cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
psychosonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: psychosonic phenomena collectively
psychospheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychosphere
Cramér-Rao bound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cramér-Rao bounds
Etymology: Named after Harald Cramér and Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao, who (among others) independently derived it in the 1940s.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
qualifier: estimation theory
glosses: A lower bound on the variance of unbiased estimators of a deterministic (fixed, though unknown) parameter.
Cramér-Rao bounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cramér-Rao bound
estimation theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A branch of statistics that deals with estimating the values of parameters based on measured empirical data that has a random component.
PayPalled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of PayPal
PayPals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PayPal
PayPals
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of PayPal
PayPaling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of PayPal
PayPalling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of PayPal
PayPaled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of PayPal
GFBD
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of God forgives, brothers don't.
UCGC
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: qualifier: military (Marine Corps)
glosses: Initialism of unit, corps, God, country: in descending order of importance.
Qurayshite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Koreishite
form: Kuraishite
form: Quraishite
Etymology: From Quraysh + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: A member of the Qurayshite Umayyad family wanted to claim the poet al-Farazdaq's bride al-Nawār, though the poet thought he could prove that he had a clear claim because he had paid the bride price.
ref: 1971, Ignaz Goldziher, edited by S. M. Stern, Muslim Studies, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 77:
text: If anyone comes to Muhammad from the Qurayshite camp without the permission of his superiors, he [Muhammad] will send him back; however, if any of those who are with Muhammad comes to the Qurayshite camp, they [the Qurayshites] will not send him back.
ref: 2011, Taha Jabir Alalwani, Apostasy in Islam: A Historical and Scriptural Analysis, International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), →ISBN, pages 62–63:
text: He sought to understand the social contexts in which Qurayshite descent was a reasonable condition and those in which it was not.
ref: 2014, Syed Farid Alatas, Applying Ibn Khaldūn: The Recovery of a Lost Tradition in Sociology, Routledge, →ISBN, page 72:
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: part of, or descended from, the Quraysh tribe.
Qurayshite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Qurayshites
form: Koreishite
form: Kuraishite
form: Quraishite
Etymology: From Quraysh + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: The fortuitous circumstances that the first man to be elected to this high office was a Qurayshite became, for all except the heterodox, a principle — the caliph had to be a member of the Prophet's tribe, and the Prophet was a Qurayshite.
ref: 1995, Ann Katherine Swynford Lambton, Bernard Lewis, The Cambridge History of Islam: The Indian sub-continent, South-East Asia, Africa and the Muslim west, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 57:
text: At this point, having twice delivered up Abū Basīr to the Qurayshites, Muḥammad felt that he had fulfilled his obligation under the treaty.
ref: 2002, Maxime Rodinson, Muhammad: Prophet of Islam, Tauris Parke Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 257:
text: The Banu-Khuzaa, who had entered into an alliance with Muhammad at Mecca, were for a long time at bloody enmity with the neighboring tribe of Banu-Bakr, who were in alliance with the Qurayshites.
ref: 2007, Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov, translated by Vladimir Wozniuk, Enemies from the East?: V. S. Soloviev on Paganism, Asian Civilizations, and Islam, Northwestern University Press, →ISBN, page 204:
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: a member of this tribe.
indazolone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indazolones
Etymology: From indazole + -one.
Senses: examples: text: In the case of the indazolones the link with the p-phenylenediamine is via the middle NH group.
ref: 1960, Pierre Glafkidès, Photographic Chemistry, volume 2, page 603:
text: 2,3,4,5-Tetraphenylcyclopentadienone (tetracyclone) was added to the dichloromethane as a trap for the indazolones […]
ref: 1971, “Journal: Organic”, in Chemical Society, numbers 4-7, Great Britain, page 982:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An unstable bicyclic heterocycle derived from indazole that has analgesic, sedative, and spasmolytic properties.
indazolones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indazolone
tetracyclone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: 2,3,4,5-Tetraphenylcyclopentadienone (tetracyclone) was added to the dichloromethane as a trap for the indazolones […]
ref: 1971, “Journal: Organic”, in Chemical Society, numbers 4-7, Great Britain, page 982:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: tetraphenylcyclopentadienone
Stirling's approximation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after James Stirling, though first stated by Abraham de Moivre.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: Stirling's formula
glosses: An accurate approximation for factorials.
