cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
calcium-43
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A stable isotope of calcium, ⁴³₂₀Ca, with 20 protons and 23 neutrons; it amounts to about 0.1% of the element in nature
Related terms: calcium-40
calcium-42
calcium-44
calcium-45
calcium-46
calcium-48
calcium-44
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A stable isotope of calcium, ⁴⁴₂₀Ca, with 20 protons and 24 neutrons; it amounts to about 2% of the element in nature
Related terms: calcium-40
calcium-42
calcium-43
calcium-45
calcium-46
calcium-48
calcium-46
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A rare stable isotope of calcium, ⁴⁶₂₀Ca, with 20 protons and 26 neutrons; it amounts to only 0.004% of the element in nature
Related terms: calcium-40
calcium-42
calcium-43
calcium-44
calcium-45
calcium-48
calcium-45
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A radioactive isotope of calcium, ⁴⁵₂₀Ca, with 20 protons and 25 neutrons, and a half-life of 162.6 days; it is used as a tracer in studying calcium metabolism. As it decays it undergoes nuclear transmutation via electron emission, also called negative beta decay (β⁻-decay), into scandium.
Related terms: calcium-40
calcium-42
calcium-43
calcium-44
calcium-46
calcium-48
calcium-48
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A naturally-occurring isotope of calcium, ⁴⁸₂₀Ca, with 20 protons and 28 neutrons. It decays very slowly, with a half-life of 4.3x10¹⁹ years. Because it is unusually neutron-rich, it is popular for the manufacture of superheavy elements.
wikipedia: calcium-48
Related terms: calcium-40
calcium-42
calcium-43
calcium-44
calcium-45
calcium-46
alkaline earth metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkaline earth metals
form: alkaline-earth metal
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of the elements of group II of the periodic table; they are low-density metals that react readily with water to form strongly basic hydroxides, and with many acids to form salts.
Related terms: alkali metal
barium
beryllium
calcium
magnesium
radium
strontium
alkaline-earth metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkaline-earth metals
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of alkaline earth metal.
alkaline-earth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkaline-earths
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of alkaline earth.
Derived terms: alkaline-earth metal
alkaline earth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkaline earths
form: alkaline-earth
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any oxide of the elements of group II of the periodic table; they are not as basic as the alkalis, and not so soluble in water.
Derived terms: alkaline earth metal
calc-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of calci- (“calcium”).
calci-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: /kæl.sɪ/
Forms: form: calc-
form: calcio-
form: -calci-
Etymology: From calcium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Related to calcium or its compounds.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of vitamin D analogs/derivatives.
calcicole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calcicoles
Etymology: From calci- + -cole.
Senses: antonyms: calcifuge
glosses: Any plant that thrives in a soil rich in lime or chalk, but cannot tolerate acidic conditions.
Related terms: calcicolous
calcific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kælˈsɪf.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɪfɪk
Forms: form: more calcific
form: most calcific
Etymology: From calcify + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to calcification
glosses: Of or pertaining to the formation of eggshells in birds and reptiles
Derived terms: anticalcific
fibrocalcific
procalcific
calcifuge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calcifuges
Etymology: From calci- + -fuge.
Senses: glosses: Any plant that does not thrive in a soil rich in lime or chalk
Derived terms: calcifugal
Related terms: calciphobe
calciphilous
calciphobic
calcinosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkælsɪˈnəʊsɪs/
Forms: form: calcinoses
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The abnormal deposition of calcium salts in the soft tissue of the body
Derived terms: calcinosis cutis
elastocalcinosis
ferrocalcinosis
nephrocalcinosis
tumoral calcinosis
Related terms: calcinogenic
dystrophic calcification
metastatic calcification
calcic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more calcic
form: most calcic
Etymology: From calci- + -ic.
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:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or derived from calcium or lime.
Derived terms: calcicosis
dicalcic
noncalcic
petrocalcic
phosphocalcic
tricalcic
Related terms: calcia
hypocalcia
hypocalcic
calcium chloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The gases passed over a hot roll of copper gauze, then through a weighed calcium chloride tube, which absorbed the water, into an azotometer containing a concentrated solution of potassium hydroxide where the nitrogen was measured.
ref: 1885, American Journal of Science, 3rd Series, Volume 30, page 57:
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The calcium salt of hydrochloric acid, CaCl₂; used as a drying agent and to melt ice on roads.
drying agent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drying agents
Senses: glosses: Any compound that has an affinity for water such that it will extract it from other materials; a desiccant
calcium light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calcium lights
Senses: glosses: limelight
monocalcium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mono- + calcium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: One atom of calcium in a compound
Derived terms: monocalcium aluminate
monocalcium carbonate
monocalcium citrate
monocalcium phosphate
dicalcium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈkæɫsɪəm/
Etymology: From di- + calcium.
