cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ethnicness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ethnic + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Today the tendency is to go to the other extreme and to insist that minority groups maintain their separate identity. There seems to be no good reason why ethnics who wish to remain segregated should not be permitted that choice, but those who wish to lose their “ethnicness” and become full-fledged American citizens should be encouraged rather than blocked in doing so.
ref: 1951, Mary B[osworth] Treudley, “The Armenian’s View of the American Middle Class”, in Arnold M[arshall] Rose, editor, Race Prejudice and Discrimination: Readings in Intergroup Relations in the United States, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →OCLC, part III (Group Identification and the Minority Community), section C (Minority Adjustment), page 397:
text: The current vogue seems to be to "borrow" Bob Gibson songs. Abominations like BUDDY BETTER GET ON DOWN THE LINE, a re-write of the Pete Seeger: Pete Steele: Dave Macon versions, also don't help the group. It is now a railroad song and a sort of teenage love song -⁠- both! Now don't get me wrong, I like ethnicness as well as the next guy, but ...
ref: [1960], Bob Dahle, “STRING ALONG WITH THE KINGSTON TRIO (Capitol 1407)”, in Paul Nelson, Jon Pankake, editors, The Little Sandy Review, number 6, Minneapolis, Minn., →ISSN, page 10:
text: [Yakubu] Gowon, educated at Britain’s famed Sandhurst military academy, is an ardent devotee of British manners and decorum. He appears to have hit upon a magically effective combination of trendy African “ethnicness” and the Western personal style to which many educated Africans still aspire.
ref: 1975 June 15, Karen De Young, “[The Washington Post] Gowon’s Nigeria: So Rich It Hurts”, in AF Press Clips, volume X, number 25, Washington, D.C., published 24 June 1975, page 13, column 1:
glosses: The quality of being ethnic.
Truro Shoal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Truro Shoal
form: the Truro Shoal
Etymology: Named after the ship Truro.
Senses: examples: text: The March 1992 CIA map includes the Macclesfield Bank, the Truro Shoal and the Scarborough Reef as belonging in the Paracel Archipelago. As there are only Chinese claims to the Macclesfield Bank (and presumably to both the Truro Shoal and the Scarborough Reef), this debatable point appears to be overlooked by most scholars.
ref: 1994, Mark Albert Hoyt, Sino-Vietnamese interests collide in the South China Sea: A case study of the disputed Paracel and Spratly archipelagos, University of Hawaii, →OCLC, page 8:
text: On 19 November 2007, China created the district of Sansha which encompasses the Paracels (Xisha Qundao), the Spratlys (Nansha qundao) and Zhongsha qundao, a fictitious archipelago which gathers the submarine elevation of Macclesfield Bank, the submarine elevation of Truro shoal and Scarborough reef, and the waters these archipelagos are supposed to generate around them.
ref: 2015, Daniel Schaeffer, “The Legacy of the Nine-Dashed Line: Past, Present, and Future”, in The South China Sea: Challenges and Promises, Xlibris, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 107:
text: Marc remembered the impact as the Lynx collided with the whitecaps off Truro Shoal, the cold waters of the South China Sea filling the helicopters cockpit and battering him back against his seat.
ref: 2016, James Swallow, Nomad, Zaffre, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 253:
glosses: A shoal in the South China Sea.
Hurban
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hurbans
Etymology: Borrowed from Slovak Hurban.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Slovak.
Kohn anomaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kohn anomalies
Etymology: Named after Walter Kohn.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An anomaly in the dispersion relation of a phonon branch in a metal.
wikipedia: Walter Kohn
Kohn anomalies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kohn anomaly
Kondo effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kondo effects
Etymology: Named after Japanese theoretical physicist Jun Kondo.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The scattering of conduction electrons in a metal due to magnetic impurities, resulting in a characteristic change, that is, a minimum in electrical resistivity with temperature.
wikipedia: Jun Kondo
Kondo effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kondo effect
hinge-back tortoise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hinge-back tortoises
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hingeback.
synonyms: word: hingeback
less-known
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: lesser-known
little-known
glosses: comparative form of little-known: more little-known
littler-known
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: less-known
lesser-known
glosses: comparative form of little-known: more little-known
littlest-known
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: least-known
glosses: superlative form of little-known: most little-known
Gumi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 구미(龜尾) (Gumi).
