cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
K'ai-feng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 開封 /开封 (Kāifēng), Wade–Giles romanization: Kʻai¹-fêng¹.
Senses: examples: text: The capital, Kʻai-fêng Fu (開封府), is situated a few miles from the south bank of the Yellow River.
ref: [1904, C. D. Tenney, “中國 [Zhōngguó, The Chinese Empire]”, in Geography of Asia, New York: MacMillan and Co, →OCLC, page 10:
english: The Chinese Empire
roman: Zhōngguó
translation: The Chinese Empire
text: The eastern part of the city of K'ai-feng and is adjacent rural area was under the hsien of K'ai-feng; the western part and its adjacent rural area under that of Hsiang-fu (at first called Chün-i).
ref: 1975, John Winthrop Haeger, editor, Crisis and Prosperity in Sung China, Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 61–62:
text: The main character, Chao Hsing-te, has gone to K'ai-feng to take his Palace Examination.
ref: 1978, Yasushi Inoue, translated by Jean Oda Moy, Tun-huang, Kodansha International, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page xi:
text: I was in China twenty years ago, filming a documentary on the last Chinese Jews of the old trading city K'ai-feng, located just south of Beijing.
ref: 2011, Gary Schwartz, The Impulse Economy : Understanding Mobile Shoppers and What Makes Them Buy, Atria Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 33:
glosses: Alternative form of Kaifeng.
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Pang-pu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 蚌埠 (Bàngbù), Wade-Giles romanization: Pang⁴-pu⁴.
Senses: examples: text: The regions of densest population are the tributaries and banks of the Huai above Pang-pu and the diked areas along the right bank of the Yangtze.[…]
There are four large towns—Ho-fei, the capital; Huai-nan; Pang-pu; and Wu-hu.
ref: 1998, The New Encyclopaedia Britannica: Macropaedia: Knowledge in Depth, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 172, 173:
glosses: Synonym of Bengbu.
synonyms: word: Bengbu
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Jehovians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jehovian
postdental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntəl
Etymology: From post- + dental.
Senses: glosses: Produced by placing the tip of the tongue at the back of the upper front teeth
raw_tags: of a consonant
postdental
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛntəl
Forms: form: postdentals
Etymology: From post- + dental.
Senses: glosses: Such a consonant
postfestive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + festive.
Senses: glosses: Following a festival
Yecapixtla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Yecapixtla, from Classical Nahuatl Yacapīchtlān.
Senses: synonyms: word: Yacapichtlan
glosses: A town in Morelos, Mexico.
glosses: A municipality of Morelos, Mexico.
orange tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iː
Forms: form: orange trees
Senses: glosses: Citrus sinensis, a fruit tree that bears oranges. (This entry is a translation hub.)
Goyan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Goyan
form: most Goyan
Etymology: From Goya + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Francisco Goya (1746–1828), a Spanish painter.
Related terms: Goyaesque
sonuvvabitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sonuvvabitches
Senses: examples: text: My lieutenant was my bitterest opponent. "A queer's a queer," he insisted. "Christ, they’re no damn good, any of ’em. You know that. Why waste sympathy on the faggoty sonuvvabitch?"
ref: 1959 February, Didgeon, “Arrow in the Air”, in Mattachine Review, San Francisco: Mattachine Society, →ISSN, page 6:
glosses: Alternative spelling of son of a bitch.
VSD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VSDs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of ventricular septal defect.
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of visible-surface determination.
VSDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of VSD
TSD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Tay-Sachs disease.
Belleville spring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Belleville springs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Belleville washer.
synonyms: word: Belleville washer
Belleville springs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Belleville spring
passenger seats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passenger seat
Huyton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪtən/
rhymes: -aɪtən
homophone: heighten
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English Huyton, from Old English *Hȳþtūn, from hȳþ (“harbour”) + tūn (“estate”).
Senses: glosses: A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ4491).
sign-manual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: signs-manual
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sign manual.
Bellevilles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Belleville
Bennetts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bennettses
Etymology: Patronymic from Bennett.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Bennetts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bennett
Brownes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Browne
Carmines
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Carmine
Golden Strip
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Golden Strip
Senses: glosses: The area of Greenville County in South Carolina that includes the cities of Fountain Inn, Simpsonville, and Mauldin, which stretch along Interstate 385 south of the city of Greenville.
sheyikh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheyikhs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sheik.
sheyikhs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheyikh
Haggerston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An inner suburb of London in the borough of Hackney, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3483).
glosses: A hamlet in Ancroft parish, Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NU0443).
