cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
scarfing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scarfings
Senses: examples: text: The Ascot scarfs may be arranged in regularity as shown, or they may each be displayed differently so as to bring out the colorings and designs in the scarfings.
ref: 1896, The Clothier and Furnisher, volume 26, page 53:
glosses: Material for making scarves.
examples: text: The scarfings of the piece must be kept clear of each other (that is, the points of junction in one piece must be as far as possible from those in another piece), and equally distributed in the mast.
ref: 1884, Stephen Bleecker Luce, Aaron Ward, Text-book of Seamanship, page 79:
glosses: A scarf joint.
examples: text: High on the deck, under the cream-coloured sail and the flutter of pink scarfings and flags, stands Ulysses waving a defiant torch at Polyphemus, who, colossal through mist, claws at his wound, himself tall as a pyramid and vast as an Alp.
ref: 1856 November 29, “Fine Arts: The Turners at Marlborough House”, in The Athenæum […], number 1518, London: […] James Holmes, […] J[ohn] Francis. […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1469, column 3:
text: Mais personne ne lui répondit. Il se leva anxieux et entra dans l’appartement, qu’il trouva vide et silencieux, et où les voiles de Zoumourroud et ses écharpes gisaient sur le sol.
ref: 1923, J[oseph] C[harles] Mardrus (French translation), translated by E[dward] Powys Mathers, “The Tale of Zumurrud, the Beautiful, and Ali Shar, Son of Glory”, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night […], London: […] The Casanova Society, →OCLC, 321st night, page 165:
text: He asked her to remove her scarfing, her neck-a-tee and her mauve pelerine.
ref: 2012, Jonathan Grant [pseudonym; John Grant], chapter 16, in Bring Flowers of the Fairest (Mehala; 4), [Swanmore, Hampshire]: Jellyfish Publishing Solutions, →ISBN, page 141:
glosses: A scarf; a covering.
scarfed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scarf
scarfed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Wrapped in thick knitting, scarfed, gloved, socked and booted I feel nothing.
ref: 1985, New Writing Scotland, number 3, page 24:
glosses: Alternative form of scarved (“wearing a scarf”).
brazens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brazen
brazening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brazen
brazened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brazen
ECC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ECCs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of error correcting/correction code.
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of elliptic curve cryptography.
topics: law
glosses: Initialism of export control and customs.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of emergency cardiovascular care.
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Initialism of electronic camera coverage.
ECC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: labour
glosses: Initialism of Employees' Compensation Commission.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: Initialism of Environmental Compliance Certificate.
scriptoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scriptorium
dispels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dispel
dispels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dispel
dispelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dispel
divesting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of divest
divests
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of divest
agoge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡoʊ.d͡ʒi/
ipa: /əˈɡəʊ.d͡ʒi/
Forms: form: agoges
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀγωγή (agōgḗ).
Senses: glosses: In ancient Greek music, tempo or pace; rhythmical movement.
glosses: Melodic motion upward or downward by successive scale-steps: same as ductus in medieval music.
glosses: A rigorous training regimen for Spartan men in preparation for army service.
Related terms: agogic
anagoge
agami
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæɡəmi/
Forms: form: agamis
Etymology: From French agami, from Kari'na akami.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A South American bird, Psophia crepitans, allied to the cranes, and easily domesticated.
Synonyms: sense: Psophia crepitans
word: grey-winged trumpeter
supercee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Presumed super- + cee, a respelling of the physics symbol c (denoting the speed of light in a vacuum; an abbreviation of both English constant and Latin celeritas (“swiftness”)).
Senses: examples: text: But Man had always been a restless, persistent creature, and the stars called, and in an incredibly short space of time a highly-ingenious refinement of the theta drive gave him supercee.
“What I can’t understand, Psy, is why in the name of Mira the Terrans couldn’t have been admitted to the Federation as soon as they developed supercee. […]”
Offhand I’d say that the Terrans, when they hit on the secret of star-driving a planet, which isn’t much of a trick once the supercee principle is clearly understood, decided to go off on a hunt round the galaxy for a see-tee system.
ref: 1930, Information Access Company, Analog Science Fiction/science Fact, pp63, 73, & 77
text: 1960, AUTHOR UNKNOWN, Astounding Science-fiction, pp70, 72, & 73; presumed to be an earlier work (1930 or earlier), as quotations 2 and 3 also appear in:
text: ^({1})“[…] A couple of … after the last rescue ship had lif … into space and shifted into the … of supercee, the star exploded.”