Senses: glosses: Two atoms of calcium in a chemical compound.
Derived terms: dicalcium citrate
dicalcium diphosphate
dicalcium phosphate
dicalcium pyrophosphate
dicalcium silicate
tricalcium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tri- + calcium.
Senses: glosses: Three atoms of calcium in a chemical compound.
Derived terms: tricalcium aluminate
tricalcium citrate
tricalcium phosphate
tricalcium silicate
oxycalcium
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oxy- + calcium.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or produced by a combination of calcium (or lime) and oxygen
Derived terms: oxycalcium light
oxycalcium light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxycalcium lights
Senses: glosses: limelight
calcia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Lime.
Related terms: calcemia
calcaemia
calcic
calci-
calc-
calcium
calciuria
hypocalcia
military service
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The virtues of national service, including military service, were extolled in the evening's presentations.
synonyms: service[Appendix:Glossary#ellipsis|elliptically]] synonymous>
antonyms: non-military service
hypernyms: national service
<
public service
glosses: Service in an army or other military organisation, whether as a chosen job (volunteering) or as a result of an involuntary draft (conscription).
Related terms: the service
the world
take the shilling
mugful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mugfuls
form: mugsful
Etymology: From mug + -ful.
Senses: glosses: As much as a mug will contain.
motorcyclist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motorcyclists
Etymology: From motorcycle + -ist or motor + cyclist.
Senses: synonyms: biker
glosses: Someone who rides a motorcycle.
nightwear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnaɪt.wɛə/
ipa: /ˈnaɪt.wɛ(ə)ɹ/
Forms: form: nightwears
Etymology: From night + -wear.
Senses: glosses: Clothes worn at nighttime or in bed, such as pyjamas
Synonyms: word: bedwear
word: nightclothes
word: nightgear
word: nightwear
word: sleepingwear
word: sleepwear
Hypernyms: word: clothing
Hyponyms: word: baby doll
word: nightcloth
word: nightdress
word: nightgown
word: nightie
word: nightrobe
word: nightshirt
word: pajamas /pyjamas
Related terms: word: :Category:Clothing
word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class II § 225. Clothing -- the closest included
skinny-dip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skinny-dips
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of skinny dip.
skinny-dip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: skinny-dips
form: skinny-dipping
form: skinny-dipped
form: skinny-dipped
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of skinny dip.
in the nude
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Without any clothing on.
Synonyms: au naturel
in the altogether
in the buff
in the nuddy
logocentrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logocentrisms
Etymology: From logo- + -centrism.
Senses: glosses: The analysis of literature, focusing on the words and grammar to the exclusion of context or literary merit.
glosses: The assumption that language is a fundamental or objective means of referring to reality, or that all thought and perception is ultimately based on language.
Related terms: logocentric
logocentrist
phallogocentrism
phonocentrism
phallogocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phallogocentric
form: most phallogocentric
Etymology: Blend of phallocentric + logocentric. By surface analysis, phallus + logo- + centric.
Senses: examples: text: Philosophers of language may wonder whether Latin was a phallogocentric language because of its use of gender to refer to non-gendered things such as water.
text: We men, at least in our standard phallogocentric mode of sexuality, even when we are doing it with the real women, we are effectively doing it with our fantasy.
ref: 2006, The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, Slavoj Žižek (actor):
glosses: Pertaining to phallogocentrism.
Derived terms: phallogocentrically
Related terms: logocentric
phallocentric
queimada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: queimadas
Etymology: From Galician, past participle of queimar (“to burn”).
Senses: glosses: A traditional drink from Galicia, Spain, made from aguardiente, herbs, lemon peel, coffee beans and cinnamon. It is set alight before drinking.
tikki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tikkis
Senses: glosses: A small croquette in Indian cuisine.
Derived terms: aloo tikki
OOP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: OOPs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Initialism of object-oriented programming.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: Initialism of order of play (“the schedule of contests in a tennis event”).
examples: text: Everyone here is mocking OOP, but I think he has a point.
glosses: Initialism of original original poster (“the original poster of quoted material”).
OOP
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: media
publishing
glosses: Initialism of out of print.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Initialism of out of position.
glosses: Abbreviation of out of pocket.
glosses: Abbreviation of out of process.
Related terms: english: out of print
translation: out of print
word: OP
OOP
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: OOPs
form: OOPing
form: OOPed
form: OOPed
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To use object-oriented programming for a task.
object-oriented programming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: object oriented programming
Senses: examples: text: This structure organizes and streamlines theme development to create a solid ground for themers (theme developers) to further build and extend, much like in object-oriented programming.
ref: 2013, Liran Tal, Drupal 7 Media:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
synonyms: word: OOP
hypernyms: object-based programming
glosses: A programming paradigm that uses hierarchies of objects, instantiated from templates called classes, to design applications and computer programs.
ethnarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethnarchies
Etymology: See ethnarch, -y.
