cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
saccadic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ædɪk
Forms: form: more saccadic
form: most saccadic
Etymology: From saccade + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to saccade.
glosses: Relating to saccade.
Characterized by discontinuous or sporadic movement; jerky.
Derived terms: antisaccadic
intersaccadic
intrasaccadic
macrosaccadic
perisaccadic
postsaccadic
presaccadic
prosaccadic
saccadically
saccadic masking
saccadic movement
transsaccadic
Related terms: saccade
saccade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈkɑːd/
rhymes: -ɑːd
Forms: form: saccades
Etymology: From French saccade.
Senses: glosses: A sudden jerking movement.
examples: text: He added the bill with a single saccade of his pulsing eyes.
ref: 1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:
text: Then 130 milliseconds or thousandths of a second later, each made a "saccade" - an extremely fast eye movement - to roughly where the ball was likely to bounce.
ref: 2000 November 21, Tim Radford, The Guardian:
text: He paused, looking at me intently, his black-flecked eyes scanning my face in quick saccades.
ref: 2019, Ian McEwan, Machines Like Me, Jonathan Cape, page 23:
glosses: A rapid jerky movement of the eye (voluntary or involuntary) from one focus to another.
glosses: The act of checking a horse quickly with a single strong pull of the reins.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The sounding of two violin strings together by using a sudden strong pressure of the bow.
Derived terms: antisaccade
intersaccade
microsaccade
presaccade
prosaccade
saccadic
saccadically
saccadization
saccadometer
saccadometric
saccadometry
saccade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈkɑːd/
rhymes: -ɑːd
Forms: form: saccades
form: saccading
form: saccaded
form: saccaded
Etymology: From French saccade.
Senses: glosses: To make a rapid jerking movement to focus elsewhere.
raw_tags: of the eye
Related terms: eyetracking
scanpath
Sambo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæmboʊ/
Forms: form: Sambos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish zambo.
Senses: glosses: A black person, especially one who is accommodating or servile towards whites; an Uncle Tom.
glosses: A person of three quarters African descent and one quarter Caucasian descent.
Coordinate terms: sense: person of mixed race
word: list in mulatto
Derived terms: Samboism
Sambo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæmboʊ/
Etymology: From the given names.
Senses: glosses: A nickname from the given name Samuel.
glosses: A nickname from the given name Samantha.
Zambo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Sambo.
glosses: Clipping of Zamboanga
glosses: Clipping of Zamboanga City
Zambo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zambos
Senses: glosses: A person with African and Native American/indigenous heritage; Afro-Indian.
Spello
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and comune in the province of Perugia, Umbria, Italy.
strangler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹæŋɡ(ə)lə/
Forms: form: stranglers
Etymology: From strangle + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who strangles, especially who murders by strangling.
glosses: An epiphyte whose aerial roots eventually strangle the tree on which it grows.
Derived terms: frog-strangler
toad-strangler
strangler fig
mince words
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭns′ wûrdz′
ipa: /ˌmɪns ˈwɜːdz/
ipa: /ˌmɪns ˈwɜɹdz/
ipa: /ˌməns ˈwøːdz/
ipa: /ˌmɪns ˈwʌɹdz/
ipa: /ˌmɪns ˈwəːʳɖz/
Forms: form: minces words
form: mincing words
form: minced words
form: minced words
form: mince one's words
form: mince matters
Etymology: From mince (“to say or utter vaguely (not directly or frankly)”, transitive figurative verb) + words. First attested in the mid-1500s.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: pull punches
For quotations using this term, see Citations:mince words.
synonyms: mince matters
glosses: To restrain oneself when speaking by withholding some comments or using euphemisms in order to be polite, tactful, etc.
raw_tags: in the negative
Related terms: minced oath
mince matters
word-mincer
make no bones about
weigh one's words
stagnation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stæɡˈneɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: stagnations
Etymology: From Latin stagnatus, past participle of stāgnō (“to stagnate”), from stāgnum (“standing water”).
Senses: examples: text: The general concern about industrial stagnation inspired an overhaul of the patent system.
glosses: Inactivity.
examples: text: Factors known to encourage the growth of harmful bacteria inside cooling systems include the stagnation of the water.
glosses: The state of being stagnant, without circulation.
Derived terms: stagflation
stagnation point
brats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: brăts
ipa: /bɹæts/
rhymes: -æts
Senses: glosses: plural of brat
brats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: brăts
ipa: /bɹæts/
rhymes: -æts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brat
Related terms: sense: Appendix
word: Collective nouns
Angelina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌænd͡ʒəˈliːnə/
rhymes: -iːnə
Forms: form: Angelinas
Senses: examples: text: What happened to Angelina Resendiz is a mystery, but her mother wants to get to the bottom of it.
ref: 2025 June 13, Rosa Flores, “Missing Navy sailor found dead in Virginia, another sailor in custody”, in CNN:
coordinate_terms: Angeline
Angelyne
Angelyna
Angelyn
Angelynn
Angelynne
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek, an Italian diminutive of Angela.
glosses: Ellipsis of Angelina County.
glosses: Ellipsis of Asteroid Angelina, 64 Angelina.
