cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
VOCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of VOC
dysmorphogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to dysmorphogenesis.
Derived terms: Lenz dysmorphogenetic syndrome
Tengrianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Tengrian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Tengrism.
synonyms: word: Tengrism
Tengriism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Tengri + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tengrism.
Tengrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɛŋ(ɡ)ɹɪzəm/
Forms: form: Tengriism
Etymology: From Tengri + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A Central Asian religion characterized by features of shamanism, animism, totemism, both polytheism and monotheism, and ancestor worship. It was the state religion of the six ancient Turkic states.
Synonyms: Tengrianism
Related terms: Tenriism
planter wart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of plantar wart.
knock knees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knock knee
nonhypergolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + hypergolic.
Senses: glosses: Not hypergolic.
hypergol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypergols
Etymology: A backformation derived from hypergolic (q.v.), after earlier German Hypergol.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
chemistry
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any hypergolic propellant.
hypergols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypergol
monergol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monergols
Senses: glosses: Any monopropellant.
Related terms: hypergol
hypergolic
monergolic
monergols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monergol
monergolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From monergol + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: In addition to its monergolic application, hydrogen peroxide can be mixed with fuels such as methanol, ethanol, or glycerol and show detonation rates as high as 6700m/s.
ref: 2012, Paul Wilkinson, Technology and Terorrism, page 44:
glosses: Being or relating to a monergol.
King Country
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: By 1890, peace had come to the "King Country," the Maori stronghold in the mountains, the 200-mile line from Te Kuiti to Marton had been surveyed, and work started.
ref: 1954 June, J. B. Snell, “The New Zealand Government Railways—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 382:
glosses: A geographic area of hills in the regions of Waikatu and Manawatū-Whanganui, in the west of the central North Island of New Zealand.
Hungaro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌŋˈɡæɹoʊ/
Senses: glosses: Hungary; Hungarian
Derived terms: Hungarophile
Hungarophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hungarophiles
Etymology: From Hungaro- + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: Tyler was a Hungarophile in whom Teleki and Horthy had implicit trust, even to the extent of letting him in on certain confidential decisions and secret plans.
ref: 2004, András Bán, translated by Tim Wilkinson, Hungarian-British Diplomacy 1938–1941: The Attempt to Maintain Relations, London; Portland, Oregon: Frank Cass, →ISBN, part I, chapter 3, page 36:
glosses: One who loves Hungary, the Hungarian people or Hungarian culture.
Hungarophile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hungarophile
form: most Hungarophile
Etymology: From Hungaro- + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: The accession of a new administration in Paris, replacing Poincaré and Clemenceau in January 1920, under president Paul Deschanel and Prime Minister Alexandre Millerand who was also Foreign Minister, inaugurated a Hungarophile phase in French foreign policy.
ref: 2006, Miklós Lojkó, Meddling in Middle Europe: Britain and the 'Lands Between', 1919–1925, Budapest: Central European University Press, →ISBN, part I, chapter 1.2, page 24:
glosses: Loving Hungary, the Hungarian people or Hungarian culture.
Related terms: Hungarophilia
Hungarophobe
Hungarophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hungarophile
pene-exclaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pene-exclave
pene-enclaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pene-enclave
arm span
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑɹm.spæn/
Forms: form: arm spans
form: armspan
Senses: glosses: The length of a person's outstretched arms, measured from the fingertips of the two middle fingers. See also fathom
Synonyms: wingspan
centerpin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centerpins
Etymology: From center + pin.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of centrepin.
centerpins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centerpin
luck of the Irish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: word: fortuitousness
word: fortuity
word: felicity
word: fortune
word: fortuitousness
word: fortuity
word: good fortune
word: good luck
word: happiness
word: luck
word: luck of the Irish
glosses: Good luck; good fortune.
Irishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Irish
baro't saya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baro't sayas
Etymology: From Tagalog baro't saya.
