cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
standardwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: standard-wise
Etymology: From standard + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: […] and thirdly, having received those proposals, to examine them carefully to ascertain whether they are suitable designwise, standardwise, and pricewise.
ref: 1974, Parliamentary Debates, page 1131:
glosses: According to, or in terms of standard(s).
designwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From design + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In terms of design.
productionwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From production + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In terms of production; where production is concerned.
water-leech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water-leeches
form: waterleech
form: water leech
Etymology: From Middle English waterleche, water leche, equivalent to water + leech.
Senses: glosses: An leech that inhabits fresh water; an aquatic leech.
water-leeches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water-leech
land-leech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: land-leeches
form: land leech
Etymology: From land + leech.
Senses: glosses: A leech that lives on land; a terrestrial leech.
land-leech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: land-leeches
form: land leech
Etymology: Blend of landlord + leech.
Senses: glosses: A landlord; a person who makes money from renting housing. Often used by people who believe it is an unproductive, unfair and/or exploitative way to earn a living.
glosses: A landlord who exploits their tenants (e.g. by charging unfair or excessive rents).
Related terms: slumlord
land-leeches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of land-leech
free-willers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of free-willer
leechy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːtʃi
Forms: form: more leechy
form: most leechy
Etymology: From leech + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Leeches are hermaphrodites but still have pretty exciting sex lives. To consummate their union they need to exchange packets of sperm. This is done either the conventional way via a leechy penis or by injection, allowing the sperm to make its way through the body tissues to find and fertilise the eggs.
ref: 1997, Hilary Bradt, Guide to Madagascar, page 57:
glosses: Pertaining to or characteristic of a leech.
glosses: Parasitic.
raw_tags: of a person
Derived terms: leechiness
leechy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːtʃi
Forms: form: more leechy
form: most leechy
Etymology: See leachy.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of leachy.
leechiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From leechy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Because he'd grown tired of Max's neediness, his leechiness, his oppressive presence.
ref: 2012, Judith Arnold, Somebody's Dad:
glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being leechy ("parasitic")
Synonyms: parasitism
television match officials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of television match official
VAROs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of VARO
PSAPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PSAP
red ochres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red ochre
pithiatisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pithiatism
wait-a-bits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wait-a-bit
quadratic formulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadratic formula
purdonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɜːˈdəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /pɝˈdoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: purdonians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of purdonium (“coal scuttle”).
purdonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purdonian
pretty as a speckled pup
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Very pretty.
Related terms: cute as a speckled pup
telecomms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of telecoms.
glassychord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: glass harmonica
as-if rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A rule by which compilers are allowed to apply any optimizing transformation to a program provided that it makes no change to the observable behavior of the program.
Gernsbackian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Gernsbackian
form: most Gernsbackian
Etymology: From Gernsback + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Hugo Gernsback (born Hugo Gernsbacher; 1884–1967), Luxembourgish-American inventor, writer, editor, and magazine publisher.
PTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PT
Persian fairy floss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pashmak.
synonyms: word: pashmak
aristological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Surrey and Sussex are the counties for the capon — and also for the same animal in his more natural though less aristological condition;* Norfolk and Suffolk, for turkeys and geese.
ref: 1836, The Quarterly Review (London), page 466:
text: The repast is invariably followed by the kalliyun; but wine, even of Shiraz, should not be partaken of till nightfall, and is better avoided altogether when the aristological student is “dining out,” that is to say, by the way-side.
ref: 1846, The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, page 480:
text: It is an aristological triumph. The Romans, as all men know, dined in their later days on a stupendous scale, and defied all the rules of aristology by their abominable excesses.
ref: 1871, Belgravia, page 345:
text: and a capital dinner they had. You don't get moor mutton with hot laver sauce every day. The author is inhibited by publishers and critics from aristological observations, or he would here describe a good Devonshire dinner.
ref: 1873, Mortimer Collins, Squire Silchester's Whim, page 191:
glosses: pertaining to aristology
Farsistan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Classical Persian فَارْسِسْتَان (fārsistān), from فَارْس (fārs, “ethnic Persian”) + ـِسْتَان (-istān, “place of”). By surface analysis, Fars + -istan.
