cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
rain shower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rain showers
form: rainshower
form: rain-shower
Etymology: From Middle English, from Old English reġnscūr, from Proto-Germanic *regnaskūrō. Equivalent to rain + shower. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Rienskuur and Icelandic regnskúr.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
weather
glosses: A short, mild period of rainfall.
examples: text: The hotel suites include bidets and rain showers.
glosses: A luxurious shower unit that provides a wide cascade of water similar to a rainstorm.
absolute blocking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.səˌlut ˈblɑk.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˌæb.səˈljut ˈblɑk.ɪŋ/
Forms: form: block system
Senses: qualifier: railway
glosses: A system of managing trains that breaks the line into small segments, and if a train is in a segment, no other train may follow, unless the second train is following the first, with caution.
absolute constant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.səˌlut ˈkɑn.stn̩t/
ipa: /ˌæb.səˈljut ˈkɑn.stn̩t/
Forms: form: absolute constants
Senses: examples: text: Korenblum conjectured that there is an absolute constant c#92;in(0,1), such that whenever #124;f(z)#124;#92;leqslant#124;g(z)#124; (f,g#92;inA²(D)) in the annulus clt;#124;z#124;lt;1, then #124;#124;f#124;#124;#92;leqslant#124;#124;g#124;#124;.
ref: 2004, Chunjie Wang, “On Korenblum's constant”, in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, volume 296, number 1, Elsevier, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 262–264:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A constant that maintains the same value wherever it occurs; such as π.
examples: text: Play is an absolute constant in education from birth until full maturity; and it is a very valuable aid in manhood and down to old age.
ref: 1907, William Estabrook Chancellor, A Theory of Motives, Ideals, and Values in Education, Houghton, Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 424:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see absolute, constant.
absolute constants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absolute constant
absolute ego
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.səˌlut ˈi.ɡoʊ/
ipa: /ˌæb.səˈljut ˈi.ɡoʊ/
Forms: form: absolute egos
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The Fichtean ego that posits its own existence and through the opposition of subject and object thus created dialectically evolves the universe.
absolute egos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absolute ego
absolute endorsement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.səˌlut ɜnˈdɔɹs.mn̩t/
ipa: /ˌæb.səˈljut ɜnˈdɔɹs.mn̩t/
Forms: form: absolute endorsements
Senses: glosses: An endorsement that is binding only if and when the original endorsee fails to meet the terms.
absolute endorsements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absolute endorsement
absolute fee simple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.səˌlut fi ˈsɪm.pl̩/
ipa: /ˌæb.səˈljut fi ˈsɪm.pl̩/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fee simple absolute
absolute form
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.səˌlut fɔɹm/
ipa: /ˌæb.səˈljut fɔɹm/
Forms: form: absolute forms
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The Platonic form of the supreme idea in which all other ideas participate.
glosses: The subject object relation.
absolute forms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absolute form
trail bike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trail bikes
Senses: examples: text: Mr Smith mounts his Yamaha 400cc trail bike for the three-minute journey to his boat.
ref: 1999 August 7, Robert Fisk, “Week in the Life: Patrick Smith, Beirut grocer”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 14 Jul 2012:
text: The road I traveled is all but impassable to motorized vehicles, excepting a trail bike driven by someone who knows how to negotiate mammoth mudholes.
ref: 2001 August 12, “A Black Mud From Africa Helps Power the New Economy”, in New York Times, retrieved 14 Jul 2012:
text: To get in shape for bicycle races, he pedals his trail bike up 2600-ft. Mount Tamalpais, near his home.
ref: 2005 April 18, “Sweat Stocks: Are brokers better on bikes?”, in Time:
glosses: A bicycle or motorcycle which is designed and used for off-road travel on rugged or inclined surfaces.
Synonyms: dirt bike
mountain bike
off-road bike
off-road bike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: off-road bikes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of trail bike.
synonyms: word: trail bike
hop hornbeam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hop hornbeams
form: hophornbeam
Etymology: From the resemblance of the fruit to hops. See hornbeam.
Senses: glosses: A tree of the species Ostrya virginiana (American hophornbeam).
glosses: Its wood.
meat puppets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meat puppet
hop hornbeams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hop hornbeam
cross bore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross bores
Senses: glosses: The intersection of an existing underground utility or underground structure by a second utility, resulting in direct contact between the transactions of the utilities that compromises the integrity of either utility or underground structure.
absolute idealism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.səˌlut/
ipa: /ˌæb.səˈljut/
ipa: /aɪˈdi.əˌlɪz.m̩/
ipa: /aɪˈdɪ.əˌlɪz.m̩/
Forms: form: absolute idealisms
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A philosophy originally developed by certain German idealists such as Hegel and Schelling, which affirms that reality is grounded in cognition as a single, fundamental and unlimited principle of being that unites subject and object.
absolute idealisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absolute idealism
absolute impediment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.səˌlut ɪmˈpɜd.ə.mn̩t/
ipa: /ˌæb.səˈljut ɪmˈpɜd.ə.mn̩t/
Forms: form: absolute impediments
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A diriment impediment that prevents a person from marrying, but does not require punishment or an annulment.
absolute impediments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absolute impediment
Proto-Malayic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From proto- + Malayic.
