cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
antholeucin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From antho- + Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white”) + -in.
Senses: examples: text: The dissolved colouring-matters are, in white flowers, antholeucin, in blue anthocyanin.
ref: 1886, S. H. Vines, “Lecture XII”, in Lectures on the Physiology of Plants, page 242:
text: This in the case of yellow flowers is anthoxanthin; of white flowers, antholeucin; of blue flowers, anthocyanin, etc.
ref: 1889 December 24, J. H. Pillsbury, “Biological Notes”, in The American Monthly Microscopical Journal, volume 10, number 12, page 276:
text: There is such a thing as white flower-pigment (antholeucin), but in most cases the petals or sepals are white, just as foam is white, because of innumerable gas-bubbles in the cells.
ref: 1920, John Arthur Thomson, Biology of the Seasons, page 92:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A substance isolated from flowers and thought to act as a white pigment.
piercing gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piercing guns
Senses: glosses: A device designed to pierce earlobes by driving a pointed starter earring through the lobe.
piercing guns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piercing gun
misrenderings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misrendering
anthoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anthoid
arizonites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arizonite
pandanalean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From translingual Pandanales + -an.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Belonging to the plant order Pandanales.
Puretic power block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Puretic power blocks
Etymology: Invented by a Croatian fisherman, Mario Puratić.
Senses: glosses: A mechanized winch used to haul nets on fishing vessels, easier to manipulate than a purse seine.
Puretic power blocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Puretic power block
Spec-chum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Spec-chums
Etymology: Blend of spectrum + chum, introduced by Your Sinclair magazine.
Senses: examples: text: In fact it's hardly surprising that plans for downloading it onto the Speccy were received with, erm, mirth to say the very least. I must admit that I myself thought something along the lines of "R-Type? Oh yeah?" Well, Spec-chums - let me tell you something: I've never been more wrong.
ref: 1989, Duncan Macdonald, R-Type (video game review in Your Sinclair issue 37, January 1989)
text: I don't *know* for sure, but I *believe* that hardware pseudo-random bit sequences like this one are often done using shift registers with feedback. Cue some more clued-up Spec-chum who can fill in the gory details...
ref: 2000, Robert J. Baker, “AY sound chip information”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet):
text: YS3 is the essential read for the discerning Spec-chum. Available now, you can either browse online, or download a copy to read at your leisure.
ref: 2003, Nat Cross, “nostalgia here we go”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet):
glosses: A user or fan of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer.
Related terms: Speccy
Spec-chums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Spec-chum
Shawols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Shawol
myoblastoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myoblastomas
form: myoblastomata
Etymology: From myo- + blastoma.
Senses: glosses: A blastoma associated with muscle fibers
Derived terms: cardiomyoblastoma
myoblastomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myoblastoma
myoblastomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myoblastoma
myctophiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Belonging to the Myctophiformes order of ray-finned fishes.
miswire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: miswires
form: miswiring
form: miswired
form: miswired
Etymology: From mis- + wire.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, when it happened on one occasion that the card readers were producing gibberish, the managers not only found the cause to be a miswired plug board, they also realized that they had stumbled onto a means for creating messages in cipher.
ref: 2005, Kenneth S. Stephens, Juran, Quality, and a Century of Improvement, page 186:
glosses: To wire incorrectly.
miswires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of miswire
myofunctional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myo- + functional.
Senses: glosses: Relating to muscle function.
myotomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myotome + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a myotome.
Synonyms: myotomic
Derived terms: intermyotomal
nonmyotomal
woundcare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wound + care.
Senses: glosses: The treatment and care of wounds.
Cavourian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Cavourian
form: most Cavourian
Etymology: From Cavour + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (1810–1861), Italian statesman and a leading figure in the Italian unification movement.
mygalid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mygalids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any tarantula in the family Mygalidae, a synonym of the Theraphosidae.
mygalids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mygalid
myoelastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myo- + elastic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the movement of the muscles that position the vocal folds and are thus involved in phonation.
pseudologics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudologic
mytho-logic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mytho- + logic.
Senses: glosses: The quasi-logical system that underpins mythology, involving oppositions, metaphors, etc.
mythopoetize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mythopoetizes
form: mythopoetizing
form: mythopoetized
form: mythopoetized
Senses: glosses: To render mythopoetic.
mythopoetized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mythopoetize
mythopoetizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mythopoetize
mythopoetizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mythopoetize
mycorrhizic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mycorrhiza + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a mycorrhiza.
mycoflora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mycoflorae
form: mycofloras
Etymology: From myco- + flora.
