cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
afterheats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of afterheat
aggros
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of aggro
agisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agism
spit fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spits fire
form: spitting fire
form: spat fire
form: spat fire
form: spit fire
form: spit fire
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see spit, fire.
examples: text: If somebody cuts you off on the highway, don't spit fire—forget about it and arrive at your intended destination in one piece and as relaxed as possible.
ref: 2008, Nicholas J. Nigro, No Job? No Prob!, →ISBN:
text: If Lugh saw that mess, he'd spit fire, I says.
ref: 2014, Moira Young, Raging Star, →ISBN, page 47:
text: As Angel suspected, May chewed nails and spit fire when the sheriff released her into her stepmother's custody.
ref: 2015, Lorraine Kennedy, Dark Rider: A Western Native American Romance, page 8:
glosses: To be extremely angry.
examples: text: Her pretty gray-blue eyes no longer spit fire.
ref: 2010, Christina Crooks, L.A. Caveman (battle of the sexes, office romance):
text: Her eyes spit fire, but she nodded, if a quick jerk of her head could be called a nod.
ref: 2012, Karen Kay, War Cloud's Passion, →ISBN, page 141:
text: It described her to a tee; from her fiery mane of red hair to her beautiful emerald eyes that spit fire when she was angry or frustrated.
ref: 2013, Julia Mills, Her Dragon To Slay, →ISBN:
glosses: To flash and reveal strong emotion.
raw_tags: of eyes
examples: text: It would do no good to spit fire at him. He'd only laugh, and then he'd get his own way anyway.
ref: 2000, B. J. Lawry, Desert Heat, →ISBN, page 87:
text: Many look as if butter would not melt in their mouths, and yet can spit fire when it suits their purpose.
ref: 2006, Charles H. Spurgeon, John Ploughman's Talk: Or, Plain Advice for Plain People, →ISBN, page 123:
text: The beneficed ministers, however, stimulated by missives from the Scotch kirk, now in arms for Charles II., continued, says the gentle Mrs. Hutchinson, to 'spit fire out of their pulpits,' and even the rout of their allies at Dunbar, though it made their tongues less dangerous, did not make them more smooth.
ref: 2011, Thomas Hill Green, R. L. Nettleship, Works of Thomas Hill Green, →ISBN, page 332:
glosses: To speak with vehemence.
examples: text: Her motive is simple — “To spit fire into microphones that she might inspire a generation; to rekindle revolution through the power of revelation."
ref: 2009, Pamela Best, Of Love, →ISBN:
text: We spit fire, drink Coca-Cola, have dance parties, and are Big Brothers and Sisters.
ref: 2012, Warren Wilson College, →ISBN:
text: Honey's was packed, but that didn't always mean you were gonna make a lot of money, 'cause fifty percent of the niggas wanted to see the pussy spit fire for a fucking dollar.
ref: 2015, T.N. Baker, Sheisty: Triple Crown Collection, →ISBN:
text: A bouquet of chaotic words salvaged from the unceasing winter storm that churns regularly in the seemingly quiet little mind of a seventeen-year-old idealist who loves to spit fire at the world when she’s feeling fussy.
ref: 2015, Jupiter Reed, Wrecking Rainbows: Bundles of Wayward Poetry, →ISBN:
glosses: To perform with skill and energy, especially when reciting poetry or rapping.
spit fire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spit fires
Senses: examples: text: His intention was to steal cattle all the way to Mexico but the vivid memory of that spit fire's lips altered his plans.
ref: 2011, Sue Robinett, Shana; Legend of Mah-cou-ah Her-moomch Eh Tivo (woman Walks Like a Man), →ISBN:
text: Oh yes Ms. Bobbyjean was a spit fire alright.
ref: 2012, C. L. Ellis, Hussy, →ISBN, page 201:
text: Her name is Marisol who lives in Spain, a spit fire of a gal, pretty as a daisy to say the least who loves to entertain her friends and has become with no fault of her own the mother/ house nanny to her family of four men, her father, and her three brothers.
ref: 2013, Jimmy Correa, How My Prank Stories In Social Media Web Sites Got Me Committed In The Psychiatric Ward At Bellevue Hospital., →ISBN, page 59:
glosses: Alternative form of spitfire.
examples: text: That's why," he said, holding up his knife so they could see it gleam in the light of the spit fire, "cutting with my method actually sharpens my knife.
