cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Erebus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɛɹəbəs/
Forms: form: Erebos
Etymology: From Latin Erebus. Doublet of rajas.
[Alt: Mount Erebus]
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: One of the Greek primordial deities who was the personification of darkness and shadow, brother-husband of Nyx and son of Chaos.
examples: text: Nay, were he Deul, as he is no man,
Yet in reuenge of faire Zenocrate,
UUhome he detayneth in deſpight of vs,
This arme ſhould ſend him downe to Erebus,
To ſhroud his ſhame in darkneſſe of the night.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IIII, scene i:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The dark and gloomy cavern between the earth and Hades; the underworld.
glosses: Ellipsis of Mount Erebus, a volcano in Antarctica, named after HMS Erebus.
rivalless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rival + -less.
Senses: glosses: Unrivaled, lacking rivals.
Euphrosyne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /juːˈfɹɒzɪni/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Εὐφροσύνη (Euphrosúnē).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: One of the three Charites and the goddess of joy.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 31 Euphrosyne, a main belt asteroid.
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Synonyms: topics: mythology
mysticism
philosophy
human-sciences
sciences
word: Euthymia
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: 31 Euphrosyne
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: ㉛
Zhuyin fuhao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃuːˌɪn fuːˈhaʊ/
note: hyperforeign
ipa: /(d)ʒuːˌjɪn fuːˈhaʊ/
note: hyperforeign
enpr: zho͞o-yĭn' fo͞o-hou'
rhymes: -aʊ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 注音符號 /注音符号 (zhùyīn fúhào, literally “symbol(s) for annotation of sounds”).
Senses: synonyms: Zhuyin
bopomofo
glosses: A phonetic alphabet used to transcribe Mandarin for students of that language and for inputting Chinese, now used primarily only in Taiwan. Variants also exist for other Chinese lects spoken in Taiwan.
Related terms: Gwoyeu Romatzyh
Pinyin
Wade-Giles
Yale
roriferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊˈɹɪf.əɹ.əs/
ipa: /ɹoʊˈɹɪf.ɚ.əs/
rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Etymology: From Latin rōrifer, from rōs (“dew, moisture”) + ferō (“carry, bear”), + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: At his gladſome approach, adown the vaſt ethereal expanſe, opaque, night's roriferous ſhadows glide;
ref: 1801, Fugitive Pieces in Prose and Verse, quoting William Hart, “The British Critic”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), number 17, page 539:
glosses: Producing or generating dew.
Related terms: roriferous duct
rorifluent
teaser rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teaser rates
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: An initial, relatively low, rate of interest on an adjustable-rate mortgage designed to attract borrowers.
magnum opuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magna opera
form: magnum opi
Senses: glosses: plural of magnum opus
magnum opi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magna opera
form: magnum opuses
Senses: examples: text: And unlike Jonah, dozens of my incisive life-affirming cancer-curing magnum opi are still entombed in the bowels of this pitiless machine and millions of respondents don't even know how disappointed they are not to read them.
ref: 2002 September 19, "grampus", “"OT: What is a #!%$*& "cookie"?"”, in rec.radio.shortwave (Usenet), retrieved 21 Mar 2008:
text: First, we educators need to reject the canon that computers are magnum opi whose limitations should be rationalized and overlooked.
ref: 2003 July 15–21, Mary Burns, “Falling Water, Crashing Windows: Making Computers More School Friendly”, in ACM Ubiquity, volume 4, number 21, →ISSN:
text: If the number of humans is infinite, you've got Shakespeare, politely cranking out his magnum opi. QED.
ref: 2006 December 7, "Agent Smith", “Re: Hidden Code in The Bells”, in rec.org.mensa (Usenet), retrieved 21 Mar 2008:
text: As we all know, Joyce's magnum opi Ulysse and Finnegans Wake are commonly thought difficult and obscure.
ref: 2008 January 17, "tcbevol...@yahoo.com", “The National Police Gazette”, in alt.fan.rawilson (Usenet), retrieved 21 Mar 2008:
glosses: plural of magnum opus
opuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opera
Senses: glosses: plural of opus
limetta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limettas
Senses: glosses: Citrus limetta, a small, round, sweet citrus fruit, a cross between the citron and bitter orange.
Derived terms: sweet limetta
Key lime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Key limes
form: key lime
Etymology: From Keys (“the Florida Keys”), from key (“an island in a chain of islands”), variant of cay, from Spanish cayo.
Senses: synonyms: acid lime
glosses: A small yellow (when ripe, usually sold green) lime, of hybrid Citrus × aurantiifolia, especially those from southern Florida.
wikipedia: Florida Keys
Derived terms: Key lime pie
Related terms: West Indian lime
bartender’s lime
Omani lime
Mexican lime
nailfile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nailfiles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nail file.
listeria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪɹiə
-ɪəɹiə
Forms: form: listeria
Etymology: From the genus name Listeria.