Senses: glosses: Fars, Persia proper, a province of Iran that is the historical homeland of the Persians.
symbiotyped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of symbiotype
rebootings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rebooting
ramshackly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ramshackly
form: most ramshackly
Etymology: From ramshackle + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It is a good thing that Sir John has managed to let the ramshackly old place to any one,” he said.
ref: 1889, Cassell's Family Magazine, page 698:
text: Who'd buy this ole ramshackly house I'd like to know?
ref: 1895, The Vassar Miscellany, volume 25, page 14:
text: “How could you tell me that it was a ramshackly old Mexican house we were coming to? It is as beautiful as the most beautiful palace in a dream!”
ref: 1902, The Cosmopolitan, volume 32, page 90:
text: "Good morning, Mr. Tutt!" chirped Tutt, hopping out of the ramshackly taxi at five o'clock Thursday morning, just as his equally ramshackly partner emerged fishing rod in hand from the door of the Phoenix House on his way to Chasm Brook.
ref: 1927, Arthur Cheney Train, When Tutt Meets Tutt, page 20:
text: And finally she slew to a ramshackly halt in a ramshackly heap with the rest of the Sufrogs.
ref: 2011, Gregory Dark, Susie and the Snow-it-alls, page 34:
glosses: Characteristic of something ramshackle; in disrepair; appearing ready to collapse; rickety.
examples: text: Mr. Forster twice calls his work "ramshackly." Here and there it is a bit ramshackly, as in the pages on Defoe and in the brief speculations on the future of the novel. But speaking generally, it has order and it has comprehensiveness.
ref: 1974, Arnold Bennett, Andrew Mylett, Arnold Bennett: The Evening Standard Years:
qualifier: literal
glosses: Carelessly or loosely constructed.
fastcore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fast + -core.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of thrashcore.
synonyms: word: thrashcore
tamarixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tamarix
Yuanli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yüǎnʹlēʹ
Forms: form: Yuan-li
form: Yüan-li
Etymology: From the Mandarin 苑裡 /苑里 (Yuànlǐ).
Senses: examples: text: Two Boeing experts, Thurman Jones, air accident investigation coordinator and K.H. Hommel, a structural engineer, also arrived at the site of the accident between Yuanli, Tunglo and Shuanhu Villages near Sanyi township in Miaoli county, central Taiwan.
ref: 1981 August 30, “Gov't. to find causes of air disaster”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXII, number 34, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 3:
text: The double circle pattern was first discovered on a gravestone in Yuanli Township of Miaoli County. Later the same pattern was found on an ancestor gravestone of the Hsieh family in Houlong Township, and in several places in Tongxiao Township of Miaoli County.
ref: 2011 March, Chou Wen-hao [周文豪], “Anthropology Department [人類學組]”, in Open up the Precious: 100 Specimens and Objects of the National Museum of Natural Science [啓綻驚・華: 百件典藏精華圖錄], Taipei: National Museum of Natural Science, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 211:
english: 啓綻驚・華: 百件典藏精華圖錄
translation: 啓綻驚・華: 百件典藏精華圖錄
text: More than 20 members of a group opposed to the building of wind turbines in Yuanli Township, Miaoli County stormed the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) and staged a sit-in protest Wednesday at the ministry's inner courtyard.
ref: 2014 April 16, “Wind farm protesters stage sit-in at Economic Ministry”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 24 Feb 2021, Society:
text: On many occasions, public hearings were more symbol than substance; key dissenting voices, interest groups and academics were either not invited, informed too late or barred access form the venue by large police deployments. In some cases, as with the controversy over InfraVest Corp's wind turbine project in Yuanli, Miaoli County, police inside a public hearing would turn their cameras on the villagers and activists, but did not do so when company representatives or government officials were making their case, measures that were regarded as intimidating.
ref: 2017, J. Michael Cole, “Civic activism and protests in Taiwan: why size doesn't (always) matter”, in Dafydd Fell, editor, Taiwan's Social Movements under Ma Ying-jeou: From the Wild Strawberries to the Sunflowers, Routledge, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 31:
text: The Yuanli Farmer's Association in Miaoli County's Yuanli Township has been promoting "painted" rice fields for nearly 20 years. The fields are actually not painted but rather consist of different varieties of rice that come in five different colors.
ref: 2021 May 3, Keoni Everington, “Photo of the Day: Mother's Day 'painting' seen in Taiwan rice field”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 03 May 2021, Photo of the Day:
glosses: An urban township in Miaoli County, Taiwan.
aureofuscin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A pigment and antibiotic macrolide (1R,3R,4R,5R,7R,9R,11S,12S,13S)-5-(6-aminopurin-9-yl)-1,4,12,13-tetrahydroxy-2,6,10-trioxatricyclo[7.4.0.03,7]tridecane-11-carboxylic acid produced by Streptomyces aureofuscus
autocuvette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autocuvettes
Etymology: From auto- + cuvette.
