cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Clarke's gazelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Clarke's gazelles
Etymology: Named after T. W. H. Clarke, an Australian hunter who collected the type specimen.
Senses: glosses: The dibatag.
Elliot's pheasant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Elliot's pheasants
Etymology: Named by Robert Swinhoe after the American ornithologist Daniel Giraud Elliot.
Senses: glosses: Syrmaticus ellioti, a large pheasant native to south-eastern China.
IPI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of interested party information (“an international identification system for people involved in creating or publishing musical works”).
iPhoners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iPhoner
Drummond's phlox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Scottish botanist Thomas Drummond.
Senses: synonyms: annual phlox
glosses: The flowering plant Phlox drummondii.
Lambert's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Lambert's cosine law.
synonyms: word: Lambert's cosine law
Lambert's emission law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Lambert's cosine law.
synonyms: word: Lambert's cosine law
Reeves's pheasant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Reeves's pheasants
Etymology: Named after the British naturalist John Reeves, who first introduced live specimens to Europe in 1831.
Senses: glosses: Syrmaticus reevesii, a large pheasant that is endemic to China.
Dall's porpoise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dall's porpoises
Etymology: Named after American naturalist William Healey Dall.
Senses: glosses: Phocoenoides dalli, a porpoise endemic to the North Pacific.
wikipedia: William Healey Dall
Grant's zebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Grant's zebras
Senses: glosses: Equus quagga boehmi, the smallest subspecies of the plains zebra.
Grant's gazelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Grant's gazelles
Etymology: Named after James Grant, 19th-century British explorer.
Senses: glosses: Nanger granti, a relatively large gazelle, distributed from northern Tanzania to South Sudan and Ethiopia, and from the Kenyan coast to Lake Victoria.
Barrionuevo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Barrionuevos
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Donayre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Donayres
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
pooptard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pooptards
Etymology: From poop + -tard.
Senses: examples: text: You give him too much credit. Actually, he's just an adolescent attention-seeking gender-dysphoric pooptard troll, who gets off only while eating human waste, and masturbating to recordings of his own (or his mommy's) voice reciting hate speech.
ref: 2001 June 20, Rinaldo of Capadoccia, “The ways of the Jewish and Christian God/Gods are inscrutable”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):
text: Speaking of voices, I'm sure glad you chose this nic, pooptard. I just learned a new stupid web trick last week and I tried it out on your picture. I made it look like you're talking!
ref: 2001 August 9, St. Jackanapes, “Real Voice of Judaism Pictures”, in alt.revisionism (Usenet):
text: somehow I expect you're just too big of a pooptard to show all these points to be wrong. and somehow I expect you and many other pooptards here to ignore these facts and continue posting immature personal attacks to substitute for your intellectual inadequacies. so very sad it is.
ref: 2003 November 21, Wally Anglesea™ >, “PROOF SOLLOG IS A TRUE SEER”, in alt.prophecies.nostradamus (Usenet):
text: yeah well you are a pooptard
ref: 2021 February 9, u/_eshammy_, “and that's why makoto is queen”, in Reddit, r/Persona5, archived from the original on 26 Mar 2024:
glosses: A term of abuse.
eventise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eventises
form: eventising
form: eventised
form: eventised
Senses: examples: Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy wants to eventise Star Wars like the James Bond franchise does.
"We eventised our website's login system."
glosses: To make characterized by events.
pooptards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pooptard
Hebrue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Hebrew.
Hebrue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hebrues
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Hebrew.
Fidelma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /fɪˈdɛlmə/
Forms: form: Fidelmas
Etymology: A Latinization of Middle Irish Fedelm, altered under the influence of Latin fidēs (“faith”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Derived terms: Delma
Adelma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Adelmas
Senses: glosses: A female given name, masculine equivalent Adelmar
Derived terms: Delma
Carmuirs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A western suburb of Falkirk, Falkirk council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS8580).
wherin
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of wherein.
ICD-11
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The 2018 revision of the International Classification of Diseases, published by WHO.
orphan off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: orphans off
form: orphaning off
form: orphaned off
form: orphaned off
Senses: synonyms: orphan
glosses: To treat (a child) as an orphan, such as by sending them into foster care or adopting them out.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: orphan
glosses: To remove all links to (something), leaving it an orphan; to render a technical item (website, function, etc.) useless by removing references that call on it.
lohochs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lohoch
American climbing fern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: American climbing ferns
Senses: synonyms: Alice's fern
Hartford fern
glosses: A hardy fern of species Lygodium palmatum, found in the eastern US from Maine and Ohio to Georgia and Mississippi.