Stirling's formula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of Stirling's approximation.
synonyms: word: Stirling's approximation
Stirneresque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Stirner + -esque.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Reminiscent of the works of the German philosopher Max Stirner (1806–1856).
superdifferentiability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The quality of being superdifferentiable.
ahoogah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aooga.
cardioscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cardio- + -scopy.
Senses: glosses: Measurement with the cardioscope.
Derived terms: electrocardioscopy
cardioscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cardio- + -scopic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the cardioscope or to cardioscopy.
un-Canadian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more un-Canadian
form: most un-Canadian
Etymology: From un- + Canadian, presumably influenced by un-American.
Senses: glosses: Contrary to the principles, institutions or interests of the nation of Canada.
anthrophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anthrophilic
form: most anthrophilic
Etymology: From anthro- + -philic.
Senses: examples: text: Domestication and the evolution of anthrophilic traits in houseflies and some drosophilids have allowed certain species to attain cosmopolitan status.
ref: 2005, David K. Yeates, Brian M. Wiegmann, The Evolutionary Biology of Flies, page 372:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Thriving in the presence of humans.
HBTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HBT
hole-board test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hole-board tests
Senses: glosses: A scientific method of measuring anxiety, stress, neophilia and emotionality in animals, involving an enclosed area with a floor covered in holes that the animal may or may not choose to explore.
hole-board tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hole-board test
Billy-be-damned
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: He whispered to Delilah and—as mad as blazes—the pair stared daggers at me and huffed off. They might hate each other, but Billy-be-damned, they hated me more.
ref: 2005, Elaine Hatfield, Richard L. Rapson, The Adventures of Firefly, the Tiny Detective, page 22:
glosses: An expletive; damn it.
Billy-be-damned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He's a Billy-be-damned fool if he thinks that plan will work.
glosses: An expletive; accursed; damned.
Billy-be-damned
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It's as cold as Billy-be-damned out there.
glosses: An expletive.
Johnny no mates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Johnny no mates
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Billy no mates (“a person with few or no friends”).
synonyms: word: Billy no mates
extra: a person with few or no friends
bethroned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bethroned
form: most bethroned
Etymology: From be- (“at, on, over, upon”) + throned.
Senses: examples: text: […] The city cast
Her people out upon her; and Antony,
Bethroned in the market-place, did sit alone,
Whistling to the air; […]
ref: 1840, Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton, “Needlework of the Egyptians” (chapter IV), in The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages: Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries, 2nd edition, London: Henry Colburn, page 37:
text: At intervals there was a great platform car, bethroned and grandly canopied, upholstered in silks, carpeted with oriental rugs, and freighted with girls clothed in gala costumes.
ref: 2010, Mark Twain, Ms. Harriet E. Smith, Benjamin Griffin, Autobiography of Mark Twain, volume 1, page 126:
text: And yet, Skinned One, so they say, can frighten the Tlatoani himself, even as His Majesty sits bethroned in the capital—and this with only an angled glance from those opaque eyes.
ref: 2011, S. L. Gilman, A Jaggedy New World, page 57:
text: Dominating the hall from high on the west wall is a round, oak table-top 18ft in diameter, depicting a splendidly robed and bethroned King Arthur, with the names of his knights around the circumference.
ref: 2012, Martin Symington, Sacred Britain, page 32:
text: What is disturbing (and distorting) is that these writers should be assembled like so many courtiers or footmen round the bethroned, centre-stage figures of Osbert and Edith Sitwell.
ref: 2017, Laura Severin, Poetry Off the Page:
glosses: Having or seated upon a throne; enthroned.
incantationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incantationists
Etymology: From incantation + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who makes an incantation.
Related terms: incantationism
incantationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incantationist
computationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: computationists
Etymology: From computation + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of computationalist.
computationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of computationist
provocationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: provocationists
Etymology: From provocation + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who follows a policy of provocation; an agitator or provocateur.
provocationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of provocationist
depressionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: depressionists
Etymology: From depression + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of depressionism.
depressionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of depressionist
circulationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circulationists
Etymology: From circulation + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of circulationism.
circulationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circulationist
Helly dimension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Helly dimensions
Etymology: Named after Eduard Helly.