Senses: examples: text: One of the main reasons fridge temperatures are recommend to be set at 5ºC is because of listeria. Listeria is a food poisoning bacterium that is psychrotrophic – in other words it likes cold temperatures. From the growth models, we know that listeria grows nearly twice as fast at 8°C as it does at 5°C, hence the recommended 5ºC, which helps keep us safe from listeria.
ref: 2018 January 15, Kaarin Goodburn, “How chilled is your fridge?”, in Food Standards Agency:
text: Listeriosis is a foodborne disease caused by listeria bacteria.
ref: 2025 January 25, Hanna Ziady, “‘Our innocent kids are struggling.’ Victims of massive listeriosis outbreak say those responsible must ‘do the right thing’”, in CNN:
synonyms: listerella
glosses: Any rod-shaped, gram-positive bacterium, of the genus Listeria, especially those responsible for the bacterial infection listeriosis.
Derived terms: listerial
listericidal
argentines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪnz
Senses: glosses: plural of argentine
congrue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin congruere. See congruous.
congrue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: congrues
form: congruing
form: congrued
form: congrued
Etymology: From Latin congruere. See congruous.
Senses: examples: text: Thou mayst not coldly set
Our sovereign process; which imports at full,
By letters congruing to that effect,
The present death of Hamlet.
ref: c. 1599-1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, Scene III
glosses: To agree; to be suitable.
Related terms: congruence
congruent
congrues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of congrue
Kievan Rus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kiev Rus
form: Kyiv Rus
form: Kyïv Rus
form: Kyyiv Rus
form: Kievan Rus'
form: Kyivan Rus
form: Kyivan Rus'
form: Kyïvan Rus
form: Kyjivan Rus
form: Kyyivan Rus
Senses: glosses: A medieval principality in Eastern Europe centred around Kyiv; at its maximum extent covering much of modern Ukraine, Belarus and western Russia and considered an early predecessor of each country.
wikipedia: Yaroslav the Wise
Synonyms: word: Kievan Russia
word: Kiev
word: Kyiv
word: Ruthenia
word: Kievan state
english: the; preceded by
translation: the; preceded by
word: Kyivan state
lustra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lustrum
lustrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌstɹeɪt/
Forms: form: lustrates
form: lustrating
form: lustrated
form: lustrated
Etymology: From Latin lustrātus (“lustrated”), perfect passive participle of lustrō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from lustrum (“ritual purification”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix), q.v. In reference to imparting luster, further via senses of Middle French lustre, from Old Italian lustro.
Senses: examples: text: We must purge, and cleanse, and lustrate the whole city.
ref: c. 1650, Henry Hammond, Miscellaneous Theological Works..., Vol. 3, Sermon 23, p. 503 (1850 ed.)
text: "Well," said Hypatia, more and more listlessly; "it might be more prudent to show them first the fairer and more graceful side of the old Myths... I wish to lustrate them afresh for the service of the gods."
ref: 1853, Charles Kingsley, chapter 20, in Hypatia:
text: Mid-zenith hangs the fascinated day
In wind-lustrated hollows crystalline.
ref: 1909, Edith Wharton, “An Autumn Sunset”, in Artemis to Actaeon and Other Poems:
glosses: Synonym of purify, to ritually cleanse or renew, particularly to do so with a propitiatory offering or (historical) the lustration, quinquennial ritual of the Roman censor to cleanse the city after a census.
synonyms: word: purify
extra: (historical) the lustration, quinquennial ritual of the Roman censor to cleanse the city after a census
word: to ritually cleanse or renew
extra: (historical) the lustration, quinquennial ritual of the Roman censor to cleanse the city after a census
word: particularly to do so with a propitiatory offering or
extra: (historical) the lustration, quinquennial ritual of the Roman censor to cleanse the city after a census
glosses: Synonym of pass through, traverse.
synonyms: word: pass through
word: traverse
raw_tags: with 'through'
glosses: Synonym of look, look over, survey.
synonyms: word: look
word: look over
word: survey
glosses: Synonym of luster, to impart luster to, to make lustrous.
synonyms: word: luster
word: to impart luster to
word: to make lustrous
Derived terms: lustrable
Lake Superior
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French lac Supérieur (“uppermost lake”), named by 17th-century French explorers for its location as the furthest upstream and highest in altitude of the Great Lakes.
Senses: glosses: A lake in North America; the largest of the Great Lakes and second largest lake and largest freshwater lake in the world by area.
fishing line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fishing lines
Etymology: From Middle English *fyshenge lyne (found in plural fyshenge lynes), equivalent to fishing + line.