Senses: glosses: A population and area of land governed by a single ruler, called an ethnarch, and in which the population is of homogeneous ethnicity and the political unit is of insufficient size to be considered a kingdom or nation.
Derived terms: ethnarchic
exarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛksɑːk/
ipa: /ˈɛksɑɹk/
Forms: form: exarchs
Etymology: Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin exarchus.
Senses: glosses: In the Byzantine Empire, a governor of a distant province.
glosses: In the Eastern Christian Churches, the deputy of a patriarch, or a bishop who holds authority over other bishops without being a patriarch.
glosses: In these same churches, a bishop appointed over a group of the faithful not yet large enough or organized enough to constitute an eparchy or diocese.
Derived terms: exarchal
exarchate
exarchist
exarchy
epexegetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɛˌpɛ.ksɛˈd͡ʒi.tɪk/
Senses: glosses: Serving as an epexegesis or as epexegeses.
Derived terms: epexegetically
vraic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɹeɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: vrack
form: vraick
Etymology: From Auregnais Norman vraic (“seaweed”), from Germanic. Doublet of wrack.
Senses: examples: text: There was some sort of big pans, I didn't know what they was for; but Jim said once upon a time they was used to boil vraic to make iodine.
ref: 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 45:
qualifier: Channel Islands
glosses: Seaweed gathered for use as a fertilizer or fuel.
Related terms: vraicqueur
vraicker
bwahaha
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: hyphenated
Senses: examples: text: Bwahaha, they guffaw as they crush overheads into the corners with the same disdain they display when the clown ahead of them at the airport car-rental counter rents a Hyundai.
ref: 2002, Dave Whitehead, The Tennis Junkie's Guide (to Serious Humor), page 41:
text: “Bwa-ha-ha-ha,” came the unholy mirth from the cold white mask.
ref: 2005, Ron Fortier, Brother Grim, page 142:
glosses: Alternative form of muahahaha.
climbable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more climbable
form: most climbable
Etymology: From climb + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The sound of 'Shoot! Shoot!' got farther away—they were skipping for the nearest climbable trees.
ref: 1934, George Orwell, chapter 14, in Burmese Days:
text: 2015, Turtle Bunbury, "Beyond the blarney: the best hidden gems in Ireland" in The Guardian, Travel, 16 March, 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2015/mar/16/ireland-top-hidden-outdoor-cultural-attractions
Dursey Island is a walkers’ paradise, celebrated for its nesting colonies of seabirds, the eminently climbable Cnoc Bólais hill and a signal tower built over 200 years ago to keep watch for Napoleon’s fleet.
glosses: able to be climbed
Derived terms: nonclimbable
clinger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clingers
Etymology: From cling + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who clings.
glosses: An emotionally clingy person.
occluding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of occlude
beauty shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beauty shops
Senses: glosses: A shop which sells cosmetics
cosmopoleis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kɒzˈmɒ.pɒ.lɛɪz/
Etymology: See cosmopolis
Senses: examples: text: Thus the work of Milligan and others invites us to reëxamine familiar material from the ancient world with an eye to possible differences in the construction of sexuality between the cosmopoleis, such as imperial Rome, Ptolemaic Alexandria, and late imperial Antioch, and other social formations, and with attention to variations in economic organization that may differentiate ancient cities from one another as well as from their hinterlands.
ref: 1997, Thomas N. Habinek, Alessandro Schiesaro, The Roman Cultural Revolution, page 25:
text: 2004: Anthony Reid, Batson Lecture: Singapore between Cosmopolis and Nation, “Abstract” & “Pre-colonial cosmopoleis” & “Straits Settlements to Malaysia / Singapore”
Seen from this perspective, the anomaly may be the twentieth century, with its attempt to impose an alien concept of ‘nation’ on the cosmopoleis which had taken root there.
The Thai-ruled cosmopoleis in the northern half of the peninsula were also known for their intense variety of trading groups.
The story is well known of how ideas of race and nation made their impact on these extremely diverse cosmopoleis in the 20ᵗʰ century.
text: The discovery and evolution of the ‘talking cure’ is inextricably linked to the specific socio-political conditions of fin de siècle Vienna and the later rise of twentieth century cosmopoleis.
ref: 2005, BAVO & Lorenzo Chiesa, Utrecht Abstracts: Psychoanalysis, Urban Theory and the City of Late-Capitalism, §2:
glosses: plural of cosmopolis
cosmopolis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kɒzˈmɒ.pɒ.lɪs/
Forms: form: cosmopolises
form: cosmopoleis
Etymology: From cosmo- + -polis.