Senses: examples: text: Helly's theorem implies that the Helly dimension of a Euclidean space equals its dimension as a real vector space.
topics: combinatorics
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A value associated with a metric space, being one less than the Helly number of the family of metric balls in that space.
wikipedia: Eduard Helly
Helly dimensions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Helly dimension
Radon's theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Published by Johann Radon in 1921.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A theorem on convex sets, stating that any set of d + 2 points in Rᵈ can be partitioned into two sets whose convex hulls intersect.
Radon point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Radon points
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A point in the intersection of convex hulls specified by Radon's theorem.
Radon points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Radon point
cicada case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cicada cases
Senses: glosses: The exuviae of a cicada left behind after emerging as an adult.
cicada cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cicada case
Helly's theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Eduard Helly, who made the discovery in 1913.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A basic result in discrete geometry on the intersection of convex sets, which gave rise to the notion of a Helly family.
wikipedia: Eduard Helly
Related terms: Helly-Bray theorem
Helly's selection theorem
Helly's selection theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Eduard Helly.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A theorem stating that a sequence of functions that is locally of bounded total variation and uniformly bounded at a point has a convergent subsequence.
wikipedia: Eduard Helly
Related terms: Helly-Bray theorem
Helly's theorem
Helly-Bray theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Helly-Bray theorem
Etymology: Named after Eduard Helly and Hubert Evelyn Bray.
Senses: topics: mathematics
probability
sciences
glosses: A theorem relating the weak convergence of cumulative distribution functions to the convergence of expectations of certain measurable functions.
wikipedia: Eduard Helly
Related terms: Helly's selection theorem
Helly's theorem
kiras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kira
mew gull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌl
Forms: form: mew gulls
Senses: glosses: The common gull, Larus canus.
glosses: The common gull, Larus canus.
The North American subspecies of the common gull.
mew gulls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mew gull
self-evacuate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: self-evacuates
form: self-evacuating
form: self-evacuated
form: self-evacuated
Etymology: From self- + evacuate.
Senses: examples: text: The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) has issued a Safety Digest into an incident where passengers self-evacuated from a train at North Pole Junction on July 15.
ref: 2019 December 4, “RAIB issues digest after passengers self-evacuate”, in RAIL, page 22:
glosses: To evacuate a place by one's own decision, without assistance, or unaided.
Related terms: self-evacuation
break one's word
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breaks one's word
form: breaking one's word
form: broke one's word
form: broken one's word
Senses: synonyms: go back on one's word
break one's promise
renege on one's promise
antonyms: keep one's word
stay true to one's word
be as good as one's word
deliver the goods
glosses: To break a promise one has made.
mountain pawpaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mountain pawpaws
Senses: glosses: A mountain papaya
mountain pawpaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mountain pawpaw
self-evacuated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of self-evacuate
self-evacuating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of self-evacuate
self-evacuates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of self-evacuate
boldos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boldo
Magellan barberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Magellan barberries
Senses: glosses: The shrub Berberis microphylla and its edible berry, native to southern Chile
toilet bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toilet bags
Senses: glosses: Synonym of washbag.
synonyms: word: washbag
Magellan barberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Magellan barberry
Senses: glosses: plural of Magellan barberry
macrodiversity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From macro- + diversity.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Large-scale diversity
giant rhubarb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giant rhubarbs
Senses: glosses: The plant Gunnera tinctoria and its edible stems, native to southern Chile.
synonyms: Brazilian giant-rhubarb
glosses: The plant Gunnera manicata, native to southern Brazil.
giant rhubarbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giant rhubarb
macrogland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macroglands
Etymology: From macro- + gland.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A gland distributed on the skin, typically of a toad, that secretes toxins
macroglands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrogland
macrogroup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrogroups
Etymology: From macro- + group.
Senses: glosses: Any of several major groupings, such as a language family or ethnic group
macrogroups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrogroup
macrotermitine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrotermitines
Senses: glosses: Any termite of the subfamily Macrotermitinae
macrotermitines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrotermitine
giant barnacle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giant barnacles
Senses: glosses: A species of large barnacle Austromegabalanus psittacus and its edible flesh, native to Peru and Chile
mammarenavirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mammarenaviruses
Senses: glosses: Any virus of the genus Mammarenavirus
Related terms: mammarenaviral
mammarenaviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mammarenavirus
giant barnacles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giant barnacle
mechanoelectrotransduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mechano- + electro- + transduction.
