cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bitches up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bitch up
bitching up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bitch up
bitched up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bitch up
blazes up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blaze up
blazing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blaze up
blazed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blaze up
match-winners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of match-winner
bobs up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bob up
bobbing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bob up
bobbed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bob up
bollixes up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bollix up
bollixing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bollix up
GOES
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
climatology
engineering
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Abbreviation of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite.
render off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: renders off
form: rendering off
form: rendered off
form: rendered off
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Synonym of render (to have fat drip off meat from cooking)
synonyms: word: render
extra: to have fat drip off meat from cooking
rendered off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of render off
rendering off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of render off
renders off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of render off
Joe Random
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A hypothetical average or generic individual; a random, common man.
yer one
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Referring to an unknown or unnamed individual.
house painter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: house painters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of housepainter.
⸼
Language: English
Part of speech: punct
Senses: glosses: A full stop (period).
raw_tags: punctuation
dat fella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Referring to an unknown or unnamed individual.
mani stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mani stones
Etymology: From the mantra usually inscribed on them, from Tibetan ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ (oṃ ma ṇi pdme hūm̐), from Sanskrit ॐ मणिपद्मे हूं (oṃ maṇipadme hūṃ).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A stone, rock or pebble usually inscribed with the mantra om mani padme hum, used as a form of prayer in Tibetan Buddhism.
mani stones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mani stone
in sickness and in health
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: qualifier: set phrase
glosses: Used in Catholic wedding vows, signifying unwavering love and support even through challenges like illness.
Related terms: in weal and woe
through thick and thin
for better or worse
breezes up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of breeze up
breezing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of breeze up
breezed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of breeze up
parallel processing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of parallel computing.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The ability of the brain to simultaneously process incoming stimuli of differing quality, e.g., color and depth.
bridles up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bridle up
bridling up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bridle up
bridled up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bridle up
young ginger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: young gingers
Senses: synonyms: new ginger
spring ginger
glosses: An immature ginger root.
young gingers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of young ginger
bringing up to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bring up to
brought up to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bring up to
spring ginger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spring gingers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of young ginger.
synonyms: word: young ginger
brisks up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brisk up
brisking up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brisk up
spring gingers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spring ginger
brisked up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brisk up
new ginger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: new gingers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of young ginger.
synonyms: word: young ginger
new gingers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of new ginger
buds up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bud up
budding up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bud up
budded up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bud up
reddish-brown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a shade of brown with a hint or tinge of red.
buffs up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of buff up
buffing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of buff up
buffed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of buff up
closes up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of close up
closing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of close up
closed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of close up
bulking up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bulk up
bulked up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bulk up
bumps up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bump up
bumping up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bump up
bumped up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bump up
bunches up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bunch up
bunching up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bunch up
bunched up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bunch up
bundles up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bundle up
bundling up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bundle up
bisexual marriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Marriage between two people in which one or both individuals are bisexual.
transgender marriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A marriage between two people in which one or both individuals are transgender.
sororitylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sororitylike
form: most sororitylike
Etymology: From sorority + -like.
Senses: examples: text: “Gamma Sigma suggests a club with sororitylike traditions like pinning and candlelight ceremonies that appeal to girls,” said Ann Maria Chavez, the council’s chief executive.
ref: 2010 July 30, Elizabeth Olson, “Girl Scouts Try to Shed Campfire Image”, in The New York Times:
text: This is doubly true on cut nights, when some girls are asked to hang around after practice—with their “big sisters,” another sororitylike touch—to hear either a warning or those cold words each dreads: “This will be your last night with us.”
ref: 2010 November 22, Torie Bosch, “The Most Sexist TV Show You Don’t Know About”, in Slate:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a sorority (social organization of female students).
pink ginger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pink gingers
Senses: glosses: Ginger that has either been pickled or artificially dyed.
pink gingers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pink ginger
Riot Act
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An act of the Parliament of Great Britain which authorized local authorities to declare any group of twelve or more people to be unlawfully assembled and order them to disperse or face punitive action.
