cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
lobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləʊb/
rhymes: -əʊb
Forms: form: lobes
Etymology: From Middle French lobe in early 16th century, from New Latin lobus (“a lobe”), from Ancient Greek λοβός (lobós, “the lobe of the ear or of the liver, the pod of a leguminous plant”).
Senses: examples: text: A lobe of lava was crawling down the side of the volcano.
text: He then broke the kola nut and threw one of the lobes on the ground for the ancestors.
ref: 1958, Chinua Achebe, chapter 19, in Things Fall Apart, New York: Astor-Honor, published 1959:
glosses: Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form.
examples: text: The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.
ref: 2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A clear division of an organ that can be determined at the gross anatomy level, especially one of the parts of the brain, liver or lung.
qualifier: figure skating
glosses: A semicircular pattern left on the ice as the skater travels across it.
Synonyms: word: lobe
Hyponyms: sense: Hyponyms of lobe
word: ear lobe
sense: Hyponyms of lobe
word: frontal lobe
sense: Hyponyms of lobe
word: occipital lobe
sense: Hyponyms of lobe
word: parietal lobe
sense: Hyponyms of lobe
word: temporal lobe
Derived terms: axial lobe
bilobe
earlobe
flocculonodular lobe
interlobe
intralobe
limbic lobe
lobal
lobar
lobate
lobation
lobectomy
lobed
lobefin
lobe-finned
lobefoot
lobeless
lobelet
lobelike
lobe-shaped
lobing
lobule
midlobe
multilobe
pleural lobe
right middle lobe syndrome
Roche lobe
seed-lobe
side-lobe
sidelobe
Spigelian lobe
trilobite
Related terms: lobate
lobotomy
lobule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒb.juːl/
ipa: /ˈlɑb.jul/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒbjuːl
rhymes: (General American) -ɑbjul
Forms: form: lobules
form: lobula
form: lobulus
Etymology: From lobe + -ule (diminutive suffix).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Diminutive of lobe:
A small lobe; a subdivision of a lobe.
examples: text: The Jubulaceae have a leaf whose lobule, usually transformed into a water-sac, is normally very narrowly attached to the stem and to the dorsal lobe; indeed some Frullania taxa reproduce vegetatively by dropping the dorsal lobes, but not the lobules, and Neohattoria has caducous lobules but persistent lobes.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 4:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Diminutive of lobe:
In liverworts with bilobed leaves, the smaller of the two lobes, sometimes modified to form a sac.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Diminutive of lobe:
A tongue-like structure opposite the scutellum in grasses; the epiblast.
Derived terms: word: lobular
word: lobulation
word: lobulette
word: lobuloalveolar
word: lobulocentric
word: lobulogenesis
word: microlobule
word: pseudolobule
loess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɜːs/
ipa: /ˈləʊɪs/
ipa: /ˈloʊ.əs/
ipa: /lɛs/
ipa: /lʌs/
rhymes: -ɜːs
rhymes: -əʊɪs
rhymes: -oʊəs
rhymes: -ʌs
Forms: form: loesses
form: löss
Etymology: Borrowed from German Löss (“yellowish-gray soil”), from Alemannic German lösch (“loose”). Cognate with German los and English lease.
Senses: examples: text: The Yellow River got its name from the massive amount of fertile loess (yellow earth) which it has deposited in the wheat-growing North China Plain.
ref: 1987, Amy Shui, Stuart Thompson, “China and its people”, in Chinese Food and Drink, Wayland Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 4, column 2:
text: They blast their sand westwards across the steppe, coating the foothills of the Brooks Range in an icing-sugar dust of the loose, windblown sand-silt mixture known as loess.
ref: 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 3:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any sediment, dominated by silt, of eolian (wind-blown) origin.
Derived terms: loessial
loessal
loessic
loessification
loessland
Loess Plateau
logan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logans
form: loggan
form: roggan
Etymology: Probably cognate with Danish logre, "to wag the tail".
Senses: glosses: A rocking or balanced stone.
logan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈloʊɡən/
Forms: form: logans
Etymology: Shortening of pokelogan.
Senses: qualifier: Vermont
glosses: A pokelogan.
loge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləʊʒ/
ipa: /loʊʒ/
rhymes: -əʊʒ
Forms: form: loges
Etymology: From French loge (“arbor, covered walk-way”) from Frankish *laubijā (“shelter”). Akin to Old High German loub (“porch, gallery”) (German Laube (“bower, arbor”)), Old High German loub (“leaf, foliage”), Old English lēaf (“leaf, foliage”). Doublet of lobby, loggia, and lodge. More at lobby, loggia, leaf, lodge.
Senses: glosses: A booth or stall.
examples: text: About three in the morning, Nora knocked at the little glass door of the concierge's loge, asking if the doctor was in.
ref: 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber, published 2007, page 70:
glosses: The lodge of a concierge.
examples: text: In major league stadiums the press box is usually located between the first and second decks in the loge level.
ref: 2006, George Gmelch, J.J. Weiner, In the Ballpark: The Working Lives of Baseball People, →ISBN, page 151:
glosses: An upscale seating region in a modern concert hall or sports venue, often in the back lower tier, or on a separate tier above the mezzanine.
examples: text: Pickle gladly embraced this opportunity of becoming acquainted with a person of such rank, and ordering his own chariot to follow, accompanied the count to his loge, where he conversed with him during the whole entertainment.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: Patte notes that the spectators who were seated there were too close to the action to frame it as real, and that the loges in the avant-scène hampered the effect of the voice.
ref: 2002, Downing A. Thomas, Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Régime, 1647-1785, →ISBN, page 274:
glosses: An exclusive box or seating region in older theaters and opera houses, having wider, softer, and more widely spaced seats than in the gallery.
logier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of logy: more logy
loller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lollers
Etymology: From loll + -er.
