cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
kGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: KGs
form: kG's
form: KG's
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of kilogausses plural of kG (“kilogauss”) Nonstandard form of kG (“kilogauss”).
nanogausses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanogauss
Singaporize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪŋ.ə.pɔˌɹaɪz/
ipa: /ˈsiŋ.əˌpɔ.ɹaɪz/
Forms: form: Singaporizes
form: Singaporizing
form: Singaporized
form: Singaporized
Etymology: From Singapore + -ize. The former is from Malay Singapura, from Sanskrit सिंहपुर (siṃhá-pura), from सिंह (siṃha, “lion”) + पुर (pura, “city”).
Senses: examples: text: If we're going to self-Singaporize the newsgroup to the status of an AOL chat room, forget it. It does not work.
ref: 1996 July 27, Spiros Triantafyllopou, “Misc.kids.moderated - My (long,aimless,self-serving) thoughts”, in misc.kids (Usenet):
text: I need to do something to Singaporize him. Maybe I'll blog about the instant Roti Prata that I usually eat at home.
ref: 2007 October 13, “How to cook instant Roti Prata”, in Decay On Net (blog), archived from the original on 17 Mar 2020:
text: If the US could Singaporize on both counts, we could be through the worst within a month.
ref: 2020 March 13, Edward Luce, “The coronavirus: my part in its downfall”, in Financial Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To make or become like Singapore.
Related terms: Singaporization
Singaporizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪŋ.ə.pɔˌɹaɪ.zɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Singaporize
Nevuary
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nevruary
form: Neveruary
Etymology: Blend of never + January or blend of never + February.
Senses: examples: text: That's the Twelfth of Nevuary, man — like, Oh, Zero, Nought, Nix.
ref: 1994, Ciaran Carson, First Language: Poems:
text: The Bard and I would have written poetry back and forth from now till nevuary. It was your picture that got him here.
ref: 2000, Caleen Sinnette Jennings, Inns and Outs: Six Short Plays, Dramatic Publishing, →ISBN, page 75:
text: Over the course of the day, Pusha has become increasingly evangelical about the merits of Hell Hath No Fury. It goes beyond the Yo, cop my album, droppin Nevuary 23rd rhetoric and goes into near fanatical obsession.
ref: 2006, The Fader:
text: Thursday rolled around and I was clinging to the hot thin hope that I could meet what my editor confirmed as my capital-D Drop-Dead due date, AKA the one that, if missed, would mean a pub date pushed to what might as well be Nevuary, […]
ref: 2020, Mitchell Jackson, Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family, Scribner, →ISBN, page 265:
glosses: Synonym of Neveruary (“(humorous) never”).
synonyms: word: Neveruary
extra: (“(humorous) never”)
local colour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of local color.
phonotax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊnə(ʊ)taks/
ipa: /ˈfoʊnətæks/
ipa: /ˈfoʊnoʊtæks/
Forms: form: phonotaxes
Etymology: A blend of phonotactics + syntax or phonology + syntax.
Senses: examples: text: It is crucial for the phoneme structure of Finnish — traditionally /d/ has not been included in the Finnish phonotax, but it fulfils the criteria of a phoneme (Karlsson, 1983: 66-7).
ref: 1990, Jarmo Lainio, “Sweden Finnish — development or deterioration?”, in Durk Gorter, editor, Fourth International Conference on Minority Languages: Western and Eastern European papers, Multilingual Matters, →ISBN, page 31:
text: On the level of word-shape, the phonotax of a language is a first determinant of its style, but the pattern of distribution within that frame is perhaps of equal importance.
ref: 2009, Anders Stenström Beregond, “Phonotactic Preferences in the Root Repertories of "Qenya Lexicon" and "The Etymologies"”, in Arda Philology 2: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on J.R.R. Tolkien's Invented Languages, Omentielva Tatya, Antwerp, 8-11 August 2007, Arda Society, →ISBN, page 99:
text: Finally, names more or less adapted to Greenlandic phonotax will show a few deviations from the declination paradigms: e.g. Suulut ought to become Suulutip in ergative like t-stems use, but will become Suulup.
ref: 2012, Karen Langgård, “Considerations about the impact of Danish on the morphology of Kalaallisut”, in Hitomi Otsuka, Cornelia Stroh, Aina Urdze, editors, More Morphologies: Contributions to the Festival of Languages, Bremen, 17 Sep to 7 Oct, 2009, Brockmeyer Verlag, →ISBN, page 10:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: The total sum of a language's phonological or phonotactic rules.
