cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
extranormal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extranormal
form: most extranormal
Etymology: From extra- + normal.
Senses: examples: text: The words "Coroner's Inquest" arrived in his mind, and disturbed it greatly. Those damned doctors would be peeking at that old corpse, exercising their ingenuity to explain that a thump on the skull had jerked life out of it. An extra-normal thump, too; damme, he had seen her hurtle through the air like a wet sack.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 214:
text: It seems that ghosts and legendary encounters in general thrive under the protection of law because their extranormal statements and implications require proof and provoke the less convincing counterproof.
ref: 2001, Linda Dégh, Legend and Belief: Dialectics of a Folklore Genre, page 4:
text: Alex Danvers: The seismic activity [isn't] coming from within the planet, it's coming from without.
Supergirl: That's...
Brainiac: Extranormal?
Supergirl: I was gonna say impossible, but OK.
ref: 2019 December 8, Supergirl (TV series), season 5, episode 8, "Crisis on Infinite Earths"
glosses: Outside or beyond what is normal.
questline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɛstˌlaɪn/
Forms: form: questlines
Etymology: From quest + line.
Senses: examples: text: Now, to continue with this questline, go head back home (or a secure bed somewhere) and sleep for awhile^([sic]) (I slept for 24 hours, just to be sure).
ref: 2015, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Strategy Guide, unnumbered page:
text: The cue appears about two-thirds of the way through the game's main questline.
ref: 2019, Michiel Kamp, Mark Sweeney, “Musical Landscapes in Skyrim”, in Steven Reale, William Gibbons, editors, Music in the Role-Playing Game: Heroes & Harmonies, unnumbered page:
text: Not only does his personal questline make little sense if he is engaged in a romance with a female player, but it actively goes against the wishes of the character on a fundamental level.
ref: 2020, Jessica Hylton, “LGBTYQIA Inclusion in Dragon Age: Inquisition: Burning Down Stereotypes and Modding for Representation”, in Bridget Whelan, Matthew Wilhelm Kapell, editors, Women and Video Game Modding: Essays on Gender and the Digital Community, page 85:
topics: video-games
glosses: A storyline consisting of a number of linked quests.
questlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of questline
cybermob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cybermobs
Etymology: From cyber- + mob.
Senses: examples: text: Anonymity, South Korean legislators had come to believe, was undermining social stability, enabling cybermobs to harass innocent people and cybervigilantes to ostracize and shame people […]
ref: 2012, Rebecca MacKinnon, Consent of the Networked:
glosses: A mob of people on the Internet or in cyberspace.
cybermobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cybermob
kinstate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinstates
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kin state.
kinstates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kinstate
kin state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kin states
form: kinstate
Senses: glosses: A state or nation having a diaspora who lives in a different state.
kin states
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kin state
madamish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more madamish
form: most madamish
Etymology: From madam + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Like or befitting a madam; ladylike.
paraconsistent logics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paraconsistent logic
First Nationer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: First Nationers
Etymology: From First Nation + -er.
Senses: glosses: A member of a Canadian First Nation.
MMBtu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MMBtus
form: mmBtu
Etymology: Replaced the earlier MBtu (one thousand BTUs) as the 'M' could be misinterpreted as the SI prefix mega- (one million) or milli- (one thousandth)
Senses: glosses: one million BTUs
metapopulational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪʃənəl
Etymology: From meta- + populational.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a metapopulation.
chronemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːmɪk
Senses: glosses: Relating to chronemics.
Derived terms: chronemically
chronemically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From chronemic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of chronemics.
macrosocial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macro- + social.
Senses: antonyms: microsocial#Adjective
hypernyms: macrolevel#Adjective
coordinate_terms: macroeconomic#Adjective
macropolitical#Adjective
glosses: Relating to society on a large scale, or in large groups.
microsocial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + social.
Senses: antonyms: macrosocial#Adjective
hypernyms: microlevel#Adjective
coordinate_terms: microeconomic#Adjective
micropolitical#Adjective
glosses: Relating to society on a small scale, or in small groups.
raymarching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ray marching.
ray marching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raymarching
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An advanced form of ray tracing in which the imaginary light rays are not merely computed where they intersect with solid parts of the model, but also sampled and modified as they pass through space.
