cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
gong-fermer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gong-fermers
Senses: examples: text: The gong-fermer disappears in the more refined name of the mazar scourer.
ref: 1872, James E. Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England: from the year after the Oxford Parliament (1259) to the Commencement of the Continental Wat (1793) (Volume 4: 1401-1582), Cambridge University Press, page 512:
text: Cesspits were cleaned out by a worker known as a ‘gong-fermer’, who carted the sewage off to manure the vegetable plot.
ref: 2011, Brian Williams, Life in a Medieval Castle, Pitkin Publishing, "Castle Home"
text: ‘You do not shy from muck,’ Hew concluded, grimly. ‘That will serve you well, if you have to end your days as a gong-fermer’s servant.’
ref: 2014, Shirley McKay, chapter 14, in Friend & Foe, Polygon:
glosses: Alternative form of gong farmer.
gong-fermers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gong-fermer
Lavant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Compare lavant (“ephemeral spring”).
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU8508).
glosses: A minor river in West Sussex.
glosses: A community in Lanark Highlands township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada.
Derived terms: english: West Sussex
translation: West Sussex
word: East Lavant
english: West Sussex
translation: West Sussex
word: Mid Lavant
Lavant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Compare Slovene Labotnica.
Senses: glosses: A municipality in East Tyrol, Austria.
Centauran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Terra is hemmed in on all sides by the ancient Centauran Empire.
ref: 1953, Philip K. Dick, “The Variable Man”, in The Early Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick, Dover, published 2013, page 140:
text: “Oh yes, that's Centauran vegetation—a remnant of the original ecology,” the aide told him.
ref: 1990, Donald Moffitt, A Gathering of Stars, Open Road, published 2014, unnumbered page:
text: Neil put his arm around Claire as they gazed at the Centauran stars, slowly decreasing in size and brightness.
ref: 2005, James Krehan, The Third Star, Revised edition, iUniverse, page 38:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the constellation Centaurus, to any star of the constellation or to a fictional or hypothetical species, civilisation, colony, etc., associated with such a star.
Centauran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Centaurans
Senses: examples: text: Reincarnation makes them feel superior to you superior Centaurans.
ref: 1962, Wallace West, The Memory Bank, Airmont Books, page 44:
text: The peculiar thing about that war is that the Centaurans gave up.
ref: 1974, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, volume 46, Mercury Press, page 64:
text: The Alpha Centaurans are especially interested in the skies above them.
ref: 2006, Giles Sparrow, The Solar System: Exploring the Planets and Their Moons from Mercury to Pluto and Beyond, Thunder Bay Press, page 10:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A member of a fictional or hypothetical Centauran species, colony, civilization, etc.
Centaurans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Centauran
Ehrwald
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Reutte district, Tyrol, Austria.
asequence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a- + sequence.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dyssynchrony.
synonyms: word: dyssynchrony
glosses: Synonym of arrhythmia.
synonyms: word: arrhythmia
asparaginic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Etymology: From asparagine + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of aspartic.
synonyms: word: aspartic
Derived terms: asparaginic acid
asparaginic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of aspartic acid.
synonyms: word: aspartic acid
gongfermor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gongfermors
Senses: examples: text: A gongfermor worked during the night cleaning the cities cesspits. The name gongfermor comes from the Saxon word gang meaning to go off, and fermor from fey, to cleanse.
ref: 1998, Julie L. Horan, Sitting Pretty: An Uninhibited History of the Toilet, Robson Books, page 33:
text: For the projecting garderobes as well as in cases where the internal toilet shafts deposited the waste into cesspits rather than a river or moat, the financial accounts for many noble households reveal routine payments to gongfermors, men who made their living by digging out and carting away the solid waste that accumulated in these pits and ditches. The payments also show that being a gongfermor was a well-paid profession.
ref: 2001, Paul B. Newman, Daily Life in the Middle Ages, McFarland & Company, page 142:
text: Peter the gongfermor inspects the castle toilets. He performs many tasks around the castle, mostly picking up trash and cleaning out the moat.
ref: 2008, Struan Reid, Castle Life, PowerKIDS Press, page 20:
glosses: Alternative form of gong farmer.
gongfermors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gongfermor
aspergillic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Aspergillus + -ic
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to aspergillic acid and its derivatives
aspergillic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The antibiotic 1-hydroxy-6-(2-butanyl)-3-isobutyl-2(1H)-pyrazinone
aspermatogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + spermatogenic.
