cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
quintessentiality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quintessentialities
Etymology: From quintessential + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Every corner therefore was crowded, save only that one box which, as in a microcosm, is wont to contain the very quintessentiality of the fashion and ton of London.
ref: 1835, Lady Sydney Morgan, The Princess; or, The Beguine, Volume 1, R. Bentley, pages 5-6:
text: At all events, the spirit of these great fathers of the first philosophy was upon him, and Humbughausen was a concentrated quintessentiality of them all,—one, to whom dreaming was a natural condition; one who, while his external senses were proof against the rudest impressions, could do so much better without them, as to be intuitively conversant not only with all actual, but all possible existence.
ref: 1838, The New Monthly Magazine 1838-07: Volume 53, Issue 211, Open Court Publishing Company, page 304:
text: The ability to rule, the power to stand alone and to swing the club, the power to take and, having taken, to keep, was the very quintessentiality of his existence.
ref: 1905, Arthur Wellington Brayley, Arthur Wilson Tarbell, Joseph Mitchell Chapple, National Magazine, Volume 22, Issue 6, Bostonian Publishing Company, Chapple Publishing Company, page 677:
text: We have heard so much about the sins of big business that we have come to regard little business as the quintessentiality of innocent martyrdom.
ref: 1915, The Los Angeles Times, The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times Communications LLC, page 580:
text: It instigates, begins, leaves off, and then continues, rousiag to action the hearer’s innate need of an aim and an order and meaning in things. Its subtle gestures, its brief, sharp, delicate phrases, its quintessentiality, are like the thrusting open of doors into the interiors of the conscience, the opening of windows on long vistas, are like the breaking of light upon obscured memories and buried emotions.
ref: 1970, David Ewen, From Bach to Stravinsky: The History of music by Its Foremost Critics, AMS Press, page 300:
glosses: The quality of being quintessential.
glosses: Something that is quintessential.
quintessentialities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quintessentiality
spirit way
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪ
Forms: form: spirit ways
Etymology: Calque of Chinese 神道 (shéndào).
Senses: glosses: An ornate road leading to the Chinese tomb of a major dignitary.
Synonyms: sacred way
spirit path
spirit road
spirit ways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spirit way
Rockingham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rockinghams
Etymology: From the Old English personal name Hroc or *Hrōca + -ing (“belonging to”) + hām (“homestead”).
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, England, previously in Corby district (OS grid ref SP8691).
glosses: A placename:
A census-designated place in Bacon County, Georgia, United States.
glosses: A placename:
An unincorporated community in Ray County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: A placename:
An unincorporated community in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A city, the county seat of Richmond County, North Carolina, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A town in Windham County, Vermont, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A community in Nova Scotia, Canada.
glosses: A placename:
A local government area and suburb of Perth, Western Australia, named after the ship Rockingham, which was blown ashore there; in full, the City of Rockingham.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Rockingham County
Rockingham
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the Old English personal name Hroc or *Hrōca + -ing (“belonging to”) + hām (“homestead”).
Senses: glosses: A 19th-century style of finely decorated porcelain.
sacred way
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sacred ways
Senses: glosses: A spirit way.
spirit path
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spirit paths
Senses: glosses: A spirit way.
spirit road
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spirit roads
Senses: glosses: A spirit way.
sacred ways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sacred way
spirit paths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spirit path
spirit roads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spirit road
direct debits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of direct debit
quadrapartite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of quadripartite.
bannerman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bannermen
Etymology: From banner + -man.
Senses: examples: text: Everything basically winds up the way you’d expect, with Jon heading to Dragonstone to scope out Dany while Cersei more or less successfully marshals some Tyrell bannermen and some Qyburn inventions for the defense of King’s Landing. But it doesn’t feel like a foregone conclusion.
ref: 2017 July 23, Brandon Nowalk, “The great game begins with a bang on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: A person assigned to carry the colours, standards or guidons of a military unit.
glosses: A man who belonged to the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty.
glosses: A person of Manchu descent.
glosses: A samurai in the direct service of the Tokugawa shogunate of feudal Japan, also known as a hatamoto.
bannermen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bannerman
Beamish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Beamishes
Etymology: Habitational surname of Norman origin, from the village of Beaumais, in Normandy. The village in County Durham shares the same etymology.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Norman.
glosses: A village in Urpeth parish, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ2253).
