cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
stick to one's guns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sticks to one's guns
form: sticking to one's guns
form: stuck to one's guns
form: stuck to one's guns
form: stick by one's guns
Senses: examples: text: Capitan Beaulieu-de-Long and his first lieutenant were both killed, several guns dismounted, and many of the [French frigate] crew killed and wounded. . . . Nevertheless the French stuck bravely to their guns, while the flame of the cannonade illuminated the scene beneath the canopy of smoke.
ref: 1970, James Henderson, The Frigates, an account of the lesser warships of the wars from 1793 to 1815, London: Wordsworth, page 73:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To persist in faithfully attending to cannons while under fire.
raw_tags: of gunners
examples: text: Ronald had stuck to his guns and refused me to the last.
ref: 1898, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Quiller-Couch, chapter 29, in St. Ives:
text: "I intend to marry, of course," replied Tuppence. "That is, if"—she paused, knew a momentary longing to draw back, and then stuck to her guns bravely—"I can find some one rich enough to make it worth my while."
ref: 1922, Agatha Christie, chapter 15, in The Secret Adversary:
text: The President . . . stuck to his guns on that, not repeating any of his recent admissions that there had been "miscalculations" in planning for the war.
ref: 2004 September 3, Mitch Frank, “Bush Finds His Agenda”, in Time, retrieved 19 Sep 2015:
text: Sarri has been questioned for his decision to use Jorginho as the hub of his team while pushing Kante into a more advanced role out on the right - why have the player many regard as the finest holding midfield player in world football and not utilise him there?
Sarri has stuck to his guns and this was a game - and performance by Kante - that added significant weight to his argument.
ref: 2018 December 8, Phil McNulty, “Chelsesa 2 - 0 Manchester City”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To maintain one’s position or viewpoint when faced with opposition.
Related terms: hold the line
in summary
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: To summarize; as a summary.
Synonyms: at the end of the day
in a nutshell
in short
MMU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MMUs
Senses: topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of memory management unit.
glosses: Initialism of manned maneuvering unit.
glosses: Initialism of methane multiple unit.
glosses: Initialism of mobile meteorological unit.
glosses: Initialism of monomethylurea.
coordinate_terms: word: AMU
alt: astronaut maneuvering unit
word: SAFER
word: zip gun
word: jet pack
word: rocket pack
word: jet belt
word: rocket belt
glosses: Initialism of manned maneuvering unit.
MMU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Manchester Metropolitan University.
glosses: Initialism of Marymount University.
glosses: Initialism of Morristown Municipal Airport.
glosses: Initialism of Myanmar Maritime University.
glosses: Initialism of Multimedia University.
three-line whip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: three-line whips
Etymology: From the triple underlining of very important votes on “the whip” — a document detailing upcoming business distributed weekly to British MPs by party managers.
Senses: examples: text: Since the metaphysical status of egg-casing is not one on which the church has yet pronounced, opposition appears based on "yuck" and nothing else. But yuck has become diktat, with Catholic MPs up to cabinet level being given a three-line whip by their bishops.
ref: 2008 April 12, Simon Jenkins, Richard Harries, “Atheist versus Bishop”, in The Guardian:
text: Deputy Chief Whip Craig Whittaker told them it will be a “100% hard” three-line whip, saying: “This is not a motion on fracking. This is a confidence motion in the Government.”
ref: 2022 October 19, Ashley Cowburn, quoting Craig Whittaker, “Liz Truss declares fracking vote tonight a ‘confidence motion’ in her government”, in Mirror:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A directive to MPs from party leaders to vote in a particular way in parliament, despite what the MP might believe or what his or her constituents might like.
examples: text: I have to go shopping with the wife, I'm afraid. She's given me a three-line whip.
glosses: An imperative order.
Related terms: single-line whip
one-line whip
two-line whip
double-line whip
punch in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: punches in
form: punching in
form: punched in
form: punched in
Senses: examples: text: I'm going to punch in a bit early today to get more work done.
glosses: To enter a workplace by punching a timecard.
examples: text: Just punch in the numbers and it will give you an estimate of the cost.
glosses: To input values to a computer or a calculator.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To score.