Senses: glosses: That does not produce spermatozoa
Related terms: aspermatogenesis
aspidin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The toxic compound 2-butanoyl-4-[(3-butanoyl-2,6-dihydroxy-4-methoxy-5-methylphenyl)methyl]-3,5-dihydroxy-6,6-dimethylcyclohexa-2,4-dien-1-one found in aspidium
glosses: A spongy bonelike material that made up the skin of the jawless fish Astraspis
Related terms: galeaspidin
aspidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aspidiums
form: aspidia
Etymology: A genericized form of translingual Aspidium, from New Latin aspidium (“shield fern”) proposed by Schwartz in Schrader's Journal für die Botanik in 1800, from Ancient Greek ἀσπίς (aspís, “shield”) + -ium.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dryopteris: a member of a certain genus of ferns, including the male fern.
synonyms: word: dryopteris
extra: a member of a certain genus of ferns, including the male fern
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A vermifuge prepared from the dried male fern.
aspidinol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The compound 1-(2,6-dihydroxy-4-methoxy-3-methylphenyl)butan-1-one found in the rhizome of the male fern
aspidosamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid found in a quebracho
rules is rules
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rules are rules.
asporogenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + sporogenous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: That does not produce spores
asporous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + sporous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: That does not have spores
asporulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + sporulate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: That does not produce spores
gongfermour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gongfermours
Senses: examples: text: In other places it drops down a shute into a strategically positioned barrel, which it will be emptied by the castle gongfermour (latrine pit cleaner).
ref: 2008, Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, Vintage Books, page 161:
glosses: Alternative form of gong farmer.
gongfermours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gongfermour
gong scourer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gong scourers
form: gong-scourer
Etymology: Compound of gong (“outhouse”) + scourer.
Senses: examples: text: As you can imagine, the stench was unbearable and many gong scourers died from suffocation. When tobacco became available, many gong scourers adopted smoking, just to keep away the fumes.
ref: 2011, Mark Leigh, The Loo Companion: Are You Sitting Comfortably?, Michael O'Mara Books:
text: He was shocked and delighted to see the reaction of his friends and the lady they brought with them. “I am Ash, your new gong scourer at your service, my lord.” He bowed at the company before him.
ref: 2013, K. M. Snider, Betrayal of an Angel, XLibris, page 209:
text: A gong scourer (also gongfermor or gong farmer) was the man or boy who dug out and removed human faeces from privies and cesspits. Gong is derived from the Old English gang, meaning ‘to go’, and referred to both a privy and its contents.
ref: 2014, Terry Breverton, chapter 26, in Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Tudors but Were Afraid to Ask, Amberley Publishing:
glosses: One who dug out and removed human excrement from privies and cesspits.
Synonyms: gong farmer
Related terms: night soil man
gong scourers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gong scourer
gong-scourer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gong-scourers
Senses: examples: text: Gong-scourers were paid to go into these cesspits and scoop out the mess, which came in two layers: squidged-together solid goo at the bottom, and foul yellowy-brown liquid on top.
ref: 2005, Tony Robinson, The Worst Children's Jobs in History, Macmillan Children's Books, page 68:
glosses: Alternative form of gong scourer.
gong-scourers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gong-scourer
Teddington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛdɪŋtən/
Senses: glosses: A suburb of the borough of Richmond upon Thames, in south-west Greater London, historically in Middlesex on the north side of the River Thames (but actually west of it) (OS grid ref TQ1671).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Tewkesbury district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO9633).
glosses: A small settlement on Lyttelton Harbour, Canterbury, New Zealand.
Lyttelton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A town on Lyttelton Harbour, Canterbury, New Zealand, which is the nearest port to Christchurch.
defective matrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: defective matrices
Senses: examples: text: 1994, Sigal Ar, Jin-Yi Cai, Chapter 5: Reliable Benchmarks Using Numerical Stability, Proceedings of the Fifth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, Association for Computing Machinery, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, page 41,
An n x n matrix A is a defective matrix if it has a defective eigenvalue.
