cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Koranology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Koran + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: there are very few open positions for people with a degree in Koranology.
ref: 2001 Mikela, Re: MALAYS HAVE PROGRESSED? NOT!!!!!!, soc.culture.singapore
text: Modern science (not like Muslim astrology, Koranology, alchemical search to turn lead into gold (easy to see why sultan's supported that one)) is western science. Again, worldwide, people (including Muslims) study western science and not some non-existent Muslim science.
ref: 2001, Z Karadjordjevic, “Re: How many Taliban does it take to change a lightbulb?”, in alt.religion.islam (Usenet):
text: It is only the first occurrence that appears as "Ibn Umar al-Khattab". What, if any, significance this has I know not. Frankly, it's a rather lengthy article, and I'm just not that interested in the finer points of Koranology.
ref: 2001, Bob Cooper, “Re: 'Ibn Umar al-Khattab what? [was Re: Quran's Tainted History]”, in alt.religion.islam (Usenet):
glosses: The study of the Koran.
Quranologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Quranologists
Etymology: From Quran + -ologist.
Senses: examples: text: By referring these facts we are in a position to request the scholars of Qur' an and Quranologists to study them in strict conformity, concordance and collaboration of Hadith which are parallel, congruous and interdependent.
ref: 2001 Zamir Ahmed, The Quranic Sociology of Crime - Page 63
text: Thus, in line with Kenneth Craig, the non-Muslim British Quranologist, there can be no dichotomization between the two: “Islam is the Quranically guided religion; the Quran is the Islamically revealed book”
ref: 2011, Okechukwu Ukaga, Who Was Muhammad? Group: USA Africa Dialogue Series:
text: Pretzl was the director of the Qur'an Archives of the University of Munich, where three generations of Qur'anologists had collected the biggest collection in the world on Qur'an and its allied subjects
ref: 1971, Muhammad Asad, Islamic Culture - Volume 20 - Page 218
text: 2009, HO, hijra: of meaning and meaning of meaning of emigration Group: USA Africa Dialogue Series
hijra: of meaning and meaning of meaning of emigration by afis a. oladosu first, a short note on the title. the medieval rhetorician and quranologist, abdul qahir al-jurjani, in his important works on rhetoric asrar al-balagh (the secret of rhetoric) and dalail al-ijaz (guides to quranic
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: One who studies Quran-related topics
Quranologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Quranologist
Koranesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Koranesque
form: most Koranesque
Etymology: From Koran + -esque.
Senses: examples: 2003, EddieA95, Re: A Few Questions to the NDE Experiencers Here Group: alt.consciousness.near-death-exp
If more NDEs were recorded from the Muslim world, we would see more Koranesque accounts.
2006, Face, Re-learning history -- it wasn't Popov, it was Mustafa Group: uk.current-events.terrorism
Because, according to Professor Sherif Mardin of Washington University, (one of the two Americans with a Koranesque surname), to the Popovs of Islam we owe even the artichokes.
2011, Hanson, Re: Feynman on Orbital Motion Group: sci.physics
and do behave not any different then do Thoraic, Biblical or Koranesque cultist about their prophet
glosses: Reminiscent of the Koran.
Qurano-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Quran + -o-.
Senses: examples: text: The Qurano-Prophetic intervention may be interpreted on the whole as a definitive affirmation of theocentric ethics.
ref: 2007, University Microfilms, Dissertation Abstracts International: The humanities and social sciences:
text: […] both his exegesis and also his Quranocentric blueprint for moral reform in language aimed at a wider reading public.
ref: 2007, Shabana Fatma, Women And Islam, page 135:
text: […] Waqwaq Tree is itself a transformation of the oracular tree(s) of the Sun and Moon into a Qurano-Islamic tree.
ref: 2007, Daniel Potts, Memory as history: the legacy of Alexander in Asia, page 76:
glosses: Pertaining to the Quran.
Koranism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Koran + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Quranism.
Koranite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Koranites
Etymology: From Koran + -ite.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Quranite.
Koranites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Koranite
Koranist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Koranists
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Quranist.
Koranists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Koranist
kaafir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kaafirs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kafir.
kaafirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kaafir
Qorân
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Uncommon form of Qur'an.
Qur'ān
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: He […] collected his gold-plated, velvet-fringed Qur’ān from the living room.
ref: 2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 222:
glosses: Alternative form of Qur'an.
clothedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From clothed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of wearing clothes
clothify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clothifies
form: clothifying
form: clothified
form: clothified
Etymology: From cloth + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: Select JessiSkirt as the object to clothify
ref: 2006, Denise Tyler, Practical Poser 6, page 197:
text: First, you need a prop or figure in your scene, and then something to “clothify.”
ref: 2003, Secrets of Figure Creation with Poser 5, page 171:
text: By selecting, scaling, and clothifying these various objects, you can create an assortment of towels, blankets, scarves, shawls, and flags.
ref: 2007, Kelly Murdock, Poser® 7 Revealed: The E Frontier Official Guide, page 355:
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To give a cloth-like texture to.
clothifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of clothify
clothifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clothify
clothified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of clothify
prudism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From prude + -ism.
