cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mizzly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪzli/
ipa: /ˈmɪz(ə)li/
rhymes: -ɪzli
Forms: form: more mizzly
form: most mizzly
form: misly
Etymology: From mizzle (noun) + -y (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, with the sense ‘behaving like, or having natures typical of [the nouns]’).
Senses: examples: text: As late as it was, yet Rolt and Harris would go home to-night, and walked it, though I had a bed for them; and it proved, dark, and a misly night, and very windy.
ref: 1667 February 3 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “January 24th, 1666–1667”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume VI, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1895, →OCLC, page 146:
text: A mizzly, drizzly rain set in before the poor people got home that evening with the body of Clayton Nowell.
ref: 1865 May – 1866 August, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, chapter XXII, in Cradock Nowell: A Tale of the New Forest. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1866, →OCLC, page 211:
text: Today is a very mizzly day. Damp in the air, but not actually raining. That's the worst for driving trains in the leaf fall season.
ref: 2021 December 15, Paul Clifton, “There is Nothing You can Do: A Scotrail Driver”, in Rail, number 946, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 35–36:
glosses: Raining in the form of mizzle (“misty rain; drizzle”); drizzly.
Related terms: word: mizzle
baguet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baguets
Senses: topics: architecture
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Alternative form of baguette.
baguets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baguet
batteler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: battelers
form: batteller
form: battler
Etymology: From battel + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Radcliffe, the beneficent founder of this structure, was admitted a batteler of University College, in 1665, and was afterwards made senior scholar.
ref: 1833, J.N. Brewer, “Oxford”, in Beauties of England and Wales:
qualifier: Oxford University
glosses: A student who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for.
Synonyms: english: Cambridge University
translation: Cambridge University
word: sizar
Related terms: battlings
battel
battelers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of batteler
non-periodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + periodic.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Taking over 200 years to complete an orbit; especially said of comets.
Synonyms: long-period
söhngeite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral form of gallium hydroxide, Ga(OH)₃
XAND
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of exclusive + AND
Senses: topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: XNOR, a logic gate.
Synonyms: XNOR
ex-and
XAND gate
Related terms: NAND
AND
XNAND
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of exclusive + NAND
Senses: topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: XOR, a logic gate
Synonyms: XOR
ex-nand
Related terms: NAND
AND
daughterfucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daughterfuckers
Etymology: From daughter + fucker, by analogy with motherfucker.
Senses: qualifier: strongly vulgar
glosses: An extremely contemptible person.
glosses: One who engages in incest with their daughter.
show one's true stripes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shows one's true stripes
form: showing one's true stripes
form: showed one's true stripes
form: shown one's true stripes
form: showed one's true stripes
Senses: examples: text: Fidel Castro showed his true stripes again—as if they weren't indelible enough already—by letting his MiGs shoot down two of three unarmed Cuban-exile planes off Havana's coast on Saturday.
ref: 1996 February 26, “Editorial" Against Change in Cuba”, in Miami Herald, retrieved 21 Mar 2013, page 14A:
text: “Now they're showing their true stripes,” Iimmy Fioretos said. “The Turks wanted to invade all along. That malarkey about ‘protecting the Constitution’ was just a pretext.”
ref: 2002, Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex (2011 reprint), p. 363 (Google preview)
text: "My fear is that Bill Ford is showing his true stripes as just another short-sighted auto executive with no interest in the environment."
ref: 2005 July 12, Danny Hakim, “With Sierra Club's Help, Ford Pushes a New Hybrid”, in New York Times, retrieved 21 Mar 2013:
glosses: To reveal one's real beliefs, sentiments, or character, especially through one's behavior.
Synonyms: show one's true colors
true stripes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: One's real beliefs, sentiments, or character.
Synonyms: true colours
Derived terms: show one's true stripes
show one's stripes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shows one's stripes
form: showing one's stripes
form: showed one's stripes
form: shown one's stripes
form: showed one's stripes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of show one's true stripes.
torsion angles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torsion angle
Chee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Navajo Chee, Hokkien 徐 (Chhî), Cantonese 朱 (zyu1), etc.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
acmonital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of steel used in Italy during the autarchy and the Second World War to make coins.
amidating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: That causes an amidation reaction
arsenochromate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arsenochromates
Etymology: From arseno- + chromate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt (or anion) containing arsenate and chromate in a fixed proportion
chlorophosphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chlorophosphates
Etymology: From chloro- + phosphate.