Senses: glosses: A proposed common ancestor to the group of Malayic languages.
Proto-Malayic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From proto- + Malayic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the aforementioned proto-language.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Proto-Malayic terms
absolutely convergent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæb.səˈlut.li kənˈvɚ.d͡ʒn̩t/
ipa: /ˈæb.səˌlut.li kənˈvɚ.d͡ʒn̩t/
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of an infinite series, convergent even if the absolute value is taken of each term; a stronger condition than ordinary convergence.
Related terms: absolute convergence
conditionally convergent
Greek cross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Greek crosses
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A cross with orthogonal arms of equal length.
absolute majorities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absolute majority
benippled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + nippled.
Senses: examples: text: Not infrequently ... mucosa, the "surface mamelonnee," or benippled surface, is most pronounced near the pylorus.
ref: 1902, International clinics:
text: I've been benippled for a few years now, little mother. I tell you, I have grown everything a woman needs.
ref: 1997, Ann Marie Rasmussen, Mothers and Daughters in Medieval German Literature:
glosses: Having nipples; covered with nipples.
arthrotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arthrotomies
Etymology: From arthro- + -tomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical incision of a joint.
Derived terms: arthrotomic
arthrotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arthrotomy
rack jobber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rack jobbers
Senses: examples: text: The drug store had a small rotating rack filled with paperback books provided by a rack jobber.
text: Subdistributors called rack jobbers buy CDs, DVDs, and music merchandise from wholesale distributors and lease shelf space in drugstores, bookstores, department stores, and other retailers whose primary businesses are not selling music.
ref: 2011, Martha Maeda, How to Open & Operate a Financially Successful Independent Record Label:
topics: business
glosses: A wholesaler who merchandises goods on racks in retail shops.
fuck nugget
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuck nuggets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fucknugget.
Vicar of Christ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Vicars of Christ
form: Vicar of Jesus Christ
Etymology: Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin vicārius Christī.
Senses: examples: text: "We should never have had the law of 1571, against bulls, and Agnus Deis, and blessed grains, if the Pope's bull of 1569 had not made them matter of treason."
"What, sir?" almost roared Parsons, "do you dare to speak evil of the edicts of the Vicar of Christ?"
ref: 1855, Charles Kingsley, chapter 4, in Westward Ho!:
text: [I]n the spacious ceremonial library of the 16th century Apostolic Palace, the czar of world atheism, Mikhail Gorbachev, will visit the Vicar of Christ, Pope John Paul II.
ref: 1989 December 4, Richard N. Ostling et al., “Religion: Cross Meets Kremlin—Gorbachev and Pope John Paul II”, in Time:
text: Not since 1522, when a Dutch theologian was elected Pope Adrian VI, had a non-Italian attained the role of Vicar of Christ.
ref: 2004 January 11, Roberto Pazzi, “Why the Next Pope Needs to Be Italian”, in New York Times:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: The Pope.
examples: text: Grant, then, . . . that the Holy Ghost had no such respect to any one (church) as to lead it into truth, although sent with this view by Christ, and for this asked of the Father that He might be the teacher of truth; grant, also, that He, the Steward of God, the Vicar of Christ, neglected His office . . .
ref: 1885, Tertullian, chapter XXVIII, in Peter Holmes, transl., Prescription against Heretics:
topics: Christianity
lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The Holy Ghost.
yearhundred
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yearhundreds
form: year-hundred
form: year hundred
Etymology: From year + hundred. Calque of German Jahrhundert (“century”), from Jahr (“year”) + Hundert (“hundred”). Compare Scots yeirhunder, Saterland Frisian Jierhunnert, German Jahrhundert, Danish århundrede, Swedish århundrade, Norwegian århundre, all meaning “century” and being composed of the cognates (sisterwords) of English year and hundred.
Senses: examples: text: My oldest specimen is Danish, an "overgang"-stone (bearing Old-Northern as well as Scandinavian runes) from about the first half of the 9th century. The runic examples thus run down from the 9th to the 14th yearhundred.
ref: 1878, Carl Säve, Some runic stones in Northern Sweden:
text: It may have been copied from the Northern Baldor myth, for Gothic arms and arts had been known for many centuries in the East and West in the 6th yearhundred, and Greek-writing heretics and bookmakers copied from all quarters.
ref: 1883, George Stephens, Prof. S. Bugge's studies on Northern mythology shortly examined:
text: Are we thereby to date also St. Peter and St. Paul, St. Stephen and St. James in the Third Century, the Fourth and still posthumous Yearhundreds of the Christian era?
ref: 1914, Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, Volume 25
text: And this last, is it from out today's times forgettinghood or our much to be bewailed speechshapelearningness's unwisdomship, is to a nineteenth yearhundred period's togethergatheringreceivingsaloon sad un-befitted.
ref: 1983, Michael Cox, M.R. James, an informal portrait:
text: On the territory of Estonia three main educational ideologies can be differentiated during the yearhundred concerned: religious-lutheran, strict disciplinarianism and the one orientated to nationalism and education.
ref: 1996, Eesti NSV Riiklik Etnograafiamuuseum, Eesti Rahva Muuseum, Eesti Rahva Muuseumi aastaraamat:
holonyms: yearthousand
glosses: century (a hundred-year timespan)
vicar of Christ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vicars of Christ
Etymology: From the Latin vicarius Christi.
