cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
darkwave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dark wave
Etymology: From dark + -wave, meaning the “dark” counterpart of new wave.
Senses: examples: text: As well as mainstream pop you'll find dance, funk and all kinds of club music, world music and even very select genres such as darkwave medieval, darkwave gothic to darkwave neofolk.
ref: 2002, Jules Brown, Dinah Gardner, Hong Kong and Macau, page 315:
text: Since the 1980s, several goth substyles have mixed the Batcave heritage with other musical genres into new goth substyles. New wave was gothed into darkwave, classic rock into gothic rock, and metal into gothic metal. […] The term darkwave originated in the 1980s as an indicator of the “dark” counterpart of new wave.
ref: 2015, Isabella van Elferen, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Goth Music: From Sound to Subculture, Routledge, →ISBN, page 25:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musical movement that originated in the late 1970s, combining elements of new wave and gothic rock with dark, thoughtful lyrics and an undertone of sorrow.
Derived terms: darkwaver
neoclassical darkwave
Related terms: coldwave
deep linking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The practice of linking to a specific page or file within a website so as to bypass introductory pages, considered a violation of netiquette.
deep linking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deep link
vegeburgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vegeburger
overhand knots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overhand knot
bookstands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bookstand
greensands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greensand
post offices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of post office
two-minute silences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of two-minute silence
Related terms: moments of silence
flexi disc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flexi discs
form: flexidisc
Etymology: Short for flexible disc.
Senses: glosses: A phonograph record, made of a thin vinyl sheet with a moulded spiral stylus groove, produced between 1960 and 2000 and sometimes used as a means of including audio material with books and magazines.
clinochrysotile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clinochrysotiles
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A soft, fibrous silicate mineral in the serpentine group of phyllosilicates, also called "white asbestos".
chapmanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chapmanites
Etymology: Edward John Chapman, geology professor at the University of Toronto, + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare nesosilicate mineral, an iron antimony silicate closely related to bismutoferrite.
adamsite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Adams + -ite, after Roger Adams, an American organic chemist.
Senses: glosses: An organic compound, diphenylaminechlorarsine, used as a riot-control agent.
wikipedia: Roger Adams
Synonyms: DM
uklonskovite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A monoclinic mineral with a vitreous lustre that has the chemical formula NaMg(SO₄)F.
proverbiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From proverb + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: As the English language is best studied by the light thrown on it by comparative philology, and as a knowledge of human anatomy is greatly aided by the discoveries in the comparative anatomy of animals, so must English Proverbiology by assisted by the light reflected from comparative Proverbiology.
ref: 1880, J. Long, “Proverbs: English and Keltic, with Their Eastern Relations”, in The Folk-Lore Record, volume 3, number 1, page 59:
text: Is the DMAP [Dictionary of Mexican American Proverbs] intended as a comparative Chicano proverbiology?
ref: 1989, R. V. Teschner, “Reviews of A Dictionary of Mexican American Proverbs by Mark Glazer”, in Hispania, volume 72, number 1, page 150:
glosses: The study of proverbs; the collective lore of proverbs.
Derived terms: proverbiologist
swigger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swiggers
Etymology: From swig + -er.
Senses: examples: text: His work ethic, sobriety, and family man reputation meant little in the Big Apple; they loved the martini-swiggers of the Sinatra age.
ref: 2009, Steven Travers, A Tale of Three Cities:
glosses: One who swigs.
proverbiologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proverbiologists
Etymology: From proverbiology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The proverbiologist uses syntactic, dialectal, metric, or linguistic aspects of the proverb to study its origin, spread, and evolution.
ref: 1976, Dale Boesky, “Proverbs and Psychoanalysis,”, in Psychoanalytic Quarterly, volume 45, page 539:
glosses: A person who studies proverbs.
Related terms: proverbiology
clattier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of clatty: more clatty
clattiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of clatty: most clatty
curbstoners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curbstoner
crespines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crespine
charmeuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charmeuse
resettable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more resettable
form: most resettable
Etymology: From reset + -able.
Senses: examples: text: These values are resettable.
glosses: Capable of being reset.
Derived terms: resettability
resettable fuse
Related terms: settable
tsimbl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tsimbls
Etymology: From Yiddish צימבל (tsimbl). Doublet of cymbal.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A cymbalom, or hammered dulcimer, used in klezmer music.
Derived terms: tsimblist
tsimbls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tsimbl
spanko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spankos
Etymology: From spank + -o.