Senses: glosses: A traditional Philippine costume comprising a blouse and long skirt.
baro't sayas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baro't saya
furol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of furfural.
synonyms: word: furfural
treechanger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: treechangers
Etymology: Blend of tree + seachanger
Senses: examples: text: Both seachangers and treechangers have become a common phenomena in the tropics as the southern boom drives housing prices higher and higher, enabling many, both self funded retirees and even younger folk to move north with expactation of a relaxed and idle lifestyle, far removed from the pace and pressures of city living.
ref: 2010, Adrian Walker, Diary of a Snake Whisperer, page 6:
text: A section of those born and working in the district are generally in favour of the green energy project and the income it may bring, while tree changers or retirees are opposed.
ref: 2021 October 23, Tom Plevey, “Reaping the wind turbines: The little town in the Great Dividing Range split by green energy plan”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2021:
glosses: A person who moves to a rural location.
treechangers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of treechanger
incharge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incharges
Senses: glosses: The person who is in charge of something; an employee with responsibility for a department of a company; a manager, supervisor.
incharges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incharge
armspan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armspans
Senses: examples: text: He takes the horse painting off the wall and it is so wide it almost stretches his full armspan.
ref: 2016, Jenni Fagan, The Sunlight Pilgrims, William Heinemann, page 43:
glosses: Alternative form of arm span.
arm spans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arm span
armspans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of armspan
psychodiagnosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychodiagnoses
Etymology: From psycho- + diagnosis.
Senses: glosses: Diagnosis of psychiatric conditions.
Related terms: psychodiagnostic
psychodiagnostics
psychognosy
psychodiagnoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychodiagnosis
Bramble Cay melomys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bramble Cay melomyses
Senses: glosses: Melomys rubicola, a recently extinct Australian rodent in the family Muridae.
Synonyms: Bramble cay mosaic-tailed rat
propreties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of propretie
cheezburger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: cheezburgers
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of cheeseburger.
cheezburgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheezburger
doovalacky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doovalackies
form: dooverlacky
Senses: glosses: Something that one does not readily recall the name of; a whatchamacallit.
Synonyms: thingy
Ferdon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
foretype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foretypes
Etymology: From fore- + type.
Senses: examples: text: Their unconsummated relationship was a foretype of the chaste marriage of Mary and Joseph.
ref: 1996, Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Encyclopedia of Women in Religious Art:
text: We find the two categories of the foretype and type through which the viewer identified Jesus as the Christ, and later Mary of Nazareth as his mother, as the fulfilment Mary of what was promised or prophesied in the persons and motifs of the [...]
ref: 2005, John Bowden, John Stephen Bowden, Christianity: The Complete Guide:
text: The description corresponding to the foretype, except for the entirely dark yellow spines, which are sometimes brown at the base.
ref: 2007, Melocacti of Cuba
text: It was with this same symbol in view that St. John wrote to the 'seven' Churches, meaning that he was addressing the totality of the one Church. In the Proverbs of Solomon, too, Wisdom, an ancient foretype of the Church, is said to have 'built herself a house, she hath hewn her out seven pillars.'
ref: 2010, The City of God, Books XVII–XXII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 24)
text: Paul said the passage through the sea was done “in foretype” (figura). Ambrose adds: “What was foretype for them is fact for us”.
ref: 2012, Garry Wills, Font of Life: Ambrose, Augustine, and the Mystery of Baptism:
glosses: A type or figure occurring beforehand or in advance; forerunner; predecessor; prototype
foretype
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foretypes
form: foretyping
form: foretyped
form: foretyped
Etymology: From fore- + type.
Senses: examples: text: Whereupon Charlie, of four, foretyped his possible future, and the present of so many, by the exhibition of what might have been called strongly interested affection: …
ref: 1874, Sutton's Leisure Hour Miscellany
text: We may find ourselves going through stages foretyped by the forerunner and pioneer of our faith even as He died and arose again.
ref: 1982, John Loren Sandford, Paula Sandford, The transformation of the inner man:
text: He came to the red men of the isthmus of America, and they foretyped the blood sacrifice of Jesus the Son of God—and slew thousands of young men!
ref: 2000, John Loren Sandford, Healing the Nations: A Call to Global Intercession:
glosses: To make into a foretype, or exemplify as such; to foreshadow; exemplify beforehand
foretypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foretype
tear-jerking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tear-jerking
form: most tear-jerking
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tearjerking.
nice-nelly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nice-nelly
form: most nice-nelly
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nice-Nelly.
nice-Nelly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nice-Nelly
form: most nice-Nelly
form: nice-nelly
Senses: glosses: Prudish or excessively modest.
glosses: Characterized by euphemism; euphemistic.
Related terms: nice Nelly
nice-Nellyism
nice Nelly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nice Nellies
form: nice nelly
form: nice nellie
form: nice Nellie
Senses: glosses: A prudish or excessively modest person.
