cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
phenytoin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛˈnɪt.əʊ.ɪn/
ipa: /fəˈnɪt.oʊ.ɪn/
Etymology: Contraction of diphenylhydantoin.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A synthetic compound related to hydantoin, used as an anticonvulsant in the treatment of epilepsy.
Derived terms: doxenitoin
ethotoin
fosphenytoin
thermoforms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of thermoform
thermoforming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Manufacturing process where a plastic sheet is heated to a pliable forming temperature, formed to a specific shape in a mold and trimmed to create a usable product.
thermoforming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of thermoform
thermoformed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of thermoform
hatpin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hatpins
Etymology: From hat + pin.
Senses: glosses: A long straight pin, often with a decorative head, used to secure a woman's hat to her hair.
Derived terms: hatpinned
hatpins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hatpin
tiepin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tiepins
Etymology: From tie + pin.
Senses: glosses: A tie tack, a pin or stud used to secure a tie to the shirt.
tiepins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tiepin
MW3
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged.
examples: text: The mid-season update for MW3 is here, introducing quite a bit of content across all three of CoD’s modes.
ref: 2024 March 6, John Esposito, “MW3 Zombies Season 2 Reloaded patch notes: New Schematics, Containment Levels, more”, in Dexerto:
topics: video-games
glosses: Initialism of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
rhyton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌɪtɒn/
Forms: form: rhytons
form: rhyta
Etymology: Ancient Greek ῥυτόν (rhutón), ultimately from ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow”)
Senses: glosses: A container from which fluids are intended to be drunk, having one handle and usually a base in the form of a head.
glosses: A Thracian drinking horn.
time zones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time zone
topiaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of topiary
aptyalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /eɪˈtaɪəlɪzəm/
/æpˈtaɪəlɪzəm/
Etymology: From a- + ptyalism.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Complete lack of salivation.
metaphysic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: metaphysick
Etymology: From Latin metaphysicus.
Senses: examples: text: Bring sweet philosophy along,
In metaphysic dreams.
ref: c. 1720, Jonathan Swift, "Ode on Science," lines 32-33
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Metaphysical.
Derived terms: metaphysically
metaphysicist
unmetaphysic
metaphysic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaphysics
form: metaphysick
Etymology: From Middle English methaphesik, methaphisik, methaphisique, metaphesyk, methafisik, metaphesyk, methephysyk, from Old French metafisique, methaphisique and Medieval Latin metaphysica, methephisica; equivalent to meta- + physic.
Senses: examples: text: With reference to general Philosophy or Metaphysic proper, psychology may be viewed as a kind of common ground whereon thinkers of widely different schools may meet.
ref: 1876, Editor, "Prefatory Words," Mind, vol. 1, no. 1, p. 5
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The field of study of metaphysics.
examples: text: The uncertain conclusions of an ill-conducted analogy, and a false metaphysic, were mixed with a few simple precepts derived from observation, which probably made the whole of the science of prognostication in its earliest and purest state.
ref: 1775, Samuel Horsley, “An Abridged State of the Weather at London in the Year 1774,”, in Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775), volume 65, page 182:
text: It should be pointed out to the prospective reader that he will not find here the systematic presentation of a metaphysic.
ref: 1954, Frederick C. Copleston, “Review of Metaphysical Journal by Gabriel Marcel”, in Philosophy, volume 29, number 109, page 170:
text: A Neoplatonic metaphysic is the flip side of mysticism.
ref: 2003, Christine Helmer, “Mysticism and Metaphysics”, in The Journal of Religion, volume 83, number 4, page 521:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The metaphysical system of a particular philosopher or of a particular school of thought.
examples: text: What we need as a metaphysic and what the logical realists are at least glimpsing, is the principle of contradiction.
ref: 1927, Charles M. Perry, “A Principle for Realism”, in The Journal of Philosophy, volume 24, number 20, page 537:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A fundamental principle or key concept.
