cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Kwangtung
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: unaspirated
ipa: /ˈkwɑŋˈtʊŋ/
note: unaspirated
ipa: /ˈkwæŋˈtʊŋ/
note: hyperforeign
enpr: gwängʹdo͝ongʹ
enpr: kwängʹto͝ongʹ
enpr: kwǎngʹto͝ongʹ
Etymology: From the Postal Romanization of Mandarin 廣東 /广东 (Guǎngdōng).
Senses: examples: text: Nan Yueh is the old Kingdom of Co-chin-China which in A.D. 222 was divided into Chiao-Chou or Tonquin and what is now the area covered by Kwangtung and Kwangsi.
ref: 1921, George Weidman Groff, The Lychee and Lungan, Canton, page 17:
text: On April 5, 1925, Chiang Kai-shek returned from the First Eastern Expedition to the Whampoa Military Academy to officiate at a funeral service for Sun Yat-sen, who had died in Peking on March 12. Huang Chi-lu, then a young professor of political science at the University of Kwangtung and destined to become director of the Kuomintang Archives some forty years later, has informed us of the display of strong emotion evidenced by Chiang on this occasion: "The service was officiated by Mr. Chiang and Liao Chung-k'ai and was attended by over four thousand officers, cadets, and soldiers. As the funeral ceremonies began, Mr. Chiang, unable to control himself, wept bitterly and audibly, causing all in the assembly to shed tears."
ref: 1971, Pichon Pei Yung Loh, The early Chiang Kai-shek: A STUDY OF HIS PERSONALITY AND POLITICS, 1887-1924, Columbia University Press, page 1:
text: The intelligence reports also said that some 10,000 intellectual youths, who had been sent to rural areas for hard labor and have returned to the cities, staged a demonstration recently in front of the "revolutionary committee" office in Yangchun County, Kwangtung Province.
ref: 1979 August 26, “Movements gaining momentum”, in Free China Weekly, volume XX, number 33, Taipei, page 3:
text: Writer Ta Chen, in a statistical study of industrial labor in China in 1933, recorded that 66.6 percent of the total number of workers in the four main industrial regions of Kwangtung were women. In Shun-te, 81.2 percent of the labor force were women.
ref: 1986, Janice G. Raymond, A Passion for Friends: Toward a Philosophy of Female Affection, Boston: Beacon Press, →ISBN, page 124:
text: "WHERE WERE YOU born?" Superintendent Wu asks again.
"Yin Bo Village in Kwangtung province," I answer.
ref: 2011, Lisa See, Dreams of Joy, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 272:
glosses: Alternative form of Guangdong.
wikipedia: Army Map Service
Derived terms: Kwangtung ware
calculatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæl.kjə.leɪ.tə.bl/
ipa: [ˌkʰæɫ.kjəˈleɪ̯.ɾə.bl̩]
Forms: form: more calculatable
form: most calculatable
Etymology: From calculate + -able.
Senses: antonyms: incalculable
glosses: Able to be calculated; calculable.
recalculable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more recalculable
form: most recalculable
Etymology: From re- + calculable.
Senses: glosses: Able to be recalculated.
thunderegg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thundereggs
form: thunder egg
Etymology: From thunder + egg.
Senses: glosses: A roughly spherical, nodule-like geological structure, similar to a geode, that is formed within a rhyolitic lava flow.
thundereggs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thunderegg
preinvention
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + invention.
Senses: glosses: Before the invention of something; applied to legal agreements in which an employee agrees to assign to his/her employer the rights to any invention he/she later creates while employed.
unbullyable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbullyable
form: most unbullyable
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unbulliable.
sodium hydrogen phosphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The acid sodium salt of phosphoric acid, Na₂HPO₄
Synonyms: disodium hydrogen phosphate
equilibrize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: equilibrizes
form: equilibrizing
form: equilibrized
form: equilibrized
Etymology: From equilibrium + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To balance, or bring into equilibrium.
glosses: To balance, to be in a state of equilibrium.
Synonyms: equilibrate
Related terms: equilibrium
autobuffet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autobuffets
Etymology: From auto- + buffet.
Senses: examples: text: PRR Unveils New Auto-Buffet Coach
ref: 1954 January 16, “Vending Machines”, in Billboard, page 71:
text: At Waterloo, at 1 a.m., an attendant was available to give change for the autobuffet (the machine for change was out of order), […] The autobuffet at Paddington was doing good business at 2 a.m., but again the change machine was out of order.
ref: 1963, Research Institute for Consumer Affairs (London, England), Essays & enquiries (issues 1-12, page 22)
text: I can't remember now where I saw an autobuffet sign quite recently.
ref: 2009, Roy Badami, “Re: Oh for an integrated railway”, in uk.railway (Usenet):
glosses: A railway vending machine selling food items.
ichnofauna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ichnofaunas
Etymology: From ichno- + fauna.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Fauna that leaves tracks, spoor, footprints, etc.