ENL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: EAL
EFL
EIL
ELL
ESL
glosses: Initialism of English as a native language.
sensory dep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: sensory deprivation
murgha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of murga.
enculture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: encultures
form: enculturing
form: encultured
form: encultured
Etymology: From en- + culture.
Senses: glosses: To enculturate.
encultured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enculture
paillon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paillons
Etymology: French, from paille (“straw”).
Senses: glosses: A thin leaf of metal, for use in gilding or enamelling, or to show through a translucent medium.
encultures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enculture
enculturing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enculture
Phrygian caps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Phrygian cap
pityriases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pityriasis
jolterhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jolterheads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jolthead.
jolterheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jolterhead
press revise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: press revises
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A proof for final revision.
press revises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of press revise
Phanariotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Phanariote
Phanariots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Phanariot
pressure wire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pressure wires
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of a set of wires leading from various points of an electrical system to a central station, where a voltmeter indicates the potential of the system at those points.
pressure wires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pressure wire
bum rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bum roll
dormy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: Encyclopaedia of Sport
A player who is dormy cannot be beaten, and at the worst must halve the match.
1937, P. G. Wodehouse, 'Lord Emsworth and Others', Overlook, Woodstock: 2002, p 110.
I could see that Hemingway, confident that he would be dormy one, was a good deal shaken at coming to the eighteenth all square.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Alternative form of dormie.
dormy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dormies
Senses: examples: text: She called to Julian as he went to the boys' dormitory. 'Julian! See if Patrick is in your dormy.'
ref: 1952, Enid Blyton, Here's the Naughtiest Girl:
glosses: A dormitory.
déculassement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: déculassements
Etymology: Borrowed from French.
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: An accidental blowing off of, or other serious damage to, the breechblock of a gun.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: The removal of the breechblock for the purpose of disabling the gun.
déculassements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of déculassement
Sniders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Snider
telharmonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telharmoniums
Etymology: From tele- + harmonium.
Senses: glosses: An early electric musical instrument for producing music at a distant point or points by means of alternating current. An operator plays a keyboard, and the music is reproduced remotely by a receiving instrument resembling a telephone, but not held to the ear.
Related terms: telharmony
telharmonic
telharmoniums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telharmonium
telharmonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tele- + harmonic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the telharmonium.
telharmony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tele- + harmony.
Senses: glosses: music played and transmitted by telharmonium
sodomisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Rare form of sodomization.
sodomization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sodomizations
Etymology: From sodomize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: An act of sodomy.
sodomizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sodomization
Telfordize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Telfordizes
form: Telfordizing
form: Telfordized
form: Telfordized
Etymology: From Telford + -ize, after the civil engineer Thomas Telford.
Senses: glosses: To furnish (a road) with a Telford pavement.
Related terms: Telfordization
Telfordizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Telfordize
Telfordized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Telfordize
Telfordizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Telfordize
telethermograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telethermographs
Etymology: From tele- + thermograph.
Senses: glosses: A record of fluctuations of temperature made automatically at a distant station.
glosses: An instrument, usually electrical, making such records.
telethermographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telethermograph
take-offs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of take-off
dosadoed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dosado
recommunicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recommunicates
form: recommunicating
form: recommunicated
form: recommunicated
Etymology: From re- + communicate.
Senses: glosses: to communicate again
recommunicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recommunicate
recommunicates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recommunicate
recommunicating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recommunicate
cryodesiccation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cryo- + desiccation.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of freeze-drying.
synonyms: word: freeze-drying
Related terms: cryodesiccator
cryodistillation
cryodesiccated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cryo- + desiccated.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of freeze-dried.
synonyms: word: freeze-dried
recommunication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + communication.
Senses: glosses: communication again
bug-out bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bug-out bag
at a stretch
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: He worked for fifteen hours at a stretch.
text: Clara's father, a trollish ne'er-do-well who spent most of his time in brothels and saloons, would disappear for days and weeks at a stretch, leaving Clara and her mother to fend for themselves.
ref: 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 26:
synonyms: on a stretch
glosses: In one continuous period of time; at a time.
