cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
behoof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈhuːf/
rhymes: -uːf
Forms: form: behoofs
Etymology: From Middle English behoof, behof, from Old English behōf, from Proto-West Germanic *bihōf. Akin to Dutch behoef, German Behuf (“necessity”), Danish behov (“requirement”) (from Middle Low German). Related to have and heave.
Senses: examples: text: This tongue hath parley’d unto foreign kings
For your behoof,—
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vii]:
text: 1676, Joseph Glanvill, Essays on Several Important Subjects in Philosophy and Religion, London: John Baker & Henry Mortlock, Essay 7, “The Summe of My Lord Bacon’s NEW ATLANTIS,” p. 58,
[…] very useful for a Divine, and like to be of more behoof to him, than all the tedious volumes of the Schoolmen […]
text: The great Watch-Coat was purchased and given above two hundred Years ago, by the Lord of the Manor, to this Parish-Church, to the sole Use and Behoof of the poor Sextons thereof, and their Successors, for ever, to be worn up them respectively in winterly cold Nights […]
ref: 1759, Laurence Sterne, A Political Romance, York, page 7:
text: 1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, Men’s Wives, New York: Appleton, “The Ravenswing,” Chapter 4, p. 119,
Poor Larkins had no one to make epigrams in her behoof; her mother was at home tending the younger ones, her father abroad following the studies of his profession, she had but one protector, as she thought, and that one was Baroski.
text: They had parents in India—that much Octavian had learned in the neighbourhood; the children, beyond grouping themselves garment-wise into sexes, a girl and two boys, carried their life-story no further on his behoof.
ref: 1919, Saki, ‘The Penance’, The Toys of Peace, Penguin 2000 (Complete Short Stories), p. 423
text: Often fightings broke out among the contenders in the same post for the loaves of power and other behoofs and such matters made headlines in newspapers.
ref: 2000, Praveen Kumar, Policing the Police:
glosses: That which is advantageous to a person; behalf, interest, advantage, profit, benefit.
Related terms: behoove
behovely
polyaddition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyadditions
Etymology: From poly- + addition.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any addition reaction that yields a polymer.
polyadenylate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyadenylates
Etymology: From polyadenylic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of polyadenylic acid.
polyadenylate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: polyadenylates
form: polyadenylating
form: polyadenylated
form: polyadenylated
Etymology: From the above noun, on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To form the polyadenylate salt or ester of something (especially of a nucleic acid).
polyadenylated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of polyadenylate
polyadenylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: Of a nucleic acid etc
glosses: Reacted to form a salt or ester of polyadenylic acid
Derived terms: nonpolyadenylated
unpolyadenylated
polyadenylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyadenylations
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The formation of a polyadenylate, especially that of a nucleic acid.
Derived terms: mispolyadenylation
polyalcohol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyalcohols
Etymology: From poly- + alcohol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alcohol containing many hydroxy groups (typically more than two)
Synonyms: polyhydric alcohol
Hypernyms: polyol
polyhydric alcohol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyhydric alcohols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: polyol
glosses: Synonym of sugar alcohol.
synonyms: word: sugar alcohol
polyamidation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyamidations
Etymology: From polyamide + -ation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any reaction that yields a polyamide
polyanionic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + anionic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or containing a polyanion
polyaromatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polyaromatic
form: most polyaromatic
Etymology: From poly- + aromatic.
Senses: examples: text: Researchers analysed samples of nurdles and burnt lumps of plastic from four Sri Lankan beaches for heavy metals and various chemicals, including benzotriazole UV-stabilisers, which are used to prevent discoloration in plastics, bisphenols and polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).
ref: 2022 February 9, Karen McVeigh, “‘Oil spills of our time’: experts sound alarm about plastic lost in cargo ship disasters ”, in The Guardian, Guardian Media Group, retrieved 11 Feb 2022, Seascape: the state of our oceans:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing more than one aromatic ring system, especially several such rings fused together.
