cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Shawshank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Shawshanks
form: Shawshanking
form: Shawshanked
form: Shawshanked
Etymology: A reference to the 1982 novel Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King and its 1994 film adaptation The Shawshank Redemption.
Senses: examples: text: After endless Shawshanking through the ducts, I came to a grate that offered my first break from the horror show.
ref: 2009, Kilt Kilpatrick, “Last Times at Ridgemont High”, in Lori Perkins, editor, Hungry for Your Love: An Anthology of Zombie Romance, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN, page 314:
text: Kid up and disappears, Shawshanks like a fart in the wind.
ref: 2012, Phil Brody, The Holden Age of Hollywood:
text: It was like everything in him had been set free. Like the secret part of himself—the one he kept hidden and didn't let out so he could remain safe and intact—had Shawshanked itself and wasn't going to let it be captured again.
ref: 2013, Maggie Robinson, Elyssa Patrick, Holiday for Two:
text: 'So your mind's made up?' Elaine said. 'You're Shawshanking out on us?'
ref: 2017, Alex Wheatle, Straight Outta Crongton, London: Atom Books, →ISBN, page 277:
text: And nothing to scrape with, so we're not Shawshanking our way out.
ref: 2021, Mary Hughes, Night's Bliss:
glosses: To escape, especially by tunneling out or without warning.
examples: text: Jim hadn't, but he did agree to give us more time before he Shawshanked me.
ref: 1997, Randi Reisfeld, Too Hottie to Handle, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 131:
text: Sorry you got Shawshanked, but it doesn't change anything.
ref: 2015, Buffy: Season Nine Library Edition Volume 3, page 165:
text: I could have been honest, said it was all a mistake and that I'd been shawshanked, but that hadn't won me any favors so far.
ref: 2017, M.C. Cerny, The Warden:
text: It's like going to prison with an innocent conscience: he Shawshanked me real hard; and it was up to me to dig my way out to freedom.
ref: 2022, Kathleen Ann Tia, The Naked Green Eyes, page 3:
glosses: To punish (someone) for something that they did not do.
examples: text: I had just given notice at work that I was taking a leave and I wanted to start "Shawshanking" things home
ref: 2020·, Gerry Ugalde, Dancing with Disease:
text: Easy, I shawshaked you.
ref: 2022, Chris Tuff, Save Your Asks:
glosses: To accomplish something by doing a little bit at a time over a long period of time.
examples: text: This isn't an act of love; he's basically getting Shawshanked by a long-necked bully.
ref: 2022, Mamadou Ndiaye, 100 Animals That Can F*cking End You, page 107:
glosses: To rape (a man, by a man) as an act of dominance and bullying.
Shawshank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shawshanks
Etymology: A reference to the 1982 novel Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King and its 1994 film adaptation The Shawshank Redemption.
Senses: examples: text: We all have our Shawshanks. Some of us have broken free.
ref: 2012, Vance Brown, No Matter the Cost, page 174:
text: […] the various walls men elect to live behind inside their own self-constructed Shawshanks, laboring under the debilitating belief that they have no other choice than to mirror the quiet desperation of their own experience (or their father's) by living in isolation.
ref: 2016, Maura Grady, Tony Magistrale, The Shawshank Experience, page 130:
text: Therefore, cat strollers are designed as rolling mini Shawshanks, keeping your kitty locked in, while you get the benefits of a walk.
ref: 2017, Jeff Lazarus, Catakism:
text: We are Harry Potter and William Wallace, the Na’vi and Han Solo. We’re escaping from Shawshank and blowing up the Death Star. We are fighting with the Harkonnens and challenging Thanos. Ukraine is hosting one of the great epics of this century.
ref: 2023 February 16, Pavlo Kazarin, “A year ago I volunteered as a soldier in the Ukrainian army”, in NATO Review, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2025:
glosses: A literal or figurative prison.
Shawshanks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Shawshank
Shawshanking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Shawshank
Shawshanked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Shawshank
floor mats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floor mat
clickwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From click + -work.
Senses: examples: text: But in a high-wage economy like Finland, finding those data laborers was difficult. The Finnish welfare system's generous unemployment benefits leaves little incentive for Finns to sign up to low-wage clickwork platforms like Amazon's Mechanical Turk.
ref: 2023 September 11, Morgan Meaker, “These Prisoners Are Training AI”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2024:
text: 'Clickwork' runs like clockwork as prisoners train AI systems
ref: 2023 September 14, Emma Yeomans, “(article title)”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Sep 2023:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
glosses: Repetitive and unskilled digital labour.
