cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
agranular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + granular.
Senses: glosses: Not granular; lacking granules.
Derived terms: agranular carbon
agranular leukocyte
agranular reticulum
agranularity
alkalimetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From alkali + -metric.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a titration in which the titrant is an alkali.
Derived terms: alkalimetrically
Related terms: alkalimetry
allotriomorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more allotriomorphic
form: most allotriomorphic
Etymology: From allotriomorph + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: allotropic
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: xenomorphic
ambident
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ambident
form: most ambident
Senses: examples: Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich
Ambident dienophile 57 reacts with DAPC 54 at the cyclobutene π-bond to produce ligand 58; in contrast, the related ambident dienophile 59 reacts with DAPC 54 at the naphthoquinone π-center to produce adduct 60 (lack of shielding of the methylene protons supports the stereochemical assignment).
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a molecule or group that has two alternative and interacting reaction sites, to either of which a bond may be made during a reaction
anation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The replacement of a ligand (especially of water) by an anion in a coordination compound
anchimeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anchimeric
form: most anchimeric
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing the participation of a neighbouring group in a reaction
Derived terms: anchimeric assistance
neighbouring group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neighbouring groups
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A functional group that is in close proximity to another that is taking part in a reaction; especially such a functional group that affects the rate or outcome of the reaction
Derived terms: neighbouring group participation
anchimeric assistance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anchimeric assistances
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of neighbouring group participation in which the rate of a reaction is increased
anionotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a rearrangement reaction in which a group, along with its electron pair, moves from one atom to another.
Related terms: anionotropy
anionotropy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anionotropies
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An anionotropic rearrangement reaction
electron pair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electron pairs
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Two electrons having opposite spin but all other quantum numbers the same; i.e. two electrons in the same atomic orbital or molecular orbital, especially such electrons that function in concert to form a covalent bond
annelation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: annelations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: annulation
antarafacial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of a chemical reaction, involving two simultaneous changes in bonding to opposite faces of a common centre (or related centres) of a molecular fragment
Derived terms: antarafacially
Related terms: suprafacial
suprafacial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪʃəl
Etymology: From supra- + facial.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of a chemical reaction, involving two simultaneous changes in bonding to the same face of a common centre (or related centres) of a molecular fragment.
Derived terms: suprafacially
Related terms: antarafacial
active power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: active powers
Senses: glosses: The real component of the power of an alternating current circuit; the product of the voltage and that part of the current that is in phase with the voltage
anticircular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticircular
form: most anticircular
Etymology: From anti- + circular.
Senses: glosses: Describing movement from the periphery to the centre of a circle
anticlined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticlined
form: most anticlined
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing two equivalent chains of a crystalline polymer having opposite orientation
Related terms: isoclined
isoclined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing two equivalent chains of a crystalline polymer having the same orientation.
Related terms: anticlined
anticodon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌæntiˈkəʊdɒn/
/ˌæntaɪ-/
Forms: form: anticodons
Etymology: From anti- + codon.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A sequence of three nucleotides in transfer RNA that binds to the complementary triplet (codon) in messenger RNA to specify an amino acid during protein synthesis.
transfer RNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transfer RNAs
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: word: tRNA
coordinate_terms: messenger RNA
glosses: A short-chain version of RNA that transfers individual amino acids to ribosomes during protein synthesis.
antiferroelectric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + ferroelectric or antiferro- + electric.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing a state in which dipoles are arranged antiparallel to adjacent ones, resulting in a net zero polarization
Derived terms: antiferroelectrically
antiperiplanar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + periplanar.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a torsion angle between 150° and 180°
Jiantizi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 簡體字 /简体字 (jiǎntǐzì).
Senses: glosses: Simplified Chinese.
Related terms: Traditional Chinese
Fantizi
torsion angle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torsion angles
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: In a chain of atoms A-B-C-D, the dihedral angle between the plane containing the atoms A,B,C and that containing B,C,D
Related terms: gauche
syn
anti
clinal
periplanar
synperiplanar
synclinal
anticlinal
antiperiplanar
synclinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪnəl
Forms: form: more synclinal
form: most synclinal
Etymology: From syn- + -clinal.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having or relating to a torsion angle between 30° and 90°
examples: text: The doctor's eyebrows had gone synclinal from puzzlement without his awareness.
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 75:
glosses: Inclined downward from opposite directions, so as to meet in a common point or line.
examples: a synclinal trough or valley; a synclinal fold
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Formed by strata dipping toward a common line or plane.
synclinal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪnəl
Forms: form: synclinals
Etymology: From syn- + -clinal.