Senses: examples: text: I guess the second is the behaviour that makes us spankos.
ref: 1995 February 15, BlueEyeBoy, “Re: What is going *ON* here?”, in alt.sex.spanking (Usenet):
text: She was no fool; this man was seriously hot, a spanko, potentially a great spanko and really nice
ref: 2007, Susan Kohler, Another Batch of Warm Buns, →ISBN, page 115:
glosses: A person with a fetish for spanking, usually but not exclusively sexual
Coordinate terms: vanilla
BDSMer
Related terms: spankee
spanker
spankos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spanko
be oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: is oneself
form: being oneself
form: was oneself
form: been oneself
Senses: examples: text: All you have to do is be yourself.
text: I've heard players saying I am like a different person this season and it's true. When you are back with the team you can be yourself again, you can join in the fun and express yourself more normally.
ref: 2015 October 3, Paul Wilson, quoting Arouna Koné, “Fighting fit Arouna Koné making the most of his comeback for Everton”, in The Observer, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Nov 2015:
text: Seeing Murphy's long pushed aside mushy feelings is a sweet moment. It almost feels inevitable that these two would find each other. Murphy has found someone she can be herself around and a built-in family with a surrogate daughter who understands what Murphy has gone through.
ref: 2019 July 19, Kaitlin Reilly, “Who Is The Murderer On In The Dark? You'll Never Guess This Crazy Twist”, in Refinery29, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2023:
text: She was also there when I cut my hair, which sounds trite, but for me it was a big deal. I've been on hormones three years now and I'm almost at the point of where I want to be. I feel like I'm finally myself.
ref: 2020 November 14, Gayle MacDonald, quoting Oliver Lane, “Match: Time spent apart only strengthened Amy and Oliver’s decision to be together”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, ON: The Woodbridge Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Nov 2020:
glosses: To behave or act naturally, without regard to how this behavior is perceived by others.
examples: text: What's wrong? You're not yourself today.
text: At that moment it seemed to me that everything was possible for Monica and me; and going up to her I said, "I've never seen you like this!" With her eyes still closed she said, "I'm not myself today!" She began to laugh. Then I began to laugh, because of what we had both said, and because of her laughter and the sun and the sky and the lake.
ref: 2011 November 6, Steven Millhauser, “Miracle Polish”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Jun 2023:
text: One bright June afternoon, he pulled us aside and told us he wasn't himself. He was doing what he loved most — playing basketball, swimming in the lake — but he couldn't enjoy anything.
ref: 2023 February 9, David Brooks, “How Do You Serve a Friend in Despair?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2023:
text: I also think it is because I portray myself, I am more confident and outgoing - I am finally myself again.
ref: 2023 April 4, Ellen Coughlan, quoting Whitney Pepper, “I tipped the scales at 299Ibs and lost over half my body weight - but now I'm addicted to SHOPPING and spend over $1000 a month on clothes”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Apr 2023:
glosses: To be as one usually is, as opposed to being sick, depressed, etc.
Related terms: find oneself
to thine own self be true
vanillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vanilla
cross paths
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crosses paths
form: crossing paths
form: crossed paths
form: crossed paths
Senses: examples: text: Presidential campaigns cross paths in up-for-grabs Iowa.
ref: 2004 August 5, SFGate.com:
text: Paddock came from the small town of Mesquite, some 60 miles (100 km) north-east of Las Vegas, and had resided in the hotel since 28 September. Police in Mesquite have searched his premises and recovered a number of weapons. But they say he had not crossed paths with the police in the past.
ref: 2017 October 2, "Las Vegas shooting: At least 58 dead at Mandalay Bay Hotel", in bbc.com, BBC
glosses: To be, by chance, in the same physical place at the same time, as a result of two completely separate journeys; to encounter or meet each other.
raw_tags: of two things or people
Kobarid
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Slovene Kobaríd, from Proto-Slavic *Koboridъ, borrowed from an Old Friulian form derived from Latin *Caporētum, *Caprētum, possibly from caper (“goat”).
Senses: glosses: A town in western Slovenia, the site of an important battle in the First World War.
unobtuse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unobtuse
form: most unobtuse
Etymology: From un- + obtuse.
