cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
zeze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zezes
Etymology: From Swahili zeze.
Senses: glosses: A stringed instrument of sub-Saharan Africa.
zezes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zeze
out-chorus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: out-choruses
Etymology: From out- + chorus.
Senses: examples: text: 1991, Samuel A. Floyd, Jr., "Ring Shout! Literary Studies, Historical Studies, and Black Music Inquiry" in Gena Dagel Caponi (ed.), Signifyin(g), Sanctifyin’, & Slam Dunking: A Reader in African American Expressive Culture, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999, p. 149, https://books.google.ca/books?id=Nn6y4iHj6_MC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
I also hear the trombone's held-notes in the out-chorus (B⁷) as evocative "shouts" that Signify black religious shouting and its counterpart expression in secular life—calls, cries, and hollers […]
text: […] the treatment of Monk's classic blues from 1947, "Misterioso," includes a torrent of notes from Adderley's cornet in the opening solo chorus matched by a hot, intense solo by Johnson before the out chorus.
ref: 2001, Joshua Berrett, Louis G. Bourgois III, chapter 7, in The Musical World of J. J. Johnson, Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, page 189:
qualifier: jazz
glosses: The return to the main written melody following the chorus (improvised solo section) in a small group performance
Synonyms: head-out
out-chorus
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: out-choruses
form: out-chorusses
form: out-chorusing
form: out-chorussing
form: out-chorused
form: out-chorused
form: out-chorussed
form: out-chorussed
Etymology: From out- + chorus.
Senses: examples: 1831, Thomas Thomson, "The London Drama, Regent's Park, London, Monday, Jan. 10th, 1831, in The Edinburgh Literary Journal; or, Weekly Register of Criticism and Belles Lettres, Edinburgh, p. 51, https://books.google.ca/books?id=uPsVAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
[…] the audience right loyally insisted on having "God save the King," and far out-chorussed the professional singers on the stage.
glosses: To sing in chorus better, longer or louder than.
newtonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Newtonian.
brownian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Brownian.
circuit intendant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circuit intendants
Etymology: Calque from Chinese 道臺／道台 (dàotái).
Senses: glosses: The chief magistrate of an imperial Chinese circuit, overseeing both its civil operation and local defense.
Synonyms: word: taotai
word: tao tai
word: daotai
word: governor
word: intendant
circuit intendants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circuit intendant
Cesarean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Caesar + -ean, but see also Caesarean section § Etymology.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Caesarean.
Cesarean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cesareans
Etymology: From Caesar + -ean, but see also Caesarean section § Etymology.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Caesarean.
darwinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more darwinian
form: most darwinian
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Darwinian.
darwinian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: darwinians
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Darwinian.
tao tai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tao tai
form: tao tais
Senses: examples: text: These missionaries were good people of whose devotion America can be proud. Some months later under Boxer mob-violence they were driven out on to the Gobi Desert. But the Tao Tai gave them protection which saw them safely across the desert to the Russian frontier, though with much hardship.
ref: 1951, Herbert Hoover, The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover, Years of Adventure 1874-1920, New York: Macmillan Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 44:
glosses: Alternative form of daotai.
darwinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: darwinisms
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Darwinism.
daotai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /daʊ.taɪ/
/taʊ.taɪ/
Forms: form: daotai
form: daotais
form: taotai
form: tao tai
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation of 道臺／道台 (dàotái).
Senses: examples: text: TAIWAN, or Chinese Formosa, is considered a Foo or district of the province of Fokien, and is governed by a Taoutai extraordinary, who, though responsible to the provincial viceroy, possesses the privilege of memorialising the Throne direct.
ref: [1864, Robert Swinhoe, “Notes on the Island of Formosa.”, in The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London, volume XXXIV, London: John Murray, published 1865, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6:
glosses: Synonym of circuit intendant: a local governor of late imperial China.
synonyms: word: circuit intendant
extra: a local governor of late imperial China
Parkinsonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Parkinsonisms
Senses: examples: text: […] a famous case, in the 1890s, in which the development of a one-sided Parkinsonism was correlated with the growth of a tuberculoma of one cerebral peduncle […]
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of parkinsonism.
daotais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daotai
tao tais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tao tai
Tao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /daʊ/
ipa: /taʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: Dao
form: dao
form: tao
raw_tags: from Wade–Giles
Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 道 (Dào, literally “The Way”): Tao⁴.