Avempace
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈeɪvəmpeɪs/
/ˌɑvɛmˈpɑθeɪ/
Etymology: From Arabic اِبْن بَاجَّة (ibn bājja).
Senses: glosses: An Arab polymath.
Tyendinaga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a variant spelling of Mohawk leader Joseph Brant's traditional Mohawk name, Thayendanegea.
Senses: glosses: A township in Hastings County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: The Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, the main First Nation reserve of the Bay of Quinte.
Avenzoar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌɑ.vənˈzoʊ.əɹ/
Etymology: From Arabic اِبْن زُهْر (ibn zuhr).
Senses: glosses: An Arab physician.
Bay of Quinte
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /beɪ ʌv ˈkwɪnti/
Forms: form: the Bay of Quinte
Senses: glosses: A long, narrow bay on the northern shore of Lake Ontario in the province of Ontario, Canada.
glosses: The region comprising several communities situated along the bay.
Synonyms: Quinte
bowstring bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bowstring bridges
Senses: examples: text: The last crossing, immediately short of Keswick station, is an inverted bowstring girder bridge with a skew span of 120ft.
ref: 1961 October, Voyageur, “The Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 601:
text: On leaving the station, the line uses a new 'Bowstring' bridge to cross the actual Shoreditch High Street and join the old NLR viaducts to head north to Dalston.
ref: 2020 May 20, Paul Bigland, “East London Line's renaissance”, in Rail, page 47:
glosses: A tied-arch bridge, which has an upper arch tied to the bridge deck below.
Averroes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /əˈvɛɹəʊiːz/
Forms: form: Averroës
form: Ibn Rushd
Etymology: From Medieval Latin Averroēs, from Arabic اِبْن رُشْد (ibn rušd).
Senses: glosses: An Andalusian polymath (1126–1198).
Derived terms: Averroism
Averroist
subbay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subbays
form: sub-bay
Etymology: From sub- + bay.
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: A bay located within a larger bay.
subbays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subbay
sub-bay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sub-bays
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of subbay.
sub-bays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sub-bay
bowstring bridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bowstring bridge
boundaried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From boundary + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Enclosed by a boundary or boundaries.
cap stealing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Influenza viruses require host cell nuclear functions for at least two critical steps in their multiplication cycle: mRNA splicing and a unique process called cap stealing.
ref: 1996 August 15, Friedemann Weber et al., “Nucleoprotein viral RNA and mRNA of Thogoto virus: a novel "cap-stealing" mechanism in tick-borne orthomyxoviruses?”, in Journal of Virology, volume 70, number 12:
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: Synonym of cap snatching.
synonyms: word: cap snatching
pillarise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pillarises
form: pillarising
form: pillarised
form: pillarised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pillarize.
cap snatching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Influenza virus furnishes its mRNA with this structure by a cap-snatching mechanism, in which the viral polymerase cleaves host mRNA endonucleolytically 10–13 nucleotides from the 5′ end and utilizes the capped fragment as a primer to synthesize viral transcripts.
ref: 2011 October 25, Tsutomu Fujimura, Rosa Esteban, “Cap-snatching mechanism in yeast L-A double-stranded RNA virus”, in PNAS, volume 108, number 43, →DOI:
text: Influenza virus polymerase uses a capped primer, derived by "cap-snatching" from host pre-messenger RNA, to transcribe its RNA genome into mRNA and a stuttering mechanism to generate the poly(A) tail.
ref: 2014 November 19, Stefan Reich et al., “Structural insight into cap-snatching and RNA synthesis by influenza polymerase”, in Nature, volume 516, pages 361–366:
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: Removal of the start of a strand of host cell RNA to serve as the 5' cap of viral mRNA.
pillarised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pillarise
pillarises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pillarise
pillarising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pillarise
madrapore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: madrapores
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of madrepore.
madrapores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of madrapore
collembological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to collembology.
Gabbs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Nye County, Nevada, United States.
Pahrump
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ute [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Nye County, Nevada, United States.
Beaverdam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Lincoln County, Nevada, United States.
Bennett Springs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Lincoln County, Nevada, United States.
Dry Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place and valley in Lincoln County, Nevada, United States.
Hiko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Shoshone [Term?] (“white man”).
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Lincoln County, Nevada, United States.
Mount Wilson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Lincoln County, Nevada, United States.
Panaca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ute [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Lincoln County, Nevada, United States.
PanIN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia.
