cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
moonlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moonlets
Etymology: From moon + -let.
Senses: examples: text: "A moonlet within the ring system will exert a systematic torque on ring material."
ref: 1981, Nature:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: a very small body orbiting a planet, often as part of a planetary ring system.
Related terms: minimoon
moonet
moonette
moonito
transaxle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transaxles
Etymology: Blend of transmission + axle
Senses: qualifier: automobiles
glosses: A single unit combining transmission gearbox, clutch, final drive, and differential.
e-invoice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-invoices
Etymology: From e- + invoice.
Senses: glosses: An invoice sent by electronic means to the recipient.
Synonyms: electronic invoice
isocratic flow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isocratic flows
Senses: examples: operating an isocratic flow of 2 mL min
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: In liquid chromatography, a mobile phase of constant composition. In contrast to this is the so called "gradient elution", which is a separation where the mobile phase changes its composition during a separation process.
bearhugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bearhug
stagelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stagelike
form: most stagelike
Etymology: From stage + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a stage (setting where a dramatic work is performed).
examples: text: Contra Piaget, I argue that:(1) development rarely involves stagelike domain-general change.
ref: 1997, Bonatti et al., "Precis of beyond modularity," Behavioral and Brain Science 20(2), 351-360
topics: sciences
glosses: proceeding through discrete stages; often used of developmental processes.
Related terms: stepwise
quantum
seabase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seabases
form: sea-base
form: sea base
Etymology: From sea + base.
Senses: examples: text: We operated from a seabase, reducing our footprint ashore and thereby minimizing our force protection requirements […]
ref: 2002. Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2003 by U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services, Page 154 http://books.google.com/books?id=BcUzAAAAIAAJ&dq=seabase&ei=Kdo7R9vpO4WasgOvypGkBw&pgis=1
glosses: A collection of support and supply ships supporting operations elsewhere, that can function as a floating barracks, hospital and base.
downturn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaʊntɜːn/
ipa: /ˈdaʊntɝn/
ipa: /ˈdæɔntɜːn/
Forms: form: downturns
Etymology: From down- + turn.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: decline
text: The downturn in the economy made it harder to find jobs.
text: Any [economic] downturn will eventually impact on rail freight, and indeed passenger traffic, so operators are watching this closely.
ref: 2019 October, Rail Freight Group, “Consequences of a no deal Brexit”, in Modern Railways, page 20:
text: In the 1950s, the downturn in BR's financial performance can be illustrated by its declining market share. Between 1951 and 1961, the railways' market share of passenger business fell from 21% to 14%, and for freight from 45% to 29%.
ref: 2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 39:
antonyms: upturn
uptick#Noun
increase#Noun
improvement#Noun
hypernyms: turn#Noun
change#Noun
;
trend#Noun
glosses: A downward trend, or the beginnings of one.
downturn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaʊntɜːn/
ipa: /ˈdaʊntɝn/
ipa: /ˈdæɔntɜːn/
Forms: form: downturns
form: downturning
form: downturned
form: downturned
Etymology: From down- + turn.
Senses: glosses: To turn downwards.
glosses: To decline.
outpacing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outpace
reduced cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reduced cats
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A version of the cat-o'-nine-tails (multi-tail whip), which has only five (instead of nine) 'tails' (thongs) of smooth whipcord.
half-asleep
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From half- + asleep.
Senses: examples: text: He gently lifted the half-asleep child into bed.
glosses: Showing signs of being asleep or very sleepy, as not demonstrating full energy or attention.
Related terms: half-awake
hairlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hairlike
form: most hairlike
Etymology: From hair + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: furlike
text: The moss grew in a hairlike mass over the rocks.
synonyms: piloid
;
hairy
glosses: Resembling hair; having the texture, consistency, or appearance of hair.
handcrafted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hand + crafted.
Senses: examples: text: a line of handcrafted cheeses
text: Each handcrafted sculpture is a unique work of art: no two are exactly the same.
text: The vierling gun that Alan Tuck hunts with is truly a handcrafted work of art.
ref: 2009, Nebraskaland, volume 87, page 32:
glosses: Made by hand or using the hands, as opposed to by mass production or using machinery.
Synonyms: handmade
handworked
handwrought
Related terms: handcraft
handicraft
hotheadedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot-headedness
Etymology: From hotheaded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: In place of hot-headedness and rashness on the part of those whose views did not agree with the sentiment that prompted the movement, which might be expected from their southern blood, we find cool counsels and a determination to make the best of what was accepted from the first as an accomplished fact.
ref: 1889 December 4, “Editorial (Article 5)”, in New York Times, page 4:
text: But despite his reputation for hotheadedness, the gruff general, 48, had managed to become Premier of the primitive Arab nation no fewer than seven times since 1962.
ref: 1971 September 20, “Crossed Wires”, in Time:
text: As the cars headed to Turn 1 on the cool-down lap, Stewart's hotheadedness saw him pull up beside Johnson and try to push him up the banking into the wall.
ref: 2005 February 24, Jeff Pappone, “A touch of class . . . and then there's Stewart”, in Globe and Mail, Canada, retrieved 12 Jan 2009:
glosses: The state or characteristic of being hotheaded; the tendency to be easily infuriated or provoked.
housecleaning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: housecleanings
Etymology: From house + cleaning.