American climbing ferns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of American climbing fern
Hartford fern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hartford ferns
Etymology: Named after Hartford, Connecticut.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of American climbing fern (Lygodium palmatum)
synonyms: word: American climbing fern
extra: Lygodium palmatum
Alice's fern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Alice's ferns
Etymology: Of unclear origin. Seemingly first mentioned in a letter written in November 1900 and published in January 1901 in Fern Bulletin, in which William R. Maxon describes its sale in Washington, DC, by "old negro women [...among whom] it goes altogether by the name of 'Alice's fern,' a new one, perhaps, to most fern students". In September 1901, her father's rise to the US presidency made Alice Roosevelt Longworth a celebrity and Alice blue was named for her, but in 1900 she was not so prominent.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of American climbing fern (Lygodium palmatum)
synonyms: word: American climbing fern
extra: Lygodium palmatum
wikipedia: Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Hartford ferns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hartford fern
Margerison
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
post-acute
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of postacute.
Llangynog
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh llan + Saint Cynog.
Senses: glosses: A village and community in Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN3316).
glosses: A village and community in the Tanat Valley, Powys, Wales, historically in Montgomeryshire (OS grid ref SJ0526).
Wingecarribee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in the Southern Highlands, New South Wales; in full, the Wingecarribee River.
glosses: A local government area in the same area of New South Wales, Australia; in full, Wingecarribee Shire.
Strachwitz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Strachwitzes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Strachwitz.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
clusterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clusterers
Etymology: From cluster + -er.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: That which divides data etc. into clusters.
clusterers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clusterer
Maginot Line
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Maginot Line
Etymology: Named after French Minister of War André Maginot.
Senses: glosses: A line of concrete fortifications, obstacles and weapon installations built by France in the 1930s to deter invasion by Germany.
fool me once
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
fool me once, shame on you
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
Irish up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Irishes up
form: Irishing up
form: Irished up
form: Irished up
Etymology: From a stereotype of Irish people as often having a drinking problem; see Wikipedia at Anti-Irish sentiment. The verb's popularization was increased by an episode of The Simpsons in 2002.
Senses: examples: text: You want me to Irish up that punch bowl for ya? No? Ha, OK — your loss!
text: Ginger: Think you could Irish up this coffee for me?
 Flanders: Whoops, watch the swears, Honey Bear. We don't use the "I" word in this house.
ref: 2002, Joel H. Cohen, “Brawl in the Family (The Simpsons)” (16:47 from the start), in The Simpsons, season 13, episode 7, spoken by Ginger:
synonyms: spike
glosses: To add alcohol to a drink that doesn't normally have it.
antonyms: sober up
glosses: To get drunk.
Related terms: Irish coffee
boutique hotels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boutique hotel
bow-wow theories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bow-wow theory
skiway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skiways
Etymology: From ski + way.
Senses: glosses: A runway or airstrip that can only be used by aircraft equipped with skis.
FNC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: “Eric was an immensely gifted and aggressive booker and was renowned for booking the innumerable ‘gets’ we’ve seen on both FNC and FBN over the years,” they wrote.
ref: 2021 March 22, Oliver Darcy, “Top Fox producer dies from coronavirus”, in CNN Business:
glosses: Initialism of Fox News Channel.
FNC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of fine-needle cholangiography.
yehu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yehus
Senses: glosses: A bowed string instrument in the huqin family.
palendag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palendags
Senses: glosses: A type of Philippine bamboo flute.
Alandra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Alandras
Etymology: Contraction of Alexandra.
Senses: glosses: A female given name, variant of Alexandra.
qilaut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qilauts
Senses: glosses: A type of frame drum used mostly by the Inuit.
zygotaxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zygo- + taxis.
Senses: glosses: The attraction of two zygospores.
ICRF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of International Celestial Reference Frame, the current standard celestial reference system adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).
markedness constraints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of markedness constraint
South Hetton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in eastern County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ3844).
misocyclones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misocyclone
multiclones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multiclone
sphaeroclones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sphaeroclone
tetraclones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetraclone
masked plovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of masked plover
mashbills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mashbill
levening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of leven
levened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of leven
marriage-industrial complexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marriage-industrial complex
pissy-pants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pissy + pants.
Senses: glosses: One who wets their pants.
glosses: A coward.
Related terms: pisspants
morphological freedom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morphological freedoms
Senses: glosses: The right to modify one's own body as one desires.
mixed climbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: the branch of ice climbing that specializes in climbing on frozen surfaces and bare rock surfaces.
Eskdale Green
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Eskdale parish, Cumberland, Cumbria, England, previously in Copeland borough (OS grid ref NY1400).
potholey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potholeys
Etymology: From pothole + -y.
