cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
paste up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pastes up
form: pasting up
form: pasted up
form: pasted up
Senses: examples: text: About all you need to do is paste up the finished art for the printer.
ref: 1997, Raymond Kimber, Quality Management Handbook, Second Edition, →ISBN, page 246:
text: The person to whom the paste-up was entrusted at the printer's neglected to observe this fact and proceeded to paste up the pages with the table of contents printed on the first inside page, thus necessitating an additional signature of eight pages.
ref: 2010, Guy M. Townsend, The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 10 No. 3) Summer 1988, →ISBN, page 1:
text: When I was a newspaper reporter and editor, I had worked with a layout artist who would carefully paste up what was wanted but never hesitated to rip out everything and start over from scratch if either of us thought the page wasn't working.
ref: 2012, Mickey W. Mantle, Ron Lichty, Managing the Unmanageable, →ISBN:
glosses: To paste (things) into position, especially in layout and page makeup.
examples: text: She joined other fan clubs for other stars in order to get eight-by-ten photos to paste up in her bedroom, and her loyalties changed meteorically.
ref: 1992, Raymond Strait, Here They Are Jayne Mansfield, →ISBN, page 37:
text: They didn't understand what they could possibly paste up on the computer for people to read, or worse, how they could sell ads for it.
ref: 2001, Peter Varhol, On Deadline, →ISBN, page 47:
text: Paste up some inspirational slogans or cartoons that bring a smile to your face.
ref: 2011, Max Messmer, Job Hunting For Dummies, →ISBN:
glosses: To display on a wall, kiosk, or other prominent surface, using adhesive.
Derived terms: word: paste-up
word: pasteup
seṭ
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪt/
homophone: sate
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit सेट् (seṭ, “with i”).
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: of a root, having a final i sound in certain forms, originating from a final laryngeal in Proto-Indo-European
aniṭ
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈʌnɪt/
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit अनिट् (aniṭ, “without i”).
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: of a root, not seṭ, not having a final i sound
Rääkkylä
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of North Karelia, Finland.
unfreakingbelievable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfreakingbelievable
form: most unfreakingbelievable
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unbefuckinglievable.
lead-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lead-ups
form: leadup
Etymology: Deverbal from lead up to.
Senses: examples: text: Retailers get a lot more business in the lead-up to Christmas.
text: While testing the stability of the exchange rate regime in the market is clearly important in the lead-up to adopting the euro, such a test is certainly possible in the context of a CBA: the current account position, the level of reserves, monetary aggregates, growth performance, and interest rates provide clear indications of whether exchange rates are at appropriate levels.
ref: 2000, Anne Marie Gulde, Juha Kähkönen, Peter Keller, Pros and Cons of Currency Board Arrangements in the Lead-Up to EU Accession and Participation in the Euro Zone, →ISBN:
text: If the crust does behave as a CP system, stress correlation lengths should grow in the lead-up to large events through the action of small to moderate ruptures and drop sharply once a large event occurs.
ref: 2002, Peter Mora, David Place, “Stress Correlation Function Evolution in Lattice Solid Elasto-dynamic Models of Shear and Fracture Zones and Earthquake Prediction”, in Earthquake Processes, →ISBN:
text: The Tertiary is the lead-up to the extinction event that will take centre stage in later chapters: the megafauna extinctions.
ref: 2013, Steve Webb, Corridors to Extinction and the Australian Megafauna, →ISBN, page 41:
glosses: An event, or sequence of events, that leads up to something; the period during which these events occur.
Related terms: run-up
lead-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lead-up
Related terms: leads up to
lead up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lead ups
Senses: examples: text: As a result, the congressional report examining intelligence flaws in the lead up to the September 11 attacks concluded that "the U.S. Government does not presently bring together in one place all terrorism-related information from all sources."
ref: 2007, Monte Palmer, Princess Palmer, At the Heart of Terror: Islam, Jihadists, and America's War on Terrorism, →ISBN:
text: Now lets go through all the lead ups to the bar, to help build up the strengths and skills you will need.
ref: 2008, Bob Swope, Learn'n More about Track and Field, →ISBN:
text: In the lead up to the Games Barson had the task of recruiting a small group of support staff which included one driver and two assistants.
ref: 2012, A. Beacom, International Diplomacy and the Olympic Movement: The New Mediators, →ISBN:
glosses: Misspelling of lead-up.
lead ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lead up
Related terms: leads up to
timequake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timequakes
Etymology: From time + quake.
