cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Campbellian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Campbellian
form: most Campbellian
Etymology: From Campbell + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Relating to or reminiscent of American mythologist Joseph Campbell or his ideas, particularly the Hero's Journey.
topics: Christianity
glosses: Of or relating to the ministers Thomas Campbell and Alexander Campbell, or the associated Campbellite movement.
examples: text: In fact, among some readers the term "Campbellian science fiction" is virtually synonymous with "Golden Age", so manifestly more rigorous were the authors Campbell developed than the majority of pulp writers before them.
ref: 2003, Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn, The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction, page 99:
text: It traces the growth of homo gestalt with the uniting of six lovely outcasts of society who have psi powers and come together as a hive mind, thus creating a gestalt super-being. This concept was pure Campbellian, yet Campbell was critical of the story - possibly out of petulance for not having published it.
ref: 2005, Michael Ashley, Transformations: The History of the Science Fiction Magazine 1950 to 1970, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, page 133:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: In the fictive style promoted by American writer and editor John W. Campbell, wherein humanity triumphs over alien intelligences through innate superiority, often with superhuman abilities such as telekinesis, ESP, etc.
comeronym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comeronyms
Etymology: From co- + meronym.
Senses: examples: text: The representation of positive maleness in Victorian narratives strongly connects the active and physical to either the superordinate face or its comeronyms eyes or mouth, wherein, according to the authors, can be detected evidence of the young hero's superior moral qualities to match his physical attractiveness.
ref: 2002, Murray Knowles, Kirsten Malmkjaer, “Traditional juvenile fiction”, in Language and Control in Children's Literature, Routledge, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
glosses: A word or phrase that shares a holonym with another word or phrase, naming a part of the same whole.
Related terms: english: sharing a hypernym
translation: sharing a hypernym
word: cohyponym
word: comeronymic
word: comeronymous
word: comeronymy
word: Wiktionary:Semantic relations
comeronyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comeronym
Freytag's pyramid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after German writer Gustav Freytag.
Senses: glosses: A graphical analysis of story structure into five parts.
wikipedia: Gustav Freytag
College City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Colusa County, California, United States.
Lodoga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Colusa County, California, United States.
Stonyford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From stone + -y + ford.
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Colusa County, California, United States.
Massalia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μασσαλία (Massalía).
Senses: synonyms: Massilia
glosses: An ancient Greek city and colony in modern southern France; modern Marseille.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 20 Massalia, an asteroid.
Related terms: Massiliote
Phocaea
studency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: studencies
Etymology: From student + -cy.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Jefferies, a canon of Christ Church, accordingly offered his assistance in procuring for him a studency in that house ; but his father's predilection for his own college in Cambridge, induced him to reject this offer, and on this circumstance Mr. Wakefield reflects with the profoundest gratitude to the Almighty, for having rescued him from an university whose system of study he reprobates in the severest and most decisive terms.
ref: 1798, The Monthly Mirror, page 264:
text: It was absolutely necessary to check this studency of his, or he would soon lose his finest qualities as a writer.
ref: 1893, Maxime Du Camp, Literary Recollections, page 302:
text: The philosophy and culture of India separates life into four almost airtight compartments: studency, mating-home building, leadership-citizenry and meditating-aging.
ref: 1972, Harrop Arthur Freeman, Henry Weihofen, Clinical law training: interviewing and counseling, page 78:
text: Cesca tended to give her friends Irish names: Marie, a fellow student during her first period at art school in Paris and now a close friend, for the duration of her studency was dubbed 'Maire'.
ref: 2005, Hilary Pyle, Cesca's Diary, 1913-1916: Where Art and Nationalism Meet, page 44:
glosses: The role or position of being a student.
studencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of studency
partonym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: partonyms
Etymology: From part + -onym.
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, we infer that the kicking was done with one of Mary's feet, since we know that Mary is a human and humans have feet, or, to put it differently, the script MARY inherits the partonyms of its hyperonym HUMAN.
ref: 2001, Salvatore Attardo, “Semantic Analysis and Humor Analysis”, in Humorous Texts, Walter de Gruyter, published 2010, →ISBN, page 55:
text: A word or lexical item indicating that it is 'part-of' some whole. Thus, "leg" is a body partonym, and "root" a plant partonym. Thus, partonymy refers to the phenomenon of referring to parts of a whole through specialised terms.
ref: 2013, Roy Ellen, “Variation and Uniformity in the Construction of Biological Knowledge Across Cultures”, in Helaine Selin, editor, Nature Across Cultures, footnote 3, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 69:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Synonym of meronym.
synonyms: word: meronym
Derived terms: partonymic
partonymically
partonymous
partonymy
partonyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of partonym
converbial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From converb + -ial.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of converbal.
