cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
gay-marry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gay-marries
form: gay-marrying
form: gay-married
form: gay-married
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gay marry.
walks of life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of walk of life
antidecuplet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antidecuplets
Etymology: From anti- + decuplet.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A proposed grouping of light pentaquarks
antiresonances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiresonance
asteroseismic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more asteroseismic
form: most asteroseismic
Etymology: From aster- + -o- + seismic.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to asteroseismology.
asterseismology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The discovery by Kurtz of phase coherent, rapid oscillations in certain Ap stars holds great promise for the new field of asterseismology.
ref: 1986, W Dziembowski, Philip R Goode, “Asterseismology for certain Ap stars”, in Seismology of the Sun and the Distant Stars, Springer, →DOI, pages 441–451:
text: The MOST (Microvariability and Oscillations of STars) was first Canadian space telescope dedicated to asterseismology and it got launched in 2003.
ref: 2013 May, Alexander M Jablonski, Daniel Showalter, “Recent Advances in Assembly, Integration and Testing (AIT) at the David Florida Laboratory and Associated Risks”, in Proceedings of the NATO AVT-210 Specialists’ Meeting on Risk and Reliability Assessment and Validation for Small Spacecrafts, pages 13–16:
text: Although the prime goal of the Kepler mission was to discover Earth-sized planets orbiting the host stars habitable zone (e.g. Borucki, et al. 2013), it has led to a revolution in the field of asterseismology across the HR diagram (e.g. Chaplin et al. 2014).
ref: 2016, Gavin Ramsay, Pasi Hakala, Matt A Wood, Steve B Howell, Alan Smale, Martin Still, Thomas Barclay, “Continuous ‘stunted’ outbursts detected from the cataclysmic variable KIC 9202990 using Kepler data”, in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, volume 455, number 3, Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 2772–2777:
glosses: Alternative form of asteroseismology.
irriguous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irriguous
form: most irriguous
Etymology: From Latin irriguus, from in- + riguus (“watered”), from rigāre (“to wet”).
Senses: examples: text: Betwixt them Lawns, or level Downs, and Flocks / Grasing the tender herb, were interpos'd, / Or palmie hilloc, or the flourie lap / Of som irriguous Valley spred her store […].
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: See, where the winding Vale its lavish Stores, / Irriguous, spreads.
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
glosses: Irrigated, well-watered.
Related terms: irrigate
bispectra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bispectrum
pancratium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pancratiums
Etymology: From Latin pancratium, from Ancient Greek παγκράτιον (pankrátion, “a complete contest”). Doublet of pankration.
Senses: qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: Synonym of pankration.
synonyms: word: pankration
glosses: Any of the genus Pancratium of African and Eurasian perennial, herbaceous and bulbous plants in the Amaryllis family. The flowers are large, white and fragrant.
Derived terms: pancratiast
bispectrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bispectra
Etymology: From bi- + spectrum.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A statistic used in the study of nonlinear interactions.
braneworld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹeɪnwɜːld/
ipa: /bɹeɪnwɝld/
ipa: /bɹeɪnwɵːld/
Forms: form: braneworlds
Etymology: From brane + world.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A world that is a brane, with its own limited set of dimensions, in any of several brane cosmology theories.
conifold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conifolds
Etymology: Blend of conic + manifold or similar.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A certain generalization of a manifold, capable of containing conical singularities.
Derived terms: hyperconifold
covariants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of covariant
like turkeys voting for an early Christmas
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /laɪk ˌtɜːkiz ˈvəʊtɪŋ fɚ‿n̩ ˌɜːli ˈkɹɪsməs/
ipa: /laɪk ˌtɝkiz ˈvoʊtɪŋ fɚ‿n̩ ˌɝli ˈkɹɪsməs/
ipa: [-ɾɪŋ-]
rhymes: -ɪsməs
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Synonym of like turkeys voting for Christmas.
synonyms: word: like turkeys voting for Christmas
skats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skat
PTHC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography (PTHC or PTC) is radiography of bile ducts via needle puncture.
ref: 2005, Judi Lindsley Nath, Using Medical Terminology: A Practical Approach, Wolters Kluwer Health, →ISBN, page 92:
topics: medicine
radiology
sciences
glosses: percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography
examples: text: When a new site appears, it is blazoned through all the related groups with a headline like “msn goood pthc club!!!” — the acronym signifies “preteen hardcore.”
