cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
oxirane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxiranes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A three-membered heterocycle having two carbon atoms and one oxygen atom; ethylene oxide
pregnane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pregnanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The parent hydrocarbon for a range of steroids including the progesterones
happenchance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: happenchances
Etymology: Apparently from happen + chance, perhaps influenced by happenstance.
Senses: examples: text: It may be that some day I will find a respectable population of shells, but that will be mere happenchance.
ref: 1955, Henry van der Schalie, quoting Goodrich, “Calvin Goodrich, 1874-1954”, in University of Michigan Summer Session 1955 Announcement, page 12:
glosses: Coincidence.
Synonyms: hapchance
happenstance
happenchance
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Apparently from happen + chance, perhaps influenced by happenstance.
Senses: examples: text: The advent of the Son in the flesh is no happenchance occurrence: it has a hinterland of deliberate and necessary preparation.
ref: 2017, Iain MacKenzie, Irenaeus's Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching, page 142:
glosses: Characterized by happenstance; chance; fortunate or unfortunate.
acyanophilous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more acyanophilous
form: most acyanophilous
Etymology: From a- + cyanophilous.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having cell walls that do not readily absorb cotton blue stain.
cyanophilous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having cell walls that readily absorb cotton blue stain.
aequihymeniiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aequihymeniiferous
form: most aequihymeniiferous
Etymology: From aequi- + hymenium + -iferous. Coined by mycologist Arthur Henry Reginald Buller in 1909.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having basidia maturing all over the surface of each lamella at once, not leaving patches of less matured spores.
MIS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Military Intelligence Service (United States).
examples: text: MIS 3 is used to refer to the period between 57 and 70 thousand years ago.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of marine isotope stage, a timescale.
MIS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: hypernyms: system#Noun
glosses: Initialism of management information system.
hypernyms: invert sugar#Noun
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sugar#Noun
<
carbohydrate#Noun
carb
glosses: Initialism of medium invert sugar.
hypernyms: surgery#Noun
glosses: Initialism of minimally invasive surgery.
hypernyms: statement#Noun
<
document#Noun
glosses: Initialism of mortgage interest statement.
hypernyms: hormone#Noun
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substance#Noun
glosses: Initialism of müllerian inhibiting substance.
agaricologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæɡəɹɪˈkɒlədʒɪst/
Forms: form: agaricologists
Etymology: agaricolog(y) + -ist
Senses: glosses: A person who studies, professes or practices agaricology.
mook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /muːk/
rhymes: -uːk
Forms: form: mooks
Etymology: From the 1930s, origin unknown. Suggestions include a variant of British slang moke (“donkey”); a variant of US slang mooch (“a sponger, beggar, idler”); Irish muc (“pig”); Dutch mok, German Mocke, Mucke (both dialectal for “sow” and hence “slovenly or bothersome woman/person”); a corruption of Italian mammalucco (“fool”, literally “mamluk”).
Senses: glosses: A disagreeable or incompetent person.
topics: games
gaming
glosses: An anonymous foe that appears in large numbers and is readily dispatched by the hero.
Derived terms: mookish
mook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /muːk/
rhymes: -uːk
ipa: /mʊk/
rhymes: -ʊk
ipa: /muːk/
rhymes: -uːk
Forms: form: mooks
Etymology: Blend of magazine + book, nowadays a reborrowing from Japanese ムック (mukku).
Senses: glosses: A book published in the form factor of a magazine.
Synonyms: bookazine
mag book
Related terms: mook jong
agaricology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˌɡæɹɪˈkɒləd͡ʒi/
Etymology: From agaric + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The study of agarics.
allantoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allantoids
Etymology: From French allantoïde, and its source, Renaissance Latin allantoides, from Koine Greek ἀλλαντοειδής (allantoeidḗs, “sausage-shaped”), from Ancient Greek ἀλλᾶς (allâs, “sausage”). By surface analysis, allant- + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: The allantoide in some animals seems to have become extinct; in others is above tenfold the size, which would seem necessary for its purpose.
ref: 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 8:
topics: embryology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The allantois.
allantoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more allantoid
form: most allantoid
Etymology: From French allantoïde, and its source, Renaissance Latin allantoides, from Koine Greek ἀλλαντοειδής (allantoeidḗs, “sausage-shaped”), from Ancient Greek ἀλλᾶς (allâs, “sausage”). By surface analysis, allant- + -oid.
