cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pyrosequencing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pyro- + sequencing.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A technique used to sequence DNA using chemiluminescent enzymatic reactions.
chemiluminescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more chemiluminescent
form: most chemiluminescent
Etymology: From chemi- + luminescent.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or employing chemiluminescence
Derived terms: biochemiluminescent
electrochemiluminescent
immunochemiluminescent
hydathode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydathodes
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A tissue, in the leaves of many plants, that contains microscopic pores through which water is excreted.
haustoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haustorium
resveratrol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resveratrols
Senses: examples: text: Resveratrol (3,4,5-trihydroxy-trans-stilbene) is a phenolic compound of the stilbene family present in wines and various parts of the grape, including the skin, and shows antioxidant and antiproliferative activities.
ref: 2003, Massimo Maffei, “7: Biochemistry, physiology and bioengineering of bioactive compounds from plants used as dietary supplements”, in Massimo Maffei, editor, Dietary Supplements of Plant Origin: A Nutrition and Health Approach, page 152:
text: 2003, Diane F. Birt, Weiqun Wang, Nancy Paiva, Angela Au, Chilly Chung, Laura Schmitt, Yu Jiang, Chapter 5: Cancer Prevention by Phytochemicals, Modulation of Cell Cycle, Mark S. Meskin, Wayne R. Bidlack, Audra J. Davies, Douglas S. Lewis, R. Keith Randolph (editors), Phytochemicals: Mechanisms of Action, Volume 4, page 64,
Resveratrol was first identified in grape vines in 1976 and in wine in 1992.
text: 2011, Yiwei Li, Dejuan Kong, Aamir Ahmad, Bin Bao, Fazlul H. Sarkar, Chapter 16: Augmenting the Efficacy of Chemo- and Radio-Therapy by Nutraceuticals: Evidence from Pre-Clinical and Clinical Trials, Fazlul H. Sarkar (editor), Nutraceuticals and Cancer, page 366,
Resveratrol is a phytoalexin mainly found in grapes. Red wine contains a high level of resveratrol. Resveratrol has been shown to prevent the development of mammary and other tumors in vivo in animal models (Bishayee 2009).
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A phenolic substance, 3,5,4'-trihydroxystilbene, a stilbenoid and phytoalexin, that is found in some fruits and nuts, and in red wine, and is reputed to have some beneficial properties for humans.
Derived terms: resveratroloside
four-flusher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: four-flushers
form: fourflusher
Etymology: From the practice of attempting to pass off four cards of the same suit, and a fifth of perhaps the same color, as a flush in poker.
Senses: examples: text: That four-flusher shoot himself? Not a chance.
ref: 1929, Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest, New York: Knopf, →OL:
glosses: A lowly, disreputable cheat or fraudster, especially at cards, especially a dull or unimaginative one.
stilbene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stilbenes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek στίλβω (stílbō, “to shine, shimmer”), due to its use as a phosphor.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Either of two isomeric hydrocarbons, diphenylethylene, but especially the trans isomer, used in the manufacture of dyes and many other compounds.
Derived terms: stilbenic
stilbenoid
trans-stilbene
continental slope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: continental slopes
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The steep, narrow fringe separating the coastal zone from the deep ocean
Related terms: continental shelf
Allee effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Allee effects
Etymology: From Warder Clyde Allee, American ecologist.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The negative population growth observed at low population densities.
wikipedia: Warder Clyde Allee
pluripotency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pluripotencies
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: pluripotentiality
coordinate_terms: multipotentiality
multipotency
;
plenipotence
plenipotency
;
omnipotence
omnipotency
omnipotentiality
;
totipotency
oligopotency
unipotency
glosses: The state of being pluripotent.
sonic hedgehog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the video game character Sonic the Hedgehog, in reference to the hedgehog signalling pathway, itself from sonic (Japanese ソニック (Sonikku)).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: Shh
SHH
glosses: A morphogenic protein that controls cell division of adult stem cells and has been implicated in the development of some cancers.
wikipedia: Sonic the Hedgehog (character)
Related terms: hedgehog signalling pathway
robotnikin
morphogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a morphogen, a morphogene or morphogenesis.
Derived terms: morphogenically
nonmorphogenic
pathomorphogenic
photomorphogenic
thermomorphogenic
thigmomorphogenic
Related terms: morphogenetic
morphogene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morphogenes
Etymology: From morpho- + gene.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any gene that is involved in growth or in morphogenesis
Related terms: morphogenic
morphogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morphogeneses
Etymology: From morpho- + -genesis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The differentiation of tissues and subsequent growth of structures in an organism
Derived terms: automorphogenesis
cardiomorphogenesis
cytomorphogenesis
dysmorphogenesis
neuromorphogenesis
pathomorphogenesis
photomorphogenesis
skotomorphogenesis
thermomorphogenesis
thigmomorphogenesis
tubulomorphogenesis
Related terms: morphallaxis
morphogene
morphogenic
scarceness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scarce + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The value of an advantage is enhanced by its scarceness.
ref: c. 1700, Jeremy Collier, A Moral Essay upon Pride:
glosses: The property of being scarce.
