cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fall to one's knees
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls to one's knees
form: falling to one's knees
form: fell to one's knees
form: fallen to one's knees
Senses: examples: text: And then he dropped the pistol and fell to his knees and buried his face in his hands and began to cry violently, his shoulders heaving and his head bouncing and the exasperation of something having finally reached its end.
ref: 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 30, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 161:
glosses: To collapse into a crouched kneeling position.
kamahi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kamahis
Senses: glosses: A New Zealand tree Weinmannia racemosa
kamahis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kamahi
system-wide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From system + -wide.
Senses: examples: text: The latest lists of locomotive withdrawals feature a massive attack on the Class J39 0-6-0s, of which the system-wide stock is now reduced to a mere 13.
ref: 1963 February, “Motive Power Miscellany: North Eastern Region”, in Modern Railways, page 137:
text: The Railway Magazine in 1912 stated that system-wide traffic increased in the week before Christmas.
ref: 2022 December 14, David Turner, “The Edwardisn Christmas getaway...”, in RAIL, number 972, page 33:
glosses: Alternative form of systemwide.
swinging door
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swinging doors
Senses: examples: text: Two barmaids who looked like mother and daughter hustled between the tables and shouted out lunch orders to the bartender who then shouted them through a swinging door door back to the kitchen.
ref: 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 31, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 162:
glosses: Alternative form of swing door.
windchapped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more windchapped
form: most windchapped
Etymology: From wind + chapped.
Senses: examples: text: Working men with windchapped faces sat at the tables closest to the furnace and men in ties and gray or black overcoats sat around the edges of the saloon with newspapers.
ref: 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 31, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 162:
glosses: Affected by windburn.
kamarezite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A basic form of copper sulphate
Synonyms: brochantite
kamish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kamishes
Senses: glosses: The reed Phragmites communis
kangany
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kanganies
form: cangany
Senses: glosses: The head of a gang of labourers
kankie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kankies
form: canky
Senses: glosses: A North African form of bread made from maize flour
212
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Manhattan, after the 212 area code.
305
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: She covers eating, drinking and going out in Miami — plus everything else there is to see and do in the 305.
ref: 2019, Whitney Lehmann, The Public Relations Writer's Handbook, page 8:
glosses: Miami, after the 305 area code.
face first
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more face first
form: most face first
Senses: examples: text: She went face first into the back of a chair that didn't budge with the weight of the man sitting in it.
ref: 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 32, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 164:
glosses: Alternative form of facefirst.
Borwick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Borwicks
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in City of Lancaster district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD5273).
glosses: A habitational surname.
wooden nutmeg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wooden nutmegs
Senses: examples: text: These were nearly all Yankees, regarded by the Southern people as a trafficking, tricky set, ready to sell a wooden nutmeg or any other sham. They, in turn, looked on the Kentuckians as a lazy, shiftless class, subsisting on hog, hominy and corn-bread, and willing tools in their hands.
ref: 1879, William Henry Perrin, Albert Adams Graham, D. M. Blair, editors, The History of Coles County, Illinois, page 343:
text: But every child in the union knows that the most famous products of Connecticut are Yankee notions, nutmegs made of wood and clocks that won't go. Now, your Civil Service Reform is just such another Yankee notion; it's a wooden nutmeg; it's a clock with a show case and sham works. And you know it!
ref: 1880, [Henry Brooks Adams], chapter III, in Democracy: An American Novel (Leisure-hour Series; no. 112), New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, pages 61–62:
text: These predictions would probably all have been verified had it not been for the fact that Mr. Fall is one of those live Yankees who is always ready to whittle out a wooden nutmeg while waiting for his horse to gain wind when stuck in the mud.
ref: 1898, William James McKnight, A Pioneer History of Jefferson County, Pennsylvania: And My First Recollections of Brookville, Pennsylvania, 1840-1843, page 628:
text: The assumption in the public mind was that anyone who bought a wooden nutmeg was a fool who should have known better than to fall for a trick. But because the real as a cultural value is no longer being privileged over the artificial, this simple assumption about simulacra has now become a sort of ontological fossil
ref: 2001, Steven Carter, Leopards in the Temple: Selected Essays, 1990-2000, page 101:
glosses: Synonym of wooden nickel (“a worthless item intended to appear like another of value”).
synonyms: word: wooden nickel
extra: a worthless item intended to appear like another of value
Abbots Langley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large village and civil parish in Three Rivers district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL0901).
