cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Aditi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit अदिति (aditi, “having nothing to give”); ultimately from अ- (a-) + दिति (diti).
Senses: glosses: The daughter of Daksha, wife of Kashyapa, and mother of the gods.
examples: text: [My daughter] is not just born to sit at the backseat of her
boyfriend’s bike,
She can ride better than him.
She is not just born to be a toy for anyone’s
lust,
She rule[s] her own body & can decide to
whom [to] give [the] right to touch her body & soul.
She can be bold, badass like Aditi in YJHD,
At the same time she can be sweet &
innocent like Naina in YJHD.
ref: 2021, Vishakha Malukani (Morika), “I will teach my daughter”, in Vishakha Malukani (Morika), editor, The Warmth of Emotions, Writersgram Publications, →ISBN, page 19:
glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit mainly used in India.
agnihotra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agnihotras
Etymology: From Sanskrit अग्नि (agni, “Agni”) + होत्र (hotra, “sacrifice, burnt offering”).
Senses: glosses: A Vedic yajña (ritual or sacrifice) mentioned in the Atharvaveda and performed in orthodox Hindu communities.
expansion cooling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The cooling of a gas as it undergoes adiabatic expansion
bangster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bangsters
Etymology: From bang + -ster.
Senses: examples: text: “[…]but ere this preparative pass, that we dare not correct our scholars for fear of bangsters and clanned gentlemen, they shall have all the blood of my body first.”
ref: 1840, Thomas McCrie, The life of Andrew Melville, the Scottish reformer, abridged for the Board from McCrie's Life of Melville, page 15:
glosses: A violent, overbearing man; a ruffian, bully or braggart.
examples: text: None can ever match his fling,
At a reel, or round a ring.
Wightly can he wield a rung;
In a brawl he's aye the bangster:[…]
ref: 1829, Robert Chambers, “The Maid that Tends the Goats”, in The Scottish songs, volume 2, page 506:
glosses: A victor.
ahamkara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ahamkaras
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit अहंकार (ahaṃkāra).
Senses: glosses: Attachment to one's ego.
drop tower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drop towers
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A tower, containing a long evacuated tube, within which objects can be dropped experimentally.
glosses: An amusement ride in which riders experience free fall.
periclasite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: periclasites
Etymology: From periclase + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: periclase
periclasites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of periclasite
Amaravati
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌ.məˈɹɑːvə.ti/
Etymology: From Sanskrit अमरावती (amarāvatī).
Senses: glosses: The capital of Hindu lord Indra.
glosses: The state capital of Andhra Pradesh, India.
Amravati
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit अमरावती (amarāvatī).
Senses: glosses: A city in Maharashtra, India.
glosses: A district of Maharashtra, India, containing the city of the same name.
chati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chatis
Etymology: Compare French chat (“cat”).
Senses: glosses: A small South American subspecies of tiger cat (Leopardus pardalis mitis), native to Argentina and Paraguay.
chatis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chati
smurf account
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smurf accounts
Etymology: Coined by Geoff Fraizer and Greg Boyko, who played the online multiplayer game Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness under the names Shlonglor and Warp. The pair had become so proficient at the game that few people would play against them, so, in order to avoid scaring off potential competitors, they created alternate accounts named PapaSmurf and Smurfette (characters from the Smurfs comic franchise).
Smurf account as a banking term, however, predates Warcraft II by about a decade.
Senses: examples: text: This policy has dramatically reduced the problems with smurf accounts, spam, flaming, and various types of bad behaviour on the forums.
ref: 2002, Nojd, “Re: Age of Wonders 2 Beta Demo -- Feedback Survey”, in Usenet comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic:
text: Might help if you remember to change back to your smurf account, hmm? :P
ref: 2003, Phoenix-D, “Re: On My Identity Theft”, in Usenet alt.fan.furry:
text: And like that little kid I spoke of in another thread, he compounds his lie's with more lies. So many that he has trouble keeping track of them all, which is why he keeps getting caught posting from the wrong smurf account.
ref: 2007, Ron, “Re: Ken's checking accounts KANE'S HERO speaks”, in Usenet alt.support.child-protective-services:
glosses: An alternative computer account used by a known or experienced user in order to deceptively self-present as someone naïve or less experienced.
examples: text: They were smurf accounts and other people and companies contracted by me. I never used my name.
ref: 1997, U.S. Government Printing Office, Law Enforcement Efforts to Combat International Money Laundering Through Black Market Peso Brokering, page 15:
topics: banking
business
government
law-enforcement
glosses: A bank account of many intended to handle illicit money in amounts too small to raise suspicion.