Derived terms: read someone the riot act
Brokenshell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A rural municipality in south-east Saskatchewan, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Brokenshell No. 68.
spot-tailed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of birds and mammals, having distinct or remarkable marks or spots on the tail.
Zelenskyys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Zelenskyy
Dence
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Joe Shmo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Joe Schmo
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Joe Schmoe.
spurious language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spurious languages
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ghost language (“a posited natural language which does not actually exist”).
synonyms: word: ghost language
extra: a posited natural language which does not actually exist
spurious languages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spurious language
knows someone from Adam's off ox
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of know someone from Adam's off ox
knowing someone from Adam's off ox
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of know someone from Adam's off ox
knew someone from Adam's off ox
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of know someone from Adam's off ox
known someone from Adam's off ox
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of know someone from Adam's off ox
off oxen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of off ox
near ox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: near oxen
Senses: coordinate_terms: off ox
glosses: An ox on the left side of a team of oxen, closer to a driver than an off ox.
near oxen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of near ox
Henham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Uttlesford district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL5428).
pedostache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedostaches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pedo-stache.
pedostaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedostache
bloghouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blog house
form: bloghaus
Etymology: From blog + house, referring to its propagation on the Internet.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A fusion subgenre of house music from the 2000s, discovered and promoted through the Internet.
get one's wig split
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets one's wig split
form: getting one's wig split
form: got one's wig split
form: got one's wig split
form: gotten one's wig split
Senses: glosses: To get one's head broken open, typically by someone else as punishment or vengeance.
stringhole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stringholes
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:stringhole.
glosses: A hole for a string (for example, in a seal, so a string could be passed through it and used to attach it to a document).
poa pitha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poa pithas
Etymology: Transliteration of Bengali পোয়া পিঠা (pōẇa piṭha). Compare তেলের পিঠা (teler piṭha, “oil pie”), Odia ପୋଡ଼ ପିଠା (poṛa piṭhā).
Senses: glosses: A fried Bangladeshi delicacy made of all purpose and rice flour, water, jaggery, and salt.
Related terms: bhaja pitha
pua pitha
teler pitha
trululu
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trululu
form: most trululu
Etymology: Blend of true + delulu.
Senses: glosses: True.
trululu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trululus
Etymology: Blend of true + delulu.
Senses: glosses: A truth.
trululus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trululu
guy codes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: That broke all the guy codes but I had to give him a pass because my sister is such an incredible, beautiful woman that I imagine he just couldn't help himself.
ref: 2014, Deborah Fletcher Mello, Twelve Days of Pleasure, Kimani Press, →ISBN, page 19:
text: He held a hand out to me and I took it, he pulled me to my feet and I let him, he was patting my back trying to comfort me in a way that wasn't breaking any guy codes.
ref: 2022, B R Stevenson, Deadly Beasts, Austin Macauley Publishers, →ISBN:
text: They showed me how guys that age thought and how much more mature a young lady's mind and emotions are without breaking any guy codes, which on their behalf did not count because like I said, they were looking out for their basketball girls, who I want to believe were like their own daughters.
ref: 2023, Grace Chang Piggue, Mama's Putting You Up On Game, Christian Faith Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: plural of guy code
stubbify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stubbifies
form: stubbifying
form: stubbified
form: stubbified
Etymology: From stub + -ify.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To make (something) use stubs (placeholder procedures).
examples: text: On May 14, 2008, after I made a change to the article on Crews, Kukini made a minor edit [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick_C._Crews&diff=prev&oldid=212449449], tidying up what I had done. He did this so quickly that I would guess that he must have been closely monitoring my edits at that time. That he did not stubbify the article, as Shell Kinney did, was noteworthy, and even eyebrow raising, since only the day before I had made it totally clear that I had edited it as a way of attacking Crews.