^({2})“Surely you know the answer to that one,” he said after a moment or two, “or have you forgotten all about a little thing called the decrement effect?” The Psychologist nodded. “Precisely. The decrement effect. The factor that makes supercee — supercee as we know it, that is — inoperable in intergalactic space.” He looked thoughtful. “I don’t think anyone’s yet evolved a satisfactory theory to account for the existence of the effect. The only thing that’s certain is that it’s tied up in some way with gravity fields — or, rather, with the absence of g-fields.” He shrugged.
^({3})“What I can’t understand, Psy, is why in the name of Mira the Terrans couldn’t have been admitted to the Federation as soon as they developed supercee. […]”
ref: 1930, Information Access Company, Analog Science Fiction/science Fact, page 72:
text: The core was virtually unreachable at supercee velocities. So the Lost Star’s bleep has been sounding for eighty years, and no ship has reached her.
ref: 1979, Frank Northen Magill, Survey of Science Fiction Literature, Salem Press, →ISBN, page 937:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Faster-than-light travelling speed.
Synonyms: warp speed
bouleversement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bouleversements
Etymology: Borrowed from French bouleversement.
Senses: examples: text: It reflects the feverish hopes, the quick successes, the amazing social bouleversements only possible when all the old elements of society have been poured together and shaken up pellmell.
ref: 1916, The Publishers Weekly - Volume 89, page 596:
text: This is a bouleversement of Plato.
ref: 2002, Paolo Soleri, What if?: collected writings 1986-2000, page 18:
text: Among these the nautilus pompilius, or pearly nautilus, affords a truly admirable study, since it actually exists in the present, and is also found in the recent, and the ante-diluvian state,—being the only creature known to have maintained its station through the many supposed bouleversements and cataclysms which the globe has undergone: in more exact words—from still existing, it affords a valuable aid towards revealing the inhabitant of the allied fossil forms, which endured from the Devonian period through the carboniferous group, the liassic formation, the oolites, and the green sands, up to the London clay.
ref: 2014, William Henry Smyth, Aedes Hartwellianae - Volume 1, page 25:
glosses: Complete overthrow; reversal; turmoil
imbosk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: imbosks
form: imbosking
form: imbosked
form: imbosked
Etymology: From in- (“in”) + bosk (“thicket, small wood”).
Senses: examples: text: I turned to imbosk myself
ref: 1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], translated by Thomas Shelton, The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount and W. Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: To hide or conceal oneself
contingent claim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contingent claims
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A claim that can be made when certain specified outcomes occur. It depends on the state of nature of the financial claim.
Lib
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The Libertarian party.
glosses: The astrological sign, Libra.
Lib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Libs
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A member of the Liberal Party of Australia.
examples: text: The same people will have you believe that François Legault — a man who calls himself “prime minister of the Quebec nation” — would gladly watch his beloved nation’s hospital system crumble just to own the Libs.
ref: 2022 December 22, Rahim Mohamed, “Rahim Mohamed: Team Trudeau gaslighting Canadians on health transfers”, in National Post:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A member of the Liberal Party of Canada.
Related terms: Dem
Rep
salubrity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salubrities
Etymology: From salubr(ious) + -ity, from Middle English salubritē, from Old French salubrité, from Latin salūbritātem, accusative of salūbritās.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being salubrious or invigorating.
point of sail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɔɪnt əv ˈseɪl/
homophone: point of sale
Forms: form: points of sail
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A sailing vessel's course in relation to the wind direction.
Related terms: head to wind
close hauled
close reach
beam reach
broad reach
running downwind
unbar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unbars
form: unbarring
form: unbarred
form: unbarred
Etymology: From Middle English unbarren, equivalent to un- + bar.
Senses: examples: text: “No need to unbar gates to thee and me,” said the martlet, as they passed beneath the darkness of that ancient portal, carved with strange devices, and clean through the massy timbers of the bolted gate thickly riveted with silver, into the inner court.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, pages 1–2:
text: Only Enid could dare him at such a time, and even she felt occasionally that sinking of the heart which the bravest of tamers may experience as he unbars the gate of the cage.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: To unlock or unbolt a door that had been locked or bolted with a bar.
glosses: To remove an impediment that obstructs the passage of (someone or something).
glosses: To remove a prohibition.
unbars
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unbar
unbarring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unbar
unbarred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unbar
unbarred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not fitted or closed with bars.
glosses: Of a feather, lacking barring.
monstrosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monstrosity
hunkier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of hunky: more hunky
hunkiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of hunky: most hunky
chicer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of chic: more chic
chicest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of chic: most chic
line code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: line codes
Senses: glosses: A code chosen for use within a communications system for transmission purposes.
changeroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: changerooms
Etymology: From change + room.