Senses: glosses: prudishness
prudist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prudists
Etymology: From prude + -ist.
Senses: glosses: prude
Derived terms: prudistic
prudists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prudist
genitaled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From genital + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a specific type of genitals.
genitalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: genitalizes
form: genitalizing
form: genitalized
form: genitalized
Etymology: From genital + -ize.
Senses: examples: 1999 Skell Red, Re: Tele-Dummies Group: alt.atheism.moderated
I'm not surprised adults genitalize the Teletubbies, as they do everything else. There are even sexual fetishists called "furries," I think, who are gratified by stuffed animals and people in animal costumes.
1993 Chris Klausmeier, ARCHIVE: cdc-151 Group: alt.drugs
For many people, for instance, it is possible to 'genitalize' almost any part of the body, by consciously transferring the response capacity from the sexual organs to some other part, such as a finer.
1995 Lee Dronick, Re: Hypnosis and massage Group: alt.backrubs
To magnify the sensation and effects of massage, have a hypnotist give suggestions to that effect. If you want an erotic response, have the hypnotist genitalize your whole body by ...
glosses: To assign genitals to; to emphasize the genitals of; to make genitalic.
genitalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of genitalize
genitalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of genitalize
genitalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of genitalize
genitalless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From genital + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without genitals.
genitalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From genital + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: ... my producer and I (Mrs S continuing to smile deafly), out of the whole population, knew that this line, affirming the genitalness of genitals, was by Arnold Bennett.
ref: 1986 Edward Blishen, The outside contributor - Page 42
text: Super-skin is one - tightness, shininess and texture : super-genitalness-firm pubis, space between the thighs, extra pubic hair; mild threat - blackness, leatheriness, sadistic-looking buckles; submission -tied-upness, slave- bangles
ref: 1988 crown, Joy of Sex the Non Illus - Page 31
text: 2006, ying, Re: head-on Group: rec.arts.poems
Does muscles form genitalness?
glosses: The quality of being erotic or erogenous.
degenitalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: degenitalizes
form: degenitalizing
form: degenitalized
form: degenitalized
Etymology: From de- + genital + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To deprive of its genitalic nature; to deemphasize the genitals of.
Related terms: degenitalization
degenitalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of degenitalize
degenitalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of degenitalize
degenitalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of degenitalize
Uriah Heep
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A fictional character, Uriah Heep, in the 1850 Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield, noted for his cloying humility, obsequiousness, and insincerity, the stereotypical yes man.
Uriah Heep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Uriah Heeps
Senses: examples: text: She is the Uriah Heep of society, humbling herself before the Church and the Law, whispering sweetly her vow to honor and obey, hugging her chains as a chattel and a slave.
ref: 1869, "Semi-Detached Wives", The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, New Series, Vol IX, no. 3 (March 1869) page 352
text: It seems to me that misinterpretation of this 'customer is always right' business has too frequently resulted in a complete misunderstanding of the relations of merchant and customer and has made ‘Uriah Heeps’ out of too many shopkeepers.
ref: 1922 January 28, “Talks with the Doctor”, in Drug Trade Weekly, volume V, number 4, page 184:
text: In the conclusion, the poet expresses his hopes that, in the future, Russia and Britain might find themselves locked in a friendly embrace, but only after all the Uriah Heeps of the British nation have been buried.
ref: 2006, Andrei Rogachevskii, “The West in Russian literature”, in Andrew Hammond, editor, Cold War Literature: Writing the Global Conflict, Routledge:
synonyms: bootlicker
brown noser
yes man
glosses: Someone like the fictional character Uriah Heep.
Derived terms: Heepish
Heepishly
Heepishness
Uriah Heepish
Uriah Heepishly
Uriah Heepishness
Uriah Heep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Uriah Heeps
form: Uriah Heeping
form: Uriah Heeped
form: Uriah Heeped
Senses: examples: text: But he'd Uriah-Heeped himself into yet another corner from which she refused to extricate him.
ref: 1978, Susan Darter Hunt, "A Matter of Irreconcilable Differences", The North American Review, volume 263, No. 1 (Spring, 1978) page 34
text: Time and time again, as Silbert Uriah Heeped his way through the trial, every other word to Sirica modified with a fawning "if the court please" until everyone was sick of it, Glanzer would pull on his coattail, whisper in his ear, and steer him from the brink of error.
ref: 1980, G. Gordon Liddy, Will: The Autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy, St. Martin's Press:
text: And Strang sitting there before the Mayor in the leather-mahogany sanctum sanctorum of City Hall, bowing and scraping, genuflecting like a mandarin, dizzy with adulation, and Uriah Heeping before that exalted personage, His Honor the Mayor.
ref: 2013, Herbert Lieberman, City of the Dead, Open Road Media, page 199:
synonyms: brownnose#Verb
glosses: To be a yes man, in the style of Uriah Heep.
yers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yer
toepad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toepads
Etymology: From toe + pad.