Senses: examples: For Phoebe ever reddens in the wind : A fourth time risen, then surest monitress, If she with unobtuse and unblench'd horn illuminates her path . . . "Virgil" translated by Charles R Kennedy 1861
glosses: Not obtuse
fugas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fuga
cyclophilin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclophilins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of proteins that bind to ciclosporin
classified advertisement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: classified advertisements
Senses: glosses: Any of a list of newspaper or website advertisements included with others under a heading describing the category of product or service offered or sought.
Synonyms: classified ad
classified
Related terms: small ad
ciclosporin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsʌɪ.klə(ʊ)ˈspɔː.ɹɪn/
ipa: /ˌsaɪ.kləˈspɔɹ.ɪn/
Forms: form: cyclosporin
form: cyclosporine
Etymology: From cyclo- + spor- + -in.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An immunosuppressive drug C₆₂H₁₁₁N₁₁O₁₂ that is a cyclic polypeptide obtained as a metabolite from a fungus (Tolypocladium inflatum) and is used especially to prevent rejection of transplanted organs and in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis.
crypsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪpsɪs/
Etymology: Probably directly from Ancient Greek κρύψις (krúpsis, “hiding, concealment”); compare Latin crypsis. Doublet of krypsis.
Senses: examples: text: Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close[…]above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them. Many insects probably use this strategy, which is a close analogy to crypsis in the visible world—camouflage and other methods for blending into one’s visual background.
ref: 2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The ability of an organism to avoid observation.
Related terms: cryptic
mimicry
credibility gap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: credibility gaps
Senses: examples: text: The inability of Trump's own spokespeople to speak authoritatively on the president's thinking and actions -- a challenge even Trump himself has acknowledged -- has left the White House with an enormous credibility gap, and has tarnished the reputations of many of its most visible spokespeople.
ref: 2017 May 16, Dylan Byers, “Does anyone in Trump's White House have credibility?”, in CNN Business:
text: The League of Nations, meanwhile, suffered a credibility gap as the United States never joined the organisation that its President argued was essential for preserving the hard-won peace.
ref: 2021 September 22, Stephen Roberts, “The writings on the wall...”, in RAIL, number 940, page 72:
glosses: A discrepancy between the statements made by a person in authority (especially by a politician) and the perceived truth.
cross-reactivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-reactivities
Etymology: From cross- + reactivity.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The degree to which an antigen is effective against an antibody that was generated against a different antigen
Related terms: cross-reaction
creepage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creepage .
form: creepages
Etymology: From creep + -age.
Senses: examples: text: Therefore, when preparing and maintaining track for high speeds, the importance of ample anchorage against creepage cannot be overlooked.
ref: 1946 January and February, Ralph P. Johnson, “Track and Roadbed for High-Speed Trains”, in Railway Magazine, page 46:
glosses: A gradual, creeping movement.
glosses: The leakage of an electrical current across the surface of an insulator (dielectric)
Derived terms: creepage distance
connectomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From connect + -omics.
Senses: examples: text: I believe it is fair to say that the connectome and the nascent field of connectomics are beginning to influence the ways many neuroscientists collect, analyze, and think about their data.
ref: 2012, Olaf Sporns, Discovering the Human Connectome, MIT Press, →ISBN:
text: The giant fiber system provides a particular opportunity for functional connectomics because the functional contributions of elements in the pathway can so readily be assayed from its behavioral output.
ref: 2012, Advances in Genetics, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 121:
topics: medicine
neuroscience
sciences
synonyms: hodology
glosses: The study of the brain in terms of wiring diagrams visualizing neural circuitry, including neurons, synapses, spines, and others.
Derived terms: pathoconnectomics
Related terms: connectome
concrement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒŋkɹɪmənt/
Forms: form: concrements
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin concrēmentum.
Senses: examples: text: supposeth a creation or concrement of those very Bodies which I suppose to be mixed, as Animals, Vegetables, […]
ref: a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
glosses: concretion
concoctive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more concoctive
form: most concoctive
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to digestion; digestive.
examples: text: The fallow Ground laid open to the Sun, / Concoctive […].
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Autumn”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
glosses: Ripening or maturing by heat.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the concoction of a mixture etc.
companding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kəmˈpæn.dɪŋ/
Forms: form: compandings
Etymology: Blend of compression + expanding
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A process in which noise in a signal is reduced by selective compression and expansion
Synonyms: compansion
compansion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compansions
Etymology: Blend of compression + expansion
Senses: glosses: companding
compandor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compandors
form: compander
Etymology: Blend of compressor + expander
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any device used in companding
comparators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comparator
chaconne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ʃəˈkɒn/
Forms: form: chaconnes
Etymology: From French chaconne, from Spanish chacona, likely from Basque txukun (“pretty”).