Related terms: phonotactics
phonotaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phonotax
coenotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coenotypes
Etymology: From coeno- + type.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The type of organism in a coenopopulation
coenotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coenotype
cogenetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From co- + genetically.
Senses: glosses: In a cogenetic manner
colonofibroscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From colono- + fibroscopic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to colonofiberoscopy
corticomotoneural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of corticomotoneuronal.
counterdispositional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From counter- + dispositional.
Senses: glosses: contrary to one's normal disposition or character; out-of-character
counterdispositionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a counterdispositional manner
cryocollection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryocollections
Etymology: From cryo- + collection.
Senses: glosses: A collection of frozen material, typically tissue samples
cryocollections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryocollection
cryomacroscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryomacroscope
cryomacroscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cryo- + macroscopy.
Senses: glosses: macroscopy at low temperatures
Related terms: cryomacroscope
cryomacroscopic
cryomacroscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cryo- + macroscopic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to cryomacroscopy
glosses: By means of a cryomacroscope
ctenostomatid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ctenostomatids
Senses: glosses: Any bryozoan of the order Ctenostomatida
ctenostomatids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ctenostomatid
cybertaxonomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cybertaxonomy
daphnetoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A diterpenoid toxin, related to daphnane, present in plants of the family Thymelaeaceae
decerebellate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From de- + cerebellum + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Related to, or caused by removal of the cerebellum.
decloaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decloakers
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A material that decloaks
degreening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of degreen
degreening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The removal of the green pigment (chlorophyll) from the skins of mature fruit, typically by treatment with ethylene.
dehydroepiandrosterones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dehydroepiandrosterone
densitovolumetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From densito- + volumetry.
Senses: glosses: The measurement of tissue density and volume of the lungs
desmatosuchian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desmatosuchians
Senses: glosses: Any extinct archosaur of the genus Desmatosuchus
desmatosuchians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desmatosuchian
detrimerization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + trimerization.
Senses: glosses: The removal of trimeric forms
dihydroergosine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dihydro- + ergosine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid present in sorghum (Sphacelia sorghi)
diphosphatidylcholine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diphosphatidylcholines
Etymology: From di- + phosphatidylcholine.
Senses: glosses: A bilayer of two lecithin (phosphatidylcholine) molecules
diplospondylous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From diplo- + spondylous.
Senses: glosses: Formed from two spondyles
diprolines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diproline
docodontan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: docodontans
Senses: glosses: Any extinct mammaliaform of the order Docodonta
docodontans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of docodontan
docosenamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: docosenamides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid amide of a docosenoic acid
Huangqi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhwɑŋ tʃi/
enpr: hwängʹchēʹ
Forms: form: Huang-ch'i
form: Huangchi
form: Huangci
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 黃岐／黄岐 (Huángqí).
Senses: examples: text: The Luotuan Bay, embraced by the Jianjiang Peninsula in the northeastern part of Luoyuan County and the Huangqi Peninsula in Lianjiang County, is a good deep-water harbour in the southeastern water area of China.
ref: 1985, 中國沿海十四城, 北京光明日報社, →OCLC, page 307:
text: According to Taiwanese media, schema provided by Matsu Defense Command to international media during a recent visit to the island inadvertently confirmed the deployment of the Ray Ting-2000 (“Thunderbolt 2000”) MRL by showing artillery ranges that went well beyond that of artillery pieces deployed on the islands, specifically 240 mm howitzers M1, which can reach targets about 23 km inside China. The schema presented to journalists showed targets 40 km inland, including the Huangqi Peninsula, the entire Minjiang estuary, as well as Pingtan and beyond.
ref: 2013 June 11, J. Michael Cole, “Taiwan’s New Rocket Launchers?”, in The Diplomat, archived from the original on 22 Dec 2013:
text: Beigan Island belongs to Matsu Islands; the geographical position is located Taiwan's Northwest approximately 114 nautical miles, approaches mainland China Fujian's Minjiang River and Huangci peninsula.
ref: [2020s, “Beigan introduction”, in Beigan Township Administration, Matsu, archived from the original on 23 Jun 2021:
glosses: A peninsula in Lianjiang, Fuzhou, Fujian, China.
examples: text: When a fishing boat of Huangqi township of Fujian's Lianjiang county, which was engaged in nongovernmental trade, was having a transaction with a Matzu trader near the waters of Matzu island on the afternoon of 23 April, the troops garrisoned in Matzu opened fire at them, killing one and injuring two.
ref: 1995 May 2 [1995 April 28], “Matzu Troops Fire at Fishermen, Killing One”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, numbers 95-084, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, translation of original by Zhou Xiang (0719 5046) [周翔], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 88, column 2:
text: Cleaners clear the floating waste at a fishing harbour in Huangqi Township of Lianjiang County, southeast China's Fujian Province, June 6, 2017. Local authorities have devoted efforts to regularly clear the floating garbage along the seashore.
ref: 2017, “Local authorities make efforts to clear floating garbage along seashore in SE China”, in Zhang Dongmiao, editor, Xinhua News Agency:
glosses: A town in Lianjiang, Fuzhou, Fujian, China.
