cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
idiocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪdiˈɒkɹəsi/
ipa: /ˌɪdiˈɑkɹəsi/
homophone: ideocracy
homophone: idiocrasy
rhymes: -ɒkɹəsi
Forms: form: idiocracies
Etymology: From idiot + -cracy. The word was coined by the writers of a 2006 movie about the topic, which some have interpreted as presaging, through caricature, the state of the world.
Senses: examples: text: In trying to explain why our political paralysis seems to have gotten so much worse over the past year, analysts have rounded up a plausible collection of reasons including: President Obama's tactical missteps, the obstinacy of congressional Republicans, rising partisanship in Washington, the blustering idiocracy of the cable-news stations, and the Senate filibuster, which has devolved into a super-majority threshold for any important legislation.
ref: 2010 February 6, Jacob Weisberg, “Down With the People”, in Slate, archived from the original on 28 Jun 2019:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A government run by idiots.
glosses: A society where idiocy is the norm, often denoting the current state of the world.
Derived terms: idiocratic
rebel without a cause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rebels without a cause
form: rebels without causes
Senses: glosses: One who fights for the sake of fighting but has no clear goal to achieve.
rachides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rachis
defragmentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˌfɹæɡmənˈteɪʃən/
Forms: form: defragmentations
Etymology: From defragment + -ation or de- + fragmentation.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The action of defragmenting, particularly with respect to a computer disk or drive.
Related terms: fragmentation
defragmentations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defragmentation
-scape
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Back-formation from landscape, the suffix representing Middle Dutch -schap (“the English suffix -ship, e.g. of friendship, kinship, ownership”), from Old Dutch -skap (“-ship”), from Proto-Germanic *-skapiz (“-ship”), from *skapaz (“shape, form”). Cognate with Modern Dutch -schap (“-ship”), German -schaft (“-ship”), Swedish -skap (“-ship”), -scipe (“-ship”). More at -ship, shape.
Senses: glosses: form, formation, shape
glosses: scene, picture, view
glosses: A specific type of space
below the fold
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: topics: journalism
media
newspapers
glosses: Printed on the lower half of the front page of a broadsheet newspaper, such that it is not immediately visible on a folded copy of the newspaper, e.g. as displayed at a newsstand or in a vending machine.
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
web-design
glosses: Far enough down that it is not likely to be visible in the initial display of a window or screen, such that the end user will probably have to scroll down before seeing it.
almsgiving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: almsgivings
Etymology: From alms + giving.
Senses: glosses: The act of voluntarily giving alms, of making donations to the poor, charity.
almsgivings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of almsgiving
analog computer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: analog computers
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer (mechanical, electrical or other) that processes using continuously varying signals rather than digital, quantized, values.
Related terms: computer
digital computer
analog computers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of analog computer
digital computer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪdʒɪtlˌkəmˈpjuːtə/
Forms: form: digital computers
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computing device that processes signals that change in discrete, quantized, steps; as opposed to an analog computer.
digital computers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of digital computer
anchoret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anchorets
Senses: examples: text: "... or if they preferred spending a penitential evening, they might turn down yonder wild glade, which would bring them to the hermitage of Copmanhurst, where a pious anchoret would make them sharers for the night of the shelter of his roof and the benefit of his prayers."
ref: 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
glosses: Alternative spelling of anchorite.
Derived terms: anchoretic
anchoretism
anchorets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anchoret
antidotal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From antidote + -al.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Relating to or being an antidote.
Derived terms: antidotally
knife rest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knife rests
Senses: glosses: A piece of kitchenware for temporarily resting a knife on while it is not in use, and without touching the table.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A portable defensive barrier consisting of a frame covered in barbed wire.
shirring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shirrings
Senses: glosses: Two or more rows of gathers used to decorate parts of garments, usually the sleeves, bodice and yoke.
shirring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shirr
glosses: present participle and gerund of shir
Derived terms: shirring string
vice-a-versa
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Phonetic spelling of vice versa.
Senses: glosses: Phonetic alternative spelling of vice versa.
stockier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of stocky: more stocky
stockiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of stocky: most stocky
rhachis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhachises
form: rhachides
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rachis.
rhachises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhachis
ethnographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethnographers
Etymology: From ethno- + -grapher.
