cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
public convenience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: public conveniences
Senses: synonyms: word: comfort station
word: public toilet
word: bathroom
word: latrine
word: necessarium
word: toilet
word: toilet room
word: urinal
word: water closet
word: WC
word: cloaca
word: closet
word: jacques
word: kocay
word: siege
word: cludgie
word: neddy
word: netty
word: shield
word: six
word: facilities
word: ladies and gentlemen
word: lavatory
word: lavabo
word: necessary
word: necessary room
word: office
word: office of ease
word: place
word: potty
word: privy
word: small room
word: smallest room
word: throne room
word: cottage
word: geography
word: House of Lords
word: khazi
word: usual offices
word: restroom
word: teahouse
word: tearoom
word: washroom
raw_tags: used in Canada
word: closet of decency
word: closet of ease
word: house of office
word: necessary place
word: purging place
word: vault
word: withdraught
word: wardrobe
word: shitter
word: urination station
word: bog
word: carsey
word: crapper
word: karzy
word: lats
word: lav
word: lavvy
word: loo
word: thunderbox
raw_tags: in Australia
word: can
word: john
word: johnny
word: bogger
word: brasco
word: dike
raw_tags: in New Zealand
word: dunny
raw_tags: in New Zealand
word: jacks
word: jakes
glosses: A lavatory that is provided for public use, i.e. use by any person.
hitch one's wagon to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hitches one's wagon to
form: hitching one's wagon to
form: hitched one's wagon to
form: hitched one's wagon to
Senses: examples: text: Finally, I wanted to tell a more personal story that might inspire young people considering a life of public service: how my career in politics really started with a search for a place to fit in, a way to explain the different strands of my mixed-up heritage, and how it was only by hitching my wagon to something larger than myself that I was ultimately able to locate a community and purpose for my life.
ref: 2020, Barack Obama, “Preface”, in A Promised Land, Crown:
glosses: to rely on (someone or something) for success
Derived terms: hitch one's wagon to a star
make someone's flesh creep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes someone's flesh creep
form: making someone's flesh creep
form: made someone's flesh creep
form: made someone's flesh creep
Senses: examples: text: I can't bear snakes. They make my flesh creep.
text: […] we all three enter'd the Gate of the Palace between two Rows of Guards, armed and dreſſed after a very antick manner, and ſomething in their Countenances that made my Fleſh creep with a Horror I cannot expreſs.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Leaves Lagado, Arrives at Maldonada. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan), page 97:
glosses: To disgust or frighten someone.
Related terms: make someone's skin crawl
Pontrhydyfen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɔntˌrədəˈvɛn/
ipa: /ˌpɒntˌɹʌdəˈvɛn/
ipa: /ˌpɒntˈɹʌdəvɛn/
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A village in Neath Port Talbot borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SS7994).
groundcloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: groundcloths
Etymology: From ground + cloth.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of groundsheet.
synonyms: word: groundsheet
Abnormal Hieratic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: abnormal hieratic
Senses: glosses: The highly simplified and cursive ancient Egyptian script that developed from Upper Egyptian hieratic writing from around 1100 BCE until its supersession by its Lower Egyptian counterpart Demotic around 650 BCE.
base rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: base rates
Senses: examples: text: On loans to higher-risk customers, the bank charges 5% above the base rate.
topics: business
finance
glosses: A benchmark interest rate, from which other interest rates are calculated; a policy rate.
topics: business
finance
glosses: A benchmark interest rate, from which other interest rates are calculated; a policy rate.
Especially, the interest rate at which the Bank of England lends money to commercial banks.
topics: sciences
glosses: The background rate of occurrence of any phenomenon, which informs any logical analysis of its rate of occurrence under any subset of circumstances; especially, the proportion of individuals in a population who have a certain characteristic (e.g., trait, experience, circumstance), irrespective of any treatment effects in a treatment group of a scientific study.
Bankfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village north of Perth in Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland. (OS grid ref NO0635).
glosses: A suburb of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE1530).
misaccumulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mis- + accumulated.