Ursine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Lincoln County, Nevada, United States.
nonsubordinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + subordinated.
Senses: glosses: Not subordinated.
stabling siding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stabling sidings
Senses: examples: text: The area now has an even more impressive web of railway junctions and lines than ever - especially as new stabling sidings have been added to take the pressure of [sic] the cramped Overground depot site at New Cross, which is hemmed in between running lines ([...]).
ref: 2020 May 20, Paul Bigland, “East London Line's renaissance”, in Rail, page 48:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A storage siding for rolling stock, in particular passenger trains not being used in service.
Related terms: word: stable
stabling sidings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stabling siding
microgesture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microgestures
Etymology: From micro- + gesture.
Senses: coordinate_terms: microexpression
glosses: A very small, fleeting, possibly involuntary gesture.
microgestures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microgesture
miscatch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪskætʃ/
ipa: /mɪsˈkætʃ/
Forms: form: miscatches
form: miscatching
form: miscaught
form: miscaught
Etymology: From mis- + catch.
Senses: examples: text: How great a stumbling block to a good dictator would be the amanuensis who lacks concentration of mind, or through carelessness miscatches a word, and calls out to him in the midst of a brilliant flow of ideas, “wait please, I have not caught the word." or, "excuse me, did you say so and so?"
ref: 1890 February, Mrs. M. A. O'Neil, “Amanuenses Work From a Woman's Stand-Point”, in The Journal of Commercial Education, volume 5, page 166:
text: After a pause she added these words, memorable forever; words whose meaning she may have miscaught, misunderstood; as to that we can never know; words which she may have rightly understood; as to that, also, we can never know; but words whose mystery fell away from them many a year ago and revealed their real meaning to all the world:
ref: 1899, Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner, The Writings of Mark Twain, page 191:
text: Auto detection can be interrupted any time by the user if the program miscatches the markers.
ref: 1995, Ung Kim, Joon-Sung Chang, Seung-Han Park, 21st International Congress on High-Speed Photography and Photonics:
text: Marty miscaught his coin and sent it spinning across the room, where it disappeared under the sofa.
ref: 2002, James Flint, 52 Ways to Magic America, page 70:
text: Boutonniere injuries occur at the PIP finger joint with a disruption of the central slip of the extensor tendon mechanism as a result of longitudinal force to the finger such as that from a basketball that is miscaught.
ref: 2004, William O. Roberts, Bull's Handbook of Sports Injuries, page 256:
glosses: To make a miscatch (any sense).
examples: text: A woman near—her face livid in the stage-light and her eyes like cairngorms—miscaught a line and laughed aloud. Her panic at the sound of her own voice alone, was that of a doe parted from the herd.
ref: 1913, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine: Volume 92:
text: On occasions when he might have discussed Gray with someone other than Jeannie, an anxiety would paw at his throat, his voice would miscatch, and his mind would stutter over what he'd meant to say.
ref: 1982, Greg Barron, Groundrush, page 5:
glosses: To stutter or break the flow of words when speaking.
miscatches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miscatch
miscatches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of miscatch
miscatching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of miscatch
miscaught
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of miscatch
metafurcae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metafurca
mishearer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mishearers
Etymology: From mishear + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who mishears.
mishearers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mishearer
Christmas and Easter Christian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Christmas and Easter Christians
Senses: synonyms: Chreaster
glosses: A Christian who does not frequently attend church, attending only on the major holidays of Christmas and Easter.
glosses: A Christian who possesses weak and/or nominal faith.
Chreaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chreasters
form: chreaster
form: Creaster
form: creaster
Etymology: Blend of Christmas + Easter, possibly influenced by the agent noun suffix -er.
Senses: examples: text: “Well, I was confirmed a Methodist when I was 12, but since then I've basically been a Chreaster.”
“A what?” Trevor looked confused.
“A Chreaster. You know, I only go at Christmas and Easter. I'm a Chreaster.”
“Oh!” Trevor laughed. “I had no idea what you were talking about.”
ref: 2009, Ethan Fowler, Mardene Fowler, Brushed Back: The Story of Trevor Bullock, Hagerstown, MD: Review and Herald Publishing Association, →ISBN, pages 94–95:
synonyms: Christmas and Easter Christian
glosses: A Christian who does not frequently attend church, attending only on the major holidays of Christmas and Easter.
appreciability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From appreciable + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality or degree of being appreciable.
miscertify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: miscertifies
form: miscertifying
form: miscertified
form: miscertified
Etymology: From mis- + certify.