Senses: examples: text: Nor is progress exclusively a Western invention. Many interpret the Tao of ancient China as a guide for those who wish to progress as they make their way forward in the world—though its conception of progress is very different from what emerged in the West.
ref: 2013, Al Gore, The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page xx:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: In Taoism, The Way, specifically the transcendental basis of nature and, and/or the ideal way to live one's life.
Tao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daʊ/
ipa: /taʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: Taos
form: Dao
form: dao
form: tao
raw_tags: from Wade–Giles
Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 道 (Dào, literally “The Way”): Tao⁴.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tao (“art or skill in harmony with essential nature”).
Tao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /daʊ/
ipa: /taʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
Senses: glosses: A unisex given name from Mandarin.
Tao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /daʊ/
ipa: /taʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 陶 (Táo).
Senses: examples: text: When mathematicians face a question they cannot answer, they sometimes devise a less stringent question, in the hope that solving it will provide insights. This is the path that Tao took in 2004, in collaboration with Ben Green of Oxford.
ref: 2015 July 24, Gareth Cook, “The Singular Mind of Terry Tao”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2020:
glosses: A surname from Mandarin.
Related terms: Green-Tao theorem
Tao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /daʊ/
ipa: /taʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
ipa: /ˈta.ʊ/
ipa: /daʊ/
ipa: /taʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
Etymology: Borrowed from Yami Tao (“the Tao/Yami language”), from Yami tao (“human; person”), from Proto-Philippine *tau, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tau, from Proto-Austronesian *Cau. Compare Ibatan tawo, Tagalog tao, Ilocano tao.
Senses: glosses: an Austronesian ethnic group native to Orchid Island (Lanyu) of Lanyu, Taitung County, Taiwan
Synonyms: Yami
Tao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /daʊ/
ipa: /taʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
ipa: /ˈta.ʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Georgian ტაო (ṭao).
Senses: glosses: a historical region of Georgia (country)
Related terms: Klarjeti
Tao-Klarjeti
tralse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹɔls/
ipa: /tɹɑls/
rhymes: -ɔls
rhymes: -ɑls
Etymology: Blend of true + false
Senses: examples: text: In the instance of a scientific model or theory being falsified it is proposed to describe the predicate as tralse, ie true before time t and false thereafter.
ref: 1991, F.M. Akeroyd, “A practical example of Grue”, in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, volume 42, number 4:
text: I mean what kind of a name for a band is Tralse, anyway? True and false at the same time? I can't believe I used to think that was clever.
ref: 2012, Kelly Oram, V Is for Virgin:
text: Is there possibly something else / In the middle of true and false? / Could there be such a thing as / Tralse?
ref: 2012, Peter Worley, Thoughtings: Puzzles, problems and paradoxes in poetry to think with:
text: What we should really experience, then, is a fusion of the two, true and false, which we could more accurately record, and refer to, as tralse. The Liar paradox generates tralse, not true and false (which separately are all our minds are capable of handling), and tralse is a permanent state of the two with no oscillations, no variations.
ref: 2013, Micheal D. Winterburn, Secrets of the Paradox: Solving the Liar and other logical problems:
glosses: Both true and false.
bioalloy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioalloys
Etymology: From bio- + alloy.
Senses: glosses: Any biocompatible alloy.
bioalloys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioalloy
biomachine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biomachines
Etymology: From bio- + machine.
Senses: glosses: A biological organism, or group of organisms, that functions like, or is treated as, a machine
biomachines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biomachine
biocyberneticist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biocyberneticists
Etymology: From bio- + cyberneticist.
Senses: examples: text: The play ends on a predominantly pessimistic note: Alex fails to rescue Alda from the victorious biocyberneticists, for she, realizing the apparent inefficacy of Alex's beliefs, agrees to go to work for them.
ref: 1973, Keith Armes, Candle in the Wind, University of Minnesota Press, translation of original by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, introduction, page 5:
glosses: One who studies or works in the field of biocybernetics.
bioanalytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioanalyte
biocyberneticists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biocyberneticist
ice machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice machines
Senses: glosses: An icemaker.
ice machines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ice machine
N'ko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: N'Ko
Etymology: From N'Ko ߒߞߏ (“I say”).
