cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
forging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forge
forging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forgings
Senses: examples: text: […] repeated forgings and workings of wrought-iron […]
ref: 1868, Francis Herbert Joynson, The Metals Used in Construction: Iron, Steel, Bessemer Metal, page 68:
glosses: The process of shaping by heating and hammering.
examples: text: […]one set of 16-inch steel gun forgings[…]
ref: 1896, United States, Annual report of the Secretary of War:
text: Fabrication has been the method used in the construction of many components that would normally be made from steel castings and forgings.
ref: 1944 July and August, “British-Built Austerity 2-10-0 Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, pages 222, 225:
glosses: A component that is forged (shaped by heating and hammering).
Derived terms: drop forging
nanoforging
coping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copings
Etymology: From cope (sense 2), used in the sense "dress in a cope," "to cover."
Senses: examples: text: Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust […]
ref: 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter I (Anarchy), page 377, column 2:
text: He stood a moment at the coping, looking over a land of hard little bungalows with abnormally large porches, and new apartment-houses, small, but brave with variegated brick walls and terra-cotta trimmings.
ref: 1922, Sinclair Lewis, “28”, in Babbitt:
topics: architecture
glosses: The top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The process of managing taxing circumstances, expending effort to solve personal and interpersonal problems, and seeking to master, minimize, reduce or tolerate stress or conflict.
topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: Clipping the beak or talons of a bird.
Derived terms: coping mechanism
coping strategy
coping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From cope (sense 2), used in the sense "dress in a cope," "to cover."
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cope
dyeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪɪŋ
homophone: dying
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dye
dyeing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪɪŋ
homophone: dying
Forms: form: dyeings
Senses: examples: text: Ninety per cent of the dyeings on silk, 72 per cent of the dyeings on rayon, 70 per cent of the dyeings on cotton showed no color change.
ref: 1930, United States. National Bureau of Standards, Bureau of Standards journal of research, volume 3, page 50:
text: In the traditional workshops of Surakarta, where the best quality batik tulis textiles are still created, low-paid women and girls use melted wax to meticulously hand-draw patterns before subsequent dyeings and rewaxings, […]
ref: 2013, Lyn Parker, Pam Nilan, Adolescents in Contemporary Indonesia, page 52:
glosses: The act by which something is dyed.
Derived terms: space dyeing
tie-dyeing
jutting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌtɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jut
jutting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌtɪŋ
Forms: form: juttings
Senses: examples: text: By degrees an union takes place between them, and at the same time the osseous substance thickens at its first points of existence, at the juttings representing the grinding tubercles[…]
ref: 1834, The London Medical Gazette, volume 13, page 110:
text: He leaped forward, brandishing his knife, while the Sons of the Egg fell in behind him. The warlocks began to close ranks, falling back to make a stand under the jutting edge of the roof, where they could protect the orrery. Bork and Ser Perth were among them, bloody but hopelessly determined.
ref: 1963, Lester del Rey, The Sky Is Falling:
glosses: That which juts or protrudes.
corrupting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of corrupt
courting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of court
courting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: courtings
Senses: glosses: courtship; amorous advances
Derived terms: courting candle
night courting
flogging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɒɡɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒɡɪŋ
Forms: form: floggings
Senses: examples: text: What lawbreakers like that need is a good flogging. Do that and watch the crime rate plummet.
text: However, brutal floggings, increased terms of katorga, starvation diets, permanent chaining to a wheelbarrow and other fearsome sanctions failed to staunch the flow.
ref: 1991, Alan Wood, “Russia’s ‘Wild East’: exile, vagrancy and crime in nineteenth-century Siberia”, in Alan Wood, editor, The History of Siberia: From Russian Conquest to Revolution, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 124:
synonyms: whipping
flagellation
scourging
glosses: Infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping.
Derived terms: Florentine flogging
flogging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɒɡɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒɡɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: Will you get out of the flogging bathroom? We're already running late.
text: Cripes, this floggin’ rain’d make you cry, wouldn’t it?
ref: 1955, D'Arcy Niland, The Shiralee, Sydney, page 122:
synonyms: flipping
freaking
fricking
frigging
fugging
glosses: A minced oath of "fucking" as an intensifier.
flogging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɒɡɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒɡɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flog
Related terms: birching
caning
lashing
scourging
halting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more halting
form: most halting
Senses: examples: text: his halting speech
text: her halting steps
text: Him we enlisted at Para, on the recommendation of the steamship company, on whose vessels he had learned to speak a halting English.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: Prone to pauses or breaks; hesitant; broken.