Senses: topics: embryology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Allantoic.
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Sausage-shaped; especially with reference to fungal spores that are long with rounded ends.
Derived terms: suballantoid
whatsay
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: what say
Etymology: Contraction of what + say
Senses: examples: text: "Did you finish mowing the lawn?" / "Whatsay?"
glosses: What did (what'd) you say
whatsay
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: what say
Etymology: Contraction of what + say
Senses: examples: text: Whatsay to splitting the cost with me?
text: Whatsay we split the cost?
glosses: Used to introduce a proposal
examples: text: Whatsay you, my Lord?
text: Whatsay our friends to our new allies?
glosses: What say
for now
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: That's enough for now, we can continue our conversation tomorrow.
text: For now the real climate-change refugees may be living not above sea level but below it. Researchers[…]have found that, since 1970, stocks of some fish species have gradually been moving towards the world’s colder regions.[…]The world’s fish stocks, it seems, are heralding a migration that may one day occur above the seas too.
ref: 2013 August 31, “Sea change”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8851:
synonyms: for the present
for the moment
for the time being
glosses: At the moment (suggesting a deferral of the likelihood of change).
beaky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːki/
Forms: form: beakier
form: beakiest
Etymology: From beak + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Jim Carrey tells John Hiscock about his beaky new co-stars in 'Mr Popper's Penguins' and how he made it big.
ref: 2011 June 30, The Telegraph:
glosses: Beaked: having a beak.
examples: text: beaky nose
text: […] Hector thunder'd threats aloud,
And rush'd enraged before the Trojan crowd;
Then swift invades the ships, whose beaky prores
Lay rank'd contiguous on the bending shores;
ref: 1718, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, “Book XV”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume IV, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:
text: […] he emerged from the signals room with his drooping mustache, his beaky nose, his stupid, staring eyes […]
ref: 1972, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, chapter 25, in H. T. Willetts, transl., August 1914, published 1971, page 238:
synonyms: beaklike
beakish
glosses: Beak-like: resembling a beak.
examples: text: beaky face
text: "[…] You haven't a nose like mine. I'll be as beaky as Father in ten more years. […]"
ref: 1936, L. M. Montgomery, chapter 15, in Anne of Windy Poplars:
text: The two men, who for more than sixty years had never been very much out of touch, were quite similar in appearance: spare of form, with beaky, weathered faces and strands of whitening hair.
ref: 1964, William Trevor, chapter 3, in Three Early Novels, Penguin, published 2000, page 22:
glosses: Having a nose which resembles a beak.
examples: text: 1929, D. H. Lawrence, The Escaped Cock, published as The Man Who Died, London: Heinemann, 1931, pp. 34-35, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700631h.html
And always the man who had died saw not the bird alone, but the short, sharp wave of life of which the bird was the crest. He watched the queer, beaky motion of the creature as it gobbled into itself the scraps of food; its glancing of the eye of life, ever alert and watchful […]
text: If you put your hand on [the hens], they flattened their feathers to their bodies and their bodies down on their eggs and gave beaky growls.
ref: 1942, Emily Carr, “The Cow Yard”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:
coordinate_terms: nasally#Adjective
nasal
glosses: Made using a beak; (of a sound) produced through a beak. (of a gesture)
Synonyms: beaked
rostrate
rostrated
rostellate
Derived terms: beakiness
Related terms: sneaky beaky
pregnene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pregnenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any derivative of pregnane having a double bond in the A-ring
Related terms: pregnadiene
cortisone
hydrocortisone
progesterone
pregnadiene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pregnadienes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any derivative of pregnane having double bonds in both the A- and B-rings
Related terms: pregnene
cyproterone
danazol
fluocinonide
taskmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taskmaster
battery cage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: battery cages
Etymology: From battery + cage.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A small cage in which a hen is kept to lay eggs.