Obviously, a Jordan block of dimension greater than 1, and a matrix whose Jordan canonical form has a Jordan block of dimension greater than 1, are defective matrices.
text: Therefore, the sum of the geometric multiplicities of a defective matrix will be less than n.
ref: 2007, Thomas S. Shores, Applied Linear Algebra and Matrix Analysis, Springer, page 261:
text: Thus, defective matrices exhibit high sensitivity to imperfections.
It can be checked that the unperturbed matrices L* are in fact nearly-defective, because they have nearly-parallel eigenvectors. In particular, the matrices are themselves perturbations of order ε of exactly defective matrices L_(id).
ref: 2013, Angelo Luongo, “Mode Localization in Dynamics and Buckling of Linear Imperfect Continuous Structures”, in Alexander F. Vakakis, editor, Normal Modes and Localization in Nonlinear Systems, Springer, page 153:
topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A square (n×n) matrix that has fewer than n linearly independent eigenvectors, and is therefore not diagonalisable.
Related terms: characteristic polynomial
defective eigenvalue
defective matrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defective matrix
asthmogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more asthmogenic
form: most asthmogenic
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: That causes an asthmatic attack
astragalocalcanean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From astragalo- + calcanean.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the astragalus and the calcaneus
asyncronous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of asynchronous.
asynergic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + synergic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to asynergy
asystematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + systematic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Not systematic
by a landslide
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: I think he is going to win by a landslide.
text: USA beat Jamaica by a landslide in last night's game.
glosses: with big margins, with a huge difference
Derived terms: landslide victory
asystolia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of asystole.
ataxiagraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ataxiagraphs
Etymology: From ataxia + -graph.
Senses: glosses: An instrument that measures the degree of ataxia in a patient
Synonyms: ataxiameter
ataxiameter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ataxiameters
Etymology: From ataxia + -meter.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ataxiagraph.
synonyms: word: ataxiagraph
atebrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atebrines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of atabrine.
ateliotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to ateliosis
athrocytosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The localization is variable in focal germinal hypoplasia, athrocytosis, and Sertoli cell vacuolation.
ref: 1984, Manuel Nistal Martín de Serrano, Testicular and Epididymal Pathology, page 108:
glosses: The absorption of foreign material in the cytoplasm of some cells
Related terms: athrocyte
athrombia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A hereditary bleeding disorder
athyrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: athyroses
Senses: glosses: Synonym of athyroidism.
synonyms: word: athyroidism
Related terms: athyrotic
athyroidism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The congenital absence of a thyroid gland or suppression of its function
athyrotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + thyrotic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to athyrosis
atlantoepistrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From atlanto- + epistrophic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of atlantoaxial.
synonyms: word: atlantoaxial
atlo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of atlanto-.
atloaxoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From atlo- + axoid.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of atlantoaxial.
synonyms: word: atlantoaxial
atloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From atlo- + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of atlantooccipital.
synonyms: word: atlantooccipital
Derived terms: occipitoatloid
atmospherization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From atmosphere + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The conversion of venous into arterial blood
atopen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atopens
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Anything that induces an atopic allergy
atopognosia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a- + topo- + -gnosia.
Senses: examples: text: However, since patients with atopognosia can detect touch, initial sensory processing must be intact.
ref: 123, Yann Coello, Perceptual and Emotional Embodiment: Foundations of Embodied Cognition:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The inability to locate a sensation, especially a point of touch.
atractylate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A toxic glycoside isolated from thistles of the genus Atractylis
atresic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From atresia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to atresia
Shamus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Seamus.
Derived terms: shamus
microscoping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of microscope
microscoped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of microscope
forward bias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: a situation in which the p-type end of a p-n junction is connected to the positive terminal of a battery and vice versa
microscopize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: microscopizes
form: microscopizing
form: microscopized
form: microscopized
Etymology: From microscope + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To examine under a microscope (literally or figuratively); to microscope.
microscopizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of microscopize
microscopizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of microscopize
microscopized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of microscopize
window of discourse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windows of discourse
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The Overton window.
windows of discourse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of window of discourse
Chesterton's fence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a parable by G.K. Chesterton, suggesting that one should not remove a fence until one learns why it was erected in the first place.
