cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mill drill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mill drills
Senses: glosses: A classroom exercise in which students have to mill around to exchange information.
related: word: mill-drill
glosses: A light-duty machine tool for milling or drilling, as needed; it combines a drill press with the X/Y coordinate abilities of a milling machine's table and a locking collet that ensures that the milling cutter will not fall from the spindle due to lateral forces against the cutter during milling.
Related terms: mill-turn
getting-to-know-you
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: designed so that participants get to know each other.
raw_tags: of an activity
Related terms: ice breaker
I have never
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A game in which one player announces that they have never done a specific thing, and all those who have done it must do a forfeit.
Synonyms: never ever have I
never have I ever
God's gift to men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: hypernyms: God's gift
coordinate_terms: God's gift to women
glosses: Someone irresistible to men: someone whom all men find attractive; (often) someone ironically described as such.
toxæmiæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In regard of the toxæmiæ, doubtless a frequent mode of causation of convulsions is the direct action of a certain poison upon the nervous centres.
ref: 1861, John Russell Reynolds, chapter I, in Epilepsy, page 22:
glosses: plural of toxæmia
dudeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dude + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being a dude.
toxæmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more toxæmic
form: most toxæmic
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of toxemic.
blokeyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From blokey + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Because the Sydney newspaper scene was dominated by a culture of alcohol-fuelled blokeyness, sexism and misogyny, Murdoch and Rabin introduced some groundbreaking recruitment practices.
ref: 2012, Alex Mitchell, Come the Revolution, page 52:
glosses: The state or quality of being blokey.
toxæmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toxæmias
form: toxæmiæ
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of toxemia.
twin room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twin rooms
Senses: glosses: A room, especially in a hotel, that has two single beds.
Related terms: double room
single room
double room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double rooms
Senses: glosses: A room, especially in a hotel, that is designed for two people and has two single beds (sometimes called a twin room) or one double bed.
Related terms: single room
twin room
single room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: single rooms
Senses: glosses: A room that has one single bed.
Related terms: double room
single room occupancy
twin room
sqft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sqft
form: sq ft
form: sq. ft.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of square feet.
sapan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /səˈpæn/
Forms: form: sapans
form: sappan
form: sapon
form: sappon
Etymology: From Malay sepang.
Senses: synonyms: brazilwood
sappanwood
glosses: Wood of a timber tree of species Biancaea sappan (syn. Caesalpinia sappan) that also produces a red dye.
book-scorpion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: book-scorpions
form: book scorpion
Etymology: So called because they may be found among dusty books, where they prey on booklice etc.
Senses: synonyms: book-crab
booklouse
book mite
glosses: A pseudoscorpion; an arachnid belonging to the order Pseudoscorpiones.
lose sleep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: loses sleep
form: losing sleep
form: lost sleep
form: lost sleep
Senses: examples: text: I won't be losing sleep over the national budget deficit.
text: What keeps you awake at night?
Worry about being self-employed. Nowadays, I don’t lose sleep over my divorce—I did for about a year.
ref: 2019 December 14, Rosanna Greenstreet, “Laurence Fox: ‘I don’t lose sleep over my divorce – I did for about a year’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: I don’t lose sleep over it. My energy is with the players and the people here. I’m in here early in the morning until late at night, trying to find solutions and the best way forward.
ref: 2022 August 26, Ben Fisher, quoting Brendan Rodgers, “Brendan Rodgers not losing sleep over threat of sack despite Leicester woes”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To worry.
raw_tags: with over
book account
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: book accounts
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A current account.
book agent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: book agents
Senses: glosses: A person who represents an author to prospective publishers.
book-scorpions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of book-scorpion
book scorpion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: book scorpions
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of book-scorpion (Pseudoscorpiones)
book scorpions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of book scorpion
protoculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protocultures
Etymology: From proto- + culture.
Senses: examples: text: Life in this primitive condition of nature is not, in the words of Hobbes, "nasty, brutish, and short"; it is a world of rules, a world in which physical aggression and sexuality are shaped by a protoculture.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 67:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The passing of behaviours from one generation to another among non-human primates. These cultures are very rudimentary, and do not exhibit complex cultural technology.
undecorative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undecorative
form: most undecorative
Etymology: From un- + decorative.
Senses: glosses: Not decorative.
glosses: Unsightly; displeasing to the eye.
book-answerer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: book-answerers
Senses: examples: text: If he has much money, he may buy reputation from your book anſwerers, as well as a monument from the guardians of the temple.
ref: 1760, Oliver Goldsmith, “Letter XIII. From the same.”, in The Citizen of the World; or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, […], volume I, London: […] [F]or the author; and sold by J. Newbery and W. Bristow, […]; J. Leake and W. Frederick, […]; B. Collins, […]; and A. M. Smart and Co. […], published 1762, →OCLC, page 45:
glosses: A critic.
codependence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: codependences
Etymology: From co- + dependence.