Senses: glosses: mechanoelectrical transduction
medicocultural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From medico- + cultural.
Senses: glosses: medical and cultural
Chilean abalone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chilean abalones
Senses: glosses: An edible species of sea snail (Concholepas concholepas), native to the coasts of Chile and Peru
Chilean abalones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chilean abalone
megatheropod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megatheropods
Etymology: From mega- + theropod.
Senses: examples: text: Juvenile T. rexes were light and agile before they leveled up into the adults we’re more familiar with. […] Other megatheropods, including abelisaurs and tarbosaurs, also grew from turkey-like hatchlings to bus-sized behemoths over the course of their lives.
ref: 2021 February 25, Cara Giaimo, “The Outsized Influence of Teen T. Rex and Other Young Dinosaurs”, in The New York Times:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any theropod dinosaur that exceeds 3000 kilograms in weight, and 9 meters in length.
megatheropods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megatheropod
megatidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mega- + tidal.
Senses: glosses: Having a large tidal range
megatoothed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mega- + toothed.
Senses: glosses: Having large teeth, but especially of the megalodons
southern king crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: southern king crabs
Senses: glosses: A crab of species Lithodes santolla and its edible flesh, native to southern South America.
Synonyms: Chilean king crab
southern king crabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of southern king crab
Chilean king crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chilean king crabs
Senses: glosses: southern king crab
Chilean king crabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chilean king crab
orange-ball-tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orange-ball-trees
form: orange ball tree
form: orange ball-tree
form: orange-ball tree
Senses: glosses: A plant of species Buddleja globosa, native to Chile and Argentina.
Synonyms: orange ball buddleja
matico
orange ball buddleja
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orange ball buddlejas
Etymology: From Adam Buddle.
Senses: glosses: orange-ball-tree (Buddleja globosa)
orange ball buddlejas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orange ball buddleja
orange-ball-trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orange-ball-tree
brushback pitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brushback pitches
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: brushback
glosses: A pitch that comes very close to the batter, forcing them to move back from the plate.
glosses: An action intended to threaten or frighten someone.
metacoracoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metacoracoids
Etymology: From meta- + coracoid.
Senses: glosses: Either of the two elements that form the coracoid process
metaviromic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meta- + viromic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to metaviromes or to metaviromics
methanoarchaeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of methanoarchaeon
microaeration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + aeration.
Senses: glosses: aeration on a very small scale
microcurvature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + curvature.
Senses: glosses: curvature on a very small scale
microetch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: microetches
form: microetching
form: microetched
form: microetched
Etymology: From micro- + etch.
Senses: glosses: To etch on a very small scale
microetching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of microetch
microetching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microetchings
Senses: glosses: A microscopic etching
microetched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of microetch
reinfer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reinfers
form: reinferring
form: reinferred
form: reinferred
Etymology: From re- + infer.
Senses: examples: text: One can reinfer only on the condition of having forgotten. It is customary to speak of evidence as inferring the conclusion. This of course is figurative. What does not seem to the subject to be discovery is not inference.
ref: 1882, Edmund R. Clay, The Alternative: A Study in Psychology, page 51:
text: The revision process consists of utilizing environmentally derived cues to reinfer each attribute of θ by the identification method.
ref: 1964, American Psychological Association, Psychological Monographs: General and Applied, page 31:
text: All they need do is observe that they are able to reinfer what they have already inferred about things, or as James says, repossess what they have already possessed.
ref: 1978, Henry S. Levinson, Science, Metaphysics, and the Chance of Salvation: An Interpretation of the Thought of William James, page 84:
glosses: to infer again.
microgavage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: microgavages
form: microgavaging
form: microgavaged
form: microgavaged
Etymology: From micro- + gavage.
Senses: glosses: To gavage on a very small scale
microgavage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + gavage.
Senses: glosses: gavage on a very small scale
microgavaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of microgavage
microinvertivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microinvertivores
Etymology: From micro- + invertivore.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any organism that feeds on microinvertebrates
Related terms: microinvertivorous
microinvertivory
microinvertivores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microinvertivore
micropathology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + pathology.