Related terms: Kings Langley
Vasey grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vaseygrass
form: Vasey's grass
Senses: glosses: A species of grass, Paspalum urvillei, native to South America and now widely introduced elsewhere.
Chilvers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Chilver + 's (“son or family of Chilver”), from Old English Ċēolfriþ, from ċēol (“ship, boat”) + friþ (“peace”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Newton Longville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Longville is derived from Longueville, Calvados - see Newton Longville Priory.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, formerly in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP8431).
wikipedia: Longueville, Calvados
Newton Longville Priory
T'u-lu-fan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: to͞oʹlo͞oʹfänʹ
Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 吐魯番 /吐鲁番 (Tǔlǔfān) Wade-Giles romanization: Tʻu³-lu³-fan¹.
Senses: examples: text: Subsequently the intercourse with T'u-lu-fan was not interrupted. This realm used to send as tribute to China highly-bred horses and gerfalcons, and products of the country. The Son of Heaven also sent his envoys to T'u-lu-fan.
ref: 1910, Emil Bretschneider, Mediæval Researches from Eastern Asiatic Sources, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., →OCLC, page 194:
text: The tributary ambassadors of the T'u-hsieh-t'u (Khanate) of the Khalkhas, and the tributary ambassadors of T'u-lu-fan and Holland were feasted by the Board of Rites. (103,9a)
ref: 1966, Lo-shu Fu, A Documentary Chronicle of Sino-Western Relations (1644–1820), University of Arizona Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 19:
text: The country is very far from our capital, but we can reach their territory directly by the land route . . . Beyond T’u-lu-fan [Turfan] is Russia.
ref: 1971, Mark Mancall, Russia and China: Their Diplomatic Relations to 1728, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 357:
text: The traditional conceit that places China in the middle of the world is aptly reflected in the diffusion of the ten kings westward and eastward. German expeditions to Central Asia in the first decade of the twentieth century unearthed literary and pictorial references to the ten kings dating from the eleventh century or later. The expeditions, led by Alfred Grünwedel and Albert von Le Coq, concentrated on the modern district of T’u-lu-fan (Turkish: Turfan), formerly Kao-ch’ang (Turkish: Qočo), located in what is now called the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, known to earlier European explorers as Chinese Turkestan.
ref: 1994, Stephen F. Teiser, The Scripture on the Ten Kings and the Making of Purgatory in Medieval Chinese Buddhism, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 55:
glosses: Alternative form of Tulufan.
wikipedia: Encyclopædia Britannica
poor as Job's turkey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of poor as Job.
synonyms: word: poor as Job
Hulunbuir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hulun Buir
Etymology: Borrowed from Mongolian ᠬᠥᠯᠥᠨ
ᠪᠤᠢᠷ (kölön buir), from Hulun Lake and Buir Lake.
Senses: examples: text: Before it disappeared from the scene, the Tsarist government had effected two slight alterations in the previous agreements, one of which would more accurately define the territorial limits of Outer Mongolia, and the other determine the status of Hulunbuir (Mongolian Barga), which was adjacent to the Province of Tsitsihar (in Manchuria), as well as that of Tannu-Urianhai.
ref: 1949, Michel N. Pavlovsky, Chinese-Russian Relations, New York: Philosophical Library, →OCLC, page 65:
text: Hailar is the former capital of the Huna League and since 1954 administrative center of the Hulunbuir League.
ref: 1956, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map: A Political and Economic Geography of the Chinese People's Republic, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 239:
text: In November 1911, when China was preoccupied with the republican revolution, the Outer Mongolian lamas and princes nevertheless declared independence, and enthroned the Jebtsun-damba as the Bogdo-gegen or king. They were joined by Inner Mongolian dissidents and those of Hulunbuir.
ref: 1976, Sow-Theng Leong, Sino-Soviet Diplomatic Relations, 1917-1926, Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 71:
text: A high school student in the city of Hulunbuir said students rushed out of their school on Tuesday and destroyed a fence before paramilitary police swarmed in and tried to return them to class.