Derived terms: converbialization
gametocytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Related to, or composed of gametocytes
gelometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gelometers
Senses: glosses: An instrument used to measure the strength of a gel (or a jelly)
glargines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glargine
gliatoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of gliotoxin.
glycoliposome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycoliposomes
Senses: glosses: An artificial structural carbohydrate
Related terms: glycoliposomal
glycoliposomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Related to, or composed of glycoliposomes
glycoliposomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glycoliposome
sports fan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sports fans
Etymology: A term originally used by sportscasters to address the viewing public, later generalized to non-sports contexts.
Senses: examples: text: Patrick: "Peter, you shouldn't encourage people to be fat. Fat people are immoral."
Peter: "How do you figure, sports fan?"
Patrick: "They're just bad, like that Jackie Gleason."
ref: 2005 November 27, Chris Sheridan, “The Fat Guy Strangler”, in Family Guy, season 4, episode 17, production code 4ACX20:
text: "So listen up, sports fan. You just might learn something. "
ref: 2007 July 11, Jim Schembri, “The Shameless Thrills of Schadenfreude”, in The Age:
text: "That's an expression my dad uses a lot. He calls people "sports fan." "How you doing there, sports fan?"
ref: 2013, Anne Serling, As I Knew Him: My Dad, Rod Serling, Citadel Press:
glosses: A familiar form of address, a jocular term of endearment.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sports, fan.
Hypernyms: word: fan
Hyponyms: word: Addick
word: Baggie
word: Bantam
word: Bee
word: Black Cat
word: Blade
word: Bluebird
word: Canary
word: Chairboy
word: Cherry
word: Claret
word: Cottager
word: Evertonian
word: Gill
word: Glover
word: Gooner
word: Hammer
word: Hatter
word: Hoop
word: Hornet
word: Latic
word: Liverpudlian
word: Magpie
word: Pirate
word: Pilgrim
word: Potter
word: Ram
word: Red Devil
word: Robin
word: Royal
word: Saint
word: Scummer
word: Seagull
word: Seasider
word: Shrimper
word: Sky Blue
word: Southsider
word: Spur
word: Swan
word: Teessider
word: Tiger
word: Tractor Boy
word: Trotter
word: Tyke
word: Villan
word: Wednesdayite
sports fans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sports fan
glyconutrient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glyconutrients
Etymology: From glyco- + nutrient.
Senses: glosses: Any carbohydrate nutrient, typically a sugar or starch
glyconutrients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glyconutrient
gnathophiurine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gnathophiurines
Senses: glosses: Any brittle star of the suborder Gnathophiurina
granulometries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of granulometry
It
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of It.: abbreviation of Italy.
glosses: Alternative form of It.: abbreviation of Italian (language).
dollarydoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dollarydoos
Etymology: Blend of dollar + didgeridoo. A faux-Australianism originally coined as "dollaridoos" by television writers Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein for “Bart vs. Australia”, an episode (1995) of the animated sitcom The Simpsons.
Senses: examples: text: Bruno: "Nine hundred dollaridoos? Tobias! Did you accept a six-hour collect call from the states?"
Tobias: "It was an emergency call from the International Drainage Commission in Springfield."
Bruno: "Oh my God! There's nothing wrong with the bidet, is there?"
ref: 1995 February 19, Bill Oakley, Josh Weinstein, “Bart vs. Australia”, in The Simpsons, season 6, episode 17, production code 2F13:
text: 2015 24 December, Cam Tyeson, Merry Christmas to All Y'all, from Yr Gr8 m8s at Pedestrian.tv, Pedestrian.tv.
"And maybe spare a thought - or a spare dollarydoo or two - for those less fortunate than you.
text: 2016 23 March, Shayen de Silva, Premiere: A picture of restlessness and weathered love, Tom Stephens will leave you heartbroken on Down to Rest, Happymag.tv.