Derived terms: clickworker
Related terms: cybertariat
time-of-check to time-of-use
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
synonyms: TOCTOU
glosses: A class of software bugs caused by a race condition involving the checking of the state of a part of a system, such as a security credential, and the use of the results of that check.
clickworker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clickworkers
Etymology: Compound of click + worker. Equivalent to clickwork + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Around the world, millions of so-called "clickworkers" train artificial intelligence models, teaching machines the difference between pedestrians and palm trees, or what combination of words describe violence or sexual abuse. Usually these workers are stationed in the global south, where wages are cheap. OpenAI, for example, uses an outsourcing firm that employs clickworkers in Kenya, Uganda, and India.
ref: 2023 September 11, Morgan Meaker, “These Prisoners Are Training AI”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2024:
text: Many clickworkers operate in a gig economy, using platforms such as Amazon's Mechanical Turk, a name inspired by the 18th-century chess-playing automaton dubbed "the Turk", to pick up brief, specific tasks for fixed pay.
ref: 2023 September 14, Emma Yeomans, “’Clickwork’ runs like clockwork as prisoners train AI systems”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Sep 2023:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
hypernyms: cybertarian
glosses: A person who performs clickwork (repetitive and unskilled digital labour).
clickworkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clickworker
Kokhor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
dunk out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dunks out
form: dunking out
form: dunked out
form: dunked out
Senses: examples: text: "They'll stall," Walt said and dunked out his cigarette.
ref: 1998, William Hoffman, Tidewater Blood:
glosses: To extinguish (a flame or lit cigarette) by dunking it into a liquid.
glosses: Misconstruction of dump out (“empty a container by turning its contents out over a surface”).
glosses: Misconstruction of duck out.
flatbed trolley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flatbed trolleys
Senses: glosses: A manually-operated, wheeled, low and even platform used for the transport of materials; especially one attached to a frame and handle, or more than one handle.
flatbed trolleys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flatbed trolley
Japanese sea bass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Japanese sea basses
form: Japanese sea bass
Senses: glosses: A species of catadromous marine ray-finned fish found in the Western Pacific, Lateolabrax japonicus.
Gellings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
widesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more widesome
form: most widesome
Etymology: From wide + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Truly a beautiful day. In these delightfully widesome scenes, under the influence of this bright sun and balmy air, the inner soul of the lover of nature expands with joy.
ref: 1895, John Trafford Clegg, The Works of John Trafford Clegg ("Th'Owd Weighver"), page 406:
text: Forth pricks he thro a widesome wood and wilde,
Rejoicing in the mating harmony […]
ref: 1913, Hamilton Literary Magazine, volume 48, page 180:
text: […] and she saw that in each bundle was wrapped a small owl, feathers scorched from bodies, eyes widesome and blinkless.
ref: 2022, Moriel Rothman-Zecher, Before All the World:
glosses: Characterised or marked by wideness or being wide.
scalarising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of scalarise
scalarises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scalarise
labour aristocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labour aristocracies
form: labor aristocracy
form: aristocracy of labour
form: aristocracy of labor
Etymology: Compound of labour + aristocracy.
The theory about relatively privileged proletarians, thus more manipulable into collaborating with the bourgeoisie, was formulated by Friedrich Engels in a letter to Karl Marx [7 October 1858].
A precursor to the wording appears in Marx's Das Kapital, Volume I [1867].
Senses: examples: text: Важно то, что экономически откол слоя рабочей аристократии к буржуазии назрел и завершился, а политическую форму себе, ту или иную, этот экономический факт, эта передвижка в отношениях между классами найдет без особого «труда».
ref: 1973 [1916], Vladimir Lenin, Империализм и раскол социализма (В. И. Ленин – Полное собрание сочинений; 30), page 170; English translation from Imperialism and the Split in Socialism (V. I. Lenin – Collected Works; 23), translation of original in Russian, 1974, page 117:
roman: Važno to, što ekonomičeski otkol sloja rabočej aristokratii k buržuazii nazrel i zaveršilsja, a političeskuju formu sebe, tu ili inuju, etot ekonomičeskij fakt, eta peredvižka v otnošenijax meždu klassami najdet bez osobovo «truda».
