cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
photosensitive retinal ganglion cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photosensitive retinal ganglion cells
Senses: synonyms: mRGC
melanopsin-containing retinal ganglion cell
photosensitive retinal ganglion cell
glosses: An intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cell
photosensitive retinal ganglion cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photosensitive retinal ganglion cell
melanopsin-containing retinal ganglion cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melanopsin-containing retinal ganglion cells
Senses: synonyms: mRGC
melanopsin-containing retinal ganglion cell
photosensitive retinal ganglion cell
glosses: An intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cell
Related terms: melanopsin
gentlemanlily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gentlemanlily
form: most gentlemanlily
Etymology: From gentlemanly + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He put it very gentlemanlily and with restraint.
ref: 1905–1924, Joseph Conrad, “Appendix B: The Old Story”, in Jeremy Hawthorn, editor, The Inheritors and The Nature of a Crime (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad), Cambridge University Press, published 2022, →ISBN, page 293:
text: So I got cigarettes & the Papers & had a nice talk with Mr French who was so well & gentlemanlily dressed!
ref: 1934–5, John Cowper Powys, The Dorset Year: The Diary of John Cowper Powys, June 1934-July 1935, The Powys Press, published 1998, →ISBN, page 178:
text: And what was worse, the other man had made his point so subtly, even gentlemanlily, without a change of tone or a revealing expression;
ref: 2004 spring, L. A. Nemrow, “John Rupert”, in Literary Imagination: The Review of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, volume 6, number 2, pages 163–170:
synonyms: gentlemanlikely
gentlemanly#Adverb
glosses: In a gentlemanly manner.
misseinterpretacion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I have put every Statute in the tonge that it was first written in. For those that were first written in latin or in frenche dare I not presume to translate into English for fear of misseinterpretacion. For many wordes and termes be there in divers Statutes, both in latin and in frenche, which be very hard to translate aptly into English.
ref: Rastell, William (1557), A Collection of all the Statutes (from the beginning of Magna Carta unto the yere of our Lord 1557) which were before that yere imprinted. And furst a Pistle necessary to be redde by them that shall use this booke. In ædibus Richardi Tottelli.—Cum privilegio ad imprimendum solum.
glosses: Obsolete form of misinterpretation.
pass sentence
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: passes sentence
form: passing sentence
form: passed sentence
form: passed sentence
Senses: synonyms: pronounce sentence
glosses: To sentence; to pronounce a sentence on (a criminal, etc.).
passes sentence
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pass sentence
passing sentence
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pass sentence
passed sentence
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pass sentence
Edghill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Edghills
Etymology: Variant of Edgell.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
on God
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: on god
form: ong
form: ONG
Senses: examples: text: How many times have you been all on God eating healthy, hour later you're stuffing donuts down like just today cause tomorrow is when it really starts.
ref: 2019, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 31:
text: On God.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: With all honesty and seriousness; affirmatively
Synonyms: I swear to God
on my life
on skibidi
on Jah
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Rastafari Jah - "God"
Frequently associated with XXXTentacion's nickname Jah, a shortened form of his first name Jahseh, modeled after the adverb on God.
Senses: examples: Oh, on Jah?
glosses: Synonym of on God.
synonyms: word: on God
Synonyms: I swear to God
on my life
on God
Killenberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Killenbergs
Etymology: Borrowed from German Killenberg.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
exodust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: exodusts
form: exodusting
form: exodusted
form: exodusted
Etymology: Back-formation from Exoduster.
Senses: glosses: Of an African-American: To leave a Southern state as part of a mass migration, especially the Exodus of 1879.
Related terms: exodus
Exoduster
exodusts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of exodust
exodusting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of exodust
ladiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ladyness
Etymology: From lady + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Mother believed round garters cut off the circulation and caused varicose veins, so she kept me in a pantywaist several years longer than most boys. Nobody knew this except me and Mother, and I was particularly careful to keep it a secret because there was a touch of ladiness to a waist after a boy got about so big.
ref: 1966, John Gould, Last One In: Tales of a New England Boyhood, a Gently Pleasing Dip into a Cool, Soothing Pool of the Not-So-Long-Ago, So to Speak, page 153:
text: “Ladiness” is grounded in a rather rigid code of behavior that varies only slightly according to ethnic or cultural values.
ref: 1990, Claudia Bepko, Jo Ann Krestan, Too Good for Her Own Good: Breaking Free from the Burden of Female Responsibility, page 18:
text: Two, Mother and aunt Wheezie were equally as passionate that I should become a lady. Becoming a lady was such hard work I hated it. I couldn’t fathom why any girl would want to be one. Furthermore, I clearly understood at the ripe old age of eight that Mother and Wheezie often strayed from the path of ladiness.
