cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
memery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meme + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: However, I would like to suggest that option 5, MORE MEMERY, would make alt.religion.kibology a better place. EVERYONE, MAKE UP MORE MEMES, WE MUST INCREASE OUR ROBUST EXPORTS OF NEOLOGIC MEMERY!
ref: 1998 November 9, James Kibo Parry, “what do we want poll”, in alt.religion.kibology (Usenet):
text: For example, “Memery: imitation, memory, and internet culture” at Massachusetts Museum of Modern Art in North ... A very comprehensive list of Ryan Gosling memes can be seen at http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/hey_girl_i_know_ ...
ref: 2014, Christopher Schaberg, Robert Bennett, Deconstructing Brad Pitt, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 133:
text: "Figuring out why the internet grew attached to SpongeBob is like trying to figure out why the internet likes (or dislikes) anything. It just happens. But something about Hillenburg's show proved irresistible to memery. The show’s characters—and its titular hero specifically—are expressive enough to communicate a mood in a single frame. The show's wholesome, if slyly subversive, tone makes recontextualizing those faces all the funnier."
ref: 2018 November 27, tmc...@gmail.com, “SpongeBob creator Stephen Hillenburg's legacy lives on in countless internet memes”, in alt.tv.nickelodeon (Usenet):
glosses: The distribution of memes (usually humorous material copied and circulated online).
on-point
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of on point.
Veja
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Veja.
Senses: glosses: A tributary of the Sacovăț river in Romania.
Veja
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former princely state in India.
shenyi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ʃɛn.i/
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 深衣 (shēnyī).
Senses: glosses: A type of Han Chinese clothing commonly worn from the pre-Shang dynasty periods to the Han dynasty.
passemezzo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passemezzos
form: passemezzi
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of passamezzo (“Italian folk dance”).
passemezzi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passemezzo
Biñan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈɲan/
ipa: /bɪnˈjaʊn/
Senses: glosses: A city in Laguna, Philippines.
food fall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: food falls
form: food-fall
form: foodfall
Senses: examples: Klages, Michael; Muyakshin, Sergey; Soltwedel, Thomas; Arntz, Wolf (24 January 2002), “Mechanoreception, a possible mechanism for food fall detection in deep-sea scavengers”, in Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, volume 49, number 1, →Bibcode, →DOI, pages 143–155: “The problem for any scavenger inhabiting the seafloor is the unpredictability both in space and time of food fall events.”
Klages, Michael; Vopel, Kay; Bluhm, Hartmut; brey, Thomas; Soltwedel, Thomas; Arntz, Wolf E. (24 April 2001), “Deep-sea food falls: first observation of a natural event in the Arctic Ocean”, in Polar Biology, volume 24, →DOI, pages 292–295: “We report and discuss the first observation of the processing of a natural food fall of smaller size in the deep sea.”
qualifier: marine biology
glosses: An event in which organic matter in the ocean sinks to the seafloor.
food falls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of food fall
food-fall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: food-falls
Senses: examples: Soltwedel, Thomas; von Juterzenka, Karen; Premke, Katrin; Klages, Michael (24 November 2003), “What a lucky shot! Photographic evidence for a medium-sized natural food-fall at the deep seafloor”, in Oceanologica Acta, volume 26, numbers 5–6 (overall work in English and French), →DOI, →ISSN, pages 623–628: “Whereas there are a few reports describing the finding of whale carcasses in the deep north-eastern and south-eastern Pacific, descriptions of invertebrate or vertebrate food-falls at centimetre to metre scale are extremely rare.”
Jones, Emma G. (24 September 1999), "Burial at Sea"; Consumption and Dispersal of Large Fish and Cetacean Food-Falls by Deep-Sea Scavengers in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean and Eastern Mediterranean Sea (PhD thesis), University of Aberdeen: “Whereas there are a few reports describing the finding of whale carcasses in the deep north-eastern and south-eastern Pacific, descriptions of invertebrate or vertebrate food-falls at centimetre to metre scale are extremely rare.”
glosses: Alternative form of food fall.
food-falls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of food-fall
Thompson SMG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Thompson SMGs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Thompson submachine gun.
quadricolored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: quadricoloured
Etymology: From quadri- + colored.