ref: 1982, Ted Mancuso, Frank Hill, Kung Fu for Young People: An Introduction to Karate and Kung Fu, →ISBN:
text: Karl and the boys snared all sorts of birds to cook on the spit fire — buntings and starlings, wild geese, mallards, and pigeons.
ref: 2007, Constance Leeds, The Silver Cup, →ISBN, page 17:
text: They positioned their fires upwind of Nathanial so as to ensure he smelt the food cooking on the open spit fires.
ref: 2014, John Gearing, The Journeyman Sagas: The Quest for Fallenjour, →ISBN:
glosses: A cooking fire with a spit over it.
spits fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spit fire
spitting fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spit fire
spat fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spit fire
spit fires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spit fire
agrements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agrement
agrizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of agrize
agrizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of agrize
agrized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of agrize
agriological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to agriology.
agroforestries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agroforestry
spit-fire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spit-fires
Senses: examples: text: He was a spit-fire! The typical little boy just on the verge of spilling out the dozens of words he'd accumulated, a cascade of sounds as he chattered from dawn to dusk.
ref: 2010, Nancy Spencer, Heaven in My Hands: A Midwife's Stories of Birth & Life, →ISBN, page 119:
text: Even the trailer for the film did not attempt to hide a connection with Gone with the Wind, proclaiming that the story was “a scarlet portrait of a gorgeous spit-fire.”
ref: 2011, Karen L. Cox, Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture, →ISBN:
text: And Harlan to report me, when he helped her break 'em. The little spit-fire!
ref: 2014, Caroline H. Woods, Woman in Prison, →ISBN, page 170:
glosses: Alternative form of spitfire.
examples: text: Also the use of spit-fires for barbecueing meats in view of the customer serves a dual purpose of attracting customers as well as cooking.
ref: 1995, M. Sethi, Catering Management : An Integrated Approach, →ISBN, page 102:
text: The final side had two ovens fashioned inside the stone structure above a spit-fire.
ref: 1996, Vicky Glasgow, The Mage Emperor:
text: On the frozen river, the spit-fires had burned out and the stalls were packing up.
ref: 2016, Jane Hardstaff, The Executioner's Daughter, →ISBN, page 154:
glosses: Alternative form of spit fire.
agroforested
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Covered in agroforest.
spit-fires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spit-fire
aidos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪdɒs/
ipa: /ˈaɪdoʊs/
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek αἰδώς (aidṓs).
Senses: glosses: shame, modesty, or humility, regarded as a virtue in Ancient Greece
Cort
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Corts
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Corte
Cortes
Cortez
Cort
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A frazione in Quart, Aosta Valley autonomous region, Italy.
pollutest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: pollute + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of pollute
polluteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: pollute + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pollute
airpowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airpower
airscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airscapes
Etymology: From air + -scape.
Senses: glosses: The view of the sky, or an artistic work that visually represents it.
Related terms: landscape
skyscape
seascape
airscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airscape
ajivas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ajiva
crimances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crimance
pseudovariola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊlə
Etymology: From pseudo- + variola.
Senses: glosses: A milder form of smallpox; alastrim.
albitize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: albitizes
form: albitizing
form: albitized
form: albitized
Etymology: From albite + -ize.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To convert into albite
Related terms: albitization
albitizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of albitize
albitizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of albitize
albitized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of albitize
albitized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Converted into albite
alcahests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alcahest
yocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of yock
yocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of yock
yocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yock
yocks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of yock
yokking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of yok
yokked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of yok
half the battle
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: A figure of speech that goes back centuries. Although the collocation knowing is half the battle long predates the G.I. Joe cartoon series, its pop-culture ubiquity in the 21st century is explained by that popularization.
Senses: examples: text: Knowing is half the battle.
translation: It is necessary to be informed in order to do the right thing in a given situation.
english: It is necessary to be informed in order to do the right thing in a given situation.
glosses: A large part of what it takes to accomplish something.
Related terms: half the story
the more you know
you don't know the half of it
heftable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heftable
form: most heftable
Etymology: From heft + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being lifted.
merosporangium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merosporangia
Etymology: From mero- + sporangium.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: A cylindrical sporangiolum found in zygomycetes.
merosporangia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of merosporangium
alcorza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Spanish alcorza.
Senses: glosses: A paste of sugar and starch, used in making sweets.
sporangiolum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sporangiola
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: a small sporangium
sporangiola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sporangiolum
aldosteronisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aldosteronism
alecosts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alecost
alerters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alerter
alkalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: alkalises
form: alkalising
form: alkalised
form: alkalised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of alkalize.