Senses: synonyms: mycobiota
glosses: Fungi collectively, especially those of a particular region
Related terms: mycofloral
mycoflorae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mycoflora
mycofloras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mycoflora
myal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪ.əl/
rhymes: -aɪəl
Etymology: From myo- + -al.
Senses: examples: the myal side of the myoneural junction
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to muscle.
myal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪ.əl/
rhymes: -aɪəl
Forms: form: myals
Senses: glosses: A practitioner of myalism.
meeterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more meeterly
form: most meeterly
Senses: glosses: tolerably; comfortably
megalocytosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From megalocyte + -osis.
Senses: glosses: megaloblastic anemia
melo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From French mélo-, from Ancient Greek μέλος (mélos, “limb, musical phrase, melody, song”).
Senses: glosses: music
coppies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coppie
glosses: plural of coppy
coppicings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coppicing
recoppice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recoppices
form: recoppicing
form: recoppiced
form: recoppiced
Etymology: From re- + coppice.
Senses: glosses: To coppice again.
recoppiced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recoppice
recoppices
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recoppice
recoppicing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recoppice
mesosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mesosome + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the bacterial mesosome.
mesophilous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mesophilous
form: most mesophilous
Etymology: From meso- + -philous.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of mesophilic.
synonyms: word: mesophilic
mediocritize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mediocritizes
form: mediocritizing
form: mediocritized
form: mediocritized
Etymology: From mediocrity + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To reduce to a state of mediocrity.
Derived terms: mediocritization
mediocritizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mediocritize
mediocritizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mediocritize
mediocritized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mediocritize
mediocritization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mediocritize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The process of mediocritizing.
mic drops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mic drop
sinigang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sinigangs
Senses: glosses: A sour Filipino soup, usually made with tamarind.
sinigangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sinigang
otkaznik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: otkazniks
form: otkazniki
Etymology: From Russian отка́зник (otkáznik).
Senses: examples: text: [Kiril] Khenkin said in a talk in his apartment that he can’t speak for all the otkazniki, but that his case is “fairly typical” of Jews denied exit visas for what they consider arbitrary reasons.
ref: 1973 June 17, AP [Associated Press], “Foresees plight will remain same: Soviet Jew: summit will not help”, in Messenger and Inquirer, home edition, volume 99, number 169, Owensboro, Ky., →OCLC, page 12-A, column 2:
text: Out of 72 Otkazniki families listed in Moscow (“Otkazniki” is a term for someone who has been refused a visa), a total of 23 are said to have left the Soviet Union already. The situation is said to be less favorable for Otkazniki in the provinces.
ref: 1973 September 27, Agence France-Presse, “Exit Visas Increased by Russia”, in The Shreveport Times, city edition, volume 102, number 304, Shreveport, La.: Times Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 8-E, column 1:
text: She also feared what might happen to her if her application for an exit visa were to be refused. The lot of the Jewish otkazniki, or “refuseniks,” was not an enviable one.
ref: 1982 February 7, Elizabeth de Mauny, “The Winter Years of Nadezhda Mandelstam”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 2015:
glosses: Synonym of refusenik.
synonyms: word: refusenik
otkazniks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of otkaznik
moneyward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From money + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Toward money; in a direction that leads to profit.
Synonyms: moneywards
scent mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scent marks
Senses: glosses: A strong-smelling substance, from the urine or a gland, deposited by an animal to mark its territory.
scent mark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scent marks
form: scent marking
form: scent marked
form: scent marked
Senses: examples: text: A male fox will scent mark his territory during mating season.
glosses: To deposit a scent mark.
scent marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scent mark
cutsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cut + -sies.
Senses: glosses: The act of cutting in line; queue-jumping.
bukos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buko
Tagoi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Rashad language, closely related to Tegali, spoken near the town of Rashad in southern Kordofan in Sudan.
barong Tagalog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barong Tagalogs
Etymology: From Tagalog barong-tagalog (literally “Tagalog clothing”).
Senses: glosses: A lightweight embroidered formal shirt, considered the national dress of the Philippines.
barong Tagalogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barong Tagalog
moneywards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From money + -wards.
Senses: glosses: moneyward
bahala na
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Borrowed from Tagalog bahala na.
