cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
poste-haste
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of postehaste.
Corpus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkɔɹpəs/
Etymology: Clipping of Corpus Christi
Senses: glosses: Corpus Christi (city in Texas)
qualifier: Cambridge University slang
glosses: Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
qualifier: Oxford University slang
glosses: Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
ETFE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of ethylene tetrafluoroethylene.
Synonyms: poly(ethene-co-tetrafluoroethene)
ethylene tetrafluoroethylene
ethylene-tetrafluoroethylene
ethylenetetrafluoroethylene
Hypernyms: english: fluorocarbon
translation: fluorocarbon
word: FC
word: fluoropolymer
word: polymer
Hyponyms: cross-linked ethylene-tetrafluoroethylene
XL-ETFE
Derived terms: alt: crosslinked ethylene tetrafluoroethylene
word: XL-ETFE
Related terms: word: ethylene
alt: TFE
word: tetrafluoroethylene
alt: polytetrafluoroethylene
word: PTFE
TFE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of tetrafluoroethylene.
glosses: Initialism of trifluoroethanol.
Derived terms: english: polytetrafluoroethylene
translation: polytetrafluoroethylene
word: PTFE
english: expanded polytetrafluoroethylene
translation: expanded polytetrafluoroethylene
word: ePTFE
english: ethylenetetrafluoroethylene
translation: ethylenetetrafluoroethylene
word: ETFE
english: crosslinked ethylene-tetrafluoroethylene
translation: crosslinked ethylene-tetrafluoroethylene
word: XL-ETFE
grass-eater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grass-eaters
Etymology: From grass + eater; applied to bribe-accepting polics by the Knapp Commission in the 1970s.
Senses: glosses: An organism notable for eating grass
glosses: An organism notable for eating grass
A fish of species Distichodus rostratus or Distichodus engycephalus, of Africa
examples: text: But why do police become grass-eaters at all, if they lack the greed and contempt fo decency necessary to become meat-eaters?
ref: 2002, Edwin J. Delattre, Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing, American Enterprise Institute, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 79:
text: It was the grass-eaters, the commission found, that made corruption respectable within the organization, encouraging a code of silence among officers.
ref: 2012, Lee P. Brown, Policing in the 21st Century: Community Policing, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 50:
text: Grass-eaters constituted the majority of police officers who were corrupt; meat-eaters were rare. But meat-eaters are more dangerous. They aggressively misuse their police powers for personal gain.
ref: 2016 September 13, Regoli, John D. Hewitt, Anna E. Kosloski, Exploring Criminal Justice, Jones & Bartlett Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 113:
related: word: grasseater
coordinate_terms: meat-eater
glosses: A police officer who accepts offered bribes but does not actively seek them out.
grass-eater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grass-eaters
Etymology: Calque of Japanese 草食系男子 (sōshokukei danshi, “herbivorous/grass-eating male”).
Senses: examples: text: That is what the modern men of Japan have done, these grass-eaters.
ref: 2011 March 17, Paul Mceuen, Spiral, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
text: The grass-eaters fail to maintain a 'manly' appearance, snared instead by the world of cosmetics and fashion which makes them look soft, 'fragile and girlie' ([…]).
ref: 2016 July 1, Genaro Castro-Vazquez, Intimacy and Reproduction in Contemporary Japan (Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series), Routledge, →ISBN, page 62:
text: She dubbed them “herbivore men” (shoshoku danshi) in a 2006 article, and the phrase caught on as the nation took note of the gentle grass-eaters. Their lesser-known counterparts are the “carnivore women” (nikushoku joshi) who take the initiative in life and love.
ref: 2016 November 14, Kittredge Cherry, Womansword: What Japanese Words Say About Women, Stone Bridge Press, →ISBN, →OCLC:
synonyms: herbivore man
glosses: A celibate man, especially a Japanese man, who eschews dating and sexual relationships.
recriminatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more recriminatingly
form: most recriminatingly
Etymology: From recriminating + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a recriminating manner.
undeviousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From undevious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The trail to the Forks follows a disused toteroad, abandoned by the lumbermen some fifty years ago or more, but still very superior as to width and undeviousness.
ref: 1944, John Daniel Robins, The Incomplete Anglers, page 67:
glosses: The quality or condition of being undevious.
maxs.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of max.
science fantasy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: science fantasies
Etymology: Blend of science fiction + fantasy.
