cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
exponential decay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exponential decays
Senses: examples: text: The service value of the capital stock, i.e. the product of its price and quantity component, is decomposed into a depreciation component and an interest component, similar to the decomposition which holds under exponential decay.
ref: 2017, E. Biørn, Taxation, Technology, and the User Cost of Capital, →ISBN, page 239:
glosses: A decrease where the rate of decrease is proportional to the amount remaining.
extrathecal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + thecal.
Senses: examples: text: Antimyelin antibodies are produced in an extrathecal site, as occurs in Sydenham's chorea.
ref: 2015, Yehuda Shoenfeld, Nancy Agmon-Levin, Noel R Rose, Infection and Autoimmunity, →ISBN, page 507:
text: These clinical and imaging features are highly suggestive of CSF leak in a patient with SIH syndrome, but more definitive diagnosis is achieved with demonstration of extrathecal CSF collections on spinal imaging (Fig. 10.13).
ref: 2016, Neuroimaging, →ISBN, page 203:
text: Numerous extrathecal developments have been recognized in graptolites, and are here discussed in relation to their position on the colony and the precise development.
ref: 2017, Jörg Maletz -, Graptolite Paleobiology, →ISBN, page 45:
glosses: Located outside of the theca (any sense).
non-capitalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-capitalist
aahings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aahing
oohings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oohing
PGFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PGF
PGMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PGM
exultatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more exultatingly
form: most exultatingly
Etymology: From exultating + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: This was more than Jac's overwrought nerves could stand, and but for Douglass she would have fallen. “My wife, my wife,” exultatingly cried Klauer, gazing upon the fainting girl in the young man's arms.
ref: 1898, Hortense Gardner Gregg, Jac and Gill, Or, A Sister's Fidelity: A Novel, page 70:
text: Passionate Love for Indian Music Khusrau had a great admiration for Indian music also, and exultatingly claimed that no music of any other country could surpass it.
ref: 1975, Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī, Amir Khusrau: Memorial Volume, page 136:
text: O! Yes; I was wholeheartedly prepared to remarry an infinite times; but only with the profoundly intoxicating enigma; of my limitlessly enthusing wife; once again, O! Yes; I was wholeheartedly prepared to remarry an infinite times; but only with the exultatingly marvelous fragrance; of my gloriously mysterious wife;
ref: 2016, Nikhil Parekh, You die; I die - Love Poems:
glosses: In an exultating manner.
exultates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of exultate
exultated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of exultate
exultating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of exultate
exultating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exultating
form: most exultating
Senses: examples: text: ...certain it is, their laudable curiosity once gratified, they were led still further to pursue their speculations, and still remained unsatisified till they had heard the naive exclamations, and witnessed the animated features under every variety of expression, from wonder and admiration, to exultating satisfaction in the dawning consciousness of power — a dawn that promised speedy progression to broad daylight, with the wild Irish girl, in all points connected with the influence of her charms.
ref: 1845, The ruling passions - Volume 3, page 308:
text: The apostle looked forward to a meeting with the righteous Judge with exultating expectation, as being worthy, in the gospel sense.
ref: 1850, The Pulpit of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church:
text: And on the walls, strange paintings, of an exultating colouring, of paradoxical lines, since they showed freshness and an indefinable antiquity.
ref: 2000, Carlos del Pulgar Sabín, Artists Painters: Regionalism III, page 256:
glosses: Extremely happy; rapturous.
Derived terms: exultatingly
exagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exagons
Senses: examples: text: In the exagon, an equilateral triangle is made upon each of the sides. The octagon may be traced in the same manner as the exagon ; that is, by making an equilateral triangle upon each side : but as this construction is difficult in the practice, the author gives the following: find the square one ABCD as before; divide each of the sides AE, DE, into 3 = parts, and make upon the distance between the points of the division G, H, next to the point E, an equilateral triangle, which forms the angle GLH.
ref: 1773, Louis-André de La Mamie Clairac, The field engineer of M. le Chevalier de Clairac, page 25:
text: Around this facet G looks like an exagon (diagram 1).
ref: 1988, Joan S. Birman, Anatoly Libgober, Braids, page 681:
text: The hypotetical structure we consider is a two dimensional one, and is built up of exagons,
ref: 1997, Massimiliano Giona, Giuseppe Biardi, Fractals and Chaos in Chemical Engineering, →ISBN:
glosses: A six-sided figure; hexagon.