Senses: glosses: The state of being co-dependent.
co-dependence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-dependences
Etymology: From co- + dependence.
Senses: glosses: The state of being co-dependent.
co-dependences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of co-dependence
codependences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of codependence
jimmy hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jimmy hats
Senses: examples: text: It was a brown wallet, it had props numbers / It had my jimmy hats, I gotta get it man
ref: 1990, “I Left My Wallet in El Segundo”, in People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm, performed by A Tribe Called Quest:
text: I strap out, step out in every direction / Glock, TECs, jimmy hats, in case I need protection
ref: 1993, “Just Another Day”, in Black Reign, performed by Queen Latifah:
synonyms: word: condom
word: cum catcher
word: rubber
glosses: A condom.
Related terms: you Jimmy hat
chœnixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chœnix
phœnixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phœnix
Œnanthe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Oenanthe.
alla breve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian alla breve (“at the breve”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A time signature for which the half note is the beat and there are two beats per measure.
Synonyms: sense: time signature
word: cut time
sense: time signature
word: cut common time
alla breve
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian alla breve (“at the breve”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: According to the time signature for which the half note is the beat and there are two beats per measure.
Related terms: 𝄵
zoöglœic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more zoöglœic
form: most zoöglœic
Senses: examples: text: a, Rectilineal forms of Cladothrix dichotoma in the act of passing to the zoöglœic state (stained first with solution of iodine, then with methyl violet or fuchsine), × 600. b, Beginning of the zoöglœic state of the Bacterium osteophilum (colouring with vesuvine, then with methyl‐violet, and lastly with solution of iodine), × 600.
ref: 1895, Filandro Vicentini, International Journal of Microscopy & Natural Science, volume XIV, page 437:
glosses: Alternative spelling of zoogloeic.
lagenæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In the Butlery, of 3165 lagenæ and two quarts of ale, there were expended “ in domicilio ” thirty‐six lagenæ.
ref: 1826, Henry Ellis, Archæologia, J. B. Nichols and Son, page 3:
glosses: plural of lagena
gleecraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English gleocræft, from Old English glēocræft, glīwcræft (“music, art of music, minstrelsy”), equivalent to glee + -craft.
Senses: examples: text: Other things earthen, as they fade and crumble, Sing deathsongs in the minor key of gleecraft.
ref: 1898, William Marshall, Aarbert:
text: This could be revived in the form gleecraft.
ref: 1910, Poet lore, volume 21, page 251:
text: It was the outshapen uptippening of a bad tide; but some folk are wont to forsend all deemstery of gleecraft as inwoning.
ref: 1948, New Statesman: the week-end review
text: Your heart sang with his gleecraft, words wondrously wrought, kennings keen with knowing.
ref: 1995, Staszek, Three-hand jax & other spells:
glosses: Music; the art of music.
blowhorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blowhorns
form: blow horn
form: blow-horn
Etymology: From blow + horn.
Senses: examples: text: "Pick up your toys" takes a parental blowhorn to permeate the brain of a young child.
ref: 1987 February 11, Jeff Kunerth, “Deaf ear may be best deterrent”, in Orlando Sentinal, page E1:
text: He remembers the sad, droning sound of a blowhorn from a dredge barge, a plea for help as it was swept out to sea.
ref: 1998 April 19, “Back When Beach Was Best: Resident, 81, shares memories with commission”, in Miami Herald:
text: [F]rom atop enormous snow banks they sang civil rights-era songs and waited for the speakers from inside to come outside to deliver their speeches via blowhorn.
ref: 2003 January 15, Heidi Shott, “Episcopalians: Mainers stand firm against racism in gatherings and vigils across the state”, in Worldwide Faith News, USA, retrieved 02 Aug 2011:
text: "We could stand outside with a blowhorn and say you are all sinners but the reality is that doesn't work," Mr Davies said.
ref: 2009 Feb. 24, Matthew Johnston, "Bible bid to stop porn addiction at Sexpo," Herald Sun (Australia) (retrieved 25 Feb. 2009)
text: I’m talking, of course, about the vuvuzela. Essentially, a metre-long blowhorn, which you may struggle to get past a steward at an English football ground.
ref: 2010 June 1, David Pickthall, “Are you ready to make some noise?”, in North-West Evening Mail, UK, retrieved 02 Aug 2011:
glosses: A device, often funnel-shaped and sometimes hand-held, which is used to emit loud sounds or amplified human speech.
