cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Kermit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɜːmɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɝmɪt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)mɪt
Etymology: Variant of English and Manx Kermode, cognate with Irish Mac Diarmata (“son of Dermot”). Popularized in the US by the naming of Kermit Roosevelt (after a Manx ancestor). The computing sense is named after the Sesame Street character, but later provided with a backronym ("KL10 Error-Free Reciprocal Microprocessor Interchange over TTY").
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Manx.
glosses: The puppet Kermit the Frog, host of The Muppet Show and a frequent character in Sesame Street, originally performed by creator Jim Henson.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An asynchronous file transfer protocol, often used for communication between different types of minicomputer or mainframe.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Winkler County, Texas, named after Kermit Roosevelt.
glosses: A town in Mingo County, West Virginia, named after Kermit Roosevelt.
Derived terms: Kermit the Frog
sportsman's bet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sportsman's bets
Senses: glosses: A bet involving no money, only honour
Related terms: gentleman’s agreement
gentleman's agreement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gentleman's agreements
form: gentlemen's agreements
form: gentlemen's agreement
Senses: examples: text: The National League, for instance, adopted a “gentleman's agreement” that effectively excluded black players.
ref: 2001, John E. Dreifort, Baseball History from Outside the Lines, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 62:
text: It was decided that a further gentleman's agreement was needed between the United States and Mexico to eliminate, in the words of the American ambassador's office in Mexico City, “interference from Mexican broadcasting stations along the Mexican border at Villa Acuña, Nuevo Laredo, and Reynosa.”
ref: 2002, Gene Fowler, Bill Crawford, Border Radio, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 223:
glosses: A usually unwritten agreement not bound by law but by honour.
Related terms: shake on it
sportsman's bet
mainframe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪnˌfɹeɪm/
Forms: form: mainframes
form: main frame
Etymology: From main + frame.
Senses: topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: word: maxicomputer
word: maxi
glosses: A large, powerful computer able to manage very many simultaneous tasks and communicate with very many connected terminals; used by large, complex organizations (such as banks and supermarkets) where continuously sustained operation is vital.
topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer chassis that hosts and interconnects modules that perform various tasks.
glosses: The main frame of a vehicle etc., more commonly main frame.
Derived terms: mainframed
mainframelike
mainframer
micromainframe
minimainframe
nonmainframe
supermarket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsupɚˈmɑɹkət/
ipa: /ˌsuːpəˈmɑːkɪt/
Forms: form: supermarkets
Etymology: American English, super- + market, 1933.
Senses: examples: text: I went to the supermarket to buy some food.
text: Cans of Coca-Cola Original Taste, Coca-Cola Zero Sugar, Diet Coke, and Sprite Zero sent to cafes and restaurants are being withdrawn as well as 6x250ml Appletiser multipacks sent to UK supermarkets.
ref: 2025 January 29, Lucy Hooker, “Coca-Cola recalls drinks in UK due to chemical levels”, in BBC News:
coordinate_terms: hypermarket
superstore
glosses: A large self-service store that sells groceries and, usually, medications, household goods, and/or clothing.
glosses: A chain of such stores.
examples: text: If you know what you want by filtering down the 1,600 or so trusts to a short list and then studying the information on each via online sources, then you can buy your trust and get all or nearly all of the commission back into your bank account via an Internet investment supermarket. Here, you select your fund, decide whether you want it as an Individual Savings Account (ISA), and pay for it with a credit card.
ref: 2011, Faith Glasgow, Personal Finance and Investing All-in-One For Dummies:
text: Almina grew up in the age of the internet and the infinite supermarket of pornography it provides.
ref: 2024 February 20, Fiona Vera-Gray, quoting Almina, “‘Everything is hairless’: what 100 women taught me about porn and body confidence”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A one-stop shop; a place offering a range of products or services.
Derived terms: social supermarket
demote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈməʊt/
ipa: /dɪˈmoʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
Forms: form: demotes
form: demoting
form: demoted
form: demoted
Etymology: From de- (“down”) + promote (“advance in rank/status (ending abstracted)”).
Senses: examples: text: James was demoted from branch manager to assistant manager due to his poor discipline.
text: In 1036, shortly after arriving at Yi-ling, Ou-yang Hsiu sent a lengthy letter to his friend, Yin Shu, who had been demoted at the same time as Ou-yang Hsiu and sent to Ying-chou (modern Chung-hsiang, Hupeh).
ref: 1984, Ronald C. Egan, The Literary Works of Ou-yang Hsiu (1007-72), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 93:
glosses: To lower the rank or status of.
glosses: To relegate.
Synonyms: disrate
Derived terms: demotee
demoter
undemoted
superessive case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superessive cases
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Noun case used to indicate location on an object. In English, it roughly corresponds to the prepositions "on" or "on top of", as in "on top of the house". Hungarian is a language that uses the superessive case.
groceries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹəʊ.s(ə.)ɹiz/
ipa: /ˈɡɹəʊ.s(ə.)ɹɪz/
ipa: /ˈɡɹoʊ.s(ə.)ɹiz/
other: /ˈɡɹoʊ.ʃɹiz/
Forms: form: grocery
Senses: examples: text: She carried a sack of groceries in from her car and placed it on the kitchen table.
text: Did not cotton spin itself, beef grow, and groceries and spiceries come in from the East and the West, quite comfortably by the side of shams?
ref: 1850, Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets: The present time:
glosses: Retail foodstuffs and other household supplies; the commodities sold by a grocer or in a grocery store.