Derived terms: ichnofaunal
megaichnofauna
fake out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fakes out
form: faking out
form: faked out
form: faked out
Senses: examples: text: Rhyder, who police later concluded had been faking them out during the pursuit by reaching into his pants several times for a gun, actually had been searching frantically for the weapon.
ref: 1989 November 16, Kristin Casler, “Police Recover Stolen Gun”, in The Morning Call, Pennsylvania, USA, retrieved 14 Jan 2012, page B1:
text: There’s no reason for the catcher to try to spoof the ump, fake him out, in that situation. . . . There’s no need for deception.
ref: 2005 October 13, King Kaufman, “King Kaufman’s Sports Daily”, in salon.com, retrieved 14 Jan 2012:
text: Wee-Man ran up to Williams to shake hands, then faked her out, running his hand through his hair instead.
ref: 2007 August 19, Susan Dominus, “Dangerous When Interested”, in New York Times, retrieved 14 Jan 2012:
glosses: To deceive, mislead, or trick (someone).
Derived terms: word: fakeout
Related terms: head fake
flame photometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The quantitative analysis of metals by passing a solution of their salts into a flame and measuring the intensity of specific spectral lines
Spartacus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɑːtəkəs/
ipa: /ˈspɑːɹtəkəs/
Etymology: From Latin Spartacus.
Senses: glosses: A Thracian name, notably borne by a gladiator who was one of the slave leaders in a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic.
inner product space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inner product spaces
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A vector space which is additionally equipped with an inner product.
Hypernyms: normed vector space
Hyponyms: Euclidean space
Hilbert space
normed vector space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: normed vector spaces
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A vector space which is additionally equipped with a norm.
Hypernyms: metric space
vector space
Hyponyms: inner product space
Hermitian conjugate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /hɜː(r)ˈmɪtiən ˈkɒnd͡ʒʊɡət/
Forms: form: Hermitian conjugates
Etymology: Named after Charles Hermite (1822–1901), French mathematician.
Senses: topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: transpose conjugate
wikipedia: Charles Hermite
Euclidean domain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Euclidean domains
Etymology: So called because for such domains it is possible to apply the Euclidean algorithm in order to obtain greatest common divisors.
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: an integral domain in which division with remainder is possible
Hypernyms: principal ideal domain
Meronyms: norm
linear form
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linear forms
Senses: examples: text: In #92;mathbb#123;R#125;ⁿ, if vectors are represented as column vectors, then linear forms are represented as row vectors, and their action on vectors is given by the matrix product, with the row vector on the left and the column vector on the right.
text: 1961 [Prentice-Hall], Richard A. Silverman (translator), Georgi E. Shilov, An Introduction to the Theory of Linear Spaces, 1974, Dover, page 66,
A more general linear form in the same space is the expression
f(x)=∑ₖ₊₁ⁿc_kζₖ
with arbitrary fixed coefficients c_1,c_2…,c_n.
text: In the theory of distributions, functions are replaced by linear forms on an auxiliary vector space, whose members are called test functions.
ref: 1998, F. G. Friedlander, M. Joshi, Introduction to the Theory of Distributions, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, page 2:
text: In order to better understand the effect of reducing a K-vector subspace V#92;subseteqP#95;d modulo a generic linear form, we generalize Proposition 5.5.18 as follows.
ref: 2005, Martin Kreuzer, Lorenzo Robbiano, Computational Commutative Algebra 2, Springer, page 264:
topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A linear functional.
Synonyms: sense: linear functional
word: covector
sense: linear functional
word: linear functional
sense: linear functional
word: one-form
Derived terms: linear form in logarithms
Related terms: bilinear form
multilinear form
differential form
polynomial form
dual space
Orwellianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Orwellianisms
form: Orwellism
Etymology: From Orwellian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Orwellian systems or methods generally; totalitarian propaganda, surveillance, repression, etc.
Orwellianisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Orwellianism
bilinear form
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bilinear forms
Senses: topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A function of two arguments from the same vector space which maps onto a field of scalars, which acts like a linear form with respect to either one of its arguments when the other one is held constant.
Synonyms: two-form
two-form
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: two-forms
Senses: topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: bilinear form
twixter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twixters
Etymology: From twixt + -er.
Senses: glosses: A young adult who has yet to adopt typical adult behaviours.
Related terms: adultescent
kidult
twixters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twixter
codocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: codocytes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κώδων (kṓdōn, “bell”) + -cyte.
Senses: glosses: A red blood cell with the appearance of a shooting target with a bullseye.
wikipedia: Ancient Greek
Synonyms: Mexican hat cell
target cell
codocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of codocyte
Mexican hat cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mexican hat cells
Etymology: Referring to its shape, supposed to be like a sombrero seen from above.
