cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cainism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Cain + -ism.
Senses: glosses: siblicide, especially among animals.
Roncalese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An extinct dialect of Basque once spoken in the Roncal Valley
Harris's hawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Harris's hawks
Etymology: Named after Edward Harris by John James Audubon.
Senses: examples: text: Provided by Rentokil, specially trained birds of prey - such as Harris's hawks - are flown to deter gulls and other pest birds without causing them harm.
ref: 2023 May 31, “Network News: Rail Minister a keynote speaker at Rail Live 2023”, in RAIL, number 984, page 19:
glosses: Parabuteo unicinctus, a hawk native to North and South America, and used elsewhere in falconry.
wikipedia: Edward Harris (ornithologist)
John James Audubon
cholerous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cholerouses
Senses: examples: text: Which will accompanied be with flegmatick and cholerous humours.
ref: 1658, Thomas Meriton, Love and War: A Tragedy, page 4:
glosses: Of or related to choler, yellow bile; choleric
examples: text: A cholerous soldier, jealous of his rights, struck the vase with his axe, exclaiming that the king had no right to more than fell to his allotment.
ref: 1830, Eyre Evans Crowe, The History of France, page 4:
glosses: Angry or irritable; choleric
examples: text: Persons who became ill, soon after being exposed to the influences of an atmosphere supposed to be impregnated with cholerous exhalations.
ref: 1833, The Medico-chirurgical Review and Journal of Practical Medicine, page 246:
glosses: Afflicted or contaminated with cholera.
Harris's hawks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Harris's hawk.
cornshock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cornshocks
Senses: glosses: A stack of corn, typically set out for drying.
longer-running
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of long-running: more long-running
longest-running
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of long-running: most long-running
Carmilla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Carmillas
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
NAA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The NAA’s cabinet historian, David Lee, said the most surprising thing in this year’s release was the brevity of the Bali bombing mentions.
ref: 2022 December 31, Tory Shepherd, “Country of fear: Australia of 2002 was preoccupied with national security”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Initialism of National Archives of Australia.
miserlinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miserliness
fairly and squarely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: The Tees changed course in 1771 during a raging flood, leaving part of Gainford in Yorkshire - although today the village is fairly and squarely in south Durham.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 195:
text: "We do not want to go on strike. We do not want to inconvenience passengers. And we believe in investing in rail for the future of this country. The blame lies fairly and squarely at the feet of the employers who have forced our hand. It is up to them to come up with a sensible and realistic offer, and up to the government not to hinder this process."
ref: 2023 May 31, Mel Holley, “Network News: ASLEF recommends £71,000 pay deal for TfW drivers”, in RAIL, number 984, page 21:
glosses: Completely.
Related terms: fair and square
ikonomatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ikonomatic
form: most ikonomatic
Senses: examples: text: We have, so far as I am aware, no scientific term to express this manner of phonetic writing, and I propose for it therefore the adjective ikonomatic...
ref: 1886, Daniel Garrison Brinton, Essays of an Americanist, pages 207–8:
glosses: Alternative form of iconomatic.
multi-skilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + skilled.
Senses: examples: text: "Elizabeth line staff are multi-skilled and operate the world's only fully digital railway, but many earn significantly less than other TfL staff in similar roles.That is clearly not an acceptable or sustainable position, and it looks as though the company is waking up to the fact."
ref: 2023 May 31, “Network News: Action suspended on Elizabeth line”, in RAIL, number 984, page 21:
glosses: Alternative form of multiskilled.
macaronistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: macaronic
P-spot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiː.spɒt/
ipa: /ˈpi.spɑt/
rhymes: -iːspɒt
Etymology: Modelled on G-spot.
Senses: glosses: The prostate as a locus of sexual stimulation.
Related terms: G-spot
C-spot
teflon flu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Teflon flu.
Ghanese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ghanese
form: most Ghanese
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Ghanaian.
synonyms: word: Ghanaian
succès fous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of succès fou
piling rig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piling rigs
Senses: examples: text: Contractor Balfour Beatty is working around the clock to repair the structure, with a piling rig brought from Inverness.
ref: 2023 May 31, Paul Clifton, “Network News: NR removes unsafe abutment from Nuneham viaduct”, in RAIL, number 984, page 26:
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A large crawler track-mounted drill used in foundation projects which require drilling into sandy soil, clay, silty clay, and similar environments. Such rigs are similar in function to oil drilling rigs.
piling rigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piling rig.
sponge crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sponge crabs
Senses: glosses: Any of the crabs in the family Dromiidae, which carry pieces of live sponge to hide under.
sleepy crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleepy crabs
Senses: glosses: A sponge crab
endless belt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endless belts
Senses: hypernyms: belt
coordinate_terms: endless chain
glosses: A belt having the ends joined to each other (as with lacing), or one molded circularly, so as to form a continuous loop.