Coordinate terms: sock puppet
nose-dead
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: not attested
form: most nose-dead
Senses: examples: text: Of the five senses, tigers rely the most on their sight. Their eyesight is very keen, especially in detecting motion. Their hearing is good. Their smell is average. I mean compared to other animals, of course. Next to Richard Parker, I was deaf, blind and nose-dead.
ref: 2001, Yann Martel, Life of Pi, Canongate, published 2003, →ISBN, page 108:
glosses: Possessed of an extremely poor or non-existent sense of smell.
Synonyms: anosmic
Coordinate terms: sense: having poor senses of perception
english: sight
translation: sight
word: blind
sense: having poor senses of perception
english: hearing
translation: hearing
word: deaf
sense: having poor senses of perception
english: touch
translation: touch
word: numb
braven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bravens
form: bravening
form: bravened
form: bravened
Etymology: From brave + -en.
Senses: examples: text: But the courage of those boys was marvellous and unfailing, and the veteran soldiers who bravened them, the men who had returned with healed wounds or, had, by some miracle, passed unscathed through many battles, said, “Well done, kids!” and could not praise them enough.
ref: 1919, Philip Gibbs, The repulse: From Flanders to the Marne:
text: "Fear not, O, fear not, Joseph" . . . he had heard and knew It now for kindly speech that bravened him, […]
ref: 1968, John W. Lynch, A Woman Wrapped in Silence, page 30:
text: A hardy, self-helpful child life, bravened by necessities, never undermined by luxuries.
ref: 2008, James Lane Allen, The Mettle of the Pasture:
glosses: To make or become brave
helium hydride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of helium hydride cation, the unstable binary cation HeH⁺ present in interstellar space; it is the strongest acid, reactive with every chemical species except positive ions, including electrons.
Synonyms: HeH+
hydridohelium(1+)
hydridohelium
hydridohelium ion
hydridohelium cation
helium hydride cation
helium hydride ion
hydrogen heliumide
hydrogen heliumide ion
hydrogen heliumide cation
hydrogen helide
hydrogen helide ion
hydrogen helide cation
Hypernyms: acid
cation
ion
superacid
padstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: padstones
Etymology: From pad + stone.
Senses: glosses: A simple type of building foundation consisting of a stone which both spreads the weight of a wooden building out on the ground and keeps the wood off of the ground. A staddle stone is a type of padstone.
glosses: A pad to spread the weight of a point load in a wall.
microcrystallinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + crystallinity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being microcrystalline
shmoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃmuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: shmoos
form: shmoon
form: schmoo
Senses: glosses: A fictional animal created by cartoonist Al Capp, shaped like a smooth, plump bowling pin with stubby legs.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A projection from yeast in response to mating pheromones.
scatheful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scatheful
form: most scatheful
form: scathful
form: scadeful
Etymology: From Middle English *scatheful (attested in derivative unnskaþefull), from Old English sceaþful (“hurtful”), equivalent to scathe + -ful. Cognate with Scots scathfull, scaithful (“harmful, hurtful, injurious, damaging”).
Senses: examples: text: A bawbling Veſſell was he Captaine of,
For ſhallow draught and bulke vnprizable,
With which ſuch ſcathfull grapple did he make,
With the moſt noble bottome of our Fleete,
That very enuy, and the tongue of loſſe
Cride fame and honor on him: What's the matter?
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 272:
synonyms: harmful
glosses: Causing harm or mischief; destructive, injurious.
Derived terms: scathefulness
scathefulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scathfulness
Etymology: From scatheful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Injuriousness; destructiveness.
scathefire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scathefires
form: scathe-fire
form: scathe fire
Etymology: From scathe + fire. Compare German Schadenfeuer (“fire damage”). See also scarefire.