Synonyms: sense: to punch a time card
word: clock in
strike a balance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strikes a balance
form: striking a balance
form: struck a balance
form: struck a balance
form: stricken a balance
Senses: examples: text: You should try to strike a balance between your social life and work life.
text: I like to think I strike a balance between being too strict and too lenient with my children.
text: Close to the window, where he could get more than his fair share of fresh air, the other twin, James—the fat and the lean of it, old Jolyon called these brothers—like the bulky Swithin, over six feet in height, but very lean, as though destined from his birth to strike a balance and maintain an average, brooded over the scene with his permanent stoop; […]
ref: 1906, John Galsworthy, The Man of Property, chapter 1:
text: 2004, Bridgeport Music, Inc. v. Dimension Films, opinion of the court
The copyright laws attempt to strike a balance between protecting original works and stifling further creativity.
synonyms: strike a medium
glosses: To find a compromise between two conflicting things; to choose a moderate option between two extremes.
examples: text: I'd like to wind up the accounts before—before—well, this time I shan't wait till the new year to strike a balance.
ref: c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act 3:
topics: business
finance
glosses: To bring out the relative state of a debtor and creditor account.
off balance
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I was knocked off balance.
glosses: Not physically balanced; not having physical equilibrium.
glosses: surprised; perplexed
raw_tags: of a person
Derived terms: catch off balance
throw off balance
hang in the balance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hangs in the balance
form: hanging in the balance
form: hung in the balance
form: hung in the balance
Senses: examples: text: His life was left hanging in the balance after he was shot in the side.
glosses: To be in a precarious situation, unsure of the future.
balance of trade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balances of trade
Senses: topics: business
economics
finance
sciences
trading
glosses: The difference between the monetary value of exports and imports in an economy over a certain period of time.
Synonyms: trade balance
Related terms: trade deficit
trade surplus
throw off balance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: throws off balance
form: throwing off balance
form: threw off balance
form: thrown off balance
Senses: synonyms: word: disturb
word: perturb
word: agitate
word: freak
word: bother
word: bring down
word: discompose
word: disconcert
word: enturbulate
word: disturb
word: mortify
word: perturb
word: put out
word: ruffle
word: throw off balance
word: unsettle
word: upset
glosses: To unsettle, to catch by surprise.
now you mention it
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Shortening of now that you mention it
Senses: examples: text: 'I—I—I have fought a little, but not in that climbing way or that running way.' / 'No. Now you mention it,' said Billy, 'you don't look as though you were made for climbing or running—much. Well, how was it, old Hay-bales?'
ref: 1894 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Servants of the Queen”, in The Jungle Book, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published June 1894, →OCLC, page 196:
text: ― Everybody gets their own ration of luck, they say. Now you mention it his face was familiar to me. But, leaving that for the moment, how much did you part with, he queried, if I am not too inquisitive?
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Eumaeus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 575:
synonyms: come to mention it
now that you mention it
glosses: Used to precede another comment about something just mentioned.
Related terms: speaking of which
balance out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: balances out
form: balancing out
form: balanced out
form: balanced out
Senses: examples: text: If you consider all the negative and all the positive factors, it should balance out to something acceptable.
glosses: To counteract one another so as to be balanced.
raw_tags: of contrasting elements
Related terms: cancel out
balance the books
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: balances the books
form: balancing the books
form: balanced the books
form: balanced the books
Senses: examples: text: I hardly think that cancelling Yorkshire's HS2 line counts as levelling up, but must admit that the South has its troubles too - particularly in London, where Transport for London is facing the prospect of cutting services to balance its books, as the pandemic continues to deter passengers and government appears unwilling to help.
ref: 2021 December 1, Philip Haigh, “TfL's deepening financial crisis puts Tube services at risk”, in RAIL, number 945, page 58:
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: To add up all the debits and credits.
examples: text: Let us not balance the books of oppression of the deaf on the backs and minds of other oppressed linguistic ethnic and cultural minorities.
ref: 1992, Margaret Walworth with Donald F. Moores and Terrence J. O'Rourke, A Free Hand: Enfranchising the Education of Deaf Children, page 155:
text: If you want to make a negatively charged particle, such as an electron, out of energy, you also have to make a positively charged particle to balance the books.
ref: 2007, John Gribbin, The Origins of the Future, page 76:
text: When you broke one of his rules, you had to sacrifice something to earn forgiveness or to balance the books.
ref: 2003, T. J. MacGregor, Black Water, page 358:
glosses: To put or keep any closed or conservative system or its analysis in balance.
Related terms: payback
settle up
settle accounts
trial balance
alvinellid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alvinellids
Senses: glosses: Any of several polychaete worms, of the family Alvinellidae, endemic to hydrothermal vents in the Pacific Ocean
aminoarabinose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aminoarabinoses
Etymology: From amino- + arabinose.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An amino sugar derived from arabinose
anoxygenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From an- + oxygenic.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: That does not involve the production of oxygen
Derived terms: anoxygenic photosynthesis
apomictic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more apomictic
form: most apomictic
Senses: examples: text: I have found no definite reports of apomictic turbellarians, although the stenostomid Rhynchoscolex is said neither to reproduce by fission (but see Pennak, 1978) nor to possess a male system (Sterrer and Rieger, 1974).
