cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Luoyang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊˈjæŋ/
ipa: /ləʊˈjaŋ/
ipa: /ˈlwɔˈyɑŋ/
enpr: lwō′yäng′
enpr: lu̇-ˈwō-ˈyäŋ
enpr: ˈlō-ˈyäŋ
enpr: lō′yängʹ
enpr: lōʹyǎngʹ
enpr: lôʹyängʹ
Forms: form: Loyang
form: Lohyang
form: Lo-yang
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of 洛陽／洛阳 (Luòyáng, “sunny side of the Luo River”), referring to two separate Luo rivers.
Senses: examples: text: In January 1979, the Aluminum Company of America agreed to undertake feasibility studies for the construction of two modern integrated aluminum plants in Luoyang, Henan Province, and in Pingguo county, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
ref: 1979 September, Nai-Ruenn Chen, “Sino-American Trade”, in China's Economy and Foreign Trade, 1978-79, number 3, PRC Affairs Division, Office of East-West Country Affairs, Industry and Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18, column 2:
text: The remains of the capital of the Eastern Han dynasty, Luoyang 洛阳, are situated approximately 15 km east of the present-day city of Luoyang in Henan. Since the site is bordered on the north by the Mangshan 邙山 Mountains and overlooks the Luo River to the south, it has protective natural barriers and is also at an important junction for transportation and communication (fig. 37).
ref: 1982, Zhongshu Wang, “Luoyang: The Capital City of Eastern Han”, in K. C. Chang et al., transl., Han Civilization, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 29:
text: The Longmen Grottoes are located in the south of Luolong District of Luoyang. Here two mountain cliffs stand face to face, like a pair of natural watchtowers over the Yi River that flow between them, giving rise to the name “Luoyang’s Yi River Watchtower Gate.”
ref: 2006, “Cultural Relics”, in 王琴 [Wang Qin], 韩清月 [Han Qingyue], 冯鑫 [Feng Xin], transl., edited by 杨长春 [Yang Changchun], 河南：文化大中原 [Henan: The Central Plains of Chinese Culture] (全景中国 [Panoramic China]), 1st edition, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 163:
english: Panoramic China
translation: Panoramic China
text: Local authorities said the rainfall had caused a 20-metre breach in the Yihetan dam in the city of Luoyang west of Zhengzhou, and that the dam could collapse at any time.
ref: 2021 July 21, Ryan Woo, Stella Qiu, “At least 25 dead as rains deluge central China's Henan province”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 22 Jul 2021, China:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Henan, China, near the Luo's confluence with the Yellow River; a former capital of China.
glosses: A town in the district of Zengdu in the prefecture-level city of Suizhou, Hubei, China.
glosses: A community in the district of Luojiang in the prefecture-level city of Quanzhou, Fujian, China, famed for a celebrated bridge.
Hohhot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /hoʊˈhɒt/
Forms: form: Huhehot
form: Huhhot
form: Kuku Khoto
form: Kökeqota
form: Kokeqota
Etymology: From Mongolian Хөх хот (Xöx xot), modern form of ᠬᠥᠬᠡᠬᠣᠲᠠ (kökeqota), from ᠬᠥᠬᠡ (köke, “dark blue; (hist.) green, grue”) + ᠬᠣᠲᠠ (qota, “town, city”), given to the settlement by Altan Khan in the 1580s. His previous palace and monastery established outside modern Baotou in 1572 bore the same name, although it is now frequently connected to the nearby Daqing Mountains instead, whose name is similarly ambiguous between blue and green.
Senses: examples: text: The assemblage of stone artifacts at Dingcun represents a very important link in the evolution of China's primitive cultures. It succeeded the Gehe culture and ushered in the Dayao culture of Hohhot in Inner Mongolia and the Emaokou culture in Huairen County, Shanxi Province.
ref: 1980, Jia Lanpo, 中国大陆上的远古居民 [Early Man in China], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 45:
english: Early Man in China
translation: Early Man in China
text: Then again, Sima Qian says that, after crossing the river, the Wall wound northward to touch a mountain north-west of Hohhot. But no wall winds northward here.
ref: 2008, John Man, The Great Wall, Bantam Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 35:
text: Mengniu can tap high-quality Aussie milk. And it is one in the eye for Yili, its bigger cross-town dairy rival in Hohhot, the regional capital of Inner Mongolia.
ref: 2019 December 7, “Cow cash”, in The Economist, volume 433, number 9172, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 61–62:
text: On National Security Education Day in April, students in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, were instructed on how to report suspicious activity.
ref: 2022 August 6, Chris Buckley, Steven Lee Myers, “In Turbulent Times, Xi Builds a Security Fortress for China, and Himself”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2022, Asia Pacific:
glosses: The capital city of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, in north-central China.