Senses: examples: text: Yang Geong Cheol, a factory manager and a father of two in Gumi, an industrial city south of Seoul, paid for his older daughter’s late-night cram-school classes for six years, but she didn’t get into elite colleges. “It was a waste of money,” he said.
ref: 2011 April 3, Michael Alison Chandler, “S. Korea tries to wrest control from booming private tutoring industry”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Dec 2014, World:
text: A growing number of cities across South Korea are sponsoring blind-dating events like these for singles, desperate to prod young adults onto a track for marriage and family as the country has recorded the world’s lowest fertility rate for three years in a row.[…]
In Gumi, an industrial city in central South Korea, 13 couples who met through the events have gotten married since 2016.
ref: 2023 August 7, John Yoon, “Seeking Love, With Help From the City Government”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Aug 2023, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A city in North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.
late effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: late effects
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A condition that appears after the acute phase of an earlier, causal condition has run its course.
late effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of late effect
bilirubinaemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bilirubinemic.
Derived terms: hyperbilirubinaemic
Uijeongbu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: o͝oʹēʹjǔngʹbo͞oʹ
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 의정부(議政府) (Uijeongbu). Named for the State Council of Joseon.
Senses: examples: text: Also this month, prosecutors in Uijeongbu, north of Seoul, arrested a motorboat racer. The 36-year-old racer was charged with taking cash from a gambling broker in exchange for sending him cellphone text messages predicting the results of a coming race.
ref: 2012 February 21, Choe Sang-Hun, “South Korea Cracks Down on Match-Fixing Epidemic”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Feb 2012, Sports:
glosses: A city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.
wikipedia: State Council of Joseon
bilirubinemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, or suffering from, bilirubinemia
Derived terms: hypobilirubinemic
normobilirubinemic
wave aside
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: waves aside
form: waving aside
form: waved aside
form: waved aside
Senses: glosses: To dismiss something without paying much attention to it; to decide something is too unimportant or unnecessary to respond to
lead-lag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lead-lags
Senses: examples: text: Some of these studies, based on behavioural finance, state that the information diffusion process is relevant in the predictability of stock prices. The rate of reaction to news plays an important role in the lead-lag effect.
ref: 2017 July 26, María Isabel Cambóna, Maria Andreea Vaduva, “Lead-lag patterns in the Spanish and other European equity markets”, in The Spanish Review of Financial Economics, volume 15, number 2, →DOI, pages 63-77:
text: We utilize robust lead-lag indicators to uncover the origin of price discovery and we propose an econometric model exploiting that effect with level 1 data of limit order books (LOB).
ref: 2022 September 30, Cédric Poutré, Georges Dionne, Gabriel Yergeau, “The Profitability of Lead-Lag Arbitrage at High-Frequency”, in Social Science Research Network, →DOI:
text: Whereas industry lead-lag effects were stronger among small, thinly traded stocks with low analyst coverage, geographic lead-lags were unrelated to these proxies for investor scrutiny.
ref: 2023 January 17, Ana Monteiro, Nuno Silva, Helder Sebastião, “Industry return lead-lag relationships between the US and other major countries”, in Financial Innovation, volume 9, number 40, →DOI:
text: We realize that the lead-lag relationship is a "strategy-enhancer," but not a strategy in itself.
ref: 2023 December 11, Aarush Pratik Sheth, Jonah Riley Weinbaum, Kevin Javier Zvonarek, “A Decadal Analysis of the Lead-Lag Effect in the NYSE”, in ArXiv, →DOI:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A cross-correlation of one leading variable with the values of another lagging variable at later times.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: In helicopters, the movement of main rotor blades in the plane of rotation due to the inward and outward shifting of their centres of gravity as they flap up and down.
lead-lags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lead-lag
offer of proof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: offers of proof
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An attorney's explanation to a judge during trial to show why a question which has been objected to as immaterial or irrelevant will lead to evidence of value to proving the case of the lawyer's client.