Senses: glosses: A hybrid genre of science fiction and fantasy, typically with settings combining futuristic and supernatural or magical elements.
glosses: A work of this genre.
science fantasies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of science fantasy
fat fantasy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fat fantasies
Senses: examples: text: Clearly men are financially more successful than women overall in the fat fantasy field, and clearly fat fantasy is the sales winner in the field of fantasy overall. The question we might ask then is why only Tor and DAW engage in extensive sales and marketing of fat fantasy.
ref: 2000, Camille Bacon-Smith, Science Fiction Culture, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 249:
text: 2005, Vox Day, "C. S. Lewis and the Problem of Religion in Science Fiction and Fantasy", in Shanna Caughey, Revisiting Narnia: Fantasy, Myth And Religion in C. S. Lewis' Chronicles, BenBella Books, →ISBN, page 225.
It frequently embraces a form of what on the surface appears to be religion, for what is a fat fantasy trilogy without a token cleric or priest, but nearly always warps the concept into something wholly unrecognizable.
glosses: A style of the fantasy genre that consists of sprawling stories in books with several hundreds of pages.
examples: text: So why don't these other publishers want the fat fantasies?
ref: 2000, Camille Bacon-Smith, Science Fiction Culture, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 249:
text: 2000, Jack Dann, "An Angry Celebration", in Avram Davidson, Everybody Has Somebody in Heaven: Essential Jewish Tales of the Spirit, Devora Publishing, →ISBN, page 10.
In the face of a world going Tilt, in the face of greed, corruption, and, feh!, enough bad writing – enough mass market, interchangeable fat fantasies and denatured novels – to fill one of the terrible and dead kabalistic universes in its entirety, Avram Davidson stayed angry and wrote for the ages.
text: One of the fat fantasies I had to read – a mere five hundred pages – Faith of the Fallen (a ‘Sword of Truth’ novel)* has: ‘He was too far away to see the green of her eyes, a colour he'd never beheld on anyone else . . .’ One OMT of this kind of book is that people never just see a thing, they always behold it.
ref: 2012, Dianna Wynne Jones, Reflections, Random House, →ISBN, page 195:
glosses: A book in this style.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fat, fantasy.
fat fantasies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fat fantasy
citizen scientist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: citizen scientists
Senses: examples: text: But now the stage is set for the return of the amateur, in a twenty-first century incarnation, as the citizen scientist. The popular spirit is willing. Citizen scientists already comprise the vanguard of a new nature movement, one as focused on […]
ref: 2012, Janis L. Dickinson, Rick Bonney, Citizen Science: Public Participation in Environmental Research, Cornell University Press, →ISBN:
text: As a citizen scientist, you may want to submit well-documented photographs to the website Odonata Central to increase the information available about where and when species turn up in this country. If you see migrating dragonflies, you can […]
ref: 2014, Ann Cooper, Dragonflies: Q&A Guide: Fascinating Facts About Their Life in the Wild, Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 94:
glosses: An amateur (or nonprofessional) scientist; especially, a person who collects data from the natural world that can be used by scientists.
Hypernyms: scientist
Related terms: citizen science
citizen science
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: citizen sciences
Senses: examples: text: This postscript makes a big push for citizen science. By this I mean voluntary participation in periodic counts and measurements of the abundances of populations, the diversity of habitats, and some straightforward chemistry, […]
ref: 2012, Daniel B. Botkin, The Moon in the Nautilus Shell: Discordant Harmonies Reconsidered, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
text: 'Crowdsourcing' and 'citizen science' have been around as concepts for many years, and early forms of mass participation such as the University of Sussex's Mass observation Project, founded in 1937, have helped by providing useful […]
ref: 2014, Ms Mia Ridge, Crowdsourcing our Cultural Heritage, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., →ISBN, page 45:
text: While first generation citizen science projects have successfully used the Web to crowd-source environmental data collection, “next generation” citizen science practice networks combine crowd-sourcing, joint sense of purpose, and soft […]
ref: 2014, Nitin Agarwal, Merlyna Lim, Rolf T. Wigand, Online Collective Action: Dynamics of the Crowd in Social Media, Springer, →ISBN, page 133:
topics: sciences
glosses: Scientific research done, in whole or in part, by amateur (or nonprofessional) scientists.
Hypernyms: science
Related terms: citizen scientist
citizen sciences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of citizen science
citizen scientists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of citizen scientist
data scientist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: data scientists
Senses: examples: text: Goldman is a good example of a new key player in organizations: the “data scientist.” It’s a high-ranking professional with the training and curiosity to make discoveries in the world of big data. The title has been around for only a few years. (It was coined in 2008 by one of us, D.J. Patil, and Jeff Hammerbacher, then the respective leads of data and analytics efforts at LinkedIn and Facebook.) But thousands of data scientists are already working at both start-ups and well-established companies.
ref: 2012 October, Thomas H. Davenport, D.J. Patil, “Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century”, in Harvard Business Review:
text: The data scientist is responsible for mining the organization's data—structured and unstructured data that is both internal and external of the organization—to uncover new insights about the business. Data scientists are data hoarders, seeking […]
ref: 2013, Bill Schmarzo, Big Data: Understanding How Data Powers Big Business, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 41:
topics: sciences
hypernyms: scientist
qualifier: job
glosses: A scientist involved in data science.
