cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
trifunctional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + functional.
Senses: glosses: Having three functions
examples: text: Sequential living polymerizations of hydrophilic and hydrophobic vinyl ethers from these trifunctional initiators give amphiphilic triarmed block copolymers where the hydrophilic segments may be placed either inner or outer layer of the three arms.
ref: 1997, Hatada, Macromolecular Design of Polymeric Materials, →ISBN, page 45:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Having three functional groups
tetralines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetraline
perdus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perdu
perdues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perdue
trimetallic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + metallic.
Senses: glosses: Constructed from three metals.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing atoms of three metals in each molecule.
tendrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tendron
tendus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tendu
mopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒpə/
ipa: /ˈmɒpəɹ/
rhymes: -ɒpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: moppers
Etymology: From mop + -er.
Senses: examples: text: the kitchen mopper was a short female Asian averting her gaze.
ref: 2004, Janet Kieffer, Food Chain: Short Stories, Lost Horse Press, →ISBN, page 58:
text: A couple of moppers were then sent into the coffee-room with their proper implements, and quickly removed the soiling the floor had sustained.
ref: 1839, John Briggs, The history of Jim Crow, Smallfield and Son, page 266:
glosses: One who mops
Derived terms: jizz-mopper
mopper-up
ephod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈiː.fɒd/
/ˈɛ.fɒd/
Forms: form: ephods
Etymology: Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew אֵפֹד (ʼēp̄ōḏ).
Senses: examples: text: 1769, Oxford Standard text, Bible (King James): Exodus, 28, vi-viii,
And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work.
It shall have the two shoulderpieces thereof joined at the two edges thereof; and so it shall be joined together.
And the curious girdle of the ephod, which is upon it, shall be of the same, according to the work thereof; even of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
text: 1769, Oxford Standard text, Bible (King James): Hosea, 3, iv,
For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:
text: From this it appears that at least towards the close of the Exile, the Urim and Thummim were considered as something distinct from the ephod of the high priest and the gems with which it was adorned.
ref: 1913, “Urim and Thummim”, in Catholic Encyclopedia:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A priestly apron, or breastplate, described in the Bible in Exodus 28: vi–xxx, which only the chief priest of ancient Israel was allowed to wear.
moppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mopper
trimethylpentane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trimethylpentanes
Etymology: From trimethyl + pentane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several isomers of octane having three methyl groups attached to a pentane chain; especially isooctane, used as a standard for octane number
ultrastable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultrastable
form: most ultrastable
form: ultra-stable
Etymology: From ultra- + stable.
Senses: glosses: Very stable.
tordions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tordion
redescends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of redescend
redescend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: redescends
form: redescending
form: redescended
form: redescended
Etymology: From re- + descend.
Senses: examples: text: 1650, James Howell, Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ, London: Humphrey Mosely, Letter 53, “A Hymne to the Blessed Trinity,” p. 67,
To thee sweet Spirit I return
That love wherwith my heart doth burn,
And these bless’d notions of my brain
I now breath up to thee again,
O let them redescend, and still
My soul with holy raptures fill.
text: […] these vapours rise […] [and] are expanded in the rarefied air before they redescend in the form of clouds and drizzling rain;
ref: 1786, The Monthly Review, Volume 75, Appendix, Article 32, p. 544:
text: […] the whole troop of marsh-birds rose again, darkening heaven, with a simultaneous whirr; and long after that death yell was still ringing in my brain, silence had re-established its empire, and only the rustle of the redescending birds and the boom of the distant surges disturbed the languor of the afternoon.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 14, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC, part I (The Old Buccaneer), pages 113-114:
text: I redescended the stairs, umbrella in hand, and slammed the door for the third time.
ref: 1999, Jeffrey Moore, Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain, New York: Putnam, Part 1, Chapter 4, p. 40:
glosses: To descend again (often following an ascent)
brooches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brooch
mongeese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑŋɡis/
ipa: /ˈmɒŋɡiːs/
Etymology: Through folk-etymological association with geese, being the plural of goose.
Senses: examples: text: These mongeese were soon in demand all through the islands as rat-catchers.
ref: 1931, Hazel Ballance Eadie, Lagooned in the Virgin Islands, G. Routledge & Sons, ltd., page 43:
text: Not birds, you lamebrain, dey stole mongeese. Little animals from over in India, day kill da snakes, da cobras dere.
ref: 2005, Michael A. Herr, The Kaua'i Obake Bar: A Primo's Talk Story Book, PublishAmerica, Incorporated, →ISBN, page 117:
glosses: plural of mongoose. The standard plural is mongooses.
vadose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin vadosus.