Senses: glosses: A codocyte.
nalbinding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nalebinding
Etymology: From Danish nålebinding, literally "needle-binding," from nål + binde.
Senses: glosses: A fabric creation technique predating knitting and crochet, involving passing the full length of the working thread through each loop, and with separate lengths pieced together during the process.
Related terms: nalbound
Fakkanci
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Fakkanci.
synonyms: u̠t-Ma'in
glosses: A Niger-Congo language of Nigeria.
de jour
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /də ˈʒʊə/
ipa: /də ˈʒʊɹ/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Etymology: Variation of du jour, from French du jour (“of the day”). This specific expression in French (see below) means “for daytime” or “during daytime”.
Senses: examples: text: Foreign-policy chiefs deal most often with the hottest issue de jour, though they can get the attention of the president and other members of the government for other issues which they judge important.
ref: 2005, G. John Ikenberry, American Foreign Policy: Theoretical Essays, Pearson/Longman, published 2005, →ISBN, page 431:
text: They existed at a time in history when shock therapy, brain tissue manipulation, implants, drug experimentation and lobotomies were treatments de jour.
ref: 2007, Julie Albrecht Royce, Traveling Michigan's Sunset Coast, Dog Ear Publishing, published 2007, →ISBN, page 420:
text: When reading The Young Allies, it seems that Whitewash's purpose, besides representing the black community, is to get captured by the villain de jour and be saved by Bucky and the other Allies.
ref: 2009, Ora C. McWilliams, “Not Just Another Racist Honkey: A History of Racial Representation in Captain America and Related Publications”, in Robert G. Weiner, editor, Captain America and the Struggle of the Superhero: Critical Essays, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 68:
glosses: Contemporary or most recent; en vogue; trendy.
psithurisma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of psithurism.
ticketer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ticketers
Etymology: From ticket + -er.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: a person responsible for ticket issue.
glosses: A burnisher.
Moris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Sankranti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sankrantis
Etymology: From Sanskrit संक्रान्ति (saṃkrānti).
Senses: examples: text: There are 12 Sankrantis in a year.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The transmigration of the Sun from one Rāshi (constellation of the zodiac) to the next.
Derived terms: Poush Sankranti
Related terms: Makar Sankranti
Mesha Sankranti
heterotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterotypes
Senses: glosses: The heterotypic stage in meiosis.
heterotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterotype
shoo in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoo ins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shoo-in.
shoo in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: "Now," Herbie says, dropping his voice away down low, in case old Cap Duhaine may be around somewhere listening, "it is the third race, and the horse is a horse by the name of Never Despair. It is a boat race," Herbie says. "They are going to shoo in Never Despair. Everything else in the race is a cooler," he says.
ref: 1944, Damon Runyon, A Story Goes With It:
glosses: To cause (a competitor) to win a fixed race.
shoe-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoe-ins
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of shoo-in.
shoe in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of shoo-in.
isotope exchange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isotope exchanges
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A reaction in which one or more atoms in a molecule are exchanged for ones of a different isotope of the same element
föhns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of föhn
Jhankaradhvani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit झंकारध्वनि (jhaṃkāradhvani), from झंकार (jhaṃkāra) + ध्वनि (dhvani, “sound”).
Senses: qualifier: Carnatic music
glosses: Name of a rāgam in Carnatic music. It is the 19th melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system of Carnatic music.
Natabhairavi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * From Sanskrit नट (naṭa) + भैरवी (bhairavī)
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Name of a rāgam in Carnatic music. It is the 20th melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system.
Lake
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lakes
Etymology: Derived from the noun lake.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
examples: Lake Bell, Lake Chambers Speed
glosses: A unisex given name.
glosses: A placename:
A place in England:
A large village and civil parish on the Isle of Wight (OS grid ref SZ5983).
glosses: A placename:
A place in England:
A settlement in Wilsford cum Lake parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU1339).
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Fremont County, Idaho.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Laurel County, Kentucky.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Ascension Parish, Louisiana.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Garfield Township, Clare County, Michigan.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Newton County and Scott County, Mississippi.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Tulsa County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Northumberland County, Virginia.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Marinette County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A former town in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, annexed by the city of Milwaukee in 1954.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Price County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A number of townships, listed under Lake Township.
Derived terms: Lake City
Wilsford cum Lake
gardie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gardies
Senses: examples: text: I set up a line for him with half a gardie for bait.
ref: 2010, Walter James Clark, Poor Little Wally!:
text: There are mullet, gardies, mangrove jack and more.
ref: 2021 January 4, Stephen Scourfield, “Cape crusaders on a journey of discovery”, in The West Australian:
glosses: A garfish (of the family Hemiramphidae).
cytosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪˈtoʊsɪs/
rhymes: -əʊsɪs
Forms: form: cytoses
Etymology: From cyto- + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An abnormal increase in the number of a specified type of cells.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The movement of cells between parts of an organism.