Senses: glosses: changing room, locker-room
Derived terms: chelfie
Related terms: vestiary
vestry
Megleno-Romanian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Romanian meglenoromân, corresponding to Meglenitic + Romanian.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to the Megleno-Romanian people, culture or language.
Megleno-Romanian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian meglenoromân, corresponding to Meglenitic + Romanian.
Senses: glosses: An endangered Eastern Romance language spoken in northern Greece, North Macedonia and parts of Romania, and related to Romanian, Aromanian and Istro-Romanian.
Megleno-Romanian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Megleno-Romanians
Etymology: From Romanian meglenoromân, corresponding to Meglenitic + Romanian.
Senses: glosses: A member of a small Eastern Romance people, originally inhabiting seven villages in the Moglena region spanning the Pella and Kilkis regional units of Central Macedonia, Greece, and one village, Huma, across the border in North Macedonia.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Megleno-Romanian terms
Aromanian
Istro-Romanian
Moldavian
Romanian
Vlach
globoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: globoids
Etymology: From globe + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: A globoid is always round.
text: Pictures of planets and moons are usually presented as globoids.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A spherical representation or projection of a sphere or ellipsoid.
Synonyms: globe
globoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From globe + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: It's presented in globoid form.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, a globe
Related terms: globoidal
carrot bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carrot bags
Etymology: (conical bag): From its shape, resembling the vegetable.
Senses: examples: text: This carrot bag full of yummy Orange Drop Cookies makes a rich reward for the Easter Bunny.
ref: 2008, Leisure Arts, Best of Gifts of Good Taste Christmas, →ISBN, page 44:
text: Women use the cone (a thick plastic bag (carrot bag) with very small open tip) to make fine lines and delicate patterns that make them feel and appear more beautiful and attractive.
ref: 2009, Shaykhah Jābirī, Women attires and adornments in the United Arab Emirates, page 41:
text: Grasp the carrot bag at the top of where the knee high is, placing your thumb and first finger into a very tight “O” around the top of the knee high and carrot bag together.
ref: 2014, Julia Lawrence, BodyArt Therapy, →ISBN, page 81:
glosses: A conical bag, used, for example, as an applicator for henna with the tip snipped off.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see carrot, bag.
autotelic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːtəˌtɛlɪk/
ipa: /ˌɔːtəˈtɛlɪk/
Forms: form: autotelics
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós, “self”) + τέλος (télos, “result; end”); compare auto- and telic. From early 20th century.
Senses: examples: text: Measuring autotelic personality similarly with young adults, Hektner (1996) confirmed that autotelics were least happy and motivated in apathy (low-challenge, low-skill) situations, whereas nonautotelics (those least motivated in high-challenge, high-skill situations) did not find the apathy condition aversive.
ref: 2014, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow and the Foundations of Positive Psychology: The Collected Works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Springer, page 254:
text: First of all, it can be inferred that both autotelics and non-autotelics designated the following English activities when their concentration, interest and attention were the highest: communicating in English, also with native speakers, watching English films and programmes, reading authentic materials, sight-seeing, listening to music and translating lyrics.
ref: 2015, Beata Telążka, “A Selective Study on Subjective Attitudes and Objective Achievement of Autotelic and Non-autotelic Students of English as a Foreign Language”, in Ewa Piechurska-Kuciel, Magdalena Szyszka, editors, The Ecosystem of the Foreign Language Learner: Selected Issues, Springer, page 66:
glosses: An autotelic person, a person with an autotelic personality.
Related terms: self-motivated
strap strategy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strap strategies
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A bullish options strategy that is established by buying a two calls and one put option with the same exercise price. The trader is betting on volatility.
Related terms: strip strategy
strip strategy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strip strategies
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A bearish options strategy that is established by buying a two puts and one call option with the same exercise price. The trader is betting on volatility.
Related terms: strap strategy
technocentrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of techno- + egocentrism, coined by Seymour Papert in 1987.
