cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
exotransferase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exotransferases
Etymology: From exo- + transferase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any transferase that is active outside of the cell or organism that created it
exotransferases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exotransferase
fairy-ring champignon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fairy-ring champignons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fairy ring champignon.
fairy-ring champignons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fairy-ring champignon
Ez.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Ezra (book of the Bible).
longwing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: longwings
Etymology: From long + wing.
Senses: synonyms: heliconian
glosses: Any of the nymphalid butterfly subfamily Heliconiinae.
glosses: A falcon of a particular class used in falconry.
Derived terms: cydno longwing
extrusome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extrusomes
Etymology: From extrusion + -some.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A membrane-bound structure in some eukaryotes which, under certain conditions, discharges its contents outside the cell
longwings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of longwing
crescentspot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crescentspots
Etymology: From crescent + spot.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Melitaeini, a tribe of brush-footed butterflies with crescent-shaped white spots on the red or brown wings.
crescentspots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crescentspot
extrusomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extrusome
heliconiine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to the Heliconian butterflies.
heliconiine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heliconiines
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A heliconiine butterfly.
execx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: execxs
Senses: examples: text: Hardy, Jas: admon of estate of Jas Johnson Hardy of Woodspoint, Vic., solr, died 24 June 1872 at same place was granted at Dublin, 23 April 1884 to Deborah Brillianna Foley, 99 Lower Baggot St., Dublin, widow one of the acting execxs of Philip Dixon Hardy the father. Effects £756 5s.
ref: 1884?, Will Abstract for Jas Hardy, in: Brian Trainor (editor), Researching Irish Australians: Directory of Research with Will Abstracts & Gravestone Inscriptions, Ulster Historical Foundation (1998), “Irish-Australian Wills: Abstracts from The Printed Irish Will Calendars 1858–1900”, page 55/1
glosses: Abbreviation of executrix.
pink salt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
chemistry
dyeing
manufacturing
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
textiles
glosses: Any salt that is pink in color. Especially:
The double chlorides of (stannic) tin and ammonium, formerly much used as a mordant for madder and cochineal.
glosses: Any salt that is pink in color. Especially:
Himalayan salt.
glosses: Any salt that is pink in color. Especially:
Alaea salt, an unrefined Hawaiian sea salt used in cooking or in rituals.
glosses: Any salt that is pink in color. Especially:
Curing salt, containing sodium nitrite and sodium chloride, used in the curing of meats.
Bath metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the city of Bath in England.
Senses: glosses: An alloy consisting of four and a half ounces of zinc per pound of copper.
Bath brick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bath bricks
Etymology: From the city of Bath in England.
Senses: glosses: A preparation of calcareous earth, in the form of a brick, used for cleaning knives etc.
execxs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of execx
ethnobiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ethno- + biology.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The study of the relationships between plants and animals and human cultures
Derived terms: ethnobiologist
exx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of executrix.
ethnobiologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethnobiologists
Etymology: From ethno- + biologist.
Senses: glosses: A biologist whose speciality is ethnobiology
exrx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of executrix.
razor grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: razor grasses
Senses: glosses: Any of various plants with sharp-toothed leaves, especially those of the genus Scleria, such as Scleria gaertneri.
Synonyms: sense: Scleria spp.
word: nutrush
sense: Scleria spp.
word: scleria
quit scores
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quits scores
form: quitting scores
form: quitted scores
form: quitted scores
form: quit scores
form: quit scores
Senses: examples: text: Does not the earth quit scores with all the elements in the noble fruits that issue from it?
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
text: 28th Sept. 1648, Oliver Cromwell, letter
And such, I hope, these will approve themselves to be. Let them therefore, if I be thought worthy of any favour, leave your Country with your good wishes and a blessing. I am confident they will be well bestowed. And I believe before it be long, you will be in their debt; and then it will not be hard to quit scores.
synonyms: settle scores
call it quits
glosses: To settle or balance accounts or differences; to make compensation.
scotched collops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Scotch collops
form: scotcht collops
Etymology: Reanalysis of earlier Scotch collops from Scotch (“of Scotland”) to scotched (“that has been cut”). The dish was labeled variously during the 18th and 19th centuries as Scotch collops, scorched collops, or scotched collops, among others. The latter form is first attested from the 18th century, with Scotch collops from the 17th.
Senses: examples: text: What signifie Scotcht-Collops to a Feast?
