cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cytoplasmon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] but different cytoplasms and plastids provided the possibility to distinguish between the influence of the plastome and the cytoplasmon on several traits.
ref: 1963, S. J. Geerts, Genetics Today: Proceedings, page 619:
text: Cytoplasmon: the total extranuclear genetic information of a eukaryotic cell, excluding that in the mitochondria and plastids.
ref: 1988, Thomas Scott, Mary Eagleson, Concise encyclopedia of biochemistry, page 148:
text: […] as opposed to those extrachromosomal hereditary determinants which are located outside the plastids and make up the cytoplasmon.
ref: 2013, R. Rieger, A. Michaelis, M. M. Green, A Glossary of Genetics and Cytogenetics: Classical and Molecular:
glosses: the collective genetic material of a eukaryotic cell that is found in its cytoplasm, i.e. not contained in its nucleus, mitochondria, or plastids
Wald test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wald tests
Etymology: Named after Abraham Wald.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A test that assesses constraints on statistical parameters based on the weighted distance between the unrestricted estimate and its hypothesized value under the null hypothesis, where the weight is the precision of the estimate.
wikipedia: Abraham Wald
Wald tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wald test
Jeffreys prior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jeffreys priors
Etymology: Named after Sir Harold Jeffreys.
Senses: topics: mathematics
probability
sciences
glosses: In Bayesian probability, a non-informative (objective) prior distribution for a parameter space; it is proportional to the square root of the determinant of the Fisher information matrix.
wikipedia: Harold Jeffreys
Jeffreys priors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jeffreys prior
Fisher information
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the statistician Ronald Fisher.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A measure of the amount of information that an observable random variable X carries about an unknown parameter θ of a distribution that models X. Formally, it is the variance of the score, or the expected value of the observed information.
wikipedia: Ronald Fisher
cutaneous rabbit illusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: CRE
cutaneous rabbit effect
cutaneous saltation
glosses: A tactile illusion where tapping separate regions of a person's skin in rapid succession (e.g. the elbow and the forearm) gives the impression of sequential taps "hopping" from one point to the next, even though the intermediate points were never touched.
cutaneous rabbit effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cutaneous rabbit illusion.
synonyms: word: cutaneous rabbit illusion
midband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midbands
Etymology: From mid- + band.
Senses: glosses: A midrange frequency band.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A band or stripe across the middle of part of an organism.
midbands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midband
Postellian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Postellian
form: most Postellian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Guillaume Postel (1510–1581), French linguist, astronomer, Cabbalist, diplomat, professor, and religious universalist.
ohmic resistances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ohmic resistance
postroll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postrolls
Etymology: From post- + roll.
Senses: topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: An advertisement that plays after the main content.
Coordinate terms: midroll
preroll
postrolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postroll
lysiosquilloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lysiosquilloids
Senses: examples: text: Members of the family share with lysiosquilloids the subquadrate, distally ribbed propodi of maxillipeds 3-4, but differ in bearing a distinct median carina on the telson.
ref: 2002, A.. Wells, W. W. K. Houston, Crustacea: Malacostraca : Phyllocardia, Hoplocardia, Eucarida:
text: The lysiosquilloid Pullosquilla litoralis was previously reported to inhabit only tropical waters less than 2 m deep […]
ref: 2003, The Journal of Experimental Biology, volume 206, number 1, page 378:
text: Ahyong (1997) hypothesized that the long ischium of lysiosquilloid stomatopods increased the reach of their raptorial appendages, implying that this allowed these stomatopods a greater striking distance […]
ref: 2012, Les Watling, Martin Thiel, Functional Morphology and Diversity, page 278:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any mantis shrimp in the superfamily Lysiosquilloidea
lysiosquilloids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lysiosquilloid
preconsciouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preconscious
postconscious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + conscious.
Senses: glosses: Occurring after conscious mental processing.
postconstitutionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From postconstitutional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: After the adoption or decline of a political constitution.
Neperian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Neperian
form: most Neperian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Napierian.
