cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
planet-struck
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplanɪtstɹʌk/
Forms: form: more planet-struck
form: most planet-struck
Senses: examples: text: Budæus records how that, at Louis the Twelfth his death, ..., they that were erst in heaven, upon a sudden, as if they had been planet-strucken, lay grovelling on the ground ...
ref: 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, I.2.4.VII:
text: I protest I know not what Face the Moon bore at that time, but I am sure I appear'd like one Planet-struck, and retir'd, more fit indeed for a Grave than a Mistress.
ref: 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, section VI:
text: I was planet-struck! Nor was his surprise less, when he saw me, and heard my errand and my name.
ref: 1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, volume II, 23:
text: [N]early a hundred officers all with their swords on […] had been drawn to the court-house in the hopes of entertainment from hearing Cressey abuse the judges, but who seemed quite planet-struck when the riot commenced, and more frightened than any other of the spectators!
ref: 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 234
text: To be thus ‘planet-struck’ or ‘blasted’ was to be suddenly and inexplicably affected by a paralysing disease, apoplexy or other kind of sudden death.
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 613:
glosses: Afflicted by the astrological influence of a planet; struck down with amazement or shock; panic-stricken.
Synonyms: planet-stricken
flat pack
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: Typically with regard to furniture
glosses: able to be constructed from flat pre-cut sections.
examples: 2010, BBC, The Genius of Design - Blueprints for War, BBC One
The Mark 2 (Sten) was a flat pack sub-machine gun.
glosses: easily constructed from pre-produced components.
flat pack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flat packs
Senses: qualifier: Typically with regard to furniture
glosses: the pre-cut kit of sections used to make a piece of furniture.
chafers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chafer
minxship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minxships
Etymology: From minx + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: "Had your Minxship been a Man, my Landlord's Presence should not have hinder'd my repaying your Assault with Interest [...]."
ref: 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, section VI:
glosses: A supposed title given to a woman thought to be acting like a minx (usually with possessive adjective).
empaled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of empale
empaling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of empale
unempathetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unempathetically
form: most unempathetically
Etymology: From unempathetic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: Without empathy.
atuas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atua
plain dealer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plain dealers
Etymology: From plain + dealer, after plain dealing.
Senses: examples: text: Ant. Why thou didst conclude hairy men plain dealers without wit.
S. Dro. The plainer dealer, the sooner lost; yet he looseth it in a kind of iollitie.
ref: c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: She as often acted the Plain-Dealer with him, and fairly told him [...] that, in Truth, she had nothign but a very Small Spot to which she had any Hereditary Right [...].
ref: 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, section VI:
text: ‘If plain speakers are scarce in this part of the world, I fancy that plain dealers are still scarcer.’
ref: 1840 April – 1841 November, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter number or name)”, in The Old Curiosity Shop. A Tale. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1841, →OCLC:
glosses: Someone who interacts or does business straightforwardly and honestly.
boratos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of borato
protostomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protostoma
skim through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: skims through
form: skimming through
form: skimmed through
form: skimmed through
Senses: glosses: to go through something hastily
glosses: to read something hurriedly without being attached to details
intrapersonally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more intrapersonally
form: most intrapersonally
Etymology: From intrapersonal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Within the mind of an individual person.
reinfest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reinfests
form: reinfesting
form: reinfested
form: reinfested
Etymology: From re- + infest.
Senses: examples: text: My attempts at fumigation failed to stop the rats from reinfesting the barn.
glosses: To infest again.
reinfesting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reinfest
reinfests
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reinfest
reinfested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reinfest
Perusia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Perusia. Doublet of Perugia.