Napoleonically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Napoleonically
form: most Napoleonically
Etymology: From Napoleonic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: his hands being duly folded Napoleonically behind his back
ref: 1857, “The Great Mr Wickham”, in Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature Science and Arts, volume 7, page 310:
text: Arrested with his hand in his breast pocket Napoleonically, he imbibed his slow, steady nourishment.
ref: 1963, Edward Lewis Wallant, chapter 4, in The Tenants of Moonbloom, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, page 47:
text: As the three generals met, Campbell’s soldiers raised a cheer, and Havelock, at the moment of his glory, greeted them Napoleonically.
ref: 1973, Jan Morris, chapter 11, in Heaven’s Command, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1980, page 241:
text: His expression aloof, almost haughty, the fingers of his plastered right arm tucked Napoleonically in his shirt, he sat upright in the front seat […]
ref: 2003, Lionel Shriver, “We Need to Talk About Kevin”, in Counterpoint, New York, page 198:
glosses: In a Napoleonic manner.
mad as hops
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Very angry.
overalert
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overalert
form: most overalert
Etymology: From over- + alert.
Senses: glosses: Excessively alert.
Derived terms: overalertness
overalertness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From overalert + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being overalert.
castratively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more castratively
form: most castratively
Etymology: From castrative + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The scenework proves unsuccessful when Carmichael recalls not the source of her misandry but another episode of overacting, that of castratively biting off the moustache of an amorous man.
ref: 2016, Leslie H. Abramson, Hitchcock & the Anxiety of Authorship:
glosses: In a castrative manner.
castrativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From castrative + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Most of these mothers also had dominating mothers and submissive fathers of their own, and their husbands had also been obedient sons of dominating mothers; in Freudian terms, the castrativeness all around was rather extreme.
ref: 2010, Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique, page 289:
glosses: The quality of being castrative.
Ashford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæʃfəd/
Etymology: From Old English æscet (“a clump of ash trees”) + ford or, alternatively, from æsc (“an ash tree”) + ford. Equivalent to ash + ford.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
examples: A local government district with borough status of Kent, formed in 1974, with its headquarters in the town; in full, the Borough of Ashford.
glosses: A number of places in England:
A town in Kent (OS grid ref TR0142).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A town in Spelthorne borough, Surrey, historically in Middlesex (OS grid ref TQ0671).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village in North Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS5335).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village in South Hams district, Devon (OS grid ref SX6848).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village in Derbyshire: see Ashford-in-the-Water.
glosses: A village in County Wicklow, Ireland (Irish grid ref T2797).
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Houston County, Alabama.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Windham County, Connecticut.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Cattaraugus County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
Synonym of Satsuma, Texas.
synonyms: word: Satsuma
word: Texas
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place mostly in Pierce County, Washington.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town and unincorporated community therein, in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in the town of Dayton, Richland County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A village in Inverell Shire, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A suburb of Adelaide in the City of West Torrens, South Australia.
Derived terms: Ashford Bowdler
Ashford Carbonel
Ashford Carbonell
Ashford Hill
Ashford-in-the-Water
transrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: transrates
form: transrating
form: transrated
form: transrated
Etymology: From trans- + rate.
Senses: glosses: To change the bitrate of (a video stream).
Related terms: transcode
transrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of transrate
transrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of transrate
transrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of transrate
Löwenheim-Skolem theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for Leopold Löwenheim and Thoralf Skolem.
Senses: qualifier: mathematical logic
glosses: A theorem stating that, if a countable first-order theory has an infinite model, then for every infinite cardinal number κ it has a model of size κ. The result implies that first-order theories are unable to control the cardinality of their infinite models, and that no first-order theory with an infinite model can have a unique model up to isomorphism.
milk stout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milk stouts
Senses: glosses: A stout containing lactose.
paracoccidioidomycoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paracoccidioidomycosis
paracoccidioidomycotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to paracoccidioidomycosis.
guilded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of gilded.
quaalude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quaaludes
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Quaalude.
cabinboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cabinboys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cabin boy.
oncivility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oncivilities
Senses: glosses: Rare form of uncivility.
knightress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knightresses
Etymology: From knight + -ress.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of knightess.
marshaless
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marshalesses
form: marshalless
Etymology: From marshal + -ess.