Senses: glosses: The anion PO₃Cl²⁻ or any salt containing this anion
bovial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin bovīnus, from bōs (“ox”). Cognate to beef.
Senses: examples: text: Hither, my Juno! with your eyes so bovial,
Give me a song—old Jove was ever joveial.
ref: 1826 May, P. T., “The Deluge—A Ridiculous Drama”, in The Literary Lounger, page 231:
ref: 1839, “Oxton Friendly Bovial Society records”, in Scottish Archive Network online catalogue:
text: It was only a pile of skin and bones after all. An animal, or rather a bovial collapse.
ref: 1849, reprinted 1999, Israel Shipman Pelton Lord, edited by Necia Dixon Liles, A Doctor's Gold Rush Journey to California, University of Nebraska Press, page 122:
text: Arthur nodded, and his face grew still more red, as the oxygenizing current of roast-bovial recollections streamed through the flame of animation now feebly flickering in his brain.
ref: 1870 March, Jean Pry, “Jonathan Ferret and the Prince”, in Leisure Times, volume III, number VI, page 211:
text: Parathyroid Hormone: A chemically stable aqueous solution containing the active ingredients of the bovial parathyroid glands.
ref: 1945, Leo Richard Cipes, Prescription Writing and Materia Medica for Dentists, Dental items of interest Publishing Company, page 44:
glosses: Of or pertaining to cattle.
Related terms: bovine
do as I say, not as I do
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of do as I say and not as I do.
holard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɒˌlɑː(ɹ)d/
Forms: form: holards
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὅλος (hólos, “whole”) + ἄρδω (árdō, “to water, to irrigate”).
Senses: examples: text: Methods of determining the holard are so numerous and so simple as to need little comment.
ref: 1916, Frederic Clements, Plant Succession: An Analysis of the Development of Vegetation, page 439:
text: The holard of clays ranges from 20 to 60 per cent during the growing season.
ref: 1929, Harvey Stallard, Secondary Succession in the Climax Forest Formations of Northern Minnesota, page 506:
glosses: The total water content of a sample of soil
Related terms: chresard
echard
echostructure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: echostructures
Etymology: From echo + structure.
Senses: examples: text: The echostructure is mixed, cystic with more or less echogenous zones that are connective, fatty, or calcic structures.
ref: 2012, Gabriel Kalifa, Pediatric Ultrasonography, page 304:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The amplitude and shape of an ultrasound echo.
Derived terms: echostructural
chresard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹiːˌsɑː(ɹ)d/
Forms: form: chresards
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χρῆσις (khrêsis, “use”) + ἄρδω (árdō, “to water, to irrigate”).
Senses: examples: text: As in the previous series the chresard decreased progressively with the density, but the correspondence with depth was less consistent.
ref: 1929, Frederic Clements, Plant Competition: An Analysis of Community Functions, page 238:
text: The soil is typically light and sandy, and the oaks are relicts from a moist phase of the climatic cycle that have been able to maintain themselves against the competition of the grasses by virtue of the favored chresard of the sandy soil.
ref: 2008, Susan Merriweather Harris, The Western Cross Timbers: Scenario of the Past, Outcome for the Future, page 12:
glosses: The portion of the water in a sample of soil that is available to vegetation (e.g. plant roots)
Related terms: holard
echard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɛkˌɑː(ɹ)d/
Forms: form: echards
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔχω (ékhō, “to hold”) + ἄρδω (árdō, “to water, to irrigate”).
Senses: examples: text: The echard of a given habitat is experimentally ascertained by isolating a block of soil by impermeable plates, allowing it to dry slowly and determining its water-content at the time when the plants growing on it are wilting irrecoverably
ref: 1905, Arthur Tansley, The New Phytologist, page 238:
text: Grasses sprout on the sands long before the early rains have restored the echard of adjoining clays and given a surplus as chresard which can initiate grass growth.
ref: 1951, John Smith, Distribution of Tree Species in the Sudan in Relation to Rainfall and Soil Texture:
glosses: The portion of water in a sample of soil that is not available to vegetation.
Related terms: holard
holinight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holinights
Etymology: From holy + night, modelled after holiday.
Senses: glosses: A festal night.
endectocide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endectocides
Etymology: Blend of endoparasite + ectoparasite + -cide
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
glosses: An antiparasitic drug that is active both against endoparasites and against ectoparasites.
endectocides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endectocide
liek
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lieks
form: lieking
form: lieked
form: lieked
Etymology: Possibly to match the actual pronunciation of like (/laɪ̯k/).