Senses: qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: A cuvette in an automated analytical device
autoproteolytical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of autoproteolytic.
avibirnavirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avibirnaviruses
Etymology: From avi- + birnavirus.
Senses: glosses: Any virus of the genus Avibirnavirus
avibirnaviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of avibirnavirus
azidobenzene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of phenyl azide.
synonyms: word: phenyl azide
phenyl azide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The aromatic azide C₆H₅-N=N⁺=N⁻
Synonyms: azidobenzene
freedom gas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of freedom + natural gas. Coined by the U.S. Department of Energy in or around May 2019. Compare freedom fries.
Senses: examples: text: Increasing export capacity from the Freeport LNG project is critical to spreading freedom gas throughout the world by giving America’s allies a diverse and affordable source of clean energy.
ref: 2019 May 28, [US] Department of Energy, “Department of Energy Authorizes Additional LNG Exports from Freeport LNG”, in Energy.gov:
text: “Freedom gas? Freedom is generally good, but freedom from glaciers, freedom from clean air, freedom from healthy forests that aren't on fire, and freedom from the world we know and cherish is not what we seek,” Inslee said in a Twitter post.
ref: 2019 May 29, Josh Siegel, quoting Jay Inslee, “Trump administration boasts of promoting 'freedom gas' and 'freedom molecules'”, in Washington Examiner:
text: Touted as “freedom gas” by the Donald Trump administration, LNG has quickly turned into a major export commodity for U.S. energy companies.
ref: 2020 January 27, Irina Slav, “The True Cost Of ‘Freedom Gas’”, in Oilprice.com:
text: Remember “freedom gas?” U.S. drillers facing a yearslong glut at home relished the opportunity to export the heating and generation fuel, but the global pandemic’s effect on demand is punishing them.
ref: 2020 June 4, Jinjoo Lee, “America’s Natural-Gas Woes Are Imported”, in Wall Street Journal:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Exported natural gas, particularly liquefied natural gas (“LNG”), from the United States.
wikipedia: U.S. Department of Energy
Related terms: freedom fries
emancipatedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From emancipated + -ness.
Senses: glosses: emancipation; quality of being emancipated
Boudica
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəʊˈdɪkə/
ipa: /ˈbuːdɪkə/
Forms: form: Boudicca
form: Boadicea
form: Boudicea
Etymology: From Latin Boudicca, from Proto-Celtic *Boudīkā (from which Proto-Brythonic *Bʉðig), from Proto-Celtic *boudīkos (“victorious”), from Proto-Celtic *boudi (“booty, victory”).
Senses: examples: text: The Icenian King Prasutagus died after a long a prosperous reign of at least thirteen years. On his death, he left behind two daughters and a wife whose influence would be felt for the next two thousand years: her name was Boudica, queen of the Iceni.
ref: 2005, Vanessa Collingridge, chapter 9, in Boudica, Random House, →ISBN, page 183:
glosses: A queen of the British Iceni tribe that led an uprising against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire, died c. 61 CE
Derived terms: Boudican
Boudicea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Boudica.
exvangelical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exvangelicals
form: ex-vangelical
Etymology: Blend of ex- + evangelical.
Senses: glosses: A former evangelical.
exvangelical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: ex-vangelical
Etymology: Blend of ex- + evangelical.