Senses: examples: text: A title so clear, as if it were “written with a beam of the sliny;” which no true Englishman in his right wits did ever yet oppose, but one or two foreign pensioners, maintained on purpose abroad to kindle scathfires at home, who gained nothing by the question but to render themselves ridiculous.
ref: 1845, John Bramhall, The Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, John Bramhall:
text: Beneath their ruines: and these horrid sights / Lighted by scathe-fires, they that haue beheld […]
ref: 1874 (original 1611), Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood
text: Richard II, in 1385, and Henry VIII, in 1545, each wrecked it, and after this last scathe-fire it was rebuilt no more.
ref: 1901, Albert Le Roy Bartlett, A Golden Way:
text: You will give them my order to proceed to the scathefire track, with rangers you will find as guides, and parallel the Pargunese, ... The other will parallel the scathefire track until even with the Pargunese and stay even with them as they move.
ref: 2012, Elizabeth Moon, Echoes of Betrayal:
text: Any escaping villagers would be killed. She had heard of scathefires but fortunately her village had not been targeted.
ref: 2013, Trishia Parson, Arcana:
text: How much more in extremities of more importance, as the quenching of a scathe fire, or defending of a city, or country, by repelling the invading or beleaguering enemy?
ref: 2014, Henry Burton, C. Matthew McMahon, Therese B. McMahon, The Law and the Gospel Reconciled:
glosses: Destructive flames; a conflagration.
Related terms: scarefire
scaddle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scaddle
form: most scaddle
form: skaddle
Etymology: From Middle English scathel (“harmful”), from Old English *sceaþol, from Proto-Germanic *skaþulaz (“harmful”), equivalent to scathe + -el. Cognate with Old High German scadel (“injurious, harmful”), Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌸𐌿𐌻𐍃 (skaþuls, “injurious, wicked”).
Senses: glosses: Wild, mischievous, thievish.
glosses: Timid, nervous, skittish.
raw_tags: of animals
Related terms: scatheful
skedaddle
heaves in sight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of heave in sight
heaving in sight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of heave in sight
Nicephorus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈnaɪsifəɹəs/
Forms: form: Nikephoros
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Nicephorus, from Ancient Greek Νικηφόρος (Nikēphóros).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek of mostly historical use.
hove in sight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of heave in sight
ironmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ironmaster
scathely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scathely
form: most scathely
form: skaithly
Etymology: From Middle English skathlye, equivalent to scathe + -ly. Compare Middle English skathely (adverb).
Senses: glosses: Harmful; scatheful.
muffinless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From muffin + -less.
Senses: examples: 1824-1832, Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village
We waited for him a fortnight, went muffinless for fourteen days […]
glosses: Without muffins.
CODBLOPS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒd.blɒps/
Senses: examples: text: CODBLOPS is a very system intensive game, so before even firing it up, make sure it has as many resources available as you can throw at it.
ref: 2010 November 23, Richard Cobbett, “How to make Call of Duty: Black Ops run faster on your PC”, in PC Gamer:
text: After I prestige on CODBLOPS I'll be up for a bit of variety and this will do nicely.
ref: 2010 November 23, Dr Zoidberg, uk.games.video.misc (Usenet), message-ID <icgdc2$nkb$1@news.eternal-september.org>:
text: A new free to play game will allow you to compete online in games like CODBlops without feeling like a noob.
ref: 2010 December 20, Greg Tito, “FPS Trainer Aims at Making You Kill Better Online”, in The Escapist, archived from the original on 15 Jan 2011:
text: Wait, there's CoDblops on iPhone? Now we're doomed.
ref: 2011 April 21, BrunoN Bluthgeld, comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action (Usenet), message-ID <4db0562b$0$2492$65785112@news.neostrada.pl>:
text: Just think, you can now actually enjoy CODBLOPS II The Way Its Meant To Be Played, while sitting on the toilet.
ref: 2013 January 8, John Gillooly, “Why the PC has won the first round of the next-gen console wars”, in PC & Tech Authority:
topics: video-games
glosses: Abbreviation of Call of Duty: Black Ops.
Synonyms: BLOPS
Mignon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Mignon
Etymology: Borrowed from French Mignon.
* (surname): Occasionally of Walloon origin.
Senses: glosses: A left tributary of the Sèvre Niortaise in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
Mignon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mignons
Etymology: Borrowed from French Mignon.
* (surname): Occasionally of Walloon origin.