Senses: glosses: A slow, stately Baroque dance.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The music for such a dance, often containing variations on a theme.
catallactics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkætəˈlæktɪks/
Etymology: Literally, “science of exhanges”, from Ancient Greek καταλλάσσω (katallássō, “to exchange, reconcile”). Probably coined by British economist Richard Whately in 1831.
Senses: examples: text: Catallactics is thus «the order brought about by the mutual adjustment of many individual economies in a market»[…]
ref: 2005, Raimondo Cubeddu, The Philosophy of the Austrian School, Routledge, →ISBN, page 98:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A form of political economics based on the science of exchange.
Related terms: catallactic
catallaxy
cata-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κατά (katá, “downwards”).
Senses: glosses: down
glosses: reverse, backward, degenerative
cannelured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cannelured
form: most cannelured
Etymology: From cannelure + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Up these steep walkways cannelured for footpurchase, the free passage of roaches.
ref: 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 21:
glosses: Having cannelures
camaieu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camaieus
form: camaieux
form: camayeu
Etymology: Borrowed from French camaïeu. Doublet of cameo.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: A style of painting in a small range of monochrome colours.
topics: art
arts
glosses: A style of printing pictures producing the effect of a pencil drawing.
topics: art
arts
glosses: A cameo (relief carving).
Related terms: cameo
cirage
grisaille
Callippic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Calippic
Etymology: For Callippus, Greek astronomer and mathematician
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Based upon a common multiple of the year and the month
Valerius
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Valerius.
Senses: examples: text: "Here you are!" said George, pointing with his cigar. "Cato - Publius Valerius by Virgil out of Lydia. That's what you want. Publius Valerius is Christian enough."
Dartie, on arriving home, had informed Winifred. She had been charmed. It was so 'chic'. And Publius Valerius became the baby's name, though it afterwards transpired that they had got hold of the inferior Cato. In 1890, however, when little Publius was nearly ten, the word 'chic' went out of fashion, and sobriety came in; Winifred began to have doubts. They were confirmed by little Publius himself, who returned from his first term at school complaining that life was a burden to him - they called him Pubby. Winifred - a woman of real decision - promptly changed his school and his name to Val, the Publius being dropped even as an initial.
ref: 1920 John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga: In Chancery:I: Chapter 2
glosses: A male given name from Latin of mostly historical use in English.
Related terms: Val
Valeria
Valerie
Calippic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Callippic.
makeshifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of makeshift
Juley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Seated in a row close to one another were three ladies — Aunts Ann, Hester (the two Forsyte maids), and Juley (short for Julia), who not in first youth had so far forgotten herself as to marry Septimus Small, a man of poor constitution.
ref: 1906 John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga: The Man of Property: Chapter 1
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Julia.
pantalones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pantalone
empressite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: empressites
Etymology: Empress Josephine Mine, Colorado, where it was discovered, + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare hexagonal mineral form of silver telluride.
sylvanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sylvanites
Etymology: From sylvan + -ite, since it can be found in Transylvania.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Silver gold telluride, a soft metallic mineral ranging in color from steely gray to almost white.
yuksporite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Mount Yukspor, Russia, + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare pink inosilicate mineral with orthorhombic crystals.
moolooite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Mooloo Downs, Australia, where it was discovered, + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare blue-green mineral, a hydrated copper oxalate with an orthorhombic crystalline structure.
sborgite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sborgites
Etymology: Umberto Sborgi (1883-1955), Italian chemist, + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A colourless sodium borate mineral with monoclinic crystals.
kurnakovite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kurnakovites
Etymology: Nikolai S. Kurnakov (1860-1941), Russian mineralogist, and -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydrated borate mineral.
kutnohorite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kutnohorites
Etymology: Kutná Hora + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare calcium manganese magnesium iron carbonate mineral with trigonal crystals, having a white, pink or brown colour.
wikipedia: Kutná Hora
nenadkevichite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nenadkevichites
Etymology: Konstantin A Nenadkevich, Russian mineralogist, and -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare silicate mineral containing niobium.
nesquehonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nesquehonites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Magnesium carbonate trihydrate.
meteoriticist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meteoriticists
Etymology: From meteoritic + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The following is a not-too-imaginary conversation between a meteoriticist and an important on-the-spot witness to a fireball that went soaring over his alfalfa patch.