Senses: examples: text: First, some ethnographers would argue that reconceptualizing groupness is necessary to better understand sharedness as a quality of group communication.
ref: 2002, Lawrence R. Frey, New Directions in Group Communication:
text: The second stage in the process by which African cultural realities are often mistransformed through mistranslation by ethnographers is associated with the urgent demand for 'theories' to assist the ethnographer in organising his field data and in presenting the conclusions derived from the data.
ref: 2012, Helen Lauer, Kofi Anyidoho, Reclaiming the Human Sciences and Humanities Through African Perspectives, page 87:
glosses: One who practices ethnography.
Derived terms: autoethnographer
cyberethnographer
Related terms: ethnographic
ethnographical
ethnographically
ethnography
ethnographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ethnographer
railbed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪlbɛd/
Forms: form: railbeds
form: rail bed
Etymology: From rail + bed.
Senses: examples: Holonyms: permanent way, right of way
synonyms: trackbed
glosses: The substructure of a railway, underlying the tracks; the roadbed of a railroad.
red link
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red links
form: redlink
Etymology: In most wikis, a link to a nonexistent page appears in red text.
Senses: antonyms: blue link
coordinate_terms: orange link
qualifier: wiki jargon
glosses: A red hyperlink that directs to a potential page (one not yet created) of a wiki.
Derived terms: red-linked
toxoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toxoid
arseniate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arseniates
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: arsenate
Derived terms: binarseniate
conservatorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conservatorships
Etymology: From conservator + -ship.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The legal status of a conservator, similar to guardianship or trusteeship.
examples: text: However, the last few years of his life were primarily defined by his troubled family life—he is estranged from many of his relatives, at one point alleging that they tried to place him under a conservatorship[…]
ref: 2022 November 6, Emma Garland, “Aaron Carter was the millennium’s bubblegum bad boy – and the victim of a rapacious music industry”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: law
glosses: The state of being under the control of a conservator.
Related terms: conservatee
conservator
octology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of octalogy.
PMTCT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
manganin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manganins
Senses: glosses: Any of several alloys of copper, manganese and nickel used in the manufacture of electrical resistors because of the thermal stability of their resistance
arsenic trisulphide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of arsenic trisulfide.
trisulphide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trisulphides
Etymology: From tri- + sulphide.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of trisulfide.
trisulfide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trisulfides
form: trisulphide
Etymology: From tri- + sulfide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any sulfide containing three atoms of sulfur.
Derived terms: arsenic trisulfide
tetraphosphorus trisulfide
arsenic trisulfide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arsenic trisulphide
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The bright yellow sulfide of arsenic, As₂S₃, that occurs as the mineral orpiment, and has been used as a pigment
ammonium acetate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The ammonium salt of acetic acid, CH₃CO₂NH₄, that is used as a buffer in standard electrodes
Gibralter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Gibraltar.
STROG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Acronym of Strait of Gibraltar.
conservatee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conservatees
Etymology: Formed by analogy from conservator, replacing the active suffix "-or" with the passive "-ee."
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A person who the court has determined requires a conservator to handle their estate or affairs.
Related terms: conservator
conservatorship
conservatees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conservatee
lenity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛnɪti/
Forms: form: lenities
Etymology: From Middle French lénité, from Latin lēnitās.
Senses: examples: text: His Highneſſe pleaſure is that he ſhould liue,
And be reclaim’d with princely lenitie.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene ii:
text: In the ſeveral Debates upon this Impeachment, it muſt be confeſſed that his Majeſty gave many marks Of his great Lenity, often urging the Services you had done him, and endeavouring to extenuate your Crimes.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author being Informed of a Design to Accuse Him of High-Treason, Makes His Escape to Blefuscu. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), page 121:
text: If his judgment in this case was erroneous, be it remembered it was his own; nor let the narrator be accountable for an excess of lenity and good nature peculiarly characteristic of the man.
ref: 1838, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XX, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 309:
glosses: leniency, mercy, forgiveness
Derived terms: rule of lenity
semperlenity
fall away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls away
form: falling away
form: fell away
form: fallen away
Senses: examples: text: After the divorce, all his friends fell away one by one.