Lenard effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lenard effects
Etymology: Named after Philipp Lenard who proposed the idea in 1892.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The separation of electric charges (and ionization) accompanying the aerodynamic breakup of water droplets.
wikipedia: Philipp Lenard
Lenard effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lenard effect
leveling effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leveling effects
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The limitations that a solvent imposes on the properties of acids and bases, so that solvent basicity limits the strength of a strong acid and solvent acidity limits the strength of a strong base; a solvent leveling.
leveling effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leveling effect
magneto-optic effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magneto-optic effects
Senses: topics: electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The property changes (i.e. polarization, spectrum, phase, intensity) in an electromagnetic wave when it propagates through a medium that has been altered by the presence of a quasistatic magnetic field.
magneto-optic effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magneto-optic effect
magneto-optic Kerr effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magneto-optic Kerr effects
Etymology: Named after John Kerr.
Senses: topics: electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A magneto-optic effect in which light is reflected from a magnetized surface and may change both polarization and reflected intensity.
wikipedia: John Kerr (physicist)
Related terms: word: Kerr effect
english: similar phenomenon where light is transmitted through a magnetic material, not reflected from.
translation: similar phenomenon where light is transmitted through a magnetic material, not reflected from.
word: Faraday effect
magneto-optic Kerr effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magneto-optic Kerr effect
Malter effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Malter effects
Etymology: Named after American physicist Louis Malter.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The establishment of a positive charge on the surface of a thin insulating layer due to the secondary emission of electrons following the exposure to ionizing radiation.
wikipedia: Louis Malter
Malter effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Malter effect
catch-dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catch-dogs
Senses: glosses: A hunting dog, especially in boar-hunting, trained to latch onto the quarry.
catball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: old cat (sport)
Massenerhebung effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Massenerhebung effects
Etymology: From German Massenerhebung + effect, from Massen (“masses”) + Erhebung (“elevation”).
Senses: glosses: A variation in the tree line based on mountain size and location.
Massenerhebung effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Massenerhebung effect
maternal effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maternal effects
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: A situation where the phenotype of an organism is determined not only by the environment it experiences and its genotype, but also by the environment and genotype of its mother.
maternal effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maternal effect
McCollough effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: McCollough effects
Etymology: Named after American psychologist Celeste McCollough who discovered the effect in 1965.
Senses: glosses: A phenomenon of human visual perception in which colorless gratings appear colored contingent on the orientation of the gratings.
wikipedia: Celeste McCollough
Derived terms: anti-McCollough effect
McCollough effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of McCollough effect
Mellanby effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after British pharmacologist Edward Mellanby, who first observed the phenomenon.
Senses: glosses: The phenomenon that the behavioral impairment due to alcohol is less at the same blood alcohol content, when the blood alcohol content is decreasing rather than when it is increasing.
memory effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: memory effects
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: lazy battery effect
glosses: The situation in which nickel-cadmium rechargeable batteries gradually lose their maximum energy capacity if they are repeatedly recharged after being only partially discharged.
memory effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of memory effect
mid-domain effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mid-domain effects
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The hypothesis that species richness tends to peak in the middle of a geographic range or habitat rather than at the extremes; an attempt to explain the observed pattern of latitudinal gradients in species diversity.
mid-domain effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mid-domain effect
Miller effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Miller effects
Etymology: Named after John Milton Miller who discovered the effect.
Senses: topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The increase in the equivalent input capacitance of an inverting voltage amplifier due to amplification of the effect of capacitance between the amplifier's input and output terminals.
wikipedia: John Milton Miller
Miller effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Miller effect
antiforgery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiforgery
form: most antiforgery
Etymology: From anti- + forgery.
Senses: glosses: Opposing or preventing forgery.
overcrowder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overcrowders
Etymology: From overcrowd + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who overcrowds.
overcrowders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overcrowder
technopessimism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: techno-pessimism
Etymology: From techno- + pessimism.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: cyberpessimism; technophobia, cyberphobia, computerphobia, Internetphobia
text: Lately I’ve been wrestling with techno-pessimism myself. At least once a day I throw aside my phone, disgusted with my reliance on it, rebellion that might last as long as 15 minutes before I go crawling back.
ref: 2024 February 17, Tom Lamont, “‘Humanity’s remaining timeline? It looks more like five years than 50’: meet the neo-luddites warning of an AI apocalypse”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
antonyms: techno-optimism#Noun
;
cyberoptimism#Noun
techno-utopianism#Noun
cyberutopianism#Noun
technophoria#Noun
technophilia#Noun
coordinate_terms: technodeterminism#Noun
techno-futurism#Noun
glosses: The belief that modern technology will have negative effects on society.