Derived terms: data-scientist
Related terms: data science
two lamps burning and no ship at sea
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Said of an unwisely or overly extravagant person.
pineapple tarts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pineapple tart
Marhatta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: family name of Kshetri people descended from Maratha immigrants
spherical cone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spherical cones
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A cone with a spherical base.
circular cone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circular cones
Senses: glosses: a cone with a circular base
lontong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An Indonesian dish of rice compressed into a cylinder and wrapped in a banana leaf.
usefuller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of useful: more useful
foot voting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊtɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: Foot voting provides much stronger incentives than ballot box voting for both information acquisition and rational information use.
ref: 2011, Ilya Somin (January 2011), Foot voting, political ignorance, and constitutional design (PDF), Social Philosophy and Policy, 28(1):202–227, DOI:10.1017/S0265052510000105, George Mason University Law and Economics Research Paper No. 12-11 – via George Mason University (note: the George Mason University header page gives the date of the journal article incorrectly as November 2010), page 210
text: Foot voting is an inherently selfish individual move; it is not intended to serve the body politic.
ref: 2016, Ronald Nikles (30 November 2016), Sorry, Jews—voting with your feet is not an option in the age of Trump, Scribe, Forward (retrieved 2017-10-30; archived from the original 2016-12-01)
text: We already do a lot of foot voting in Nigeria, mostly by migrating abroad in search of greener pastures for reasons that are usually economic. Even within Nigeria, some foot voting is happening with the increase in rural-urban migration.
ref: 2017, Ayobami Adekojo (6 September 2017), Restructuring and foot voting, Daily Times of Nigeria (retrieved 2017-10-31; archived from the original 2017-10-31)
glosses: Expressing one's preferences through one's actions, by voluntarily participating in or withdrawing from an activity, group, or process; especially, physical migration to leave a situation one does not like, or to move to a situation one regards as more beneficial.
Hypernyms: voting
Related terms: vote with one's feet
revealed preference
inogorodnie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian иногоро́дние (inogoródnije) meaning "people from another village".
Senses: examples: text: There is no need to mention the inogorodnie, who were and remain loyal sons of Soviet Russia, and whose interests the Soviet Government will always staunchly defend.
ref: 1953, Joseph Stalin, Works - Volume 4, page 415:
text: By 1910, slightly over half the population on Cossack land was non-Cossack, the inogorodnie.
ref: 1987, Robert H McNeal, Tsar And Cossack 1855-1914, →ISBN, pages 10–11:
text: To equalize newly arrived Inogorodnie with the Cossacks in land and in all other relations.
ref: 2005, Dinah Shelton, Encyclopedia of genocide and crimes against humanity, →ISBN:
glosses: Non-Cossack immigrants to Cossack-controlled land in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Iga ware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Iga wares
Etymology: Calque of Japanese 伊賀焼 (Iga-yaki).
Senses: examples: text: Fujido Iga ware is distinguished by a clear-cut form, sculptured by hand or with spatula, a transparent glass-like glaze, and what ceramic experts call koge ("scorch"), that is, dark spots resulting from the carbon in the kiln.
ref: 1952, Pageant of Japanese Art: Ceramics and metalwork, page 28:
text: The beginnings of Iga ware are not clearly known, but there is even a theory that traces it back to the Nara period (705-794).
ref: 1992, The Traditional Crafts of Japan: Ceramics, page 154:
text: The characteristic qualities of Iga ware are scorching (koge), glaze drips, and reddish tints. Especially beautiful is the effect created by cascading drips of natural glaze. Mino Iga imitates true Iga ware in shape and is covered with a thin overglaze.
ref: 2002, Ryōji Kuroda, Takeshi Murayama, Classic Stoneware of Japan: Shino and Oribe, →ISBN, page 44:
text: The Iga wares used by Furuta Oribe (1544–1615) and his peers were largely confined to flower vases and water jars.
ref: 2006, Gordon Campbell, The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 495:
glosses: pottery or earthenware from the Iga region (now called Maruhashira) from the early 17th century, noted for its combination of glazed and unglazed surfaces, asymmetrical shapes, and characteristic scorching.
Iga wares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Iga ware
clickocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clickocracies
Etymology: From click + -ocracy, a neologism in the form of democracy.