ref: 2008 November 30, Nomen Nescio, “ABIGTESTS”, in alt.test (Usenet):
text: What should NOT be done to a weeping forsythia is to "stubbify" its
branches halfway down. If a compact little shrub is needed, something
small & compact shoiuld've^([sic]) been planted there in the first place.
ref: 2002 May 9, paghat, “Reason to prune weeping Forsythia?”, in rec.gardens (Usenet):
glosses: To reduce (something) to a stub.
stubbified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stubbify
stubbifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stubbify
stubbifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stubbify
coquitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coquit
coquits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coquit
in a bad spot
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: In a problematic situation; in trouble, in a predicament.
low rise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: low rises
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of low-rise.
low rise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of low-rise.
high rise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high rises
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of high-rise.
high rise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of high-rise.
mid rise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mid rises
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of midrise.
mid rise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of midrise.
mid-rise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mid-rises
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of midrise.
mid-rise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of midrise.
mid-rises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mid-rise
mid rises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mid rise
low rises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of low rise
spot color
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spot colors
form: spot colour
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
coordinate_terms: process color
glosses: In offset printing, any color generated by an ink, pure or mixed, that is printed using a single run.
spot colour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spot colours
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spot color.
spot colors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spot color
spot colours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spot colour
spot remover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spot removers
Senses: glosses: A concentrated cleaning fluid designed to remove localized areas of staining or remove localized spots on cloth or fabric.
spot removers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spot remover
cryocrastinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /kɹaɪ.oʊˈkɹæs.tɪ.neɪt/
Forms: form: cryocrastinates
form: cryocrastinating
form: cryocrastinated
form: cryocrastinated
Etymology: Blend of cryonics + procrastinate.
Senses: examples: text: Longterm discounts help to some extent but do nothing to encourage younger members to join rather than to cryocrastinate.
ref: 2020, Michael Benjamin, Jerry D. Leaf, Max More, R. Michael Perry, “How to Sustain an Organization for Over a Century”, in Cryonics, volume 41, number 3, page 14:
text: […] so in cryonics when you delay signing up for your membership we call it 'cryocrastinate.'
ref: 2022 April 19, Peter Ward, quoting Patrick Harris, “How To Pay For a Second Life” (chapter 4), in The Price of Immortality, United Kingdom: Melville House Publishing, →ISBN, page 70:
text: Why do people cryocrastinate? The most common explanation I’ve heard from intelligent people for not getting cryonics is that the money is better spent on some altruistic cause.
ref: 2009 July 22, AndrewH, “An observation on cryocrastination”, in lesswrong.com, archived from the original on 21 Jan 2024:
glosses: To put off making arrangements of having one's body cryopreserved upon old age.
Related terms: cryocrastination
cryocrastinates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cryocrastinate
cryocrastinating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cryocrastinate
cryocrastinated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cryocrastinate
church school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: church schools
Senses: glosses: A school associated with or supported by a church.
church schools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of church school
parish school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parish schools
Senses: glosses: Synonym of parochial school.
synonyms: word: parochial school
parish schools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parish school
tomoxetine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of atomoxetine
Adrianne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Adriannes
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Chickney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish (without a council) in Uttlesford district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL5728).
Old National Pronunciation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Old National Pronunciation
form: the Old National Pronunciation
Etymology: Calque of Chinese 老國音 /老国音 (Lǎoguóyīn), from 老 (lǎo, “old; venerable”, honorific) + 國音 /国音 (guóyīn, “national pronunciation”). The term old does not refer to it being a historical standard, but was instead used contemporaneously as a way to promote the standard's legitimacy.
Senses: glosses: The national standard for the pronunciation of Mandarin Chinese as used by the Republic of China from 1913 to 1932.
Sibleys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Chickney parish, Uttlesford district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL5629).
Bergisches Land
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Bergisches Land.