Senses: examples: text: Bishops, as vicars and ambassadors of Christ, govern the particular churches entrusted to them by their counsel, exhortations, example, and even by their authority and sacred power...
ref: 1964, Pope Paul VI, Lumen Gentium, III. xxvii:
topics: Christianity
glosses: Any bishop.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Vicar of Christ, a title variously granted to the Holy Ghost and to the bishop of Rome.
yearhundreds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yearhundred
gravestead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gravesteads
Etymology: From grave + stead.
Senses: examples: text: And that's why the wild flowers cluster On his gravestead — there — so thick!
ref: 1886, Two tramps, Low down: wayside thoughts in ballad and other verse:
glosses: The place where a grave or graves are located; a grave; a burial ground; cemetery.
Curry-Howard correspondence
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: Gerhard Gentzen's calculus of natural deduction is the first formalism of structural proof theory, and is the cornerstone of the Curry-Howard correspondence relating logic to functional programming.ᵂᴾ
glosses: A thesis which claims the existence of an analogy or correspondence between — on the one hand — constructive mathematical proofs and programs (especially functions of a typed functional programming language), and — on the other hand — between formulae (proven by the aforementioned proofs) and types (of the aforementioned functions).
Synonyms: Curry-Howard isomorphism
little brown job
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: little brown jobs
Senses: topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: One of any number of small, nondescript, sparrow-like bird species that are very hard to tell apart.
Synonyms: LBJ
Related terms: DYC
LBM
little brown jobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of little brown job
asepticize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: asepticizes
form: asepticizing
form: asepticized
form: asepticized
Etymology: From aseptic + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To render aseptic; to sterilize; to cleanse of pathogenic materials.
asepticizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of asepticize
asepticizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of asepticize
asepticized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of asepticize
Axin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A large docking protein that in humans is encoded by the AXIN1 gene, and that binds APC, GSK-3β, casein kinase Iα, and β-catenin.
seat only
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: A package holiday rate without confirmed accommodation reservations, or using a dummy reservation, enabling the tour operator to sell charter airline seats in competition with the airlines.
Related terms: accommodation on arrival
back to back ticket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back to back tickets
Senses: topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: Any of a series of airline tickets, issued with overlapping travel dates, used to circumvent airfare minimum stay requirements.
whosit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhuːz.ɪt/
Forms: form: whosits
form: whoozit
Etymology: From who's it?
Senses: synonyms: word: see Category:English placeholder terms
word: Sorted by number of Google hits
word: widget
word: hickey
word: gizmo
word: thingy
word: gimmick
word: thingie
word: jigger
word: gismo
word: gubbins
word: whatsit
word: thingamajig
word: doodad
word: whatchamacallit
word: doohickey
word: thingo
word: thingamabob
word: thingummy
word: whatsis
word: thingumajig
word: thingumabob
word: whatchacallit
word: Sorted alphabetically
word: affair
word: bazinga
word: bizzo
word: dealie
word: dealy
word: dinglehopper
word: dingus
word: dohickey
word: dojigger
word: dongle
word: doo-hickey
word: doober
word: doodah
word: doofer
word: doohickus
word: doohinkey
word: doohinkus
word: doojigger
word: doovalacky
word: foobar
word: foo
word: frammis
word: frobnitz
word: gadget
word: geegaw
word: gewgaw
word: gingambob
word: gingumbob
word: hodad
word: hootenanny
word: jawn
word: jimbang
word: jobber
word: jobby
word: joint
word: junk
word: kajigger
word: kludge
word: MacGuffin
word: oojamaflip
word: rigamajig
word: shebang
word: stuff
word: thingabob
word: thingamabobber
word: thingamafuck
word: thingamajigger
word: thingamajiggy
word: thingmabob
word: thingmajig
word: thingmy
word: thingummabob
word: thingummajig
word: thingummyjig
word: thingum
word: thingymabob
word: thingymajig
word: thing
word: ting
word: whachacallit
word: whachamacallit
word: whaddayacallit
word: whatchamahoozie
word: whatdyecallem
word: whatdoyoucallit
word: whatnot
word: whatsaname
word: whatsitsname
word: whiff-whaff
word: whosiewhatsit
word: whosit
word: wossisname
word: wossname
word: wotsit
word: yoke
word: yokibus
glosses: A thing (used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall or is embarrassed to say)
synonyms: word: see Category:English placeholder terms
word: thingamabob
word: thingamafuck
word: thingum
word: thingummy
word: whatsisname
word: whatshisname
word: whasisname
word: whatshername
word: whatshisface
word: so-and-so
word: you-know-who
word: Tom
word: Dick and Harry
word: Fred Bloggs
word: Joe Bloggs
word: Joe Soap
word: Fred
word: Joe Public
word: A.N. Other
word: Joe Blow
word: Joe Schmoe
word: John Doe
word: Jane Doe
word: John Q. Public
word: John Smith
word: Joneses
word: dat fella
word: yer man
word: yer one
word: himself
word: herself
word: Jimmy
word: Lord Muck
word: Lady Muck
word: Frick and Frack
word: Grandma
word: Grandpa
word: Tommy Atkins
word: Joe Random
word: Joe Average
word: Joe Sixpack
word: Jane Sixpack
word: John Citizen
word: Whosis
glosses: A specific person (used in a vague way to refer to someone whose name one cannot recall)
cross-border ticket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-border tickets
Senses: topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: A multi-sector airline ticket, issued for travel from a place that the passenger does not intend to fly from, in order to get a lower fare.