Senses: examples: text: No officer belonging to the King's bench, common pleas or exchequer, nor any clerk of assise, clerk of the peace, town-clerk, or any officer under them, nor any other, shall conceal any indictment, fine, post-fine, issue, amercement, forfeited recognizance or other forfeiture, unless by order of court; nor shall they miscertify any of the same ; on pain to forfeit the treble value of what they conceal or miscertify; one moiety to the King, the other to the prosecutor; and also on pain to lose his office, and be incapable of any office where any part of the King's revenue is managed or paid.
ref: 1739, John Cay, An Abridgment of the Publick Statutes in Force and Use:
text: When did the enforcement staff first recognize the trend to miscertify? The day it became an economic advantage to miscertify.
ref: 1980, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Stripper Oil Miscertification, page 35:
text: Thus, there may be no protection against the possibility that signing authorities miscertify.
ref: 2001, Proceedings of the Java Virtual Machine Research and Technology Symposium, page 55:
glosses: To certify something that does not meet the criteria for certification.
miscertifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of miscertify
miscertifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of miscertify
miscertified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of miscertify
appreciableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From appreciable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or degree of being appreciable.
miscertification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miscertifications
Senses: examples: text: Miscertification very often involves either violation of rules and regulations or perhaps criminal misbehavior.
ref: 1983, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, DOE's Entitlements Program:
text: The certification by the refiner and at subsequent points in the distribution system assures that a paper trail exists for any miscertifications, which permits state officials to track down the source of violations.
ref: 1990, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Energy and Power, Octane Mislabeling, page 109:
text: Participating sites initially use an 11 % miscertification rate to calculate the number of waste containers that are visually examined until a site-specific miscertification rate has been established.
ref: 2001, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Institute for Regulatory Science, Requirements for disposal of remote-handled transuranic wastes at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, page 69:
glosses: Invalid certification.
miscertifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miscertification
tuh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: A derisive interjection, onomatopoetic of spitting
tuh
Language: English
Part of speech: particle
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tu.
shas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sha
breadcrumb sponge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breadcrumb sponges
Senses: glosses: The sea sponge Halichondria panicea.
breadcrumb sponges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breadcrumb sponge
ECDC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: health
medicine
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.
Related terms: english: An agency of the European Union
translation: An agency of the European Union
urls: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en
word: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
mischeck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈtʃɛk/
ipa: /ˈmɪstʃɛk/
text: Audio (US)
Forms: form: mischecks
form: mischecking
form: mischecked
form: mischecked
Etymology: From mis- + check.
Senses: examples: text: Naturally, especially when they first join the Knighthood, some children who have always been careless about the truth will continue to be so and will mischeck their charts.
ref: 1925, National Parent-teacher - Volume 20, page 660:
text: The June 1975 form had the Indefinite box checked; the January 1976 had the Never box checked. The checking of these boxes is not significant enough to deny benefits and could equally be mischecked by a nurse or secretary in the doctor's office.
ref: 1977, United Glass and Ceramic Workers of North America, Arbitration Cases, page 127:
text: […] however, given the rapid return to report levels preceeding^([sic]) the spike it is believed those subjects may have mischecked their questionnaires.
ref: 1980, Steven F. Wiker, Ross L. Pepper, Michael E. McCauley, A Vessel Class Comparison of Physiological, Affective State, and Psychomotor Performance Changes in Men at Sea, page 113:
glosses: To enter a check mark inaccurately.
examples: text: This is the second squadron pay roll you've mischecked today.
ref: 1944, Story - Volumes 25-26, page 72:
text: Perpetual inventory records are meaningless if a clerk mischecks the merchandise or places the wrong item code number on the receiving ticket.
ref: 1952, Frank Wordley Tuppeny, Inventory Control Techniques for a Grocery Warehouse, page 6:
text: Each driver checks the tonnage on his truck; sometimes, though, he either mischecks it or will lose a piece or unload it in the wrong place.
ref: 1955, Association of American Railroads. Freight Station Section, Proceedings, page 46:
glosses: To fail to inspect accurately.
examples: text: Suspicions were excited by our baggage, especially one, a strange trunk, mischecked as Mrs. Numan, at Macon.
ref: 1869, John Simpson Wilson, The Dead of the Synod of Georgia, page 366:
text: I may state that to add to our discomforts in a new place, the Northern Pacific Railroad mischecked our Saratoga trunk, containing all my wife's apparel, that of my little girl and some of my own, besides articles of peerless worth to ourselves, and had it not been for Mrs. Moore's (Helena) generosity and self-denial, I am sure my wife would not have been alive to-day.
