cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
methanotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /mɪˌθeɪnəʊˈtɹəʊfɪk/
Forms: form: more methanotrophic
form: most methanotrophic
Senses: examples: text: Almarcrux's abundant water and relatively mild temperature and gravity have placed it on the short list of terraforming candidate worlds. However, there is significant opposition from eco-ethics groups, who assert that Almarcrux's primitive methanotrophic bacteria may be a precursor to a full-fledged native ecology.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Almarcrux planetary description:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a methanotroph or to methanotrophy
methanotrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From methane + -o- + -trophy.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The bacterial use of methane as a source of carbon and of energy
Related terms: methanotroph
methanotrophic
methylerythritol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From methyl + erythritol.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A methyl derivative of erythritol, especially 2-C-methyl-D-erythritol, whose phosphate is involved in the biosynthesis of isoprenoids
methylotroph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methylotrophs
Etymology: From methyl + -o- + -troph.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any organism that uses simple methyl compounds (such as methane or methanol) as a source of carbon and of energy
Related terms: methanotroph
microdissection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microdissections
Etymology: From micro- + dissection.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. O’Connell set out to investigate the full anatomy of the clitoris using microdissection and magnetic resonance imaging.
ref: 2022 October 17, Rachel E. Gross, “Half the World Has a Clitoris. Why Don’t Doctors Study It?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A dissection using a microscope and very fine instruments.
Derived terms: cryomicrodissection
Related terms: microdissectional
microfilaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmaɪ.kɹə(ʊ).fɪˈlɛəɹi.ə/
ipa: /ˌmaɪ.kɹoʊ.fəˈlɛɹi.ə/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.ə
Forms: form: microfilariae
Etymology: From micro- + filaria.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The very small larva of a filarial worm.
Derived terms: microfilaremia
microfilarial
microfilaricide
microfilaridermia
microfilaricidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + filaricidal.
Senses: glosses: That functions as a microfilaricide.
microfilaricide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microfilaricides
Etymology: From micro- + filaricide.
Senses: glosses: A pesticide that kills microfilariae
Derived terms: microfilaricidal
microinjection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microinjections
Etymology: From micro- + injection.
Senses: glosses: injection (especially of biological material) using a micropipette
microtubular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + tubular.
Senses: examples: text: Class 3 Ulvophyceae: flagella attached at anterior end of cell; motile cells have near-radial symmetry externally; flagella roots consist of four cruciately arranged microtubular roots and sometimes a rhizoplast […]
ref: 2008, Robert Edward Lee, Phycology, page 145:
glosses: Of or pertaining to microtubules.
microvilli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microvillus
morphotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morphotypes
Etymology: From morpho- + -type.
Senses: examples: text: The morphotype, or form-print, must hereafter take its place by the side of the logotype or word-print.
ref: 1859 June 24, “The stereoscope and the stereograph”, in Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Art and Politics, page 744:
text: As the first form of a dimorphic sex will be represented in the holotype or allotype, there may be some doubt as to the advisability of classing morphotypes among primary types.
ref: 1911, Annals of the Entomological Society of America, volume 4, page 208:
text: The only exception seems to be morphotype 2 (Scotiophryne), which is clearly defined by a prominent lamina that posteriorly delimits the oblique groove and, in the Utah samples, is stratigraphically restricted to the lower—middle Campanian.
ref: 2013, Alan L. Titus, At the Top of the Grand Staircase: The Late Cretaceous of Southern Utah:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of different types of individuals of the same species in a population; a morph.
Derived terms: ecomorphotype
ichnomorphotype
karyomorphotype
morphotypic
morphotype
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: morphotypes
form: morphotyping
form: morphotyped
form: morphotyped
Etymology: From morpho- + -type.
Senses: examples: text: Experiment 4 involved only morphotyping, and the results demonstrated the concentration-dependence of the subdivisions of morphotype 1.
ref: 1977 July 24, ME Kabay, JJ Gilbert, “Polymorphism and reproductive mode in the rotifer, Asplanchna sieboldi: Relationship between meiotic oogenesis and shape of body‐wall outgrowths”, in Journal of Experimental Zoology:
text: In a second phase, arriving seeds were left to accumulate in traps for eight months, at which time all seeds, fruits, and germinated seedlings in the traps were collected and "morphotyped" (separated into unidentified but recognizable species).
ref: 2001, Richard O. Bierregaard, editor, Lessons from Amazonia: The Ecology and Conservation of a Fragmented Forest, page 316:
text: Galls when found were inspected for inducers, collected separately in plastic bags when an insect or mite was found and were provisionally morphotyped (for organ, shape, colour and host plant).
ref: 2014, Geraldo Wilson Fernandes, Neotropical Insect Galls, page 227:
glosses: To sort into such types (and identify them)
Related terms: morphism
polymorphism
pueblos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pueblo
date palms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of date palm
non-functional requirement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-functional requirements
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: functional requirement
glosses: A requirement of a project, such as accessibility or portability, that is not a specific, measurable aspect of performing a particular task.
