cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
chemist's shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemist's shops
Etymology: In British, Australian, and New Zealand English chemist is a synonym for pharmacist.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pharmacy, especially when run as a small standalone general store.
synonyms: word: pharmacy
extra: especially when run as a small standalone general store
chemist's shops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemist's shop
chemist shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemist shops
Etymology: In British, Australian, and New Zealand English chemist is a synonym for pharmacist.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pharmacy, especially when run as a small standalone general store.
synonyms: word: pharmacy
extra: especially when run as a small standalone general store
chemist shops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemist shop
Alnham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈjeldəm/
Etymology: From the river Aln + Old English hām (“village, estate”).
Senses: glosses: A hamlet and civil parish in Northumberland, England.
pig's breakfast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pig's breakfasts
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dog's breakfast (“mess”).
synonyms: word: dog's breakfast
extra: mess
dingo fish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dingo fish
form: dingo-fish
Senses: qualifier: nickname
glosses: The great barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda).
Nigel no-friends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nigel no-friends
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nigel no friends.
Nigel No Friends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nigel No Friends
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nigel no friends.
beauty fades, dumb is forever
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: Popularized by the American court-show arbitrator Judy Sheindlin.
Senses: glosses: One's attractiveness will diminish over time, but one's stupidity is perpetual.
wikipedia: Judy Sheindlin
nationette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nationettes
Etymology: From nation + -ette (“used to form nouns meaning a smaller form of something”).
Senses: glosses: A very small nation or country; a microstate.
glosses: Synonym of micronation.
synonyms: word: micronation
nationettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nationette
Planck's principle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Formulated by Max Planck.
Senses: examples: text: However, Planck's Principle turns out to be wrong. This can be seen through a careful examination of the work of Charles Darwin. The quintessential phase transition in science, and paradigm shift, is that of the theory of evolution by natural selection.
ref: 2012, Samuel Arbesman, The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date, Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: The view that “science progresses one funeral at a time”, that scientific progress happens when older generations of scientists retire or die.
wikipedia: Max Planck
Darwin fishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Darwin fish
countercountry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countercountries
Etymology: From counter- (“in opposition to”) + country.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of micronation.
synonyms: word: micronation
countercountries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countercountry
pig's breakfasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pig's breakfast
Drănic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Drănic.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Dolj County, Romania.
hydrophobizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hydrophobize
hydrophobizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hydrophobize
silylates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of silylate
Others
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Other
black liberation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Black liberation
Senses: examples: text: Investigator Wheeler commented brieﬂy concerning the activity of the Progressive Labor Party in circulating inflammatory literature during the Watts riot. PLP distributed posters and ﬂyers titled: “Don’t be a sucker!” (This pamphlet asked the question: “ISN’T THIS A DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST THE AFRO-AMERICAN PEOPLE BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT?”); “BLACK LIBERATION—NOW!” ; “THE NEED FOR REVOLUTION ” ; “WANTED FOR MURDER—Parker the Cop in Watts” (This poster was patterned after the PLP’s “Wanted for Murder—Gilligan the Cop” poster which was distributed during the Harlem riot of 1964.); and, during the Deadwyler affair, “WANTED for the MURDER of Leonard Deadwyler—‘BOVA—the COP.’”
ref: 1965, House Un-American Activities Committee, Annual Report For The Year 1965, page 63:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The achievement of equal rights and status for black people, particularly as seen as freedom from historic and structural oppression.
Coordinate terms: liberation
Related terms: Black Power
Mehico
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈmɛhiːkoʊ/
Etymology: From the Spanish pronunciation of México, q.v.
Senses: examples: text: "Rio Rita" takes place in a country referred to by practically every member of the cast as "Old Mehico". Old Mehico is populated by Mehicans, and is situated South of the Border, underneath Texas. The male members of the Mehican population are referred to as señors and the females as señoras and señoritas.
ref: 1950, New Yorker, page 159:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of Mexico.
Related terms: Mehican
overpole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overpoles
form: overpoling
form: overpoled
form: overpoled
Etymology: From over- + pole.
Senses: topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To pole excessively.
overpoled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overpole
overpoling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overpole
overpoles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overpole
Meisner technique
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Meisner technique
Etymology: Developed by American theatre practitioner Sanford Meisner.