ref: 2020 September 3, Huizhong Wu, “Students in Inner Mongolia protest Chinese language policy”, in AP News, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2021:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.
wikipedia: Columbia University Press
Saul B. Cohen
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Hulunbeier
puts a pin in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of put a pin in
putting a pin in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of put a pin in
foramen cecum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˌɹeɪ.mən ˈsi.kəm/
Forms: form: foramina ceca
form: foramen caecum
form: foramen cæcum
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin forāmen caecum (“an invisible, hidden opening”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
hypernyms: foramen
coordinate_terms: foramen lacerum
foramen magnum
foramen ovale
foramen rotundum
foramen spinosum
foramen transversarium
glosses: A shallow depression in the posterior dorsal midline of the tongue that is the remnant of the more cranial part of the embryonic duct from which the thyroid gland developed.
women on the street
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woman on the street
interassociate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: interassociates
form: interassociating
form: interassociated
form: interassociated
Etymology: From inter- + associate.
Senses: glosses: To mutually associate with one another
Related terms: interassociation
interassociated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of interassociate
interassociated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Mutually associated with one another
monopodal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of monopedal.
undehusked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + dehusked.
Senses: glosses: not dehusked
ZELL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ZELLs
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of zero-length launch.
druggerman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: druggermans
form: druggermen
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of dragoman.
vaccine shopping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vaccine-shopping
Etymology: Compare shop around (“to actively search and compare options before making a selection or choice of vendor”).
Senses: examples: text: Because vaccines remain in short supply in the United States, there’s been little evidence of vaccine shopping. But preferences have cropped up in Europe, driven partly by nationalism […] and partly by a hunt for the most effective shot possible.
ref: 2021 March 1, Robert Weisman, “State officials, community leaders try to dissuade residents from vaccine ‘shopping’”, in The Boston Globe:
glosses: The practice of seeking out a certain vaccine that one considers to be superior to other available options, and refusing those other options.
Related terms: vaccine-shop
vaccine shopper
linquish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈlɪŋkwɪʃ/
Forms: form: linquishes
form: linquishing
form: linquished
form: linquished
Etymology: Back-formation from relinquish; compare Latin linquō.
Senses: examples: text: But now a while I linquiſh this conflict, / And paſſe beyond the ſeas without a backe[…]
ref: 1591, Ludovico Ariosto, translated by Sir John Harington, Orlando Furioso, London: G. Miller, translation of original in Italian, published 1634, book XXXIX, stanza 18, page 326:
text: They pittie not their owne ſpirituall miſery how Satan deludes them of the Beniſſon; but are foggie, full of feſtiuitie, loth to linquiſh, like to languiſh, and illiterated[…]
ref: 1595, B. H., The Glaſſe of Mans Folly […] , London: Thomas Creede:
text: For, shou'd you come before the Brume's abated / Th' Opime you'd linquish for the Macerated.
ref: 1737, François Rabelais, “Book V”, in Peter Anthony Motteux, Sir Thomas Urquhart, transl., The Works of Mr. Francois Rabelais […] , volume 2, Navarre Society, published 1921, page 438:
glosses: To relinquish; to give up.
linquishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of linquish
linquishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of linquish
linquished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of linquish
every woman Jill
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Etymology: Coined as a feminine form of every man Jack, based on the male/female pairing of Jack and Jill.
Senses: examples: text: "It's got to happen to us all Every man Jack and every woman Jill of us go the same way."
ref: 1934 November 9, The Horsham Times, Victoria, page 9, column 1:
glosses: All the female members of a group with no exceptions.
gulder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: gŭl′dər
ipa: /ˈɡʌl.də/
ipa: /ˈɡʌl.dəɹ/
ipa: /ˈɡɐl.də/
ipa: /ˈɡɐl.dɐ/
ipa: /ˈɡɐl.da/
ipa: /ˈɡəl.ɖəʳ/
rhymes: -ʌldə(ɹ)
Forms: form: gulders
form: guldering
form: guldered
form: guldered
Etymology: Borrowed from Ulster Scots gulder.
