cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hold court
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holds court
form: holding court
form: held court
form: held court
Senses: examples: text: [T]his was one of the anterooms off the main throneroom in which the king was accustomed to hold court with his entire retinue.
ref: 1919, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 19, in Tarzan the Untamed:
glosses: To preside in a formal manner over an official assembly of courtiers and others in which entertainment is presented or affairs of state are considered.
raw_tags: of a king or other high-ranking aristocrat
examples: text: Bean held court in an outhouse, the prisoner seated on a bale of flint hides. Bean was not only judge but prosecutor, as well as counsel for the defense.
ref: 1906, Andy Adams, “Rangering”, in Cattle Brands: A Collection of Western Camp-Fire Stories:
text: California's Acting Secretary of State . . . asked the judge in the case not to hold court on Election Day, Nov. 8, and the day before.
ref: 1994 August 14, Michael Janofsky, “Simpson Trial's Allure Puts State Politicians on the Spot”, in New York Times, retrieved 30 May 2013:
topics: law
glosses: To convene or preside over a trial or other legal proceeding in a court of law.
raw_tags: of a judge or equivalent official
examples: text: She was the centre of a very brilliant group, a most beautiful woman holding court, as was only right and proper, among her admirers.
ref: 1912, E. Phillips Oppenheim, chapter 3, in Peter Ruff and the Double Four:
text: Suddenly I heard a familiar laugh, headed down to the bar and found José Andrés holding court with journalists on behalf of a solar-powered cookstove that cheaply boils water for people with little or no access to fuel.
ref: 2012 April 18, Anthony Bourdain, “José Andrés: Activist”, in Time:
text: With a rumpled, folksy manner, he held court for years in the smoke-filled beer hall of the King Louis Hotel in Calgary.
ref: 2013 April 1, Douglas Martin, “Ralph Klein, 70, Politician in Alberta Oil Boom, Dies”, in New York Times, retrieved 30 May 2013:
glosses: To serve as the principal discussant or center of attention in an informal gathering of friends, associates, etc.
Ticos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tico
Nicas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nica
megalopsychos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megalopsychoi
form: megalopsuchos
form: megalopsukhos
form: megalopsychus
form: megalopsykhos
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek μεγᾰλόψῡχος (megălópsūkhos, “great-souled man”, “magnanimous one”), from μεγᾰς (megăs, “great”) + ψῡχή (psūkhḗ, “mind”, “spirit”, “soul”).
Senses: examples: text: Nietzsche could not, for instance, accuse Aristotle of preaching a morality of pity, nor of extolling humility. On the contrary Aristotle’s description of the megalopsychos who possesses the virtue of greatness of soul and “deserves and claims great things” (Nicomachean Ethics 1123 a 15) has much in common with Nietzsche’s picture of the “higher” type of man.
ref: 1973, Philippa Foot, “Nietzsche: The Revaluation of Values”, in Robert C. Solomon, Garden City, New York, editors, Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays, Anchor Books, →ISBN, page 164:
glosses: Aristotle’s “great-souled man”: an aristocratic paragon who embodies the virtues to an exceptional degree (a figure described chiefly in Aristotle’s Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics).
raw_tags: in Aristotelian philosophy
Coordinate terms: sense: figure in Aristotelian philosophy
english: equivalent in Kierkegaardian philosophy
translation: equivalent in Kierkegaardian philosophy
word: knight of faith
sense: figure in Aristotelian philosophy
english: equivalent in Nietzschean philosophy
translation: equivalent in Nietzschean philosophy
word: übermensch
Related terms: megalopsychia
megalopsychy
nonaffective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + affective.
Senses: glosses: Not affective.
eldress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eldresses
Etymology: From elder + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female elder.
glosses: A woman ordained to rule or teach in a church.
eldship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eld (“old”) + -ship.
Senses: glosses: Old age; eld.
rohus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rohu
recalcine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recalcines
form: recalcining
form: recalcined
form: recalcined
Etymology: From re- + calcine.
Senses: glosses: To calcine again.
