cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
paleotetraploid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From paleo- + tetraploid.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: That became tetraploid in the distant past
Related terms: paleotetraploidy
paleotrophodynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From paleo- + trophodynamics.
Senses: glosses: Ancient trophodynamics
pathoadaption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of pathoadaptation.
pathospheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pathosphere
paullinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paullinates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of paullinic acid
pedostratigraphies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedostratigraphy
pelletisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pelletisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pelletization.
peptidomimic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peptidomimics
Etymology: From peptido- + mimic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any peptide that take part in peptidomimicry
peptidomimics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peptidomimic
peptoglycans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peptoglycan
pharmacokineticist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pharmacokineticists
Senses: glosses: A specialist in pharmacokinetics
photoillumination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photoilluminations
Etymology: From photo- + illumination.
Senses: glosses: illumination by light, typically as part of a manufacturing process
photopyrone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photopyrones
Etymology: From photo- + pyrone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The ketone 3-hexyl-4-hydroxy-6-(2-methylpropyl)pyran-2-one (and related compounds) that at as quorum sensing signals in Photorhabdus
photopyrones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photopyrone
phytophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phyto- + -philic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to phytophiles
pneumatonometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of pneumotonometry.
pneumofibrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pneumo- + fibrosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: pulmonary fibrosis
portoenteric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From porto- + enteric.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the portal vein and the intestines
pregelatinised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + gelatinised.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pregelatinized.
crash tackle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crash tackles
Senses: glosses: A powerfully hard tackle in which the opponent is slammed into.
crash tackles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crash tackle
drop one's bundle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drops one's bundle
form: dropping one's bundle
form: dropped one's bundle
form: dropped one's bundle
Senses: glosses: To lose one's cool; to suddenly break out in anger.
drops one's bundle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of drop one's bundle
dropping one's bundle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of drop one's bundle
dropped one's bundle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drop one's bundle
scrum feed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrum feeds
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: The action, performed by the scrum-half, of feeding the ball into the scrum.
scrum feeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrum feed
co-selector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-selectors
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A person involved with others in selecting team players.
co-selectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of co-selector
reserve grade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reserve grades
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A second division in a sporting league or competition.
reserve grades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reserve grade
reserve grader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reserve graders
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A player in the reserve grade.
reserve graders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reserve grader
pre-match
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: It was a horrendous challenge and utterly brainless given the pre-match talk from his manager about keeping their heads and being aware of VAR, which is not in use in the Championship.
ref: 2025 January 3, Barney Ronay, “Crystal Palace through after Millwall keeper’s red for head-high tackle on Mateta”, in The Guardian:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Taking place before a match; preliminary to a match.
scrooging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scrooge
scrooged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scrooge
pregelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + gelled.
Senses: glosses: gelled in advance
presbytinan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presbytinans
Senses: glosses: Any leaf monkey of the genus Presbytis.
presbytinans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of presbytinan
protococcidian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protococcidians
Senses: glosses: Any protozoan of the order Protococcidiorida
protococcidians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protococcidian
peaked rooves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peaked roof
pteriodophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of pteridophyte.
quarter-hourly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: With the utmost precaution we crept upon the summit, and down the breast-work towards the onter edge of the rampart, when the sentinel made his quarter-hourly cry of “Sentinelle, prenez garde à vous,” similar to our “All's well"
ref: 1827, Edward Boys, “Narrative of a Captivity and Adventures in France and Flanders, between the Years 1803 and 1809”, in William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, John Morley, editors, The Literary Gazette:
text: For example, currently, smart meters can be configured to generate hourly, half-hourly, or quarter-hourly readings
ref: 2011, Bhuvan Unhelkar, Green IT Strategies and Applications: Using Environmental Intelligence:
glosses: Occurring every fifteen minutes.
quarter-hourly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: We can furnish Bells, Tubes or Tongs, which can be attached to any Clock, arranged to strike quarter hourly the Westminster or Whittington Chimes
ref: 1906, Boyd's Blue Book: A Directory from Selected Streets of Philadelphia and Surroundings:
text: Only upon this quiet there broke quarter-hourly the chimes of the Church of the Sorbonne, completing, at the hour, a bar of music.