Senses: examples: text: That is, Fabius marched to relieve Sutrium, defeated the Etruscans there, crossed the Ciminian wood, defeated another Etruscan army near Perusia, and then made indutiae with Arretium, Cortona, and Perusia.
ref: 2005, A Commentary on Livy, Books VI-X: Volume III, Book IX, Oxford University Press, page 455:
text: Perusia has the epithet ‘Augusta’ in two inscriptions, and another refers to ‘Perusia Restituta’, which should most naturally restoration after the destruction of 40.¹²⁶ This implies that the city enjoyed Augustus' favour, as Saddington notes;¹²⁷ but that is no reason for largely rejecting the accounts of Imperator Caesar's punishment of Perusia in 40, excepting the fantasy of a massacre of the curial class.
ref: 2007, Edward Bispham, From Asculum to Actium, Oxford University Press, page 358:
text: The siege of Perusia in 41 seems, additionally, to have cost him^([Propertius]) a relative, a figure mentioned in elegy 1.22 and often identified with the Gallus who speaks in 1.21.
ref: 2007, Basil Dufallo, The Ghosts of the Past, Ohio State University Press, page 95:
glosses: An ancient Etruscan and later Roman city which eventually became present-day Perugia, Italy.
Derived terms: Perusine
Perusinian
Perusinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Perusinian
form: most Perusinian
Senses: examples: 1911, Guglielmo Ferrero, The Women Of The Caesars, New York, The Century Co., chapter II, Gutenberg ebook #16324
In 40, after the Perusinian war and only two years before Livia's marriage with Octavianus --.
glosses: Of or pertaining to Perusia.
Synonyms: Perusine
Perusine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Perusine
form: most Perusine
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Perusia (ancient Perugia).
septiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Etymology: From septum + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Bearing a partition; said of the valves of a capsule.
septiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Senses: glosses: Conveying putrid poison.
Related terms: septic
reinfestation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reinfestations
Etymology: From re- + infestation.
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent infestation.
reinfestations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reinfestation
statuomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From statue + -o- + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: To carry this out would not be difficult with a people so deeply imbued with veneration for the dead, amongst whom Positivism seeks to replace the forms of religious worship by honours rendered to the great, and with whom for some time past the rage for statues, now being erected all over France, seems to be degenerating into a "statuomania."
ref: 1882, “Contemporary Life and Thought in France”, in The Contemporary Review, July-December 1882 edition, volume 42, London: Ibister and Company Limited, translation of original by Gabriel Monod, published 1882, page 656:
text: The major characteristic of French ‘statuomania’ was its democracy, anticipating that of the war memorials after 1914-18.
ref: 1983, Eric Hobsbawm, The Invention of Tradition:
text: On the left too voices were raised against this ‘statuomania’: would it not be far better to spend all that money on bread for the poor?
ref: 1998, Pim D Boer, translated by Arnold J Pomerans, History as a Profession, page 111:
text: The statues of Joseph II, together with the Czech program of statue production in the same era, represent variants of the well-known French "statuomania" that was so pervasive in the late nineteenth century [...].
ref: 2007, Nancy M Wingfield, Flag Wars and Stone Saints:
glosses: An obsession with putting up statues, especially with reference to France.
Baxterian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Baxterian
form: most Baxterian
Etymology: From Baxter + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Richard Baxter (1615–1691), English Puritan church leader, poet, and theologian.
Baxterian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Baxterians
Etymology: From Baxter + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A follower of Richard Baxter.
Baxterians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Baxterian
bore sight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bore sights
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: An optical device, mounted on or near the end of a firearm's barrel, used to align the sights with the bore.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A dummy cartridge containing a small battery-operated laser, used to align the sights.
bore sight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bore sights
form: bore sighting
form: bore sighted
form: bore sighted
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: To align the sights and aiming point of a firearm using a bore sight optical tool.
sexuality studies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The study of sexuality, including sexual cultures, sexual orientations, etc.
Related terms: gender studies
LGBT studies
sexology
rubberist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubberists
Etymology: From rubber + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: There is consensus among rubberists who have non-rubberist partners that it is better to tell the truth about a fetish sooner rather than later.
ref: 2011, Suzi Godson, Sex Counsel:
glosses: Someone with a fetish for rubber or rubberwear.
rubberist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rubberist
form: most rubberist
Etymology: From rubber + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to a rubberist or rubberism.
rubberism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rubber + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Today, fetishism in all its forms - bondage, piercing, rubberism, mummification, asphyxiation, infantilism etc - is stigmatised as a socially unacceptable form of behaviour, even though there is a great deal of curiosity surrounding its practice.
ref: 1998, Rachel Armstrong, Sci-fi aesthetics, volume 12, numbers 9-10, page 19:
text: Rubberism, therefore, was clearly alive, if not well, long before the advent of the permissive 1960's.
ref: 1994, Bill Thompson, Sadomasochism: painful perversion or pleasurable play?, page 95:
glosses: Fetishism for rubber or rubberwear.
unblighted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not having been blighted.
unblighted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unblight
undubbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + dubbed.
