cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
saviorism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈseɪvjəɹɪzm/
Forms: form: saviourism
Etymology: From savior + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: On a universal plane, man's belief in his prospective immortality through saviorism has been breached by a theory of knowledge where he cannot accept saviorism; so he becomes responsible for himself […]
ref: 2014, Joseph Isaac Abrahams, Terra Incognita: A Psychoanalyst Explores the Human Soul, page 154:
glosses: Belief in a savior.
examples: text: I show how white men attempted to save brown women from brown men in colonial India. […] Spivak notes the efforts to build discourses of saviorism in thinking about Muslim women and Muslim men.
ref: 2016, Heather Ashley Hayes, Violent Subjects and Rhetorical Cartography in the Age of the Terror Wars:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A worldview according to which some people are saviors and others need to be saved by them.
Related terms: white saviorism
Blobbymania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From blobby + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: At the height of Blobbymania over Christmas 1993, Mr Blobby held the number one spot in the UK singles chart, relegating the boy group Take That into second place.
ref: 1997, Jon Purkis, James Bowen, Twenty-first Century Anarchism:
text: These antics hit the British funny bone, and Blobbymania swept the scepter'd isle, spawning more than 250 Blobby products ranging from dolls to clothing to lunch boxes.
ref: 1994, Funk & Wagnalls new encyclopedia yearbook, page 198:
glosses: Public enthusiasm for Mr Blobby, a comical character on UK television in the 1990s.
Related terms: Blobbygate
Blobbygate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From blobby + -gate.
Senses: glosses: A UK scandal of the 1990s in which a theme park based around the comical TV character Mr Blobby led to large monetary losses and was found to have been inadequately planned and researched before construction.
Related terms: Blobbymania
uncompassionately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uncompassionately
form: most uncompassionately
Etymology: From uncompassionate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without compassion.
tankies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tankie
border reivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of border reiver
niggets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nigget
sheafwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From sheaf + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In sheaves or bundles.
medicobotanical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From medico- + botanical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the medical uses of plants.
Derived terms: ethnomedicobotanical
subheadword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subheadwords
Etymology: From sub- + headword.
Senses: examples: text: The "Terms" number is the total number of words and lexical phrases, including sub-headwords and other nested lexical items, but exclusive of variants.
ref: 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 297:
glosses: A subordinate headword.
subheadwords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subheadword
comb.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: comb. form
glosses: combining
raw_tags: in dictionaries
restorage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + storage.
Senses: examples: the restorage of food
glosses: The act of storing again, or in another place.
schoolground
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schoolgrounds
Etymology: From school + ground.
Senses: glosses: The physical environment of a school.
schoolgrounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schoolground
entomophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entomophobes
Etymology: From entomo- + -phobe.
Senses: examples: text: We're not like the entomophiles who harbor spiders as housemates or derive sexual satisfaction from the tickling of ants. And we're certainly not crazy entomophobes who run panic-stricken into the streets upon encountering a cockroach […]
ref: 2013, Jeffrey Lockwood, The Infested Mind: Why Humans Fear, Loathe, and Love Insects:
text: Violet, 14, was concerned about causing pain to notorious entomophobe villager Blathers: “I never have him talk about the bugs because I know he hates bugs.”
ref: 2022 July 24, Katy E. Pearce, Jason C. Yip, Jin Ha Lee, Jesse J. Martinez, Travis W. Windleharth, Arpita Bhattacharya, Qisheng Li, “Families Playing Animal Crossing Together: Coping With Video Games During the COVID-19 Pandemic”, in Games and culture., →DOI, →PMID, →PMCID, pages 773–794:
text: Salvador Dali is one of the best examples of an entomophobe. He used ants, grasshoppers and flies in his paintings based on his personal experiences.
ref: 2022 August 27, John G. Stoffolano, Jr., “Synanthropic Flies—A Review Including How They Obtain Nutrients, along with Pathogens, Store Them in the Crop and Mechanisms of Transmission”, in Insects., →DOI, →PMID, →PMCID, page 776:
text: Clinical treatment is over 90% effective but only about 12% of entomophobes actively seeks help. […] The typical response of an entomophobe to either proximate or ultimate fears is to fight, flee, freeze, or foster (look after another with them, for example a parent for a child).
ref: 2024 May 24, Vincent H. Resh, “Entomophobia”, in Chit Chat Club, pages 3, 4:
synonyms: insectophobe
glosses: A person who fears or dislikes insects.
