cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Feodosiya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Theodosia
form: Feodosia
Etymology: From Russian Феодо́сия (Feodósija), from Ancient Greek Θεοδοσία (Theodosía). Doublet of Theodosia.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Feodosia, a port and resort city in Crimea, internationally recognized as part of Ukraine but de facto in Russia.
Synonyms: sense: historical names
word: Caffa
word: Kaffa
Feodosia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Theodosia
form: Feodosiya
form: Fedosia
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Феодо́сия (Feodósija), from Ancient Greek Θεοδοσία (Theodosía).
Senses: synonyms: Caffa
Kaffa
glosses: A port and resort city and raion in Crimea, internationally recognized as part of Ukraine but de facto in Russia.
Theodosia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌθiː.əˈdəʊ.ʒə/
ipa: /-zi.ə/
ipa: /ˌθi.əˈdoʊ.ʒə/
ipa: /-zi.ə/
ipa: /-.oʊˈ-/
rhymes: -əʊʒə
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Theodosia, from Ancient Greek Θεοδοσία (Theodosía). Feminine form of Theodosius. Doublet of Feodosiya.
Senses: examples: text: Theda Bara, born Theodosia Burr Goodman, was one of the most popular actresses of the silent-film era.
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
glosses: A village in Missouri, United States.
glosses: Alternative form of Feodosiya, a city in Crimea, Ukraine.
pneumographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pneumography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to pneumography.
tallow tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tallow trees
Senses: glosses: Triadica sebifera, a tree native to eastern Asia, with a waxy seed coating used in candle and soap manufacture.
glosses: Detarium microcarpum, an African tree with edible fruit
glosses: Various African trees in the genus Allanblackia.
seedcoat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seedcoats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seed coat.
seedcoats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seedcoat
unillustriously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unillustriously
form: most unillustriously
Etymology: From unillustrious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Knighted unillustriously among a horde of some three hundred others in the accession honours of 1603, he was subsequently well compensated by being made Baron Verulam[…]
ref: 1961, A. C. Ward, Illustrated History of English Literature, page 22:
glosses: In a way that is not illustrious.
tarantula killer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tarantula killers
Senses: glosses: Any species of tarantula wasp, especially (Pepsis grossa) that captures the Texas brown tarantula (Aphonopelma hentzii) and places it in its nest as food for its young, after paralyzing it by a sting.
Related terms: pompilid
tarantula hawk
caffeoylquinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caffeoylquinates
Etymology: From caffeoylquinic acid + -ate.
Senses: glosses: Any salt or ester of caffeoylquinic acid.
caffeoylquinates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caffeoylquinate
primrose peerless
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The two-flowered narcissus (Narcissus × medioluteus).
corn mint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From corn + mint.
Senses: synonyms: field mint
wild mint
glosses: A form of mint, Mentha arvensis.
unambassadorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unambassadorial
form: most unambassadorial
Etymology: From un- + ambassadorial.
Senses: glosses: Not ambassadorial.
goldenrod tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goldenrod trees
Senses: glosses: A shrub (Bosea yervamora native to the Canary Islands.
gradient post
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gradient posts
Senses: examples: text: Long before Shap platform showed up around a corner and the two arms on the gradient post drooped in both directions at once, Duchess of Buccleuch's amiable throbbing purr at the stack [funnel, chimney] had become a fierce freight-engine bark, as she resolutely dragged at her enormous load.
ref: 1949 January and February, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–1”, in Railway Magazine, page 12:
glosses: A post or stake indicating by its height or by marks on it the grade of a railroad, highway, embankment, etc. at that point.
graphitate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graphitates
Etymology: From graphitic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: glosses: A salt or ester of graphitic acid.
ectropy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ectropies
Etymology: “This term was suggested by W. V. Quine in discussions following this symposium: Entropy, he pointed out, is Greek for turning in; the opposite term should therefore be the Greek for turning out, namely ectropy. Since the coaction cardioid literally turns in and out of the circle of reference, his short, elegant term is used throughout.”
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
thermodynamics
glosses: The overall increase in the organization of a system
Synonyms: negentropy
extropy
Derived terms: ectropic
graphitic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From being obtainable from the oxidation of graphite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Mellitic acid.
graphitates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of graphitate
Mahbubnagar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mahabubnagar
Etymology: Borrowed from Telugu మహబూబ్ నగర్ (mahabūb nagar).