Senses: glosses: The ideology that advocates the use of technology to try to answer all questions.
biserrate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bi-serrate
Etymology: From bi- + serrate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having serrations that are themselves serrate.
raw_tags: of leaves
bi-serrate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of biserrate.
retroserrate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From retro- + serrate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having tooth-like projections pointed away from the apex.
raw_tags: of leaves
Synonyms: runcinate
Related terms: serrate
pinnatifid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having lobes with incisions that extend less than half-way toward the midrib.
raw_tags: of leaves
Derived terms: bipinnatifid
pinnatifidly
tripinnatifid
Related terms: pinnate
pinnatipartite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having lobes with incisions that extend more than half-way toward the midrib.
raw_tags: of leaves
Related terms: pinnate
pinnatisect
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From New Latin pinnatisectus, from Latin pinnātus (“feathered”) + sectum, past participle of secō (“to cut”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having lobes with incisions that extend almost, or up to midrib.
raw_tags: of leaves
Derived terms: bipinnatisect
pinnatisectly
tripinnatisect
Related terms: pinnate
palmatifid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more palmatifid
form: most palmatifid
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having lobes with incisions that extend less than half-way toward the petiole.
raw_tags: of leaves
Derived terms: palmatifidly
Related terms: palmate
pinnatifid
palmatisect
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more palmatisect
form: most palmatisect
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having lobes with incisions that extend almost up, but not quite to the petiole.
raw_tags: of leaves
Derived terms: palmatisectly
Related terms: palmate
pinnatisect
palmatipartite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having lobes with incisions that extend over half-way toward the petiole.
raw_tags: of leaves
Related terms: palmate
pinnatipartite
palmate compound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of palmately compound.
palmately compound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having more than three leaflets attached directly to the petiole
raw_tags: of leaves
palmately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more palmately
form: most palmately
Etymology: From palmate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a palmate fashion.
Derived terms: palmately cleft
palmately compound
pinnately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pinnately
form: most pinnately
Etymology: From pinnate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a pinnate fashion.
Herakles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The addition of inscribed names can indicate that the symposion is mythological, as on the Eurytios krater, where Herakles is depicted banqueting as a guest of the king (Paris, Musée du Louvre, E635, Payne, 1931: pl. 27).
ref: 2011, Alexandra Alexandridou, The Early Black-Figured Pottery of Attika in Context (c. 630-570 bce) (Monumenta Graeca et Romana; 17), Brill, →ISBN, page 67, column 2:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Heracles.
bifoliate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + foliate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having exactly two leaves.
Related terms: bifoliolate
bipinnate
foliate
cry one's eyes out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cries one's eyes out
form: crying one's eyes out
form: cried one's eyes out
form: cried one's eyes out
form: cry one's heart out
Senses: synonyms: weep buckets
glosses: To weep for an elongated time, or in an excessive manner.
printing press
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: printing presses
Senses: glosses: A mechanical device used for printing text or images repeatedly.
synonyms: word: press
word: printworks
word: printing house
extra: an institutional or commercial publisher
glosses: Synonym of printing house (“an institutional or commercial publisher”).
Derived terms: printing-press money
printing presses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of printing press
chordates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chordate
obdeltoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ob- + deltoid.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Triangular and attached to the stem via a tip.
raw_tags: of leaves
cracknel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cracknels
Etymology: From Middle English crakenelle, craknel, krakenelle, apparently an alteration of Middle French craquelin.
Senses: examples: text: I will take charge of the cake department, including, if I remember rightly, plum and plain, rout cakes, and macaroons, finger biscuits, and cracknels.
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 208:
glosses: A hard, crisp or crunchy cake or biscuit.
glosses: Crackling (fried pork fat).
lyrate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lyrate
form: most lyrate
Etymology: From New Latin lyrātus, from lyra (“lyre”).
Senses: examples: text: The passage of time could only enhance his tenderness for the creature he clasped, this adored creature, whose motion was now more supple, whose haunches had grown more lyrate, whose hair-ribbon he had undone.
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 205:
glosses: Shaped like a lyre.
examples: 1976, T. G. Tutin, Flora Europaea, Volume 4: Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae), page 72,
Basal leaves simple, lyrate or pinnatifid; cauline leaves 1- to 2-pinnatifid, pinnatisect or simple.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a large terminal lobe and smaller rounded lobes toward its base.
raw_tags: of leaves
Derived terms: taxonomic: Meretrix lyrata
word: lyrate Asiatic hard clam
word: lyrately
taxonomic: Arabidopsis lyrata
word: lyrate rockcress
alt: †Leptoxis lirata[sic]
word: lyrate rocksnail
word: oblyrate
lyrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lyrates
Etymology: From New Latin lyrātus, from lyra (“lyre”).