Senses: glosses: An idle vagabond.
lolly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒl.i/
ipa: /ˈlɔl.i/
rhymes: -ɒli
homophone: loli
Forms: form: lollies
Etymology: Probably a contraction of lollipop.
Senses: examples: text: Trim the lolly sticks, so that you have a stem of about 3–4cm to stick into the cake, and then plunge the sticks of the foreshortened lollies into the cake so that the ghoulish faces leer out from their black-frosted graveyard.
ref: 2004, Nigella Lawson, Feast: Food that Celebrates Life, unnumbered page:
glosses: A piece of hard candy on a stick; a lollipop.
glosses: An ice lolly; a popsicle.
examples: text: Leaving the Domain, I walked back to the hotel, noticing the queer signs by the way. One was “Lollies for Sale.” It was over the door of a confectioner′s store where all sorts of candies were displayed.
ref: 1924, Frank George Carpenter, Australia, New Zealand and Some Islands of the South Seas, page 36:
text: Organise the students into small groups. Send a letter home to the parents stating that the science lesson will involve students eating a small amount of lollies. Check which students are allowed to eat lollies. Students with diabetes will only be able to observe or they could bring their own ‘special’ sweets from home.
ref: 2002, R.I.C. Publications, Primary Science, page 52:
text: He looked straight into Frau Diller′s spectacled eyes and said, ‘Mixed lollies, please.’
Frau Diller smiled.[…]‘Here,’ she said, tossing a single lolly onto the counter. ‘Mix it yourself.’
ref: 2008, Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, unnumbered page:
glosses: Any confection made from sugar, or high in sugar content; a sweet, a piece of candy.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An easy catch.
glosses: Money.
glosses: A lump.
Synonyms: sense: confection
word: bonbon
sense: confection
word: candy
sense: confection
word: confection
sense: confection
word: sweet
Derived terms: cough lolly
ice lolly
lolly cake
lolly ice
lolly legs
lolly scramble
lolly up
lolly water
trough lolly
lolly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒl.i/
ipa: /ˈlɔl.i/
rhymes: -ɒli
homophone: loli
Etymology: Shortened from loblolly (“gruel”).
Senses: examples: text: The water was covered with what they term "lolly," of "slob" — i. e., very small pieces of ice and snow mixed together, making the surface the consistency of pea soup.
ref: 1867 November 25, “Winter mail service across the Straits of Northumberland from Prince Edward Island to the mainland of New Brunswick”, in The American Stamp Mercury, volume 1, number 2, page 9:
text: Accidents of course happen from time to time, and men often go through the ‘lolly’ or miss their footing and come in for a cold bath, which, considering their filthy condition, may not be altogether an unmitigated evil
ref: 1889 April, M.M., “On seals and savages”, in The Nineteenth Century, volume 25, number 146, pages 520–21:
glosses: Snow or fine ice floating on water.
lolly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒl.i/
ipa: /ˈlɔl.i/
rhymes: -ɒli
homophone: loli
Forms: form: lollier
form: lolliest
Etymology: From lol + -y.
Senses: glosses: Eliciting a response of LOL; funny.
looper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluːpə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -uːpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: loopers
Etymology: From loop + -er.
Senses: glosses: An instrument or tool, such as a bodkin, for forming a loop in yarn or cord, etc.
glosses: A moth having a caterpillar which arches its body into a loop in order to bring the back part of the body forward as it walks due to having fewer prolegs, including inchworms or measuring worms in the family Geometridae and some species in the family Noctuidae.
glosses: A (usually electronic) tool for creating music loops.
examples: text: With one out and runners on second and third, Cavan Biggio hit a looper up the middle that eluded hustling shortstop Tim Anderson in short centre field.
ref: 2022 June 22, Jay Cohen, “Blue Jays' woes continue as Harrison's walk-off single in 12th inning wins it for White Sox”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 25 Jun 2022:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Synonym of blooper (“a fly ball that is weakly hit just over the infielders”).
synonyms: word: blooper
extra: a fly ball that is weakly hit just over the infielders
examples: text: "There ain't much to tell. I'm the king of the caddies, the greatest fucking looper who ever packed a bag."
ref: 1981, James Ellroy, Brown's Requiem:
text: "Carl Spackler: So I jump ship in Hong Kong and I make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. Angie D’Annunzio: A looper? Carl Spackler: A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock."
ref: 1980, Douglas Kenney, Harold Ramis, Brian Doyle-Murray, Caddyshack:
glosses: A golf caddy
glosses: A crazy person; a maniac.
