cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
reclarifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reclarification
full-flowing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more full-flowing
form: most full-flowing
Etymology: From full + flowing.
Senses: glosses: Flowing with fullness, as a stream, or as robes.
glosses: Having free vent.
full-souled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more full-souled
form: most full-souled
Etymology: From full + souled.
Senses: glosses: Magnanimous; of noble disposition.
full-summed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more full-summed
form: most full-summed
Etymology: From full + summed.
Senses: glosses: Complete; summed up.
full-born
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more full-born
form: most full-born
Etymology: From full + born.
Senses: glosses: Well or nobly born.
fullam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʊləm/
homophone: Fulham
rhymes: -ʊləm
Forms: form: fullam
form: fullams
form: fullan
form: fullom
form: fulham
Etymology: From Fulham, a London suburb, which during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I was the most notorious place for blacklegs in all of England. Loaded dice were supposed to have been chiefly made there.
Senses: examples: text: Captaine, you perceiue how neere both of vs are driuen, the dice of late are growen as melancholy as a dog, high men and low men both prosper alike, langrets, fullams, and all the whole fellowshippe of them will not affoord a man his dinner, some other means must be inuented to preuent imminent extremitie.
ref: 1594, Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller:
text: Let vultures gripe thy guts! For gourd and fullam holds / And high and low beguiles the rich and poor.
ref: a. 1597, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 1, scene 3:
text: Who! he serve? 'sblood, he keeps high men, and low-men, he! he has a fair living at Fullam.
ref: 1599, Ben Jonson, Every Man out of His Humour, act 3, scene 1:
glosses: A false die; a die intentionally loaded, or unevenly weighted, so that it always rolls a specific number.
glosses: A sham; a hoax; a make-believe.
Synonyms: sense: false die
word: gourd
sense: false die
word: langret
sense: false die
word: loaded dice
sense: sham
word: deception
Hyponyms: sense: false die
english: loaded for high number
translation: loaded for high number
word: highmen
sense: false die
english: loaded for low number
translation: loaded for low number
word: lowmen
sense: false die
english: loaded for high number
translation: loaded for high number
word: uphills
fullams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fullam
eczemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eczema + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to eczema.
Derived terms: antieczemic
antieczema
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛksɪmə
-ɛɡzɪmə
-iːmə
Etymology: From anti- + eczema.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Countering eczema.
antieczemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + eczemic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Countering eczema.
antieczematous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + eczematous.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Countering eczema.
antidermatitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + dermatitic.
Senses: topics: dermatology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Countering dermatitis.
antidermatotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + dermatotic.
Senses: glosses: Countering dermatosis.
antigingivitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + gingivitic.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Countering gingivitis.
antihepatitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + hepatitic.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Countering hepatitis.
curfuffle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: curfuffles
form: curfuffling
form: curfuffled
form: curfuffled
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kerfuffle.
fuffle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuffles
Senses: glosses: Apheretic form of kerfuffle.
fuffle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fuffles
form: fuffling
form: fuffled
form: fuffled
Senses: glosses: Apheretic form of kerfuffle.
stop-and-search
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: stop-and-frisk
form: stop and search
Senses: examples: text: Adding to the department's problems is a long-running controversy over a stop-and-search policy that includes random searches of young black men.
ref: 1990 January 18, Constance L. Hays, “3 Cases Raise Questions on Boston Police Methods”, in New York Times, retrieved 20 Aug 2013:
text: The high court renewed its decision to throw out evidence in a 1992 Montgomery County traffic stop-and-search case that uncovered a small amount of marijuana and a methamphetamine pill.
ref: 1997 November 13, Rob Modic, “Motorist Must Know "Free to Go"”, in Dayton Daily News, USA, retrieved 20 Aug 2013:
text: Both parties support ‘stop and search’ – also known as ‘sus’ laws. Under these laws, the police can stop anyone under ‘reasonable’ suspicion that they could commit a crime.
ref: 2008, Simon Assaf, “London mayor elections: Ken and Boris launch a war on young people”, in Socialist Worker, UK, retrieved 20 Aug 2013:
text: A U.S. judge has ruled the New York Police Department has violated the rights of tens of thousands of people by intentionally discriminating against racial minorities with its controversial "stop-and-search" policy.
ref: 2013 August 12, “US Court says NYPD ‘Stop-and-Search’ Violates Rights”, in Voice of America, retrieved 20 Aug 2013:
topics: government
law
law-enforcement
glosses: Of or pertaining to laws or policing practices, found in some jurisdictions, which permit a law enforcement officer to temporarily detain and search a member of the public based on the officer's suspicions.
stop-and-search
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stops-and-searches
form: stop-and-searches
form: stop-and-frisk
form: stop and search
Senses: examples: text: Read literally, he simply ruled that a cop made a bad collar, a stop-and-search without "reasonable suspicion."
ref: 1996 April 5, "The Baer Truth: It Was A Shameless Judicial Cave-in, New York Daily News (retrieved 20 August 2013)
glosses: A police action of this type.