Related terms: endless loop
endless belts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endless belt
prostibule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prostibules
Etymology: Derived from Latin prostibulum.
Senses: examples: text: As a result, the viewer is again introduced in the prostibule by the woman on the left pulling the curtain aside, is welcomed in by the girls with raised arms, and is led out through the back entrance, from which a woman peeks in.
ref: 2003, Enrique Mallen, “A Minimalist Approach to Picasso's Visual Grammar: Les Demoiselles D'Avignon”, in Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis, volume 8:
text: The name López appears again twice: first, the priest visits a prostibule before dawn and gives the code name "López" to gain entry. Such tongue-in-cheek scenes as this irreverently subvert Hidalgo's somber image.
ref: 2008, Elisabeth Guerrero, Confronting History and Modernity in Mexican Narrative, page 37:
text: Similar to Suevia, she works in a prostibule – "el Girls Club" – although she tries to justify to the visiting policewomen that she only serves drinks.
ref: 2020, Inmaculada Pertusa-Seva, Melissa Stewart, Spanish Women Authors of Serial Crime Fiction: Repeat Offenders in the 21st Century, page 116:
glosses: A brothel.
prostibules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prostibule
escartelly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: escartelée
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Having a single square perturbance in the middle (of a line).
escartelée
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of escartelly.
clutch plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clutch plates
Senses: glosses: Synonym of clutch disc.
synonyms: word: clutch disc
clutch plates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clutch plate
kicks out the jams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kick out the jams
kicking out the jams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kick out the jams
kicked out the jams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kick out the jams
party lists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of party list
misremunerate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misremunerates
form: misremunerating
form: misremunerated
form: misremunerated
Etymology: From mis- + remunerate.
Senses: examples: text: Further, rural exodus, especially among young generations who refuse to engage themselves in hard, misremunerated agricultural work, is also a cause of the current crisis.
ref: 1989, African Study Monographs - Volume 10, page 6:
text: Instead, in all contexts, markets instill antisocial motivations in buyers and sellers, misprice items that are exchanged, misdirect aims regarding what to produce in what quantities and by what means, misremunerate producers, introduce class division and class rule, and embody an imperial logic that spreads itself throughout economic life.
ref: 2008, Chris Spannos, Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century, page 96:
text: It misdesigned goods, adversely selected technologies, misallocated and misremunerated factors of production, encouraged work to rule, underproduced, misdistributed outputs and was subject to a myriad of moral hazards.
ref: 2009, Steven Rosefielde, Red Holocaust, page 240:
hyponyms: underpay
overpay
glosses: To remunerate with an inappropriate amount.
misremunerates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misremunerate
misremunerating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misremunerate
misremunerated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misremunerate
ret'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Liberal leader Justin Trudeau, right, chats with Lt. General (ret'd) Andrew Leslie following Leslie's speech on day two of the Liberal Party of Canada's biennial convention in Montreal.
ref: 2014 September 5, Joan Bryden, “'Nixonian' Tory entrapment tactics blasted by Liberals”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2022:
topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: ret.
glosses: Abbreviation of retired.
ret'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of returned.
Comanchean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Comanche (“a city in Texas”) + -ean.
Senses: examples: text: There is a very general unconformity and break between the Lower and Upper Cretaceous; this has led Chamberlin and Salisbury to suggest that the Lower Cretaceous should be regarded as a separate period with the title "Comanchean."
ref: [1911, “Cretaceous System”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th edition, volume 7, New York, N.Y.: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., page 415:
synonyms: Early Cretaceous
Lower Cretaceous
glosses: A period of the Mesozoic era, between the Jurassic and the Upper Cretaceous periods, lasting from 145–100.5 millions of years ago.
sural nerve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sural nerves
Senses: synonyms: sural
glosses: A cutaneous sensory nerve of the posterolateral calf with cutaneous innervation to the distal one-third of the lower leg.
waights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waight
ruling planet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ruling planets
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The planet (a term which in astrology includes the Sun and Moon) which is considered to have especially strong influence over a given zodiac sign; the sign is called the planet's domicile.
