cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
poephagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: grass-eating
foliophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin folium (“leaf”) + -phagous.
Senses: glosses: feeding on leaves
microphagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + -phagous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Feeding on small particles.
macrophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macro- + -phagous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: That feeds on relatively large particles or prey.
Related terms: macrophage
macrophagy
thalerophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Feeding on fresh vegetable matter.
Related terms: saprophagous
night monkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: night monkeys
Senses: glosses: douroucouli (Aotus spp.)
night moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: night moths
Senses: glosses: Any noctuid moth (Noctuidae).
Sézary syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Sézary's disease
Sézary's disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: First described by Albert Sézary.
Senses: glosses: A type of cutaneous lymphoma in which the affected cells are T cells that have pathological quantities of mucopolysaccharides.
moon trefoil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Medicago arborea, a plant with yellow flowers.
T-form
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: T-forms
form: T form
Etymology: From the first letter of the second-person singular pronoun in Romance languages; ultimately from Latin tu and Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.
Senses: examples: text: Shifting his feet and still perplexed, he then asked me if I was a faculty researcher, using again the informal T-form.
ref: 1996, Marco Jacquemet, Credibility in Court:
text: In the Erzin dialect, children address their parents with the V-form; to use the T-form would show a lack of respect for parents.
ref: 2002, The Bible Translator:
text: Typically, the informal pronominal address term (T-form) is the original second-person pronoun (Latin tu; Germanic du) and the polite or formal V-form is a plural form.
ref: 2012, Marcel Bax, Dániel Z. Kádár, Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A second-person pronoun used in informal situations, to address friends, family, and sometimes inferiors.
Related terms: thou
V-form
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: V-forms
form: V form
Etymology: From the first letter of the second-person plural pronoun in Romance languages; ultimately from Latin vos.
Senses: examples: text: In the Erzin dialect, children address their parents with the V-form; to use the T-form would show a lack of respect for parents.
ref: 2002, The Bible Translator:
text: But cross-linguistically one finds that plural pronouns are predominant for the V-form. Again, there may well be a universal here that a plural address implies respect and that the singular pronoun implies a personal, i.e. intimate type of address.
ref: 2003, Irma Taavitsainen, Andreas H. Jucker, editors, Diachronic Perspectives on Address Term Systems:
text: Typically, the informal pronominal address term (T-form) is the original second-person pronoun (Latin tu; Germanic du) and the polite or formal V-form is a plural form.
ref: 2012, Marcel Bax, Dániel Z. Kádár, Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness:
text: ... in March 2010 Ikea's Swiss website in German, French and Italian used the V-form except when addressing prospective job applicants.
ref: 2014, Challenging the Monolingual Mindset:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A second-person pronoun used in formal situations, to address unfamiliar people and superiors.
Pinglish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Palestinian + English.
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard English spoken by Palestinians.
Pinglish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Persian + English.
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard English spoken by Persians.
Pinglish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Pakistani + English.
Senses: examples: text: It has been hypothesized that Pakistani ESL learners do not produce English-voiced and voiceless stops native-like word-initially. Additionally, the data is expected to reveal that Pinglish and Sindhi VOT characteristics of stops are altered as a function of the place of articulation.
ref: 2023, Abdul Malik Abbasi, Imtiaz Husain, Sadaf Irtaza, “The Conceptual Framework of Pakistani English Speech: An Experimental Study of Pakistani English for Speech Recognition and Machine Learning Modeling”, in Journal of Positive School Psychology, volume 7, number 2, Gorakhpur: ASR Research Center, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1643, column 1:
text: 'You butchered two languages': Lawyer's Pinglish draws the ire of CJP Isa
ref: 2023 September 19, Fahad Bashir, “(article title)”, in Aaj English TV, archived from the original on 25 Sep 2023:
synonyms: Paklish
glosses: Nonstandard English spoken by Pakistanis.
pampas grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pampas grasses
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of tall-growing grass:
Cortaderia selloana, including its cultivars.
glosses: Any of several species of tall-growing grass:
Cortaderia jubata (Andean pampas grass, purple pampas grass, English pampas grass, pink pampas grass).
glosses: Any of several species of tall-growing grass:
Other species of Cortaderia.
glosses: Any of several species of tall-growing grass:
Saccharum ravennae (syn. Erianthus ravennae) (giant woolly-beard grass, hardy pampas grass, Ravenna grass, ekra).
