cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Marshbrook
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in southern Shropshire, England in Wistanstow parish, Church Stretton parish and Acton Scott parish (OS grid ref SO4489).
peaty monsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peaty monster
Culgaith
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cumbric *cül (“narrow”) + *cɛ̄d (“wood, forest”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY6129).
doctorbushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doctorbush
functional water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: functional waters
Senses: glosses: Bottled water with added vitamins, minerals, etc., sold as a health drink.
functional waters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of functional water
bells of Ireland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bells of Ireland
Senses: glosses: A plant in the mint family grown for its distinctive green cup-like circular calyxes, Moluccella laevis
dick move
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dick moves
Senses: examples: text: I snapped back. He turned the volume down one notch, crossed his arms, and looked at me. “Darce. I thoroughly…enjoyed last night…. But it was a dick move. And I regret it….
ref: 2010, Emily Giffin, Something Blue, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN:
text: That was kind of a dick move on your part. If you need any more medicine, you know where I live.
ref: 2012, Colleen Hoover, Point of Retreat, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN:
text: I know he's only teasing, but it's still a dick move.
ref: 2014, Anna Todd, After We Collided, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 493:
glosses: An act or decision that is perceived as socially disagreeable, such as by being unkind or unfair.
Related terms: low blow
desert lavender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desert lavenders
Senses: glosses: A fragrant shrub with bluish flowers, Hyptis emoryi or Condea emoryi, native to the deserts of southwestern North America.
e-visa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-visas
Etymology: From e- + visa.
Senses: examples: text: Today, you can check in and clear your immigration process with an e-visa rather than needing a paper visa […]
ref: 2014, Sam B. Edwards III, Revolutionizing the Interaction between State and Citizens through Digital Communications, page 227:
text: Citizens of more than 100 countries can apply for an e-visa, which costs $50 for a single visit, […]
ref: 2017, Oliver Cornock, The Report: Myanmar 2017, page 221:
glosses: A visa stored in electronic or digital form.
e-visas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-visa
layflat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: layflats
Etymology: From lay + flat.
Senses: glosses: Packaging that can be made to lie flat.
layflats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of layflat
reëxpand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reëxpands
form: reëxpanding
form: reëxpanded
form: reëxpanded
Senses: glosses: Uncommon spelling of reexpand.
oath of office
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oaths of office
Senses: examples: text: Chief Justice Burger cut into my reverie. "Mr. Vice President," he asked, "are you prepared to take the oath of office as President of the United States?"
Betty was holding the Bible. I placed my hand on it, repeated the oath and then walked over to the podium.
ref: 1980, Gerald Ford, A Time to Heal, New York: Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 39:
glosses: An oath taken before officially taking office.
line of least resistance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: [...] but as this could have been done only by the repeal of the clauses in the Act which required the provision to be made, the line of least resistance has been taken, [...].
ref: 1940 October, “Notes and News: The Worcester Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 570:
glosses: Synonym of path of least resistance.
synonyms: word: path of least resistance
lumbricalis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlʌm.brəˈkeɪ.lɪs/
Forms: form: lumbricales
Etymology: From New Latin lumbricalis, from lumbricus (“intestinal worm, earthworm”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lumbrical.
synonyms: word: lumbrical
Hersham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈhɜːʃəm/
Senses: glosses: A large village in Elmbridge borough, Surrey, England (OS grid ref TQ1164).
Harlech
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑː(ɹ)lɛx/
note: anglicized
ipa: /ˈhɑːlɛk/
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A small coastal town and community in Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH5831).
Derived terms: Morfa Harlech
Penrhyndeudraeth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A small town and community with a town council in Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH6138).
St Bees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Saint Bega.
Senses: glosses: A coastal village and civil parish in Cumberland district, Cumbria, England, previously in Copeland borough (OS grid ref NX9711).
wikipedia: Saint Bega
force one's way
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forces one's way
form: forcing one's way
form: forced one's way
form: forced one's way
Senses: synonyms: bulldoze one's way
barge one's way
glosses: To use force in order to get somewhere.
rearrange someone's face
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rearranges someone's face
form: rearranging someone's face
form: rearranged someone's face
form: rearranged someone's face
Senses: examples: text: However, the bigoted, racist, hateful, condescending, "My shit smells just like roses" attitude spewing out of him this episode has taken me from liking/admiring him to wanting to rearrange his face in hopes of causing a change in his attitude.
ref: 2012 March 9, Don Bruder, “Tarzan--Jason”, in alt.tv.survivor (Usenet):
glosses: To punch someone in the face.