Senses: examples: text: Eublepharid geckos lack adhesive toepads and, unlike other geckos, have movable eyelids.
glosses: A pad that forms the lower surface of the toe of certain animals.
dillion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dillions
Etymology: See -illion.
Senses: examples: text: 'The human bean,' the Giant went on, 'is coming in dillions of different flavours. […]
ref: 1982, Roald Dahl, The BFG:
text: He'd been sitting in the car for a dillion years waiting for his mother to find her glasses.
ref: 2012, Gretel Killeen, My Sister's a Yo-Yo:
text: You have like a dillion books here, probably nobody would have even looked at it.
ref: 2014, Lev Grossman, The Magician's Land:
glosses: An unspecified large number (of).
dillions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dillion
toepads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toepad
string bet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: string bets
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Action where a player first calls, bets or raises a certain amount and then adds more. It can be used to gather weakness/strength tells from opponents before deciding how many chips to add into the pot. It is not allowed in most games. To prevent string betting, player's action is considered final as soon as the player orally states the amount they bet/raise, say for example "call" or the first chip touches the table in front of their stack/cards.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A raise where the chips are put into play in more than one movement. Such a raise is usually illegal and counts as a call.
string bet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: string bets
form: string betting
form: string bet
form: string bet
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: To make such a raise.
string bets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of string bet
string betting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of string bet
genitalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genitalizations
Etymology: From genital + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of genitalizing
genitalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of genitalization
pro-Sunni
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pro-Sunni
form: most pro-Sunni
Etymology: From pro- + Sunni.
Senses: glosses: Supporting Sunnism
epitomical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more epitomical
form: most epitomical
Etymology: From epitome + -ical.
Senses: glosses: epitomic
solidarize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: solidarizes
form: solidarizing
form: solidarized
form: solidarized
Senses: glosses: To show solidarity (with or against).
solidarized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of solidarize
solidarizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of solidarize
solidarizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of solidarize
e-portfolio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-portfolios
Etymology: From e- + portfolio.
Senses: glosses: A digital portfolio; a collection of electronic evidence assembled and managed by a user.
Hyponyms: webfolio
e-portfolios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-portfolio
fantasy of manners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fantasies of manners
Etymology: Modelled on earlier comedy of manners. First used in print by science fiction critic Donald G. Keller in the April 1991 issue of The New York Review of Science Fiction.
Senses: glosses: A literary work in a fantasy genre that is also a comedy of manners.
fantasies of manners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fantasy of manners
namefagging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of namefag
audioconference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: audioconferences
Etymology: From audio + conference.
Senses: glosses: A conference or meeting held via a remote audio link.
audioconference
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: audioconferences
form: audioconferencing
form: audioconferenced
form: audioconferenced
Etymology: From audio + conference.
Senses: examples: text: I audioconferenced with the client this morning.
glosses: To hold a conference or meeting via a remote audio link.
audioconferences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of audioconference
audioconferences
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of audioconference
audioconferencing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of audioconference
audioconferenced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of audioconference
millwrighting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From millwright + -ing?
Senses: glosses: The work of a millwright, designing and constructing mills.
perforatus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perforati
Etymology: From Latin perforātus.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The short flexor of the toes, or the superficial flexor of the fingers.
Bellary
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: It was my fate to commence my career in the medical service forty years ago in the presanitary days, long before the introduction of modern methods of diagnosis, at two of the most unhealthy stations in the whole of India — Bellary and Secunderabad.
ref: 1881, International Congress of Medicine, Transactions of the 1st, 2nd, 4th-17th Congress, page 541:
glosses: Alternative form of Ballari (city in India)
bestickered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + stickered.
Senses: glosses: Covered with stickers.
upglides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upglide
uncontracted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + contracted.
Senses: glosses: Not contracted.
uncontracted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uncontract
driftlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From driftless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being driftless.
driftlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more driftlessly
form: most driftlessly
Etymology: From driftless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a driftless manner.
intracultural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + cultural.
Senses: glosses: Within a single culture.
Derived terms: intraculturally
Liver
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪvə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -aɪvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more Liver
form: most Liver
Etymology: Back-formation from Liverpool, possibly influenced by liver bird.