Senses: glosses: wrongly accumulated
Related terms: misaccumulation
condensed formula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: condensed formulae
form: condensed formulas
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A simplified structural formula that does not show the individual atoms' relative position in space
Yoros
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Yoro
autoconnected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- + connected.
Senses: glosses: connected to itself, via an autapse
raw_tags: of an axon
bichimera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bichimeras
Etymology: From bi- + chimera.
Senses: glosses: A chimera of two conspecifics
bichimeras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bichimera
chiralic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chiral.
coterminate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coterminates
form: coterminating
form: coterminated
form: coterminated
Etymology: From co- + terminate.
Senses: glosses: To terminate along with another
coterminating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coterminate
cytosponge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytosponges
Etymology: From cyto- + sponge.
Senses: glosses: A sponge contained within a pill on a fine string; once swallowed, the sponge is released and may be withdrawn, collecting cells (for analysis) on the way
cytosponges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cytosponge
backpay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backpays
Etymology: From back- + pay.
Senses: examples: text: Retaliation against organizing unions is illegal under US federal law, and complaints with the NLRB can lead to fired workers being reinstated with backpay, Bloomberg notes.
ref: 2023 February 16, Jon Porter, “Tesla fired dozens of Gigafactory workers after Tuesday’s union announcement: NLRB complaint”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 16 Feb 2023:
text: It says the offer amounts to an increase of 14.4% for the lowest-paid grades to 9.2% for the highest paid. There is an additional 1.1% on basic earnings and increased backpay. […] The increased backpay will be implemented and paid as a lump sum […].
ref: 2023 March 22, Mel Holley, “Network News: RMT to ballot Network Rail members on improved offer”, in RAIL, number 979, page 12:
glosses: Alternative form of back pay.
clock on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clocks on
form: clocking on
form: clocked on
form: clocked on
Senses: glosses: To record one's time of arrival at work, traditionally by inserting one's card into a timestamping machine.
glosses: To begin work at the start of the day or start of one's shift.
examples: text: His birthday was another reminder of his life clocking on.
glosses: To grow older; to proceed.
Related terms: clock in
clock off
clock onto
clock out
alto cliff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alto cliffs
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of alto clef.
band structure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: band structures
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bandstructure.
band structures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of band structure
band cup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: band cups
Senses: glosses: A form of Attic Little-Master cup having a slightly concave black lip, and often a red ring at the joint between vase body and foot. The external figural decoration is in the area of the handles, often framed by palmettes.
Related terms: band skyphos
band cups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of band cup
marram grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: But the disadvantages of proximity to sand dunes have become apparent in the past year. War is being waged on wind-blown sand by planting marram grass.
ref: 1961 September, “Margam yard revisited”, in Modern Railways, page 537:
glosses: Synonym of marram.
synonyms: word: marram
electronmicrographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electron micrograph + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to electron micrographs.
electronmicrographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: By surface analysis, electron + micro- + graph + -ic + -ally
Senses: glosses: By means of electron micrographs.
electronmicrography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The generation of electron micrographs.
autohyponym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autohyponyms
Etymology: From auto- + hyponym; by surface analysis, auto- + hypo- + -nym.
Senses: hypernyms: polyseme
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coordinate_terms: autohypernym
glosses: A word that is a hyponym of itself, displaying vertical polysemy via a stricter subsense whose denotation is entirely a subset of a broader sense.
Related terms: word: autohyponymy
word: hypernymy
word: hyponymy
english: sharing a hypernym
translation: sharing a hypernym
word: cohyponym
english: sharing a holonym
translation: sharing a holonym
word: comeronym
word: strictly speaking
word: stricto sensu
autohyponyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autohyponym
go to Cain's
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes to Cain's
form: going to Cain's
form: went to Cain's
form: gone to Cain's
Etymology: From the name of a company in New York City (Cain's Transfer Co.) that rented out props and costumes.