Senses: examples: text: If you do not keep up with the housecleaning, you will soon have a huge mess.
glosses: Collectively, the tasks involved with cleaning a house; the practice of cleaning a house.
housecleaning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From houseclean + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of houseclean
illegibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: illegibilities
Senses: examples: text: The illegibility of his handwriting made it unclear which answer he wrote.
text: “Poor thing! poor thing!” says Briggs (who was thinking of twenty-four years back, and that hectic young writing-master whose lock of yellow hair, and whose letters, beautiful in their illegibility, she cherished in her old desk upstairs).
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “chapter 15”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: I passed the time by adding to the illegibilities in my diary.
ref: 1937, Kenneth Gandar-Dower, chapter 4, in The Spotted Lion, page 144:
text: And on the back endpaper of the Collins Clear-Type Shakespeare, a work of fatiguing illegibility, he wrote the names in large letters, as though his succession had already been settled.
ref: 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part One, Chapter 4:
glosses: The characteristic or quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read.
inexactness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inexactnesses
Etymology: From inexact + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The inexactness of her answers suggested that she had no idea of the real situation.
glosses: The characteristic or quality of being inexact; a lack of precision, accuracy, or certainty.
Synonyms: inexactitude
insinuator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insinuators
Etymology: From Latin īnsinuātor.
Senses: glosses: One who insinuates.
medullas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medulla
Marlboro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Simplified spelling of Marlborough.
Senses: glosses: A place in the United States, including:
A township in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
glosses: A place in the United States, including:
A hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Marlborough, Ulster County, New York.
glosses: A US brand of cigarette.
Marlboro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Marlboros
Etymology: Simplified spelling of Marlborough.
Senses: examples: text: Chalk up another frozen pizza
Choke up another thousand Marlboros
Anything goes for them ordinary Joes
They'll cut off your face to spite your nose
ref: 1985, J. G. Thirlwell, “The Throne of Agony”, in Nail, performed by Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel:
text: Arthur took out the pack of Marlboros that he bought from them, and dropped it on the desk. "This one is a fake, and a good fake." He started to show Alex the small boxes on the sides of the ripped pack.
ref: 2005, Arman Ordian, Norman Freedberg, Batya: The Russian Godfather, page 315:
text: Patricia Florca, wearing black market Levis and a dark blue, collarless shirt, snapped open a Ronson lighter and put flame to a black market Marlboro. Lidia Cozma looked enviously at the cigarette's glowing tip.
"Want one?" Patricia whispered. Lidia nodded and Patricia offered the pack. Lidia removed a Marlboro, and moments later both women were sending exhaled smoke toward a cloudless sky.
ref: 2013, Mike Johnson, A Season Forgotten, page 191:
glosses: A cigarette of the Marlboro brand.
Derived terms: Marlboro County
Marlboro Man
Upper Marlboro
hard put
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: harder put
form: hardest put
Senses: examples: text: I know what that word means, but would be hard put to define it.
text: hard put to it: in great perplexity or difficulty; at a loss.
glosses: In a situation that is difficult to resolve.
ranunculus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ranunculuses
form: ranunculi
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Ranunculus, from Latin rānunculus.
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the genus Ranunculus; the buttercup or crowfoot.
Synonyms: sense: genus Ranunculus
word: buttercup
sense: genus Ranunculus
word: crowfoot
Related terms: ranunculaceous
provability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: provabilities
form: proveability
Etymology: From prove + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being provable
solvi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solvus
sorgo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian sorgo. Doublet of sorgho and sorghum.
Senses: examples: text: Juice extraction remained constant for sorgo stalks kept wet, but it decreased gradually for dry stalks during 2 weeks storage.
ref: 1964, Otto H. Coleman, I. E. Stokes, Storage studies of sorgo:
glosses: sorghum
zadruga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /zæˈdɹuːɡə/
Forms: form: zadrugas
form: zadruge
Etymology: From Serbo-Croatian zȃdruga/за̑друга (“commune”).
Senses: examples: text: Byzantine culture was forced to retreat in the face of a way of life based on the extended family commune or zadruga, which was further organised around loose tribal areas known as županije.
ref: 2007, Elizabeth Roberts, Realm of the Black Mountain, Hurst & Co, published 2007, pages 7–8:
glosses: A social unit of rural community among the South Slavs, associated with family links and set customs.