text: These […] for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 8:13:
text: My "ex"es include both practicing and fallen-away Catholics and Jews.
ref: 1987 April 11, John Birmingham, “If Only Cardinals Law and O'Connor Were Gay!”, in Gay Community News, page 5:
glosses: To cease to support a person or cause.
examples: text: One colour falls away by just degrees, and another rises insensibly.
ref: 1697, Joseph Addison, Essay on Virgil's Georgics:
text: While long-distance and commuter rail travel still fared well, train travel to seaside resorts was perhaps inevitably falling away.
ref: 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 51:
text: The power off, the engine noise falls away as we roll east under an odd mixture of old and new bridges.
ref: 2025 August 20, Paul Clifton, “A driver's eye view of East West Rail”, in RAIL, number 1042, page 33:
coordinate_terms: fade away
fall off
slip away
tail off
taper off
trail off
glosses: To diminish in size, weight, or intensity.
examples: text: How […] can the soul […] fall away into nothing?
ref: 1711 July 18 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “SATURDAY, July 7, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 111; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: To perish; to vanish; to be lost.
glosses: To slope downward.
raw_tags: of terrain
Derived terms: word: fallaway
Related terms: word: fall down
word: falling-out
word: fall out
fallaway
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Deverbal from fall away.
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Of a shot, taken while moving away from the basket.
Derived terms: fallaway jumper
fallaway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fallaways
Etymology: Deverbal from fall away.
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A shot taken while moving away from the basket.
fall back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls back
form: falling back
form: fell back
form: fallen back
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fall, back.
glosses: To retreat.
glosses: To fail to fulfill a promise or purpose.
glosses: To turn the clocks back for the end of daylight saving time.
Synonyms: sense: retreat
word: ebb
sense: retreat
word: ebb away
sense: retreat
word: recede
sense: retreat
word: retreat
Derived terms: fall-back
fallback
Related terms: fall back, fall edge
fall back on
fall back upon
spring forward, fall back
fall-back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fall-backs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fallback.
fall down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːl ˈdaʊn/
ipa: /fɔl ˈdaʊn/
ipa: /fɑl ˈdaʊn/
Forms: form: falls down
form: falling down
form: fell down
form: fallen down
Senses: examples: text: Ring a-ring o' roses, / A pocketful of posies. / A-tishoo! A-tishoo! / We all fall down. — traditional nursery rhyme (British version)
text: The beams supporting the roof had rotted, causing the entire house to fall down.
text: Out of spite, the human beings pretended not to believe that it was Snowball who had destroyed the windmill: they said that it had fallen down because the walls were too thin.
ref: 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
text: He describes the operation thus: "The heavy ram employed to impart the finishing strokes, hoisted up with double purchase and snail's pace to the summit of the Piling Engine, and then falling down like a thunderbolt on the head of the devoted timber, driving it perhaps a single half inch in to the stratum below, is well calculated to put to the test the virtue of patience, while it illustrates the old adage of—slow and sure."
ref: 1952 July, W. R. Watson, “Sankey Viaduct and Embankment”, in Railway Magazine, page 487:
glosses: To fall to the ground. To collapse.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To sail or drift toward the mouth of a river or other outlet.
examples: text: That is where your reasoning falls down.
glosses: To fail; to make a mistake.
Synonyms: sense: fall to the ground
word: drop
sense: fall to the ground
word: fall
sense: collapse
word: collapse
sense: collapse
word: fall
Derived terms: word: downfall
word: falldown
word: fall down on
Related terms: fall away
fall off
fall out
root-fallen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From root + fallen.
Senses: glosses: Of a plant, that has become too large and heavy to support itself, and has fallen over, so uprooting itself.