Senses: glosses: Having many potholes.
raw_tags: of a road
woolly hippopotamus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Above, the woolly hippopotamus (Hippopotamus Major) of western Europe; below, the southern elephant (Elephas Meridionalis). Remains of both are found in the riverdrifts of France and Spain[…]
ref: 1925, Lucretia Thatcher Perry Osborn, Chain of Life, page 163:
text: Here you will find evidence that over the hills of Craven straight-tusked elephant, slender-nosed rhinoceros, woolly hippopotamus, and ox (Bos Primigenius) once roamed, and ended their days in the Victoria cave, a hyena's den, probably during the tropical period of the Great Inter-Glacial period.
ref: 1956, Marie Hartley, Joan Ingleby, The Yorkshire Dales, page 87:
text: It is true that the "woolly hippopotamus", now extinct, was adapted to a cold climate!...In 1960, excavations in Larissa in Thessaly brought to light "mammoth and hippopotamus bones as well as tools made of flint and bone[…]
ref: a. 1985, Fernand Braudel, Roselyne de Ayala, Paule Braudel, Memory and the Mediterranean, published 2001, page 25:
text: Below these deposits was a thick layer of glacial clay, separating the comparitively modern remains from the bones of pre-Ice Age creatures such as woolly hippopotamus, slender-nosed rhinoceros and straight-tusked elephant, which doubtless roamed the district during the warm inter-glacial period.
ref: 1992, W. R. Mitchell, Three Peaks and Malhamdale, page 7:
glosses: A hypothesized extinct relative to the hippopotamus that supposedly lived in northern or western Europe during the Ice Age.
collar button
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collar buttons
form: collar-button
form: collarbutton
Senses: examples: text: Take a tip—Flat collar buttons don’t roll under the bed nor stick out like a wart on the back of your neck—Thomas & Messing 10c.
ref: [192-?], Zim [Eugene Zimmerman], In Dairyland: And Foolish History of Horseheads, N.Y., →OCLC, page 77:
text: “I got that dimple from sleeping with my face on a collar button,” coldly explained the dentistress.
ref: 1930 October 4, Joseph Faus, ““Oh, Miss Dentist!”: Being the ridiculous romance of Oliver Whidden, insurance salesman, who found his love in the cavity of a bad tooth”, in Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune, seventeenth year, number 5286, Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., page six, columns 3–4:
text: There are sporty ones with tracksuits, straight backs and gelled hair; slumping city types fresh from work with their collar buttons undone; solitary, lumpy, middle-aged guys; and an original hippy with orange trousers and a hat that is unnecessarily tall.
ref: 2013, Will Storr, The Heretics: Adventures with the Enemies of Science, Picador, →ISBN, page 67:
glosses: A button for fastening a collar.
Derived terms: collar-button abscess
collar buttons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collar button
collar-button
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collar-buttons
Senses: examples: text: It is their especial pleasure to roll your collar-button under the bed, to move your chair around so that you may stub your toe against it if you get up during the night, to work your penknife, keys, watch, and other valuables into upholstered recesses of your sofa or easy-chair, and, generally, to hide things.
ref: 1917, Ellwood Hendrick, Everyman’s Chemistry: The Chemist’s Point of View and His Recent Work Told for the Layman (Harper’s Modern Science Series), New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, page 196:
text: “When Mr. Zunzer first came to America,” Dr. Solow said, “he peddled neckties, shoelaces and collar-buttons from a tray. He was very poor. […]
ref: 1930, Michael Gold, “Portrait of My Mother”, in The Menorah Journal, volume XVIII, page 63:
text: Lee Chong has sold his store to one Joseph and Mary Rivas, and departed in his own trading schooner with a stock of gold-plated collar-buttons, canned goods and rubber boots to the green and palm-strewn islands of the South Seas.
ref: 1954 June 13, Carlos Baker, “After Lousy Wednesday”, in The New York Times Book Review; quoted in Joseph R. McElrath, Jr., Jesse S. Crisler, and Susan Shillinglaw, editors, John Steinbeck: The Contemporary Reviews (American Critical Archives; 8), Cambridge University Press, 1996, →ISBN, pages 413–414:
glosses: Alternative form of collar button.
collar-buttons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collar-button
collarbuttons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collarbutton
collarbutton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collarbuttons
Senses: examples: text: She was peddling trinkets amongst the wharf-loungers—pocket combs, little round mirrors, shoestrings and collarbuttons.