ref: 1910, Harper's Magazine, volume 120, page 73:
text: These projecting spikes passed an opening in the dial quarter hourly and at such times could be pushed in. If any spikes were left protruding in the morning the watchman had to give a satisfactory explanation.
ref: 1915, Factory, the Magazine of Management, volume 14, page 233:
glosses: Every fifteen minutes.
radiocapitellar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From radio- + capitellar.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: relating to the radius and the capitellum
Derived terms: radiocapitellar line
ploughman's-spikenard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ploughman's spikenard.
horse-heal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of horseheal.
radiosensibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From radio- + sensibility.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of radiosensitivity.
synonyms: word: radiosensitivity
Related terms: radiosensible
rectovesicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of rectovesical.
retroinsular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From retro- + insular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Behind the insula of the cerebral cortex
revulsant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revulsants
Etymology: From revulse + -ant.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of revulsive.
synonyms: word: revulsive
revulsants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revulsant
rhamnogalactan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhamnogalactans
Etymology: From rhamno- + galactan.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A polysaccharide composed of rhamnose and galactose uits
rhamnogalactans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhamnogalactan
star thistle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: star thistles
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of starthistle.
star thistles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of star thistle
star-thistle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: star-thistles
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of starthistle.
star-thistles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of star-thistle
rhizophytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rhizophyte + -ic.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to rhizophytes
sabaigrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sabaigrasses
Senses: glosses: The Asiatic perennial grass Eulaliopsis binata
semicarbacide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of semicarbazide.
semilatent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + latent.
Senses: glosses: Partially latent
semiregulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + regulated.
Senses: glosses: Partly regulated
seroconcordance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sero- + concordance.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The condition of being seroconcordant.
sporopolleninous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sporopollenin + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or composed of sporopollenin
squalenoylate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: squalenoylates
form: squalenoylating
form: squalenoylated
form: squalenoylated
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: To react with a squalenoyl group
Related terms: squalenoylation
squalenoylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squalenoylations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Reaction with a squalenoyl group
Related terms: squalenoylate
squalenoylated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of squalenoylate
squalenoylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Modified by addition of a squalenoyl group
stemwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stemwoods
Senses: glosses: The wood of the stem of a tree
stygophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stygophile
subdigastric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æstɹɪk
Etymology: From sub- + digastric.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of jugulodigastric.
synonyms: word: jugulodigastric
sublocalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sublocalisations
Etymology: From sub- + localisation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sublocalization.
sublocalisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sublocalisation
submaritime
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + maritime.
Senses: glosses: inland from a maritime region
subosteoclastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + osteoclastic.
Senses: glosses: Beneath an osteoclastic region
subsegmented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + segmented.
Senses: glosses: Having subsegments
sympatectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of sympathectomy.
synaptiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having the form of, or in the manner of a synapse
synaptopathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From synapto- + -pathic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to synaptopathy
Related terms: synaptopathology
synaptopathology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From synapto- + pathology.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The pathology of synaptopathies
Ganus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ganuses
Etymology: Reduced form of Gurganus.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Cossaei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A warlike tribe of Susiana.
nonexist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nonexists
form: nonexisting
form: nonexisted
form: nonexisted
Etymology: Probably a back-formation from nonexistent. By surface analysis, non- + exist.
Senses: examples: text: Nothing is by the laws of the mind to be held as having no beginning, which we can rationally conceive to have once nonexisted and then begun.
ref: 1860, Charles Kittredge True, The Elements of Logic, page 167:
text: The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the purely hypothetical. They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each nonexisted in an entirely different way.
ref: 1974, Stanisław Lem, translated by Michael Kandel, The Cyberiad:
text: Like the Buddha, samsara and Nirvana neither exist nor nonexist, nor both exist and nonexist, nor neither exist nor nonexist.
ref: 1974, John Boyer Noss, Man’s Religions, fifth edition, page 160:
text: Of something that does not satisfy the presupposition of the pair exists and nonexists, and so neither exists nor nonexists, we cannot ask why it exists.
ref: 1993, Daniel Kolak, Self, Cosmos, God, page 370:
glosses: To not exist; to unexist.
nonexists
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nonexist
nonexisted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nonexist
table spice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: table spices
Senses: glosses: Any spice used by diners to season their food, rather than during cooking.
table spices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of table spice
unsuperscripted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + superscripted.