Senses: examples: text: 'Yes,' said Mignon, and stretched out her hand for it, but they would not let her take it back.
ref: 1984, Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus, Vintage, published 2006, →ISBN, page 150:
text: Surprisingly, Mignon Anderson, for all her innocence, was born into a theatrical family–in Baltimore, Maryland, on March 31,1892.
ref: 2002, Anthony Slide, Silent Players: A Biographical and Autobiographical Study of 100 Silent Film Actors and Actresses, University Press of Kentucky, published 2002, →ISBN:
text: "What will you call yourself? You aren't a Mignon or a Ninette, or anything-ette. […]
ref: 2012, Carole DeSanti, The Unruly Passions of Eugenie R., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2012, →ISBN, page 93:
glosses: A female given name from French.
glosses: A surname from French.
gynocritical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gyno- + critical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to gynocriticism.
Derived terms: gynocritically
gynocriticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gynocriticisms
Etymology: From gyno- + criticism, coined by Elaine Showalter in the essay Toward a Feminist Poetics.
Senses: glosses: The historical study of women writers as a distinct literary tradition.
Related terms: gynocritic
gynocritical
gynocriticisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gynocriticism
womanisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of womanism
womanist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more womanist
form: most womanist
Etymology: From woman + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: For Walker, the battle against patriarchal society and its multiple sins of sexism, racism, classism and homophobia (among others) needs the womanist spirit of defiance and irreverence, on the one hand, and the desire for social integration, on the other.
ref: 2000, Tuzyline Jita Allan, “The Color Purple: A Study of Walker's Womanist Gospel”, in Harold Bloom, editor, Alice Walker's The Color Purple, Chelsea House, →ISBN, page 120:
glosses: Relating to or in accordance with womanism.
womanist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: womanists
Etymology: From woman + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: This means, then, that many, if not most, male feminists and male womanists exist, literally, in a "no-man's land," where they receive the cold shoulder from feminists and womanists, and are shamelessly shunned by male antifeminists and antiwomanists and the supersexist men who rule the male supremacist world.
ref: 2010, Reiland Rabaka, Forms of Fanonism:
glosses: One whose beliefs accord with womanism.
womanists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of womanist
Showalterian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Showalterian
form: most Showalterian
Etymology: From Showalter + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Elaine Showalter (born 1941), American literary critic, feminist, and writer on cultural and social issues.
gynocritic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gynocritics
Etymology: From gyno- + critic.
Senses: glosses: One who evaluates literature in terms of gynocriticism.
gynocritics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gynocritic
Pacheneg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pachenegs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pecheneg.
Pacheneg
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Pacheneg
form: most Pacheneg
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pecheneg.
Pachenegs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pacheneg
Petcheneg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Petchenegs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pecheneg.
Petcheneg
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Petcheneg
form: most Petcheneg
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pecheneg.
Petchenegs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Petcheneg
cloudline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cloudlines
Etymology: From cloud + line.
Senses: examples: text: The focus on specific types of outcomes that qualify as genocide is analogous to studying the peaks of mountains from above a cloudline that only particularly tall mountains penetrate[…]
ref: 2010, Donald Bloxham, A. Dirk Moses, The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies:
glosses: The line formed by the surface of clouds.
cloudlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cloudline
tsktsking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tsktsk
puzzlefest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puzzlefests
Etymology: From puzzle + -fest.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A game, especially a text adventure, that mainly requires the player to solve puzzles.
puzzlefests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puzzlefest
scathy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scathy
form: most scathy
Etymology: From Middle English scathi, from Old English *scaþiġ, sċeaþiġ (“injurious”), equivalent to scathe + -y.
Senses: glosses: Mischievous; vicious; dangerous.
unavailables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unavailable
antimessage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antimessages
Etymology: From anti- + message. Compare antimatter, which annihilates matter.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A message in a distributed system whose purpose is to cancel out another specific message sent previously.
antimessages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antimessage
scathand
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scathand
form: most scathand
form: scatheand
form: scaithand
form: skathand
form: skaithand
Etymology: From Middle English skathand, scathende, from Old English sceaþiende, present participle of sceaþian (“to scathe”), equivalent to scathe + -and.
Senses: glosses: Harmful; scathing.
metalaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + law.
Senses: glosses: A proposed set of legal rules regulating relationships between different races in the universe.
