cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
having a wild hair to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of have a wild hair to
had a wild hair to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of have a wild hair to
HqBn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of headquarters battalion.
MARFOR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MARFORs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Acronym of Marine forces.
jds/RS
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of joined by staff returns.
fur.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of furlough.
glosses: Abbreviation of furlong.
S/RS
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of staff returns.
Rohini
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit रोहिणी (rohiṇī).
Senses: glosses: Rohini, sister of Yashoda, one of the wives Vasudeva, mother of Balarama, and Subhadra, the siblings of the Krishna.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A lunar mansion in Indian astronomy corresponding to Aldebaran.
glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
funny man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: funny men
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of funnyman.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see funny, man.
examples: text: Funny man ah get drop like a bad habit.
ref: 2005, Damian Marley, “Welcome to Jamrock”, in Welcome to Jamrock (album title):
glosses: A homosexual.
funny men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of funny man
oro-pharynx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oro-pharynxes
form: oro-pharynges
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of oropharynx.
co-pattern
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: co-patterns
form: co-patterning
form: co-patterned
form: co-patterned
form: copattern
Etymology: From co- + pattern.
Senses: examples: text: These organs were co-patterned from common epithelium.
glosses: To develop in a pattern separately from another object, but in relation to it.
co-pattern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-patterns
form: copattern
Etymology: From co- + pattern.
Senses: glosses: A pattern that has a related counterpart.
co-patterns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of co-pattern
co-patterns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of co-pattern
co-patterning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of co-pattern
co-patterned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of co-pattern
copattern
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: copatterns
form: copatterning
form: copatterned
form: copatterned
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of co-pattern.
copattern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copatterns
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of co-pattern.
copatterns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of copattern
copatterns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copattern
copatterning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of copattern
copatterned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of copattern
placodal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From placode + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or related to a placode
Derived terms: extraplacodal
interplacodal
panplacodal
preplacodal
preplacode
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-placode
Etymology: From pre- + placode.
Senses: glosses: that happens before the placode develops
pre-placode
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of preplacode.
La Gomera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish La Gomera.
Senses: glosses: An island of the Canary Islands.
swift parrot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swift parrots
Senses: examples: text: The swift parrot (Lathamus discolor) is a case in point. This small (24 cm) green parrot breeds on the eastern two thirds of the island of Tasmania, approximately 300 km across the Bass Strait from the southeast coast of mainland Australia, and migrates in the southern autumn (February to April) to southeastern Australia (Blakers et al. 1984 and Fig. 3-2).
ref: 1996, Hugh Dingle, Migration: The Biology of Life on the Move, page 43:
text: A striking example of the risks of ignoring temporal processes comes from work on the endangered Swift Parrot in north-eastern Victoria.
ref: 2005, David Lindenmayer, Mark A. Burgman, Practical Conservation Biology, page 280:
text: In Australia the swift parrots (Psittacidae) and in Hawaii the 'I'iwi honeycreepers (Drepanididae) have convergently evolved nectarivory, and coexist with honeyeaters.
ref: 2011, George R. McGhee, Convergent Evolution: Limited Forms Most Beautiful, page 147:
glosses: A true parrot, of the endangered species Lathamus discolor, which breeds in Tasmania and migrates to mainland south-eastern Australia.
swift parrots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swift parrot
sindhur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sindoor.
annaprasan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hindi, and its source, Sanskrit अन्नप्राशन (annaprāśana).
Senses: examples: text: Some days passed. Oneday Ketaki had gone to the Annaprasan festival of her sister's daughter.
ref: 2010, Rabindranath Tagore, translated by Krishna Kripalani, Farewell my Friend:
text: It was the day of Sumala and Bulen's son's annaprasan, the rice tasting ceremony.
ref: 2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee:
text: Seema squints her eyes, thinking. “Mom asked Scott when they'd be hearing news about the annaprashana.”
ref: 2013, Kim Gruenenfelder, Keep Calm and Carry a Big Drink, page 100:
glosses: Alternative form of annaprashana.
counterspace
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: counter-space
Etymology: From counter- + space.