Senses: glosses: Not superscripted.
unsuperstitiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unsuperstitiously
form: most unsuperstitiously
Etymology: From unsuperstitious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unsuperstitious manner.
culvertail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: culvertails
Etymology: From culver + tail.
Senses: topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
nautical
transport
glosses: A dovetail joint.
culvertails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of culvertail
culvertailed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From culver + tailed.
Senses: topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
nautical
transport
glosses: dovetailed
quoad hoc
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Latin [Term?].
Senses: glosses: as far as this
quoad omnia
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Latin [Term?].
Senses: glosses: in respect of all things
evenemential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more evenemential
form: most evenemential
Etymology: From French événementiel.
Senses: examples: text: Rather than finding that thought "disturbing," Clausewitz would suggest that any science of war that left nothing to chance would founder as the "individual in history" made the decisions that are the stuff of "evenemential," or narrative, military history, of the action-reaction phenomena of organized social violence.
ref: 1984, Ronald Hoffman, Peter J. Albert, Arms and Independence: The Military Character of the American Revolution, page 218:
text: Unlike evenemential temporality, which captures historicity in real time, we are dealing with a deferred temporality, the recording of an event that has already happened.
ref: 2015, Flavia Santoianni, The Concept of Time in Early Twentieth-Century Philosophy, →ISBN, page 178:
text: Sometimes, for example when he is speaking about the 'evenemential field', the event appears as objective: the evenemential field is supposedly the same for all historians.
ref: 2017, Jacques Rancière, Emiliano Battista, Dissenting Words: Interviews with Jacques Rancière, →ISBN, page 62:
glosses: Pertaining to events, as directly experienced, as opposed to ideas about them.
shity
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈʃaɪti/
Forms: form: more shity
form: shitier
form: most shity
form: shitiest
Etymology: From shite + -y. Compare shitty.
Senses: examples: text: But I have to warn you that this probably one of the shitiest bits of real estate in the world.
ref: 2003, Trooper, The Golden Kris: S.A.S. Malaya Mission, page 207:
text: But then again, I wouldn't say I'm a shity grandkid considering how much I've done in life.
ref: 2003, Alexander Hart, Time in Question:
text: That is the most shitiest feeling that anyone can have, especially within their souls.
ref: 2012, George I. Duhart, Star Depth: Rise of the Atlanteans, page 241:
text: What are you assigning your shitiest referees to the England games?
ref: 2012, Andy Dunn, Ungentlemanly Conduct, page 265:
text: For Davie Prentice, a shitey day was just about to get shitier.
ref: 2016, Les Wood, Dark Side of the Moon:
glosses: Alternative form of shitey.
theopaschite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theopaschites
Senses: glosses: One who subscribes to the doctrine of theopaschism.
theopaschites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of theopaschite
bookshoppy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bookshoppy
form: most bookshoppy
Etymology: From bookshop + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or typical of a bookshop.
outclearing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outclearings
form: out-clearing
Etymology: From out + clearing. Compare inclearing.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of clearing out.
topics: business
finance
glosses: The sending of cheques to a clearing house to be cleared.
