cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
standing order
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: standing orders
Senses: synonyms: rule of order
standing rule
glosses: A rule of procedure adopted by a governing body for its own internal use.
glosses: A request made once for periodic fulfillment.
topics: banking
business
synonyms: banker's order
glosses: Transfer of a fixed amount from one bank account to another at fixed intervals (e.g. monthly bill payment)
Related terms: payment order
venostasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From veno- + -stasis.
Senses: glosses: phlebostasis
phlebostasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phlebo- + -stasis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A slowing of the flow of blood through the veins
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The compression of the veins of a limb by means of a tourniquet
Synonyms: venostasis
Related terms: phlebostatic
vertebral column
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vertebral columns
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: backbone
spinal column
spine
glosses: The series of vertebrae that protect the spinal cord; the spinal column.
undeclined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + declined.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Not varied by declension.
raw_tags: of a word
shared service
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shared services
Etymology: Attributed to Greg Hackett of The Hackett Group.
Senses: topics: business
glosses: An internal business organization providing support services that are shared between multiple business units or functions.
topics: business
glosses: A virtual or physical team whose process expertise is shared across multiple business units or functions (rather than duplicating staff in each business unit) to execute business processes, in a consistent manner, for optimal resource efficiency, cost and service performance.
Reaganite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪɡənaɪt/
Forms: form: more Reaganite
form: most Reaganite
Etymology: From Reagan + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: This is a show about light and dark, and as deftly as it mimics the glaring neon of Reaganite consumer culture, it tweaks the conspiracy theories blooming in the shadows.
ref: 2019 July 4, Sophie Gilbert, “The American Paranoia of Stranger Things 3”, in The Atlantic:
topics: government
politics
synonyms: Reaganian
glosses: Of or pertaining to Ronald Reagan (1911–2004), 40th president of the United States (1981–1989).
Reaganite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪɡənaɪt/
Forms: form: Reaganites
Etymology: From Reagan + -ite.
Senses: topics: government
politics
synonyms: Gipperite
Reaganaut
glosses: A supporter of Ronald Reagan (1911–2004), 40th president of the United States (1981–1989), and/or policies that he endorsed.
Related terms: Bushite
Clintonite
Obamaite
Trumpite
French Guianese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to French Guiana or the French Guianese people.
hinderances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hinderance
Proto-Finno-Ugric
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From proto- + Finno-Ugric.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The hypothetical ancestor language or protolanguage of Finnic and Ugric languages. Usually written with the UPA-transcription system.
Related terms: Finno-Permic
Ugric
pitmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pitman
gratuitious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of gratuitous.
fruit of the union
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A child, especially from a marriage or similar union.
Indophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Indo- + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: A hostility towards the people and culture of the Indian subcontinent.
Derived terms: Indophobe
Indophobic
handball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handballs
Etymology: From hand + ball.
Senses: glosses: A team sport where two teams of seven players each (six players and a goalkeeper) pass and bounce a ball trying to throw it in the goal of the opposing team.
glosses: The medium-sized inflated ball used in this sport.
examples: text: It was a dramatic finish to an absorbing, fast-paced game but Blackburn will be deeply unhappy with referee Anthony Taylor as Nzonzi's handball was harsh.
ref: 2011 October 29, Neil Johnston, “Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC Sport:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: The offence of a player other than the goalkeeper touching the ball with the hand or arm on the field during play.
glosses: A sport in which players alternately strike the ball against a wall with their hand. Irish and American variants have slightly different rules.
glosses: The small rubber ball used in this sport.
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: An act of passing a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.
glosses: A schoolyard game in which a tennis ball is struck with the hand, played on an improvised court on the asphalt or pavement.
Synonyms: sense: team sport involving throwing a ball into a goal
word: European handball
sense: team sport involving throwing a ball into a goal
word: Olympic handball
sense: team sport involving throwing a ball into a goal
word: team handball
topics: handball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
court
law
government
word: sport involving bouncing a ball off a wall
Hyponyms: topics: handball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
court
law
government
word: American handball
topics: handball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
court
law
government
word: Gaelic handball
topics: handball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
court
law
government
word: Irish handball
Derived terms: field handball
handball alley
handball player
underground handball
handball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: handballs
form: handballing
form: handballed
form: handballed
Etymology: From hand + ball.