Derived terms: nepit
nitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nit
detection comb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: detection combs
Senses: glosses: A very fine-toothed comb used to check a person's hair for nits or lice.
detection combs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of detection comb
nitted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nit
nitted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nitted
form: most nitted
Senses: examples: text: Notice M.O. 24 to be revised and issued in cases of slightly nitted heads.
ref: 1915, London County Council, Annual Report of the Proceedings of the Council:
glosses: Infested with nits.
autogenics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: autogenic training
mustard-plaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mustard-plasters
Senses: examples: text: The mustard-plasters (whether first or second in time) are only to stay on long enough to redden, not blister, the skin.
ref: 1900, Charles Morris, Cyclopedia of practical information, page 487:
text: If in a paper on the value of home remedies, however, you offer as fact the statement that mustard-plasters are good for curing colds, you will have to cite a wide and representative sampling of incidents as well as testimony from respected medical authorities to convince your audience.
ref: 1991, Glenn H. Leggett, Carl David Mead, Melinda G. Kramer, Prentice Hall handbook for writers, page 438:
text: An intelligent, educated, proud, freedom-loving man, in the image of God, has no other way out save to go as a medico into a filthy, stupid, miserable hole of a town —and all his life consists of cupping glasses, leeches, mustard-plasters!
ref: 2001 (originally published in Russian in 1892), Anton Pavolvich Checkhov (English version edited by Charles Neider), “Ward No. 6”, in Short Novels of the Masters, page 435:
glosses: Alternative form of mustard plaster.
mustard-plasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mustard-plaster
mustard plaister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mustard plaisters
Senses: examples: text: There's no physic'll cure without a blessing, and with a blessing I know I've seen a mustard plaister work when there was no more smell nor strength in the mustard than so much flour.
ref: 1866, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XXII, in Felix Holt, the Radical […], volume II, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 111:
text: If the mustard plaister is applied without mixing with meal, a little flour should be sprinkled in with it, and a fold of thin muslin be laid over the face of it — this prevents particles of mustard remaining on the skin, the removal of which causes much annoyance to the patient.
ref: 1878, Catherine Jane Wood, A Handbook of Nursing, for the Home and the Hospital, page 60:
text: You can't beat hot ale an' ginger, missus, for a cowd. An' a mustard plaister if it's inflimation.
ref: 1982, Fred Kitchen, Life on the Land, page 37:
glosses: Alternative spelling of mustard plaster.
examples: text: Mr. Evans was one of the pioneers in the development of colour-printing, and not only did a quantity of ordinary trade work in this way, but also choice books. One of the mustard plaisters.
ref: 1980, Something about the Author, volume 18, page 55:
text: Evans hired Crane primarily for covers for "yellow-backs" or "mustard plaisters," cheap railway fiction issued in gaudy yellow-papered boards.
ref: 1981, American Book Collector, volume 2, page 3:
text: The illustrator Walter Crane (1845-1915) emphasised their color in his Reminiscences, using the synonym "mustard" when rcealling his production of "covers of cheap railway novels, which we sometimes called, from their generally yellow hue and sensational character mustard plaisters”.
ref: 2019, Massimo Rospocher, Jeroen Salman, Hannu Salmi, Crossing Borders, Crossing Cultures:
glosses: Synonym of yellowback.
synonyms: word: yellowback
mustard plaisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mustard plaister
mustard-plaister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mustard-plaisters
Senses: examples: text: The best mustard-plaister is made thus : take of mustard, in powder, two and a half parts, linseed-meal two and a half parts, boiling water ten parts.
ref: 1883, Nathaniel Edward Yorke-Davies, One Thousand Medical Maxims and Surgical Hints, page 71:
text: On removing a mustard-plaister, you must immediately cover the portion of the skin, over which it was applied, with a piece of flannel, or with cotton wool.
ref: 1883 -, Shelley Leigh Hunt, Alexander S. Kenny, Tropical Trials: A Hand-book for Women in the Tropics, page 369:
text: He said there was nothing the matter with me, and prescribed a mild solution of peppermint, which was neither nice nor useful; in the evening he came again, and ordered leeches and a mustard-plaister.