Senses: examples: text: Owing to the 'clickocracy' of the Internet, a Web site can set up shop with a miniscule^([sic]) budget and end up competing with the big guns.
ref: 2002, Matt Haig, How Come You Don't Have an E-business Strategy?: The Essential Guide to Online Business, Kogan Page Publishers, published 2002, page 3:
text: Like it or not, we now belong to a clickocracy -- one nation under Google, with video and e-mail for all.
ref: 2008 April 1, Jose Antonio Vargas, “Campaign.USA: With the Internet Comes a New Political 'Clickocracy'”, in Washington Post:
text: To be sure, algorithmic media also require audience participation—but only in an automated, aggregated clickocracy.
ref: 2012, Michael Schudson and Katherine Fink, "The Algorithm Method: Making news decisions in a clickocracy," Columbia Journalism Review, January/February 2012
text: Also, and rather critically, in the new world of clickocracy, "my vote doesn't make a difference" makes the erroneous assumption that voting is the only expression of political will now available to us.
ref: 2013, Justin Cash, The Rise of Clickocracy: Politics for a Digital Age, Lulu, page 143:
glosses: the role of the internet and algorithmic media in elections and governance.
clickocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clickocracy
gyaru-moji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyaru-moji
form: gyarumoji
form: gyaru moji
Etymology: From Japanese ギャル文字.
Senses: examples: text: In fact, newspaper accounts chronicle the rise of gyaru-moji (“girl-signs”), a “secret” texting language of symbols improvised by Japanese teenage girls.
ref: 2009, Aaron Marcus, “Advanced Interaction Modalities with Mobile Digital Content”, in Aaron Marcus, Anxo Cereijo Roibás, Riccardo Sala, editors, Mobile TV: Customizing Content and Experience, page 296:
text: Today, the same kind of inventiveness is seen in SMS gyarumoji ('girl-talk'), which is a mixture of Japanese syllables, numerals, emoticons, and other characters.
ref: 2009, David Crystal, Txtng: The Gr8 Db8, page 136:
text: Gyarumoji (gal characters) are designed to hinder the decoding of text by those not in the know. They usually take the form of an unusual mixture of scripts (e.g. Japanese, the alphabet, Roman numerals, the Greek alphabet) with typographic, mathematical, and other symbols
ref: 2010, Nanette Gottlieb, “Technology and the writing system in Japan”, in Patrick Heinrich, Christian Galan, editors, Language Life in Japan, 5. The cell phone era:
glosses: A form of cryptic Japanese writing that substitutes similar-looking characters for the characters intended
examples: text: For example, the phonetic symbol に (ni) can be written in gyaru moji as |=, I=, (=, or L=
ref: 2015, Zheng Yan, Encyclopedia of Mobile Phone Behavior, page 1437:
glosses: The characters or symbols used for such substitutions
Related terms: word: l33t
word: 1337
word: leet
roman: yaminjeong'eum
word: 야민정음
word: Yaminjeongeum
gyarumoji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyarumoji
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gyaru-moji.
gyaru moji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyaru moji
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gyaru-moji.
ununusual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ununusual
form: most ununusual
Etymology: From un- + unusual.
Senses: examples: text: This is not ununusual in relation to past findings of the achievement of deaf children.
ref: 1972, Hilde S. Schlesinger, Kathryn P. Meadow-Orlans, Sound and Sign: Childhood Deafness and Mental Health, page 126:
text: Most universities have a grants and fellowships office, and it may offer grants for research under ununusual conditions and circumstances.
ref: 1991, Michael A. Mares, David J. Schmidly, Latin American Mammalogy: History, Biodiversity, and Conservation, page 126:
glosses: Not unusual.
kadupul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kadupuls
form: Kadupul
Etymology: From Sinhalese කඩුපුල් (kaḍupul).
Senses: examples: text: Ten sons, and all dear to the hearts of the people; and the little princesses Anula and Sivali who filled the women's quarters with their laughter and romped the pleasure parks with smiles as bright as the kadupul flowers which, the Nagas say, are the glorious lilies that bloom only in the serpent world.
ref: 1997, Carl Muller, Children Of The Lion, →ISBN, page 373:
text: It's made from the kadupul flower. The kadupul blooms once a year under the cover of night and withers away before dawn, making it the rarest and most exquisite botanical on the planet.
ref: 2015, Karri Thompson, Ascendancy, →ISBN:
text: With kadupul blossoms adorning black hair and bright jeweled belts circling wide hips, their hot breasts cooled by sandal paste and fresh seapearls, they cast dark light from wide open eyes in every direction.
ref: 2016, The Flight of Love, →ISBN:
glosses: Epiphyllum strictum or Epiphyllum selenicereus, a flower that blooms at night, believed to have an association with the nāga world.