text: He [Bakunin] found that there is a labour aristocracy of more developed, literate individuals, as well as an unconscious mass of workers.
ref: 1957 September, George Molnar, “Anarchism”, in Libertarian, number 1:
text: So they had indigenous folks who were members of the IWW, they had folks of African descent, they had folks who spoke Spanish, the Italians were coming, everybody was making their way to the IWW. But a lot of people don’t know that this movement waged a fierce battle against what can be called the labour aristocracy up to the government and the corporations at the time, who were brutally ruthless in their repression.
ref: 2009 June 27, Jose Antonio Gutiérrez Danton, quoting Ashanti Omowali Alston, “Building a Non-Eurocentric Anarchism in Our Communities: Dialogue with Ashanti Alston”, in anarkismo.net:
topics: government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
socialism
glosses: Segment of the working class that enjoys a relatively privileged position compared to the rest of the working class as a result of higher salaries, better working conditions, etc., and which can lead them to have different interests and perspectives even though they continue to be exploited by capitalists.
wikipedia: Das Kapital
Das Kapital, Volume I
Friedrich Engels
Karl Marx
New Left Review
Penguin Books
chin dimple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chin dimples
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cleft chin.
synonyms: word: cleft chin
logo 3
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logo 3s
form: logo three
Etymology: From the logo of the home team commonly painted in the center circle.
Senses: examples: text: At various points in the game, James would pull up from more than 30 feet away and launch an uncontested 3-pointer—known as a “logo 3” because he would often be on or in line with the midcourt logo when he shot it.
ref: 2021 January 12, Sean Deveney, “Lakers’ LeBron James Slammed for Taking Late-Game ‘Logo 3’”, in Heavy:
text: Bigger logos allow more “Logo 3s,” and in a way, it could be a good marketing strategy.
ref: 2022 January 31, Ernesto Soliven, “The sneaky secret about the increase in Logo 3s”, in Basketball Network:
text: 2022 October 23, Ricky O'Donnell, "LeBron James bricked a logo 3 so badly people are calling it the worst shot of his career" SB Nation
text: The senior has been a dynamic scorer throughout her career, hitting memorable logo 3s and racking up points in bunches.
ref: 2024 January 31, Chantel Jennings, Ben Pickman and others, "When will Caitlin Clark break the women’s college basketball all-time scoring record?" The Athletic (New York Times)
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: a three-point shot from in or near the center circle
logo three
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logo threes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of logo 3.
Amurrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Amurrites
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Amorite.
Amurrite
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Amorite.
Amurrite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Amorite.
Amurrites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Amurrite
Akkadize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Akkadizes
form: Akkadizing
form: Akkadized
form: Akkadized
Senses: glosses: To render Akkadian.
Akkadizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Akkadize
Akkadized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Akkadize
Akkadizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Akkadize
Akkadianize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Akkadianizes
form: Akkadianizing
form: Akkadianized
form: Akkadianized
Etymology: From Akkadian + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To render Akkadian.
Akkadianizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Akkadianize
Akkadianizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Akkadianize
Akkadianized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Akkadianize
Akkadianization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Akkadian + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The making or becoming Akkadian.
Akkadization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Akkad + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The making or becoming Akkadian.
Sumerization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The making or becoming Sumerian.
Sumerianization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The making or becoming Sumerian.
Sumerianize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Sumerianizes
form: Sumerianizing
form: Sumerianized
form: Sumerianized
Senses: glosses: To render Sumerian.
Sumerianizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Sumerianize
Sumerianizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Sumerianize
Sumerianized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Sumerianize
Sumerize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Sumerizes
form: Sumerizing
form: Sumerized
form: Sumerized
Senses: glosses: To render Sumerian.
Sumerizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Sumerize
Sumerizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Sumerize
Sumerized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Sumerize
main-sequence star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: main-sequence stars
Etymology: From main sequence + star.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A star which falls within the main sequence on a Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, being the most common type of star in the universe.
Related terms: pre-main-sequence star
main-sequence stars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of main-sequence star
rear wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rear wheels
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Any wheel located at the back of a motor vehicle.
rear wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Operating from the back of a motor vehicle.
Synonyms: back wheel
rear wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rear wheel
Areopagitics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin Areopagiticus, from Ancient Greek.