Derived terms: realkalise
alkalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of alkalise
alkalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of alkalise
alkalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of alkalise
Fillon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Fillon.
Senses: examples: text: François Fillon
glosses: A surname from French.
Jehai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Jahai.
Jahai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jehai
Senses: glosses: An aboriginal Mon-Khmer language spoken by the Jahai tribe of Perak, Malaya.
aloed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈæləʊd/
Senses: examples: text: I leaned and looked over the aloed arch.
ref: 1855, Robert Browning, Old Pictures in Florence:
glosses: On which aloes are growing.
altimetries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of altimetry
gorillion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪljən
Forms: form: gorillions
Etymology: From gorilla (arbitrary, used for sound) + -illion.
Senses: examples: text: The sum of one million dollars seems more randomly absurd than unjust, piddling, or anything else you can come up with to describe a punishment for the Fiesta's corruption. It might as well have been one billion, or one gorillion dollars. The sum isn't important.
ref: 2011, “THE BCS FINES THE FIESTA BOWL A GORILLION DOLLARS”, in Every Day Should Be Saturday:
text: It’s actually a quadrillion, although it could just as easily be a bazillion, a gorillion, a donkeykongillion or a shakazuluillion, because the number is so large that we really don’t even use it, especially when we’re talking about money.
ref: 2012, “900 Trillion Dollars”, in Parker Live, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2022:
text: I'm impressed you haven't mentioned Muh Holocaust and the 6 Gorillion yet.
ref: 2016, “Leading Jewish figures targeted with renewed online antisemitism”, in Jerusalem Post:
text: While most scholars and experts agree that six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, white supremacists and neo-Nazis often use this fictional number - 6 Gorillion - to suggest that the number is exaggerated.
ref: 2017, “A brief dictionary to help understand the US far right”, in Al Jazeera:
text: The echoes were supposed to be a visual representation of a booming voice pronouncing Jewish surnames as vil - "closed captioning for the Jew-blind," as one anti-Semite put it. "All Jewish surnames echo throughout history," explained the Right Stuff, the blog that hosted the podcast. “The echoes repeat the sad tale as they communicate the emotional lessons of our great white sins, imploring us to Never Forget the 6 GoRillion.” In typical fashion the inventors of the echoes also had their own obscure symbolism for each parenthetical swoosh: the inner parenthess stand for the Jewish subversion of the home and the destruction of the family through "mass-media degeneracy"; the middle parentheses represent the destruction of the nation through mass migration; and the outer parentheses stand for international Jewry and world Zionism
ref: 2018, (((Semitism))): Being Jewish in America in the Age of Trump, page 131:
synonyms: word: babillion
word: bajillion
word: bazillion
word: billion
word: bizillion
word: dillion
word: fafillion
word: fucktillion
word: gabillion
word: gadzillion
word: gagillion
word: gajillion
word: gatrillion
word: gazillion
word: gillion
word: godzillion
word: googillion
word: gorillion
word: grillion
word: hojillion
word: jajillion
word: jazillion
word: jillion
word: kabillion
word: kajillion
word: katrillion
word: kazillion
word: killion
word: lakh
word: majillion
word: morbillion
word: nonillion
word: quadrillion
word: quintillion
word: Sagan
word: scrillion
word: skillion
word: squillion
word: umpteen
word: umptillion
word: wazillion
word: zabillion
word: zillion
word: zilliard
word: million
word: trillion
glosses: An unspecified large number (of).
gorillions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gorillion
backcourtman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backcourtmen
Etymology: From backcourt + -man.
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A backcourt player.
backcourtmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backcourtman
bacterian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: bacterial
bagass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bagasses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bagasse.
bailbond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bailbonds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bail bond.
bailbonds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bailbond
baizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of baize
bajri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bajra.
bajree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bajri (“pearl millet”).
rainbow bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rainbow bombs
Etymology: In reference to the auroral displays they can create in the atmosphere.
Senses: glosses: A nuclear bomb detonated at a high altitude.
rainbow bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rainbow bomb
balkily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more balkily
form: most balkily
Etymology: From balky + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a balky manner.
bandster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bandsters
Senses: glosses: A worker who ties corn into sheaves.
bandsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bandster
banksman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banksmen
Etymology: From bank + -s- + -man.