ref: 1897 August 21, Frank Norris, “The House With the Blinds”, in The Wave, volume XVI, number 34, San Francisco, Calif., page 5, column 2:
text: The time of production was shortened under machine labor comparatively with hand labor to about: ⅔ in the manufacture of fiowerpots,[…]; ¹⁄₁₅, seals, pitchforks, collarbuttons, threading pipe, canning fruit, cigars, dash boards, and iron pipe, wrought.
ref: 1900 January, “Machine vs Hand Labor”, in Social Democracy Red Book, number 10, pages 98–99:
text: LENINE’S finish does not interest us especially, but we hope that Trotsky will live long enough to resume business in the Bronx, dispensing shoelaces and collarbuttons.
ref: 1918 August 13, The Chicago Daily Tribune, volume LXXVII, number 193, page 6, column 3:
text: One has the feeling that these devouring industrial dinosaurs, wreathed in cruel gusts of steam like Moloch, grind out collarbuttons or something equally puny.
ref: 1927 March 7, The New York Telegram; quoted in Stanley Kauffmann and Bruce Henstell, editors, American Film Criticism: From the Beginnings to Citizen Kane: Reviews of Significant Films at the Time They First Appeared, New York, N.Y.: Liveright, 1972, →ISBN, pages 185–186:
text: I could hypnotize myself into a belief that souls were “lost,” like collarbuttons under a bureau, and I was the one man to rescue them.
ref: 1930, Elbert Hubbard II, editor, The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard, New York, N.Y.: W[illia]m H. Wise & Co., page 149, column 2:
text: In the hold of his schooner he loaded the entire stock of his store—all the canned goods, the rubber boots, the caps and needles and small tools, the fireworks and calendars, even the glass-fronted showcases where he kept gold-plated collarbuttons and cigarette lighters.
ref: 1954, John Steinbeck, “What Happened in Between”, in Sweet Thursday, New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →LCCN, page 10:
text: The people on the grand jury were men, old men mostly, with chicken skin hanging over their collarbuttons.
ref: 1969, Jimmy Breslin, The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight, New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →LCCN, page 242:
text: When Ohio flexes its muscles, athletic collarbuttons pop all over America. One never knows exactly where or when a Buckeye—or even worse, a team of Buckeyes—might drop by and carry off all the trophyware.
ref: 1992, The Editors of Orange Frazer Press, The Ohio Sports Almanac, Orange Frazer Press, →ISBN, page 6:
text: At eight o’clock, Brother Hamid showed up at the Office to Combat Vices in his off-duty gear: brown slacks and a black long-sleeved shirt, collarbuttons undone.
ref: 2008, Massud Alemi, Interruptions: Love, Turmoil & Revolution in Iran, Bethesda, Md.: Ibex Publishers, →ISBN, page 162:
glosses: Alternative form of collar button.
hand roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand rolls
Senses: examples: text: Sushi Saint, a hand roll spot with one other location in Orlando, Fla., just landed in Long Island City, Queens. On one hand, the hand rolls were lovingly prepared with intriguing flavor combinations, especially one featuring torched scallops and brown butter, but the venue leaves much to be desired.
ref: 2024 September 26, Nikita Richardson, “Have We Hit Peak Hand Roll Yet?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative form of handroll.
Cienfuegos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cienfuegoses
Senses: glosses: A city on the southern coast of Cuba.
glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Burstow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English burh + stōw.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Tandridge district, east of Horley, Surrey, England (OS grid ref TQ3141).
glosses: A surname.
counter-compony
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of countercompony.
counter-embowed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of counterembowed.
counter-flory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of counterflory.
counter-naiant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of counternaiant.
counter-passant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of counterpassant.
counter-potenty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of counterpotenty.
counter-quartered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of counterquartered.
counter-salient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of countersalient.
counter-trippant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of countertrippant.
counter-tripping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of countertripping.
counter-vairy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of countervairy.
counter wavy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of counterwavy.
counter-vair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of countervair.
counter-potent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of counterpotent.
pared down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pare down
zoolingualism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The ability to talk with animals.
