cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
abreugraphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Abreu + -graphy, eponymized after the inventor, Dr. Manuel Dias de Abreu, a Brazilian physician and pulmonologist.
Senses: glosses: chest photofluorography: a screening technique for tuberculosis using a miniature photograph of a roentgenographic fluoroscopy of the thorax
tassology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French tasse (“cup”) + -logy.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tasseography.
synonyms: word: tasseography
antidyslipidemics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antidyslipidemic
malariotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From malario- + therapy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The intentional infection of a syphilis patient with malaria in order to induce a fever.
pyrotherapeutic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pyro- + therapeutic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to pyrotherapy.
solempte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: solemnization of marriage
Both respirator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Both respirators
Etymology: Invented by Edward Both in 1937.
Senses: glosses: An early form of iron lung.
iron lungs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iron lung
Both respirators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Both respirator
Both
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Both respirator
narcoviolence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From narco- + violence.
Senses: glosses: Violence associated with the illegal drug trade.
artwear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From art + -wear.
Senses: examples: text: Over the years, I have used and tested a wide variety of products in my artwear, and I've learned results can vary widely from one brand to another.
ref: 2004, New Techniques for Wearable Art, page 26:
text: I recently acted in a short film, I did some modelling for an artwear competition […]
ref: 2006, Sarah James, Be Your Own Boss, page 45:
text: In the United States in the 1970s, 'artwear' was concerned with charting an identity separate from fashion and the clothing industry. One-of-a-kind artwear, intended exclusively for a gallery or museum audience, and produced by designers such as Zandra Rhodes and Vivienne Westwood, gained recognition in the cultural framework of the 1970s.
ref: 2013, Bonnie English, A Cultural History of Fashion in the 20th and 21st Centuries, page 109:
glosses: Artworks designed to be worn as clothing.
Kriegies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kriegie
lymphangiomatosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A condition marked by the presence of cysts resulting from an increase in the size and number of thin-walled lymphatic channels that are abnormally interconnected and dilated.
OpenBSD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From open + BSD.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: a Unix-like operating system that is derived from Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD)
laughing death
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See laughing sickness.
Senses: glosses: The disease kuru.
laughing sickness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: So called because some patients displayed risus sardonicus as a symptom.
Senses: glosses: The disease kuru.
Tims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tim
cephalopolysyndactyly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cephalo- + polysyndactyly or cephalo- + poly- + syn- + dactyl + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Greig cephalopolysyndactyly syndrome
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
teratology
glosses: A disorder that affects development of the limbs, head, and face.
thalidomide child
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thalidomide children
Senses: glosses: Synonym of thalidomide baby.
synonyms: word: thalidomide baby
Koch's postulate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Koch's postulates
Etymology: Formulated by Robert Koch and Friedrich Loeffler in 1884.
Senses: glosses: Any of four criteria designed to establish a causative relationship between a microbe and a disease: (i) the microorganism must be found in abundance in all organisms suffering from the disease, but should not be found in healthy organisms; (ii) it must be isolated from a diseased organism and grown in pure culture; (iii) the cultured microorganism should cause disease when introduced into a healthy organism; (iv) the microorganism must be reisolated from the inoculated, diseased experimental host and identified as being identical to the original specific causative agent.
Koch's postulates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Koch's postulate
myxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Diminutive with -y.
Senses: glosses: myxomatosis
pasteurelloses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pasteurellosis
all inclusive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of all-inclusive.
myxomatotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to myxomatosis.
Subcarpathian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Subcarpathian
form: most Subcarpathian
Etymology: From Subcarpathia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Relating to Subcarpathia.
Derived terms: Subcarpathian Voivodeship
Related terms: Carpathia
Carpathian
Subcarpathia
no jab, no play
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Play on no hat, no play.
Senses: glosses: The government policy of permitting or requiring childcare centres or schools to exclude unvaccinated children.
Red Corridor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Red Corridor
Senses: glosses: A region in eastern India that experiences considerable Naxalite-Maoist insurgency.
mammoth steppe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mammoth steppes
Etymology: Coined by American zoologist Russell Dale Guthrie.