Synonyms: sign ruler
sign ruler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sign rulers
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Synonym of ruling planet.
synonyms: word: ruling planet
carabidologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carabidologist
Gardon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Gard (“river in France”).
synonyms: word: Gard
extra: river in France
broken-heart syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Intense grief can also kill dogs, elephants and other animals, as the effects of broken-heart syndrome are not exclusive to humans.
ref: 2019 January 12, Michael Fox, “Intense grief can cause ‘broken-heart syndrome’”, in The News-Press, volume 135th, number 17, page 5D:
text: For unknown reasons, broken-heart syndrome is less common in men; about 90% of cases occur in older women.
ref: 2019 February 9, Harvard Health Letter, “Not for the faint of heart”, in The Bismarck Tribune, volume 145, number 040, page A4:
text: A few years later, Mildred was evaluated by doctors as having broken-heart syndrome.
ref: 2023 January 12, “Obituaries: Mildred Zyla”, in The Journal News, volume 134, number 210, page 9A:
glosses: Alternative form of broken heart syndrome.
Madonna/whore complex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Madonna/whore complexes
Senses: examples: text: It comes as a slight shock to me that men still have such Madonna/whore complexes. If you sleep with them, you are shunted into the “good-time girl” category, and that means a lot of last-minute text messages looking for sex.
ref: 2011, Kiri Blakeley, chapter 35, in Can’t Think Straight: A Memoir of Mixed-Up Love, Citadel Press, →ISBN:
text: The Madonna/whore complex casts a wide influential net that can convince many (women especially) that they “can’t” or “shouldn’t” be both mothers and sexual partners.
ref: 2019 November 7, Yana-Tallon Hicks, “The V-Spot: Keeping The Oven Hot When There’s a Bun In it”, in Valley Advocate, page 22:
text: Priya’s parents’ Hinduism seemed to present conflicting views of sex: […] What people don’t know about the Kama Sutra is that it’s actually a text that … very heavily caters to Madonna/whore complexes. That it’s actually quite misogynistic. And that it’s actually catered more for male pleasure and … males always will have the upper hand according to the Kama Sutra.
ref: 2020, Pamela Dickey Young, Heather Shipley, “Emerging-Adult Opinions on Religion and Sexuality”, in Identities Under Construction: Religion, Gender, and Sexuality among Youth in Canada, McGill-Queen’s University Press, →ISBN, pages 59–60:
glosses: Alternative form of Madonna-whore complex.
Madonna/whore complexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Madonna/whore complex
if/then
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: if/thens
Senses: examples: text: 1. The problem is well bounded, 2. There are many empirical if/thens that lead to a correct solution, 3. The total number of if/thens is sufficient to bring you close to a right answer (Mazur 1987).
ref: 1989 December, David W. Long, Michael R. Wagner, “Insect Pest Management Expert Systems in Multiresource Management of Ponderosa Pine”, in Multiresource Management of Ponderosa Pine Forests: Nov. 14 - 16, 1989, Flagstaff, Arizona (General Technical Report RM-185), page 260:
text: “Do you deal with chaos theory in your work?” “Me? I guess I just think it's fascinating. I see chaos as a series of if/thens. But that's the programmer in me.[…]”
ref: 2018, Kirsten Weiss, The Gargoyle Chronicles, volume 1, misterio press, →ISBN:
text: Today, programmers mostly use “if/thens” instead of 0s and 1s.
ref: 2018, Catherine Brereton, Women Scientists in Math and Coding (Superwomen in STEM), Gareth Stevens Publishing, →ISBN, page 35:
glosses: Alternative form of if-then.
if/thens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of if/then
if–then
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: if–thens
Senses: examples: text: Most people, when they start programming their robot, will think of the program flow as a series of if–thens, which is reminiscent of structured programming (Figure 6–3).
ref: 2002, Brian Bagnall, Core Lego Mindstorms Programming, Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 201:
text: This rule says that if in a derivation you have an infinite list of if–thens (i.e., formulas of the form φ → ψ) where each consequent (ψ) in each if–then is an element of some infinite set Φ, then you can infer to an if–then whose consequent is the infinite conjunction obtained by conjoining all the elements of Φ.
ref: 2008, Selmer Bringsjord, “Declarative/Logic-Based Cognitive Modeling”, in Ron Sun, editor, The Cambridge Handbook of Computational Psychology, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, part II (Cognitive Modeling Paradigms), page 148:
text: Tests can be implemented by atomic actions that simply succeed or fail; if–thens can be implemented by composites like Selectors that execute the first nonfailing action, and blocks of code can be implemented by Sequences that execute all their nonfailing actions or Parallel nodes, which allow multiple actions to be executed concurrently (Champandard and Dunstan 2012).
ref: 2020, Steve Rabin, editor, Game AI Pro 360: Guide to Architecture, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 312:
glosses: Alternative form of if-then.
