cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
eigencurve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eigencurves
Etymology: From eigen- + curve.
Senses: topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: A rigid analytic curve that parametrizes certain p-adic families of modular forms.
eigenvariety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eigenvarieties
Etymology: From eigen- + variety.
Senses: topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: A higher-dimensional generalization of an eigencurve.
region codes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of region code
eigenvariable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eigenvariables
Etymology: From eigen- + variable.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A kind of term in natural deduction.
prickle cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prickle cell
eigenvariables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eigenvariable
nerve trunks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nerve trunk
Yinglish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of Yiddish + English.
Senses: examples: text: So an alternative explanation is that Trump reached for what he thought was a Yinglish word for ‘beat’ and inadvertently coined an obscene one.”
ref: 2015 December 22, Justin Wm. Moyer, “Donald Trump’s ‘schlonged’: A linguistic investigation”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 24 Dec 2015:
glosses: An informal language blending elements of English and Yiddish.
Yinglish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of Yiddish + English.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to this language.
dragonettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dragonette
Italese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Italian italese, where it is a blend of italiano + canadese.
Senses: glosses: A mixture of English and Italian used among Italian immigrants in Canada.
borax bead tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of borax bead test
Thaiglish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Thai + English
Senses: glosses: Tinglish
social safety nets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of social safety net
Northern Irelanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Northern Irelander
Tinglish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Thai + English
Senses: glosses: A form of English influenced by Thai.
Synonyms: Thaiglish
Related terms: english: English influenced by Chinese
translation: English influenced by Chinese
word: Chinglish
english: English influenced by Russian
translation: English influenced by Russian
word: Runglish
english: English influenced by Tamil
translation: English influenced by Tamil
word: Tanglish
Namlish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Namibian + English
Senses: glosses: A form of English spoken in Namibia, influenced by Afrikaans.
Related terms: Namibian English
weasel clauses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weasel clause
telephone books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telephone book
fumitories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fumitory
vlogging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The keeping of a vlog (video weblog).
vlogging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vlog
sketti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: s'ghetti
Etymology: A shortening of "pasghetti".
Senses: glosses: spaghetti
Synonyms: pasghetti
p'sketti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pasghetti.
psketti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Ryder (who has been quietly eating his noodles): These noodles are bigger than psketti. They're softer too. I like psketti, but pizza is best.
ref: 2015, Miriam Beloglovsky, Lisa Daly, Early Learning Theories Made Visible, page 109:
glosses: Alternative form of pasghetti.
banana equivalent doses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banana equivalent dose
amniotic fluids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amniotic fluid
wasna
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: "that when I was a hempie of nineteen or twenty, it wasna my fault if I wasna at a' the merry-makings time about."
ref: 1820 March, [Walter Scott], The Monastery. A Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of wasnae.
combat boots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of combat boot
vlogged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vlog
public key certificates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of public key certificate
micromort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪkɹəˌmɔ(ɹ)t/
Forms: form: micromorts
Etymology: From micro- (“one millionth”) + mort (“death”).
Senses: examples: text: This is described as 10 micromorts per operation, and we can compare this figure with other average risks, such as skydiving (also 10 micromorts), or riding a motorcycle in the UK (yoou^([sic]) have to go around 60 miles to rack up 10 micromorts).
The micromort is also roughly the average acute risk we face each day simply by being alive.
ref: 2012 February 16, David Spiegelhalter, “Microlives: A lesson in risk taking”, in BBC Future:
text: Taking one pill from the jar amounts to being exposed to exactly one micromort. The amount you are willing to pay to avoid this risk is called your micromort value. Micromorts help us reason about decisions with small probabilities but very serious outcomes, such as deciding whether to undergo surgery that eliminates life-long pain but fails with a 1% probability, resulting in immediate death.
ref: 2020, Gregor Hohpe, The Software Architect Elevator […] , O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 49:
coordinate_terms: microlife
glosses: A unit of risk equivalent to a one-in-a-million probability of death.
micromorts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micromort
garlic presses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garlic press
affibodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of affibody
checkwriters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of checkwriter
chequewriters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chequewriter
antinutrients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antinutrient
antinutritious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antinutritious
form: most antinutritious
Etymology: From anti- + nutritious.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Interfering with the absorption or metabolism of a nutrient.
antiformalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiformalism
antisymmetrizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antisymmetrization
antinoises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antinoise
nonassertiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + assertive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being nonassertive.
noneliminated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + eliminated.