Derived terms: nice-Nellyism
nice-Nelliness
Related terms: nice-Nelly
nice-Nellyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nice-Nellyisms
form: nice-nellyism
Etymology: From nice Nelly + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Prudishness or excessive modesty.
examples: text: He was a co-founder of the Indianapolis Chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous. ¶ His obituary in the Indianapolis Star said that he himself was not an alcoholic. ¶ This denial was at least partly a nice-Nellyism from the past, I think.
ref: 1976, Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick, Delacorte Press, Prologue, p. 8:
glosses: A euphemism; an act or expression of prudishness or excessive modesty.
nice-nellyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nice-nellyisms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nice-Nellyism.
Aladdin's cave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aladdin's caves
form: Aladdin cave
Etymology: From the cave in the story Aladdin where the titular protagonist is trapped but ends up finding a genie and riches.
Senses: examples: text: His shop is a real Aladdin's cave of antiques.
glosses: a place full of valuable or unusual objects
wikipedia: Aladdin
nice Nellies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nice Nelly
Aladdin's caves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aladdin's cave
soda syphon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soda syphons
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of soda siphon.
soda syphons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soda syphon
fruitivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fruitivores
Etymology: From fruit + -i- + -vore.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of frugivore.
synonyms: word: frugivore
fruitivores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fruitivore
mandarin collars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mandarin collar
fruit-eater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fruit-eaters
form: fruit eater
form: fruiteater
Etymology: From fruit + eater.
Senses: examples: text: But he is a great fruit-eater. I have told you before of the British pie.
ref: 1906, Official Report of the ... Fruit-Growers' Convention of the State of California
text: These are legitimate fruit-eaters, furthering the plant's evolutionary compromise of providing food in exchange for dispersal. A seasonally available fruit is of only passing significance to an opportunist fruit-eater, but the fruit-eater may be of paramount importance to the plant that produces the fruit, and plants may become adapted to exploiting such animals as agents for seed dispersal.
ref: 1980, Jennifer Owen, Feeding Strategy:
glosses: One who eats fruit
Synonyms: frugivore
Related terms: fruitarian
fruit-eaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fruit-eater
ACD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ACDs
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of antecedent-contained deletion.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
qualifier: call routing
glosses: Initialism of automatic call distributor.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
qualifier: call routing
glosses: Initialism of automated call distribution.
ACDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ACD
Hower
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
aftertype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aftertypes
form: after-type
Etymology: From after- + type. Compare foretype.
Senses: examples: text: But Anna was an enthusiast — in politics and religion — with a Joan d'Arc devotion, she cast every personal consideration in the back ground, and as far as will could make her, was ready to become an aftertype of La Pucelle d'Orleans.
ref: 1839, Castle Martyr: Or, A Tale of Old Ireland - Volume 2
text: Leading his own troops, dispensing justice, an after-type of those great Arabs who sprang from the sands of Arabia and Africa, shook Europe, and flourished in Spain, a basha.
ref: 1903, Isabel Savory, In the Tail of the Peacock:
text: The story hence has a number of parallels with tales of Arius and his aftertypes, and must have come to mind when later evildoers were found dead in the latrine.
ref: 2013, Martha Bayless, Sin and Filth in Medieval Culture: The Devil in the Latrine:
glosses: A type or figure which comes after or ensues another, often in semblance to or in imitation of them; a copy
aftertypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aftertype
foregate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foregates
Etymology: From Middle English foregate, forgate, equivalent to fore- + gate.
Senses: examples: text: The Lower town which joins to this, is fortified with a Wall and Castle, and a fore-gate at the entrance.
ref: 1722, William Camden, Britannia: Or a Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 2:
text: … and, where the nature of the thing admitteth access, there is first a foregate and a wall furnished with turrets, which enclose four or five acres, …
ref: 1898, Cheshire Notes and Queries - Volumes 3-4
text: And men go back to it today and will continue through the centuries to go, and say to themselves, as they pass through the foregates, the Propylaea, and come out through those marvellous shadows into the sunlight and see across there, …
ref: 1911, California Outlook ... - Volume 12
text: Further excavation revealed that there had been in the earliest period, perhaps continued to all later times, a foregate, a kind of outer rampart to mask the entrance to the gate so as to require everyone who approached it to do so by a narrow entrance directly in front of the gate and so subject to a concentrated fire of projectiles from the defenders of the gate. This foregate was some fifteen feet in front of the gate itself. At either side of the gate was a great fortress or buttress flanked by a heavy revetement, a fortress also on the north side and a buttress on the south side of the gate.