Related terms: racial profiling
sus law
stop-and-frisk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Prospective presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg apologized for New York City’s stop-and-frisk practices at a huge black church in Brooklyn last week
ref: 2019 November 18, Derecka Purnell, “Bloomberg's weak apology for stop-and-frisk is too little, too late”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Synonym of stop-and-search.
synonyms: word: stop-and-search
stop-and-frisk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stop-and-frisks
form: stops-and-frisks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of stop-and-search.
synonyms: word: stop-and-search
stop and frisk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of stop-and-search.
synonyms: word: stop-and-search
stop and frisk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stop and frisks
form: stops and frisks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of stop-and-search.
synonyms: word: stop-and-search
stop and search
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stop-and-search.
stop and search
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stop-and-search.
witterings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wittering
swimshorts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swim shorts
Etymology: From swim + shorts.
Senses: glosses: shorts designed for aquatic sports or as beachwear, typically worn by males
Hypernyms: swimwear
Related terms: boardshorts
nomen appellativum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nomina appellativa
Senses: examples: text: But a name which belongs to several things of one kind is called a common name (nomen appellativum); as flumen, flood; rex, king; homo, man.
ref: 1825, George Walker (translator, editor), I. J. G. Scheller (German author), A copious Latin grammar. Translated from the German, with alterations, notes and additions. In two volumes. Vol. I., London, p. 38
text: Not only because 'omnipotence' as a single property is found in the creed, but because 'omnipotence' as a single property is found in the creed, but because it is more appropriate and revealing perhaps than 'absolute causality' (Schleiermacher) or 'infinity' (Pannenberg appealing to Gregory of Nyssa) which for reasons internal to theology makes it possible to engage with the study of religions and philosophy of religion; and might make concrete a provisional paraphrase of the word 'God' understood as a nomen appellativum, not least as it is used in the term 'all-determining reality'.
ref: 2002, Oswald Bayer, “Hermeneutical Theology. In: Petr Pokorný”, in Jan Roskovec, editor, Philosophical Hermeneutics and Biblical Exegesis: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 153, Mohr Siebeck, page 112f:
text: The name "Huzzulen" is probably only used in Bukovina and Moldavia. It is derived from the old Davian word "Huzz," which signifies robber, and may therefore originally, like many other names of nations, have rather been used as a Nomen Appellativum than as a Nomen proprium.
ref: 1844, J. G. Kohl, Austria. Vienna, Prague, Hungary, Bohemia, and the Danube; Galicia, Styria, Moravia, Bukovina, and the military frontier, London, page 427:
text: NOUNS substantive are either proper (nomina propria), i. e. the names of one particular person or thing, or common (nomina appellativa), i. e. such as denote persons or things in so far as they belong to a class.
ref: 1855, Leonhard Schmitz (translator, editor), C. G. Zumpt (German author), A Grammar of the Latin Language. Translated from the ninth edition of the original, and adapted to the use of English students. Fourth edition, London, p. 26
text: According to the theologians of the school the name Christus, on the basis of this view, would have to be attributed to two substances and would therefore be a nomen appellativum and not proprium, since a nomen proprium can be attributed only to one substance, just as one person can only be one substance.
ref: 1982, Lauge Olaf Nielsen, Theology and Philosophy in the Twelfth Century: A Study of Gilbert Porreta's Thinking and the Theological Expositions of the Doctrine of the Incarnation during the Period 1130-1180, Leiden, page 335:
text: Jupiter is, generally speaking, a nomen appellativum, and there are three or four hundred uses of the name—Jupiter Stator, Capitolinus, and so on.
ref: 1995, Peter C. Hodgson, editor, Hegel: Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion. Volume II: Determinate Religion, page 505:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A common noun.
quacky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: quackier
form: quackiest
Etymology: From quack + -y.