Senses: glosses: Expressing the fatalistic attitude that things are out of one's control and whatever will happen will happen.
Related terms: che sara sara
that's the way the cookie crumbles
hardshipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hardship
hardshipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hardship
Hubricht's bluestar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after American naturalist Leslie Hubricht (1908–2005).
Senses: glosses: The North American flowering plant Amsonia hubrichtii.
hard launch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hard launches
Senses: examples: text: A hard launch is technically simpler than a soft launch, but produces a large backblast.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: soft launch
glosses: The launch of a guided missile in such a way that the missile's rocket engine is ignited while still inside the launch assembly or tube.
topics: business
marketing
coordinate_terms: soft launch
glosses: The release of a product or service (particularly software) to the general public.
examples: text: The hard launch of what appeared to be the hottest new relationship in town – Billanna? Winty? – at the 2023 Met Gala saw Vogue supremo Wintour, who has hosted the Met Gala for 30 years, walk the red carpet arm in arm with the dashing and debonair Love Actually star, a man Clive James named “the nation’s leading male sexpot”.
ref: 2023 May 2, Samuel Fishwick, “The ‘secret romance’ that got everybody talking at the Met Gala”, in The Independent:
coordinate_terms: soft launch
glosses: The explicit announcement of a romantic relationship, often via social media.
Derived terms: hard-launch
Related terms: cold launch
hot launch
hard launch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hard launches
form: hard launching
form: hard launched
form: hard launched
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hard-launch.
hard launches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hard launch
soft launches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soft launch
plaster room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plaster rooms
Senses: glosses: A room in a hospital where plaster casts are applied.
plaster rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plaster room
bartendress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bartendresses
form: bartenderess
Etymology: From bartender + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female bartender.
edge mill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: edge mills
Senses: glosses: A mill for crushing or grinding in which stones roll around on their edges on a level circular bed.
edge mills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of edge mill
Chilean mill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chilean mills
Senses: glosses: A machine consisting of two rotating wheels, used by gold miners to break apart rocks.
Chilean mills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chilean mill
bartendresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bartendress
bartenderess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bartenderesses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bartendress.
bartenderesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bartenderess
planholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planholders
Etymology: From plan + holder.
Senses: glosses: The customer who has purchased a plan, such as a pension or insurance plan.
planholders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planholder
history-sheeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of history-sheeter
history-sheeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: history-sheeters
Etymology: From history sheet + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person with a criminal record, especially an extensive one.
history sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: history sheets
Senses: glosses: A rap sheet.
Derived terms: history-sheeter
rap sheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rap sheet
history sheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of history sheet
parvenuess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parvenuesses
Etymology: From parvenu + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female parvenu; a parvenue.
tracheobronchoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tracheobronchoscopies
Etymology: From tracheo- + bronchoscopy.
Senses: glosses: A medical examination of the trachea and bronchi.
tracheobronchoscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tracheo- + bronchoscopic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to tracheobronchoscopy.
tracheobronchoscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tracheobronchoscopy
tracheobronchoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tracheobronchoscopes
Etymology: From tracheo- + broncho- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: A kind of endoscope used in tracheobronchoscopy.
tracheobronchoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tracheobronchoscope
overbias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + bias.
Senses: glosses: The use of more bias current in an analog magnetic recorder than is required for maximum sensitivity.
overbias
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overbiases
form: overbiasing
form: overbiased
form: overbiased
Etymology: From over- + bias.
Senses: glosses: To use more bias current in an analog magnetic recorder than is required for maximum sensitivity.
overbiasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overbias
overbiases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overbias
organella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organellae
Senses: glosses: Synonym of organelle.
synonyms: word: organelle
organellae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of organella
rhopalics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhopalic
valorizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From valorize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being valorized.
unstrainable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + strainable.
Senses: glosses: Not strainable.
organal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Relating to organum.
ichthyomorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ichthyomorphs
Etymology: From ichthyo- + -morph.
Senses: glosses: A figure in ancient art resembling a fish.
ornithomorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ornithomorphs
Etymology: From ornitho- + -morph.
Senses: glosses: A figure in ancient art resembling a bird.
ornithomorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ornithomorph
ichthyomorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ichthyomorph
anthropomorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anthropomorph
zoomorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoomorph
fooless
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foolesses
Etymology: From fool + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female fool.
ossicusp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ossicusps
Etymology: From ossi- + cusp, coined by British zoologist Ray Lankester.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The bony horn of an okapi or a giraffe.
ossicusps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ossicusp
foolesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fooless
petitors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petitor
pectization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pectize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The process of pectizing.
depeasantization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + peasantization.