Senses: examples: text: It was signalled forward by a banksman and as it passed him at low speed, the amber lights on the level crossing illuminated, […] The banksman was facing away from the crossing when signalling the lorry driver and did not notice the crossing's activation for about five seconds, […] After being alerted by another member of staff, the banksman ordered the lorry to reverse as the barriers started to lower.
ref: 2020 January 2, “Safety procedures addressed after Essex level crossing near-miss”, in Rail, page 15:
topics: civil-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The person who directs the operation of a crane or larger vehicle from the point near where loads are attached and detached.
topics: business
mining
glosses: Synonym of browman.
synonyms: word: browman
Synonyms: word: dogman
word: spotter
english: Asia
translation: Asia
word: signalman
word: observer
word: lookout
banksmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banksman
bapu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bapus
Etymology: From Hindi बापू (bāpū).
Senses: glosses: father
bapus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bapu
basidial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the basidium.
Derived terms: endobasidial
exobasidial
holobasidial
phragmobasidial
Zuluness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Zulu + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being Zulu.
bassier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of bassy: more bassy
bassiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of bassy: most bassy
redoxidative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to, or produced by a redox reaction
bathmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to bathmism.
rhamnosylglucoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhamnosylglucosides
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any glucoside that also contains rhamnosyl residues
Related terms: rhamnosylglycoside
rhamnosylglucosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhamnosylglucoside
rhamnosylglycoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhamnosylglycosides
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any glycoside that contains rhamnosyl residues
Related terms: rhamnosylglucoside
rhamnosylglycosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhamnosylglycoside
batooning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of batoon
batooned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of batoon
santalene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: santalenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The polycyclic sesquiterpene 1,7-dimethyl-7-(4-methyl-3-pentenyl)-tricyclo[2.2.1.0(2,6)]heptane.
Related terms: santalane
sulphamoyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphamoyls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sulfamoyl.
asthma thunderstorms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asthma thunderstorm
prepared mustard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prepared mustards
Etymology: From being a mustard concoction that is ready-made into a liquid paste.
Senses: examples: text: It is pointed out that in judging prepared mustards consideration must be given to the large error which may arise when results are calculated to the dry, fat- and salt-free basis.
ref: 1921, Coffee and Tea Industries and the Flavor Field, volume 44, page 245:
text: In 1982 there were 42 companies operating these establishments each with an annual production of prepared mustard valued at $100,000 or more. Although these companies vary widely in size, and distribute their products throughout the country, the largest two or three companies control the vast majority of prepared mustard products sold domestically.
ref: 1998, Kenneth T. Farrell, Spices, Condiments and Seasonings, page 298:
topics: food
lifestyle
glosses: A mustard sauce (a wet mustard preparation).
Synonyms: english: a wet mustard viscous liquid
translation: a wet mustard viscous liquid
word: mustard
Hypernyms: mustard
Related terms: dry mustard
mustard flour
mustard powder
powdered mustard
Philodemus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Philodemus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek Φιλόδημος (Philódēmos).
Senses: glosses: Philodemus of Gadara, an Epicurean philosopher and poet
McKean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /məˈkiːn/
Forms: form: McCain
form: McCane
form: McKain
form: McKane
form: McKeand
form: McKeen
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A township in Licking County, Ohio, United States.
glosses: A township and borough therein, in Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Derived terms: McKean County
McKean Island
McKean Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: mapped and renamed McKean Island by commander Charles Wilkes of the US Exploring Expedition on August 19, 1840, after a member of his crew.
Senses: glosses: under 1 sq km, uninhabited atoll in the Phoenix Islands, Republic of Kiribati
wikipedia: Charles Wilkes
United States Exploring Expedition
Synonyms: sense: former names
word: Drummond's Island
word: Arthur Island
word: Wigram's Island
tectochrysin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A flavone, 5-hydroxy-7-methoxy-2-phenylchromen-4-one, that has some anti-cancer properties
tridoped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + doped.
Senses: glosses: doped with three different elements
Related terms: tridoping
tridoping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tri- + doping.
Senses: glosses: doping with three different elements
trioctylphosphine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tri- + octyl + phosphine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The organophosphine (C₈H₁₇)₃P
Derived terms: trioctylphosphine oxide
unifloral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + floral.
Senses: glosses: Produced from the nectar of a single species of plant flower
raw_tags: of honey
zizaene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A tricyclic sesquiterpene found in vetiver oil (from Chrysopogon zizanioides, syn. Vetiveria zizanioides)
Related terms: zizanoic acid
nonaccreditation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + accreditation.