Senses: examples: text: Or you can have a revisable universe with one timeline (see Hogan's Thrice Upon a Time or Milennium^([sic]) by (I think) Joe Haldeman for the general idea) and in which your actions can "rewrite" the past from that point on. Here, if you shoot your grandfather, you generate a "timequake" in which something ugly happens. Probably you disappear, but there may be other side-effects as the universe works it out, which is, I think, what you are reffering^([sic]) to as the "great expense".
ref: 1996 November 16, Mike Abernathy, “Re: faster than light travel”, in sci.physics.electromag (Usenet), message-ID <56la8t$5@sjx-ixn2.ix.netcom.com>:
text: Finding herself in the middle of a “timequake,” she discovers another world—an alternate universe. Will Mary find a way to return to the world she left?
ref: 2008, Deanna J. McDaniel, Gentle Reads: Great Books to Warm Hearts and Lift Spirits, Grades 5-9, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 217:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A disturbance in the flow of time.
timequakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timequake
photoconjunctivitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + conjunctivitis.
Senses: examples: text: Skin erythema and burning as well as lens and corneal (including photokeratitis and photoconjunctivitis) effects have resulted from exposure to specific wavelengths.
ref: 2003, Michael S. Bisesi, Industrial Hygiene Evaluation Methods, →ISBN, page 12:
text: On the other hand, ultraviolet rays produce photoconjunctivitis, a temporary superficial inflammation of the lining of the eyelid that is sometimes called arc eye.
ref: 2006, Leslie Alexander Geddes, Rebecca A. Roeder, Handbook of Electrical Hazards and Accidents, →ISBN, page 488:
text: The erythemally weighted UV corresponding to the spectral irradiances in Figure 2-4 for a SZA of 57° are in Figure 2-11 (Parisi and Kimlin, 1999a) along with the biologically damaging UV for photoconjunctivitis.
ref: 2012, Alfio V. Parisi, Jeff Sabburg, Michael G. Kimlin, Scattered and Filtered Solar UV Measurements, →ISBN, page 45:
glosses: Inflammation of the conjunctiva caused by UV radiation.
Related terms: photoconjunctivital
tererê
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tererês
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tereré.
tererês
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tererê
pleiomeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Upon further changes these flowers became oligo- or pleiomeric.
ref: 1925, Botanical Abstracts - Volume 14, page 62:
text: As for the many species and varieties of angiosperms, horticultural or natural, with their pleiomeric and meiomeric floral members, petaloid stamens, staminoid petals, carpelloid stamens, etc., it would be difficult to assert absolutely whether we were concerned with disorganizations or neo-organizations.
ref: 1970, Claude Wilson Wardlaw, Cellular Differentiation in Plants: And Other Essays, page 141:
text: In the Celastrales and structurally similar Orders such as Rutales Malvales, Sapindales, the gynoecium appears, in different genera, to be either truly compound (connate ovaries derived from two or more female sporoclades) or falsely compound (expanded or pleiomeric derived from one female sporoclade only).
ref: 1983, P. J. Faulks, Early Ancestry and Evolution of the Higher Plants, page 60:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having more than the usual number or variety of structures.
examples: text: The great variety of nucleotide conformations which occur in these large asymmetric units has prompted us to describe them as pleiomeric, a term used in botany to describe whorls having more than the usual number of structures.
ref: 1983, Struther Arnott, R. Chandrasekaran, A.K. Banerjee, Rungen He, J.K. Walker, “New wrinkles on polynucleotide duplexes”, in Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, volume 1, number 2:
text: The morphological differences between this pleiomeric DNA polymer and closely-related, but more symmetrical allomorphs are just as great as those observed in short DNA fragments in crystals.
ref: 1985, Cambridge Scientific Biochemistry Abstracts: Nucleic acids:
text: An American chemist has stated the pleiomeric chemicals in onions have the potential to alleviate or prevent sore throat.
ref: 2012, Yadav Anuj, Singh Sanjay Kumar, Kumar Navneet, “Nutrientional and medicinal value of onion”, in Annals of Horticulture, volume 5, number 2:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having large, asymmetric nucleotide formations.