Related terms: back to back ticket
absolute personal equation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.səˌlut pɚˈsə.nl̩ iˈkweɪ.ʒn̩/
ipa: /ˌæb.səˈljut pɚˈsə.nl̩ iˈkweɪ.ʒn̩/
Forms: form: absolute personal equations
Senses: glosses: The difference between an observed value and a standard value assumed as true.
absolute personal equations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absolute personal equation
absolute pressure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.səˌlut ˈpɹɜ.ʃɚ/
ipa: /ˌæb.səˈljut ˈpɹɜ.ʃɚ/
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Total pressure in a fluid equivalent to the sum of the gage and the atmospheric pressures.
absolute privilege
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.səˌlut ˈpɹɪv.l̩.ɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˌæb.səˈljut ˈpɹɪv.l̩.ɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: absolute privileges
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A privilege given to lawmakers to prevent them from being sued for libel or slander due to statements made on the floor, regardless of whether they were made in good faith.
absolute privileges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absolute privilege
absolute reality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.səˌlut ɹiˈæl.ə.ti/
ipa: /ˌæb.səˈljut ɹiˈæl.ə.ti/
Forms: form: absolute realities
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Ultimate reality, as is unaffected by the beliefs or limitations of any finite being.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Reality in relation to the divine mind.
absolute realities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absolute reality
absolute right
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.səˌlut ɹaɪt/
ipa: /ˌæb.səˈljut ɹaɪt/
Forms: form: absolute rights
Senses: glosses: An unqualified right; a right to act or refuse to act that is at the sole discretion of the person possessing the right.
Related terms: civil right
fundamental right
human right
natural right
neuroright
absolute rights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absolute right
absolute state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.səˌlut steɪt/
ipa: /ˌæb.səˈljut steɪt/
Forms: form: absolute states
Etymology: Calque of Latin status absolūtus.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In Semitic languages, the condition of a noun not being grammatically linked to another noun – where it would use the construct state.
To sum the indeterminate state and the determinate state in one term.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In Semitic languages, the condition of a noun not being grammatically linked to another noun – where it would use the construct state.
To denote the only state not construct state as in the binary state system of Ugaritic.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In Semitic languages, the condition of a noun not being grammatically linked to another noun – where it would use the construct state.
Denotes the indeterminate state in Aramaic, even though it also has a determinate state called emphatic state.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In Semitic languages, the condition of a noun not being grammatically linked to another noun – where it would use the construct state.
Denotes an infrequent endingless state in Akkadian used for predicative sentences, adverbially used nouns and vocative expressions (in which cases Arabic would use the accusative case), contrasting with the governed state and the construct state.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In Egyptian, including Coptic, a form of a verb necessitated by its regimen if this does not require the nominal state or pronominal state.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: status absolutus
free state
unbound state
antonyms: annexed state
bound state
glosses: In Berber languages, an unmarked form and hence citation form of a noun similar to the absolutive of ergative languages, varying in usage cases per specific language but generally described as used for topicalized subjects of sentences – default word order being VSO –, nominal predicates and direct objects.
absolute state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.səˌlut steɪt/
ipa: /ˌæb.səˈljut steɪt/
Forms: form: absolute states
Etymology: Compound of absolute + state.
Senses: examples: text: In France, where originally the king had only a very small estate, no power, and no army except his personal followers, the absolute state did not exist before the sixteenth century; for the French parliaments were still powerful in the fourteenth century, as we see by their records.
ref: 1898, Henry Gaullieur, The Paternal State in France and Germany, Harper & brothers, page 45:
text: The theory of sovereignty was an invaluable weapon in the hands of the monarch in his contest with the other claimants to authority; it gave a theoretical foundation for the emerging national absolute state, and it clearly forecast the line that political evolution was to follow.
ref: 1922, Hugo Krabbe, The Modern Idea of the State, M. Nijhoff, page xix:
text: The truly absolute state, organized without regard for privilege and tradition, disposing over the property and life of all its subjects according to its own interests, was established not under the monarchies, but by the modern democracies.