Or you can make whip'd Cream! Pray what Relief
Will that be to a Saylor who wants Beef?
ref: 1708, William King, “The Art of Cookery”, in All Poetry, retrieved 15 Feb 2023:
text: 438. Scotch-Collops.^*―Cut small slices of equal thickness out of the fillet[…]^*This properly means scotched, or scored collops, though the word has come to be understood as above.
ref: [1829, Margaret Dods, The Cook and Housewife’s Manual, page 285:
text: Scotched Collops. In cookery books and on bills of fare we are constantly meeting with this term, spelt ‘Scots collops’ or ‘Scotch collops.’ The dish, however, has not a Scottish origin. The collops, or slices of flesh, before being cooked are ‘scotched,’ which means, according to Worcester, that they are ‘cut with shallow incisions, or in a slight manner.’
ref: [1882, Eliezer Edwards, Words, facts, and phrases; a dictionary of curious, quaint, and out-of-the-way matters, page 501:
text: cakes and ales those may still have who can command them, but down with the roast-beef of Old England! be scotched collops anathema maranatha, and Irish stew accounted an unclean thing!
ref: 1899, Herbert Maxwell, “Our obligations to wild animals”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume 166, page 232:
text: Like scaloppine, scotched collops must not be overcooked or they will take on a texture not unlike dried buffalo.
ref: 1995, Damon Fowler, Classical Southern Cooking, page 183:
text: You will also be served oysters and scotched collops and quails and chickens, as well as biscuits and tarts and various sweetmeats.
ref: 2017, Graham Masterton, The Coven, page 157:
glosses: A dish made of pieces of beef or veal cut thin or minced, beaten flat, and stewed with onion and other condiments.
Related terms: collop
see into a millstone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sees into a millstone
form: seeing into a millstone
form: saw into a millstone
form: seen into a millstone
form: see through a millstone
Senses: examples: text: "Why, look'ee, Madam, if you must needs provoke me, I'll tell you a piece of my mind; you must know, I can see as far into a millstone as another man; and so, if you thought for to fob me off with another one of your smirking French puppies for a son-in-law, why you'll find yourself in a hobble, that's all."
ref: 1778, Frances Burney, Evelina, or: a Young Lady's Entrance into the World, Volume 1/Letter XXV:
text: "Why, mother, I should have thought you could see into a millstone as far as most people, and yet you can't see to the bottom of a foolish girl's heart."
ref: 1872, Mary Anne Hardy, A Woman's Triumph, volume 1, page 218:
glosses: To understand a complex matter.
harnessings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harnessing
phospholipidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phospho- + lipidic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or composed of, phospholipid.
single sculls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of single scull
monoceroses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monoceros
Grecian bend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Grecian bends
Etymology: It was thought to resemble the pose of the Venus de Milo, an Ancient Greek statue.
Senses: glosses: Among women, an affected way to carry the body, the upper part being inclined forward.
glosses: An exaggerated bustle (frame worn underneath a woman's skirt), the effect of which is generally assisted by high-heeled boots.
Grecian bends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Grecian bend
Grecian fire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Greek fire.
lycopodium powder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lycopodium powders
Senses: glosses: A fine powder or dust composed of the dried spores of lycopodium and related plants. It is highly inflammable, and is sometimes used in the manufacture of fireworks, magical explosions and artificial lightning.
gutta serena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin gutta serena (literally “clear drop”), as the term refers to blindness when the eye is unobstructed (clear).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Amaurosis.
Senecan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Senecan
form: most Senecan
Etymology: From Seneca + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Seneca the Younger, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (ca. 4 BC–AD 65), Roman philosopher and statesman.
Suetonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Suetonian
form: most Suetonian
Etymology: From Suetonius + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Suetonius, Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (c. 69 – after 122 AD), Roman historian.
bud moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bud moths
Senses: glosses: Spilonota ocellana, a tortricid moth whose larvae feed on various deciduous trees and shrubs.
glosses: Any moth destructive of budding plants.
bud moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bud moth
$100 hamburgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of $100 hamburger
psychosurgeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychosurgeons
Etymology: From psycho- + surgeon.
Senses: glosses: One who carries out psychosurgery.
psychosurgical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From psycho- + surgical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to psychosurgery.
psychosurgeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychosurgeon
galacturonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galacturonates
Etymology: From galacturonic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: glosses: Any salt or ester of galacturonic acid.