absent referent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: absent referents
Etymology: absent + referent
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
glosses: The condition of a sign which has an empty, absent, non-existent, paradoxical, hypothetical, supernatural, or undefined referent, such as nothing, null, vacuum, or void.
cable tie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cable ties
Senses: synonyms: strap
zip tie
mouse belt
tie wrap
quick draw
rat belt
glosses: A type of fastener, especially for binding several electronic cables or wires together.
protostane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protostanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A steroid hydrocarbon tetramethyl-nor-cholestane that is a precursor of many triterpenoids and other steroids
rubijervine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A toxic plant steroid derived from solanidanine
solanidanine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A plant steroid that occurs in the form of toxic glycosides.
Related terms: solanidine
sapogenin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sapogenins
Etymology: From sapo- + -genin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The steroid constituent of the glycoside saponin
predicate logic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: predicate logics
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The generic term for symbolic formal systems like first-order logic, second-order logic, many-sorted logic or infinitary logic.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: First-order logic.
Hyponyms: first-order logic
second-order logic
many-sorted logic
infinitary logic
Derived terms: monadic predicate logic
Related terms: predicate calculus
secosteroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secosteroids
Etymology: From Latin seco (“to cut”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of the subclass of many terpenoid compounds of the tetracyclic steroid class that are structural relatives bearing a cleavage of one of the four rings of that parent class. The prototypical secosteroid is cholecalciferol, vitamin D3.
Related terms: secosteroidal
monadic predicate logic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monadic predicate logics
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The fragment of predicate logic in which all predicate letters are monadic (that is, they take only one argument), and there are no function letters.
smilagenin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A derivative of sapogenin that is used medically to treat cognitive dysfunction
light-dependent resistor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: light-dependent resistors
form: light dependent resistor
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A photoresistor.
stigmastane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stigmastanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The steroid hydrocarbon that is the parent compound of sitosterol
sitosterol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sitosterols
Etymology: From sito- + sterol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a range of plant sterols used to prepare steroid hormones.
Derived terms: beta-sitosterol
Related terms: sitosterone
strophanthidin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A cardenolide found in species of the genus Strophanthus.
tigogenin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A steroid saponin found in fenugreek.
Derived terms: neotigogenin
tirucallane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tirucallanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A triterpenoid saponin found in euphorbia and other plants
veratramine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A teratogenic steroid alkaloid found in plants of the genus Veratrum
anisotropies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anisotropy
bandshape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bandshapes
Etymology: From band + shape.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The shape (distribution of strengths with frequency) of a band of electromagnetic radiation
Related terms: bandwidth
Fourier transform
biaxiality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From biaxial + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being biaxial.
biaxial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + axial.
Senses: glosses: Having two axes.
topics: astronomy
mathematics
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having two axes of rotation and two planes of symmetry (e.g. having the shape of a spheroid)
examples: mapping the shape of the Earth onto a biaxial ellipsoid
glosses: Along two axes; e.g. in engineering, a shear or compression text of a material along two axes
glosses: Having a value in two perpendicular directions. (In solid mechanics, it generally means that normal stresses exist in two of the possible three directions, though not necessarily equal in sign or magnitude.)
Derived terms: biaxiality
biaxially
equibiaxial
Related terms: coaxial
monoaxial
uniaxial
triaxial
breviation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breviations
Senses: glosses: abbreviation
collisional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From collision + -al.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of or pertaining to collisions (especially between particles)
Derived terms: collisionality
collisionally
multicollisional
noncollisional
postcollisional
precollisional
cylindrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cylindrically
form: most cylindrically
Etymology: From cylindrical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of a cylinder
glosses: With cylindrical symmetry
deuterochloroform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deutero- + chloroform.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A deuterated form of chloroform that is used as a solvent in NMR spectroscopy
diagonalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: diagonalizes
form: diagonalizing
form: diagonalized
form: diagonalized
form: diagonalise
Etymology: From diagonal + -ize.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To convert a square matrix into a diagonal matrix by multiplying it by a second matrix and its inverse.
examples: text: And what we should do, therefore, is to diagonalize the variables—we should find some new design variables such that design problems only bear upon subsets of them that are loosely coupled to others, like the subsystems of ten lights in the example.
ref: 2017, Andrew Pickering, “Ross Ashby”, in The Cybernetic Brain, University of Chicago Press, published 2010, →ISBN, page 159:
qualifier: cybernetics
glosses: To design variables such that design problems only bear upon subsets that are loosely coupled to others.