cut signature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cut signatures
form: cut sig
Etymology: From cut + signature.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Sprague furnished fourteen autographs of the Signers, not the most valuable, and Dr. Emmett supplied a Lynch cut signature, and forty-one others
ref: 1889, Lyman Copeland Draper, An Essay on the Autographic Collections of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence and of the Constitution, New York: Burns & Sons, page 76:
glosses: An autograph extracted from a signed document.
examples: text: Jose Canseco Cut signature $7 Single-signature $40
ref: 1994, Mark K. Larson, The Complete Guide to Baseball Memorabilia, Iola, WI: Krause Publications, page 31:
qualifier: collectible card games
glosses: A card featuring an autograph cut from another document or signed on a separate piece of paper or cardboard.
qualifier: collectible card games
glosses: An autograph produced for use on cards or for collecting.
Synonyms: sense: autograph extracted from a document
word: cut autograph
cut sig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cut sigs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cut signature.
hook stock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hook stocks
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A stock which is held by a subsidiary of the issuing company.
hook stocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hook stock
robosigning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: robosignings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of robo-signing.
Pepsi Challenge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pepsi Challenges
Etymology: Derived from marketing promotion by Pepsi, introduced in 1975, in which consumers taste one unlabelled cup of Pepsi and one of Coca-Cola and select which drink they prefer.
Senses: examples: text: Consumers need a reason to go into a store and take the “Pepsi Challenge” between the cheaper headphones and the higher-quality ones.
ref: 2010 November 27, Billboard, volume 122, number 39, Nielsen Business Media, Inc., →ISSN, page 22:
glosses: A comparison between two unlabelled products.
space of Destot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spaces of Destot
Etymology: Named for scientist Étienne Destot (1864-1918).
Senses: examples: text: It has been referred to by the French as the "space of Destot" (Barbet, 1948) and will be termed here the "medial intercarpal space".
ref: O'Rahilly, Ronan (May 1953), “Epitriquetrum, Hypotriquetrum, and Lunatoriquetrum”, in Acta Radiologica, volume os-39, number 5, →DOI, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, retrieved 19 Jan 2017, page 401
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The space in the wrist bounded by the hamate, capitate, triquetral and lunate bones.
Related terms: Destot's space
carbonated waters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carbonated water
tousle-haired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tousle-haired
form: most tousle-haired
Senses: examples: text: Tousle-haired sheep-dogs slept before the door.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, chapter 26, in The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC:
text: 1956, Langston Hughes, I Wonder as I Wander, in The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 14, edited by Joseph McLaren, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003, Chapter 4, p. 170,
Now my best friend and boon buddy was a tousle-haired Uzbek named Yusef Nichan.
glosses: Having unkempt hair.
Synonyms: tousle-headed
sexdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sexdom
Etymology: From sex + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: […] the Grand Potioner, the Exalted Pied Piper of Passion parted the Red Sterility and revolutionized all sexdom.
ref: 1970, Wilfrido D. Nolledo, But for the Lovers:
text: […] who suffers the painful pang of remorse for a badly utilised youth, Okot p'Bitek in 'Song of Malaya portrays the image of the tigress as die hard prostitutes who speak for themselves, about themselves and who luxuriate in their sexdom.
ref: 1987, Universitas, volume 9:
text: Only the geniuses then had all the women. This was the flora of sex civilization, or sexdom. Sexdom was so strong, a stigma that lasted over time, which supports the long-running dispute about whether humans evolved from a single species.
ref: 2006, Dotman, Ground Zero:
text: I remember being curious to see if Hef was a good lover; age aside, I wanted to see if this experienced King of Sexdom knew anything the rest of us did not.
ref: 2010, Izabella St. James, Bunny Tales: Behind Closed Doors at the Playboy Mansion:
text: 'I will tell Deep about my feelings once he has dispersed his pearls of sexdom to this horizontally challenged guy,' I thought to myself. 'It's important to build your stamina because it's not a spectator sport,' I heard Deep say after some time.
ref: 2012, Parul A. Mittal, Arranged Love:
text: Marcella was forty-one, and though Hollywood was now full of young beauties such as Raquel Welch and Jane Fonda, the “Elder Stateswomen of Sexdom,” as one wag had called Marcella Mills and Marilyn Monroe, were still able to turn more than a few heads.
ref: 2014, Robert Vaughan, The New Frontier:
glosses: The sphere or world of sex; sexuality.
bee-utiful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bee-utiful
form: most bee-utiful
Etymology: Blend of bee + beautiful.