Related terms: recalcination
recalcines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recalcine
recalcining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recalcine
recalcined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recalcine
recalc
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recalcs
form: recalcing
form: recalced
form: recalced
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: Typically, you'll debug your model by making changes, recalcing, and testing within the spreadsheet, then trying Prepare and Run.
ref: 1988 December 5, InfoWorld, volume 10, number 49:
text: This would typically be used to temporarily turn off layout calculations while a number of shapes are added or modified, after which DLS could be re-enabled to recalc the drawing all at once.
ref: 2000, Graham Wideman, VISIO 2000 Developer's Survival Guide, page 228:
glosses: recalculate
recalcing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recalc
recalcs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recalc
recalced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recalc
recalcination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recalcinations
Etymology: From re- + calcination.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of calcining again.
recalcinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recalcination
rodizios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rodizio
bedutch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bedutches
form: bedutching
form: bedutched
form: bedutched
Etymology: From be- + Dutch.
Senses: examples: text: As for the people not liking it, it would surely be easier to bedutch them back again than it was to bewelsh them before.
ref: 1895, William Richard Wood Stephens, The Life and Letters of Edward A. Freeman, D. C. L., LL.:
glosses: To Germanise.
glosses: To make Dutch, or make like Dutch; Dutchify.
rotaliid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rotaliids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any foraminiferan of the order Rotaliida
rotaliids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rotaliid
honeypot ant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honeypot ants
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of honey-pot ant.
Ingrians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ingrian
payrollers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of payroller
SEER
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of seasonal energy efficiency ratio.
jumpering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jumper
pavemented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pavement + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Furnished with a pavement.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Having undergone the process of pavementing.
pebbledashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pebbledash
Pekie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pekies
Etymology: From Pekinese + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A Pekinese dog.
Pekies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pekie
fnarr
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fnar.
kleftiko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Greek κλέφτικο (kléftiko, “in the style of the klephts”).
Senses: glosses: A Greek dish of lamb marinated and baked on the bone.
rubrenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rubrene
woodsia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodsias
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Woodsia of ferns.
woodsias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woodsia
cyanope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyanopes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κυανῶπις (kuanôpis, “dark-looking”).
Senses: examples: text: On this basis various genotypes may be listed as follows: EEHH - Fast dark, EEHh - Medium dark with a cyanope stage, EeHH - Medium dark with a glaucope state, EdHh - Slow dark with intermediate stage variable.
ref: 1946, Reginald Ruggles Gates, Human Genetics, page 95:
text: The cyanope type (brown eyes, blond hair) and the glaucope type (blue eyes, black hair) probably arose independently as mutations, the glaucope being earlier in the European population, i.e., the mutation to blue eyes probably occurred before the mutation to fair hair.
ref: 1953, Alan H. Kelso De Montigny, International Anthropological and Linguistic Review, page 61:
text: There were too few in the cyanope group of the MacConaill types for comparison to be made.
ref: 1955, The Journal of Mental Science - Volume 101, page 541:
topics: anthropology
biology
genetics
human-sciences
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A person with fair hair and brown eyes.
Related terms: glaucope
unrisked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + risked.
Senses: glosses: Not risked.
dustling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dustlings
Etymology: From dust + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Now Gods Almightiness is within the least punctum physicum, or dustling of body, ('twas made and is kept in being by Almightiness). But Gods Almightiness being God himself, himself is there altogether.
ref: 2012, Jasper Reid, The Metaphysics of Henry More:
glosses: A small grain or particle; mote; speck.
examples: text: Without culture, without a garden, how could this human dustling survive in the wildness of even a very good created world?
ref: 2010, W. David O. Taylor, For the Beauty of the Church:
glosses: One formed from the dust; human being.
megacorporate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mega- + corporate.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a megacorporation.
YOB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Y.O.B.
form: Y. O. B.
form: YoB
form: y.o.b.
form: y. o. b.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of year of birth.
Y.O.B.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of YOB.
Y. O. B.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of YOB.
YoB
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of YOB (year of birth)
birthyear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birthyears
form: birth year
Etymology: From birth + year.