Derived terms: haltingly
haltingness
halting problem
halting site
nonhalting
unhalting
halting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of halt
halting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haltings
Senses: examples: text: But alas ! alas ! the faintings, the haltings, the back-slidings of Christians, are enough to make us tremble while we rejoice in the hope set before us.
ref: 1841, George Mogridge, Thoughts for the thoughtful, by old Humphrey, page 167:
glosses: The action of one who halts; a stopping or hesitancy.
Synonyms: sense: stopping, hesitancy
word: hiatus
word: moratorium
word: recess
word: pause
honkin'
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more honkin'
form: most honkin'
form: honking
Etymology: From honking or honkingly by shortening.
Senses: glosses: Emphatically or impressively big; really big.
examples: text: But that hasn't stopped U2 from assuming the mantle as the biggest, honkin'-est rock band in the world and running with it.
ref: 1997 March 5, Will Hermes, “The Importance of Being Earnest: U2 goes forward and backward with Pop”, in Minneapolis City Pages:
glosses: Used as an intensifier.
Synonyms: big old
Derived terms: big honkin'
honkin'
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more honkin'
form: most honkin'
form: honking
Etymology: From honking or honkingly by shortening.
Senses: glosses: Very; tremendously.
big ole
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of big old.
dry reach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dry reaches
Senses: glosses: A dry or no longer active branch or reach (i.e. segment) of a river.
Related terms: english: Implies a temporary or intermittent lack of flowing water.
translation: Implies a temporary or intermittent lack of flowing water.
word: dry wash
come on down
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Come on down! Breakfast is ready!
text: I can see no devil on the field / Just many trees and papa's many seeds / I can see no devil in the field / Come on down, come on down
ref: 2017, “Come on Down”, in Devil Is Fine, performed by Zeal & Ardor, Track 4:
glosses: An invitation to someone in the upper part of a building to come downstairs.
glosses: An invitation to someone living to the north to come for a visit.
examples: text: Veronica Johnson, come on down!
glosses: A catchphrase used on the television game show "The Price is Right", inviting a member of the audience to come to Contestant's Row to play the game.
toss-up question
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toss-up questions
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
radio
television
glosses: During a classroom quiz or game show, a question posed to two or more opponents where both are able to answer by signaling, and depending on the rules, the one that responds with a correct answer either takes control of the game or proceeds to advance to a subsequent round.
Ayya Vaikundar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The incarnation of Ekam (god) in this world, according to Akilathirattu Ammanai, the primary scripture of the Ayyavazhi religion.
thingo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thingos
Etymology: From thing + -o.
Senses: examples: text: Windowsᵀᴹ and Microsoftᵀᴹ®; apparently are registered trademark thingos belonging to Microsoft Corporation.
ref: 2004 December, AUUGN, page 12:
text: ‘Cup of coffee, Bonnie?’ Tan asked, appearing immediately at her side.
‘Camomile tea, I think,’ she said. ‘And one of those new orange and almond thingos that Fran and Sean were trying out.’
ref: 2005, Liz Byrski, Food, Sex and Money, page 386:
text: All those scanning thingos at the front of the store don′t make any difference if you know how to handle them.
ref: 2010, Deb Fitzpatrick, 90 Packets of Instant Noodles, page 68:
glosses: A thingamajig; something the name of which is unknown or cannot be recalled.
Synonyms: sense: thing whose name is unknown or forgotten
word: thingamajig
sense: thing whose name is unknown or forgotten
word: thingie
sense: thing whose name is unknown or forgotten
word: thingy
Caitlin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Caitlins
form: Caitlyn
form: Catelyn
form: Catelin
form: Kaitlin
form: Kaitlyn
form: Katelyn
form: Katelin
form: Katelynn
Senses: examples: text: Beautiful, charming, rich, clever Caitlin needs one thing: love.
ref: 1997, Bernard Alger Drew, The 100 Most Popular Young Adult Authors: Biographical Sketches and Biographies, page 327:
text: Caitlin is sixteen and a sixth former at The Magna and is under a lot of pressure with exams.
ref: 2003, Helena Pielichaty, After School Club, page 3:
text: Sixteen-year-old Caitlin — and all our nieces and sisters and friends — need to grow up in a culture that prizes difference, not conformity.
ref: 2006, Suzanne Holland, “The Integrity Conundrum”, in Carol Taylor, Roberto Dell'Oro, editors, Health And Human Flourishing: Religion, Medicine, And Moral Anthropology, page 114:
glosses: A female given name from Irish Caitlín, equivalent to English Catherine.
