cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pay the piper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pays the piper
form: paying the piper
form: paid the piper
form: paid the piper
Etymology: Sense 1 is from the English phrase who pays the piper calls the tune; sense 2 may allude to the pied piper.
Senses: examples: text: Those that pay the piper must command the tune.
ref: 1898 August 1, Swami Vivekananda, “To Swami Brahmananda”, in The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda:
text: Be off with you, my boy, and play with your caucuses and leading articles and historic parties and great leaders and burning questions and the rest of your toys. I am going back to my counting house to pay the piper and call the tune.
ref: 1905, George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara:
glosses: To pay expenses for something, and thus be in a position to be in control.
examples: text: [T]he very constitution of society is based upon this volunteer system of paying the piper. Honest men pay the piper for rogues, and full purses for empty ones.
ref: 1831, April 16, Dandy Doricourt, letter to the editors, The New-York mirror, volume 8, issue number 41, page 325
text: He wanted to get rich too quickly I suppose. . . . He's got to pay the piper.
ref: 1921, Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, chapter 10, in The Sisters-In-Law:
text: Roosevelt never fully recovered his health, but he refused any regret. "I am always willing to pay the piper," he once wrote, "when I have had a good dance."
ref: 2006 June 25, Candice Millard, “The River of Doubt”, in Time:
glosses: To pay a monetary or other debt or experience unfavorable consequences, especially when the payment or consequences are inevitable or a result of something one has enjoyed.
Synonyms: sense: to control by paying for
word: pay the fiddler
sense: to incur negative consequences of one's decision
word: pay the price
sense: to incur negative consequences of one's decision
word: pay the penalty
arborist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arborists
Etymology: From arbor + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: He took night classes to get certified as an arborist and loved that so few people knew what an arborist did, so he could explain, “I’m a tree doctor.”
ref: 2022, Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You, 4th Estate (2023), page 185:
text: Mr. Zuckerberg did not attend the meeting, but an architect, a builder and an arborist he had hired tried to convince the board that they were not removing single-family housing stock. The board did not buy it.
ref: 2025 August 10, Heather Knight, “What Happened When Mark Zuckerberg Moved In Next Door”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: A person in the practice of arboriculture; a tree surgeon.
Synonyms: arboriculturist
run on fumes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs on fumes
form: running on fumes
form: ran on fumes
form: run on fumes
Senses: examples: text: We were running on fumes by the time we arrived, but we made it to the next gas station.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
coordinate_terms: run on empty
glosses: To operate a vehicle that is low on fuel.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: run on empty, run out of steam
text: The organization had been running on fumes for months, so it's not surprising that they closed their doors.
glosses: By extension, to operate with few resources, or be physically or emotionally overworked.
Derived terms: fume date
Related terms: smell of an oily rag
vaporware
vegetable lamb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌvɛdʒtəbəl ˈlam/
ipa: /ˌvɛdʒtəbəl ˈlæm/
ipa: /ˌvɛtʃ-/
ipa: /ˌvɛdʒətəbəl ˈlæm/
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: vegetable lambs
Etymology: A shortened version of vegetable lamb of Tartary.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: barometz
lamb of Tartary
Tartarian lamb
glosses: A legendary plant believed to grow sheep from its branches.
wikipedia: Sampson Low
Related terms: watersheep
argentate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more argentate
form: most argentate
Etymology: Latin argentatus (“silvery”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: silvery white
argentate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: argentates
form: argentating
form: argentated
form: argentated
Etymology: Latin argentatus (“silvery”).
Senses: glosses: To treat with a silver salt
Derived terms: argentation
silver-plate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: silver-plates
form: silver-plating
form: silver-plated
form: silver-plated
Senses: glosses: To coat a metal surface with a thin layer of silver, often electrolytically.
Related terms: silver plate
skedaddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɪˈdædəl/
rhymes: -ædəl
Forms: form: skedaddles
form: skedaddling
form: skedaddled
form: skedaddled
Etymology: First use appears c. 1861, in the New York Tribune. The word appeared and gained prominence in Civil War military contexts around 1861, and rapidly passing into more general use. Possibly an alteration of British dialect scaddle (“to run off in a fright”), from the adjective scaddle (“wild, timid, skittish”), from Middle English scathel, skadylle (“harmful, fierce, wild”), perhaps of North Germanic/Scandinavian origin, from Old Norse *sköþull; or from Old English *scaþol, *sceaþol (see scathel); akin to Old Norse skaði (“harm”). Possibly related to the Ancient Greek σκέδασις (skédasis, “scattering”), σκεδασμός (skedasmós, “dispersion”). Possibly related to scud or scat. It is possibly a corruption of "Let's get outa here".