Derived terms: Angelina County
Angelina Jolie gene
Angelina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌænd͡ʒəˈliːnə/
rhymes: -iːnə
Forms: form: Angelinas
Senses: examples: text: He had a plug of tobacco fixed firmly in his left cheek and talked around it in fluent hobo slang. "You Angelinas lookin' to catch a blind?" he said as Violet and Myrtle stood on the platform in Penn Station[…]
ref: 2009, Karen Schwabach, The Hope Chest, page 50:
text: You'll like yourself better for it in the end, and when the next optimistic “Angelina” saunters in fresh from the rails looking for some work, he may benefit from your good conduct.
ref: 2011, Josh Mack, The Hobo Handbook:
glosses: A young, inexperienced hobo (of either gender).
glosses: A female denizen of Los Angeles. Alternative form of Angelena (“a female resident of Los Angeles”); feminine of Angelino (“a male resident of Los Angeles”); Synonym of Angelino/Angeleno (“a resident of Los Angeles of either gender”);
enemy combatant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enemy combatants
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see enemy, combatant.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Any person in an armed conflict who may be properly detained under the laws and customs of war.
Synonyms: EC
queer as a clockwork orange
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Cockney phrase from East London indicating something bizarre internally, but appearing natural and normal on the surface. Author Anthony Burgess appropriated the phrase for the title of his novella A Clockwork Orange.
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Strange, odd, unusual.
examples: text: He sauntered the flunkied restaurant, queer /As a clockwork orange and not scared. /God, I was grateful for the nights we shared.
ref: 1997, Tony Harrison, quoted in Sandie Byrne's introduction to Tony Harrison: Loiner (ed Sandie Byrne, 1997)
qualifier: simile
glosses: Unusually camp, unusually homosexual.
Synonyms: sense: both senses
word: queer as a coot
sense: both senses
word: queer as a nine bob note
sense: both senses
word: queer as a three dollar bill
achar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: achars
form: achaar
form: achara
Etymology: From Hindustani اچار / अचार (acār), from Classical Persian آچار (āčār).
Senses: glosses: A spicy and salty pickle in Indian cuisine.
phonemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈniː.mɪk/
ipa: /fəʊˈniː.mɪk/
ipa: /fəˈni.mɪk/
ipa: /foʊˈni.mɪk/
rhymes: -iːmɪk
Forms: form: phonematic
Etymology: From phoneme + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: We've finished our phonemic analysis and we're ready to move on to morphology.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Relating to phonemes.
examples: text: Tone is phonemic in Chinese.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Relating to a difference between sounds that can change the meaning of words in a language.
examples: text: Spanish orthography is highly phonemic: you can tell exactly how the words sound just by looking at how they are spelled.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Corresponding precisely and consistently with the phonemes.
raw_tags: of an orthography [writing system]
Derived terms: biphonemic
monophonemic
morphophonemic
multiphonemic
nonphonemic
phonemically
phonemicist
phonemicize
phonemic merger
phonemic split
polyphonemic
prephonemic
subphonemic
triphonemic
unphonemic
Related terms: word: emic
word: etic
word: phoneme
word: phonemicity
word: phonemicness
word: phonemics
word: phonetic
word: phonology
acharya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acharyas
Etymology: From Sanskrit आचार (ācāra, “Practice and Discipline”) Sanskrit आर्य (ārya, “Virtuous and Reverend”) Sanskrit आचार्य (ācārya, “Practitioner and Teacher”). Doublet of ajari.
Senses: glosses: an individual who practices or is knowledgeable on any of the prevalent disciplines of customs, learning, rituals, arts, traditions, schools etc., especially one imparting them into pupils.
glosses: a scholar, practitioner, professional, specialist, disciplinarian imparting knowledge.
Related terms: female equivalent acharyani
signet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪɡ.nɪt/
homophone: cygnet
Forms: form: signets
Etymology: From Old French signet (“small seal”), from Medieval Latin signētum, diminutive of Latin signum (“sign”).
Senses: examples: text: I had my fathers Signet in my Purse, / Which was the Modell of that Danish Seale:
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
text: To carry pure death in an earring, a casket,
A signet, a fan-mount, a filigree basket!
ref: 1844, Robert Browning, The Laboratory:
glosses: An object (especially a ring) formerly used to impress a picture into the sealing wax of a document as a proof of its origin.
Derived terms: signet ring
Related terms: seal
signal
signature
siglum
sealing wax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sēlʹĭng wăks'
ipa: /ˈsiːlɪŋ ˌwæks/
Forms: form: sealing waxes
form: sealing-wax
Senses: glosses: Wax formerly melted onto a letter to seal it; the picture of the sender's seal was often pressed into the wax as evidence that the letter had not been opened.