Related terms: entomophobia
entomophobic
entomophobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entomophobe
entomophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From entomo- + -philia.
Senses: glosses: A fondness for insects.
Related terms: entomophile
entomophily
dominionistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dominionistic
form: most dominionistic
Etymology: From dominion + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or relating to dominionism.
teachress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teachresses
Senses: examples: text: But Vari said very affectionately anyway, "Bhai ji, why don't you marry my teachress?"
ref: 2000, Anoop Chandola, Discovering Brides, Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 124:
glosses: Alternative form of teacheress.
teachresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teachress
polyvoltine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + -voltine.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of multivoltine.
synonyms: word: multivoltine
divoltine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + -voltine.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bivoltine.
synonyms: word: bivoltine
monovoltine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of univoltine.
synonyms: word: univoltine
hemivoltine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of semivoltine.
synonyms: word: semivoltine
semivoltine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + -voltine.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Less than univoltine; having a brood or generation less often than once per year.
natural gender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: natural genders
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The gender that a noun, etc. would be expected to have, based on attributes of the referent, such as physical sex.
Related terms: grammatical gender
volume integral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: volume integrals
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An integral over a 3-dimensional domain.
Pompeji
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Pompeji, from Oscan 𐌐𐌖𐌌𐌐𐌄 (pumpe, “five”), a reference to its five districts. Doublet of cinque, five, pimp (“five”), ponzu, and punch (“beverage”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pompeii: a city in Italy.
Derived terms: Pompejian
Laddies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Diminutive with -ie.
Senses: examples: text: If Laddies are opening a new betting shop and get McCririck to cut the ribbon, thousands of people will turn up.
ref: 2006, michael adams, “Re: The fat oaf”, in uk.sport.horseracing (Usenet):
text: My deal with Laddies had been signed long before betting opened on the Masterclassics.
ref: 2009, Roy Brindley, Life's a Gamble, page 218:
glosses: Ladbrokes, a British-based betting and gambling company.
teacup puppy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teacup puppies
Senses: synonyms: teacup dog
glosses: A particularly small toy dog.
Hyponyms: teacup terrier
teacup dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teacup dog
anauxotelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From an- + auxotelic.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the characteristic that growth does not continue beyond the flowering region.
flickable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flickable
form: most flickable
Etymology: From flick + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being flicked.
rammable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rammable
form: most rammable
Etymology: From ram + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being rammed.
auxotelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the characteristic that growth continues beyond the flowering region into a leafy shoot.
apartheided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of apartheid
apartheiding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of apartheid
apartheiding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: However, if this yellow-bellied fellow thought, like the Lord of the Earth, his apartheiding rebel regime would have an office in Most Holy Heaven; he was rudely mistaken.
ref: 2010, Fred A. Wilson, THE TWO SEEDS: The Seed of the Woman versus The Seed of the Serpent, →ISBN:
text: I wanted to cling to the image of love as the blending of spirits, as me/lange, as the triumph of the impure, mongrel, conjoining best of us over what there is in us of the solitary, the isolated, the austere, the dogmatic, the pure; of love as democracy, as the victory of the no-man-is-an-island, two's-company Many over the clean, mean, apartheiding Ones.
ref: 2011, Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh, →ISBN, page 289:
text: Leppered stones To build up the apartheiding Mansions Of human Hatred and Doom...NOW I am crying In My Mind Blood tears.
ref: 2015, Fongot Kini-Yen, Pan-Africanism, →ISBN, page 287:
glosses: Responsible for, supportive of, or characteristic of an apartheid.
laxing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lax + -ing.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: The process whereby a tense vowel becomes lax.
laxed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lax + -ed.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Made lax.
raw_tags: of a vowel
Related terms: laxing
Barbadosing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Barbados
Barbadosed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Barbados
Barbadoses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Barbados
tours de force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tour de force
throwability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From throw + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality or degree of being throwable.
nonsealable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + sealable.
Senses: glosses: Not sealable.
antisuperhero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antisuperheroes
Etymology: From anti- + superhero.
