cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
stairsteps
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I am the matronly mother of four girls: Lavinia is eleven now; the others stairsteps.
ref: 1982, Helen Hooven Santmyer, "...And Ladies of the Club" (OSU Press, 1982) (Berkley edition, p. 844, Chapter "1892–1893")
glosses: Having distinct evenly-spaced values, especially when arranged in order.
tetrasulfonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetrasulfonates
form: tetrasulphonate
Etymology: From tetra- + sulfonate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound containing four sulfonate groups or ions
vibroslice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vibroslices
Etymology: From vibro- + slice, a trademark.
Senses: glosses: A microtome that has a vibrating blade.
viroplasmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æzmɪk
Etymology: From viroplasm + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a viroplasm
palm oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palm oils
form: palm-oil
Etymology: In the sense of a bribe, the phrase is a punning reference to the palm of the hand and also to oil as lubricant rather than foodstuff.
Senses: examples: text: Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.
ref: 2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29:
hypernyms: vegetable oil
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glosses: An edible plant oil derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of the oil palm (Elaeis guineensis).
synonyms: grease payment
lubrication payment
baksheesh
glosses: Money given as a bribe.
cacophonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] for I will put no force upon the words, nor desire any more favour than to allow for the usual accidents of corruption, or the avoiding a cacophonia.
ref: 1801, Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift (page 281)
text: The craze for Cacophonia spread rapidly, and soon there were several orchestras that played only on broken-down and out-of-tune instruments.
ref: 1959, Soviet Literature, numbers 9-12, page 21:
glosses: Alternative form of cacophony.
ill fame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Sea-poppies and ragwort were plants of ill-fame, too.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 157:
glosses: Disrepute; notoriety.
Derived terms: house of ill fame
woman of ill fame
riching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rich
pupilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pupil + -ed.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having pupils (of a specified number or kind).
Derived terms: unipupilled
bipupilled
unipupilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + pupilled.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a single pupil.
bipupilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + pupilled.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having two pupils.
au gratin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊ ˈɡrɑtən/
ipa: /oʊ ˈɡrætən/
ipa: /ɔ-/
ipa: /əʊ ɡɹɑˈtæn/
ipa: /əʊ ˈɡræt.æn/
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French au gratin.
Senses: examples: text: The 7:30 prix fixe meal ($35 per person) is served communally in the courtyard. The four courses included scallops in a tomato and chili cream sauce, risotto and a cassoulet of either seafood or chicken covered with mashed potatoes au gratin.
ref: 2012 October 20, John B. Saul, The Seattle Times, retrieved 24 Oct 2012:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Covered with a crust of breadcrumbs (and often cheese) then browned under a grill.
Aurignacian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔɹɪnˈjeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌɑɹ-/
ipa: /oʊɹ-/
Etymology: From Aurignac + -ian, after the French town of Aurignac, where remains from the culture were found.
Senses: glosses: From or pertaining to a culture of the Upper Paleolithic, located in Europe and southwest Asia from circa 45,000 to 35,000 years ago, known from archaeological remains.
Aurignacian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔɹɪnˈjeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌɑɹ-/
ipa: /oʊɹ-/
Forms: form: Aurignacians
Etymology: From Aurignac + -ian, after the French town of Aurignac, where remains from the culture were found.
Senses: examples: text: While the Aurignacians were capable hunters of the largest mammals, they were not equipped with the specialist flint points characteristic of later European cultures.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 218:
glosses: A member of the Aurignacian culture.
Austrasia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒˈstɹeɪ.ʒə/
ipa: /ɔˈstɹeɪ.ʒə/
Etymology: From Latin Austrasia, from Austrasii + -ia. Austrasii, referring to the eastern Franks, is a Latinization of Frankish *Austerliudi, meaning "eastern folk"; see ostar and liuti.
Senses: glosses: An early-medieval geographic region corresponding to the homeland of the Merovingian Franks in modern western Germany, northeastern France, Belgium and parts of the Netherlands. Capital: Metz.
Derived terms: Austrasian
Related terms: Neustria
Austria
Austrasian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Austrasians
Etymology: From Austrasia + -an.
Senses: glosses: A person from the historical province of Austrasia
Austrasian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Austrasia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or from Austrasia.
Austroasiatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔːstɹəʊˌeɪʒiˈætɪk/
ipa: /ˌɔstɹoʊˌeɪʒiˈætɪk/
Forms: form: more Austroasiatic
form: most Austroasiatic
form: Austro-Asiatic
Etymology: Borrowed from German Austroasiatisch, austroasiatisch, coined by Wilhelm Schmidt, from Latin auster (“south”) + German asiatisch (“Asian”).
Senses: glosses: Of the Austroasiatic languages, a major language family spoken in parts of Southeast Asia, India and the Nicobar Islands.
examples: text: This haemoglobin variant emerged in an Austroasiatic people and subsequently diffused throughout southeast Asia and then to other places.
ref: 1987, Bhuban Mohan Das, The Peoples of Assam, page 168:
glosses: Australasian.
Derived terms: Proto-Austroasiatic
autotoxemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autotoxemias
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of autotoxaemia.
autotoxaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autotoxaemias
form: auto-toxaemia
Etymology: From auto- + toxaemia.
Senses: examples: text: The strong family tendency to these symptoms with haematoporphyrinuria in these cases is practically conclusive evidence of an autotoxaemia being the origin of the syndrome.
ref: 1923, Dr. Wilfred Harris, MD, Multiple Peripheral Neuritis:
glosses: autointoxication
away goals rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A rule whereby, in case of an aggregate draw, the team with the most away goals wins.
back dive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back dives
Senses: topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A backwards dive
back-story
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back-stories
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of backstory.
jammin'
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jammin'
form: most jammin'
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of jamming.
jet plane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jet planes
form: jet airplane
form: jetplane
Senses: examples: text: I'm leavin' on a jet plane / I don't know when I'll be back again / Oh, babe, I hate to go
ref: 1967, John Denver, “Leaving on a Jet Plane”performed by Peter, Paul and Mary, Warner Records:
text: Time is a jet plane, it moves too fast
ref: 1975, Bob Dylan, “You're a Big Girl Now”, in Blood on the Tracks:
glosses: A jet: an airplane that is powered by a jet engine.
throat microphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: throat microphones
Etymology: From throat + microphone.
Senses: glosses: A type of contact microphone that absorbs vibrations directly from the wearer's throat, a laryngophone.
tibiofibular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tibio- + fibular.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to both the tibia and the fibula.
unrealism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unrealisms
Etymology: From un- (“not”) + realism.
Senses: examples: text: Even the most sympathetic scholars of Middle English found it hard to forgive romance authors for this reckless melange; most felt the need to explain away the unrealisms.
ref: 1999, David Matthews, Making of Middle English:
text: It is exactly these “other” meanings, connotations, that POs are designed to allow us to consider, but before talking specifically about POs let's think a little about what Poole calls “unrealisms” [...]
ref: 2012, Clive Fencott, Game Invaders:
glosses: Unrealisticness.
Related terms: uncanny valley
unrealisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unrealism
unpureness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unpurenesses
Etymology: From unpure + -ness or un- + pureness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being unpure; impurity.
examples: text: The unpurenesses caused by oxides such as Ti02, CaO, MgO, Na20 and S02 are not out of limit needed to be obeyed in the ceramic industry.
ref: 1994, Lütfi Öveçoğlu, Harun Yaparlar, Türk Seramik Derneǧi, II International Ceramics Congress:
glosses: That which is unpure; an impurity.
hoppingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hoppingly
form: most hoppingly
Etymology: From hopping + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a hopping way; with hopping motions.
BITD
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of back in the day.
public intellectual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: public intellectuals
Senses: examples: text: "I have always taken the role of public intellectual very, very seriously," said Mark Crispin Miller, 51, a professor of media ecology at New York University. "A public intellectual is someone who engages in intellectual pursuits, airs intellectual concerns in a way the broad, literate public can understand. The tradition thrives in Europe, but the American public does not have the same expectation of its intellectuals."
ref: 2001 June 13, Chris Hedges, “Public Lives: Watching Bush's Language, and Television”, in New York Times, retrieved 24 Oct 2012:
text: As a sociologist, Raper concerned himself with everything from the legal impediments African Americans faced to the way blacks and whites arranged themselves around the hot stove in a small-town general store. He was among the first generation of southern public intellectuals, an engaged academic in a region where anti-intellectualism had a long and healthy tradition.
ref: 2005, Louis Mazzari, "New Introduction" to Preface To Peasantry (1936) by Arthur Franklin Raper, p. xvii (Google preview)
text: After years of teaching 18th century British literature, in 1975 he crossed from academic to public intellectual with The Great War and Modern Memory, a seminal book examining how World War I, by its scope and immense carnage, caused a disillusionment that plagued Western society for decades.
ref: 2012 June 11, Nate Rawlings, "Paul Fussell" (Obituary), Time
glosses: A well-known, intelligent, learned person whose written works and other social and cultural contributions are recognized not only by academic audiences and readers, but also by many members of society in general.
unplight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English unpliȝt, equivalent to un- + plight.