Senses: glosses: One of the districts in Telangana in India.
synonyms: Rukmammapeta
Palamooru
glosses: A city in this district in Telangana.
ectropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ectropy + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Life is the only ectropic force in the universe, although as we have just seen above, it can also be entropic in that it can create Negative Energy and therefore damage and destruction.
ref: 2007, Victoria C. DePaul, The Science of Leadership, page 94:
glosses: Relating to ectropy.
glosses: Relating to ectropion.
Nalgonda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a city in Andhra Pradesh, India.
glosses: a district containing this city.
spermaceti whale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spermaceti whales
Senses: glosses: A sperm whale.
Chaldaea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chaldea: (historical) An ancient geographic region of West Asia, in the southern portion of Babylonia in modern eastern Iraq and southwestern Iran, lying chiefly on the right bank of the Euphrates, but commonly used to refer to the whole of the Mesopotamian plain
Nizamabad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi निज़ामाबाद (nizāmābād) / Urdu نظام آباد (nizāmābād).
Senses: glosses: A city and district of Telangana, India.
Hamadan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈhæməˌdæn/
Forms: form: Hamadān
form: Hamedan
form: Hamedān
Etymology: From Persian همدان (hamadân), from Middle Persian 𐭠𐭧𐭬𐭲𐭠𐭭 (Ahmadān), from Old Persian 𐏃𐎥𐎶𐎫𐎠𐎴 (Hagmatāna-). Doublet of Ecbatana; see that entry for more.
Senses: glosses: A city in Iran, the seat of Hamadan County's Central District and the capital of Hamadan Province.
glosses: A county of Iran, around the city.
glosses: A province in western Iran.
Synonyms: word: Ecbatana
Hamadān
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hamadan.
Hamedān
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hamadan.
Hamedan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hamadan.
Hankou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: hänʹkōʹ
Forms: form: Hankow
form: Han-k'ou
form: Hankhow
Etymology: From the Mandarin 漢口 /汉口 (Hànkǒu, “Mouth of the Han River”).
Senses: examples: text: Marcia Aldrich Thompson was born on Oct. 2, 1923, in the Central Chinese city of Hankou (now part of Wuhan) where her father, Newell, was an executive with the Standard Oil Company of New York.
ref: 2018 April 10, Sam Roberts, “Marcia Thompson, Prudent Promoter of the Arts, Dies at 94”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Apr 2018, Obituaries:
text: Authorities in Wuhan, the epicenter of China's outbreak and location of the majority of its deaths, quickly identified the funeral business as a potential source of transmission.
The local civil affairs bureau in late January ordered all funerals for confirmed COVID-19 victims to be handled at a single funeral home in the city's Hankou district.
ref: 2020 March 19, Angelo Amante, Parisa Hafezi, Hayoung Choi, Elisa Anzolin, Emilio Parodi, David Stanway, Joan Faus, Padraic Halpin, Emma Farge, Kate Kelland, Dan Williams in Jerusalem, Andrew RC Marshall, “'There are no funerals:' Death in quarantine leaves nowhere to grieve”, in Sara Ledwith, Jason Szep, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 18 May 2024, World:
glosses: A former city and treaty port; since 1949 an area in the city of Wuhan, Hubei, China, split among the districts of Jiang'an, Jianghan and Qiaokou.
Aurangabad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Ultimately from Persian اورنگآباد (Owrang-âbâd), named for اُوْرَنگزیب (Owrang-zib, “Aurangzeb”), the sixth Mughal emperor (r. 1658–1707).
Senses: glosses: A district of Maharashtra, India.
synonyms: Khaḍkī
Fatehnagar
Khujista Bunyad
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar
glosses: A large city, the headquarters of Aurangabad district, Maharashtra, India.
Beed
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Marathi बीड (bīḍ)
Senses: glosses: A city in central Maharashtra, India.
Nanded District
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A district of Maharashtra, in central India.
Parbhani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Parbhani District
Senses: glosses: One of the eight districts in the Marathawada region of Maharashtra State of India.
Cheops
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkiːɒps/
ipa: /ˈkiɑːps/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Cheops, from Ancient Greek Χέοψ (Khéops), from Egyptian ḫw.f-wj.