ref: 1926, Bibliotheca Sacra, volume 83:
text: In front of the long passage of approach was probably a foregate.
ref: 1956, William Richard Lethaby, Architecture, Nature & Magic:
text: A 'foregate' closed this part of the premises off from the lower yard where there was a 'fyer house' and coalyard, a garden and 'other building'.
ref: 1971, Vanessa Parker, The making of Kings Lynn:
text: Eguipped with two stern ramps and a foregate with internal driving ramp, the 36,400 grt vessel is capable of carrying 2,500 passengers plus up to 600 cars and 16 trailers on its 10 decks.
ref: 1983, Finnish Trade Review, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: All the gates of Tallinn were well fortified in the Middle Ages, comprising one or more foregates and the main gate.
ref: 2005, Estonia: bits from here and there
text: This could be the most ancient part of the complex, composed of keep or donjon equipped with a foregate that must have been served by a drawbridge.
ref: 2009, Marco Bini, Cecilia M. Luschi, Castelli e cattedrali:
text: Ilys hid the mantle at the bottom of her bridal chest—shrouded in cedar, to be drawn forth and worn fifteen years later—and they all rushed to the foregates to greet her husband.
ref: 2012, Michael Williams, Oath and the Measure: The Meetings Sextet - Book 4:
glosses: A main entrance or front gate.
foregates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foregate
miss the memo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misses the memo
form: missing the memo
form: missed the memo
form: missed the memo
Senses: examples: text: Nevertheless, Bumble, the dating app which once styled itself as a beacon of women’s empowerment because heterosexual women had to make the first move, appears to have missed the memo.
ref: 2024 May 21, Arwa Mahdawi, “Sex-positive feminism had its moment – and now it has been replaced by voluntary celibacy”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To be unaware of the current state of affairs.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see miss, memo.
interface hypothesis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the interface hypothesis
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The hypothesis that, for adult second language learners, acquiring grammatical properties and interfacing between them (for example, between syntax and semantics) should not be problematic, but that interfacing between these and an external component, such as pragmatics or discourse information, will prove to be very difficult.
Baun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
cooking torch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cooking torches
Senses: glosses: A small butane torch used in the kitchen for browning foods.
cooking torches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cooking torch
channel stuffing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The fraudulent business practice of inflating sales figures by forcing more products through a distribution channel than the channel is capable of selling.
Synonyms: trade loading
WASPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of WASP
mangia-cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmæn.d͡ʒə keɪk/
Forms: form: mangia-cakes
form: mangia cake
Etymology: Macaronic compound of Italian mangia (“eat”, imperative of mangiare) + cake, literally “cake eater”. Compare Italian mangiapatate, mangiapolenta, mangiarane and similar.
Senses: qualifier: Italian-Canadian slang
glosses: A person who does not have Italian ancestry.
mangia-cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mangia-cake
mycosic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mycosis + -ic.
Senses: glosses: mycotic; relating to mycosis
butt and ben
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of but and ben.
revivicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: revivicates
form: revivicating
form: revivicated
form: revivicated
Senses: glosses: To revive or revitalize; to bring back to life.
revivication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revivications
Senses: glosses: The act of revivicating.
revivicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of revivicate
revivicates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of revivicate
revivicating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of revivicate
revivications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revivication
reverize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reverizes
form: reverizing
form: reverized
form: reverized
Etymology: From reverie + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To have a reverie; to daydream.
reverized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reverize
reverizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reverize
reverizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reverize
mooshy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mooshy
form: most mooshy
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mushy.
flameage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From flame + -age.