ref: 2003, Philip Jenkins, Beyond Tolerance: Child Pornography on the Internet, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 63:
topics: lifestyle
media
pornography
sexuality
glosses: preteen hardcore
Synonyms: sense: radiological procedure
word: PTC
pensums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pensum
cryptoexotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cryptoexotic
form: most cryptoexotic
Etymology: From crypto- + exotic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing the state of certain systems of particles that have certain characteristics of exotic mesons or exotic baryons.
cryptoexotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryptoexotics
Etymology: From crypto- + exotic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A state of this kind.
cycloparaphenylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cycloparaphenylenes
Etymology: From cyclo- + para- + phenylene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of cyclic hydrocarbons, that are polymers of p-phenylene, that constitute the shortest possible segment of a carbon nanotube
darkon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: darkons
Etymology: From dark + -on.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A scalar field (or particle) that represents an elementary part of dark matter.
deconfinement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːkənˈfaɪnmənt/
rhymes: -aɪnmənt
Etymology: From de- + confinement.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: That state of a system of quarks and gluons that are free to move relatively independently
glosses: Discontinuation of confinement
Related terms: deconfined
degenerately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more degenerately
form: most degenerately
Etymology: From degenerate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a degenerate manner
detailly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more detailly
form: most detailly
Etymology: From detail + -ly.
Senses: qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: In detail.
sturt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɜː(ɹ)t/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: sturts
Etymology: From the name of Alfred Henry Sturtevant.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: In an embryo, an angle equal to two gons. If a mosaic forms in the embryo, the line passes between two organs with a probability, in percent, equal to the number of sturts between them.
Related terms: word: centimorgan
english: named for Sturtevant's teacher
translation: named for Sturtevant's teacher
word: morgan
sturt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɜː(ɹ)t/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: sturts
Etymology: Compare start.
Senses: examples: text: Lift up your hart and be of gude curage,
Sturt in na way your leiknes can asswage
ref: 1837, John Rolland, The Seven Sages: In Scotish Metre:
glosses: disturbance; annoyance; care
topics: business
mining
glosses: A bargain in tribute mining by which the tributor profits.
sturt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɜː(ɹ)t/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: sturts
form: sturting
form: sturted
form: sturted
Etymology: Compare start.
Senses: glosses: To vex; to annoy; to startle.
glosses: To start with fear.
dijet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dijets
Etymology: From di- + jet.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A pair of jets
quatrefoils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quatrefoil
cinquefoil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪŋk.fɔɪl/
ipa: /ˈsɪŋkˌfɔɪl/
ipa: /ˈsæŋkˌfɔɪl/
Forms: form: cinquefoils
form: cinqfoil
form: quinquefoil
Etymology: From Old French cinqfoil, from cinq (“five”) + foil (“leaf”).
Senses: examples: text: Witches always anointed themselves with ointments before departing up the chimney to their Sabbaths. One such ointment was composed of Aconite, Belladonna, Water Parsley, Cinquefoil and Babies' Fat.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 112:
glosses: A potentilla (flower).
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A stylized flower or leaf with five lobes.
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: A particular knot of five crossings.
Synonyms: sense: flower
word: fiveleaf
sense: knot
word: cinquefoil knot
sense: knot
word: 5_1
sense: knot
word: T(5,2)
Coordinate terms: trefoil
quatrefoil
sexfoil
octofoil
Derived terms: cinquefoiled
creeping cinquefoil
Related terms: cinque
multifoil
polyfoil
cinquefoils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cinquefoil
sexfoil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sexfoils
form: sixfoil
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
coordinate_terms: trefoil
quatrefoil
cinquefoil
octofoil
glosses: A stylized flower or leaf with six lobes
Related terms: multifoil
polyfoil
sexfoil
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sixfoil
Senses: glosses: Having six lobes
sexfoils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sexfoil
cycloparaphenylenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cycloparaphenylene
echelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: echelles
Etymology: From French échelle (“ladder”). Doublet of scale.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An echelle grating.
Derived terms: echellette
echelle grating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: echelle gratings
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A form of diffraction grating optimized for high orders of diffraction
echelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of echelle
echelle gratings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of echelle grating
eikonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ancient Greek εἰκών (eikṓn, “image”).
Senses: topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: Describing the properties of a class of partial differential equation encountered in descriptions of wave propagation.
Derived terms: eikonal approximation
eikonal equation
eikonalized
enstrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enstrophies
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A measure of the kinetic energy of a fluid as a result of turbulence.
frequentist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frequentists
Etymology: From frequent + -ist.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: frequentionist
glosses: An advocate of frequentism.