Senses: glosses: pathology on a very small scale
micropelagic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + pelagic.
Senses: glosses: microscopic and pelagic
micropelagic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micropelagics
Etymology: From micro- + pelagic.
Senses: glosses: Such an organism
micropelagics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micropelagic
microplex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microplexes
Etymology: From micro- + -plex.
Senses: glosses: Anything composed of very small components
glosses: A very small cinema
microsliced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of microslice
Kidbrooke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪdbrʊk/
Etymology: Named after the Kyd Brook, a minor watercourse.
Senses: glosses: A suburb in the borough of Greenwich, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ4176).
mineralizability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mineralizabilities
Senses: glosses: The condition of being mineralizable
minispindle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minispindles
Etymology: From mini- + spindle.
Senses: glosses: A small spindle (in any of several contexts)
minispindles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minispindle
mitochondriopathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪt.əˈkɑn.dɹi.oʊˈpæθ.ɪk/
ipa: /ˈmaɪt.əˈkɑn.dɹi.əˈpæθ.ɪk/
rhymes: -æθɪk
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Relating to mitochondriopathies
modelome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: modelomes
Etymology: From model + -ome.
Senses: glosses: The complete set of a series of models (in any of several contexts)
Related terms: modelomic
modelomics
modelomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of modelome
modelomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From model + -omic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to modelomes or to modelomics
modelomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From model + -omics.
Senses: glosses: The study of modelomes
Related terms: modelomic
monoethanolate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monoethanolates
Etymology: From mono- + ethanolate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt containing a single ethanolate
monoplexed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of monoplex
monotetrazolium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mono- + tetrazolium.
Senses: glosses: A single tetrazolium group in a compound
morphogeometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From morpho- + geometric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to morphogeometry
morphogeometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From morpho- + geometry.
Senses: glosses: The geometry of form (in any of various contexts)
Related terms: morphogeometric
morphohistology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From morpho- + histology.
Senses: glosses: morphological histology
Related terms: morphohistological
morphostratigraphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From morpho- + stratigraphic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to morphostratigraphy
morphostratigraphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From morpho- + stratigraphy.
Senses: glosses: morphological stratigraphy
Related terms: morphostratigraphic
mucopeptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From muco- + peptic.
Senses: glosses: mucous and peptic
multifunctionalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: multifunctionalises
form: multifunctionalising
form: multifunctionalised
form: multifunctionalised
Etymology: From multi- + functionalise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of multifunctionalize.
multifunctionalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of multifunctionalise
multifunctionalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: multifunctionalizes
form: multifunctionalizing
form: multifunctionalized
form: multifunctionalized
Etymology: From multi- + functionalize.
Senses: glosses: To provide multiple functions
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: To add multiple functional groups
murolith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muroliths
Senses: glosses: Any coccolith that has an outer ring of vertical elements
muroliths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of murolith
musculoabdominal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From musculo- + abdominal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: muscular and abdominal
myoinductive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myo- + inductive.
Senses: glosses: That induces growth of muscle tissue
myristoylase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myristoylases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyses a myristoylation
myristoylases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myristoylase
Blaenau Ffestiniog
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A historic mining town in Ffestiniog community, Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH7045).
FIRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of FIR
Ffestiniog
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh Ffestiniog, from Latin Festinius? + -iog.
Senses: glosses: A community (civil parish) with a town council in Gwynedd, Wales, which includes Blaenau Ffestiniog and Llan Ffestiniog.
glosses: A village, Llan Ffestiniog, in Gwynedd (OS grid ref SH7042).
Derived terms: Blaenau Ffestiniog
Llan Ffestiniog
Dolgarrog
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A village and community in Conwy borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SH7767).
Llandudno Junction
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large village, railway station and junction in Conwy community, Conwy borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SH7978).
hit too close to home
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hits too close to home
form: hitting too close to home
form: hit too close to home
form: hit too close to home
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hit, too, close, to, home.
examples: text: I just barely managed to keep my job during the layoff – it really hit too close to home.
glosses: To occur too close for comfort; to happen dangerously or uncomfortably near.
examples: text: As a veteran, the war film I watched yesterday hit too close to home, making me remember many awful things.
glosses: To be relatable in a negative way; to cause negative emotions by being similar or reminding; to be uncomfortably alike one's personal negative experiences.
throughbore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: throughbores
Etymology: From through + bore.