Vladika
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Vladikas
Etymology: From Serbo-Croatian vladika.
Senses: examples: text: On the courtesy and hospitality of the Vladika, indeed, I cannot speak too highly; and the friendly feelings he entertains towards strangers, who are interested in his country, contribute greatly to the pleasure of a visit to Montenegro.
ref: 1848, Sir John Gardener Wilkinson, Dalmatia and Montenegro, J Murray, page 402:
text: From this time, Tchernegora, deserted by its hereditary princes, the Government became vested in its spiritual ruler the Vladika
ref: 1851, Edmund Spencer, Travels in European Turkey, page 390:
text: Running roughly parallel with the increasing unity of the tribes was the gradual transformation of the office of metropolitan or Vladika, which having at first been an ecclesiastical position, subordinate to and elected by the tribes, had begun by the early seventeenth century to serve as both a focus for and agent of central authority
ref: 2007, Elizabeth Roberts, Realm of the Black Mountain, Hurst & Co, published 2007, page 15:
text: This movement, partly religious and partly political, gave rise to the independent principality of the vladikas.
ref: 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 585:
glosses: The head of church and state in Montenegro until 1852; the prince bishop.
punkahwallah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌŋkəˌwɒlə/
ipa: /ˈpʌŋkəˌwɑlə/
Forms: form: punkahwallahs
form: punkah wallah
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi पंखावाला (paṅkhāvālā); also analyzable within English as punkah + wallah.
Senses: glosses: A servant who operates a punkah (type of fan).
opsony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opsonies
Etymology: Latin obsonium
Senses: glosses: Any food that is eaten with bread.
Risorgimento
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian risorgimento (“revival”).
Senses: glosses: The political and military movement that led to the unification of Italy in the 19th century.
examples: text: [O]ne minute this "Jihadi John" was struggling to get by, and get accepted, in drizzly England, unemployed with a mortgage to pay and a chip on his shoulder, and the next he stands in brilliant Levantine sunlight, where everything is clear and etched, at the vanguard of some Sunni Risorgimento intent on subjecting the world to its murderous brand of Wahhabi Islam.
ref: 2014 November 17, Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS [print version: International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 9]”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Renewal, revival, renaissance.
unviable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unviable
form: most unviable
Etymology: From un- + viable.
Senses: synonyms: nonviable
inviable
glosses: Not viable: not capable of independent life; not practicable.
inviable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inviable
form: most inviable
Etymology: From in- + viable.
Senses: synonyms: word: unviable
word: nonviable
antonyms: viable
glosses: Synonym of nonviable.
Derived terms: inviably
Garside
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Garsides
form: Garthside
form: Gartside
Etymology: Habitational surname from a place in Lancashire, from Middle English garth (“enclosure”) + side (“hill slope”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Middle English.
intinction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɪŋkʃən/
rhymes: -ɪŋkʃən
Forms: form: intinctions
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin intinctiō, from intingere (“to dip in”).
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The act of steeping or soaking the bread (or 'body' of Christ) in the wine (or 'blood' of Christ) so the communicant may receive both aspects of the Eucharist simultaneously.
examples: text: Quench the dros of iron in hony and drinck the intinction.
ref: 1559, Peter Morwen, Treasure of Euonymus conteyninge the Wonderfull hid Secretes of Nature touchinge the most apte formes to prepare and destyl medicines:
glosses: The act of tingeing or dyeing.
stringendo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stringendos
form: stringendi
Etymology: From Italian stringendo (“tightening”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A passage in music to be played gradually faster; a section of music with in which the tempo slowly increases.
stringendo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Italian stringendo (“tightening”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Played with gradually increasing tempo.
BGAN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Broadband Global Area Network.
persue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: persues
form: persuing
form: persued
form: persued
Senses: examples: text: It could not otherwise befall / (Sir Thomas, and his Wife, this course persuing,) / But that the Lady, affable to all, / Should greet the Friars, on her way / To matins, as she met them, every day, / Good morninging, and how d’ye doing: […]
ref: 1802, George Colman, (the Younger), “Sir Thomas Erpingham’s Sonnet on His Lady”, in Broad Grins; […], London: […] [F]or T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, […] [by] W[illiam] Flint, […], →OCLC, page 56:
glosses: Obsolete form of pursue.
collecter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collecters
Etymology: From collect + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of collector.
baseball field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baseball fields
Senses: glosses: A playing field on which the game of baseball is played.
astringe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈstɹɪnd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: astringes
form: astringing
form: astringed
form: astringed
Senses: glosses: To constrict, to compress
glosses: To become constricted or compressed
examples: text: God's mind was to astringe and bind the Church perpetually to it.
ref: c. 1555, John Harpsfield, Divorce of Henry VIII:
glosses: To bind by moral or legal obligation.