Senses: examples: text: "Well," continued the youth, "lots of good-a-'nough men have thought they was going to do great things before the fight, but when the time come they skedaddled."
ref: 1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter II, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 29:
text: Looked up at your office and all of it empty and I nearly cried. Cigar guy, out viewing his big time display window comes across the street. Wants to know if he can help. Told him to mind his own business. You know what he said, sister if you got any connection with that guy, they caught up with him, so you better beat it. I said sic him Goliath. Did that guy skidaddle.
ref: 1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 204:
text: Then filled with inspiration he drove in his Buick, the busted muffler blasting in the country lanes and the great long car skedaddling dangerously on the curves. Lucky for the woodchucks they were already hibernating.
ref: 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 122:
text: In the early 1960s, there were plenty of people still alive who had looted Europe in the Second World War, parked proceeds in Switzerland, and skedaddled to Argentina.
ref: 2018, Oliver Bullough, chapter 2, in Moneyland, →ISBN, page 41:
glosses: To move or run away quickly.
glosses: To spill; to scatter.
Synonyms: sense: move or run away quickly
word: beat feet
word: flee
word: get lost
word: hightail
word: kick rocks
word: make tracks
word: scat
word: skidoo
word: skitter
word: take off
word: vamoose
word: move quickly
word: rush
skedaddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɪˈdædəl/
rhymes: -ædəl
Forms: form: skedaddles
Etymology: First use appears c. 1861, in the New York Tribune. The word appeared and gained prominence in Civil War military contexts around 1861, and rapidly passing into more general use. Possibly an alteration of British dialect scaddle (“to run off in a fright”), from the adjective scaddle (“wild, timid, skittish”), from Middle English scathel, skadylle (“harmful, fierce, wild”), perhaps of North Germanic/Scandinavian origin, from Old Norse *sköþull; or from Old English *scaþol, *sceaþol (see scathel); akin to Old Norse skaði (“harm”). Possibly related to the Ancient Greek σκέδασις (skédasis, “scattering”), σκεδασμός (skedasmós, “dispersion”). Possibly related to scud or scat. It is possibly a corruption of "Let's get outa here".
Senses: glosses: The act of running away; a scurrying off.
eliminative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eliminative
form: most eliminative
Etymology: From eliminate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: The eliminative power of the storm.
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or producing elimination
Derived terms: eliminative materialism
eliminativism
eliminativist
eliminativistic
iodinating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of iodinate
iodinating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That causes combination with iodine
iodinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: iodinates
form: iodinating
form: iodinated
form: iodinated
Etymology: From iodine + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To treat, or to combine, with iodine.
Derived terms: deiodinate
radioiodinate
iodobenzene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iodobenzenes
Etymology: From iodo- + benzene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any iodinated derivative of benzene, but especially the mono-substitution compound C₆H₅I that is used in organic synthesis
away team
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: away teams
Senses: examples: text: Comparisons were made between the home and away team's number of fouls and violations.
ref: 1960, Peter Lynn Kasson, An Analysis of College Basketball Officiating, page 25:
text: During this analysis, it became apparent that the home team seemed to be receiving proportionately greater generosity from the referee than the away team.
ref: 1997, Jens Bangsbo, Thomas Reilly, Mike Hughes, Science and Football III: Proceedings of the Third World Congress of Science:
text: They also echo Jennett (1984), in using a variable measuring away team market size.
ref: 2000, Paul Downward, Alistair Dawson, The Economics of Professional Team Sports:
text: In 56 games, the home team was favored and the away team won.
ref: 2005, Susan B. Gerber, Using SPSS for Windows: Data Analysis and Graphics, page 79:
text: He found no differences between home and away team performances when spectators cheered before the start of a play.
ref: 2007, Sophia Jowett, David Lavallee, Social Psychology in Sport, page 108:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The visiting team; the team that is playing away from home.
Synonyms: visitor team
visitors
Related terms: away game
home team
irradiative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irradiative
form: most irradiative
Etymology: From irradiate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: That irradiates.
glosses: That involves radiation.
irreproducibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more irreproducibly
form: most irreproducibly
Etymology: From irreproducible + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an irreproducible manner; in a way that cannot be reproduced or that will not allow of reproduction
visiting team
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: visiting teams
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The team in a sport that has traveled out of its home area to play, as opposed to the home team.
Synonyms: away team
visitor team
visitors
irreproducible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ir- + reproducible.