Senses: examples: text: Bee-utiful Work: Bees don't just make honey. People should also thank bees when they enjoy a juicy apple or a crunchy carrot. Bees do a crucial job for farmers. They pollinate most of the crops in the world.
ref: 2013, Jennifer Kroll, Mighty Micros: Little Things Big Results:
glosses: Alternative form of beautiful.
raw_tags: said of bees or a situation involving bees
public telephones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of public telephone
public toilet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: public toilets
public toilets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of public toilet
inoppugnable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnəˈpjuːnəbəl/
ipa: /ɪnəˈpʌɡnəbəl/
Forms: form: more inoppugnable
form: most inoppugnable
Etymology: From in- + oppugnable.
Senses: examples: text: two inoppugnable reasons
ref: 1654, Walter Charleton, Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charletoniana: or a fabrick of science natural, upon the hypothesis of atoms, chap. V., sect. II, page 40
text: Moreover, as this inoppugnable Propensity to Religion is a Cyon of God's own ingraffing on the Mind of Man, so also is it out of his power, tho' assisted by all the hellish Stratagems, totally to eradicate it thence.
ref: 1698, John Turner, A phisico-theological discourse upon the Divine Being, or first cause of all things, providence of God, general and particular, separate existence of the human soul, certainty of reveal'd religion, fallacy of modern inspiration, and danger of enthusiasm, page 63:
text: I am glad to see, in your account of miscellaneous reading, authors of such inoppugnable orthodoxy as Coleridge and Carlyle.
ref: 1840, Charles A. Dana in James Harrison Wilson, The Life of Charles A. Dana, Harper & Brothers, published 1907, page 21:
text: Do not argue with me. Argue with these stones. / Truth has no trouble in knowing itself. / That is it. The hard fact. The inoppugnable reality, / Here is something for you to digest. / Eat this and we'll see what appetite you have left / For a world hereafter.
ref: 1934, Hugh MacDiarmid, Selected Poetry, New Directions Publishing, published 1993, →ISBN, page 153:
glosses: Indisputable, incontestable, unquestionable.
examples: text: … the disease … will be so violent and inoppugnable by the force of Nature, that the Temperament of Peters body … will thereby be dissolved, and so Death shall invevitably succeed.
ref: 1652, Walter Charleton, The Darkness of Atheism Dispelled by the Light of Nature, William Lee, ch. 10, Art. 8, page 340
text: The barrier vast and inoppugnable [sc. a mountain range]
ref: 1919, C. M. Grieve, “Mountain Measure”, in Northern Numbers, T. N. Foulis (1920), page 69
glosses: Insuperable, insurmountable.
Synonyms: sense: incontestable, incontrovertible
word: unassailable
sense: incontestable, incontrovertible
word: apodictic
sense: incontestable, incontrovertible
word: incontestable
sense: incontestable, incontrovertible
word: incontrovertible
sense: incontestable, incontrovertible
word: indisputable
sense: incontestable, incontrovertible
word: indubitable
sense: incontestable, incontrovertible
word: irrefutable
sense: incontestable, incontrovertible
word: irrefragable
sense: incontestable, incontrovertible
word: unanswerable
sense: incontestable, incontrovertible
word: undeniable
sense: incontestable, incontrovertible
word: unquestionable
Related terms: oppugn
oppugnable
oppugnance
oppugnancy
oppugnant
oppugnation
oppugner
length contraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: length contractions
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction
tweaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tweag
DFLs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DFL
boltis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bolti
boulti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boulti
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bolty.
creepazoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creepazoid
Pilgram
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Sturdy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sturdys
Etymology: A nickname from Middle English stourdy (“bold, valiant, reckless”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Middle English.