Derived terms: word: NFR
epeolatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɛpiˈɒlətɹi/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔπος (épos, “word”) + -latry (“worship of”). The first citation of the word is from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., in his 1860 book The Professor at the Breakfast-Table.
Senses: examples: text: Time, time only, can gradually wean us from our Epeolatry, or word-worship, by spiritualizing our ideas of the thing signified.
ref: 1860, Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Professor at the Breakfast-table: With The Story of Iris, Ticknor and Fields, page 147:
text: It is said that the first requisite for a successful politician is to be able to invent nicknames for an adversary; and before now a neatly turned expression has overthrown Governments in France. Epeolatry is the fashion of the day.
ref: 1906, Patrick Augustine Sheehan, “Emerson: Free-Thought in America”, in Early Essays and Lectures, Longmans, Green, and Company, page 45:
text: I read my dictionary for a few more minutes, until tiredness eventually brought my epeolatry to an end for the day.
ref: 2006, Roger Day, Anurada Negotiates Our Wobbly Planet, Lulu:
glosses: The worship of words.
wikipedia: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Synonyms: logolatry
verbolatry
Related terms: idolatry
trepidancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɛpɪdənsi/
Etymology: From trepidant + -cy.
Senses: examples: text: In the manner of my friend I was at once struck with an incoherence—an inconsistency; and I soon found this to arise from a series of feeble and futile struggles to overcome an habitual trepidancy—an excessive nervous agitation.
ref: 1840, Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher:
glosses: Trembling caused by fear or nervous agitation.
dala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dala
Etymology: From an unassimilated equivalent of Hawaiian kālā, from English dollar.
Senses: examples: text: My mother kept a dollar bill in Hawaiian currency—a dala—given to her as a souvenir of her brother's service in the army.
ref: 2018, Todd A. Watkins, Introduction to Microfinance:
glosses: The currency of Hawaii between 1847 and 1898, equal to the United States dollar.
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: dala dala
dalaga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dalagas
Etymology: From Tagalog dalaga (“maiden; virgin; unmarried girl”).
Senses: glosses: A young woman who has passed puberty but is not yet married; an eligible young woman.
tough cookie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tough cookies
Senses: examples: text: An austere, hard-lining rightist, who lives alone, Ioannidis is described by one Washington military official as "a real tough cookie."
ref: 1973 December 10, “Ioannidis: Power in the Wings”, in Time:
text: Well you're a real tough cookie with a long history
Of breaking little hearts like the one in me
ref: 1980, Eddie Schwartz, “Hit Me with Your Best Shot”, in Crimes of Passion, performed by Pat Benatar:
text: I run to Micki and give her a hug. She was racing with a broken thumb — a tough cookie, just like me.
ref: 2002, Picabo Street, Dana White, Picabo: Nothing to Hide, Contemporary Books, →ISBN, page 6:
text: "Although she's a small-framed woman, we all believed she came through the Marines and maybe ate nails for breakfast because she's one tough cookie," said Horace Taylor […]
ref: 2005 October 3, Liz Austin, “Miers had stormy tenure at Texas Lottery Commission”, in Spokesman-Review:
glosses: A person who can endure physical or mental hardship; a hardened, strong-willed person.
examples: text: Boxwood is a pretty tough cookie. Wind, cold, wet, exhaust fumes, and industrial pollution are of no consequence.
ref: 2001, Sybille Engels, Basic Gardening: Everything You Need to Make Your Garden Grow, Silverback Books, →ISBN, page 134:
text: Though its name is Cupcake, Tristan Carter's cat proved it was one tough cookie surviving on its own since Hurricane Katrina forced Carter to abandon it […]
ref: 2006 March 13, “Katrina Cat”, in Jet:
glosses: A hardy, resilient animal or plant.
examples: text: The pup that struggles constantly might be one tough cookie when it comes to training; […]
ref: 2002, Steven Smith, editor, Encyclopedia of North American Sporting Dogs, Willow Creek Press, →ISBN, page 63:
glosses: Something troublesome or difficult to handle.
Synonyms: sense: person able to endure hardship
word: survivor
sense: person able to endure hardship
word: trooper
dayan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dayanim
form: dayyan
Etymology: From Hebrew דיין.