Bransty
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Whitehaven, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NX9719).
wikipedia: Whitehaven railway station
Prox
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Abbreviation of Proxima Centauri.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Some inhabited planet of the Proxima Centauri system.
Derived terms: Prox b
Proxer
Related terms: word: Proxima
word: Proxima b
word: Proxima
word: Proxima Cen
word: Proxima Cen b
word: Proxima Cen
word: Proxima Centauri
word: Proxima Centauri b
word: Proxima Centauri
Proxer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Proxers
Etymology: From Prox + -er.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
synonyms: Proxima Centaurian
glosses: Inhabitant of the Proxima Centauri system.
unstable equilibrium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
antonyms: stable equilibrium
coordinate_terms: neutral equilibrium
glosses: An equilibrium in which a small disturbance causes it to move further away from its original state.
stable equilibrium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
antonyms: unstable equilibrium
coordinate_terms: neutral equilibrium
glosses: An equilibrium in which a small disturbance causes it to move back to its original state.
internal monologues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of internal monologue
Lawrence Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Bracknell, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU8770).
glosses: A ward and railway station in Bristol, England (OS grid ref ST6073).
anal stage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anal stages
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
glosses: The Freudian stage of psychosocial development in which the chief erogenous zone is the anus and the child gains pleasure from learning to control the bowel and bladder.
Related terms: oral stage
deëmphasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of de-emphasis.
aphantasic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aphantasic
form: most aphantasic
Senses: examples: text: Roughly 2–3 per cent of the population is aphantasic, which makes it a surprisingly common condition.
ref: 2021, John Higgs, William Blake vs the World, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, page 136:
glosses: Exhibiting or relating to aphantasia.
aphantasic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aphantasics
Senses: synonyms: aphant
glosses: A person who has aphantasia.
open-ended contract
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: open-ended contracts
Senses: synonyms: permanent contract
antonyms: fixed-term contract
glosses: Employment contract without a set date for termination.
labor law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of labour law.
Cottingley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban village in the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE1137).
glosses: A suburb in the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE2730).
well spotted
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: well spotted !
Senses: synonyms: good catch
glosses: Used to express appreciation for someone calling attention to something that was going to be missed.
synonyms: no shit, Sherlock
glosses: A riposte used in the UK to someone who has just said something obvious.
Related terms: well done
well said
pluviculturist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pluviculturists
Etymology: From pluviculture + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A rainmaker; one who tries to induce rainfall.
pluviculturists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pluviculturist
pill pusher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pill pushers
Senses: glosses: A doctor, with the implication of overly prescribing drugs.
pill pushers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pill pusher
Foley Park
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small suburb of Maidstone, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ7656).
glosses: A suburb of Kidderminster, Wyre Forest district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8275).
aërophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This description, of course, fits most American cities, but in Chicago the fear of air — what might be called aërophobia — was especially acute.
ref: 1911, Burton J. Hendrick, “Oxygenizing a City”, in William DeWitt Hyde, Nathan Haskell Dole, Caroline Ticknor, Albert Walter Tolman, James Rudolph Garfield, editors, Young Folks Library: Public Service, volume VI, Boston: Hall and Locke Company, page 356:
glosses: Dated form of aerophobia.
Neston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in Cheshire West and Chester borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ2977).
glosses: A village in Corsham parish, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST8668).
dolama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dolamas
Etymology: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish دوﻻمه (dolama).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dolman (“long, loose Turkish mantle”).
Japan wax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Japan waxes
Etymology: From the location (Japan) where this waxy substance was first refined and used.
Senses: examples: text: Of recent years Japan wax is an important article of commerce, and it was while examining a lot of several carloads some time ago that the though occurred to me why cannot it be used pharmaceutically?
ref: 1899 June, Robert C. Purcell, “Japan Wax as a Substitute of Beeswax in Ointments and Cerates”, in Merck Report, volume 8, page 257:
text: There are many grades of genuine Japan waxes available which are distinguished by brand names.
ref: 1963, Harry Bennett, Natural & synthetic waxes, page 146:
text: Japan wax is compatible with beeswax, cocoa butter, and glycerides.
ref: 2011, NIIR Board of Consultants & Engineers, The Complete Technology Book on Wax and Polishes, page 51:
synonyms: sumac wax
glosses: A yellowish fat obtained by refining the protective coat from the berries of various Asian sumacs of the genus Toxicodendron.