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Huhehaote
word: Hu-ho-hao-t'e
alt: Guisui, Kuei-sui
word: Kweisui
Related terms: Erenhot
thirdhand
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ænd
Forms: form: more thirdhand
form: most thirdhand
Etymology: From third + hand.
Senses: examples: text: Considering that we had heard of one another in a rather third-hand manner, I was surprised at the warmth and energy with which he received me.
ref: 1983 August 13, Michael Ross, “Our Common Bond: Gay Men in East Germany”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 5, page 18:
text: Harare, the capital, was abuzz on Tuesday with such so-called insider accounts, each one undoubtedly taking new plot twists as they went from secondhand to thirdhand and further on.
ref: 2008 April 2, The New York Times, “Talks May End Mugabe’s Rule in Zimbabwe”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having been relayed by two intermediate sources.
glosses: Having had two previous owners.
thirdhand
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -ænd
Forms: form: more thirdhand
form: most thirdhand
form: third-hand
Etymology: From third + hand.
Senses: glosses: By two intermediates.
Related terms: firsthand
secondhand
siltation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: siltations
Etymology: From silt + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: They are also heavily engineered upstream: a dam built upstream in neighboring India can critically stanch the flow of freshwater down here, increasingly the chances of salinity and siltation.
ref: 2009 March 20, Somini Sengupta, “In Silt, Bangladesh Sees Potential Shield Against Sea Level Rise”, in New York Times:
text: The roster of perils includes, but is not limited to: overfishing, which promotes the growth of algae that compete with corals; agricultural runoff, which also encourages algae growth; deforestation, which leads to siltation and reduces water clarity; and dynamite fishing, whose destructive potential would seem to be self-explanatory.
ref: 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 7, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company:
glosses: The (typically undesirable) increase in concentration and or of deposition of water-borne silt in a body of water.
Huhehaote
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hu-ho-hao-t'e
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 呼和浩特 (Hūhéhàotè).
Senses: examples: text: In July 1958 a rash of machinery plants began to make their own iron and steel from small modern furnaces. For example, the Hsin-sheng Machinery Plant in Huhohaote, Inner Mongolia, began producing pig iron for its own use on July 1 from two 13 cubic meter blast furnaces and announced the intention of installing two more, each of 55 cubic meter capacity during 1958; see Nei meng ku Jih-pao (Huhohaote), July 2, 1958, p. 1 (cit., WIRCC, no. 233, p. 5).
ref: [1973, M. Gardner Clark, “Footnotes”, in Development of China's Steel Industry and Soviet Technical Aid, Ithaca, N.Y.: New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 147, column 2:
text: Virtually all the capital cities have been the primate cities in each province. According to the population estimates in 1958, the exception to this generalization occurs only in the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, Shantung, and Szechwan. In Inner Mongolia the steel centre of Paotou was larger than the capital city of Huhohaote.
ref: [1974, Sen Dou Chang, “Problems of Urbanization”, in D. J. Dwyer, editor, China Now: an Introductory Survey with Readings, Longman, sourced from 'The million city of mainland China', Pacific Viewpoint, No. 9, 1968, 128–53., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 309:
text: These bronzes relate stylistically to pieces said to come from western Inner Mongolia. A recently excavated example dated to the fourth- second century B.C. was discovered at Huhehaote.
ref: 1981, P. R. S. Moorey, Emma C. Bunker, Edith Porada, Glenn Markoe, Ancient Bronzes Ceramics and Seals, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, →ISBN, page 160:
text: The commercial samples of Shanghai and Datong (Shanxi) market were the seed of Z. bungeanum and that of Huhehaote (Inner Mongolia) market was a mixture of seeds and pericarps of Z. schinifolium.
