cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
North American porcupine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: North American porcupines
Senses: examples: text: It is, however, different from the North American porcupine, which is a rodent but is a member of the family of Erethizontidae, which is not represented in South America.
ref: 1988, Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Jealous Potter, page 108:
text: The North American porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum) is the largest species in the family, usually weighing less than 7 kg (15.4 pounds) though males occasionally grow significantly larger.
ref: 2011, John P. Rafferty, editor, Rats, Bats, and Xenarthrans, page 113:
text: North American porcupines, as well as a range of other Hystricomorph rodents, engage in urine showering as part of courtship and other behaviors.
ref: 2012, Uldis Roze, Porcupines: The Animal Answer Guide, unnumbered page:
text: North American Porcupines are widely distributed across North America, except on islands and in Arctic or alpine tundra, dry desert are as without trees, and intensively farmed lands that lack woodlots.
ref: 2012, Donna Naughton, The Natural History of Canadian Mammals, page 212:
glosses: A species of New World porcupine, Erethizon dorsatum.
Synonyms: sense: Erethizon dorsatum
word: Canadian porcupine
sense: Erethizon dorsatum
word: cawquaw
sense: Erethizon dorsatum
word: urson
sense: Erethizon dorsatum
word: common porcupine
North American porcupines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of North American porcupine
Ytterby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪtɚbi/
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish Ytterby. Doublet of Utterby.
Senses: glosses: A village on the island of Resarö in Sweden
Derived terms: erbium
terbium
ytterbium
yttrium
pukkaness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pukka + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: […] and the continued presence of the World Bank conferred an ultra-pukkaness which has yet to be successfully challenged; […]
ref: 1990, Stephen Nugent, Big Mouth: The Amazon Speaks, Fourth Estate, →ISBN, page 193:
text: For all the play's stiff-upper-lipped pukkaness, however, Sherriff's language sounds grittily fresh in David Grindley's darkly claustrophobic production.
ref: 2005 April 26, Neil Cooper, “Theatre JOURNEY'S END, THEATRE ROYAL, GLASGOW 4/5”, in The Herald, Scotland:
text: Thus they marvelled at the pukkaness of the big city.
ref: 2006, Brian Paul Bach, Calcutta's Edifice: The Buildings of a Great CIty, Rupa & Co., →ISBN, page 22:
glosses: The state or quality of being pukka.
queerplatonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkwiɹ.pləˈtɔn.ɪk/
Forms: form: more queerplatonic
form: most queerplatonic
Etymology: From queer (“transgress or reevaluate, especially in accordance with queer theory”) + platonic (“non-sexual and non-romantic”).
Coined by Dreamwidth user Meloukhia in 2010 who further popularized it in 2011 through posts on WordPress and Tumblr and said it "describ[ed] relationships where an intense emotional connection transcend[s] what people usually think of as ‘friendship’ is present, but the relationship is not romantic in nature […] though [it] can be sexual".
Senses: examples: text: At the end of a tough day, “just friends” might simply hug, whereas a queerplatonic couple is more likely to crawl right into bed together without thinking twice. Think Hannah and Marnie from Girls rather than Rachel and Monica from Friends. The former pair's friendship is an excellent example of a queerplatonic relationship, even if they might not label it that.
ref: 2012 November 15, Ashton Strait, “Beyond bffs: cozying up to queerplatonic relationships”, in Post, volume 14, number 8, Brown University, page 3:
text: Outside the romantic paradigm, some people form what they’re calling “queerplatonic” relationships. The word indicates nothing about the gender of the participants, but speaks to the desire to “queer” our understandings of platonic friendships. These are relationships of care — “life partnerships” that go quite beyond what most of us consider ordinary friendship. Many sexually ambiguous literary or onscreen relationships — think Frodo and Sam, Holmes and Watson, Thelma and Louise — can also be read as queerplatonic.
ref: 2013 February 14, Tracey Hickey, “Asexuality should be recognized as a legitimate sexual orientation”, in The Pitt News, University of Pittsburgh:
text: After feeling these concerns, I was happy to learn about squishes and queerplatonic partners (also known as zucchinis, for some reason unclear to me).
ref: 2013 September, anonymous author, “The 'A' in LGBT”, in Counterpoint, volume 35, number 1, Wellesley College, page 8:
glosses: Not romantic and (usually) not sexual, but sharing a stronger emotional bond than typical in a friendship.
raw_tags: of a relationship
wikipedia: Dreamwidth
Tumblr
WordPress
Related terms: quasiplatonic
de-Islamise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: de-Islamises
form: de-Islamising
form: de-Islamised
form: de-Islamised
Etymology: From de- + Islamise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of de-Islamize.
extra-Quranic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: extra-quranic
form: extraquranic
form: extra quranic
Etymology: From extra- + Quranic.