Senses: examples: text: But being chiefly sections of younger rocks than ours, the Austrian diagrams exhibit a more disturbed surface, so far as regards faults and slips, snapped anticlinals, upshoved synclinals, lapped folds, […]
ref: 1865, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, page 195:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A synclinal fold.
synperiplanar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From syn- + periplanar.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a torsion angle between 0° and 30°
periplanar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more periplanar
form: most periplanar
Etymology: From peri- + planar.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a torsion angle between 0° and 30°, or between 150° and 180°
Derived terms: antiperiplanar
synperiplanar
anti-Semites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anti-Semite
arsonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From arsenic and -one.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to arsonic acids or their derivatives
Derived terms: acetarsol
arsonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From arson.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to arson.
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the arsonous acids or their derivatives
ashing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ashings
Etymology: From ash + -ing.
Senses: qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: An analytic procedure in which a sample is heated in a furnace to leave a residue of ash, either to determine the gross mineral content, or as a preparation for further analysis
ashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From ash + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ash
ambiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈæm.bi.eɪt/
Forms: form: ambiates
form: ambiating
form: ambiated
form: ambiated
Etymology: From Latin ambiō (“strive for”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: 'Tis a great piece of the corruption of our depraved nature, to ambiate things moſt prohibited : […]
ref: 1649, Josiah Shute, “The Sixteenth Sermon”, in Sarah and Hagar: or, Genesis the ſixteenth Chapter opened, in XIX Sermons, London: […] J. L. and Humphrey Moſely, page 166:
text: You few that Wiſdom above Treaſure, Prize,
And Ambiate the Title of the wiſe,
Come hither, here are Patterns that Surmount,
Whoſe Travels will Conduct you to the Fount ; […]
ref: 1663, Edward Sparke, “Poem 8: On the Epiphany”, in Θυσιαστήριον Vel Scintilla-altaris. Or Primitive Devotion in the Feasts and Fasts of the Church of England, London: […] R. Wood, for H. Brome, page 162:
text: There is no being ſecure, but by walking in the low and ſafe Way of Humility, without ambiating Honours and Dignities.
ref: 1769, Pacificus Baker, “Wednesday: In the ſecond Week of Lent”, in A Lenten Monitor, to Christians, 3rd edition, London, page 117:
text: During the last year, however, few have ambiated that office ; […]
ref: 1888, Henry Cloete, “Letter from her Majesty's Commissioner to the Natal Territory. Pietermaritzburg, 4th July, 1848”, in John Bird, compiler, The Annals of Natal: 1495 to 1845, volume II, P. Davis & Sons, page 207:
glosses: To ambition; to covet; to seek after ambitiously or eagerly.
atactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more atactic
form: most atactic
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to ataxia.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing any regular polymer or other macromolecule in which the orientation of the subunits is random.
Derived terms: atactically
autacoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autacoids
Etymology: From aut- + Ancient Greek ἄκος (ákos, “remedy”) + -oid.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hormone or similar compound that has a short-term, local effect
Related terms: autacoidal
acology
autopoisoning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autopoisonings
Etymology: From auto- + poisoning.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The inhibition of a catalyst by the product of the catalysis.
Related terms: self-poisoning
autoradiolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoradiolyses
Etymology: From auto- + radiolysis.
Senses: glosses: The radiolysis of a radioactive compound resulting from its own radioactive decay.
axialite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axialites
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A multilayer aggregate of lamellar crystals spreading out from a common edge
making off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of make off
social status
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: social statuses
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: One's position within a social hierarchy, one's social class along with any personal social advantages or disadvantages, one's value relative to society.
Synonyms: social standing
social station
Hyponyms: achieved status
ascribed status
Coordinate terms: social class
dendrophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dendrophile
transcendency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transcendencies
Etymology: From transcend + -ency.
Senses: glosses: transcendence
examples: text: This would haue better done in Poeſy; where Tranſcendencies are more allowed.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Adversity”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 22:
glosses: elevation above the truth; exaggeration
convenable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /kənˈviːnəbəl/
Etymology: French convenable.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being convened or assembled.
examples: text: convenable remedies
text: With his word his work is convenable.