Senses: examples: an undubbed film
an undubbed squire
glosses: Not having been dubbed (in various senses).
undubbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + dubbed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undub
rubberists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rubberist
hadronics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hadron + -ics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The study of hadrons.
Synonyms: word: hadron physics
alt: QCD
word: quantum chromodynamics
Hyponyms: gluonics
mesonics
nucleonics
Related terms: quark theory
mesonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meson + -ics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The study of mesons.
Synonyms: meson physics
Hypernyms: hadronics
gluonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gluon + -ics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The study of gluons, gluonium, and the strong interaction.
Hypernyms: word: hadronics
alt: QCD
word: quantum chromodynamics
quark theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The theory that (most) baryons and mesons are composed of bound quarks and antiquarks.
Related terms: word: exotic hadron
word: hadron
alt: QCD
word: quantum chromodynamics
word: quark model
quark model
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A model organizing baryons and mesons according to their composition of bound quarks and antiquarks in groups of two or three; part of the Standard Model.
Related terms: word: exotic hadron
word: hadronics
word: quark theory
alt: QCD
word: quantum chromodynamics
exotic hadron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exotic hadrons
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any hadron not permitted by the quark model but allowed by the more general theory of quantum chromodynamics, including hybrid mesons, gluoniums, pentaquarks, etc.
hybrid meson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hybrid mesons
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A meson composed of quarks, antiquarks, and nonvirtual gluons (instead of the usual quark-antiquark pair bound by virtual gluons).
Hypernyms: exotic hadron
exotic meson
Related terms: glueball
gluonium
hybrid mesons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hybrid meson
dead on one's feet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: “The manufacturing sector is dead on its feet at the moment and exports are poor,” said Rob Carnell, Asia-Pacific head of research for ING.
ref: 2023 June 17, Joe Leahy, Thomas Hale, Andy Lin, quoting Rob Carnell, “China's recovery hangs in balance as property is shunned and exports flag”, in FT Weekend, page 3:
glosses: Tired to the point of exhaustion, but still awake and out of bed.
exotic meson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exotic mesons
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A meson existing outside of the quark model, such as a hybrid meson or a glueball.
Hypernyms: exotic hadron
nineteenfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nineteen + -fold.
Senses: glosses: nineteen times as many
nineteenfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nineteen + -fold.
Senses: glosses: nineteen times as many
Related terms: eighteenfold
twentyfold
rubberisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rubberization.
rubberization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rubber + -ization.
Senses: glosses: Act or process of rubberizing.
effuser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: effusers
Etymology: From effuse + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who or that which effuses.
effusers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of effuser
Jerusha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hebrew ירושה.
Senses: examples: text: Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Kings 15:33:
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
nonsuitability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + suitability.
Senses: glosses: Lack of suitability; quality of being unsuitable.
polychromatophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From polychromatophilia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting polychromatophilia
Related terms: polychromatophil
professorly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more professorly
form: most professorly
Etymology: From professor + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The decorous, professorly group known as the College Art Association will descend on us this week for its 61st annual convention.
ref: 1973 January 21, Grace Glueck, “A Most Zeitgeist-y Affair”, in New York Times, retrieved 10 Apr 2013:
text: Of course the subjects weren't really professors, Davis said, just professorly looking men she had spotted.
ref: 1993 June 2, “Fine threads don't mean top profs, Tech study says”, in Roanoke Times:
text: So, after doing my professorly duty and dispensing wisdom, I hang up with the reporter and stand in the middle of the dark bedroom.
ref: 2005 February 22, William McKeen, “Larger than life, a mystery in death”, in Tampa Bay Times, retrieved 10 Apr 2013:
text: Reading The God Delusion, on the other hand, all I did was nod furiously and point at myself, and perform a little professorly strut around the train carriage.
