cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hamada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hamadas
form: hammada
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic حَمَادَة (ḥamāda).
Senses: glosses: A high, desert landscape from which most of the sand has been removed by wind erosion
mewer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mewers
Etymology: From mew + -er.
Senses: examples: text: They heard a noise of mournful mewing, and looked down at the cats in the river below. A small black one, the probable mewer, was gazing up at them with such a sorrowful expression in its green eyes that my lady was wrung with pity.
ref: 2013, Harley White, The Autobiography of a Granada Cat, page 47:
text: This supposedly demonstrates 'uncertainty' because one doesn't know if the cat is dead or alive until you peek inside. However, our version is more deterministic. There is no isotope-clock, no hydrocyanic acid. We drop a mewer in one of these reusable modules, close it tight, add just a limited supply of oxygen […]
ref: c. 1970? Wilyem Clark, Picasso's Cat (page 154)
glosses: One who makes a mewing sound; a cat.
glosses: One who mews (flattens the tongue against the roof of the mouth for supposed health benefits).
mewers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mewer
hamadas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hamada
handycam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handycams
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of handicam.
floriation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floriations
Senses: glosses: ornamentation by means of flower forms, either realistic or stylized
floriations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floriation
Flower State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A nickname, alluding to Latin florida (“flowery”).
Senses: glosses: Florida
fluoroscopically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From fluoroscopic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of fluoroscopy.
cryptoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From crypto- + -scopy.
Senses: glosses: fluoroscopy
cryptoscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: fluoroscopic
fluviometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluviometer
fluviometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fluvio- + -metry.
Senses: glosses: measurement with a fluviometer
Derived terms: fluviometric
fluviometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fluviometry + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to fluviometry.
foot valves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foot valve
hubble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌbəl/
Forms: form: hubbles
Senses: glosses: An uproar.
glosses: A heap, as of work.
glosses: A lump.
Derived terms: hubble-bubble
hubbly
frijole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frijoles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of frijol.
Froebelians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Froebelian
Fröbelians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fröbelian
frog-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more frog-eyed
form: most frog-eyed
form: frogeyed
Senses: glosses: Having frog-like, bulging eyes.
raw_tags: of a person
glosses: Spotted with whitish specks due to a disease, or produced artificially by spraying.
raw_tags: of tobacco used for cigar wrappers
unipositive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + positive.
Senses: examples: a unipositive ion
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Carrying one unit of positive charge.
Coordinate terms: uninegative
dipositive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + positive.
Senses: examples: a dipositive ion
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Carrying two units of positive charge.
fumatorium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fumatoria
form: fumatoriums
Senses: glosses: An airtight compartment in which vapour may be generated to destroy germs or insects; especially, the apparatus used to destroy San Jose scale on nursery stock, using hydrocyanic acid vapour.
fumatoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fumatorium
recoalesce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recoalesces
form: recoalescing
form: recoalesced
form: recoalesced
Etymology: From re- + coalesce.
Senses: examples: text: I felt myself recoalesce.
ref: 1988, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 43:
glosses: To coalesce again or anew.
recoalescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + coalescence.
Senses: glosses: coalescence again or anew.
recoalesced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recoalesce
recoalescing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recoalesce
recoalesces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recoalesce
fumatories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fumatory
fringe trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fringe tree
fremescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹɪˈmɛsənt/
rhymes: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more fremescent
form: most fremescent
Senses: examples: text: Fremescent clangour comes from the armed Nationals in the Court; far and wide is the infinite hubbub of tongues.
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter VII, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book VI (The Marseillese), pages 296-297:
glosses: Becoming murmurous; roaring.
Related terms: fremescence
fremescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Paleness sits on every face; confused tremor and fremescence; waxing into thunder-peals, of Fury stirred on by Fear.
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter IV, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book V (The Third Estate), page 175:
glosses: Quality of being fremescent.
uncountenanceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncountenanceable
form: most uncountenanceable
Etymology: From un- + countenance + -able.
Senses: glosses: That which cannot be countenanced.
frivolled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of frivol
frivoled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of frivol
frivoling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of frivol
frivolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of frivol
frivoller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frivollers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of frivoler.
frivollers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frivoller
frivolers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frivoler
quadrative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: squared
glosses: quadratic
Finsen light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪt
Forms: form: Finsen lights
Etymology: After Niels Ryberg Finsen (1860-1904), Faroese-Danish physician.