Senses: glosses: A low mountain range in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, east of the Rhine and south of the Ruhr; the largest town is Wuppertal.
true friends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of true friend
South Jeolla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 전라남도(全羅南道) (Jeollanamdo).
Senses: examples: text: Eight years ago, the South Korean province of South Jeolla, which includes this sleepy coastal county, cleared 1,000 acres of rice paddies and embarked on a $375 million experiment: building a Formula One track.
ref: 2015 February 15, Choe Sang-Hun, “A Korean Auto-Racing Debacle, but Hope Around the Bend”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Feb 2015, Asia Pacific:
text: But of even deeper concern to the experts have been the more than 400 seismic tremors since April 26 in a single area in South Jeolla Province, in the far south-west of the peninsula.
The region has not reported seismic activity since the government first began collating data in 1978.
ref: 2020 May 20, Julian Ryall, “Could a major earthquake soon strike South Korea?”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 21 May 2020, Asia:
glosses: A province of South Korea.
beachworn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From beach + worn.
Senses: examples: text: beachworn shells
glosses: Worn as a result of exposure to elements encountered on a beach, such as water and wind.
Republic of Chile
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Republic of Chile
Senses: glosses: Official name of Chile: a country in South America.
ice scramble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌaɪs ˈskɾam.bol/
Forms: form: ice scrambles
Etymology: From ice + scramble.
Senses: glosses: ice scramble (Filipino shaved ice dessert with banana extract, sugar, evaporated milk or condensed milk, topped with a variety of ingredients)
lightning never strikes twice
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: An allusive shortening of lightning never strikes twice in the same place, usually used figuratively.
Related terms: lightning doesn't strike twice
Moss Bank
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A southern suburb of Widnes, Halton borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ5285).
glosses: A northern suburb of St Helens, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ5198).
lightning does not strike twice in the same place
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: lightning does not strike twice in the same place
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
full immersion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: full immersions
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A method of baptism in which the person baptized is immersed in holy water completely.
Related terms: english: baptism in which holy water is poured on the person's head
translation: baptism in which holy water is poured on the person's head
word: affusion
english: baptism in which holy water is sprinkled on the person
translation: baptism in which holy water is sprinkled on the person
word: aspersion
erizational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more erizational
form: most erizational
Etymology: From erization + -al.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Relating to erization (the process of undergoing erhua).
Paombong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Bulacan, Philippines.
squidball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squidballs
form: squid ball
Etymology: From squid + ball.
Senses: glosses: A food item made from pulverized squid shaped into a ball, popular in Chinese cuisine and elsewhere around the world.
Related terms: meatball
fishball
chickenball
shrimpball
prawn ball
crabstick
kikiam
takoyaki
strike twice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strikes twice
form: striking twice
form: struck twice
form: struck twice
Etymology: Alluding to the proverb lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
Senses: examples: text: "Has fortune struck twice in one week? I send you out after cheese and you bring home an entire cow?”
ref: 2004, Lynn Abbey, Thieves' World: Enemies of Fortune, page 276:
text: Finger and Kane presented the editor with the Bat-Man, who made his debut in Detective Comics #27, dated May 1939, and . . . lightning struck twice. Another hit! Another Superman? Well, no. Oh, there were, and are, similarities: the double identity, the cape and tights, the devotion to crime-fighting.
ref: 2008 February 9, Dennis O'Neil, Leah Wilson, Batman Unauthorized: Vigilantes, Jokers, and Heroes in Gotham City, BenBella Books, →ISBN, page 3:
text: And to Alistair and Jessica, from Seven Years to Sin, who inspired me to write Gideon and Eva's story. I'm so glad the inspiration struck twice!
ref: 2012, Sylvia Day, Bared to You, dedication
text: Lenny threw himself into a shell hole hoping that lightning wouldn't strike twice. The bombs hit horses, caisson , and even the chow line by the rolling kitchen that Len would have been standing in if he hadn't been writing a letter to Maggie instead. It was as if it were raining flesh and entrails.
