cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Yichang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /jiːˈt͡ʃɑŋ/
enpr: ēʹchängʹ
enpr: yēʹchängʹ
Forms: form: Ichang
form: I-ch'ang
Etymology: From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 宜昌 (Yíchāng).
Senses: examples: text: To begin in the Yangtze Valley between Yi-ch’ang (Hupei) and Pa-tung (Szechwan), in the Hsiling Gorge area that was the gateway to the Red basin to the west: fifty-four early sites investigated in 1960 have been grouped into five categories, ranging in date, according to the estimates of the investigators, from Neolithic to Han.
ref: [1968, Kwang-chih Chang, The Archaeology of Ancient China, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 177:
text: Ships of over 1,000 tons today can make the 680-kolometer round trip between Yichang and Chungking in 5 or 6 days, instead of 10 to 15 days formerly, thanks to the enormous amount of work done after liberation to make this most perilous section of the Yangtze River safe for navigation.
ref: 1972 December 14 [1972 December 3], “Szechwan Yangtze River Navigation”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 242, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA International Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Southwest Region, page E 4:
text: HUANG Sheng-hsiao, a veteran longshoreman in the port of Yichang on the mid-Yangtze, wrote these lines to praise the new life of the dock workers and the tremendous changes that have come over the port.
[...]Now 56, Huang Sheng-hsiao is chairman of the Crewmen and Dockers Club in Yichang and a member of the Committee of the Yangtze Crewmen and Dockers Trade Union.
[...]In 1949 Yichang was liberated.
[...]In 1951 he was named Class A Model Propagandist of Yichang.
[...]During the Big Leap Forward in 1958, like people all over the country, the longshoremen of Yichang were fired with daring and enthusiasm.
ref: 1974 September, Huo Pai-lin, “Huang Sheng-hsiao, Longshoreman and Poet”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXIII, number 9, →OCLC, pages 40–41:
text: Images of an apparently twisted Three Gorges dam surfaced on social media last week, fuelling online concerns that the dam was posing a disastrous flooding threat to downstream towns and villages.
However, the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation said the circulated satellite images were fake and posted its own picture showing a straight dam spanning the river near Yichang in the central province of Hubei. “Nothing wrong with the Three Gorges Dam,” the company declared.
ref: 2019 July 8, Didi Tang, “Fears rise over safety of China’s Three Gorges dam”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Oct 2021:
text: Located in western Hubei Province, Yidu, like Yichang, is part of the area known as the "Gateway to the Three Gorges".
ref: 2023 January 9, Gorgeous Yichang, “Yidu City of Yichang”, in YouTube, archived from the original on 21 May 2023:
glosses: A large prefecture-level city in western Hubei, China.
Xinyang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shǐnʹyängʹ
Forms: form: Hsin-yang
form: Hsinyang
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 信陽 /信阳 (Xìnyáng).
Senses: examples: text: In Henan’s Xinyang prefecture, one of the worst affected areas in the country, the Party Secretary Lu Xianwen would travel to local communes and order in advance elaborate banquets of twenty-four courses, according to Party documents. Only at the village level did the lowest officials such as production team leaders sometimes starve to death.
ref: 1996, Jasper Becker, “An Overview of the Famine”, in Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine, The Free Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 104:
text: Mr. Xi bowed in tribute at a memorial for 130,000 fighters from this area in central China who gave their lives for the Communist cause. But the estimated one million peasants who starved to death in Xinyang, after Mao’s Great Leap Forward spawned the biggest famine in modern times, went unnoted in official reports about the visit.
ref: 2019 September 30, Chris Buckley, “Xi Extols China’s ‘Red’ Heritage in a Land Haunted by Famine Under Mao”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2023, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Henan, China.
wikipedia: Encyclopedia Britannica
Zhenjiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒʌnˈdʒjæŋ/
ipa: /dʒɛnˈdʒjaŋ/
enpr: ˈjən-ˈjyäŋ
enpr: jĕn′jyäng′
enpr: jǔnʹjyängʹ
enpr: jǔnʹjē-ängʹ
Forms: form: Chinkiang
form: Chen-chiang
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鎮江 /镇江 (Zhènjiāng).