Derived terms: cabbage looper
green looper
looper caterpillar
semi-looper
lop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɒp/
ipa: /lɑp/
ipa: /lɔp/
ipa: /lɒp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: lops
form: lopping
form: lopped
form: lopped
form: lopt
form: lopt
Etymology: From Middle English loppe (“bough”); the verb is a back-formation from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: Some, for hard masters, broken under arms,
In battle lopt away, with half their limbs,
Beg bitter bread thro’ realms their valour sav’d,
ref: 1742, Edward Young, The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality, Night I:
glosses: To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.
raw_tags: with off
glosses: To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
examples: to lop the head
glosses: To allow to hang down.
Synonyms: sense: to cut off
word: snead
Derived terms: alop
lop down
lop-eared
lop off
lopper
loppers
loppy
lopseed
unlopped
lop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɒp/
ipa: /lɑp/
ipa: /lɔp/
ipa: /lɒp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: lops
Etymology: From Middle English loppe (“bough”); the verb is a back-formation from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: Why, we take,
From every tree, lop, bark, and part o'the timber
ref: 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: I ſhall not trouble you about the raiſing of them of Truncheons or Lops, because I could never find them to take; only ſometimes ſome of the ſmallest Suckers, when the Sap is newly ſtirring in them, if they are ſlipt off from the Tree, will grow
ref: 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:
glosses: That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
Related terms: defalcate
lop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɒp/
ipa: /lɑp/
ipa: /lɔp/
ipa: /lɒp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: lops
Etymology: From Middle English loppe (“flea, spider”), from Old English loppe (“spider, silk-worm, flea”), from Proto-Germanic *luppǭ (“flea, sandflea", originally, "jumper”), from Proto-Germanic *luppijaną (“to jump, dart”). Cognate with Danish loppe (“flea”), Swedish loppa (“flea”). Compare also Middle High German lüpfen, lupfen (“to raise”, obsolete also “to rise”).
Senses: examples: text: Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops.
text: Lice, That's nick name to the stuff called Lops
ref: 1651, John Cleveland, “The Hue and Cry after Sir John Presbiter”, in Poems:
glosses: A flea.
Derived terms: fit as a lop
Related terms: lobster
lop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɒp/
ipa: /lɑp/
ipa: /lɔp/
ipa: /lɒp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: lops
Etymology: Back-formation from lopsided.
Senses: examples: text: "He's a lop; it mentions here about his getting up to the stand with his crippled leg but it doesn't say which one."
ref: 1935, Rex Stout, The League of Frightened Men, page 5:
glosses: (usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple.
glosses: Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.
Related terms: lob
lop chong
lope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləʊp/
ipa: /loʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
homophone: Lop
Forms: form: lopes
form: loping
form: loped
form: loped
Etymology: From Middle English lopen, from Old Norse hlaupa (“to leap, jump”). See leap. Cognate with German laufen (“walk, run”), Danish løbe (“run”), Dutch lopen (“walk, run”), Norwegian løpe (“run”). Doublet of leap.
Senses: examples: text: He loped along, hour after hour, not fast but steady and covering much ground.
text: Scott hurried down the dark path, lifted the canoe from the muddy rock to the moss, took out the packs, and loped back. toward the cabin. As he passed the window he glanced inside.
ref: 1927, William Byron Mowery, Pirates Of The Muskeg:
text: And as we waited in the car Victor got out and loped over to the house and said a few words to an old lady, […]
ref: 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 5, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 5:
text: “And the holidays?” Murgo proposed one evening as they loped down a bridlepath past lovers fondling in the grass. “Fun, are they? High living?”
ref: 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
glosses: To travel an easy pace with long strides.
examples: text: And as he cam by a ryver, in hys woodnes he wolde have made hys horse to have lopyn over the watir; and the horse fayled footyng and felle in the ryver
ref: 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum xxxv”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book IX, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:
text: 1621-22, Thomas Middleton et al, The Spanish Gypsy
he that lopes on the ropes
glosses: To jump, leap.
Derived terms: loper
lopingly
Related terms: elope
interlope
lope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləʊp/
ipa: /loʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
homophone: Lop
Forms: form: lopes
Etymology: From Middle English lopen, from Old Norse hlaupa (“to leap, jump”). See leap. Cognate with German laufen (“walk, run”), Danish løbe (“run”), Dutch lopen (“walk, run”), Norwegian løpe (“run”). Doublet of leap.
Senses: examples: text: Hares have larger, leaner bodies, longer legs, and longer ears than the true rabbit. They also run with a lope instead of a hop. It is thought that they developed this more stream-lined body and swifter gait from running on the plains […]
ref: 1931, Home Geographic Monthly, volumes 1-2, page 45:
text: Then he was gone, not with the flashing quick steps that Lao Bingyi and Wei Jintai had employed but with the long lope of a wolf that knows to pace himself for a hunt.
ref: 2022 October 25, Nghi Vo, Into the Riverlands, Tordotcom, →ISBN:
glosses: An easy pace with long strides.
lopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loppers
Etymology: From lop + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who lops.
glosses: A gardening tool used for lopping.
Synonyms: sense: gardening tool
word: loppers
lopper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: loppers
form: loppering
form: loppered
form: loppered
Senses: glosses: To turn sour and coagulate from too long standing, as milk.
Related terms: lapper-milk
loquat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈloʊkwɑt/
ipa: /ˈləʊkwɒt/
Forms: form: loquats
Etymology: Borrowed from Cantonese 盧橘 /卢橘 (lou⁴ gwat¹).