Derived terms: diagonalizability
diagonalizable
diagonalization
rediagonalize
Related terms: diagonalizer
hexamethylbenzene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkyl derivative of benzene in which every hydrogen atom has been replaced by a methyl group
aniso-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: /əˌnaɪsə(ʊ)/
Etymology: Representing a combining form of Ancient Greek ἄνισος (ánisos, “unequal”), equivalent to an- + iso-.
Senses: glosses: unequal; not the same; not the selfsame: forming compounds words; often formed to contrast with similar words in iso-).
Synonyms: iso- § Antonyms
homonuclear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homo- + nuclear.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having atoms of only one element, especially having elements of only a single isotope.
raw_tags: of a molecule
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Taking place within the same ring of a compound.
raw_tags: of a reaction etc
interconvert
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: interconverts
form: interconverting
form: interconverted
form: interconverted
Etymology: From inter- + convert.
Senses: glosses: To convert mutually one into another
Related terms: interconversion
magnetogyric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more magnetogyric
form: most magnetogyric
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: gyromagnetic
microcrystalline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more microcrystalline
form: most microcrystalline
Etymology: From micro- + crystalline.
Senses: glosses: Composed of microscopic crystals
Derived terms: microcrystalline wax
headshunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headshunts
form: head shunt
Etymology: From head + shunt.
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A short length of track, provided to release locomotives at terminal platforms, or to allow shunting to take place clear of main lines.
Synonyms: word: escape track
Related terms: shunting neck
shunt spur
run-round
molecularly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From molecular + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a molecular manner.
glosses: With regard to molecules.
Derived terms: equimolecularly
supramolecularly
nondeuterated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + deuterated.
Senses: glosses: That has not been deuterated
proportionalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proportionality
quadrupolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quadrupolar
form: most quadrupolar
form: quadropolar
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a quadrupole
receptivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of receptivity
shimmed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Fitted with shims
topics: games
pool
glosses: Having shims that reduce its size
raw_tags: of a pocket
Derived terms: unshimmed
shimmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shim
silapentane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silapentanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several compound in which one or more carbon atoms of pentane have been replaced by silicon
tetramethylsilane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetramethylsilanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The organosilicon compound Si(CH₃)₄ that has several industrial applications and is used as a reference standard in NMR spectroscopy.
trimethylsilyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trimethylsilyls
Senses: examples: text: These arise through re-addition of the initially formed palladium hydride and subsequent antielimination of the trimethylsilyl and palladium moieties.
ref: 1995, Alan Roy Katritzky, Otto Meth-Cohn, Stanley Michael Roberts, Comprehensive organic functional group transformations, page 490:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The organosilicon radical (CH₃)₃Si-
Derived terms: trimethylsilyl chloride
bicyclics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bicyclic
multicyclic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multicyclic
form: most multicyclic
Etymology: From multi- + cyclic.
Senses: glosses: Having several cycles
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having several rings of atoms; polycyclic
noncovalent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + covalent.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a form of bonding between large molecules that does not involve discrete bonds between pairs of atoms
pluricyclic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pluri- + cyclic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Forming rings of several sizes
polymacrocyclic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + macrocyclic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Consisting of several large rings of atoms
binary distribution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binary distributions
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A distribution of software containing executable binaries, without source code.
topics: mathematics
probability-theory
sciences
statistics
glosses: Bernoulli distribution.
polyoctenamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyoctenamers
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A cyclic polymer of octyne cyclo[poly(oct-1-ene-1,8-diyl)] that is used to make a synthetic rubber
hardhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑɹdˌhɛd/
Forms: form: hardheads
Etymology: From hard + head.