Senses: glosses: The process of phasing out the peasant class and its traditional practices.
deagrarianization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deagrarianizations
Etymology: From de- + agrarianization.
Senses: glosses: The process of moving a societal structure away from an agrarian mode toward something else.
agrarianization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From agrarian + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of moving a societal structure toward an agrarian mode.
Derived terms: deagrarianization
peasantization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɛzn̩tʌɪˈzeɪʃn̩/
Forms: form: peasantisation
Etymology: From peasantize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: At the same time, a strategy of peasantization might reduce (but this is by no means certain) or postpone (perhaps for a generation or so) the more acute social and political conflicts which are inherent in the process of marginalization.
ref: 1981, Rodolfo Stavenhagen, Between Underdevelopment and Revolution, page 123:
text: Indeed, in so far as the ‘peasantisation’ of the squires was in line with the basic peasant ideal of creating a society made up entirely of smallholding family farmers, it was even something to be welcomed.
ref: 1996, Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy, Folio Society, published 2015, page 602:
glosses: The process of creating a peasant class involved in small-scale agrarian practices.
Derived terms: depeasantization
barberess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barberesses
Etymology: From barber + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female barber.
Hosaka-Cohen transformation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Proposed by Cohen and Hosaka of the biomagnetism group at MIT.
Senses: glosses: A mathematical method of converting a particular two-dimensional scalar magnetic field map to a particular two-dimensional vector map.
magnetocardiogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetocardiograms
Etymology: From magneto- + cardiogram.
Senses: glosses: An image produced by magnetocardiography.
magnetocardiograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magnetocardiogram
magnetocardiographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From magnetocardiographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of magnetocardiography.
barberesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barberess
lava tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lava tubes
Senses: glosses: A natural conduit formed by flowing lava that moves beneath the hardened surface of a lava flow.
Related terms: skylight
lava tubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lava tube
magicianess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magicianesses
Etymology: From magician + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: The Magicianeſs Bacoti, keeps conſtant Correſpondence with the Devil (to whom, if ſhe has a Daughter, ſhe offers her as ſoon as ſhe is born,) and if any Mother happen to loſe a Child, ſhe makes her Addreſs to this Magicianeſs, who, by the beat of a Drum, pretends to Summon the Soul of that Child, and tell the Mother, whether its Condition in the other World be Good or otherwiſe.
ref: 1695, Samuel Morland, The Urim of Conscience … With Three Select Prayers for Private Families, →OCLC, page 44:
text: […] a Magician doth not, amongst learned men, signify a sorcerer or one that is superstitious or devilish; but a wise man, a priest, a prophet; and that the Sybils were Magicianesses, and therefore prophesied most clearly of Christ;
ref: 1898, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, Three Books of Occult Philosophy or Magic, Chicago: Hahn & Whitehead, →OCLC, page 25:
text: For you see, Isis, my sister, the great and beautiful goddess of re-membering, whose true name is Auset, was the most magnificent magicianess in the whole of creation.
ref: 2015, Renee Starr, You Are Woman, You Are Divine: The Modern Woman's Journey Back to The Goddess, Gardena: Over and Above Creative, →ISBN, →OCLC, →ISBN:
synonyms: magicienne
glosses: A female magician.
magicianesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magicianess
blackstream
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of black + mainstream, coined by Elsa Honig Fine in her paper Mainstream, Blackstream and the Black Art Movement (1971).
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: Conforming to the mainstream, with the exception of depicting people with black skin; not being a distinctively black style of art.
Related terms: whitestream
renarrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: renarrates
form: renarrating
form: renarrated
form: renarrated
Etymology: From re- + narrate.
Senses: glosses: To narrate again.
renarrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of renarrate
renarrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of renarrate
renarrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of renarrate
renarration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: renarrations
Etymology: From re- + narration.
Senses: glosses: The process of narrating again.
renarrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of renarration
evolutionarily stable strategy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evolutionarily stable strategies
form: evolutionary stable strategy
Etymology: Coined by British biologist John Maynard Smith in 1972 in his paper Game Theory and The Evolution of Fighting.