Senses: examples: text: Eurasia is far larger than North America, and it was always home to the largest section of the mammoth steppe.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 207:
glosses: Steppe-tundra.
mammoth steppes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mammoth steppe
steppe-tundra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steppe-tundras
Senses: glosses: A very cold dry-climate vegetation type consisting of mostly treeless open herbaceous vegetation, widespread during Pleistocene times at mid-latitudes of Eurasia and during some phases in North America.
Synonyms: mammoth steppe
steppe-tundras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steppe-tundra
Bulgars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bulgar
anthropotechnic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to anthropotechnics.
Derived terms: anthropotechnically
anthropotechnical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anthropo- + technical.
Senses: examples: text: Without such interpretation there may exist museums or even chairs of anthropology, but not an anthropology; not that anthropology which answers to the mandate γνῶθι σεαυτόν, and from which, together with sociology, the anthropotechnical arts await the light of which they stand so greatly in need.
ref: 1906, Howard Jason Rogers, editor, Congress of Arts and Science: Universal Exposition, St. Louis, 1904, volume 5:
text: Ergonomic and anthropotechnical considerations are therefore of prime importance for the picture configuration, a further aspect to be taken into account being the man/process communication.
ref: 1984, The Brown Boveri Review, volume 71, page 353:
text: Assessment scenarios of virtual prototype are realized in dispersed software environment and enables including of conditions present in operational and emergency states of mining anthropotechnical systems.
ref: 2011, Sio-Iong Ao, Intelligent Automation and Systems Engineering, page 186:
glosses: Relating to anthropotechnics.
anthropotechnically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From anthropotechnic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of anthropotechnics.
hilltribe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hilltribes
Etymology: From hill + tribe.
Senses: glosses: A tribe that inhabits a hilly region.
hilltribes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hilltribe
hillwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hillwomen
Etymology: From hill + woman.
Senses: glosses: A woman belonging to a hilltribe.
hillwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hillwoman
Thomasite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Thomasites
Etymology: From Thomas + -ite, after the USAT Thomas transport ship on which they travelled.
Senses: glosses: Any of the group of American teachers sent to the Philippines in 1901, or arriving in the first few years on the American Colonial Period of the Philippines.
Thomasite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Thomasites
Etymology: From Thomas + -ite, after Dr John Thomas of Brooklyn (1805-71).
Senses: glosses: A Christadelphian.
Thomasites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Thomasite
crowned republic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crowned republics
Senses: glosses: A form of constitutional monarchy where the monarch has a ceremonial role and little or no input into governmental and constitutional issues.
crowned republics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crowned republic
Czechoslovakism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Czechoslovak + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Czechoslovak nationalism
dirty dairying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Damage to New Zealand's freshwater environment caused by the intensification of dairy farming.
food garden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: food gardens
Senses: glosses: Synonym of vegetable garden.
synonyms: word: vegetable garden
food gardens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of food garden
cultural appropriation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌlt͡ʃ(ə)ɹəl əˌpɹoʊpɹiˈeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: cultural appropriations
Senses: examples: text: White Americans engaged in cultural appropriation when they performed dances involving blackface and mock Native American regalia.
text: What are the implications for our understanding of the ethics of cultural appropriation when the sound of a Pacific island women's choir becomes the hook of a club hit in Europe, without reward, recompense, or credit for that choir?
ref: 2000, David Hesmondhalgh, in Born/Hesmondhalgh, Western Music and Its Others, p. 280
text: Are yoga classes just bad cultural appropriation?
ref: 2015, The Guardian, headline, 23 November:
text: Where, then, is the line that divides the simple pleasure of cultural fusion from cultural appropriation? One answer is that it becomes appropriation when one group's sense of "normal" inexplicably and unfairly dominates over another.
ref: 2015 April 2, Navneet Alang, “Must We Forfeit Our Ghee?”, in Hazlitt, retrieved 14 May 2023:
text: The party guests were subsequently investigated by the college for ‘ethnic stereotyping’ and placed on ‘social probation’, while the students' general assembly denounced the event as an act of ‘cultural appropriation’.
ref: 2016 November, Frances Wilson, “Whose Life Is It Anyway?”, in Literary Review:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The (often financially) exploitative, oppressive and/or inaccurate cooption of elements of one culture by members of a different culture, often of those which have a history of stigmatisation.