Synonyms: bullhorn
loudhailer
megaphone
blow horn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blow horns
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blowhorn.
blow-horn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blow-horns
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blowhorn.
bull horn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bull horns
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bullhorn.
bull-horn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bull-horns
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bullhorn.
hailer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈheɪlə/
homophone: haler
Forms: form: hailers
Etymology: From hail + -er.
Senses: examples: text: "Hullo, Downe—is that you?" said the driver of the vehicle, a young man of pale and refined appearance. "Jump up here with me, and ride down to your door."
The other turned a plump, cheery, rather self-indulgent face over his shoulder towards the hailer.
"O, good evening, Mr. Barnet—thanks," he said.
ref: 1880, Thomas Hardy, chapter 1, in Fellow Townsmen:
glosses: A person who or a device which calls, summons loudly, or hails.
Derived terms: loudhailer
internally displaced person
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˌtɜːnəli dɪsˌpleɪst ˈpɜːsn̩/
ipa: /ɪnˌtɜɹnəli dɪsˌpleɪst ˈpɜɹs(ə)n/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sən
Forms: form: internally displaced persons
form: internally displaced people
Etymology: From internally + displaced + person.
Senses: examples: text: By the end of 2022 the number of internally displaced people (IDPs) – those forced from their homes but remaining within their country of residence – reached 71 million, according to figures published by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), up from 59.1 million in 2021.
ref: 2023 May 11, Lizzy Davies, “Conflict and climate disasters combine to create record rise in displaced people”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Nov 2023:
synonyms: IDP
internal refugee
hypernyms: displaced person
glosses: Someone who is forced to flee their home but who remains within their country's borders.
wikipedia: President of Ukraine
Russian invasion of Ukraine
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Related terms: displaced person
internal displacement
internally displaced
refugee
rounsey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rounseys
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of rouncy.
rounseys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rounsey
raggle-taggle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɡ(ə)ltaɡ(ə)l/
Forms: form: more raggle-taggle
form: most raggle-taggle
Etymology: Alteration of rag-tag; see also -le.
Senses: examples: text: The cocky little foot soldiers who had mopped up the north Burma jungle saw a knot of blue-grey, raggle-taggle men at the junction and wanted to fire on them.
ref: 1945 February 5, “Linked at Last”, in Time:
text: Gradually, these raggle-taggle remnants of the original counter-culture built up a neo-medieval economy based around crafts, alternative medicine and entertainment: jugglers, acrobats, healers, food vendors, candle makers, clothes sellers, tattooists, piercers, jewellers, and drug pedlars.
ref: 1998, Simon Reynolds, Energy Flash, Soft Skull Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 136:
text: The raggle-taggle host of freedmen dwarfed her own, but they were more burden than benefit.
ref: 2000 August 8, George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, “Daenerys [Targaryen]”, in A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire; 3), London: Voyager, →ISBN, page 475:
text: The prime minister must know that the only way to achieve his stated goal is to topple Gaddafi, and his intelligence will have informed him that the raggle-taggle army in Benghazi cannot do it for him.
ref: 2011 March 22, Simon Jenkins, The Guardian:
glosses: Disorderly, in a messy or chaotic state; ragged.
damn all
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: "The rice ration's down to nearly damn-all in the kampongs, but we keep finding dumps of grub in the forest."
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 298:
text: And that's just to let you see we don't spend all our time sitting round on our arses doing damn all.
ref: 1976, L. P. Davies, Possession, The Crime Club, →ISBN, page 112:
text: Humphrey Appleby: Well, isn't that rather serious? I mean Buranda's a friendly African country with a Commonwealth connection.
Frederick Stewart: Our information is it's likely to be turned into a hostile LDC with a Cuban connection.
Humphrey Appleby: What will the Government do about it?
Frederick Stewart: The same as they always do:
Both: damn all! (laugh track)
ref: 1980 March 3, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “The Official Visit”, in Yes, Minister, season 1, episode 2, spoken by Humphrey Appleby and Frederick Stewart (Nigel Hawthorne and John Savident):
glosses: Nothing (not any thing: no thing).
not long
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: "How long have you been in the service?" ―"Not long."
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see not, long.
examples: text: "[…] You ought to try one of these biscuits. They're good."