Coordinate terms: Bayesianist
Related terms: frequentism
frequentistic
frequentist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more frequentist
form: most frequentist
Etymology: From frequent + -ist.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: frequentionist
glosses: Of or pertaining to frequentism.
galaxian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a galaxy
frequentists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frequentist
gentlemans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A tattered cadie, or errand porter, whom David Deans had jostled in his attempt to extricate himself from the vicinity of the scorners, exclaimed in a strong north-country tone, "Ta de'il ding out her Cameronian een—what gi'es her titles to dunch gentlemans about?"
ref: 1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter IX, in Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume II, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC, page 222:
text: “If he be one gentleman, he may tine wid me: and I vill show to de gentlemans of England, vat de Italian gentlemans are.”
ref: 1830, John Gideon Millingen, Adventures of an Irish Gentleman, volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], page 253:
text: You are a gentleman, and gentlemans are much too fine for trate.
ref: 1900, Wilson Barrett, Elwyn Alfred Barron, In Old New York: A Romance, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page and Company, page 64:
glosses: plural of gentleman
examples: text: No person shall keepe any schoole... except it be in some publike or free Grammer Schoole, or in some such noblemans... or gentlemans... house as are not recusants.
ref: 1604, Acts of Parliament 1 under James I, c.4, §8
text: VVe may commend / A Gentlemans modeſty, manners, and fine language, / […] / Yet, though he obſerue, and vvaſte his ſtate vpon vs, / If he be ſtanch and bid not for the ſtocke / That vve vvere borne to traffick vvith; the truth is / VVe care not for his company.
ref: 1624, Phillip [i.e., Philip] Massinger, The Bond-man: An Antient Storie. […], London: […] Edw[ard] Allde, for Iohn Harison and Edward Blackmore, […], →OCLC, Act I, scene iii, signature [B4], recto:
text: IN the fourth place we are to conſider the Gentlemans advantage, in reſpect of his Authority over thoſe that relate to, or depend on him: […]
ref: 1660, [Richard Allestree], “Sect[ion] VII. Of the Fourth Advantage, that of His Authority.”, in The Gentlemans Calling, London: […] T[imothy] Garthwait […], →OCLC, page 117:
glosses: genitive of gentleman
braneworlds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of braneworld
nonmesonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + mesonic.
Senses: glosses: Not mesonic.
darkons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of darkon
galaxywide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: galaxy-wide
Etymology: From galaxy + -wide. Coined by American science fiction author Isaac Asimov in 1940 in the form "galaxy-wide".
Senses: examples: text: I immediately assigned an all-out search, Galaxywide.
ref: 1949 January, Henry Kuttner, “Time Axis”, in Startling Stories, volume 18, number 3, page 50:
text: Critics on both sides of what rapidly became a Galaxywide controversy were forced, however, to acknowledge the magnificent playing of the Student Orchestra and its great technical attainments.
ref: 1959 June, Larry M. Harris, “Extracts from the Galactick Almanack”, in Galaxy, volume 17, number 5, page 136:
text: Protoculture supply was dwindling, the galaxywide war running down like clockwork as both sides' resources and infrastructures declined.
ref: 1989, Jack McKinney, The End of the Circle, →ISBN, page 203:
glosses: Throughout a galaxy.
Synonyms: pangalactic
transgalactic
autologin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + login.
Senses: examples: text: Use autologin if you don't want to type your password repeatedly.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A feature that automatically logs in to a system.
nonshopping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + shopping.
Senses: examples: the nonshopping users of the car park
glosses: Not involved in shopping.
examples: nonshopping activities
glosses: Not of or pertaining to shopping.
zoosanitary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zoo- + sanitary.
Senses: examples: text: The imported milk was accompanied by a zoosanitary certificate.
glosses: Pertaining to the cleanliness of animals or animal products.
Battista
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Battistas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Battista.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
scolopendra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scolopendras
Etymology: From Latin scolopendra, from Ancient Greek σκολόπενδρα (skolópendra).
Senses: examples: text: Spring-headed Hydraes, and sea-shouldring Whales, / Great whirlpooles, which all fishes make to flee, / Bright Scolopendraes, arm'd with siluer scales, / Mighty Monoceroses, with immeasured tayles.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A mythical sea-creature, reputed to be able to disgorge its bowels to dislodge any fishing-hook.
examples: text: This led the conversation to the insects of the Crimea and Ukraine, of which I had made a considerable collection, and the Emperor inquired of me if there were scorpions, scolopendras and tarantulas in the Crimea.
ref: 1845 November 24, The Eclectic Magazine, volume 6, page 352:
glosses: A centipede of the genus Scolopendra.
nonproletarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: nonproletarians
form: non-proletarian
Etymology: From non- + proletarian.