Senses: examples: text: In the second week of April, clashes between CCP and KMT affiliates became more violent. Interunion fights broke out in Canton, and in Chenchiang, Kiangsu, riots between unions left 150 dead and wounded.
ref: [1976, Donald A. Jordan, “The Party Divided”, in The Northern Expedition: China's National Revolution of 1926-1928, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 123:
text: The two Americans, Jacob Harlan and Alyssa Petersen, were detained late last month and are being held in Zhenjiang, a town in Jiangsu Province, according to GoFundMe pages set up by friends and relatives.
ref: 2019 October 17, Amy Qin, “China Detains 2 Americans Amid Growing Scrutiny of Foreigners”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Oct 2019, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Jiangsu, China.
wikipedia: Cambridge University Press
Synonyms: Chenkong
Derived terms: Zhenjiang vinegar
Baoding
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /baʊ.dɪŋ/
enpr: bouʹdǐngʹ
Forms: form: Pao-ting
form: Paoting
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 保定 (Bǎodìng).
Senses: examples: text: The most remarkable of the faceted mei-pʻing is the one with cover that was discovered at Pao-ting in 1964 (Plate 40).
ref: [1974, Margaret Medley, “Underglaze Blue and Copper Red Decorated Wares”, in Yüan Porcelain and Stoneware, Faber and Faber, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 54:
text: Mr. Lattimore was born in Paotingfu, China, where his American parents served on the faculty of the Chihli provincial college.
ref: [1984 February 28, Herbert Mitgang, “RICHARD LATTIMORE DEAD; A CLASSICAL SCHOLAR AND POET”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, Obituaries:
text: The princes enjoyed the second most spectacular campaign of 1213-14. They raided down the left bank of the Yellow River through Pao-ting and La-an, then turned west at Hua-Ching where the Huang He is joined by its second largest tributary the Fen (about 430 miles long) and almost immediately north into the valley of the Fen.
ref: [2015, Frank McLynn, Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered the World, Vintage Books, published 2016, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 207:
text: Recently, the World Health Organization expressed concern about reports of severe disease in China. Around the cities of Baoding and Langfang outside Beijing, hospitals have run out of intensive care beds and staff as severe cases surge.
ref: 2022 December 25, Laura Ungar, Aniruddha Ghosal, “China’s COVID-19 surge raises odds of new coronavirus mutant”, in AP News, archived from the original on 25 Dec 2022:
text: Officials reported the deaths in Baoding, about 150 kilometres (90 miles) from Beijing, adding that 18 people were missing.
ref: 2023 August 5, “Dozens dead and thousands evacuated over flooding in northern China”, in France 24, sourced from AFP, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2023, Asia / Pacific:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Hebei, China.
deliquium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deliquiums
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin deliquium, from Latin delinquere (“to lack, to fail”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Liquefaction through absorption of moisture from the air.
examples: text: If he be locked in a close room, he is afraid of being stifled for want of air, and still carries biscuit, aquavitæ, or some strong waters about him, for fear of deliquiums, or being sick […]
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, page 387:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An abrupt loss of consciousness usually caused by an insufficient blood flow to the brain; fainting.
glosses: A languid, maudlin mood.
glosses: An abrupt absence of sunlight, e.g. caused by an eclipse.
cain't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /keɪnt/
rhymes: -eɪnt
Etymology: A variant spelling of can't, representing the pronunciation of this word in the southern United States.
Senses: examples: text: Stands to reason, the Mexican government, they cain’t persuade any real Mexican priests to travel all the way to Texas. Those hanker after the fleshpots of the big city. So the oney priests they can get to work in land s’far away are Irishmen who cain’t make no livin’ in Ireland, and who cain’t speak a word of Spanish neither, if’n you ask me.
ref: 1985, James A. Michener, Texas: A Novel. Reprinted 2014, Random House Publishing Group, page 460
glosses: Nonstandard form of can't.
hoaxter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoaxters
Etymology: From hoax + -ster.
Senses: glosses: A hoaxer.
gorky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: gorkier
form: gorkiest
Senses: examples: text: Dr Gill says: "Phillip Schofield went from being a gorky boyish chump to a daytime anchor when he went back to grey. Suddenly, he seemed more mature. Maturity is what women want for a stable relationship."
ref: 2009 January 22, Maria Croce, “Rise of the silver fox: Why grey is best look for older men”, in Daily Record, Scotland:
text: "He was nine weeks old when he arrived and, although he was a gorky long-legged funny little fellow, he won our hearts instantly, especially mine," Michelle Ackland said.
ref: 2010 October 17, Sue Hewitt, “Legal stoush over Chihuahua”, in Herald Sun:
text: We kept in touch, but not long after starting at the bank, she started dating some real gorky looking older bloke called Ray. He must have felt like all his Saturdays had come at once to be dating a girl like Jemma when his mirror told only horror stories.
ref: 2011, Calvin Wade, Forever Is Over, AuthorHouse, published 2011, →ISBN, page 282:
glosses: Awkward or strange.
gapy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gapy
form: most gapy
Etymology: From gape + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The sessions in a dental chair where a man hovers over your gapy mouth with needle, hooked-pick and drill are over.
ref: 1958, Charles E. Heartsill, Molars Away: Tips and Titters for People Soon to Get False Teeth:
glosses: gaping
eat my shorts
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːt maɪ ˈʃɔːɹts/
Etymology: Popularized by the TV series The Simpsons (1989), where it is a catchphrase of Bart Simpson.