Related terms: technopessimist
technopessimist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technopessimists
form: techno-pessimist
Etymology: From techno- + pessimist.
Senses: examples: text: Where a techno-pessimist like Yudkowsky would have us address the biggest-picture threats conceivable[…] neo-luddites tend to focus on ground-level concerns. Employment, especially, because this is where technology enriched by AIs seems to be causing the most pain.
ref: 2024 February 17, Tom Lamont, “‘Humanity’s remaining timeline? It looks more like five years than 50’: meet the neo-luddites warning of an AI apocalypse”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: One who believes that modern technology will have negative effects on society.
technopessimists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technopessimist
corridor care
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
healthcare
glosses: The treatment of patients in spaces not intended for clinical purposes, such as corridors and waiting-rooms, as a result of overcrowding.
antiverse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /æntivɚs/
Forms: form: antiverses
form: anti-verse
Etymology: From anti- + -verse.
Senses: topics: astronomy
astrophysics
cosmology
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of antiuniverse (“a conjectured universe formed from antimatter”).
synonyms: word: antiuniverse
extra: a conjectured universe formed from antimatter
qualifier: relativity
glosses: A conjectured universe of negative gravity, where gravity repels. A region found on Penrose diagrams for rotating Kerr black holes, by passing through the singularity.
antiverses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiverse
avelut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Mourning.
Related terms: avel
avelim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of avel
star-cover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: star-covers
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
qualifier: Eastern Orthodoxy
glosses: Synonym of asterisk (“An instrument with radiating arms resembling a star which is placed over the diskos”).
synonyms: word: asterisk
extra: An instrument with radiating arms resembling a star which is placed over the diskos
Chap laps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The recreational practice of driving up and down Chapel Street in Melbourne.
star-covers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of star-cover
Hovagim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from ?
poasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of poast
poasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of poast
colza oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colza oils
Senses: glosses: Synonym of rapeseed oil.
synonyms: word: rapeseed oil
Miss Piggies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Miss Piggy
ballot candy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: And ballot candy doesn’t always work. Missouri voters soundly rejected a gas tax hike in 2018 despite it being sold as a way to increase funding for law enforcement.
ref: 2023 February 3, Jason Hancock, “‘Ballot candy?’ Missouri GOP adds citizen-only voting into initiative petition changes”, in Missouri Independent, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2023:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The pairing of a controversial proposal with a more popular one in a ballot measure to increase the measure's chances of being approved by voters.
asterisklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From asterisk + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an asterisk.
murder ballad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: murder ballads
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A subgenre of the traditional ballad form dealing with a crime or a gruesome death.
colza oils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colza oil
murder ballads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of murder ballad
DPAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DPA
red codling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: hoka
glosses: The morid fish Pseudophycis bachus.
recycle time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recycle times
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: Synonym of recycling time.
synonyms: word: recycling time
recycle times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recycle time
happen by
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: happens by
form: happening by
form: happened by
form: happened by
Senses: synonyms: happen upon
glosses: to come across, to chance upon, to find unexpectedly or accidentally
glosses: to show up unexpectedly or accidentally
Stern-Gerlach experiment
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Stern-Gerlach experiment
Etymology: After its conception by Otto Stern in 1921, the experiment was first successfully conducted with Walther Gerlach in early 1922.
Senses: qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: An experiment demonstrating that the spatial orientation of angular momentum is quantized, and thus an atomic-scale system has intrinsically quantum properties.
antilinearity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The property of being antilinear.
plasmaing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plasma
plasmaed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of plasma
disk owl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disk owls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of disc owl.
disc owl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disc owls
form: disk owl
Senses: glosses: Synonym of barn owl.
synonyms: word: barn owl
disk owls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disk owl
disc owls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disc owl
semilunar notch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semilunar notches
Senses: glosses: Synonym of trochlear notch.
synonyms: word: trochlear notch
sigmoid notch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sigmoid notches
Senses: glosses: Synonym of trochlear notch.
synonyms: word: trochlear notch
semilunar notches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semilunar notch
sigmoid notches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sigmoid notch
notch baby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: notch babies
Senses: glosses: A person born between 1917 and 1921 and as a result, as a retiree, received lower cost of living increases in social security than others after Congress readjusted such benefits in 1977.
notch babies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of notch baby
American coot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: American coots
Senses: synonyms: word: whitebill
glosses: A bird (Fulica americana) of North America.
