nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: arthrochondritis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From arthro- + chondritis. 1. chondritis of a joint Labels: uncountable
Word: atmiatry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From atmo- + -iatry. 1. treatment of disease by vapours or gases, as by inhalation Labels: dated, uncountable
Word: autocoherer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From auto- + coherer. 1. A self-restoring coherer, such as a microphonic detector. Labels: historical
Word: autocoherers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of autocoherer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: autostability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From auto- + stability. 1. Ability to keep a stable poise, either by virtue of shape and proportions, or by some mechanism. Labels: uncountable
Word: automixte Part of Speech: noun Etymology: French 1. A system of driving automobiles employing a gasoline engine and an auxiliary reversible dynamo. When there is an excess of power, the dynamo is driven by the engine so as to charge a small storage battery; when there is a deficiency of power, the dynamo reverses and acts as an auxiliary motor. Labels: attributive, uncountable
Word: secret ballots Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of secret ballot Labels: form-of, plural
Word: acutorsion Part of Speech: noun 1. The twisting of an artery with a needle to arrest hemorrhage. Labels: uncountable
Word: leveche Part of Speech: noun 1. A dry sirocco of Spain.
Word: yarner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From yarn + -er. 1. One who tells yarns or stories. 2. A yarn spinner. Labels: rare
Word: yarners Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of yarner Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hyparchic Part of Speech: adj 1. Whose action is affected by adjacent, especially by adjacent epistatic, genes Labels: not-comparable
Word: likin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 釐金 (líjīn). Pronunciation: /ˌliːˈkɪn/ 1. A Chinese provincial tax levied at many inland stations upon imports or articles in transit. Labels: countable, historical, obsolete, uncountable Example: The main theme of the conference was to levy the 2.5 per cent surtax in exchange for abolition of likin, which would benefit the powers and the Beijing government. The Beijing government proposed to abolish the likin no later than 1 January 1929, for which the powers would allow the interim surtax on ordinary goods and a higher percentage on luxury goods such as wine and tobacco.
Word: likins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of likin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: American lion Part of Speech: noun 1. A puma or cougar. Labels: dated 2. An extinct lion of subspecies †Panthera leo atrox or species †Panthera atrox, endemic to North America and northwestern South America during the Pleistocene epoch.
Word: American lions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of American lion Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Ladins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Ladin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: diaphonemic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From diaphoneme + -ic. 1. Relating to diaphonemes. Labels: not-comparable
Word: lion ant Part of Speech: noun 1. antlion
Word: lion ants Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lion ant Labels: form-of, plural
Word: enting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of ent Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: ented Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of ent Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: lion lizard Part of Speech: noun 1. basilisk (tree-dwelling lizard) Labels: dated
Word: lion lizards Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lion lizard Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hippodromed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of hippodrome Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Hittorf tube Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after Johann Wilhelm Hittorf. 1. An early form of vacuum tube. Labels: historical
Word: Hittorf tubes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Hittorf tube Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hook it Part of Speech: verb 1. To depart in a hurry; to clear out. Labels: idiomatic, intransitive, slang Example: Duncan was wounded, and the escort hooked it. Example: "So you can hook it," concluded Cripps, waving Melons away as though he might consider the affair now settled entirely to his satisfaction.
Word: haematolytic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From haemato- + -lytic. 1. hemolytic Labels: not-comparable
Word: hematolytic Part of Speech: adj 1. hemolytic Labels: not-comparable
Word: haphtarahs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of haphtarah Labels: form-of, plural
Word: haphtaroth Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of haphtarah Labels: form-of, plural
Word: haphtarot Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of haphtarah Labels: form-of, plural
Word: haftarah Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of Haftarah. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: haftaroth Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of haftarah Labels: form-of, plural
Word: haftarahs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of haftarah Labels: form-of, plural
Word: haftarot Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of haftarah Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Heckerism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hecker + -ism. 1. The teaching of Isaac Thomas Hecker (1819-1888), which interprets Catholicism as promoting human aspirations after liberty and truth, and as the religion best suited to the character and institutions of the American people. Labels: uncountable
Word: Harvey process Part of Speech: name Etymology: Invented by Hayward A. Harvey of New Jersey. 1. A process for hardening the face of steel, involving the additional carburizing of the face of a piece of low-carbon steel by heaping a solid carbon-rich fuel (such as charcoal) on the face of the steel and then subjecting this to very high heat at high pressure for a prolonged period of time, followed by a violent chilling, as by a spray of cold water. This results in a thick surface of extreme hardness supported by material gradually decreasing in hardness to the unaltered soft steel at the back.
Word: Heppelwhite Part of Speech: name Etymology: Named after the cabinet-maker George Hepplewhite. 1. A light and elegant style of furniture developed in England during the reign of George III.