Senses: examples: text: Its border is of tri-colored and quadricolored geranium leaves, intermingled with leaves of the highly tinted coleus and the hoary centaurea.
ref: 1873, Michigan State Pomological Society, Annual Report of the Michigan State Pomological Society, volume 2, page 131:
text: It was called the quadricolored corn. Among the plants raised in the first season there were two stalks, and two only, that justified the name, their leaves being striped with yellow, white, crimson, and green.
ref: 1921, Luther Burbank, Gardening, page 321:
text: It has a broad, distanct black band on either side of the head and neck just above the white band, beginning back of the eye and extending nearly to the base of the long neck, giving the head and neck a quadricolored appearance laterally, dark brown above, then a band of black, then white, and then lighter brown below.
ref: 1930, Herbert Friedmann, Birds Collected by the Childs Frick Expedition to Ethiopia and Kenya Colony, United States Government Printing Office, pages 16–17:
text: There are even tricolor or quadricolored leaved kinds and one that was popular a hundred years ago and named Mrs. Pollock is something I crave.
ref: 1946, Gardeners' Chronicle of America, page 190:
text: The job order shown in Figure 1 is printed in quadricolored pads and distributed to all persons authorized to issue these orders.
ref: 1948, Petroleum Refiner, volume 27, page 417:
text: The distinguishing signal of Swedish ice breakers is a quadricolored pennant displayed at the yardarm by day and a violet light shown at the yardarm at night.
ref: 1952, United States Hydrographic Office, H.O. Pub, number 44, page 28:
text: The quadricolored arc is formed in air when rays of the sun shining into a hollow cloud, are driven back toward the sun, just as when the sun shines on a water vase and the brightness is sent back onto the ceiling.
ref: 1959, Carl Benjamin Boyer, The Rainbow from Myth to Mathematics, page 85:
text: The males are typically brightly tricolored, black, orange, and white; the females typically quadricolored, black and brown with some orange and white markings.
ref: 1960, United States National Museum, Proceedings of the United States National Museum, volume 111, page 253:
text: The snakes may be bicolored, tricolored, or even quadricolored.
ref: 2003, Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Reptiles, page 484:
text: Sure, I love elegant all-one-colored irises too, but spice it up with bi-, tri-, and quadricolored flowers, and now you’re talking.
ref: 2012 May 22, Kelly Norris, A Guide to Bearded Irises: Cultivating the Rainbow for Beginners and Enthusiasts, Timber Press, →ISBN, page 43:
glosses: Having four colors.
Synonyms: quadchromatic
quadricolor
tetracolored
quadricoloured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quadri- + coloured.
Senses: examples: text: The proposition, in fact, amounted to this, were they prepared at once to sacrifice their constitution, valuable as it was on account of its antiquity, not to the tricolour of Lafayette and Co., but to the quadricoloured flag of the firm of Lee, Bousfield and Co.?
ref: 1831, Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, page 139:
text: The dorsal pelage is distinctly quadricoloured instead of tricoloured as in G. variegata.
ref: 1968, Eugene Raymond Hall, J. R. Tamsitt, A New Subspecies of the Red Fig-eating Bat from Puerto Rico:
text: Their leaves are particoloured like a tartan, and, although called tricolours, they are often, in fact, quadricoloured.
ref: 1975, Ippolito Pizzetti, Henry Cocker, Flowers: a Guide for Your Garden, volume 2, page 971:
glosses: Alternative spelling of quadricolored.
demogerontia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demogerontias
form: dimogerontia
Etymology: From Greek δημογεροντία (dimogerontía).
Senses: examples: text: Why may not the national spirit of Greece be as well preserved by her Demogerontias, as England had hers by her hundreds?
ref: 1836, John Finlay, “The Hellenic Kingdom and the Great Nation”, in The Monthly Review, volume 3, page 539:
text: But the Cabinets of the Continent were not then disposed to protect institutions that contained a principle of self-government, and the British Government, as a member of the protective alliance, became a consenting party to the suppression of those native institutions, called demogerontias, which had given the Greeks something of an organized commissariat during the revolutionary war.
ref: 1868, The Saturday Review, volume 25, London, page 274:
text: This Council was called Demogerontia (municipality) and was composed of twelve members named municipal councillors, of one treasurer, and of the president of the Council, called Demogeron (mayor).
ref: 1922, Michael D. Volonakes, The Island of Roses and Her Eleven Sisters: Or, The Dodecanese from the Earliest Time Down to the Present Day, page 299:
glosses: A local government in Greece.
Related terms: demogeron
peripherolobular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From periphery + -o- + lobular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to or situated on the peripheral part of a lobule, especially a hepatic lobule.
Related terms: centrilobular
panlobular
hexalobular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hexa- + lobular.
Senses: glosses: Having six lobules.