groceries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹəʊ.s(ə.)ɹiz/
ipa: /ˈɡɹəʊ.s(ə.)ɹɪz/
ipa: /ˈɡɹoʊ.s(ə.)ɹiz/
other: /ˈɡɹoʊ.ʃɹiz/
Senses: examples: text: There were two competing groceries in the neighborhood, but neither of them had tasty food.
glosses: plural of grocery (store)
groceries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹəʊ.s(ə.)ɹiz/
ipa: /ˈɡɹəʊ.s(ə.)ɹɪz/
ipa: /ˈɡɹoʊ.s(ə.)ɹiz/
other: /ˈɡɹoʊ.ʃɹiz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grocery
grocery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹəʊ.s(ə.)ɹi/
enpr: grōs(ə)ri
ipa: /ˈɡɹoʊ.s(ə.)ɹi/
enpr: grōs(ə)ri
ipa: /ˈɡɹoʊ.ʃɹi/
enpr: grōʃri
ipa: /ˈɡɹəʉs.(ə.)ɹi/
ipa: /ˈɡɹɐʉs.(ə.)ɹi/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɡros(ə)ri/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɡrɔ-/
note: Indic
ipa: /-ʃ(ə)ri/
Forms: form: groceries
Etymology: From Middle English grocerye, equivalent to grocer + -y. Compare gross. Doublet of groceria.
Senses: examples: 1776: Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
Where ten thousand pounds can be employed in the grocery trade, the wages of the grocer's labour make but a very trifling addition...
synonyms: commodities
general goods
groceries
packaged goods
glosses: Retail foodstuffs and other household supplies.
examples: 1854: Henry David Thoreau, Walden
I observed that the vitals of the village were the grocery, the bar-room, the post-office, and the bank...
synonyms: general store
greengrocer's
grocer's
grocery shop
grocery store
market
supermarket
glosses: A shop or store that sells groceries; a grocery store.
Derived terms: greengrocery
grocerant
grocery bag
grocery cart
grocery haul
grocery list
groceryman
grocery paper
grocery shrink ray
I'm looking for a grocery store
is there a grocery store nearby
nongrocery
salvage grocery
Related terms: greengrocer
grocer
groceries
grocery
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹəʊ.s(ə.)ɹi/
enpr: grōs(ə)ri
ipa: /ˈɡɹoʊ.s(ə.)ɹi/
enpr: grōs(ə)ri
ipa: /ˈɡɹoʊ.ʃɹi/
enpr: grōʃri
ipa: /ˈɡɹəʉs.(ə.)ɹi/
ipa: /ˈɡɹɐʉs.(ə.)ɹi/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɡros(ə)ri/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɡrɔ-/
note: Indic
ipa: /-ʃ(ə)ri/
Forms: form: groceries
form: grocerying
form: groceried
form: groceried
Etymology: From Middle English grocerye, equivalent to grocer + -y. Compare gross. Doublet of groceria.
Senses: examples: text: We shopped and groceried on a cash basis, determined on that from the start.
ref: 1913, George Lee Burton, Tackling Matrimony: To the Men and Girls who Love Each Other More than Ease and Show and Sham:
text: The thought of grocerying so casually at Seessel's evokes a giggle from Shirley
ref: 1967, The New Yorker, volume 43, number 5, page 210:
text: I was dependent upon others for grocerying and getting to doctor appointments.
ref: 2012, Hazel Rae Minnick, Living in My Shadow, page 93:
text: Sample usage: "If you're going grocerying, pick up some GMO — you know, Goat's Milk, Organic. But it has to be non-GMO GMO."
ref: [2016 July 19, “The word of the week: grocerying”, in StarTribune.com:
glosses: To go grocery shopping.
examples: text: Fifty-eight years of grocerying hotels, restaurants and institutions that feed many people
ref: 1939, John Willy, Hotel Monthly, volume 47, number 550, page 59:
text: What freedom to be iced, fueled, and groceried for two weeks and running toward a reef you truly love
ref: 1998, Ron Rau, “Doing It for Money”, in David Seybold, editor, Seasons of the Angler: A Fisherman's Anthology, page 95:
glosses: To furnish with groceries.
grocer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹəʊ.sə/
ipa: /ˈɡɹoʊ.səɹ/
other: /ˈɡɹoʊ.ʃəɹ/
rhymes: -əʊsə(ɹ)
homophone: grosser
Forms: form: grocers
Etymology: From Old French grossier (“wholesaler”) Compare gross.
Senses: examples: text: “Cadiz isn't going to become the garbage dump capital of the world,” said Patrick Erbacher, a grocer who is vice president of the Cadiz Jaycees.
ref: 1974 July 6, “Ohio Town Opposes A Plan for Dumping New York Garbage”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Dec 2024:
text: Control will never again be gained for toleration will become extinct. A husband quarrelling with his wife will not think twice or regret his spent bullet. Hungry children will not spare the grocer.
Remorse in all forms will be removed from human thoughts and actions.Freedom will only be available through revolution or death. This system of a down is unavoidable as life on this planet becomes unnecessary.
ref: c. 1995, Daron Malakian, Victims of a Down:
glosses: A person who retails groceries (foodstuffs and household items) from a grocery.
Derived terms: greengrocer
grocerdom
groceress
grocerly
grocer's
grocer's itch
Related terms: grocery
grocer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹəʊ.sə/
ipa: /ˈɡɹoʊ.səɹ/
other: /ˈɡɹoʊ.ʃəɹ/
rhymes: -əʊsə(ɹ)
homophone: grosser
Forms: form: grocers
form: grocering
form: grocered
form: grocered
Etymology: From Old French grossier (“wholesaler”) Compare gross.
