cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
scurvywort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scurvy + wort.
Senses: examples: text: in the kitchen beyond, salad in stacks and faggots: salad of lettuce, salad of cress and endive, salad of boiled coleworts, salad of pickled coleworts, salad of angelica, salad of scurvy-wort, and seven salads more; for potatoes were not as yet, and salads were during eight months of the year the only vegetable.
ref: 1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!:
text: The first to come up was the scurvywort, only an inch high, but vital to seamen who live on ship's biscuit.
ref: 1974, Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal, The Summer Book, Sort Of Books, published 2003, page 115:
glosses: Scurvy-grass (Cochlearia spp.).
temple of immensity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Temple of Immensity
Senses: examples: text: [T]his poor Cordwainer, as we said, was a Man; and the Temple of Immensity, wherein as Man he had been sent to minister, was full of holy mystery to him.
ref: 1831, Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book 3, ch. 1:
text: They reminded him of a man who should, after climbing a lofty mountain—whence, as from a pinnacle of the great temple of immensity, earth, and the deep blues of air, and the everlasting brine of ocean were beheld—should turn away from the prospect.
ref: 1856, George Gilfillan, The History of a Man, page 151:
text: . . . heavenly messengers, travelling through wide fields to explore the mysteries of creation, carrying intelligence from outpost to outpost of God's universe, his ministers to do his pleasure, and announcing their advent, or bestowing their blessing, as they speed their onward course, in a halo of glory, filling the temple of immensity with their train.
ref: 1860, Samuel Hallett Griffith, Literary reminiscences: selections from the papers of S.H. Griffith, page 34:
text: The De Immensa is . . . a prolonged hymn of wonder and praise and intellectual exaltation, sung in the temple of immensity.
ref: 1914, William Boulting, Giordano Bruno: His Life, Thought, and Martyrdom (2013 Routledge edition), p. 238 (Google preview)
qualifier: usually preceded by the
glosses: The universe or the complete overhead expanse of the heavens, especially as conceived as an object of religious reverence.
Temple of Immensity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of temple of immensity.
armoured cars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of armoured car
dukkhas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dukkha
no-brow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more no-brow
form: most no-brow
form: nobrow
Etymology: Blend of no + lowbrow. Popularized by writer John Seabrook in Nobrow: the culture of marketing, the marketing of culture (2000).
Senses: examples: text: From no-brow beginnings, when BSG [Battlestar Galactica] still had to prove it had outwitted the shonky source material, the show gained cult respect and a few more viewers by the second year.
ref: 2008 April 15, Daniel Martin, “How will Battlestar Galactica end?”, in The Guardian:
text: During the 2000s, belles-lettres accounted for less than 3 percent of all literature sold in the United States, and popular literature made gains in prestige and legitimacy, spawning a no-brow culture.
ref: 2010, Roger Chapman, editor, Culture Wars […] , page 325:
text: The tremendous concern and fascination with South Park's “no-brow” humor (Wild 1998: 32) has largely deflected attention away from an equally interesting and significant factor in the show's history and status as a cultural artifact.
ref: 2013, Carol Stabile, Prime Time Animation:
glosses: Completely devoid of cultural or educational value.
examples: text: The Simpsons is pure Nobrow, able to slide as effortlessly as Bob himself from slide-whistling slapstick to talk of Susan Sontag, and ultimately oblivious to any prejudicial classifications. It's not such much that lowbrow bludgeoned highbrow to death with a dozen rakes; it's that both of them have been subsumed into the one-stop-shopping megamall of pop.
ref: 2005, Chris Turner, Planet Simpson […] , Ebury Press, →ISBN, page 140:
glosses: Located outside the traditional taste hierarchy, blending highbrow, middlebrow, and lowbrow.
Coordinate terms: lowbrow
middlebrow
highbrow
nocardiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to nocardiosis.
noctivagate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: noctivagates
form: noctivagating
form: noctivagated
form: noctivagated
Senses: examples: text: […] staying at the alehouse to the very last moment allowed by the law; for why else was he noctivagating about the town at the unnatural hour of nine?
ref: 1853, John Murray, The Quarterly Review, page 302:
text: By the early 16th century the university's right to police the streets at night was well established and complaints against the proctors were devoted rather to their inefficiency or brutality than to their right to noctivagate.
ref: 1979, Louis Francis Salzman, William Page, Herbert Edward Salter, A History of the County of Oxford: The City of Oxford, page 172:
glosses: To go about by night.
