cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tolerantists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tolerantist
hv
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Pls disregard this, I hv it fixed. Thanks.
ref: 2006 December 22, Cool Weather, “PB cannot compile in my embedded ora sql”, in sybase.public.powerbuilder.general (Usenet):
glosses: Abbreviation of have.
Giacomini vein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Giacomini veins
Etymology: Named after Italian anatomist Carlo Giacomini (1840–1898).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A communicant vein between the great saphenous vein and the small saphenous vein.
wikipedia: Carlo Giacomini
Lunar New Year
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lunar New Years
Senses: examples: text: Photos obtained by CNN from an attendee at a village funeral in Cheng'an County in Hebei Province show mourners of all ages, including children, watching the performance.
The attendee, who asked not to be identified, said he was visiting family during the Lunar New Year holiday. While he was there, one of the elderly villagers died so he went to the funeral.
ref: 2015 April 24, Euan McKirdy, “What a send-off: China's funeral strippers told to cover up”, in CNN, archived from the original on 24 Apr 2015:
glosses: An annual holiday of several cultures that marks the beginning of a new year according to a lunar or lunisolar calendar, as opposed to a new year dictated by a solar calendar such as the Julian or Gregorian calendars.
Related terms: Chinese New Year
Vietnamese New Year
Al Hijrah
Chunjie
Seollal
Tet
Tsagaan Sar
connotatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From connote + -atory.
Senses: examples: text: He sees music as centrally combinatory and peripherally connotatory, whereas poetry is the other way round: music and poetry are in this sense mirror images of one another.
ref: 1998, Nicholas Cook, Analysing Musical Multimedia, page 119:
glosses: Serving to connote.
denotatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From denote + -atory.
Senses: examples: text: That being so, it is hardly possible to avoid the feeling that 'High tide' and 'the heron dived' also have symbolic connotations in addition to their denotatory meaning.
ref: 1982, Allan Rodway, The Craft of Criticism, page 22:
glosses: Serving to denote.
slickem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slickems
Etymology: From the pronunciation of the acronym SLCM.
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile the original 'slickem' concept turns virtually any US warship into a strategic launch platform, but particularly nuclear-powered attack submarines whose primary role was previously to act as anti-submarine warfare platforms themselves.
ref: 1984, Christopher Campbell, Nuclear Weapons Fact Book, page 92:
text: The U.S., for example, will not allow Soviet inspectors aboard its submarines to count sea-launched cruise missiles — "slickems" to the trade — and proposes taking these numbers on faith. Surely you jest, the Soviets respond. They have a point, a U.S. official concedes: "I wonder how happy we would be about leaving slickems unverified when the Soviets mount mount their own program."
ref: 1988, U.S. News & World Report - Volume 105, page 38:
text: On the other hand there is also much agreement that advances in weapons technology have enormously complicated effective monitoring of arms limitation agreements. Sea-launched cruise missiles (SLCMs, or "slickems") are an example.
ref: 1988, Christopher Lamb -, How to Think About Arms Control, Disarmament, and Defense:
glosses: An SLCM (sea-launched cruise missile).
slickems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slickem
SLCM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SLCMs
Senses: examples: text: Select the SLCM that will best satisfy the project attributes and constraints.
ref: 2002, Robert T. Futrell, Donald F. Shafer, Linda Shafer, Quality Software Project Management, →ISBN, page 89:
text: The design of the common SLCM to be developed shall take the design constraints into account.
ref: 2009, A. Hu, C.G. Bilich, “Experience with Establishment of Reusable and Certifiable SLCM within ABB”, in Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security, →ISBN, page 136:
text: Although there is significant flexibility and exploratory capabilities offere in the multi-objective structure and weighting in the SLCM, it does present a potential difficulty when carrying out analysis.
ref: 2013, Michael Leitner, Crime Modeling and Mapping Using Geospatial Technologies, →ISBN:
glosses: Initialism of stochastic life cycle model.
examples: text: In principle, ALCMs and SLCMs differ only in their launch platforms; it therefore might be possible for ALCMs to be launched from SLCM launchers with only minor modifications.
ref: 1990, Frank Von Hippel, R. Z. Sagdeev, Reversing the Arms Race, →ISBN:
text: Hence SLCM's do not fit easily into either a disarming first strike or a retaliatory category.
ref: 1991, Greg Schmergel, US Foreign Policy in the 1990s, →ISBN, page 122:
text: And since over 80% of US SLCMs will be non-nuclear, the correlation between SLCM-capable launchers and US nuclear SLCMs is even more tenuous.
ref: 2012, Jürgen Altmann, Joseph Rotblat, Verification of Arms Reductions: Nuclear, Conventional and Chemical, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: ALCM
GLCM
glosses: Initialism of sea-launched cruise missile.
SLCMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SLCM
spoon worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spoon worms
form: spoonworm
Senses: glosses: Synonym of echiuran.
synonyms: word: echiuran
superlubricant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superlubricants
Etymology: From super- + lubricant.
Senses: examples: text: The poor lubricity means that the fuel flow must be dosed with a superlubricant and herein lies the root of the problem with naphtha firing.
ref: 1996, Turbomachinery International - Volume 37, page 26:
text: Adhesives or superlubricants liberally applied on seaports, air base runways, highway intersections, steep railway grades, key bridges, and other bottlenecks could impede enemy military traffic or bring it to a standstill.
ref: 1998, Jerry E. Smith, HAARP: The Ultimate Weapon of the Conspiracy, →ISBN, page 119:
text: Figure 19 compares the two AES spectra, which show clearly the absence of oxygen and carbon on the outer surfaces of the wear scars of the superlubricant MoS₂, in contrast to the commercial coating which contained both carbon and oxygen.
ref: 1998, John C. Riviere, Sverre Myhra, Handbook of Surface and Interface Analysis: Methods for Problem-Solving, →ISBN:
text: Slippery foam is more promising — researchers still consider the superlubricant a viable mechanism for putting a railyard, dock, airstrip, or bridge out of commission temporarily without permanently destroying it.
ref: 2010, David A. Koplow, Death by Moderation: The U.S. Military's Quest for Useable Weapons, →ISBN:
glosses: A chemical designed to render a surface nearly frictionless.
superlubricants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superlubricant
prickette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prickettes
Etymology: From prick + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: Good-bye, all you little pricks and prickettes, good-bye. Click your heels, close your eyes, and say three times, 'There's no place like Washington, D. C.'
ref: 1994, Dana Stabenow, A Cold-Blooded Business, →ISBN, page 50:
text: These are in all probability, the same little pricks and prickettes who eventually grew up to dominate the business and social scenes in the Philippines, and who perpetuated the rift between the haves and the have nots thus condemning the Islands to the never-ending insurgencies and revolutions that exist today, post Marcos.
ref: 2007, Hank Miller, The Admiral's Son, →ISBN, page 128:
text: The only Margaret I know is the one in Dennis the Menace and she's a prickette.
ref: 2008 -, Margaret Sartor -, Miss American Pie: A Diary of Love, Secrets and Growing Up in the 1970s, →ISBN:
text: A honcho at MI, guy named Weatherly, complained to politicians in Augusta and Washington. We can't check papers anymore. Have to stay a hundred feet away from the pricks and prickettes.
ref: 2009, John Philpin, Dreams in the Key of Blue, →ISBN, page 129:
text: “Townies” (local residents) ridiculed “ru's” (a demeaning epithet for TM meditators) as obnoxious pricks and prickettes from California who invaded Fairfield like stuck-up know-it-alls.
ref: 2018, Susan Shumsky, Maharishi & Me: Seeking Enlightenment with the Beatles' Guru, →ISBN:
glosses: A woman or girl who is unpleasant, rude or annoying.
prickettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prickette
nephrozoan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nephrozoa
form: nephrozoans
Etymology: From translingual Nephrozoa + -an. By surface analysis, nephro- + -zoan.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A member of the clade Nephrozoa, which includes all deuterostomes and protostomes.
sea walnut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea walnuts
Senses: examples: text: In the early 1980s the Warty comb jelly or Sea walnut was introduced (probably from the ballast water of ships from North America) to the Black Sea, a habitat in which it had no natural predators. By the summer of 1989 it was proliferating in such numbers and consuming so much plankton in the Black Sea that the fisheries dependent on the plankton crashed.
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 318:
glosses: A comb jelly in the genus Mnemiopsis, native to the western Atlantic Ocean but invasive around the world.
sea gooseberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea gooseberries
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sea-gooseberry.
bullrail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bullrails
form: bull rail
Etymology: From bull + rail. From the use of this type of railing in making bull pens.
