cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
revertent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈvɜː(ɹ)tənt/
Etymology: Borrowed from French revertent, from Latin revertor, equivalent to revert + -ent.
Senses: examples: text: As can be seen from the data for the control cultures, the variability in the numbers of revertent colonies observed in the absence of any specific mutant can be quite large.
ref: 1979, R. N. Dexter, S. P. Pavlou, Richard M. Kocan, Mutagenicity of Puget Sound Sediment Extracts, page 8:
text: The revertent virus may have escaped immune recognition in the animal in which it arose, but this virus was pathogenic in naive hosts.
ref: 1999, R. Ahmed, Irvin Chen, Persistent Viral Infections, page 337:
text: Histochemical staining using antibodies to N, C and rod domain epitopes of dystrophin usually show complete absence of the protein, except for occasional revertent fibres (there are fibres which label normally with antibodies to dystrophin; their origin is not understood; Fig. 20.2F).
ref: 2004, Maria Stokes, Physical Management in Neurological Rehabilitation, page 350:
text: The greater the stress, the greater the tendency to revert to occult practices and an earlier stage of intellectual development, and these revertent ideologies thereby compete for acceptance.
ref: 2009, Konrad Ventana, A Desperado's Daily Bread, page 82:
glosses: Having reverted to a previous (more basic or more natural) state.
revertent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈvɜː(ɹ)tənt/
Forms: form: revertents
Etymology: Borrowed from French revertent, from Latin revertor, equivalent to revert + -ent.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A remedy which restores the natural order of the inverted irritative motions in the animal system
examples: text: Dear Rowland, it must be your business and mine to experimentalize on the utility and practicability of a revertent to this disgusting disorder which now vexes and threatens death to the state.
ref: 1848, Thomas Hall, Rowland Bradshaw, page 295:
glosses: Any remedy that restores something to its desired natural state.
examples: text: A revertent having restored levels of ornithine decarboxylase has been reported () and is probably a second site revertent which compensates for ts4.
ref: 1982, Advances in Genetics- Volume 21, page 360:
text: In all cases where the original inactivating mutation disrupted a base pair in the putative secondary structure of the site, in the revertent, the opposing nucleotide in the base pair mutated to restore pairing.
ref: 1999, Progress in Nucleic Acid Research and Molecular Biology, page 44:
glosses: A mutation that reverts or undoes the effects of another mutation.
JPDA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: Java programming language
glosses: Initialism of Java Platform Debug Architecture.
Related terms: JDWP
RMI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RMIs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of Remote Method Invocation.
topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of Rights Management Information.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of radio magnetic indicator.
RMI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Abbreviation of Republic of the Marshall Islands.
topics: NASA
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Abbreviation of Remote Micro Imager.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Abbreviation of Rocky Mount Instruments.
RMIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RMI
JSWDKs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of JSWDK
JPDAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of JPDA
PLCCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PLCC
JSRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of JSR
WSDLs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of WSDL
JVMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of JVM
JSDKs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of JSDK
JDK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Java Development Kit.
Hypernyms: SDK
Coordinate terms: JRE
JDKs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of JDK
JNDI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: Java programming language
glosses: Initialism of Java Naming and Directory Interface.
IIOP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Internet inter-ORB protocol.
RMI-IIOP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of RMI over IIOP.
JNI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Java Native Interface.
Related terms: JNDI
saults
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sault
IIOPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of IIOP
RMI-IIOPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RMI-IIOP
JDBCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of JDBC
JNIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of JNI
JMX
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Java Management Extensions.
JNDIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of JNDI
JMXs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of JMX
AWT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AWTs
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
qualifier: power
glosses: Initialism of Airborne Wind Turbine.
AWT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Antony Worrall Thompson.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: Java programming language
glosses: Initialism of Abstract Window Toolkit.
topics: transport
glosses: Abbreviation of Armathwaite railway station.
AWTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of AWT
JREs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of JRE
SDKs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SDK
J2EE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of JavaEE.
J2SE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: J2SEs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Old abbreviation for JavaSE.
JavaME
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Java ME
Etymology: from Java + ME
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
hypernyms: Java
coordinate_terms: JavaEE
JavaSE
glosses: Acronym of Java Platform, Micro Edition.
JavaSE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Java SE
Etymology: from Java + SE
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
hypernyms: Java
coordinate_terms: JavaEE
JavaME
glosses: Acronym of Java Platform, Standard Edition.