Derived terms: anisocytosis
apocytosis
hypercytosis
macrocytosis
necrocytosis
normocytosis
osmocytosis
pancytosis
poikilocytosis
thrombocytosis
lithium amide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The lithium salt of ammonia LiNH₂
lithium borohydride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The strong reducing agent LiBH₄
lithium hexafluorophosphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The salt LiPF₆ that is used as an electrolyte in lithium batteries
lithium metaborate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The salt LiBO₂
Keeravani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit कीरवाणि (kīravāṇi, literally “parrot's voice”), from कीर (kīra) + वाणि (vāṇi).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Name of a rāga in Carnatic music. It is the 21st melakarta rāga in the 72 melakarta rāga system of Carnatic music.
smooth hound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smooth hounds
form: smoothhound
form: smooth-hound
Senses: glosses: Any of several small North Atlantic coastal sharks of the genus Mustelus.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Mustelus mustelus
word: common smooth hound
lithium peroxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The compound Li₂O₂ that is used to remove carbon dioxide from air and replace it with oxygen
runish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more runish
form: most runish
form: Runish
Etymology: From Middle English runish, runisch, from Old English *rūnisc, *rȳnisc, rēnisc (“mysterious, mystic”), equivalent to rune + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Hundreds of these Golden Ornaments — Rank-decorations, Family Medals, Gift- pieces, Amulets, or whatever else they may have been — have no letters at all, either runish or otherwise.
ref: 1884, George Stephens, Handbook of the old-northern runic monument of Scandinavia and England:
text: Susan's impatient monosyllable startled Jori, slung in the halter on her chest, but he promptly went back to sleep after blowing a couple of bubbles. 'It's in Runish, the old language.
ref: 2005, Tango Wayne, Scandinal:
glosses: Of or relating to runes, runic inscription, or runic language; runic.
examples: text: Baltazar is stunned with fear as he watches the floating hand carve mysterious "runisch sauez" (runish writings) (1544-45) in the wall.
ref: 2003, Ann R. Meyer, Medieval Allegory and the Building of the New Jerusalem:
text: It's such cross-purpose my heart craves, These guests on old Twelfth Night, Their runish, unreadable moil Of prints, the barrowed creche Awaiting thaw.
ref: 2011, Marly Youmans, The Throne of Psyche:
glosses: Mysterious; strange.
runish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more runish
form: most runish
form: Runish
Etymology: From Middle English runisch, a variant (by confusion) of renisch. Also rennish.
Senses: glosses: Rough, violent.
in need
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I donated the clothes my son outgrew to help children in need.
glosses: Lacking basic necessities such as food and shelter; poor; indigent.
examples: text: a friend in need is a friend indeed
text: The team came to the rescue of a whale in need.
glosses: In distress or otherwise difficult circumstances.
examples: text: The house stands in need of urgent repairs.
qualifier: when followed by “of”
glosses: Needing (the specified necessities).
heart surgeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heart surgeons
Senses: glosses: A surgeon of the heart.
eustreptospondylus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A megalosaurid dinosaur, of the genus †Eustreptospondylus, from the Callovian stage of the Middle Jurassic period.
micropachycephalosaurus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micropachycephalosauruses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós, “small”) + παχύς (pakhús, “thick”) + κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”) + σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard, reptile”).
Senses: glosses: a very small pachycephalosaurid, ornithischian dinosaur of the genus Micropachycephalosaurus.
wikipedia: micropachycephalosaurus
minmi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minmis
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: An Australian ankylosaur, of the genus Minmi, that was about 10 feet long, from the early Cretaceous period.
deinonychus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /daɪˈnɒnɪkəs/
Forms: form: deinonychuses
form: deinonychi
Etymology: From translingual Deinonychus (1969), from Ancient Greek δεινός (deinós, “fearful, terrible”) (see dinosaur) + ὄνυξ (ónux, “nail, claw, talon”).
Senses: examples: text: The first attempts were made on the remains of duckbill dinosaurs found in the Coleville River dig, but the real success was made when the University located the remains of three deinonychi at an Amoco drill site on the Alaskan North Slope.
ref: 1990 November, Allen Steele, “Trembling Earth”, in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, volume 14, numbers 11–12 (whole 162–163), New York, N.Y.: Davis Publications, Inc., section 1 (The Mesozoic Express), page 64:
text: Bella kept half an eye out for the deinonychi. The deinonychus dinosaurs with the teeth and raking claws were big solid humans in the real.
ref: 1994, Gwyneth Jones, North Wind, New York, N.Y.: Tor, published 1996, →ISBN, page 224:
text: In that chamber, lying curled, or sitting hunched, were five saurians: two deinonychi and three smaller ones that looked like some kind of miniature tyrannosaur.
ref: 1997, Diane Duane, The Book of Night with Moon, New York, N.Y.: Aspect, Warner Books, →ISBN, page 248:
synonyms: velociraptor
glosses: A medium agile dinosaur, of the genus Deinonychus, of the Cretaceous period, characterized by having a large, curved claw on each hind foot.
neuropatterning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Neuro- + patterning.