Senses: glosses: To yell; to shout; to holler.
ignobling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ignoble
ignobled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ignoble
Longville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the surname Long + -ville in at least two cases.
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in Plumas County, California.
glosses: A census-designated place in Beauregard Parish, Louisiana.
glosses: A minor city in Cass County, Minnesota.
glosses: An extinct town in Macon County, Missouri.
Derived terms: Cheney Longville
Longville in the Dale
Newton Longville
Weston Longville
Gouldens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Goulden
Funnells
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Funnell
cefiderocol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cef- (“cefalosporanic acid derivative”) + (s)idero(phore) + (cate)chol.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A siderophore cephalosporin antibiotic used to treat complicated urinary tract infections when no other options are available.
cervicotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cervicotypes
Senses: glosses: Any specific cervicovaginal bacterium
cervicotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cervicotype
Borwicks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Borwick
cipargamin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The antimalarial spiroindolone drug (1R,3S)-5’,7-dichloro-6-fluoro-3-methyl-spiro[2,3,4,9-tetrahydropyrido[3,4-b]indole-1,3’-indoline]-2’-one
cytoadhered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cytoadhere
immunoevasiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + evasiveness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being immunoevasive
interferomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interferome
intratrimeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + trimeric.
Senses: glosses: Within a trimer (typically between the individual monomers)
lipoproteome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lipoproteomes
Etymology: From lipo- + proteome.
Senses: glosses: A proteome of the lipoproteins of an organism
lipoproteomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lipoproteome
microrecombination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microrecombinations
Etymology: From micro- + recombination.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Very small scale recombination of nucleotides
microrecombinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microrecombination
Metzlerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Metzlerian
form: most Metzlerian
Etymology: From Metzler + -ian.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the theories of the 20th-century American economist Lloyd Appleton Metzler.
examples: text: A matrix with a#95;#123;ii#125;lt;0,a#95;#123;ij#125;#92;ge 0 is called a Metzlerian matrix.
ref: 2010, Giancarlo Gandolfo, Economic Dynamics, 4th edition, Springer, page 271:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Of a matrix, having negative elements on the main diagonal and non-negative elements everywhere else.
monohydroxamate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monohydroxamates
Etymology: From mono- + hydroxamate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound that has a single hydroxamate group or anion
monoserotypic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + serotypic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or containing a single serotype
mycolylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Reaction with a mycolyl group
myelodepletive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myelo- + depletive.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or causing myelodepletion
phosphoaccepting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phospho- + accepting.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: That acts as a phosphoacceptor
pneumolancidin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pneumolancidins
Etymology: From pneumo- + lancidin.
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of inhibitory lantibiotics produced by Streptococcus pneumoniae.
pneumolancidins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pneumolancidin
transglutaminylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From trans- + glutaminylation.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The intermolecular or intramolecular transfer of a glutaminyl group
Lasswell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lasswells
Etymology: Variant of Laswell.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Knoble
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Knobles
Etymology: Americanized spelling of German Knobel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Knobles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Knoble
Lasswells
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lasswell
sTLD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sTLDs
Senses: hypernyms: TLD
glosses: Initialism of sponsored top-level domain.
sTLDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sTLD
McJunkins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McJunkinses
Etymology: Variant of McJunkin.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
McJunkins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McJunkin
McQuitty
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McQuittys
Etymology: Anglicized form of Irish Mac Fhaoitigh.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
McQuittys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McQuitty
McJunkinses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McJunkins
kapnography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kapno- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: The production of designs on smoked glass
Related terms: kapnographic
Malcomb
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Malcombs
Etymology: Variant of Malcolm.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
karaburan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A hot dusty wind in parts of Asia
Granquist
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Granquists
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish Granqvist, from gran (“spruce”) + kvist (“twig”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Swedish.