JavaEE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Java EE
form: JEE
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
hypernyms: Java
coordinate_terms: JavaME
JavaSE
glosses: Abbreviation of Java Platform, Enterprise Edition.
J2SEs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of J2SE
J2MEs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of J2ME
MIDP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: Java programming language
glosses: Initialism of Mobile Information Device Profile: a specification published for the use of Java on embedded devices such as mobile phones and PDAs.
eure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eures
Senses: examples: text: 1630 December 20, Robert Nedham, knight viscount Killmorey, testament, quoted in 1800, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Accounts and Papers
[…] and other Stuff remaining in my House and Grounds at Shavington except the hangings and other Furniture which is now used in the Dining Chamber at Shavington aforesaid and except my best Silver Bason and Eure and my Seal of Arms and also all my Armour in my Armory at Shavington all which before excepted I give and devise unto my said Son Robert Nedham to remain to him […]
text: […] Altar-Services; and among others, one made of Chrystal; Candlesticks, Crevets, a Bason and Eure, and the Foot of a Chalice, all of Amber.
ref: 1701, A new Account of Italy ...; together with a particular description of Rome, Venice, ... and all the other remarkable cities, page 80:
text: After dinner, the Lord Maior and his Brethren in the behalfe of the Cittie and Cittizens of London, for testimonie of hearty welcome and their love, presented the Palsgrave with a very large bason and eure of silver richly guilded ...
ref: 1828(?), John Nichols, The Progresses, Processions, and Magnificent Festivities of King James the First: … from Original Manuscripts, page 467
glosses: Obsolete form of ewer.
scalpes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scalpe
scalpe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scalpes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of scalp.
scalpra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scalprum
secretarie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secretaries
Senses: examples: text: To the honorable Sir William; Cecill Knight, principall Secretarie to the Quenes most excellent Maiestie.
ref: 1570, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of secretary.
lead-out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lead-outs
form: leadout
Etymology: From lead + out.
Senses: examples: text: The lead - in rating is expected to be the greatest single predictor of a syndicated television program , with the leadout second
ref: 1992, Roger Alan Cooper, Syndication and the Structural Determinants of Television:
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: A program scheduled to follow another.
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The tactic where one cyclist goes ahead at high speed so that a following teammate (the sprinter) can benefit from the slipstream. See drafting.
examples: text: It's not always convenient for me to pick up the tone arm at the end of the record and the stylus continues to ride the leadout groove for a time.
ref: 1985, Stereo Review, volume 50, page 24:
glosses: The final part of the groove of a vinyl record, after the end of the recording.
glosses: A marker in the data stored on a compact disc, representing the end of a recording session.
lead-outs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lead-out.
septenarii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of septenarius
severum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: severums
Senses: glosses: The banded cichlid, Heros severus (previously Cichlasoma severum), a freshwater tropical fish of South America.
Potterverse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Potter + -verse. Named after fictional character Harry Potter, the main character of the original property created by J.K. Rowling.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: The setting of the Harry Potter series.
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The Harry Potter and related and spin-off media franchise. Officially, this is known as the "Wizarding World".
Related terms: HP
Potterhead
Christmas Days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Christmas Day
Japanese slipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Japanese slippers
Senses: glosses: A cocktail made from Midori, Cointreau, and lemon juice.
rusty nail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rusty nails
head_nr: 1
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: A cocktail made by mixing Drambuie and Scotch.
head_nr: 1
glosses: A has-been, a person whose fame or influence is rapidly declining.
whiskey sour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whiskey sours
Senses: hyponyms: Boston sour
glosses: A cocktail containing Bourbon whiskey, lemon juice and sugar.
pull factors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pull factor
cucs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuc
sylvae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sylva
sylvas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sylva
Aesops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aesop
command-line interpreter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: command-line interpreters
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer program that reads lines of text entered by a user and interprets them in the context of a given operating system or programming language.
Synonyms: CLI
command language interpreter
command line shell
Hypernyms: interpreter
semiarboreal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + arboreal.
