cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
diapering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diaperings
Senses: examples: text: Then the therapist remembered that throughout the early critical period of the treatment, she had observed many diaperings of Billy, but at no time had Kathie shown revulsion toward the baby's feces or cleaning the anal region.
ref: 2012, Paola Mariotti, The Maternal Lineage, page 379:
glosses: The act of clothing somebody in a diaper.
examples: text: The space between each two spokes is filled in with very elaborate diaperings, in which red and blue alternately prevail[…]
ref: 1861, John Winter Jones, Observations on the origin of the division of man's life into stages:
glosses: A regular pattern of the same shape, evenly spaced.
diapered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Wearing a diaper.
glosses: Bearing a diaper pattern.
Derived terms: undiapered
diapered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of diaper
dialled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dialed
Senses: glosses: (Canada), simple past and past participle of dial
brushy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹʌʃi/
ipa: /ˈbɹʊʃi/
rhymes: -ʌʃi
Forms: form: brushier
form: brushiest
Etymology: From brush + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It [a dormouse] dipped its brushy tail (somewhat resembling that of a fox) into the dish, and carried the milk in this manner to the mouth.
ref: 1825 November 9, John Murray, “Art X.—1. On the Unequal Distribution of Caloric in Voltaic Action. 2. On the Temperature of the Skin of the Dormouse. 3. On the Temperature of the Egg of the Hen, in relation to its Physiology. By John Murray, F.S.A. F.L.S. & M.W.S. Communicated by the Author.”, in The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal [...] October 1. 1825 to April 1. 1826, volume XIV, number XXVII, Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable & Co. Edinburgh; and Hurst, Robinson & Co. London, published January 1826, →OCLC, page 61:
text: The northern variety living in the forests of New South Wales and Queensland have smaller ears, shorter feet and a longer, brushier tail than those in the Victorian woods to the south.
ref: 2002 December 10, David Derbyshire, “New possum species found in Australia”, in The Daily Telegraph, London, archived from the original on 29 Feb 2016:
glosses: Having a similar texture to a fox’s tail; brushlike, bushy.
examples: text: Throughout much of northern Alaska, tundra is becoming brushier and giving way to forest. As tundra diminishes, animals that depend on it for food or nesting habitat—caribou and many birds—are likely to lose out.
ref: 2004 summer, Bill Sherwonit, “Alaskan meltdown: On the frontlines of climate change”, in National Parks, Washington, D.C.: National Parks and Conservation Association, →ISSN, page 27:
glosses: Of the countryside: having thick vegetation, taller than grass but shorter than trees; having abundant brush; shrubby.
Synonyms: sense: brushlike
word: bushy
sense: having thick vegetation
word: shrubby
Derived terms: brushily
brushiness
devotees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of devotee
bolivar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bolivars
form: bolivares
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bolívar.
belcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belchers
Etymology: From belch + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who belches.
belcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belchers
Etymology: Named after James Belcher (1781–1811), a famous English boxer.
Senses: examples: 1837-39, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
He had a brown hat on his head, and a dirty belcher handkerchief round his neck: with the long frayed ends of which he smeared the beer from his face as he spoke.
glosses: A dark blue neckerchief with white spots, each having a dark-blue spot in the centre.
bunraku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowing from Japanese 文楽 (bunraku).
Senses: glosses: A traditional form of Japanese puppet theatre.
cabré
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /kəˈbɹeɪ/
/ˈkɑː.bɹeɪ/
Forms: form: cabre
Etymology: From French cabré, from cabrer (“to rear up”).
Senses: examples: text: [...] 2, gules, two joined hands proper, parée purple, accompanied by three stars or (two in chief, and one in base); 3, gules, a horse, cabré argent; 4, azure, a ship with three masts proper, sails inflated,[…]
ref: 1907, Cyrus Adler, Isidore Singer, The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature, and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, page 130:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Rearing; forcené.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: With the nose up and the tail down.
bongoist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bongoists
Etymology: From bongo + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A musician who plays the bongoes.
blunge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /blʌndʒ/
rhymes: -ʌndʒ
Forms: form: blunges
form: blunging
form: blunged
form: blunged
Etymology: Probably imitative; compare plunge, blend.
Senses: qualifier: pottery
glosses: To mix clay and water.
Derived terms: blunger
blotty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒti
Forms: form: blottier
form: blottiest
Etymology: From blot + -y.