Senses: glosses: Peril.
faitheist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faitheists
Etymology: Blend of faith + atheist
Senses: examples: text: Those are all appeals made either to the assumptions that Dennett shares with the belief-believers (or “faitheists”) or to their own priorities in ways that challenge their essential reasons for believing in belief.
ref: 2009 July 26, Daniel Fincke, “On The Alleged Intolerance Of The New Atheists Towards “Faitheists””, in Camels With Hammers, retrieved 24 Oct 2012:
text: I see the "faitheists" as parallels to the quietly closeted gays who cringed at the tactics of Act Up or the sit-in counter veterans who shook their heads at Malcolm X.
ref: 2009 August 19, dofang, “Distortions of the New Atheists prevent substantive debate about their impact (comment)”, in Examiner.com, retrieved 24 Oct 2012:
text: You're Not Helping is a blog started by a faitheist; that is, an atheist who sees value in faith or, at least, that some respect for their beliefs is in order. Even more particularly, a faitheist thinks that some atheist behaviour (typically labelled 'new atheist') is driving a wedge between 'moderate' theists and the rest of rational society.
ref: 2010 June 28, Mark Jones, “You Really Aren't Helping”, in Good Grief, Linus, retrieved 24 Oct 2012:
glosses: An atheist who thinks faith should not be criticized.
Related terms: faitheism
faitheistic
faitheist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more faitheist
form: most faitheist
Etymology: Blend of faith + atheist
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to faitheism.
Related terms: accommodationist
faitheists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faitheist
Euler's criterion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɔɪ̯.lə(ɹ)z kɹaɪ̯ˈtɪ.ɹi.ən/
/ˈɔɪ̯.lə(ɹ)z kɹɪˈtɪ.ɹi.ən/
Etymology: Named after Leonhard Euler (1707–1783), Swiss mathematician and physicist, who devised the criterion in 1748.
Senses: topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: A theorem which states that, given a positive integer a which is coprime to an odd prime number p, a is a quadratic residue of p if and only if a^((p-1)/2) is congruent to 1 modulo p.
wikipedia: Leonhard Euler
wave-particle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wave-particles
Senses: qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: An entity which simultaneously has the properties of a wave and a particle.
Synonyms: wavicle
wave-particles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wave-particle
Faulkner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔː(l)k.nə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈfɔ(l)k.nɚ/
ipa: /ˈfɑ(l)k.nɚ/
Forms: form: Faulkners
Etymology: A variant of the Scottish surname Falconer.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as an occupation.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Charles County, Maryland, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Randolph County, West Virginia, United States.
Derived terms: Faulkner County
Faulknerian
Related terms: Falkner
Faulknor
soap pad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soap pads
Senses: glosses: A small pad of steel wool infused with powdered detergent.
Germanland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German + -land.
Senses: glosses: Germany.
Related terms: Dutchland
outbutt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outbutts
form: outbutting
form: outbutted
form: outbutted
Etymology: From out- + butt.
Senses: examples: text: Old rams can almost always outbutt young ones but the young ones can run faster and few deaths occur.
ref: 1945 April 16, “Bighorn Sheep Trapping”, in Life:
text: […] and finally a cigar-drummer down at the saloon offered him a two-gallon jug of whiskey if he could outbutt the saloonkeeper's old billy-goat out in the backyard.
ref: 1957, H. H. Davis, The Distant Music, Popular Library, published 1957, page 254:
text: Perhaps male pachycephalosaurs established their dominance by outbutting rivals.
ref: 1990, John Kricher, Peterson First Guide to Dinosaurs, Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 80:
glosses: To butt with greater force than; to best in a butting match.
lost in translation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I tried reading the instruction manual but many of the steps were unfortunately lost in translation.
text: The message of the Japanese Prime Minister's speech was lost in translation.
glosses: Unable to be understood due to having been poorly translated.