Senses: synonyms: unreproducible
antonyms: reproducible
glosses: that cannot be reproduced or duplicated
Derived terms: irreproducibly
isatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isatins
Senses: examples: text: This finding suggests that the gut flora (absent, of course, in germ free animals) are responsible for the generation of most urinary isatin, but that the tissue material derives from a different source.
ref: 1993, Vivette Glover, Merton Sandler, “Tribulin and Isatin: An Update”, in Hajime Yasuhara, S. H. Parvez, editors, Monoamine Oxidase: Basic And Clinical Aspects, page 68:
text: One problem in large scale denim dyeing processes using biologically produced indigo is the undesirable red cast caused by indirubin, which is a structural isomer of indigo formed from indoxyl and isatin, a byproduct of the spontaneous oxidation reaction that converts indoxyl to indigo.
ref: 2007, Shang-Tian Yang, Xiaoguang Liu, Yali Zhang, “Chapter 4: Metabolic Engineering - Applications, Methods, and Challenges”, in Shang-Tian Yang, editor, Bioprocessing for Value-Added Products from Renewable Resources, page 81:
text: Isatin reacts with formaldehyde and a variety of amines in the Mannich reaction to give their respective bases (10), in the absence of an amine, isatin and substituted isatin with formaldehyde give hydroxymethyl isatins (11).
ref: 2014, Kiran Gangarapu, Development of Isatin as CNS Agents: Anticonvulsant activity, Anchor Academic Publishing, page 7:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The indole derivative 1H-indole-2,3-dione, used in the synthesis of dyes.
Derived terms: imesatin
isatic acid
isatinic acid
isatinic
isatinyl
isatogen
isobutanol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: iso- + butanol
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The aliphatic alcohol 2-methyl-1-propanol that is used as a solvent and in organic synthesis
isobutyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isobutyls
Etymology: From isobut(anol) + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent hydrocarbon radical derived from isobutanol
Derived terms: albutoin
diisobutyl
febuxostat
furbucillin
ibufenac
ibuprofen
methyl isobutyl ketone
monoisobutyl
isobutylamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The aliphatic primary amine 2-methyl-1-propamine
isocitric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + citric.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to isocitric acid or its derivatives
isocitric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iso- + citric acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An isomer of citric acid that is involved in the citric acid cycle
Related terms: isocitrate
isocitrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isocitrates
Etymology: From iso- + citrate.
Senses: glosses: Any salt or ester of isocitric acid
Derived terms: isocitrate dehydrogenase
isocyanurate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isocyanurates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of isocyanuric acid
Derived terms: dichloroisocyanurate
polyisocyanurate
isocyanuric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: fulminic acid
consequentialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒn(t)sɪˈkwɛnʃəlɪzəm/
ipa: /ˌkɒn(t)səˈkwɛnʃəlɪzəm/
ipa: /ˌkɑn(t)sɪˈkwɛnʃəlɪzəm/
ipa: /ˌkɑn(t)səˈkwɛnʃəlɪzəm/
Forms: form: consequentialisms
Etymology: From consequential + -ism, coined by British analytic philosopher G. E. M. Anscombe in 1958.
Senses: topics: ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The ethical study of morals, duties and rights with an approach that focuses consequences of a particular action or cause.
topics: ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The belief that consequences form the basis for any valid moral judgment about an action. Thus, from a consequentialist standpoint, a morally right action is one that produces a good outcome, or consequence.
Hyponyms: utilitarianism
Derived terms: nonconsequentialism
Related terms: deontology
virtue ethics
the end justifies the means
isocyanuric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + cyanuric.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to cyanuric acid or its derivatives
Derived terms: isocyanuric acid
safe as houses
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Refererring to the investment value of property.
Senses: examples: text: 1808, William Milton, "Memorial", Appendix 6A to Third Report from the Committee on the Highways of the Kingdon, House of Commons papers
In objection to this Coach, it is urged by the Coachmen that it looks heavy; and that they had rather break a leg now and then than drive such an ugly thing; but it regularly makes part of their sarcasm, that "It is as safe as a house"
text: The owner of the weapon assured him that he was as safe as houses
ref: 1859, Kinahan Cornwallis, A panorama of the New World, volume I, page 79:
text: The clothes will floor us as safe as houses!