ref: 2003, Chroniken Von Etchmiazin, page 319:
text: One of the first occasions on which the reader is introduced to him when not enveloped in this fog is when his mother and a doctor roll him up in too strong a mustard-plaister.
ref: 2007, George Moore, Ann Heilmann, Mark Llewellyn, The Collected Short Stories of George Moore: Gender and Genre:
glosses: Alternative form of mustard plaster.
examples: text: ...these Gissing 'mustard-plaisters' are still much coveted by collectors, and it is well worth rescuing from "the inequity of oblivion" examples of other Gissing novels published in the uniform series and house-styles of the 1890's and after.
ref: 1971, John Spiers, Pierre Coustillas, The rediscovery of George Gissing, page 12:
glosses: Alternative form of mustard plaister (yellowback)
mustard-plaisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mustard-plaister
hotguns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hotgun
semi-domesticated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of semidomesticated.
semi-domesticated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of semi-domesticate
fritzscheite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after a chemist: Carl Julius Fritzsche by A. Breithaupt in 1865 + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A red tetragonal mineral containing manganese and uranium with phosphate and vanadate.
fuxiaotuite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Fu Xiaotu, a Chinese name for Jeffrey de Fourestier, + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An unapproved name for tangdanite.
tangdanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the Tangdan Mine where the mineral was first discovered, in Dongchuan District, Kunming, Yunnan, China. + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A light blue monoclinic calcium copper basic arsenate sulfate mineral.
hellandite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Amund Theodor Helland born 11 October 1846 in Bergen, Norway, who was a geology professor at Royal Frederick University. + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A monoclinic borosilicate mineral containing rare earths, aluminium and calcium.
right side
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪd
Forms: form: right sides
Senses: examples: text: Pin fabric A and fabric C together, right sides facing.
topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
synonyms: finished side
antonyms: wrong side
glosses: The side of a fabric, often with a more visible color or pattern, that is intended to face outward on a finished project.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see right, side.
Derived terms: right side out
wrong side
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wrong sides
Senses: examples: text: Trace the pattern on the wrong side so that any mistakes won't show when you're done.
topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
antonyms: right side
glosses: The side of a fabric, often with a less visible color or pattern, that is not intended to be seen on a finished project.
examples: text: Don't drive on the wrong side of the road.
text: But his grandson Francis, a Yorkist friend of Richard III, backed the wrong side in the Wars of the Roses and was declared a traitor by Henry VII, who confiscated his estates.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 286:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wrong, side.
Related terms: get on someone's wrong side
on the wrong side of history
wrong side of the tracks
Máoist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Máoist
form: most Máoist
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of Maoist.
backdiffusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: diffusion against the flow of a fluid
basefluid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basefluids
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of base fluid.
basefluids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basefluid
base fluid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: base fluids
Senses: glosses: The fluid, most often water, used in hydraulic fracturing
basoepithelial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of basiepithelial.
glosses: Relating to basoepithelium
basoepithelium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basoepitheliums
form: basoepithelia
Senses: glosses: basal epithelium
Related terms: basoepithelial
benzazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzazoles
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any bicyclic aromatic heterocycle composed of a benzene ring fused with one of an azole
benzazoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benzazole
benzodiapine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of benzodiazepine.
bihemispherical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + hemispherical.
Senses: glosses: Composed of two hemispheres
binephric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + nephric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to both kidneys
movt.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: movts.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of movt.
LPDR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Lao People’s Democratic Republic.
Oaxtepec
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Oaxtepec, from a Nahuan language; cf. Classical Nahuatl Huāxtepēc, equivalent to huāxin (a type of tree) + tepētl (“mountain”) + -c (locative suffix).
