cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
camera fright
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camera-fright
Etymology: From camera + fright.
Senses: examples: text: It is a very good training, and ofttimes will cure one of camera-fright, which is the silent sister to stage-fright.
ref: 1914, Motion Picture Classic, volumes 3-4, page 39:
glosses: A state of nervousness caused by appearing or performing in front of a live camera.
Related terms: stage fright
delexicality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From delexical + -ity.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The condition or state of be delexical.
pro-government
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pro-government
form: most pro-government
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of progovernment (“in favor of the government”).
cap-a-pee
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cap-a-pee
form: most cap-a-pee
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of cap-a-pie.
mackerel breeze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mackerel breezes
Senses: examples: text: While they tacked to and fro in the river, under the impulse of a mackerel breeze, the physician expressed his satisfaction, and Pallet was ravished with the entertainment.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: A strong breeze which ruffles the surface of the water, favourable for catching mackerel.
eikoste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek εἰκοστή (eikostḗ), feminine of εἰκοστός (eikostós, “twentieth”).
Senses: glosses: In Ancient Greece, a tax on sea trade at the rate of a twentieth (5%).
Hjelmslev's theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Johannes Hjelmslev.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: a theorem stating that if a set of points P_i lying on a line is isometrically mapped to points P_i' on a different line, then the midpoints of the segments P_iP_i' also lie on a line.
wikipedia: Johannes Hjelmslev
ethnolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ethno- + -lysis.
Senses: examples: text: Taking as a model the theory of “genetic centers” of N. I. Vavilov as adapted by Blanc (as a theory of “cosmolysis” or “ethnolysis”), Laplace constructed a theory of basal polymorphism, according to which Upper Palaeolithic industry was initially unspecialized (a “synthetotype,” innate in the designation borrowed from the paleontologists) and afterwards divided up into specialized complexes.
ref: 1977 March, Leo S. Klejn, “A Panorama of Theoretical Archaeology”, in Current Anthropology, volume 18, number 1, →DOI, page 6:
text: As regards the tourism function rate, experts generally adopt the principle that if the rate exceeds 100, visitors are dominant and impose their habits and culture on their hosts. In this case we observe the phenomenon of ethnolysis, which is well-known to sociologists.
ref: 1996, Louis Dupont, “Planning in Practice in the French West Indies”, in Development Planning: The Test of Facts, Lanham, MD: University Press of America, →ISBN, page 179:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The dissolution or loss of certain characteristics of an ethnic group.
neoevolutionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neo- + evolutionism.
Senses: examples: text: The so-called neoevolutionism or cultural materialism of Childe, however, had been preserved (in the works of R. McC. Adams, Braidwood, and others), as had the environmental school of Crawford, Fox, and Clark. […] Influences from cultural anthropology—neoevolutionism and functionalism—were pulling in the same direction.
ref: 1977 March, Leo S. Klejn, “A Panorama of Theoretical Archaeology”, in Current Anthropology, volume 18, number 1, →DOI, page 4:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A school of anthropology, developed in the mid-20th century, concerned with long-term, evolutionary social change and with the regular patterns of development that may be seen in unrelated, widely separated cultures.
Related terms: neoevolution
neoevolutionary
neoevolutionist
neoevolutionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neo- + evolutionist.
Senses: examples: text: The neoevolutionists were related to the evolutionists of the past century by their search for laws, their interest in general and universal models, their confidence in progress, and their optimistic attitude toward historical reconstruction.
ref: 1977 March, Leo S. Klejn, “A Panorama of Theoretical Archaeology”, in Current Anthropology, volume 18, number 1, →DOI, page 4:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A proponent of neoevolutionism.
Breakwell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
sarcolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sarco- + -lysis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: myolysis
glosses: The lysis or disintegration of muscular tissue
Related terms: sarcolytic
live one's best life
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lives one's best life
form: living one's best life
form: lived one's best life
form: lived one's best life
Senses: glosses: To lead a happy, fulfilling life.
federalwide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From federal + -wide.
Senses: examples: text: “We had at the end of the Obama administration the first-ever federalwide regulatory regime on climate,” said David G. Victor, the director of the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation at the University of California, San Diego. “Most of that, the Trump administration has actively rolled back.”
ref: 2020 September 13, Michael D. Shear, Coral Davenport, “In Visiting a Charred California, Trump Confronts a Scientific Reality He Denies”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Of a federal level; throughout a nation.
cellwide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cell-wide
Etymology: From cell + -wide.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Throughout a cell.
organwide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: organ-wide
Etymology: From organ + -wide.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Throughout an organ.