Derived terms: root-fall
faller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fallers
Etymology: From fall + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I've said that you girls on this side were not very whole-hearted fallers-in-love.
ref: 1920, The Green Book Magazine, volume 23, page 75:
text: Most trippers and fallers I know fall forward, but it could have happened. He could have gone out for a midnight walk, he could have wanted to commune with the moon from the middle of the log, he could have tripped and fallen backward […]
ref: 2011, Dana Stabenow, Hunter's Moon:
text: Significantly more cervical spine injuries were seen in fallers as opposed to jumpers.
ref: 2016, Michael P. Burke, Forensic Pathology of Fractures and Mechanisms of Injury:
glosses: One who falls.
examples: text: There were peas to be gathered and shelled, currants and gooseberries to be picked, and when the apple season came, she had to go round the orchard several times a-day to pick up the fallers.
ref: 1867, The Penny Post, volume 17, page 17:
glosses: A fruit that falls from the tree, rather than being picked.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A part which acts by falling, such as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks.
examples: text: Fallers can make a tree fall exactly where they plan.
ref: 1909, Pamphlets on Conservation of Natural Resources, page 14:
text: A worker who assists fallers and/or sawyers in clearing away brush, limbs and small trees, […]
ref: 2011, “Master the Firefighter Exam”, in Peterson's:
glosses: Synonym of feller (“one who cuts down trees”).
synonyms: word: feller
extra: one who cuts down trees
Derived terms: backfaller
counterfaller
freefaller
infaller
off-faller
falling knife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: falling knives
Senses: topics: business
finance
trading
glosses: A stock whose price has dropped rapidly.
Derived terms: catch a falling knife
jouissance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jouissances
Etymology: From Middle French jouissance, from jouir (“to enjoy”).
Senses: examples: text: friendship is enjoyed according as it is desired, it is neither bred, nor nourished, nor increaseth but in jovissance, as being spirituall, and the minde being refined by use and custome.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: Enjoyment, delight, pleasure.
examples: text: Instead Lyotard suggests that the worker experiences jouissance, a masochistic pleasure, in the imposed ‘mad destruction’ of their body.
ref: 2013, Benjamin Noys, Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism, Zero Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A transgressive, excessive kind of pleasure linked to the division and splitting of the subject involved.
fall-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fall-offs
Etymology: Deverbal from fall off.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of falloff.
Synonyms: falling-off
fall-out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fall-outs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fallout.
fidlam ben
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fidlam bens
Senses: examples: text: Given them are fidlam-bens who want Beauty and Booty as the reward of their havin fag'd as many of you as dont pike off, bullets for their prog; and let me see that you are jonnok, when these shabbaroons of England attack you.
ref: 1834, Seba Smith, Charles Augustus Davis, John Clarke (of Philadelphia), The Life of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States: Illustrated with Numerous Cuts, page 122:
text: He could get sent to jail for breaking in like a thieving fidlam ben.
ref: 2023 December 4, Bree Wolf, Sydney Jane Baily, Tracy Sumner, Charlie Lane, Fenna Edgewood, Jennifer Monroe, Meredith Bond, Naughty or Nice: A Holiday Regency Anthology, WOLF Publishing UG (haftungsbeschränkt), →ISBN:
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: A thief.
short-fall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short-falls
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shortfall.
Gibraltarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒɪ.bɹɔːlˈtɛəɹ.i.ən/
Forms: form: more Gibraltarian
form: most Gibraltarian
Etymology: From Gibraltar + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The curse has been Spanish ineptitude feeding Gibraltarian intransigence. Border hold-ups are counterproductive to winning hearts and minds, as were blundering Argentinian landings on the outer Falklands.
ref: 2013 August 14, Simon Jenkins, The Guardian:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Gibraltar or its people
Derived terms: Gibraltarian English
Gibraltarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒɪ.bɹɔːlˈtɛəɹ.i.ən/
Forms: form: Gibraltarians
Etymology: From Gibraltar + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The idea of a British warship supposedly menacing Spain is ludicrous. Is it meant to bomb Cadiz? Will its guns lift a rush-hour tailback in a colony that most Britons regard as awash with tax dodgers, drug dealers and right-wing whingers? The Gibraltarians have rights, but why British taxpayers should send warships to enforce them, even if just "on exercise", is a mystery.
ref: 2013 August 14, Simon Jenkins, The Guardian:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Gibraltar.
Gibraltarian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒɪ.bɹɔːlˈtɛəɹ.i.ən/
Etymology: From Gibraltar + -ian.