Allitt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
dystropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Senses: glosses: Relating to dystropy.
glosses: Misspelling of dystrophic.
echinulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: echinulations
Senses: glosses: A collection of small spines
Related terms: echinulate
echinulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of echinulation
elymoclavine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An ergot alkaloid (6-methyl-8,9-didehydroergolin-8-yl)methanol
endophilicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endophilicities
Senses: glosses: The condition of being endophilic
endotyping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The classification of endotypes
enterogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The creation of new intestine, typically by lengthening existing gut
epicholesterol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From epi- + cholesterol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The 3α- isomer of cholesterol
epizoism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being epizoic.
equipolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From equi- + polar.
Senses: glosses: Having equal poles
ergovalinine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An epimer of ergovaline
eutriconodontan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eutriconodontans
Senses: glosses: Any extinct mammal of the order Eutriconodonta
eutriconodontans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eutriconodontan
extracrevicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + crevicular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Outside of a crevice
extravestibular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪbjʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From extra- + vestibular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Outside of a vestibule
Quarmby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Quarmbys
form: Wharmby
Etymology: From Old Norse kvern (“millstone; quern, handmill”) + býr (“farmstead”).
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE1116).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old Norse.
fine tune
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fine tunes
form: fine tuning
form: fine tuned
form: fine tuned
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fine-tune.
fine tunes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fine tune
fine tuning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fine tune
fine tuned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fine tune
de Stafford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Middle English de Stafford, from Anglo-Norman de Stafford, from Middle English Stafford.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Stafford: A habitational surname from Middle English.
relinkings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relinking
eastern red cedars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eastern red cedar
eastern redbuds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eastern redbud
unballoted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + balloted.
Senses: glosses: Not balloted.
eastern tent caterpillars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eastern tent caterpillar
EAWs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of EAW
ECDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ECD
echellettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of echellette
echinostomatids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of echinostomatid
echioceratids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of echioceratid
echopraxics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of echopraxic
eclections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eclection
ecoducts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecoduct
ecoforecasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecoforecast
ecophenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecophene
ecouvillons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecouvillon
Kilnhurst
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK4697).
baseball rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A common law rule according to which a baseball team cannot be held liable for injuries suffered by a spectator struck by a foul ball so long as the team has offered some protected seating.
fireman's rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
synonyms: firefighter's rule
glosses: A common law rule in some jurisdictions where police officers, firefighters, and other professional rescuers cannot collect on damages that occur in the course of their duties even in cases of clear negligence by other parties.
firefighter's rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːl
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Synonym of fireman's rule.
synonyms: word: fireman's rule
professional rescuers doctrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Synonym of fireman's rule.
synonyms: word: fireman's rule
last antecedent rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rule of the last antecedent
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A doctrine of statutory interpretation according to which qualifying phrases attach and refer to only the last antecedent.
lying in wait
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The act of hiding and waiting for someone with the intent to kill or inflict serious bodily harm to them.
lying in wait
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lie in wait
rule of sevens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the rule of sevens
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A common law rule that establishes three age brackets for determining a juvenile's culpability for a tort or a crime.
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: Synonym of 7-7-7 rule.
synonyms: word: 7-7-7 rule
rule of lenity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A common law rule according to which an ambiguous criminal law should be interpreted in the way most favorable to the defendant.
rule of strict construction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Synonym of rule of lenity.
synonyms: word: rule of lenity
Stoppard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Stoppardian
survivor biases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of survivor bias
selection bias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selection biases
Senses: glosses: The bias introduced by the selection of individuals, groups, or data for analysis in such a way that proper randomization is not achieved, thereby ensuring that the sample obtained is not representative of the population intended to be analyzed.
Related terms: confirmation bias
filter bubble
selection biases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of selection bias
Ardlui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NN3115)
Chipchase
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
viscoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of viscose
Bawtry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈbɔːtɹi/
Senses: glosses: A market town and civil parish with a town council in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England, on the border with Nottinghamshire (OS grid ref SK6593).
QRPer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: QRPers
Etymology: From translingual QRP + -er.