Senses: examples: text: The seep lay high up among the ledges, vadose water dripping down the slick black rock and monkeyflower and deathcamas hanging in a small perilous garden. The water that reached the canyon floor was no more than a trickle and they leaned by turns with pursed lips to the stone like devouts at a shrine.
ref: 1985, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, page 60:
text: Research has shown bone apatite to undergo chemical exchange with carbonates in either vadose water or groundwater.
ref: 2003, B. B. Huckell, C. Vance Haynes, “The Ventana Complex: New Dates and New Ideas on Its Place in Early Holocene Western Prehistory”, in American Antiquity, volume 68, number 2, page 357:
glosses: Of or pertaining to water beneath the surface of the earth which is located above the level of the permanent groundwater.
Related terms: vadose zone
vadosity
cardinal direction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardinal directions
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cardinal point.
synonyms: word: cardinal point
intercardinal direction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intercardinal directions
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the four intermediate compass directions located halfway between the cardinal directions.
Synonyms: ordinal direction
blendstock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blendstocks
Etymology: From blend + stock.
Senses: glosses: Any material that is blended in an oil refinery to make a product, especially for making gasoline/petrol.
ordinal direction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ordinal directions
Senses: glosses: Synonym of intercardinal direction.
synonyms: word: intercardinal direction
coproduct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coproducts
Etymology: From co- + product.
Senses: glosses: Any of multiple products that are produced at the same time, or by the same process
examples: text: The coproduct is a structure constructed from several similar structures, equipped with appropriate inclusion maps, which generalises the disjoint union of sets, of topological spaces and the free product of groups.
topics: mathematics
sciences
hyponyms: disjoint union
direct sum
free product
wedge sum
meronyms: inclusion
glosses: The colimit of two (or more) objects, without regard to any morphisms between them.
Related terms: product
categorical product
hydroskimming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hydro- + skimming.
Senses: glosses: Describing an oil refinery that has simple reforming and desulfurization facilities
isomerate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isomerates
Etymology: From isomer + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The product of an isomerization reaction, but especially a higher-octane petroleum produced by isomerizing simple alkanes.
unimodal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + modal.
Senses: examples: text: In addition, there was no difference in performance among the two unimodal and bimodal conditions[…]
ref: 2004, Gemma Calvert, Charles Spence, Barry E. Stein, The handbook of multisensory processes, page 114:
text: the fusion of three unimodal systems into a multimodal one
ref: 2009, Ãlvaro Herrero, Paolo Gastaldo, Rodolfo Zunino, Computational Intelligence in Security for Information Systems, page 156:
text: We created one prototype with two modes: a slider for the unimodal and multimodal mode to be used by the test leader only.
ref: 2009, Anton Nijholt, Dennis Reidsma, Hendri Hondorp, Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment, page 82:
glosses: Having, or operating in, a single mode.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having, or operating in, a single mode.
Having a single mode (local maximum).
Derived terms: unimodality
Related terms: bimodal
uniantimodal
unsaturates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unsaturate
schappe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɑ.pə/
ipa: /ʃæp/
Forms: form: schappes
form: schapping
form: schapped
form: schapped
Etymology: From German (Swiss dialect), meaning "waste, impurity".
Senses: glosses: To use a process of fermentation to remove sericin from silk.
schappe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɑ.pə/
ipa: /ʃæp/
Forms: form: schappes
form: chappe
Etymology: From German (Swiss dialect), meaning "waste, impurity".
Senses: glosses: A silk yarn or fabric made out of carded spun silk.
unsaturate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unsaturates
Etymology: From un- + saturate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any unsaturated compound, but especially an unsaturated hydrocarbon in the oil refining industry
Derived terms: monounsaturate
it's never too late to mend
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: synonyms: you're never too old to learn
glosses: One is never too old to change one's ways; learning is always possible.
zeolitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more zeolitic
form: most zeolitic
Etymology: From zeolite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, containing, or produced using a zeolite.
acetamido
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acetamidos
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical derived from acetamide
Derived terms: acetamidoacrylate
acetamidobenzoate
acetamidocinnamate
acetarsol
adsorp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: adsorps
form: adsorping
form: adsorped
form: adsorped
Senses: glosses: To adsorb
Related terms: adsorption
Röntgen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Roentgen
Etymology: From German Röntgen.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German, notably of Wilhelm Röntgen.