Senses: glosses: Not eliminated.
uneliminated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + eliminated.
Senses: glosses: Not eliminated.
antilegislation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antilegislation
form: most antilegislation
Etymology: From anti- + legislation.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Opposing legislation.
antilegislative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antilegislative
form: most antilegislative
Etymology: From anti- + legislative.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Opposing legislation.
anticocaine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticocaine
form: most anticocaine
Etymology: From anti- + cocaine.
Senses: glosses: Opposing the manufacture or use of the drug cocaine.
topics: immunology
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Countering the effects of cocaine.
anticoca
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticoca
form: most anticoca
Etymology: From anti- + coca.
Senses: glosses: Opposing the growing of coca, used to produce the drug cocaine.
antipunk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antipunk
form: most antipunk
Etymology: From anti- + punk.
Senses: glosses: Opposing punk music or subculture.
antifeudal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antifeudal
form: most antifeudal
Etymology: From anti- + feudal.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Opposing a feudal system.
antifeudalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + feudalism.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Opposition to a feudal system.
antigouging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antigouging
form: most antigouging
Etymology: From anti- + gouging.
Senses: glosses: Opposing price gouging.
antipeonage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antipeonage
form: most antipeonage
Etymology: From anti- + peonage.
Senses: glosses: Opposing peonage.
antidegenerative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + degenerative.
Senses: glosses: Preventing degeneration.
anticampaign
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticampaign
form: most anticampaign
Etymology: From anti- + campaign.
Senses: glosses: Opposing a campaign.
antideforestation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antideforestation
form: most antideforestation
Etymology: From anti- + deforestation.
Senses: glosses: Opposing deforestation.
antiquackery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiquackery
form: most antiquackery
Etymology: From anti- + quackery.
Senses: glosses: Opposing quackery.
anticyclical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + cyclical.
Senses: glosses: contracyclical
antideferral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + deferral.
Senses: glosses: Countering attempts to defer the recognition of taxable income, as by transferring it abroad.
antiexpressive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: more antiexpressive
form: most antiexpressive
Etymology: From anti- + expressive.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: Opposing or avoiding expressiveness.
antiadulteration
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiadulteration
form: most antiadulteration
Etymology: From anti- + adulteration.
Senses: glosses: Opposing or countering adulteration.
antiadultery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiadultery
form: most antiadultery
Etymology: From anti- + adultery.
Senses: glosses: Opposing adultery.
anticinema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + cinema.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Any form of cinema that defies cinematic conventions.
stuffinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stuffiness
antiopium
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiopium
form: most antiopium
Etymology: From anti- + opium.
Senses: glosses: Opposing the drug opium.
antipoppy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antipoppy
form: most antipoppy
Etymology: From anti- + poppy.
Senses: glosses: Opposing the growing of poppies to produce opium.
antimaximum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antimaxima
Etymology: From anti- + maximum.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A maximum that has changed sign, caused by certain values of parameters.
antimaxima
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antimaximum
cybercritic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cybercritics
Etymology: From cyber- + critic.
Senses: glosses: One who publishes criticism in cyberspace or on the Internet.
cybercritics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cybercritic
cybercriticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + criticism.
Senses: glosses: The critical study of cyberculture.
antiduplication
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + duplication.
Senses: examples: an antiduplication law
glosses: Forbidding or preventing duplication of published material.
Synonyms: antiduping
antiduping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + duping.
Senses: examples: an antiduping law
glosses: Forbidding or preventing duplication of published material.
Synonyms: antiduplication
antipsychiatrist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antipsychiatrists
Etymology: From anti- + psychiatrist.