Senses: examples: text: A medieval hymn composed by the Dayyan ("Judge") Daniel b. Yehudah of fourteenth-century Rome, recited in the daily morning Preliminary Service, and by some, at the close of the Arvit and Musaf services on Shabbat and festivals.
ref: 1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 375:
text: There is a famous story about Rabbi Yisrael Salanter who ate on the Bimah in Vilna at the end of the Yom Kippur morning service in 1848 during a cholera epidemic, together with two other Dayyanim, to persuade the congregation to eat during the epidemic.
ref: 2024, David Golinkin, “Does Jewish Law Require Yeshivah Students To Be Drafted At Age 18?”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page 66:
glosses: A rabbinic judge
dayok
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A fermented Filipino condiment made from fish entrails (usually from yellowfin tuna) and salt.
lemonizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lemonize
lemonizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lemonize
saggar maker's bottom knockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saggar maker's bottom knocker
thill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: thills
form: fill
Etymology: From Middle English thille, thylle, from Old English þille (“board; floorboard; plank; stake; pole”), from Proto-West Germanic *þilljā, from Proto-Germanic *þiljǭ (“board; floorboard; deck”), from Proto-Indo-European *tel- (“plank; board”). Cognate with Dutch deel, German Low German Deel (> English deal (“plank”)), German Diele, Swedish tilja, Icelandic þilja. Akin to English theal (“board; plank”). Doublet of deal (etymology 3).
Senses: glosses: One of the two long pieces of wood, extending before a vehicle, between which a horse is hitched; a shaft.
examples: text: One by one, Janki leading, they crept into the old gallery – a six-foot way with a scant four feet from thill to roof.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘At Twenty-two’, In Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, page 405:
topics: business
mining
glosses: The shallow stratum of underclay that lies under a seam of coal; the bottom of a coal-seam.
Derived terms: thilled
thill-horse
thilly
multigene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + gene.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Involving multiple genes
Derived terms: multigene family
multigene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multigenes
Etymology: From multi- + gene.
Senses: glosses: multigene family
multigene family
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multigene families
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A group of multiple copies of similar genes on the same chromosome, thought to arise from a single, ancestral gene
multilocus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multilocus
form: most multilocus
Etymology: From multi- + locus.
Senses: glosses: Involving multiple loci
bunjara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌnˈdʒaɹə/
Forms: form: bunjaras
form: banjara
form: binjarree
form: binjarry
form: brinjaree
form: brinjarree
form: brinjarry
form: bunjarree
Etymology: From Hindustani بنجارا / बंजारा (bañjārā), ultimately from Sanskrit वणिज्या (vaṇijyā, “trade”) + कार (kāra, “doer”).
Senses: examples: text: Thirty years ago this ford was on the track of the bunjaras, and I have seen two thousand pack-bullocks cross in one night.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘At Twenty-two’, In Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, page 410:
glosses: A wandering grain and salt merchant in the Deccan Plateau.
Related terms: banjari
Banjara
mycoheterotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mycoheterotrophic
form: most mycoheterotrophic
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting mycoheterotrophy
mycoheterotrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Like lichens and mycorrhizal relationships, mycoheterotrophy is an evolutionary refrain, and has arisen independently in at least forty-six separate plant lineages.
ref: 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 173:
glosses: Alternative form of myco-heterotrophy.
mycosymbiont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mycosymbionts
Etymology: From myco- + symbiont.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any fungus that has a symbiotic relationship with a plant
Related terms: mycosymbiosis
mytilid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mytilids
Etymology: Borrowed from both translingual Mytilida and Mytilidae.
Senses: glosses: Any bivalve mollusc of the order Mytilida; the mussels.
qualifier: sensu stricto
glosses: Any mussel of the family Mytilidae.
parranda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish parranda.
Senses: examples: text: The nonpurist result is world-music fusion, linking the Central American parranda and punta to African and Latin pop, flamenco, even electric blues.
ref: 2008 March 16, Jon Pareles, “Sounds Soft and Tough, and a Star in the Trunk”, in New York Times:
glosses: A Venezuelan genre of music with African influences and drumming.
salad bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salad bars
Senses: examples: text: Salad bars can be found in many restaurants and schools.
glosses: A kind of buffet for salad, and cold food.
Coordinate terms: english: a hot bar and a salad bar are coordinate offerings in some buffet restaurants and takeout restaurants
translation: a hot bar and a salad bar are coordinate offerings in some buffet restaurants and takeout restaurants
word: hot bar
cheese slaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheeslaw
Etymology: Blend of cheese + coleslaw, or simply cheese + slaw.
Senses: glosses: A salad made of grated cheese, grated carrot and a mayonnaise dressing.
cheeslaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cheese slaw.
macaroni cheese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macaroni and cheese
form: mac 'n' cheese
form: mac and cheese
form: mac & cheese
Senses: examples: text: His mom is preparing macaroni cheese for dinner.
glosses: A savory dish made from cooked macaroni and cheese sauce.