Senses: glosses: Highly actinic light, derived from sunlight or from some form of electric lamp, used in the treatment of lupus and other cutaneous disorders.
wikipedia: Niels Ryberg Finsen
Finsen lights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Finsen light
flacherie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French, meaning "flaccidity".
Senses: glosses: A disease of silkworms, resulting from their consumption of infected or contaminated mulberry leaves.
wackness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wacknesses
Etymology: From wack + -ness, popularized by The Wackness, a 2008 coming-of-age film.
Senses: examples: text: Kyla said she was delighted to meet other Pakistanis. When I'd made the appointment with her I had been too, but now my enthusiasm was dead. I was worried that Moosa would impute her wackness onto me.
ref: 2009, Ali Eteraz, Children of Dust, →ISBN:
text: I don't have that problem. I just look at the dopeness. But you, it's like you just look at the wackness?”
ref: 2014, David Shapiro, You're Not Much Use to Anyone, →ISBN, page 166:
text: She says school is wack and that is certainly a point of view I am coming around to as everything that used to seem important to me is now kind of amazing in its wackness.
ref: 2015, Brendan Halpin, Donorboy, →ISBN:
glosses: Badness; contemptibility
quadraturism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian quadraturismo.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: An Italian genre of painting that used architectural elements to create illusions of perspective.
unflared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + flared.
Senses: glosses: Not flared.
wacknesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As it is, there's scarcely a verse that doesn't reference something or someone a few years away from anachronism, but then maybe that's the point: history is transient, and this litany of wacknesses is a snapshot every bit as chaotic and variegated as the zeitgeist it depicts.
ref: 2004, “Reviews”, in CMJ New Music Monthly, number 131, page 50:
glosses: plural of wackness
fin keels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fin keel
gobstick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gobsticks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gob stick.
gobsticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gobstick
warrish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more warrish
form: most warrish
Etymology: From war + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Brightned the black horizon of his parish ; Gave to the Prince of Darkness such hard blows, That Satan was afraid to show his nose, (Except in hell), before this priest so warrish!
ref: 1788, Peter Pindar, Brother Peter to brother Tom: An expostulatory epistle:
text: Dear George, 'tis very true," replied the king, " Poor Honour is just come upon the parish; Merit may tramp tho streets, and ballads sing: My new-made knights can boast of nothing warrish.
ref: 1835, Peter Pindar, The works of Peter Pindar - Page 454:
text: The specific examples of warrish attitudes change from year to year, but the underlying bellicosity remains.
ref: 1996, Patrick J. Howell, A Spiritguide: Through Times of Darkness - Page 88:
text: Some of the soldiers were little more than boys; they had spent their entire lives practicing their caste's warrish obligations, but they had never marched to battle for their king. Nevertheless, they understood the War Rites; […]
ref: 2014, Mindy L. Klasky, The Glasswrights' Master:
glosses: Militant; warlike.
Synonyms: warful
gallized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gallize
gallizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gallize
gallizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gallize
Ormazd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ahura Mazda.
Ohrmazd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ahura Mazda.
false alarms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of false alarm
warry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: warries
form: warrying
form: warried
form: warried
form: wary
Etymology: From Middle English warrien, warien, waryen, werien, werȝen, from Old English wirġan, wirġean, weriġan, wirian (“to curse, revile”), from Proto-West Germanic *wargijan, from Proto-Germanic *wargijaną (“to curse”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to twist, bend, crook”).
Senses: glosses: To curse; execrate; abuse; speak evil of.
Related terms: wargus
warriangle
worry
warry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: warrier
form: warriest
Etymology: From war + -y.
Senses: examples: text: […] a Monarch's suretie no way stood In victories, in warrie broyles, and blood: […]
ref: 1604, Alexander Craig, The Poeticall Essayes of Alexander Craige, Scotobritane:
text: The woman had a sword by her side […] She looked "very strong and warry and fierce, but not wicked;" that is, not cruel, at all. The old woman had seen the Irish giant, and "though he was a fine man, he was nothing to this woman, for he was round, and could not have stepped out so soldierly[…]"
ref: 1899, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, The North American Review, page 862:
glosses: Warlike, warrish.
Related terms: warray
warry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of wary
Hourmazd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ahura Mazda.
Hormazd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ahura Mazda.