Senses: examples: text: Others dropped behind the bullrail and began returning the fire.
ref: 1942, Louis Rosché, Robert Antolin Hereford, Old Man River: the memories of Captain Louis Rosché, pioneer steamboatman:
text: She negotiated safe passage back to the Base Camp and nosed the bus up to the bullrail with no small sense of triumph.
ref: 1994, Dana Stabenow, A Cold-Blooded Business, →ISBN, page 58:
text: I sit on the bullrail sipping my coffee, enjoying the warmth of the sun on my back and the spectacular view.
ref: 2002, Mike McConnell, Hand Troller, →ISBN:
text: As shown in Figure 4-3, it is also generally possible to house utility vaults within the width of the bullrail. The bullrail should be sufficiently reinforced and anchored to the desk structure.
ref: 2018, J. Paul Guyer, An Introduction to Structural Design of Piers and Wharves, page 19:
glosses: A style of railing consisting of a long continuous crosspiece supported by multiple uprights.
bullrails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bullrail
bull rail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bull rails
Senses: examples: text: I tie off the bow line while he secures the stem to the bull rail.
ref: 2002, Mike McConnell, Bear Tales and Deer Trails, →ISBN, page 176:
text: Passengers hang over the bull rail on the bottom deck and the second-level boiler deck rail as These steamers meet on the Green River.
ref: 2012, Roger G. Givens, Nancy Richey, Butler County, →ISBN, page 48:
text: The front wheel of the plaintiff's truck became trapped between the planking and the wheelplate, climbed up and went over the bull rail, into the river.
ref: 2017, Robert L. Habush, Art of Advocacy Series: Cross Examination of Non-Medical Experts, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of bullrail.
bull rails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bull rail
headbolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headbolts
form: head bolt
form: head-bolt
Etymology: From head + bolt.
Senses: examples: text: The headbolt heater consists of a hollow steel bolt containing an electric heating element. This device is designed to heat the water jacket and is applied to the engine head by replacing a headbolt.
ref: 1949, American Railway Engineering Association, Bulletin - Issues 481-487, page 277:
text: A second type replaces a headbolt or freeze plug depending on manufacturer's recommendations included with the unit.
ref: 1953, Commercial Car Journal - Volume 86, page 79:
text: These systems consisted of a panic-bar-activated headbolt, footbolt, and mortised deadbolt. The headbolt and footbolt are 5/8-inch stainless steel bolts with a -inch projection (throw) at the top and bottom encased in stainless steel channels.
ref: 2008, Design and Construction Guidance for Community Safe Rooms, page 7-24:
glosses: A bolt that is used to secure the head of something (such as the cylinder head of an internal combustion engine).
Derived terms: headbolt heater
headbolts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headbolt
head bolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head bolts
Senses: examples: text: However, a head bolt with less stretch is not necessarily as effective as a stock one if a steel shim gasket is used.
ref: 1991, David Vizard, How to Build and Modify Chevrolet Small-Block V-8 Cylinder Heads, →ISBN:
text: Normal head bolt torque values have a calculated safety factor of about 25% less than the maximum amount a bolt can be torqued without becoming permanently stretched.
ref: 2004 -, Tim Gilles, Automotive Service: Inspection, Maintenance, Repair, →ISBN, page 613:
text: Hex head bolt length is always measured from the underside of the bolt head to the threaded tip of the shank.
ref: 2008, Mike Mavrigian, High Performance Fasteners and Plumbing, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of headbolt.
head bolts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of head bolt
head-bolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head-bolts
Senses: examples: text: The gutters should be cut two or three lines longer than the page; the head-bolts wider; the back furniture may run down to the rim of the chase, but must be level with the top of the page, which will admit of the inner head-bolt running in ; the difference of the outer head-bolt may go over the side-stick, and the gutter will then run up between them.
ref: 1824, John Johnson, Typographia, Or the Printers' Instructor, page 197:
text: The eyes B B are cast solid to the flanged head-bolt D, thereby avoiding the danger of the eyes working apart, as is often the case when the eyes are made in separate parts.
ref: 1876, Specifications and Drawings of Patents Issued from the U.S. Patent Office, page 443:
text: Screw the head-bolt which compresses the spring up for diminishing or down for increasing the pressure, until the valve opens at the pressure desired, as indicated by the steam gauge; secure the head-bolt in this position by means of the lock-nut; for regulating the loss of escaping steam, turn the screw ring G up for increasing or down for decreasing it.
ref: 2012, Charles McShane, Classic American Locomotives, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of headbolt.