Senses: examples: text: […] Norma Terris (who, so far as we had known, was born in Show Boat and went to Cain's with it) […]
ref: 1934, Stage, volume 11, numbers 7-12, page 7:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: To close a show.
lob-on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lob-ons
Senses: examples: text: She pulled me shoes and socks off and then pulled off me trousers and underpants and threw them onto the chair. I heard lads in the barrack room say that they'd had a lob-on that were so hard it hurt. Now I believed them.
ref: 2014, Alan Watkins-Groves, Buying The Programme, page 74:
text: He had to have a lob on to achieve that and he told her that she felt 'so good'.
ref: 2013, Corri Lee, Hers, page 131:
text: “Well, get me dick out and give it a jostle or something, darling, I've had a lob on all the way up here.”
ref: 2001, Garry Bushell, The Face:
glosses: An erection; an erect penis.
Synonyms: erect penis
lob-ons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lob-on
locking in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lock in
whiteists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whiteist
whitists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whitist
colliotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colliotomy
covenaunted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of covenaunt
covenaunting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of covenaunt
ministred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ministre
anprims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anprim
stop clocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stop clock
metre stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metre sticks
form: meter stick
Senses: glosses: A ruler that measures one metre.
Related terms: yardstick
metre sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metre stick
Worster-Drought syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after physician Cecil Charles Worster-Drought.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: Worster-Drought
Worster-Drought's
Worster-Drought's syndrome
glosses: A form of congenital suprabulbar paresis associated with cerebral palsy.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: familial British dementia
glosses: A form of heritable dementia found in Britain and the British.
Hypernyms: word: syndrome
word: disease
word: paresis
sense: dementia
word: dementia
ecoacoustics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eco- + acoustics.
Senses: glosses: The science of the relationship between sound and the environment
equivoluminally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In an equivoluminal manner
grandoffspring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grandoffspring
Etymology: From grand- + offspring.
Senses: examples: text: Plugging these numbers into his model, Dr Croft showed that the diminution of fecundity in elderly females that this intergenerational competition creates, combined with the fact that the youngsters an elderly female is competing with are often her own daughters (so it is her grandoffspring that are benefiting), means it is better for her posterity if she gives up breeding altogether, and concentrates her efforts on helping those daughters.
ref: 2017 January 14, “The evolution of the menopause: A whale of a tale”, in The Economist, page 74, column 3:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: grandchild
glosses: The offspring of offspring
hyperforage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hyperforages
form: hyperforaging
form: hyperforaged
form: hyperforaged
Etymology: From hyper- + forage.
Senses: glosses: To forage hyperactively
hyperforaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hyperforage
hyperforaging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: hyperactive foraging
hyperpseudopilus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperpseudopili
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A large, multimeric pseudopilus
pseudopilus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudopili
Etymology: From pseudo- + pilus.
Senses: glosses: A structure, in gram-negative bacteria, that expels exoproteins from the cell
interbeacon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + beacon.
Senses: glosses: between (adjacent) beacons (in any of various contexts)
interdisk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + disk.
Senses: glosses: between disks
intertelencephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + telencephalic.
Senses: glosses: Between parts of the telencephalon
intertissue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + tissue.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: between tissues
intertone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + tone.
Senses: glosses: Between tones
intertone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intertones
Etymology: From inter- + tone.
Senses: glosses: A tone of intermediate pitch between two others
intragastral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + gastral.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of intragastric.
synonyms: word: intragastric
labjack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labjacks
Senses: glosses: A telescopic platform used to support laboratory glassware or other equipment
labjacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of labjack
misaccumulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misaccumulations
Etymology: From mis- + accumulation.
Senses: glosses: Incorrect accumulation.
tapik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: instrument for torturing people by means of electric current, made on the basis of the Soviet military field telephone wz. 57 (TA-57)
Spac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Spacs
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps more notably, they also expect 25 percent of all Spac acquisitions to be vetoed by shareholders in 2008 — which will force those Spacs to liquidate.
ref: 2008 April 15, “A Pullback for Spacs?”, in NY Times DealBook, retrieved 18 Nov 2020:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of SPAC.
Spacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Spac
multiexperiment
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + experiment.
Senses: glosses: that involves multiple experiments
multiphage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + phage.