ref: 1967, Robert Shirley Richardson, Getting Acquainted with Comets, McGraw-Hill, page 133:
text: In spite of this reservation, most meteoriticists now accept extinct aluminum-26 as the most likely source of heat for the meteorite parent bodies: it was abundant when the solar system formed, and it decayed fast enough to account for the intense but brief thermal histories of most meteorites.
ref: 1986, Robert T. Dodd, Thunderstones and Shooting Stars: The Meaning of Meteorites, Harvard University Press, page 90:
text: Most of the meteoriticists who "discover" new meteorites depend on someone from the general public to bring in a strange rock they have encountered.
ref: 1997, The Planetary Report, volumes 17-18, The Planetary Society, page 20:
topics: astronomy
chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: geochemistry
glosses: A scientist involved in meteoritics.
niningerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: niningerites
Etymology: Named for Harvey H. Nininger, meteoriticist, + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A magnesium-iron-manganese sulfide mineral.
disphenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- (“twice, double”) + sphenoid (“wedge-shaped crystal or bone of the skull”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a wedge-shaped crystal form of the tetragonal or orthorhombic system.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a crystal form bounded by eight scalene triangles arranged in pairs, constituting a tetragonal scalenohedron.
disphenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disphenoids
Etymology: From di- (“twice, double”) + sphenoid (“wedge-shaped crystal or bone of the skull”).
Senses: examples: text: The mineral chalcopyrite commonly crystallizes in disphenoids that are very difficult to distinguish from tetrahedrons.
ref: 1949, Edward Salisbury Dana, Minerals and How to Study Them, page 32:
text: 1973, H. S. M. Coxeter, 3rd Edition, unnumbered page,
To make a model of a disphenoid, cut out an acute angled triangle and fold it along the joins of the mid-points of the sides. The disphenoid is said to be rhombic or tetragonal according as the triangle is isosceles or scalene.
text: If you rotate the [tetragonal] disphenoid 90° around its 2-fold axis and then perform the operation of inversion through the center-point of the object, it will occupy its original position again.
ref: 1977, Elizabeth A. Wood, Crystals and Light: An Introduction to Optical Crystallography, Revised edition, page 8:
text: In addition it should be remarked that there are two types of disphenoids, with different symmetries: the tetragonal disphenoid (having isosceles facets) and the rhombic one.
ref: 1993, Horst Martini, “A Hierarchical Classification of Euclidean Polytopes with Regularity Properties”, in Tibor Bisztriczky, Peter McMullen, Rolf Schneider, Asia Ivic Weiss, editors, Polytopes: Abstract, Convex and Computational, Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, page 83:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A non-regular tetrahedron whose four faces are congruent acute-angled triangles.
Synonyms: sense: non-regular tetrahedron with congruent faces
word: bisphenoid
sense: non-regular tetrahedron with congruent faces
word: equifacial tetrahedron
sense: non-regular tetrahedron with congruent faces
word: isosceles tetrahedron
Derived terms: rhombic disphenoid
snub disphenoid
tetragonal disphenoid
descreen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: descreens
form: descreening
form: descreened
form: descreened
Etymology: From de- + screen. The Moiré pattern often gives the effect of viewing an image through a screen.
Senses: examples: text: This software feature is used to descreen digital images produced from half-tone printed sources.
glosses: To remove Moiré-pattern artifacts when scanning half-tone printed images.
sistergirl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sistergirls
Etymology: From sister + girl.
Senses: examples: text: "We are all so proud of you, sistergirl! Couldn't you tell at graduation?"
ref: 2003, Shonell Bacon, Draw Me with Your Love:
text: Dianne, where would I be without my sistergirl support group?
ref: 2004, Janette McCarthy Louard, Portrait of Deception:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Sister, girlfriend (as a familiar term of address between women).
examples: text: […] But older sistergirls do feel a real strong sense, a real responsibility, to look after the little sistergirls because they know they've got a hard time ahead.
ref: 2004, The Bulletin, volumes 6428-6439, page 32:
text: Importantly, while Brown does not paint an idealised image of the inclusion of sistergirls within Indigenous cultures, she nonetheless emphasises the negative effects of colonisation upon sistergirls, […]
ref: 2012, Damien W. Riggs, “Talking About 'Diverse Genders and Sexualities' Means Talking About More Than White Middle-Class Queers”, in Y. Taylor, editor, Educational Diversity: The Subject of Difference and Different Subjects, page 230:
text: Senator McCarthy's plea to 'stay strong' resonates because all too often sistergirls and brotherboys suffer, not only from verbal harassment and ostracism, but also violence and sexual abuse.
ref: 2017, Stephen Kerry, Trans Dilemmas: Living in Australia’s Remote Areas and in Aboriginal Communities, unnumbered page:
qualifier: Australian Aboriginal
glosses: A member of a traditional gender role in Australian Aboriginal cultures, resembling trans women.