ref: 2014 October 7, James G. Bilder, Artillery Scout: The Story of a Forward Observer with the U.S. Field Artillery in World War I, Casemate, →ISBN:
text: He wished he could have a clear answer. With Ciara he had known immediately that she was the one for him. Had he expected lightning to strike twice in his life? Chapter Ten Charlie greeted Lesley with an exuberant bark and.
ref: 2022 October 19, Merrillee Whren, Puppy Love and Christmas Cookies, Merrillee Whren, →ISBN:
qualifier: but figuratively meaning other things
glosses: To impact the same location, person, etc. again.
raw_tags: of lightning
chickenball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chickenballs
form: chicken ball
Etymology: From chicken + ball.
Senses: glosses: A food item made from pulverized chicken shaped into a ball, popular in Chinese cuisine and elsewhere around the world.
Related terms: meatball
chicken nugget
fishball
squidball
shrimpball
prawn ball
crabstick
kikiam
takoyaki
shrimpball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shrimpballs
form: shrimp ball
Etymology: From shrimp + ball.
Senses: synonyms: prawnball
glosses: A food item made from pulverized shrimp shaped into a ball, popular in Chinese cuisine and elsewhere around the world.
Related terms: meatball
fishball
squidball
crabstick
chickenball
kikiam
takoyaki
Peasley Cross
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A southern suburb of St Helens, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ5294).
UNOSOM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: UN
glosses: Initialism of United Nations Operation in Somalia.
spoken words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spoken word
UNITAF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: UN
glosses: Initialism of Unified Task Force.
Steingart
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Steingarts
Senses: glosses: A surname
process colour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: process colours
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of process color.
four color
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: four colors
Senses: glosses: Synonym of process color.
synonyms: word: process color
full process
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: full processes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of process color.
synonyms: word: process color
full color
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: full colors
Senses: glosses: Synonym of process color.
synonyms: word: process color
four colors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of four color
full processes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of full process
full colors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of full color
process colours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of process colour
neck-turner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neck-turners
Senses: glosses: Something that draws attention; a head-turner
in jig time
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Rapidly; in a very short amount of time.
old time used to be's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of old time used to be
at one time or another
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: At a certain point in time; at various times.
many a time
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Many times, in many instances; often, frequently.
Derived terms: many a time and oft
many a time and often
many a times
dRVVT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of dilute Russell's viper venom time.
finish time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finish times
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gun time.
synonyms: word: gun time
gross time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gross times
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gun time.
synonyms: word: gun time
commielike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more commielike
form: most commielike
Etymology: From commie + -like.
Senses: examples: text: This has pretty much already been done in Sweden, especially during the 60's when the left was strong, as in commielike. They razed a many of the older buildings and areas and implemented "miljonprogrammet". No, it didn't become a huge success in the end. Instead of uniting the people, it's segregating it.
ref: 2009 October 26, Loppan Torkel, “Refugees, immigrants and labour migration”, in Civilization Fanatics Center:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of communism.
time-waiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time-waiters
Senses: glosses: A person who anticipates a favorable moment or turn of events; an opportunist.
subcineritious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + cineritious.
Senses: examples: text: [page 353:] Subcineritiously virid.
[page 446:] Some of the domestick Ducks are all white, others all black, others like Piets, partly white, partly black; and others subcineritious, as all wilde ones are.