Senses: glosses: Someone who is both a superhero and an antihero.
antisuperheroes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antisuperhero
sea pusses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea puss
AB language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined in 1929 by J. R. R. Tolkien, from the first letters of Ancrene Wisse and Bodleian Library.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A variety of Middle English found in the Corpus manuscript and characterized by French and Norse loanwords, colloquial expressions, conservative spelling, and similarities to Old English syntax.
wikipedia: Ancrene Wisse
J. R. R. Tolkien
sea-pusses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea-puss
sea purses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea purse
sea-pooses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea-poose
seapooses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seapoose
grantsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grantsmen
Etymology: From grant + -s- + -man.
Senses: examples: text: A new breed of scientist began to emerge,—the grantsmen,—people whose skills lay not so much in doing good science, but in tuning into the perceptions of the peer group.
ref: 2003, Donald R Forsdyke, Tomorrow's Cures Today?: How to Reform the Health Research:
glosses: One who practices and is skilled at grantsmanship.
grantsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grantsman
Nazarbayev
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakh president.
glosses: A transliteration of the Kazakh surname Назарбаев (Nazarbaev).
buggee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buggees
Etymology: From bug + -ee.
Senses: glosses: The target of a bug (surveillance device); one who is bugged.
buggees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buggee
copaline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copalines
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Partly mineralized copal; an organic substance found as irregular pieces of a pale yellow colour.
Synonyms: copalite
fossil resin
Highgate resin
copalite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copalites
Etymology: From copal + -ite.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of copaline.
synonyms: word: copaline
copalines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copaline
copalites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copalite
curts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of curt
Galtian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Galtian
form: most Galtian
Etymology: From Galt + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Reminiscent of the character John Galt, an individualist philosopher and inventor who stands in opposition to a collectivist socioeconomic structure in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged (1957).
perambulatorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more perambulatorily
form: most perambulatorily
Etymology: From perambulatory + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a perambulatory way.
fluteless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From flute + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a flute (in various senses).
USVI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of United States Virgin Islands.
accoutreing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of accoutre
zymotechnical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zymo- + technical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to zymotechnics.
zymurgical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zymurgy + -ical.
Senses: synonyms: zymurgic
glosses: Relating to zymurgy.
cuddlefests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuddlefest
snugglefest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snugglefests
Etymology: From snuggle + -fest.
Senses: glosses: An encounter featuring a lot of snuggling.
snugglefests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snugglefest
snuggle bunnies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snuggle bunny
perispirits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perispirit
perispirit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perispirits
form: perisprit
Etymology: From peri- + spirit.
In Allan Kardec's 1857 book The Spirits Book (Le Livre des Esprits in original French), the term is defined with a direct analogy to perisperm (“layer of nutritive tissue that surrounds the embryo of a seed in some angiosperms”).
Senses: glosses: A layer of an abstract, ethereal material that is said by spiritualists to serve as the bond between one's spirit and physical body.
Derived terms: perispiritic
perispritic
Related terms: soul
qualities of life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quality of life
standards of living
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of standard of living
cusimanses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cusimanse
cablecasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cablecast
cablecasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cablecast
narrowboaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of narrowboater
diderm
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + -derm.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: (of bacteria) Having two cell membranes.
Coordinate terms: monoderm
diderm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diderms
Etymology: From di- + -derm.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: diderm bacterium
Related terms: Negibacteria
Gram-negative
flat rate tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flat rate taxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flat tax.
Christmas roses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Christmas rose
wind roses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wind rose
automysophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + mysophobia.
Senses: examples: text: Fears of flatulence with a less directly social focus were discussed by Kubota (1987), who used a form of hypnotic treatment to overcome fears of flatulence in an adolescent Japanese girl. Her dread was conceptualized as automysophobia, the pathological fear of being dirty.
ref: 2012, Nick Haslam, Psychology in the Bathroom, →ISBN, page 59:
text: His father physically abused him as a child (see Kürten and Gein), his mother mollycoddled him (see Gein), and his four sisters taunted and bullied him for his effeminacy, hypochondria, and fear of dirt —he suffered from automysophobia (fear of being dirty) and mysophobia (fear of dirt).
ref: 2014, Steve Finbow, Grave Desire: A Cultural History of Necrophilia, →ISBN:
text: "What're you in for?" he asked Billy, sounding like a hardened convict enquiring whether Billy had been incarcerated for housebreaking or carjacking. “I'm in for Automysophobia fear of getting dirty. Which can be a real bummer when playing footie. Just one speck of mud on my shorts and I freak!"
ref: 2015, Paul Shaw, Captain Cat and The Umbrella Kid: In Fear Can Be Fatal & The Aunt From The Blood Lagoon, →ISBN:
glosses: An abnormal fear of being dirty.