Synonyms: word: macaroni and cheese
Hyponyms: kaesespaetzle
mac 'n' cheese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mac and cheese
Etymology: Contraction of mac and cheese.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mac and cheese.
Derived terms: mac 'n' cheesy
lemon cheese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: lemon curd
Swiss cheese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Emmentaler, a Swiss cheese with many holes
synonyms: word: Emmentaler
extra: a Swiss cheese with many holes
glosses: By extension, any cheese which resembles Emmentaler, especially ones with holes.
examples: text: "If people really knew the extent to which the Internet is Swiss cheese, they would freak out," Fancher says. As with employee crime, the best protections against attacks by outsiders are matters of common sense, say security experts.
ref: 1999, Mark Fisch, Criminology, 1999-2000, page 103:
text: […] surprise and frustration when systems ultimately decay into a block of security Swiss cheese.
ref: 2004, InfoWorld, volume 26, number 13, page 26:
glosses: Something that is full of holes or vulnerabilities.
Derived terms: Swiss-cheesed
Swiss cheese
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Swiss cheeses
form: Swiss cheesing
form: Swiss cheesed
form: Swiss cheesed
Senses: examples: text: He will get Swiss cheesed.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular; usually passive voice; African-American Vernacular; usually passive voice
glosses: To murder (someone) by shooting them full of holes; to shoot (someone) many times.
cheese spread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheese spreads
Senses: glosses: Any spreadable food product made from cheese.
Greek salad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Greek salads
Senses: glosses: A salad, popular in Greece, normally consisting of tomatoes, olives and feta cheese among other ingredients.
Niçoise salad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Niçoise salads
Senses: synonyms: Niçoise
glosses: A salad, originating from the French town of Nice, with various ingredients including tuna, anchovies, hard-boiled eggs, tomatoes, black olives, and lettuce.
burning-ghat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burning-ghats
Senses: examples: text: Now, whether I have done thee a wrong in keeping thee from the burning-ghât, do thou and the crows settle together.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘In Flood Time’, In Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, page 415:
glosses: A flat area near the top of a river ghat where Hindus burn their dead; a funeral pyre.
Ithacan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɪθəkən/
Etymology: From Ithaca + -an.
Senses: glosses: From, or pertaining to Ithaca
Ithacan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɪθəkən/
Forms: form: Ithacans
Etymology: From Ithaca + -an.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of Ithaca.
Serbian salad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Serbian salads
Senses: synonyms: Serbo-Croatian salad
glosses: A salad, originating from Serbia, made from diced fresh tomatoes, cucumbers and onions, and usually seasoned with oil and hot pepper.
chicken burger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chicken burgers
form: chickenburger
Senses: glosses: A sandwich consisting of a piece of boneless, sometimes fried chicken served in a bun, typically hot (called a chicken sandwich in the US).
glosses: A sandwich consisting of a patty made from ground chicken, served in a bun, typically hot and often with other ingredients.
glosses: The chicken patty used in such a sandwich.
chickenburger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chickenburgers
Etymology: From chicken + -burger.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chicken burger.
black-eyed peas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black-eyed pea
passenger mile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passenger miles
form: passenger-mile
Etymology: Compound of passenger + mile, although, as with any such unit of measure (e.g., person-months, newton metres), the mathematical relationship of multiplication is simultaneously involved; see ton-mile for more information.
Senses: examples: text: Remember, in 1993 BR was fighting its way through a recession which would see passenger miles fall to the lowest level since Bob Reid launched the business-led railway.
ref: 2019 October, Roger Ford, “Class 365 fleet state-owned”, in Modern Railways, page 34:
coordinate_terms: ton-mile
glosses: A basic unit used by transport companies for calculating profit levels etc. It is calculated by multiplying total distance travelled in a given period by the number of passengers.
Related terms: passenger mileage
passenger kilometer
passenger kilometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passenger kilometers
Senses: examples: text: A 747 could generate more than 75 million passenger kilometers per month.
topics: transport
glosses: A kilometer traveled by a passenger, used as a unit of measure.
Related terms: passenger mile
chunam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʃʊˈnɑːm/
Forms: form: chunams
Etymology: From Tamil சுண்ணம் (cuṇṇam, “lime, ground mortar”), from Sanskrit चूर्ण (cūrṇa, “powder; lime”).