Senses: glosses: female marshal
court-marshal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of court-martial.
court-marshal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of court-martial.
court marshal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of court martial.
court marshal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of court martial.
marshal law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of martial law.
marshal art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of martial art.
marshalless
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marshallesses
Etymology: From marshall + -ess.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of marshaless.
median line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪn
Forms: form: median lines
Senses: examples: text: Taiwan’s air force said it scrambled jets after 18 Chinese aircraft, including bombers and fighters, crossed the so-called median line that divides the Taiwan Strait.
ref: 2020 September 18, Wendy Tang, “US to sell missiles to Taiwan amid China tensions”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2021:
text: Eleven Chinese military aircraft crossed the Taiwan Strait's median line or entered Taiwan’s air defence zone on Sunday, Taiwan's Defence Ministry said, as Beijing continues military activities close to the Chinese-claimed island.
ref: 2022 August 14, Yi-Mou Lee, Shanghai Newsroom, “Taiwan says 11 Chinese military aircraft crossed Taiwan's median line”, in David Goodman, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2022, Asia Pacific:
text: The latest military exercise was notable for breaking a single-day record, both in total number of aircraft deployed as well as the number that crossed the so-called median line, an informal boundary between the two sides. Forty-seven out of the 71 aircraft crossed that line, according to the Taiwanese defense ministry. Passing over the line is seen as more provocative, because the aircraft would be on a straight course over Taiwan if they did not veer away.
ref: 2022 December 26, Amy Chang Chien, Chang Che, “With Record Military Incursions, China Warns Taiwan and the U.S.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Dec 2022, Asia Pacific:
text: Taiwanese authorities said eight military ships and 42 warplanes were spotted near Taiwan from 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. local time Saturday. Twenty-nine of those jets had flown close to Taiwanese airspace or crossed the median line — an unofficial boundary running down the middle of the Taiwan Strait — that Beijing has increasingly violated in recent months.
ref: 2023 April 8, Christian Shepherd, Vic Chiang, “Chinese military starts drills encircling Taiwan after Tsai’s U.S. visits”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Apr 2023, Asia:
text: Its map of Chinese activities over the past 24 hours showed fighter jets crossing the median line of the Taiwan Strait, which had served as an unofficial barrier between the two sides until China began regularly crossing it a year ago.
ref: 2023 September 18, “Taiwan urges China to stop ‘destructive’ military activities as fighter jets cross median line”, in The Guardian, sourced from Reuters/AP, →ISSN:
glosses: A line drawn (on a map) in a maritime area which marks the maritime boundary between two countries.
blastor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blastors
Etymology: From blast + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Well it was for me that, in obedience to Hul Jok's imperative command, I was holding my Blastor pointing ahead of me; for as I blundered full upon the monstrosity it upheaved its ugly bulk—how I do not know, for I saw no legs nor did it have wings—to one edge and would have flopped down upon me, but instinctively I slid forward the catch on the tiny Blastor, and the foul thing vanished—save for a few fragments of its edges—smitten into nothingness by the vibration hurled forth from that powerful little disintegrator.
ref: 1925 April, Nictzin Dyalhis, “When the Green Star Waned”, in Weird Tales, volume 5, number 4, page 6:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Alternative form of blaster (“hand weapon”).
Hypernyms: energy weapon
ray gun
equidimensionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more equidimensionally
form: most equidimensionally
Etymology: From equidimensional + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Proportional crater growth depicts a crater that enlarges equidimensionally (diameter, depth, shape) throughout time (Fig. 4a.)
ref: 1988, Faith Vilas, Clark R. Chapman, Mildred Shapley Matthews, Mercury, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 280:
glosses: In an equidimensional way; with respect to the property of equidimensionality.
blastors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blastor
sored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Subjected to soring.
raw_tags: of a horse
Salto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Saltos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Salto.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
jacks in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jack in
jacking in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jack in
jacked in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jack in
woodstars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woodstar
chinkles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chinkle
chinkles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chinkle
chinkling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chinkle
chinkled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chinkle
neuroelectrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + electrical.
Senses: glosses: neuroelectric
tahine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Arabic طَحِينَة (ṭaḥīna), from the root ط ح ن (ṭ-ḥ-n) related to grinding. Final -e is the standard pronunciation in Levantine Arabic.
Senses: glosses: tahini (sesame paste)
long gray line
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the long gray line
Etymology: After the gray winter overcoats worn by Army cadets.
Senses: glosses: The graduates of the United States Military Academy.
multiflora rose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiflora roses
Etymology: Partial calque of translingual Rosa multiflora.
Senses: glosses: A plant of the species Rosa multiflora, native to East Asia, considered invasive in the US.