glosses: Any of several species of tall-growing grass:
Miscanthus sinensis (maiden silvergrass, maiden grass, Chinese silver grass, Korean uksae, susuki grass, Japanese pampas grass, Eulalia grass, zebra grass)
buffalo chips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buffalo chip
claw away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: claws away
form: clawing away
form: clawed away
form: clawed away
Senses: glosses: Synonym of claw (“to rail, revile, or scold (someone or something)”).
synonyms: word: claw
extra: (“to rail, revile, or scold (someone or something)”)
kraaled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kraal
Saratoga chip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Saratoga chips
Senses: glosses: A potato chip.
Saratoga chips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Saratoga chip
plug tap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plug taps
Senses: glosses: A screw-cutting tap with a slightly tapering end.
tap cinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The slag from a puddling furnace.
tap bolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tap bolts
Senses: glosses: A bolt with a head on one end and a thread on the other end, to be screwed into some fixed part, instead of passing through the part and receiving a nut.
glosses: A self-tapping bolt.
trijunction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trijunctions
Etymology: From tri- + junction.
Senses: glosses: A junction where three things meet.
trijunctions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trijunction
uropygids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uropygid
vinegarone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vinegarones
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vinegaroon.
vinegarones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vinegarone
thelyphonid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thelyphonids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the arachnid order Thelyphonida.
thelyphonids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thelyphonid
shoebrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoebrushes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shoe brush.
anaesthetes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anaesthete
moss agate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moss agates
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variety of agate with brown, black, or green moss-like or dendritic markings, due in part to manganese oxide.
devil's tattoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devil's tattoos
Senses: examples: F. Hardman
Jack played the Devil's tattoo on the door with his boot heels.
glosses: A drumming with the fingers or feet.
Scotch broom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A plant of the species Cytisus scoparius.
Synonyms: sense: Cytisus scoparius
word: common broom
sense: Cytisus scoparius
word: green broom
sense: Cytisus scoparius
word: yellow broom
sense: Cytisus scoparius
word: Scots broom
mango tilapia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mango tilapia
form: mango tilapias
Senses: glosses: Sarotherodon galilaeus, a cichlid fish.
olive ore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: olivenite
snowball tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowball trees
Senses: glosses: A cultivar of guelder rose with globular clusters of white, sterile flowers, Viburnum opulus.
Bohemian olive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bohemian olives
Senses: glosses: Russian olive (Elaeagnus angustifolia).
tombacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tombac
shacko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shackos
form: shackoes
Senses: glosses: Dated form of shako.
shackos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shacko
shackoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shacko
cylinder glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Sheet glass made by blowing the glass in the form of a cylinder which is then split longitudinally, opened out, and flattened.
crown glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crown glasses
Etymology: So called from a crown-like shape given to it in the process of blowing.
Senses: glosses: An early type of window glass made by blowing glass into a hollow globe (crown) and then flattening it on a punty, reheating and spinning out into a flat disk by centrifugal force.
examples: text: The convex half of an achromatic lens is composed of crown glass.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A variety of glass used in lenses and other optical components due to its low refractive index and dispersion. Originally crown glass was made from alkali-lime silicates with approximately 10% potassium oxide, but similar properties may be attained with other recipes.
Related terms: bullseye
pea bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pea beans
Etymology: From its size.
Senses: glosses: Various varieties of Phaseolus vulgaris (common beans that can be eaten as string beans or cooked from dried beans).
A very small and highly esteemed variety of the edible white bean.
glosses: Various varieties of Phaseolus vulgaris (common beans that can be eaten as string beans or cooked from dried beans).
A bicoloured (red-brown and white) bean found in Britain.
glosses: The cowpea (Vigna unguiculata).
zinc bloom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zinc blooms
Etymology: Compare German Zinkblumen (“flowers of zinc, zinc oxide”).