Senses: examples: text: It was decided not to complete the well inside the 5 in liner (4.276 in ID) due to the restricted throughbore in the completion equipment.
ref: 1992, Underwater Technology - Volume 18 -, page 17:
text: A water supply hose connecting device for connecting a washing machine water supply hose with a water tap, comprising: an upper connecting member comprising; a first assembly of parts having a first longitudinal throughbore, means for coupling one end of said throughbore to a water tap in a watertight manner, and a band of external threading; ...
ref: 1992, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, page 777:
text: In accordance with a third embodiment of the present invention, an endoscopic hand instrument, comprising: a tubular member having an area defining a throughbore extending between a first open end and a seccond open end, wherein the throughbore includes a first portion having a first inner diameter and a second portion having a second inner diameter, wherein the first inner diameter is greater than the second inner diameter;...
ref: 2013, Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures:
glosses: A cylindrical hole that has been bored through something.
throughbores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of throughbore
smoky black
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æk
Forms: form: smoky blacks
head_nr: 1
Senses: examples: text: During the summer months they sport smoky-black plumage, their wings speckled with white spots, but at this time of year they have mottled grey backs with paler underparts, making them difficult to distinguish from the more prolific common redshank (T totanus).
ref: 2019 December 6, Claire Stares, “Country diary: this elegant wader has become a local celebrity”, in The Guardian:
text: Past president Arthur Watson also uses words, wonderful Scots words for snowfall and nightfall, 25 of them rendered in smoky black, each in its own frame.
ref: 2019 November 20, Duncan Macmillan, “Art reviews: RSA Annual Exhibition 2019 - Mary Cameron: Life in Paint”, in The Scotsman:
head_nr: 1
glosses: A coat colour of horses that is either black or slightly lighter than black.
Tiffany blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: You’ll enter through a Tiffany & Co. bridge inspired by the renowned Central Park and immersed in a world filled with oversized signature Tiffany blue boxes.
ref: 2019 November 28, Faima Bakar, “Tiffany & Co has a pretty bougie new ice rink at Covent Garden for free”, in Metro:
text: After months of rumors, it was confirmed today that luxury giant LVMH will acquire Tiffany and Co, the storied American jewelry company, for $16.2 billion dollars. The deal is the largest ever in the luxury sector, according to The New York Times. To celebrate the deal, LVMH turned its homepage Tiffany blue today.
ref: 2019 November 25, Elizabeth Angell, “Luxury Giant LVMH Just Bought Tiffany and Co. for $16.2 Billion”, in Town and Country:
text: The aptly named Blue Box Cafe is kitted out in marble Tiffany blue, and offers a Holly Golightly-inspired experience from $29 a head.
ref: 2019 November 19, Chloe Foussianes, “Tiffany & Co's Famous Blue Box Cafe Will Close for Two Years”, in Town and Country:
text: The new café also got attention for its striking blue decor. To be more specific, it’s Tiffany Blue, a color so synonymous with the jeweler that it’s trademarked.
ref: 2017 November 10, Elise Taylor, “A Peek Inside Tiffany & Co.’s New Café, Where You Can Yes, Eat Breakfast at Tiffany’s”, in Vogue:
head_nr: 1
glosses: A shade of robin egg blue used by and associated with Tiffany & Co., an American jeweller.
hungerpain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hungerpains
Senses: examples: text: In duodenal ulcer, vomiting is apt to occur at the time of the "hungerpain," two to four hours after food.
ref: 1917, The North American Journal of Homeopathy - Volume 65, page 13:
text: This seems to prove that the so-called "hungerpain" is not a positive factor in the diagnosis of duodenal ulcers, because when the stomach is at rest from midnight until morning, the patient is free from pain.
ref: 1920, George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Medical Record - Volume 98, page 349:
text: Intestinal parasites (tenia, trichocephalus, ascarides, oxyuris) also cause chronic dyspeptic troubles (loss of appetite, bulemia, hungerpains, vomiting, diarrhea) with accompanying pseudoneurasthenic manifestations, principally headaches, also vertigo, palpitation and emaciation.