Kadupul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kadupuls
Senses: examples: text: The Kadupul (sword flower) belongs to the world of Nagas and the parasatu to the world of gods.
ref: 1990, Nandadeva Wijesekera, The Sinhalese, page 397:
text: Kadupul flower (believed to originate in the Nagaland) blooms in the evening, completing the circle by midnight and begins the downward process culminating in the early hours of dawn.
ref: 1996, Rohana Ulluwishewa, Hemanthi Ranasinghe, Anura Vidanapatirana, Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainable Development, →ISBN:
text: It holds two of my most precious possessions - my first handwritten love letter from a boy and dried Kadupul Blossoms.
ref: 2017, F. F. John, The Proem:
glosses: Alternative form of kadupul.
isekai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːsəkaɪ/
note: uncommon, imitating Japanese pronunciation
ipa: /iˈsɛkaɪ/
ipa: /ˈɪsəkaɪ/
Forms: form: isekai
form: isekais
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 異世界 (isekai, literally “different world”).
Senses: examples: text: It's not every day that an isekai author gets published out of the sea of isekai stories on there.
ref: 2017, Ryo Shirakome, DxS, Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest (volume 1)
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A genre of Japanese fiction involving everyday people transported to alternative fantasy or virtual worlds.
glosses: Any piece of media in this genre.
isekai
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːsəkaɪ/
note: uncommon, imitating Japanese pronunciation
ipa: /iˈsɛkaɪ/
ipa: /ˈɪsəkaɪ/
Forms: form: isekais
form: isekaiing
form: isekaied
form: isekaied
form: isekai'd
form: isekai'd
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 異世界 (isekai, literally “different world”).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: To transport (someone) into an alternative world, often by killing them.
Derived terms: reverse isekai
OXM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: Initialism of Object XML Mappings.
diu lei
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: -eɪ
Forms: form: diu nei
form: diu lay
Etymology: From Cantonese 屌你 (diu² nei⁵, “fuck you”).
Senses: examples: text: You impudent muppet, diu lay! You may be able to hoodwink people over in the UK, but not those of us over here.
ref: 1996 April 18, soc.culture.singapore (Usenet):
text: Btw, finally saw fat fat here....wahahaha. Diu nei, plane last time.
ref: 2008 April 16, ad-group (Usenet):
text: But I'm like Diu lei sit your ass back down.
ref: 2010 April 23, alt.madcrew (Usenet):
text: Diu Lei, koki, can you don't send food link before bed time?
ref: 2010 August 3, AD Group 2005 (Usenet):
text: “操你老妈啊 (diu nei lok mo ah)!” I shouted in Cantonese.
ref: 2011, Foo Yin Tung, The Right Mistakes: My Life As A Singapore Gangster, →ISBN, page 198:
text: “Yes! Hantu! Ghots! Mangroves and snakes! Mong! Stupid! Diu lei loh mo! F ... your mother! That is why it has been chosen; and the name Hantu helps keep people away. Probably like you they fear the devil,” said Ah Cheong, hurling more expletives at his underling before returning back to the house.
ref: 2012, Chan Ling Yap, Bitter-Sweet Harvest: A sequel to the acclaimed and well-loved Sweet Offerings, →ISBN:
text: “Diu lei chau hai ge mo, fuck your smelly mother's cunt,” Spencer said under his breath and belted the bloody skull with his foot, sending splatters of tissue and bone flying around the room.
ref: 2015, Valerie Goldsilk, Classified As Crime, →ISBN:
glosses: Fuck you.
Related terms: delay no more
ODV
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
oceanography
glosses: Initialism of Ocean Data View.
snow bike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow bikes
form: snowbike
form: snow-bike
Etymology: From snow + bike.
* snow + bike (“motorcycle”) From being something akin to a two-wheeled motorcycle adapted for snow
* snow + bike (“bicycle”) From being something akin to a bicycle adapted to snow
Senses: glosses: A mini-snowmobile built out of the frame of a motocross motorcycle (dirtbike), replacing the rear drive wheel with a long trailing caterpillar track and the front wheel with a single ski.
glosses: Synonym of skibike (A bicycle frame with both the front and rear wheels replaced by skis)
synonyms: word: skibike
extra: A bicycle frame with both the front and rear wheels replaced by skis
Derived terms: snowbiking
Related terms: fatbike
dirt bike
snowcross
snowbike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowbikes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of snow bike.
snowbiking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From snowbike + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The sport of using a snow bike
pumpkin spice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pumpkin spices
Etymology: So named because it is the mixture of spices traditionally used for pumpkin pie.
Senses: glosses: A spice blend that includes cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, dried ginger, and cloves.