Senses: glosses: To manually load or unload a container, trailer, or to otherwise manually move bulk goods (often on pallets) from one type of transport receptacle to another.
examples: text: If the defender handballs in the penalty area, a penalty is awarded.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
synonyms: handle
glosses: To illegally touch the ball with the hand or arm.
examples: text: Meanwhile, you can introduce the basic concept of Aussie rules through a game like lineball, a lead-up game introduced in the basketball section of chapter 10, but with the ball handballed, not thrown.
ref: 2001, Jerry R. Thomas, Alan G. Launder, Jack K. Nelson, Play Practice: The Games Approach to Teaching and Coaching Sports, page 111:
text: An obvious way in which football has changed over the last decade or two has been in the use of handballing.
ref: 2005, Andrew McLeod, Trevor D. Jaques, Australian Football: Steps to Success, page 9:
text: On only 8 occasions during the entire match did players who had marked the ball decide not to walk slowly and purposefully back and take their kick, but instead play on by handballing to a team mate.
ref: 2009, John P. Devaney, Full Points Footy: Encyclopedia of Australian Football Clubs, page 246:
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: To (legally) pass a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.
topics: lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: To insert a hand into someone's anus.
foreign country
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreign countries
Senses: glosses: Any country of which one is not a citizen. (This entry is a translation hub.)
Related terms: foreign language
kindof
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of kind of.
panya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panyas
Senses: glosses: A large earthenware jar.
Related terms: panya route
discovery request
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discovery requests
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A legal document filed in connection with litigation, and describing documents, materials, or information which the opposing party is requested to produce.
Related terms: interrogatory
request for admission
request for production
instigations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of instigation
quadrinomial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quadri- + -nomial.
Senses: glosses: Consisting of four names or parts or terms.
quadrinomial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadrinomials
Etymology: From quadri- + -nomial.
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An expression consisting of four terms.
Hypernyms: polynomial
analytic geometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Having thus noted the distinction between Analytic Geometry and Geometry, let us note in what way it differs from Algebra.
ref: 1889, Arthur Sherburne Hardy, Elements of Analytic Geometry, Ginn, published 1891, page 12:
text: 1921, Claude Irwin Palmer, William Charles Krathwohl, Analytic Geometry, McGraw-Hill, page 261,
In plane analytic geometry, all the points and lines are confined to one plane.
text: 2018, Peter Kuhfittig, Technical Calculus with Analytic Geometry, 5th Edition, Cengage Learning (BROOKS/COLE), page 1,
Analytic geometry may be defined as the study of classical geometry by means of algebra.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The subbranch of geometry that investigates geometrical figures via the mathematical properties of their representations in a coordinate system.
Synonyms: Cartesian geometry
coordinate geometry
Coordinate terms: affine geometry
synthetic geometry
Derived terms: complex analytic geometry
real analytic geometry
Related terms: affine geometry
algebraic geometry
differential geometry
projective geometry
synthetic geometry
system software
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The software associated with an operating system and supporting utilities, database systems etc.
systems software
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of system software.
Maximus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Maximuses
form: Maximi
Etymology: From Latin Maximus.
Senses: examples: text: Maximus Byzantinus. Contemporary with Maximus of Ephesus: Socrates H. E. III. 1 Μάξιμος ὁ φιλόσοφος, οὐχ ὁ Βυζάντιος ὁ Εὐκλείδου πατὴρ, ἀλλ᾽ ὁ ᾿Εφέσιος. Speaking of cir. A. D. 350. These two Maximi are confounded by Suidas p. 2396 BC.
ref: 1850, Henry Fynes Clinton, Fasti Romani. The Civil and Literary Chronology of Rome and Constantinople. […], volume II (Appendix), Oxford, Oxfordshire: At the University Press, page 309:
text: [S]ix have references to other names, and then there are twenty-four different days of commemoration. The catalogue of Maximuses, of whom they are sixty-two recorded, is on a similar plan.
ref: 1881 July, “Article II. Smith’s Christian Antiquities.”, in The Southern Presbyterian Review, volume XXXII, Columbia, S.C.: […] Presbyterian Publishing House, page 433:
text: G.E. Ganss, Selected sermons of saint Maximus and saint Valerian’s homilies, FC 17, Washington 1965; F. Gallesio, Sermoni di s. Massimo di Torino, Rome 1975; Ed. and Eng. tr. B. Ramsey, The Sermons of St. Maximus of Turin, ACW 50 (1989). Studies supposing the identity of the two Maximi or referring uncritically to B. Bruni’s edition have a relative value.