Derived terms: polyaromatic hydrocarbon
polyaromatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyaromatics
Etymology: From poly- + aromatic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A polyaromatic compound.
polyarsenite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The mineral sarkinite
sarkinite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See sarco- (“flesh”) + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A red, crystalline form of manganese arsenate, Mn₂²⁺(AsO₄)(OH); polyarsenite.
polybase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polybases
Etymology: From poly- + base.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any polybasic compound
greasewoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greasewood
polybrominated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polybrominated
form: most polybrominated
Etymology: From poly- + brominated.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having had multiple hydrogen atoms replaced by bromine
Derived terms: polybrominated biphenyl
utters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌtəz/
ipa: /ˈʌtəɹz/
ipa: [-ɾəɹz]
Etymology: From utter + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum, and third-person singular simple present indicative forms of verbs). The noun is imitative of the sound of a tool repeatedly striking the surface of an object.
Senses: topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Unwanted depressions or other marks on the surface of an object caused when a tool is pressed too hard or vibrates against the surface.
utters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌtəz/
ipa: /ˈʌtəɹz/
ipa: [-ɾəɹz]
Etymology: From utter + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum, and third-person singular simple present indicative forms of verbs). The noun is imitative of the sound of a tool repeatedly striking the surface of an object.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of utter
polybrominated biphenyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polybrominated biphenyls
form: PBB
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of stable organic compounds obtained by the bromination of biphenyl; they have many industrial applications, but are hazardous pollutants
bromination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brominations
Etymology: From bromine + -ation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
antonyms: debromination
hypernyms: halogenation
coordinate_terms: chlorination
fluorination
iodination
glosses: Any reaction which introduces a bromine atom into a compound.
Derived terms: debromination
monobromination
oxybromination
perbromination
winced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wince
clogging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clog
clogging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cloggings
Senses: examples: text: This feature has been found effective in reducing injector trouble, resulting either from the clogging of sieves or the choking of the annular orifices of the injectors by fine particles of coal.
ref: 1957 October 24, “Modification of "West Country" Class Pacific”, in Railway Magazine, page 731:
text: The biofilm is allowed to develop uninhibited which leads to local cloggings.
ref: 2002, M. Henze, Wastewater Treatment: Biological and Chemical Processes:
glosses: The situation of something being clogged.
examples: text: No cloggings, lumps of dirt, or underlocks should be suffered to be rolled up with the fleece, as such a practice is unfair to the purchaser, and by act of parliament there is a heavy penalty attached to those who are convicted of doing it.
ref: 1839, British Farmer's Magazine, volume 3, page 187:
glosses: The material that clogs or obstructs.
Derived terms: anticlogging
nonclogging
braying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bray
braying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brayings
Senses: examples: text: We heard the unpleasant braying of the snipe, now near to us, now far off, now high up in the air, now right over our heads, and suddenly it seemed close to our ears, now on all sides, still without our being able to catch sight of the bird.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 86:
glosses: An act or sound of braying.
brayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹeɪd/
homophone: braid
rhymes: -eɪd
Senses: glosses: past participle of bray
lizardlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lizardlike
form: most lizardlike
form: lizard-like
Etymology: From lizard + -like.
Senses: synonyms: lacertian
lacertilian
lacertine
lizardy
saurian
glosses: Like or resembling a lizard.
Derived terms: unlizardlike
lizardlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: lizard-like
Etymology: From lizard + -like.
Senses: glosses: Like a lizard, in a lizardlike way.
queueing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: queuing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of queue
queueing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: queueings
form: queuing
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of queuing.
queuing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: queueing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of queue
queuing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: queuings
form: queueing
Senses: glosses: The act of queuing up (lining up) or waiting in line/on line.
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The act of placing something in a queue.
Cartesian well
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misconstruction of artesian well.
enthuses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enthuse
enthusing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enthuse
enthused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enthused
form: most enthused
Senses: examples: text: She doesn't seem very enthused about her aunt's birthday gift.
text: One audience member in particular seemed especially enthused.
ref: 2015 January 14, Maria Konnikova, “Trying to Cure Depression, but Inspiring Torture”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 May 2023:
text: There are facts in this book that make me feel enthused about voting, to the extent that I have any remaining capacity to be more enthused about voting. For example: "In 1950, CEOs made about 20 times more than the regular employee, by 2013, they made more than 204 times more."
ref: 2020 September 24, Shannon Palus, “Millennials Aren't As Helpless As We Appear to Be”, in Slate, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2023:
glosses: Enthusiastic.