Senses: glosses: Khufu, a pharaoh of Egypt, who ruled in the first half of the Old Kingdom period (26th century BC) and is renowned as the builder of the Great Pyramid of Giza
Synonyms: Khufu
Cheops
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkiːɒps/
ipa: /ˈkiɑːps/
Senses: examples: text: The dedicated time Cheops spent observing the star helped astronomers iron out the mixed signals from the TESS data to determine how many planets were crossing in front of the star and the resonance of their orbits.
ref: 2023 November 29, Ashley Strickland, “Astronomers discover nearby six-planet solar system with ‘pristine configuration’”, in CNN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of CHEOPS.
Khufu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Egyptian ḫw.f-wj.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Cheops.
synonyms: word: Cheops
Malacca cane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Malacca canes
form: malacca cane
Etymology: From the former importance of Malacca as a port for the rattan trade and cane in its senses both as a reed-like plant and as a walking stick.
Senses: examples: text: The mallets or sticks [sc. used in polo] are generally of malacca cane.
ref: 1897, Outing, number 30, page 483:
text: Malacca cane grows in clumps in the jungle.
ref: 1965, Charles Shuttleworth, Malayan Safari, page 88:
glosses: Calamus scipionum, a species of thick rattan climbing palm native to Southeast Asia; its material; (inexact) closely similar species and their material.
examples: text: The well-known ‘Malacca Canes’... do not occur about Malacca itself, but are imported from Siak, on the opposite coast of Sumatra.
ref: 1856, Berthold Carl Seemann, A Popular History of the Palms and Their Allies, page 131:
text: Malacca canes have frequently to be colored in parts.
ref: 1874, Edward H. Knight, The Practical Dictionary of Mechanics, volume I, page 443:
text: Adrian checked the orchid at his buttonhole, inspected the spats at his feet, gave the lavender gloves a twitch, smoothed down his waistcoat, tucked the ebony Malacca-cane under his arm, swallowed twice and pushed wide the changing-room door.
ref: 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 5:
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: A walking stick made of C. scipionum or similar material with a rich but mottled brown color.
phantom tumour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phantom tumours
Senses: glosses: pseudotumor
spray condenser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spray condensers
Senses: qualifier: steam engine
glosses: An injection condenser in which the steam is condensed by a spray of water which mingles with it.
kinghead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: kingweed
glosses: Ambrosia trifida, a form of ragweed.
gratefullest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of grateful: most grateful
anotha'
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of another.
anotha
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of another.
leoninely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more leoninely
form: most leoninely
Etymology: From leonine + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a leonine manner.
lipstick trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lipstick tree
non-believers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-believer
paresthesiae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paresthesia
bilos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bilo
minster house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minster houses
Senses: synonyms: canonry
glosses: The official house in which the canons of a cathedral live on a houseshare or a time-share basis.
loaf sugar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loaf sugars
Etymology: From Middle English lofe sugre, lofe zuger.
Senses: hypernyms: sugar#Noun
coordinate_terms: cube sugar
granulated sugar
powdered sugar
glosses: Refined sugar formed into a conical loaf (a sugar-loaf) in a mould. It was a common type of sugar until the 19th century.
Related terms: sugar nips
septenaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of septenary
camber arch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camber arches
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: An arch whose intrados, though apparently straight, has a slightly concave curve upward.
camber beam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camber beams
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A beam whose underside has a concave curve upward.
scalloped oyster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scalloped oysters
Etymology: Originally done in scallop shells.
Senses: examples: text: "Poor things! they needed it," said she one night to her husband, during the discussion of some scalloped oysters, over which their mutual confidences usually took place.
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 122:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: An opened oyster baked in a deep dish with alternate layers of bread or cracker crumbs, seasoned with pepper, nutmeg, and butter.
scalloped oysters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scalloped oyster
amplituhedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amplituhedra
form: amplituhedrons
Etymology: From amplitude + -hedron. Coined by Nima Arkani-Hamed and by Jaroslav Trnka in 2013 and published in 2014 in an article in the Journal of High Energy Physics.