ref: 2009 January 12, Jon Blyth, “Jimmy Carr saved my life”, in The Guardian, UK, retrieved 10 Apr 2013:
text: Often compared to Bellow and Roth, his prose reminds me more of Chabon's, but perhaps more avuncular, more, yes, professorly, shaping the male Jewish consciousness.
ref: 2011 July 5, Eleanor Henderson, “Tumultuous Tales Of Loathing And Wit”, in National Public Radio, retrieved 10 Apr 2013:
glosses: Professorial; having the manner or appearance of a professor or professors.
tie over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ties over
form: tying over
form: tied over
form: tied over
Senses: glosses: Tide over.
chimney stacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chimney stack
existential nihilism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The philosophical theory that life has no intrinsic meaning or value.
black-houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black-house
letter boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of letter box
sono-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Latin sonus (“sound”).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to sound.
cavity walls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cavity wall
window sills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of window sill
poundaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of poundage
poundaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of poundage
wested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of west
nursled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nursle
heast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Ne any liv'd on ground that durst withstand
His dreadfull heast
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of hest.
fixed points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fixed point
non-cisgender
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: noncisgender
Etymology: From non- + cisgender.
Senses: examples: text: Parsons found the biggest issue to be that “there was no space that said that it was welcoming specifically to non-cisgender people. Just having Penn Non-cis existing is already a space that I can be more comfortable in.”
ref: 2013 January 13, Rebecca Borison, “Penn Non-Cis fights underrepresentation on campus”, in The Daily Pennsylvanian, University of Pennsylvania:
text: The majority of the world would declare themselves cisgender; however those of non-cisgender identity are, of course, an important and ever growing presence in society.
ref: 2013, Rachel Sacks, "We've come so far, but we still have a long way to go in struggle for equal rights for everyone", The Miami Student (Miami University), Volume 140, Number 29, 15 January 2013, page 7
text: However, she also said that it is a matter of accessibility and safety for non-cisgender students at the university (cisgender is a term denoting a person whose biological sex and gender identity match).
ref: 2013, Richard Kent, "Gender-neutral washrooms at Mt. A", The Argosy (Mount Allison University), Volume 142, Issue 17, 21 February 2013, page 2
glosses: Not cisgender.
Synonyms: trans*
Hyponyms: transgender
genderqueer
non-binary
Related terms: non-heterosexual
agrement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agrements
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of agreement.
specificker
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /spɛˈsɪfɪkə/
Etymology: Formed as specific (“explicit, definite, particular”) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: “Boy, you gotta be mo’ specificker. How do you expec’ me to answer you when you ain’t, to be exac’, asked me nothin’ yet?”
ref: 1928, Ralph Albert Parlette, editor, The Lyceum Magazine, XXXVIII, page 55:
text: I always prefer two specificker words to one generaller one.
ref: 2006, Bob Geary, “random personal questions”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet):
glosses: comparative form of specific: more specific
devex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /diːˈvɛks/
Forms: form: more devex
form: most devex
Etymology: From Latin dēvexus, from dēvehō (“to carry down”).
Senses: glosses: Bending down; sloping.
Specificker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Specifickers
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of specificker.
Specifickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Specificker
specifickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of specificker
exulcerated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of exulcerate
chafingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more chafingly
form: most chafingly
Etymology: From chafing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a way that chafes.
cestracionts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cestraciont
goatflesh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From goat + flesh.
Senses: glosses: The flesh of a goat used as food.
consubstantiated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of consubstantiate
downcastness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From downcast + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being downcast.
downcastly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more downcastly
form: most downcastly
Etymology: From downcast + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a downcast manner.
prepregs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prepreg
buckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bucker
atrophins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atrophin
atrophodermas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atrophoderma
maculed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of macule
maculing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of macule
mackling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mackle
ultimate tensile strength
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultimate tensile strengths
form: tensile strength
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The greatest tensile engineering stress a material can withstand before it fractures.
Coordinate terms: compressive strength
Related terms: tensile strain
tensile strengths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tensile strength
nonvegetative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + vegetative.
Senses: glosses: Not vegetative.
nonpurgative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + purgative.