Senses: qualifier: public policy
glosses: The principle that reforms should not be made until the reasoning behind the existing state of affairs is understood.
Chesterton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɛs.tə.tən/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɛs.tɚ.tən/
Forms: form: Chestertons
Etymology: From Chester + -ton. For the place in the United States, from a shortening of Westchester (the name of the township it belongs to) + -ton.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A number of places in England:
A suburb of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL4660).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, on the outskirts of Peterborough (OS grid ref TL1295).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A suburb of Cirencester, Cotswold district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SP0100).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire (OS grid ref SP5621).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Worfield parish, south-east Shropshire (OS grid ref SO7897).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A northern suburb of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ8349).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A small village in Chesterton and Kingston parish, Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwickshire (OS grid ref SP3558).
glosses: A town in Porter County, Indiana, United States.
Derived terms: Chesterton and Kingston
Chestertonian
Chesterton's fence
Chestertons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Chesterton
Spigelian lobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Spigelian lobes
Etymology: Named after Flemish anatomist Adriaan van den Spiegel (1578–1625).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The caudate lobe of the liver.
wikipedia: Adriaan van den Spiegel
it happens
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: John said, "I'm sorry for knocking you over." Linda said, "It's okay. It happens."
glosses: Worrying is not necessary, since it is common to make this mistake or for this to occur.
Synonyms: these things happen
Related terms: shit happens
these things happen
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of it happens.
synonyms: word: it happens
midboss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midbosses
Etymology: From mid- + boss.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: Synonym of miniboss.
synonyms: word: miniboss
midbosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midboss
atrichosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /eɪtɹɪˈkəʊsɪs/
Etymology: From a- + tricho- + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of atrichia.
synonyms: word: atrichia
atrioseptostomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atrioseptostomies
Etymology: From atrio- + septostomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The creation of a small hole between the atria of the heart
alpha cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alpha cells
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An acidophil of the adenohypophysis.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An endocrine cell, located in the islets of Langerhans of the pancreas, that synthesizes and secretes glucagon.
Related terms: beta cell
alpha cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alpha cell
alto recorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alto recorders
Etymology: From alto + recorder.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of treble recorder.
synonyms: word: treble recorder
Reutte
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and district in Tyrol, Austria.
Kufstein
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality in Tyrol, Austria, near the border with Germany.
glosses: An administrative district in Tyrol, with its headquarters in the town; in full, Kufstein District.
camoufleur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camoufleurs
Etymology: From French camoufleur.
Senses: glosses: A camouflage specialist of the First or Second World War.
blockflute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blockflutes
Etymology: From the fipple plug ("block") that constricts the mount of the instrument + flute. Corresponds to German Blockflöte, Dutch blokfluit, Danish blokfløjte, Swedish blockflöjt, Icelandic blokkflauta, Norwegian blokkfløyte.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musical instrument of the woodwind family constructed using a fipple plug; a recorder.
Synonyms: recorder
Derived terms: blockflutist
word class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: word classes
Etymology: From word + class.
Senses: examples: text: These lists differentiated terms according to word class (that is, a word with both a noun and adjective definition counted as two separate items in the list).
ref: 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 297:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: lexical category
glosses: A linguistic form class whose members are words.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: part of speech
glosses: A linguistic form or structure class whose members are words.
McGinley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McGinleys
form: McGinly
Etymology: Anglicized form of Irish Mac Fhionnghaile (“son of Fionnghal”), a personal name composed of the elements fionn (“fair”) + gal (“valor”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
with all one's heart
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: with all of one's heart
Senses: examples: text: I love you with all my heart.
text: Mr. Biden declared that he believed with “all of my heart” that he had made a wise decision.
ref: 2021 September 1, Michael D. Shear, Jim Tankersley, quoting Joe Biden, “Biden Defends Afghan Pullout and Declares an End to Nation-Building”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: With much sincerity.
examples: text: When Light had finished his story, his companion, Truth, said: "If you like, sister, we will turn in here and rest awhile; shall we?"