Related terms: noctivagation
noctivagator
noctivagated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of noctivagate
noctivagating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of noctivagate
noctivagates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of noctivagate
phonovision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phono- + vision.
Senses: glosses: An early technique for recording a mechanical television signal onto gramophone records.
nodally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nodal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a nodal fashion; in terms of nodes.
nohows
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: 'Sol Gills,' returned the Captain, after staring at him and the rest for a long time, without speaking, 'I'm gone about and adrift. Pay out a word or two respecting them adwenturs, will you! Can't I bring up, nohows? Nohows?' said the Captain, ruminating, and staring all round.
ref: 1846, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son 56
glosses: Alternative form of nohow.
noisenik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noiseniks
Etymology: From noise + -nik.
Senses: examples: text: Bjork's musical dalliance with German punk noisenik Alec Empire has long been a point of contention for fans, many of whom resent the way he generally suffocates his source material with a giant cloud of distortion.
ref: 2003, Mark Pytlik, Bjork: Wow and Flutter:
glosses: A musician who produces harsh, discordant music.
noiseniks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noisenik
nonchaotically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From non- + chaotically.
Senses: glosses: In a way that is not chaotic.
nonchurchgoing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + churchgoing.
Senses: glosses: Not attending church.
noncontemporaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + contemporaneous.
Senses: glosses: Not contemporaneous.
nonattributable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + attributable.
Senses: glosses: Not attributable.
noncertification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noncertifications
Etymology: From non- + certification.
Senses: glosses: Lack of certification; failure to certify.
noncertifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noncertification
noncertain
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-certain
Etymology: From Middle English noncerteyn, non certyn; equivalent to non- + certain.
Senses: glosses: Not certain.
Synonyms: uncertain
noncertainty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noncertainties
form: non-certainty
Etymology: From Middle English noun certeynte, nown certeyntee; equivalent to non- + certainty.
Senses: glosses: Lack of certainty.
glosses: Something that is uncertain.
Synonyms: uncertainty
noncertainties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noncertainty
nonanswered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + answered.
Senses: examples: text: For example, multiple callbacks might be made to a nonanswered number to increase the response rate.
ref: 2007, James M. Lepkowski, Clyde Tucker, J. Michael Brick, Advances in Telephone Survey Methodology, page 318:
glosses: Not answered.
nonanswering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + answering.
Senses: examples: text: If those attempts are unsuccessful, the attorney requesting the interrogatories may file a motion for sanctions with the court. The sanctions range from attorney fees to prohibiting the nonanswering party from presenting or defending claims.
ref: 2013, James J. Gross, It's Splitsville: Surviving Your Divorce, page 240:
glosses: Not answering.
unarchivable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + archivable.
Senses: examples: text: The photograph isolates a moment in time and engraves what would otherwise be an ephemeral instant, unarchivable.
ref: 2002, Mary Ann Doane, The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive, page 102:
glosses: Incapable of being archived.
nonarched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + arched.
Senses: glosses: Not arched.
nonaristotelian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + Aristotelian.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of non-Aristotelian.
nonconsent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-consent
Etymology: From non- + consent.
Senses: examples: text: Essentially we are looking at what the victim may have said or done to clearly communicate her nonconsent to the sexual act to the offender. This is important because if the victim consented to the act, then no criminal offense was committed.
ref: 2012, Arthur S. Chancellor, Investigating Sexual Assault Cases, page 73:
glosses: A lack of consent.
Derived terms: consensual non-consent
noncovenanter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noncovenanters
Etymology: From non- + Covenanter.
Senses: examples: text: The nation now was divided into two parties—an overwhelming majority of covenanters, and an astonished, disheartened minority of noncovenanters.
ref: 1827, George Buchanan, James Aikman, The History of Scotland, volume 3, page 448:
text: These people also quite naturally keep themselves segregated from other people — refuse to eat with them, use their dishes or equipment, or allow their children to touch or marry noncovenanters.
ref: 1971, John Baillie, Religion in Life, volume 40, page 274:
text: Not until 1788, five years after the congregation moved back to its own church, did he baptize the child of a noncovenanter.
ref: 2014, Richard A. Harrison, Princetonians, 1769-1775: A Biographical Dictionary, page 207:
glosses: One who is not a Covenanter.
noncovenanters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noncovenanter
Covenanter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Covenanters
Etymology: From covenant + -er, referring to the covenant sworn by Israel in the Old Testament.