Senses: examples: text: He was fat, he was round and his car was in the pound. But we loved Liver bloke Jan Molby all the same. Now he's decided to tell us all about his crazy old days as the Lardy Lord of the Liverpool midfield and you can get your hands on this very funny tale for free if you win this competition.
ref: 1999 October 7, Jonathan Yee, “warning long post”, in uk.rec.competitions (Usenet), message-ID <qD8L3.581$aK.85990@newsr2.u-net.net>:
text: ‘Your accent has changed!’
‘No, it hasn’t,’ I lied as I had found a cheap voice teacher for elocution lessons to remove my Liver accent.
‘Yes it has! You no longer sound like a female Sir Paul McCartney.’
ref: 2008, Carmenica Diaz, Shame, →ISBN, page 16:
text: To Jaye this seemed a strange coupling, Dirk being a fun-loving, hard-drinking and irresponsible Liver Lad, and Liz a serious, sober and very responsible History student who gave Jaye the impression of being Dirk's Mum rather than his lover.
ref: 2012, Julian Corbell, Encounters with Strangers, →ISBN, page 19:
text: Recently we had recognized certain voices as we had given our routine passage, but now the voice was Northern Irish, replacing the lady from Liverpool. Our Liver girl had sounded quite sad when she advised us to let Belfast know when we arrived in Peel.
ref: 2014, Shane Spall, The Princess Matilda Comes Home, →ISBN, page 152:
glosses: From or pertaining to Liverpool.
Synonyms: Scouse
Liverpudlian
Related terms: liver bird
trolley busses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trolley bus
trolley buses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trolley bus
freedmanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From freedman + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: The third class of freedmanship (dedititia libertas) had long been obsolete when it was formally abolished by Justinian, A.D. 530, Cod. 7, 5.
ref: 1890, Edward Poste (tr.), Elements of Roman law, London, UK: Claredon Press, translation of original by Gaius, page 321:
text: 'Freedmanship' should not be reduced to an epiphenomenon of slavery, but be acknowledged as a relation of structural importance for the Italian economy.
ref: 2014, Koenraad Verboven, “The Freedman Economy of Roman Italy”, in Sinclair Bell, Teresa Ramsby, editors, Free At Last!: The Impact of Freed Slaves on the Roman Empire, page 88:
glosses: The condition of being a freedman.
Synonyms: emancipation
tai-pan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tai-pans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of taipan (“foreign businessman in China”).
tamborim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tamborims
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese tamborim.
Senses: glosses: A small, round Brazilian frame drum of Portuguese and African origin.
sports field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sports fields
Senses: glosses: A flat area of land where sports events are staged.
tycoonocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tycoon + -o- + -cracy.
Senses: examples: text: “Hong Kong's economic elites simply do not need further advantages,” he said [Martin Lee of The Democratic Party of Hong Kong], adding that the change would help turn Hong Kong into a “tycoonocracy.”
ref: 1997, Reuters News Service, “Party quits Hong Kong race”, Nov. 28 1997
text: He labels these unhealthy links between the government and unelected, quasi-hereditary business elite as “tycoonocracy”. Unfortunately, since the publication of this book in 2007, the phenomenon of “tycoonocracy” has become more conspicuous.
ref: 2011, Joseph Y. S. Chenga, Journal of Comparative Asian Development, “Goodstadt, Leo F. (2007). Profits, politics and panics — Hong Kong's banks and the making of a miracle economy, 1935–1985. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, xi, 315 pp.”, Volume 10, Issue 1, 2011, pages 186–196, DOI:10.1080/15339114.2011.578493
text: It is no coincidence that the city’s tycoonocracy is being blamed for both betrayals.
ref: 2014, The Times, “Home truths that are driving the Hong Kong protest”, Oct 7, 2014
glosses: Rule by tycoons, plutocracy.
Related terms: word: tycoonocrat
circumpolloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɜːkəmˈpəʊ.lɔɪd/
ipa: /ˌsɝ.kəmˈpoʊ.lɔɪd/
Etymology: From circum- + poll + -oid.
Senses: qualifier: describing pollen
glosses: shaped like a sphere with a thickened margin and concentric furrow
IXV
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Engineers are forging ahead with the final tests on ESA’s Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle, IXV, to check that it can withstand the demanding conditions from liftoff to separation from Vega.
ref: 2014 July 16, “ESA'S SPACEPLANE SET FOR FLIGHT”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name) (HTML), ESA, archived from the original on 13 Sep 2008:
topics: ESA
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Initialism of Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle, an experimental space vehicle of the European Space Administration.
grain beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grain beetles
Senses: examples: text: 1987, Gennadiĭ Alekseevich Zakladnoĭ, Vera Flegontovna Ratanova, Stored Grain Pests and Their Control, Oxonian Press, page 41,
For instance, the saw-toothed grain beetle is commonly found, and prefers to develop, in dry fruits and naturally, its occurrence is mainly limited to fruit growing regions. The rusty grain beetle prefers crushed grain and therefore, usually inhabits grain mills and is widely distributed.