Derived terms: oligogalacturonate
Related terms: digalacturonate
hexagalacturonate
geminin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A nuclear protein that inhibits DNA replication
pyranic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /paɪˈɹæn.ɪk/
rhymes: -ænɪk
Forms: form: more pyranic
form: most pyranic
Etymology: From pyran + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: concerning pyran
sister block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sister blocks
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A tackle block having two sheaves, one above the other.
sister blocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sister block
catenative verbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catenative verb
complemental air
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The air that can be inhaled in addition to the tidal air; the maximum possible inhalation.
Coordinate terms: alt: IRV
word: inspiratory reserve volume
Mollies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Molly
scrapwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scrap + wood.
Senses: glosses: wood that is scrap; left-over oddments of wood
antiganglioside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antigangliosides
Etymology: From anti- + ganglioside.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: An antibody that reacts to self-gangliosides, found in autoimmune neuropathies.
antigangliosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiganglioside
procataleptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more procataleptic
form: most procataleptic
Etymology: From procatalepsis + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: As noted in chapter 5, the procataleptic function of an argumentation scheme with its matching set of critical questions is to strengthen an argument by dealing with possible criticisms, objections, and counter-arguments before they are even raised in dialog.
ref: 2007, Douglas Walton, Dialog Theory for Critical Argumentation, page 284:
glosses: Anticipating and answering objections before they have been raised.
Dennettian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Dennettian
form: most Dennettian
Etymology: From Dennett + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Daniel Dennett (born 1942), American philosopher, writer and cognitive scientist.
Charles Bonnet syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CBS
Etymology: Described by Charles Bonnet in 1760, it was first introduced into English-speaking psychiatry in 1982.
Senses: glosses: The experience of complex visual hallucinations in patients with visual loss.
do the handsome thing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does the handsome thing
form: doing the handsome thing
form: did the handsome thing
form: done the handsome thing
Senses: examples: text: Well, thought her parents and the neighbors, the old coger is going to do the handsome thing for little Sally, perhaps when she gets married, in the shape of a nice fit-out; he may give her a snug little cottage, who knows […]
ref: 1851, Carpet-bag: A Literary Journal, volume 1:
glosses: To act liberally.
cañadas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cañada
horseshoe bat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horseshoe bats
Etymology: The name refers to a horseshoe-shaped protuberance which these bats have on their noses.
Senses: glosses: A bat of the genus Rhinolophus.
Derived terms: Damara horseshoe bat
Timorese horseshoe bat
gynaecoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gynaecoid
form: most gynaecoid
form: gynecoid
form: gynæcoid
Etymology: From gynaeco- + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of a woman.
examples: text: Macropterous, brachypterous and apterous forms of females and males are known in their populations. Two forms – oedymerous and gynaecoid – occur in males: they are characterized by the allometry of some body parts.
ref: 2015 June 30, Halina Kucharczyk, Łukasz Wyrozumski, “Hoplothrips carpathicus Pelikán, 1961 (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae) – a new thrips species in the Polish fauna”, in Polish Journal of Entomology, volume 84, →DOI, pages 73-74:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: oedymerous
glosses: Of certain Thysanoptera, having attenuating forelegs.
gynostemium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gynostemia
form: gynostemiums
Senses: examples: text: For the expression of MADS-box genes, mature flowers were dissected into their individual floral organs (sepals, petals, labellums and gynostemiums).
ref: 2015 November 19, “Digital Gene Expression Analysis Based on De Novo Transcriptome Assembly Reveals New Genes Associated with Floral Organ Differentiation of the Orchid Plant Cymbidium ensifolium”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A reproductive structure, in some plants, formed by fusion of the stamens and pistil
Synonyms: column
Related terms: gynostegium
glycolipidosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycolipidoses
Etymology: From glycolipid + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any of several disorders involving glycolipid synthesis, storage, or transport
glycoproteic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From glyco- + proteic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to glycoprotein
glycosylic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From glycosyl + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a glycosyl.
glucuronoarabinoxylan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glucuronoarabinoxylans
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of hemicellulose found in the cell walls of grasses
ill-using
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ill-use
ill-used
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ill-use
ill-used
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ill-used
form: most ill-used
Senses: examples: text: I said so - I said so warmly, for I felt that the Professor was an ill-used man.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: Having been treated badly.
raw_tags: of persons
Coordinate terms: abused
Related terms: misused
ill-uses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ill-use
off-shore
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: With IE on the road to decarbonising rail services, chiefly by electrification, Hendrick revealed that the company was looking to develop its facilities at Rosslare Europort to deliver off-shore renewable energy. "Off-shore wind is our oil," he noted.
ref: 2023 May 31, Philip Haigh, “Network News: Electrification at heart of Irish expansion plan”, in RAIL, number 984, page 13:
glosses: Alternative form of offshore.
patriotization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From patriot + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act of becoming patriotic.
snirtle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: snirtles
form: snirtling
form: snirtled
form: snirtled
Etymology: From snirt + -le (frequentative suffix).