Synonyms: scarcity
schoolwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskuːlˌwɜːk/
ipa: /ˈskulˌwɝk/
Etymology: From school + work.
Senses: examples: text: I'm 40, but now that I'm back going for my degree I'm swamped with schoolwork.
hypernyms: work#Noun
glosses: Work done for school, including both in class and as homework.
Related terms: english: often hyponymous
translation: often hyponymous
word: studying
word: three Rs
schoolbag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schoolbags
Etymology: From school + bag.
Senses: glosses: A satchel used to carry supplies for school; a bookbag.
Related terms: backpack
sculptural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskʌlpt͡ʃɚɹəl/
Forms: form: more sculptural
form: most sculptural
Etymology: From sculpture + -al.
Senses: examples: text: His sculptural work never gained the acclaim his paintings did.
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or having characteristics of sculpture.
Derived terms: sculpturally
seaward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːwə(ɹ)d/
rhymes: -iːwə(ɹ)d
Etymology: From Middle English seaward, seward (attested only as an adjective), equivalent to sea + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: The landward side of the fort faced more dangerous guns than the seaward side, which only faced what could be put on a ship.
text: Following service in the First World War, when it was leased by the Admiralty, it suffered a swift decline. And despite reconstruction efforts, concerns about its safety were raised in the 1930s and its seaward portion was demolished in the 1940s.
ref: 2020 October 21, Dr Joseph Brennan, “From the main line and over the waves”, in Rail, page 59:
glosses: Being in or facing towards the sea, as opposed to the land.
seaward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːwə(ɹ)d/
rhymes: -iːwə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: seawards
Etymology: From Middle English seaward, seward (attested only as an adjective), equivalent to sea + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: Ever the sailor's widow looked seaward, hoping to see her missing man coming home.
text: He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous,[…].
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: In the direction of the sea, toward the sea.
Related terms: Seward
seasonably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more seasonably
form: most seasonably
Etymology: From Middle English sesonably, equivalent to seasonable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: [H]aving very long suspended our conference about the freshly mention'd Subject, it was so newly begun when you came in, that we shall scarce need to repeat any thing to acquaint you With what has pass'd betwixt us before your arrival, so that I cannot but look upon it as a fortunate Accident that you should come so seasonably, to be not hearers alone, but we hope Interlocutors at our conference.
ref: 1661, Robert Boyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-physical Doubts & Paradoxes, […], London: […] J. Cadwell for J. Crooke, […], →OCLC, pages 6–7:
text: […] I ſuppoſe we may now ſeaſonably proceed to conſider the Style of the Scripture: A Subject that will as well require as deſerve ſome Time and much Attention; […]
ref: 1663, Robert Boyle, Some Considerations Touching the Style of the H[oly] Scriptures. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, page 1:
text: [W]hilst I vvas thus muſing, and attentively looking upon the VVater, to try vvhether I could diſcover the Bottom, it happened to me, as it often does to thoſe that gaze too ſtedfaſtly on ſvvift Streams, that my Head began to grovv giddy, and my Leggs to ſtagger tovvards the River, into vvhich queſtionleſs I had fell, if Philaretus had not ſeaſonably and obligingly prevented it.
ref: 1665, Robert Boyle, “Occasional Reflections. Discourse XVIII. Upon a Giddiness Occasion’d by Looking Attentively on a Rapid Stream.”, in Occasional Reflections upon Several Subiects. Whereto is Premis’d a Discourse about Such Kind of Thoughts, London: […] W. Wilson for Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, section IV (Which Treats of Angling Improv’d to Spiritual Uses), page 120:
text: What matters me who wears the crown of France? / Whether a Richard or a Charles possess it? / They reap the glory—they enjoy the spoil— / We pay—we bleed!—The sun would shine as cheerly, / The rains of heaven as seasonably fall, / Tho' neither of these royal pests existed.
ref: 1794, Robert Southey, Wat Tyler. A Dramatic Poem. In Three Acts, London: J[ohn] M‘Creery, […] for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, […], published 1817, →OCLC, Act I, page 6:
glosses: In due season; at an opportune or fitting time.
glosses: Varying with the season.
examples: text: The weather has become seasonably cooler lately.
glosses: In a manner appropriate to the season.
examples: 2005: Uniform Commercial Code § 1-204(3). The American Law Institute and the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.
An action is taken "seasonably" when it is taken at or within the time agreed or if no time is agreed at or within a reasonable time.
topics: law
glosses: Within the appropriate time period during which an action will be legally effective, as prescribed in legislation, a contract, or otherwise.
Related terms: seasonally
seasonedly
seedless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From seed + -less.
Senses: examples: text: What do you plant to grow seedless grapes? Actually, they have seeds, but they are quite edible by humans.
glosses: Not having (noticeable) seeds.
sedately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sedately
form: most sedately
Etymology: From sedate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Calmly, without excessive emotion or force; in a composed manner.
senatorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: more senatorial
form: most senatorial
Etymology: From Latin senātōrius + -al. Compare French sénatorial. By surface analysis, senator + -ial.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a senator.
examples: text: The senatorial investigation involved subpoenas and testimony before Congress and, of course, went nowhere.
glosses: Relating to a senate.
examples: the senatorial districts of a State
glosses: Entitled to elect a senator, or by senators.
