cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
used book store
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: used book stores
Senses: examples: text: 70,000 Cloth Bound Volumes, the entire stock of a “Used” Book Store to be sold without reserve, embracing standard sets, copyright fiction, juvenile copyrights, books of reference, history and travel.
ref: 1911 September 17, The Chicago Sunday Tribune, volume LXX, number 38, page 4:
text: An innovation this fall is an exchange department. It is called the “used book store” and is being handled by officers of the student body with Jack Benef[ ]el as manager. During the first day fully $60 worth of books were sold.
ref: 1915 September 12, “In Portland’s Schools”, in Oregon Sunday Journal, volume XIII, number 25, Portland, Ore., section three, page 2:
text: USED BOOK STORE for sale, delightful business; short hours. Perfect climate. Big profits. Assets $600. Accept $500. Cash $300. Owner will remain month. 406-410 E st., San Diego, Cal. Meanwhile Spanish books wanted.
ref: 1918 December 28, Reno Evening Gazette, forty-second year, number 343, Reno, Nev., page seven:
text: Whenever you’re out shopping go visit a used book store (if there is one in your area) so you can get books cheap.
ref: 1998, Gary Krane, Simple Fun for Busy People: 333 Free Ways to Enjoy Your Loved Ones More in the Time You Have, Berkeley, Calif.: Conari Press, →ISBN, page 194:
text: Sadly, it’s no longer in print, but that’s what libraries and used book stores are for.
ref: 2014 January 2–8, Lisa Parsons, “From the Bookshelf”, in The Hippo, volume 14, number 1, Manchester, N.H.: Hippo Press, page 60:
text: Years later, when I lectured and traveled a great deal in the United States and Great Britain, I fell into the habit of visiting used book stores and buying Dickens first editions.
ref: 2017, Irvin D[avid] Yalom, Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist’s Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Basic Books, →ISBN, page 62:
glosses: Alternative spelling of used bookstore.
used-book stores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of used-book store
used book stores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of used book store
SpaceXer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SpaceXers
Etymology: From SpaceX + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Allen took everything he saw here in stride, and the younger SpaceXers respected him as a wise old-timer.
ref: 2007, Michael Belfiore, Rocketeers: How a Visionary Band of Business Leaders, Engineers, and Pilots Is Boldly Privatizing Space, Smithsonian Books, →ISBN, page 181:
text: The Space Florida and SpaceXers claim that hundreds of jobs would be created at the refuge launch sites.
ref: 2013 June 9, Karl Wickstrom, “Wildlife or missiles? We’ll have both, please”, in Press Journal, Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers, page 3B, column 4:
text: The original SpaceX team consisted of about 20 SpaceXers, as they call themselves. […] “We start with that layer – young engineers, young talent, young technicians – who don’t really know what’s impossible,” a SpaceXer said. […] The total number of employees were now 150 SpaceXers.
ref: 2014, Erik Nordeus, The Engineer: Follow Elon Musk on a Journey from South Africa to Mars, Leanpub, pages 126, 129, and 136–137:
text: Over the years I’ve met lots of SpaceXers, from former astronauts to engineers to range rats.
ref: 2017, Joe Pappalardo, Spaceport Earth: The Reinvention of Spaceflight, New York, N.Y.; London: Overlook Duckworth, →ISBN, page 207:
text: Most of us SpaceXers in Hawthorne, California, had come in to watch the Dragon spacecraft launch to the International Space Station, which is pretty typical even for a weekend.
ref: 2019, Andrew Rader, Beyond the Known: How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars, Scribner, published 2020, →ISBN, page 301:
glosses: An employee of the American spacecraft manufacturer, launcher, and satellite communications corporation SpaceX.
SpaceXers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SpaceXer
anarakite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Anarak, Iran, where herbertsmithite is most common.
Senses: glosses: Herbertsmithite.
turtle up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turtles up
form: turtling up
form: turtled up
form: turtled up
Senses: glosses: To be defensive or hypervigilant; to adopt a defensive posture; to avoid conflict
big-dick energy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Hannah was still Catholic enough to know that talking about cunnilingus in a church sanctuary was a ticket straight to hell, so she whispered, “It’s like someone drained all that big-dick energy he had going on.” […] Turned out, the big-dick energy was totally authentic.
ref: 2019, Andie J. Christopher, Not the Girl You Marry, New York, N.Y.: Jove, →ISBN, pages 132 and 306:
text: At one point, she had designs on a career in finance; she’s brought the big-dick energy of Wall Street to a gymnasium in small-town Texas.
ref: 2020 January 22, Phoebe Luckhurst, “Smells like team spirit: Cheer your January blues away”, in Evening Standard, page 23:
text: The other gentleman, who brushed off the clash and went back to enjoying himself, displayed big-dick energy and probably has a tripod in his pants. […] Whatever doors their clothes won’t open, their big-dick energy will.
ref: 2020, Chloé Hilliard, F*ck Your Diet: And Other Things My Thighs Tell Me, Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 234:
text: The hold it has over you when you owe someone money, or the joy you feel when you have enough cash to pay your bills and still have some left over to treat yourself to something. Money has got some serious big-dick energy.