Synonyms: sense: Rosa multiflora
word: Rosa polyantha
sense: Rosa multiflora
word: baby rose
sense: Rosa multiflora
word: Japanese rose
sense: Rosa multiflora
word: many-flowered rose
sense: Rosa multiflora
word: seven-sisters rose
sense: Rosa multiflora
word: Eijitsu rose
sense: Rosa multiflora
word: many-flower rose
sense: Rosa multiflora
word: multiflower rose
sense: Rosa multiflora
word: rambler rose
welfare queens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of welfare queen
BAP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BAPs
Senses: examples: text: [Condoleezza Rice is] a BAP—a bona fide Black American Princess—who exhibits all the telltale qualities of the category: a razor-sharp proficiency, cool manner and a good daughter's devotion to carrying out orders.
ref: 2002 November 26, Adrienne Crew, “BAP like me”, in Salon, archived from the original on 15 Jul 2007:
glosses: Acronym of Black American princess, an upper-class black woman with a spoiled or materialistic attitude.
topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: The ship prefix for a ship from the navy of Peru.
BAP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: In a speech earlier this year, Peter Thiel said that while he found BAP’s solutions to modern problems “tempting,” he disagreed with his “distortions to the Judeo-Christian tradition.”
ref: 2023 July 16, Rosie Gray, “How Bronze Age Pervert Built an Online Following and Injected Anti-Democracy, Pro-Men Ideas Into the GOP”, in Politico, archived from the original on 28 Jul 2023:
text: It is hard to convey precisely what BAP believes, in part because his views are so outlandish that even when stated simply, they sound like incoherent ranting.
ref: 2023 August 3, Graeme Wood, “How Bronze Age Pervert Charmed the Far Right”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Aug 2023:
text: BAP has produced an ungrammatical and meandering but refreshingly brief “exhortation” (as he terms it) that reveals a widely read mind.
ref: 2023 September 23, John Gray, “Bronze Age Pervert will not save the American right”, in The New Statesman, archived from the original on 02 Oct 2023, retrieved 01 May 2025:
qualifier: far-right
glosses: Initialism of Bronze Age Pervert, a far-right Internet personality.
Derived terms: BAPism
BAPist
cyberscam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberscams
Etymology: From cyber- + scam.
Senses: glosses: A scam carried out by means of computers or the Internet.
cyberscams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberscam
beauty dish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beauty dishes
Etymology: So called from its dish-like shape and its use in portrait and fashion photography.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A photographic lighting device that uses a parabolic reflector to distribute light towards a focal point.
beauty dishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beauty dish
rakeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rake + -less.
Senses: glosses: Having no rake.
phenicopters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phenicopter
palateless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From palate + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a palate.
paradeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From parade + -less.
Senses: glosses: Not having a parade.
paragonless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From paragon + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a paragon.
roisterings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roistering
Loubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: Lexi passed Molly a pair of snakeskin, strappy sandals with five-inch stiletto heels. They had bright red leather soles. 'Louboutins,' she said. 'Every girl needs a pair of Loubs.' They were another eight hundred euros.
ref: 2012, Katie Agnew, Too Hot to Handle:
text: My fans know the words, while yours be humming. / My man buy me Loubs, why yours be bumming? / Got twice as many pairs as you; I'm doubling.
ref: 2013, Chanel West Coast (Chelsea Chanel Dudley), Alcoholic (rap song)
glosses: shoes designed by Christian Louboutin
Guadalupe fur seal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːl
Forms: form: Guadalupe fur seals
Senses: glosses: Arctocephalus townsendi, a fur seal found on Mexico's Guadalupe Island.
fur seals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fur seal
szlachcic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: szlachcics
Etymology: From Polish szlachcic.
Senses: glosses: A Polish or Lithuanian nobleman.
Related terms: Szlachta
Abcde
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈæb.sə.diː/
Etymology: From the first five letters of the English alphabet.
Senses: glosses: A unisex given name originating as a coinage.
Tarim Basin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: More surprises were in store. In the last two decades, Chinese archeologists digging in the same region, the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang Province, have uncovered more than 100 naturally mummified corpses of people who lived there 4,000 to 2,400 years ago.
ref: 1996 May 7, John Noble Wilford, “Mummies, Textiles Offer Evidence Of Europeans in Far East”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Aug 2009, SCIENCE:
text: At Cherchen, the only town of any size in the entire southeastern quadrant of the Tarim Basin (itself an oval 400 by 800 miles in diameter, mostly desert), they learned that locals had discovered an extensive antique cemetery on a plateau above the nearby hamlet of Zaghunluq.
ref: 1999, Elizabeth Wayland Barber, The Mummies of Ürümchi, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 43:
text: The Tarim basin currently has an annual production capacity of over 2 million tonnes of condensate and 10 bcm of natural gas.
ref: 2019 October 4, Aizhu in Singapore Chen, Sun Yilei in Shanghai, “PetroChina unit strikes high oil, gas flows in deep Tarim well”, in Kenneth Maxwell, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2019, Commodities:
synonyms: Tarim Pendi
glosses: An endorheic basin in Xinjiang autonomous region, northwest China, occupying an area of about 906,500 km2 (350,000 sq mi).