Senses: examples: text: Notre Dame boys greeted one another with "Eat It" to be answered by "Eat It Raw" or "Eat a Big One" or "Eat My Shorts," sometimes "Eat My Crusty Shorts."
ref: [1977, James P. Leary, The Boys from the Dome […] , page 69:
text: Mickey: You could be the biggest fairy of them all!
Meat: Eat my shorts!
ref: 1983, Roger Swaybill, Alan Ormsby, Bob Clark, Porky's II: The Next Day (motion picture):
text: Richard Vernon: You're not fooling anyone, Bender. The next screw that falls out will be you.
 John Bender: Eat my shorts.
Richard Vernon: What was that?
John Bender: Eat... My... Shorts.
ref: 1985, John Hughes, The Breakfast Club (motion picture):
text: Her eyes are telling me, "Eat my shorts, you precocious little fart." I definitely haven't made a friend.
ref: 1988, Greg Matthews, The Gold Flake Hydrant, page 232:
text: For instance, Bart often expresses his irreverence toward authority on "The Simpsons" by exclaiming "Eat my shorts."
ref: [1996, Douglas Rushkoff, Media Virus! […] , page 186:
glosses: An irreverent rebuke or dismissal.
wikipedia: Bart Simpson
The Simpsons
curry favour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: curries favour
form: currying favour
form: curried favour
form: curried favour
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of curry favor.
Varanasi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit वाराणसी (vārāṇasī).
Senses: examples: text: On either side of the roof, Varanasi stretched out in an arc, its sandstone walls catching the light until they shone a rich sepia gold.
ref: 2023, Devika Rege, Quarterlife, Dialogue Books (2025), page 389:
glosses: A large city, district, and division of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Synonyms: Banaras
Benares
bite the big one
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bites the big one
form: biting the big one
form: bit the big one
form: bitten the big one
Senses: examples: text: Fly, be free! Well, I guess we'll have to have a quick burial at sea then. I'll notify your next of kin. Your brother bit the big one.
ref: 1978 September 14, Dale McRaven, Mork & Mindy, season 1, episode 2, spoken by Mork (Robin Williams):
text: "I thought all of dad's relatives bit the big one a long time ago."
ref: 1983, Susan Arnout, The Frozen Lady, page 397:
synonyms: word: bite the dust
word: buy the farm
word: buy the big one
word: kick the bucket
word: assume room temperature
word: auger in
word: be called home
word: be gathered to one's fathers
word: be no more
word: be with Jesus
word: be with the Lord
word: bite the big one
word: bite the biscuit
word: bite the dust
word: buy the farm
word: buy it
word: cark it
word: cash in
word: cash in one's chips
word: check out
word: close one's eyes for the last time
word: code
word: conk out
word: croak
word: cross over
word: cross rainbow bridge
word: cross the Great Divide
word: cross the Styx
word: decease
word: decompose
word: dematerialize
word: depart
word: disincarnate
word: draw one's last breath
word: drop off the hooks
word: exit
word: expire
word: flatline
word: forfare
word: get to be like the one
word: give one's all
word: give up the ghost
word: go for a burton
word: go gentle into that good night
word: go out
word: go over to the majority
word: go the way of all flesh
word: go the way of the dinosaurs
word: go the way of the dodo
word: go the way of the dodo bird
word: go to glory
word: go to one's reward
word: go west
word: hand in one's checks
word: hand in one's dinner pail
word: hop the twig
word: join the choir invisible
word: keel over
word: kick the bucket
word: kick off
word: knock off
word: liquidate
word: lose my life for Jesus Christ
word: lose the number of one's mess
word: meet one's doom
word: meet one's end
word: meet one's maker
word: pass
word: pass away
word: pass in one's checks
word: pass in one's marble
word: pass on
word: pass over
word: pass the river
word: pay nature's debt
word: pay the debt of nature
word: peg out
word: perish
word: pop off
word: pop one's clogs
word: shuffle off this mortal coil
word: sink
word: sleep with one's fathers
word: slip away
word: snuff it
word: succumb
word: take a dirt nap
word: turn up one's toes
word: yield up the ghost
glosses: To die.