Senses: examples: text: ...the vowels were all alike and the consonants only distinguishable as turning up or down, the strokes had a blotty solidity and the letters disdained to keep the line.
ref: 1993, Leland Monk, Standard Deviations: Chance and the Modern British Novel, page 64:
glosses: Characterised or ridden with blots or blemishes.
boresome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more boresome
form: most boresome
Etymology: From bore + -some.
Senses: examples: text: [...], but if he didn't, he says, the job would be too boresome. Boresome, too boresome, is a good way to describe that ten- hour round-trip ride. I am one of the few making it alone.
ref: 2002, Sigrid Nunez, For Rouenna:
text: “[...] You got to hang on to the melody and never let it get boresome.” That desire never to be “boresome” underscored the ebullience and joy in most of his songs.
ref: 2006, Philip Furia, Michael L. Lasser, America's Songs:
text: Boresome time descended. The kind of time that droops over your knuckles and impedes your fingers' function.
ref: 2007, Katherine Baccaro, Precipice: A Novel of Lust and Lies:
glosses: Marked by boredom; boring; uninteresting
Derived terms: boresomely
boresomeness
battik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: battiks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of batik.
battik
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: battiks
form: battiking
form: battiked
form: battiked
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of batik.
dines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪnz/
rhymes: -aɪnz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dine
bedmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛdˌmeɪt/
Forms: form: bedmates
Etymology: From bed + -mate.
Senses: examples: text: Catherine of Aragon: wonderful woman, the Queen of England, the bedmate of Henry VIII - that much I knew already.
ref: 1985, John Fante, Chapter 8, The Road to Los Angeles:
text: These [periodic leg movements] may awaken the sleeper, but often they do nor and are more disruptive to the bedmate. If you or your bedmate experience either of these disorders, talk with a sleep specialist about possible treatment
ref: 2000, Ralph A. Pascualy, Sally Warren Soest, Snoring and Sleep Apnea: Sleep Well, Feel Better, page 161:
text: She wondered where his thoughts were and whether she was anything more to him than a bedmate and housekeeper. She worried whether she'd done something to be the cause of his gloom...
ref: 2005, John Durand, The Odyssey of Mary B: A True Tale, page 227:
synonyms: bedfellow
bedpartner
glosses: A person with whom one shares a bed.
Derived terms: bedmatics
Related terms: bedshare
statistical process control
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A method of monitoring a process through the use of control charts.
beastie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbiːsti/
Forms: form: beasties
form: beasty
Etymology: From beast + -ie.
Senses: glosses: Beast, animal.
Coordinate terms: critter
Derived terms: yeastie beastie
control chart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: control charts
Senses: topics: management
glosses: A tool used to determine whether a manufacturing or business process is in a state of statistical control or not.
Related terms: control limit
beachboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beachboys
Etymology: From beach + boy.
Senses: glosses: A male who is a lifeguard or other worker at a beach.
glosses: A young male who frequently goes to the beach, especially in sunny climates.
Related terms: beachgirl
bartend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bartends
form: bartending
form: bartended
form: bartended
form: bar-tend
Etymology: Back-formation from bartender.
Senses: examples: text: “I bartended in that room,” [Mark Ruffalo] said, gesturing toward a space with cushy chairs.
ref: 2010 February 7, Ari Karpel, “On His Terms, Unbranded”, in The New York Times:
text: Jimmy used to scallop from October to March and bartend a few shifts here and there over the summers when scalloping is prohibited.
ref: 2012, Lisa Genova, Love Anthony, →ISBN:
text: In Sea Point, Kate bartends at the Wharf, works at the library and schemes to win back her ex, while facing long-held resentments — namely, feeling overshadowed by her sister and annoyed that, despite stellar academic qualifications, she couldn’t attend the pricey prep school Miles and Ziggy did.
ref: 2021 June 29, Cathi Hanauer, “A Humbled Millennial Goes Home to New Jersey to Find Herself”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To tend a bar; to act as a barman.
bahadur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bahadurs
form: bahawder
form: bahaudur
Etymology: Transliteration of Hindustani بہادر / बहादुर (bahādur, “brave, valiant”), from Classical Persian بهادر (bahādur). Doublet of bogatyr.
Senses: qualifier: originally
glosses: A warrior, especially a Turko-Mongol.
glosses: A Mughal honorific connoting martial courage and valor, suffixed to name or title, which it raises by half a degree. Commonly bestowed upon loyal princes and victorious military commanders by Mughal emperors, and later by their British successors.