American coots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of American coot
herbland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: herblands
Etymology: From herb + land.
Senses: examples: text: Herbland and shrubland structure classes were open herbland, closed herbland, open low-medium shrubland, closed low-medium shrubland, open tall shrub-land, and closed tall shrubland.
ref: 1999, Historical and current forest and range landscapes in the Interior Columbia River Basin and portions of the Klamath and Great Basins, page 55:
glosses: Land that is covered mostly with herbaceous flora.
herblands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herbland
spliceless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From splice + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a splice.
potty dances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potty dance
potty dances
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of potty dance
pee-pee dance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pee-pee dances
form: pee dance
Etymology: From pee-pee (“colloquial, usually childish: urine”) + dance, because the movements ostensibly resemble dance moves.
Senses: examples: text: From then on, desperate attempts at humor come from things like Bobby doing "the pee-pee dance" (in a sympathetic trance with someore's full bladder), or diagnosing a cardinal's hemorrhoids, or running around in his underwear in church.
ref: 1989 November 22, Jim Emerson, “No Kidding: The Spirit Simply Doesn't Move 'Second Sight'”, in The Charlotte Observer (Film review), Movies (section), page 12:
text: By now I had to go so bad I was doing the pee-pee dance. Imagine standing with your legs pressed together very tightly, both hands opening and closing in front of your pants. The expression on your face is of a very frightened and panic stricken person. You are also jumping up and down... pacing around in circles, looking for the place of relief.
ref: 2007, Lawrence J. Clark, The War Within, Tate Publishing & Enterprises, →ISBN, page 26:
text: The mother waited patiently while the boy played with Lego. She turned the camera on and recorded quiet play and then the transition to motor activity in the legs. Mom asked her son to go to the bathroom when she saw the pee-pee dance.
ref: 2022, Lane M. Robson, How to Manage Day and Night Wetting in Children, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 45:
glosses: Synonym of potty dance (“voluntary or involuntary movements resulting from attempting to avoid urination when one's bladder is full, typically by crossing one's legs, hopping, twitching, or holding one's crotch”).
synonyms: word: potty dance
extra: voluntary or involuntary movements resulting from attempting to avoid urination when one's bladder is full, typically by crossing one's legs, hopping, twitching, or holding one's crotch
pee-pee dance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pee-pee dances
form: pee-pee dancing
form: pee-pee danced
form: pee-pee danced
form: pee dance
Etymology: From pee-pee (“colloquial, usually childish: urine”) + dance, because the movements ostensibly resemble dance moves.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of potty dance (“to move in this manner; to perform the potty dance.”).
synonyms: word: potty dance
extra: (“to move in this manner; to perform the potty dance.”).
pee-pee dances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pee-pee dance
pee-pee dances
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pee-pee dance
potty danced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of potty dance
potty dancing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of potty dance
pee-pee danced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pee-pee dance
pee-pee dancing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pee-pee dance
passive-dependent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From passive + dependent. First use appears c. 1949 in the publication Pyschological Problems in Mental Deficiency.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Of a personality, characterized by both passiveness, a lack of self-reliance, and emotional overdependence on others.
nuzzleth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nuzzle
post-traumatic stress syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of post-traumatic stress disorder.
synonyms: word: post-traumatic stress disorder
Bletsoe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Bedford borough, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL0258).
swaa
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: swaaa
form: shwaa
form: shwaaa
Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Borrowed from Korean 솨아 (swaa).
Senses: glosses: The sound of rushing water.
accretively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more accretively
form: most accretively
Etymology: From accretive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: That is to say , books on science and mathematics would naturally be propagated accretively, with the addition of numerous anonymous updates, though no one maintained a revision history.
ref: 2007, C. K. Raju, Cultural Foundations of Mathematics, page 45:
glosses: In an accretive manner.
Mohring effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mohring effects
Etymology: Named after economist Herbert Mohring who identified the effect in 1972.
Senses: topics: transport
glosses: The observation that, if the frequency of a transit service (e.g., buses per hour) increases with demand, then a rise in demand shortens the waiting time of passengers at stops and stations.
wikipedia: Herbert Mohring
Mohring effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mohring effect
name-letter effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: name-letter effects
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The tendency of people to prefer the letters in their name over other letters in the alphabet.
name-letter effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of name-letter effect
Okorokov effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Okorokov effects
Etymology: Named after V. Okorokov who predicted the effect in 1965.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The phenomenon in which heavy ions move in crystals under channeling conditions.