Senses: examples: text: The one Mr Cleveland and I inhabited was, as I have already observed, constructed of mud instead of chunam.
ref: 1808–1810, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 226
text: In all the operations of chunam work, jaggery water, i. e. a solution of molasses or coarse sugar, is invariably added by the builders, and its use appears to have prevailed from the remotest ages.
ref: 1834, Rám Ráz, Essay on the Architecture of the Hindús, London: […] [F]or the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland; by John William Parker, […], →OCLC, page 64:
text: The floor of the room was of polished chunam, white as curds.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “On the City Wall”, in In Black and White (A. H. Wheeler & Co.’s Indian Railway Library; no. 3), 5th edition, Allahabad: Messrs. A. H. Wheeler & Co.; London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, Ld., […], published 1890, →OCLC:
text: Look at the flies. Look at the chunam coming off the walls.
ref: 1924 June 4, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, A Passage to India, London: Edward Arnold & Co., →OCLC:
text: If the slope has to be covered by shotcrete or chunam, tree rings of sufficient size should be provided to allow adequate supply of air and water to reach the tree roots.
ref: 2009, Buildings Department, Improvement of Visual Appearance and Landscape Treatment for Man-made Slopes and Retaining Walls
glosses: A type of plaster made from lime and sand, used for indoor finishing and slope protection.
chunam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʃʊˈnɑːm/
Forms: form: chunams
form: chunaming
form: chunamming
form: chunamed
form: chunamed
form: chunammed
form: chunammed
Etymology: From Tamil சுண்ணம் (cuṇṇam, “lime, ground mortar”), from Sanskrit चूर्ण (cūrṇa, “powder; lime”).
Senses: examples: text: A PUNT FOR SALE, thirty-four feet long, twelve feet broad, and three feet ten inches deep, chunamed, sheathed, and coppered, carries about fifteen tons.
ref: The Sydney Morning Herald, Wednesday 8 March 1848
glosses: To plaster or waterproof with chunam.
banana bread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banana breads
Etymology: From banana + bread.
Senses: glosses: A type of bread or cake made with mashed bananas.
tazia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /taˈziːə/
Forms: form: tazias
form: tazeea
Etymology: From Arabic تَعْزِيَة (taʕziya, “consolation, mourning”).
Senses: examples: text: Gilt and paper presentations of their tombs are borne with shouting and wailing, music, torches, and yells, through the principal thoroughfares of the City; which fakements are called tazias.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘On the City Wall’, In Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, page 437:
text: ‘What is the use of all these reforms, and Conciliation Committees for Mohurram, and shall we cut the tazia short or shall we carry it another route, and Councils of Notables and official parties where the English sneer at our skins?’
ref: 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 107:
synonyms: taboot
glosses: A representation of the tombs of Hasan and Hussain (the grandsons of Muhammad), carried in processions for various Islamic festivities.
glosses: A type of play commemorating the martyrdom of Hasan and Hussain.
nanopore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanopores
Etymology: From nano- + pore.
Senses: glosses: A pore, of nanometre dimensions, in a membrane
Derived terms: nanoporate
nanoporation
nanopore sequencing
brick-tea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "Some of them were men from Ladakh," said Lalun, when the last had gone. "They brought me brick-tea such as the Russians sell, and a tea-urn from Peshawar."
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘On the City Wall’, In Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, page 438:
glosses: Tea leaves formed into the shape of a brick, used to make beverages like tea, eaten as food or, as in the past, used as a form of currency.
Related terms: tea brick
milk pan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milk pans
Senses: glosses: A small type of saucepan, with a lip for aiding pouring, used for heating milk.
nearshore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nearshores
Etymology: From near + shore.
Senses: glosses: The region extending seaward from the shoreline.
nearshore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: By analogy with offshore.
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Non-US operations located near the US, for example in Mexico or the Caribbean.
nearshore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nearshores
form: nearshoring
form: nearshored
form: nearshored
Etymology: By analogy with offshore.
Senses: topics: business
glosses: To move operations to locations near the US, such as Mexico or the Caribbean.
nephridial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /nɛˈfɹɪdiəl/
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a nephridium.
Derived terms: cryptonephridial
holonephridial
metanephridial
protonephridial
nephridium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nephridiums
form: nephridia
Etymology: From nephro- + -idium.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A tubular excretory organ in some invertebrates.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The embryonic excretory organ that develops into the kidney.
Derived terms: holonephridium
metanephridium
nephridial
nephridiopore
protonephridium
cheese slicer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheese slicers
Senses: glosses: A kitchen instrument used for slicing cheese.
nodulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nodulates
form: nodulating
form: nodulated
form: nodulated
Etymology: From nodule + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To produce nodules.
Derived terms: nonnodulating
renodulate
nodulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nodulate
nodulating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nodulating
form: most nodulating
Senses: glosses: Producing nodules.
cherry pitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cherry pitters
form: cherry-pitter
Senses: glosses: A device, whether handheld or automatic, that removes pits from cherries.
nongenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-genetic
Etymology: From non- + genetic.