Derived terms: sealing-wax red
Related terms: signet
signet ring
hagiographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhæɡiˈɑɡɹəfɚ/
ipa: /ˌheɪɡi-/
ipa: /ˌheɪd͡ʒi-/
ipa: /ˌhæɡiˈɒɡɹəfə/
Forms: form: hagiographers
Etymology: From hagiography + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who writes the biography of a saint.
glosses: Someone who writes in an excessively flattering and laudatory way about a person (as if that person were a saint).
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: A writer of any of the Hagiographa․
Related terms: hagiography
habiliment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈbɪlɪmənt/
Forms: form: habiliments
form: abiliment
Etymology: From Middle English habilement, from Old French habillement (“clothes”).
Senses: examples: text: Forth came that auncient Lord and aged Queene, / Arayd in antique robes downe to the ground, / And sad habiliments right well beseene; / A noble crew about them waited round / Of sage and sober Peres, all gravely gownd; / Whom farre before did march a goodly band / Of tall young men,° all hable armes to sownd, / But now they laurell braunches bore in hand; / Glad signe of victorie and peace in all their land.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 5:
text: She / In th' habiliments of the goddess Isis / That day appeared, and oft before gave audience […]
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vi]:
text: […] Mrs Crummles was then occupied in exchanging the habiliments of a melodramatic empress for the ordinary attire of matrons in the nineteenth century.
ref: 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC:
text: Her maid having a taste in dressmaking—to which art she had been an apprentice at Paris, before she entered into Miss Blanche’s service there—was kept from morning till night altering and remodelling Miss Amory’s habiliments; and rose very early and went to bed very late, in obedience to the untiring caprices of her little taskmistress.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter XXIV, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: Bananas with their great ragged leaves, like the tattered habiliments of an empress in adversity, grew close up to the house.
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter LII, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
glosses: Clothes, especially clothing appropriate for someone's job, status, or to an occasion.
glosses: Equipment or furnishings characteristic of a place or being; trappings.
Derived terms: habilimented
hairline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛɹˌlaɪn/
Forms: form: hairlines
Etymology: From hair + line.
Senses: examples: text: It's just a receding hairline — it's not like you're going bald.
text: Using a Danish technique, doctors can now insert plugs of just one or two hairs in front of an implanted area to simulate a natural hairline.
ref: 1984 May 28, Claudia Wallis, “Gone Today, but Hair Tomorrow”, in Time:
glosses: The line along one's forehead where hair starts growing.
glosses: A very thin line in writing, drawing, or typography.
examples: text: While inspecting the new house, we found a few hairlines in one of the walls.
text: Yup, you got a crack in it [the cylinder head] all right. Just a hairline, but that damn thing is gonna cause a big headache later.
ref: 2012, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge, page 102:
glosses: A very thin line in writing, drawing, or typography.
A very thin fissure.
glosses: A fishing line made from hair.
Derived terms: hairlined
hairlining
hairline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛɹˌlaɪn/
Etymology: From hair + line.
Senses: examples: text: There was a hairline crack in the airplane's wing.
glosses: Very thin, as thin as a hair.
smack dab
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of smack-dab.
splatter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsplætɚ/
rhymes: -ætə(ɹ)
Forms: form: splatters
Etymology: Uncertain. Emerged 1780s.https://www.etymonline.com/word/splatter Possibly a blend of splash + spatter.
Senses: examples: text: He had a hard time cleaning up the paint splatters on the carpet.
glosses: An uneven shape or mess created by something dispersing on impact.
examples: text: splatter film; splatter movie
glosses: A genre of gory horror.
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: Spurious emissions resulting from an abrupt change in a transmitted radio signal.
Derived terms: splatter-gun
splatter platter
splatter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsplætɚ/
rhymes: -ætə(ɹ)
Forms: form: splatters
form: splattering
form: splattered
form: splattered
Etymology: Uncertain. Emerged 1780s.https://www.etymonline.com/word/splatter Possibly a blend of splash + spatter.
Senses: examples: text: The drink splattered all over me, the table, and the floor when I knocked it over.
glosses: To splash; to scatter; to land or strike in an uneven, distributed mess.
examples: text: He splattered paint onto the wall.
glosses: To cause (something) to splatter.
examples: text: Her wet hands […] splattered him with suds.
ref: 2012, Kimberly J. Heide, Doors of Promise, page 100:
glosses: To spatter (something or somebody).
hackles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhækəlz/
Senses: glosses: plural of hackle
Related terms: raise someone's hackles
hallow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æləʊ
ipa: /ˈhæləʊ/
ipa: /ˈhæloʊ/
rhymes: -ɒləʊ
ipa: /ˈhɑloʊ/
homophone: hollow (father-bother merger)
Forms: form: hallows
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English halwe (“a saint, holy thing, shrine”), from Old English hālga (“a holy one, saint”), from Proto-Germanic *hailagô (“holy one”), from *hailagaz (“holy”), from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, safe, hale”), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos (“safe, unharmed”). Cognate with Scots halow, hallow (“saint”), German Heiliger (“saint (male)”) / Heilige (“saint (female)”). More at holy, whole.