Synonyms: pumpkin pie spice
Derived terms: pumpkin spice latte
PSL
skibike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skibikes
form: ski bike
form: ski-bike
Etymology: From ski + bike (“bicycle”). From being akin to a bicycle with skis in place of wheels.
Senses: glosses: An analogue to a bicycle for downhill skiing, which has a frame similar to a bicycle's and with wheels replaced by skis, which may or may not include a seat, and may or may not include pegs in place of pedals (without pegs, one would stand on the rear ski)
Related terms: fat bike
snowbike
telescopic sights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telescopic sight
TKOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TKO
exoscience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From exo- + science.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Science concerning exoplanets and anything on them.
UMOCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of UMOC
FARA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fara
Senses: examples: text: Prosecutors also said Wednesday their side “does not intend to reference allegations that the defendant violated FARA or improperly coordinated with the Obama Administration,” referring to the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which requires people who lobby on behalf of foreign clients to register beforehand with the US government.
ref: 2024 August 7, Marshall Cohen, “Prosecutors claim Hunter Biden once agreed to lobby US on behalf of Romanian businessman”, in CNN:
glosses: Acronym of Foreign Agents Registration Act.
Korbut flip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Korbut flips
Etymology: Named for Olga Korbut, who introduced the move at the Munich games in 1972.
Senses: examples: text: Muchina was a new gymnast and her work was new (whereas Comaneci was near perfect but could almost be called 'old hat") but does a Korbut flip with full twist, a long upstart full twist and a hecht back somi...
ref: 1977, International Gymnast - Volume 19, page 46:
text: One of the exceptional ten is fourteen-year-old Leslie Pyfer, whose most difficult trick at Springfield was a back flip on the beam with her legs held straight (which is quite a bit harder to do than the original Korbut flip).
ref: 1978, Hal Straus, Gymnastics guide, page 10:
text: In that routine, she showed off the first backward release move ever attempted on the uneven bars— a move so unusual and impressive that it became known as the Korbut Flip.
ref: 2007, Adam B. Hofstetter, Olympic Gymnastics, →ISBN, page 14:
text: Get on the sofa, cross yourself, then pitch it with all your worth backwards, in the tucked position. If you land with both feet on the strip, then Gunga Din to you . . . you've just done a version of the Korbut Flip . . . if you can't, you'll never be a gymnast.
ref: 2012, John Philips, Who cares who’s 3rd?: (or 2nd for that matter), →ISBN, page 25:
topics: gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A backwards handspring from a standing position on the balance beam or the higher bar of the uneven bars, catching the bar on the way down.
wikipedia: Olga Korbut
taletelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taletellings
form: tale-telling
Etymology: From Middle English tale tellyng; equivalent to tale + telling.
Senses: glosses: The act and skills of presenting stories and tales.
glosses: The act of making up stories with the intention of deceiving; telling tales.
Related terms: taleteller
lateralisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lateralism
lyin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lion
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of lying.
lateralist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lateralist
form: most lateralist
Etymology: From lateral + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: If 'left-winger' and 'right-winger' are terms of opprobrium moreover, the journalists can help their chosen cause by invoking lateralist terms to characterise, in the guise of simply describing, one of the parties in a dispute. This implies that the other party is 'centrist' or 'moderate' or 'non-extremist.'
ref: 1980, The Australian Quarterly - Volumes 52-53, page 365:
text: A chief criticism levelled against American "lateralist" and "polar" theorists is precisely the accusation that they are attempting to avoid the issue of the development of relations between the two socio-economic systems, i.e., the essentially bipolar politico-strategic structure of postwar international relations.
ref: 1989, Allen Lynch, The Soviet Study of International Relations, →ISBN, page 104:
text: Albertano's more lateralist, Aristotelian sympathies are also reflected in his choice of setting, scenario and protagonists.
ref: 2008, Kathleen A. Bishop, The Canterbury Tales Revisited: 21st Century Interpretations, page 236:
text: A lateralist and multilateralist exchange of languages and value systems redeems economy from reduction to profit and loss.
ref: 2013, Eva C. Karpinski, Jennifer Henderson, Ian Sowton, Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory, →ISBN:
text: Within such a dynamic and seemingly boundaryless context for organizing, what looks like an anarchistic and lateralist set of relations, there are both challenges and advantages to social change agents
ref: 2014, Martin Parker, George Cheney, Valérie Fournier, The Routledge Companion to Alternative Organization, →ISBN:
glosses: Characteristic of lateralism; pertaining to the interactions of opposing interests of equal power.
examples: text: ...but as far as African bedded deposits are concerned I think that the prospector following either the “ lateralist " or " profundist " advice will waste much time and money unless he is also guided by a study of possible sources of the ore he seeks, and of the probable itenerary of the solutions to which such ore owes its present position.
ref: 1915, Journal of the South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy:
text: Should the scientist be monological or multilogical? Should the scientist be reductionist or holist? Should the scientist be inductivist or deductivist: lateralist or verticalist?
ref: 1991, Testudo: The Journal of the British Chelonia Group:
glosses: Favoring a lateral approach or explanation over one that involves a different direction, such as a vertical one.