Synonyms: senatorian
Derived terms: senatorial courtesy
magnesium oxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: magnesia
glosses: A white powder (MgO) with a high melting point; it occurs naturally as periclase, an ore of magnesium.
Related terms: magnesium hydroxide
milk of magnesia
conche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conches
Etymology: Borrowed from French conche.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of concher (“machine used to refine the flavour and texture of chocolate”).
synonyms: word: concher
extra: machine used to refine the flavour and texture of chocolate
chele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chela
cavie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cavies
Etymology: Related to Käfig (“cage”).
Senses: examples: text: Dan, Watty, and Bell went to the "cavie" or hencoop, folded back the old bag which had been dropt over the front of it to keep the inmates warm, and Dan saw to his intense delight two little heads peeping from under their feathery covering.
ref: 1882, John Strathesk, Bits from Blinkbonny; Or, Bell O' the Manse:
glosses: A chicken coop.
grand theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grand theories
Senses: glosses: An overall explanation of phenomena in a particular discipline or realm of experience such as economics, sociology, or history.
draino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹeɪnoʊ/
rhymes: -eɪnəʊ
Forms: form: drano
Etymology: Appellativization from the Drāno brand by S. C. Johnson & Son, constructed from drain + -o.
Senses: examples: text: Farnsworth: they'll burrow so deep into the bowel that not even Hermes' famous Jerk Prunes could dislodge them!
Hermes: I call it Caribbean Draino.
ref: 2001 January, Matt Groening, “Parasites Lost”, in Futurama, season 3, episode 4:
glosses: Any drain cleaner.
wikipedia: Drāno
S. C. Johnson & Son
end of terrace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The houses at each end of a line of rowhouses or terraced houses.
end of terrace
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: an end of terrace house
glosses: Located at the end of a line of rowhouses.
Related terms: semi-detached
detached
bungalow
Tippex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tipp-Ex
form: tippex
Etymology: Tipp-Ex is originally a trademark, owned since 1997 by Société Bic. Its use in the general sense is an example of trademark erosion. The first component is from the German verb tippen (“to type”), and the second from Latin ex.
Senses: examples: text: If an application form is completed incorrectly or there's Tippex on it or the spelling is incorrect, then frankly I do not have the time or the patience to think that we will recruit that person...
ref: 1996, Tamara Goriely, Tom Williams, The Impact of the New Training Scheme: Report on a Qualitative Study:
text: Perhaps we can manufacture special bottles of Tippex For Unwanted Tummies. Perhaps we can manufacture special bottles of Tippex For Use on Burnt Toast.
ref: 1996, Pat Ingoldsby, Laugh without prejudice, →ISBN, page 164:
text: Overlap between chapters is a difficult issue and while we have exercised the editorial Tippex to the best of our ability, some duplication remains.
ref: 2010, David Ames, Alistair Burns, John T. O'Brien, Dementia, 4th Edition, →ISBN, page xxiii:
text: And all without a safety net, second take, a stroke of Tippex, an editor or producer who knows all the knobs to press, and when, to keep one's shortcomings from wider exposure.
ref: 2014, Rob Steen, Floodlights and Touchlines: A History of Spectator Sport, →ISBN, page 238:
glosses: A particular brand of correction fluid, or correction fluid in general.
glosses: A particular brand of correction tape, or correction tape in general.
Tippex
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Tippexes
form: Tippexing
form: Tippexed
form: Tippexed
form: Tipp-Ex
form: tippex
Etymology: Tipp-Ex is originally a trademark, owned since 1997 by Société Bic. Its use in the general sense is an example of trademark erosion. The first component is from the German verb tippen (“to type”), and the second from Latin ex.
Senses: examples: text: Lara also ends on an imminent return to “my island—the 'Great' Tippexed out of it,” with the lines: “It is time to leave./ Back to London, across international time zones, I step out of Heathrow and into my future.”
ref: 2004, Mark Stein, Black British Literature: Novels of Transformation, →ISBN, page 95:
text: Then, literally out of the blue, it appears as though someone has Tippexed a freehand circle on the surface of the water and splashed a little bleach and blue curaçao within the outline.
ref: 2005, Belinda Jones, The Paradise Room, →ISBN, page 59:
text: I also Tippexed out the swear-words that I'd scrawled over the Tippexed-out November gigs.
ref: 2011, Andy Kind, Stand Up and Deliver: A Nervous Rookie on the Comedy Circuit, →ISBN:
glosses: To delete using correction fluid.
special sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: special sauces
Senses: examples: text: two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a sesame seed bun
ref: 1975, McDonald's Corporation, Big Mac advertising jingle:
text: one day you'll be eatin' a fast-food burger.... Ever wonder what makes special sauce so special?
ref: 2001 January, Matt Groening, “Parasites Lost”, in Futurama, season 3, episode 4:
glosses: A basic ingredient in McDonald's Big Mac hamburgers, a sort of Thousand Island dressing (now called Big Mac sauce by the company).
glosses: Burger sauce.
glosses: Synonym of secret sauce.
synonyms: word: secret sauce
casse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French casse (literally “breakage”), from casser (“to break”).