Senses: glosses: Outside the Quran.
extra-quranic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of extra-Quranic.
extraquranic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + quranic.
Senses: glosses: Outside the Quran.
Koran basher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Koran bashers
Senses: examples: text: 2003, BernardZZ, Re: OT Meditations on the Iraq war. Group: soc.history.medieval
Towards the end he tried to reinvent himself as a Koran basher
text: I presumed Mullah Omar had filled such an important post with yet another madrasah-educated Koran-basher, but I couldn't have been more wrong.
ref: 2013, James Fergusson, Taliban: The Unknown Enemy, Page 333
synonyms: Koran thumper
glosses: A zealous Islamic fundamentalist.
shark-finned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From shark + finned.
Senses: examples: He refused to drive the shark-finned automobile.
glosses: Having one or more shark fins or resembling shark fins.
shark-fin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shark-fins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shark fin.
Canadian porcupine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Canadian porcupines
form: Canada porcupine
Senses: examples: text: There are deer (Caribou), bears, wolves, foxes, martens, otters, beavers, and Canadian porcupines in the interior; most of which are hunted for their skins by the few inhabitants of the coast.
ref: 1837, Henry Wolsey Bayfield, Sailing Directions for the Gulf and River of St. Lawrence, page 173:
text: The fisher is said to live much on frogs in the summer season; but I have been informed that its favourite food is the Canadian porcupine, which it kills by biting on the belly.
ref: 1838, Félix de Azara, The Natural History of the Quadrupeds of Paraquay and the River la Plata, page 262:
text: Canadian porcupines may have coats varying from almost black to grizzled brown or "tweedy" slate.
ref: 1958, Pennsylvania Game Commission, Pennsylvania Game News, volume 29, page 99:
glosses: A North American porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum).
Synonyms: sense: Erethizon dorsatum
word: cawquaw
sense: Erethizon dorsatum
word: North American porcupine
sense: Erethizon dorsatum
word: urson
sense: Erethizon dorsatum
word: common porcupine
Canadian porcupines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Canadian porcupine
fatkini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fætˈkiː.ni/
rhymes: -iːni
Forms: form: fatkinis
Etymology: Blend of fat + bikini.
Senses: examples: text: Gregg, a size 18, famously posted an image of herself in a striped “fatkini” last spring — deep cleavage, non-skinny legs and all.
ref: 2013 February 1, Jennifer Barger, “Curve Appeal”, in The Washington Post:
text: Gabi’s "fatkini" stories shed light on the misconceptions about women, body image, and swimwear.
ref: 2013 May 24, Olivia Fleming, “Fashion blogger's 'Fatkini' swimsuits sell out within hours to the disappointment of thousands of eager plus-size customers”, in Daily Mail:
glosses: A two-piece swimsuit designed for an overweight woman; a plus-size bikini.
fatkinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fatkini
Seal of the Prophets
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Arabic خَاتَم النَّبِيِّينَ (ḵātam an-nabiyyīna), referring to the Prophet Muhammad being the last of all the prophets sent by God in Islam.
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Muhammad.
sipahsalar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sipahsalars
form: ispahsalar
Etymology: From Persian سپهسالار (sepahsâlâr), اسپهسالار (espahsâlâr), from Middle Persian 𐬯𐬞𐬁𐬵⸱𐬯𐬁𐬮𐬁𐬭 (spāh-sālār).
Senses: glosses: A title given to commanders in chief and general officers in the armies of many states of the medieval Islamic world.
commanders-in-chief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commander-in-chief
sea-puss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea-pusses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sea puss.
mosque-going
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: mosquegoing
Etymology: From mosque + going.
Senses: glosses: Regularly attending a mosque; being a practicing Muslim.
mosque-goer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mosque-goers
form: mosquegoer
Etymology: From mosque + goer.
Senses: glosses: One who (regularly) attends a mosque; a practicing Muslim.
shrinegoer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shrinegoers
form: shrine-goer
Etymology: From shrine + goer.
Senses: glosses: One who goes to a shrine.
temple-goer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: temple-goers
form: templegoer
Etymology: From temple + goer.
Senses: examples: text: She also describes herself as a Hindu temple-goer who visits the temple on a regular basis.
ref: 2012, Jilly Traganou, Miodrag Mitrasinovic, Travel, Space, Architecture, page 299:
glosses: One who goes to a temple.
synagogue-goer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synagogue-goers
form: synagoguegoer
Etymology: From synagogue + goer.
Senses: glosses: One who (regularly) attends synagogue; a practicing Jew.
temple-going
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: templegoing
Etymology: From temple + going.
