cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
acreocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪkəˈɹɒkɹəsi/
Etymology: From acre + -ocracy.
Senses: examples: text: The Acre-ocracy of England: A list of all owners of three thousand acres and upwards.
ref: 1876, John Bateman, (title)
text: This acreocracy, like all Welsh social groups, was deeply riven with profound internal divisions.
ref: 2005, Russell Davies, Hope and Heartbreak, page 93:
glosses: Important landowners, considered as a class.
examples: text: We'd been two years on our Pedernales acreocracy, not far from Fredericksburg, when our neighbor had two horses stolen in broad daylight.
ref: 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 13:
glosses: The land owned by such people.
OJR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Online Journalism Review
cat squirrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cat squirrels
Senses: glosses: The red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris).
examples: text: Farther up the bank was a stand of pecans where a cat squirrel was taking bites of green nuts and dropping them to the ground to rot.
ref: 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 18:
glosses: The eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis).
recategorisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recategorisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of recategorization.
apostrophectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apostrophectomies
Etymology: From apostrophe + -ectomy.
Senses: examples: text: apostrophectomy is a famously painful procedure, and the rate of reinfection is very high. there are also many attested cases where a perfectly functional apostrophe was inappropriately excised.
ref: 2000 March 30, Arnold Zwicky, “Re: I'm *famous*”, in soc.motss (Usenet), retrieved 07 Mar 2017, message-ID <8bvtf0$p7d@Turing.Stanford.EDU>:
text: Apostrophectomy might not be pleasant but I don't think it's illegal.
ref: 2004 June 13, David, “Re: The World Quiz League, it's rolling”, in alt.possessive.its.has.no.apostrophe (Usenet), retrieved 07 Mar 2017, message-ID <4cbe87bc27david@dacha.freeuk.com>:
text: It [Tim Hortons] received an apostrophectomy around the same time to accommodate Quebec language laws and was spun off entirely to shareholders by 2006, remaining registered in corporate haven Delaware.
ref: 2009 July 14, Marc Lostracco, “Cruller Intentions”, in Torontoist, archived from the original on 10 Sep 2016:
glosses: The removal of incorrect apostrophes, especially those wrongly used to form plurals (greengrocer's apostrophes).
apostrophectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apostrophectomy
Flushing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈflʌʃɪŋ/
[ˈfɫʌ̈ʃɪ̃ŋ]
Senses: glosses: A coastal village in Mylor parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW8134).
Flushing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈflʌʃɪŋ/
[ˈfɫʌ̈ʃɪ̃ŋ]
Etymology: From Dutch Vlissingen.
Senses: examples: text: An example of this was the hourly fast train from Amsterdam via Rotterdam to Eindhoven and Venlo, which used to be combined on the section from Amsterdam to Rotterdam with a stopping train to Flushing.
ref: 1962 April, P. W. B. Semmens, “The Netherlands Railways today”, in Modern Railways, page 238:
glosses: The town of Vlissingen in the Netherlands.
glosses: A township and city in Genesee County, Michigan, United States.
glosses: A township and village therein, in Belmont County, Ohio, United States.
glosses: A place in New Netherland, particularly, the New Amsterdam area.
A neighborhood of Queens, New York, New York, United States.
glosses: A place in New Netherland, particularly, the New Amsterdam area.
A bay of Queens, New York, New York, United States; in full, Flushing Bay.
glosses: A place in New Netherland, particularly, the New Amsterdam area.
A river in Queens, New York, New York, United States; in full, Flushing River.
Derived terms: Flushing Bay
Flushing Creek
Flushing Meadows
Flushing River
Olomouc Region
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Following the detected deficiencies in managing geodata on public transport network in the Olomouc Region, potential solutions of the situation were analysed.
ref: 2014, Lenka Zajíčková, “Mobile Application for Acquiring Geodata on Public Transport Network”, in Igor Ivan et al., editors, Geoinformatics for Intelligent Transportation, Cham: Springer International Publishing, →ISBN, page 257:
glosses: An administrative region of the Czech Republic. Capital: Olomouc.
strokee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strokees
Etymology: From stroke + -ee.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Someone who has suffered brain damage due to a stroke.
bulldoggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bulldoggy
form: most bulldoggy
Etymology: From bulldog + -y.