Senses: glosses: Not purgative.
engineering stress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: engineering stresses
form: nominal stress
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: In a tensile test, the ratio of the applied force to the initial cross-sectional area of the tensile specimen (ignoring the gradual decrease in area resulting from Poisson's ratio).
Related terms: stress
true stress
Darcy friction factor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Darcy friction factors
Etymology: From the name of hydraulic engineer Henry Darcy.
Senses: qualifier: fluid mechanics
glosses: A dimensionless friction factor relating the head loss over a pipe to the lengthscale of the pipe and the fluid velocity.
wikipedia: Henry Darcy
Related terms: Fanning friction factor
Darcy friction factors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Darcy friction factor
dusketh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: dusk + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dusk
antaphroditic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antaphroditic
form: most antaphroditic
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: antaphrodisiac or antisyphilitic
antapical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the antapex.
disreputing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disrepute
disreputed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disrepute
disreputes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disrepute
unwitted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unwit
awardeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: award + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of award
wardeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: ward + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ward
awardest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: award + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of award
wardest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: ward + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of ward
wardialing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of war-dialing.
mithridates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mithridate
social sharing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From social + sharing.
Senses: examples: 2012, social sharing, Oxford Dictionaries Online. Oxford University Press.
mobile technology and social sharing have reshaped the media industry in recent years
glosses: The general practice of sharing content from the internet on social media websites or applications.
gossip mill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gossip mills
form: gossip-mill
Senses: examples: text: The gossip-mill spread other whispers as well. Macdonald was said to employonly handsome equerries. He was rumouredto have engaged in homosexual activities when an officer in South Africa; he even had an affair with a Boer prisoner.
ref: 2014, Robert Aldrich, Cultural Encounters and Homoeroticism in Sri Lanka:
text: But the breakup and awkward love rectangle were a recurring topic in Google's gossip mill, adding even more tension.
ref: 2022, Mark Bergen, Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination, Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: A rumor mill.
Olympic flame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Olympic flames
Senses: glosses: A flame which is the symbol of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Synonyms: Olympic torch
cisprivilege
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cis- + privilege.
Senses: examples: text: This particular research begins to engage with the ways in which cisprivilege is bound up with perpetuating violence (see the Cisgender Privilege Checklist; T-Vox, 2007).
ref: 2011, Bróna Nic Giolla Easpaig, David Fryer, “Dismantling dominant sexual violence research without using the master's tools”, in Gay & Lesbian Issues and Psychology Review, volume 7, number 2, page 171:
text: Cisprivilege means never being asked if you are sure you’re in the right rest-room, never fearing that you’ll spend a night in a jail-cell after a routine traffic stop because your gender performance does not match your ID.
ref: 2012 July, Laura J. Shepherd, Laura Sjoberg, “trans- bodies in/of war(s): cisprivilege and contemporary security strategy”, in Feminist Review, number 101, page 8:
text: We will start with a basic (and brief) overview of trans-affirmative language, then move towards a discussion of cisprivilege, and end with a discussion of how to make our spaces more inclusive of all genders - from micro-level interactions to macro-level structural change.
ref: 2012, Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender Ally College Conference 2012 program, page 32:
glosses: Alternative form of cis privilege.
Bartók pizzicatos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bartók pizzicato
snap pizzicatos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snap pizzicato
separable prefix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: separable prefixes
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A prefix that can be detached from the verb it attaches to in several instances.
Related terms: separable verb
prefixoid
separable prefixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of separable prefix
moduli of elasticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of modulus of elasticity
true strain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: true strains
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A dimensionless measure of object deformation; the natural logarithm of the ratio of the object's deformed length to its initial length, along some axis.
Related terms: engineering strain
engineering strain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: engineering strains
form: nominal strain
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A dimensionless measure of object deformation; the ratio of the object's deformed length to its initial length, along some axis.