ref: 1997, Albemarle:
glosses: The quality of being a lady.
ladyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Miss MacGooden, humorless, prim, ugly, with a face like dried leather, prided herself on being a “lady” from one of the best families—an uncle had been a congressman in the period of the Reconstruction. She was therefore, Helga Crane reflected, perhaps unable to perceive that the inducement to act like a lady, her own acrimonious example, was slight, if not altogether negative. And thinking on Miss MacGooden’s “ladyness,” Helga grinned a little as she remembered that one’s expressed reason for never having married, or intending to marry.
ref: 1928, Nella Larsen, Quicksand, New York, N.Y.; London: Alfred A. Knopf, pages 26–27:
text: In those days, most girls in Guangdong and Fujian had bound feet to show their “ladyness”.
ref: 2005, Lee Khoon Choy, Pioneers of Modern China: Understanding the Inscrutable Chinese, World Scientific, →ISBN, pages 76–77:
text: It was precisely this labor of performing ladyhood that allowed the dictionary definition of lady to shift from primarily meaning “a woman of high social position” to a “woman who behaves in a polite way.” The shift from position to behavior did not completely unmoor “lady” from race and class hierarchies, but it did require a different set of behaviors and rituals of ladyness in order to maintain those hierarchies.
ref: 2019, Laurie Essig, Love, Inc.: Dating Apps, the Big White Wedding, and Chasing the Happily Neverafter, University of California Press, →ISBN, pages 26–27:
glosses: Alternative spelling of ladiness.
ladihood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The judicial proceedings which have taken place concerning the murder have been only less disgusting than were the taring and mutilation of Kelsey by the chivalry and ladihood of the town.
ref: 1873 October 30, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, volume 34, number 259, Brooklyn, N.Y.:
text: With your great zest for life, it is dreadful to think of you as a virgin, but your books offer almost irrefutable testimony to the fact, unless indeed, your Virginian ladihood stepped in and caused you to become reticent.
ref: 1962, Ellen Glasgow, Romancière, page 231:
text: The first Catholic residential liberal arts college for women in New England was founded by the Dominican Sisters in 1925, its purpose to “rear solid intellectuals and powerful characters of genuine refinement; and these are to become thinkers and leaders and the noble among ladihood of the future.”
ref: 1976, The American Woman’s Gazetteer, page 33:
text: He initiated the move to bring about self reliant, fearless and upright ladihood in the country.
ref: 1978, History of the Sikh Gurus: A Comprehensive Study, page 197:
text: Young ladihood, however, was Lady Mary’s veneer but not her substance, to judge from what is probably her second-earliest extant letter, written in 1709 to a friend still to be discussed:[…]
ref: 1999, Isobel Grundy, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Oxford University Press, published 2001, →ISBN, page 28:
glosses: Alternative spelling of ladyhood.
foodstagramming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Dayton maintains the policy isn’t designed to prohibit all foodstagramming.
ref: 2013 February 6, Aimee Blanchette, “Local chefs say their food is camera-ready”, in Star Tribune, volume XXXI, number 308, page E10:
text: How ‘foodstagramming’ has changed the way we deal with our grub writes James P. Hall.[…]At the same time, certain restaurants in the U.S. and France have banned customers from taking pictures of their dishes, or “foodstagramming,” as it has become known.[…]Pizza tops the list when it comes to foodstagramming:[…]
ref: 2016 November 9, James P. Hall, “Bringing our food into focus”, in Vancouver Sun, page C7:
text: Nowhere as in the current era of food porn and foodstagramming, star-chefs and cooking TV show, can the short-circuit between seeing and tasting be observed.
ref: 2018, Andrea Pavoni, “Introduction”, in Andrea Pavoni, Danilo Mandic, Caterina Nirta, Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, editors, Taste (Law and the Senses), University of Westminster Press, →ISBN, page 31:
text: On the one hand, the trend of “foodstagramming” is still going strong, with 69 per cent of millennials capturing the perfect foodie snap before eating.
ref: 2019 May 22, Robert Phelps, “Enjoy great food in sustainable packaging”, in Vancouver Sun, page A11:
text: Despite the popularity of foodstagramming, the studies about this social phenomenon are rare, with little if any academic literature reporting on it to date (Wong et al., 2019). In this study, the subject of sharing food experience is examined by addressing the related social media platforms. It focuses on foodstagramming as a prominent subject and its possible effects in terms of user-generated content (UGC) and electronic word-of-mouth (e-WOM).