"With all my heart," she replied, so they went in and walked round the garden.
ref: 1900, Railway Signal: Or, Lights Along the Line, volume 18, page 173:
glosses: Very willingly.
Related terms: all heart
the bottom of one's heart
with all of one's heart
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of with all one's heart.
thyrotroph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thyrotrophs
Senses: examples: text: There is an influence arising in, or transmitted by, the hypothalamus, which reaches the anterior or adeno lobe by way of the pituitary stalk and has important stimulating effects on the thyrotrophs.
ref: 1964, Rosalind Pitt-Rivers, The Thyroid Gland, volume 2, page 7:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A thyrotrope.
TRH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: T. R. H.
form: T.R.H.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of thyrotropin-releasing hormone.
TRH
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Forms: form: T. R. H.
form: T.R.H.
Senses: examples: text: HOUSEHOLD OF TRH THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF YORK
ref: 1993, Vacher’s Parliamentary Companion, page 21:
text: The new building was opened finally by TRH the Prince and Princess of Wales, the future King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra in 1890.
ref: 2018, Sarah Quail, Struggle and Suffrage in Portsmouth: Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality, Pen & Sword History, →ISBN:
text: In the wake of the 1992 publication of Diana: Her True Story by Andrew Morton, TRH The Prince and Princess of Wales are now living separately.
ref: 2021, Sophie Green, Thursdays at Orange Blossom House, Sphere, →ISBN:
glosses: Initialism of Their Royal Highnesses.
SRH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of somatotropin-releasing hormone.
GHRH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of growth hormone-releasing hormone.
Related terms: GHIH
chromophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: chromophilous
glosses: Readily stained with dyes.
Related terms: chromophil
chromophile
chromophilia
hyperchromophilic
Villach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: anglicized
ipa: /ˈvɪlɑːk/
note: approximation of the German
ipa: /ˈfɪlɑːx/
Etymology: From German Villach, probably from Gaulish.
Senses: glosses: A statutory city in Carinthia, Austria.
superenergetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superenergetic
form: most superenergetic
Etymology: From super- + energetic.
Senses: examples: text: Unburdened by defensiveness, Ravel is able to figure the exotic in ways that are genuinely open to the energies of the other as well as appropriative of them. Those emergies find their culminating expression in the “General Dance” celebrating the union of Daphnis and Chloe. By organizing its dithyrambic whirl with an irregular meter, 5/4, the dance becomes an orgy of “false steps” utterly alien to the European tradition of superenergetic finales.
ref: 1996, Lawrence Kramer, Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge, →ISBN, page 222:
glosses: Highly energetic.
cits.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cit.
lifted off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lift off
Reye
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Spanish Reye
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Reyes
exp. date
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exp. dates
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of expiration date.
glosses: Abbreviation of expiry date.
exp. dates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exp. date
cetearyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cetostearyl.
synonyms: word: cetostearyl
cetylstearyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cetyl + stearyl.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cetostearyl.
synonyms: word: cetostearyl
hemianopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemianope
unchewably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unchewable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The old gum was unchewably stiff.
glosses: Such that it cannot be chewed.
cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Unknown. There is a discredited theory that it refers to a brass container for cannon balls on a British man-of-war, and a somewhat more plausible theory that "brass monkey" used to refer to a cannon on a man-of-war.
Senses: examples: text: It was a bitterly cold, snowy and wind-blown evening in early January when I told my son that it was, "Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey." Needless to say, he laughed and agreed with me.
ref: 2003, Douglas McLaughlin, The Back Porch Philosopher, →ISBN:
text: There were a few kids there already, and had a fire going on shore, some were huddled around the fire. I couldn't bame them, it was cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.
ref: 2008, Baka Imre, The Sound of Guns, →ISBN, page 44:
text: I know this was during coon hunting season so it must have been sometime in December. It was cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.
ref: 2012, Bud Crawford -, Down Home, →ISBN, page 46:
glosses: Extremely cold.