Senses: examples: 1998, Elena Surkova, The Theological, Philosophical and Linguistic Background of Constantine the Philosopher's Concept of Translation Jože Krašovec (editor), The Interpretation of the Bible: The International Symposium in Slovenia, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Sheffield Academic Press, page 978,
The reference-points for Constantine the Philosopher in creating his philosophy of language were: 1. the corpus of texts known under the name of the Epistles of Paul the Apostle and 2. Areopagitics—the writings which appeared in Byzantium in the second half of the 5th century, written by Dionysius the Areopagite (or more exactly, Pseudo-Dionysius), whose programme, in Sergey Averintzev's words, represents a "synthesis of the attic tradition of speculation with the Christian mysticism of Paul the Apostle's Epistles […] ."
2019, Georges Florovsky, Byzantine Fathers: V – VIII centuries, Vladimir Djambov, page 194,
Peter Lombard looked at the Areopagitics as an indisputable authority. John Saracin in the 12th century, Thomas Verchelsky and Robert Grosseteste in the 13th century translate and comment on the Areopagitics.
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
synonyms: Corpus Areopagiticum
Corpus Dionysiacum
qualifier: early Christianity
glosses: Collectively, the mystical theological works attributed to Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite.
glosses: plural of Areopagitic
chemically peculiar star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemically peculiar stars
Etymology: From chemically + peculiar + star.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: CP star
glosses: A main-sequence star with an unusually high abundance of metal.
chemically peculiar stars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemically peculiar star
rye-grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rye-grasses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ryegrass.
rye-grasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rye-grass
rye grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rye grasses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ryegrass.
rye grasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rye grass
galactic disc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galactic discs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
hypernyms: disc
glosses: A thin, circular distribution of stars and stellar material in a spiral or lenticular galaxy which orbits around the galactic center.
galactic discs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galactic disc
land acknowledgment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: land acknowledgments
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of land acknowledgement.
'mum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 'mums
Senses: examples: text: Large pale blush, single variety excellent in the border and with other ’mums to lend contrast to the darker tones.
ref: 1938, Wayside Gardens, Hardy Plants, Mentor, Oh.: The Wayside Gardens Co., →OCLC, page 18, column 2:
text: Root disease is the worst enemy to be encountered in growing ’mums. The insect enemies of the ’mum are aphides and red mites which can be controlled by using Black Leaf 40, Vapatone, pyrethrum, cucumber or 12 spotted beetle stomach poison.
ref: 1967, P[aul] A. Renton Jr., H. R. Newcomer, R[o]y C. Bates, Gardening in South Texas, 3rd edition, San Antonio, Tex.: The Naylor Company, published 1969, →LCCN, page 49:
text: He bought a pot of ’mums, his mother’s favourite flower.
ref: 2014, Marianne Ackerman, Holy Fools + 2 Stories (Essential Prose Series; 116), Oakville, Ont.: Guernica Editions, →ISBN, page 100:
glosses: Alternative form of mum (“chrysanthemum”).
'mums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'mum
Socolof
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Socolofs
Etymology: From Russian Соколов (Sokolov).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
say to oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: says to oneself
form: saying to oneself
form: said to oneself
form: said to oneself
Senses: glosses: To say (a statement) aloud without any audience; to say while talking to oneself.
examples: text: "The Northern Heights at last," you say to yourself, hastily closing the carriage window because the Yorkshire coal used by the Eastern Region and its predecessors makes their tunnels more sulphurous than any we know.
ref: 1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 704:
glosses: To think (a statement); to reflect (that).
rainbow carrots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Mixed carrots of different varieties having different colors.
stuff dreams are made of
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: to be the stuff dreams are made of
text: They ought to find out that alcohol is merely the result of a natural process; that it isn't nectar, but has a very bad taste; that it isn't the stuff that dreams are made of, but the stuff drunks are made of.
ref: 1913 September 2, “Favors Tea in Place of Whiskey”, in The American Issue, volume 8, number 35, page 7:
text: At the least, what I offer here gives people some respite, so they can go on with the daily grind of their lives. At best, it's the stuff dreams are made of.
ref: 2003, Barbara Haynie, The Terrain of Paradise, page 183:
text: The memory of a caught fly-ball, played on a loop again and again in their minds, will last forever. This is the stuff dreams are made of.
ref: 2010, Gerry Crowley, Winning Without Winning, page 9:
text: Humphrey Bogart's Sam Spade detective character poignantly observed that the Maltese falcon was "the stuff dreams are made of.”
ref: 2013, Harvey Rachlin, Jumbo's Hide, Elvis's Ride, and the Tooth of Buddha:
glosses: Something rare and wonderful.
nonrenew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nonrenews
form: nonrenewing
form: nonrenewed
form: nonrenewed
Etymology: From non- + renew.