hale and hardy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hale and hardy
form: most hale and hardy
Senses: examples: text: He is a hale and hardy gentleman of eighty-eight years of age.
ref: 1884, Henry Perry Smith, History of the City of Buffalo and Erie County, page 392:
glosses: Alternative form of hale and hearty, in a state of robust good health.
gesturalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gestural + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: This graffiti is especially useful for introducing us to the gesturalness of signs and language because it is the full unification of the expressive gesture of the embodied writer and the impersonal verbal meaning of the terms used.
ref: 2012, B. Mallin, Art Line Thought:
glosses: The quality of being gestural.
viola pomposa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: viola pomposas
Etymology: From Italian viola pomposa.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An 18th-century five-stringed form of viola
Mokry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mokrys
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Mokry.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
pitpit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Tok Pisin pitpit.
Senses: glosses: Saccharum edule, a species of sugarcane.
Momot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Momots
Etymology: From Ukrainian Момот (Momot) or Polish Momot.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Ukrainian.
nervules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nervule
make haste slowly
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes haste slowly
form: making haste slowly
form: made haste slowly
form: made haste slowly
Senses: glosses: To do things in a deliberate manner to reduce mistakes.
Related terms: go nowhere fast
more haste, less speed
haste makes waste
no rest for the weary
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: no peace for the weary
Senses: glosses: Even people who are tired must still work.
Related terms: no rest for the wicked
disfranchisements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disfranchisement
disenfranchiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disenfranchisers
Etymology: From disenfranchise + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who disenfranchises.
disenfranchisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disenfranchiser
lesbiany
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lesbiany
form: most lesbiany
Etymology: From lesbian + -y.
Senses: examples: text: You can tell a lot about a person by the desk they keep. Her real name was Mary Stachowicz but we decided to call her Jenny Talia. It's funnier for us. She uses bulldog clips, which I think is a bit lesbiany, but I guess it's right for the character.
ref: 2012, Johnny McKnight, Double Nugget:
text: And since this happened years ago, I'll go ahead and fill you in that nothing else lesbiany happened on the show.
ref: 2016, Lotus Rose, Gothic Lolita 2: Heirloom:
glosses: Somewhat lesbian.
rascall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rascalls
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of rascal.
rascalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rascall
douchings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of douching
inappendiculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + appendiculate.
Senses: examples: text: D. reticulata (Blum l.c.) leaves 3-nerved, besides the 2 marginal nervules, ovate-oblong, acuminated, rounded at the base, or somewhat cordate, reticulated beneath and covered with ochraceous dots; panicles terminal; calyx almost quite entire; anthers fixed by the back, furnished with somewhat rhomboid, inappendiculate connectives.
ref: 1832, George Don, A General System of Gardening and Botany, volume 2, page 783:
text: This subtribe is distinguished from the Erieae mainly by the terminal inflorescence, from the Coelogyneae by the pollinia being usually free and inappendiculate, and by the usually more slender, dwarfer habit and the I-leaved or leafless stems.
ref: 1881, The Gardeners' Chronicle: A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Horticulture and Allied Subjects, volume 16, page 527:
text: Sporophore obsolescent or altogether wanting; conidia simple, hyaline or fuscous, inappendiculate, globose to oblong.
ref: 1898, Reports of the Survey - Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota: Botanical Series, volume 2, page 660:
glosses: Not appendiculate.
gay basher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gay bashers
form: gay-basher
form: gaybasher
Senses: examples: text: Gay Liberation is my liberation. When out with my girlfriend, I would not get just halfway beat up by a gay basher. (Oh, excuse me sir, please only beat me up on one side of my body, you see I'm only bisexual!)
ref: 1990 April 14, Robyn Ochs, “Self-Identifying As Bisexual: A Political Statement”, in Gay Community News, page 5:
text: Gay bashers are repressed homosexuals attempting to deny the queer inside, but certain signals get past the screen.
ref: 1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 65:
glosses: Somebody who gay bashes.
carcass weights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carcass weight
dzilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Southern Ndebele [Term?].
Senses: glosses: brass neck rings worn by married women among the South Ndebele peoples of Africa
no peace for the weary
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of no rest for the weary.
pizza poutine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A poutine with added bell peppers, mushrooms, pepperoni, and sometimes onions
Related terms: poutine pizza
poutine pizza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poutine pizzas
Senses: glosses: A pizza topped with poutine (gravy, french fries, cheese curds)
Related terms: pizza poutine
buzzsawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of buzzsaw
buzzsawed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of buzzsaw
hook-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hook-ups
Etymology: Deverbal from hook up.