Senses: examples: text: The temple-going Zen religious sects
ref: 2004, Allan Kaprow, Childsplay: The Art of Allan Kaprow, Page 199
text: We need an approach that allows Jesus to articulate a message that can be reasonably attributed to a temple-going Jewish person of the first century CE.
ref: 2006, Jonathan Klawans, Purity, Sacrifice, and the Temple, page 236:
text: Even the temple-going Jains know that the Jain ideal is to renounce householder life and to follow the path of their role models such as Mahavira
ref: 2011, Pankaj Jain, Dharma and Ecology of Hindu Communities:
glosses: Regularly attending a temple for worship.
temple-going
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: templegoing
Etymology: From temple + going.
Senses: examples: text: Although the study of Hindu temple rituals and templegoing is […]
ref: 2013, Steven Vertovec, The Hindu Diaspora: Comparative Patterns, Page 132
glosses: The practice of regularly attending a temple.
synagogue-going
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more synagogue-going
form: most synagogue-going
Etymology: From synagogue + going.
Senses: glosses: Regularly attending a synagogue; being a practicing Jew.
synagogue-going
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From synagogue + going.
Senses: glosses: The practice of regularly attending a synagogue.
alizarin red
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of alizarin.
synonyms: word: alizarin
gurdwara-goer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gurdwara-goers
Etymology: From gurdwara + goer.
Senses: examples: text: I am a regular Gurdwara goer but at the same time i know how to enjoy myself!
ref: 1995, Harpreet Tattisingh, “Re: Harpreet Babeyo ki haal hai ????”, in soc.culture.punjab (Usenet):
text: […] a gurdwara-goer, temple-goer etc, nor criticise what happens in other religious establishments.
ref: 2013, Joe Fisher, “Laugh your way into God's Kingdom at church comedy gig”, in Guardian Online:
text: Beant, a new gurdwara-goer[,] may also have become a member of these persuasive sessions.
ref: 1985, Arun Shourie, The Assassination & after, page 21:
glosses: One who goes to a gurdwara, a practicing Sikh.
fatphobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fatphobes
Etymology: From fat + -phobe.
Senses: examples: text: The Thursday special of sweet/sour spareribs in a pineapple sauce is a joy, but not for the fatphobe.
ref: 2005, Jane Stern, Michael Stern, Roadfood: The Coast-to-Coast Guide to 500 of the Best Barbecue Joints, Lobster Shacks, Ice Cream Parlors, Highway Diners, and Much, Much More, Broadway Books, →ISBN, page 519:
text: I prefer this — the pork fat made the sauce a little too oily for absolute comfort, and I am no fatphobe, as you know — and more pointedly so do my children.
ref: 2010, Nigella Lawson, Kitchen: Recipes from the Heart of the Home, Knopf, →ISBN:
text: And clearly, so do a lot of other ladies around town—you know, the no-cream-in-the-soup crowd, the no-butter-in-the-risotto customer, your garden-variety fatphobe.
ref: 2012, Eileen Daspin, The Manhattan Diet: Lose Weight While Living a Fabulous Life, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
glosses: A person who worries excessively about the fat content of their food.
examples: text: Here's a perfect reply to a fatphobe: "It's not my fat you hate, it's yourself. And you have every reason to."
ref: 1997, BBW, Volume 18, Issues 1-6, page 18
text: What if my seatmate was a sadistic fatphobe who would lean on our shared armrest just to see me wince in pain as it dug into my hip?
ref: 2002, BBW, Volume 22, Issues 3-4, page 56
text: Fat girls everywhere thrilled to Tracy Turnblad, Ricki Lake's unforgettable character in John Waters's 1988 movie Hairspray: a round, rebellious teen who remained outrageously self-accepting in the face of fatphobes.
ref: 2009, Beth Bernstein, Matilda St. John, “The Roseanne Benedict Arnolds: How Fat Women Are Betrayed by Their Celebrity Status”, in Esther Rothblum, Sondra Solovay, editors, The Fat Studies Reader, New York University Press, →ISBN, page 264:
glosses: One who has a negative perception of fat people and/or obesity.
Related terms: fatphobia
fatphobic
flash powder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flash powders
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A powder that burns with a very rapid flash when ignited; used in pyrotechnics and early flash photography.
patchwriting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From patch + writing.
Senses: topics: education
glosses: A form of plagiarism in which material by various writers is combined.
rootogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rootograms
Etymology: From root + -gram.
Senses: glosses: A frequency graph in which one axis is scaled by the square root of the frequencies, so as to emphasize the smaller values.
rootograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rootogram
triplot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triplots
Etymology: From tri- + plot.
Senses: glosses: A triangular chart showing the relationships between three variables.
triplots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triplot
biplot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biplots
Etymology: From bi- + plot.