Senses: examples: text: "You must not write down the first Christian emperor as a villain." But Smith was a forthright, uncompromising, bull-doggy antagonist."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: Resembling a bulldog.
cyberchoruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberchorus
desterilizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desterilization
hydrobiotites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrobiotite
damages feasant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of damage feasant
tackleable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tackleable
form: most tackleable
Etymology: From tackle + -able.
Senses: examples: text: I think we would certainly agree that this is tackleable and should be number one on your agenda […]
ref: 1983, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways, Means. Subcommittee on Trade, Options to Improve the Trade Remedy Laws:
glosses: capable of being tackled
Related terms: tackle
Olomouc District
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The Olomouc District is situated in Central Moravia.
ref: 2011, “Olomouc”, in Czech Republic Export-Import and Business Directory, volume 1, Washington, D. C.: International Business Publications, page 69:
glosses: A district of the Czech Republic. Capital: Olomouc.
sexual violence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The use of sexual violence against civilian populations by invading armies.
glosses: A broad term encompassing sexual assault, harassment, indecent assault, rape, and other sexual offences against a non-consenting victim.
glosses: (When contrasted with sexual assault.) A physical attack of a sexual nature involving penetration (as apposed to sexual assault which may not involve actual penetration).
strokees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strokee
cat squirrels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cat squirrel
recategorisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recategorisation
setfasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of setfast
spousesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spousess
ball-busts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ball-bust
ball-busting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ball-bust
ball-busted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ball-bust
number closing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of number close
degenderisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of degenderization.
Sims tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sims test
postcoital tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postcoital test
hated on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hate on
Taunggyi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Burmese တောင်ကြီး (taungkri:).
Senses: glosses: A city in Myanmar.
glosses: A dialect of the Pa'O language.
combination tone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: combination tones
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: Tartini tone
glosses: The psychoacoustic phenomenon of an additional tone or tones being perceived when two real tones are sounded at the same time.
Related terms: Tartinian
atwinding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of atwind
combination tones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of combination tone
betwynding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of betwynde
againsaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of againsay
atstutting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of atstut
atgoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of atgo
atreaching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of atreach
atreding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of atrede
atriding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of atride
atrining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of atrine
sumi-e
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 墨絵.
Senses: glosses: Japanese ink wash painting
sumie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sumi-e (Japanese ink wash painting)
coinstaller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coinstallers
Etymology: From co- + installer.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: Microsoft Windows
glosses: A DLL that aids in the installation of a hardware device, chiefly by updating files.
coinstallers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coinstaller
defloat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: defloats
form: defloating
form: defloated
form: defloated
Etymology: From de- + float.
Senses: examples: text: Watch out for operations that defloat the selection. Deselecting the image defloats it, of course. You also defloat a selection if you clone it by Option-dragging, modify the selection outline by Shiftdragging, or enter the quick mask mode.
ref: 1995, Deke McClelland, Photoshop 3 for Macs for Dummies, →ISBN:
text: There are two ways you can defloat a selection, or cause it to merge with your image.
ref: 1999, Joshua Pruitt, Ramona Pruitt, SAMS Teach Yourself GIMP in 24 Hours, →ISBN, page 68:
text: To defloat a selection, press Ctrl+Shift+F or choose Selections➪Defloat.
ref: 2005, Paint Shop Pro 9 For Dummies, →ISBN, page 60:
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To cause (a visual element such as a tool palette) no longer to float over the rest of the application.
mine dial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mine dials
Senses: glosses: A miner's magnetic compass.
mine dials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mine dial
market gardener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: market gardeners
Etymology: From market garden + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who operates a market garden.
market gardeners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of market gardener
defloating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of defloat
defloats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of defloat
defloated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of defloat
Mbum-Day
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Belonging to a particular subgroup of the old Adamawa language family, provisionally now a branch of the Savanna languages, spoken in parts of Africa.