Senses: qualifier: CB radio slang
glosses: A radio enthusiast who operates on very little power.
QRPers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of QRPer
porkmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porkman
points up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of point up
pointing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of point up
pointed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of point up
oral test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Penshaw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Historically Pencher. From Cumbric *penn (“head, top, summit”) + Cumbric *cerr, plural of Cumbric *carr (“rocks”).
Senses: glosses: A suburban village in the Metropolitan Borough of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ3253).
gilt-head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gilt-heads
form: gilthead
Senses: examples: text: To give another instance: upon examining the fins of a fish to me unknown, I find them prickly; I then look for the situation of the ventral fins, I find them entirely wanting; this then must be a prickly-finned apodal fish. Of this kind there are but three; and, by comparing the fish with the description, I find it either of the trichurus kind, the sword-fish, or the gilt-head.
ref: 1813, Oliver Goldsmith, A history of the earth: and animated nature - Volume 6, page 258:
text: The common gilt-head (C. aurata) is the one best known. It is exceedingly abundant in the Mediterranean, and not rare on the west coast of Spain, Portugal, and France.
ref: 1838, Charles F. Partington, The British Cyclopaedia of the Arts, Sciences, History, Geography, Literature, Natural History, and Biography, page 701:
text: An underwater hunter spots gilt-heads under twenty, twenty-five or even thirty feet of water.
ref: 1955, Pierre de Latil, The Underwater Naturalist, page 169:
glosses: The gilt-head bream.
gilt-heads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gilt-head
CELT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of Constrained Energy Lapped Transform: a royalty-free lossy audio compression format for use in low-latency audio communication.
stuff gown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stuff gowns
Senses: examples: text: The appointment of a stuff gown is a decided step towards a more efficient discharge of the duties of Law Adviser, and this is no small matter […]
ref: 1869, The Irish Law Times and Solicitors' Journal, volume 3, page 114:
topics: law
glosses: Synonym of stuff gownsman.
synonyms: word: stuff gownsman
stuff gowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stuff gown
fibrillizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fibrillization
finspine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finspines
Etymology: From fin + spine.
Senses: glosses: A bony structure supporting the fins in some fish
finspines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of finspine
fistulosin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An indole alkaloid, 2-octadecyl-1H-indol-3-ol, present in the roots of Allium fistulosum that has some antifungal properties
floodchannel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floodchannels
Senses: glosses: A stream that becomes enlarged by carrying floodwater
footshocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of footshock
footshocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Subjected to footshock
Killiney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb and seaside resort in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, Ireland (Irish grid ref O 2525).
giltless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more giltless
form: most giltless
Senses: examples: text: Ther is noe doute butt the cuntrie has beene at a highe expense in maintaininge thos forces, and of theyr stringth nowe in time of neede there is noe visable signe; lett the faulte light where it will I am confident I am giltless;
ref: 1649, Letter from Lord Dillon to George Lane, March 23, 1649:
text: Come, come, my good shepherds, our flocks we must shear, In your holy-day suits, with your lasses appear; The happiest of folk, are the giltless and free And who are so giltless so happy as we ?
ref: 1798, David Garrick, The Dramatic Works of David Garrick:
text: Sacred and just, thou great and dreadfull Jove, And you thrice reverende powers, whom love nor hate May wrest awry, if this to me a man, This fortune fatall bee, that I must pleade For safe excusall of my giltless thought,
ref: 1821, Retrospective Review - Volume 3, page 105:
text: O Death rocke me on slepe, Bringe me on quiet reste, Let passe my merye giltless goste, Out of my careful brest; Toll on the passinge bell, Ringe out the dolefull knell, Let the sounde my dethe tell, For I must dye,
ref: 1824, William Henry Pyne, Somerset House Gazette, and Literary Museum:
glosses: Guiltless; not guilty.
giltless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more giltless
form: most giltless
Senses: examples: text: Masses of these same anemones, mingled with plumes of their feathery green leaves, and interspersed with blossomed twigs from trees of cherry, peach, and almond, filled a curious old e/pergne in the centre of the table, while on an ancient, almost giltless, gilt console, beneath a mirror that reflected the stainless blue of the sky, was a large, richly-blossomed branch of the white almond.
ref: 1865, The Cypresses - Volume 1, page 249:
text: And looks—well, we conscientiously work at keeping our lilies giltless.