Senses: glosses: A kind of statistical graph, a generalization of the simple two-variable scatter plot, allowing information on both samples and variables of a data matrix to be displayed graphically.
biplots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biplot
bagplot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bagplots
Etymology: From bag + plot, introduced in 1999 by Peter Rousseeuw, Ida Ruts and John Tukey.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A method for visualizing two- or three-dimensional statistical data, analogous to the one-dimensional box plot.
wikipedia: John Tukey
Peter Rousseeuw
R (programming language)
bagplots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bagplot
multi-vari chart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multi-vari charts
Senses: glosses: A kind of chart for presenting variability.
underspecification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underspecifications
Etymology: From under- + specification.
Senses: examples: text: The underspecification of the project led to the development of software that was not fit for purpose.
glosses: Inadequate specification; failure to specify in enough detail.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A phenomenon in which certain features are omitted in underlying representations.
multi-vari charts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multi-vari chart
underspecifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underspecification
sunburst chart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunburst charts
Senses: glosses: ring chart
sunburst charts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sunburst chart
ring chart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ring charts
Senses: glosses: A multilevel pie chart that uses concentric circles to visualize hierarchical data.
Synonyms: sunburst chart
ring charts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ring chart
isodemographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + demographic.
Senses: glosses: Where the relative areas of regions are not proportional to their landmasses, but to their populations.
raw_tags: of a map-based graph or chart
Related terms: cartogram
mosque affiliation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mosque affiliations
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The Islamic denomination a Muslim has joined or supports.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see mosque, affiliation.
haywagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haywagons
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hay wagon.
isegory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Democracy presupposed three conditions: isonomy (equality before the law), isotimy (equal rights to access all public offices), and isegory (freedom of expression).
ref: 1993, in Telos, issues 95-97, page 70 (reprinted in 2011 by Alain de Benoist in The Problem of Democracy →ISBN, page 22)
glosses: Alternative form of isogoria.
isogoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἰσηγορία (isēgoría).
Senses: glosses: Equality of freedom of speech and expression; the right of each citizen of a city (or other unit) to speak in public and address that city.
Synonyms: word: isegoria
word: isegory
Related terms: isonomia
isonomy
isotomia
isotomy
in operation
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The free market is still in operation, and the number fed from it increases weekly.
ref: December 31, 1861, "UNITED STATES STEAMER R.R. COYLER, OFF FORT PICKENS", published in The New York Times in 1862
text: When the engine is in operation, the farther this lever is moved downward toward the driver (referring to as "opening the throttle") the faster the engine runs and the greater the power furnished.
ref: 1919, For Motor Company, Ford Manual/The Car and Its Operation:
glosses: Activated; functional; functioning; operating; working.
v-ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: v-rings
Senses: glosses: a vaginal or intravaginal ring that releases hormones for the purpose of contraception
neurosexism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + sexism.
Senses: examples: text: Neurosexism reflects and reinforces cultural beliefs about gender—and it may do so in a particularly powerful way. Dubious “brain facts” about the sexes become part of the cultural lore.
ref: 2010, Cordelia Fine, Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference, W. W. Norton, →ISBN, page xxviii:
glosses: The use of neuroscientific research to support preexisting ideas about inherent sex differences.
tube tying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tube tyings
Senses: glosses: The procedure of tying the Fallopian tubes for the purpose of contraception.
Related terms: have one's tubes tied
bag snatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bag snatchers
Senses: glosses: A thief who snatches a handbag, shoulder bag, rucksack, etc., from the person carrying it.
fam'ly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of family.
fam'ly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fam'lies
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of family.
mosquegoing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mosque-going.
templegoing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of temple-going.
templegoer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: templegoers
Etymology: From temple + goer.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of temple-goer.
mosquegoer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mosquegoers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mosque-goer.
synagoguegoer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synagoguegoers
Etymology: From synagogue + goer.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of synagogue-goer.
shrine-goer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shrine-goers
Etymology: From shrine + goer.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shrinegoer.
comes and goes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of come and go
came and went
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of come and go
come and gone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of come and go
comings and goings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coming and going
Thirsty Thursday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Thirsty Thursdays
Senses: glosses: A pseudo-holiday celebrated on Thursdays, involving drinking alcohol and partying. At some bars and restaurants, a theme night for drink specials.
Related terms: Taco Tuesday
sees the forest for the trees
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of see the forest for the trees
seeing the forest for the trees
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of see the forest for the trees
saw the forest for the trees
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of see the forest for the trees
seen the forest for the trees
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of see the forest for the trees
see the forest but for the trees
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sees the forest but for the trees
form: seeing the forest but for the trees
form: saw the forest but for the trees
form: seen the forest but for the trees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of see the forest for the trees.
big pictures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of big picture
grand scheme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹænd ˈskiːm/
Forms: form: grand schemes
Etymology: Ellipsis of grand scheme of things.
Senses: synonyms: big picture
scheme of things
glosses: The totality of the situation approached objectively; the big picture.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see grand, scheme.