Senses: glosses: A cord or line where the hook or lure is attached.
Derived terms: mermaid's fishing line
nuclear waste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuclear wastes
Senses: glosses: The more or less radioactive waste produced by nuclear reactors and others.
Synonyms: radioactive waste
coal mine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coal mines
form: coalmine
Etymology: From Middle English coal mine.
Senses: synonyms: colliery
glosses: A mine from which coal (such as lignite or anthracite) is mined.
Derived terms: canary in a coal mine
coalminer
coal miner
midnight in a coal mine
pesants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pesant
blind alley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blind alleys
Etymology: The notion of ‘blindness’ comes from the lack of a through passage (the ‘eye’). Attested since 1583, and used figuratively since the mid-19th century.
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blind, alley. A street or passageway that leads nowhere.
examples: text: [Raheem] Sterling was grateful that a glaring miss from [Jesse] Lingard's pass was rescued by a linesman's flag against the Manchester United midfielder, but he almost tried too hard as the game progressed and was running up blind alleys before he was replaced by Marcus Rashford after 68 minutes.
ref: 2018 June 18, Phil McNulty, “Tunisia 1 – 2 England”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2019:
text: "We looked into lots of blind alleys for re-engineering our fleet. […]."
ref: 2023 October 4, Ben Jones, “'08e' sparks new life into trusty shunters”, in RAIL, number 993, page 47:
glosses: A course of inquiry that leads nowhere.
Synonyms: cul-de-sac
dead end
romaines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of romaine
tortuosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tortuosities
Etymology: From tortuo(u)s + -ity, from Latin tortuositas; compare French tortuosité.
Senses: glosses: tortuousness; tortuous condition or nature.
examples: text: So far from seeking to "pettifogulise"—i.e., to find evasions for any purpose in a trickster's minute tortuosities of construction—exactly in the opposite direction, from mere excess of sincerity, most unwillingly I found, in almost everybody's words, an unintentional opening left for double interpretations.
ref: 1853, Thomas De Quincey, “Introduction to the World of Strife”, in Autobiographic Sketches (De Quincey’s Works; I), London: James Hogg & Sons, →OCLC, page 59:
glosses: Crookedness.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A property of curve being tortuous, commonly used to describe diffusion in porous media.
subfamilies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subfamily
élégante
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: élégantes
Senses: examples: text: “Really—my Lady,”-⁠-⁠-said the beau, adjusting his cravat, and following a sprightly élégante round the room, with his eye-glass—“your observation is very outrée—very outrée, indeed.[…]”
ref: 1808, Charles Sedley, The Faro Table; or, The Gambling Mothers. A Fashionable Fable., volume I, London: […] J. Dean, […] for J. F. Hughes, […], page 141:
text: The huge building in which the Hyde Park Club is located formed a rallying-place for a vast number of élégantes, and in the gardens of all the houses at Albert Gate tents, pavilions, and platforms had been erected.
ref: 1913, Edward Legge, More about King Edward, London: Eveleigh Nash, page 195:
text: Jewellery in various forms (diamonds, sapphires, rubies, and garnets especially), flowers in sprays and bunches, valuable fans, reticules embroidered in passementerie, completed the toilette of an élégante in Waterloo year.
ref: 1913, Julius M[endes] Price, Dame Fashion: Paris—London (1786—1912), London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, Ld., page 50:
text: The boutique was a swirl of élégantes in fashionable ensembles, bobbing about in hobble skirts—Poiret’s latest infliction, as Gabrielle liked to say—laughing about how their coachmen had to lift them into carriages because it was impossible to climb up with bound knees.
ref: 2020, Judithe Little, “Élégantes”, in The Chanel Sisters, Toronto, Ont.: Graydon House, Harlequin Books S.A., →ISBN, chapter 46:
glosses: Alternative spelling of elegante.
élégantes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of élégante
heart valve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heart valves
Senses: topics: anatomy
cardiology
medicine
sciences
hypernyms: valve#Noun
glosses: Any of the valves in the heart which prevent blood from moving in the wrong direction.
Related terms: english: one of the semilunar valves
translation: one of the semilunar valves
word: aortic valve
english: one of the atrioventricular valves
translation: one of the atrioventricular valves
word: mitral valve
english: one of the semilunar valves
translation: one of the semilunar valves
word: pulmonary valve
english: one of the atrioventricular valves
translation: one of the atrioventricular valves
word: tricuspid valve
foliose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more foliose
form: most foliose
Etymology: From Latin foliōsus (“leafy”), from folio (“leaf”).
Senses: examples: text: Fruticose lichens drape and tuft; crustose and squamulose lichens creep and seep; foliose lichens layer and flake.
ref: 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 84:
glosses: leafy or leaf-like.
scagliola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊlə
Forms: form: scagliolas
form: scaliola
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian scagliola, a diminutive of scaglia.