Kinloch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kɪnlɒx/
Etymology: Of Scottish origin, from Scottish Gaelic ceann + loch (“head of the loch”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A number of places in Scotland:
A hamlet north-west of Ladybank, Fife council area (OS grid ref NO2812).
glosses: A number of places in Scotland:
A tiny settlement by Loch More, Highland council area (OS grid ref NC3434)
glosses: A number of places in Scotland:
A settlement on the isle of Rùm, Highland council area (OS grid ref NM4099).
glosses: A number of places in Scotland:
A small village west of Blairgowrie, Perth and Kinross council area (OS grid ref NO1444).
glosses: A number of places in Scotland:
A hamlet west of Meigle, Perth and Kinross council area (OS grid ref NO2644).
glosses: A city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: A locality at the north end of Lake Wakatipu, Otago, New Zealand.
glosses: A small town on Lake Taupo, west of the town of Taupo, Waikato, New Zealand.
Related terms: Kinlocheil
Kinlochewe
Kinlochleven
anaptyctically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From anaptyctic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of, or by means of, anaptyxis.
anaptyctical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to anaptyxis.
munchkinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From munchkin + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Munchkinism is similar to "Monty Haul" gaming; however it involves playing at incredible power levels purely for the sake of watching the terrain get blown away by player characters who are unstoppable. Munchkinism also involves "rules rape," wherein players milk every advantage out of the rules. Often a munchkin will carry a favorite character from game to game, usually with the maximum allowable ability scores, skill ratings, etc - and enough hardware/magic to destroy the planet four times over.
ref: 1993 February 22, Magnus, “What is Munchkinism? What does the Wizard of Oz have to do with roleplaying games?”, in (Usenet):
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: A playing style that concentrates on increasing one's character's power and capabilities.
backfist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backfists
Etymology: From back + fist.
Senses: glosses: A punch performed by forming a fist and striking with the tops of the two largest knuckles.
backfists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backfist
electrofolk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + folk.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Synonym of folktronica.
synonyms: word: folktronica
unhijackable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + hijackable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be hijacked.
quasiparticulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quasi- + particulate.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to quasiparticles.
cool flame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cool flames
Senses: synonyms: cool fire
cold fire
cold flame
glosses: Flame whose maximal temperature is below about 400°C (752°F), releasing very little heat, light, and carbon dioxide.
cool flames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cool flame
black rice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black rices
Senses: synonyms: forbidden rice
purple rice
glosses: A type of rice of the species Oryza sativa L. which is black or dark purple in color and often glutinous.
coletos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coleto
earlier on
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: At some time in the past; previously; earlier.
subassumption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌmpʃən
Forms: form: subassumptions
Etymology: From sub- + assumption.
Senses: glosses: A secondary or subsidiary assumption.
subassumptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subassumption
instinctivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of instinctivity
appertinents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appertinent
sapientizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sapientize
sapientized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sapientize
sapientizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sapientize
Pepsi Challenges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pepsi Challenge
augerlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more augerlike
form: most augerlike
Etymology: From auger + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an auger.
wholest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈhoʊlɛst/
[ˈhoʊ̯ɫɛst]
Senses: glosses: superlative form of whole: most whole
genitoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genitoscopies
Etymology: From genito- + -scopy.
Senses: examples: text: Nowadays, the 'genitogram' has been superseded by endoscopic examination of the genital tract (genitoscopy), which provides a more detailed and thorough assessment.
ref: 2014, William J. Marshall, Márta Lapsley, Andrew Day, Clinical Biochemistry: Metabolic and Clinical Aspects:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An endoscopic examination of the genital tract.
genitoscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of genitoscopy
vaginoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vaginoscopies
Etymology: From vagina + -o- + -scopy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An inspection of the vagina.
vaginoscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vaginoscopy
prerounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + rounds.
Senses: glosses: The period of a medical doctor's working day prior to rounds.
balkings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balking
compassings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compassing
doatings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doating
cinchings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cinching
disrepaired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disrepair
disrepairing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disrepair
emptings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Related to emptying.
Senses: glosses: The lees of wine or beer, used for their yeast in making bread, etc.
gagglings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gaggling
Gaskings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
scavengered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scavenger
scavengering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scavenger
scavengering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scavengerings
Senses: glosses: scavenging
scavengerings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scavengering
seisings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seising
spoolings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spooling
VLDB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VLDBs
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of very large database.