Hyponyms: parseltongue
vitakinesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The ability to control the healing process.
branches out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of branch out
branching out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of branch out
branched out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of branch out
heritage speaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heritage speakers
Senses: examples: text: At UCLA, which is emerging as a leader in the field, separate classes already are available for heritage speakers of Chinese, Korean, Russian and Spanish.
ref: 2002 November 27, Stuart Silverstein, “A Heads-Up Approach to Teaching Spanish”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, L.A.: Los Angeles Times Communications LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Apr 2021:
text: Kagan's survey of California college students found many "heritage speakers" wished to study their home language at school to connect with their culture, build their literacy, and strengthen their bonds with relatives.
ref: 2015 October 27, Melinda D. Anderson, “How Politics and Bilingualism Collide in the Classroom”, in The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2022:
text: She designed a class for heritage speakers at UCLA that advanced them to high-level coursework in one year by building on what they know rather than harping on their deficiencies.
ref: 2018 April 18, Max Boot, “My mom's move to America showed strength. That was just the start.”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 May 2023:
text: As a kid, my Saturday class was populated by students like me, with parents who spoke Mandarin exclusively at home. But the demographics of Mandarin learners today run the gamut from heritage speakers to those without a familial connection but with other motivations to learn (an affinity for the culture, an appreciation of Asia's growing importance in the world's economy).
ref: 2021 February 12, Connie Chang, “Connecting My Children to Their Heritage in Mandarin”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Jan 2023:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Someone who speaks a heritage language (“one's former native language, lost during childhood”).
heritage speakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heritage speaker
Parkhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A neighbourhood in north Glasgow, Scotland (OS grid ref NS5968, postcode G22).
glosses: A neighbourhood of Nitshill, Glasgow council area (OS grid ref NS5159, postcode G53).
non-stack
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + stack.
Senses: examples: text: a non-stack developer
text: a non-stack framework
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: full-stack
glosses: not skilled at, or relating to, multiple software layers such as operating system and user interface.
Corble
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
girltwink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: girltwinks
Etymology: From girl + twink.
Senses: examples: text: (fallout 4 spoiler) meet girltwink me everybody
ref: 2015 November 9, ★ (@tragicgay111), Twitter:
text: "you cant make lesbian twink porn bcs only boys can be twinks " shut up stop this girltwink erasure
ref: 2016 May 11, T-slur Swift (@dadhater420), Twitter:
text: insane watching the most jacked person i know start transitioning and go from a hard looking body builder to a girltwink
ref: 2022 November 22, Emma📚 (@tahukann), Twitter:
glosses: A feminine girl/woman exhibiting qualities of a twink.
crag martins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crag martin
Conibear
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
hexatrigesimal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌhɛksətɹaɪˈdʒɛsɪməl/
Forms: form: hexatrigesimals
Etymology: From hexa- + tri- + decimal; see the Wikipedia article for hexadecimal for more information.
Senses: topics: arithmetic
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A number system with base thirty-six, using the digits 0–9 and A–Z.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A number expressed in the hexatridecimal system.
Synonyms: topics: arithmetic
computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: base thirty-six
hexatrigesimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌhɛksətɹaɪˈdʒɛsɪməl/
Etymology: From hexa- + tri- + decimal; see the Wikipedia article for hexadecimal for more information.
Senses: glosses: Of a number, expressed in hexatridecimal.
Synonyms: topics: arithmetic
computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: base-thirty-six
Related terms: base
binary
decimal
octal
0x
Cloghan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish An Clochan.
Senses: glosses: A village in County Donegal, Ireland.
glosses: A small town in County Offaly, Ireland.
Fintown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village on Lough Finn, County Donegal, Ireland.
Franken-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of franken-.
jonbar hinge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jonbar hinges
Etymology: A reference to the 1938 novel The Legion of Time, in which the character John Barr having the choice of picking up of one of two objects (a magnet or a pebble) marks a major turning point in history: one will lead to the utopian empire of Jonbar (named after John Barr himself), while the other leads to the rise of the tyrannical state of Gyronchi. Further etymology at John, Barr.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
synonyms: jonbar point
glosses: In time travel stories: a seemingly trivial event which ultimately marks the point of divergence between two radically different timelines.
wikipedia: The Legion of Time
jonbar hinges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jonbar hinge
Kao-li
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 高麗 (Gāolí), Wade–Giles romanization: Kao¹-li².
Senses: examples: text: In A.D. 436 we find from the Kang Kien that Fêng Hung (馮弘) the last “Emperor” of Yen⁶² had to take refuge in the Tungusic (東胡) kingdom of Kao-li,—the very first mention of the new name,⁶³—which had been developing quietly at its capital P’ing-jang.[…]
“The Emperor visited east-central China (江與京洛), and enlisted 400,000 soldiers and 500 Wu ships to cross the seas and go to P’ing-jang, (the Kao-li capital).”
ref: 1890, E. H. Parker, “On Race Struggles in Corea”, in Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, volume XVIII, Tokyo: The Hakubunsha, →OCLC, pages 192–193, 218:
text: In ancient times there existed in the region of the Tung-chia River 佟佳江 in present Liaoning a people called Kao-chü-li 高句驪. In the fifth century they moved their capital to P’ing-jang. The name of the country was simplified to Kao-li 高麗 (Korea).