ref: 2020, Sarah Akwisombe, The Money Is Coming: Your Guide to Manifesting More Money, Piatkus, Little, Brown Book Group, →ISBN:
text: “Oh, Kelsey, no, no, no. This says that you’re Publisher of Millennial Print.” “Yeah. That is my job.” “Yes. And it is a great job, and I am in constant awe of your accomplishments, but this kind of overachieving only works if you’re trying to pick up women. All right? Men don’t want to deal with your big-dick energy.” “Oh, my God! Okay. I don’t have that energy, and you’re shouting.”
ref: 2021, Stacey Vanek Smith, Machiavelli for Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace, Gallery Books, published 2022, →ISBN, page 124:
text: Ray, despite all of his faults, gave off big-dick energy and probably had an actual big dick.
ref: 2021, Kim Davis, Ray’s Friend, JMS Books LLC, →ISBN:
text: Alex drank in his naked body. Sculpted. Toned. Everything about him was big. And the big-dick energy he exuded was well earned.
ref: 2022, Cheris Hodges, Can’t Hide Love, Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN:
text: “That name has some serious big-dick energy.”
ref: 2022, Cynthia St. Aubin, Secret Lives After Hours, Mills & Boon, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of big dick energy.
Gerussi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gerussis
form: Gerussies
Etymology: From Italian Gerussi.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian
oh, my God
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: "Oh, my God!" he cried. "He's invented photography." "What hath God wrought?" said the old man, trying to get up.
ref: 1925, Donald Ogden Stewart, The Crazy Fool, page 224:
text: One thing she has noticed over the years, Dorothea says, is that "he's developed more of a sense of humor. Now, when he'll crack a joke, I'll say, 'Oh, my God, who are you and what have you done with my husband?'"
ref: 2002 November, Tom Gliatto, “Local boy makes good”, in People, volume 58, number 22, page 114:
text: “There are girls at school we call tanorexic,” the teen said. “They are obsessed with tanning, they go in the beds every day and, oh, my God, it’s so gross, they look so dark it’s like walking skin cancer.”
ref: 2003 August 20, Julia Sommerfeld, “Skin-cancer risk not enough to scare teens who tan”, in Chicago Tribune, 157th year, number 232, section 8, page 7, column 3:
text: After DeGeneres displayed a picture of her overweight cat, “suddenly people sent in pictures of their fat cats,” she said. (She continues on in her meandering, charmingly Ellenesque fashion: “Some of them we don’t even show because I feel like, ‘Oh, my God, this animal’s going to blow up in a second.’ Now I’m realizing my animal’s not fat at all.”)
ref: 2004 May 23, Lynn Elber, “Ellen DeGeneres Savors Her Rebound, Emmys”, in The Signal, page B6:
text: Those New Orleans women knew how to pop that pussy, and oh, my God—Slugger was on swole—thinking about that project chick sucking my dick on Tchoupitoulas.
ref: 2010 August, Mary B. Morrison, “Darius”, in Darius Jones, New York, N.Y.: Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing, →ISBN; mass market edition, New York, N.Y.: Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing, February 2013, →ISBN, page 193:
text: You look divoon, just divoon, Honey. There's a new one over there. She's assisting Miss Berk.” Dixie glanced at his wristwatch and squeaked “Oh, my God! Half hour to curtain. Oh, I just love show business. I'll return. Ta ta. Gotta pee.”
ref: 2012, Dale Bridges, Dreams Some Assembly Required ... the Beginning, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 129:
text: “Oh, Kelsey, no, no, no. This says that you’re Publisher of Millennial Print.” “Yeah. That is my job.” “Yes. And it is a great job, and I am in constant awe of your accomplishments, but this kind of overachieving only works if you’re trying to pick up women. All right? Men don’t want to deal with your big-dick energy.” “Oh, my God! Okay. I don’t have that energy, and you’re shouting.”
ref: 2021, Stacey Vanek Smith, Machiavelli for Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace, Gallery Books, published 2022, →ISBN, page 124:
glosses: Alternative form of oh my God.
Denmarkian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Denmarkians
Etymology: From Denmark + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A Dane.
glosses: A person from Denmark.
used-bookstore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: used-bookstores
Senses: examples: text: The eleven volumes of Samuel Johnson were, according to Frisch, “another lucky find while browsing through a used-bookstore.”
ref: 1962 May 20, Helen L. Gillum, “Books That Turn Back Years”, in Southland (The Sunday Independent-Press-Telegram), Long Beach, Calif., page six:
text: Bythell’s misanthropic memoir, “The Diary of a Bookseller,” covers one year in the life of the Bookshop, his used-bookstore in a drafty, leaky stone house in Wigtown, Scotland.
ref: 2018 August 26, Laurie Hertzel, “The curmudgeon of Wigtown”, in Star Tribune, volume XXXVII, number 144, page E12:
text: So many other beloved greasy spoons, corner taverns and musty used-bookstores are gone that the impact of something Red Skelton said finally hit home.
ref: 2021 August 23, Ron Grossman, “Chicago’s rapid change may be ‘progress,’ but it doesn’t always feel like an improvement”, in Chicago Tribune, 174th year, number 235, section 1, page 10:
text: Like said pack rat, I return home from the used-bookstore, eyes gleaming with delight at my most recent and most “precious” acquisition.