Related terms: bogatyr
Ulaanbaatar
birdseye
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bird's-eye.
birdseye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birdseyes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bird's-eye.
verveine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of vervain.
bluefin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bluefins
Etymology: From blue + fin.
Senses: glosses: bluefin tuna, any of a number of types of tuna characterised by their blue fins.
brewski
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brewskis
Etymology: From brew + -ski.
Senses: glosses: beer
examples: text: Yeah, going for a brewski after a rousing game of touch football with your work team will help you replenish your protein better than a glass of chardonnay.
ref: 2013 September 30, Keri Glassman, “Vitamin B? Why beer is good for your health”, in CNN:
text: Budweiser says this will be the first of many excursions it plans to back. And, eventually, the newly gleaned information could inform how the company will make brewskis for Mars.
ref: 2017 December 11, Jackie Wattles, “SpaceX is sending barley to space for Budweiser research”, in CNN Business:
glosses: A serving of beer.
bricky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪki
Forms: form: brickier
form: brickiest
Etymology: From brick + -y.
Senses: glosses: Covered with brick.
examples: text: His face was a dark, bricky red, deeply creased rather than wrinkled, and the skin was like loose leather over his neckband[…]
ref: 1989, James Woodress, Willa Cather: A Literary Life, page 55:
glosses: Similar to brick in texture, colour, shape, etc.
Derived terms: brickiness
bricky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪki
Forms: form: brickies
Etymology: From brick + -y.
Senses: glosses: A bricklayer.
Synonyms: brickie
bakshish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bakshishes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of baksheesh.
bakshish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bakshishes
form: bakshishing
form: bakshished
form: bakshished
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of baksheesh.
busload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌsˌloʊd/
Forms: form: busloads
Etymology: From bus + load.
Senses: examples: text: Seattle was close enough to Vancouver that a busload of fans had made the journey […]
ref: 2015, Sigmund Brouwer, Unleashed:
glosses: The amount that can fit on a bus.
Synonyms: busful
chuckler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chucklers
Etymology: From chuckle + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who chuckles.
chuckler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chucklers
Etymology: From Tamil சக்கிலி (cakkili), denoting a member of a sub-caste of Dalits often employed in shoemaking.
Senses: glosses: A shoemaker, a cobbler.
myoclonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: 1891, James Hendrie Lloyd, “Report of Two Cases of Rare Myoclonic Disorder”, paper to be read at the Seventh Annual Meeting of the American Neurological Association, 1891 September 22-24, listed in George F. Shrady (editor), Medical Record volume 40, William Wood & Company, number 1, 1891 July 4.
text: Propofol has been implicated in epileptogenesis, with myoclonic activity and opisthotonos during clinical use, prompting a warning from the United Kingdom Committee on the safety of medicine.
ref: 2008, David R. Gambling, Obstetric Anesthesia and Uncommon Disorders, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 3:
glosses: Of or pertaining to myoclonus; consisting of or characterized by sudden jerking motions.
Derived terms: antimyoclonic
severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy
zabajone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌzæbaɪˈəʊnɪ/
rhymes: -əʊni
Forms: form: zabajones
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zabaglione.
zaikai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzaɪkaɪ/
Forms: form: zaikais
form: zaikai
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 財界 (zaikai, “world of money”), from 財 (zai, “money; wealth”) + 界 (kai, “world”).
Senses: examples: text: Behind the trading company and the bank are the financially interconnected companies known as zaikai, many of which descended from pre-war zaibatsu oligopolists. The modern zaikai has remained every bit as strong as its zaibatsu predecessors, achieving this result by linking companies (through interlocking directorships and equity by participation) whose operations comprehend most of the major areas of Japanese industrial activity.
ref: 1995, Lee Khoon Choy, Japan—Between Myth and Reality, Singapore; River Edge, N.J.: World Scientific, →ISBN, page 181:
text: In exchange for the continued support of the zaikai, which expresses the consensus of big business and acts as a large pipeline supplying the capital necessary for LDP activities, the LDP has made the utmost effort to reflect the designs of big business in its policy-making.