examples: text: Whatever air-conditioning system the car had once possessed had bitten the big one years ago; ...
ref: 1988, Barbara Hambly, The silicon mage, page 5:
glosses: To break down; to be impossible to repair or not worth repairing.
examples: text: Empire of the Sun was an enormous literary and commercial success in Britain but pretty much bit the Big One on its own in the United States.
ref: 1990, Norman Spinrad, Science fiction in the real world, page 183:
glosses: To perform poorly; to fail.
examples: text: To Verdi, it bit the big one, but that was the way it worked.
ref: 1996, Stephen Kimball, Death duty, page 9:
glosses: To be unpleasant or undesirable.
glosses: To perform fellatio.
hemodynamically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: haemodynamically
Etymology: From hemodynamic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: With regard to hemodynamics
Related terms: hemodynamic
insolvated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪnsoʊlˈveɪtɪd/
Forms: form: more insolvated
form: most insolvated
Senses: glosses: absorbed by solvation
interfusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːʒən
Forms: form: interfusions
Etymology: From inter- + fusion.
Senses: glosses: Mutual fusion or blending
Related terms: interfuse
intimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intima + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an intima
Derived terms: fibrointimal
myointimal
subintimal
iodimetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: titration in order to quantitatively analyze iodine in a sample
monoacetylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + acetylated.
Senses: glosses: acetylated by the addition of a single acetyl group
all y'all
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Forms: form: all o' y'all
form: all of y'all
form: y'all all
Etymology: From all + y'all (itself from you + all).
Senses: examples: text: Dyah dee come! Now watch 'em smile. All y'all jes stand back. Heah de one you lookin' for.
ref: 1887, Thomas Nelson Page, In ole Virginia: or, Marse Chan, and other stories, page 160:
qualifier: redundant
glosses: Plural form of you.
Synonyms: the list of other second-person pronouns in you
Related terms: word: all y'all's
all y'all
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Etymology: From all + y'all (itself from you + all).
Senses: examples: text: Have all y'all ladies finished eating?
glosses: The group spoken or written to.
all y'all's
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: "How all y'all's folks, Mis' Clark? How yo maw and paw? How Dan? ...
ref: 1946, Mary King O'Donnell, Those other people, page 24:
text: And you know what's on the tip of all y'all's tongues? Each and every one of y'all?"
ref: 2008, Matt de la Peña, Mexican whiteboy, page 97:
glosses: Possessive of all y'all (standing in for all your).
Derived terms: all y'all's asses
machine pistol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: machine pistols
Etymology: Calque of German Maschinenpistole.
Senses: glosses: A lightweight submachine gun, usually capable of being fired with one hand (but sometimes with a second grip at the front of the barrel and then fired like a rifle).
Synonyms: word: MP
perirenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + renal.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: adrenal
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Around the kidney.
phenylselenide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenylselenides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The anion C₆H₅Se⁻, or any salt containing this anion
scintigraphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scintigraphies
Etymology: From scinti(llation) + -graphy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: scintiphotography
glosses: A radiographic technique, using radioactive tracers, for the diagnosis of injuries to bones
Derived terms: angioscintigraphy
cholescintigraphy
scintigraphic
tomoscintigraphy
selfquenching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-quenching
Etymology: From self- + quenching.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The quenching of an excited atom (etc) by interaction with another of the same type of atom in the ground state
tauranin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A sesquiterpene quinone that is a metabolic pigment found in some fungi
transfemoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + femoral.
Senses: examples: text: Current policy in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) and Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) is to provide individuals who require a prosthesis for a knee disarticulation (KD) or transfemoral (TF)-level amputation a microprocessor knee (MPK) unit for daily use and a non-microprocessor knee unit (N-MPK) as a backup prosthesis.
ref: 2022, Jody-Lynn Young, Eva Guérin, Markus Besemann, Nancy Dudek, “Microprocessor knee versus non-microprocessor knee for backup device in lower limb prostheses: A qualitative study”, in Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health, →DOI, pages 1-13:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Across the femur (or thigh)
10 Downing Street
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɛn ˈdaʊnɪŋ stɹiːt/
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The address of the residence in London of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
examples: text: […] he declared from early in his life that he intended to be viceroy of India, as a natural stepping-stone on his way to 10 Downing Street.
ref: 2001, Trevor Owen Lloyd, Empire: the history of the British Empire, →ISBN, page 138:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The title or office of the Prime Minister.
examples: text: […] explicitly clear, in the way that 10 Downing Street has made it clear in the case of city academies, that it is perfectly legitimate to put people in the House of Lords […]
ref: 2006, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee, Propriety and Honours: Interim Findings; Fourth Report of Session 2005-06, volume 29, →ISBN, page 23:
glosses: The government of the United Kingdom.