Senses: glosses: one who is not a proletarian
nonproletarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonproletarian
non-proletarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: non-proletarians
Etymology: From non- + proletarian.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nonproletarian.
non-proletarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-proletarian
spitting cobras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spitting cobra
hadrogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hadro- + -genesis.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: hadronization
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The proposed production of other hadrons by mesons or their transmutation into different ones.
hypercomplex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + complex.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Describing any of several types of higher-dimensional numbers having some characteristics of complex numbers.
hypercomplex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypercomplexes
Etymology: From hyper- + complex.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A hypercomplex number.
hypernuclear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + nuclear.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of or pertaining to a hypernucleus.
kinematical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kinematical
form: most kinematical
Etymology: From kinematic + -al.
Senses: glosses: kinematic
leptoquark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leptoquarks
Etymology: From lepto- + quark.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of a class of hypothetical bosons that would decay into a lepton and a quark.
leptoquarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leptoquark
bone-idle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bone idle
Etymology: Laziness that penetrates the very bones. Attested 1836. Similar terms (bone-lazy, bone-sore, bone-tired) pre-dated it in The Vocabulary Of East Anglia, 1830, Robert Forby. Compare to the bone.
Senses: examples: text: For the last three weeks I have been going what you call bone-idle.
ref: 1836, Thomas Carlyle, New Letters:
synonyms: word: lither
word: swear
word: lazy
word: fainéant
word: bone-idle
word: idle
word: indolent
word: inert
word: lackadaisical
word: lither
word: slothful
word: work-shy
word: sluggish
word: swear
word: torpid
glosses: Utterly lazy.
Related terms: dead tired
S.O.S.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of SOS.
red-headed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more red-headed
form: most red-headed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of redheaded.
close ranks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: closes ranks
form: closing ranks
form: closed ranks
form: closed ranks
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To close the spacing between lines (ranks) of troops, as they are deployed across a battlefield, thereby decreasing the depth of the formation as it faces the enemy side.
glosses: To regroup forces, especially when this involves overlooking differences in order to face a challenge or adverse situation. Often implies making a show of unity, especially to the public.
examples: text: However, the charges that the police closed ranks to protect Godber find a parallel in Wong's hearings.
ref: 2007, Gina Marchetti, Andrew Lau and Alan Mak's Infernal Affairs:
text: Gendrot describes a “clannish” system that ensures officers close ranks to protect their own, leading to a sense of impunity.
ref: 2020 September 3, Kim Willsher, “French reporter who joined police exposes racism and violence”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: It cannot be suggested in my view that the Metropolitan Police, even for a moment, attempted to close ranks to protect one of their own. Instead, remorselessly, efficiently and impartially the investigating officers followed all the available leads, resulting in an overwhelming case against the accused.
ref: 2023 March 6, Adrian Fulford, R v Wayne Couzens, sentencing remarks, Paragraph 27:
glosses: To maintain silence and secrecy in the face of some external threat.
Related terms: circle the wagons
nonstackable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + stackable.
Senses: glosses: Not stackable
twoheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He passed the lofty round tower—the ruined grave of St Senanus, in the centre of the little isle—the mouldering church, on which the eye of the poring antiquary may still discern the sculptured image of the twoheaded monster with which cottage tradition says the Saint sustained so fierce a conflict on landing in the islet...
ref: 1828, “The Dilemma of Phadrig”, in Tales and Selections from the English Souvenirs: for MDCCCXXVIII, page 13:
text: He said that what he found next was that he was dead, and, he did not meet God but a twoheaded devil who condemned him to hell on account of intruding by trampling tractors on the houses of the African villagers.
ref: 2004, Akberali Manji, Magic, Faith and Healing: Mysteries of Africa, page 32:
text: With his head behind hers they looked like a twoheaded baby.
ref: 2009, John Wray, Lowboy, page 130:
glosses: Alternative spelling of two-headed.
pretextual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pretextual
form: most pretextual
Etymology: From pretext + -ual.