ref: 1949, Karl August Wittfogel, Fêng Chia-Shêng, “Translation: Tribes”, in History of Chinese Society Liao (907–1125), American Philosophical Society, →OCLC, page 104:
text: Among investigations of ancient sites made by Japanese scholars in the Korean Peninsula during the past forty yeas, there are some which have attracted the attention of scholars of the world. One of these was the excavation of the Lo-lang sites of the Han dynasty centering about Heijōᵃ (P'ing-jang); the other was the discovery of the Kao-kou-li tombs with wall paintings in the neighborhood of Heijō and in the vicinity of T'ung-kou, Chi-an shêng,ᵇ Manchuria, in the north.
ref: [1952, Suyeji Umehara, “The Newly Discovered Tombs with Wall Paintings of the Kao-kou-li Dynasty”, in Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America, volume 6, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5:
text: ⁹⁵For Ch’ao-hsien, "Cheng-yi" says, "K’uo-ti chih 括地志 says, 'Kao-li's 高麗 P’ing-jang 平壤 City, originally the governing site/city of Chien 儉, the Prince of Yüeh-lang 樂浪 Prefecture of the Han. It was ancient Ch’ao-hsien.'"
ref: 2006 [145–86 BCE], Ssu-ma Ch’ien, translated by Zhenjun Zhang, “Hereditary House 8”, in William Nienhauser, editor, The Grand Scribe's Records, volume V.1, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 276:
glosses: Alternative form of Gaoli (Goryeo)
smooth-talker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smooth-talkers
Senses: examples: text: Among those smooth-talkers who allow the name of God to fall trippingly from their tongues, glibness is underrated as a vice and reticence is underrated as a virtue.
ref: 1981 March 11, Roy Larson, “God the ‘Wholly Other’”, in The Herald-News, volume 110, number 69, page A-10:
text: Several described him Thursday as a smooth-talker who occasionally was caught in his own lies.
ref: 1982 August 8, John F. Brown, Jill Carlson, “Rotar jailed; murder warrant issued”, in The Sunday Times Herald, Port Huron, Mich., page 1A:
text: Fisk is remembered as a smooth-talker who was always quick with a quip.
ref: 2004 November 14, Mark Bushnell, “From peddler to Wall Street robber baron”, in Vermont Sunday Magazine (The Sunday Rutland Herald and the Sunday Times Argus), page 5:
glosses: Alternative form of smooth talker.
smooth-talkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smooth-talker
Gaoli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kao-li
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 高麗 /高丽 (Gāolí).
Senses: examples: text: CHWEN, King of Korea, having by his Ambaſſadors paid Homage to the Emperor Hong-vû, Founder of the Ming Dynaſty in 1368, was, by that Monarch, created King of Kau-li, preſented with a Silver Seal, and veſted with the ancient Privileges of ſacrificing to the Gods of the Rivers and Mountains of Korea.
ref: [1747, A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels, volume IV, London: Thomas Astley, →OCLC, page 325, column 2:
glosses: Synonym of Goryeo: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
synonyms: word: Goryeo
extra: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name
Anatolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to Anatolia
Anatolic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Anatolian language family.
mindlink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mindlinks
Etymology: Compound of mind + link.
Senses: examples: text: "No," Bean replied. "More likely, the Minkowski Line would learn how to create more efficient mindlinks than the one that the Martians developed without access to advanced technology. But that would be enough."
ref: 2009 July, Lawrence Barker, Blood Red Sphere, Arlington, Tex.: Swimming Kangaroo Books, →ISBN, page 231:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A telepathic link or connection between separate minds.
Related terms: mind meld
mindlinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mindlink
mindfood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compound of mind + food.
Senses: examples: text: She knows the importance of nutritious food for her body, so I told her that she has to be careful to put nutritious knowledge into her mind, because the Internet consists of all kinds of mindfood, some of it not very nutritious.
ref: 1996, Winn Schwartau, Information Warfare: Cyberterrorism—Protecting Your Personal Security in the Electronic Age, New York, N.Y.: Thunder's Mouth Press, →ISBN, page 128:
glosses: Something which is consumed by the mind in the manner of food.
gender-neutrality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The limited movement to gender-neutrality already mandated by the Supreme Court has shifted the reward structure of pension and life insurance plans in a way far more complex than anticipated.
ref: 1984 May 21, Richard V. Burkhauser, “Females Can’t Afford a Victory In Insurance, Pension Battle”, in The Tennessean, volume 79, number 45, Nashville, Tenn., page 7-A:
text: In seeking our legitimate share of power, women demanded the right to be held to a single standard, described in a common language. But we have wrongly assumed gender-neutrality in the single standard and in this common tongue. They are not neutral. They are male, developed, however unwittingly, by and for people without wombs or breasts, and whose institutions and language reflect this.