WIV
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: “This action aims to ensure that WIV does not receive another dollar of federal funding,” an HHS spokesperson said in a statement. “The move was undertaken due to WIV’s failure to provide documentation on WIV’s research requested by NIH related to concerns that WIV violated NIH’s biosafety protocols.”
ref: 2023 July 19, Jeremy Diamond and Simone McCarthy, “Biden administration suspends funding for Wuhan lab”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of Wuhan Institute of Virology: a research institute on virology in Wuhan administered by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, founded in 1956.
Tache
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Taches
Senses: glosses: A placename
Ellipsis of La Tache, alternative form of La Tâche.
glosses: A placename
Ellipsis of Le Tache, alternative form of Le Tâche.
glosses: A surname from French. (Alternative form of Taché)
Wuhanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wuhanites
Etymology: From Wuhan + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: On Chinese social media, holed-up Wuhanites showed how they were coping in videos that quickly went viral. Neighbors exchanged meat for vegetables out of their high-rise windows. Aunties sat around a mah-jongg table placing bets with their prized protective face masks instead of cash.
ref: 2020 January 28, “Concern — and boredom — mount for those trapped at the center of the coronavirus outbreak”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: A person from Wuhan, China.
Synonyms: Wuhanese
Wuhanites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wuhanite
demogeron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demogerontes
form: demogerons
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δημογέρων (dēmogérōn).
Senses: examples: text: This Council was called Demogerontia (municipality) and was composed of twelve members named municipal councillors, of one treasurer, and of the president of the Council, called Demogeron (mayor).
ref: 1922, Michael D. Volonakes, The Island of Roses and Her Eleven Sisters: Or, The Dodecanese from the Earliest Time Down to the Present Day, page 299:
text: Local demogerontes of Larnaca, Paphos (Ktema), Limasol and Chrysochou are mentioned in connexion with the massacre of 1821, as well as a demogeron of the tribunal of Nicosia and two demogerontes of the Saray (Kepiades, pp. 17, 19, 20).
ref: 2010 [1954], George Hill, A History of Cyprus, volume 4, Cambridge University Press, page 9:
text: The affairs of the city of Athens were run by the demogerons, a group of elected elders, usually landed gentlemen. The demogerons appointed a committee to take charge of the preparations for the reception of the king, [...]
ref: 1989, Eleni Bastea, The Rebirth of Athens: Planning and Architecture in the 19th Century:
glosses: Member of a demogerontia.
Tâche
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Tâche.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of La Tâche.
glosses: Ellipsis of Le Tâche.
La Tache
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French La Tâche.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Charente department, France.
La Tache
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish La Tache.
Senses: glosses: The former name of Lemoore, a city in Kings County, California, United States.
Related terms: Le Tache
Tache
foodfall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foodfalls
Senses: examples: Griffiths, Huw J.; Whittle, Rowan J.; Roberts, Stephen J.; Belchier, Mark; Linse, Katrin (24 July 2013), “Antarctic Crabs: Invasion or Endurance?”, in PLoS One, volume 8, number 7, →Bibcode, →DOI, →PMID, archived from the original on 16 May 2020, page e66981: “There is strong evidence that many of the deepwater lithodids in the region are opportunistic necrophagous scavengers and are attracted to foodfalls and carrion.”
“CARCASS – Carbon Transport via Arctic Pelagic Animals Sinking to the Deep-Sea Seafloor”, in Expedition Programme PS121 Polarstern, 24 July 2019, archived from the original on 21 May 2020, pages 22–24: “The deposition of such larger carcasses on the seafloor results in foodfalls, and may provide local enrichments and attract a variety of benthic scavengers.”
glosses: Alternative form of food fall.
foodfalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foodfall
Le Tache
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Le Tâche.
Senses: glosses: A mountain in Chablais Alps, Valais canton, Switzerland.
marjorum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: ‘The striped carnation, and the guarded rose,
‘The vulgar wall-flower, and smart gilly-flower,
‘The polyanthus mean—the dapper daisy,
‘Sweet William, and sweet marjorum—and all
‘The tribe of single and of double pinks!
ref: 1847, Modern Standard Drama, page 31:
text: The marjorum stood in ruddy and fragrant masses; harebells and campanulas of several kinds, that are cultivated in our gardens, with bells large and clear; crimson pinks; the Michaelmas daisy; a plant with a thin, radiated yellow flower, of the character of an aster; a centaurea of a light purple, handsomer than any English one; a thistle in the dryest places, resembling an eryngo, with a thick, bushy top; mulleins, yellow and white; the wild mignonnette, and the white convolvulus; and clematis festooning the bushes, recalled the flowery fields and lanes of England, and yet told us that we were not there.
ref: 1850, Harper's Magazine, volume 1, page 449:
text: Amaracus, a page of Cynarus, King of Cyprus, was so afflicted at having accidentally broken a vase which he was entrusted, and thus spilling a very precious ointment which it contained, that he died of grief, and the pitying gods changed him into the fragrant marjorum.