ref: 1996, “Dynamics of the Big Business Organisation: A Study from Japan”, in Raghubir Dayal, Peter Zachariah, Kireet Rajpal, editors, Organisation Theory and Behaviour (Encyclopaedia of Economics, Commerce & Management; 3), New Delhi: Mittal Publications, →ISBN, page 111:
text: Whereas elitist models include the big business circles, or zaikai, as one of the inseparable power elite, pluralists emphasize their relative independence of the political and administrative elite.
ref: 1999, Atsuko Abe, Japan and the European Union: Domestic Politics and Transnational Relations, London; New Brunswick, N.J.: Athlone Press, →ISBN, page 40:
text: The leaders of Keidanren [Japan Business Federation] traditionally have comprised the core of the zaikai, which literally means the "financial world" but is a term used more broadly to refer to financial and business community's power elite. In Japan's popular culture, in the fifties and sixties especially, the head of Keidanren, the "prime minister of the zaikai," and other zaikai leaders had the power to make or break prime ministers and to exert a commanding influence over economic policy.
ref: 1999, Gerald L. Curtis, The Logic of Japanese Politics: Leaders, Institutions, and the Limits of Change (Studies of the East Asian Institute), New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 52:
glosses: Collectively, the powerful and influential businesspeople and tycoons of Japan.
wikipedia: Beethovenhalle
Related terms: zaibatsu
bromoacetone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bromoacetones
Etymology: From bromo- + acetone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The brominated derivative of acetone CH₃-CO-CH₂Br, once used as a lachrymatory agent
bromoacetate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bromoacetates
Etymology: From bromo- + acetate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of bromoacetic acid
bromoacetic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bromo- + acetic acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The brominated derivative of acetic acid CH₂Br-COOH that is used in the synthesis of pharmaceuticals etc.
bandmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbændˌmeɪt/
Forms: form: bandmates
Etymology: From band + -mate.
Senses: glosses: Someone with whom one shares membership in a band.
bromobenzene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bromobenzenes
Etymology: From bromo- + benzene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The brominated derivative of benzene C₆H₅Br that is used as a solvent and, via Grignard reagents, to manufacture pharmaceuticals etc.
Derived terms: hexabromobenzene
bakeware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bakewares
Etymology: From bake + -ware.
Senses: glosses: Cooking equipment intended for use inside an oven.
Synonyms: bakingware
bromobutane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bromobutanes
Etymology: From bromo- + butane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several brominated derivatives of butane that are used, via Grignard reagents, in organic synthesis
managerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From manager + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The crop season was at hand and the sugarcane fields, managerless, were open to the malice of those who bore the Tulsis grudges.
ref: 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part Two, Chapter 3:
glosses: Without a manager.
bromochloromethane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bromochloromethanes
Etymology: From bromo- + chloro- + methane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The halogenated hydrocarbon CH₂BrCl once used in fire extinguishers.
bromoethane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bromo- + ethane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The brominated derivative of ethane CH₃-CH₂Br used, via Grignard reagents in organic synthesis
Synonyms: ethyl bromide
Derived terms: dibromoethane
pones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pone
bromoform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bromoforms
Etymology: From bromo- + -form.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: tribromomethane
hypernyms: haloform#Noun
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trihalomethane#Noun
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substance#Noun
compound
material#Noun
coordinate_terms: fluoroform
trifluoromethane
chloroform
trichloromethane
iodoform
triiodomethane
glosses: The haloform CHBr₃, a very heavy liquid that is the bromine analogue of chloroform.
fluoroform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fluoro- + -form.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: trifluoromethane
hypernyms: haloform#Noun
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trihalomethane#Noun
<
substance#Noun
compound
material#Noun
coordinate_terms: chloroform
trichloromethane
bromoform
tribromomethane
iodoform
triiodomethane
glosses: The haloform CHF₃ that is the fluorine analogue of chloroform
Derived terms: silicofluoroform
pongas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ponga
bromoketone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bromoketones
Etymology: From bromo- + ketone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any brominated derivative of a ketone
bromomethane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bromomethanes
Etymology: From bromo- + methane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The brominated hydrocarbon CH₃Br, used as a soil sterilant and pesticide. Formed in a substitution reaction between methane and bromine (often in the form of bromine water).
Synonyms: word: methyl bromide
english: a trade name
translation: a trade name
word: Methogas
sterilant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈstɛɹɪlənt/
Forms: form: sterilants
Etymology: From sterile + -ant.