Senses: glosses: Hydrous carbonate of zinc, usually occurring in white earthy incrustations; hydrozincite.
scaly tetter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Psoriasis.
moist tetter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Eczema.
honeycomb tetter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Favus.
wager of law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The giving of gage, or sureties, by a defendant in an action of debt, that at a certain day assigned he would take an oath in open court that he did not owe the debt, and at the same time bring with him eleven compurgators who would avow that they believed in their consciences that he spoke the truth.
no-showed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of no-show
no-showing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of no-show
undeliverables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undeliverable
Lady chapel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lady chapels
Senses: glosses: A chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
postmodernese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From postmodern + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: Moving from content to style, the introduction and too many of the articles are written in that thick postmodernese dialect that only hinders communicating with undergraduates and other mortals.
ref: 1994, Anthropology and Humanism, volume 19, page 214:
glosses: The jargon of postmodernism.
subquestion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subquestions
form: sub-question
Etymology: From sub- + question.
Senses: glosses: A question making up part of a larger question.
subquestions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subquestion
multicurricular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + curricular.
Senses: glosses: Relating to more than one curriculum.
hornsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hornsmen
Etymology: From horn + -s- + -man.
Senses: glosses: One who plays a horn.
glosses: A snake, the horned viper (Bitis cornuta).
hornsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hornsman
uncalmly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uncalmly
form: most uncalmly
Etymology: From uncalm + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an uncalm manner.
sayableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sayable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being sayable.
unsayableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unsayable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being unsayable.
unsayability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Quality of being unsayable.
sayability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From say + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being sayable.
pear gauge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pear gauges
Etymology: So called because consisting in part of a pear-shaped glass vessel.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A kind of gauge for measuring the exhaustion of an air pump receiver.
Spanish black
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: When this cork is burnt in close vessels it forms the pigment called Spanish black. This substance is employed to fabricate not only bottle corks but small architectural and geognostic models
ref: 1839, Andrew Ure, A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines:
glosses: A black pigment obtained by charring cork.
Spanish white
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Spanish whites
Senses: glosses: A powder prepared from chalk by pulverizing and repeated washings, used as a white pigment.
glosses: Any white wine of Spanish origin.
antistarvation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + starvation.
Senses: glosses: Opposing or preventing starvation.
file off the serial numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: files off the serial numbers
form: filing off the serial numbers
form: filed off the serial numbers
form: filed off the serial numbers
Etymology: From the practice of filing the serial numbers off of firearms in order to make their origin and ownership difficult to trace.
Senses: examples: text: For a while now, I've been pottering away at a Star Wars fanfic novella ([URL redacted], if you must know). I've received a few pokes about filing off the serial numbers and trying to sell it as an independent work.
ref: 1998 March 6, Julie Lim, “Help!”, in rec.arts.sf.composition (Usenet):
text: I've heard a rumor that Bujold started the Barrayar series as Star Trek fanfic, and there's enough resemblance there to make that seem very plausible to me. Suppose she did. By filing off the serial numbers, she was able to make the universe her own, to change as she needed to.
ref: 2002 January 15, David Thornley, “Re: harry potter”, in rec.games.int-fiction (Usenet):
text: I say “may have” because [E. L.] James has “filed off the serial numbers” of her fanfic.
ref: 2012 April 1, Elizabeth Tai, “Quantity over quality?”, in The Star, Malaysia:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: To remove the copyrighted elements from an existing work of fan fiction so that it may be commercially published as original fiction.
Hypernyms: pull-to-publish
oniscidean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oniscideans
Etymology: Oniscidea + -an
Senses: examples: text: Nevertheless, these studies strongly suggest that arginine is not an essential amino acid in oniscideans.
ref: 1995, Patrick J. Walsh, Patricia A. Wright, Nitrogen Metabolism and Excretion, page 112:
text: The oniscidean digestive system has been extensively studied and well described in both slaters and sowbugs (Hames and Hopkin 1989; Štrus et al. 1995).[…]Frequent moulting is an important characteristic of juvenile and adult oniscideans and is related to growth, renewal of the cuticle and reproduction in mature females.
ref: 2006, Rok Kostanjšek, Jasna Štrus, Aleš Lapanje, Gorazd Avguštin, Maja Rupnik, Damjana Drobne, “5: Intestinal Microbiota of Terrestrial Isopods”, in Helmut König, Ajit Varma, editors, Intestinal Microorganisms of Termites and Other Invertebrates, page 116:
text: Some oniscideans, which are ordinarily terrestrial, have re-invaded the continental saline waters (e.g. Haloniscus searlei) or even normal freshwater (e.g. Trichoniscidae and Styloniscidae).
ref: 2008, George D. F. Wilson, Global diversity of Isopod crustaceans (Crustacea; Isopoda) in freshwater:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the terrestrial isopod crustaceans of suborder Oniscidea; a woodlouse.