Related terms: translation loss
proving ground
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proving grounds
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
hypernyms: ground
glosses: A terrain or installation for testing weapons, military equipment, or tactics.
examples: text: To test the new equipment and vehicles that will work to the high voltage a.c. system, a proving ground was sought at a convenient point, and the lines from Colchester to Clacton and Walton have been selected.
ref: 1956 June, “Electrification in Clydeside and East Anglia”, in Railway Magazine, page 414:
text: Several design issues emerged quite quickly with the Mirrlees engine, and so these locomotives can be seen as its rail-traction proving ground.
ref: 2021 June 30, David Clough, “Brush: a UK rail icon”, in RAIL, number 934, page 55:
synonyms: testing ground
glosses: A venue or project in which new technologies, methods, or techniques are tested.
Related terms: firing range
Cactus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Texas.
glosses: An unincorporated community in California.
Euler diagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Euler diagrams
Etymology: Named after Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707–1783).
Senses: coordinate_terms: Venn diagram
glosses: A diagram representing some sets by contours of closed shapes, typically circles and ellipses, and indicating the relationships between the sets.
JCSS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Initialism of Joint Functional Component Command, an organisation that controls space debris.
dry-gulch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dry-gulches
form: dry-gulching
form: dry-gulched
form: dry-gulched
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of drygulch.
putty medal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: putty medals
Senses: examples: text: ‘Come around and pin a putty medal on me for minding my own business.’
ref: 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 77:
text: “Fancy that,” Pop-In Jay was amazed, “a main street without a name. You all deserve a putty medal!”
ref: 2009, Karin Steyn, Pop-In Jay Pomp, page 8:
glosses: A shiny medal awarded for something insignificant.
putty medals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of putty medal
geoprivacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geo-privacy
Etymology: From geo- + privacy.
Senses: glosses: The keeping private of one's geographic location, especially the restriction of geographical data maintained by personal electronic equipment
hypnozoite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypnozoites
Etymology: From hypno- + -zoite.
Senses: glosses: A dormant stage in the life cycle of some species of the malaria parasite Plasmodium (mainly) in the liver. It is formed directly (no multiplication takes place) from a sporozoite injected by the mosquito. However, not all of these inoculated sporozoites form hypnozoites. The reason(s) why some do and others don't is unknown.
hypnozoites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypnozoite
poikilothermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poikilo- + thermal.
Senses: glosses: poikilothermic
rainfed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rain + fed.
Senses: examples: text: Water started to come down from here and there on the high bank, streamlets big as a finger, mere dripdrops, mistfalls that evaporated halfway to the surface of the river – these can't be rainfed, not here – […]
ref: 2017, Joanna Russ, We Who Are About To...:
glosses: Supplied with water by rain (only).
raw_tags: of land etc.
proving grounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proving ground
impressionableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From impressionable + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: impressionability
antonyms: unimpressionability
unimpressionableness
glosses: The quality of being impressionable.
impressionably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more impressionably
form: most impressionably
Etymology: From impressionable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an impressionable manner.
impressionables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impressionable
woading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of woad
chalcanthum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French calcante or Latin chalcanthum.
Senses: topics: alchemy
pseudoscience
synonyms: calcanthum
chalcanth
glosses: Copper(II) sulfate (CuSO₄).
Derived terms: chalcanthite
chorepiscopus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chorepiscopi
form: chorepiscopuses
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin chōrepiscopus, from Ancient Greek χωρεπίσκοπος (khōrepískopos); χώρα (khṓra, “place, country”) + ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, “overseer, bishop”) (from ἐπί (epí, “on, upon, over”) + σκοπός (skopós, “watcher”)). Compare bishop.
Senses: glosses: A country or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural district.
glosses: A Chorepiscopus, the title used by the worldly rulers of the Principality of Kakheti and Kingdom of Kakheti-Hereti (786-1104) in medieval Georgia, which effectively equaled to a king
Derived terms: chorepiscopal
lighthousekeeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lighthousekeepers
form: lighthouse-keeper
Etymology: From lighthouse + keeper.