axical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Because a ton weight of iron let fall, for instance, from a mile high, would, according to their theory, have to be carried on by the Earth's attraction at the extravagant rate of 1,133 miles a minute, besides partaking of the axical turning of the Earth, to fall upon the spot it was immediately over; which is impossible to be conceived that the Earth has such discriminating attraction: nay, independently of axical motion,—as the globe is stated to fly faster than a ton weight could possibly fall, it is evident, that it would never drop upon the spot it was let fall over, but would according to the quicker rate of the Earth's flying than of the body's falling, be left behind.
ref: 1834, William Woodley, A treatise on the divine system of the universe, page 5:
text: The most probable hypothesis that has yet been proposed to account for the examples before us of stellar changeableness is that of axical rotation.
ref: 1846, Thomas Milner, The Gallery of Nature, page 172:
text: Appearance of the Posterior Pituitary Under normal conditions, in 50% of the cases the posterior pituitary appears on thin axical sections as an oval zone, less dense than the anterior pituitary and in direct contact with the anterior surface of the dorsum sellae (Bonneville).
ref: 2012, Jean-Francois Bonneville, F. Cattin, Jean-Louis Dietemann, Computed Tomography of the Pituitary Gland, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of axial.
bowguard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bowguards
form: bow guard
form: bow-guard
Etymology: From bow + guard.
Senses: examples: text: There was another big piece of coral that he later on made into a bowguard.
ref: 1996, James Ostler, Marian E. Rodee, Milford Nahohai, Zuni: a village of silversmiths, →ISBN, page 121:
text: A silver bowguard made by Loloma in 1968 has one side rough and unpolished and another highly polished.
ref: 2007, Diana Pardue, Contemporary Southwestern Jewelry, →ISBN, page 13:
text: He spoke so earnestly that she could almost have believed him, had not that bowguard on his wrist proved him false.
ref: 2014, Andre Norton, Wizard's Worlds: A Short Story Collection, →ISBN:
glosses: A protective cover worn on the wrist or forearm, sometimes extending to partially cover the hand, which provides protection from the snap of a released bowstring.
bowguards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bowguard
bow-guard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bow-guards
form: bow guard
Senses: examples: text: That man who is now stepping from the wet logs to the bow-guards of the Marion, how can he ever cut down a tree?
ref: 1878, Belford's Monthly Magazine - Volume 3, page 660:
text: It is possible that the bronze part of the bow-guard was embedded in a wooden armature in some way that obviated the use of pegs or edging on the bronze itself.
ref: 1978, Philip Denwood, Arts of the Eurasian Steppelands, →ISBN, page 4:
text: It was part of a scheme that included aluminum rubrails welded the length of the hull and a Schedule 80 bow-guard (top photo page 216).
ref: 2003, Scott Bannerot, Wendy Bannerot, Cruisers Handbook of Fishing 2/E, →ISBN, page 214:
glosses: A protective structure on the bow of a boat.
examples: text: Having noted T'ang Lan's remarks, Watson updated and amended his earlier views and accepted the device as a pi, or bow-guard, somehow used to "straiten" [sic] or guard an unstrung compound bow.
ref: 1991, Julia Ching, R. W. L. Guisso, Sages and Filial Sons, →ISBN, page 183:
text: When you get married you're supposed to be bashful and eat like this,' and he shaded his eyes with his left wrist, where a bow-guard would be worn.
ref: 1995, John Miles Foley, The Singer of Tales in Performance, →ISBN, page 31:
text: 'Where did you get your bow-guard?' 'I made it.'
ref: 2004, Oliver La Farge, Laughing Boy, →ISBN, page 13:
glosses: Alternative form of bowguard.
bow-guards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bow-guard
Zonaras
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zonar.