Senses: glosses: One who is practical or hardheaded.
glosses: A brown diving duck, Aythya australis, native to Australia.
glosses: Any of certain saltwater sciaenid (Sciaenidae) fishes.
glosses: Mylopharodon conocephalus of fresh waters in California.
glosses: Any of several weeds in or formerly classified in the genus Centaurea, especially Russian knapweed (Acroptilon repens).
topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Residual ore that failed to melt during a smelting process.
examples: text: Both play at hardhead till they break their brains
ref: 1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
glosses: Clash or collision of heads in contest.
glosses: A Scottish billon coin circulated in the reigns of Mary and James VI.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Ariopsis felis
word: hardhead catfish
Related terms: hardhat
drumhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drumheads
Etymology: From drum + -head.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of drum head.
mophead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mopheads
Etymology: From mop + head.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mop head.
glosses: A mophead hydrangea, certain bigleaf hydrangeas (Hydrangea macrophylla).
-niki
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Russian -ники (-niki).
Senses: glosses: plural of -nik
-im
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew ־ים (-ím).
Senses: examples: text: seraph + -im → seraphim
text: rabbi + -im → rabbanim
text: cherub + -im → cherubim
glosses: Used to form plurals in words derived from Hebrew.
wire fox terrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wire fox terriers
Senses: glosses: A breed of fox terrier having a coarse coat with a dense, wiry texture.
propellor head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: propellor heads
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of propeller head.
propellerhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: propellerheads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of propeller head.
first-order logic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first-order logics
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A formal deductive system extended from propositional logic with the possibility to quantify over individuals of the domain of discourse.
Synonyms: FOL
Hypernyms: predicate logic
FOL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Initialism of first-order logic.
CTFO
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Personally, I don't much give a shit how much some of you may dislike some others, but sweet baby jesus, Chill The Fuck Out, would ya? ... If ya gotta do it, do it; but CTFO a little, eh?
ref: 2006, Joe F. "rb608", “OT: CTFO Rant”, in rec.outdoors.fishing.fly (Usenet):
glosses: Initialism of chill the fuck out.
propositional logic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: propositional logics
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: propositional calculus
zero-order logic
hypernyms: logic
glosses: A formal deductive system in which formulae representing propositions can be formed by combining atomic propositions using logical connectives.
mixed metaphor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mixed metaphors
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An overreaching, contradictory or incongruous combination of two distinct metaphors, similes or idioms.
Related terms: malaphor
TBHQ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tBHQ
Etymology: Initialism of tert-butylhydroquinone or of tertiary butylhydroquinone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular preservative of fats and oils, used in food.
aquamolality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aquamolalities
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: solvomolality in the case of water as solvent
Related terms: aquamolal
solvomolality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solvomolalities
Etymology: From solvent and molality.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A measure of the comparative solubility of a material in a mixture of a solvent and a reference solvent.
binodal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + nodal.
Senses: glosses: Having two nodes
Derived terms: binodal curve
binodal plot
catatectic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛktɪk
Forms: form: more catatectic
form: most catatectic
Senses: glosses: metatectic
pierhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pierheads
Etymology: From pier + head.
Senses: examples: text: It came floating like a tethered cloud past the little white toy-like lighthouse at the pierhead.
ref: 1976, Angela Carter, “My Father's House”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 21:
text: Here on Papay folk will speak slowly and sympathetically in a one-to-one conversation with a 'soothmoother', but if you're on the fringes of a pierhead debate about the price of cattle or the weather, then you'll soon be submerged beneath a fast-flowing terminological tidal wave.
ref: 1996, Jim Hewitson, Clinging to the Edge: Journals from an Orkney Island, page 41:
glosses: The end of a pier farthest from shore.
Derived terms: pierhead line
pierhead line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pierhead lines
Senses: glosses: A line in a navigable waterway established by the Army Corps of Engineers, beyond which a pier cannot project.