if–thens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of if–then
cryptanalyzes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cryptanalyze
cryptanalyzing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cryptanalyze
charioters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charioter
charitable trusts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charitable trust
charity cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charity case
Charlie Chaplin moustaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Charlie Chaplin moustache
Charontians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Charontian
charrers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charrer
chateau migraines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chateau migraine
château migraines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of château migraine
châteaux migraine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of château migraine
Chateau Migraines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chateau Migraine
Chateaux Migraine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chateau Migraine
chawsticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chawstick
checkout counters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of checkout counter
checkout desks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of checkout desk
cheffers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheffer
cheilotomonans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheilotomonan
chemical properties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemical property
chemistry reads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemistry read
chemoactivations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemoactivation
chemoaversions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemoaversion
chemodenitrifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemodenitrification
chemoexpulsions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemoexpulsion
chemohyperthermias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemohyperthermia
chemoinfusions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemoinfusion
chemoinhibitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemoinhibition
chemomigrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemomigration
chemoradioselections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemoradioselection
chemoradioselects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chemoradioselect
chemoradioselecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chemoradioselect
chemoreductions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemoreduction
chemosaturations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemosaturation
chemotransductions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemotransduction
cherry blossom fronts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cherry blossom front
starvates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of starvate
starvating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of starvate
starvated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of starvate
quadrilliards
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: plural of quadrilliard
wheel-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheel-ups
Senses: examples: text: [Chorus:Kano]:3 wheel-ups in a row, that means I'm a direct rudeboy. 2 2 yats of my own that means I'm a direct rudeboy.
ref: 2016 March 4, “3 Wheel-Ups” (track 4), in Made in the Manor, performed by Kano (British musician),Giggs (rapper),Wiley (musician):
qualifier: grime music
glosses: A reload
wheel-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheel-up
Kinistino
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in north-central Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: A rural municipality in Saskatchewan, which includes the town; in full, the Rural Municipality of Kinistino No. 459.
Brinkburn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish north-west of Morpeth, Northumberland, England, served by a joint parish council with Hesleyhurst civil parish.
Necessitas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin necessitās. Doublet of necessity.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
qualifier: Orphic theology
glosses: The personification of absolute necessity; Ananke.
firecoal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firecoals
Etymology: From fire + coal.
Senses: glosses: A burning coal.
Orphics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Orphic
North Phyongan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: On Saturday, two days after the explosion, Pyongyang's state-controlled news media made the first acknowledgment of the disaster, saying only that the damages were very serious. "An explosion occurred at Ryongchon railway station in North Phyongan Province on April 22 due to the electrical contact caused by carelessness during the shunting of wagons loaded with ammonium nitrate fertilizer and tank wagons," the Korean Central News Agency said.
ref: 2004 April 24, James Brooke, “North Korea Appeals for Help After Railway Explosion”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 May 2010:
text: Liftoff will take between April 12 and 16 from a west coast launch pad in North Phyongan province, a spokesman for the Korean Committee for Space Technology said in a statement carried by state media.
ref: 2012 March 16, “US: NKorea planned rocket launch a ‘deal-breaker’”, in AP News, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2023:
text: The “unidentified ballistic missile” was fired from a site near Panghyon in North Phyongan province, the South’s joint chiefs of staff said in a statement, and came down in the East Sea, the Korean name for the Sea of Japan. It flew for “several hundred kilometres”, an unusually long time, they added.
ref: 2017 July 4, Louis Emanuel, “North Korea tests US with latest missile launch on Independence Day”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Nov 2022:
text: In North Korea, which faces chronic food shortages, swine fever has killed all pigs in North Phyongan province, the Yonhap News Agency reported, citing South Korea’s intelligence agency.
ref: 2019 September 24, Jane Chung, Ju-min Park, Hyunjoo Jin, “South Korea confirms fifth case of African swine fever”, in Tom Hogue, Jason Neely, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2023, WORLD NEWS:
glosses: Alternative form of North Pyongan.
Fennicisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fennicism
zimun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zimmun
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew זימון (“invitation, summons”).
Senses: glosses: A blessing made before Birkat Hamazon, calling together those who have eaten.
yeshivos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yeshiva
Chareidi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chareidis
form: Chareidi
form: Chareidim
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Haredi.
UO
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of ultra-Orthodox.