Etymology: Borrowed from Byzantine Greek Ζωνᾰρᾶς (Zōnărâs).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Byzantine Greek — famously held by
glosses: A surname from Byzantine Greek — famously held by:
John Zonaras (fl. 12th C.), Byzantine Constantinopolitan chronicler and theologian
Zonar.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Zonaras.
bow guard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bow guards
Senses: examples: text: The bow guard— called ketoh by the Navajo— is worn around the wrist while shooting with a bow and arrow to protect from the stinging snap of a released bowstring.
ref: 1999, Lois Sherr Dubin, Togashi, & Paul Jones, North American Indian jewelry and adornment, page 488:
text: Totally plain blade and simple two-branch, single-knuckle bow guard with evidence of crude sand casting.
ref: 2006, John F. Graf, Warman's Civil War Collectibles Field Guide, →ISBN, page 372:
text: The rawhide bow guard was laced up inside, trimmed with silver buttons, feathers, and paint.
ref: 2008, Thomas W. Kavanagh, Comanche Ethnography, →ISBN:
text: She tugged the cloth napkin off the bow guard, sitting on the table.
ref: 2011, Michelle L. Levigne, The Rift War, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of bowguard.
examples: text: The only metal parts are the rudder hinges and bow guard. Wooden decking, which snaps into place, gives the boat rigidity.
ref: 1968, Machine Design - Volume 40, Issues 21-25, page 54:
text: Two layers of 3/8" plywood are laminated to the bottom, and spray rails and a hard wood bow guard are added before the hull is flipped right side up.
ref: 2002, Pacific Fishing - Volume 23, Issues 7-12, page 140:
text: Clambering on to the conning tower, he surveyed the boat and discovered that part of the bow guard had sheered off, leaving a twisted claw of metal.
ref: 2013, Stephen Snelling, VCs of the First World War, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of bow-guard.
examples: text: The bow guard was watching the other boat as it floated among several fishing boats waiting for the bridge to open.
ref: 2003, Lawrence McNally, Walk a Deadly Trail, →ISBN, page 204:
text: He glanced toward the bow to see the four bow guards rushing back, clambering over slaves with whips and clubs in hand.
ref: 2012, Troy Denning, Faces of Deception, →ISBN:
text: He cupped his hands around his mouth and shouted to the bow guard.
ref: 2014, Richard Dawes, Storm Rider, A Tuscon Kid Western, →ISBN, page 25:
glosses: A guard who is stationed at the bow of a ship.
bow guards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bow guard
knock one out of the ballpark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knocks one out of the ballpark
form: knocking one out of the ballpark
form: knocked one out of the ballpark
form: knocked one out of the ballpark
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hit one out of the ballpark.
knock one out of the park
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knocks one out of the park
form: knocking one out of the park
form: knocked one out of the park
form: knocked one out of the park
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hit one out of the ballpark.
knock it out of the ballpark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knocks it out of the ballpark
form: knocking it out of the ballpark
form: knocked it out of the ballpark
form: knocked it out of the ballpark
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hit one out of the ballpark.
knock it out of the park
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knocks it out of the park
form: knocking it out of the park
form: knocked it out of the park
form: knocked it out of the park
Senses: examples: text: D’Arcy continues to knock it out of the park—and make me weep—with their scene opposite Considine later that night.
ref: 2022 October 10, Jenna Scherer, “House Of The Dragon drops its best episode yet”, in AV Club:
glosses: Alternative form of hit one out of the ballpark.
Litchfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Litchfields
Etymology: From Old English Lyccid, from Common Brittonic, Letocetum, a placename meaning "greywood" + feld (“field”).
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A village in Litchfield and Woodcott parish, Basingstoke and Deane district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU4653).
glosses: A placename:
A community in Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
glosses: A placename:
A municipality in Pontiac Regional County Municipality, southwestern Quebec, Canada.
glosses: A placename:
A local government area in the Northern Territory, Australia; in full, Litchfield Municipality.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Lassen County, California.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A town and borough in Litchfield County, Connecticut.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Montgomery County, Illinois.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Crawford County, Kansas.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Kennebec County, Maine.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A city and township in Hillsdale County, Michigan.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Meeker County, Minnesota.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Meeker County, Minnesota.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Sherman County, Nebraska.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Herkimer County, New York.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Medina County, Ohio.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Bradford County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
Ellipsis of Litchfield County.
glosses: A surname.
glosses: Misspelling of Lichfield.