Senses: glosses: A town in Yautepec, Morelos, Mexico.
provinceful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: provincefuls
Etymology: From province + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: The cherry came from Persia, so they say, Well, Cyrus and his army here might stay A Week Or two, and with the birds dispute Their title to a provinceful of fruit.
ref: 1913, William Henry Taylor, Canadian Seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, with a Medley of Reveries in Verse and Prose and Other Curios, page 26:
text: Local boards overestimate options open to the Department of Education, a provincial leader says: There's a provinceful of auditors.
ref: 1995, Kenneth Leithwood, Effective School District Leadership: Transforming Politics into Education, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 171:
text: Munding governs a provinceful of Communists, he's the last of the free, though he doesn't know it.
ref: 2011, Jose Dalisay, In Flight: Two Novels of the Philippines, IPG, →ISBN, page 91:
glosses: the amount that a province can hold.
courtful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: courtsful
form: courtfuls
Etymology: From court + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Worldly little devil, I would stand about, musingly fitting my cold bare feet into cracked bricks and crevices of the damp cellar floor, – walking over my grandfather's body, so to speak, into the courtful of houses, and selling them for meat and drink, and clothes to wear.
ref: 1892, Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood: Reprinted Pieces, and Other Stories, page 336:
text: When there is more than one character in the scene, as is so frequently the case with Shakespeare (where there can be a whole courtful of people for you to deal with), then place the different characters in widely different locations on stage, giving them each a single simple attitude toward you that you are either combatting or using as agreement.
ref: 1978, Michael Shurtleff, Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 136:
text: It Includes poems by Elizabeth, who had to keep control of her courtful of poetically competing males.
ref: 2010, Ruth Padel, Sir Walter Ralegh, Faber & Faber, →ISBN:
glosses: As much as a court would hold.
Related terms: courtyardful
riverful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riverfuls
form: riversful
Etymology: From river + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Well—perhaps not a riverful, but it's easy to tell which of them are.
ref: 1931, Motor Boating, page 2:
text: The other peom in Figure 22 reads: A little water, some little hills, a thousand drops of ink; A hillock, a valley, a riverful of smoke. In my old age, my brush tip has turned blunt and it needs utter freedom;
ref: 1962, Wen Fong, The Problem of Forgeries in Chinese Painting, page 116:
text: "You've got a riverful of troubles, haven't you, John?"
ref: 1966, Anthony Tuttle, This Time in Twilight, page 148:
glosses: as much as a river would hold.
crown shyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: canopy shyness
glosses: A phenomenon observed in some tree species, in which the crowns of fully stocked trees do not touch each other, forming a canopy with channel-like gaps.
no-tell hotels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of no-tell hotel
re-tractioning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retractioning
Etymology: From re- + traction + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Gemini Rail Technology has the contract for internal refurbishment and re-tractioning of the '442s', although the re-tractioning was delayed to allow procurement of new static converters due to concerns about electromagnetic compatibility.
ref: 2019 October, “'442s' withdrawn due to signal interaction issues”, in Modern Railways, page 87:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Renewal of traction equipment, in particular traction motors.
biarc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biarcs
Etymology: From bi- + arc.
Senses: glosses: A geometric figure consisting of two circular arcs tangent at their common endpoint.
rubbing alcohols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rubbing alcohol
Worc
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Shortened form of Worcester taking all the letters of the first syllable and the first consonant of the second syllable.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of University of Worcester, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.
raw_tags: after a qualification
dual-voltage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dual + voltage.
Senses: examples: text: With multi-voltage techniques in their present state of development, the greatest disadvantage resulting from these differences is the impossibility of fast through multiple-unit expresses. Dual-voltage trains work between Amsterdam and Brussels, but many additional problems would arise if they were to run south of Luxembourg.
ref: 1957 December 24, “European Electrification Progress”, in Railway Magazine, page 820:
text: Transport for London has ordered 48x4-car and 6x5-car '710s' from Bombardier, with the initial order of 45x4-car units comprising 31x4-car AC-only units for West Anglia services and 14x4-car dual-voltage units for the Gospel Oak to Barking line (GOBLIN) and Watford DC services. However, this has recently been varied, with one of the AC-only units now to be delivered as a dual-voltage set. The nine units later added to the order are all dual-voltage, meaning the total order is now for 30x4-car AC-only units and 18x4-car and 6x5-car dual-voltage units.
ref: 2019 October, “'710s' debut on Watford DC services”, in Modern Railways, page 88:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Able to run using two different voltages, depending on the voltage supplied to the particular railway line, whether by third rail direct current or overhead wires.
raw_tags: of an electric train
examples: text: Quévy, the end-to-end junction with the S.N.C.F. main line via Aulnoye to Paris, will be a dual-voltage station with arrangements of overhead and signalling equipment similar to those at Luxembourg, another junction between the 3,000V and 25kV systems.
ref: 1962 October, “Beyond the Channel: Belgium: Brussels-Paris electrification”, in Modern Railways, page 276:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Provided with two separate traction power supplies at different voltages, typically as a changeover point between voltages.
raw_tags: of a station
Related terms: dual-frequency
semifactually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From semifactual + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner that is only partly factual.