Senses: examples: text: With progressive prostration (which is more marked in young infants) and with a tone to the cry which is a sort of a thin, crowing, quacky sound, points to the existence of retropharyngeal lymphadenitis.
ref: 1907, Le Grand Kerr, Diagnostics of the Diseases of Children, page 177:
text: Suddenly I hear a roar like a lion then a gagging sound like someone is getting choked to death then high-pitched voices little quacky voices like the Chipmunks on the radio calling back and forth to one another Christmas Christmas time is here time for joy and time for cheer.
ref: 2011, Minrose Gwin, Wishing for Snow, unnumbered page:
glosses: That resembles the quack of a duck.
raw_tags: of a voice or sound
examples: text: The Doctor says that some of the quackiest of the quacks are in the army.
ref: 1919, Oral Hygeine, volume 9, page 921:
text: 1998 September 9, Joni Mitchell, interview quoted in 2003, Alan Hecht, Polio, page 72,
I know this sounds real quacky but they did some mysterious good to the problem and I feel fine.
text: Although some of the moments surrounding my coming out may seem humorous in retrospect, the underlying harsh fact is that thousands of desperate people are willing to embrace the quackiest of measures to cure homosexuality in themselves or in loved ones, and this is anything but funny.
ref: 2003, Wayne Besen, Anything but Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth, unnumbered page:
text: David's expression changes. A quack? All this act is about some quacky, pseudo science, right on, I know something you don't cult thing.
ref: 2008, John Hayes, Primate Wars, page 115:
text: Dr. Torrent described the signs and symptoms of RP,^([retinitis pigmentosa]) surveyed the established research into causes of the disease, and summarized the failed attempts to develop a cure, including a barbaric method pioneered in the USSR involving the injection of quacky medicine directly into the patient's eyeball.
ref: 2010, Herb Schultz, Double Blind Test, page 37:
text: The housemother was a relief housemother, and she was quacky, and we didn't think she knew anything.
ref: 2010, Margie Hinkle, Sherry Hatchett, Bonnie Holmes, editors, I Walk with God: The Autobiography of Marjorie Clevenger Hinkle, page 21:
glosses: Fraudulent; characterised by or using the methods of quackery.
examples: text: 1859, The Cultivator, Volume 7, 3rd Series, page 54,
After the first hoeing of a quacky crop, it is often well to go over it lightly in the middle of a hot day, just skimming the surface of the soil, and cutting off the young grass.
text: Always work quacky land when it is driest.
ref: 1890, Ontario Legislative Assembly, Sessional Papers - Legislature of the Province of Ontario, volume 1, page 14:
text: 1914, New York (State) Department of Agriculture, Annual Report, Volume 1, Part 2, page 544,
When would you advise plowing sandy soil that is quacky for beans?
glosses: Infested with quackgrass.
raw_tags: of land or a crop
cashout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cashouts
Etymology: From cash + out.
Senses: examples: text: Those concerned about retirement security have proposed outlawing these lump sum cashouts, or favor higher penalties if cashouts are not transferred to another retirement savings plan[…]
ref: 1993, Ray Schmitt, The Future of Pensions in the United States, page 61:
glosses: The act of cashing out.
cashouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cashout
Egyptian cobra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Egyptian cobras
Senses: glosses: A species of cobra found in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula (Naja haje) often referred to as an asp.
hake's-dame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: forkbeard
sublink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sublinks
Etymology: From sub- + link.
Senses: examples: text: Intimacy, dependency, vulnerability; need, exposed and acknowledged; the physical link forged, with all of its associated mental, emotional and domestic sublinks wrapping whole chains of commitment around us.
ref: 1974, Lynne Reid Banks, Two is Lonely:
text: You can add all the links and sublinks that your application needs[…]
ref: 2011, Brett McLaughlin, PHP & MySQL: The Missing Manual, page 417:
glosses: A lesser or subsidiary link.
sublinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sublink
subdocument
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subdocuments
Etymology: From sub- + document.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A document making up part of a larger document.
subdocuments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subdocument
half-bound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From half- + bound.
Senses: glosses: Having only the back and corners bound in leather
raw_tags: of a book
Related terms: half binding
half-bred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From half- + bred.
Senses: examples: text: He that is but Half a Philoſopher, is in danger of being an Atheiſt; an Half-Phyſician is apt to turn Empiric; an Half-Bred man is conceited in his Addreſs, and troubleſome in his Converſation.
ref: 1694 November 7 (Gregorian calendar), Francis Atterbury, “A Scorner Incapable of True Wisdom. A Sermon Preach’d before the Queen at White-hall. October 28. 1694.”, in Fourteen Sermons Preach’d on Several Occasions. […], London: […] E. P. [Edmund Parker?] for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1708, →OCLC, page 154:
glosses: Imperfectly acquainted with the rules of good breeding; not well trained.
glosses: Half-blooded.
half-bred
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-breds
Etymology: From half- + bred.