Senses: glosses: the patterning or recording of information and patterns within the brain so that habits are created, as repetition of a certain behaviour makes it easier to repeat the behaviour
fakeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fake + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being fake.
g-forces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of g-force
g forces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of g force
Siang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Xiang.
Min
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Egyptian R22:R12-C8 mnw.
Senses: glosses: An Ancient Egyptian god of fertility and procreation.
Min
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: mǐn
Etymology: From Mandarin 岷 (Mín).
Senses: glosses: A river in Sichuan, China.
Min
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: mǐn
Etymology: From Mandarin 敏 (Mǐn).
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
glosses: A female given name.
Min
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: mǐn
Senses: glosses: The Mountain Ok ethnic group of Sandaun, Papua New Guinea.
Min
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: mǐn
Senses: examples: text: Long before the Conqueſt of China by the Tartars in their laſt invaſion, and the depoſing of the Emperour of China, (viz. when the Soveraignty of the Kingdom was in the Family of Ciu) China was called by the Chineſes Min, which ſignifies Perſpicuty, or Brightneſs. Afterwards they added to the word Min the ſyllable Ta, and called it then Tamin, or (as ſome write) Taming, which ſignifies The Kingdom of great Brightneſs. For above 300 years this Kingdom bore the name of Tai-juen, and at this time it is called by the Tartars, who poſſeſs this Kingdom under the Great Cham, Taicing.
ref: 1669 [1665], John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, translation of original in Dutch, →OCLC, page 4:
text: The founder of the Min dynasty (A. D. 1368) declares of him, "He descended repeatedly from heaven to be the imperial teacher; generation after generation he ceased not, but men knew him not. History, which has recorded every thing which could be of interest about Confucius, even to the minutest details of his daily life, failed to hand down the daily acts of a man who, for character and grasp of thought, far transcends his contemporary, Confucius."
ref: 1884, Virgil C. Hart, “Taoism”, in John Morrison Reid, editor, Doomed Religions, New York: Phillips & Hunt, →OCLC, →OL, page 298:
glosses: Alternative form of Ming.
pygidiums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pygidium
-opsis
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὄψις (ópsis, “aspect, appearance”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of -opia (“seeing”).
synonyms: word: -opia
extra: seeing
Derived terms: monachopsis
Taliabu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The Indonesian islands of Taliabu, Peleng and Batudaka are in a region named Wallacea, after Alfred Russel Wallace, the 19th-century naturalist who developed a theory of evolution alongside Charles Darwin’s.
ref: 2020 January 9, Karen Weintraub, “Trove of New Bird Species Found on Remote Indonesian Islands”, in The New York Times:
glosses: An island of the Moluccas in the province of North Maluku, Indonesia.
glosses: A language spoken on that island, including the dialect Soboyo.
Related terms: tlv ⁠
Wiktionary’s coverage of Taliabu terms
Min Dong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 閩東 /闽东 (Mǐndōng).
Senses: examples: text: The 247,000 figure is the total of the populations given for all the Southeast Asian countries where the Min Dong language is spoken. In other words, the 2000 edition still does not list a population for Min Dong in China. The confusion probably stems from the fact that the Min Dong figures are incorrectly included under the Min Bei population.
ref: 2004, Paul Hattaway, Peoples of the Buddhist World: A Christian Prayer Diary, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 372, column 2:
text: Additionally, Lienchiang County Government has established “Let’s Speak Matsu Dialect,” where people can read picture books written in Min Dong dialect through online streaming and live activities. Overall, the MOE and social education institutions are anticipating that the local people will wholeheartedly welcome these much-anticipated events.
ref: 2022 February 11, ““Now We Speak Our Own Languages” The Ministry of Education calls on social education institutions to promote local languages in response to International Mother Language Day”, in Ministry of Education, Republic of China (Taiwan), archived from the original on 21 Jun 2022:
glosses: Synonym of Eastern Min.
synonyms: word: Eastern Min
tiedown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tiedowns
form: tie-down
Etymology: Deverbal from tie down.