Senses: glosses: One who opposes psychiatry.
antipsychiatrists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antipsychiatrist
antipsychologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antipsychologists
Etymology: From anti- + psychologist.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A proponent of antipsychologism.
glosses: One who opposes psychology.
antipsychologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antipsychologist
psychologistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more psychologistically
form: most psychologistically
Etymology: From psychologistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a psychologistic manner or context.
antisite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antisites
Etymology: From anti- + site.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A site within a chemical compound that is occupied by an atom of a different element than would usually be found there.
antisites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antisite
Bethe lattice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bethe lattices
Etymology: Introduced by Hans Bethe in 1935.
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A kind of connected cycle-free graph.
wikipedia: Hans Bethe
Related terms: Cayley tree
Bethe lattices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bethe lattice
antistaling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + staling.
Senses: examples: text: Sugars are also known to function as antistaling ingredients in starch-based baked products.
ref: 1988, Felix Franks, Water Science Reviews 3: Volume 3: Water Dynamics, page 157:
glosses: Preventing a product from becoming stale.
klepsudra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of clepsydra.
besmoked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of besmoke
give someone Hail Columbia
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives someone Hail Columbia
form: giving someone Hail Columbia
form: gave someone Hail Columbia
form: given someone Hail Columbia
Senses: examples: text: The teacher gave her students Hail Columbia over their poor test scores.
text: If mother finds out I broke the window, she'll give me Hail Columbia for sure!
glosses: To scold someone severely.
give someone Hail, Columbia
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives someone Hail, Columbia
form: giving someone Hail, Columbia
form: gave someone Hail, Columbia
form: given someone Hail, Columbia
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of give someone Hail Columbia.
similarish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From similar + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat similar.
outdoorish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more outdoorish
form: most outdoorish
Etymology: From outdoor + -ish.
Senses: glosses: outdoorsy
ploverness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From plover + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: He has no problem with Graves painting “what he feels about what he sees,” but for Peterson, it just doesn't work with birds: “The critic will ask 'isn't it just the very essence of ploverness?' My answer is 'hardly; I know too damn much about plovers.'"
ref: 2007, Douglas Carlson, Roger Tory Peterson: A Biography, University of Texas Press, page 200:
text: The ploverness of this bird. One preened, another fed, most were just static, daydreaming.
ref: 2017, Rosamond Richardson, Waiting for the Albino Dunnock: How birds can change your life:
glosses: The essence of what it means to be a plover; the qualities that make a plover what it is.
mouthes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /maʊðz/
rhymes: -aʊðz
Senses: glosses: plural of mouth
mouthes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /maʊðz/
rhymes: -aʊðz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mouth
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mouthe
fracture plane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fracture planes
Senses: glosses: A two-dimensional plane (or other surface) of weakness along which a crystal or other solid will break when under stress.
diamond anvil cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diamond anvil cells
Senses: glosses: A device that is used to subject small samples of materials to exceptionally high pressures
Synonyms: word: DAC
Hyponyms: double-DAC
dynamic-DAC
dynamic diamond anvil cell
Derived terms: word: DAC
word: double-DAC
word: dynamic-DAC
word: dynamic diamond anvil cell
object graph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: object graphs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: A view of an object system at a particular point in time that details the relationships between class instances.
object graphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of object graph
burladero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burladeros
Etymology: From Spanish burladero.
Senses: topics: bullfighting
entertainment
lifestyle
glosses: A protective barrier behind which people in the bullring protect themselves from the bull.
opeway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opeways
Senses: glosses: passageway
ooh arrh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: I am a cider drinker,
I drinks it all of the day,
I am a cider drinker,
it soothes all me troubles away,
Ooh arrh, ooh arrh ay, Ooh arrh, ooh arrh ay.
ref: 1976, The Wurzels, I Am A Cider Drinker:
glosses: Alternative form of oo arr.
up north
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: up North
Etymology: From up + north. The sense 2 comes from the fact that that in New York state many prisons are located in the northern part of the state.