Senses: examples: text: In the programming sections of Usenet, case conventions are second only to indentation as a source of pointless erudition and time-wasting flameage.
ref: 2004, Elliotte Rusty Harold, Effective XML: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your XML, page 30:
glosses: Alternative form of flamage.
nailful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nailfuls
form: nailsful
Etymology: From nail + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Sovey rushed inside and dashed a couple of nailsful of water into the burning ventilator, but to no purpose.
ref: 1926, Glimpses of Huron Shore in Early Days and Story of Harrisville:
text: She was clawing at his undershirt, ripping the thin cotton and piercing his skin with her nails, digging into the flesh and gouging out crescent slivers of skin and blood, picking him apart, nailful by nailful.
ref: 1988, Catherine Dai, Bound feet: stories of contemporary Taiwan, page 81:
text: The man smiled, took out his snuff box and drew in a few nailfuls.
ref: 2009, Linus Tongwo Asong, Salvation Colony, page 24:
text: Mercedes moved away from Jack and gripping Rosa's hand – her own nails were too short – she took a pinch and inhaled it. Rosa kissed Mercedes on the lips then took a further nailful and offered it to Jack who shook his head.
ref: 2010, Bill Vidal, The Aztec, page 73:
glosses: Enough to be stored under or on one's fingernail.
Synonyms: fingernailful
nailfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nailful
foreform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreforms
form: fore-form
Etymology: From fore- + form.
Senses: examples: text: Mathematics in its foreform, as arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and the applications of the analytic method, as well as mathematics applied to matter and force or statics and dynamics, furnishes the peculiar study that gives to us, whether as children or as men, …
ref: 1916, The Texas Mathematics Teachers' Bulletin - Volumes 1-5
text: The most probable foreform must have been the Old Ir. Acc.Sg.f., that is *ayam (cf. Av. imí|m, aeümi).
ref: 1982, Georg Morgenstierne, Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin, Monumentum Georg Morgenstierne - Volume 2
text: The unconscious is full of artful subterfuge; it shapes our unplanned utterances with unforeseen forethoughts – or foreforms, if one permits such things, for the mind is a repository of hidden and ready formations, a dark library of grammars whose nature is to make possible the inspired and the rash: dreams, talk, solemn unbreakable vows.
ref: 2007, David Arnold, Poetry and Language Writing: Objective and Surreal:
text: This interpretation shows that the thinking of being as beingness is not at all a beginning and so to speak does not arise from a “natural” representation of beings in general, but originates from the swaying of being that ever first inceptually as rising (φύσις) refused the grounding of its truth and along with it let ἀλήθεια become the presencing of what is constant (and thus let ἀλήθεια become the 'fore-form' of objectness).
ref: 2016, Martin Heidegger, Mindfulness:
glosses: An early or previous form; protoform
Related terms: urform
foreform
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foreforms
form: foreforming
form: foreformed
form: foreformed
form: fore-form
Etymology: From fore- + form.
Senses: glosses: To form beforehand or in advance; prepare
soccer football
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soccer footballs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of association football.
synonyms: word: association football
glosses: Synonym of soccer ball.
synonyms: word: soccer ball
Synonyms: sense: ball
word: soccer football ball
Derived terms: sense: association football
word: soccer football ball
Related terms: American football
association football
Australian rules football
Australian-rules football
Australian football
Canadian football
football
Gaelic football
gridiron football
international football
international rules football
international-rules football
Irish football
North American football
rugby football
soccer
neurodivergence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + divergence; coined by Kassiane Asasumasu in 2000. By surface analysis, neuro- + diverge + -ence.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: neurodiversity, neuroatypicality
text: Moreover, neurodivergence, or atypical neurological makeup, is often diagnosed as neurodegeneration, neurodysfunction, neural damage, or neural difference and frequently leads to difficulties in considering the emotional aspects of decisions that standard tests do not measure or disclose.
ref: 2011 July 5, Robin Mackenzie, John Watts, “Including Emotionality in Tests of Competence: How Does Neurodiversity Affect Measures of Free Will and Agency in Medical Decision Making?”, in AJOB Neuroscience, volume 2, number 3, page 27:
text: And do stay open to being supportive and accommodating of their neurodivergence if and when they call on you.
ref: 2023 February 3, Roxane Gay, “My Co-Worker’s Baby Photo Gallery Put Me Over the Edge”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: neurodivergency
antonyms: neurotypicality
hypernyms: divergence
divergency
glosses: The quality of being neurodivergent.
drumfunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From drum + funk.
Senses: glosses: A subgenre of drum and bass music involving intricate drum patterns.
7s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sevens.
7s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 7
foreforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foreform
foreformed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of foreform
foreforming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of foreform
clownstep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From clown + step.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A subgenre of drum and bass music with simplistic bouncing basslines.
overflower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overflowers
Etymology: From overflow + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, overflows.
overflower
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overflowers
form: overflowering
form: overflowered
form: overflowered
Etymology: From over- + flower.