Senses: topics: acting
broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: An approach to acting in which the actor focuses on the other actors in the immediate environment, rather than on him- or herself.
inside–outside–beginning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computational
computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A tagging scheme commonly employed in tasks such as named-entity recognition within computational linguistics.
intelligent character recognition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computational
computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An advanced technology specialized in extracting handwritten text from images.
Bayer filter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bayer filters
Etymology: Invented by Bryce Bayer of Eastman Kodak.
Senses: glosses: A color filter array for arranging RGB color filters on a square grid of photosensors, used in digital cameras and camcorders, and having a filter pattern that is half green, a quarter red, and a quarter blue.
Related terms: Bayer matrix
Bayes filter
Bayer filters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bayer filter
interlingual machine translation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computational
computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A classic method where the source language is converted into an abstract, language-independent representation called interlingua.
appel.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of appellative.
techno-futurism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From techno- + future + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Techno-futurism is an extreme scientism, in the sense of treating science as superior to all other forms of knowledge and culture and as holding the answers to all human problems.
ref: 2016, Charles Thorpe, Necroculture, page 120:
text: This techno-futurism is telling the Taiwanese people a technological science story about hopes, threats, and relations.
ref: 2018, Kuan-Hung Lo, “Selling Techno-futurism: Exploring Pepper's Images and Discourses Taiwanese News Media Make”, in Adrian David Cheok, David Levy, editor, Love and Sex with Robots, page 83:
text: Forget the bunker, foreget everything he'd planned to write about survivalism, and growth hacking, and techno-futurism, and imperial-stage-capitalist decline, and New Zealand's pathetically obsequious courting of the super-rich.
ref: 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 238:
coordinate_terms: technodeterminism#Noun
techno-optimism#Noun
technophoria#Noun
techno-utopianism#Noun
cyberoptimism#Noun
cyberutopianism#Noun
glosses: The belief in and pursuit of new and speculative technological solutions to problems and to the extension or betterment of life.
Related terms: cyberfuture
technopaganism
fembys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of femby
techno-futurist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: techno-futurists
Etymology: From techno- + future + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The techno-futurists "transcend" the dialectic between capital and labor merely by denying labor. Their mystification of technology is an intellectual reflection of the commodity fetishism that arises from market relations.
ref: 2016, Charles Thorpe, Necroculture, page 136:
text: 'Hey, I'm not the one trying to live forever here,' she said. 'I'm not a survivalist. I'm not a fucking techno-futurist. I know I'm going to die. I'm fine with that.'
ref: 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 200:
text: Techno-futurists, or at least some of these techno-futurists, thus believed they were being forced to stare at the basilisk; either choosing to do nothing and earn the torment of the AI, or making the enforced decision to slave away for its future existence.
ref: 2023, James B. Miles, AI and the End of Humanity, page 168:
text: Now, a hodgepodge of religious conservatives and techno-futurists are leading the United States into the fray.
ref: 2025 June 15, Anna Louie Sussman, “A Bold Idea to Raise the Birthrate: Make Parenting Less Torturous”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A proponent of techno-futurism.
techno-futurist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more techno-futurist
form: most techno-futurist
Etymology: From techno- + future + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: In graduate school, I became engaged with bioethics as a domain where techno-futurist questions about genetic engineering and neuroscience were running up against practical politics and law, cutting across the traditional Left/Right division with new philosophical challenges about personhood and identity to which Buddhist metaphysics seemed deeply relevant.
ref: 2014, C. Mercer, D. Maher, Transhumanism and the Body: The World Religions Speak, page xi:
text: This chapter extends traditional functionalist approaches to design to engage cultural, experience-based, and techno-futurist approaches.
ref: 2015, Woodrow Barfield, Fundamentals of Wearable Computers and Augmented Reality, page 32:
text: The techno-futurist quest for life extension is an attempt to open out the lifespan of the individual so as to be continuous with the linear temporality of capitalist production.
ref: 2016, Charles Thorpe, Necroculture, page 120:
glosses: Characteristic of or pertaining to techno-futurism.
techno-futurists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of techno-futurist
dopeman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dopemen
Etymology: From dope + man.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dope man.
undercommunicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undercommunicates
form: undercommunicating
form: undercommunicated
form: undercommunicated
Etymology: From under- + communicate.