"I've not long had breakfast," Morgan told him.
ref: 1976, L. P. Davies, Possession, The Crime Club, →ISBN, page 138:
text: So I'd be going along to Elam Church sometimes and they had to go to a spring to get their water for the church; the spring was less'n a quarter of a mile from the church, good spring of water. And I'd be there, maybe not long got there, or I'd be there a pretty good while before I'd see her.
ref: 2018 July 31, Theodore Rosengarten, All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw, Vintage, →ISBN, page 60:
glosses: Fairly recently.
Related terms: not long for
indurable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indurable
form: most indurable
Etymology: From indure + -able.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of endurable.
metœci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The families therefore of the 21,000 citizens amounted to 86,420 souls, and the totality of the metœci may be computed nearly in the same proportion ; for although the exclusion of all males below twenty is not applicable to a computation of the metœci, a deduction of the aged would be necessary, if the 10,000 metœci were those capable of bearing arms.
ref: 1841, William Martin Leake, The Topography of Athens and the Demi, J. Rodwell; second edition, pages 619–620
glosses: plural of metœcus
Bawku
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, town, and municipality in northern Ghana.
Bless
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Blesses
Etymology: Borrowed from Swiss German Bless.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Sunyani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Ghana.
Kumasi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Comassie
Senses: examples: text: The pastor of the largest Pentecostal church in Kumasi was stomping back and forth onstage, using his feet as exclamation marks.
ref: 2020, Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom, Viking (2021), page 190:
glosses: A city in Ghana.
Aflao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Ghana on the Togolese border.
Lilla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lillas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Lilla.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
limicolous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: That lives in mud.
Related terms: limicoline
lyncean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lyncean
form: most lyncean
Senses: glosses: lynx (attributive)
glosses: acute (of eyesight)
linolein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linoleins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A triglyceride containing three linoleic acid residues
script supervisors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of script supervisor
secondary modern schools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secondary modern school
second-degree murders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of second-degree murder
I have a question
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Indicates that the speaker wants to ask a question.
Lipari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Liparis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Lipari.
Senses: glosses: A placename:
The largest of the Aeolian Islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the northern coast of Sicily, southern Italy.
glosses: A placename:
A municipality in the province of Messina, Sicily, Italy and the largest settlement of the homonymous island.
glosses: A habitational surname from Italian.
Derived terms: Liparian
liparite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liparites
Etymology: From Lipari + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Rhyolite.
dacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of daks.
dacks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dack
polyfill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of polyester + fill.
Senses: examples: text: The racks include blouses and sweaters and some polyfill vests, with corduroy coats and outerwear due to be in stock as the weather cools.
ref: 1981 October 11, Jeanne Clare Feron, “Careful Shopper; Elmsford Warehouse A Weekend Store”, in New York Times, page 16:
text: The first article, designated a troll, is 12 inches tall, composed of polyfill with a cotton knit shell.
ref: 1989 June 14, John Durant, “Classification of stuffed doll and stuffed clown rattle”, in Commodity Classification Under the Harmonized System, volume 1, number 4, United States Customs Service, page 215:
glosses: A synthetic textile used for bulk or insulation, e.g., in stuffed animals or coats.
polyfill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of polygon + fill.
Senses: examples: text: In the process i have come up with the following algorithm , and i wonder if it is a good one (i.e. fast), and also if anyone can give me tips on any other fast polyfill algoritm^([sic]).
ref: 1992 February 3, Paal K Holmberg, “question on polyfill algorithm”, in comp.graphics (Usenet), message-ID <1992Feb3.120657.7173@alf.uib.no>:
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An algorithm to fill a polygon with a particular color.
polyfill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyfills
Etymology: Named with reference to the spackling paste Polyfilla.
Senses: examples: text: A common way to group elements for collective use by JavaScript is to assign them the same (CSS) class and then to use getElementsByClassName(). Possibly with a polyfill for the "certain old browser".
ref: 2016 April 17, Stefan Weiss, “A few problems with looping thru a set of elements with the same "name" specifier.”, in comp.lang.javascript (Usenet), message-ID <nf03hk$bll$1@news.albasani.net>:
hypernyms: shim
qualifier: web development
glosses: A plugin that provides the functionality of newer browsers to older versions.
polyfill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: polyfills
form: polyfilling
form: polyfilled
form: polyfilled
Etymology: Named with reference to the spackling paste Polyfilla.
Senses: examples: text: See the FAQ. Or polyfill String.prototype.trim() if necessary and just call .trim().
ref: 2017 January 17, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn, “form sending undefined”, in comp.lang.javascript (Usenet), message-ID <1645793.CQOukoFCf9@PointedEars.de>:
qualifier: web development
glosses: To create or apply a polyfill.
ligroine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ligroines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ligroin.
Dall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A lake in Alaska.