Senses: examples: text: Iz has boobies. boyfren lieks dem.
ref: 2010, Martin Grondin, “Song ov Solomon”, in LOLCat Bible, Berkeley, Calif.: Ulysses Press, →ISBN, Song of Songs 8:10, page 59, column 2:
glosses: Deliberate misspelling of like.
fluorophosphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluorophosphates
Etymology: From fluoro- + phosphate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The anion PO₃F²⁻ formed by replacing one hydroxyl of a phosphate anion with a fluorine atom; any salt containing such an anion
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The functional group >PO₃F formed by replacing one hydroxyl of a phosphate group with a fluorine atom; any compound containing such a group
hell-bent for leather
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Apparently a blend of hell-bent + hell-for-leather, though sometimes said to have been initially applied to animals which behaved poorly as if they were bent on being turned into leather.
Senses: examples: text: [...] his Supply Officer was hell bent for leather to torpedo his tour as the Commanding Officer and wanted explanations, or at least reassurances.
ref: 2003, Edward Landers, Smooth, →ISBN, page 510:
text: She had been through several programs, to no avail; nothing worked, she was hell-bent for leather, she was intent on hurting herself.
ref: 2013, Clem Martini, One Hundred Stories for One Hundred Years, →ISBN, page 52:
qualifier: Behaving
glosses: determinedly recklessly, in a manner that lacks restraint.
examples: text: “Gosh!” said Marking. “Where the hell did the Japs get that? [...Was that] a Jap plane? God damn, it was fast.” And I agreed, “It was hell-bent for leather some place.”
ref: 2009, Yay Panlilio, The Crucible: An Autobiography by Colonel Yay, Filipina American Guerrilla, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of hell-for-leather (“very fast”).
synonyms: word: hell-for-leather
extra: very fast
examples: text: It had been quite some piece of road from an eastern region of Arizona to SOD, but Jethro was hell-bent for leather. His desire for a meeting with Zelda Klemp had taken him over. He'd been driving since late the previous night ...
ref: 2000, Angus Wynn, Mojave Fringe, →ISBN, page 95:
text: I was determined not to be a back seat driver. I said nothing. I waited patiently for her to stop hugging the berm to keep distance from fast moving traffic. I waited for three thousand miles. She was hell bent for leather to get to our destination, ...
ref: 2006, Jeanne Elizabeth Siphron, Fit to be crazy: living with lithium and manic depression, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of hell-bent (“(recklessly) determined”).
synonyms: word: hell-bent
extra: (“(recklessly) determined”)
take for a ride
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes for a ride
form: taking for a ride
form: took for a ride
form: taken for a ride
Senses: examples: text: Two timing woman / Trying to take me for a ride
ref: 1974, David Coverdale, Ritchie Blackmore, “Lady Double Dealer”, in Stormbringer, performed by Deep Purple:
text: This image of Gerrard as Liverpool's grand protector chimes with everything we know about him and his passion for his club. From day one he was watching out for the bluffers and chancers who were seeking to take Liverpool for a ride.
ref: 2018 May 4, Tom English, “Steven Gerrard: A 'seriously clever or recklessly stupid' Rangers appointment”, in BBC Sport:
text: Well, is it art? Is Mr. Cattelan taking us for a ride? Did you have to be there? Isn’t this banana just a banana, and not a wry commentary on male sexuality, genetic monocultures, or Central American geopolitics?
ref: 2019 December 8, Jason Farago, “A (Grudging) Defense of the $120,000 Banana”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To deceive someone.
examples: text: Yet he was kidnapped and "taken for a ride" in the fashion which Al Capone did so much to popularize in Chicago; and one story has it that he was shot only because the rope with which he was to have been hanged did not arrive in time.
ref: 1936, The Elevator Constructor, volume 33, page 38:
text: There had been previous killings, but Brent was the first to be taken for a ride in true gangster style. Police said his shooting had the earmarks of a professional job.
ref: 1997, Ian Macdonald, Betty O'Keefe, The Mulligan Affair: Top Cop on the Take, page 37:
glosses: To drive (a person) to a remote location in order to murder them.
Synonyms: take for a drive
let a thousand flowers bloom
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: A calque of Chinese 百花齊放，百家爭鳴 /百花齐放，百家争鸣 (bǎihuā-qífàng, bǎijiā-zhēngmíng) ("let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hundred schools of thought contend"), from various speeches made by Mao Zedong during the 1950s.