Japan waxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Japan wax
Dinting
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village near Glossop, High Peak borough, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK0294).
Japan tallow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Japan tallows
Etymology: Based on the (more common) name Japan wax, this term was coined because the substance is not actually a wax.
Senses: examples: text: Japan tallow and beeswax were mixed in various proportions and the melting points, solidifying points and densities of the mixtures observed.
ref: 1910, Interstate Druggist - Volume 44, page 150:
text: France imports annually from Japan considerable quantities of Japan tallow, derived from the fruits of Rhus succedanea.
ref: 1921, Bulletin of the Imperial Institute - Volume 19, page 520:
text: In place of traditional methods in which materials such as gesso, yellow ocher, powdered earth, liquid glue, and Japan tallow were used to obtain a gloss, and transparent lacquer was rubbed into the wood to protect it, materials such as artificially produced varoids and lacquer came into widespread use.
ref: 1992, Tadashi Inumaru, Mitsukuni Yoshida, The Traditional Crafts of Japan: Wood and bamboo:
glosses: Synonym of Japan wax.
synonyms: word: Japan wax
Japan tallows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Japan tallow
kerb stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kerb stones
Senses: examples: text: Note the position of the kerb stone (no. 94). This is set in a socket and is packed with boulders.
ref: 1973, Glyn Daniel, Poul Kjaerum, Megalithic Graves and Ritual, page 138:
text: No other kerb stone was found set in the ground and it may be that this boulder, the largest to be found, was naturally earthfast.
ref: 1988, University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society - Volumes 54-55, page 167:
text: Outside, a pink granite kerb stone is said to mark the spot where the pump stood, and a small plaque on the wall records its significance.
ref: 2013, Michael Price, Introducing Groundwater:
glosses: Alternative form of kerbstone.
kerb stones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kerb stone
Norbiton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Kingston upon Thames borough, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ1969).
kerb-stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kerb-stones
Senses: examples: text: Across the entrance to the chamber there may be either a kerb–stone or a sillstone. A kerb–stone (a stone set on edge) is placed immediately behind the portal stones between the ends of the first two orthostats of the chamber.
ref: 1963, Audrey Shore Henshall, The Chambered Tombs of Scotland - Volume 2, page 46:
text: Along the kerb-stone, itinerant vendors of prints, and stain-cleaning pastes, and mosaic gold chains, and studs, display their merchandise; and round the corner, near the tavern door, the Italian boy grinds his pianoorgan in dumb show.
ref: 2006, Rick Allen, The Moving Pageant:
text: He snatches away the piece of sacking that is supposed to retain the caloric in the loins of his horse, goes through a series of evolutions in order to bring his cab alongside the kerb-stone, a process which could not be adequately described without the aid of diagrams, and which the uninitiated might consider was for the purpose of driving the horse in at the open door of the vehicle, instead of putting the passenger there.
ref: 2013, F.S. Williams, Our Iron Roads: Their History, Construction and Administraton, page 252:
glosses: Alternative form of kerbstone.
kerb-stones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kerb-stone
St Margarets
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Twickenham, borough of Richmond upon Thames, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ1674).
glosses: A hamlet and civil parish (served by Vowchurch Group Parish Council) in south-west Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO3533).
glosses: A village in East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL3811).
Cuxton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Medway borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ7166).
Garelochhead
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Gare Loch + head.
Senses: glosses: A village in Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS2391).
latte-sipping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having effete inner-city leftist views, such as those that might be found amongst people who regularly drink caffè latte.
Taxkorgan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tashkurgan
Etymology: Borrowed from Uyghur تاشقورغان (tashqorghan).