Granquists
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Granquist
Malcombs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Malcomb
karagan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karagans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of karagane.
karakurt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karakurts
Etymology: From Russian, of Turkic origin.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of malmignatte.
synonyms: word: malmignatte
Gilkison
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gilkisons
Etymology: From the Scottish Gaelic patronymic surname, from a pet form of Gilchrist.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
kareao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kareaos
form: kareau
Senses: glosses: Synonym of supplejack.
synonyms: word: supplejack
Foertsch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Foertsches
Etymology: Borrowed from German Förtsch.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Foertsches
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Foertsch
Gilkisons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gilkison
karee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karees
Senses: glosses: A South African sumac
karelinite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Karelin + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An oxysulphide of bismuth
karoro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karoros
Senses: glosses: A seagull (Larus dominicanus) found on the coasts of New Zealand and many other coasts of the Southern Hemisphere,
Almondbury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɑːməndbəɹɪ/
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English Almanbury, probably from Old Norse al-manna (“all men's”) + Old English burh (“fortress, town”).
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Huddersfield, Kirklees borough, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE1615).
wikipedia: Old Norse
Related terms: Almondsbury
Fisers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fiser
Faulcon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Faulcons
Etymology: Variant of Falcon.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Hargus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Harguses
Etymology: Unexplained.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
reconvoke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹiːkənˈvəʊk/
ipa: /ˌɹikənˈvoʊk/
Forms: form: reconvokes
form: reconvoking
form: reconvoked
form: reconvoked
Etymology: From re- + convoke.
Senses: glosses: To convoke again.
Harguses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hargus
Faulcons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Faulcon
reconvokes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reconvoke
reconvoking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reconvoke
reconvoked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reconvoke
Holts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Holtses
Etymology: Americanized spelling of German Holtz.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Iturbe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Iturbes
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Iturbe, from Basque.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Iturbes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Iturbe
Holtses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Holts
Augers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Auger
Sundbergs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sundberg
Eckerts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Eckert
print-offs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of print-off
prizedraws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prizedraw
proapolipoproteins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proapolipoprotein
proctotrupomorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proctotrupomorph
proepithelins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proepithelin
proeutectoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proeutectoid
profects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of profect
profects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of profect
projectivisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of projectivisation
promdis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of promdi
promethates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of promethate
pronosupinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pronosupination
pronounes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pronoune
cattleheart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cattlehearts
Etymology: From cattle + heart.
Senses: glosses: Any of various papilionid butterflies of the genus Parides, of the Neotropics.
cattlehearts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cattleheart
Neotropics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of neotropics.
smidgey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Just a smidgey left.
glosses: Alternative form of smidgy.
smidgey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: smidgier
form: smidgiest
Senses: examples: text: One more smidgy thing.
glosses: Alternative form of smidgy.
karpinskyite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Karpinsky + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydrated aluminosilicate of sodium, beryllium, zinc and magnesium
karrenfeld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karrenfelds
form: karrenfelder
Etymology: Borrowed from German Karrenfeld, from Karre + -n- + Feld.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An area of limestone that has been eroded into furrows and fissures
karsting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of karstification.
synonyms: word: karstification
katadicrotism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of catadicrotism.
katavothron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: katavothrons
Senses: glosses: Synonym of swallow hole.
synonyms: word: swallow hole
katchung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: katchung seeds; oil of katchung
glosses: Synonym of groundnut (“Arachis hypogaea”).
synonyms: word: groundnut
extra: Arachis hypogaea
kathete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kathetes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cathetus.
synonyms: word: cathetus
kathetes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kathete
katjiepiering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: katjiepierings
Senses: glosses: A South African jasmine, Gardenia jasminoide.
Hawkwell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Rochford district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TQ8591).
katonkel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: katonkels
Senses: glosses: Either of the barracuda (in the Indian Ocean) or the bonito (in the Atlantic)
grinding wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grinding wheels
Senses: glosses: A wheel composed of an abrasive compound and used for various grinding and abrasive machining operations.
examples: text: A competing branch argues, in turn, that crime policy—policing policy in particular—has become more punitive given the heightened power of penal bureaucrats together with the diminished influence of the persons and populations most often subject to the grinding wheels of penal administration.
ref: 2021, Trevor George Gardner, “By Any Means: A Philosophical Frame for Rulemaking Reform in Criminal Law”, in Yale Law Journal Forum, page 800:
glosses: Something that wears down or harms by attrition.
katsuramono
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: katsuramonos
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 鬘物(かつらもの) (katsuramono).