Related terms: Kathleen
box set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: box sets
Senses: glosses: Related musical or video recordings that are gathered on multiple items of the same kind of media (compact discs, DVDs, VHS tapes, etc.) and placed in a box to be sold as a unit.
glosses: A set of such recordings made available to be watched or listened to online or on television, without existing in material box form.
glosses: A set of related books from a particular author or genre that are marketed as a boxed collection.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A set with a proscenium arch stage and three walls, creating the appearance of an enclosed room.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A set with three walls, allowing the camera to film in a room-like space.
outlaw country
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Often said to be derived from the Waylon Jennings song "Ladies Love Outlaws." The outlaw country genre was created as a response to the then-prevalent Nashville sound and growing popularity of country pop.
Senses: glosses: A subgenre of country music that became popular during the 1970s, fusing older styles (such as honky-tonk) with newer styles including rock and blues. Artists involved wrote their own material, demanded creative control of their music, and adopted an "outlaw" image.
kick-off meeting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kick-off meetings
form: kickoff meeting
form: kick off meeting
Etymology: Derived by analogy with the kick-off that begins each playing period in soccer, American football, and rugby.
Senses: glosses: The first official meeting of a group of people who will be working together on a project. The agenda will usually include introductions, statement(s) of mission, and organization of teams or working-groups. The implication is that there will be more meetings to follow.
drop a bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drops a bomb
form: dropping a bomb
form: dropped a bomb
form: dropped a bomb
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drop, bomb.
examples: text: Three hours after Hussein Kamel left, he called my office and dropped a bomb on me.
“President Saddam has asked to see you in person,” he said.
ref: 2004, Mahdi Obeidi, Kurt Pitzer, Bomb in My Garden: The Secrets of Saddam's Nuclear Mastermind, page 93:
glosses: Alternative form of drop a bombshell.
examples: text: Let's say you're at school and you accidentally drop a bomb in class. Try coughing or dropping a book to cover up the sound.
ref: 2004, Bart King, Chris Sabatino, The Big Book of Boy Stuff, page 129:
glosses: To release noxious gas from the bowels: to fart.
examples: text: To drop a bomb in the public toilet.
ref: 1989, Brian King, The Conceptual Structure of Emotional Experience in Chinese, Lulu.com, page 66:
text: I had to drop a bomb! What the hell was I going to do? So I pulled down my bathing suit, lying on my back, with my ass in the water, and shat.
ref: 2004, Michael Ryan, The Dirtiest Toilet Humor Book Ever, iUniverse, page 7:
text: 1998, ʻĀrīyā Chumsāi, ʻĀrīyā Sirisōphā, Mūat Po̜p =: Boot Camp - English title: Basic training (Military education), Fiučhœ̄ Phaplitching, page 79,
...prepare your backpack and MAYBE spare a minute to drop a bomb in the toilet?
glosses: To release feces into a toilet; to defecate.
Synonyms: sense: to fart
word: flatulate
sense: to shit
word: drop a chalupa
word: drop a deuce
word: drop anchor
word: drop the kids off at the pool
word: defecate
kick off meeting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kick off meetings
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kick-off meeting.
kickoff meeting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kickoff meetings
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kick-off meeting.
anole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈnəʊ.li/
enpr: ə-nōʹlē
ipa: /əˈnoʊ.li/
ipa: /əˈnoʊl/
Forms: form: anoles
Etymology: From a Cariban term.
Senses: glosses: Any of the family Dactyloidae of chiefly arboreal dactyloid lizards native to the Americas, which feature a brightly colored dewlap and the ability to change color.
Hyponyms: Agassiz's anole
American chameleon
Baoruco giant anole
brown anole
dwarf green anole
green anole
knight anole
Macaya green twig anole
porcupine anole
water anole
sex education
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: sex + education
Senses: synonyms: sex ed
sexual education
glosses: Education about human sexual anatomy, reproduction, and intercourse and other human sexual behavior.
crustie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crusties
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crusty (“tramp or urban subculture member with poor hygiene”).
sugar parent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sugar parents
Senses: examples: text: 1987, Jean Stewart, "Transcendence", in Marsha Saxton and Florence Howe, Eds., With Wings: An Anthology of Literature by and about Women with Disabilities, Feminist Press (1987), p. 131,
"[…] Get yourself a Sugar Daddy!—a Sugar Parent—to help you with the daily stuff."
text: 2001, Rhonda Whitton and Sheila Hollingworth, A Decent Proposal: How to Sell Your Book to an Australian Publisher, Common Ground (2001), pp. 105–106,
That's why you'll either need a sugar-parent (let's not be gender biased here), or another source of income.
text: If you want a sugar parent of your own, don't go past first base until you've received a present of some kind.
ref: 2006, Lorelei Sharkey & Emma Taylor, Em & Lo's Rec Sex, p159
glosses: A person who spends money for the benefit of a younger person, typically in exchange for companionship or sexual favors.