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
Related terms: Altishahr
shadowban
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃædoʊbæn/
ipa: /ˈʃædəʊbæn/
Forms: form: shadowbans
form: shadowbanning
form: shadowbanned
form: shadowbanned
form: shadow ban
form: shadow-ban
Etymology: From shadow + ban.
Senses: examples: text: On Wednesday a Vice News story reported that some senior Republican officials were not visible in automatic search results. Vice framed this as “shadow banning” without providing any evidence that it was deliberate.
ref: 2018 July 27, Jason Wilson, “What is 'shadow banning', and why did Trump tweet about it?”, in The Guardian:
text: Over the weekend, Sweeney tweeted that his account had been shadowbanned, meaning that its visibility had been deliberately reduced.
ref: 2022 December 14, Maya Yang, “Twitter suspends account that monitors flight paths of Elon Musk’s private jet”, in The Guardian:
text: You can also use external software designed to check for shadowbanning.
ref: 2023 August 24, Steve Kuhn, “How To Get Unshadowbanned on Twitter”, in ITGeared:
text: On Tuesday, Ghostwriter returned with a new track, titled “Whiplash,” this time using A.I. vocal filters to sound like the rappers Travis Scott and 21 Savage and deliver a message to the industry: “Me and Writer raise a toast,” the A.I. version of 21 Savage raps. “Trying to shadowban my boy/but you can’t kill a ghost.”
ref: 2023 May 9, Joe Coscarelli, “Ghostwriter Returns With an A.I. Travis Scott Song, and Industry Allies”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To ban a user from a community without their knowledge, allowing them to continue reading and commenting, but rendering their contributions invisible or less visible to other users.
glosses: To filter out results without the publisher's knowledge.
raw_tags: of a search engine
Synonyms: ghostban
hellban
stealthban
shadowban
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃædoʊbæn/
ipa: /ˈʃædəʊbæn/
Forms: form: shadowbans
form: shadow ban
form: shadow-ban
Etymology: From shadow + ban.
Senses: examples: text: Is there any basis for the idea that conservatives are being targeted for shadow bans? No – at least not based on what Vice purported to show.
ref: 2018 July 27, Jason Wilson, “What is 'shadow banning', and why did Trump tweet about it?”, in The Guardian:
text: By following the platform's guidelines and treating others with kindness, you'll not only avoid shadowbans but also build a strong and engaged community.
ref: 2024 June 28, “How to get "unshadowbanned" on Twitter!”, in Circleboom Blog:
synonyms: hellban
glosses: An instance of shadowbanning.
broad beans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of broad bean
Wusun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Mandarin 烏孫／乌孙 (Wūsūn) (lit. "Grandchildren/Descendants of the Crow/Raven").
Senses: glosses: An ancient nomadic steppe people who lived in western Gansu in northwest China, near the Yuezhi people, and were defeated by the Xiongnu circa 176 BCE.
Synonyms: Usun
Usun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The Wusun.
Yuezhi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuˌdʒi/
other: /ˈjuˌʒaɪ/
other: /ˈjuˌɛzi/
other: /ˌjuˈɛd͡ʒi/
other: /juˈeɪ.d͡ʒi/
other: /-d͡ʒə/
other: /ju(ˈ)eɪˈt͡ʃi/
Forms: form: Yuechi
form: Yueh-chih
form: Yueh-chi
Etymology: From Mandarin 月氏 (Yuèzhī, literally “Moon Clan”) or 月支 (Yuèzhī, literally “Moon Branch”).
Senses: glosses: An ancient Indo-European people who originally settled in the arid grasslands of the eastern Tarim Basin area, in what is today Xinjiang and western Gansu, in China, before migrating to Transoxiana, Bactria and then northern South Asia, where one branch of the Yuezhi founded the Kushan Empire.
Synonyms: Rouzhi
Rouzhi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Mandarin 月氏, from the theory that 月 was a misspelling of 肉 (ròu) (as in seal script), now largely deprecated based on the modern archaeological discoveries.