Senses: examples: text: It is said to be particularly useful when trees are inclined to bear only biennially, or in cases where trees are liable to overflower.
ref: 1917, Special Consular Reports - Volumes 77-80, page 26:
text: In some cases they are shy growers and apt to overflower their strength.
ref: 1917, House & Garden - Volumes 31-32, page 33:
text: Of the 45 species found in seven samples of hay cut on 26 June, 16 species had overflowered.
ref: 1964, Branko Pešić, Journal for Scientific Agricultural Research:
glosses: To produce too many flowers.
overflowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overflower
overflowers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overflower
better-behaved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of well-behaved: more well-behaved
best-behaved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of well-behaved: most well-behaved
WCH
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: Abbreviation of World Cup of Hockey.
monkeyless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From monkey + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without monkeys.
orphant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orphants
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of orphan.
orphants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orphant
Daddy Warbucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks, a fictional character from the comic strip Little Orphan Annie, who first appeared in the Daily News in 1924.
Senses: examples: text: So, yes, grief was a regular bedside companion the many nights I cried myself to sleep thinking one day, all this will be just a dream, that I too, would have a Daddy Warbucks somewhere out there.
ref: 2011, Pandora Poikilos, Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out:
glosses: A powerful protector.
wikipedia: Little Orphan Annie
Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks
impedites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of impedite
impedited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of impedite
impediting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of impedite
yagya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yagyas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yajna.
yagyas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yagya
yadnya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yadnyas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yajna.
yadnyas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yadnya
safety scissors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: hypernyms: scissors
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glosses: Scissors that are not particularly sharp and have rounded tips, designed for safe use by children.
Related terms: trauma shears
Sind
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Sindh.
retardy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more retardy
form: most retardy
Etymology: From retard + -y.
Senses: examples: text: One of Ms. Johnson's sons, Raymond, has a glass eye and is kind of slow — you know, retardy.
To make matters worse, her retardy son, Toney, was running back and forth, from one end of the house to the other.
ref: 1998, Clarence Nero, Cheekie: A Child Out of the Desire:
text: How will he sound? All retardy?
ref: 2013, Bruce Wagner, Still Holding:
glosses: Resembling or befitting a retard; moronic.
rip entry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rip entries
Etymology: From rip + entry.
Senses: topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A type of entry into the water when diving from a platform or springboard where no splash results after the entire body has entered the water (the splash only results from initial contact and not at the end).
Related terms: backflop
belly flop
cannonball
tourettism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tourettisms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tourettism.
tourettisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tourettism
get off the nut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets off the nut
form: getting off the nut
form: got off the nut
form: got off the nut
form: gotten off the nut
Senses: examples: text: My first sales at this event will be used for getting off the nut.
glosses: To pay for the privilege to do business with people at special events.
predisease
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-disease
Etymology: From pre- + disease.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a predisease (such as prediabetes or prehypertension), as with predisease states or predisease stage.
glosses: Before a disease began, as with predisease cognitive performance as a baseline in dementia or predisease motor function as a baseline in multiple sclerosis.
predisease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prediseases
form: pre-disease
Etymology: From pre- + disease.
Senses: examples: text: When the goal of preventing adverse health outcomes is kept in mind, this review poses the idea that "predisease" as a category on which to act makes sense only if the following 3 conditions are met. First, the people designated as having predisease must be far more likely to develop disease than those not so designated. Second, there must be a feasible intervention that, when targeted to people with predisease, effectively reduces the likelihood of developing disease. Third, the benefits of intervening on predisease must outweigh the harms in the population.
ref: 2011, Anthony J. Viera, “Predisease: when does it make sense?”, in Epidemiologic Reviews, volume 33, number 1, →DOI, →PMID, pages 122–134:
text: Nowadays, it suggests more of a kind of 'proto-professionalization': the internalization of professional attitudes towards one's own body and acting as a kind of 'proto-professional' in cases of the treatment of a predisease.
ref: 2010, Michiel Korthals, Genomics, Obesity and the Struggle over Responsibilities:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A condition, albeit consisting of only one or two signs, that is identifiable as, or believed to be, a subclinical prelude to a disease, with greatly increased predisposition thereto (for example, prediabetes or prehypertension); the operational definition of such a state or the clinical value of asserting it may be contentious (as with purported preobesity).
prediseases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of predisease
pre-disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pre-diseases
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of predisease.
pre-diseases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pre-disease
Koch's bacillus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Koch's bacilli
Etymology: Discovered in 1882 by Robert Koch.