Hyponyms: sugar daddy
sugar mama
sugar mama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sugar mamas
form: sugar mamma
form: sugar momma
form: sugar mummy
form: sugar mommy
form: sugar momma
Etymology: From slang sugar (“money”) and colloquial mama (“mother”).
Senses: glosses: An older woman who spends money on a younger person, usually for romantic or sexual reasons.
Hypernyms: sugar parent
Coordinate terms: sugar daddy
cougar
MILF
unpardonable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpardonable
form: most unpardonable
Etymology: From un- + pardonable.
Senses: examples: text: And you will ſee it really may happen in this very happy land, that men who are rich may commit, with impunity, crimes infinitely more unpardonable, becauſe they are committed with leſs temptation, than thoſe for which “little villains” ſuffer every day—crimes which involve in their conſequences the moſt fatal events.
ref: 1794, Charlotte Smith, chapter XI, in The Banished Man. […], volume II, London: […] T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, (successors to Mr. [Thomas] Cadell) […], →OCLC, page 236:
text: "I can understand your being wicked," she said keenly, "but not your being cowardly. That is and was unpardonable."
ref: 1900, Gilbert Parker, An Unpardonable Liar:
text: To lose a game was bad enough, but to round on a comrade was unpardonable; while to lose from the game a half-back of Cameron's calibre was unthinkable.
ref: 1912, Ralph Connor, Corporal Cameron of the Northwest Mounted Police:
text: It would be unpardonable to ignore the repeated lessons of history.
ref: 1949, The Department of State Bulletin, volume 20, page 472:
text: Furthermore, what would otherwise be good points about the sort of selective literalism that renders homosexuality an unpardonable sin but shrugs off Sarah Palin’s biblically forbidden pearl earrings are lost in Eichenwald’s assumption that evangelicals make these decisions “with less care than they exercise in selecting side orders for lunch.”
ref: 2015 January 6, Rachel Held Evans, “What Newsweek gets wrong about evangelicals”, in CNN:
glosses: impossible to pardon; impossible to excuse or justify
Synonyms: inexcusable
unforgivable
unremittable
unjustifiable
indefensible
Derived terms: unpardonable sin
Related terms: pardonable
shoreward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From shore + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: When he felt him grasp his tail, Buck headed for the bank, swimming with all his splendid strength. But the progress shoreward was slow; the progress down-stream amazingly rapid.
ref: 1903 July, Jack London, “For the Love of a Man”, in The Call of the Wild, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, pages 175–176:
text: The shoreward arms of the north and south cantilevers were built into masonry abutments.
ref: 1950 March, H. A. Vallance, “On Foot Across the Forth Bridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 148:
glosses: In the direction of the shoreline, relatively speaking.
examples: text: If their enemies were really on the watch, if they had beleaguered the shoreward end of the pier, he and Lord Foxham were taken in a posture of poor defence […]
ref: 1883 June 30 – October 20, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter V, in The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, […], published 1888, →OCLC:
text: Felixstowe's pier was cut short during the Second World War as an anti-invasion measure. Although its pierhead was subsequently demolished in the 1950s, a new £3 million shoreward building opened in August 2017.
ref: 2020 July 29, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Railways that reach out over the waves”, in Rail, page 49, photo caption:
glosses: Facing the shore.
Synonyms: landward
shoreward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From shore + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: "Courage!" he said, and pointed toward the land, / "This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon."
ref: 1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “The Lotos-Eaters”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, stanza I, page 108:
glosses: Toward the shore.
shoreward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shore + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: […] when they sawe our boates comming to the shoreward, they began to runne away, with a great clamour and outcrie […]
ref: 1582, chapter 2, in Nicholas Lichefield, transl., The First Booke of the Historie of the Discoverie and Conquest of the East Indias […] set foorth in the Portingale language by Hernan Lopes de Castaneda, London: Thomas East:
glosses: The side facing the shore.
fitments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fitment
temper tantrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: temper tantrums
form: temper tantra
Senses: synonyms: word: hissy fit
word: tantrum
word: catfit
word: conniption
word: conniption fit
word: dummy spit
word: headfit
word: hissy
word: hissy fit
word: meltdown
word: paddy
word: shit fit
word: snit fit
word: wobbler
word: wobbly
glosses: Any fit of bad temper, especially kicking, screaming or deliberately holding the breath.