Senses: examples: All Hallows Eve (or Halloween), the night before All Hallows Day (now more commonly known as "All Saints' Day").
qualifier: obsolete outside set phrases
glosses: A saint; a holy person; an apostle.
examples: To seek hallows: to visit relics or shrines, in the belief that the saints themselves are present there.
glosses: The relics or shrines of saints or non-Christian gods.
Derived terms: All Hallows
All Hallows' Eve
Hallow-day
hallowdom
hallowed
Halloween
Hallow-eve
Hallow-fair
Hallowmas
Hallowmass
Hallow-tide
Reedley Hallows
hallow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æləʊ
ipa: /ˈhæləʊ/
ipa: /ˈhæloʊ/
rhymes: -ɒləʊ
ipa: /ˈhɑloʊ/
homophone: hollow (father-bother merger)
Forms: form: hallows
form: hallowing
form: hallowed
form: hallowed
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English halwen (“to hallow, sanctify”), from Old English hālgian (“to hallow, sanctify, make holy”), from Proto-Germanic *hailagōną (“to make holy”), from *hailagaz (“holy”), from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, safe, hale”), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos (“safe, unharmed”). Cognate with Dutch heiligen (“to hallow”), German heiligen (“to hallow”). More at holy.
Senses: examples: text: […]I am coming on, to venge me as I may and to put forth my rightful hand in a well-hallow'd cause.
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: Come hallow the goblet with something more true / Than words we forget in a minute.
ref: 1847, Charles Swain, Dramatic Chapters: Poems and Songs, D. Bogue, page 324:
glosses: To make holy, to sanctify.
Derived terms: behallow
dishallow
hallowed
hallower
overhallow
rehallow
unhallow
hallow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æləʊ
ipa: /ˈhæləʊ/
ipa: /ˈhæloʊ/
rhymes: -ɒləʊ
ipa: /ˈhɑloʊ/
homophone: hollow (father-bother merger)
Forms: form: hallows
form: hallowing
form: hallowed
form: hallowed
form: halow
form: alow
form: a lo
form: hallo
form: hollo
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English halowen, from halow (interjection), from Old English ēalā (“O!, alas!, oh!, lo!”, interjection), probably conflated with Old French halloer.
Senses: examples: text: […] for the conversation (if it may be called so) was seldom such as could entertain a lady. It consisted chiefly of hallowing, singing, relations of sporting adventures, b—d—y, and abuse of women, and of the government.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter IV, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume III, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VII:
glosses: To shout, especially to urge on dogs for hunting.
hallow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æləʊ
ipa: /ˈhæləʊ/
ipa: /ˈhæloʊ/
rhymes: -ɒləʊ
ipa: /ˈhɑloʊ/
homophone: hollow (father-bother merger)
Forms: form: hallows
form: halow
form: alow
form: a lo
form: hallo
form: hollo
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English halowen, from halow (interjection), from Old English ēalā (“O!, alas!, oh!, lo!”, interjection), probably conflated with Old French halloer.
Senses: examples: text: Then away they went from merry Sherwood / And into Yorkshire he did hie / And the King did follow, with a hoop and a hallow / But could not come him nigh.
ref: 1777, Robin Hood's Chase, reprinted in 2003, Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Courier Dover Publications, page 206
text: I told them, the sherriff could not be admitted on board this time of night, on which they set up a hallow and rowed as fast as they could towards the vessel's bows.
ref: 1772, William Read Staples, The Documentary History of the Destruction of the Gaspee, Knowles, Vose, and Anthony, published 1845, page 14:
glosses: A shout, cry; a hulloo.
hallow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æləʊ
ipa: /ˈhæləʊ/
ipa: /ˈhæloʊ/
rhymes: -ɒləʊ
ipa: /ˈhɑloʊ/
homophone: hollow (father-bother merger)
Forms: form: more hallow
form: most hallow
Senses: examples: text: If the sun were a hallow sphere of its present size and the earth were placed at the center[...]. Such a hallow sphere would hold more than a million balls the size of the earth.
ref: 1902, National Council of Geography Teachers (U.S.), The Journal of Geography, National Council for Geographic Education, page 93:
text: But it was not a hallow victory.
ref: 2003, George A. Lyall, To a Different Drummer: A Family's Story, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 208:
glosses: Alternative spelling of hollow.
Derived terms: hallowly
abat-jour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abat-jours
Etymology: From French abattre jour (any contrivance or apparatus to admit light, or to throw it in a desired direction, as a lamp-shade).
Senses: glosses: A skylight, or any beveled aperture made in the wall of an apartment or in a roof, for the better admission of light from above.
glosses: A sloping, box-like structure, flaring upward and open at the top, attached to a window on the outside, to prevent those within from seeing objects below, or for the purpose of directing light downward into the window.
Schwendeman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schwendemans
Etymology: Variant of German Schwendemann, a topographic or habitational surname for someone who lived in a forest clearing, or in a place called Schwende.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
spermatoblastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æstɪk
Etymology: From spermatoblast + -ic.