Senses: glosses: A member of a Scottish Presbyterian movement that played an important part in the history of Scotland during the 17th century.
Hyponyms: Engager
Derived terms: anti-Covenanter
Covenanters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Covenanter
noninterventionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nonintervention + -ism.
Senses: antonyms: interventionism
glosses: A policy of non-intervention.
nonjurist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonjurists
Etymology: From non- + jurist.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a jurist.
nonjurists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonjurist
noninflammability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-inflammability
Etymology: From non- + inflammability.
Senses: glosses: Quality of not being inflammable, i.e. not easily set on fire.
nonfrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonfrats
Etymology: From non- + frat.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a frat (fraternity member).
nonfrats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonfrat
nonfraternization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + fraternization.
Senses: examples: text: Our attitude of distrust towards Germans was reinforced by the army's nonfraternization policy: Avoid all social contact with natives.
ref: 2004, Richard W. Cutler, Counterspy:
glosses: Lack of fraternization.
nonsufficiently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From non- + sufficient + -ly.
Senses: glosses: To a degree that is not sufficient.
nonremission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + remission.
Senses: examples: text: Following treatment for depression, nonremission in adults with type 2 diabetes appears to be associated with lower adherence to blood glucose monitoring […]
ref: 2009, Adrianne Bendich, Richard J. Deckelbaum, Preventive Nutrition, page 405:
glosses: Absence of remission.
nonsufficiency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + sufficiency.
Senses: glosses: insufficiency
litzine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: litzines
Etymology: From lit + zine.
Senses: examples: text: Ronald Sukenick […] is the author of ten books, Publisher of American Book Review and the litzine Black Ice, and Co-Director of Fiction Collective Two […]
ref: 1994, Ronald Sukenick, Doggy Bag, page 158:
text: Minimum Wage is a local punk/alternative music zine in Saint John and Moncton, NB. Poet and editor, Maggie Helwig and Lowlife Publishing have been irregularly publishing CRASH, a litzine for many years.
ref: 1997, Joe Blades, In the Dark: Poets and Publishing, page 15:
text: Marie Lecrivain is the executive editor of poeticdiversity: the litzine of Los Angeles. She's a 2nd-level denizen of Dante's Inferno and is a writer in residence at her apartment.
ref: 2006, Peter A. Balaskas, Silent Voices, page 13:
glosses: A zine that publishes literary works.
litzines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of litzine
nonveggie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + veggie.
Senses: examples: text: There always seemed to be plenty of both veggie and nonveggie food.
ref: 2011, Maureen Stone, Musings of a Vegetarian Traveller, page 31:
glosses: Not vegetarian.
nonpathogenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + pathogenous.
Senses: glosses: Not pathogenous.
nonpopularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + popularity.
Senses: glosses: Lack of popularity.
nonstatus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + status.
Senses: examples: text: Other Aboriginal peoples, including nonstatus Indians and Métis, have no official status. This has signiflcant consequences for their relationship with government institutions.
ref: 2009, Laurence J. Kirmayer, Gail Guthrie Valaskakis, Healing Traditions, page 12:
glosses: Not recognised as having a particular status.
retaliationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From retaliation + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A policy of retaliation.
witbier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪt.bɪə/
ipa: /ˈwɪt.bɪɚ/
Forms: form: witbiers
Etymology: From Dutch witbier.
Senses: glosses: A top-fermented barley/wheat beer brewed mainly in Belgium and the Netherlands.
witbiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of witbier
nonretaliation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + retaliation.
Senses: glosses: Lack of retaliation; failure to retaliate.
nonsensity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nonsense + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Nothing could surpass the nonsensity of trying to run so complex and so concentrated a machine by southern and western farmers in grotesque alliance with city day laborers.
ref: 1918, Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams:
text: And have I not for years pleaded the nonsensity of taking seriously the comparisons of fantastic quantities of overkill on which the SALT negotiations have been based?
ref: 2014, George F. Kennan, The Kennan Diaries:
glosses: The quality of being nonsensical.
megabrew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megabrews
Etymology: From mega- + brew.