OODA
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act): Coined by USAF instructor John Boyd
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act, a decision cycle for military combat operations and other processes.
Related terms: OOA
OOD
OOSA
Rawlsian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Rawlsian
form: most Rawlsian
Etymology: From Rawls + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: People differ on whether they care about fairness at all, and when they do care about fairness the notion of fairness they employ differes widely, ranging from Rawlsian (Leontief) to Utilitarian (perfect substitutes).
ref: 2002, James Andreoni and John Miller, “Giving according to GARP”, in Econometrica, volume 70, number 2, page 745:
text: From behind the Rawlsian veil, consumption and leisure interact with mortality to determine expected utility.
ref: 2016, Charles I. Jones, Peter J. Klenow, “Beyond GDP? Welfare across Countries and Time”, in American Economic Review, volume 106, number 9, →DOI, page 2435 of 2426--2457:
text: After my first paper on Rawlsian justice—modeling what that justice would look like in an extremely simple kind of economy—a large part of my work took up for some time questions about a Rawlsian economy with capital, overlapping generations, and some principle for determining the national saving.
ref: 2023, Edmund Phelps, My Journeys in Economic Theory, Columbia University Press, page 81:
glosses: Of, relating to, or influenced by John Rawls (1921–2002), American moral and political philosopher.
Derived terms: Rawlsianism
Rawlsian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rawlsians
Etymology: From Rawls + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A follower of the theories of John Rawls.
retreater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retreaters
Etymology: From retreat + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who retreats.
glosses: A survivalist who plans to withdraw to a remote region in the event of a catastrophe.
retreaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retreater
counterpiracy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From counter- + piracy.
Senses: glosses: Acting to combat or prevent piracy.
Gorkhas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gorkha
selaginellas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of selaginella
WTSHTF
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Initialism of when the shit hits the fan.
WROL
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of without rule of law: describing a situation where police and legal systems have broken down.
cyberese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + -ese.
Senses: glosses: The jargon used on the Internet; netspeak.
cyberslang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + slang.
Senses: glosses: The slang used on the Internet.
vacuum desiccators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vacuum desiccator
right-mindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: right-mindednesses
Etymology: From right-minded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: ... at the head of a crew, too, chiefly made up of mongrel renegades, and castaways, and cannibals--morally enfeebled also, by the incompetence of mere unaided virtue or right-mindedness in Starbuck
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: The characteristic of being right-minded.
right-mindednesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of right-mindedness
right-mindedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more right-mindedly
form: most right-mindedly
Etymology: From right-minded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: That a down-to-date precisian may right-mindedly label us frumps, I am not denying; that we are even those odd obsolescent creatures such as used to be called ladies and gentlemen, I concede with blushes
ref: 2003, James Branch Cabell, The Devil's Own Dear Son, →ISBN, page xxiv:
text: Understanding ethical theory is important in figuring out in full and subtle detail how to treat others right-mindedly and not settle for the expedient, or what a sportscaster might call “a near miss.”
ref: 2008, Paul A. Wagner, Douglas J. Simpson, Ethical Decision Making in School Administration, →ISBN, page 47:
glosses: In a right-minded manner; sanely or virtuously.
attributor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtɹɪbjuːtɔː/
ipa: /əˈtɹɪbjuːtə/
Forms: form: attributors
Etymology: From the Latin attribūtor.
Senses: glosses: One who attributes; an imputer.
Synonyms: sense: one who attributes
word: attributer
Magism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Magi + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Magianism; Zoroastrianism
photoetch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: photoetches
form: photoetching
form: photoetched
form: photoetched
Etymology: From photo- + etch.