ref: 2022, Sevinc Goktepe, Merve Aydogan Cifci, Mehmet Altug Sahin, “Sharing photos of food traveler experiences: a case study of foodstagramming”, in Dogan Gursoy, Rahul Pratap Singh Kaurav, editors, Handbook on Tourism and Social Media (Research Handbooks in Tourism), Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 437:
glosses: The act of posting photos of food to Instagram.
foodstagramming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of foodstagram
BookToker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊkˌtɒkə/
ipa: /ˈbʊkˌtɑkɚ/
Forms: form: BookTokers
form: BookTokker
Etymology: From BookTok + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Local romance and New York Times bestselling author Katee Robert has always had a devoted fanbase, but, this past year, her readership has grown to include an ever-increasing number of “BookTokers,” that is, TikTok users and accounts devoted to reading recommendations.
ref: 2021 May 30, Stephanie Hammett, “Romance writer ‘mildly obsessed with fairy tales and retellings’”, in The Spokesman-Review, 138th volume, number 356, Spokane, Wash., page D1:
text: "She puts her characters through the most insane situations," says Kendra Keeter-Gray, a 23-year-old Los Angeles-based BookToker and associate producer.[…]"I feel like we all just want to feel something so badly," says 19-year-old college student and BookToker Samawia Akhter.
ref: 2022 January 24, Stephanie Merry, “On TikTok, crying is encouraged. Colleen Hoover gets the job done.”, in The Boston Globe, volume 301, number 24, page C10:
text: BookTokers aestheticise not only the reading lifestyle, but the books themselves, with many members of the community choosing to buy books from-new.
ref: 2022 February 1, Lara Mellett, “Inside the world of BookTok: Where social media meets the printing press”, in Trinity News, volume 68, number 6, page 14:
glosses: A member of the BookTok community on TikTok.
BookTokers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BookToker
UNSC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: related: word: U. N. S. C.
word: U.N. S.C.
word: UN SC
glosses: Initialism of United Nations Security Council.
geta mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geta marks
Etymology: Partial calque from Japanese 下(げ)駄(た)記(き)号(ごう) (geta kigō), alluding to the similarity between the shape of this symbol and that of a footprint from a geta shoe.
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: The symbol 〓, used as a placeholder in electronic or printed text to indicate the presence of an ideographic character for which no glyph is available.
geta marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geta mark
Hosaka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hosakas
Etymology: A romanization of Japanese 保坂 (Hosaka), possibly from the kanji 保 (protection) and 坂 (slope, hill). Related to English Osaka.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
Cohens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cohenses
Etymology: Probably from Cohen, with the addition of the patronymic suffix -s.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hebrew.
Cohens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cohen
Hosakas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hosaka
Miyamotos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Miyamoto
diamond hands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: The resolve or stubbornness of an investor to hold on to a financial asset despite its volatility.
Related terms: hodl
neighborlily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more neighborlily
form: most neighborlily
form: neighbourlily
Etymology: From neighborly + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Old Toby rises from his mat, / Sniffs neighborlily at the cat, / And yawns, (a trifle wide at that,) / With an old friend’s audacity;
ref: 1906, A Key to Puzzledom; or, Complete Handbook of the Enigmatic Art, page 104:
text: The Sloan and Padgway places adjoined neighborlily.
ref: 1922 July, Ida M. Evans, “His Wife’s Money”, in Cosmopolitan, volume LXXIII, number 1, page 72:
text: The highway skirted the front, and the lake with its great family of wavelets ran in neighborlily at the back.
ref: 1931 April, Margaret C. Moloney, “Leave It to Mike”, in The Catholic World, volume CXXXIII, number 793, page 62:
text: Both men greeted and nodded neighborlily at each other.
ref: 1933, Albert Halper, Union Square, published 1990, page 42:
text: David stepped up the tempo of the talk as surely, as neighborlily, as ever.
ref: 1952, Ernest Buckler, The Mountain and the Valley, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, page 279:
glosses: In a neighborly manner.
paper hands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: The fragility or insecurity of an investor who is eager to sell a financial asset upon an early or dubious indication of downturn.