Derived terms: superenthused
underenthused
unenthused
enthused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of enthuse
artesian bore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: artesian bores
Senses: glosses: A bore-hole drilled in an artesian basin to produce an artificial artesian well.
artesian bores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of artesian bore
center of mass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centers of mass
Senses: glosses: US standard spelling of centre of mass.
pageboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pageboys
form: page boy
form: page-boy
Etymology: From page + boy.
Senses: qualifier: now frequently historical
glosses: A boy who serves as a page.
glosses: A young male attendant at a wedding, generally between five and ten years of age.
examples: text: Their hair was sleek, of a slightly other period, immaculate page boys and French twists.
ref: 1987, Joan Didion, Miami, Granta, published 2005, page 53:
text: She had a white-flecked black pageboy and rosy cheeks and big blue eyes with which she was staring at Enid unabashedly, in the way of someone very smart or very stupid.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
glosses: A shoulder-length hairstyle with the ends of the hair curled under.
Related terms: ringbearer
flower girl
pageboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pageboy
imps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmps/
rhymes: -ɪmps
Senses: glosses: plural of imp
imps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmps/
rhymes: -ɪmps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of imp
bathtubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bathtub
barycentres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barycentre
interoffice
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + office.
Senses: glosses: Taking place between different offices of a single organization or company.
interoffice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: interoffices
form: interofficing
form: interofficed
form: interofficed
Etymology: From inter- + office.
Senses: examples: text: I was interofficed the memo.
glosses: To send something between different offices in an organization.
tariffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tariff
reinforcer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reinforcers
Etymology: From reinforce + -er.
Senses: glosses: Something that reinforces; something that strengthens a behavior.
Derived terms: self-reinforcer
mutual fund
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mutual funds
Senses: examples: text: The work of the Laureates has affected not only academic research but also market practice. The fact that stock markets are very hard to predict in the short run, and that stock-picking is very difficult both in the short and the long run, has led to close examination of the performance by mutual funds. Research generally has failed to find that mutual funds generate positive returns above what can be motivated by the level of risk; once fund fees are taken into account, their asset management often yields negative excess returns. The recent growth of index funds, which collect all stocks in passively managed portfolios, follows that insight. Moreover, the few successful specialized funds we observe are often motivated by the new factors – “size” and “book-to-market” – that are included in the extended version of the CAPM.
ref: 2013, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, “Trendspotting in Asset Markets (Prize in Economic Sciences 2013 / Popular Science Background)”, in nobelprize.org, retrieved 20 Oct 2013:
topics: business
finance
glosses: A form of collective investment in which money from many investors is pooled and invested in stocks, bonds, short-term money market instruments, or other securities under the direction of a fund manager.
Related terms: mutual organization
Ontarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒnˈtɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /ɑnˈtɛ.ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Etymology: From Ontario + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to the province of Ontario, Canada.
Ontarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒnˈtɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /ɑnˈtɛ.ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: Ontarians
Etymology: From Ontario + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the province of Ontario, Canada.
Derived terms: Franco-Ontarian
mutual funds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mutual fund
Ontarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ontarian
male chauvinist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: male chauvinists
Senses: glosses: An advocate of male chauvinism.
Coordinate terms: english: female advocate of female chauvinism
translation: female advocate of female chauvinism
word: female chauvinist
Derived terms: male chauvinistic
Related terms: male chauvinism
annuls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈnʌlz/
rhymes: -ʌlz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of annul
bravados
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bravado
bravadoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bravado
rubbernecks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rubberneck
rubbernecked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rubberneck
ingratiates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ingratiate
Manitoban
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Manitoban
form: most Manitoban
Etymology: From Manitoba + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to the province of Manitoba, Canada.
Manitoban
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Manitobans
Etymology: From Manitoba + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the province of Manitoba, Canada.
ingratiated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ingratiate
Manitobans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Manitoban
surpasses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of surpass
Albertans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Albertan
withdraws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of withdraw
brunches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brunch
brunches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brunch
zigzaggedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zigzagged + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being zigzagged or alternating directions sharply.
youngness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: youngnesses
Etymology: From young + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: […] he was conscious of a feeling which independently pronounced him her senior in point of Time, and Isabel a child of everlasting youngness.