Senses: examples: text: "If you're accused of profiling or pretextual stops, you can bring your daily logbook to court and document that pulling over motorists for 'stickler' reasons is part of your customary pattern," Remsberg writes, "not a glaring exception conveniently dusted off in the defendant's case."
ref: 2019, Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers:
synonyms: pretextuous
glosses: Having a false, contrived or assumed purpose; characterized by pretense.
Derived terms: pretextual arrest
pretextual stop
pretextual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + textual.
Senses: examples: text: They maintained that while historical critics sought to get behind the text to its pretextual and early textual origins (a “diachronic” approach), literary critics concentrated on the final product, the text as it now stands (a “synchronic” approach).
ref: 2016, Adele Berlin, “Literary Approaches to the Hebrew Bible”, in Stephen B. Chapman, Marvin A. Sweeney, editors, The Cambridge Companion to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, New York: Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 165–166:
glosses: Before the existence of a text.
water meter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water meters
form: water-meter
Senses: glosses: A device used to measure the volume of water usage.
glosses: A device used to measure evaporation.
Related terms: water gauge
wreck yard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wreck yards
Senses: synonyms: boneyard
breaker's yard
breaker
junkyard
salvage yard
scrapyard
scrapheap
wrecking yard
wrecker's yard
glosses: The location of a dismantling business where wrecked or decommissioned vehicles are brought, for the recovery of reusable parts and scrap metal.
wrecking yard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wrecking yards
Senses: glosses: Synonym of wreck yard.
synonyms: word: wreck yard
wrecker's yard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wreckers' yards
Senses: glosses: Synonym of wreck yard.
synonyms: word: wreck yard
salvage yard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salvage yards
Senses: glosses: Synonym of wreck yard.
synonyms: word: wreck yard
breaker's yard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breakers' yards
Senses: synonyms: wreck yard § Synonyms
glosses: A place where old or accident-damaged motor vehicles are broken up.
glosses: A shipyard where shipbreakers break up old ships.
RLE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RLEs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of run-length encoding.
qualifier: Unicode
glosses: Initialism of right-to-left embedding.
glosses: Initialism of real-life experience.
baroscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baroscopes
Etymology: From baro- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: barometer
Synonyms: barometer
baroscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baroscope
dead tired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: As if one were dead: utterly without energy. Compare bone-idle, knackered.
Senses: glosses: Very tired; completely exhausted.
parcourses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parcourse
muscle-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌs.əl.ʌp/
Forms: form: muscle-ups
Etymology: See chin-up § Etymology.
Senses: examples: text: The muscle-up starts from a hang with a high or false grip.
ref: 1966, Eric Lester Hughes, Gymnastics for Men, page 269:
glosses: An exercise done for strengthening the arms and upper body, in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar to a position above the bar.
Related terms: chin-up
push-up
pull-up
pull up
muscle-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muscle-up
muscle up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: muscles up
form: muscling up
form: muscled up
form: muscled up
Senses: examples: text: We spent the summer trying to muscle up for football next term.
glosses: To train the muscles for increased size and strength.
examples: text: There are only about ten tables, so you'll probably have to wait — or just muscle up to the bar like everyone else.
ref: 2007, Neil Schlecht, Spain for Dummies, page 470:
glosses: To force one's way into or through.
examples: text: Churchill had again thwarted the American impulse to muscle up in the Pacific theater at the expense of the Atlantic[…]
ref: 2007, Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, page 26:
glosses: To make stronger or more powerful.
muscled up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more muscled up
form: most muscled up
form: muscled-up
Senses: examples: text: "It's almost like guys who throw hard have to be born with a certain kind of body. They're tall and slender like Kevin Brown or Randy Johnson. They're strong, don't get me wrong, but they're not all muscled up."
ref: 2001 Sept, “Good Hurlers are Born with Pitching Ability”, in Baseball Digest, 60(9): 74:
text: "We've got to get the guys muscled up first," explains Byrnes, "or somebody's back will go out when we canter."
ref: 1983 (Jan 17), Julia Vitullo-Martin, "Back in the Saddle Again", New York Magazine 16(3): 51
text: He slips the clean shirt over his muscled-up black shoulders. Takes his shoes and socks off and slides his feet into Nike sandals.
ref: 2005, Matt de la Peña, Ball Don't Lie, page 224:
text: The crowd groaned when the muscled-up, raw-boned Paris boys stopped the Mites once more on fourth down, just inches from the goal.
ref: 2007, Jim Dent, Twelve Mighty Orphans, page 228:
text: Bob is short, bald, and muscled up, with a thick neck and huge biceps and thighs.
ref: 2008, Terrence Real, The New Rules of Marriage, page 35:
glosses: Having large, well-developed muscles.
muscled up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of muscle up
ecgonine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecgonines
Etymology: May comes from ἔκγονος + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An organic chemical and tropane alkaloid found naturally in coca leaves.