UO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Gaspar said she hopes UO students utilize the red cards or share them with friends and family who may be at risk for deportation.
ref: 2025 February 17, Sasha Love and Stephanie Hensley, “UO and campus clubs offer resources as immigration laws shift”, in The Daily Emerald:
synonyms: Oregon
coordinate_terms: Oregon State
OSU
glosses: Initialism of University of Oregon
reinforcement learning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Reinforcement learning can be seen as somewhere between supervised and unsupervised learning. The learning system receives a feedback for its actions, but it is not provided with examples to learn from.
ref: 2010, Lutz Frommberger, Qualitative Spatial Abstraction in Reinforcement Learning, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 10:
text: Let us look more deeply at reinforcement learning, to see what it means to learn from our own actions. Reinforcement learning is a field in which an agent learns by interacting with an environment.
ref: 2022, Aske Plaat, Deep Reinforcement Learning, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 3:
synonyms: RL
qualifier: machine learning
glosses: A type of explorative learning via feedback in a simulated environment.
Derived terms: english: deep reinforcement learning
translation: deep reinforcement learning
word: DRL
english: reinforcement learning from AI feedback
translation: reinforcement learning from AI feedback
word: RLAIF
english: reinforcement learning from human feedback
translation: reinforcement learning from human feedback
word: RLHF
machmir
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more machmir
form: most machmir
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew מַחְמִיר (“makhmir”).
Senses: examples: text: If I'd let people in my shul know I was gay prior to getting involved with my partner, they would have distanced themselves from me as if I was some kind of pariah. No violation of sex laws even according to the most machmir views; merely the fact of *being* gay.
ref: 2000 September 19, Lisa Beth, “Rabi Shmuli Boteach refuted”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):
text: Is it serving Hashem to be machmir and resentful, rather than adhere to the letter of the law and be relaxed and happy?
ref: 2008 July 16, Jessie Fischbein, “Being Machmir”, in The Jewish Star:
glosses: Being the strictest interpretation of the law; following this interpretation.
MDPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MDP
chumra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈxʊmɹə/
/ˈxʌmɹə/
Forms: form: chumrot
form: chumros
form: chumrah
form: chumre
form: khumra
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew חומרה (khumrá, “restriction”).
Senses: examples: text: Put mezuzas on the doors of your minivan and tell everyone "It's the latest chumrah, but most people don't follow it".
ref: 2002 May 15, Harry Weiss, “60 ways to be a frummie”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):
text: [Pesach] should be a time of feeling closeness to G-d and thankfulness for his deliverance. Getting hung up on "chumros" could end up being an ego-trip all of it's^([sic]) own.
ref: 2003 September 19, mos...@mm.huji.ac.il, “Rabbi Shmuli Boteach Refuted”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):
glosses: Observance of a law to an extent beyond that required by the laxest interpretation.
est modus in rebus
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin est modus in rebus.
Senses: glosses: It is best to live with moderation; it is best to find a middle ground.
give pursuit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives pursuit
form: giving pursuit
form: gave pursuit
form: given pursuit
Senses: examples: text: Police gave pursuit as Sanderson fled at speeds of 150km/h (93mph).
ref: 2022 September 8, Holly Honderich, Jessica Murphy, “Canada stabbings suspect Myles Sanderson dies after arrest”, in BBC News:
glosses: Synonym of give chase.
synonyms: word: give chase
chatzot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chatzos
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew חצות.
Senses: examples: text: A wind would blow every night at chatzos and cause King David's harp to play, and this would wake him up and he would study torah.
ref: 2004 June 10, cindys, “God studies Torah and wears Tefillin?”, in alt.messianic (Usenet):
glosses: The time exactly halfway between sunset and sunrise; midnight.
teeack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teeacks
Senses: examples: text: Voices from the land—the plaint of teeacks, the far-heard craik of the rail, and the wild notes of water-fowl—blended finely with the shrill pipings of shore-birds and the Noltland Castle.
ref: 1869, Daniel Gorrie, Summers and Winters in the Orkneys, page 194:
glosses: The lapwing
gangplow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: găngʹplou'
ipa: /ˈɡæŋˌplaʊ/
Forms: form: gangplows
form: gang plow
form: gang-plow
form: gangplough
form: gang plough
form: gang-plough
Etymology: From gang (“a combination of tools or machines coordinated to work together as a set”) + plow (“a farm implement used to break up soil into furrows for sowing”).
Senses: glosses: A plow with multiple plowshares, moldboards, and colters, arranged in a series to turn parallel furrows simultaneously.
glosses: A combination of several plows with blades in one frame, operated as a machine.
gangplough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: găngʹplou'
ipa: /ˈɡæŋˌplaʊ/
Forms: form: gangploughs
form: gang plough
form: gang-plough
form: gangplow
form: gang plow
form: gang-plow
Etymology: From gang (“a combination of tools or machines coordinated to work together as a set”) + plough (“a farm implement used to break up soil into furrows for sowing”).