text: Taylor's power law overestimated the variance for the flat grain beetle and squarenosed fungus beetle (Lathridius minutus [L.]), and underestimated the variance for foreign grain beetle, larger black flour beetle, rusty grain beetle, and hairy fungus beetle.
ref: 1995, Bhadriraju Subramanyam, David W. Hagstrum, “4: Sampling”, in Bhadriraju Subramanyam, David W. Hagstrum, editors, Integrated Management of Insects in Stored Products, page 159:
text: Adults (0.3 cm in length) of the sawtoothed grain beetle and the merchant grain beetle are very similar in appearance to each other but can be easily distinguished from other food pest insects by the six sawlike projections on each side of the prothorax.
ref: 2002, Linda Mason, “19: Insects and Mites”, in Y. H. Hui, L. Bernard Bruinsma, J. Richard Gorham, Wai-Kit Nip, Phillip S. Tong, Phil Ventresca, editors, Food Plant Sanitation, page 300:
glosses: Any of several beetles from the families Silvanidae and Laemophloeidae that infest grains and grain products.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Cryptolestes pusillus
word: flat grain beetle
taxonomic: Ahasverus advena
word: foreign grain beetle
taxonomic: Oryzaephilus mercator
word: merchant grain beetle
taxonomic: Cryptolestes ferrugineus
word: rusty grain beetle
taxonomic: Oryzaephilus surinamensis
word: saw-toothed grain beetle
alt: Cathartus quadricollis
word: square-necked grain beetle
Related terms: flour beetle
grain beetles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grain beetle
FFLO phase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the initials of the names of the physicist theoreticians who predicted this superconducting phase: Peter Fulde, Richard Ferrell, Anatoly Larkin, and Yuri Ovchinniko.
Senses: glosses: A type of superconducting phase, characterized by the presence of Cooper pairs with nonzero center-of-mass momentum and a spatially non-uniform superconducting order parameter.
Related terms: FFLO
FFLO state
FFLO
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: pertaining to FFLO phase
madlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of madling
voicer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voicers
Etymology: From voice (verb) + -er.
Senses: examples: a voicer of controversial opinions
glosses: One who voices something.
glosses: One who fits or regulates the pipes of an organ so as to produce the desired quality of sound.
voicer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voicers
Etymology: From voice (noun) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: This is a news report from the scene of the event. When a voicer and an actuality are combined into one complete story, it's known as a wrap.
ref: 2005, Alan R. Stephenson, David E. Reese, Mary E. Beadle, Broadcast Announcing Worktext, page 164:
text: These reports usually come in the form of voice reports, or voicers, and voice-actuality reports.
ref: 2015, Carl Hausman, Frank Messere, Philip Benoit, Modern Radio and Audio Production: Programming and Performance:
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
television
glosses: A spoken report to be broadcast.
voicers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voicer
Uriah Heepish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Uriah Heepish
form: most Uriah Heepish
Etymology: From Uriah Heep + -ish: From the Dickens character Uriah Heep, noted for his cloying humility, obsequiousness, and insincerity, the stereotypical yes man.
Senses: examples: text: Flunky opens the door, his face wreathed in a Uriah-Heepish smile of servility.
ref: 1897 August, Paul E. Jenks, “Coasting the Mediterranean Awheel”, in Outing, volume XXX, number 5, page 462:
text: I am never going to adopt the Uriah Heepish attitude toward trustees that characterized Mrs. Lippett's manners.
ref: 1915, Jean Webster, Dear Enemy, Grosset & Dunlap, page 77:
text: In the unlikely event that he read off-the-cuff, he couldn't have known that the clumsy schoolboy Widmerpool, at first so Uriah Heepish in his creepy false humility, "the embodiment of thankless labour and unsatisfied ambition," would turn out to be a monstrous and dangerous hypocrite.
ref: 2001, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Face to Face: A Reader in the World, Beacon Press, page 18:
text: Until now the friar had appeared to be a scheming, cowering, Uriah Heepish type, ashamed of his controversial sermon, terrified of its implications for his future, ready to be used anew by the papal legates, just as he had been used by the Pigeon League.
ref: 2005, James Reston, Jr., Galileo: A Life (Beard Books, 2005) p. 152
glosses: Exhibiting cloying, insincere obsequiousness.
wikipedia: Uriah Heep
Uriah Heepishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Uriah Heepish + -ness: From the Dickens character Uriah Heep, noted for his cloying humility, obsequiousness, and insincerity, the stereotypical yes man.