Hypernyms: appropriation
Related terms: cultural appreciation
culturally appropriate
Sagan's number
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named in honor of Carl Sagan.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The total number of stars in the observable universe, often estimated to be in the sextillions.
wikipedia: Carl Sagan
breachful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From breach + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Acts and talk that induce breachful conduct (such as a refusal to negotiate with or participate in bouts sponsored by one's promoter) may be tortious.
ref: 1990, West's Federal Supplement (First Series), volume 742, page 774:
text: When a term of a contract is breached, whether the term is a warranty or a condition, the innocent party earns a right to be repaired for the damage he suffers as a consequence of the other party's breachful action or omission.
ref: 2007 May 19, Shamsuddin Choudhury, "Did British Airways go wrong?: A lawyer's point of view," Law & our rights, issue 20, thedailystar.net (retrieved 29 Oct 2015)
text: William Goldstein, General Counsel for The David Lynch Foundation, sent Knapp an email strongly advising caution: “we intend to review the global web presentation for any false, defamatory, tortious, breachful, malicious or otherwise unlawful statements or materials made or published by you or the presenters.”
ref: 2009 April 6, Doug Mesner, “Reading, Writing, Transcendent Levitation”, in process.org, retrieved 29 Oct 2015:
text: [S]neaking into someone’s personal communications is considered as a breachful act.
ref: 2014 May 6, Lexi Taylor, “How To Monitor Someones^([sic]) From Your iPhone?”, in MobieSpy, retrieved 29 Oct 2015:
glosses: Involving or characterized by a violation of law, of legal rights, or of other rules governing conduct.
bit crusher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bit crushers
form: bitcrusher
form: Bitcrusher
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A lo-fi digital audio effect that produces a distortion by reducing the resolution or bandwidth of the audio data.
Derived terms: bitcrush
bit crushers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bit crusher
cow chips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cow chip
mariachero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mariacheros
Senses: glosses: A mariachi musician.
mariacheros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mariachero
klapa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Serbo-Croatian klȁpa.
Senses: glosses: A traditional form of a cappella singing in Dalmatia, Croatia.
Ixtab
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The Yucatec Mayan goddess of suicide, represented as a dead woman with a rope around her neck.
Ladder of Jacob
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A pseudepigraphic writing of the Old Testament, preserved only in Slavonic and not generally regarded as scripture.
Related terms: Jacob's ladder
toothed jelly fungus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toothed jelly funguses
form: toothed jelly fungi
Senses: examples: text: I have also seen fallen birch logs hosting toothed jelly fungus and witch's butter, both of which are useful edible fungi.
ref: 2015, Cliff Seruntine, The Wildwood Way: Spiritual Growth in the Heart of Nature, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN, page 48:
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: A mushroom, Pseudohydnum gelatinosum, the only member of the genus Pseudohydnum in the order Auriculariales.
Synonyms: toothed jelly mushroom
jelly tooth
false hedgehog mushroom
Hypernyms: Pseudohydnum
toothed jelly funguses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toothed jelly fungi
Senses: glosses: plural of toothed jelly fungus
toothed jelly fungi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toothed jelly funguses
Senses: glosses: plural of toothed jelly fungus
Merkabah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Merkavah
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew מֶרְכָּבָה.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A school of early Jewish mysticism, circa 100 BCE – 1000 CE, based around visions.
Related terms: Heikhalot
toothed jelly mushroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toothed jelly mushrooms
Senses: examples: text: Fungi continue their patient, determined work, slowly consuming the cellulose over the years, like the helpful toothed jelly mushroom, a nutrientrich fungus that tastes something like tofu.
ref: 2015, Cliff Seruntine, The Wildwood Way: Spiritual Growth in the Heart of Nature, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN, page 146:
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of toothed jelly fungus.
synonyms: word: toothed jelly fungus
toothed jelly mushrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toothed jelly mushroom
Desert Father
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Desert Fathers
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Any of the early Christian hermits, ascetics and monks who lived mainly in the Scetes desert of Egypt, beginning around the third century AD, and were a major influence on the development of Christianity.