Senses: examples: text: Because she was from the Alentejo, remarked the Lighthousekeeper's Wife, that's why she could do sopa alentejana.
ref: 1994, Antonio Tabucchi, Requiem: A Hallucination:
text: After this sparkling gambit, Wilson tells Holmes he has taken up the job of lighthouse-keeper at Little-Tooting-by-the-Sea, which illuminates a passage between the mainland and the island of Uffa, [...]
ref: 2003, Peter Ridgway Watt, Joseph Green, The Alternative Sherlock Holmes:
text: Lighthouse keeping is narrated by an orphan named Silver, who on the death of her parents is adopted by Pew, a blind lighthousekeeper in the imaginary Scottish town of Salts.
ref: 2006, Philip Tew, Rod Mengham, British Fiction Today:
text: But I heroworship lighthousekeepers. No. Envy is closer. Or maybe jealousy.
ref: 2010, Carl MacDougall, The Devil and the Giro:
glosses: Alternative form of lighthouse keeper.
frostproofs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of frostproof
frostproofing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of frostproof
frostproofed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of frostproof
wetproofs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wetproof
wetproofed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wetproof
wetproofing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wetproof
returnship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: returnships
Etymology: US 2008, blend of return + internship. By surface analysis, return + -ship. Early programs include Sara Lee Corporation (October 2008).
Senses: glosses: An internship-like program for experienced workers seeking to reenter the workforce after an extended period, particularly in a new line of work.
wikipedia: Sara Lee Corporation
dot-com bubble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dot-com bubbles
Senses: examples: text: The excitement about bitcoin and blockchain is sort of like the dot-com bubble—if nobody in 2000 was quite sure what the internet was for.
ref: 2018 January 10, Derek Thompson, “It Is Silly Season in the Land of Cryptocurrency”, in The Atlantic:
text: That was part of what made the March reopening of Balthazar, a SoHo mainstay since the height of the dot-com bubble, unusual. Jay-Z and Beyoncé turned up for dinner. Nancy Pelosi came for breakfast. Patrons made out at their tables, took trips together to the bathroom.
ref: 2021 July 17, Jacob Bernstein, “Keith McNally Stirs the Pot”, in The New York Times:
topics: business
synonyms: dot-com boom
information technology bubble
Internet bubble
glosses: A historic speculative bubble based around the Internet, covering roughly 1997–2000.
chorepiscopi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chorepiscopus
non-leap year
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-leap years
Etymology: From non- + leap year.
Senses: glosses: A year that does not contain the day February 29.
fire ax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire axes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fire axe.
throwing axe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: throwing axes
form: throwing ax
form: throwing-ax
form: throwing-axe
Senses: topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: An axe that is used as a missile weapon.
throwing-axe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: throwing-axes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of throwing axe.
overdemand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overdemands
Etymology: From over- + demand.
Senses: glosses: excessive demand; demand for more than is available
overdemands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overdemand
calcspar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calcspars
Etymology: From calc- + spar.
Senses: glosses: calcite
calcspars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calcspar
platycephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From platy- + cephalic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having a broad head
Synonyms: platycephalous
micrometrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: micrometric; relating to micrometry or a micrometer
Derived terms: micrometrically
crenelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crenelled
form: most crenelled
Etymology: From crenel + -ed.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Crenate.
glosses: Having embrasures.
suers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suer
anconoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anconoid
form: most anconoid
Etymology: From ancon + -oid.
Senses: glosses: anconal; resembling the elbow
devotionalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devotionalists
Etymology: From devotional + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One given to devotion, especially to excessive formal devotion.
Synonyms: devotionist
devotionalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of devotionalist
coralline sponge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coralline sponges
Senses: glosses: Any of many sponges, of the class Sclerospongiae, that have a massive skeleton made of calcium carbonate
Christo-Islamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Christo-Islamic
form: most Christo-Islamic
Etymology: From Christo- + Islamic.
Senses: examples: text: He felt sure that in Toledo, among Goyas and El Grecos, in the spiritual climate of Christo-Islamic Spain as manifested in its art, he would be able to complete his elegies.
ref: 1996, Ralph Freedman, Life of a Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke, Northwestern University Press, →ISBN, page 352:
text: Information about the trans-Saharan supply of African gold was widely known in the Christo-Islamic financial circles of the Mediterranean and certainly reached the merchants of Lisbon.
ref: 1999, David Birmingham, Portugal and Africa, Palgrave, →ISBN, page 6:
text: There followed an ecumenical service focussed on Christo-Islamic harmony at St. Giles Cathedral.
ref: 2005, Richard Demarco, “Too Rough to Go Slow”, in Paul Henderson Scott, editor, Spirits of the Age: Scottish Self Portraits, The Saltire Society, →ISBN, page 115:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Synonym of Christo-Muslim.
synonyms: word: Christo-Muslim
Eckist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eckists
Senses: glosses: An adherent of Eckankar.