WAGMI
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: wagmi
Senses: antonyms: NGMI
WNGMI
coordinate_terms: GMI
WAGMIB
WGMI
YGMI
glosses: Initialism of we're all gonna make it An expression of comradery.
unlikelily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unlikelily
form: most unlikelily
Etymology: From unlikely + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: As a rule novelists who treat of these people have a bad habit of making them out to be hopelessly idiotic or unlikelily vicious.
ref: 1908, The Academy, page 909:
text: He pictures Mr Bridges brooding most unlikelily on the career of Gabriele D’Annunzio (the aviator poet)[…]
ref: 1922, The Cambridge Review, page 344:
text: I went to Swansea a fortnight ago, for two nights, saw Fred, Vernon, Walter Flower, John Prichard, Bill Henry, Mrs Giles of the Singleton, the Borough Architect, and Mr Ernest Davies is, unlikelily, a fashion-designer, unless he was pulling my leg with a crane, and makes, out of cardboard & cellophane, very tiny naked women who do a kind of arthritic can-can when he lights a match behind them.
ref: 1947, Dylan Thomas, The Collected Letters, published 1985, page 618:
text: Is an ascendee a nominal which ascends (e.g. by Raising), or--unlikelily--one which is ascended?
ref: 1980, Papers from the Regional Meeting, Chicago Linguistic Society, page 142:
text: The report continued even more unlikelily that the police were allegedly converted to Communist views, that ‘Proletarian Hundreds’ were formed under police auspices, ostensibly to assist the regular force, and that generals of the former army who tried to attend commemorative parades of ex-servicemen were threatened with violence.
ref: 1984, Francis Carsten, Britain and the Weimar Republic: The British Documents, page 149:
text: Along a different branch line we have returned to P. G. Wodehouse’s timeless world, to Bertie Wooster unlikelily compounded with Clarence Threepwood.
ref: 2001, Ian Carter, Railways and Culture in Britain: The Epitome of Modernity (Studies in Popular Culture), Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 255:
glosses: In an unlikely manner.
Synonyms: unlikely
Gorsts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gorst
sillyly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sillyly
form: most sillyly
Etymology: From silly + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […]: and that the soule it selfe is but sillyly looked to, while the bodie is in price, and to much borne with, as is generally seene:[…]
ref: 1581, Richard Mulcaster, Positions Wherein Those Primitive Circumstances Be Examined, Which Are Necessarie for the Traning Vp of Children, Either for Skill of Their Booke, or Health of Their Bodie, published 1887, page 126:
text: Reader be pleaſed to view over theſe two Accounts (touching the Controverſy between Tho. Hicks and John Story) that It may be underſtood how Sillyly Tho. Hicks came off about his falſe Charge againſt the Quakers,[…]
ref: 1673, The Christian-Quaker and His Divine Testimony Vindicated, Against the Adversaries of the True Light; Being the Second Part, Containing a More Particular Answer to the Baptists (and others) Arguments, Exceptions, Errors and Falasies Herein Specified, page 60:
text: So some that passe for Deepe Astrologers / Have made great Princes Presents of New-stars, / As Virtuosos sillyly have don / And giv’n away whole Ilands in the Moon:[…]
ref: a. 1680, Samuel Butler, Satires and Miscellaneous Poetry, page 203:
text: […]: Withal very ſillyly finding fault with the Style of our Sermons, which even every wiſe Man among the Diſſenters themſelves do approve of:[…]
ref: 1730, William Nichols, A Defence of the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England, the third edition, London: […] J. Batley […]; and H. Parker […], page 128:
text: the report you know my love is very is false therefore that particular dont make me uneaſy as it will be proved to the contrary by seeing we live together, it was some spiteful person raised it maliciously and very sillyly indeed
ref: 1770, The Trial of His R. H. the D. of C. Duke of Cumberland July 5th, 1770. for criminal conversation with Lady Harriet G----------r. […], London: […] John Walker, page 33:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of sillily.
Edghills
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Edghill
pædant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pædants
Etymology: From the association of Italian pedante with unrelated Italian pedagogo (Latin paedagōgus).
Senses: examples: text: It being, by the Renowned Author’s Lucubrations, a book no leſs uſeful for him, then is Horace or Homer for a Pædant, or a Breviary for a Romiſh Prieſt.
ref: 1657, Renodæus, translated by Richard Tomlinson, A Medicinal Dispensatory, Containing the Whole Body of Physick, London: […] Jo: Streater and Ja: Cottrel:
text: For my part, I laugh at thoſe Pædants, that have no ſtronger arguments to prove what they ſay, then to alledge, that ’tis a Maxim, as if their Maxims were more certain, than their other propoſitions.
ref: 1658, Cyrano de Bergerac, Satyrical Characters and Handsome Descriptions in Letters, published 1914, page 64:
text: An Amorous Pædant at the same Time whips And makes Adresses to the School Boys hipes[…]
ref: a. 1680, Samuel Butler, Satires and Miscellaneous Poetry, page 409:
text: The Clergy & Pædants will never endure it.
ref: a. 1697, Michael Hunter, editor, John Aubrey and the Realm of Learning, published 1975, page 55:
text: But the next Spring your just Sentence ſhall be duly executed, and I will employ all my Bolts on the Heads of theſe preſumptuous Pædants.
