cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
creance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹiːəns/
Forms: form: creances
Etymology: From Middle English creaunce, from Old French creance. See credence.
Senses: glosses: faith; belief; creed
examples: text: Even as horses led by hand doe sometimes bound and start out of the way, but no further then their halters length, and neverthelesse follow ever his steps that leadeth them; And as a Hawke takes his flight but under the limits of hir cranes or twyne.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.12:
topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: A long leash, or lightweight cord used to prevent escape of a hawk during training flights.
creance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹiːəns/
Forms: form: creances
form: creancing
form: creanced
form: creanced
Etymology: From Middle English creaunce, from Old French creance. See credence.
Senses: glosses: To get on credit; to borrow.
creances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creance
double steal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double steals
Senses: examples: text: The team is known to try the double steal because it has so many speedsters.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A situation in which two baserunners attempt to steal a base simultaneously. This is usually called by the manager when there are runners on first base and second base.
examples: text: This pair have seven double steals this season.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The successful completion of a double steal.
double steals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The team has pulled off three double steals in this game.
glosses: plural of double steal
credit report
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: credit reports
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A document of the history and current status of a borrower's credit standing, which may include identifying information, credit information, public records information, recent inquiries and credit score.
infield shift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infield shifts
Etymology: From infield and shift.
Originally called the Williams shift or Boudreau shift, respectively named for Ted Williams and Lou Boudreau, and first used during the 1946 World Series by St. Louis Cardinals manager Eddie Dyer as a defensive gimmick. In the late 1990s, the strategy was revived, using the more generic infield shift, which has been used exclusively since then.
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A defensive alignment in which the third baseman, shortstop and second baseman positionally shift to their left when a left-handed batter is in the batter's box. Used primarily when the batter is an extreme pull hitter.
written all over someone's face
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: written in someone's face
Senses: glosses: Very obvious, from someone's facial expression.
raw_tags: of an emotion
Related terms: plain as day
plain as the nose on one's face
grad school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grad schools
Senses: glosses: Clipping of graduate school
pregnancy school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pregnancy schools
Senses: glosses: A school exclusively for pregnant girls.
gaelscoil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaelscoileanna
Etymology: From Irish, from Gael (“Gael, Gaelic person”) + scoil (“school”).
Senses: glosses: A school in which Irish is the working language.
med school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: med schools
Senses: examples: text: "I was given the monicker in med school, because my name was John and I did a certain amount of night-tripping."
ref: 2011, James Ellroy, L.A. Noir: The Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy, Random House, page 407:
glosses: Medical school.
medical school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medical schools
Senses: examples: text: It's close to the sprawling University of Birmingham campus and the ever-growing Queen Elizabeth Hospital site, which also includes a large medical school.
ref: 2021 July 28, Peter Plisner, “The race to the Games has begun”, in RAIL, number 936, page 54:
glosses: A school that teaches medicine.
herkie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: herkies
Etymology: From Herkimer + -ie, after Lawrence R. Herkimer, founder of the NCA.
Senses: topics: cheerleading
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A jump with one leg straight out to the side and the other bent flat beneath the body.
NCA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: cheerleading
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of National Cheerleaders Association.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of National Command Authority.
examples: text: The NCA is worth listening to. It has chalked up some eye-catching successes in the battle against cyber crime.
ref: 2025 June 7, Misha Glenny, “Code Red”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 1:
glosses: Initialism of National Crime Agency.
NCA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NCAs
Senses: topics: chemistry
electrochemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of nickel-cobalt-aluminum, a type of lithium cell chemistry.
glosses: Initialism of national capital area.
Synonyms: sense: nickel cobalt aluminum
word: NiCoAl
sense: nickel cobalt aluminum
word: nicoal
Coordinate terms: sense: nickel cobalt aluminium
alt: NiCoMn
word: NCM
sense: nickel cobalt aluminium
alt: NiMnCo
word: NMC
sense: nickel cobalt aluminium
alt: LiFeP
word: LFP
basket toss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basket tosses
Senses: topics: cheerleading
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A stunt in which three or more bases toss a flyer into the air.
certificates of deposit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of certificate of deposit
DIPS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of defense-independent pitching statistics.
Related terms: BABIP
dERA
defense-independent pitching statistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A measure of a pitcher's effectiveness based only on plays that do not involve fielders. Originally included only hit-by-pitch, walks, strikeouts, and home runs allowed, but more recently incorporates fly ball percentage, ground ball percentage, and line drive percentage.