Senses: glosses: of or relating to a spermatoblast
spermatoblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spermatoblasts
Etymology: From spermato- + -blast.
Senses: examples: text: It does not, however, happen that the whole spermatosphere is converted into spermatoblasts; there remains a passive portion, which in the earthworm occupies a central position; this is the "sperm-blasophore," or "blastophoral cell."
ref: 1880, Journal of Microscopy, volume 3:
glosses: A spermatocyte.
spermatogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛnɪk
Etymology: From spermato- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: of or relating to spermatogenesis
sphenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːnɪk
Forms: form: more sphenic
form: most sphenic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σφήν (sphḗn, “wedge”), + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Shaped like a wedge.
Derived terms: sphenic number
sphenic number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sphenic numbers
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A positive integer that is the product of three distinct prime factors.
stringently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stringently
form: most stringently
Etymology: From stringent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a stringent manner
passim
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæsɪm/
Etymology: From the Latin passim (“here and there, everywhere”).
Senses: examples: text: The sceptics assert [Sext. Emp. adversus Math. lib. viii.], though absurdly, that the origin of all religious worship was derived from the utility of inanimate objects, as the sun and moon, to the support and well-being of mankind. This is also the common reason assigned by historians, for the deification of eminent heroes and legislators [Diod. Sic. passim.].
ref: 1751, David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals:
text: See also Hearings on H.R.8825 before the House Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries, 70th Cong., 1st Sess., passim (1928).
ref: 1978, Supreme Court of the United States, F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation:
glosses: Throughout (used in citations to indicate that something, as a word, phrase, or idea, is to be found at many places throughout the work cited).
passim
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæsɪm/
Etymology: From the Latin passim (“here and there, everywhere”).
Senses: examples: text: In these passim allusions one often ‘nods’.
ref: 1895, J. Marshall, Westminster Gazette, 4, September 2/3:
glosses: That occurs at various places throughout a text
Related terms: et passim
sic passim
democrat wagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: democrat wagons
form: Democrat wagon
Senses: glosses: A light flatbed farm wagon or ranch wagon that has two or more seats and is usually drawn by one or sometimes two horses.
Synonyms: cracky wagon
bastard pimpernel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: chaffweed.
false pimpernel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false pimpernels
Senses: glosses: The chaffweed (Centunculus minimus).
glosses: A type of figwort (Lindernia dubia), found in wet or muddy places.
chaffweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chaffweeds
Etymology: From chaff + weed.
Senses: glosses: A low glabrous weedy branching herb (Centunculus minimus) of the family Primulaceae, having short dry chaff-like leaves.
Synonyms: bastard pimpernel
false pimpernel
USAF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of United States Air Force.
Synonyms: Air Force
United States Air Force
Coordinate terms: english: United States Army Air Service
translation: United States Army Air Service
word: USAAS
english: United States Army Air Corps
translation: United States Army Air Corps
word: USAAC
english: United States Army Air Force
translation: United States Army Air Force
word: USAAF
english: United States Coast Guard
translation: United States Coast Guard
word: USCG
word: USN
english: United States Army
translation: United States Army
word: USA
english: United States Marine Corps
translation: United States Marine Corps
word: USMC
word: USSF
USN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: Initialism of United States Navy.
Synonyms: navy
United States Navy
Coordinate terms: word: Continental Navy
english: United States Air Force
translation: United States Air Force
word: USAF
english: United States Army
translation: United States Army
word: USA
english: United States Marine Corps
translation: United States Marine Corps
word: USMC
USN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: USNs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: Microsoft Windows
glosses: Initialism of update sequence number.
USMC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of United States Marine Corps.
Synonyms: United States Marine Corps
Marine Corps
Marines
Coordinate terms: english: United States Air Force
translation: United States Air Force
word: USAF
english: United States Army
translation: United States Army
word: USA
word: USN
USCG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of United States Coast Guard.
Related terms: USCGC
suckle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌk.əl/
rhymes: -ʌkəl
Forms: form: suckles
Etymology: From Middle English sukelen; probably a back-formation of Middle English sukeling (“a suckling; infant”), formally equivalent to suck + -le (frequentative suffix). See suckling.
Senses: examples: text: […] the body of this fish [the Mannatee] is commonly 3 yards long and one broad, slow in swimming, wanting fins, in their place ayded with 2 paps which are not only suckles but stilts to creep a shoare upon such time she grazes […]
ref: 1638, Thomas Herbert, “Travels begun Anno 1626”, in Some yeares travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique, London: Jacob Blome and Richard Bishop, Book 1, p. 26:
glosses: A teat.
examples: text: The baby was having a suckle at its mother's breast.
glosses: An act of suckling
suckle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌk.əl/
rhymes: -ʌkəl
Forms: form: suckles
form: suckling
form: suckled
form: suckled
Etymology: From Middle English sukelen; probably a back-formation of Middle English sukeling (“a suckling; infant”), formally equivalent to suck + -le (frequentative suffix). See suckling.