Senses: examples: text: In order to understand why a counterspace capability will be critical in 2025, it is only necessary to look at recent developments which point to the explosive growth in usage of space assets worldwide. As both commercial needs and military missions are increasingly met via space systems, the ability to protect the sovereignty of US and friendly satellites will grow in importance.
ref: 1996 August, Lt. Col. Robert H. Zielinski with Lt. Col. Robert M. Worley II, Maj. Douglas S. Black, Maj. Scott A. Henderson, and Maj. David C. Johnson, “Star Tek — Exploiting the Final Frontier: Counterspace Operations in 2025 [volume 3, chapter 9, page 8]”, in Air Force 2025, volume 3, Air University, United States Air Force, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2010, page 8:
text: AFDD 2-2.1 highlights the linkage between the concepts of space situational awareness (SSA) and counterspace operations, explaining that SSA "is the result of sufficient knowledge about space-related conditions, constraints, capabilities, and activities ... in, from, toward, or through space" (2). SSA accomplished by space surveillance, reconnaissance, the monitoring of the space environment, and collection/processing of space-systems intelligence provides the planner, commander, and executor the ability to develop counterspace courses of action.
ref: 2004 December 1, Lt. Col. Paula B. Flavell, “AFDD 2-2.1, Counterspace Operations”, in Air & Space Power Journal, Air University, United States Air Force, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2011:
text: Haney acknowledged that the July 2014 test (which China described as an "anti-missile technology experiment") did not actually hit a satellite, perhaps by design. "But just seeing the nature of these types of activities show how committed they are to a counter-space campaign," he explained.
ref: 2015 March 26, Shannon Tiezzi, “US admiral: China counter-space threat is 'real'”, in The Diplomat, archived from the original on 17 Oct 2015:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Pertaining to antispace access or assets, and countering space access or assets.
Related terms: anti-space
antispace
Hebonics
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Hebrew + Ebonics
Senses: examples: text: Yossi needed a drink; he was still nervous and a bit shaky after his narrow escape from the '"chood," as they liked to call it in "Hebonics."
ref: 2005, Hella Winston, Unchosen: The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels, page 61:
glosses: The Jewish dialect of English.
moori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muri
Senses: examples: text: Women had entered the rice and moori (puffed rice) business and set up shops for the first time, enabled by loans from the SHGs.
ref: 2005, Neera Burra, Joy Deshmukh-Ranadive, Ranjani K Murthy, editors, Micro-Credit, Poverty and Empowerment: Linking the Triad, page 258:
text: Then, she filled a smaller tin with the fresh moori and gave it to Felänee, saying, “Give this to your little fellow.”
ref: 2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee:
text: Soon he gave up coolieing and started selling moori, carrying a large sack of puffed rice through the streets of Calcutta, shouting ‘moori…moori’ and watching for windows to open and housewives to beckon him up musty building stairs […]
ref: 2014, Devashish Makhija, Forgetting:
glosses: Puffed rice.
anti-space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-spaces
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antispace.
anti-space
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antispace.
counter-space
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of counterspace.
yeelin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yeelins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yealing.
flow production
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Mass production.
tech-head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tech-heads
Etymology: From tech + -head.
Senses: glosses: Someone who is very interested in technology.
tech-heads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tech-head
bog brushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bog brush
otenga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Assamese ঔটেঙা (outeṅa).
Senses: examples: text: It is prepared by pounding the root to powder, and mixing it up with the juice of the Otenga tree, to give it tenacity, and make it adhere to the arrow head.
ref: 1836, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, volume 5, page 196:
text: One is Chelta (Dillenia indica), the common Assamese "Otenga", and the other Ping (Cynometra polyandra). Both these trees have hard, heavy woods […].
ref: 1917, Quarterly Journal of the India Tea Association, Part I, p. 11
text: He kept all the things near the hearth where he had already put some greens, two sour otenga fruits and a bunch of tender curry leaves, along with some dry fire wood.
ref: 2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee:
glosses: A flowering evergreen tree of southeastern Asia, Dillenia indica, bearing edible fruits.
murhas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of murha
khichiri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kedgeree.
chut pattern
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃut̚ ˈpɛtən/
ipa: /ˈt͡sʰ-/
Forms: form: chut pattern
form: choot pattern
form: choo pattern
form: chu pattern
Etymology: From Hokkien 出 (chhut, “to produce or make”) + pattern.