Senses: glosses: An important city, such as a capital city, inhabited by people from a diverse range of cultural backgrounds.
cosmopolises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kɒzˈmɒ.pɒ.lɪs.ɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of cosmopolis
clip-on
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That attaches to something by means of a clip.
Derived terms: clip-on tie
clip-on necktie
clip-on microphone
clip-on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clip-ons
Senses: glosses: Any item that attaches to something by means of a clip.
cliquey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkliːki/
rhymes: -iːki
Forms: form: cliquier
form: cliquiest
form: cliquy
Etymology: From clique + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Jack McFarland: Um, look, Leo, I know you're new here, and, um, we don't want you to think we're really cliquey and don't let anyone in our little group, but, um, well, we're really cliquey and we don't want anyone in our little group.
Karen Walker: So, if you want to break into the fag four, this symbol of gay oppression has got to go.
ref: 1998, Will & Grace, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: Do not form clubs on the playground that don't include everyone - they're cliquey and mean.
ref: 2003, Amanda E. Lewis, Race in the Schoolyard:
text: Cliquey is cooler. If you don't like it blame Kitch.
ref: 2008, King Boreas, St. Paul Winter Carnival:
glosses: Having the characteristics of a clique.
Derived terms: cliqueyness
cliquiness
closed-captioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having captions that can only be seen with the appropriate equipment.
raw_tags: of a video recording or broadcast
Related terms: open-captioned
closed-circuit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Holborn Underground Station, on London Transport's Piccadilly and Central Lines, has been equipped with closed-circuit television to help control passenger movement.
ref: 1963 January, “News and comment”, in Modern Railways, page 14:
glosses: That consists of a closed circuit.
Derived terms: closed-circuit television
closed circuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: closed circuits
Senses: glosses: A circuit through which electrons can flow.
glosses: A complete electric circuit around which current can flow.
glosses: A network of one or more television cameras and television receivers connected together with no provision for broadcasting.
Related terms: closed-circuit
closefisted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more closefisted
form: most closefisted
Etymology: From close + fisted.
Senses: glosses: Unwilling to spend money; stingy
commodification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commodifications
Etymology: From commodify + -ification.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: commercialization, monetization
text: Subcultures tend to go through continual cycles of commodification and resistance to that commodification.
ref: 2006, Ross Haenfler, Straight Edge: Hardcore Punk, Clean-Living Youth, and Social Change:
text: One drizzly morning, I joined a political walking tour to hear former combatants of the Troubles show off Belfast landmarks and tell their stories. Almost everything about this notion piqued my curiosity: the commodification of violence into a tourist product; the idea that “politics” was actually history.
ref: 2023 November 21, Megan K. Stack, “Is Ireland Headed for a Merger?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The assignment of a commercial value to something previously without such value.
examples: text: A company that innovates to achieve the commercialization of a technology often must shift strategy some decades later in response to the advent of that technology's commodification.
synonyms: commoditization#Noun
glosses: The transformation from being commercialized on a nonfungible basis into becoming a commodity that is fungible.
Derived terms: decommodification
noncommodification
recommodification
Related terms: commodify
commodityism
consumerization
closemouthed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more closemouthed
form: most closemouthed
Etymology: From close + mouthed.
Senses: examples: text: As much so as possible; they have hardly a way that you would like, my dear ma'am; and are as closemouthed as if they were afraid of committing themselves.
ref: 1852, James Fenimore Cooper, Home as found:
text: Instructors were notoriously closemouthed about their gunnery techniques.
ref: 2001, C. R. Anderegg, Sierra Hotel: flying Air Force fighters in the decade after Vietnam:
glosses: reticent, secretive or uncommunicative
close-set
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more close-set
form: most close-set
form: close set
Senses: examples: text: 1856 Catalogue of apodal fish: in the collection of the British Museum
Fore half of the mandible armed by two rows of teeth ; the outer row consisting of 10 or 11 close-set low teeth, having compressed but not pointed tips.
text: But the feature of them that made the most startling impression upon their prisoner was their white skins—neither in color nor feature was there a trace of the negroid about them. Yet, with their receding foreheads, wicked little close-set eyes, and yellow fangs, they were far from prepossessing in appearance.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 165:
text: 2005 Marc Ponomareff - the House of the Dead
Admittedly it consisted of only two pages of foolscap; but the lines, to my favor, were executed with a fine hand, resulting in close-set characters . . .
glosses: set close together
clubfeet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clubfoot
clubfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clubfeet
form: club foot
form: club-foot
Etymology: From club + foot.