Senses: glosses: A writing system invented for the Manding languages of West Africa.
glosses: A literary language itself written in the script.
Quislingisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Quislingism
quotableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From quotable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or degree of being quotable.
multitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multitable
form: most multitable
Etymology: From multi- + table.
Senses: examples: At this multitable tournament, 36 players will begin playing in four tables of nine players each.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Involving multiple tables (in various senses).
Consisting of multiple tables.
raw_tags: said of a poker tournament
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Involving multiple tables (in various senses).
Encompassing or affecting multiple tables.
multitable
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: multitables
form: multitabling
form: multitabled
form: multitabled
Etymology: From multi- + table.
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: To play in multiple tables simultaneously.
Derived terms: multitabler
proanagen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + anagen.
Senses: examples: text: This phenomenon is consistent with the Arbas Cashmere goat, in which the reactivity and subsequent inhibitory effect of secondary hair follicles are observed in growing proanagen follicles.
ref: 2016 January 28, “A Microarray-Based Analysis Reveals that a Short Photoperiod Promotes Hair Growth in the Arbas Cashmere Goat”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That stimulates the growth phase of hair follicles
taxometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: We analyzed data using three separate taxometric procedures (mean above minus below a cut, MAMBAC; maximum eigenvalue, MAXEIG; and latent mode factor, L-Mode) with Ruscio’s (2012) taxometric program for R.
ref: 2016 January 28, “Minimization of Childhood Maltreatment Is Common and Consequential: Results from a Large, Multinational Sample Using the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to taxometrics
taxometrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The analysis of psychiatric disorders which are typologically distinct from normal behavioral functioning.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: taximetrics; phenetics
Related terms: taxometric
taxonicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taxonicities
Etymology: From taxonic + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: As part of the software used, taxonicity was judged based on parallel analyses of categorical and dimensional comparison data (see [58 ]).
ref: 2016 January 28, “Minimization of Childhood Maltreatment Is Common and Consequential: Results from a Large, Multinational Sample Using the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The state of being taxonic.
taxonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From taxon + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to taxa.
predelusional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + delusional.
Senses: glosses: Before the onset of a delusion.
thialysine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: These substances were L-arginine hydroxamate, miltefosine, D,L—serine hydroxamate, D- serine, glycine hydrochloride, sodium caprylate, blasticidin hydrochloride, thioridazine hydrochloride, 6-azuracil, thialysine, malic acid, tartaric acid, 5-fluorocytosine, chloroquine, cinnamic acid and 5-fluorouracil.
ref: 2016 January 28, “Comparison of Chemical Sensitivity of Fresh and Long-Stored Heat Resistant Neosartorya fischeri Environmental Isolates Using BIOLOG Phenotype MicroArray System”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A toxic analog of the amino acid lysine, S-aminoethyl-L-cysteine
undermelt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + melt.
Senses: examples: text: Since originally this method was applied successfully to semiconductor materials a slight modification had to be incorporated when generating a-Bi, i. e., only the undermelt and the quench panels are present.
ref: 2016 January 28, “Superconductivity in Bismuth. A New Look at an Old Problem”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A melted liquid that lies beneath a solid
Möbius transformation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Möbius transformations
form: Mobius transformation
form: Moebius transformation
Etymology: Named for German mathematician and theoretical astronomer August Ferdinand Möbius (1790–1868).
Senses: examples: text: 2008, J. Vernon Armitage, John Parker, Jørgensen's inequality for Non-Archimedean Metric Spaces, Mikhail Kapranov, Sergii Kolyada, Yu. I. Manin, Pieter Moree, Leonid Potyagailo (editors), Geometry and Dynamics of Groups and Spaces: In Memory of Alexander Reznikov, page 97,
Jørgensen's inequality gives a necessary condition for a non-elementary group of Möbius transformations to be discrete.
text: 2012, Martin Delacourt, Petr Kůrka, Finite State Transducers of Modular Möbius Number Systems, Branislav Rovan, Vladimiro Sassone, Peter Widmayer (editors), Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science 2012, 37th International Symposium, MFCS 2012, Proceedings, Springer, LNCS 7464, page 323,
Modular Möbius number systems consist of Möbius transformations with integer coefficients and unit determinant.
text: Classical Kleinian groups are discrete subgroups of Möbius transformations which act on the Riemann sphere with a nonempty region of discontinuity.