[page 672:] Balm flows from a … Tree … of a subcineritious colour.
ref: 1657, Tomlinson (translator), Jean de Renou, A Medicinal Dispensatory
text: A subcineritious or dirty-coloured putrilage.
ref: 1670, H. Stubbe, Plus Ultra, page 130:
text: The infundibulum is a cineritious or reddish coloured body, of a conical figure, situated between the union of the optic berves and the corpora condidantia; [...] It is described by Vieussens as a short subcineritious vessel, which [...]
ref: 1824, The Anatomy of the Brain, Adapted for the Use of Students, Etc, pages 92-93:
glosses: Of a somewhat ashen gray color.
subitary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subitary
form: most subitary
Senses: glosses: Subitaneous: suddenly done or made or raised.
subsemimodule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subsemimodules
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:subsemimodule.
glosses: A semimodule contained in a larger semimodule. (Compare submodule, semimodule.)
subsemimodules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subsemimodule
subshine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:subshine.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: subshining
glosses: A surface appearance between a shine and a matte appearance.
Related terms: subshiny
sub-shiny
time candle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time candles
Senses: examples: text: Some "knappers" still employ time-candles in lieu of clocks and watches, wherewith to reckon the working hours.
ref: 1906, H.G. Archer, “The Oldest Industry In England”, in The Wide World Magazine, An Illustrated Monthly of True Narrative, Adventure, Travel, Customs and Sport, volume 16:
text: This particular use of the time candle, however, is problematic.
ref: 1928, “How Hamilton Watch Uses The Historical Display”, in Advertising & Selling, volume 12, page 69:
text: In Fadius's dingy room in Messantia, Alcina sat alone, holding her obsidian amulet before her and watching the alternate black-and-white bands of the time candle.
ref: 1979, L. Sprague de Camp, Lin Carter, Conan the Liberator, page 108:
glosses: A candle that burns at a uniform rate and is used to measure the passage of time.
time candles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time candle
nick-time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: In the nick of time.
subthrill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subthrills
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:subthrill.
glosses: A small or secret thrill.
subthrills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subthrill
fringe time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: A time period used in television programs to denote the evening television hours that precede and follow the prime time.
dispensation of the fulness of times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: Christianity
synonyms: administration of the fulness of times
glosses: A world order or administration in which the heavens and the earth are under the political or spiritual government of Jesus.
administration of the fulness of times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dispensation of the fulness of times.
synonyms: word: dispensation of the fulness of times
do porridge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does porridge
form: doing porridge
form: did porridge
form: done porridge
Senses: glosses: Synonym of do time.
synonyms: word: do time
term deposit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: term deposits
Senses: glosses: Synonym of time deposit.
synonyms: word: time deposit
term deposits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of term deposit
birth time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The day of a person's birth.
glosses: The time at which a mother is due to give birth.
glosses: The time at which someone is born.
between time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: between times
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of between-time.
Khanate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Khanates
Senses: examples: text: All towns and villages within the Khanate of Khiva shall henceforward be open to Russian trade.
ref: 1874, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Papers - Volume 76, page 5:
text: Russian subjects are accorded the right of possessing real property in the Khanate.
ref: 1875, Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, England and Russia in the East, page 396:
text: A more important fragment of the Golden Horde is that whose history is told in the seventh chapter, namely, the Khanate of Krim, or the Crimea, which was only crushed and annexed by Russia at the end of the last century.
ref: 1880, Sir Henry Hoyle Howorth, History of the Mongols, page x:
glosses: Alternative form of khanate.
poetical justice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəʊˌɛtɪkl̩ ˈd͡ʒʌstɪs/
ipa: /poʊˌɛtɪk(ə)l ˈd͡ʒʌstɪs/
ipa: [-ɾɪk-]
Etymology: From poetical + justice, coined by the English literary critic Thomas Rymer (c. 1643 – 1713) in the work The Tragedies of the Last Age Consider’d and Examin’d (1678): see the quotation.