Senses: glosses: Lack of accreditation.
radar chart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radar charts
Senses: glosses: A two-dimensional chart of multivariate data, with three or more quantitative variables represented on axes starting from the same point.
Synonyms: cobweb chart
Kiviat diagram
polar chart
spider chart
star chart
star plot
web chart
radar charts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radar chart
Smith chart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Smith charts
Etymology: Invented by Phillip H. Smith (1905–1987).
Senses: glosses: A nomogram displaying impedances, admittances, etc., used by engineers to assist in solving problems with transmission lines and matching circuits.
Smith charts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Smith chart
algofunctional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From algo- + functional.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Relating to pain and function (especially in the field of osteoarthritis)
chebulinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Etymology: From the tree Terminalia chebula.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to chebulinic acid or its derivatives
chebulinic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An ellagitannin that has some antioxidant action
Mouse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mouses
Etymology: The surname is sometimes an Americanized spelling of German Maus. The metonym for Disney comes from its icon Mickey Mouse.
Senses: examples: text: At Disney, on the other hand, there was only one landowner and one government; public and private were fused. […] Spawned by the Mouse's arrival, I-Drive (as it is known locally) runs parallel to I-4, lying partly in Orlando and partly[…]
ref: 2001 January 1, Richard E. Foglesong, Married to the Mouse: Walt Disney World and Orlando, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 93:
text: They are cut off from their regular jobs to see how the Mouse operates. Eisner told the Harvard Business Review.
Synergy happens at Disney because it should. Our products scream out for synergy.
ref: 2005, Ralph E. Hanson, Mass Communication: Living in a Media World:
text: […] take eventually eked up to $33 million worldwide, but not before Walt Disney Studios declared the whole experiment a disappointment. […] But when the Mouse cut bait, MAGI was forced to close its LA office and sell off Synthavision.
ref: 2013, Tom Sito, Moving Innovation: A History of Computer Animation, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 165:
text: This has led to the public believing that every animated film is made by the Mouse or, at least, is family-friendly entertainment. (A similar situation: Many people refer to all 3D animated films as “Pixar” films.) The cause dates back to Walt Disney's early days as an animator.
ref: 2017 August 11, Whitney Grace, Lotte Reiniger: Pioneer of Film Animation, McFarland, →ISBN:
glosses: The Walt Disney Company.
glosses: A surname from German.
appetitiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From appetitive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Trilling is wonderful on Keats's appetitiveness and its connection to the maternal, but his essay has a psychological inconsistency approaching incoherence.
ref: 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
text: To this extent, the appetitiveness of human sexuality is unlike the appetitiveness of hunger and thirst.
ref: 2001, Irving Singer, Explorations in Love and Sex, page 7:
glosses: The fact or quality of being appetitive.
metasulphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of metabisulphite.
normoglycemics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of normoglycemic
prochamazulene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prochamazulenes
Etymology: From pro- + chamazulene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of sesquiterpenes related to chamazulene
prochamazulenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prochamazulene
ulcerogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ulcerogens
Senses: glosses: Any ulcerogenic material
ulcerogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ulcerogen
chlorophenylalanine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chlorophenylalanines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any chloro derivative of phenylalanine
Derived terms: parachlorophenylalanine
farrowings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of farrowing
isotemporal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmpəɹəl
Etymology: From iso- + temporal.
Senses: glosses: In the same time frame
Derived terms: isotemporal substitution
orphanin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orphanins
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nociceptin.
synonyms: word: nociceptin
internet of things
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Internet of Things.
thermoreregulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thermo- + reregulation.
Senses: glosses: reregulation of internal temperature
Related terms: thermoregulation
Achaeus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek.
Bucolus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A male given name.
Phoenix Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: apparently named in the 1840s after the eponymous island easternmost within the group.
Senses: glosses: a group of eight mostly uninhabited atolls and two submerged coral reefs in the central Pacific Ocean, part of the Republic of Kiribati; geographically, the United States unincorporated territories of Baker and Howland Island are often considered northerly outliers from this group
Synonyms: Rawaki
Rawaki islands
Rawaki group
Wezen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Delta Canis Majoris, the third-brightest star in the constellation of Canis Majoris.
vertebrochondral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vertebro- + chondral.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to ribs (specifically, the eighth, ninth, and tenth ribs) connected to vertebrae at one end and at the other with costal cartilages of other ribs; vertebrocostal, but not vertebrosternal.
major mode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: major modes
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Ionian mode
minor mode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minor modes
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An Aeolian mode.