Related terms: true strain
ultimate tensile strengths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ultimate tensile strength
oh really
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Well, one day when she got tired of my seemingly spaced-out replies she let me have it. She responded with, "Oh Mommy, I had a horrible day. First I lost my lunch pail and the teacher wouldn't let me go to the office for help. Then I got upset and jumped off the building." My response was “Oh really, darling, that is wonderful.” She started raising her voice and said “See, I knew you were not listening to me. You don't really want to know how my day was, so why do you even ask me?” That was it. I felt terrible.
ref: 2009, Elizabeth Marie Galloway-Evans, Embracing the Gift of Parenthood, page 85:
glosses: An exclamation of surprise or amazement.
examples: text: 'It's a sniper' shouted the bush.
‘Oh really! Did you hear that boys, it's a fucking sniper. What am I? Am I talking in Czechoslovakian or what? I know it's a fuckin' sniper.’
ref: 2004, Martin Pegler, Out of Nowhere: A history of the military sniper, published 2012, unnumbered page:
glosses: Said in response to an obvious statement.
examples: text: "In less than two hours Simon is picking me up, and we're going to Maui for the weekend."
“Oh, really.” The line was silent for a moment. “And just what are his intentions in this romantic getaway?”
ref: 2007, Terrye Robins, Revenge in Paradise, page 131:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see oh, really.
Synonyms: sense: amazement
word: really
sense: amazement
word: no shit
sense: amazement
word: never
sense: amazement
word: no
sense: amazement
word: no way
sense: amazement
word: wow
sense: response to the obvious
word: really
sense: response to the obvious
word: no shit
sense: response to the obvious
word: no kidding
sense: response to the obvious
word: you don't say
sense: response to the obvious
word: seriously
Related terms: guess what
sennin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Senn + -in, after Nicholas Senn (1844-1908), American surgeon. Originally a brand name.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An antiseptic preparation made from boric acid, iodine, and phenol.
calm your tits
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: calm your titties
Senses: examples: text: Jesus H. Christ dude, calm your tits! Don't get so damn worked up; we'll sort it out.
text: The act of pareidolia is such that the culmination of completely arbitrary events leads to the jackrabbit assumption that we might as well call it a day and close shop. Without any hard evidence, we wave the white flag. And yes, an earthquake counts as an arbitrary event. Calm your tits.
ref: 2011 April 11, Doc Watson, “Game Over, Man!: Has Doom & Gloom Come All Too Soon?”, in Salient, volume 74, number 7, Victoria University of Wellington, page 31:
text: Unfortunately, I had only heard of J. Cole on R&B singer Miguel's single "All I Want is You" (calm your tits, hip-hop junkies); however, I can say that I am more than pleased this season (considering the NBA lockout disappointment).
ref: 2011, Victoria Smith, "From Sidelines to Varsity", The Union Weekly (California State University, Long Beach), Volume 69, Issue 7,10 October 2011, page 11
text: I can hear you cringing at this choice, but calm your tits and watch the music video.
ref: 2013, Julie Kosin, “An Eye For An Icon”, in The Miscreant, number 35, page 15:
glosses: Calm down! (Used to tell someone to relax when they are agitated, angry, overexcited, etc.)
Synonyms: calm down
cool it
chill
lemniscates of Bernoulli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lemniscate of Bernoulli
wikipedia: Bernoulli family
Virginia creeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Virginia creepers
Senses: examples: text: The same walls, when the Virginia creeper dies back in winter, show a date-mark of 1490.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 240:
synonyms: American ivy
glosses: A climbing plant (Parthenocissus quinquefolia).
Derived terms: Virginia creeper sphinx
mangenue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mangenues
Etymology: Blend of man + ingenue
Senses: examples: text: The mangenue was easy pickings for that vamp.
glosses: A young, inexperienced, guileless man or boy, especially in film and theater.
edumacation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛ.d͡ʒʊ.məˈkeɪ.ʃn̩/
ipa: /ˌɛ.d͡ʒə.məˈkeɪ.ʃn̩/
Forms: form: edumacations
Etymology: From education + -ma- (by infixation).
Senses: examples: text: I don't need no edumacation!
glosses: Education.
spear phishing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spearphishing.
apple cores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apple core
disadvantagedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disadvantaged + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I was forced to rethink my notion of disadvantagedness and to define disadvantage in more than economic terms.
ref: 1993, Robert Donmoyer, Raylene Kos, At-risk Students: Portraits, Policies, Programs, and Practices, page 43:
glosses: The quality of being disadvantaged.