"Tickets will be available at the door for a cool 10 dollarydoos."
text: Bandit: "I'd like that one, please."
Bluey: "Four hundred dollarydoos."
ref: 2018 October 6, Joe Brumm, “The Weekend”, in Bluey, season 1, episode 6:
text: 2019 12 May, Labor Will Pump Over $30 Million Into Aussie Music, Ban Scalpers If It Wins The Election, Musicfeeds.com.au.
"Opposition leader Bill Shorten & co popped the cork on their arts funding plan at Melbourne’s Espy this weekend, allocating a mouth-watering $20 million dollarydoos to the Australian Music Live Music Fund to support live music venues, hotels, restaurants, cafes, festivals, precinct events and musos."
topics: business
finance
glosses: The Australian dollar.
wikipedia: Bart vs. Australia
Bill Oakley
Josh Weinstein
The Simpsons
Related terms: dollarbuck
dollarydoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dollarydoo
haemoderivate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haemoderivates
Etymology: From haemo- + derivate.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of haemoderivative.
synonyms: word: haemoderivative
haemoderivates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haemoderivate
haemoderived
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From haemo- + derived.
Senses: glosses: Derived from blood or from a blood product
haplophytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haplophyte
haptomonad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haptomonads
Etymology: From hapto- + monad.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of haptophyte.
synonyms: word: haptophyte
topics: biology
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: nectomonad
leptomonad
glosses: An attached form of some promastigotes
haptomonads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haptomonad
hemicontinuity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hemi- + continuity.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The condition of being hemicontinuous
hemicontinuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hemi- + continuous.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having the property that if a sequence of points in the domain of a function converges to a point L, then either the sequence of sets that are the images of those points contains a sequence that converges to a point that is in the image of L, or, alternatively, for every element in the image of L, you can find a sub-sequence in the domain whose image contains a convergent sequence to that element.
Related terms: hemicontinuity
Follows
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
hemostaseologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hemostaseological.
hepatoprotector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hepatoprotectors
Etymology: From hepato- + protector.
Senses: glosses: Anything that provides hepatoprotection
heteroaddition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heteroadditions
Etymology: From hetero- + addition.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any addition reaction that introduces a heteroatom
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: The effect of the addition of two or more different agents
Related terms: heteroadditive
heteroadditive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + additive.
Senses: glosses: Relating to heteroaddition
heteroadditivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hetero- + additivity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being heteroadditive
heterodominant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + dominant.
Senses: glosses: heterosexually dominant
hexadecanone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexadecanones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any aliphatic ketone that has sixteen carbon atoms
Derived terms: cyclohexadecenone
histotaphonomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From histo- + taphonomy.
Senses: glosses: histological taphonomy
Related terms: histotaphonomic
orbital apex syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orbital apex syndromes
Senses: topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: A collection of cranial nerve deficits associated with a mass lesion near the apex of the orbit, often leading to ophthalmoplegia.
Synonyms: Jacod syndrome
histotaphonomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From histo- + taphonomic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to histotaphonomy
histozoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From histo- + -zoic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: That lives within the tissue / cells of a host
raw_tags: of a parasite
hologenomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hologenome
hologenomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From holo- + genomic.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Relating to a hologenome or to hologenomics
holospine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From holo- + spine.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The entire spine
Related terms: holospinal
holospinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪnəl
Etymology: From holo- + spinal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the entire spine
Related terms: holospine
Mosse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
rotational symmetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rotational symmetries
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The property a shape has when it looks the same after some rotation by a partial turn.
Hebberd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Svengali
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Svengalis
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of svengali.
Manningham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE1434).
glosses: A suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.
glosses: A city and local government area near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
glosses: A surname.
good-bad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more good-bad
form: most good-bad
Etymology: Attributed to G. K. Chesterton.