Word: Hallstattian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Hallstatt + -ian. Some of the earliest archaeological evidence for the Celts was found in Hallstatt. 1. Of or relating to the Hallstatt culture, often linked to Celtic, Proto-Celtic, and pre-Illyrian peoples in Early Iron Age Europe, c.800–450 BC. Labels: not-comparable
Word: heemraad Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Dutch heemraad (“village council”). 1. In Holland, and, until the 19th century, also in Cape Colony, a council to assist a local magistrate in the government of rural districts. Labels: historical 2. A member of such a council. Labels: historical
Word: heemraads Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of heemraad Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Cape Colony Part of Speech: name 1. A former British colony in present-day South Africa and Namibia, named for the Cape of Good Hope, existing from 1795 to 1802 and 1806 to 1910. Labels: historical
Word: Henrietta cloth Part of Speech: noun 1. A woollen fabric much used for women's dresses. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable
Word: Henrietta cloths Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Henrietta cloth Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hammer break Part of Speech: noun 1. An interrupter in which contact is broken by the movement of an automatically vibrating hammer between a contact piece and an electromagnet, or of a rapidly moving piece mechanically driven. Example: […] a form of contact device was adopted of the commutator and brush type, having rubbing contacts only, and doing away with all platinum points and hammer breaks.
Word: hammer breaks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hammer break Labels: form-of, plural
Word: moorn Part of Speech: noun 1. morn; morning Labels: UK, dialectal, obsolete Example: Wheea is she that leuks forth as the moorn, fair as the moon, clear as the sun […]
Word: heteroecism Part of Speech: noun 1. Quality of being heteroecious. Labels: uncountable
Word: degases Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of degas Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: degras Part of Speech: noun Etymology: French dégras 1. A semisolid emulsion produced by the treatment of certain skins with oxidized fish oil, which extracts their soluble albuminoids. It was formerly used as a dressing for hides. Labels: uncountable
Word: thanks a heap Part of Speech: phrase 1. Synonym of thanks a lot. Labels: colloquial, often, sarcastic
Word: thanks a ton Part of Speech: phrase 1. Synonym of thanks a lot.
Word: Soudanese Part of Speech: adj 1. Archaic form of Sudanese. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: team building Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of teambuilding. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: tar pit Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of tarpit. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: disappearing carriage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Because from the viewpoint of the enemy's counterbattery direct fire, the gun and its carriage disappeared after firing. 1. A carriage for heavy coast guns on which the gun is raised above the parapet for firing and upon discharge is lowered behind the parapet for protection. Labels: historical
Word: disappearing carriages Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of disappearing carriage Labels: form-of, plural
Word: divinity calf Part of Speech: noun 1. calfskin stained dark brown and worked without gilding, often used for theological books Labels: uncountable
Word: Dobell's solution Part of Speech: name 1. An aqueous solution of carbolic acid, borax, sodium bicarbonate, and glycerine, used as a spray in diseases of the nose and throat.
Word: temper temper Part of Speech: phrase 1. Used to tell someone to mind their (bad) temper Labels: idiomatic
Word: Dongolas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Dongola Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Dongola leather Part of Speech: noun 1. leather made by the Dongola process Labels: uncountable
Word: Dongola process Part of Speech: name 1. A process of tanning goatskin, calfskin or sheepskin, with a combination of vegetable and mineral agents, so that it resembles kid leather.
Word: Dongola kid Part of Speech: noun 1. Dongola leather Labels: uncountable
Word: Dongola race Part of Speech: noun 1. A boat race in which the crews are composed of a number of pairs, usually of men and women.