Senses: examples: text: She spent a few years up north.
antonyms: down south
coordinate_terms: back east
out west
glosses: In the northern part of an area, country etc.
examples: text: Even if I'm locked up North you in the world
Rocking three-fourths of cloth, never showing your stuff off, boo
ref: 1994, Method Man, “All I Need”, in Tical:
text: And when the fella be walkin' you can tell a
Whole lotta sugar's in his core
Feed the soft, he be hittin' off
He heads fresh home from up North
ref: 1995, Masta Ace Incorporated, “People in my Hood”, in Sittin' on Chrome:
topics: dancing
hip-hop
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: in jail, in prison
Related terms: north country
down south
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: They sent him down south, but he came back home the first chance he got.
antonyms: up north
coordinate_terms: out west
back east
glosses: In or to the southern part of an area, country, etc.
examples: text: Once we heard his accent, we knew he was from down south.
text: There's a strong case to be made for the English Premier League being the best in the world, but some of the unnecessary hype surrounding the game down south really gets my goat.
ref: 2011, Anthony Brown, The Scotsman:
glosses: In England.
ginless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gin + -less.
Senses: glosses: without gin
emotionalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From emotional + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being emotional.
iron group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any of several groupings of elements that share traits with iron in one way or another.
Row 4 (period 4) of the periodic table, or a large subset thereof.
glosses: Any of several groupings of elements that share traits with iron in one way or another.
Row 4 (period 4) of the periodic table, or a large subset thereof.
A smaller subset thereof comprising iron, cobalt, and nickel.
synonyms: iron triad
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several groupings of elements that share traits with iron in one way or another.
Group 8 of the periodic table, comprising iron, ruthenium, osmium, and hassium.
iron meteorite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iron meteorites
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of meteorite that is composed mostly of iron and nickel alloys
hypothalamotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypothalamotomies
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Surgical removal of the hypothalamus.
amygdalotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amygdalotomies
Etymology: From amygdalo- + -tomy.
Senses: examples: text: This was studied in humans where amygdalotomies were done not to control seizures but to control aggression.
ref: 2017, Robert Sapolsky, chapter 2, in Behave, Penguin, →ISBN:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Surgical removal of the amygdala.
hypothalamotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypothalamotomy
amygdalotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amygdalotomy
amygdules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amygdule
halfyear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halfyears
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of half-year.
fecundable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fecundable
form: most fecundable
Derived terms: infecundable
sound mirror
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sound mirrors
Senses: glosses: An acoustic mirror.
acoustic mirror
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acoustic mirrors
Senses: glosses: A passive device for reflecting and often focusing sound waves, chiefly used to provide early warning of incoming aircraft (by detecting the sound of their engines).
Synonyms: sound mirror
Related terms: war tuba
parabolic microphone
acoustic mirrors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acoustic mirror
sound mirrors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sound mirror
war tuba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: war tubas
Senses: glosses: An acoustic locator, vaguely resembling a tuba, used (by Japan during the World Wars) to provide early warning of incoming aircraft.
Related terms: war-horn
war tubas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of war tuba
not see straight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see not, see, straight.
examples: text: I was so tired I was not able to see straight.
text: I am so angry that I can't see straight.
text: 1985, Herbert Kretzmer, "Master of the House" (song) in Les Misérables
Picking up their knick-knacks when they can't see straight
glosses: To be unable to think clearly.
shown off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of show off
war-horn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: war-horns
form: warhorn
form: war horn
Etymology: From war + horn.
Senses: examples: text: From time to time they blew their war horns.
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 35:
glosses: A blowing horn blown (especially by Vikings and other Germanic peoples) to warn others of an impending battle, and call them to it, or to signal its commencement.
Hyponyms: Gjallarhorn
war-horns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of war-horn
war horn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: war horns
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of war-horn.
warhorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warhorn
war horns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of war horn
warhorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warhorns
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of war-horn.
Pergamese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The people of Pergamum.
Aetolian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Aetolian
form: most Aetolian
Etymology: From Aetolia + -n.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Aetolia.
Aetolian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aetolians
Etymology: From Aetolia + -n.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Aetolia.
Gythium
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin.
Senses: glosses: A city, predecessor of the modern Gytheio.