Senses: glosses: The Yuezhi.
fiery crosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fiery cross
Ciudad Real
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish Ciudad Real (“Royal City, Kingstown”), a common title of major settlements of the Spanish Empire.
Senses: glosses: The capital city of the province of the same name, in the autonomous community of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.
glosses: A province of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.
glosses: A barangay of San Jose del Monte, Bulacan, Philippines.
Guipúzcoa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Guipúzcoa.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Gipuzkoa: A province and historical region of the Basque Country, Spain.
yidam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yidams
Etymology: From Tibetan ཡི་དམ (yi dam), (Sanskrit: समादान (samādān) or སམཱདཱནི (samādāni)).
Senses: examples: text: Yidams are not to be equated with the patron saints or guardian angels found in the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions.
ref: 2004, Chogyam Trungpa, The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa, volume 7:
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A type of deity associated with tantric or Vajrayana Buddhism said to be manifestations of Buddhahood or enlightened mind.
Lugo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluː.ɡəʊ/
ipa: /ˈlu.ɡoʊ/
Senses: glosses: A city of the province of the same name in Galicia, Spain, and its capital.
glosses: A province in northeast Galicia, Spain.
glosses: A comune in Romagna, Italy.
Pontevedra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Galicia, Spain, and the capital of its province.
glosses: A province in southwestern Galicia, Spain.
glosses: A municipality of Capiz, Philippines.
glosses: A municipality of Negros Occidental, Philippines.
Derived terms: New Pontevedra
instarred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of instar
Soria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The capital city of the province of the same name, in the autonomous community of Castile and León, Spain.
glosses: A province of Castile and León, Spain.
cliff swallows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cliff swallow
cactus wrens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cactus wren
Gironan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Girona + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to the city or province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
Gironan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gironans
Etymology: From Girona + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city or province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
cerebromedullary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cerebro- + medullary.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the cerebrum and medulla.
Derived terms: cerebromedullary cistern
Gironans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gironan
bean curds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bean curd
Úbeda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Jaén, Andalusia, Spain.
coencentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Goban rose unsteadily to his feet with Cullan's help, and staggered unsteadily across the hall to a pedestal on which was mounted a nest of coencentric crystal globes.
ref: 1946 January, Edmond Hamilton, “Lost Elysium”, in Weird Tales (Canadian), volume 38, number 3, pages 10–11:
text: The venturi could be constructed by replacing sections of the 4-ft pipe with smaller pipe and specially constructed converging and diverging cones (either offset or coencentric).
ref: 1975, Zachary A. Henry, Instrumentation and Measurement for Environmental Sciences:
text: Still, we all have a sense of the appropriate personal space around us—a kind of zone of privacy that we wear, even on the social sidewalk. Indeed, we have many coencentric circles of personal spaces, plural
ref: 2013, Alexandra Horowitz, On Looking: About Everything There is to See, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 80:
glosses: Misspelling of concentric.
Gould's jewelfront
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gould's jewelfronts
Etymology: Commemorating the English ornithologist and bird artist John Gould (1804–1881)
Senses: glosses: A species of hummingbird, Heliodoxa aurescens.
wikipedia: John Gould
jewelfront
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jewelfronts
Etymology: From jewel + front.
Senses: glosses: A species of hummingbird, Gould's jewelfront (Heliodoxa aurescens).
Coordinate terms: sense: species of Heliodoxa
word: brilliant
daftnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daftness
jewelfronts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jewelfront
recs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rec
seriosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seriosities
Etymology: From Medieval Latin sēriōsitās, from Late Latin sēriōsus (“serious”) + Latin -itās (“-ity”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of seriousness.
synonyms: word: seriousness
Desis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Desi
Brown Betty teapots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brown Betty teapot
biobots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biobot
nalmetrene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: former name
glosses: The drug nalmefene.
RDFa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of Resource Description Framework in Attributes.
Koyraboro Senni Songhai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The expression "koyra-boro senn-i" denotes "the language of the town dwellers" as opposed to nomads like the Tuareg people and other transhumant people.
Senses: glosses: One of the Songhay languages of Mali.
Synonyms: Koyraboro Senni
Eastern Songhay
Koroboro Senni
Koyra Senni
NGOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NGO
ultrabold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultrabold
form: most ultrabold
Etymology: From ultra- + bold.