Senses: glosses: To engrave, or make an engraving of, by any photomechanical process involving etching of the plate.
photoetched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of photoetch
photoetches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of photoetch
pemicans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pemican
Campines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Campine
rightminded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rightminded
form: most rightminded
Senses: examples: text: Let realism have its demonstration, comedy its criticism, or even bawdry its horselaugh at the expense of sexual infatuation, if it must; but to ask us to subject our souls to its ruinous glamour, to worship it, deify it, and imply that it alone makes our life worth living, is nothing but folly gone mad erotically—a thing compared to which Falstaff's unbeglamored drinking and drabbing is respectable and rightminded.
ref: 1901, [George] Bernard Shaw, “Three Plays for Puritans”, in Three Plays for Puritans: The Devil’s Disciple, Cæsar and Cleopatra, & Captain Brassbound’s Conversion, London: Grant Richards, […], →OCLC, page xxix:
glosses: Alternative form of right-minded.
pergolo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pergolos
Senses: glosses: Dated form of pergola (“passageway of columns”).
pergolos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pergolo
unbeglamoured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbeglamoured
form: most unbeglamoured
Etymology: From un- + beglamoured.
Senses: examples: text: Let realism have its demonstration, comedy its criticism, or even bawdry its horselaugh at the expense of sexual infatuation, if it must; but to ask us to subject our souls to its ruinous glamour, to worship it, deify it, and imply that it alone makes our life worth living, is nothing but folly gone mad erotically—a thing compared to which Falstaff's unbeglamored drinking and drabbing is respectable and rightminded.
ref: 1901, [George] Bernard Shaw, “Three Plays for Puritans”, in Three Plays for Puritans: The Devil’s Disciple, Cæsar and Cleopatra, & Captain Brassbound’s Conversion, London: Grant Richards, […], →OCLC, page xxix:
glosses: Not beglamoured.
rightmindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rightminded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The rightmindedness, the virtue, and the subtlety of the interpreter (and not now of a rhapsode like Ion) became the new key to the validity of poetry in the Platonic republic.
ref: 1999, George Alexander Kennedy, Glyn P. Norton, The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 3, The Renaissance, →ISBN, page 439:
glosses: Alternative form of right-mindedness.
attributer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtɹɪbjuːtə/
Forms: form: attributers
Etymology: From attribute + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Imputeur: m. An imputor; a putter of things vpon, an attributer of things vnto, others.
ref: 1611, Randle Cotgrave, A Dictionarie of the French and Engliſh Tongues, s.v. “Imputeur”
glosses: One who attributes; an imputer.
Synonyms: sense: one who attributes
word: attributor
rightmindedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rightmindedly
form: most rightmindedly
Etymology: From rightminded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But even if we find it easy to accept that in such circumstances a professional person could rightmindedly engage in activities designed to sexually arouse a person with learning difficulties, there are other ethical issues that might arise in relation, for example, to the question of whether such work should be thought of as teaching or therapy or treatment, and the effects it might have on both the worker and the recipient.
ref: 2013, Gavin Fairbairn, Denis Rowley, Maggie Bowen, Sexuality, Learning Difficulties and Doing What's Right, →ISBN, page 114:
glosses: Alternative form of right-mindedly.
doccie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doccies
Etymology: Clipping of documentary + -ie.
Senses: synonyms: doc
glosses: A documentary.
doccies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doccie
chocolatiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of chocolaty: most chocolaty
glosses: superlative form of chocolatey: most chocolatey
simple-mindedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more simple-mindedly
form: most simple-mindedly
Etymology: From simple-minded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The essay is governed by a kind of primitive historicism that single-mindedly and even simple-mindedly strives to identify Hamlet with James.
ref: 1988, Julia Reinhard Lupton, Thinking with Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life, →ISBN, pages 71–72:
glosses: In a simple-minded manner. Lacking sophistication or intelligence.
plouters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of plouter
selling plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selling plates
Senses: glosses: A horse race after which the winning horse is auctioned off.
Related terms: plater
selling plates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of selling plate
paulter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: paulters
form: paultering
form: paultered
form: paultered
Senses: glosses: Dated form of palter.
paultered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of paulter
paulters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of paulter
paultering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of paulter
cute as a pin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Very cute.