head-bolts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of head-bolt
headbolt heater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headbolt heaters
form: head-bolt heater
form: head bolt heater
Senses: examples: text: The headbolt heater consists of a hollow steel bolt containing an electric heating element. This device is designed to heat the water jacket and is applied to the engine head by replacing a headbolt.
ref: 1949, American Railway Engineering Association, Bulletin - Issues 481-487, page 277:
text: Second we were told that the company in all fairness, with winter almost on us, should provide headbolt heaters for employees' cars in the parking lot. A headbolt heater, in case you don't know about life in the frigid zone, is a gadget that you plug into a parked car. So if it's forty below that day, your car will still be reasonably warm when you're ready to go home. It might even start.
ref: 1969, Jeno F. Paulucci, Les Rich, How it was to make $100,000,000 in a hurry:
text: Plugging the bus into the headbolt heater on the rail, she collected the pup's body from beneath the driver's seat and followed Toni into camp.
ref: 1994, Dana Stabenow, A Cold-Blooded Business, →ISBN, page 58:
glosses: A form of block heater that consists of a hollow headbolt which contains an electric heating element.
headbolt heaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headbolt heater
alloisoleucine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From allo- + isoleucine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alloisomer of isoleucine produced as a byproduct of isoleucine transamination, component of many proteins and used for bone dating with amino acid racemization
alloisomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alloisomers
Etymology: From allo- + isomer.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of geometric isomer.
synonyms: word: geometric isomer
Related terms: alloisomeric
head-bolt heater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head-bolt heaters
Senses: examples: text: Head-bolt heater makes motors start easily in sub-zero weather by warming the water in the block to driving temperature.
ref: 1948 January, “Here's News”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 89, number 1, page 98:
text: Nevertheless, she professed genuine interest in the fact that his Oldsmobile always started now that he had put in a tank heater, which was so much more efficient than that old head-bolt heater system.
ref: 2011, Gerald Anderson, Murder Under the Loon, →ISBN, page 61:
text: He, like everyone else here, had a head-bolt heater plugged into the engine to keep it warm and some heat tape wrapped around the battery.
ref: 2012, Peter Bowen, Specimen Song, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of headbolt heater.
head-bolt heaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of head-bolt heater
alloisomeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From allo- + isomeric.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to an alloisomer or to alloisomerism
head bolt heater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head bolt heaters
Senses: examples: text: Supporting facilities would include: utilities, electric service, exterior lighting, concrete walkways, an exterior 10,000 square foot paved area for location of reconfigurable Tactical Operations Centers in association with training functions, parking and access roads, head bolt heater outlets for parking, curbs and gutters, storm drainage, landscaping, and antiterrorism/force protection site perimeter fencing.
ref: 2004, Transformation of the U.S. Army Alaska: Environmental Impact Statement:
text: He held up one hand in a gesture to stay put and walked overto unplug her head bolt heater cord from the strip of electrical outlets that lined the garage wall.
ref: 2015, Joanne Fluke -, Strawberry Shortcake Murder, →ISBN:
text: For the first time in my life, I have a garage. I am excited about that. Hopefully, I'll never again have to fool with the head bolt heater.
ref: 2016 -, Lou Hovsen, Early Exits, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of headbolt heater.
head bolt heaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of head bolt heater
alloisomerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From allo- + isomerism.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of geometric isomerism.
synonyms: word: geometric isomerism
Related terms: alloisomer
alloisomeric
allonomous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From allo- + -nomous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Controlled by an external stimulus
allophanate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allophanates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of allophanic acid
allophanic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: N-carbamoylcarbamic acid
Related terms: allophanate
allophenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: composed of cells from two or more genetically different embryos
alloplast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alloplasts
Etymology: From allo- + -plast.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A graft (especially a bone graft) of an inert (non-biological) material
Related terms: alloplastic
alloplasty
belly dumper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belly dumpers
form: belly-dumper
Senses: examples: text: But before Three and Four [Generating plants from Montana Power that use coal from Colestrip to generate power] was built, everything that was hauled in [to the mine] was on a belly dumper.
ref: 1999, Lorelei Anne Lambert, Keepers of the Central Fire: Issues in Ecology for Indigenous Peoples, →ISBN:
text: Eloise described how, in her job: Day by day it's different; it could be the grader, it could be a water cart, it could be a rear tipper, it could be a belly dumper, it could be a dozer.