Senses: examples: text: ‘I must work the garden—I must work the garden,’ I said to myself, five minutes later, as I waited, upstairs, in the long, dusty sala, where the bare scagliola floor gleamed vaguely in a chink of the closed shutters.
ref: 1888 September 29, Henry James, “[The Aspern Papers.]”, in The Aspern Papers; Louisa Pallant; The Modern Warning, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 13:
glosses: Plasterwork imitating marble, granite, etc.
terroristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From terrorist + -ic or terror + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a terrorist, terrorism, or terror.
sperm cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sperm cells
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Sperm; spermatozoon.
Indo-Aryan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪndoʊ̯ˈɛɹi.ən/
Etymology: From Indo- + Aryan.
Senses: examples: text: Such a situation is not unusual in the history of languages, but Indo-Aryan has a very virulent case of the disease.
ref: 1969, Gordon H. Fairbanks, “Comparative Indo-Aryan”, in Thomas A. Seboek, editor, Current Trends in Linguistics, volume 5, Linguistics in South Asia, page 40:
text: This is another way in which a depiction of the historical developments in Indo-Aryan bears on the theory of phrase structure generally, and on the rise of adpositional phrases in Indo-European specifically, showing us alternative pathways of change.
ref: 2016, Uta Reinöhl, Grammaticalization and the Rise of Configurationality in Indo-Aryan, →ISBN, page 9:
text: Indo-Aryan has a very long history of attestation, from around 1400 bc to the present […]
ref: 2017, John J. Lowe, Transitive Nouns and Adjectives: Evidence from Early Indo-Aryan, →ISBN, page 53:
synonyms: Indic
glosses: A branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family.
Indo-Aryan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪndoʊ̯ˈɛɹi.ən/
Forms: form: more Indo-Aryan
form: most Indo-Aryan
Etymology: From Indo- + Aryan.
Senses: synonyms: Indic
glosses: Of or pertaining to Indo-Aryan languages and people.
Indo-Aryan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪndoʊ̯ˈɛɹi.ən/
Forms: form: Indo-Aryans
Etymology: From Indo- + Aryan.
Senses: glosses: A native speaker of an Indo-Aryan language.
in secret
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The meeting took place in secret.
text: They reviewed the report in secret.
glosses: secretly; confidentially; in private.
Arabian Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A region of the Indian Ocean located between India, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Socotra Passage.
Chinese gooseberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinese gooseberries
Etymology: From Chinese, as the tree is native to central and eastern China + gooseberry, from superficial resemblance of the fruit.
Senses: glosses: kiwi fruit
Hyponyms: Actinidia deliciosa
Actinidia arguta
Actinidia kolomikta
mass production
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: After the war, the invaluable experience gained with mass production of the TP engines saw Davey Paxman in a favourable position to supply such units almost "off the shelf", a facility found to be of great value by oil companies engaged in well-drilling; [...].
ref: 1964 May, R. K. Evans, “The Ventura—Paxman's high-speed engine”, in Modern Railways, page 328:
text: They were ruled out as over-engineered and too expensive for mass production, and lost out to Class 141 and '142' railbuses, and then Class 150s.
ref: 2023 April 5, “£35,000 needed to save a Class 317 and create rebuilt '210' DMU”, in RAIL, number 980, page 8:
glosses: The process of manufacturing products on a large scale.
Synonyms: flow production
Related terms: mass-produce
septendecimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From septen- + decimal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to or based on the number 17.
neuroglia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /njuˈrɔɡlĭə/
Forms: form: neuroglia
form: neuroglias
Etymology: From neuro- + glia.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: glial cell
Derived terms: neurogliaform
neuroglial
vituperously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more vituperously
form: most vituperously
Etymology: From vituperous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a vituperous manner.
Greenland shark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Greenland sharks
Senses: glosses: A large shark (Somniosus microcephalus) that inhabits the northern Atlantic Ocean.
Synonyms: sense: Somniosus microcephalus
word: grey shark
sense: Somniosus microcephalus
word: ground shark
sense: Somniosus microcephalus
word: gurry shark
Hypernyms: sense: Somniosus microcephalus
word: sleeper shark
sense: Somniosus microcephalus
word: squaliform shark
shoofly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shooflies
form: shoefly
Senses: glosses: A child's rocker having a seat supported between two boards cut and painted to resemble animals.
topics: railways
transport
glosses: A device for throwing the track temporarily to one side for carrying out repairs, etc.
glosses: A police officer assigned to keep tabs on other members of the police.