ref: 2021 November 28, Tom Carpenter, “The hair of the dog, and the cat”, in Arizona Daily Sun, volume 76, number 89, page A2:
text: I love the used books that I pick up for a couple of dollars at Goodwill or a used-bookstore, with someone else’s inscriptions and underlines and bookmarks.
ref: 2022 January 11, Laurie Hertzel, “In praise of physical books”, in Ledger-Enquirer, page 8A:
glosses: Alternative spelling of used bookstore.
used-bookstores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of used-bookstore
AECOPD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
falls foul
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fall foul
falling foul
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fall foul
fell foul
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of fall foul
fallen foul
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of fall foul
icecream cone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: icecream cones
Senses: examples: text: I was chosen to carry out our impishness and in 10 minutes flat, I returned to our table from the confectioners with an icecream cone for each one of us, double yet.
ref: 1956 January 18, Benny Rubin, “Hollywood Snobs”, in Variety, page 10:
text: The short husbands with their outrageously patterned sports shirts arm in arm with purring wives too obviously full for slacks, the bawling kids with triple-decker icecream cones, the squealing teenagers, and the trailing grandfather with his beard and black hat.
ref: 1959, Mordecai Richler, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Penguin Books, published 1973, page 71:
text: There was the day she was struggling back through the crowded foyer at intermission with five icecream cones for her friends, and the tall boy with the sallow face and strange blond hair asked so nicely if he could help her.
ref: 1987, Nadine Gordimer, A Sport of Nature, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 10:
glosses: Alternative form of ice cream cone.
icecream cones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of icecream cone
self-licking ice-cream cone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-licking ice-cream cones
Senses: examples: text: They live in fortresses because they have been at war for centuries, and they’ve been at war for centuries because they live in fortresses. It’s a self-licking ice-cream cone.
ref: 2014, Ron Capps, Seriously Not All Right: Five Wars in Ten Years, Tucson, Ariz.: Schaffner Press, →ISBN, page 121:
text: In Hugh’s experience, Williams seemed to either simply repeat work that had already been done elsewhere in the chain of command or add redundant procedural steps to interject himself, almost like a self-licking ice-cream cone.
ref: 2017, Alastair Luft, The Battle Within, Inkshares, →ISBN, page 8:
text: The G7 meetings and similar international gatherings had a rhyme and reason at one point in history, and at times do good work, but in many respects, they have simply become self-licking ice-cream cones. They’re there because they’re there.
ref: 2020, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of self-licking ice cream cone.
self-licking ice-cream cones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of self-licking ice-cream cone
sand verbena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sand verbenas
Senses: synonyms: abronia
wild lantana
glosses: Any plant in the genus Abronia or the related genus Tripterocalyx, herbaceous flowers native to sandy habitats throughout the western half of North America, some of which have edible roots.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Abronia ameliae
word: Amelia's sand verbena
taxonomic: Abronia umbellata
word: beach sand verbena
taxonomic: Abronia argillosa
word: clay sand verbena
taxonomic: Abronia latifolia
word: coastal sand verbena
taxonomic: Abronia villosa
word: desert sand verbena
taxonomic: Abronia nana
word: dwarf sand verbena
taxonomic: Abronia elliptica
word: fragrant white sand verbena
taxonomic: Abronia latifolia
word: island sand verbena
taxonomic: Abronia macrocarpa
word: large-fruit sand verbena
taxonomic: Abronia minor
word: little sand verbena
taxonomic: Abronia umbellata
word: pink sand verbena
taxonomic: Abronia umbellata
word: purple sand verbena
taxonomic: Abronia maritima
word: red sand verbena
taxonomic: Abronia gracilis
word: slender sand verbena
taxonomic: Tripterocalyx micranthus
word: smallflower sand verbena
taxonomic: Abronia fragrans
word: snowball sand verbena
taxonomic: Abronia turbinata
word: transmontane sand verbena
taxonomic: Abronia mellifera
word: white sand verbena
taxonomic: Abronia ammophila
word: Wyoming sand verbena
sand verbenas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sand verbena
wolf call
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wolf calls
form: wolfcall
Senses: examples: text: But most just bought picture postcards at Reed’s stationery to send home or walked around looking at girls. They made wolf calls at Karla.
ref: 1979, Ella Leffland, Rumors of Peace, Perennial Library, published 1985, →ISBN, page 33:
text: “How can you stand it? I know you hear their wolf calls. I know you notice how they leer at you.”
ref: 2005, Janice Sims, “A Love Supreme”, in Can I get an Amen, BET, →ISBN, page 75:
text: The foreman knocked once and then entered her office. Could it be? Yes, this was one of the men that had made wolf calls at her.
ref: 2008, Jennifer Youngblood, Sandra Poole, Stoney Creek, Alabama, Denver, Colo.: Mapletree Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 61:
glosses: Synonym of wolf whistle.
synonyms: word: wolf whistle
wolf calls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wolf call
wolfcall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wolfcalls
Senses: examples: text: They could not step out of their enclaves and avoid the speeding cars with wolfcall horns.