ref: 1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter LVII, in Far from the Madding Crowd:
text: Yes'ir, I'm saved as safe as houses
ref: 1895, E. M. Stooke, Not Exactly, as cited in The English Dialect Dictionary: R-S, Volume 5, Joseph Wright, editor, 1904
text: You could see where your money was, if you owned a house; it was safe, safe as houses, the very phrase, and you couldn't say safer than that unless you brought in the Bank of England which was too big altogether for the local men and their well-warmed nest eggs
ref: 1951, Jack Common, Kiddar's luck:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Very secure.
isohexane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: īsōhĕks'ān
ipa: /ˌaɪsoʊˈhɛkseɪn/
Forms: form: isohexanes
Etymology: From iso- + hexane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several isomers of hexane, or a mixture of these isomers used as a solvent
isolable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more isolable
form: most isolable
Etymology: Originally (c. 1840) in chemistry, from isolate (possibly influenced by soluble), + -able
Senses: glosses: Able to be isolated.
Synonyms: sense: able to be isolated
word: isolatable
Derived terms: isolably
nonisolable
unisolable
isopentyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isopentyls
Etymology: From iso- + pentyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: isoamyl
Derived terms: penciclovir
isophthalate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isophthalates
Etymology: From iso- + phthalate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of isophthalic acid
isophthalic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iso- + phthalic acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The isomer of phthalic acid benzene-1,3-dicarboxylic acid used in the synthesis of polymers.
Related terms: isophthalate
phthalic acid
isophthalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + phthalic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to isophthalic acid and its derivatives.
isopropanol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isopropanols
Etymology: From iso- + propanol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The aliphatic alcohol 2-propanol; isopropyl alcohol
Derived terms: hexafluoroisopropanol
isopropyl alcohol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The aliphatic alcohol 2-propanol that is used as a solvent and in many industrial applications.
Synonyms: isopropanol
isopropenyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isopropenyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent hydrocarbon radical derived from isoprene CH₂=C(CH₃)-
isopropoxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isopropoxides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent anion derived from isopropanol by removal of the hydroxy hydrogen atom; and salt containing this anion
Derived terms: aluminium isopropoxide
barium isopropoxide
lithium isopropoxide
scandium isopropoxide
tetraisopropoxide
titanium isopropoxide
yttrium isopropoxide
isosorbide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isosorbides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A bicyclic derivative of furan whose nitrates are used as vasodilators
Derived terms: isosorbide dinitrate
isothiazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isothiazoles
Etymology: From iso- + thiazole.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An isomer of thiazole 1,2-thiazole, many of whose derivatives have biological activity
Derived terms: benzoisothiazole
isoxazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isoxazoles
Etymology: From iso- + oxazole.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: 1,2-oxazole, an isomer of oxazole with many derivatives that have pharmacological activity.
Derived terms: broxaterol
danazol
dihydroisoxazole
gaboxadol
glisolamide
glisoxepide
isocarboxazid
isoxazolyl
methylisoxazole
oxacillin
sulfamethoxazole
oxazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxazoles
Etymology: From oxi- + -a- + azole.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A five-membered heterocycle having three carbon atoms, one oxygen atom, one nitrogen atom and two double bonds; the 1,3- isomer is aromatic
Derived terms: cefoxazole
isoxazole
oxazolam
oxazolyl
Related terms: benzoxazole
naphthoxazole
oxadiazole
ride tall in the saddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rides tall in the saddle
form: riding tall in the saddle
form: rode tall in the saddle
form: ridden tall in the saddle
Senses: glosses: To ride a horse in an erect, imposing manner.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: His son noted Buckley had died "with his boots on, after a lifetime of riding pretty tall in the saddle."
ref: 2008 February 27, Conservative Author Buckley Dead at 82, Associated Press:
glosses: To act or conduct oneself in a manner that is imposing, impressive, resolute, or manly.
Related terms: in the saddle
ride high
jointing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɔɪntɪŋ/
Forms: form: jointings
Senses: glosses: The act of making a joint.
glosses: The set of joints so produced.
examples: text: I have already made it clear, I think, that the Selenites I saw resembled man in maintaining the erect attitude, and in having four limbs, and I have compared the general appearance of their heads and the jointing of their limbs to that of insects.
ref: 1900 December – 1901 August, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “chapter 24”, in The First Men in the Moon, London: George Newnes, […], published 1901, →OCLC:
glosses: The characteristic of having joints.
glosses: The initial grinding of the teeth of a cutting tool, prior to sharpening.