Senses: examples: text: The pioneering Pennsylvania brewer Carol Stoudt attributes their hesitation to a megabrew backlash: “People who have had nothing but bland lagers for years want the extremes: heavy-handed hops, fruit beers, even smoked beers. […]
ref: 2008, Lew Bryson, New Jersey Breweries, page 83:
text: Local megabrew lagers, such as Spendrups, Pripps or Falcon, cost anywhere from Skr40 to Skr58 a pint, and imported beer or mixed drinks can be twice that.
ref: 2010, Becky Ohlsen, Sweden, page 47:
glosses: A large-scale commercial beer.
megabrews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megabrew
residentships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of residentship
Swiss Army penknife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Swiss Army penknives
Senses: glosses: Swiss Army knife
teratoblastomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teratoblastoma
teratoblastomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teratoblastoma
dysembryoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dysembryomas
form: dysembryomata
Etymology: From dys- + embryo + -oma.
Senses: glosses: teratoma
dysembryomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dysembryoma
dysembryomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dysembryoma
chemsuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemsuits
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chem suit.
chemsuits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemsuit
NBC suit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NBC suits
Etymology: Short for nuclear/biological/chemical suit.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A protective suit used in the military to avoid contact with and contamination by radioactive, biological or chemical substances.
Synonyms: chemsuit
Hyponyms: Noddy suit
NBC suits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NBC suit
Noddy suit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Noddy suits
Etymology: Named after a character who wore a pointed hat in children's books by Enid Blyton.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A kind of NBC suit with a pointed hood.
wikipedia: Enid Blyton
Noddy (character)
Noddy suits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Noddy suit
noisesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more noisesome
form: most noisesome
Senses: examples: text: […] by reason of said overflow, cesspools of noxious and noisesome matter deposited by said sewers are formed on plaintiff's land […]
ref: 1902, Jay Ford Laning, William John Tossell, Ohio Law Bulletin, volume 47, page 211:
glosses: Alternative form of noisome.
Nordicness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Nordic + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or characteristic of being Nordic.
Nootkian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Nootkian
form: most Nootkian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Nuu-chah-nulth people.
Nootkian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nootkians
Senses: glosses: A member of the Nuu-chah-nulth people.
Nootkians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nootkian
nooselike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nooselike
form: most nooselike
Etymology: From noose + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a noose.
North Woods
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Laurentian Mixed Forest Province
glosses: The Laurentian Mixed Forest Province, a forested ecoregion in the United States and Canada.
Related terms: North Wood
Northwood
Northwoods
Norwood
crusadist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From crusade + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Crusader (attributive); pertaining to or studying the Crusades.
crusadism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From crusade + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The practise or doctrine of militaristic Christianity.
Nippon daisy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nippon daisies
Senses: glosses: A flowering plant of species Nipponanthemum nipponicum, native to coastal Japan and cultivated as an ornamental in other regions.
Montauk daisy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Montauk daisies
Senses: glosses: A Nippon daisy (Nipponanthemum nipponicum).
Nippon daisies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nippon daisy
Montauk daisies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Montauk daisy
noble experiment
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the noble experiment
Etymology: Said by President Herbert Hoover.
Senses: glosses: Prohibition
wikipedia: Herbert Hoover
nonwireline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + wireline.
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Not being or relating to a landline.
nonlandline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + landline.
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Not being or relating to a landline.
Nordic gold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A gold-coloured copper alloy used in certain coins.
Kumon method
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after its Japanese founder, Toru Kumon.
Senses: topics: education
glosses: A mathematics and reading program through which students work at their own pace, intended to supplement school lessons.
noble fir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noble firs
Senses: glosses: Abies procera, a western North American fir.
noble firs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noble fir
nonattributably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From non- + attributably.