ref: 1982, Graham Bell, The Masterpiece of Nature: The Evolution and Genetics of Sexuality:
text: Successful breeding of apomictic species is a relatively recent achievement and thus far only a few artificially bred cultivars of any apomictic crop have been released. For many years the only source of cultivars of apomictic species was selection and increase of the best natural apomictic ecotypes.
ref: 1990, E. C. Bashaw, Wayne W. Hanna, “5: Apomictic reproduction”, in Geoffrey Peter Chapman, editor, Reproductive Versatility in the Grasses, Cambridge University Press, page 115:
text: 2001, Julien Berthaud, Chapter 2: Apomixis and the Management of Genetic Diversity, Yves Savidan, John G. Carman, Thomas Dresselhaus (editors), The Flowering of Apomixis: From Mechanisms to Genetic Engineering, CIMMYT, page 20,
The first generation hybrid between teosinte (sexual, aa) and apomictic maize (AA) would be apomictic (Aa), and BC₁ plants with teosinte as female would produce Aa (apomictic) and aa (sexual) progeny.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characterised by apomixis.
Coordinate terms: sexual
Derived terms: apomictically
apoplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more apoplastic
form: most apoplastic
Etymology: From apoplast + -ic.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to an apoplast
Derived terms: apoplastically
aposymbiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aposymbiotic
form: most aposymbiotic
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to aposymbiosis
panty raid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panty raids
Senses: glosses: A prank where a woman's underwear is stolen.
aposymbiosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aposymbioses
Etymology: From apo- + symbiosis.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A form of symbiosis in which two species live independently of each other, but their life cycles affect one another.
appressorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to appressoria
arabinogalactan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arabinogalactans
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of proteoglycans found on the cell surface of flowering plants, sometimes used as a dietary supplement
Synonyms: arabinogalactin
aseptate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + septate.
Senses: glosses: Having no septum.
australopithecine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒstɹələ(ʊ)ˈpɪθɪsiːn/
Forms: form: australopithecines
form: Australopithecine
Etymology: Originally in reference to a now-obsolete subfamily Australopithecinae, formed in New Latin, from Latin austrālis (“southern”) + Ancient Greek πίθηκος (píthēkos, “ape”).
Senses: examples: text: It is as if there were enshrined in these legends a racial memory of the Australopithicines who came close but never did make it to full humanity.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 28:
text: Australopithecines came in several varieties, some slender and gracile, like Raymond Dart's Taung child, others more sturdy and robust, but all were capable of walking upright.
ref: 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, published 2003, page 391:
text: Caspari and Lee carried out comparisons ranging from ancient hominins such as australopithecines through to Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons, assessing the ratios of young adults to old adults.
ref: 2011, Chris Stringer, The Origin of Our Species, Penguin, published 2012, page 151:
topics: anthropology
biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Any of several extinct hominids, belonging to the genera Australopithecus and Paranthropus in the subtribe Australopithecina when seen as distinct, and sometimes other closely related genera.
Derived terms: gracile australopithecine
robust australopithecine
australopithecine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒstɹələ(ʊ)ˈpɪθɪsiːn/
Forms: form: more australopithecine
form: most australopithecine
form: Australopithecine
Etymology: Originally in reference to a now-obsolete subfamily Australopithecinae, formed in New Latin, from Latin austrālis (“southern”) + Ancient Greek πίθηκος (píthēkos, “ape”).
Senses: topics: anthropology
biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to these hominids.
Synonyms: english: depending on classification
translation: depending on classification
word: australopith
autotrophically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more autotrophically
form: most autotrophically
Etymology: From autotrophic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an autotrophic manner.
glosses: With regard to autotrophy.
Derived terms: lithoautotrophically
organoautotrophically
photoautotrophically
Cleese's woolly lemur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cleese's woolly lemurs
Etymology: Named after John Cleese, English comedian, who has a fondness for lemurs.
Senses: glosses: Avahi cleesei, a lemur from Madagascar.
autotrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autotrophies
Etymology: From auto- + -trophy.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The synthesis of food from inorganic substances, using heat or light as a source of energy
Derived terms: chemoautotrophy
lithoautotrophy
organoautotrophy
Related terms: autotroph
Paul Allen's flower fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Paul Allen's flower flies
Etymology: Named after Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft.
Senses: glosses: Eristalis alleni, a species of flower fly from Costa Rica.
Bill Gates' flower fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bill Gates' flower flies
Etymology: Partial calque of translingual Eristalis gatesi. Named after Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft.
Senses: glosses: A species of flower fly from Costa Rica, Eristalis gatesi.
wikipedia: Bill Gates
Microsoft
auxotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more auxotrophic
form: most auxotrophic
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing a strain of organism that requires a specific metabolic substance that the parent organism was able to synthesize by itself
Derived terms: auxotrophically
nonauxotrophic
Related terms: auxotroph
auxotrophy
double yellow lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 2006 October 3, in The Guardian, article by Martin Wainwright
A council has withdrawn a parking ticket issued after double yellow lines were painted under a parked car.