Related terms: brass monkey
shot garland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shot garlands
form: shot-garland
Senses: examples: text: Kydd went to the shot garland around the main hatch and rolled a ball on to the cradle.
ref: 2002, Julian Stockwin, Kydd: A Naval Adventure, →ISBN, page 214:
text: One 12 -pound shot was found resting in the shot garland in the bow and the other under the forward deck.
ref: 2002, John R. Bratten, The Gondola Philadelphia and the Battle of Lake Champlain, →ISBN, page 121:
text: A disaffected sailor is able to lift a cannon ball out of a shot garland and allow it to decide for itself what damage it will do.
ref: 2013, William Golding, To the Ends of the Earth, →ISBN:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A wooden or rope frame for holding shot, attached to the coamings or ledges of the deck of a ship.
shot garlands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shot garland
shot-garland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shot-garlands
Senses: examples: text: Half of it would be distributed fairly evenly along the ship in the shot-garlands; where he decided to stow the other ten tons would make all the difference to Atropos, could add a knot to her speed or reduce it by a knot, could make her stiff in a breeze or crank, handy or awkward under sail.
ref: 1953, C. S. Forester, Hornblower and the 'Atropos':
text: Note however the triangular shot-garlands for storing shot between each gun, and the two ringbolts inboard of each gun fastened to the binding-strakes.
ref: 1986, Jean Boudriot, The Seventy-four Gun Ship: Fitting out the hull, page 60:
text: Next came the shot: once removed from the shot-garland and handed to the loader, he "put it home" or "rammed it home," seating the shot against the wadding.
ref: 2006, Gail Selinger, W. Thomas Smith Jr., The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pirates, →ISBN, page 201:
glosses: Alternative form of shot garland.
shot-garlands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shot-garland
order up
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: "Order up." She snatched another order ticket from the pickup window and shouted to the women in the kitchen. "Three pigs on a bun! Two fries!"
ref: 2007, Joe Hilley, Night Rain, David C Cook, →ISBN, page 242:
text: “Order up!” yelled Carlos from the kitchen.
ref: 2009, B. C. Legans, Cerro, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 31:
text: A number of mechanisms have been devised to notify waitstaff that food is ready in the kitchen, ranging from a cook's shouting “Order up!” to bells, numbered lights on the wall, and, most recently, pagers.
ref: 2015, Yahong Zhang, Dennis F. Galletta, Human-computer Interaction and Management Information Systems: Foundations, Routledge, →ISBN, page 126:
glosses: Especially at restaurants, called when someone's food order is ready to be retrieved or served.
order up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: orders up
form: ordering up
form: ordered up
form: ordered up
Senses: examples: text: His unit was ordered up last Tuesday.
glosses: To summon for military duty.
examples: text: I ordered up a plate of ribs for us.
glosses: To place an order for (something).
orders up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of order up
ordering up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of order up
ordered up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of order up
mindswap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mindswaps
Etymology: From mind + swap.
Senses: topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: Synonym of bodyswap.
synonyms: word: bodyswap
Derived terms: mindswapping
mindswaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mindswap
mindswapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mind + swapping.
Senses: topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: Synonym of bodyswapping.
synonyms: word: bodyswapping
state and ancientry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] wooing, wedding, and repenting, is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig, and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly-modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and, with his bad legs, falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.
ref: c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing:
text: So he and Miss Vezzis were married with great state and ancientry; and now there are several little D'Cruzes sprawling about the verandahs of the Central Telegraph Office.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, His Chance in Life:
text: He had seen her but in places comparatively great—in her aunt's pompous house, under the high trees of Kensington and the storied ceilings of Venice. He had seen her, in Venice, on a great occasion, as the centre itself of the splendid Piazza: he had seen her there, on a still greater one, in his own poor rooms, which yet had consorted with her, having state and ancientry even in their poorness; but Mrs. Condrip's interior, even by this best view of it and though not flagrantly mean, showed itself as a setting almost grotesquely inapt.
ref: 1902, Henry James, The Wings of the Dove:
text: The world there was at the same time, by an odd extension or intensification, the local present fact, to my small imagination, of the Second Empire, which was (for my notified consciousness) new and queer and perhaps even wrong, but on the spot so amply radiant and elegant that it took to itself, took under its protection with a splendour of insolence, the state and ancientry of the whole scene, profiting thus, to one's dim historic vision, confusedly though it might be, by the unparalleled luxury and variety of its heritage.
ref: 1913, Henry James, A Small Boy and Others:
glosses: Dignified, old-fashioned style.
taking cover
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take cover
took cover
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take cover
taken cover
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take cover
unautomatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + automatable.