Senses: examples: text: The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriously—is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.
ref: 1945 November 2, George Orwell, “Good Bad Books”, in Tribune:
text: “Road House” exists right on the edge between the “good-bad movie” and the merely bad. I hesitate to recommend it, because so much depends on the ironic vision of the viewer. This is not a good movie.
ref: 1989 May 19, Roger Ebert, “Road House”, in RogerEbert.com:
text: Touch of Evil is not a good movie, but it is a good bad movie, which is more fun than the mediocre or even the adequate.
ref: 2014, Sarah Nilsen, Projecting America, 1958, McFarland:
text: Is Showgirls good-bad or just bad-bad?
ref: 2015 July 6, David Fear et al, “25 Best Modern Exploitation Movies”, in Rolling Stone:
text: The Shoes of the Fisherman is a good-bad film that owes no duty to history or to what were then current affairs.
ref: 2019 November 29, Donald Clarke, “The Two Popes: one giant leap of faith”, in The Irish Times:
topics: broadcasting
film
literature
media
publishing
television
glosses: Enjoyably schlocky, poor in quality but nonetheless compelling.
wikipedia: G. K. Chesterton
Related terms: guilty pleasure
Battye
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Batte, a Middle English pet-form of Bartholomew.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
Cavill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Beaufort Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Sir Francis Beaufort.
Senses: glosses: A marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean to the north of Canada and Alaska.
wikipedia: Francis Beaufort
Related terms: Beaufort Gyre
Olivehurst
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Yuba County, California, United States.
Plumas Lake
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Yuba County, California, United States.
Loma Rica
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Yuba County, California, United States.
Beale Air Force Base
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Yuba County, California, United States.
Challenge-Brownsville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Yuba County, California, United States.
Smartsville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Yuba County, California, United States.
Camptonville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Yuba County, California, United States.
homoselenocysteine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The amino acid HSeCH₂CH₂CH(NH₂)COOH
hydrogeomorphological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hydro- + geomorphological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to hydrogeomorphology
hydropectin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydro- + pectin.
Senses: glosses: A hydrated form of pectin
hyperadherence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + adherence.
Senses: glosses: An exceptionally high level of adherence
hyperstaining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + staining.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: An exceptionally high level of staining
hypoaccommodative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypo- + accommodative.
Senses: glosses: Less than normally accommodative
hypolactatemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + lactatemia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A reduced level of lactate in the blood
hypomorphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being hypomorphic
hypostomium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypostomia
Etymology: From hypo- + stomium.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The region immediately anterior of a stomium
compurgatrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compurgatrices
Etymology: From Latin compurgatrix, equivalent to compurgator (“someone who vouches for another person's innocence”) + -trix (female agent noun-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Thou Pill too ſrong for fate! in whoſe defence / Mira'cles ſtept in to reſscue innocence. / Death was thy Ordeall, and Compurgatrix / And Minos did thy Judges doome refix.
ref: 1651, Fr[ancis] Withins Gen. Com. of S. Johns, “Thou Pill too strong for fate!”, in Newes from the dead. Or A true and exact narration of the miraculous deliverance of Anne Greene, who being executed at Oxford Decemb. 14. 1650. afterwards revived ; and by the care of certain hysitians ^([sic]) there, is now perfectly recovered. Together with the manner of her suffering, and the particular meanes used for her recovery., Oxford: Leonard Lichfield, →OCLC, page 15:
text: Who courted you? Did I? No, Heaven knows / 'Twas otherwiſe: If not; you Madam can / Be my compurgatrix: Nor think it ſtrange
ref: 1664, John Wilson, Andronicus Comnenius: A Tragedy, London: Printed for John Starkey, at the Mitre between the Middle-Temple Gate and Temple-Bar in Fleetſtreet, →OCLC, page 44:
text: At Belynges Parva Alice Fynne is charged with using 'magical art,' for when Andrew her husband died, he asserted that his death was due to her superstitious art. She produces four women as "compurgatrices" and is dismissed.
ref: 1924, Claude Jenkins, “Cardinal Morton's Register”, in R[obert] W[illiam] Seton-Watson, editor, Tudor Studies presented by the Board of Studies in History in the University of London to Albert Frederick Pollard, London: Longmans, Green & Company, →OCLC, page 71:
text: Sarra, wife of William Beyonde Toune, had acted as compurgatrix for Clarence de Upcote, accused of counterfeiting a key to a rectory granary.
ref: 1965, Roy Martin Haines, The Administration of the Diocese of Worcester in the First Half of the Fourteenth Century, Church Historical Society, →OCLC, page 53:
text: When the widow falls pregnant, the neighbours are convinced they know who is responsible. Both Henry Packer and the widow accordingly find themselves in court. The widow produces sufficient compurgatrices. Henry Packer, however, fails to gather enough support; instead he confesses and is ordered to do penance alone.
ref: 2012, Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England (Time Traveller's guide), London: Random House, →ISBN, page 318:
glosses: Female compurgator.
compurgatrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compurgatrix
go one's own way
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes one's own way
form: going one's own way
form: went one's own way
form: gone one's own way
Senses: glosses: To act on one's own or according to one's own wishes, without regard of the advice of others.