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
text: The puppy room in the basement brimmed with youngness, with suckings, cuddlings, lickings, squirmings—puppies whose eyes were sealed against seeing, puppies whose ears were sealed against hearing for the first ten days of life […]
ref: 1944, Emily Carr, “Puppy Room”, in The House of All Sorts:
text: I was eight years older than Arthur, and our affair had started as a crazy fling with all the beauty for me of his youngness and blackness.
ref: 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 2, in The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN:
glosses: The state or qualities of being young or youthful; youth.
mariticide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mariticides
Etymology: From Latin maritus (“married, husband”) + -cide, from caedere (“to kill”).
Senses: glosses: The act of killing one's spouse, especially the murder of a husband by his wife.
glosses: A woman who has killed her husband.
Synonyms: sense: the killing of one’s husband
word: viricide
Derived terms: mariticidal
Related terms: uxoricide
nipponizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nipponize
nipponizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nipponize
nipponized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nipponize
onomatopoeias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of onomatopoeia
-naut
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ναύτης (naútēs, “sailor”).
Senses: glosses: Forms nouns meaning voyager or traveller
male chauvinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A belief in the innate superiority of men over women.
Synonyms: misogyny
Coordinate terms: english: superiority of women over men
translation: superiority of women over men
word: female chauvinism
Related terms: male chauvinist
appointment diary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appointment diaries
Senses: synonyms: word: appointment book
glosses: A small personal notebook in which one makes a note of future planned events, engagements, appointments, etc., so as not to forget them.
bicycler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bicyclers
Etymology: From bicycle + -er.
Senses: glosses: Bicyclist, cyclist.
biddable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪdəbəl/
Forms: form: more biddable
form: most biddable
Etymology: From bid + -able.
Senses: examples: text: She was a quite biddable creature and good-hearted, but she had a flow of talk that was as steady as a mill, and made your head sore like the drays and wagons in a city.
ref: 1889, Mark Twain, chapter 12, in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court:
text: The conscripts took their fate unquestioning: resignedly, after the custom of Turkish peasantry. […] There was about them a hopeless, fever-wasted lack of initiative, which made them the most biddable, most enduring, and least spirited soldiers in the world.
ref: 1922, T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Chapter:
text: In the first years of his rule he had attempted to bring the meek Goanese to some knowledge of cultivation as the West understood it, but though they might be biddable, the soil and the sun were not.
ref: 1933, Helen Simpson, chapter 5, in The Woman on the Beast:
text: What Western diplomats thought they saw in Bucharest's anti-Russian autocrats were the germs of a new Tito: stable, biddable and more interested in local power than international disruption.
ref: 2005, Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945, Penguin, Part Two, Chapter XIII, p. 431:
glosses: Docile, amenable or compliant.
topics: bridge
games
glosses: Suitable for bidding.
Derived terms: biddability
biddableness
biddably
unbiddable
scurvier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of scurvy: more scurvy
scurviest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of scurvy: most scurvy
bighearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bighearted
form: most bighearted
form: big-hearted
Senses: synonyms: large-hearted
glosses: Noble, kind and generous.
Derived terms: bigheartedly
bigheartedness
bighorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bighorns
Etymology: From big + horn.
Senses: synonyms: bighorn sheep
glosses: Certain North American species of sheep
synonyms: bighorn sheep
glosses: Certain North American species of sheep
especially, Ovis canadensis, having large, curving horns.
Derived terms: Nelson's bighorn
big-league
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more big-league
form: most big-league
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of big league.
big-name
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Famous or celebrated; well-known.
Related terms: word: big name
biliousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biliousnesses
Etymology: From bilious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being bilious.
bilker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bilkers
Etymology: From bilk + -er.
Senses: glosses: A cheat, especially one who evades payment.
bipolarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bipolarities
Senses: examples: text: The 1990s confirmed the United States as the world's sole superpower. Bipolarity had disappeared with the Soviet Union; contrary to predictions, Germany and Japan had not yet turned economic muscle into military might to create a new era of “multipolarity.”
ref: 2000, David Reynolds, chapter 17, in One World Divisible, W. W. Norton, →ISBN, page 645:
glosses: The state of being bipolar.
biracial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃəl
Forms: form: bi-racial
Etymology: From bi- + racial.