Senses: glosses: A long feather with a shape similar to the arm of a lyre, found in the tail of lyrebirds.
oblyrate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ob- + lyrate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a reverse lyrate shape, with the lobes near the apex.
raw_tags: of leaves
pandurate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pandurate
form: most pandurate
Etymology: From Latin pandura (“a pandore”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a shape reminiscent of a fiddle; obovate with a pair of sinuous indentations near the base.
raw_tags: of leaves
Synonyms: panduriform
Derived terms: obpandurate
pandurately
Related terms: lyrate
panduriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin pandura (“fiddle”) + -form.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Pandurate.
obpandurate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ob- + pandurate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a reverse pandurate shape, with the sinuosity toward the apex and the broadest part toward the base.
raw_tags: of leaves
peltate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more peltate
form: most peltate
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πέλτη (péltē) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Shield-shaped; scutiform.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the petiole attached to the lower surface instead of the margin.
raw_tags: of leaves
Derived terms: bipeltate
subpeltate
unipeltate
Related terms: peltately
perfoliate
obreniform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ob- + reniform.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a reverse reniform shape, with the petiole opposite the notch.
raw_tags: of leaves
Irish moss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Irish mosses
Etymology: (seaweed): From its frequency on the Irish coast.
Senses: examples: 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter I. "The Shipwreck", page 13.
At Jerusalem village the inhabitants were collecting in haste, before a thunder-shower now approaching, the Irish moss which they had spread to dry.
glosses: A species of edible seaweed, Chondrus crispus.
glosses: Mastocarpus stellatus (false Irish moss), a less commonly gathered seaweed.
glosses: Gracilaria, a genus of seaweeds, cultivated and eaten in Asian cuisines.
glosses: Soleirolia soleirolii (angel's tears), a plant in the nettle family.
glosses: Sagina subulata (syns. Sagina alexandrae), heath pearlwort, a terrestrial plant with needle-like leaves.
glosses: Arenaria verna (golden moss)
Synonyms: sense: Chondrus crispus
word: carrageen
sense: Chondrus crispus
word: carrageen moss
Related terms: carrageenan
lonelyheart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lonelyhearts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lonely-heart.
select agent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: select agents
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A pathogen or biological toxin which has been declared to have the potential to pose a severe threat to public health and safety.
select agents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of select agent
gas cylinders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gas cylinder
units of measurement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unit of measurement
stainers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stainer
sagittate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin sagitta (“arrow”).
Senses: glosses: Shaped like an arrowhead, with one point at one end, and two points at the other.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Shaped like an arrowhead, with two pointed lobes extending downward from the base.
raw_tags: of leaves
Derived terms: obsagittate
semisagittate
subsagittate
Related terms: hastate
obsagittate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ob- + sagittate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a reverse sagittate shape, with two pointed lobes extending at the apex.
raw_tags: of leaves
balloonists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balloonist
spathulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spathulate
form: most spathulate
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of spatulate.
hydrobious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hydrobious
form: most hydrobious
Etymology: Analyzable as hydro- + -obe + -ious. Compare also amphibious.
Senses: glosses: Adapted to living or dwelling in water, or in the vicinity of water; dependent upon a water environment for survival; aquatic.
subulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subulate
form: most subulate
Etymology: From Latin sūbulātus.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Awl-shaped; tapering into a sharp point from a broader base.
crenate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹiː.neɪt/
Forms: form: more crenate
form: most crenate
Etymology: From New Latin crēnātus, probably Latinization of Middle French crené, past participle of crener (“to mark with a notch”), derivative of cren, cran (“notch”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having round or blunt teeth on its margin; scalloped.
Derived terms: apocrenate
bicrenate
crenulate
double crenate
noncrenate
subcrenate
crenate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹiː.neɪt/
Forms: form: crenates
Etymology: From New Latin crēnātus, probably Latinization of Middle French crené, past participle of crener (“to mark with a notch”), derivative of cren, cran (“notch”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of crenic acid
crenulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crenulate
form: most crenulate
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: Minutely crenate or scalloped.
Derived terms: subcrenulate
bicrenate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bi-crenate
form: double crenate
Etymology: From bi- + crenate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Crenate, with the teeth themselves crenate; twice crenate.
bi-crenate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bi-crenate
form: most bi-crenate
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bicrenate.
double crenate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Bicrenate.
octopole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octopoles
form: octupole
Etymology: From octo- + pole.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A multipole configuration with eight equal charges arranged in a circular pattern.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any configuration or analysis having eightfold symmetry.