Senses: examples: text: Meronym: twistor
text: In another parallel universe the amplituhedron, a recent invention in quantum field theory, is a geometric form endowed with a positive Grassmannian, that is an internal arithmetical structure for the calculation of amplitudes in terms of k-planes filling up an n-dimensional space.
ref: 2015, Yvon Gauthier, Towards an Arithmetical Logic, page 173:
text: The amplituhedron is not built out of spacetime and probabilities; these properties merely arise as consequences of the jewel's geometry.
ref: 2017, Richard L. Amoroso, Universal Quantum Computing, page 486:
text: Scattering amplitudes that obey the laws of locality and unitarity do emerge from amplituhedra. But unlike in Feynman diagrams, the amplituhedron does not start with space-time that has these properties.
ref: 2017 July 29, Anil Ananthaswamy, “The new shape of reality”, in New Scientist, number 3136, page 31:
qualifier: quantum field theories
glosses: A mathematical structure which encodes the integrand of an amplitude in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills theory, used in calculations of scattering amplitudes of particle interactions.
wikipedia: Journal of High Energy Physics
Australasians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Australasian
aluminium gallium arsenide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mixed arsenide of aluminium and gallium that is used as a semiconductor
fling out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flings out
form: flinging out
form: flung out
form: flung out
Senses: glosses: To throw out, throw away.
examples: text: I had rather she had flung out at me, as many a woman would do, than taken it as she did.
ref: 1885, James Payn, Luck of Darrells:
glosses: To kick out; to insult, complain or criticize
ejaculatio praecox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Modern Latin, from noun type formed from participle stem of Latin ējaculāri (“to eject”) + praecox (“early”).
Senses: examples: text: This can be done psychoanalytically, as for example in the suggestion that salt is a symbol of semen and that the objection to spilling it reflects an unconscious fear of ejaculatio praecox.
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 607:
glosses: Premature ejaculation.
arsabenzene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arsabenzenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of arsinine.
synonyms: word: arsinine
benocyclidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benocyclidines
Senses: glosses: A particular arylcyclohexylamine that acts as a psychostimulant.
Synonyms: benzothiophenylcyclohexylpiperidine
benzothiophenylcyclohexylpiperidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Benocyclidine.
gyrotrigonometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to gyrotrigonometry
Derived terms: gyrotrigonometrically
gyrotrigonometrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From gyrotrigonometric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a gyrotrigonometric manner
glosses: With regard to, or using gyrotrigonometry
planet-ruler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planet-rulers
Senses: examples: text: There is a little fold, called ‘Prickshaw,’ in this township of Spotland, which fold was the home of a notable country astrologer, in Tim Bobbin's time, called ‘Prickshaw Witch.’ Tim tells a humourous^([sic]) story in his works, about an adventure he had with this Prickshaw planet-ruler, at the old Angel Inn, in Rochdale.
ref: 1855, Edwin Waugh, Sketches of Lancashire Life and Localities, page 25:
text: In the late nineteenth century white witches were still sometimes known as ‘planet-rulers’.
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 614:
text: Other ‘planet rulers’, who may or may not have extended their services beyond astrology and herbalism were James Trenham and Alfred Broughton.
ref: 2005, Owen Davies, Murder, Magic, Madness, page 35:
glosses: A white witch.
planet-rulers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planet-ruler
good shit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: That weed is good shit.
text: That band is amazing live; you're going to have a blast! Good shit!
glosses: Something or someone likeable.
Related terms: shit yeah
women's shelter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: women's shelters
Senses: synonyms: women's refuge
glosses: A place of temporary refuge and support for women escaping violent or abusive situations, such as rape and domestic violence.
women's refuge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: women's refuges
Senses: glosses: A women's shelter.
calmful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more calmful
form: most calmful
Etymology: From calm + -ful, from the noun calm.
Senses: glosses: calm
rescrutiny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹiːskɹuːtɪni/
Etymology: From re- + scrutiny.
Senses: examples: text: Indeed this epistemological demand for certain knowledge […] also led to a rescrutiny of some hoary old legends.