Senses: glosses: A type of Japanese noh play that features a female main character
kavadi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kavadis
Etymology: Borrowed from Tamil காவடி (kāvaṭi, “a burden”).
Senses: glosses: An arched wooden structure carried on the shoulders by Malaysian Hindus as a form of penance to Murugan.
Related terms: english: penance in general in Hinduism
translation: penance in general in Hinduism
word: prayaschitta
english: ascetic meditation
translation: ascetic meditation
word: tapas
kayakist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kayakists
Etymology: From kayak + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The kayakist paddled down the river.
glosses: A person who paddles a kayak.
kayakists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kayakist
365
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Shortened from "three hundred and sixty-five days a year".
Senses: examples: text: They're open three sixty-five; they never close.
glosses: Every day of the year. Typically describes a business or service open or available every day, including holidays, such as a gas station, convenience store, ATM, hotline, or concierge service.
Synonyms: all the time
constantly
continuously
non-stop
Related terms: 24/7/365
Neukölln
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Neukolln
Etymology: Borrowed from German Neukölln.
Senses: glosses: A borough of Berlin, Germany.
Friedrichshain
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg borough, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
glosses: A former borough of Berlin, Germany.
politological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more politological
form: most politological
Etymology: From politology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: relating to politology.
Nuremburg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Before the assembled faithful in Nuremburg, speakers that included Adolf Hitler and Alfred Rosenberg emphasized the need to struggle against the Bolshevik threat.
ref: 2009, Jan Behrends, “Back from the USSR The Anti-Comintern’s Publications on Soviet Russia in Nazi Germany (1935–41)”, in Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, volume 10, number 3, →DOI, page 527:
glosses: Misspelling of Nuremberg.
swagger it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: swaggers it
form: swaggering it
form: swaggered it
form: swaggered it
Senses: examples: text: […]and there is no reason why I should not leave this wretched hole at once and go to one of the best hotels and swagger it!
ref: 1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan: or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, published 1896, →OCLC, page 18:
text: Other women in war did not try to retain it, but seem to have welcomed the chance to put on male attire and swagger it in breeches;
ref: 1984, Country Life, volume 175:
glosses: To swagger about; to move about or carry oneself in a proud, superior, or pompous manner.
Stainton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Kingmoor parish, City of Carlisle district, Cumbria (OS grid ref NY3856).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village in Dacre parish, Eden district, Cumbria (OS grid ref NY4828).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A small village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD5285).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village in Streatlam and Stainton parish, near Barnard Castle, County Durham (OS grid ref NZ0718).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A suburban village in Stainton and Thornton parish, Middlesbrough district, North Yorkshire (OS grid ref NZ4814).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A hamlet and civil parish (served by Hudswell and District Parish Council) in North Yorkshire, previously in Richmondshire district (OS grid ref SE1096).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire (OS grid ref SK5593).
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Stainton and Thornton
Streatlam and Stainton
tip of the spear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Bannon called Argentina “the tip of the tip of the spear of the fight for the Judeo-Christian west”.
ref: 2024 December 10, Tom Phillips, Facundo Iglesia, quoting Steve Bannon, “Maga on the River Plate as global populist right descends on Argentina”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: The foremost person or group; those on the front lines.
examples: text: In this and similar theorizing of criminal-justice reform, Simonson draws the focus of reform advocates to the tip of the spear—police administration.
ref: 2021, Trevor George Gardner, “By Any Means: A Philosophical Frame for Rulemaking Reform in Criminal Law”, in Yale Law Journal Forum, page 803:
glosses: The leading position of someone in a difficult situation.
Stainton and Thornton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Middlesbrough district, North Yorkshire, England.
bigonial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + gonia + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Broadening of the bigonial diameter independent of these factors is due almost entirely to the action of the masseters, which in some instances results in a marked eversion of the lower portion of the jaw at the angle.
ref: 1913, Henry Lorenz Viereck, New Genus and Species of Hymenoptera of the Family Braconidae from Panama, page 90:
text: The bigonial breadth in absolute figures is slightly larger in the members of more recent than in those of old American ancestry, and identical in the latter with that of the cultured old Americans at large.
ref: 1931, Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, page 56:
text: The interrelationship of these factors, with specific reference to the plane of bigonial diameter, is indicated by the following proportion:
ref: 1973, Howard Voas Meredith, Virginia B. Knott, Childhood Changes of Head, Face and Dentition, page 152:
text: This patient's bigonial width was greater than the upper face width and out of proportion with the “rule of fifths.”
ref: 2000, Thomas M. Graber, Robert L. Vanarsdall, Orthodontics: Current Principles and Techniques, page 49:
glosses: Pertaining to both gonia, especially to an imaginary line between them.