Senses: glosses: Formerly evangelical, having left evangelicalism.
casitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Having grammatical case
backskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A leather covering worn by miners in wet conditions
bactofection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: gene therapy using bacteria as delivery vector
basecaller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basecallers
form: base caller
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A device (or software) used in basecalling
WordPress
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From word + press. Coined by Christine Tremoulet, a friend of the co-founder Matt Mullenweg, who recalled the details in her podcast:
He pointed out that he really liked the idea of it being somehow related to the printing press, because the printing press, so many years ago, revolutionized the power of the people because books became accessible, they were no longer so expensive and he truly believed in the power of blogging and this blogging software that he was working on… and really, out of nowhere, it suddenly hit me. I was like, WordPress!
Senses: examples: text: In mid-1999 the first free build-your-own-web log tools began appearing and suddenly there were a large variety of easy to use blogging software to choose from including remote web log systems like Blogger a turnkey service offered by Google or stand-alone open source applications such as WordPress.
ref: 2004 October 14, Steve Lafontaine, “A brief history of blogs”, in North Bay Nugget, North Bay, Ontario, page B6:
text: With the free Scripts Installer included in the Unlimited Hosting plan, customers can easily install a wide range of open source applications such as Wordpress,^([sic]) Joomla!, Drupal, PhpBB,^([sic]) Mambo, Php-Nuke,^([sic]) Zen Cart, Magento, just to name a few.
ref: 2010 February 25, “Doteasy Announces "US$5.95 Domain Name Registration with Free Web Hosting Services"”, in Business Wire, New York:
text: With the new version of Virtuozzo’s Application Platform for WordPress, any service provider can offer cost-effective, enterprise-grade WordPress hosting with automatic deployment and scaling of WordPress websites, databases, CDN, security and associated software stacks, that can be controlled easily by the business user.
ref: 2023 April 19, “Virtuozzo Simplifies WordPress-as-a-Service for All Online Businesses”, in NASDAQ OMX, New York:
glosses: A content management system used to create websites of all kinds, especially blogs.
Derived terms: WordPresser
WordPress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WordPresses
Etymology: From word + press. Coined by Christine Tremoulet, a friend of the co-founder Matt Mullenweg, who recalled the details in her podcast:
He pointed out that he really liked the idea of it being somehow related to the printing press, because the printing press, so many years ago, revolutionized the power of the people because books became accessible, they were no longer so expensive and he truly believed in the power of blogging and this blogging software that he was working on… and really, out of nowhere, it suddenly hit me. I was like, WordPress!
Senses: examples: text: Wikipedia contributors are often prolific bloggers, wont to talk about their work on Wikipedia in LiveJournals and TypePads and WordPresses.
ref: 2011, Cory Doctorow, “On Jaron Lanier’s ‘Digital Maoism’”, in John Brockman, editor, Culture: Leading Scientists Explore Societies, Art, Power, and Technology, New York, N.Y.: Harper Perennial, →ISBN, page 160:
text: According to Automattic, as of 2011, over 100,000 new WordPresses are created every day (http://en.wordpress.com/stats/).
ref: 2013, Brad Williams, David Damstra, Hal Stern, Professional WordPress®: Design and Development, 2nd edition, Indianapolis, Ind.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 3:
text: Remember blogs? They were about before Tumblr turned up and turfed all but the most dedicated off their Wordpresses,^([sic]) and were more likely to be thematically concerned with Sarah Records or late 80s German centre backs than otherkins and sitcom reaction .gifs.
ref: 2015 August 12, Josh Baines, “Defending the Indefensible: How Blog House was Secretly Brilliant”, in Vice, archived from the original on 08 Nov 2020:
text: WordPress.com allows us to host WordPresses from all over the world and give people a really easy place to start.
ref: 2017, Elliott Adams, quoting Matt Mullenweg, The Startup Mixtape: The Guide to Building and Launching a High-Growth Tech Startup, San Francisco, Calif.: Startup Mixtape Media, →ISBN, page 268:
text: I mean, we met yesterday – how do I know he’s not some sociopathic stalker, or a blogger worming his way under my skin to get to the good dirt for his WordPress, or just a mean boy, a fuckboy, a softboy, a boy who’s going to ghost me after summer’s over.
ref: 2023, Amara Sage, “July” (chapter 8), in Influential, London: Faber & Faber Limited, →ISBN:
glosses: A WordPress website.
basipodal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of basipedal.
bathynellacean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bathynellaceans
Senses: glosses: Any crustacean of the order Bathynellacea
bathynellaceans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bathynellacean
becurtovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: becurtoviruses
Etymology: Blend of beet + curly + top + virus
Senses: glosses: Any plant virus of the genus Becurtovirus
becurtoviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of becurtovirus
beefheart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beef + heart.