Senses: examples: text: Some Americans would certainly see Ms. Harris — the first nominee of a major party who would be both a woman and biracial, with Jamaican and Indian heritage — as a transformational, inspiring figure.
ref: 2024 July 24, Jeremy W. Peters, Audra D. S. Burch, Clyde McGrady, “Black Voters Feel Excited, and Worried, about a Kamala Harris Campaign”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Of or pertaining to two races.
Derived terms: biracialism
biracially
Related terms: multiracial
biracial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃəl
Forms: form: biracials
form: bi-racial
Etymology: From bi- + racial.
Senses: examples: text: Black-white biracials who are Baptist may be more inclined than nonreligious black-white biracials to identify as singularly black because they perceive a stronger emotional racial attachment to African Americans.
ref: 2018, Lauren Davenport, Politics Beyond Black and White, page 60:
glosses: A person belonging to two races.
birdbrained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more birdbrained
form: most birdbrained
Etymology: From bird + brained.
Senses: glosses: silly and frivolous; empty-headed
bird's-eye
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜː(ɹ)dz ˈaɪ/
ipa: /ˈbɜː(ɹ)dzaɪ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dzaɪ
Forms: form: bird's eye
form: birds eye
form: birds-eye
form: birdseye
Senses: glosses: Having spots resembling the eyes of a bird.
examples: text: There is also one of the woodblocks used to print Jacopo de’ Barbari’s revolutionary bird’s-eye panorama of Venice and the lagoon, from 1500.
ref: 2016 May 5, Roderick Conway Morris, “In Venice, the Power of the Press on Display”, in The New York Times:
text: In the 1970s Thiebaud became increasingly interested in landscapes and cityscapes that he painted from a bird’s-eye perspective. In “Potrero Hill” a painting from the mid-1970s, he jammed freeways, hills and buildings together in a steep vertical of color and light.
ref: 2021 December 26, Mary Rourke, “Wayne Thiebaud, prolific California painter and teacher, dies at 101”, in Los Angeles Times:
glosses: As if viewed from an altitude; panoramic.
Derived terms: sense: spots
word: bird's-eye maple
sense: spots
word: bird's-eye rot
sense: spots
word: bird's-eye spot
sense: panoramic
word: bird's-eye view
bird's-eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜː(ɹ)dz ˈaɪ/
ipa: /ˈbɜː(ɹ)dzaɪ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dzaɪ
Forms: form: bird's-eyes
form: bird's eye
form: birds eye
form: birds-eye
form: birdseye
Senses: glosses: A fabric having a pattern of small circles or diamonds with a spot in each centre.
glosses: A kind of tobacco.
glosses: A figure found in wood, especially hard maple, resembling tiny swirling eyes disrupting the smooth grain.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A fermata (notation).
bisection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bīsĕk'shən
ipa: /baɪˈsɛkʃən/
Forms: form: bisections
Senses: examples: text: If the Arches BI and IK be cut in the middle in a, and b, likewiſe the Arches DM, ML being cut in the middle in c and d; and the Chords of the Bifegments in the Arch BK being drawn; likewiſe the Chords of the Biſegments in the Arch DL; alſo theſe will be as AB to AD, and they will always be ſo, if the Biſegments of the Bifegments proceed infinitely. Alſo the fame is true in the Biſections of the Arches KC and LE. But the Chords of the Biſegments infinite in number are equal to the Arch itſelf. For if all the Chords were leſs than all their Arches, there might yet a Biſection proceed; which is contrary to the ſuppoſition.
ref: 1685, Venterus Mandey, Mellificium Mensionis: Or, the Marrow of Measuring, 2nd edition, London: Thomas Howkins, page 73:
text: After all, Usamah had served the sadist Zangi and, if read in full, his account presents a picture of Islamic violence no less shocking to modern sensibilities: the collecting of Christian heads, the crucifying and bisections of their own soldiers and heretics, the severe punishments of Islamic sharia – and the story of how his father, in a rage, lopped off the arm of his page.
ref: 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 276:
synonyms: bisegmentation
coordinate_terms: trisection
quadrisection
;
cross section
cross-section
transection
glosses: An act of division into two parts, especially two equal parts.
synonyms: bisegment#Noun
half#Noun
one-half#Noun
coordinate_terms: trisection
third#Noun
one-third#Noun
;
quadrisection
quarter#Noun
one-quarter#Noun
fourth#Noun
one-fourth#Noun
glosses: Either of the two portions thus produced.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The act of bisecting.