ref: 1992, M. Pellegrino, translated by Adrian Walford, “MAXIMUS of Turin”, in Angelo Di Berardino, editor, Encyclopedia of the Early Church, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 549, column 1:
text: The company of men like the two Maximi, local landowner and provincial governor, may have deluded Julian into forming hopes which far outreached anything that could be achieved by anti-Christian legislation.
ref: 1993, Stephen Mitchell, Anatolia: Land, Men, and Gods in Asia Minor, volume II (The Rise of the Church), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, published 1995, →ISBN, page 91, column 2:
text: Socrates carefully distinguishes Maximus of Ephesus from Maximus of Byzantium, and identifies him, pejoratively, as the philosopher who was executed by Valentinian for magic. Given the care with which he differentiates the two Maximi, it is curious that he wrongly attributes the execution to Valentinian rather than to Valens.
ref: 2003, D. F. Buck, “Socrates Scholasticus on Julian the Apostate”, in Byzantion, volume LXXIII, Brussels, page 303:
text: To men he felt he could trust—Bassus, the two Maximi, Felix, Evagrius, and Ablabius, for instance—he was willing to delegate great authority over long periods of time; […]
ref: 2013, David [Stone] Potter, “An Ordered Society”, in Constantine the Emperor, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, published 2015, →ISBN, part 8 (Ruler of the World), page 274:
glosses: A male given name.
Derived terms: word: Max
didgeridooists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of didgeridooist
commissionate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: commissionates
form: commissionating
form: commissionated
form: commissionated
Senses: glosses: To commission.
scoucer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scoucers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Scouser.
wall socket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wall sockets
Senses: synonyms: electrical outlet
outlet
point
socket
power point
wall plug
glosses: A mains electricity power point mounted in or on a wall inside a dwelling or other building.
glosses: Any outlet or recess in a wall.
wall sockets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wall socket
orthophoto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthophotos
Etymology: From ortho- + photo.
Senses: examples: text: Orthophotos or orthophoto mosaics enhanced by additional symbolized, planimetric information are called orthophoto plans. An orthophoto plan with added contour lines is a modern mapping product, called an orthophoto map.
ref: 2012, T. J. Blachut, A. Chrzanowski, J. H. Saastamoinen, Urban Surveying and Mapping, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 293:
synonyms: orthoimage
orthophotograph
glosses: An aerial photograph that has been geometrically corrected (orthorectified) such that the scale of the photograph is uniform, meaning that the photo can be considered equivalent to a map.
Related terms: orthophotography
orthophotograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthophotographs
Etymology: From ortho- + photograph.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of orthophoto.
synonyms: word: orthophoto
orthorectify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: orthorectifies
form: orthorectifying
form: orthorectified
form: orthorectified
Etymology: From ortho- + rectify.
Senses: glosses: To process an aerial photograph so as to geometrically correct it such that the scale of the photograph is uniform and it can be measured as a map is.
Derived terms: orthorectification
Related terms: orthophotography
orthorectified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having been geometrically corrected so that distances shown are uniform and can be measured like a map.
orthorectified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of orthorectify
orthophotography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From ortho- (“straight”) + photography.
Senses: examples: text: During the past three decades, orthophotography has become an increasingly popular and useful tool for land managers. As quality and availability improve, this trend will continue. Orthophotography combines the planimetric precision of maps with the wealth of detail found on aerial photographs.
ref: 2012, David P. Paine, James D. Kiser, chapter 8, in Aerial Photography and Image Interpretation, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: The geometrical correction of aerial photographs so that their displayed distances are rendered uniform and can be measured like a map.
Derived terms: orthophotographic
Related terms: orthophoto
orthoimage
orthophotos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthophoto
orthophotographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthophotograph
orthorectifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of orthorectify
Proto-Semitic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From proto- + Semitic.
Senses: glosses: The hypothetical protolanguage of Semitic languages.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Proto-Semitic terms
aidman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aidmen
Etymology: From aid + man.
Senses: glosses: An army medical corpsman attached to a field unit.