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “September. Ægloga Nona.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC:
glosses: fit; suitable or just
Derived terms: convenably
inconvenable
nonconvenable
cubie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːbi
Forms: form: cubies
Etymology: From cube + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: […] you can see that the corner cubie in question is detachable […]
ref: 1981, Scientific American:
text: Each of the tiles is actually part of a small cube, or cubie.
ref: 1989, Dennis Merritt, Building Expert Systems in Prolog:
text: Each nine-cubie face is capable of being rotated en bloc.
ref: 2003, Victor Percy Snaith, Groups, Rings and Galois Theory:
glosses: One of the smaller cubes making up a Rubik's cube.
glosses: A five-gallon, boxed, plastic bag of drinking water used by firefighters.
dexterious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of dextrous.
glosses: Misspelling of dexterous.
pull the string
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls the string
form: pulling the string
form: pulled the string
form: pulled the string
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To throw an off-speed pitch, a change up, to cause the hitter to swing early and miss.
Related terms: english: not to be confused
translation: not to be confused
word: pull the strings
aquaplaning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aquaplane
aquaplaning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aquaplanings
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
synonyms: word: hydroplaning
glosses: The loss of contact with the road because of surface water; the act of aquaplaning.
Guidos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Guido
no less
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Middle English no lesse, na leasse. Compare none the less and Old English nōhte þon lǣssa (“none the less”).
Senses: examples: text: He graduated this year — at the top of his class, no less!
text: By making her a widow, Fielding allows Mark Darcy to remain as implausibly perfect in death as he was in life (killed by a landmine while negotiating the release of aid workers in Sudan, no less), […]
ref: 2013 October 12, Stephanie Merritt, “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy by Helen Fielding – review”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
text: “You have a young son, yet you involve yourself in the world of organised crime. Robbing a bank no less! Stealing half a million pounds! Money, I might add, that has never been recovered. You must know where the money is hidden, and yet, Mr Goodie, you refuse to inform the police. You must have had accomplices, but you will not name them. This no doubt is the criminals’ code of honour.”
ref: 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Even, furthermore, not to mention.
examples: text: Diet sodas are no less unhealthy than regular ones.
text: The driver had drunk no less than eight pints of beer.
glosses: Just as, equally, as much/many as, not less.
Related terms: nothing less than
none the less
as well
more so
top-fermenting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to any of numerous edible yeasts that produce, e.g., ale, and whose respective fermenting actions appear to be at the top surface of the wort.
Old Glory
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: "Well, we've got to do something to celebrate. We haven't got a flag, we can't float Old Glory proudly out the window. So I'm going to wear this, as an emblem."
ref: 1959, John Knowles, chapter 2, in A Separate Peace:
glosses: The flag of the United States.
Synonyms: stars and stripes
Stars and Stripes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɑɹz ən ˈstɹaɪps/
ipa: /ˈstɑːz ən ˈstɹaɪps/
Senses: examples: text: The men of Red Cow did not even know whether their camp was situated in Alaska or in the Northwest Territory, whether they drew breath under the stars and stripes or under the British flag.
ref: 1910, Jack London, “The Passing of Marcus O'Brien”, in Lost Face, page 166:
glosses: The flag of the United States.
Stars and Stripes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɑɹz ən ˈstɹaɪps/
ipa: /ˈstɑːz ən ˈstɹaɪps/
Senses: glosses: The official newspaper of the United States armed forces.
Synonyms: Old Glory
red, white, and blue
Star-Spangled Banner
eeny-meeny-miney-mo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “...As for this thing”, ... he held up the shuttlecock, contaminated, in his outstretched right [hand], “this idiot tickler, the only thing it's good for is eeny-meeny-miney-mo”.
ref: 1959, John Knowles, chapter 3, in A Separate Peace:
glosses: Alternative form of eeny, meeny, miny, moe.
Nighantu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nighantus
form: nighantu
Etymology: From Sanskrit निघण्टु (ni-ghaṇṭu).
Senses: examples: text: The nighantus, which are concerned with the interpretation of sacred literature, are glossaries of obscure words found in Vedic texts.
ref: 2006, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 2ed, Elsevier, page 614:
glosses: A particular type of Sanskrit glossary, containing brief annotations of obscure and difficult words grouped into thematic categories.
nighantu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nighantus
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Nighantu.
fooey
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: "You see, I knew that's what you were aiming at," he concluded quietly.
"Fooey."
What if I was. It was a pretty good goal to have, it seemed to me.
ref: 1959, John Knowles, chapter 4, in A Separate Peace:
glosses: Alternative spelling of phooey.
decalogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decalogues
Senses: examples: text: It was only a feeling he had, and at this moment he must have been formulating a new commandment in his personal decalogue: Never accuse a friend of a crime if you only have a feeling he did it.
ref: 1959, John Knowles, chapter 5, in A Separate Peace:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Decalogue.