Senses: examples: text: One possible interpretation is that when a carrier stops writing new business, it has discretion about whether to nonrenew existing business, but if it does choose to nonrenew, it must nonrenew all existing business.
ref: 1998, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Health, Implementation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act: Hearing... (volume 4, page 145)
glosses: Not to renew; to discontinue or terminate.
nonrenews
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nonrenew
hopscotch hashing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: A scheme for resolving hash collisions, having an insertion algorithm that involves a series of hops.
Robin Hood hashing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: An allusion to the folkloric Robin Hood's practice of stealing from the rich to give to the poor.
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: A scheme for resolving hash collisions that favors the displacement of the element that is farthest from its home location.
deinfluence
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deinfluences
form: deinfluencing
form: deinfluenced
form: deinfluenced
Etymology: From de- + influence.
Senses: examples: text: […] Rube Goldberg devices by which we could lose friends and deinfluence people […]
ref: 1948, United States. Congress, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates, page 8793:
glosses: To free from an influence.
topics: business
marketing
qualifier: social media
glosses: To post material that encourages people to consume less, as the opposite of an influencer.
topics: business
marketing
qualifier: social media
glosses: To post material that draws attention to the downsides of a particular product or service and may recommend alternatives.
deinfluenced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deinfluence
deinfluences
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deinfluence
deinfluencing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deinfluence
deinfluencer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deinfluencers
Etymology: From deinfluence + -er.
Senses: topics: business
marketing
qualifier: social media
glosses: One who deinfluences (posts material that encourages people to avoid a particular product or service, or to consume less in general).
deinfluencers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deinfluencer
bit bashing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any programming technique manipulating bits instead of whole words
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of bit banging.
synonyms: word: bit banging
Weinreich witticism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Weinreich witticism
Etymology: After the sociolinguist Max Weinreich, who popularized it.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The humorous observation that "a language is a dialect with an army and navy", implying that sociopolitical influence is a driving factor in language status.
wikipedia: Max Weinreich
letterman jacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: letterman jackets
Senses: examples: text: I’m not the first to observe that a pretty blonde dating a handsome football player should, at least for white people of a certain age, evoke all the simpler bygone vibes (Friday-night lights, milkshakes with two straws, letterman jackets) that conservatives could want.
ref: 2024 February 10, Jennifer Weiner, “Why Is Everything Suddenly Taylor Swift’s Fault?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Synonym of letter jacket.
synonyms: word: jacket
letterman jackets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of letterman jacket
siderod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: siderods
form: side rod
Etymology: From side + rod.
Senses: examples: text: I recall in particular the amazing speed of the siderods of our elegant little Caledonian 4-6-0 and the vivid contrast between its polished blue livery and the red-funnelled mail steamers and white-hulled yachts crowding Oban Bay; […].
ref: 1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 705:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A coupling rod on each side of a locomotive.
bubble mailers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bubble mailer
siderods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of siderod
credit account
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: credit accounts
Senses: coordinate_terms: debit account
glosses: Synonym of charge account.
synonyms: word: charge account
Related terms: line of credit
credit line
debit account
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: debit accounts
Senses: examples: text: If the entries on the left hand exceed in amount the entries on the right hand, the account is a debit account or an asset, and its value is the excess.
ref: 1891 May, Joseph Hardcastle, “Talks on Accounts”, in Business, volume 10:
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: An account in which credits (money owed to the business) exceed debits (expenses).
examples: text: For two months past the Director has had personally to meet deficiencies in the working expenses of the Institute and so our semi-annual account stands with a few dollars to the debit account.
ref: 1916, Semi-annual Report of the International Institute of China, page 2:
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: An account in which debits exceed credits.
examples: text: By choosing this option at the time of creating the account or later by upgrading the regular account to this option, a customer can open a debit account with the storefront and, after depositing some money, use this money to settle the account instead of providing and verifying credit card information on each purchase.