Related terms: bulkhead line
metatectic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛktɪk
Forms: form: more metatectic
form: most metatectic
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing isothermal reversible transformation of a solid mixture phase into a different solid phase plus a liquid phase during cooling; i.e. a partial melting during cooling
Synonyms: catatectic
bulkhead line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bulkhead lines
Senses: glosses: An officially set line along a shoreline, usually outside of the dry land, to demark a territory allowable to be treated as dry land, to separate the jurisdictions of dry land and water authorities, for construction and riparian activities, to establish limits to the allowable obstructions to navigation, etc.
glosses: A line in a navigable waterway established by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, beyond which solid fill is not permitted.
Related terms: pierhead line
connodal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of conodal.
conodal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + nodal.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing the straight line (tie-line) connecting compositions of independent coexisting phases in equilibrium on a phase diagram.
consolute
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more consolute
form: most consolute
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing liquids that are totally miscible in all proportions
Derived terms: english: cloud point
translation: cloud point
word: consolute point
word: nonconsolute
consolute point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consolute points
Senses: glosses: cloud point
correlations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of correlation
diffusional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From diffusion + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to diffusion.
Derived terms: diffusionally
electrodiffusional
subdiffusional
smooth fox terrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smooth fox terriers
Senses: glosses: A breed of fox terrier having a smooth, flat, but hard and dense coat.
Related terms: fox terrier
alutaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌæljʊˈteɪʃəs/
/ˌæləˈteɪʃəs/
Forms: form: more alutaceous
form: most alutaceous
Etymology: Latin alutacius, from aluta (“soft leather”).
Senses: examples: text: Elytra a little longer than wide conjointly, finely striate, intervals with a row of moderately coarse elongate punctures each bearing a semierect hair, surface subgranularly alutaceous.
ref: 1877, Transactions of the American Entomological Society, volume VI, page 286:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: leathery in color or texture.
amanitoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amanitoid
form: most amanitoid
Etymology: From amanita + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing a mushroom with free or finely adnexed gills, a volva, and an annulus.
amygdaliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈmɪɡˌdə.lɪ.fɔː(ɹ)m/
Forms: form: more amygdaliform
form: most amygdaliform
Etymology: From amygdal- + -iform.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Shaped like an almond.
Related terms: amygdala
-form
anastomose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈnæs.təˌmoʊz/
Forms: form: anastomoses
form: anastomosing
form: anastomosed
form: anastomosed
form: anastamose
Senses: examples: text: Happisburgh's humans discarded their stone tools close to one of several anastomosing, slow-flowing low-energy rivers, all of which meandered across a floodplain into a large estuary.
ref: 2014 [2013], Rob Dinnis, Chris Stringer, Britain: One million years of human history, London: Natural History Museum, →ISBN, page 31:
qualifier: blood vessels
glosses: To join (two or more things) by anastomosis, to interconnect forming a network.
raw_tags: of streams and rivers
examples: text: Within eukaryotic cells, distant branches of the tree of life entwine and melt into an inseparable new lineage; they fuse, or anastomose, as fungal hyphae do.
ref: 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 92:
qualifier: blood vessels
glosses: To join by anastomosis.
raw_tags: of rivers
Synonyms: interconnect
interjoin
Related terms: anastomosis
anastomose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈnæs.təˌmoʊz/
Forms: form: more anastomose
form: most anastomose
form: anastamose
Senses: topics: biology
botany
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Joined or run together; interconnected.
qualifier: etc
glosses: Joined or run together, ramified, interconnected.
raw_tags: of rivers
logomachies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of logomachy
anastomosing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈnæs.təˌmoʊ.zɪŋ/
Senses: examples: text: Happisburgh's humans discarded their stone tools close to one of several anastomosing, slow-flowing low-energy rivers, all of which meandered across a floodplain into a large estuary.
ref: 2014 [2013], Rob Dinnis, Chris Stringer, Britain: One million years of human history, London: Natural History Museum, →ISBN, page 31:
glosses: present participle and gerund of anastomose
anastomosing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈnæs.təˌmoʊ.zɪŋ/
Senses: examples: text: It is also generally marked above by flexuose anastomosing black, indented lines, whence it appears as if insculpt with rivulose sutures.
ref: 1894, James M. Crombie, A Monograph of Lichens Found in Britain, page 329:
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Fused together in a vein-like network; used to describe mushroom gills that are interconnected with veins.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Networked into irregularly branching and reconnecting veins of ore.
indemnifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of indemnify
indemnifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of indemnify
indemnified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of indemnify
anellarioid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a brittle stem, attached gills and an annulus, but no volva.