Derived terms: decalogist
specialer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Maples acknowledged the peculiar compliment with a smile, but Trump, groping for an even specialer moment, then asked, "How's mine?"
ref: 1991 October, “Naked City: The Usual Suspects”, in Spy, page 26:
text: They're always special, but last night was 'specialer.'
ref: 2013, Wayne Detzler, Emerging Awakening—A Faith Quake, →ISBN:
text: When you're that hungry, something boring like nuts can feel even specialer than a whole bowl of candy when you're already full.
ref: 2018, Alana Terry, Flower Swallow, →ISBN:
glosses: comparative form of special: more special
specialer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: specialers
Senses: examples: text: Monitors are responsible for making sure that all specialers and checkers are performing their tasks, and that no inappropriate behavior is taking place.
ref: 1969, The New York Times Magazine, page 111:
text: When the patient being specialed has a visitor, the specialer may leave him with the visitor with the understanding that the visitor is to return the patient to his specialer before leaving the floor.
ref: 1974, Jerrold S. Maxmen, Gary J. Tucker, Michael D. LeBow, Rational hospital psychiatry: the reactive environment, page 255:
text: Staff was relieved of much of the burden of specialing disturbed patients, and the input of information about such patients was maintained by including the patient "specialer" as a participant in nursing reports.
ref: 1974, Richard Almond, The Healing Community: Dynamics of the Therapeutic Milieu, page 17:
glosses: A nurse or aide assigned to provide one-on-one observation of a patient.
aquilino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aquilinos
Etymology: From Italian aquilino.
Senses: glosses: An old Italian coin bearing the image of an eagle.
backflush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backflushes
Etymology: From back + flush.
Senses: glosses: A temporary reversal of the flow of fluid, especially of liquid through a membrane.
backflush
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backflushes
form: backflushing
form: backflushed
form: backflushed
Etymology: From back + flush.
Senses: glosses: To cause a backflush.
bainite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bainites
Etymology: From Bain + -ite, after metallurgist Edgar Bain.
Senses: topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A microstructure of steel consisting of needle-like particles of cementite embedded in a ferrite matrix.
Derived terms: bainite transition
bainitic
bimodal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + modal.
Senses: glosses: Having two modes or forms
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having two modes (local maxima)
raw_tags: of a distribution
Derived terms: bimodality
bimodally
Related terms: unimodal
biocatalyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biocatalysts
Etymology: From bio- + catalyst.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A biochemical catalyst, such as an enzyme (either a protein enzyme or a ribozyme) or a biomolecular condensate that has biocatalytic ability.
Derived terms: nanobiocatalyst
Related terms: biocatalysis
bioisostere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioisosteres
Etymology: From bio- + isostere.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound, derived from another by the replacement of a group of atoms by another broadly similar group e.g. the replacement of a methyl by an ethyl group
Derived terms: bioisosteric
bioisosterism
bivane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bivanes
Etymology: From bi- + vane.
Senses: glosses: A vane that is doubly jointed so as to indicate both horizontal and vertical components of a fluid's flow
blowdown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blowdowns
Etymology: Deverbal from blow down.
Senses: qualifier: chemical engineering
glosses: The removal of liquid and solid hydrocarbons from a refinery vessel by the use of pressure.
qualifier: industrial engineering
glosses: Cooling fluid discharged from a plant at the end of its cycle.
topics: business
forestry
glosses: Uprooting, overtopping, or bole breakage of trees by the wind; windthrow and windsnap.
examples: text: At higher airspeeds, the 737's maximum rudder deflection is limited by blowdown, helping to prevent flight-control inputs from overstressing the aircraft's vertical stabilizer.
text: According to Boeing, these movements were consistent with the effects of blowdown on those surfaces as documented during flight tests. However, the outboard aileron split recorded by the FDR after about 0150:27, which is discussed later in this section, was not consistent with the flight test data.
ref: 2002 March 13, National Transportation Safety Board, “Accident Sequence Study”, in Aircraft Accident Brief: EgyptAir Flight 990, Boeing 767-366ER, SU-GAP, 60 Miles South of Nantucket, Massachusetts, October 31, 1999, archived from the original on 11 May 2022, page 38:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The action of aerodynamic forces to tend to cause a deflected control surface to return to its neutral position, or prevent the surface from deflecting past a certain point.
examples: text: Give these parts a blowdown with your air hose before you put them in the ultrasonic cleaning tank.
topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: An instance of blowing down with compressed air.