Senses: glosses: A meat-based food for tropical fish.
tropical fish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tropical fishes
form: tropical fish
Senses: glosses: Fish from tropical waters, typically kept in an aquarium.
MMIWG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
qualifier: crime
glosses: Abbreviation of National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
MMIWG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
politics
qualifier: crime
glosses: Abbreviation of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
Related terms: english: missing and murdered indigenous women
translation: missing and murdered indigenous women
word: MMIW
biandry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Probably borrowed from German Biandrie or French biandrie. Equivalent to bi- + -andry.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The state of having two male partners.
glosses: Marriage with two men.
unenjoying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unenjoying
form: most unenjoying
Etymology: From un- + enjoying.
Senses: examples: text: She is one of our outcasts; a common prostitute, who obtains from the wages of promiscuous intercourse her daily bread; who sells for hire, in unenjoying prostitution, the feminine embraces given by Nature for mutual solace and endearment.
ref: 1823, Henry Horne, The Citizen of Nature:
text: 1871-2, George Eliot, Middlemarch
The coachman was used to drive his grays at a good pace, Mr Casaubon being unenjoying and impatient in everything away from his desk, and wanting to get to the end of all journeys; and Dorothea was now bowled along quickly.
glosses: Not gaining enjoyment.
electrorheologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From electrorheological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of or by means of electrorheology.
Magnus effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Magnus effects
Etymology: Named after German physicist Heinrich Gustav Magnus (1802–1870).
Senses: glosses: The phenomenon whereby the path of a spinning object moving through a fluid is deflected in a manner that is not observed when the object is not spinning, explained by the difference in pressure of the fluid on opposite sides of the object.
Magnus effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Magnus effect
Flettner rotor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Flettner rotors
Etymology: Named after German aviation engineer and inventor Anton Flettner.
Senses: glosses: A smooth cylinder with disc end-plates which is spun along its long axis and, as air passes at right angles across it, the Magnus effect causes an aerodynamic force to be generated in the direction perpendicular to both the long axis and the direction of air flow.
Flettner rotors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Flettner rotor
biofertilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: biofertilizes
form: biofertilizing
form: biofertilized
form: biofertilized
Etymology: From bio- + fertilize.
Senses: glosses: To fertilize using a biofertilizer
Related terms: biofertilization
biofertilized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of biofertilize
biofertilizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of biofertilize
biofertilizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of biofertilize
biogeoprinting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: "fingerprinting" (in this case, identifying the geographic origin) of a material via any of its biological components, typically pollen
biohomopolymer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biohomopolymers
Etymology: From bio- + homopolymer.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A biological homopolymer
biohomopolymers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biohomopolymer
party bike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: party bikes
Senses: synonyms: bar bike
beer bike
bierfiets
conference bike
fietscafé
pedal pub
pedibus
glosses: A multi-passenger human-powered vehicle that is powered by the passengers, and designed for group entertainment and transportation.
party bikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of party bike
Wolffian body
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wolffian bodies
Etymology: After Caspar Friedrich Wolff, who described it in 1759.
Senses: glosses: The mesonephros and paramesonephrotic blastema.
wikipedia: Caspar Friedrich Wolff
Wolffian bodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wolffian body
biophenotypic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of biphenotypic.
red team
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red teams
Etymology: Red was the color of the Soviet Union on maps during the Cold War, so "red team" represented the adversary during military simulations.
Senses: coordinate_terms: blue team
purple team
glosses: An independent group employed to challenge an organization by assuming an adversarial role or point of view.
red team
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: red teams
form: red teaming
form: red teamed
form: red teamed
form: red-team
Etymology: Red was the color of the Soviet Union on maps during the Cold War, so "red team" represented the adversary during military simulations.
Senses: examples: text: Operationally, fielded systems are red teamed by the Air Force Information Warfare Center (AFIWC) under the Air Force's Computer Security Assessment Program (CSAP).
ref: 1998, Hearings Before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, page 218:
text: […]Senator Diane Feinstein, chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, aptly characterized the alternative analyses applied to the bin Laden intelligence: “They red-teamed it, and red-teamed it, and red-teamed it.”
ref: 2015, Micah Zenko, Red Team: How to Succeed By Thinking Like the Enemy, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: To challenge an organization by assuming an adversarial role.