Derived terms: Litchfield and Woodcott
Litchfield County
Related terms: Lichfield
South China
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: DAIREN, South Manchuria, Oct. 12. -- South China with its Communists, the Yangtse Valley with rampant anti-foreignism and incessant civil warfare and Peking with Marshal Chang Tso-lin attempting to consolidate his dictatorship and found a stable central Government -- these seem to be the major constituents of the Chinese problem until one visits Manchuria.
ref: 1927 November 13, Hallett Abend, “GRIM STRUGGLE ON TO RULE MANCHURIA; China, Russia and Japan Bid for Supremacy of Vast Domain, Realizing It May End in War. DAIREN A SPOTLESS CITY Built by Japan, It Is Clean and Modern In Contrast to Dirty and Inefficient Towns of South. GRIM STRUGGLE ON TO RULE MANCHURIA”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Jan 2024, EDITORIALE, page 1:
text: Confronted with the challenge of economic restructuring in the context of the noninterventionist policy of the Hong Kong government, local manufacturers had amore limited ability to pursue technological upgrading than their counterparts in Taiwan, South Korea, and Singapore had. Their survival strategy was to take advantage of the new availability of the massive supply of cheap labor and cheap industrial land in South China.
ref: 1998, Ching Kwan Lee, Gender and the South China Miracle, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 45–46:
text: The seasonal change of the winds, in the Asian monsoon system, drove long distance mobility on the south China coast.
ref: 2001, Carolyn Cartier, Globalizing South China, Blackwell Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 89:
text: As they spent much time in prayer for the nearly eight million people of Kwangsi, South China, God began calling some of them to that field of service so that within the next five years seventeen from the same class were serving in South China.
ref: 2007, Martha L. Charles Pepper, “Missionary Training, 1893-1896”, in All the Way to China: The story of Isaac L. Hess and his Landis cousins who went to South China as pioneer missionaries in the 1890s, Morgantown, PA: Masthof Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 33:
glosses: Southern China.
examples: text: Helga Cotta, 57, from South China, Maine, said: “Hunting season is like my vacation. It’s so solitary, you can leave all your problems at home and just go out and watch the woods come alive around you in the morning.”
ref: 2007 January 20, Sarah Mahoney, “In U.S., women go wild for hunting”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2022, U.S. News:
glosses: A village in China, Kennebec, Maine.
blood fluke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood flukes
form: blood-fluke
Senses: glosses: schistosome (parasitic worm of the genus Schistosoma)
blood flukes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blood fluke
ap.
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of apud, used in scholarly works to cite a reference at second hand.
ascr.
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Etymology: Short for Latin āscrīptus (“ascribed to”).
Senses: glosses: Ascribed to.
cit.
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cit
Etymology: From Latin citātus (“cite, summon”).
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of cited.
Related terms: loc. cit.
cit.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cits.
form: cit
Etymology: Abbreviation
Senses: examples: Cit. in the Community merit badge
glosses: Abbreviation of citizenship.
glosses: Abbreviation of citation.
PUAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PUA
nonfinality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + finality.
Senses: glosses: The quality of not being final.
nonquaternary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + quaternary.
Senses: glosses: Not quaternary.
epitaphless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From epitaph + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without an epitaph.
backronymic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From backronym + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or having the form of, a backronym.
fossil resin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: copaline
meconial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the meconium.
nouthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nuˈθɛtɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Etymology: From Ancient Greek νουθετέω (nouthetéō, “to admonish”).
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Being or relating to a form of Evangelical Protestant pastoral counseling based upon the Bible and focused on Christ.
nucleus ambiguus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A group of large motor neurons situated deep in the medullary reticular formation. It contains the cell bodies of nerves that innervate the muscles of the soft palate, pharynx, and larynx.
nucleus ruber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin
Senses: glosses: Synonym of red nucleus.
synonyms: word: red nucleus
nocturnal pollution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːʃən
Forms: form: nocturnal pollutions
Etymology: So called because regarded as unclean.
Senses: glosses: nocturnal emission
nocturnal pollutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nocturnal pollution
nodding thistle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nodding thistles
Senses: glosses: Synonym of musk thistle.
synonyms: word: musk thistle
nodding thistles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nodding thistle
musk thistle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: musk thistles
Etymology: First attested in 1633; named for the scent of its immature flower heads.