Senses: examples: text: Its large toes protruded laterally as do those of the semiarboreal peoples of Borneo, the Philippines and other remote regions where low types still persist. The countenance might have been that of a cross between Pithecanthropus, the Java ape-man, and a daughter of the Piltdown race of prehistoric Sussex.
ref: 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of a creature, which sometimes dwells in trees.
land of plenty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lands of plenty
Senses: examples: text: "We haven't one chance for life in a hundred thousand if we don't find food and water upon Caprona. This water coming out of the cliff is not salt; but neither is it fit to drink, though each of us has drunk. It is fair to assume that inland the river is fed by pure streams, that there are fruits and herbs and game. Shall we lie out here and die of thirst and starvation with a land of plenty possibly only a few hundred yards away? We have the means for navigating a subterranean river. Are we too cowardly to utilize this means?"
ref: 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
glosses: A utopia that provides for all one's needs.
toolie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -uːli
Forms: form: toolies
Etymology: From tool + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: He and the geologist went to explore in the sandy Garcia pastures. The rig builder, toolie, and driller retired to the Colonel's porch to drink.
ref: 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 287:
qualifier: oil industry
glosses: A tool dresser.
examples: text: Perhaps you should go next year as a "toolie", and you'll get to see for yourself.
ref: 2003 November 30, RMG, “ACA: Schoolies week UNCUT!!”, in aus.tv (Usenet):
text: Maybe they were toolies!
ref: 2005 November 30, Kelpie, “Schoolies kids - stupidity”, in aus.tv (Usenet):
glosses: An adult reveller who deliberately travels to a destination where schoolies (senior students) congregate, often to solicit sex from them.
examples: text: Rise that heater, tap that mash
They don't come outside their flats
Decamp, decamp, aim this toolie at your hat
They piss us off on Snap, so we rise up and load them straps
ref: 2020 July 2, “Stop Check”, Td of TPL (lyrics):
qualifier: and possibly wider
glosses: A gun.
toolies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toolie
polyetheretherketone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyetherether ketone
form: polyether ether ketone
form: polyetherether-ketone
Etymology: From poly- + ether + ether + ketone.
Senses: glosses: A colorless organic polymer thermoplastic used in engineering applications.
Synonyms: word: PEEK
middle management
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The [wage] gap can also be attributed to . . . the difficulty they have had in penetrating the so-called glass ceiling, a bias barrier that keeps so many women from moving beyond middle management.
ref: 2001 June 24, Claudia Wallis, “Onward, Women!”, in Time:
topics: business
coordinate_terms: upper management
glosses: In a large organization, the group of managers or administrators who occupy positions in the company hierarchy which, generally, are above the level of front-line supervisors but below the level of vice-presidents.
Related terms: middle manager
entheses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enthesis
handegg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhændɛɡ/
rhymes: -ɛɡ
Forms: form: handeggs
form: hand-egg
Etymology: From hand + egg. The jocular implication is that the name football ought to denote using the foot to propel a ball-shaped [i.e. spherical] object, which is the usual case for soccer, as opposed to using the hand to propel an egg-shaped [i.e. spheroid] object.
Senses: examples: text: Football is certainly a misnomer, for the game is played not with the feet but with the hands, and the ball is not a ball but an egg. I propose that the game be played with the feet and with a ball, or else that it be called “hand-egg”.
ref: 1909 November 9, letter to the editor, in The New York Times
text: Yes, but would anyone show up for a game of handegg?
ref: 2002 June 8, p/g, “Why does Arafat still draw breath?”, in alt.music.rush (Usenet):
text: When I get there he was watching handegg. I’m not into that hand egg shit so we got into a heated argument on which was better.
ref: 2011 February 1, "FileServe FileSonic XXX" (username), "Innocent High - Jynx Maze XXX - 303 MB", worlds_sexiest_women
text: You're wrong, kids all around the world play football, it just takes a ball and a pair of sneakers, whereas handegg requires a full body armour.
ref: 2011 February 8, "RVG" (username), "french pride", in fr.soc.politique
glosses: Any of the sports that are called football but are played mainly with the hands and with a prolate spheroid ball; that is, American football and (less often) Canadian, Australian and rugby football (including league and union varieties).
glosses: The ball used to play such a game.
Derived terms: American handegg
vestibuled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vestibule + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: On the Ashford line 36 services operate daily ; of these six each way serve the halts, and are formed of one of two ex-L.B. & S.C. vestibuled two-coach push-and pull sets. [...] At Ore all the electric stock is cleaned and stabled, including eight vestibuled London sets stationed there.
ref: 1940 July, R. A. H. Weight, “Hastings—An Interesting Traffic Centre”, in Railway Magazine, pages 386, 388:
text: Following this line, I soon came upon a yellow, vestibuled car numbered 1852—of a plain, double-trucked type common from 1900 to 1910.
ref: 1941, Chapman Miske, The Thing in the Moonlight:
glosses: Having vestibules.