ref: 1961, The New Yorker - Volume 37, Part 3, page 121:
text: He took his eyes on a sight-seeing tour of the room, pausing here and there at points of interest: an oak sideboard tattooed with circular soaks of ink; a buckhorn hatrack; four stuttering chairs left from a silent set of six; an engraving of The Horse Fair, now foxed; a row of giltless books; a waffled couch that for ten years had served as a boy's bed ; and a map of the United States.
ref: 1982, John B. Sanford, A man without shoes: a novel, page 142:
text: Giltless on its front, a sign of more difficult times economically, this is nonetheless a fine book, Sutton Palmer's illustrations admirably complemented by Miss Mitton's text, which was written just before she married Sir George Scott and left the firm.
ref: 1990, Colin Inman, The A & C Black Colour Books: A Collector's Guide and Bibliography, page 47:
glosses: Not gilded; lacking gilt.
footshocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of footshock
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /dʊn ˈlɪəɹə ræθˈdaʊn/
Senses: glosses: A county of Ireland formed in 1994 from the borough of Dún Laoghaire and parts of County Dublin.
fresh yeast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fresh yeasts
Senses: glosses: Raw baker's yeast which has not been dehydrated. Also known as cake yeast or compressed yeast.
gimcracky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gimcracky
form: most gimcracky
Senses: examples: text: He seems spooney on Queenie's grown-up daughter, who is as pretty as any china of Dresden or Sevres, but too delicate and gimcracky for my taste.
ref: 1882, Maria Wilkin, The Shackles of an Old Love, page 261:
text: If the houses look a little gimcracky, I'm sure it's a reaction after having to be so very solid, and now they delight in stucco and plaster and anything that looks gay and pretty after the grim dark buildings of the past.
ref: 1914, Constance Smedley, Una and the Lions: A Novel, page 232:
text: But like Lord Lytton himself, the place is a strange mixture of what is really romantic and interesting with what is tawdry and gimcracky.
ref: 1979, A. Sanders, Ian Q. Whishaw, The Victorian Historical Novel 1840–1880, page 66:
text: Just lemme take a peek at that lock, he told himself, crossing the blacktop at a crouch (as if that would do any good were someone watching) and hefting the gimcracky dimestore padlock securing the gate in the outer fence.
ref: 2008, Jonathan Nasaw, The Girls He Adored:
text: I haven't yet told you about Lymington – I always imagined that Lymington was a small and unpleasant watering place – but it is in reality a delightful and very sleepy little town which happens to be by the Solent and to look across to the Isle of Wight – here comes in another of my delusions, I always imagined that the Isle of Wight was a gimcracky kind of a place but what we saw of it was a magnificent stretch of downs and white cliffs – Don't think me degenerate in my likes but you know I always have preferred soft scenery to stern uncomfortable scenery.
ref: 2010, Hugh Cobbe, Letters of Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1895-1958:
glosses: Gimcrack.
Derived terms: gimcrackiness
Skerries
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal town in Fingal, Ireland.
oldwife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oldwives
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of old wife (“various types of fish”).
oldwives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oldwife
deerstalkered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From deerstalker + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing a deerstalker.
Leana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Leanas
form: Lina
form: Line
form: Lena
form: Leane
form: Leanna
form: Leanne
form: Liana
form: Liane
form: Lianna
form: Lianne
form: Linna
form: Linne
Senses: examples: text: To find out more, I spoke with CNN wellness expert Dr. Leana Wen. Wen, a mother of two young kids, is an emergency physician and adjunct associate professor at the George Washington University.
ref: 2024 May 1, Katia Hetter, “Why is a mother’s mental health so important? A doctor explains”, in CNN:
glosses: A female given name.
gingerline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gingerlines
Etymology: From a district in Asia Minor where the fibre is produced.
Senses: examples: text: Another modification of the Invention which may be applied in certain cases, that is to say, when it is required to imitate the skins of animals having wavy or frizzled hair, such as those known under the name of otter's or astracan fur, is as follows; but in this case I would observe, it is preferable to use, instead of wool properly so called, in the manufacture of these fulled stuffs, alpaca, cashmere, gingerline, or other similar wools which have naturally wavy hairs, contrary to wool which is smoother.
ref: 1857, English Patents of Inventions, Specifications: 1857, 717 - 788, page 12:
text: To Mary Gey, she gives her 'best hatt,' her 'ould petecoat and one doulis smock and a blew apron and an under coat of gingerline.'
ref: 1882, Charles Elihu Slocum, A Short History of the Slocums, Slocumbs and Slocombs of America:
text: Among the stuffs supplied to the Indians we find gingerline. The traders paid one yard and a half of gingerline for a bearskin, so doubtless many a brave wore gay gingerline breeches, and many a squaw a gingerline jacket.
ref: 1894, Alice Morse Earle, Costume of Colonial Times, page 114:
text: The brown samples (Nos. 3 and 4) are "gingerlines" of an inferior quality ; they are lacking in lustre and have too much the appearance of wool.
ref: 1928, Bulletin of the Imperial Institute - Volume 26, page 142:
glosses: A type of mohair with an orangish brown color, or fabric made from this mohair.
gingerline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gingerline
form: most gingerline
Etymology: From a district in Asia Minor where the fibre is produced.