Synonyms: Gytheion
Aetolians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aetolian
unridged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + ridged.
Senses: glosses: Not ridged; without ridges.
Vibroseis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vibroseis.
vibroseis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Vibroseis
Etymology: Apparently originally coined by Conoco, from vibro- + seismic.
Senses: glosses: A method of propagating signals into the ground (as a seismic survey, for oil).
Related terms: thumper
thumper truck
alpheid shrimp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alpheid shrimps
form: alpheid shrimp
Senses: glosses: A pistol shrimp (Alpheidae).
alpheid shrimps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alpheid shrimp
snapping shrimp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snapping shrimps
form: snapping shrimp
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pistol shrimp.
synonyms: word: pistol shrimp
Derived terms: teppo snapping shrimp
snapping shrimps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snapping shrimp
pistol shrimp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pistol shrimps
form: pistol shrimp
Etymology: The snapping claw is reminiscent of a pistol.
Senses: glosses: A shrimp (Alpheidae) which has asymmetrical claws, the larger of which can be used to produce a loud snapping sound and shockwave that can stun or kill its prey.
Synonyms: alpheid
alpheid shrimp
snapping shrimp
Related terms: caridean
pistol shrimps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pistol shrimp
caridean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carideans
Etymology: Caridea + -an
Senses: glosses: Any shrimp of the infraorder Caridea.
mantis shrimp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mantis shrimps
form: mantis shrimp
Senses: glosses: A stomatopod, a marine crustacean of the order Stomatopoda, with powerful claws and a carapace which covers only the rear part of the head and part of the thorax.
Synonyms: word: prawn killer
word: thumb splitter
Hyponyms: clown mantis shrimp
harlequin mantis shrimp
painted mantis shrimp
peacock mantis shrimp
rainbow mantis shrimp
carideans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caridean
mantis shrimps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mantis shrimp
antiribonucleoprotein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiribonucleoproteins
Etymology: From anti- + ribonucleoprotein.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: An autoantibody associated with mixed connective tissue disease.
Sharp's syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after G. C. Sharp, who wrote about it in the 1970s.
Senses: glosses: mixed connective tissue disease
antiribonucleoproteins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiribonucleoprotein
antirightist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antirightists
Etymology: From anti- + rightist.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Anti-Rightist Movement, a Chinese movement of the late 1950s involving a series of campaigns to purge alleged "rightists" (those intellectuals who appeared to favour capitalism and were against collectivization) within the Communist Party of China and abroad.
Related terms: antirightism
antirightists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antirightist
antichatter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + chatter.
Senses: glosses: Preventing chatter noise in a mechanism.
antisquawk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + squawk.
Senses: glosses: Preventing noise in a mechanism.
Related terms: antichatter
antireplay
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + replay.
Senses: qualifier: computer security
glosses: Preventing replay attacks.
antigoat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + goat.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Reacting with the immunoglobins found in goats.
raw_tags: of an antibody
antimonkey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + monkey.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Reacting with the immunoglobins found in monkeys.
raw_tags: of an antibody
antishrink
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + shrink.
Senses: examples: text: an antishrink finish for wool
glosses: Resistant to shrinkage.
Synonyms: antishrinkage
antishrinking
hydrophilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydrophilize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of making something hydrophilic.
hydrophilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hydrophilizes
form: hydrophilizing
form: hydrophilized
form: hydrophilized
Etymology: From hydrophile + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make hydrophilic.
Derived terms: hydrophilization
hydrophilized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hydrophilize
hydrophilizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hydrophilize
hydrophilizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hydrophilize
antishrinkage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + shrinkage.
Senses: glosses: antishrink
antishrinking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + shrinking.
Senses: glosses: antishrink
antifelt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + felt.
Senses: examples: an antifelt finish for wool
glosses: Preventing felting.
antifelting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + felting.