Senses: glosses: that involves multiple phages
multireaction
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + reaction.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: that involves multiple reactions, typically in which a product of one is a reactant in the next
multiregime
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + regime.
Senses: glosses: that involves multiple regimes
accentologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From accentology + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to accentology.
neuropsychotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuropsychotypes
Senses: glosses: A neuropsychological type
neurotrait
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurotraits
Etymology: From neuro- + trait.
Senses: glosses: A neurological trait
neurotraits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurotrait
nonanorectic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + anorectic.
Senses: glosses: not anorectic
noncentred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + centred.
Senses: glosses: not centred
nondisassembling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + disassembling.
Senses: glosses: not disassembling
nonequivalency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonequivalence.
nonfertilizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + fertilizable.
Senses: glosses: not fertilizable
nongermline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + germline.
Senses: glosses: That is not part of a germline
nonhatched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + hatched.
Senses: glosses: not hatched
nonhominid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonhominids
Etymology: From non- + hominid.
Senses: glosses: any primate that is not a hominid
Xeroxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Xerox
nonhominids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonhominid
Xeroxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Xerox
nonmicroglial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + microglial.
Senses: glosses: not microglial
nonratiometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + ratiometric.
Senses: glosses: not ratiometric
nonstarved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + starved.
Senses: glosses: not starved
nontransported
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + transported.
Senses: glosses: not transported
optotagging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From opto- + tagging.
Senses: glosses: tagging as part of an optogenetics experiment
overacquired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From over- + acquired.
Senses: glosses: acquired to excess
overnigh
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From over- + nigh.
Senses: glosses: excessively close or near
glosses: Misspelling of overnight.
panmyeloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pan- + myeloid.
Senses: glosses: relating to all myeloid tissue
pathobiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From patho- + biotic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pathobiological.
synonyms: word: pathobiological
glosses: Misspelling of pathobiontic.
placazoan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of placozoan.
porphinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porphinoids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An anion derived from a porphin; a salt containing this anion
porphinoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porphinoid
postcellularization
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + cellularization.
Senses: glosses: Following cellularization
prepupation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + pupation.
Senses: glosses: prior to pupation
presegregate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: presegregates
form: presegregating
form: presegregated
form: presegregated
Etymology: From pre- + segregate.
Senses: glosses: To segregate prior to some other operation
presegregated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of presegregate
presegregated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: segregated prior to another operation
proisocortex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pro- + isocortex.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: An area of the neocortex
Related terms: proisocortical
proisocortical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + isocortical.
Senses: glosses: relating to the proisocortex
pyroglutamylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: modified by pyroglutamylation
readhesive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From re- + adhesive.
Senses: glosses: relating to readhesion
average down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: averages down
form: averaging down
form: averaged down
form: averaged down
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: To buy more of a product, especially more shares, at a lower price than a previous purchase, so that the average price paid for one's holding is lowered.
recodonized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From re- + codon + -ize + -ed.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: That has a (terminal) codon replaced or reattached
raw_tags: of a gene
Related terms: recodonization
relateralization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + lateralization.
Senses: glosses: A change in brain lateralization, typically following an injury
retrocuing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From retro- + cuing.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: retroactive cuing
riboguanosines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of riboguanosine
ridglet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ridglets
Senses: glosses: A small ridge, especially one composed of a curvelet
ridglets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ridglet
semimotorized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + motorized.
Senses: glosses: partially motorized
semioccluded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + occluded.
Senses: glosses: partially occluded
semithalloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + thalloid.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: somewhat thalloid
silvaniform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silvaniforms
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An insect that inhabits trees
silvaniforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silvaniform
submyeloablation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sub- + myeloablation.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A form of myelosuppression
SWSDL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: Web
glosses: Initialism of Subset Web Services Description Language, a language for subset operations of an original WSDL that can be used to access the Subset Service.
Hypernyms: WSDL
circulizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of circulize
circulizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of circulize
circulized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of circulize
Hampden Park
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area in Eastbourne borough, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ6002).
Ch'ing-ho
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 青河 (Qīnghé), Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻing¹-ho².