ref: 2010, David Peetz, Georgina Murray -, Women of the Coal Rushes, →ISBN, page 257:
text: A driver called 'Frenchy' got really pissed off with Noel putting too much water on the road in front of his belly dumper, but Noel stopped doing that to the Frenchman as he had a daughter that was horse mad, just like Noel, and he wanted to get into the Frenchman's good books!
ref: 2017, Raymond D. Clements, Aussie Rogue, →ISBN, page 41:
glosses: A type of dump truck that unloads through a dump gate at the bottom of the trailer.
belly dumpers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of belly dumper
alloplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alloplasties
Etymology: From allo- + -plasty.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The grafting of an alloplast
Related terms: alloplast
belly-dumper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belly-dumpers
Senses: examples: text: Or it wasn't until they woke up one morning and found the encroaching wave of tarmac lapping at their doorstep and a belly-dumper burying the lot next door in a mound of gravel, preparatory to the erection of the next Costco.
ref: 2011, Dana Stabenow, Play with Fire, →ISBN:
text: It leads me to think of Tom Flood, and his mother Dorothy who grew up in this territory, who set the dead sea of wheat against itself, growing green under the sapping sun long before belly-dumpers and tip-trucks rolled along this road.
ref: 2013, John Kinsella, Spatial Relations, →ISBN:
text: It's like a huge belly-dumper dropped several loads in the canyon, leaving a 0.5-mile stretch 10 feet deep with gravel.
ref: 2016, Bill Cunningham, Polly Cunningham, Hiking Death Valley National Park, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of belly dumper.
belly-dumpers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of belly-dumper
alloploidy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From allo- + -ploidy.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of allopolyploidy.
synonyms: word: allopolyploidy
Related terms: alloploid
allopregnane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of 5α-pregnane.
synonyms: word: 5α-pregnane
Derived terms: allopregnanediol
allopregnanediol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From allo- + pregnanediol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An isomer of pregnanediol, 5α-pregnane-3α,20α-diol; it is an endogenous metabolite of progesterone and allopregnanolone
allopsychic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From allo- + psychic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Relating to the relationship between the mind and the outside world.
Related terms: autopsychic
autopsychic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- + psychic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Relating to the perception of one's own mind
Derived terms: autopsychically
Related terms: allopsychic
make strange
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes strange
form: making strange
form: made strange
form: made strange
Senses: examples: text: Come to Granny. You must surely be making strange, with all these foreign faces huffing and puffing around you, you poor little precious diddledums.
ref: 2009, Martha Long, Ma, It's a Cold Aul Night an I'm Lookin for a Bed (2015 Seven Stories Press edition), (Google preview)
text: At a certain age, usually around 8 or 9 months, varying from child to child, most (but not all) children start making strange, meaning they become shy or even hysterical when held or touched by people they do not know well.
ref: 2014, Florence Koenderink, Children Everywhere, →ISBN, page 156:
text: When children present with separation anxieties, they visibly ‘make strange’ or become distressed when separated from their parents or caregivers.
ref: 2015, Colman Noctor, Cop On: What It Is and Why Your Child Needs It to Survive and Thrive in Today’s World, →ISBN:
glosses: To behave in a shy, uncommunicative, resistant manner when encountering an unfamiliar person or situation.
raw_tags: of small children
making strange
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of make strange
Napoleonize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Napoleonizes
form: Napoleonizing
form: Napoleonized
form: Napoleonized
form: Napoleonise
Etymology: From Napoleon + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To rule completely.
examples: text: This did Thayer in a little over a decade Napoleonize the Military Academy and move it far to the right of what was intended by its founders, blending in typical knightly style the ideal of formal religious worship and a highly regulated system of physiacl training, as well as a tattletale system of honor.
ref: 2004, Robert J. Higgs, God in the Stadium: Sports and Religion in America, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 80:
glosses: To aggrandize.
Napoleonizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Napoleonize
Napoleonized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Napoleonize
Napoleonizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪzɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Napoleonize
Napoleonizing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪzɪŋ
Forms: form: Napoleonizings
Senses: glosses: The action of the verb to Napoleonize.
Napoleonizings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Napoleonizing
Napoleonising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Napoleonise
Napoleonising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Napoleonisings
Senses: glosses: The action of the verb to Napoleonise.
Napoleonisings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Napoleonising
Napoleonise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Napoleonises
form: Napoleonising
form: Napoleonised
form: Napoleonised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Napoleonize.