Senses: examples: text: The locals like to say 'someone choot pattern' meaning to say someone is being difficult.
ref: 2009, unnamed, ‘Boring’ Singapore City Photo, (online)
text: Actually, the term seems more Hokkien that Singlish - "chut pattern, liao".
ref: 2013, Patsy G, There is enough for all..: “Chut pattern, liao” [blog entry]
text: Many boyfriends going to chut pattern tonight!
ref: 2014, Mr. SGAG [unknown author], (online)
text: A fulfilling relationship is a wondrous thing to have but it does take effort to maintain and that entails the occasional chut pattern.
ref: 2015, Kenneth Khing, Skycart is write here, [blog entry]
text: If we really want to talk about people or organisations that chut pattern, one cannot leave The New Paper out.
ref: 2015, Kirsten Tan, The Online Citizen: Gutter journalism: The New Paper “chut pattern”, page (online)
text: IF DR CHEE SAYS HE IS SECOND WHEN IT COMES TO ‘CHU PATTERN’, NO ONE ELSE WOULD DARE TO CLAIM FIRST.
ref: 2015, StraitsTimesReview.com, (online)
text: When we say a person ‘chut pattern’, it talks about someone full of antics.
ref: 2015, DanielFoodDiary.com, [blog entry]
glosses: To inconvenience or disturb; to make a fuss and bother; to act up.
orphéon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orphéons
form: orpheon
Etymology: From French orphéon.
Senses: examples: text: It was but a short step, therefore, from the harmony of the orphéons to an ideal of harmony in the workshops and factories, and within the social body as a whole.
ref: 1997, John Sandys Cornell, Social Harmony: Music, Modernism and the Mass Public in Nineteenth-Century France, University of Michigan, →ISBN, page 50:
text: Every orphéon had its emblems, uniforms (an expression of uniformity, as in schools), banners, medals, conviviality, and shared memories.
ref: 2015, Sophie-Anne Leterrier, “Choral Societies and Nationalist Mobilization in Nineteenth-Century France”, in Krisztina Lajosi, Andreas Stynen, editors, Choral Societies and Nationalism in Europe (National Cultivation of Culture; volume 9), Brill, →ISBN, page 51:
text: For example, the orphéon of Algiers is recounted to have had, at one point, approximately 600 members.
ref: 2019, Janet Sturman, editor, The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture, SAGE Publications, →ISBN:
glosses: A French male choral society.
Related terms: orpheonist
sewali
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Assamese শেৱালি (xewali).
Senses: examples: text: His attention was drawn by the sewali flowers blooming with small, soft, white petals, fluttering in the mild air.
ref: 2000, Kamaleswar Sarma, Raghunath Choudhury, page 5:
text: Near the goxai ghar there was a sewali in full bloom. A few flowers fell from the tree.
ref: 2002, Snigdhamalati Neog, transl., A handful of sand, page 108:
text: The fragrance of the white carpet of flowers under the flowering sewali shrub spoke of its origin and reminded her of the old woman Kali.
ref: 2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee:
glosses: Night jasmine (Nyctanthes arbor-tristis).
in-goal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: in-goals
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: a part of the playing area between each goal line and the corresponding dead ball line where players can score a try
senatress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: senatresses
Etymology: From senator + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: Heliogabalus introduced his Mother into the Senate, and she took her Place there by the Seats of the Consuls, and was present at passing a Decree of the Senate. This Emperor made the first Senatress; he created a little Senate of Women, which met on Collis Quirinalis under the Direction of Semiamira, and the Laws they made concerning the Ladies, ....
ref: 1731, Thornhagh Gurdon, The History of the High Court of Parliament, page 200:
text: The researches of the learned Coppi make it almost certain that the Colonna descend from Theodora, the Senatress of Roma, who flourished in the year 914; ....
ref: 1905, Francis Marion Crawford, Ave Roma Immortalis: Studies from the Chronicles of Rome, Library of Alexandria, page 260:
text: "And I take pleasure in presenting to you a lady you all know, State Senator Rumbley—or is it Senatress?"
ref: 1932 October 29, Helen E. Hokinson, “(cartoon)”, in The New Yorker, page 18:
text: "If I said the lady was an elected representative of the US people, with strange political notions and strong presidential ambitions, would that help?" I whistled softly. "You mean the senatress, herself?"
ref: 1972, Donald Hamilton, The Intriguers (A Matt Helm novel), Fawcett Publications, →ISBN, page 49:
text: This scandal resulted in the intervention by a US congresswoman and future US senatress (as she preferred to be called) and vice president of the United States of America ....
ref: 2008, T. Manning, Larvatus Prodeo, The Interview, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 183:
glosses: A female senator.