Senses: glosses: Not genetic.
Derived terms: nongenetically
nonnodulating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-nodulating
Etymology: From non- + nodulating.
Senses: glosses: Not nodulating; not producing nodules.
nucleoporin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nucleoporins
Etymology: From nucleo- + porin.
Senses: glosses: Any of a family of porins that facilitates transport through nuclear pores in the nuclear envelope of cells
obligately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more obligately
form: most obligately
Etymology: From obligate + -ly.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: necessarily; mandatorily; imperatively; (sometimes) by nature
synonyms: obligatorily
glosses: In an obligate manner.
lemon squeezer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lemon squeezers
form: lemon-squeezer
Senses: glosses: A device used to extract juice from lemons by crushing the lemon using the sharp middle part.
examples: text: Oh well, your loss big feller. Just lead the way my old lemon squeezer, there's a good man.
ref: 2020, S. C. Hamill, Brick Lane. East-End Pub-Share, page 107:
glosses: A geezer; a man.
glosses: A kind of broad-brimmed hat with a symmetrically pinched crown resembling the top of a lemon squeezer (juicing device).
oedemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːmɪk
Forms: form: more oedemic
form: most oedemic
form: edemic
form: œdemic
Etymology: From oedema + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to oedemas
knork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɔːk/
ipa: /noːk/
Forms: form: knorks
Etymology: Blend of knife + fork
Senses: glosses: A piece of cutlery in the form of a fork with a sharpened outer tine, enabling it also to be used as a knife.
Related terms: spork
splade
runcible spoon
paratransgenetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A form of transgenics in which the bacteria within the digestive tract of the target organism are genetically modified
Synonyms: paratransgenics
Related terms: paratransgenesis
paratransgenetic
periarbuscular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + arbuscular.
Senses: glosses: Situated around an arbuscle.
Derived terms: periarbuscular membrane
perifungal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + fungal.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Surrounding a fungal hypha
perimicrobial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + microbial.
Senses: glosses: Surrounding a microbe; especially surrounding a bacterium within a higher organism.
Derived terms: perimicrobial membrane
perinuclear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + nuclear.
Senses: glosses: Surrounding a nucleus
Derived terms: antiperinuclear
extraperinuclear
perinuclearly
periplasmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æzmɪk
Etymology: From peri- + plasmic.
Senses: glosses: Surrounding the plasma of a bacterium
Derived terms: intraperiplasmic
periplasmically
pseudoperiplasmic
Related terms: periplasm
phenylacetylglutamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phenylacetyl + glutamine.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The product of phenylacetate and glutamine
phenylacetate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenylacetates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of phenylacetic acid
kersey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɜːzi/
ipa: /ˈkɝzi/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)zi
Forms: form: kerseys
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English kersey, perhaps from the village of Kersey in Suffolk, England, UK, in the region where the cloth was made.
Senses: examples: text: Hencefoorth my wooing minde ſhalbe expreſt / In ruſſet yeas, and honeſt kerſie noes.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC; republished as Shakspere’s Loves Labours Lost (Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles; no. 5), London: W[illiam] Griggs, […], [1880], →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
text: [T]here was a Report, that one of our Ships having by Stealth delivered her Cargo, among which was ſome Bales of Engliſh Cloth, Cotton, Kerſyes, and ſuch like Goods, the Spaniards cauſed all the Goods to be burnt, and puniſhed the Men with Death who were concern'd in carrying them on Shore.
ref: 1722, [Daniel Defoe], A Journal of the Plague Year, London: Printed for E[lizabeth] Nutt at the Royal-Exchange; J. Roberts in Warwick-Lane; A. Dodd without Temple-Bar; and J. Graves in St. James's-street, →OCLC, page 247:
text: In Adirondac lakes, / At morn or noon, the guide rows bareheaded: / Shoes, flannel shirt, and kersey trousers make / His brief toilette […]
ref: 1867, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Adirondacs”, in May-Day and Other Pieces, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC; republished Boston, Mass.: James R. Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1875, →OCLC, page 47:
glosses: A type of rough woollen cloth.
Related terms: kerseymere
broadcloth
phenylacetic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The carboxylic acid C₆H₅-CH₂-COOH that is a plant auxin
phosphoglucomutase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphoglucomutases
Etymology: From phospho- + gluco- + mutase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyzes the interconversion of isomers of glucose phosphates
phosphosulfate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphosulfates
Etymology: From phospho- + sulfate.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical -OP(O₂H)-OSO₃H present in some nucleotides; it contains a high-energy sulfate bond
Related terms: active sulfate
phototrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + -trophy.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The synthesis of an organism's food from inorganic material using light as a source of energy.