Coordinate terms: sense: Aboriginal gender role
word: brotherboy
shiftmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shiftmates
Etymology: From shift + mate.
Senses: examples: text: I did not want the officer, a former shiftmate and personal friend, out there alone.
ref: 1991, David Hunter, The Moon Is Always Full:
glosses: One working on the same shift as another.
sowbelly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sowbellies
Etymology: From sow + belly.
Senses: examples: The process consists of laying a side of bacon, profanely called "sowbelly," flat on the ground, and eliminating, by a dexterous use of the knife... — Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society (1918)
glosses: Salted pork from the belly of a pig.
sourbelly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sourbellies
Etymology: From sour + belly.
Senses: examples: You are an old sourbelly this evening. What's the matter? — John Dos Passos, Michael Clark, Streets of Night (1990)
glosses: A cantankerous person.
examples: Their supplies were down to a dog tent, five plugs of chewing tobacco, four beans, and a slab of sourbelly. — Walter Vaughan, The Life and Work of Sir William Van Horne (1920)
glosses: Alternative spelling of sowbelly.
kratochvilite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kratochvilites
Etymology: Harvey H Nininger, meteoriticist, and -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare organic mineral, an orthorhombic hydrocarbon formed by combustion of coal or pyritic black shale deposits.
sticky tape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sticky tapes
Senses: synonyms: word: sellotape
word: Scotch tape
glosses: adhesive tape
Related terms: adhesive tape
Durex
Scotch tape
sellotape
Sellotape
tape
fubsier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of fubsy: more fubsy
Byzantinesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Byzantinesque
form: most Byzantinesque
Etymology: From Byzantine + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of Byzantine art or culture.
fubsiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of fubsy: most fubsy
by-law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪ.lɔː/
Forms: form: by-laws
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bylaw.
lucubrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lucubration
ramifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ramify
bull trap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bull traps
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A temporary reverse in the downward trend of a share price that tempts some investors to buy
ramifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ramify
positive edge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: positive edges
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The point in time when a signal's value becomes high.
Derived terms: positive-edge-triggered
Belle Époque
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Belle Époque
form: Belle Epoque
form: belle époque
form: belle epoque
form: La Belle Époque
form: la Belle Époque
form: la belle époque
Etymology: Borrowed from French Belle Époque (“good epoch”).
Senses: examples: text: Among these cultured hostesses, a leading figure in the belle époque was the Comtesse de Greffulhe.
ref: 1973, Raymond Rudorff, The Belle Époque: Paris in the Nineties, Saturday Review Press, page 240:
ref: 1994, Jennifer R. Waelti-Walters, Steven C. Hause, editors, Feminisms of the Belle Epoque: A Historical and Literary Anthology, University of Nebraska Press:
text: Spanning the turn of the century and capitalizing on fortunes accumulated before the democratizing notion of income tax existed, the Belle Époque held out a lavish style of life to the relative few who could afford it.
ref: 2008, Ellen Hymowitz, “1900-1918”, in Jill Condra, editor, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Clothing Through World History, Volume 3: 1801 to the Present, Greenwood Press, page 89:
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A period of European history, extending over several decades until the start of the First World War, characterized by artistic and cultural refinement.
Related terms: Edwardian
Pax Britannica
aerostructure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aerostructures
Etymology: From aero- + structure.
Senses: glosses: Any component or subsystem of the airframe of an aircraft
cigarette card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cigarette cards
Senses: glosses: A small card given free with a pack of cigarettes, bearing text and a picture; issued as sets dealing with selected themes, and are now collectors' items.
Related terms: cartophilist
re-enter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: re-enters
form: re-entering
form: re-entered
form: re-entered
Senses: examples: text: They all attended in the hall to see him mount his horse, and immediately on re-entering the breakfast room, Catherine walked to a window in the hope of catching another glimpse of his figure.
ref: 1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume II, London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC, pages 124–125:
text: Still, a strong reluctance to re-enter a service from which he had been dismissed with contempt, almost counterbalanced these considerations.