Synonyms: Number Ten
Number 10
No 10
Related terms: 11 Downing Street
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
24 Sussex Drive
angoricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angoricities
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A measure of the stress in a system of granular materials near to jamming.
antimonopole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antimonopoles
Etymology: From anti- + monopole.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A monopole of opposite polarity to another
athermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + thermal.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing any process that does not involve either heat or a change in temperature.
Derived terms: athermality
compactivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compactivities
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A measure of how compact a granular material is.
computably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more computably
form: most computably
Etymology: From computable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: If #92;mathbf#123;A#125; is the category of sets, then #92;Pi#95;Bf is (up to isomorphism) the usual Cartesian product of the fibres A#95;y. If #92;mathbf#123;A#125; is a category of spaces and smooth maps, then an element of #92;Pi#95;Bf will have values varying smoothly in the indices, while if #92;mathbf#123;A#125; models data types and computable functions the values will vary computably.
ref: 1995, Colin McLarty, Elementary Categories, Elementary Toposes, page 102:
glosses: In a computable manner
glosses: With regard to computability
conductometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From conduct + -o- + -metry.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Measurement of the electrical conductivity of a solution during the course of a chemical reaction. It is the determination of the quantity of a material present in a mixture by measurement of its effect on the electrical conductivity of the mixture.
Related terms: conductometric
datacube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: datacubes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of data cube.
data cube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: data cubes
form: datacube
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A very large three-dimensional array or table
downconverter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downconverters
Senses: glosses: Any electronic device that accomplishes downconversion
Derived terms: low-noise block downconverter
w/w
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Water Content: 10 g/kg max (1% w/w)
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of weight for weight or weight by weight (“the proportion of a particular substance within a mixture, as measured by weight or mass”).
examples: text: w/w carpeting
synonyms: w-w
w2w
glosses: Abbreviation of wall-to-wall.
Related terms: w/v
v/v
electrodeformation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + deformation.
Senses: glosses: deformation under the influence of an electric field
equicontinuity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From equi- + continuity.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The condition of being equicontinuous.
equicontinuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From equi- + continuous.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Such that all members are continuous, with equal variation in a given neighborhood.
raw_tags: of a family of functions
Derived terms: equicontinuously
Related terms: equicontinuity
expansivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expansivities
Etymology: From expansive + -ity.
Senses: glosses: expansiveness
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The formal notion of points moving away from one another under the action of an iterated function.
holographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: holographic
horospherical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a horosphere
macroparticle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macroparticles
Etymology: From macro- + particle.
Senses: glosses: A macroscopic particle
macroparticles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macroparticle
magnetoconductance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetoconductances
Etymology: From magneto- + conductance.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: conductance of magnetic flux
multibeam
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: multi-beam
Etymology: From multi- + beam.
Senses: glosses: Involving multiple beams
multivariance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multivariances
Etymology: From multi- + variance.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being multivariate
nanoconstricted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nanoconstricted
form: most nanoconstricted
Etymology: From nano- + constricted.
Senses: glosses: Subject to nanoconstriction
nanoconstriction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanoconstrictions
Etymology: From nano- + constriction.
Senses: glosses: nanoscale constriction
nanoflakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanoflake
nanoflake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanoflakes
Etymology: From nano- + flake.
Senses: glosses: A nanoscale flake.
nanomotor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanomotors
Etymology: From nano- + motor.
Senses: glosses: A nanoscale motor
nanomotors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanomotor
nitridated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Subject to nitridation.
nitridation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nitridations
Etymology: From nitride + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Reaction or treatment with a nitride.
piezonuclear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From piezo- + nuclear.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing supposed nuclear reactions as a result of mechanical stress (such as cavitation)
pretzelosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pretzel + -osity.
Senses: topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: The condition of having the knotted form of a pretzel
uncongested
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncongested
form: most uncongested
Etymology: From un- + congested.
Senses: glosses: Not congested
underpredicts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underpredict
underpredict
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underpredicts
form: underpredicting
form: underpredicted
form: underpredicted
Etymology: From under- + predict.
Senses: glosses: To predict to be smaller than is the case
Related terms: underprediction
vertexing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vertex + -ing.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The detection of vertices in the tracks of particles.
unitaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unitary
unitary council
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unitary councils
Senses: glosses: A single-tier local authority that has responsibility for all government functions in its area
Synonyms: unitary authority
Miniature Pinscher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Miniature Pinschers
Senses: glosses: A small breed of pinscher bred in Germany to hunt small vermin, especially rats.