English as apple pie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Having characteristics considered quintessential to English or British life.
Synonyms: English as afternoon tea
English as tea and crumpets
Related terms: Australian as a kangaroo
American as apple pie
Canadian as maple syrup
arrestingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From arresting + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being arresting, of suddenly capturing the attention.
lovebomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lovebombs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of love bomb.
lovebomb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lovebombs
form: lovebombing
form: lovebombed
form: lovebombed
Senses: examples: text: His speech yesterday about defeating the politics of futility, as well as the boast that 2,000 people have joined Labour since his election on Saturday, suggests he may be able to reinvigorate it as an effective force. They may have voted by a majority for David, and they lovebombed him all week, but they go home today ready to give Ed their loyalty.
ref: 2010 September 30, “Labour party: Brotherly breach”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2025:
text: Swathes of women – all of them around my age, mid-20s – were sharing stories of being lovebombed by this guy (the process of showering someone with affection and attention very early on as a way to win over and manipulate people).
ref: 2022 January 24, I’ve fallen for my fair share of men like West Elm Caleb – he is no aberration, “Molly Codyre”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Jan 2022:
text: Jo says men who lovebomb tend to have low emotional intelligence and lack empathy. Their skill lies in knowing how to manipulate others. From my own experience, the only good thing about the pain of being lovebombed is that I will never fall victim to it again.
ref: 2022 February 9, Verity Ellis, “There’s no bigger red flag than when a man lovebombs you: By VERITY ELLIS who was told after ten days ‘I want to have babies with you’”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Feb 2022:
glosses: Alternative spelling of love bomb.
snapin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsnæpɪn/
Forms: form: snapins
Etymology: snap + in, suggesting a component that clicks into place.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: Microsoft Windows
glosses: A software plug-in.
snapins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snapin
aggregatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aggregatable
form: most aggregatable
Etymology: From aggregate + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be aggregated.
lovebombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lovebomb
lovebombs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lovebomb
love-bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɐvbɔm/
Forms: form: love-bombs
form: love-bombing
form: love-bombed
form: love-bombed
Senses: examples: text: He love-bombed me and sent me excessive words of affirmation. He told me I was special, that I was the only one in the world whom he had ever loved and would ever love.
ref: 2022, Mimi Zhu, Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection, Penguin, →ISBN, page xxiv:
text: You love-bombed me until I was so full of love, I gave it back to you.
ref: 2022, E. J. Frost, Quaternion, →ISBN:
glosses: To be exceptionally loving to; to bestow a lot of love on, especially to gain influence on a person.
love-bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɐvbɔm/
Forms: form: love-bombs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of love bomb.
love-bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of love-bomb
love-bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of love-bomb
underhander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underhanders
Etymology: From underhand + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Not that the fast underhanders which were bowled before this innovation could be treated with indifference.
ref: 1865, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 140, page 757:
glosses: A ball thrown or bowled underhand.
examples: text: He was a good pitcher, an underhander with good control.
ref: 2005, Robert K. Fitts, Remembering Japanese Baseball, page 35:
glosses: One who throws or bowls a ball underhand.
examples: text: Then there are the underhanders, who seldom take responsibility for their anger but try to place the anger in hurtful ways on others. Sarcasm, lack of punctuality, pouting, sexual acting out, and academic underachieving are examples of this underhanded anger.
ref: 2000, Lawrence J. Crabb, Rachael Crabb, Paul Johnson, Joy Breaks for Couples: Devotions to Celebrate Marriage, page 123:
glosses: One whose personality inclines toward taking revenge by underhand means.
underhanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underhander
equimolal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From equi- + molal.
Senses: glosses: Of the same molality.
Related terms: equimolar
consociating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of consociate
consociates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of consociate
consociated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more consociated
form: most consociated
Senses: examples: text: ‘Our beings are amalgamated, as it were, and consociated in one, and never shall I depart from this country until I can carry you in triumph with me.’
ref: 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:
glosses: Joined together; unified, linked.