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, pages 333–334:
text: [...] however, the rebuilding of the latter with Davey Paxman Ventura engines has already begun and the first modified locomotive recently re-entered service between Glasgow and Dundee.
ref: 1963 September, “Fire risk on diesels”, in Modern Railways, page 148:
text: Taiwanese soldiers on Tuesday fired flares at three unidentified drones that flew near Kinmen County, an offshore grouping of islands, before firing warning shots at one drone which re-entered the area above one of the islands, according to the Kinmen Defense Command.
ref: 2022 August 30, Gladys Tsai, Jorge Engels, Jennifer Deaton,, “Taiwan fires warning shots at unidentified drone near islands”, in CNN, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2022:
text: “A long career gap can sometimes make it difficult to re-enter the workforce, especially in areas with rapidly changing technological advancements,” said Stephen Dwyer, president of the ASA. Microretirees may also lose out on retirement contributions and income they would have received had they chosen to stay in the workforce, he added.
ref: 2024 December 16, Tony Case, “Need a break? Microretirement may be the answer”, in WorkLife:
text: From there, teams would work for two days refitting the carriages and the cabs, before moving to pre-testing and quality control. The units were then ready to re-enter service.
ref: 2025 July 23, Richard Wilcock, “A new dawn for the Electrostars”, in RAIL, number 1040, page 27:
glosses: Alternative form of reenter.
Related terms: re-entry
reentry
rantipole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rantipoles
form: rantipoling
form: rantipoled
form: rantipoled
Etymology: From ranty and pole, poll (“head”).
Senses: examples: text: The Eldeſt vvas a termagant, imperious, prodigal, levvd, profligate VVench, as ever breath'd; ſhe uſed to Rantipole about the Houſe, pinch the Children, kick the Servants, and torture the Cats and the Dogs; […]
ref: 1712, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], “How the Guardians of the Deceas’d Mrs. Bull’s Three Daughters Came to John, and what Advice they Gave Him; wherein is Briefly Treated the Characters of the Three Daughters: Also John Bull’s Answer to the Three Guardians”, in John Bull in His Senses: Being the Second Part of Law is a Bottomless-Pit. […], Edinburgh: […] James Watson, […], →OCLC, page 21:
text: Oh, cruel vas^([sic]) the splinter that broke my poor love's leg, / Now he's obliged to fiddle for't, and I'm obliged to beg; / A vagabonding vagrant, and a rantipoling wife, / We fiddles, and we limps it, thro' the ups and downs of life.
ref: 1822, Daniel Bryant, “Oh, Cruel! Or, The Vagabonding Vagrant, and Rantipoling Wife”, in Hodgson's New Skylark, London: Hodgson & Co, page 94:
text: 'Twas no Ramping, Rantipoling, Fiery-Furnace kind of Calf Love on my part, but a matured and sensible admixture of Gratitude and Sincere Affection.
ref: 1863, George Augustus Sala, The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, volume 3, London: Tinsley Brothers, page 269:
synonyms: act up
misbehave
show one's ass
take liberties
glosses: To act in a rude, unruly fashion.
rantipole
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rantipole
form: most rantipole
Etymology: From ranty and pole, poll (“head”).
Senses: examples: text: This rantipole hero had for some time singled out the blooming Katrina for the object of his uncouth gallantries, and though his amorous toyings were something like the gentle caresses and endearments of a bear, yet it was whispered that she did not altogether discourage his hopes.
ref: 1820, Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow:
text: "I wish, lady Adelaide," he said, "that all my customers, be they rantipole Cavaliers, or canting Puritans, […] that either of these would at all times leave in my hands security for the money which they demand, as good as this which you offer […]"
ref: 1850, Elizabeth Margaret Stewart, Royalists and Roundheads, volume 2, London: William Shoberl, page 94:
text: Then as he paused irresolutely with cap and pipe-clayed gloves in hands, he heard more than certainly even Rose, in her most rantipole mood, ever meant he should hear.
ref: 1871, James Grant, Only an Ensign: A Tale of the Retreat from Cabul, volume 2, London: Tinsley Brothers, page 106:
text: And everywhere, in every age, it seemed to him, men stumbled amiable and shatter-pated through a jungle of miracles, blind to its wonderfulness, and intent to gain a little money, food and sleep, a trinket or two, some rare snatched fleeting moments of rantipole laughter, and at the last a decent bed to die in.