Senses: examples: text: Then one day Professor Michael Griffel, who had been elected to the chairmanship of music at Hunter, called me in his office and regretfully told me that someone who had been checking the files for some reason had noticed that my birthyear was 1911, which made me two years over the age limit to be a professor at Hunter.
ref: 1995, Buck Clayton, Nancy Miller Elliott, Buck Clayton's Jazz World:
text: "[...] I can't have a reading. I don't know my birthyear. Simply, simply, simply don't remember my birthyear."
ref: 2006, Iris Vorel, Ad Astra:
synonyms: year of birth
glosses: The year in which one was born; year of (one's) birth.
Related terms: birthday
birthdate
honeypot ants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honeypot ant
swedges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of swedge
swedging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of swedge
glaucope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glaucopes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γλαυκώψ (glaukṓps, “with blue-grey eyes”).
Senses: examples: text: On this basis various genotypes may be listed as follows: EEHH - Fast dark, EEHh - Medium dark with a cyanope stage, EeHH - Medium dark with a glaucope state, EdHh - Slow dark with intermediate stage variable.
ref: 1946, Reginald Ruggles Gates, Human Genetics, page 95:
text: The cyanope type (brown eyes, blond hair) and the glaucope type (blue eyes, black hair) probably arose independently as mutations, the glaucope being earlier in the European population, i.e., the mutation to blue eyes probably occurred before the mutation to fair hair.
ref: 1953, Alan H. Kelso De Montigny, International Anthropological and Linguistic Review, page 61:
text: The most numerous in each war period had blue or grey eyes and dark hair (" glaucope ") but the percentage of such types fell from 47 to 40 per cent between the two samples, while those with fair hair and light eyes (" blond ") rose from 16 to 19 per cent.
ref: 1957, Eugenics review - Volumes 48-49, pages 112–113:
topics: anthropology
biology
genetics
human-sciences
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A person with dark hair and blue eyes.
Related terms: cyanope
malacophilous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From malaco- + -philous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: pollinated by snails or slugs
Related terms: malacophily
pooters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pooter
pooters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pooter
derpiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of derpy: most derpy
pneumogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pneumograms
Etymology: From pneumo- + -gram.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A record (often overnight) of the respiratory movements of a subject by the use of pneumography.
flobber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɒbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: flobbers
form: flobbering
form: flobbered
form: flobbered
Etymology: Perhaps a blend of flop + wobble.
Senses: examples: text: And the fish flobbered back with a flop, JACK'!
ref: 1887, Punch - Volumes 93-96, page 45:
text: The aide raised a fast-clenched fist to his mouth, flobbered his throat muscles in a horrible spasm of crimson-faced control, repressed his cough silently and looked briefly toward heaven.
ref: 1957, The Saturday Evening Post - Volume 230, page 74:
text: My cheeks flobber up and down while my arms whirl like electric fans.
ref: 1963, Andrew Sinclair, The paradise bum, page 80:
text: Hornsby's Adam's apple flobbered but he did not answer.
ref: 1967, James Warner Bellah, The Journal of Colonel De Lancey, page 79:
text: And she began flobbering, almost imperceptibly, toward the scrubby brown growth beyond the sand and toward the sun.
ref: 1978, James Thurber, Further fables for our time, page 2:
text: They flobber as they walk with their fat damp flabby feet.
ref: 1990, Richard Francis, The Land where Lost Things Go by Olive Watson, page 227:
text: He flobbered and flumped all over chairs, and he talked endlessly in that rapid, insinuating, confidential marshmallow voice of his - so swift to compassion!
ref: 1991, Wilbur Sanders, The Big Wolves, page 101:
text: I've never seen a blimp close-up. It bobbled. Slowly. It flobbered. It was a bit like a whale acting coy -- or one of the hippopotami in pink tutus in Fantasia.
ref: 2002, A. M. Jolly, Grumble Soup, →ISBN:
text: And when he had hooked a fine perch, and Miss BELL made a dash at the line, And the fish flobbered back with a flop, JACK'S escape from a cuss cut it fine.