Senses: examples: text: Many commercial typefaces come in an "ultrabold" or "heavy bold" weight that is even larger than the regular bold available on the Mac. You can create ultrabold lettering in MacPaint as follows […]
ref: 1986, Lon Poole, Lon Poole's Mac Insights, page 195:
text: In England, a classification standard has been developed that contains eight weights: extralight, light, semilight, medium, semibold, bold, extrabold, and ultrabold.
ref: 2014, Rob Carter, Philip B[axter] Meggs, Ben Day, Sandra Maxa, Mark Sanders, Typographic Design: Form and Communication (Edition 6), →ISBN, page 45:
text: In Frutiger LT, for instance, the lowercase a of the regular font features a rather round curve terminal compared to a fairly flat one in the ultrabold font.
ref: 2021, Heidrun Osterer, Philipp Stamm, Adrian Frutiger – Typefaces. The Complete Works (Edition 3), →ISBN, page 260:
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Bolder than a typical bold typeface.
cry foul
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cries foul
form: crying foul
form: cried foul
form: cried foul
Senses: glosses: To protest about something which appears to be unjust.
mini digger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mini diggers
Senses: glosses: a small excavator with a swivelling superstructure, usually mounted on crawler tracks.
Synonyms: mini excavator
counterprogramme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterprogrammes
Etymology: From counter- + programme.
Senses: glosses: A programme that counters or responds to another programme.
counterprogramme
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: counterprogrammes
form: counterprogramming
form: counterprogrammed
form: counterprogrammed
Etymology: From counter- + programme.
Senses: glosses: to set a counterprogramme
counterprogrammes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterprogramme
MUSH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MUSHes
Etymology: Modelled on earlier MUD; usually explained as "multi-user shared hallucination" (or "hack", "habitat", etc.).
Senses: glosses: A form of multi-user dungeon, often used for online social intercourse and role-playing games.
downvalue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: downvalues
form: downvaluing
form: downvalued
form: downvalued
Etymology: From down- + value.
Senses: glosses: To reduce in value; to devalue.
downvalued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of downvalue
downvaluing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of downvalue
downvalues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of downvalue
dielectricum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A dielectric medium or barrier.
dielectricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dielectricities
Etymology: From di- + electricity.
Senses: glosses: Quality or degree of being dielectric.
dielectricities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dielectricity
don't sweat it
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Do not worry about it.
do me a favour
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Could you possibly do me a favour and pass me that newspaper?
text: Do me a favour and shut up.
glosses: Used to ask someone for a favour (may be polite or sarcastic).
examples: text: You expect me to clean up all this mess for you? Do me a favour.
text: Debbie remained seated. "Go to bed," she ordered.
"With you here? Why what do you think I'll do, cut my throat with an electric razor? I know this dump's enough to drive anybody nuts but do me a favour."
ref: 2012, Keith Blackburn, Changes in a Landscape, page 134:
glosses: Expressing incredulity.
keratotome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keratotomes
Etymology: From kerato- + -tome.
Senses: glosses: The surgical instrument used in keratotomy.
keratotomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keratotome
kneegrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kneegrows
Etymology: A phonetic respelling, as if from knee + grow.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of negro.
kneegrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kneegrow
printables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of printable
shutterlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shutterlike
form: most shutterlike
Etymology: From shutter + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a shutter.
mini excavator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mini excavators
Senses: examples: text: The smaller cross-passages between the two running tunnels are for use in emergencies. Unlike the main tunnels being excavated by Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) Florence and Cecilia, they are dug using remotely controlled mini-excavators.
ref: 2023 December 13, “Network News: HS2 makes good progress on emergency cross-passages... and continues tunnelling from Old Oak Common to Euston”, in RAIL, number 998, page 10:
glosses: Synonym of mini digger.
synonyms: word: mini digger
carrion beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carrion beetles
Senses: glosses: sexton beetle; necrophore
carrion beetles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carrion beetle
quintessentialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quintessentializes
form: quintessentializing
form: quintessentialized
form: quintessentialized
Etymology: From quintessential + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make quintessential; to reduce to its essence.
quintessentializes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of quintessentialize
quintessentializing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quintessentialize
quintessentialized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quintessentialize
quote stuffing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A form of market manipulation employed by high-frequency traders that involves quickly entering and withdrawing large orders in an attempt to flood the market and create confusion.
knightesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knightess
Romanology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Romano- (“Romania, Romanians”) + -ology.
Senses: qualifier: humanities
glosses: The study of Romania and its people.
Romanology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Romano- (“Romani”) + -ology.
Senses: qualifier: humanities
glosses: Synonym of Romani studies.
synonyms: word: Romani studies
Romanophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Romanophobes
Etymology: From Romano- (“Rome, Romans”) + -phobe.