Senses: examples: text: The archeological office of the Sinkiang Uighur Autonomous Region museum discovered a large number of ancient tombs in Tashihkuerhkan Tadzhik Autonomous County.
ref: [1977 November 25 [1977 November 20], “Sinkiang Archeological Find Refutes Soviet Distortion of History”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 227, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Urumchi Sinkiang Regional Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, page M 2:
text: The wind had smoothed its sand over the nearby mountains, turning them to ghosts. And beyond the snow-mass of Muztagata we entered the valley of Taxkorgan, the last town in the west.
ref: 1990, Great Journeys, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 35:
text: Totaling 33,000, the Tajik nationality is mostly concentrated in the Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County, east of the Pamirs in southwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The rest are scattered in a few counties south of the Tianshan Mountains within the same autonomous region.
ref: 1993, “TAJIK NATIONALITY”, in 曾庆南 [Zeng Qingnan], 张纬雯 [Zhang Weiwen], editors, 中国少数民族风情录 [In Search of China's Minorities], Beijing: New World Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 108:
english: In Search of China's Minorities
translation: In Search of China's Minorities
text: Tash Qurghan is an autonomous county for the Tajik, therefore the majority of the population is Tajik.
ref: [2003, Ma Rong, “Population Distribution and Relations Among Ethnic Groups in the Kashgar Region, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region”, in China's Minorities on the Move: Selected Case Studies, East Gate Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 114:
text: The China Earthquake Administration (CEA) said the quake occurred in the remote Taxkorgan County area of Kashgar Prefecture at a depth of 8 km (5 miles). Xinhua said in a microblog post 11 people were also injured.
ref: 2017 May 10, Adam Jourdan, “Eight killed when magnitude 5.5 earthquake hits China's northwest”, in Paul Tait, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 11 May 2017, Environment:
glosses: A Tajik autonomous county in Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
glosses: A town in Taxkorgan, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Tashiku’ergan
word: T'a-shih-k'u-erh-kan
word: Tash Kurghan
Derived terms: Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County
climate fire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: climate fires
Senses: glosses: A bushfire or forest fire occurring during the period in which global temperatures have risen due to climate change.
climate fires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of climate fire
climate migrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: climate migrants
Senses: glosses: A person who has relocated in response to anthropogenic climate change.
climate migrants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of climate migrant
climate refugee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: climate refugees
Senses: glosses: A person who moves somewhere with a more pleasant or healthy climate.
examples: text: His best friend, the nature writer Barry Lopez, died of prostate cancer that December, three months after a wildfire had burned parts of his home near the McKenzie River in Oregon, making him a climate refugee.
ref: 2023 March 29, David Allen, The New York Times:
text: “Climate refugees” often wanted to stay in their own country to preserve their society and culture, according to research published by the New Zealand Association for Impact Assessment.
ref: 2023 November 11, Nic Fildes, “Australia offers Tuvalu islanders resident visas to escape effects of global warming”, in FT Weekend, page 1:
text: Recognising the existential threat facing these communities, in November close neighbour Australia offered climate refugee visas to Pacific Islanders.
ref: 2023 December 8, “COP28: Tuvalu negotiator travelled 8,000 miles to save her home”, in BBC News:
text: Kalmus also noted that becoming a climate refugee is not as easy as simply making a choice to move out of a suddenly-uninhabitable location. Uprooting one's life is inherently difficult, and the current geopolitical climate is not exactly welcoming to would-be climate migrants.
ref: 2024 April 15, Matthew Rozsa, Salon:
glosses: A person who moves somewhere with a more pleasant or healthy climate.
A person who is forced to flee their home due to anthropogenic climate change that made their region unliveable.
Related terms: environmental refugee
climate refugees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of climate refugee
silent forest syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A situation, common in Asia, in which an area of intact habitat no longer has a birdsong as a result of having had all songbirds trapped out for the cagebird trade.
trap out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: traps out
form: trapping out
form: trapped out
form: trapped out
Senses: glosses: To deplete an area of all individuals of a certain animal, bird, etc., by trapping.
examples: text: We used to trap out my mom house, turn the condo to a hideout.
ref: 2018, “I'm Straight”, in Harder Than Ever, performed by Lil Baby:
glosses: To convert (a place) into a trap house
trapping out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trap out
trapped out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trap out
trapped-out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having had all individuals of a certain animal, bird, etc., removed from the environment by trapping.