Napoleonises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Napoleonise
Napoleonised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Napoleonise
alloxanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌælɒkˈsæn.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌælɑkˈsæn.ɪk/
rhymes: -ænɪk
Etymology: From alloxan + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to alloxanic acid or its derivatives
Derived terms: alloxanate
alloxazine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The tricyclic heterocyclic amide 1H-benzo[g]pteridine-2,4-dione
Derived terms: isoalloxazine
allylisopropylacetamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allylisopropylacetamides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any allyl isopropyl derivative of acetamide, but especially 2-propan-2-ylpent-4-enamide that inhibits protein synthesis
alpestrine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of subalpine.
synonyms: word: subalpine
alphadione
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of althesin.
synonyms: word: althesin
althesin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A hypnotic agent that is a mixture of alphaxalone and alphadolone
Synonyms: alphadione
alphaxalone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The neuroactive steroid and general anesthetic 3α-hydroxy-5α-pregnane-11,20-dione
alteregoism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From alter ego + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
psychology
sciences
glosses: Altruism as a result of the identification of others with oneself.
mogulist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mogulists
Etymology: From mogul + -ist.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: A skier who specializes in skiing moguls
Synonyms: freestyle moguls skier
moguls freestyle skier
moguls skier
moguls specialist
Hypernyms: freestyle skier
skier
Coordinate terms: freestyle moguls skiing
moguls
moguls freestyle skiing
moguls skiing
alveolingual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From alveo- + lingual.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of alveololingual.
alveolobuccal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From alveolo- + buccal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the alveolus and the cheek
alveolodental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntəl
Etymology: From alveolo- + dental.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the alveolus and the teeth
alveololingual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪŋɡwəl
Etymology: From alveolo- + lingual.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the alveolus and the tongue
alveolonasal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From alveolo- + nasal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the alveolus and the nose
alveoloclasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From alveolo- + -clasia.
Senses: glosses: The destruction of an alveolus
alveolotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alveolotomies
Etymology: From alveolo- + -tomy.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: incision into the alveolus, especially in order to drain pus from an abscess
alveoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alveoplasties
Etymology: From alveo- + -plasty.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of alveoloplasty.
amaroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amaroids
Etymology: From Latin amārus (“bitter”) + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: The name Amaroid is suggested for such bodies as these, in order to avoid confusion with glucosides and alkaloids, so many of which are also bitter.
ref: 1894, Charles E. Sohn, Dictionary of the Active Principles of Plants:
text: Picrotoxin is classed by Schon as an amaroid or bitter principle, although by some it is looked upon as a glucoside.
ref: 1895, Bulletin of pharmacy, volume 9, page 374:
glosses: Any bitter substance extracted from a plant (other than an alkaloid or glycoside).
Derived terms: amaroidal
amaroidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From amaroid + -al.
Senses: examples: text: In view of the fact that chirata belongs to the amaroidal class of drugs which are difficult to be standardised by other suitable chemical methods, the physiological evaluation through bitter value has been found to be useful.
ref: 1970, Indian Journal of Pharmacy, volume 32, page 15:
text: Next, when the amaroidal sack would hit its mark, the two brats would run in a struggle against the chuckles in their lungs and the lactic acid in their legs.
ref: 1997, Matthew Piepenburg, Time and the Maiden, page 9:
text: Along with the other million obligations overwhelming me at the moment, there was SAT study time, which left an amaroidal taste in my mouth.
ref: 2016, Rachel Cohn, The Twelve Days of Dash & Lily, page 30:
glosses: Relating to an amaroid; bitter.
ambal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ambals
Etymology: From Sanskrit अम्ल (acidic, sour substance). Possibly From Non-Indo-European Substrate. See, For example, Bangla অম্বল, আমলকী (Phyllanthus emblica), আমরুল (Oxalis stricta).
Senses: glosses: A type of curry made from pumpkin with tamarind
Chinese People's Republic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of People's Republic of China.
synonyms: word: People's Republic of China
antiomega
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiomegas
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The Ω hyperon's antiparticle.
malorientations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malorientation
alpine combined
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From alpine + combined. From being an event in the sport of alpine skiing which combines two disciplines.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: An event in alpine skiing which combines runs on a downhill skiing course and a slalom course, for individual skiers.
Related terms: Nordic combined
super combined
nordic combined
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Nordic combined.
PPNB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: PPN
PPNA
glosses: Abbreviation of Pre-Pottery Neolithic B.
godness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: godnesses
form: Godness
Etymology: From Middle English godnesse, equivalent to god + -ness. Cognate with Old High German gotnissa, gotnissi (“divinity; deity”).