Senses: examples: text: The unfortunate thing about calling the season seven finale “The Dragon And The Wolf” is you can’t even reference it by name without picturing Daenerys Targaryen’s long-awaited hook-up with Jon Snow, her strapping hunk of an ally and also her nephew.
ref: 2017 August 27, Brandon Nowalk, “Game Of Thrones slows down for the longest, and best, episode of the season (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: Alternative form of hookup.
chain shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chain shots
form: chain-shot
form: chainshot
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
synonyms: angel shot
hypernyms: shot
coordinate_terms: canister shot
grapeshot
glosses: A projectile consisting of two cannon balls or half balls linked by a chain, fired from cannons mostly to attack spars and rigging.
chain shots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chain shot
dezinformatsiya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian дезинформация (dezinformacija). Doublet of disinformation.
Senses: examples: text: Though Moscow has been transmitting propaganda and dezinformatsiya, or disinformation, since the Soviets came to power in 1922, the propaganda’s tenor and volume have sharpened and increased over the past decade. At a NATO summit in Wales in September 2014, U.S. general Philip Breedlove described Russia’s actions as “the most amazing information warfare blitzkrieg we have ever seen in the history of information warfare.”
ref: 2018 April 24, Sonia Smith, “War of Words: Meet the Texan Trolling for Putin”, in Texas Monthly, retrieved 28 Feb 2022:
glosses: disinformation, especially in the context of the former Soviet Union
kandura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kanduras
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic كَنْدُورَة (kandūra).
Senses: glosses: A thobe.
gandora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gandoras
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kandura.
kanduras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kandura
gandoras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gandora
wiffleballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wiffleball
separation anxieties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of separation anxiety
Geatish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Old English Ġēatisċ, equivalent to Geat + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: This description does not fit the historical Hygelac, of course, but it clearly does reflect, accurately enough, the tradition of decadence which must have become attached to the Geatish royal house as a result of the decline and fall of the Geatish kingdom.
ref: 1923, Kemp Malone, The Literary History of Hamlet: The Early Tradition, published 1964, page 46:
text: “We have here, newly sprung from the sea, a band of Geatish warriors.”
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 24:
text: The Geatish digressions in the last episode of the poem take the audience from Hrethel's death to the deaths of all his sons and the succession of his grandson, Beowulf, though not in chronological order.
ref: 1997, George Clark, “Chapter 14: The Hero and the Theme”, in Robert E. Bjork, John D. Niles, editors, A Beowulf Handbook, page 289:
text: Beowulf's succession to the Geatish throne took place only because of the successive deaths of Hygelac and Heardred (who was killed in Onela's invasion of the land of the Geats).
ref: 2010, Alistair Campbell, “The use in Beowulf of earlier heroic verse”, in Peter Clemoes, Kathleen Hughes, editors, England Before the Conquest: Studies in Primary Sources Presented to Dorothy Whitelock, page 290:
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Geats.
NVQs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NVQ
Jersey Devil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A legendary creature said to inhabit the Pine Barrens of Southern New Jersey, United States, and most often described as a flying biped with hooves that emits a piercing scream. Often described as having an equine or goat-like head and a kangaroo- or wyvern-like shape or aspects.
misowned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misown
misowning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misown
misowns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misown
knoblet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knoblets
Etymology: From knob + -let.
Senses: glosses: A little knob; a nodule.
knoblets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knoblet
eat one's cake and have it too
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eats one's cake and has it too
form: eating one's cake and having it too
form: ate one's cake and had it too
form: eaten one's cake and had it too
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of have one's cake and eat it too.
bowerland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English bureland, borlond, burlond, from Old English būrland, ġebūrland (“land occupied by farmers; farmland”), equivalent to bower (“peasant; farmer”) + land.