Senses: glosses: Any substance used to sterilize something
Derived terms: soil sterilant
bromothymol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bromothymols
Etymology: From bromo- + thymol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A brominated derivative of thymol that is formally part of the structure of the dye bromothymol blue
bromothymol blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A dye, 4,4'-(3H-2,1 benzoxathiol-3-ylidene) bis [2 bromo-3-methyl-6-(1-methylethyl)phenol] S,S-dioxide, which is used as an acid-base indicator
have a bone in one's leg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has a bone in one's leg
form: having a bone in one's leg
form: had a bone in one's leg
form: had a bone in one's leg
Senses: examples: "Jimmy, run along to the shop and get some potatoes." / "I can't: I've got a bone in my leg."
glosses: Used as a fatuous excuse to avoid doing something.
bromotrifluoroethylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bromo- + trifluoro + ethylene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The halogenated hydrocarbon BrFC=CF₂ once used as a refrigerant
bromotrifluoromethane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The halogenated hydrocarbon CBrF₃ once used in fire extinguishers
bromous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: By surface analysis, brome + -ous, or, by surface analysis, brom(ine) + -ous.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to bromous acid or its derivatives.
Derived terms: hypobromous
Related terms: bromic
brominous
hydrobromic
bromous acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The unstable oxyacid of bromine HBrO₂
Derived terms: bromite
bromite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹəʊmʌɪt/
ipa: /ˈbɹoʊmaɪt/
Forms: form: bromites
Etymology: bromine + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent anion BrO₂⁻
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt of bromous acid
Derived terms: hypobromite
Eder
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Eders
Etymology: Borrowed from German Eder.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
bromyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bromyls
Etymology: From brom- + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent cation BrO₂⁺.
butadiyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butadiynes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: diacetylene
Derived terms: butadiynyl
butadiynyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butadiynyls
Etymology: From butadiyne + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical HC≡C-C≡C- derived from butadiyne
butanal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: butyraldehyde
butyraldehyde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butyraldehydes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The aliphatic aldehyde CH₃-CH₂-CH₂-CHO derived from butane
Derived terms: isobutyraldehyde
butanoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From butane + -oic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to butanoic acid or its derivatives
Derived terms: butanoate
phenylbutanoic
butanoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: butane + -oic acid
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The chemical compound with the formula CH₃(CH₂)₂COOH, a short chain fatty acid; its glyceride is one of the principle components of the flavor of butter.
Synonyms: butyric acid
Derived terms: phenylbutanoic acid
-oic
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Clipped from benzoic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: used to form the names of carboxylic groups and acids
butenal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: crotonaldehyde
crotonaldehyde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crotonaldehydes
Etymology: From croton + aldehyde.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The unsaturated aliphatic aldehyde CH₃-CH=CH-CHO that is used in organic synthesis
butenoate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butenoates
Etymology: From butenoic acid + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of butenoic acid; crotonate
butenoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: crotonic acid
butenyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butenyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several isomeric univalent radicals derived from butene; but especially crotyl
crotyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crotyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical (cis- or trans-) CH₃-CH=CH-CH₂-
Derived terms: crotylation
crotylboration
insulter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insulters
Etymology: From insult + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who insults.
tamarinde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tamarindes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of tamarind.
gastrocamera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gastrocameras
Etymology: From gastro- + camera.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A small camera that can be lowered through the alimentary canal to photograph inside the stomach.
flying jib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flying jibs
form: flying-jib
Senses: examples: text: Next thing, rigging is heaved down directly over our heads, and a long-drawn cry and a rattling of hanks announce that the flying-jib has come in.
ref: 1840, R[ichard] H[enry] D[ana], Jr., “CHAPTER XXXV”, in Two Years before the Mast. […] (Harper’s Family Library; no. CVI), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], →OCLC:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The foremost of the jibs of a square-rigged sailing vessel.
quasi-adjective
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quasi-adjectives
Etymology: From quasi- + adjective.
Senses: glosses: An adjectival noun, a specific Japanese part of speech. Some of these words can be used as regular nouns, and all can be used as adjectives when followed by the postfix な (na), in contrast to Japanese common adjectives, 形容詞 (keiyōshi). In Japanese grammar, these words are categorized as 形容動詞 (keiyō dōshi).
Synonyms: adjectival noun
Related terms: word: part of speech that shares features with nouns and adjectives
word: adjective
roman: keiyōshi
word: 形容詞: -i adjective
roman: keiyō dōshi
word: 形容動詞: -na adjective
roman: rentaishi
word: 連体詞: adnominal
devshirme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devshirmeh
Etymology: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish دیوشیرمه (devşirme, literally “collection, gathering”) (Turkish devşirme).