Mbum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An Adamawa language of Cameroon.
Derived terms: Mbum-Day
mind reading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mind-reading.
mind reading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of mind read
jostly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jostly
form: most jostly
Etymology: From jostle + -y.
Senses: examples: text: A jostly crowd made it difficult to reach the stage.
glosses: Tending to jostle; pushing and shoving.
McClain County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for Charles M. McClain, an Oklahoma constitutional convention attendee.
Senses: glosses: One of 77 counties in Oklahoma, United States. County seat: Purcell.
melon-headed whale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melon-headed whales
Senses: glosses: A cetacean of species Peponocephala electra.
melon-headed whales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melon-headed whale
Manhattanville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manhattan + -ville.
Senses: examples: text: Manhattanville College in Purchase, N. Y., has joined a small but growing [movement] back to the practice of awarding letter grades after a year's experiment with a nonletter system that was seen as a way of reducing the competitiveness and authoritarian quality of [letter] grading.
ref: 1973 June 2, Iver Peterson, “Campus Notes Grant Made for Study‐Incentive Plan”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A neighborhood of Manhattan, New York.
Manarola
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Manarola is the second-smallest of the famous Cinque Terre towns frequented by tourists.
glosses: A small town in Liguria, in northern Italy.
Manchurian hare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Manchurian hares
Senses: glosses: Lepus mandshuricus, a forest-dwelling hare found in northeastern China and Russia, the Amur River basin, and the higher mountains of northern Korea.
Manchurian hares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Manchurian hare
Manchurian apricot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Manchurian apricots
Senses: glosses: Prunus mandshurica, a tree native to northeast China, Korea, and Manchuria, with white or pink flowers and edible yellowish fruit.
glosses: The fruit of this tree.
Manchurian apricots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Manchurian apricot
mudminnow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mudminnows
Etymology: From mud + minnow.
Senses: glosses: Any member of the family Umbridae of ray-finned freshwater fish found in temperate regions across the Northern Hemisphere.
mudminnows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mudminnow
pits of stomachs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pit of the stomach
new normals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of new normal
manuscript papers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manuscript paper
effections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of effection
Panjabiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Panjabi + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Punjabiness.
Californianness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Californian + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or characteristic of being Californian.
areophysics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From areo- + physics.
Senses: glosses: The geophysics of Mars.
selenophysics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From seleno- + physics.
Senses: glosses: The geophysics of the Moon.
selenochemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From seleno- + chemistry.
Senses: glosses: The geochemistry of the Moon.
agarito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agaritos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of agarita.
air one's paunch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: airs one's paunch
form: airing one's paunch
form: aired one's paunch
form: aired one's paunch
Senses: examples: text: The grapes were so bitter I nearly aired my paunch.
ref: 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 36:
glosses: To vomit, to throw up.
Darwin Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The date of February 12, an annual celebration of the birth of Charles Darwin in 1809.
trehantiri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trehantiris
form: trehantiria
Etymology: Cognate with Greek τρεχαντήρι (trechantíri, “small watercraft”)
Senses: glosses: A Greek small, double-ended watercraft, chiefly used for fishing.
trehantiria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trehantiri
trehantiris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trehantiri
blanketflower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blanketflowers
form: blanket flower
Etymology: From blanket + flower.
Senses: examples: text: He was staring at something on the ground and then he reached over and pulled up one of the blanketflowers—we were sitting in a big patch.
ref: 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 47:
glosses: Gaillardia; a plant of the genus Gaillardia.
blanketflowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blanketflower
dauncy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dauncy
form: most dauncy
Etymology: From Scots donsie.
Senses: examples: text: I had a dauncy spell but no one heard me over the wind.
ref: 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 71:
glosses: Sick; delicate.
playa lake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playa lakes
Senses: examples: text: A few hours before sundown we camped at a small playa lake sunk beneath the level of the grass.
ref: 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 73:
glosses: A temporary lake formed after rainfall in a playa.