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 626:
glosses: Further scrutiny; a second or repeated examination.
warcry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warcries
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of war cry.
warcries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warcry; alternative form of war cries
arsenocholine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arsenocholines
Etymology: From arseno- + choline.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The organic compound formally derived from choline by replacing the nitrogen atom with arsenic
arsenolipid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arsenolipids
Etymology: From arseno- + lipid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound formally derived from a phospholipid by replacing the phosphorus atom with arsenic
arsenic pentachloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The binary compound of arsenic and chlorine AsCl₅
dangle after
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dangles after
form: dangling after
form: dangled after
form: dangled after
Senses: examples: text: the presbyterians, and their clans of other fanaticks, or freethinkers and atheists that dangle after them, are as well inclined to pull down the present establishment of monarchy and religion
ref: 1713, Jonathan Swift, A Preface to Bishop Burnet's Introduction:
glosses: To hang upon importunately; to court the favour of; to beset.
four-way cock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: four-way cocks
Senses: topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: four-way valve
glosses: A cock connected with four pipes or ports, and having two or more passages in the plug, by which the adjacent pipes or ports may be made to communicate; formerly used as a valve in the steam engine, and for various other purposes.
four-way cocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of four-way cock
holding note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holding notes
Senses: examples: text: the trumpet plays a holding note
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A note sustained in one part, or by one instrument, while the others change.
holding notes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holding note
India shawl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: India shawls
Senses: glosses: A kind of rich cashmere shawl woven in India from pieces which are sewn together.
shawl goat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shawl goats
Senses: glosses: The Cashmere goat.
shawl goats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shawl goat
malt floor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malt floors
Senses: glosses: A perforated floor in the chamber of a malt kiln, through which heat rises for drying.
beebrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beebrushes
Etymology: From bee + brush.
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Aloysia of flowering plants in the verbena family.
Derived terms: Wright's beebrush
beebrushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beebrush
verbenalin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From verbena + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An iridoid glucoside obtained from verbena.
hastatoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An iridoid glucoside obtained from verbena.
verbascoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verbascosides
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A phenylethanoid (with hydroxytyrosol) and phenylpropanoid (with caffeic acid) sugar ester found in Verbascum and other plants.
verbascosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verbascoside
phenylethanoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenylethanoids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of phenolic compounds characterized by a phenethyl alcohol structure.
phenylethanoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phenylethanoid
hydroxytyrosol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroxytyrosols
Etymology: From hydroxy- + tyrosol.
Senses: glosses: A particular phenylethanoid with powerful antioxidant properties.
hydroxytyrosols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydroxytyrosol
tyrosol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tyrosols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular phenylethanoid found in olive oil.
Derived terms: hydroxytyrosol
tyrosols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tyrosol
tyrosinemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tyrosinemic
form: most tyrosinemic
Etymology: From tyrosinemia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or relating to tyrosinemia.
bird of Jove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birds of Jove
Senses: glosses: The eagle.
scribing iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scribing irons
Senses: glosses: An iron-pointed instrument for scribing, or marking, casks and logs.
shinleaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shinleafs
form: shinleaves
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of plants of Pyrola
A perennial ericaceous herb (Pyrola elliptica) with a cluster of radical leaves and a raceme of greenish-white flowers.
synonyms: shinleaf pyrola
waxflower shinleaf
elliptic shineleaf
glosses: Any of a number of plants of Pyrola
A species of Pyrola (Pyrola americana) similar to pyrola elliptica but found in North America.
synonyms: American shinleaf
glosses: Any of a number of plants of Pyrola
A species of Pyrola (Pyrola chlorantha) with greenish flowers that prefers moist, shaded woodland areas.
synonyms: green shinleaf
green pyrola
glosses: Any of a number of plants of Pyrola
A species of Pyrola (Pyrola asarifolia) noted for its distinctive leaves which are heart-shaped or ovate and have a thick leathery texture.
synonyms: asarabacca
Derived terms: whitevein shinleaf
Paquelin's thermocautery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after its inventor, Claude-André Paquelin.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: thermocautery by means of a hollow platinum point, which is kept constantly hot by the passage through it of benzene vapour
beetle mite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beetle mites
Senses: synonyms: oribatid
moss mite
glosses: Any of many species of mites of the order Oribatida.
beetle mites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beetle mite
naming collision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naming collisions
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software-compilation
glosses: An error caused by two source code elements (such as variables or functions) having the same name as each other.
Hypernyms: collision
Roman punch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: punch (the drink) frozen and served icy
take soil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes soil
form: taking soil
form: took soil
form: taken soil
Senses: examples: text: O, sir, have you taken soil here? It is well a man may reach you after three hours' running.
ref: 1614 November 10 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), Beniamin Iohnson [i.e., Ben Jonson], Bartholmew Fayre: A Comedie, […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot, […], published 1631, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
text: […] finding that he could not shake off the hounds, turned to the left towards the Saltwater River, and rushing down a precipitous and stony approach to the river, he instantly took soil in very deep water, with the pack clustering round him.
ref: 1891, Robert Weir, James Moray Brown, Riding, page 192:
glosses: To run into the mire or water; hence, to take refuge or shelter.
riding hood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riding hoods
form: riding-hood
Etymology: From Middle English rydyng hoode, rydynghoode. By surface analysis, riding + hood.