Senses: glosses: To sell groceries; to act as a grocer.
whoever
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /huˈɛvɚ/
ipa: /huˈɛvə/
rhymes: -ɛvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: whomever
form: whosever
form: whoe'er
form: whoëver
Etymology: From Middle English whoever. By surface analysis, who + ever.
Senses: examples: text: Whoever thought up that stupid idea?
glosses: Who ever: an emphatic form of who.
examples: text: Whoever breaks the law will be punished.
qualifier: fused relative
glosses: Any person or persons that.
examples: text: Whoever robbed that old lady ought to be locked up.
text: I don't know what it is. Ask whoever put it there.
qualifier: fused relative
glosses: The person that (no matter who).
examples: text: Whoever stole the painting, the police will catch the thief in no time.
glosses: Regardless of the person or persons that.
examples: text: I don't care who gets it; give it to whoever.
glosses: Any person or persons.
examples: text: He is the tallest man whoever lived. (incorrect usage)
text: When the gays can claim the toughest bastard whoever pulled on a football boot as one of their own, ...
ref: 2014 July 13, Peter FitzSimons, “Ian Thorpe acknowledges he's gay, let's hope he's now happy as well”, in Sydney Morning Herald:
glosses: Misspelling of who ever other than in interrogative use.
Derived terms: whoever smelt it dealt it
Related terms: nobody
whatever
whenever
wherever
whomever
whosoever
greengrocer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹinˌɡɹəʊs.ə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: greengrocers
Etymology: From green + grocer.
Senses: glosses: A person who sells fresh vegetables and fruit, normally from a relatively small shop.
glosses: A relatively small shop selling fresh vegetables and fruit.
glosses: A common green cicada, Cyclochila australasiae, of eastern Australia.
Synonyms: sense: small shop selling produce
word: greengrocer's
sense: small shop selling produce
word: produce store
sense: small shop selling produce
word: produce shop
Derived terms: greengroceress
greengrocer's
greengrocer's apostrophe
greengrocery
greengrocing
Mervyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɜː.vɪn/
ipa: /ˈmɝ.vɪn/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)vɪn
Etymology: Welsh Merfyn, probably from mer (“marrow”) (from Proto-Brythonic *mer) + myn (“eminent”) (compare Irish mín (“smooth, elegant, courteous”)).
Senses: examples: text: Mervyn, in the meantime, had had his solitary meal in the famous back parlour of the Phoenix, where the newspapers lay, and all comers were welcome.
ref: 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
glosses: A male given name from Welsh.
Related terms: Merv
Marvin
wherever
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /(h)wɛɹˈɛvɚ/
ipa: /wɛəˈɹɛvə/
rhymes: -ɛvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: whereever
Etymology: From where + ever.
Senses: examples: text: Wherever have you been all my life?
glosses: Where ever; an emphatic form of where.
examples: text: I don't care what you do with it; just put it wherever.
text: Where do you want to have lunch? — Wherever; I don't mind.
glosses: In, at or to any place that one likes or chooses.
examples: text: He's back from wherever he's been hiding.
text: Go home to wherever you belong.
qualifier: fused relative
glosses: The place (no matter where) in, at or to which.
Synonyms: word: everwhere
greengrocer's apostrophe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greengrocer's apostrophes
form: greengrocers apostrophe's
form: greengrocer's-apostrophe
form: greengrocers' apostrophe
Etymology: From the relatively common misusage of apostrophes seen on the placards used at greengroceries.
Senses: examples: text: [A] flashing neon sign advertising the Pari's Hotel is less an early case of greengrocer's apostrophe than a sardonic Pascalian allusion (pari in French meaning 'bet').
ref: 1993, British Film Institute, Sight and Sound Film Review:
text: It is hardly surprising that these conventions seem to be in rapid collapse, with what has been called "the greengrocer's apostrophe" (apple's 60p, Antique's, linguistic's, and perhaps even mean't, all personally attested) […]
ref: 1998, Richard M. Hogg et al., The Cambridge History of the English Language, page 121:
text: When applied in English it produces greengrocer's apostrophes.
ref: 2004, Joy Burrough-Boenisch, Righting English That's Gone Dutch:
text: The Deppenapostroph is not to be confused with the English greengrocer’s apostrophe, when an apostrophe before an ‘s’ is mistakenly used to form the plural of a noun (“a kilo of potato’s”).
ref: 2024 October 7, Philip Oltermann, “Germans decry influence of English as ‘idiot’s apostrophe’ gets official approval”, in The Guardian:
glosses: An incorrectly used apostrophe; (especially) one mistakenly used to form the plural of a noun, for example: writing the plural of banana as banana's (a possessive) instead of bananas.
Synonyms: idiot's apostrophe
rogue apostrophe
Related terms: apothecary's Latin
whomever
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /humˈɛvɚ/
rhymes: -ɛvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: of whoever
form: whomsoever
Etymology: From Middle English whomever; equivalent to whom + ever.
Senses: examples: text: The letter is addressed to whomever it may concern.
text: I'll marry whomever I want.
text: To impose his will on whomever he sees comfortably settled.
ref: 1920, Max Beerbohm, And Even Now:
text: Yes, the tide will surely turn, and meanwhile may one who is proud to call himself a partisan, invite whomever may feel disposed to bid the "T14s" adieux, to pause before giving them valediction and accord to them the respect that is assuredly their due.
ref: 1952 January, Henry Maxwell, “Farewell to the "T14s"”, in Railway Magazine, page 57:
glosses: Whatever person or persons (as object of verb or preposition).