Kingman Reef
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named according to captain W. E. Kingman who described it in 1853. The reef had been earlier discovered by the American Captain Edmund Fanning in 1798.
Senses: examples: text: KINGMAN'S REEF.—The following report in regard to this reef, has been received from the U. S. ship Resaca, Commander Green:
August 31st, 1872.—At 1 o'clock, P M, on a wind heading NE 1/2 E, Kingman reef to windward bore SE 1/2 E, distance seven miles, making centre of the reef in lat 6° 27′ 30" N, long 162° 13′ 30" W, which nearly corresponds with the position as given by Capt Kingman. It is certainly a dangerous reef, the discolored water being observed to extend eight or nine miles, the sea combing over the ridge of the reef for a space of about three miles in an ENE and WSW direction. Several patches of white sand and coral were observed from the top even with the water's edge.
ref: 1872 October 2 [1872 August 31], Nathaniel Green, quotee, “Marine Journal”, in The Friend, volume 31/21, number 10, Honolulu, page 81, column 3:
text: The Penguin left Sydney on April 10th, proceeding by way of Suva Fiji to Palmyra Island, where a party was landed to observe the tides. The steamer then proceeded to the north and made an accurate survey of Kingman reef, which was found to be 60 miles due north of Palmyra Island.
ref: 1897 August 7, “Editorial”, in Western Electrician, volume XXI, number 6, Chicago, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 76, columns 2–3:
text: Pan-American Airways Company has established a 500-watt short-wave station aboard the S. S. Trade Wind, anchored at Kingman reef, a tiny coral atoll 1,067 miles south of Hawaii, on the recently inaugurated air-route between Honolulu, and Auckland, New Zealand.
ref: 1938 January 15, Chas. A. Morrison, “Short Waves”, in Radio Guide, volume VII, number 13, Chicago, Ill.: Regal Press, Inc., →OCLC, page 44, column 2:
glosses: One of the US-administered Line Islands.
Synonyms: sense: pre-1900s names
word: Danger Reef
word: Caldew Reef
word: Maria Shoal
word: Crane Shoal
Lindemann-Weierstrass theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Ferdinand von Lindemann and Karl Weierstrass, who worked on related proofs.
Senses: topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: A result that is useful in establishing the transcendence of numbers, stating that, if α₁, ..., αₙ are algebraic numbers which are linearly independent over the rational numbers ℚ, then e^(α₁), ..., e^(αₙ) are algebraically independent over ℚ.
Synonyms: word: Weierstrass-Lindemann theorem
autoassociator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoassociators
Etymology: From auto- + associator.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of autoencoder.
synonyms: word: autoencoder
autoassociators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autoassociator
Fary-Milnor theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after István Fáry and John Milnor, who proved it independently in 1949 and 1950.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: In knot theory, a theorem stating that three-dimensional smooth curves with small total curvature must be unknotted.
Line Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: It seems she was born in one of the Line Islands; had been only two or three years in these parts […]
ref: 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Beach of Falesá:
text: Carrying out a population census in the Line islands has always been a formidable task for the population management team as well as to the national statistics office because of the distance and the problem of communication.
ref: 2016 September 1, “2015 POPULATION AND HOUSING CENSUS”, in National Statistics Office Ministry of Finance^(https://web.archive.org/web/20190819052204/https://www.mfed.gov.ki/sites/default/files/2015%20Population%20Census%20Report%20Volume%201(final%20211016).pdf), archived from the original on 19 Aug 2019, page 25:
glosses: A chain of eleven atolls and low coral islands in the central Pacific Ocean, stretching for almost 2,500 km; eight of the islands form part of Kiribati, while the remaining three are US territories grouped with the United States Minor Outlying Islands.