Desert Fathers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Desert Father
pseudodirectory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudodirectories
form: pseudo-directory
Etymology: From pseudo- + directory.
Senses: examples: text: "Mountpoint caution special /proc filesystem (page 497), which maps useful Linux kernel information to a pseudodirectory."
ref: 2010, Mark G. Sobell, A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: directory
folder
label
library
subdirectory
subfolder
tag
glosses: A virtual directory entry that does not represent a directory on the underlying file system on disk, instead being automatically generated to represent some other objects in the form of files (for example '/proc' in Linux).
pseudo-directory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudo-directories
form: pseudo-directories
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pseudodirectory.
pseudo-directories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudo-directory
pseudodirectories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudodirectory
sooee
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sooey.
soowee
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sooey.
scaffoldy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scaffoldy
form: most scaffoldy
Etymology: From scaffold + -y.
Senses: examples: text: "The result has rather a scaffoldy and incomplete appearance, which would be happily remedied by the coloring brush and a few shadings, easily thrown in, but the measurements are correct, and the proportions and the relations of the several of the several buildings to one another, are accurately represented."
ref: 1882, Fire Underwriters' Association of the Northwest, Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Fire Underwriters ..., Issue 13:
glosses: Of a building or a wall: covered in or looking like a scaffold.
examples: text: Evan pushed the twist of hair off his forehead and regarded the shadow. It was long and straight and lean and scaffoldy, like a cross on a spire.
ref: 1965, {unattributed}, The Prairie Schooner - Volume 25 - Page 90
glosses: Resembling a scaffold.
death roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: death rolls
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: In a keel boat, the act of broaching to windward, putting the spinnaker pole into the water and causing a crash-gybe of the boom and mainsail, which sweep across the deck and plunge down into the water.
glosses: The behaviour where a crocodilian rolls underwater so as to drown its prey or tear off pieces of meat to eat.
death rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of death roll
mediocrity principle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the mediocrity principle
Senses: glosses: The philosophical notion that an item drawn at random from one of several sets or categories is more likely to come from the most numerous category than from any of the others.
landmined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of landmine
landmining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of landmine
Pinkville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From pink + -ville.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A Vietcong stronghold said to be located in the region of Sơn Mỹ village in Quảng Ngãi Province during the Vietnam War.
Aralkum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A new desert that has appeared on the seabed once occupied by the Aral Sea.
Transdanubia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A traditional region of Hungary, bounded by the Danube river (north and east), the Drava and Mura rivers (south), and the foothills of the Alps roughly along the border between Hungary and Austria (west).
Transdanubians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Transdanubian
Wachau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An Austrian valley with a picturesque landscape formed by the Danube river.
Burzenland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A historic and ethnographic area in southeastern Transylvania, Romania, with a mixed population of Romanians, Germans and Hungarians.
scaffoldish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scaffoldish
form: most scaffoldish
Etymology: From scaffold + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: "Young Neil fades back to his walk-up Brooklyn flat-solid brownstones; 4” x 4”'s hold up five-story scaffoldish porches full of tricycles, billowing clothesline shirts, and old lost aromas of gefilte fish, sauerkraut, and peach pie."
ref: 2003, Maury Dean, Rock and Roll - Page 202:
glosses: that resembles a scaffold
Westralia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛsˈtɹeɪljə/
Etymology: Blend of western + Australia
Senses: glosses: Western Australia
Nard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Bernard.
no bucks, no Buck Rogers
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: Whether NASA under Trump will stay the course . . . an old adage attributed to its first human spaceflights of the 1960s is likely to define its fate: no bucks, no Buck Rogers.
ref: 2016 Nov. 30, Lee Billings, Trump’s First 100 Days: Space," Scientific American (retrieved 7 Oct 2017)
glosses: One must raise money to be able to achieve one's objectives, especially in the exploration of outer space.
fieldwide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From field + -wide.
Senses: glosses: Throughout an entire field (of research, industry, etc.).
glosses: Throughout an oilfield
unvague
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unvague
form: most unvague
Etymology: From un- + vague.
Senses: glosses: Not vague.
overplayful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overplayful
form: most overplayful
Etymology: From over- + playful.