Dar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Ultimately from Arabic دار (dār).
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Dar es Salaam.
Dar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A feminine name, diminutive of given names such as Daria and Darlene.
green roof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green roofs
Senses: synonyms: ecoroof
glosses: A roof of a house or other building which is covered with soil and grass, plants, trees, or other landscaping materials.
glosses: A roof of a house or other building on which solar panels, solar hot water collectors, wind powered turbines, or other natural energy collectors are placed.
glosses: A roof of a house or other building which is designed to collect rainfall for use in gardens, lawns, or as drinking water.
green roofs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green roof
green rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green room
pseudofaeces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudofeces
Etymology: From pseudo- + faeces.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Particles rejected by a mollusk as unsuitable for food and expelled without passing through the digestive tract.
pseudofeces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + feces.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pseudofaeces.
TQ
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: synonyms: TY
glosses: Abbreviation of thank you.
Sheffer stroke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sheffer strokes
form: Sheffer's stroke
Etymology: After Henry M. Sheffer.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The vertical bar symbol ( | ), denoting the NAND operation.
wikipedia: Henry M. Sheffer
sheetsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheetsman
pinhole camera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinhole cameras
Senses: examples: text: Many of today's photographers forget that a pinhole camera — essentially a small box with a hole in it — can be used to produce a quality photograph.
ref: 1981 April 12, Bruce Habegger, “Pinhole cameras can give surprising results”, in New York Times, retrieved 03 Aug 2011:
text: There are never-published treasures like British entrepreneur William Turner's scenes of Shanghai life in the early 1900s — probably taken with a homemade pinhole camera.
ref: 2010 May 3, Don Morrison, “The Capture of Shanghai”, in Time:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A simple lensless device for producing a photographic image, consisting of an enclosed box with film or some other flat photosensitive surface on one interior side and a tiny hole in the opposite side.
Related terms: pin camera
lenseless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of lensless.
leprosylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leprosylike
form: most leprosylike
Etymology: From leprosy + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Smith heads a group that is screening for leprosylike disease in armadillos in areas of the Texas Gulf Coast[…]
ref: 1982, American Chemical Society, Chemical and engineering news, volume 60, numbers 1-9:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of leprosy.
nonleprotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + leprotic.
Senses: glosses: Not leprotic.
hosemonkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hosemonkeys
form: hose monkey
form: hose-monkey
Etymology: From hose + monkey.
Senses: examples: text: "Want me to ride with you?" she offered. "I'm a registered nurse when I'm not playing hose monkey."
ref: 2009, Steven "Kelly" Grayson, En Route: A Paramedic's Stories of Life, Death, and Everything in Between:
glosses: Term of endearment for a firefighter.
vanette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vanettes
Etymology: From van + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: The GM vanettes and the GM NOVA cars, though, won't look alike — they'll just share chassis pans and some running-gear components.
ref: 1976 July, Popular Mechanics, volume 146, number 1, page 118:
glosses: A small van.
vanettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vanette
SLD
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Initialism of selective linear definite.
qualifier: glass
glosses: Initialism of special low dispersion.
Related terms: sense: special low dispersion
word: LD
sense: special low dispersion
word: ELD
SLD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SLDs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of second-level domain.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of semiconductor laser diode.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of superluminescent diode.
qualifier: graphics
glosses: Initialism of single-line diagram.
qualifier: graphics
glosses: Initialism of straight-line diagram.
qualifier: graphics
glosses: Initialism of Styled Layer Descriptor.
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: Initialism of single lens digital.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
climatology
engineering
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of supercooled large droplet.
Related terms: sense: second-level domain
word: TLD
sense: second-level domain
word: ccTLD
sense: single lens digital
word: SLR
SLD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Scottish Liberal Democrats.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Social and Liberal Democrats, the former name of the Liberal Democrats.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of Stanford Large Detector.
topics: law
glosses: Initialism of Statute Law Database; the former name for legislation.gov.uk.
qualifier: international politics
glosses: Initialism of Shangri-La Dialogue.
book-ghoul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: book-ghouls
Senses: examples: text: There is a thievish nature more hateful than the biblioklept. The Book-Ghoul is he who combines the larceny of the biblioklept with the abominable wickedness of breaking up and mutilating the volumes from which he steals.
ref: 1881, Andrew Lang, The Library, page 56:
text: I bought the text of the volume on bulbs for a dollar. It had been priced at a hundred dollars before some book-ghoul tore out the fifty-eight plates to use as decorations for lamp shades and scrap baskets.