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Qinghe (Qinggil)
Ch'ing-ho
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 清河 (Qīnghé), Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻing¹-ho².
Senses: examples: text: Three of these six families originated from the district of Chʻing-ho (Hopei province), two other from the neighborhood Chʻing-ho, and only a single one from the neighborhood of Chʻang-an.
ref: 1965, Wolfram Eberhard, Conquerors and Rulers: Social Forces in Medieval China, Netherlands, →OCLC, page 168:
text: "We are servants of the Honorable Hsi-men Chʻing of Chʻing-ho district in Shantung," Lai-pao replied, "and have come to present birthday gifts to His Honor."
ref: 2001, David Tod Roy, The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin Pʻing Mei, volume 2, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 197:
text: While the story takes place in the provincial town of Qingho^([sic – meaning Qinghe]) (Chʻing-ho) and concerns a middle-class family, the setting is meant to reflect the anonymous author's critique of Peking and the later Ming dynasty.
ref: 2005, Encyclopedia of Writers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 125:
glosses: Alternative form of Qinghe.
superassemblage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superassemblages
Etymology: From super- + assemblage.
Senses: glosses: A large assemblage of smaller ones
superresolve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: superresolves
form: superresolving
form: superresolved
form: superresolved
Etymology: From super- + resolve.
Senses: glosses: To undergo superresolution
superresolved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of superresolve
superresolved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: modified by superresolution
thiazolobenzimidazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thiazolobenzimidazoles
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any heterocycle that has a thiazole ring fused to a benzimidazole
transcriptomewide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From transcriptome + -wide.
Senses: glosses: throughout a transcriptome
triplomutant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From triplo- + mutant.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: having three mutations
trogocytose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to trogocytosis
trogocytose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: trogocytoses
form: trogocytosing
form: trogocytosed
form: trogocytosed
Senses: glosses: To undergo trogocytosis
bank draft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bank drafts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of banker's draft.
undercharacterised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From under- + characterised.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of undercharacterized.
undercharacterised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From under- + characterised.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undercharacterise
sea-stack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea-stacks
Senses: examples: text: The sea-gull sprang upwards from where he had floated on the ripple, and hied him slowly away to his lodge in his deep sea-stack; the dusky cormorant flitted past, with heavier and more frequent stroke, to his whitened shelf high on the precipice; [...]
ref: 1854 May 15, “Notes on Books”, in Norton’s Literary Gazette and Publishers’ Circular, volume I (New Series), number X, New York, N.Y.: Baker, Godwin & Co., […] [for Charles Benjamin Norton], →OCLC, page 248, column 3:
text: That this defile may have been partly eroded by the action of the sea is also very probable; and there are certain isolated pinnacles and irregular columns of agglomerate in its immediate neighbourhood which have all the appearance of being old sea-stacks.
ref: 1878 March 6, A. C. Ramsay, James Geikie, “On the Geology of Gibraltar”, in W[illiam] S[weetland] Dallas, editor, The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, volume XXXIV, London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer; […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 524:
text: The sea, with its tremendous battering-power, is excavating caves, just as the streams make pot-holes; only the action is horizontal, rather than vertical, the water lashing like a whip around the flanks of the sea-stacks and islets.
ref: 1895, Grenville A[rthur] J[ames] Cole, “Along the Shore”, in Open-air Studies: An Introduction to Geology Out-of-doors (Griffin’s Scientific Text Books), London: Charles Griffin and Company, […], →OCLC, page 94:
glosses: Alternative form of sea stack.
unifiability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: the condition of being unifiable
sea-stacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea-stack
uniquantal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + quantal.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of monoquantal.
synonyms: word: monoquantal
MHA Nation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The U.S.-based Native American nation formed by the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara American Indian tribes, and their Amerindian reservation.
Synonyms: The Three Affiliated Tribes
wrong foot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wrong foots
form: wrong footing
form: wrong footed
form: wrong footed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wrong-foot.
Related terms: on the wrong foot
barracks room lawyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barracks room lawyers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of barrack-room lawyer.