Word: Dongola races Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Dongola race Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nolls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of noll Labels: form-of, plural
Word: post-Panamax Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + Panamax. 1. Of a ship, that exceeds the maximum dimensions of a Panamax ship. Labels: not-comparable
Word: domino whist Part of Speech: noun 1. A card game in which the suits are played in sequence, beginning with a 5 or 9, and the first player to get rid of his or her cards is the winner. Labels: uncountable
Word: Aframax Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From AFRA + -max. 1. Describes a size of freight ship, maximum Average Freight Rate Assessment (AFRA). Generally being too large to pass through the Panama Canal. Labels: not-comparable
Word: New Panamax Part of Speech: adj 1. Of a ship: exceeding the maximum dimensions of a Panamax ship, but still conforming to the maximum dimensions laid down for the New Panama Canal. Labels: not-comparable
Word: peanutless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From peanut + -less. 1. Without peanuts, peanut-free Labels: not-comparable
Word: Capesize Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cape + size, in reference to the Cape of Good Hope or Cape Horn. 1. Of a freight ship or oil tanker: exceeding the maximum dimensions of all major canals (Panama, Suez, etc.), therefore having to use one of the Cape routes to pass from ocean to ocean. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Chinamax Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From China + -max. 1. Of a freight ship: conforming to the regulations concerning maximum permitted width, length, and draft allowed in Chinese ports. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Suezmax Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Suez + -max. 1. Of a freight ship: conforming to the regulations concerning maximum permitted width, length, and draft allowed to pass through the Suez Canal. Labels: not-comparable
Word: handymax Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From handy + -max. 1. Of a freight ship: which has a small cargo capacity (40,000 - 50,000 DWT). Member of the handysize class. Labels: not-comparable
Word: whasisname Part of Speech: pron 1. Alternative form of what's-his-name. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: supramax Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From supra- + -max. 1. Of a freight ship: which has a small cargo capacity (50,000 - 60,000 DWT). Larger than handymax. Member of the handysize class. Labels: not-comparable
Word: handysize Part of Speech: adj Etymology: handy + size 1. Of a class of freight ships which have a small cargo capacity. Divided into size dependent sub-category descriptions including handy, handymax, supramax. Labels: not-comparable
Word: thingmajig Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of thingamajig. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: doo-hickey Part of Speech: noun 1. Rare form of doohickey. Labels: form-of, rare
Word: Malaccamax Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Malacca + -max. 1. Description applied to freight ships, conforming to the regulations concerning maximum permitted draft allowed to pass through the Malacca Straits. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Seawaymax Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From seaway + -max. 1. Of a freight ship: conforming to the regulations concerning maximum permitted beam, length, and draft allowed to pass through the St. Lawrence Seaway. Labels: not-comparable
Word: frammis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Originated in the US in the 1930s; perhaps merely a nonsense word. 1. Synonym of gizmo. Labels: US, slang Example: Right now all his spare time is spent at Moseleys, roller skating for hours on end. "Foozle the frammis snaffle," says Bob, "or don't you like it?" Example: Are you satisfied that your multiplicative inverse rests securely on its Cartesian coordinates with its cosecant separated from the frammis by the rigid transformation of its orthogonal projection? 2. A confidence trick; a swindle. Labels: US, slang Example: And what they added up to was curtains - for him. He'd really stepped into something this time: a Grade-A jam, an honest-to-Hannah, double-distilled frammis.
Word: frobnitz Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined c. 1958 by David R. Sawyer of the MIT Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) as a fanciful name for model railroad parts, perhaps originally as a proper noun. More general use presumably dates from the 1960s, as it is not found in the TMRC dictionaries of 1959 or 1960. 1. Synonym of gizmo.
Word: Gainsborough hat Part of Speech: noun 1. A woman's broad-brimmed hat of a form thought to resemble those shown in portraits by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788), English artist.
Word: Gainsborough hats Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Gainsborough hat Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sheerleg Part of Speech: noun 1. A floating crane, commonly used for ship salvage, loading and unloading large cargo, and the construction of bridges and ships.
Word: Ganz system Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the company name Ganz & Co. 1. A haulage system for canal boats, in which an electric locomotive running on a monorail has its adhesion materially increased by the pull of the tow rope on a series of inclined gripping wheels. Labels: historical
Word: genoises Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of genoise Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Genoa cake Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From its origins in 16th-century Genoa as a Christmas cake. 1. A fruitcake consisting of sultanas, currants or raisins, glacé cherries, almonds, and candied orange peel or essence, cooked in a batter of flour, eggs, butter, and sugar. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable
Word: Genoa cakes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Genoa cake Labels: form-of, plural
Word: weltings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of welting Labels: form-of, plural
Word: garter stitch Part of Speech: noun 1. the most basic form of welting, produced in the round by knitting and purling alternate rows, or in the flat by knitting (or purling) every stitch
Word: gesso duro Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian gesso (“mixture of plaster of Paris and glue”) duro (“hard”). 1. A variety of gesso that becomes hard and durable when dried, often used in making bas-relief casts. Labels: uncountable
Word: Gibaro Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From an American Spanish [Term?] word meaning "wild". 1. The offspring of a Spaniard and a Native American. Labels: dated
Word: Gibaros Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Gibaro Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Glengarries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Glengarry Labels: form-of, plural
Word: go-devils Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of go-devil Labels: form-of, plural
Word: duck egg Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the shape of an egg, resembling the digit 0. Compare goose egg. 1. Zero; nothing. Labels: informal
Word: Gongorisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Gongorism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: special snowflake syndrome Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the idea that every snowflake has a unique structure. Compare snowflake (“someone who believes they are as unique and special as a snowflake”). 1. The conviction that one (or often one's child) is, in some way, special and should therefore be treated differently from others. Labels: derogatory, uncountable Example: Although we all like to think we are unique and experience the world in our own way—we all have a touch of the Special Snowflake Syndrome—people are in fact more alike than different. Example: America is plagued by the disease of Special Snowflake Syndrome. This is a contracted condition that afflicts the ego; it's where we believe ourselves to be utterly unique and better than everyone else.