2007 July 15, in The Guardian, article by Margaret Dibben
Many customers live in upstairs flats, down narrow lanes, alongside double yellow lines or have steps to the front door.
glosses: plural of double yellow line
azithromycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌzɪθ.ɹoʊˈmaɪ.sn̩/
Etymology: From az- + (er)ythromycin.
Senses: examples: text: Take a bite, taste the sin / Bad Azithromycin
ref: 2022, “Bite My Face”, performed by Ho99o9, Corey Taylor:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A semisynthetic macrolide antibiotic C₃₈H₇₂N₂O₁₂ (trademarks Zithromax, Z-PAK) that is derived from erythromycin and is used especially as an antibacterial agent.
Synonyms: Zithromax
Zmax
Zithromax Tri-Pak
Tri-Pak
Zithromax Z-Pak
Z-Pak
erythromycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˌɹɪθ.ɹə(ʊ)ˈmʌɪ.sɪn/
ipa: /ɪˌɹɪθ.ɹəˈmaɪ.sn̩/
Forms: form: erythromycins
Etymology: From Streptomyces erythreus + -o- + -mycin (“antibiotic from a Streptomyces strain”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antibiotic similar to penicillin, used for the treatment of a number of bacterial infections.
glosses: A broad-spectrum macrolide antibiotic C₃₇H₆₇NO₁₃ produced by an actinomycete Saccharopolyspora erythraea (formerly Streptomyces erythreus) and similar in its effects to penicillin, administered orally or topically in the treatment of infections caused by Gram-positive bacteria.
Derived terms: azaerythromycin
azithromycin
berythromycin
clarithromycin
dirithromycin
flurithromycin
gamithromycin
homoerythromycin
lexithromycin
modithromycin
nafithromycin
oxoerythromycin
roxithromycin
telithromycin
tulathromycin
Sir David's long-beaked echidna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sir David's long-beaked echidnas
form: Sir David's long-beaked echidnae
Etymology: Named after David Attenborough, British naturalist
Senses: glosses: Zaglossus attenboroughi, a species of long-beaked echidna.
wikipedia: David Attenborough
Synonyms: sense: Zaglossus attenboroughi
word: Attenborough's long-beaked echidna
sense: Zaglossus attenboroughi
word: cyclops long-beaked echidna
intake system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intake systems
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: The subsystem of an engine that takes in air from the environment and delivers it to the combustion chamber.
on the point of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: Whether health care should remain free at the point of need is not a new controversy.
text: As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: The old building seemed to be on the point of collapse.
synonyms: at the point of
upon the point of
ready
on the verge
on the brink
glosses: Very near to; ready to; just about to; such that something is imminent.
Related terms: on the verge
on the brink
intake manifold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intake manifolds
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
synonyms: inlet manifold
hypernyms: manifold#Noun
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component#Noun
part#Noun
coordinate_terms: exhaust manifold
glosses: The part of an internal combustion engine that supplies the fuel and air mixture to the cylinder(s).
Related terms: tunnel ram
intake silencer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intake silencers
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A device that reduces the noise in an intake system.
speed limiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speed limiters
Senses: glosses: A device that limits vehicle speed.
Synonyms: governor
exhaust system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exhaust systems
Senses: examples: Meronyms: exhaust pipe (head pipe, mid-pipe, tailpipe), exhaust pipe (tailpipe), tailpipe, manifold, header, sidepipe, silencer, muffler, catalytic converter
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: The subsystem of an engine that takes the products of the combustion chamber through a catalytic converter and silencer to the final pipe that releases the gases to the air.
exhaust purifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exhaust purifiers
Senses: glosses: A device to filter exhaust gases.
Related terms: diesel particulate filter
Ægæan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of Aegean.
Ægæan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Ægæan
Senses: examples: text: A cruise in the Ægæan.
ref: 1853, Walter Watson, A cruise in the Ægæan, book title:
glosses: Archaic spelling of Aegean.
Aetolia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /iːˈtəʊ.li.ə/
ipa: /iˈtoʊ.li.ə/
rhymes: -əʊliə
Forms: form: Ætolia
form: Aitolia
Senses: glosses: A mountainous region of Greece on the north coast of the Gulf of Corinth, forming the eastern part of the modern prefecture of Aetolia-Acarnania.
Derived terms: Aetolia-Acarnania
Aetolian
Ætolia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: 1913, Catholic Encyclopedia, “Lepanto”
Annexed to the Greek Orthodox Church in 1827, the see was suppressed in 1900, and replaced by the See of Acarnania and Naupactia, whose seat is at Missolonghi; the limits of this diocese are identical to those of the name Ætolia and Acarnania.