Senses: examples: text: The Leicesters and half-breds are purchased by farmers who keep no breeding stock: they are well turniped during the winter, and clipped and fattened in the following season.
ref: 1869, Sheep: Their Breeds, Management, and Diseases, page 328:
glosses: A half-blooded animal.
Related terms: half-breed
half-clammed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Lions' half-clammed entrails roar for food.
ref: 1600 or 1601 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], Antonios Reuenge. The Second Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, and are to be soulde [by Matthew Lownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: Half-filled
halfcock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half cock
form: half-cock
Etymology: From half + cock.
Senses: examples: text: This was bad both for the alibi reshoots it caused and subsequent delays in a match, but if the hammer fell to halfcock enough times, the half-cock notch would mar the sear tip, adversely affecting trigger pull.
ref: 2010, Patrick Sweeney, 1911 The First 100 Years: The First 100 Years:
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: The position when the cock of a gun is at the first notch.
Derived terms: go off at halfcock
halfcock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: halfcocks
form: halfcocking
form: halfcocked
form: halfcocked
form: half cock
form: half-cock
Etymology: From half + cock.
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: To set the cock of a firearm at the first notch.
Derived terms: go off halfcocked
McDowellian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more McDowellian
form: most McDowellian
Etymology: From McDowell + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to John McDowell (born 1942), South African philosopher.
misyar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misyars
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic مِسْيَار (misyār).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A temporary marriage (wedlease), especially in Sunni Islam.
Synonyms: wedlease
analysations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of analysation
harami
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haramis
Etymology: From Arabic حَرَامِيّ (ḥarāmiyy).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A person who has done something haram; a sinner.
haramis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harami
tax dodger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tax dodgers
Senses: examples: text: The idea of a British warship supposedly menacing Spain is ludicrous. Is it meant to bomb Cadiz? Will its guns lift a rush-hour tailback in a colony that most Britons regard as awash with tax dodgers, drug dealers and right-wing whingers? The Gibraltarians have rights, but why British taxpayers should send warships to enforce them, even if just "on exercise", is a mystery.
ref: 2013 August 14, Simon Jenkins, The Guardian:
glosses: Someone who commits tax avoidance or tax evasion.
Synonyms: tax evader
Derived terms: tax dodge
coaling station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coaling stations
Senses: examples: text: Britain's security does not need these places. It does not depend on coaling stations in the Atlantic. France survives without any longer owning Senegal and Pondicherry, and Portugal without São Tomé and Goa.
ref: 2013 August 14, Simon Jenkins, The Guardian:
glosses: fuelling station
cut up nasty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts up nasty
form: cutting up nasty
form: cut up nasty
form: cut up nasty
Senses: examples: text: They are Churchillian theme parks of red pillar boxes, fish and chips and warm beer. But they want the smooth without the rough. When the neighbours cut up nasty, they demand that those whose taxes protect them should send soldiers, diplomats and lawyers to their aid.
ref: 2013 August 14, Simon Jenkins, The Guardian:
glosses: To become angry; to make a fuss.
Synonyms: cut up rough
categorial grammar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: categorial grammars
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A type of formal grammar of natural language syntax, according to which syntactic constituents combine as functions and arguments.
categorial grammars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of categorial grammar
pharaonic circumcision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pharaonic circumcisions
Senses: glosses: Infibulation (female circumcision).
re-engages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of re-engage
re-engaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of re-engage
re-engaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of re-engage
trailing wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trailing wheel
fow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊ/
ipa: /ˈfoʊ/
Forms: form: fows
form: fowing
form: fowed
form: fowed
Etymology: From Old Norse fága.
Senses: glosses: To clean, cleanse (out), as in cooking utensils or house maintenance.
Derived terms: fower
call the question
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: calls the question
form: calling the question
form: called the question
form: called the question
Senses: glosses: To end a period of debate on an issue by requiring a decision to be made with respect to that issue.
Related terms: cloture
textiquette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of text + etiquette
Senses: glosses: Etiquette regarding texting.
towre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: towres
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of tower.
Yeaman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yeamans
Etymology: Variant of Yeoman.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as an occupation.
jannissary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jannissaries
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of janissary.
bankocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bank + ocracy.