Senses: examples: text: When Peter Stuyvesant became director-general of New Netherlands in 1647 by appointment of the Dutch West India Company, he resided on his farm, or bowery, which name the place retains to this day, though the scent of roses has long since left it. Later this same bowerland was the center of fashion, the Bowery Street a popular driveway, wealth and gaiety crowding its borders while yet the Broadway was a country road winding among humble farms and odorous stockyards.
ref: 1896, Hubert Howe Bancroft, The Book of Wealth:
text: The Grey Bower has woodwork of white, with grey walls decorated with a bowerland of rose and fuchsia, and having an undergrowth of blue-bells.
ref: 1905, The Studio, volume 36, numbers 151-154, page 120:
text: Babyland never again will be thine,
Land of all mystery, holy, divine,
Motherland, otherland,
Wonderland, underland,
Land of a time ne'er again to be seen;
Flowerland, bowerland,
Airyland, fairyland,
Rockaby, baby, thy cradle is green.
ref: 1909, One Hundred Choice Selections, volume 6, numbers 21-24, page 194:
glosses: A rural area; farmland; bowery.
Elron
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Pronunciation spelling of L. Ron.
Senses: topics: Scientology
lifestyle
religion
glosses: L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986), American author and founder of Scientology.
postsurvey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + survey.
Senses: glosses: After a survey.
catch red-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: catches red-handed
form: catching red-handed
form: caught red-handed
form: caught red-handed
Senses: glosses: To discover or capture someone in the act of committing a crime.
Related terms: hand in the cookie jar
kriged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of krige
Wiener-Kolmogorov prediction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The filter was proposed by Norbert Wiener during the 1940s; the discrete-time equivalent of Wiener's work was derived independently by Andrey Kolmogorov.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of kriging.
synonyms: word: kriging
poor man's cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Depression cake.
water sandwich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water sandwiches
Senses: glosses: A Depression-era snack consisting of a piece of bread soaked in lard or water.
water sandwiches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water sandwich
toast sandwich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toast sandwiches
Senses: hypernyms: bread
glosses: An old-fashioned snack consisting of a slice of toasted bread between two untoasted slices.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see toast, sandwich.; Alternative form of toasted sandwich, a sandwich which has been toasted, but which is not simply a slice of toast bread as filling.
Hypernyms: sandwich
toast sandwiches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toast sandwich
neuros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuro
befriendings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of befriending
syncritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to syncrisis.
metasyncritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to metasyncrisis.
unsupernatural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsupernatural
form: most unsupernatural
Etymology: From un- + supernatural.
Senses: examples: text: "Oh yes, I meant it as a compliment." Olin tapped the books. "I expect to finish these... but for the writing. It's the writing I like. I was surprised to find myself laughing at your quite unsupernatural adventures in Gartsby Castle, and I was surprised to find you as good as you are. As subtle as you are. I expected more hack and slash."
ref: 1999, Stephen King, 1408:
glosses: Not supernatural.
shepherdeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: shepherd + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shepherd
judge not, that ye be not judged
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: judge not, lest ye be judged
form: judge not, that you be not judged
Etymology: From the King James Bible of Matthew 7:1-3.
Senses: examples: text: Judge me not lest ye be judged thineself
ref: 2001, J. G. Thirlwell, “Heuldoch 7B”, in Flow, performed by Foetus:
synonyms: people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
glosses: One should not criticize others if one is not prepared to be criticized in return.
Related terms: hypocrisy
pot calling the kettle black
uneasy lies the head that wears a crown
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: heavy lies the crown
form: heavy is the head that wears the crown
Etymology: From Henry IV, Part 2.
Senses: examples: text: Such terrors as these were unguessed by me in the days of my obscurity. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown, uneasy also, lies the wife of that head, and the best friend of the wife. I dismissed my stenographer, and spent ten or fifteen restless minutes until Sylvia appeared.
ref: 1914, Upton Sinclair, Sylvia's Marriage:
glosses: A person of high rank or status has more problems than those of lower rank.
wikipedia: Henry IV, Part 2
Related terms: it's lonely at the top
the bigger they are, the harder they fall
the highest branch is not the safest roost
maneapas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maneapa
Gilbert and Ellice Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Gilbert and Ellice
glosses: A former British protectorate from 1892 to 1916 and colony from 1916 until 1976 in Oceania, part of the modern countries of Kiribati and Tuvalu.
in mitius
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin in mitius.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Having a retroactive (ex post facto) effect that softens or mitigates a penalty.
in-depthness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in-depth + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being in-depth.
indepthness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From indepth + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of in-depthness.
grimeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From grime + -less.
Senses: glosses: Free of grime.
'Phags-pa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Phags-pa
form: ḥPʻags-pa
form: ḥP'ags-pa
Etymology: From Tibetan འཕགས་པ ('phags pa, literally “noble”).