Derived terms: temper-tantrumy
Related terms: tantrum
throw a tantrum
raindrop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rānʹdrŏp
ipa: /ˈɹeɪndɹɒp/
enpr: rānʹdrŏp
ipa: /ˈɹeɪndɹɑp/
Forms: form: raindrops
Etymology: From Middle English rein-drope, reyn-drope, reyn drope, from Old English reġndropa, from Proto-Germanic *regnadrupô. Equivalent to rain + drop. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Riendruppe, West Frisian reindrip, Dutch regendroppel, regendruppel, German Low German Regendrüpp, German Regentropfen, Swedish regndroppe, Icelandic regndropi.
Senses: examples: text: It is all so fine and orderly that it would seem that not only had the clouds and streams been kept harmoniously busy in the making of it, but that every raindrop sent like a bullet to a mark had been the subject of a separate thought, so sure is the outcome of beauty through the stormy centuries.
ref: 1902, John Muir, The Grand Cañon of the Colorado:
text: 1969, Hal David (lyricist), “Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head”.
hypernyms: drop
glosses: A single droplet of rainwater that has just fallen or is falling from the sky.
Derived terms: raindrop cake
raindrop technique
raindrop therapy
raindrops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Raindrops keep falling on my head […]
ref: 1969, Burt Bacharach, Hal David, “Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head”, performed by B. J. Thomas:
glosses: plural of raindrop
geniality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ælɪti
Forms: form: genialities
Etymology: From Latin geniālitās, and perhaps also partly formed within English as genial + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes this throat uttered Yes, sometimes it uttered No; sometimes it made inquiries about a time worn denizen of the place. Once it surprised her notions by remarking upon the friendliness and geniality written in the faces of the hills around.
ref: 1878, Thomas Hardy, Return of the Native Chapter 3:
text: […] and yet there was such a wilful geniality about him, such a strenuous air of being off duty and forgetting his rank, that no one was ever quite at ease in his presence.
ref: 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days:
glosses: The quality of being genial; friendly cheerfulness; warmth of disposition and manners.
Derived terms: ungeniality
ribulose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ribuloses
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: a ketopentose whose phosphate derivatives participate in photosynthesis
ketopentose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ketopentoses
Etymology: From keto- + pentose.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A pentose that is also a ketose.
Related terms: aldopentose
aldopentose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aldopentoses
Etymology: From aldo- + pentose.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A pentose that is also an aldose.
Related terms: ketopentose
fuck bunny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuck bunnies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fuckbunny.
rickettsiosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rickettsioses
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any severe infectious disease caused by several different bacteria of the order Rickettsiales and transmitted by parasitic arthropods.
Related terms: Bullis fever
Lone Star fever
Q fever
Rocky Mountain spotted fever
trench fever
typhus
Riemann surface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Riemann surfaces
Etymology: From Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A one-dimensional complex manifold; a generalization of the complex plane.
complex plane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: complex planes
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: a representation of the space of complex numbers
Synonyms: Argand plane
Related terms: real plane
Argand diagram
rift valley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rift valleys
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A graben structure between two tectonic plates which are opening relative to each other.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A mid-oceanic ridge system with central valleys.
tectonic plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tectonic plates
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of several large pieces of the Earth's lithosphere which participate in plate tectonics.
Related terms: plate tectonics
tectonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: 1650s, in sense of building, from Late Latin tectonicus, from Ancient Greek τεκτονικός (tektonikós, “pertaining to building”), from Ancient Greek τέκτων (téktōn, “carpenter, joiner, maker”), from Proto-Indo-European *teḱ- (“to make”) (from which also texture). In sense of geology, attested 1894. By surface analysis, Ancient Greek τέκτων (téktōn) + -ic (“pertaining to”).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to construction or to architecture.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Structural.
examples: text: A boiling hot rock planet with extreme tectonic activity, Parnassus is home to many volcanic mountains. Surface scans reveal several geothermal and solar power stations, tapping the planet's abundant energy.