ref: 1853, The Dublin University Magazine, volume 42, page 45:
text: “The primrose, the spring’s own spouse;
Bright day’s eyes, and the lips of cows;
The garden star, the queen of May,
The rose to crown the holiday—
Rain roses still:
Bring corn, flax, tulips, and Adonis’ flower,
Flower-gentle, and the fair-haired hyacinth,
Bring gladdest myrtle,
With spikenard weaved, and marjorum between;
And starred with yellow-golds and meadows’ green—
The breath thereof Panchaia may envy,
The colors China, and the light the sky.
ref: 1858, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, volume 44, page 69:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of marjoram.
megalosplenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of splenomegaly.
synonyms: word: splenomegaly
donater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: donaters
Etymology: From donate + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] persons who contributed to the fund will be satisfied if this money be used for some purpose in line with the intentions of the donaters.
ref: 1915, Official Proceedings of the County Board of Supervisors, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, page 43:
text: Due to an overlook, we forgot to thank the donaters who furnished the gifts for the winning children […]
ref: 1952, The American Photo Engraver, volume 44:
text: The location of the property other than those as mentioned in items of paragraph 1 and those as provided for in the preceding paragraph shall be deemed to be situated at the domicile of the decedent, or donater who had been the owner of the right incident to the said property.
ref: 1958, EHS Law Bulletin Series, volume 4, page 12:
text: The ticket donations help support the festivities and also make ticket donaters eligible to participate in a raffle during the tardeada.
ref: 1979, Sentimientos, page 39:
text: Regardless of the nature of the Prince's statements, it's inappropriate for a government official to reject humanitarian help directed toward the American people simply because that official didn't like the donater's political beliefs.
ref: 2001 October 12, Siva, “Re: Rudy Guiliani is a moron”, in az.politics (Usenet), message-ID <3BC7BF28.8B455AF9@operamail.com>:
text: I used to know a guy who's grandmother owned a bunch of companies AND she was a huge donater to different charities, including the UW.
ref: 2003 May 10, No kids 4 you, “Re: Yet another reason to loathe United Way”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet), message-ID <20030510153226.13178.00000077@mb-m26.aol.com>:
text: She said he did not have to do that for her but she appreciated the fact that he did not invite them but next time he should, they are apart^([sic]) of his charity donaters and should not exclude them from his life, she said she would call him in the morning.
ref: 2008 July, Pat Henry, Across the Sea, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 57:
text: She hopes her customers and plastic donaters don’t use her business as an excuse to buy and use more plastic packaging.
ref: 2012, Amy Korst, The Zero-Waste Lifestyle: Live Well by Throwing Away Less, →ISBN, page 58:
text: These donations continued to be received through the first anniversary of the tornadoes with donaters and receivers providing positive feedback using the Facebook page.
ref: 2013, Adam Crowe, Leadership in the Open: A New Paradigm in Emergency Management, →ISBN, page 195:
glosses: One who donates.
Synonyms: donator
donor
donaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of donater
fox-fire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: On the inside is fixed a Barometer, by which he can tell the depth he is under water; a Compass, by which he knows the course he steers. In the barometer and on the needles of the compass is fixed fox-fire, i.e. wood that gives light in the dark.
ref: 1775 November 9, Henry L[arcom] Abbot, quoting Benjamin Gale, “Description of the American Turtle. [Dr. Benjamin Gale to Silas Deane, Esq., Killingsworth, Nov. 9, 1775.]”, in The Beginning of Modern Submarine Warfare, under Captain-Lieutenant David Bushnell, Sappers and Miners, Army of the Revolution. Being a Historical Compilation (Engineer School of Application, Willets Point, N[ew] Y[ork] H[arbor], Paper; no. III), New York, N.Y.: Printed on the Battalion Press, Sergt. Carmichael and Pvt. Beck, printers, published 1881, →OCLC, pages 176–177:
text: ["I]t won't burn our fingers, though, if we take it up. It is nothing but fox-fire. Humph! an old rotten stump:" and groping round for a stick, he struck it and knocked it all about, and wherever it lay it looked like burning coals.
ref: [1879], “B.” [pseudonym], “Groundless Fears”, in The Gift Book of Affection for the Young, London: James Blackwood and Co., […], →OCLC, chapter II, page 58:
text: [...] Tom said we got to have some light to see how to dig by, and a lantern makes too much, and might get us into trouble; what we must have was a lot of them rotten chunks that's called fox-fire and just makes a soft kind of a glow when you lay them in a dark place.