Senses: glosses: An alphabet designed in the 1200s by the Tibetan monk and State Preceptor Drogön Chögyal Phagpa for Kublai Khan, the founder of the Yuan dynasty.
vocabularyclept
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vocabulary + Ancient Greek κλέπτω (kléptō, “I steal”).
Senses: examples: text: It seems reasonable that vocabularyclept poems should be signed first by the poet of combination and second by the poet of permutation, since combination necessarily precedes permutation.
ref: 1973, Howard W. Bergerson, Palindromes and Anagrams, page 22:
text: The second text is just a rearrangement by word of the first; it can be seen as a “vocabularyclept” text created from the first. Here's an even simpler vocabularyclept example: This movie was a great experience, and not disappointing. This movie was not a great experience, and disappointing.
ref: 2016, Nick Montfort, Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities, page 200:
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: Being a form of poem that is a rearrangement of the words of an existing work.
Cajun navy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: an informal organisation of boat owners who assist in flooded areas of Louisiana and Texas
error diffusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A form of halftoning in which the quantization residual is distributed to neighbouring pixels that have not yet been processed.
two seconds to black
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The situation where a computer monitor displays a correct screen image when first switched on, but then quickly blanks out, typically associated with capacitor problems.
Moscow mule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Moscow mules
Senses: glosses: A cocktail made with vodka, ginger beer, and lime juice.
Hypernyms: buck
Moscow mules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Moscow mule
laotong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 老同.
Senses: glosses: A cultural practice in Hunan, China, that bonded two girls together as kindred sisters with a formal contract.
palmheart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palmhearts
Etymology: From palm + heart.
Senses: glosses: heart of palm
palmhearts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palmheart
notebookish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more notebookish
form: most notebookish
Etymology: From notebook + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: In some of the poems which discuss her predicament openly, the writing goes flat and notebookish.
ref: 1991, Stand Magazine, volume 33, page 56:
text: So it's not merely that Ioannou is using notebookish, intellectually inert, ashen-phrased poems to secure her insights about poetry; she's also using the face-value ideas of prosody to launder mediocre Canadian poetry into art.
ref: 2004, Carmine Starnino, A Lover's Quarrel: Essays and Reviews, page 100:
glosses: Characteristic of jottings in a notebook, rather than a finished artistic work.
tripwiring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tripwire
tripwired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tripwire
let fluffy off the chain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lets fluffy off the chain
form: letting fluffy off the chain
form: let fluffy off the chain
form: let fluffy off the chain
Senses: glosses: To fart.
MML
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Music Markup Language.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of man-machine language.
MML
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MMLs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
information-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of minimum message length.
there is strength in numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: There is more strength in groups than individuals.
Related terms: there is safety in numbers
many hands make light work
united we stand, divided we fall
safety in numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of there is safety in numbers.
very less
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: There are very less facilities here.
text: Monsoon rains have very less affect^([sic]) on India's farmlands as government intervention has led to a well developed irrigation system across India.
ref: 2020, Vivek Sharma, Deepika Singh, Magbook Indian & World Geography 2020, page 130:
glosses: very little
betrick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: betricks
form: betricking
form: betricked
form: betricked
Etymology: From be- (“at, on, upon”) + trick.
Senses: examples: text: Here the desert of death simulates a field of cooling snow, green hills lie black in the dazzling light of day, limpid waters run green over arsenic stone, and sunset betricks the fantastic rock with column and capital and dome.
ref: 1910, Frank Hamilton Spearman, Whispering Smith, page 52:
text: Only, he sought to betrick me and do it wrong. So I unfed him for another hot day.
ref: 1926, Blanche Colton Williams, Best American stories, 1919-1924, page 247:
text: Thoughts cannot reach this world, yet clandestinely
'Tis in the hearts of mankind; even, from their scripts.
I got to liberate my being from this existential mode,
For it betricks my life into thinking that I am really
Free within these chains of death, but still I am just a
New fool plainly, tricked in, even, this vicious circle.
ref: 2011, Dr. Charles N. Ford, Hidden Fields, book 3, page 103:
glosses: To play a trick on; to trick
reap the whirlwind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reaps the whirlwind
form: reaping the whirlwind
form: reaped the whirlwind
form: reaped the whirlwind
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
glosses: To suffer bad consequences for one's actions.