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Parnassus:
text: At some point, Venus may have had its own form of plate tectonics – possibly different from the plate tectonics here on Earth. Water and rock measurements obtained from the DAVINCI mission, combined with the Venus global mapping information by NASA’s VERITAS mission, another recently selected mission to Venus that is managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, can be used to decipher how these tectonic patterns may have operated on Venus, and why the planet was unable to sustain them in a fashion similar to Earth.
ref: 2021 October 20, “NASA’s DAVINCI Explores Ten Mysteries of Venus”, in NASA, archived from the original on 20 Oct 2021:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or caused by large-scale movements of the Earth's (or a similar planet's) lithosphere.
examples: text: But it would be a mistake to imagine that we are benignly coming full circle, or even that we are finding that the old ways are still the most efficient. A tectonic shift has occurred.
ref: 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Momentous, utter, vast.
Derived terms: geotectonic
glaciotectonic
morphotectonic
neotectonic
nontectonic
orthotectonic
palaeotectonic
paleotectonic
paratectonic
plumbotectonic
posttectonic
seismotectonic
sematectonic
syntectonic
tectonically
tectonicist
tectonic keratoplasty
tectonic plate
tectonic uplift
tectonic weapon
Related terms: lithotectonic
tectonics
plate tectonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: And of course, in order to understand the Earth's past and how it got to where it now is, it is important to have a basic knowledge of plate tectonics, which explains how the planet's continental and oceanic crusts are part of the lithospheric plates that are buoyant and ride upon the highly viscous asthenosphere.
ref: 2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The large-scale movement of tectonic plates that contributes to continental drift.
Related terms: tectonic plate
continental drift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The slow movement of continents explained by plate tectonics.
Rift Valley fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A mosquito-borne, acute, febrile, viral disease of humans and animals, caused by an RNA virus of the genus Phlebovirus, which occurs in northern and eastern Africa.
Synonyms: RVF
Derived terms: Rift Valley fever virus
Rift Valley fever phlebovirus
RVF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Rift Valley fever.
variably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛəɹiəbli/
Forms: form: more variably
form: most variably
Etymology: From variable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a variable manner.
rigid body
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rigid bodies
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An idealized solid whose size and shape are fixed and remain unaltered when forces are applied; used in Newtonian mechanics to model real objects.
Derived terms: rigid body dynamics
rigid body dynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The study of the motion of rigid bodies under the influence of forces.
rigid bodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rigid body
rinderpest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rinderpests
Etymology: Borrowed from German Rinderpest (“cattle plague”).
Senses: glosses: An eradicated contagious disease of ruminants and swine caused by Rinderpest virus, an RNA virus of the genus Morbillivirus.
ripple voltage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ripple voltages
Senses: glosses: A small, regular variation in a direct current voltage that remains after rectification and filtering of an alternating current voltage.
Ritz's combination principle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Walter Ritz, Swiss physicist.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: Rydberg-Ritz combination principle
glosses: The observation that the sums and differences of the frequencies of spectral lines often equal other observed frequencies; a consequence of quantum mechanics.
wikipedia: Walter Ritz
Roche limit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Roche limits
Etymology: Named after French astronomer Édouard Roche, who first calculated the limit in 1848.
Senses: examples: text: It might be argued, therefore, that Jupiter is so massive and its gravitational field so intense that it swept out the matter within its Roche limit very effectively.
ref: 1979, Isaac Asimov, The Road to Infinity, Doubleday, page 145:
text: The prelunar mass must first be moved outside the Roche limit if accumulation is to occur.
ref: 1986, William K. Hartmann, Roger J. Phillips, G. Jeffrey Taylor, editors, Origin of the Moon, Lunar and Planetary Institute, page 91:
text: If, however, the planet's moon comes inside the Roche limit, the tidal forces overcome its gravity and pull the moon apart.
ref: 2003, Michael A. Seeds, Foundations of Astronomy, Brooks/Cole, page 512:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: Roche radius
glosses: The closest a satellite can approach its parent body before the gravitational forces holding it together are overwhelmed by tidal forces pulling it apart.
wikipedia: Édouard Roche
Related terms: Roche lobe
Roche surface
tidal force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tidal forces
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of various gravitational forces acting on a body caused by variation in the distance between it and a source of a gravitational field; such forces due to the Moon are responsible for tides.
rock varnish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rock varnishes
Senses: synonyms: desert varnish
glosses: A dark coating on rock surfaces exposed to the atmosphere, mostly comprising clay and oxides, which grows at only a few micrometers per thousand years; found especially in arid deserts.
rodenticide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rodenticides
Etymology: From rodent + -i- + -cide.
Senses: examples: text: Since this type of control program tends to reduce the population before it spreads over large areas, it will likely result in the use of less rodenticide in the area.
ref: 1983, Terrell P. Salmon, Robert E. Lickliter, “Comparisons Between Vertebrate Pest Control Materials: Essential Considerations”, in Dale E. Kaukeinen, editor, Vertebrate Pest Control and Management Materials: Fourth Symposium, American Society for Testing and Materials, →LCCN, page 13:
glosses: Any toxic substance used to kill rodent pests.