ref: 1959 January 25, Elizabeth Lawrence, edited by Bill Neal, Through the Garden Gate, →ISBN, page 5:
text: And the front doors were locked. Locked for what? Burglary? Ol' book-ghoul come to retrieve his pictures from E-boney?
ref: 1973 August, Julia Fields, “The Plot To Bring Back Dunking”, in Black World, volume 22, number 10, page 70:
glosses: Person who vandalizes books by ripping their pages out and stealing them.
book-ghouls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of book-ghoul
dumb as a bag of hammers
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: You two are just dumber than a bag of hammers!
ref: 2000, O Brother, where are thou?:
text: Kenny: Yeah. Nothing bothers him. Like water off a duck's back, y'know. / Lee: That's a valuable trait lately. / Kenny: No kidding. But frankly, I think it's because he's dumb as a bag of hammers.
ref: 2012 April 24, Telltale Games, The Walking Dead, Windows, Mac OS, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, iOS, Kindle Fire, scene: Greene Family Farm:
synonyms: dumb as a sack of hammers
glosses: Remarkably stupid.
Related terms: Synonyms: dumber than a box of rocks
stupid
unwad
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unwads
form: unwadding
form: unwadded
form: unwadded
Etymology: From un- + wad.
Senses: examples: text: […]and he's never in his life managed to unwad a pair of socks before putting them in the hamper.
ref: 1999, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Kimberly Kirberger, Chicken soup for the college soul, page 37:
text: Glancing back at the bathroom, she picked up and unwadded the paper. It was nothing. Just some download instructions from a computer help screen.
ref: 2009, Terri Blackstock, Double Minds:
glosses: To unfold (something wadded).
unwadded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unwad
unwadded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not having been wadded.
unwadding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unwad
unwads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unwad
autopayment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autopayments
Etymology: From auto- + payment.
Senses: examples: text: It's always a good idea to offer autopayment and autorenewal plans if people might buy your product or service on a repetitive basis. Their credit cards are automatically charged each month, simplifying life for both of you.
ref: 2007, Jay Conrad Levinson, Jeannie Levinson, Amy Levinson, Guerrilla marketing, page 61:
text: Large utility companies use autopayment, where callers can make payments using the telephone keypad rather than speaking to an operator.
ref: 2008, Great Britain: National Audit Office, Management of tax debt: report, page 25:
glosses: automatic payment
gamestress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gamestresses
Etymology: From gamester + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: Lady Buckinghamshire, it may be remarked, was, perhaps, the most notorious gamestress of her day. She actually slept with a pair of pistols and a blunderbuss by her side for the protection of her cherished bank.
ref: 1896, Horace Williams Fuller, Thomas Tileston Baldwin, Sydney Russell Wrightington, The Green Bag, volume 8:
glosses: A female gamester.
gamestresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gamestress
up bow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: up bows
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: movement from the tip to the frog on the bow of a stringed instrument
virtual address
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: virtual addresses
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The identification of a location in virtual storage that is mapped by the operating system into a location in real storage and thus appears to an application program to be an absolute address
down bow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: down bows
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: movement from the frog to the tip on the bow of a stringed instrument
up bows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of up bow
down bows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of down bow
tenor clef
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenor clefs
form: tenor cliff
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a musical clef that is higher than the bass clef and lower than the alto clef where the A that is a third lower than middle C is the center line
octavate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɒktəveɪt/
/ˈɒkteɪveɪt/
Forms: form: octavates
form: octavating
form: octavated
form: octavated
Etymology: First attested in 1922; formed as octav(e) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), in the musical sense after the French octavier.
Senses: examples: text: The string, originally divided, will continue for some time to “octavate”.
ref: 1922, Diran Alexanian [aut.] and Frederick Fairbanks [tr.], Complete Cello Technique (2003 repub.), page 105
text: Adolphe Sax, when he invented the saxophone, had at first only in mind the object of improving the clarinet by permitting it to ‘octavate.’
ref: 1947, Ernest Closson, translated by Delano Ames, History of the Piano, page 64:
text: ‘Octavate’ (i.e. overblow at the octave. Does decimate mean to overblow at the tenth? Is the Primate the fundamental note of an instrument?).
ref: 1948, The Galpin Society Journal, I-IV, page 69:
text: When it octavates, the holes being closed, it often assumes its natural pitch again on opening the holes, instead of continuing its tones to the octave above, so that it octavates much more easily when the holes are closed than when they are unstopped.
ref: 1957, Marin Mersenne, translated by Roger Eddington Chapman, Harmonie Universelle, page 305:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To sound one octave higher or lower.