Synonyms: bigoniac
bigoniac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + gonia + -ac.
Senses: examples: text: The posterior contour is shown by ascertaining the relations which the bistephanic or maximum frontal and bigoniac diameters bear to the bizygomatic width, this being taken as 100.
ref: 1885 April 14, J.G. Garson, “On the Inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego”, in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 15, page 155:
text: the large divergence in the case of the maxillo-zygomatic index, which is calculated from the bigoniac and bizygomatic measurements, in both of which there is considerable scope for differences between different observers.
ref: 1906, William Halse Rivers, The Todas, page 708:
text: The bigoniac diameter may also show an exaggerated development due to the enormous volume of the mandible ( criminaloid type — Lombroso's assassin type ) .
ref: 1913, Maria Montessori, Pedagogical Anthropology, page 384:
glosses: Synonym of bigonial.
synonyms: word: bigonial
trash truck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trash trucks
Senses: examples: text: Trash truck coming up the road
Picking up the trash
ref: 2000, Mark O. Everett, “Wooden Nickels”, in Daisies of the Galaxy, performed by Eels:
glosses: garbage truck
Round Oak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Hopesay parish, near Craven Arms, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO3984).
glosses: A neighbourhood of Brierley Hill, Dudley borough, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SO9287).
glosses: An unincorporated community in Jones County, Georgia, United States.
poinards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We should see the Champions of their Country sooner or later become her Enemies, and perpetually holding their Poinards to the Breasts of their Fellow-Citizens.
ref: 1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind, page 172:
glosses: plural of poinard
Carribeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Caribbeans.
scatophagia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scato- + -phagia.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of coprophagy.
synonyms: word: coprophagy
Caribbeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Caribbean
Hopesay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish west of Craven Arms, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO3883).
master-piece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: master-pieces
Senses: examples: text: An invidious, malicious song, replete with the sharpest terms, is, according to them, the master-piece of human wit.
ref: 1785, James Ridgway, A Dictionary of Literary Conversation:
text: ...She is romantic—clever—needs excitement; and, therefore, flavours her affection with a handsome seasoning of remorse. I shall expect a master-piece from you to-night; till then adieu, and pray feel as much at home with me as I do with you. By the by," added he, turning back from the door, "be sure you fill the paper; women judge of the strength of your attachment by the length of your letters!"
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 142–143:
glosses: Obsolete form of masterpiece.
the last favour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A Portugueze gentleman, resident at Goa, sleeping with his wife at his side, dreamt that she had granted the last favour to her lover.
ref: 1785, James Ridgway, A Dictionary of Literary Conversation:
glosses: sexual intercourse (as permitted by a woman)
cleaner-upperer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cleaner-upperers
Senses: glosses: A cleaner-upper; a person responsible for cleaning or tidying up.
pale-headed rosella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pale-headed rosellas
Senses: glosses: A broad-tailed, moderate-sized parrot of species Platycercus adscitus, native to northeastern Australia, with a pale yellow head, predominantly white cheeks, a scalloped black and gold back, pale blue underparts, and a blood-red vent.
misfertilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misfertilizes
form: misfertilizing
form: misfertilized
form: misfertilized
Etymology: From mis- + fertilize.