ref: 1997, Yu-Ping Liu, Chikashi Ito, Katsuko Komatsu, Tadato Tani, Dai-Wen Shi, Tsuneo Namba, “Pharmacognostical Studies on the Sino-Japanese Crude Drugs "Huajiao (花椒)" and "Sansho (山椒)" (Part 4) Determination of Botanical Origin of Chinese Crude Drug "Jiaomu (椒目)" by Scanning Electron Microscopy”, in Journal of Japanese Botany, page 93:
text: Located in the eastern section of Huhehaote City, the Huayan Sutra Pagoda goes by the far more formidable full name of Wanbu Huayan Jingta (Ten Thousand Volumes of Avata-masake Sutra Pagoda), but it is commonly called the White Tower.
ref: 2004, Treasures of China, Reader's Digest, →ISBN, page 33:
text: With a monthly income of $470, Liu, a retired worker living in the northern city of Huhehaote, finds the selections on Alibaba’s sites a bit expensive.
ref: 2018 April 6, Yue Wang, “Pinduoduo: The $1.5B Startup Challenging E-Commerce Giant Alibaba In China's Towns And Villages”, in Forbes, archived from the original on 26 Mar 2023, Asia:
glosses: Synonym of Hohhot: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
synonyms: word: Hohhot
extra: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name
Nei Mongol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nei Monggol
Etymology: A partial romanization of the Mandarin term 內蒙古／内蒙古 (Nèi Měnggǔ, literally “Nei Menggu”): the Mandarin term 內／内 (nèi) (inner, inside, internal) + Mongol (romanization of Mongolian Монгол (Mongol)/ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ (mongɣol))
Senses: examples: text: IV(1) Steppe Temperate steppe is widely distributed in the western part of Northeast China, most parts of Nei Mongol, the northern part of the Loess Plateau, the central part of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, and the montane areas of North China.
. . .
IV(2) Meadow-steppe This is a transitional vegetation type between grassland and forest and is mainly distributed in western Northeast China and eastern Nei Mongol with Stipa baicalensis, Aneurolepidium chinense, and Filifolium sibiricum.
ref: 1986, Zhao Songqiao (Chao Sung-chiao), Physical Geography of China, Science Press, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 76:
text: It also occurs in Mongolia and Soviet Siberia. It is produced mainly in Nei Mongol, Gansu, and Xinjiang.
ref: 1992, Steven Foster, Chongxi Yue, Herbal emissaries: bringing Chinese herbs to the West, page 118:
text: The northern regions, the east of Inner Mongolia, were then taken and, on 1 May 1947, the first of the autonomous regions that now exist in the People's Republic was declared. The first capital of Nei Mongol, therefore, was at Ulanhot.
ref: 2002, Tara Boland-Crewe, David Lea, The territories of the People's Republic of China, page 211:
text: Retziella and Atrypoidea are also very common in southern Nei Mongol as in eastern Yunnan [...]
ref: 2007, Wentang Zhang, Pei-ji Chen, Allison R. Palmer, Biostratigraphy of China, page 221:
glosses: Synonym of Inner Mongolia.
synonyms: word: Inner Mongolia
organular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to an organ of the body.
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to an organelle of the cell.
Related terms: organ
organelle
organule
melatonins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melatonin
jerboas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jerboa
homœograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homœographs
Senses: examples: text: This makes it unlikely that in them comist is a homœograph for comsist. But the words are very similar in shape, and careless reading of an original comsist may have resulted in substitution of comist.
Assuming such a difficult original, bigge, bete, boten, antendyn are substitutions guided by the context, and pinke on probably a gloss of a homœograph or misreading mynde.
ref: 1960, William Langland and George Kane, Piers Plowman, pages 154, 161, and 163 (University of London, Athlone Press)
roman: At XI 80 the difficult original whyes is confirmed by the occurrence of the homœograph weyes and the near-gloss priuytes among the variants.
glosses: Alternative spelling of homeograph.
homœographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homœograph
microhabitats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microhabitat
homoeograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homoeographs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of homeograph.
homeograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hŏmēʹōgrăf
ipa: /hɒˈmiːəʊɡɹæf/
Forms: form: homeographs
form: homoeograph
form: homœograph
Etymology: From homeo- (“similar”) + -graph (“writing”).
Senses: coordinate_terms: heterograph
homoiophone
homophone
homograph
homonym
glosses: A word similar — but not identical — in spelling to another.
coordinate_terms: mimeograph
photostat
glosses: A printed copy of a drawing produced by the process of homeography.
Related terms: heterography
homeography
mimeography
homeographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homeograph
homoeographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homoeograph
cross of Lorraine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crosses of Lorraine
Etymology: It is an emblem of Lorraine in eastern France. It was originally held to represent Joan of Arc and later used in various patriotic contexts. It is a modified Latin cross where the upper bar represents the sign bearing the Latin inscription INRI.