train surf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: train surfs
form: train surfing
form: train surfed
form: train surfed
Senses: examples: 1998: Felicity Allen, Health Psychology: Theory and Practice - Adolescents may be rejected by their parents and feel so worthless that they want to do dangerous things such as ‘train-surfing'. [published in Australia]
2006: Weekend Argus 14 May 2006 p.8. - An 18 year old boy was electrocuted yesterday while "train surfing" in Soweto yesterday, emergency services said. The boy had been standing on the roof of the train... According to emergency services, the boys wait until the train is travelling slowly and climb onto the roof and ride it like a surf board. [published in South Africa]
2003: Melvin M. Carpio, The Web of Darkness - We would often try our hand at train surfing, that is, the act of riding outside the train, hanging on the back of the last car, holding on for dear life, while the train is in motion. [published in USA]
2004: Expatica, read at https://web.archive.org/web/20050313211316/http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=1&story_id=4722 on 22 May 2006 - A 15-year-old boy was killed on Saturday night while he and a friend "train surfed" ... near Rotterdam. ... One of the boys opened a window of a stationary train at about 9pm and when the train started to move, both of them climbed out through the window and hung onto the train from the outside. [published in UK]
glosses: To either stand on a the roof of a moving train and surf it like a wave, or to hang on and ride on the exterior of a train.
Derived terms: train surfing
harder put
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of hard put: more hard put
hardest put
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of hard put: most hard put
gear down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gears down
form: gearing down
form: geared down
form: geared down
Senses: glosses: To arrange a system of gear wheels or pulleys etc such that the driven part rotates or moves slower than the driving part.
glosses: To shift to a lower gear in a manual-transmission car.
oh dark hundred
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 0-dark-hundred
Etymology: From military time, in which hours before 10:00 am are prefixed with a zero, read as "oh", and 00 minutes is read as "hundred", as in oh five-hundred for 5:00 am.
Senses: examples: text: I had to get up at oh dark hundred to catch a plane.
glosses: Some unspecified hour in the early morning (implies an unpleasant time to be awake)
Synonyms: crack of dawn
stupid o'clock
wee small hours
early morning
Related terms: 0-dark-thirty
dark thirty
oh dark thirty
zero dark thirty
quake lake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quake lakes
Senses: examples: 2008, "China braces as water rises at quake lake," AFP at Google News, 6 Jun.,
The May 12 quake triggered massive landslides in mountainous Sichuan province, blocking rivers and creating more than 30 unstable "quake lakes" that are threatening millions of people.
glosses: A lake formed after the damming of a watercourse by a landslide caused by an earthquake.
Related terms: landslide dam
barrier lake
quake lakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quake lake
scrap paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Used paper, to be reused for jotting notes etc.
glosses: scratch paper
square up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: squares up
form: squaring up
form: squared up
form: squared up
Senses: synonyms: square off
antonyms: stand down
glosses: to get ready for a fight
examples: text: Samir Nasri was shown a second yellow card moments earlier after squaring up to Jamie Vardy, with the two players going forehead to forehead after exchanging insults.
ref: 2017 March 14, Stuart James, “Leicester stun Sevilla to reach last eight after Kasper Schmeichel save”, in the Guardian:
synonyms: square off
antonyms: stand down
glosses: to adopt a fighting stance
synonyms: square off
antonyms: stand down
glosses: to face (someone) in a contest
examples: text: Let me know how much my share in the activity is and I'll square up with you tomorrow.
glosses: to pay back money that is owed
topics: engineering
machining
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: die making
glosses: To mill (blocks, inserts, etc) into precisely square condition.
Balcani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Balcani.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Bacău County, Romania.
stopper knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stopper knots
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A knot placed in a rope either to prevent the end from fraying, or to prevent it from passing through a hole.
Derived terms: Ashley's stopper knot
pitta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪtə/
rhymes: -ɪtə
Forms: form: pittas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pita.
pitta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪtə/
rhymes: -ɪtə
Forms: form: pittas
head_nr: 2
Etymology: From Telugu పిట్ట (piṭṭa).
Senses: head_nr: 2
glosses: Any passerine belonging to the taxonomic family Pittidae.
Derived terms: antpitta
blue-winged pitta
eared pitta
fairy pitta
giant pitta
graceful pitta
green-breasted pitta
Gurney's pitta
hooded pitta
Indian pitta
mangrove pitta
noisy pitta
rainbow pitta
cooperativity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cooperativities
Etymology: From cooperative + -ity.
Senses: glosses: the state or quality of being cooperative
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An interaction between the substrate binding sites of an allosteric enzyme in which binding at one site increases or decreases binding at another
Derived terms: anticooperativity
Kalami
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Dardic language spoken in northern Pakistan; it is written using the Arabic script.
Synonyms: Gawri
Kalam and Dir Kohistani
Bashkarik
Dardic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑːdɪk/
ipa: /ˈdɑɹdɪk/
Etymology: From Dard + -ic.