Related terms: metajuridical
metalegal
metalegal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meta- + legal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to metalaw.
metalenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metalens
metalcrafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metalcraft
unshade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unshades
form: unshading
form: unshaded
form: unshaded
Etymology: From un- + shade.
Senses: examples: text: […] remember, Miles, not to unshade the lantern till we are close to the entrance of the cave.
ref: 1846, George Payne R. James, The step-mother: or, Evil doings:
text: He leaned an elbow on her table, and covered his eyes with his hand. […] He unshaded his face after a little while, and spoke steadily.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities:
glosses: To remove a shade from.
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To restore a window from its shaded (collapsed) state.
unshades
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unshade
unshading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unshade
unshadow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unshadows
form: unshadowing
form: unshadowed
form: unshadowed
Etymology: From un- + shadow.
Senses: glosses: To free from shadow; to allow to become illuminated.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To combine (a password file) with its corresponding "shadow file" in order to facilitate cracking of the passwords.
unshadowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unshadow
unshadows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unshadow
mountdown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mount + down.
Senses: examples: text: Figure 4 shows a typical detail of a single chip mountdown to a module base plate.
ref: 1975, International Solid-State Power Electronics Conference, Proceedings of POWERCON, volumes 1-2, page 46:
glosses: The act of mounting an electrical component onto a surface.
Marquesic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a small but historically important subgroup of Central Eastern Polynesian languages, including Marquesan, Puka-Pukan, Mangarevan, and Hawaiian.
mountainwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaʊntɪnwədz/
Forms: form: more mountainwards
form: most mountainwards
Etymology: From mountain + -wards.
Senses: glosses: Towards a mountain or mountains.
radioscanned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of radioscan
radioresponses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radioresponse
radioresponsive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more radioresponsive
form: most radioresponsive
Etymology: From radio- + responsive.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting a radioresponse.
radioresistances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radioresistance
radiorespirometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From radio- + respirometric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to radiorespirometry.
radioracemizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radioracemization
radiopurities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radiopurity
Immelman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Immelmans
form: Immelmann
form: Imelmann
form: Imelman
Etymology: From German Immelmann by Anglicization.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Immelman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Immelmann
form: Imelmann
form: Imelman
Etymology: From German Immelmann by Anglicization.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Immelmann.
Related terms: Imel
Immel
pneumorrhagias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pneumorrhagia
pneumonotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pneumonotomy
cryoseism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryoseisms
Etymology: From cryo- + seism.
Senses: synonyms: frost quake
glosses: A seismic event caused by sudden glacial movements or by a sudden cracking action in frozen soil or rock saturated with water or ice.
cryoseisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryoseism
geocryologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geocryologists
Etymology: From geo- + cryologist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies geocryology.
geocryological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more geocryological
form: most geocryological
Etymology: From geo- + cryological.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to geocryology.
geocryologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geocryologist
geocryology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geo- + cryology.
Senses: glosses: The study of the frozen portions of the Earth.
fare dodger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fare dodgers
form: faredodger
form: fare-dodger
Senses: examples: text: Police officers and prosecutors were forced to spend sizeable proportions of their capacity on arresting and prosecuting faredodgers.
ref: 1995, Changes in Society, Crime and Criminal Justice in Europe
text: The fare-dodger and the gate-crasher do, after all, commit a trespass [...]
ref: 2001, Andrew Tettenborn, Law of Restitution in England and Ireland:
text: Alan Pollock was hailed as a hero after millions on the internet watched a video of the ‘Big Man’ hauling an alleged fare dodger off a train.
ref: 2011 December 22, “Big Man' who threw alleged fare dodger off train in hit internet video is CHARGED with assault”, in Daily Mail:
text: The subject of dealing with fare dodgers seems to be ripe, particularly on crowded trains where the 'train manager-cum-ticket collector' can have difficulty getting through the carriages.
ref: 2019 December 4, “Open Access”, in Rail, page 37:
synonyms: fare evader
glosses: A person who deliberately avoids payment for public transport.