Derived terms: outclearing book
moralled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of moral
moraling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of moral
moralling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of moral
moraled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of moral
outclearings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outclearing
gousty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gousty
form: most gousty
Senses: glosses: Dreary.
glosses: Gusty.
method to one's madness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methods to one's madness
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes, I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter; and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is method in his madness.
ref: 1920 October, Agatha Christie, “The Arrest”, in The Mysterious Affair at Styles […], New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, published March 1927, page 218:
text: "Why is my child not reading in his own book? I bought the books—you see that he reads them!" talked to these parents and convinced them that there really was a "method to my madness". I wanted attractive pre-primers—small books with easy reading material – something to attract his attention to books. Give the child confidence in his first attempts.
ref: 1938, Henry John Otto, compiler, Changes in Classroom Teaching, 1936-1937: The Administrative Problems, W. K. Kellogg Foundation, page 15:
text: Usually there is a method to my madness. I usually have a profound reason as to why I write. Tonight, I do not.
ref: 2009, Christopher Black, Memoir of a Teenage Love Affair, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 13:
text: I would also like to think that there is, indeed, a method to my madness, and that stems from being a natural at “out of the box” thinking.
ref: 2010, Charles B. Lawless, The Tyro Dossier: Beginning Principles for Young Asset Managers to ..., Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 26:
text: Eventually I came up with my idea as there's always been a method to my madness.
ref: 2011, Ray S. Coco, The Noblest Volume Ii: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 198:
text: If 21 days seems like an arbitrary amount of time, let me explain the method to my madness. We've all heard the old adage that it takes 21 days to either make or break a habit, and I've found this to be true in many areas of my life.
ref: 2015, Roger Lipp, Happy Habits for Every Couple: 21 Days to a Better Relationship, Harvest House Publishers, →ISBN, page 35:
synonyms: method in the madness
glosses: A well-thought-out reason for an individual's seemingly illogical behavior.
drop down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drops down
form: dropping down
form: dropped down
form: dropped down
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To sail, move, or row down a coast, or down a river to the sea.
examples: text: The glass bottle dropped down to the ground where it shattered.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drop, down.
Derived terms: dropdown
drop-down
someone's number is up
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Even in this hopeless situation, I don't feel like my number's up. I have to reach the next level, get closer to her. I don't have time to play with the monsters down here. I'm in the eye of a storm of howls and roars, but I'm different[…]
ref: 2014 December 16, Fujino Omori, Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, Vol. 1 (light novel), Yen Press LLC, →ISBN:
text: So I just thought, well, my number's up. I'm going to get some stupid assignment that nobody wants.
ref: 2012 July 3, DW Gibson, Not Working: People Talk About Losing a Job and Finding Their Way in Today's Changing Economy, Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: It is someone's time to die, or to undergo some other difficult experience.
Related terms: someone's time is up
poor's roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: Scots law
glosses: The list of poor people who are litigants, but unable to pay the expenses of litigation, and therefore allowed to sue in forma pauperis.
western cattle egret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: western cattle egrets
Senses: glosses: Bubulcus ibis is a species of heron (family Ardeidae) found in the tropics, subtropics and warm temperate zones.
Parris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Paris
form: Parish
form: Parrish
form: Pares
Senses: glosses: An English surname from the Celtic Parisi tribe of Yorkshire, the name of uncertain origin. Koch proposes derivation from Proto-Celtic *kʷert (“make, cause”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer- (compare Welsh peri).
glosses: An English habitational surname, a variant of Paris.
glosses: A French habitational surname, a variant of Paris.
glosses: A Belgian surname, a variant of Parys.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: Misspelling of Paris.
thaba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thabas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Thaba.
purrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purrels
form: purrell
form: burelle
Senses: glosses: A transverse stripe or bar, made by one or several weft threads, in a web of cloth, to be woven at the beginning and end of a piece, as evidence of its full length, and to prevent its subsequent fraudulent shortening
purrell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purrells
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of purrel.
purrels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purrel
purrells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purrell
Saki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian سَاقِی (sâqi), from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
Senses: glosses: Pseudonym of British author Hector Hugh Munro (1870–1916).
Derived terms: Sakian
Sakiesque
Swabue
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /swɑːˈbwɛ/
Etymology: From the Postal Romanization of Teochew 汕尾 (suan³ bhuê²).