Bedser
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Bretnall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Langridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Langridges
Etymology: From Old English lang (“long”) + hryċġ (“ridge”).
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Charlcombe parish, Bath and North East Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST7469).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
heliochemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From helio- + chemistry.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The study of the chemical elements present in the Sun.
Slutsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: closest to Russian and Belarusian
ipa: /slutsk/
note: spelling pronunciation
ipa: /slʌtsk/
Forms: form: Sluck
Etymology: Borrowed from Belarusian Слуцк (Sluck) or Russian Слуцк (Sluck).
Senses: glosses: A city in Belarus.
Charlcombe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet and civil parish in Bath and North East Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST7567).
flight information region
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flight information regions
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A specified region of airspace in which a flight information service and an alerting service are provided.
Synonyms: FIR
flight information regions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flight information region
Haris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Harris.
UBCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of UBC
Mountcastle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mountcastles
Etymology: Perhaps a habitational surname from a now lost place, from mount + castle. Alternatively, a further Anglicization of the Irish surname Mountcashell.
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
glosses: An unincorporated community in New Kent County, Virginia, United States.
glosses: A surname from Irish.
Nickol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nickols
Etymology: Variant of Nichol.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
uncrop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncrops
form: uncropping
form: uncropped
form: uncropped
Etymology: From un- + crop.
Senses: examples: text: You can crop any part of a pdf. When you crop it, Preview actually keeps track of the part of the document you deleted and hangs on to it in case you want to uncrop the file, even after you've saved it.
ref: 2010, Robin Williams, John Tollett, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: A Quick Reference Guide to Mastering Snow Leopard! (Peachpit Learning Series), Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press, →ISBN, page 202:
text: In other words, if you rotate a photo, crop it, and then change its contrast, you have to use the Undo command three times—first to undo the contrast change, then to uncrop, and finally to unrotate.
ref: 2014, David Pogue, Lesa Snider, iPhoto: The Missing Manual, page 123:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To undo the cropping of (an image).
uncrops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uncrop
uncropping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uncrop
anticonstipation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: anti-constipation
Etymology: From anti- + constipation.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Preventing or treating constipation.
EUian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EUians
Etymology: From EU (“European Union”) + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: [> The bigotry I get more upset about is that which comes from the en masse ignorance of the American people about the rest of the world]
As opposed to the average EUian's ignorance about the US? Or the average Chinese's ignorance about the EU or the US?
ref: 2004 February 20, Mark Atwood, “Re: Forthcoming Reads”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet):
glosses: A citizen or resident of the European Union.
EUian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From EU (“European Union”) + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to the European Union.
EUians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of EUian
snakess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snakesses
Etymology: From snake + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female snake.
up close
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more up close
form: most up close
Senses: examples: text: Viewed from up close, the image becomes a blur of coloured dots.
glosses: At very close range.
Derived terms: up close and personal
antiretrovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + retrovirus.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
pharmacology
sciences
virology
glosses: Countering retroviruses; antiretroviral.
host cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: host cells
Senses: examples: text: Host cells are forced to produce thousands of copies of the original virus.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A living cell which harbours an infectious agent (such as a virus or bacterium).
host cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of host cell
cusso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kousso.
empiriocriticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A philosophy based on knowledge and experience without any metaphysics
Bolton-by-Bowland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Bolton by Bowland, Gisburn Forest and Sawley Parish Council) in Ribble Valley district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD7849).
overprecaution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overprecautions
Etymology: From over- + precaution.
Senses: glosses: The tendency to exercise more caution than would be necessary.
glosses: An unnecessary safety measure.
Hakluyt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈhæklʊt/
/ˈhæklət/
Forms: form: Hakluyts
Etymology: Possibly ultimately from the forest of Cluid. Between the 14th and 16th centuries, several individuals with the surnames Hakelute, de Hackluit or Hackluit, and Hakeluytt were recorded in Herefordshire.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Hakluytian
close-coupled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kləʊsˈkʌpəld/
Senses: examples: text: Great Northern Railway outer-suburban passenger train of close-coupled four-wheel coaches, hauled by Ivatt 4-4-2 tank locomotive painted grey with white lettering in 1915, as a wartime measure
ref: 1950 April, R. A. H. Weight, “They Passed by My Window”, in Railway Magazine, page 255, photo caption:
text: Actually, as built, these were the motive power ends of two passenger railcars, each being close-coupled to a driving trailer which had only one axle at the locomotive end and a bogie at the other.
ref: 1961 February, “Letters to the Editor: Swiss railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 126:
glosses: Attached, coupled or fixed close together.
bend dexter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bends dexter
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A diagonal band on a coat of arms going (from the viewer's perspective) from top left to the bottom right.
burny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From burn + -y.