Related terms: whom
whichever
whoever
whichever
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪt͡ʃˈɛvɚ/
ipa: /ʍɪt͡ʃˈɛvɚ/
rhymes: -ɛvə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Middle English qwichever, whiche ever, whiche evere, which ever, which evere; equivalent to which + ever.
Senses: examples: text: Good heavens! Whichever button did you press to make that happen?!
glosses: Which ever; emphatic form of 'which'.
examples: text: It won't work, whichever buttons you press.
text: Whichever book you borrow, be sure to return it to the library on time.
glosses: Regardless of the ... that; no matter which.
examples: text: Choose whichever card you like.
text: Borrow whichever books interest you.
text: I'll buy whichever shirt is cheapest.
glosses: Any or either ... that; the ... that.
examples: text: I'll buy the red shirt or the blue shirt, whichever one is cheaper.
text: If the work is of joint authorship, the copyright expires 50 years after the death of the author who first dies, or upon the death of the author who dies last, whichever period is longer.
glosses: According to or depending upon which.
Synonyms: whichsoever
Derived terms: whichever way one slices it
whichever
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪt͡ʃˈɛvɚ/
ipa: /ʍɪt͡ʃˈɛvɚ/
rhymes: -ɛvə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Middle English qwichever, whiche ever, whiche evere, which ever, which evere; equivalent to which + ever.
Senses: examples: text: These chocolates all look delicious. Whichever shall I choose?
glosses: Which ever; emphatic form of 'which'.
examples: text: Whichever you pick, be content with it.
glosses: Irrespective of the one(s) that; no matter which one(s).
examples: text: I have a few books; please borrow whichever interest you.
text: They have lots of shirts, but I'll buy whichever is cheapest.
text: Whichever of you gets here first will get the prize.
glosses: Any or either one(s) that; the one(s) that.
examples: text: I don't mind which you have. Take whichever.
glosses: Any or either one(s).
examples: text: I'll buy the red shirt or the blue shirt, whichever is cheaper.
glosses: According to or depending upon which one(s).
pullet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʊlɪt/
rhymes: -ʊlɪt
Forms: form: pullets
Etymology: From Middle English polet, pulet, from Anglo-Norman pullet, Old French poulet (“young chicken”); polette (“young hen”), from poule (“hen”). Doublet of poult. Compare also Middle English pulle.
Senses: examples: text: They died not because the Pullets would not feed: but because the Devil foresaw their death, he contrived that abstinence in them.
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.11:
text: The dinner-hour being arrived, Black George carried her up a pullet, the squire himself [...] attending the door.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 588:
text: he recommended that the patient [...] should be fed with chicken broth, and suggested that as all the poultry had gone to roost, Maggie would find a fat young pullet an easy capture.
ref: 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 187:
text: The writer complained that a fox had been the night before and killed three more of his pullets […].
ref: 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 195:
text: “Mrs. Boast can’t have got all these from one hatching,” [Ma] said. “I do believe there’s not more than two cockerels among them.” “The Boasts have got such a head-start with chickens, likely they’re planning to eat friers this summer,” said Pa. “It may be she took a few cockerels out of this flock, looking on them as meat.” “Yes, and replaced them with pullets that will be layers,” Ma guessed. “It would be Mrs. Boast all over. A more generous woman never lived.”
ref: 1941, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Town on the Prairie:
hypernyms: poultry
glosses: A young hen, especially one less than a year old.
glosses: A spineless person; a coward.
glosses: A young girl.
Related terms: poultry
pullulate
birdlet
chick
fratricide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fratricides
Etymology: From Middle French fratricide or its etymon Latin frātricīdium.
Senses: examples: text: The new accusation brought by Urban against Manfred of murdering his sister-in-law's embassador – it may be observed that, tacitly, he acquits him of parricide, fratricide, and nepoticide – requires a little explanation.
ref: 1856, Mrs. William Busk, Mediæval Popes, Emperors, Kings, and Crusaders: Or, Germany, Italy and Palestine, from A.D. 1125 to A.D. 1268, volume IV, London: Hookham and Sons, →OCLC, page 294:
text: Terms related to familicide include filicide (the killing of one's child or children), uxoricide (the killing of one's wife), fratricide or sororicide (the killing of one's brother or sister), avunculicide (the killing of one's uncle), and nepoticide (the killing of one's nephew).
ref: 2014, Albert Lee Strickland, “Familicide”, in Michael John Brennan, editor, The A–Z of Death and Dying: Social, Medical, and Cultural Aspects, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, pages 205–206:
glosses: The killing of one's brother (or sister).
examples: text: From January on, Third Army also spent a good deal of energy trying to solve the problem of fratricide, the killing or injuring of one's own forces by what is ironically called 'friendly fire,'[…]
ref: 1999, Richard M. Swain, Lucky War: Third Army in Desert Storm, DIANE Publishing, page 180:
text: Such a press of arms invites many opportunities for unintentional fratricide.
ref: 2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Terminal Six (Legendary):
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The intentional or unintentional killing of a comrade in arms.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The undesirable situation where the separate missiles from a MIRV interfere with each other as they explode.
Derived terms: fratricidal
nuclear fratricide
Related terms: sense: murder
word: homicide
sense: murder of father
word: patricide
sense: murder of king
word: regicide
sense: murder of sister
word: sororicide
fratricide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fratricides
Etymology: From Middle English fratricide, from Middle French fratricide or its etymon Latin frātricīda.