Derived terms: blowdown limit
Related terms: blowback
blowoff
kosha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: koshas
form: kosa
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit कोश (kóśa, “sheath, vessel, container, layer”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Any of five sheaths that are thought to cover the Atman, or True Self, according to Vedantic philosophy.
examples: text: The koshas, which are not based on any specific text, have some unusal properties. They are written in verse and include nouns and indeclinables but not verbs. The words are arranged according to topics. They deal with synonyms and homonyms and were meant for the use of poets. The best-known kosha in Sanskrit is the lexicon prepared by a Buddhist scholar Amarasinha, who was also a poet. This dictionary is usually known as Amarakosha (‘Amara's dictionary’) rather than by its actual name, Namalinganushasana.
ref: 2006, Encyclopedia of language and linguistics 2ed, Elsevier, page 614:
glosses: A particular type of Sanskrit dictionary.
Related terms: Anandamaya kosha
Annamaya kosha
Manomaya kosha
Pranamaya kosha
Vijnanamaya kosha
back-form
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back-forms
form: backform
Etymology: A back-formation from back-formation.
Senses: glosses: A back-formation; a word formed by removing a perceived morpheme from an older word.
back-form
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: back-forms
form: back-forming
form: back-formed
form: back-formed
form: backform
Etymology: A back-formation from back-formation.
Senses: glosses: To form a word by a back-formation process.
Ṛgveda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Rigveda.
Rgveda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Rigveda.
Sanskritism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sanskritisms
Etymology: From Sanskrit + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: My opinion as regards Bengali is that Primary Instruction for the lower classes of people, who are for the most part ethnically allied to the Hindoos should be in the Bengali language, purified, however, from the super-structure of Sanskritism of learned Hindoos and supplemented by the numerous words of Arabic and Persian origin...
ref: 1991, Sisir Kumar Das, Sahitya Akademi, A History of Indian Literature, page 251, quoting Nawab Abdul Latif, the founder of the Mohammedan Literary Society, 1882
synonyms: Prakritism
glosses: A word or phrase borrowed from Sanskrit for modern usage in India, Sri Lanka and elsewhere, especially in various Indo-Aryan languages.
sanskritist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sanskritists
Etymology: From Sanskrit + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Sanskritist.
crowbar hotel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the crowbar hotel
Senses: examples: text: Many unfortunate suckers, finding themselves losers, even in an honest game, became obstreperous, and the services of the bouncer, or even of a resident gunhand, might be required to pacify them, after which the complainant would be hauled to the crowbar hotel to recover enough of his equanimity to appear peacefully before a justice of the peace.
ref: 1981, Watson Parker, Deadwood: The Golden Years, University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 190:
text: Correctional Services Minister Nick Leluk often refers to his "guests" in his chain of "hotels". What do these guests have to do to earn their keep in Ontario's crowbar hotels?
ref: 1983 October 21, Orland French, “Gnomes grind out the gems”, in The Globe and Mail, Canada:
text: If Vick gets 18 months in the crowbar hotel, as speculated, that essentially means two seasons away from the NFL.
ref: 2007 August 22, Dave Perkins, “NFL will paper over Vick scandal”, in Toronto Star, Canada:
glosses: Jail.
epimutations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epimutation
epigenotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epigenotype
excercise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of exercise.
excercise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of exercise.
long tail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long tails
Etymology: In the marketing sense popularized by journalist Chris Anderson in 2004, alluding to the long tail of a power law distribution.
Senses: examples: text: What’s really amazing about the Long Tail is the sheer size of it. Combine enough nonhits on the Long Tail and you’ve got a market bigger than the hits.
ref: 2004 October, Chris Anderson, “The Long Tail”, in Wired, →ISSN, archived from the original on 12 Jan 2016:
text: “I would like to tell you that the Internet has made such a level playing field that the Long Tail is absolutely the place to be, that there's so much differentiation, so much diversity, so many new voices. I'd love to tell you that that's in fact how it really works. Unfortunately, it's not,” Schmidt said.
ref: 2014, Astra Taylor, quoting Eric Schmidt, chapter 4, in The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:
topics: business
marketing
glosses: Sales made for less usual goods within a very large choice, which can return a profit through reduced marketing and distribution costs.
topics: mathematics
probability
sciences
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: The tail of a distribution that represents the rare occurrence of extreme values.
Related terms: big head
power law
litote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: litotes
Etymology: Back-formation from litotes, perhaps with influence from corresponding forms in other languages.
Senses: qualifier: perhaps nonstandard
glosses: An instance of litotes.
extraembryonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + embryonic.