Senses: examples: text: At his lower extremities, he exhibited the deformity which is popularly known as "a club-foot." But he carried his lameness, as he carried his years, gayly.
ref: 1870, Wilkie Collins, chapter 2, in Man and Wife:
text: He stood still as much as he could, with his club-foot behind the other, so that it should not attract notice.
ref: 1915, William Somerset Maugham, chapter 12, in Of Human Bondage:
text: The cure developed by Dr. Ponseti in the 1950s relies on physical manipulation. In each step of the treatment, a child’s clubfoot is stretched and turned slightly outward, and a hip-to-foot plaster cast, like the ones shown in the photograph, is then applied.
ref: 2011 November 1, Barry Meier, “Finding Inspiration in a Doctor’s Legacy”, in New York Times, retrieved 17 May 2014:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A congenital deformity of the foot in which the ankle, heel and toes are twisted.
Synonyms: polt foot
talipes
clubfooted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clubfooted
form: most clubfooted
Etymology: From club + footed.
Senses: glosses: Having a clubfoot.
Derived terms: clubfootedness
clubhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklʌbˌhaʊs/
Forms: form: clubhouses
Etymology: From club + house.
Senses: glosses: Any building used by a club for meetings or social activities.
glosses: A locker room and possibly associated rooms used by an athletic team.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A building at a golf course that houses various activities associated with golf.
Derived terms: clubhouseful
clubhouse lead
clubhouse leader
clubhouse sandwich
clubhouse turn
Irish clubhouse
clunker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklʌŋkɚ/
rhymes: -ʌŋkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: clunkers
Etymology: From clunk + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The only rig nobody'd recognize is that clunker that Vic drove here in, and he won't take it.
ref: 2004, Teralee E. M. Bird, What the Herald Angel Sang (Seraphim Trilogy Book One)
text: 2008 July 9, Jacqueline Mitchell, “America's Most Stolen Vehicles”, in Forbes magazine,
So don't think for a moment that your old but tired vehicle matters only to you. Your clunker is cash money to professional thieves.
synonyms: word: banger
word: beater
word: bucket of bolts
word: bucket of rust
word: clunker
word: crate
word: crock
word: flivver
word: hooptie
word: jalopy
word: junker
word: lemon
word: old banger
word: rattletrap
word: rustbucket
word: shed
word: shitbox
word: shitpot
word: shitcan
word: shitbucket
word: tin Lizzie
word: wreck
glosses: A decrepit motor car.
examples: text: It seemed silly for the crowd to applaud or groan over what you had already felt in your fingers or even in your arms as you braced to shoot or for that matter in your eyes: when he was hot he could see the separate threads wound into the strings looping the hoop. Yet at the start of the game when you came out for warm-up and could see all the town clunkers sitting in the back of the bleachers elbowing each other and the cheerleaders wisecracking with the racier male teachers, the crowd then seemed right inside you, your liver and lungs and stomach.
ref: 1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 34:
text: I bought an old clunker of a typewriter.
ref: 1974 October 3, Erma Bombeck, “Who's Been Playing At Erma's Typewriter?”, in Ocala Star-Banner, retrieved 02 Sep 2009, page 12A:
text: All of the stories have a subtle undercurrent of brutality, and the writing is consistently sharp, direct and darkly funny, and there’s not a clunker in the bunch.
ref: 2006, Elizabeth Crane, "Books: Best book by a Chicago author" (Review of Trouble by Patrick Somerville), Time Out Chicago, 28 Dec. (retrieved 2 Sep. 2009)
glosses: Anything which is in poor condition or of poor quality.
pro tanto
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Latin prō tantō (“so great/much”).
Senses: examples: text: If 'making explicit' conveys this, then pro tanto it is a bad term.
ref: 1962, J. L. Austin, "How To Do Things With Words" (OUP paperback edition, p.69)
glosses: Only to that extent.
able-mindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From able-minded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being able-minded.
night emission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: night emissions
Senses: glosses: An ejaculation or orgasm while asleep, often accompanied by an erotic dream.
Synonyms: nocturnal emission
wet dream
night emissions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of night emission
nocturnal emissions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nocturnal emission
raw deal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raw deals
Senses: examples: text: The night Santa went crazy
The night St. Nick went insane
Realized he'd been gettin' a raw deal
Something finally must have snapped in his brain
ref: 1996, "Weird Al" Yankovic, “The Night Santa Went Crazy”, in Bad Hair Day:
synonyms: bum deal
rum deal
glosses: A situation in which a person is taken advantage of or treated unfairly; a situation in which a person is led to expect something, but receives either nothing or much less than was expected.
Related terms: short end of the stick
raw deals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raw deal
package deal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: package deals
Senses: examples: text: Robert Sirico, president of the California Libertarians for Gay Rights said that while the group supported some of the resolutions and parts of others, "we object to having them made a package deal and adopted without debate."
ref: 1977 December 31, “Gay Libertarian Walk-out”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 26, page 2:
glosses: A circumstance in which two or more items are provided together, especially if it is impossible to obtain one without also receiving the other.
package deals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of package deal
statemental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more statemental
form: most statemental
Etymology: From statement + -al.