ref: 1917, James Branch Cabell, “In Pursuit of a Whisper”, in The Cream of the Jest, New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, page 132:
synonyms: word: churlish
word: irrepressible
word: aweless
word: bad-mannered
word: barbaric
word: bold
word: bumptious
word: crude
word: churlish
word: discourteous
word: gauche
word: ill-bred
word: ill-mannered
word: impolite
word: incivil
word: insolent
word: lack-grace
word: mismannered
word: rantipole
word: rough
word: rude
word: uncivil
word: uncourteous
word: uncouth
word: uncultured
word: underbred
word: unmannerly
word: unpolished
word: unpolite
word: unrefined
word: anarchic
word: anarchical
word: bratty
word: chaotic
word: difficult
word: dionysiac
word: dionysian
word: disciplineless
word: fractious
word: governless
word: gung ho
word: indisciplined
word: irrepressible
word: lawless
word: loose-handed
word: rampant
word: rantipole
word: stanchless
word: unbridled
word: unchecked
word: uncontrolled
word: uncontrollable
word: undisciplined
word: ungovernable
word: ungoverned
word: uninhibited
word: unreined
word: unrestrained
word: unruly
word: untoward
word: unvanquished
word: out of control
word: out of joint
word: wanton
word: wild
glosses: Rude; unruly.
sager
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of sage: more sage
sagest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of sage: most sage
positive-edge-triggered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: positive edge-triggered
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
antonyms: negative-edge-triggered
glosses: Describing a circuit or component that changes its state only when an input signal becomes high.
Hypernyms: edge-triggered
state variable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: state variables
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
systems-theory
glosses: A variable that describes the state of a dynamical system.
sheeted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: `Shall I raise thee,' she said, apparently addressing the corpse, `so that thou standest there before me, as of old? I can do it,' and she held out her hands over the sheeted dead, while her whole frame became rigid and terrible to see, and her eyes grew fixed and dull.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: Covered by a sheet, as of cloth or paper.
examples: text: This load must be well roped and sheeted to be safe.
text: [...] Brush No. D5504 was first seen in charge of a rake of sheeted mineral wagons at midday on July 6, [...].
ref: 1960 September, “Motive Power Miscellany: London Midland Region: Western Lines”, in Trains Illustrated, page 564:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
qualifier: road haulage
glosses: Secured by a special tarpaulin.
sheeted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sheet
stock variable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stock variables
Senses: topics: accounting
business
economics
finance
sciences
glosses: A variable whose value depends on an instant rather than on a period of time.
Coordinate terms: flow variable
flow variable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flow variables
Senses: topics: accounting
business
economics
finance
sciences
glosses: A variable whose value depends on a period of time rather than an instant, example being the gross domestic product.
Coordinate terms: stock variable
shortgown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shortgowns
form: short-gown
Etymology: From short + gown.
Senses: glosses: A woman's bedgown consisting of a loose jacket with a skirt.
slapjack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slapjacks
Senses: glosses: A type of pancake, or flapjack.
glosses: A simple card game similar to snap.
uncourteously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uncourteously
form: most uncourteously
Etymology: From Middle English uncurteisly; equivalent to uncourteous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a way that is not courteous. Impolitely
rajahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rajah
raunchier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of raunchy: more raunchy
raunchiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of raunchy: most raunchy
raspier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of raspy: more raspy
raspiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of raspy: most raspy
reorganisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reorganisation
reoccurring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reoccuring
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reoccur
Related terms: recurring
reoccurred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reoccured
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reoccur
returnables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of returnable
perfectiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perfectivenesses
Etymology: From perfective + -ness.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The state or quality of being perfective
Related terms: imperfectiveness
imperfectiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From imperfective + -ness.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The state or quality of being imperfective
Related terms: perfectiveness
reschedules
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reschedule
rescheduling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reschedule
rescheduling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reschedulings
Senses: examples: text: Until 1982, there had been fewer and less complex debt reschedulings, and the agencies may have been able to operate under better-defined guidelines.
ref: 1985, Eduard H. Brau, Chanpen Puckahtikom, Export Credit Cover Policies and Payments Difficulties, page 13:
glosses: A change of schedule.
residencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of residency
retools
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retool
retooling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈtuːlɪŋ/
Etymology: From retool + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retool