ref: 1922, Norbert Ortner, Generalized Pain - Volume 2, page 548:
text: All the tortures of a lifetime without a face ... the miserable childhood ... the wretched years as a comedian . . . the hungerpain, the gorgon's head ... all that I owe to that . . .?
ref: 1967, Modern International Drama - Volumes 1-2, page 26:
glosses: Alternative form of hunger pain.
hungerpains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hungerpain
robin egg blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In other festive news, Covent Garden will be opening an ice rink later this month in partnership with the luxury jewellery shop, Tiffany & Co. The installation has been themed after the robin egg blue colour that the brand is known for, with giant Tiffany boxes used as decorations
ref: 2019 November 10, Almara Abgarian, “There’s a giant gingerbread house popping up in Covent Garden tomorrow”, in Metro:
head_nr: 1
glosses: Alternative form of robin's-egg blue.
on the outlook
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: upon the outlook
Senses: examples: text: 1791, James Bruce, Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773, Dublin: P. Wogan et al., Volume 3, Book 5, Chapter 4, p. 444,
One of the gang that used to be upon the outlook from this station, as soon as any caravan came in sight, cried out, Ribieraini, which in Tigrè signifies they are coming this way;
text: […] an extract from his log-book of the transactions of the day […] intimated their being on the outlook for a smuggling lugger
ref: 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter X, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC, page 160:
text: Behind the curtain, between the laths of the Venetian blind, his mother would be secretly on the outlook watching for his return;
ref: 1884, Margaret Oliphant, chapter 3, in The Wizard’s Son, volume 1, London: Macmillan, page 47:
text: Two black dots circled lazily. Martian patrol craft, the military on the outlook for any sign of unusual activity.
ref: 1954, Philip K. Dick, “The Crystal Crypt”, in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, volume 1, Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, page 289:
synonyms: on the lookout
alert
vigilant
glosses: Watching intently (from a vantage point, for someone or something).
hunger pain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hunger pains
form: hunger-pain
form: hungerpain
Senses: examples: text: Given a history of repeated, definite attacks of hunger pain and food ease, recurring each day at the same time after meals, and relieved by food or alkalies; with intervals of normal health; the attacks gradually' increasing in severity and frequence, a positive diagnosis of duodenal ulcer should be made.
ref: 1910, New York State Journal of Medicine - Volumes 10-11, page 538:
text: He concluded that hunger pains in ulcer cases are not due to hunger contractions per se, but to hyperexcitability of the sensory nerves in the stomach wall.
ref: 1920, American Medicine - Volume 26, page 424:
text: A typical presentation will be chronic dyspepsia with an epigastric gnawing or hunger pain, both of which are temporarily relieved by food or antacids.
ref: 2007, David Scott Smith, Field Guide to Bedside Diagnosis, page 114:
text: To think, my father and I went jet-skiing off the coast of a nation characterized by constant hunger pains, only to return to our ship in time for the elaborate banquet held that evening.
ref: 2007, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), A Future with No One Living in Poverty and Hunger, page 1:
text: I knew I needed to get my artwork out in front of the public since, for the first time in my life, I was really hungry. Hunger pain kind of hungry.
ref: 2009, Robert F. Smallwood, Jackson Squared, page 29:
text: Donovan's observations show that the early onset of acute hunger pain subsides after approximately twenty-four hours. He quotes one of his cases as telling him that feelings of acute hunger were followed by symptoms that included “a feeling of weakness and sinking and an insatiable thirst for cold water."
ref: 2012, Tim Pat Coogan, The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy:
text: On average we ate just one meal a day and when we would eat it was just enough to satisfy the hunger pain.
ref: 2013, J. Cuartas, Pay With Paper: A Beginner Guide To Couponing!:
glosses: Eggcorn of hunger pang.
hunger pains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hunger pain
hunger-pain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hunger-pains
Senses: examples: text: For seldom did she go to chapel-shrift, And seldom felt she any hunger-pain;
ref: 1820, John Keats, Isabella, or The Pot of Basil:
text: We observe, for instance, ' hunger-pain' in gastric as well as in duodenal diseases.
ref: 1913, H. Frowde, Transactions: 17th International Congress of Medicine, page 63:
text: Hunger-pain, though characteristic of duodenal ulcer, may also be a feature in dyspepsia with no evidence of ulcer.
ref: 1935, The Clinical Journal - Volume 64, page 311:
glosses: Alternative form of hunger pain.
hunger-pains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hunger-pain
superreward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superrewards
Etymology: From super- + reward.