Senses: examples: text: […] the breasts of Hecuba
When she did suckle Hector, looked not lovelier
Than Hector’s forehead when it spit forth blood
At Grecian sword, contemning.
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
text: Let us indulge them; they are not weak, suckled by Wisdom, taught to walk by Virtue.
ref: 1824, Walter Savage Landor, “The Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume I, London: […] Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 35:
text: A relief of a goat suckling her young.
ref: 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 21:
glosses: To give suck to; to nurse at the breast, udder, or dugs.
examples: text: But out of the woman’s great brown breast the milk gushed forth for the child, milk as white as snow, and when the child suckled at one breast it flowed like a fountain from the other, and she let it flow.
ref: 1931, Pearl S. Buck, chapter 4, in The Good Earth, New York: Modern Library, published 1944, page 35:
glosses: To nurse; to suck milk from a nursing mother.
examples: text: Buz attempted to suckle his left nipple.
ref: 1982, Bernard Malamud, God’s Grace, New York: Avon, published 1983, page 60:
text: She opened her eyes slightly, like a person drugged—dreamy and quiet. The baby suckled her.
ref: 1997, Ridley Pearson, Beyond Recognition, New York: Hyperion, page 129:
glosses: To nurse from (a breast, nursing mother, etc.).
Derived terms: suckled
unsuckled
suckler
suckling
suckly
in spades
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪn ˈspeɪds/
Etymology: From the card game of bridge, in which spades is the highest suit. Perhaps influenced by phrases with similar meaning, in spadefuls or in spate.
Senses: examples: text: Last year we harvested almost no potatoes, but this year we're getting them in spades.
text: "He is three times that bad in spades," I said. "He ain't washed his socks in four months for one thing," […]
ref: 1954, Richard [Pike] Bissell, High Water (Atlantic Monthly Press Book), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, OCLC 760577; republished St. Paul, Minn.: Minnesota Historical Society, 1987, ISBN 978-0-87351-221-3, page 115
text: Character the hotel has in spades. It begins at the parking lot, where bison roam.
ref: 1993 June 23, Patricia Leigh Brown, “Yellowstone’s landmark in logs”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 28 Apr 2016:
text: This caution hurt JPMorgan's profits at the time but paid off in spades in 2009, as the bank earned $8.5 billion in the first three quarters.
ref: 2009 December 8, Justin Fox, “The top 10 everything of 2009: Top 10 best business deals: 2. JPMorgan Chase and the deals it didn't do”, in Time, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2016:
synonyms: in droves
abundantly
but good
glosses: In large quantities; to a high degree; to excess, without restraint.
glosses: Beyond doubt.
Related terms: spadeloads
Marius
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Marius, a Roman family name probably derived from Mars. By folk etymology seen as a masculine form of Maria.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Latin.
arbust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arbusts
Etymology: Likely borrowed from French arbuste.
Senses: examples: text: One afternoon, she was in her garden cutting with a knife the sprouts of a shrub taller than a man; this arbust is known by the name of bellflower.
ref: 1910, Archives of Ophthalmology, volume 39:
text: that may also contain, timber, arbusts and other plants.
ref: 2014, Laure Ducos, Importance of the traditional land-use and land-tenure systems of Waraka:
glosses: a bush, shrub
raw_tags: not attested in dictionaries
Related terms: arbustive
X Prize
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the trademarked name, X PRIZE, of one such prize.
Senses: glosses: A prize, usually a multi-million dollar monetary one, offered for a specific scientific or technological advance.
chaise longue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʃeɪz ˈlɒŋ(ɡ)/
ipa: /ˌʃeɪz ˈlɔŋ/
rhymes: -ɒŋɡ
rhymes: -ɒŋ
Forms: form: chaise longues
form: chaises longues
Etymology: Borrowed from French chaise longue (literally “long chair”).
Senses: examples: text: Hey, you, over there / On the chaise longue, in your underwear / What are you doing sitting down? / You should be horizontal now
ref: 2021, “Chaise Longue”, performed by Wet Leg:
synonyms: word: chaise lounge
english: American
translation: American
word: lit de repos
glosses: A reclining chair with a long seat, which can support the outstretched legs of a sitter normally with one armrest.