Senses: glosses: Systematic collection of non-Muslim boys or young men from rural Christian populations of the Balkans, practiced by Ottomans; the boys were taken to Istanbul, converted to Islam and educated for military profession or religious disciplines.
Related terms: blood tax
janissary
-borough
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /-bɹə/
ipa: /-bəɹə/
ipa: /-bɹɘ/
ipa: /-bɘɹɘ/
Etymology: From borough, from Old English burh (“fortified place”).
Senses: glosses: Placename suffix, indicated site of a fortified place.
glosses: Placename suffix, indicating a borough.
Synonyms: -boro
-burg
-burgh
-bury
Related terms: bur-
dehumidifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dehumidify
dehumidifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dehumidify
dehumidified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dehumidify
drawls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drawl
drawls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of drawl
drubs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of drub
drubbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drub
confrère
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confrères
Senses: examples: text: It consisted in the hope that a driver or fireman might be too incapacitated to carry on when, in true story-book fashion, the pupil would do the job, save the situation and find himself a hero among his confrères of the running shed.
ref: 1943 November and December, T. Lovatt Williams, “Some Reminiscences of the Footplate—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 343:
glosses: Alternative spelling of confrere.
draping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɹeɪpɪŋ/
Forms: form: drapings
Etymology: From drape + -ing.
Senses: glosses: That which drapes.
glosses: Material used as a drape.
draping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈdɹeɪpɪŋ/
Etymology: From drape + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of drape
drapings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɹeɪpɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of draping
-bury
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /-bɹi/
ipa: /-bəɹi/
ipa: /-bɹɪ/
ipa: /-bəɹɪ/
ipa: /-bɹi/
ipa: /-bɘɹi/
Etymology: From Old English byriġ, the dative case of burg (“fortified place”) (whence borough); doublet of -borough and -burg.
Due to the collapse of the case system between Old and Middle English, many placenames retain a fossilized dative form, as places would most commonly have been invoked in the dative (after a preposition in, at, to etc.).
Senses: examples: text: Some of these hilltops – Sidbury, Quarley, Danebury and Woolbury – were later, in the sixth and fifth centuries, appropriated for the building of hillforts.
ref: 1983, Barry Cunliffe, chapter 3, in Danebury Hillfort, Stroud: Tempus:
glosses: A placename suffix indicating a fortified place.
Synonyms: -borough
-boro
-burg
-burgh
Related terms: bur-
-burgh
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Old English burh (“fortified place”). Doublet of -borough and -bury.
Senses: glosses: Place name suffix, indicating the site of a fortified place.
Synonyms: -burg
-borough
-boro
-bury
Related terms: bur-
bur-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Old English burh (“fortified place”).
Senses: glosses: Placename prefix, indicated site of a fortified place.
Related terms: -borough
-burgh
-burg
-bury
debacles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of debacle
schottische
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɒˈtiːʃ/
ipa: /ʃəˈtiːʃ/
ipa: /ˈʃɑːdɪʃ/
Forms: form: schottisches
form: schottish
form: Schottische
Etymology: From French Schottische bohème, from German schottische (“Scottish”), from German Schotte (“a Scot”). First attested in 1849. For the pronunciation, the Oxford English Dictionary comments that the "quasi-French pronunciation […] has no justification".
The Oxford Companion to Music (2002 edition) notes that this dance was first introduced to England as the German polka, but it was then superseded by a version known as the Schottische bohème or polka tremblante which appeared in Paris in the 1840s.
Senses: examples: text: The aim of whose existence appears to be that of rattling through the polka or schottische with the velocity of a spinning jenny.
ref: 1849 [1848 July 9], Theatrical Programme:
text: […] this abominable German usage we have imported—the polka and the schottish too […]
ref: 1855, John Esten Cooke, Ellie: or the Human Comedy, Richmond: A. Morris, page 151:
text: […] I could never dare to face Madame Mélanie Duval, or the Semiramis of dancing mistresses, Madame Michau Adelaide—study the fashionable steps in secret, and then burst upon the world as an adept in the Schottische, the Cellarius, and the Deux Temps?