Derived terms: vestibuled train
hand-eggs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hændɛɡz/
rhymes: -ɛɡz
Senses: glosses: plural of hand-egg
handeggs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhændɛɡz/
rhymes: -ɛɡz
Senses: glosses: plural of handegg
Virgilian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Virgilian
form: most Virgilian
form: Vergilian
Etymology: From Virgil + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: This Virgilian diversion, together with the spectral thoughts incident to All Hallows’ Eve with its Witch-Sabbaths on the hills, produced in me last Monday night a Roman dream of such supernal clearness and vividness, and such titanic adumbrations of hidden horror, that I verily believe I shall some day employ it in fiction.
ref: 1927, H. P. Lovecraft, The Very Old Folk:
text: Through Mr. Burroughs, he met the other future luminaries of the Beat Generation and became, in the words of Mr. Burroughs's biographer, Ted Morgan, “a sort of Virgilian guide to the lower depths.”
ref: 1990 June 10, Jan Herman, quoting Ted Morgan, “The Beatnick's Beatnick”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Not a single extant Virgilian manuscript survives from the ninth century, despite the number of ninth-century manuscripts of Virgil's works and commentaries on his works.
ref: 2008, Jan M. Ziolkowski, Michael C. J. Putnam, The Virgilian tradition: the first fifteen hundred years, →ISBN, page 439:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Virgil (Roman writer)
gw
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: GW
Senses: glosses: Initialism of good work.
Synonyms: english: good job
translation: good job
word: gj
dehorter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dehorters
Etymology: From dehort + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who dehorts; a dissuader.
PITs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PIT
PIOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PIO
undent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undents
form: undenting
form: undented
form: undented
Etymology: From un- + dent.
Senses: examples: text: Can you undent the milk jug?
glosses: To remove a dent from.
undate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undate
form: most undate
Etymology: From Latin undātus.
Senses: glosses: undated; rising and falling in waves
undate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undates
Etymology: From un- + date.
Senses: examples: text: […] an undate, all you're really doing is hanging out with a new acquaintance for a few hours.
ref: 2000, Sherry Amatenstein, The Q and A Dating Book, page 6:
text: […] suggest an undate if he asks you out. Guys will normally welcome the idea […]
ref: 2005, Tammy Bennett, Guys, Dating, and Sex: The Girls' Guide to Relationships, page 91:
text: Why does this keep happening to me ? Did I do something to make him think it was a date? I had insisted that this meeting was not a date largely because of the numerous surprise 'undates' I'd found myself on in the past.
ref: 2023, Janina Scarlet, Unseen, Unheard, Undervalued:
glosses: A casual meeting arranged between two people that may resemble a date (romantic outing) but is not intended as one.
CLDC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CLDCs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Connected limited device configuration
qualifier: Medicine and psychology
glosses: Characteristic Differential Leucocyte Count
Related terms: CDC
CLDCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CLDC
CDCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CDC
verberate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: verberates
form: verberating
form: verberated
form: verberated
Etymology: From Latin verberatus, past participle of verberare (“to beat”), from verber (“a lash, a whip”).
Senses: examples: text: The sound […] rebounds again and verberates the skies.
ref: a. 1610, unknown author, The Mirror for Magistrates:
text: You shall be verberated, and reverberated, my exact piece of stolidity
ref: 1631, James Shirley, Love Tricks, act 3 scene 5:
text: Full well I heed the verberating chime,
Which comes like music on the ear to tell
It is the anticipated trysting time
ref: 1840, J. A. Simons, Meddlings with the Muse:
glosses: To hit; to beat; to strike
Related terms: reverberate
verberation
vestigate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vestigates
form: vestigating
form: vestigated
form: vestigated
Etymology: From Latin vestigatus, past participle of vestigare. See vestige.
Senses: examples: text: This attempt to vestigate these causes […] will not, perhaps, be deemed an unnecessary digression.
ref: 1813, George Gleig, The historical works of William Robertson, page 274:
glosses: To investigate.
draw away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: draws away
form: drawing away
form: drew away
form: drawn away
Senses: examples: text: She looked at me and then turned and glanced at my arm about her, and then she seemed quite suddenly to realize the scantiness of her apparel and drew away, covering her face with her palms and blushing furiously.
ref: 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter VIII, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
glosses: To move away.
examples: text: An almost 19th-century atmosphere has returned to Beetham since the M6 motorway drew away the traffic which used to roar along its main street.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd., page 53:
glosses: To lead away, or cause to move away, by luring.