Senses: examples: an antifelting finish for wool
glosses: Preventing felting
antidonkey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + donkey.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Reacting with the immunoglobins found in donkeys.
raw_tags: of an antibody
antibuffalo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + buffalo.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Reacting with the immunoglobins found in buffalo.
raw_tags: of an antibody
anticow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + cow.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Reacting with the immunoglobins found in cows.
raw_tags: of an antibody
anticattle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + cattle.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Reacting with the immunoglobins found in cattle.
raw_tags: of an antibody
anticompensation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticompensation
form: most anticompensation
Etymology: From anti- + compensation.
Senses: examples: text: The air traffic controllers, however, evinced little interest in an anticompensation view. They did not want change; they wanted money.
ref: 1988, Sylvia Noble Tesh, Hidden Arguments: Political Ideology and Disease Prevention Policy, page 109:
glosses: Opposing compensation.
antimoralism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + moralism.
Senses: glosses: Opposition to moralism.
antimoralist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antimoralists
Etymology: From anti- + moralist.
Senses: glosses: One who opposes moralism.
antimoralists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antimoralist
antimoralistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antimoralistic
form: most antimoralistic
Etymology: From anti- + moralistic.
Senses: glosses: Opposing moralism.
antiamendment
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiamendment
form: most antiamendment
Etymology: From anti- + amendment.
Senses: glosses: Opposing an amendment.
antiholistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiholistic
form: most antiholistic
Etymology: From anti- + holistic.
Senses: glosses: Opposing holism.
antiholism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + holism.
Senses: glosses: Opposition to holism.
antiemotionalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + emotionalism.
Senses: glosses: Opposition to emotionalism.
antizymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antizyme
antiessentialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + essentialism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Opposition to essentialism.
antiexperimentalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + experimentalism.
Senses: glosses: Opposition to experimentalism.
antineuronal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antineuronal
form: most antineuronal
Etymology: From anti- + neuronal.
Senses: examples: text: antineuronal antibodies
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Acting against neurons.
antibounce
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + bounce.
Senses: examples: text: Taking care of the ups and downs of railroad travel are these two vertically mounted, hydraulically operated antibounce units.
ref: 1947 November, Popular Science, volume 151, number 5, page 141:
glosses: Preventing bouncing.
antiboom
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + boom.
Senses: examples: text: Any real antiboom actions must be taken this year.
ref: 1955, Moody's stock survey, volume 47, page 470:
glosses: Countering an economic boom.
antiempiricism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + empiricism.
Senses: glosses: Opposition to empiricism.
antiempiricist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiempiricists
Etymology: From anti- + empiricist.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: One who opposes empiricism.
antiempiricists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiempiricist
clickthru
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clickthrus
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of click-through.
clickthrus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clickthru
newvamped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of newvamp
meiny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meinies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of meinie.
meinies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meinie
glosses: plural of meiny
bullionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bullion + -ism.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: An economic theory that defines wealth by the amount of precious metals owned; a primitive form of mercantilism.
Related terms: bullionist
antibullionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antibullionists
Etymology: From anti- + bullionist.
Senses: glosses: One who rejects bullionism.
antibullionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antibullionist
Markovnikov's rule
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Markovnikov rule
form: Markownikoff's rule
Etymology: The rule was formulated by the Russian chemist Vladimir Vasilevich Markovnikov in 1870.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A rule describing the outcome of certain addition reactions in organic chemistry.
Related terms: anti-Markovnikov
continencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of continency
coastguarding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From coast + guarding or coastguard + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The work of a coastguard.
Kievite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Kiev + -ite, from Russian Ки́ев (Kíjev).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kyivite.
Kievite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kievites
Etymology: From Kiev + -ite, from Russian Ки́ев (Kíjev).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kyivite.
Kievites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kievite
treadest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: tread + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of tread
catamorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to catamorphism.
lautering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lauter + -ing.
Senses: topics: beverages
brewing
business
food
lifestyle
manufacturing
glosses: The step or process in brewing beer which separates the mash into clear liquid wort and grain.
lautering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From lauter + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lauter
Synonyms: sparging
Related terms: mashout
recirculation
lautered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lauter
lauters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lauter
mashout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: beverages
brewing
business
food
lifestyle
manufacturing
glosses: The step or process, in brewing beer, of raising the mash (e.g. by adding hot water to it) to a temperature around 75 °C or 170 °F, so as to stop the enzymatic conversion of starch to fermentable sugar and make the mash and wort more fluid.