Senses: examples: text: For though historical Juſtice might reſt there; yet poetical Juſtice could not be ſo content. It vvould require that the ſatisfaction be compleat and full, e're the Malefactor goes off the Stage, and nothing left to God Almighty, and another VVorld.
ref: 1678, Thomas Rymer, “The Tragedy of Rollo Duke of Normandy”, in The Tragedies of the Last Age Consider’d and Examin‘d […], London: […] Richard Tonson […], →OCLC, page 26:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences
synonyms: poetic justice
glosses: The idea that in a literary work such as a poem, virtue should be rewarded and vice punished.
qualifier: generally
glosses: Synonym of poetic justice (“the fact of someone experiencing what they deserve for their actions, especially when this happens in an ironic manner”).
synonyms: word: poetic justice
extra: the fact of someone experiencing what they deserve for their actions, especially when this happens in an ironic manner
sucking-pig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sucking-pigs
Senses: examples: text: Heaped up upon the floor, to form a kind of throne, were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking-pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, barrels of oysters, red-hot chesnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch, that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam.
ref: 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Three. The Second of the Three Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 77:
glosses: Alternative form of suckling pig.
sucking-pigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sucking-pig
polytoxicomaniacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polytoxicomaniac
time-sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time-sheets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of timesheet.
time-sheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time-sheet
time book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time books
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of timebook.
time books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time book
timeish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: timish
Etymology: From time + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to time.
Derived terms: timeishness
timish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of timeish.
nonacneiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + acneiform.
Senses: examples: text: Not only were acne cases tested, but also the blood in various nonacneiform skin diseases, and also patients without any skin affection.
ref: 1916 March, Albert Strickler, John A. Kolmer, Jay F. Schamberg, “Complement Fixation in Acne vulgaris”, in Journal of Cutaneous Diseases:
text: Most common events across all dosing regimens included diarrhea (64%), nonacneiform rash (60%), liver enzyme abnormalities (50%), fatigue (48%), nausea (45%), and photosensitivity (40%).
ref: 2017, Giuseppe Tridente, Adverse Events and Oncotargeted Kinase Inhibitors, page 338:
text: The most common inflammatory side effects for the entire cohort included arthralgias/myalgias (32.9%), nonacneiform rash (28.0%), pyrexia (25.5%), and erythema nodosum (11.2%), although side effects differed across the class of therapy.
ref: 2019 October, Anna G. Mackin, Paua E. Pecen, Amanda L. Dinsmore, Jennifer L. Patnaik, Rene Gonzalez, William A. Robinson, Alan G. Palestine, “Inflammatory side effects of BRAF and MEK inhibitors”, in Melanoma Research, volume 29, number 5:
glosses: Not acneform; unlike acne.
nonacoustical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + acoustical.
Senses: examples: text: Vision exerts the most widely recognized nonacoustical influence on apparent sound position.
ref: 2012, William A. Yost, Richard R. Fay, Human Psychophysics, page 172:
text: attitudes and other nonacoustical factors may modify this effect
ref: 2012, Ravi Jain, Handbook of Environmental Engineering Assessment, page 600:
text: Table 3.5 presents the summary of the nonacoustical parameters used for modelling the observed acoustic absorption coefficient behaviour.
ref: 2014, Mats Nilsson, Jörgen Bengtsson, Ronny Klaeboe, Environmental Methods for Transport Noise Reduction, page 73:
glosses: Not acoustical; nonacoustic.
time-card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time-cards
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of timecard.
time-cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time-card
bowel transit time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: gastroenterology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The amount of time that it takes for food to travel from the mouth to the end of the intestine.
timeishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From timeish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being temporal, in reference to time.
nonfreshman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonfreshmen
Etymology: From non- + freshman.