Senses: examples: text: Those who are dependent upon their command-and-control decisions find themselves in progressively weaker positions, pitted against each other globally, and forced to accept shrinking compensation for their efforts (assuming that compensation is offered in the first place). Of the two groups, the cybergeoisie reside in the 'big house' of the global latifundia, providing indispensable, presently unautomatable command-and-control functions.
ref: 1999, Mike Featherstone, Scott Lash, Spaces of Culture: City, Nation, World, SAGE, →ISBN, page 76:
text: The difficulty of integration is almost always related to several manual steps and synchronization of different versions of code bases, libraries, and other resources to deliver a working product. There is nothing inherently unautomatable about these steps.
ref: 2008, Amr Elssamadisy, Agile Adoption Patterns: A Roadmap to Organizational Success, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN, page 191:
text: Some of the processes involved in a business environment are not included in the automation because some sort of human decision is needed. With the growing complexity of information systems - especially studies into decision support systems and artificial intelligence - some human decision-making processes can actually be automated. This is the future goal of BPM, to further automate previously unautomatable processes.
ref: 2016, Aiden Sisko, The Quick Business Optimizations Handbook: Explode Your Income, Plug The Leaks In Record Time!, JNR Publishing via PublishDrive, →ISBN:
glosses: Unable to be automated; not automatable.
butylcarbamate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butylcarbamates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any N-butyl derivative of a carbamate
Derived terms: iodopropynyl butylcarbamate
butylcarbamates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butylcarbamate
going to bed with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go to bed with
went to bed with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go to bed with
gone to bed with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go to bed with
atropinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Etymology: From atropine + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or having similar properties to that of atropine
atticotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atticotomies
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: An operation to treat cholesteatoma
aureolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to aureolic acid or its derivatives
aureolic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of plicamycin.
synonyms: word: plicamycin
auriculopalpebral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auriculo- + palpebral.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the auricle and the eyelids
Derived terms: auriculopalpebral nerve
auriculoventricular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auriculo- + ventricular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the auricles and the ventricles (of the heart).
auropalpebral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auro- + palpebral.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the eyelid's response to noise
Derived terms: auropalpebral reflex
Scharnitz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality on the German border in Innsbruck-Land district, Tyrol, Austria.
particle statistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see particle, statistics.
examples: text: This circumstance, which is much different from classical particle statistics, reflects the way in which states are counted in Bose-Einstein statistics.
ref: 1984, P. W. Milonni, “Wave-Particle Duality of Light: A Current Perspective”, in S. Diner, D. Fargue, G. Lochak, F. Selleri, editors, The Wave-Particle Dualism: A Tribute to Louis de Broglie on his 90th Birthday, D. Reidel Publishing, page 38:
text: 1990, Jurg Frohlich, Quantum Statistics and Locality, D. G. Caldi, George D. Mostow (editors), Proceedings of the Gibbs Symposium: Yale University, May 15-17, 1989, American Mathematical Society, American Institute of Physics, page 93,
A choice of particle statistics in quantum mechanics is equivalent to choosing representations Uₙ, of π₁(Mₙ), for all n, in the quantization procedure described in §1.2; see (1.3).
Thus, for a system of point particles in d > 3 dimensional, physical space, particle statistics is described by the symmetry character of wave functions under permutations of particle positions.
text: The path dependence of the interchange is all important since it relates the quantum mechanical concept of particle statistics to the topology of the configuration space.
ref: 2005, Avinash Khare, Fractional Statistics and Quantum Theory, 2nd edition, World Scientific, page 5:
qualifier: statistical mechanics; quantum mechanics; statistical mechanics; quantum mechanics
glosses: Any of certain theories, in classical physics or (particularly) quantum mechanics, that model the behaviour of collections of particles of identical type.