Related terms: medic
field unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: field units
Etymology: From field + unit.
Senses: glosses: A military unit destined to be fielded in tactical operations
since when
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Since when do I need your permission?
text: “[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps ? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic ? Does your Vehmgerichte pay such extraordinary expenses ?[…]”
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: From what time.
examples: text: The moon is made of green cheese. Since when?
glosses: (as an interrogative interjection) Used to indicate doubt as to the veracity of a statement.
Ausbau
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The general aim is to prevent the Ausbau language from being confused with the other, stronger language in contact.
ref: 2018, Peter A. Kraus, François Grin, editors, The Politics of Multilingualism: Europeanisation, globalisation and linguistic governance, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 149:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of ausbau.
Ausbau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ausbaus
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of ausbau.
jouissant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jouissant
form: most jouissant
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to jouissance.
pinchpenny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinchpennies
Etymology: From pinch + penny.
Senses: examples: text: Over the years, he developed a reputation as a pinchpenny who wouldn't spend money for anything.
text: That they accompt one a dastard if he be not defperate, a pynch penny if he be not prodygall, if filent a fotte, if full of wordes a foole?
ref: 1578, John Lyly, Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit, published 1868, page 109:
glosses: One who spends little money; one who is very frugal or cautious with money.
Derived terms: penny-pinching
penny-pincher
demagogueries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demagoguery
-iatrics
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἰατρός (iatrós, “doctor”) + -ics.
Senses: glosses: Forms a noun meaning a specialty medical field of practice.
Synonyms: -iatry
Derived terms: geriatrics
-iatry
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἰατρεία (iatreía, “healing, medical treatment”), from ἰατρός (iatrós, “doctor”).
Senses: glosses: Forms names of specialized fields of medical practice.
Synonyms: -iatrics
-ry
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /ɹi/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of -ery.
-ics
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From -ic (“related or pertaining to”), with usage in the plural in imitation of the Latin and Greek usage.
Senses: synonyms: -logy
-istics
glosses: Forms nouns referring to fields of knowledge or practice.
glosses: Forms nouns referring to activities.
credit crunch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: credit crunches
Senses: topics: business
economics
finance
sciences
glosses: A period of economic crisis in which credit and investment capital are difficult to obtain.
Derived terms: credit-crunched
DEM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DEMs
Senses: examples: text: The DEMs and reference data used here are a mix of different vertical reference systems: […]
ref: 2020, Guy Jean-Pierre Schumann, Paul Bates, editors, The Need for a High-Accuracy, Open-Access Global Digital Elevation Model, Frontiers Media SA, →ISBN, page 21:
glosses: Initialism of digital elevation model.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of diethyl malonate.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of digital experience monitoring.
DEM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Abbreviation of Democratic Party.
triclocarban
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A chlorinated aromatic derivative of urea, 3-(4-chlorophenyl)- 1-(3,4-dichlorphenyl)urea, that is added to soap etc as a fungicide and bactericide
defeatocrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: defeatocrats
Etymology: Blend of defeat + Democrat
Senses: glosses: A member of the Democratic political party, seen as proponents of surrender and accepting defeat.
Related terms: defeatican
defeatocrats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defeatocrat
haloboronic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haloboronic acids
Etymology: From halo- + boronic acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several halogenated boronic acids that are used as intermediates in the synthesis of many organic compounds
cuprate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjuːpɹeɪt/
Forms: form: cuprates
Etymology: From cupr- + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several non-stoichiometric compounds, of general formula XYCuₘOₙ, many of which are superconductors.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any organocopper compound of general formula R₂Cu.
Derived terms: cyanocuprate
mercurocuprate
nitratocuprate
organocuprate
ruthenocuprate
tetrabromocuprate
non-stoichiometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + stoichiometric.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having elements that are not combined in a definite proportion
raw_tags: of a compound
set square
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: set squares
Senses: examples: text: Descartes extended this classification by introducing his set-square compass. This is mechanism of sliding set squares that "push" each other... .
ref: 2008 January, Michel Serfati, “A Note on the Geometry and Descartes's Mathematical Work”, in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, volume 55, number 1, pages 50–51:
glosses: A flat triangular piece of plastic or other material, having corners of precise angles, used in technical drawing
glosses: A right angle tool used to determine if two surfaces join at a 90-degree angle, composed of two arms, usually made from metal.