Synonyms: senatrix
Hypernyms: senator
queerhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From queer + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: It's not that I'm proud of how I found out or that I think that closeted dildoes alone are enough to indict him for closeted queerhood. There's more to it, and that can only be revealed in the telling of the whole story.
ref: 1995, John Preston, Michael Lowenthal, Friends and lovers:
text: I stand naked inside an enormous shell, my long hair cascading modestly over my crack. Like I was saying, it seems to me that most folks must range somewhere between knee-jerk queerhood of Dell and the in-your-face hetero world of Zorn.
ref: 2002, Lee Williams, Author of destiny: also known as the Ochoa case - Page 59:
text: There is something truly dangerous in this global response to queerhood, something that should lead us towards a more global co-operation in our attempts to build a sexual politics and fight back against homophobia.
ref: 2005, Krystyna Slany, Beata Kowalska, Marcin Śmietana, Homoseksualizm: perspektywa interdyscyplinarna - Page 130:
text: There are also Polish branches of other international associations. But it is still, I am afraid, far from 'global queerhood'. What we have here is rather an attempt to adopt organizational forms that proved suitable elsewhere to Polish conditions.
ref: 2013, Laszlo Kürti, Peter Skalnik, Postsocialist Europe: Anthropological Perspectives from Home:
glosses: The state or condition of being queer; queerness
Related terms: queerdom
SRE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SREs
Senses: topics: education
synonyms: RSE
coordinate_terms: sex education
glosses: Initialism of sex and relationship education.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of site reliability engineering.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of site reliability engineer.
counterextremism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From counter- + extremism.
Senses: examples: text: Publishing a new counterextremism strategy, the government outlined a range of plans, including moves to prevent radical material from being posted online and to bar anyone who expresses conviction to commit terrorist crimes or extremist activities from working with children.
ref: 2015 October 19, Stephen Castle, “Britain Unveils Plans to Fight Extremism in Young Muslims”, in New York Times:
glosses: Opposition to extremism.
seditionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seditionists
Etymology: From sedition + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: While other Iranian officials and news reports have said Mr. Rezaian was suspected of spying on Iran’s nuclear program and collecting evidence of sanctions violations, the accusation of collaborating with seditionists had not been reported previously in the Iranian news media.
ref: 2015 October 19, Rick Gladstone, “Iranian Lawmaker Accuses Jason Rezaian, Washington Post Reporter, of Sedition Plot”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who is involved in sedition.
seditionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seditionist
upthread
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: further upthread
form: farther upthread
form: furthest upthread
form: farthest upthread
Etymology: From up- + thread.
Senses: examples: text: As I pointed out upthread, …
glosses: Previously, or hierarchically higher, in a thread of discussion.
upthread
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: further upthread
form: farther upthread
form: furthest upthread
form: farthest upthread
Etymology: From up- + thread.
Senses: glosses: Previous, or hierarchically higher, in a thread of discussion.
inundable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inundable
form: most inundable
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of inundatable.
goodwiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goodwillers
Etymology: Perhaps an alteration of goodwilly, or from goodwill + -er.
Senses: examples: text: “The Earl of Douglas, being a young nobleman of good inclination, wiser perchance than any other of equal age with him, would neither give ear to his goodwillers and favourers, nor yet was he content with them that gave the counsel to turn homeward again, but reprove them highly; [...]
ref: 1808, John Finlay, Scottish Historical and Romantic ballads:
text: It appears by the testimony in a suit in 1619, that John Gale, son of Richard, was in 1677, "a goodwiller" to the daughter of Henry Spring, senior, who, with his wife Mehitable, testified that " Goodman Richard Gale came to our house to ask our goodwill to make a match …
ref: 1864, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register
text: Curiosity wasn't a goodwiller in that it tried to consume him completely.
ref: 2012, Thomas D. Bryson, The Psychotic Preschoolers - Page 64:
text: Outnumbered by earnest goodwillers, he agrees to visit the Queen.
ref: 2013, Susann Cokal, The Kingdom of Little Wounds - Page 106:
text: And yet...and yet, the goodwillers cried, something was being misunderstood: Humanity was surely better than this! No! [...]
ref: 2014, George Zebrowski, Brute Orbits:
glosses: One who practices or engages in goodwill, or who acts out of goodwill; one who bestows favours; a benefactor; volunteer
goodwillers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goodwiller
Kardecism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Kardec + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A type of spiritualism (defined broadly as the belief that the dead communicate with the living, especially through a medium) whose followers believe in Allan Kardec's Spiritist Codification, a series of five books containing moral and other teachings.
wikipedia: Allan Kardec
Synonyms: Spiritism
Related terms: Kardecist
Kardecist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kardecists
Etymology: From Kardec + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A follower of Kardecism.
wikipedia: Allan Kardec
Related terms: Kardecism
Kardecists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kardecist
degradedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more degradedly
form: most degradedly
Etymology: From degraded + -ly.