Related terms: go their separate ways
have it your way
go it alone
plough one's own furrow
goes one's own way
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go one's own way
going one's own way
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go one's own way
went one's own way
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go one's own way
gone one's own way
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go one's own way
caticorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caticorns
Etymology: Blend of cat + unicorn (compare -corn).
Senses: examples: text: I had a caticorn throw pillow for the bed, a caticorn pencil holder for the desk, a caticorn dream catcher to hang on the wall, a caticorn corner bookmark for marking the pages in a book—but what about a light to read by?
ref: 2019, Crystal Allen, Caticorn Crafts: 25 Purr-fectly Enchanted Projects:
text: She had three little caticorns to take care of. And this was her chance to show everyone what a FANGTASTIC big sister she was going to be!
ref: 2020, Laura Ellen Anderson, Amelia Fang and the Naughty Caticorns:
synonyms: mewnicorn
glosses: A fictional creature which is a cross between a unicorn and a cat, often resembling a cat with a single horn on its forehead.
caticorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caticorn
Topsail
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Most likely named after Topsail Head.
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood of Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Related terms: Gaff Topsail
Long Pond
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood of Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Malpas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Malpases
form: Malpass
Etymology: From Old French mal (“bad”) + pas (“passage”), because of the difficulty of the terrain.
Senses: glosses: A small market town and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ4847).
glosses: A village on the Truro River in St Clement parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW8442).
glosses: A suburb and community in Newport, Wales (OS grid ref ST3090).
glosses: A commune in Doubs department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old French.
Talcville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From talc + -ville.
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood of Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Greeleytown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Greeley + town.
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood of Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Peachytown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood of Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Foxtrap
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From fox + trap.
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood of Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Pullman brown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Pullman, a rail company which used the colour on many of its cars.
Senses: examples: text: UPS has used the color for its trucks since 1916, when it was called Pullman brown. The reason the company chose brown is "that it was the epitome of luxury at the time," a former UPS executive told The New York Times in 1998.
ref: 2012 September 29, Aleksi Tzatzev, “10 Colors That Might Get You Sued”, in Business Insider:
text: Home insulation company Owens Corning launched the "Think Pink" campaign to protect its unique pink hue, setting a precedent for Cadbury's deep purple chocolate wrappers, UPS's Pullman brown logos, Tiffany & Co.'s robin egg blue jewelry packaging and Christian Louboutin's red shoe soles.
ref: 2017 November 6, Marissa Miller, “How colors change the way we think, feel and consume”, in CNN:
head_nr: 1
glosses: A shade of brown originally used on Pullman cars and later by UPS.
poecilonymic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The word "Hi" is poecilonymic with the word "Hello".
glosses: That is a poecilonym to another word.
Manuels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Probably from surname Manuel. Possibly named after Manuel I of Portugal or a sailor.
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood of Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
wikipedia: Manuel I of Portugal
Guide Bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Ashton-under-Lyne, Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SJ9297).
jabronie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jabronies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of jabroni.
jabronies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jabronie
Fallowfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Manchester, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SJ8593).
glosses: An unincorporated village in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A township and unincorporated community in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States.
glosses: A surname.
default judgement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: default judgements
form: default judgment
Senses: glosses: A binding legal judgment in favor of either litigant in a lawsuit based on some failure to take action by the other party.
default judgements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of default judgement
as if nothing had happened
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a nonchalant manner, by ignoring the existence of a past event and pretending that nothing abnormal had occurred.