Senses: glosses: To communicate too little.
Related terms: undercommunication
undercommunicates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undercommunicate
undercommunicating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undercommunicate
undercommunicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undercommunicate
beta fish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beta fish
form: beta fishes
Senses: examples: text: His chest puffed out like one of those Japanese beta fishes when it had caught a glimpse of itself in a mirror.
ref: 2009, Duane Schwartz, Cobb's Landing:
text: Beta fish cannot be put together in the same bowl—because they will fight each other to the death.
ref: 2011, Douglas Hatten, Destiny of the Tribe of Ephraim and the Restoration of the House of Israel, page 225:
text: We keep twenty beta fish at the restaurant.
ref: 2011, Rick Tramonto, Gale Gand, Mary Goodbody, Tru: A Cookbook from the Legendary Chicago Restaurant:
glosses: Betta.
examples: text: And beta fish can't be beta fish if they are fighting to be alpha fish.
ref: 2017, Lucy Loo, This Isn't a Prompt:
text: Well, there's Winston. But he's just a beta fish, so he's stuck in the house all day either way.
ref: 2020, Bria Quinlan, The Last Single Girl:
text: He had taken her for a dogsbody, a beta fish, a bridesmaid, a ride-along; he had looked right past her, as likely many people did.
ref: 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 319:
glosses: A person who is in a secondary position in a social hierarchy; a submissive person; a follower.
beta fishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beta fish
yiffpiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of yiffpile
furpiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of furpile
yiffpiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of yiffpile
furpiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of furpile
potty trains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of potty train
rides along
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ride along
riding along
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ride along
rode along
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of ride along
ridden along
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of ride along
Pavlovianly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Pavlovianly
form: most Pavlovianly
Etymology: From Pavlovian + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: To be sure, the audience, Pavlovianly primed by some of our premier playwrights and critics, laughs and laughs, and applauds and applauds. One wonders how many theatergoers, queried about just what they saw and cheered, could come up with a cogent reply. Would they even know that the stuff is the exact antithesis of life-affirming?
ref: 2003 October 9, “In Brief: Beckett/Albee”, in New York, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Dec 2022:
text: I started watching this debate hoping that Nick Clegg would wipe the floor with the other guys. This is not solely because Pavlovianly, I salivate at any mention of the words "Liberal Democrat"; in the past (from a safe distance to be sure) I've always preferred Labour, even when poor old threadbare Michael Foot was in charge.
ref: 2010 April 29, Hendrik Hertzberg, “Debate, British Style”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2024:
text: Against medical advice, I pour a can of Diet Coke into the Stanley. It gives me a similar uncanny feeling to drinking water out of the straw. I think I've been Pavlovianly trained to enjoy drinking Diet Coke out of the can at my desk, and my brain is having trouble processing it coming out of another vessel.
ref: 2024 January 25, Heather Schwedel, “I Spent a Week Parading My Coveted Stanley Cup Around New York City”, in Slate, New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2024:
glosses: In a Pavlovian manner; involving Pavlovian conditioning.
ride-along
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ride-alongs
Senses: examples: text: A ride-along serves several purposes. First, some candidates want to become fire fighters because of the glorified lifestyles portrayed by Hollywood heroes, and a ride-along will allow a potential member to experience the reality of the fire department.
ref: 2011, Jack W. Snook, Richard B. Gasaway, Tim L. Holman, A Leadership Guide for Volunteer Fire Departments, page 26:
text: There was only one person on a ride-along that week!
ref: 2013, Kevin Opheim, Along for the Ride, page 95:
text: One of the benefits of a ride-along for a family member is to give them an opportunity to witness a cop's job firsthand, gaining insight into what we do as law enforcement officers.
ref: 2017, Darren Burch, Twisted but True:
text: She took ride-alongs with sales reps so she could see the skills they used and those they needed.
ref: 2022, Elaine Biech, ATD's Handbook for Training and Talent Development:
glosses: Alternative form of ridealong.