Shooter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
escalator barrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: escalator barrels
Senses: examples: text: The escalator barrel up to the concourse is also approaching completion, missing only a few panels and the digital screens that will display ads to those ascending and descending the three escalators.
ref: 2019 October, Dan Harvey, “Crossrail Update: Whitechapel barrels on”, in Modern Railways, page 92:
glosses: A sharply inclined shaft or tunnel in which escalators are installed underground, particularly at underground railway stations.
oceanful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oceanfuls
form: oceansful
Etymology: From ocean + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Does He go forth to create water, He pours it out, not by the cupful, but by a riverful, a lakeful, an oceanful, pouring it out until all the earth has enough to drink, and enough with which to wash.
ref: 1875, J V D. S, Choice readings for every day in the year, selected [by J.V.D.S.] from the works of T.D.W. Talmage, page 181:
text: It wrestled with the tempests, it spread roots and arms a hundred feet, and towered into the air, drinking with its myriads of leaves sunshine and air by the oceanful, and appropriating to itself wood by the cord every year.
ref: 1884, The Homiletic Review, page 733:
text: It is to destroy the oceanful of sins of humanity.
ref: 1983, R. R. Sundara Rao, Bhakti Theology in the Telugu Hymnal, page 76:
glosses: The amount that an ocean can hold.
Related terms: seaful
escalator barrels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of escalator barrel
lakeful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lakefuls
form: lakesful
Etymology: From lake + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Make a lakeful of koumiss; and give a magnificent feast.
ref: 1972, Faruk Sümer, Ahmet E. Uysal, Warren S. Walker, The Book of Dede Korkut: A Turkish Epic, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 12:
text: A drop of water must yield to the analyst the same results as a lakeful.
ref: 1996, Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton, Gandhi: Selected Political Writings, Hackett Publishing, →ISBN, page 41:
text: Please look at this lakeful of misty rain like water soaking me through, as soaking through a bird's feather.
ref: 2006, Zhilin Bian, The carving of insects, page 42:
glosses: The amount that a lake can hold.
statoconial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From statoconium + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a statoconium.
DMHs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DMH
undertriaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undertriage
overtriaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overtriage
overtriages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overtriage
overtriages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overtriage
overtriaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overtriage
track pizza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
synonyms: one under
glosses: A person hit by a train after jumping or falling in front of it.
Thurber's needlegrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Achnatherum thurberianum, a species of grass native to the western United States.
Iskra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Iskras
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish and Slovene Iskra, both from iskra (“spark”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Irt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Cumbria, England, which flows from Wast Water, and into the Irish Sea.
Ihan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Kiblawan, Davao del Sur, Philippines.
kwashiorkored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From kwashiorkor + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Suffering from kwashiorkor.
patchbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patchboxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of patch box.
patchboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patchbox
empiriomonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: empiriomonists
Senses: glosses: A proponent of empiriomonism.
empiriomonists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of empiriomonist
specific resistance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: specific resistances
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Resistivity.
phosphoribosyladenosine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phospho- + ribosyl + adenosine.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical containing a phosphate group connected to ribose in turn connected to adenosine (which in turn is normally connected to diphosphate or triphosphate)
pulplessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pulpless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of pulp.
policylessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From policyless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of a policy.
pithlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pithless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of pith.
poiselessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poiseless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of poise.
spinlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spinless + -ness.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Absence of spin.
wattlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wattless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being wattless.
fire fighter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire fighters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of firefighter.