Related terms: neat as a pin
pope's head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pope's heads
Senses: glosses: A long-handled brush for dusting ceilings, washing windows, etc.
singlemindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From singleminded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Earl Warren can fairly be identified with those tendencies of the Warren Commission. That this is so attests to the singlemindedness with which he would pursue goals when he thought those goals were worthwhile.
ref: 1982, G. Edward White, Earl Warren: A Public Life, →ISBN, page 212:
glosses: The state or property of being singleminded.
toilet teaching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of toilet training.
synonyms: word: toilet training
yrunne
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of run
printing out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of print out
printing out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A method of printing in which the image is fully brought out by the direct actinic action of light, without subsequent development by means of chemicals.
Related terms: printing in
printing in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A process by which cloud effects or other features not in the original negative are introduced into a photograph. Portions, such as the sky, are covered while printing and the blank space thus reserved is filled in by printing from another negative.
Related terms: printing out
pandanaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Pandanaceae + -ous
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the plant family Pandanaceae.
wager of battel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wagers of battel
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of wager of battle.
wagers of battel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wager of battel
wager of battle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wagers of battle
form: wager of battel
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The giving of gage, or pledge, for trying a cause by single combat, formerly allowed in military, criminal, and civil causes, and finally abolished in 1819. In writs of right, where the trial was by champions, the tenant produced his champion, who, by throwing down his glove as a gage, thus "waged", or stipulated, battle with the champion of the demandant, who, by taking up the glove, accepted the challenge.
wagers of battle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wager of battle
writs of right
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of writ of right
warp knitting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A method of knitting in which the yarn zigzags along the length of the fabric, following adjacent columns ("wales") of knitting, rather than a single row ("course").
Related terms: weft knitting
monkeyface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monkeyfaces
Etymology: From monkey + face.
Senses: glosses: The mussel Theliderma metanevra.
glosses: A term of abuse for an ugly person.
Derived terms: monkeyface eel
monkeyface prickleback
monkeyfaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monkeyface
pimpleback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pimplebacks
Etymology: From pimple + back.
Senses: glosses: Quadrula pustulosa, an American freshwater mussel.
Synonyms: wartyback
wartyback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wartybacks
Etymology: From warty + back.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pimpleback (mussel)
synonyms: word: pimpleback
extra: mussel
pimplebacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pimpleback
wartybacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wartyback
netslang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From net + slang.
Senses: glosses: The slang used on the Internet.
funny peculiar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Strange or unusual, as opposed to humorous (the other meaning of funny).
Coordinate terms: funny ha-ha
deertoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deertoes
Etymology: From deer + toe.
Senses: glosses: The freshwater mussel Truncilla truncata.
deertoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deertoe
lilliput
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lilliputs
Etymology: From Lilliput, in reference to their small size.
Senses: glosses: Any of various small freshwater mussels of the genus Toxolasma, found mainly in the southeastern United States.
lilliputs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lilliput
water monkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water monkeys
Senses: synonyms: monkey jar
glosses: A jar or bottle, made from porous earthenware or similar, in which water is cooled by evaporation.
water monkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water monkey
water pocket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water pockets
Senses: glosses: A waterhole in the bed of an intermittent stream, especially the bowl at the foot of a cliff over which the stream leaps when in the flood stage.
water pockets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water pocket
water parting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water partings
form: water-parting
Senses: glosses: Synonym of watershed, the ridge(s) separating rainfall into different streams.
synonyms: word: watershed
extra: the ridge(s) separating rainfall into different streams
water partings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water parting
wet plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wet plates
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A plate whose film retains its sensitivity only while wet. The film used in such plates is of collodion impregnated with bromides and iodides. Before exposure the plate is immersed in a solution of silver nitrate, and immediately after exposure it is developed and fixed.
wet plates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wet plate
Wheatstone's rod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wheatstone's rods
Etymology: Named after Charles Wheatstone, who devised them.
Senses: qualifier: acoustics
glosses: Either of a pair of flexible rods whose periods of vibration in two planes at right angles are in some exact ratio to one another. When one end of such a rod is fixed, the free end describes through vibration the corresponding Lissajous figure.
wikipedia: Charles Wheatstone
Lissajous figures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lissajous figure
Wheatstone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A rural locality south of Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand.