Related terms: Batting Average on Balls In Play
Defense-Independent ERA
herkies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herkie
multidisc
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + disc.
Senses: examples: text: Yet recording companies, especially classical ones, continue to churn out CDs, and not just single discs but multidisc boxed sets.
ref: 2009 March 15, Anthony Tommasini, “Do You Have Philip Glass in a Box?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Composed of multiple discs
peatiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of peaty: most peaty
peatier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of peaty: more peaty
PAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PA
nailbiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nailbiters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nail biter.
condomless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From condom + -less.
Senses: examples: text: That's exactly how Beethoven and Dvorak worked Lady GaGa explains, "When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time."
ref: 2009 March 15, Malene Arpe, “POP GOES THE WEEK”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Without a condom.
Synonyms: word: bare
word: bareback
word: BB
word: condomless
word: naked
word: natural
word: raw
word: raw dog
Derived terms: condomlessness
Related terms: word: condom
word: sexual activity
word: copulation
manats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manat
extra inning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extra innings
form: extra inning
Senses: examples: text: We'll have to play another extra inning in this game.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An additional inning of play required to break a tie.
throw smoke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: throws smoke
form: throwing smoke
form: threw smoke
form: thrown smoke
Senses: examples: text: He has been throwing smoke all game.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To consistently pitch fastballs that are difficult to hit.
Manc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: Mancs
Senses: glosses: Someone from the English city of Manchester
Synonyms: Mancunian
climate-changing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more climate-changing
form: most climate-changing
Senses: glosses: That contributes to climate change
condescendence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: condescendences
Etymology: From French condescendance, from condescendre, from Late Latin condescendere (“to let oneself down, stoop, condescend”), from Latin com- (“together”) + descendere (“to come down”). See condescend.
Senses: glosses: The act of condescending; voluntary descent from one's rank or dignity in intercourse with an inferior; courtesy toward inferiors, condescension.
qualifier: Scots law
glosses: An articulate statement annexed to a summons, setting forth the allegations in fact upon which an action is founded.
Synonyms: sense: the act of condescending
word: condescension
glucanase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glucanases
Etymology: From glucan + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that breaks down a glucan
Derived terms: endoglucanase
exoglucanase
glucoamylase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glucoamylases
Etymology: From gluco- + amylase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that hydrolyzes the glucoside bond in starches and dextrins
Related terms: amylase
glucosidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glucosidases
Etymology: From glucoside + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that hydrolyses glucosides
Derived terms: antiglucosidase
beta-glucosidase
coglucosidase
user charge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: user charges
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A fee for government-provided goods or services, charged to the user.
Synonyms: price
lactose intolerance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lactose intolerances
Senses: glosses: Inability to fully metabolize lactose.
Related terms: word: lactase persistence
word: lactose-free
word: lactose intolerant
lactose intolerant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lactose intolerant
form: most lactose intolerant
form: lactose-intolerant
Senses: glosses: Unable to fully metabolize lactose.
Related terms: word: lactase persistence
word: lactose-free
word: lactose intolerance
word: allergy
frosten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: frostens
form: frostening
form: frostened
form: frostened
Etymology: From frost + -en.
Senses: examples: text: For myself, I can entertain no fears that it will be otherwise. Around me and before me are to be seen the wise, the good and the great of our Fraternity; the grave and reverend countenances of the age, whose half-century of skill and experience have polished the shafts and adorned the capitals of each upreared column in the long vista of the past; those of middle age, upon whom time has yet laid lightly its frostening fingers; and the youthful, the generous and the warm-hearted, fresh from the quarry, and the ashlar all imbued with one common purpose, to do good.
ref: 1858, Albert Gallatin Mackey, The American Quarterly Review of Freemasonry and Its Kindred Sciences:
text: Her appearance was extremely neat. Her dark brown hair laid neatly upon either side of a high fair brow — and Time had kindly refused to frosten one single thread of it.
ref: 1866, Ned Buntline, The Beautiful Nun, page 114:
text: The sky was cloudless; the foliage of the wood scarce tinged with purple and gold; the buckwheat in yonder fields frostened into snowy ripeness.
ref: 1922, Shoemaker's Best Selections for Readings and Recitations:
glosses: To make or become frosted
Bay Street
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A street in Toronto where many banks and other financial institutions are based.
raw_tags: in Canada
glosses: Financial interests in Canada, especially in Toronto.