ref: 2002, Bret Hartman, Donald J. Flinn, Konstantin Beznosov, Enterprise Security with EJB and CORBA, page 232:
text: You go to the bank and set up a debit account. You will get a debit account checkbook, and a debit card. You can use either one when you shop.
ref: 2002, Tara McCarthy, Real Life Reading, page 56:
text: A debit account with “courtesy overdraft” would allow a consumer to exceed the available balance, but the consumer would be charged a fee (often $25 to $30) and required to remediate the overdraft quickly.
ref: 2009, Nicolas P. Retsinas, Eric S. Belsky, Borrowing to Live: Consumer and Mortgage Credit Revisited, page 71:
coordinate_terms: word: credit account
word: charge account
glosses: An account with a bank or store, in which the account holder deposits money that can later be drawn on to make purchases.
Wisniewska
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wisniewskas
Etymology: Transliteration of Polish Wiśniewska.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Polish surname Wiśniewska.
glosses: A surname from Polish.
Related terms: Wisniewski
trucidates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of trucidate
trucidating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trucidate
trucidated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trucidate
stored-value card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stored-value cards
Senses: synonyms: SVC
glosses: A payment card with a monetary value stored on the card itself, not in an external account maintained by a financial institution.
Related terms: prepaid card
gift card
stage presence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stage presences
Senses: glosses: The ability to command the attention of an audience while performing before them.
Nichelle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nichelles
form: Nischelle
form: Nishelle
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Related terms: Michelle
electrovestibulography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EVestG
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A non-invasive, neuroelectrophysiological medical technique that measures vestibuloacoustic neural activities for the diagnosis of various neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders.
Derived terms: EVestG
EVestG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of electrovestibulography.
cartoonization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process or result of cartoonizing.
cartoonize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cartoonizes
form: cartoonizing
form: cartoonized
form: cartoonized
Etymology: From cartoon + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make cartoonish, or turn into a cartoon.
cartoonized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cartoonize
cartoonizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cartoonize
cartoonizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cartoonize
requantize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: requantizes
form: requantizing
form: requantized
form: requantized
Etymology: From re- + quantize.
Senses: glosses: To quantize again.
requantized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of requantize
requantizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of requantize
requantizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of requantize
halveable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of halvable.
middleless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From middle + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking a middle.
uncomposedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uncomposed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being uncomposed.
blinchiki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blinchiky
Etymology: From Russian бли́нчики (blínčiki).
Senses: glosses: plural of blinchik
eggspoonful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eggspoonfuls
form: eggspoonsful
Etymology: From eggspoon + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: By this time the 7-weeks-old 5½-lb. baby was 10½ weeks, and weighed 7lbs. 10 oz., and the milk had been increased by 1 oz. to the pint of food. Now started Virol 1 eggspoonful per day, increasing the amount to 3 eggspoonfuls in 24 hours.
ref: [1912], Sarah Jane Hughes, “[Particulars of Cases Treated as in Previous Chapter.] Case No. 6.”, in Feeding and Care of Infants and Children: With Special Reference to Cases of Difficult Digestion, London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton Kent, & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 59:
text: In the ‘Wigan Observer’ of September 20th, there is an account of an inquest on a child, held at Platt Bridge. The mother had given a child of 5 weeks old two eggspoonsful of a mixture of laudanum [opium tincture] and aniseed, which she had heard from an 11-year-old girl that it was used to keep babies quiet.
ref: 1914 September, “A Coomfert”, in Kenneth Ward, The World of William Wickham: The Biography and Photography of a Remarkable Victorian, Havant, Hants.: Ian Harrap at The Pallant Press, published 1981, →ISBN, page 80:
text: It is almost impossible to give much guidance about quantities in the use of herbs and spices because their individual strength varies greatly as does the flavour of the food you are seasoning. Quantities are also greatly affected, of course, by the kind of dish you are trying to produce. As a rough guide, however, try to think in teaspoonsful for mild herbs and eggspoonsful for most spices.
ref: 1962, Jane Colin, “Introduction”, in Herbs and Spices for Health and Beauty, London: Arlington Books, →OCLC, page iii:
glosses: The amount that an egg spoon will hold.
eggspoonfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eggspoonful
eggspoonsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eggspoonful
Milkyway
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Milky Way.
cystoradiography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: cystography.
nightswimming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From night + swimming.