Related terms: Bose-Einstein statistics
classical statistics
Fermi–Dirac statistics
Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics
quantum statistics
Mallnitz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Carinthia, Austria.
Akaroa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town on Akaroa Harbour, Banks Peninsula, Canterbury, New Zealand.
Bischofshofen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in the state of Salzburg, Austria.
left join
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: left joins
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of left outer join.
Hypernyms: outer join
right join
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: right joins
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of right outer join.
Hypernyms: outer join
left joins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of left join
right joins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of right join
right outer joins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of right outer join
left outer joins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of left outer join
left outer join
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: left outer joins
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A join yielding a set of records for two tables, where all rows of the "left" table are enlisted with all rows of the "right" table, even if the join condition does not find any matching row on the "right".
Synonyms: left join
Hypernyms: outer join
right outer join
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: right outer joins
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A join yielding a set of records for two tables, where all rows of the "right" table are enlisted with all rows of the "left" table, even if the join condition does not find any matching row on the "left".
Synonyms: right join
Hypernyms: outer join
full outer join
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: full outer joins
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A join yielding a set of records for two tables, where all rows of the "left" table are enlisted with all rows of the "right" table, even if the join condition does not find any matching row on the "left" or on the "right" table.
Synonyms: full join
Hypernyms: outer join
full outer joins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outer joins
Senses: glosses: plural of full outer join
full join
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: full joins
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of full outer join.
Hypernyms: outer join
full joins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of full join
wyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wynes
Senses: examples: text: With wyld foull, venisoun, and wyne,
With tairt, and flam, and frutage fyne
ref: a. 1555, David Lyndsay, The Historie and Testament of Squyer Meldrum:
glosses: Obsolete form of wine.
smur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /smɜː/
note: UK, rhotic
ipa: /smɜːɹ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Forms: form: smurs
form: smurr
form: smirr
form: smir
Etymology: Uncertain; possibly related to smoor. Compare Scottish Gaelic smùr (“dross, dust”).
Senses: glosses: Drizzle, light rain, fine drizzle that hangs in the air and does not actually precipitate.
Derived terms: smurry
smur
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /smɜː/
note: UK, rhotic
ipa: /smɜːɹ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Forms: form: smurs
form: smurring
form: smurred
form: smurred
form: smurr
form: smirr
form: smir
Etymology: Uncertain; possibly related to smoor. Compare Scottish Gaelic smùr (“dross, dust”).
Senses: glosses: To drizzle, to rain lightly and finely.
smurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smur
smurs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of smur
smurring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of smur
smurred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of smur
girosol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: girosols
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of girasol (“fire opal”).
girosols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of girosol
rippier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rippiers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ripper (“one who brings fish from the seacoast to markets in inland towns”).
rippiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rippier
auditory tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auditory tubes
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The Eustachian tube.
Exner's plexus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Exner's plexuses
Etymology: Named after Austrian physiologist Sigmund Exner (1846–1926).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A plexus of superficial tangential nerve fibers in the molecular layer of the cerebral cortex.
wikipedia: Sigmund Exner
mesopharynx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesopharynxes
form: mesopharynges
Etymology: From meso- + pharynx.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The oropharynx.
Related terms: mesopharyngeal
aurovertin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aurovertins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of proteins that inhibits respiration
autoagglutinin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoagglutinins
Etymology: From auto- + agglutinin.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: An antibody that agglutinates red blood cells
autoallergic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- + allergic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or causing autoallergy
Pearline
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pearleen
form: Pearlene
Etymology: Coined at the end of the 19th century from Pearl + -ine. Compare Pauline, Earline.
Senses: glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage.
Pearlene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A variant of Pearline.
Senses: glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage.
tidal flat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tidal flats
Senses: glosses: The bed of a tidal river, estuary, or shallow sea such as the Wadden Sea which is uncovered at low tide.
Related terms: mudflat
riverbed
seabed
tidal flats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tidal flat