ref: 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXV, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 356:
text: [Nathaniel] Hawthorne in one of his books records a remarkable personal encounter with this weird fox-fire, and one which cost him dearly. He was on a journey by canal-boat, which had stopped en route for a brief period at midnight. During the interval he had stepped ashore, and was decoyed into a neighboring wood by the bright glow, which proved to be a fallen tree ablaze with phosphorescence. In his surprise and interest he lost all account of time, and thus missed his boat, [...] Almost any damp woods, especially after a rain, is likely to disclose its fox-fire, but it occasionally appears under circumstances where we little expect it.
ref: 1894 January 9, William Hamilton Gibson, “Foxfire”, in Harper’s Young People, volume XV, number 741, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 189, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of foxfire.
presellar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + sellar.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: In front of the sella turcica.
palpebrofrontal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʌntəl
Etymology: From palpebra + -o- + frontal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Palpebral and frontal.
ethmoidofrontal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʌntəl
Etymology: From ethmoid + -o- + frontal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the ethmoid and frontal bones; ethmofrontal.
paper street
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paper streets
Senses: glosses: A street that has been drawn on a map, such as a subdivision plan, but has not been built.
paper streets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paper street
syndiotactically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From syndiotactic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a syndiotactic manner.
decanates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decanate
nonethically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a manner that is not ethical.
deskiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deskillers
Etymology: From deskill + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who deskills.
deskillers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deskiller
Noguchi table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Noguchi tables
Etymology: It was designed in the United States by Japanese-American artist and industrial designer Isamu Noguchi.
Senses: glosses: A modernist table with a wooden base, composed of two identical curved wood pieces, and a heavy plate-glass top.
wikipedia: Isamu Noguchi
Noguchi tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Noguchi table
wyrd folk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of psychedelic folk music associated with the 1960s counterculture of mysticism and drugs.
kettle cable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪbəl
Forms: form: kettle cables
Senses: glosses: Synonym of kettle lead.
synonyms: word: kettle lead
kettle cables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kettle cable
kettle lead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kettle leads
Senses: glosses: The standard IEC 60320 C15/C16 coupler lead, used to power electric kettles etc.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The similar-looking C13/C14 coupler lead, commonly used to power computer equipment.
Synonyms: kettle cable
kettle leads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kettle lead
counterdistortion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterdistortions
Etymology: From counter- + distortion.
Senses: glosses: A distortion in the opposite direction to another distortion.
counterdistortions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterdistortion
put salt on someone's tail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts salt on someone's tail
form: putting salt on someone's tail
form: put salt on someone's tail
form: put salt on someone's tail
form: lay salt on someone's tail
Etymology: Alluding to an old folk saying about how to catch birds.
Senses: examples: text: This accurately describes the many biographers who have tried and failed to get close enough to Newman to put salt on his tail.
ref: 2013, Edward Short, Newman and his Family, page 322:
glosses: To capture or pin down someone.
dodecagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dodecagrams
Etymology: From dodeca- + -gram.
Senses: glosses: A star polygon that has twelve vertices.
dodecagrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dodecagram
melanophoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a melanophore
breath mint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breath mints
Senses: glosses: A mint-flavored candy intended to freshen the breath.
Derived terms: breast mint
Related terms: breath check
breath mints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breath mint
Heisenberg cut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Heisenberg cuts
form: Heisenberg's cut
Etymology: Named after Werner Heisenberg, who contributed to the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, and specifically to the theory of wavefunction collapse.
Senses: examples: text: The original "Copenhagen" way of describing the collapse process was tied to a mysterious thing called the "Heisenberg cut". Everything lying "below" this cut was supposed to be described in the mathematical language of quantum mechanics, whereas everything lying "above" the cut was described either in the language of classical physics, or in psychological or mental terms.[…]A principal move made by von Neumann was to show that the Heisenberg cut could be moved all the way up, so that reality was unambiguously separated into a purely mental part, and a part described in the mathematical language of quantum mechanics.
ref: 2014, Henry P. Stapp, “Quantum Physics and Philosophy of Mind”, in Antonella Corradini, Uwe Meixner, editors, Quantum Physics Meets the Philosophy of Mind, Walter de Gruyter, page 9:
text: Another idea is to question the impermeability of the Heisenberg cut: Is the separation between the macro and micro worlds really as sharp as Heisenberg and Bohr assumed?
ref: 2018, Lars Jaeger, The Second Quantum Revolution, Springer, page 252:
text: The location of the Heisenberg cut is arbitrary, but it must be at a point where classical physics assuredly holds.