ref: 1959, Mordecai Richler, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Penguin Books, published 1973, page 71:
text: We were now walking at the very edge of the water, the tide lapping at our feet, and the four or five guys, with guffaws and wolfcalls, were nearly tripping us up with the bike wheels, jostling us, reaching out to grab and pinch at our breasts and behinds.
ref: 1989, Cathy Young, Growing Up in Moscow: Memories of a Soviet Girlhood, New York, N.Y.: Ticknor & Fields, →ISBN, page 114:
text: On one occasion, two carloads of guys pulled up alongside me, offering lifts. When I declined, they drove off uttering wolfcalls.
ref: 1990, Robyn, “Incognito”, in F.M.I.: Female Mimics International, volume 19, number 6 / 56, MAGCORP, The Magazine Corporation of America, California, page 16:
text: There’s a parking garage and a taxi garage shoulder to shoulder whose shiftless employees litter the sidewalk night and day, vying in multilingual competition for the most salacious wolfcalls toward any women hapless enough to pass down the street.
ref: 2003, Toby Cecchini, Cosmopolitan: A Bartender’s Life, New York, N.Y.: Broadway Books, →ISBN, page 3:
glosses: Alternative form of wolf call.
wolfcalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wolfcall
blots out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blot out
blotted out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blot out
wolfwhistle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wolfwhistles
Senses: examples: text: Two soldiers were on the hood of the Cadillac, peering in at Mother and Aunt Ginger. They were giving them the wolfwhistle and rolling their eyes.
ref: 1989, Rick DeMarinis, The Year of the Zinc Penny, New York, N.Y.; London: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 73:
text: Men’s wolfwhistles, as well as their calls to attract the attention of a woman often unknown to them, mainly focus on women’s physical or sexual features (e.g. ‘gorgeous’, ‘sexy legs’, ‘big tits’, etc.).
ref: 1998, Anne Pauwels, Women Changing Language, London; New York, N.Y.: Longman, →ISBN, page 63:
text: ‘Look out,’ they say. ‘Dalts is dolled up for his chick.’ Their wolfwhistles bounce off the walls and surround him as he leaves.
ref: 2012, Paul D. Carter, Eleven Seasons, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, page 215:
glosses: Alternative form of wolf whistle.
wolfwhistle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wolfwhistles
form: wolfwhistling
form: wolfwhistled
form: wolfwhistled
Senses: examples: text: An unpleasant huge Australian stuck out a hand and felt between a nymph’s fat thighs, and wolfwhistled.
ref: 1971, Michael Orsler, Rhumb Line, Hutchinson, →ISBN, pages 110–111:
text: She wolfwhistled at Dorothy’s evening frock of deep purple.
ref: 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, Penguin Books, published 1981, →ISBN, page 476:
text: Now, from my balcony, I watched him drive up in his Morgan and rehearse climbing out, swinging his legs in their high-heeled sandals. He wore a red, curly wig and a full-skirted dress. One of the cameramen wolfwhistled.
ref: 1991, Deborah Moggach, The Stand-In, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, page 30:
glosses: Alternative form of wolf whistle.
wolfwhistles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wolfwhistle
wolfwhistles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wolfwhistle
wolf-whistling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wolf-whistle
wolfwhistling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wolfwhistle
wolfwhistled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wolfwhistle
wolf-whistled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wolf-whistle
fish-eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fish-eye
fish-eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fish-eye
fish-eyeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fish-eye
fisheyeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fisheye
genderal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gender + -al, likely modeled on sexual, especially in later usage.
Senses: examples: text: We find a grammatical gender of a kind in Lᴇk·oñḗnᴇñ as in some of the other Salish dialects. […] but it must be clearly understood that no genderal distinction is made in the pronoun proper, only in the locative or demonstrative particles attached to it, […]
ref: 1907, C. Hill Tout, “Report on the Ethnology of the South-Eastern Tribes of Vancouver Island, British Columbia”, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 37, London: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, pages 314–315:
glosses: Related to gender.
Related to grammatical gender (division of nouns etc. into categories like masculine, feminine, etc.)
examples: text: Hysteria is ordinarily, but no without exception, a disease pertaining to the female organization. The maladive condition seems rather to belong to the sexual element, the aphrodisiac infusion, than to the genderal peculiarity; and although it is an epicene affection, it is by far the most frequently found among the females of the race.
ref: 1853 August 3, [unkown], “Hysteria”, in J. V. C. Smith, editor, Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 49, number 1, Boston: David Clapp, →DOI, page 17:
text: When asked might a woman wear pants / That a critical fellow named Kant / Snapped back in reply, / "Attempts to transcend genderal / distinctions to posit a / gynandromorphic category / of clothal relationships / leads to syllogism and / antinomy." / Which of course in Kant cant means she can't.
ref: 1949 Summer, Nick Norton, “Transcendental Limerick”, in M. Patricia Ripley, Sperry Lea, editors, Counterpoint, →OCLC, page 18:
text: [E. M. W.] Tillyard's work is of course of his time, but unless one take the terminally relativistic view that as with the blind men and the elephant, there is nothing more permanent in the objects themselves than what a temporal (or perhaps political or sociological or genderal or other) perspective allows one to see, his work cannot be dismissed as just of its time.
ref: 2001, Thomas A. Pendleton, “Introduction”, in Thomas A. Pendleton, editor, Henry VI: Critical Essays, Routledge, →ISBN, page 8:
glosses: Related to gender.