Senses: examples: text: Japan Mespilus, or Loquat.
ref: 1811, William Aiton, Hortus Kewensis; or, A catalogue of the plants cultivated in the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew, volume 3:
text: As far as the eye can see, one observes nothing but loquat orchards growing luxuriantly on the low, rich land, where the roots never suffer from lack of water.
ref: 1915, Ira Judson Condit, The Loquat, page 254:
text: I climbed up into the loquat (Eriobotrya japonica) tree in our backyard to think.
ref: 2009, Howard Camner, Turbulence at 67 Inches: The Autobiography, page 61:
glosses: Any of species Eriobotrya japonica of trees (Japanese medlar, Chinese plum, Japanese plum).
glosses: The fruit of this tree. It is as large as a small plum, but grows in clusters, and contains four or five large seeds.
Derived terms: wild loquat
Related terms: kumquat
lossy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒsi/
ipa: /ˈlɔsi/
ipa: /ˈlɑsi/
rhymes: -ɒsi
rhymes: -ɔːsi
Forms: form: lossier
form: lossiest
Etymology: From loss + -y.
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Of a communication channel, subject to loss of signal strength.
qualifier: power systems
glosses: Of an electricity transmission line, subject to various forms of power loss.
examples: text: JPEG is a lossy image compression format.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Reducing the amount of information in data.
raw_tags: of an algorithm for converting or compressing data
Derived terms: lossily
lossiness
unlossy
louver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lo͞oʹvə
ipa: /ˈluːvə/
enpr: lo͞oʹvər
ipa: /ˈluːvɚ/
rhymes: -uːvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: louvers
form: loover
form: louvre
form: lover
form: lovour
form: luffer
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English lover, from Old French lovier, lover (“skylight”), from Medieval Latin *lōdārium (attested as lōvārium), extension of lōdium, of unclear origin, but probably of Germanic origin and related to Frankish *laubijā (“shelter”).
Senses: examples: text: But darknesse dred and daily night did hover / Through all the inner parts, wherein they dwelt; / Ne lightned was with window, nor with lover, / But with continuall candle-light […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A type of turret on the roof of certain medieval buildings designed to allow ventilation or the admission of light.
glosses: A series of sloping overlapping slats or boards which admit air and light but exclude rain etc.
glosses: Any of a system of slits, as in the hood of an automobile, for ventilation.
Derived terms: louvered
louvred
Related terms: jalousie
lowboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊbɔɪ/
rhymes: -əʊbɔɪ
Forms: form: lowboys
form: low-boy
Etymology: Possibly from low + French bois (“wood”).
Senses: examples: text: Puffing rhythmically, Jones set one of his beautiful dragon-entwined flambeaux on the low-boy with the gleaming drinks […].
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 38, in Ada, or, Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books, published 1970, →ISBN, part 1, page 195:
topics: furniture
lifestyle
coordinate_terms: tallboy
glosses: A low chest of drawers.
examples: text: Before the grave was half filled a truck entered the cemetery gates towing a lowboy with a tractor chained to the bed.
ref: 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 155:
synonyms: float
low loader
qualifier: trucking
glosses: A semi-trailer designed for hauling vehicles and other mobile equipment, with two drops in deck height: one right after the gooseneck and one right before the wheels; so named because the trailer's main deck is situated close to the ground for easy loading and unloading of vehicles and equipment.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A precursor to the hi-hat drum, with a pair of cymbals low to the ground that are struck with a foot pedal.
luge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /luː(d)ʒ/
ipa: /luʒ/
rhymes: -uːdʒ
rhymes: -uːʒ
Forms: form: luges
Etymology: The noun is borrowed from Swiss French or Franco-Provençal luge, from Medieval Latin scludia, from Late Latin sclodia, of Celtic origin, from Gaulish *stludio, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *sleydʰ- (“to slide, slip; to be slick or slippery”). If so, it is related to sled and sleigh.
Sense 2.2 (“drinking utensil”) is from its resemblance to the tracks on which luges race.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Cognates
* Irish slaod (“raft, float”)
* Old Breton stloit (“sliding; traction”) (modern Breton stlej (“sleigh”))
* Welsh llithr (“slide, slippage”)
Senses: glosses: A racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back.
glosses: The sport of racing on luges.
examples: text: The luge was a block of ice, sometimes up to three-and-one-half feet long, which had narrow grooves etched into it. Alcohol was poured onto one end of the luge and as the alcohol traveled down the narrow grooves in the block of ice, it was cooled and then ran directly into the mouth of the waiting drinker on the other end.
ref: 1999, Ronald S. Beitman, Liquor Liability: A Primer for Winning Your Case, Philadelphia, Pa.: American Law Institute; American Bar Association Committee on Continuing Professional Education, →ISBN, page 20:
text: Kegs of beer were set up around every corner. There was also a liquor luge—a giant block of ice, slanted at a 45-degree angle and carved with a convenient path for shots to be poured down and into the mouths of anyone who was thirsty.
ref: 2010 March 22, Dan Wiederer, “‘I’ll Do It if Bob Does It’”, in Blue Streak: The Highs, Lows and Behind the Scenes Hijinks of a National Champion, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 16:
text: From restaurant openings and closings to how to do a "Bone Marrow Luge," you'll want to check him [Dave Cathey] out for the latest on the gastronomic scene.