VLDBs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of VLDB
storyings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of storying
storiless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of storyless.
surmountings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surmounting
subbings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subbing
strobings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strobing
engulfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: engulfers
Etymology: From engulf + -er.
Senses: glosses: That which engulfs.
engulfers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of engulfer
tankings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tanking
hydrotank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrotanks
Etymology: From hydro- + tank.
Senses: glosses: A tank in which the patient is immersed in hydrotherapy.
hydrotanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrotank
tafs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taf
trinketings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trinketing
waulings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wauling
wawlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wawling
whifflings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whiffling
laudings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lauding
FODMAPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of FODMAP
explosivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of explosivity
likembes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of likembe
longtitudes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of longtitude
Scandis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Scandi
shetars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shetar
starrs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of starr
bot herder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bot herders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of botherder.
ghost chilli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghost chillis
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ghost pepper.
synonyms: word: ghost pepper
ghost chillis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghost chilli
link language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: link languages
form: link-language
Senses: examples: text: [...] 'Adoption of [a second] language [in our case Latin] . . . generally leads to changes in the adopted link language, or even in the native language of the speaker, and thus can have profound effects on linguistic change.'
ref: 2003, James Noel Adams, Bilingualism and the Latin Language:
text: A term that covers all of this range is link language. Link languages and related phenomena are of interest to students of language change because they often require the adoption of another language, generally a second, but perhaps even a third.
ref: 2009, Hans Henrich Hock, Brian D. Joseph, Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship:
text: On the basis of past and present, we can foresee a very bright English in India as link language, a window on the modern world and a library language.
ref: 2010, Teaching of English
text: The provision of recognising English as a link language was made available in the 1978 Constitution by the 13th Amendment which was brought in to effect in 1987 with the expectation that English would function as a force that could unify the two main ethnic groups in the country.
ref: 2015, Robert Kirkpatrick, English Language Education Policy in Asia:
glosses: A common language linking various people groups or ethnicities, where the adopted language is not a native language of any of the speakers using it; a lingua franca.
sick notes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sick note
link-language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: link-languages
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of link language.
link languages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of link language
black salmon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black salmon
Senses: glosses: The chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, native to the Pacific.
glosses: the Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar.
Chinook salmon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinook salmon
form: Chinook salmons
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of chinook salmon.
centimillionaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centimillionaires
Etymology: From centi- + millionaire.
Senses: examples: text: […] at least 153 Americans who are "centimillionaires" — worth more than $100 million each […]
ref: 1981, Thomas R. Dye, Luther Harmon Zeigler, The Irony of Democracy, page 123:
text: Executive Jet […] was subsequently acquired by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway company, making Santulli a centimillionaire.
ref: 2002, Dinesh D'Souza, The Virtue of Prosperity, page 98:
text: But, as chronicled by Peter Turchin in End Times, his book on elite excess and what it portends, today there are far more centimillionaires and billionaires than there were in the gilded age, and they have collectively accumulated a much larger proportion of the world’s wealth.
ref: 2023 November 25, Douglas Rushkoff, “‘We will coup whoever we want!’: the unbearable hubris of Musk and the billionaire tech bros”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: hectomillionaire
glosses: A person whose wealth amounts to 100 million dollars (or other currency unit).
Related terms: centibillionaire
centimillion
centimillionaires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centimillionaire
pentamillionaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentamillionaires
Etymology: From penta- + millionaire.
Senses: glosses: A person whose wealth amounts to five million dollars (or other currency unit).
decamillionaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decamillionaires
Etymology: From deca- + millionaire.
Senses: glosses: A person whose wealth amounts to ten million dollars (or other currency unit).
examples: text: The three major languages (Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba) are called “Decamillionaires” and they serve as regional Lingua Franca.
ref: 2013, Anthony Ayodele Olaoye, “The Role of Indigenous Languages in National Development: A Case Study of Nigerian Linguistic Situation”, in International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature, 2(3), May 2013, p. 30:
glosses: A Nigerian language with at least ten million speakers (namely Hausa, Igbo, and Yoruba).
Related terms: centimillionaire
decabillionaire
decamillion
pentamillionaires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pentamillionaire
decamillionaires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decamillionaire
Centrex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Centrexes
Etymology: From central exchange.
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: A service similar to a private branch exchange, but providing switching at the central office instead of at the customer's premises.
Centrexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Centrex
duergar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdwɛə.ɡɑː/
ipa: /dʊˈɛə.ɡɑː/
ipa: /ˈdwɛɹ.ɡɑɹ/
ipa: /duˈɛɹ.ɡɑɹ/
Forms: form: duergar
form: duergars
Etymology: Borrowed from Old Norse dvergr; cf. Icelandic dvergar. Doublet of dwarf.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: One of a race of ugly dwarfs, particularly associated with the Simonside Hills of Northumberland in northern England.
duettings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duetting
exploitational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exploitation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to exploitation.
neti pots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neti pot
Lord Keeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lord Keepers
Senses: glosses: An officer of the English Crown, charged with physical custody of the Great Seal.
Lord Keepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lord Keeper
great seals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of great seal
power couple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power couples
Senses: glosses: A couple, usually married, in which both individuals are influential, successful, or wealthy.
glosses: Synonym of supercouple.
synonyms: word: supercouple
power couples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of power couple
supercouple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supercouples
Etymology: From super- + couple.
Senses: synonyms: power couple
glosses: A celebrity couple who intrigue and fascinate the public.
supercouples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supercouple
inchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incher
botijo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəʊˈtiː.həʊ/
ipa: /boʊˈti.hoʊ/
rhymes: -iːhəʊ
Forms: form: botijos
form: botija
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish botijo, from Spanish botija, from Vulgar Latin *buticula (or from Late Latin butticula, with attestation difficult to locate), from Vulgar Latin buttis (or LL.).
Senses: glosses: A traditional Spanish porous clay vessel designed to hold water and to cool it by evaporation.
botijos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of botijo
bottomwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bottom + -wards.
Senses: glosses: Toward the bottom of something.
bottomward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bottom + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Toward the bottom of something.
bottomward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bottom + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Toward the bottom of something.
CENTCOM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Duncan’s account includes a note that it had been “thoroughly reviewed” and approved by Central Command on October 6 for operational security reasons. The statement from CENTCOM made no mention of the review.
ref: 2021 October 14, Oren Liebermann, “CENTCOM disputes Air Force account of attempted hijacking at Kabul airport during Afghanistan evacuation”, in CNN:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Acronym of Central Command (a global U.S. forces regional command)
Synonyms: topics: military
war
government
politics
word: USCENTCOM
Hyponyms: topics: military
war
government
politics
word: USFI
Related terms: topics: military
war
government
politics
word: AFRICOM
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: EUCOM
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: INDOPACOM
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: NORTHCOM
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: PACOM
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: SOUTHCOM
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: SPACECOM
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: USAFRICOM
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: USCENTCOM
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: USEUCOM
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: USINDOPACOM
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: USNORTHCOM
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: USPACOM
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: USSOUTHCOM
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: USSPACECOM
bottle trap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottle traps
Senses: glosses: A baited trap used to catch insects, made from a plastic bottle.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
plumbing
glosses: A bottle-like reservoir that fits the pipe below a drain and collects waste.
bottle traps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bottle trap
Atlantic spotted dolphin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Atlantic spotted dolphins
Senses: glosses: A dolphin of species Stenella frontalis, found in the Gulf Stream of the North Atlantic Ocean.
Atlantic spotted dolphins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Atlantic spotted dolphin
beard lichen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beard lichens
Senses: glosses: Synonym of old man's beard (“lichen of genus Usnea”).
synonyms: word: old man's beard
extra: lichen of genus Usnea
beard lichens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beard lichen
castle doctrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: castle doctrines
Etymology: From a man's home is his castle; for more information, see Wikipedia at castle doctrine § History.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A legal doctrine that designates a person's abode, or any legally occupied place, such as a vehicle or workplace, as a place in which that person has protections and immunities permitting him or her to use force to defend against intrusion.