Derived terms: roentgenate
roentgenium
roentgenize
Röntgenize
roentgenogram
röntgenogram
roentgenology
röntgenology
Roentgen-ray
Röntgen ray
roentgen
röntgen
computer viruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of computer virus
quadrigenarious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkwɒdrɪd͡ʒɪˈnɛəɹi.əs/
ipa: /ˌkwɑdrəd͡ʒəˈnɛɹi.əs/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.əs
Senses: glosses: Having or consisting of four hundred.
YW
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: The first step, though, is selecting the best prompts and then crafting up some clever answers that can make your matches fall in love with you (or, you know, ask you out). The good news? We’ve taken care of all that below, so you can spend less time stressing about your profile and more time meeting the love of your life! YW!
ref: 2024 April 8, Lydia Wang, Morgan Sullivan, Rachel Varina, “24 Best Hinge Prompts to Actually Help Your Matches Get to Know You”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: Initialism of you're welcome.
EW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of electronic warfare.
TW
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Twitter.
TW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TWs
Senses: qualifier: gemstones
glosses: Initialism of total weight.
synonyms: TF#Noun
coordinate_terms: TM#Noun
glosses: Initialism of trans woman.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of treatment week.
glosses: Initialism of trigger warning.
CW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CWs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of calendar week.
glosses: Initialism of chemical warfare.
topics: education
glosses: Initialism of classwork.
glosses: Initialism of content warning.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
glosses: Initialism of continuous wave.
glosses: Initialism of conventional wisdom.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Initialism of country and western.
coordinate_terms: GW
HW
LW
SW
UGW
glosses: Initialism of current weight.
CW
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of clockwise.
CW
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of clockwise.
tall drink of water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tall drinks of water
form: long drink of water
form: tall glass of water
Etymology: A variant of the earlier long drink of water.
Senses: examples: text: “I say, old man,” called the tall drink of water, as he loped up the steps, […]
ref: 1922 July 8, Gerald Mygatt, “The Young Man with No Brains”, in Collier’s, page 26:
text: Red: That tall drink of water with the silver spoon up his ass.
ref: 1994 (quote set in 1947), The Shawshank Redemption
glosses: Alternative form of long drink of water (“a tall person”).
apanthropinization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of apanthropinisation.
flummadiddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flummadiddles
form: flumadiddle
form: flumdiddle
form: flummerdiddle
form: flummydiddle
form: fumadiddle
Etymology: * Unknown; apparently from, or related to flummery. Compare -a-, diddle.
Senses: glosses: A baked main course pudding consisting of stale bread, pork fat, molasses, and spices including cinnamon and allspice. It was a part of early American cuisine, especially in New England.
glosses: Something completely nonsensical or ridiculous.
glosses: Cheap, worthless frills.
videorecording
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: videorecordings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of video recording.
at-sign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: at-signs
Senses: examples: text: […]there are users out there on the Internet right now who think that they possess an e-mail address containing neither an at-sign (@ often known as an "ampersat") nor a domain name.
ref: 2000, Wankyu Choi, Allan Kent, Chris Lea, Beginning PHP4, page 249:
glosses: Alternative form of at sign.
toilet-paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toilet-papers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of toilet paper.
toilet-paper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: toilet-papers
form: toilet-papering
form: toilet-papered
form: toilet-papered
Senses: examples: text: Two more rolls of toilet paper had taken a dive off the wheelbarrow, making the living room look as though someone had, indeed, taken a stab at toilet papering the room.
ref: 2016, Maria Schneider, One Good Eclair: A Nutrition Mafia Mystery:
glosses: Alternative form of toilet paper.
Scotch hands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Butter beaters; large wooden spatulas used when making butter, made out of sycamore wood, or metal, used for shaping the butter into bricks and for other miscellaneous manipulation. One side of the paddle will have ribs or be fluted.
faeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faerie
reflexivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reflexivities
Etymology: From reflexive + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition or state of being reflexive.
Derived terms: self-reflexivity
knut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈnʌt/
rhymes: -ʌt
Forms: form: knuts
Etymology: An alteration of nut.