Senses: examples: text: It is probably safe to say that each year thousands of workers are victims of what might be called the “let a thousand flowers bloom” maneuver, formulated by Mao Tse-tung when he controlled the world's most populous country.
ref: 2002, Robert J. Sternberg, Todd I. Lubart, Defying the Crowd, page 1:
text: There's no haggling over specs or schedules. It's simply: let a thousand flowers bloom (or 140,000 flowers and growing, to be more exact)
ref: 2008, Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams, Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, page 195:
text: One theory advanced by James Brian Quin, a strategy theorist, and others on how to find and develop successful new businesses is to 'let a thousand flowers bloom', tend those that thrive, and let the rest wither.
ref: 2010, Damien McLoughlin, David A. Aaker, Strategic Market Management: Global Perspectives, page 268:
text: But if you devolve power and resources to local entities—the “let a thousand flowers bloom” approach— you get uneven results.
ref: 2011, Michael Fullan, The Six Secrets of Change, page 12:
glosses: One should not interfere with promising developments in their early stages.
wikipedia: Mao Zedong
vulcanizate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vulcanizates
form: vulcanisate
Etymology: From vulcanize + -ate (verb-forming suffix) or back-formation from vulcanization.
Senses: glosses: A product of vulcanization.
Related terms: autolysate
condensate
diffusate
distillate
eluate
exudate
filtrand
filtrate
filtride
hemolysate
leachate
lysate
perfusate
dickery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dick + -ery.
Senses: glosses: Dickishness, dickish behavior.
case officer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: case officers
Senses: glosses: A person assigned to manage a client's affairs.
glosses: In intelligence organisations, a person who manages a network of agents.
dickishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dickish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being dickish.
examples: text: Here is the use of steroids, human growth hormone and Viagra. Here are exact, disturbing details about his suicide. His heroin habit is recounted. So is his frequent dickishness to many who loved and worked with him.
ref: 2022 October 3, Dwitght Garner, “Anthony Bourdain’s New Biography: Light on Subtlety, Heavy on Grit”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Dickish behavior.
Related terms: dickery
Omak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from the Salish language word omache, meaning "good medicine" or "plenty".
Senses: glosses: The commercial center and largest city of Okanogan County, Washington.
wikipedia: Salish language
black-throated loon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black-throated loons
Senses: glosses: The black-throated diver.
plt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plts
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of platoon.
parish assembly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parish assemblies
Senses: topics: government
glosses: the decision-making body of local government, comprising ratepayers and electors of the parish
parish assemblies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parish assembly
surface mail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: All Christmas cards for overseas delivery must be sealed and may travel either by surface mail at an eight-cent rate or by air mail at 12 cents.
ref: 1971 October 8, “‘Mail early’ message sent”, in The Montreal Gazette, retrieved 29 Mar 2013, page 12:
text: [M]embers of the joint committee on communications also decided to improve postal service between Israel and Egypt to include surface mail in addition to air mail deliveries.
ref: 1981 September 16, “Around the World: Israeli-Egyptian Talks On Links Near an End”, in New York Times, retrieved 22 Mar 2013:
glosses: Mail which is transported by motor vehicle, by railway, or by seacraft, but not by aircraft.
re-signs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of re-sign
re-signing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of re-sign
re-signed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪnd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of re-sign
decapitalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decapitalises
form: decapitalising
form: decapitalised
form: decapitalised
Etymology: From de- + capitalise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of decapitalize.
decapitalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decapitalise
decapitalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decapitalise
decapitalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decapitalise
uncapitalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncapitalises
form: uncapitalising
form: uncapitalised
form: uncapitalised
Etymology: From un- + capitalise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of uncapitalize.
uncapitalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uncapitalise
uncapitalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uncapitalise
strip-me-naked
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Ned Rise was drinking Strip-Me-Naked with Nan Punt and Sally Sebum at the Pig & Pox Tavern in Maiden Lane.
ref: 1982, T. C. Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 3:
glosses: Alternative form of strip me naked (“raw gin”).
hydrogen phosphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The anion HPO₄²⁻ or any salt containing this anion
energy carriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of energy carrier
mumetal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The receivers on the trains have also been fitted with a mumetal screen to ensure that they react only to vertical inductance.
ref: 1963 September, “A.W.S. progress on the Southern”, in Modern Railways, page 171:
glosses: Alternative form of mu-metal.
oxidoreductive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: oxido-reductive
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to oxidoreduction
reductasic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From reductase + -ic.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to a reductase
gill-ale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gill-ales
Senses: examples: text: Mungo begins to feel dizzy – almost as if he'd drunk too much claret or gill-ale.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 8:
glosses: Ale flavoured with ground ivy.
wasp-waisted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wasp-waisted
form: most wasp-waisted
Etymology: Referring to the slender petiole of a wasp.