Senses: examples: text: My eyes seem very burny, especially the right eye.
ref: 1972, "Italian patient", quoted in Eliot Freidson, Medical Men and Their Work (Walter De Gruyter Incorporated)
text: I suppose I must have read them at some point, but mostly I came into contact with them by means of burnier-than-thou dialogues with old-timers—or anxious, status-conscious noobs—who wanted to point out all the ways in which my burn was the wrong sort of burn.
ref: 2015, Gardner Dozois, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN:
text: Though perhaps not quite “nothing but the truth”. April hadn't been burned. That dubious honour went to her mother. Finding out her husband of fifteen years had been seeing another woman for a decade of that time was about as burny as that kind of thing got.
ref: 2017, Ally Blake, Tell Me True, Tule Publishing, →ISBN:
text: ... with what you do and needs to go because it is weakening the message? Danger zone: Distinction matters, but be sure to choose the right distinction. The biggest burger may work like a charm. But the burniest onion rings probably wouldn't.
ref: 2020, Douglas Kruger, Poverty Proof for Entrepreneurs: 50 ways to dodge the pitfalls and build wealth, Penguin Random House South Africa, →ISBN:
glosses: Tending to burn.
examples: text: The lightbrown dust is very burny on my feet. Just have to put up with it, I suppose, ...
ref: 2003, Tony Roper, Rikki Fulton's The Reverend I.M. Jolly: One Deity at a Time, Sweet Jesus, Black & White Publishing, →ISBN:
text: She lays the backs of her fingers against the girl's cheek — burny, rough — and blows on the sleeping face, rotating her head to let the breeze play over forehead, eyes, nose, cheeks, chin.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 3:
glosses: Very hot.
Elmers End
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The name comes from the Aylmer family of the 13th century.
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Beckenham, borough of Bromley, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3668).
Birchden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Withyham parish, Wealden district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ5336).
Polegate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in Wealden district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ5804).
Blacon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈbleɪkən/
Senses: glosses: A western suburb of Chester, Cheshire West and Chester district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ3868).
knock the stuffing out of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knocks the stuffing out of
form: knocking the stuffing out of
form: knocked the stuffing out of
form: knocked the stuffing out of
Senses: examples: text: Chelsea knocked the stuffing out of Brighton well before the final whistle when they beat them 1-3 at Brighton.
text: Added to these woes was the Treasury's demands for across-the-board train operator cost-cutting of broadly 10%. Passenger rail's slow, patchy and fragile recovery had the stuffing knocked out of it once more.
ref: 2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3:
glosses: To cause (someone, a team) to lose energy and confidence.
plate meal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plate meals
Senses: glosses: A full meal with a fixed set of dishes as components, often but not necessarily served at a restaurant.
McKinnell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /məˈkɪnəl/
Senses: glosses: A surname.
field of scalars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fields of scalars
Senses: topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A scalar field.
fields of scalars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of field of scalars
puttage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʊtɪd͡ʒ/
Etymology: From put + -age, perhaps because the questions posed are often introduced with the expression “I put it to you that …”.
Senses: topics: law
taxonomic: Victoria (Australia)
glosses: The putting of questions to a witness during cross-examination in accordance with the Rule in Browne v Dunn, specifically, questions that present a version of events that contradicts the witness's own testimony in order to elicit denials or explanations.
deal board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deal boards
Senses: examples: text: Some Houses were, indeed, entirely lock'd up, the Doors padlocked, the Windows and Doors having Deal-Boards nail'd over them, and only the Inspection of them committed to the ordinary Watchmen and Parish Oficers […].
ref: 1722 March, H[enry] F[oe] [pseudonym; Daniel Defoe], A Journal of the Plague Year: […], London: […] E[lizabeth] Nutt […]; J. Roberts […]; A. Dodd […]; and J. Graves […], →OCLC:
text: [T]hey were very much surprized to find, upon inquiry, that Pallet could not swim, it being as natural for a Dutchman, as a deal-board,to float upon the surface.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: A light wooden board made of fir or pine.