Synonyms: word: bisection
word: dichotomy
word: halving
Hypernyms: word: division
word: partition
Hyponyms: word: bifurcation
Derived terms: bisection algorithm
bisection bandwidth
bisection method
misbisection
Related terms: bisect
transect
bite-size
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: bite-sized
bite-sized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bite-size
Senses: glosses: Small enough to be eaten in one bite.
examples: text: The transition hasn't been easy. It's been a story of planning in bite-sized chunks, making the most of soft-start strategies, managing constrained depot capacity, and battling legacy technology.
ref: 2025 August 6, Richard Wilcock, “Old units... new lease of life”, in RAIL, number 1041, page 31:
glosses: Broken down into small pieces that are individually easy to understand or manage.
Related terms: digestible
-dipsia
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δῐ́ψᾰ (dĭ́psă, “thirst”).
Senses: glosses: thirst
felucca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feluccas
Etymology: From Italian feluca, from Arabic فَلُوكَة (falūka).
Senses: examples: text: "We are very fortunate, Senhora," said Alvarez, as soon as they were in the street; "there is a felucca on the point of sailing to Naples—I have secured a passage, but we must not lose a minute."
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 151–152:
text: Shipping of every sort, from passenger liners to ferry steamers, tramps to tugs and trailing barges, feluccas to speedboats and yachts, from warships to caiques, chugs, hoots, glides or churns its way in all directions.
ref: 1950 July, J. C. Mertens, “By the "Taurus Express" to Baghdad”, in Railway Magazine, page 435:
text: "The ghostly feluccas passing along the canal are crewed by ghouls with wrapped heads." Lawrence Durrell, Justine
glosses: A traditional wooden shallow-draught sailing boat used in the Mediterranean and along the Nile in Egypt, its rig consisting of one or two lateen sails.
nokta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noktas
Senses: examples: text: The formation of the successive terms may be more clearly shown by omitting the zeros altogether, or by supplying their places with noktas, as in the margin, where it is seen that, while the root descends by one step at a time, the square descends two steps in the scale.
ref: 1857, Edward Sang, The Higher Arithmetic: Being a Sequel to Elementary Arithmetic, page 61:
text: The change of figure in the line is denoted by an Arabic nokta (a sign like the diamond in a pack of cards); and this, though very clear for 0's, leaves the other figures unchanged, […]
ref: 1874, British Association for the Advancement of Science, Report of the Annual Meeting, volume 45, page 61:
glosses: The Eastern Arabic numeral representing the number zero: ٠.
rita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rta (“Vedic principle”).
abration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of abrasion.
sipa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A traditional Filipino team sport in which players kick a soft ball over a net in the middle of the court.
Barlow's disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Sir Thomas Barlow (1845–1945), the British physician who described it.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The disease scurvy in infants.
Synonyms: Cheadle-Möller-Barlow syndrome
Cheadle's disease
Moeller's disease
Möller-Barlow disease
scorbutus
scurvy
delineates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of delineate
ataraxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌætəˈɹæksɪk/
Forms: form: more ataraxic
form: most ataraxic
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to ataraxia or ataraxy
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: ataractic; tranquilizing
ataraxic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌætəˈɹæksɪk/
Forms: form: ataraxics
Senses: qualifier: pharmaceutical
glosses: An ataractic or tranquilizing agent.
ataractic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ataractic
form: most ataractic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀτάρακτος (atáraktos, “intrepid”), from ταράσσω (tarássō).
Senses: examples: text: Some drugs produce vivid hallucinations, others induce a relaxed condition, or are ataractic in their effect, that is, promote temporary tranquility[.]
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 59:
text: Later on he was treated by the same psychiatrist with ataractic drugs.
ref: 2013, Einar Kringlen, Heredity and Environment in the Functional Psychoses, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 180:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: That has a tranquilizing effect.
ataractic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ataractics
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀτάρακτος (atáraktos, “intrepid”), from ταράσσω (tarássō).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A drug that is used to tranquilize; a tranquilizer.