ref: 1987 May 10, Peg Boyles, “Dare to recover Mother Tongue”, in Boston Sunday Globe, volume 231, number 130, page NH 4:
text: The move to gender-neutrality was announced in August. “We’re thrilled to join the other festivals and award shows that are already moving to celebrate great acting without reference to gender,” Welsh said in a statement, noting the organization is “happy to welcome nonbinary performers into the Spirit Awards without forcing them to choose to identify as male or female.”
ref: 2022 November 23, Karu F. Daniels, “Spirit Awards gender-neutral: ‘Everything Everywhere’ leads nominations for pre-Oscar indie film faceoff”, in Daily News, page 8:
glosses: Alternative form of gender neutrality.
cybergrind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + grind(core).
Senses: glosses: A microgenre of grindcore that emerged from the late 1990s, which includes mass use of keyboards and synthesizers as well as samples from various media, such as video games and movies.
Chaoxian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: chouʹshyěnʹ
Forms: form: Ch'ao-hsien
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 朝鮮 /朝鲜.
Senses: examples: text: After Toyotomi Hideyoshi took control over Japan, he tried to extend his power outside the country. In addition to moving westward and attacking Chaoxian (Korea), he also targeted Taiwan and other places in the south. In 1593, Toyotomi sent ambassadors to agitate for the submission of the place known to them as “Kingdom of High Mountains ”—Taiwan.
ref: 2012 October, “Encounters between Disparate Cultures”, in Our Land, Our People: The Story of Taiwan, Tainan, Taiwan: National Museum of Taiwan History, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 47, column 1:
text: In a semiprivate online forum used by Huawei employees, one man reminisced last year about how he helped launch Koryolink in “A9” during the summer of 2008, before rushing back to China to offer tech support for the Beijing Olympics. In parentheses, the man wrote “chaoxian,” which means North Korea, in Roman letters — an apparent effort to avoid mentioning the country by name using Chinese characters.
ref: 2019 July 22, Ellen Nakashima, Gerry Shih, John Hudson, “Leaked documents reveal Huawei’s secret operations to build North Korea’s wireless network”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2019, National Security:
glosses: Synonym of Joseon: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
synonyms: word: Joseon
extra: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name
gender-neutrally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gender-neutrally
form: most gender-neutrally
Etymology: From gender-neutral + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: If “man” could be used gender-neutrally, its occurrence in a context that applies to both male and female humans, particularly to female humans, would be given a gender-neutral interpretation. Instead, its occurrence in such a context is plainly gender-specific.
ref: 1977, Janice Moulton, “The Myth of the Neutral “Man””, in Mary Vetterling-Braggin, Frederick A. Elliston, Jane English, editors, Feminism and Philosophy, Totowa, N.J.: Littlefield, Adams & Co., →ISBN, page 134:
text: The primary addressee of the text is consistently addressed gender-neutrally as þu (ȝe when joined by a fellow worker), but the fellow worker is referred to with masculine pronouns: (6) Þu most take a ffelow and set hym on by ryȝt hond, and set on hys hondes iij bowes (96/ 32–34, emphasis added).
ref: 2003, Ruth Carroll, “Recipes for laces: An example of a Middle English discourse colony”, in Risto Hiltunen, Janne Skaffari, editors, Discourse Perspectives on English: Medieval to Modern, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 143:
text: You may even become self-conscious or appalled at your own gender-biased baby talk. This is a good thing! Let your discomfort turn into action, and become more aware to interact more gender-neutrally.
ref: 2007, Jessica Mills, My Mother Wears Combat Boots: A Parenting Guide for the Rest of Us, AK Press, →ISBN, pages 105–106:
text: I’ve noticed over many years of news media consumption that, for example, when victims of sexual abuse are girls their gender is readily reported as such; but when they’re boys they’re usually referred to gender-neutrally as children.
ref: 2022 August 25, Frank Sterle Jr., “The words we use matter”, in Clearwater North Thompson Times, volume 58, number 34, page A5:
glosses: In a gender-neutral manner.
Stoke Gabriel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Hams district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX8457).
kathump
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kerthump.
kathump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kathumps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kerthump.
mindmeld
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mindmelds
form: mindmelding
form: mindmelded
form: mindmelded
form: mind-meld
Etymology: Compound of mind + meld, originally from the Star Trek franchise.