Word: guide rope Part of Speech: noun 1. A rope hung from a balloon or dirigible so as to trail along the ground for about half its length, used to preserve altitude automatically, by variation of the length dragging on the ground, without loss of ballast or gas.
Word: guinea pig director Part of Speech: noun 1. A company director (usually one holding a number of directorships) who serves merely or mainly for the fee (in England, often a guinea) paid for attendance. Labels: colloquial, dated Example: We wish all men were equally conscientious, and we should get rid of that useless animal, the guinea-pig Director—a greater abomination to good management than which does not exist.
Word: guinea pig directors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of guinea pig director Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mainstreamist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mainstream + -ist. 1. Someone in the mainstream.
Word: mainstreamness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mainstream + -ness. 1. Quality of being mainstream. Labels: uncountable
Word: mainstreamists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mainstreamist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mainstreamish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mainstream + -ish. 1. Somewhat mainstream.
Word: personal identification numbers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of personal identification number Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unyouthfulness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From unyouthful + -ness. 1. Quality of not being youthful. Labels: uncountable
Word: grobians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of grobian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Washoe process Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Washoe district in Nevada. 1. The process of treating silver ores by grinding in pans or tubs with the addition of mercury, and sometimes of chemicals such as blue vitriol and salt.
Word: sociography Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From socio- + -graphy. 1. The branch of sociology that concentrates on the descriptive analysis of social phenomena. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: sociographic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sociography + -ic. 1. Of or relating to sociography. Labels: not-comparable
Word: sociographical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sociography + -ical. 1. Of or relating to sociography. Labels: not-comparable
Word: untheorized Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + theorized. 1. That has not been explained by a theory. Labels: not-comparable Example: Law, however, is by no means an untheorized concept for Foucault. To the contrary, law is at the heart of Foucault's project. Example: Jafari seems to be opening a new chapter in sociographical imagination, which is deeply needed within the contemporary balkanized world of value systems. Of course, this approach is immensely untheorized, and the founding patrons or matrons of the primordial school of social theory are sadly unknown within leading discourses on social sciences, humanities, and cultural studies around the globe.
Word: Wallack Part of Speech: noun 1. A Wallachian. Labels: archaic
Word: Wallack Part of Speech: name Etymology: Variant of German Wallach. 1. A surname from German.
Word: Wallacks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Wallack Labels: form-of, plural
Word: water tender Part of Speech: noun 1. A specialized firefighting apparatus designed for transporting water from a water source, such as a lake or hydrant, to a fire scene. 2. A first-class petty officer in charge in a fireroom, who supplies the boilers with water, sees that fires are properly cleaned and stoked, etc. Labels: US, historical
Word: water tenders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of water tender Labels: form-of, plural
Word: undertheorized Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From under- + theorized. 1. Insufficiently theoretically studied or researched. Example: Of course, there are many undertheorized grounds that need to be reconstructed, and Allama Jafari himself confessed (Jafari 1387, 145) to various shortcomings which one may come across within his theoretical paradigm, which we have termed as primordial school of social theory.
Word: Watteau bodice Part of Speech: noun Etymology: After the 18th-century French painter Jean-Antoine Watteau. 1. A kind of bodice with short ruffled sleeves.
Word: Watteau bodices Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Watteau bodice Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Watteau back Part of Speech: noun Etymology: After the 18th-century French painter Jean-Antoine Watteau. 1. The back of a woman's gown in which one or more very broad folds are carried from the neck to the floor without being held in at the waist, while the front and sides of the gown are shaped to the person and have a belt or its equivalent.
Word: Watteau backs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Watteau back Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Weismannist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Weismann + -ist. 1. A follower of Weismannism.
Word: Weismannists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Weismannist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: otta Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hindi आटा (āṭā). 1. Flour. Labels: India, obsolete, uncountable
Word: weld steel Part of Speech: noun 1. A compound of iron, such as puddled steel, made without complete fusion. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: Welsbach burner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after its inventor, Auer von Welsbach. 1. A burner in which the combustion of a mixture of air and gas or vapour is used to heat to incandescence a mantle composed of thoria and ceria. The mantle is made by soaking a "stocking" in a solution of nitrates of thorium and cerium, drying, and, for use, igniting to burn the thread and convert the nitrates into oxides, which remain as a fragile ash.