Senses: examples: text: Four of them can now be dyed without increase, French green, gingerline, deer colour, orange colour.
ref: 1910, James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of Crawford, Bibliotheca Lindesiana - Volume 5, page 195:
text: Silk grogans, satins, velvet fine, The rosy-colour'd carnadine, Your nutmeg hue, or gingerline, Cloth-of-tissue or tabine, That like beaten gold will shine In your amorous ladies' eyne, Whilst you their softer silks do twine?
ref: 1946, John Gloag, Industrial Art Explained:
text: Some wore great wide gallyslops down to the knee, others bombasted trunk hose with canions, while all, without exception, were paned and slashed, fringed and embroidered in the most brilliant colours, pearl white, primrose, carnation, gingerline, and the richest fabrics: satins, velvets, damasks and brocades all newly come from the tailor.
ref: 1973, Colette Davenat, Deborah: The springtime of love, page 243:
text: Colors that reflected England's new colonies and recent explorations; brick, greediline, gingerline, muske, pepper, grape, fawne, sage, corke, tobacco, Virginia-ffrog.
ref: 1975, Elizabeth Taylor Lehman, Inconsistencies in men's hosen, page 130:
glosses: The color of gingerline: orangish brown.
gingerlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gingerline
power harrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power harrows
Senses: examples: text: the brothers would laboriously turn over lifeless slabs of clay, which needed to be pulverised with a power harrow before sowing could begin
ref: 2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A tractor-mounted, harrowing tool that runs off power from the tractor's power take-off.
ortalid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ortalids
Senses: examples: text: He exhibited, also, two rare ortalid flies which resemble ants in appearance, Myrmecomyia myrmecoides Loew and Odontomera ferruginea Macquart.
ref: 1903 July 17, WH Dall, “The Grand Gulf Formation”, in Science, volume 18, number 446, page 83:
text: The present paper is the result of a survey of the ortalid flies of the genus Pseudotephritis in the collections of the United States Biological Survey and the United States National Museum collection.
ref: 1931, JR Malloch, “Flies of the genus Pseudotephritis Johnson (Diptera: Ortalidae)”, in Proceedings of the United States National Museum:
text: Although this family has some forms transgressive to the ortalids, it consists of a rather uniform monophyletic group, having not only morphological but also biological features in common.
ref: 1958, SJ Paramonov, “A review of Australian Pyrgotidae (Diptera)”, in Australian Journal of Zoology, volume 6, number 1, page 89:
synonyms: ulidiid
glosses: A fly of the family Ortalidae (now Ulidiidae).
ortalids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ortalid
mudboat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mudboats
Etymology: From mud + boat.
Senses: glosses: A boat for carrying away the mud dredged from a river, etc.
mudboats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mudboat
mudscow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mudscows
Etymology: From mud + scow.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of mudboat.
synonyms: word: mudboat
mudscows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mudscow
biolinguistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From biolinguistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of biolinguistics.
earbudded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ear bud + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing earbuds (small earphones).
Lochailort
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Highland council area, Scotland, situated at the head of Loch Ailort (OS grid ref NM7682).
N95
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: N95s
Etymology: Initialism of Not resistant to oil particles with 95% filtration efficiency in NIOSH air filtration ratings.
Senses: examples: text: “One-way masking works,” Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious-disease specialist at Johns Hopkins University, said. When he is treating tuberculosis patients, they are typically maskless, and he wears an N95 mask to protect himself.
ref: 2022 April 22, David Leonhardt, “Maskless Flying”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2022:
glosses: N95; Ellipsis of NIOSH N95.
The N95 standard.
examples: text: Unlike cloth masks, high-quality masks — called N95s, KN95s and KF94s — are made with layers of high-tech filtering material that trap at least 94 to 95 percent of the most risky particles.
ref: 2022 January 14, Tara Parker-Pope, “How to Find a Quality Mask (and Avoid Counterfeits)”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 15 Jan 2022:
glosses: N95; Ellipsis of NIOSH N95.
An N95 filter.