Eckists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eckist
electricute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of electrocute.
fakeloo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A fakeloo artist, a hoopla spreader, and a lad who had his cards rolled up inside sticks of tea, found on a dead man.
ref: 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 107:
text: All those fakeloo bummers and ink merchants, they bedazzle a girl. She's only human.
ref: 1957, Dan Cushman, The Silver Mountain:
glosses: A made-up story; a con.
androstene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: androstenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A monounsaturated derivative of androstane that is the basis of many steroids
Derived terms: androstenediol
androstenedione
anoctamins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anoctamin
assimilatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more assimilatable
form: most assimilatable
Etymology: From assimilate + -able.
Senses: glosses: assimilable
Derived terms: unassimilatable
cellulosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cellulosomes
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A complex of enzymes that degrade the polysaccharide surface of cells and mediate cell attachment
Derived terms: cellulosomal
minicellulosome
polycellulosome
Related terms: cellulosomic
cellulosomics
cellulosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cellulosome
chemosensitisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chemosensitization.
deorphanized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From de- + orphan + -ize + -ed.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Describing an orphan receptor whose endogenous ligand has now been identified (producing an "adopted orphan").
orphan receptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orphan receptors
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: A receptor that has a similar structure to other identified receptors but whose endogenous ligand has not yet been identified
Related terms: deorphanized
diazatrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of diazotrophic.
diazotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From diazotroph + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to diazotrophs
glosses: That can fix nitrogen
Derived terms: diazotrophically
nondiazotrophic
dictyosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dictyosomes
Etymology: From dictyo- + -some.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
synonyms: golgiosome
glosses: A plant organelle that is functionally equivalent to the Golgi apparatus in animal cells.
epiprogoitrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A glucosinolate, 1-thio-β-D-glucopyranose 1-[(S)-N-(hydroxysulfonyloxy)-3-hydroxy-4-penteneimidate], found in crambe seeds
gastroparesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gastropareses
Etymology: From gastro- + paresis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A condition, often a complication of diabetes, characterised by a delayed emptying of the stomach.
Synonyms: gastroplegia
glucamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An amino polyalcohol 1-amino-1-desoxysorbitol
glucoalyssin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gluco- + Alyssum + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound, 1-S-[6-(methylsulfinyl)-N-(sulfonatooxy)hexanimidoyl]-1-thio-β-D-glucopyranose, that is a flavour component of cooked brassicas
glucoberteroin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound, 1-S-[6-(methylthio)-N-(sulfonatooxy)hexanimidoyl]-1-thio-β-D-glucopyranose, that is a flavour component of cooked brassicas
glucobrassicanapin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound, 1-S-[N-(sulfonatooxy)hexenimidoyl]-1-thio-β-D-glucopyranose, that is a flavour component of cooked brassicas
glucoerucin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound, 1-S-[6-(methylthio)-N-(sulfonatooxy)pentanimidoyl]-1-thio-β-D-glucopyranose, that is a flavour component of cooked brassicas
gluconapin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound, 1-S-[N-(sulfonatooxy)pentenimidoyl]-1-thio-β-D-glucopyranose, that is a flavour component of cooked brassicas
gluconapoleiferin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound, 1-S-[N-(sulfonatooxy)(hydroxy)hexenimidoyl]-1-thio-β-D-glucopyranose, that is a flavour component of cooked brassicas
gluconasturtiin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound, 1-S-[N-(sulfonatooxy)phenylpropanimidoyl]-1-thio-β-D-glucopyranose, that is a flavour component of cooked brassicas
alternateen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒlˈtɜː(ɹ).nəˌtin/
ipa: /ɔːlˈtɜː(ɹ).nəˌtin/
ipa: /ɔlˈtɝ.nəˌtin/
Forms: form: alternateens
form: alterna-teen
Etymology: US circa 1990, blend of alternative + teen, around popularization of alternative rock in early 1990s.