Related terms: raticide
rat poison
roll mill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roll mills
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of roller mill.
rolling contact
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rolling contacts
Senses: glosses: Any contact between rotating bodies such that the relative velocity of the two contacting surfaces is zero at the point of contact.
romanechite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: romanechites
Etymology: Named after its discovery locality: Romaneche, Saône-et-Loir, France.
Romanech- + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a mixed oxide mineral of manganese and barium which is an ore of manganese
rose curve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rose curves
Etymology: From the resemblance to the flower.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any plane curve that consists of loops (petals) emanating from a central point.
rotary engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rotary engines
Senses: glosses: Any of several types of internal combustion engine in which the power output is directly rotational.
Related terms: cat-and-mouse engine
eccentric-rotor engine
multi-rotor engine
revolving-block engine
piston engine
jet engine
gas turbine
rubellite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubellites
Etymology: From Latin rubellus (“reddish”) + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A red to violet variety of tourmaline used as a gemstone.
Rydberg atom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rydberg atoms
Etymology: From Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any atom which has a single valence electron in a shell well outside any other electrons in the aton; approximates the hydrogen atom.
wikipedia: Johannes Rydberg
Rydberg constant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rydberg constants
Etymology: From Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A universal scaling factor for all spectroscopic transitions.
wikipedia: Johannes Rydberg
Rydberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Swedish.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Swedish.
glosses: A lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon.
Derived terms: Rydberg atom
Rydberg constant
Rydberg formula
Rydberg ionization spectroscopy
Rydberg molecule
Rydberg-Ritz combination principle
Rydberg state
Related terms: Johannes Rydberg
Swedish physicist
nebulization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nebulizations
Etymology: From nebula + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of forming nebulae.
glosses: The conversion of a liquid to a fine spray.
Synonyms: aerosolization
atomization
aerosolized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: aerosolised
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of aerosolize
aerosolized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: aerosolised
Senses: glosses: Dispersed as an aerosol; particulate.
Synonyms: atomized
nebulized
coulombic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From coulomb + -ic.
Senses: glosses: electric
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: relating to Coulomb's law and the force it involves
Derived terms: coulombically
convulsively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more convulsively
form: most convulsively
Etymology: From convulsive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But his words died in a strange gurgling in the throat; the eyes suddenly became fixed; the mouth fell; once he stretched out his hands convulsively, but they instantly relaxed, and his head sunk on Norbourne's arm.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Parting”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 321:
text: Her thumb and nail lightly flicked the palm of my hand until I could bear it no longer and closed my hand convulsively over hers.
ref: 1989 February 12, Jennifer Justice, “A Night At The Opera”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 30, page 9:
glosses: In a convulsive manner.
Related terms: convulse
convulsion
pure country
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Traditional country music.
third-string
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The young college quarterback was on the third-string, and played only during blowouts.
glosses: belonging to the third string of a team; one who plays behind the first and second strings.
glosses: a substitute or replacement.
third string
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of a decidedly lower quality or condition.
third string
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: third strings
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A unit of players that plays behind the first and second strings; a junior varsity team.
Synonyms: topics: sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: junior varsity
junior varsity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: junior varsities
Senses: glosses: In sports, a team composed of players who play behind the varsity unit.
continuous clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: continuous clocks
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A clock, especially in American football, that operates continuously in a one-sided game, so as to hasten the end of the contest.
tenterhooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenterhook
Derived terms: on tenterhooks
mesmerizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mesmerize
mesmerizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mesmerizing
form: most mesmerizing
Senses: examples: text: a mesmerizing lava lamp
text: As mesmerizing as it is to watch Kristen Kish whip up bacon and cinnamon waffles with boysenberry and strawberry jam, imagine playing poker with Hosea Rosenberg.
ref: 2014 September 11, Pam Grout, “Really? 10 unexpected cruise activities”, in CNN:
glosses: Exercising mesmerism on; spellbinding; enthralling.
Derived terms: mesmerizingly
tenterhook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenterhooks
form: tenter-hook
form: tenter hook
Etymology: From tenter + hook.
Senses: glosses: One of a series of hooks used to stretch cloth on a tenter.