Coordinate terms: R99
P99
N99 (99% filtration)
R100
P100
N100 (99.97% filtration)
Related terms: english: oil-resistant filter standard
translation: oil-resistant filter standard
word: R95
english: oil-proof filter standard
translation: oil-proof filter standard
word: P95
word: HEPA
word: ULPA
word: KF94
word: KN95
Glenfinnan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Situated at the bottom of Glen Finnan, close to the River Finnan.
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Highland council area, Scotland, at the head of Loch Shiel (OS grid ref NM9080).
wikipedia: Glen Finnan
girlery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: girleries
Etymology: Blend of girl + gallery.
Senses: examples: text: And it had struck him that the success of that meeting was accountable not only by the presence of the Irish galleries, but also of the Irish girleries.
ref: 1895, Photography - Volume 7, page 470:
text: Besides the attractions at the several movie houses and go-go-girleries and the local burlesk theatre ( in case you want to get completely away from the aura of libraries) there will be performances of "A Thousand Clowns" at the Village Players Theatre, 2740 Upton.
ref: 1965, Ohio Library Association Bulletin - Volumes 35-37, page 58:
text: Mikhail went over to the wooden partition and peeped into the “girlery,” their name for the small, one-windowed cubbyhole behind the partition.
ref: 1984, Two Winters and Three Summers, page 10:
glosses: A brothel or show that features scantily clad women.
examples: text: The Girlery of the House of Commons.ᵀᵐ; ladies are very dissatisfied with their gallery at Westminster Palace.
ref: 1864, Fun - Volume 6, page 188:
text: Mrs. Hood has gone to the Girlery (pronounced gallery) of the Freemasons' Hall, to hear, see, and eat and drink all she can.
ref: 1873, Thomas Hood, Frances Freeling Broderip, The Works of Thomas Hood:
text: He was heard to chuckle, and to insinuate that he has been accustomed to disport himself when “between the sheets”; but since nobody under the rank of an Archdeacon or a Little Moore can understand what this implies, such remarks of the Hon. Member were inaudible in the Girlery.
ref: 1893, William Chappell, The Roxburghe Ballads - Volume 7, page 97:
glosses: A gallery or room set aside for female visitors to a male-only establishment.
girleries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of girlery
Falahill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, close to the Midlothian border (OS grid ref NT3956).
hubbleshow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hubbleshows
Senses: examples: text: I was really wearying to get to my own house for a little, if it was only to refresh myself with a drop plain barley-broth, and a bit boiled mutton ; and what a pleasant thing for a few friends to meet this way, instead of these great hubbleshows of people one sits down with now, where there's no carrying on any thing like rational conversation.
ref: 1824, Susan Edomonstone Ferrier, The Inheritance:
text: Why, it is not in the power of any Christian man to tell ye what happened — Such a hubbleshow, such a racketing, such fighting, such knocking down, such a rushing and riving.
ref: 1849, John Gibson Lockhart, Reginald Dalton, page 276:
text: All this hubbleshow, when me Pension was rais'd It near kit me wife, and me fairly craiz'd.
ref: 1863, John Close, Titus Stubbs, Tales and Legends of Westmoreland:
text: O, if that silly man would but stop till all this hubbleshow's past!
ref: 1894, Susan Ferrier, Destiny, page 134:
glosses: A noisy confusion; hubbub.
hubbleshows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hubbleshow
flatten the curve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flattens the curve
form: flattening the curve
form: flattened the curve
form: flattened the curve
Senses: examples: text: It is possible that these measures could have started to flatten the curve of deaths before the effects of the wider lockdown were visible.
ref: 2020 April 6, Robert Cuffe, Christine Jeavans, “Coronavirus: When will we know if the UK lockdown is working?”, in BBC News:
topics: epidemiology
medicine
sciences
glosses: To reduce the rate at which an infection spreads during an epidemic, decreasing the number of active cases at any given time by increasing the period of time over which numbers of similar cases occur.
Coordinate terms: english: a measure used to flatten the curve
translation: a measure used to flatten the curve
word: social distancing
english: to take measures to increase healthcare capacity
translation: to take measures to increase healthcare capacity
word: raise the line
Related terms: curve flattening
curve flattening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curve flattenings
Senses: topics: epidemiology
medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The action of flattening the curve: the activity of reducing the speed of infection, so that the peak active infection cases are lower.