Senses: glosses: A fault in wine, caused by an enzyme, making it turn from red to brown, or white to yellow, on exposure to air.
Related terms: casse-croute
cassate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cassates
form: cassating
form: cassated
form: cassated
Etymology: From Late Latin cassare. See cass.
Senses: glosses: To render void; to undo or annul.
Related terms: cassation
carene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑɹiːn/
ipa: /kɒriːn/
Etymology: From Latin carēnum or caroenum, from Ancient Greek κάροινον (károinon), q.v.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Synonym of carenum (“reduction of must or sweet wine in ancient European cuisine”).
synonyms: word: carenum
extra: reduction of must or sweet wine in ancient European cuisine
carene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑɹiːn/
ipa: /kɒriːn/
Forms: form: carenes
Etymology: From Medieval Latin carēna (“40-day fast; remission of such a fast”), from Late Latin quadragēna (“40-day period, Lent”) or quarantena (“40-day period”), from Latin quadrāgēnus (“40 each”), from quadrāgintā (“four tens, forty”). Doublet of quadragene.
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
glosses: A 40-day fast or period of similar abstinence.
examples: text: You have with much labour, and some charge, purchased to your self so many Quadragenes or Lents of pardon; that is, you have bought off the penances of so many times forty dayes. It is well; but were you well advised, it may be your Quadragenes are not Carenes; that is, are not a quitting the severest penances of fasting so long in bread and water; for there is great difference in the manner of keeping a penitential Lent, and it may be you have purchased but some lighter thing; and then if your demerit arise to so many Carenes, and you purchased but mere Quadragenes, without a minute and table of particulars, you may stay longer in Purgatory than you expected... And they that read... will soon perceive that all this is but a handful of smoke, when you hold it, you hold it not.
ref: 1664, Jeremy Taylor, A Disswasive from Popery to the People of Ireland, page 93:
text: Careen (and its Latin source, quadragene) no longer made sense in the fifteenth century because priests no longer distributed punishments in forty-day parcels, the duration of Lent... the culture had shifted from brief punishments on earth to long punishments in the afterlife, in Purgatory. But the term was still in circulation, and people sought to make sense of it by inventing new definitions for it.
ref: 2016, Kathryn M. Rudy, Rubrics, Images, & Indulgences in Late Medieval Netherlandish Manuscripts, pages 47–8:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
glosses: An indulgence from 40 days of fasting or similar abstinence, especially during Lent; (later) various equivalent indulgences against punishment in Purgatory.
Synonyms: sense: kind of indulgence
english: in some cases
translation: in some cases
word: quadragene
Hyponyms: sense: 40-day fast
word: Lent
sense: kind of indulgence
english: in some cases
translation: in some cases
word: quadragene
carene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑɹiːn/
ipa: /kɒriːn/
Forms: form: carenes
Etymology: From French carène (“keel”), from Latin carīna (“keel”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The lower portion of a marine animal's shell, covering its mantle.
coppie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coppies
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of copy.
costate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒsteɪt/
enpr: kŏstāt
rhymes: -ɒsteɪt
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin costātus, from costa (“rib”) + -ātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Having ribs, or the appearance of ribs.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having one or more longitudinal ribs.
Synonyms: costated
Derived terms: bicostate
costately
homocostate
multicostate
quadricostate
quinquecostate
subcostate
tricostate
unicostate
costate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒsteɪt/
enpr: kŏstāt
rhymes: -ɒsteɪt
ipa: /ˈkəʊsteɪt/
enpr: kōstāt
ipa: /ˈkɒsteɪt/
enpr: kŏstāt
rhymes: -ɒsteɪt
Forms: form: costates
Etymology: From co- + state.
Senses: qualifier: international law
glosses: A state in alliance with another state.
topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: An equation or variable related to the state equation of an optimal control problem in a dynamical system.
5S
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Sort, straighten, shine, standardize, sustain: a workplace discipline used to ensure reliable work practices and a clean working environment, now used in the West but originally from Japan.
conservate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: conservates
form: conservating
form: conservated
form: conservated
Etymology: Back-formation from conservation.
Senses: examples: text: The theory which was, and we believe is still maintained by the patentees, embraces the idea that the vitality of the animal is thus conservated and eventually conveyed to the plant per the Native Guano.
ref: 1873, Van Nostrand's engineering magazine:
text: When Hoover's conservating pen / Cut down our steak and sausage ration / With one accord we cried "AMEN," / And meatlessness became the fashion.
ref: 1919, Frank Hunter Potter, The Naval Reserve:
glosses: To conserve.
examples: text: I'm sorry, but if it's fun in any way it's not environmentalism. […] Let's conservate.
ref: 2001 March, Matt Groening, “Birdbot of Ice-Catraz”, in Futurama, season 3, episode 37:
glosses: To practice conservation.
empathetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛmpəˈθɛtɪk/
ipa: /ˌɛmpəˈθɛtɪk/
ipa: [ˌɛmpəˈθɛɾɪk]
ipa: /ˌempəˈθetɪk/
ipa: [ˌempəˈθeɾɪk]
rhymes: -æθɪk
Forms: form: more empathetic
form: most empathetic
Etymology: Derived from empathic, modified to sound more similar to sympathetic.