ref: 1887 January, Rev. John Reid, Jr., “Great Falls, Montana: Descriptive Account of a Large and Wholly New Field”, in The Church at Home and Abroad, volume 1, number 1, page 33:
text: A receipt must be taken from the owner for all baggage so delivered without the duplicate check being presented, as also for all baggage mischecked.
ref: 1889, Canada. Privy Council, The Consolidated Orders in Council of Canada, page 957:
glosses: To incorrectly mark an item when it is checked so that it does not go to the right place or is not returned to the correct person.
mischeck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈtʃɛk/
ipa: /ˈmɪstʃɛk/
text: Audio (US)
Forms: form: mischecks
Etymology: From mis- + check.
Senses: examples: text: Checking when done had been so badly done that more time of clerks was wasted erasing mischecks than would have been required to do the whole correctly in the beginning.
ref: 1894, Cynthia E. Cleveland, Democratic Campaign Book, page 201:
text: Carelessness may be manifested in unduly brief replies to open questions or projective stimuli, and in hasty reading of closed questions, resulting in mischecks or random responses or position habits. It is likely that carelessness is substantially attributable to the particular conditions of rapport which surround the test taking.
ref: 1968, Gardner Lindzey, Elliot Aronson, The Handbook of Social Psychology: Research methods, page 237:
text: On redirect Officer Williams indicated it was a mischeck.
ref: 1980, California. Court of Appeal (2nd Appellate District). Records and Briefs, page 8:
glosses: A check mark that was made inaccurately.
examples: text: […]and these looms ran continuously, automatically changing from an almost empty bobbin to a filled bobbin, making no mischecks in the pattern, or mispicks from a moving filling thread.
ref: 1910, Textile World - Volume 39, page 400:
glosses: A check pattern that has an error in it.
examples: text: Actually some vulsum females were admixed in paratype specimens, certainly by careless mischeck of vein tc 2.
ref: 1995, Esakia, page 190:
glosses: An instance of checking or inspecting that was inaccurate.
mischecks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mischeck
mischecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mischeck
mischecking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mischeck
mischecked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mischeck
honey hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honey holes
Senses: glosses: A hole in the trunk of a tree, containing the natural honey produced by a colony of bees.
examples: text: The water swirling gently at the base of the muscular willow crowding the brook was the color of pea soup, and so deep that the bottom was invisible—a feature so dramatic on this small ribbon of water that it qualified as an authentic "honey hole". This is the angler's catch phrase for one of those rare, reliable places that always hold fish.
ref: 2000 April 30, Pete Bodo, “Outdoors: A Presence at the Source of the Noble Brookie”, in New York Times, retrieved 10 Jun 2020:
text: Lewis, 33, got his start repossessing cars when he was 14, helping his dad tow vehicles in the dead of night. […] [R]epos clustered in unexpected ways. Lewis pointed to one apartment complex so stocked with repos it became his honey hole.
ref: 2018 May 15, Todd C. Frankel, “The surprising return of the repo man”, in Washington Post, retrieved 10 Jun 2020:
glosses: A location or situation which yields something of significant value.
examples: text: While humping her on the side of the road, she died one day. […] He saw the big eighteen-wheeler coming, but her back was turned, and she saw nothing. He was suddenly scared, which helped obtain his freedom from her honey hole.
ref: 2018, Larry Davis, chapter 13, in The Winery and the Irishmen, →ISBN:
glosses: The vagina or vulva, as an object of sexual interest.
Related terms: honeypot
honey trap
Tunganistan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Following his withdrawal to Khotan in July 1934, Ma Hu-shan gradually consolidated his hold over the remote oases of the southern Tarim Basin, effectively establishing a Tungan satrapy where Hui Muslims ruled as colonial masters over their Turkic-speaking Muslim subjects ... The territory thus administered from 1934 to 1937 was given the entirely appropriate name of 'Tunganistan' by Walther Heissig.
ref: 1986, “The Role of the Hui Muslims (Tungans) in Republican Sinkiang”, in Warlords and Muslims in Chinese Central Asia: A Political History of Republican Sinkiang 1911–1949, CUP Archive, page 128:
text: It is believed that these plans include the establishment of six socialist states: Manchuria, Chinese Turkestan, Tunganistan, Mongolia, and two others.