Senses: glosses: The dialect spoken in Gibraltar, a mix of British English and Andalusian Spanish.
Related terms: Llanito
Gibraltarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gibraltarian
cock-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cock-eyed
form: most cock-eyed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cockeyed.
decrees absolute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decree absolute
laughing-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more laughing-eyed
form: most laughing-eyed
Senses: glosses: Having eyes that reflect happiness.
over-under
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: over-unders
form: over/under
Senses: glosses: The spread or other predicted value for wagers.
Louvain
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Louvain.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Leuven.
synonyms: word: Leuven
matriclan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matriclans
Etymology: From matri- + clan.
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A clan, with membership determined by matrilineal descent from a common ancestor.
Related terms: patriclan
about-turns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of about-turn
about-turns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of about-turn
about-facing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of about-face
actomyosin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: actomyosins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein complex composed of actin and myosin, found in muscle fibres.
Synonyms: actinomyosin
protein complex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protein complexes
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A group of two or more associated proteins that remains stable over time.
protein complexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protein complex
adrenocortical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: adreno-cortical
Etymology: From adreno- + cortical.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the adrenal cortex.
Derived terms: adrenocortically
hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical
tombac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tombacs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tombak.
Cluj-Napoca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Cluj-Napoca, from Cluj, with the name of the Roman settlement Napoca added in 1974.
Senses: glosses: Cluj (a city in Cluj County, Romania).
TSA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Your next story of a travel pitfall the TSA isn't warning you about comes from Adam Felber.
ref: 2008 February 2, Peter Sagal, “Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!”, in National Public Radio:
text: The requirement for passengers to take their shoes off at TSA security checkpoints came nearly five years later due to “intelligence pointing to a continuing threat,” an official TSA history notes, following a foiled August 2006 terrorist plot to detonate liquid explosives onboard transatlantic flights. The TSA introduced its 3-1-1 liquids rule for carry-on luggage in response.
ref: 2025 July 8, Pete Muntean and Alexandra Skores, “TSA will no longer require all passengers to take shoes off at airport security checkpoints”, in CNN:
topics: government
coordinate_terms: CBP
CATSA
Frontex
glosses: Initialism of Transportation Security Administration.
topics: education
glosses: Initialism of Territory-wide System Assessment.
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of trypticase soy agar.
Kaplan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kaplans
Etymology: From the Latin, cappellanus.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Kaplanian
Kaplan turbine
spectacled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spectacle + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing spectacles.
glosses: Having the appearance of wearing spectacles, especially of animals.
Synonyms: word: bespectacled
word: four-eyed
Derived terms: spectacled bear
spectacled caiman
spectacled coot
spectacled cormorant
spectacled duck
spectacled eider
spectacled flowerpecker
spectacled goose
spectacled lizard
spectacled porpoise
spectacled prickletail
spectacled salamander
spectacled snake
spectacled warbler
Related terms: meganekko
hoddie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoddies
Etymology: From hod + -ie.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hod carrier.
synonyms: word: hod carrier
zongora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A guitar-like musical instrument of Romania, having originally two strings and now four or five.
underoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A trademark of the 1970s.
Senses: glosses: A set of matching briefs and top (usually a sleeveless shirt or T-shirt) themed after a superhero or other fictional character, popular with children in the 1980s.
advocator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: advocators
Etymology: From advocate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who advocates; an advocate
Derived terms: advocatress
advocators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of advocator
affixer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: affixers
Etymology: From affix + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Instead of retiring to his home he continued into the more reputable ways beyond, it then being about the hour at which the affixers of official notices were wont to display their energies.
ref: 1922, Ernest Bramah, Kai Lung's Golden Hours, page 102:
glosses: A person or thing that affixes.
after-taste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: after-tastes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of aftertaste.
after taste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: after tastes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of aftertaste.
after tastes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of after taste
after-tastes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of after-taste
agedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more agedly
form: most agedly
Etymology: From aged + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an aged manner.
Synonyms: hoarily
oldly
agentry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agentries
Etymology: From agent + -ry.
Senses: glosses: The position of being an agent.