Related terms: astringent
constringe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪndʒ
Forms: form: constringes
form: constringing
form: constringed
form: constringed
Etymology: From Latin cōnstringere. See constrain.
Senses: examples: text: The emulgent draw this superfluous moisture from the blood; the two ureters convey it to the bladder, which, by reason of his site in the lower belly, is apt to receive it, having two parts, neck and bottom: the bottom holds the water, the neck is constringed with a muscle, which, as a porter, keeps the water running out against our will.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition I, section 1, member 2, subsection iv:
glosses: To constrict; to tighten.
restringe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪndʒ
Forms: form: restringes
form: restringing
form: restringed
form: restringed
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin rēstringō (“I tighten, I restrain”).
Senses: glosses: To confine; to contract; to stringe.
ristretto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ristrettos
form: ristretti
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian ristretto (“concentrated”). Doublet of restrict.
Senses: examples: text: Formerly used only in Italy and Seattle, it includes such tongue activators as latte, lungo, cappuccino, ristretto, macchiato, mochaccino and Americano.
ref: 1995 July 19, Suzanne Hamlin, “Coffee Drinks That Are Cool and Creamy”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Dec 2022:
text: With eight pre-set beverage buttons all your favorite hot drinks are just one push away: cappuccino, latte, one or two cups of ristretto, espresso, large cups of crema coffee, even hot chocolate and tea.
ref: 2005 October/November, “IMPRESSA Z5”, in Fine Cooking, number 74, Newtown, Conn.: The Taunton Press, Inc., →ISSN, page 83:
glosses: An espresso drink made with less hot water than normal.
ristretto
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ristretto
form: most ristretto
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian ristretto (“concentrated”). Doublet of restrict.
Senses: glosses: Poured with less hot water than normal.
Synonyms: corto
Coordinate terms: normale
ristretti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ristretto
here you are
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Said when handing something over to someone or doing a favour to them, usually to draw the recipient's attention to the exchange; equivalent to “thank you” when receiving something.
Synonyms: here you go
there you go
there you are
overcall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ō'və-kôlʹ
ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈkɔːl/
enpr: ōʹvə-kôl'
ipa: /ˈəʊvəˌkɔːl/
enpr: ō'vər-kôlʹ
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈkɔl/
enpr: ōʹvər-kôl'
ipa: /ˈoʊvɚˌkɔl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
Forms: form: overcalls
form: overcalling
form: overcalled
form: overcalled
Etymology: From over- + call.
Senses: examples: text: Jill bet, Tommy called, and Julie overcalled.
topics: bridge
card-games
games
poker
glosses: To call a bet after another player has already called
examples: text: Knowledge of the ultrasound findings is important, and appreciating the fetal ultrasound may often undercall or (more often) overcall anomalies.
ref: 2010, Allen P. Burke, Fabio Tavora, Practical Cardiovascular Pathology, →ISBN, page 12:
text: It's also possible to overcall PSC when motion artifact on the long respiratory-triggered acquisitions leads to the appearance of pseudo-strictures.
ref: 2014, Christine U.C. Lee, James Glockner, Mayo Clinic Body MRI Case Review, →ISBN:
text: Because these lesions often spontaneously regress, care must be taken to not overcall these lesions on FNA.
ref: 2015, Syed Z. Ali, Christopher J. VandenBussche, Cytopathology Case Review, →ISBN, page 180:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To diagnose a condition that does not, in fact, exist.
Derived terms: overcaller
overcalls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overcall
overcalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overcall
overcalling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overcall
overcalled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overcall
auriculas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of auricula
phenotypically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From phenotypic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: These cells that result from genome transplantation are phenotypically identical to the M. mycoides LC donor strain as judged by several criteria.
ref: 2007 August 3, Carole Lartigue et al., "Genome Transplantation in Bacteria: Changing One Species to Another," doi:10.1126/science.1144622, Science, ISSN 0036-8075, volume 317, number 5838, page 632
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: With regard to the phenotype.
Derived terms: ecophenotypically
endophenotypically
galeas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galeases
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of galleass.
purpuras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purpura
iconotheca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iconothecas
Etymology: From Latin īconothēca from Ancient Greek εἰκονοθήκη (eikonothḗkē)
from εἰκών (eikṓn) + θήκη (thḗkē).
Senses: glosses: A collection of icons.
glosses: A collection of pictures, especially of botanical specimens.
ferulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ferula
preseason
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preseasons
Etymology: From pre- + season.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The period before the start of a sporting season, during which players undergo training and venues are prepared
preseason
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preseasons
form: preseasoning
form: preseasoned
form: preseasoned
Etymology: From pre- + season.