Senses: examples: text: Subsequent cell and tissue interactions lead to the functional differentiation of all embryonic and extraembryonic tissues.
ref: 1998, Julian Lombardi, Comparative Vertebrate Reproduction, Springer, →ISBN, page 237:
text: The clockwise beating of cilia results in a net flow of extraembryonic fluid leftwards […]
ref: 2006, Manfred Schliwa, Molecular Motors, page 359:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Inside the womb, but outside the embryo.
Avent
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Avents
form: Avant
form: Avants
Etymology: Perhaps a reduced form of the Anglo-Norman personal name or nickname Avenant, from Old French avenant (“fitting, apt; beautiful”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Anglo-Norman.
emplotment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emplotments
Etymology: From em- + plot + -ment; coined by Paul Ricœur.
Senses: examples: 1978, Hayden White, "The Historical Text As Literary Artifact", re-printed in Geoffrey Roberts (editor), The History and Narrative Reader, Routledge (2001), →ISBN, page 223,
Yet, I would argue, histories gain part of their explanatory effect by their success in making stories out of mere chronicles; and stories in turn are made out of chronicles by an operation which I have elsewhere called “emplotment.” And by emplotment I mean simply the encodation of the facts contained in the chronicle as components of specific kinds of plot structures, in precisely the way that Frye has suggested is the case with “fictions” in general.
topics: historiography
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The assembly of a series of historical events into a narrative with a plot.
wikipedia: Paul Ricœur
ecotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eco- + therapy.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: Exposure to nature and the outdoors as a form or component of psychotherapy.
Derived terms: ecotherapeutic
ecotherapeutics
ecotherapist
matras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matra
gas tank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gas tanks
Senses: hypernyms: fuel tank
glosses: A fuel tank for gasoline built into equipment, especially vehicles.
Synonyms: word: petrol tank
Coordinate terms: gas bottle
gas cylinder
gasholder
Related terms: gas line
jank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Etymology: Ostensibly a back-formation from janky (“shoddy, poor quality”).
Senses: examples: text: This also marks the first time I haven’t felt that Samsung jank on the phone, which deserves its own paragraph in its own right. That weird stuttering and pausing you’ve seen on so many Samsung phones seems to be almost completely gone on the Note 3 […]
ref: 2013, Nick Sutrich, Android Headlines:
text: In cases where you’re concerned about scrolling, the browser can manage the frame rate for you. But if you introduce a large amount of jank, then it won’t be able to do as good a job.
ref: 2013, Addy Osmani, Smashing Magazine:
text: in order to hit this impressive frame rate, the “jank-free” Sky prioritizes the UI over other processes, meaning the app should stay smooth when it works heavily in the background.
ref: 2015, Bogdan Petrovan, Android Authority:
text: Even though JavaScript will try to update the animation every frame, it will likely not be able to do that fast enough and will cause dropped frames (jank) to occur.
ref: 2018, Eli White, Facebook React Native Blog:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Perceptible pause in the smooth rendering of a software application's user interface due to slow operations or poor interface design.
examples: text: Bethesda’s jank made a PvP-centric experience hellish. Players kept finding exploits left and right.
ref: 2019, Patricia Hernandez, After the backlash, Bethesda is on a long quest to redeem Fallout 76, Polygon:
text: Maybe Soulstorm is an ideal tribute to the PlayStation era, considering how much period-specific jank is in the code.
ref: 2021, Luke Winkle, Oddworld: Soulstorm review, PC Gamer:
text: Jank is the understated secret sauce of game development. It can make a bad game good and a good game great.
ref: 2018, Ryan Cooper, The Joy of Jank, Unwinnable:
text: The build I played was rough around the edges; I experienced a couple of hard crashes, as well as some placeholder assets and bugs that went beyond the charming old-school jank I was expecting.
ref: 2023, Jordan Oloman, STALKER 2 is a merciless trip down memory lane, Polygon:
topics: video-games
glosses: Game mechanics of unconventional or flawed design or implementation, and the experience of such mechanics, as to ruin or disrupt play, or break immersion; e.g. bugs and glitches.
glosses: A game, or games, with such mechanics.
Related terms: janky
Eurojank
jank
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: more jank
form: most jank
Etymology: Ostensibly a back-formation from janky (“shoddy, poor quality”).
Senses: examples: text: Sadly, my new laptop is even more jank than my old one.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Janky.
run-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of run-up
high jumpers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of high jumper
high-jumper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high-jumpers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of high jumper.
high-jumpers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of high-jumper
barathrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɹəθɹəm/
Forms: form: barathrums
Etymology: From Latin barathrum, from Ancient Greek βάραθρον (bárathron).