Synonyms: galerinoid
angular-nodulose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more angular-nodulose
form: most angular-nodulose
Etymology: From angular + nodulose.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Used to describe spores which are angular and have prominent bumps or growths protruding at the angles.
angular-tubercate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more angular-tubercate
form: most angular-tubercate
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Used to describe spores which are angular and have small bumps or growths protruding at the angles.
incompetents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incompetent
indemnities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indemnity
internships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of internship
annular zone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: annular zones
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: A ring of fibers on the stem of a mushroom that is not well enough defined to be called an annulus.
insurgencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insurgency
apical annulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: An annulus near the top of a mushroom’s stem
attached annulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: An annulus which is fixed to the stem of a mushroom and is not movable.
chanteurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chanteur
bérets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of béret
double annulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: An annulus with two layers of tissue.
buffles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbʌfəlz/
Senses: glosses: plural of buffle
single annulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: An annulus with just one layer of tissue.
bics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bic
boulangeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boulangerie
cachettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cachette
chambres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chambre
chanteuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chanteuse
apical germ pore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apical germ pores
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: A small pore in the outer wall of a fungal spore which is located at the spore apex, opposite the hilar appendage and used for germination.
apiculus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪkjʊləs
Forms: form: apiculi
Etymology: From Latin apiculus, from apex.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: The part of a spore which attaches to the sterigmata at the end of a basidium.
Synonyms: hilar appendage
appendiculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more appendiculate
form: most appendiculate
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the nature of an appendage, such as the leg or antenna of an insect.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Bearing appendages, such as one of the leg-bearing segments of an insect.
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a mushroom: having partial veil remnants hanging along the cap margin.
Derived terms: inappendiculate
ministres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ministre
ministres
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ministre
microarcsecond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microarcseconds
Etymology: From micro- + arcsecond.
Senses: glosses: A unit of angle; one millionth (10⁻⁶) of an arcsecond.
appressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of appress
appressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more appressed
form: most appressed
Senses: examples: text: During the night the upper or smoother surfaces of the leaves are appressed together, this would seem to shew that the office of this surface of the leaf was to expose the fluids of the plant to the light as well as to the air.
ref: 1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 25:
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Closely flattened down.
Derived terms: appressed-fibrillose
appressed-fibrillose-striate
appressed-silky
appressed-squamulose
subappressed
appressed-fibrillose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more appressed-fibrillose
form: most appressed-fibrillose
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having fibrils that lie flat.
Derived terms: appressed-fibrillose-striate
appressed-fibrillose-striate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having appressed fibrils in the form of radiating lines (used to describe the surface of the stem or cap of a mushroom).
appressed-silky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing appressed fibrils which are silky in texture.
appressed-squamulose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more appressed-squamulose
form: most appressed-squamulose
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having squamules that lie flat.
areolate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more areolate
form: most areolate
Senses: glosses: Having areolas
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a pattern of block-like areas similar to cracked dried mud
Derived terms: anareolate
multiareolate
armillarioid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more armillarioid
form: most armillarioid
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Describes a mushroom with attached gills, a fleshy stem, and an annulus.
asexual spore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asexual spores
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: A spore that is produced asexually.
implosions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of implosion
asperulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more asperulate
form: most asperulate
Etymology: From Latin asperum (“harsh place”) + -ulus, diminutive + -ate.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a surface which is roughened by many small points or warts.
crossing number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crossing numbers
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The minimum, taken over all planar representations of a link or graph, of the number of times it crosses itself.