ref: 2013, Katie Johnstonbaugh, “Introduction”, in Kevin Sirois, editor, Food Lovers’ Guide to Oklahoma: The Best Restaurants, Markets & Local Culinary Offerings, Guilford, Conn.: Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, page 5:
text: The Torres opened their first location in 2010 in Boyle Heights—the area squished between Downtown and East L.A.—and on their Chef's Night Out, we captured some quality father–son time as each Armando showed the other his generation's Boyle Heights. For Junior that meant creative-Italian appetizing at Bestia (technically in the "Arts District") and something called a "bone luge," where a sommelier pours sherry down your gullet via a recently scraped cow femur.
ref: 2017, “Things with Tortillas [Pulled Pork Tacos: Armando de la Torre]”, in J. J. Goode, Helen Hollyman, and the editors of Munchies, editors, Munchies: Late-night Eats from the World’s Best Chefs, Berkeley, Calif.: Ten Speed Press, →ISBN, page 70:
glosses: A piece of bone, ice or other material with a channel down which a drink (usually alcoholic) can be poured into someone's mouth.
Derived terms: ice luge
street luge
vodka luge
luge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /luː(d)ʒ/
ipa: /luʒ/
rhymes: -uːdʒ
rhymes: -uːʒ
Forms: form: luges
form: luging
form: lugeing
form: luged
form: luged
Etymology: The noun is borrowed from Swiss French or Franco-Provençal luge, from Medieval Latin scludia, from Late Latin sclodia, of Celtic origin, from Gaulish *stludio, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *sleydʰ- (“to slide, slip; to be slick or slippery”). If so, it is related to sled and sleigh.
Sense 2.2 (“drinking utensil”) is from its resemblance to the tracks on which luges race.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Cognates
* Irish slaod (“raft, float”)
* Old Breton stloit (“sliding; traction”) (modern Breton stlej (“sleigh”))
* Welsh llithr (“slide, slippage”)
Senses: glosses: To ride a luge; also, to participate in the sport of luge.
examples: text: [Norman] Ollestad was only 11 when a small plane carrying him, his father and his father's girlfriend to a ski race slammed into the San Gabriel Mountains west of Los Angeles during a blizzard. […] After the girlfriend luged to her death halfway down the icy slope, Ollestad had to pick his way down alone, following the trail of her blood.
ref: 2009 July 5, Jennifer Schuessler, “Inside the List”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2021:
glosses: To slide or slip down a slope.
Derived terms: word: lugeing
word: luging
word: luger
lugger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ʌɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: luggers
Etymology: From lug + -er. Attested since the early 17th century.
Senses: examples: text: The horse was a lugger – lugging into the rail all the time. I had to fight hard to keep him running straight
ref: 2015, Garry Allison, Southern Hoofprints, page 450:
glosses: That which lugs in either literal or figurative senses.
examples: text: Robert Taillon, a lugger at Rapid, testified that in December 1997, Carlos Diaz and Michel Labrosse began to train Rene Delage as a lugger for the large transformers.
ref: 1999, Ontario labor relations board, Labour Relations Board Reports, page 693:
glosses: One who lugs, especially one whose job entails pulling or moving heavy objects.
glosses: A conman.
examples: text: An estimated 50 luggers were employed to bring gamblers to Reading.
ref: 2008, Ed Taggert, When the Rackets Reigned, page 187:
synonyms: picker-up
roper
runner
steerer
glosses: A person hired by a gambling establishment to locate potential customers and bring them in.
lugger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ʌɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: luggers
Etymology: Likely from lugsail, but compare also Middle Dutch luggen (“to fish with a dragnet”).
Senses: examples: text: pearling lugger
text: A good many persons of the pension had gone over to the Cheniere Caminada in Beaudelet's lugger to hear mass.
ref: 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening:
glosses: A small vessel having two or three masts, and a running bowsprit, and carrying lugsails.
lugger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ʌɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: luggers
Etymology: Variant of laggar falcon, from Hindi लग्गर (laggar).
Senses: examples: text: Falconry is a difficult art to master, some species more so than others. Sakers and Luggers are known to be problematic, and easy to lose, or to lose patience with.
ref: 2013, Conor Mark Jameson, Silent Spring Revisted, page 11:
glosses: An Indian falcon (Falco jugger), similar to the European lanner and the American prairie falcon.
lull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʌl/
rhymes: -ʌl
Forms: form: lulls
Etymology: From Middle English lullen, lollen. Originally, perhaps expressive in origin from la-la-la or lu-lu-lu sounds made in calming a child. Compare Finnish laulaa (“to sing”) and Hiligaynon lala (“to sing a lullaby”).
Cognate with Scots lul, lule, loll (“to lull, put to sleep, howl, caterwaul”), Dutch lollen (“to sing badly, caterwaul”), Dutch lullen (“to chatter, prate, cheat, deceive”), Low German lullen (“to lull”), German lullen (“to lull”), Danish lulle (“to lull, sing to sleep”), Swedish lulla (“to lull”), Icelandic lúlla (“to lull”).