Synonyms: sense: flat triangular piece of plastic
word: triangle
discovery requests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discovery request
mercurocuprate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mercurocuprates
Etymology: From mercury + -o- + cuprate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several cuprates that contain mercury
request for admission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: requests for admission
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A legal document filed in connection with litigation, asking the opposing party to affirm or deny the truth of a statement.
Related terms: discovery request
interrogatory
request for production
request for production
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: requests for production
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A legal document filed in connection with litigation which asks the opposing party to provide documents or other physical objects.
Derived terms: RFP
Related terms: discovery request
interrogatory
request for admission
requests for production
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of request for production
accidents of birth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accident of birth
world view
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: world views
Senses: examples: text: Leading Jordanian exponents of the Salafi-jihadi world view, such as Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, are now behind bars or silent, fearing arrest by the powerful mukhabarat secret police.
ref: 2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative spelling of worldview.
bug off
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: bug off !
Senses: qualifier: dismissal
glosses: Used to tell somebody to leave one alone.
Synonyms: word: bog off
english: more vulgar
translation: more vulgar
word: bugger off
word: scram
word: go away
bug off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bugs off
form: bugging off
form: bugged off
form: bugged off
Senses: examples: text: I lied to him to appease him so he would bug off.
glosses: To go away.
panic button
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panic buttons
Senses: examples: text: Officials in India hope to combat the threat of sexual violence against women and girls by requiring panic buttons to be installed in every new phone by January, and for every phone to be equipped with GPS by 2018.
ref: 2016 May 9, Katie Rogers, “India’s Answer to Sex Attacks? Panic Buttons and GPS on All Phones”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: An emergency button which, when pressed, alerts authorities of danger or triggers an alarm system.
examples: text: To enable the panic button you’ll need to toggle the “early bird” option in the settings of the Opera GX browser.
ref: 2023 December 14, Tom Warren, “Opera’s gamer browser now has a “panic button” for when you’re caught in the act”, in The Verge, retrieved 16 Dec 2023:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of boss key.
synonyms: word: boss key
Derived terms: press the panic button
p-adic number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: p-adic numbers
Senses: examples: text: The expansion (21)2121ₚ is equal to the rational p-adic number #92;textstyle#123;2p#43;1#92;overp²-1#125;.
text: In the set of 3-adic numbers, the closed ball of radius 1/3 "centered" at 1, call it B, is the set x|∃n∈ℤ.,x=3n+1. This closed ball partitions into exactly three smaller closed balls of radius 1/9: x|∃n∈ℤ.,x=1+9n, x|∃n∈ℤ.,x=4+9n, and x|∃n∈ℤ.,x=7+9n. Then each of those balls partitions into exactly 3 smaller closed balls of radius 1/27, and the sub-partitioning can be continued indefinitely, in a fractal manner.
Likewise, going upwards in the hierarchy, B is part of the closed ball of radius 1 centered at 1, namely, the set of integers. Two other closed balls of radius 1 are "centered" at 1/3 and 2/3, and all three closed balls of radius 1 form a closed ball of radius 3, x|∃n∈ℤ.,x=1+n/3, which is one out of three closed balls forming a closed ball of radius 9, and so on.
text: 3. In his recent book Professor Hensel has developed a theory of logarithms of the rational p'''-adic numbers, and from this he has shown how all such numbers can be written in the form p#92;alpha#92;omega#92;betae#92;gamma.
ref: 1914, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, page 452:
text: p'''-Adic numbers were introduced in mathematics by K. Hensel, and this invention led to substantial developments in number theory, where p'''-adic numbers are now as natural as ordinary real numbers.[…]Bleher noticed in [19] that the set of purely fractional p'''-adic numbers is an example of hierarchical lattice.
ref: 1991, M. D. Missarov, “Renormalization Group and Renormalization Theory in p-Adic and Adelic Scalar Models”, in Ya. G. Sinaĭ, editor, Dynamical Systems and Statistical Mechanics: From the Seminar on Statistical Physics held at Moscow State University, American Mathematical Society, page 143:
text: #92;Q#95;p is called the p-adic number field, and its elements are called p-adic numbers. In this section we introduce the p'''-adic number fields, which are very important objects in number theory.