Related terms: reap what one sows
scallion pancake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scallion pancakes
Etymology: A direct translation of the words "蔥油餅／葱油饼 (cōngyóubǐng)" in English
Senses: glosses: A Chinese savory, unleavened pancake folded with oil and green scallions.
glosses: Korean pajeon
Synonyms: cong you bing
discless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From disc + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a disc or discs.
sweat like a horse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sweats like a horse
form: sweating like a horse
form: sweated like a horse
form: sweated like a horse
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Synonym of sweat like a pig.
synonyms: word: sweat like a pig
satyagrahi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: satyagrahis
form: satyagrahi
Senses: examples: text: By asserting control over his own life and death, the satyagrahi was able to possess a different, more intimate kind of sovereignty – over his own person.
ref: 2017, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin, page 311:
glosses: A proponent or practitioner of satyagraha.
multiple intelligences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Multiple intellectual abilities operating independently of one another in the same mind, according to a particular theory, as opposed to the more orthodox theory of general intellectual ability.
royal pain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: royal pains
Senses: examples: text: And while the spine's no doubt a miraculous array of vertebrae, ligaments, muscle and nerve tissue, it can also be a royal pain in the... well, lower back region.
ref: 1992 February, Cincinnati Magazine, volume 25, number 5, page 71:
text: In fact, the only thing royal about you is that you are a royal pain!
ref: 2011, Amy Keating Rogers, The Best Night Ever, spoken by Rarity:
glosses: Someone or something that is very annoying.
examples: text: He gave out a big yawn while he said that. Which is something that gives me a royal pain in the ass.
ref: 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 37:
glosses: A feeling of being very annoyed.
polyethnic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polyethnic
form: most polyethnic
Etymology: From poly- + ethnic.
Senses: examples: text: In the last 20 years, the sharp increase in immigration has brought "new faces in the crowd" and a much more polyethnic and multicultural country.
ref: 1999, Gilles Paquet, Governance Through Social Learning, page 29:
text: In some European states, however, the reverse applies and the rights of national minorities (in Belgium and Switzerland, for example) have long been recognised but an accommodation of immigrants and a more polyethnic society has been far less forthcoming.
ref: 2004, Stephen May, “Chapter 12: Accommodating Multiculturalism and Biculturalism: Implications for language policy”, in Paul Spoonley, David George Pearson, editors, Tangata Tangata: The Changing Ethnic Contours of New Zealand, page 252:
text: And thus it is a very good bet that those societies that are becoming more and more polyethnic will experience increasing ethnic conflict. In fact, it is happening already.
ref: 2015, Stephen K. Sanderson, Modern Societies: A Comparative Perspective, page 191:
glosses: That contains people who together represent multiple ethnicities, especially such that they coexist and interact harmoniously.
raw_tags: of a group or society
glosses: Who identifies as being of multiple ethnicities.
raw_tags: of a person
Synonyms: sense: containing multiple ethnicities
word: multicultural
Related terms: ethnic
monoethnic
polyethnicity
American Renaissance
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A period of American architecture and the arts from 1876 to 1917, characterized by renewed national self-confidence and a feeling that the United States was the heir to Greek democracy, Roman law, and Renaissance humanism.
be-alls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of be-all
be-alls and end-alls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of be-all and end-all
why keep a dog and bark yourself
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: One should not do something that one has hired someone else to do.
nature vs nurture
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nature versus nurture.
Prislam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: PrIslam
Etymology: Blend of prison + Islam.
Senses: glosses: A variety of Islam to which its adherents converted in prison.
Ducasse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ducasses
Etymology: Borrowed from French Ducasse.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Yasmeen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈjæzmiːn/
/ˈjɛsmiːn/
Etymology: Variant of Jasmine, often representing a transliteration of the corresponding Arabic and Persian names.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Arabic.
brothelkeeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brothelkeepers
form: brothel keeper
form: brothel-keeper
Etymology: From brothel + keeper.
Senses: synonyms: bawd
hyponyms: word: madam
glosses: A person who runs a brothel, whether legally or illegally.
Related terms: brothel-keeping
slumdweller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slumdwellers
form: slum dweller
form: slum-dweller
Etymology: From slum + dweller.
Senses: glosses: Someone who lives (dwells) in a slum.
brothelkeepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brothelkeeper
slumdwellers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slumdweller
Badeau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Badeaus
Etymology: Borrowed from French Badeau.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
MFHs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MFH
platformy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more platformy
form: most platformy
Etymology: From platform + -y.