Senses: examples: text: We tend to justify superstatus, superauthority, and superreward with the proposition that the autocrat must be held responsible for corporate performance.
ref: 1974, William McDonald Wallace, How to save free enterprise from bureaucrats, autocrats, and ..., page 36:
text: Oil-based developments in areas such as the Middle East have produced a new, almost stateless society of high-value individuals who have exchanged the old-time structured security of home for the superrewards of a more nomadic […]
ref: 1982, The Middle East, numbers 87-98, page 71:
glosses: A relatively great or excessive reward.
Stonea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Wimblington parish, Fenland district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL4593).
whenceforward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From whence + forward.
Senses: examples: text: The lease expired in 1890, whenceforward the property reverted to its original owner.
glosses: From which point onwards (in time or space).
Related terms: —
henceafter
henceforth
henceforward
henceforwards
hencefrom
hereabout
hereabouts
hereabove
hereafter
hereafters
hereagainst
hereamong
hereanent
hereat
hereaway
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herefor
herefore
hereforth
hereforward
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herehence
hereinabove
hereinafter
hereinbefore
hereinbelow
hereinelsewhere
hereinsoever
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hereon
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hereover
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herewithin
herewithout
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however
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thataway
thatwise
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thenceforth
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thencefrom
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thereabouts
thereabove
thereacross
thereafter
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thereagain
thereagainst
therealong
thereamong
thereamongst
thereanent
therearound
thereat
thereaway
therebefore
therebeside
therebetween
therebeyond
thereby
therever
therefor
therefore
thereforth
therefrom
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thereinabove
thereinafter
thereinbefore
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theremid
thereof
thereon
thereout
thereover
theresoever
therethrough
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thereto
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thereunto
thereup
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therewith
therewithal
therewithin
therewithout
thisaway
thiswise
thitherinsoever
thitherto
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whatever
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wheresoever
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1. Scottish2. from Middle English mid3. old dialectal form
Rushden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English rysċ ("rush", the plant) + dene (“valley”); "valley where the rushes grow".
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in North Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England, previously in East Northamptonshire district (OS grid ref SP9566).
glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Rushden and Wallington Parish Council) in North Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL3031).
Severn Beach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village on the Severn Estuary in Pilning and Severn Beach parish, South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST5484).
Bassian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Bass (Strait) + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the Bass Strait
Derived terms: Bassian Thrush
fishscale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fishscales
form: fish-scale
Etymology: From fish + scale, from its appearance as shiny yellowish flakes resembling the scales of a fish, as opposed to dull white powder.
Senses: examples: text: The kids out here don't know a flake from a fish—if you asked them what fishscale is, they wouldn't know. [Fishscale is high-grade cocaine powder with few rock-like chunks.]
ref: 1989, Terry Williams, chapter 2, in The Cocaine Kids: The Inside Story of a Teenage Drug Ring, page 41:
text: Oh shit, it was Fishscale! It was love at first sight. He nearly fell back in his chair. "No mothafuckin' way!" he yelled. He jumped up and danced a little two-step jig and thanked his lucky stars for the come-up. Fishscale cocaine! It was fucking Fishscale!
ref: 2011, Boston George, Caroline McGill, Soft: Cocaine Love Stories, unnumbered page:
text: "You can get anything on here—isn't it incredible?" Slick Guy continues. "I couldn't believe it, either. I mean anything. MDMA from Holland, high-end weed, fish-scale coke, whatever.
ref: 2015, Duane Swierczynski, Canary, unnumbered page:
glosses: Cocaine, usually of high quality taken directly off the brick and uncut.
fishscales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fishscale
customs clearance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
St Blazey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Saint Blaise; St Blaise is the spelling adopted by the civil parish and the town council.
Senses: glosses: A small town in St Blaise parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX0654).
wikipedia: Saint Blaise
Fellgate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A residential area of the Metropolitan Borough of South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ3262).