Derived terms: chlorophototrophy
Related terms: phototroph
phototrophic
phylogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phylogenic
form: most phylogenic
Etymology: From phylogeny + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to phylogeny
glosses: phylogenetic
Coordinate terms: tokogenetic
Derived terms: phylogenically
phylogenicity
physiologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of physiology
phytopathogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytopathogens
Etymology: From phyto- + pathogen.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any organism that is pathogenic to plants
picolitre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picolitres
form: picoliter
Etymology: From pico- + litre.
Senses: examples: Holonyms: nanolitre < microlitre < millilitre < litre < kilolitre < megalitre < gigalitre
glosses: One millionth of a microlitre; 10⁻¹² litres. Symbol: pL or pl.
picoliter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picoliters
Senses: glosses: US spelling of picolitre.
corrigen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
khud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌd/
rhymes: -ʌd
Forms: form: khuds
form: khad
form: khadd
form: khudd
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi खड्ड (khaḍḍ).
Senses: examples: text: We are only little bits of dirt on the hillsides—here one day and blown down the khud the next.
ref: 1909, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere. Part I.”, in Under the Deodars (The Works of Rudyard Kipling), Edinburgh de Luxe edition, Boston, Mass.; London: The Edinburgh Society, →OCLC, page 8:
glosses: A steep cleft in a hillside; a ravine.
edisylate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: edisylates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of 1,2-ethanedisulfonic acid.
Synonyms: 1
2-ethanedisulfonate
kala juggah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kala juggahs
form: kala jagah
Senses: examples: text: “Your salon would suit their views admirably, if you respected the religious prejudices of the country and provided plenty of kala juggahs.”
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 17:
text: The magic of those minutes in the kala juggah, when she had sat with her little hand in his, came back to him. He made up his mind to see a lot more of Sheilagh when he got back.
ref: 2014, John Gerrard Hennessy, Ann Hennessy, Solfatara: A Story of the British Indian Frontier, page 23:
glosses: A "dark corner" or out-of-the-way area in a bar, dance-hall, etc., used for flirtation.
butifarra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butifarras
Etymology: From Spanish butifarra.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of botifarra.
brahmacharya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Sanskrit ब्रह्मचर्य (brahma-cárya).
Senses: glosses: The first (student) ashrama in Hindu culture in which a person is dedicated to the quest for self-realization.
angor animi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin [Term?].
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A symptom, seen mainly in patients with coronary disease, in which the patient has a strong perception that he/she is dying.
plastid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plastids
Etymology: From German Plastid, from Ancient Greek πλαστός (plastós), verbal adjective of πλάσσω (plássō).
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
synonyms: plastidium
glosses: Any of various organelles found in the cells of plants and algae, often used for photosynthesis.
Coordinate terms: amyloplast
chloroplast
chromoplast
elaioplast
etioplast
leucoplast
-plast
proplastid
proteinoplast
tannosome
Derived terms: amyloplast
chloroplast
chromoplast
chromoplastid
elaioplast
epiplastid
etioplast
etioplastid
intraplastid
leucoplast
leucoplastid
monoplastid
periplastid
-plast
plastidary
plastidial
plastidic
plastidome
plastidule
plastidyl
plastome
polyplastid
proplastid
proteinoplast
protoplastid
Related terms: hydrogenosome
mitochondrion
mitosome
plastidial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From plastid + -ial.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a plastid
Derived terms: extraplastidial
periplastidial
subplastidial
psychosomatician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychosomaticians
Etymology: From psychosomatic + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A psychosomaticist: a specialist in psychosomatic disorders.
lie in wait
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lies in wait
form: lying in wait
form: lay in wait
form: lain in wait
Senses: examples: text: Nothing impressed me, so much, in my visits here (which were pretty numerous) as the uncommonly hard and cruel character of the audience, who resent the slightest defect, take nothing good-humouredly, seem to be always lying in wait for an opportunity to hiss, and spare the actresses as little as the actors.
ref: 1846, Charles Dickens, “Genoa and Its Neighbourhood”, in Pictures from Italy, London: […] Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC, page 67:
glosses: To be hiding, waiting to ambush or attack someone, or simply to accost them unexpectedly.
Synonyms: waylay
plathelminth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plathelminths
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of platyhelminth.
psychosomaticist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychosomaticists
Etymology: From psychosomatic + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A specialist in psychosomatic disorders.