Senses: examples: text: 1986 John Maynard Smith: Evolution and the Theory of Games. Cambridge University Press
In this chapter, I introduce the concept of an "evolutionarily stable strategy", or ESS. A 'strategy' is a behavioural phenotype; i.e. it is a specification of what an individual will do in any situation in which it may find itself. An ESS is a strategy such that, if all the members of a population adopt it, then no mutant strategy could invade the population under the influence of natural selection. The concept is couched in terms of a "strategy" because it arose in the context of animal behaviour. The idea, however, can be applied equally well to any kind of phenotypic variation, and the word strategy could be replaced by the word phenotype; for example, a strategy could be the growth form of a plant, or the age at first reproduction, or the relative numbers of sons and daughters produced by a parent.
text: To be an evolutionarily stable strategy, remember, a strategy must not be invadable, when it is common, by a rare mutant strategy.
ref: 1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene:
text: An evolutionarily stable strategy is a strategy that does well against copies of itself.
ref: 1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene:
topics: computing
engineering
game-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: ESS
qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: A strategy that, when adopted by a population, is effective and not foreseeably likely to be replaced by another strategy.
Derived terms: word: ESS
Related terms: Nash equilibrium
microflyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microflyers
Etymology: From micro- + flyer.
Senses: examples: text: Spy planes that are small enough to fit in the hand could be taking to the skies within three years. Called microflyers, the planes will have a wingspan of about 15cms and weigh less than 100 grammes.
ref: 1997 February 23, Mark Prigg, “Microplanes take shape”, in Sunday Times:
text: The 10-gram microflyer demonstrated autonomous operation using only visual, gyroscopic and anemometric sensors.
ref: 2008, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Bio-inspired Flying Robots, →ISBN:
text: The ability to hover as well as fly efficiently at low speeds is crucial for a microflyer designed for indoor surveillance. Accordingly, a loarge amount of research has been focused on rotary-wing and flapping-wing microflyer configurations.
ref: 2013, Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Raul Jose Martin-Palma, Engineered Biomimicry, →ISBN, page 119:
text: The interpolation image algorithm (I2A) combined with a 1D camera array have been used onboard an indoor microflyer.
ref: 2014, Esmaiel Jabbari, Deok-Ho Kim, Luke P Lee, Handbook of Biomimetics and Bioinspiration, →ISBN, page 574:
glosses: An extremely small aircraft that is typically used for surveillance.
microflyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microflyer
squattage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskwɒ.tədʒ/
ipa: /ˈskwɑ.tədʒ/
ipa: /ˈskwɔ.tədʒ/
rhymes: -ɒtədʒ
Forms: form: squattages
Etymology: From squat + -age.
Senses: examples: text: When this was done Strangway and one of the men rode over to Coglin station to send a telegram to Mills that all was well and a good squattage had been secured.
ref: 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia:
text: Many persons held squatting licences who did not live on the squattage, but carried on some occupation elsewhere, the run being left in the care of an overseer.
ref: 1918, Timothy Augustine Coghlan, Labour and Industry in Australia: From the First Settlement in 1788 to the Establishment of the Commonwealth in 1901, Oxford University Press, page 387:
glosses: A holding occupied by a squatter (an occupier of Crown land or a large-scale land owner).
dizzy limit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of giddy limit.
synonyms: word: giddy limit
giddy limit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The absolute limit; behaviour that is beyond acceptability; a person displaying such behaviour
Synonyms: dizzy limit
-phily
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φιλία (philía, “(fraternal) love”).
Senses: glosses: liking for
glosses: tendency towards
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: pollination by
Related terms: phil-
philo-
-philia
-philiac
-philic
-phile
-philous
guolaosi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Mandarin 過勞死／过劳死 (guòláosǐ), from Japanese 過労死 (karōshi). Doublet of gwarosa and karoshi.
Senses: examples: text: They say that Chinese workers in factories supplying Wal-Mart are dying from guolaosi—“overwork death”—from working upwards of fifteen hours a day, seven days a week, for months on end in a frenzy to quickly and cheaply fill demand ...
ref: 2005, Melissa Rossi, What Every American Should Know About Who's Really Running the World, →ISBN:
text: Asia estimated that by June 2006 the number of deaths attributed to guolaosi in China had reached six hundred thousand per year.
ref: 2007, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Unmarketable:
text: Her parents were told it was 'unknown death' and received a small sum in compensation. But the villagers said it was the new disease, guolaosi. Overwork death.