Senses: examples: text: Last week she had opened a door by mistake on a staircase in Bayswater and a woman in a tight black waspwaisted corset, pearls lolling between two great naked breasts, stood by a cage made of gold wire the size of a fourposter bed, in which were a dozen or so brilliantly fringed and tinted birds.
ref: 1969, Doris Lessing, The Four-Gated City, HarperCollins, published 1993, page 33:
text: He strutted down Bond Street with the best of them, decked out in his top hat, wasp-waisted coat and silk hose.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 11:
text: Being a devotee of the Johnny Weismuller school of Tarzaning, no wasp-waisted cartoon character can get my blood aboil.
ref: 1999 July 18, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, Atlanta, Ga, page 8:
text: "Housewife" recalls too strongly the wasp-waisted 1950s figure outwardly thrilling to the latest advances in domestic technology while necking tranquillisers to dull the pain of frustrated ambition.
ref: 2011 October 12, Lucy Mangan, The Guardian:
glosses: Having a very slim waist, especially as a result of tightly-laced clothing.
Related terms: wasp waist
thyrocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thyrocytes
Etymology: From thyro- + -cyte.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A thyroid epithelial cell
catstail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catstails
form: cat's tail
form: cat's-tail
Etymology: From Middle English cattestail, equivalent to cat + -s- + tail.
Senses: glosses: timothy grass (Phleum pratense)
Related terms: cattail
catstails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catstail
kakariki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kakarikis
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori kākāriki.
Senses: glosses: A parakeet of New Zealand, genus Cyanoramphus.
kakarikis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kakariki
kitfo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Amharic ክትፎ (kətfo).
Senses: glosses: A traditional Ethiopian dish of minced raw beef marinated in spices and clarified butter.
naturopathist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naturopathists
Etymology: From naturopathy + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A naturopath; One who practises naturopathy.
Related terms: homeopathist
naturopathists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naturopathist
unneglected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unneglected
form: most unneglected
Etymology: From un- + neglected.
Senses: glosses: Not neglected.
unrelished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrelished
form: most unrelished
Etymology: From un- + relished.
Senses: glosses: Not relished.
kewpie doll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kewpie dolls
Senses: examples: text: He was a low-browed youth of about twenty, very big for his age, swarthy as a Greek, and shaped rather like a kewpie doll, having a rotund pendulous paunch and a distinctly egg-shaped head.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VI, in Capricornia, page 81:
text: The young explorer stood in the crowd, Kewpie doll under his arm […].
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 26:
glosses: A plump doll with a curl of hair on its head.
kewpie dolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kewpie doll
MiST
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: MiSTs
form: MiSTing
form: MiSTed
form: MiSTed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of MST (to mock a work by inserting annotations)
MiSTing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of MiST
MiSTs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of MiST
MiSTed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of MiST
two-body problems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of two-body problem
bridge-and-tunneler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bridge-and-tunnelers
Etymology: From bridge-and-tunnel + -er.
Senses: hypernyms: commuter
glosses: One who travels to Manhattan via bridge or tunnel from surrounding communities.
bridge-and-tunnelers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bridge-and-tunneler
threonin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: threonins
Etymology: From threo- + -in.
Senses: glosses: threonine (an essential amino acid)
sulfid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfids
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of sulfide.
quarter bathroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarter bathrooms
Senses: glosses: A room with a toilet, but no shower or bathtub, and typically no sink; a water closet.
Related terms: full bathroom
half bathroom
three-quarter bathroom
kolovrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kolovrats
Etymology: Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *kolovortъ. In historical records, similar symbols were recorded as ладинец (ladinec) in Russian or słoneczko in Polish.
This spelling was influenced by Russian коловра́т (kolovrát), the more well-known form of the symbol invented by the neo-pagan leader Alexey Dobrovolsky in the 1990s.