Senses: synonyms: Lorraine cross
cross of Anjou
glosses: A cross consisting of a vertical bar intersected by a shorter horizontal one above its midpoint, and again by another horizontal bar half the length of the first, intersecting the vertical bar midway between the larger horizontal bar and the top of the vertical bar: ⟨☨⟩.
wikipedia: Joan of Arc
Related terms: patriarchal cross
Latin cross
micturates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of micturate
crosses of Lorraine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross of Lorraine
micturating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of micturate
micturated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of micturate
mishyphenations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mishyphenation
minxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minx
minxes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of minx
mobling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of moble
mobles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of moble
ædifice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ædifices
Senses: examples: text: For the understanding whereof, we may consider, that there is in mens aptnesse to Society, a diversity of Nature, rising from their diversity of Affections; not unlike to that we see in stones brought together for building of an Ædifice.
ref: 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan : or, The Matter, Forme & Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiasticall and Civill (1904 reprint edited by Alfred Rayney Waller; link)
glosses: Archaic spelling of edifice.
ædifices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ædifice
necrotises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of necrotise
necrotised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of necrotise
needlecrafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of needlecraft
past imperfect tense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: past imperfect tenses
Senses: glosses: A grammatical tense which expresses the past as an action which was still going on at the point in time described, say someone "was ...ing" something, as opposed to the already accomplished counterpart past perfect tense (where the action took place even further in the past)
carpale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carpalia
Etymology: From New Latin ōs carpāle, from Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “wrist”).
Senses: examples: text: […] this being the case the bone in question contains at any rate the centrale, and I see no reason why the carpale 2 should have quite disappeared.
ref: 1891, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, page 201:
text: This indicates that the pisiform is really a secondary component which became the carpale during phylogenesis.
ref: 1973, Radomír Čihák, Ontogenesis of the skeleton and intrinsic muscles of the human hand and foot, page 36:
text: The dorsal interossei are sometimes found to originate more proximal at the base of the metacarpals or even at the carpalia.
ref: 2012, Jin Bo Tang, Peter C. Amadio, Jean Claude Guimberteau, Tendon Surgery of the Hand, page 10:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus, especially one of the series articulating with the metacarpals.
Related terms: carpal
quinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quinoid
form: most quinoid
Etymology: From quinone + -oid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Having a structure based upon a quinone.
quinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quinoids
Etymology: From quinone + -oid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any substance whose structure is based upon a quinone.
Derived terms: epoxyquinoid
holoquinoid
meriquinoid
quinoidization
miraculum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin mīrāculum. Doublet of milagro and miracle.
Senses: examples: text: What is a miracle? A miracle—miraculum, wonder, something that astonishes—is simply a thing out of the common course, and is no more an exhibition of power than the ordinary operations of nature. […] If a sick man, almost too feeble to move a limb, should all at once rise from his bed, bid his doctor and nurse farewell, and go to work in his field, that would be a miracle, a miraculum, a most astonishing occurrence.
ref: 1857 October, J. A. Nash, M. P. Parish, “Speculations on the Origin of Plants. By David Rice, M.D.”, in The Plough, the Loom, and the Anvil. […], volume X, number 4, New York, N.Y.: J. A. Nash & M. P. Parish, footnote by editors, page 206:
text: [W]hat is there wonderful in these ever-present spirit-agencies and intelligent wills, whilst working under God every material force, changing at any moment whether perceptibly or imperceptibly the direction of the material forces they wield; what miraculum would there be if every drop of rain is guided or shot through air by a living power?
ref: 1869, Benjamin Place [pseudonym; Edward Thring], chapter VI, in Thoughts on Life-Science, London; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, pages 73–74:
text: It’s a miraculum she warn’t tored all into little pieces no bigger dan a wash tub.
ref: 1881, Warren J[udson] Brier, A Soldier of Fortune: A Modern Comedy-Drama in Five Acts. […] (The Star Drama), Chicago, Ill.: T[homas] S[tewart] Denison, →OCLC, act III, scene i, page 30:
text: She had no time for the virtues of patience and we would hear the familiar sigh pitched to perfection and ‘All we need, all we want is a miraculum, just one small one.’ As the convoluted talk of illusory deities and miracles spiralled, we elder children sometimes deviated from my mother’s doctrine by demanding a straight answer as to how she saw her miracle manifesting.