ref: 1968, Gerhard Ritter, Frederick the Great: a Historical Profile, University of California Press, page 2:
text: Roman Law recognized the absolute state and the individual's private rights; it did not acknowledge the legal inviolability of group life.
ref: 1991, Jacques Kornberg, “Dilthey's Introduction to the Human Sciences: Liberal Social Thought in the Second Reich”, in In the Presence of the Past: Essays in Honor of Frank Manuel, Springer Science+Business Media, page 258:
text: Tribal states, which existed for instance in early medieval European society, differed from the absolute state which developed since the late Middle Ages and had its zenith in the absolute monarchies of the seventeenth century.
ref: 1999, Henk van Dijk, “State Borders in Geography and History”, in Nationalising and Denationalising European Border Regions, Springer Science+Business Media, page 21:
text: Although several subsidiary subjects have been touched upon, the central problem throughout has been to explain the rapid creation of a centralized, absolute state after the Meiji Restoration (1868), and the growth of an industrial economy under conditions of state patronage and control.
ref: 2000, E. Herbert Norman, Japan's Emergence as a Modern State: Political and Economic Problems of the Meiji Period, University of British Columbia Press, page 3:
glosses: A state with absolute sovereignty and authority, in contrast with e.g. a feudal state.
absolute state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.səˌlut steɪt/
ipa: /ˌæb.səˈljut steɪt/
Forms: form: absolute states
Etymology: From state as used in phrases such as look at the state of you, with the intensifier absolute.
Senses: examples: text: The absolute state of the West
text: When he came in from the rain he was in an absolute state.
text: The absolute state of you, Downey, you utter twonk. Like you have anything to do with the outcome of the bloody match! You need to confine this superstition malarkey to a flaming skip.
ref: 2015 February 11, Trev Downey, “Reasons to Believe”, in The Liverpool Offside:
text: Just like mum used to make – without the lecture at the absolute state of you!
ref: 2016 December 30, Meher Mirza, “The Essential Guide To Combating A Hangover In Mumbai”, in The City Story, archived from the original on 24 Jun 2017:
text: The absolute state of you! How did you get that dirty that quickly?
ref: 2017 August 3, Oliver Astley, “The beautiful baby snow leopards which are now at Twycross Zoo”, in DerbyshireLive, the online edition of the Derby Telegraph:
glosses: A particularly dishevelled, sorry or contemptible condition.
absolute states
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absolute state
Durian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of San Fernando, Bukidnon, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Las Nieves, Agusan del Norte, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Picong, Lanao del Sur, Philippines.
absolute system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.səˌlut ˈsɪs.tm̩/
ipa: /ˌæb.səˈljut ˈsɪs.tm̩/
Senses: glosses: The system of measurements based on force, and independent of acceleration of gravity.
absolute term
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.səˌlut tɚm/
ipa: /ˌæb.səˈljut tɚm/
Forms: form: absolute terms
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The constant in a polynomial.
absolute terms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absolute term
absolute threshold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.səˌlut/
ipa: /ˌæb.səˈljut/
ipa: /ˈθɹɜʃ.hoʊld/
ipa: /ˈθɹɜʃ.oʊld/
Forms: form: absolute thresholds
Senses: glosses: The smallest amount of stimulus that can be responded to.
absolute thresholds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absolute threshold
absolute weight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.səˌlut weɪt/
ipa: /ˌæb.səˈljut weɪt/
Forms: form: absolute weights
Senses: glosses: The weight of a specific number of seeds, used to find the average weight of a single seed.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see absolute, weight.
absolute weights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absolute weight
refidexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of refidex
summary offence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: summary offences
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A crime in some common law jurisdictions that can be proceeded against summarily, without the right to a jury trial and/or indictment, as required for an indictable offence.
Refugee Regattas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Refugee Regatta
bound variables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bound variable
fly-tipping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flytipping
Etymology: From the verb tip (“to dump (refuse)”), and on the fly (“spontaneously or extemporaneously”).
Senses: examples: text: Ten tonnes of rubbish have been removed by Network Rail from a trackside fly-tipping hotspot north of the station.
ref: 2021 June 16, Howard Johnston, “Regional News: Eastern: Hartlepool”, in RAIL, number 933, page 26:
glosses: The illegal dumping of rubbish on unauthorised sites.
Related terms: fly-tip
fly-tipper
fly-tipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flytipping
Etymology: From the verb tip (“to dump (refuse)”), and on the fly (“spontaneously or extemporaneously”).
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fly-tip
fly-tip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fly-tips
form: fly-tipping
form: fly-tipped
form: fly-tipped
form: flytip
Etymology: From fly + tip. To tip (“deposit rubbish”) on the fly.
Senses: examples: text: You face an unlimited fine if your rubbish is found fly-tipped.
glosses: To dispose of waste (garbage) illegally, rather than at an authorized dump location.
fly-tip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fly-tips
form: flytip
Etymology: From fly + tip. To tip (“deposit rubbish”) on the fly.