Senses: examples: text: Oh Hades! the Ladies who leave their wooden huts,
For Gilbert the Filbert, the colonel of the knuts...
synonyms: playboy
hedonist
glosses: An idle upper-class man about town.
seamanly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more seamanly
form: most seamanly
Etymology: From seaman + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "Thunder!" he cried. "A week! I can't do that; they'd have the black spot on me by then. The lubbers is going about to get the wind of me this blessed moment; lubbers as couldn't keep what they got, and want to nail what is another's. Is that seamanly behavior, now, I want to know? But I'm a saving soul. I never wasted good money of mine, nor lost it neither; and I'll trick 'em again. I'm not afraid on 'em. I'll shake out another reef, matey, and daddle 'em again."
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
glosses: seamanlike
alkanoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing any simple aliphatic carboxylic acid, especially a fatty acid
Derived terms: alkanoate
alkanoic acid
haloalkanoic
aspartyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈspɑɹtɪl/
ipa: /əˈspɑːtɪl/
Forms: form: aspartyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical obtained by removal of a hydrogen atom from the carboxylic acid group of aspartic acid
Derived terms: aspartylglucosamine
aspartylglutamate
isoaspartyl
Related terms: aspartidyl
benzamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzamides
Etymology: From benz- + amide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The amide of benzoic acid or any of its derivatives; several of its derivatives are pharmaceuticals
Derived terms: alkenoylbenzamide
allylbenzamide
aminobenzamide
bisbenzamide
enzalutamide
glibenclamide
glyburide
iobenzamic acid
methoxybenzamide
moclobemide
oligobenzamide
renzapride
sulpiride
biuret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biurets
Etymology: From bi- + urea + -et.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The compound formed by condensation of two molecules of urea with the loss of a molecule of ammonia, (NH₂-CO)₂NH or any of its derivatives.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: carbamylurea
glosses: A compound with the chemical formula C₂H₅N₃O₂, found as an impurity in urea-based fertilizers.
Derived terms: abiuret
biuret test
caproic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin caper (“goat”), after its smell + -oic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or derived from caproic acid
Derived terms: aminocaproic
caproate
isocaproic
Related terms: capric
capric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: caprinic
Etymology: From Latin caper (“goat”), after its smell + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or derived from capric acid
Derived terms: caprate
Related terms: caproic
complexation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: complexations
Etymology: From complex + -ation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The formation of a complex
Synonyms: complexing
Derived terms: decomplexation
heterocomplexation
immunocomplexation
precomplexation
radiocomplexation
coulombically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From coulombic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: Using a coulombic method or device.
crystallinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crystallinities
Etymology: From crystalline + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: the crystallinity of a polymer or of a rock
synonyms: crystallineness
glosses: The condition or degree of being crystalline.
Derived terms: macrocrystallinity
microcrystallinity
nanocrystallinity
paracrystallinity
limnic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From limno- + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to fresh water, typically a lake or swamp; freshwater
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: deposited in a lake or swamp
Derived terms: epilimnic
hololimnic
hypolimnic
merolimnic
metalimnic
mixolimnic
monimolimnic
sublimnic
crystallizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crystallizers
Etymology: From crystallize + -er.
Senses: qualifier: chemical engineering
glosses: The chemical engineering vessel in which the crystallization of a solution takes place.
examples: text: In choosing a PET resin for injection blow molding, you should pick a resin that is a slow crystallizer.
ref: 2007, Samuel L. Belcher, Practical Guide To Injection Blow Molding, page 14:
glosses: Any substance that crystallizes.
demineralization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˌmɪnəɹəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: demineralizations
Etymology: From de- + mineralization.
Senses: qualifier: chemical engineering
glosses: The chemical engineering process in which mineral salts are removed from a liquid.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The loss of minerals, especially those of calcium, from bone.
Hyponyms: decalcification
Coordinate terms: mineralization
permineralization
remineralization
Related terms: word: demineralize
exarate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛksəɹət/
Forms: form: more exarate
form: most exarate
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the appendages free and not attached to the body wall.
raw_tags: of a pupa
Related terms: coarctate
obtect
exarate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛksəɹət/
ipa: /ˈɛksəɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈɛksəɹət/
Forms: form: exarates
form: exarating
form: exarated
form: exarated
Etymology: From Latin exaratus, past participle of exarare (“to plough up, to write”); ex (“out”) + arare (“to plough”).