Related terms: stand-your-ground law
an Englishman's home is his castle
castle doctrines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of castle doctrine
century year
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: century years
Senses: glosses: A year which is a multiple of one hundred (100) and marks that a century has past and changed to a new century (at the end of the year)
century years
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of century year
cold caller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cold callers
Senses: glosses: One who cold calls.
cold calls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cold call
cold calls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cold call
cold callers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cold caller
cold called
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cold call
dirty martini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dirty martinis
Senses: glosses: A martini cocktail with a splash of olive brine or olive juice, typically garnished with an olive.
dirty martinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dirty martini
starvingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more starvingly
form: most starvingly
Etymology: From starving + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She raised her head and looked at him, with her soul in her great gray eyes. Back to her side he strode, and, taking her in his arms, looked long and starvingly in her face.
ref: 1885, Arthur's Illustrated Home Magazine, volume 53, page 762:
glosses: While, or as if, starving; very hungrily.
examples: a starvingly low salary
glosses: So as to cause starvation.
explosionproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From explosion + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of explosion-proof.
hanging baskets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hanging basket
ICTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ICT
stag dos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stag do
secret shopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secret shoppers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of mystery shopper.
synonyms: word: mystery shopper
secret shoppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secret shopper
shortboarder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)də(ɹ)
Forms: form: shortboarders
Etymology: From shortboard + -er.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: A surfer who rides a shortboard.
shortboarding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shortboard + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The use of a shortboard in surfing.
shortboarders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shortboarder
splash park
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splash parks
Senses: glosses: A water park.
splash parks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splash park
splash pad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splash pads
Senses: glosses: A recreation area for water play that has little or no standing water so as to reduce the risk of drowning.
splash pads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splash pad
hen weekend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hen weekends
Senses: glosses: A hen party taking place over a whole weekend.
stag weekend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stag weekends
Senses: glosses: A stag party taking place over a whole weekend.
hen weekends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hen weekend
stag weekends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stag weekend
audio coils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of audio coil
hearing loop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hearing loops
Senses: glosses: An induction loop that works with hearing aids to allow a voice or other sound to be transmitted directly to a person who is hard of hearing.
Related terms: telecoil
hearing loops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hearing loop
kitchen bitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kitchen bitches
Senses: glosses: A person who is assigned menial tasks in the kitchen of a restaurant.
glosses: A portable kerosene lamp.
glosses: A big long butcher knife.
kitchen bitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kitchen bitch
Bajanness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Bajan + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being Bajan.
vampire squid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vampire squids
form: vampire squid
Senses: glosses: Any extant or extinct squid-like cephalopod in the order Vampyromorphida.
examples: text: The Vampire squid – which is actually an octopodiform and not a squid, and looks like an apparition from an impossibly ancient dream – is harmless to humans.
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 229:
glosses: Any extant or extinct squid-like cephalopod in the order Vampyromorphida.
A small deep-sea cephalopod, Vampyroteuthis infernalis, the sole extant species of this order, found in temperate and tropical oceans.
overtell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overtells
form: overtelling
form: overtold
form: overtold
Etymology: From over- + tell.
Senses: glosses: To exaggerate or be more explicit than needed; tell too much or too often, etc.
Pieksämäki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality of Southern Savonia, Finland.
distitarsus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)səs
Forms: form: distitarsi
Senses: examples: text: The pedipalp article, called tarsus by Quintero, is here divided in ^([sic]) distitarsus and tarsal claw (pretarsus) as the two articles are not fused in Charinidae.
ref: 2016 February 18, “Eight New Species of Charinus Simon, 1892 (Arachnida: Amblypygi: Charinidae) Endemic for the Brazilian Amazon, with Notes on Their Conservational Status”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A divided or split tarsus
hypermorphosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + morphosis.
Senses: examples: text: There are three classes of changes to developmentally accomplish paedo- or peramorphosis: (1) progenesis or hypermorphosis, where maturation with respect to the trait is reached early in the former and continues late in the latter; (2) neoteny or acceleration, where development occurs more slowly in the former and more rapidly in the latter; and (3) pre-displacement or postdisplacement, where development begins later in the former and earlier in the latter.
ref: 2016 February 18, “Shape Ontogeny of the Distal Femur in the Hominidae with Implications for the Evolution of Bipedality”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Extended morphosis
intercapsomere
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + capsomere.
Senses: examples: text: The L1 C-terminal arms mediate intercapsomere contacts forming disulfide bonds and loops, which extend from the core to create the contacts and reinserting back into the original pentamer.
ref: 2016 February 18, “Evidences of Changes in Surface Electrostatic Charge Distribution during Stabilization of HPV16 Virus-Like Particles”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Between capsomeres