ref: 1949, Political Information: Soviet and Chinese Communist Conferences in Harbin, Central Intelligence Agency, page 1:
glosses: Exonym for in the territory in southern Xinjiang administered by the New 36th Division of the Kuomintang's National Revolutionary Army from 1934 to 1937.
microgestural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to microgestures.
arrester bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arrester beds
Senses: topics: transport
glosses: A short, gravel filled, uphill exit ramp from a freeway or motorway designed to reduce the speed of an out of control vehicle.
arrester beds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arrester bed
honeyhole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honeyholes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of honey hole.
straight piano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: straight pianos
Senses: glosses: Synonym of upright piano.
synonyms: word: upright piano
straight pianos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of straight piano
preceptively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more preceptively
form: most preceptively
Etymology: From preceptive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a preceptive manner
science by press conference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: With increasing frequency, some biological scientists in the most competitive fields, caught up in a high-stakes race to capture priority for major advances, are using the media to attach their names to important findings before their competitors do. […] The result has been a spiraling competition, sometimes characterized by exaggerated claims, in which “science by press conference” has begun to replace the traditional mode of scientific discourse.
ref: 1985 Spring, Jay A. Winsten, “Science and the Media: The Boundaries of Truth”, in Health Affairs, volume 4, number 1, →DOI, page 15:
topics: sciences
synonyms: science by press release
glosses: The practice by which scientists put an unusual focus on publicizing results of research in the media, often when they are unlikely to win the approval of the professional scientific community.
Related terms: churnalism
science by press release
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: Synonym of science by press conference.
synonyms: word: science by press conference
M/K
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Initialism from the names Mulder and Krycek.
Senses: examples: text: Last March, I posted my first ever fanfic, an M/K fic to X Slash, and it got lots of loving feedback. Lots and lots of feedback.
ref: 1998 December 3, Woodinat, “Re: Feedback Experiences in general”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):
text: I am a mostly M/K fan, but I'll read just about anything that is slashy and well-written...
ref: 1998 December 24, Sosoprano, “Slash list question”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):
text: Anyone care to pass their latest M/K slash through the English/Swedish translator, and then back again?
ref: 1999 July 8, Kipler, “Wacky Summer Translation Machine Fun (Was: Re: Fanfic in Spanish?)”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ship of characters Fox Mulder and Alex Krycek from the television series The X-Files.
daytime drama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daytime dramas
Senses: examples: text: Daytime dramas were as successful as their prime-time counterparts, despite concerns that an economically unattractive listening audience (housewives) would deter sponsors from purchasing advertising spot time in this scheduling block.
ref: 1993, Marilyn J. Matelski, “Resilient radio”, in Media Studies, volume 7, page 9:
text: David Canary, Awards […] 87. Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Drama (1985) 88. Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Daytime Drama (1986)
ref: 2005, Bruce Leiby, Linda Leiby, A Reference Guide to Television’s Bonanza, page 295:
synonyms: daytime serial
soap opera
glosses: A television or radio serial broadcast during the daytime, especially one featuring melodramatic stories or characters.
examples: text: In the anything but static popular culture of the 1970s, daytime drama found itself at odds with both the place of women in contemporary, real-world situations and the contextualized, melodramatic world of females in soap operas.
ref: 2003, Thomas D. Petitjean, Jr., “Soap Spin: Changing Female Images in American Soap Operas”, in Sherrie Inness, editor, Disco Divas: Women and Popular Culture in the 1970s, page 116:
glosses: The genre comprising such serials.
C/P
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Initialism from the names Chakotay and Paris.
Senses: examples: text: I have had many people ask for a C/P story.
ref: 2001 October 16, Christine Porter, “REP: Fic: Just a Pinch of Spice {Voy} C/P”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (Usenet):
text: Many perfectly good C/P fics suddenly run into these cliches once the two are together and it's completely ruined for me!
ref: 2003 June 16, nikita79x, “Re: Cliches (was: K/S cliches)”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (Usenet):
text: I actually have a longer C/P story that I wrote the first part of - must be 3 or 4 years ago (or longer) and just never finished it.
ref: 2008 January 2, Cait N., “Re: NEW VOY: Three Reasons 1/1 (C/T, m/m, Figure Eight Challenge) [PG]”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ship of characters Chakotay and Tom Paris from the television series Star Trek: Voyager.
wikipedia: Chakotay
mastick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masticks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mastic.
masticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mastick
land take
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The project was attractive because of the ability to maximise the use of existing and decommissioned railways, minimise land take, and decrease the amount of disruption during the project. With London land prices rocketing, there was also a significant financial incentive.
ref: 2020 May 20, Paul Bigland, “East London Line's renaissance”, in Rail, pages 48–49:
glosses: Alternative form of land-take.
precongressional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + congressional.