Related terms: alternative analysis
red teams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red team
offstream
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: San Luis Reservoir is the largest offstream reservoir in the United States, receiving most of its water from the California Aqueduct.
glosses: Not located on a streambed.
Nalgenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nalgene
Nemeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nemean
bodyfossil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bodyfossils
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of body fossil.
bodyfossils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bodyfossil
multisampler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multisamplers
Etymology: From multi- + sampler.
Senses: glosses: A scientific device for taking multiple samples of water etc.
multisamplers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multisampler
go or blow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes or blows
form: going or blowing
form: went or blew
form: gone or blown
Senses: glosses: Of a car or its engine: to perform either very well or not at all.
Related terms: hit-or-miss
brachiolarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to brachiolaria
bronchiodilatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bronchodilatory.
NOP slide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NOP slides
Senses: glosses: Synonym of NOP sled.
synonyms: word: NOP sled
NOP slides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NOP slide
NOP sled
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NOP sleds
Etymology: See nop (“no operation”).
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
synonyms: NOP slide
glosses: A series of identical values in memory that instruct the CPU to take no action and proceed to the next instruction, used in shellcode etc. to increase the chances of any random instruction access executing the sequence that follows.
bursicons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bursicon
NOP sleds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NOP sled
triaxons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triaxon
Pink Lady
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pink Ladies
form: pink lady
Senses: glosses: A Cripps Pink apple.
glosses: A gin-based cocktail with grenadine.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A drug cocktail used to treat gastroesophageal reflux.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A denaturant mixture added to discourage World War II-era US Navy submariners from drinking "torpedo juice".
Pink Ladies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pink Lady
torpedo juice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An alcoholic beverage, first mixed in World War II, made from pineapple juice and the 180-proof grain alcohol fuel used in torpedo motors.
nettlespurge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nettle + spurge.
Senses: glosses: A plant of the genus Jatropha.
Derived terms: goutystalk nettlespurge
SRAAM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SRAAMs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of short-range air-to-air missile.
SRAAMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SRAAM
WVRAAM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WVRAAMs
Senses: examples: Coordinate term: BVRAAM
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of within-visual-range air-to-air missile.
WVRAAMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of WVRAAM
LRAAM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LRAAMs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of long-range air-to-air missile.
LRAAMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LRAAM
MRAAM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MRAAMs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of medium-range air-to-air missile.
MRAAMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MRAAM
BVRAAM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BVRAAMs
Senses: examples: Coordinate term: WVRAAM
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile.
BVRAAMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BVRAAM
shirt-tail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shirt-tails
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shirttail.
shirt-tails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shirt-tail
witch-smeller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: witch-smellers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of witchfinder.
synonyms: word: witchfinder
witch-smellers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of witch-smeller
white-winged tern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white-winged terns
Senses: glosses: Chlidonias leucopterus, a species of tern in the family Laridae.
chondrosamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chondrosamines
Senses: glosses: galactosamine
chondrosamines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chondrosamine
whiskered tern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: whiskered terns
Senses: glosses: Chlidonias hybrida, a species of tern in the family Laridae.
Rubicons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rubicon
squibbings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squibbing
overgoings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overgoing
buskings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of busking
artabotrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the genus name Artobotrys.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: isocorydine
decars
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decar
decarring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decar
decarred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decar
connectionalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From connectional + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of connexionalism.
connexionalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: connexionalists
Etymology: From connexional + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of connexionalism.
connectionalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: connectionalists
Etymology: From connectional + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of connexionalist.
connexionalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of connexionalist
connectionalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of connectionalist
two-hand touch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of touch football in which players are "tackled" by being touched with both hands simultaneously.
examples: text: You've had enough of two-hand touch
You want it rough you're out of bounds
ref: 1999, “The Bad Touch” (track 10), in Hooray for Boobies, performed by Bloodhound Gang:
glosses: A mode of interaction that keeps physical intimacy to a minimum.
Emersonianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Emersonian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The form of transcendentalism championed by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
flying jenny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flying jennies
form: flying ginny
Senses: glosses: roundabout; merry-go-round
flying jennies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flying jenny
flying ginny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flying ginnies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flying jenny.
flying ginnies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flying ginny
evil willer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evil willers
Senses: examples: text: […] as he was in his dysporte of huntynge, he was by his euyll willers slayne, when he hadde ruled skarsly .iii. yeres.
ref: 1533, Robert Fabyan, Fabyans Cronycle, London: William Rastell, Part 2, Chapter 35:
text: And being returned to his Maister, the king demaunding who should be meete to sende againe for that purpose: Answered, if the king had any enemy or euill-willer, to send him. For he should receiue him againe wel whipped and beaten, if he escape with his life.
ref: 1599, Robert Pont, Against Sacrilege, Edinburgh: Robert Waldegrave, Sermon 3:
text: When he was entred upon his desperate undertaking, whether it were by some losses received, or some Mutiny in his Army, or some glorious rumour of the Egyptians strenth, his evil willers took courage to rebel against him;
ref: 1675, Samuel Clarke, “The Life and Death of Nebuchadnezzar the Great, First Emperour of the Chaldeans”, in The lives & deaths of most of those eminent persons who by their virtue and valour obtained the sirnames of Magni,or the Great, London: W.B, page 4:
text: Surely the swords of me and my sons avail not so little for Witchland in this country of our evil-willers that we should sheathe ’em and go home.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, chapter 20, in The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC:
synonyms: ill-willer
antonyms: good willer
well-willer
well-wisher
glosses: One who harbours ill will (toward someone).
evil willers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of evil willer
rose fishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rose fish
hemdurgan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Rose fish (Sebastes norvegicus).
tuckers out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tucker out
tuckering out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tucker out
neurovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuroviruses
Etymology: From neuro- + virus.
Senses: glosses: Any virus affecting the nervous system.
neuroviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurovirus
comly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌmli/
rhymes: -ʌmli
Forms: form: more comly
form: comlier
form: most comly
form: comliest
Etymology: From Middle English comly. More at comely.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of comely.
ASOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ASO
automotive industry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: automotive industries
fan-nerved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a fan-like arrangement of the nervures or veins of the wings.
hullabalooing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hullabaloo
hullabalooed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hullabaloo
crosses the Rubicon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cross the Rubicon
crossed the Rubicon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cross the Rubicon
sans-culotterie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The status or attitudes of the sans-culottes.
Tom Trot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A kind of toffee made with treacle, sugar, and butter.
canto fermo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from the Italian.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cantus firmus.
road steamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: road steamers
Senses: glosses: A locomotive with broad wheels for use on roads.
road steamers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of road steamer
showrunning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of showrun
shoulder piece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoulder pieces
Senses: glosses: A strap passing over the shoulder and joining the front and back part of a garment.
shoulder pieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoulder piece
uninventiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uninventive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Lack of inventiveness.
unobstructiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unobstructive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unobstructive.
unobstructively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unobstructively
form: most unobstructively
Etymology: From unobstructive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unobstructive manner.
malinformed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more malinformed
form: most malinformed
Etymology: From mal- + informed.
Senses: glosses: Wrongly or badly informed.
obstructional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more obstructional
form: most obstructional
Etymology: From obstruction + -al.
Senses: glosses: Being or relating to an obstruction.
Derived terms: obstructionally
socialist party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: socialist parties
form: Socialist Party
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A political party which advocates socialist ideals.
Socialist Party
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: A Socialist Party which genuinely wished to achieve anything would have started by facing several facts which to this day are considered unmentionable in left-wing circles. It would have recognized that England is more united than most countries, that the British workers have a great deal to lose besides their chains, and that the differences in outlook and habits between class and class are rapidly diminishing.
ref: 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. III:
glosses: Any of various national political parties chiefly identified by their support for some form of socialism, particularly the French Socialist Party.
socialist parties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of socialist party
roboticise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: roboticises
form: roboticising
form: roboticised
form: roboticised
Etymology: From robotic + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of roboticize.