WH-question
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WH-questions
Senses: examples: text: Note that one cannot describe such basic processes as yes–no question and WH-question formation, negation, or the use of emphatic particles in Sinhala without involving focusing, [...]
ref: 1985, James W. Gair, “Focused Sentences: Naturalization of a Calque”, in Barbara C. Lust, editor, Studies in South Asian Linguistics: Sinhala and Other South Asian Languages, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, published 1998, →ISBN, part IV (Change, Grammaticization, and Linguistic Area), page 168:
text: In the preceding chapters, I have tentatively adopted an analysis for yes-no and WH-questions (aside from multiple WH-questions, as in (1b′), which have not been taken up yet) on the following lines: [...] [T]he S of that structure has the same form as the deep structure of a corresponding declarative sentence, except that the structure underlying a WH-question such as (1b) has a WH-expression in place of one of the constituents that could occur in a corresponding declarative; [...]
ref: 1988, James D[avid] McCawley, “Interrogative Clauses”, in The Syntactic Phenomena of English, volume 2, Chicago, Ill.; London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 464:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of wh-question.
WH-questions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of WH-question
com.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of com.
sifflicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sifflicates
form: sifflicating
form: sifflicated
form: sifflicated
Etymology: . Compare with spiflicate.
Senses: examples: text: To be sure! This will do! I shall be fain to think a summut of ee, now you can flamgudgin 'em a thisn. I did'nt a think it was innee. Why you will become a son of my own begettin. I write to tellee the good news, and that ee mightn't a kick down the milk. You have a sifflicated Sir Arthur. I could a told ee afore that you had a sifflicated Missee. But I was afeard as that you wur a too adasht. But I tellee it will do! Father's own lad! An ear-tickler! Ay, ay! That's the trade! Sugar the sauce, and it goes down glibly.
ref: 1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives. a Novel:
text: ...the citizen, remembering with some resentment the airs of equality which Richie had assumed towards him in the commencement of the scene which had just taken place, could not forbear to retaliate, by congratulating him with an ironical smile on his favour at Court, and his improved grace in presenting a supplication.
"Never fash your beard about that. Master Greorge Heriot," said Richie, totally undismayed; " but tell me when and where I am to sifflicate you for eight hundred pounds sterling, for which these jewels stood engaged?"
ref: 1822, Walter Scott, The fortunes of Nigel:
glosses: To supplicate, petition, importune, or wheedle
examples: text: Your noble onnur knows that I'm a be apt to let my tongue mag a little, when my wits be a set a gaddin; and whereupon the case is as witch your noble onnur was pleased to sifflicate me upon, in your last rite onnurable and mercifool letter.
ref: 1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives. a Novel:
glosses: To criticise
examples: text: Madam Clifton wonnot a budge a finger, to the signin and sealin of her gratification of applause, whereby as if so be as that the kole a be not a forth cummin, down on the nail head. And where now might Timothy Tipkin sifflicate that it may behappen to be for to come from? Pummel thy pumkin, and a tell me that, Peter Grievous.
ref: 1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives. a Novel:
glosses: To suggest
Related terms: sifflication
sifflication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sifflications
Senses: examples: text: "Weel, then — I am not free to say, that maybe I might not just slip into the King's hand a wee bit sifflication of mine ain, along with my Lord's, just to save his Majesty trouble — and that he might consider them baith at ance."
" A supplication of your own, you varlet!" said his master.
" Ou dear, ay, my Lord," said Richie — "puir bodies hae their bits of sifflications as weel as their betters."
ref: 1822, Walter Scott, The fortunes of Nigel:
glosses: supplication, petition, importuning, or wheedling
Qahira
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Cairo
leydetite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Jean-Claude Leydet born 18 April 1961, an amateur uranium mineral enthusiast + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A yellowish-green monoclinic mineral which is a hydrated iron uranyl sulfate.
lingunite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Lin-gun Liu who first synthesized the material in 1978 at the Australian National University + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A tetragonal high pressure form of albite, a tektosilicate mineral found in meteorites with formula NaAlSi₃O₈ although calcium may substitute for sodium.
re-view
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: re-views
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of review.
re-view
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-views
form: re-viewing
form: re-viewed
form: re-viewed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of review.
glosses: To view (something) again.
mboziite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the Mbozi Complex, located on the side of the Tunduma branch of the Rukwa Rift Valley, + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a sodium containing amphibole.
fogman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fogmen
Etymology: From fog + man.