Hurmuz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ahura Mazda.
work product
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Something created as a product of one's work, particularly
Things and ideas created by an employee that are considered the legal property of the employer owing to the terms of employment
qualifier: employment
topics: law
glosses: Something created as a product of one's work, particularly
Things and knowledge created or learned by a lawyer as part of work with a client, often protected against discovery during litigation
fundamentalistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fundamentalistically
form: most fundamentalistically
Etymology: From fundamentalistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a fundamentalistic manner
Lotophagus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lotophagi
form: Lotophages
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Lōtophagus, from Ancient Greek Λωτοφάγος (Lōtophágos, literally “lotus eater”).
Senses: examples: text: It will be acquiesced in by a much less deserving band, if band it may be called, when each fights for his own hand, without respect to his neighbour, by those who have set their hearts and their treasures in this world, and exert what powers of thought they in devising a sickly optimism, by which the existing state of things, whatever it may be, may be made into a fool's paradise — men of whom Charles Lamb was perhaps the most favourable specimen, that " mild-eyed melancholy" Lotophagus of literature.
ref: 1847, The Ecclesiastic [afterw.] The Theologian and ecclesiastic [afterw.] The Ecclesiastic and theologian [afterw.] The Ecclesiastic, page 131:
text: To our taste, the best way to dress the bulbs, and to free them from the marshy flavour they leave behind in the mouth, is to drain the water off several times in cooking them ; they then taste nearly like boiled celery, and may be very nourishing; but I would not be a Lotophagus here, for I had much rather eat potatoes with their jackets on.
ref: 1849, Ferdinand Werne, Expedition to discover the sources of the White Nile, in the years 1840, 1841, from the Germ., by C.W. O'Reilly, page 125:
text: But far from this, the blighted spinster is fair, fat, and — no ! never shall it be said that the Lotophagus ever attempted to solve that impenetrable mystery.
ref: 1870, Eneas Sweetland Dallas, Once a Week, page 37:
text: Anyway the beer is here and the rooming here and the sun is here and if things get too tough you can soon become a lotophagus along with the rest of us.
ref: 1984, Jackson J. Benson, The true adventures of John Steinbeck, writer: a biography, Viking Pr:
glosses: A member of the Lotophagi; a lotus eater.
charruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charrus
rehearsal dinner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rehearsal dinners
Senses: examples: text: The rehearsal dinner was held at a fancy restaurant.
glosses: A formal dinner for the people participating in a wedding ceremony, usually held after the wedding rehearsal on the night before the ceremony itself.
cradle song
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cradle songs
Senses: glosses: A lullaby.
rehearsal dinners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rehearsal dinner
cradle songs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cradle song
spitting nails
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spit nails
ccs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cc
cc's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cc
cc's
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cc
cc'ed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cc
slave labor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of slave labour.
Hymietown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hymie + town, in reference to the city's large Jewish population.
Senses: examples: text: In campaign speeches, he has called on interest groups that seem to have nothing in common to find common ground. He has been guarded in talking to the press - no doubt remembering the grief that the Hymietown remark brought him during the 1984 campaign.
ref: 1988 March 11, Don Wycliff, “The Editorial Notebook; The New Jesse Jackson”, in New York Times, A, page 34:
glosses: Derogatory name for New York City: a major city in New York, United States.
assassin bugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assassin bug
hierarchate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hierarchates
Etymology: From hierarch + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, an associated body of people).
Senses: examples: text: At first, when the demagoguery, the abasement, the small lying had its reverberation in other small lies and ultimate threats in the form of requests and suggestions among the hierarchate of the Church and he received the call to Jefferson, he forgot how he had got it for the time.
ref: 1932, William Faulkner, chapter 20, in Light in August, [New York, N.Y.]: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, →OCLC; republished London: Chatto & Windus, 1933, →OCLC, page 456:
glosses: Synonym of hierarchy.
synonyms: word: hierarchy
hierarchates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hierarchate
exonorm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exonorms
Etymology: From exo- + norm.
Senses: examples: text: And for Fijian - to maintain the Old High Fijian exonorm, which has been the variety most frequently seen in print and uttered by officialdom, or to build on the indigenous Standard Fijian.
ref: 1984, George Bertram Milner, David George Arms, Paul A. Geraghty, Duivosavosa: Fiji's languages, their use and their future, page 59:
text: If native or primary anglophones living in Israel travel to an English-speaking country or if they are talking or writing to anglophones unfamiliar with English as used here, they must revert to an exonorm, something which is not always easy.
ref: 1989, David L. Gold, Jewish Linguistic Studies, page 72:
text: The advantage in being able to do this lies in the creation and maintenance of an endonorm rather than blindly insisting on an exonorm.
ref: 1997, Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu, English in Ghana, page 32:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A standard language forged by non-native speakers.