examples: text: As a ride-along, you have up front close experience on how our police officers operate day and night out enforcing the laws of DC.
ref: 2012, Curtis E Mozie, Beyond the Yellow Tape:
text: The policy at the time was: When a ride-along was in the car during a pursuit, the deputy was to pull over and let the ride-along out.
ref: 2013, Kevin Opheim, Along for the Ride, page 95:
text: There is a common belief among patrol officers that there is a “ride-along curse,” suggesting that when their shift involves taking a ride-along, it usually means the patrol shift will be mindnumbingly boring; a series of barking dog complaints, burglary reports, and the like.
ref: 2017, Darren Burch, Twisted but True:
glosses: A person who goes on a ridealong.
examples: text: Being a ride-along doesn't make you immune, but it takes the bull's-eye off your back.
ref: 2017, Kenneth L. Fisher, The Ten Roads to Riches:
text: He had taken her for a dogsbody, a beta fish, a bridesmaid, a ride-along; he had looked right past her, as likely many people did.
ref: 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 319:
glosses: A member of an organization who is more of a follower than a leader.
examples: text: Stacks of ride-alongs that share the cost of the mailing.
ref: 1994, Jay Conrad Levinson, Seth Godin, The Guerrilla Marketing Handbook, page 178:
text: Since the dessert advertisement is a ride-along with your ads for other foods, your only additional cost is the printing and paper charges or Internet page cost for your dessert and/or ice-cream ads.
ref: 2010, Tyler G. Hicks, 101 Great Mail-Order Businesses:
text: In the corporate world, a company puts a ride-along into a mailer that another company is doing.
ref: 2021, Nelson Searcy, Jennifer Dykes Henson, Maximize: How to Develop Extravagant Givers in Your Church:
topics: business
marketing
glosses: A piece of marketing material that is included in a mailing about a different product.
ride-alongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ride-along
toxity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Syncopic form of toxicity.
Senses: examples: text: Once fish develop scombrotoxin, neither cooking, canning nor freezing reduces toxity.
ref: 1999, Morton Satin, Food Alert!: The Ultimate Sourcebook for Food Safety, New York, N.Y.: Facts On File, Inc., →ISBN, page 216:
glosses: Synonym of toxicity.
synonyms: word: toxicity
beautybush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beautybushes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of beauty bush.
beautybushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beautybush
rain-checking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rain-check
rain-checked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rain-check
Britishry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From British + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: There is no more genuine Britishry in him than there is in the Anglo-maniac dude who turns up his trousers in New York because it is raining in London, you know.
ref: 1898 May, Ernest E. Williams, “Our Christmas Plum-Puddings”, in The Windsor Magazine, volume VII, London: Ward, Lock & Company, Limited, →OCLC, column 1:
text: […] belief in Parliament is commensurate with general Britishry since in all kinds of details (although not in essentials), the Australian system has many similarities with the British […]
ref: 1985 Winter, Donald Horne, “Who Rules Australia?”, in Daedalus, volume 114, number 1, Cambridge, M.A.: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 175:
text: But there had been a good deal of the shiftless Irish in him, a love of drink and empty conviviality, balanced by accessions of ramrod Britishry, hair well trimmed, shoes well polished.
ref: 1986, Anthony Burgess, Little Wilson and Big God, New York, N.Y.: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, →ISBN, page 193:
text: Australia, due to the economic destruction of Britain during World War II, had begun to see its future within the American orbit. Even Prime Minister Robert Menzies swallowed his 'Britishry' and adapted Australia's foreign policy accordingly.
ref: 2006, Ed Wright, History's Greatest Scandals: Shocking Stories of Powerful People, Millers Point, NSW: Pier 9, →ISBN, page 212:
glosses: British attitudes and behaviours.
examples: text: The fair Canadians may have been too kind in accepting the name and position of "muffins" from the young Britishry; but the latter cannot say they have suffered much in consequence. A muffin is simply a lady who sits beside the male occupant of the sleigh—Sola cum solo, "and all the rest is leather and prunella."
ref: 1865, W[illiam] Howard Russell, Canada: Its Defenses, Condition, and Resources, London: Bradbury and Evans, page 149:
text: Till Britishry and Bonapartists lose / Their clashing colours for the tawny hues / That twilight sets on all its stealing tinct imbues.