Senses: examples: text: The overplayful kitten got tangled up in my knitting.
glosses: excessively playful
articulatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more articulatable
form: most articulatable
Etymology: From articulate + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be articulated.
animalesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more animalesque
form: most animalesque
Etymology: From animal + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Reminiscent of an animal or its habits.
nockless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nock + -less.
Senses: examples: a nockless arrow
glosses: Without a nock.
semihappy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + happy.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or partly happy.
East Anglian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more East Anglian
form: most East Anglian
Etymology: From East Anglia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to East Anglia.
East Anglian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: East Anglians
Etymology: From East Anglia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Hundreds of East Anglians were interviewed—in the streets, on buses, in clubs and in Women's Institutes, for example—in the course of this study.
ref: 1964 April, “Passenger Travel Campaign in the Norwich Area”, in Modern Railways, page 235:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of East Anglia.
south-westerly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more south-westerly
form: most south-westerly
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of southwesterly.
south-westerly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more south-westerly
form: most south-westerly
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of southwesterly.
south-westerly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: south-westerlies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of southwesterly.
arachno-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: arachn-
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Latin combining form, from Ancient Greek ἀράχνη (arákhnē, “spider”).
Senses: coordinate_terms: acaro-#Prefix
glosses: arachnid; arachnidial; spider.
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a boron structure intermediate between nido- and hypho- in degree of openness
Hypernyms: arthropodal
Coordinate terms: acaro-
precedingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From preceding + -ly.
Senses: glosses: previously (especially within a document); hereinabove
fry someone's bacon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fries someone's bacon
form: frying someone's bacon
form: fried someone's bacon
form: fried someone's bacon
Senses: examples: text: As upside-down as it seems to most adults, many kids see lying as a respectful, loving, sensitive act if it protects someone they look up to from unpleasant information. I can't imagine where they learned that. And let's not forget about sex. Can I just tell you how much pornography fries my bacon?
ref: 1999, Jim Hancock, Raising Adults: Getting Kids Ready for the Real World, page 40:
glosses: To upset or infuriate one; to push one beyond endurance.
cagings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caging
eyerolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eyeroll
eyerolls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of eyeroll
eyerolled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of eyeroll
eyerolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of eyeroll
mercyfuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mercyfucks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mercy fuck.
mercyfucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mercyfuck
allusivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From allusive + -ity.
Senses: glosses: allusiveness
anagrammatization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anagrammatizations
form: anagrammatisation
Etymology: From anagrammatize + -ation.
Senses: qualifier: American and Oxford British spelling
glosses: Transformation of a word into its anagram.
Related terms: anagram
anagrammatic
anagrammatical
anagrammatically
anagrammatise
anagrammatism
anagrammatist
anagrammatistic
anagrammatize
anagramme
anagrammer
anagrammist
anagrammatizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anagrammatization
file systems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of file system
comes between
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of come between
coming between
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of come between
came between
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of come between
pseudofile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudofiles
form: pseudo-file
Etymology: From pseudo- + file.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A file that does not represent a file on the underlying file system on disk, but instead is automatically generated to represent some other object in the form of a file (for example '/proc/cpuinfo' in Linux).
Related terms: pseudodirectory
pseudo-file
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudo-files
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pseudofile.
pseudo-files
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudo-file
pseudofiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudofile
lizzard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lizzards
Senses: examples: text: It is not denied there have been bicipitous Serpents with the head at each extream, for an example hereof we finde in Aristotle, and of the like form in Aldrovandus we meet with the Icon of a Lizzard; which double formations do often happen unto multiparous generations, more especially that of Serpents […]
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of lizard.
lizzards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lizzard
PC-BSD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From PC + BSD.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A Unix-like operating system that is derived from FreeBSD.
kangooroo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kangooroos
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of kangaroo.
kangooroos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kangooroo
gyant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyants
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of giant.
gyants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyant
violoncelloes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of violoncello
NetBSD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From net + BSD.