Senses: examples: text: The Muske-Thistle I haue seene growing about Deptford, and (as far as my memory serues me) it is very like to the third here described: it growes better than a cubit high, with reasonable large leaues, and also heads which are a little soft or downy, large, with purple floures: the heads before the floures open smell strong of muske.
ref: 1633, John Gerard, Thomas Johnson, The herball, or, Generall historie of plantes, volume 2, page 1176:
text: Musk thistle is spreading rapidly in areas of eastern Idaho, especially in counties bordering Wyoming and Montana. At the present time there are localized infestations extending from Bear Lake to the Lolo Pass in northern Idaho.
ref: 1966 February 24, Robert E. Higgins, Musk thistle and its control, University of Idaho:
synonyms: nodding thistle
glosses: A biennial herb of species Carduus nutans, in the sunflower family Asteraceae with a large drooping purple flower head, native to parts of Eurasia and North Africa and a common invasive species elsewhere.
musk thistles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of musk thistle
gag rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gag rules
Senses: glosses: A rule that limits or forbids the consideration or discussion of a particular topic by members of a legislative or decision-making body.
gag rules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gag rule
goofus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goofuses
Etymology: Appears to be a fanciful extension of goof, perhaps taking its ending from ignoramus.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of doofus.
synonyms: word: doofus
glosses: Synonym of couesnophone.
synonyms: word: couesnophone
Related terms: goofus bird
goofuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goofus
Sonrai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sonrais
form: Sonrai
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Songhai.
Sonrai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Songhai.
Sonrais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sonrai
unsprouted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + sprouted.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: ungerminated; without sprouts (of seed)
Sanone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Zannone.
Zannone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡saˈnəʊneɪ/
Forms: form: Sanone
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Zannone.
Senses: glosses: An island in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the west coast of Italy, one of the Pontine Islands.
aviphile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aviphiles
Etymology: From avi- + -phile.
Senses: glosses: A person who loves birds, a bird-lover.
Synonyms: ornithophile
birdlover
Derived terms: aviphilic
ornithophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ornithophiles
Etymology: From ornitho- + -phile.
Senses: glosses: A person who loves birds; a bird-lover.
Synonyms: birdlover
aviphile
gerontosexuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geronto- + sexuality.
Senses: glosses: Sexual attraction towards old people.
Related terms: gerontophilia
aneusomaty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Environmental stress-induced inter and intra individual variability in chromosome number, aneuploidy and aneusomaty were early found in D.
ref: 2015 September 23, “Molecular Cytogenetic Analysis of Deschampsia antarctica Desv. (Poaceae), Maritime Antarctic”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Chromosome variation within an individual organism.
Related terms: aneusomy
autosexuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + sexuality.
Senses: glosses: Sexual attraction toward oneself.
anteriorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: anteriorizes
form: anteriorizing
form: anteriorized
form: anteriorized
Etymology: From anterior + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: In support of the latter idea, the work in Xenopus found that Rdh10 mRNA did not produce overt phenotypes alone, but could anteriorize embryos when co-injected with Aldh1a2 mRNA, indicating these two enzymes together are necessary to enhance the production of RA [29 ].
ref: 2015 September 23, “Rdh10a Provides a Conserved Critical Step in the Synthesis of Retinoic Acid during Zebrafish Embryogenesis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: To inhibit posteriorization
Derived terms: anteriorization
dorsoanteriorize
antinociceptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Animal studies in cats and rats have shown that pain thresholds increase in hypertensive groups compared to normotensives, and production of antinociceptions also supports hypertension-related hypalgesia [11 ].
ref: 2015 September 23, “Association between Hypertension and the Prevalence of Low Back Pain and Osteoarthritis in Koreans: A Cross-Sectional Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of antinociception
ProgID
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ProgIDs
Senses: topics: Windows
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Abbreviation of programmatic identifier (string that represents the underlying Clsid).
Related terms: ClsID
archesporial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From archesporium + -al.
Senses: examples: text: However, nuclear events in meiotic cells are readily distinguishable from those in mitotic cells, and the developmental program of archesporial cells and meiocytes is independent of successive somatic cell development, at least for the progression into prophase I.
ref: 2015 September 23, “Global Identification of Genes Specific for Rice Meiosis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to the archesporia, cells of the sporangium that give rise to spores.
Derived terms: subarchesporial
astakine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astakines
Etymology: From Astacus + -kine.
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of cytokines found in freshwater crayfish
astakines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Small cell signaling molecules like astakines play a role in hemocyte proliferation [68 ,69 ].
ref: 2015 September 23, “The Involvement of Hemocyte Prophenoloxidase in the Shell-Hardening Process of the Blue Crab, Callinectes sapidus”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of astakine
Clsid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Clsids
Senses: topics: Windows
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Abbreviation of class identifier.
Related terms: ProgID
baroreceptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From baro- + receptive.