Word: Welsbach burners Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Welsbach burner Labels: form-of, plural
Word: white slavers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of white slaver Labels: form-of, plural
Word: white mustard Part of Speech: noun 1. Sinapis alba, an annual mustard of the family Brassicaceae. Labels: uncountable
Word: Wilfley table Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after the inventor. 1. An inclined percussion table for dressing ore, usually with longitudinal grooves in its surface, agitated by side blows at right angles to the flow of the pulp.
Word: Wilfley tables Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Wilfley table Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Winesap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Modification of winesop? 1. A medium-sized winter apple of a deep red variety with yellowish, somewhat acidic flesh.
Word: Winesaps Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Winesap Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bewish Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- + wish. Pronunciation: /bɪˈwɪʃ/ 1. To confer, grant, or make a wish; wish. Labels: rare, transitive Example: Och, murther! faix, some spell my pipe bewishes, I've played a wail and raised the little fishes. Example: Where litle babes fro windows were pusht down, Yong Ladies blotted with adulteries, Old fathers scourg'd with all base villanies ? O mourne her mine and bewish the Turke, etemall depriuation of his Crowne, [...]
Word: Wollaston's doublet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: After W. H. Wollaston, English physicist. 1. A magnifying glass consisting of two planoconvex lenses, designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion.
Word: word method Part of Speech: name 1. A method of teaching reading in which words are first taken as single ideograms and later analyzed into their phonetic and alphabetic elements.
Word: Wollaston Part of Speech: name 1. A place in England: 2. A place in England: 3. A place in England: 4. A neighbourhood of the city of Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. 5. A surname.
Word: microbivore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From microbe + -vore. 1. A hypothetical nanobot that would destroy microbes inside the body. 2. A microbivorous organism
Word: microbivores Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of microbivore Labels: form-of, plural
Word: California Sound Part of Speech: name 1. A popular music aesthetic engendered by 1960s pop and rock recording artists from the California area, associated with optimistic youth culture. Example: The Beach Boys struck gold with swoony choral harmonies, twangy surf-music guitars and beats cresting like waves on an eternally sunny Pacific shoreline: the “California sound”, as it was dubbed.
Word: sunshine pop Part of Speech: noun 1. A pop music genre originating in the United States in the mid-1960s as an offshoot of the California Sound, and characterized by a cheerful attitude, warm sounds, prominent vocal harmonies, and sophisticated production. Labels: uncountable
Word: reconcentrado Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish reconcentrado. 1. In Cuba, the Philippines, etc., during the revolution of 1895-98, one of the rural noncombatants who were concentrated by the military authorities in areas surrounding the fortified towns, and later were reconcentrated in the smaller limits of the towns themselves. Labels: historical
Word: reconcentrados Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of reconcentrado Labels: form-of, plural
Word: royal spade Part of Speech: noun 1. In auction bridge, a spade when spades are trumps under the condition that every trick over six taken by the successful bidder has a score value of 9. Labels: plural-normally
Word: royal spades Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of royal spade Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cuckolder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cuckold + -er. 1. A male of certain kinds of fish that interrupts a mating pair to release sperm in an attempt to fertilize the female. 2. One who commits cuckoldry; one who cuckolds. Example: The friends of the respective parties, those of the cuckolder on one side, and those of the cuckoldee on the other side; and the public (as far as play-house audiences are the public) have fairly decided in favour of the cuckolder! What an admirable system of “public instruction”! Example: Gascoigne, Hundreth Sundrie Flowres (1573) 78 has a teasing passage in which cuckold and cuckolder are out hunting.
Word: cuckolders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cuckolder Labels: form-of, plural
Word: reforestizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of reforestize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: undertheorize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From under- + theorize. 1. To theorize insufficiently. Example: While Sharp acknowledges creative nonviolent intervention as a technique of nonviolent action, he undertheorizes its centrality for promoting political change. Example: While Hutcheon stresses that irony cannot actively create communities, that they must exist prior to the enunciation, she undertheorizes the potential of making members of existing discursive communities present to one another and of strengthening the visceral experience of community.
Word: undertheorizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of undertheorize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: undertheorizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of undertheorize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: parlour match Part of Speech: noun 1. A low-sulphur or sulphurless friction match, a friction match with no disagreeable brimstone odour, particularly those employing paraffin instead of sulphur to slow the combustion of the matchstick. Labels: UK, archaic
Word: paystreak Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pay + streak. 1. The zone, parallel to the walls of a vein, in which the ore is concentrated, or any narrow streak of paying ore in less valuable material. 2. A stratum of oil sand thick enough to make a well pay.