Related terms: exonormative
exonorms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exonorm
loofward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more loofward
form: most loofward
Etymology: From Dutch loof + -ward. Compare Dutch loefwaarts (“loofward”).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Windward.
lab rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lab rats
form: lab-rat
Senses: examples: text: As a graduate student, she loved being a “lab rat,” Dr. Blackburn said, adding, “I was just really focused on the science, the science, the science.”
ref: 2013 April 8, Denise Grady, “Profiles in Science: Charting Her Own Course”, in New York Times, retrieved 20 Apr 2015:
glosses: A student or employee who spends a great deal of time working in a laboratory.
examples: text: Tests were done on me that you can't even imagine. For years. Cerberus did them. They tortured me. They used me as a damn lab rat. And now you're teaming up with them like they're any other merc band?
ref: 2010, BioWare, quoting Toombs, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: What the hell?:
text: Looking back at the unprecedented meddling of European powers in his country's politics amid the Euro crisis — a series of events that led to his fall as well as Greece becoming the first country in the zone to be forced to accept painful austerities in exchange for bailout loans — Papandreou told TIME, "I think it couldn't have been avoided. We were a lab rat, an experiment."
ref: 2012 May 1, Joanna Kakissis, “Greece's Former Prime Minister Assesses the State of His Nation”, in Time, retrieved 20 Apr 2015:
text: This time, Vincent . . . became an unwitting lab rat for a vaccine that turned soldiers into hyperaggressive killing machines.
ref: 2012 September 13, “TV Review: ‘Beauty and the Beast’”, in Washington Post, retrieved 20 Apr 2015:
glosses: A person or group used as the subject of an experiment or test, especially unwillingly or unwittingly.
Synonyms: guinea pig
lab-rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lab-rats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lab rat.
personness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From person + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I think if we talk about children and wanting a child-oriented society, then the judiciary and legislature have to address themselves to the personness of children. Personness means you are a legal entity in and of yourself.
ref: 1976, Abortion: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-third Congress, Second Session
text: As an individual, each of us has "personness," a unique programming not shared with any other human being. It is partly based on our heredity and is partly learned; that is, this personness is modified both by the influence of culture as well as our unique personal experiences.
ref: 2004, Michael Marquardt, Nancy Berger, Peter Loan, HRD in the Age of Globalization:
text: This is a trust that the personness that is our identity is a better symbol of the ultimate than words like “cold” and “dark” and “aimless” and “meaningless.”
ref: 2010, Michael Horace Barnes, Understanding Religion and Science: Introducing the Debate:
text: Indeed, there are many ways in which audio and video media can enhance the “personness” of our messages.
ref: 2015, Charles H Kraft, Worship: Beyond the Hymnbook:
glosses: The state, quality, or condition of a person; personality; individuality; personhood; personableness.
nail bat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nail bats
form: nailbat
form: nail-bat
Etymology: From nail + bat.
Senses: examples: text: Snow was already pivoting, growling his annoyance, nail-bat swinging. I swept my right leg out and connected with his ankles. He toppled flat on his back, air releasing from his lungs in a gasped rush.
ref: 2010, Kelly Meding, As Lie the Dead:
text: Miller, please lead the lady forward. It is time she came to know me. Miller headed down the stone path, adrenaline coursing through his veins much like the witchfire in the walls. Lucy followed, playfully bouncing the nail bat in her hands.
ref: 2011, Christopher J Proft, Fervent Haight:
text: These include spears, blowguns, rocks, sticks, morning stars, nail bats, punjisticks, torches, bolas, chakras, atlatls, meteor hammers, quarterstaffs, ballistas and slingshots.
ref: 2011, Allen Smith, Watching Grandma Circle the Drain:
glosses: A weapon made by hammering nails into a wooden baseball bat, used for offense or defense.
chiaux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chaoux
form: chiaoux
Etymology: a. 1670, from French chiaux.
