2016, Keith Cohen, translating Maurice Sartre, in Corbin, Courtine & Vigarello (Eds.), A History of Virility, Columbia University Press 2016, p. 40
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: A clan or kinship group consisting of a number of families claiming descent from a common ancestor and having certain collective functions and responsibilities.
examples: text: The moieties are linked to or bear the names of beings or forces expressing the cosmic dichotomy. Most common are heaven and earth moieties, "above" and "below," or moieties named after birds and land animals (or aquatic animals), as is the case among the Winnebago and in the phratry system of the Northwest Coast Indians.
ref: 1979, Åke Hultkrantz, “The Great Tribal Ceremonies”, in Monica Setterwall, transl., The Religions of the American Indians, Berkeley; Los Angeles, Calif.; London: University of California Press, published 1980, →ISBN, part I (Tribal Religions), page 112:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A former kinship division consisting of two or more distinct clans with separate identities but considered to be a single unit.
Derived terms: phratral
phratric
subphratry
Related terms: moiety
phratries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phratry
nonreducible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + reducible.
Senses: glosses: Not reducible.
nonpackaging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + packaging.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to packaging.
nonpackaged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + packaged.
Senses: glosses: unpackaged
sweet oils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweet oil
subidentity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subidentities
Etymology: From sub- + identity.
Senses: examples: text: Although the Israeli subidentity is more important than the Jewish subidentity, for most Jews in Israel both are complementary rather than conflicting.
ref: 1978, Sammy Smooha, Israel, pluralism and conflict:
glosses: An identity that makes up part of a larger identity.
subidentities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subidentity
intermarriageable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more intermarriageable
form: most intermarriageable
Etymology: From inter- + marriageable.
Senses: glosses: Among whom intermarriage is possible.
vectorizability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vectorizable + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being vectorizable.
vectorizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vectorize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being vectorized.
Derived terms: vectorizability
nonvectorizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + vectorizable.
Senses: glosses: Not vectorizable.
nonvectorized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + vectorized.
Senses: glosses: Not vectorized.
nonpiano
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + piano.
Senses: examples: text: Is it that you're trying to create a nonpiano sound?
ref: 1991, Edward Strickland, American composers: dialogues on contemporary music:
text: Piano music may profitably be viewed as a musical world distinct from the world of nonpiano music.
ref: 2003, J K Randall, Benjamin Boretz, Being about music: textworks 1960-2003:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Not of or pertaining to the piano.
nonpianist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonpianists
Etymology: From non- + pianist.
Senses: examples: text: Table IV shows that the pianists were significantly better on both motor and perceptual timing than the nonpianists.
ref: 1987, Gordon H Bower, The psychology of learning and motivation: advances in research and theory:
glosses: One who is not a pianist.
nonpianists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonpianist
nonguitarist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonguitarists
Etymology: From non- + guitarist.
Senses: examples: text: Some musicians do their waiting in the practice room; the nonguitarists play guitar for fellow band members who dream of becoming a lead singer...
ref: 2008, Bob W White, Rumba rules: the politics of dance music in Mobutu's Zaire:
glosses: One who is not a guitarist.
nonguitarists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonguitarist
nonultrastructural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + ultrastructural.
Senses: glosses: Not ultrastructural.
nonhypertext
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + hypertext.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to hypertext.
noniced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + iced.
Senses: examples: text: Ultrastructural and enzymatic studies of cell membranes from ice-encased and noniced winter wheat seedlings.
ref: 1999, Mohammad Pessarakli, Handbook of plant and crop stress:
text: Did you have any noniced alcoholic drinks?
ref: 2005, Kenrad E Nelson, Infectious disease epidemiology: theory and practice:
glosses: Not iced.
noncinematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + cinematic.
Senses: glosses: Not cinematic.
nonstandardly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more nonstandardly
form: most nonstandardly
Etymology: From nonstandard + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Men, however, are likely to underreport their use of standard forms, and to claim that they speak more nonstandardly than they really do.
ref: 1999, Suzanne Romaine, Communicating gender:
glosses: In a nonstandard manner.
nonstandardness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nonstandard + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: North Americans, in commenting on different dialects of American English, are much more likely to make comments about nonstandardness […]
ref: 1998, Walt Wolfram, Natalie Schilling-Estes, American English: dialects and variation:
glosses: The state or condition of being nonstandard.
nonbarbaric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + barbaric.
Senses: examples: text: But the constitutional, nonbarbaric, patient approaches to drug abuse clearly have not worked to curb either, addiction or traffic.
ref: 1976, The Global Connection: Heroin Entrepreneurs : Vol. I
text: This provides us with an appropriate and usable framework within which not only can we analyze economic theory and policy, but determine whether they are barbaric or nonbarbaric in their social and human impact.
ref: 1989, Challenge:
text: This is one of the fullest, most complex (and virtually untranslatable into nonbarbaric English) statements about Andenken.
ref: 1991, Hugh J. Silverman, Writing the Politics of Difference, →ISBN, page 280:
text: The word that Roman authors generally used for the Gaulish and other European polities was civitas, which is generally translated as “state” when applied to nonbarbaric subjects but came to be conventionally translated as “tribe” when it referred to the Gauls or Germans (see Rives 1999, 153).
ref: 2008, David Sneath, The Headless State, →ISBN:
text: LWP sets forth a hierarchy of moderation that is mapped on a hierarchy of religions; this mapping reiterates the common formulation of barbarians as lacking reason and control, and thus lacking the self-discipline and self-mastery intrinsic to nonbarbaric peoples.
ref: 2011, Helen Kinsella, The Image before the Weapon, →ISBN:
text: Insofar as he teaches culture and tries to model himself on the noble classical prototype, he cares about what is not in common: the nonbarbaric qualities that set the Greeks and Romans apart and above all others.
ref: 2015, Friedrich Nietzsche, Anti-Education: On the Future of Our Educational Institutions, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of non-barbaric.
noncannibalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + cannibalistic.
Senses: glosses: Not cannibalistic.
noncannibal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noncannibals
Etymology: From non- + cannibal.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a cannibal.
noncannibals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noncannibal
LRN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LRNe
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of luminous red nova: an astronomical event, believed to be a type of stellar explosion, intermediate in power between a nova and a supernova, and such that as the explosive debris expands it reddens and cools, unlike a nova or supernova, in which thinning explosive debris exposes hotter interior layers.
Coordinate terms: hypernova
kilonova
micronova
nova
supernova
Related terms: LFC
LIRG
LRG
SN
GRB
GRBs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of GRB
Related terms: SNe
LRNe
pissery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪsəɹi/
Forms: form: pisseries
Etymology: From piss + -ery, after French pissoir.
Senses: glosses: A urinal, toilet.