Word: paystreaks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of paystreak Labels: form-of, plural
Word: upside-down income statement Part of Speech: noun 1. A planned income statement laid out in the reverse of the usual order, i.e. starting with the bottom line and continuing with the figures that the business must achieve in order to meet it.
Word: Pembroke table Part of Speech: noun 1. A kind of table introduced in the 18th century, having a rectangular or oval top with dropleaves on each side, and sometimes having drawers. Example: […]the boarded table and wicker chairs were replaced by a Pembroke and neat japan elbow ones,[…]
Word: Pembroke tables Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Pembroke table Labels: form-of, plural
Word: upside-down income statements Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of upside-down income statement Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Peltier's cross Part of Speech: name 1. A cross formed of two strips of different metals, used to illustrate the Peltier effect.
Word: photochromography Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From photo- + chromo- + -graphy. 1. The art or process of printing color photographs. Labels: uncountable
Word: photochromoscope Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From photo- + chromo- + -scope. 1. A device for giving shifting effects of color to a photograph. The unmounted print, made translucent, is illuminated from behind with colored light. 2. A combination of three optical lanterns for projecting objects on a screen in natural colors. The images of three partial photographs taken through color screens (red, green, and blue, respectively) are superimposed. Each image is given its own primary color, and these colors blend and reproduce the colors of the object.
Word: photochromoscopes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of photochromoscope Labels: form-of, plural
Word: photochronograph Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From photo- + chronograph. 1. An instrument for recording very short intervals of time. The record is made by the power of a magnetic field, due to an electric signaling current, to turn the plane of polarization of light. A flash, coinciding in time and duration with the signal, is thus produced and is photographed on a moving plate. 2. An instrument for the photographic recording of star transits.
Word: phototaxy Part of Speech: noun 1. phototaxis Labels: uncountable
Word: phototactically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From phototactic + -ally. 1. In terms of or by means of phototaxis. Labels: not-comparable
Word: pilonce Part of Speech: noun 1. pilon (sugar loaf)
Word: pilonces Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pilonce Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pierre perdu Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French pierre perdue, literally "lost stone". 1. Blocks of stone or concrete heaped loosely in the water to make a foundation (as for a sea wall), a breakwater, etc. Labels: uncountable
Word: Sancho Pedro Part of Speech: name 1. A variety of auction pitch in which the nine (Sancho) and five (Pedro) of trumps are added as counting cards at their pip value, and the ten of trumps counts game.
Word: safety chain Part of Speech: noun 1. A normally slack chain for preventing excessive movement between a truck and a car body during a slue. 2. An auxiliary watchchain secured to the clothes, usually out of sight, to prevent stealing of the watch. 3. A chain of sheet metal links with an elongated hole through each broad end, made by doubling the first link on itself, slipping the next link through and doubling, and so on. 4. A security chain that allows a door to be opened to see who is on the other side without allowing them to enter.
Word: safety chains Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of safety chain Labels: form-of, plural
Word: seecatch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Russian сека́ч (sekáč, “adult male boar, hog or seal”). 1. A full-grown male northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus).
Word: hypnofetish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hypno- + fetish. 1. A paraphilia in which a person is aroused by the idea of being hypnotized into submission. Labels: uncountable
Word: hypnorape Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hypno- + rape. 1. rape carried out by first hypnotizing the victim Labels: uncountable
Word: hypnopedia Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of hypnopaedia. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: semidiesel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From semi- + diesel. 1. An internal combustion engine of a type resembling the diesel engine in having heavy oil for its fuel, which is injected in a spray just before the end of the compression stroke and is fired without electrical ignition. The fuel is sprayed into an iron box (called a hot bulb or hot pot) opening into the combustion chamber, and heated for ignition by a blast lamp until the engine is running, when it is ordinarily kept red-hot by the heat of combustion. Labels: attributive, often
Word: Shastas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Shasta Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shintiyan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic شِنْتِيَان (šintiyān) which is itself from Coptic ϣⲉⲛⲧⲱ (šentō). 1. A kind of wide loose drawers or trousers worn by women in Muslim countries.
Word: shintyan Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of shintiyan. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: shintiyans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shintiyan Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shintyans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shintyan Labels: form-of, plural
Word: yeleks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of yelek Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stunnable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From stun + -able. 1. Able to be stunned.
Word: Jahaveh Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Yahweh. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Jahveh Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Yahweh. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Yahve Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Yahweh. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: obturates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of obturate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: obturating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of obturate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: obturated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of obturate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: honor among thieves Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Plato. 1. Trustworthiness within a group that is not considered trustworthy by outsiders. Labels: uncountable Example: While a corrupt Chuch and untrustworthy nobles and kings scraped for power, businessmen in Italy honored pledges of businessmen from England and Scandinavia. This trust (some have called it honor among thieves) is still a hallmark of modern brokerage. Example: That sounds odd here in Washington these days, but some of the old-timers still like to pretend there is honor alive among the political thieves.