Senses: glosses: A group of Indo-Aryan languages spoken in north-eastern Afghanistan, northern Pakistan and north-western India.
gongfu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kung fu.
metalorganic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From metal + organic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: organometallic
metalorganic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metalorganics
Etymology: From metal + organic.
Senses: glosses: Any organometallic compound.
homebuyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homebuyers
Etymology: From home + buyer.
Senses: glosses: A person who buys or plans to buy a house.
coordinatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From coordinative + -ly.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: In a coordinative manner; with regard to coordination
coronand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coronands
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A crown compound.
Related terms: corona
corphyrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corphyrins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: corrinoid
cosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cospheres
Etymology: From co- + sphere.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A cybotactic region of a solution.
cotectic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛktɪk
Forms: form: more cotectic
form: most cotectic
Senses: glosses: Describing the conditions of pressure, temperature and composition at which multiple solid phases crystallize at the same time from a single liquid when cooled
shaomai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shaomai
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shumai.
homebuyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homebuyer
superposer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superposers
Etymology: From superpose + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who or that which superposes.
push around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pushes around
form: pushing around
form: pushed around
form: pushed around
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see push, around.
examples: text: 2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/03/macaques-monkeys-indonesia-endangered-pet-trade/
Yaki have just one natural predator, the reticulated python, but they have many enemies. Land clearers are pushing the monkeys around. Roadbuilders are hemming them in. And outlaw trappers have them running for their lives.
text: Pushing little children with their fully automatics they like to push the weak around.
ref: 2001, System of a Down, Deer Dance:
glosses: To treat contemptuously and unfairly; to bully
jellying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jelly (making jelly; or squirming like jelly)
snazztastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /snæzˈtæstɪk/
Forms: form: more snazztastic
form: most snazztastic
Etymology: Blend of snazzy + fantastic.
Senses: examples: text: "How are you feeling?" "Snazztastic!"
text: I like your snazztastic new hair cut!
text: Truthfully, I was kind of average until my life went from snooze to snazztastic in about sixty seconds.
ref: 2007, Jane Mendle, Better Off Famous?:
glosses: Exceptional; outstanding.
cyanides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyanide
hematogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: hē'mə-tə-jĕn'ĭ-sĭs
Forms: form: haematogenesis
Etymology: From hemato- + -genesis.
Senses: examples: ref: 1903, James Ewing, “Progressive pernicious anemia is believed by some to result through defective hematogenesis, and by others primarily from excessive...”, in Clinical Pathology of the Blood: A Treatise on the General Principles and Special Application of Hematology, page 215:
ref: 1965, William Bloom, Hal Downey, “This has not as yet been accomplished for mammalian material, although studies have been made of hematogenesis in vivo in Fundulus embryos...”, in Handbook of Hematology, page 867:
ref: 2005, C. Edward Collins, “...or wrinkled skin blood cyst formation of blood cells adjectival form of hematogenesis abnormal blood condition pain in a nerve stretched nerve synonym...”, in A Short Course in Medical Terminology, page 302:
topics: biology
cytology
hematology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Blood cell formation in the human body, especially the bone marrow, hematopoiesis.
Synonyms: hematopoiesis
cyclodepsipeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclodepsipeptides
Etymology: From cyclo- + depsipeptide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any cyclic depsipeptide
letterboxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of letterbox
letterboxing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A hobby in which participants attempt to locate small boxes containing rubber stamps by following clues.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
synonyms: letterbox format
glosses: The practice of transferring film shot in a widescreen aspect ratio to standard-width video formats while preserving the film's original aspect ratio.
Related terms: letterbox
letterboxer
letterboxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of letterbox
cycloelimination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cycloeliminations
Etymology: From cyclo- + elimination.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The reverse of a cycloaddition reaction.
cyclopolymerization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclopolymerizations
Etymology: From cyclo- + polymerization.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any polymerization reaction in which new rings are formed.
deflocculation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˌflɒkjəˈleɪʃən/
ipa: /dəˌflɑkjuˈleɪʃən/
Forms: form: deflocculations
Etymology: From de- + flocculation.