Senses: glosses: To snigger
snirtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snirtles
Etymology: From snirt + -le (frequentative suffix).
Senses: glosses: a snigger
daughtered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From daughter (“noun”) + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: many-daughtered
text: Nine other times, six times sonned and three times daughtered, he had waited this way
ref: 2009, Orson Scott Card, Hart's Hope, page 73:
text: And psychically it all happened to Hemingway, who was never a bullfighter (although he tried it), or a prizefighter (although he tried that too), or a one-armed, two-daughtered smuggler of rum and Chinamen (which he apparently never tried at all).
ref: 2010, Philip Young, Ernest Hemingway: A Reconsideration, page 66:
text: Yet none of this achieving ever overcame my shy sense of inadequacy in not being the son our four-daughtered family needed
ref: 2013, Lucy Daniels, Walking with Moonshine, page 91:
glosses: having one or more daughters
Synonyms: sense: having one or more daughters
word: bedaughtered
Derived terms: undaughtered
Related terms: daughter out
ginete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ginetes
Senses: glosses: A trooper; a mounted soldier.
daughter out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: daughters out
form: daughtering out
form: daughtered out
form: daughtered out
Senses: glosses: To expire due to having only females surviving the death of the last male in a line. (of a surname or of heritable property in a patrilineal naming or inheritance system)
takfirist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: takfirists
Etymology: From takfir + -ist.
Senses: glosses: takfiri
Cesky terrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cesky terriers
Etymology: From Czech český (“Czech”); the breed was created by a Czech breeder, František Horák, in 1948, as a cross between a Sealyham terrier and a Scottish terrier, to create a terrier suitable for hunting in the forests of Bohemia.
Senses: glosses: A well-muscled, short-legged breed of hunting terrier.
infraciliature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infraciliatures
Etymology: From infra- + ciliature.
Senses: glosses: A group of kinetids, fibrils and microtubules in many ciliates
streamgraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: streamgraphs
Etymology: From stream + graph.
Senses: glosses: A stacked area graph that is displaced around a central horizontal axis.
streamgraphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of streamgraph
bastid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bastids
Etymology: Clipped form or euphemised version of bastard
Senses: examples: text: […] making their favorite satiric gestures to the cops, handing them flowers, burying the bastids in tender fruity petals of love.
ref: 1968, Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Bantam, published 1997, →ISBN, page 10:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of bastard.
yiss
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of yes.
Slovyansk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: It takes another good look to notice that the map shows the through route from Berlin Zoo to my native Kharkiv - referred to as Charkow Hauptbahnhof (or Hbf) - uninterrupted by any borders. You can also trace the 400 3356 service ('Zug Nr 3356') from Charkow to Slawjansk (Slovyansk in the Ukrainian transliteration) in Donbass, to where trains from today's Kharkiv are running again. After months of bloody battles, Slovyansk ended up in the Ukraine-administered part of Donbass and not in the Russian-controlled 'Donetsk Peoples Republic' - what a mess.
ref: 2024 September 4, Vitali Vitaliev, “A salute to Ukraine's 'Second Army'”, in RAIL, number 1017, page 47:
glosses: Alternative form of Sloviansk.
Slavyansk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sloviansk.
Mariupol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑː.ɹiˈuː.poʊl/
ipa: /-pəl/
ipa: /-pɑl/
ipa: /mæɹ.iˈuː.pɒl/
ipa: /ˈmæɹ.iu-/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /mæɹ.iˈuː.poʊl/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /-pəl/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /-pɑl/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈmæɹ.iu-/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /mɛɹ.iˈuː.poʊl/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /meɹ.iˈuː.poʊl/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /-pəl/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /-pɑl/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈmɛɹ.iu-/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈmeɹ.iu-/
Etymology: Borrowed from Ukrainian Маріу́поль (Mariúpolʹ), from Russian Мариу́поль (Mariúpolʹ), from Greek Μαριούπολη (Marioúpoli), from being named after the Virgin Mary, Empress Maria Feodorovna, the Crimean Greek city of Mariampol, from Μαρία (María) + πόλη (póli).