Senses: examples: text: A colourful, bouncy, groovesome platformy sort of thing that's a tad too hard for its own good.
ref: 1992, Jon Pillar, Captain Dynamo (video game review in Your Sinclair issue 79)
text: […] a radical new, non-platformy direction […]
ref: 2006, Nintendo Power, volumes 208-210, page 143:
topics: video-games
glosses: Characteristic of platform games.
Beaudreau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Beaudreaus
Etymology: Borrowed from French Beaudreau.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Robicheau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Robicheau.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Related terms: Robichaud
Robichaux
Robicheaux
Robicheaux
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cajun French Robicheaux.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Related terms: sense: Appendix
word: Suffix -eaux
word: Robichaud
word: Robichaux
word: Robicheau
bihydrogurets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bihydroguret
Tondreau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tondreaus
Etymology: Borrowed from French Tondreau.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
actualizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: actualizers
Etymology: From actualize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who or that which actualizes.
actualizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of actualizer
actualizational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From actualization + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to actualization.
adenofibromata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adenofibroma
shav
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of schav.
shtshav
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of schav.
spherization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spherisation
Senses: glosses: The process of spherizing.
unopulent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unopulent
form: most unopulent
Etymology: From un- + opulent.
Senses: glosses: Not opulent.
unenthroned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + enthroned.
Senses: glosses: Not enthroned.
kapeika
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kapeikas
Senses: glosses: A Latvian coin worth one hundredth of a rublis.
Related terms: kopek
kapeikas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kapeika
Brussels grounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brussels ground
idiosomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From idiosome + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to an idiosome.
xenosomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From xenosome + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a xenosome.
predictings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of predicting
unprideful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unprideful
form: most unprideful
Etymology: From un- + prideful.
Senses: glosses: Not prideful.
flock papers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flock paper
gowt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gowts
Senses: glosses: gout
glosses: Water outfall, sluice, drain
broomings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brooming
appeachments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appeachment
rat poison
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rat poisons
Senses: synonyms: raticide
hypernyms: rodenticide
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poison#Noun
glosses: Poison used to kill rats and other rodents.
glosses: A West African shrub (Dichapetalum toxicarium, syn. Chailletia toxicaria), whose seeds are used to destroy rats.
Related terms: rat terrier
ratting
rattrap
rat trap
dislustred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dislustre
dislustres
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dislustre
dislustring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dislustre
Anjous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Anjou
rat poisons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rat poison
chylic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaɪlɪk/
rhymes: -aɪlɪk
Etymology: From chyle + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to chyle.
Derived terms: achylic
onded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of onde
arsonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From arson + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The tendency to commit arson.
visuocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more visuocentric
form: most visuocentric
Etymology: From visuo- + -centric.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of visucentric.
yohimbes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yohimbe
yojijukugos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yojijukugo
data sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: data sheets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of datasheet.
data sheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of data sheet
free roam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: free roams
form: free-roam
Senses: examples: text: If players can wander freely about the video game environment at their own pace with no linear pathway, as in Grand Theft Auto, the game is referred to as a “sandbox” or “free roam” game.
ref: 2011, Craig Haen, Engaging Boys in Treatment: Creative Approaches to the Therapy Process, →ISBN:
text: This achievement can be acquired in multiple places in the world, both free roam mode and in story mode.
ref: 2017, Hse Game, Lego Star Wars The Force Unleashed Wii U Unofficial Game Guide, →ISBN:
text: Deadly Premonition borrows from just about every game out there. It has the strange otherworld from Silent Hill (albeit not as creepy), the interactive cinematic elements from Heavy Rain (albeit not as pretentious), the free roam freedom of Grand Theft Auto (albeit not as big), and is in fact the open-world investigative adventure Alan Wake first promised to be.
ref: 2017, The Cheat Mistress, EZ Gamer, →ISBN:
topics: video-games
glosses: A game mode where players can explore the game environment at will, rather than following a fixed story line.
examples: text: Whether it's theft of sensitive electronic info or building plans, or passive security that allows free roams of your business, every bit of info that the bad guys can use to formulate attack against you should be safeguarded or properly disposed of.
ref: 2008, Jack Wiles, Ted Claypoole, Phil Drake, Techno Security's Guide to Securing SCADA, →ISBN:
text: The general said he had free roam of the city, he could move through the streets and no one could do anything.
ref: 2011, Lance Wilson, Second Born, →ISBN, page 314:
text: Gråtass was adopted, and is currently living with a rabbit companion with access to free roam of the house.