Senses: glosses: A pile of rubbish discarded in such a manner
Related terms: fly-tipper
fly-tipping
fly-pitch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fly-pitches
form: fly-pitching
form: fly-pitched
form: fly-pitched
Senses: examples: text: “Oh, come on, Tiny”, the trader from the fruit stall said lightly trying to ease the tension, “we all started that way. I ’ad to fly pitch for months before I got me license.”
ref: 1990, Anna King, Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries, →ISBN, page 10:
text: He didn’t want involvement with the filth if he could avoid it, anyway; he’d done dodgy deals around town a few times, fly-pitching and ripping off a few tourists, minor stuff, but it was best to keep a low profile.
ref: 2011, Jessie Keane, The Make, →ISBN, page 104:
glosses: To sell goods on the street without a vendor's licence, usually from a small suitcase, wooden crate, etc., ready to depart hurriedly if the authorities arrive.
fly-pitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “Bin workin’ a fly pitch in the Sat’day gaff,” said Micky Barnet.
ref: 1939, J.B. Priestly, Let the People Sing, page 217:
text: The road was packed with wagons and people going about their mid-morning business. Delivery carts piled high with furniture, hay and crates negotiated their way between the fly-pitch barrows selling the early catch from Billingsgate market half a mile away.
ref: 2012, Jean Fullerton, Hold on to Hope, →ISBN, page 25:
glosses: A temporary location on the street from which goods are sold.
Related terms: fly-pitcher
Idahan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ida'an.
ectogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ecto- (“outside-”) + -genesis. The modern biological sense was coined by British biologist J. B. S. Haldane in 1923 in the lecture that formed his 1924 book Daedalus; or, Science and the Future.
Senses: examples: text: If reproductive technology could offer some form of ectogenesis, would feminists regard it as a liberating reproductive option?
ref: 1992, Helen B. Holmes, Laura Martha Purdy, Feminist Perspectives in Medical Ethics, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 181:
text: Complete ectogenesis is already excluded. Partial ectogenesis is the continued development of an already generated human being in an artificial womb after transfer from a maternal womb.
ref: 2010, Christopher Kaczor, The Ethics of Abortion, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: Ectogenesis is a genesis “outside” the maternal body. The “outside” can be artificial (machine), which I address in this chapter, or another bodily environment (man or animal), which I will address in the next chapter.
ref: 2012, Irina Aristarkhova, Hospitality of the Matrix, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 88:
glosses: The development of an organism in an artificial environment outside the body in which it naturally grows.
wikipedia: Daedalus; or, Science and the Future
Related terms: ectogenetic
open adoption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: open adoptions
Senses: glosses: An adoption in which the biological mother/biological parents and the adoptive family know each other's identities, and choose to remain in contact after the adoption process is finalized.
open adoptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of open adoption
hay is for horses
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: hey is for horses
form: hay is for horses and cows
Etymology: From hay being homophonous with hey.
Senses: examples: text: Neverout. Hay, Madam, did you call me? / Miſs. Hay; why, Hay is for Horſes.
ref: 1731 (date written), Simon Wagstaff [pseudonym; Jonathan Swift], “Dialogue I”, in A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, […], London: […] B[enjamin] Motte […], published 1738, →OCLC, page 107:
text: He called again: "Hey, Con?"
 "Hay is for horses, Homeboy," I shot back, and he laughed.
ref: 2003, Kathryn Reiss, Paint by Magic, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 124:
text: "Hey, do you remember this space toy?"
 "Hey is for horses."
ref: 2024, Mark Sarvas, Memento Park, Macmillan + ORM, →ISBN:
glosses: Said as a retort to someone saying hey (any sense of the interjection), used to indicate that the speaker disapproves of the usage of the word "hey", perhaps due to a dislike of informal speech.
aphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a- (“without”) + phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Similar ones occurring daily in a large metropolis like ours, where aphobia for operations walks extant and can be easily acquired.
ref: 1898 August, Chas. J. Proben, “New York Letter”, in Atlanta Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 15, number 7, page 457:
text: Put the body into a state of aphobia, fearlessness, the Spartans believe, and the mind will follow.
ref: 1998, Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire, page 78:
text: I find joy and meaning in my life when I embrace life with aphobia.
ref: 2014, Alex Pattakos, The OPA! Way: Finding Joy & Meaning in Everyday Life & Work, page 208:
glosses: Fearlessness or lack of fear.
aphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊbiə
Etymology: a- + (from asexual or aromantic) + -phobia
Senses: examples: text: Where aphobia goes wrong is that it assumes that some ace people 'pass' as straight, and therefore experience no discrimination.
ref: 2017, Ariel Scott, “Stop Saying It's Asexual Because That's Not What It Means”, in ShOUT Zine, page 12:
text: This should've been the moment I shucked off the last fetter of my internalised aphobia and claimed my asexuality as my own.
ref: 2022 August 16, Carmelia Argani, “Am I actually asexual, or is everyone else obsessed with sex?”, in Honi Soit, University of Sydney, page 14:
text: If you can recognize the mircoagressions we've discussed here and their variants in the world, you can spot aphobia.
ref: 2023, Cody Daigle-Orians, I Am Ace: Advice on Living Your Best Asexual Life, page 208:
glosses: Fear, dislike, or hatred of asexual and/or aromantic people.
milk sibling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milk siblings
form: milk-sibling
Senses: examples: text: But knowingly to marry someone who is a milk sibling is, as Sidi told me gravely, to go against Islam.
ref: 2004, Rebecca Popenoe, Feeding Desire: Fatness, Beauty, and Sexuality Among a Saharan People, Routledge, published 2004, →ISBN, page 94:
glosses: A person who is not one's biological sibling but was nursed by the same woman as oneself.