Senses: examples: text: He... violently pull'd off her Riding-Hood, and tore it at the Arm Holes in pulling it off.
ref: 1731 January 15, Proceedings of the Old Bailey, page 13:
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: A hood intended for use by women while horseriding.
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: A kind of hooded cloak.
Derived terms: Little Red Riding Hood
hero worship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Hero-worship endures forever while man endures.
ref: 1840 May 5, Thomas Carlyle, “Lecture I. The Hero as Divinity. Odin. Paganism: Scandinavian Mythology.”, in On Heroes, Hero-Worship and The Heroic in History, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1840, →OCLC, page 13:
glosses: Extravagant admiration for great people, likened to the ancient worship of heroes.
covered way
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: covered ways
form: covert-way
Senses: glosses: In a fortification, a corridor or banquette along the top of the counterscarp and covered by an embankment whose slope forms the glacis. It gives the garrison an open line of communication around the works, and a standing place beyond the ditch.
sprunt up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sprunts up
form: sprunting up
form: sprunted up
form: sprunted up
Senses: glosses: To draw oneself up suddenly, as in anger or defiance; to bristle up.
nundinal letter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nundinal letters
Senses: glosses: one of the first eight letters of the alphabet, repeated successively from the first to the last day of the year. One of these always corresponded to the market day, which occurred every eight days.
nundinal letters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nundinal letter
rhubarbarin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: chrysophanic acid
Related terms: rhubarb
silk serge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silk serges
quick-drying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Able to dry quickly. Often used in relation to paints, varnishes, adhesives, as well as other products.
hoe one's row
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hoes one's row
form: hoeing one's row
form: hoed one's row
form: hoed one's row
Senses: examples: text: I have to begin where I left off; but you cannot realize but that you have to take one jump away ahead, when you come to leave your bodies and go into the spirit world. That is not so, for you will have to commence to hoe your row where you left off.
ref: 1857, Heber C. Kimball, Journal of Discourses, A Discourse […] Delivered in the Bowery, Great Salt Lake City, June 7, 1857.:
text: “I ain’t sharing my room with assassins. Gilvey is ignorant and a brute. If you say so I’ll join you and we’ll lick him. We could do it easy, only it wouldn’t help you much. For the men would say I had to help you hoe your row.”
ref: 1911, Hugh Pendexter, The Young Timber-cruisers; or, Fighting the Spruce Pirates, =chapter 2:
text: There was a time when, jocund as the day,
The toiler hoed his row and sung his lay,
Found something gleeful in the very air,
And solace for his toiling everywhere.
ref: 1913, Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar, To The South:
synonyms: do one's bit
glosses: To do one's share of a job.
chubby bunny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chubby bunnies
Etymology: In the case of the game, named after one of the phrases commonly used.
Senses: examples: text: It's important not to go overboard and choke while playing chubby bunny.
glosses: A game in which players attempt to speak a phrase through an increasing number of marshmallows placed in the mouth.
examples: text: On top of that, a chubby bunny may have trouble cleaning himself, leaving urine and stool on the hindquarters and feet, which can lead to inflammatory skin disease.
ref: 2020 April 7, Connie Isbell, Audrey Pavia, Rabbits for Dummies, 2nd edition, Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 124:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see chubby, bunny.
bigotted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bigotted
form: most bigotted
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bigoted.
chubbily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more chubbily
form: most chubbily
Etymology: From chubby + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a chubby manner.
whited sepulchre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whited sepulchres
form: whited sepulcher
Etymology: An allusion to Matthew 23:27 in the Bible. From Ancient Greek τάφος κεκονιαμένος (táphos kekoniaménos, “plastered tomb, hypocrite”).
Senses: glosses: One who is outwardly attractive, but unclean or vile on the inside; a hypocrite.
Hamburg edging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hamburg edgings
Senses: glosses: A kind of embroidered work done by machinery on cambric or muslin, and used for trimming.
Brother Jonathan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Said to have originated from George Washington referring to the patriotic Jonathan Trumbull, governor of Connecticut, by this name.