Senses: glosses: A period of rest or soothing.
glosses: A period of reduced activity; a respite.
examples: text: […] during the lull, wind shifted to S. E. […]
ref: 1839, The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle for 1839, page 26:
text: After the lull the wind does not appear to have blown with any great strength […]
ref: 1875, W. G. Wilson, Report of the Midnapore and Burdwan Cyclone of the 15th and 16th of October 1874, page 74:
text: The air under each cloud has spent time near the surface, has been slowed and backed by friction—it is a lull.
ref: 2016, David Houghton, Fiona Campbell, Wind Strategy, not paginated:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A period without waves or wind.
examples: text: It is advisable to leave the surf zone during the lull between sets of larger waves, waiting outside the surf zone for a lull.
ref: 1992, John Warlaumont, The Noaa Diving Manual, page 19-19:
text: About 2 hours in, a long lull cleared everyone out, and then it started getting a little more consistent and pushing chest ta neck high.
ref: 808surfer.com forum (password needed)
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: An extended pause between sets of waves.
Derived terms: lull before the storm
lull
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʌl/
rhymes: -ʌl
Forms: form: lulls
form: lulling
form: lulled
form: lulled
Etymology: From Middle English lullen, lollen. Originally, perhaps expressive in origin from la-la-la or lu-lu-lu sounds made in calming a child. Compare Finnish laulaa (“to sing”) and Hiligaynon lala (“to sing a lullaby”).
Cognate with Scots lul, lule, loll (“to lull, put to sleep, howl, caterwaul”), Dutch lollen (“to sing badly, caterwaul”), Dutch lullen (“to chatter, prate, cheat, deceive”), Low German lullen (“to lull”), German lullen (“to lull”), Danish lulle (“to lull, sing to sleep”), Swedish lulla (“to lull”), Icelandic lúlla (“to lull”).
Senses: examples: text: To lull him soft a sleepe
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 30:
text: Such ſweet compulſion doth in muſick ly, / To lull the daughers of Neceſſity,
ref: 1634, John Milton, “Arcades”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC, page 54:
text: To lull with song an aching heart
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXVII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 57:
synonyms: soothe
quiet
glosses: To cause to rest by soothing influences; to compose; to calm
examples: text: The storm lulled.
glosses: To become gradually calm; to subside; to cease or abate.
Synonyms: sense: To cause to rest
word: appease
Derived terms: belull
lullable
lullaby
luller
lullful
lullingly
lullsome
unlulled
lulu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluːlu/
rhymes: -uːlu
Forms: form: lulus
Etymology: Probably from American stage magician Lulu Hurst (1869–1950).
Senses: examples: text: The funny part was, though, we were the worst skaters on the whole goddam^([sic]) rink. I mean the worst. And there were some lulus, too.
ref: 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 167:
text: Mon-sewer, you are a lulu!
ref: 1961, James Edward Grant, Clair Huffaker, The Comancheros, spoken by Jake Cutter (John Wayne):
text: Seriously, I mean it: From Russia, With Love is a real wowser, a lulu, a dilly and a smasheroo.
ref: 2013, Andrew Lycett, Ian Fleming, page 301:
text: The job: a real lulu. The heiress to a cheese fortune has run off with a clarinet player in a swing band, and Hicks is dispatched to bring her home.
ref: 2025 October 9, Parul Sehgal, “Thomas Pynchon Saw Where America Was Headed. What Does He See Now?”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
synonyms: exception
ace
innovation
champion
comedy
surprise
doozie
humdinger
glosses: A remarkable person, object, or idea.
synonyms: babe
beauty
cutie
doll
stunner
antonyms: dog
fright
monster
monstrosity
sight
glosses: A very attractive or alluring person.
synonyms: word: aberration
word: barbarism
word: bloomer
word: blooper
word: blunder
word: boner
word: boo-boo
word: break
word: clanger
word: cock-up
word: error
word: fault
word: faux pas
word: floater
word: flub
word: fluff
word: fuckup
word: gaffe
word: goof
word: howler
word: inaccuracy
word: lapse
word: lapsus
word: mess-up
word: misstep
word: mistake
word: oopsy
word: screwup
word: slip
word: slip-up
word: slipup
word: stumble
word: thinko
word: wrength
word: solecism
word: erroneity
glosses: A very bad mistake or error.
lulu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluːlu/
rhymes: -uːlu
Forms: form: lulus
Etymology: From the phrase in lieu.
Senses: glosses: A fixed allowance paid to a legislator in lieu of reimbursement for actual expenses.
lummox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lŭmʹəks
ipa: /ˈlʌməks/
rhymes: -ʌməks
Forms: form: lummoxes
form: lummock
form: lummocks
form: lummux
Etymology: Unknown. First attested in 1825 in East Anglian slang. Perhaps from "dumb ox", influenced by lumbering; or from or cognate to dialectal verb lummock (“move about heavily or clumsily”), itself a word of uncertain origin.
Senses: examples: text: You've broken the plates, you great lummox!
text: As a rule, a knight is a lummux, and sometimes even a labrick, and hence open to pretty poor arguments when they come glibly from a superstition-monger, but even he could see the practical side of a thing once in a while; […]
ref: 1889, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “The Tragedy of the Manor-house”, in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, New York, N.Y.: Charles L. Webster & Company, →OCLC, page 382:
text: I love you, Gal. You're lovable. Big lovable bloke. Loveable lump. Loveable lummox. Gal Dove, party boy. Big oaf.
ref: 2000, Louis Mellis, David Scinto, Sexy Beast (motion picture), spoken by Don Logan (Ben Kingsley):
glosses: A clumsy, stupid person; an awkward bungler.
wikipedia: East Anglia
lumper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌmpə/
ipa: /ˈlʌmpɚ/
rhymes: -ʌmpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: lumpers
Etymology: From lump + -er.