ref: 2006, Patricia Marks, The 'Arry Ballads: An Annotated Collection of the Verse Letters, →ISBN, page 69:
text: So we proceeded at chastened speed, the dust reduced enough that our headlights showed Ross's flattened tire as it flobbered joltingly around the rim.
ref: 2012, Steve Turner, Amber Waves and Undertow, →ISBN:
text: Since it's inflatable, various artworld wags have been plotting how to shoot a dart into its side and watch it flobber down like a great big burst balloon.
ref: 2013 May 31, Charlotte Higgins, “Venice Biennale diary: dancing strippers and inflatable targets”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To sag and wobble.
flobber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: flobbers
Senses: glosses: A pouting (Trisopterus luscus)
inspiraled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inspiral
zeerust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by British science fiction writer and humorist Douglas Adams and by British television producer and writer John Lloyd in The Meaning of Liff (1983), from Zeerust, the name of a town in South Africa. By folk etymology, connected semantics to rust.
Senses: examples: text: It also features a nice bit of Zeerust in the form of a carefully reproduced Hollerith card.
ref: 2009 March 23, James Nicholl, “Since there seems to be a derth of on topic material just now”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet), message-ID <gq8jkj$6u7$1@reader1.panix.com>:
text: If in a mere 60 years we've learned enough that the predictions of the Futurists then have become "zeerust" today, how long before the predictions on this very blog become subject of ridicule and sympathy directed at our naivete?
ref: 2010 January 21, Rick, quoting Jean Remy, “The Future of the Future”, in Rocketpunk Manifesto, retrieved 31 May 2013:
text: Sci-fi and futuristic- lots of potential here it seems to me, though not as many real world example rides as I expected. I wonder if it's a cost issue or a fear of getting zeerust setting in as the ride ages.
ref: 2012 June 13, Fuu, “Concept Brainstorming (aka rambling) part one”, in Project Dark Ride, retrieved 31 May 2013:
glosses: Datedness of something originally intended to seem futuristic.
wikipedia: The Meaning of Liff
Related terms: retrofuturism
Hollerith card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hollerith cards
Etymology: Named after American inventor Herman Hollerith (1860–1929), who patented machine-readable punch card devices in 1889.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A punch card.
ballistician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballisticians
Etymology: From ballistic + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A person who has expertise in the field of ballistics
ballisticians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ballistician
slaten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsleɪtən/
[ˈsleɪtn̩]
Etymology: From slate + -en (“made of”).
Senses: examples: text: It is twilight time: the sun has gone away over the hill, and has left only crimson clouds for his rising token. Sitting down on the slaten rock, and looking westward, I said: ‘It will be fair to-morrow.’ Then, close by me, some one said: ‘Fair, to-morrow.’
ref: 1860 October, The Knickerbocker LVI, № 4, “Remembrances; Somewhat of an Allegory”, page 368
text: Then she floated away and left me lying on the slaten rock.
ref: ibidem, page 369
glosses: Made of slate.
chocked full
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chocked full
form: most chocked full
Senses: examples: text: "Oh, I can't, can't I? Kyle, I love you. You're too rich, too chocked full of what they want you to be chocked full of. [...]"
ref: 2007, Larry O'Connor, The Penalty Box:
text: Sweetest of all, honey is chocked full of antioxidants which defend us from free radical stress from eating today's insane proliferation of dead assembly line foods. However, the less golden honey is processed and heated the more antioxidants.
ref: 2009, Chef Wendell, Eat Right, Now!:
glosses: Alternative form of chock full.
stormpath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stormpaths
Etymology: From storm + path.
Senses: glosses: The path which a storm takes or is projected to take; stormtrack.
stormtrack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stormtracks
form: storm-track
form: storm track
Etymology: From storm + track.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
weather
glosses: The path traversed by the centre of a cyclonic storm.
sandridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandridges
form: sand-ridge
form: sand ridge
Etymology: From Middle English *sandrygge, from Old English sandhryċġ (“a sandbank”), equivalent to sand + ridge. Cognate with West Frisian sânrêch, Dutch zandrug, German Sandrücken.