Senses: glosses: The personification and emblem of New England. He is also an allegory of capitalism and transcendent aspirations, and, in the past, has occasionally been the national personification of the entire United States.
Related terms: John Bull
Uncle Sam
Madeira nut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Madeira nuts
Senses: glosses: A common walnut, a nut of an English walnut (Juglans regia).
Madeira nuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Madeira nut
const
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consts
Etymology: Abbreviation of constant, used as a keyword in certain programming languages.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A variable whose value cannot be changed directly.
Derived terms: const-correct
const correctness
constness
const
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Abbreviation of constant, used as a keyword in certain programming languages.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Whose value cannot be changed directly.
raw_tags: of a variable
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Which cannot change the value of its class’s attributes.
raw_tags: of a function
djebel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: djebels
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of jebel.
salammoniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sal ammoniac.
austrium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Austria + -ium.
Senses: glosses: A supposed chemical element proposed by Eduard Linnemann in 1886, later found to be gallium.
midsummer daisy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midsummer daisies
Senses: glosses: oxeye daisy
charnico
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of charneco.
sinoscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Etymology: From sinoscopy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to sinoscopy.
atomic emission spectroscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A form of analytical spectroscopy that measures the radiation emitted at specific wavelengths by the atoms excited in a very hot sample
common run
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I saw nothing else that is superior to the common run of parks.
ref: September 4, 1760, Horace Walpole, letter to the Earl of Strafford:
text: Burns never dreamed of looking down on others as beneath him, merely because he was conscious of his own vast superiority to the common run of men.
ref: 1844, John Wilson, Essay on the Genius, and Character of Burns:
text: His whole appearance was something out of the common run.
ref: 1809, Diedrich Knickerbocker [pseudonym; Washington Irving], A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: Inskeep & Bradford, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Ordinary persons, things, or events.
nudeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nudenesses
Etymology: From nude + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nudity.
synonyms: word: nudity
examples: text: She spoke wearily but matter-of-factly, letting her eyes almost close, and again I was conscious of the curious nudeness of her slightly swollen eyelids.
ref: 2009, Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger, Virago Press (2018), page 147:
glosses: Bareness.
intercontinental ballistic missiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intercontinental ballistic missile
mania a potu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin mania ā pōtū (literally “madness from the drink”).
Senses: glosses: Madness caused by alcohol intoxication.
archaization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archaizations
Etymology: From archaize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Process of becoming or turning something more archaic.
archaizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archaization
dirk knife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dirk knives
Senses: glosses: A clasp-knife with a large blade like that of a dirk.
dirk knives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dirk knife
huckle bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: huckle bones
form: huckle-bone
form: hucklebone
Senses: glosses: The hip bone.
examples: text: Ἀστράγαλος is in Latin, talus, and it is the little ſquare huccle bone, in the ancle place of the hinder legge in all beaſtes, ſauing man, […]
ref: 1564 February, Erasmus, “The Saiynges of Philippus Kyng of Macedonie”, in Nicolas Udall [i.e., Nicholas Udall], transl., Apophthegmes, that is to Saie, Prompte, Quicke, Wittie and Sentẽcious Saiynges, […], London: […] Ihon Kingston, →OCLC, book II, folio 119, recto:
glosses: The anklebone.
huckle bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of huckle bone
ataxic fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The genera of the fifth order are the sporadic ataxic fever , the contagious , the flow nervous fever , the malignant remittent
ref: 1799, The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature:
glosses: malignant typhus fever
weavers' shuttle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weavers' shuttles
Etymology: From its shape.
Senses: examples: text: But the most siingular shell belonging to this group is the Waver's Shuttle, (Radius volva,) in which each end of the lip is produced into a very slender canal, longer than the body of the shell itself.
ref: 1861, Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution,, page 195:
text: Of the Ovulidae, the most curious is the "Weaver's-shuttle" ( Radius volva ) , in which the shell is peculiarly beaked at both ends .
ref: 1908, British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology, A Guide to the Shell and Starfish Galleries, page 15:
synonyms: shuttle volva
glosses: An East Indian marine univalve shell (Radius volva).
great skuas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of great skua
valuable consideration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: valuable considerations
Senses: examples: text: a purchasor for a valuable consideration, without notice, might hold the land discharged of any trust or confidence .