ref: 1711, The Works of Lucian, the first volume, London: […] Sam. Briscoe, page 326:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of pedant.
pædants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pædant
Killenbergs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Killenberg
Eastbrook
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Dinas Powys, Vale of Glamorgan borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST1571).
glosses: A neighbourhood in Trull parish, Somerset West and Taunton district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST2122).
glosses: A neighbourhood in the centre of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE1632).
glosses: A town in Hancock County, Maine, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Melitopol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Ukrainian Меліто́поль (Melitópolʹ) and Russian Мелито́поль (Melitópolʹ), derived from Ancient Greek Μελιτόπολις (Melitópolis), compare modern Greek Μελιτόπολη (Melitópoli), from μέλι (méli, “honey”) + πολις (polis, “city”).
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality of Melitopol Raion, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine.
glosses: A district, a raion of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine. Seat: Melitopol.
KAB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: KABs
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
hypernyms: word: AB
alt: airbag
word: SRS
coordinate_terms: knee
air
bag
airbag
glosses: Initialism of knee airbag.
review article
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: review articles
Senses: glosses: A type of academic publication that reviews previous studies in order to summarise current knowledge about a specific topic.
review articles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of review article
cohort study
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cohort studies
Senses: glosses: A type of research project in which participants sharing a common feature (the cohort) are studied over a long period of time.
cohort studies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cohort study
scoping review
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scoping reviews
Senses: glosses: An academic investigation of the available literature on a particular topic conducted to assess the extent of research undertaken and currently ongoing.
scoping reviews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scoping review
Sule
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sules
Etymology: Various origins:
* Nigerian surname predominantly found in Northern Nigeria and among Hausa such as Maitama Sule, Sule Lamido, and Abdullahi Sule, and among Yoruba such as Olayinka Sule, Rofiat Sule, and Sule Ladipo, as well as other Nigerian states including Kogi State.
* Borrowed from Hungarian Süle, a pet form of the personal name Szilveszter.
* Borrowed from Marathi सुळे (suḷe), a surname predominantly found in Maharashtra.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
wikipedia: Kogi State
Sule Ladipo
Sules
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sule
Spoonemore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Spoonemores
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Sramek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Srameks
Etymology: Borrowed from Czech Šrámek.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Czech.
Srameks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sramek
Spoonemores
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Spoonemore
Staron
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Starons
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Staroń.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Steinbrenner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Steinbrenners
Etymology: Borrowed from German Steinbrenner.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Steinbrenners
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Steinbrenner
Starons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Staron
St Bride's Minor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A community (civil parish) in Bridgend borough county borough, Wales.
Related terms: St Brides Major
heterodomain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterodomains
Etymology: From hetero- + domain.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A heteromeric domain
hydropattern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydropatterns
Etymology: From hydro- + pattern.
Senses: glosses: The pattern of wetting (by rivers or rainfall) of a piece of land
hydropatterns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydropattern
Penunuri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Penunuris
Etymology: Borrowed from Mexican Spanish Peñuñuri, probably from a local language.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Moat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Moats
Etymology: From moat, a topographic surname for someone who lived near a moat.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Penunuris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Penunuri
Kipnis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kipnises
Etymology: Jewish surname from Ukraine.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Kipnises
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kipnis
Matusiks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Matusik
Koslosky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kosloskys
Etymology: Variant of Kozlowski.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Kosloskys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Koslosky
Kosowskis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kosowski
McClenahan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McClenahans
Etymology: Variant of McClanahan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Szczepaniaks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Szczepaniak
McClenahans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McClenahan
Giustos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Giusto
Desvarieux
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Desvarieuxes
Etymology: Borrowed from French Desvarieux. This surname is predominantly found in Haiti.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Freudenheim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Freudenheims
Etymology: Borrowed from German Freudenheim, a Jewish Ashkenazi surname.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Desvarieuxes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Desvarieux
Freudenheims
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Freudenheim
Hultgrens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hultgren
Nibleys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Nibley
Leneghan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Leneghans
Etymology: Variant of Lenahan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Leneghans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Leneghan
Northcutts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Northcutt
Wildmill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Bridgend, Bridgend borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SS9081).
Llanaber
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A coastal village in Barmouth community, Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH6017).
Caergwrle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: locally
ipa: /kaɪˈɡɜːli/
Etymology: From Welsh Caergwrle.
Senses: glosses: A village in Hope community, Flintshire, Wales (OS grid ref SJ3057).
Energlyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Caerphilly in Penyrheol, Trecenydd and Energlyn community, Caerphilly borough county borough, Wales (OS ST1488)
Gundry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gundrys
Etymology: English surname of Norman origin, from a personal name composed of the Proto-Germanic elements *gunþiz (“battle”) and *rīks (“king, ruler”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Norman.
Kantzer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kantzers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Kantzer.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Penyrheol, Trecenydd and Energlyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A community (civil parish) in Caerphilly, Caerphilly borough county borough, Wales.
etiopathophysiologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: etiopathophysiologists
Etymology: From etiopathophysiology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies etiopathophysiology.
brewologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒlədʒɪst
Forms: form: brewologists
Etymology: From brewology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies or practices brewology.
Trecenydd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Caerphilly in Penyrheol, Trecenydd and Energlyn community, Caerphilly borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST1487).
Călmățuiu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Călmățuiu.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Teleorman County, Romania.
mispour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mispours
form: mispouring
form: mispoured
form: mispoured
Etymology: From mis- + pour.
Senses: examples: text: That is, he becomes so dependent on the optical pyrometer that when the pyrometer goes bad –and they all do with the best of checking and with the best of care you are frequently "up against it” for the pourer has become so dependent on it that he mispours on a series of castings.
ref: 1925, Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, page 493:
text: Political debate leads the coffee boy to spill his tray, and the informally dressed figure on the right to mispour his coffee.
ref: 1986, John Brewer, The Common People and Politics, 1750-1790s, page 128:
text: Becoming skilled in domestic activities, such as cooking or even pouring out drinks for everyone, will not go perfectly every time. Juice will be mispoured, egg shells will be mistakenly dropped into the cake mix.
ref: 2000, Paul Bonel, Jennie Lindon, Playwork: A Guide to Good Practice, page 94:
text: Although my favourite tipple of the time (and for many years afterwards) was draught Guinness, my gallantry towards the young lady behind the bar was such that I used to consume any drinks she mis-poured, rather than see her pour them away.
ref: 2013, Martin Rickerd, The Patriotic Art:
glosses: To make a mistake while pouring.
mispour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mispours
Etymology: From mis- + pour.
Senses: examples: text: After one such mispour, the difficulty was corrected by extending the graphite pouring tube almost into the mouth of the mold.
ref: 1955, Henry A. Saller, Robert F. Dickerson, E. L. Foster, Induction-melted Zirconium and Zirconium Alloys, page 6:
text: In the present foundry there are occasional mispours in which the crucible liner and crucible induction heating coils become splattered with metal; also, the mold and lower parts of the furnace sometimes get splattered from a mispour.
ref: 1970, Proceedings of the Conference on Hot Laboratories and Equipment, page 94:
text: I drank all the mispours and bar-keep's rejects, that's when I learned how much I liked drinking in the afternoon.
ref: 2007, Kathryn Trueblood, The Baby Lottery, page 137:
text: Oops may quite appropriately acknowledge a splash of milk on starched linen from a slight mispour but not a stream of boiling water on the thigh of one's hostess.
ref: 2016, Ulrike Stange, Emotive Interjections in British English, page 62:
glosses: The act or result of mispouring.
mispours
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mispour
mispours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mispour
mispouring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mispour
mispoured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mispour
Pentrebach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN8233).
glosses: A village in Troed-y-rhiw community, Merthyr Tydfil borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SO0603).
glosses: A small village near Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taf borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST0889).
glosses: A hamlet in Pontarddulais community, city and county of Swansea, Wales (OS grid ref SN6005).
Great Charter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Great Charter
Etymology: Calque of Medieval Latin Magna Carta, from magna (“great”) + carta (“charter”).
Senses: qualifier: literal
glosses: Magna Carta.
Zhangjiajie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: jängʹjyäʹjyěʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 張家界 /张家界 (Zhāngjiājiè).
Senses: examples: text: In 2007, the Southern Weekly newspaper alleged irregularities in a hotel construction contract awarded to the company by a district government in Zhangjiajie, in Hunan Province.
ref: 2011 December 16, Michael Wines, “Revolt Begins Like Others, but Its End Is Less Certain”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2011:
text: The salamanders are considered a delicacy. In September, a three-day festival in the city of Zhangjiajie celebrated the propertied health benefits of the ancient species, which has lived largely unchanged since the Jurassic period. There's no scientific evidence to support the claims that eating the salamander or using skin products or medicines made from its body have any positive effects on human health, but desire for the traditional treat persists.
ref: 2015 December 16, Rachel Feltman, “Scientists find a 200 year old giant salamander just chilling”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Dec 2015, Speaking of Science:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Hunan, China.