Related to a person's state of being a man, woman, etc.
Coordinate terms: genderly
hydrogen-3
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: So named because it is the isotope of hydrogen that has three nucleons (a proton and two neutrons).
Senses: related: word: hydrogen 3
coordinate_terms: hydrogen-1
hydrogen 1
;
hydrogen-2
hydrogen 2
;
hydrogen-4
hydrogen 4
glosses: Synonym of tritium (“isotope of hydrogen”).
synonyms: word: tritium
extra: isotope of hydrogen
ice-cream van
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice-cream vans
Senses: examples: text: The ruck passes clean through bramble hedges, scattering the circling crowd when the ‘bottle’ breaks loose into the hilltop meadow full of ice-cream vans, pushchairs, picnics and ambulances.
ref: 2008, 1000 Things to Do in Britain, Time Out Guides, →ISBN, page 106:
text: Maudie must have thought of her dropped ice cream yesterday, because she clamoured desperately for a Whippy when she saw an ice-cream van on the way to the woods, but Alice wouldn’t hear of it.
ref: 2012, Jacqueline Wilson, Four Children and It, Puffin Books, →ISBN, page 287:
text: And if I ever heard an ice-cream van chiming nearby, I’d drop everything and beg, ‘Ice peam – want one!’
ref: 2014, Chanelle Hayes, Anna Pointer, Chanelle Hayes: Baring My Heart, John Blake, →ISBN, page 11:
glosses: Alternative form of ice cream van.
ice-cream vans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ice-cream van
icecream van
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: icecream vans
Senses: examples: text: She looked out of the window for inspiration, saw an icecream van standing beside the back gate of the hospital. ‘Goodness, look! An icecream van! When we leave, we’ll stop and buy one, shall we?[…]’
ref: 1977, Charlotte Lamb [pseudonym; Sheila Holland], Kingfisher Morning, Harlequin Books, published 1985, →ISBN, page 98:
text: Tomorrow a party of Arnie’s tourists would turn up in a glass-bottomed boat, tomorrow we’d wake up and see an icecream van driving along the sand, tomorrow a helicopter would arrive, full of sexy models in slinky bikinis, for a tropical photoshoot.
ref: 2001, Ann Halam [pseudonym; Gwyneth Jones], Dr Franklin’s Island, Dolphin, →ISBN, page 32:
text: Decorations began to appear in house windows as well as in shops — even the icecream vans were playing carols as they drove along — and the magazines were full of suggestions for traditional feasts.
ref: 2013, Sheila Holroyd, A Whole New World, Leicester: Linford, published 2015, →ISBN, page 245:
glosses: Alternative form of ice cream van.
icecream vans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of icecream van
topological soliton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: topological solitons
Senses: examples: text: One of the simplest and most commonplace examples of a topological soliton occurs in old-fashioned coiled telephone handset cords, which are usually coiled clockwise. Years of picking up the handset can end up coiling parts of the cord in the opposite counterclockwise direction, and when this happens there will be a distinctive larger loop that separates the two directions of coiling. This odd looking transition loop, which is neither clockwise nor counterclockwise, is an excellent example of a topological soliton.^([Wikipedia])
text: A dynamic theory is derived for the motion of a Bloch point, i.e., a point topological soliton which is homotopically equivalent to a "hedgehog," along a Bloch line in a ferromagnet.
ref: 1989, Soviet Physics, JETP, Volume 68, Issues 1-4, American Institute of Physics, page 879:
text: 2010, Wen Xiu Ma, Xing-biao Hu, Qingping Liu (editors), Nonlinear and Modern Mathematical Physics: Proceedings of the First International Workshop, American Institute of Physics, page 205,
We review our work on topological solitons in the Faddeev-Skyrme model.
topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
synonyms: topological defect
glosses: A type of soliton that forms the transition between two adjoining structures or spaces which are "out of phase" in such a way that the transition cannot be seamless.
Related terms: non-topological soliton
topological solitons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of topological soliton
bossanovas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bossanova, Alternative form of bossa novas.
wheelspinning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wheelspin
wheelspun
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wheelspin
wheelspinned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wheelspin
wheelspan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheelspans
Etymology: From wheel + span.
Senses: examples: text: 6 WHEELERS / WHEELSPANS UP TO 18’ 0”
ref: 1966 September 16, Commercial Motor, page 23:
text: A Job-Rated version of the 1-ton P300 with lower 6,000 lbs. GVW and the same 104 in. and 126 in. wheelspans.
ref: 2001, James T. Lenzke, editor, Standard Catalog of American Light-Duty Trucks: Pickups, Panels, Vans, All Models, 1896-2000, Krause Publications, →ISBN, page 273:
text: Engines and gearbox acted as cross-members for a massive frame that carried the Silver Bullet’s 6,000lb on a wheelbase of 185 inches. This huge wheelspan was found disadvantageous after the Sunbeam crew decanted their Bullet at Daytona Beach in March 1930 with the aim of reaching 250mph, the car’s 300-mph design speed being held in reserve.