Senses: glosses: To plough up.
examples: text: God hath an observing eye over a Penitent, and doth exarate and can enumerate all his manifestations.
ref: 1657, Thomas Reeve, God's Plea for Nineveh:
glosses: To write or engrave.
obtect
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more obtect
form: most obtect
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the legs and other appendages more or less strongly cemented to the body.
raw_tags: of a pupa
Related terms: coarctate
exarate
desolvated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of desolvate
desolvated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more desolvated
form: most desolvated
Senses: glosses: That has been subjected to desolvation
desolvate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: desolvates
form: desolvating
form: desolvated
form: desolvated
Etymology: From de- + solvate.
Senses: glosses: To remove the solvent from a material in solution
desolvate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desolvates
Etymology: From de- + solvate.
Senses: glosses: The desolvated material so obtained
Related terms: desolvation
desolvation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desolvations
Etymology: From de- + solvation.
Senses: glosses: The removal of solvent from a material in solution
Related terms: desolvate
desolvator
dicarboxylic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + carboxylic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Having two carboxylic groups
Derived terms: dicarboxylic acid
oxodicarboxylic
mountain zebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mountain zebras
Senses: glosses: A species of zebra, native to South-western Angola, Namibia and South Africa, (Equus zebra)
dimensionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From dimensional + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: With the new chemical treatment methods and ultradrastic kiln schedules, it is possible to start with green walnut and produce a superior (dimensionally stable) kiln dry rifle stock in only 30 days, as compared with the 90 to 120 days the industry normally takes just to dry a gunstock blank by conventional practices..
ref: 1960, United States Forest Service, Report of the Chief of the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture:
glosses: With regard to dimension.
Derived terms: five-dimensionally
four-dimensionally
fourth-dimensionally
non-dimensionally
one-dimensionally
three-dimensionally
two-dimensionally
zero-dimensionally
suero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Spanish suero. Doublet of serum.
Senses: glosses: A condiment based on fermented milk, from Colombia's Caribbean coastal region.
Sheldrake
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sheldrakes
form: Sheldrick
Etymology: From sheldrake, a nickname for a vain or showy person.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the nickname.
diphosphonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diphosphonates
Etymology: From di- + phosphonate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound (especially a class of drugs) having two phosphonate groups
Synonyms: biphosphonate
bisphosphonate
Derived terms: aminohydroxypropylidene diphosphonate
methylene diphosphonate
methylenediphosphonate
magic lantern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magic lanterns
Etymology: Calque of Latin lanterna magica.
Senses: examples: text: "You know how that trick was, don't you Dan?" said Bob, "it was a magic lantern."
ref: 1943, H. Lorna Bingham, The Lost Tribe, Sydney: Winn and Co., page 23, column 1:
glosses: An early light projector and precursor to the slide projector that could achieve simple animation by moving and merging images.
glosses: A slide projector.
Related terms: lantern slide
magic lantern show
zoetrope
praxinoscope
phenakistoscope
decahydrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛkəˈhaɪdɹeɪt/
Forms: form: decahydrates
Etymology: From deca- + hydrate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydrate whose solid contains ten molecules of water of crystallization per molecule, or per unit cell.
dihydrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈhaɪdɹeɪt/
Forms: form: dihydrates
Etymology: From di- + hydrate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydrate whose solid contains two molecules of water of crystallization per molecule, or per unit cell
Derived terms: calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate deposition disease
heptahydrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heptahydrates
Etymology: From hepta- + hydrate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydrate whose solid contains seven molecules of water of crystallization per molecule, or per unit cell
Related terms: heptahydrated
dodecahydrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dodecahydrates
form: duodecahydrate
Etymology: From dodeca- + hydrate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydrate whose solid contains twelve molecules of water of crystallization per molecule, or per unit cell.
hexahydrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexahydrates
Etymology: From hexa- + hydrate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydrate whose solid contains six molecules of water of crystallization per molecule, or per unit cell
Related terms: hexahydrated
monohydrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monohydrates
Etymology: From mono- + hydrate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydrate whose solid contains a single molecule of water of crystallization per molecule, or per unit cell
Derived terms: creatine monohydrate
nonahydrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonahydrates
Etymology: From nona- + hydrate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydrate whose solid contains nine molecules of water of crystallization per molecule, or per unit cell
octahydrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octahydrates
Etymology: From octa- + hydrate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydrate whose solid contains eight molecules of water of crystallization per molecule, or per unit cell.