Senses: examples: text: The empreſs defrayed the expences of their tranſport from the Krim, and aſſigned to them a conſiderable tract of country bordering on the Solonoya and the ſea of Azof : the merchants, however, and the trading part of the colony were ſent to the newly-erected towns of Ekatarinoſlaf and Mariupol.
ref: 1799, William Tooke, View of the Russian Empire during the reign of Catharine the Second, and to the Close of the Present Century, volume II, →OCLC, page 114:
text: The importance of their capture was obstructed, however, by the greater stakes of Rostov and Kharkov. The fall of either would be a major German catastrophe.
An even graver danger threatened the Germans as troops seventy miles north of Mariupol, 100 miles west of Rostov on the Sea of Azov, drove south toward the tide water, threatening to envelop 500,000 German troops in Rostov and the Donets.
ref: 1943 February 14, Richard McMurray, “JAWS OF NUTCRACKER CLOSING STEADILY”, in The Daily Colonist, volume 85, number 55, Victoria, British Columbia, page 3:
text: No incidents during passage across the Sea of Azov. At 1800 the formation continued passage to Mariupol as scheduled.
ref: 1943 June 17, War Diary of Admiral, Black Sea, number 7, →OCLC, page 78:
text: In Mariupolʹ social forces were emboldened by success in their first battle—a campaign to undo the naming of the city for one of Stalin’s associates, Andrei Zhdanov.
ref: [1996, Kathleen E. Smith, “The Movement and the Struggle”, in Remembering Stalin's Victims: Popular Memory and the End of the USSR, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 125:
glosses: A city in Mariupol Raion, Donetsk Oblast, in eastern Ukraine, on the shore of the Sea of Azov, of the Black Sea.
glosses: A raion of Donetsk Oblast, Donbas, in southeastern Ukraine.
Synonyms: topics: city
cities
region
location
word: Pavlovsk (1778–1779)
topics: city
cities
region
location
word: Zhdanov (1948–1989)
Derived terms: Mariupol Greek
Mariupol raion
Mariupol Raion
Related terms: Mariupolitan
horsethieves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horsethief
dargle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)ɡəl
Forms: form: dargles
Etymology: From the River Dargle, a popular spot for such trips.
Senses: examples: text: Says my aul' one to your aul' one "Will ye come to the Waxies' dargle?"
ref: Early 1900s, Traditional, Waxies' Dargle (song)
qualifier: Dublin
glosses: A day excursion; a picnic out of the city.
waxie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waxies
form: waxy
Etymology: From wax + -ie, from the use of wax to waterproof cobblers' thread.
Senses: examples: text: Says my aul' one to your aul' one "Will ye come to the Waxies' dargle?"
ref: Early 1900s, Traditional, Waxies' Dargle (song)
synonyms: lad of wax
qualifier: Dublin
glosses: A cobbler.
barographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From barograph + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Measured using a barograph
Derived terms: microbarographic
pedobarographic
hypolemmal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: underneath a sheath
milages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milage
cold chisels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cold chisel
turn and turn about
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: [...] the three streamliners, still on their 29½ hr. schedule, start at 9.40 a.m., also turn-and-turn-about, and so arranged that the 9.0 and 9.40 a.m. departures are by different routes each day; [...].
ref: 1942 May-June, “Notes and News: War and the American Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 185:
glosses: By equal alternating periods of service or duty; by turns.
vomit nut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vomit nuts
Senses: glosses: The nux vomica (Strychnos nux-vomica).
Synonyms: sense: nux vomica
word: vomiting nut
vomit nuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vomit nut
parting sand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: arts
crafts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Dry, non-adhesive sand sprinkled upon the partings of a mould to facilitate the separation by not allowing the mould to stick together.
helispherical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more helispherical
form: most helispherical
Senses: glosses: helispheric
macrovesicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrovesicles
Etymology: From macro- + vesicle.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A vesicle in which a large amount of lipid has accumulated as a result of steatosis
Derived terms: macrovesicular
water crane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water cranes
Senses: examples: text: Locomotive water cranes are provided, and a water softening plant has been installed.
ref: 1946 May and June, G. A. Sekon, “L.B.S.C.R. West Coast Section—3”, in Railway Magazine, page 149:
text: The rear portion of the tender top is flat and open so as to facilitate the manipulation of the water crane.
ref: 1956 April, “"Merchant Navy" Class Pacific Modified”, in Railway Magazine, page 212:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A kind of hydrant with a long swinging spout, for filling locomotive tenders, water carts, etc., with water.