Senses: examples: 185?, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit
All people knew (or thought they knew) that he had made himself immensely rich; and, for that reason alone, prostrated themselves before him, more degradedly and less excusably than the darkest savage creeps out of his hole in the ground to propitiate, in some log or reptile, the Deity of his benighted soul.
glosses: In a degraded manner.
impex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the initial syllables.
Senses: topics: business
glosses: import and export
raw_tags: in company names
riparian buffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹʌɪˈpɛːɹɪən ˈbʌfə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: riparian buffers
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: An area of vegetation around a body of water that gives benefits to the ecosystem in the body of water. It can provide shade, a food source, and a buffer against pollution from outside sources.
riparian buffers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of riparian buffer
fecal-oral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹəl
Senses: examples: text: Many common infections are spread by fecal-oral transmission.
glosses: Involving fecal matter being consumed through the food pathway.
isomer bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isomer bomb
ORT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ORTs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of oral rehydration therapy.
Paxo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Clipping of Paxman + -o.
Senses: examples: text: He's been telling his army of spinners, and DC and Boy George too, that Radio 4 is for the chattering classes, and only people like Cameron and Miliband tune in to watch Paxo on Newsnight last thing at night.
ref: 2011, Larry the Cat, The Larry Diaries: Downing Street - The First 100 Days, page 15:
glosses: Jeremy Paxman (born 1950), English broadcaster, journalist and author.
undrink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undrinks
form: undrinking
form: undrank
form: undrunk
Etymology: From un- + drink.
Senses: examples: text: A part of me wished it was possible to undrink the wine […]
ref: 2010, Alan Franks, Sins of the Sons:
glosses: To undo the action of drinking.
Related terms: uneat
undrinks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undrink
undrinking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undrink
undrank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of undrink
equalization payment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equalization payments
Senses: examples: text: Ontario may soon be classed as a "have-not" province and receive equalization payments for the first time in its history.
ref: 2008 February 26, “Opinion: Ontario to join "have-nots"?”, in National Post, Canada, retrieved 21 Oct 2015:
text: Six “have-not” provinces are splitting $15.4 billion in equalization payments in 2012-13.
ref: 2012 October 10, Jason Fekete, “‘Controversial’ overhaul of transfer payments under study by federal government”, in Ottawa Citizen, Canada, retrieved 21 Oct 2015:
text: People whose provinces receive equalization payments are largely in denial about living in have-not regions, a poll suggests.
ref: 2015 April 22, Brian Daly, “Most have-not provinces in denial about getting equalization: Poll”, in Toronto Sun, Canada, retrieved 21 Oct 2015:
topics: government
glosses: Extra money transferred from the federal government to a province, drawn from general tax revenue and intended to redistribute some wealth from relatively prosperous provinces to relatively poor provinces.
examples: text: The court set aside a trial judge's decision from 2007 that required Harold Serra to make an "equalization payment" of $3.3 million to his former wife.
ref: 2009 February 5, Tracey Tyler, “Hard times alter rules on divorce, court says”, in Toronto Star, Canada, retrieved 21 Oct 2015:
text: In places like Manitoba and Ontario, where the distribution of family assets upon marriage breakdown is done through an equalization payment based on the value of what both spouses’ own, the claim can be extinguished through a discharge from bankruptcy.
ref: 2011 July 14, Christine Dobby, “Divorce payment unenforceable after bankruptcy: SCC”, in Financial Post, Canada, retrieved 21 Oct 2015:
text: [T]he impact of income taxes shapes the size and type of assets that are transferred between spouses. So, carefully consider them when splitting assets as part of an equalization payment.
ref: 2013 January 23, Frank Di Pietro, “Minimize tax on marriage breakdown”, in advisor.ca, Canada, retrieved 21 Oct 2015:
topics: law
glosses: In a divorce agreement, a payment made by one spouse to the other in order to create an equal division of assets.