Senses: examples: text: On the other side, under the lee of the sand-ridge, which was their usual point of separation, he endured for some moments the beard-raspings of indecision, frowning about the landscape and down at Cora.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 139:
glosses: A ridge or bank of sand; sandbank.
OKC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: OKC.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Oklahoma City.
K.C.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: K. C.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of KC.
K. C.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of KC.
O.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Oh.
glosses: Abbreviation of Ohio.
V.D.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: V.D.s
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of VD.
V. D.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of VD.
V.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of V.
supertwister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supertwisters
Etymology: From super- + twister.
Senses: glosses: A tornado measuring EF4 or above on the Enhanced Fujita scale.
supertwisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supertwister
szlachta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Polish szlachta.
Senses: glosses: A legally privileged noble class in the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
civic hacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: civic hackers
Senses: glosses: One who collaborates with others to create open source solutions using publicly-released data, code and technology to solve local social, economic, and environmental challenges.
nicca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: niccas
form: niccaz
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nikka.
niccaz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nicca
niccas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nicca
ill-scathe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ill scathe
Etymology: From ill + scathe.
Senses: examples: text: Then said Geitir: "I think you have much more excuse for considering this an ill scathe than you had the last time; for the other seemed to me of little moment. [...]"
ref: 1918, “Proceedings of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - Volume 49 - Page 114”, in Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow:
glosses: Harm; hurt.
commonship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commonships
Etymology: From common + -ship. Compare North Frisian gemiinschap (“community”), Saterland Frisian Gemeenskup (“community”), West Frisian mienskip (“community”), Dutch gemeenschap (“community, fellowship”), German Gemeinschaft (“community, fellowship”), Swedish gemenskap (“community, fellowship”).
Senses: examples: text: The two languages develope in different directions but the old commonship is still discernible.
ref: 2004, Ingemar Nordgren, The Well Spring Of The Goths:
glosses: A state, condition, or things shared or held in common; commonality.
examples: text: If they do not agree, then, as already mentioned, it is reserved to His Majesty, together with the approving Assembly, to effect the proposed change in the portion of the Monarchy concerned, to dissolve the commonship, and to make the consequent administrative arrangements; […]
ref: 1863, House of Commons Papers - Volume 74 - Page 22
text: There was even a commonship between the mine operators and the men at one time, before the Great Depression.
ref: 1988, Laurel Shakelford, Bill Weinberg, Our Appalachia:
glosses: A community or fellowship.
commonships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commonship
meanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From means + -ship. Plural forms assuming a singular form when used as the adjunct of a composed term is common; cf. ten-foot pole (not *ten-feet pole), pantleg (not *pantsleg), and stairwell (not *stairswell).
Senses: examples: text: This is one of the main values to be achieved throughout budget administration. Its use as a criterion of procedure enhances the meanship or instrumentality of the budget.
ref: 1934, The Nation's Schools, volume 14, page 42:
text: This concept of the meanship of business has no place for that type of business administration which, frequently having been made independent of educational administration, seeks to dictate to those concerned with the ultimate educational […]
ref: 1935, New York State Education - Volume 22 - Page 488
text: It is more in harmony with the element of meanship in finance. You will find it increasingly difficult to progress in the integration of education when finance and, more particularly, state aid are working against you.
ref: 1935, Official Report, page 58:
glosses: Instrumentality.
meerest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of meer: most meer
refire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: refires
form: refiring
form: refired
form: refired
Etymology: From re- + fire.
Senses: glosses: To fire again.
refiring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪəɹɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of refire
refiring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: refirings
Senses: examples: text: It is known that once a clay is fired at a certain temperature and then cooled down, it freezes at a stage which can not be altered by subsequent refirings unless the initial temperature is exceeded.
ref: 1982, Archaeological Ceramics, page 103:
glosses: An act of firing again.
refired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of refire
refires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of refire
reattributions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reattribution
uncohered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncohered
form: most uncohered
Etymology: From un- + cohered.