Synonyms: Min Pin
altyn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: altyns
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian алты́н (altýn), either from Tatar алты (altı, “six”), referring to six dengas (six half-kopeks), or from Tatar алтын (altın, “gold”). These small coins were never minted in gold; however, compare the semantic evolution of Latin solidus from a Roman gold coin to a medieval silver shilling.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: An obsolete Russian coin worth three kopeks.
glosses: A proposed common currency for the Eurasian Economic Union.
embarassed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of embarrassed.
aminomethyltransferase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aminomethyltransferases
Etymology: From aminomethyl + transferase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyzes the transfer of an aminomethyl group
mysal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Norman mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Old French mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Late Latin misellus (“leper”), from miser (“wretched, wretch”) + -ellus (“-elle”). Doublet of measles.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of mesel, in its various senses.
mysal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mysals
Etymology: From Middle English mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Norman mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Old French mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Late Latin misellus (“leper”), from miser (“wretched, wretch”) + -ellus (“-elle”). Doublet of measles.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of mesel, in its various senses.
extracytoplasmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æzmɪk
Forms: form: more extracytoplasmic
form: most extracytoplasmic
Etymology: From extra- + cytoplasmic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: From outside of the cytoplasm of a cell
ferulic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ferula (“asafetida”) and -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to ferulic acid or its derivatives
Derived terms: diferulic
ferulate
feruloyl
ferulic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The carboxylic acid (E)-3-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxy-phenyl)prop-2-enoic acid that is a component of lignin
Derived terms: fertaric acid
isoferulic acid
hydroxybenzoate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroxybenzoates
Etymology: From hydroxy- + benzoate.
Senses: glosses: Any salt or ester of hydroxybenzoic acid
Derived terms: ethyl para-hydroxybenzoate
methyl para-hydroxybenzoate
hydroxybenzoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroxybenzoic acids
Etymology: From hydroxy- + benzoic acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of three isomeric phenolic derivatives of benzoic acid; carboxyphenol
Related terms: salicylic acid
hydroxybenzoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hydroxy- + benzoic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to hydroxybenzoic acid or its derivatives
intramembrane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmbɹeɪn
Etymology: From intra- + membrane.
Senses: glosses: Within a membrane
Synonyms: intramembranous
macroarray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macroarrays
Etymology: From macro- + array.
Senses: glosses: A large array, especially one of DNA probes that is used in genetic analysis.
neutralophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neutralophiles
Etymology: From neutral + -o- + -phile.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any organism that thrives in a relatively neutral pH range
Related terms: neutralophilic
neutralophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neutralophilic
form: most neutralophilic
Etymology: From neutral + -philic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a neutralophile
naïvetés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naïveté
neutralophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neutralophile
nigericin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nigericins
Senses: glosses: An antibiotic, similar to monensin, obtained from Streptomyces hygroscopicus
monensin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: cinnamonensis + -in
Senses: glosses: An antibiotic obtained from Streptomyces cinnamonensis.
nonoxidative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + oxidative.
Senses: glosses: Not oxidative.
uncentered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: uncentred
Etymology: From un- + centered.
Senses: glosses: Not centered.
vanillate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vanillates
Etymology: From vanillic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of vanillic acid.
chacha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chachas
Etymology: Borrowed from Georgian ჭაჭა (č̣ač̣a).
Senses: synonyms: Georgian brandy
Georgian vodka
grape vodka
vine vodka
glosses: A traditional Georgian clear strong liquor distilled from pomace.
chacha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chachas
Senses: examples: text: Display rhythm instruments from other cultures, such as Tibetan singing bowls; carved frog and cricket wood rasps from Indonesia; rain sticks and goat hoof chachas rattles from Bolivia; the telavi from Ghana; and woven shakers from Africa, Brazil, and India.
ref: 2012, Joan Bouza Koster, Growing Artists: Teaching the Arts to Young Children, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 299:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A type of cylindrical metal rattle, derived from an instrument in the Haitian musical tradition, and used to play rhythm in certain Cuban genres (and in other nearby countries).
chacha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chachas
Etymology: From Hindi चाचा (cācā).