Senses: examples: text: Repeated use of this type of [water] on plants results in deflocculation[] of the soil. Good quality soil consists of loose aggregates which provide natural aeration and ease of root run. Sodium accumulation in soil destroys this natural flocculation and causes the soil to pack.
ref: 1972 November 5, Joan Lee Faust, “AROUND THE Garden”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The dispersion of an aggregate to form a stable colloid; the reverse of coagulation or flocculation.
dehydrocyclization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dehydrocyclizations
form: dehydrocyclisation
Etymology: From dehydro- + cyclization.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Simultaneous dehydrogenation and cyclization, especially as part of petroleum refining
demister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demisters
Etymology: From demist + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The drivers' cabs are fitted with the latest equipment, including a loudaphone, electric demisters and two-tone horns; provision is made for the fitting of A.W.S. equipment when available.
ref: 1962 December, “The Oxted Line diesel-electric multiple-units”, in Modern Railways, page 383:
synonyms: defogger
defroster
glosses: The part of the ventilation system in a motor car that blows hot, dry air against the inside of the windscreen to prevent or remove condensation.
glosses: Any of various devices that remove droplets of water from air.
tea set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tea sets
form: tea-set
form: teaset
Etymology: From tea + set.
Senses: synonyms: tea service
glosses: A set of crockery for making and serving tea (the drink).
glosses: A meal set served during teatime.
tea sets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tea set
denticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: denticities
Etymology: From dentis (“tooth”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The number of donor groups from a ligand to the central atom of a coordination compound
teasingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more teasingly
form: most teasingly
Etymology: From teasing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: One cannot help but notice a teasingly elusive air about her, as if she were a butterfly that refused to light and fluttered just out of reach of its would-be captor.
ref: 1977 December 31, Lisa Nussbaum, “Jacqui Mac: Bringing Her Dreams Together”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 26, page 10:
glosses: In a teasing way or manner.
denuder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: denuders
Etymology: From denude + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Humor is the great denuder of power in most cultures. As sexuality itself is often tamed through humor, a particularly dangerous or threatening form of sexual option will be met with an especially sharp and narrowly directed focus for wit.
ref: 1990, Sharon Rena Ullman, Broken Silences: Sex and Culture in Turn of the Century America:
glosses: One who or that which strips something bare.
glosses: Any device used to separate a gas from an aerosol.
Derived terms: thermodenuder
deracemization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deracemizations
Etymology: From de- + racemization.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The conversion of a racemate into a pure enantiomer or into a mixture in which one enantiomer is present in excess, or of a diastereoisomeric mixture into a single diastereoisomer or into a mixture in which one diastereoisomer predominates
deshielding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deshieldings
Etymology: From de- + shielding.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The situation, in NMR spectroscopy, in which a local magnetic field is strengthened by the presence of neighbouring nuclei
Related terms: chemical shift
desymmetrization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desymmetrizations
Etymology: From de- + symmetrization.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any reaction that results in the loss of one or more symmetry elements, but especially the conversion of a prochiral molecule into a chiral one
tar paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tar papers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tarpaper.
deuteriation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deuteriations
Senses: glosses: The addition of deuterium to something; deuteration
deuteration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deuterations
Senses: glosses: Synonym of deuteriation: The act of adding deuterium.
synonyms: word: deuteriation
extra: The act of adding deuterium
Derived terms: perdeuteration
devolatilizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devolatilizers
Etymology: From devolatilize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: This final devolatilizer would probably combine a heater, a distributor, and a flash tank operated below 10mmHg absolute pressure and a temperature above 230 °C.
ref: 2003, John Scheirs, Modern Styrenic Polymers: Polystyrenes and Styrenic Copolymers:
glosses: Any material added to something to reduce its volatility, or a machine accomplishing the same.
Related terms: devolatilization
devolatilize
diad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪæd
Forms: form: diads
Etymology: From di- + -ad. Compare dyad, with which it may have been confused.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A sequence of two (different) monomers in a polymer
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A structure in the cardiac myocyte
dialysate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈælɪseɪt/
Forms: form: dialysates
form: dialyzate
Senses: glosses: A product of dialysis.
The material that passes through a membrane during dialysis.
synonyms: diffusate
glosses: A product of dialysis.
The material that does not pass through a membrane during dialysis.
glosses: The fluid used on the other side of the membrane during dialysis.
Derived terms: hemodialysate
microdialysate
Related terms: autolysate
hemolysate
hydrolysate
lysate
condensate
distillate
filtrand
filtrate
filtride
leachate
Nietzschean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈniː.t͡ʃɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˈni.t͡ʃi.ən/
Forms: form: more Nietzschean
form: most Nietzschean
form: Nietzschen
Etymology: From Nietzsche + -ean.