Synonyms: word: synonyms at woodlouse
sense: any species of suborder Oniscidea
word: woodlouse
oniscideans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oniscidean
antisymbolism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + symbolism.
Senses: examples: text: These are only a few of the absurdities of the theory of antisymbolism, but they are sufficient, one should think, to confute it.
ref: 1854, Richard Graves, An Analysis of the Revelations, page 229:
text: These are materialism, antiformalism and antisymbolism, verification through practical results, the partisanship of science, and the need of modifying scientific dogma only by action of the political leadership […]
ref: 1963, Carl Joachim Friedrich, Man and his government: an empirical theory of politics, page 632:
text: Thus the extreme antisymbolism, antiornament and anti-Beaux-Arts position of the Bauhaus and other European modems.
ref: 1976, AIA Journal, volume 65, page 66:
glosses: Opposition to symbolism.
antisymbolist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antisymbolists
Etymology: From anti- + symbolist.
Senses: glosses: One who opposes symbolism.
antisymbolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antisymbolic
form: most antisymbolic
Etymology: From anti- + symbolic.
Senses: glosses: Opposing symbolism.
antisymbolists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antisymbolist
swag light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swag lights
Senses: glosses: An electric ceiling light connected to a wall socket by a cord (usually decorated with a chain) from the outlet up the wall and along the ceiling.
swag lights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swag light
red chalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An indurated clayey ochre containing iron, used by painters and artificers; reddle.
chain lightning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Lightning in angular, zigzag, or forked flashes.
heat lightning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: So called because it is common on hot summer nights and is sometimes popularly thought to be caused by heat rather storms.
Senses: examples: text: Joel Brinkley, a schoolteacher, who was a child in the 1950s, recalled a similar feeling during this era: "It seems surreal now. Every summer, when I heard heat lightning over the city and the sky would light up, I was convinced it was all over. My whole childhood was built on the notion that the Soviets were the real threat."
ref: 2015 February 9, Hajimu Masuda, Cold War Crucible: The Korean Conflict and the Postwar World, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 86:
text: The beginning of a watery diarrheal event is said to be marked by a great deal of noise, characterized as […] rumbling (tzilelet 'rumbling sound of heat lightning in the rainy season'), […]
ref: 2015 March 8, Elois Ann Berlin, Brent Berlin, Medical Ethnobiology of the Highland Maya of Chiapas, Mexico: The Gastrointestinal Diseases, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 98:
glosses: Lightning and/or thunder which the observer attributes to heat rather than a storm (e.g. because the storm/rain is too distant to be seen, or because there is no rain, as with dry lighting).
examples: text: The typical range at which thunder can be heard is around 24 km [...] Often, people mistakenly call lightning whose thunder is too far away to be heard "heat lightning," suggesting that the lightning somehow owes its existence merely to the heat of the day and not to a thunderstorm. Nonsense. "Heat lightning" is simply distant lightning whose thunder cannot be heard.
ref: 2001, Lee M. Grenci, Jon M. Nese, A World of Weather: Fundamentals of Meteorology: a Text/ Laboratory Manual, Kendall Hunt, →ISBN, page 205:
glosses: Lightning and/or thunder which the observer attributes to heat rather than a storm (e.g. because the storm/rain is too distant to be seen, or because there is no rain, as with dry lighting).
Visible lightning that occurs too far away for the resulting thunder to be audible by the observer.
raw_tags: in particular
examples: text: THE RAIN FINALLY CAME FROM THE DARK GREY SKIES, SOFT AND TEMPTING AT FIRST, WITH THE SOUND OF HEAT LIGHTNING HOVERING OVER THE SKYSCRAPERS! [image is of a city being rained on, no lightning visible]
ref: 2019 September 3, William Dubay, Don McGregor, Bud Lewis, Eerie Archives Volume 27, Dark Horse Books, →ISBN, page 229:
text: Our windows were open, and inside the wind and rumble of heat lightning, I could hear Albert's horses nickering in the darkness.
ref: 2008 July 8, James Lee Burke, Swan Peak: A Dave Robicheaux Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 307:
glosses: Lightning and/or thunder which the observer attributes to heat rather than a storm (e.g. because the storm/rain is too distant to be seen, or because there is no rain, as with dry lighting).
Thunder that is heard without lightning being seen by the observer; heat thunder.