Senses: examples: text: In contrast, Krasnodar respondents were keen to differentiate between the kolovrat and the swastika, while recognizing the symbolic connections between them: […]
ref: 2009, George McKay, Michael Goddard, Christopher Williams, Neil Foxlee, editors, Subcultures and New Religious Movements in Russia and East-Central Europe, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 284:
topics: fascism
government
human-sciences
ideology
lifestyle
paganism
philosophy
politics
religion
sciences
qualifier: nationalism
glosses: An eight-spoked swastika used by Slavic neopagan, fascist, and nationalist groups.
elkes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elke
Porte
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ottoman Porte
form: Sublime Porte
Etymology: From Middle French porte (“gate”), ultimately after Ottoman Turkish باب عالی (Bâb-ı Âli, “Exalted Gate”), from Arabic بَاب (bāb, “gate”) and عَالِيّ (ʕāliyy, “high, exalted”), a synecdoche for the Ottoman government originally referring to the outer gate of the sultan's Topkapı palace at which justice was administered, and later to the gate of the palace of the grand vizier.
Senses: examples: text: Another odd Combination: 'tis now confidently asserted that the Ottoman Porte enters into a League offensive & defensive with France […].
ref: 1793 February 20, Hester Piozzi, Thraliana:
text: A hired diplomat in Edirne and to the Porte in Constantinople, a military commander in the Austro-Turkish wars, a polyhistor and a learned man.
ref: 1988, Milorad Pavić, translated by Christina Pribićević-Zorić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage, published 1989, page 24:
text: The Ottoman defenders in Edirne (ancient Adrianople, a city in modern Turkey near Greece and Bulgaria) were left surrounded and under siege when the Porte sued for an armistice in early December 1912.
ref: 2015, Eugene Rogan, The Fall of the Ottomans, Penguin, published 2016, page 19:
glosses: The Ottoman court; (hence), the government of the Ottoman empire.
kumys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of koumiss.
organogermane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organogermanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any simple organogermanium compound (equivalent to a hydrocarbon or silane)
geomodelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geomodeling
Etymology: From geo- + modelling.
Senses: glosses: The science of creating computerized representations of portions of the Earth's crust based on geophysical and geological observations.
geomodeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of geomodelling.
placemark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: placemarks
Etymology: From place + mark.
Senses: synonyms: placemarker
glosses: A marker indicating a place on a map or elsewhere.
placemark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: placemarks
form: placemarking
form: placemarked
form: placemarked
Etymology: From place + mark.
Senses: glosses: To indicate (a place on a map) by means of a marker.
placemarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of placemark
placemarks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of placemark
spondyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spondyls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spondyle.
spondyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spondyl
spondyles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spondyle
tetrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tetrical
form: most tetrical
Senses: examples: text: As my nephew has nothing immorigerous or tetrical in his disposition, he indubitably would have gratefully profited of my advice.
ref: 1810, Alicia Tindal Palmer, The Daughters of Isenberg, volume 1, page 68:
text: It is not good to be too tetrical and virulent. Kind words make rough actions plausible.
ref: 1840, Owen Feltham, Resolves, divine, moral and political, page 15:
glosses: tetric; harsh; morose
arnut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arnuts
form: arnot
Etymology: Compare Dutch aardnoot.
Senses: glosses: The earthnut.
arnuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arnut
replayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: replayers
Etymology: From replay + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A reference to a type of equipment as "television reception equipment" shall be deemed to be a reference to television receivers, and video recorders and replayers[…]
ref: 1985, New Zealand, Statutory regulations, volume 2, page 630:
text: DJs increasingly became creators of music rather than replayers[…]
ref: 2012, Martin Russ, Sound Synthesis and Sampling:
glosses: One who, or that which, replays; a person or device carrying out playback.
replayers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of replayer
noncollaborative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + collaborative.
Senses: glosses: Not collaborative.
New Woman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: New Women
Etymology: Attributed to Sarah Grand.
Senses: examples: text: These ladies, actuated by the modern spirit of independence, have yet nothing in common with the “New Woman”—if, which we doubt, this feminine Frankenstein be indeed among us, waiting to fall upon us to our undoing.
ref: 1896–1897, Wilhelmina Wimble, “Incomes for Ladies”, in The Lady's Realm, volume 1, page 104:
glosses: An educated, independent feminist of the late 19th century.
wikipedia: North American Review
Sarah Grand
Related terms: New Man
New Women
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of New Woman
autobuffering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + buffering.
Senses: glosses: automatic buffering
Galileian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Galileian
form: most Galileian
Etymology: From Galileo + -ian.