Related terms: Wall Street
The City
gross anatomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The old joke about gross anatomy is that it is not only gross (macroscopic) but also often gross (revolting).
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The study of large-scale anatomy, especially that which may be seen by the unaided eye (macroscopic features).
Synonyms: macroanatomy
transmission electron microscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transmission electron microscopes
Senses: glosses: A form of electron microscope in which a beam of electrons is transmitted through a thin layer of sample.
Derived terms: TEM
Related terms: electron microscope
scanning electron microscope
transmission electron microscopy
transmission electron microscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transmission electron microscope
cell-mediated immunity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cell-mediated immunities
Senses: glosses: Immunity as a result of a cell-mediated immune response.
Freudianly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Freudianly
form: most Freudianly
Etymology: From Freudian + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Harry in the flesh, in his baggy, black designer jeans with their stupid overgrown turn-ups, in his big-heeled boots and his Indiana Jones rip-off battered leather coat, sitting there, trowel stuck Freudianly through his belt, dramatically half lit in his poshy university office, with his tossily clever PostModern collection of artefacts behind him: […]
ref: 2000, James Hawes, “Among the Dead, Live”, in Dead Long Enough, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 9:
glosses: In a Freudian manner.
wood duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wood ducks
Senses: synonyms: Carolina duck
woodie
coordinate_terms: mandarin duck
glosses: A colorful North American duck, Aix sponsa, that nests in hollow trees.
wood cudweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A weedy plant of species Gnaphalium sylvaticum, found in the north temperate zone.
Synonyms: sense: Gnaphalium sylvaticum
word: heath cudweed
sense: Gnaphalium sylvaticum
word: golden motherwort
sense: Gnaphalium sylvaticum
word: chafeweed
sense: Gnaphalium sylvaticum
word: owl's crown
cell-mediated immune response
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cell-mediated immune responses
Senses: glosses: An immune response produced by the lymphokines secreted when sensitized T cells directly attack foreign antigens
wood drake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wood drakes
Senses: glosses: a male wood duck
cinnamon fern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cinnamon ferns
Senses: glosses: A coarse fern, Osmundastrum cinnamomeum, found primarily in wet areas.
consol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consols
Etymology: Abbreviation
Senses: examples: text: Since it was arguably the most successful bond ever issued, it is worth pausing to look more closely at the famed British consol.
ref: 2008, Niall Ferguson, The Ascent of Money, Penguin, page 76:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Abbreviation of consolidated annuity: A perpetual bond issued by the United Kingdom, from the 18th century.
topics: business
marketing
synonyms: con
glosses: Clipping of consolidation, only used in names of corporations.
consol
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Abbreviation
Senses: topics: business
marketing
synonyms: con
glosses: Clipping of consolidated, only used in names of corporations.
Related terms: console
consul
council
counsel
consols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of consol
gnaborretni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /(ɡ)næbəˈɹɛtni/
ipa: /(ɡ)næˈbɒɹətni/
ipa: /ɲɑ(ː)bɔɹɛtni(ː)/
Forms: form: gnaborretnis
Etymology: From interrobang spelled backwards.
Senses: examples: text: This is why we still need the Interobang on keyboards, not the gnaborretni .
ref: 2007 November 21, Docky Wocky, “Re: Did UN artificially raise AIDS numbers to swindle more funds ?”, in alt.politics.bush (Usenet):
text: Butbutbut, what other articles link to the interrobang article, and how else would I have discovered the gnaborretni‽
ref: 2009 October 29, Dr. HotSalt, “Re: Wackypedia”, in alt.religion.kibology (Usenet):
text: Switch one of the interrobang sequences to gnaborretni
ref: 2010 November 19, Cyril Brulebois, “Accepted libx11 2:1.3.3-4 (source all amd64)”, in linux.debian.changes.devel (Usenet):
topics: media
publishing
typography
synonyms: inverted interrobang
glosses: The symbol ⸘ (an inverted superimposed exclamation point and question mark), used in place of ¡¿ in Spanish, Galician, and Leonese.