Related terms: play coy
play dumb
play innocent
prices out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of price out
pricing out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of price out
priced out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of price out
orphan work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: orphan works
form: orphaned work
Senses: topics: copyright
intellectual-property
law
glosses: A copyright-protected work for which rightsholders are positively indeterminate or uncontactable.
orphan works
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orphan work
orphaned work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orphaned works
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of orphan work.
orphaned works
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orphaned work
Penwortham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Probably from Cumbric *penn (“head, top, summit”) + Old English worþham (“(high status) land holding”). Or else, the full name may be equivalent to Welsh pen (“head, top summitt”) + y (“(of) the”) + werddon (“green”)
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish in South Ribble district, near Preston, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref (approx) SD5228). It appears on maps as Higher Penwortham, Lower Penwortham and Penwortham Lane.
glosses: A small town in the Clare Valley, South Australia.
cable knit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: that has been made using cable knitting
Kreppel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Deeley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Deeleys
form: Dealy
Etymology: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Duibhghiolla (“descendant of Duibhghiolla”), a personal name composed of the elements dubh (“black”) + giolla (“lad”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Acworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Acworths
Etymology: Variant of Ackworth.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A city in Cobb County, Georgia, United States.
glosses: A town in Sullivan County, New Hampshire, United States.
elephant races
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elephant race
Elijah seats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Elijah seat
ellisellids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ellisellid
elopocephalans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elopocephalan
elopoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elopoid
ELVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ELV
Vidya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit विद्या (vidyā, “knowledge”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit.
Thurmaston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large village and civil parish in Charnwood borough, near Leicester, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK6109).
troublement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: troublements
Etymology: From trouble + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: The Lord was with me, and I was not fearful of it; howbeit, it did cause great troublement and disturbance to many worthy people in my parish.
ref: 1844, Charles Churchill, The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill:
text: Troublement and emotion crackled just below the blanketing surface.
ref: 2000, Diane Carey, Ship of the Line:
text: In the later telling, this twenty-word description is internalized and greatly expanded, as the listener is invited to follow the action through Merrywise's thoughts and senses: "He couldn't get to sleep, because he had all these troublements in his mind, and also because she snored.
ref: 2001, Carl Lindahl, Perspectives on the Jack Tales: And Other North American Märchen:
text: Though some troublement and worriment was on his face.
ref: 2018, Harry Stephen Keeler, The Affair of the Bottled Deuce, page 134:
glosses: The feeling of being troubled; upset or anxiety.
examples: text: We have this confidence: that amidst all the travails, troublements, tragedies of this life, God invites us to build a strong, solid future for our families and friends, our community and our world.
ref: 1998, Kennon L. Callahan, Twelve Keys for Living: Possibilities for a Whole, Healthy Life, page 46:
text: Well, weuns makes it by de goats widout any troublements an' finally comes to a road.
ref: 1999, I was a Slave: The breeding of slaves, page 57:
text: “Don't blame me;” I told them, “for all your troublements and woes: blame the island!'
ref: 2013, Avram Davidson, The Island Under the Earth:
glosses: A problem; something that causes trouble.
troublements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of troublement
Hanbali
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hanbali
form: most Hanbali
form: Hanbalite
Etymology: From the surname of Arab Muslim medieval jurist Ahmad ibn Hanbal + -i.
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Pertaining to the Hanbali school of jurisprudence.
Hanbali
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hanbalis
form: Hanbalite
Etymology: From the surname of Arab Muslim medieval jurist Ahmad ibn Hanbal + -i.
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Someone who adheres to the Hanbali school of jurisprudence.
Metzians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Metzian
trustify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: trustifies
form: trustifying
form: trustified
form: trustified
Etymology: From trust + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: First, let the concentration continue as now, let Morgan or his industrial successor trustify all the industries and make himself master of them all, then let prosperity continue till over-production becomes excessive, and let the inevitable panic devastate the land, and then the workers will arise, overthrow Morgan, take control of the industrines in the name of the people, and establish Socialism.
ref: 1903, Wilshire's Magazine - Issues 60-65, page 4:
text: The bills we have under consideration, gentlemen, propose to place in competition with foreign countries the products of the farmer and ranchman, the only industries of our country impossible to trustify.
ref: 1911, Congressional Serial Set, page 695:
text: Those are pretty desperate and far-reaching powers. The whole aim of the Agricultural Marketing Act is to " trustify " producers.
ref: 1931, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, The Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)., page 398:
text: Since no pedagogic J. P. Morgan could "trustify" the education industry, schools had to compete in a buyer's market by using winning football teams to attract a viable share of student enrollments, alumni contributions and public funds.
ref: 1981, Canadian Review of American Studies - Volume 12, page 45:
glosses: To organize into a trust; To transfer ownership to a trust managed by trustees.
trustifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of trustify
trustifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trustify
trustified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trustify
Hanbalis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hanbali
Hanbalite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hanbalite
form: most Hanbalite
Etymology: From the surname of Arab Muslim medieval jurist Ahmad ibn Hanbal + -ite.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hanbali.