ref: 1859, George Augustus Sala, Twice Round the Clock […], London: Houlston and Wright, Paternoster Row, page 280:
text: The ‘Polka tremblante’, or Schottisch, is also a Bohemian national dance, and was brought out in Paris by Cellarius in 1844.
ref: 1862 January 25, The Athenæum […], page 111, column 3:
text: […] the Schottische is very seldom danced now in its original form[…]
ref: 1892, Edward Scott, Dancing as an Art and Pastime, London: George Bell and Sons […], page 168:
text: It so happened that Pippi was learning to dance the shottische^([sic]), and she didn't want to go to bed until she was sure she could do it.
ref: 1950 [1945], Astrid Lindgren, “Pippi Entertains Two Burglars”, in Pippi Longstocking, The Viking Press, translation of Pippi Långstrump, →ISBN, page 107; republished by Puffin Books, published 2013:
glosses: A partnered country dance resembling a slow polka, probably of French origin, first introduced in England in 1848.
glosses: Music for the schottische.
Derived terms: Highland Schottische
Balmoral Schottische
Military Schottische
schottische
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɒˈtiːʃ/
ipa: /ʃəˈtiːʃ/
ipa: /ˈʃɑːdɪʃ/
Forms: form: schottisches
form: schottisching
form: schottisched
form: schottisched
form: schottish
form: Schottische
Etymology: From French Schottische bohème, from German schottische (“Scottish”), from German Schotte (“a Scot”). First attested in 1849. For the pronunciation, the Oxford English Dictionary comments that the "quasi-French pronunciation […] has no justification".
The Oxford Companion to Music (2002 edition) notes that this dance was first introduced to England as the German polka, but it was then superseded by a version known as the Schottische bohème or polka tremblante which appeared in Paris in the 1840s.
Senses: examples: text: I could only schottische a little.
ref: 1865 September 10, Oliver Willcox Norton, Army Letters: 1861-1865 […], "Ringgold Barracks, Texas", page 277:
text: I polked and schottisched with a step peculiar to myself—and the kangaroo.
ref: 1872, Mark Twain, The Innocents at Home, London: George Routledge and Sons, page 89:
glosses: To dance a schottische.
butoxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /bjuˈtɑk.saɪd/
Forms: form: butoxides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any butyl ether.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt of a butyl alcohol.
Derived terms: piperonylbutoxide
piperonyl butoxide
tert-butoxide
tetrabutoxide
divulging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of divulge
divulging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: divulgings
Senses: examples: text: Though it was no longer a question of her life and safety, he knew that he could still preserve her memory from stain by keeping her secret, even though its divulgings might clear his own.
ref: 1895, Bret Harte, Clarence:
glosses: The act by which something is divulged.
butyl alcohol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butyl alcohols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of four isomeric aliphatic alcohols derived from butane; butanol
deathblows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deathblow
butylamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butylamines
Etymology: From butyl + amine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of four isomeric aliphatic amines derived from butane
butylammonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butylammoniums
Etymology: From butyl + ammonium?
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any cation obtained by the protonation of a butylamine
butylbenzene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butylbenzenes
Etymology: From butyl + benzene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of the isomeric hydrocarbons obtained by replacing one hydrogen atom of a benzene molecule with a butyl group; several of their derivatives are used as insecticides
butylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butylenes
Etymology: From butyl + -ene?
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of three isomeric aliphatic alkenes containing four carbon atoms and one double bond; their polymers are used as synthetic rubber.
Derived terms: butyleneglycol
butylene glycol
butyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butynes
Etymology: From but- + -yne.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Either of two isomeric acetylenes containing four carbon atoms and a triple bond, with the empirical formula (C₄H₆)
Hypernyms: alkyne
Hyponyms: english: 1-ethylacetylene
translation: 1-ethylacetylene
word: ethylacetylene
english: 1-ethylethyne
translation: 1-ethylethyne
word: ethylethyne
english: 1,2-dimethylethyne
translation: 1,2-dimethylethyne
word: dimethylethyne
english: 1,2-dimethylacetylene
translation: 1,2-dimethylacetylene
word: dimethylacetylene
Coordinate terms: english: 1-methylprop-2-ynyl
translation: 1-methylprop-2-ynyl
alt: C4H5-
word: methylpropynyl
Derived terms: english: C4H5-
translation: C4H5-
word: butynyl
Related terms: butane
butene
several states
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the several states
Senses: examples: text: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, . . . but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; . . . To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states.