Senses: examples: text: The rules in this section apply to tiedown assemblies (including chains, cables, steel Straps, and fiber webbing), other securement devices, and attachment or fastening devices used in conjunction therewith, which are used to secure cargo to motor vehicles in transit.
ref: 1974, Code of Federal Regulations: 1949-1984, page 336:
synonyms: tie down strap
ratchet strap
lashing strap
coordinate_terms: holdback
holddown
glosses: A rope, strap, chain, or line used to secure a load or item.
examples: text: He didn't tell her, but when he'd heard she would be in a place with a functioning airstrip he'd been in such a hurry to arrange for the days off and get out to his tiedown at Merrill Field that he hadn't bothered to ask.
ref: 1995, Dana Stabenow, Play with Fire, →ISBN, page 156:
glosses: The assembly to which something is secured using a tiedown.
examples: text: Accomplish aircraft tiedown by utilizing mooring points shown in figure 2-28.
ref: 1990, Operator's Manual for Army Models RU-21B and RU-21C Aircraft:
glosses: The act of securing something using a tiedown.
Colquhoun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈhuːn/
Forms: form: Colquhouns
Etymology: Habitational surname borrowed from Scottish Gaelic, possibly from cùil (“nook, angle, corner”) + cumhang (“narrow, close”).
Senses: examples: text: For more than 750 years the lochside village of Luss has been the home of the chiefs of the Colquhoun clan.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 270:
glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
antrin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈan.tɹɪn/
Forms: form: more antrin
form: most antrin
Etymology: From Scots antrin, present participle of anter (“to adventure, venture”).
Senses: examples: text: But there was more to it than that, some never knew it, but real enough, an antrin magic that bound you in one with the mind, not only the body of a man, with his dreams and desires, his loves, even hates […]
ref: 1934, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grey Granite (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 554:
glosses: Strange, rare, unusual.
eident
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌɪdənt/
Forms: form: more eident
form: most eident
Etymology: From Scots eident, Scottish form of ithand.
Senses: examples: text: far off through the hedges some eident body was at work with a lawn-mower, clinkle-clankle, a bairn was wailing in a bairn's unease as Chris dug and raked […]
ref: 1934, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grey Granite (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 553:
glosses: Busy, industrious, diligent.
Derived terms: eidently
Kharaharapriya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit खरहरप्रिया (kharaharapriyā, literally “loved by the slayer of demon Khara”), from खर (khara) + हर (hara) + प्रिया (priyā).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Name of a rāgam in Carnatic music. It is the 22nd melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system.
Gourimanohari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Sanskrit गौरीमनोहारी (gaurīmanohārī).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Name of a rāga in Carnatic music. It is the 23rd melakarta rāga in the 72 melakarta rāga system of Carnatic music.
wikipedia: Gourimanohari
Manohar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit मनोहर (manohara).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.
Ivanishvili
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Georgian ივანიშვილი (ivanišvili).
Senses: examples: Bidzina Ivanishvili, Georgian Prime Minister.
glosses: A transliteration of the Georgian surname ივანიშვილი (ivanišvili).
Bidzina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Georgian ბიძინა (biʒina).
Senses: examples: Bidzina Ivanishvili, Georgian Prime Minister.
glosses: A transliteration of a Georgian name.
wet chemical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to wet chemistry
Alken
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Alken, derived from Latin *Ālliācum.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Limburg, Flanders, Belgium.
Vani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Georgian ვანი (vani).
Senses: glosses: A city in the country of Georgia.
Vani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit वाणि (vāṇi).
Senses: examples: text: On a recent Thursday, Vani Hari, perhaps Public Enemy No. 1 of big food companies, sat at ABC Kitchen in the Flatiron district wearing a purple sweater with a giant pink heart and pink heart-shaped crystal earrings.
ref: 2015 March 13, Courtney Rubin, “Taking On the Food Industry, One Blog Post at a Time”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 20 Mar 2015:
glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.
Relangi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Telugu రేలంగి (rēlaṅgi).
Senses: glosses: A surname. used in India.
glosses: A village in Andhra Pradesh.
type introspection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /taɪp ɪntɹəˈspɛkʃən/
rhymes: -ɛkʃən
Forms: form: type introspections
Senses: qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: The ability of a program to examine at run time the type or properties of an object.
Synonyms: word: introspection
type introspections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of type introspection
Unger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Palakonda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Telugu పాల (pāla, “milky”) + కొండ (koṇḍa, “hill”).
Senses: glosses: A town in Andhra Pradesh, India.
Petroleum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Nottingham Township, Wells County, Indiana.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Allen County, Kentucky.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Ritchie County, West Virginia.
synonyms: Rogers
Related terms: Petroleum County
Varunapriya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit वरुणप्रिया (varuṇapriyā), from वरुण (váruṇa) + प्रिया (priyā).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A rāga in Carnatic music. It is the 24th melakarta rāga in the 72 melakarta rāga system of Carnatic music.
theroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more theroid
form: most theroid
Etymology: From Ancient Greek θήρ (thḗr, “beast, fantastic animal”). Compare Theropoda.