Derived terms: double agentry
secret agentry
agentries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agentry
ageratums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ageratum
agha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɑːɡə/
/ɑːˈɡɑː/
Forms: form: aghas
form: aga
form: äga
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish آغا (aghā, agha) (Turkish ağa ).
Senses: glosses: An honorific for high officials used in Turkey and certain Muslim countries.
aghas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agha
agas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aga
aerological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aerology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to aerology.
affirmance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: affirmances
form: affirmaunce
Etymology: Either affirm + -ance or from Old French afermance
Senses: glosses: The act of affirming, affirmation
examples: text: Of these 248 appeals the Appellate Division reviewed 4, rendering 3 affirmances and 1 reversal, 75% affirmances, 25% reversals.
ref: 1934, Report of the Commission on the Administration of Justice in New York State, page 388:
text: The District [of Columbia] authored an amicus brief on behalf of 18 states urging affirmance.
ref: 2021, Harrison Stark and Loren Alikhan, A false choice between state sovereignty and multi-racial democracy, in: SCOTUSblog (Feb 24 2021)
topics: law
glosses: A decision upholding the decision of a lower court or agency
Coordinate terms: sense: court decision
word: reversal
Derived terms: disaffirmance
reaffirmance
allergenicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allergenicities
Etymology: From allergenic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The property or degree of being allergenic.
Derived terms: aeroallergenicity
photoallergenicity
moneyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moneynesses
Etymology: From money + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: As an option's expiration date approaches only its moneyness has value.
qualifier: derivative securities
glosses: The degree to which a derivative security is in the money, because of the relationship of the price of the underlying security to a conversion price or exercise price.
examples: text: In good times everything seems to have moneyness; in bad times, some money doesn't have much moneyness.
text: It is this undiscriminating acceptability which confers 'moneyness' on some things, regardless of the fact that others may also serve such subsidiary money functions as being a store of value or unit of account.
ref: 2004, Peter Joseph Drake, Currency, Credit and Commerce: Early Growth in Southeast Asia, page 98:
topics: banking
business
economics
sciences
glosses: The degree to which an asset approximates cash in its ready liquidity and the low transactions costs in realizing that liquidity.
work house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: work houses
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of workhouse.
ambients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ambient
amarettos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amaretto
amatorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: more amatorial
form: most amatorial
Senses: examples: text: Hi Steve, I have these amatorial feelings for you. Please may I lay with you?
glosses: Referring to love and romance, amatory.
Derived terms: amatorially
amatorially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more amatorially
form: most amatorially
Etymology: From amatorial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an amatory manner, romantically.
surveils
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of surveil
surveilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of surveil
glosses: present participle and gerund of surveille
surveilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of surveil
glosses: simple past and past participle of surveille
dracma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dracmas
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of drachma.
dewfall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈdʒuːˌfɔːl/
note: without the yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈdjuˌfɔːl/
ipa: /ˈduˌfɔl/
note: yod-dropping
ipa: /ˈduˌfɑl/
Forms: form: dewfalls
form: dew-fall
Etymology: From dew + fall. Compare Danish dugfald (“dewfall”).
Senses: glosses: The forming of dew.
examples: text: It was dark when they rose in the morning and dark when they filed into the kitchen to get their plates and spoons and still dark when they turned out in the dewfall and grainy mist of the yard.
ref: 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 44:
glosses: The time when dew begins to form.
dew-fall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dew-falls
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dewfall.
dustfall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dustfalls
Etymology: From dust + fall.
Senses: glosses: Fine particles deposited by the atmosphere.
Derived terms: dustfall jar
surgical gown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surgical gowns
Senses: glosses: A protective plastic gown worn by a surgeon when performing surgery.
Synonyms: gown
scrubs
Derived terms: surgical-gowned
Related terms: surgically gowned
hydrobiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hydro- + biological.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to hydrobiology.
hydrobiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydro- + biology.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The study of the biology of the organisms that inhabit bodies of water.
Related terms: hydrobiological
hydrobiologist
hydrobiologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrobiologists
Etymology: From hydro- + biologist.