Word: timocratically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From timocratic + -ally. 1. In a timocratic fashion; according to timocracy.
Word: honour among thieves Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of honor among thieves. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: Such people will observe honour among thieves because, within a closed group, failure to keep one's word is soon detected and leads to exclusion from the group, which conflicts with one's particular interests.
Word: oleo oil Part of Speech: noun 1. An oil expressed from certain animal fats (especially beef suet), the greater portion of the solid fat, or stearin, being left behind. It is a mixture of olein, palmitin, and a little stearin. Labels: uncountable
Word: hyperoctant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hyper- + octant. 1. Synonym of orthant.
Word: hyperoctants Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hyperoctant Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Eau Claire Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from French Eau Claire. From French eau (“water”) claire (“clear”) Literally, “clear water”. Equivalent of the English term Clearwater. Pronunciation: /oʊ ˈklɛɚ/ 1. A number of places in the United States Example: He lived […] with a guy named Mike who was from near Eau Claire. 2. A number of places in the United States Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 3. A number of places in the United States Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 4. A number of places in Canada 5. A number of places in Canada
Word: corpse powder Part of Speech: noun 1. A powder made from corpses and used by Navajo witches to curse their victims. Labels: uncountable
Word: hoses down Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of hose down Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: hosing down Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of hose down Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: hosed down Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of hose down Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: fossil fool Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A pun on fossil fuel. 1. One who uses fossil fuels without concern for their environmental impact. Labels: derogatory, slang Example: I think that will be around 2012, when the net present value of solar electricity will basically be at parity with grid-based fossil fool electricity in many markets without subsidy. Example: The supporters of the fossil-fool industry have tried to characterize conservation and solar as inefficient, uncomfortable, costly, and unproven.
Word: Jason masks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Jason mask Labels: form-of, plural
Word: killer diller Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps a reduplicative rhyme for killer. 1. A person or thing that is astonishing, outstanding, or exciting. Labels: slang
Word: killer diller Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Perhaps a reduplicative rhyme for killer. 1. Excellent, terrific, outstanding, or wonderful. Labels: slang
Word: killer dillers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of killer diller Labels: form-of, plural
Word: numbery Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From number + -y. 1. Good with numbers; mathematically inclined. Labels: colloquial, rare Example: But you might put autism aside and ask us what we have to say about someone like the three-year-old who announced at his first Math Circle class: “I'm very numbery”—and was. 2. Resembling or involving numbers; numeric. Labels: informal Example: We started out, in Part I, with examples about acronyms and so on, but since then we’ve been working with numbery old numbers. Example: The context refers to how you use an expression. You've actually already seen some contextual operations with numbers and strings. When you do numbery sorts of things, you get numeric results. When you do stringy sorts of things, you get string results.
Word: numberish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From number + -ish. 1. Characteristic of a number; numberlike. Example: “So your memory tells you where each card is, and a numberish brain gives you the proper stacking order. But how do you then put them in that order? You didn't look away from my face even once.” Example: “Well, what did you expect?” “Have you noticed,” commented Morgan, “that all the male Paladins are named Arthur?” He nodded. “And looks like you were right about the middle names. Primus, Tertius, Octavius — those all sound numberish.
Word: numbersome Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From number + -some. 1. Characterized by (great) number; numerous. Example: In the Forum and along the Corso, the crowd congregated most : so numbersome and thickly wedged, it was with difficulty any made way. Example: WEAVER STEPHEN soon enlightened me as to Mr. Knockey's meaning. "Things are getting very numbersome now, sir, — oncommon I call it."
Word: stress function Part of Speech: noun 1. A function that finds a more tractable method for the elastic equations that describe the deformation of an elastic body subject only to boundary surface forces.
Word: stress functions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stress function Labels: form-of, plural
Word: number-theoretic function Part of Speech: noun 1. a real or complex valued function of n defined on the set of natural numbers that expresses some arithmetical property of n.
Word: Kaintuck Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or pertaining to the US state of Kentucky. Labels: US, dialectal, not-comparable Example: His single shot had clipped a boulder right by Coe's head, just the way a Kaintuck rifleman barks a squirrel. Example: I felt at home in the city. Me, a Kaintuck country cracker.