Derived terms: Wheatstone bridge
Wheatstone cipher
Wheatstone's rod
Wheatstone transmitter
unmacho
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmacho
form: most unmacho
Etymology: From un- + macho.
Senses: glosses: Not macho.
workways
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: The rail to be curved is laid on its side, the ends resting on two ties which in turn rest on another rail placed workways.
ref: 1888, The Michigan Technic, volumes 1-4, page 78:
glosses: Alternative form of workwise (in a position so that it can be worked upon)
stillyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stillyards
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of steelyard.
stillyards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stillyard
tac-au-tac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French riposter du tac au tac (“to parry”), where tac imitates the sound made by the steel.
Senses: topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: The parry which is connected with a riposte.
topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A rapid series of attacks and parries in which neither fencer gains a point.
tunnel stern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tunnel sterns
Senses: glosses: A kind of motorboat stern, for use in shallow waters, in which the propeller is housed in a tunnel and does not extend below the greatest draft.
tunnel sterns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tunnel stern
teleiconograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teleiconographs
Senses: glosses: A combination of the camera lucida and telescope for drawing and measuring distant objects.
glosses: A form of facsimile telegraph.
Related terms: telemetrography
teleiconographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teleiconograph
telenergy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tele- + energy.
Senses: examples: text: This rapid movement of the hand and arm appears to me to develop a maximum of telenergy. Again, rubbing the feet on the floor, rubbing the hands, the back, the arms, in fact any quick or slightly violent movement appears to liberate this force […]
ref: 1905, Joseph Maxwell, Metaphysical Phenomena: Methods and Observations, page 109:
glosses: Display of force or energy at a distance, or without contact; telekinesis.
teleseism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teleseisms
Etymology: From tele- + seism.
Senses: glosses: A seismic movement or shock far from the recording instrument
Related terms: teleseismic
teleseisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teleseism
Yodaesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Yodaesque
form: most Yodaesque
Etymology: From Yoda + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Reminiscent of Yoda, the wise mentor from the Star Wars film franchise, who dispenses mystical advice in ungrammatical speak.
terrepleins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terreplein
thermochroic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thermo- + -chroic.
Senses: glosses: Having undergone selective absorption and therefore analogous to coloured rays of light.
raw_tags: of heat rays
thermodin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A white crystalline substance derived from urethane, used in medicine as an antipyretic, etc.
toe drop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: foot drop
torpedo catcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torpedo catchers
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: A small, fast gunboat for pursuing and destroying torpedo boats.
torpedo catchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torpedo catcher
tousy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tousy
form: most tousy
Etymology: From touse + -y.
Senses: glosses: tousled; tangled; rough; shaggy
torpedo boom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torpedo booms
Senses: glosses: A spar carried by a man-of-war, having a torpedo on its end.
torpedo booms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torpedo boom
RATM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Initialism.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Rage Against The Machine, an American rap metal band.
transition zones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transition zone
traverse drill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traverse drills
Senses: glosses: A machine tool for drilling slots, in which the work or tool has a lateral motion back and forth.
glosses: A drilling machine in which the spindle holder can be adjusted laterally.
multiple transformer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiple transformers
Senses: glosses: An electrical transformer connected in multiple or in parallel with the primary circuit.
glosses: An electrical transformer with more than one primary or more than one secondary coil.
multiple transformers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multiple transformer
tres-tine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tres-tines
Senses: glosses: The third tine above the base of a stag's antler.
Troilus butterfly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Troilus butterflies
Senses: glosses: A large American butterfly (Papilio troilus). It is black, with yellow marginal spots on the front wings, and blue on the rear.
Synonyms: spicebush swallowtail
small-mindedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more small-mindedly
form: most small-mindedly
Etymology: From small-minded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Like many of us, philosophers (and writers) can be small-mindedly unkind to their partners and friends.
ref: 2002, Richard Hoggart, First and Last Things, →ISBN, page 117:
glosses: In a small-minded manner.
turret steamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turret steamers
Senses: glosses: A whaleback steamer with a hatch coaming, usually about seven feet high, extending almost continuously fore and aft.
turret steamers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turret steamer
turret deck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turret decks
Senses: glosses: A narrow superstructure running from stem to stern on the upper deck of a steam cargo vessel having a rounded gunwale and sides curved inward convexly.
melon cactus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melon cacti
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Melocactus of cacti, distinguished when mature by their cephalium, a wool- and bristle-coated structure at the apex, containing a mass of areoles from which the small flowers grow.