ref: 2021, Carl S. Helrich, The Quantum Theory—Origins and Ideas, Springer, page 192:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: A conceptualised division separating the quantum system being observed from the classical system that comprises the observer's information, knowledge and conscious awareness.
raw_tags: of physics
wikipedia: Werner Heisenberg
Heisenberg cuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Heisenberg cut
Heisenberg group
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Heisenberg group
Etymology: Named after Werner Heisenberg.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The group of 3×3 upper triangular matrices of the form
wikipedia: Werner Heisenberg
quantum-mechanically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In terms of or by means of quantum mechanics.
melittophilous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: That attract insects such as ants or bees which then pollinate the flower
raw_tags: of plants
spiritual midden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiritual middens
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A hidden cache of objects (e.g. within the walls of a building) having some magical purpose.
spiritual middens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spiritual midden
onlined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of online
onlines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of online
onlining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of online
Zambesian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Zambesi + -an.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Zambezian.
Zambesian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zambesians
Etymology: From Zambesi + -an.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Zambezian.
Zambesians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zambesian
mutupo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mutupos
Senses: glosses: A totem animal in Shona culture.
mutupos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mutupo
rainflow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rainflows
Etymology: From rain + flow.
Senses: glosses: A flow of rainwater.
rainflows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rainflow
satinize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: satinizes
form: satinizing
form: satinized
form: satinized
Etymology: From satin + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To give a smooth, satin-like surface to, for example by polishing.
satinized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of satinize
satinizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of satinize
satinizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of satinize
anthropopoiesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The self-building process of social man and of a whole culture, particularly referred to what concerns modifications of socialized body.
tophet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tophets
Etymology: From Tophet.
Senses: examples: text: They are an important factor indicating a corpus of beliefs common to the important central colonies (Carthage, Sousse, Motya, Sulcis, Nora, Tharros), where tophets and accompanying grave stelae have been found.
ref: 1991, John Boardman, The Cambridge Ancient History (part 1, page 490)
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A Carthaginian monument associated with a cemetery for ritually sacrificed children.
tophets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tophet
epicentering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of epicenter
epicentered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of epicenter
epicentred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of epicentre
epicentring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of epicentre
tenkasu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 天かす (tenkasu).
Senses: glosses: Crunchy pieces of deep-fried flour batter used in Japanese cuisine.
stelar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a stele.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a stele.
mummiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mummyology
Etymology: From mummy + -ology.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:mummiology.
glosses: The study of mummies
Related terms: mummiologist
mummyology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mummy + -ology.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:mummyology.
glosses: Alternative form of mummiology.
meloplast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meloplasts
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An empty staff with movable notes used as a teaching aid
fox fire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There is still another method of night hunting by the salt lick. [...] When night approaches, the hunter finds a piece of phosphorescent wood or "fox fire," and places it on the ground, at a point which he has previously determined to be on a direct line of the aim of his gun. The "fox fire" is plainly seen from the tree, and as soon as it is darkened he knows that it is obscured by the deer, and he pulls the trigger and kills his game.
ref: 1876, William H[amilton] Gibson, “The Deer”, in The Complete American Trapper, or The Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making: […], New York, N.Y.: James Miller, →OCLC, book VI (Steel Traps and the Art of Trapping), page 218:
text: Curiously enough, there were fluorescent displays underground that could be enjoyed without benefit of an ultraviolet lamp. One of these was fox fire, the spectral glow given off by fungi on decaying timber. In the damp darkness of the mine, pine planks 3 inches thick could become feather light and crumbly in a year.
ref: 1983, Manuel Robbins, “Collecting Fluorescent Minerals”, in The Collector’s Book of Fluorescent Minerals, New York, N.Y.; London: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, →DOI, →ISBN, page 50:
text: When they died, the others built fires to smoke them, and then covered them with birch bark. Every bit was covered with bark. Not a hair was left out, and nothing could go in. They'd put sticks of fox fire near them.
ref: 1995, Robert E. Nichols, Jr., Birds of Algonquin Legend, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 96:
glosses: Alternative form of foxfire.
microtomentum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + tomentum.
Senses: examples: text: However, you can still separate these genera from Lucilia because the thorax of each genus (Cynomya and Cyanus) is covered with whitish microtomentum while it is not in Lucilia.
ref: 2012, Terry Whitworth, Tips For Using The Keys More Effectively And Errata:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A very fine pubescence that appears as a color pattern except under high magnification.
microtomentose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more microtomentose
form: most microtomentose
Etymology: From micro- + tomentose.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Covered with microtomentum.