Senses: examples: text: The first discovery of the ore was near Swabue in 1909; it contained 30 to 40 per cent.^([sic]) of tungsten.
ref: 1924, Decennial Reports: On the Trade, Industries, etc., of the Ports Open to Foreign Commerce, and on the Condition and Development of the Treaty Port Provinces (1912–21), volumes I: Northern and Yangtze Ports, Shanghai: Statistical Department of the Inspectorate General of Customs, pages 176–177:
text: British missionaries had been driven out of Swabue as early as 1925, at the beginning of the Hong Kong-Canton strike.
ref: 1977, Roy Hofheinz, Jr., The Broken Wave: The Chinese Communist Peasant Movement, 1922-1928, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 264:
text: Up to December 13, the Italian priests in Swabue went unmolested—they had even been invited to stay on and collaborate.
ref: 1985, Fernando Galbiati, P'eng P'ai and the Hai-Lu-Feng Soviet, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 317:
text: When they take him out in morning they lead him on short winding road by the sea to Swabue. The general's guerrillas cannot attack because they don't have equipment and besides there are hardly no trees or places to hide on way to Swabue.
ref: 2003, Dan Pinck, Journey to Peking: A Secret Agent in Wartime China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 146:
text: However, the Kowloon Customs argued that although the collection of annual tax from these steam tugs was not under its jurisdiction, it also argued that because Hoifung county, where Swatow and Swabue were located, was a much poorer location, where trading activities could not compare with Tungkun, it was reasonable for Zhou to pay less annual tax than Chen did.
ref: 2017, Henry Sze Hang Choi, The Remarkable Hybrid Maritime World of Hong Kong and the West River Region in the Late Qing Period, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 191:
text: It costs 3.6 h to get to Qiongzhou Strait and the south of Fujian Province, and the maximum wave can reach 1.5-2.0 m. 2.6 h later, the region of Hong Kong, Macao and Swabue of Guangdong Province can detect the lead waves, and the maximum wave in this region is about 2.5 m.
ref: 2017, Li Zhiguang (李智广) et al., “华南沿海地区海啸影响数值模拟与分析 [Numerical Simulation and Analysis of Tsunami Impacts on the Coastal Area of South China]”, in 武汉大学学报 ● 信息科学版, volume 42, number 12, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:
english: Numerical Simulation and Analysis of Tsunami Impacts on the Coastal Area of South China
translation: Numerical Simulation and Analysis of Tsunami Impacts on the Coastal Area of South China
glosses: Synonym of Shanwei: the Teochew-derived name.
synonyms: word: Shanwei
extra: the Teochew-derived name
Related terms: Swatow
tagmatize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tagmatizes
form: tagmatizing
form: tagmatized
form: tagmatized
Senses: glosses: To form tagmata by tagmosis
tagmatized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tagmatize
teleconnective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tele- + connective.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or exhibiting teleconnection
tephrostratigraphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tephro- + stratigraphic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to tephrostratigraphy
tephrostratigraphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tephrostratigraphies
Etymology: From tephro- + stratigraphy.
Senses: glosses: The study and dating of pyroclastic layers (tephra) of volcanic ash
Related terms: tephrochronology
tephrostratigraphic
thermocirculator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermocirculators
Etymology: From thermo- + circulator.
Senses: glosses: A device that heats and circulates a fluid
thermocirculators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thermocirculator
toxinemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toxinemias
Etymology: From toxin + -emia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of a toxin in the blood
toxinemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toxinemia
trabecularisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trabecularisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of trabecularization.
trabecularised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of trabecularized.
transcriptosomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to transcriptosomes
transpirability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being transpirable
tropheine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tropheines
Senses: glosses: Any cichlid of the tribe Tropheini
tropheines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tropheine
FRJ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Uncommon form of FRY.
SFRJ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: SFRY
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Socialist Federal Republic of Jugoslavia, official name of Yugoslavia: a former Communist country in Southeast Europe that existed from 1943 until 1992.
FPRY
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: FPRJ
form: F.P.R.J.
form: F.P.R.Y.
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia.
ulnotrochlear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒkliə(ɹ)
Etymology: From ulno- + trochlear.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or connecting the ulna and a trochlea
underadditive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From under- + additive.
Senses: glosses: Less than additive
overadditive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From over- + additive.
Senses: glosses: More than additive
underadditivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + additivity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being underadditive
underextraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + extraction.