Senses: examples: text: Besides, the old Social Bandit has been soft on Wasps since the moonshot, when he mindmelded with the astronauts.
ref: 1993, Norman Mailer, “The Trouble With Harry”, in John Leonard, editor, The Last Innocent White Man in America, and Other Writings, New York, N.Y.: The New Press, →ISBN, page 189:
text: We are now deep into jury selection, eight days in court huddled at the table with our jury consultant, trying to mindmeld with strangers whose names have been churned out from computerized voter lists and drivers' license records at DMV.
ref: 2005, Steve Martini, Double Tap, Coalville, Leicestershire: Charnwood, published 2006, →ISBN, page 295:
text: That didn't happen with [Adam] Franklin, who was probably too distracted in 2008 by his underrated band's reunion, as well as his brilliant solo effort Bolts of Melody, to take over the wheel of Magnetic Morning. Instead, the two UK musicians mindmelded and found a middle ground, which sounds very cool indeed.
ref: 2008 October 12, Scott Thill, “Swervedriver and Interpol's Magnetic Morning Dawns”, in Wired, San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Dec 2022:
glosses: To form a mind meld; to create a deep connection with someone, as though combining into a single mind.
wikipedia: Star Trek
Derived terms: mindmelding
Related terms: mindlink
mind meld
mindmelds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mindmeld
mindmelding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Sense8 was so amazing in part because of a budget (allegedly, $9 million per episode) that allowed it to shoot on location in over a dozen countries and have special effects good enough for the sensate’s body switching and mindmelding shenanigans to be believable.
ref: 2018 June 8, Emma Grey Ellis, “What Brought Sense8 Back—and What Killed It in the First Place”, in Wired, San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 May 2023:
glosses: The act of forming a mind meld.
mindmelding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mindmeld
mindmelded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mindmeld
mind-meld
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mind-melds
form: mind-melding
form: mind-melded
form: mind-melded
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mindmeld.
mind-melds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mind-meld
mind-melding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mind-meld
mind-melded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mind-meld
Luna City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Luna (“the name of Earth's moon”) + city.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: The name of a major colony or city on the Moon in various science fiction works.
threedy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: threedies
Etymology: From the pronunciation of 3D (“three-dimensional”).
Senses: examples: text: "Nothing else. We don’t know anything... at all... about what brings St. Andrews into this. But she knows too much, Benny. Lots and lots of stuff that didn't appear—and never will appear—in the newspapes, or on the threedies."
ref: 1994 February, Earthsong: Native Tongue III, New York, N.Y.: DAW Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 176:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A three-dimensional movie or television program.
threedies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of threedy
uchronian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uchronian
form: most uchronian
Etymology: From uchronia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: For a long time to come, at least, it is too dangerous an experiment to base on hope. Again they may say that it never could succeed unless in a uchronian Utopia 'above these ruinable skies'.
ref: 1945, John Laird, The Device of Government: An Essay on Civil Polity, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, page 115:
synonyms: uchronic
glosses: Pertaining to uchronia ("an idealized or fictional conception of a particular period of time, especially in the past").
trekkie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trekkies
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Trekkie.
gender-specifically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gender-specifically
form: most gender-specifically
Senses: examples: text: Christine Todd Whitman is not “one of the boys,” not just gender-specifically speaking, but philosophically speaking. Mrs. Whitman may be misguided, but she is sincere. The boys are out for themselves.
ref: 1993 October 6, John Turner, “A theory about the ‘big boys’ behind Christie”, in The Courier-News, page A-11:
text: Now, we weren’t talking about imports who only wear Oil Barons colours for a couple of seasons and then move on, but kids, or more gender-specifically, males who went through the minor hockey system and have roots planted firmly in the local tarsands.
ref: 2006 November 25, Curtis Phillips, “Who’s on your top ten list?”, in Fort McMurray Today, volume 10, number 47, page 12:
text: Despite the shoes, sunglasses and jewelry openly displayed, Ali claims her taste isn’t overly feminine, calling her home the “not-too-girly” house. “If I get one girly thing, then I get one masculine thing,” she says. But even if she lived alone, Ali wouldn’t decorate too gender-specifically. “My whole concept is traditional with a modern, clean twist,” she says.
ref: 2013 August 7, Andrea Darr, “at home with Ali Bronska”, in Ink, volume 6, number 20, page 18:
text: The first case opens with the phrase אִישׁ אִישׁ כִּי, which may be understood either inclusively (everyone who) or gender-specifically (every man who).
ref: 2017, Dorothea Erbele-Küster, Body, Gender and Purity in Leviticus 12 and 15, T&T Clark, published 2022, →ISBN, page 59:
glosses: In a gender-specific manner.