Senses: examples: text: Even if you’re a cynical, pierced, and multiply-tattooed alterna-teen, you won’t have a dry eye after this one.
ref: 2003, Jim DeRogatis, Milk It: Collected Musings on the Alternative Music Explosion of the ’90s,, Da Capo Press, page 83:
text: By the time high school rolled around, I had become a sullen alternateen who wore a lot of black and was perpetually growing her bangs out.
ref: 2011, Tracy Nectoux, Out Behind the Desk, page 122:
glosses: A teenager with an interest in alternative rock and the associated youth counterculture, particularly with visible markers such as piercings.
Related terms: emo
goth
hipster
indie
punk
alterna-teen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alterna-teens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of alternateen.
degausser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aʊsə(ɹ)
Forms: form: degaussers
Etymology: From degauss + -er.
Senses: glosses: A device that performs degaussing.
degaussers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of degausser
toybox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toyboxes
Etymology: From toy + box.
Senses: examples: text: A peculiar feeling it is that will rise in the Traveller, when turning some hill-range in his desert road, he descries lying far below, embosomed among its groves and green natural bulwarks, and all diminished to a toybox, the fair Town, where so many souls, as it were seen and yet unseen, are driving their multifarious traffic.
ref: 1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Sorrows of Teufelsdrockh”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 2nd book, page 104:
glosses: A box for storing toys.
Synonyms: playbox
toyboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toybox
playbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playboxes
Etymology: From play + box.
Senses: examples: text: […] she brought down in the towel-covered clothes-basket, on the wheel-barrow, […] a playbox with a secret drawer […]
ref: 1915, Rudyard Kipling, Mary Postgate:
text: These paper and print designs may be used to decorate nursery playboxes[…]
ref: 1947, Viola Hening, Fun with scraps, page 126:
text: That had all happened a year ago, and now all four of them were sitting on a seat at a railway station with trunks and playboxes piled up round them. They were, in fact, on their way back to school.
ref: 1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia:
glosses: A box for storing playthings; a toybox.
playboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of playbox
throwing ax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: throwing axes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of throwing axe.
throwing-ax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: throwing-axes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of throwing axe.
hydroxycinnamate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroxycinnamates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of hydroxycinnamic acid
intraplatform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + platform.
Senses: examples: text: Most of the problems we have with our computers are the result of intraplatform incompatibilities.
ref: 2001, PC Mag, volume 20, number 8, page 75:
text: Intraplatform patch reefs are generally formed in local places in open platforms with favorable environments for reef-forming organisms such as high hydrodynamics and suitable water depth.
ref: 2019, Xiaodong Cheng, Leyuan Fan, Weikang Gu, Comprehensive Practice of Exploration and Evaluation Techniques in Complex Reservoirs, page 165:
glosses: Within a single platform.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Within a microarray platform.
Related terms: interplatform
interplatform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + platform.
Senses: examples: text: an interplatform oil pipeline
text: The development of XML is seen by many people as an important step toward an industry-standardized language, which will be essential for enabling interplatform connections.
ref: 2002, Frank Lekanne Deprez, Rene L. Tissen, Zero Space: Moving Beyond Organizational Limits, page 160:
glosses: Between platforms.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Between microarray platforms.
Related terms: intraplatform
micrometabolomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + metabolomics.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The study of the range of metabolites present in a very small biological sample
obestatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obestatins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An oligopeptide sequence, present in ghrelin, that binds to a specific orphan receptor
periampullary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + ampullary.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Surrounding an ampulla
peripancreatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + pancreatic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Surrounding the pancreas
progoitrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pro- + goitrin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A glycoside of 1,5-vinyl-2-thiooxazolidone present in the foliage of brassicas.
Sarkee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sarkees
Senses: examples: text: He said he heard from some Sarkees grateful for the jobs and investment that the Barclays had brought to the island. But the justice minister said others had raised concerns […]
ref: 2012 June 27, Simon Bowers, Helen Pidd, The Guardian:
glosses: A native or resident of Sark.
roxithromycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɒkˌsɪθ.ɹə(ʊ)ˈmʌɪ.sɪn/
ipa: /ɹɑkˌsɪθ.ɹəˈmaɪ.sɪn/
Forms: form: roxythromycin
Etymology: From [Term?] + er(ythromycin).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A semisynthetic derivative of erythromycin.
sinapic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sinapine + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: relating to sinapic acid or its derivatives
sinapoyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sinapic + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A univalent radical formally derived from sinapic acid by removal of the hydroxyl group
Derived terms: sinapoylcholine
sinapoylglucose
sinapoylmalate
sinapoyltransferase
xylivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more xylivorous
form: most xylivorous
Etymology: From xylo- + -vorous.