Synonyms: psychosomatician
pogonophoran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pogonophorans
Etymology: Pogonophora + -an
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any marine, wormlike invertebrate of the phylum Pogonophora.
pogonophoran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pogonophoran
form: most pogonophoran
Etymology: Pogonophora + -an
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of these creatures
psychosomaticists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychosomaticist
pogonophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pogonophores
Etymology: From pogono- + -phore.
Senses: glosses: A pogonophoran
postembryonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + embryonic.
Senses: glosses: That follows the embryonic stage of development.
Derived terms: postembryonically
preadapted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + adapted.
Senses: glosses: Modified by preadaptation.
preadaptation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preadaptations
Etymology: From pre- + adaptation.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An adaptation that evolved in an ancestral population, in which it served a different function
preinfection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preinfections
Etymology: From pre- + infection.
Senses: glosses: infection prior to another process
glosses: The time before an infection was acquired (often used attributively as an adjective)
prepenetration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prepenetrations
Etymology: From pre- + penetration.
Senses: glosses: Penetration prior to another process.
presymbiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + symbiotic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing the time, or developmental stages, before the development of a symbiotic relationship.
communication studies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Her course will be ‘Communication Studies with Theatre Studies’: God, how tedious, how pointless.
ref: 1992 August 21, Edwina Currie, Diary:
synonyms: communicology
glosses: An academic field that deals with processes of communication, commonly defined as the sharing of symbols over distances in space and time.
pronuclei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pronucleus
proteobacterial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more proteobacterial
form: most proteobacterial
Etymology: Proteobacteria + -al
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Proteobacteria.
provannid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: provannids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any gastropod of the family Provannidae, especially those found associated with hydrothermal vents
chamæleon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chamæleons
Senses: examples: text: The Chamæleon…eftir sum dubitatioun come to Striueling.
ref: 1570, George Buchanan, Chamæleon, page 51:
glosses: Dated spelling of chamaeleon.
take to the grave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes to the grave
form: taking to the grave
form: took to the grave
form: taken to the grave
Senses: examples: text: Houdini took his secrets to the grave, as he died shortly after performing one of his most famous escapes.
text: Omigosh, you CAN'T tell her I said that! I'm so serious! Take it to the grave.
ref: 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Twilight Town:
glosses: To never reveal (a secret).
truth be told
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: if truth be told
Etymology: Ellipsis of if the truth should be told.
Senses: examples: text: I'm not sure if I can do this, truth be told.
text: Actually, truth be told, I just don't like you.
text: Well, certainly there are those who are more responsible than others - and they will be held accountable - but again, truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.
ref: 2006, V For Vendetta (movie adaptation)
text: When I opened my laptop on Tuesday to take my first run at GPT-4, the new artificial intelligence language model from OpenAI, I was, truth be told, a little nervous.
ref: 2023 March 15, Kevin Roose, “GPT-4 Is Exciting and Scary”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: admittedly
frankly
to be honest
to tell the truth
truth to tell
glosses: Used when admitting something one might otherwise lie about, e.g. to keep up appearances or be polite.
automatization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: automatizations
form: automatisation
Etymology: From automatize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The process of making an action of a higher animal reflexive.
glosses: Automation.
Related terms: automat
automatic
automatize
automation
automaton
quintile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quintiles
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Any of the quantiles which divide an ordered sample population into five equally numerous subsets.
glosses: A subset thus obtained.
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An aspect of planets that are distant from each other by one fifth of a zodiac (72°)
Synonyms: fifth
Hypernyms: quantile
Coordinate terms: word: median (2-quantile)
sense: An aspect of planets that are distant from each other by one fifth of a zodiac (72°)
word: tercile
sense: An aspect of planets that are distant from each other by one fifth of a zodiac (72°)
word: tertile
word: quartile
word: sextile
word: septile
word: octile
word: decile
word: hexadecile
word: ventile
word: vigintile
word: centile
word: percentile (100)
word: millile (1000)
radiatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more radiatively
form: most radiatively
Etymology: From radiative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a radiative manner
glosses: With regard to radiation
radiorespirometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From radio- + respirometry.
Senses: topics: biology
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A technique in which a substance radioactively labelled with ¹⁴₆C is introduced into a closed environment, and any radioactive carbon dioxide subsequently detected is used as evidence for the presence of life
reacquisition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reacquisitions
Etymology: From re- + acquisition.
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent acquisition.
recognitional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more recognitional
form: most recognitional
Etymology: From recognition + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to recognition
reductionistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reductionistic
form: most reductionistic
Etymology: From reductionist + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to reductionism.
rhizobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhizobium
rhizobial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rhizobial
form: most rhizobial
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to rhizobia
sepiolid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sepiolids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the order Sepiolida of bobtail squids.
sepiolid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sepiolid
form: most sepiolid
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of these creatures