Today Naupactus, chief town of the district in the province of Arcarnania and Ætolia, has 4,500 inhabitants, all Orthodox Greeks.
glosses: Dated form of Aetolia.
Eubœa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Now, wending our way eastwards, we have in the long narrow island of Eubœa a most remarkable phenomenon. Fragment for fragment, it corresponds precisely to that part of Middle Greece from which it was torn.
ref: 1903, E.E.G. and Frank Byron Jevons, The Makers of Hellas: A Critical Inquiry Into the Philosophy and Religion of Ancient Greece, page 51 (and many other occurrences) (C. Griffin and Company, Limited)
glosses: Archaic form of Euboea.
Bœotia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Though every one felt the magnitude of the danger, it was still hoped that the enemy might be prevented from penetrating out of Phokis into Bœotia.
ref: 1856, George Grote, History of Greece, page 239:
glosses: Obsolete form of Boeotia.
Achæa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The inhabitants of the Grecian town of Scione, in the Thracian peninsula called Pallene or Pellene, accounted themselves the offspring of the Pellenians from Achæa in Peloponnesus, who had served under Agamemnon before Troy, and who on their return from the siege had been driven on the spot by a storm and there settled.
ref: 1905, George Grote, “Fall of Troy”, in Rossiter Johnson, editor, The Great Events by Famous Historians, volume 1:
glosses: Archaic form of Achaea.
Aeolis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːəlɪs/
Forms: form: Eolis
form: Æolis
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Aeolis, Ancient Greek Αἰολίς (Aiolís).
Senses: glosses: An area of Ancient Greece that comprised the west and northwestern region of Asia Minor, mostly along the coast, and also several offshore islands (particularly Lesbos), where the Aeolian Greek city-states were located.
Æolis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Aeolis.
bacteriocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bacteriocytes
Etymology: From bacterio- + -cyte.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A modified adipocyte, in some insects, containing symbiotic bacteria
bacteriome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bacteriomes
Etymology: From bacteri- + -ome.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An organelle, in some insects, containing bacteriocytes
Coordinate terms: trophosome
Related terms: bacteriomic
bangiophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbænd͡ʒɪɔˌfaɪt/
Forms: form: bangiophytes
Senses: glosses: Any red alga of the class Bangiophyceae
bathymodiolin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bathymodiolins
Etymology: Bathymodiolus + -in
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of several deep-sea mussels, of the genus Bathymodiolus, often found near hydrothermal vents.
bioprospecting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + prospecting.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The methodical search for novel pharmaceutical (and other) products from plants and microorganisms.
Related terms: bioprospect
bioprospector
biopiracy
biotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more biotrophic
form: most biotrophic
Etymology: From bio- + -trophic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing a parasite or symbiont that needs its host in order to stay alive.
Derived terms: biotrophically
hemibiotrophic
semibiotrophic
Related terms: biotroph
biotrophy
biotrophism
necrotrophic
necrotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more necrotrophic
form: most necrotrophic
Etymology: From necro- (“dead”) + -trophic (suffix denoting mode of nutrition).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing a parasite that kills its host, then feeds on the dead matter.
Derived terms: necrotrophically
Related terms: biotrophic
saprotrophic
biovar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biovars
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A strain of microorganisms that is physiologically and/or biochemically differentiable from others
Related terms: morphovar
serovar
caryophyllene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caryophyllenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A sesquiterpene (containing a cyclobutane ring) found in the essential oils of several plants such as clove and pepper
decision tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decision trees
Senses: glosses: A visualization of a complex decision-making situation in which the possible decisions and their likely outcomes are organized in the form of a graph that resembles a tree.
Hypernyms: tree
Related terms: backward induction
decision analysis
pulse oximetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: pulse ox
glosses: A noninvasive method allowing the monitoring of the oxygenation of a patient's hemoglobin, using a sensor placed on a thin part of the patient's anatomy, usually a fingertip or earlobe.
Related terms: pulse oximeter
pulse oximetric
hepatosplenomegaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hepatosplenomegalies
Etymology: From hepato- + splenomegaly.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Enlargement of both the liver and spleen.
Synonyms: hepatolienomegaly
chemoattraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemoattractions
Etymology: From chemo- + attraction.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The action of a chemoattractant
Related terms: chemoattractive
chemoautotrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chemo- + autotrophy.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A mode of growth in which CO₂ is the exclusive source of assimilated carbon, and energy is derived from chemical processes rather than light.
Related terms: auto-
-trophy
-troph
-y
chemoautotrophic
chemoautotroph
chemotrophic
chemotrophy
chemotroph
autotrophic
autotrophy
autotroph
chemolithoautotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chemolithoautotrophic
form: most chemolithoautotrophic
Etymology: From chemo- + litho- + autotrophic.