Related terms: alt: '; ’
word: apostrophe
word: curly brackets
word: brace
word: square bracket
word: bracket
alt: :
word: colon
alt: ,
word: comma
alt: ‒; –; —; ―
word: dash
alt: …
word: ellipsis
alt: !
word: exclamation mark
alt: ⁄
word: fraction slash
alt: « »; ‹ ›
word: guillemet
alt: -; ‐
word: hyphen
alt: ·
word: interpunct
alt: ‽
word: interrobang
word: bracket
word: parentheses (US
alt: ( )
word: Canada)
word: full stop
alt: .
word: period
alt: ?
word: question mark
alt: ‘ ’ ‚; „
word: quotation marks
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
alt: "; '
word: quotation marks
alt: ;
word: semicolon
word: slash
alt: /
word: stroke
alt: ] [
word: space
Sussex Drive
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsʌsɪks ˈdɹaɪv/
Etymology: From Sussex + drive. The road was named after Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773–1843).
Senses: glosses: A street in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on which the official residence of the prime minister of Canada, and that of the governor general of Canada, are located.
Synonyms: word: Sussex
word: Sussex Dr
english: former name
translation: former name
word: Sussex Street
Derived terms: english: GG's residence
translation: GG's residence
word: 1 Sussex Drive
english: PM's residence
translation: PM's residence
word: 24 Sussex Drive
word: Sussex
word: Sussex Dr
Related terms: english: G.G.'s official residence
translation: G.G.'s official residence
word: Rideau Hall
Sussex Drive
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsʌsɪks ˈdɹaɪv/
Etymology: Ellipsis of 24 Sussex Drive, the street address of the prime minister's residence, formerly 24 Sussex Street.
Senses: examples: 2009: Elizabeth Payne, “Cooking is a skill that is becoming essential”, Ottawa Citizen, undated.
Campaigns are underway to persuade households, including even those at 10 Downing Street and the White House (no word on Sussex Drive), to plant vegetable gardens this year as buffers against dismal economic times.
glosses: The Canadian prime minister, or the federal government of Canada.
Synonyms: word: 24 Sussex
word: 24 Sussex Drive
Related terms: Broadway
Downing Street
Pennsylvania Avenue
perpetual bonds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perpetual bond
wood ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wood duck
user charges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of user charge
glucanases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glucanase
glucoamylases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glucoamylase
Mancs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Manc
basket tosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basket toss
pregnancy schools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pregnancy school
med schools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of med school
grad schools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grad school
big bluestems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of big bluestem
little bluestems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of little bluestem
cornermen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cornerman
organograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of organogram
24 Sussex Drive
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: 24 Sussex Street
Etymology: From 24 + Sussex Drive. The street address of the Canadian prime minister's official residence, since 1951. Until about 1958, 24 Sussex Street (see also drive). The road was named in the early 19th century, after Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773–1843).
Senses: examples: text: So I guess he figured that if he kept on plugging away as he had down there, the same formula would get him into 24 Sussex Drive. But it didn't.
ref: 1975, Winnett Boyd, Kenneth McDonald, The National Dilemma and the Way Out, BMG, page 33:
text: By 1965 Pierre Trudeau, en route to Ottawa and 24 Sussex Drive, had concluded that advocates of an associate state or special status were ‘those who do not feel capable of saying they are separatists and carrying their thinking to its logical conclusion.’
ref: 1977, John T. Saywell, The Rise of the Parti Québécois 1967–76, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 5:
glosses: The office of Prime Minister of Canada.
Synonyms: 24 Sussex
24 Sussex Street
Sussex
Sussex Drive
Derived terms: 24 Sussex
Sussex
Sussex Drive
Related terms: 10 Downing Street
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
long bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long bones
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of the relatively slender bones of the upper and lower extremities.
Hyponyms: clavicle
femur
fibula
humerus
metacarpal
metatarsal
phalanges
radius
tibia
ulna
long bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of long bone
mouchoirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mouchoir
that's what I'm talking about
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Daisy Mae just says that the Fiendo-Monster wanted to be sure everybody could see his whole face so he shaved off his mustache.
[Larry] There! That's what I'm talking about. When he turns around he's going to look like me.
ref: 1954, Jean Kerr with Eleanor Brooke, King of hearts, page 32:
text: Yeah, you know what I'm talking 'bout / Yeah, get on with it, baby / That's what I'm talking 'bout / Now dig this!
ref: 1967, “Fire”, in Jimi Hendrix (music), Are You Experienced:
text: [Sister Moore] Is she been trying to serve the Lord? Or is she just wanted to put herself up over everybody else?