Senses: glosses: The state, quality, or condition of a god; divinity
Related terms: Godhead
godhood
godship
Godness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Godnesses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of godness.
guttah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He mooned disconsolately about Almayer's courtyard, watching from afar, with uninterested eyes, the up-country canoes discharging guttah or rattans, and loading rice or European goods on the little wharf of Lingard 7 Co.
ref: 1896, Joseph Conrad, chapter VI, in An Outcast of the Islands, London: T. Fisher Unwin […], →OCLC, part I, page 69:
glosses: Alternative form of gutta percha.
exeme
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: exemes
form: exeming
form: exemed
form: exemed
Etymology: From Latin eximĕre.
Senses: glosses: To release; to exempt.
exemed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of exeme
exemes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of exeme
exeming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of exeme
separatee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: separatees
Etymology: From separate + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: Such an environmental change has to prevent one group of the species from breeding with the remainder causing a different gene distribution to dominate in the separatees.
glosses: One who has been separated.
separatees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of separatee
orthotonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: orthotone
orthotonesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From orthotone + -esis. Compare barytonesis.
Senses: glosses: The accentuation of a proclitic or enclitic.
Related terms: orthotone
ergotization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ergot + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of affecting with ergot.
ergotisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ergotization.
goddish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more goddish
form: most goddish
form: Goddish
Etymology: From Middle English *goddisshe, goddyche, equivalent to god + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic or typical of a god; godlike
Synonyms: divine
Goddish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Goddish
form: most Goddish
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of goddish.
resinization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From resin + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of resinizing.
veligerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a velum.
rye-worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rye-worms
Etymology: From rye + worm.
Senses: glosses: The larva of a fly, Chlorops pumilionis, an agricultural pest which feeds on stems of several species of grain and other grasses.
rye-worms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rye-worm
ultradiverse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultradiverse
form: most ultradiverse
Etymology: From ultra- + diverse.
Senses: glosses: Very highly diverse.
news-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: news-houses
Etymology: From news + house.
Senses: glosses: A printers' office that produces newspapers only.
news-houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of news-house
retrofracted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more retrofracted
form: most retrofracted
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of retrofract.
synonyms: word: retrofract
repudiationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repudiationists
Etymology: From repudiation + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who supports a policy of repudiation.
repudiationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repudiationist
repudiationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From repudiation + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A policy of repudiation.
nummulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Resembling coins.
nummuline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to nummulites.
nummuline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nummulines
Senses: glosses: A nummulite.
provokings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of provoking
engenderable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From engender + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be engendered.
ridiculised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ridiculise
ridiculising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ridiculise
ridiculings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ridiculing
ridiculable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ridiculable
form: most ridiculable
Etymology: From ridicule + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able or fit to be ridiculed.
difficults
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of difficult
ameboidism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ameboid + -ism.
Senses: glosses: movements, especially in some nerve cells, that resemble those of the amoeba
amebula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amebulas
form: amebulae
form: amebulæ
form: amoebula
form: amœbula
Etymology: From ameba + -ula.
Senses: examples: text: The adult stage is realised by the formation of a plasmodium which begins early in life to form spores. There are never any flagellated stages in this group, but always amoebulæ.
ref: 1915, Annual Report and Transactions, Manchester: Manchester Microscopical Society, page 82:
text: He saw the swarm-cells swim with a peculiar dancing motion, divide, withdraw the organ of locomotion called the flagellum, and then creep about as amoebulæ. Although he did not actually note the union of the amoebulæ, he inferred that the young plasmodia seen in his cultures arose from their fusion.
ref: 1928 December, H. J. Howard, “President's Address”, in Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, volume XII, Norwich, Norfolk: A. E. Soman & Co., Ltd., part IV, page 504:
text: After the lapse of a varying period of time (a week, more or less) subsequent to the changing of the pH, a search with the No. 7 objective water immersion lens will reveal large numbers of hatching spores, and creeping amoebulæ of various ages.
ref: 1962 October 20, Monica Taylor, “Abnormal Crystals in Amoeba lescherae”, in Nature, volume 196, number 4851, Nature Portfolio, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 290, column 2:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A small amoeba (or an organism which resembles one).
ameiosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The absence of pairing of chromosomes during meiosis
Related terms: ameiotic
Artaudian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Artaudian
form: most Artaudian
Etymology: From Artaud + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Antonin Artaud (1896–1948), French dramatist and writer, a major figure in twentieth-century theatre and the European avant-garde.
ameloblastomatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From amelo- + blastomatous.