deal boards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deal board
spitting box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spitting boxes
Senses: examples: text: In the midst of this congregation stood a chafing-dish with live-coals, for the convenience of lighting their pipes, and every individual was accommodated with a spitting-box.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: A receptacle to spit into; a spittoon.
treckskuyt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: treckskuyts
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of trekschuit.
transcendental number theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: 1975, Alan Baker, Transcendental Number Theory, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Mathematical Library), page 48,
Nevertheless, transcendental number theory has led to new results in several associated subjects.
ref: 1998, Transcendental Number Theory and Related Topics: Proceedings of Japan-Korea Joint Seminar:
text: The transcendental number theory was originated by Liouville in 1844 when he showed a method to construct transcendental numbers.
ref: 2020, Saradha Natarajan, Ravindranathan Thangadurai, Pillars of Transcendental Number Theory, Springer, page 21:
topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: The branch of number theory that deals with transcendental numbers.
night-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: night-houses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of night house.
night houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of night house
sarabrand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarabrands
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of sarabande.
Caton-with-Littledale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Lancaster district, Lancashire, England.
Uck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in East Sussex, England, which joins the Sussex Ouse.
Related terms: Uckfield
rail tour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rail tours
Senses: examples: text: To celebrate the centenary next month of the opening of the first section (Forest Gate to Tilbury) of the former London, Tilbury & Southend Railway, the Stephenson Locomotive Society is organising a special rail tour over that route and other lesser-known L.T.S.R. lines.
ref: 1954 March, “Notes and News: S.L.S. Tour of Tilbury Lines”, in Railway Magazine, page 215:
text: A rail tour on Sunday, March 12, in which non-members are cordially invited to participate, will leave St. Pancras at approximately 2 p.m. [...].
ref: 1961 February, “Society column: Branch Line Society”, in Trains Illustrated, page vii:
glosses: Alternative form of railtour.
rail tours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rail tour
ragebait
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ragebaits
form: rage-bait
form: rage bait
Etymology: From rage + -bait (“manipulation to elicit a particular response”). Compare rage farm.
Senses: examples: text: Holonym: outrage culture
text: Near-synonym: outrage porn
text: Even before I spoke with the political scientists, Nerst contended that a better understanding of today’s online argumentation would help people cope with its excesses. “Most people really are tired of shouting matches and want more nuance (according to surveys etc.),” he wrote to me, “and I hope we will develop some cultural immunity towards ragebait and hyperzealotry soon. […]”
ref: 2019 April 7, Jesse Singal, “The New Science of How to Argue—Constructively”, in The Atlantic:
text: Donald Trump and Republicans understand this potent combination of content creation and shamelessness. Whether it’s weekend tweets by the president or Rudy Giuliani’s constant availability to journalists and Fox News hosts, Trumpists flood the zone with misinformation or ragebait.
ref: 2019 November 1, Charlie Warzel, “Can Democrats Compete With Trump’s Twitter Feed?”, in The New York Times:
text: Beware ragebait, social media that traffic in fear. Does that Facebook post make your blood boil? Or does it make you fearful of the future? Those are two of the reddest flags out there. But there are more.
ref: 2019 December 12, Jessica Guynn, “Facebook disinformation in the 2020 presidential election: What you can do to stop its spread”, in USA Today:
text: On any given day, those who get their news from the loudest voices on the right—Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Breitbart News—are bombarded with partisan propaganda, conspiracy theories, and cynical rage-bait.
ref: 2020 January 31, McKay Coppins, “The Conservatives Trying to Ditch Fake News”, in The Atlantic:
text: The whole thing sounds Trumpian because it is. The Trump campaign was unabashed in 2016 and beyond about its plan to “flood the zone” with garbage or ragebait. The strategy worked in part because it engaged and energized his base.
ref: 2020 February 13, Charlie Warzel, “Mike Bloomberg Is Hacking Your Attention”, in The New York Times:
text: So what, precisely, is the new Trump campaign leadership going to do differently? Is there some brilliant stratagem just waiting to be discovered and executed? ¶ Of course not. They’ll keep pumping out those Facebook ads, which will bombard voters who already support him with endless ragebait.
ref: 2020 July 16, Paul Waldman, “Trump reshuffles his campaign. If only he could reshuffle himself.”, in The Washington Post:
antonyms: joybait
glosses: Content that intentionally provokes anger or fear in order to increase viewership or interaction.