Coordinate terms: sheet lightning
lightning arrester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lightning arresters
Senses: glosses: A device used on electrical and telecommunications systems to protect the insulation and conductors from the damaging effects of lightning. Typically, it has a high-voltage terminal and a ground terminal. When a surge travels along the power line to the arrester, the current from the surge is diverted through the arrester, in most cases to earth.
Synonyms: lightning discharger
Related terms: lightning bridge
lightning conductor
lightning discharger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lightning dischargers
Senses: glosses: A lightning arrester.
round clam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: round clams
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hard clam.
synonyms: word: hard clam
round dance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: round dances
Senses: topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
coordinate_terms: circle dance
glosses: A dance for couples with a whirling or revolving motion, such as the waltz or polka.
examples: text: The round dance is never performed on a comb on which there are none or only a few bees, but it always takes place in the midst of a dense throng.
ref: 1924 February, John H. Lovell, “The Odor of Flowers as a Means of Communication Among Bees”, in The American Bee Journal, volume LXIV, number 2, Hamilton, page 76:
topics: agriculture
beekeeping
business
lifestyle
coordinate_terms: tremble dance
waggle dance
sickle dance
glosses: A repetitive, circular movement done by a foraging honey bee in process of communicating to other workers that it has located a significant and nearby food source.
iron mould
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iron mold
Senses: glosses: The yellow discoloration of cloth by rusty iron.
satin spar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: satin spars
Senses: glosses: A fine fibrous variety of either calcite or gypsum, with a pearly luster.
Synonyms: satin stone
Denmark satin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Denmark satins
Senses: glosses: A kind of lasting; a stout worsted material, woven with a satin twill, once used for women's shoes.
uninstituted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + instituted.
Senses: glosses: Not instituted.
bone earth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: bone ash
glosses: The earthy residuum after the calcination of bone, consisting chiefly of calcium phosphate.
bone turquoise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bone turquoises
Senses: glosses: fossil bone or tooth of a delicate blue colour, sometimes used as imitation turquoise
pipefittings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pipefitting
call note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: call notes
Senses: examples: text: If the hunter wishes to master all of the different calls of possible use in hunting turkeys, he is confronted with the task of learning eleven. There are sex and age variations in pitch, tone quality, loudness, and inflection for most of the call notes
ref: 2017, Roger M. Latham, Complete Book of the Wild Turkey:
glosses: The note naturally used by a male bird to call a female. It is artificially applied by birdcatchers as a decoy.
footbank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footbanks
Etymology: From foot + bank.
Senses: glosses: A raised way within the parapet of a fortification.
footbanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of footbank
foot stove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foot stoves
Senses: glosses: A small box, with an iron pan, to hold hot coals for warming the feet.
Hypernyms: footwarmer
tax cart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tax carts
Senses: synonyms: taxed cart
glosses: A small horse-drawn sprung cart, subject to a low tax.
tax carts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tax cart
mountain cork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A variety of asbestos with a cork-like texture.
mountain leather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A variety of asbestos with a leather-like texture.
have a finger in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has a finger in
form: having a finger in
form: had a finger in
form: had a finger in
Senses: glosses: To be concerned or involved in.
Derived terms: have a finger in every pie
have one's fingers in many pies
Mexican lac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A kind of dragon's blood produced by the tree Croton draco.
gray silver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: freieslebenite
green marble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The mineral serpentine.
child groom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: child grooms
Etymology: Compound of child + groom.
Senses: examples: text: In the UK, parliaments for children, satirical culture for youngsters, training for teenage fathers, support for suicidal preteens, and refuges for child grooms are all developments which betray a newly recognized maturity and agency in children […]
ref: 2011, J. Marshall Beier, The Militarization of Childhood, page 89:
coordinate_terms: child bride
glosses: A very young groom (male who is to be married).
cardinal flower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardinal flowers
Senses: synonyms: red cardinal flower
glosses: Lobelia cardinalis (syn. L. fulgens), a species of lobelia native to the Americas, usually with vibrant red flowers.
horse leech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horse leeches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of horse-leech.
black antimony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The black sulfide of antimony, Sb₂S₃, used in pyrotechnics, etc.
cap money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Money traditionally collected in a cap for the huntsman at the death of the fox.
legal cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A kind of folio writing paper, made for the use of lawyers, in long narrow sheets which have the fold at the top or "narrow edge".