Senses: examples: 1920, Robert William Lawson (translator), Albert Einstein (original author in 1916), Relativity: The Special and the General Theory Part II
The special theory of relativity has reference to Galileian domains, i.e. to those in which no gravitational field exists.
glosses: Alternative form of Galilean.
marrot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmæɹət/
Forms: form: marrots
Senses: glosses: The common guillemot.
marrots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marrot
soothable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more soothable
form: most soothable
Etymology: From soothe + -able.
Senses: examples: text: For example, caregiver reactions may be quite different for a highly irritable, highly soothable child, as compared to an equally highly irritable child who is not soothable.
ref: 2009, J. Gavin Bremner, Alan Fogel, Blackwell Handbook of Infant Development, page 486:
glosses: Capable of being soothed.
unsoothable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsoothable
form: most unsoothable
Etymology: From un- + soothable.
Senses: glosses: Impossible to soothe.
nonmorphological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + morphological.
Senses: glosses: Not morphological.
old maids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of old maid
goldin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goldins
Senses: glosses: The golding, or corn marigold.
goldins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goldin
rilievos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rilievo
HNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HNAs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of hexitol nucleic acid.
glosses: Initialism of hydrohexitol nucleic acid.
glosses: Initialism of anhydrohexitol nucleic acid.
glosses: Initialism of hereditary neuralgic amyotrophy.
Related terms: XNA
HNA
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: antonyms: LNA
glosses: Initialism of high nucleic acid.
changing hands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of change hands
changes hands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of change hands
changed hands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of change hands
knock-me-down
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: His mother didn't have the price of a bed, and so she crept into the outbuilding, the labor pains coming like blows to the groin, a bottle of clear white Knock-Me-Down clutched in her fist.
ref: 1982, T. C. Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 34:
glosses: A strong alcoholic drink.
Related terms: english: strong ale or beer
translation: strong ale or beer
word: knockdown
knock-me-down
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more knock-me-down
form: most knock-me-down
Senses: examples: text: ‘I never can think such tremendous, knock-me-down figures in the least degree elegant […].’
ref: 1792, Jane Austen, ‘Lesley Castle’, Juvenilia:
text: And Bloom, of course, with his knockmedown cigar putting on swank with his lardy face.
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
glosses: Overbearing; overpowering.
greensickness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of green sickness.
piscatology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪskəˈtɒlədʒɪ/
ipa: /pɪskəˈtɑlədʒi/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Etymology: Irregular formation from the stem of Latin piscārī (“to fish”), + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: Ned acquired the rudiments of orthography, geometry, piscatology, a phrase or two of French, and a profound loathing for the Classics.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 40:
glosses: The study of fishing.
Derived terms: piscatologist
savines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of savine
Kalliope
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: See Calliope.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 22 Kalliope, a main belt asteroid.
Synonyms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: 22 Kalliope
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: ㉒
Derived terms: Kalliopean
aldehyde oxidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aldehyde oxidases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of an aldehyde to a carboxylic acid
cadmiuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cadmium + -uria.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of cadmium salts in the urine
calciuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From calci- + -uria.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of calcium salts in the urine (especially at an elevated level)
Derived terms: normocalciuria
calcophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more calcophilic
form: most calcophilic
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: That tends to be associated with calcium
bezil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bezils
Senses: examples: text: The winder is let in the bezil of the case, and when the bezil is properly attached to the watch case the winder should be just free of the pillar plate, and is fastened to the bezil by means of screws or pins, or it may be cemented as most convenient.
ref: 1830, Specification of the Patent granted to Isaac Brown, ... Watch Maker, for certain improvements applicable to Watches and other Horological Machines: The Repertory of Patent Inventions, volume IX, page 194:
text: He solders the belt which he calls a bezil, a term which applies to any ring formed of fiat metal.[…]When the bezil has taken the shape of the stone, it is rubbed on a flat slab of holystone till its bottom is worn level.
ref: 1861, Fraser's Magazine, volume 64, page 444:
text: The sides of the bezil are scroll ornamented. There is no very pronounced bossing, the shape being symmetrical and smooth.
ref: 1949, Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, volume 22, page 67:
glosses: Alternative form of bezel.
bezils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bezil
hexacarbonyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexacarbonyls
Etymology: From hexa- + carbonyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound having six carbonyl groups
extrapolatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extrapolatable
form: most extrapolatable
Etymology: From extrapolate + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be extrapolated
identity matrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of identity matrix
identity matrixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of identity matrix
diagonal matrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diagonal matrix
singular matrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of singular matrix
Hermitian matrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hermitian matrix
symmetric matrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of symmetric matrix
normopath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: normopaths
Etymology: From normo- + -path.