Senses: glosses: Not cohered.
best-of
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: best-ofs
Senses: examples: text: It's become impossible to keep abreast of all the best-ofs, as labels keep foisting greatest-hits albums on overwhelmed consumers.
ref: 2000 December, SPIN, volume 16, number 12:
glosses: A compilation of the best works of a musical performer.
best-ofs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of best-of
Bushnellian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bushnellian
form: most Bushnellian
Etymology: From Bushnell + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Relating to Horace Bushnell (1802–1876), American Congregational minister and theologian.
Frey curve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Frey curves
Etymology: Named after Gerhard Frey.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The elliptic curve associated with a solution of Fermat's equation.
wikipedia: Gerhard Frey
Frey curves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Frey curve
Christlam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Christianity + Islam
Senses: glosses: A hybrid synthesis of Christianity and Islam, founded by Eldridge Cleaver in the 1980s.
Christingles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Christingle
loineye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loineyes
Etymology: From loin + eye.
Senses: glosses: A cut of meat from the longissimus of a pig.
loineyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loineye
semispinalis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semispinales
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of three transversospinalis muscles of the human body: the semispinalis dorsi, semispinalis cervicis, and semispinalis capitis.
sacrospinalis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsæ.kroʊ.spaɪˈneɪ.lɪs/
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The erector spinae, a muscle group of the back in humans and animals.
transversospinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the transversospinalis.
transversospinalis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transversospinales
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A group of muscles in the human back, used for rotation and extension of the vertebral column, and comprehending the semispinalis, multifidus, and rotatores.
Related terms: transversospinal
microfleece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microfleeces
Etymology: From micro- + fleece.
Senses: glosses: A very thin, flexible fabric made from polyethylene terephthalate.
Related terms: polar fleece
microfleeces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microfleece
harestail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harestails
Etymology: The head of the grass resembles a hare's tail.
Senses: glosses: Lagurus ovatus, an annual grass.
harestails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harestail
thalictrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thalictrums
Etymology: From Latin thalictrum.
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the genus Thalictrum; meadowrue.
thalictrums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thalictrum
Mercuries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mercury
attainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attainers
Etymology: From attain + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who attains.
attainers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attainer
shagreening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shagreen
microbore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microbores
Etymology: From micro- + bore.
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
plumbing
glosses: A kind of narrow tubing with an outside diameter of 10 millimetres or less.
microbores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microbore
bioeroder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioeroders
Etymology: From bio- + eroder. May be decomposed as bioerode + -er.
Senses: glosses: Any organism that carries out bioerosion
Derived terms: macrobioeroder
microbioeroder
Related terms: bioerode
bioerosion
erode
eroder
bioeroders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioeroder
eroder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eroders
Etymology: From erode + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who, or that which, erodes.
Derived terms: bioeroder
eroders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eroder
paleoichnological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From paleo- + ichnological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to paleoichnology.
paleoichnologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleoichnologists
Etymology: From paleo- + ichnologist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies paleoichnology.
paleoichnologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paleoichnologist
ichnodiversity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ichno- + diversity.
Senses: glosses: diversity of trace fossils
technosol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technosols
Etymology: From techno- + -sol.
Senses: glosses: A kind of soil dominated by technical artefacts, such as landfill or cinders.
technosols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technosol
pedogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pedo- (“soil; child”) + genetic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to pedogenesis (soil formation)
glosses: Relating to pedogenesis (premature reproduction)
colluviation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colluviations
Senses: glosses: The build-up of colluvium at the base of a hillslope.
Related terms: colluviate
colluviations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colluviation
eluvia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eluvium
elutriators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elutriator
hillwash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hillwashes
Etymology: From hill + wash.