ref: 1787, United States Constitution, Article I, Section 8, Clauses 1 & 3
text: Implicit in this argument is the contention that the Philippines, while belonging to the United States as a sovereign, are not part of it; and that merchandise brought from the Philippines is an import because it originates outside of and is brought into the territory comprising the several states which are united under and by the Constitution, territory in which the constitutional prohibition against the state taxation of imports, is alone applicable.
ref: 1945, Hooven & Allison Co. v. Evatt, 324 U.S. 652, 669
topics: law
glosses: The states of the United States, collectively.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see several, states.
butyral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butyrals
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: butyraldehyde
Derived terms: polyvinyl butyral
butyramide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butyramides
Etymology: Blend of butyric + amide
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An amide of butyric acid
Synonyms: butanamide
Derived terms: acebutolol
cefbuperazone
clibucaine
glibutimine
butyrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butyrates
Etymology: From butyric + -ate.
Senses: examples: text: It is butyrate, however, which is the fatty acid of most importance to the colonic epithelial cell. Apart from being an important respiratory fuel for the colonocyte, butyrate has remarkably diverse properties in a wide range of cells.
ref: 1995, M. C. L. Pitcher, J. H. Cummings, “62: Colonic fermentation, sulphur metabolism and ulcerative colitis”, in Guido Tytgat, J. F. W. M. Bartelsman, S. J. H. van Deventer, editors, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, page 532:
text: Another question to be raised is the possible use of butyrate in the lipogenic pathway. Even though the carbons from butyrate could be incorporated into lipid extracts [12], this incorporation represents less than 1 % of CO₂, and TKB productions.
ref: 1995, B. Darcy-Vrillon, P.H. Duée, “Fibre effect on nutrient metabolism in splanchnic and peripheral tissues”, in C. Cherbut, J. L. Barry, D. Lairon, M. Durand, editors, Dietary Fibre: Mechanisms of Action in Human Physiology and Metabolism, page 88:
text: To examine the effects of sodium butyrate on virus production, cells were exposed to sodium butyrate at various concentrations and times starting 16 h after transfection.
ref: 2003, Tsuyoshi Sakoda, Noriyuki Kasahara, Larry Kedes, “4: Lentivurus Vector-Mediated Gene Transfer in Cardiomyocetes”, in Joseph M. Metzger, editor, Cardiac Cell and Gene Transfer: Principles, Protocols, and Applications, page 62:
text: Butyrates are four carbon fatty acids first found in butter. Butyrates are formed naturally in the gut by friendly bacteria (probiotics) digesting fibre, such as the fibre in psyllium seed husks.
ref: 2008, Neil McKinney, Naturally There's Always Hope, page 160:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of butyric acid.
Synonyms: sense: salt or ester
word: butanoate
Derived terms: butixocort
butyrated
butyration
dibutyrate
difluprednate
dioxaphetyl butyrate
domoprednate
hydroxybutyrate
isobutyrate
ketobutyrate
phenylbutyrate
polybutyrate
tributyrate
Related terms: butylate
disinterring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disinter
disinterred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disinter
Lew
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: Lou
Forms: form: Lews
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Lewis.
examples: text: When Lew Wasserman reinvented the studio system, leadership skills grew harder to find and the number of modern studio conglomerates boiled down to six, as discussed in chapters 15 to 20.
ref: 2019, Douglas Gomery, The Hollywood Studio System: A History, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Lewis.
A male given name.
glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Lewy
Lou
Mohr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Mohr-Tranebjærg syndrome
cockloft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocklofts
form: cock loft
form: cockleloft
Etymology: From cock + loft.
Senses: examples: text: For if the lowest floors already burn, / Cocklofts and garrets soon will take the turn.
ref: 1693, John Dryden, “The Third Satire of Juvenal”, in The Satirs of Decimus Juvenalis:
text: All theſe gentlemen appeared at the hour appointed in Mr. Curll's dining-room, two excepted; one of whom was the gentleman in the cockloft, his landlady being out of the way, and the gradus ad parnaſſum taken down; the other happened to be too cloſely watched by the bailiffs.
ref: 1716, Alexander Pope, A Further Account of the Most Deplorable Condition of Mr. Edmund Curll, Bookseller:
glosses: A small attic or garret.
examples: text: Fires often spread through cocklofts.
glosses: A horizontal void between a building's uppermost ceiling and its roof, with no habitable or accessible space.