Senses: glosses: A biologist whose speciality is hydrobiology
overfall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvəfɔːl/
ipa: /ˈoʊvɚfɔl/
ipa: /əʊvəˈfɔːl/
ipa: /oʊvɚˈfɔl/
Forms: form: overfalls
Etymology: From Middle English overfallen, from Old English oferfeallan (“to fall upon, attack”), from Proto-West Germanic *obarfallan, *ubirfallan, from Proto-Germanic *ubirfallaną; equivalent to over- + fall. Cognate with Dutch overvallen (“to raid, overtake”), German überfallen (“to assault, attack, raid”), Swedish överfalla (“to attack”).
Senses: glosses: A turbulent section of a body of water, caused by strong currents passing over submerged ridges.
glosses: Part of a garment that hangs so as to cover a lower part.
Derived terms: overfall dam
overfall mill
overfall weir
delipidation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delipidations
Etymology: From de- + lipidation.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The removal of lipids or lipid groups, often from a protein.
Related terms: delipidate
delipidative
dilapidation
hydrochemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydro- + chemistry.
Senses: glosses: That part of hydrology that deals with the chemical characteristics of bodies of water
Synonyms: chemical hydrology
delipidations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delipidation
dilapidations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dilapidation
hydrocopter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrocopters
Etymology: From hydro- + copter.
Senses: glosses: An amphibious catamaran propelled by an aircraft engine.
hydrogenase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrogenases
Etymology: From hydrogen + -ase, after dehydrogenase.
Senses: examples: text: It is clear from the experiments cited already that we are dealing with a bacterial enzyme comparable with the dehydrogenases, the substrate in this case being molecular hydrogen. […] In order to conform with the accepted terminology we suggest that this enzyme be called "hydrogenase."
ref: 1930, Marjory Stephenson, LH Stickland, “Hydrogenase: a bacterial enzyme activating molecular hydrogen”, in Biochemical Journal:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyzes the reduction of a substrate by the reversible oxidation of hydrogen.
Derived terms: apohydrogenase
hydrographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrographers
Etymology: From hydrography + -er.
Senses: glosses: A scientist whose speciality is hydrography.
Synonyms: word: hydrographist
hydrographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hydrographic
form: most hydrographic
Etymology: From hydrography + -ic.
Senses: synonyms: hydrographical
glosses: Of or pertaining to hydrography.
Derived terms: hydrographically
palaeohydrographic
paleohydrographic
hydrolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hydrolytic
form: most hydrolytic
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or accompanied by hydrolysis.
Derived terms: amidohydrolytic
ectohydrolytic
endohydrolytic
exohydrolytic
hydrolytically
nonhydrolytic
perhydrolytic
phosphohydrolytic
hydropathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hydropathic
form: most hydropathic
Senses: glosses: Relating to hydropathy
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to hydropathicity
Derived terms: hydropathically
hydropathic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydropathics
Senses: glosses: A temperance hotel offering hydropathy to guests.
hydrophilous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hydrophilous
form: most hydrophilous
Etymology: From hydro- + -philous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: That grows or thrives in or near water
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: That is pollinated by water
first-come-first-served
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: first come, first served
Senses: examples: text: Effective March 30, 2006, the State of Virginia no longer follows their “first come, first served” policy regarding allocation of multiple child support orders.
ref: 2006, US Department of Health and Human Services, Virginia Changes "First Come, First Served" for Multiple Orders:
glosses: Of a process or situation in which one is dealt with in the order in which ones arrives.
hydropiper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydropipers
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑδροπέπερι (hudropéperi).
Senses: glosses: Water pepper; a knotweed of species Persicaria hydropiper (formerly Polygonum hydropiper).
quite a bit
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkwaɪt ə ˈbɪt/
ipa: /ˌkwɑɪt ə ˈbɪt/
ipa: [ˌkwɑɪ.ɾə ˈbɪt]
Senses: glosses: considerably
Related terms: a bit
a lot
tackle fall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tackle falls
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: fall
glosses: The end of the rope of a tackle, to which the power is applied when hoisting.
fall together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls together
form: falling together
form: fell together
form: fallen together
Etymology: The idiomatic sense “to merge” may be a loan translation of to coincide. Compare also German zusammenfallen (“to merge”).