Senses: glosses: A plough with multiple plowshares, mouldboards, and coulters, arranged in a series to turn parallel furrows simultaneously.
glosses: A combination of several ploughs with blades in one frame, operated as a machine.
gangplows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: găngʹplouz'
ipa: /ˈɡæŋˌplaʊz/
rhymes: -aʊz
Senses: glosses: plural of gangplow
gangploughs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: găngʹplouz'
ipa: /ˈɡæŋˌplaʊz/
rhymes: -aʊz
Senses: glosses: plural of gangplough
Uebler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ueblers
Senses: glosses: A surname.
exodi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin exodī.
Senses: glosses: plural of exodus
gives chase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of give chase
giving chase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of give chase
gave chase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of give chase
given chase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of give chase
potioners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potioner
gives pursuit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of give pursuit
giving pursuit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of give pursuit
gave pursuit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of give pursuit
given pursuit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of give pursuit
antiquariats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiquariat
papyric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more papyric
form: most papyric
Etymology: From papyrus + -ic. Compare Latin papȳricus.
Senses: examples: text: It will, therefore, scarcely surprise anybody to learn that more than two thirds of the papyri in the Museums and collections of Europe, appertain to the period of Psameticus and his successors, although abundant papyric documents are extant of a far earlier epoch.
ref: 1857, Francis Pulszky, “Iconographic Researches on Human Races and their Art”, in Indigenous Races of the Earth; or, New Chapters of Ethnological Inquiry; […], Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott & Co.; London: [Nicholas] Trübner & Co., section II (Egyptian Art), page 120:
text: THE thousand or more Greek records of the past, which have come down to us on papyric scrolls or pottery (ostraka), throw many a ray of light on modes of medical thought and practice in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt, distorted and refracted as they seem, when visualized through such cloudy glass-panes as tax-bills and tax-receipts.
ref: 1926, Karl Sudhoff, “Medical Data in Greek Papyric Archives”, in Fielding H[udson] Garrison, transl., Essays in the History of Medicine, New York, N.Y.: Medical Life Press, page 301:
text: The text and the method of the papyric commentator do not allow us to elicit the authentic Simonidean version.
ref: 2009, Evanthia Tsitsibakou-Vasalos, “Chance or Design? Language and Plot Management in the Odyssey. Klytaimnestra ἄλοχος μνηστὴ έμήσατο”, in Jonas Grethlein, Antonios Rengakos, editors, Narratology and Interpretation: The Content of Narrative Form in Ancient Literature (Trends in Classics – Supplementary Volumes; 4), Berlin; New York, N.Y.: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, section III (Narratology and the Interpretation of Epic and Lyric Poetry), page 210:
glosses: Synonym of papyraceous: of, similar to, or related to papyrus.
synonyms: word: papyraceous
extra: of, similar to, or related to papyrus
teflonish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more teflonish
form: most teflonish
form: Teflonish
Etymology: From teflon + -ish.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having qualities like PTFE
topics: government
politics
coordinate_terms: like water off a duck's back
glosses: Being teflon (“does not stick”) or rubber (“bounces off”), not having accusations besmirch a person
glosses: Synonym of slippery, slippy, or non-stick.
synonyms: word: slippery
word: slippy
word: or non-stick
raw_tags: of a coated implement
of a coating
Teflonish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Teflonish
form: most Teflonish
Etymology: From Teflon + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of teflonish.
mezuman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mezumanim
Senses: examples: text: It is the custom of some, when traveling and eating at the house of a Gentile, not to recite Birkas Hamazon with a mezuman.
ref: 2019 August 5, Netzari Emunah, Kitzur Shulchan Aruch, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 236:
glosses: A quorum of three men (in some traditions, three men or three women) to recite Birkat Hamazon after a meal.
rough justice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: At rallies in swing states from Arizona to North Carolina, this reporter has heard the cheers when Mr Trump roars that America has every right to fight back, even if that involves rough justice or being “so tough”, as he puts it.
ref: 2016 November 5, “Donald Trump, vigilante”, in The Economist:
text: […] Prosecutors around the country campaigned on promises to charge fewer juveniles as adults, stop prosecuting low-level marijuana possession and seek the death penalty less often. And they did so in places with well-deserved reputations for rough justice, including Chicago, Houston and Tampa, Fla. Most, but not all, of these candidates were Democrats, and many of them won, including a former defense lawyer in Corpus Christi, Tex., who has the words “Not Guilty” tattooed on his chest.
ref: 2017 March 25, James Forman Jr., “Justice Springs Eternal”, in The New York Times:
text: The term lynch appears to have entered the language from Colonel Charles Lynch of Virginia, who served rough justice to Loyalists.
ref: 2023 January 31, Daniel Immerwahr, “Did George Washington Burn New York?”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Treatment or punishment that is not considered fair or in accordance with the law.