Related terms: flamebait
ragebait
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ragebaits
form: ragebaiting
form: ragebaited
form: ragebaited
form: rage-bait
form: rage bait
Etymology: From rage + -bait (“manipulation to elicit a particular response”). Compare rage farm.
Senses: glosses: To produce content that provokes anger or fear in order to increase viewership or interaction.
erythropathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erythropathies
Etymology: From erythro- + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any disease associated with damage to the erythroblasts.
rosso corsa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian rosso corsa (“racing red”), from rosso (“red”), corsa (“racing”).
Senses: glosses: A bright red colour commonly used on sports cars.
hexacyanogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hexa- + cyanogen.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of tricyanotriazine.
synonyms: word: tricyanotriazine
Nettlecombe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Powerstock parish, Dorset, England (OS grid ref SY5195).
glosses: A hamlet in Niton and Whitwell parish, Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ5278).
glosses: A small settlement and civil parish in Somerset West and Taunton district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST0537).
GAGE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Georgetown Alliance of Graduate Employees.
Powerstock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Recorded as Pourestoch, Domesday Book 1086, later Poorstock before becoming Powerstock.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Powerstock and North Poorton Group Parish Council) in Dorset, England (OS grid ref SY5196).
Bălți
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Bălți, from bălți, plural of baltă (“pond, puddle”).
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality of Moldova.
North Poorton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet and civil parish (served by Powerstock and North Poorton Group Parish Council) in Dorset, England (OS grid ref SY5198).
Related terms: South Poorton
climate despair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of climate change + despair.
Senses: examples: text: A lot of people think we don't know how to solve climate change. So we could go from climate denial to climate despair.
ref: 2015 March 24, Jonathan Mingle, quoting Durwood Zaelke, Fire and Ice: Soot, Solidarity, and Survival on the Roof of the World, St. Martin's Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 256:
text: It's impossible to know how many people like Ruttan Walker have experienced climate despair as a mental health crisis, but despair is all around us: in our own momentary but intense reactions to the latest bit of climate news, in pitch-black memes and jokes about human extinction, even in works of philosophy and literature.
ref: 2019 July 11, Mike Pearl, “'Climate Despair' Is Making People Give Up on Life”, in Vice:
text: There appears to be a fine balance for educators between safeguarding the mental health of students who might feel climate despair on the one hand, and inspiring students to take personal climate action on the other by presenting the facts of this unprecedented and existential threat to humanity.
ref: 2020 May 1, Christie Nicole Godsmark, “Inspiring climate action without inducing climate despair”, in The Lancet Planetary Health, volume 4, number 5, →DOI:
synonyms: climate grief
hypernyms: ecological grief
glosses: Depression caused by fear of climate change.
climate grief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of climate change + grief.
Senses: examples: text: Jennifer Atkinson, a professor of environmental humanities at the University of Washington in Bothell, will teach her second course on climate grief next semester. She offers the course to students in the environmental studies program to help prevent the burnout that can develop by confronting the problem daily.
ref: 2018 December 24, Avichai Scher, “'Climate grief': The growing emotional toll of climate change”, in NBC News:
text: Although it is not an official clinical diagnosis, the psychiatric and psychological communities have names for the phenomenon: “climate distress,” “climate grief,” “climate anxiety” or “eco-anxiety.”
ref: 2019 July 18, Victoria Knight, “‘Climate Grief’: Fears About The Planet’s Future Weigh On Americans’ Mental Health”, in Kaiser Health News:
text: I’ve guided workshops and given dozens of public lectures, especially in Finland, my home country. And I’ve met a lot of people with climate grief and eco-anxiety.
ref: 2020 April 2, Panu Pihkala, “Climate grief: How we mourn a changing planet”, in BBC Future:
synonyms: climate despair
hypernyms: ecological grief
glosses: Grief caused by fear of climate change.
county line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: county lines
Senses: glosses: A border between two counties.
glosses: A drug trafficking scheme to transport drugs from cities to smaller towns, especially one that recruits children and uses phone lines.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see county, line.