ref: 2013, Angel Cano, Juan Pablo Navarrete, Seade Kuri José Antonio, Complex Kleinian Groups, page 1:
topics: complex-analysis
geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A transformation of the extended complex plane that is a rational function of the form f(z) = (az + b) / (cz + d), where a, b, c, d are complex numbers such that ad − bc ≠ 0; an automorphism of the complex projective line.
wikipedia: August Ferdinand Möbius
Hypernyms: automorphism
conformal mapping
homography
projective transformation
linear fractional transformation
Möbius transformations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Möbius transformation
deaggregate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deaggregates
form: deaggregating
form: deaggregated
form: deaggregated
Etymology: From de- + aggregate.
Senses: glosses: To separate something into its component parts.
deaggregates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deaggregate
deaggregating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deaggregate
deaggregated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deaggregate
mestiso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mestisos
form: mestisoes
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of mestizo.
strapadictomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strapadictomies
Etymology: A pun on the phrase strap a dick to me, employing the -tomy suffix.
Senses: examples: text: Encourage your girl to exaggerate your good points whenever she is with her best friend. […] However, what sometimes happens is that your girl gets carried away and gushes endlessly about your prowess in bed, the one area in which the best friend cannot compete. Well, not without having a strapadictomy first.
ref: 2004, Ben Trovato, Ben Trovato's Guide to Everything, page 51:
glosses: A supposed operation that transforms a woman into a man.
strapadictomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strapadictomy
freemail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of free + email, or the compound free + mail.
Senses: examples: text: Employees might start a freemail account to exchange off-color jokes or distribute their resumes.
ref: 1999, Microtimes, numbers 199-201, page 57:
text: In theory, you can establish a freemail account that will endure whether you change jobs or Internet service providers. But most freemail sites limit the amount of mail you can store, so delete old and unwanted messages […]
ref: 1999, Michael Shapiro, Internet Travel Planner: How to Plan Trips and Save Money Online:
text: Even if you have no intention of ever using a freemail account with Yahoo or Hotmail, it's worth opening one for this reason alone.
ref: 2004, Samantha Cook, Greg Ward, The Rough Guide to Travel Online, page 94:
glosses: An email service provided free of charge to the public.
geases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geas
glosses: plural of gease
Stephensonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Stephensonian
form: most Stephensonian
Etymology: From Stephenson + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to George Stephenson (1781–1848), English engineer who built the first public intercity railway line to use steam locomotives.
glosses: Of or relating to Neal Stephenson (born 1959), American writer of speculative fiction and cyberpunk novels.
Stephensonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Stephensonians
Etymology: From Stephenson + -ian.
Senses: qualifier: Durham University
glosses: A member or alumnus of Stephenson College, Durham.
deaggregation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deaggregations
Etymology: From de- + aggregation.
Senses: glosses: The process of deaggregating.
deaggregations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deaggregation
Abderhalden reactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Abderhalden reaction
Althusserians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Althusserian
command responsibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The suit does not accuse Mrs. Arroyo of personally ordering the abuses, but contends that she had “command responsibility,” Bishop Marigza said.
ref: 2011 June 16, Associated Press:
text: The judges based their decision on the concept of “command responsibility”, in which both civilian and military superiors can be held criminally responsible for crimes committed by troops under their control.
ref: 2016 June 22, The Guardian:
topics: law
glosses: The principle by which someone can be legally culpable for crimes committed by those under their control.
biangulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biangulations
Etymology: From bi- + angulation or biangulate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: From June to November in 2011, 2012 and 2013, we located squirrels during daylight hours via simultaneous biangulation and homing.
ref: 2016 January 29, “Differential Effects of Roads and Traffic on Space Use and Movements of Native Forest-Dependent and Introduced Edge-Tolerant Species”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The establishment of the two-dimensional position of a point, relative to a fixed point, by first establishing the position of an intermediate point
pave the cowpath
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: paves the cowpath
form: paving the cowpath
form: paved the cowpath
form: paved the cowpath
Etymology: Reflecting the theme that some paved roads of the 20th and 21st centuries were developed over existing rights of way such as earlier cowpaths and footpaths; see also Wikipedia at desire path.
Senses: glosses: To formalize an existing de-facto practice.