Senses: glosses: The excessive power of the banks over government.
danzon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of danzón.
preem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹiːm/
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: preems
Senses: examples: text: This year, the London terpsters are offering only two of their famous full-lengthers, Swan Lake and Sleeping Princess, altho their own two-act version of Giselle will get a preem unveiling here.
ref: 1950, Billboard, volume 62, number 38, page 50:
text: TIFF also announced four other world premieres, plus the North American preems of four more films, including Michael Moore's hotly anticipated Capitalism: A Love Story, the guerrilla director's scathing documentary on the global economic meltdown.
ref: 2009 July 29, Peter Howell, “TIFF lands high-profile premieres”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: The premiere of a film.
glosses: A prime minister.
preem
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹiːm/
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: preems
form: preeming
form: preemed
form: preemed
Senses: examples: text: All but the Radio City Music Hall preemed new shows.
ref: 1948, Billboard, volume 60, number 2, page 38:
text: The new Riddell Soup program "WHAT NEXT?" preemed from Hollywood last night.
ref: 1952, The Spice of Variety, page 139:
glosses: To premiere.
danzonete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: danzonetes
Senses: glosses: A Latin-American musical genre originating from the Cuban danzón but incorporating vocal parts.
glosses: A dance danced to such music.
alonelier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of alonely: more alonely
aloneliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of alonely: most alonely
airlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: comparative form of airly: more airly
airliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: superlative form of airly: most airly
alooflier
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: comparative form of aloofly: more aloofly
aloofliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Distorted mirage, aloofliest of the plain, wherein the boxomeness of the bedelias makes hobbyhodge happy in his hole. The store and charter, Treetown Castle under Lynne. Rivapool? Hod a brieck on it!
ref: 1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part II, pages 265–266:
glosses: superlative form of aloofly: most aloofly
Churchillians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Churchillian
Gilakis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gilaki
normoglycaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of normoglycemia.
bosun's chairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bosun's chair
heredoc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heredocs
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: Interpolating with string concatenation in heredocs can look a little strange because the closing heredoc delimiter and the string concatenation operator have to be on separate lines […]
ref: 2009, Adam Trachtenberg, David Sklar, PHP Cookbook, page 16:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A here document.
heredocs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heredoc
here document
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: here documents
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
synonyms: heredoc
here-text
glosses: A block of text included in the source code of a computer program in such a way that it is treated as a single string literal with line breaks etc. as written.
Related terms: docstring
nowdoc
here documents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of here document
device drivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of device driver
unbewised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbewised
form: most unbewised
Etymology: From un- + be- + wised, perhaps modelled after German unbewusst (“unconscious, unwitting, involuntary”) or German unbewiesen (“unproven, unverified”). Compare also Dutch onbewijst (“unproven, unverified”).
Senses: examples: text: Can the polysemic and nomadic meanings of a text such as the Qur'an overcome the unbewised efforts to reduce it to monologic decree?
ref: 1990, Dennis J. Schmidt, Hermeneutics and the Potic Motion:
glosses: Unconscious; unproven.
ice cream van
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice cream vans
form: ice-cream van
form: icecream van
Senses: synonyms: ice cream truck
glosses: A vehicle from which ice cream is sold at the roadside, mostly to children.
Related terms: ice cream bar
ice cream cone
ice cream maker
ice cream parlour
milk truck
foresay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔː(ɹ)ˈseɪ/
Forms: form: foresays
form: foresaying
form: foresaid
form: foresaid
Etymology: From Middle English foresayen, foreseyen, foreseggen (found only in past participle foresaid), from Old English foreseċġan (“to foresay, foretell, predict, announce, mention beforehand”), equivalent to fore- + say. Cognate with Dutch voorzeggen (“to foretell, presage”), Old Danish foresige, Swedish föresäga, förutsäga (“to predict”).
Senses: glosses: To say beforehand; predict; foretell.
examples: text: Let ordinance / Come as the gods foresay it.
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
glosses: To decree; ordain; appoint.
zero-hour contract
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zero-hour contracts
form: zero-hours contract
Senses: examples: text: But being on a zero-hour contract meant there was no way to defend himself when things took a turn for the worse.
ref: 2017 March 27, Martin Williams, “The bullying and fear at the heart of zero-hour contracts”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A contract of employment that creates an on-call arrangement in which the employee agrees to be available for work as and when required, without any particular number of hours or times of work being specified or guaranteed.
Related terms: word: zero-hours
fanmail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fan mail.
crystally clear
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more crystally clear
form: most crystally clear
Senses: synonyms: crystal clearly
glosses: In a crystal clear manner
crystally clear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crystally clear
form: most crystally clear
Senses: glosses: crystal clear
LaTeX
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑːtɛx/
ipa: /ˈleɪtɛx/
ipa: /ˈlɑːtɛk/
ipa: /ˈleɪtɛk/
ipa: /ˈleɪtɛks/
Etymology: Usually thought to be a blend of Lamport + TeX, the former being the surname of its creator, Leslie Lamport.