Derived terms: on tenterhooks
on tenterhooks
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: enpr: ŏn′ tĕn′tər-ho͝oks′
enpr: ôn′ tĕn′tər-ho͝oks′
ipa: /ˌɒn ˈtɛntəhʊks/
ipa: /ˌɔn ˈtɛntəɹˌhʊks/
ipa: /ˌɑn-/
ipa: [-ɾəɹ-]
Forms: form: on the tenterhooks
Etymology: Metaphorically stretched taut, like a piece of cloth on a tenter (“framework upon which cloth is stretched and dried”) secured by tenterhooks. First attested in the mid-1700s.
Senses: examples: text: I made no reply, but left him upon the tenter-hooks of impatient uncertainty.
ref: [1748, [Tobias Smollett], “I Enquire about My Uncle, and Understand He is Gone to Sea— […]”, in The Adventures of Roderick Random. […], volume I, London: […] [William Strahan] for J[ohn] Osborn […], →OCLC, page 94:
text: If I were efficient to the point of crankiness, I suppose I should come out at any hour between midnight and reveille, and so keep the guard on tenterhooks, and make the tour as hard for them as I could.
ref: 1894, George Israel Putnam, On the Offensive: An Army Story, page 49, lines 14–18:
text: Having ordered a light repast, to the consternation of the waiter, they awaited its arrival together with that of Mr. Bellby, in silent reaction after the hour and a half's suspense on the tenterhooks of publicity.
ref: 1920, John Galsworthy, “Dartie versus Dartie”, in In Chancery (The Forsyte Saga; 2), London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, part II, page 187:
text: Why do you keep me on tenterhooks like this, putting me off and off?
ref: 1921 September, John Galsworthy, “Caprice”, in To Let, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, part I, page 114:
text: A 30-hour search for an escaped lioness that had residents on the southern fringes of Berlin shelter in their homes and the rest of the German capital on tenterhooks has found that what was thought to be an exotic feline predator was most likely a common wild pig.
ref: 2023 July 21, Philip Oltermann, “Escaped ‘lioness’ in Berlin was most likely a wild boar, mayor says”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Nov 2023:
synonyms: in suspense
;
on tenters[Appendix:Glossary#obsolete|obsolete]]>
on the tenters
glosses: In a state of (great) apprehension or suspense; on pins and needles.
Related terms: like a cat on a hot tin roof
shpilkes
arbiters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arbiter
arbiters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of arbiter
scruples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scruple
scruples
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scruple
oftener
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once—not oftener.
ref: 1869, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXIII, in The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims’ Progress; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company. […], →OCLC, page 359:
text: There were more sheebeens in Inverara than churches, which of course was natural enough, for alcohol cannot be put into a condensed state like the Grace of God, to be consumed on or off the premises. It takes up more space and has to be consumed in greater bulk and oftener in order to produce the desired effect.
ref: 1923, Liam O'Flaherty, “Tuesday”, in Thy Neighbour's Wife, 1st paperback edition, Wolfhound Press, →ISBN, page 127:
text: The heavy duty carburetor oil bath cleaner oil should be changed and the oil reservoir cleaned every 5,000 miles or oftener if driving conditions warrant.
ref: 1954, Packard, 1955 Clipper Owner's Manual, page 29:
glosses: comparative form of often: more often
impassioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more impassioned
form: most impassioned
form: empassioned
Etymology: From impassion + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: She was empassioned at that piteous act, / With zealous envy of the Greekes cruell fact / Against that nation […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: The tears fell fast from the maiden's eyes as she closed her impassioned appeal, and hid her face in the bosom of her sister.
ref: 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, “In which the Occurrence of the Accident mentioned in the last Chapter, affords an opportunity to a couple of Gentlemen to tell Stories against each other”, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC:
text: Of course, when I mentioned walking from one end of the platform to another (to change ends, or to check for possible hazards or obstructions), he gave a very impassioned defence of drivers having multiple exercises and jobs to finish - which is very true.
ref: 2025 March 5, Richard Wilcock, “In defence of the train drivers”, in RAIL, number 1030, page 30:
glosses: Filled with intense emotion or passion; fervent.
Derived terms: impassionedly
impassionedness
unimpassioned
beheading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From behead + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of behead
beheading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beheadings
Etymology: From behead + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: A large crowd gathered to see the beheading.
text: The guillotine was meant to humanize beheadings, but allowed the French Revolution to execute people at an industrial rate.
glosses: An instance of a person being beheaded.
Synonyms: decapitation
decollation
Related terms: subheading
beheads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of behead
beheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The executioner beheaded the king.
glosses: simple past and past participle of behead
beheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: They gasped at the sight of the beheaded king.
glosses: Having had one's head cut off.
Derived terms: unbeheaded