Senses: examples: text: As against this, really bad fogs have been experienced and on one occasion the 7.35 p.m. from Victoria crawled into Herne Bay 95 min. late, having halted at every stop signal between Gillingham and Whitstable. The explanation? Not a single fogman had turned out for duty between Gillingham and Ramsgate.
ref: 1959 April, P. Ransome-Wallis, “The Southern in Trouble on the Kent Coast”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 216:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A railwayman who placed fog signals (detonators) on the track at distant signals during thick fogs (and falling snow) to warn train drivers.
natroautunite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: natroautunites
Etymology: From natro- + autunite meaning containing autunite containing sodium. Named in 1957 by A. A. Chernikov, O. V. Krutetskaya, and N. I. Organova.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A lemon-yellow tetragonal mineral, which is a hydrated sodium uranyl phosphate
Synonyms: sodium autunite used for this mineral for part of 1957
meta-natroautunite renamed to this officially in 1994
fogmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fogman
oyster bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oyster bars
Senses: synonyms: oyster saloon
oyster house
oyster parlor
glosses: A restaurant, or part of a restaurant, that specializes in serving oysters, often buffet-style.
oyster bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oyster bar
raw bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raw bars
Senses: glosses: A small restaurant, or bar within a restaurant, where live raw shellfish are shucked and served.
raw bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raw bar
biohistorical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + historical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to biohistory
biohistory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + history.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The history of life and its development
Related terms: biohistorical
biopolyelectrolyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biopolyelectrolytes
Etymology: From bio- + polyelectrolyte.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any polyelectrolyte of biological origin
biopolyelectrolytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biopolyelectrolyte
bioturbidation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of bioturbation.
blastogregarine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blastogregarines
Senses: glosses: Any parasitic alveolate of the suborder Blastogregarinorina
blastogregarines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blastogregarine
okanoganite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Okanogan + -ite; named after Okanogan County, Washington State.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a trigonal rare earth fluoro borosilicate mineral.
brachioblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brachioblasts
Etymology: From brachio- + -blast.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: An immature piece of tissue that has arms or needles
brachioblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brachioblast
bromoacetylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bromoacetylations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Reaction with bromoacetic acid or one of its derivatives
labuntsovite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Aleksander Nikolaevich Labuntsov and Ekaterina Eutiikkieva Labuntsov-Kostyleva who were Russian mineralogists + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A monoclinic mineral which is a complex niobate silicate of potassium, barium, sodium and transition metals.
bromoageliferin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bromoageliferins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The pyrrole N-[[(4R,5R,6S)-2-amino-4-(2-amino-1H-imidazol-5-yl)-6-[[(4-bromo-1H-pyrrole-2-carbonyl)amino]methyl]-4,5,6,7-tetrahydro-1H-benzimidazol-5-yl]methyl]-4,5-dibromo-1H-pyrrole-2-carboxamide, that is a secondary metabolite of the marine sponge Agelas conifera
Related terms: dibromoageliferin
broodchamber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broodchambers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of brood chamber.
broodchambers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of broodchamber
brood chamber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brood chambers
Senses: glosses: A chamber, typically underground, in which young (animals or insects) are born and raised until old enough to venture outside
horsewheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horsewheels
Etymology: From horse + wheel.
Senses: glosses: A millwheel driven by the motion of a horse or horses.
horsewheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horsewheel
högbomite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Arvid Gustav Högbom born January 11, 1857, by Axel Olof Gavelin in 1916; + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A black hexagonal iron magnesium titanate mineral.