Senses: topics: computer-languages
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A digital typesetting system for mathematical and scientific formulae layout, based on TeX; often stylized as LaTeX.
wikipedia: Leslie Lamport
Stack Exchange
nuclear warfare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The use of nuclear weapons as weapons of war.
wheelchair basketball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wheelchair + basketball.
Senses: glosses: A sport derived from basketball, played by people sitting in wheelchairs.
Derived terms: wheelchair rugby
hullock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhʌlək/
Forms: form: hullocks
Senses: topics: nautical
sailing
transport
glosses: A small part of a sail lowered in a gale to keep the ship’s head to the sea.
hullocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hullock
deasphalt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deasphalts
form: deasphalting
form: deasphalted
form: deasphalted
Etymology: From de- + asphalt.
Senses: glosses: To subject to a deasphalting process.
deasphaltization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + asphalt + -ization.
Senses: glosses: deasphalting
deasphalts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deasphalt
Bancroftian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Bancroft + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bancroftian.
antimurine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + murine.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Reacting with the immunoglobins found in murine animals.
raw_tags: of an antibody
red-inker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red-inkers
Etymology: From red ink + -er.
Senses: glosses: A rubricator.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A not out batsman (whose score is recorded in red ink).
forceness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From force + -ness, probably a corruption of forcedness.
Senses: examples: text: The metaphysical - the ephemeral non-matterness - as All- Knowing, as Ultimate Order in Ultimate Togetherness - takes itself out into greater and greater expressions of separation and tightness, or forceness, to settle as uranium at the farthest end (and who knows what else as the Universe expands) with hydrogen at the end nearest to Godhead.
ref: 1998, Nigel Kerner, Song of the Greys:
text: When a 'thought' finds a solution, It could just as well be The nearly instant brute forceness Of all quantum-type paths being And evolving in superposition.
ref: 2010, Austin P. Torney, Scientific Implications:
glosses: Force; strength; violence.
terms of trade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Relative price of exports in terms of imports, defined as the ratio of weighted average export prices to weighted average import prices.
shot spot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shot spots
form: shot-spot
form: shotspot
Senses: examples: text: I pretended to be the Chief Executive from Zurich, setting a shot spots competition. This was my protest at the failure of the laundry system to wash out the semen stains from the sheets.
ref: 2009 April 29, Malachi O'Doherty, “Archive for April, 2009: More Libya Stuff”, in Malachi O'Doherty—The journalism and recordings of a Belfast writer, retrieved 22 Aug 2013:
text: I carefully looked and saw Mary Ann sprawled naked on the bed. . . . I saw a wet shot spot clearly visible next to her. I slumped momentarily confronted with the unmistakable visual evidence of their passion.
ref: 2010 Sept. 1, SirenSeeker, "Marking My Women Ch. 05," literotica.com (retrieved 22 August 2013)
glosses: A stain left on a surface by the ejaculation of semen.
Hypernyms: spot
seismicities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seismicity
Bannu Division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan.
Hazara Division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan.
Related terms: Hazara, Pakistan
Dera Ismail Khan Division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the administrative divisions of Pakistan
Malakand Division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the administrative divisions of Pakistan.
Karachi Division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the administrative divisions of Pakistan
Kohat Division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the administrative divisions of Pakistan.
Mardan Division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the administrative divisions of Pakistan.
Peshawar Division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An administrative division of Pakistan.
shot-spot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shot-spots
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shot spot.
shotspot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shotspots
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shot spot.
Miranshah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The administrative headquarters of North Waziristan, one of the seven agencies of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan.
Parachinar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The largest city of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas administrative region of Pakistan.