Senses: glosses: Swimming at night.
pace-of-life syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: POLS
glosses: A hypothesis positing that there exists a correlation between behavior, life history, and physiology continuing along an axis ranging from slow to fast.
front wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: front wheels
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Any wheel located at the front of a motor vehicle.
front wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Operating from the front of a motor vehicle.
Related terms: front-wheel skid
front wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of front wheel
wheelwell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheelwells
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wheel well.
wheelwells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheelwell
lock-time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lock-times
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lock time.
lock-times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lock-time
blocktiming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The act or practice of a broadcaster selling blocks of airtime for use by others.
Related terms: blocktimer
discrete time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discrete times
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
coordinate_terms: continuous time
qualifier: mathematical dynamics
glosses: A framework which views values of variables as occurring at distinct, separate points in time, or equivalently as being unchanged throughout each nonzero region of time.
Derived terms: discrete-time
continuous time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: continuous times
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
coordinate_terms: discrete time
qualifier: mathematical dynamics
glosses: A framework which views variables as having a particular value only for an infinitesimally short amount of time.
Pingjhen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 平鎮 (Píngzhèn) Tongyong Pinyin romanization: Píngjhèn.
Senses: examples: text: The monogyne colonies were collected from Linkou Township (Taipei County), Longtan, Sanchih and Sinwu Townships (Taoyuan County) whereas the polygyne colonies were collected from Sansia Township (Taipei County) and Bade, Longtan and Pingjhen Townships (Taoyuan County).[…]
The C₁₅:C_(15:1) ratio of polygyne colonies collected from Pingjhen is an exception and will be the focus for the future investigation.
ref: 2008, L.-C. Lai, R.-N. Huang, W.-J. Wu, “Venom alkaloids of monogyne and polygyne forms of the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta, in Taiwan”, in Insectes Sociaux, volume 55, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Feb 2024, pages 444, 448:
text: We also make a horizontal partition to Pingjhen town so that part of its villages will merge into the third indivisible region, shown in Figure 4.
ref: 2013, Mawkae Hor, Tzusui Hung, Yingche Hung, Chengyuan Tang, “Application of Computational Geometry on Multi-region Electoral Districting”, in Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on the Modern Development of Humanities and Social Science, →DOI, →ISSN, archived from the original on 11 Feb 2024, page 276, column 1:
text: A baboon yesterday died after being captured in Taoyuan due to wounds allegedly inflicted by a hunting rifle, Taoyuan authorities said.
The animal had been spotted several times in the city’s Pingjhen District (平鎮) over the past 17 days.[…]
Leofoo Village representatives said that the baboon had not escaped from the park, which is about 12km from Pingjhen District.
ref: 2023 March 28, “Roving baboon dies after its capture in Taoyuan”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2023, Taiwan News, page 3:
glosses: Alternative form of Pingzhen.
discrete times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discrete time
continuous times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of continuous time
Gualteri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gualteris
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Italian.
Nerfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nerfers
Etymology: From Nerf + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who plays with Nerf equipment.
wikipedia: Nerf
Nerfers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nerfer
nonadept
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonadepts
Etymology: From non- + adept.
Senses: examples: text: Many people who disapprove of alcohol are actually terrified of losing control, which is the attitude of a nonadept.
ref: 2003, Kala Trobe, The Witch's Guide to Life, page 96:
text: A nonadept sacrifices God knows what, to set up a blockage even I can't Work through—'
ref: 2013, Celia Friedman, Black Sun Rising:
text: It is mysterious and appears sensually powerful to a nonadept.
ref: 2018, Dinkar Goswami, Yogini: The Quest for the Gate:
text: Regarding the ranges of these palaeographic areas, the terms mentioned might again be misleading to a nonadept, who, for example, has to know that the Delta is mostly uncharted territory in regard to Demotic palaeography (due to the lack of sources from this area).
ref: 2020, Vanessa Davies, Dimitri Laboury, The Oxford Handbook of Egyptian Epigraphy and Palaeography, page 611:
glosses: One who is not an adept, one who has not mastered a particular esoteric discipline.
nonadept
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nonadept
form: most nonadept
Etymology: From non- + adept.