Synonyms: Teraina Islands
Equatorial Islands
helpliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From helply + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Where she finds her greatness, departing from her, and is made mute equally by a sense of helpliness, and a feeling of pride, her look and attitude conveyed wonderful expression.
ref: 1825, Edinburgh Dramatic Review - Volumes 3-5
text: "… What is there to prevent me ?" Dwelling on this question, as if weighed down by a sense of ignoble self-helpliness, he fell fast asleep.
ref: 1872, The London Journal: And Weekly Record of Literature, Science, and Art
glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being helply
pumping station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pumping stations
Senses: synonyms: pump house
glosses: A building which houses one or more pumps, usually for the purpose of pumping water or sewage.
pumping stations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pumping station
pump house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pump houses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pumphouse.
pump houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pump house
sprankle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sprankles
Senses: examples: text: ... saw The German Princess acted-by the woman herself ... the whole play ... is very simple, unless here and there a witty sprankle or two
ref: 1664, Samuel Pepys, Diary, 15 April 1664, page 5.124:
text: No. 3 is a group of drooping fuchslas, scarlet, pink and purple, with a sprankle of witch grass.
ref: 1872, Daniel Sharp Ford, The Youth's Companion - Volume 45, page 355:
text: Youngstown always has given a good account of herself, but they are going stronger than ever it seems. A few more SPRANKLES and over the top we will go.
ref: 1921, “Exchange Secretaries Meet in Buffalo”, in The American Contractor, volume 42, page 34:
glosses: A contrasting part that makes something more interesting and attractive.
sprankle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sprankles
form: sprankling
form: sprankled
form: sprankled
Senses: examples: text: With that hehry antlets on him and the bauble-light bulching out of his sockets whiling away she sprankled his allover with her noces of interregnation: How do you do that lack a lock and pass the poker, please?
ref: 1939, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake:
text: I snapped the curtains down in the floor, all of 'em was burnin', and I run in the back room and drug all the bed clothes off the bed and sprankled water on.
ref: 1980, Studs Terkel, American Dreams: Lost and Found, →ISBN, page 197:
text: We sprankled water on the clothes to damp'm 'em down to make 'em easier to am an'en rolled 'em up and poked 'em down in a piller slip to keep ,em damp.
ref: 2005, Cleo Hicks Williams, Gratitude for Shoes: Growing Up Poor in the Smokies, →ISBN:
text: The childern take'n her ashes out to everplace they ever lived at and sprankled part of her under azalea bushes and mimoser trees, in ditches and ponds, just all over everwhere that she lived at and loved.
ref: 2012, Paul Ruffin, Jesus in the Mist: Stories, →ISBN:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of sprinkle.
sprankles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sprankle
sprankles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sprankle
sprankling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sprankle
sprankled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sprankle
tetching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tetch
galamsey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galamseys
Etymology: Derived from the phrase "gather them and sell".
Senses: glosses: A local artisanal gold miner in Ghana.
examples: text: The inhabitants said that they indulge in galamsey because there are no other alternative livelihood sources.
ref: 2008, The State of Human Rights in Mining Communities in Ghana, page 58:
glosses: Illegal, small-scale gold mining in Ghana.
Related terms: galamseyer
galamseys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galamsey
HAVS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of hand-arm vibration syndrome.
black band disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A disease of corals, characterized by complete tissue degradation due to a pathogenic microbial consortium, and causing the coral to develop a black band.
cybertourist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cybertourists
Etymology: From cyber- + tourist.
Senses: glosses: A tourist in cyberspace.
Related terms: cybertourism
cybertourists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cybertourist
cybertourism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + tourism.
Senses: glosses: Tourism in cyberspace.
Related terms: cybertourist
heitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heiti
mythonym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mythonyms
Etymology: From myth + -onym.
Senses: glosses: An eponym originating in mythology.
mythonyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mythonym
whalewatching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From whale + watching.
Senses: glosses: The recreational observation of whales.
Related terms: whalewatcher
whalewatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whalewatchers
Etymology: From whale + watcher.
Senses: glosses: One who takes part in whalewatching.
whalewatchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whalewatcher
swing saw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔː
Forms: form: swing saws
Senses: examples: text: A novel safeguard for a swing saw, in use at a New York factory, consists of an automatic guard for the front of the saw the incloses that part of the saw after it has passed through the sawn material.
ref: 1992 July, Popular Mechanics, volume 38, number 1, page 85:
glosses: Synonym of pendulum saw.
synonyms: word: pendulum saw
swing saws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swing saw
pendulum saw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pendulum saws
Senses: glosses: A mechanically powered circular saw with the blade mounted so it can swing into the material.