Senses: glosses: The bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which causes tuberculosis.
myofascial decompression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cupping (the East Asian practise of forming a vacuum underneath a cup that will break the surface capillaries of the skin under the cup, to treat ailments or increase blood flow to the area)
synonyms: word: cupping
extra: the East Asian practise of forming a vacuum underneath a cup that will break the surface capillaries of the skin under the cup, to treat ailments or increase blood flow to the area
Synonyms: word: cupping
word: MFD
Coordinate terms: moxybustion
acupuncture
acupressure
Derived terms: word: MFD
MFD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MFDs
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of multifuction display.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of myofascial decompression.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of mfd.
appearential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From appearency.
Senses: examples: text: And just as important as these appearential codes was the fact that the relationship among the different types of people was very closely regulated by social norms.
ref: 1985, David Popenoe, "Private Pleasure, Public Plight: Urban Development, Suburban Sprawl, and the Decline of Community", Transaction Publishers, Page 118
text: What I call the appearential inadequacy of perception is the inability, as it were, of any of the possible perceptions of a thing, of a feature of a thing, or more generally, of anything spatially extended, to give that entity directly, without the mediation of an appearance.
ref: 1982, William R. McKenna, "Husserl’s Introductions to Phenomenology: Interpretation and Critique", Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, page 67
glosses: Of or pertaining to appearency; superficial; apparent; outwardly evident.
grass oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grass oils
Senses: synonyms: citronella
roosa oil
glosses: A fragrant, volatile essential oil, obtained in India from grasses of the genus Cymbopogon, etc., and used in perfumery.
glosses: Any of various volatile oils derived from widely different plants.
filmesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsk
Forms: form: more filmesque
form: most filmesque
Etymology: From film + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a film; cinematic.
Related terms: filmic
shortrange
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of short + range
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of short-range.
longrange
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more longrange
form: most longrange
Etymology: Blend of long + range
Senses: examples: text: The longrange, strategic objective is really known only to Nixon himself, although Kissinger probably thinks he knows this, too. Kissinger probably knows the components, but Nixon probably is keeping their ultimate disposition to himself.
ref: 1973, Edward Hunter, Tactics, Volumes 10-11:
glosses: Alternative form of long-range.
cross-disciplinarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crossdisciplinarity
Etymology: By surface analysis, cross-disciplinary + -ity, or, by surface analysis, cross- + disciplinarity.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: interdisciplinarity, multidisciplinarity, pluridisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity
glosses: The combining and connecting of different disciplines.
crossdisciplinarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cross-disciplinarity.
pond lilies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pond lily
refcounts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of refcount
unskew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unskews
form: unskewing
form: unskewed
form: unskewed
Etymology: From un- + skew.
Senses: glosses: To undo a skewing.
upfold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upfolds
form: upfolding
form: upfolded
form: upfolded
Etymology: From up- + fold.
Senses: examples: text: I lie on my side, head sunk in the pillow, legs upfolded, as if for Indian burial.
ref: 2003, May Swenson, The Complete Love Poems of May Swenson, →ISBN, page 133:
text: The two little boys in the picture wore short pants and short, wide double breasted jackets over white shirts with white upfolded collars and black bow ties that looked terribly uncomfortable judging by the grimace on the chubby faces.
ref: 2014, Cassie Merko, Roots - A Life in Review, →ISBN:
glosses: To fold up.
examples: text: A groove in the cortex is called a fissure or a sulcus, and the upfolded tissue between two sulci is a gyrus.
ref: 2012, Michael A. Arbib, How the Brain Got Language: The Mirror System Hypothesis, →ISBN, page 91:
text: Thus the Pentland Hills form an anticline of Upper Silurian Rocks (shales and grits), over which the Carboniferous Rocks were upfolded.
ref: 2012, Alex McCallum, Midlothian, →ISBN, page 26:
glosses: To create a raised fold.
examples: text: It was the merciless upfolding of that glorious transfiguration pageant, in which the corruptible was seen putting on incorruption, and the mortal clothing itself with immortality.
ref: 1869, The Church Seasons Historically and Poetically Illustrated, page 480:
text: It is the life essence of true womanhood, existing potentially in the child, upfolding with other elements of character until it becomes the softening and ennobling spirit of the adult woman.