Related terms: chaise
sumach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sumachs
form: sumaches
Senses: examples: text: The Rhamnus of Maderaspatan, and the Trifoliate Sumachs from the Coaſt of Africa, are altogether new.
ref: 1693 January, Leonardi Plukenetii [i.e., Leonard Plukenet], “PHYTOGRAPHIA seu Plantæ quamplurimæ novæ & Literis huc usque incognitæ variis & remotissimis Provinciis ipsisq; Indiis allatæ Nomine & Iconibus. […]”, in Philosophical Transactions. Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours, of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of the World, volume VI, number 196, London: Printed for T. Woodward, […] and C. Davis […] printers to the Royal Society, →OCLC, page 621:
text: RHUS, […] The Sumach Tree. […] The Species are; 1. Rhus; Virginianum. C.B.P. Virginian Sumach, by ſome falſely called The Stag's-horn-tree.
ref: 1733, Philip Miller, “RHUS”, in The Gardeners Dictionary: […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: […] C[harles] Rivington, […], →OCLC, column 2:
text: Plant cutings of Myrtles in a bed of light rich earth, obſerving to water and ſhade them until they have taken root; and now you may plant cutings of […] African Sumaches, and many other exotic plants, which are ſhrubby; […]
ref: 1757, Philip Miller, “June”, in The Gardeners Kalendar; Directing what Works are Necessary to be Done Every Month in the Kitchen, Fruit, and Pleasure-gardens, as also the Conservatory and Nursery. […], 11th edition, London: Printed by Charles Rivington, for John Rivington, […]; and James Rivington and James Fletcher, […], →OCLC, page 185:
text: A young forest growing up under your windows, and wild sumachs and blackberry vines breaking through into your cellar; sturdy pitch-pines rubbing and creaking against the shingles for want of room, their roots reaching quite under the house.
ref: 1854 August 9, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “Sounds”, in Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 139:
text: They plunged into the narrow path between the tall sumach bushes, and were at once hidden in the gloom.
ref: 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXIX, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 222:
glosses: Alternative spelling of sumac.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Rhoiacarpos capensis
word: Albany sumach
alt: Colpoon compressum
word: Cape sumach
sumach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sumaches
form: sumaching
form: sumached
form: sumached
Senses: examples: text: After this operation, the goods muſt be winched and well planked, or otherwiſe cleaned; they are then, according to the quality of them, to be ſumached, and then ſnitchelled off, and waſhed.
ref: 1792, [Charles O’Brien], “Of Cleansing Goods, Previous to Maddering, or Boiling Off”, in A Treatise on Calico Printing, Theoretical and Practical: […], volume I, [London]: Printed for C. O’Brien, […] and sold by Bew, […], Richardson, […], Murray, […], →OCLC:
text: A great variety of Blue Drabs can be dyed by first Sumaching the cotton, and then in another tub add a little Nitrate of Iron or Copperas liquor, and give a few turns.
ref: 1853, David Smith, “Cotton-dyeing. [No. 39. Various Shades of Silver Drab.]”, in The Dyer’s Instructor: Comprising Practical Instructions in the Art of Dyeing Silk, Cotton, Wool, and Worsted and Woollen Goods, […], Philadelphia, Pa.: Henry Carey Baird, […], →OCLC, page 70:
text: Common black calico for linings is dyed upon an iron mordant alone, but generally a better colour is obtained by first sumaching the cotton according to the older method.
ref: 1877, “Calico Printing and Dyeing”, in Charles O’Neill, editor, The Textile Colourist: A Monthly Journal of Bleaching, Printing, Dyeing, and Finishing Textile Fabrics, and the Manufacture and Application of Colouring Matters, volume IV, Manchester: Palmer and Howe, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. […], page 253:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of sumac.
gas hydrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gas hydrates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a crystalline compound having an isometric ice lattice containing cages that incorporate small guest gas molecules; they are stable at moderate pressure and low temperature
Synonyms: gas clathrate
Related terms: methane hydrate
conscripts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conscript
conscripts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of conscript
hasta la vista
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪstə
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish hasta la vista.
Senses: examples: 1991 July 3, James Cameron and William Wisher Jr., “Terminator 2”, “Judgment Day”, Lightstorm Entertainment
John Connor: And if you want to shine them on it's "hasta la vista, baby."
The Terminator: Hasta la vista, baby.
glosses: See you later.
Derived terms: hasta pasta
methane hydrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methane hydrates
Senses: glosses: Synonym of methane clathrate.
synonyms: word: methane clathrate
methane clathrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methane clathrates
Senses: synonyms: methane hydrate
methane ice
glosses: A gas hydrate that contains methane as the guest molecule; it occurs both in deep sedimentary structures, and as outcrops on the ocean floor.
gas clathrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gas clathrates
Senses: glosses: a gas hydrate
clathrate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæθɹeɪt/
Etymology: From Latin clāthrātus, from clāthrī (“lattice”) + -ātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). The noun is from the clipping of clathrate compound, see -ate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a lattice-like structure.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of an inclusion complex: in which molecules of one compound are enclosed within the crystal structure of another.
Derived terms: nonclathrate
clathrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæθɹeɪt/
Forms: form: clathrates
Etymology: From Latin clāthrātus, from clāthrī (“lattice”) + -ātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). The noun is from the clipping of clathrate compound, see -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A clathrate compound.
Derived terms: gas clathrate
methane clathrate
clathrate compound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clathrate compounds
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a substance consisting of molecules of one element or compound contained within the cage-like structure of another
hydrido complex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrido complexes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A complex hydride, such as sodium borohydride, containing a hydride ligand bonded to a central atom.