Senses: examples: text: Can Signorio was twice a fratricide, the last time when he lay upon his death-bed: his tomb bears upon its gables the images of six virtues, — Faith, Hope, Charity, Prudence, and (I believe) Justice and Fortitude.
ref: 1853, John Ruskin, “Roman Renaissance”, in The Stones of Venice, volume III (The Fall), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, § LVI, page 73:
text: The conversion of Russia to Christianity was effected, it would seem by a monster of cruelty and lust. That Vladimir (980–1015) was a fratricide, who maintained 3,500 concubines, has not prevented his canonization as a saint.
ref: 1936, H. A. L. Fisher, A History of Europe, Edward Arnold Publishers, page 376:
glosses: A person who commits fratricide.
Synonyms: brother-slayer
macropine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmækɹəpaɪn/
Etymology: From translingual Macropus + -ine.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to the kangaroo or the wallaroo.
microtine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪkɹətaɪn/
Etymology: From scientific Latin Microtinae , a subfamily name, from Microtus + -inae.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to the subfamily Microtinae, including voles, lemmings and muskrats.
microtine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪkɹətaɪn/
Forms: form: microtines
Etymology: From scientific Latin Microtinae , a subfamily name, from Microtus + -inae.
Senses: glosses: Any rodent of the former subfamily Microtinae (now Arvicolinae)
chthonophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of chthonophagia.
allative case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allative cases
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A case used to indicate movement onto, or to the adjacency of something. In English, this is usually expressed by the prepositions to or onto, as in "to the house," "onto the house." Languages that use the allative case include Basque, Dyirbal, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, and Lithuanian.
geophagia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒiəˈfeɪdʒə/
/d͡ʒiəˈfeɪdʒiə/
Etymology: From geo- + -phagia.
Senses: examples: text: In fact, expectant mothers in many sub-Saharan African cultures routinely eat soils (a practice called geophagia).
ref: 2006 May 27, NewScientist, page 54, column 1:
glosses: Consumption of clay, chalk or dirt.
Synonyms: pica
Related terms: chthonophagia
chthonophagy
geophagy
chthonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkθəʊnɪən/
ipa: /ˈθəʊnɪən/
ipa: /ˈkθoʊni.ən/
ipa: /ˈθoʊni.ən/
rhymes: (UK) -əʊnɪən
Forms: form: more chthonian
form: most chthonian
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χθόνιος (khthónios, “in or under the ground”), from χθών (khthṓn, “ground”).
Senses: examples: text: Consus, moreover, is regarded as a god of the lower world, or Chthonian divinity—another circumstance which connects him with Poseidôn, whose character becomes more and more Chthonian the farther his cultus is traced into the East, where also his phase as lord of knowledge and wisdom appears more manifestly.
ref: 1872, Robert Brown, Poseidôn: A Link between Semite, Hamite, and Aryan, page 70:
text: ...I intend to apply the name chthonian to all gods and spirits of the earth, whether their functions are concerned with agriculture or with the grave and the world beyond, or (as often) with both.
ref: 1950, W. K. C. Guthrie, The Greeks and Their Gods, Beacon Press, published 1955, page 219:
text: The Olympian religion is truly Olympian when it rests on Chthonian grounds, and the Chthonian religion is truly Chthonian when it stands in the Olympian light.
ref: 1969, Vincent Vycinas, Earth and Gods: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger, page 196:
text: Even an “Olympian” deity such as Athena Polias at Athens may have chthonian features, such as her association with the snake, a creature symbolic of the earth.
ref: 2007, Jennifer Lynn Larson, Ancient Greek Cults: A Guide, page 12:
text: For example, the Oresteia, 'that treasure house of chthonian concepts' (Scullion 1994: 111), categorizes gods in ways that do not match the rigid terms of the foundational scholarship on Olympian versus chthonian deities.
ref: 2015, Susan Deacy, “Gods—Olympian or Chthonic”, in Esther Eidinow, Julia Kindt, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, page 359:
glosses: Pertaining to the underworld; being beneath the earth.
Derived terms: chthonian planet
Related terms: Chthonia
chthonic
chthonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkθəʊnɪən/
ipa: /ˈθəʊnɪən/
ipa: /ˈkθoʊni.ən/
ipa: /ˈθoʊni.ən/
rhymes: (UK) -əʊnɪən
Forms: form: chthonians
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χθόνιος (khthónios, “in or under the ground”), from χθών (khthṓn, “ground”).
Senses: glosses: A dweller in the mythical underworld.
delative case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delative cases
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: case used to indicate movement from an object. In English, this is usually expressed by the prepositions from or off of, as in "down off of the house." Hungarian is a language that uses the delative case, see -ról.
inhibit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈhɪbɪt/
rhymes: -ɪbɪt
Forms: form: inhibits
form: inhibiting
form: inhibited
form: inhibited
Etymology: From Latin inhibitus, perfect passive participle of inhibeō (“I hold in, check, restrain”), from in (“in, at, on”), + habeō (“I have, hold, keep”).
Senses: examples: text: inhibit someone's freedom
text: inhibit someone's education
synonyms: word: behedge
word: blunt
word: delay
word: difficult
word: diminish
word: forestay
word: interfere
word: intervene
word: forslow
word: frustrate
word: get in the way
word: hamper
word: handicap
word: hinder
word: hold up
word: hurt
word: impair
word: impede
word: incommode
word: lessen
word: let
word: mar
word: obstruct
word: overslaugh
word: preclude
word: prevene
word: prevent
word: prohibit
word: reduce
word: restrict
word: retard
word: slow down
word: stay
word: stymie
word: thwart
word: thwarten
word: umbeset
word: undermine
word: weaken
word: worsen
glosses: To hold in or hold back; to keep in check; restrain.
glosses: To recuse.