ref: 2005, Karl Ludvigsen, The V12 Engine: The Untold Inside Story of the Technology, Evolution, Performance, and Impact of All V12-Engined Cars, Haynes Publishing, →ISBN, pages 97–98:
text: We’re already pushing the envelope of acceptability with a longer fork, the wheelspan and the sloping top tube.
ref: 2009, Andrew Edwards, Fixed: Global Fixed-Gear Bike Culture, Laurence King Publishing, →ISBN, page 103:
text: In the 1920s the firm had produced just two models of car: a large Straight Eight, designed to compete with Rolls-Royce (which it signally failed to do); and, from 1925, the Trojan, a solid-wheeled ‘utility car’ with a wheelspan that exactly matched that of most of Britain tramlines, triggering a number of horrific accidents and unintended diversions.
ref: 2013, Steven Parissien, The Life of the Automobile: A New History of the Motor Car, London: Atlantic Books, →ISBN, page 273:
text: The rhomboidal design of the Mk I, with the tracks running around the outside of the hull, meant that it had an equivalent “wheelspan” to a wheeled vehicle with 60-foot (18 m) wide wheels!
ref: 2014, Joel Levy, Fifty Weapons That Changed the Course of History, Firefly Books, →ISBN, page 137:
text: Longer wheelspan and wider axles increase the overall stability and decrease agility through difficult, narrow trial gates. […] Slight bending of the chassis, for example a few millimeters in the center of a 48-stud long wheelspan, is acceptable; […]
ref: 2015, HispaBrick Magazine, volume 23, →ISSN, pages 18–19:
glosses: The distance between two wheels on the same axle.
wheelspan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From wheel + span.
Senses: glosses: simple past of wheelspin
wheelspans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheelspan
bill up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bills up
form: billing up
form: billed up
form: billed up
Etymology: From a pronunciation spelling of build.
Senses: examples: text: Fam, I don't blaze / But I can bill up, so if I get bored / I might mm, bill it / At studio, I'm like mm, kill it
ref: 2015, Jme, “Pulse 8” (track 1), in Integrity>, performed by Jme:
text: You see skengs ain't cheap and the corn ain't free / But I'll smoke it for free, bill it up, go to sleep
ref: 2015, Reekz MB, LD, Dimzy, “Trapping’s Alive” (track 15), in In Skengs We Trust, performed by 67:
synonyms: bill
skin up
glosses: To roll up a marijuana cigarette.
tectonometamorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to tectonometamorphism.
tectonometamorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A type of metamorphism involving tectonic forces and metamorphic changes.
out-do
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: out-does
form: out-doing
form: out-did
form: out-done
Senses: examples: text: As for their Sleeping, they ſtrive not only to imitate, but alſo to out-do the antient Inhabitants of Capua; for thoſe would not allow their Children any Beds; till they were Married, alledging, that Beds were invented for the Eaſe of Antient and decripid People, not to encourage young Men in their Effœminacy.
ref: 1698, J[odocus] C[rull], The Antient and Present State of Muscovy, Containing a Geographical, Historical and Political Account of All Those Nations and Territories Under the Jurisdiction of the Present Czar, London: […] A. Roper, […]; and A. Bosvile, […], page 162:
text: This Englishman should neither out-do him in generosity nor affrontery.
ref: 1898, John R[oy] Musick, Sustained Honor: A Story of the War of 1812, New York, N.Y.: Funk & Wagnalls Company; London and Toronto, page 188:
text: The Girls were always trying to out-do us, but with the boys around you couldn’t be afraid of a shitty G-reg.
ref: 2007, Richard Milward, Apples, Canongate, →ISBN, page 42:
glosses: Alternative form of outdo.
second derivative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second derivatives
Senses: topics: calculus
mathematics
sciences
synonyms: second-order derivative
coordinate_terms: first derivative
glosses: The derivative of the derivative of a function.
Related terms: point of inflection
ice-cream truck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice-cream trucks
Senses: examples: text: The night I met the newborn vampires, I heard an ice-cream truck in the vicinity, its repetitive jingle playing loudly.
ref: 1994, Christopher Pike [pen name; Kevin Christopher McFadden], The Last Vampire 2: Black Blood, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 125:
text: One must wonder how gloomy a game can really be when you trash oversized ice-cream trucks and a gargantuan man holding two large tires.
ref: 2001 July, Kraig Kujawa, “Twisted Metal: Black”, in Electronic Gaming Monthly, number 14.07, page 68:
text: The lazy drone of summer filled the air, including the sound of an ice-cream truck and the tune it played as it drove slowly through the neighborhood.
ref: 2006, Julianna Morris, The Hometown Hero Returns, Silhouette, →ISBN, page 118:
glosses: Alternative form of ice cream truck.
icecream truck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: icecream trucks
Senses: examples: text: Have since moved through most of the far and southwest states as itinerant worker in ballparks, coliseums, icecream trucks, beanfields, etc, etc, settling for as long as a year at a time.
ref: 1965, Donald M[erriam] Allen, Robert Creeley, editors, New American Story, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, Inc., →LCCN, page 277:
text: Boisterously as children besieging an icecream truck, they jockeyed for position in one of the lines, playing the dozens with their homeys, finetuning their Tales, catching up on cellblock scuttlebutt.