Hanbalite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hanbalites
Etymology: From the surname of Arab Muslim medieval jurist Ahmad ibn Hanbal + -ite.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hanbali.
Hanbalites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hanbalite
truthify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: truthifies
form: truthifying
form: truthified
form: truthified
Etymology: From truth + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: Eight blank years later he pops up in Richmond, and in the ninth and tenth years he endeavors to truthify his message, which has been cordially usurped and betrayed as fiction by "Mr. Poe"; when he dies in July 1838 immediately after writing his preface, in circumstances even more equivocal than those of his author's death eleven years later, he's still only in his thirtieth year to heaven, a threshold more poetical than mythical.
ref: 1992, Richard Kopley, Poe's Pym: critical explorations, page 228:
text: The amount val by which x+y must still be increased to truthify x + y ≥ N is one dimension of W:
ref: 1997, Fred B. Schneider, On Concurrent Programming, page 263:
text: Along these line, the distinction between falsifying and truthifying causal counterfactuals is particularly significant in the context of historical issues: Falsifying Case: If something-or-other — which actually did happen — had not happened, then certain specifiable consequences would have ensued. (Example: "If the ministers of George III had not taxed the Colonies, the American Revolution would have been averted in 1776.") Truthifying Case: If something-or-other — which did not actually happen — had happened, then certain specifiable consequences would have ensued. (Example: "If the American Colonies had remained subject to Britain, control of the British Empire would eventually have shifted from London to North America.")
ref: 2009, Nicholas Rescher, Aporetics: Rational Deliberation in the Face of Inconsistency, page 75:
glosses: To make true.
Dunleary
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An old name for Dún Laoghaire in Ireland, which was also named Kingstown between 1821 and 1921.
glosses: An unincorporated community and coal town in Pike County, Kentucky, United States.
truthifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of truthify
truthifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of truthify
truthified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of truthify
ambush predator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ambush predators
Senses: examples: text: For 10 million years after they arrived in Europe, despite the great numbers of small rodents present, cats showed no sign of prospering, let alone attaining the dominance among ambush predators they have today.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 89:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
qualifier: ethology
glosses: A carnivorous animal that prefers to capture or trap prey by stealth or strategy, rather than by speed or strength.
Synonyms: sit-and-wait predator
Coordinate terms: pursuit predator
sit-and-wait predator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sit-and-wait predators
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ambush predator.
synonyms: word: ambush predator
ambush predators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ambush predator
sit-and-wait predators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sit-and-wait predator
Bleadon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in North Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST3457).
Walkergate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ2865).
Elland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE1020).
All Hallows' Eve
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From all + hallow + eve.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Halloween.
synonyms: word: Halloween
sun glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sunglasses.
on the lines of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: The Minister said something on the lines of, “I don’t care if it causes people to lose their jobs.”
text: Just now he was wearing a suit of maple-syrup brown with faint but incontrovertible purple stripes. His coat was cut on the lines of one who plays Big Time in vaudeville, and was supplied with many pockets set in unexpected spots and at curious angles.
ref: 1921 November 23, Leonard Hatch, “My Heart Leaps Up”, in The Outlook:
text: Osnabrück, reached at daybreak, is a remarkable two-level station on the lines of Willesden Junction.
ref: 1949 September and October, “The "Nord Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 336:
synonyms: along the lines of
glosses: Similar to, but not exactly equal.
Related terms: on the order of
to the effect
terran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more terran
form: most terran
Senses: examples: text: […] dinitrogen does not have properties that would be considered as suitable for life from a terran perspective (Table 7.2).
ref: 2008, Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Louis Neal Irwin, Life in the Universe: Expectations and Constraints, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 128:
text: As they approached the steps the Klee-shaes could hear a terran favorite over the great building's Public Address system—it was Neil Young warbling Keep On Rocking In The Free World, but a Fartian host, misunderstanding the moment, transferred the track to Mollify.
ref: 2008, Ron Sanders, Legerdemainia, →ISBN, page 71:
text: Like most “fish” native to Safehold, it has a very long, sinuous body but the head does resemble a terran hake or cod, with a hooked jaw.
ref: 2011, David Weber, How Firm a Foundation: A Novel in the Safehold Series (#5), Macmillan, →ISBN:
text: Annual Pack Includes:
Gift pack - SOL30000 a terran year (equivalent to SOL2500/month over the duration of the adoption).