Related terms: bigger fish to fry
bird's-eye view
gestalt
gist
overview
the forest for the trees
grand schemes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grand scheme
grand scheme of things
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grand schemes of things
Etymology: From scheme of things.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of grand scheme.
synonyms: word: grand scheme
grand schemes of things
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grand scheme of things
kills off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kill off
killing off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kill off
killed off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kill off
other fish in the sea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bigger fish in the sea
Senses: glosses: Other goals or objectives to pursue.
examples: text: You've lied your last lie and I've cried my last cry / I'm out the door, babe / There's other fish in the sea
ref: 1987, Kenneth Edmonds, Antonio Reid, “Girlfriend”, performed by Pebbles:
glosses: Other romantic partners or significant others to pursue.
Related terms: bigger fish to fry
other fish to fry
cephalothoracopagus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cephalothoracopagi
Etymology: From cephalo- + thoraco- + -pagus.
Senses: glosses: A conjoined twin, or a pair of conjoined twins, exhibiting fusion of the head and chest.
thoracopagus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thoracopagi
Etymology: From thoraco- + -pagus.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: With fusion of the chest.
raw_tags: of conjoined twins
Derived terms: cephalothoracopagus
pygopagus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pygopagi
Etymology: From pygo- + -pagus.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A conjoined twin, or a pair of conjoined twins, exhibiting fusion of the sacrum.
rachipagus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rachipagi
Etymology: By surface analysis, rachi- + -pagus.
Senses: topics: medicine
obstetrics
sciences
glosses: A conjoined twin, or a pair of conjoined twins, exhibiting fusion of the back.
other fishes in the sea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of other fish in the sea.
synonyms: word: other fish in the sea
bigger fish in the sea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of other fish in the sea.
box canyon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: box canyons
form: box-canyon
Senses: examples: text: The Box Canyon was adequately named. It was a box, a trap.
ref: 1912, Jack London, chapter 2, in Smoke Bellew:
text: For days he camped on Wildfire's trail, always relentlessly driving him, always watching for the trap he hoped to find. . . . Sooner or later Wildfire would go down into a high-walled wash, from which there would be no outlet; or he would wander into a box-canyon.
ref: 1917, Zane Grey, chapter 6, in Wildfire:
text: Highway 145 dead-ends on the east end of Telluride, where a box canyon affords no further passage.
ref: 2005 July 3, Alison Berkley, “In Telluride, the Skis Are Stowed, but Good Times Aren't”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 Jan 2014:
glosses: A canyon which has a single access for entrance and exit, being otherwise enclosed on all sides by steep walls.
box-canyon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: box-canyons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of box canyon.
sub-cloud car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sub-cloud cars
form: subcloud car
form: sub cloud car
Senses: glosses: A lookout found on airships: a capsule slung underneath an airship, reeled out below the cloud deck to navigate by landform when the airship itself is enveloped in clouds or flying above clouds.
Related terms: crow's nest
navigation bridge
wing bridge
navigation dome
sub-cloud cars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sub-cloud car
helles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛl.əs/
ipa: /ˈhɛl.ɪs/
rhymes: -ɛlɪs
rhymes: -ɛləs
Forms: form: helles
Etymology: From German Helles.
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, the brewing and fermentation processes that turn these straightforward materials into a helles are complex and very precise— brewing a helles is pure haute école. Some of the more robust beers can be somewhat forgiving ...
ref: 2000, Horst D. Dornbusch, Bavarian Helles: History, Brewing Techniques, Recipes, Brewers Publications, →ISBN, page 2:
text: I never re-pitch yeast into a helles. Only when I make bock, which is more robust, will I pitch yeast out of another fermenter.
ref: 2005, The New Brewer, volumes 22-23, page 32:
text: ... which Bennewitz discovered were all the rage in the nascent craft beer movement (ales would have taken significantly less time to make); and the lagers they did brew, including a helles, a schwarzbier (or dark lager), and a pilsner, were not ...
ref: 2013, Tom Acitelli, The Audacity of Hops: The History of America's Craft Beer Revolution, Chicago Review Press, →ISBN:
text: Similar in flavor to a pilsner, helles are usually a little bit sweeter and drier in finish, as well as slightly maltier. They are not heavily hopped, instead focusing on barley flavors and mild, bready notes. CraftBeer.com calls the helles a […]
ref: 2014, Corey Herschberger, Brew It!: 25 Great Recipes and Techniques to Brew at Home, Fox Chapel Publishing, →ISBN, page 83:
glosses: A type of lightly-hopped pale lager traditionally produced in southern Germany.
prize winner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prize winners
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of prizewinner.
there's always a bigger fish
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: No matter how large or intimidating a person or thing is, there is likely to be an even larger or more intimidating person or thing somewhere.
ballrace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballraces
Etymology: From ball + race.