Hyponyms: milk brother
milk sister
milk siblings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milk sibling
absolutistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.səˌluˌtɪs.tɪk.l̩i/
ipa: /ˈæb.səˌluˌtɪs.tɪk.li/
Forms: form: more absolutistically
form: most absolutistically
Etymology: From absolutistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an absolutist manner.
milk-sibling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milk-siblings
Senses: examples: text: He died cut down on board ship, on the north side of Agangnionjoq, seawards of Lipukasiq, during harvest in Maros, on the third night of the month, cut down by his milk-sibling.
ref: 2007, William Cummings, A Chain of Kings: The Makassarese Chronicles of Gowa and Talloq, →ISBN, page 38:
glosses: Alternative spelling of milk sibling.
milk-siblings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milk-sibling
milk brother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milk brothers
form: milk-brother
Senses: examples: text: Garin had been with them as well that day; he was Arianne's milk brother, and they had been inseparable since before they learned to walk.
ref: 2005, George R. R. Martin, A Feast for Crows, Spectra, →ISBN, page 299:
glosses: A male milk sibling.
milk brothers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milk brother
Taphthartharath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hebrew תפתרתרת.
Senses: examples: text: 2080 Taphthartharath The spirit of Mercury תפתרתרת
ref: 1533, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Three Books of Occult Philosophy:
text: Somewhere in the universe on some subtle invisible plane, is an intelligence named Taphthartharath, for example, who is as real a being in his own way as one's own tailor is in his, […]
ref: 1968, Israel Regardie, The Tree of Life, Samuel Weiser, Inc., page 73:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
occult
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Mercury's spirit, executing the malevolent influences of the planet.
milk-brother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milk-brothers
Senses: examples: text: Also, as milk-brother of the future ruler, the son of a wetnurse would be well placed to bask one day in his milk-brother's power.
ref: 2006, Delia Cortese, Simonetta Calderini, Women and the Fatimids in the World of Islam, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 82:
glosses: Alternative spelling of milk brother.
milk-brothers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milk-brother
milk sister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milk sisters
form: milk-sister
Senses: examples: text: In this shop, I always used to play hide-and-seek with Marie, my wet nurse's daughter, who in fact is my milk sister, […]
ref: 2007, Jenny Erpenbeck, The Book of Words (trans. Susan Bernofsky), New Directions (2007; original German novel published 2004), page 46
glosses: A female milk sibling.
milk sisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milk sister
absolvitory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈzɑl.vəˌtɔɹ.i/
ipa: /æbˈsɑl.vəˌtɔɹ.i/
Forms: form: more absolvitory
form: most absolvitory
Etymology: From absolvitor + -y.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a dismissal or an acquittal.
milk-sister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milk-sisters
Senses: examples: text: "Let the little princess be a milk-sister to my son."
ref: 2011, Stephanie Dray, Song of the Nile, Berkley Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of milk sister.
milk-sisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milk-sister
gasteropods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gasteropod
tout ensemble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French tout ensemble, literally "all together".
Senses: examples: text: The singularity of his appearance, the beams which darted from his eyes, the brightness of his Wit, and the whole tout ensemble of his person had subdued the hearts of so many of the young Ladies […].
ref: 1790, Jane Austen, “Jack and Alice”, in Juvenilia:
text: On this peninsula stood a dwelling-house. […] [I]ts tout ensemble struck me with the keenest sense of combined novelty and propriety—in a word, of poetry.
ref: 1849, Edgar Allan Poe, Landor's Cottage:
text: The Same Woman.—She is the same woman you have had to deal with in your professional career, dear doctor (Gleaner). Has the same begabled frame, the same hooked beak, the same thin, neutral tinted lips, the same parchmental skin, the same supra-lateral nasal mole, the same hammer dressed saw-file voice, the same fearful masculo-feminine vesicatory tout ensemble.
ref: 1892, “Items of Interest”, in A[mant] H[enry] Ohmann-Dumesnil, editor, Medical Review. A Weekly Retrospect of Medicine and Surgery., volume XXV, St. Louis, Mo.: Medical Review Association, page 415, column 2:
text: 'Tis the tout ensemble I must see: the whole as opposed to the details.
ref: 1897, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 20, in St. Ives:
text: A variety of uniforms, worn by the officers at different tables, gave colour and distinction to a tout ensemble with which even Norgate could find no fault.