Related terms: tax dodger
hayes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haye
faredodger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faredodgers
Senses: examples: text: Queue jumpers and faredodgers are far from being an Indian phenomenon.
ref: 1980, Himmat, volume 17, unnumbered page:
text: […] roving inspectors to make spot checks in order to deter faredodgers.
ref: 1987, R. W. Faulks, Bus and Coach Operation, Butterworths, page 199:
text: Police officers and prosecutors were forced to spend sizeable proportions of their capacity on arresting and prosecuting faredodgers.
ref: 1995, Cyrille Fijnaut, Johan Goethals, Tony Peters, Lode Walgrave, editors, Changes in Society, Crime and Criminal Justice in Europe: A Challenge for Criminal Justice in Europe, Kluwer Law International, →ISBN, page 183:
text: The shortest green times in London are about ten seconds (these are the nervy, scampering green phases where cars dash across Oxford Street, or out into Piccadilly — with the last, guilty car trying to merge with the group in front, like a faredodger shuffling behind you through an automatic Underground ticket barrier).
ref: 2002, Ian Parker, “Traffic”, in Peter Wollen, Joe Kerr, editors, Autopia: Cars and Culture, Reaktion Books, →ISBN, page 300:
text: Where once his parents had ridden in a train to Delhi and resisted the desperate appeals to be let in, made by those without tickets hanging on the outside, Saleem is now himself a faredodger on the train to the capital, clamouring for admittance.
ref: 2004, Neil Ten Kortenaar, Self, Nation, Text in Salman Rushdie's Midnight Children, McGill-Queen's University Press, →ISBN, page 205:
text: You stand up, say you're going to build more prisons, lock up burglars, place more bobbies on the beat and give your Gatling gun a good, chattering workout next time you spot a faredodger on the bus.
ref: 2004 October 7, “That left eye looked Clint Eastwoodish to me”, in Daily Mail:
text: Currently some 6 million faredodgers every year find out just how far their ownership of Indian Railways extends.
ref: 2010 January, “Indian railways”, in Socialist Standard, page 21:
glosses: Alternative form of fare dodger.
faredodgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faredodger
jackrolling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: gang rape of women by men
psidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psidiums
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any member of the genus Psidium of guava plants.
psidiums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psidium
Milwaukeean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Milwaukeean
form: most Milwaukeean
Etymology: From Milwaukee + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
Milwaukeean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Milwaukeeans
Etymology: From Milwaukee + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
Milwaukeeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Milwaukeean
Sellarsian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sellarsian
form: most Sellarsian
Etymology: From Sellars + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Wilfrid Sellars (1912-1989), American philosopher.
rippable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rippable
form: most rippable
Etymology: From rip + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The bill, dubbed the PERFORM Act, would require sites to use copy-protected audio formats rather than the easily-rippable MP3 format used by many Shoutcast streaming sites.
ref: 2006 July, Maximum PC, page 12:
glosses: Capable of being ripped (in various senses).
glosses: Capable of being mechanically broken.
raw_tags: of rock
examples: text: If you can't look good while surfing Chun's, it's time to take up another sport. The biggest danger in surfing the easy, rippable waves at Chun's is tripping over your newly inflated ego.
ref: 2006, Greg Ambrose, Surfer's Guide to Hawaii 2nd Edition, page 86:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: Easy to rip on; allowing a surfer to perform like an expert.
Related terms: rippability
Ripperological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ripperological
form: most Ripperological
Senses: glosses: Relating to Ripperology.
unripenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unripeness
pontoon bridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pontoon bridge
ungrab
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈɡɹæb/
Forms: form: ungrabs
form: ungrabbing
form: ungrabbed
form: ungrabbed
Etymology: From un- + grab.
Senses: examples: text: This keycode maps to the specific key you want to ungrab.
ref: 1989, Adrian Nye, Xlib reference manual for version 11 of the X Window System, page 482:
text: To ungrab the pointer, use XUngrabPointer.
ref: 1990, James Gettys, Robert W. Scheifler, Ron Newman, Xlib: C Language X Interface (X Version 11, Release 4), page 115:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To release (a device) that was previously captured for exclusive use.
ungrabbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ungrab
ungrabs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ungrab
ungrabbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ungrab
uncrashed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + crashed.
Senses: glosses: Not crashed (in various senses).
gynocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gynocratic
form: most gynocratic
Etymology: From gyno- + -cratic.