Senses: examples: text: Home-made scooters could be special affairs made in carpenters' shops, or they could be made by boys with two rough-hewn pieces of wood put together with ball-races for the wheels.
ref: 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 128:
glosses: A friction-reducing device consisting of a ring containing freely-revolving ball bearings
-idium
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek -ίδιον (-ídion, “diminutive”).
Senses: examples: text: basidium, spermidium, planidium, meconidium, glochidium
glosses: Forms names of body parts, mainly of invertebrate animals, fungi and plants.
reproductive organs, gametes, and early life stages
qualifier: most common
examples: text: scolopidium, ommatidium, (not arthropodan) sphaeridium
glosses: Forms names of body parts, mainly of invertebrate animals, fungi and plants.
sensory organs, mainly of arthropods
examples: text: stethidium, chilidium, limbidium, phyllidium, gonidium
glosses: Forms names of body parts, mainly of invertebrate animals, fungi and plants.
various segments (arthropods) and functional processes
examples: text: ctenidium, taenidium
glosses: Forms names of body parts, mainly of invertebrate animals, fungi and plants.
respiratory organs
examples: text: chromidium, cytoophidium
qualifier: marginal
glosses: cellular compartments
Derived terms: gnathidium
nephridium
Related terms: soredium
isidium
ascidium
aecidium
on the safe side
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Just to be on the safe side, why don't you Google him?
text: Oh, no, my dear, I ordered that six months ago, just to be on the safe side. But upon my soul, I was sure then that we'd be on board to-day.
ref: c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act 2:
glosses: Taking precautions.
Related terms: err on the side of caution
for good measure
play it safe
Snr
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Sr
form: Sr.
Senses: examples: text: His father, Barack Obama Snr, was a visiting foreign student at university in Hawaii where he met and married Ann Dunham, the corn-fed product of Kansas parents, who was also studying at the college.
ref: 2006, Barack Obama: New kid on the political block, BBC:
text: Ricky Hatton's ex-coach Floyd Mayweather Snr believes it is inevitable the former world champion will be forced into making a ring comeback.
ref: 2010, “Mayweather Snr feels Hatton will fight again”, in ESPN:
glosses: Abbreviation of senior; a title used after a father's name when his son is given the same name.
Related terms: Jnr
non-com
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-coms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of noncom.
Water Banquet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Mandarin 水席 (shuǐxí).
Senses: topics: food
lifestyle
glosses: A set banquet of eight cold and 16 hot dishes served in six courses, a hallmark of Luoyang cuisine.
assier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of assy: more assy
CKIN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: Abbreviation of check-in.
Sterek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɛɹɪk/
rhymes: -ɛɹɪk
Etymology: Blend of Stiles + Derek.
Senses: examples: text: Some shows have released official promos that play up the fans' favorite slash couples to court fans, most recently Hawaii Five-O and Teen Wolf, whose showrunner began to write the show itself in a slashy direction when he became aware of the popularity of “Sterek,” the slash pairing of sidekick Stiles and alpha wolf Derek.
ref: 2013, Katherine Larsen, Lynn S. Zubernis, Fangasm: Supernatural Fangirls, University of Iowa Press, →ISBN, page 101:
text: "Teen Wolf 'Sterek' fans, we've read your (hundreds and hundreds of) comments and admire your passion," EW.com responded. "The reason Sterek didn't make the category is because it's not an acknowledged will-they-or-won't-they storyline."
This controversy led the gay entertainment news site AfterElton.com to start an annual "slash madness" tournament. Sterek won the first.
ref: 2013 October 31, Zachary Pincus-Roth, “Slash Fiction: A Fantasy World in Which Male TV Characters Find Romance — With Each Other”, in LA Weekly:
text: Even a nascent fandom will begin to develop its own tropes. You could see it, for instance, in the popular Sterek pairing in the Teen Wolf fandom as it took off.
ref: 2013, Anne Jamison, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, BenBella Books, →ISBN:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ship of characters Stiles Stilinski and Derek Hale from the television series Teen Wolf.
Drarry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: drărʹ-ē
ipa: /ˈdɹæɹ.i/
rhymes: -æɹi
enpr: drărʹē
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈdɹæɹ.i/
rhymes: -æɹi
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈdɹɛɹ.i/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: [ˈdɹeɹ.i]
Etymology: Blend of Draco + Harry.
Senses: examples: text: It occurs because in canon Harry and Draco feel no emotion for each other warmer than intense dislike. […] Harry is willing to save Draco's life out of recognition of their shared humanity, but with apologies to all the Drarry shippers out there, that's as far as it goes.
ref: 2011, Aaron Schwabach, Fan Fiction and Copyright: Outsider Works and Intellectual Property Protection, Ashgate, →ISBN, pages 69–79:
text: 2013, Anne Jamison, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, BenBella Books (2013), →ISBN, unnumbered page:draco malfoy is a beautiful creation and he should be protected by harry potter who is his second cousin and who cares if you think its gross they are adorable together let the gayness happen
Dramione shippers apparently feel the same way when too much attention is paid to Drarry.
text: Fanfics that depict relationships between Draco and Harry have been particularly popular, spawning a cult of ‘Drarry’ shippers – with Facebook pages, fan art and many stories all dedicated to the pairing.
ref: 2013, Sarah Dear, "Fanfiction - A Hobby for Generations of Teenagers", Impact (University of Nottingham), 26 April 2013
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ship of characters Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter of the Harry Potter series.