Related terms: foolscap
lie in one's throat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lies in one's throat
form: lying in one's throat
form: lay in one's throat
form: lain in one's throat
Senses: examples: text: I know not where he lodges, and for mee to deuise a lodging, and say he lies heere, or he lies there, were to lye in mine owne throat.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
glosses: To lie (tell a falsehood) flatly or outright.
globe amaranth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: globe amaranths
Senses: glosses: Certain plants of genus Gomphrena, especially
glosses: Certain plants of genus Gomphrena, especially
Gomphrena globosa, an annual plant of South America.
poverty grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poverty grasses
Senses: glosses: Any of several grasses that grow in poor or sandy soil.
chain rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The backward() function uses PyTorch's automatic differentiation package, torch.autograd, to differentiate and compute gradients of tensors based on the chain rule.
ref: 2021, Joe Papa, PyTorch Pocket Reference, page 48:
topics: calculus
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A formula for computing the derivative of the functional composition of two or more functions.
Related terms: Faà di Bruno's formula
power rule
stone boiling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A primitive method of boiling water or milk by dropping hot stones into it.
vicing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vice
stylometrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From stylometric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of, or in terms of, stylometry.
troglofaunal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From troglofauna + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to troglofauna.
stygofaunal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stygofauna + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to stygofauna.
troglofauna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare troglodyte, and see fauna.
Senses: glosses: Small cave-dwelling animals that have adapted to their dark surroundings.
Related terms: stygofauna
ploughman's spikenard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ploughman's-spikenard
Senses: glosses: The plant Inula conyzae, (now Pentanema conyzae).
Guinea corn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: durra
threated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of threat
threating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of threat
safety cage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: safety cages
Senses: glosses: A cage for an elevator or mine lift, having appliances to prevent it from dropping in the event that the lifting rope breaks.
safety tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: safety tubes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A tube to prevent explosion, or to control delivery of gases by an automatic valvular connection with the outer air; especially, a bent funnel tube with bulbs for adding those reagents which produce unpleasant fumes or violent effervescence.
on the stump
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Campaigning for public office; on the hustings.
amboynas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amboyna
Canada pitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: hemlock gum
glosses: The resinous exudation of the hemlock tree (Tsuga canadensis)
liquor silicum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: liquor of flints
flying boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flying boats
Senses: glosses: A fixed-winged seaplane with a hull, capable of landing on water, but (unless also equipped with wheels) not on land.
parrot coal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: So called from the crackling and chattering sound it makes as it burns.
Senses: glosses: cannel coal
parrot weed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A suffrutescent plant (Bocconia frutescens) of the poppy family, native to parts of America. It has large sinuate pinnatifid leaves and small panicled apetalous flowers.
thunder tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thunder tubes
Etymology: Calque of German Blitzrohre?
Senses: glosses: fulgurite
air gas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A kind of gas made by forcing air through a volatile hydrocarbon, such as the lighter petroleums. The air is so saturated with combustible vapour as to be a convenient illuminating and heating agent.
gas coal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gas coals
Senses: examples: text: It is a good gas-coal, and well fitted for steam purposes, and for use in reverberatory furnaces.
ref: 1870, Rossiter Worthington Raymond, Statistics of Mines and Mining in the States and Territories West of the Rocky Mountains:
glosses: A bituminous or hydrogenous coal yielding a high proportion of volatile material, and therefore available for the manufacture of illuminating gas.
gas tar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gas tars
Senses: glosses: coal tar
almond willow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: almond willows
Senses: glosses: A willow of species Salix triandra, native to Europe and Western and Central Asia.
cable buoy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cable buoys
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An empty cask employed to buoy up the cable in rocky anchorage.
suspension scale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suspension scales
Senses: glosses: A scale in which the platform hangs suspended from the weighing apparatus instead of resting upon it.
quirks mode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: coordinate_terms: almost standards mode
standards mode
glosses: A technique used by some web browsers to maintain backward compatibility with older web pages that do not comply with modern standards. When such a page is detected, it is rendered in the older, non-standard way.
policy shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: policy shops
Etymology: From policy (“illegal lottery”) + shop.