Synonyms: english: S. Africa
translation: S. Africa
word: pan
connubiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: connubiates
form: connubiating
form: connubiated
form: connubiated
Etymology: From Latin connūbium (“marriage”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Let it be Rome, Milan, Naples, Florence, Turin, Venice, or Switzerland, and ‘egad!’ (as Bayes saith,) I will connubiate and join you; and we will write a new ‘Inferno’ in our Paradise.
ref: 1814, Lord Byron, letter, 9 April
text: So much for the desire of these interesting creatures to—we don't say marry, because the word is not genteel, and is rather discountenanced at the college—but to connubiate.
ref: 1861, John Heiton, The Castes of Edinburgh, page 119:
text: I looked at her and hoped we might connubiate but she ignored me.
ref: 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 73:
glosses: To live together as man and wife; to marry; (loosely), to have relations.
grandacious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more grandacious
form: most grandacious
Senses: examples: text: Everyone was feeling grandacious, as if getting dressed for a night of beauing.
ref: 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 74:
glosses: Grand, magnificent.
rm.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rms.
form: rm's
form: rm
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of room.
Neředín
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Czech Neředín.
Senses: examples: text: […] the tropical setting and palms were replaced with decorations of a Northern landscape and greenery, reminding the audience of the apricot trees in the nearby village of Neředín.
ref: 2015, Jiří Kopecký, Lenka Křupková, Provincional Theater and Its Opera: German Opera Scene in Olomouc, 1770–1920, Olomouc: Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Palackého, page 292:
glosses: A former village, nowadays a quarter of the city of Olomouc.
ensynopticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Ability to talk with a general view of a subject. Ability to give a synopsis.
brew-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brew-ins
Senses: glosses: A social gathering where drinks, especially beer or coffee, are brewed
brew-ins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brew-in
tuberculotics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tuberculotic
exfill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exfills
Etymology: Clipping.
Senses: examples: text: Hinton and I were briefed at the TOC and received maps of our AO to memorize and mark with codes for the primary and secondary LZs for infill and exfill.
ref: 1991, John Leppelman, Blood on the risers: an airborne soldier's thirty-five months in Vietnam:
text: We needed supplies and fuel, and we needed to get an exfill platform in here to take the bodies out when the time came. The choppers wouldn't do. The bodies had to be taken back to Quito.
ref: 2010, S. B. Newman, The Night Eagles Soared, page 170:
text: Pedestrian infill/exfill from Atwater Street
ref: 2011, Brett Newman, Detroit Convention Center: A Design Process and Typological Study:
glosses: Alternative form of exfil (“exfiltration”).
exfill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: exfills
form: exfilling
form: exfilled
form: exfilled
Etymology: Clipping.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of exfil (“exfiltrate”).
knocking one down with a feather
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of knock one down with a feather (alternative form of knocking one over with a feather).
wolf-grey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wolf-greys
Etymology: From wolf + grey.
Senses: examples: text: His coat was the true wolf-grey, and to all appearances he was a true wolf himself.
ref: 1906 May–October, Jack London, chapter 6, in White Fang, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 3 (The Gods of the Wild), page 171:
glosses: A grey colour, as that of the fur of a wolf.
wolf-greys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wolf-grey
knocking one over with a feather
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knocking one down with a feather
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of knock one over with a feather.
wolf-mother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wolf-mothers
Senses: examples: text: A wolf-mother was not made to remember her cubs of a year or so before.
ref: 1906 May–October, Jack London, White Fang, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 3 (The Gods of the Wild), page 176:
glosses: A female wolf that has mothered or is mothering cubs.
wolf-mothers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wolf-mother
greater trochanter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greater trochanters
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An eminence on the proximal femur, below the head.
Related terms: lesser trochanter
lesser trochanter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lesser trochanters
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A small eminence on the proximal femur, below the greater trochanter.