Related terms: shoofly pie
shooflies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoofly
Ganymedes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡænɪmiːdz/
/ˌɡænɪˈmiːdiːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of Ganymede
glosses: Classical (Latin) form of Ganymede
marocains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marocain
Baltic-Finnic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Forms: form: Balto-Finnic
Senses: examples: text: Estonian and Finnish are both Baltic-Finnic languages.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the Baltic-Finnic languages.
Synonyms: sense: pertaining to the Baltic-Finnic languages
word: Finnic
subfulgent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + fulgent.
Senses: examples: I could barely see in the subfulgent light.
glosses: Somewhat or slightly shining.
Lancastrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lænˈkæstɹɪ.ən/
ipa: /læŋˈkæstɹɪ.ən/
Forms: form: more Lancastrian
form: most Lancastrian
Etymology: From Lancaster + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Lancaster or Lancashire.
glosses: Relating to the dukes or the royal house of Lancaster.
Lancastrian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lænˈkæstɹɪ.ən/
ipa: /læŋˈkæstɹɪ.ən/
Forms: form: Lancastrians
Etymology: From Lancaster + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A person from Lancaster or Lancashire.
glosses: An adherent of the house of Lancaster, as against the Yorkists, in the Wars of the Roses.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A modified version of the Lancaster bomber, used in civilian service in the immediate postwar years.
tricholomatoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tricholomatoid
form: most tricholomatoid
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Describes any mushroom with notched gill attachment, a thick fleshy stem and lacking an annulus or volva.
fluorobenzene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluorobenzenes
Etymology: From fluoro- + benzene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any fluorinated derivative of benzene, but especially the mono-substituted C₆H₅F (phenyl fluoride)
Related terms: fluobenzene
fluoroelastomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluoroelastomers
Etymology: From fluoro- + elastomer.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a range of partially fluorinated polymers or copolymers that are chemically and thermally stable elastomers
fluoroethylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fluoro- + ethylene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: vinyl fluoride
vinyl fluoride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The fluorinated alkene CH₂=CHF that is used to make polyvinyl fluoride
Related terms: vinyl halide
fluoromethane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluoromethanes
Etymology: From fluoro- + methane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any fluorinated derivative of methane, but especially the mono-substituted compound CH₃F (methyl fluoride) that is used in the manufacture of semiconductors
Derived terms: chlorofluoromethane
dichlorofluoromethane
difluoromethane
tetrafluoromethane
trifluoromethane
fluoropolymer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluoropolymers
Etymology: From fluoro- + polymer.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of many chemically and thermally stable polymers that are fluorine derivatives
Hypernyms: word: polymer
english: FC
translation: FC
word: fluorocarbon
Related terms: fluoroplastic
formamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: formamides
Etymology: Blend of formic + amide
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The amide of formic acid HCO-NH₂ or any N-substituted derivative; they are used in the synthesis of pharmaceuticals
Derived terms: formoterol
formylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: formylations
Etymology: From formyl + -ation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any reaction involving the introduction of a formyl group.
Derived terms: deformylation
hydroformylation
silylformylation
transformylation
blue wildebeest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue wildebeest
Senses: glosses: A large ungulate mammal of the bovid family and one of two species of wildebeest, (Connochaetes taurinus)
Synonyms: sense: Connochaetes taurinus
word: brindled gnu
sense: Connochaetes taurinus
word: common wildebeest
sense: Connochaetes taurinus
word: white-bearded wildebeest
Coordinate terms: taxonomic: Connochaetes gnou
word: black wildebeest
knee-slapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The action of striking one's own knee with the hand, associated with hearty laughter.
butt-slapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butt-slappings
Senses: glosses: Slapping the buttocks (an action associated with jest or as in a locker room).
ratchet wrench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ratchet wrenches
Senses: synonyms: socket wrench
hypernyms: wrench
spanner
<
tool
glosses: A wrench, implementing a ratchet mechanism, usually used with a set of sockets to engage the head of a bolt or similar.
Related terms: english: usually hypernymous
translation: usually hypernymous
word: hand tool
ratch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ratches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rach.
ratch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ratches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rotche.
ratch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ratches
Senses: glosses: A ratchet wheel.
glosses: A white mark on a horse's face.
ratch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ratches
form: ratching
form: ratched
form: ratched
Senses: glosses: To stretch.
glosses: To streak.
glosses: To sail by tacks.
vocales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /voʊˈkeɪˌliz/
rhymes: -eɪliːz
Senses: glosses: plural of vocalis
finales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of finale
illoyal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more illoyal
form: most illoyal
Senses: examples: text: […] Which made some call him Jacobite / Or otherwise Illoyal.
ref: 1719, Wit and Mirth, Or, Pills to Purge Melancholy, page 77:
glosses: Disloyal.