ref: 1915, E. Phillips Oppenheim, chapter 1, in The Double Traitor:
text: The National Park Service and its private partner, the Gettysburg Foundation, have been reconstructing the diorama and other elements of the colossal artwork to bring back the tout ensemble that made veterans cry when the cyclorama opened in 1884.
ref: 2008 July 7, Lisanne Renner, “Art & Design: Big Touch-Up for the Blue and the Gray”, in New York Times, retrieved 15 Jul 2012:
glosses: The overall appearance or impression, especially of a work of art.
horologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more horologically
form: most horologically
Etymology: From horological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of chronometrically, in a horological way or by means of a horologium.
synonyms: word: chronometrically
word: in a horological way or by means of a horologium
sleepy dust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleepy-dust
Senses: examples: text: Ellen looked at her, at her face, now serious, with traces of sleepy dust still in the corners of her eyes.
ref: 2008, Kathleen McCleary, House and Home, Hyperion Books, published 2008, →ISBN:
glosses: Rheum crusted around the eyes from sleep.
Synonyms: word: crusty
word: gound
word: sleep
sleepy-dust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The two boys didn't interest me much — the older one, Simon, was so dozy he always had sleepy-dust in the corner of his eyes, […]
ref: 2006, Andrew Motion, In the Blood: A Memoir of My Childhood, David R. Godine, published 2007, →ISBN, page 159:
glosses: Alternative spelling of sleepy dust.
roadish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more roadish
form: most roadish
Etymology: From road + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: It was of a whitey-brown hue, with great horn buttons and vast pockets. It was thoroughly roadish — it smelt of the road — its appearance was of the road.
ref: 1850, The New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register:
text: Formerly it was considered proper when motoring to look just as formidably "roadish" as possible, and as a result As Soon as He Desires to Leave the Car, the Motorist May Take Off These Detachable Gauntlets.
ref: 1917, Illustrated World, volume 27:
glosses: Of or characteristic of a road or roadways; associated with being on the road or with road travel.
spratmo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Unknown
Senses: examples: text: As early as February 1943, the "spratmo"' around Tuskegee was that the 99th was to be sent to the North African theater. There had been other rumors.
ref: 1991, J. Alfred Phelps, Chappie: America's first Black four-star general:
text: Segregated and unwieldy as the group might be, it was now well established, aggressive, and successful. Morale continued high. Squadron clubs operated in full swing, with drinks, music, and "spratmo" (gossip).
ref: 1998, Stanley Sandler, Segregated Skies:
text: Yeah, Babe, I guess I got about seven hours in the hot sun under the bubble canopy but I'm OK now. How 'bout you? What's the latest spratmo about your condition?
ref: 2002, Charles W. Dryden, Benjamin O Davis, A-Train: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman, page 229:
text: “Spratmo,” the base grapevine, hummed with reports that the squadron would ship out any day now—or maybe in two months
ref: 2010, J. Todd Moye, Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II, page 97:
topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: News, gossip.
subject of labor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
synonyms: object of labor
target of labor
hypernyms: means of production
coordinate_terms: means of labor
glosses: Everything to which human labor is applied.
breast implant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breast implants
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A medical prosthesis used to augment, reconstruct, or create the physical form of breasts (the organs on the front of the [typically female] chest).
Related terms: boob job
breast augmentation
breast reduction
absorbent cotton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈsɔɹ.bn̩t ˈkɑ.tn̩/
ipa: /æbˈzɔɹ.bn̩t ˈkɑ.tn̩/
ipa: /əbˈsɔɹ.bn̩t ˈkɑ.tn̩/
ipa: /əbˈzɔɹ.bn̩t ˈkɑ.tn̩/
Senses: glosses: Cotton which has had its fatty matter removed to become capable of absorbing liquids; cotton wool.
absorbent paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈsoɹ.bn̩t ˈpeɪ.pɚ/
ipa: /æbˈzoɹ.bn̩t ˈpeɪ.pɚ/
ipa: /əbˈsoɹ.bn̩t ˈpeɪ.pɚ/
ipa: /əbˈzoɹ.bn̩t ˈpeɪ.pɚ/
Forms: form: absorbent papers
Senses: glosses: A soft paper especially made for the absorbing of liquids.
absorbent papers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absorbent paper
absorberman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈsɔɹ.bɚ.mæn/
ipa: /æbˈzɔɹ.bɚ.mæn/
ipa: /əbˈsɔɹ.bɚ.mæn/
ipa: /əbˈzɔɹ.bɚ.mæn/
Forms: form: absorbermen
Etymology: From absorber + -man.
Senses: glosses: Someone who controls an absorber.
absorbermen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absorberman
fervourous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fervourous
form: most fervourous
Etymology: From fervour + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of fervorous.
fervorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fervorous
form: most fervorous
form: fervourous
Etymology: From fervor + -ous.
Senses: glosses: With fervour; fervent.
favorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: favorizes
form: favorizing
form: favorized
form: favorized
form: favorise
form: favourise
form: favourize
Etymology: From Medieval Latin favorizare.
Senses: glosses: To favor especially or unduly.