Nantucket sleigh ride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nantucket sleigh rides
form: Nantucket sleigh-ride
form: Nantucket sleighride
Senses: examples: text: If we can fasten a good fish tomorrow when you are with us," said the captain of the New Bedford whaling bark Morning Star to me, "I will try to give you a Nantucket sleigh ride."
ref: 1905 December 31, A. B. Hawser, “My Nantucket sleigh ride”, in Boston Globe, retrieved 22 Aug 2013, page SM10:
text: [The] crew pushed out in a small boat and pierced the whale with a harpoon attached to a rope secured to the boat. Then it was hang on for your life. “A whale barreling along at the surface would take the men on the proverbial Nantucket sleigh ride, a bone-jarring, terrifying and, at times, no doubt exhilarating trip over the waves,” Dolin writes.
ref: 2007 July 29, Bruce Barcott, “In the Shadow of Moby-Dick”, in New York Times, retrieved 22 Aug 2013:
glosses: An instance of the dragging of a whaleboat across the surface of a body of water by a harpooned whale.
examples: text: They said they planned to hook the shark with a gaff and go for a "Nantucket sleigh ride."
ref: 1974, Peter Benchley, Jaws (2012 Random House edition), p. 89 (Google preview)
text: Still fresh in my mind was the 15-pound striped bass that took me on a miniature Nantucket sleigh ride around Sandy Hook Bay last fall.
ref: 2002 August 26, Stephen C. Sautner, “Outdoors: Just in the Nick of Time, A Largemouth Bass Bites”, in New York Times, retrieved 22 Aug 2013:
text: The only note of caution that I would put down is, look at what happens to modern fishing vessels when they occasionally accidentally catch a modern submarine; now, granted, of course modern submarines are far more powerful in terms of their propulsion systems, and far larger, often massively outmassing the fishing vessels that they capture, so the fishing vessels either end up being dragged under or if they're lucky taken on a bit of a Nantucket sleighride before they cut their lines or the net breaks[…]
ref: 2024 August 11, Drachinifel, 24:28 from the start, in The Drydock - Episode 310, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2024:
glosses: An instance of the dragging of a boat (especially a small one) by an aquatic creature or vessel attached to it by a rope or other line.
Nantucket sleigh-ride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nantucket sleigh-rides
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nantucket sleigh ride.
Nantucket sleighride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nantucket sleighrides
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nantucket sleigh ride.
arbitraries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arbitrary
moveout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moveouts
Etymology: From move + out.
Senses: examples: text: After a slowdown during the winter, the moveouts resumed in spring 1959; by the summer of 1959, the West End was emptying rapidly.
ref: 1999, Herbert J. Gans, Making Sense of America: Sociological Analyses and Essays, page 8:
glosses: The act of moving out of a property.
moveouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moveout
rilonacept
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular interleukin 1 inhibitor.
Larkana Division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the administrative divisions of Pakistan
Mirpur Khas Division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the administrative divisions of Pakistan
Sukkur Division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the administrative divisions of Pakistan.
Dera Ghazi Khan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in central Pakistan.
glosses: The district in Pakistan which has this city as its capital.
glosses: One of the administrative divisions of Punjab, Pakistan, which includes this district and three other districts.
Faisalabad Division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the administrative divisions of Pakistan.
Gujranwala Division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the administrative divisions of Pakistan.
Multan Division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A division of Punjab province, Pakistan.
Rawalpindi Division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the administrative divisions of Pakistan.
Sahiwal Division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the administrative divisions of Pakistan.
Sargodha Division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the administrative divisions of Pakistan
shaheen falcon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shaheen falcons
Etymology: Persian شاهین, from Middle Persian [script needed] (*šāhēn, “majestic, kingly”)
Senses: synonyms: shahin
shaheen
shahin falcon
glosses: A medium-sized, very swift falcon, of a sub-species of Falco peregrinus (Falco peregrinus peregrinator), that hunts small birds.
crystally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more crystally
form: most crystally
Etymology: From crystal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It is clear, yet not crystally transparent; and, though a deep colour, is neither green nor blue[…]
ref: 1820, Jane Waldie, Sketches descriptive of Italy in the years 1816 and 1817, volume 4, page 320:
text: 25 April, 1861, George Eliot, letter to Charles L. Lewes
There is a crystally clear river flowing by Vidauban, called the Argent: it rushes along between a fringe of aspens and willows […]
glosses: Like or as a crystal.
Derived terms: crystally clear
Related terms: crystalline
spill kit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spill kits
Senses: glosses: A compilation of absorbent materials, cleaners, and chemical neutralisers, used to contain accidental spills in an industrial setting.
Stuka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Stukas
Etymology: From German Stuka, from Sturzkampfbomber (“dive bomber”).
Senses: glosses: The Junkers Ju-87, a gull-winged single-engine German dive bomber used in World War II.
game warden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: game wardens
Senses: hypernyms: warden#Noun
<
person#Noun
coordinate_terms: gamekeeper
master of game
glosses: An employee who has the role of protecting wildlife from overhunting, as part of a government's administration and conservation of natural resources.