Senses: examples: text: There is a class of idiots which may justly be designated theroid, so like brutes are the members of it.
ref: 1871, Henry Maudsley, Body and Mind, page 46:
text: Some imbecile children, without being so markedly theroid as this, are incorrigibly mischievous, and often show a surprising amount of cunning in carrying out what they design.
ref: 1877, William Wotherspoon Ireland, On Idiocy and Imbecility, page 349:
text: Man can not have arisen except from some more theroid form zoologically, and hence also morphologically.
ref: 1912, Aleš Hrdlička, William Henry Holmes, Bailey Willis, Frederic Eugene Wright, Clarence Norman Fenner, Early Man in South America, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 2:
text: 1994, Chantal Zabus, Prospero′s Progeny Curses Back: Postcolonial, Postmodern, and Postpatriarchal Rewritings of The Tempest, Theo D′Haen, Hans Bertens (editors),Liminal Postmodernisms: The Postmodern, the (post-)Colonial, and the (post-)Feminist, page 119,
Whatever Caliban′s ancestry may be, it remains that the West Indian Caliban is a poet whose poetic topography covers the whole of the Caribbean “trough” but whose harrowing experience of exile has turned him into a theroid monster.
glosses: Bestial, resembling an animal.
theroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: […]a ſwelling of the two theroid glands, lying on each ſide of the wind-pipe,[…].
ref: 1765, The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman′s Monthly Intelligencer, volume 34, page 77:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of thyroid.
Varun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Varuns
Etymology: * From Sanskrit वरुण (váruṇa, “Varuna”)
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.
schizophrene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schizophrenes
Senses: glosses: A schizophrenic individual.
schizophrenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schizophrene
Soda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sodas
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 宗田 (sōda).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
Mararanjani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit मार (māra) + रन्जनि (ranjani).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A rāga in Carnatic music. It is the 25th melakarta rāga in the 72 melakarta rāga system of Carnatic music.
Sodas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Soda
cryptoclidus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryptocliduses
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: An extinct, long-necked plesiosaur, of genus †Cryptoclidus, from the late Jurassic period.
WKIDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of WKID
Winnipegish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Winnipegish
form: most Winnipegish
form: Winnipeg-ish
Etymology: From Winnipeg + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The conflict began as a theological disagreement, but as time went on various leaders, in their letters, described it as a dispute ‘between the Mennonite churches in the Province of Manitoba and of the City of Winnipeg.’ Other rural leaders referred to various new practices and ideas that they did not like as ‘Winnipegish.’
ref: 1996, T. D. Regehr, Mennonites in Canada, 1939–1970: A People Transformed, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 182:
text: You need not be gay, Winnipegish or even arty to relate to My Winnipeg; its themes of desire and grief are universal.
ref: 2007 September 13, Gordon Bowness, “Out gayed by Guy Maddin”, in Xtra!:
text: The Roughriders just aren't that good. They look ... oh, how can I say this ... they just look too Winnipegish.
ref: 2011 October 5, “Who is paying how much for what?”, in Estevan Mercury:
glosses: From, characteristic of, or resembling the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Vancouverish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Vancouverish
form: most Vancouverish
Etymology: From Vancouver + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: His DeutscheBank account did contain around fifty thousand dollars—his commission from the Harold Green scam—which would last him awhile in someplace Vancouverish.
ref: 2003, Gary Shteyngart, The Russian Debutante's Handbook, Riverhead Books, published 2002, →ISBN:
text: Foggy nights used to be a rarity [in Toronto], but a Vancouverish fall has produced several.
ref: 2006, Sheila Gostick, "Lost in the thick of it", Now, November 30-December 7, 2006 issue
text: Quito has a Vancouverish vibe in general, but combined with a cold, dry, Aspen, ski-town feel.
ref: 2009, Ethan Rogol, Tropical Immersion: A Year in Costa Rica and Beyond, iUniverse, published 2010, →ISBN, page 162:
glosses: Characteristic of or resembling the city of Vancouver, British Columbia.
abelisaurus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: An abelisaurid theropod dinosaur, of genus Abelisaurus, from the Late Cretaceous Period (Campanian) of what is now South America.
Synonyms: abelisaur
erathem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erathems
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: The total stratigraphic unit deposited during a certain corresponding span of time during an era in the geologic timescale.
erathems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of erathem
oh em gee
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: oh-em-gee
form: Oh Em Gee
Etymology: Phonetic spelling of the initialism OMG (“oh my God; oh my gosh”).