Word: Kaintuck Part of Speech: noun 1. A native or resident of Kentucky, especially one who has a rustic character. Labels: US, dialectal Example: "Sech deescriptions . . . brings back my yearlin' days in good old Tennessee. We-all is a heaplike you Kaintucks down our way." Example: There was a time when January would have been surprised that a Kaintuck could accomplish such mathematics. 2. A worker, especially one having a crude or rowdy manner, on a boat that transported commercial goods on the Mississippi River. Labels: US, dialectal, obsolete Example: Most New Orleans citizens . . . were used to the Kentucky riverboatmen, the Kaintucks others called them; they called themselves alligator-horses, and they were largely a rough and tumble breed. Example: By 1800 as many as ten thousand "Kaintucks" — the local term for boatmen from anywhere north of Natchez — annually journeyed on the trace, the most direct overland route home.
Word: Kaintuck Part of Speech: name 1. The US state of Kentucky. Labels: US, dialectal Example: Si Higgins he's ben over to Kaintuck n' married a high-toned gal thar, outen the fust families. Example: "There ain't no sech hunter as Jim ever came out of Virginny, no, nor out of Caroliny, neither. It was him that fust telled me of Kaintuck."
Word: number-theoretic functions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of number-theoretic function Labels: form-of, plural
Word: real functions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of real function Labels: form-of, plural
Word: terror birds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of terror bird Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mass function Part of Speech: noun 1. A relationship that describes the mass distribution.
Word: distribution function Part of Speech: noun 1. A function of seven variables of the form f(x,y,z,t;v_x,v_y,v_z) that gives the number of particles per unit volume in single-particle phase space.
Word: distribution functions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of distribution function Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unit function Part of Speech: noun 1. a completely multiplicative function on the positive integers that is defined as equal to one for a special value and zero otherwise
Word: unit functions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of unit function Labels: form-of, plural
Word: form of address Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of term of address.
Word: forms of address Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of form of address Labels: form-of, plural-of
Word: fossil fools Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fossil fool Labels: form-of, plural
Word: zeta function Part of Speech: noun 1. function of the complex variable s that analytically continues the sum of the infinite series ∑ₙ₌₁ ᪲1/(nˢ) that converges when the real part of s is greater than 1.
Word: zeta functions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of zeta function Labels: form-of, plural
Word: buddhaheads Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of buddhahead Labels: form-of, plural
Word: correlation function Part of Speech: noun 1. function giving the statistical correlation between random variables at two different points in space or time
Word: correlation functions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of correlation function Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Finkelstein reaction Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after German chemist Hans Finkelstein. 1. A SN2 reaction in which one halide is substituted with a different halide. Labels: uncountable
Word: switching function Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of Boolean function.
Word: beaded lizard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: In reference to the many small bead-like protrusions on its skin. 1. A venomous lizard found principally in Mexico and southern Guatemala, Heloderma horridum.
Word: switching functions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of switching function Labels: form-of, plural
Word: beaded lizards Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of beaded lizard Labels: form-of, plural
Word: partition function Part of Speech: noun 1. generalization of the definition of a partition function in statistical mechanics 2. function that represents the number of possible partitions of a natural number. 3. generalization of the definition of a partition function in statistical mechanics 4. function Z[J] that is the generating function of the correlation function
Word: partition functions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of partition function Labels: form-of, plural
Word: control function Part of Speech: noun 1. A function that controls the recording, processing, transmission, or interpretation of data.
Word: control functions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of control function Labels: form-of, plural
Word: moment-generating functions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of moment-generating function Labels: form-of, plural
Word: generating functions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of generating function Labels: form-of, plural
Word: generating function Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The concept was introduced by French mathematician Abraham de Moivre in 1730. 1. A formal power series with one indeterminate, whose coefficients encode a sequence that can be studied by algebraic manipulation of the series; any one of several generalizations, such as to encode more than one sequence or use more than one indeterminate. Example: A generating function is a device somewhat similar to a bag. Instead of carrying many little objects detachedly, which could be embarrassing, we put them all in a bag, and then we have only one object to carry, the bag. Example: Most often generating functions arise from recurrence formulas. Sometimes, however, from a generating function you will find a new recurrence formula, not the one you started with, that gives new insights into the nature of your sequence.
Word: stream function Part of Speech: noun 1. A function used to plot streamlines that represent the trajectories of particles in a steady flow.
Word: discriminant function Part of Speech: noun 1. A function used to predict a categorical dependent variable by one or more continuous or binary independent variables.
Word: stream functions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stream function Labels: form-of, plural
Word: discriminant functions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of discriminant function Labels: form-of, plural
Word: distance function Part of Speech: noun 1. a function used to calculate the distance between two points. 2. a metric.
Word: distance functions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of distance function Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Hankel function Part of Speech: noun 1. Either of two functions that are solutions to Bessel's equation.
Word: Hankel functions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Hankel function Labels: form-of, plural
Word: error functions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of error function Labels: form-of, plural
Word: monotone functions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of monotone function Labels: form-of, plural