Synonyms: hydro complex
hydro complex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydro complexes
Senses: glosses: a hydrido complex
sodium borohydride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sodium borohydrides
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydrido complex, NaBH₄; it is a selective reducing agent used in many industrial applications.
Synonyms: sodium tetrahydroborate
hydroboration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroborations
Etymology: From hydro- + boration.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The production or organoboranes by the addition of diborane to unsaturated organic compounds.
organoborane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organoboranes
form: organo-borane
Etymology: From organo- + borane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any organic compound containing a carbon-to-boron bond.
organic compound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organic compounds
Etymology: Not only are organic compounds essential to living organisms, but the common belief until the 19th century was that only living organisms could produce them, whence the name. When it was shown in the early 1800s that they could also be produced in the laboratory, the old name was kept.
Senses: examples: text: Meteorites contain a wide range of organic compounds.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound containing carbon atoms covalently bound to other atoms.
Synonyms: word: organic compound
Hypernyms: word: chemical compound
Hyponyms: word: volatile organic compound
word: carboxylic acid
word: carbohydrate
word: alcohol
Related terms: word: :Category:Organic compounds
word: List of organic_compounds on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
knee-deep
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English kne-depe; equivalent to knee + deep.
Senses: examples: text: High above stood the ash-tree, its boughs covered with the toy-like bunches called "locks and keys;" and beyond spread the meadows, knee-deep with the verdant grass.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 277:
coordinate_terms: elbow-deep
;
waist-deep
;
neck-deep
glosses: Reaching up to the knees.
examples: text: This gave me a hint, and I went knee-deep, and sometimes neck-deep, in the Red Weed. The density of the weed gave me a reassuring sense of hiding.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 241:
coordinate_terms: elbow-deep
;
waist-deep
;
neck-deep
glosses: Submerged to the knees.
examples: text: By the time Tracey arrived, Kayla was working on her second cup of café mocha and knee-deep in paperwork.
ref: 2007, Katherine D. Jones, Dangerous Dilemmas, Brooklyn, N.Y.: Noire Passion, Parker Publishing, LLC, →ISBN, page 113:
text: When you're knee-deep in these insecure feelings, it can be hard to see clearly.
ref: 2021, Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan, “What is... jealousy?”, in Let's Talk About It, →ISBN, page 191:
synonyms: elbow-deep
up to one's elbows
;
waist-deep
;
neck-deep
up to one's neck
;
in the thick of it
;
bogged down
glosses: Deeply involved (in something) or preoccupied (with something).
Derived terms: knee-deep in the Big Muddy
Related terms: hands-on
inorganic compound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inorganic compounds
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound not containing carbon atoms.
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound containing carbon atoms ionically bound to other atoms.
ionically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From ionic + -ally.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: using ionic bonds
diborane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + borane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: boron hydride, B₂H₆, a colourless explosive gas with a nasty smell; it has an unusual structure in which two of the hydrogen atoms form a bridge between the two boron atoms
Related terms: hydroboration
hydrocracking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrocrackings
Etymology: From hydro- + cracking.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The production of high-octane petroleum fuel and kerosene by hydrogenating large or complex hydrocarbons and then cracking them.
hydrocracking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From hydro- + cracking.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hydrocrack
hydrodynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydro-dynamics
Etymology: From hydro- + dynamics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The scientific study of fluids in motion.
Derived terms: ecohydrodynamics
elastohydrodynamics
electrohydrodynamics
magnetohydrodynamics
microhydrodynamics
Related terms: hydrodynamic
dynamics
hydrostatics
hydroelectric generator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroelectric generators
Senses: examples: text: We generate our own electricity with a small hydroelectric generator on the river.
glosses: A low-speed electric generator driven by water turbines.
water turbine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water turbines
Senses: glosses: A device that converts the energy of moving water, usually at a dam into rotary motion, usually used to make electricity.
Related terms: hydroelectric
hydroelectric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: hydro-electric
Etymology: From hydro- + electric.
Senses: examples: text: Baishan hydroelectric station is located 39 km from the downstream Hongshi hydroelectric station and 250 km from the downstream Fengman hydroelectric station, Jilin Province, China, on the upper reaches of the Second Songhua River, […] In Baishan district the weather is very cold in winter (lowest temperature, -44.5°C; highest temperature, 38.8°C; long-term average, 4.3°C).
ref: 1986, Zongyan Guo, Zhou Yukun, “Segment-shaped blasting in Baishan hydroelectric station excavations, China”, in Rock engineering and excavation in an urban environment, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 181:
glosses: That generates electricity by converting the energy of moving water, or of steam escaping under high pressure.
glosses: Of or relating to the electricity so produced.
Synonyms: HE
hydro
Derived terms: HE
heliohydroelectric
hydro
hydroelectrically
hydroelectric dam
hydroelectric generator
hydroelectric power
hydro pole
nonhydroelectric
Related terms: electric
electrical
electricity
hydro-
hydroelectrical
hydroelectricity
hydro
hydropower