Derived terms: anhydroecgonine
benzoylecgonine
benzoylmethylecgonine
muscled-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more muscled-up
form: most muscled-up
Senses: examples: text: He slips the clean shirt over his muscled-up black shoulders. Takes his shoes and socks off and slides his feet into Nike sandals.
ref: 2005, Matt de la Peña, Ball Don't Lie, page 224:
text: The crowd groaned when the muscled-up, raw-boned Paris boys stopped the Mites once more on fourth down, just inches from the goal.
ref: 2007, Jim Dent, Twelve Mighty Orphans, page 228:
glosses: Alternative form of muscled up.
muscling up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of muscle up
muscles up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of muscle up
compound modifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compound modifiers
Senses: glosses: adjectival or adverbial phrase of multiple words.
Synonyms: word: when used as an adjective
word divider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: word dividers
Senses: glosses: A glyph that separates words.
Synonyms: word separator
claviger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clavigers
Etymology: From Latin claviger, from clava (“club”) + gerere (“to carry”).
Senses: examples: text: They goaded him into testing one of his planes, tricked him into throwing one out of the window to see if it would glide, and it did; it glided right into a claviger patrolling outside.
ref: 2013, Elon Dann, Clockwise to Titan:
text: But he was the claviger, and he took that duty seriously. And he never helped her. He followed her, to protect her, because that was his job.
ref: 2014, Matt Weber, The Dandelion Knight:
glosses: One who carries a club; a club bearer.
examples: text: Standing body hairs are relatively less numerous and longer in claviger.
ref: 1968, Merle Wesley Wing, Taxonomic Revision of the Nearctic Genus Acanthomyops, page 81:
text: The workers of flavus group species are sometimes confused with claviger group workers, but can be distinguished by relatively dense pubescence all over the body, which creates a dull overall appearances.
ref: 2007, Brian L. Fisher, Stefan P. Cover, Ants of North America: A Guide to the Genera, page 104:
text: All of the species of the claviger group are believed to be temporary social parasits of other Lasius species, but the actual hosts are not all known.
ref: 2012, Aaron M. Ellison, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Elizabeth J. Farnsworth, A Field Guide to the Ants of New England, page 179:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A group within genus Lasius (formerly considered a subgenera Acanthomyops) of bright yellow to orange species of ant that have 3 maxillary palps and give off a distinctive citronella odor when disturbed. The group name comes from their club-shaped palps.
examples: text: Over much of its range claviger lays eggs without a blood meal, whereas forms requiring blood for egg laying have been observed on the Black Sea coast.
ref: 1949, Agriculture Handbook - Issue 152, page 117:
text: Claviger is Palearctic in distribution, extending from the British Isles to the Pamir Mountains of Turkestan and the Ob River of western Siberia.
ref: 1957, Mosquito Reprints: Matheson Collection - Volume 1, page 335:
text: The usual breeding places of claviger are springs and wells.
ref: 1984, A. R. Zahar, Vector Bionomics in the Epidemiology and Control of Malaria, page 98:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A species of mosquito, Anopheles claviger.
Derived terms: clavigerous
claviger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clavigers
Etymology: From Latin clāviger, from clāvis (“key”) + gerere (“to carry”).
Senses: examples: text: They were incensed that the claviger Bernat Mola not only slept in the church, but that by night he allowed “dishonest people and tricksters” in to gamble.
ref: 2010, Ronald Stansbury, A Companion to Pastoral Care in the Late Middle Ages (1200-1500):
text: Hugh of Tadcaster remarked that he had been claviger before being admitted as a brother of the Order, and that he had asked the master – presumably he meant the grand commander of England - to admit him as a brother:
ref: 2011, Helen J. Nicholson, The proceedings against the Templars in the British Isles, page lii:
glosses: One who carries the keys to a place; a keyholder.
lineshapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lineshape
logamediate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of logarithmic + intermediate
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing a proposed form of cosmological inflation whose rate is intermediate between logarithmic and exponential.
macroions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macroion
macroion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macroions
Etymology: From macro- + ion.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A very large ion, especially a colloidal particle carrying an electric charge
magnetless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From magnet + -less.