Senses: glosses: a Unix-like operating system that is derived from Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), notable for running on 57 different platforms
Related terms: urls: http://www.netbsd.org
word: The NetBSD Project
professional victim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: professional victims
Senses: examples: text: These professional victims get a lot of mileage out of their pain. Even though they complain that the price of change is so painful, they never really pay that price because it's too profitable for them not to.
ref: 2018, Sam Bracken, Guts: Find Your Greatness, Beat the Odds, Live From Passion:
glosses: A person who makes it their business to appear perpetually offended and victimized.
glosses: A person who sets himself or herself up to be an accident victim in order to collect insurance payments or compensation payments, or to get other benefits.
professional victims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of professional victim
colloquialises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of colloquialise
cannabusiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cannabusinesses
Etymology: Blend of cannabis + business.
Senses: examples: text: He did everything he was supposed to do when starting his cannabusiness and still ended up facing prosecution and going to jail.
ref: 2009, Scott Rosenfeld, How to Open A Medical Marijuana Dispensary, page iv:
text: And as long as cannabusiness remains highly profitable to the criminal underworld, the battle will continue.
ref: 2010, Nick Brownlee, This Is Cannabis:
glosses: The business of selling cannabis, or a specific business that does so.
Related terms: ganjapreneur
cannabusinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cannabusiness
colloquialised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of colloquialise
colloquialisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colloquialisations
Etymology: From colloquial + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of colloquialization.
colloquialisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colloquialisation
brizomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Βριζώ (Brizṓ, “the goddess of dreams worshipped at Delos”), from βρίζω (brízō, “sleep”) + -mancy. Compare Ancient Greek Βριζόμαντις (Brizómantis, “diviner of dreams, an appellation the goddess Brizo of Delos”).
Senses: examples: text: Scaramouch took himself off and applied to all sorts of Divination for the purpose of discovering where the lost bottle was lying. He tried [...] Brizomancy, or by the nodding sleep[.]
ref: 1901, Maria Ward Brown, The Life of Dan Rice, page 352:
text: The very fact that each specific method, or variant, had a name, testifies to the prevalence and widespread recognition of divinatory practices. The prophetic inspiration of Brizo, a goddess of sleep, gave rise to brizomancy.
ref: 1961, H.E. Wedeck, Treasury of Witchcraft, page 220:
text: A common name for succubus was Brizo, after the Greek Goddess of sleep whose title came from brizein, to enchant, and referred to a special kind of incubation known as brizomancy. Like the Babylonian dream-Goddess, Nanshe, Brizo brought prophetic dreams which were later called wet dreams.
ref: 2013, Edward L. Nydle, The Legend of Lilith: The Origins of Evil and the Fall of Man, page 94:
glosses: A form of Ancient Greek divination by the interpretation of dreams with the aid of the goddess Brizo; hence, divination by dreams.
closed-toe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: close-toed
glosses: Of a shoe: that covers the toes.
topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: Of the foot of a sewing machine: having has its front area cut away. https://books.google.com/books?id=5W-ChoTedM4C&pg=PA128&dq=%22closed-toe%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CC4Q6AEwADgKahUKEwjEiNe5j-nIAhVFLYgKHRv-Abw#v=onepage&q=%22closed-toe%22&f=false
opened-toe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: that leaves toes uncovered
raw_tags: of a shoe
topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: (of a foot of a sewing machine) that does not have its front area cut away (opposite of closed-toe) https://books.google.com/books?id=5W-ChoTedM4C&pg=PA128&dq=%22closed-toe%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CC4Q6AEwADgKahUKEwjEiNe5j-nIAhVFLYgKHRv-Abw#v=onepage&q=%22closed-toe%22&f=false
secondmost
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Probably influenced by foremost and other such terms (hindmost, etc).
Senses: examples: text: Usually he cannot even buy time on the secondmost popular program on the secondmost popular network.
ref: 1973, Leon Quera, Advertising campaigns: formulation and tactics, page 79:
text: In fact, this sort of initial stance explains inter alia: (a) secondmost nuclear status in valency marking...
ref: 1984, Frans Plank, Objects: Towards a Theory of Grammatical Relations, page 10:
text: Those two derived character states affected the location of maximum blade width (proximal quarter → secondmost proximal quarter) and the length/width ratio (3.00-3.99 → 2.00-2.99).
ref: 2003, Michael John O'Brien, R. Lee Lyman, Cladistics and Archaeology, page 213:
text: Next to the tzekel, the kankab–tzekel soils are the secondmost extensive in the Yucatan state; like the tzekel, they are transitional among Lithosoils, Rendzina and Terra Rossa.
ref: 2014, William J. Folan, Coba: A Classic Maya Metropolis, page 31:
glosses: Alternative form of second most.