Lubey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lubeys
Senses: glosses: A surname.
release the kraken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: releases the kraken
form: releasing the kraken
form: released the kraken
form: released the kraken
Etymology: From the 1981 film Clash of the Titans.
Senses: examples: text: Science now supports a cognitive appraisal model for understanding why some athletes can take everything in stride while others release the kraken.
ref: 2017, Lesley Paterson, The Brave Athlete: Calm the F*ck Down and Rise to the Occasion, VeloPress, →ISBN, page 171:
text: I haul the pet carrier into the house and release the kraken. Hannibal emerges from the cage, glares at me, and lumbers off toward the kitchen.
ref: 2019, Tess Gerritsen, The Shape of Night: The spine-tingling thriller from the Sunday Times bestseller, Random House, →ISBN, page 15:
text: "I believe we can safely pronounce the gods appeased." "So case closed?" Baird asked. "No more 'Release the Kraken' scenarios for the time being?" "I believe so."
ref: 2020, Greg Cox, The Librarians Trilogy: The Librarians and the Lost Lamp, The Librarians and the Mother Goose Chase, The Librarians and the Pot of Gold, Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 237:
text: She also claimed that governors and secretaries of state had "financial interests" in the voting machine company, and that they or their families had been enriched because of it. "I'm going to release the kraken," she said.
ref: 2021, Brad Raffensperger, quoting Sidney Powell, Integrity Counts, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 57:
glosses: To unleash a greatly destructive force.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see release, Kraken.
Related terms: open Pandora's box
Kraken
Lekh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Ukrainian Лех (Lex), from Polish Lech.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Лех (Lex).
egg Benedict
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eggs Benedict
Senses: examples: text: Cost $1.55, with tip, for coffee and rolls for two, a bowl of oatmeal for her and one egg Benedict for me.
ref: 1917 November 11, Theodore Dreiser, edited by Thomas P. Riggio, James L. W. West III, and Neda M. Westlake, American Diaries, 1902-1926, Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, published 1982, →ISBN, page 204:
text: Some of the recipes included in the folder are “One Egg Benedict” and “All-at-once Spaghetti.”
ref: 1973 June 25, Midland Cooperator, volume 41, number 13, Superior, Wis., page 13:
text: One-Egg Benedict with Sour Cream Hollandaise Sauce / Serves 1 / 1 toasted buttered English muffin half / 1 slice Canadian bacon, grilled / 1 poached egg / 2 tablespoons Sour Cream Hollandaise Sauce
ref: 1987, Johna Blinn, Quick & Delicious Cooking for Two, New York, N.Y.: Baronet Books, Playmore Inc., Publishers and Waldman Publishing Corp., page 16:
text: I ordered eggs benedict - I got ONE egg benedict!
ref: 1999 July 27, SPotter614, “FWIW: My 1st and last Carnival cruise”, in rec.travel.cruises (Usenet):
text: She drove an Italian sportscar and lunched on one egg Benedict[…]
ref: 2000, Starlet: Biographies, Filmographies, TV Credits and Photos of 54 Famous and Not So Famous Leading Ladies of the Sixties, Jefferson, N.C.; London: McFarland Classics, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, →ISBN, page 193:
text: We take one Egg Sardou, pair it with one Egg Benedict, and entice our guests with a dynamic breakfast duo — Eggs Brennan.
ref: 2001, Carl Walker, Brennan’s of Houston in Your Kitchen, Albany, Tex.; New York, N.Y.: Bright Sky Press, →ISBN, page 75:
text: At Chow, you can order one egg benedict and one pancake, accompanied by one cup of coffee and one wine mojito.
ref: 2010 spring, Feast: The Guardian Guide to Bay Area Food and Drink, page 9:
related: word: egg benedict
glosses: singular of eggs Benedict
detective gag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: detective gags
Senses: glosses: A gag fashioned from a piece of cloth pulled over one’s mouth and tied at the back of one’s head.
detective gags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of detective gag
gigabuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gigabucks
Etymology: From giga- + buck.
Senses: glosses: A billion dollars.
gigabucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gigabuck
machinimator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: machinimators
Senses: synonyms: machinimist
glosses: A person who creates machinima.
machinimators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of machinimator
oligarchizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oligarchization
metaspatial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meta- + spatial.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a metaspace.
metasperms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metasperm
psychosyntheses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychosynthesis
German 88
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: German 88s
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: World War II
glosses: A WWII German 88 mm anti-aircraft artillery multi-purpose field gun.
Synonyms: 88
Related terms: French 75
napoleon
Blanchardism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Blanchard + -ism, after Pierre-Louis Blanchard (1758–1826), a French priest and polemicist, one of the leaders of the movement.