Senses: examples: text: "What can I say? I'm a fan. Plus, TMZ had pictures and oh em gee, let me tell you — you haven't lived until you've seen Britney Spears in a tiara, falling down drunk and tangled in a mile of silver tulle."
ref: 2011, Louisa Edwards, Too Hot to Touch, St. Martin's Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 93:
text: "Oh em gee," I said, smiling up at him, "did you just use the word sitch?"
ref: 2011, Katie Finn, Unfriended, Point, published 2011, →ISBN, page 81:
text: Kelly pressed his face up against the wall of the box again to get a better look through the portal again. "Oh em gee!" he said aloud after he did.
ref: 2011, Mia Tanaka, The Other Place: Book of the Siblings, Xlibris, published 2011, →ISBN, page 87:
glosses: An exclamation of excitement, surprise, amazement, or shock.
bewarm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bewarms
form: bewarming
form: bewarmed
form: bewarmed
Etymology: From be- + warm.
Senses: examples: text: What while he thus bewarmed himself, a spark lit upon the sheets, [...]
ref: 1890, Matteo Bandello, The Novels of Matteo Bandello:
glosses: To make warm; warm all over; warm up.
oh-em-gee
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: In the dressing room next to her, a young lady yelled to her friend, "Oh-em-gee! I am so fat! I can't fit into these size zeros. Will you go get me a size two?" Seriously, I wanted to crawl under the door of that dressing room and feed the girl a cheeseburger.
ref: 2008, Vicki Courtney, 5 Conversations You Must Have with Your Daughter, B&H Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 17:
text: "Oh-em-gee!" says Anna with her mouth full. "That is delicious!"
ref: 2009, Jodi Della Femina, Sheri McInnis, By Invitation Only, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 192:
text: "Oh-em-gee," said Perry. Izanagi had their mom pressed up against the car as he kissed her with way too much tongue. "We are your children," she whined. "Just get your sayonaras over with already."
ref: 2011, Wendy Wunder, The Probability of Miracles, Razorbill, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of oh em gee.
Oh Em Gee
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: […] and Oh Em Gee the conversations that you have when you have
found them
makes all the searching, worth it…..
ref: 2011, Carlos Desmond Davis, Prisms of Thoughts, PublishAmerica, →ISBN:
text: Being good at math can get you into good schools but it does not — repeat, does NOT — make you smart in any necessarily meaningful way. Ha ha ha. Oh Em Gee.
ref: 2012, Karen Rivers, The Encyclopedia of Me, Scholastic, →ISBN:
text: And I think, Oh Em Gee all these teachers: they're not just old founts of knowledge; they're also the ones that we copy; admire.
ref: 2012, P. J. Young, To Be Honest, Autharium Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of oh em gee.
penny-dreadfulish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more penny-dreadfulish
form: most penny-dreadfulish
Etymology: From penny dreadful + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: She has been quite penny-dreadfulish-sword-and-mask mysterious lately; she goes about with her lips pursed up and a sparkle in her eye.
ref: 1913, Doris Egerton Jones, Pied Piper, George W. Jacobs & Company, page 254:
text: But if Sedlar and Ales aren't the same, then there's only one conclusion to come to: they bear an uncanny resemblance to each other! We've been evading that conclusion because it seems—er—pulpy and penny-dreadfulish; but you can't get around it.
ref: 1936, Barnaby Ross, Drury Lane's Last Case, republished, March 1946, as by Ellery Queen, Little, Brown, page 250
text: "Dracula the Un-Dead” forsakes the epistolary format of its forebear in favor of a penny-dreadfulish narrative pitting the first book’s surviving characters against a monomaniacal vampire countess.
ref: 2009 October 22, Jan Stuart, “Fiction Chronicle”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a penny dreadful.
Sister Souljah moment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sister Souljah moments
Etymology: Referring to presidential candidate Bill Clinton publicly criticizing activist Sister Souljah for her statements about the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
Senses: examples: text: The embodiment of the no-compromise style the public disdains, Bachmann seems congenitally incapable of such a move unless it's a reverse Sister Souljah moment, where she castigates her party for being insufficiently beholden to its base.
ref: 2011 October 19, Robert Schlesinger, “The GOP Needs to Escape the GOP”, in U.S. News & World Report, volume 3, number 33, page 18:
text: Determined to get that office, to get that house, he's shown not a single "Sister Souljah" moment, not a moment of independence from the people to whom he's sworn his allegiance.
ref: 2012 September 17, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Chris Matthews (actor), via MSNBC:
text: But this wasn't some sort of Sister Souljah moment, where Romney called out his fellow conservatives in order to curry favor with the center.
ref: 2012 October 6, Ross Douthat, “It Could Be His Party”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A politician's public repudiation of extremism perceived to be allied or associated with them or their political party.
wikipedia: 1992 Los Angeles riots
Bill Clinton
Sister Souljah
Sister Souljah moments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sister Souljah moment