Senses: glosses: Relating to ameloblastoma
onychium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: onychia
Senses: glosses: A little claw.
onychomycotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From onycho- + mycotic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to or affected by onychomycosis.
upper ten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of upper ten thousand.
synonyms: word: upper ten thousand
fabricative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: fabricating; involved in manufacture
kitchen-fee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The fat that falls from meat being roasted; drippings.
makes a killing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of make a killing
making a killing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of make a killing
made a killing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of make a killing
cyberborder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberborders
Etymology: From cyber- + border.
Senses: glosses: A border in cyberspace.
cyberborders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberborder
microblaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microblasters
Etymology: From micro- + blaster.
Senses: glosses: A microabrasive blaster.
microabrasive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + abrasive.
Senses: glosses: producing microabrasion
microabrasive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microabrasives
Etymology: From micro- + abrasive.
Senses: glosses: A substance used to produce microabrasion.
microabrasives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microabrasive
terraquean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: terraqueous
acquittancing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of acquittance
biassings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biassing
biasings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biasing
rich-kid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rich + kid.
Senses: examples: text: We would personally be very interested to see Cameron Diaz make her directorial debut with a movie that featured a supercilious rich-kid indie auteur who does pseudo-profound confections that people initially splooge themselves over but which, on second viewing, are the cinematic equivalent of unflavored rice cake, with comedy scenes that are not especially funny, endless “arty” shots of the Tokyo skyline filmed out of hotel windows, and dialogue that is only naturalistic in the sense that it possibly took as long to write as to say, and which are considered original only by people who have never set eyes on any other footage showing characters suffering from exquisitely well-turned neon-lit urban ennui like Wim Wenders directing a crap U2 video in 1993.
ref: 2008, Steve Lowe, Alan McArthur, Is It Just Me or Is Everything Shit?:
text: Go ahead. Make your judgments. Decide I'm some spoiled, rich-kid freak.
ref: 2013, S. A. Bodeen, The Fallout:
text: This rich-kid party at Scott McLeod's was a bust, a flop.
ref: 2013, Glenn Kaplan, Poison Pill:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a rich kid.
duncishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more duncishly
form: most duncishly
Etymology: From duncish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a duncish manner.
negative bath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: negative baths
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A silver solution in which photographic negatives are placed to be sensitized.
negative baths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of negative bath
pyrognomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pyrognomic
form: most pyrognomic
Senses: glosses: thermoluminescent
fumously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fumously
form: most fumously
Etymology: From Middle English fumousli, fumowsly, equivalent to fumous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: And heaping words upon words, would gladly belike that the party should have carted them away, and well remembered them, and therefore said fumously unto him: “Dost thou hear me?"
ref: 1560, Thomas Wilson, Art of Rhetoric:
glosses: In a fumous manner, in fumes; (by extension) angrily
Orderite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Orderites
Etymology: From Order + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: In his admirable monograph, Leonard J. Arrington has given a new slant to this experiment. Here are the facts and figures, the letters, the problems, the attitudes of both the Orderites and their neighbors.
ref: 1971, The Western Humanities Review:
text: Although certain residents of the United Order towns were active in the cooperative movement, control was decidedly in the hands of the larger and somewhat more affluent Eastern Arizona Stake. Numerical and economic matters doubtlessly curtailed the participation of the "Orderites," but a more important determinant was the fact that they entertained strong doubts as to the religious and social soundness of such conventional methods. Lot Smith's reaction was characteristic. "Debt ...
ref: 1973, Charles S. Peterson, Take Up Your Mission: Mormon Colonizing Along the Little Colorado River, 1870-1900:
text: As used here, Orderites are viewed as those (1) whose group is currently in power in the United States; (2) who directly have a strong vested interest in keeping their group in power; and (3) who currently have the right, responsibility and resources to keep their group in power. [...] Rather unabashedly arrogant, understandably so given the success of most of their ventures, the Orderites seem to make it a plus to have the status of being White and not on welfare — at least not the stigmatized version. On the other hand, these Orderites seldom miss an opportunity to magnify caricatures of African Americans either in featured crime (males) or welfare (females) media series.
ref: 1996, Willa Mae Hemmons, Black Women in the New World Order: Social Justice and the African American Female, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 152:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of orderite; a member of a specified (real or notional) Order (for example, the United Order or the New World Order).
Orderites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Orderite