Senses: examples: text: "Mama!" shouted Papi running forward, dragging Kaku along with him. Well, you can just imagine the happy scene! […] Looking across the courtyard he caught his chacha's eyes and they smiled and twinkled at him in secret understanding.
ref: 1958, The Illustrated Weekly of India:
text: She also admires her chachas—Sajjan's engineering bent of mind, Ratan's financial acumen and Naveen's abilities as a great communicator.
ref: 2011, Sonia Golani, Corporate Divas, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
glosses: An uncle, especially one's father's younger brother.
vanillic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The aromatic carboxylic acid 4-hydroxy-3-methoxybenzoic acid that is an intermediate in the production of vanillin from ferulic acid
Derived terms: homovanillic acid
vanillate
chachas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chacha
grist to the mill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: What evil will not a rival say to stop the flow of grist to the mill of the hated one?
ref: 1875, Anthony Trollope, chapter 58, in The Way We Live Now, London: Chapman and Hall, […]:
text: This might all seem grist to Berkeley’s mill. Berkeley himself knew that we interpret our experience in spatio-temporal, objective terms. But he thought we had to ‘speak with the vulgar but think with the learned’: in other words, learn to regard that interpretation as a kind of façon de parler, rather than the description of a real, independent, objective world.
ref: 1999, Simon Blackburn, Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy (Oxford University Press paperback, ch. 7 section 6: "Kant’s Revolution", pp. 258–259
glosses: Alternative form of grist for the mill.
fullery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fulleries
Senses: glosses: A place built for the process of fulling wool in cloth-making. Usually refers to a period in history before the process was carried out at a mill.
glosses: A workshop for cleaning clothes, particularly in Ancient Roman times.
Synonyms: fulling mill
fulleries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fullery
disarrangement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disarrangements
Etymology: From dis- + arrangement.
Senses: glosses: Upset of the normal order.
Synonyms: disorganization
disarrangements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disarrangement
spoon excavator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spoon excavators
Etymology: From spoon + excavator.
Senses: glosses: A curette with hooklike ends used to remove soft carious decay in dentistry.
nonrenewal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonrenewals
form: non-renewal
Etymology: From non- + renewal.
Senses: examples: text: Mississippi and Missouri have notice requirements regarding nonrenewal of the franchise agreement, but no substantive requirements.
ref: 2004, Rupert M Barkoff, Andrew C Selden, Fundamentals of franchising:
glosses: Failure to renew.
nonrenewals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonrenewal
crimelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹaɪmlaɪk/
Forms: form: more crimelike
form: most crimelike
Etymology: From crime + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of crime.
eveninglike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eveninglike
form: most eveninglike
Etymology: From evening + -like.
Senses: examples: text: ...there is always a haze which gives the sunlit woods and the tree-lined parts of the city a dreamy, eveninglike quality even in broad daylight.
ref: 1988, Marianne Weber, Harry Zohn, Max Weber: a biography:
text: The absence of clocks and the consistent seductive eveninglike lighting of the gambling parlors are architectural ploys used to create a timeless setting...
ref: 2001, Lawrence A Herzog, From Aztec to High Tech:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of evening.
treelined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: tree-lined
Etymology: From tree + lined.
Senses: glosses: Lined with trees.
nonmilitaristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + militaristic.
Senses: glosses: Not militaristic.
nonsolitary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + solitary.
Senses: glosses: Not solitary.
Pouria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pourya
Etymology: From Persian پوریا (puriyâ).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Persian male given name پوریا (puriyâ).
mogul skiing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A type of freestyle skiing where skiers ski terrain characterized by a large number of different bumps called moguls.
dethermalizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dethermalizers
form: DT
Senses: examples: "One of the most bittersweet joys in model aviation is an out of sight flight by a Free Flight model. While we all strive for our models to fly as well as we can, it is possible to have a model fly too well. Well trimmed, and with a bit of luck, a model can be caught in a thermal and climb to beyond the limits of our vision. It is the purpose of a dethermalizer to effect a change in the geometry of a model, such that it descends more rapidly, yet still safely. Getting the DT to activate after a target time is the job of a DT timer." ~ Thayer Syme. Reprinted with permission.
glosses: A device that alters the aerodynamics of an airplane, glider etc, allowing it to descend quickly but safely, especially when caught in a thermal
loppet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈloʊ.pɛt/
Forms: form: loppets
Etymology: From Norwegian løpet.
Senses: glosses: A long-distance (approximately 35+ kilometer) cross country skiing event.
glosses: Any long endurance race or athletic event which takes place across varied terrain.
emo metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: a musical genre, a mixture between emo and metal music
trip over one's own two feet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: trips over one's own two feet
form: tripping over one's own two feet
form: tripped over one's own two feet
form: tripped over one's own two feet
Senses: glosses: To stumble while walking, without having tripped over anything.