Asian songbird crisis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Asian songbird crisis
Senses: glosses: A conservation crisis in Asia caused by the large-scale and unsustainable collection of songbirds from their natural habitats to supply the cagebird trade.
plastic footprint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plastic footprints
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A measure of the total amount of plastic waste an individual, company, or product generates.
plastic footprints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plastic footprint
woolly bluecurls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woolly bluecurls
Senses: glosses: A fragrant and drought-tolerant shrub in the mint family native to southern California and neighboring Mexico (Trichostema lanatum), which is grown for its striking woolly inflorescences.
chemical restraint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemical restraints
Senses: glosses: A pharmacologic agent administered to a person to prevent them from moving, as alternative for physical restraints such as belts, straitjackets, etc.
glosses: The use of drugs in this manner.
chemical restraints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemical restraint
wood sage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wood sages
Senses: glosses: An herb in the mint family, Teucrium scorodonia.
wood sages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wood sage
innovatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more innovatingly
form: most innovatingly
Etymology: From innovating + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: A large figure of Budh, with his attendants, is carved, innovatingly it is said, in front of the shrine.
ref: 1862, Mrs. John B. Speid, Our Last Years in India, page 187:
text: This apotropaic or prophylactic device, which is mentioned neither by Aischylos nor by Sophokles, is innovatingly borrowed by Euripides: the usurpers, instead of forcing Elektra to remain single, marry her off to a free peasant.
ref: 1976, George Devereux, Dreams in Greek Tragedy: An Ethno-psycho-analytical Study, page 223:
text: The theses reflected Pico's wide-ranging familiarity with all the major traditions of learned speculation in philosophy, theology and science, including the 'ancient wisdom' and, most innovatingly, the Jewish kabbalah.
ref: 2013, Wouter J. Hanegraaff, Western Esotericism: A Guide for the Perplexed:
synonyms: innovatively
glosses: In an innovative manner.
cat thyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cat thymes
Senses: synonyms: word: kitty crack
glosses: A low-growing herb, Teucrium marum, related to germander, which has a pungent scent that causes sneezing, but is attractive to cats.
cat thymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cat thyme
obedient plant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obedient plants
Senses: glosses: A flowering plant in the mint family, Physostegia virginiana, native to eastern North America and known for the way that individual flowers stay in the position they're moved to when pushed to one side or the other.
obedient plants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obedient plant
nativise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nativises
form: nativising
form: nativised
form: nativised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of nativize.
nativises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nativise
nativised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nativise
nativising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nativise
American pennyroyal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: American pennyroyals
Senses: glosses: A pennyroyal-scented herb of eastern North America, Hedeoma pulegioides.
American pennyroyals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of American pennyroyal
Russian sage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Russian sages
Senses: glosses: A shrub related to sage, Salvia yangii (syn. Perovskia atriplicifolia).
Sundaic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Sunda + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Here, therefore, we seek to assemble and assess the evidence to provide an overview of how serious trade is as an existential threat to avian taxa in Sundaic Indonesia.
ref: 2015, James Eaton et al., “Trade-driven extinctions and near-extinctions of avian taxa in Sundaic Indonesia”, in Forktail, page 2, column 2:
glosses: Of or relating to the Sundas.
tommorow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of tomorrow.
mock-turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This is a rich handsome dish, and an elegant variety of mock-turtle.
ref: 1827, Maria Eliza Rundell, Domestic Economy, and Cookery, for Rich and Poor, page 341:
text: O, this is he that disembodied matter,
And prov’d that incorporeal corporations
Put nothing in no platter,
And for mock-turtle only supp’d sensations.
ref: 1828, Thomas Hood, “The Logicians”, in The Portfolio, of Amusement and Instruction, in History, Science, Literature, the Fine Arts, &c., number 110, page 386:
text: Soup, sir? yes, sir; very nice mock-turtle sir—real mock-turtle, sir.
ref: 1877, A. G. Payne, Common-Sense Papers on Cookery, page 217:
glosses: mock turtle soup
hoolock gibbon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoolock gibbons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hoolock (Hoolock spp.)
hoolock gibbons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoolock gibbon
snows up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of snow up
snowed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of snow up
snowing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of snow up
proceduralises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of proceduralise
dehellenises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dehellenise
dehellenising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dehellenise
dehellenised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dehellenise
hellenises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hellenise
hellenising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hellenise
hellenised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hellenise
dehellenizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dehellenize
dehellenizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dehellenize
dehellenized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dehellenize
disinflates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disinflate
disinflating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disinflate
disinflated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disinflate
discectomizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of discectomize
discectomizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of discectomize
dimethylating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dimethylate
desuccinylating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of desuccinylate
despiralizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of despiralize
despiralizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of despiralize
alcolizates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of alcolizate
alcolizating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of alcolizate
tolyltriazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tolyltriazoles
Senses: glosses: A certain chemical with industrial applications as a corrosion inhibitor.