Related terms: dipole
hexadecapole
hexapole
multipole
quadrupole
octopoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of octopole
goose wing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goose wings
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A position of sails in a fore-and-aft rigged sailboat, in which the mainsail is set to the leeward and the jib to the windward. This position may be used when running (almost) straight downwind. One of the clews or lower corners of a course or a topsail when the middle part or the rest of the sail is furled.
Synonyms: gull wing
wing and wing
bidentate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bi-dentate
Etymology: From bi- + dentate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having only two teeth.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having tooth-like projections that are themselves dentate.
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Of a ligand, forming two separate chemical bonds to a coordinating metal ion.
Derived terms: bidentate ligand
bi-dentate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bi-dentate
form: most bi-dentate
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bidentate.
deglaciation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diɡleɪʃiˈeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: deglaciations
Etymology: From de- + glaciation.
Senses: topics: biology
climatology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: The removal of all glacial land ice from a region, usually by melting.
Synonyms: deglacierization
deglaciations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deglaciation
soft key
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soft keys
form: softkey
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A button, located along a display device, which performs whatever function is shown near it on the display.
soft key
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: softkey
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Gently highlighting; low-key.
raw_tags: of lighting
resuspension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹiːsəˈspɛnʃən/
rhymes: -ɛnʃən
Forms: form: resuspensions
Etymology: From re- + suspension.
Senses: examples: text: Those who try tie themselves in knots, seeking to insulate the leader from decisions that are clearly taken with the boss’s preferences in mind, such as the grimly farcical sequence of suspension, readmission and resuspension of Chris Williamson.
ref: 2019 July 2, Rafael Behr, “Corbynism’s greatest liability is now Jeremy Corbyn himself”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A second or subsequent suspension.
examples: text: After seven centrifugings and resuspensions, the chloride is reduced to less than 5 mgm. per cent.
ref: 1938, American Journal of Physiology, volume 122, page 227:
text: As a Government Office for Science report says: "Non-exhaust particulate matter emissions (e.g. tyre wear, brake wear and road dust resuspension) account for approximately 50%-60% of the vehicle emissions that contribute to poor air quality."
ref: 2020 September 9, Anthony Lambert, “Winning passengers back: Getting the public on board...”, in Rail, page 43:
topics: biology
chemistry
ecology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The renewed suspension of a precipitated sediment, such as stirring up settled mud at the bottom of a body of water.
resuspensions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resuspension
bioanalytical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪoʊˌænəˈlɪtɪkəl/
ipa: /baɪəʊˌænəˈlɪtɪkəl/
rhymes: -ɪtɪkəl
Etymology: From bio- + analytical.
Senses: topics: biotechnology
engineering
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to analytical methods used in biotechnology.
Derived terms: bioanalytically
antiangiogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + angiogenesis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The prevention of angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels.
bimotor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bimotors
Etymology: From bi- + motor.
Senses: glosses: A twin-engine aircraft.
Related terms: bimotored
rearmouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rearmice
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of reremouse.
dog and pony show
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dog and pony shows
form: dog-and-pony show
Senses: glosses: A small traveling circus featuring animals as entertainment.
examples: text: They put on a whole dog and pony show for the investors, but I'm not sure they've convinced anyone.
text: Here, the academics put on a bit of a dog-and-pony show, demonstrating their latest breakthroughs and giving sponsors a chance to meet students who are about to receive their PhDs and start looking for jobs.[…]
ref: 2012 January 8, Elizabeth Popp Berman, Creating the Market University: How Academic Science Became an Economic Engine, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 119:
text: Look, I know this may all seem somewhat untoward, and we can go through a whole dog-and-pony show here where I pretend that this column exists as a forum for ideas, and that I act as an independent voice who isn't beholden to advertisers, and the power of the First Amendment, and blah blah, etc. etc. But let's get real for a second here, okay?
ref: 2012 November 28, “Please Click On Our Website's Banner Ads”, in The Onion:
glosses: Any presentation or display that is overly contrived or intricate, while lacking real substance.
cock block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cock blocks
form: cockblock
Etymology: From Rhyming compound of cock + block.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cockblock.
cock block
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cock blocks
form: cock blocking
form: cock blocked
form: cock blocked
form: cockblock
Etymology: From Rhyming compound of cock + block.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cockblock.
lonely-heart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lonely-hearts
Senses: glosses: A person with no friends of the opposite sex who is looking for a spouse or companion.