Abitur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæbiˈtʊə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˌæbɪˈtʊə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˌæbiˈtʊɹ/
ipa: /ˌæbɪˈtʊɹ/
Forms: form: Abiturs
form: abitur
Etymology: Borrowed from German Abitur.
Senses: examples: text: The oral and written exam became called the Abitur, from Latin abitus, that is, departure from school. The Prussian and later German Abitur amounted to a sort of baccalaureate-equivalent exam, administered outside the university.
ref: [2008, William Clark, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 124:
glosses: A group of matriculation exams taken in the final year of German secondary school.
Related terms: Abiturient
Schützenfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Schuetzenfest
Etymology: From German Schützenfest.
Senses: glosses: A "marksmen's festival": a traditional festival or fair in Germany or Switzerland, featuring a target-shooting competition.
word problems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of word problem
word problem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: word problems
Senses: examples: Holonyms: exam, examination, test, testbank
glosses: A mathematics question that states verbally what is usually expressed with symbols or diagrams.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A question of whether an element of a certain group (or monoid or the like) is the identity, given an obscure representation of that element.
ka-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ker-.
lodde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loddes
Senses: examples: 1813, Leopold von Buch (Freiherr), Travels through Norway and Lapland
We were actually told that when the lodde enters from the sea, the fishermen smell them at a distance of ten English miles, and immediately set off in their boats in quest of them.
glosses: the capelin (fish).
mushroom clouds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mushroom cloud
Austroslavism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Austro-Slavism
Senses: glosses: A political concept and program aimed to solve problems of Slavic peoples in the Austrian Empire.
dohs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doh
robin redbreasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of robin redbreast
Kalyan-Dombivali
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large city in Maharashtra, India.
Synonyms: Kalyan-Dombivli
soft in the head
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: softer in the head
form: softest in the head
Senses: glosses: Synonym of softheaded.
synonyms: word: softheaded
lumbermill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌmbɚˌmɪl/
Forms: form: lumbermills
Etymology: From lumber + mill.
Senses: glosses: A mill for processing lumber and logs; a sawmill.
lumbermills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lumbermill
lumberjacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lumberjackets
form: lumber jacket
Etymology: Blend of lumberjack + jacket
Senses: examples: text: As they approached they saw a man running up this track towards the road, a man in lumber jacket and dirty canvas trousers, a rough man, running clumsily up-hill, half foundered.
ref: 1952, Neville Shute, chapter 5, in The Far Country:
text: He fished into the inside pocket of his lumber jacket and brought out a paper screw of sugar.
ref: 1958, Muriel Spark, chapter 4, in Robinson, New York: New Directions, published 2003, page 38:
text: […] swinging back up into the cab of the truck in my Levis and lumberjacket and moccasins (which out on the highway no longer seem the costume that they do in the halls of the high school) […]
ref: 1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint, New York: Vintage, published 1994, page 170:
glosses: A lumberjack shirt.
Derived terms: lumber-jacketed
lumberjackets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lumberjacket
syncopal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From syncope + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to syncope
Synonyms: syncopic
syncopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From syncope + -ic.
Senses: glosses: syncopal
bacmid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bacmids
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A shuttle vector that can be propagated in both E. coli and insect cells.
VDW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: logistics
glosses: Initialism of voice-directed warehousing.
venenose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more venenose
form: most venenose
Senses: examples: text: The Kamtschadales frequently avail themselves, by way of regale, of a venenose species of champignon […]
ref: 1849, George Waterhouse, Conjugal Felicities and Infelicities, page 47:
glosses: Alternative form of venenous (“venomous; poisonous”).
schistose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more schistose
form: most schistose
Etymology: From schist + -ose.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to schist.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the character of schist.
Synonyms: schistous
flys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪz
Senses: examples: Thomas Hardy, The Well-Beloved
He observed that it was not one of the homely flys from the under-hill town, but apparently from the popular resort across the bay.
glosses: plural of fly, a type of carriage
glosses: plural of fly, butterfly stroke
daybreaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daybreak
keypunching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of keypunch
keypunched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of keypunch
new zaïre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: new zaïres
form: new zaïre
Senses: glosses: A currency used in Zaïre between 1993 and 1998, only issued in banknote form and later replaced by the franc.
likuta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: makuta
Etymology: From a Bantu language spoken in the Congo region. Compare Lingala li- + -kútá. Perhaps ultimately from Kongo nkúta (“provisions”).
Senses: glosses: A former unit of currency, one hundredth of a zaïre.
makuta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of likuta
antibound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + bound.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Connected by an antibonding orbital (or the equivalent)