Senses: glosses: To be merged or coalesce; to become identical.
examples: text: For, if (ſaid he) you throw among five Yahoos as much Food as would be ſufficient for fifty, they will, inſtead of eating peaceably, fall together by the ears, each ſingle one impatient to have all to itſelf; […]
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author’s Great Love of His Native Country. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms), page 258:
glosses: To come together.
glosses: Of the eyes: to close, especially from tiredness.
glosses: to contract
Derived terms: fall together by the ears
misbefall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misbefalls
form: misbefalling
form: misbefell
form: misbefallen
Etymology: From mis- + befall.
Senses: glosses: Of an event, to happen unfortunately to (a person).
glosses: Of an event, to happen unfortunately.
Derived terms: misbefallen
being that
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Etymology: Possibly an ellipsis of "it being so that" or "it being true that"
Senses: examples: text: Being that it's midnight, let's go home.
synonyms: word: given that
word: seeing that
word: since
word: as
word: as long as
word: because
word: being
word: being as
word: being that
word: due to the fact that
word: for
word: for that
word: forasmuch as
word: forthy
word: forwhy
word: given that
word: in regard
word: in that
word: inasmuch as
word: now that
word: on account of
word: seeing that
word: since
word: sith
word: sithence
word: when
word: ∵
glosses: since or because.
Related terms: being as
surveyee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌsɜː(ɹ)veɪˈiː/
Forms: form: surveyees
Etymology: From survey + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: Question 7 assessed the emotional response of the surveyees to mathematics.
ref: 1995, What Number is God?, →ISBN, page 169:
glosses: A person who is subject to a survey.
Related terms: respondee
surveyor
desquamate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: desquamates
form: desquamating
form: desquamated
form: desquamated
Etymology: First attested in 1740; borrowed from Latin dēsquāmātus, perfect passive participle of dēsquāmō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from dē- (“off”) + squāma (“a scale”) + -ō (“verb-forming suffix”).
Senses: glosses: To remove the scales from, to scale; (less narrowly) to peel.
glosses: To come off in the form of scales, to scale.
Related terms: desquamation
desquamative
desquamatory
desquame
cestode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛs.təʊd/
ipa: /ˈsɛˌstoʊd/
rhymes: -əʊd
Forms: form: cestodes
Etymology: From New Latin Cestoda, from cestus (“girdle, belt”), from Ancient Greek κεστός (kestós, “of Aphrodite’s charmed girdle”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A parasitic flatworm of the class Cestoda; a tapeworm.
Derived terms: cestodiasis
metacestode
Related terms: cestodal
cestocidal
cestodocidal
kreng
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: krengs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of krang.
plaguy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: plaguier
form: plaguiest
Senses: examples: text: "None so deaf as those who won't hear. Now this plaguy old woman will keep me bawling for an hour; it's always so when I'm in a hurry."
ref: 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Knife, page 119:
text: He got so frightened about his plaguy soul, that he shrinked and sheered away from whales, for fear of after-claps, in case he got stove and went to Davy Jones.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 18, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative spelling of plaguey.
carnivalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more carnivalistic
form: most carnivalistic
Etymology: From carnival + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: The hyperbolic exchange of identities […] suggests a form of carnivalistic play.
ref: 2007, Sean Brayton, “MTV's Jackass: Transgression, Abjection and the Economy of White Masculinity”, in Journal of Gender Studies, volume 16, page 63:
glosses: Of or relating to carnival.
mintmark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mintmarks
form: MM
Etymology: Compound of mint + mark.
Senses: glosses: An inscription stamped on a coin indicating the mint of origin.
thruppence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thruppences
Senses: examples: text: "For thruppence you can buy one, full right to the brim."
ref: 1971, Richard Sinclair with Caravan, “Golf Girl”, in In the Land of Grey and Pink:
glosses: Threepence.
decimal system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A numerical system of counting in tens.
Synonyms: denary
decimalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛsɪməlaɪz/
Forms: form: decimalizes
form: decimalizing
form: decimalized
form: decimalized
form: decimalise
Etymology: From decimal + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To convert to the decimal system.
Synonyms: word: decimate
Derived terms: undecimalized
Related terms: decimalization