Senses: glosses: Having no magnet
minisuperspace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minisuperspaces
Etymology: From mini- + superspace.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A small superspace, especially a spherically symmetric quantum bubble.
modulational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more modulational
form: most modulational
Etymology: From modulation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or arising from modulation
Derived terms: modulationally
Canada balsam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Canada balsams
Senses: glosses: A turpentine made from the resin of the balsam fir tree.
examples: text: I have seen a few tamaracks at odd spots, and on the Athabaska I saw a small grove of Canada balsams, the only place I ever saw them in the northwest.
ref: 1914, Ernest John Chambers, The Unexploited West:
glosses: The tree itself (Abies balsamea).
Synonyms: sense: type of turpentine
word: balsam of fir
sense: type of turpentine
word: Canada turpentine
multiboson
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: multi-boson
Etymology: From multi- + boson.
Senses: glosses: Involving multiple bosons
chaudrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaudron
millimètres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of millimètre
goujons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goujon
Chorwat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chorwats
Senses: glosses: A Croat.
nanoconverters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanoconverter
nanoconverter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanoconverters
Etymology: From nano- + converter.
Senses: glosses: Any of several nanoscale converters
nanodisks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanodisk
nanodisk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanodisks
Etymology: From nano- + disk.
Senses: glosses: A nanoscale disk
nanolayers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanolayer
nanolayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanolayers
Etymology: From nano- + layer.
Senses: glosses: A nanoscale layer
nanospheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanosphere
nanosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanospheres
Etymology: From nano- + sphere.
Senses: glosses: A nanoscale sphere
neutrinoless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neutrino + -less.
Senses: examples: text: neutrinoless double beta decay
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Not containing or involving neutrinos.
overdense
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overdense
form: most overdense
Etymology: From over- + dense.
Senses: antonyms: underdense
glosses: Excessively dense; especially more dense than is necessary to form a galaxy.
Derived terms: overdensity
phasematched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: phase-matched
Etymology: From phase + matched.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having matched phases
polylogarithms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polylogarithm
premelting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + melting.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The formation of a quasi-liquid film on the surface of crystal below its melting point
prestellar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-stellar
Etymology: From pre- + stellar.
Senses: examples: text: The first flex of the membrane, leading to the clench, begins at the extreme interior margins of Path Terrulian in the 78th Thema, a cold, pre-stellar dust cloud fringed with cooling, iron-hearted stars and vast numbers of stony and icy planets and asteroids.
ref: 2013 March 19, Greg Bear, String 25, in Halo: Silentium (Forerunner Saga; 3), New York: Tor, →ISBN, page 212:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing the matter and conditions involved in the formation of a star
prototypal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prototypal
form: most prototypal
Etymology: From prototype + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a prototype
Synonyms: archetypal
prototypic
quintom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quintoms
Etymology: Blend of quintessence + phantom
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A proposed interaction of a quintessence field and a phantom field as a model of dark energy
relaxational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more relaxational
form: most relaxational
Etymology: From relaxation + -al.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of, relating to, or caused by relaxation.
reobserved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reobserve
reobserved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reobserved
form: most reobserved
Senses: glosses: Repeatedly observed
Calogero
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Calogeros
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Calogero.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
selfenergy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selfenergies
form: self-energy
Etymology: From self- + energy.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The contribution to a particle's mass or potential energy as a result of interactions between the particle and its environment
Hypernyms: energy
semichiral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: semi-chiral
Etymology: From semi- + chiral.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing a field that has chiral characteristics in some, but not all, dimensions
quintoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quintom
spheromak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spheromaks
Etymology: Blend of sphere + tokamak.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A particular form of stabilized magnetic field in which a plasma may be confined for use in nuclear fusion.
superintegrable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + integrable.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Describing an integrable condition that has more integrals of motion than degrees of freedom
Related terms: superintegrability
supersolidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supersolidities
Etymology: From super- + solidity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being supersolid.
glosses: The extent to which something is supersolid.
thermoconductance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermoconductances
Etymology: From thermo- + conductance.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: thermal conductance
thermostatistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thermo- + statistics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The application of statistical mechanics to the study of thermodynamics.
hypaspist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypaspists
form: hypaspistai
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑπασπιστής (hupaspistḗs, “shield bearer”), from ὑπό (hupó, “under”) + ἀσπίς (aspís, “shield”) + -τής (-tḗs, “suffix forming agent noun”).