Related terms: forester
forest ranger
park ranger
ranger
Solihull
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒlɪhʌl/
ipa: /ˈsəʊlihʌl/
ipa: /səʊliˈhʌl/
ipa: /ˈsɑlɪhʌl/
ipa: /ˈsoʊlihʌl/
ipa: /soʊliˈhʌl/
Etymology: Perhaps a form of soily hill: the parish church of St Alphege was built on a hill of stiff red marl.
Senses: glosses: A large town and metropolitan borough of the West Midlands, in the centre of England.
wikipedia: Metropolitan Borough of +
council area
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: council areas
Senses: glosses: An administrative subdivision in Scotland, commonly referred to as a county.
fuel oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuel oils
Senses: hypernyms: oil#Noun
fuel#Noun
coordinate_terms: motor oil#Noun
engine oil#Noun
<
lubricating oil#Noun
glosses: Any of various grades of oil used principally as fuel.
examples: Near-synonyms: bunker oil, bunker fuel, bunker (ellipsis)
hypernyms: oil#Noun
fuel#Noun
coordinate_terms: motor oil#Noun
engine oil#Noun
<
lubricating oil#Noun
glosses: Any of various grades of oil used principally as fuel.
The heaviest commercial fuel that can be obtained from crude oil.
Derived terms: english: ammonium nitrate–fuel oil
translation: ammonium nitrate–fuel oil
word: ANFO
leporiphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin lepus (“hare”) + -phobia.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:leporiphobia.
glosses: Fear of rabbits.
spree killers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spree killer
int'resting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɪntɹɛstɪŋ/
Forms: form: more int'resting
form: most int'resting
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of interesting.
b'lieve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /bliːv/
Forms: form: b'lieves
form: b'lieving
form: b'lieved
form: b'lieved
Senses: examples: text: I b’lieve it’s better’n to be a pirate.
ref: 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXIII, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 258:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of believe.
b'low
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /bləʊ/
homophone: blow
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of below.
b'low
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /bləʊ/
homophone: blow
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of below.
metasearch engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metasearch engines
Etymology: From meta- + search engine.
Senses: glosses: A system that displays aggregated results from several search engines, invoked simultaneously
dingwad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪŋˌwɑd/
ipa: [ˈdɪŋˌwɑd]
Forms: form: dingwads
Senses: glosses: A stupid person.
Related terms: dingbat
oversubscriptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oversubscription
New English
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The form of the English language spoken since the Great Vowel Shift in England, completed in roughly 1550.
Synonyms: Modern English
Related terms: word: Classical English
word: Middle English [ME]
word: Medieval English
word: Elizabethan English
word: Early New English
word: Late Modern English [LModE]
word: New English [NE]
english: Anglo-Saxon
translation: Anglo-Saxon
word: Old English
word: Standard English [StE]
Muratorian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Muratori + -an.
Senses: glosses: relating to Italian historian Ludovico Antonio Muratori
polyhierarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyhierarchies
Etymology: From poly- + hierarchy.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A hierarchical relationship (tree) in which at least one child has more than one parent
Enochian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭ'nōkēən
ipa: /ɪˈnoʊkiən/
Etymology: From Enoch + -ian, with reference to the Book of Enoch in the Bible.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a system of ceremonial magic involving the evocation and commanding of various spirits, and based on the 16th-century writings of Dr. John Dee and Edward Kelley.
Enochian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭ'nōkēən
ipa: /ɪˈnoʊkiən/
Etymology: From Enoch + -ian, with reference to the Book of Enoch in the Bible.
Senses: synonyms: Angelical
glosses: An occult or angelic constructed language associated with this system of magic, presumably recorded by John Dee and his colleague Edward Kelley in late 16th-century.
polyhierarchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyhierarchy
polyhierarchical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + hierarchical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a polyhierarchy.
backward compliments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backward compliment
covenantees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of covenantee
floor lamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floor lamps
Senses: glosses: A lamp supported by a tall vertical pole in order that light comes from above those seated in the vicinity.
Synonyms: standard lamp
torchiere
Polanyian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Polanyian
form: most Polanyian
Etymology: From Hungarian Polanyi + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Michael Polanyi (1891–1976), Hungarian polymath who made important theoretical contributions to physical chemistry, economics, and philosophy.
glosses: Of or relating to Karl Polanyi (1886–1964), Hungarian economist who wrote The Great Transformation.
bio box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bio boxes
Etymology: From biograph, as the rooms were originally set aside to provide space for film projectors at theatres.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A room, overlooking the theatre from the back, from which projection, lighting and sound are controlled.
Related terms: control room
bio boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bio box