The p'''-adic numbers were originally introduced by Hensel around 1900.
ref: 2000, Kazuya Kato, Nobushige Kurokawa, Takeshi Saitō, Takeshi Saito, translated by Masato Kuwata, Number Theory: Fermat's dream, American Mathematical Society, page 58:
topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: An element of a completion of the field of rational numbers with respect to a p-adic ultrametric.
Hyponyms: sense: element of a completion of the rational numbers with respect to a p-adic ultrametric
word: integer
sense: element of a completion of the rational numbers with respect to a p-adic ultrametric
word: rational number
Related terms: p-adic
p-adic absolute value
p-adic norm
p-adic integer
p-adic ordinal
p-adic ultrametric
n-adic
Dresdner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dresdners
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Dresden, capital of Saxony, Germany.
aluminite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aluminites
Senses: glosses: A hydrous aluminium sulfate mineral with formula Al₂SO₄(OH)₄·7(H₂O).
Synonyms: alley stone
websterite
websterite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwɛbstəɹaɪt/
Forms: form: websterites
Etymology: From Webster + -ite, after geologist Thomas Webster (1772–1844).
Senses: examples: text: On Websterite found in the Plastic Clay of Auteuil, near Paris [article title]
ref: 1828 August 24, Alexandre Brongniart, edited by Richard Taylor and Richard Phillips, The Philosophical Magazine, volume IV, London: Richard Taylor, page 81:
text: Fig. 6 is the interesting spectrum of the bright blue compound of alumina. These three bands, although generally faint, are narrow and well defined, the blue and green spaces being invariably clear. Websterite and cryolite show this spectrum to great advantage.
ref: 1873, Charles Horner, “On the Spectra of Some Cobalt Compounds in Blowpipe Chemistry”, in Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science, page 242:
text: Among some specimens of eruptive rocks obtained from Gallatin, Jefferson and Madison Counties, Montana, Merrill finds basalts, andesites, lamprophyres, syenites, porphyrites, wehrlites, harzburgites and websterites, some of which possess peculiar characteristics.
ref: 1896 February 24, “Eruptive Rocks from Montana”, in The American Naturalist, volume XXX, number III, page 128:
glosses: A hydrous aluminium sulfate mineral with formula Al₂SO₄(OH)₄·7(H₂O).
Synonyms: alley stone
aluminite
pharmacophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pharmaco- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Suggest a dinner-pill or a seidlitz powder, and his face is convulsed with a fanatical pharmacophobia! His soul abhors the doing of such profane violence to the processes of nature!
ref: 1858 May 8, John Addington Symonds, “On Headache”, Lecture III of the Gulstonian Lectures for 1858 at the Royal College of Physicians, printed in The Medical Times and Gazette, John Churchill and Sons, page 472
text: Summary: Five cases are described in which fear of the possibly hazardous effects of giving amphotericin to patients with kidney disease resulted in death from a progressive infection by an amphotericin-sensitive fungus ([…]).
ref: 1973 November 24, W. St C. Symmers, “Amphotericin Pharmacophobia”, in British Medical Journal, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2013, pages 4: 460-463:
text: 2005, I. Sibitz et al, “Pharmacophilia and Pharmacophobia: Determinants of Patients’ Attitudes towards Antipsychotic Medication”, in Pharmacopsychiatry, Thieme Medical Publishers, pages 38: 107–112.
glosses: The irrational fear or avoidance of a medicine, or of medicines in general.
Pilsen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪlsən/
Etymology: From German Pilsen. Doublet of Plzen.
Senses: glosses: A city in western Bohemia, Czech Republic.
glosses: A neighbourhood in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Derived terms: pilsner
pilsener
Moravian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Moravian
form: most Moravian
Etymology: From Moravia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to, Moravia or its people or culture.
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, the Moravian Church or its members.
glosses: Pertaining to, or bordering on, the Morava river in Czech Republic, Europe.
glosses: Pertaining to, or bordering on, the Morava river in Serbia, Europe.
Derived terms: Moravian Gate
Moravian-Silesian Region
Moravian Wallachia
South Moravian Region
Moravian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Moravians
Etymology: From Moravia + -an.
Senses: glosses: A person from Moravia.
glosses: A member of the Moravian Church.
glosses: A group of Slavic dialects spoken in the Moravia region, considered by some linguists to compose a language separate from Czech.