To resonate or sound one octave higher or lower.
raw_tags: of an instrument
examples: text: Ability to ornament, octavate, play chords and do some improvising.
ref: 1984, VdGSA News, XXI-XXIV, page 39:
text: He varies and octavates, leaving Bach listeners thunderstruck.
ref: 2004, Deutschland, page 23:
text: 2007, Michael Gallant, “OCTAVATE!: Spread your hands to create powerful sounds.” in Keyboard XXXIII–XXXIV, page unknown
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To sound one octave higher or lower.
To span (at least) one octave in playing a musical instrument.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: A 12-string doubles the octaves of only the lower four strings…. A doubled, capoed guitar “octavates up” the top two strings.
ref: 1999, Jon Chappell, The Recording Guitarist, page 133:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To sound one octave higher or lower.
To double the pitch of (a part of itself).
raw_tags: construed with up
of an instrument
examples: text: To octavate the number one hundred the reasoning is as follows. The square of eight goes into one hundred once with remainder thirty-six. This remainder contains eight to the first power four times with remainder four. Hence to express one hundred to the base 8 we write the digits 144 which in somewhat longer form may be put as 100 = 1×8² + 4×8 + 4.
ref: 1949, The American Mathematical Monthly, LVI, page 463:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To convert (the expression of a number) from denary to octal notation.
Derived terms: octavated
octavating
Related terms: octavation
octavate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɒktəveɪt/
/ˈɒkteɪveɪt/
Forms: form: octavates
Etymology: First attested in the 2000, from octave + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: There is an octavate of odours as well as octavates of notes in music. Like the keys of instruments, certain odours coincide or blend.
ref: 2000, Supriya Kumar Bhattacharjee, Handbook of Aromatic Plants, page 18:
glosses: octave (transfiguratively)
octavates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of octavate
octavates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of octavate
octavated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From octavate + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Ob 2 = violin 2 (octavated, except bar 4, which is from basset-horn 2)
ref: 1987, Bastiaan Blomhert, The Harmoniemusik of Die Entführung aus dem Serail by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, page 60:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Altered to sound a pitch one octave lower than its usual range.
raw_tags: of an instrument
octavating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From octavate + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The idea underlying this section is ‘the exploitation of non-octavating pitch-sieves (scales) and their cyclic transpositions.’
ref: 1977, Contact, XVIII-XXIII, page 43:
text: The tenor, originally written in standard G clef, is here written in octavating G clef, showing that it is to be read an octave lower than it is notated.
ref: 1984, Richard A. Crawford, editor, The Core Repertory of Early American Psalmody, page xvii:
text: Ob 1 = flute 1 (= octavating violin 1)
ref: 1987, Bastiaan Blomhert, The Harmoniemusik of Die Entführung aus dem Serail by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, page 60:
text: Soprano, alto, and tenor clefs used for the corresponding vocal parts in the principal and concordant sources have been changed here respectively to treble, treble, and octavating treble.
ref: 1994, Antonio Salieri, edited by Jane Schatkin Hettrick, Mass in D Major, preface, page xii:
text: The tenor is here written in the octavating G clef, indicating that it is to be sung an octave lower than notated. The counter parts in part 1, which were originally meant to be read as though octavating, are here written at actual pitch.
ref: 1995, Stephen Jenks, edited by David Warren Steel, Collected Works, page xlviii:
text: Clefs for the treble and bass have been retained, the treble clef substituted for the alto clef in the counter, and the octavating treble clef supplied to the tenor.
ref: 1995, Daniel Read, edited by Karl Kroeger, Collected Works, pages 221–222:
text: The octavating treble clef has been used for the tenor part, indicating that it should be sung an octave lower than written.
ref: 1997, Timothy Swan, edited by Nym Cooke, Psalmody and Secular Songs, page 268:
text: In the expanded Gamut with its octavating hexachords, all C’s, D’s, G’s, and A’s could be allotted three voces.
ref: 2005, David Lasocki, editor, Musicque de Joye, page 316, note 153:
text: I have systematically employed an octavating treble clef for tenor vocal parts.
ref: 2011, Laura Ingalls Wilder, edited by Dale Cockrell, The Ingalls Wilder Family Songbook, page 343:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Transposed by an octave.
natural minor scale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: natural minor scales
Senses: examples: tone - semitone - tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone.