Schiller
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: German poet, philosopher, historian and playwright Friedrich Schiller.
glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Schillerian
set the stage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sets the stage
form: setting the stage
form: set the stage
form: set the stage
Senses: examples: text: Pardew was a member of the Palace side that lost in a replay to United at Wembley in 1990 and was in charge of West Ham when they were hit by Steven Gerrard's famous late equaliser in Cardiff that set the stage for Liverpool to beat the Hammers on penalties after a 3-3 draw.
ref: 2016 May 22, Phil McNulty, “Crystal Palace 1-2 Manchester United”, in BBC:
text: White House policies—on taxing and spending, trade and regulation—will set the stage for recovery.
ref: 2008 March 20, Kristina Dell, “A Voter's Guide to the Economy”, in Time:
glosses: To prepare; to establish the basis or required conditions.
examples: text: There is clearly more to the quote than what you've cited here. Otherwise, how would you be able to claim it has anything to do with Pesach in the first place? Obviously there's something that comes before what you've quoted, which sets the stage.
ref: 2006 April 28, Steve Goldfarb, “Spilling out drops of wine at the Seder”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):
glosses: To provide introductory context.
Synonyms: grease the wheels
pave the way
Related terms: stage set
melanoblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melanoblasts
Etymology: From melano- + -blast.
Senses: glosses: The precursor cell of a melanocyte.
Derived terms: melanoblastic
have at you
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: have at thee
Senses: examples: text: Dark and sinister man, have at thee.
ref: 1904, J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan:
text: くだらん。 / どちらか正しいか、 / 死をもって解らせてやる。
ref: 1997 October 3 [1997 March 20], Konami, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, translation of 悪魔城ドラキュラX 月下の夜想曲, scene: intro:
roman: Kudaran. / Dochira ka tadashii ka, / shi wo motte wakaraseteyaru.
ruby: 正
ただ
死
し
解
わか
glosses: An exclamation indicating that one is about to strike the person addressed, typically with a sword or other hand-held weapon.
Related terms: en garde
Nonni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: In the western range, and about sixiy miles from the Argun River, rises the Nonni, the most important waterway flowing through the province. On its way to the Sungari, which it joins at Shui-shih-ying-tzu, twenty miles to the north of the town of Petuna (Hsin Ch'eng), it passes on its left bank the town of Mergen and Tsi-tsi-har, known to the Chinese as Pu-k'uei, the capital of the province.
ref: 1904, Alexander Hosie, Manchuria: Its People, Resources and Recent History, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 148:
text: Waterways: the Amur River is navigable for 450 miles for steamers and 1,500 miles for smaller craft; the Sungari is navigable to Kirin, the Nonni to Tsitsihar, the Liao to Tungkiangtze, and the Yalu for its entire course.
ref: 1922, South Manchuria Railway, Manchuria: Land of Opportunities, New York: Thomas F. Logan, page 12:
text: The Chinese general in question was a picturesque figure named Ma Chanshan. General Ma had first held up and defeated the vanguard of the Japanese invaders at the Nonni River, on the southern border of the Russian sphere in North Manchuria.
ref: 1945, John B. Powell, “Russia, China, and Japan”, in My Twenty-five Years in China, New York: The MacMillan Company, →OCLC, page 199:
glosses: Synonym of Nen (a river in northeast China).
synonyms: word: Nen
extra: a river in northeast China
stamp pad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stamp pads
Senses: glosses: A porous pad, often made of a felt-like material, impregnated with ink, used for inking rubber stamps.
Synonyms: ink-pad
French curve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: French curves
Senses: glosses: A drafting template having edges of various curvatures, used for drawing smoothly-curved lines.
microswitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microswitches
Etymology: From micro- + switch.
Senses: examples: text: The left microswitch in my mouse has failed.
glosses: An electrical switch that operates with very little travel of (or pressure on) the actuator.
Derived terms: microswitched
Related terms: microswitching
henhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: henhouses
Etymology: From hen + house.
Senses: hypernyms: house#English:_building housing something other than humans
outbuilding
coordinate_terms: cowhouse
doghouse
hoghouse
glosses: Synonym of hencoop.
synonyms: word: hencoop
Derived terms: cock in the henhouse
fox guarding the henhouse
fox in the henhouse
tripwire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tripwires
form: trip wire
Etymology: From trip + wire.