Senses: examples: text: I felt moved to sympathy with that member of Mrs Thatcher's Cabinet who had muttered under his breath, and nonattributably, that in Japan the Trade Ministry ranks second and the Foreign Office eighteenth […]
ref: 1983, Encounter, volume 60, page 151:
text: As a warrior, he knew a thousand ways to kill nonattributably. But he didn't lash out.
ref: 2001, Larry Simmons, Broken Seals: No Safe Place, page 33:
glosses: In a way that is not attributable.
preprobate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + probate.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Before probate.
postprobate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + probate.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: After probate.
nomogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to nomogenesis.
nomogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A former theory of evolution, claiming that the variation of characters in species is confined within certain limits due to internal and external factors.
nobblerize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nobblerizes
form: nobblerizing
form: nobblerized
form: nobblerized
Etymology: From nobbler + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Some days ago a man named Kelly having nobblerized too much, kicked up a disturbance with a neighbour named Amy, whom he violently assaulted […]
ref: 1855 March 26, The Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer:
text: Folks out here must love nobblerizing, / For publicans large fortunes make; / And to me it is truly surprising / The quantity some people take.
ref: 1864, Charles Robert Thatcher, Thatcher's Colonial Minstrel, page 40:
text: He was 'so overcome with the heat,' poor man! in lifting the mail-bag out of the cart, that he had to go and nobblerize at the 'Royal' before he felt equal to opening it.
ref: 1869, Edward Howe, The boy in the bush, page 85:
glosses: To drink nobblers (servings of beer or spirits).
nobblerizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nobblerize
nobblerizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nobblerize
nobblerized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nobblerize
nominotypical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: Motacilla alba alba is the nominotypical subspecies of the white wagtail (Motacilla alba).
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of a subspecies: nominate, having a name which repeats the species name, designating that it represents the originally described population.
examples: text: Four species of the nominotypical subgenus are positively recorded from America north of Mexico... [referring to Physonota (Physonota) arizonae and three other species]
ref: 2002, Ross H. Arnett, JR, Michael C. Thomas, Paul E. Skelley, J. Howard Frank, American Beetles, Volume II, page 646:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of a subgenus or other infrageneric taxon: having a name which repeats the genus name, indicating that it includes the type species. For older botanical subgeneric and sectional names, it is sometimes prefixed with Eu-.
Rockwellian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Rockwellian
form: most Rockwellian
Etymology: From Rockwell + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Lest Rockwellian nostalgia blur reality, segregation of the races was the law and my earliest recollections of its sinister consequences remain strong to this day.
ref: 2008, Robert Lewis Williams, History of the Association of Black Psychologists, page 276:
synonyms: Rockwellesque
glosses: Of or relating to Norman Rockwell, known for his idealistic, quaint, or sentimental portrayals of American life.
Rockwell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Rockwell City
Rockwellesque
Rockwellian
Rockwellish
Rockwellized
Rockwell scale
Rockwellish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Rockwellish
form: most Rockwellish
Etymology: From Rockwell + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: One Rockwellish picture has some bold dabs of color in its image of a house painter […]
ref: 1978, The Midwest Quarterly, volume 20, page 419:
text: Visually, there seemed nothing wrong with this Rockwellish slice of Americana in scaping portrait. Casual things and people were where they should be for this date and place in Midwestern history.
ref: 1995, Scott Elly Sprecher, Alms for Jude, page 320:
glosses: Rockwellesque.
preimagine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preimagines
form: preimagining
form: preimagined
form: preimagined
Etymology: From pre- + imagine.
Senses: glosses: To imagine in advance.
preimagines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preimagine
preimagining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preimagine
preimagined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preimagine
preassume
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preassumes
form: preassuming
form: preassumed
form: preassumed
Etymology: From pre- + assume.
Senses: glosses: To assume in advance; to presume.
preassumes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preassume
preassuming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preassume
preassumed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preassume
preassumption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌmpʃən
Forms: form: preassumptions
Etymology: From pre- + assumption.
Senses: glosses: assumption in advance
preassumptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preassumption
precancellation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precancellations
Etymology: From pre- + cancellation.
Senses: glosses: The act of precancelling.
precancellations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of precancellation
preleukaemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + leukaemic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of preleukemic.
preleukemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: preleukaemic
Etymology: From pre- + leukemic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to preleukemia.
predials
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of predial
predials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of predial
prebid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + bid.
Senses: glosses: Before a takeover bid.
sweet bursaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A small tree or shrub of species Bursaria spinosa, in the family Pittosporaceae, of eastern and southern Australia.
pittosporaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From translingual Pittosporaceae + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the Pittosporaceae.
Gaya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kaya
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 가야 (gaya).
Senses: glosses: A Korean confederacy of territorial polities in the Nakdong River basin of southern Korea, growing out of the Byeonhan confederacy of the Samhan period.
glosses: The presumed language of the Gaya confederacy.