Derived terms: cable jointing
jointing rule
jointing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɔɪntɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of joint
filter down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: filters down
form: filtering down
form: filtered down
form: filtered down
Senses: glosses: Of a liquid; to move slowly down to lower substrate levels.
examples: text: They might say that the economy is improving, but it is taking a long time for any money to filter down to the poorer classes.
glosses: (by extension) Of information, or resources; to move slowly down to lower levels of an organisation, or population.
ketenide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ketenides
Etymology: From ketene + -ide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An organometallic compound formed from a ketene
Derived terms: copper ketenide
gold ketenide
silver ketenide
ketoester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ketoesters
Etymology: From keto- + ester.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any ester that also contains a ketonic carbonyl group, especially an ester of a keto acid
lability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labilities
Etymology: From labile + -ity (compare French labilité, Italian labilità).
Senses: glosses: The state of being labile.
glosses: A susceptibility to change; instability.
Derived terms: emotional lability
thermolability
lanthanoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lăn'thənoid
ipa: /ˈlænθənɔɪd/
Forms: form: lanthanoids
Etymology: From lanthanum + -oid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of lanthanide.
synonyms: word: lanthanide
limonene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limonenes
Etymology: From German Limonen.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A monoterpene hydrocarbon 1-methyl-4-prop-1-en-2-yl-cyclohexene found in the essential oils of oranges, lemons and similar fruit, and mainly responsible for their fragrance
Related terms: lemonene
linolenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɪn.ə(ʊ)ˈlɛn.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌlɪn.ə(ʊ)ˈliː.nɪk/
ipa: /ˌlɪn.əˈliː.nɪk/
ipa: /ˌlɪn.əˈleɪ.nɪk/
rhymes: -ɛnɪk
rhymes: -iːnɪk
Etymology: Irregularly derived from linoleic + -ene because of the extra double bond.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to linolenic acid or its derivatives.
liquefies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of liquefy
lithal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lithium and aluminium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: lithium aluminium hydride.
topics: geography
geology
geomorphology
natural-sciences
glosses: A pingo or hydrolaccolith; a mound of earth-covered ice found in the Arctic and subarctic environments that can reach up to 70 m in height and up to 600 m in diameter.
lithopone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithopones
form: lithophone
Senses: glosses: A white pigment, a mixture of barium sulfate and zinc sulfide, used in paints and enamels.
Derived terms: cadmopone
lucidol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: benzoyl peroxide
benzoyl peroxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The O–O bond in benzoyl peroxide and the C–N bonds in AIBN homolyze under thermal or photochemical conditions.
ref: 2007, Robert B. Grossman, The Art of Writing Reasonable Organic Reaction Mechanisms, →ISBN:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A peroxide derived from benzoic acid; it is used to bleach flour, and in many industrial and medical applications.
Synonyms: BP
BPO
Derived terms: BPO
BP
maleimide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maleimides
Etymology: Blend of maleic + imide
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The internal imide of maleic acid, or any of its derivatives; they have a number of industrial applications
Derived terms: bisindolylmaleimide
ethylmaleimide
maleimidyl
how's it hanging
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: How are you?
drag race
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drag races
Senses: examples: text: Did you watch the drag race on Sunday?
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: A race in a car or on a motorcycle to be first to cross a set finish line.
drag race
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drag races
form: drag racing
form: drag raced
form: drag raced
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: To participate in a drag race.
fan club
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fan clubs
form: fanclub
Senses: glosses: An organization of fans (enthusiasts) of a particular person or body of works.
splif
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪf
Forms: form: splifs
Senses: examples: text: […] someone else built a splif which he lit and gave to me, while the rest of the group passed the chalice around.
ref: 2004, Sander L. Gilman, Xun Zhou, Smoke: A Global History of Smoking, page 144:
glosses: Alternative form of spliff.
basin of attraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basins of attraction
Senses: topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: Informally, a set of points from which a dynamical system spontaneously moves to a particular attractor.
Synonyms: BoA
Derived terms: BoA
snakefish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snakefish
form: snakefishes
Etymology: From snake + fish.
Senses: glosses: Any of the several fish that resemble a snake.
glosses: Trachinocephalus myops
Related terms: topics: fish
ichthyology
zoology
biology
natural-sciences
word: snakehead
dissuader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dissuaders
Etymology: From dissuade + -er.
Senses: examples: text: From all our experience on the subject, Members of Parliament have always been the dissuaders of the attempts of Dissenters; among whom an almost irrepressible impatience and disgust at their and their leaders' apathy have long existed.
ref: 1827, The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature, page 303:
glosses: One who dissuades.
Synonyms: dehorter
Minos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪnɒs/
ipa: /ˈmaɪnəs/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Μῑ́νως (Mī́nōs).