Senses: examples: text: 1856, New York (State) Legislature: Senate, Documents of the Senate of the State of New York, Volume 2, page 212,
In lottery and policy shops do they not generally stick up an exchange sign, and hold out “stationery sold here,” so that persons who did not understand it would suppose they sold stationery?
text: The policy-shops draw from the people, especially the poor and ignorant, hundreds of thousands of dollars every year.
ref: 1873, Timothy Shay Arthur, Cast Adrift, page 232:
text: 1901, New York (State) Legislature: Assembly, Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, Volume 28, page 2031,
Policy is open, but policy, of course — it is harder to get into policy shops than it is into any other sort of gambling, […] .
text: In New York and Philadelphia, the number of policy shops during this time period ranged from 600 to 1,000, with numerous outlets in other major cities.
ref: 1999, Don Liddick, The Mob's Daily Number: Organized crime and the numbers gambling industry, page 26:
glosses: A gambling place where punters could bet on the numbers which would be drawn in lotteries.
pitch coal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: bituminous coal
trunkings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trunking
pitch peat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A black homogeneous peat with a waxy lustre.
pertinaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pertinaceous
form: most pertinaceous
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pertinacious.
Derived terms: pertinaceously
give the mitten to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives the mitten to
form: giving the mitten to
form: gave the mitten to
form: given the mitten to
Senses: examples: text: "[…]There is an accomplished and pretty young lady boarding here who gave the mitten to Mr. Fitzgammon, but she would be delighted to have Mr. Raymond accept her hand, her heart, and her fortune."
ref: 1850, George W. Bungay, The Poor Printer:
text: advising me to give the mitten to my last beau and keep company with Seth Lee
ref: 1862, Aunt Fanny, The Wife's Stratagem:
glosses: To dismiss as a lover; to break up with.
Synonyms: give someone the mitten
bandom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbændəm/
rhymes: -ændəm
Etymology: From band + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: Forming out of a mutual love of the music the band were less of a gang of mates drifting into bandom than people fired by their interest in the music.
ref: 1998, John Robb, The Charlatans: We Are Rock, Ebury Press, →ISBN:
text: The confines of traditional bandom, so long seen as the only way to do it, are falling away, allowing committed lifelong musicians the freedom to actually have some semblance of a life.
ref: 2009 March, Colin Kincaid, “Off the Treadmill: Bouncing Souls”, in Reax, number 34, page 26:
text: Hundred Reasons have had a tumultuous career, having been dropped by three different record labels in five years, twice during crucial stages of bandom, shortly following the release of their second album and again following their third.
ref: 2009 November 23, Iain Smith, “One is enough”, in Qmunicate, number 72, page 14:
glosses: The condition or quality of being a band.
bandom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbændəm/
rhymes: -ændəm
Etymology: Blend of band + fandom.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: The collective fandoms surrounding certain bands.
heart bond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heart bonds
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
glosses: A bond in which no header stone stretches across the wall, but two headers meet in the middle, and their joint is covered by another stone laid header fashion.
heart wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heart wheels
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: heart cam
glosses: A form of cam shaped like a heart, used to convert uniform rotary motion into uniform reciprocating motion.
banddom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bandom.
heart and hand
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: With enthusiastic cooperation.
mule twist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: cotton yarn in cops, as spun on a mule; in distinction from yarn spun on a throstle frame
mountain spinach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A plant in the amaranth family used as a leaf vegetable, Atriplex hortensis.
Synonyms: sense: Atriplex hortensis
word: garden orache
sense: Atriplex hortensis
word: red orach
sense: Atriplex hortensis
word: French spinach
sense: Atriplex hortensis
word: orache
sense: Atriplex hortensis
word: arrach
on the cross
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: […] in fact, any high mobs-man could get nine pounds each for tenners got “on the cross”; […]
ref: 1905, Arthur Morrison, Divers Vanities:
synonyms: on the crook
glosses: dishonestly
star fort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: star forts
Senses: topics: fortifications
government
military
politics
war
synonyms: trace italienne
glosses: A fort surrounded on the exterior with projecting angles.
false galena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: blende
Guinea wheat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: maize; Indian corn
German wheat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of spelt (Triticum spelta)
synonyms: word: spelt
extra: Triticum spelta
Turkey wheat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: maize; Indian corn
off the hooks
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Or was Erskine out of his mind? And he himself Watt was he not perhaps slightly deranged? And Mr. Knott himself, was he quite right in his head? Were they not all three perhaps a little off the hooks?