Starting on the note C, this produces a scale with the notes C, D, E♭, F, G, A♭, B♭, C:
{c'd'es'f'g'aes'bes'c}
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A type of minor scale with the 3rd, 6th, and 7th notes lowered by one semitone, with the interval pattern
harmonic minor scale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harmonic minor scales
Senses: examples: tone - semitone - tone - tone - semitone - augmented second - semitone.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a type of minor scale with the 3rd and 6th notes lowered by one semitone, with the interval pattern
quintation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kwĭntāʹshən
ipa: /kwɪnˈteɪʃən/
Forms: form: quintations
Etymology: From quintate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps the quintation of slats came from the hands of the indentured Hollander.
ref: 1946, Thomas Hamilton Ormsbee, The Story of American Furniture, page 161:
glosses: The removal of one fifth (of something).
Coordinate terms: sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: septimation (1
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: 7)
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: decimation (1
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: 10)
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: vicesimation (1
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: 20)
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: tricesimation (1
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: 30)
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: centesimation (1
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: 100)
melodic minor scale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melodic minor scales
Senses: examples: tone - semitone - tone - tone - tone - tone - semitone, and
tone - semitone - tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a type of minor scale with the 3rd note lowered by one semitone when the scale is played ascending, and the 3rd, 6th, and 7th notes lowered by one semitone when descending, with the interval patterns
natural minor scales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of natural minor scale
harmonic minor scales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harmonic minor scale
melodic minor scales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melodic minor scale
on the receiving end
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: at the receiving end
Senses: examples: text: I have always been on the receiving end of his unpredictable temper.
text: And their job was done after a sensational opening burst brought four goals in the first 25 minutes as Chelsea were left bedraggled, humiliated and on the receiving end of their worst defeat since they lost 7-0 at Nottingham Forest in April 1991.
ref: 2019 February 10, Phil McNulty, “Manchester City 6-0 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: being the victim of an unpleasant action
at the receiving end
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of on the receiving end.
spineboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spineboards
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spine board.
spine board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spine boards
form: spineboard
form: spine-board
Senses: examples: text: According to Renn, Murphy, who was semi-conscious at the time, was strapped to the spine board.
ref: 1974 April 15, Paula Estep, “Youth critically hurt in 150-feet fall here”, in Williamson Daily News, USA, retrieved 03 Aug 2011, page 2:
text: A cervical collar was applied and she was placed on a spine board for removal from the vehicle.
ref: 1980 July 28, “Passenger Hospitalized after Car Leaves Road”, in Lewiston Daily Sun, USA, retrieved 03 Aug 2011, page 18:
text: He was carried from the field in a spineboard, asking, "Am I going to be paralyzed?"
ref: 1993 May 22, Rich Cimini, “Facing His Past: Byrd reflects after visiting collision site”, in Newsday, USA, retrieved 03 Aug 2011, page 103:
text: Paramedics then climbed up, slathered a soothing gel on his burns, gave him pain medication, a neck brace and slid him on a spine board.
ref: 2010 November 9, “Worker hospitalised after 22,000-volt jolt”, in ABC News, Australia, retrieved 03 Aug 2011:
topics: emergency-medicine
medicine
sciences
synonyms: backboard
longboard
long spine board
spinal board
glosses: A rigid carrying surface for an injured person, designed to prevent the movement of the spine during transportation in order to prevent further damage to it.
spine-board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spine-boards
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spine board.
long spine board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long spine boards
Senses: glosses: Synonym of spine board.
synonyms: word: spine board
spinal board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spinal boards
Senses: glosses: Synonym of spine board.
synonyms: word: spine board
genoise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genoises
form: génoise
Etymology: From French, named after the city of Genoa.
Senses: glosses: A classic European sponge cake.
stop motion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stop motions
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stop-motion.
skysill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskaɪˌsɪl/
Forms: form: skysills
form: sky-sill
Etymology: From sky + sill.
Senses: examples: text: When the sun sinks below the skysill (his word for horizon) there is most often in England the gloom of mistiness.
ref: 1960, William Turner Levy, William Barnes: the man and the poems:
text: Rooftops stagger the skysill. Clouds coast from nowhere to Nowhere as row upon row below Planetrees shuttle the moted Air.
ref: 1992, International Poetry Society, Orbis: Issues 84–87:
text: They first appeared as two bumps rolling over the skysill, which quickly proved to be the connected outer points of a low ridge.
ref: 1995, Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars:
glosses: Horizon.
Related terms: skyline
wart-biter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wart-biters
Senses: glosses: A bush-cricket, Decticus verrucivorus, once used to bite off warts from the skin
airblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airblast
Thamud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Thamuds
Etymology: From Arabic ثَمُود (ṯamūd).
Senses: glosses: A member of a people of ancient Arabia, known from the first millennium B.C.E. to near the time of Muhammad, and according to the Qur'an punished and destroyed by an earthquake.
Related terms: Thamudic
Thamuds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Thamud