Senses: examples: text: The 398 students were divided into three categories: 208 freshmen, 93 nonfreshmen who were evaluating teachers who did not teach them in their freshman year (nonacquainted nonfreshmen), and 37 nonfreshmen who were evaluating teachers who taught them in their freshman year (acquainted nonfreshmen).
ref: 1978, College Student Personnel Abstracts - Volume 14, page 51:
text: On both comfort-rapport and evaluation clusters, low similarity was related to more favorable ratings by nonfreshmen but less favorable ratings by freshmen. All of these effects tended to be more pronounced in opposite-sex than same-sex pairings, particularly for nonfreshmen.
ref: 1979, Elyse Zukerman, Changing Directions in the Treatment of Women, page 143:
text: Marginal nonfreshmen are much less likely to receive no choice than are safe nonfreshmen, but they are about equally likely to receive their first choice as are safe nonfreshmen.
ref: 1987, Matthew D. McCubbins, Terry Sullivan, Congress: Structure and Policy, page 195:
glosses: One who is not a freshman.
nonfreshmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonfreshman
at odd times
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: During times when one wouldn't expect something to occur.
nonacquainted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + acquainted.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps nonfreshman men could communicate their aspirations with greater impact than could nonfreshman women, for whom such aspirations carried less apparent status-appropriateness.
ref: 1966, Walter L. Wallace, Student Culture, page 111:
text: The 398 students were divided into three categories: 208 freshmen, 93 nonfreshmen who were evaluating teachers who did not teach them in their freshman year (nonacquainted nonfreshmen), and 37 nonfreshmen who were evaluating teachers who taught them in their freshman year (acquainted nonfreshmen).
ref: 1978, College Student Personnel Abstracts - Volume 14, page 51:
text: Begger and lord, Odysseus, in carefully constructed sequence, passes through Hall's four proxemic, or social distances: public (nonacquainted) beggar, social guest of Eumaios, personal friend of Penelope, and, revealed at last as Odysseus, Penelope's husband and intimate bedmate.
ref: 1995, Donald Lateiner, Sardonic Smile: Nonverbal Behavior in Homeric Epic, page 120:
text: Nonacquainted triads were more inhibited in their speech and seemed more concerned about how they were presenting themselves to others in their groups.
ref: 1996, Jon W. Beard, Impression Management and Information Technology, page 12:
text: They agree at naming their son Destino, for the fact that he is destined for nonacquainted excellence, and neither Sir Bruno nor Lady Iylayne ever speaks of their account of The Devil with anyone; including Destino.
ref: 2016, Justin Brian Blake, Fe: Faith:
glosses: Not acquainted; unacquainted; unfamiliar.
Weston by Welland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, England, previously in Kettering district (OS grid ref SP7791).
at times and again
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: At various times; occasionally.
a-nightertime
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: At night.
dynamic inconsistency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
economics
engineering
game-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: time inconsistency
glosses: A situation in which a decision maker's preferences change over time in such a way that a preference can become inconsistent at another point in time.
time inconsistency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dynamic inconsistency.
synonyms: word: dynamic inconsistency
time hopping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of time-hopping.
nonacquirable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + acquirable.
Senses: examples: text: She therefore concludes that 'there will be aspects of the TL [target language] that will be 'nonacquirable ( 160 ) .
ref: 2001, Marcel Bax, C. Jan-Wouter Zwart, Reflections on Language and Language Learning, page 249:
text: From this version of nature, in which the cold eradication oof useless variations was a necessary part of the striving for perfection, the Nazis dredged up such "natural laws" as the principle that "every action of the human being rests upon inalienable and nonacquirable hereditary characteristics."
ref: 2007, John Alexander Williams, Turning to Nature in Germany: Hiking, Nudism, and Conservation, 1900-1940, page 262:
text: "Taste" tends to suggest a nonacquirable, probably inborn, and possibly aristocratic “je-ne-sais-quoi,” recalling the values of salon culture rather than those of an upstart proto-intelligent like Belinsky, for whom the pedagogical mission of criticism was of overriding importance.
ref: 2019, Anne Lounsbery, Life Is Elsewhere, page 114:
glosses: Not acquirable; unacquirable.
time policy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time policies
Senses: topics: business
insurance
glosses: A type of marine insurance policy that covers the insured for a specified time period.
time policies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time policy
time-policy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time-policies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of time policy.