Senses: examples: text: There were owners of lines of schooners, large contributors to the societies, and small men, their few craft pawned to the mastheads, with bankers and marine-insurance agents, captains of tugs and water-boats, riggers, fitters, lumpers, salters, boat-builders, and coopers, and all the mixed population of the water-front.
ref: 1896 November – 1897 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Captains Courageous”, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, published 1897, →OCLC:
glosses: An extra laborer hired to assist in the loading or unloading of a truck or a ship.
topics: biology
human-sciences
linguistics
natural-sciences
sciences
antonyms: splitter
glosses: A scientist in one of various fields who prefers to keep categories such as species or dialects together in larger groups.
glosses: A militiaman.
glosses: Synonym of lumpman (“type of salt worker”).
synonyms: word: lumpman
extra: type of salt worker
lumper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌmpə/
ipa: /ˈlʌmpɚ/
rhymes: -ʌmpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: lumpers
Senses: glosses: A lamprey.
lumper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌmpə/
ipa: /ˈlʌmpɚ/
rhymes: -ʌmpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: lumpers
form: lumpering
form: lumpered
form: lumpered
Senses: examples: text: Over piggeries, and mixens, and apples, and hay, / They lumpered straight into the night; / And finding bylong where a halter-path lay, / At dawn reached Tim's house […]
ref: 1866 (date written), Thomas Hardy, “The Fire at Tranter Sweatley’s”, in Wessex Poems and Other Verses, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, published 1898, →OCLC, page 190:
text: But, my dear woman, why ever have ye come lumpering up to Rainbarrows at this time o' night?
ref: 1904, Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts: A Drama of the Napoleonic Wars, […], part first, London: Macmillan and Co.: New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, Act II, scene v, page 81:
text: Lord, what's the good o' my lumpering all the way to church and back again, when I'm as deaf as a plock?
ref: 1929, Thomas Hardy, Old Mrs. Chundle, New York: Crosby Gaige, →OCLC, page 11:
glosses: To lumber; to plod.
lutz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʌts/
rhymes: -ʌts
Forms: form: lutzes
Etymology: From the surname of Austrian skater Alois Lutz, who invented the jump.
Senses: examples: text: Meissner fell three times, on two triple lutzes and a triple flip, to drop from fourth, the worst performance by a defending champion in at least 50 years.
ref: 2008 January 27, Pat Borzi, “In a Youth Movement, Nagasu Wins the Title”, in New York Times:
qualifier: figure skating
glosses: A jump in which the skater takes off from the back outside edge of one skate, rotates counterclockwise and lands on the back outside edge of the other skate.
lutz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʌts/
rhymes: -ʌts
Forms: form: lutzes
Senses: glosses: A kind of marble (spherical toy) with bands of copper or goldstone flakes.
luxe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /luks/
ipa: /lʌks/
rhymes: -uːks
rhymes: -ʌks
Etymology: From French luxe, from Latin luxus. Cognate with English lock.
Senses: examples: text: When it comes to advertising, he says, the much talked-about idea that luxe is recession-proof has been proven not to be the case.
ref: 2009 May 31, Vicky Frost, “'Bits of it are insanely glamorous'”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Apr 2019:
text: With sleek bucket bags, totes and backpacks priced from $460 to $950, Mansur Gavriel is targeting women who want low-key luxe and value without overt logos or labeling.
ref: 2014 August 18, Booth Moore, “Mansur Gavriel finds success with stealth luxe”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, L.A.: Los Angeles Times Communications LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Oct 2022:
glosses: Luxury.
luxe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /luks/
ipa: /lʌks/
rhymes: -uːks
rhymes: -ʌks
Forms: form: luxier
form: luxest
form: luxiest
Etymology: From French luxe, from Latin luxus. Cognate with English lock.
Senses: examples: text: A pair of luxe Scottish golf resorts operated by Donald Trump suffered millions of dollars in losses during 2015, according to recent filings with a U.K. government agency, adding another complication to Trump's pitch for the White House, in which he has frequently emphasized his business acumen.
ref: 2016 October 12, Sean Sullivan, “Trump's Scottish golf resorts report 2015 losses”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Mar 2023:
text: The luxe department store Barneys New York announced this week that it would launch a new Instagram-ready cannabis department called The High End.
ref: 2019 February 14, Amanda Mull, “Legal Weed Gets a Luxury Makeover”, in The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Oct 2022:
text: Lots of shows at fashion week utilize dry brushing nail techniques on the models because it gives a super luxe finish with minimal effort.
ref: 2017 December 7, “Simple and inexpensive DIY manicures for luxe holiday nails”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 12 May 2018:
text: "The quality and the tailoring is what makes it so luxe," Mr. [Michael] Reynolds said. "Like a piece you'd see created by Hermès, it's not over the top."
ref: 2018 July 18, Steven Kurutz, “This Design Studio Knows How to Party”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Nov 2022:
text: As a designer and brand builder, [Greg] Chait has turned The Elder Statesman into the coolest of cool and the luxe-est of luxe; the proof is in the many copycats of his tie-dye knitwear and slouchy casual spirit.
ref: 2019 September 18, Steff Yotka, “The Elder Statesman Spring 2020 Ready-to-Wear Collection”, in Vogue, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Aug 2022:
text: I found it extremely luxe that there was a stack of large-format Moleskines you could take at your whim from the cabinet behind the receptionist.
ref: 2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books, →ISBN:
text: Wrap yourself in this ultra-soft and lightweight waffle robe, inspired by some of the most luxe spas.
ref: 2022 November 28, Anna Tingley, “Parachute's Entire Website Is 20% Off for Cyber Monday”, in Variety, Los Angeles, C.A.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2022:
glosses: Luxurious, sophisticated.