Senses: examples: text: At length we arrived at the gate of Elysium. Here was a prodigious crowd of spirits waiting for admittance, some of whom were admitted, and some were rejected; for all were strictly examined by the porter, whom I soon discovered to be the celebrated judge Minos.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, “A Journey from this World to the Next”, in Thomas Roscoe, editor, The Works of Henry Fielding: Complete in One Volume, Henry G. Bohn, published 1851, page 602:
text: That the Cyclades were subject to Minos, is confirmed by numerous traces; and the general belief of the ancients was, that he founded colonies even in Lemnos and Thrace.
ref: 1856, Leonhard Schmitz, Connop Thirlwall, A History of Greece From the Earliest Times to the Destruction of Corinth, 4th edition, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, page 37:
text: Whether or not Minos really existed and ruled at Knossos, the ruins on Kephala hill today are known by the name Evans gave them.
ref: 2003, Chris Scarre, Rebecca Stefoff, The Palace of Minos at Knossos, Oxford University Press, page 38:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
coordinate_terms: Aeacus
Rhadamanthus
glosses: The mythological first king of Crete, a son of Zeus by Europa, who imprisoned the Minotaur in a labyrinth and after death was made a judge of the dead in Hades; a putative corresponding historical person.
wikipedia: Dante Alighieri
Gustave Doré
Inferno (Dante)
Related terms: Minoan
Minotaur
magpie-lark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magpie-larks
Senses: glosses: A common species of passerine bird, Grallina cyanoleuca, family Monarchidae, of Australia and southern New Guinea.
Synonyms: mudlark
Murray magpie
peewee
white lightning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: bootleg
moonshine
mountain dew
glosses: Illegally distilled whiskey.
round-trip time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: round-trip times
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: The time elapsed for a message to travel to a remote location and then return.
Synonyms: word: round-trip delay time
RTT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RTTs
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Initialism of round-trip time.
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of render-to-texture.
GCS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The higher the GCS the lower the priority.
topics: emergency-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Glasgow Coma Scale, a system used by medical workers to score the severity of a patient being transported by ambulance on a number scale.
examples: text: Costs for GCS can vary depending on regional factors, surgeon competence, and competition.
ref: 2017, Kevin L. Nadal, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Psychology and Gender, SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 704:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of gender confirmation surgery.
Asian lions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Asian lion
obzocky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more obzocky
form: most obzocky
Senses: examples: text: Look at me. Black as the Ace of Spades and ugly to match. . . . I catch sight of the obzocky black face in one of those fancy mirrors that these expensive hotels have all over the place, as if to spite people like me.
ref: 1964, V. S. Naipaul, "The Baker's Story" in The Kenyon Review, vol. 26, no. 3 (Summer), p. 470
text: There's also something as well that describes some person who may not be ugly, may not be very ugly facially but there's something about them that's ungainly. They're not handsome, they're not um, they're .. let's say they're - they're awkward, they're awkward-looking and that's a word that I think is probably old-time English word as well but we say obzocky. Yes, that's the Bajan word, obzocky!
ref: 2004, "Jeffrey Hinds comes up with a Barbadian word to describe someone who's unattractive," Voices at www.bbc.co.uk (retrieved 25 Mar 2008)
text: I no longer get an ounce of comfort from seeing those obzocky police vans that could pass for foreign ice cream trucks.
ref: 2004 December 24, Debbie Jacob, “My wishes for 2005”, in Trinidad Guardian online, retrieved 25 Mar 2008:
glosses: Awkward; unattractive; out of place; lopsided; misshapen.
raw_tags: of a person or thing
magic carpet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magic carpets
Senses: examples: text: Have you ever been, have you ever been, to Electric Ladyland? / The magic carpet waits for you, so don't you be late
ref: 1968, Jimi Hendrix, “Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)”, in Electric Ladyland, performed by The Jimi Hendrix Experience:
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
synonyms: flying carpet
glosses: A carpet capable either of magical flight, or instantaneous transport from one place to another, used as a means of travel.
examples: text: The relaunch of the railway comes alongside other major improvement works including new 'magic carpet' conveyor belts for skiers using the beginner slopes.
ref: 2023 April 5, “News in pictures: New livery adorns Cairngorm funicular”, in RAIL, number 980, page 28:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
synonyms: carpet lift
coordinate_terms: T-bar
chairlift
ski lift
rope-tow
glosses: A conveyor belt to transport skiers/snowboarders.
pleurant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pleurants
Etymology: French, pleurant (“weeping”).