Gaya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi गया (gayā), from Sanskrit गया (gayā).
Senses: glosses: A city and district of Bihar, India.
Derived terms: Bodh Gaya
howdja
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of howja.
Ophiotaurus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὀφιόταυρος (Ophiótauros, “cow-serpent”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A mythical creature, part bull and part serpent.
osotogari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osotogari
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 大外刈.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
judo
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A throw in which (right-handed version) tori steps next to uke with his left leg and reaps uke's right leg (at the back of the thigh) with his right leg.
orthodontal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: orthodontic
Otway
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Oatway
form: Ottway
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A village in Scioto County, Ohio, United States, named after Thomas Otway.
Derived terms: otwayite
Otway-Rees protocol
Related terms: Colac Otway
Otway-Rees protocol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Otway-Rees protocol
Etymology: Named after D. Otway and O. Rees, who developed it.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A network authentication protocol allowing individuals communicating over an insecure network to prove their identity to each other while also preventing eavesdropping and replay attacks and allowing for the detection of modification.
desouls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of desoul
Andaman Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A marginal sea of the Indian Ocean, to the southeast of the Bay of Bengal, south of Burma (Myanmar), west of Thailand, north-west of the Malay Peninsula, north of Sumatra, and east of the Andaman Islands.
Bierce
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bierces
Etymology: Variant of Pierce.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Biercean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Biercean
form: most Biercean
Etymology: From Bierce + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Ambrose Bierce (1842–circa 1914), American writer and satirist, known for his vehemence as a critic and his sardonic view of human nature.
delayal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delayals
Etymology: From delay + -al.
Senses: qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: Delay.
delayals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delayal
incident room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incident rooms
Senses: glosses: A room reserved and equipped for the handling of major incidents, such as flooding or pandemic.
incident rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incident room
narratorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From narrator + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The role or status of a narrator.
oratorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oratorships
Etymology: From orator + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The role or status of an orator.
oratorships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oratorship
Wauja
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The Wauja people of Mato Grosso, Brazil.
Wauja
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Their Arawakan language.
Synonyms: Waurá
Chelsea bun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɛl.siː bʌn/
Forms: form: Chelsea buns
Etymology: From Chelsea + bun, since it was first created in the 18th century at the Bun House in Chelsea, London.
Senses: glosses: A spiral-shaped currant bun, spiced and coated with sugar.
wouldya
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wouldja.
savagize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: savagizes
form: savagizing
form: savagized
form: savagized
Etymology: From savage + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: […] the chiefs came to a determination, that Jewitt should be married (they knew better than to think of savagizing Thompson) […]
ref: 1817, The Analectic Magazine, volume 9, page 153:
text: But there are many tribes of Indians and islanders more expert with their canoes — as for example the Alaskans and the Kanakas — than any European, however savagized by forest life.
ref: 1884, Hubert Howe Bancroft, History of the Northwest Coast: 1543–1800:
text: This conceptual change allowed the Indian as tractable heathen to be rather rapidly replaced by the Indian as uncivilizable savage. When, therefore, nineteenth-century white historical writers wished to elegize or savagize the Indian, it was comparatively easy for them and their audience to assume that Mohicans, Pequots, and even Wampanoags no longer existed.
ref: 2004, John McWilliams, New England's Crises and Cultural Memory, page 108:
glosses: To make savage; to reduce to a state of savagery.
savagized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of savagize
savagizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of savagize
savagizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of savagize
uncivilizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + civilizable.
Senses: examples: text: This conceptual change allowed the Indian as tractable heathen to be rather rapidly replaced by the Indian as uncivilizable savage.
ref: 2004, John McWilliams, New England's Crises and Cultural Memory, page 108:
glosses: Incapable of being civilized.
penalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From penal + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A policy of imposing penalties.
bolloxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bollox
bolloxology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bollocksology
Etymology: From bollox + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: Instead I was talking about Nietzsche, or some bolloxology, trying to impress her instead of getting a plan together.
ref: 2008, Gerry Ryan, Would The Real Gerry Ryan Please Stand Up:
text: Bob said that that was bolloxology. I hadn't heard that term in years. Bolloxology! Anyway, after some lively debate and some give and take of bolloxology we left them in the room.