ref: 2001 October, Bronwyn Cleland, “Deux Ex Machina”, in Room 14 at 8 O’Clock: An Anthology of Poetry & Short Stories (The Richmond Writers’ Circle Anthology 2001), Richmond, London: Richmond Writers’ Circle, →ISBN, page 40:
text: This theological interpretation is meaningfully illustrated with a miraculum, which according to Ebo (III, 1) happened in Güzkow. An enormous swarm of terrifying flies flew out of a pagan temple destroyed during Otto’s missions, embodying the residing evil forces. Chased away with prayers and signs of cross they ultimately flew to Rugia.
ref: 2020, Stanisław Rosik, “The space of the turning point in the context of its neighbours: Pomeranian communities within the circle of the pagan ‘international’”, in Stanisław Rosik, editor, Europe Reaches the Baltic: Poland and Pomerania in the Shaping of European Civilization (10ᵗʰ–12ᵗʰ Centuries) (Scripta Historica Europaea; 6), Wrocław: University of Wrocław, →ISBN, section 3 (Pomerania – Poland – Europe. In search of their own paths), subsection II (Pomerania in the zone of Polish expansion in the age of Bolesław III the Wrymouth. Conquest and Christianization), page 330:
glosses: A miracle.
doggish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more doggish
form: most doggish
Etymology: From Middle English doggische, doggissh; equivalent to dog + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The show's high point is Jim Nutt's "Pug," an image of a woman whose slightly doggish face and coiled hair has all the concentrated perfection of a Northern Renaissance portrait.
ref: 1998 April 12, Roberta Smith, “ART IN REVIEW; 'The Risk of Existence'”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: doggy
doglike
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a dog.
synonyms: currish
glosses: Resembling a mongrel dog, notably in its worst qualities.
glosses: Stylish in a showy way.
Derived terms: doggishly
doggishness
electricities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electricity
hematochemical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: haematochemical
Etymology: From hemato- + chemical.
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Relating to the chemical characteristics of blood
Related terms: hematochemistry
RIO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RIOs
Senses: examples: text: You'll pick up your RIO when you get to the ship, and if you don't, give me a call. I'll fly with you.
ref: 1986, Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr., Top Gun (motion picture), spoken by Viper (Tom Skerritt):
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of radar intercept officer.
metablogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metablog
metablogs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of metablog
millionairesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of millionairess
CAPCOM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CAPCOMs
form: capcom
form: Capcom
Senses: examples: text: Normally, the Capcom was a fellow astronaut. At Mission Control in Mission Elapsed Time 6:37, the man sitting at the fourth Houston seat in the second row of consoles at Mission Control was Capcom Michael Collins, who had been scrubbed from this very mission due to the occurrence of a bone spur on his spine.
ref: 2013, David West Reynolds, Wally Schirra, Gene Cernan, Apollo: The Epic Journey to the Moon, 1963-1972, Zenith Imprint, →ISBN, page 103:
text: “Apex One here. Do you read, Capcom?” Dad's voice said, “I read. Do you have the package?” “Roger that, Capcom. Let's do this thing.” When I'd rendezvoused with Tinkerbell, we'd done it in stages, adjusting location, velocities, and headings until I'd gotten a visual.
ref: 2014, Steven Gould, Exo: A Jumper Novel, Macmillan, →ISBN:
topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Clipping of capsule communicator; a NASA position, the liaison between an in-space crew and mission control.
Coordinate terms: FIDO
mioses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miosis
myoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myosis
mythicizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mythicize
mythicizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mythicize
reconnaissances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reconnaissance
mythicized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mythicize
needlepoints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of needlepoint
needlepoints
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of needlepoint
nephroses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nephrosis
neuropathologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuropathologist
nobilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nobility
notaphilists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of notaphilist
lagoonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lagoon + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a lagoon, especially one behind a coral reef
micromanipulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more micromanipulated
form: most micromanipulated
Etymology: From micro- + manipulated.
Senses: glosses: manipulated by micromanipulation
multiwalled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multiwalled
form: most multiwalled
form: multi-walled
Etymology: From multi- + walled.
Senses: glosses: Having multiple walls
neuroeconomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + economics.
Senses: glosses: A combination of neuroscience, economics and psychology used to study the decision-making process.