Synonyms: water column
water cranes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water crane
micropinocytosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pinocytosis.
synonyms: word: pinocytosis
Related terms: micropinocytotic
put a spoke in someone's wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts a spoke in someone's wheel
form: putting a spoke in someone's wheel
form: put a spoke in someone's wheel
form: put a spoke in someone's wheel
Senses: examples: text: The original branch was 5¾ miles long, from Llantrisant to Cowbridge only, but in 1889, the T.V.R. [Taff Vale Railway] obtained powers […] to continue the line for 6½ miles south to the coast at Aberthaw, ostensibly for the purpose of serving the important limestone works there, but one suspects other motives, including an understandable desire on the part of the T.V.R. to put a spoke in the wheel of the oncoming Barry Railway !
ref: 1951 December, T. B. Sands, “Some Railway Byways in the Vale of Glamorgan”, in Railway Magazine, page 838:
synonyms: fix someone's flint
settle someone's hash
glosses: To thwart or obstruct someone in the execution of some design.
Related terms: throw a spanner in the works
throw a wrench in the works
jay thrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jay thrushes
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of Asian songbirds, of the genera Garrulax and Grammatoptila and related genera of the family Leiothrichidae.
Derived terms: Chinese jay thrush
laughing jay thrush
red-billed jay thrush
shingle oak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shingle oaks
Senses: glosses: Quercus imbricaria, a deciduous tree of the red oaks, native primarily to the Midwestern and Upper South regions of North America, and most commonly found growing in uplands with good drainage.
shingle oaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shingle oak
myosinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Etymology: From myosin + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or composed of myosin
monocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + centric.
Senses: synonyms: unicentric
glosses: Having a single centre.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having a single centromere.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
antonyms: pluricentric
glosses: Having only one formally standardized version.
raw_tags: of a language
Derived terms: nonmonocentric
monocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monocentrics
Etymology: From mono- + centric.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A monocentric lens.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A monocentric chromosome.
opera seria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛɹiə
-ɪɹiə
Forms: form: opere serie
Etymology: Italian
Senses: glosses: Serious or noble opera.
tippable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tip + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being tipped or tilted.
glosses: Eligible to receive tips or gratuities.
raw_tags: of a job
pin pool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: pin billiards
glosses: A variety of the game of billiards in which small wooden pins are set up to be knocked down by the balls.
pool snipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Common redshank (Tringa totanus).
state it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: states it
form: stating it
form: stated it
form: stated it
Senses: examples: text: Rarely dressed up, and taught to state it.
ref: 1616–1619 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Mad Lover”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: To act with dignity; to act in a stately manner.
supraduodenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + duodenal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Above the duodenum.
claw me, claw thee
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: claw me and I'll claw thee
Senses: glosses: you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours
writ of inquiry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: writs of inquiry
Senses: examples: text: Jeremy speaks like an Oracle. Don't you see how worthless great Men, and dull rich Rogues, avoid a witty Man of small Fortune? Why, he looks like a Writ of Enquiry into their Titles and Estates; and seems Commission'd by Heav'n to seize the better half.
ref: 1695, [William] Congreve, Love for Love: A Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):
topics: law
glosses: A writ issued in certain actions at law, where the defendant has suffered judgment to pass against him by default, in order to ascertain and assess the plaintiff's damages, where they cannot readily be ascertained by mere calculation.
writs of inquiry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of writ of inquiry
Glisson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɪsən/
homophone: glisten
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Glissonian
Glisson’s capsule
Glisson’s sheath
Glisson’s sphincter
elf owl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elf owls
Senses: glosses: Micrathene whitneyi, a small owl of North America.
elf owls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elf owl
green linnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green linnets
Senses: glosses: The European greenfinch.
green linnets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green linnet
chirographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chirographical
form: most chirographical
Senses: glosses: chirographic
volksmarching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: German Volksmarsch (“people's march”) + -ing.
Senses: glosses: A form of non-competitive fitness walking that developed in Europe. Participants typically walk 10 kilometers (6.2 mi) on an outdoor path.