Senses: examples: text: Seeing the tripwire of a nearby bouncing Betty gave us cold chills, and we moved all the more slowly through the woods.
text: They watched the two ghost-hunters run own the corridor and go crashing over the trip-wire.
ref: 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 119:
text: Thirteen people were injured in August 1957 when this Bristol freighter skidded on the runway at Southend Airport when landing with a flight from Calais. It ploughed through the boundary fence, but thankfully stopped short of the railway and the 1,500V overhead wires. A tripwire was installed on this section of Shenfield-Southend line to warn train drivers of instances such as this.
ref: 2020 December 30, Tim Dunn, “The railway's mechanical marvels”, in Rail, page 58, photo caption:
glosses: A cord or wire arranged so that when snagged or pulled by an intruder, it will trigger a detector or trap or a device, such as a land mine.
examples: text: The continued presence of U.S. troops as a tripwire force in Macedonia is an increasingly risky venture.
ref: 1994, Diplomat, volume 5, page 67:
glosses: Any means of detecting intruders or attackers.
Synonyms: tripline
trip cord
Related terms: land mine
explosive
tripwire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tripwires
form: tripwiring
form: tripwired
form: tripwired
Etymology: From trip + wire.
Senses: glosses: To set a tripwire mechanism in (a location).
breaks up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of break up
breaking up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of break up
broke up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of break up
broken up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of break up
calpolli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calpolli
form: calpollis
form: calpoltin
form: calpulli
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Classical Nahuatl calpolli, from calli (“house”) + -polli (“big”).
Senses: glosses: A subdivision of an altepetl; a "barrio".
Synonyms: chinamitl
tlaxilacalli
fulminating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fulminate
fulminating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fulminating
form: most fulminating
Senses: glosses: explosive
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Describing any sudden and severe (often fatal) inflammation
Derived terms: fulminating colitis
fulminating gold
fulminating oil
fulminating silver
fulminic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Etymology: See fulminate and -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to fulminic acid or its derivatives
fulminuric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of fulminate + uric
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to fulminuric acid or its derivatives.
fulminuric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An explosive isomer of cyanuric acid
second thought
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second thoughts
Senses: examples: text: But it seemed there was never a flinch or second thought on his part about being with a transgirl, even when they started having sex, some few months into the relationship.
ref: 2007, Cris Beam, Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers, page 199:
glosses: singular of second thoughts
Godzilla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɑdˈzɪlə/
ipa: /ɡɒdˈzɪlə/
rhymes: -ɪlə
Forms: form: Godzirra
form: Gojira
Etymology: From Japanese ゴジラ (Gojira), blend created for the movie from the words ゴリラ (gorira, “gorilla”) and 鯨 (kujira, “whale”).
Senses: examples: text: What other television show would feature a gorgeously designed sequence where a horrifically mutated Pierre and Marie Curie, their bodies swollen to Godzilla-like proportions from prolonged exposure to the radiation that would eventually kill them, destroy an Asian city with their bare hands like vengeance-crazed monster-Gods?
ref: 2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: A fictional Japanese monster (kaiju) from a series of science-fiction films.
Godzilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɑdˈzɪlə/
ipa: /ɡɒdˈzɪlə/
rhymes: -ɪlə
Forms: form: Godzillas
form: Godzirra
form: Gojira
Etymology: From Japanese ゴジラ (Gojira), blend created for the movie from the words ゴリラ (gorira, “gorilla”) and 鯨 (kujira, “whale”).
Senses: examples: text: a Godzilla of a tower building
text: Aren't we supposed to be a big, terrifying country, a Godzilla of capitalism wrecking the globe?
ref: 2009, P. J. O'Rourke, Peace Kills, Atlantic Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Anything that is an extremely large or dramatic example of its type.
Derived terms: godzillion
-zilla
glebal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more glebal
form: most glebal
Etymology: From gleba + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a gleba.
-zilla
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /zɪlə/
Etymology: Rebracketing of Godzilla.
Senses: glosses: Forms nouns and names suggesting a monster or a thing of extremely large size or great destructiveness, or other characteristics of the fictional Godzilla.
Synonyms: word: super-
word: supra-
word: hyper-
word: ultra-
word: uber-
word: macro-
word: arch-
word: over-
word: mega-
word: giga-
word: grand
paradigmaticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paradigmaticisms
Etymology: From paradigmatic + -ism.
Senses: glosses: a strong and rigid allegiance to a paradigm
monstrose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more monstrose
form: most monstrose
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having an abnormal, distorted and disfigured growth of the body (especially of a cactus)
glosses: Obsolete spelling of monstrous.
fumaric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fumaric
form: most fumaric
Etymology: See fumitory.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or derived from fumitory.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to fumaric acid or its derivatives.
Derived terms: fumarate
furaldehyde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: furfural
Derived terms: nifuraldezone
furazan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furazans
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The heterocycle 1,2,5-oxadiazole
Related terms: furoxan
oxadiazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxadiazoles
Etymology: From oxa- + diazole.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any five-membered heterocycle having two carbon atoms, two nitrogen atoms, one oxygen atom, and two double bonds
Related terms: oxadiazolone
oxatriazole
oxazole
diazole
furazan
furfuraldehyde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: furfural
furfuryl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furfuryls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical derived from furfural
Derived terms: furethidine
furfuryl alcohol
furfurylthiol
furoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From furan + -oic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to furoic acid or its derivatives.