Related terms: greater trochanter
keeps the wolf from the door
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of keep the wolf from the door
keeping the wolf from the door
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of keep the wolf from the door.
kept the wolf from the door
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of keep the wolf from the door.
shroves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shrove
shroved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shrove
EPB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EPBs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of electric park brake.
examples: text: Kaohsiung's Environmental Protection Bureau (EPB) said Friday that it will fine and pursue criminal charges against the renter of an industrial warehouse for allegedly ignoring demands to clean up an ethyl acrylate spill that spread an acrid odor over the city's Niaosong District the previous day.
ref: 2025 September 18, Hung Hsueh-kang, Hou Wen-ting, Matthew Mazzetta, “Kaohsiung authorities pledge firm response to chemical spill”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 25 Oct 2020, Society:
glosses: Initialism of Environmental Protection Bureau.
cocontinuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Commutative with small colimits; right-exact and transforming small direct sums into small direct sums.
raw_tags: of a functor
examples: text: Further, this structure is retained even during melt processing without loss of the interpenetrating cocontinuous structure.
ref: 1986, Donald R. Paul, Leslie Howard Sperling, Multicomponent polymer materials, page 43:
text: An example of cocontinuous phases in three dimensions is an air filter and the air that flows through it.
ref: 1987, Herman Francis Mark, Jacqueline I. Kroschwitz, Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Engineering:
text: Chapter 4 relates photomicrographs of thermoplastics/thermoplastics, thermoplastics/thermosets, and some selected thermoplastic vulcanizates in which the phase morphology is not particularly cocontinuous.
ref: 2009, Charef Harrats, Multiphase Polymer- Based Materials, →ISBN:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Blending two linear, amorphous polymers such that the phases interpenetrate.
atrinning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of atrin
atrenning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of atren
atsaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of atsake
atscaping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of atscape
atshaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of atshake
atshooting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of atshoot
atsitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of atsit
atsliking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of atslike
atslipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of atslip
atspringing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of atspring
atstanding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of atstand
atstunting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of atstunt
atwiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of atwite
overdreeping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overdreep
ballbust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ballbusts
form: ballbusting
form: ballbusted
form: ballbusted
Senses: examples: text: True, but since we seldom have total strangers who are ready to volunteer so graciously to deliberately "test" our dharmic equanimity, people we don't even know, who come at you out of nowhere and diagnose your mental state incorrectly, ballbust you nonstop, and gratuitously and egoistically decide that THEY are your teacher, it is a little bit of a surprise when that happens.
ref: 2003 July 4, Evelyn Ruut, “The bane of their lives”, in alt.zen (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative form of ball-bust.
ballbust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballbusts
Senses: glosses: An instance or act of ballbusting
connubiating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of connubiate
bebarking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bebark
bebanging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bebang
bebarring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bebar
bebaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bebay
bebeasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bebeast
bepuzzling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bepuzzle
betining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of betine
bewatering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bewater
bewinging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bewing
beblasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beblast
bebleeding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bebleed
bebloodying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bebloody
beblinding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beblind
beblistering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beblister
beblotting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beblot
beblowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beblow
beblubbering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beblubber
Daodejing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Daodejing
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tao Te Ching.
Dao De Jing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Dao De Jing
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tao Te Ching.
bebreaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bebreak
beburying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bebury
bebusying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bebusy
becaring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of becare
becarving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of becarve
becasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of becast
costening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of costen
becatching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of becatch
bechatting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bechat
bechilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bechill
beclamming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beclam
beclapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beclap
beclarting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beclart
beclawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beclaw
becleping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beclepe
beclosing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beclose
unball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unballs
form: unballing
form: unballed
form: unballed
Etymology: From un- + ball.