Senses: glosses: Showing empathy for others, and recognizing their feelings; empathic.
Derived terms: empathetically
hyperempathetic
nonempathetic
unempathetic
spinnaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɪnəkə/
enpr: spĭnʹəkər
ipa: /ˈspɪnəkɚ/
Forms: form: spinnakers
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: spinney
glosses: A sail supplemental to the mainsail, especially a triangular one, used on yachts for running before the wind.
Derived terms: asymmetrical spinnaker
spinnaker pole
spinnaker
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɪnəkə/
enpr: spĭnʹəkər
ipa: /ˈspɪnəkɚ/
Forms: form: spinnakers
form: spinnakering
form: spinnakered
form: spinnakered
Senses: examples: text: On the port tack layline , you're defenseless against starboard tackers — you have to dip them , no matter how much you may lose doing it — and the wind shadow of boats spinnakering away from the mark can cost you plenty.
ref: 1995, Tom Linskey, Race Winning Strategies:
text: We spinnakered out into the Atlantic and, fortunately, the wind died as night fell.
ref: 2010, Pete Goss, Close to the Wind:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To sail using a spinnaker
cubature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cubatures
Etymology: Latin cubus (“cube”): compare French cubature. See cube.
Senses: glosses: The process of determining the solid or cubic contents of a body.
farinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of farinata
fermate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fermata
alyssum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alyssums
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Alyssum, from Ancient Greek ἄλυσσον (álusson).
Senses: glosses: Any of several plants, of the genus Alyssum, mostly of Eurasian origin, that have racemes of white or yellow flowers.
Synonyms: sense: plant of genus Alyssum
word: madwort
sense: plant of genus Alyssum
word: alison
Derived terms: word: golden alyssum
word: goldentuft alyssum
word: golden-tuft alyssum
taxonomic: Berteroa incana
word: hoary alyssum
taxonomic: Lobularia maritima
word: sweet alyssum
word: Wulfen's alyssum
fenestrae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fenestra
sensu stricto
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stricto sensu.
aliquoting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: For samples that are suitable for aliquoting, take 15ml and place in a scintillation vial.
text: The most accurate quantitative deposition can be made by gravimetric aliquoting procedures, although volumetric aliquoting is reasonably accurate.
ref: 1954, Glenn Theodore Seaborg, The Actinide Elements, page 710:
text: In recent years, automated sample sorter systems have been introduced to cope with the workload of large reference laboratories and automated aliquoting systems have provided a simplified alternative to time-consuming and cumbersome manual aliquoting procedures.
ref: 2003, Walter G. Guder et al., Samples:From the Patient to the Laboratory, →ISBN, page 44:
text: The first part of statistical significance refers to sampling a container in a statistically significant way (more accurately called aliquoting).
ref: 2004, Improving the Characterization Program for Contact-Handled Transuranic Waste, National Research Council, →ISBN, page 44:
glosses: present participle and gerund of aliquot
inheritance powder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inheritance powders
Etymology: So called because one person might murder another to gain an inheritance.
Senses: examples: text: `Arsenic was very popular in the old days [...] Inheritance powder, they called it. Pure, deadly, white, dissolves in any weak acid.'
ref: 2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 316:
glosses: Any of several poisons used for murder, but especially arsenic and, to a lesser extent, thallium.
liver bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪvə ˌbɜːd/
Forms: form: liver birds
Etymology: The etymology of the first element is uncertain. Perhaps simply a clipping of Liverpool. However, the word was identified in Randle Holme III's Academie of Armorie (1688) with German Löffler (“spoonbill”), as well as Low Dutch (i.e. Low German) forms cited as "Lepler, or Lepelner, or Lefler". If this etymology is true, it might have been adopted due to the rebus this word made on the name Liverpool. Also compare Dutch lepelaar (“spoonbill”).
Either way, the modern vowel in the first syllable is unexplained.
Senses: glosses: A cormorant-like bird which symbolizes the English city of Liverpool.
wikipedia: Low German
Randle Holme
corporate seal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corporate seals
Senses: glosses: the official seal of a corporation
Related terms: company seal
sin bin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sin bins
form: sin binning
form: sin binned
form: sin binned
form: sin-bin
form: sinbin
Etymology: From sin + bin. Apparently Australian. Usage of the panel van sense is influenced by the US trade name.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
qualifier: usually in passive voice
glosses: to send a player off temporarily following an infringement of a rule in a game
Eastaughffe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Eastoff
form: Eastaugh
form: Eastoft
Etymology: From (town) east + Danish toft meaning "homestead" with an enclosure.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English, possibly from north-eastern England or the neighbouring parts of Scotland.
galline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more galline
form: most galline
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: of, or pertaining to, the chicken
Eastoft
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From (village) Danish eski (“ash tree”) (from Old Norse aska) + toft (“homestead, hillock”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in North Lincolnshire district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SE8016).
glosses: A surname from Old English, alternatively spelt Eastaughffe, Eastoff, or Eastaugh.
go kaflooey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes kaflooey
form: going kaflooey
form: went kaflooey
form: gone kaflooey
Senses: glosses: To turn out wrong; to cease to function or exist.