Senses: glosses: Prior to a congress
predestinational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to predestination
come out of the broom closet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes out of the broom closet
form: coming out of the broom closet
form: come out of the broom closet
form: come out of the broom closet
Etymology: Coined by analogy with come out of the closet, with the proverbial hiding place being changed to a broom closet, a jocular reference to stereotype of witches riding brooms.
Senses: examples: text: Second, despite constitutional guarantees of religions freedom and practice, and despite the rhetoric of tolerance with which religion in American society is cloaked, "coming out of the broom closet" and declaring oneself Wiccan or Witch remains a very risky act for many people, precisely because of the different cultures in which they reside.
ref: 2005, Douglas E. Cowan, Cyberhenge: Modern Pagans on the Internet, page 36:
text: In 1986, a federal appeals court ruled that Wicca is a legal religion. That means that the practice of Wicca is protected by the U.S. Constitution. Ever since the ruling, more and more Wiccans have "come out of the broom closet."
ref: 2006, Denise Zimmerman, Katherine Gleason, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Wicca and Witchcraft, unnumbered page:
text: I cannot claim that I ever came out of the broom closet, because I didn't even know that I had the option of hiding in said closet when I began to self-identify as a Pagan at the age of seventeen.
ref: 2009, “Junior Crone”, in Arin Murphy-Hiscock, editor, Out of the Broom Closet: 50 True Stories of Witches Who Found and Embraced the Craft, unnumbered page:
glosses: To publicly reveal that one is a Wiccan or some other type of neopagan.
cubology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cube + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: […] as far as I know there is no standard word describing the art of playing with the cube. Cubing? Cubistics? Rubikonomia? or perhaps Rubikomania? Can the science (or art) of doing it be called “cubology”, as suggested by Scientific American? Some enthusiasts borrow “cubism” and call themselves “cubists”, all very reminiscent of the 1920s three dimensional, modern art phase.
ref: [1982 March 18, Stephan Sulyak, “Review: The magic cube (A Büvös Kocka)”, in New Scientist, volume 93, number 1297, →ISSN, page 734:
glosses: The hobby or study of solving the Rubik's cube.
genyouine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more genyouine
form: most genyouine
Senses: examples: text: [>OK, this is no problem. I know the basic logic steps, and I buy the definition of backtracking and logic I was told. But say these to an average non-math sudoku solver...]
What? That they are doing gen-you-ine math and are enjoying it?
ref: 2005 September 28, S.C.Sprong, “Re: Sudoku”, in rec.puzzles (Usenet):
text: This sound familiar? If so, you were learning genyouine SNOBOL, which eventually inspired Griswold's less whacky (but more useful) "Icon".
ref: 2011 June 27, Conan the bacterium, “Re: SCIENCE --AT IT AGAIN--”, in alt.talk.creationism (Usenet):
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of genuine.
prelogic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒdʒɪk
Etymology: From pre- + logic.
Senses: glosses: The primitive mode of thought that preceded logical reasoning
Related terms: prelogical
membrane attack complex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: membrane attack complexes
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
synonyms: word: MAC
word: terminal complement complex
word: TCC
glosses: A structure, typically formed on the surface of a pathogen cell membrane as a result of the activation of the host's complement system, creating transmembrane channels that disrupt the cell membrane, leading to cell lysis and death.
wikipedia: complement +
namsayin'
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: “[…]All a guy has to do is be a shoulder to cry on, tell a sob story about him, and bam, you're in there. Not that I need to stoop so low. That's just for those who can't get a girl, namsayin'?” He stroked the fuzz on his chin and winked at Olivia, who giggled at his antics.
ref: 2012, Jaime Reed, Fading Amber, page 131:
glosses: Contraction of do you know what I'm saying?.
Siberian Tatar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Siberian Tatars
Senses: glosses: A member of the indigenous Turkic-speaking population of the forests and steppes of South Siberia, who originated in areas stretching from somewhat east of the Ural Mountains to the Yenisei River in Russia.
Siberian Tatar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Turkic language spoken in Western Siberia region of Russia.
he-devil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: he-devils
Etymology: From he- + devil.