Related terms: desire path
biangulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biangulation
cokebottles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cokebottle
corticothalamocortical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cortico- + thalamocortical.
Senses: examples: text: This finding is in agreement with other studies on corticothalamocortical communication implicating the POm in information transfer to higher-order cortical areas.
ref: 2016 January 29, “Control of Somatosensory Cortical Processing by Thalamic Posterior Medial Nucleus: A New Role of Thalamus in Cortical Function”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: From the cerebral cortex to the thalamus and back to the cerebral cortex.
crotonylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crotonylated
form: most crotonylated
Senses: examples: text: In summary, lysines within the H1.2 C-terminal domain were found to be methylated, acetylated, formylated and crotonylated, and those of the H1.1 C-terminal domain, dimethylated, acetylated, formylated, crotonylated and propionylated.
ref: 2016 January 29, “Histone H1 Variants in Arabidopsis Are Subject to Numerous Post-Translational Modifications, Both Conserved and Previously Unknown in Histones, Suggesting Complex Functions of H1 in Plants”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Modified by crotonylation
stink pretty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Wear all that stink pretty and stuff, you know.
ref: 1986, Kristen R. Yount, Women and Men Coal Miners: Coping with Gender Integration Underground:
text: Longarm decided the base of her French perfume had to be jasmine. She wore her brown hair severely bunned for a gal with such expensive tastes in stink-pretty.
ref: 2000, Tabor Evans, Longarm 257: Longarm and the Nevada Bellydancer:
text: Well ... I've been too close to people who could run a skunk off a gut wagon with their stink-pretty, but I don't know if I'd go quite THAT far.
ref: 2004, Polack, “Re: TOAST: To the shining city on the hill”, in alt.callahans (Usenet):
glosses: Perfume.
Eurasian nuthatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eurasian nuthatches
Senses: glosses: A nuthatch of the species Sitta europaea.
Synonyms: wood nuthatch
wood nuthatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wood nuthatches
Senses: glosses: A nuthatch of the species Sitta europaea.
Synonyms: Eurasian nuthatch
LANT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of Atlantic (Atlantic Ocean).
Related terms: PAC
COMSUBFOR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: COMSUBFORs
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: Abbreviation of commander, submarine forces.
Related terms: SUBPAC
SUBLANT
SUBFOR
COMSUBPAC
COMSUBLANT
Wonderbras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wonderbra
26th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of twenty-sixth.
non-TAS
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + TAS.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: Not tool-assisted.
banana ketchup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banana ketchups
form: banana catsup
Etymology: From banana + ketchup. The tomato shortage in the Philippines during WWII led to the substitution of bananas and red dye.
Senses: examples: text: Let us take ketchup for instance. Is there such a thing as "banana ketchup" or "papaya ketchup" so that we have to define "ketchup" as containing so much percent of tomato and nothing more?
ref: 1965, Science Review, volumes 6-8, page 43:
text: […] banana ketchup, which has replaced tomato ketchup in the Philippines because of its superior flavour and much lower cost.
ref: 1996, M. Flach, Plants yielding non-seed carbohydrates, page 126:
text: I kept telling my husband we should import banana ketchup from the Philippines.
ref: 2005, Theresa M. Welford, The Paradelle: An Anthology, page 36:
topics: food
lifestyle
glosses: a condiment, a type of ketchup where the tomatoes are replaced by bananas and red food dye
crush hats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crush hat
fiscal policies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fiscal policy
hackbutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hackbutters
Etymology: From hackbut + -er.
Senses: glosses: An arquebusier.
hackbuteer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hackbuteers
Etymology: From hackbut + -eer.
Senses: glosses: An arquebusier.
hackbutters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hackbutter
hackbuteers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hackbuteer
hahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hah
hakeem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hakeems
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of hakim.
hakeems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hakeem
halakic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more halakic
form: most halakic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of halachic.
haleru
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haler
halfa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Arabic حَلْفَا (ḥalfā).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of esparto (“North African grass”).
synonyms: word: esparto
extra: North African grass
Derived terms: halfa grass
halophilous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more halophilous
form: most halophilous
Etymology: From halo- + -philous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Thriving in a highly saline environment.