Derived terms: unconsociated
consociated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of consociate
lady lumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ladylumps
Senses: examples: text: “I was just going to fix your dress before you flash the driver your lovely lady lumps.”
ref: 2008, Adrianne Byrd, Her Lover's Legacy, Kimani Press, →ISBN, page 114:
text: The chest strap is higher, too, though this tester found it still a bit smushy on her lady lumps.
ref: 2008 July, Selene Yeager, “A Round of Drinks”, in Mountain Bike:
text: If not to prevent droopiness and backache, why do we underwire and wrap our lady lumps at all?
ref: 2013 April 12, Emer O'Toole, “The pros and cons of going braless”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A woman's breasts.
self-obsession
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-obsessions
Etymology: From self- + obsession.
Senses: glosses: preoccupation with self; egocentrism; selfishness
Homecoming Queens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Homecoming Queen
hoaxical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhəʊks.ɪkl̩/
Forms: form: more hoaxical
form: most hoaxical
Etymology: From hoax + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: XVI. Its want of unity, and therefore use,¶ Would ruin it; its hoaxical hodge-podging;¶ Dull quacks, smart quacks, cramped quacks, and quacks diffuse,[...]
ref: 1819 February, William Wastle Of That Ilk, Esquire, “The Mad Banker of Amsterdam; or The Fate of the Brauns”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume IV, number XXIII, William Blackwood, page 564:
text: A hoaxical looking article, under the above caption, is going the rounds and represents that successful experiments on this subject have been recently made at Berlin.
ref: 1846 September 26, “Casting Iron Cannon by a galvanic Process”, in Rufus Porter, editor, Scientific American, volume 2, number 1, Munn & Company, page 33:
text: Correpondingly, hoaxical, satiric, ironic and deconstructive Eureka-inspired readings should be distinguished from the noncosmological categories of hoaxical, satiric and ironic, and deconstructive readings.
ref: 1992, Rochard Kopley, editor, Poe's Pym: Critical Explorations, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 248:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a hoax; having the character of a hoax.
royal assent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Transport Act, 1962, received Royal Assent on August 1.
ref: 1962 October, “Talking of Trains: The Transport Act, 1962”, in Modern Railways, page 219:
topics: government
glosses: The method by which a constitutional monarch (or a viceroy in a colony or dominion) formally approves and promulgates an act of his or her nation's parliament, thus making it a law.
mineralizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mineralizable
form: most mineralizable
Etymology: From mineralize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being mineralized
Derived terms: remineralizable
Related terms: mineralizability
putry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈpjuːtɹi/
Forms: form: more putry
form: most putry
Senses: examples: text: Howl not, thou putry mould; groan not, ye graves
ref: c. 1599 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], The History of Antonio and Mellida. The First Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Mathewe Lownes, and Thomas Fisher, […], published 1602, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: putrid
unperfecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unperfect
unperfects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unperfect
unmassed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + massed.
Senses: glosses: Not massed.
miraged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mirage
miraging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mirage
shrag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɹæɡ/
ipa: /ʃɹaɡ/
Forms: form: shrags
Etymology: Compare scrag.
Senses: glosses: A twig cut from a tree.
shrag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɹæɡ/
ipa: /ʃɹaɡ/
Forms: form: shrags
form: shragging
form: shragged
form: shragged
Etymology: Compare scrag.
Senses: examples: text: Twygges or boughes of trees cut of[f], or shragged, […] Shragge vnder so that the sunne maye come to the ground, […]
ref: 1552, Hulget
text: About 350 loads of excellent beech timber, with the felling fagots, 1,500 shragging fagots, 5 lots of small ash, 15 large ash, and 22 large elm trees, [...] will be sold by auction.
ref: 1900 December 1, The Oxford Times, section 2:
text: It is raining today in Steubenville. / Blessed be the dead whom the rain rains upon. / And damned the living who have their few days. / And blessed your thorned face, Your shragged November, / Your leaf, / Lost.
ref: James Wright, Rain / Edward Thomas (poem), quoted in Above the River: The Complete Poems (1990), page 19
glosses: To cut or lop; to trim or prune (something, such as a tree).
shrags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shrag
flisking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flisk
flisked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flisk
suscipients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suscipient
trumeaux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trumeau