Senses: examples: text: The Venice letʳˢ daᵗ 15th tells us that the Grand Segnʳ was at Adrianople and had sent a hye chiaux to yᵉ vizer of Candea to attend him, who upon yᵉ mesage immediately left Candea havinge by his severitie of impayling them that abused yᵉ Venechanes[…]
ref: 1670 August 23, Joseph George Muddiman, anonymous quotee, [newsletter], quoted in A history of English journalism to the foundation of the Gazette, London, New York: Longmans, Green, published 1908, →OCLC, page 213:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of chiaus .
nail bats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nail bat
diparesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dipareses
Etymology: From di- + paresis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A neurological condition that causes weakness affecting symmetrically opposed parts of the body, most commonly in the legs or face.
dipareses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diparesis
devil's rope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devil's ropes
Senses: examples: text: ...those who are dragged to the gallows of hell by the devil's rope, that is, mortal sin, and will not confess.
ref: 2008, Preaching in the Age of Chaucer: Selected Sermons in Translation, →ISBN, page 29:
glosses: Mortal sin.
glosses: An open branching shrub (Cylindropuntia imbricata) with cylindrical joints, which are covered with short raised ridges like the plait of a rope.
glosses: A variety of cochineal, (Dactylopius newsteadi), used to destroy Cylindropuntia imbricata.
examples: text: The devil's rope was originally designed to keep cows from roaming, Indians from encroaching, and the cowboys from singing their lonesome ballads.
ref: 2011, Linh Dinh, Love Like Hate: A Novel, →ISBN, page 94:
qualifier: southwest
glosses: Barbed wire
devil's ropes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of devil's rope
money-love
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: money love
form: moneylove
Etymology: From money + love. Compare Old English feohlufu (“the love of money”, literally “money-love”).
Senses: examples: text: Most of the Jungle Bar people ignored the Money—lovers. They thought they were out of their heads on money—love all the time.
ref: 2007, John A. Walker, The Zephyrman:
text: This passage reveals what money-love really is. A root is hidden in the evil; what it is we eventually see from the growth it sends up (snares and temptations). Money-love produces many hurts, worries, pains of conscience, and hurtful temptations which result in spiritual drifting.
ref: 2007, Dr. Aaron E. Lavender, Are you a Full Gospel Christian?:
text: The predicate naturally lacks the article so that we should not stress either "a root" or "the root." Money-love is "root of all the evils"; [...]
ref: 2008, R. C. H. Lenski, Interpretation of St Paul's Epistles to Timothy, Titus, and Philemon:
glosses: The desire, love, or avarice for money and/or wealth; love of money.
hate-crime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hate-crimes
Etymology: From hate + crime.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hate crime.
hate-crime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hate-crimes
form: hate-criming
form: hate-crimed
form: hate-crimed
Etymology: From hate + crime.
Senses: examples: text: "I just paid five g's to get your hate-criming ass out of jail! You better recognize!"
ref: 2011, Peter Nathaniel Malae, What We Are: A Novel, Grove/Atlantic, Inc., →ISBN:
text: So that day, after Donna verbally hate-crimed me in the bowling alley, making our bowling game more of a “Gays Can Win” campaign, I was waiting at the bus stop with my team, watching a pigeon drink from a grimy gutter puddle and ...
ref: 2011, Steve Berman, Speaking Out: LGBTQ Youth Stand Up, Bold Strokes Books Inc, →ISBN:
text: I'd just been hate-crimed...or attempted hate-crimed. I didn't know the specific definition. Did such a crime have to result in death or did the pain I felt from a beating count? Did I have to report the incident to the police?
ref: 2012, Jeremy Jordan King, In Stone: A Grotesque Faerie Tale, Bold Strokes Books Inc, →ISBN:
text: 'People in Mexico were getting hate-crimed on because they wore black and had moppy hair and so anywhere we went that's what people would talk about – they weren't talking about the music,' said Gerard.
ref: 2014, Tom Bryant, Not the Life It Seems: The True Lives of My Chemical Romance, →ISBN, page 223:
text: These are two states in which most people assume you will be hate-crimed to death if you tell anyone you're vegan. Well, no more! There's even a vegan strip club in Portland, Oregon!
ref: 2014, Jamie Kilstein, Allison Kilkenny, Newsfail: Climate Change, Feminism, Gun Control, and Other Fun Stuff We Talk About Because Nobody Else Will, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 71:
text: That same year, two thousand miles away, John Erickson's pathway to anti-violence work was sparked when he “was hate-crimed” as a first-year gay athlete by some of his teammates on his University of Wiscons in Whitewater volleyball team, ...
ref: 2015, Michael A. Messner, Max A. Greenberg, Tal Peretz, Some Men: Feminist Allies and the Movement to End Violence against Women, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
text: My hesitation wasn't a fear of homophobia—we were probably too young to get hate-crimed, anyway, although I worried sometimes for Jerick, who was so girlish.
ref: 2016, Sam Lansky, The Gilded Razor: A Memoir, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 111:
glosses: To subject (someone) to a hate crime; to commit a hate crime (against).
picture palace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picture palaces
Etymology: From the romantically decorated facades and interiors of the theaters.