Senses: examples: text: two, excessive or misfertilizing of agricultural land leads to an accumulation of phosphate in the soil and nitrate in the ground water;
ref: 1994, Indian Poultry Industry Yearbook - Volume 10, page 297:
text: One must be careful not to fertilize incorrectly (or overfertilize or misfertilize) as the seeding may be of discontent rather than enthusiasm.
ref: 2012, David A. Payne, Designing Educational Project and Program Evaluations:
text: The Plantae, which constitute the regular flora (or macroflora), are restricted to mispollination in this respect, with misfertilized plants producing sterile or dysfunctional fruit or ploidal variations.
ref: 2020, Microbiomics, page 2:
glosses: To fertilize incorrectly, especially to use the wrong type of fertilizer.
misfertilizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misfertilize
misfertilizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misfertilize
misfertilized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misfertilize
misfetch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈfɛtʃ/
ipa: /ˈmɪsfɛtʃ/
Forms: form: misfetches
Etymology: From mis- + fetch.
Senses: examples: text: It also shows the conditional branch misprediction rate ( due to both misprediction and target address misfetch), the return misprediction rate, and the BTB miss rate .
ref: 1996, Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques, page 63:
text: All branches and calls cause a misfetch when the branch is not present in the BTB.
ref: 1998, International Symposium on Computer Architecture, Conference Proceedings: June 27 - July 1, 1998, Barcelona, Spain, page 36:
text: Unfortunately, the typical optimizations for cachelike structures, such as larger capacity or associativity, will not help in decreasing misfetches.
ref: 2010, Jean-Loup Baer, Microprocessor Architecture, page 148:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An error that occurs when the wrong block of code is fetched in advance.
examples: text: Sometimes you had to work the weather side on account of that being too far to get across the sand to a wreck from the leeward. That wasn't very nice, because you hadn't got no shelter and if you made a misfetch you'd soon be up alongside the wreck yourself.
ref: 1980, Hervey Benham, The Salvagers, page 69:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The act of fetching to the wrong location.
misfetch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈfɛtʃ/
ipa: /ˈmɪsfɛtʃ/
Forms: form: misfetches
form: misfetching
form: misfetched
form: misfetched
Etymology: From mis- + fetch.
Senses: examples: text: However, a single misfetched instruction can cause the system to begin executing code from nonexistent or improper memory locations, and it is unlikely to recover on its own.
ref: 1989, Michael Slater, Microprocessor-based Design, page 268:
text: With Missf and Missp the percentages of branches that are misfetched and mispredicted, respectively (some branches can be both, as shown in two rows of Table 4.2), the contribution of the CPI due to branch execution, or the branch execution penalty bep expressed as a number of cycles, can be written in a first approximation (see the exercises) as […]
ref: 2010, Jean-Loup Baer, Microprocessor Architecture, page 149:
text: The number of cycles wasted on each mispredicted or misfetched branch is larger than in a RISC processor.
ref: 2012, Michel Dubois, Murali Annavaram, Per Stenstrom, Parallel Computer Organization and Design, page 139:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To fetch the wrong block of code or instruction.
examples: text: Furthermore, the direct container handling at shipside can also be controlled by the ACYAS in order to prevent containers from misfetching.
ref: 1986, International Journal on Policy and Information - Volume 10, page 41:
text: In Halfway Reach we mis-fetched and narrowly missed colliding with a fast moving freighter.
ref: 1989, Dick Durham, The Last Sailorman, page 85:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To steer to the incorrect location when trying to fetch somewhere.
misfetches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misfetch
misfetches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misfetch
misfetching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misfetch
misfetched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misfetch
boypussy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boypussies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of boy pussy.
boipussy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boipussies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of boy pussy.
boipussies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boipussy
boypussies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boypussy
boi pussy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boi pussies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of boy pussy.
boi pussies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boi pussy
Mah Meri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mah Meri
Senses: glosses: A member of a branch of the Orang Asli people of Malaya.
Mah Meri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Aslian language of these people.
Synonyms: Besisi
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Besisi terms
Orang Asli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Orang Asli
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Malay Orang Asli, from orang (“person[s], people[s]”) + asli (“native”), calque of English aborigine.
Senses: glosses: Several different indigenous people of Malaya and peninsular Thailand.
Besisi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Besisi
Senses: glosses: A member of a branch of the Orang Asli people of Malaya.
Besisi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Aslian language of these people.
Synonyms: Mah Meri
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Besisi terms
absampere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: absamperes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of abampere.
absamperes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absampere
absohm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: absohms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of abohm.
absohms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absohm