ref: 1990, Seth Morgan, Homeboy, Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 237:
text: They offered this awful, awesome thing, from which the recording of their song spewed like the tune of an icecream truck, as a gift, and the harbinger of a new golden age of humankind.
ref: 2005, Cody Goodfellow, “Kungmin Horangi: The People’s Tiger”, in Robert Hood, Robin Pen, editors, Daikaiju!: Giant Monster Tales, Agog! Press, →ISBN, page 220:
glosses: Alternative form of ice cream truck.
ice-cream trucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ice-cream truck
icecream trucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of icecream truck
Crundall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
icecream soda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: icecream sodas
Senses: examples: text: I ate a bag of candy, a bag of peanuts, two bars of popcorn, a glass of icecream soda, and a chocolate milk-shake.
ref: 1973, Amy Stewart Fraser, The Hills of Home, London; Boston, Mass.: Routledge & Kegan Paul, →ISBN, page 208:
text: Back on her bed, she wept into her pillow for the lost home, for apple trees and cows, for red barns and swallows, for icecream sodas and drive-in movies, all that was innocent and sweet and lost, lost, lost.
ref: 1978, Anita Desai, Games at Twilight and Other Stories, Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 113:
text: He was waiting for a girl a little more adventurous than those content simply to sip their icecream sodas and then scuttle back to the sisters.
ref: 2010, Stephen King, “1922”, in Full Dark, No Stars, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, pages 96–97:
glosses: Alternative form of ice cream soda.
icecream sodas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of icecream soda
Roaix
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Roaixes
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Roaix
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Roaix.
Senses: glosses: A village in Vaucluse department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
rage comic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rage comics
Senses: examples: text: Last week, Reddit user CappnPoopdeck posted a "rage comic" depicting a man who, as a joke, takes an unused pregnancy test left behind by his ex-girlfriend, then finds that the test comes back positive.
ref: 2012 November 7, Hilary Hanson, “Man Takes Pregnancy Test, Finds Out He Has Testicular Cancer: Reports”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 30 Apr 2023:
text: He added, “Obama is a smart guy. ‘Okay, so this is how that works, so I type in that name, or now that I’m on Google+, I type in a +, or now that I’m on Reddit, put in a rage comic because that’s funny.’”
ref: 2013, James E[verett] Katz, Michael Barris, Anshul Jain, The Social Media President: Barack Obama and the Politics of Digital Engagement, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 99:
text: Thus, in order to produce and understand LOLCats, users need to master LOLspeak; to create a rage comic, the user requires familiarity with a broad range of new symbols.
ref: 2014, Limor Shifman, Memes in Digital Culture (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series), Cambridge, Mass.; London: The MIT Press, →ISBN, page 118:
text: A rage comic features a short sequence of the actions of standard characters and is often about the absurdity or folly of everyday life situations or comments on media occurrences.
ref: 2015, Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, editor, Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, 3rd edition, Information Science Reference, →ISBN, page 3772:
text: Rage comics were first introduced to China as bàozŏu mànhuà […] in 2008, and have become increasingly popular among Chinese Internet users since then.
ref: 2017, Aaron Marcus, Masaaki Kurosu, Xiaojuan Ma, Ayako Hashizume, Cuteness Engineering: Designing Adorable Products and Services, Springer, →ISBN, page 70:
glosses: A short cartoon strip using a growing set of pre-made cartoon faces which usually express rage or some other simple emotion or activity.
Guston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Dover district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR3244).
glosses: An unincorporated community in Meade County, Kentucky, United States, named after Gustavia "Gus" Richardson.
rage comics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rage comic
Younger Dryas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The International Union of Geological Sciences recognises the Pleistocene as ending 11,764 years ago, because that is when the last advance of the ice - known as the Younger Dryas - ended.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 145:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The last stage of the Pleistocene epoch, lasting from circa 12,900 to 11,700 years BP.
electroremediation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + remediation.
Senses: glosses: The use of electric fields to remove contaminants from polluted water.
Eemian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The Last Interglacial (also known as the Eemian), the interglacial period that began about 130,000 years ago at the end of the Penultimate Glacial Period, and ended about 115,000 years ago at the beginning of the Last Glacial Period, was first recognized from boreholes in the area of the city of Amersfoort, Utrecht province, Netherlands, by Pieter Harting (1875). He named the beds "Système Eémien" after the river Eem on which Amersfoort is located.
Senses: examples: text: At the time, temperatures briefly rose to become slightly higher than those of the pre-industrial period, making the Eemian the warmest time in the last million years.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 152:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The interglacial period lasting from circa 130,000 to 115,000 years ago.
Valchiusa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Valchiusa.
Senses: glosses: A town in Piedmont, Italy.
New Town
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The autumn of the year 1850 also saw the establishment of the Carriage & Wagon Department at Ashford, by which time the adjacent railway village had been extended by another sixty houses. This village at first was known as Alfred Town but later became Ashford New Town.
ref: 1947 November and December, “Ashford Works Centenary”, in Railway Magazine, page 389:
glosses: A suburb of Ashford, Kent, England, south-east of the town centre (OS grid ref TR0141). Also spelt Newtown.
synonyms: Newtown
Rajarhat
glosses: A suburb of Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Related terms: Newburgh
Newbury
New City
Newton
new town
Newtown
Newville
old town
Old Town
oldtown
Oldbury
Old City
Touch Base Policy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An immigration policy in British Hong Kong for refugees from mainland China, allowing them to register for an identification card if they can reach the urban area.