Synonyms: Turk's cap
Turk's head
Turk's cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Turk's caps
Senses: glosses: A melon cactus (Melocactus).
glosses: A martagon lily (Lilium martagon).
glosses: Certain mallows (Malvaviscus).
Derived terms: taxonomic: Melocactus spp.
word: Turk's cap cactus
taxonomic: Lilium martagon
word: Turk's cap lily
taxonomic: Malvaviscus spp.
word: Turk's cap mallow
taxonomic: Physcomitrium pyriforme
alt: syn. Physcomitrium turbinatum
word: Turk's cap moss
taxonomic: Cucurbita maxima vars.
word: Turk's cap squash
two-name paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Negotiable paper on which at least two persons are severally liable as separate makers, or, usually, one as maker and one as endorser.
two-throw
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: a two-throw crank; a two-throw switch
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Capable of being thrown or cranked in two directions, usually opposite to one another.
examples: a two-throw crankshaft
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having two cranks set near together and opposite to one another.
typograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: typographs
Etymology: From type + -o- + -graph.
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A machine for setting type or for casting lines of type and setting them.
typograph
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: typographs
form: typographing
form: typographed
form: typographed
Etymology: From type + -o- + -graph.
Senses: examples: text: It is the merest chance in the world whether you’re born a countess or a washerwoman. I’m neither one nor t’other; I’m only a mot who does a little typographing by way of variety.
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:
glosses: To prepare type in such a machine.
Related terms: graphotype
typographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of typograph
tychism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tychisms
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τύχη (túkhē, “chance”), and -ism; proposed by the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce.
Senses: glosses: A theory suggesting that absolute chance, or indeterminism, is a real factor operative in the universe.
smallminded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more smallminded
form: most smallminded
Senses: examples: text: Let smallminded people whine about the horrid cost of Dreadnoughts; as long as every nation in Europe spends, year after year, much more money on wine, beer, and brandy than on her army and navy, there is no reason to dread our impoverishment by militarism.
ref: 1988, Wilson Jeremiah Moses, The Golden Age of Black Nationalism, 1850-1925, →ISBN, page 228:
glosses: Alternative form of small-minded.
PCl.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Proto-Celtic.
telethermometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tele- + thermometric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to telethermometry.
telethermometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tele- + thermometry.
Senses: glosses: measurement with a telethermometer
PBr.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Proto-Brittonic.
smallmindedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more smallmindedly
form: most smallmindedly
Etymology: From smallminded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It would be smallmindedly chauvinistic to pretend that Scotland was other than a strong participant in the furthering of British Imperial ambitions.
ref: 1993, Robert Crawford, Identifying Poets: self and territory in twentieth-century poetry, page 161:
glosses: Alternative form of small-mindedly.
tintometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tintometers
Etymology: From tint + -o- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of colorimeter.
synonyms: word: colorimeter
tintometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tintometer
struggle session
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: struggle sessions
Etymology: Calque from Chinese 批鬥大會／批斗大会 (pīdòu dàhuì)
Senses: examples: text: Wang also delivered a sensational “August 7” speech at the Foreign Ministry in a Red Guard struggle session aimed at Ch’en Yi.
ref: 1970, James Chieh Hsiung, Ideology and Practice: The Evolution of Chinese Communism, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 333:
text: On January 8, Zhou Enlai noted, “You and your friends have come to Zhongnanhai [Liu’s official residence] ... and dragged out Liu and Deng many times.¹²⁴ Yet after a break-in and 40-minute struggle session at his home in Zhongnanhai on January 3 and Wang’s public struggle session on January 6, Liu was granted what would be his last chance to see the chairman. At midnight, January 13, Mao sent his secretary in a nondescript auto to bring Liu to the Great Hall of the People for a talk.