Related terms: benzotriazole
tolyltriazoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tolyltriazole
low-T
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iː
Senses: examples: text: In recent years, many in this world have become obsessed with the idea that conservative guys are jacked, masculine, high-T GigaChads while liberals are weak, emasculated, low-T Soy Boys.
ref: 2023 April 5, Mark Hay, “Does Testosterone Affect Your Politics?”, in VICE:
topics: business
marketing
medicine
pathology
pharmacology
sciences
antonyms: high-T
glosses: Abbreviation of low testosterone (“A medical condition in men where testosterone levels are low, and associated with low physique, motivation and virility”).
Coordinate terms: andropause
viropause
for and on behalf of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Acting for; acting as an agent of.
set sights
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sets sights
form: setting sights
form: set sights
form: set sights
Senses: examples: text: Now the Colombian paramilitaries had set sights on him.
ref: 2007 November 28, Jennifer 8. Lee, “Defending Rights, He Said He Was Marked to Die”, in New York Times, retrieved 01 Aug 2015:
info_templates: extra_data: words: on
expansion: [with on]
glosses: Alternative form of set one's sights
unexterminated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: When the Spaniards, for example, became masters of the empire of Mexico, a vulgar politician might suppose it was because such of the Mexicans as remained unexterminated, could not help it. No such thing …
ref: 2001 [1776], Jeremy Bentham, edited by Francis C Montague, A Fragment on Government:
glosses: not exterminated
pluricentral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌplʊəɹɪˈsɛntɹəl/
ipa: /ˌplɔːɹɪˈsɛntɹəl/
ipa: /ˌpljʊəɹɪˈsɛntɹəl/
ipa: /ˌplʊɹəˈsɛntɹəl/
Forms: form: more pluricentral
form: most pluricentral
Etymology: From pluri- + central.
Senses: examples: text: Tanberg remarks that histologists are now generally agreed that multiple primary carcinomas can develop from several primary centres ("pluricentral development")
ref: 1908, Medical Chronicle, page 298:
text: Ludwig advanced the idea that growth in area of the skin is “quantitatively pluricentral”, each surface element increasing through reproduction of its own special cells.
ref: 1950, Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, page 261:
text: This is consonant with clinical experience and suggests practical guidelines for family therapy and for social organization (e.g. marital equality, political opposition rather than consensus, pluricentral management[…]
ref: 2012 December 6, Hector Sabelli, “The Co-Creation Hypothesis”, in Gillian Ragsdell, Jennifer Wilby, editors, Understanding Complexity, Springer, →ISBN, page 26:
glosses: Pluricentric; having more than one centre.
Synonyms: pluricentric
Bow Street
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəʊ stɹiːt/
rhymes: -iːt
Etymology: The street was named in 1638 for its shape, it is slightly curved.
Senses: glosses: A street in London WC2, England, of Bow Street Runner fame (OS grid ref TQ3081).
glosses: A hamlet in Great Ellingham parish, Breckland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TM0198).
glosses: A village in Tirymynach community, near Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales, possibly named after the London street (OS grid ref SN6284).
Derived terms: Bow Street Runner
LBK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German LBK, from Linearbandkeramische or Linienbandkeramische (used alongside Kultur).
Senses: examples: text: A number of authors have pointed out that while these pots are dissimilar from LBK wares, they may have a generalised affinity with the Cardial pottery of the Mediterranean (Lüning et al. 1989).
ref: 1996, Julian Thomas, Time, Culture, and Identity: An Interpretative Archaeology, Routledge, page 114:
text: 1996 [Routledge], I. J. Thorpe, The Origins of Agriculture in Europe, 2005, Taylor & Francis e-Library, page 41,
The LBK was succeeded by a variety of regional pottery traditions (Bogucki and Grygiel 1993).
text: However, in the northern areas and in central Europe sedentary life can be linked to the central European Linear Pottery culture (LBK), emerging around 5550 cal BC (Bánffy and Oross 2010, pp. 260–268). The LBK longhouse of the Neolithic evolved south of the upper reaches of the Danube and spread to Austria, Moravia, Bohemia, Poland and Germany in its fully developed form with the earliest LBK groups.
ref: 2013, Eszter Bánffy, “Chapter 6: Tracing the Beginning of Sedentary Life in the Carpathian Basin: The Formation of the LBK House”, in Daniela Hofmann, Jessica Smyth, editors, Tracking the Neolithic House in Europe: Sedentism, Architecture and Practice, Springer, page 117:
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Linear Pottery culture; often used attributively.