Related terms: lonely-hearts
lonely-hearts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lonely-heart
lonely-hearts
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of a newspaper column: in which people attempt to find friends of the opposite sex.
lonelyhearts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lonelyheart
euglyphids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of euglyphid
euglyphid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: euglyphids
Senses: glosses: A filose amoeba of the order Euglyphida, that produce shells or tests from siliceous scales, plates, and sometimes spines.
cryptomonad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kɹɪptoʊˈmoʊnæd/
Forms: form: cryptomonads
Etymology: From the type genus, Cryptomonas.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A flagellate of the order Cryptomonadales; most have chloroplasts.
cryptomonads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryptomonad
beam splitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beam splitters
Senses: glosses: An optical device that splits a beam of light in two by reflecting a portion and transmitting the remainder.
major element
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: major elements
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An element which is not a trace element in a given context, and which is present in significant quantity.
precovery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precoveries
Etymology: Blend of pre- + recovery
Senses: examples: text: If you look for your new object after discovery, it's called "recovery". [...] if you find your new object in some old data that someone took before you discovered your object, it's called a "precovery".
text: Quaoar [...] is a Trans-Neptunian object orbiting the Sun in the Kuiper belt. It was discovered on June 4, 2002 by astronomers Chad Trujillo and Michael Brown at the California Institute of Technology [...] The earliest precovery turned out to be a May 25, 1954 plate from Palomar Observatory.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The use of previously gathered data (especially photographic images) to recover a recently discovered object (typically a small solar system body).
glosses: The act of resting before a long night, weekend or season of binge drinking.
Related terms: precover
Remote Oceania
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The part of Oceania comprising Polynesia, Micronesia and island Melanesia southeast of the Solomon Islands, including islands such as Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga and Samoa.
Related terms: Near Oceania
conflict of interest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conflicts of interest
Senses: examples: text: Grassley continues to probe Abedin’s potential conflicts of interest when she was getting four different paychecks at once. “We know she set up dinners for Secretary Clinton and her private-sector employers and e-mailed private-sector employees from government accounts,” he says.
ref: 2016 January 31, “Is Huma Abedin Hillary Clinton’s Secret Weapon or Her Next Big Problem?”, in Vanity Fair, retrieved 21 Jan 2016:
text: Rishi Sunak is facing questions over a potential conflict of interest after it emerged a childcare firm part owned by his wife is to benefit from major changes in the budget.
ref: 2023 March 29, Rowena Mason, “Rishi Sunak’s childcare policy risks conflict of interest with wife’s firm”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: law
glosses: A situation in which an individual or legal entity in a position of trust (such as an attorney, investment advisor, broker, politician, executive, director, scientist or physician) has competing professional or personal interests.
glosses: The competing interest itself.
Synonyms: COI
Related terms: appeal to motive
twotino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twotinos
Etymology: Blend of two + plutino.
Senses: examples: text: This provides a possible explanation for the low fraction of twotinos compared to plutinos in the Kuiper belt.
ref: 2009, A. C. Quillen, “Resonances in Galactic and Circumstellar Disks”, in G. Contopoulos, P. A. Patsis, editors, Chaos in Astronomy: Conference 2007, Springer, page 199:
text: Plutinos are Kuiper belt objects in a 2:3 resonance (a = 39.4 AU) with Neptune and are named after Pluto since these bodies have orbits similar to Pluto. Twotinos are objects that are in a 1:2 resonance (a = 47.8 AU) with Neptune.
ref: 2017, Thomas H. Burbine, Asteroids, Cambridge University Press, page 234:
text: These objects have been given the name of twotinos (rhymes with "plutinos").
Interestingly, there are very few low-eccentricity TNOs beyond the twotinos.
ref: 2021, Barbara Ryden, Bradley M. Peterson, Foundations of Astrophysics, Cambridge University Press, page 276:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Any astronomical object, on the apparent outer edge of the Kuiper Belt, whose orbit has a 1:2 resonance with the planet Neptune.
Related terms: Kuiper cliff
tiffin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪfɪn/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈʈɪfən/
Forms: form: tiffins
form: tiffining
form: tiffined
form: tiffined
Etymology: Apparently from English tiffing, present participle of tiff (“to take a small drink, to sip”) (slang).