Related terms: neurofinance
phenylbutanoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phenyl + butanoic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to phenylbutanoic acid or its derivatives
phenylbutanoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenylbutanoic acids
Etymology: From phenyl + butanoic acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several phenyl derivatives of butanoic acid, but especially 4-phenylbutanoic acid, many of whose derivatives have biochemical activity
resolvases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resolvase
resolvase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resolvases
Etymology: From resolve + -ase?
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of enzymes that repress transposases
sonochemical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sono- + chemical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to sonochemistry
submillennial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sub-millennial
Etymology: From sub- + millennial.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to a time interval less than a thousand years
thymidylate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thymidylates
Etymology: From thymidylic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of thymidylic acid.
Derived terms: deoxythymidylate
thymidylic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A nucleotide composed of thymine, ribose and phosphoric acid.
prodromi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prodromus
oillets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oillet
oylet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oylets
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of oillet.
marquessate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marquessates
form: marquesate
Etymology: From marquess + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, the concrete charge of it).
Senses: glosses: The territory of a marquess, margrave or person of comparable rank.
Related terms: marquisate
sweatmeats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweatmeat
oylets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oylet
oncogeneses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oncogenesis
osculatories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of osculatory
overpaints
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overpaint
corequisite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corequisites
Etymology: From co- + requisite.
Senses: topics: education
coordinate_terms: prerequisite
glosses: A course that must be or can be taken concurrently with a given course.
examples: text: These three fix releases are corequisites of each other and must be applied together for all the fixes to work.
ref: 2011, Frank Tsui, Orlando Karam, Essentials of Software Engineering, page 332:
coordinate_terms: prerequisite
glosses: Any of a set of things that require each other.
camomiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camomile
cameralists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cameralist
oxygenizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oxygenize
oxygenizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oxygenize
oxygenized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oxygenize
oxygenises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oxygenise
oxygenising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oxygenise
oxygenised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oxygenise
Derived terms: hyperoxygenised
palatalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palatalization
palettizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of palettize
palettizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of palettize
palettized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of palettize
parallelizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of parallelize
parallelizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of parallelize
parrothouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parrothouse
passbands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passband
pelerines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pelerine
pestholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pesthole
phosphatizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of phosphatize
photocomposes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of photocompose
cah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cahs
Senses: qualifier: eastern Massachusetts
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of car.
cah
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Forms: form: cuh
Etymology: Borrowed from Jamaican Creole cah (“because”). Ultimately from English because.
Senses: examples: text: Gotta get more organised, 'cah fam, I hate rushing
ref: 2019, “Going Through It” (track 6), in Ignorance Is Bliss, performed by Skepta:
text: Man said 1 out of a benners lool bro sack your dealer & pick up off man cah that is brazyyy 🤣🤣
ref: 2020 October 14, @SHBK4L, Twitter:
glosses: Because.
cahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cah
photocomposing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of photocompose
photocomposed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of photocompose
hydroxyethyl methacrylate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroxyethyl methacrylates
form: HEMA
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An ester of ethylene glycol and methacrylic acid used as a monomer
piddlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of piddly: more piddly
piddliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of piddly: most piddly
pillheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pillhead
plasmodia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plasmodium
gaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gau
Plutarchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Plutarch
pneumonectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pneumonectomy
polypodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polypody
bhajee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bhajees
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bhaji.
poting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pote
poted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pote
precessions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of precession
prodigalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prodigality
prioresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prioress
prioritisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prioritisation
psalmwriters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psalmwriter
punnier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of punny: more punny
punniest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of punny: most punny
pudges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pudge
purgeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purgery
psychobiographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychobiography
psychobiographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From psycho- + biographic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to psychobiography.
pædophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pædophile
pædophiliacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pædophiliac
rachiotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rachiotomy
raspberrying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From raspberry + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The thought of July raspberrying brings recollections of heat, bugs, thorns, dead brush, nettles, and great stalks of wild tiger lilies scattered among the brambles.
ref: 1933, American Forests, volume 39, page 347:
text: Sitting down is the secret of good raspberrying. It is also easier on your pants and nerves, by the way. Raspberries call for a sitting posture.
ref: 1944, Robert P. Tristram Coffin, Mainstays of Maine, The Macmillan Company, published 1944, page 88:
text: During July and August, church, Sunday School, and prayer meeting returned, and there were strawberrying, swimming, the Pondlily Walk, blueberrying, raspberrying, blackberrying, […]
ref: 1957, Lura Beam, A Maine Hamlet, Yankee Books, page 138:
glosses: The act of gathering raspberries.