Senses: examples: text: One of the things that has bugged me a long time about strips—and it hasn't been solved yet—is that the comic artists seem to be totally nonadept at dealing with cultural diversity.
ref: 1995, Jane Amari, quoted by Lee Nordling, Your Career in the Comics, page 110:
text: The dialogs have a disorienting effect, stranding the nonadept Western reader somewhere between Sleeman's experienced poise and a touristic vertigo.
ref: 2002, Margery Sabin, Dissenters and Mavericks, page 86:
ref: 2012, S. Ancoli, Erik Peper, M. Quinn, Mind/Body Integration: Essential Readings in Biofeedback, pages 119 passage=How can their internal functioning be translated (that is, made explicit and external), and then learned by ordinary or nonadept people so that they too may be able to use these skills?:
text: At the same time, individuals trapped within institutional structures become increasingly nonadept at navigating extrainstitutional locations.
ref: 2015, David T. Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder, The Biopolitics of Disability, page 121:
glosses: Not adept; unskilled.
nonadepts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonadept
extrainstitutionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From extrainstitutional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Outside of an institution.
Algoa Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The first element is a metathesis of Portuguese lagoa (“lagoon”); the original Portuguese name being Bahia da Lagoa (“Lagoon Bay”).
Senses: glosses: A maritime bay in Eastern Cape province, South Africa.
algocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of algocracy
Ajanta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ajantha
Senses: glosses: A village in Maharashtra, India, known for the nearby ancient Buddhist cave monuments.
Ajantha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ajanta.
Hufuf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hofuf.
Al Hofuf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hofuf.
Al Hufuf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hofuf.
Ailsa Craig
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: word: Paddy's Milestone
english: nickname
translation: nickname
glosses: An island in the outer Firth of Clyde.
Paddy's Milestone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for its situation between Scotland and Ireland.
Senses: glosses: Nickname of Ailsa Craig.
Aughrim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of villages and townlands in Ireland.
Aransas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in South Texas, United States.
Derived terms: Aransas County
ablenationalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ablenationalist
form: most ablenationalist
Etymology: From ablenationalism.
Senses: examples: text: However, publics and nations have not had to engage with disability in any way other than through the anemic forms of recognition cultivated by ablenationalist rhetorical practices, particularly when disabled persons continue to be legally isolated in many countries.
ref: 2015, David T. Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder, The Biopolitics of Disability, page 121:
text: Disability Studies promoted the value of disabled people's lives that had been formerly embedded in pathologising projections from ablenationalist practices arising out of the carceral nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries.
ref: 2022, Angeliki Sifaki, C.L. Quinan, Katarina Lončarević, Homonationalism, Femonationalism and Ablenationalism:
text: The quite literal invention of the "moron" by Henry H. Goddard, discussed below, is a case in point, and it is particularly noteworthy because it was driven by overt ablenationalist, eugenicist concerns about the perceived threat presented to the health of nations by “undesirables” passing as “normal” within the general population.
ref: 2023, David T. Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder, A Cultural History of Disability in the Modern Age, page 117:
glosses: Characteristic of ablenationalism.
Attu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The westernmost island of the Aleutian Islands.
Chowan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A blackwater river formed with the merging of Virginia's Blackwater and Nottoway rivers near the state line between Virginia and North Carolina, United States.
Derived terms: Chowan County
Chilachap
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Cilacap.
Tjilatjap
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Cilacap.
thottier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of thotty: more thotty
thottiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of thotty: most thotty
thotlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thotlike
form: most thotlike
Etymology: From thot + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Why couldn’t Patton have just dressed up like a slutty cat or a thotlike angel, standard Halloween garb for the people of Edwardsville?
ref: 2018 June 18, “GOP Senate Candidate Who Dressed as a Blackface ‘Rapper’ Issues Half-Assed Apology, Points Out His Black Friends”, in The Root:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a thot.
Chava
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hebrew חַוָּה (khavá, “Eve”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
Pokfulam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pok Fu Lam.
Chincoteague ponies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chincoteague pony
Chincoteagues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chincoteague
Cilician Gates
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A pass through the Taurus Mountains, connecting the low plains of Cilicia to the Anatolian Plateau, by way of the narrow gorge of the Gökoluk River.
East York
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A district and former municipality in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A census-designated place in York County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Ketcheson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
refictionalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: refictionalizes
form: refictionalizing
form: refictionalized
form: refictionalized
Etymology: From re- + fictionalize.
Senses: glosses: To fictionalize again.
refictionalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refictionalizations
Senses: glosses: The process or result of refictionalizing.
refictionalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of refictionalization