Senses: examples: text: One thing, however, that it will be more dangerous to do, and that we are very prone to do, is to take it that we somehow know that the primary or primitive use of sentences must be, because it ought to be, statemental or constative, in the philosophers' preferred sense of simply uttering something whose sole pretension is to be true or false and which is not liable to criticism in any other dimension.
ref: 1962, J. L. Austin, How To Do Things With Words (OUP paperback edition, page 72)
glosses: Pertaining to a statement or to statements.
headcount
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɛdˌkaʊnt/
Forms: form: headcounts
form: head count
Etymology: From head + count.
Senses: examples: text: Let's take a quick headcount, to make sure we're all here.
text: Population 39,693 (just north of 115,000 today), Cheltenham has been overtaken by Gloucester in terms of headcount.
ref: 2023 January 11, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: castles and cathedrals”, in RAIL, number 974, page 56:
glosses: The act of counting how many people are present in a group.
examples: text: The company's headcount on January 1 was 15,203.
text: The last headcount data for BTP is from December 2022, when the number of BTP officers was 3,183, up from 3,175 in April 2022.
ref: 2023 March 8, “Network News: More than 200 BTP vacancies”, in RAIL, number 978, page 12:
glosses: The number of people present in a group or employed by a company.
examples: text: Due to economic difficulties, the company will be making headcount adjustments.
glosses: More generally, a consideration of a company's appropriate staffing level based on some larger context. (Generally used adjectivally.)
examples: text: I've convinced management to give us one more headcount, to take some work off the rest of us.
glosses: By extension, one slot in a workgroup, filled or to be filled by one person.
Related terms: headage
head tax
census
per capita
undesired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: more undesired
form: most undesired
Etymology: From Middle English undesired; equivalent to un- + desired.
Senses: glosses: Not desired; unwanted.
reign of terror
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reigns of terror
Etymology: From the Reign of Terror that took place during the French Revolution.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A brutal period of political violence and intimidation in the wake of a popular revolution.
glosses: A period defined by tyranny and violation of rights without accountability for the party responsible.
Hyponyms: red terror
Red Terror
white terror
White Terror
necropolises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /nɛˈkɹɒ.pɒ.lɪs.ɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of necropolis
necropoleis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /nɛˈkɹɒ.pɒ.lɛɪz/
Forms: form: nekropoleis
Senses: examples: text: Kensall Green, though incipient, is far more picturesque; and several American necropoleis beat it hollow.
ref: 1856, Martin Farquhar Tupper, Paterfamilias's diary of everybody's tour: Belgium and the Rhine, Munich, Switzerland, Milan…, page 288:
text: Ancient necropoleis were cities for the dead where the dead might be active in this world, appearing, speaking, and performing actions that could be perceived by and affect the living.
ref: 2000, Thelma Katrina Thomas, Late Antique Egyptian Funerary Sculpture: images for this world and the next, page XXIX:
text: Although Christians frequently met in suburban cemeteries during the second and third centuries, to our knowledge none of these necropoleis became the site…
ref: 2007, Christopher Haas, Alexandria in Late Antiquity: Topography and Social Conflict, page 213:
glosses: plural of necropolis
phytochemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phyto- (“plant”) + chemistry.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
botany
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The scientific study of the chemicals found in plants.
examples: text: The phytochemistry of mosses is very different from that of other plants.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The collection of chemicals and chemical processes found in a particular plant.
Related terms: phytochemical
phytochemically
phytochemist
petameter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petameters
Etymology: From peta- + meter.
Senses: glosses: US spelling of petametre.
petametre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petametres
Senses: examples: Meronyms: picometre < nanometre < micrometre < millimetre < centimetre < decimetre < metre < kilometre < megametre < gigametre < terametre
topics: metrology
related: word: mul:Pm
word: petameter
glosses: An SI unit of length equal to 10¹⁵ metres. Symbol: Pm
personifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of personification
perspiring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: more perspiring
form: most perspiring
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Banks’ panama hat was in one hand, while the other drew a handkerchief across his perspiring brow.
ref: 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 5, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
glosses: Producing perspiration; sweating.
Derived terms: perspiringly
perspiring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: perspirings
Senses: examples: text: Yet for all that they did not live an idle life: they found the means of making their retirement more useful to mankind than the perspirings and runnings to and fro of other men: wherefore these persons are thought to have done great things, in spite of their having done nothing of a public character.
ref: 2015, Seneca (in translation), Dialogues (page 173)
glosses: The act of producing perspiration.