Synonyms: sense: (Canada) money transferred from the federal government to a province
word: transfer payment
aboutsledge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aboutsledges
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of about-sledge.
aboutsledges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aboutsledge
calinda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kalenda
form: kalinda
Senses: examples: text: The British colonies did not permit these dances, so the calinda and the bamboula did not flourish in the plantation societies of Virginia and Carolina.
ref: 2008, Ned Sublette, The World That Made New Orleans, Lawrence Hill Books, published 2009, page 74:
glosses: An African-American style of dance (or its associated music) in the southern US and parts of Latin America.
glosses: A Caribbean martial art involving stickfighting.
papasan chair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: papasan chairs
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese パパさん (papa san, “(honored) father”).
Senses: examples: text: “You got to do something about your yard.” “My yard? We've been over this, Wayne. Why would I allow a seasonal skunk orgy on my land, huh? They ruined my papasan chair with their musky lovemaking. No, no no. These skunks are your problem, Wayne.”
ref: 2021 April 18, Christy Stratton & Erin Wagoner, “Hoot 'N Haw” (0:52 from the start), in Bless the Harts, season 2, episode 18, spoken by Wayne Edwards (Ike Barinholtz):
glosses: A large rounded bowl-shaped chair with an adjustable angle similar to that of a futon.
Synonyms: bowl chair
papasan chairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of papasan chair
bowl chair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bowl chairs
Senses: glosses: papasan chair
bowl chairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bowl chair
punacious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more punacious
form: most punacious
Etymology: From pun + -acious.
Senses: examples: text: At the same time I was hopeful that he would not be discouraged from exercising his considerable wit and punacious penchant for whimsy.
ref: 2006, Donald Empson, Kathleen M. Vadnais, The Street Where You Live: A Guide to the Place Names of St. Paul:
text: He is punacious when opposed.
ref: 1970, Brian Freeman, Narcotics cases: prosecution and defense:
glosses: Prone to making puns.
visual streak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: visual streaks
Senses: glosses: An elongated retinal area, found in some animals, that offers superior visual acuity.
visual streaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of visual streak
surrogative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more surrogative
form: most surrogative
Senses: glosses: of, related to, or suggesting the quality of a surrogate
synecdochally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more synecdochally
form: most synecdochally
Etymology: From synecdochal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: metonymically
text: "This repetition frequently combines with a shorthand signification which stands synecdochally for the entire memory, which is usually too terrible to bear."
ref: 2014, Alan Gibbs, Contemporary American Trauma Narratives:
synonyms: synecdochically
antonyms: literally
coordinate_terms: as it were
figuratively
in a manner of speaking
metaphorically
so to speak
glosses: in a synecdochal manner.
surrogatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more surrogatively
form: most surrogatively
Etymology: From surrogative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a surrogative manner.
excursion fare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excursion fares
Senses: examples: text: Bands of Musicians conveyed in ordinary advertised Excursion Trains are charged the full excursion fare, but when accompanying Guaranteed Excursions, or travelling in Excursion Trains to Brass Band Contests, they are conveyed at half the Excursion Fare.
ref: 1869 January, Regulations of the Railway Clearing House, James Truscott & Son (London), p. 109 (Google preview)
text: As of Jan. 1, Pan American will offer lower round‐trip economy excursion fares in some instances.
ref: 1964 December 27, “The Field of Travel”, in New York Times, retrieved 20 Oct 2015:
text: The excursion fare of £64 return, for trips of up to six nights, includes a berth in an "economy" cabin.
ref: 2014 February 5, Simon Calder, “of the Week: A Boat”, in New York Times, retrieved 20 Oct 2015:
topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: A fare for travel by land, air, or water which is less expensive than the regular fare, and which usually depends on special conditions, such as round-trip travel, payment in advance, or restrictions in duration of stay.
Synonyms: excursion rate
excursion rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excursion rates
Senses: glosses: Synonym of excursion fare.
synonyms: word: excursion fare
sheroic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sheroic
form: most sheroic
Etymology: Blend of she + heroic.
Senses: examples: text: The tragedy of Gatha's sheroic journey is that the actualization of her own importance is never considered "the prize" of her odyssey; hence, she never recognizes the personal and historic success of her journey.
ref: 1999, Janice Lee Liddell, “Voyages Beyond Lust and Lactation: The Climacteric as Seen in Novels by Sylvia Wynter, Beryl Gilroy, and Paule Marshall”, in Janice Liddell, Yakini Belinda Kemp, editors, Arms Akimbo: Africana Women in Contemporary Literature, University Press of Florida, →ISBN, page 36:
text: This sheroic choice eventually led her to testify compassionately on behalf of faceless and voiceless young girls still living under horrific conditions in the community she had escaped from.
ref: 2015, Nancy D. O'Reilly, Leading Women: 20 Influential Women Share Their Secrets to Leadership, Business, and Life, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 84:
text: However, in the same vein, she also bemoans that following each of these campaigns, amnesia sets in wherein society tends to conveniently forget about the sheroic lengths to which its women have uniformly performed and without whom the military's successes could not have been achieved.
ref: 2015, G. L. A. Harris, Living Legends and Full Agency: Implications of Repealing the Combat Exclusion Policy, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 37:
topics: feminism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
glosses: Heroic in a female or feminist context.