Synonyms: shrink back
Mix
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, United States. From the surname.
Derived terms: Charles Mix County
sarcitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: By surface analysis, sarc- + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of myositis.
synonyms: word: myositis
Related terms: sarcosis
sarmentum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛntəm
Forms: form: sarmenta
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin sarmentum.
Senses: examples: text: Runner-bearing, viticulosæ. Throwing out runners, viticulæ, sarmenta, or flagella, which take root from space to space.
ref: 1821, Samuel Frederick Gray, “An Introduction to Botany”, in A Natural Arrangement of British Plants, With An Introduction to Botany, volume 1, page 42:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of sarment.
synonyms: word: sarment
Related terms: sarmentose
sarmenta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarmentum
cop the bun
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cops the bun
form: copping the bun
form: copped the bun
form: copped the bun
Senses: examples: text: But that which "cops the bun"
Is your sound crack about brave Jack,
"The Man behind the Gun!"
ref: 1894 June 2, Punch:
text: "Tell me," he demanded, "how to throw a man over my head and break his neck, for I am going to kill you, and I wish to know this thing before you die." Of all the ingenuous declarations I have ever heard, this one copped the proverbial bun.
ref: 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter IX, in The Land That Time Forgot:
glosses: To take the biscuit; to top everything else.
scrobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrobe
scrobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: skrōb
ipa: /skɹəʊb/
Forms: form: scrobes
Etymology: From Latin scrobis (“ditch, dike, trench”).
Senses: examples: text: Thence all the Rules for Cattel, their Admiſſures, their Caſtration, &c. at ſeveral times of the Moon; for the Ground, enjoining to dig their ſcrobes; for the Planting of Trees at the Full Moon; ſoiling their Grounds at the Decreaſes, to avoid Worms, &c. making the beds, the Seed plats, while the Moon is up; ſowing Seed, and planting Trees, at the Increaſe; covering Roots at the Full; gathering and Houſing of Corn, &c. at the Wane: Plin. XIX. 6. Garlick ſet for the abating of the Smell at the ſame time, treading the Wine-preſs while ſhe is under the Horizon.
ref: 1686, John Goad, Aſtro-Meteorologica, or Aphoriſm’s and Diſcourſes of the Bodies Cœleſtial, book I, chapter vi, § 4, page 17:
glosses: A trench.
examples: text: scrobe (skrōb), n. [< L. scrobis, a ditch, dike, trench. Hence ult. scrobicula, etc., and prob. ult. screw¹.] In entom.: (a) A groove in the side of the rostrum in which the scape or basal joint of the antenna is received, in the weevils or curculios. These scrobes may be directed straight forward, or upward or downward, and thus furnish characters much used in classifying such beetles. (b) A groove on the outer side of the mandible, more fully called mandibular scrobe.
ref: 1891, The Century Dictionary of the English Language, first edition, part XVIII: Ring–Sea-gull, page 5425/3, s.v. “scrobe, n.”:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A groove or pit in the outer anatomy of organisms, such as in the head capsule or along the outer side of the mandible of some insects, for the accommodation or protection of organs, e.g. the scapes of antennae.
Related terms: scrobicle
scrobicula
scrobicular
Scrobicularia
scrobiculariid
Scrobiculariidae
scrobicularioid
scrobiculate
scrobiculated
scrobicule
scrobiculous
scrobiculus
scrobiculus cordis
sectio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕk′shē-ō
ipa: /ˈsɛk.ʃiː.əʊ̯/
ipa: /ˈsɛk.ʃi.oʊ̯/
ipa: /ˈsek.ʃiː.əʉ̯/
ipa: /ˈsek.ʃiː.ɐʉ̯/
ipa: /ˈsɛk.ʃi.o/
ipa: /ˈsɛk.ʃiː.oː/
rhymes: -ɛkʃiːəʊ
Forms: form: sectiones
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin sectiō. Doublet of section.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A section or cutting; a subdivision or segment.