Related terms: volksmarch
volksmarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: volksmarches
Senses: glosses: An individual walk in the sport of volksmarching.
volksmarches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of volksmarch
volksmarcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: volksmarchers
Senses: glosses: One who takes part in the sport of volksmarching.
volksmarchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of volksmarcher
volkssport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: volkssports
Etymology: German Volkssport (“people's sport”)
Senses: glosses: Non-competitive sporting activities for groups of people.
Hyponyms: volksmarching
volkssporting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Participation in volkssport activities.
volkssports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of volkssport
platinum lamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: platinum lamps
Senses: glosses: A kind of incandescent lamp of which the luminous medium is platinum.
pillow lace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pillow laces
Senses: glosses: Hand-made lace wrought with bobbins upon a lace pillow.
American forge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: American forges
Senses: topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A forge for the direct production of wrought iron, differing from the old Catalan forge mainly in using finely crushed ore and working continuously.
forge wagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forge wagons
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A wagon fitted up for transporting a blackmith's forge and tools.
trochal disk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trochal disks
form: trochal disc
Senses: glosses: The cephalic disk of a rotifer, usually surrounded by a fringe of cilia.
London paste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A paste made of caustic soda and unslaked lime, used as a caustic to destroy tumours and other morbid enlargements.
Audenian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Audenian
form: most Audenian
Etymology: From Auden + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to W H Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet.
bowbearer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bowbearers
Etymology: From bow + bearer.
Senses: glosses: An underofficer of the forest who dealt with trespassers.
bowbearers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bowbearer
oligosaccharidosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oligosaccharide + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any of several diseases characterised by increased levels of oligosaccharides in the urine
Related terms: mucopolysaccharidosis
woodmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodmasters
Etymology: From wood + master.
Senses: glosses: A king's officer who looked after woods and the game in them, arranged woodmotes, arrested trespassers, etc.
woodmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woodmaster
holocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From holo- + -centric.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: (of a chromosome) in which the centromere makes up the entire length (of the chromosome)
Related terms: holocentrism
holocentromere
verderers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verderer
Burrovian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈɹoʊvi.ən/
ipa: /bəˈɹəʊvɪən/
Forms: form: more Burrovian
form: most Burrovian
Etymology: From Burro- + -ian with epenthetic -v- as in Shavian (from Shaw) and Monrovia (from Monroe).
Senses: glosses: Reminiscent of or pertaining to the American author William S. Burroughs.
Synonyms: Burroughsian
woodmote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodmotes
Etymology: From wood + mote.
Senses: glosses: A court, presided over by verderers and the warden, that dealt with those who had broken the laws of the forest.
Related terms: swainmote
woodmotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woodmote
potcherman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potchermen
Etymology: From potcher + -man.
Senses: glosses: One who operates a potcher.
potchermen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potcherman
sopsavines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sopsavine
shield fern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shield ferns
Etymology: From the shape of the indusia that cover the fern's sori (spores).
Senses: glosses: Certain of the ferns of four genera:
Dryopteris (buckler ferns)
glosses: Certain of the ferns of four genera:
Lastreopsis spp.
glosses: Certain of the ferns of four genera:
Polystichum spp.
glosses: Certain of the ferns of four genera:
Sticherus spp.
Derived terms: Japanese shield fern
Related terms: buckler fern
sword fern
buckler fern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buckler ferns
Etymology: From the shape of the indusia (membranes) that cover the fern's sori (spores).
Senses: glosses: Certain species of the fern genera Dryopteris, Polystichum, and others.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Dryopteris dilatata
word: broad buckler fern
taxonomic: Dryopteris cristata
word: crested buckler fern
taxonomic: Dryopteris fragrans
word: fragrant buckler fern
taxonomic: Dryopteris aemula
word: hay-scented buckler fern
taxonomic: Dryopteris carthusiana
word: narrow buckler fern
taxonomic: Dryopteris expansa
word: northern buckler fern
taxonomic: Dryopteris submontana
word: rigid buckler fern
taxonomic: Dryopteris remota
word: scaly buckler fern
Related terms: shield fern
sword fern
hare's lettuce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: So called because hares were said to eat it when fainting with heat.
Senses: glosses: Common sow thistle (Sonchus oleraceus).
rule joint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rule joints
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A knuckle joint having shoulders that abut when the connected pieces come into line with each other, and thus permit folding in one direction only.
overseller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oversellers
Etymology: From oversell + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who oversells.
oversellers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overseller
madrigalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From madrigal + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to madrigals.