Senses: examples: text: He could never cross it and explain to them his position,—the Nietzschean position, in regard to socialism.
ref: 1908 September – 1909 September, Jack London, Martin Eden, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, published September 1909, →OCLC:
text: Rejected by the middle class, which he loathed, he had shot up at once into the highest circles by his wit, his dustmanship (which he carried like a banner), and his Nietzschean transcendence of good and evil.
ref: 1912 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Pygmalion. Sequel: What Happened Afterwards.”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company, published 1916, →OCLC, page 196:
text: There are the Nietzschean Bootstrap-lifters, who lift themselves to the Superman, and the art-for-art's-sake, neo-Pagan Bootstrap-lifters, who lift themselves down to the Ape.
ref: 1917, Upton Sinclair, The Profits of Religion […] :
text: A half-burned cigar rolled between his mobile lips, he sat on the back of his neck, and yet he had an air Napoleonic; Nietzschean, it might better be said—although it is safe to assert that these moulders of American institutions knew little about that terrible philosopher who had raised his voice against the “slave morals of Christianity.”
ref: 1917, Winston Churchill, The Dwelling-Place of Light, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, page 341:
text: The Germanic Tribes had told the whole world in all possible tones carrying conviction, the gently persuasive, the coldly logical; in tones Hegelian, Nietzschean, warlike, pious, cynical, inspired, what they were going to do to the inferior races of the earth, so full of sin and all unworthiness.
ref: 1921, Joseph Conrad, “The Crime of Partition”, in Notes on Life & Letters, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, pages 165–166:
text: Yet they did not preach a racial war on the Jewish foundations of Christianity, nor propose to saddle a Nietzschean morality on peaceful lands like Austria, Bavaria, and the Rhineland that were traditionally Catholic.
ref: 1952 May, George Santayana, “I Like to Be a Stranger”, in The Atlantic Monthly, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: Of, pertaining to or characteristic of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, or his writings.
Derived terms: Nietzscheanism
Nietzscheanly
Nietzschean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈniː.t͡ʃɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˈni.t͡ʃi.ən/
Forms: form: Nietzscheans
form: Nietzschen
Etymology: From Nietzsche + -ean.
Senses: examples: text: […] because of her arrogant consciousness that she had never seen a girl as beautiful as herself, Gloria had developed into a consistent, practising Nietzschean. This, of course, with overtones of profound sentiment.
ref: 1922, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, book 2:
glosses: A supporter of the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche.
D-bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: D-bags
Etymology: Shortening of douchebag.
Senses: examples: text: Just get out of my life, you D-bag!
glosses: An idiot or jerk; a general-purpose moderate insult.
leecher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːtʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: leechers
Etymology: From leech + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who leeches; a physician.
qualifier: file sharing
glosses: One who downloads material without uploading in exchange.
Related terms: seeder
torrent
muguet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muguets
Etymology: Borrowed from French muguet.
Senses: examples: text: Muguet, a perfume obtained from the highly scented flowers of Lily of the Valley (Convallaria majalis), a small[…]
ref: 1997 June 30, N. Groom, New Perfume Handbook, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 193:
text: ... flowers and spurges – companion planting at its best. In the easternmost corner behind the gate, she had planted a large clump of muguets, Christmas hellebores and a large yucca plant. Down the valley beyond this garden was her orchard[…]
ref: 2021 April 20, Hilary Miflin, The Green Fuse: …our deep connection with the power of plants, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 12:
text: Diorissimo by Dior / Still the muguet to beat / Perfumer[:] Edmond Roudnitska / ££ / Diorissimo wasn't the first lily of the valley (muguet) fragrance, but very few of us would bet against it. In the 1940s, Edmond Roudnitska created some downright dirty chypre fragrances: […] Five minutes later, it settles down to pure, clear, unmistakable muguet and stays like that for hours.
ref: 2021 November 9, Sarah McCartney, Samantha Scriven, The Perfume Companion: The Definitive Guide to Choosing Your Next Scent, Frances Lincoln Children's Books, →ISBN, page 85:
glosses: Lily of the valley.
sneck posset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sneck possets
Senses: glosses: A fastened latch.
glosses: A cold reception, closing the door on a visitor
Synonyms: cold shoulder
closed door
Derived terms: give a sneck posset
scotcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scotchers
Etymology: From scotch + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who scotches.
trophic cascade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trophic cascades
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The secondary disruptions that go cascading through a system from which a keystone species has been removed.
keystone species
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keystone species
Senses: examples: text: Megafauna are called ʻkeystone speciesʼ because when they become extinct the entire arch of the ecosystem can collapse.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 227:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A species that exerts a large, stabilizing influence throughout an ecological community, despite its relatively small numerical abundance.