Senses: examples: text: In these he concurs with the Irish Bishops in their condemnation of Blanchardism, […]
ref: 1862, F. C. Husenbeth, The Life of the Right Rev. John Milner, page 229:
text: The schism of the Petite Eglise, or Blanchardism as it was called in England, was a terrible blow to him.
ref: 1867 May, “'He Went About Doing Good'”, in The Catholic World, page 265:
text: By the time of the Restoration most of the French had gone, and those who had not were often infirm or tainted with Blanchardism.
ref: 1980 May, Dominic Bellenger, “The English Catholics And The Exiled French Clergy”, in British Catholic History, volume 15, number 3, page 439:
topics: Christianity
glosses: A Catholic schism that emerged in the early 19th century among exiled French clergy who, having fled to England after the French Revolution, opposed the Concordat of 1801, an agreement between Napoleon Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII that sought national reconciliation between the revolutionaries and the Church.
Related terms: Blanchardist
spotlight effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spotlight effects
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The phenomenon by which people tend to believe they are being noticed more than they really are.
Related terms: main character syndrome
spotlight effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spotlight effect
sansula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sansulas
Senses: glosses: A musical instrument consisting of a kalimba mounted on the head of a drum.
sansulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sansula
charnel-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charnel-houses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of charnel house.
charnel-houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charnel-house
dark-side
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dark-sides
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of darkside.
dark-sides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dark-side
Blanchardist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Blanchardists
Etymology: From Blanchard + -ism, after Pierre-Louis Blanchard (1758–1826), a French priest and polemicist, one of the leaders of the movement.
Senses: examples: text: From these acts of the English vicars apostolic, the Blanchardists appealed (irregularly, it is allowed) to the Irish prelates convened in synod at Tullow.
ref: 1824, Francis Plowden, Human Subordination, page 99:
text: Besides the Blanchardists, there remained in England a considerable number of orthodox French priests and laymen, and their presence had a great influence on the Catholic Church in this country, far greater than is represented by the half-dozen churches or missions founded by a few of them.
ref: 1905, Bernard Ward, Catholic London a Century Ago, page 57:
text: That was not the method of Milner, however, who agitated for the most public denunciations of the Blanchardists.
ref: 1984, Joan Connell, The Roman Catholic Church in England, 1780-1850: A Study in Internal Politics, page 109:
topics: Christianity
glosses: A supporter of Blanchardism.
Blanchardists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Blanchardist
intemerated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more intemerated
form: most intemerated
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of intemerate.
alien space bats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ASB
Etymology: Coined in the Usenet newsgroup soc.history.what-if.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: An implausible point of divergence from reality, used as a plot device in alternate history.
firelined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fireline
firelining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fireline
nothing is said that has not been said before
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of there is nothing new under the sun.
love stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: love sticks
Senses: glosses: A penis
love sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of love stick
ethnosectarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ethnosectarian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Ethnosectarian beliefs and policies generally.
grandmother rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: A rule at certain events requiring that one's behaviour and appearance be such that it would not shock even one's grandmother.
grape jelly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A preserve made from sugar and grapes.
glosses: Jelly made from grape juice.
Selvin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Selvins
Etymology: Probably from an unattested Old English personal name *Sǣlwīġ, composed of the elements sǣl (“happiness, prosperity, opportunity”) and wīġ (“war, battle”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Warrick County, Indiana, United States.
rewardee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rewardees
Etymology: From reward + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who is rewarded.
rewardees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rewardee
Comical Ali
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Baghdad Bob
glosses: Nickname for Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf.
Votish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Votic (“Finno-Ugric language”).
synonyms: word: Votic
extra: Finno-Ugric language
Votian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Votic (“Finno-Ugric language”).
synonyms: word: Votic
extra: Finno-Ugric language
Votian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Votians
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Vote (“person from Votia or of Votic descent”).
synonyms: word: Vote
extra: person from Votia or of Votic descent
mealybug destroyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mealybug destroyers
Senses: glosses: A species of ladybug, Cryptolaemus montrouzieri, endemic to Queensland and New South Wales, Australia; it preys on mealybugs and has been widely introduced elsewhere as a biological control.
mealybug destroyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mealybug destroyer
volitionate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: volitionates
form: volitionating
form: volitionated
form: volitionated
Etymology: From volition + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To act according to one's own free will.
volitionated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of volitionate
volitionates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of volitionate
volitionating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of volitionate
DeBonises
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of DeBonis
starry bob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starry bobs
Senses: glosses: A species of skipper butterfly, Iambrix stellifer, family Hesperiidae, of Southeast Asia, having dark underwings marked with a few star-like spots.