Synonyms: word: goose saw
word: swing saw
pendulum saws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pendulum saw
sheep station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheep stations
Senses: glosses: A very large sheep farm, usually situated in the back country.
sheep stations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheep station
wolf lichen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wolf lichens
Senses: glosses: A bright yellow-green, shrubby, fruticose lichenized fungus of species Letharia vulpina (family Parmeliaceae).
wolf lichens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wolf lichen
pin lichen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pin lichens
Senses: glosses: Any of certain crustose lichen with small upward-pointing fruiting bodies supposed to resemble dressmakers' pins, including members of the genera Calicium (stubble lichen) and Chaenotheca (needle lichen, stubble lichen, whisker lichen).
pin lichens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pin lichen
yuanyang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yuanyangs
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 鴛鴦 /鸳鸯 (yuānyāng, literally “male (鴛) and female (鴦) mandarin duck”).
Senses: examples: text: The yuanyang are the male and female respectively of Anas galericulata, commonly called by Europeans "Mandarin duck." These beautiful water-fowl manifest when mated a singular degree of attachment for each other, and they have hence been elevated into the emblems of connubial affection and fidelity.
ref: 1889, Congressional Serial Set, page 460:
text: Yuanyang, the Mandarin duck, mates for life, and is hence a symbol of conjugal felicity.
ref: 2006, Pi-Ching Hsu, Beyond Eroticism: A Historian's Reading of Humor in Feng Menglong's Child's Folly:
text: May the pair of yuanyang 鸳鸯 augur well for our proposed union with Dominant Duck," said Susie gaily.
ref: 2016, Matt Huang, Grace Hsu, Young China Hand, →ISBN:
glosses: A pair of mandarin ducks, one male and one female, as a symbol of faithful union.
examples: text: Yuanyang, sometimes also called Ying Yong, is a popular beverage in Hong Kong, made of a mixture of coffee and Hong-style milk tea.
ref: 2012, Avani Burdett, Delicatessen Cookbook - Burdett's Delicatessen Recipes, →ISBN:
text: It is even enjoyed as a unique half tea, half coffee milky mix, yuanyang, a conjugal pairing as disparate as male and female Mandarin ducks (yes, it gets its name from the ducks).
ref: 2013, Andrew Dalby, The Breakfast Book, →ISBN, page 92:
text: After just thirty minutes and very limited math skills, my research indicated there are far too many people buying Double-Espresso Macchiato Yuanyangs just prior to entering the expressway for the morning's "rush hour", if you know what I mean.
ref: 2013, Matthew Gerwitz, Disposable Catheters and Other Musings, →ISBN, page 7:
text: Yuanyang is also a popular drink mixed with milk tea and coffee.
ref: 2015, T Turner, Hong Kong 2016 - : Have an Adventure!:
text: It comes as no surprise that Hong Kongers have discovered the joys of combining tea and coffee to create yuanyang.
ref: 2016, Michael Zee, SymmetryBreakfast, →ISBN, page 133:
glosses: Synonym of yuenyeung.
synonyms: word: yuenyeung
Derived terms: yuanyang hudie pai
yuanyangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yuanyang
aeromodeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aeromodelling.
yuanyang hudie pai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 鸳鸯蝴蝶派 (yuānyāng-húdié pài, literally “Mandarin ducks and butterflies school”).
Senses: examples: text: There is no good reason to keep replicating the terminological blunders and ideological biases of the anti-popular May Fourth critics, who used yuanyang hudie pai xiaoshuo as a sweeping epithet of dismissal for rival turf on the literary scene.
ref: 2000, Tamkang Review - Volume 31, Issues 1-3:
text: The Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies school (yuanyang hudie pai; henceforth Butterfly) has its origins in the mid-1910s boom in commercial periodicals.
ref: 2003, Joshua S. Mostow, The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature, →ISBN, page 355:
text: Even a shallow reading tells us that some of Ye's stories have features of the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School (yuanyang hudie pai 鸳鸯蝴蝶派).
ref: 2008, Women, Men, Love and Sexual Discourse in Ye Lingfeng's Fiction, →ISBN, page 18:
text: Leftist critics coined for them the depreciative polemical label yuanyang-hudie pai 鸳鸯蝴蝶派, "Mandarin-ducks-and-butterflies School", and construed in their critical discourse the overwhelmingly negative image of popular fiction as a purely commercial product for superficial entertainment and diversion, steeped in old-fashioned values and atavistic modes of behaviour, and adhering to outdated literary forms and techniques.
ref: 2009, Roland Altenburger, The Sword Or the Needle, →ISBN:
glosses: A type of Chinese fiction modeled after classical romances involving a tragic love between an effeminate male protagonist and a tender young woman.
biomodeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of biomodelling.
new-models
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of new-model
new-modelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of new-model
new-modeling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of new-model