ref: 1908, Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts: A Drama of the Napoleonic Wars, […], part third, London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC, Act VI, scene viii, page 281:
text: Below them economically in the ranks of Hong Kong Britishry is a much larger class of the less plutocratic bourgeoisie, business executives, brokers, advertising men and women, lawyers, doctors, academics, journalists.
ref: 1988, Jan Morris, Hong Kong, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 96:
glosses: British people, collectively.
beautihood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beautyhood
Etymology: From beauty + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: While she in maiden beautihood and grace
Outvied the loveliest myrtle in its bloom.
ref: 1914, Walter Malone, Hernando De Soto, page 387:
glosses: The condition or state of being a beauty.
glosses: The time during one's life in which one is beautiful.
alarm reaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alarm reactions
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The initial symptoms which the body or another organism experiences when undergoing stress.
alarm reactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alarm reaction
pad room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pad rooms
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
glosses: A tent or a dressing room for performers of the circus.
pad rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pad room
TOIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TOI
padded room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: padded rooms
Senses: glosses: Synonym of padded cell.
synonyms: word: padded cell
padded rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of padded room
samsa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: somsa
Etymology: From Central Asian Turkic, from Classical Persian سَنْبوسَه (sanbōsa), from Middle Persian *sambōsag. Doublet of samosa and sambuseh.
Senses: glosses: A Central Asian bun stuffed with meat and sometimes with vegetables.
somsa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Uzbek somsa.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of samsa.
samuza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of samosa.
somasi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of samosa.
somaas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of samosa.
beautyhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beautyhoods
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of beautihood.
somucha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of samosa.
synonyms: word: samosa
sambosa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of samosa.
synonyms: word: samosa
sambosak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of samosa.
synonyms: word: samosa
junkmail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: junkmails
Senses: examples: text: His inspiration and direction are supplied by a piece of junkmail many of us have received and most of us have ignored — that postcard that says if you act quickly you can have the story of your family name and a list of all Americans sharing it for a pre-publication price of $29.95.
ref: 1996, Fred L. Gardaphé, “An ‘Amazing’ Debut: Bill Tonelli”, in Dagoes Read: Tradition and the Italian/American Writer (Essay Series; 25), Toronto, Ont.: Guernica Editions Inc., →ISBN, page 214:
text: Does make me feel a bit feeble though, if mother is online and I’m not. I was on it but a company called GBH sent me 677 identical junkmails by mistake and have not been able to get any sense out of it since.
ref: 1999, Helen Fielding, “[Jellyfish at Large] Wednesday 29 January”, in Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, London: Picador, →ISBN, page 47:
text: He has knocked the pile of junkmail from the counter, and the catalogues have slipped under the table and lodged among triangles of shattered plate.
ref: 2014, Sonya Hartnett, Golden Boys, Somerville, Mass.: Candlewick Press, published 2016, →ISBN, page 118:
glosses: Alternative spelling of junk mail.
junkmails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of junkmail
social season
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: social seasons
Senses: examples: text: By virtue of their position, they were in palaces and situation rooms and oval offices instead of ballrooms and yachts on the Adriatic, involved in national security negotiations, and key members of internationally significant investigations instead of social seasons and fashion weeks.
ref: 2022 November 17, Emily Jane Fox, “Inside Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner's Gilded Florida Paradise—Far From Donald Trump or 2024”, in Radhika Jones, editor, Vanity Fair, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2023:
glosses: A traditional annual period in the spring and summer when it is customary for members of the social elite to hold balls, dinner parties and charity events.
social seasons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of social season
yadadamean
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: /jədədəˈmiːn/
/jədəˈmiːn/
Forms: form: yadamean
Etymology: From the phrase "ya know what I mean?".