Senses: examples: text: Thought to be the work of the master sculptor Jean de Brecquessent, she is one of only a few of the 14 pleurants to have survived the tomb’s destruction during the French Revolution.
ref: 2007 October 19, Karen Rosenberg, “Sacred Works in Secular Places”, in New York Times:
glosses: A weeping figure used as an ornament on a tomb.
Pelops
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Πέλοψ (Pélops, “dark face, eye”).
Senses: examples: text: His messenger, Argicides, to Pelops, skill'd in horse; / Pelops to Atreus, chief of men; he dying, gave it course
ref: [1611?], Homer, “Book II”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC, page 53:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A Greek mythological figure, the son of Tantalus, and king of Pisa in the Peloponnesus.
Derived terms: pelopium
Related terms: Pelopid
Peloponnese
pleuras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pleura
magic cube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magic cubes
Senses: topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: By analogy with magic square, an n-by-n-by-n arrangement of n³ numbers such that the numbers in each row, in all columns (horizontal and vertical) and in all main diagonals (of which there are 6*n+4) each have the same sum.
magic cube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magic cubes
Etymology: Calque of Hungarian bűvös kocka, the original name (according to Singmaster's Notes on Rubik's 'Magic Cube' and the Wikipedia page) for what later became known in Western markets as Rubik's cube.
Senses: glosses: A Rubik's cube.
hallucinant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hallucinants
Senses: glosses: A hallucinogen.
horse bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horse beans
Etymology: So called because of use in feeding horses.
Senses: glosses: A broad bean (Vicia faba var. equina),
glosses: A jack bean (Canavalia ensiformis).
horse beans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horse bean
dead metaphor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead metaphors
Senses: examples: text: An objectivist might grant that digest an idea was once a metaphor, but he would claim that it is no longer metaphorical. For him it is a “dead metaphor,” one that has become conventionalized and has its own literal meaning.
ref: 1980, George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, chapter 27, in Metaphors We Live By:
text: Typically, dead metaphors have been considered a characteristic of ordinary language, and live metaphors a crucial trait of poetic language.
ref: 2009, Cornelia Müller, Metaphors Dead and Alive, Sleeping and Waking, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 36:
text: It is meaningless to speak of the soul in the twenty-first century […]. It has become a dead metaphor, one of those words that survive in language long after a culture has lost faith in the concept, like an empty carapace that remains intact years after its animating organism has died.
ref: 2021, Meghan O'Gieblyn, chapter 1, in God, Human, Animal, Machine […] , →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A former metaphor which has in effect lost its metaphorical status and become literal.
Related terms: literalization
exhaustedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more exhaustedly
form: most exhaustedly
Etymology: From exhausted + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: They finished the project exhaustedly, with many elements sloppily completed.
glosses: In an exhausted manner.
bills of rights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bill of rights
non-sexual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonsexual.
by trade
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Although he was a gifted musician, he was a plumber by trade and never played music professionally.
glosses: As a profession; professionally.
session band
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: session bands
Senses: examples: text: She performed on 12 albums as a soul singer in a session band before she was able to begin her solo career.
glosses: A group of musicians who play for the recording of an album but are not considered part of the recording artist's normal band.
Related terms: studio band
tour band
hermaphrodism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hermaphrodisms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hermaphroditism.
Related terms: androgyny
malonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malonates
Etymology: From malonic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of malonic acid.
Derived terms: diethyl malonate
dimethylmalonate
malonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From malic plus an arbitrary suffix.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to malonic acid or its derivatives
Derived terms: malonate
malonic anhydride
malonitrile
malonyl
methylmalonic
maloperation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maloperations
Etymology: From mal- + operation.
Senses: glosses: A faulty or incorrect operation (of a device, process or system).
menthene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: menthenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a number of isomeric cyclic monoterpene hydrocarbons having a single double bond
Related terms: menthane
menthane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: menthanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a number of isomeric saturated cyclic monoterpene hydrocarbons
Related terms: menthene
wassock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wassocks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wazzock.
mesidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The aromatic primary amine 1-amino-2,4,6-trimethylbenzene; it and its derivative have biochemical activity
mesitylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesitylenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The aromatic hydrocarbon 1,3,5-trimethylbenzene that is present in coal tar and crude oil; it has some use as a solvent
Derived terms: mesitylenic
mesitylol
trimesic acid
trimesinic acid
trimesitic acid
mesomeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to mesomerism
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a mesomere
Derived terms: mesomerically
mesomeric effect
mesomerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesomerisms
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The property of some molecules of having a structure that cannot be represented by a single structural formula; resonance.