Derived terms: autoinhibit
baroinhibit
coinhibit
disinhibit
enzyme-inhibiting medication
immunoinhibit
inhibin
inhibitability
inhibitable
inhibitant
inhibiter
inhibitive
photoinhibit
transinhibit
Related terms: exhibit
exhibition
exhibitor
inhibition
inhibitor
inhibitory
abessive case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abessive cases
Senses: examples: text: Languages that use the abessive case include Erzya, Estonian, Finnish, Mongolian, Northern Sámi, and Inari Sámi.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: caritive case
privative case
glosses: A grammatical case used to express the lack or absence of something. It has the meaning of the English preposition without or the affix -less.
sod off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sods off
form: sodding off
form: sodded off
form: sodded off
Senses: examples: text: Why don't you just sod off and leave me alone?
text: He was here a minute ago but now he's sodded off.
qualifier: dismissal
glosses: Go away.
Synonyms: sense: similar register
word: bugger off
word: be off
word: depart
word: go
word: go away
word: leave
word: take off
word: take one's leave
word: clear off
word: fuck off
word: piss off
diglossia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dī'glŏʹsē.ə
ipa: /ˌdaɪˈɡlɒsi.ə/
ipa: /ˌdaɪˈɡlɑsi.ə/
Forms: form: diglossy
Etymology: From Latin diglōssia. In linguistics introduced 1959 by Charles A. Ferguson, based on French diglossie, from Ancient Greek δίγλωσσος (díglōssos, “bilingual”) + -ία (-ía). Equivalent to di- + -glossia.
Senses: examples: text: To begin with, of the two varieties involved in diglossia, the one serving (H)igh societal functions, unlike that reserved for (L)ow ones, is nobody's mother tongue: it is learned in later life largely by formal education, and is not used for ordinary conversation. Secondly, the diglossic contrast concerns widely divergent varieties, as opposed to stylistic contrasts which tend to be small-scale. Moreover, diglossia occurs within a single language, while bilingualism or multilingualism, involve far more divergent linguistic systems.
ref: 1994, Periklis Daltas, “The Concept of Diglossia from Ferguson to Fishman to Fasold”, in Irene Philippaki-Warburton, Katerina Nicolaidis, Maria Sifianou, editors, Themes in Greek Linguistics: Papers from the First International Conference on Greek Linguistics, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 341:
text: 2000, Joshua A. Fishman, Chapter 3: Bilingualism with and without diglossia; diglossia with and without bilingualism, Li Wei (editor), The Bilingualism Reader, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 81,
It is the purpose of this chapter to relate these two research traditions to each other by tracing the interaction between their two major constructs: bilingualism (on the part of psychologists) and diglossia (on the part of sociologists).
text: Only very small and isolated communities display neither diglossia nor bilingualism.
ref: 2013, Elien Declercq, Michael Boyden, “Multilingualism and Diglossia in Migration Literature: The Case of Flemish Songs in Northern France”, in Wolfgang Behschnitt, Sarah De Mul, Liesbeth Minnaard, editors, Literature, Language, and Multiculturalism in Scandinavia and the Low Countries, Rodopi, page 20:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
social-science
sociology
coordinate_terms: digraphia
glosses: The coexistence in a given population of two closely related native languages or dialects, one of which is regarded as more prestigious than the other; the similar coexistence of two unrelated languages.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: bifid tongue
cleft tongue
glosses: The presence of a cleft or doubled tongue.
Related terms: diglossic
polyglossia
wedlock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛd.lɒk/
ipa: /ˈwɛd.lɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
Forms: form: wedlocks
Etymology: From Middle English wedlok, wedlocke (“wedlock, marriage, matrimony”), from Old English wedlāc (“marriage vow, pledge, plighted troth, wedlock”). By surface analysis, wed + -lock.
Senses: examples: text: If I were about to marry, I should try it; that is, if I were a student of girldom with a view to wedlock for in truth, I am a marrying man.
ref: 1871, Thomas Meehan, editor, Gardener's monthly and horticulturist:
text: Nothing Jesus Christ more quemeth (pleaseth) Than love in wedlock where men it yemeth (keepeth);
ref: 1906, William Henry Schofield, English Literature:
synonyms: matrimony
marriage
glosses: The state of being married.
examples: text: that lovely payre, / Enlincked fast in wedlockes loyall bond, / Bold Marinell with Florimell the fayre […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Which of these is thy Wedlock, Menelaus? thy Hellen? thy Lucrece? that we may do her Honour; mad Boy?
ref: 1601, Ben Jonson, The Poetaster:
text: What is it then but that desire which God put into Adam in Paradise before he knew the sin of incontinence; that desire which God saw it was not good that man should be left alone to burn in; the desire and longing to put off an unkindly solitarines by uniting another body, but not without a fit soule to his in the cheerfull society of wedlock.
ref: 1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce:
glosses: A wife; a married woman.
Derived terms: bedlock
break wedlock
out of wedlock
Related terms: bridelock
matrimony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmat.ɹɪ.mə.ni/
ipa: /ˈmæt.ɹɪˌmoʊ.ni/
Forms: form: matrimonies
Etymology: From Old French matremoine, from Latin mātrimōnium (“marriage, wedlock”), from mātri(s) (“mother”) + -mōnium (“obligation”). By surface analysis, matri- + -mony. Compare patrimony.