Senses: glosses: A pit, especially one at Athens into which criminals were thrown.
glosses: The abyss, hell.
tapet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tapets
Etymology: From Old English teped, from Latin tapētum (later influenced by or re-borrowed from Latin). Doublet of tapetum.
Senses: examples: text: And in thoſe Tapets weren faſhioned / Many faire pourtraicts, and many a faire feate, […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 568:
glosses: A decorative wall-hanging; a hanging cloth or piece of tapestry.
fossé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fossés
Etymology: From French fossé.
Senses: examples: text: The Major then went with me and Euphemia (Victoria staying at the inn) and showed us what is called the Ditch, being the fossé and ruinous banks of the old castle […] .
ref: 1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 165
text: I saw him tied up between two boards, by way of the coffin, which was to be provided by contract; and deposited in the fossé that surrounded our prison […].
ref: 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 146:
glosses: A fosse or ditch.
PDCA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of plan-do-check-act or plan-do-check-adjust: a four-step process typically used in quality control.
borinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Etymology: Ultimately from boron
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the borinic acids or their derivatives
Derived terms: borinate
Related terms: boronic
boronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From boron + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the boronic acids or their derivatives
Derived terms: alkylboronic
arylboronic
boronate
haloboronic
nonboronic
organoboronic
phenylboronic
Related terms: borinic
breeching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹiːt͡ʃɪŋ/
/ˈbɹiːt͡ʃiːŋ/
/ˈbɹɪt͡ʃɪŋ/
/ˈbɹɪt͡ʃɪn/
Forms: form: breechings
Etymology: From breech + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: When boys left off skirts at about six or seven to put on breeches this was an occasion of minor ceremony which marked the next stage of growing up. By the 18th century breeching was taking place earlier, when a boy was three or four.
ref: 1996, Anne Buck, Clothes and the Child, R. Bean, →ISBN, page 81:
glosses: The ceremony of dressing a boy in trousers for the first time.
glosses: A conduit through which exhaust gases are conducted to a chimney.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A rope used to secure a cannon.
examples: text: Beside this, he has to learn to wear a collar, a crupper, and a breeching, and to stand still whilst they are put on; then to have a cart or a chaise fixed behind him, so that he cannot walk or trot without dragging it after him: and he must go fast or slow, just as his driver wishes.
ref: [1877], Anna Sewell, “My Breaking In”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part I, pages 16–17:
topics: equestrianism
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
glosses: A component of horse harness or tack, enabling the horse to hold back a vehicle.
glosses: A beating or flogging.
apostata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apostatas
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of apostate.
Nifong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Neufang.
Senses: glosses: A rare surname from German.
Nifong
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Nifongs
form: Nifonging
form: Nifonged
form: Nifonged
Etymology: * From Mike Nifong, a North Carolina District Attorney who made headlines for a controversial prosecution and his subsequent disbarment while in office for ethics violations.
Senses: examples: text: I should have expected Nifonging by liberal rags such as the Herald-Sun. I would have expected better from the Times.
ref: 2007 July 28, Dave Highlands, “WE MUST NOT TOLERATE THIS CRUELTY TO ANIMALS”, in St. Petersburg Times:
text: We're not going away. We're going to seek justice. What happened to her, she was Nifonged. They just rushed to judgment without any notice of who her accusers were, what the accusations were. They fired her in a couple of days.
ref: 2007, Henry Jones, "Teacher Cleared of Having Sex with Students Sues School District," Hannity & Colmes, FOX News Network, August 27, 2007
text: Imagine for a moment that a similar incident had taken place at a local university and that a prosecutor here had Nifonged.
ref: 2007 September 27, Ted Van Dyk, “NIFONG EXAMPLE RAISES GOOD QUESTIONS.”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
text: “He never had any intention of finishing off his revenge on Tom DeLay and is scared to death of being Nifonged while still in office,” Ms. Flaherty said, a reference to Michael B. Nifong, the disgraced former prosecutor in the Duke University lacrosse team rape case that collapsed as groundless.
ref: 2007 December 15, Ralph Blumenthal, “Prosecutor in DeLay Case Says He Won’t Seek Re-election Next Year”, in The New York Times:
text: Don't get "Nifonged" again!
ref: 2008, Campaign poster, Friends for Freda Black, April 2008, http://bp0.blogger.com/_8fUCfAeoLXo/SBaOeDJgEoI/AAAAAAAAA1w/8FJrGWvGHos/s1600-h/Cline+Nifonged.jpg
glosses: To make a self-serving, politically-motivated accusation or prosecution.