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
text: In the evening, by water, to the Duke of Albemarle, whom I found mightily off the hooks that the ships are not gone out of the river.
ref: 1665 June 5 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “May 26th, 1665”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume V, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1895, →OCLC:
glosses: Unhinged; disturbed; disordered.
glosses: Superseded.
glosses: Dead.
Related terms: off the hook
deck hook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deck hooks
Senses: glosses: A horizontal knee or frame in the bow of a ship, on which the forward part of the deck rests.
hook wrench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hook wrenches
Senses: glosses: A wrench or spanner with a hook at the end, instead of a jaw, for turning a bolthead, nut, or coupling.
false banana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false bananas
Senses: glosses: Ensete ventricosum, a plant in the banana family.
hook ladder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hook ladders
Senses: glosses: A ladder with hooks at the end by which it can be suspended, as from the top of a wall.
alychne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alychnes
Etymology: Coined by Erwin Schrödinger from Ancient Greek, Literally, “no light”.
Senses: glosses: The line of zero luminance in a color space.
alychnes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alychne
dressing forceps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A variety of forceps, shaped like a pair of scissors, used in dressing wounds.
Norfolk Island pine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Norfolk Island pines
Etymology: Native to Norfolk Island, but not a true pine.
Senses: synonyms: star pine
Norfolk Island star pine
Norfolk pine
glosses: Araucaria heterophylla (synonym Araucaria excelsa), a conifer endemic to Norfolk Island, but grown as an ornamental tree in mild climates and as a container plant indoors worldwide.
love-in-idleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The second came up about ten days later in the lee of the channel marker, and it was called stepmother, or love-in-idleness.
ref: 1974, Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal, The Summer Book, Sort Of Books, published 2003, page 115:
glosses: Viola tricolor, the wild pansy.
of all loves
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Mrs. Arden desired him of all loves to come back again.
ref: 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:
glosses: For the sake of all love; by all means.
take pleasure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes pleasure
form: taking pleasure
form: took pleasure
form: taken pleasure
Senses: examples: text: Is it wrong to take pleasure in other people's misfortunes?
info_templates: extra_data: words: in
expansion: [with in]
glosses: To have enjoyment.
Synonyms: delight in
bask
at pleasure
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I will at pleasure now revenge my wrong; And, Traytor, thou shalt feel my vengeance long
ref: 1670, John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada:
glosses: By arbitrary will or choice.
oak leaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oak leaves
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oakleaf.
shepherd's pouch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The plant shepherd's purse.
angle bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angle bars
Senses: topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
glosses: An upright bar at the angle where two faces of a polygonal or bay window meet.
glosses: An angle iron.
photobank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photobanks
Etymology: From photo + bank.
Senses: glosses: A collection of photographs that can be licensed for use elsewhere.
photobank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photobanks
Etymology: From photo- + bank.
Senses: examples: text: No selenium, no photo-cell banks. No photobanks – well, death by slow broiling is one of the more unpleasant ways of being done in.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A bank of photoelectric cells.
photobanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photobank
forslothed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forsloth
e-mentor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-mentors
Etymology: From e- + mentor.
Senses: glosses: A mentor who communicates with his/her mentees through electronic means, such as e-mail.
e-mentor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: e-mentors
form: e-mentoring
form: e-mentored
form: e-mentored
Etymology: From e- + mentor.
Senses: glosses: To mentor (somebody) by electronic means, such as e-mail.
e-mentoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of e-mentor
e-mentored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of e-mentor
e-mentors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-mentor
e-mentors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of e-mentor
core print
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: core prints
Senses: topics: arts
crafts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A projecting piece on a pattern which forms, in the mould, an impression for holding in place or steadying a core.
crimping pin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crimping pins
Senses: glosses: An instrument for crimping or puckering the border of a lady's cap.
e-mentee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-mentees
Etymology: From e- + mentee.
Senses: examples: text: As an e-mentor or e-mentee, all types of communication included in Skype can be used to their full potential.
ref: 2010, David Clutterbuck, Zulfi Hussain, Virtual Coach, Virtual Mentor, page 63:
text: Among the main benefits reported by the e-mentees were positive motivation, empowerment to make their own decisions and advice and support from someone impartial and non-judgemental.
ref: 2011, Geoff Baker, Andrew Fisher, Arts and Humanities Academics in Schools, page 53:
glosses: One who is mentored through electronic forms of communication.