Coordinate terms: english: the measures typically used for curve flattening
translation: the measures typically used for curve flattening
word: social distancing
Related terms: word: flatten the curve
flattening the curve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flatten the curve
flattened the curve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of flatten the curve
flattens the curve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present of flatten the curve
hucksterize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hucksterizes
form: hucksterizing
form: hucksterized
form: hucksterized
Etymology: From huckster + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: The shopping-mall metaphor is quite self-consciously deployed because, according to Sirius, "commerce is the ocean information swims in"; unapologetically libertarian, Mondo 2000 evokes and hucksterizes an elect audience of posthuman youth consumers, cyberbeings of undying pubescence with an unquenchable appetite for commodified prostheses, given to restlessly cruising the electronic mallworlds of information.
ref: 2002, Rob Latham, Consuming Youth, page 227:
text: They trigger it, and pander to it, by hucksterizing how Good and Great and The Best we are.
ref: 2004, Alan Goldfein, Europe's Macadam, America's Tar:
text: As a result, spirituality has been hucksterized, if you will, and in the eyes of many, cheapened.
ref: 2004, Robert K. C. Forman, Grassroots Spirituality, page 106:
glosses: To hawk; to promote, especially in a pushy or deceptive manner.
hucksterizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hucksterize
hucksterizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hucksterize
hucksterized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hucksterize
Neo-Tifinagh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From neo- + Tifinagh.
Senses: glosses: A modern, alphabetic variation of the Berber Tifinagh script.
Haifeng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: hīʹfǔngʹ
Forms: form: Hai-feng
Etymology: From Mandarin 海豐／海丰 (Hǎifēng).
Senses: examples: text: On 2 January 1963, he secretly made his way to Haifeng County, Kwangtung, with a view to proceeding to Houmen and Swabue to carry out demolition activities. He was discovered by the local militiamen who reported him to the public security authorities, and was arrested.
ref: 1963 January 14 [1963 January 12], “U.S.-Chiang Kai-shek Agents Sentenced”, in Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts, number 9, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, Chicom International Affairs, page BBB 13:
text: The special group of Red Guards with strong group consciousness and collective grievances were offspring of regional cadres who were the subject of discrimination and suppression imposed by national leaders and their policy of breaking regionalism. Grievances of this kind have been strong in Kwangtung province. In Haifeng county, for example, the first group of Red Guards was composed of the children of cadres punished by the national leaders in past "anti-provincialism" campaigns. The children wanted revenge and their opponents were the children of northern or outside cadres.
ref: 1976, Alan P. L. Liu, Political Culture & Group Conflict in Communist China, Clio Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 68:
text: Kwangtung produced her own fair share of militarists, including the first Kuomintang governor of the province, Ch’en Chiung-ming of Haifeng county, Wei Pang-p’ing, and Hsu Ch’ung-chih.
ref: 1977, Roy Hofheinz, Jr., The Broken Wave: The Chinese Communist Peasant Movement, 1922-1928, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 115:
text: A court in southern China has handed out jail terms of up to 10 years to nine people from a Chinese fishing village once seen as a cradle of grassroots democracy after finding them guilty of illegal protests and other charges.[…]
The Haifeng County court said in a statement late on Monday the nine had been jailed for crimes including illegal demonstrations, disturbing traffic and intentionally spreading false information.
ref: 2016 December 26, Ben Blanchard, “China jails nine over protests in 'democracy' village”, in Paul Tait, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 27 Dec 2016, World:
glosses: A county of Shanwei, Guangdong, China.
Synonyms: english: Postal Romanization
translation: Postal Romanization
word: Hoifung
air fryers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of air fryer
Davao de Oro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌda.vaʊ̯ dɛ ˈʔo.ɾo/
Etymology: From Spanish Davao de Oro, from Davao + de (“of”) + oro (“gold”).
Senses: glosses: A province of the Davao Region, Mindanao, Philippines. Capital: Nabunturan, the province was formerly known as: Compostela Valley
Related terms: Davao del Norte
Davao del Sur
Davao Occidental
Davao Oriental
Bicol Region
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Bicol
Bicolandia
glosses: A region of the Philippines. Capital: Legazpi.
Davao Region
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Davao
glosses: A region of the Philippines. Capital: Davao City.
undished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + dished.
Senses: synonyms: nonconcave
glosses: Not dished.
galardin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ilomastat.
synonyms: word: ilomastat
gallibody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gallibodies
Senses: glosses: An engineered fragment of a chicken antibody used to counter Mycobacterium bovis
gallibodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gallibody
garnetohedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garnetohedra
Senses: glosses: A dodecahedral form of a garnet
Related terms: garnetohedral
garnetohedral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a garnetohedron
garnetohedra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garnetohedron
gasflux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gasfluxes
Senses: glosses: A volatile welding flux delivered within the welding flame
gasfluxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gasflux