Cossall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒsɔːl/
/ˈkɒsəl/
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Broxtowe borough, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK4842).
barrel of fun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barrels of fun
Senses: examples: text: We all went out to a karaoke bar and had a barrel of fun.
text: Two hours of root canal surgery – that sounds like a barrel of fun.
text: 1939, Lew Brown and Wladimir Timm (English lyrics), "Beer Barrel Polka", aka "Roll out the barrel"
♫ Roll out the barrel, we'll have a barrel of fun
Roll out the barrel, we've got the blues on the run
glosses: A great amount of fun or enjoyment, or something or someone that provides this.
Bath bun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bath buns
form: bath bun
Etymology: From the English city of Bath, where it originated.
Senses: examples: text: [H]e felt hungry, so he bought a bath bun and ate it while he strolled along.
ref: 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 103, in Of Human Bondage:
glosses: A small, round baked good, having a bread-like consistency, topped with sugar or icing and sometimes small pieces of dried or candied fruit.
examples: text: […] the old Bath Bun was simmering as he wrote it.
ref: 1968, The British Journal of Photography, volume 115, page 3:
text: 'Nice that the Bath bun's out today.'
ref: 2015, Sid Finch, The Little Book of Cockney Rhyming Slang:
synonyms: Currant Bun
glosses: The sun.
brass ankle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brass ankles
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, the Maroons also practiced the diversions of polygamy. Their women, being a mixture of negro and native Indian, possessed a defiant beauty, not unlike that of an equivalent racial mixture, the “Brass Ankle” girls at Charleston. The men were tall and handsome and well made, and had a wild eye.
ref: 1937, Richardson Little Wright, “Ⅸ”, in Revels in Jamaica, 1682–1838, Binghamton, New York: Vail-Ballou Press, →OCLC, →OL, Maroon Fun, page 232:
glosses: A person whose racial heritage is regarded as primarily white, but with a small degree of known or suspected non-white ancestry. A manifestation of the American “one-drop rule” of racial categorization.
Related terms: Melungeon
Mestee
Métis
mixed-race
multiheritage
touch of the tar brush
apotarget
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apotargets
Etymology: From apo- + target.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An apoprotein that is the target of a biochemical reaction.
apotargets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apotarget
beady eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beady eyes
Senses: glosses: A small, bright eye.
examples: text: I've got my beady eye on you, so don't try any monkey business.
glosses: A figurative means of paying watchful attention towards someone or something.
Related terms: beady-eyed
archaeplastidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the archaeplastids
beta ray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beta rays
Senses: glosses: A stream of beta particles (fast-moving electrons propagating through a gas or vacuum), such as emitted by a radioactive substance.
Related terms: beta radiation
escapées
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of escapée
Upper Holloway
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in the borough of Islington, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2986).
your guys'
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /(ˈ)jɝ(ˈ)ɡaɪz(əz)/
ipa: /(ˈ)jɔɹ-/
note: ʹ
enpr: yər(ʹ)gīz(əz)
enpr: yôr(ʹ)-
ipa: /(ˈ)joː(ˈ)ɡɑɪz(əz)/
Forms: form: your guys's
Senses: examples: 2004, Napoleon Dynamite
Hey can I use your guys' phone for a sec?
glosses: Possessive of you guys.
Synonyms: your
you guys's
you guys'
y'all's
your guys'
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /(ˈ)jɝ(ˈ)ɡaɪz(əz)/
ipa: /(ˈ)jɔɹ-/
note: ʹ
enpr: yər(ʹ)gīz(əz)
enpr: yôr(ʹ)-
ipa: /(ˈ)joː(ˈ)ɡɑɪz(əz)/
Forms: form: your guys's
Senses: glosses: Possessive determiner of you guys.