Derived terms: furoate
furoxan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furoxans
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An oxidation product of furazan that may have use as a nitric oxide donor in pharmaceuticals
gallic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gall + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or derived from galls.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to gallic acid or its derivatives.
Derived terms: pyrogallic
gallic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin Gallicus (“of or related to Gaul”), also used archaically in New Latin and English in reference to France.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Gallic: Of or related to ancient Gaul, the medieval Frankish kingdom, or its successor states.
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, related to, or containing gallium.
basenji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basenjis
Senses: examples: text: Dogs – records from 137 cases were reviewed. The majority were male, with breeds including basenji, boerboel, German shepherd, labrador retriever, local, maltese and pitbull.
ref: 2024, Steven Kakooza, Wilfred Eneku, Esther Nabatta, Eddie M Wampande, Paul Ssajjakambwe, et al., “Integrating multi-wet laboratory diagnostics to study staphylococci in animals in Uganda”, in BMC Microbiology, volume 24, →DOI, page 7:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Basenji.
gasless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæsləs/
Etymology: From gas (“state of matter, chemical element, mixture”) + -less.
Senses: glosses: That does not use or generate gas.
Derived terms: gaslessness
gasless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæsləs/
Etymology: From gas (clipping of gasoline) + -less.
Senses: examples: text: So it was back to their old, almost gasless car, […]
ref: 2013 October, Robert Barr Smith, Outlaws: Tales of Bad Guys Who Shaped the Wild West, TwoDot, →ISBN, page 151:
glosses: Without gas (gasoline).
re-engineer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-engineers
form: re-engineering
form: re-engineered
form: re-engineered
form: reengineer
Etymology: From re- + engineer.
Senses: examples: text: More specifically I would like to see whether and under what conditions we could re-engineer the utopia of a borderless world, and by extension, a borderless Africa, since, as far as I know, Africa is part of the world. And the world is part of Africa.
ref: 2018 November 11, Achille Mbembe, “The idea of a borderless world”, in Africa Is a Country:
text: The first to be converted is 319010, which was re-engineered internally by Gemini Rail Services at Wolverton Works and is now at Brush Traction, Loughborough, being fitted with diesel gensets.
ref: 2020 December 8, Richard Clinnick, “'319' conversion advances Orion freight plans”, in Rail, pages 14–15:
glosses: To modify the design of an existing system, organization, process or product in order to make it more effective, efficient or responsive.
re-engineering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of re-engineer
re-engineering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: re-engineerings
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of reengineering.
germanate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: germanates
Etymology: From germanium + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The oxyanion GeO₄⁴⁻ derived from germanium; any salt containing this ion
Derived terms: bismuth germanate
fluogermanate
germanatian
magnesium germanate
sodium germanate
Related terms: word: germinate
glucitol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: sorbitol
glutaryl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From glutaric + -yl.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Derived from glutaric acid
Derived terms: glutaryl-coenzyme A
glutaryl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glutaryls
Etymology: From glutaric + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A univalent radical derived from glutaric acid
Derived terms: deglutarylating
glutarylation
stans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stan
stans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stan
glyceric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to glycerol
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to glyceric acid or its derivatives
Derived terms: glycerate
glycide
phosphoglyceric
glyceroxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glyceroxides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any alkoxide derived from glycerol
glycidol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycidols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The epoxide derived from glycerol; it has a number of industrial uses
glycidyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycidyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical derived from glycidol
glycinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycinates
Etymology: From glycine + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: aminoacetate
glosses: Any salt or ester of glycine.
Derived terms: bisglycinate
glyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlaɪ̯m/
rhymes: -aɪm
homophone: glime
Forms: form: glymes
Etymology: Blend of glycol + dimethyl ether.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: dimethoxyethane or any other ether of a glycol
Derived terms: monoglyme
diglyme
triglyme
tetraglyme
pentaglyme
and so on
balkanise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: balkanises
form: balkanising
form: balkanised
form: balkanised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of balkanize.
dimethoxyethane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The dimethyl ether of ethylene glycol; it used as a solvent
Synonyms: glyme
glyoxal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glyoxals
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The dialdehyde ethanedial derived from ethylene glycol; it is used in the preparation of modified starch for the paper industry.
Synonyms: oxaldehyde
Derived terms: glyoxalase
glyoxime
methylglyoxal
dialdehyde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dialdehydes
Etymology: From di- + aldehyde.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound containing two aldehyde groups
Related terms: dialdehydic
glyoxylic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to glyoxylic acid or its derivatives
Derived terms: glyoxylate