Senses: examples: text: There is also evidence that unstimulated baroreceptive sensitivity is related to pain thresholds [33 ].
ref: 2015 September 23, “Association between Hypertension and the Prevalence of Low Back Pain and Osteoarthritis in Koreans: A Cross-Sectional Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Sensitive to changes in blood pressure.
chloranthale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chloranthales
Senses: glosses: Any angiosperm of the order Chloranthales
Clsids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Clsid
chloranthales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The infA gene of rosids differs from that of most asterids (Helianthus, Guizotia, Lactuca and Jacobaea), monocots (Dioscorea), magnoliids (Drimys) and chloranthales (Chloranthus) owing to the presence of the pseudogene, infA, in Elaeagnus and other rosids.
ref: 2015 September 23, “The Chloroplast Genome of Elaeagnus macrophylla and trnH Duplication Event in Elaeagnaceae”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of chloranthale
copiotrophs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Alteromonadales are also considered R-strategist copiotrophs, that would benefit from a high nutrient environment surrounding the copepod relative to seawater.
ref: 2015 September 23, “Stable Associations Masked by Temporal Variability in the Marine Copepod Microbiome”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of copiotroph
ProgIDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ProgID
ectobiont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ectobionts
Etymology: From ecto- + -biont.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any organism fixed to the outside of the host's body
ectobionts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Some Pseudoalteromonas spp. have chitinases [38 ], which could provide a carbon source from the copepod exoskeleton, as is the case for many Vibrio spp., however our methods cannot distinguish whether the detected bacteria were present as endo- or ectobionts on the copepods.
ref: 2015 September 23, “Stable Associations Masked by Temporal Variability in the Marine Copepod Microbiome”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of ectobiont
endocortical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + cortical.
Senses: examples: text: Histological measurements of the endocortical bone of the femur also began two visual fields below the growth plate and were continued to the diaphysis, with the diaphysis defined as the midway point between the ends of the femur.
ref: 2015 September 23, “Osteocytes, not Osteoblasts or Lining Cells, are the Main Source of the RANKL Required for Osteoclast Formation in Remodeling Bone”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: On the inside of the cortex (especially of bone)
Related terms: endocortex
frontoposterior
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹiə(ɹ)
Etymology: From fronto- + posterior.
Senses: examples: text: Recent findings by van Schouwenburg, den Ouden & Cools [23 ,42 ] showed that the striatum has a modulatory influence on frontoposterior connectivity.
ref: 2015 September 23, “Directed Communication between Nucleus Accumbens and Neocortex in Humans Is Differentially Supported by Synchronization in the Theta and Alpha Band”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Between the front and the back
glucometabolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gluco- + metabolic.
Senses: examples: text: This work provides the context for continued mechanistic studies of the CX3CL1 pathway, in concert with other chemokines, on glucometabolic as well as cardiovascular traits, specific interrogation of human chemokine genetics in these traits and the potential for development of novel therapies targeting these pathways.
ref: 2015 September 23, “Metabolic Effects of CX3CR1 Deficiency in Diet-Induced Obese Mice”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to the metabolism of sugars
immunosensitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more immunosensitive
form: most immunosensitive
Etymology: From immuno- + sensitive.
Senses: examples: text: Hyaline cells exhibit α-CasPPO-hemo immunostaining only at postmolt stage (Fig 5A and 5B ; n = 5–6), while semigranulocytes are immunosensitive only at early premolt and postmolt stages.
ref: 2015 September 23, “The Involvement of Hemocyte Prophenoloxidase in the Shell-Hardening Process of the Blue Crab, Callinectes sapidus”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: sensitive to allergens; allergic
Related terms: immunosensitivity
microslide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microslides
Etymology: From micro- + slide.
Senses: examples: text: Samples were placed on a microslide and observed and photographed under a fluorescence microscope (DMLB, Leica, Germany) equipped with a digital camera (Power Shot S50, Canon, Japan).
ref: 2015 September 23, “Systematic Analysis of Pericarp Starch Accumulation and Degradation during Wheat Caryopsis Development”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: microscope slide
prohypertensive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prohypertensive
form: most prohypertensive
Etymology: From pro- + hypertensive.
Senses: examples: text: It is unlikely however, that involvement of vasopressin and its receptor would serve as the only mechanism to account for the prohypertensive effects of OT in the current study.
ref: 2015 September 23, “Prolonged Subcutaneous Administration of Oxytocin Accelerates Angiotensin II-Induced Hypertension and Renal Damage in Male Rats”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That produces hypertension
Related terms: hypertension
normotension
prehypertensive