Related terms: lautering
sparging
vibrographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vibrograph
scurry away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scurries away
form: scurrying away
form: scurried away
form: scurried away
form: skurry away
Senses: glosses: To run away, especially fearfully.
Bell shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bell shots
Etymology: After Walter "Karamojo" Bell, a Scottish big game hunter.
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A shot at an animal's head taken diagonally from behind.
Related terms: Texas heart shot
semisupervised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + supervised.
Senses: examples: semisupervised learning
glosses: Under a limited amount of supervision.
Niflheim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old Norse Niflheimr (literally “world of mist”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *nibilaz (“dark, misty”), from *nebulaz (“fog, mist, darkness”) + *haimaz (“home, house, village”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: In Germanic and Norse cosmology, the Norse underworld, location of the domain Hel and of the realm of Hel, the goddess of the dead.
Coordinate terms: sense: The Nine Realms
word: Álfheimr
sense: The Nine Realms
word: Asgard
sense: The Nine Realms
word: Jötunheimr
sense: The Nine Realms
word: Midgard
sense: The Nine Realms
word: Múspellsheimr
sense: The Nine Realms
word: Niðavellir
sense: The Nine Realms
word: Svartálfaheimr
sense: The Nine Realms
word: Vanaheimr
claybank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: claybanks
Etymology: From clay + bank.
Senses: examples: text: Reverdy made one action of throwing his leg over the claybank’s back to the ground, and slipping the bridle over the smooth peg left from the limb of the young tree-trunk which formed one of the posts of the porch.
ref: 1916, William Dean Howells, chapter I, in The Leatherwood God:
glosses: A dun-coloured horse.
examples: text: I took Señorita Anabela for a walk in the lemon grove while Fergus, disfiguring himself with an ugly frown, was waltzing with the claybank girl.
ref: 1909 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “‘Next to Reading Matter’”, in Roads of Destiny, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 82:
glosses: Dun; brownish-yellow.
inbear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inbears
form: inbearing
form: inbore
form: inborne
Etymology: From Middle English inberen, from Old English inberan (“to carry in, bring in”); equivalent to in- + bear. Doublet of infer.
Senses: examples: text: [...] and in part imputeth it, that the river Rother is not contained in its channel, and so loseth its force to carry away the seas and beach, which the sea doth inbear into the haven.
ref: 1829, Sir David Brewster, The Edinburgh journal of science - Volume 10 - Page 63:
text: And here to one long thought-delivered ease Be ours now to fling back unfurrowed brow, Rose-cinctured, to the need of drowsy eyes, Which ope but to the presence of some stir More musical, of breezes that inbear As 'twere one last word from the tranced West.
ref: 1905, Arthur Lewis, Days of old Rome - Page 54:
text: The servitors of Hari are Forever highly fortunate In their unflinching faith and great Thirst for the Lord that they inbear.
ref: 1961, G.A. Natesan, The Indian review - Volume 62 - Page 79:
glosses: To carry in; bring in; furnish; provide; supply; put forth.
Derived terms: inbearing
inborne
vanda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vandas
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any orchid of the genus Vanda.
Derived terms: blue vanda
heteroflexibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hetero- + flexibility.
Senses: examples: text: Essig divides society into the categories of heteroflexibility and heterorigidity and homoflexibility and homorigidity.
ref: 2002, Robert Goss, Queering Christ: Beyond Jesus Acted Up, Pilgrim Press, →ISBN, page 232:
text: The L Word banks on heteroflexibility as well as queer equivocation, through its cultivation of the touristic gaze, a gaze which immersed, identifies with, and distanced, desires.
ref: 2007, Candace Moore, “Getting Wet: The Heteroflexibility of Showtime's The L Word”, in Merri Lisa Johnson, editor, Third Wave Feminism and Television: Jane Puts It in a Box, I. B. Tauris & Co., →ISBN, page 142:
text: It was unclear if the blatant display of her body was meant as a sexual advance or some other expression of heteroflexibility or homosociality.
ref: 2013, Heidi Hoefinger, Sex, Love and Money in Cambodia: Professional Girlfriends and Transactional Relationships, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: The state of being heteroflexible.
normopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: normopathies
Etymology: From normo- + -pathy.