Moravian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Moravian
form: most Moravian
Etymology: Mediaeval Latin, Moravus from Moravia (also Murravia), Gaelic Moireabh, Early Irish Moreb or Muireb
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to, the district and former province of Moray in Scotland or its people or culture.
Moravian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Moravians
Etymology: Mediaeval Latin, Moravus from Moravia (also Murravia), Gaelic Moireabh, Early Irish Moreb or Muireb
Senses: glosses: A person from Moray, either the district or the former province.
Synonyms: Morayvian
grenade launcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grenade launchers
Etymology: Compound of grenade + launcher.
Senses: coordinate_terms: mortar
glosses: A weapon that shoots grenades from a device.
czars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of czar
cageling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cagelings
Etymology: From cage + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Am I as a child perhaps, chasing a flown cageling, who among the branches free plays and peeps at the offered cage?
ref: 1869, R. D. Blackmore, chapter 20, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor:
text: Semmacherib says that he cooped up King Hezekiah of Judah in Jerusalem like a cageling.
ref: 1918, Paul Haupt, “English 'coop' == Assyrian 'Quppu',”, in Modern Language Notes, volume 33, number 7, page 434:
glosses: A bird that is kept confined in a cage.
apostacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apostacies
Senses: examples: text: […] they do not heed the noisy blarings of those who proclaim the great sin of their apostacy.
ref: 1829, William Pitt Scargill, Tales of a Briefless Barrister, volume 1, page 280:
glosses: Archaic form of apostasy.
AK47
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AK47s
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of AK-47.
molluscicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molluscicides
Etymology: From mollusc + -cide.
Senses: glosses: A substance that kills molluscs.
Hyponyms: limacide
molluscicide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: molluscicides
form: mollusciciding
form: molluscicided
form: molluscicided
Etymology: From mollusc + -cide.
Senses: glosses: To kill molluscs.
molluscicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of molluscicide
defeatican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: defeaticans
Etymology: Blend of defeat + Republican
Senses: glosses: A member of the Republican political party, regarded as proponents of surrender and accepting defeat.
raw_tags: used by political opponents
Related terms: defeatocrat
defeaticans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defeatican
somnambulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: somnambulations
Etymology: From Latin somnus (“sleep”) + ambulatio (“a walking about”), from ambulare (“to walk”). See somnolent, amble.
Senses: examples: text: He is known for his somnambulation, as well as his vivid sleep-talking.
glosses: The phenomenon of sleepwalking.
examples: text: He broke his arm on one of his many somnambulations.
glosses: An instance of sleepwalking.
Leodiensian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Leodiensians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Leodensian.
Leodiensians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Leodiensian
Montego Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɒnˈtiː.ɡəʊ ˌbeɪ/
ipa: /mɑnˈtiˌɡoʊ ˌbeɪ/
Senses: glosses: A city, the parish capital of Saint James parish, Jamaica.
Derived terms: word: Montegonian
word: MoBay
alchemies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alchemy
bum around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bums around
form: bumming around
form: bummed around
form: bummed around
Senses: examples: text: Along the way, he dropped out of sight several times to bum around South America.
ref: 1974 November 25, “The Original Kojak”, in Time:
glosses: To wander around idly to no purpose; to loaf or loiter.
toxoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toxoids
Etymology: From toxin + -oid.
Senses: glosses: A toxin that has had its toxic properties removed, but retains its ability to generate an immune response.
Derived terms: epitoxoid
syntoxoid
toxoided
parallelize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: parallelizes
form: parallelizing
form: parallelized
form: parallelized
form: parallelise
Etymology: From parallel + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Care must be taken lest the machine parallelize the fibers.
glosses: To make parallel (to each other).
examples: text: The programmers had to learn how to parallelize their algorithms.
text: We present a general method to parallelize branch & bound algorithms on transputer networks and an application of this method to solve symmetric traveling salesman problems by a best first branch & bound strategy.
ref: 1992, Wouter Joosen, Elie Milgrom, Parallel Computing: From Theory to Sound Practice, Barcelona, Spain, page 598:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To make to execute in parallel.
examples: text: They erroneously parallelized the symptoms of the two diseases.
glosses: To treat as if parallel; to draw parallels between.