Senses: examples: text: After tea, the bright boys wash, clean their boots, and change into their “second-best” attire, and stroll forth, either to a picture palace or to the second house of the Balham Hippodrome; […]
ref: 1918 [1915], Thomas Burke, Nights in London, New York: Henry Holt and Company, page 75:
glosses: An elaborately decorated motion picture theater, principally constructed from 1910 to 1950.
Synonyms: sense: decorated movie theater
word: movie palace
spider-fear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spider fear
Etymology: From spider + fear.
Senses: examples: text: Their result also showed a reduction in spider fear following treatment to parallell a decline in spiders' disgust-evoking status.
ref: 2001, Cecilia Essau, Franz Petermann, Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents:
text: Moreover, the latter two studies found evidence of enhanced avoidance in spider-fear. Tolin et al. (1999) reported that individuals with spider phobia spent relatively less time viewing spider pictures than control pictures.
ref: 2004, Jenny Yiend, Cognition, Emotion and Psychopathology:
text: Using a visual probe task, Mogg and Bradley (in press) found that, in comparison with nonfearful participants, individuals with high levels of spider-fear showed a greater attentional bias for briefly (200 ms) presented spider pictures, and that this bias in the high-fear group significantly reduced as the exposure duration increased, [...]
ref: 2006, Reinout W. Wiers, Alan W. Stacy, Handbook of Implicit Cognition and Addiction:
text: A great deal of this work has occurred in the area of specific animal fears and phobias, particularly spider fear, likely because these samples are readily accessible and the fear target is clearly specified.
ref: 2010, Bertram Gawronski, B. Keith Payne, Handbook of Implicit Social Cognition:
text: This shows that the “spider-fear” echo is till present and can still automatically trigger fear, but the slower PFC cortical inhibition of fear has now been able to successfully inhibit the fear reaction.
ref: 2010, Federico Sanchez, The Master Illusionist: Principles of Neuropsychology:
text: My spider fear goes back to childhood (though studies being done are showing the possibility that a fear of snakes or spiders may be genetically programmed into some people as a self-defense mechanism).
ref: 2022, Yasmine Galenorn, Totem Magic:
synonyms: arachnophobia
antonyms: arachnophilia
glosses: The fear of spiders; arachnophobia.
spider fear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spider-fear.
movie palace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: movie palaces
Etymology: From the romantically decorated facades and interiors of the theaters.
Senses: glosses: An elaborately decorated motion picture theater, principally constructed from 1910 to 1950.
Synonyms: sense: decorated movie theater
word: picture palace
fingerish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fingerish
form: most fingerish
Etymology: From finger + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Characteristically resembling a finger; somewhat fingerlike.
Indish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Indish
form: most Indish
Etymology: From Middle English indish, from Old English Indisċ. By surface analysis, Ind + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Our early popular ideas of the mildness and effeminacy of the Hindoos were derived from the Bengalees, and are by no means characteristic of the general population of India. The Indish race have a fair share of courage and energy.
ref: 1856, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 80, page 237:
glosses: Indian
Indish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Indian + English.
Senses: glosses: Any of various varieties of English spoken in India.
final obstruent devoicing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: final obstruent devoicings
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The feature of a language of only allowing voiceless consonants before a pausa.
tighter than wallpaper
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: stingy with money
lambier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of lamby: more lamby
lambiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of lamby: most lamby
cyberphilosopher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberphilosophers
Etymology: From cyber- + philosopher.
Senses: glosses: One who studies cyberphilosophy.
cyberphilosophers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberphilosopher
e-message
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-messages
Etymology: From e- + message.
Senses: examples: text: In this chapter, I have used data taken from my own e-messages, supplemented by examples taken from messages sent to a younger generation, kindly supplied by my 23-year-old son and 26-year-old daughter. The desirability of a corpus of e-mail data is stressed by Johansson, and also Yates.
ref: 2001, David Crystal, Language and the Internet, page 94:
text: Online activities include getting and sending e-messages and photos, using Facebook, sharing artwork or music, building Web sites, or Internet gaming.
ref: 2012, Judy Monroe Peterson, How to Beat Cyberbullying, page 7:
text: Through your computer you can send messages or files. Obviously, it also works the other way round when you are the receiver of an e-message.
ref: 2014, Robin Anderson, Practical business skills, page 82:
glosses: A message sent by computer.
e-messages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-message
e-mailbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-mailboxes
Etymology: From e- + mailbox.