Related terms: shero
androcratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more androcratic
form: most androcratic
Etymology: From andro- + -cratic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to androcracy.
elocutionarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more elocutionarily
form: most elocutionarily
Etymology: From elocutionary + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in an elocutionary manner
publishably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From publishable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a publishable manner; in a way that is suitable for publication.
citationless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From citation + -less.
Senses: examples: text: a citationless paper
text: The citationless entries are spread relatively evenly throughout the alphabet and show no obvious bias towards the earlier or later pages of the dictionary.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 492:
glosses: Without citations.
quotationless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quotation + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without quotations.
quoteless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quote + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without quotations; quotationless.
glosses: Without quotation marks.
quote marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quote mark
chertiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of cherty: most cherty
cheverils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheveril
chevrony
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chevronny.
chicanings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chicaning
chidlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of chitterlings.
chigetai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chigetai
form: chigetais
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dziggetai.
chigetais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chigetai
chirker
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of chirk: more chirk
chloasmata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chloasma
chloracnes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chloracne
chloralosed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chloralose + -ed.
Senses: glosses: anesthetized with chloralose
chlordanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chlordane
chlordans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chlordan
chlorals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chloral
mirandarize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mirandarizes
form: mirandarizing
form: mirandarized
form: mirandarized
Senses: examples: text: It wasn't until the officer pulled out the cuffs and mirandarized me that everything fell into place.
topics: law
glosses: to read Miranda warning to the person being arrested
Synonyms: Mirandize
Related terms: unmirandarized
mirandarizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mirandarize
mirandarizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mirandarize
mirandarized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mirandarize
unmirandized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unMirandized
Etymology: From un- + Mirandized.
Senses: examples: text: Court ruled that physical evidence that was the fruit of an unmirandized interrogation need not be suppressed.
topics: law
glosses: Not having had the Miranda warning read out.
Related terms: mirandarize
tromba marina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trombas marina
Etymology: From Italian, meaning "marine trumpet".
* The tromba may originate in a comparison to the valveless trumpet of the Middle Ages, which produced harmonic overtones like the tromba marina, or as a reference to the unique trumpet-like rasping sound created by the intentionally loose bridge of the instrument vibrating against its face. The marina may refer to the Virgin Mary, perhaps because the instrument was played by nuns in convents.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A Middle Ages European string instrument with a long, slender and triangular-shaped body, featuring one main string and sometimes additional sympathetic strings, known for an extremely loud sound making it useful for signalling between ships, and for a distinctive ethereal tone (harmonic overtones) created by the player fingering the string at precise intervals below the point where the string is to be bowed, rather than above as most similar instruments.
Synonyms: marine trumpet
trumpet marine
Derived terms: tromba marinist
trombas marina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tromba marina
trumpet marine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trumpets marine
form: trumpet marines
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Synonym of tromba marina.
synonyms: word: tromba marina
trumpets marine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trumpet marine
trumpet marines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trumpet marine
tromba marinist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tromba marinists
Senses: glosses: Someone who plays a tromba marina.
triple contrabass viol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triple contrabass viols
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A stringed instrument of the viol family, a variant of the octobass distinguished by its extreme size -- at more than ten feet all, it must be performed by a person on a platform.
chatterish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chatterish
form: most chatterish
Etymology: From chatter + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: "The two of them take the world with a great ease, and are not chatterish."
ref: 1939, Leo Richard Ward, God in an Irish kitchen:
glosses: somewhat chattery
huggees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of huggee
researchee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: researchees
Etymology: From research + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: Most inquiry has focussed on the researchee, while only limited attention has been given to the researcher.
glosses: One who is researched.
researchees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of researchee
expungee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expungees
Etymology: From expunge + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: Many of these expungees achieve immediate reinstatement through the proper fiscal procedure.
ref: 1964, The Ohio Journal of Science, volume 64, page 297:
glosses: One whose information or record has been expunged.
expungees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expungee
allowee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allowees
Etymology: From allow + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: Allowance, a third income test applies on the incomes of the allowee's parents.
glosses: One who is allowed or permitted
allowees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allowee
damage controls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of damage control
underkill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌndəˌkɪl/
ipa: /ˈʌndɚˌkɪl/
Etymology: From under- + kill.