Salou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and popular tourist resort on the Costa Dorada, Spain.
sheqel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheqels
form: sheqalim
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shekel.
Derived terms: new sheqel
button mashing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: button mashings
form: button-mashing
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: The act of repeatedly pressing random buttons on a video game controller in hopes of executing attacks and/or other various motions found in video games.
button mashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: button-mashing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of button mash
Related terms: joystick waggler
hot stove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot stoves
Senses: examples: text: You can try boiling water for that spaghetti on the hot stove, but it might take a few hours.
glosses: A relatively low-powered kitchen appliance used in lieu of a proper stove.
glosses: A hotplate.
glosses: A stove with a hot element.
glosses: Any potentially harmful situation.
examples: the hot stove report
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The baseball off-season where trades take place and teams look to sign free agents.
Derived terms: hot stove league
glark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: glarks
form: glarking
form: glarked
form: glarked
Etymology: Slight variation of glork in the constructed sentence "This gubblick contains many nonsklarkish English flutzpahs, but the overall pluggandisp can be glorked from context" by David Moser. It is conjectured that hacker usage mutated the verb to glark because glork was already an established jargon term.
Senses: glosses: To guess (the meaning of an unfamiliar word) based on hearing its use in context.
scuzzy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskʌ.zi/
rhymes: -ʌzi
homophone: SCSI
Forms: form: scuzzier
form: scuzziest
Etymology: Probably a blend of scummy + fuzzy 1960s, US, colloquial, expressive coinage, with influence from scum, fuzzy, lousy, sleazy.
Senses: examples: text: a scuzzy toilet
text: Outside the gay discotheques, there was also a yuppy scene of 'XTC parties' that precociously featured one of the defining aspects of rave – the eschewing of alcohol in favour of juice and mineral water. For these respectable professionals, Ecstasy didn't seem like a drug; it was cheap, there was no scuzzy paraphernalia like syringes or bongs, it wasn't […]
ref: 2012, Simon Reynolds, Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture, Soft Skull Press, →ISBN, page 281:
glosses: Dirty or grimy.
examples: text: They were easy to shrug off as harmless cranks, only interested in getting together in scuzzy pubs to talk about a revolution they would never manage to provoke, more likely to fight among themselves than raise a concerted attack on the minorities they were so opposed to.
ref: 2015, Eva Dolan, Tell No Tales, Random House, →ISBN, page 167:
text: I’d been counting on Paul, a scuzzy-but-still-sexy manager of a music club in Shoreditch, to meet up with me on my first night in London.
ref: 2016 March 21, Allison P. Davies, “What I Learned Tindering My Way Across Europe”, in Travel + Leisure, archived from the original on 06 Jan 2018:
glosses: Disreputable; sleazy.
Derived terms: scuzz
scuzzball
scuzzbucket
scuzzoid
zamacueca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌzɑməˈkweɪkə/
Forms: form: zamacuecas
Etymology: From Spanish zamacueca.
Senses: glosses: An ancient colonial dance and music that originated in the Viceroyalty of Peru, taking its roots from African, Spanish, and Andean rhythms.
the man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the Man
form: da man
Etymology: Originally from US English.
Senses: examples: text: Holonym: the System
text: The man gets you down.
text: I'm sorry I couldn’t meet you earlier, but I spent all night working for the man.
text: It starts when you're always afraid / Step out of line, the man come and take you away
ref: 1966 December, Stephen Stills, “For What It's Worth”performed by Buffalo Springfield:
text: “Bitch, shut up that noise!” Cowboy hissed hotly from somewhere in the darkness ahead of her. “You wanna bring the man down on me or somethin’? […]”
ref: 1968, Nathan C. Heard, Howard Street, New York: The New American Library, pages 22–23:
text: Left a good job in the city / Workin' for the man every night and day
ref: 1969, John Fogerty, “Proud Mary”, in Bayou Country, performed by Creedence Clearwater Revival:
text: Is it the man come to take me away?
Why do they follow me?
ref: 1981, Men at Work, “Who Can It Be Now?”, in Business as Usual:
text: And in between sips of Coke / He told me that he thought we were sellin' out / Layin' down, suckin' up to the man / Well now I've got some / Advice for you, little buddy / Before you point the finger / You should know that I'm the man / I'm the man and you're the man / And he's the man as well
ref: 1996, “Hooker with a Penis”, performed by Tool:
text: […]once people such as Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk show up to your party, there is no longer anything countercultural about it. You are not rebelling against the man. You are the man.
ref: 2023 September 5, Arwa Mahdawi, “Why all the Burning Man schadenfreude? Where do I start ...”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
coordinate_terms: Big Brother#Proper noun
leviathan
glosses: The oppressive powers that be, including the government and corporations, as coordinated outside of one's control.
examples: Near-synonym: old man
glosses: An oppressive or domineering person of authority, usually male; especially, one's boss.
examples: text: You’re the man!
text: Buggin' Out: You the man.