Synonyms: sweating
perspiring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪəɹɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of perspire
abstract nonsense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Norman Steenrod, popularized by Serge Lang.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Details which are straightforward but so tedious that an author or lecturer would rather skip them (especially those of a category theoretical nature).
examples: text: ³Lang’s Algebra [Lan02, p. 759] supports the general consensus that this was not intended as an epithet:
 In the forties and fifties (mostly in the works of Cartan, Eilenberg, MacLane, and Steenrod, see [CE56]), it was realized that there was a systematic way of developing certain relations of linear algebra, depending only on fairly general constructions which were mostly arrow-theoretic, and were affectionately called abstract nonsense by Steenrod.
ref: 2016, Emily Riehl, Category Theory in Context (Aurora: Dover modern math originals), New York: Dover, →ISBN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Dec 2019, page x:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Details which involve diagram chasing.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Category theory in general.
Coordinate terms: sense: skipped details
word: handwave
Related terms: diagram chasing
personalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of personality
petunias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petunia
plaintiffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plaintiff
picas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pica
dry cough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dry coughs
Senses: antonyms: wet cough
glosses: Coughing without expectoration of sputum.
pickles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪkl̩z/
Senses: glosses: plural of pickle
pickles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪkl̩z/
Senses: synonyms: gammon
gammon and pickles
tripe
tripe and onions
glosses: Nonsense; folly.
pickles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪkl̩z/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pickle
rock oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rock oils
form: rock-oil
Etymology: From rock + oil, a literal rendering of Latin petroleum (literally “rock oil”).
Senses: glosses: Naphtha (liquid petroleum).
glosses: Petroleum
pilferers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pilferer
pistons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piston
placements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of placement
osteoblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteoblasts
Etymology: From osteo- (“bone”) + -blast (“immature cell”).
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A mononucleate cell from which bone develops.
Derived terms: osteoblastic
osteoblastogenesis
osteoblastogenic
osteoblastosis
preosteoblast
Related terms: osteoblastoma
osteoblastocyte
osteoblastopenia
osteoclast
periosteoblast
penguins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penguin
pigments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pigment
pigments
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pigment
mononucleate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + nucleate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a single nucleus
raw_tags: of a cell
mononucleate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mononucleates
Etymology: From mono- + nucleate.
Senses: glosses: A cell that has a single nucleus
pinnae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinna
pipelines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pipeline
pipelines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pipeline
pinchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pincher
pinchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Most people, when they have to extract a nail from a piece of wood with the aid of a pair of pinchers, perform the operation in the wrong way, as in Fig. 1.
ref: 1912, Boys' Life, volume 2, number 2, page 44:
glosses: Dated form of pincers.
pleas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pliːz/
enpr: plēz
ipa: /pliz/
rhymes: -iːz
homophone: please
Senses: glosses: plural of plea
pleas
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pliːz/
enpr: plēz
ipa: /pliz/
rhymes: -iːz
homophone: please
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of plea
plumelets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plumelet
akropolis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /æˈkɹɒ.pɒ.lɪs/
Forms: form: akropolises
form: akropoleis
Etymology: By surface analysis, akro- + -polis; more at acropolis § Etymology.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of acropolis.
polarizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polarization
akropolises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /æˈkɹɒ.pɒ.lɪs.ɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of akropolis
Polynesians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Polynesian
polyps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyp
inline skates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inline skate
inline skate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inline skates
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of in-line skate.
akropoleis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /æˈkɹɒ.pɒ.lɛɪz/
Senses: examples: text: But the harmost and the Spartan garrison still retained their hold on their Akropoleis, or citadels, as a guarantee that Spartan interests should suffer no serious injury.
ref: 1877, Charles Sankey, The Spartan and Theban Supremacies, page 83:
text: The sacred fire, emblem of common, patrilineal ancestry, was kept perpetually burning on the akropoleis of a thousand cities, focusing (“focus” was the Roman word for this flame) the loyalty of a still tribal people.
ref: 1983, William R. Everdell, The End of Kings: a history of republics and republicans, page 31:
text: So the use of the word polis to designate an akropolis was probably restricted to akropoleis that were centres of human habitation. On the other hand, the akropoleis which were called poleis did not have to be the centres of a polis in the political sense of the term, as were e.g. the akropoleis of Athens or Korinth.
ref: 1996: Mogens Herman Hansen & Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, Introduction to an Inventory of ‘poleis': Symposium August, 23–26, 1995, pp35–36
text: Most of the new towns developed on hilltops using the materials from ancient akropoleis.
ref: 2003, Alan Harvey, Economic Expansion in the Byzantine Empire, 900–1200, page 207:
glosses: plural of akropolis
cherry blossom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cherry blossoms
head_nr: 1
Senses: head_nr: 1
synonyms: sakura
🌸
glosses: The blossom or flower of the cherry tree, particularly the Japanese cherry (Prunus serrulata).
examples: text: The cherry blossom was in use in Heian times...For obvious reasons it become the mon of the Sakurai family.
ref: 1976, W. M. Hawley, Kei Kaneda Chappelear, Mon: The Japanese Family Crest, page 27:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
head_nr: 1
glosses: A stylized depiction of the blossom of the cherry tree, as used in Japanese mon.