Derived terms: nonparallelized
parallelizability
parallelizable
parallelizer
hierodule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hierodules
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἱερόδουλος (hieródoulos), from ἱερός (hierós, “sacred”) + δοῦλος (doûlos, “slave”).
Senses: qualifier: chiefly Ancient Greece
glosses: A temple slave, often one performing religious prostitution.
wikipedia: hierodule
Derived terms: hierodulic
spruces up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spruce up
spruced up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spruce up
sprucer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of spruce: more spruce
sprucest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of spruce: most spruce
spruced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spruce
sprucing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spruce
closer-knit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of close-knit: more close-knit
closest-knit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of close-knit: most close-knit
alley stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The mineral aluminite.
juxtamembrane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmbɹeɪn
Etymology: From juxta- + membrane.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: adjacent to a membrane on one side of it
Synonyms: juxtamembranous
airmasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airmass
airlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more airlike
form: most airlike
Etymology: From air + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling air, gaseous.
ammonium sulfate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ammonium sulphate
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An inorganic chemical compound, (NH₄)₂SO₄, commonly used as a fertilizer and as a food additive (E517) used as an improving agent.
ammonium sulphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ammonium sulfate.
improving agents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of improving agent
flour treatment agent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flour treatment agents
Senses: glosses: A food additive added to flour in order to improve its properties.
Synonyms: improving agent
flour treatment agents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flour treatment agent
callboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: callboys
form: call boy
form: call-boy
Etymology: From call + boy.
Senses: glosses: A male prostitute.
glosses: A bellhop.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A boy or man who summons actors when their presence is required for a performance.
glosses: A public transport barker (a man who, for a fee, calls out the destination of jeepneys and buses)
glosses: A man who works as a call center agent. (see usage notes)
examples: text: It was exciting being a callboy, riding a pushbike in all directions in Fremantle City, waking-up the engine-crews for work.
ref: 2010, David Hunt, Era of Steam Engines, Volume 1, Chapter 3, Being a Callboy, Lulu.com:
glosses: A youth employed to wake people up for work.
Related terms: call girl
call boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: call boys
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of callboy.
call-boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: call-boys
Senses: examples: text: Driver Drewe was born in February 1881, and entered the service of the L.S.W.R. as a call-boy at Exmouth Junction Depot in April 1895.
ref: 1944 November and December, “Top Link Drivers”, in Railway Magazine, page 352:
glosses: Alternative spelling of callboy.
pip-squeaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pip-squeak
pipsqueaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pipsqueak
abluents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abluent
abnets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abnet
aborsements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aborsement
abrenunciations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abrenunciation
absinthates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absinthate
absolvents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absolvent
absorbitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absorbition
abusages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abusage
aliened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of alien
zippering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of zipper
habiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of habit
habiting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: habitings
Senses: glosses: habitation; living place
glosses: clothing; garb
primroses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of primrose
primroses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of primrose
epigrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epigram
lucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʌks/
homophone: lux
rhymes: -ʌks
Senses: glosses: plural of luck
lucks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʌks/
homophone: lux
rhymes: -ʌks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of luck
lucking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of luck
Hobartians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hobartian
mongrels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mongrel
foregoes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forego
knowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of known
handkerchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handkercher
ablens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ablen
outdoes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outdo
outgrows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outgrow
overdoes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overdo
overdraws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overdraw
overdraws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overdraw
overeats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overeat
overlies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overlie
rebuilds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rebuild
rebuilds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rebuild
redoes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ʌz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of redo
rethinks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rethink
rethinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rethink
aluminium silicate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aluminium silicates
form: aluminum silicate
Senses: examples: text: One of the most famous diagrams in geology is a profoundly simple one that shows the different conditions required to grow one of three mineral varieties of aluminium silicate.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 176:
glosses: A chemical compound composed of aluminium, silicon and oxygen, chemical formula Al₂SiO₅, found in minerals and clays in several forms and used commercially as food additive E559 as an anti-caking agent.
Related terms: aluminosilicate
underlays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underlay
underwrites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underwrite
upholds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uphold
begums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of begum
aluminum silicate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aluminum silicates
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of aluminium silicate.
capercaillies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capercaillie
marmots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marmot
dojos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dojo
hooping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈhuːpɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hoop
datiscins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of datiscin
daters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dater