Derived terms: sectio alta
sectio cadaveris
sectio lateralis
sectiones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕk-shē-ō′nēz
ipa: /sɛk.ʃiːˈəʊ̯.niːz/
ipa: /sɛk.ʃiˈoʊ̯.niz/
ipa: /sek.ʃiːˈəʉ̯.niːz/
ipa: /sek.ʃiːˈɐʉ̯.niːz/
ipa: /sɛk.ʃiˈo.niz/
ipa: /sɛk.ʃiːˈoː.niːz/
rhymes: -əʊniːz
Senses: glosses: plural of sectio
sestertium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sestertia
Etymology: From Latin sēstertium.
Senses: glosses: A money of account equal to 1000 sestertii.
KVMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of KVM
MSAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MSA
JTWI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Java Technology for the Wireless Industry.
MMAPI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Mobile Media API.
MMAPIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MMAPI
diplococci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diplococcus
WMA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Wireless Messaging API.
WMA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WMAs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Windows Media Audio (file).
WMAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of WMA
everthang
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: /ˈɛvəɹˌθæŋ/
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of everything, representing Southern US English.
PBP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PBPs
Senses: topics: bacteriology
biology
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of penicillin-binding protein.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of personal basis profile (of JavaME).
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of picture-by-picture.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of play-by-play.
PBP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Paris–Brest–Paris, a long-distance cycling event.
PBPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PBP
middle manager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: middle managers
Senses: topics: business
glosses: In a large organization, a manager or administrator who occupies a position in the organizational hierarchy which is above the level of a front-line supervisor but below the level of a vice-president or similar senior manager.
Related terms: middle management
electropalatography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From electro- + palato- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: A technique used to monitor contacts between the tongue and hard palate, particularly during articulation and speech.
Derived terms: electropalatographic
first annual
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Being the first occurrence of an event that is scheduled or hoped to become annual.
glosses: Being the second occurrence of an annual event, that is, the first occurrence that is indeed annual.
Niger-Kordofanian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Coined in the 1960s, from the then-valid classification of this language family in the two sub-branches Niger-Congo and Kordofanian, which is today considered obsolete.
Senses: glosses: Niger-Congo
IDer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IDers
Etymology: From ID (“identify”) + -er (agent noun suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Thanks to this, even veteran identifier Wilks and her team sometimes look to the newbie ID-ers for help. “Usually, when I start [covering] a new show, I will check if there is a fashion Instagram first, either for the show, as a whole, or for a specific actor,” explains Wilks.
ref: 2021 August 23, Fawnia Soo Hoo, “Meet The Fashion-Obsessed Instagram Accounts Influencing TV”, in Refinery29:
text: Recently, I wrote an article for this website on the best dining chairs — a process that involved talking to vintage dealers, architects, and chair-book writers about their favorite designs. As a result, my chair Rolodex is now deep enough that I’ve become known as the Strategist’s resident seat-IDer, something I’ve found I can’t turn off even when I leave work.
ref: 2022 August 5, Erin Schwartz, “We ID’d (Almost) All of the Design Chairs in Westworld”, in The Strategist:
glosses: Someone who identifies; an identifier.
IDer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IDers
Etymology: From ID (“intelligent design”) + -er (“supporter”).
Senses: glosses: A proponent or supporter of intelligent design.
IDers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of IDer
stipites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stipes
nonrelativistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From non- + relativistically or nonrelativistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a nonrelativistic manner.
preplanetesimal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preplanetesimals
Etymology: From pre- + planetesimal.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A conglomeration of material that will form a planetesimal
preplanetesimals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preplanetesimal
pseudocumene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudocumenes
Etymology: From pseudo- + cumene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An isomer of cumene, 1,2,4-trimethylbenzene.
superluminous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: super-luminous
Etymology: From super- + luminous.
Senses: glosses: Of high luminosity
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Of high luminosity
Having a very high luminosity
Derived terms: superluminous spiral galaxy
Related terms: hyperluminous
luminous
subluminous
ultraluminous
super-Eddington
superlumic
superluminal
Cablegate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪbəlˌɡeɪt/
Etymology: From cable (“telegram”) + -gate. First appeared on the official WikiLeaks Twitter account.