Synonyms: yours
you guys's
you guys'
y'all's
Related terms: you guys
next-day
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Records of arrival times are sent to the L.T.S. Line Traffic Manager's office so that any deviations from the assured next-day arrival can be investigated.
ref: 1961 September, B. Perren, “The Tilbury Line serves industrial North Thameside”, in Modern Railways, page 559:
glosses: Relating to the following day, often regarding a provided service.
bonded warehouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bonded warehouses
Senses: glosses: A premise where imported goods are securely stored pending payment of import duties or reexportation.
haploabnormal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From haplo- + abnormal.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having an abnormal haploid form
haploabnormality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haploabnormalities
Etymology: From haplo- + abnormality.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: the condition of being haploabnormal
haploabnormalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haploabnormality
melastin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein immunomodulator produced by Streptomyces
midbivalent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + bivalent.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: in the middle of a bivalent chromosome
thyroglobin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thyro- + globin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A globin produced by the thyroid gland
Related terms: thyroglobulin
coffées
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coffée
Longden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Longdens
Etymology: From Old English lang (“long”) + denu (“valley”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Shropshire, England, south-west of Shrewsbury (OS grid ref SJ4406).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
signature song
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: signature songs
Etymology: See the main entries. Formed as a compound in the 1920s.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A song in which its artist or band is best associated with or known for.
Related terms: signature tune
Birdlip
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO9214).
down the way
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: They live just down the way.
text: Down the way, the road's divided.
Paint me the places you have seen.
Those who know what I don't know
refer to the yellow, red, and green.
ref: 1985 June 10, R.E.M., “Maps and Legends”, in Fables of the Reconstruction:
glosses: Further along a southern direction or downhill route.
examples: I plan to publish my novel somewhere down the way.
glosses: Later; at indeterminate point in the future.
Synonyms: down the road
Related terms: up the way
cannonball effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The breaking loose of payload within a shipping container when on transport.
Blowers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Blowers Green
Blowers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Blower
MFB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MFBs
Senses: examples: text: Using Diffusion Tensor Imaging Fiber Tracking (DTI FT) the authors describe potential converging ascending and descending MFB and anterior thalamic radiation (ATR) that may mediate major brain reward-seeking and punishment functions. Authors highlight novel connectivity, such as supero-lateral-branch MFB and ATR convergence, caudally as well as rostrally, in the anterior limb of the internal capsule and medial prefrontal cortex.
ref: 2012, Volker A Coenen, Jaak Panksepp, Trevor A Hurwitz, Horst Urbach, Burkhard Mädler, “Human medial forebrain bundle (MFB) and anterior thalamic radiation (ATR): imaging of two major subcortical pathways and the dynamic balance of opposite affects in understanding depression”, in The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, →DOI, →PMID:
topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Initialism of medial forebrain bundle.
do tell
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Abbreviation of the hortative phrase “please do tell me more.”
Senses: examples: text: You say you're an astronaut? Do tell.
synonyms: word: pray tell
word: oh really
word: I declare
word: you don't say
word: is that so
glosses: An idiomatic expression of mild interest or surprise within a conversational context.
Lukashism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lukashenkoism
Etymology: From Lukashenko + -ism or borrowed from Russian лукаши́зм (lukašízm).
Senses: glosses: The political and economic system created by Alexander Lukashenko / Alyaksandr Lukashenka.
Related terms: Lukashist
forum selection clause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forum selection clauses
Senses: synonyms: forum selection agreement
choice of forum clause
forum clause
agreement conferring jurisdiction
choice of forum agreement
jurisdiction clause
agreement on the choice of court
choice of court agreement
glosses: A contractual provision determining the territorial (or less often only international, or subject matter) jurisdiction for a legal dispute concerning a concrete legal relationship.
Related terms: forum shopping
jurisdiction shopping
forum selection clauses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forum selection clause
forum selection agreement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forum selection agreements
Senses: glosses: Synonym of forum selection clause.
synonyms: word: forum selection clause
forum selection agreements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forum selection agreement
choice of forum clause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choice of forum clauses
Senses: glosses: Synonym of forum selection clause.
synonyms: word: forum selection clause
choice of forum clauses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of choice of forum clause
forum clause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forum clauses
Senses: glosses: Synonym of forum selection clause.
synonyms: word: forum selection clause
forum clauses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forum clause
agreement conferring jurisdiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agreements conferring jurisdiction
Senses: glosses: Synonym of forum selection clause.