Related terms: octahydrated
pentahydrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentahydrates
Etymology: From penta- + hydrate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydrate whose solid contains five molecules of water of crystallization per molecule, or per unit cell.
Derived terms: hemipentahydrate
tetrahydrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetrahydrates
Etymology: From tetra- + hydrate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydrate whose solid contains four molecules of water of crystallization per molecule, or per formula unit
trihydrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trihydrates
Etymology: From tri- + hydrate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydrate whose solid contains three molecules of water of crystallization per molecule, or per unit cell.
Derived terms: sodium acetate trihydrate
undecahydrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undecahydrates
Etymology: From undeca- + hydrate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydrate whose solid contains eleven molecules of water of crystallization per molecule, or per unit cell
hemihydrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemihydrates
Etymology: From hemi- + hydrate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydrate whose solid contains one molecule of water of crystallization per two molecules, or per two unit cells
Synonyms: semihydrate
sesquihydrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sesquihydrates
Etymology: From sesqui- + hydrate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydrate whose solid contains three molecules of water of crystallization per two molecules.
slide projector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slide projectors
Senses: glosses: A device that projects an enlarged image of a photographic slide onto a screen.
Related terms: document camera
film projector
overhead projector
slide scanner
slideshow
slideware
epitaxial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From epitaxy + -al.
Senses: examples: text: It should be noted that a high temperature anneal in Ar, H₂, or high vacuum is a well established pre-epitaxial growth step by which a native oxide film is removed to obtain a good quality epitaxial layer[…].
ref: 1994, D. M. Lee, D. Ruprecht, D. Hymes, W. Huber, “Surface Characterization of Heat Treated Silicon Wafers”, in H[oward] R. Huff, W. Bergholz, K[ōji] Sumino, editors, Semiconductor Silicon/1994: Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Silicon Materials Science and Technology (Electronics Division Proceedings; 94-10), The Electrochemical Society, →ISBN, page 241:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or employing epitaxy
Derived terms: biepitaxial
epitaxial layer
epitaxially
heteroepitaxial
homoepitaxial
slide-show
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slide-shows
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of slideshow.
slide show
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slide shows
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of slideshow.
magic lantern show
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magic lantern shows
Senses: glosses: A slideshow, often using an early form of slide projector that could achieve simple animation by moving and merging images.
sparker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sparkers
Etymology: From spark + -er.
Senses: examples: a sparker of conflict
glosses: One who or that which sparks or initiates.
glosses: A wooer; one who courts.
sparker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sparkers
Senses: glosses: spark arrestor
ethanolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ethanolic
form: most ethanolic
Etymology: From ethanol + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, containing, producing or using ethanol.
Derived terms: hydroethanolic
daedalum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːdələm/
Forms: form: daedala
Senses: glosses: A zoetrope.
ELF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛlf/
rhymes: -ɛlf
Senses: examples: text: In ELF executables, there aren't a whole lot of code caves (such as in the PE format), so you are not likely to be able to shove more than just a meager amount of shellcode into existing code slots […]
ref: 2016, Ryan "elfmaster" O'Neill, Learning Linux Binary Analysis, page 97:
qualifier: file format
glosses: Acronym of Executable and Linking Format, a common object file format for Unix.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
coordinate_terms: LF
VLF
glosses: Initialism of extremely low frequency.
examples: text: The consequences of the massive volume of ELF to English taken as a whole, as the aggregate use of the language, is essentially a descriptive issue: what new features of English are emerging and taking hold?
ref: 2012, Anna Mauranen, Exploring ELF: Academic English Shaped by Non-native Speakers, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 3:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: Globish
glosses: Acronym of English as a Lingua Franca (“English used by non-native speakers”).