Synonyms: sense: Neolithic European culture
word: Linear Pottery culture
Related terms: Early Linear Pottery culture
Western Linear Pottery culture
boggled down
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Eggcorn of bogged down.
Garland Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A day on which, in parts of the United Kingdom, a traditional procession is held, carrying a garland from house to house and collecting money.
elsethread
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Elsewhere within a thread of discussion (on a mailing list, newsgroup, or forum).
make music
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes music
form: making music
form: made music
form: made music
Senses: glosses: To sing or play a musical instrument.
savannizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of savannization
Hopton Heath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hoptonheath
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Clungunford parish and Hopton Castle parish, south Shropshire, England, on the border with Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO3877).
glosses: A settlement in Hopton and Coton parish, Stafford borough, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ9526).
lutrines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lutrine
May gosling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: May goslings
Senses: coordinate_terms: April fool
glosses: A person subjected to a practical joke on May Day.
May goslings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of May gosling
Empire Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: 24 May, the birthday of Queen Victoria, observed annually from 1902 as a celebration of the British Empire, then superseded by Commonwealth Day in 1958.
Related terms: British Empire
British Empire Games
Commonwealth Day
Dominion Day
Empire Games
Imperial Day
Imperial Games
Victoria Day
taboulah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tabbouleh.
evential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈvɛn(t)ʃəl/
ipa: /əˈvɛn(t)ʃəl/
ipa: /ɪˈvɛnʃəl/
ipa: /ɪˈvɛnt͡ʃəl/
ipa: /ə-/
homophone: eventual stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: more evential
form: most evential
Etymology: From event + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, the three orders of duration—evential, conjunctural, and structural—are regarded as commensurable in the terms of the same scale.
ref: 1974, Hermonio Martins, “Time and Theory in Sociology”, in John Rex, editor, Approaches to Sociology (RLE Social Theory): An Introduction to Major Trends in British Sociology, →ISBN, page 268; republished by Routledge, 2015 August 21:
text: […]ontic actualities, while evential events not only reveal the fundamental significance of the happening of events[…]
ref: 2005, Ian Graham Leask, Eoin G. Cassidy, editors, Givenness and God: Questions of Jean-Luc Marion, Fordham University Press, →ISBN, page 174:
text: Nonetheless, this world is not the objective and evential universe in which we live together as objects exchangeable and replaceable with other objects. It is the world where each one or each thing is alone and equal.
ref: 2014 December 6, Tristan Garcia, translated by Jon Cogburn and Mark Allan Ohm, Form and Object: A Treatise on Things, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 331:
qualifier: metaphysics
glosses: Pertaining to or composed of events.
jolly boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jolly boys
Senses: glosses: A kind of pancake.
glosses: A pace-egger.
jolly boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jolly boy
booling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bool
booling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Egg rolling.
egg rolling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A traditional Easter game in which decorated eggs "race" by being rolled downhill or pushed along the ground.
Related terms: egg roll
Big Blue 82
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Big Blue 82s
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: cheeseburger
daisy cutter
glosses: The BLU-82 bomb, known for its ability to flatten a forest into a helicopter landing zone.
Big Blue 82s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Big Blue 82
Grimethorpe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large village in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE4109).
Related terms: Grimesthorpe
stage damager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stage damagers
Senses: glosses: stage manager
stage damagers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stage damager
Inland Empire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Likely introduced by developers to promote the area, based on the earlier name Orange Empire (referencing its orange groves) and its position inland from Los Angeles.
Senses: glosses: A region of southern California, chiefly consisting of western Riverside County and southwestern San Bernardino County
Related terms: Orange Empire
dangle the Dunlops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dangles the Dunlops
form: dangling the Dunlops
form: dangled the Dunlops
form: dangled the Dunlops
Etymology: From the tyre brand Dunlop.