'Eid al-Fitr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Eid al-Fitr.
halophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more halophobic
form: most halophobic
Etymology: From halo- + -phobic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Incapable of thriving in a highly saline environment.
halophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halophobes
Etymology: From halo- + -phobe.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any halophobic organism.
halophobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halophobe
haloumi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haloumis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of halloumi.
haloumis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haloumi
hamadryases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hamadryas
hamstringed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hamstring
handicraftswoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handicraftswomen
Etymology: From handicraft + -s- + -woman.
Senses: glosses: A female practitioner of a handicraft.
handicraftswomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handicraftswoman
haphazardry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haphazardries
Etymology: From haphazard + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: I began to realize the degree of haphazardry in the former and of over-emphasis in many of the latter, and the general imbalance between them.
ref: 1965 ·, Joseph W. Cohen, The Superior Student in American Higher Education, page 99:
glosses: haphazardness
haphazardries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haphazardry
haploidies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haploidy
harassedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more harassedly
form: most harassedly
Etymology: From harassed + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a harassed manner.
harassable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more harassable
form: most harassable
Etymology: From harass + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The campus was aswarm with eminently harassable young women and strapping boys emitting almost tangible hormones.
ref: 2000, Ronald Sukenick, Narralogues: Truth in Fiction, page 27:
antonyms: unharassable
glosses: Capable of, or suited to, being harassed.
airwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of harewood.
Harijan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Harijans
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi हरिजन (harijan, literally “Children of God”). Coined by Narsinh Mehta, a Gujarati Bhakti poet Narsinh Mehta in the 15th century and popularized by Mahatma Gandhi as an alternative to the term Dalit.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Dalit.
synonyms: word: Dalit
Harijans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Harijan
gharana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gharanas
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi घराना (gharānā).
Senses: glosses: An Indian system of social organization linking musicians or dancers by lineage or apprenticeship, and by adherence to a particular musical style and ideology.
gharanas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gharana
harmonistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more harmonistically
form: most harmonistically
Etymology: From harmonistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a harmonistic manner.
Haussmannizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Haussmannize
Haussmannizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Haussmannize
Haussmannized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Haussmannize
Hawkshaw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Not only has front woman Kirsty Hawkshaw replaced her space-age baldness with a glamorous new look, but the music that fills the act's EastWest album is far more complex and substantial […]
ref: 1994, Billboard, volume 106, number 24, page 26:
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD7515).
glosses: A suburb of Darwen, Blackburn with Darwen district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD6823).
glosses: A tiny settlement on the Tweed, south-west of Tweedsmuir, Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, at the mouth of Hawkshaw Burn (OS grid ref NT0722)
glosses: A community in York County, New Brunswick, Canada.
glosses: A government town near Moockra, South Australia.
heartleafs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heartleaf
heartbroke
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heartbroke
form: most heartbroke
Etymology: From heart + broke.
Senses: glosses: heartbroken
hebetudinosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being hebetudinous.
hectical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hectical
form: most hectical
Senses: glosses: hectic
heliographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From heliographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of heliography.
heliographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From heliography + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to heliography.
hematoblastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of haematoblastic.
haematoblastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From haematoblast + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to haematoblasts.
hematogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hemato- + genetic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of haematogenetic.
Ulster fries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ulster fry
radical feminism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radical feminisms
Senses: examples: text: The conference had been convened by a group that wanted to defend two positions that have made radical feminism anathema to much of the left. First, the organizers hoped to refute charges that the desire to ban prostitution implies hostility toward prostitutes.
ref: 2014 August 4, Michelle Goldberg, “What Is A Woman? The Dispute between Radical Feminism and Transgenderism”, in The New Yorker:
topics: feminism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
hypernyms: feminism
glosses: A type of feminism which calls for a radical reordering of society to eliminate male supremacy in all social and economic contexts.
Related terms: radfem
radical feminist
herbarial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɜːˈbɛəɹi.əl/
ipa: /(h)ɝˈbɛɹi.əl/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəl
Senses: glosses: Relating to a herbarium.
herborisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: herborisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of herborization.
herborisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herborisation
herem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: herems
form: cherem
Etymology: Transliteration of Hebrew חֵרֶם (ḥērem). Doublet of haram.