Okorokov effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Okorokov effect
Pasteur effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pasteur effects
Etymology: Named after Louis Pasteur who first described the effect in 1857.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The phenomenon in which the cellular presence of oxygen causes in cells a decrease in the rate of glycolysis and also a suppression of lactate accumulation.
wikipedia: Louis Pasteur
Pasteur effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pasteur effect
holoancestrula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holoancestrulas
Etymology: From holo- + ancestrula.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: An unarticulated ancestrula.
Serebrianka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /sɛɹɛbˈɹankə/
/sɛɹɛbˈɹaŋkə/
Etymology: From Ukrainian Серебря́нка (Serebrjánka). Compare Serebryanka and Syerabranka.
Senses: examples: text: South of the Siverskyi Donets, we have the Ukrainians operating in Serebrianka. We have that geolocated here… that the Ukrainians were in the western part; this is in the northwestern part of the town, in this area here. Recently, we had the Russians operating in this, but this definitely confirms that the Russian control over the town of Serebrianka is not consolidated yet.
ref: 2025 September 6th, Torsten Heinrich, “New Mig-29 for Ukraine! Germany to Train and Equip 4 Mech. Brigades!”, in Military & History, via YouTube, 5:11–5:35:
synonyms: Sriblianka
glosses: A village in Siversk urban hromada, Bakhmut Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1753.
synonyms: word: Munus
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glosses: A village, de jure a part of Perekop Raion, de facto a part of Rozdolne Raion, in Crimea, Ukraine, occupied by Russian forces since 2014.
Sriblianka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ukrainian Сріблянка (Sribljanka).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Serebrianka (“village in Siversk, Bakhmut, Donetsk, Ukraine”).
synonyms: word: Serebrianka
extra: village in Siversk, Bakhmut, Donetsk, Ukraine
Peltzman effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Peltzman effects
Etymology: Named after professor Sam Peltzman.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The reduction of predicted benefit from regulations that intend to increase safety.
wikipedia: Sam Peltzman
Peltzman effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Peltzman effect
Petkau effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Abram Petkau.
Senses: glosses: An early counterexample to linear-effect assumptions usually made about radiation exposure.
Pigou effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pigou effects
Etymology: Coined by American economist Don Patinkin in 1948 after English economist Arthur Cecil Pigou.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The stimulation of output and employment caused by increasing consumption due to a rise in real balances of wealth, particularly during deflation.
wikipedia: Arthur Cecil Pigou
Pigou effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pigou effect
Munus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Either from Russian and Ukrainian Мунус (Munus) or directly from their etymon, Crimean Tatar Munus.
Senses: glosses: Former name, until 1944, of Serebrianka (“village in Perekop [𝘥𝘦 𝘫𝘶𝘳𝘦] or Rozdolne [𝘥𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘰], Crimea, Ukraine”).
Pioneer anomaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pioneer anomalies
Etymology: Named after NASA space probes Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11.
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The observed deviation from predicted accelerations of the Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 spacecraft after they passed about 20 astronomical units on their trajectories out of the Solar System.
wikipedia: Pioneer 10
Pioneer 11
pratfall effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pratfall effects
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The tendency for interpersonal appeal to change after an individual makes a mistake, depending on the individual's perceived competence.
pratfall effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pratfall effect
precedence effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precedence effects
Senses: qualifier: acoustics
glosses: A binaural psychoacoustical effect concerning sound reflection and the perception of echoes.
precedence effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of precedence effect
Proteus effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Proteus effects
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
psychology
sciences
video-games
glosses: A phenomenon in which the behavior of an individual, within virtual worlds, is changed by the characteristics of their avatar.
Proteus effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Proteus effect
quantum Zeno effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Zeno of Elea, in analogy to Zeno's arrow paradox.
Senses: qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: A feature of quantum-mechanical systems allowing a particle's time evolution to be slowed down by measuring it frequently enough with respect to some chosen measurement setting.
wikipedia: Zeno of Elea
EBF
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: E.B.F.
Etymology: Initialism of exclusively breastfed or exclusive breastfeeding.