Related terms: ataraxy
jitteriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From jittery + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being jittery
insufflated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of insufflate
insufflated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Disseminated by blowing.
faceless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more faceless
form: most faceless
Etymology: From face + -less.
Senses: examples: text: These vague, faceless spectres from my ramblesome past have as much right as anyone else to be ranked among the salvors of the Navy's songs.
ref: 2015, Cyril Tawney, Grey Funnel Lines:
glosses: Having no face.
examples: text: A faceless mob attacked the Capitol building.
text: With assembly line consistency, Martin receives countless rejections from faceless editors—a triggering reminder for any literary hopeful navigating the modern culture industry.
ref: 2020 October 13, Beatrice Loayza, “Jack London gets an Italian makeover in the tragic and romantic Martin Eden”, in AV Club:
glosses: Having or revealing no individual identity or character; anonymous.
examples: text: I started working for a faceless corporation.
text: The highest official in Oran remains anonymous, referred to merely as "the Prefect." Use of the majusculed generic title instead of a proper name is less suggestive of a faceless tyrant, a Maghreb Big Brother, than of the detached, ineffectual bureaucrat he appears to be at every meeting.
ref: 1993, Steven G. Kellman, The Plague: Fiction and Resistance, New York, N.Y.: Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, page 77:
glosses: Having or revealing no individuality, personality or distinctive characteristics.
Derived terms: faceless bureaucrat
facelessly
faceless man
facelessness
Cheadle-Möller-Barlow syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Dr. Walter Butler Cheadle, Sir Thomas Barlow and Julius Otto Ludwig Möller who described it.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The disease scurvy especially in infants.
Synonyms: Barlow's disease
Cheadle's disease
Moeller's disease
Möller-Barlow disease
scorbutus
scurvy
Cheadle's disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Dr. Walter Butler Cheadle who described it.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The disease scurvy, especially in infants.
Synonyms: Barlow's disease
Cheadle-Möller-Barlow syndrome
Moeller's disease
Möller-Barlow disease
scorbutus
scurvy
sacrificial lamb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sacrificial lambs
Senses: glosses: A lamb killed as an offering to the gods.
glosses: A person who is sacrificed (not literally) for the greater good of some cause.
Related terms: scapegoat
Moeller's disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Julius Otto Ludwig Möller, who described it.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The disease scurvy, especially in infants.
Synonyms: Barlow's disease
Cheadle-Möller-Barlow syndrome
Cheadle's disease
Möller-Barlow disease
scorbutus
scurvy
Möller-Barlow disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Sir Thomas Barlow (1845–1945) and Julius Otto Ludwig Möller, who described it.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The disease scurvy, especially in infants.
Synonyms: Barlow's disease
Cheadle-Möller-Barlow syndrome
Cheadle's disease
Moeller's disease
scorbutus
scurvy
polycationic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From polycation + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or containing a polycation.
polycondensate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polycondensates
Etymology: From poly- + condensate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any substance prepared using polycondensation
scorbutus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From New Latin scorbūtus, from French scorbut. Doublet of scorbut and scurvy.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The disease scurvy.
Synonyms: Barlow's disease
Cheadle-Möller-Barlow syndrome
Cheadle's disease
Moeller's disease
Möller-Barlow disease
scurvy
polycondensation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polycondensations
Etymology: From poly- + condensation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any condensation reaction, of a monomer having two functional groups, which leads to the formation of a polymer (a polycondensate).
scurviness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scurvy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being scurvy; vileness; meanness.
polycondense
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: polycondenses
form: polycondensing
form: polycondensed
form: polycondensed
Etymology: From poly- + condense.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To react something to form a polycondensate.
polycondensed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of polycondense
polycondensed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: That has undergone a polycondensation reaction
polycrystal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polycrystals
Etymology: From poly- + crystal.
Senses: glosses: Any polycrystalline substance
polycrystalline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polycrystalline
form: most polycrystalline
Etymology: From poly- + crystalline.
Senses: examples: text: This was revealed only in the experiments of ion bombardment of single crystals, because a polycrystalline material, even though its microcrystallites have a regular structure, in fact behaves like a nonarranged, random system.
ref: 1966, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Phenomena in .in Ionized Gases:
glosses: Composed of an aggregate of very small crystals in random orientations
Derived terms: nanopolycrystalline
polycrystalline silicon
Related terms: polycrystal
polydeoxy-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From poly- + deoxy-.