[Brother Boxer] Now, that's what I'm talking about. The Word say, You going to know a tree by it's fruit. And we ain't been seeing such good fruit from Sister Margaret.
ref: 1968, James Baldwin, The Amen Corner, page 46:
glosses: Used to express enthusiastic support for an object or person that has just been referenced or for an event that has just occurred.
Related terms: right on
say that
reasonable doubt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reasonable doubts
Senses: examples: text: “[Michael Cohen]’s the human embodiment of reasonable doubt,” said [Todd] Blanche when capping off his list of 10 reasons why the jury should not convict his client.
ref: 2024, Story Hinckley, The Trump trial heads to the jury – and a historic decision, in: The Christian Science Monitor, 2024-05-29
topics: law
glosses: A degree of uncertainty to which a reason can be assigned; in those jurisdictions influenced by English common law, the minimum degree of uncertainty required to acquit a defendant.
Derived terms: beyond a reasonable doubt
odonym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odonyms
form: hodonym
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὁδός (hodós, “road”) + ὄνυμα (ónuma, “name”), equivalent to odo- + -onym. Compare French odonyme and Italian odonimo.
Senses: glosses: An identifying name given to a street; a street name.
Chinovela
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinovelas
Etymology: Blend of Chinese + telenovela
Senses: glosses: A soap opera of Chinese origin.
Related terms: Asianovela
Koreanovela
Koreanovela
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Koreanovelas
Etymology: Blend of Korean + telenovela
Senses: examples: text: Prime time on Philippine television has become the time of "Koreanovelas,” said one media watcher.
ref: 2006, Ronald Meinardus, Liberal Times in the Philippines: Reflections on Politics, Society and the Role of the Media, page 190:
text: In the Philippines over the last fifteen years, Koreanovelas have replaced South American telenovelas in popularity, spawning the Philippines' own soap opera industry.
ref: 2014, Euny Hong, The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation Is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture, unnumbered page:
text: That's why whenever Love watches Koreanovelas, I (Dreus) remind her not to compare me with the oppas (boyfriend, older brother, or leading man).
ref: 2020, Dreus Cosio, Love Cosio, Love Connect: The Couple's Language to a Happy Marriage, page 59:
glosses: A soap opera originating in Korea.
Synonyms: K-drama
Related terms: Asianovela
Chinovela
incontinents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incontinent
twin quasar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twin quasars
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: a pair of quasar images formed by gravitational lensing of a single physical quasar
Related terms: double quasar
binary quasar
twin quasars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twin quasar
double quasars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double quasar
double quasar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double quasars
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Two quasars that form a system, such that they gravitationally interact, or are part of the same cluster of galaxies; a binary quasar.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Two quasars that appear to be paired when seen in an image, either because they orbit one another (binary quasars) or happen to be in the same line of sight even though they are separated by a great distance.
Related terms: double star
double planet
binary quasar
twin quasar
slipstick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slipsticks
Etymology: From slip + stick.
Senses: glosses: A slide rule.
fole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foles
Senses: examples: text: In candent ire the solar splendor flames;
 The foles, languescent, pend from arid rames;
 His humid front the cive, anheling, wipes,
 And dreams of erring on ventiferous ripes.
ref: 1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Æstivation:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of foal.
blanding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bland
blanding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of bland + branding
Senses: examples: text: Regardless, we are left with the lesson that "Branding," not "Blanding" is what America voters want and hence your choice is really Rand Paul who brands libertarian values that represent American individual fortitude and people progress via social-political activities far better than conservative Power Prejudice.
ref: 2016, Dale Benjamin Drakeford, POWER POSITIVE Moments That Document Nicely Why You Must Invest Your Vote In Bernie Sanders, page 40:
text: There would have been revisions, more testing, and more revisions until the joy and spontaneity would have been squeezed from the design: blanding as opposed to branding.
ref: 2002, Paula Scher, Make It Bigger, page 94:
text: The Blanding of Branding
Cause marketing isn't the only thing we see too much of today; we see too much of everything. A typical grocery store carries 61 varieties of sunscreen, […]
ref: 2010, Jason Saul, Social Innovation, Inc., page 99:
text: Sometimes logos are refreshed to respond to new visual trends, as, for example, many elaborate visuals have been recently changed into more simple designs, leading to a situation known as 'blanding' and characterised by the adoption of less distinctive but more modern fonts which simplified logos, such as in the case of Balmain and Burberry.