Mookie: No, you the man.
Buggin' Out: No, I'm just a struggling Black man trying to keep my dick hard in a cruel and harsh world.
ref: 1989, Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing:
text: [Jake Delhomme] has been “The Man” ever since, leading the Panthers to a remarkable eight come-from-behind wins in what Fox describes as Carolina's “outhouse-to-penthouse” season.
ref: 2004 January 31, George Kimball, “Super Bowl XXXVIII: Rags-to-riches story for Carolina Panthers quarter-back Delhomme”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The best man for a job; someone with exceptional skills.
Derived terms: stick it to the man
Miyako
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Japanese 宮古島 (miyako-jima).
Senses: glosses: A group of islands in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. It lies a few hundred kilometres east of Taipei, Taiwan.
glosses: The Miyako language of the island, one of several Ryūkyūan languages.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Miyako terms
Miyako
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Japanese 宮古市.
Senses: glosses: A city in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. The city was founded in February of 1941.
Miyako
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
glosses: A surname from Japanese.
Related terms: mvi ⁠
uncommonness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uncommonnesses
Etymology: From uncommon + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The uncommonness of the gem is what gives it its value.
text: It is only when people refuse to admit the uncommonness of some persons and the circumstances surrounding them, that erroneous conceits are nourished, and their feelings pained.
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
glosses: The state or quality of being uncommon; rarity.
Synonyms: rarity
rareness
pumpkin pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pumpkin pies
form: pumpion pie
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A sweet pie made from the flesh of pumpkins and traditionally served as a dessert on Thanksgiving.
Derived terms: pumpkin pie spice
goat cheese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goat cheeses
form: goat's cheese
form: goat-cheese
Etymology: From Middle English gate cuse.
Senses: examples: text: The man who sold it to him said goats were extremely profitable; he swore that Mr. Sokolat would have a nice goat-cheese business in no time at all.
ref: 1947, Ruth McKenney, The Loud Red Patrick, page 70:
synonyms: chèvre
goat's milk cheese
glosses: Any cheese produced using goatmilk.
buttsex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of butt sex.
Sinae
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Sinae, from Ancient Greek Σῖναι (Sînai), q.v. See also Sino-.
Senses: examples: text: ... the outmoſt people to the eaſt, next the Sinus Magnus, and inclining to the ſouth, not to be blended with the Chineſe... Beyond the Sinae to the eaſt, and ſouth was a terra incognita... Iſ. Voſſius takes the Sinae to be the Siameſe; becauſe at this day the appellation Sinae is unknown aamong them; an argument which de Pinedo on Stephanus treats as trifling.
ref: 1773, Alexander MacBean, A Dictionary of Ancient Geography..., s.v. "Sinae"
text: The sailing-course beyond the Ganges to the "country of the Sinae", as stated, would very nearly reach the Gulf of Tong-King.
ref: 1927, Wilfred H. Schoff translating Marcian of Heraclea as Periplus of the Outer Sea..., p. 49
text: Exactly which term, "Sinae" or "Serica", equates to the modern China is a bit muddled. Sinae could refer to eastern peninsular Southeast Asia or southern China or both whereas Serica could refer to northern China or Xinjiang and eastern Central Asia or both.
ref: 2008, Richard L. Smith, Premodern Trade in World History, p. 111
glosses: Synonym of Chinese or Southern Chinese, chiefly in the context of ancient Greco-Roman knowledge of China.
synonyms: word: Chinese or Southern Chinese
word: chiefly in the context of ancient Greco-Roman knowledge of China
Derived terms: Sinaean
stump powder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stump powders
Senses: glosses: Explosive powder used for blasting tree stumps when clearing land.
0-4-2
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 0-4-2s
Senses: examples: text: The 2-4-2 tank engines of the Great Eastern and the London and North Western were simply adaptations of 2-4-0 main-line engines; the 0-4-4 tank engine owed its parentage to the archaic 0-4-2 mixed traffic.
ref: 1952, Cuthbert Hamilton Ellis, The Beauty of Old Trains, page 117:
text: After five 0-4-2 saddle tanks in 1860, all other NLR motive power was constructed at Bow, and none of these early locomotives was fitted with a cab.
ref: 1988, Edgar J. Larkin, The Railway Workshops of Britain, 1823-1986, page 52:
text: The 'Lord Falkland', which pulled the first train from Bombay to Thana on April 14, 1853 was built by the Vulcan Foundry in England and was a '2-4-0' tender engine. This was followed by other locomotives of the 2-4-0, 2-2-0 and 0-4-2 types, which continued in use for a number of years.
ref: 1975, M. A. Rao, Indian Railways, page 143:
glosses: Under the Whyte notation, a steam locomotive that has four coupled driving wheels followed by two trailing wheels, with no leading wheels.