TM2c
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TM2cs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of torpedoman's mate second class.
hortology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The craft, art and science of gardening.
Related terms: horticulture
hi-rail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hi-rails
Etymology: Abbreviation of highway-rail.
Senses: glosses: Interface equipment used to mount road-going trucks to railroads, allowing the rails to guide the truck.
glosses: A truck or vehicle equipped with hi-rail interface equipment.
hi-rails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hi-rail
cutaneious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cutaneous.
mount point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔɪnt
Forms: form: mount points
form: mountpoint
Senses: examples: text: The following example mounts a CD-ROM drive on a mount point named /hsfiles.
ref: 2003, Janice Winsor, Solaris Operating Environment System Administrator's Guide, Prentice Hall Professional, →ISBN, page 194:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The directory in a file system used as an entry point for another file system, often representing the content of a physical or virtual storage device.
mount points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mount point
mountpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mountpoints
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mount point.
mountpoints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mountpoint
Aoteroan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aoteroans
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Aotearoan.
Houdini-ed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Houdini
kandhuli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Assamese কান্ধুলি (kandhuli).
Senses: examples: text: In Assam, for instance, a mild curry made with a fish called kandhuli together with a duck egg is given to someone suffering from measles or chicken pox […].
ref: 1998, Harlan Walker, Fish: Food from the Waters, page 255:
text: Awash in its fragrance, like a kandhuli fish rippling in a pond and making liquid motifs of rings and bangles, her head grew giddier and her heart beat faster.
ref: 2015, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Ranjita Biswas, Written in Tears, Harper Perennial, page 1:
glosses: The bronze featherback, Notopterus notopterus.
jetuka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Assamese জেতুকা (zetuka).
Senses: examples: text: The leaves of the Jetuka shrub give a red juice when crushed.
ref: 1949, The Eastern Anthropologist, volume 3, page 74:
text: It is a pleasant sight to see a young girl with her blackened teeth, her palms reddened with the juice of jetuka leaves, her head bedecked with orchid, swaying her figure gracefully and singing erotic quatrains […].
ref: 1965, Praphulladatta Goswami, Folk-literature of Assam, page 8:
text: Her palms, decorated with jetuka, picked up the grains.
ref: 2015, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Ranjita Biswas, Written in Tears, Harper Perennial, page 2:
glosses: Henna (Lawsonia inermis), as used in Assam.
Middle Cornish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Celtic language spoken in Cornwall between the 13th and 17th centuries.
leafs through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of leaf through
leafing through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of leaf through
leafed through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of leaf through
bondagewear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bondage + -wear.
Senses: glosses: Clothing designed to be worn during sexual bondage activities.
Hypernyms: fetishwear
showbag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: showbags
Etymology: From show + bag.
Senses: glosses: A themed bag of commercial merchandise, available at shows (fairs or carnivals) in Australia.
showbags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of showbag
Pan-STARRS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
qualifier: telescope
glosses: Acronym of Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System (“an automatic telescope to discover and characterize Earth-approaching objects that might pose a danger”).
microsample
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microsamples
Etymology: From micro- + sample.
Senses: examples: text: Theranos has acknowledged it was only running a limited number of tests on a microsample of blood using its finger-prick technology.
ref: 2015 October 29, James B. Stewart, “The Narrative Frays for Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes”, in New York Times:
glosses: A very tiny sample.
microsamples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microsample
strict constructionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A legal philosophy of judicial interpretation that requires a judge to apply the text only as it is written, without drawing inferences.
social constructionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
synonyms: social constructivism
glosses: A theory of knowledge according to which human beings rationalize their experience by creating a model of the social world and how it functions, and language is the most essential system through which humans construct reality.