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
topics: law
glosses: An equivalent or compensation having value given for a thing purchased, such as money, marriage, services, etc.
stench trap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stench traps
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
plumbing
synonyms: sink trap
smell trap
stink trap
hyponyms: bell trap
glosses: A device to prevent foul air from rising from the openings of sewers, drains, etc., by means of a water seal.
stench traps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stench trap
cessationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cessationists
Etymology: From cessation + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who subscribes to cessationism.
cessationist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cessationist
form: most cessationist
Etymology: From cessation + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Of or having to do with cessationism; subscribing to cessationism.
cessationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cessationist
horsefoots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horsefoot
horseflesh ore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: In allusion to its peculiar reddish colour on fresh fracture.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: Bornite.
Riemann integral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Riemann integrals
Etymology: Named after Bernhard Riemann, a German mathematician.
Senses: topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A type of integral whose computation involves dividing the interval of integration into smaller sub-intervals, summing sample values of the integrand inside those sub-intervals multiplied by their lengths, and letting the number of sub-intervals tend to infinity.
orris pea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orris peas
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An issue pea made from orris root.
echelon lens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: echelon lenses
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: Fresnel lens
glosses: A large lens constructed in several parts or layers, extending in a series of annular rings beyond the central lens, and used in lighthouses.
echelon lenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of echelon lens
lighthouseman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lighthousemen
Etymology: From lighthouse + -man.
Senses: glosses: The keeper of a lighthouse.
lighthousemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lighthouseman
Neptune powder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An explosive containing nitroglycerine, used in blasting.
Neptune's cup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Neptune's cups
Senses: synonyms: Neptune's cup sponge
glosses: A large cup-shaped marine sponge (Cliona patera).
Neptune's cups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Neptune's cup
psychoculturally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From psychocultural + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a psychocultural context.
psychodermatological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From psycho- + dermatological.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of psychodermatologic.
boiling tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boiling tubes
Senses: glosses: A small cylindrical vessel used to heat substances in the flame of a Bunsen burner.
boiling tubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boiling tube
mountain mint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mountain mints
form: mountain-mint
form: mountainmint
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the genus Pycnanthemum in the mint family.
glosses: Any of several plants in the genus Monardella, native to western North America.
glosses: A European herb, Clinopodium nepeta, sometimes used as a seasoning.
Synonyms: sense: European herb
word: lesser calamint
sense: European herb
word: nepitella
jagging iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jagging irons
Senses: glosses: A kitchen implement with a zigzag or sculpted edge for cutting or crimping pie or pastry dough into ornate figures. Commonly a jagging wheel. Seldom literally iron, as rustproof materials are preferred.
jagging irons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jagging iron
beef tea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beef teas
Senses: glosses: A strong beef broth.
examples: text: Make half-a-pint of beef-tea in a tumbler with this extract. Put the tumbler in a refrigerator for an hour, then add a liqueur-glassful of old brandy, with just a dust of cayenne. This is one of the very best pick-me-ups known to the faculty.
ref: 1897, Edward Spencer, Cakes & Ale:
glosses: Bovril diluted with hot water or milk.
bastard pennyroyal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae), native to North America and having a pennyroyal-like scent, including:
Bluecurls (Trichostema dichotomum, native to the eastern US.
glosses: Plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae), native to North America and having a pennyroyal-like scent, including:
A plant of species Trichostema setaceum (Trichostema lineare in older references), also native to the eastern US, which is usually qualified as linear-leaved or narrow bastard pennyroyal.
glosses: Plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae), native to North America and having a pennyroyal-like scent, including:
Mustang mint, mustang monardella (Monardella lanceolata), native to California and Baja California.
tungstens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tungsten
jasper opal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A yellow variety of opal resembling jasper.
Related terms: opal jasper
woody pear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woody pears
Senses: glosses: The inedible, woody, pear-shaped fruit of several Australian proteaceous trees of the genus Xylomelum.
glosses: The tree bearing such fruit
Synonyms: wooden pear
Derived terms: northern woody pear
sandplain woody pear
western woody pear
woody pears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woody pear
unfrizzed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unfrizz
unfrizzed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + frizzed.
Senses: glosses: Not frizzed.
unfrizzy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfrizzy
form: most unfrizzy
Etymology: From un- + frizzy.
Senses: glosses: Not frizzy.