ref: 2024, Alice Dallabona, Luxury Fashion Marketing and Branding: A Strategic Approach:
topics: business
marketing
glosses: The development of a brand that is characterless and unappealing.
galantine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡaləntiːn/
ipa: /ɡalənˈtiːn/
Forms: form: galantines
Etymology: From Old French galentine, galantine, variant of galatine, from Latin gelāta (“frozen”) + Old French -ine. Compare gelatin.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Have some galantine. I'm going to. Your sole's cold.’
ref: 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not… (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 98:
glosses: A spiced, thickened sauce served with fish or poultry.
examples: text: Of how many creams, jellies, salads, peaches, white soups, grapes, pates, galantines, cups of tea, champagne, and so forth, Lady Clavering partook, it does not become us to say.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 46, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: Canapes of many kinds, galantines to be scooped or carved, cheese and onions, no Worcestershire sauce.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 620:
glosses: A dish of boned, often stuffed meat (or fish) that has been boiled, and is served cold with its jelly.
gesturality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gesturalities
Etymology: From gestural + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The capacity to communicate using gesture.
glosses: The gestures used by a person (in a specific situation).
immolations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immolation
mephistophelean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mephistophelean
form: most mephistophelean
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Mephistophelean.
uninterrogated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uninterrogated
form: most uninterrogated
Etymology: From un- + interrogated.
Senses: glosses: Not interrogated
glosses: unquestioned
Suren
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Surena
Etymology: Ultimately from Parthian 𐭎𐭅𐭓𐭉𐭍 (swryn /⁠Sūrēn⁠/).
Senses: glosses: Surname of a Parthian noble family.
glosses: A general from this family.
glosses: A transliteration of the Armenian male given name Սուրեն (Suren).
orbitar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Compare French orbitaire.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: orbital.
Derived terms: suborbitar
supraorbitar
inbornness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inborn + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being inborn.
Synonyms: innateness
larvate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: First attested in 1846; borrowed from Latin larvātus, from larva (“a mask”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: larvate epilepsy
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Concealed; obscure; being a doubtful case of disease.
Pan-European
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Pan-European
form: most Pan-European
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pan-European.
first basemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of first baseman
doubles up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of double up
doubling up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of double up
doubled up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of double up
pubbiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of pubby: most pubby
pubbier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of pubby: more pubby
cybercrook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cybercrooks
Etymology: From cyber- + crook.
Senses: examples: text: It is widely recognized that you are far more likely to be swindled by a waiter at a restaurant than an evil cybercrook.
ref: 2001, Duncan Grey, The Internet in School:
text: The cybercrook has realized that stealing the next version of the Coca-Cola recipe or Windows software is worth more than a $10 million heist.
ref: 2005, Hedieh Nasheri, Economic Espionage and Industrial Spying:
glosses: A cybercriminal.
cybercrooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cybercrook
roof tiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roof tile
OPS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of on-base plus slugging.
glosses: Initialism of other professional studies.
Derived terms: sense: on-base plus slugging
word: adjusted OPS
sense: on-base plus slugging
word: OPS+
OPS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Open Publication Structure, a sub-specification of EPUB.
on-base plus slugging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A metric used to evaluate the effectiveness of a hitter; the sum of on-base percentage and slugging percentage.
Synonyms: word: OPS
subexpression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subexpressions
Etymology: From sub- + expression.
Senses: examples: text: The third part of the regular expression, \1, is the backreference and tells ColdFusion to refer back to the first subexpression[…]
ref: 2003, Rob Brooks-Bilson, Programming ColdFusion MX:
text: Something to note that's shared between all subexpressions (as well as scriptblocks) is that the end of a line does not terminate the subexpression.
ref: 2020 February 24, “Handling PowerShell's Versatile Subexpressions”, in Clear-Script:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: An expression that is a part of a larger expression.
on-base percentage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: on-base percentages
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The frequency with which a hitter successfully reaches first base.
points of reference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of point of reference
lacertilian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lacertilian
form: most lacertilian
Etymology: Lacertilia + -ian
Senses: glosses: Relating to the reptilian suborder Lacertilia.
glosses: Lizardlike.
lacertilian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lacertilians
Etymology: Lacertilia + -ian
Senses: glosses: A reptile of suborder Lacertilia.
lacertilians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lacertilian
on-base percentages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of on-base percentage
slugging percentages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slugging percentage
repolarize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repolarizes
form: repolarizing
form: repolarized
form: repolarized
form: repolarise
Etymology: From re- + polarize.