bite the hand that feeds one
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bites the hand that feeds one
form: biting the hand that feeds one
form: bit the hand that fed one
form: bitten the hand that fed one
Senses: examples: text: Granted that it is not "exquisitely rational" to bite the hand that feeds you, yet that is just what clients and patients do which is one reason they need therapy.
ref: 1967, Rollo May, Psychology and the Human Dilemma, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 18:
text: And the reality is, for all the talk about lobbying reform, Congress has never been known to bite the hand that feeds it.
ref: 2004 November 15, Jay Newton-Small, “The Dems' Tax (and Spend) Dilemma”, in Time:
text: For entirely self-serving reasons, ministers and civil servants never dispelled the public belief that uncaring 'fat cat' privateers or foreign state railways were in control, ramping up fares and creaming off profits which either enriched shareholders or subsidised European rail fares. DfT left train operators to 'take the heat' - which they dutifully did, fearful of speaking up and 'biting the hand that feeds'.
ref: 2020 September 23, Nigel Harris, “Comment: We MUST seize the moment”, in Rail, page 3:
text: "Daddy, don't say that. I don't bite the hand that feeds me. What a horrible expression, 'the hand that feeds you'. How can you say that to me when you used to refuse to feed me, when you punished me by locking me in my room without a scrap of food, so I'd be skinny like Luz and like Mother."
ref: 2023 February 23, Mercedes Rosende, The Hand That Feeds You, Bitter Lemon Press, →ISBN:
glosses: To cause harm to a benefactor (especially one that one is dependent on, thus with the idea that this behaviour is self-damaging).
Related terms: word: don't shit where you eat
overhand knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overhand knots
Senses: synonyms: single knot
thumb knot
glosses: A particular very simple knot, used e.g. to prevent the end of a rope from unraveling, and as part of other knots.
wikipedia: overhand knot
suicide victim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suicide victims
Senses: glosses: A person who has committed suicide.
suicide victims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suicide victim
sanglant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: BERSANTER , or BERSAWTER, ar. three boars' heads sanglant, sa.
ref: 1830, Thomas Robson (engraver.), The British herald, or Cabinet of armorial bearings of the nobility & gentry of Great Britain & Ireland:
text: The couchant lion armed and langued, with his paw upon the open book, is indeed, the crest; but what a shield — Tincture upon tincture; azure: a cross sanguine, with a lamb sanglant in the dexter chief!
ref: 1843, The British Magazine and Monthly Register of Religious and Ecclesiastical Information, Parochial History, and Documents Respecting the State of the Poor, Progress of Education, &c, page 38:
text: Crest—A falcon, wings elevate or, belled gu., preying upon a wing, arg., sanglant, ppr.
ref: 1853, Bernard Burke, Index to Burke's dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, page 162:
text: A large shield, in the centre whereof was depicted / A hand lately severed, - the artist, addicted / ('Twas De Rodon bimself) to pre-Raphaelite rules, / Had made the wrist "sanglant" with drops from it "gules."
ref: 1855, Francis Edward Smedley, Mirth and metre by F.E. Smedley and E.H. Yates, page 69:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Bloodstained.
romero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: romeros
Etymology: From Spanish romero.
Senses: glosses: pilot fish
down the road, not across the street
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: We repeated the words ‘down the road, not across the street’ when discussing the use of knives. […] To cut horizontally was to commit the gravest possible sin for a young woman: to do something for attention.
ref: 2021, Sarah Walker, The First Time I Thought I Was Dying, University of Queensland Press, →ISBN:
qualifier: potentially
glosses: Of the technique for committing suicide, along the radial artery rather than across the wrist from side to side.
radial artery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radial arteries
Etymology: Radial here means “of or pertaining to the radius” (one of the bones of the arm).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
qualifier: human anatomy
glosses: The main artery of the lateral aspect of the forearm that is one of the two branches of the brachial artery and enters the wrist on the side of the thumb.
Related terms: ulnar artery
captodative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more captodative
form: most captodative
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Affected by both a captor (electron-withdrawing) and a dative (electron-releasing) substituent
carbonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carboniums
Senses: glosses: Any of several organic cations; carbocation or carbenium.
Derived terms: carbonium ion
carbynium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbyniums
Etymology: From carbyne + -ium?
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The radical cation H₂C^(.+) or any organic derivative of it
catalymetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing an analysis that involves a catalyst; especially a titration in which the end-point is detected by a sudden change in the rate of reaction