Senses: glosses: That eats wood
Synonyms: xylophagic
xylophagic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more xylophagic
form: most xylophagic
Etymology: From xylophagia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: That eats wood.
glosses: Relating to xylophagia.
Synonyms: xylivorous
xylophagia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From xylo- + -phagia.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: feeding on wood
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Eating wood as a form of pica
gonorrhoeas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gonorrhoea
urealytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more urealytic
form: most urealytic
Etymology: From urea + -lytic.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: That hydrolyses urea into ammonia and carbon dioxide
Derived terms: antiurealytic
Related terms: urease
clinia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clinium
the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world
Etymology: Found as a popular saying from 1840 (See Parent's Monitor and Young People's Friend
Volume 1, p. 47 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Parent_s_Monitor_and_Young_People_s_Frie/wv8XAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22hand+that+rocks+the+cradle+rules%22&pg=PA47&printsec=frontcover); made famous by a poem (1865) by William Ross Wallace.
Senses: examples: text: Blessings on the hand of women! . . .
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.
ref: 1865, William Ross Wallace, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle:
text: We talk a great deal about the strength of early impressions. I wonder if we mean all we say; we do not live up to it, at all events. "In childish play deep meaning lies." "The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world." "Give me the first six years of a child's life, and I care not who has the rest."
ref: 1892, Kate Douglas Wiggin, chapter 2, in Children's Rights and Others: A Book of Nursery Logic:
text: Woman meanwhile becomes the fearless, inwardly relentless, determined positive party. She grips the responsibility. The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. Nay, she makes man discover that cradles should not be rocked, in order that her hands may be left free.
ref: 1922, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Education and Sex in Man, Woman and Child”, in Fantasia of the Unconscious, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer, →OCLC, page 136:
text: Men rationalize their dominant estate: Woman's lot is to be the homemaker, the child raiser, the provider of sons; the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
ref: 1981 Nov. 15, Paul A. Colinvaux, "Women's Work" (book review of The Woman That Never Evolved by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, New York Times (retrieved 26 Oct 2012)
text: President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga . . . quoted Kenyan Bishop Ndimbe's memorable words: "Train a man, you train an individual, train a woman you build a nation." This is the same as saying that the "hand that rocks the cradle rules the world".
ref: 2004 March 8, “Editorial: Restoring women's dignity”, in Ceylon Daily News, Sri Lanka, retrieved 26 Oct 2012:
glosses: Women, particularly mothers, have a decisive influence on the future direction of society because they raise and nurture the next generation.
Related terms: behind every successful man there stands a woman
the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
ensuant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman ensuant, present participle of ensivre, itself from Latin īnsequor (“I follow, I pursue”).
Senses: glosses: Ensuing; following as a consequence.
semilunars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semilunar
semilunar bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semilunar bones
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The lunate bone.
scribers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scriber
sebesten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈbɛs.tən/
Forms: form: sebestens
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin sebesten, from Arabic سِبِسْتَان (sibistān), from Persian سگپستان (sag-pestân, literally “dog teat”), from سگ (sag, “dog”) + پستان (pestân, “teat”).
Senses: examples: text: 2. Sebesten sylvestris. The wilde Sebesten.
The wild Sebesten is in all things like the other, but that it groweth lower, more like unto a hedge bush, and with lesser and thinner leaves; the flowers and fruit are alike but lesse.
ref: 1640, John Parkinson, Theatrum Botanicum, London: Thomas Cotes, page 252:
glosses: A medium-sized deciduous tree of species Cordia myxa or, less often, Cordia latifolia, Cordia sebestena, or other species in the genus Cordia, the wood of which is used for furniture and musical instruments.
glosses: The mucilaginous drupaceous fruit from these plants, eaten and used medicinally against pectoral diseases, also in a mixture called diasebesten, and for glue.
Synonyms: Assyrian plum
lasora
lasura
sebestens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sebesten
surbeat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: surbeats
form: surbeating
form: surbeated
form: surbeaten
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of surbate.
surbeated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of surbeat
surbeating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of surbeat
surbeats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of surbeat
surbeaten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of surbeat
Semi-Arianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From semi- + Arian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A fourth-century CE Trinitarian heresy in the Christian church, claiming that the Son was "like" the Father but not of the same substance (homoiousian).
Related terms: Semi-Arian