Senses: examples: text: To a man, the other candidates, imagining the College expected them to glorify Uriah Heepishness, proceeded on the old trite track to decry ambition as one of the devastating forces of humanity.
ref: 1887, Compton Reade, editor, Charles Reade, Dramatist, Novelist, Journalist: A Memoir Compiled Chiefly from His Literary Remains, volume 1, Chapman and Hall, page 122:
text: One must agree that the formulas they commend to Democratic politicians as a means of distancing themselves from student unrest and so on are crude; and the Uriah Heepishness of Hubert Humphrey's American Bar Association speech (apparently written by Wattenberg) was hardly attractive.
ref: 1970 December 7, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., “The City Politic: Scammon and Wattenberg vs. Lubell”, in New York Magazine, page 9:
text: Deceit, lying, putting things over on people, bringing people down without their knowing it, stabbing in the back, hitting and running, obsequiousness, underhandedness, stealing, Uriah Heepishness.
ref: 2014, Daphne Athas, Entering Ephesus, Open Road Media, page 187:
glosses: Fawning, cloying servility and obsequiousness.
wikipedia: Uriah Heep
Uriah Heepishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Uriah Heepishly
form: most Uriah Heepishly
Etymology: From Uriah Heepish + -ly: From the Dickens character Uriah Heep, noted for his cloying humility, obsequiousness, and insincerity, the stereotypical yes man.
Senses: examples: text: "I like to see you so ridiculous," he said ; " it just gives me the touch of superiority I need to keep me from becoming Uriah Heepishly 'umble ! "
ref: 1912, Margaret Westrup, Elizabeth in Retreat, John Lane, page 2:
text: 1995, Neal Gabler, "'Checkers' Lived Again - In Waldholtz's Act" (December 19, 1995) https://web.archive.org/web/20160304200726/http://articles.philly.com/1995-12-19/news/25670096_1_waldholtz-checkers-speech-pat-nixon
Where Nixon drew on class resentments - "I believe that it's fine that a man like Gov. (Adlai) Stevenson, who inherited a fortune from his father, can run for president," Nixon grumbled Uriah Heepishly in Checkers - Waldholtz drew on the staple of the daytime talk shows: gender resentment.
text: In this restaurant, as I was just tucking in, the owner came over and whispered Uriah Heepishly in my ear, 'I see we have a celebrity in tonight.'
ref: 2012, Stuart Maconie, Hope and Glory: A People’s History of Modern Britain, Random House, page 96:
text: It was noticeable that Mr Murdoch, happy to toy with the barrister like a cat with a baby mouse, kept sir-ring the judge Uriah Heepishly.
ref: 2012 April 26, Matthew Engel, “As sharp as a tack, Murdoch makes his points at Leveson press inquiry”, in Financial Times, page 1:
glosses: In a cloying, insincerely obsequious manner.
wikipedia: Uriah Heep
diglossically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more diglossically
form: most diglossically
Etymology: From diglossic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: Using diglossia.
computer viri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of computer virus
change aversion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Negative short-term reaction to changes in a product or service.
Ob-Ugric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a subgroup of languages in the Uralic language family, including Khanty and Mansi.
Meronyms: sense: subgroup of languages in the Uralic family
word: Khanty
sense: subgroup of languages in the Uralic family
word: Mansi
Ob-Ugric
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A subgroup of languages in the Uralic language family, including Khanty and Mansi.
floghera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Greek φλογέρα (flogéra). Doublet of fujara.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A Greek folk instrument of the end-blown flute family; a simple form of recorder.
valeta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: valetas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of veleta (“type of dance”).
hyperbolic tangents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperbolic tangent
hyperbolic functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperbolic function
sports fields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sports field
grade points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grade point
NoHo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnoʊhoʊ/
Forms: form: Noho
Etymology: Syllabic abbreviation of north of Houston, referring to a street in Manhattan.
Senses: glosses: A neighborhood of Manhattan, New York.
Related terms: Tribeca
TriBeCa
NoHo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnoʊhoʊ/
Forms: form: Noho
Etymology: Syllabic abbreviation of north Hollywood
* (Los Angeles): Syllabic abbreviation of North Hollywood.
* (Hong Kong): Syllabic abbreviation of north of Hollywood Road.
Senses: glosses: A neighborhood of the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California; in full, North Hollywood.
examples: text: Just a few minutes away from Hong Kong’s buzzing SoHo district is NoHo, its hipper, more laid-back younger cousin. Lying (as you might guess from its acronymic name) north of Hollywood Road, and occupying the length of Gough Street between Aberdeen and Shing Wong Streets, it was once mainly home to family-run shops and small printing presses. These days, though, NoHo is an enclave of independent boutiques and contemporary-art galleries, chichi cafés and old-school dai pai dong or cooked-food stalls. Here are 10 reasons to visit.
ref: 2009 November 26, Lara Day, “10 Reasons to Visit Hong Kong’s NoHo”, in Time, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Dec 2024:
text: Gough Street, in newly trendy NoHo, is now home to Ralph Lauren and other top brands.[…]
As part of the larger "NoHo" area, Gough Street has attracted tenants priced out of its larger neighbour SoHo. Once home to family-run stores and printers and now known locally for its casual Cantonese restaurants and art galleries, the Gough Street area's tenant mix was "internationalised" one or two years ago.
ref: 2014 September 30, Nick Bradstreet, “New retail districts a welcome trend but challenges remain”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Dec 2014, Property:
glosses: A neighbourhood of Central and Western district, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong; along Gough Street.