Related terms: flagship species
for the loss
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: By analogy with for the win.
Senses: examples: text: Kittens for the loss!
translation: expresses dislike for kittens
english: expresses dislike for kittens
synonyms: word: FTL
word: ftl
glosses: Expresses dislike or contempt for something.
Related terms: for the win
portatif
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portatifs
Etymology: From French portatif.
Senses: glosses: A portative organ.
Métis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Metis.
pet insurance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A piece of my dog's plastic chew toy broke off and he swallowed it, requiring surgery to remove it. The procedure was very expensive, but fortunately I had pet insurance.
topics: business
insurance
glosses: Health insurance for a pet.
remipede
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remipedes
form: remiped
Etymology: From French rémipède, partly modelled on Latin.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of several small, marine, cave-dwelling crustaceans, of the class Remipedia, characterized by a short head and a long trunk bearing setose swimming appendages
Buxton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Buxtons
form: Buckstone
Etymology: Two main origins:
* The town in Derbyshire derives from Old English būgan (“to bend, bow”) + stān (“stone”).
* The village in Norfolk derives from an unattested Old English personal name *Bucc + -s- + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A town in High Peak district, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom (OS grid ref SK059735).
glosses: A placename:
A village in Buxton with Lamas parish, Broadland district, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom (OS grid ref TG2322).
glosses: A placename:
A town in the Shire of Murrindindi, Victoria, Australia.
glosses: A placename:
A village in Wollondilly Shire, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A placename:
An unincorporated community in Wilson County, Kansas, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A town in York County, Maine, United States.
glosses: A placename:
An unincorporated community in Panola County, Mississippi, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A census-designated place in Dare County, North Carolina, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A city in Traill County, North Dakota, United States.
glosses: A placename:
An unincorporated community in Washington County, Oregon, United States.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Buxton with Lamas
Higher Buxton
Byles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Byleses
Etymology: Variant of Biles.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Comber
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkoʊmɚ/
Forms: form: Combers
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A town in County Down, Northern Ireland (Irish grid ref J4669).
Const.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause provides that “[a]ll persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.” U.S. Const. amend. XIV, § 1.
ref: 2025 January 30, “OCA – ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN ADVOCATES v. MARCO RUBIO, et al.”, in United States District Court for the District of Columbia, page 11:
topics: law
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of const., abbreviation of Constitution.
Coode
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Gaukler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname
barbute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑː.b(j)uːt/
ipa: /ˈbɑɹ.b(j)ut/
Forms: form: barbutes
form: barbut
form: barbuta
form: barbuti
Etymology: From Italian barbuta, perhaps because it left a wearer's beard (if any) visible.
Senses: examples: text: Medium helmets weighing about six pounds occur in visored bassinets, salades, barbutes, armets and certain burganets.
ref: 1920, Bashford Dean, Helmets and Body Armor in Modern Warfare, page 46:
text: Men and women laced their arming caps and donned their helmets—tall bassinets, practical kettle hats, or sturdy barbutes. Soldiers always rode out armed from head to foot—but only a novice or an overeager squire rode in his helmet or gauntlets.
ref: 2013, Miles Cameron, The Red Knight, Orbit, →ISBN:
text: In place of the visor, the barbute enclosed most of the face, leaving only relatively small openings for the eyes, nose, and mouth. Some barbutes, such as the one shown, appear to have been modeled on ancient Greek helmets.
ref: 2018, Paul B. Newman, Daily Life in the Middle Ages, McFarland, →ISBN, page 213:
glosses: A type of visorless helmet, of 15th-century Italian design, including a T or Y shaped opening for the eyes and mouth.
forge ahead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forges ahead
form: forging ahead
form: forged ahead
form: forged ahead
Senses: examples: text: When stay-at-home orders kept Jeff and Janet Ralli from looking at a home in the neighborhood they had their eye on in Ocean County, New Jersey, they forged ahead online.