Senses: examples: text: The most popular Dutch ovens are constructed of enameled cast iron, which requires none of the preseasoning and special care of ordinary cast iron but maintains the same gentle, even heat.
ref: 2004, Molly Stevens, All About Braising: The Art of Uncomplicated Cooking, page 10:
glosses: To season in advance.
prerecorded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prerecord
prerecorded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Recorded in advance, as opposed to live.
prepubescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + pubescence.
Senses: glosses: The period prior to the onset of puberty; prepuberty
Related terms: prepubescent
pre-owned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + owned.
Senses: examples: text: Admiral Koris: Our people have, during difficult periods, purchased pre-owned vessels from other cultures!
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Rayya:
topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: secondhand
Synonyms: foreowned
used
preordain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preordains
form: preordaining
form: preordained
form: preordained
Etymology: From pre- + ordain.
Senses: examples: text: A child! If here the heart turns sick with rath
To see a little one from birth defiled,
Or lame or blind, as preordained to languish
Through youthless life
ref: 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night:
glosses: To determine the fate of something in advance.
Synonyms: foreordain
predestine
predetermine
premix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: premixes
Etymology: From pre- + mix.
Senses: examples: text: High velocity premix systems — high velocity premix burner systems have been popular with some European kiln builders due to the fact that they are more fuel efficient than most other systems.
ref: 1994, G. Bickley Remmey, Firing Ceramics, page 120:
text: As the postproduction phase nears completion, elements (units) are mixed-down to premixes (predub). Premixes are developed independently for each of the stems.
ref: 2005, Robin Beauchamp, Designing Sound for Animation, page 143:
text: Premixes can be divided down into groups such as dialogue, effects and music, or even further, into premixes of spot effects, foley effects, atmosphere effects, etc.
ref: 2005, Hilary Wyatt, Tim Amyes, Audio Post Production For Television And Film, page 238:
text: Where possible you should prepare a premix containing the common reactants for all the PCRs you are setting up.
ref: 2006, M. J. McPherson, S. G. Møller, PCR, 2nd edition, Taylor & Francis, page 80:
text: In comparison, dialogue editors have it pretty easy. Still, like the gymnast, for the past few weeks you′ve been preparing for one brief, intense experience: the dialogue premix.
ref: 2007, John Purcell, Dialogue Editing for Motion Pictures: A Guide to the Invisible Art, page 311:
text: When vitamins and minerals are combined in a single premix, it should be used within 30 days of purchase. Vitamin and trace mineral premixes should be stored in the dark in dry sealed containers.
ref: 2008, Robert Blair, Nutrition and Feeding of Organic Poultry, page 223:
glosses: A blend of components that has been mixed in advance of use or of further processing.
examples: text: Within months, the first range of UDL^([United Distillers Limited]) premixes hit the shelves and the rest, as they say, is history. For over 40 years, Aussies have been sipping UDLs, and they're now as much a part of the Australian tradition as backyard cricket and throwin' a prawn on the barbie.
ref: 2006 September 26, Spot, “What does UDL stand for?”, in aus.tv (Usenet):
text: Around 2001 or 2002 I did a marketing assignment for Uni and chose a premix alcoholic beverage as my product. I got over 95% for the assignment, but it came back with rather a lot of red pen that pointed out how unethical it was to target underage females in this way, particularly as I provided research material that showed these premixes were a gateway to high lifelong use of alcohol.
ref: 2008 April 29, DM, “Health Minister blames Coalition policies for teenage binge drinking”, in aus.politics (Usenet):
text: The premixes are a nice starter before a night out. I go the 2.1 standard drinks per can as there is more buzz less fizz.
ref: 2008 April 29, Typhoid, “New tax on alcopops”, in aus.tv (Usenet):
glosses: A manufactured beverage consisting of alcohol and soft drink, milk or other non-alcoholic drinks; an alcopop.
Synonyms: sense: manufactured mixed beverage containing alcohol and soft drink
word: alcopop
sense: manufactured mixed beverage containing alcohol and soft drink
word: RTD
Related terms: postmix
premix
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: premixes
form: premixing
form: premixed
form: premixed
Etymology: From pre- + mix.