Senses: examples: text: If either of you know any impediment, why ye may not be lawfully joined together in matrimony, ye do now confess it.
ref: 1549 March 7, Thomas Cranmer [et al.], compilers, The Booke of the Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacramentes, […], London: […] Edowardi Whitchurche […], →OCLC:
text: […]you can play around with girls without being involved in meshes of sentiment, and you can do anything and be justified—and here am I with the brains to do everything, yet tied to the sinking ship of future matrimony.
ref: 1920 April, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, book II (The Education of a Personage), page 255:
glosses: Marriage; the state of being married.
glosses: The ceremony of marriage.
glosses: A particular solitaire card game using two decks of cards.
glosses: A spouse.
Synonyms: sense: state of being married
word: marriage
sense: state of being married
word: wedlock
sense: ceremony of marriage
word: wedding
sense: ceremony of marriage
word: nuptials
Derived terms: holy matrimony
matrimonial
matrimony vine
muttrimony
Related terms: acrimony
alimony
ceremony
harmony
parsimony
patrimony
sanctimony
testimony
wedding
out of wedlock
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Some children are born out of wedlock.
glosses: Of parents not legally married.
caritive case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caritive cases
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: abessive case
privative case
glosses: A case used to express the lack or absence of something. It has the meaning of the English preposition "without." The caritive case is found in some Caucasian languages.
weed out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: weeds out
form: weeding out
form: weeded out
form: weeded out
Senses: examples: text: To weed out problem users, watch new people's behavior.
text: In May get a weed-hook, a crotch and a glove,
And weed out such weeds, as the corn doth not love
ref: 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:
text: “I like the question, ‘Where can I take you/where will you take me on our first date?’ because that’s the point of the app and you’re already both attracted to each other. It weeds out people who aren’t actually interested in meeting up and are using the app passively,” Hoggard Wagley says.
ref: 2023 March 6, Alexis Jones, Megan Schaltegger, “These Tinder Conversation Starters Actually Work, According To Dating Experts”, in Women's Health:
glosses: To remove (unwanted elements) from a group.
Derived terms: word: weedout
weedkiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weedkillers
form: weed killer
Etymology: From weed + killer.
Senses: glosses: A chemical agent that destroys unwanted plants (weeds) but not wanted ones (crops etc).
Synonyms: weedicide
Hypernyms: herbicide
phytocide
unwanted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈwɒntɪd/
homophone: unwonted
Forms: form: more unwanted
form: most unwanted
Etymology: From un- + wanted.
Senses: examples: text: I rebuffed his unwanted advances.
text: Once finances are stabilised, getting Crossrail finished is Byford's most obvious task. Late and over budget, it is causing unwanted headlines and friction between the London Mayor and the Department for Transport that both sides would rather live without.
ref: 2020 December 2, Andy Byford talks to Paul Clifton, “I enjoy really big challenges...”, in Rail, page 52:
text: When asked why the devices were retrofitted on older models instead of newer ones, Sarno said the MTA typically uses older car models when making modifications in case there are any unwanted effects.
ref: 2025 March 9, Nic F. Anderson, “Tired of subway delays? The MTA wants to fix that by strapping Google smartphones to New York trains”, in CNN:
glosses: Not wanted; unwelcome.
Derived terms: unwantedness
unwanted
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈwɒntɪd/
homophone: unwonted
Forms: form: unwanteds
Etymology: From un- + wanted.
Senses: examples: text: What slaves they had bought to carry the goods of the interior back to the coast were the unwanteds of the villages — the persons convicted of crime who would normally have been killed or banished from their communities […]
ref: 1963, The Nyasaland Journal, volumes 16-17, page 12:
text: There were no thoughts of hydrogen bombs or CBW or contraceptives or removing unwanteds. It was the old America, the old order restored, and the President saw that it was Good.
ref: 1970, Triumph, volumes 5-6, page 7:
glosses: One who or that is not wanted; an undesirable.
maltose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔːltəʊz/
Forms: form: maltoses
Etymology: From malt + -ose.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A disaccharide, C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁ formed from the digestion of starch by amylase; is converted to glucose by maltase; it is an isomer of trehalose
Derived terms: carboxymaltose
isomaltose
maltoside
maltosyl
polymaltose
toyon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toyons
Etymology: From Spanish tollón.
Senses: glosses: A chiefly Californian ornamental evergreen shrub (Photinia arbutifolia, syn. Heteromeles arbutifolia) of the rose family having white flowers succeeded by red berries.
Synonyms: Christmas berry
California holly
touse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: touses
form: tousing
form: toused
form: toused
form: towze
Etymology: From Middle English tosen, from Old English *tāsan, from Proto-West Germanic *taisan. See tease. Cognate with German zausen (“to tousle”).
Senses: glosses: To rumple, tousle.
examples: text: His tongue troules like a Mill-clack: a towzes the Lady ſiſters, as a tumbling Dog does young Rabets; […]
ref: c. 1635–1636 (date written), Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], The Fancies, Chast and Noble: […], London: […] E[lizabeth] P[urslowe] for Henry Seile, […], published 1638, →OCLC, Act III, page 39:
text: How did he like it when the live creatures
Tickled and toused and browsed him all over,
And worm, slug, eft, with serious features
Came in, each one, for his right of trover?
ref: 1844, Robert Browning, "Garden Fancies," II. Sibrandus Schafnaburgennis
glosses: To pull to pieces.
touse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: touses
Etymology: From Middle English tosen, from Old English *tāsan, from Proto-West Germanic *taisan. See tease. Cognate with German zausen (“to tousle”).