ref: 2020 June 26, Anna Bahney, “These people bought homes without ever stepping inside”, in CNN Business:
glosses: To move forward quickly, or to make good progress with (especially a plan).
hedge one's bets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hedges one's bets
form: hedging one's bets
form: hedged one's bets
form: hedged one's bets
Senses: synonyms: lay off
glosses: To place bets with a third party in order to offset potential losses.
examples: text: Whether Glass will ever become a mass-market product, and smartglasses take off, is still unclear. Google is hedging its bets, however, with its new Android Wear and smartwatch initiative which is expected to be shown off at Google’s I/O developer conference in San Francisco later this week.
ref: 2014 June 24, “Google Glass go on sale in the UK for £1,000”, in The Guardian:
text: He prayed on Fridays with the Muslims, on Saturdays with the Jews and on Sundays with the Christians. 'Since each religion claims that it is the only true one and that the others are invalid', the king explained, 'I have decided to hedge my bets'.
ref: 2002, Tim Mackintosh-Smith translating Ahmad ibn Rustah, Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah:
text: I thought that these generals may never have intended to defect, or had at least hedged their bets enough that they could jump either way on Tuesday, depending on what course events took.
ref: 2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 281:
text: At this stage, Northern is hedging its bets as to the power source it wants.
ref: 2023 August 23, Mel Holley, “Network News: Northern begins the search for DMU replacements...”, in RAIL, number 990, page 6:
text: “Some don’t really know if this is when the rapture is going to happen, but they think it’s still an important wake-up call to pay attention to. They’re hedging their bets.”
ref: 2025 September 23, Alaina Demopoulos, quoting Sara Reinis, “‘It’s prime time for rapture talk’: TikTok gets its first ‘world is ending’ moment”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To reduce the risk of making a mistake, by keeping one's options open.
keep one's options open
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps one's options open
form: keeping one's options open
form: kept one's options open
form: kept one's options open
form: leave one's options open
Senses: glosses: To not commit to a decision, to keep various options available.
SAE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SAEs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of serious adverse event.
glosses: Initialism of stamped addressed envelope.
synonyms: microaggression
glosses: Initialism of subtle act of exclusion.
qualifier: machine learning
glosses: Initialism of sparse autoencoder.
SAE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Initialism of Society of Automotive Engineers.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Standard Average European.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: AmE
glosses: Initialism of Standard American English.
DDP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: Initialism of Diamond Dallas Page.
DDP
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Delivered Duty Paid.
B/L
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of bill of lading.
B/E
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: banking
business
glosses: Initialism of bill of exchange.
CWO
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Initialism of cash with order: cash must be paid when placing an order.
CWO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CWOs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
coordinate_terms: WO
PO
CPO
qualifier: rank
glosses: Initialism of chief warrant officer.
glosses: Initialism of corrective work order.
place an order
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: places an order
form: placing an order
form: placed an order
form: placed an order
Senses: glosses: To order something; to submit an order for a product.
fair trade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fair trades
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fair, trade.
glosses: A system of trading promoting more equitable global trade, especially to sellers and producers in poorer areas, but also to the environment.
D/P
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: banking
business
glosses: Abbreviation of documents against payment (“a trade agreement whereby shipping papers are released once the buyer has paid for the draft”).
country of origin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countries of origin
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The country in which a person or thing is deemed to have originated for the purposes of laws and regulations.
qualifier: international trade
glosses: The country where shipped goods are produced.
qualifier: international trade
glosses: The country in which the last stage of substantial transformation of goods occurred.
qualifier: international trade
glosses: The country in which the most important processing took place.
examples: text: The country of origin of a manufactured article is held to be the country in which the article has been finished by a substantial amount of labor amounting to not less than one-fourth the cost of production of such article in condition as imported into Canada.
ref: 1922 November 2, “Canadian Origin Ruling Does not Affect Publishers”, in Printer's Ink:
qualifier: international trade
glosses: The country in which a substantial amount of processing took place.
examples: text: It says "Made in Mexico". I wonder if that is the real country of origin.
text: Reviewing your Hispanic business plan and marketing strategy through the lens of country of origin can help you uncover unique benefits or barriers.
ref: 2000, M. Isabel Valdés, Marketing to American Latinos: a guide to the in-culture approach, page 71:
text: Country-specific brand images and country of origin effects are key topics in this area.
ref: 2005, Michael Loeffler, Ulrich Lutz, A Multi-dimensional Approach to Country of Origin Effects in the Automobile Market, page 1:
qualifier: consumer goods
glosses: The country indicated on a label as being the country in which the goods were made.
examples: text: The country of origin of the work is that in which the work is first published.
ref: 1912, Richard Rogers Bowker, Copyright, Its History and Its Law: Being a Summary of the Principles and ..., page 607:
topics: media
publishing
glosses: Country of first publication.