ref: 2011, Eric Clark, The Real Toy Story: Inside the Ruthless Battle for Britain's Youngest Consumers, →ISBN:
text: Although difficult to calculate, one prominent newspaper estimates that guolaosi claims the lives of 600 000 people in China each year.
ref: 2015, Steven McShane, Mara Olekalns, Alex Newman, Organisational Behaviour 5e; Emerging Knowledge, →ISBN:
text: Such a concept is also recognised in South Korea where it is referred to as gwarosa (과로사/過勞死) and in China, overwork-induced suicide is called guolaosi (过劳死).
ref: 2017 July 16, “Dying Through Overwork. Working Hours in Asia.”, in Bird & Bird:
text: The Japanese concept of karoshi (過労死) comes to mind when I think of what can happen when you aren't in tune with your body's needs. Karoshi, a Japanese word that literally translates as "overwork death," is known as sudden occupational mortality. In South Korea, it's called gwarosa (과로사) and in China, guolaosi (過勞死／过劳死).
ref: 2022 July 12, Dwayne J. Clark, “KAROSHI CULTURE: A WARNING TO WORKAHOLICS”, in Dwayne J. Clark:
glosses: Death from overwork.
Synonyms: gwarosa
karoshi
Related terms: roman: jiǔjiǔliù
english: 9-to-9 workday and six-day workweek; 996
translation: 9-to-9 workday and six-day workweek; 996
word: 九九六
lawn darts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lawn dart
lawn dart effect
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: An effect observed in fighter aircraft pilots, where horizontal acceleration at more than 1 standard gravity causes extreme stimulation of the vestibular system and leads to the faulty perception that the aircraft is climbing.
standard gravity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: standard gravities
Senses: glosses: A measure of the nominal gravitational acceleration of an object in a vacuum near the surface of the Earth, defined by standard as 9.80665 m/s².
standard gravities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of standard gravity
semi-identical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + identical.
Senses: glosses: Being the result of two sperm cells fertilizing a single egg, which then splits into two embryos, sharing all of the mother's genetic material but only half of the father's.
raw_tags: of twins
glosses: Being the result of two sperm cells each fertilizing a split egg, where one fertilizes the major egg body and another fertilizes the minor polar body.
raw_tags: of twins
Coordinate terms: dizygotic
monozygotic
sesquizygotic
flying wing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flying wings
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A tailless fixed-wing aircraft that has no definite fuselage
Related terms: flying brick
flying wings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flying wing
welwitschia bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: welwitschia bugs
Senses: glosses: Probergrothius angolensis, a yellow true bug with black markings, found in the Namib desert and known for its association with the welwitschia plant.
welwitschia bugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of welwitschia bug
king snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: king snakes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kingsnake.
caper bush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caper bushes
form: caperbush
Senses: glosses: The bush (of genus Capparis) on which capers grow.
caper bushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caper bush
caperbush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caperbushes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of caper bush.
caperbushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caperbush
living rocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of living rock
crimson clover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Trifolium incarnatum, a species of clover in the family Fabaceae, native to most of Europe.
bog cotton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From its resemblance to cotton and its typical bog habitat.
Senses: glosses: The sedge Eriophorum angustifolium.
laurophyll
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having broad, glossy leaves characteristic of the laurel.
lucidophyll
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lucid + -o- + -phyll.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having shiny leaves.
Waigieu seaperch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Waigieu seaperch
Senses: glosses: Psammoperca waigiensis, a latid marine fish, native to tropical coastal waters.
emotional affair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emotional affairs
Senses: glosses: An affair that involves emotional intimacy with a person other than one's partner, but no sexual intercourse.
emotional affairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emotional affair
videoclass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: videoclasses
Etymology: From video- + class.
Senses: glosses: An educational course or lesson delivered as a video recording.
videoclasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of videoclass
caddess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caddesses
Etymology: From cad + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female cad.
caddesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caddess
economy picking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A guitar picking technique designed to maximize efficiency. When picking multiple notes on a string, alternate picking is used, and when changing to a new string, sweep picking is used.
gluttoness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gluttonesses
Etymology: From glutton + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female glutton.
gluttonesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gluttoness
square notation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: neumatic notation
oriscus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orisci
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An ornamental neume of unclear meaning, usually found added to another neume as an auxiliary note.
orisci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oriscus
emotronica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of emo + electronica
Senses: glosses: emotronic music
strophicus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strophici
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A neume resembling an apostrophe, possibly indicating a small variation in pitch.