Related terms: bilberrying
blackberrying
blueberrying
strawberrying
raspberrying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From raspberry + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of raspberry
raspberried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of raspberry
rebasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Speaking in the Scottish Parliament, Matheson said that the current deal (due to finish in March 2025) requires ministers and Abellio to revisit the level of government subsidy for the remaining five years of the contract, and to determine whether additional money should be paid. This process is known as rebasing.
ref: 2020 January 2, “Abellio to lose ScotRail franchise three years early”, in Rail, page 12:
glosses: present participle and gerund of rebase
rebasing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rebasings
Senses: glosses: The act or process of something being rebased.
rebased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rebase
hold someone's feet to the fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holds someone's feet to the fire
form: holding someone's feet to the fire
form: held someone's feet to the fire
form: held someone's feet to the fire
Etymology: From the implied threat of physical harm by burning.
Senses: examples: text: In this letter the governor explained that he was being threatened with impeachment and needed all the jobs in his gift to stave off such proceedings and to "hold the feet of members of the legislature to the fire."
ref: 1917 September 3, “Governor Sued for Large Sum”, in Evening Independent, Florida, US, retrieved 17 Apr 2009, page 3:
text: We want to hold the Administration's feet to the fire to secure a decent agreement.
ref: 1988 March 5, Neil A. Lewis, “U.S. Insists Soviet Stop Sending Arms to Afghan Regime”, in New York Times, retrieved 17 Apr 2009:
text: He kept tabs on presidents, monitored members of Congress, held bureaucrats' feet to the fire.
ref: 2005 Dec. 19, Julia Keller, "Today's journalists don't know Jack—but ought to" (obituary for Jack N. Anderson), Chicago Tribune (retrieved 17 Apr. 2009)
glosses: To maintain personal, social, political, or legal pressure on someone in order to induce them to comply with one's desires; to hold someone accountable for their actions.
recludes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reclude
recluding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reclude
reinters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reinter
reinterring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reinter
reintering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of reinterring.
reguli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regulus
reimportations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reimportation
retinopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retinopathy
unurbanised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + urbanised.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unurbanized.
unstandardised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unstandardized.
unurbanized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + urbanized.
Senses: glosses: Not urbanized.
unstandardized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + standardized.
Senses: glosses: Not standardized.
Man Upstairs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Man Upstairs
Etymology: From the traditional Biblical notions of a masculine God and a Heaven located above the Earth.
Senses: examples: text: A rhapsodic inquiry greets us from the TV screen and the radio: "Have you talked to the Man Upstairs?" God is a friendly neighbor who dwells in the apartment just above. Call on him any time, especially if you are feeling a little blue.
ref: 1972, Harold Edward Fey, The Christian Century Reader:
text: "Oh, you know, the Man upstairs has been good to this person." I kept on pressing for an explanation. Finally I was told, "Oh, you know, the Man upstairs—He's the One who answers prayer."
ref: 2000, Lee Roberson, Diamonds in the Rough:
text: God can't be found in unsanctified imaginations or in the caricatures of pop culture. He is not The Man Upstairs. He does not "help those who help themselves."
ref: 2007, Ellen Santilli Vaughn, Time Peace: Living Here and Now with a Timeless God:
glosses: God.
levo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: laevo-
form: lævo-
form: lev-
Etymology: From Latin laevus (“left”).
Senses: examples: text: levorotatory
glosses: Left; on the left; toward the left.
examples: text: levofloxacin, levoglucose
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Denoting a levorotatory form of an enantiomer.
Synonyms: sense: left
word: sinistro-
sense: denoting a levorotatory form
word: L-
Coordinate terms: sense: denoting a levorotatory form
word: race-
levomenthol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From levo- + menthol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The levorotatory enantiomer of menthol.
picturesquenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picturesqueness
buttface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buttfaces
Etymology: From butt + face. Compare butthead and butterface.