French casement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: French casements
Senses: glosses: French window
semihabitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + habitable.
Senses: glosses: Partly or somewhat habitable.
preacher bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preacher birds
Etymology: Because of the long duration of its persistent singing, comparable to a sermon.
Senses: glosses: The toucan.
torrentiality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From torrential + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being torrential.
LMGTFY
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: LMGTFU
Senses: glosses: Initialism of let me google that for you.
Synonyms: LMGIFY
productise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: productises
form: productising
form: productised
form: productised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of productize.
Derived terms: productisation
Scottish terrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Scottish terriers
Senses: glosses: A breed of dog originating in Scotland.
Synonyms: Aberdeen terrier
Scottie
Scottish terriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Scottish terrier
dimeson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dimesons
Etymology: From di- + meson.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A bound pair of mesons.
Related terms: tetraquark
dibaryon
exotic meson
exotic baryon
exotic hadron
dimesons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dimeson
Stetter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
trashery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trasheries
Etymology: From trash + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Who comes in foreign trashery
Of tinkling chain and spur,
A walking haberdashery
Of feathers, lace, and fur.
ref: 1813, Sir Walter Scott, The Bridal of Triermain, (Google search result at gutenberg.org)
text: I took four sketches of the different head-dresses, all equally detestable, which I shall finish and bring to shew you how far superior the natural beauty of our own girls in their simple dresses is to the trashery of the French belles.
ref: 1859, John W. Burgon, The Portrait of a Christian Gentleman: A Memoir of Patrick Fraser Tytler, page 92:
text: But it is not altogether funny to visualize our libraries becoming trasheries, our Centers of Learning objects of public ridicule and our occupations irrelevant to the world that is coming to be.
ref: 1969 June, Robert A. Flammang, “Communications”, in Journal of Economic Issues, volume 3, number 2, pages 217–18:
text: So our list of the Ten Worst is carefully culled from the trashery of Doctors' Wives or The Seven Minutes or Percy and The Statue . . . .
ref: 1972 Jan. 3, Judith Crist, "Movies," New York Magazine, p. 47 (Google preview)
text: . . . this tasteless rightwing trashery . . . .
ref: 2000, Ed Sanders, America: A History in Verse, Volume 1, →ISBN, page 175:
glosses: A collection of garbage or rubbish; things, persons, ideas and such which are of no significant value.
Derived terms: white trashery
white-trashery
parabronchus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parabronchi
Etymology: From para- + bronchus.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: parabronchium
glosses: Any of very many small air passages ('air capillaries') in the lungs of birds
Derived terms: parabronchial
paroral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹəl
Etymology: From para- + oral.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: In the region of the mouth (of a ciliate).
Derived terms: paroral membrane
parabronchi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parabronchus
sapiosexuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin sapiens (“wise, judicious”) + sexuality or sapiosexual + -ity. Purportedly coined in 1998.
Senses: examples: text: So a self-confessed culture vulture is a member of communities on authors, sudoku, films, chocolates and sapiosexuality (sapiosexuals are people who are apparently turned on by intelligence).
ref: 2008 August 17, Mohua Das, Malini Banerjee, “Virtual Vanities”, in The Telegraph, Calcutta:
text: I went to friend and psychologist Alejandro Spicker — who's both attractive and smart — and asked him what he thought of sapiosexuality.
ref: 2012 May, Carolina Montejo, “Sapiosexuality: The intelligent foreplay”, in Vangardist, page 129:
text: Sapiosexuality is getting aroused not by the physical appearance of a person, but through his or her intelligence.
ref: 2013 May 28, Sunayana Suresh, “Are women attracted to the sapiosexual men?”, in The Times of India:
glosses: The state of being sexually attracted to intelligence or the human mind.
perihydro
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + hydro-.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Having hydrogen atoms attached around a ring
inscribed matter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: physical material, containing an inscribed message, used as a means of communication between intelligences separated by astronomical distances
plurinucleate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pluri- + nucleate.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of multinucleate.
synonyms: word: multinucleate
chromatophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chromatophilic
form: most chromatophilic
Etymology: From chromato- + -philic.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Being readily stained
Derived terms: orthochromatophilic
polychromatophilic
polymerasic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From polymerase + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or functioning as, a polymerase.
arch bridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arch bridge
SAX
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of Simple API for XML.
Related terms: DOM