Derived terms: ferrohögbomite
magnesiohögbomite
zincohögbomite
devil's wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: human roulette wheel
joy wheel
glosses: An amusement ride consisting of a circular platform that rotates rapidly while riders try to stay on it.
joy wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: joy wheels
Senses: glosses: Synonym of devil's wheel (“amusement ride”).
synonyms: word: devil's wheel
extra: amusement ride
joy wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of joy wheel
human roulette wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: human roulette wheels
Senses: glosses: Synonym of devil's wheel (“amusement ride”).
synonyms: word: devil's wheel
extra: amusement ride
human roulette wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of human roulette wheel
indulgency pattern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indulgency patterns
Senses: examples: text: Clearly, he was appointed to 'tighten things up' and quickly acted to replace the indulgency pattern with a much more demanding and tightly organised system.
ref: 1985, Meredydd G. Hughes, Peter Ribbins, Hywel Thomas, Managing Education: The System and the Institution, page 230:
text: Gouldner's analysis focuses on how this process unfolded in the gypsum mine, though he suggests that the origin of these indulgency patterns are in part derived from community life outside the mine.
ref: 1999, Charles S. Varano, Forced Choices: Class, Community, and Worker Ownership, page 201:
glosses: A management style in which the manager makes certain concessions to subordinates, rather than strictly enforcing every rule.
indulgency patterns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indulgency pattern
carboamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carboamides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of carboxamide.
carboamides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carboamide
cardiotocographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cardiotocography
categorizability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being categorizable
cathedulin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cathedulins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of polymeric esters present in khat (Catha edulis)
cathedulins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cathedulin
cementatious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of cementitious.
centrofacial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪʃəl
Etymology: From centro- + facial.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or situated in the centre of the face
endistancement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From en- + distance + -ment.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: Verfremdungseffekt
cervicoisthmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cervico- + isthmic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to a cervix and an isthmus
cervicotrigeminal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmɪnəl
Etymology: From cervico- + trigeminal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to a cervix and the trigeminal nerve
educational visit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: educational visits
Senses: examples: text: The purpose of an educational visit was to tell the trader what the tax was and what he had to do […]
ref: 1975, Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command:
text: In practice, this is not always possible, but an educational visit should be paid to every trader not later than six months after VAT starts.
ref: 1988, Alan A. Tait, Value Added Tax: International Practice and Problems, page 176:
text: Nor can they expect to rely on the lack of an educational visit from an officer of Customs and Excise. If everyone were able to rely on that it would be too easy a way out of getting the tax return wrong.
ref: 1991, Value Added Tax Tribunals Reports, page 161:
topics: business
finance
glosses: An official visit by a government representative to a person or company registered for VAT (value added tax) to ensure they understand their tax obligations.
examples: text: The pupils were taken on an educational visit to the science museum.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see educational, visit.
educational visits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of educational visit
chemoexposure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chemo- + exposure.
Senses: glosses: exposure to the action of chemicals
shootlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shootless + -ness.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Absence of shoots.
recordlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From recordless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of records.
scathelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scatheless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Freedom from harm or injury.
realmlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From realmless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of a realm.
sliplessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From slipless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of physical slippage.
stancelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stanceless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Lack of any particular stance; neutrality.
Lurianist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lurianists
Etymology: From Lurian + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person of Lurianic beliefs and practices.
Lurianists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lurianist
playlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From playless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Lack of play (recreational activities).
partlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From partless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of parts.
spurlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spurless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of spurs.
experience effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: experience effects
Senses: topics: business
glosses: The idea that production costs decrease by a constant percentage whenever production doubles, attributed to improvements in performance as a result of frequent repetition.
experience effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of experience effect
recoillessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From recoilless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of recoil.
tetherlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tetherless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being tetherless.
ticket hall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ticket halls
Senses: examples: text: Note that while most of the new Elizabeth Line stations have ticket halls at both ends of the platforms Whitechapel does not; disembark at the wrong end of your train and you will certainly hit your steps target before you reach the street.
ref: 2019 October, Dan Harvey, “Crossrail Update: Whitechapel barrels on”, in Modern Railways, page 92:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: An area in some railway stations where travel tickets are sold.
Synonyms: booking hall
Related terms: ticket office
ticket halls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ticket hall
scared spitless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Rhyming euphemism for scared shitless.
Senses: glosses: Very frightened, terrified.