Dramione
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /dɹəˈmaɪ.ə.ni/
Etymology: Blend of Draco + Hermione.
Senses: examples: text: "I secretly ship Dramione!" one boldly asserts, while more serious blogs boast confessions along the lines of, "I moved away to college this year and haven't made any new friends."
ref: 2011, Brittany Dalton, "Away with the Niceties", The Vista (University of Central Oklahoma), 1 September 2011, page 3
text: This is a haven for writers and readers to converge and show their interest in a variety of genres with any characters, from the typical Dramione (Draco and Hermione) action-adventure to the absurd Filch-Peeves BDSM.
ref: 2011 September 15, Sayantan Deb, Angela Song, “Potter Legacy”, in The Harvard Independent, volume 42, number 25, page 10:
text: Dramione shippers apparently feel the same way when too much attention is paid to Drarry.
ref: 2013, Anne Jamison, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, BenBella Books, →ISBN:
text: “There’s this whole secret economy of Dramione fanfiction,” Ms. Morris said.
ref: 2025 August 20, Alexandra Alter, “How Harry Potter Fans Are Driving the Romantasy Trend”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ship of characters Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger of the Harry Potter series.
fructivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fructivores
Etymology: From Latin frūctus (“fruit”) + -i- + -vore.
Senses: glosses: Frugivore.
nectarivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nectarivores
Etymology: From nectar + -i- + -vore.
Senses: examples: text: Insects visiting flowers of H. spinosa can be divided into two guilds: nectarivores (small flies and ants) and pollinivores (bees and hoverflies), which differ in pollination attributes.
ref: 1999, Ecology Abstracts, volume 25, Bethesda, Md.: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 107:
text: During the same time that A[pis] m[ellifera] adansonii encounters on flowers were registered, we noted the type of floral products collected by this bee. This parameter was measured to determine if A. m. adansonii is strictly a pollinivore, nectarivore or pollinivore and nectarivore. This could give us an idea of its implication as a cross-pollinator of G[ossypium] hirsutum.
ref: 2015, Mazi Sanda, “Foraging and Pollination Behaviour of Apis mellifera adansonii Latreille (Hymenoptera, Apidae) on Gossypium hirsutum L. (Malvaceae) Flowers at Dang (Naoundere, Cameroon)”, in Michel Fok, Ousmane Ndoye, Siaka Koné, editors, AGRAR-2013: 1st Conference of African Research on Agriculture, Food, and Nutrition. Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire, June 4–6, 2013. Agriculture and the Challenges of Food and Nutrition in Africa: The Contributions of Research in the Cotton Zone = AGRAR-2013 : 1re conférence de la recherche africaine sur l'agriculture, l'alimentation et la nutrition. Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire, 4–6 juin 2013. L'agriculture face aux défis de l'alimentation et de la nutrition en Afrique : quels apports de la recherche dans les pays cotonniers, Gembloux, Belgium: Les Presses Agronomiques de Gembloux, →ISBN, page 164:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: An animal that principally eats nectar.
Related terms: exudivore
nectarivorous
nectarivory
palynivore
pollinivore
Sculder
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Scully + Mulder.
Senses: examples: text: Alas, Jess Mabe's "Bittersweet" has a similar nickname for the Sculder baby, and Jean Robinson's "When Old Friends Meet" is likewise obsessed with dolls.
ref: 2000 October 1, story_posting [username], “Dream Life 1/1”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):
text: Do come visit to read about Mulder, Scully, Frohike, CJ, Josh, Angel, deadly spellcasting books, Cordy, Buffy, Jack the gypsy computer repairman and the Sculder sproglet in all its many gestational forms
ref: 2001 May 3, ymmv2001 [username], “New update at YMMV”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):
text: But Thackeray, like his Kirk/Spock, Johnlock, and (in the early years) “Sculder” descendants, must confront the sticky problem of canon: […]
ref: 2013, Anne Jamison, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, BenBella Books, →ISBN:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ship of characters Dana Scully and Fox Mulder from the television series The X-Files.
Synonyms: M/S
transmediation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transmediations
Etymology: From trans- + mediation.
Senses: glosses: translation of a work into a different medium
Vergilian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Vergilian
form: most Vergilian
Etymology: From Vergil + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Spenser has an intimate feel for Vergilian intratextuality, the mirrorings and repetitions that create patterns of likeness and difference, reaching over the whole text and linking images, motifs, and persons.
ref: 2010, Joseph Farrell, Michael C. J. Putnam, A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition, page 183:
glosses: Alternative form of Virgilian.