synonyms: word: forum selection clause
agreements conferring jurisdiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agreement conferring jurisdiction
choice of court agreement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choice of court agreements
Senses: glosses: Synonym of forum selection clause.
synonyms: word: forum selection clause
choice of court agreements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of choice of court agreement
jurisdiction clause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jurisdiction clauses
Senses: glosses: Synonym of forum selection clause.
synonyms: word: forum selection clause
jurisdiction clauses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jurisdiction clause
choice of forum agreement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choice of forum agreements
Senses: glosses: Synonym of forum selection clause.
synonyms: word: forum selection clause
choice of forum agreements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of choice of forum agreement
agreement on the choice of court
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agreements on the choice of court
Senses: glosses: Synonym of forum selection clause.
synonyms: word: forum selection clause
agreements on the choice of court
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agreement on the choice of court
faucet aerator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faucet aerators
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
plumbing
glosses: A device for faucets or taps which mixes air with water to reduce the flowrate.
Synonyms: top aerator
top aerator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: top aerators
Senses: glosses: A faucet aerator.
forbanning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forban
forbanned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forban
favouritemost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: favoritemost
Etymology: From favourite + -most.
Senses: examples: text: My favouritemost way of de-stressing is to take a large hammer to furniture, but I don't get to do that very often.
ref: 2002 October 3, Aquarion, “[I] Dealing with bad temper”, in alt.fan.pratchett (Usenet):
text: Your favouritemost films?
ref: 2012 December 10, Rasheeda Bhagat, “I don’t believe in stardom: Dilip Kumar”, in The Hindu Business Line:
glosses: superlative form of favourite: most favourite
favoritemost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: favouritemost
Etymology: From favorite + -most.
Senses: examples: text: He liked Winona Ryder because she was cool and she was in Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands, two of his very favoritemost movies.
ref: 2001, Eddie Newton, 40 Days, Writers Club Press, →ISBN:
text: And as you can imagine, it's not my favoritemost subject in the world...
ref: 1987, Jeannette Haien, “The Summer of My Last Chance”, in The Massachusetts Review, volume 28, number 3, →JSTOR:
text: I mention this because it was the favoritemost of Noschel's fantasy explanations in those early days: that Louie invented Invisible Paint for the shiksa, and she actually lived right there in the apartment with them.
ref: 1990, Albert Goldbarth, “The History of the Universe Is Important to This Story”, in New England Review, volume 13, number 1, →JSTOR:
glosses: superlative form of favorite: most favorite
overcooker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overcookers
Etymology: From overcook + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who overcooks.
undercooker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undercookers
Etymology: From undercook + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who undercooks.
overcookers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overcooker
undercookers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undercooker
plastoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From plastic + -oid.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A plastic-like material.
plastographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to plastography.
medial epicondylitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: golfer's elbow
e-drama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-dramas
Etymology: From e- + drama.
Senses: examples: text: There was more e-drama on the forums today as one of the moderators was accused of racism.
glosses: Drama (rumour, lying, melodrama etc.) on the Internet or in cyberspace.
Related terms: cyberdrama
e-dramas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-drama
wokie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wokies
Etymology: From woke + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Like Marxists, wokies are millenarians, working for a magical tomorrow that owes nothing either to past practice or to human frailties.
ref: 2021 June 6, Daniel Hannan, “Communism is evolving. But the new version is no more toxic than the old one”, in The Daily Telegraph:
glosses: A person who is woke.
Synonyms: social justice warrior
wokeling
wokester
wokescold
woketard
Related terms: woker
wokies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wokie
wokewashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wokewash
wokewashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wokewash
Goodier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
cyclate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cyclopentolate.
synonyms: word: cyclopentolate
diphthine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The amino acid cation [(1R)-3-[5-[(2S)-2-amino-2-carboxyethyl]-1H-imidazol-2-yl]-1-carboxypropyl]-trimethylazanium
finestructure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fine structure.
fine structure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The structure of spectra characterised by the splitting of lines due to relativistic effects
frameshifters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frameshifter
ideotypic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ideo- + -typic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to ideotypes
Yacomine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.