Senses: glosses: A person with an ugly face.
examples: text: Since we seem to be gittin' into some slightly more narsty pet names... My sister called her ex-husband "Butt Face" (maybe that's why he's an "ex" now.)
ref: 1983 July 15, ladtmc, “Pet Names”, in net.singles (Usenet), retrieved 04 Oct 2018, message-ID <ihldt.1793>:
text: "You've made your point, buttface," Allen snarled. "Now let me make mine."
ref: 1999, Charles Meyer, Deathangel:
text: "Okay, he's a buttface," says Darryl, pleased with his cleverness. "That's it!" shouts his mom. "You're in your room for the rest of the day."
ref: 2001, Robert J MacKenzie, Setting limits with your strong-willed child:
text: "You're not making this easy, Kyle! My name's Peter Griffin, I'm a big, fat, dumb buttface!"
ref: 2007 February 18, Mark Hentemann, “The Tan Aquatic with Steve Zissou”, in Family Guy, season 5, episode 11, spoken by Kyle (Keir Gilchrist):
text: "Who's Jamal?" "My friend. Don't you have any friends yet, buttface?"
ref: 2007, Lily Archer, The Poison Apples:
glosses: A dislikable person, a disagreeable person.
Synonyms: sense: ugly person
word: ugly person
sense: disagreeable person
word: jerk
lamestream
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lamestream
form: most lamestream
form: lame-stream
Etymology: Blend of lame + mainstream
Senses: examples: text: I think my Black Creek ancestors, and current rural Afrindian family members would take issue with being lumped into the prosumer/linear lamestream society...
ref: 1998 October 13, Omoya, “wondering...”, in alt.native (Usenet), message-ID <19981012205907.02009.00000368@ng99.aol.com>:
text: Knowing over 90% of Americans believe in God, the lamestream media is complicit in the effort to cover up the intentional subversion of liberty and freedom in this nation that was once the beacon of hope to the rest of the world.
ref: 2008 October 22, Alfred Eugene Pearl, The Gates of Hell, Xulon Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 47:
text: Thank goodness for social networking sites like this and new media sites which have allowed us to get around the "lamestream" media and present the facts.
ref: 2010 June 1, Sarah Palin, “Is It Any Wonder Why We Call Them “Lame”?”, in Facebook, retrieved 27 Jan 2013:
topics: media
qualifier: usually of
glosses: Mainstream.
Derived terms: lamestreamer
nutless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nut + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without nuts (the fruit).
glosses: Without the use of nuts (the mechanical fastener).
glosses: Without nuts (testicles); cowardly or castrated.
quiet coaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quiet coach
peanut brittle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peanut brittles
Senses: glosses: A type of brittle (confection) containing peanuts in a hard toffee.
quintuply
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From quintuple + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a quintuple way; five times or in five pieces, etc.
climbing maidenhair fern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: climbing maidenhair ferns
Senses: glosses: Lygodium microphyllum, an Old World tropical fern (also naturalized in Jamaica and Florida) that grows as a vine.
chromonemata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chromonema
untemplated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + templated.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Not templated.
STL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: STLs
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: Initialism of studio transmitter link.
STL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: business
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
coordinate_terms: ESL
glosses: Abbreviation of St. Louis (Saint Louis)
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Standard Template Library, a set of algorithms and data structures for C++.
STL
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
antonyms: FTL
glosses: Initialism of slower than light, sublumic, moving slower than the speed of light in the void.
STL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Sacrae Theologiae Licentiatus (“Licentiate in Sacred Theology”)
wots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wot
wotting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wot, wott, and wotte
wotted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wot, wott, and wotte
famciclovir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fæmˈsaɪ.kloʊˌvɪɹ/
Forms: form: FCV
Etymology: From [Term?] + -ciclovir (“bicyclic heterocycle compound”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A prodrug form C₁₄H₁₉N₅O₄ of the antiviral agent penciclovir that after oral administration is converted to penciclovir by cellular kinases and that is used for the treatment of shingles and herpes genitalis.
penciclovir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛnˈsaɪ.kloʊˌvɪɹ/
Etymology: From (iso)pen(tyl) + -ciclovir (“bicyclic heterocycle compound”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A guanine analogue antiviral drug C₁₀H₁₅N₅O₃ that is used mostly topically for the treatment of recurrent herpes labialis.
Related terms: famciclovir
disassemblable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From disassemble + -able.
Senses: antonyms: assemblable#Adjective
reassemblable#Adjective
coordinate_terms: unreassemblable#Adjective
glosses: That can be disassembled.
Related terms: assemblability
moonbattery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From moonbat + -ery.
Senses: glosses: The behaviour or attitudes of moonbats; left-wing lunacy.
washpot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: washpots
Etymology: From wash + pot.
Senses: glosses: A pot which holds water for washing.
washpots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of washpot