Related terms: SoHo
Noho
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of NoHo.
mag book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mag books
Etymology: From the shape and opening method of the container, similar to a codex (colloquially referred to as books), and being used to store and carry "mags".
Senses: topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A container used to store and carry ammunition clips.
Synonyms: magazine folder
magazine book
Hypernyms: magazine holder
magazine pack
Related terms: bandolier
ammo vest
mag book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mag books
form: mag-book
form: magbook
Etymology: Blend of magazine + book
Senses: glosses: A book in the format of a magazine.
Synonyms: bookazine
mook
Related terms: trade paperback
thundersome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθʌndəsəm/
ipa: /ˈθʌndɚsəm/
Forms: form: more thundersome
form: most thundersome
Etymology: From thunder + -some.
Senses: examples: text: It landed in the woods way back, and there was a thundersome noise as it exploded.
ref: 2014, C. Alexander London, Dog Tags #4: Divided We Fall:
glosses: Characterised or marked by thunder.
leafsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leafsome
form: most leafsome
Etymology: From leaf + -some.
Senses: glosses: Full of leaves, bearing leaves
wondersome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: note: rhotic
enpr: wŭn'dərsəm
ipa: /ˈwʌndəɹsəm/
note: rhotic
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈwʌndəsəm/
rhymes: -ʌndə(ɹ)səm
Forms: form: more wondersome
form: most wondersome
Etymology: From wonder + -some. Compare German wundersam (“miraculous, wondrous”).
Senses: glosses: Characterised or marked by wonder; wondrous; full of wonder.
firesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more firesome
form: most firesome
Etymology: From fire + -some.
Senses: glosses: Fiery; full of fire.
glosses: Dangerous like fire.
Laurentians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Laurentian Mountains, a mountain range in Quebec, Canada.
Laurentians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Laurentian
car body
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: car bodies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of auto body.
synonyms: word: auto body
examples: text: This was announced in October when details of a £4 million order for car bodies and bogies to complete the Central and Piccadilly Line's rolling stock renewal programmes with 619 more "1959 Stock" cars were made known.
ref: 1960 December, “Talking of Trains: Tube trains from Derby”, in Trains Illustrated, page 706:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The body of a rail vehicle called a car.
Heepish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Heepish
form: most Heepish
Etymology: From Heep + -ish: From the Dickens character Uriah Heep, a yes man noted for his cloying humility, obsequiousness, and insincerity.
Senses: examples: text: The London Times will, we presume, impugn the motives of the charity—call it Pecksniffian and Heep-ish—or possibly try to prove that the Federals had no hand in the good deed.
ref: 1863 Jan, “Editor's Table”, in The Continental Monthly, volume III, number 1, page 127:
text: The two functionaries were all oleaginous smiles and Heepish hand-wringing declaring their eagerness to be of service to such a fine and deserving young person.
ref: 2001, Nicholas Peel, The Lost Story, iUniverse, page 130:
text: Dalziel scratched his crotch reflectively, then replied in a fawning Heepish tone, “I'm sorry, Mrs Maciver, I know what you must be feeling, but it's not my decision. ..."
ref: 2004, Reginald Hill, Good Morning, Midnight, HarperCollins:
text: As an interviewer, i quickly grasped that the key was to ingratiate myself with the subject, to be admiring, even humble, but not Heepish.
ref: 2014, Siri Hustvedt, The Blazing World, Simon and Schuster, page 40:
glosses: Exhibiting cloying, insincere obsequiousness.
wikipedia: Uriah Heep
fiddley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fiddleys
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The iron framework round the deck opening that leads to the stokehole of a steamer, usually covered by a grating of iron bars.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The space below this framework.
fiddleys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fiddley
plain old telephone service
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A reinterpretation of the long-standing acronym POTS, originally standing for post office telephone system.
Senses: glosses: A traditional telephony system based on the analog transmission of sound, as opposed to newer alternatives like ISDN or VoIP.
Kobane
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkəˈbɒni/
Forms: form: Kobani
Etymology: From Northern Kurdish Kobanê, Kobanî, from German Kompanie (“military company”), from French compagnie. Cognate with English company.
Senses: glosses: A city in Kurdistan of Syria.