Wu flu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wu Flu
form: Wu-flu
form: WuFlu
form: Wuflu
Senses: examples: text: “Wu flu?” jokes a BA steward. “No,” I say. “It's just the end of a cold I had in England before I left.” And it's true, it is. But wait.
ref: 2020 January 24, Giles Coren, “I’ve got nice clean hands for the flu apocalypse”, in The Times:
text: For all the budgeteers, DiNapoli had vital advice: “Spending decisions should reflect economic and fiscal realities.” That is: It’s no time for new initiatives or program expansions, except those for the WuFlu crisis.
ref: 2020 March 18, “New York’s coronavirus budget challenge: balance the books without doing more harm”, in New York Post:
text: So the nice travel agent Jacinda, has rung and offered us a one-time special to another island it's called Corona Island, that's an island just north of where we are, but your mothere isn't too sure about going there as she has heard they once had a bad outbreak of Wu Flu and she doesn't want to risk catching anything. nasty.
ref: 2020 April 18, “Your View: Letters with Love”, in Ashburton Guardian, page 14:
glosses: Clipping of Wuhan flu.
Cape Cod berm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cape Cod berms
Senses: examples: text: We installed 45,000 square feet (overlay) of hot mix asphalt (HMA) at a depth of 2 inches as well as installed new cape cod berm around the perimeter of the entire parking lot.
ref: 2015, U.S. Pavement Services, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: The Cape Cod berm is more popular and has a slope from the street up.
ref: 2020, Auburn, Massachusetts Highway Division:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A low asphalt berm with sloped face at the edge of a paved area.
Cape Cod berms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cape Cod berm
sovvy ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sovvy rings
Senses: glosses: sovereign ring
sovereign ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sovereign rings
Senses: synonyms: word: sovvy ring
glosses: A ring with a gold sovereign or similar coin as its primary decoration, with the obverse face as the visible detail.
sovvy rings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sovvy ring
sovereign rings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sovereign ring
sovvy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sovvies
Senses: synonyms: sov
glosses: A sovereign (coin).
Derived terms: sovvy ring
sovvies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sovvy
Ayling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aylings
Etymology: From Old English æþeling (“prince”), diminutive of æþel (“noble”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
Sarsian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Sars + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Georg Ossian Sars (1837–1927), Norwegian marine and freshwater biologist.
two envelopes problem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the the two envelopes problem
Senses: synonyms: exchange paradox
envelope paradox
glosses: A puzzle of this kind: "You are given two indistinguishable envelopes, each containing money; one contains twice as much as the other. You may pick one envelope and keep the money it contains. Having chosen an envelope at will, but before inspecting it, you are given the chance to switch envelopes. Should you switch?" Because you stand to gain twice as much money if you switch while risking only a loss of half of what you currently have, it is possible to argue (fallaciously) that it is beneficial to switch.
St. Petersburg lottery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: St. Petersburg lotteries
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The theoretical lottery game in the St. Petersburg paradox.
St. Petersburg paradox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: St. Petersburg paradoxes
form: Petersburg paradox
form: Saint Petersburg paradox
Etymology: Named from its resolution by Daniel Bernoulli, one-time resident of the eponymous Russian city, who published his arguments in the Commentaries of the Imperial Academy of Science of Saint Petersburg (Bernoulli 1738). However, the problem was invented by Daniel's cousin, Nicolas Bernoulli.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The paradox raised by a particular (theoretical) lottery game that leads to a random variable with infinite expected value (i.e. infinite expected payoff) but nevertheless seems to be worth only a very small amount to the participants.
Related terms: St. Petersburg lottery
St. Petersburg lotteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of St. Petersburg lottery
St. Petersburg paradoxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of St. Petersburg paradox
pick gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pick guns
Senses: glosses: A tool, either manual or electric, for picking tumbler-based locks by applying force to the pins.
pick guns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pick gun
ennoblize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ennoblizes
form: ennoblizing
form: ennoblized
form: ennoblized
form: ennoblise
Etymology: From en- + noble + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Our problem is to force out the fascination of this present-day externalism, and our only solution lies in the centering of our desire and faith upon that wealth and luxury that ennoblizes and endures the luxury of a clean, honest life, the wealth of a worthier conception of the ends and purposes of life.
ref: 1906, The Lafayette Weekly - Volume 33, page 225:
text: Hee Britaine shall ennoblize with his witt,
ref: 1966, Ralph Knevet, Amy Marie Charles, The Shorter Poems of Ralph Knevet, page 61:
text: On this subject the deviations from the novel actually serve to ennoblize George at the same time that they remove him as the center of interest.
ref: 2010, James R. Keller, Queer (Un)Friendly Film and Television, page 163:
glosses: To ennoble.