Senses: glosses: various polymers of deoxynucleotides and their derivatives
Derived terms: polydeoxyadenylate
polydeoxyadenylic
polydeoxycytidylic
polydeoxyguanylic
polydeoxynucleotide
Related terms: polydeoxyribo-
deoxynucleotide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deoxynucleotides
Etymology: From deoxy- + nucleotide.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any nucleotide that contains a deoxy sugar
Derived terms: deoxynucleotidyl
deoxynucleotyl
dideoxynucleotide
hexadeoxynucleotide
monodeoxynucleotide
polydeoxynucleotide
trideoxynucleotide
polydeoxynucleotide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polydeoxynucleotides
Etymology: From poly- + deoxynucleotide.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any polymer of a deoxynucleotide.
polydeoxyribo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Used to form various polymers of deoxyribonucleotides and their derivatives
Derived terms: polydeoxyriboadenylate
polydeoxyriboadenylic
polydeoxyribocytidylic
polydeoxyribonucleic
Related terms: polydeoxy-
deoxy sugar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deoxy sugars
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound formally derived from a sugar by replacing a hydroxy group by a hydrogen atom
Derived terms: deoxy sugar alcohol
Related terms: deoxyribose
deoxyribonucleotide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deoxyribonucleotides
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any nucleotide containing deoxyribose.
Derived terms: deoxyribonucleotidic
deoxy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈɒksi/
Etymology: From de- + oxy.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing any compound formally derived from another by replacement of a hydroxy group by a hydrogen atom
Derived terms: deoxyhexose
deoxyketohexose
deoxynucleic
deoxyoligonucleotide
deoxy sugar
deoxysugar
dideoxy
doxenitoin
fluorodeoxyglucose
ribodeoxyvirus
polydeoxyribonucleotide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polydeoxyribonucleotides
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any polymer whose constituent monomer is a deoxyribonucleotide
polydesoxyribonucleotide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polydesoxyribonucleotides
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of polydeoxyribonucleotide.
polydisperse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + disperse.
Senses: glosses: Having a range of particle sizes.
raw_tags: of a colloid
glosses: Synonym of nonuniform (“composed of macromolecular species of differing molar masses”).
synonyms: word: nonuniform
extra: composed of macromolecular species of differing molar masses
raw_tags: of a polymer
Synonyms: polydispersed
non-uniform
Related terms: polydispersity
polydispersed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polydispersed
form: most polydispersed
Etymology: From poly- + dispersed.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: polydisperse
polydispersity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polydispersities
Etymology: From polydisperse + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state of being polydisperse
glosses: A measure of the degree to which a colloid is polydisperse
polydrug
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polydrug
form: most polydrug
Etymology: From poly- + drug.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or using multiple different drugs.
polyenoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to polyunsaturated fatty acids
Derived terms: polyenoic acid
polyenoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyenoic acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any polyunsaturated fatty acid
felinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: felinities
Etymology: From feline + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state of being feline.
examples: text: She walked with grace and felinity.
glosses: Any feline characteristic.
glosses: catkind, all cats collectively (cf. humanity)
polyesteramide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyesteramides
Etymology: From poly- + ester + amide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any polymer containing both ester and amide groups; used especially of rubber-like insulating materials.
polyesterification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyesterifications
Etymology: From polyester + -ification.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any reaction which generates a polyester
polyethylenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polyethylenic
form: most polyethylenic
Etymology: From polyethylene + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or derived from polyethylene
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: polyenic or polyenoic
polyenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From polyene + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a polyene.
polyfunctional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polyfunctional
form: most polyfunctional
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having multiple different or same functional groups in the same compound.
polyfunctionality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyfunctionalities
Etymology: From poly- + functionality.
Senses: glosses: The state of being polyfunctional.
glosses: A measure of the degree to which a compound is polyfunctional.
polygalacturonase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polygalacturonases
Etymology: From poly- + galacturonase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of polymeric galacturonic acids and similar carbohydrates.
Synonyms: pectinase
Derived terms: endopolygalacturonase
exopolygalacturonase
Related terms: rhamnogalacturonase
xylogalacturonase
polygalin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polygalins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: polygalic acid