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: Insufficient disposal because of inadequate inspection criteria.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The situation where a weapon does too little destruction, or less than it potentially could.
underkill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌndəˈkɪl/
ipa: /ˌʌndɚˈkɪl/
Forms: form: underkills
form: underkilling
form: underkilled
form: underkilled
Etymology: From under- + kill.
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: To dispose of too few items because of inadequate inspection criteria.
ciba cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ciba cakes
Etymology: From Mandarin 糍粑 (cíbā) + cake.
Senses: glosses: A traditional Chinese snack consisting of cooked glutinous rice pounded into paste.
ciba cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ciba cake
tawas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tawa
Chasidism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Hasidism.
Ḥasidism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Hassidism.
Ḥassidism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Hassidism.
Khasidism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Hassidism.
Khassidism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Hassidism.
Chasidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Chasid + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Hasidic.
Roussillon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹuːsiːˈjoʊn/
ipa: /ˌɹuːsiːˈjən/
Forms: form: Roussillons
Etymology: Borrowed from French Roussillon, from Latin Ruscinō, Ruscinōnem. Compare Catalan Rosselló.
Senses: glosses: A region of the Occitania region, France, approximately coterminous with Pyrénées-Orientales, that was once a part of Catalonia.
glosses: A commune in Isère department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
glosses: A commune in Vaucluse department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
glosses: A regional county municipality in Montérégie, Quebec, Canada.
glosses: A surname from French.
Derived terms: Roussillonese
Rizhao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: rûʹjouʹ
Forms: form: Jih-chao
form: Jihchao
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 日照 (Rìzhào).
Senses: examples: text: A video of tanks in China went viral on Monday 18 July, 2022, with social media users claiming it shows the Chinese government suppressing protesters in Henan over the ongoing banking scandals. However, the video was actually filmed in Rizhao City in Shandong Province and according to our sources, the tanks were deployed as part of military drills.
ref: 2022 July 21, Yu-Hsiang Wang, “Did the Chinese government really deploy military tanks to suppress protesters in Henan province?”, in France 24, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2022:
text: In China, authorities said they might soon shoot down an unidentified flying object over waters near the northern city of Rizhao, The South China Morning Post reported.
ref: 2023 February 12, Daniel E. Slotnik, Amelia Nierenberg, “Your Monday Briefing: U.S. Destroys U.F.O.s”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Feb 2023, Briefing:
glosses: A city in southeastern Shandong, China.
Nimzowitsch Defence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After Aron Nimzowitsch.
Senses: glosses: A chess opening characterized by the moves 1.e4 Nc6, in which the white king's pawn advances two squares and the black queen's knight advances to the bishop file.
wikipedia: Aron Nimzowitsch
Tourcoing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Tourcoing.
Senses: glosses: A city and commune of Nord department, Hauts-de-France, France.
bigophones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bigophone
orphéons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orphéon
chairmanager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chairmanagers
Etymology: Blend of chairman + manager
Senses: examples: text: Notoriously, Barry Fry spent nine years from 1996 to 2005 as chairmanager of Peterborough United, presiding over one promotion and two relegations.
ref: 2015 October 21, John Ashdown, “Football’s unbreakable records and the teams who can’t play each other”, in The Guardian:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A person who (temporarily) holds the position of both chairman and manager of a club
supercoach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supercoaches
Etymology: From super- + coach.
Senses: examples: text: Griffin spent four years at Red Hill and was moved aside ahead of the 2015 season to make way for returning supercoach Wayne Bennett.
ref: 2015 October 21, “Penrith Panthers name coach Anthony Griffin as Ivan Cleary's replacement”, in The Guardian:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A coach who has had great success in the past
andromedin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: andromedins
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: A growth factor that is mediated by androgens
andromedins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The proliferation and survival of intermediate cells in the basal layer are also thought to be regulated by AR-dependent signaling in prostate stroma and subsequent paracrine signaling mediated by growth and survival factors, known as andromedins, although a true andromedin remains to be identified [13 ,14 ,17 –24 ].
ref: 2015 September 16, “Androgen Receptor-Mediated Growth Suppression of HPr-1AR and PC3-Lenti-AR Prostate Epithelial Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of andromedin