examples: text: A more recent innovation utilizes small patches applied directly to the titanium base metal surrounding the crevice in order to ennoblize the occluded titanium within the crevice.
ref: 2011, R. Winston Revie, Uhlig's Corrosion Handbook, page 869:
text: The protection appears to be of a galvanic nature, where the platinum group metal ennoblizes the entire surface of the Grade 2 over great distances (throwing power), making it behave as if it were a Grade 7 titanium material.
ref: 2013, Lloyd H. Hihara, Ralph P.I. Adler, Ronald M. Latanision, Environmental Degradation of Advanced and Traditional Engineering Materials, page 144:
glosses: To protect (a metal) from oxidation.
ennoblizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ennoblize
ennoblizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ennoblize
ennoblized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ennoblize
possessingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From possessing + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of possessing something; state of possession.
ennoblise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ennoblises
form: ennoblising
form: ennoblised
form: ennoblised
Senses: examples: text: The noblenes of lignage, is an excellency of dignity going out of the bodie, but not comming out alwaie of himselfe that is so ennoblised, for perhaps hee neuer deserued that which came to him from his auncestours, who by their merites haue gotten the same.
ref: 1597, Gerard Legh, The Accedence of Armorie, page 13:
text: He that desireth true nobility, let him endeuour to ennoblise himselfe by his owne vertues,& nt by his parentage: that he may answer as Anacharsis the Philosopher did to one, that glorying because he was borne in the famous cittie of Anthens, objected to Anacharsis in disgrace, that hee was a Scithian, which was a barbarous countrey in respect of Greece.
ref: 1603, A Discourse of the Felicitie of Man, Or His Summum Bonum, page 263:
text: He was all out for elevating and ennoblising them, and that is why his presentation of rustic characters is marked with a genuine note of sympathy and admiration.
ref: 1960, J.N. Mudra, S.C. Mundra, A History of English Literature, Volume 2:
glosses: Alternative form of ennoblize.
ennoblises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ennoblise
ennoblising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ennoblise
ennoblised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ennoblise
tissies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tissy
enscarf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enscarfs
form: enscarfing
form: enscarfed
form: enscarfed
Etymology: From en- + scarf.
Senses: examples: text: and a fairy grace Enscarfs her, as a cloud the young May moon,— And melody hath joined with golden clasps, Her thoughts to sweetest words!
ref: 1869, Edward Brown, Life Lyrics, page 153:
text: Thy brilliant hopes enscarf'd in sorrow's night.
ref: 1903, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and journals, page 422:
text: I have never possessed one of the more pictorial neckties favoured by the barrow-boy who has also ambitions to be a buck, bean, or blade. But, if I did enscarf myself so, I should be happy to be called fantoosh.
ref: 1951, Ivor John Carnegie Brown, I break my word, page 52:
glosses: To wrap of muffle, as if in a scarf.
enscarfs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enscarf
enscarfing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enscarf
enscarfed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enscarf
wrack lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wrack line
Hewer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
mujahida
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mujahidas
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A female mujahid.
mujahidas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mujahida
Casparian strips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Casparian strip
scrupleth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: scruple + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scruple
scruplest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: scruple + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of scruple
fistle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈfɪsəl/
Forms: form: fistles
form: fistling
form: fistled
form: fistled
form: fissle
Senses: examples: text: […] they both plainly heard a fistling within.
ref: 1828, Mansie Wauch, The Life of Mansie Wauch, Tailor in Dalkeith, page 200:
text: It might be about midnight, when I was awoke by a sort of fistling noise at the head of my couch. It seemed as though something was scratching and stirring about the fern which formed my pillow.
ref: 1855, William S. Wickenden, Adventures of Frank Ogilby, page 55:
text: ... untroubled in the meadows, the rooks were tossing about over the heath, the sparrows were visiting from tree to tree, and the dead leaves were fistling in troops down the lanes as if returning gay, in companies, from the funeral of Summer.
ref: 1860, Charles Dickens, All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal, page 179:
text: The thing began to fistle among the straw in the cradle.
ref: 1859-1863, Uls. Jrn. Arch., VII. 141
glosses: To rustle; to make a slight rustling (or whistling sound).
fistles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fistle
fistling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fistle
fistled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fistle
fissled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fissle
fissling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fissle
beat the odds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beats the odds
form: beating the odds
form: beat the odds
form: beaten the odds
form: beat the odds
Senses: glosses: To succeed despite being unlikely to do so.
Related terms: over the odds
romerogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: romerograms
Etymology: Named after American paleontologist Alfred Romer + -o- + -gram.
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A cladogram that doubles as a spindle diagram.