Senses: examples: text: How it should exist where there are ladies, I do not conceive, and, least of all, do I conceive how it should exist in Philadelphia, the most gynocratic of all cities.
ref: 1838, John Sanderson, The American in Paris, volume 2, London: Henry Colburn, page 280:
text: More and more, archaeology is proving that there was indeed a golden age—a gynocratic age that endured for untold millennia, up past the dawn of written history.
ref: 1971, Elizabeth Gould Davis, The First Sex, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, ch. 3:
text: Traditional tribal lifestyles are more often gynocratic than not, and they are never patriarchal.
ref: 1986, Paula Gunn Allen, The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in Ancient Indian Traditions, Boston: Beacon Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 2:
glosses: Pertaining to government by women.
redlink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redlinks
Etymology: From red + link.
Senses: examples: text: If you add a category to an article, but the category doesn't exist yet, it displays as a redlink in the article's list of categories.
ref: 2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, & Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It, No Starch Press, published 2008, →ISBN, page 250:
text: Hyperlinks on Wikipedia are rendered in blue text, but you'll also find links rendered in red. These "redlinks" are hyperlinks that don't yet lead to anything. If you click on a redlink, you'll end up on a page that needs content, which you're not only free to add, but encouraged to.
ref: 2010, John K. Waters, The Everything Guide to Social Media: All You Need to Know About Participating in Today's Most Popular Online Communities, Adams Media, published 2010, →ISBN, page 182:
text: Did wiki ever have one? Some wiki pages get deleted but GCMI would be unlikely. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEPP has a redlink to it, but that only means someone once thought they might oneday create it.
ref: 2004 October 11, William M. Connelly, “Re: Clear signals showing anthropogenic global warming consequences?”, in sci.environment (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative form of red link.
redlinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redlink
buyou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buyous
Senses: examples: text: On the third cove below Aluqiia buyou. Surveyed.
ref: 1861, United States Congress, American state papers: Documents, legislative and executive of the Congress of the United States - Part 6, Volume 4, page 206:
glosses: Dated form of bayou.
lithobiomorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithobiomorphs
Senses: glosses: Any centipede of the order Lithobiomorpha.
lithobiomorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lithobiomorph
scutigeromorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scutigeromorphs
Senses: glosses: Any centipede of the order Scutigeromorpha.
scutigeromorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scutigeromorph
foredune
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foredunes
Etymology: From fore- + dune.
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: A kind of dune ridge that runs parallel to the shore of a body of water.
foredunes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foredune
nickum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nickums
Etymology: From Scots nickum, a suffixed form of Nick.
Senses: examples: text: Folk said he fair was a nickum, that loon, young Ewan Tavendale that came form the Manse […]
ref: 1933, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 451:
glosses: A mischievous person; a scallywag.
nickums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nickum
Amesha Spentas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Amesha Spenta
crystal system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crystal systems
Senses: examples: text: The crystal system to which a particular molecule belongs can make a considerable difference to how easy it is to solve.
ref: 1998, Georgina Ferry, Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life:
topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of the seven distinct symmetry classifications of crystals: cubic, tetragonal, hexagonal, orthorhombic, monoclinic, triclinic and trigonal.
lambda point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lambda points
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The temperature that is the transition point between the normal and the superfluid forms of helium (at a particular pressure)
intercrops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of intercrop
intercrops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intercrop
intercropped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intercrop
intercropping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: The growing of two or more crops on the same field.
intercropping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intercrop
Shrovetides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Shrovetide
nontrilobite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nontrilobites
Etymology: From non- + trilobite.
Senses: glosses: Any organism that is not a trilobite.
nontrilobites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nontrilobite
olenid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: olenids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the family Olenidae of trilobites.
Derived terms: olenimorph
olenids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of olenid
midbay
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + bay.
Senses: examples: text: The Calderwood Desert site is located on the eastern side of the basin and consists of a midbay barrier in the northern portion of a small northward opening embayment[…]
ref: 2007, Gregory S. Baker, Harry M. Jol, Stratigraphic Analyses Using GPR, page 107:
glosses: In the middle of a bay; partway along a bay.
biofacies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃiiːz
-eɪʃiːz
Forms: form: biofacies
Etymology: From bio- + facies.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A body of rock with characteristic biological features, such as certain kinds of fossil.
Derived terms: microbiofacies
Related terms: lithofacies
biozonation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biozonations
Etymology: From bio- + zonation.