Derived terms: hyperluxe
sportsluxe
superluxe
ultraluxe
lye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /laɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: lie
homophone: lai
homophone: Leigh (some placenames)
Forms: form: lyes
Etymology: From Middle English leye, lye, from Old English lēah, lēag (“lye”), from Proto-West Germanic *laugu, from Proto-Germanic *laugō, from Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃- (“to wash”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Loge, Looie (“lye”), Dutch loog (“lye”), German Low German Loge, Loje, Loog (“lye”), German Lauge (“lye”).
Compare typologically Ancient Greek ῥύμμα (rhúmma) < ῥύπτω (rhúptō, “to cleanse, to wash”).
Senses: glosses: An alkaline liquid made by leaching ashes (usually wood ashes).
examples: text: She had not left the lye in too long so that the hair would fall out in clumps later.
ref: 2019, Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift, Hogarth, page 372:
glosses: Potassium or sodium hydroxide (caustic soda).
Derived terms: chamber lye
lyed
potash lye
soda lye
lye
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /laɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: lie
homophone: lai
homophone: Leigh (some placenames)
Forms: form: lyes
form: lyeing
form: lyed
form: lyed
Etymology: From Middle English leye, lye, from Old English lēah, lēag (“lye”), from Proto-West Germanic *laugu, from Proto-Germanic *laugō, from Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃- (“to wash”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Loge, Looie (“lye”), Dutch loog (“lye”), German Low German Loge, Loje, Loog (“lye”), German Lauge (“lye”).
Compare typologically Ancient Greek ῥύμμα (rhúmma) < ῥύπτω (rhúptō, “to cleanse, to wash”).
Senses: glosses: To treat with lye.
lye
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /laɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: lie
homophone: lai
homophone: Leigh (some placenames)
Forms: form: lyes
form: lying
form: lay
form: lain
form: layn
Etymology: Variant of lie (“to rest horizontally”) now used in a specialised sense; compare sett.
Senses: examples: text: Now negligent of sports I lye,
And now as other Fawkners use,
I spring a mistresse, sweare, write, sigh and weepe:
And the game kill'd, or lost, goe talk, and sleepe.
ref: 1654, John Donne, Loves Diet:
text: But when his foe lyes proſtrate on the plain,
He ſheaths his paws, uncurls his angry mane;
And, pleas'd with bloudleſs honours of the day,
Walks over, and diſdains th' inglorious Prey,[…]
ref: 1687, [John Dryden], “The Third Part”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC, page 88:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of lie.
lye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /laɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: lie
homophone: lai
homophone: Leigh (some placenames)
Forms: form: lyes
Etymology: Variant of lie (“to rest horizontally”) now used in a specialised sense; compare sett.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of lie.
examples: text: Brakevan lye. [same page in the main text] There is also an inclined lye for brakevans at each end of the yard.
ref: 1962 October, G. Freeman Allen, “The New Look in Scotland's Northern Division—II: The new Perth marshalling yard”, in Modern Railways, page 273, photo caption with indicating arrow:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A short side line, connected with the main line; a turn-out; a siding.
lysine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪsin/
Forms: form: lysines
Etymology: From lysis + -ine, in reference to its tendency to participate in catalysis.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An amino acid, C₆H₁₄N₂O₂, in L- or D-forms.
examples: text: Lysine is an essential amino acid required for many body functions, including growth and bone development in children; calcium absorption and maintenance of the correct nitrogen balance in the body; maintenance of lean body mass; production of antibodies, hormones, and enzymes; collagen formation and repair of tissue.
ref: 2010, Michael T. Murray, Joseph Pizzorno, The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 65:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An amino acid, C₆H₁₄N₂O₂, in L- or D-forms.
The L-form of such a molecule, as it occurs in living organisms; in humans it is an essential amino acid.
synonyms: mul:Lys
mul:K
Derived terms: acetyllysine
alkyllysinase
borolysine
dilysine
dimethyllysine
hydroxylysine
insulin glulisine
insulin lispro
liraglutide
lisinopril
lypressin
lysinuric
lysopine
lysyl
methyllysine
nonlysine
pentalysine
polylysine
macer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪsə(ɹ)
Forms: form: macers
Etymology: From Middle English macer, from Anglo-Norman macer, from mace (“mace”).
Senses: synonyms: mace-bearer
glosses: A mace bearer; specifically, an officer of a court in Scotland.
macer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪsə(ɹ)
Forms: form: macers
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, Moran was a profession cheat, a sharper of more than ordinary dimensions — a macer, in criminal parlance. He had made card sharping a life's work — second only to shooting […]
ref: 1981, John E. Gardner, The Return of Moriarty, page 7:
glosses: A cardsharp.
macers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macer