Gay Nineties
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Gay Nineties
Senses: synonyms: Naughty Nineties
glosses: The decade of the 1890s, characterised by decadence, social scandal, and the beginning of the suffragette movement.
strict constructionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strict constructionists
Senses: glosses: A proponent of strict constructionism.
strict constructionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strict constructionist
Sarmatianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Sarmatian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Sarmatism.
synonyms: word: Sarmatism
Sarmatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɑɹmətɪzəm/
ipa: /ˈsɑːmətɪzəm/
Etymology: From Sarmatia + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The belief that the people of the Polish Commonwealth descended from the ancient Sarmatians, the legendary invaders of Slavic lands in antiquity.
Synonyms: Sarmatianism
iodothyrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of iodothyrin.
iodothyrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iodothyrine
Senses: glosses: A lactose trituration of the active constituents of thyroid glands of sheep, historically used to treat goitre, rickets, corpulence, and myxedema.
iodozone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of iodine + ozone
Senses: glosses: An iodine and ozone compound, historically used as an antiseptic.
iridesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iridodesis
Etymology: From iri(do)- + -desis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The ligature of a portion of the iris brought out through an incision in the cornea.
irideremia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From irid- + Ancient Greek ἐρῆμος (erêmos, “lonely”) + -ia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Total or partial absence of the iris of the eye.
isthmitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From isthmus + -itis.
Senses: glosses: inflammation of the isthmus of the fauces, or throat; faucitis
Derived terms: paristhmitis
ivain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A bitter substance found in Achillea erba-rotta subsp. moschata.
isocolloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isocolloids
Etymology: From iso- + colloid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A colloid having the same composition in every hylotropic change.
Related terms: isocolloidal
isocolloids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isocolloid
Alès
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Alès.
Senses: glosses: A town and commune of Gard department, Occitania, France.
antiexclusion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiexclusion
form: most antiexclusion
Etymology: From anti- + exclusion.
Senses: glosses: Opposing or counteracting exclusion.
ischiocele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ischio- + -cele.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: hernia through the sciatic notch
iridodesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of iridesis.
isochroous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + Ancient Greek χρώς (khrṓs, “color”) + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Of uniform color; isochromatic.
namghar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: namghars
form: naamghar
Etymology: From Assamese নামঘৰ (namghor).
Senses: examples: text: A modern Namghar is an open rectangular hall having accommodation for five hundred to fifteen hundred people.
ref: 1978, SM Dubey, editor, North East India: A Sociological Study, page 192:
text: The namghar serves the purpose of a prayer hall as well as a hall for holding religious meetings and discussions.
ref: 1993, Surajit Sinha, Anthropology of Weaker Sections, page 40:
text: ‘I have offered a gold flower at the naamghar; to the temple I have offered a trident.’
ref: 2015, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Ranjita Biswas, Written in Tears, Harper Perennial, page 10:
glosses: A prayer hall in Assam for communal worship.
Naughty Nineties
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Naughty Nineties
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Gay Nineties (the 1890s)
synonyms: word: Gay Nineties
extra: the 1890s
echophony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From echo- + -phony.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An echo of a vocal sound in auscultation of the chest.
lymphagogic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lymphagogic
form: most lymphagogic
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Stimulating the flow of lymph.
lymphagog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lymphagogs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lymphagogue.
lymphagogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lymphagog
lymphagogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lymphagogues
Etymology: From lymph- + -agogue.
Senses: glosses: Any agent that promotes the production of lymph.
lymphagogues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lymphagogue
lupous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lupous
form: most lupous
Senses: glosses: Affected with or pertaining to lupus.
extramarginal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + marginal.
Senses: glosses: Below the limit of consciousness.
glosses: Located outside of the margin or edge.
examples: an extramarginal trader
glosses: Having a cost to produce or a price to purchase that exceeds the market value.
palatiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more palatiform
form: most palatiform
Etymology: From palate + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Palate-shaped; resembling the palate.
palatinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palatinoids
Etymology: Former trade name. See palatable and -oid.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A form of envelope or capsule used for the administration of bitter or unpleasant-tasting drugs.
palatinoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palatinoid
palatograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palatographs
Etymology: From palato- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: A palate myograph; an instrument used to record the movements of the soft palate during speech or respiration.
Related terms: palatography
palatographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palatograph
pancreatomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pancreatomies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pancreatotomy.
pancreatomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pancreatomy