M'sian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: M'sians
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Malaysian.
M'sian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Malaysian.
M'sia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Malaysia.
kuih tart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkweɪ tɑːt/
ipa: /ˈkweɪ tɑːɹt/
Forms: form: kuih tarts
form: kueh tart
Etymology: From kuih + tart, the former word from Malay kuih, from Hokkien 粿 (kóe, “rice cake”).
Senses: examples: text: Certain households prefer to stick to the old and traditional, serving popular nonya cakes and cookies such as kueh tart (pineapple tart), kueh bangkit, kuih Belanda (loveletters), kueh bolu or desserts such as agar-agar (jelly).
ref: 1977 February 6, “How can you serve something different from the traditional”, in The Straits Times, retrieved 29 Oct 2017:
text: Kueh Tart (Pineapple Tart), Kueh Belanda, Kueh Bangkit, Kueh Bulu(sic), Kueh Lapis, are typical examples.
ref: 1978 January 29, “How you can get these goodies done right...”, in The Straits Times, retrieved 29 Oct 2017:
text: Kueh tart - 25 cents each.
ref: 1984 January 15, “Start the year sweet”, in The Straits Times, retrieved 29 Oct 2017:
text: The art of making rich pastries is exemplified in diminutive Singaporean kuih tarts[.]
ref: 2011, Andrea Nguyen, Asian Dumplings: Mastering Gyoza, Spring Rolls, Samosas, and More, →ISBN:
glosses: A bite-sized buttery, crumbly pastry filled with pineapple jam and served during festivities in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei.
migdol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: migdols
Senses: examples: text: The aspect of these migdols, or forts, must have appeared strange to the first Egyptians who beheld them.
ref: 1896, Gaston Maspero, Archibald Henry Sayce, The Struggle of the Nations: Egypt, Syria and Assyria, page 127:
text: Perhaps also such a storage city was Tell el-Hesy, where in successive strata complexes resembling migdols or official residences were found.
ref: 1937, American Academy of Religion, Journal of Bible and Religion - Volumes 5-6, page 134:
text: Stories came daily from the city, there were more soldiers in the area than usual, and the migdols were reinforced.
ref: 2015, Maureen R. Harlacher, Heart of a Man: Hoshe'a ben Nun, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of migdal.
suffragism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From suffrage + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A political movement in the late 19th century that fought for women's right to vote in Great Britain and the United States.
Derived terms: anti-suffragism
kokers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of koker
National Bureau of Investigation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the National Bureau of Investigation
Senses: glosses: The national investigative authority / national police organization (which investigates serious and high-profile crimes) in certain nations, specifically:
In Finland: the National Bureau of Investigation (Finland)
glosses: The national investigative authority / national police organization (which investigates serious and high-profile crimes) in certain nations, specifically:
In the Philippines: the National Bureau of Investigation (Philippines)
Coordinate terms: word: Federal Bureau of Investigation
Derived terms: word: NBI
Cantos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cantoses
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Cantos. Usually a Filipino surname, but also a Spanish surname, prevalent in Ecuador and parts of Spain.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
HRE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: materials science
glosses: Abbreviation of hardness on Rockwell scale E.
HRE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Holy Roman Empire.
TASs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TAS
TAS's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TAS
Korbut flips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Korbut flip
migdols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of migdol
migdals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of migdal
rhapontics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhapontic
sicklify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sicklifies
form: sicklifying
form: sicklified
form: sicklified
Etymology: From sickly + -fy.
Senses: examples: text: […] and sent forth as supposed good books, only to serve as trash, instead of bread, for Sunday-school children, and to sicklify and sentimentalize good girls; while they are the derision of all the stronger minded.
ref: 1874, The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church, volume 18, London, page 192:
glosses: To make sickly or sickish
disenvowels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disenvowel (alternative form of disemvowels)
disenvowelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disenvoweling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disenvowel (alternative form of disemvowelling).
disenvoweling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disenvowelling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disenvowel (alternative form of disemvoweling).
disenvowelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disenvoweled
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disenvowel (alternative form of disemvowelled).
disenvoweled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disenvowelled
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disenvowel (alternative form of disemvoweled).
underjoyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underjoyed
form: most underjoyed
Etymology: From under- + joyed. Compare overjoyed.