Related terms: mesomeric
jō
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jōs
Senses: glosses: An approximately 1.28 m (4.18 foot) long wooden staff, used in some Japanese martial arts.
Derived terms: jōjutsu
jōdō
aiki-jō
Related terms: bō
structural formula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: structural formulas
form: structural formulae
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of various diagrammatic representations of the structure of a molecule that shows how its atoms are linked to each other, with what type of bonds, and the presence of any charges
Hyponyms: skeletal formula
metabisulfite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metabisulfites
form: metabisulphite
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The oxyanion of sulfur S₂O₅²⁻ or any salt containing this ion
Derived terms: metabisulfite test
sodium metabisulfite
potassium metabisulfite
metaboric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more metaboric
form: most metaboric
Etymology: From meta- + boric.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to metaboric acid
metaboric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaboric acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several oxyacids of boron having the general formula (HBO₂)ₙ.
metallation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metallations
Etymology: From metallate + -ion.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of metalation.
Derived terms: carbometallation
cyclometallation
demetallation
heterometallation
hydrometallation
metallometallation
mismetallation
nucleometallation
undermetallation
metallide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metallides
form: metalide
Etymology: From metal + -ide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound of a metal with a more electropositive element
metallography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: metallographies
Etymology: From metal + -ography.
Senses: topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The study of the structure of metals and their alloys, by any of a variety of techniques
glosses: A process for utilising metal plates in a manner similar to lithographic stones.
glosses: A process of imitating the grain of wood on metals.
Derived terms: autometallography
metallographic
metallographist
radiometallography
shotgun house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shotgun houses
Etymology: * New Orleans architectural historian Samuel Wilson, Jr. has suggested that the term alludes to the idea that if all the doors are opened, a shotgun blast fired into the house from the front doorway will fly cleanly to the other end and out at the back.
* Folklorist John Michael Vlach has suggested a corruption of a Dahomey Fon area term "to-gun", meaning "place of assembly", brought to New Orleans by Afro-Haitian slaves.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. King’s words filled the front room of the shotgun house.
ref: 2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 25:
synonyms: shotgun
shotgun shack
glosses: A narrow shack with a door at each end, common in the Southern United States from the end of the Civil War until the 1920s.
jūdō
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I knew that if I used a jūdō throw on the boy, he might have ended up in the hospital, possibly with a broken back, and the responsibility for his hospital bills would fall on my mother.
ref: 1997, Minoru Kiyota, translated by Linda Klepinger Keenan, Beyond Loyalty: The Story of a Kibei, University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, page 15:
text: Rather, the philosophical and religious implications of jūdō are left to emerge implicitly out of jūdō practice.
ref: 2002, David Waterhouse, “Buddhism and the Teaching of Jūdō”, in Victor Sōgen Hori, Richard P. Hayes, James Mark Shields, editors, Teaching Buddhism in the West: From the Wheel to the Web, RoutledgeCurzon, →ISBN, page 120:
text: Even though jūdō has become an international sport, one can still find many dōjō overseas where the walls are adorned with pictures of Grand Master Kanō Jigorō (1860–1938 ), jūdō’s founder, and with plaques displaying such basic jūdō precepts as seiryoku zen’yō (making good use of one’s energy) and jita kyōei (mutual welfare and benefit).
ref: 2009, Japan Echo, page 48:
glosses: Alternative spelling of judo.
demilitarized zone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demilitarized zones
form: DMZ
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An area, often on a border between military factions, in which military forces and operations are prohibited. (This sense is a translation hub.)
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: perimeter network
glosses: A subnetwork of a LAN, exposed to the internet or another untrusted network but firewalled off from the rest of the LAN.
adive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adives
Etymology: From Spanish adive, from Andalusian Arabic, from Arabic الذِّئْب (aḏ-ḏiʔb).
Senses: examples: text: We are uncertain whether these two names denote animals of different species. We only know, that the jackal is larger, fiercer, and more difficult to tame than the adive;† but that, in every other article, the resemblance is perfect. Hence the adive may be only the jackal rendered smaller, feebler, and more gentle than the wild race, by being tamed and kept in a domestic state; for the adive is to the jackal nearly what the lap-dog, or small-water-dog, is to the shepherd's dog.
ref: 1830, Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon, The Natural History of Quadrupeds, volume 3, page 104:
glosses: The golden jackal; a smaller sort of jackal, sometimes domesticated.
agrimensor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agrimensors
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin agrimensor.
Senses: glosses: A land surveyor in Ancient Rome.
degasses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of degas
whiskeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whiskies
Senses: glosses: plural of whiskey