Related terms: go country
county lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of county line
Instagramable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Instagramable
form: most Instagramable
Senses: examples: text: A centerpiece such as a basket of fruits or a pumpkin vase of flowers would make the dining table look beautiful and Instagramable.
ref: 2016 November 23, Rachel Ramirez, “The Ultimate Friendsgiving Guide”, in The Beacon, Portland, Or.: University of Portland, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Feb 2017:
text: And then there are the chairs. Whimsical, colorful, diverse and tested for both comfort and durability, the wide array of unusual seating options at Changi's T4 are designed to be both inviting and Instagramable.
ref: 2017 November 5, Harriet Baskas, “Singapore: ‘World’s best airport’ opens sparkling Instagram-worthy new terminal”, in USA Today, McLean, Va.: Gannett Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2020:
text: Retailers are also taking a page out of this playbook by creating shopping experiences with Instagramable moments, including photo booths, branded mirrors and neon signs.
ref: 2018 October 10, Kaya Yurieff, “Restaurants Rise to Fame over Instagramable Food”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2019:
text: [A]n ‘Instagram-worthy experience’ or ‘Instagramable’, meaning that the pictures of the food have to be good enough to be posted on Instagram. In this way, customers satisfy their need for an ‘Instagrammable’ moment.
ref: 2019, Sherazade Aissa, “Digitalization in the Restaurant Sector – The French Exception?”, in Jessica Lichy, editor, The Driving Trends of International Business in the 21st Century, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 147:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Instagrammable.
Whitwell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Whitwells
Etymology: From Old English hwīt (“white”) + well.
Senses: glosses: A number of places in England:
A village and civil parish in Bolsover district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK5276).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village in St Paul's Walden parish, North Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire (OS grid ref TL1821).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village in Niton and Whitwell parish, Isle of Wight (OS grid ref SZ5278).
examples: text: The east of the market place is dominated by the tall tower of St Michael's Church, which strangely is not the parish church of Reepham but of neighbouring Whitwell. At one time three churches stood in the churchyard; Reepham's Church of St Mary is joined by its choir vestry to St Michael's, and the third church belonged to Hackford, but has been a ruin since 1543.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 331, about Reepham, Norfolk:
glosses: A number of places in England:
A locality in Reepham parish, Broadland district, Norfolk (OS grid ref TG0921).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A hamlet and civil parish in North Yorkshire, previously in Hambleton district (OS grid ref SE2899).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A small village and civil parish in Rutland (OS grid ref SK9208).
glosses: A city in Marion County, Tennessee, United States.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Instagram-able
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Instagram-able
form: most Instagram-able
Etymology: From Instagram + -able.
Senses: examples: text: I'd hired a pair of social media assistants whose primary job was to identify Instagram-able outfits and locales, before the influence-aspiring hordes found their way to them and turned them into middle-America clichés.
ref: 2020, Janelle Brown, chapter 13, in Pretty Things, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 169:
text: [P]referred destinations are ‘Instagram-able’ or capable of being photographed in ways that generate likes and follows on Instagram.
ref: 2020, Marjorie Kibby, “Instafamous: Social Media Influencers and Australian Beaches”, in Elizabeth Ellison, Donna Lee Brien, editors, Writing the Australian Beach: Local Site, Global Idea, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, page 66:
text: This isn't an accident; everything about this cafe is designed to be Instagram-able.
ref: 2020, Daniel Priestley, “Sales Follow-through: Proactively Follow Up with Prospects to Maximise the Effectiveness of Your Campaign”, in Oversubscribed: How to Get People Lining Up to Do Business with You, 2nd edition, Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, part II (The Campaign-driven Enterprise Method: Turning Principles into Strategy), page 227:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Instagrammable.
Whiteleas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area in the Metropolitan Borough of South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ3663)
Abson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A hamlet in Wick and Abson parish, South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST7074).
climate arson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Transportation Research Board, nominally an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, is engaged in technocratic climate arson with its call for further highway expansion and more car travel.
ref: 2019 April 9, Joe Cortright, “Highway to Hell: Climate denial at the TRB”, in City Observatory:
text: The administration’s gleeful climate arson and ‘let the weak perish’ coronavirus response in particular signal that their worldview is even darker than self-interest alone.
ref: 2020 September 9, Paul Waters-Smith, “Trump’s Corrosive Values Will Spread”, in Current Affairs:
glosses: Intentional acceleration of climate change.
Derived terms: climate arsonist
Old Catton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An outer suburb of Norwich and civil parish in Broadland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG2312).