V speed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: V speeds
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of standard airspeeds.
V speeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of V speed
refugeeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of refugee
refugeed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of refugee
refereeship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refereeships
Etymology: From referee + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The role or status of referee.
refereeships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of refereeship
Bok globule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bok globules
Etymology: They were first observed by astronomer Bart Bok in the 1940s.
Senses: glosses: A dark cloud of dense cosmic dust and gas in which star formation sometimes takes place.
wikipedia: Bart Bok
Bok globules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bok globule
reflectograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reflectographs
Etymology: From reflect + -o- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: An image produced by reflectography.
reflectographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reflectograph
reflectometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to reflectometry
nonexpulsion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + expulsion.
Senses: glosses: Lack of expulsion.
Norfolk jacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Norfolk jackets
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps […] a patrol-jacket like that of the Foot Chasseurs, or similar to what English sportsmen know as the Norfolk jacket […] will prove most conducive to the comfort, efficiency, and even the appearance of the rifleman of the future.
ref: 1864, Arthur Walker, The Rifle: Its Theory and Practice, Westminster: J.B. Nichols, Concluding Lecture, page 309:
text: Nearly all our clothing was made of a well-shrunk and very strong grey flannel, and excellent I found it for travelling in these places, because though a Norfolk jacket, shirt, and pair of trousers of it only weighed about four pounds, a great consideration in a tropical country, where every extra ounce tells on the wearer, it was warm, and offered a good resistance to the rays of the sun, and best of all to chills, which are so apt to result from sudden changes of temperature.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: […] she pointed to a parcel which was causing the pocket of his well-cut Norfolk jacket to bulge immoderately.
ref: 1915, Emma Orczy, chapter 19, in A Bride of the Plains, New York: George H. Doran, page 174:
text: He walked straight across to it, picked an apple, and put it in the breast pocket of his Norfolk jacket.
ref: 1955, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew, London: The Bodley Head, →OCLC:
glosses: A loose, belted, single-breasted jacket with box pleats on the back and front.
Derived terms: Norfolk-jacketed
Norfolk jackets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Norfolk jacket
nonrefoulement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of non-refoulement.
red ale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red ales
Senses: glosses: A kind of Irish ale with a reddish colour.
glosses: A kind of Belgian sour ale brewed with red malt and often fermented with organisms other than Saccharomyces cerevisiae, especially Lactobacillus.
red ales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red ale
redaguerreotyped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of redaguerreotype
indianaite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Indiana + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variety of halloysite found in Indiana.
Indian plum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Indian plums
Senses: glosses: Oemleria cerasiformis, a shrub in the rose family, native to the Pacific coast of North America.
synonyms: puneala plum
glosses: Flacourtia jangomas, a rainforest tree in the willow family that is widely planted in Asia and Southeast Asia.
synonyms: batoko plum
ramontchi
governor's plum
Madagascar plum
glosses: Flacourtia indica, an Asian species often used as a living fence.
glosses: Ziziphus mauritiana, a tropical fruit tree.
Indian plums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Indian plum
Indian rhubarb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Darmera peltata, a slow-spreading rhizomatous perennial flowering plant native to mountain streamsides in woodland in the western United States.
clonemate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clonemates
Etymology: From clone + mate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An individual that has undergone only clonal reproduction since its most recent ancestor in common with another.
clonemates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clonemate
red-ragger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red-raggers
Etymology: From red rag + -er.
Senses: glosses: A socialist or communist.
Related terms: red rag
red-raggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red-ragger
Kelvin wave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kelvin waves
Etymology: Named after Lord Kelvin, the discoverer (1879).
Senses: examples: text: Geophysicists have leaned on a mathematical explanation for equatorial Kelvin waves since the 1960s, but for some, that explanation wasn’t entirely satisfying.
ref: 2023 July 18, Katie McCormick, “How Quantum Physics Describes Earth’s Weather Patterns”, in Quanta Magazine:
topics: climatology
geography
meteorology
natural-sciences
oceanography
glosses: A non-dispersive wave in the ocean or atmosphere that balances the Earth's Coriolis force against a topographic boundary such as a coastline, or a waveguide such as the equator.
glosses: A long-scale perturbation mode of a vortex in superfluid dynamics.
Hypernyms: wave
Kelvin waves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kelvin wave
Jane Roe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jane Roes
Senses: synonyms: Jane Doe
coordinate_terms: John Doe
glosses: The female equivalent of Richard Roe.
Related terms: Richard Roe
dicemaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dicemakers
Etymology: From dice + maker.
Senses: glosses: A manufacturer of dice.
dicemakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dicemaker