Senses: glosses: Of an infant, exclusively fed with breast milk (instead of formula).
EBF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: E.B.F.
Etymology: Initialism of exclusively breastfed or exclusive breastfeeding.
Senses: glosses: Exclusive breastfeeding.
EBF
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: EBFs
form: EBFing
form: EBFed
form: EBFed
form: E.B.F.
Etymology: Initialism of exclusively breastfed or exclusive breastfeeding.
Senses: glosses: To be exclusively breastfed.
Coordinate terms: PBF
Lemegeton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Lemegeton
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Lemegeton, of unknown further origin and meaning.
Senses: examples: text: This Spirit is said to be under the rule of Bael, and to be of a mixed nature, partly good and partly evil, like the spirits of Theurgia-Goetia which follow in the second book of the Lemegeton.
ref: 1916, L. W. de Laurence, The Lesser Key of Solomon, Goetia, De Laurence, Scott & Co., →OCLC, page 55:
text: Another grimoire attributed to Solomon is the Lemegeton, or Lesser Key of Solomon. The origin and meaning of Lemegeton is not known.
ref: 2006, Rosemary Ellen Guiley, The Encyclopedia of Magic and Alchemy, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 123:
glosses: The Lesser Key of Solomon, a notable grimoire compiled in the mid-17th century.
EBFing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of EBF
EBFed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of EBF
EBFs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of EBF
PBF
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Initialism of partially breastfed or partial breastfeeding; by analogy with EBF.
Senses: glosses: Of an infant, fed with both breast milk and formula.
PBF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Initialism of partially breastfed or partial breastfeeding; by analogy with EBF.
Senses: glosses: Partial breastfeeding.
PBF
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: PBFs
form: PBFing
form: PBFed
form: PBFed
Etymology: Initialism of partially breastfed or partial breastfeeding; by analogy with EBF.
Senses: glosses: Of an infant, to be fed with both breast milk and formula.
Coordinate terms: EBF
Ramsauer-Townsend effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ramsauer-Townsend effects
Etymology: Named after Carl Ramsauer and John Sealy Townsend.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A physical phenomenon involving the scattering of low-energy electrons by atoms of a noble gas.
wikipedia: Carl Ramsauer
John Sealy Townsend
Ramsauer-Townsend effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ramsauer-Townsend effect
mediatability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mediate + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being mediatable
ratchet effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ratchet effects
Senses: glosses: An instance of the restrained ability of human processes to be reversed once a specific thing has happened.
ratchet effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ratchet effect
Ringelmann effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after French agricultural engineer Maximilien Ringelmann who discovered the effect.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The tendency for individual members of a group to become increasingly less productive as the size of their group increases.
wikipedia: Maximilien Ringelmann
Pan-Abrahamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pan-Abrahamic
Etymology: From pan- + Abrahamic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to all Abrahamic religions.
pan-Abrahamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pan-Abrahamic.
lifted up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lift up
lifting up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lift up
lifts up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lift up
R-bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: R-bombs
form: r-bomb
form: R bomb
Etymology: Abbreviations.
Senses: examples: text: The thirty minutes between her dropping the R-bomb [i.e., reproduction] and the bell for the end of the lesson dragged by with glacial slowness. She might as well not have been there, she felt, for all the attention that was paid.
ref: 2009, Alex Coleman, Little Black Everything, Baldoyle; Dublin: Poolbeg, →ISBN, page 123:
text: When White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel said a group of liberal activists were "fucking retarded," he was roundly condemned for dropping an R-bomb that way.
ref: 2010, Ralph Keyes, Euphemania: Our Love Affair with Euphemisms, New York: Little, Brown and Company, page 212:
text: Cancer, John Mayer and "Please Don't Call Me Racist": Diffusing the R-Bomb
ref: 2010 April 17, Molly Secours, “(article title)”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 30 Nov 2023:
text: Of course, one is in a state of constant improvement. A state of Racist Rehab, if you will. When things get messy on Facebook, and a bunch of us racists start dropping R-bombs on each other, I like to take the moral high ground and say, "I know. I'm also a racist, but I'm in recovery." In fact, it's hard to be anything else, having been raised in a country where race is the currency of any kind of success, where the class oppression common worldwide is so closely grafted to skin colour.
ref: 2013, Hagen Engler, Marrying Black Girls for Guys Who Aren't Black, Johannesburg: MFBooks Joburg, →ISBN, page 19:
text: Yep, just to reinforce the point, she'd dropped the R-bomb. Anyone who was a child during the 1970s understands the knee-jerk horror created by the mere mention of rabies.
ref: 2015, Sue Perkins, Spectacles: A Memoir, London: Michael Joseph, →ISBN, page 42:
glosses: Any of various shocking or offensive words starting with the letter R.