Senses: examples: text: Six months after the Brisker Rav's arrival in 1878, he reinstated the cherem against any changes in the educational system.
ref: 1998, David Rossoff, “The Battle Cry”, in Where Heaven Touches Earth:
text: Rabbi David Hacohen of Corfu supported a [h]erem against dancing by men with married women.
ref: 2024, David Golinkin, “Is Mixed Dancing Really Forbidden At Weddings?”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page 235:
glosses: A prohibition enacted by rabbinic authority.
examples: text: Mr Raz said he was fired from his job at the settlement council six months ago because of his involvement in the campaign and a rabbi placed him in "herem", an ancient religious practice requiring that a wayward person be ostracised.
ref: 2006 March 23, Chris McGreal, “Settlers don't know when the knock on the door will come and they have to leave”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The exclusion of a person from the Jewish community.
herems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herem
cherem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cherems
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of herem.
cherems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cherem
exalgin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A benzene derivative allied to phenacetin, used as an analgesic and antipyretic.
Synonyms: methylacetanilide
methylacetanilid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of methylacetanilide.
exencephalus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exencephali
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A deformed infant with the brain more or less outside the cranial cavity.
exencephali
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exencephalus
ad hocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ad hocracies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of adhocracy.
ad hocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ad hocracy (alternative form of adhocracies).
ad-hocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ad-hocracies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of adhocracy.
ad-hocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ad-hocracy (alternative form of adhocracies).
marograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marographs
Etymology: From Latin mare (“sea”) + -graph.
Senses: examples: text: We represent in the annexed engravings, for which we are indebted to La Nature, two new registering devices, one termed the marograph, designed for tide measurements, the other the fluviograph, intended for similar examination of river and canal levels.
ref: 1875 October 9, Scientific American, page 227:
text: His work on microseisms including the installation of meteorological instruments in Ottawa and the marograph in Nova Scotia, was quite advanced for its time; I would say that no further advances were made in the subject until the 1940's.
ref: 1989, The heavens above and the Earth below: A History of the Dominion Observatories, page 117:
text: Records of the variations in level of the ocean and the great lakes are kept by means of tidal registers, or marographs.
ref: 2014, Russell Sturgis, Sturgis Illustrated Dictionary of Architecture and Building, page 14:
glosses: An instrument for measuring the tides.
marographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marograph
mountain climbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mountain climber
adhocratically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /adhəˈkɹatɪk(ə)li/
ipa: /ædhəˈkɹædɪk(ə)li/
Forms: form: more adhocratically
form: most adhocratically
Etymology: From adhocratic + -ally or adhocratical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: That one department is managed bureaucratically and the other adhocratically can make their interacting or interfacing difficult.
ref: 1981, David R. Hampton, Contemporary Management (McGraw-Hill Series in Management), 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Book Company, →ISBN, page 534:
text: As such, depending on the degree to which the particular school is more adhocratically or bureaucratically oriented, mainstreaming for these students more or less represents symbolic integration, primarily in nonacademic classrooms […]
ref: 1992, Thomas Hehir, Thomas Latus, editors, Special Education at the Century's End: Evolution of Theory and Practice since 1970 (Harvard Educational Review Reprint Series; 23), Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Educational Review, →ISBN, page 256:
text: The decentralized organizational forms suggested by communications-cost theories may not have the totally uncoordinated character of markets, but can replace limited, carefully planned communication channels with much more numerous and flexible channels, both laterally and vertically. In one popular view, information flows can be dictated "adhocratically" by needs at any given moment[…].
ref: 1994, August T. Horvath, Janet Fulk, “Information Technology and the Prospects for Organizational Transformation”, in Branislav Kovačić, editor, New Approaches to Organizational Communication, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 123:
text: The primary function of the multicratic lead agency in the extreme application is to plan the system, to adhocratically procure participating organizations, and to manage their relationships similar to the way that the management of a hierarchical organization integrates organizational parts.
ref: 2005, Richard A. Narad, “The Multicratic Organization: A Model for Management of Functional Interdependence”, in Thomas D. Lynch, Peter L. Cruise, editors, Handbook of Organization Theory and Management: The Philosophical Approach (Public Administration and Public Policy; 116), 2nd edition, Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, →ISBN, page 768:
topics: business
qualifier: organizational theory
glosses: In an adhocratic manner.