Senses: examples: text: During premixing, the components are randomly interspersed with each other and levels of developed shear are generally low.
ref: 2003, Peter R. Hornsby, edited by Roger N. Rothon, Chapter 5: Compound Preparation, Mixture Characterisation and Process Enhancement of Particulate-Filled Polymer Compounds: Particulate-Filled Polymer Composites, page 220:
text: My current strategy is that I premix two PowerGels in each Fuel Belt bottle and drink half the bottle (one PowerGel) every half hour during the Ironman run.
ref: 2005, Tom Holland, The 12-week Triathlete: Train For A Triathlon In Just Three Months, page 178:
text: The rerecording mix is the final stage in postproduction, when the premixed tracks or stems—dialogue, music, and sound effects—are combined into stereo and surround sound and sent to the edit master.
ref: 2010, Stanley R. Alten, Audio in Media, page 482:
glosses: To blend in advance.
premed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: premeds
Senses: glosses: A premedication.
glosses: Alternative form of pre-med.
premedication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: premedications
Etymology: From pre- + medication.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The administration of a drug (or mixture of drugs) prior to an anesthetic, especially to induce sedation; the drug so administered.
premedication
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + medication.
Senses: examples: text: The retrospective study revealed that, in the acetaminophen group, the mean value of postmedication body temperature (BT) was significantly higher than that of the premedication BT.
ref: 2015 October 3, “Non-Steroid Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Are Better than Acetaminophen on Fever Control at Acute Stage of Fracture”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Pre medication.
prefabricate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prefabricates
form: prefabricating
form: prefabricated
form: prefabricated
Etymology: From pre- + fabricate.
Senses: glosses: To manufacture (a building, etc.) in standard components that can be fitted together on site.
Related terms: prefab
prefabricated
prefabrication
prefabricator
prefabrication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prefabrications
Etymology: From pre- + fabrication.
Senses: glosses: The manufacture of prefabricated components, and their assembly.
glosses: A preassembled component.
Related terms: prefab
prefabricate
prefabricated
preexistence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preexistences
form: præ-existence
form: præexistence
form: præ-existency
form: præexistency
form: pre-existency
form: preexistency
form: pre-existence
form: preëxistence
Etymology: From pre- + existence.
Senses: glosses: The condition of having existed prior to the current time.
glosses: The existence of a soul in a previous embodiment.
Related terms: preexist
preexistent
preexistentism
preexisting
preclusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːʒən
Forms: form: preclusions
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin praeclusio, praeclusionis, from Latin praecludo.
Senses: glosses: The act of precluding.
glosses: The condition of being precluded.
Synonyms: obviation
prevention
Related terms: preclude
cors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cor
lumina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lumens
Senses: glosses: plural of lumen
Manassas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An independent city, the county seat of Prince William County, in northeastern Virginia, United States, known as Manassas Junction in the 19th century.
glosses: A minor city in Tattnall County, Georgia, United States.
Amaliada
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Amalias
Senses: glosses: A city in Greece located in the northern Elis prefecture
Amalias
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Amaliada: a town and former municipality in northwestern Elis regional unit, Western Greece region, Greece.
Megalopoli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Megalopolis
Etymology: From Greek Μεγαλόπολη (Megalópoli), from Ancient Greek μεγάλος (megálos) (masculine singular nominative of μέγᾰς (mégăs, “great, large”)) + πόλις (pólis, “city”).
Senses: synonyms: word: Megapolis
english: ancient city
translation: ancient city
glosses: An ancient city and modern town in Greece located in the southwestern Arcadia prefecture.
Related terms: Megapolis
megapolis
Megapolitan
megapolitan
calcifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calcifiers
Etymology: From calcify + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Many species of coral are calcifiers; this is how they construct the towering structures that become reefs.
ref: 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 121:
glosses: Something which calcifies; an agent of calcification.
X-ray binary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: X-ray binaries
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A binary star system in which one star of the pair is an optically invisible X-ray source.
myotube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myotubes
Etymology: From myo- + tube.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A structure of elongated multinucleate cells that contains some peripherally located myofibrils
hederas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hedera
lanistas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lanista
ampullas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ampulla
maculas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macula
hyperbolae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperbola
hyperbolas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperbola
sumi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sumi
Senses: glosses: A Japanese inkstick.
Related terms: sumi-e
black cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black cats
Senses: glosses: A fisher, North American marten that has thick brown fur (Pekania pennanti, syn. Martes pennanti).
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, cat.
black cat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: black cats
form: black catting
form: black catted
form: black catted
Senses: examples: text: The team name derives from the Lynx wildcat of 702 Naval Air Squadron’s badge and also the naval slang of “Black Catting” which implies having done or owned something better than anyone else.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), (Please provide the book title or journal name):
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To do better than another in some respect; to one up.
desume
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /dɪˈzjuːm/
/dɪˈzuːm/
Forms: form: desumes
form: desuming
form: desumed
form: desumed
Etymology: From Latin desumere, from de + sumere (“to take”).