ref: 1998, Lowell Dittmer, Liu Shaoqi and the Chinese Cultural Revolution, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 84:
glosses: A form of public humiliation used by China in the Maoist period to shape public opinion and to humiliate or persecute political rivals.
examples: text: Look at K-12 indoctrination to see how the Woke Army is racializing every issue and turning classrooms into ideological indoctrination centers, and faculty and staff training into struggle sessions, […]
ref: 2023, Asra Q. Nomani, Woke Army:
glosses: A meeting in which people who disagree with a preferred ideology are humiliated or bullied.
struggle sessions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of struggle session
bloody-mindedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bloody-mindedly
form: most bloody-mindedly
Etymology: From bloody-minded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: ...some agents can anticipate the predictions which observers make about them sufficiently well to bloody-mindedly falsify them.
ref: 1983, Malcolm V. Jones, Garth M. Terry, New Essays on Dostoyevsky, →ISBN, page 174:
glosses: In a bloody-minded manner.
bloodymindedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bloodymindedly
form: most bloodymindedly
Etymology: From bloodyminded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I wonder now if I've under-achieved because of this attitude. I didn't write, paint etc. because it was expected that I would. So I bloodymindedly wanted to do something else.
ref: 2013, Sue Sharpe, Fathers and Daughters, →ISBN, page 41:
text: Kyiv too can breathe again[…]although it can still be struck by missiles from Belarus, if the Russians bloodymindedly choose to launch them.
ref: 2022 April 4, Dan Sabbagh, “Routing of Russian forces from Kyiv area will be hard to repeat in eastern Ukraine”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of bloody-mindedly.
-phasia
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φάσις (phásis, “utterance”), from φημί (phēmí, “I say”).
Senses: examples: aphasia, dysphasia, monophasia, schizophasia
glosses: Used to form the names of disorders and phenomena relating to words and speech.
Synonyms: -logia
-phemia
-lalia
-arthria
-phrasia
tough-mindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tough-minded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Subsequently turning the new insight into action—embodying the idea, producing the revolutionary behavior—requires tough-mindedness, the willingness to try out behavior and allow his or her ideas to die in his or her stead...
ref: 2008, Mihnea C. Moldoveanu, Roger L. Martin, The Future of the MBA: Designing the Thinker of the Future, →ISBN, page 53:
glosses: The characteristic of being tough-minded; lack of sentimentality and unswerving conviction.
tough-mindedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tough-mindedly
form: most tough-mindedly
Etymology: From tough-minded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: We do not owe greater help tender-mindedly out of pity for the weak, but tough-mindedly out of our interest in possible enlightenment by those receiving assistance.
ref: 2008, Clark Butler, Human Rights Ethics: A Rational Approach, →ISBN, pages 10–11:
glosses: In a tough-minded manner; lacking sentimentality.
toughminded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more toughminded
form: most toughminded
Etymology: From tough + minded.
Senses: examples: text: Thus communist tendencies would be consistent with toughminded radicalism while fascism would be characterised by toughminded conservatism.
ref: 2001, Keith Tones, Sylvia Tilford, Health Promotion: Effectiveness, Efficiency and Equity, →ISBN, page 59:
glosses: Alternative form of tough-minded.
toughmindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From toughminded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Among ethnologists what is certainly an idiographic approach is often pursued with the most ascetic toughmindedness. Where fact reigns supreme, any attempt at theory may appear tenderminded.
ref: 1969, Mahlon Brewster Smith, Social Psychology and Human Values: Selected Essays, →ISBN, page 44:
glosses: Alternative form of tough-mindedness.
toughmindedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more toughmindedly
form: most toughmindedly
Etymology: From toughminded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: We need to reflect more toughmindedly than Sandel does (and more toughmindedly than I have done in some of my writings on citizenship) on the utopian character of a civic-republican regime.
ref: 2003, Ronald Beiner, Liberalism, Nationalism, Citizenship: Essays on the Problem of Political community, →ISBN, page 6:
glosses: Alternative form of tough-mindedly.