Senses: glosses: A repository for electronic mail.
e-mailboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-mailbox
groupness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From group + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: First, some ethnographers would argue that reconceptualizing groupness is necessary to better understand sharedness as a quality of group communication.
ref: 2002, Lawrence R. Frey, New Directions in Group Communication:
glosses: The quality of being a group.
big show
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big shows
Senses: glosses: The largest and most prominent performance in a circus.
examples: text: He was thirty-one when he finally made it to the big show, having labored in the minors since 1924.
ref: 2010, Ted Taylor, The Ultimate Philadelphia Athletics Reference Book 1901-1954, page 70:
text: These Swedes also had a ticket to the big show of hockey, after their high school careers.
ref: 2011, Robert Montes, White Mexican, page 316:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The major leagues, as compared to minor leagues.
Synonyms: sense: highest level in a field
word: big time
sense: highest level in a field
word: big league
sense: highest level in a field
word: major league
ethnomethodologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From ethnomethodological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of, or by means of, ethnomethodology.
asynchronistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + synchronistic.
Senses: glosses: Not synchronistic.
Derived terms: asynchronistically
microanalytically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From microanalytic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of, or in terms of, microanalysis.
unproblematized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + problematized.
Senses: glosses: Not problematized.
retribalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retribalizes
form: retribalizing
form: retribalized
form: retribalized
Etymology: From re- + tribalize.
Senses: glosses: To make tribal again; to take back to the condition of a tribe.
Related terms: retribalization
retribalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retribalize
retribalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retribalize
retribalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retribalize
pseudocommunal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + communal.
Senses: glosses: Apparently, but not actually, communal; characteristic of pseudocommunity.
javelinist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: javelinists
Etymology: From javelin + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: To the right another trainer leans on his stick watching two more athletes, first a discus thrower, holding the discus in both hands in front of him, second a javelinist tightening the thong of his weapon in his outstretched right hand; he stands frontal.
ref: 1973, Royal Irish Academy, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, page 386:
text: Popular athletes took the form of the long striding Akalonu to the record breaking javelinist; Sesan.
ref: 2014, Oji Azuka, chapter 5, in A Binary Book, page 172:
topics: athletics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A javelin thrower.
javelin thrower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: javelin throwers
Senses: topics: athletics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An athlete who competes in the javelin throw.
Synonyms: javelinist
spearcaster
tchaous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: They came out of the village accompanied by the one of the notables of the village, named Hadji Constantinou, and by one Moslem tchaous (gendarme) who was armed.
ref: 1906 August 30, Anthimos of Moglena, “[letter to] Patriarch [Joachim III]”, in Official documents concerning the deplorable condition of affairs in Macedonia, Constantinople: at the printing press of the Patriarchate, published 1906, →OCLC, page 86:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of chiaus.
unghastly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unghastly
form: most unghastly
Etymology: From un- + ghastly.
Senses: glosses: Not ghastly.
detribalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + tribalization.
Senses: glosses: Process of detribalizing.
retribalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retribalizations
Etymology: From re- + tribalization.
Senses: glosses: The process of retribalizing.
tribalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tribal + -ization.
Senses: glosses: Process of tribalizing.
xenoracism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From xeno- + racism.
Senses: glosses: A form of prejudice that resembles racism but is exhibited by members of a racial group towards members of the same group who are displaced and dispossessed in some way, such as immigrants.
petiotization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French Petiot + -ization.
Senses: glosses: A wine-making process in which the marc from which the juice has been separated as usual by pressure is mixed with a solution of sugar and water, and the mixture again fermented, the second steeping containing, like the first, notable quantities of potassium bitartrate, tannic acid, etc.
retrosynthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From retro- + synthetic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to retrosynthesis.
Derived terms: retrosynthetically
retrosynthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retrosyntheses
Etymology: From retro- + synthesis.