Senses: glosses: To polarize again.
Related terms: repolarization
wash-leathers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wash-leather
repolarizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repolarize
repolarizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repolarize
repolarized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repolarize
Romagnolo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Romagnol language.
Derived terms: Emiliano-Romagnolo
repolarise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repolarises
form: repolarising
form: repolarised
form: repolarised
Etymology: From re- + polarise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of repolarize.
Related terms: repolarisation
repolarisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repolarisations
Etymology: From re- + polarisation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of repolarization.
repolarisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repolarisation
repolarization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repolarizations
form: repolarisation
Etymology: From re- + polarization.
Senses: glosses: The act of repolarizing.
Related terms: depolarization
hypopolarization
hyperpolarization
prepolarization
repolarizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repolarization
loose scrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loose scrums
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: Ruck.
Cirillo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cirillos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Cirillo. Doublet of Cyril.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
price-earnings ratio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: price-earnings ratios
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: The ratio of share price to earnings per share used as an indication of the relative value of the share.
Synonyms: PE
PE ratio
P-E ratio
multiple
installment loans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of installment loan
Carso
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Italian Carso.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Karst: A mountainous karst plateau in northeastern Italy and southwestern Slovenia; in full, Karst Plateau.
representability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From represent + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: The first of these is concerned with the finite representability of belief sets.
ref: 2008 January 3, Sven Ove Hansson, “Specified Meet Contraction”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 1, →DOI, pages 31–54:
glosses: The quality of being representable.
sawflies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sawfly
maximum breaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maximum break
goober
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡuːbə/
ipa: /ˈɡubɚ/
rhymes: -uːbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: goobers
form: goobering
form: goobered
form: goobered
form: gouber
Etymology: Via Gullah from Kongo nguba (“peanut”).
Senses: glosses: To drool or dribble.
glosses: To drip or slather; to apply a gooey substance to a surface.
ball returns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ball return
baulk colours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baulk colour
baulk ends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baulk end
baulk lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baulk line
billiard tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of billiard table
seawolf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seawolves
Etymology: From Middle English sēwolf, from Old English *sǣwulf, equivalent to sea + wolf.
Senses: glosses: A strong-jawed North Atlantic fish of wolffish family Anarhichadidae, Anarhichas lupus.
glosses: An elephant seal.
examples: text: The seawolf twisted onto itself, its jaws clopping together near its own tail.
ref: 1998, David Drake, Lord of the Isles, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 37:
text: Benjamin stood, gasping for breath and looking down at the dead corsair. "You were a worthy foe, seawolf," he murmured regretfully.
ref: 1992, Shirl Henke, Return to Paradise, Leisure Books (Mm), →ISBN, page 408:
text: Kebisu was regarded as a ferocious and cunning seawolf, who had raised his diminutive island to the state of marine fortress without so much as erecting a brush stockade; he had no fixed defences.
ref: 1978, Peter Pinney, Estelle Runcie, Too many spears, Angus & Robertson, →ISBN, page 60:
glosses: Any of various dangerous people and animals that attack at sea.
Synonyms: Atlantic wolffish
Atlantic catfish
ocean catfish
sea cat
Related terms: seadog
seawolves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seawolf
sound-alike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sound-alikes
Senses: glosses: Someone who has a similar voice to another.