Senses: glosses: chemoautotrophic
Derived terms: chemolithoautotrophically
chemoperception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemoperceptions
Etymology: From chemo- + perception.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A specific response by an organism to the presence of a specific chemical compound (or class of compounds)
præposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: præpositions
Senses: examples: text: When I stated that ξυνήϊα was a compound word, and that the first part was the præposition ξὺν or σὺν, I should have added, that the latter seemed to me to be formed from ἐω or ἑω, to put or place, and that the word, so compounded, signified something put or placed together, probably contributions made by the people, in ancient times, to form a common stock.
ref: 1815, George Dunbar, Prosodia græca, sive metrorum græcorum expositio: necnon dissertatio, anglice scripta, de usu digamma in homeri carminibus; ejusdemque regulis hexametrorum præcipuis: cui adjiciuntur iliadis liber primus et pars secundi, cum notis (Bell & Bradfute; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown), page 7
text: In short, except in some compound words, where the præposition en comes before Σ, as ἐνσέιω, ἐνσημαίνω, the n is allmost universally dropped, and perhaps was here admitted to preserve a difference between the præposition and the augment.
ref: 1887, Godfrey Kneller, The Family Memoirs of the Rev. William Stukeley: And the Antiquarian and Other Correspondence of William Stukeley, Roger & Samuel Gale, Etc, Andrews & co., page 190:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of preposition.
maltodextrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maltodextrins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A type of dextrin commonly used as a food additive.
Derived terms: cyclomaltodextrin
isomaltodextrin
Related terms: maltodextrose
collect one's thoughts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: collects one's thoughts
form: collecting one's thoughts
form: collected one's thoughts
form: collected one's thoughts
Senses: examples: text: I got up feverish and nervous. I walked out before breakfast, striving to collect my thoughts and tranquilize my feelings.
ref: 1820, Washington Irving, “The Early Experiences of Ralph Ringwood,”, in The Crayon Papers:
text: I took a moment to collect my thoughts, and likewise to frame in French the sentence by which I proposed to open business.
ref: 1857, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 7, in The Professor:
text: She fell sprawling upon a green meadow and was so dazed and bewildered by her bumpy journey across the Merry-Go-Round Mountains that she lay quite still for a time to collect her thoughts.
ref: 1917, L. Frank Baum, chapter 7, in The Lost Princess of Oz:
text: "I'm a believer, umm," Mr. Bloomberg said before standing silently at the lectern for seven seconds as he collected his thoughts.
ref: 2001 July 30, Dean E. Murphy, “Political Memo; Being Mike Bloomberg, Without a Script or a Doubt”, in New York Times, retrieved 11 Oct 2008:
synonyms: collect one's wits
gather one's thoughts
gather one's wits
glosses: To become mentally composed, especially after being distressed, surprised, or disoriented; to become calm or organized in one's emotional state or thinking, as in preparation for a conversation, speech, decision, etc.
gather one's thoughts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gathers one's thoughts
form: gathering one's thoughts
form: gathered one's thoughts
form: gathered one's thoughts
Senses: examples: text: The defender looks like someone who might benefit from some time on the sidelines to gather his thoughts, clear his head and get back to something like the player and personality who had enough impact at Old Trafford after his move from Leicester City to be awarded the captain's armband.
ref: 2020 October 14, Phil McNulty, “England 0-1 Denmark: 'Harry Maguire looked devoid of confidence in Nations League loss'”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Synonym of collect one's thoughts.
synonyms: word: collect one's thoughts
subhelic arc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subhelic arcs
Senses: glosses: A rare halo, formed by internal reflection through ice crystals, that curves upwards from the horizon and touches the tricker arc above the anthelic point.
collect one's wits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: collects one's wits
form: collecting one's wits
form: collected one's wits
form: collected one's wits
Senses: examples: text: "He is coming to," remarked a voice very near Tommy's ear. He recognized it at once for that of the bearded and efficient German, and lay artistically inert. He felt that it would be a pity to come round too soon; and until the pain in his head became a little less acute, he felt quite incapable of collecting his wits.
ref: 1922, Agatha Christie, “Chapter 16”, in The Secret Adversary:
glosses: Synonym of collect one's thoughts.
synonyms: word: collect one's thoughts
gather one's wits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gathers one's wits
form: gathering one's wits
form: gathered one's wits
form: gathered one's wits
Senses: glosses: Synonym of collect one's thoughts.
synonyms: word: collect one's thoughts
physiognomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of physiognomy
parter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parters
Etymology: From part (“noun”) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The show was a two-parter, but we stopped watching halfway through.
glosses: A work in a specified number of parts.
parter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parters
Etymology: From part (“verb”) + -er (“agent suffix”).