strophici
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strophicus
neum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neums
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Alternative form of neume.
neums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neum
mensuralists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mensuralist
salicus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salici
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A neume consisting of an ascending group of three notes, resembling the scandicus but having the second note emphasized.
bivirga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bivirgae
Etymology: From bi- + virga.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A neume that doubles the value of the first note in a series of virgae.
trivirga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trivirgae
Etymology: From tri- + virga.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A neume that trebles the value of the first note in a series of virgae.
bivirgae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bivirga
trivirgae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trivirga
tristropha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tristrophae
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A neume that trebles the value of the first note in a series.
distropha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distrophae
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A neume that doubles the value of the first note in a series.
tristrophae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tristropha
distrophae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of distropha
bistropha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bistrophae
Senses: glosses: Synonym of distropha.
synonyms: word: distropha
bistrophae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bistropha
get out of jail free cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of get out of jail free card
daseian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: dasian
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δασεῖα (daseîa).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Using or relating to a medieval form of musical notation with varying numbers of staves and a system of four shapes rotated to represent eighteen pitches.
dasian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Alternative form of daseian.
get-out-of-jail-free cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of get-out-of-jail-free card
corn mother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corn mothers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of corn dolly.
synonyms: word: corn dolly
corn mothers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corn mother
Portuguese pavement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Portuguese pavements
Senses: glosses: A pavement consisting of small flat pieces of various different stones arranged in a mosaic pattern.
Portuguese pavements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Portuguese pavement
bimaterial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + material.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Consisting of two different materials.
trimaterial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + material.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Consisting of three different materials.
birth trays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birth tray
surmoulage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surmoulages
Etymology: Borrowed from French surmoulage.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: The fraudulent practice of taking a casting directly from a sculpture rather than from the artist's original.
surmoulages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surmoulage
curse of the ninth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the curse of the ninth
Senses: glosses: The superstition that a ninth symphony is destined to be the composer's last.
practical effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: practical effects
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A special effect produced physically, without computer-generated imagery or other postproduction techniques.
practical effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of practical effect
hexenmeister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexenmeisters
Etymology: From German Hexenmeister.
Senses: glosses: A practitioner of braucherei.
braucherei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A system of American folk religion and magic associated with the Pennsylvania Dutch.
Synonyms: brauche
Related terms: hexenmeister
hexenmeisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexenmeister
Siege Perilous
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Siege Perilous
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: In Arthurian legend, a vacant seat at the Round Table, reserved by Merlin for the knight who would one day be successful in the quest for the Holy Grail.
Synonyms: Perilous Seat
Münchhausen trilemma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: Agrippa's trilemma
glosses: The problem in epistemology that all three ways of providing a proof — circular argument, regressive argument, and axiomatic argument — may be regarded as unsatisfactory.
Agrippa's trilemma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Münchhausen trilemma.
synonyms: word: Münchhausen trilemma
dictogloss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dictoglosses
Senses: topics: education
glosses: A technique for teaching grammatical structures, in which students first take notes as the teacher reads and then, in small groups, attempt to summarize the text in the target language.
dictoglosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dictogloss
borefest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: borefests
Etymology: From bore + -fest.
Senses: glosses: An extremely boring event.
Synonyms: snoozefest
snore-fest
yawnfest
borefests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of borefest
passing shots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passing shot
Devon wrestling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of wrestling, popular in the nineteenth century, in which competitors could kick each other with hardened footwear.
shoulders to cry on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoulder to cry on
emotional tampon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emotional tampons
Senses: examples: text: So you just want to be friends, huh? Yeah, I think I know what that means. I become some kind of 'emotional tampon' you need three or four days out of the month... when no one else will take your fucking bullshit
ref: 1987, Sam Kinison, HBO comedy Special: Breaking the Rules:
text: These guys end up acting as emotional tampons for women. They listen attentively as their female friends tell them about what jerks the real men in their lives are. Believe me, I've been there.
ref: 2005, John Alexander, How to Become an Alpha Male, page 36:
text: The orbiters in her life in high likelihood like to talk about this and make themselves her emotional tampon and outlet.
ref: 2015, Jack N. Raven, Penetration: A Tactical Manual on Forming Deep Emotional Connections!:
glosses: A man who is used by a woman as a shoulder to cry on and then discarded.
emotional tampons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emotional tampon
Parthian shots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Parthian shot
French Southern Territories
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: French Southern and Antarctic Lands