Related terms: New Catton
climate arsonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: climate arsonists
Etymology: From climate arson + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: He is a hard right wing climate arsonist or nihilist (denier is too kind) whose candidates are variously conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers.
ref: 2019 August 21, Lloyd Alter, “In Canada, Saying Climate Change Is Real Could Get You in Trouble During the Election”, in Treehugger:
text: After all, once the public connects the dots between fossil fuel pollution, climate change disinformation, and the burning urgency of its consequences, Murdoch and his fossil fueled friends will be seen as the true arsonists: climate arsonists.
ref: 2020 January 14, Michael E. Mann, “When It Comes to the Australian Bushfires, Rupert Murdoch is an Arsonist”, in Newsweek:
text: If you give a climate arsonist four more years in the White House, why would anyone be surprised if we have more of America ablaze?
ref: 2020 September 14, Peter Baker, Lisa Friedman, Thomas Kaplan, quoting Joe Biden, “As Trump Again Rejects Science, Biden Calls Him a ‘Climate Arsonist’”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A person who intentionally accelerates climate change.
climate arsonists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of climate arsonist
Dennyloanhead
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Falkirk council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS8080).
CMIA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Central Middle Indo-Aryan.
Blackbrook
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in Warrington borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6290).
glosses: A hamlet in Belper parish, Amber Valley district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3347).
glosses: A hamlet near Chapel-en-le-Frith, High Peak district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK0780).
glosses: A suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ5496).
glosses: A hamlet in East Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK1826).
glosses: A settlement in Newcastle-under-Lyme borough, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ7639)
glosses: A hamlet in Mole Valley district, Surrey, England (OS grid ref TQ1846).
social issue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: social issues
Senses: glosses: A problem that influences many citizens within a society.
social issues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of social issue
Great Artesian Basin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The largest and deepest artesian basin in the world which provides the only source of fresh water through much of inland Australia.
Sant Mat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /sɑnt mɑt/
Senses: glosses: A spiritual movement that originated on the Indian subcontinent during the 13th century CE.
energy medicines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of energy medicine
Pocasset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pəˈkɑs.ət/
Forms: form: Pocassets
form: Pocasset
Etymology: From Algonquian.
Senses: examples: text: Among the patriots of that period, the name of a native of the Pocasset tribe must be enrolled. While the British army had possession of the island of Rhode Island, in 1777, General Prescott, the chief in command of that army, quartered at a ...
ref: 1862, Orin Fowler, History of Fall River: With Notices of Freetown and Tiverton, page 26:
text: Offering refuge to the Pocassets turned out to be disastrous for the Narragansetts. Shortly before the main body of Pocassets arrived among the Narragansetts, on July 15, 1675, the United Colonies had coerced four obscure Narragansetts […]
ref: 2018, Pauline Turner Strong, Captive Selves, Captivating Others: The Politics And Poetics Of Colonial American Captivity Narratives, Routledge, →ISBN, page 91:
text: The English considered the Pocassets one of the strongest groups in the area; Nathaniel Saltonstall called Weetamoo “as Potent a Prince as any round about her, and hath as much Corn, Land, and Men at her Command.”
ref: 2010, Daniel R. Mandell, King Philip's War: Colonial Expansion, Native Resistance, and the End of Indian Sovereignty, JHU Press, →ISBN, page 54:
glosses: A (member of a) Native American tribe, the Fall River Wampanoag.
Pocasset
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /pəˈkɑs.ət/
Etymology: From Algonquian.
Senses: examples: text: Railroad Station, Pocasset, Mass. THE POCASSET RAILROAD STATION. This postcard shows the Pocasset station and freight house on the Woods Hole branch . The station was originally called Wenaumet, and the Pocasset station was ...
ref: 2003, Andrew T. Eldredge, Railroads of Cape Cod and the Islands, Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, page 83:
glosses: A village in Massachusetts.
glosses: A place in Rhode Island.
Pocassets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pocasset
ends in themselves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of end in itself
skirts around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of skirt around
skirting around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of skirt around
skirted around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of skirt around
cabin-fevered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cabin-fevered
form: most cabin-fevered
Etymology: From cabin fever + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having or characterized by cabin fever; restless and irritable as a result of being in a confined space.
candle-end
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: candle-ends
Senses: examples: text: They put a stock of candle-ends into the lantern, hung the latter to the off-side of the load, and directed the horse onward, walking at his shoulder at first during the uphill parts of the way, in order not to overload an animal of so little vigour.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 50:
glosses: The remnant of a candle which has been mostly burned.
candle-ends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of candle-end
stubbard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stubbards
Senses: examples: text: They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 53:
glosses: A variety of apple.
stubbards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stubbard
codeined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From codeine + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Under the influence of the drug codeine.