Coordinate terms: country of departure
country of destination
country of dispatch
country of provenance
railroad tracks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of railroad track
glosses: The railroad network, used with the definite article (“the railroad tracks”).
aldehyd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aldehyds
Senses: examples: text: Another remarkable property of the aldehyds is their power of forming with bisulphites of potash and soda crystalline compounds of stable character and sparing solubility […]
ref: 1857, William Allen Miller, Elements of Chemistry: Organic chemistry, page 131:
glosses: Archaic form of aldehyde.
diastereomorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: diastereoisomerism
diastereotopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diastereotopic
form: most diastereotopic
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing any atom, ligand, or other group in a molecule whose replacement or addition gives rise to diastereomers
dicarbenium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dicarbeniums
Etymology: From di- + carbenium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any carbenium ion containing two carbeniums
diffusionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From diffusion + -less.
Senses: glosses: That does not involve diffusion.
Derived terms: diffusionlessness
diisotactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diisotactic
form: most diisotactic
Etymology: From di- + isotactic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing an isotactic polymer having two chiral atoms in its repeat unit
dilatational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dilatational
form: most dilatational
Etymology: From dilatation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Involving dilatation (or compression).
dilational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dilation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Involving dilation (or compression)
Derived terms: vasodilational
diluter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diluters
Etymology: From dilute + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Very little is prescribed in the Shops under this Intention, because the Kitchen so much better supplies all of this Kind, and furnishes the common Diluters, of which Sage Tea, Lemonade with a little Wine, and Wine and Water, are much the best […]
ref: 1719, John Quincy, Pharmacopœia officinalis & extemporanea:
glosses: A substance used for diluting.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A device that adds a measured amount of sample to a measured amount of diluent.
displacive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more displacive
form: most displacive
Etymology: From displace + -ive.
Senses: glosses: That involves or causes displacement
dissymmetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dissymmetries
Etymology: From dis- + symmetry.
Senses: examples: text: In each feature of this sovereign friendship (exception, improbable and random unicity, metapolitical transcendence, disproportion, infinite dissymmetry, denaturalization, etc.), it might be tempting to recognize a rupture with Greek philía – a testamentary rupture, as some would hasten to conclude, a palaeo- or neo-testamentary rupture.
ref: 1997, “He Who Accompanies Me”, in George Collins, transl., The Politics of Friendship, London; New York, N.Y.: Verso, translation of Politiques de l’amitié by Jacques Derrida, published 2005, →ISBN, page 185:
text: The dissymetry between the criminal act and the torturous punishment reflected the gross imbalance of power between the subject and the sovereign.
ref: 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 5, in Illusion of Order:
glosses: asymmetry
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: chirality
distonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more distonic
form: most distonic
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a radical cation in which charge and radical sites are separated
Gottfried
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gottfrieds
head_nr: 1
Etymology: Jewish and German surname, from Gott (“god”) + Friede (“peace”).
Senses: head_nr: 2
glosses: A surname.
examples: Gottfried Leibniz, a mathematician
head_nr: 2
glosses: A male given name.
distribuend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distribuends
Senses: glosses: That which is distributed
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A substance that is distributed between two immiscible liquids
disyndiotactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + syndiotactic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a syndiotactic polymer that contains two chiral atoms in each repeat unit.
ditactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + tactic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a tactic polymer that contains two sites of defined stereoisomerism in each repeat unit.
downfield
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: further downfield
form: farther downfield
form: furthest downfield
form: farthest downfield
Etymology: From down- + field.
Senses: glosses: Towards the lower part of a field.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Toward the defending team's end of the playing field.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing an NMR resonance at a higher frequency to that of a reference signal.
downfield
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: further downfield
form: farther downfield
form: furthest downfield
form: farthest downfield
Etymology: From down- + field.
Senses: examples: text: He stole an occasional glance as the mule again worked its way downfield.
glosses: Towards the lower part of a field.