Senses: examples: text: [T]hoſe Laws, if convenient and uſeful for the Kingdom, were never the worſe, tho' they were deſumed and taken from the Laws of other Countries, ſo as they had their Stamp of Obligation and Authority from the Reception and Approbation of this Kingdom by Vertue of the Common Law, […]
ref: 1713, [Matthew Hale], “Touching the Original of the Common Law of England”, in The History of the Common Law of England: […], [London]: […] J[ohn] Nutt, assignee of Edw[ard] Sayer Esq; for J. Walthoe, […], →OCLC, page 65:
glosses: To borrow; to select.
reassume
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːəˈsjuːm/
Forms: form: reassumes
form: reassuming
form: reassumed
form: reassumed
Etymology: From re- + assume.
Senses: glosses: To resume, to carry on (a practice, thought, occupation etc.) again.
examples: text: The next day he reassumed his disguise.
text: The British reassumed control of the region.
glosses: To take on or adopt again.
examples: text: What some lament of, we rather should rejoyce at, should rather praise this pious forwardnes among men, to reassume the ill deputed care of their Religion into their own hands again.
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:
glosses: To take back into one's possession.
Synonyms: resume
elsewhence
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛlsʍɛns/
Etymology: Else, “other” + whence, “from which (place or source)”, on the pattern of elsewhere.
Senses: glosses: From elsewhere; from some other place or source.
give back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives back
form: giving back
form: gave back
form: given back
Senses: examples: text: Give me back my book!
glosses: To return, restore (a thing to its original owner or location etc.).
examples: text: We organize this Thanksgiving dinner at the old-age home to give back to the community.
glosses: To contribute money, goods, or, especially, services for charitable purposes, as if in return for one's own success.
examples: text: Yet the Fiends ſeemed to come nearer and nearer, but when they were come even almoſt at him, he cried out with a moſt vehement voice, I will walk in the ſtrength of the Lord God; ſo they gave back, and came no farther.
ref: 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC; reprinted in The Pilgrim’s Progress as Originally Published by John Bunyan: Being a Fac-simile Reproduction of the First Edition, London: Elliot Stock […], 1875, →OCLC, page 108:
glosses: To recede; to retreat.
Derived terms: word: giveback
Masse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Masses
Etymology: From French Masse or French Massé. See also Mace.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Related terms: Mace
Bergmann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German Bergmann.
Senses: examples: text: In an interview with Jacobin to be published later this year, veteran KPO activist Theodor Bergmann tells of Heinrich Adam, prewar KPO member and mechanic at the Zeiss optics factory in Jena who joined the SED in hopes of realizing socialist unity.
ref: 2017 May 24, Loren Balhorn, “The Lost History of Antifa”, in Jacobin Magazine:
glosses: A surname from German.
Fleischer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fleischers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Fleischer.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
supercurrent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supercurrents
Etymology: From super- + current.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The current flowing through a superconductor.
brown cloud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brown clouds
Senses: glosses: A form of atmospheric pollution, a mixture of aerosols that absorb and scatter light, resulting from the burning of biomass and fossil fuel.
Related terms: global dimming
monophyletic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + phyletic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or affecting a single phylum (or other taxon) of organisms.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Deriving from a single clade (monophylum).
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Descending from a single ancestral species.
Descending from a single ancestral species and containing all descendants of that single ancestor, holophyletic.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Descending from a single ancestral species.
Descending from a single ancestral species but not containing all descendants of that ancestor, paraphyletic.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: congeneric
Derived terms: monophylesis
monophyletical
monophyletically
monophyletic group
monophyleticity
monophyletism
nonmonophyletic
Related terms: biphyletic
epiphyletic
holophyletic
monophyletist
monophyly
paraphyletic
polyphyletic
zapote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zapotes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sapote (“fruit or tree”).
linkage disequilibrium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A non-random association of two or more alleles at two or more loci; normally caused by an interaction between genes, and often illustrated on a pairwise linkage disequilibrium diagram (HapMap)
Derived terms: pairwise linkage disequilibrium diagram
Related terms: english: on Wikipedia
translation: on Wikipedia
word: International HapMap Project
pairwise linkage disequilibrium diagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pairwise linkage disequilibrium diagrams
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A triangular graphical representation of linkage disequilibrium in which different colours represent different magnitudes of linkage between pairs of loci
guayaba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guayabas
form: guayava
form: guayabo
Etymology: Etymology tree
Taíno *wayababor.
Spanish guayababor.
English guayaba
From Spanish guayaba, from Taíno *wayaba. Doublet of guava, by which it has been largely displaced.