Texas roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Texas rolls
Senses: examples: text: I was really showy with my money. Willie taught me the trick of carrying a lot of change and jingling it so that people'd think I was rich. And I carried a Texas roll – a wad of bills, mostly ones and fives with a few big bills on the outside and play money on the inside to make it fatter.
ref: 1975, James Carr, Bad: The Autobiography of James Carr, Edinburgh: AK Press / Nabat, published 2002, →ISBN, page 53:
text: And to show off, he used to carry a Texas roll, a huge roll of money made up of one-dollar and five-dollar bills with large denominations on the outside and phoney money inside to increase its size.
ref: 1983, Maurice Cusson, translated by Dorothy R. Crelinsten, Why Delinquency?, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 103:
text: Another black fellow arrived and, Davis recalled, he had “a big roll of money, a Texas roll, looked like a lot of money. The guy says, 'Hey, man, did you ever play three–card monte?' I'm crazy. I'm young.”
ref: 2007, Steve Jacobson, Carrying Jackie's Torch: The Players Who Integrated Baseball—and America, Chicago, IL: Lawrence Hill Books, →ISBN, page 158:
glosses: Synonym of Michigan bankroll.
synonyms: word: Michigan bankroll
long room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long rooms
Senses: examples: text: If our hero, in the long-room, chanced to quit one of the moralists, with whom he had been engaged in conversation, he was immediately accosted by a number of the opposite faction […].
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: An assembly room.
wikipedia: Custom House, City of London
Lord's cricket ground
Texas rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Texas roll
Guide
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Blackburn with Darwen borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD7025).
Guide
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: gwāʹdǔʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 貴德 /贵德 (Guìdé).
Senses: examples: text: She said she had chosen to speak out because she wanted to explain to the public why she left Guide county in Qinghai, where she and her husband Xie Chengde ran a successful honey farm that once featured on state television.
The authorities in Guide said they are now investigating the case following her accusations.
ref: 2021 February 8, Mandy Zuo, “Award-winning Chinese reporter’s account of years of domestic violence causes uproar on social media”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Feb 2021, China:
glosses: A county of Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai, China.
Fearnley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Voce
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Worsbrough Bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE3503).
instructory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From instruct + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: A power instructory; to go and teach all nations.
ref: 1821, Ralph Erskine, The Sermons, and Other Practical Works - Volume 7, page 433:
text: Do you not think that the best thing the Federal Government could do would be to confine its efforts to an investigation; that any bureau it might establish having to do with this question should operate in an advisory or educational capacity, making it purely instructory, and leave the more stringent applications and regulations of those things to local authorities?
ref: 1902, Pure Food Legislation: Hearings Before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the House of House of Representatives, page 55:
text: Eventually we all bumped into each other and when the log jam started to give people the jitters our instructor pointed to a slender crack in the floor, the size of a letter box, and said, in that casual instructory way such people have: "Right team, we can only reach the next section by dropping down through this hole."
ref: 2012, Richard Maun, My Boss Is a Bastard: Overcoming the boss from hell, page 61:
text: He rememberd Kathy was not going to get into touch contact behind him during the drills as she had more important instructor-y things to do instead.
ref: 2013, Jeff Bauer, Wakulla Bones:
text: Reports, tool kits and instructory booklets have been created to advice^([sic]) practitioners on how to implement successful LED strategies.
ref: 2017, Lorena Gazzotti, “Local Governance, Civil Society and Migrants’ Support to Local Development: Perspectives from Morocco”, in Thomas Lacroix, Amandine Desille, editors, International Migrations and Local Governance, page 81:
glosses: Of or relating to instruction; instructive; educational.
instructory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: instructories
Etymology: From instruct + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: Your vict'ries won—your revolutions ended—Your constitution newly made—and mended—Your fund of wit—your intellectual riches—Plans in the closet—in the senate speeches—Will wake this age of heroes, wits, and sages, The first instructory to the latest ages!
ref: 1791, The American museum or universal magazine, page 38:
text: In their opinion, based on their recent experience, this type of teacher in-service training program has supplied an educational medium desperately overdue in the retraining and updating of social science instructory.
ref: 1965, California Council for the Social Studies Review, volumes 5–8, page 15:
glosses: Instruction; curriculum.