Senses: examples: text: Lateral parting of the hair is customary, while the pompadour and middle parting is a relatively unusual deviation, an oddity. This makes those who practice it conspicuous. It happening that the middle parters are mostly foppish the stigma of foppishness usually goes with the practice even when it is not merited.
ref: 1901, Medical Council, volume 6, page 425:
text: When you run out of original ideas in Hollywood, you call in the makers of thunder and lightning and, if the film is biblical, the parters of the Red Sea and the choirs of heavenly angels humming to the strings of Mantovani.
ref: 1993, Visiting Assistant Professor of Film Studies Charles Warren, Anne-Marie Mieville, Jean-Luc Godard's Hail Mary: Women and the Sacred in Film, SIU Press, page 78
glosses: That which parts, or draws apart.
examples: text: Of course, if you do not follow our national poet's recommendation, and unless you are a good parter as well, you cannot expect to fill your stables with first-class animals, as you will ascertain from Mr. Cox or Messrs. Blackman that they do not find them without difficulty, or without paying a good round sum for every clinker they add to their stud.
ref: 1879, Frederick Feild Whitehurst, Hark Away: Sketches of Hunting, Coaching, Fishing, Etc., Etc, page 188:
glosses: One who readily parts with money; a free spender.
hey rube
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /heɪ ɹub/
Forms: form: hey Rube
Etymology: Used since approximately 1935; from a shortening of the given name Reuben. It originated as a cry used by circus workers, possibly because of the connotations of the name Reuben as belonging to someone living in the rural USA.
Senses: glosses: A call to rally circus members in a fight.
hey rube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /heɪ ɹub/
Forms: form: hey rubes
form: hey Rube
Etymology: Used since approximately 1935; from a shortening of the given name Reuben. It originated as a cry used by circus workers, possibly because of the connotations of the name Reuben as belonging to someone living in the rural USA.
Senses: examples: text: "I said 'Shut it, Camel! I'm dealing with a situation here.' Walter says. /.'What kind of situation?' says Camel. / "'Jacob's messed up.' / "'What? How? Was there a hey rube?'"
ref: 2006, Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants:
glosses: A fight between members of a circus and the general public.
glosses: Any fight or conflict, especially a rowdy and informal one.
jadi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jaadi
Senses: qualifier: Asia
glosses: Pickled fish.
naked as a jay-bird
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of naked as a jaybird.
cognetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The term cognetics was coined and trademarked by Charles Kreitzberg in 1982 when he started Cognetics Corporation, one of the first user experience design companies.
The term cognetics was used independently by Jef Raskin and Charles Kreitzberg. Raskin used the term cognetics in his book The Humane Interface (Addison-Wesley, 2000) to mean "the ergonomics of the mind." According to Raskin, "Cognetics brings interface design out of the mystic realm of guruism, transforming it into an engineering discipline with a rigorous theoretical framework".
Senses: glosses: The engineering of objects to make them accommodate critical human thought process.
sharwal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sharwals
Senses: glosses: Loose-fitting cloth trousers, generally expensive, which are a traditional costume of Nepal, but are worn by other peoples as well.
selenian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more selenian
form: most selenian
Etymology: From selen- + -ian.
Senses: related: word: Selenian
glosses: Pertaining to the moon.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: selenic
glosses: Containing selenium (especially when this replaces another element).
Related terms: selenatian
selenitian
hog waller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hog wallers
form: hogwaller
Etymology: From hog + waller (pig bed), akin to hog island and hog town, late 19th century. It appears to have developed as a portrayal of some parts of the American rural South no later than 1915, when a syndicated column called The Hogwallow News can be documented as running in some American newspapers.
Senses: glosses: Any poor town or out-of-the-way place that is populated by hillbillies and their farm animals.
Synonyms: Podunk
Related terms: hog-wallowing
hog island
hog town
multisensory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛnsəɹi
Forms: form: more multisensory
form: most multisensory
Etymology: From multi- + sensory.
Senses: examples: text: One multisensory process is the integration of visual and auditory information in the perception of speech.
coordinate_terms: unisensory
glosses: Pertaining to the integration of information from different sensory modalities.
Derived terms: multisensorily
reradiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reradiates
form: reradiating
form: reradiated
form: reradiated
Etymology: From re- + radiate.
Senses: glosses: To absorb some amount of radiative energy, and then later emit that energy in the form of radiative energy. The term is most often used in discussion of absorption of light or infrared radiation.
Related terms: radiate
thermodynamics
radiation
backwardnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backwardness
centralities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centrality
neodymium magnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neodymium magnets
Senses: glosses: A powerful magnet made of a combination of neodymium, iron, and boron: Nd₂Fe₁₄B.
no matter
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Shortened from earlier it makes no matter, it is no matter.