Senses: glosses: A person who conforms excessively to social norms.
Related terms: normopathy
normopaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of normopath
bursting pressures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bursting pressure
ionizability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ionizabilities
Etymology: From ionizable + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being ionizable.
glosses: A measure of the extent to which something is ionizable.
nodulizing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nodule + -ize + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The consolidation of fine material into nodules
nodulizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nodule + -ize + -ing.
Senses: glosses: That helps this consolidation process
acalyptrates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acalyptrate
hormonogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hormone + -o- + -genesis.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The biosynthesis of hormones
Derived terms: dyshormonogenesis
perxenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From per- + xenic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to perxenic acid or its derivatives.
Derived terms: perxenate
Related terms: perxenic acid
xenate
xenic
xenic acid
xenon
perxenic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The acid H₄XeO₆, presumed to be formed by solution of xenon tetroxide in water, but known only as its salts, the perxenates
Related terms: perxenate
perxenic
xenate
xenic
xenic acid
xenon
radioembolization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radioembolizations
Etymology: From radio- + embolization.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A form of internal radiotherapy in which small radioactive particles are surgically implanted
Cocytus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /koʊˈsaɪtəs/
/koʊˈkaɪtəs/
Forms: form: Cocytos
form: Kokytos
Etymology: From Latin Cōcȳtus, from Ancient Greek Κωκυτός (Kōkutós, “lamentation”).
Senses: examples: text: By the Stigiall flode, / And the stremes wode / Of Cochitos bottumles well; […]
ref: 1523, John Skelton, A ryght delectable tratyse upon a goodly Garlande or Chapelet of Laurell; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 349, lines 1327–1329:
text: All theſe Cocytus bounds vvith ſqualid Reeds, / VVith Muddy Ditches, and vvith deadly VVeeds: […]
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 143, lines 686–687:
glosses: A river of the underworld in Greek mythology.
Coordinate terms: Acheron
Eridanos
Lethe
Phlegethon
Styx
Derived terms: Cocytean
Cocytian
Cocytos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Cocytus.
Kokytos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Cocytus.
cumguzzler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cumguzzlers
Senses: examples: text: Two of the five girls take the bait. “You see this little cumguzzler here?” He says, pointing at me.
ref: 2011, Rich Walls, Standby, Chicago, page 32:
glosses: Alternative spelling of cum guzzler.
cumguzzlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cumguzzler
tellurhydric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tellurium + hydric.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to tellurhydric acid
Phlegeton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Acheron and Phlegeton, which a subterraneous fire causes to boil, are the billows of that hell which was visited by Æneas.
ref: 1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[[Book XIII. Vesuvius and the plain of Naples.] Chap[ter] IV.] The extempore effusion of Corinna on the Plain of Naples.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume III, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 234:
glosses: Alternative form of Phlegethon.
tubulopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tubulopathies
Etymology: From tubulo- + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any disease of the renal tubules of the nephron
Related terms: tubulopathic
Dnepr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Dnepr
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Dnieper.
Dneipr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Dneipr
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Dnieper.
xenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɛnɪk/
ipa: /ˈzinɪk/
Etymology: From xeno- + -ic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Containing an unidentified organism, especially a bacterium.
raw_tags: of a culture
glosses: Of or pertaining to xenogenders.
examples: text: Sino-Xenic
glosses: Strange or foreign in some way.
Derived terms: axenic
holoxenic
monoxenic
Sino-Xenic
xenicity
xenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɛnɪk/
ipa: /ˈzinɪk/
Etymology: From xenon + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to xenic acid.
Derived terms: perxenic
xenate
Related terms: perxenate
perxenic acid
xenic acid
xenon
xenic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The powerful oxidizing agent H₂XeO₄ formed by the dissolution of xenon trioxide in water
Related terms: perxenate
perxenic
perxenic acid
xenate
xenic
xenon
Dnipr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Dnipr
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Dnieper.
xenica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xenicas
Senses: glosses: Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Geitoneura, Oreixenica. and Nesoxenica.
Derived terms: common xenica
eastern ringed xenica
Klug's xenica
ringed xenica
western xenica