Synonyms: word: Ayn al-Arab
goodful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more goodful
form: most goodful
Etymology: From Middle English gōdful, equivalent to good + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Oh, all these are nothing else than God's glorious and goodful thoughts, embodied in beautiful and sublime forms, written radiantly on the blue of the sky or whispered musically in the voices of the universe.
ref: 1905, Charles Wadsworth, Sermons:
text: "You'll see. A goodful and righteous adventure.” “A noble quest,” Shane added. “For the acquisition of happiness,” Lucas said.
ref: 2011, J L Walters, Bloomingulch:
glosses: Full of good or goodness; good; excellent; worthy.
Synonyms: friendly
gracious
kind
rhythmicality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhythmicalities
Etymology: From rhythmical + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being rhythmical.
rhythmicalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhythmicality
arhythmicality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From arhythmical + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being arhythmical.
arhythmical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əˈɹɪðmɪk(ə)l/
/eɪˈɹɪðmɪk(ə)l/
Forms: form: more arhythmical
form: most arhythmical
Etymology: From a- + rhythmical.
Senses: examples: text: All the papers came as usual, in their long, arhythmical collapse onto the doormat, where they lay like a menace and were approached at last with long-armed reluctance.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 17, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
glosses: Arrhythmic, having no rhythm.
Derived terms: arhythmicality
rhythmicalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rhythmical + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: rhythmicality
glosses: The quality of being rhythmical.
restress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: restresses
form: restressing
form: restressed
form: restressed
Etymology: From re- + stress.
Senses: glosses: To stress again.
restresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of restress
restressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of restress
restressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of restress
stumpery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stumperies
Etymology: From stump + -ery.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: A garden feature similar to a rockery but made from parts of dead trees, especially stumps.
stumperies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stumpery
varizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of varize
good-minded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more good-minded
form: most good-minded
Senses: glosses: Disposed to or having one's mind set on good.
glosses: Amiable; well-meaning.
Derived terms: good-mindedness
Actium
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈæk.ti.əm/
Etymology: From Latin Actium, from Ancient Greek Ἄκτιον (Áktion).
Senses: glosses: A promontory in Acarnania in Ancient Greece where Mark Antony and Cleopatra were defeated by Octavian in a naval battle in 31 B.C.
goodlihood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From goodly + -hood, or as a modern assimilation of earlier goodlihead.
Senses: examples: text: Oh, could I see as then That figure of defiance, as he stood, Isled in a hush, in all his goodlihood, Superb, majestical, a man of men!
ref: 1910, Jay Broadus Hubbell, Franklin Plato Eller, John Carlton Eller:
text: Being now obscured, Soiled with the grime of chores, unbeautified, She shows true gold. The fire which trieth gold Denoteth less itself by instant heat Than Damayanti by her goodlihood. As first sight knew I her.
ref: 1985, Epphiphanus Wilson, The Great Classics of India:
glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being goodly; goodlihead; beauty; splendor.
innocent agent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: innocent agents
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A person who unknowingly, unintentionally, or under force or coercion commits a criminal act on behalf of another.
voluntary agent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voluntary agents
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A person (also called gestor) who acts on behalf of another (dominus), without the latter's prior consent. Such agency is called negotiorum gestio.
upglide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upglides
Etymology: From up + glide.
Senses: examples: text: Assuming that upglides signal tentativeness, interpersonal meaning and doubt, stereotypical belief would expect women to favour upglides rather than downglides.
ref: 2011, Britta Mondorf, Gender Differences in English Syntax, page 56:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: An upward glide.
Coordinate terms: downglide
downglide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downglides
Etymology: From down + glide.
Senses: examples: text: Assuming that upglides signal tentativeness, interpersonal meaning and doubt, stereotypical belief would expect women to favour upglides rather than downglides.
ref: 2011, Britta Mondorf, Gender Differences in English Syntax, page 56:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A downward glide.
Coordinate terms: upglide
downglides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downglide
Drunksville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: drunksville
Etymology: From drunk + -s- + -ville.
Senses: examples: text: "Hell we are!" She laughed, almost happily. "Where to?"
"A bar—a hotel room—a bed. Drunksville—and Sexville."
ref: 1967, Charles Nuetzel, Hollywood Nymph, Wildside Press, published 2007, →ISBN, page 46:
text: Max was in the express lane to Drunksville, there was no doubt about it, not anymore.
ref: 2008, Ben Thompson, Alarms, Madison, page 154:
text: Get something to eat: Drinking big beers on an empty gut is a fast ticket to Drunksville—and the food at beer fests is usually pretty good.
ref: 2010, Lew Bryson, Pennsylvania Breweries, Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 298:
glosses: A notional town representing the state of being intoxicated from alcohol.
drunksville
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Drunksville.