ref: 2014, Marit Emilie Buseth, Richard Saunders, Rabbit Behaviour, Health and Care, →ISBN, page 30:
text: Free-range eggs are those gathered from hens who have indoor quarters, but who are allowed free roam in the outdoors (though often in an enclosed or fenced area).
ref: 2014, David Perlmutter, Grain Brain Cookbook, →ISBN:
glosses: The right to move without restrictions throughout a specific locale.
glosses: A type of wireless service plan where there is no cost difference between on and off network usage.
free roam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: free roams
form: free roaming
form: free roamed
form: free roamed
form: free-roam
Senses: examples: text: After completing the initial London Story memory 'The Darkest Hour', you'll be able to free roam in WWI-era London and complete some additional associate tasks.
ref: 2015, GamerGuides.com, Assassin's Creed: Syndicate - Strategy Guide, →ISBN:
topics: video-games
glosses: To play in free roam mode.
examples: text: For beginners in the natural dieting world, I don't generally recommend feeding your ferret openly where she free roams, although many people do it with great success.
ref: 2011, Kim Schilling, Ferrets For Dummies, →ISBN, page 138:
text: Part of me wants to continue along this path and the other part wants to free roam off the beaten trail and find my own way or die trying.
ref: 2014, Jason Nachbaur, The Blue Recluse, →ISBN, page 121:
text: Each participant was shown 7 websites and allowed to free roam a static image of the site for 30 seconds.
ref: 2014, Aaron Marcus, Design, User Experience, and Usability, →ISBN:
glosses: To move about or explore at will within a specified area.
examples: text: They free roamed or ranged cattle from Ingalls or Cimarron, Kansas to Lamar, Colorado, and from the Arkansas River to the Cimarron River.
ref: 2009, Ralph Morton, God, Kate, & I, →ISBN, page 214:
glosses: To allow animals the right to move freely within a large area.
free-roam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: free-roams
Senses: examples: text: The nurse was unsuccessful in medicating Marty because he was given free-roam of the unit.
ref: 1985, Carol A. Rogers, Jane Ulsafer-Van Lanen, Nursing interventions in depression, →ISBN, page 188:
text: I love shooters, RPGs, and pretty much anything with free-roam or gore.
ref: 2009, The Official Xbox Magazine - Issues 92-95, page 335:
text: With free-roam of the reserve's rainforest and fruit trees, the semi-wild orangutans at Semenggoh Nature Reserve near Kuching in Sarawak are not guaranteed to show up at the twice-daily feeding sessions, but there's a pretty good chance of catching the endlessly entertaining sight of our shaggy jungle cousins stuffing half a dozen bananas into their mouths, grabbing a coconut and then scrambling back up into the jungle canopy -- swinging from tree to tree, dangling nonchalantly from vines and taking care of their adorable infants.
ref: 2016, Isabel Albiston, Loren Bell, Lonely Planet Borneo, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of free roam.
free-roam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: free-roams
form: free-roaming
form: free-roamed
form: free-roamed
Senses: examples: text: When on an open source network, disable ability to free-roam through the system.
ref: 2002 -, Timothy Braithwaite, Securing E-Business Systems: A Guide for Managers and Executives, →ISBN:
text: If the rabbit will be housed in a cage and allowed to free-roam, it is best for the animal to use a litter box that has been placed in its cage.
ref: 2012, Thomas N. Tully, A Veterinary Technician's Guide to Exotic Animal Care, →ISBN, page 111:
text: Such sounds, while not overtly controlled by the player, do reflect a player's choices: whether to free-roam or whether to engage in mission-play.
ref: 2013, Matthew Wysocki, Ctrl-Alt-Play: Essays on Control in Video Gaming, →ISBN, page 142:
glosses: Alternative form of free roam.
free roaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of free roam
free-roams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of free-roam
free-roams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of free-roam
free-roamed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of free-roam
free roams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of free roam
free roams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of free roam
free roamed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of free roam
Homer sometimes nods
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of even Homer nods.
Jove nods
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of even Homer nods.
say when
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: says when
form: saying when
form: said when
form: said when
Senses: examples: text: Say when! ― When! Thanks.
text: The publican placed a whisky bottle and three glasses on the ledge and Grierson poured, with the courtesy of, "Say when," to the trooper, who was forced to exclaim, "Hold on!" in protest at a tumbler three-quarters full of whisky.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 161:
glosses: An imperative form used to request that the interlocutor indicate when one should stop doing something, esp. pouring a drink, because one has reached a sufficient amount.