Senses: examples: text: Do ya yadadameen, I invented that shit
 So before you put it out there you better holla at a pimp
ref: 2003 May 13, “Love Da Kids”performed by Keak da Sneak:
text: "Besides, girl—" Kayla cut in "—what's it matter if you know anyone? Look at you. All the fellas will be on ya in a minute. Yadadamean, yadadamean?"
ref: 2007, Nyomi Scott, Gettin' Hooked, New York, N.Y.: Kimani Press, →ISBN, page 75:
text: "Had a bad feeling you were going to say that. Do you realize that this is homicide? We don't like hearing that people who are dead aren't as dead as we thought. Kinda scary . . . yadamean?"
ref: 2009, Michelle McGriff, Blood Relations, West Babylon, N.Y.: Urban Books, →ISBN, page 38:
text: J.T, an African American sixteen-year-old, was a good student: "I get like As and B's and sometimes C's, but I try to stay on top," he explained. I saw two of his report cards to verify this. His mother worked for the City of Oakland as a clerk. He described what she does: "The kind of person that checks yo' papers to see if you legit. Like, she'll put the rubber stamp on your paperwork if you paid your taxes, yadadamean [you understand]?"
ref: 2011, Victor M. Rios, quoting J.T., Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys, New York, N.Y.; London: New York University Press, →ISBN, page 142:
text: "Well, yeah, I can see that. It's not like he lives in the 'hood, yadamean? Who comes way out here? It'd be a real crapshoot. People out here'd either pull a gun on you or invite you for pot roast."
ref: 2013, Lisa McMann, Don't Close Your Eyes: Wake, Fade, Gone, New York, N.Y.: Simon Pulse, →ISBN, page 604:
qualifier: Bay Area
taxonomic: California hyphy
glosses: Do you know what I mean? Do you understand?
Related terms: fashitsho
yadamean
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yadadamean.
dingo-fish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dingo-fish
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dingo fish.
autismlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more autismlike
form: most autismlike
Etymology: From autism + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The idea that vaccines cause autism got a boost in March, when the Centers for Disease Control settled with the parents of 9-year-old Hannah Poling on the grounds that her autismlike symptoms were caused by vaccines that aggravated an underlying mitochondrial disorder.
ref: 2008 May 23, Andrew Solomon, “The Autism Rights Movement”, in New York Magazine:
text: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates developmental disabilities like autism or autismlike disorders, such as Asperger's syndrome, will strike one in every 150 children, and four out of five of them will be boys.
ref: 2009 December 2, ABC News, “Can a New Diet Help Autistic Kids?”, in ABC News:
text: One study, published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, found that deep brain stimulation (DBS) aimed at the subthalamic nucleus, an area of the brain that holds movements in check, helped suppress excessive self-grooming in two autismlike mouse models.
ref: 2017 March 21, Karen Blum, “Self-Harming Behavior in Children with Autism: Can Electroconvulsive Therapy Help?”, in John Hopkins Medicine:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of autism.
beautyhoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beautyhood
shazams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shazam
shazamming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of shazam
shazammed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shazam
BuzzFeeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BuzzFeed
shazamable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of a song, that can be identified using the Shazam application.
median lethal time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: median lethal times
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
toxicology
synonyms: lethal time
glosses: The average time interval during which 50% of a given population may be expected to die following the administration of a chemical or physical agent at a given concentration.
lethal time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of median lethal time.
synonyms: word: median lethal time
shazammable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shazamable.
unshazamable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not shazamable.
unshazammable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unshazamable.
left ventricular ejection time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: left ventricular ejection times
Senses: topics: cardiology
medicine
sciences
synonyms: LVET
glosses: The time interval from the moment of the opening of the aortic valve to the moment of its closure.
left ventricular ejection times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of left ventricular ejection time
LVET
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of left ventricular ejection time.
lighting-up time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lighting-up times
Senses: topics: automotive
law
transport
vehicles
glosses: A time period during which all motor vehicles on unlit public roads must have their headlights switched on.
lighting-up times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lighting-up time
resuggestion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: suggestion again.
near real-time
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Referring to a data-processing system that is somewhat slower than real-time.
quiesce time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The amount of time required to render a computer system inactive, or the amount of time between periods of inactivity.
quitting-time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quitting-times
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quitting time.
randomized polynomial time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: randomized polynomial times
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: The complexity class of problems for which a probabilistic Turing machine exists with certain properties.
overaccessorise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overaccessorises
form: overaccessorising
form: overaccessorised
form: overaccessorised
Etymology: From over- + accessorise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of overaccessorize.