ref: 1899, Annual Report of the State Superintendent for the School Year:
text: The key to upfolding the mass campaign to study and apply the new party Constitution lies in the members of leading groups at all levels taking the lead in studying and applying […]
ref: 1970, United States. Foreign Broadcast Information Service, Daily Report: People's Republic of China, numbers 105-126:
text: […] and encouraged by the three great banners of the general line, the big leap forward and the people's commune, they upfolded a great revolution in education in 1958.
ref: 1977, Daily Report: People's Republic of China, numbers 231-240, United States: Foreign Broadcast Information Service:
text: And behind Spenser's poem is a further implication: that in the timeless realm beyond history, in which all things shall one day be upfolded, the imagined and the real will become one, the crooked images be absorbed into their archetypes.
ref: 2015, Isabel Gamble MacCaffrey, Spenser's Allegory: The Anatomy of Imagination, →ISBN, page 75:
glosses: To come together in order to form a whole
upfold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upfolds
Etymology: From up- + fold.
Senses: examples: text: In young mountains, upfolds (anticlines) form ridges and downfolds (synclines) form valleys.
ref: 2006, Peter L. Kresan, Reed Mencke, Understanding Earth Student Study Guide:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An anticline.
upfolds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upfold
upfolds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upfold
upfolding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upfold
upfolding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upfoldings
Senses: glosses: A folding upward.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An upfold or anticline.
upfolded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upfold
Dordrecht
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɔɹdɹɛkt/
ipa: /-dɹɛxt/
ipa: /ˈdɔːdɹɛkt/
ipa: /-dɹɛxt/
Forms: form: Dort
Etymology: From Dutch Dordrecht.
Senses: glosses: A city, municipality, and island of South Holland, Netherlands.
Fidaa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
chick magnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chick magnets
Senses: examples: text: When he walks his dog the girls all want to pet it – it's a real chick magnet.
glosses: Something that tends to get the attention of women, especially young women.
examples: text: With those clothes and that smile, he's a real chick magnet.
glosses: Someone (chiefly, a man) whom women, especially young women, find very attractive.
Synonyms: pussy magnet
babe magnet
chick magnets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chick magnet
Synonyms: babe magnet
peerier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of peerie: more peerie
glosses: comparative form of peery: more peery
unchange
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unchanges
form: unchanging
form: unchanged
form: unchanged
Etymology: From un- + change.
Senses: examples: text: Thus I experienced another important change, and one I never wished to unchange.
ref: 1817, William Hutton, Catherine Hutton, The life of William Hutton:
text: It is profoundly changed in ways that don't have to be unchanged or create counterdifficulties in the process.
ref: 1994, United States, United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration. Subcommittee on Libraries and Memorials, Library of Congress Personnel Policies and Procedures: Joint Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Libraries and Memorials of the Committee on House Administration, House of Representatives and the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, March 18 and 24, 1993, page 29:
glosses: To revert or reverse a change
examples: text: In analysing them we discern various mechanisms which seem to us to cause them to "unchange," to be "things" and thus to survive.
ref: 2013, G. Klir, Applied General Systems Research:
glosses: To not change; be unchanging; remain constant
unchange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unchanges
Etymology: From un- + change.
Senses: examples: text: It would seem that the full force of effectuation is felt only when the effect is change, and that when it is unchange the effectuation is felt to be attenuated and diminished;
ref: 1971, William De Prez Inlow, Medicine and the world of ideas: an iatrophilosophy:
text: If causation necessarily involved events or other particulars, unchanges would seem to create difficulties, since (according to Mellor at least) unchanges cannot be particular events, and thus when an unchange is caused (i.e., when we have stasis), there are no particulars that can be related and thus nothing that can be the basis for the causal relation.
ref: 2013, L.N. Oaklander, The Importance of Time, →ISBN:
text: One set of stakeholders are not aware about change or unchange in their enterprise.
ref: 2017, Raj Kumar Bhattarai, Enterprise Resiliency in the Continuum of Change:
glosses: A situation where all remains constant; stasis.
Synonyms: changelessness
fat arrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fat arrow
cookieing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cookie
cookied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cookie
cookied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: (of an HTTP request, a transferred file, a user) That has cookies.
hololimnic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From holo- + limnic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to freshwater in all of its life stages.