Senses: examples: text: Do you know that he tiffins with her three times a week, and every night, after leaving here, he finishes the evening in her society, sitting in the veranda and smoking cigarettes till all hours.
ref: 1884, B[ithia] M[ary] Croker, Pretty Miss Neville. A Novel. (Harper's Franklin Square Library; no. 363), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Bros., →OCLC, page 328:
text: Pack had been tiffining by himself to the right of the arch, and had heard everything.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Bisara of Pooree”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.; London: W. Thacker & Co., →OCLC, page 223:
text: Slept, tiffined, and read in heat of the day. At 4 p.m. hunted again, and finished the evening with a jolly good dinner.
ref: 1899, Henry Keppel, A Sailor's Life under Four Sovereigns, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co.; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan Co., →OCLC, page 336:
text: And so I lay at Arashiyama which is near Kyoto, in a yellow straw tea-house overlooking the beautiful river of which I have written, my mouth full of fried mountain trout and my soul soaking in a great calm. […] The lady of the tea-house insisted upon screening us off from the other pleasure-parties who were tiffining in the same verandah, and we were left alone with the trout.
ref: 1988, Rudyard Kipling, “1889: Letter Six”, in Hugh Cortazzi, George Webb, editors, Kipling's Japan: Collected Writings, London; Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: The Athlone Press, →ISBN, page 98:
text: From the diary it would appear that the main activities were shooting, walking, and alternating meals on each other's boat. "We dined with them. They tiffined with us." "Tiffined with them. They dined with us."
ref: 2011, Elizabeth Clinch, Nicholas Clinch, Through a Land of Extremes: The Littledales of Central Asia (Legends and Lore Series), Seattle, Wash.: The Mountaineers Books, →ISBN, page 73:
glosses: To eat a (light) midday meal or snack.
Synonyms: tiff
liberticide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French liberticide, coined around the time of the French Revolution. Equivalent to liberty + -cide.
Senses: examples: text: […] by aſſembling at her houſe, in ſecret council, the principal chiefs of that conſpiracy, and by keeping up a correſpondence tending to facilitate their liberticide deſigns.
ref: 1798, translation of Madame Roland, An Appeal to Impartial Posterity, First American Edition—Corrected, Volume I, A. Van Hook (publisher), pages 151–152
text: The conservative body you propose might be so constituted, as, while it would be an admirable sedative in a variety of smaller cases, might also be a valuable sentinel and check on the liberticide views of an ambitious individual.
ref: 1811 January 26, Thomas Jefferson, letter to M. D. Destutt Tracy, in Thomas Jefferson Randolph (editor), Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume IV, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley (publishers, 1829), page 166
text: M. Labriffe is a member of the Chamber of Deputies, and has, of course, voted for the liberticide laws.
ref: 1823, Public Characters of All Nations, Volume II, Sir Richard Phillips and Co. (publisher), page 502
glosses: Causing the destruction of liberty; oppressive, liberticidal
liberticide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liberticides
Etymology: From French liberticide, coined around the time of the French Revolution. Equivalent to liberty + -cide.
Senses: examples: text: All that has been done by the state since the revolt of May is liberticide of the most violent character.
ref: 1819, “Ouida” (pseudonym), “An Impeachment of Modern Italy”, in The American Monthly Review of Reviews, Volume 18, Number 5 (1819 November), page 557
text: In the hands of a designing executive, a standing army was the classic instrument of liberticide.
ref: 1976, Lance Banning, “Jeffersonian Ideology and the French Revolution: A Question of Liberticide at Home”, in Studies in Burke and His Time, Volume 17, Number 1, Texas Tech Press, page 20
text: In language and logic we are the prisoners of our premises, just as in politics and law we are prisoners of our rules. Hence we had better pick them well. For if suicide is an illness because it terminates in death, and if the prevention of death by any means necessary is the physician’s therapeutic mandate, then the proper remedy for suicide is liberticide.
ref: 1981, Thomas Szasz, quoted in Margot Joan Fromer, Ethical Issues in Health Care, Mosby, page 399
glosses: The destruction of liberty.
examples: text: Blind, old, and lonely, when his country's pride, / The priest, the slave, and the liberticide / Trampled and mocked with many a loathed rite / Of lust and blood; he went, unterrified, /
ref: 1821, Percy B[ysshe] Shelley, Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, […], Pisa, Italy: […] Didot; reprinted London: Noel Douglas […], 1927, →OCLC:
glosses: One who causes the destruction of liberty.
spiny oyster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiny oysters
Senses: glosses: A bivalve mollusc of the genus Spondylus.
Synonyms: thorny oyster
spondylus
neogrammarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neogrammarians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Neogrammarian.