Related terms: f-bomb
n-bomb
r-word
R-bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of R-bomb
R-bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of R-bomb
self-injurious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-injurious
form: most self-injurious
Etymology: From self- + injurious.
Senses: examples: text: We are also perpetual stimmers: displaying or masking our stims, engaging in self-injurious or artistic stims, creatively expressing ourselves, or responding to trauma or stim suppression.
ref: 2021, Erin Felepchuk, “Stimming, Improvisation, and COVID-19: (Re)negotiating Autistic Sensory Regulation During a Pandemic”, in Disability Studies Quarterly, volume 41, number 3:
glosses: Causing injury or harm to oneself.
Derived terms: SIB
R-bombing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: However, being the victim of R-bombing may occasionally lead to obsessive behaviour, warns Preece, i.e. repeatedly checking to see if that person has been online or active on other forms of social media.
ref: 2018 May 24, Olivia Petter, “R-bombing: The new dating trend you may have already experienced”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Oct 2023:
text: The best way to deal with R-bombing, in our humble opinion, is to remain chill.
ref: 2018 May 26, Ellen Scott, “R-bombing is the new dating term you've likely already put up with”, in Metro, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Nov 2022:
text: Months later when I bumped into her it turned out that she had swapped phones with her husband who isn't the best at passing on messages. So while R-bombing is a crap way to end a relationship, it's not always what it seems.
ref: 2018 July 31, Cat Rodie, “You're definitely a victim of R-bombing and you don't even know it”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Apr 2023:
text: There's no excuse for r-bombing!
ref: 2020 November 23, @ATFTCPodcast, Twitter, archived from the original on 16 May 2024:
glosses: The act of leaving someone's text message on read without replying.
R-bombing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of R-bomb
R-bombed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of R-bomb
Hepzibah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Thither the bees came, however, and plunged into the squash-blossoms, as if there were no other squash-vines within a long day’s flight, or as if the soil of Hepzibah’s garden gave its productions just the very quality which these laborious little wizards wanted, in order to impart the Hymettus odor to their whole hive of New England honey.
ref: 1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Pyncheon-garden”, in The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 160:
glosses: A female given name, variant of Hephzibah.
balaneion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balaneia
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βᾰλᾰνεῖον (bălăneîon). Doublet of bagnio, bain, and banya.
Senses: examples: text: But these balaneia had nothing to do with the gymnasia, and are indeed sharply contrasted with them. To frequent them was considered, at all events among old-fashioned folk, to be a sign of effeminacy. Aristophanes bitterly complains that the effect of the new-fashioned education was to empty the wrestling schools and fill the balaneia, and Plato considers hot baths only suitable for the old and feeble.
ref: 1910, E[dward] Norman Gardiner, “The Gymnasium and the Palaestra”, in Greek Athletic Sports and Festivals, London: Macmillan and Co., […], pages 479–480:
text: The reason that there were originally no publicly owned balaneia in Greece was presumably, again, that they were not really approved of, and that they stole some of the popularity from the gymnasium. But in the Hellenistic period, after the balaneion institution had been accepted as a service provided by the community, it was gradually placed more and more centrally in the town.
ref: 1990, Inge Nielsen, translated by Peter Crabb, “[The development of baths in Italy] Balaneion”, in Thermae et Balnea: The Architecture and Cultural History of Roman Public Baths, volume I (Text), Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, →ISBN, page 7, columns 1–2:
text: Individual hip-baths and tholoi are supplanted by communal immersion tubs or pools that can also be found at balaneia such as Megara Hyblaea, although these communal pools do not appear to be the focal point of Greek style bathing.
ref: 2019 December, Allison Smith, “Colonial Waters: An Examination of Bathing Culture in Mid-Republican Colonies”, in Andrea U. De Giorgi, editor, Cosa and the Colonial Landscape of Republican Italy (Third and Second Centuries BCE), Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 207:
glosses: An ancient Greek bathhouse.
balaneia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balaneion