Senses: glosses: Less than the normal or optimum amount of extraction
unelectrospinnable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + electrospinnable.
Senses: glosses: Not electrospinnable
unfibrilized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + fibrilized.
Senses: glosses: Not fibrilized
unglucosylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + glucosylated.
Senses: glosses: Not glucosylated
Related terms: unglycosylated
unmulched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + mulched.
Senses: glosses: Not mulched
vacularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of vascularity.
vacutained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Stored in a vacutainer
vanilomycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of valinomycin.
vanin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vanins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a particular group of proteins similar to biotinidase
vanins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vanin
vanomycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of vancomycin.
veratryl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: veratryls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent (3,4-dimethoxyphenyl)methyl radical
Derived terms: veratryl alcohol
vicariated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: separated due to vicariance
bullgine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbʊld͡ʒaɪn/
Forms: form: bullgines
form: bulgine
Etymology: Blend of bull + engine
Senses: examples: text: Undoubtedly they were leaning far out of the windows, peering for signals, in momentary relaxation from the strain of nursing the slipping "bullgines" up the hill.
ref: 1929, The Conductor and Brakeman, volumes 46-47, page 425:
glosses: A steam locomotive.
victoriapithecid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: victoriapithecids
Senses: glosses: Any fossil primate of the family †Victoriapithecidae
victoriapithecids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of victoriapithecid
walleminol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A toxic metabolite of the wallemiomycetes
walleminone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A toxic metabolite of the wallemiomycetes
wallemiomycete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wallemiomycetes
Senses: glosses: Any fungus of the class Wallemiomycetes
wallemiomycetes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wallemiomycete
wilfordine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The insecticidal alkaloid [(1S,3R,18S,19R,20R,21R,22S,23R,24R,25R,26S)-20,22,23,25-tetraacetyloxy-21-(acetyloxymethyl)-15,26-dihydroxy-3,15,26-trimethyl-6,16-dioxo-2,5,17-trioxa-11-azapentacyclo[16.7.1.01,21.03,24.07,12]hexacosa-7(12),8,10-trien-19-yl] benzoate present in Tripterygium wilfordii
wingform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wingforms
Senses: glosses: The particular formation of an insect's wings
wingforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wingform
xenoimmunization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xenoimmunizations
Etymology: From xeno- + immunization.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Immunization via an antigen from a different species.
Related terms: xenoimmunize
xenoimmunize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: xenoimmunizes
form: xenoimmunizing
form: xenoimmunized
form: xenoimmunized
Etymology: From xeno- + immunize.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: To immunize via xenoimmunization
xenoimmunized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of xenoimmunize
xenotolerance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From xeno- + tolerance.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Tolerance to an antigen from another species.
Related terms: xerotolerance
Otaru
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Japanese 小樽 (Otaru).
Senses: glosses: A port city in Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan.
clonal selections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clonal selection
clonalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clonalization
closed intervals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of closed interval
clostridiopeptidases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clostridiopeptidase
clothes driers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clothes drier
retransliterations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retransliteration
clue by fours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clue by four
clumped isotopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clumped isotope
clupeocephalans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clupeocephalan
cluster figs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cluster fig
clusterbourachs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clusterbourach
clusterbùrachs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clusterbùrach
uncombativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uncombative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being uncombative.
gachapon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gachapon
form: gachapons
form: gashapon
Etymology: From Japanese ガチャポン (gachapon).
Senses: examples: text: “Gachapon” refers both to vending machines and the capsule toys they spit out. When you crack open one of these plastic eggs, you’ll never know what you’ll get even though it’s part of a defined set of toys.
ref: 2017 August 19, Tim Hornyak, “Gachapon: Tracing the evolution of Japan's colorful toy capsules”, in Japan Times:
text: “Gashapon” or “gachapon” are stacked on top of each other from Gacha x2. The name “gachapon” derived from the sound of the wheel turning (“gacha”) and when the toy capsule lands in the collection tray (“pon”). It is very similar to America’s toy-vending machines, except these are known for their unique toys,
ref: 2019 September 17, Delaney Tran, “Tasting Japan in Long Beach”, in DIG Mag, archived from the original on 14 Oct 2019:
glosses: Synonym of gacha (“a small toy sold in a plastic capsule; a vending machine selling such toys”).