Senses: examples: text: Last, but not least: Keep the pointy end forward, the dirty side down and dangle the dunlops.
ref: 1984, Approach, volume 30, number 5:
text: Just as soon as we get this li'l baby off of the runway, we'll be taking such good care of you that before you know it we'll be dangling the Dunlops over Dallas.
ref: 1995, Yasmine Gooneratne, The pleasures of conquest, page 97:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To lower the landing gear of an aircraft in preparation for landing.
Orange Empire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The portions of southern California given to citrus cultivation in the early 20th century, including Orange County, western Riverside County, southwestern San Bernardino County and eastern Los Angeles County
Related terms: Inland Empire
dark vowel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dark vowels
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of back vowel.
synonyms: word: back vowel
dark vowels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dark vowel
light blues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of light blue
dark blues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dark blue
Darts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dart
ogbono
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Igbo ọ̀gbọ̀nọ̀.
Senses: glosses: The almond-like seeds of Irvingia gabonensis, used to thicken soup etc.
Related terms: dika
dawn raid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dawn raids
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: An early-morning visit by police or law enforcement with the intention of taking the suspects by surprise.
topics: business
glosses: Sudden rapid acquisition of a company's shares when the stock exchange opens, in preparation for a hostile takeover.
Related terms: Saturday-night special
dawn raids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dawn raid
beach ball plot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒt
Forms: form: beach ball plots
Etymology: From the resemblance to a striped sphere.
Senses: synonyms: beach ball diagram
glosses: A kind of diagram illustrating the focal mechanism of an earthquake.
beach ball diagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beach ball diagrams
Senses: glosses: Synonym of beach ball plot.
synonyms: word: beach ball plot
beach ball plots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beach ball plot
beach ball diagrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beach ball diagram
bean rag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bean rags
Senses: topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: A pennant displayed on a ship at mealtimes.
bean rags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bean rag
beauty shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beauty shots
Senses: examples: text: Cut to beauty shot of skin care products with beauty show going on in the background. Cut to business woman on street.
ref: 1983, John A. Quelch, Paul Farris, Cases in Advertising and Promotion Management, →ISBN, page 71:
topics: advertising
arts
business
hobbies
lifestyle
marketing
photography
synonyms: hero shot
glosses: A close-up of the product being advertised.
beauty shots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beauty shot
beef chit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beef chits
Senses: examples: text: Give me the beef-chit, and let me see if the chef 'as got the chow right.
ref: 1935, Ian Hay, Sir Stephen King-Hall, Admirals All: An Amphibious Adventure in Three Acts, page 10:
text: The tombstone is another name for the beef chit, or menu, while a Bombay Duck is a bloater, a two-eyed steak a kipper, and the bags of mystery or links of love are sausages.
ref: 1962, John O'London's, volume 6, page 571:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The menu in a ship's wardroom.
beef chits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beef chit
bag of mystery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bags of mystery
Etymology: From its construction and possibly dubious ingredients; compare mystery meat.
Senses: glosses: A sausage.
Related terms: mystery bag
bags of mystery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bag of mystery
ruckwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ruckwomen
Etymology: From ruck + -woman.
Senses: qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: A female ruck; a woman who contests rucks.
ruckwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ruckwoman
beefs up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beef up
beef out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beefs out
form: beefing out
form: beefed out
form: beefed out
Senses: examples: text: We'll get some money if we beef out those cows.
glosses: To convert steer to beef; to slaughter cows, etc.
examples: text: “Look. I apologize. I hope you don't have any ill will toward me,” the girl said. “I'm Chanel.” Raegan wanted to beef out with the girl, but inside she knew that she had set herself up. She had invested her all into a man who had invested nothing.
ref: 2012, Ashley Antoinette, Guilty Gucci:
text: Now, I'm not trying to beef out with you. If we go to war, don't nobody make no dough, feel me?
ref: 2008, Treasure Hernandez, Flint; Book 4: Resurrection:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To have a beef or grudge against somebody.
Pulford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pulfords
Etymology: From Old English pōl (“pool, pond”) + ford (“ford”).
Senses: glosses: A village in Poulton and Pulford parish, Cheshire West and Chester borough, Cheshire, England, on the border with Wales (OS grid ref SJ3758).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Innerwick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in East Lothian council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT7274)
Derzhavinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Derzhavinian
form: most Derzhavinian
Etymology: From Derzhavin + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Gavrila Derzhavin (1743–1816), Russian poet and statesman.