ref: 2009, Dónal Óg Cusack, Come What May: The Autobiography:
glosses: nonsense; rubbish
bollocksology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bollocks + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: Bollocksology it was. It's fuckin' different I tell yer. Fuckin' geezers in combat jackets and Gawd knows wot.
ref: 1980, Nigel William, Line 'Em, page 16:
text: Because we do not need any misplaced fucking Council of Civil Liberties bollocksology here, Ed, do you understand me? You get the chance, you plug the fat fuck in the head, empty the magazine to make sure.
ref: 2010, Declan Hughes, City of Lost Girls:
text: If there was doctorates in bollocksology and scratching yourself in bed, the two of you'd be professors by now. Pair of loafing, idle thicks.
ref: 2014, Joseph O'Connor, The Thrill of It All, page 100:
glosses: Alternative form of bolloxology.
goalframe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡəʊlˌfɹeɪm/
Forms: form: goalframes
Etymology: From goal + frame.
Senses: examples: text: Certainly, no one used the goalframe to his advantage more than Orr, especially when penalty-killing.
ref: 2001, Steve Dryden, The Hockey News Century of Hockey: A Season-By-Season Celebration, page 11:
text: It actually overstepped the mark because with stoppage time approaching several fans came onto the pitch and even dislodged the goalframe to my left in premature celebration.
ref: 2009, Richard Brentnall, A Different Corner: Exploring Spanish Football, page 180:
text: Had the goalframe been round in cross section, as was common in France, rather than square as it was in Glasgow, Jacques Santini's thirty-ninth minute header would–St Etienne insisted–have cannoned in rather than out and they would have taken the lead.
ref: 2013, Jonathan Wilson, Scott Murray, The Anatomy of Liverpool: A History in Ten Matches:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The structure of the goal, generally consisting of two goalposts and a crossbar.
goalframes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goalframe
Zator
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Poland.
glosses: A village in the Masovian Voivodeship of Poland.
penny wedding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛdɪŋ
Forms: form: penny weddings
form: penny-wedding
Senses: examples: text: "Vera true, vera true—we'll have a' to pay, I doubt, less or mair—a sort of penny-wedding it will prove, where all men contribute to the young folk's maintenance, that they may not have just four bare legs in a bed together."
ref: 1822, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 37, in The Fortunes of Nigel:
text: Penny weddings, or weddings where volunteer guests brought each his or her contribution to the entertainment, instead of its expense being defrayed jointly by the bridegroom and the bride, were still in vogue and still reckoned respectable.
ref: 1870 Sept., "Adam and Mally: A story of Scottish farm-lfe," in Eclectic Magazine, p. 345 (Google preview)
text: "And what's a penny wedding?"
"It's a' kin' o' a custom amo' the fishers. There's some gey puir fowk amon' 's, ye see, an' when a twa o' them merries, the lave o' 's wants to gie them a bit o' a start like. Sae we a' gang to the weddin' an' eats an' drinks plenty, an' pays for a' 'at we hae; and they mak' a guid profit out o' 't, for the things doesna cost them nearhan' sae muckle as we pay."
ref: 1875, George MacDonald, chapter 5, in Malcolm:
glosses: A wedding at which the guests contribute payments to help cover the cost of the event and to benefit the newly-married couple.
penny-wedding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penny-weddings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of penny wedding.
wire service
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wire services
Senses: glosses: A service provided by a news agency that transmits news reports to subscribers electronically, e.g. by telegraph or the Internet. The subscribers are usually media outlets such as newspapers. Examples include the Associated Press and United Press International.
Related terms: newswire
by wire
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Sent by telegraph or telephone wires.
qualifier: crime
glosses: Carried out by subordinates.
glosses: Done with a remote control.
Related terms: drive-by-wire
fly-by-wire
X-by-wire
good work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: good works
Senses: examples: text: [E]verlasting life . . . must be a righteous and just life; a loving and merciful life; for God is righteous, just, loving, merciful; and more, it must be an useful life, a life of good works.
ref: 1859, Charles Kingsley, chapter 3, in The Good News of God:
text: "Truth, sir, is that which can never pass away; the Truth of Life is Good Works, which abide everlastingly."
ref: 1910, Jeffery Farnol, chapter 27, in The Broad Highway:
text: "The church's teaching has evolved," Walsh says. "Part of indulgences is not just saying special prayers, but also doing good works."
ref: 2009 February 22, Bonnie Rochman, “Why Catholic Indulgences Are Making a Comeback”, in Time, retrieved 15 Aug 2014:
topics: Christianity
glosses: A person's beneficent action or deed, especially one of a charitable nature that advances one's progress toward salvation.
good work
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)k
Senses: glosses: An exclamation of praise or encouragement; good job.