Senses: examples: text: Distilled to its essence, it is by no means clear that the ‘Cablegate’ disclosures were intended to support freedom of information, transparency, probity in government, or defence of the public interest.
ref: 2013, Andrew F. Cooper, Jorge Heine, Ramesh Thakur, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy, OUP Oxford, →ISBN, page 464:
glosses: The leak of a large number of US embassy and consulate documents to the public on November 28 2010 by the website WikiLeaks, and the scandal surrounding the diplomatic spying revealed in these documents.
dickish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪkɪʃ/
Forms: form: more dickish
form: most dickish
Etymology: From dick + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: I get so annoyed with his dickish behavior.
text: AZG has fallen in my eyes into the same category as that of Clayton Cramer, Artemus Ward, and the various passing idiots. i will not answer his posts unless he insults me personally, as i think if we all ignore him he will go away. even if we DON'T all ignore him, i don't want to be responsible for keeping him around... (although it is sexist of me to think AZG is a him. some women are that dickish and stupid after all...)
ref: 1992 February 14, Ailsa Murphy, “Re: Sex & paganism (was Re: reply)”, in alt.pagan (Usenet), retrieved 04 Feb 2018, message-ID <MAINE.92045.093550IO81409>:
text: So basically, if any administrative person wanted to be dickish about it, they could take "diciplinary^([sic]) action" it they decided that the presence of a nude body was disruptive (which, unfortunatly,^([sic]) is normally the case).
ref: 1992 March 31, Michael Wellck, “Re: College Campus Nudity”, in rec.nude (Usenet), retrieved 04 Feb 2018, message-ID <darkstar.31711>:
glosses: Characteristic of a dick (a contemptible person); offensively unpleasant and vexatious.
Derived terms: dickishly
dickishness
everythin'
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of everything.
to hell with
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: "I don't want an elephant's soul, or any soul at all!" he said. For a few moments he sat despondently. Suddenly he jumped to his feet, with his eyes blazing and all the signs of intense cerebral excitement. "To hell with you and your souls!" he shouted. "Why do you plague me about souls? Haven't I got enough to worry, and pain, and distract me already, without thinking of souls!"
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, “Dr. Seward’s Diary”, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC, chapter XX, page 299:
text: Yes, it would be dangerous to get too carried away but right here, right now, to hell with anyone who insists it is time for restraint.
ref: 2018 July 3, Daniel Taylor, “England knock Colombia out of World Cup in last-16 penalty shootout”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2018:
glosses: Used to show displeasure or disregard toward the named person or thing.
tappings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tapping
undanced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + danced.
Senses: examples: text: These days Ms. Farrell runs a ballet company based at the Kennedy Center here, and though she has presented works by other choreographers, she is in the vanguard of restoring to the stage ballets by Balanchine that have long passed undanced.
ref: 2007 November 27, Alastair Macaulay, “Thanks to a Protge, Power in Rarely Seen Balanchine”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not danced
neuroanatomist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuroanatomists
Etymology: From neuro- + anatomist.
Senses: examples: text: Chet Sherwood, a neuroanatomist who studied with Dr. Holloway and is now based at George Washington University, said Dr. Holloway's penchant for getting into scientific arguments had not diminished.
ref: 2007 November 27, Michael Balter, “In Study of Brain Evolution, Zeal and Bitter Debate”, in New York Times:
glosses: An expert in neuroanatomy.
neuroanatomists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuroanatomist
send forth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sends forth
form: sending forth
form: sent forth
form: sent forth
Senses: examples: text: She shuddered and was silent, holding down her head on her husband's breast. When she raised it, his white nightrobe was stained with blood where her lips had touched, and where the thin open wound in the neck had sent forth drops.
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 21, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:
glosses: To emit; to produce; to let out
four-wheelers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of four-wheeler
equation division
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equation divisions
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The second of the two divisions of meiosis, a type of cell division.
South Slavic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A subgrouping of the Slavic language family spoken mainly in the former Yugoslavia (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia) and Bulgaria.
South Slavic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: of or relating to this language family or to the South Slavs.
Related terms: East Slavic
West Slavic
EVP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /iː viː ˈpiː/
Forms: form: EVPs
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Initialism of Executive Vice President.
examples: text: With 95% of staff in Avanade's most recent employee engagement survey saying they would be happy to refer a friend to the company, Tomison believes his firm's EVP is already on the right tracks.
ref: 2015 February 27, “Courting the cream of the crop: how to attract the best talent to your company”, in The Guardian:
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of Employee value proposition.
glosses: Initialism of electric vacuum pump.
examples: text: She is now one of the country's foremost EVP experts, having hosted over 400 consultations. Like all EVP practitioners, she usually hears faint, single words—never anything about where spirits are calling from, no guidance or warnings of any use other than proving life after death.
ref: 2005 January 4, “Shortcuts”, in The Guardian:
topics: parapsychology
pseudoscience
glosses: Initialism of Electronic voice phenomenon.