Senses: glosses: To release (the fists, etc.) from a balled shape.
examples: text: And just like he unballed, my multilingual hedgehog pal balls right back up into the safety of his disguise.
ref: 2014, Chris Lynch, Cyberia:
glosses: To recover one's original shape from a balled stance.
unballs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unball
unballing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unball
unballed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unball
Gedera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gdera
Senses: glosses: A small town in Israel.
take to the bank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes to the bank
form: taking to the bank
form: took to the bank
form: taken to the bank
Senses: examples: text: "You can take that to the bank," Davis said. "It's etched in stone."
ref: 2001 June 24, “News from the National League: Davis to retire”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 08 Mar 2017:
text: He said that is a promise that Ms. Smith and her lawyers "can take to the bank."
ref: 2006 May 1, David Stout, “Anna Nicole Smith Wins Supreme Court Case”, in New York Times, retrieved 08 Mar 2017:
text: You can take it to the bank that the CIA knows all of this.
ref: 2009 October 28, Robert Baer, “Why the CIA Can't Be Picky About Afghan Partners”, in Time, retrieved 08 Mar 2017:
glosses: To utterly trust, believe, or rely on.
Related terms: bank on
take someone's word for it
blanqueamiento
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish blanqueamiento.
Senses: examples: text: Indigenous cultural differences were erased within a Mexican identity defined by the mixed bloodline of Spanish and Indian mestizaje that praised the eventual blanqueamiento of the mestize race.
ref: 2022 October 12, José Rivers Alfaro, Something More Splendid Than Two, punctum books, →ISBN, page 84:
glosses: The process of becoming or making (racially) white, such as increasing the white population of a region, encouraging interracial marriage with white people, or enforcing white cultural norms on a population.
Coordinate terms: whitewashing
Akathistos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Akathistoi
form: Acathistos
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: An Orthodox, Byzantine hymn sung during Lent.
Acathistos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Acathistoi
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Akathistos.
epicly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of epically.
camote cue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camote cues
Etymology: From camote + 'cue.
Senses: glosses: A Philippine snack made by coating deep-fried slices of sweet potato in caramelized brown sugar.
Related terms: banana cue
water milfoil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any of several submerged aquatic plants of the genus Myriophyllum.
neoreality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neorealities
Etymology: From neo- + reality.
Senses: glosses: A substitute for reality.
nageant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Synonym of naiant (“swimming”).
synonyms: word: naiant
extra: swimming
nigelline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An alkaloid found in nigella seeds
Romeyka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Greek Ρωμαίικα (Romaíika), from Byzantine Greek ρωμαίικος (rōmaíikos, “Roman; Byzantine”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The most conservative dialect of Greek, spoken in Turkey.
taco nigger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taco niggers
Etymology: From taco + nigger.
Senses: glosses: A Mexican or anybody who resembles one.
anti-good
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anti-good
form: most anti-good
form: antigood
Etymology: From anti- + good.
Senses: glosses: Opposed to good.
humanpower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of manpower.
synonyms: word: manpower
triangulene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triangulenes
Etymology: From triangular + -ene (“benzenoid/graphene”). From being a triangle composed of benzene rings.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A flat hydrocarbon graphene fragment, C₂₂H₁₂, composed of six fused benzene rings in a triangular configuration; being a radical having two unpaired electrons.
glosses: The functional group composed of such a structure, an unsubstituted triangulene.
glosses: A compound incorporating the functional group, a substituted triangulene.
Synonyms: 4H,8H-dibenzo(cd,mn)pyren-4,8-diyl
Hypernyms: C22H12
Derived terms: alt: molecular triangulene, C22H14
word: dihydrotriangulene
word: triangulenium
gorbellied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gorbellied
form: most gorbellied
form: gorrel-bellied
Etymology: From gorbelly + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: O, 'tis an unconscionable vast gorbellied volume, bigger bulked than a Dutch hoy, & far more boisterous and cumbersome than a pair of Swissers' omnipotent galiass-breeches.
ref: 1596, Thomas Nashe, Have with You to Saffron-Walden:
text: Hang ye, gorbellied knaves, are ye undone? / No, ye fat chuffs I would your store were here!
ref: a. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, act 2, scene 2:
text: Some of your gorbellied country chuffes have cast themselves into their frieze jerkins, with great tin buttons silver'd o'r.
ref: 1618, Barten Holyday, Technogamia:
text: "Get tha gone out on't, tha gurt guttling gor-bellied mazy-jack!" she observed acrimoniously.
ref: 1876, Oliver Madox-Brown, The Dwale Bluth:
glosses: having a gorbelly; fat; potbellied
Synonyms: overweight
ice dragon boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice dragon boats
Etymology: From ice + dragon boat.