Senses: glosses: Arrangement or distribution into biozones.
Derived terms: microbiozonation
biozonations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biozonation
lithozonation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithozonations
Etymology: From litho- + zonation.
Senses: glosses: Arrangement or distribution into lithozones.
lithozonations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lithozonation
lithozone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithozones
Etymology: From litho- + zone.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A lithostratigraphic unit: an interval of geological strata defined on the basis of its characteristic lithostratigraphy.
Related terms: biozone
lithozones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lithozone
eocrinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eocrinoids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the Eocrinoidea, an extinct class of echinoderms that lived between the Early Cambrian and Late Silurian periods.
eocrinoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eocrinoid
posteriormost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From posterior + -most.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Nearest the posterior or back end
glosses: Farthest back in time or position
scleractinians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scleractinian
coelenterons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coelenteron
coelentera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coelenteron
obrution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obrutions
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A rapid burial or smothering event.
obrutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obrution
opisthothorax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From opistho- + thorax.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The portion of the thorax behind the prothorax.
epirelief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From epi- + relief.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: positive relief, in which a fossil protrudes up from the surface
hyporelief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + relief.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: negative relief, in which a fossil is sunk into a surface
featherstitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: featherstitches
Etymology: From feather + stitch.
Senses: glosses: A kind of embroidery stitch made of open, looped stitches worked alternately to the right and left of a central rib.
featherstitch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: featherstitches
form: featherstitching
form: featherstitched
form: featherstitched
Etymology: From feather + stitch.
Senses: glosses: To make stitches of this kind.
featherstitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of featherstitch
featherstitches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of featherstitch
featherstitching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of featherstitch
featherstitched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of featherstitch
demospongian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the demosponges.
demospongian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demospongians
Senses: glosses: A demosponge.
demospongians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demospongian
tetractinomorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetractinomorphs
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the subclass Tetractinomorpha of sponges.
tetractinomorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetractinomorph
ceractinomorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ceractinomorphs
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the subclass Ceractinomorpha of sponges.
ceractinomorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ceractinomorph
constringence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: constringences
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A measure of a material's dispersion (variation of refractive index with wavelength) in relation to the refractive index.
constringences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of constringence
tagmosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The evolutionary process that creates tagmata by fusing and modifying segments.
Related terms: tagmatization
trilobitologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trilobitologists
Etymology: From trilobite + -ologist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies trilobites.
Related terms: trilobitology
trilobitologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trilobitologist
macrospinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more macrospinous
form: most macrospinous
Etymology: From macro- + spinous.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having large spines.
isopygous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having the cephalon and pygidium of more or less equal size.
Related terms: heteropygous
macropygous
micropygous
subisopygous
micropygous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more micropygous
form: most micropygous
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having the pygidium considerably smaller than the cephalon.
Related terms: heteropygous
isopygous
macropygous
subisopygous
macropygous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more macropygous
form: most macropygous
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having the pygidium considerably larger than the cephalon.
Related terms: heteropygous
isopygous
micropygous
subisopygous
subisopygous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + isopygous.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having the pygidium slightly smaller than the cephalon.
Related terms: heteropygous
isopygous
macropygous
micropygous
pigmentocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pigmentocracy
pigmentocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pigmentocratic
form: most pigmentocratic
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to pigmentocracy.
mineral acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mineral acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any inorganic acid, especially common acids such as sulfuric acid, nitric acid, phosphoric acid etc.
zombie strip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zombie strips
Senses: topics: comics
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A newspaper or magazine strip cartoon that is continued by others following the retirement or death of its originator.
graplin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graplins
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman, from Old French grapil, grapin. Compare modern French grappin.
Senses: glosses: A grapnel (small anchor).
graplins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of graplin
moon rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moon rocks
form: moonrock
Senses: glosses: Rock from the surface of the moon, but especially any geological specimen brought back by the Apollo program.
glosses: A mixture of crack cocaine and heroin.
Related terms: moonstone
wheelful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wheelful
form: most wheelful
Etymology: From wheel + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: The Wheelman for June has just reached us, and we can only say that it seems to be rolling all around the country, and that it is the most wheelful, as well as the wheeliest periodical we ever saw.
ref: 1883, Puck, volume 13, page 199:
glosses: Full of, or bearing, wheels; wheeled.