Senses: glosses: a noisy disturbance
gribble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɪ.bəl/
ipa: /ˈɡɹɪ.bl̩/
rhymes: -ɪbəl
Forms: form: gribbles
Etymology: Uncertain. Compare grub, from Proto-Germanic *grub- (“to dig”).
Senses: glosses: Any of various wood-boring marine crustaceans of the genus Limnoria, especially Limnoria lignorum, which cause damage to underwater wooden structures.
gribble
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɪ.bəl/
ipa: /ˈɡɹɪ.bl̩/
rhymes: -ɪbəl
Forms: form: more gribble
form: most gribble
Etymology: Possibly related to grumble.
Senses: examples: text: You're always gribble first thing in the morning.
ref: 1984, Peter A. Smith, Fred M. Barritt, Bermewjan Vurds, Island Press:
qualifier: Bermuda
glosses: Tending to grumble; grumpy, irascible.
gribble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɪ.bəl/
ipa: /ˈɡɹɪ.bl̩/
rhymes: -ɪbəl
Forms: form: gribbles
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: examples: text: The study also reveals that Wigan likely calls excess batter bits ‘Scraps’ or ‘Bits’, compared to the south west and east of the UK who are more likely to order ‘Gribbles’ or ‘Scrumps’.
ref: [2020 September 4, Ben Butler, “REVEALED: UK’s brutal verdict on these Wigan chip-shop favourites”, in Wigan Today:
text: Margaret also played her part in filling our hungry mouths by working at the local fish and chip shop in the village and by bringing home all the leftovers which we devoured ravenously—gribbles, the odd faggot etc. etc.—delicious.
ref: 2023, Sheila M. Hutchings, Humble Beginnings, →ISBN:
text: Went to a Chippy as a Kid.
Me "do you have Pigs Feet?"
Lass Behind Counter "Yes I do".
Me "Well give us a bag of GRIBBLES then Porky!!!"
ref: 2023 August 17, Pssstu2021, “What does everyone call these from the chippy?”, in Reddit, r/CasualUK:
synonyms: scrap
scratching
glosses: A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips.
ard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑɹd/
ipa: /ɑːd/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: ards
Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian ard (“plough”), from Old Norse arðr, from Proto-Germanic *arþrą (“plough”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂érh₃trom (“plough”), whence also Latin aratrum.
Senses: glosses: A simple plough consisting of a spike dragged through the soil.
Synonyms: ard plough
scratch plough
ard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑɹd/
ipa: /ɑːd/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d
Etymology: Contraction of all right, possibly influenced by regional Philadelphia English pronunciation.
Senses: qualifier: chiefly African-American Vernacular
glosses: Contraction of all right.
qualifier: chiefly African-American Vernacular
glosses: Okay; average; nothing special.
ard
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑɹd/
ipa: /ɑːd/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d
Etymology: Contraction of all right, possibly influenced by regional Philadelphia English pronunciation.
Senses: qualifier: chiefly African-American Vernacular
glosses: Contraction of all right.
ard
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑɹd/
ipa: /ɑːd/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d
Etymology: Contraction of all right, possibly influenced by regional Philadelphia English pronunciation.
Senses: qualifier: chiefly African-American Vernacular
glosses: Contraction of all right.
Related terms: aight
deas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdiːəs/
/ˈdeɪəs/
Forms: form: deases
Senses: examples: text: I could never think of a King but what I supposed him sitting under the high deas, and feasting amid his high vassals and Paladins, eating blanc-manger, with a great gold crown upon his head, or else charging at the head of his troops like Charlemagne in the romaunts, or like Robert Bruce or William Wallace in our own true histories.
ref: 1823, [Walter Scott], “The Man-at-Arms”, in Quentin Durward. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 109:
glosses: Alternative form of dais.
flag day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flag days
Senses: glosses: A day on which a registered charity raises money, usually by selling small lapel flags.
glosses: A day on which a registered charity raises money, usually by selling small stickers.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: A day designated for changing to an incompatible system.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: A change which is neither forward nor backward compatible.
Related terms: urls: https://web.archive.org/web/20130905085650/http://www.eps.mcgill.ca/jargon/jargon.html#flag%20day
word: New Hacker's Dictionary entry for Flag Day
amylase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæmɪleɪs/
Forms: form: amylases
Etymology: From amyl- + -ase.
Senses: examples: text: egg yolk amylase
text: Egg yolks contain a starch-digesting enzyme, amylase, that is remarkably resistant to heat. Unless a starch-egg mix is brought to a full boil, the yolk amylase will survive, digest the starch, and turn the stiff cream into a pourable one.
ref: 2004, Harold McGee, chapter 2, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of digestive enzymes, present in saliva and also contributed to the gut by the exocrine pancreas, that break down complex carbohydrates such as starch into simpler sugars such as glucose.
Derived terms: amylasic
endoamylase
exoamylase
glucoamylase
isoamylase
macroamylase
preamylase
Related terms: amyl
amylose
diastase
forward compatible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more forward compatible
form: most forward compatible
form: forwards compatible
Etymology: Back-formation from forward compatibility.
Senses: examples: In order to be forward compatible, we keep a configurable list of valid keywords that we don't understand.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Capable of interoperating with anticipated future systems.
Related terms: backward compatible
forward compatibility