Senses: glosses: A male devil (as opposed to a she-devil, female devil).
he-devils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of he-devil
skull drum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skull drums
Senses: examples: text: These sorcerers summoned the spirits with whom they worked, by blowing on horns made from human thigh bones and beating on skull drums and gongs.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 31:
glosses: A drum (musical instrument) made from a thin covering stretched over a hemispherical section of a human skull; also, a damaru made from two skulls.
skull drums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skull drum
damarus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of damaru
AANES
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: NES
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria.
off-width
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Pertaining to crack climbing in which the width of the crack is too great for one-hand holds but not wide enough to be used as a chimney.
sheet pile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheet piles
Senses: examples: text: Once the floodwaters had receded and further damage inspections could be carried out, the engineering solution [...] was to drill more than 120 sheet piles up to eight metres deep along a 115-metre section of the embankment.
ref: 2020 May 20, Paul Stephen, “NR beats floods to secure tracks to Drax”, in Rail, page 58:
glosses: A corrugated steel pile, which is vertically driven into the ground to form a wall of sheet piling.
sheet piles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheet pile
Boulder City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɪti
Senses: glosses: A city in Clark County, Nevada, United States.
North Las Vegas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Clark County, Nevada, United States.
Blue Diamond
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada, United States.
glosses: A township in Perry County, Kentucky, United States.
Related terms: blue diamond impatiens
Bunkerville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada, United States.
Cal-Nev-Ari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of California + Nevada + Arizona, referring to the CDP's location near the tripoint of the states.
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada, United States.
Goodsprings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada, United States.
Indian Springs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada, United States.
Moapa Town
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada, United States.
Moapa Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada, United States.
Mount Charleston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada, United States.
Sandy Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada, United States.
Searchlight
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada, United States.
Summerlin South
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada, United States.
Sunrise Manor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada, United States.
BCI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BCIs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of bit-count integrity.
examples: text: Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) aren’t a new idea. Various forms of BCI are already available, from ones that sit on top of your head and measure brain signals to devices that are implanted into your brain tissue. […] But Musk’s plans go beyond this: he wants to use BCIs in a bi-directional capacity, so that plugging in could make us smarter, improve our memory, help with decision-making and eventually provide an extension of the human mind.
ref: 2018 January 1, Sarah Marsh, “Neurotechnology, Elon Musk and the goal of human enhancement”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: A BCI is a device that allows for direct communication between the brain and a machine. Foundational to this technology is the ability to decode neural signals that arise in the brain into commands that can be recognized by the machine.
ref: 2019 October 24, Oscar Schwartz, “Mind-reading tech? How private companies could gain access to our brains”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: BMI
glosses: Initialism of brain–computer interface.
BCI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Book Citation Index.
glosses: Initialism of Better Cotton Initiative.
BCIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BCI
okie-dokie
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of okey-dokey.
okie dokie
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of okey-dokey.
okie
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Influenced by -ie.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of OK.
Related terms: okie-dokie
okie-doke
ikr
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of IKR.
voicewise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From voice + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: In order to accomplish this purpose the student's level of understanding, voicewise, must be raised on the five points of Hearing, Observing, Performing, Absorbing and THINKING.
ref: 1922, School Music, page 16:
text: I have one case in mind where a letter carrier was thoroughly harassed, voicewise, by someone who received this from him.
ref: 1963, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, Protecting Postal Patrons from Obscene and Obnoxious Mail and Communist Propaganda: Hearings Before the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives, Eighty-eighth Congress, First Session-second Session, on H. R. 142, H. R. 319, and Similar Bills, page 129:
text: 1989, Ted Holland, B Western Actors Encyclopedia: Facts, Photos, and Filmographies for More Than 250 Familiar Faces, McFarland & Company Incorporated Pub
In fact, many argue that voicewise Dean was the best of the singing cowboy lot.
glosses: In terms of voice.
raajkumaar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raajkumaars
form: raaj-kumaar
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi राजकुमार (rājkumār).
Senses: glosses: Prince or king.
koi carp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: koi carp
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile, NR faced an unexpected challenge when a night watchman spotted several Koi Carp swimming in floodwater close to the railway, after they had escaped from a nearby private residence. Wilson says the owner was eventually traced, and the fish were safely returned "after enjoying swimming around in a 3,000-acre lake".
ref: 2020 May 20, Paul Stephen, “NR beats floods to secure tracks to Drax”, in Rail, page 59:
glosses: Synonym of koi.
synonyms: word: koi