Related terms: lynch law
Jeddart justice
kangaroo court
papyrocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From papyro- (“papyrus, paper”) + -cracy (“rule by”).
Senses: examples: text: That Government, however, had a "vow in heaven" against sparing one drop of blood which the tribunals had once devoted to the altars of the Papyrocracy.
ref: 1848, “Hanging, Past and Present”, in Edinburgh Magazine, number 10, Tate, page 238:
glosses: Synonym of bureaucracy: rule by excessive paperwork or regulation.
synonyms: word: bureaucracy
extra: rule by excessive paperwork or regulation
papyrographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: papyrographers
Etymology: From papyro- (“papyrus, paper”) + -grapher (“writer”) and papyrograph + -er.
Senses: examples: text: In the less educated papyrographers we find blunders of this kind.
ref: 1906, James Hope Moulton, Grammar of New Testament Greek, volume I, page 159:
glosses: One who writes on papyrus.
glosses: Synonym of papyrologist.
synonyms: word: papyrologist
glosses: One who uses a papyrograph to copy documents.
Pingrang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: pǐngʹrängʹ
Forms: form: P'ing-jang
form: Pingjang
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 平壤 (Píngrǎng).
Senses: examples: text: The later Gaogouli period begins with the move of the capital to the later Pingrang (Pyongyang) in 427 and later Pingrang became the centre of a group of urban complexes on the[…]Gaogouli, when the capital was moved from Heshenggu city to the hinterland (Guonei 國内) and the construction of the capital Yunayancheng 尉那岩城 began, to the year 427, when the Changshou King 長壽王 moved the capital to Pingrang 平壤 (Pyongyang) on the Datong 大同 (Taedong) river.
ref: 1999, China Archaeology and Art Digest, volume 3, number 1, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 95, column 2:
text: There are four weekly services to Pyongyang (; Pingrang; hard-sleeper ¥1164-1214, soft-sleeper ¥1692-1737). The K27 and K28 both leave twice a week from Beijing Train Station, meaning there’s a train on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday.
ref: 2013 May, China (Lonely Planet), 13th edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://archive.org/details/travel-guides-lp/china-13/page/n185/:
text: When the Japanese armies captured Pingrang on 15th September, they discovered that 35 good field guns were left behind, together with hundreds of magazine rifles and hundreds more of breechloaders.
ref: 2017, Kenneth Swope, editor, Warfare in China Since 1600, →ISBN, →OCLC:
text: When this situation was going on, a general called Lai Huer who was prepared to attack Gaoli by water route from Pingrang came to rescue after he heard that Yang Xuangan attempted to attack the capital.
ref: 2020 [2014], Bin Li, “Capital Liaison Office and Ancient Postal System”, in Communication, Civilization and China: Discovering the Tang Dynasty (618-907) [唐代文明与新闻传播], →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 37–38:
english: 唐代文明与新闻传播
translation: 唐代文明与新闻传播
text: Andong Protectorate (安東都護府) which had been created in Gaogouli's capital Pingrang (平壤) was moved to Liaodong gucheng (遼東古城) in 676 and Xincheng (新城) in 677, and the governments-general of Xiongjin (熊津都督府, Xiongjin Dudufu) was moved to Jian'an gucheng (建安古城).
ref: 2020, Yong-ku Cha, editor, The Borderlands of China and Korea: Historical Changes in the Contact Zones of East Asia, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 212:
glosses: Synonym of Pyongyang: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
synonyms: word: Pyongyang
extra: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name
wikipedia: Facts on File
papyropolist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: papyropolists
Etymology: From papyro- (“papyrus, paper”) + Ancient Greek -πώλης (-pṓlēs, “-seller, -monger”) + -ist. Cf. pharmacopolist.
Senses: examples: text: Papyropolist... a Seller of Paper.
ref: 1656, Thomas Blount, Glossographia..., s.v:
glosses: Synonym of stationer: a seller of paper.
synonyms: word: stationer
extra: a seller of paper
papyrotint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From papyro- + tint.
Senses: examples: text: Papyrotype, Papyrography, or Papyrotint, modifications of photo-lithography, in which paper is used as material on which the original transfer is made.
ref: 1897, Edward J. Wall, Dictionary of Photography, 7th ed., p. 435
glosses: Synonym of papyrotype.
synonyms: word: papyrotype
papyrotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From papyro- + -type.
Senses: examples: text: Papyrotype, Papyrography, or Papyrotint, modifications of photo-lithography, in which paper is used as material on which the original transfer is made.
ref: 1897, Edward J. Wall, Dictionary of Photography, 7th ed., p. 435
glosses: A form of photolithography using paper as the initial transfer material.