Senses: glosses: The guava (tree or fruit).
guayabo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guayabos
Senses: examples: text: Besides these trees, here are also the tamarind, the medlar, the sapote, the papayo, the guayabo, the casia, the palm, the mangaolo, and several others, most of which yield a wholesome and par latable fruit, as well as...
ref: 1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopaedia; Or, Universal Dictionary:
text: ... the tatane is golden yellow; the pacara is dark red; the molle is black-brown; the lapacho is green, gray and black; the guayabo is deep red, veined with black and yellow; the palo ribera is dark cinnamon with red veins; the guayacan is black ...
ref: 1896, Bulletin of the International Bureau of the American Republics, page 317:
glosses: Obsolete form of guayaba.
double-blind
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: double blind
Senses: examples: text: The Clever Hans effect, however, can be eliminated by means of double-blind procedures, where the person administering or scoring a test given to an animal does not know the “correct” answer.
ref: 1984, Philip Lieberman, The Biology and Evolution of Language, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 246:
coordinate_terms: single-blind
triple-blind
glosses: Describing an experiment (usually medical) in which some information which might influence the experiment is withheld from two parties. Most commonly, parties in question are the subjects and the administrators and the information which is withheld is the treatment groups of the subjects.
cysteinyl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪsˈtiːənɪl/
ipa: /sɪsˈtiːnɪl/
rhymes: -iːənɪl
rhymes: -iːnɪl
Etymology: From cysteine + -yl.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or derived from the amino acid cysteine
Derived terms: cysteinyl leukotriene
cysteinylation
cysteinyl leukotriene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cysteinyl leukotrienes
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several leukotriene that are combined with cysteine
leukotriene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlu.koʊˈtɹaɪ.in/
Forms: form: leukotrienes
Etymology: From leuko- + triene, coined by Swedish biochemist Bengt I. Samuelsson.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several physiologically active lipids, related to the prostaglandins, that participate in allergic responses.
wikipedia: Bengt I. Samuelsson
Derived terms: antileukotriene
cysteinyl leukotriene
leukotrienic
-lukast
peptidoleukotriene
sulfidoleukotriene
zileuton
frigorific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɹɪ.ɡəˈɹɪ.fɪk/
rhymes: -ɪfɪk
Forms: form: more frigorific
form: most frigorific
form: frigorifical
form: frigorifick
Etymology: From Latin frīgorificus, from frigus (“cold”) + facere (“to make”): compare French frigorifique.
Senses: examples: text: [W]hen vve have, as vve very frequently have, put mixtures of ſnovv and ſalt into vials, and left them in the open Air, vve generally obſerv'd, that the outſide of the Glaſs vvas cas'd vvith ice, or covered vvith hoar froſt, directly over againſt that part of the inſide of the Glaſs, vvherein the frigorifick mixture vvas.
ref: 1663, Robert Boyle, “Title V. Experiments Touching the Tendency of Cold Upwards or Downwards.”, in New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold, or, An Experimental History of Cold, Begun. […], London: […] Richard Davis, […], published 1683, →OCLC, paragraph 4, page 69:
text: "Pr. LOWITZ has discovered a single frigorific mixture, by which quicksilver may be frozen..."
ref: 1801, Richard Walker, “On the Production of artificial Cold by Means of Muriate of Lime,”, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, page 124:
text: "They would certainly have the soil, climate, packing technologies, and frigorific trucks."
ref: 2007, C.A. Hidalgo et al., “The Product Space Conditions the Development of Nations”, in Science 317, published 5837:
antonyms: calorific
glosses: Causing to chill or cool.
come in handy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes in handy
form: coming in handy
form: came in handy
form: come in handy
Senses: examples: text: Even though he doesn't really know how to use them, he keeps the tools around, figuring they might come in handy someday.
text: This is where what I learned in High School really came in handy.
ref: 2010, Vernon Lucas, Standing in the Shadows of Street Legends, Xlibris, page 40:
text: A charismatic personality is not necessary in most managerial situations, but can come in handy in times of turmoil when workers need to be inspired and reassured about the need for significant changes in their values, goals, and group norms.
ref: 2011, Lisa J Cohen, The Handy Psychology Answer Book, Visible Ink Press, page 326:
text: As I mentioned earlier, this is where an understanding of child development comes in handy!
ref: 2013, Shelley A. Christensen, Subbing with Sanity... ...A Work of the Heart, Xlibris, page 103:
glosses: To prove to be useful or helpful.
scrape off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scrapes off
form: scraping off
form: scraped off
form: scraped off
Senses: examples: text: You can scrape the paint off using a sharp blade.
text: Scrape off the plates before putting them into the dishwasher.
glosses: To remove something by a scraping action.
privat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more privat
form: most privat
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of private.
Related terms: privat-docent
RSS feeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RSS feed
Roman miles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Roman mile
wet season
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wet seasons
Senses: examples: text: The wet season began almost as soon as the contractor commenced operations.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 100:
glosses: Especially in tropical regions, the part of the year when most of the rain falls.
Synonyms: monsoon
monsoon season
rainy season