Derived terms: roboticisation
roboticisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From robotic + -isation or roboticise + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of roboticization.
baboosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babooshes
form: babuche
form: pabouche
form: papoosh
Senses: glosses: An Oriental slipper.
babooshes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baboosh
bevel wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bevel wheels
Senses: hyponyms: mitre wheel
skew wheel
glosses: A wheel forming part of a bevel gear.
bevel wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bevel wheel
best pleased
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Satisfaction levels among performers might be generally high, but there are whispers from old-school theatre folk that they're not best pleased about Hollywood coming in and stealing the limelight.
ref: 2010 June 14, Carrie Dunn, “Tony awards: Hollywood invasion provokes Broadway stage whispers”, in The Guardian, London:
text: Can't say we'd be best pleased if the terrifying sound of explosives was going on underneath our bedroom window, but the assembled crowd seem to enjoy it.
ref: 2014 December, “Bosnian family sets off 15,000 firecrackers in weird Christmas tradition”, in entertainment.ie:
text: They said: “I'm hardly best pleased to receive this and neither, I presume, are all the others whose confidentiality has been breached by this.”
ref: 2017 August 29, Gayle McDonald, “Council investigation after it accidentally reveals email addresses of 200 Plymouth residents”, in Plymouth Herald:
glosses: displeased, upset, disgruntled
raw_tags: with negative
with a high hand
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: synonyms: with a high arm
glosses: In a high-handed manner.
speed-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speed-ups
Etymology: Deverbal from speed up.
Senses: examples: text: King's Messenger, 1918-1940: Memoirs of a Silver Greyhound. By George P. Antrobus, O.B.E., King's Foreign Service Messenger 1918-1940. London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd. Price 10s. 6d. net. [...] "The great European express trains have an air of mystery and romance about them. Truth to tell, this is but ill-deserved. Except over the French portion of their journey they have no right to the title of express"—he was writing of conditions before the great speed-up of the last decade— [...].
ref: 1941 October, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 480:
text: By comparison with steam, no big acceleration of the expresses proved possible between Leeds and Manchester and the speed-ups that have been secured owe a great deal to the excision of intermediate stops.
ref: 1961 April, G. Freeman Allen, “The planning and execution of the new Leeds-Manchester service”, in Trains Illustrated, page 201:
glosses: Alternative spelling of speedup.
S.T.D.'s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of S.T.D. Alternative form of STDs (sexually transmitted diseases)
Forster's tern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Forster's terns
Senses: glosses: Sterna forsteri, is a seabird of the family Laridae.
antirequisite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antirequisites
Etymology: From anti- + requisite; in the education sense, contrasted with prerequisite.
Senses: examples: text: Antirequisites affect the availability of a course in the opposite direction; if the antirequisite of course A has been taken, then the student cannot enroll in course A.
ref: 2010, Austin L. Toombs, The impact of curriculum visualization on decision making among students: an honors thesis (HONRS 499) (Ball State University):
text: . Some never stop talking about antirequisites. Others always advocate for splitting courses, and most get angry when the administration does not enforce prerequisites and corequisites.
ref: 2014, Julian Hermida, Facilitating Deep Learning, →ISBN:
text: Those indicating the student had taken a previous university French course were discarded, as were a small number of questionnaires indicating a Francophone family background (an antirequisite for both of these intermediate level courses)
ref: 2014, Kerry Lappin-Fortin, “Comparing written competency in core French and French immersion graduates”, in Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, volume 17, number 2:
topics: education
glosses: A previous course (or learning experience) that overlaps in content with a course offering such that students may not take that course offering for academic credit.
examples: text: The key result of this Letter, however, is that hierarchical structure formation is not an antirequisite for the successful formation of disks: the adoption of a plausible physical model for feedback can indeed regulate star formation and avoid catastrophic AM loss.
ref: 2001, RJ Thacker, HMP Couchman, “Star formation, supernova feedback, and the angular momentum problem in numerical cold dark matter cosmogony: halfway there?”, in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, volume 555, number 1:
glosses: A condition that prevents something from occurring.
antirequisite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + requisite; in the education sense, contrasted with prerequisite.
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, while we can imagine providing such explanations or elaborations, they would seem to be antirequisite if the metaphor is to remain literarily pleasing or effective.
ref: 2010 March, Jan Zwicky, “Mathematical analogy and metaphorical insight”, in For the Learning of Mathematics, volume 30, number 1:
glosses: Acting as an antirequisite.