Related terms: apple blossom
orange blossom
peach blossom
plum blossom
in-line skates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of in-line skate
nekropolis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nekropolises
form: nekropoleis
form: nekropoles
Senses: examples: text: It was a lovely morning, as I said, and the Turks, who are early risers, were sitting on the graves of their kindred with their veiled wives and children, the marble turbans in that thickly-sown nekropolis less numerous than those of the living, who had come, not to mourn the dead who lay beneath, but to pass a day of idleness and pleasure on the spot endeared by their memories.
ref: 1836, [Nathaniel Parker Willis], “The Gipsy of Sardis. Part III.”, in Inklings of Adventure … In Two Volumes, volume II, New York, N.Y.; London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC, page 61:
text: You are surrounded by what appear for an instant to be the myriad fragments of some mighty whole—but the gloom has deceived you—you are in the midst of a Nekropolis—a City of the Dead.
ref: 1837, [Julia] Pardoe, The City of the Sultan; and Domestic Manners of the Turks, in 1836. … In Two Volumes, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 147:
text: [T]he lower ground, situated between it and the inner city of Ortygia, [...] was employed [...] partly for the burial of the dead, which, according to invariable Grecian custom, was performed without the walls of the city. Extensive catacombs yet remain to mark the length of time during which this ancient Nekropolis served its purpose.
ref: 1850, George Grote, chapter LIX, in History of Greece, volume VII, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 334:
text: The ancient Greeks generally buried their dead in their nekropoleis or their gardens; often on the road leading to their towns, or before the gates. This pious feeling of affection and reverence for the dead, is a touching feature in the character of the modern Greeks.
ref: 1854, A[dolphus] L[ouis] Kœppen, “The Harbors and Naval Establishments of the Ancient Athenians—The Modern Peiræus”, in Sketches of a Traveller from Greece, Constantinople, Asia Minor, Syria and Palestine, Chambersburg, Pa.: […] M. Kieffer & Co., →OCLC, page 19:
text: The very large suburban kōmopolis or village-city of Umm el-Jimal, whose ancient name is unknown, had a Christian nekropolis at an early date, by 344, [...]
ref: 1995, Frank R. Trombley, “The Bostrene, Djebel Hauran, and the Ledjā”, in Hellenic Religion and Christianization c. 370–529 (Religious in the Graeco-Roman World; 115), 2nd edition, volume 2, Leiden; New York, N.Y.: E[vert] J[an] Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 317:
text: If the layer of the offerings is contemporary with the burials, then these are the earliest of the nekropolis, dating to the early third quarter of the seventh century.
ref: 2011, Alexandra[-Fani] Alexandridou, “Attic Early Black-figured Shapes”, in John M. Fossey, Angelo Geissen, editors, The Early Black-figured Pottery of Attika in Context (c. 630–570 BCE) (Monumenta Graeca et Romana; 17), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 38, column 1:
glosses: Alternative spelling of necropolis.
nekropolises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /nɛˈkɹɒ.pɒ.lɪs.ɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of nekropolis
blading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbleɪdɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪdɪŋ
Senses: glosses: rollerblading (sport)
blading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbleɪdɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪdɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blade
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: The act of cutting oneself open, usually on the forehead, to draw blood and make the fight more spectacular.
Derived terms: hydroblading
nekropoleis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /nɛˈkɹɒ.pɒ.lɛɪz/
Senses: examples: text: Two important areas have been or are being excavated — the Nekropoleis of the Old Town and the Heraion.
ref: 1895: The British School at Athens Managing Committee, The Annual of the British School at Athens, p88
text: The Christianization of the urban territoria where the nekropoleis and altars lay posed problems for persons desiring to visit and honor family members who had died before the coming of the Christian catechumenate.
ref: 1995, Frank R. Trombley, Hellenic Religion and Christianization C. 370–529, page 107:
text: While adding enormously to our knowledge of the islands in these periods, the archaeological work is subject to varying, and sometimes widely divergent, interpretations, of which P.G. Themelis' reinterpretation of Xombourgo on Tenos, Zagora, and many other sites as Karian nekropoleis is an extreme example.⁹ It is not always so easy to decide where the truth lies.
ref: 1997, Mogens Herman Hansen, Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, The Polis as an Urban Centre and as a Political Community: Symposium August, 29–31 1996, page 452:
glosses: plural of nekropolis
roller skates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roller skate