EVP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /iː viː ˈpiː/
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Estonian Left Party.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Evangelical People's Party of Switzerland.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Evangelical People's Party (Netherlands).
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Enhanced Virus Protection.
pagemeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From page + -meal.
Senses: examples: text: Had we any ground of suspicion to stand on, that it was written by a person we dislike, or that dislikes us, we surely need not say how pleasant it would be to tear it pagemeal, and fling it in the author's face.
ref: 1827, Blackwood's magazine, volume 21:
glosses: One page at a time; page by page.
basket-work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basket-works
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of basketwork.
basket work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basket works
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of basketwork.
safer sex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: safer-sex
Etymology: This term first appeared in print in the 1970s.
Senses: glosses: Sexual activity that minimizes the risk of spreading sexually transmitted disease, especially by the use of condoms.
Related terms: safe sex
Potterian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Potterian
form: most Potterian
Etymology: From Potter + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series of fantasy novels, depicting a secret society of people able to perform magic.
by way of
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: by the way of
Senses: examples: text: From Shakespeare to Milton by way of the English Bible, our language has been shaped by humanist ideas.
text: Intensity was more usually reached by way of the solemn than by way of the brilliant.
ref: 1878, Thomas Hardy, chapter 1, in The Return of the Native:
text: “I always go over the wall, by way of the plum tree,” said Matilda.
ref: 1914, Saki (pseudonym; H. H. Munro), “The Boar-Pig”, in Beasts and Super-Beasts:
text: In 1919, demobilisation specials from Purfleet, Essex, to the North, usually made up of nondescript, almost paintless or grey stock which had seen long wartime service, chalked with slogans, were worked through by way of Bromley and the North London line […].
ref: 1950 April, R. A. H. Weight, “They Passed by My Window”, in Railway Magazine, pages 258-259:
text: My name is Elle Woods, Boston by way of Bel Air.
ref: 2003, Kate Kondell (screenplay), Legally Blonde 2 (motion picture), spoken by Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon):
synonyms: through
via
glosses: By the route of.
examples: text: By way of apology, he tried to be gallant.
text: By way of qualification, I should point out that…
text: Thus much may serve by way of proem: / Proceed we therefore to our poem.
ref: 1731, Jonathan Swift, On the Death of Dr. Swift:
text: Why they hesitated I never could tell, unless they did it by way of a joke.
ref: 1849, Edgar Allan Poe, Hop-Frog:
text: By way of contrast there is an air of finality about the closure of the Welsh Highland Railway.
ref: 1949 November and December, “Notes and News: Festiniog and Welsh Highland Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 409:
text: “So what's new in the whiskey business?” one of the fat men finally says by way of welcome, […]
ref: 1968, Joan Didion, “On Keeping a Notebook”, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem:
text: Considerable work had to be done by way of repairs and replacement of bricks and woodwork (doors, floors, skirtings and panelling) where these were too far gone to be salvageable, including reprofiling to match originals.
ref: 2023 December 13, Robin Leleux, “Restored... and a richly deserved award: Cullybackey”, in RAIL, number 998, page 39:
glosses: For the purpose of; as a means of; as an instance of; as a type or form of.
examples: text: Thoreau, too, come to think of it, was, by way of being a prophet, a pioneer in this Emancipation of Man from Bothery.
ref: 1898, H. G. Wells, “The Trouble of Life”, in Certain Personal Matters, pages 16–17:
text: "From what you tell me, he's by way of being the brains of the family."
ref: 1921, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Springtime:
glosses: Possessing the characteristics, nature, or standing of; in the state or condition of.
raw_tags: followed by being
Derived terms: by way of example
Related terms: by dint of
by means of
in the way of
beway
upcome
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upcomes
form: upcoming
form: upcame
form: upcome
Etymology: From Middle English upcomen, from Old English ūpcuman (“to come up, arise”), from Proto-Germanic *upp (“up”), *kwemaną (“to come”), equivalent to up- + come. Cognate with West Frisian opkomme (“to arise, stand up”), Dutch opkomen (“to come up, ascend, occur”), German aufkommen (“to come up, arise, emerge”), Danish opkomme (“to arise, meet”), Icelandic uppkoma (“an outbreak, appearance, arising”).
Senses: glosses: To ascend, rise; grow up; come up.