overaccessorises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overaccessorise
overaccessorising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overaccessorise
overaccessorised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overaccessorise
kiat-kiat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkjɛt ˈkjɛt/
Forms: form: kiat-kiats
form: Kiat Kiat
form: Kiat kiat
form: kiat kiat
form: KiatKiat
form: Kiatkiat
form: kiatkiat
form: Kiat-Kiat
form: Kiat-kiat
form: kiet kiet
Etymology: Borrowed from Hokkien. See Hokkien 結結 /结结 (kiat-kiat, “to combine; to fuse; to bear (fruit)”), 桔/橘 (kiat) as in 桔仔/橘仔 (kiat-á, “tangerine; mandarin orange”), 傑傑 /杰杰 (kia̍t-kia̍t, “outstanding; remarkable; clever”), 結果 /结果 (kiat-kó, “to bear fruit”), etc.
Senses: glosses: a small hybrid variety of citrus fruit, similar to a small ponkan, clementine, tangerine, mandarin orange, orange, etc.
Related terms: clementine
dancy
iyokan
mandarin orange
orange
ponkan
tangerine
overaligns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overalign
overaligning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overalign
overclutters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overclutter
overcluttering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overclutter
Imerkhevi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Georgian იმერხევი (imerxevi).
Senses: glosses: A subregion of Shavsheti in the northeast Turkey, close to the Georgian border, more precisely defined a valley in the north of the Şavşat district.
legal relationship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legal relationships
Senses: synonyms: jural relationship
glosses: The relations provided by law between two persons as a consequence of a certain state of affairs.
legal relationships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of legal relationship
overutilises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overutilise
overutilising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overutilise
overutilised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overutilise
overuns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overun
Kingdom of Kakheti-Hereti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Kingdom of Kakheti-Hereti
Etymology: Borrowed from Georgian კახეთ-ჰერეთის სამეფო (ḳaxet-heretis samepo).
Senses: glosses: an early medieval monarchy in Eastern Georgia (1020 — 1104), after the conquest of the Kingdom of Hereti by the Principality of Kakheti
Related terms: Kakheti
Hereti
polymaltoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polymaltose
hexachlorocyclohexenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexachlorocyclohexene
pupilloplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pupilloplasty
phosphatidylthreonines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphatidylthreonine
minifuges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minifuge
hydrosutures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrosuture
hydrosutures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hydrosuture
hydrosuturing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hydrosuture
Kingdom of Hereti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Kingdom of Hereti
Etymology: Borrowed from Georgian ჰერეთის სამეფო (heretis samepo).
Senses: glosses: an early medieval monarchy in Eastern Georgia (893–1020)
Related terms: Hereti
Principality of Kakheti
Kingdom of Kakheti-Hereti
Hereti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Georgian ჰერეთი (hereti).
Senses: glosses: a historical Georgian region in the southeastern extremity of the country
Derived terms: Kakheti-Hereti
Kingdom of Hereti
Kingdom of Kakheti-Hereti
dwarrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dwarrow
Principality of Kakheti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Principality of Kakheti
Etymology: Borrowed from Georgian კახეთის სამთავრო (ḳaxetis samtavro).
Senses: glosses: an early medieval principality in Eastern Georgia (787 — 1020)
Related terms: Kakheti
Hereti
Kingdom of Hereti
Kingdom of Kakheti-Hereti
Principality of Iberia
Kakheti-Hereti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Georgian კახეთი-ჰერეთი (ḳaxeti-hereti).
Senses: glosses: Clipping of Kingdom of Kakheti-Hereti.
Related terms: Kakheti
Hereti
Aoibhinn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈiːvɪn/
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish Aoibhinn, from aoibhinn (“delightful; blissful”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
NDEr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NDErs
Etymology: From NDE + -er.
Senses: examples: text: However, Dr Rommer believed that despite the NDEs being distressing, it still had positive, life-changing effects such as the NDEr becoming less judgemental and feeling an increased love of life and heightened sense of morality.
ref: 2014, Penny Sartori, Wisdom of Near-Death Experiences, Watkins Media Limited, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of NDEer.
Port Nolloth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the town's surveyor, Captain M. S. Nolloth.