Senses: glosses: A modified dragon boat mounted on two bogies, one at the front and at the back, each with side-by-side pairs of ice skate blades as runners, and a tiller able to rotate the rear bogie. It runs on top of ice and is propelled by rowers with spiked sticks in place of oars.
Related terms: ice dragon boating
dragon boating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dragon boat + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The watersport of rowing dragon boats.
Derived terms: ice dragon boating
ice dragon boating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ice + dragon boat + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The winter sport of sledging ice dragon boats on an ice course
Related terms: dragon boating
ice dragon boat
port tong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: port tongs
Etymology: From port (“type of wine”) + tong.
Senses: glosses: A tong / pair of tongs, used to open wine bottles (especially old bottles of port) with heat stress fracturing. The tongs are designed to be heated red hot, then applied to the neck of the bottle, for which the tongue is shaped to fit around, heating the glass.
Related terms: english: the action of opening a wine bottle with port tongs
translation: the action of opening a wine bottle with port tongs
word: tonging
word: sabrage
death-struggle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: death-struggles
Senses: examples: text: "It will cure him if he be not dead. Swift, now! Swift! The man dies!" I glanced towards him; it was true enough, Leo was in his death-struggle.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: There was a death-struggle, during which White Fang walked around, stiff-legged and observant.
ref: 1906 May–October, Jack London, White Fang, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 3 (The Gods of the Wild), page 182:
glosses: The final throes of bodily effort before dying; agony; death throes.
death-struggles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of death-struggle
hulusi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The hulusi, also known as a poleweng, baihongliao or bilangdao, is a two or three pipe free reed from southern China played by the Dai, A'chang, De'ang and Wa people.
ref: 2010, Randy Raine-Reusch, Play the World: The 101 World Instrument Primer, page 68:
glosses: A wind instrument from China and the Shan State.
Synonyms: cucurbit flute
gorbelly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gorbellies
Etymology: UK 16th century. Possibly gore + belly or gormand + belly. Compare Swedish går-bälg.
Senses: glosses: A large, protruding belly.
examples: text: The belching gorbelly hath well nigh killed me.
ref: a. 1607, Thomas Tomkis, Lingua, or, The Combat of the Tongue and the Five Senses for Superiority, act 5, scene 5:
text: To be briefe with him, he is a pestilence to pasties, which sweepeth many of them sheere away; a consumption to capons, chickins, and other poultry; a sepulchre to seafish and others in ponds, moates and rivers; a sharp sheepe-biter, and a marveilous mutton monger, a gorbelly glutton.
ref: 1638, Francis Godwin, The Man in the Moone:
text: "You girt vlat-vooted, gorbelly, stunpole, Zolomon Moggridge," he yelled, louder and louder with each word, "you've a-squot I so vlat as a dough-fig."
ref: 1898, Walter Raymond, Two Men O' Mendip:
glosses: A person with such a belly.
Synonyms: sense: large belly
word: paunch
word: fat person
raw_tags: with large belly
Derived terms: gorbellied
gorbellies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gorbelly
-ennial
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Latin -enniālis, from annus + -ium + -ālis.
Senses: glosses: Combining form denoting years.
Related terms: annual
gorrel-bellied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gorrel-bellied
form: most gorrel-bellied
Senses: examples: text: Mercurye the nimble poſt of heaven, / Stood ſtill to ſee the quarrell; / Gorrel-bellyed Bacchus, gyant-like, / Beſtryd a ſtrong-beere barrell.
ref: 1765, Thomas Percy, compiler, “Old Tom of Bedlam: Mad Song the First”, in Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: […], volume II, London: […] J[ames] Dodsley […], →OCLC, book III, page 345, lines 37–40:
glosses: Alternative form of gorbellied.
port tongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of port tong
co-direction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-directions
Senses: examples: text: The co-direction of the "Rehabilitation of the Paute Area" Project dedicated some months to the selection of technical and administrative personnel, through careful evaluation of the applications, interviews and technical examinations.
ref: 2002, Robin G. McInnes, Jenny Jakeways, Instability: Planning and Management, →ISBN:
text: The co-direction from 2001 illustrates how complementary characters can lead to a very powerful development of the 'span of innovation'.
ref: 2007, J. M. Ulijn, Dominique Drillon, Frank Lasch, Entrepreneurship, Cooperation and the Firm, →ISBN:
text: He recently obtained a doctorate degree under the direction of Dr. Yves Tremblay and the co-direction of Dr. Pierre Provost and Dr. Bruno Piedboeuf and was dedicated to the study of the action of androgens and glucocorticoids on fetal and neonatal lung development.
ref: 2013, Yves Tremblay, Eric Boucher, Marc Simard, Influence of Prematurity and Sex on the Health of a Child, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of codirection.
white-footed mouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white-footed mice
Senses: glosses: An American rodent of species Peromyscus leucopus, a reservoir for Borrelia burgdorferi, the cause of Lyme disease.
Related terms: deer mouse
ballbusts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ballbust
fruitens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fruiten
mirkens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mirken
neshens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of neshen
swartens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of swarten
lovelifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lovelify
monoamory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monamory
Etymology: Attested since at least 1992, from mono- + Latin amor + -y, possibly modelled on polyamory.
Senses: glosses: Practice of involving romantic or sexual relationship with a single partner at a time. (especially as contrasted with polyamory).
secondary literature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: secondary source
Fred Astaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Actor and singer known for his dancing
Senses: examples: text: "Give us a dance, luv. I'm told I'm quite the Fred Astaire."
ref: 2011, Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever: Fever, page 295:
glosses: An outstanding dancer.
tuckermanity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tuckermanities
Etymology: Coined in or around 1848 by Edgar Alan Poe as tuckermanities (see quote below) from the name of Henry Theodore Tuckerman, an American author, plus -ity. Compare humanities.
Senses: examples: text: The general tuckermanities are arrant / Bubbles — ephemeral and so transparent
ref: 1850, Edgar Alan Poe, “An Enigma”, in The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, New York: J.S. Redfield, →OCLC, page 26:
text: From his comments on Henry T. Tuckerman, his source for the word “Tuckermanities,” it is manifest that Poe never had any respect for his work.
ref: 1940, Joseph Lee Vaughan, The literary opinions of Edgar Allan Poe, PhD thesis, University of Virginia, page 501:
text: Also in 1852 came Henry T. Tuckerman's school manual "Sketch of American Literature" appended to Shaw's Outline of American Literature. Written in the starch-collared prose that gave rise to the term Tuckermanity, the sketch was an old-fashioned blend of literary history and moral precept
ref: 1986, Kermit Vanderbilt, American Literature and the Academy, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 91:
text: Some wag coined the word "tuckermanity," formed on his [Henry Theodore Tuckerman's] name and on the analogy of "humanity," and meaning excessive propriety and conventionality in the literary treatment of love.
ref: 1990, Robert Hendrickson, American Literary Anecdotes, New York: Facts On File, →ISBN, page 223:
glosses: Poetry or literature, especially that which is excessively proper or moralist; literature by or in the style of Henry T. Tuckerman.
wikipedia: Edgar Alan Poe
Henry Theodore Tuckerman
tuckermanities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tuckermanity
creepage distance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creepage distances
Senses: glosses: The shortest distance along a solid insulation surface between two conductive parts.
Iga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːɡə/
enpr: ē􂀽'gə
rhymes: -iːɡə
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 伊賀 (Iga).
Senses: glosses: An ancient province of Japan, in modern Mie Prefecture.
glosses: A city in Mie Prefecture, central Japan.
left-justified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Of text, laid out so that the left ends of lines are vertically aligned, leaving the right ends unaligned.
Synonyms: ragged-right
ragged right
flush left
Coordinate terms: right-justified