Senses: examples: text: 1983, Francis A. Carey, Richard J. Sundberg, Advanced Organic Chemistry: Reactions and synthesis, Plenum Press, page 578,
The retrosyntheses shown in Scheme 11.11 correspond to the syntheses in Schemes 11.12 and 11.13.
text: The retrosyntheses shown in Scheme 2 lead directly to acetylene-type retrons (14)-(16) (path a) or implicate the use of Dewar o-xylylene (17) (path b) and the smaller retrons (18)-(20); the latter path was the route we elected to pursue (Scheme 3).
ref: 1991, Australian Journal of Chemistry, Volume 44, CSIRO, page 1294:
text: For example, the above mentioned retrosynthesis of nacre [132] is as much bio-inspired as is the crystallization in presence of hydrophilic polymers [44], although in the first case, the original biomineral structure is reproduced, whereas in the latter case, no biomineral is reproduced but complex crystal morphologies are obtained.
ref: 2007, Helmut Cölfen, “Bio-inspired Mineralization Using Hydrophilic Polymers”, in Kensuke Naka, editor, Biomineralization II: Mineralization Using Synthetic Polymers and Templates, Springer, page 25:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The prediction of precursors (intermediates and reactants), given the products of a synthesis reaction.
Synonyms: sense: prediction of precursors
word: retrosynthetic analysis
Derived terms: bioretrosynthesis
retrosynthesize
retrosynthetic
Related terms: retrobiosynthesis
reverse engineering
synthon
extracoelenteric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + coelenteric.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Outside the coelenteron.
coelenteric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the coelenteron.
glosses: Relating to a coelenterate.
Derived terms: extracoelenteric
retrosyntheses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retrosynthesis
fore-approval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fore-approvals
form: foreapproval
Etymology: From fore- + approval.
Senses: examples: text: The word "foreknow" in the text is significant of fore-approval, fore-delight, fore-love, approbation, and choice.
ref: 1866, George Wyard, Devout and explanatory reflections on important portions of God's Word:
text: The "foreknowledge" spoken of is evidently a fore-approval; it denotes the resting of the mind of God beforehand upon the person with complacency and love.
ref: 1874, Edward Hayes Plumptre, The Bible educator, ed. by E.H. Plumptre:
text: Is it not evident, that his fore-approval, or election, of some to sonship upon earth merely, is a very different thing from his fore-approval, or election, of others to eternal sonship in heaven ?
ref: 1876, Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Mrs. Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick, The Southern Review:
text: Hallelujah, God's foreknowledge includes foreapproval, fore-appreciation, foreacknowledgement, foremarrying, and foreordination! Christ was foreknown before the foundation of the world.
ref: 1985, Witness Lee, Life-Study of 1 Peter: Messages 1-18:
glosses: Approval granted beforehand or in advance.
Related terms: foreapprove
javelinists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of javelinist
historicocritical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From historico- + critical.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a form of literary criticism that aims to understand texts in their original historical context.
Derived terms: historicocritically
historicocritically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From historicocritical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a historicocritical fashion.
madamed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of madam
madaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of madam
brattishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From brattish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being brattish.
heelpath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heelpaths
Etymology: From heel + path, a pun on towpath and toe (another part of the foot).
Senses: examples: The Century
The Cowles found convenient spiles sunk in the heelpath.
glosses: The bank of a canal opposite, and corresponding to, that of the towpath.
Synonyms: berm
heelpaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heelpath
hetaeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetaera + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a hetaera.
hetairic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hetaeric.
autocephality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + cephal- + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The Macedonian Orthodox Church is struggling for the recognition of its autocephality by the other Orthodox Churches.
ref: 2011, Ina Merdjanova, Patrice Brodeur, Religion as a Conversation Starter: Interreligious Dialog for Peacebuilding in the Balkans, →ISBN, page 1916:
topics: Christianity
glosses: The right of autonomy for a church; specifically, the right to resolve all internal problems on its own authority and to appoint its own bishops, including the head of the church, without any obligatory expression of dependence on another church.
Related terms: autocephalous
autocephaly
autocephalic
snice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of snow + ice
Senses: glosses: Frozen water with physical characteristics intermediate between snow and ice, especially when used in constructing buildings (such as ice hotels) out of ice.
autocephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more autocephalic
form: most autocephalic
Etymology: From auto- + cephalic.
Senses: examples: text: "Still, he looks very distinguished and venerable in his robes." "Oh Christ, is he an autocephalic archbishop?"
ref: 2015, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, →ISBN:
glosses: Autocephalous.
Hejazi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hijazi.
Hijazi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hejazi
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic حِجَازِيّ (ḥijāziyy). See also Hejaz.
Senses: glosses: A group of early angular Arabic scripts that developed in the Hejaz region of the Arabian peninsula.
hiped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hipe
hiping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hipe
hipers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hiper
hypers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyper
hypers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hyper