BIV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Thus, although the BIV is in fact in an otherwise-empty world, it has experiences as of interacting with other people and with things in the environment, just as you do.
ref: 2014, Andrew Cullison, editor, The Bloomsbury Companion to Epistemology, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 131:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Initialism of brain in a vat.
Wanneroo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A northern suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
glosses: A local government area in Western Australia, which includes the suburb; in full, the City of Wanneroo.
synrift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Sedimentary deposition of rocks during an extensional geological regime.
Agnesse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Agnesse was a short and thin woman, her gray hair tied back in a tight bun. She gestured to Zachary. “Well, I'm here now, so open it.” Zachary gave Cliona a quick look, one that literally passed over Agnesse's head.
ref: 2021 April 28, Ryan Kirk, Band of Broken Gods, Waterstone Media, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of Agnes.
synvolcanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Occurring during the same time period as volcanic activity.
synmetamorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Occurring during the same time period as metamorphism.
synmagmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Occurring during the same time period as magmatic activity.
toxicognath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toxicognaths
Senses: examples: text: Colour yellowish brown, with the cephalite and toxicognaths darker reddish brown. Integument sparsely hairy and punctured. Cephalite parallel-sided, its posterior border convexly rounded; frontal area with its sides converging[…]
ref: 1902, Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, page 423:
text: Centipedes are able to overpower relatively large and active prey by means of their powerful toxicognaths, with which they not only grasp but also paralyse or even kill their victims through delivery of poison.
ref: 2004, G. M. Barker, Natural Enemies of Terrestrial Molluscs, CABI, →ISBN, page 418:
glosses: One of a pair of modified legs on a centipede which function as poison fangs.
toxicognaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toxicognath
Notis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Greek Νότης (Nótis), diminutive of Παναγιώτης (Panagiótis) (see also Panagiotis).
Senses: examples: text: “The mass movement of millions of people is not a solution,” said Greece’s migration minister, Notis Mitarachi, emphasising the need for emergency aid to be sent to Turkey and Syria “before this happens”.
ref: 2023 February 26, Helena Smith, “Greece fortifies border to block refugees from Turkish-Syrian earthquakes”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A transliteration of the Greek male given name diminutive Νότης (Nótis).
uncompartmented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncompartmented
form: most uncompartmented
Etymology: From un- + compartmented.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: uncompartmentalized, compartmentless, unpartitioned, undivided, partitionless, dividerless
text: Of particular interest are the maximum uncompartmented lengths used, and the spacing methods used.
ref: 1959, Atomic Energy Commission, Heavy Water Moderated Power Reactor Plant: Preliminary Design of the Prototype Plant, United States, page 31:
text: Fires in large, uncompartmented areas require levels of reach, penetration, and volume that are beyond the capabilities of smaller hand lines.
ref: 2009, Glenn P. Corbett, Fire Engineering's Handbook for Firefighter I and II, page 449:
text: compartmented parks were the norm for private hunting parks; but parks using the uncompartmented wood-pasture system, or 'wooded commons' (parks shared for a fee), were more numerous in medieval England.
ref: 2013, Elizabeth Archibald, David F. Johnson, Arthurian Literature XXX, page 44:
glosses: Not divided into compartments.
Scexit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɛksɪt
Etymology: Blend of Scotland + exit, by analogy with Brexit.
Senses: examples: text: As Brexit becomes a settled fact of life, it will still be a cause of remainer grievance. But it could also fuel reluctance to go through the same trauma all over again as “Scexit”. […] The message that Scexit would be even worse than Brexit can still be delivered, just not by Johnson himself.
ref: 2021 February 9, Rafael Behr, “Sturgeon and Johnson have made Scottish independence seem inevitable. It isn't”, in The Guardian:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The (possible) act of Scotland becoming independent from the United Kingdom.
Coordinate terms: Brexit
Orkxit
Related terms: Brexit
Frexit
Grexit
Quexit
Texit
Wexit
Leros
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Greek Λέρος (Léros).
Senses: examples: text: Hugely expensive “closed controlled” holding facilities have replaced squalid camps on Samos, Leros and Kos, and similar centres for asylum seekers are expected to open in Lesbos and Chios this year.
ref: 2023 February 26, Helena Smith, “Greece fortifies border to block refugees from Turkish-Syrian earthquakes”, in The Guardian:
glosses: An island and municipality of Greece, part of the Dodecanese in the southeastern Aegean Sea.
people-smuggler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: people-smugglers
Senses: examples: text: “Clearly we need to offer asylum to people in need of protection but in an orderly way … Today, unfortunately, instead of us being proactive in asylum management, it is people-smugglers who sell places in our societies – not to those most in need but to those who pay the fees.”
ref: 2023 February 26, Helena Smith, “Greece fortifies border to block refugees from Turkish-Syrian earthquakes”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of people smuggler.