Derived terms: Zarankiewicz's crossing number conjecture
amphicheiral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: My soul's an amphicheiral knot
Upon a liquid vortex wrought
By Intellect, in the Unseen residing.
And thine dost like a convict sit
With marlinspike untwisting it
Only to find its knottiness abiding;
Since all the tools for its untying
In four dimensioned space are lying,
Wherein thy fancy intersperses
Long avenues of universes,
While Klein and Clifford fill the void
With one finite unbounded homaloid,
And think the Infinite is now at last destroyed.
ref: 1878, James Clerk Maxwell, A Paradoxical Ode to Hermann Stoffkraft, Ph.D., sourced from G. C., “The Life of Clerk Maxwell”, Nature, no. 680, vol. 27, 9 November 1882, pp. 26-28:
glosses: Equivalent to its mirror image.
chinned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɪnd/
rhymes: -ɪnd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chin
chinned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɪnd/
rhymes: -ɪnd
Senses: examples: text: a double-chinned woman
glosses: Having some specific type of chin or number of chins.
Derived terms: black-chinned siskin
blue-chinned
multichinned
weak-chinned
nostrilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nostril + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Neanderthals were a wide-nostrilled descendant of human beings.
glosses: Having (a specific type or number of) nostrils.
Derived terms: horsenostrilled
foreheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From forehead + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having some specific type of forehead
Derived terms: foreheadedness
cobordism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cobordisms
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A connection between two manifolds of the same dimension n via a manifold of dimension n+1, where the smaller manifolds are included in the boundary of the larger manifold.
examples: 2008 April, John R. Harper, "Generalized cohomology, by Akira Kono and Dai Tamaki" (book review), Bulletin (New Series) of the American Mathematical Society volume 45 number 2, page 310,
Cobordism revives the intuitive idea of bounding harbored in the original work of Poincaré but later sacrificed in order to construct a viable theory based on simpicial complexes.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The theory and study of such objects.
Derived terms: endocobordism
fowles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fowle
Eilenberg-MacLane space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eilenberg-MacLane spaces
Etymology: After Samuel Eilenberg and Saunders Mac Lane (or MacLane), who invented the concept.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A topological space that has precisely one nontrivial homotopy group.
buttocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From buttock + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having some specific type of buttocks
Derived terms: Dutch-buttocked
fat-buttocked
wristed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪstɪd
Etymology: From wrist + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having some specific type of wrist.
wristed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪstɪd
Etymology: From wrist + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wrist
Derived terms: floppy-wristed
limp-wristed
thighed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪd
Etymology: From thigh + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having some specific type of thigh
Derived terms: bristle-thighed curlew
orange-thighed frog
spur-thighed tortoise
thunder-thighed
tauter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːtə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: comparative form of taut: more taut
forearmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: By surface analysis, fore- + arm + -ed
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forearm
forearmed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: By surface analysis, fore- + arm + -ed
Senses: synonyms: prearmed
qualifier: literal
glosses: Armed in advance, in preparation for anticipated defensive moves (such as fighting, lawyering, or counterarguing).
Derived terms: forewarned is forearmed
forearmed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Denominal from forearm (noun).
Senses: examples: text: Popeye is a large-forearmed cartoon character.
glosses: Having some specific type of forearm.
waisted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: wāstʹĭd
ipa: /ˈweɪstɪd/
rhymes: -eɪstɪd
homophone: wasted
Etymology: From waist + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having some specific type of waist.
examples: text: In his black suit he stood in the dark glass where the lilies leaned so palely from their waisted cutglass vase.
ref: 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 3:
glosses: Narrower in the middle.
Derived terms: empire-waisted
long-waisted
shallow-waisted
short-waisted
unwaisted
waisted drum
wasp-waisted
surpassingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more surpassingly
form: most surpassingly
Etymology: From surpassing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a surpassing manner; exceptionally.
CVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CV
off-the-shoulder
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: not covering the shoulders.
raw_tags: of a garment
Synonyms: bare-shouldered
eyelashed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eyelash + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having some specific type of eyelash