Senses: glosses: sediment that accumulates at the base of a slope
hillwashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hillwash
alluviations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alluviation
diluviation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diluviations
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The formation of deposits by flood-like operations of water.
diluviations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diluviation
fluviation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluviations
Etymology: From Latin fluviātiō, from fluviātus (“fluviated”) + -iō (“-tion: forming abstract nouns”), from fluvius (“river”) + -ātus (“-ate: forming adjectives”) as if from a verb fluviō. Equivalent to fluviated + -ion.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Deposition of silt etc. by the action of a river or stream.
examples: text: This was the first preparation of Flax, and before fluviation or rotting.
ref: 1683, Thomas Browne, Certain Miscellany Tracts, page 54:
glosses: Preparation of flax by soaking it in a stream.
fluviations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluviation
illuviations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of illuviation
illuvium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: illuviums
form: illuvia
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: material displaced across a soil profile, from one layer to another, by the action of rainwater
Related terms: illuviate
illuviation
alluvium
illuvia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of illuvium
illuviums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of illuvium
xenophyophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌzinoʊˈfaɪoʊˌfɔɹ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: xenophyophores
Senses: glosses: A giant unicellular organism found in deep parts of the ocean.
xenophyophores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xenophyophore
graphoglytid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graphoglytids
Senses: glosses: A kind of trace fossil representing a burrow.
graphoglytids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of graphoglytid
technodiversity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From techno- + diversity.
Senses: glosses: The diversity of technological artifacts in technoecosystems.
technoecosystem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technoecosystems
Etymology: From techno- + ecosystem.
Senses: glosses: An ecosystem with advanced technology, market economies, and a large ecological footprint.
technoecosystems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technoecosystem
technosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technospheres
Etymology: From techno- + -sphere.
Senses: glosses: The part of the environment where technodiversity extends its influence into the biosphere.
technospheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technosphere
doorslab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doorslabs
Etymology: From door + slab.
Senses: examples: text: So she picked all the prettiest flowers she could find and strewed them over the door-slab, which they put in its right place again.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 58:
text: This temple is so called from the two carved limestone doorslabs bearing Maya writing, part of which was read as the date 1014 A. D.
ref: 1928, El Palacio, volumes 25-26, page 119:
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A slab forming part of a doorway.
doorslabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doorslab
electrocommunication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + communication.
Senses: examples: electrocommunication in teleost fishes
glosses: communication between biological organisms by means of electrical signals
Related terms: electrogenesis
electroreception
nixtamalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nixtamalizes
form: nixtamalizing
form: nixtamalized
form: nixtamalized
Etymology: From nixtamal + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To prepare (maize) by nixtamalization.
nixtamalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nixtamalize
nixtamalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nixtamalize
nixtamalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nixtamalize
Derived terms: unnixtamalized
ponyfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ponyfish
slipmouth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slipmouths
Etymology: From slip + mouth.
Senses: glosses: ponyfish (Leiognathidae)
slipmouths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slipmouth
slimies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slimy
wheelbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheelback
ladderback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ladderbacks
form: ladder back
form: ladder-back
Etymology: From ladder + back.
Senses: glosses: A chair whose back incorporates a series of horizontal bars.
ladderbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ladderback
arrowback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arrowbacks
Etymology: From arrow + back.
Senses: glosses: A chair whose back incorporates a series of tapering vertical bars.
arrowbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arrowback
girshas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of girsha
twidling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of twidle
twidles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of twidle
twidled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of twidle
infracts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of infract
deponing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of depone
deponeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: depone + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of depone
eagle ray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eagle rays
Etymology: A calque of translingual Aetobatus (literally “eagle-ray”).
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of cartilaginous fishes in the family Myliobatidae, consisting mostly of large species living in the open ocean rather than on the sea bottom.
eagle rays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eagle ray
eagleship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eagle + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: And, there was no mistaking his eagleship... He held himself regal and above it all, one of life's avid watchers... And perhaps one of its creators?
ref: 2008, Koyote Bare, The Atomic Bum, page 175:
text: Thou knowest that I always illustrated my eagleship, by aiming at the noblest quarries ; and by disdaining to make a stoop at wrens, phyl-tits, and wag-tails.