Synonyms: well done
non serviam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin non serviam (“I will not serve”), used in the Vulgate to translate Hebrew לֹא אעבוד.
Senses: examples: text: Two months later he issued his notorious non serviam, “A Soldier's Declaration.” He expected to be court-martialed for this, but his friend Robert Graves managed to arrange that he face a medical board instead.
ref: 1975, Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory, OUP, published 2013, page 99:
text: In her memoirs, she wrote that she heard him speak, but his words floated away from her; it was as if her brain, already choked by the day's horrors, had issued a non serviam and refused to absorb any more.
ref: 2013, Diane Ackerman, The Zookeeper's Wife:
glosses: A formal refusal to serve.
lampasse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lampasses
Senses: glosses: A colored cloth stripe sewn along the outer seam of uniform trousers
lampasse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lampasses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lampas (fabric)
glosses: Alternative form of lampas (inflammation)
lampasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lampasse
gerygone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒəˈɹɪɡənɪ/
Forms: form: gerygones
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of Australasian warblers in the genus Gerygone.
Synonyms: peep-warbler
Derived terms: Biak gerygone
brown-breasted gerygone
brown gerygone
Chatham Island gerygone
dusky gerygone
fairy gerygone
fan-tailed gerygone
golden-bellied gerygone
green-backed gerygone
grey gerygone
large-billed gerygone
Lord Howe gerygone
mangrove gerygone
Norfolk Island gerygone
plain gerygone
rufous-sided gerygone
western gerygone
white-throated gerygone
yellow-bellied gerygone
firefinch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firefinches
Etymology: From fire + finch, from the colour of its plumage.
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of finch in the genus Lagonosticta, found across sub-Saharan Africa.
Derived terms: Senegal firefinch
antiarabism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anti-Arabism.
antiarabist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiarabists
Senses: glosses: Someone who exhibits antiarabism
antiarabists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiarabist
priority seat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: priority seats
Senses: glosses: A seat on public transport reserved for use by people with disabilities, the elderly, pregnant women and others in need.
priority seats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of priority seat
box elder maple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: box elder maples
Senses: glosses: Acer negundo
box elder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: box elders
form: boxelder
form: box-elder
Senses: examples: text: We crossed during the morning a number of hollows, timbered principally with box elder, (acer negundo,) poplar, and elm.
ref: 1845, J[ohn] C[harles] Frémont, Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-’44, Washington: Gales and Seaton, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 21:
text: The little valleys nestling along the streams are diversified by bordering willows, clumps of box elder, and small groves of cottonwood.
ref: 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 32:
glosses: Acer negundo, a North American maple.
Derived terms: Box Elder County
flowering dogwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flowering dogwoods
Senses: synonyms: Florida dogwood
glosses: Cornus florida, a species of flowering plant native to North America.
wikipedia: François André Michaux
Pierre-Joseph Redouté
Related terms: Cornus florida
songbun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɒŋbuːn/
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 성분(成分) (seongbun).
Senses: examples: text: And to cap it all, both his family and hers had good songbun, which made their position in society secure. Songbun is a caste system that operates in North Korea.
ref: 2015, Hyeonseo Lee, The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story:
glosses: A system of ascribed status in North Korea, based on one's political, social, and economic background and the behaviour of relatives.
serve-volleyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serve-volleyers
Senses: examples: text: Tim Henman, now thirty years old and never a champion, is the only top ten serve-volleyer, and less than a dozen top 100 players frequently do it.
ref: 2009, Paul Fein, Tennis Confidential II: More of Today's Greatest Players, Matches, and Controversies, →ISBN:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: A player who employs the serve and volley strategy.
Coordinate terms: baseliner
telishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of telish
serve-volleyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of serve-volleyer
self-documenting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Written and structured in such a way that it can be understood without consulting separate documentation.
raw_tags: of source code
gladening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gladen
gladens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gladen
gladened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gladen
consanguinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more consanguinous
form: most consanguinous
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of consanguineous.
Derived terms: consanguinously