Related terms: lookalike
look-alike
sound truck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sound trucks
Senses: glosses: A vehicle equipped with loudspeakers, used for advertising, safety announcements, etc.
surround-sound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of surround sound.
surround sound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aʊnd
Senses: glosses: A method of using multiple speakers to give the effect of being surrounded by sound.
glosses: The effect of being surrounded by sound.
sound system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sound systems
form: soundsystem
Senses: glosses: An electronic system used to reproduce sound.
examples: text: One young Tamil teacher had assimilated the sound-system of English so thoroughly to that of his mother-tongue that none of the Chinese and Malay children understood him.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 277:
glosses: The set of speech sounds that make up a language; a phonology.
examples: text: Rooted in Caribbean culture and introduced to the UK by the Windrush generation, sound systems – static or truck-bound collectives of MCs and DJs playing music through customised, bass-heavy speakers – have been integral to Notting Hill carnival since 1973.
ref: 2019 August 23, Dave Simpson, “The sound systems of Notting Hill carnival: 'I'll stop when I can't walk'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A mobile platform playing selected recorded music, set up as a social event, often with an entrance fee.
sound track
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sound tracks
Senses: examples: text: As the rest of the film was made on location in the railway yards of Havre and not in a studio, and was given a sound-track of penetrating vividness, this whole production gives the closest possible ring of truth of any film about railways.
ref: 1958 February 24, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 89:
glosses: Alternative form of soundtrack.
outsound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outsounds
form: outsounding
form: outsounded
form: outsounded
Etymology: From Middle English outsounen, outsownen, equivalent to out- + sound.
Senses: glosses: To sound out (all senses)
glosses: To surpass in sounding.
missound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: missounds
form: missounding
form: missounded
form: missounded
Etymology: From mis- + sound.
Senses: examples: text: Every word in English of more than one Syllable has a fixed accent established by the custom of the language, to misplace which is as offensive to the propriety of speech, as to missound the vowel.
ref: 1808, R.s. Skillern, A New System of English Grammar, page 128:
text: Many of you have read these stories and could never pick out any such English; no more would you of the Ismael Persians Haly, or Mortuus Alli they worship, whose true etymology is, mortuum halec, a dead Red-Herring, and no other, though, by corruption of speech they false dialect and missound it.
ref: 1871, Thomas Nash, The Old Book Collectorʼs Miscellany, page 66:
text: It is by some regarded a far more serious error to misaccent a word than to missound a vowel or diphthong or some other part.
ref: 1939, John Baker Opdycke, Don't Say it: A Cyclopedia of English Use and Abuse, page 31:
glosses: To sound or pronounce wrongly.
missound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mis- + sound.
Senses: examples: text: They are, however, often found used in the second person without this suffix, for which the avoiding of the missound is quoted as the reason.
ref: 1874, Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner, An English Grammar, page 335:
glosses: mispronunciation.
black spots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black spot
brown spots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brown spot
check sides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of check side
combing ridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: combing ridges
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
roofing
glosses: A topmost row of roofing slates that project above the line of the ridge
finderscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finderscopes
Etymology: From finder + -scope.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A small telescope, or other sighting device, mounted on top of a main telescope to enable approximate directional positioning.
finderscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of finderscope
nanotori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanotorus
spamvertises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spamvertise
spamvertised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spamvertise
roop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹuːp/
rhymes: -uːp
Forms: form: roops
form: rooping
form: rooped
form: rooped
form: roup
Etymology: From Middle English ropen (“to cry out”), from Old English hrōpan (“to shout, proclaim; cry out, scream, howl”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōpaną (“to call, shout, cry”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *kor- (“to caw, crow”). Cognate with Scots roup (“to shout, roar, cry out loudly”), Saterland Frisian roupe (“to call, shout”), Dutch roepen (“to shout, cry out”), German rufen (“to call, cry, shout”), Swedish ropa (“to call, cry out, shout”), Icelandic hrópa (“to cry out”).
Senses: glosses: To cry; shout.
glosses: To roar; make a great noise.
examples: text: I am rooped up.
glosses: To make hoarse.
Derived terms: roopit
rooped up
stoop and roop
roop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹuːp/
rhymes: -uːp
Forms: form: roops
form: roup
Etymology: From Middle English ropen (“to cry out”), from Old English hrōpan (“to shout, proclaim; cry out, scream, howl”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōpaną (“to call, shout, cry”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *kor- (“to caw, crow”). Cognate with Scots roup (“to shout, roar, cry out loudly”), Saterland Frisian roupe (“to call, shout”), Dutch roepen (“to shout, cry out”), German rufen (“to call, cry, shout”), Swedish ropa (“to call, cry out, shout”), Icelandic hrópa (“to cry out”).
Senses: glosses: Hoarseness.
Derived terms: roopy
roops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roop
roops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of roop
May-September romances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of May-September romance
combing ridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of combing ridge
outsounds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outsound