ref: 1883, Samuel Richardson, Sir Leslie Stephen, The Works of Samuel Richardson: The history of Clarissa Harlowe, page 488:
text: We may ask it: an eagle is expected, and how is he to declare his eagleship save by breaking through our mean conventional systems, tearing links asunder, taking his own in the teeth of vulgar ordinances?
ref: 1881, George Meredith, The Tragic Comedians. Enlarged from The Fortnightly Review, page 15:
glosses: The quality of being an eagle, or having qualities associated with those of an eagle.
spidership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spider + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: When I saw her spidership my war-cry would have turned a Filipino bolo-man green with envy.
ref: 1916, Caroline Saxe Shunk, An Army Woman in the Philippines: Extracts from Letters of an Army Officer's Wife, page 86:
text: A companion at once crushed his spidership, for which on afterthought I was sorry, as I should like to have cut the spider for examination.
ref: 1893, Charles Valentine Riley, Leland Ossian Howard, Insect Life - Volume 5, page 348:
text: A friend, who was specially interested in such studies, having captured a spider, erected a column in a basin filled with water; and placing his spidership on the top of the column, sat down to watch results.
ref: 1884, The Reformed Presbyterian and Covenanter - Volumes 22-23, page 332:
glosses: honorific used to address or refer to a spider.
examples: text: [Moth about the Dog:] Bein' a bug is all a matter of legs [...] Four more an' he [could have] made spidership.
ref: 1959 May 23, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 43:
glosses: The state or quality of being a spider.
repairpersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repairperson
repairpeople
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repairperson
burns the midnight oil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of burn the midnight oil
burning the midnight oil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of burn the midnight oil
burned the midnight oil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of burn the midnight oil
in the event
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I had also concluded that I should arrive […] in time for the afternoon services, but in the event I was in this also disappointed.
ref: 1836, Andrew Reed, James Matheson, Congregational Union of England and Wales, A narrative of the visit to the American churches by the deputation from the Congregational Union of England and Wales (volume 1, page 197)
text: She had met and fallen in love with the man who collected the milk from the dairy, and she had decided to marry him when he asked her. In the event, he didn't ask her, but there was obviously something going on between them, and she forced his hand.
ref: 2010, Anna Champney, Buried Past, Hidden Secrets, page 88:
text: In the event, higher sale proceeds were achieved by allowing EWS Railway to acquire all but Freightliner, which was sold as a management buy-out.
ref: 2024 January 10, 'Industry Insider', “Success built on liberalisation and market freedom”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 69:
glosses: As things (have) turned out or are turning out; ultimately; in the end; eventually.
in the event
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: examples: text: In the event we meet the deadline, there will be free pizza for everyone.
text: The victory also guarantees England a place in the Euro 2020 play-offs, a fallback in the event they fail to qualify for that tournament through the traditional route.
ref: 2018 November 18, Phil McNulty, “England 2 - 1 Croatia”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: If, in the event that
Derived terms: in the event of
palestras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palestra
plateias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plateia
vector spaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vector space
surro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surros
Senses: examples: text: Stu and I clicked “Classifieds,” which feature ads from surros and from couples who intend to be parents (IPs, in Surrospeak, a patois we now practiced; Stu and I, more narrowly, were IFs: Intended Fathers).
ref: 2012, Michael Lowenthal, The Paternity Test, University of Wisconsin Pres, →ISBN, page 33:
text: I'll respond to ads that mention comp […] but not one that acts like surros asking for higher comp are money hungry.
ref: 2016, Zsuzsa Berend, The Online World of Surrogacy, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 171:
glosses: Clipping of surrogate mother.
Zichyújfalu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈzit͡ʃiuːjfɒlu/
Etymology: From Hungarian Zichyújfalu, from Zichy (“surname”) + új (“new”) + falu (“village”).
Senses: glosses: A village in Hungary.
fondouk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fondouks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fonduk.
positional notation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: positional notations
Senses: glosses: A notation for numbers in which the value of a digit depends on its position in the string, examples of which include the decimal system and the binary system
stub-tailed morpho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stub-tailed morphos
Senses: glosses: A butterfly, Morpho theseus
goras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gora