Related terms: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: DWARF
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: LW
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: MW
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: RF
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: SW
ELF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛlf/
rhymes: -ɛlf
Senses: examples: text: In the late 1990s, the ELF became notorious for setting fire to symbols of ecological destruction, including timber mills, an S.U.V. dealership and a ski resort.
ref: 2022 May 26, Matthew Wolfe, “The Rise and Fall of America’s Environmentalist Underground”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Initialism of Earth Liberation Front, a radical environmentalism group.
glosses: Initialism of Elvish Linguistic Fellowship, an organization that studies the invented languages of J. R. R. Tolkien.
glosses: Initialism of Endangered Language Fund, a non-profit organization.
glutamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡluːˈtæmɪk/
rhymes: -æmɪk
Etymology: Latin gluten (“glue”) + -amic
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or derived from glutamic acid
Derived terms: glutamate
glutaric
pteroyl glutamic acid
pyroglutamic
serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase
glyceryl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glyceryls
Etymology: From glycerol + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Either of the univalent, divalent or trivalent radicals derived from glycerol by removing hydrogen atoms from one, two or three hydroxyl groups
Derived terms: diglyceryl
glyceryl trinitrate
glycyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlaɪ.sɪl/
rhymes: -aɪsɪl
Forms: form: glycyls
Etymology: From glycine + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical obtained by removal of a hydrogen atom from the carboxylic acid group of glycine.
Derived terms: glycylation
glycylcycline
glycylglycine
glycylglycine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycylglycines
Etymology: From glycyl + glycine.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The dipeptide formed from two molecules of glycine
hartshorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑːtshɔːn/
Forms: form: hartshorns
Etymology: From hart + -s- + horn.
Senses: glosses: The antler of a hart, once used as a source of ammonia.
examples: text: Sophia, who had tottered along with much difficulty, sunk down in her chair; but by the assistance of hartshorn and water, she was prevented from fainting away...
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter XIV, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book IV:
text: Lady Teazle seeing Sir Peter in such Danger—ran out of the Room in strong Hysterics—and Charles after her calling out for Hartshorn and Water!
ref: 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, V.ii:
glosses: An aqueous solution of ammonia; smelling salts.
Derived terms: Barton Hartshorn
hartshorn salt
salt of hartshorn
spirits of hartshorn
hartshorn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑːtshɔːn/
Forms: form: hartshorns
form: hartshorning
form: hartshorned
form: hartshorned
Etymology: From hart + -s- + horn.
Senses: examples: text: Accordingly, after a vast amount of moaning and crying up-stairs, and much damping of foreheads, and vinegaring of temples, and hartshorning of noses, and so forth […]
ref: 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 19.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To revive with hartshorn smelling salts.
hexamethylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexamethylenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The divalent radical obtained by removing a hydrogen atom from each end of a n-hexane molecule
Derived terms: word: hexamethylene diamine
word: hexamethylenediamine
word: hexamethylene tetramine
word: hexamethylenetetramine
alt: HMTD
word: hexamethylene triperoxide diamine
phenakistoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɛnəˈkɪstəskəʊp/
ipa: /ˌfiːnəˈkɪstəskəʊp/
Forms: form: phenakistoscopes
form: phenakistiscope
form: phénakistiscope
form: phénakistoscope
Etymology: From French phénakistiscope, from Ancient Greek φενακιστής (phenakistḗs, “cheat, imposter”) + French -scope.
Senses: glosses: An early animation device consisting of a disc or drum which rotated, showing successive images through slits, often via a mirror, thus producing the illusion of motion.
Synonyms: fantascope
fantasmascope
Derived terms: phenakistoscopic
Related terms: phenakism
thaumatrope
zoetrope
hexatriacontane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexatriacontanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of innumerable isomers of the saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon C₃₆H₇₄, having thirty-six carbon atoms; but especially the straight-chain isomer that is used in solid-state applications.
Derived terms: hexatriacontanoic
chuck you Farley
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Spoonerism of Fuck you, Charley.
Senses: examples: text: I wanted to think, Chuck you, Farley, there's nothing much I need you for, if I want to I can turn around and walk right through that door […]
ref: 1998, Margaret Atwood, Bodily Harm, page 202:
text: "Chuck you, Farley, I'm not having anything to do with it."
ref: 2002, Richard Helms, The Valentine Profile, page 100:
glosses: Fuck you.
pseudoscorpion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoscorpions
Etymology: From pseudo- + scorpion.
Senses: glosses: An arachnid belonging to the order Pseudoscorpiones, also known as Pseudoscorpionida or Chelonethida
Synonyms: false scorpion
book scorpion
cylinder functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cylinder function
immunocompromised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immuno- + compromised.