Senses: glosses: The pursuit of conformity and societal acceptance at the expense of individuality.
Related terms: normotic
normopath
normopathic
normopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of normopathy
spirobacteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spirobacterium
spirobacterium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spirobacteria
Etymology: From spiro- + bacterium.
Senses: topics: bacteriology
biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any bacterium found in spiral filaments, such as the genus Vibrio.
brandlin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brandlins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of branlin.
glosses: Alternative form of brandling.
brandlins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brandlin
antisubrogation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antisubrogation
form: most antisubrogation
Etymology: From anti- + subrogation.
Senses: glosses: Opposing or preventing subrogation.
antimagnate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antimagnate
form: most antimagnate
Etymology: From anti- + magnate.
Senses: examples: the families penalized in the Florentine antimagnate ordinances of justice
glosses: Opposing magnates.
buckwheat coal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buckwheat coals
Senses: glosses: small-sized anthracite coal
buckwheat cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buckwheat cakes
Senses: examples: text: There's buckwheat cakes and Injun batter,
Makes you fat or a little fatter;
ref: 1850s, Dixie
glosses: A pancake made using buckwheat flour.
buckwheat cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buckwheat cake
buckwheat coals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buckwheat coal
antimonastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antimonastic
form: most antimonastic
Etymology: From anti- + monastic.
Senses: examples: an antimonastic satire
glosses: Opposing monks or monasteries.
antisaloon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antisaloon
form: most antisaloon
Etymology: From anti- + saloon.
Senses: glosses: Opposing saloons (as places where alcohol is sold and drunk).
lf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lvs
form: LF
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of leaf.
lf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: LF
Senses: examples: text: what are you lf, friend?
glosses: Initialism of looking for.
real socialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: real-socialism
Etymology: A calque of German Realsozialismus, from real (“real-world, practical, non-idealistic”) + Sozialismus (“socialism”), q.v., with influence from English real (“actual, nonimaginary”).
Senses: glosses: pragmatic socialism, practical socialism, a form of socialism which attempts to reach tangible goals perceived to be feasible instead of primarily focusing on adherence to Marxist-Leninist theory.
Infernet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
dim sim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dim sims
Etymology: Alteration of dim sum.
Senses: examples: text: For the defence, James Harris, of Northcote, said he had put a bottle of beer in his hip pocket at home, and went to the cafe to buy some dim-sims.
ref: 1925 July 23, The Age, Melbourne, page 14, column 4:
text: On the walls about were the hieroglyphic markings of the craft. Across this scene wafted the pungent fragrance of chop suey, dim sims and other delicacies in course of preparation for the funeral feast.
ref: 1926 December 16, The Telegraph, Brisbane, page 20, column 7:
text: No Chinese meal is complete without some succulent dim sims (pork minced with water chestnuts and enclosed in paste), and such sweets as honeyed lychee nuts and honeyed ginger.
ref: 1928 October 13, The Argus, Melbourne, page 2, column 7:
text: There was feasting and joy from Shanghai to the Wall,
What with dim-sims, chop-suey and crackers and all,
And the donor of these, by the hook of my crook.
Was Chiang Ki-Konglong, the Mandarin Cook.
ref: 1929 February 10, The Sunday Times, Sydney, page 26, column 7:
text: One night my husband twisted my arms behind my back and said he had seen me in Bourke street with a Chinaman, eating dim sims.
ref: 1930 April 11, The Brunswick and Coburg Gazette, Moonee Ponds, Vic, page 1, column 4:
synonyms: word: dimmie
glosses: Any of various kinds of Chinese-style meat and cabbage dumplings, similar to shumai and other dim sum and usually steamed or deep fried. Commonly offered by Chinese restaurants and fish-and-chip shops.