Senses: glosses: A town and small port in Namaqualand, Northern Cape province, South Africa.
NDErs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NDEr
dogloo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒɡluː/
rhymes: -ɒɡluː
Forms: form: dogloos
Etymology: Blend of dog + igloo
Senses: qualifier: Antarctica
glosses: An igloo used as a doghouse.
dogloos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dogloo
autocircumcision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + circumcision.
Senses: synonyms: self-circumcision
glosses: Circumcision performed by and on oneself.
self-circumcision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + circumcision.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of autocircumcision.
synonyms: word: autocircumcision
selfcircumcision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of self-circumcision.
post-circumcision
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of postcircumcision.
pannican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pannicans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pannikin.
pannicans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pannican
hemicircumcision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Partial circumcision.
Okiep
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Originally spelt O'okiep, from Khoekhoe U-gieb.
Senses: glosses: A town, known for its copper mines, in Northern Cape province, South Africa.
metalwrights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metalwright
bed sore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bed sores
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bedsore.
bed sores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bed sore
Principality of Iberia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Principality of Iberia
Senses: glosses: an early medieval Georgian principality in Eastern Georgia (c. 588–888), a predecessor state of the Kingdom of the Iberians (c. 888–1008).
Related terms: Hereti
Iberia
Kakheti
Kartli
Kingdom of Hereti
Kingdom of Kakheti-Hereti
Principality of Kakheti
Nababeep
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Khoekhoe; an earlier spelling may have been Nabobeeb, a recent alternative is Nababeeb.
Senses: glosses: A town in Namaqualand, Northern Cape province, South Africa.
Kingdom of the Iberians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Kingdom of the Iberians
Senses: glosses: an early medieval Georgian kingdom (c. 888–1008), also known as the Kingdom of Tao-Klarjeti, a successor state of the Principality of Iberia (c. 588–888) and an immediate predecessor of the united Kingdom of Georgia (1008–1490).
Related terms: Iberia
Kartli
Kingdom of Georgia
Kingdom of Hereti
Kingdom of Kakheti-Hereti
Kingdom of Tao-Klarjeti
Principality of Iberia
Principality of Kakheti
Tao-Klarjeti
stonecrafter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stonecrafters
Etymology: From stone + crafter.
Senses: examples: text: The dwarrows, who are metalwrights as well as stonecrafters, reveal that the sword Minneyar that Josua’s people seek is actually the blade known as Bright-Nail, which was buried with Prester John, father of Josua and Elias.
ref: 1993, Tad Williams, To Green Angel Tower (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn; 3), part I, New York, N.Y.: DAW Books, Inc., published 1994, →ISBN, pages xix–xx:
text: [Zahi] Hawass also discusses the numerous artisans, stonecrafters, laborers, and other craftsmen who were responsible for the actual construction and decoration of the pyramids.
ref: 2007, “HAWASS, Zahi A. 1947-”, in Amanda D. Sams, editor, Contemporary Authors: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, and Other Fields, New Revision Series, volume 159, Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale, →ISBN, page 187, column 1:
text: Say-ressa would apply healing salve to the young stonecrafters’ hands.
ref: 2008, Jeffrey Overstreet, Cyndere’s Midnight: A Novel, Colorado Springs, Colo.: WaterBrook Press, Random House Inc., →ISBN, page 300:
text: Long-ago stonecrafters had carefully carved a set of steps that led to nothing, save a striking vista.
ref: 2014, Christie Golden, War Crimes (World of Warcraft), New York, N.Y.: Gallery Books, →ISBN, pages 82–83:
glosses: One who engages in stonecraft.
stonecrafters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stonecrafter
Kingdom of Tao-Klarjeti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Kingdom of Tao-Klarjeti
Senses: glosses: alternative name of the Kingdom of the Iberians (c. 888–1008). See there for more information.
Related terms: Iberia
Kartli
Kingdom of Georgia
Kingdom of Hereti
Kingdom of Kakheti-Hereti
Principality of Iberia
Principality of Kakheti
Tao-Klarjeti
more dead than alive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Very close to death; in extremely bad condition.
Related terms: dead or alive
in articulo mortis
on death's doorstep