synonyms: word: gacha
extra: a small toy sold in a plastic capsule; a vending machine selling such toys
gashapon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gashapon
form: gashapons
Senses: examples: text: Gashapon can be found almost anywhere, from supermarkets and candy stores to drive-ins and game centers.
ref: 2004, Kazuhisa Fujie, Martin Foster, The Gundam Explorer, page 136:
text: “Gashapon” or “gachapon” are stacked on top of each other from Gacha x2. The name “gachapon” derived from the sound of the wheel turning (“gacha”) and when the toy capsule lands in the collection tray (“pon”). It is very similar to America’s toy-vending machines, except these are known for their unique toys,
ref: 2019 September 17, Delaney Tran, “Tasting Japan in Long Beach”, in DIG Mag, archived from the original on 14 Oct 2019:
glosses: Alternative form of gacha (“a small toy sold in a plastic capsule; a vending machine selling such toys”).
brutum fulmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bruta fulmina
form: fulmen brutum
Etymology: From Latin brutum (“stupid”) + fulmen (“lightning”), derived from a 1680 pamphlet by Thomas Barlow of that title, originally from a passage of Pliny's Natural History: "hinc bruta fulmina et vana" ("these senseless and ineffectual thunder-claps", intended as a literal description of lightning).
Senses: examples: text: ... it was a question only whether the one hundred and eighty inconsistent canons thus added to the Corpus Juris of the Church would remain a mere brutum fulmen, or whether they would be the source of endless litigation and schism.
ref: 1910, William Ainger Wigram, An Introduction to the History of the Assyrian Church, page 112:
text: Generally speaking the making of an order which will be a brutum fulmen serves no good purpose of justice.
ref: 1958, Peter Edward Nygh, Conflict of Laws in Australia, page 149:
text: The later order of May 8, 1984, purporting also to declare the same declaration of trust void and revoked, accomplished nothing. It was a brutum fulmen.
ref: 1987, Cal. Ct. App., Lazzaroni v. Larson:
topics: law
glosses: A judgement without effect.
examples: text: All These would have been Blasts of Wind, bruta Fulmina, no more, if the King had yielded ...
ref: 1733, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Dissertation Upon Parties, page 53:
text: 'But nobody heeds you, my worthy; it's mere waste of powder—shooting at emptiness, brutum fulmen—mere play-house thunder ...'
ref: 1824, William Henry Pyne, Wine and Walnuts, page 301:
text: ... he owed his success to the threat to march on the capital, which would have been a brutum fulmen had it been capable of withstanding a siege.
ref: 1840, Adolphus Slade, Travels in Germany and Russia, page 269:
glosses: An empty threat.
disease boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊt
Forms: form: disease boats
Senses: examples: text: The loading of diseases into disease-boats, of sins onto scape-goats, the propitiation of the forces of nature by victims, human or animal, sacrifices, ceremonies of re-birth, eucharistic feasts, sexual communions, orgiastic celebrations of the common life, and a host of other things — all said plainly enough what was meant, but not in words.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 165:
glosses: In early societies, a boat, canoe, etc., in which community members suffering from a disease were exiled in the belief that the evil spirits of the disease would be carried away.
disease boats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disease boat
offliner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: offliners
Etymology: From offline + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who is offline; one not using the Internet or similar service.
offliners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of offliner
Haute-Garonne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A department of Occitania, France.
Loir-et-Cher
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A department of Centre-Val de Loire, France. Capital: Blois.
Haute-Marne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A department of Grand Est, France.
FA Cups
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of FA Cup
farmers' market
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farmers' markets
form: farmer's market
form: farmers market
form: farmers's market
form: farmer market
Senses: glosses: A market where farmers and growers sell produce directly to the public.
Synonyms: word: farm market
word: greenmarket
Related terms: antiques market
Christmas market
fish market
flea market
hypermarket
market
supermarket
farmer's stand
farmer stand
farm shop
farm stand
farm store
Pyrénées-Orientales
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Pyrénées-Orientales (literally “Eastern Pyrenees”).