Senses: examples: text: More than seven million adults in the United States, or about 3 percent, are characterized by health professionals as immunocompromised because of a disease, medication or other treatment that weakens their body’s immune response, meaning that diseases such as Covid-19 can be more deadly to them, and that vaccines offer less protection.
ref: 2022 February 17, Amanda Morris and Maggie Astor, “Vulnerable to the Virus, High-Risk Americans Feel Pain as the U.S. Moves On”, in The New York Times:
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
antonyms: immunocompetent
glosses: Having an immune system that has been impaired by disease or treatment.
Derived terms: nonimmunocompromised
immunocompromised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of immunocompromise
drip gas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drip gases
Senses: glosses: A naturally occurring form of gasoline found near many oil and natural gas wells. It can be used in vehicles, but doing so is illegal and has been reported to cause damage to engines.
hydrocarboxylic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hydro- + carboxylic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a carboxylic acid that has at least one hydroxyl group
Synonyms: hydroxycarbolic
hydrophobicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrophobicities
Etymology: From hydrophobic + -ity.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The condition of being hydrophobic.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The degree to which a substance is hydrophobic.
inhomogeneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inhomogeneous
form: most inhomogeneous
Etymology: From in- + homogeneous.
Senses: examples: text: This phenomenon has been observed in earlier studies and could be related to intrascanner variation, sampling differences in the region of interest of an inhomogeneous nodule or beam-hardening artifact.
ref: 2016 April 2, “Can Spectral CT Imaging Improve the Differentiation between Malignant and Benign Solitary Pulmonary Nodules?”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Not homogeneous.
Synonyms: heterogeneous
nonhomogeneous
Derived terms: inhomogeneously
interatomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + atomic.
Senses: glosses: Between atoms
Derived terms: interatomically
interplanar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + planar.
Senses: glosses: Between planes
ionizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ionize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being ionized
Derived terms: ionizability
nonionizable
linearized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of linearize
linearized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more linearized
form: most linearized
Senses: glosses: Made linear, or treated in a linear manner.
Derived terms: nonlinearized
prelinearized
unlinearized
linearize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: linearizes
form: linearizing
form: linearized
form: linearized
Etymology: From linear + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To render an object linear.
glosses: To treat in a linear manner.
Derived terms: colinearize
delinearize
linearizability
linearizable
linearization
linearizer
relinearize
macrosegregation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From macro- + segregation.
Senses: topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variation in the composition of a metal casting caused by irregular movement during solidification
macrostep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrosteps
Etymology: From macro- + step.
Senses: glosses: A relatively large steplike deformation in the structure of a crystal.
microanalysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microanalyses
Etymology: From micro- + analysis.
Senses: glosses: small-scale analysis
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The analysis (and subsequent identification) of very small quantities of material.
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
glosses: the analysis of individual or community social activity e.g. family relationships.
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: the analysis of individual or community social activity e.g. family relationships.
monomolecularly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From monomolecular + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In monomolecular terms
nonequilibrium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonequilibriums
form: nonequilibria
form: non-equilibrium
Etymology: From non- + equilibrium.
Senses: glosses: The condition of not being in equilibrium
nonideal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-ideal
Etymology: From non- + ideal.
Senses: glosses: Not ideal.
Derived terms: nonideal gas
nonideally
nonideal solution
palmitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From palm + -ite + -ic. From French palmite (“pith of the palm tree”) (palme+-ite). From Spanish palmito (“heart of palm”) (palma+-ito). From Latin palma (“palm tree”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or derived from palmitic acid.
Derived terms: palmitate
palmitoleic
palmitoleic acid
palmitone
Related terms: palm
perborate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perborates
Etymology: From perboric acid + -ate (“derivative”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt, derived from borate and hydrogen peroxide, of the hypothetical perboric acid.
causelessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more causelessly
form: most causelessly
Etymology: From causeless + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He sees evil only in the shape of some moral baseness[…], or else in the shape of a dark mystery of pain, to be endured by those on whom it causelessly falls in a proud though undefiant silence.
ref: 1874, Ernest Myers, The Extant Odes of Pindar, translated into English, Introduction, page 14:
glosses: Without cause; in a causeless manner.
Related terms: causeless
causelessness
perylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perylenes
form: perilene
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon consisting of two molecules of naphthalene fused together; it is used in light-emitting diodes.
Derived terms: polyperylene
perylenediimide
perylenemonoimide