0-4-4
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 0-4-4s
Senses: glosses: Under the Whyte notation, a steam locomotive that has four coupled driving wheels followed by four trailing wheels, with no leading wheels.
0-6-4
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 0-6-4s
Senses: glosses: Under the Whyte notation, a steam locomotive that has six coupled driving wheels followed by four trailing wheels, with no leading wheels.
hit the gas
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hits the gas
form: hitting the gas
form: hit the gas
form: hit the gas
Etymology: Suggesting the use of a gas pedal, or accelerator.
Senses: examples: text: They're gaining on you; you'd better hit the gas, now!
text: Impera's right below us. I'm pointing her straight down and hitting the gas. There's a military base down there that'll try to blow us apart before we hit. Let's not be here when that happens.
ref: 2014 November [2014 May 28], Mac Walters, Jeremy Barlow, “Mass Effect: Foundation #11”, in Mass Effect: Foundation, volume 3 (Science Fiction), spoken by Zaeed Massani, Dark Horse Comics, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 66:
synonyms: gas
hit the accelerator
lay tracks
put the pedal to the metal
step on the gas
glosses: To go; go faster.
synonyms: hit the accelerator
step on the gas
glosses: To advance or do something more quickly or with more energy.
2-6-2
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 2-6-2s
Senses: glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a steam locomotive that has two leading wheels, six coupled driving wheels, and two trailing wheels.
2-6-4
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 2-6-4s
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a steam locomotive that has two leading wheels, six coupled driving wheels, and four trailing wheels.
railroad truck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: railroad trucks
Senses: synonyms: word: wheel truck
word: truck
word: bogie
glosses: A chassis or framework-like structure underneath a railroad car to which wheel axles (and, hence, wheels) are attached through bearings. (Not to be confused with railway truck or railtruck, which are British English synonyms of railroad car)
Related terms: leading truck
trailing truck
4-6-2+2-6-4
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 4-6-2+2-6-4s
Senses: glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a Garratt steam locomotive that is articulated in three parts, with a boiler mounted on the centre frame, and two steam engines mounted in opposite directions on separate frames, one on each end of the boiler, and each engine having a 4-6-2 wheel configuration.
Bielorussia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Belarus
dumb tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: stupidity tax
glosses: The national lottery.
prolegomenon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹəʊlɪˈɡɒmɪnɒn/
ipa: /ˌpɹoʊlɪˈɡɑmənɑn/
Forms: form: prolegomena
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek neuter noun: προλεγόμενον (prolegómenon, “that which is said beforehand,”) [plural: προλεγόμενα (prolegómena), from the verb: προλέγω (prolégō, “I say before[hand]”)] referring to an introduction.
Senses: examples: text: Frye here is not rewriting myth as some assume. Her prolegomenon is intended to be read as fiction not autobiography.
ref: 1990 April 28, Patricia Roth Schwartz, “The Odd Couple”, in Gay Community News, page 7:
text: This book is a critique of the order-maintenance approach to criminal justice, but it is also a prolegomenon to a new vision of punishment and criminal justice policy analysis.
ref: 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, Illusion of Order:
glosses: A prefatory discussion; a formal essay or critical discussion serving to introduce and interpret an extended work.
Derived terms: prolegomenary
prolegomenous
Related terms: protasis
foreword
Lebanese loop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lebanese loops
Senses: glosses: A skimming device fitted to an ATM, used to collect personal banking information by criminals.
sale of work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sales of work
Senses: glosses: A fundraising event with raffles, cake sales, bingo etc; usually run by churches and schools.
shoplifter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoplifters
Etymology: From shop + lifter.
Senses: examples: text: Shoplifters will be prosecuted.
text: The shoplifters are much less to be dreaded than the sneak, as they do not carry off cash, rarely any very valuable property […]
ref: 1832, Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, volume 6, page 478:
text: Like their friends the "draggers," the "hoisters" or shoplifters are having a thin time these days, […]
ref: 1945, Jack Henry, What Price Crime?, page 92:
text: […] just as the unchastised teenage shoplifter, mistaking society’s indulgence for applause, will evolve into a bloodthirsty hired killer, it is inevitable that the author of “The Pencil” will one day morph into the author of “The Toothpick.”
ref: 2007 October 28, Joe Queenan, “Consider the Toothpick”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A person who shoplifts, one who steals from shops.
Synonyms: word: shop stealer
Related terms: shoplift
shoplifting
shoplifters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoplifter
shoplifts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shoplift
shoplifted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shoplift
passaggio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passaggi
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: break
glosses: The transition area between a singer's vocal registers.
apropos of nothing
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Without reference to anything.
glosses: Without any apparent reason or purpose.
Synonyms: sense: without any apparent reason or purpose
word: without rhyme or reason
Related terms: à propos de bottes
non sequitur
persuasive precedent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: persuasive precedents
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A precedent set in a court that has no precedence over another but whose decisions are considered to be sufficiently useful that they may be used, although they are not binding until used by a superior court.