Senses: glosses: A department in Occitania, France. Capital: Perpignan.
farm hand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farm hands
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of farmhand.
family woman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: family women
Senses: glosses: An adult female with a spouse and children to whose well-being she is dedicated.
Related terms: family man
materfamilias
matriarch
family leave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of parental leave.
synonyms: word: parental leave
fairy wren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fairywren.
synonyms: word: fairywren
fair-skinned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: fairer-skinned
form: fairest-skinned
Senses: glosses: Having fair (light or pale-colored) skin.
Haute-Saône
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A department of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France. Capital: Vesoul.
face flannel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: face flannels
Senses: glosses: A washcloth for the face
face pack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: face packs
Senses: glosses: A set of beauty products for the face
Haute-Savoie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A department of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. Capital: Annecy.
extractor fan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æn
Forms: form: extractor fans
Senses: examples: text: Injector testing under pressure has never presented any difficulty. It is carried out in a small, dust-free cubicle fitted with an extractor fan and the meter calibration is checked annually.
ref: 1962 October, M. J. Wilson, “Three years of dieselisation at Devons Road depot”, in Modern Railways, page 264:
glosses: A type of fan designed to remove moisture from a room, or dust or fumes from certain environments.
ex-servicewoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ex-servicewomen
Etymology: From ex- + servicewoman.
Senses: coordinate_terms: ex-serviceman
glosses: A woman who used to be in the armed forces.
in the sales
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: At a time when many stores are holding sales.
transfinitely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From transfinite + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: We finish this section by briefly addressing how the reduction procedure for #92;mathsf#123;EMU#125; described so far can be formalized in the transfinitely iterated fixed point theory #92;widehat#123;#92;mathsf#123;ID
ref: 1999, Thomas Strahm, “First Steps into Metapredictivity in Explicit Mathematics”, in S. Barry Cooper, John K. Truss, editors, Sets and Proofs, Cambridge University Press, page 399:
text: After we have performed the deletion operation infinitely many times, we can look at what is left and perform the deletion operation on that, and thereby continue the process transfinitely.
ref: 2003, Thomas Forster, Logic, Induction and Sets, Cambridge University Press, page 147:
topics: manner
glosses: In a manner that requires a transfinite number of steps.
examples: text: The concern was voiced that Zermelo assumed transfinitely many successive choices, where one choice depends upon another, and that this was unacceptable.
ref: 2004, Lisa Robin Marks, The Axiom of Choice, Berkeley: University of California, page 35:
text: It was very radical because he also claimed that symmetry is a feature in mathematics and reality that is not just an infinitely accurate property, but a transfinitely accurate one. Like the modern idea of fractals—where we have this Mandelbrot type thinking of everything repeating itself all over again not just infinitely many times, but in such a way that the surface around it is transfinitely large.
ref: 2014, Ali Sanayei, Otto E. Rössler, Chaotic Harmony: A Dialog about Physics, Complexity and Life, Springer, page 126:
qualifier: degree
glosses: Of transfinite degree.
Related terms: finitely
infinitely
transfinite
cross-pole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-poles
Senses: glosses: A pole that runs horizontally between two supports or is supported by a central support.
glosses: One of two poles that cross over one another.
cross-pole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-poles
Etymology: Shortening of cross-polarisation.
Senses: glosses: A type of antenna that utilises cross-polarisation; an antenna in which the sending and receiving waves are orthogonal to one another.
cross-poles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross-pole
clothes rack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clothes racks
Senses: glosses: A piece of furniture with a series of horizontal rungs for hanging clothes on.
clothes racks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clothes rack
cross-polarisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A situation in which two polarised fields are orthogonal to one another.
Agnean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Agni + -ean.
Senses: glosses: Tocharian A.
Levant sparrowhawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Levant sparrowhawks
Senses: glosses: A bird of the species Accipiter brevipes
Levant sparrowhawks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Levant sparrowhawk
acetylant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acetylants
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any acetylation agent