Personalised certificate.
Stand-up photo-portrait (14.5 x 200m) of your soldier.
ref: 2013, Doug Strider, Space Danger - Space Marines' Graveyard, Douglas Strider, →ISBN:
text: Cal cut wide in his shoulder jets with a short burst and slid in to earth under a tree so like a terran cottonwood it was hard to tell the difference. The trees on windy hillsides on Lehaunan had been warped and strangely twisted […]
ref: 2013, Gordon R. Dickson, Naked to the Stars, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
text: Hobbs' Street smelled odd, damp and sweet, but that wasn't due to the residents here but to an odd mutation of a terran honey fungus that had spread throughout the moon colony, running its mycelia through air vents, electrical ducting or […]
ref: 2014, Gardner Dozois, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN:
text: The NASA engineer admiringly dubbed the complete project a “terran module,” comparing it favorably with the best thing yet developed in lunar modules. Bolan liked it, though he was a bit awed by the electronic capabilities of his new warwagon.
ref: 2014, Don Pendleton, New Orleans Knockout, Open Road Media, →ISBN:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Terran (“of or from Earth; terrestrial”).
terranium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terraniums
Etymology: From terran + -ium.
Senses: examples: text: They were built of terranium, a superhard metallic material that had the ability to feed on the earthy crust, making it amenable to growing fauna.
ref: 2002, Mack Maloney, The Fourth Empire, Speaking Volumes, →ISBN, page 88:
text: How might an environmental regulatory system operate in order to control the risks associated with terranium? What standards might be applied and what regulatory instruments used? What further information about terranium would you want ...?
ref: 2013, Stuart Bell, Donald McGillivray, Ole Pedersen, Environmental Law, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 267:
text: It also happened to be rich in terranium, the metal that was once used to build the vast majority of the buildings on Tri. A hundred years ago, mine owners and metal exporters from Tri had come to Deva eager to stake their claim.
ref: 2018, Kass Morgan, Light Years, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, →ISBN:
glosses: A (fictional) element, especially a metal.
examples: text: Build a terranium, if you wish. That is, let the boys build it. Don't do the work yourself, for half the interest is in making the thing. Have the boys bring an old berry crate; cut out the slats and take off the top; cover it with fine wire netting […] Put in one or two small plants or shrubs for landscape effect and the terranium is ready. […] Begin on that terranium. […]
ref: 1909 September, B. H. Crocheron, "Hints for Neighborhood Co-operation", in "The Rural School", in the Atlantic Educational Journal, volume 5,, page 23
text: A terranium which has a bog environment contains various species of snakes, frogs, turtles and salamanders and a bio-temperature incubator where such variables as temperature and humidity may be controlled for experiments.
ref: 1967, William George Bruce, William Conrad Bruce, The American School Board Journal:
glosses: A terrarium.
warwagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warwagons
Etymology: From war + wagon.
Senses: examples: text: "You mean you won't come with us in the warwagon?" "You don't have a warwagon. You don't even have a pocket knife. You have light meters around your neck that would feed one of those guys and all his relatives for a year. I wouldn't go back in that barrio in a tank."
ref: 1980, Danny Lyon, The paper negative, Bleak Beauty Books, page 28:
text: When he went back inside the warwagon, the audio monitors were quivering with the ghostly echoes of automobile engines firing up and voices raised in excited exchanges. The video recorders clicked on a moment later.
ref: 2014, Don Pendleton, Savage Fire, Open Road Media, →ISBN:
text: Stiffly the old general climbed the steps to the upper deck of the warwagon, his knees having grown stiff in the chill air flowing over the deck. His suit of armour still felt too heavy on him, even though it was mostly decorative, splendidly so, […]
ref: 2015, Col Buchanan, The Black Dream, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A combat vehicle similar to an armored personnel carrier.
fallenest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of fallen: most fallen