Senses: examples: text: A Greek, and writing in Greek, he seems to take Rome and its history as one of the facts of life. You cannot think of him as either a Romanophobe or a Romanophile.
ref: 1970, David Brook, Search for peace: a reader in international relations, page 39:
text: These were the statues which the Romanophobe Metrodorus from Skepsis claimed were the real reason behind the Roman conquest of the city (cf. Pliny, N.H. XXXIV,34).
ref: 1988, Niels Hannestad, Roman art and imperial policy, Aarhus Universitetsforlag:
text: Any alleviation of the harshest measures toward the Catholics always aroused strong protests from the Romanophobes.
ref: 2013, Paul H. Hardacre, The Royalists during the Puritan Revolution, →ISBN, page 63:
antonyms: Romanophile
glosses: One who fears, hates, or is prejudiced against Rome or the Romans (especially Ancient Rome or the Roman Empire, or sometimes the Roman Catholic Church and Pope in Rome).
Romanophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Romano- (“Rome, Romans”) + -phobe.
Senses: examples: text: [...] betrays the Roman point of view, which its author (J.) has assumed. On the other hand, Berendts had already discussed some very Romanophobe passages in the Slavic version of Josephus, that could not have appeared in the edition of its author which was dedicated to Titus.
ref: 1928, The Quest:
text: That no other nation could equal Rome's influence and affluence is the direct result of her constitutional superiority. ... The disgruntled disloyal Romanophobe Roman Tacitus who scowls 'Cor- ruptissima republica plurimae leges' or [...]
ref: 1947, Frederic Morton, The Hound:
glosses: Fearing or hating Rome or Romans.
Romanophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Romanophobes
Etymology: From Romano- (“Romani”) + -phobe.
Senses: examples: text: George Borrow (1803-1881) has stood as the acknowledged source of inspiration for countless Romanophiles (as well as Romanophobes) ever since his literary heyday in the 19th century; in fact Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald saw himself as quite "unfashionable" (1944:x) because he was one of the few who didn't make his "first acquaintance with [Gypsies] in the pages of George Borrow".
ref: 1997, Yaron Matras, Peter Bakker, Khristo Kyuchukov, The Typology and Dialectology of Romani, page 199:
antonyms: Romanophile
glosses: One who fears, hates, or is prejudiced against Roma.
Related terms: Romanophobia
Romanophobic
Romanophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Romanophobes
Etymology: From Romano- (“Romania, Romanians”) + -phobe.
Senses: examples: text: Hungarians can be Anglophiles or Anglophobes, Germanophiles or Germanophobes, but they are all Romanophobes to the extent that even the Jewish population forgets about its anti-German feelings when it comes to revisionist aspirations.
ref: 2006, Randolph L. Braham, Brewster S. Chamberlin, The Holocaust in Hungary: Sixty Years Later, East European Monographs, page 25, discussing Transylvania
antonyms: Romanophile
glosses: One who fears, hates, or is prejudiced against Romanians.
Romanophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Romano- (“Romania, Romanians”) + -phobe.
Senses: examples: text: [...] the Kremlin['s...] only objective remains to push Bessarabia away from Romania. [...] (By the way, Romania's billions are administered by the Snegur-Sangheli tandem, consolidating the Romanophobe group “the Civic Alliance” in Chisinau.)
ref: 1993, Daily Report: Central Eurasia:
text: In the same interviews, Voronin attacked Romania for "having fancied itself the master in our land, treating us like a colony." [...There is a group] which only arrived in Moldova after the Romanian period, has no reliable information let alone experience of it, and has been indoctrinated during the Soviet period in a Romanophobe spirit.
ref: 2004, Vladimir Socor, September 11 and the geopolitical revolution of our time:
text: The leftist Tiraspol leadership is Romanophobe, it claims separate statehood for itself and has expressed an interest in joining, one way or another, Russia. Contrariwise, part of the Romanophone majority of Moldova's political spectrum [...] seem favorable to some sort of future union with Romania[.]
ref: 2010, Andrei Brezianu, Vlad Spânu, The A to Z of Moldova, Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 18:
glosses: Fearing or hating Romania.
Romanophobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Romanophobe
Romanological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Romanology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Romanology.
Romanologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Romanologists
Etymology: From Romanology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies Romanology.
Romanologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Romanologist
phonetise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: phonetises
form: phonetising
form: phonetised
form: phonetised
form: phonetize
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To represent by phonetic signs.
phonetises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of phonetise
phonetising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of phonetise
phonetised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of phonetise
prelatised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prelatise