Synonyms: collotype
lichtdruck
papyrography
papyrotint
elliptics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elliptic
papyroxylin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: papyroxyline
Etymology: From papyro- (“papyrus, paper”) + xylo- (“wood, wood pulp”) + -in (“forming substances made from living things”), after the model of earlier pyroxylin.
Senses: examples: text: Gun-paper, or papyroxyline, is paper which has been immersed for a few seconds in a mixture of nitric and sulphuric acids, and then washed in an abundance of water.
ref: 1894, Selimo R. Bottone, Electrical Instrument Making for Amateurs, 6th edition, page 26:
glosses: Synonym of gun-paper.
synonyms: word: gun-paper
papyroxyline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From papyro- + xylo- + -ine.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of papyroxylin.
papyrographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of papyrographer
papyropolists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of papyropolist
necessarier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of necessary: more necessary
discource
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discources
Senses: examples: text: So sweet and voluble is his discource, / That hear him reason in Divinity, / And, all-admiring, with an inward wish / You would desire he had been made a prelate.
ref: 1814 August, John F[reeman] M[ilward] Dovaston, “Select Poetry”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, page 159, column 2:
glosses: Archaic spelling of discourse.
discources
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discource
consumation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From consum(e) + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Nitrate of soda is itself an important ingredient of fertilizer, and any decrease in the consumation of nitrate for making acid should react in favor of a decreased demand, and so of a lower price, for nitrate of soda.
ref: 1919 December 12, Charles L[athrop] Parsons, “The American Chemical Society, V”, in Science, volume L, number 1302, Lancaster, P.A.; Garrison, N.Y.; New York, N.Y.: The Science Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 547:
glosses: Consumption; the act of consuming or depleting something.
Welsh-comb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Welsh-combs
form: Welsh-combing
form: Welsh-combed
form: Welsh-combed
form: welsh-comb
form: Welshcomb
form: welshcomb
Etymology: Denominal verb of Welsh comb.
Senses: examples: text: The intervening years have been kind to Edward Fox and John Wells, who now assume the principal roles, in allowing them to keep their full complement of hair. Mr Fox shows his gratitude by using his rug as a prop, flopping it forward, Welsh-combing it back, letting it stand up on end as if from shock, while Mr Wells is content mostly to let his limply swathe his forehead.
ref: 1985 July 12, Martin Cropper, “Theatre: The Philanthropist”, in The Times, number 62,188, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15, column 7:
text: During the applause the singer poured a glass of water from the decanter into the tumbler, drank a mouthful, and Welsh-combed his moustache and hair.
ref: 2004, Evelyn Conlon, Later On:
text: But her mind couldn’t help dwelling on the way the Russian’s long fingers had Welsh-combed his luxuriant hair.
ref: 2009, Charlie Brooks, chapter 21, in Citizen, London: Harper, →ISBN, page 145:
glosses: To comb (one's hair) with one's hand.
overgesture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overgestures
form: overgesturing
form: overgestured
form: overgestured
Etymology: From over- + gesture.
Senses: examples: text: He overgestured and laughed too much, and at some point in his young life he'd had the bone of his skull opened at the temples and filled with jagged lightning-flash sections of purple-black alloy cement.
ref: 2005, Richard Morgan, Woken Furies, London: Gollancz, →ISBN, page 487:
glosses: To gesture excessively.
overgestures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overgesture
overgesturing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overgesture
overgestured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overgesture
picturedom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From picture (“a motion picture”) + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: As the industry today stands, so does "Ben Hur" stand: the greatest achievement that has been accomplished on the screen for not only the screen itself, but for all modern picturedom.
ref: 2002, Neil A. Hamilton, editor, Lifetimes: The Great War to the Stock Market Crash, Westport, C.T.; London: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 199, column 1:
glosses: Synonym of filmdom (“the film or movie industry; the people who work in that industry”).
synonyms: word: filmdom
extra: the film or movie industry; the people who work in that industry
surfacial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Cassiterite, rutile, ilmenite, zircon, monazite, magnetite, barite, lime, sand, and gravel are the chief surfacial materials which occur as placers and have been for economical recovered purposes from the marine environment.
ref: 1986, G[anpat] S[ingh] Roonwal, The Indian Ocean: Exploitable Mineral and Petroleum Resources, Berlin […]: Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, page 51:
glosses: Alternative spelling of surficial.
repitition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repititions
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of repetition.
repititions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repitition
done bits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of do bits
does bits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of do bits
doing bits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of do bits
did bits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of do bits