Senses: examples: text: It seems that Doug's coat has gone missing. Oh, well, no matter: we can always buy a new one, now can't we?
text: "Did you fail your exam?" "Yes, but no matter. I'll just study harder next time."
text: My Aunt Rachel brought Jane's dresses for me to wear/Perfectly Good Clothes/And I should've been glad to get them/Perfectly Good Clothes/No matter they didn't fit quite right
ref: 1988, Kate Rushin, “The Black Back-Ups”, in Barbara Smith, editor, Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology:
text: Sadly, [Anna] Wintour did not control the weather, which was disappointingly inclement. But, no matter, because the event was awash with a “tsunami of love”.
ref: 2025 June 21, Jo Ellison, “The Bezos merger we all want a piece of”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 22:
glosses: It doesn't matter, it's unimportant, it doesn't make any difference.
no matter
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Etymology: Shortened from earlier it makes no matter, it is no matter.
Senses: examples: text: As an experienced geologist, he can identify any rock no matter where he finds it.
text: No matter what the excuse, you must not be late.
text: We can fix your plumbing no matter the problem.
text: I'll pick you up at the airport on Friday no matter when your flight arrives.
text: No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46:
text: The result in Greece meant Tottenham could not progress, no matter how many goals they scored against Rovers but, after making nine changes to his starting line-up, Harry Redknapp will be pleased with the performance of his fringe players.
ref: 2011 December 15, Marc Higginson, “Shamrock Rovers 0-4 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Irrespective of, regardless of, in spite of.
Related terms: no matter that
no matter what
vote blue no matter who
road apples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of road apple
extrajudicial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪʃəl
Forms: form: extra-judicial
Etymology: From extra- + judicial.
Senses: examples: text: An extrajudicial conveyance is effected by the act of the parties and does not involve, as in the fine and recovery, judicial proceedings.
topics: law
glosses: Out of or beyond the power or authority of a court or judge; beyond jurisdiction.
topics: law
coordinate_terms: summary#Adjective
;
nonjudicial
unjudicial
glosses: Carried out without legal authority.
raw_tags: of a punishment
Derived terms: extrajudiciality
extrajudicially
baby bottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baby bottles
form: baby's bottle
Senses: glosses: A bottle equipped with a teat, used for bottlefeeding infants.
Synonyms: feeding bottle
beaker
to that end
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: We think that the world would be a better place without advertisements. To that end, we are going to remove all of the banners from our website.
text: He was aiming to get into the school swimming team, and to that end he swam every evening.
text: Villa chief executive Paul Faulkner had backed manager Houllier during the week and asked for the fans to get behind their team as they looked to steer themselves away from the relegation zone.
To that end, the home supporters were in good voice to begin with, but it was Newcastle who started the game in the ascendancy, with Barton putting a diving header over the top from Jose Enrique's cross.
ref: 2011 April 10, Alistair Magowan, “Aston Villa 1 - 0 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport:
text: While his two predecessors had been authoritarians – they knew what they thought on the most contentious matters within Catholicism and imposed that view on the church regardless of dissenters – Francis preferred to work away patiently at building consensus and accommodating a variety of perspectives. To that end, he breathed new life into the system of regular gatherings – or synods – of bishops in Rome to debate pressing matters.
ref: 2025 April 21, Peter Stanford, “Pope Francis obituary”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: for that reason
therefore
so
wherefore
to which end
to this end
towards that end
for which purpose
for that purpose
for this purpose
to accomplish which
glosses: For that reason, with that goal, intending to produce that result.
neck ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neck rings
form: neck-ring
form: neckring
Senses: glosses: A metal ring worn around one's neck, used as jewelry.
Related terms: giraffe woman
first milk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first milks
Senses: glosses: Colostrum; beestings.
engagement ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: engagement rings
Senses: examples: text: Then, aroused to the sense of what was proper among mortals circumstanced as we were, I pointed out to Kitty that an engagement-ring was the outward and visible sign of her dignity as an engaged girl; and that she must forthwith come to Hamilton's to be measured for one.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 13:
topics: jewelry
lifestyle
glosses: A ring given to one's fiancé(e) or intended fiancé(e), signifying a promise to wed, typically a gold band with one or more diamonds or other precious stones.
examples: text: After about five minutes we dug up an old engagement ring.
ref: 2010, Donald L. Maly, Oasis of Hope, page 20:
text: Wednesday: I found an engagement ring on the beach this morning, beautiful little thing, a diamond the shape of a teardrop and two clusters of tiny sapphires on either side.
ref: 2014, Holly Martin, The Guestbook:
glosses: Any ring that has the appearance of a ring given as a promise to wed.
Derived terms: mangagement ring
Related terms: commitment ring
wedding ring