Related terms: word: adhocracy
word: adhocrat
word: adhocratic
word: adhocratical
Fegatello Attack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Partial calque of Italian Giuoco Fegatello (“fried liver game”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Fried Liver Attack.
synonyms: word: Fried Liver Attack
falne
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: I dailie and hourelie offend in thought, word, and deed, in a relapſe by mine owne weakneſſe and wilfulneſſe, my bonus Genius, my good protecting angel is gone, I am falne from that I was, or would bee, worſe and worſe, […]
ref: 1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Cure of Deſpaire by Phyſick, good counſell, comforts, &c.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 4, member 3, subsection 6, page 707:
glosses: past participle of fall
fiddleback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fiddlebacks
Etymology: From fiddle + back.
Senses: glosses: The brown recluse spider.
glosses: A feature of maple wood where the fibers are distorted in an undulating chatoyant pattern.
glosses: A kind of chasuble with the front cut away.
Related terms: fiddlehead
fiddleneck
fiddlebacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fiddleback
shoots the moon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shoot the moon
shot the moon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shoot the moon
shooting the moon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shoot the moon
mountain guides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mountain guide
Karelian Bear Dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Karelian Bear Dog
kinematic envelopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kinematic envelope
nameless fingers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nameless finger
NAND gates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NAND gate
NaNs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NaN
havn't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of haven't.
nano-decomposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nano-decompositions
Etymology: From nano- + decomposition.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nanodecomposition.
nano-decompositions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nano-decomposition
nanodrops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanodrop
nanodusts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanodust
nanoelectrosprays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanoelectrospray
nano-fluid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nano-fluids
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nanofluid.
nano-fluids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nano-fluid
nano-circuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nano-circuits
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nanocircuit.
nano-circuits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nano-circuit
nanochains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanochain
Naina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit नैना (nainā).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
payment cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of payment card
lesser-evilism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lesser evilism.
captain's pick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: captain's picks
Senses: glosses: A decision made by a leader without consulting others.
captain's picks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of captain's pick
double dissolution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A procedure in which the Government requests the Governor-General to dissolve both houses of Parliament and call a full election, typically to resolve a deadlock between the House of Representatives and the Senate.
render unto Caesar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: renders unto Caesar
form: rendering unto Caesar
form: rendered unto Caesar
form: rendered unto Caesar
Etymology: From the Holy Bible (Matthew, 22:21): Then he said to them, “Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.” (KJV; spelling modernized)
Senses: examples: text: [S]he . . . made a note to suggest that her client ease some of the last quarter's profits into tax-free bonds. Render unto Caesar, sure, she thought, but not one damn penny more than necessary.
ref: 1997, Nora Roberts, Holding the Dream, →ISBN:
text: Still, the ideal solution, I think, would be to render unto Caesar an affirmation of flag and country but to keep God in our hearts.
ref: 2002 July 1, Lance Morrow, “God Knows What the Court Was Thinking”, in Time, retrieved 01 Jul 2016:
text: They fear that trying to find the homeless homes translates into raising the taxes they must render unto Caesar.
ref: 2008 January 21, Sarah Vowell, “Radical love gets a holiday”, in New York Times, retrieved 01 Jul 2016:
glosses: To give (something) to one's state or government, especially in the form of a tax payment.
wikipedia: KJV
points at infinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of point at infinity
awnry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɔːnɹi/
Forms: form: awnrier
form: awnriest
Etymology: Eye dialect spelling of ornery.
Senses: glosses: ornery.
knob-twiddler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knob-twiddlers
form: knob twiddler
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Telson was a confirmed knob-twiddler. Often he would work along the whole range of his radio, to 'see what he could get.'
ref: 1949, Bernard Newman, Shoot!, page 207:
text: If you're a dedicated knob twiddler what follows can hold no pleasure for you. If jumping doggedly up and down in constant conflict with the electronics of a TV set is your idea of an evening's bliss, then don't read on.
ref: 1964 July 16, New Scientist, page 148:
text: But long live the spirit of the amateur cameraman, the solo recording engineer, and the lonesome knob twiddler.
ref: 2005, David Kettle, Elephant Gnosis, →ISBN, page 173:
text: Recorded in 1995, 'Spaceman' had been hanging around unnoticed for a year when an ad agency knob-twiddler chanced upon it, or rather one very, very small part of it.
ref: 2012, Tim Moore, You Are Awful (But I Like You): Travels Through Unloved Britain, →ISBN, page 157:
glosses: A technician whose job entails adjusting electronic devices via knobs.