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile Darius had loosed his scythed cars, to whirl destruction into the ranks of the Companions and the hypaspists. But the archers and the Agrian spear-throwers received them with showers of spears and arrows; some of these active hillsmen seized the reins of the horses and pulled the riders from their seats, while the hypaspists, swiftly and undismayed, opened their ranks, and the terrible chariots rattled harmless down the intervals.
ref: 1900, John Bagnell Bury, A History of Greece: To the Death of Alexander the Great, Cambridge University Press, page 777:
text: 1988 [CUP], A. B. Bosworth, Conquest and Empire: The Reign of Alexander the Great, Cambridge University Press (Canto), 1993, page 259,
The other major component of the Macedonian infantry was the corps of hypaspists. This force had evolved from the old bodyguard of the Macedonian kings and its nucleus, the agema, still acted as Alexander's guard when he fought on foot. The rest of the hypaspists were organised in chiliarchies (units of 1,000), perhaps three in number.
text: 2013, Michael Taylor, Antiochus the Great, Pen & Sword Books (Pen & Sword Military), unnumbered page,
Perhaps fearful of blame in the event of failure, Lagoras asked that two of the King's favourites join the assault, Theodotus the Aetolian and Dionysius, the commander of the hypaspists, an elite subset of the Silver Shields.
topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: A type of lightly armoured foot soldier equipped with an aspis (shield) and spear.
Related terms: hoplite
peltast
phalangite
diminuitive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From diminutive, with an epenthetic (added) syllable in non-standard or regional pronunciation. Compare e.g. mischevious, a non-standard form of mischievous.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of diminutive.
underdense
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underdense
form: most underdense
Etymology: From under- + dense.
Senses: antonyms: overdense
glosses: Insufficiently dense; especially not sufficiently dense enough to form a galaxy.
Derived terms: underdensity
Dronten
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Flevoland, Netherlands.
glosses: A municipality of Flevoland, Netherlands.
bootsplash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bootsplashes
Etymology: From boot + splash.
Senses: examples: text: You can also choose whether to show the bootsplash screen.
ref: 2006, Chris Negus, Live Linux CDs: Building and Customizing Bootables, page 335:
text: Although Linux systems traditionally booted in text mode, most distributions now use kernel parameters and interim graphical display mechanisms (bootsplashes such as plymouth) to completely hide text mode as the system is booting.
ref: 2014, Brian Ward, How Linux Works, 2nd Edition: What Every Superuser Should Know:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A splash screen displayed at bootup.
bootsplashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bootsplash
nonlivestock
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + livestock.
Senses: examples: text: Middle wealth groups in both communities earn more than half their income from nonlivestock activities...
ref: 2008, Carolyn K Lesorogol, Contesting the commons: privatizing pastoral lands in Kenya:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to livestock.
star picket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: star pickets
Etymology: From star + picket.
Senses: examples: text: 1997, Queensland University Staff, International Trade & Business Law Annual, Volume 3, footnote, page 198,
The significance of Y-bar steel is that it is used to produce star picket posts by cutting the steel into fence post lengths and drilling holes through which wire will pass. Star picket fencing is the most popular form of rural fencing used in Australia.
text: In this case, BHP was the sole domestic manufacturer of a steel fence post known as a star picket, which it produced from an intermediate steel product called a Y bar.[…]QWI sought supplies of Y bar from BHP in order to manufacture its own star picket fence posts and thereby be in a position to deliver a full range of products to large consumers at competitive prices.
ref: 2003, Michal S. Gal, Competition Policy for Small Market Economies, Harvard University Press, page 130:
text: In a competitive market, a refusal to supply QWI with Y-bar would not have prevented QWI from becoming a manufacturer or wholesaler of star pickets.[…]Refusing supply, unconstrained by the possibility that supply could be obtained from a competitor, for the purpose of preventing QWI from becoming a manufacturer or wholesaler of star pickets was an exercise of market power.
ref: 2008, Peter Gillies, Niloufer Selvadurai, Marketing Law, page 298:
text: Then I levelled the sand and lightly packed soil with the rake and shovel and put in a star picket to indicate where it was.
ref: 2009, Evan McHugh, Birdsville, ReadHowYouWant, published 2011, page 179:
glosses: A type of pointed metal fence post, consisting of three stips of metal at equal angles to each other.
Synonyms: sense: metal fence post
word: stardropper
sense: metal fence post
word: star post
sense: metal fence post
word: waratah
sense: metal fence post
word: t-post
sense: metal fence post
word: y-post