Senses: glosses: Having a feeling of unpleasantness, dissatisfaction, or disappointment; less than happy
Endaya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Endayas
Etymology: Filipino and Spanish toponymic surname from Basque Hendaia (“Hendaye; town in Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France”), usually transcribed as Hendaya.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Basque.
joysomeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From joysome + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being joysome
Hendaye
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
lokun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləʊˈkʊn/
Forms: form: lo-kun
form: lo kun
form: lo-koon
form: lor kun
Etymology: From Hokkien 老君 (ló-kun), from Malay dukun (“shaman or medicine man”). Doublet of dukun.
Senses: examples: text: What they say about the doctors, generalist and the specialist: […] The specialist(aka tua lokun) knows more and more about less and less until eventually he knows everything about nothing.
ref: 2006 October 30, kaupehkaubu, “Malaysia A Police State? Is Mahathir Serious?”, in Sangkancil (Usenet):
text: Anything more than SGD$30, they would complain: “Wah, this lo kun (doctor) jing qwee (very expensive)!”
ref: 2012 October 31, Chang Mei Bin, “The Testimony of the Late Dr Richard Teo, the Singaporean Millionaire Plastic Surgeon”, in SacredHeart1984 (Usenet):
text: The lo-kun stared steadily at the computer screen, his finger still, uncertain what to do, unable to understand if some tragic meaning lay behind that long coughing fit.
ref: 2015, Gwee Li Sui, Singathology: 50 New Works by Celebrated Singaporean Writers:
glosses: doctor; physician
vadais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vadai
blocking bet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blocking bets
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A small bet intended to discourage other players from placing larger bets.
blocking bets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blocking bet
anti-suffragism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + suffragism.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antisuffragism.
Ellensburg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Kittitas County, Washington, United States.
reverse import
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reverse imports
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A product of a multinational corporation which is produced abroad, and then imported to the country where the company's head office is located.
reverse imports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reverse import
Connecticutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Connecticutters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Connecticuter.
Connecticutters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Connecticutter
uncommodious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncommodious
form: most uncommodious
Etymology: From un- + commodious.
Senses: glosses: Not commodious.
unaccommodative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unaccommodative
form: most unaccommodative
Etymology: From un- + accommodative.
Senses: glosses: Not accommodative.
coprimacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From co- + primacy.
Senses: examples: a coprimacy of nature and art
glosses: joint primacy
neofunctionalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neo- + functional + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A theory of regional integration inspired by the integration processes between countries in Europe.
intergovernmentalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intergovernmentalists
Etymology: From intergovernmental + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of intergovernmentalism.
intergovernmentalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intergovernmentalist
intergovernmentalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From intergovernmental + -ism or inter- + governmentalism.
Senses: examples: text: There is a slew of treaties, organizations and agencies that form the scaffolding of the emerging global governance structure regulating and superintending everything from nuclear weapons to the fishing of halibut, and all of them embody electionless intergovernmentalism.
ref: 2016 January 21, Leigh Phillips, “Electionless inter-governmentalism über alles”, in ROAR Magazine:
topics: political-science
social-sciences
glosses: An approach to political integration that regards states, and national governments in particular, as the primary actors in the integration process.
point-to-point
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɔɪnt(t)əˈpɔɪnt/
Etymology: From point (“individual element in a larger whole; specific location or place; topic of discussion or debate”) + to + point.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Travelling directly from a starting point to an ending point, or from one point to another in a series of points without passing through any intermediate points.
Being or relating to a method of manually constructing electronic circuits prior to automation and printed circuit boards, where components were individually mounted on the chassis prior to soldering.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Travelling directly from a starting point to an ending point, or from one point to another in a series of points without passing through any intermediate points.
Employing a simple network topology with a dedicated link between two endpoints.
examples: text: In the interests of evening out the demand on locomotive power throughout the run, some adjustment of point-to-point timings might be worth while, especially an easing of the timing from Darlington to York.
ref: 1961 April, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 210:
topics: transport
glosses: Travelling directly from a starting point to an ending point, or from one point to another in a series of points without passing through any intermediate points.
Travelling directly from source to destination without passing through a hub.
examples: text: a point-to-point rebuttal of the argument
glosses: Having every aspect or point of something matching up with corresponding aspects or points of something else.
Related terms: end-to-end
hub-and-spoke
peer-to-peer
point-to-point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɔɪnt(t)əˈpɔɪnt/
Forms: form: point-to-points
Etymology: From point (“individual element in a larger whole; specific location or place; topic of discussion or debate”) + to + point.
Senses: topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: A kind of horse race involving a direct cross-country course with obstacles for hunting horses and amateur riders.
Derived terms: point-to-pointer
point-to-pointing
point-to-points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of point-to-point
ungratefuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ungrateful
tweenpreneurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tweenpreneur